 When Marcella tells Martin about the offer in French about taking  out a Greenpeace boat, its a reference to the 1985 sabotage of the  Greenpeace yacht Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand by two French  Secret Service agents. The yacht was to lead a fleet to protest  French nuclear tests in the Pacific before it was destroyed by the  French agents. One Greenpeace photographer died aboard the ship  during the sabotage mission.