Brightened HD copy. E1. Retired espionage veteran George Smiley is called out on a top secret mission: to uncover a Soviet agent within top MI6's echelons. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy mini-series, directed by John Irvin. Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). The mini-series stars Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Ian Richardson, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, Hywel Bennett, George Sewell, Beryl Reid, Susan Kodicek, Terence Rigby, Alexander Knox, Michael Aldridge and Patrick Stewart.
24:15They told me you were locked up with the monks in St. Gallen or somewhere, poring over manuscripts.
24:20Self-exile, they said, they said, of course, they said, they said, they said, of course I knew that wasn't true.
24:24George. you'd never leave England. you're just not capable of such an act of
24:29abandonment no matter how shabbily the circus treated you. so what have you been
24:37doing all these months? I want to know everything every little bit. how's the
24:42delectable wife? how is the lovely lady Anne? not in town at the moment I hear.
24:48pound to a penny you're shopping for her. little presdies all the time they tell me
24:53going away gifts coming home gifts. are you back on the beat George? or did you
24:59never really chuck it in? is that it George? has it all been cover? cover George?
25:06Roddy I've retired. all right George if you say so. you look well Roddy but I mustn't
25:11delay you. oh no George really my dear old friend you can't get away like that. Roddy
25:16Martin there simply wouldn't let you. it's months and months since we last had a chin
25:20wag. ah let me buy you a little aperity and then let me take you to dinner. allow me that privilege.
25:26honor me George. I can tell by the look of you that no one else has claimed you tonight.
25:32it's kind of you. it's my role in life George. we all need to be good at something.
25:37we mustn't forget Jebedee. wasn't he your old tutor? yes once upon a time. how do you rate Spark? the one who
25:49came from the school of oriental languages? place him in the batting order George. not quite there.
25:55had trouble with his nerves so they say. what a pity. all dead and gone now of course. properly appreciated by only a select few like you and me.
26:05you flatter me. now George. let's talk about your old boss. Control. the only head of the circus who ever kept his name a secret. shall we talk about control?
26:15if you insist. of course it wasn't a secret to you was it George? she never had any secrets from you. his tried and trusted right hand. did he?
26:23i don't know. that's the point about secrets. closest thieves. control and smiley wear. right to the end so they say.
26:29they are very complimentary. now don't flirt George. i'm an old trooper. you and control were just like that.
26:39just like that. that's why you were thrown out. it's why bill hayden's got your job. it's why percy alerline got into control's chair when it ought to be you.
26:51why bill hayden's his cup bearer and you're out altogether. if you say so roddy. i do. i say more than that. far more.
27:03i say this. control never died at all. he's been seen. in south africa.
27:15now we can't blame a man for wanting a bit of peace in the evening of his life.
27:21willie andrew arthur walked straight into him in joeberg airport in the waiting room. not a ghost. flesh.
27:31that's the most idiotic story i've ever heard. control died of a heart attack. after a long illness through most of which he continued to work.
27:39besides he hated south africa. he hated everywhere except surrey. the circus. and lord's cricket ground.
27:46yes of course. willie andrew arthur was always the most god-awful liar. i said the same myself. willie you should be ashamed of yourself.
27:54i suppose what put the last nail into control's coffin was the checo scandal. the poor devil that got shot in the back.
28:08the one who was so thick with bill hayden. with his picture in the newspapers under some fictitious name.
28:14but we know his real name. don't we?
28:20jim burrito.
28:26well.
28:30somehow i don't think i can ever quite believe in percie allelyne, as chief. can you?
28:36might be just my natural cynicism.
28:40It's poorly on those we've grown up with, doesn't it?
28:42And there are so few who can carry it off for me nowadays.
28:46And poor Percy's such an obvious fellow,
28:48especially after control, who's a positive serpent.
28:52How can anyone take Allerline seriously?
28:57Oh, that heavy good fellowship.
28:59One has only got to think of him in the old days,
29:01lolling in the bar of the travellers,
29:03sucking away on that log of a pipe,
29:06and buying drinks for all the moguls.
29:09Oh, really?
29:11One doesn't like one's perfidy to be subtle, don't you agree?
29:15Now, what's his knack, George,
29:16living off the wits of his subordinates, am I right?
29:19Really, Roddy, I can't help you.
29:23I never knew Percy as a force, you see,
29:26only as a...
29:27Stryver?
29:28Right.
29:29With his eyes on Control's purple, day and night.
29:32Yes, well, now he's actually wearing it,
29:34and the mob loves him.
29:36So who's doing the business for him?
29:39Eh, George?
29:40Who is it?
29:41I cannot help you.
29:43Who's the clever boots?
29:46Well, not Percy, that's for sure.
29:48And don't tell me the Americans have started trusting us again,
29:51because they'd never fall for Percy.
29:53Roddy, please stop this.
29:55Wonderfully well he's doing.
29:56We hear it from all sides.
29:57Little committees popping up with funny names,
30:00red carpet for Percy wherever he goes,
30:02tripping the light fantastic along the Whitehall corridors.
30:05You're out of my depth, truly.
30:08So who's earning him his reputation?
30:11No, thank you.
30:12I think we've finished now.
30:15It's my party, George.
30:17I'll get the bill when I'm ready.
30:19So who's pulling the strings for Percy Puppet?
30:31How about dashing Bill Hayden, your old rival?
30:35In every sense, I'm told.
30:38Of course, he never was orthodox, was he?
30:41Genius never is.
30:43All right, then.
30:47It's Roy Bland, the shop-soiled Whitehope.
30:50The first red-brick don to make the circus.
30:53And if it's neither of them, and control is really dead,
30:57then there's only one possibility left.
31:00It's someone who's pretending to be in retirement.
31:04You, George.
31:05Admit it.
31:06You featherhead, Martindale,
31:08you pompous, bogus, gossiping old featherhead.
31:10Roy Bland is not red-brick.
31:14He was at St. Anthony's College, Oxford.
31:16Now, don't be silly, dear.
31:18Of course St. Anthony is red-brick.
31:21It doesn't make the slightest difference
31:23there's a bit of sandstone in the same street.
31:25Just because he was your protégé.
31:27I suppose he's Bill Hayden's boy now.
31:30Bill was father to them all, wasn't he?
31:32Or something like that.
31:34It's not mine, thank you.
31:35I hope you're not going to tip him.
31:37It's a guinea at Christmas.
31:38Anyway, it's my party.
31:44Draws them like bees to a honeypot, doesn't he, our Bill?
31:47Good night, Roddy.
31:48You fancy a nightcap?
31:50Start afresh with a bubbly?
31:52Why not, George?
31:52I think I will.
31:54Of course, Bill's got the glamour, hasn't he?
31:57Not like some of us.
31:59Star quality, I call it.
32:01One of the very few.
32:02Until the women literally bow down before him.
32:06If that's what women do.
32:08Good night.
32:10Love to Anne.
32:13Everybody's love to Anne.
32:15It's a sandstone.
32:39Shop soil, white oak.
32:43Everybody's love to Anne.
32:48Oh, damn.
32:49Oh, damn.
32:51It's a sandstone.
33:21It's a sandstone.
33:35You�.
33:36Oh, yeah.
33:38Okay.
33:38Okay.
35:13George, I've been sent to deliver you.
35:20I've been reviewing my situation in the last half hour of hell, and I've come to a very
35:29grave decision.
35:31After a lifetime of living by my wits and on my memory, I shall give myself up full
35:37time to the profession of forgetting.
35:39I'm going to put an end to some emotional attachments which have long outlived their purpose, namely
35:46the circus, this house, my whole past.
35:50I shall sell up and buy a cottage in the Cotswold, I think.
35:56Steeple Aston sounds about right.
35:58Do I need overnight things?
36:00I'm not taking any.
36:01From there, I shall establish myself as a mild eccentric, discursive, withdrawn, but possessing
36:09one or two lovable habits, such as muttering to myself as I bumble along innocent pavements.
36:14I shall become an oak of my own generation.
36:20You make the coffee.
36:23You know where everything is.
36:27You can even pick my front door locks.
36:32Clever, beautiful.
36:44I saw you parking this toy in Curson Street this afternoon.
37:01I ran away immediately.
37:03Good guess on your part.
37:04What made you think I was looking for you?
37:05I hoped you went.
37:07However, you found me eventually.
37:09You had to come home sometime.
37:10It's far too young for me.
37:16It's quick.
37:19I'm surprised you didn't get thrown out with the rest of us.
37:23You had all the qualifications for dismissal.
37:26Good at your work.
37:28Loyal.
37:29Discreet.
37:31What happened tonight, George?
37:36How's Anne?
37:37Roddy Martindale happened tonight.
37:42Why do I permit it?
37:44I tell myself it's for politeness sake.
37:46It's not.
37:47It's weakness.
37:49And the fact that I've nothing better to do.
37:53My wife's fine, thank you.
38:05They put me in charge of scalp hunters.
38:07You are Jim Fredo's successor.
38:11You?
38:11Looking after the heavy.
38:13Why not?
38:15Tucked away at downtown Brixton,
38:17behind the broken glass and the barbed wire.
38:20Dispatching the thugs occasionally.
38:22Kept a good arm's length from the circus ringmasters.
38:25How is Jim, do you know?
38:27In quarantine.
38:28I don't mean to pry.
38:30I merely ask.
38:31Can he get around?
38:33Can he walk and so on?
38:34Bad backs can be terribly tricky, I believe.
38:37The word is he manages pretty well.
38:40He's back in England.
38:41Address unknown.
38:43Travel.
38:43Is that still the scalp hunter's official name?
38:48Hit and run, caution carry?
38:50No.
38:51Sorry.
38:53Our control always preached that good intelligence work is gradual and rests on a kind of gentleness.
39:01It's not my department.
39:02No.
39:04Well, the scalp hunters were always the exception control allowed to his own rule.
39:09Not Bill Haven's persuasion.
39:11A reflection of Bill's temperament, of course.
39:14The solo initiative.
39:17Very dashing.
39:19Very audacious.
39:20Very audacious.
39:50I'm sorry, Peter.
39:52What?
39:53Lateralism.
39:54I said, are you familiar with the word?
39:55I most certainly am not.
39:57It's the in-doctrine now.
39:59We used to go up and down.
40:00Now we go along.
40:02What's that supposed to mean?
40:03In your day, the circus ran itself by regions.
40:06Africa, satellites, Russia, China, Southeast Asia, West Indies, you name it.
40:11Each region was commanded by its own juju man.
40:14Control sat in heaven and held the strings, remember?
40:17It strikes a distant chord.
40:19Well, today, everything operational is under one hat.
40:22It's called London Station.
40:25Regions are out.
40:26Lateralism is in.
40:27Who's Station Commander?
40:30Bill Hayden.
40:31His number two is Roy Bland.
40:33Toby Esterhazy runs between them like a poodle.
40:36They're a service within the service.
40:39Share their own secrets and don't mix with the pros.
40:41There are three of them and ally.
40:44That's right.
40:46The object of door is to make us more secure.
40:48A very good idea.
40:50Where are you?
41:02A very good idea.
41:03What role is to make us more secure?
41:04What role is to make us more secure?
41:06What role is to make us more secure?
41:07What role is to make us more secure?
41:07Why did Lekon send you for me, Peter?
41:22Do you mean why did he send me for you, or why did he send me for you?
41:25Quite right, Peter. I should have known better than to ask.
41:37You remember your last day at the circus, just one day before control departed and the new regime took over.
41:45You stuck your head around my office door and said, Peter, I've been sacked.
41:49We went straight out and you got drunk.
41:53Why pick me, George?
41:54I was pretty low-grade, running some very sketchy networks of merchant seamen out of London dockland.
42:00Whatever, poles, Russians, chinks, I could cobble together.
42:03Why me, George?
42:05You want a reason?
42:08You fastened on the same word that night when I asked why you've been kicked out.
42:12I'll tell you exactly what you said.
42:14I hope this isn't going to be embarrassing.
42:16You said reason as logic or reason as motive, or reason as a way of life.
42:22You said they don't have to give me reasons.
42:24I can write my own damn reasons, and that is not the same as the half-baked tolerance that comes from no longer caring.
42:32I thought that was pretty impressive stuff from a man as drunk as you were.
42:35At least I had the good sense not to let you drive me home.
42:45Lacon sent me for you, George.
42:46Looks like Count Dracula's blood bank.
43:03Lacon once described it to me as his Hampshire Camelot, built by a teetotal millionaire.
43:08Well, I am. She seems to think explains everything.
43:15That's out of touch, Peter.
43:17Does Lacon have any particular title nowadays?
43:20Nothing new. Just Sir Oliver of the cabinet's office.
43:23Permanent watchdog of all intelligence affairs.
43:25You know how he loves being one of nature's prefects.
43:32George! Hello. Thanks for coming.
43:34Come on in, will you?
43:36Grill him.
43:37Hope we didn't get too burnt about George in that new job, Grill him.
43:41You've been enjoying retirement, George?
43:50You haven't missed the walls of human contact.
43:55I rather would, I think.
43:57One's work. One's old buddies.
44:00Oh, I think I manage very well, thank you.
44:03Yes. Yes, I'm sure I do.
44:05And you? All goes well with you?
44:08Oh, no great changes. No, no. All very smooth.
44:12Charlotte got her scholarship to Rodine, which was nice.
44:14Oh, very good.
44:17How about your wife?
44:19In the pink and so on?
44:20Very bonny, thank you.
44:24Ah.
44:25All spruce and ship-shape again, Willem?
44:28You were grubby.
44:29He did look a roughian, didn't he, George?
44:32Well, um, shall we?
44:45Look, please, George, I wanted to talk particularly to you.
44:50All right, Paul, log us in, please.
44:54I think you know Mr. Smiley, don't you?
44:56Yes, of course I do.
44:58Once gave me a job, Mr. Smiley. Don't you remember?
45:01Tar, sir. Ricky Tar, the lawyer's boy from Marseille.
45:05Changed my first nappies, as we used to say.
45:08They were very tough interviews he used to give us tender young recruits.
45:12Of course, 12 years ago, and, uh...
45:14It's that long, Mr. Smiley.
45:16Well, you don't look any different to me, sir.
45:19No, 12 years ago, nobody but nobody got taken on unless we got past you.
45:24Not even scalp hunters.
45:27Aren't quite your type?
45:29We all had to get the nod from Mr. Smiley.
45:32Tar.
45:33Of course I remember you, Ricky.
45:35Your father was an Australian, I recall.
45:38A solicitor and a non-conformist lay preacher.
45:42Altogether a most unusual chap to pop up in Marseille.
45:46But just such odd circumstances do seem to provide us with suitable personnel.
45:54Bad boys like Ricky.
45:57Daddy thought he could beat the sin out of me, but you knew better.
46:00Didn't you, Mr. Smiley?
46:01He only beat it further in.
46:04And that's what scalp hunters are made of.
46:08Isn't that right, Mr. Gwiland?
46:09We're waiting for you, Tar.
46:11Yes, I do think we ought to get on.
46:14Well, I guess I'd better make my pitch, then.
46:17Let's keep it precise, shall we?
46:18All the way along.
46:19Before you begin, Ricky, do I understand correctly that no one at the circus knows you're in England?
46:28Only Mr. Gwiland.
46:30You're officially absent without leave.
46:39On the wanted list.
46:41I think I'm safe now.
46:47I've got a story to tell you.
46:49It's all about spies.
46:51And if it's true, which I think it is,
46:54you boys are going to need a whole new organisation.
46:57Right?
46:59Shall I start with the day you sent me to Lisbon?
47:03Changed my life.
47:05You might find it's going to change all your lives.
47:08Lord, now let us, though, thy servants deposit in peace.
47:26According to thy word.
47:46Through my eyes, I've seen thy salvation.
48:02Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.
48:20To be the light, to lighten the chances,
48:36and to be the glory of thy people, Israel.
48:50Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
49:12As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shining.
