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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.
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.
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00:00:00Oh
00:01:00You must assume, Peter, the circus has the dogs on you 24 hours a day.
00:01:24Think of it as a foreign country.
00:01:30Hello, Bryant.
00:01:32Hello. Nice to see you again, sir.
00:01:34Mr. Long.
00:01:43Mr. Goodham, sir.
00:01:48Mr. Lord Strickland's expecting you.
00:01:51We'll meet you by the barrier on the fifth floor.
00:01:53All right.
00:01:56Thanks.
00:02:05That sounds someone oiled, these things, isn't it?
00:02:07We keep asking.
00:02:09You can talk till you're blue in the face.
00:02:11Yes.
00:02:29Well, Mac Peter, greetings.
00:02:31A trifle late, but never mind.
00:02:33Sorry, Lorda.
00:02:34You have to make a lounge if you come to the yokel.
00:02:37Good God.
00:02:38How long have you had that monster?
00:02:39You really are a stranger, aren't you?
00:02:44It saves man-eyes.
00:02:46Fantastic.
00:02:47Quite fantastic.
00:02:49Oh, hello, Bill.
00:02:53What the hell are you doing here, your pariah?
00:02:55He's got some French diplomatic courier he wants to buy, and he needs to wash some dirty money.
00:03:01That's a job for banking section, of course, so we're sorting out the tangle for him.
00:03:05He knows it has to be London the station cleared.
00:03:07He told me the papers were already rooted to you.
00:03:09They're probably in your in-tray now, Bill.
00:03:13They had better be, Peter.
00:03:16Mind you, lock up the spoons.
00:03:17These scalp hunters will have the gold out of your teeth.
00:03:21Lock up the girls as well.
00:03:23If they'll let you.
00:03:27There we go, Bert.
00:03:28The keys of the city.
00:03:30London station couldn't be in better hands.
00:03:35Everything's a lot tighter here these days, Willem.
00:03:38Hey, Lorda, hold on.
00:03:40Have you seen bloody Bill anywhere?
00:03:45Indeed, I have seen Bill.
00:03:46We were having a brief word about a couple of things back down the corridor.
00:03:50He's wanted urgently.
00:03:51Immediately, Lorda, actually.
00:03:53We've put out an alert for him.
00:03:54I suspect he may well be on his way to you at this moment.
00:04:05Peter.
00:04:08Hello.
00:04:09Hi.
00:04:13Thanks for the glad hand.
00:04:15I did wipe the cow dung off my boots.
00:04:18What's the joke, Roy?
00:04:20The joke, Peter, old lad.
00:04:21I'm just surprised to see you, that's all.
00:04:25We're used to having this floor to ourselves.
00:04:28Would you like to see my pass, Toby?
00:04:33How are you keeping?
00:04:34Oh, I wintered very well, thanks.
00:04:37You know what it's like living in the Brixton rest house these days.
00:04:39Plenty of ludo, ping-pong.
00:04:41Normally, I'd be having my afternoon scissor this time.
00:04:44Afternoon, Peter.
00:04:46Don't waste Lorda's time.
00:04:48No, sir.
00:04:48Sorry, sir.
00:04:49Oh, sir.
00:05:19THE END
00:05:49THE END
00:06:07FLUSH
00:06:09SHUT UP! FLUSH!
00:06:11STOP IT!
00:06:13STOP IT, BOY!
00:06:15IT'S ONLY A DUMBER HEAD!
00:06:17FLUSH! SHUT UP!
00:06:19George! Smiley!
00:06:29Oh, you're a lovely, darling man.
00:06:32You haven't come to tell me a hoover.
00:06:36You're my gorgeous George.
00:06:37Come on, eh?
00:06:39Oh, George.
00:06:48Jingle, darling.
00:06:49Could you possibly make it tomorrow?
00:06:51Oh, don't be cross, Jingle.
00:06:54It isn't often my oldest, oldest lover comes to see me.
00:06:58Oh, George, if only I'd seen you first.
00:07:01I'll give you a whole hour, all to yourself.
00:07:04Honestly, I will, darling.
00:07:08One of my dunderheads.
00:07:10I will teach.
00:07:11I don't know why.
00:07:17Oh, George.
00:07:18Of all the lovely, darling men I ever knew.
00:07:26Walked flush.
00:07:28Did you see his shoes?
00:07:29Oh, bless you, darling.
00:07:35God bless.
00:07:37Did he walk alone, Flush?
00:07:49Not accompanied, were we?
00:07:51Quite alone, Connie.
00:07:52So, what does George want from Connie, the bad boy?
00:08:01Her memory.
00:08:02To go over some very old ground, Connie.
00:08:07Hear that flush.
00:08:08First they'd chuck us out with an old bone, then they come begging to us.
00:08:13I was the best head of research the circus ever had.
00:08:16Everyone knew that.
00:08:17Everyone knew that.
00:08:19And what did they say the day they gave me the chop?
00:08:22That personnel cow.
00:08:24You're losing your sense of proportion, Connie.
00:08:28It's time you got out into the real world.
00:08:31Well, I...
00:08:33I hate the real world.
00:08:38I like the circus of my lovely boys.
00:08:48Polyakov.
00:08:50Alexei Alexandrovich Polyakov.
00:08:52Cultural attache, Soviet embassy, London.
00:08:58Born March 3rd, 1922, in the Ukraine.
00:09:04Graduate of Leningrad State University.
00:09:07Height of 5 foot 10.
00:09:09Colour of eyes, green.
00:09:10Colour of hair, black.
00:09:12Married, but unaccompanied, my wife.
00:09:16And a six-cylinder Carla-trained hood, if ever I saw one.
00:09:20But don't tell Percy Allerline or Toby Esterhazy.
00:09:25Oh, no.
00:09:26Alexei Alexandrovich was as pure as the driven snow.
00:09:31He was persil white, wasn't he, Flush?
00:09:34And Connie's an old silly.
00:09:36Because if she doesn't lay off and do as she's told,
00:09:39you'd have to pack her bags and go.
00:09:42He's come alive.
00:09:44Polyakov.
00:09:45Just as you predicted.
00:09:47Of course he has.
00:09:48Of course he has.
00:09:50I knew it in my bones.
00:09:53The day he arrived, I thought, hello.
00:09:55I'm going to have some fun with you.
00:09:57Tough as a button.
00:09:59Cultural attache balls.
00:10:02Army written all over him.
00:10:04But not declared, George.
00:10:06Not a mention.
00:10:08Oh, he had a lovely voice.
00:10:10Mellow like yours.
00:10:12I used to play the tapes over and over,
00:10:14just to bathe in it.
00:10:17Bottom picture, too.
00:10:21I just know.
00:10:22Not that we ever caught him at it.
00:10:24We might have done if Tobe had played along and offered him a bum or two,
00:10:29but Tiny Tobe wouldn't.
00:10:32Eight years.
00:10:33I watched Pretty Polly for eight years.
00:10:39Then last Remembrance Day, I got him.
00:10:44There he was, that smashing November morning at the wreath lane.
00:10:48And we photographed his medals.
00:10:50Two gallantry and four campaign.
00:10:53Oh, yes.
00:10:55Alex Polyakov was a star soldier.
00:10:58Just as I told them.
00:10:59I'm not a word.
00:11:01So I said to Tobe, listen, you two-faced ferret.
00:11:07Ego has got the better part of cover, and that's nothing new.
00:11:11Now will you turn Pretty Polly inside out for me,
00:11:15because Connie's little hunch has turned up trumps.
00:11:19And what did Tobe Esther Hazy say?
00:11:21Oh, I got the dead fish voice.
00:11:25Tell Percy Alleline Percy's in charge.
00:11:28And then?
00:11:29Not every ex-warrior's a Carla agent, says Percy.
00:11:34I said, listen, Percy.
00:11:36Polyakov's running an English mole.
00:11:39So I get the rude letter.
00:11:41Stop it or else.
00:11:44So I wrote at the bottom, yes, repeat no.
00:11:51So, here we are.
00:11:55Flush and me.
00:11:57Please kiss me, George.
00:12:04Hey-ho.
00:12:21Halcyon days.
00:12:25Did I start the landslide, George?
00:12:28You were always dead, right, Connie.
00:12:31And is George now picking up the pieces?
00:12:34Something of the sort.
00:12:36Poor loves.
00:12:39Trained to empire.
00:12:41Trained to rule the waves.
00:12:44Englishmen could be proud then.
00:12:46They could, George.
00:12:47All gone.
00:12:50All gone.
00:12:51All taken away.
00:12:54Bye-bye, world.
00:12:59If it's bad, George,
00:13:02don't come back.
00:13:04Promise?
00:13:05I want to remember you
00:13:10just as you were.
00:13:14My lovely, lovely boys.
00:13:19Promise?
00:13:19All right, Lord,
00:13:33I'll just have to wait
00:13:34for the wheels to turn.
00:13:37I don't need a pass
00:13:38to use the gents, do I?
00:13:39I don't know.
00:16:41You offer that as a working hypothesis?
00:16:44Operation Witchcraft, that vital flow of Russian intelligence which happily came Alaline's way.
00:16:51Supplementary estimates to the Treasury.
00:16:53Special accommodation in London, wider exploitation.
00:17:02See also Secret Annex.
00:17:05May I see it?
00:17:05The Minister keeps it in his personal safe.
00:17:09Do you know the combination?
00:17:11Certainly not.
00:17:13What's the title of this unobtainable document?
00:17:16It doesn't have one.
00:17:18It's highly secret and we've done everything humanly possible to keep the readership to a minimum.
00:17:22The supplier of the witchcraft material is our old friend Merlin.
00:17:26Does the file give his identity?
00:17:27Don't be ridiculous.
00:17:29The Minister wouldn't want to know.
00:17:31And Alaline wouldn't want to tell him.
00:17:33What does wider exploitation mean?
00:17:36I refuse to be interrogated, George.
00:17:38I entirely fail to see why you should waste your time pursuing this line of inquiry.
00:17:43By rights, I should have them specially cleared before I let you see any of this.
00:17:47Witchcraft cleared?
00:17:48Yes, George.
00:17:50Do we have a list of people who've been cleared in that way?
00:17:54I hope you're not going fae, George.
00:18:00Please stick with the primary problem.
00:18:03It's a mole.
00:18:03Gerald.
00:18:04Instead of rogling around in extraneous matters.
00:18:06There's no time to be whimsical.
00:18:11Oh, you off.
00:18:13You won't forget Predo, will you?
00:18:14Anything at all you can get on him.
00:18:16Even scraps would help.
00:18:30He has a point, George.
00:18:33Witchcraft and Merlin.
00:18:34Poliakoff and the Mole.
00:18:38Predo getting himself shot up on some wild goose chase of Controls and the rural charms of Czechoslovakia.
00:18:44You think it all connects?
00:18:45I think, Peter, I'm not the first to make this journey of exploration.
00:18:51I believe Control was here before me.
00:18:54He might even have made the full distance.
00:18:55But for the bullets in Predo's back, there are three of them and Alaline.
00:19:02Control's words.
00:19:04He meant Operation Witchcraft, of course.
00:19:07Merlin's minders or inventors or programmers or marionettes or what.
00:19:15Why was Control always so hostile to Alaline?
00:19:19Percy wasn't a complete fool.
00:19:21Percy didn't flirt, Peter.
00:19:23And Control hadn't reckoned on the power of the Alaline lobby.
00:19:27Who were they?
00:19:28Golfers.
00:19:29Golfers and conservatives.
00:19:31That's what Control said to me.
00:19:33I got a call from Control one day.
00:19:35Very sharp, very combative.
00:19:37George, come in here or there'll be bloodshed.
00:19:47Brother Percy's trying to twist my tail.
00:19:53Take a look at this nonsense.
00:19:57Top-level Soviet naval dispatch.
00:20:00Specially prepared for the Soviet high command.
00:20:05Isn't it, Percy?
00:20:06An appreciation of a naval exercise in the Medellin of the Black Sea.
00:20:13Of which our sailors have been screaming for details.
00:20:17Haven't they, Percy?
00:20:18Topicality is always suspect.
00:20:20Yes, George.
00:20:22Would you like to repeat that for Percy?
00:20:26Who made the translation?
00:20:29God made it, didn't he, Percy?
00:20:32Don't ask him anything, he won't tell you.
00:20:34Sure to see strike power, radioactivation of enemy alert procedures.
00:20:40This is hardly my territory.
00:20:42Don't let that worry you.
00:20:44Total ignorance of subject matter doesn't bother Percy.
00:20:50Whose initials are these?
00:20:52Zaroff, Admiral, Black Sea Fleet.
00:20:56What do our own evaluators say?
00:20:59They have not seen it, and what's more, they're not going to.
00:21:03However, my brother-in-Christ-Lily of naval intelligence has passed a preliminary opinion, has he not, Percy?
00:21:10Percy showed it to him last night.
00:21:12Over a pink gin, was it, Percy?
00:21:14At the Admiral, Tim.
00:21:16Note that, George.
00:21:17They battened down the hatches and bunged up the portholes for Percy.
00:21:21Brother Lily telephoned me half an hour ago to congratulate me.
00:21:26He believes this material to be neither a plant nor chicken feed, but genuine gold dust.
00:21:30And he seeks our permission to...
00:21:33Percy's, I suppose I should say.
00:21:35To apprise his fellow sea lords of its conclusions.
00:21:39Quite impossible.
00:21:40It's for his eyes only, at least for another couple of weeks.
00:21:43It's so hot, you see, George.
00:21:46But where does it come from?
00:21:48Who's the case officer?
00:21:50You'll enjoy this.
00:21:52Source Merlin has access to the most sensitive levels of Soviet policymaking.
00:21:57We've dubbed his product witchcraft.
00:22:00Can I ask him who we are, George?
00:22:02Merlin is the fruit of a long cultivation by certain people in his service.
00:22:07People who are bound to me as I am to them.
00:22:09People who are not at all entertained by the failure rate about this place.
00:22:14Been too much blown.
00:22:16Too much lost.
00:22:17Twisted.
00:22:18Too many scandals.
00:22:20I've said so many times that I might as well have talked to the wind for all the heed he'd paid me.
00:22:25He means me, George.
00:22:27The ordinary principles of tradecraft and security have gone to the wall in this service.
00:22:32It's all divide and rule, stimulated from the top.
00:22:35Me again?
00:22:37We're losing our livelihood, our self-respect.
00:22:40We've had enough.
00:22:41We've had a belly full, in fact.
00:22:47Please.
00:22:51And like everybody who's ever had enough, he wants more.
00:22:59This.
00:23:00Yes.
00:23:02Percy Alleline would sell his mother for a knighthood in this service.
00:23:06Or a seat in the House of Lords.
00:23:10Suppose Merlin's genuine.
00:23:12Suppose Merlin would pick Percy?
00:23:14It seems somebody has.
00:23:17I gather Percy's only the impression he'd picked himself and a whole team.
00:23:22You're sure he left you out, are you, George?
00:23:25What are you going to do about it?
00:23:37Depends on it.
00:23:39I'll wait for it to show itself.
00:23:42In the meantime, I see nothing to deal with,
00:23:45except Percy's envious eye on my chair.
00:23:49And I've put my thumb in that optic before.
00:23:51George, a little tattle Tuesday again?
00:24:07No, it's Thursday.
00:24:09Herbie?
00:24:09All right.
00:24:12This time.
00:24:21Oh, Lord.
00:24:25I thought we'd be half over by now.
00:24:30You've got a rabbit to pull out of your hat today, Percy.
00:24:32You've got that Britain can make it look about you.
00:24:35Very intimidating.
00:24:37Should we have brought our sandwiches?
00:24:40I'll be brief, Bill, so long as I'm not obstructed.
00:24:44I'm sorry.
00:24:45Traffic.
00:24:46You should have walked.
00:24:47I think you and Percy between you are contriving to keep me off the streets.
00:24:56They're all here now, sir.
00:24:59Would you go in, please, gentlemen?
00:25:00Would you go in, please, gentlemen?
00:25:17How often do I have to emphasize the extreme sensitivity of the source of the witchcraft product?
00:25:31I must insist there is no existing method of Whitehall distribution to meet the case.
00:25:37Do I have to remind you of that disgraceful incident when an undersecretary, albeit overworked,
00:25:44so be it, but the fact remains the man actually gave his dispatch box key to his personal assistant.
00:25:52We simply cannot afford that kind of ludicrous insecurity when we are handling witchcraft.
00:26:01Now,
00:26:02I have already discussed the problem with Lily of Naval Intelligence,
00:26:12and he is prepared to put at our disposal a special main reading room in the admiralty main building,
00:26:21where witchcraft material can be seen by our customers and watched over by a senior janitor of this service.
00:26:29Wouldn't you rather have security call?
00:26:30The reading room will be known for cover purposes as the conference room of the Adriatic Working Party,
00:26:43the AWP room for short.
00:26:46There you go.
00:26:48Customers with reading rights will not have passes, since these can be too accessible, like keys.
00:26:54Instead, they will appear on a special list with their photographs,
00:26:59and they will identify themselves personally to my janitor.
00:27:03Whose janitor, Percy?
00:27:06Well, he's already got his own personal wizard.
00:27:09The odd commissionaire seems modest enough domestic star.
00:27:17Allowing that all this is necessary.
00:27:19Essential.
00:27:20My minister will want to know a lot more about the cost.
00:27:26He'll want it to appear to be borne by the admiralty,
00:27:28even if you have to reimburse covertly.
00:27:31Yes, of course.
00:27:32The reading room will have to be extensively rebuilt, to begin with.
00:27:36Now, I would like to call your attention to the Foreign Office comment
00:27:40on the most recent witchcraft product,
00:27:43and I quote,
00:27:44This document sheds an extraordinary sidelight on Soviet aggressive thinking.
00:27:50Does that mean they like it, Percy?
00:27:59Do you like it, Bill?
00:28:01It's from the very heart of your territory.
00:28:03The fact is, in 25 years, I haven't laid hands on anything of that quality.
00:28:13And unless I'm extremely mistaken, nor have our American cousins.
00:28:16Anyone taking that stuff to Washington could drive a very hard bargain indeed.
00:28:20Early days, Bill.
00:28:21Agreed, George.
00:28:22But if Merlin maintains the standard of that,
00:28:24we're going to be able to buy whatever's in the Yank shop.
00:28:27I don't think control's going to play.
00:28:29That would rule me out as well, of course.
00:28:34Percy will get his reading room.
00:28:36Yes.
00:28:38And after that, I suppose anything's possible.
00:28:41Did you want to ask me something, Mr. Smiley?
00:29:01I'm afraid he's not seeing anyone at all today.
00:29:08Again?
00:29:10I'm being asked why he's cancelled the Tuesday conferences.
00:29:19You know I can't add anything to his memorandum, Mr. Smiley, even for you.
00:29:24Even if I could, Mr. Smiley.
00:29:26No, of course.
00:29:27I was rather hoping before I set off on this Hong Kong trip he wants me to make.
00:29:33Well, when I get back, perhaps he'll have got through that little lot.
00:29:51And now there's a witchcraft committee.
00:29:53The minister's in the chair.
00:29:54I'm Aliline's vice chairman.
00:29:56Merlin's become an industry.
00:29:58It's the industry.
00:29:59And I'm not employed.
00:30:00You won't even read Aliline's reports.
00:30:04I haven't time.
00:30:06Buying their way in with counterfeit money.
00:30:09Tell them that.
00:30:10Tell them anything.
00:30:12I need time.
00:30:16There are three of them.
00:30:18And Aliline.
00:30:20Sweat them, George.
00:30:21Tempt them.
00:30:21Bully them.
00:30:22Any damn thing.
00:30:23Give them whatever they eat.
00:30:24I need time.
00:30:25I need time.
00:30:54Come to the server, Mr. Smiley.
00:31:15Come to the server, Mr. Smiley.
00:31:16Come to the server, Mr. Smiley.
00:31:16How are your children, Toby?
00:31:28Doing terribly well, thank you, George.
00:31:31The boys at Westminster.
00:31:32Have I got that right?
00:31:34Your daughter's probably left school by now, has she?
00:31:36First year medical student.
00:31:38Loves it.
00:31:39Good for her.
00:31:39Toby, I have to ask you this.
00:31:44Sorry to come prying.
00:31:46Your department's a long way behind with its worksheets.
00:31:49Two months almost.
00:31:50Now, why is that?
00:31:52It's not lamplighter's style.
00:31:57No, we're not infallible, George.
00:31:59Two months.
00:32:00Well, I won't question it.
00:32:01Is it terribly important?
00:32:04Of course, if you say it is, then I'll see it's dealt with, of course.
00:32:07The question is, why, Toby?
00:32:10Let me be blunt.
00:32:12Not your style, George.
00:32:14I'm allowed to say that, surely.
00:32:18I am, after all, one of your oldest protégés.
00:32:22Vienna was a long time ago.
00:32:24You haven't, perhaps, been using your staff for any special jobs lately, have you?
00:32:28Either at home or abroad.
00:32:30I mean the kind of special jobs which, for good reasons of security,
00:32:34you haven't felt able to mention in your returns.
00:32:39Who would I do that for, George?
00:32:41You know, in my book, that's completely illegal.
00:32:45Well, if Percy Alanine, for example, ordered you to do something and not record it,
00:32:51that would put you in a difficult position.
00:32:54What sort of something?
00:32:56Clear a foreign letterbox, prime a safe house, watch someone's back, spike an embassy.
00:33:02It's all lamplighter work.
00:33:04If Percy told you to do it, you might quite reasonably assume
00:33:08he was acting on instructions from the fifth floor.
00:33:11I do like the service, George.
00:33:22I may be sentimental about it, but I prefer to stay in it.
00:33:26Now, you understand that, you of all people.
00:33:29My problem is promotion.
00:33:39I mean the absence of it.
00:33:43I've so many years' seniority,
00:33:46that I feel actually quite embarrassed
00:33:48when these young fellows ask me to take orders from them.
00:33:51Who, Toby?
00:33:56Which young fellows?
00:33:57Roy Bland?
00:33:59Percy?
00:34:00Would you call Percy young?
00:34:03Who?
00:34:03When you're overdue for promotion and working your fingers to the bone,
00:34:08anyone looks young who is above you on the ladder.
00:34:13Have you been taking orders?
00:34:17You know the line of command, George.
00:34:19Perhaps control could move you up a few rows.
00:34:29Well, you know, actually,
00:34:31I'm not sure he's able to these days.
00:34:35Are you?
00:34:36So what's the deal?
00:34:45There isn't a deal, Roy, really.
00:34:47It's just that control feels the present situation is unhealthy.
00:34:52He doesn't like to see you getting mixed up with a cabal.
00:34:55Frankly, nor do I.
00:34:57So what's the deal?
00:34:59What do you want?
00:34:59What about 5,000 quid out the reptile fund, for starters?
00:35:05And a house and a car.
00:35:06And a kid to eat it.
00:35:09Your father would turn in his grave.
00:35:11Let him rotate.
00:35:13You old commie thug.
00:35:18If there's no deal, George,
00:35:20you'll have to tell control he can get stuffed.
00:35:24I've paid, you see.
00:35:26You know that.
00:35:27I don't know what the hell I've bought with it,
00:35:30but I've paid a packet.
00:35:32Poznan, Budapest, Prague, back to Poznan.
00:35:37Have you ever been to Poznan?
00:35:41Sofia, Kiev,
00:35:43two bloody nervous breakdowns
00:35:46and still between the shafts.
00:35:48That's big money at any age.
00:35:51Even yours.
00:35:53No one can deny that, Roy.
00:35:56And you brought me in, remember.
00:36:01If you think I'm going to the bad,
00:36:03you've only got yourself to blame.
00:36:10You're an educated sort of a swine.
00:36:13An artist is a bloke who can hold
00:36:16two fundamentally opposing views
00:36:19and still function.
00:36:21Who dreamed that one up?
00:36:23Scott Fitzgerald.
00:36:25Well, Fitzgerald knew a thing or two.
00:36:29And I'm definitely functioning.
00:36:32As a good socialist,
00:36:34I'm going where the money is.
00:36:35As a good capitalist,
00:36:37I'm sticking with the revolution
00:36:39because if you can't beat it,
00:36:41spy on it.
00:36:43Don't look like that, George.
00:36:46It's the name of the game these days.
00:36:49You scratch my conscience,
00:36:51I'll drive your jag, right?
00:36:53No.
00:36:55Did you get that from Hayden?
00:36:56Is that one of Bill's jokes
00:36:57about materialist England?
00:36:59The pigs in clover society?
00:37:02Don't you like it?
00:37:03Not much.
00:37:05Of course there are competitive
00:37:06and acquisitive instincts
00:37:07in Western society.
00:37:09But they are offset against other concerns
00:37:12which you won't find in...
00:37:13Poznan, Budapest, Kiev, Sofia.
00:37:17Tell me all about it, George.
00:37:21I'm just saying that's England now, man.
00:37:24All you have to do
00:37:25is look out the bloody window.
00:37:28You're seen with Bill Hayden
00:37:29a great deal these days.
00:37:32Jealous, George?
00:37:34You've got his job.
00:37:36Your control's high, Chamberlain.
00:37:38What more do you want?
00:37:41Long as it lasts.
00:37:43They do say you write the reports.
00:38:09I thought that was Roy's job.
00:38:10No.
00:38:11Bland makes the translation.
00:38:13You write the covering reports.
00:38:16They're typed on your machine.
00:38:18The material's not cleared for typists.
00:38:23Percy Aliline won't do.
00:38:26Is that the premise?
00:38:27Which means that Merlin won't do either.
00:38:30Poor old Control.
00:38:32He isn't a pickle.
00:38:34Merlin would do if he were my source,
00:38:35wouldn't he?
00:38:36If Dazzling Bloody Bill here putted along
00:38:38and said he took the whacking big fish
00:38:40and wanted to play him alone
00:38:41and sod the expense,
00:38:43what would happen then?
00:38:45Control would say,
00:38:46that's very nifty of you, Bill boy.
00:38:48You do it just the way you want, Bill boy.
00:38:50Have some filthy jasmine tea.
00:38:52He'd be giving me a medal now,
00:38:55instead of sending you snooping round corridors.
00:39:00We used to be rather a classy bunch.
00:39:03Why are we so vulgar these days?
00:39:05He thinks Percy's on the mate.
00:39:07So he is.
00:39:08I also want to be head boy.
00:39:11And Toby and Roy have designs on your spot.
00:39:16Since when was ambition an offence
00:39:18in our peacely outfit?
00:39:21Is Anne at home?
00:39:27Send her out to play
00:39:28while you grill your old buddy.
00:39:33Who runs him, Bill?
00:39:35Percy?
00:39:35Who do you think?
00:39:37Carla runs him.
00:39:39Stands out a mile.
00:39:40Lower-class bloke with upper-class sources.
00:39:43Must be a bounder.
00:39:44Bill?
00:39:44Percy is sold out to Carla.
00:39:46Any possible explanation?
00:39:49Percy is our house mole.
00:39:51I meant who runs Merlin?
00:39:53Who is Merlin?
00:39:57What's going on?
00:40:04This is a Callow, isn't it?
00:40:06It's nice.
00:40:07It's nice.
00:40:08Very nice.
00:40:08Bill.
00:40:10Doesn't anyone think my nose should be out of joint?
00:40:14I'm supposed to be in charge of the Russian target.
00:40:17Given it my best years.
00:40:20Set up networks, talent spotters, all mod cons.
00:40:22You chaps on the top floor have forgotten what it's like to run an operation where it takes
00:40:28you three days to post a letter and you don't even get an answer for your trouble.
00:40:32That's hardly fair to control.
00:40:34You've heard him a hundred times on how he detests the glamour boy agents who hog the budget.
00:40:40How he hates miracles if they put the bread and butter networks out of focus.
00:40:44It's a pity he doesn't have the same hatred of failure as he lived with it too long.
00:40:53Face it, George.
00:40:55It's Percy.
00:40:57Percy's success.
00:40:59It's thrown control.
00:41:01And me, a bit.
00:41:04Trouble is, my networks haven't been good enough.
00:41:06This is new.
00:41:10I fancy this very much.
00:41:14Anne gave it, ma'am.
00:41:16Making amends?
00:41:18Probably.
00:41:19Must have been quite a sin.
00:41:24How is she?
00:41:30George, cut the cord.
00:41:33Get away from control.
00:41:36He's cut you out of his life for weeks on end.
00:41:40Dispatching you about with errands of probation I could handle.
00:41:44What's he doing up there?
00:41:48He's been going through files of old circus folk heroes from year minus one.
00:41:53Half of them under the earth already.
00:41:55Sniffing out the dirt to see who was pink, who was a queen.
00:41:59He's given us all up, hasn't he?
00:42:02I don't think that's true.
00:42:03Well, senile paranoia.
00:42:06Control's going potty.
00:42:09And he's also dying.
00:42:12It's just a question of which gets him first.
00:42:19And within six months of Bill Hayden's diagnosis,
00:42:23Control was indeed dead.
00:42:25And what killed him?
00:42:29Operation Witchcraft or Operation Testify?
00:42:32Neither.
00:42:34It's not been melodramatic.
00:42:36Control would disapprove.
00:42:38He died of old age.
00:42:40A little early.
00:42:43But Testify destroyed his function in life,
00:42:45which was a form of murder.
00:42:47I don't have nearly enough on Testify, Peter.
00:42:55Would you please, er...
00:42:59Of course, George.
00:43:01Lord, now lettest thou thy sovereigns
00:43:16deposit in here.
00:43:20And at the님이ag's Ninthury,
00:43:23And what fabricant of nations
00:43:24And that are female who has its own
00:43:24Because you can yes,
00:43:25You will fall away towards that,
00:43:29And where 안될 me right.
00:43:30Amen.
00:43:31The kun and bolest thou Pale or Talk touch Pol
00:43:34Three days are not have to pay for borrow for� Yesterday.
00:43:36In His mother andwehbaly,
00:43:37Oh, my God.
00:43:37You are the only two days have to buy these
00:43:41Magicalances to Jim and Hazardini,
00:43:42Because you are celebrating
00:43:43Make her own life andicie
00:43:44Of course, you can't succeed in writing advers large
00:43:45This皆 are not have to wholly City.
00:43:46And how many of she has to believe
00:43:47And whereores and understands
00:43:47I rise, have seen my salvation, which now has prepared me for the face of all people.
00:44:17To be a light, to lighten my chances, and to be the body of my people, Israel.
00:44:47Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
00:45:05As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shining.
00:45:15Amen.
00:45:17Amen.
00:45:21Amen.
00:45:23Amen.
00:45:25Amen.
00:45:27Amen.
00:45:29Amen.
00:45:31Amen.
00:45:33Amen.
00:45:35Amen.
00:45:37Amen.
00:45:39Amen.
00:45:41Amen.
00:45:43Amen.
00:45:45Amen.
00:45:47Amen.
00:45:49Amen.
00:45:51Amen.
00:45:53Amen.
00:45:55Amen.
00:45:57Amen.
00:45:59Amen.
00:46:01Amen.
00:46:03Amen.
00:46:05Amen.
00:46:07Amen.
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00:47:57The telephone for you, sir.
00:48:10Ever such a rough voice.
00:48:11Says it's someone from your garage, and I can quite believe it.
00:48:14Right.
00:48:20Your rude mechanic has some bad news for you.
00:48:27Personally, I find mechanics are bad news, by and large.
00:48:37Which phone, Owen?
00:48:38The one on the left.
00:48:50Well, at least get onto the head office today
00:48:53and find out when they can supply the damn thing.
00:48:57Hang on a minute. I think I've got the number.
00:49:01Alwyn, sling that bag across for me, will you, please?
00:49:03I will, sir.
00:49:06There you go.
00:49:09Open it for you.
00:49:10Oh, thanks.
00:49:11Right, are you ready?
00:49:35The number you want is four, three, seven, six, two, nine, nine.
00:49:45It seems to be going according to plan.
00:50:00Peter does sound jumpy.
00:50:02He might have ever done it a bit there.
00:50:05He was very loud.
00:50:06I've seen it happen before.
00:50:11Tough ones who crack at 40.
00:50:14They lock it all away, pretend it isn't happening,
00:50:15and all of a sudden you find them at the desks.
00:50:18The tears pouring on the blotter.
00:50:21I thought I ought to say what's on my mind.
00:50:24I think Peter will manage.
00:50:27You heard something about his murderous assignment
00:50:29in French North Africa, I suppose.
00:50:31Something.
00:50:32Whispers.
00:50:32Peter was overmatched, and he lost.
00:50:36His agents were hanged.
00:50:40No one recovers entirely from that sort of thing.
00:50:44That is, I wouldn't trust a man who did.
00:51:02All right, back, please.
00:51:25Peter, I am sorry to disturb you,
00:51:27but we have a tiny crisis.
00:51:29Percy Allerlyne would like a word with you.
00:51:31Quite an urgent word.
00:51:32Can you come now?
00:51:33Of course, Toby.
00:51:34Have you been waiting?
00:51:36Didn't you tell Mr. Estehazy where I was?
00:51:39We've only just got here, Peter.
00:51:42Your office told us you were doing a spot of deviling.
00:51:46Only Percy is anxious to speak to you now, you see.
00:51:51Alwyn, there's a midday shuttle to Brixton, isn't there?
00:51:53Yes.
00:51:54You might get transport a buzz
00:51:55and ask them to take that thing over for me, will you?
00:51:57Will do, sir.
00:51:57Will do.
00:51:58Percy wants to consult you.
00:52:18How are the martial arts, Paul?
00:52:20Any new tricks you could show me?
00:52:21Paul and I were paired on a tough guy course
00:52:24a little while back.
00:52:26Damn near killed each other.
00:52:42Peter?
00:52:42Peter?
00:52:44Please.
00:52:44Watch your feet.
00:53:11There she got the money again.
00:53:12Well, now, young Peter Gwilham, welcome to my house,
00:53:36about which you've been making calls, I hear.
00:53:39Are you lonely in the Brixton outposts?
00:53:43Tired of chasing the local virgins?
00:53:45If there are any in Brixton, which I would doubt.
00:53:49If you'll excuse my freedom, Moe.
00:53:52You don't know that Moe Delaware is our new head of research, do you?
00:53:56Man with message and cleft stick does reach Brixton, does he?
00:54:01Barring the monsoon.
00:54:02Well, I hear you've been hobnobbing with the late lamented Ricky Tarr,
00:54:10formerly of your section, dispatched by you to Lisbon,
00:54:14and since then listed by this service as a defector.
00:54:20How is he?
00:54:22That's right, Chief.
00:54:24Ricky and I have tea at Fortnum's every afternoon.
00:54:27Jasmine.
00:54:28Peter Gwilham, you may not be aware of this,
00:54:33but I am possessed of an extremely forgiving nature.
00:54:37I positively seethe with goodwill.
00:54:41All I require from you is the matter of your discussion with Tarr.
00:54:45I do not ask for his head,
00:54:47or any other part of his offensive anatomy,
00:54:50and I will restrain my impulse personally
00:54:52to strangle him.
00:54:54Or you.
00:54:56I would even go so far as to consider
00:54:58bringing you back into the palace from hateful Brixton,
00:55:02where presently you linger in well-earned obscurity.
00:55:08In that case, I can't wait for him to turn up.
00:55:10And there's a free pardon for your friend Ricky.
00:55:13Until I get my hands on him.
00:55:15I'll tell him that word for word.
00:55:17He'll be thrilled.
00:55:18I'm very disappointed in you, young Peter.
00:55:23I pay you honest money,
00:55:25and you stab me in the back.
00:55:28I consider that extremely poor reward
00:55:31for keeping you alive
00:55:33against the entreaties of my advisers,
00:55:36I may tell you.
00:55:37Let us begin again.
00:55:43If you won't give me a straight answer,
00:55:46perhaps you'll unburden to somebody more persuasive.
00:55:56Roy.
00:56:03Ricky Tarr's got a daughter, hasn't he?
00:56:06Yes, of course, a dammy.
00:56:09Talk about her a lot.
00:56:11He told me he was fond of her.
00:56:15That's all I know.
00:56:16What the hell are you shrugging at us like that for?
00:56:18I'm accusing you of playing hooky behind my back
00:56:21with a damn defector from your own damn section
00:56:23of playing damn fool parlor games
00:56:25and you don't know the stakes,
00:56:27and all you do is shrug at me?
00:56:29There's a law, Gwilam,
00:56:30against consorting with enemy agents.
00:56:33Do you want me to throw the book at you?
00:56:34I haven't seen him.
00:56:37Who's playing games?
00:56:38Not me.
00:56:39You are.
00:56:39So get off my back.
00:56:54Who's Dennis' mother?
00:56:54Eurasian girl.
00:56:58But Tarr likes to think she passes for full European.
00:57:00And the child.
00:57:02Twelve years old, long blonde hair, brown eyes, slim.
00:57:07Is that Danny?
00:57:10It could be.
00:57:11So, if I told you that Danny and her mother
00:57:15were due to arrive in London three days ago
00:57:18on a direct flight from Tunis,
00:57:20I take it you would share our perplexity?
00:57:24Yes, I would.
00:57:26And you'd keep your mouth shut
00:57:27when we let you out of here?
00:57:29It isn't ordinary flight information, Peter.
00:57:36The source is very private.
00:57:39Ultra, ultra sensitive, in fact, Peter.
00:57:42In that case, Toby, I'll try and keep my mouth
00:57:44ultra, ultra shut.
00:57:46So, what do you make of it, young Peter?
00:57:53Come on.
00:57:54You were his boss, guide, philosopher, friend.
00:57:58Tell me why Ricky Tarr's in London.
00:58:01You didn't say that.
00:58:02You said his girl and his kid were expected.
00:58:04Don't be a juice man.
00:58:06Where little Danny goes, there goes Tarr.
00:58:09Except he'd move first
00:58:10and have his impedimenter follow.
00:58:12Yes?
00:58:14That would be favourite.
00:58:14All right.
00:58:17Tarr was supposed to be sitting in Moscow
00:58:18and now he's supposed to be back here
00:58:19on the Russian payroll.
00:58:21But why is it all so hot?
00:58:23What kind of plant can he be
00:58:24when we know everything about him?
00:58:27Down to his last attack of swine fever
00:58:28from which he's only partially recovered, in my view.
00:58:31Excuse my freedom, Moe.
00:58:35I'm sorry, but what kind of plant is that?
00:58:39Well, never mind what sort.
00:58:40Muddy in pools, poisoning wells,
00:58:42maybe that damn sort.
00:58:43Pulling the rug out.
00:58:45Now, listen.
00:58:46Just you remember this.
00:58:48At the first peep,
00:58:49the first whisper of Tarr,
00:58:51or his lady,
00:58:52or his wee bairn,
00:58:53young Peter Gwilham,
00:58:55you come to one of us grown-ups.
00:58:58Anyone you see at this table.
00:59:00But not another damn soul.
00:59:03The name on the passport is Poole.
00:59:11P-O-O-L-E.
00:59:14All three of them.
00:59:18Tarr told his woman,
00:59:19so we understand,
00:59:20in case of difficulties,
00:59:21she should come to you.
00:59:22sign that, Peter,
00:59:27would you?
00:59:33Stupid, bloody cabaret.
00:59:35Percy gets more insufferable every day.
00:59:39I wouldn't know, Bill, would I?
00:59:40The name on the passport is Poole.
00:59:44Mr.
00:59:44Christmas music is perfect.
00:59:44There you go.
00:59:45See you, Mr.
00:59:45Bill.
00:59:46There you go.
00:59:46There we go.
00:59:47The annulists.
00:59:47The annulists.
00:59:49Four o'op.
00:59:49There you go.
00:59:50The annulists.
00:59:50There you go.
00:59:50There you go.
00:59:51There you go.
00:59:51I certify that I have today been advised of witchcraft report number 308, Source Merlin.
01:00:15I undertake not to divulge any part of this report to other members of the service,
01:00:19nor will I divulge the existence of Source Merlin.
01:00:22Get it over, you sodding snail!
01:00:24Peter!
01:00:24Tar, that bastard Tar!
01:00:26Peter, slow down. Slow down.
01:00:34The file on testify seemed a bit thin.
01:00:37I hope it was worth the sweat.
01:00:39Ricky Tar has not lied to us, Peter, not in any material way.
01:00:43He has simply done what agents the world overdo,
01:00:45failed to tell us the whole story.
01:00:47On the other hand, he has been rather clever.
01:00:52Are you actually pleased with him?
01:00:53Well, yes.
01:00:55We now know that Source Merlin works to Moscow Centre,
01:00:59because that's where Merlin's information on Ricky Tower must have come from.
01:01:04From Carla.
01:01:05Have a great one.
01:01:32Rikki's been a lot better today, so not nearly so nervy.
01:01:56Well, he did his football pools this morning, and this afternoon we planted some trees in
01:02:01the garden, and then this evening we had a nice game of cards.
01:02:05Has he been out alone?
01:02:06Oh, no, Mr. Smith.
01:02:07Used the telephone?
01:02:08I wouldn't dare, sir.
01:02:09Has he talked about his daughter, Danny, or her mother?
01:02:12Well, he did over the weekend, sir, but he's sort of cooled off about them since.
01:02:17I think it's in view of the emotional side.
01:02:20Did he ever mention any arrangements for meeting them again?
01:02:23Anything about passports?
01:02:25No, sir.
01:02:26What has he talked about, for God's sake?
01:02:28Well, mostly the Russian lady, sir, Irina.
01:02:30Oh, he mentions her name a lot, Irina.
01:02:32He likes to read a diary.
01:02:34He says he's going to make Moscow Centre swap the mole for Irina when the mole's been caught
01:02:38and all this has been cleared up, and then he's going to buy a little place in Scotland.
01:02:42Oh, and he says he'll see me right, too, get me a big job in the circus.
01:02:46I, er... I just listen, of course.
01:02:50Right.
01:02:59You don't post those football pool coupons, do you, Ford?
01:03:02Oh, no, Mr. Smiley.
01:03:04Let's hope he doesn't have a win.
01:03:06That would be expensive for us.
01:03:10Thank you for your help, Miss Brimley. Sorry to impose on you.
01:03:13He's gone to bed.
01:03:14I must ask you once more, what did you do with the two Swiss escape passports you took with you to Lisbon?
01:03:33I told you. Burn them.
01:03:44When you bought your fake British passport in Istanbul, a passport for yourself in the name of Richard Henry Poole,
01:03:51did you buy any others from the same source?
01:03:53Why? Why should I?
01:03:56To protect your child and her mother.
01:03:58That seems quite reasonable.
01:04:00After all, it wouldn't be a very gallant act to leave the woman and the child you love
01:04:04to the mercy of the Moscow hood on your tail,
01:04:06while you escape to all this VIP protection.
01:04:11It's horrible to think of.
01:04:14Truly horrible.
01:04:17To contemplate the lengths Carla might go to in order to obtain your silence.
01:04:23Or your services.
01:04:25But perhaps what you actually did, and forgot to tell us about,
01:04:30was to burn the British passports you obtained for Mrs Poole and Miss Danny Poole,
01:04:35but kept your own to convince Carla's footpads you thought it was still safe.
01:04:41Then, probably, you made travel bookings in the name of the Poole family for the same reason.
01:04:47You doctored the Swiss passports for Danny and her mother,
01:04:52and made other arrangements for them.
01:04:56Like, um, staying in Marseille, perhaps.
01:05:00Prince!
01:05:01Prince!
01:05:02Prince!
01:05:04Prince!
01:05:19Prince!
01:05:20I don't know where they are, but I'm sure no harm has come to them. Does that satisfy you?
01:05:26Maybe you should keep a closer eye on your own damn woman and leave mine alone.
01:05:29No, Peter.
01:05:31Perhaps it's just as well. I shouldn't know where you've hidden them.
01:05:35So long as you don't try to communicate.
01:05:38Unless, of course, you want me to help in some way. Money or whatever.
01:05:43No need. Let's trust each other, shall we?
01:05:46Are we friends again, Mr Gwillam?
01:05:49It won't be long now.
01:05:52Have you got all you need?
01:05:54Can I have my gun back?
01:05:55Yes.
01:05:57Oh, why not, Peter?
01:05:59Do we buy that?
01:06:02Oh, yes. I told you he'd been clever. A little bit of the truth is indispensable in the games agents play. You know that.
01:06:14Ricky put his family in safekeeping and found his own way home. He fooled the Russians. If Carla had a deal with him, do you think you and I would be alive and well and living in hope? Not by now, I think.
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01:07:09Let it breathe a little.
01:07:24Just leave it.
01:07:25We'll pour it when we're ready.
01:07:26Does anyone know Carla's real name?
01:07:42And how old is he?
01:07:43Another mystery.
01:07:45Decades of his life unaccounted for.
01:07:48So many of the people he's worked with have a way of dying off.
01:07:53He was in England in 1936 and 1941.
01:07:56That's documented.
01:07:57We can assume it was sometime during that period he recruited our mole, Gerald.
01:08:04I met him once.
01:08:07In Delhi.
01:08:09Oh, this was long before we came to know him as the legendary Carla.
01:08:14In the mid-50s, Moscow's center was in pieces on the floor.
01:08:17Wholesale purgings and shootings.
01:08:19And as a result, defection everywhere.
01:08:24I became a kind of commercial traveler.
01:08:28The whole world was my territory.
01:08:31Inspecting the goods, fixing the terms.
01:08:35Disposing as seemed best.
01:08:38On London's instructions, of course.
01:08:40Well, I found myself off to India, where the authorities had arrested, at our request,
01:08:48on some trumped-up immigration nonsense, a Mr. Guest Man.
01:08:54Carla's name at that time.
01:08:56He was on his way back to Moscow from San Francisco.
01:09:00Except that he didn't know, when he left California, that he was Moscow-bound.
01:09:04He'd been told to rendezvous with a TAS correspondent in Delhi.
01:09:10The message from the TAS man was an airplane ticket and...
01:09:15Don't ask me any questions, comrade.
01:09:19Carla was in disgrace.
01:09:21Summoned...
01:09:22There were two other things he didn't know.
01:09:33The first was that we'd intercepted the radio signal directing him to Delhi.
01:09:38The second was that the San Francisco network he'd organized had been rolled up hide and hair the day he left.
01:09:44Could we take those things off his hands?
01:09:59I only have to shout for you, don't I?
01:10:14Mr. Guest Man.
01:10:23You are the Cold War orphan.
01:10:26If you go home to Moscow, as ordered, you'll be either shot or sent to die in one of the camps.
01:10:31Wouldn't you prefer to ask us for protection?
01:10:34We have no powers of permanent arrest.
01:10:37And our arrangement with the Americans was that they hit your agents and we make you this invitation.
01:10:47I can't see an alternative for you.
01:10:50If you cooperate, we can give you a new start, a new identity.
01:10:56Seclusion.
01:10:58A modest amount of money.
01:10:59Well, why don't you start by telling me your true name?
01:11:11Would you like a cigarette?
01:11:14I know you're a chain smoker.
01:11:17Oh, Pete.
01:11:20I know this is what you smoke.
01:11:29Look, I'm not offering you wealth, or smart women, or your choice of fast cars.
01:11:40I know you haven't any use for those things.
01:11:43And I'm not going to make any claims about the moral superiority of the West.
01:11:49I'm sure you can see through our values, just as I can see through yours in the East.
01:11:54You and I have spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in each other's systems.
01:12:02I'm sure each of us has experienced innumerable technical satisfactions in our wretched Cold War.
01:12:16But now your own side is going to shoot you.
01:12:20For nothing.
01:12:21For misdemeanors you have not committed.
01:12:27Because of a power struggle within your own hierarchy.
01:12:31Because, probably, of someone's treachery.
01:12:36Or sheer incompetence.
01:12:51I'm sure both of us, when we were young, subscribed to great visions.
01:13:03But not anymore.
01:13:05After all you've seen.
01:13:09You can't still be committed to that old, grand design.
01:13:13You know it's achieved nothing, except new forms of the old misery.
01:13:20Don't destroy yourself.
01:13:24They're not worth it.
01:13:26Do you know where your wife is?
01:13:36I mean, at this moment.
01:13:38You have to think about her.
01:13:42She'll have to make a new life.
01:13:47Do you have a friend?
01:13:48I mean, one really good friend, who could look after her.
01:13:59Perhaps we could get in touch with her secretly.
01:14:02If you stay with us, we might be able to arrange something.
01:14:08An exchange for someone your people won't return.
01:14:14But if you go back, it can do her nothing but harm.
01:14:19She'll be cold-shouldered.
01:14:25Suspected.
01:14:28The best she can hope for is to be allowed to see you before you're shot.
01:14:34Another meaningless firing squad.
01:14:41Guard.
01:14:49The best she can hope for is to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to be allowed to
01:15:19what did control have to say when you got back i hope to god they do shoot him
01:15:26but they didn't his boss was the one who faced the firing squad as it turned out
01:15:33mr guestman survived and thrived how he thrived he went on to build his legend and become the
01:15:43carla we know the carla who all the time he sat looking at me was no doubt thinking of gerald the
01:15:50mole have you noticed peter that whenever i really trouble one of our acquaintances with my
01:16:02questions he'll raise the matter of my failure as a husband to confound me instructive ricky tar
01:16:12tried it twice unimportant in his case spiked well that was sumptuous that boy fawn good at his judo
01:16:26isn't he karate george judo is what fawn would call just your little cuddle mr smiley
01:16:42so
01:16:44so
01:16:49so
01:16:52so
01:16:56I don't think even Toby Esther Hayes' people would follow us here.
01:17:18The food's well below the standard they've come to expect.
01:17:23So, Carla's fireproof.
01:17:24He can't be bought, and he can't be beaten.
01:17:27Not fireproof, because he's a fanatic.
01:17:30I may have behaved like a soft dolt, the very archetype of a flabby Western liberal,
01:17:34but I'd rather be my kind of fool than his.
01:17:37One day, that lack of moderation will be Carla's downfall.
01:17:54He's never touched radio since the debacle in San Francisco.
01:18:02Cut it right out of his handwriting.
01:18:05His agents aren't allowed to hear.
01:18:06That's something else you and Carla have in common.
01:18:08Yes, I am prejudiced against radio men.
01:18:13Tires and breathe.
01:18:15Overstrung, unreliable.
01:18:17What's the other thing?
01:18:19Well, the cigarette lighter.
01:18:20I assume he still has it.
01:18:22As far as I know, Peter.
01:18:24Sorry, George.
01:18:25Not at all.
01:18:29How do you feel, Peter?
01:18:31I'm all right.
01:18:32After Delhi, you know, Control gave me three months' leave without the option.
01:18:38When this is over, I hope you'll take it easy for a while.
01:18:43We're not quite there, but nearly.
01:18:48Peter, have you got the handbrake on?
01:19:02I'm natural.
01:19:10I don't even know who I'm your mother do, of course.
01:19:12I honestly cannot try it.
01:19:28ему pick the order.
01:19:30I'll show you how to make it.
01:19:34Now, I have a dog.
01:19:42It's a good dog.
01:19:46I'm going to make it.
01:20:33Operation Witchcraft.
01:20:36Al-align to Minister.
01:20:38Extremely secret and personal.
01:20:41We spoke.
01:20:43Merlin, as you may have known for some time, is not one source, but several.
01:20:47It would do the treasury no harm to learn...
01:20:50Percy was enjoying himself, wasn't he?
01:20:52...to learn that Merlin's 10,000 Swiss francs a month in salary...
01:20:56...and a similar figure for expenses and running costs...
01:20:59...are scarcely excessive when the cloth has to be cut so many ways.
01:21:03Then he adds,
01:21:04Nevertheless, I regard it as paramount...
01:21:07...that knowledge of the London house and the purpose for which it is used...
01:21:11...remain absolutely at a minimum.
01:21:13In a sense, Percy Al-align's quite right about Merlin.
01:21:16Of course, Merlin represents several sources, various departments of Moscow Center...
01:21:21...with Karner queuing them in on the basis of the most timely material of the given moment.
01:21:27Sometimes he likes to direct circus attention to a topical subject, sometimes to deflect it.
01:21:33For example, after Ricky Tarr's encounter with Irina in Lisbon...
01:21:38...Merlin delivered some vivid insights on the ideological penetration of the United States.
01:21:45But Karner doesn't know what Tarr's done with the information from Irina.
01:21:49Which brings us to your interrogation by Al-align...
01:21:52...and his reference to Tarr's probable role over here in muddying pools, etc.
01:21:57Merlin's message on Tarr, I suggest...
01:22:02...was that Ricky would be trying to sell to someone in London, on Karner's behalf...
01:22:08...fictitious material about a traitor in the circus.
01:22:12Nothing muddier than that, is there?
01:22:15Remember, Merlin is totally believed.
01:22:21So now we have a clear connection between Merlin and the Mole.
01:22:25And at the heart of this beautifully symmetrical plot...
01:22:29...is a house in London for which the Treasury paid £60,000...
01:22:34...plus another ten for making it more to Merlin's liking, or Gerald's.
01:22:42Fascinating, George.
01:22:50And how do you suggest I explain to my minister, least painfully...
01:22:53...that Merlin's a fraud and he'll have to tell the Americans so?
01:22:57He's devoted to Merlin.
01:22:59Impress upon him that whatever he's buying from the Americans...
01:23:02...with Merlin's discredited currency...
01:23:05...is going straight to Moscow via Gerald the Mole.
01:23:08That should do the trick.
01:23:14This document is not one you've asked me to bring.
01:23:18It arrived only today.
01:23:19Source unknown.
01:23:23According to a recently released prisoner from Lubyanka jail...
01:23:26...Moscow's center held a secret execution in the punishment block in March.
01:23:30The victims were three of its own functionaries.
01:23:34All were shot in the back of the neck.
01:23:37One was a woman.
01:23:40Ricky Tower mustn't know.
01:23:42It's vital he gets no wind of this.
01:23:44God knows what he'd do or not do if he found out Irina was dead.
01:23:47And we may need to make further use of him.
01:23:49Do you really believe all that guff about Tower being in love with her?
01:23:52The little homestead in the Highlands.
01:23:54The avenging lover.
01:23:55The honorable Ricky Tower.
01:23:57He may feel compelled, Peter.
01:23:59Everybody has a loyalty somewhere.
01:24:02He mustn't know.
01:24:03I agree.
01:24:04Now, George, I've got all I could find on Jim Fredo, such as it is.
01:24:12Fredo and Bill Hayden were really very close, you know.
01:24:18You haven't realized.
01:24:19Yes.
01:24:23Operation Testify.
01:24:26We still need to understand what happened, or rather why it happened.
01:24:31The file you borrowed, Peter, does at least give us a nudge in the right direction.
01:24:35I think I know who to talk to next.
01:24:37Your day was hardly wasted.
01:24:40I am glad of that, George.
01:24:42We've traced Fredo.
01:24:43He's become a teacher.
01:24:45First good preparatory school for boys.
01:24:47It's in the West Country.
01:24:50Right.
01:25:23Thank you,
01:25:38Your salvation
01:25:49Which now has prepared me for the peace of all people
01:26:05To be a light, to light your chances
01:26:17And to be the money of thy people, Israel
01:26:35Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost
01:26:53As it was in the beginning, is now, never shall be
01:27:05But without end, Amen
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