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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 (Karla).
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 (Karla).
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17:29BANG!
17:59How are you?
18:01It's okay, but the doctor told me,
18:03that I don't know how to do it for three hours.
18:06What are you doing?
18:07You have to sit with me in front,
18:09it's safe.
18:10What are you doing?
18:11You're also democratic.
18:13What are you doing?
18:16Do you have a pistol?
18:17What are you doing?
18:26Do you have a story for the general?
18:29What are you doing?
18:49I'll give you an anecdote.
18:52One woman is looking for boys.
18:55When they stand behind them in front,
18:57they go back to the wheel.
19:01And once again, it started to explode.
19:03You have a search for shet.
19:05There are a couple of movies.
19:07You have to pull up some pictures of the bus.
19:09It's different from the bus.
19:11It can be different from the bus.
19:13You have a suit.
19:15You have a suit.
19:17I don't know.
19:47Don't touch me.
20:01Don't touch me.
20:03Get out, Barak.
20:05Come on.
20:17Don't touch me.
20:37Don't touch me.
20:42I'll be behind the general.
20:45If you come back,
20:48I'll be safe.
20:51Aw, I don't know.
20:52I'm okay.
20:53Don't touch me with you.
20:55Oh, I'm sorry.
20:56I'll be wrong.
20:57Don't touch me.
20:59Don't touch me.
21:00Don't touch me.
21:01Stay where you are!
21:31We'll be right back!
21:33We'll be right back!
21:35We'll be right back!
21:37Let's go!
22:01Let's go!
22:06Let's go!
22:08It's cold!
22:24It's cold here!
22:28What?
22:30Well, Dnise, let's go!
22:32What are you going to do?
22:34It's cold.
22:36It's cold.
23:06It's cold.
23:10Barabbas was a bookseller.
23:13Mr. Smiley, please.
23:15You're making an investment.
23:17I hope you'll remember that the day I sent it back to you.
23:20It's always a pleasure to do business with you, sir.
23:22You always have a joke for me.
23:24I think, after all, we could trust this to the post office.
23:33Yes, sir. I'll send it on, Mr. Smiley.
23:35I'll slip out that way, if you don't mind.
23:37Of course, sir.
23:54George!
23:55Hello, there.
23:56My dear boy.
23:57If it isn't the maestro himself.
23:58Don't say you've forgotten me.
23:59Hello, Roddy.
24:00Nice to see you.
24:01How marvelous to run into you.
24:02They told me you were locked up with the monks in St. Gallen or somewhere, poring over manuscripts.
24:17Self-exiled, they said.
24:18Of course, I knew that wasn't true.
24:19Because I know you, George.
24:20You'd never leave England.
24:21You're just not capable of such an act of abandonment, no matter how shabbily the circus treated you.
24:32So, what have you been doing all these months?
24:38I want to know everything, every little bit.
24:41How's the delectable wife?
24:43How is the lovely Lady Anne?
24:45Not in town at the moment, I hear.
24:48Pound to a penny you're shopping for, huh?
24:51Little Presley's all the time, they tell me.
24:53Going away gifts, coming home gifts.
24:55Are you back on the beat, George?
24:58Or did you never really chuck it in?
25:00Is that it, George?
25:02Has it all been cover?
25:04Cover, George?
25:05Roddy, I've retired.
25:07All right, George, if you say so.
25:09You look well, Roddy, but I mustn't delay you.
25:12Oh, no, George, really, my dear old friend.
25:14You can't get away like that.
25:16Roddy Martindale simply wouldn't let you.
25:18It's months and months since we last had a chinwag.
25:20Ah.
25:21Let me buy you a little aperitif.
25:23And then let me take you to dinner.
25:25Allow me that privilege.
25:27Honor me, George.
25:29I can tell by the look of you that no one else has claimed you tonight.
25:32It's kind of you, but...
25:33It's my role in life, George.
25:35We all need to be good at something.
25:42And we mustn't forget Jebedee.
25:44Wasn't he your old tutor?
25:45Yes, once upon a time.
25:46Yes, once upon a time.
25:47How do you rate Spark, the one who came from the School of Oriental Languages?
25:50Place him in the batting order, George.
25:53Not quite there.
25:55He had trouble with his nerves, so they say.
25:58What a pity.
25:59All dead and gone now, of course.
26:01Properly appreciated by only a select few like you and me.
26:04You flatter me.
26:07Now, George.
26:08Let's talk about your old boss, Control.
26:11The only head of the circus who ever kept his name a secret.
26:14Shall we talk about Control?
26:15If you insist.
26:16Of course, it wasn't a secret to you, was it, George?
26:19She never had any secrets from you, his tried and trusted right hand, did he?
26:23I don't know.
26:24That's the point about secrets.
26:26Closest thieves, Control and Smiley wear. Right to the end, so they say.
26:30They are very complimentary.
26:32Now, don't flirt, George.
26:34I'm an old trooper.
26:37You and Control were just like that.
26:42That's why you were thrown out.
26:45It's why Bill Hayden's got your job.
26:47It's why Percy Adeline got into Control's chair when it ought to be you.
26:52Why Bill Hayden's his cupbearer and you're out altogether.
26:55If you say so, Roddy.
26:57I do.
26:59I say more than that.
27:01Far more.
27:04I say this.
27:06Control never died at all.
27:10He's been seen.
27:12In South Africa.
27:14Now, we can't blame a man for wanting a bit of peace in the evening of his life.
27:19Willie Andrew Arthur walked straight into him in Joburg Airport in the waiting room.
27:28Not a ghost.
27:30Flesh.
27:31That's the most idiotic story I've ever heard.
27:33Control died of a heart attack.
27:35After a long illness, through most of which he continued to work.
27:39Besides, he hated South Africa.
27:40He hated everyone except Soddy, the circus, and Lord's Cricket Ground.
27:46Yes, of course.
27:48Willie Andrew Arthur was always the most god-awful liar.
27:51I said the same myself.
27:52Willie, you should be ashamed of yourself.
27:54I suppose what put the last nail into Control's coffin was the Checo scandal.
28:06The poor devil that got shot in the back.
28:08The one who was so thick with Bill Hayden.
28:11With his picture in the newspapers under some fictitious name.
28:15But we know his real name, don't we?
28:17Jim Pareto.
28:27Somehow, I don't think I can ever quite believe in Percy Allerline as chief, can you?
28:35Might be just my natural cynicism.
28:39But power sits 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.
28:53How can anyone take Allerline seriously?
28:57All that heavy goodfellowship.
29:00One has only got to think of him in the old days.
29:02Lodding in the bar of the travellers.
29:04Sucking away on that log of a pipe.
29:07And buying drinks for all the moguls.
29:09Well, really.
29:11One doesn't like one's perfidy to be subtle.
29:13Don't you agree?
29:15Now, what's his knack, George?
29:16Living off the wits of his subordinates, am I right?
29:20Really, Roddy, I can't help you.
29:23I never knew Percy as a force, you see.
29:26Only as a...
29:27Striver?
29:29Right.
29:30With his eyes on Control's purple, day and night.
29:32Yes, well, now he's actually wearing it.
29:34And the mob loves him.
29:35So who's doing the business for him? Eh, George?
29:40Who is it?
29:41I cannot help you.
29:43Who's the clever boots?
29:45Well, 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. We 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.
30:06You're out of my depth, truly.
30:08So who's earning him his reputation?
30:11Uh, no, thank you. I...
30:13I think we've finished now.
30:15It's my party, George.
30:17I'll get the bill when I'm ready.
30:18So who's pulling the strings for Percy Puppet?
30:29How about dashing Bill Hayden, your old rival?
30:35In every sense, I'm told.
30:37Of course, he never was orthodox, was he?
30:41Genius never is.
30:45All right, then.
30:47It's Roy Bland.
30:49The shop-soiled White Hope.
30:51The first red-brick Don to make the circus.
30:54And 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.
31:03You, George. Admit it.
31:06You feather-head, Martindale.
31:08You pompous, bogus, gossiping old feather-head.
31:11Roy Bland is not red-brick.
31:14He was at St. Anthony's Cottage, Oxford.
31:17Oh, don't be silly, dear.
31:19Of 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.
31:26Just because he was your protégé.
31:28I suppose he's Bill Hayden's boy now.
31:30Bill was father to them all, wasn't he?
31:31Or 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.
31:39Anyway, it's my party.
31:44Draws them like bees to a honeypot, doesn't he, our Bill?
31:47Good night, Roddy.
31:49You fancy a nightcap? Start afresh with the bubbly?
31:52Why not, George? I think I will.
31:54Of course, Bill's got the glamour, hasn't he?
31:58Not like some of us.
32:00Star quality, I call it.
32:02One of the very few.
32:04Until the women literally bow down before him.
32:06If that's what women do.
32:08Good night.
32:11Love to Anne.
32:12Everybody's love to Anne.
32:13Everybody's love to Anne.
32:14Everybody's love to Anne.
32:15It's a sandstone, chop-soil like oak.
32:17Everybody's love to Anne.
32:18It's a sandstone, chop-soil like oak.
32:21Everybody's love to Anne.
32:22Oh, damn, oh.
32:23Everybody's love to Anne.
32:24Oh, damn, oh.
32:26It's a sandstone, shop soiled white oak, everybody's love to Anne.
32:48Oh, damn.
32:56Oh, damn.
33:26Oh, damn.
33:56Oh, damn.
34:26Oh, damn.
34:28Oh, damn.
34:32Oh, damn.
34:34Oh, damn.
34:36Oh, damn.
34:38Oh, damn.
34:40Oh, damn.
34:42Oh, damn.
34:44Oh, damn.
34:46Oh, damn.
34:48Oh, damn.
34:50Oh, damn.
34:52Oh, damn.
34:53Oh, damn.
34:54Oh, damn.
34:56Oh, damn.
34:58Oh, damn.
35:00Oh, damn.
35:02Oh, damn.
35:04Oh, damn.
35:06Oh, damn.
35:08Oh, damn.
35:10Oh, damn.
35:11Oh, damn.
35:13Oh, damn.
35:15Oh, damn.
35:17Oh, damn.
35:19Oh, damn.
35:22I've been reviewing my situation in the last half hour of hell,
35:27and I've come to a very grave decision.
35:31After a lifetime of living by my wits and on my memory,
35:36I shall give myself up full time to the profession of forgetting.
35:40I'm going to put an end to some emotional attachments
35:43which have long outlived their purpose,
35:46namely the circus, this house, my whole past.
35:51I shall sell up and buy a cottage in the Cotswolds, I think.
35:56Steeple Aston sounds about right.
35:58Do I need overnight things?
36:00I'm not taking any.
36:02There I shall establish myself as a mild eccentric,
36:06discursive, withdrawn, but possessing one or two lovable habits,
36:11such as muttering to myself as I bumble along innocent pavements.
36:15I shall become an oak of my own generation.
36:18You'll make the coffee.
36:23You'll know where everything is.
36:28You can even pick my front door locks.
36:32Clever, beautiful.
36:33I saw you parking this toy in Kirsten 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.
37:14It's far too young for me.
37:16It's quick.
37:17I'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.
37:30What happened tonight, George?
37:36How's Anne?
37:39Roddy 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.
37:51My wife's fine, thank you.
38:05They put me in charge of scalp hunters.
38:08You 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,
38:19dispatching 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.
38:44Is that still the scalp hunter's official name?
38:48Hit and run.
38:49Caution carried.
38:51Sorry.
38:53Our control always preached
38:55that good intelligence work is gradual
38:57and rests on a kind of gentleness.
39:01It's not my department.
39:02No.
39:04Well, the scalp hunters were always
39:06the exception control allowed to his own rule.
39:09On Bill Haven's persuasion.
39:11A reflection of Bill's temperament, of course.
39:14The solo initiative.
39:16Very dashing.
39:18Very audacious.
39:20Prodig Leben.
39:21Very foot Indiana.
39:22We're Chang'e's prediction.
39:23We're policy endeavors.
39:23What is real?
39:23Very audacious.
39:25I'm sorry, Peter. What?
39:52Lateralism. I said, are you familiar with the word?
39:55I most certainly am not.
39:57It's the in-doctrine now. We used to go up and down. Now 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. Lateralism is in.
40:27Who's Station Commander?
40:30Bill Hayden. His 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.
40:42There are three of them and Aliline.
40:44That's right.
40:46The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:48A very good idea.
40:50Why did Leikon's...
41:08Why did Lekon send you for me, Peter?
41:21Do 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.
41:38You 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?
41:55I 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.
42:04Why 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.
42:40Lacon sent me for you, George.
42:46Looks like Count Dracula's blood bank.
43:02Lacon once described it to me as his Hampshire Camelot, built by a teetotal millionaire.
43:08And she seems to think explains everything.
43:15That's out of touch, Peter.
43:17Does Lacon have any particular title nowadays?
43:20Nothing new.
43:21Just Sir Oliver of the Cabinet Office.
43:23Permanent watchdog of all intelligence affairs.
43:25George.
43:26You know how he loves being one of nature's prefects.
43:32George, hello.
43:33Thanks for coming.
43:34Come on in, will you?
43:36Villam.
43:44You've been enjoying retirement, George?
43:48you haven't missed the walls of human contact i rather would i think one's work with old buddies
43:59oh i think i managed very well thank you yes yes i'm sure i do and you all goes well with you
44:07oh no great changes no no all very smooth charlotte got a scholarship to rodine which
44:14is nice no very good hmm how about your wife in the pink and so on very bonnie thank you
44:22ah all spruce and ship shape again willem you were grubby he did look a russian didn't he george
44:31well shall we
44:44look please george i wanted to talk particularly to you
44:48all right fall log us in please
44:52i think you know mr smiley don't you yes of course i do once gave me a job mr smiley don't you remember
45:00tar sir ricky tar the lawyer's boy from marseilles changed my first nappies as we used to say
45:07they were very tough interviews you used to give us tender young recruits
45:11of course 12 years ago and uh it's that long mr smiley they don't look any different to me sir
45:18no 12 years ago nobody but nobody got taken on unless we got past you
45:24not even scalp hunters aren't quite your type
45:28we all had to get the nod from mr smiley tar
45:32of course i remember you ricky your father was an australian i recall
45:37a solicitor and a non-conformist lay preacher
45:42altogether a most unusual chap to pop up in marseilles
45:46but just such odd circumstances do seem to provide us with suitable personnel
45:52bad boys like ricky
45:55daddy thought he could beat the sin out of me but you knew better
46:00didn't you mr smiley he only beat it further in
46:03and that's what scalp hunters are made of
46:06isn't that right mr guillem
46:09we're waiting for you tar yes i do think we ought to get on
46:13well i guess i better make my pitch then let's keep it precise
46:18shall we all the way along before you begin ricky
46:20do i understand correctly that
46:23no one at the circus knows you're in england
46:27only mr guillem you're officially absent without leave
46:33on the wanted list
46:40i think i'm safe now
46:45i've got a story to tell you it's all about spies
46:50and if it's true which i think it is you boys are going to need a whole new organization
46:56right
46:58shall i start with the day you sent me to lisbon
47:01change my life
47:04you might find it's going to change all your lives
47:08lord now let us where I saw
47:20Heaven's deposit in peace
47:36According to thy word
47:50Through my eyes
47:55Have seen thy salvation
48:08Which now has prepared me for the face of all people
48:20To be your light
48:28To light your chances
48:34And to be the glory of thy people Israel
48:46Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
48:56Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
49:10As it was in the beginning
49:16Is now and ever shall be
49:22God will not end again
49:37Your name will not be upon the Son and to the Holy Ghost
49:42Salim
49:47The Holy Ghost
49:49The Holy Ghost
49:51The Holy Ghost
49:53The Holy Ghost
49:55The Holy Ghost
49:56The Holy Ghost
49:57The Holy Ghost