00:00You must assume, Peter, the circus has the dogs on you 24 hours a day.
00:08Think of it as a foreign country.
00:13Hello, Bryant.
00:16Hello, nice to see you again, sir.
00:18What's the matter, please?
00:27Mr. Goodham, sir.
00:30Mr. Lord of Strypton's expecting you.
00:35We'll meet you by the barrier on the fifth floor.
00:37Right.
00:40Thanks.
00:49That sounds someone oiled, these things, isn't it?
00:51We keep asking.
00:53You can talk till you're blue in the face.
00:55Well, Matt Peter, greetings.
01:15A trifle late, but never mind.
01:17Sorry, Lorna.
01:18You have to make a lounge in the country yokel.
01:21Good God, how long have you had that monster?
01:23You really are a stranger, aren't you?
01:28It saves man-eyes.
01:30Fantastic.
01:31Quite fantastic.
01:33Oh, hello, Bill.
01:35What the hell are you doing here, you pariah?
01:40He's got some French diplomatic courier he wants to buy, and he needs to wash some dirty money.
01:45That's a job for banking section, of course, so we're sorting out the tangle for him.
01:49He knows it has to be London station cleared.
01:51He told me the papers were already routed to you.
01:53They're probably in your in-tray now, Bill.
01:57They had better be, Peter.
02:00Mind you lock up the spoons.
02:01These scalp hunters, they'll have the gold out of your teeth.
02:05Lock up the girls as well.
02:07If they'll let you.
02:11There we go, Bert.
02:12Keys of the city.
02:14London station couldn't be in better hands.
02:16Everything's a lot tighter here these days, Willem.
02:22Hey, Lorda, hold on.
02:25Have you seen bloody Bill anywhere?
02:29Indeed, I have seen Bill.
02:30We were having a brief word about a couple of things back down the corridor.
02:34He's wanted urgently.
02:35Immediately, Lorda, actually.
02:37We put out an alert for him.
02:38I suspect he may well be on his way to you at this moment.
02:46Peter.
02:52Hello.
02:53Hi.
02:57Thanks for the glad hand.
02:59I did wipe the cow dung off my boots.
03:02What's the joke, Roy?
03:04The joke, Peter, old lad.
03:06Just surprised to see you, that's all.
03:09We're used to having this floor to ourselves.
03:12Would you like to see my pass, Toby?
03:16How are you keeping?
03:19Oh, I wintered very well, thanks.
03:21You know what it's like living in the Brixton rest house these days.
03:23Plenty of ludo, ping-pong.
03:25Normally, I'd be having my afternoon ziz at this time.
03:28After you, Peter.
03:30Don't waste Lorda's time.
03:32No, sir.
03:32Sorry, sir.
03:40All right, Lorda, I'll just have to wait for the wheels to turn.
03:42I don't need a pass to use the gents, do I?
03:46No.
03:47I don't need a pass to use the gents, do I?
03:49I don't need a pass.
04:12So, let's go.
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08:16to be whimsical. Oh, you are. You won't forget Predo, will you? Anything at all you can get
08:23on him. Even scraps would help. He has a point, George. Witchcraft and Merlin. Polyakov
08:43on the mole. Predo getting himself shot up on some wild goose chase of Controls in the
08:48rural charms of Czechoslovakia. You think it all connects? I think, Peter, I'm not the
08:54first to make this journey of exploration. I believe Control was here before me. He might
09:01even have made the full distance. But for the bullets in Predo's back, there are three
09:07of them and Alaline. Control's words. He meant Operation Witchcraft, of course. Merlin's
09:15minders or inventors or programmers or marionettes or what? Why was Control always so hostile to
09:26Alaline? Percy wasn't a complete fool. Percy didn't flirt, Peter. And Control hadn't reckoned
09:32on the power of the Alaline lobby. Who were they? Golfers. Golfers and Conservatives.
09:38That's what Control said to me. I got a call from Control one day, very sharp, very combative.
09:45George, come in here or they'll be lunchy.
