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Veteran spy master George Smiley is called out on a top secret mission: to uncover a Soviet agent (''a mole'') within top British intelligence's echelons.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries, directed by John Irvin, based on 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, Sian Philips, Alexander Knox, Michael Aldridge, Patrick Stewart.
Veteran spy master George Smiley is called out on a top secret mission: to uncover a Soviet agent (''a mole'') within top British intelligence's echelons.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries, directed by John Irvin, based on 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, Sian Philips, Alexander Knox, Michael Aldridge, Patrick Stewart.
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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 Estrictman'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 system to 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 station cleared.
00:03:07He told me the papers were already rooted to you.
00:03:10They're probably in your intray now, Bill.
00:03:13Well, they had better be, Peter.
00:03:15Mind you, lock up the spoons.
00:03:17These scalp hunters, they'll 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 you go, Bert.
00:03:28Keys of the city.
00:03:30London station couldn't be in better hands.
00:03:32Everything's a lot tighter here these days, Willem.
00:03:38Hey, Lorda, hold on.
00:03:40Have you seen bloody Bill anywhere?
00:03:44Indeed, 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.
00:04:02Peter.
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, Rod?
00:04:20The joke, Peter, old lad.
00:04:21Just surprised to see you, that's all.
00:04:25We're used to having this flaw to ourselves.
00:04:28Would you like to see my past, Toby?
00:04:32How 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 ziz at this time.
00:04:44Afterdo, Peter.
00:04:46Don't waste Lorda's time.
00:04:48No, sir.
00:04:48Sorry, sir.
00:05:04THE END
00:05:34THE END
00:06:04THE END
00:06:06THE END
00:06:08SHUT UP
00:06:10FLUSH
00:06:12STOP IT
00:06:14STOP IT
00:06:16BOY
00:06:18SHUT UP
00:06:20GEORGE
00:06:26SMILEY
00:06:28OH YOU
00:06:30LOVELY DARLING MAN
00:06:32YOU HAVEN'T COME TO TELL ME A
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00:06:48JINGLE DARLING
00:06:50COULD YOU POSSIBLY MAKE IT TOMORROW
00:06:52DON'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
00:07:02GIVE YOU A WHOLE HOUR ALL TO YOURSELF
00:07:04HONESTLY I WILL DARLING
00:07:06ONE OF MY DUNDER HEADS
00:07:10I WILL TEACH
00:07:12I DON'T KNOW WHY
00:07:14THE END
00:07:16OH GEORGE
00:07:18OF ALL THE
00:07:20LOVELY DARLING MAN
00:07:22I EVER KNEW
00:07:24HE WALKED FLUSH
00:07:26DID YOU SEE HIS SHOES
00:07:28BLESS YOU DARLING
00:07:32GOD BLESS
00:07:34BLESS YOU DARLING
00:07:36GOD BLESS
00:07:40MMM
00:07:42DID HE WALK ALONE FLUSH
00:07:48NOT ACCOMPANIED WERE WE
00:07:50QUITE ALONE CONNIE
00:07:52SO
00:07:54WHAT DOES GEORGE WANT FROM CONNIE
00:07:58THE BAD BOY
00:08:00HER MEMORY
00:08:02TO GO OVER SOME VERY OLD GROUND CONNIE
00:08:06YOU KNOW THAT FLUSH
00:08:08FIRST THEY CHUCK US OUT WITH AN OLD BONE
00:08:10THERE THEY COME BEGGING TO US
00:08:12I WAS THE BEST HEAD OF RESEARCH
00:08:14THE CIRCUS EVER HAD
00:08:16EVERYONE KNEW THAT
00:08:18AND WHAT DID THEY SAY
00:08:20THE DAY THEY GAVE ME THE CHOP
00:08:22THAT PERSONNEL COW
00:08:24YOU'RE LOSING YOUR SENSE
00:08:26OF PROPORTION CONNIE
00:08:28IT'S TIME YOU GOT OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD
00:08:30WELL
00:08:34I HATE THE REAL WORLD
00:08:36I LIKE THE CIRCUS OF MY
00:08:40LOVELY BOYS
00:08:42POLYAKOV
00:08:48POLYAKOV
00:08:50ALEXEI ALEXANDROVICH POLYAKOV
00:08:52CULTURAL ATTACHE
00:08:54SOVIET EMBASSY
00:08:56LONDON
00:08:58BORN MARCH THE THIRD
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00:09:02IN THE UKRAINE
00:09:04GRADUATE OF LENINGRADE
00:09:06STATE UNIVERSITY
00:09:08HEIGHT FIVE FOOT TEN
00:09:10COLOUR OF EYES GREEN
00:09:12COLOUR OF HAIR BLACK
00:09:14MARRIED
00:09:16AND A SIX-CYLINDER CARLA-TRAINED HOOD
00:09:18IF EVER I SAW ONE
00:09:20BUT DON'T TELL PERCY ALLELINE
00:09:22OR TOBY ESTHERHEZE
00:09:24OH NO
00:09:26ALEXEI ALEXANDROVICH
00:09:28WAS AS PURE AS THE DRIVEN SNOW
00:09:30HE WAS PURSEL WHITE
00:09:32WASN'T HE FLUSH
00:09:34AND CONNIE'S AN OLD SILLY
00:09:36BECAUSE IF SHE DOESN'T LAY OFF
00:09:37AND DO AS SHE'S TOLD
00:09:38YOU'LL HAVE TO PACK HER BAGS AND GO
00:09:42HE'S COME ALIVE
00:09:44POLYAKOV
00:09:45JUST AS YOU PREDICTED
00:09:46OF COURSE HE HAS
00:09:48OF COURSE HE HAS
00:09:50I KNEW IT IN MY BONES
00:09:52THE DAY HE ARRIVED
00:09:53I THOUGHT HELLO
00:09:54I'M GOING TO HAVE SOME FUN WITH YOU
00:09:56TOUGH AS A BUTTON
00:09:58CULTURAL ATTACHE BALLS
00:10:01ARMY WRITTEN ALL OVER HIM
00:10:03BUT NOT DECLARED GEORGE
00:10:05NOT A MENTION
00:10:07OH HE HAD A LOVELY VOICE
00:10:09MELLOW LIKE YOURS
00:10:11I USED TO PLAY THE TAPES
00:10:13OVER AND OVER
00:10:14JUST TO BATHE IN IT
00:10:17BOTTOM PITCHER TOO
00:10:20I JUST KNOW
00:10:22NOT THAT WE EVER CAUGHT HIM AT IT
00:10:24WE MIGHT HAVE DONE
00:10:25IF TOBE HAD PLAYED ALONG
00:10:27AND OFFERED HIM A BUM OR TWO
00:10:28BUT TINY TOBE WOULDN'T
00:10:31EIGHT YEARS
00:10:34I WATCHED PRETTY POLY FOR EIGHT YEARS
00:10:38THEN LAST REMEMBRANCE DAY
00:10:41I GOT HIM
00:10:43THERE HE WAS
00:10:44THAT SMASHING NOVEMBER MORNING
00:10:46AT THE WREATH LANE
00:10:47AND WE PHOTOGRAPED HIS MEDALS
00:10:50TWO GALLON TREE AND FOUR CAMPAIGN
00:10:52OH YES
00:10:54ALEX POLYAKOF WAS A STAR SOLDIER
00:10:57JUST AS I TOLD THEM
00:10:59I'M NOT A WORD
00:11:01SO I SAID TO TOBY
00:11:03LISTEN YOU TWO-FACED FERRET
00:11:06EGO HAS GOT THE BETTER PART OF COVER
00:11:09AND THAT'S NOTHING NEW
00:11:11NOW WILL YOU TURN PRETTY POLY INSIDE OUT FOR ME
00:11:15BECAUSE CONNIE'S LITTLE HUNCH HAS TURNED UP TRUMP'S
00:11:18AND WHAT DID TOBY ESTAHASY SAY
00:11:21OH I GOT THE DEAD FISH VOICE
00:11:24TOLD PERCY ALLERINE PERCY'S IN CHARGE
00:11:28AND THEN
00:11:29NOT EVERY EX-WARRIOR IS A CARLA AGENT
00:11:32SAYS PERCY
00:11:33I SAID LISTEN PERCY
00:11:35POLYAKOF'S RUNNING AN ENGLISH MOLE
00:11:38SO I GET THE RUDE LETTER
00:11:41STOP IT OR ELSE
00:11:43SO I WROTE AT THE BOTTOM
00:11:45YES
00:11:46LET'S REPEAT NO
00:11:51SO
00:11:52HERE WE ARE
00:11:55FLUSH AND ME
00:12:03PLEASE KISS ME, GEORGE
00:12:06HEIGHO
00:12:08HALCION DAYS
00:12:12DID I START THE LANDSLIDE GEORGE?
00:12:15YOU WERE ALWAYS DEAD RIGHT CONNIE
00:12:17AND IS GEORGE NOW PICKING UP THE PIECES?
00:12:29SOMETHING OF THE SORT
00:12:31POOR LOVES
00:12:32TRAINED TO EMPIRE
00:12:33TRAINED TO RULE THE WAVES
00:12:34ENGLISH ONE COULD BE PROUD THEN
00:12:35THEY COULD GEORGE
00:12:36THEY COULD GEORGE
00:12:46THEY COULD GEORGE
00:12:47ALL GONE
00:12:50ALL TAKEN AWAY
00:12:52ALL TAKEN AWAY
00:12:53BYE-BYE
00:12:55BYE-BYE WORLD
00:12:59IF IT'S BAD GEORGE
00:13:01DON'T COME BACK
00:13:03PROMISE
00:13:05PROMISE
00:13:08I WANT TO REMEMBER YOU
00:13:10JUST AS YOU WERE
00:13:14MY LOVELY
00:13:15LOVELY BOYS
00:13:18PROMISE
00:13:19PROMISE
00:13:32ALL RIGHT LORDER
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 GENT'S DO I?
00:13:49THE GENT'S DO I?
00:13:52THE DROP
00:13:58BANG
00:14:00BANG
00:14:02BANG
00:14:03BANG
00:14:05BANG
00:14:07BANG
00:14:08BANG
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00:14:15BANG
00:14:16BANG
00:16:18Connie's appraisal matches the story Rina gave Ricky Tower.
00:16:22The implications, the indications, are that Carla has managed to build himself a cage of senior men placed about the globe who work directly and exclusively to him at Moscow Center.
00:16:35Pollyakov is Carla's executant in London.
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.
00:16:53Anyway, Special 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.
00:17:17It's highly secret and we've done everything humanly possible to keep the readership to a minimum.
00:17:23The 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.
00:17:30An Alaline wouldn't want to tell him.
00:17:33What does wider exploitation mean?
00:17:36I refuse to be interrogated, George.
00:17:39I entirely fail to see why I 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.
00:18:02It's a mole, Gerald.
00:18:04Instead of brookling around in extraneous matters.
00:18:08There's no time to be whimsical.
00:18:11Oh, you off.
00:18:13You won't forget Fredo, will you?
00:18:15Anything 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.
00:18:36Poliakov and the mole.
00:18:38Fredo getting himself shot up on some wild goose chase of Controls in 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.
00:18:56But for the bullets in Fredo'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
00:19:10or marionettes or what.
00:19:16Why was Control always so hostile to Alaline?
00:19:19Percy wasn't a complete fool.
00:19:21Percy can 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, very 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, 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?
00:20:30Don't ask him anything, he won't tell you.
00:20:35Sure-to-see strike power, radio-activation 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.
00:21:39It'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.
00:22:06People who are bound to me, as I am to them.
00:22:10People 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, 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.
00:22:53This service.
00:23:02Percy Alleline would sell his mother for a knighthood in this service.
00:23:06For a seat in the House of Rhodes.
00:23:08Suppose 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.
00:23:20You're sure he left you out, are you, George?
00:23:34What 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.
00:23:47And I've put my thumb in that optic before.
00:24:05George?
00:24:06Little tattle Tuesday again?
00:24:07No, Thursday.
00:24:09Herbie?
00:24:09All right.
00:24:12This time.
00:24:17Oh, Lord.
00:24:25I thought we'd be half over by now.
00:24:29You'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.
00:24:37Shouldn't 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.
00:24:45I 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?
00:25:15How 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, so be it.
00:25:45But 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, and he is prepared to put at our disposal a special main reading room in the Admiralty Main Building, where witchcraft material can be seen by our customers and watched over by a senior janitor
00:26:32The reading room will be known for cover purposes as the conference room of the Adriatic Working Party, the AWP Room, for short.
00:26:47Look, customers with reading rights will not have passes, since these can be too accessible, like keys.
00:26:55Instead, they will appear on a special list with their photographs, and 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 commissioner seems modest enough domestic star.
00:27:17Allowing that all this is necessary.
00:27:19Essential.
00:27:22My 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, even if you have to reimburse coveredly.
00:27:31Yes, of course. The 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 on the most recent witchcraft product, and I quote,
00:27:44this document sheds an extraordinary sidelight on Soviet aggressive thinking.
00:27:54Does 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, 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 Merlitt maintains the standard of that, we'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.
00:28:32Percy 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?
00:29:04I'm afraid he's not seeing anyone at all today.
00:29:07Again?
00:29:10I'm being asked why he's cancelled the Tuesday conferences.
00:29:14You 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.
00:29:28I was rather hoping before I set off on this Hong Kong trip he wants me to make.
00:29:32Well, when I get back, perhaps you'll have got through that little lot.
00:29:38And now there's a witchcraft committee.
00:29:53The minister's in the chair.
00:29:55Alleline'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 Alleline's reports.
00:30:04I haven't time.
00:30:06They're buying their way in with counterfeit money.
00:30:09Tell them that.
00:30:10Tell them anything.
00:30:12I need time.
00:30:13There are three of them.
00:30:18And Alleline.
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.
00:30:25Time.
00:30:43Tempt them.
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00:31:07Tempt them.
00:31:08Tempt them.
00:31:09Tempt them.
00:31:10Tempt them.
00:31:11Tempt them.
00:31:12Come as ever, Mr. Smiley.
00:31:26How are your children, Toby?
00:31:28Doing terribly well, thank you, George.
00:31:31The boys at Westminster, have I got that right?
00:31:34Your daughter's probably left school by now, has she?
00:31:36First-year medical student. Loves it.
00:31:39Good for her.
00:31:39Um, Toby, 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?
00:31:54It's not lamplighter style.
00:31:57No, we're not infallible, George.
00:31:59Two months? Well, 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?
00:32:09Toby, let 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, you haven't felt able to mention in your returns.
00:32:37Who 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, that would put you in a difficult position.
00:32:53What sort of something?
00:32:55Clear a foreign letterbox, prime a safe house, watch someone's back, spike an embassy.
00:33:02It's all lamp-light at work.
00:33:04If Percy told you to do it, you might quite reasonably assume he 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.
00:33:36My problem is promotion.
00:33:38I mean the absence of it.
00:33:43I've so many years' seniority, that I feel actually quite embarrassed when these young fellows ask me to take orders from them.
00:33:54Who, Toby?
00:33:56Which young fellows?
00:33:57Roy Bland?
00:33:59Percy?
00:34:00Would you call Percy young?
00:34:03Who?
00:34:05When 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.
00:34:24Perhaps control could move you up a few runs.
00:34:29Well, you know, actually,
00:34:31I'm not sure he's able to these days.
00:34:35Are you?
00:34:36Are you?
00:34:38I'm not sure he's able to do it.
00:34:39I'm not sure he's able to do it.
00:34:40I'm not sure he's able to do it.
00:34:41I'm not sure he's able to do it.
00:34:42I'm not sure he's able to do it.
00:34:43So 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 kebab.
00:34:55Frankly, nor do I.
00:34:57So what's the deal?
00:34:58What do you want?
00:34:59What about 5,000 quid out the reptile fund, for starters?
00:35:04And a house and a car.
00:35:05And a kid to eat it.
00:35:06Your father would turn in his grave.
00:35:07Let him rotate.
00:35:08You old commie thug.
00:35:09If there's no deal, George, you'll have to tell control he can get stuffed.
00:35:14I've paid, you see.
00:35:15You know that.
00:35:16I don't know what the hell I've bought with it, but I've paid a packet.
00:35:32Poznan, Budapest, Prague, back to Poznan.
00:35:37Have you ever been to Poznan?
00:35:39Sofia, Kiev, two bloody nervous breakdowns and 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.
00:35:57And you brought me in, remember.
00:36:01If you think I'm going to the bad, you've only got yourself to blame.
00:36:09You're an educated sort of a swine.
00:36:13An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function.
00:36:21Who dreamed that one up?
00:36:23Scott Fitzgerald.
00:36:24Well, Fitzgerald knew a thing or two.
00:36:29And I'm definitely functioning.
00:36:32As a good socialist, I'm going where the money is.
00:36:35As a good capitalist, I'm sticking with the revolution because if you can't beat it, spy 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, I'll drive your jag, right?
00:36:53No.
00:36:54Did you get that from Hayden?
00:36:56Is that one of Bill's jokes about materialist England?
00:36:59The pigs in clover society?
00:37:02Don't you like it?
00:37:03Not much.
00:37:04Of course there are competitive and acquisitive instincts in Western society.
00:37:09But they are offset against other concerns which you won't find in...
00:37:13Poznan, Budapest, Kiev, Sofia.
00:37:17Tell me all about it, George.
00:37:20I'm just saying that's England now, man.
00:37:24All you have to do is look out the bloody window.
00:37:27You're seen with Bill Hayden a great deal these days.
00:37:31Jealous, George?
00:37:34You've got his job.
00:37:36Your control's high, Chamberlain.
00:37:38What more do you want?
00:37:40As long as it lasts.
00:37:47They do say you write the reports.
00:38:08I thought that was Roy's job.
00:38:10No.
00:38:11Bland makes the translations.
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.
00:38:25Is that the premise?
00:38:27Which means that Merlin won't do either.
00:38:30Poor old Control.
00:38:31He isn't a pickle.
00:38:33Merlin would do if he were my source, wouldn't he?
00:38:36If Dazzling bloody Bill here putted along and said he took the whacking big fish...
00:38:40and wanted to play him alone and sod the expense, what would happen then?
00:38:45Control would say, that'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.
00:38:53He'd be giving me a medal now.
00:38:55Instead of sending you snooping round corridors.
00:38:59We used to be rather a classy bunch.
00:39:02Why 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.
00:39:10And Toby and Roy have designs on your spot.
00:39:14Since when was ambition an offence in our peacely outfit?
00:39:20Is Anne at home?
00:39:27Send her out to play while you grill your old buddy.
00:39:33Who runs him, Bill?
00:39:35Percy?
00:39:36Who do you think?
00:39:37Carla runs him.
00:39:39Stands out a mile.
00:39:40Lower class bloke with upper class saucers.
00:39:43Must be a bounder.
00:39:44Bill?
00:39:45Percy's sold out to Carla.
00:39:47Any 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.
00:40:07Very 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.
00:40:19Set up networks.
00:40:20Talent spotters.
00:40:21All mod cons.
00:40:22You chaps on the top floor have forgotten what it's like to run an operation where it takes
00:40:27you 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.
00:40:39How 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.
00:40:49Has he lived with it too long?
00:40:52Face it, George.
00:40:54It's Percy.
00:40:55Percy's success.
00:40:56It's throne control.
00:40:57And me.
00:40:58A bit.
00:40:59Trouble is, my networks haven't been good enough.
00:41:00This is new.
00:41:01I fancy this very much.
00:41:02And give it, then.
00:41:03Making amends?
00:41:04Probably.
00:41:05Must have been quite a sin.
00:41:06How is she?
00:41:07George, cut the cord.
00:41:08Can't you?
00:41:09You're going to have to take a break.
00:41:10Take a break.
00:41:11Get away from the control.
00:41:12I've been there.
00:41:13Let me throw you a try.
00:41:14I'll have to take a break.
00:41:15You'll be back.
00:41:16What?
00:41:17My network has been good enough.
00:41:18This is new.
00:41:20I fancy this very much.
00:41:21I don't give it, then.
00:41:23Making amends?
00:41:24Probably.
00:41:25Must have been quite a sin.
00:41:28How is she?
00:41:29George, cut the cord.
00:41:33Get away from control.
00:41:35he's cut you out of his life for weeks on end
00:41:40dispatching you about with errands a probationer could handle
00:41:43what's he doing up there
00:41:46he's been going through files of old circus folk heroes from year minus one
00:41:53half of them under the earth already
00:41:54sniffing out the dirt to see who was pink who was a queen
00:41:58he's given us all up hasn't he
00:42:01I don't think that's true
00:42:03senile paranoia
00:42:05control's going potty
00:42:07and he's also dying
00:42:10it's just a question of which gets him first
00:42:14and within six months of Bill Hayden's diagnosis
00:42:22control was indeed dead
00:42:25and what killed him
00:42:28operation witchcraft or operation testify
00:42:31neither
00:42:32it's not be melodramatic
00:42:36control would disapprove
00:42:38he died of old age
00:42:39a little early
00:42:41but testify destroyed his function in life which was a form of murder
00:42:47I don't have nearly enough on testify Peter
00:42:52would you please
00:42:56of course George
00:43:01Lord now let us know thy sovereigns deposit in him
00:43:09Lord now let us know thy sovereigns deposit in him
00:43:21according to thy word
00:43:28according to thy word
00:43:30according to thy word
00:43:33according to thy word
00:43:34according to thy word
00:43:36according to thy word
00:43:38according to thy word
00:43:40according to thy word
00:43:42according to thy word
00:43:44according to thy word
00:43:44according to thy word
00:43:46Through my eyes have seen my salvation
00:44:02Which now has breathed before the face of all people
00:44:18To be your lights, to light your chances
00:44:31And to be the body of my people, Israel
00:44:53Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost
00:45:06As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shining
00:45:19One without end. Amen.
00:45:32To be continued...
00:45:52To be continued...
00:46:12To be continued...
00:46:25To be continued...
00:46:52To be continued...
00:47:07To be continued...
00:47:22To be continued...
00:48:07I have a telephone for you, sir.
00:48:10Ever such a rough voice.
00:48:11It says 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.
00:48:30Personally, I find mechanics are bad news, by and large.
00:48:34Which phone, Alwyn?
00:48:38The one on the left.
00:48:51Well, at least get on to the head office today
00:48:53and find out when they can supply the damn thing.
00:48:55Hang on a minute.
00:48:59I 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.
00:49:11All right, are you ready?
00:49:35The number you want is 437-629-9.
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.
00:50:37His 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.
00:52:01Percy wants to consult you.
00:52:18How are the martial arts, Paul?
00:52:20Any new tricks you could show me?
00:52:22Paul and I were paired on a tough guy course a little while back.
00:52:26Damn near killed each other.
00:52:27Peter?
00:52:44Please.
00:52:55Watch your feet.
00:52:56There she comes to mind again.
00:53:15Well now, young Peter Gwillam, welcome to my house, about which you've been making calls,
00:53:38I hear. Are you lonely in the Brixton outposts, tired of chasing the local virgins?
00:53:45If there are any in Brixton, which I would doubt, if you'll excuse my freedom, Moe.
00:53:52You do 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.
00:54:04I hear you've been hobnobbing with the late lamented Ricky Tarr, formerly of your section,
00:54:12dispatched by you to Lisbon, and since then listed by this service as a defector.
00:54:19How is he?
00:54:22That's right, Chief. Ricky and I have tea at Fortnum's every afternoon.
00:54:27Jasmine.
00:54:29Peter Gwillam!
00:54:31You may not be aware of this, but I am possessed of an extremely forgiving nature.
00:54:38I positively seethe with goodwill.
00:54:42All I require from you is the matter of your discussion with Tarr.
00:54:45I do not ask for his head, or any other part of his offensive anatomy,
00:54:50and I will restrain my impulse personally to strangle him, or you.
00:54:56I would even go so far as to consider bringing 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, until I get my hands on him.
00:55:15I'll tell him that word for word.
00:55:17He'll be thrilled.
00:55:20I'm very disappointed in you, young Peter.
00:55:23I pay you honest money, and you stab me in the back.
00:55:27I consider that extremely a poor reward for keeping you alive.
00:55:33Against the entreaties of my advisers, I may tell you.
00:55:41Let us begin again.
00:55:43If you won't give me a straight answer,
00:55:45perhaps you'll unburden to somebody more persuasive.
00:55:49I'll talk to you soon.
00:55:55Roy.
00:56:02Ricky Towers has got a daughter, hasn't he?
00:56:06Yes, of course, her Danny.
00:56:08Talk about her a lot.
00:56:09He told me he was fond of her.
00:56:13That's all I know.
00:56:15What the hell are you shrugging at us like that for?
00:56:17What are you shrugging at us like that for?
00:56:19I'm accusing you of playing hooky behind my back
00:56:21with a damn defector from your own damn section,
00:56:24of playing damn fool parlor games and you don't know the stakes,
00:56:27and all you do is shrug at me?
00:56:29There's a law, Gwilym, against consorting with enemy agents.
00:56:33Do you want me to throw the book at you?
00:56:35I haven't seen him!
00:56:37Who's playing games? Not me. You are. So get off my back.
00:56:47Who's Danny's mother?
00:56:52Eurasian girl.
00:56:54But Tar likes to think she passes for full European. And the child.
00:56:58Twelve years old, long blonde hair, brown eyes, slim.
00:57:02Is that Danny?
00:57:05Could be.
00:57:08So, if I told you that Danny and her mother were due to arrive in London,
00:57:11three days ago on a direct flight from Tunis,
00:57:14I take it you would share our perplexity?
00:57:17Yes, I would.
00:57:19And you'd keep your mouth shut when we let you out of here?
00:57:23It isn't ordinary flight information, Peter.
00:57:25The source is very private.
00:57:28Ultra, ultra-sensitive information.
00:57:31It isn't ordinary flight information, Peter.
00:57:34The source is very private.
00:57:37Ultra, ultra-sensitive, in fact, Peter.
00:57:41In that case, Toby, I'll try and keep my mouth ultra, ultra-shut.
00:57:50So, what do you make of it, young Peter? Come on.
00:57:53You were his boss, guide, philosopher, friend.
00:57:57Tell me why Ricky Tarr's in London.
00:58:00You didn't say that. You said his girl and his kid were expected.
00:58:03Don't be obtuse, man.
00:58:05Where little Danny goes, there goes Tarr.
00:58:08Except he'd move first and have his impedimenta follow.
00:58:12Yes?
00:58:13That would be favourite.
00:58:15All right.
00:58:16Tarr was supposed to be sitting in Moscow,
00:58:18and now he's supposed to be back here on the Russian payroll.
00:58:20But why is it all so hot?
00:58:22What kind of plant can he be when we know everything about him?
00:58:25Down 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?
00:58:38Well, never mind what sort.
00:58:40Muddy in pools, poisoning wells, maybe.
00:58:42That damn sort. Pulling the rug out.
00:58:44Now, listen. Just you remember this.
00:58:47At the first peep.
00:58:49The first whisper of Tarr, or his lady, or his wee bairn,
00:58:53young Peter Gwillam,
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-double-o-l-e.
00:59:14All three of them.
00:59:18Tarr told his woman, so we understand,
00:59:20in case of difficulties, she should come to you.
00:59:26Sign that, Peter, would you?
00:59:33Stupid bloody cabaret.
00:59:35Percy gets more insufferable every day.
00:59:38I wouldn't know, Bill, would I?
01:00:03And I certify that I have today been advised of witchcraft report number 308, Sauce Merlin.
01:00:16I undertake not to divulge any part of this report to other members of the service,
01:00:19nor will I divulge the existence of Sauce Merlin.
01:00:23You sodding snail!
01:00:24Peter, Tarr, that bastard Tarr.
01:00:26Peter, slow down. Slow down.
01:00:33The file on Testify seemed a bit thin.
01:00:37I hope it was worth the sweat.
01:00:39Ricky Tarr has not lied to us, Peter. Not in any material way.
01:00:43He's simply done what agents the world overdo.
01:00:46Failed to tell us the whole story.
01:00:48On 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 Sauce Merlin works to Moscow Centre,
01:00:58because that's where Merlin's information on Ricky Tower must have come from.
01:01:04From Carla.
01:01:05The End
01:01:06The End
01:01:07The End
01:01:08The End
01:01:09The End
01:01:10The End
01:01:11The End
01:01:12The End
01:01:15The End
01:01:16The End
01:01:17The End
01:01:18The End
01:01:19The End
01:01:20The End
01:01:21The End
01:01:23The End
01:01:24The End
01:01:26The End
01:01:27The End
01:01:28The End
01:01:29The End
01:01:30The End
01:01:31The End
01:01:33The End
01:01:34The End
01:01:35The End
01:01:36The End
01:01:37The End
01:01:52Ricky's been a lot better today, so not nearly so, er, nervy.
01:01:56Nervy. Well, he did his football poos this morning,
01:01:59and this afternoon we planted some trees in the garden,
01:02:02and then this evening we had a nice game of cards.
01:02:05Has he been out alone? Oh, no, Mr. Smith.
01:02:07Used the telephone? Oh, wouldn't dare, sir.
01:02:10Has he talked about his daughter, Danny, or her mother?
01:02:13Well, he did over the weekend, sir, but he's sort of cooled off about them since.
01:02:18I think it's in view of the emotional side.
01:02:21Did he ever mention any arrangements for meeting them again?
01:02:24Anything about passports?
01:02:26No, sir. What has he talked about, for God's sake?
01:02:28Well, mostly the Russian ladies, sir, Irina.
01:02:31Oh, he mentions her name a lot, Irina.
01:02:33He likes to read a diary.
01:02:35He says he's going to make Moscow Centre swap the mole for Irina
01:02:38when the mole's been caught and all this has been cleared up,
01:02:40and then he's going to buy a little place in Scotland.
01:02:43Oh, and he says he'll see me right, too, get me a big job in the circus.
01:02:47I just listen, of course.
01:02:51Right.
01:02:56You don't post those football pool coupons, do you, Ford?
01:03:03Oh, no, Mr. Smiley.
01:03:04Well, let's hope he doesn't have a win.
01:03:06That would be expensive for us.
01:03:11Thank you for your help, Miss Brimley.
01:03:12Sorry to impose on you.
01:03:14He's gone to bed.
01:03:15I must ask you once more.
01:03:30What did you do with the two Swiss escape passports you took with you to Lisbon?
01:03:37I told you.
01:03:39Burn them.
01:03:40Burn them.
01:03:41Burn them.
01:03:42When you bought your fake British passport in Istanbul,
01:03:49a passport for yourself in the name of Richard Henry Poole,
01:03:52did you buy any others from the same source?
01:03:54Why?
01:03:55Why should I?
01:03:57To protect your child and her mother.
01:03:59That seems quite reasonable.
01:04:01After all, it wouldn't be a very gallant act
01:04:03to leave the woman and the child you love
01:04:05to the mercy of the Moscow hood on your tail
01:04:07while you escape to all this VIP protection.
01:04:12It's horrible to think of.
01:04:15Truly horrible
01:04:17to contemplate the lengths Carla might go to
01:04:21in order to obtain your silence
01:04:22or your services.
01:04:24But perhaps what you actually did
01:04:28and forgot to tell us about
01:04:30was to burn the British passports
01:04:33you obtained for Mrs. Poole and Miss Danny Poole
01:04:35but kept your own to convince Carla's footpads
01:04:39you thought it was still safe.
01:04:41Then, probably,
01:04:43you made travel bookings
01:04:44in the name of the Poole family
01:04:47for the same reason.
01:04:48You doctored the Swiss passports
01:04:51for Danny and her mother
01:04:53and made other arrangements for them.
01:04:56Like, um,
01:04:58staying in Marseille, perhaps.
01:05:00Prince!
01:05:01Prince!
01:05:18I don't know where they are
01:05:23but I'm sure no harm has come to them.
01:05:26Does that satisfy you?
01:05:27Maybe you should keep a closer eye
01:05:28on your own damn woman
01:05:29and leave mine alone!
01:05:30No, Peter.
01:05:33Perhaps it's just as well.
01:05:34I shouldn't know where you've hidden them
01:05:36so long as you don't try to communicate.
01:05:39Unless, of course,
01:05:40you want me to help in some way
01:05:42money or whatever.
01:05:44No need.
01:05:44Let's trust each other, shall we?
01:05:47Are we friends again,
01:05:48Mr. Gwilliam?
01:05:50It won't be long now.
01:05:53Have you got all you need?
01:05:54Can I have my gun back?
01:05:56Yes.
01:05:58Oh, why not, Peter?
01:06:18Do we buy that?
01:06:19Oh, yes.
01:06:21I told you he'd been clever.
01:06:23A little bit of the truth
01:06:24is indispensable in the games
01:06:26agents play.
01:06:27You know that.
01:06:29Ricky put his family in safekeeping
01:06:31and found his own way home.
01:06:33He fooled the Russians.
01:06:35If Carla had a deal with him,
01:06:37do you think you and I
01:06:37would be alive and well
01:06:39and living in hope?
01:06:40Not by now, I think.
01:06:42Good.
01:06:45Oh, yes.
01:07:17Let it breathe a little.
01:07:24No, just leave it. We'll pour it when we're ready.
01:07:39Does 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.
01:07:54He was in England in 1936 and 1941. That's documented.
01:07:57We can assume it was sometime during that period he recruited our mole, Gerald.
01:08:02I met him once in Delhi.
01:08:09All this was long before we came to know him as the legendary Carla.
01:08:14In the mid-fifties, Moscow's center was in pieces on the floor, wholesale purgings and shootings.
01:08:19And as a result, defection everywhere.
01:08:23I became a kind of commercial traveler.
01:08:27The whole world was my territory.
01:08:31Inspecting the goods, fixing the terms.
01:08:33Disposing, as seemed best, on London's instructions, of course.
01:08:40Well, I found myself off to India, where the authorities had arrested, at our request, on some trumped-up immigration nonsense, a Mr. Guest Man.
01:08:53Carla's name at that time.
01:08:56He was on his way back to Moscow from San Francisco.
01:09:01Except that he didn't know, when he left California, that he was Moscow-bound.
01:09:05He'd been told to rendezvous with a TASS correspondent in Delhi.
01:09:09The message from the TASS man was an aeroplane ticket and, don't ask me any questions, comrade.
01:09:19Carla was in disgrace.
01:09:21Summoned.
01:09:26And doomed.
01:09:30There were two other things he didn't know.
01:09:33The first was that we'd intercepted the radio signal directing him to Delhi.
01:09:37The second was that the San Francisco network he'd organized had been rolled up, hide and hair, the day he left.
01:09:50Could we take those things off his hands?
01:09:59I only have to shout for you, don't I?
01:10:07Mr. Guest Man.
01:10:20You 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?
01:10:33We have no powers of permanent arrest, and our arrangement with the Americans was that they hit your agents and we make you this invitation.
01:10:44If you cooperate, we can give you a new start, a new identity, seclusion, a modest amount of money.
01:11:01Why don't you start by telling me your true name?
01:11:06Would you like a cigarette?
01:11:14I know you're a chain smother.
01:11:17Oh, Pete.
01:11:20I know this is what you smoke.
01:11:21Look, 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.
01:11:42And 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.
01:11:55You 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.
01:12:12But now your own side is going to shoot you, for nothing, for misdemeanors you have not committed.
01:12:26Because of a power struggle within your own hierarchy.
01:12:31Because, probably, of someone's treachery, or sheer incompetence.
01:12:38I'm sure both of us, when we were young, subscribed to great visions.
01:13:02But not anymore.
01:13:05After all you've seen.
01:13:08You can't still be committed to that old, grand design.
01:13:14You 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.
01:13:47But you have a friend.
01:13:49One really good friend, who could look after her.
01:13:53Perhaps we could get in touch with her, secretly.
01:14:04If 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,
01:14:17it 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.
01:14:42Guard.
01:14:42Guard.
01:14:49Guard.
01:15:18Guard.
01:15:18Guard.
01:15:19Guard.
01:15:19what did control have to say when you got back i hope to god they do shoot him but they didn't
01:15:28his 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
01:16:46so
01:16:50so
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 alive for nearly.
01:18:06That's something else you and Carla have in common.
01:18:08Yes, I am prejudiced against radio men.
01:18:13Tiresome breed.
01:18:15Overstrung.
01:18:15Unreliable.
01:18:17What's the other thing?
01:18:19Well, the cigarette lighter.
01:18:20I assume you still have it.
01:18:22As far as I know, Peter.
01:18:24Sorry, George.
01:18:25Not at all.
01:18:26How do you feel, Peter?
01:18:31I'm all right.
01:18:33After 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?
01:18:50Peter, have you got it?
01:19:20Peter, have you got it?
01:19:50ORCHESTRA PLAYS
01:20:20OPERATION WITCHCRAFT
01:20:35ALALINE TO MINISTER
01:20:37EXTREMELY SECRET AND PERSONAL
01:20:40WE SPOKE
01:20:42MERLIN, AS YOU MAY HAVE KNOWN FOR SOMETIME, IS NOT ONE SOURCE, BUT SEVERAL
01:20:47HE WOULD DO THE TREASURY NO HARM TO LEARN, PERCY WAS ENJOYING HIMSELF, WASN'T HE, TO LEARN
01:20:53THAT MERLIN'S 10,000 SWISS FRANKS A MONTH IN SALARY AND A SIMILAR FIGURE FOR EXPENSES
01:20:58AND RUNNING COSTS ARE SCARCELY EXCESSIVE WHEN THE CLOTH HAS TO BE CUT SO MANY WAYS.
01:21:03THEN HE ADDS, NEVERTHELESS, I REGARD IT AS PARAMOUNT THAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LONDON HOUSE AND
01:21:09THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT IS USED REMAIN ABSOLUTELY AT A MINIMUM.
01:21:13WELL, IN A SENSE, PERCY ALERLINE'S QUITE RIGHT ABOUT MERLIN.
01:21:16OF COURSE MERLIN REPRESENTS SEVERAL SOURCES, VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF MOSCOW CENTER, WITH KANA
01:21:22CUEING THEM IN ON THE BASIS OF THE MOST TIMELY MATERIAL OF THE GIVEN MOMENT.
01:21:27SOMETIMES HE LIKES TO DIRECT CERCA'S ATTENTION TO A TOPICAL SUBJECT, SOMETIMES TO DEFLECT IT.
01:21:33FOR EXAMPLE, AFTER RICKY TOWER'S ENCOUNTER WITH IRINA IN LISBON, MERLIN DELIVERED SOME
01:21:39VIVID INSIGHTS ON THE IDEOLOGICAL PENETRATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
01:21:45BUT KANA DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TAR'S DONE WITH THE INFORMATION FROM IRINA.
01:21:49WHICH BRINGS US TO YOUR INTELLIGATION BY ANALYNE AND HIS REFERENCE TO TAR'S PROBABLE ROLE
01:21:55OVER HERE IN MUDDIING POOLS, ET CETERA.
01:22:00MERLIN'S MESSAGE ON TAR, I SUGGEST, WAS THAT RICKY WOULD BE TRYING TO SELL TO SOMEONE
01:22:06IN LONDON, ON CARLA'S BEHALF, FICTITIOUS MATERIAL ABOUT A TRAITOR IN THE CIRCUS.
01:22:13NOTHING 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, IS A HOUSE IN LONDON, FOR WHICH THE
01:22:31TREASURY PAID 60 THOUSAND POUNDS, PLUS ANOTHER TEN FOR MAKING IT MORE TO MERLIN'S LIKING,
01:22:37OR GERALD'S.
01:22:39FASCINATING, GEORGE.
01:22:43THANK YOU.
01:22:46AND HOW DO YOU SUGGEST I EXPLAIN TO MY MINISTER, LEAST PAINFULLY, THAT MERLIN'S A FRAUD AND HE'LL
01:22:55HAVE 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 WITH MERLIN'S DISCREDITED CURRENCY
01:23:05IS GOING STRAIGHT TO MOSCOW VIA GERALD THE MOLE.
01:23:08THAT SHOULD DO THE TRICK.
01:23:13THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT ONE YOU'VE ASKED ME TO BRING.
01:23:18DERRIVED ONLY TODAY, SOURCE UNKNOWN.
01:23:23ACCORDING TO A RECENTLY RELEASED PRISONER FROM LUBIANKA JAIL, MOSCOW'S CENTER HELD A SECRET
01:23:28EXECUTION IN THE PUNISHMENT BLOCK IN MARCH.
01:23:31THE VICTIMS WERE THREE OF ITS OWN FUNCTIONARIES.
01:23:35ALL WERE SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE NECK.
01:23:37ONE WAS A WOMAN.
01:23:41RICKY TAR MUSTN'T KNOW.
01:23:43IT'S VITAL HE GETS NO WIND OF THIS.
01:23:44GOD KNOWS WHAT HE'D DO OR NOT DO IF HE FOUND OUT IRENA WAS DEAD.
01:23:48AND WE MAY NEED TO MAKE FURTHER USE OF HIM.
01:23:50DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE ALL THAT GUFF ABOUT TAR BEING IN LOVE WITH HER?
01:23:53THE LITTLE HOMESTEAD IN THE HIGHLANDS, THE AVENGING LOVER, THE HONORABLE RICKY TAR?
01:23:57YOU MAY FEEL COMPELLED, PETER.
01:23:59EVERYBODY HAS A LOYALTY SOMEWHERE.
01:24:02HE MUSTN'T KNOW.
01:24:03I AGREE.
01:24:05NOW, GEORGE, I'VE GOT ALL I COULD FIND ON JIM PREEDO, SUCH AS IT IS.
01:24:10THANK YOU.
01:24:11PREEDO AND BILL HAYDEN WERE REALLY VERY CLOSE, YOU KNOW.
01:24:17YOU HAVEN'T REALIZED.
01:24:19YOU HAVEN'T REALIZED.
01:24:20YES.
01:24:22THANK YOU.
01:24:23OPERATION TESTIFY.
01:24:25WE STILL NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED, OR RATHER WHY IT HAPPENED.
01:24:30THE FILE YOU BORROWED, PETER, DOES AT LEAST GIVE US A NUDGE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
01:24:34I THINK I KNOW WHO TO TALK TO NEXT.
01:24:37YOUR DAY WAS HARDLY WASTED.
01:24:39I AM GLAD OF THAT, GEORGE.
01:24:41WE'VE TRACED PREEDO.
01:24:42HE'S BECOME A TEACHER.
01:24:44THURSD GOOD PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
01:24:46IT'S IN THE WEST COUNTRY.
01:24:49RIGHT.
01:24:57LORD, NOW LETEST THOU THY SERVANT'S DEPART IN PEACE.
01:25:07ACCORDING TO MY WORD.
01:25:16ACCORDING TO MY WORD.
01:25:26WEice OPTION.
01:25:33YOU CAN SEE abundant IN APplIX.
01:25:36YOU CAN SEE.
01:25:40YOU CAN SEE.
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