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E1 "Return to the Circus". HD, English subtitles. The legendary series based on John le Carre's novel, with an all-star cast. 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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32:45Oh, damn!
33:15Oh, damn!
33:45Oh, damn!
34:15Oh, damn!
34:45Oh, damn!
34:47Peter?
34:53I'd leave that coat on if I were you, George. We've got a long way to go.
34:56Well, you're not me, Peter.
34:58And before I go anywhere at all, I shall change out of my sopping shoes.
35:02And also, I think, make a pot of coffee.
35:04You sound a little testy, George, old boy.
35:07Lakon is waiting for you.
35:11Me, Peter?
35:12George, I've been sent to deliver you.
35:13I've been reviewing my situation in the last half hour of hell.
35:27And I've come to a very grave decision.
35:30After a lifetime of living by my wits and on my memory,
35:35I shall give myself up full time to the profession of forgetting.
35:40I'm going to put an end to some emotional attachments which have long outlived their purpose.
35:45Namely, the circus, this house, my whole past.
35:50I 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.
36:02And there I shall establish myself as a mild eccentric.
36:06Discursive, withdrawn, but possessing one or two lovable habits,
36:10such as muttering to myself as I bumble along innocent pavements.
36:15I shall become an oak of my own generation.
36:20You make the coffee.
36:23You know where everything is.
36:28You can even pick my front door locks.
36:32Clever, Peter Williams.
36:40I saw you parking this toy in Curzon Street this afternoon.
37:01I ran away immediately. Good 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 you.
37:17It's quick.
37:19I'm surprised you didn't get thrown out with the rest of us.
37:23You had all the qualifications for dismissal.
37:26Good at your work.
37:28Loyal.
37:29Discreet.
37:31What happened tonight, George?
37:36How's Anne?
37:39Roddy Martindale happened tonight.
37:42Why do I permit it?
37:44I'd 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.
37:52They put me in charge of Scalp Hunters.
38:08You are Jim Fredo's successor.
38:11You?
38:12I've been here after the heavy.
38:13Why not?
38:15Tucked away at downtown Brixton.
38:17Behind the broken glass and the barbed wire.
38:20Dispatching the thugs occasionally.
38:22Kept a good arm's length from the circus ringmasters.
38:25How is Jim, do you know?
38:27In quarantine.
38:28I don't mean to pry.
38:30I merely ask.
38:32Can he get around?
38:33Can he walk and so on?
38:35Bad backs can be terribly tricky, I believe.
38:37The word is he manages pretty well.
38:39He's back in England.
38:41Address unknown.
38:43Travel.
38:44Is that still the Scalp Hunters' official name?
38:48Hit and run, caution carry?
38:51Sorry.
38:53Our control always preached that good intelligence work is gradual
38:58and rests on a kind of gentleness.
39:01It's not my department.
39:03No.
39:05Well, the Scalp Hunters were always the exception control allowed to his own rule.
39:09Not Bill Haven's persuasion.
39:11A reflection of Bill's temperament, of course.
39:14Solo ingenue.
39:17Very dashing.
39:19Very audacious.
39:44I'm sorry, Peter. What?
39:52Lateralism.
39:54I said, are you familiar with the word?
39:56I most certainly am not.
39:58It's the inn doctrine now.
40:00We used to go up and down.
40:01Now 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.
40:18Well, today everything operational is under one hat.
40:22It's called London Station.
40:24The regions are out.
40:26Lateralism is in.
40:28Who's Station Commander?
40:30Bill Hayden.
40:31His number two is Roy Bland.
40:32Toby Esterhazy runs between them like a poodle.
40:36They're a service within the service.
40:38Share 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 it all is to make us more secure.
40:48A very good idea.
41:02Why did Lakon 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.
41:32You remember your last day at the circus?
41:39Just one day before Control departed and the new regime took over.
41:44You stuck your head around my office door and said,
41:47Peter, I've been sacked.
41:49We went straight out and you got drunk.
41:52Why pick me, George?
41:54I was pretty low-grade,
41:56running some very sketchy networks of merchant seamen out of London Dockland.
41:59Whatever, poles, Russian chinks, I could cobble together.
42:03Why me, George?
42:05You want a reason?
42:07You fastened on the same word that night when I asked why you've been kicked out.
42:11I'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,
42:19or reason as a way of life.
42:21You said they don't have to give me reasons.
42:23I can write my own damn reasons,
42:24and that is not the same as the half-baked tolerance that comes from no longer caring.
42:30I 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.
42:39Lacon sent me for you, George.
42:46Looks like Count Dracula's blood bank.
42:48Lacon once described it to me as his Hampshire Camelot, built by a teetotal millionaire.
42:55She seems to think explains everything.
42:57That's out of touch, Peter.
42:58Does Lacon have any particular title nowadays?
43:00Nothing new.
43:01Just Sir Oliver of the cabinet's office.
43:02Permanent watchdog of all intelligence affairs.
43:04You know how he loves being one of nature.
43:06He's always a good guy.
43:07He's always a good guy.
43:09He always sees me.
43:10He's always a good guy.
43:11He's always a good guy.
43:12He's always a good guy.
43:14He's always a good guy.
43:16He's always a good guy.
43:17He's always a good guy.
43:18And a good guy.
43:20I'm sorry.
43:21I don't know.
43:22I don't know.
43:23watchdog of all intelligence affairs. you know how he loves being one of nature's
43:27prefects.
43:31George hello thanks for coming. come on in will you?
43:46you've been enjoying retirement George? you haven't missed the walls of human
43:52contact. I rather would I think. one's work. one's old buddies. oh I think I manage
44:01very well thank you. yes yes I'm sure I do. and you all goes well with you? oh no
44:09great changes no no all very smooth. Charlotte got a scholarship to Ronin which
44:14was nice. oh very good. hmm how about your wife? in the pink and so on? very bonny thank
44:21you. ah all spruce and ship shape again Willem? you were grubby. he did look a
44:30roughian didn't he George? well then shall we?
44:36oh please George I wanted to talk particularly to you. all right for all
44:51log us in please. I think you know Mr Smiley don't you? yes of course I do. once gave me a job Mr Smiley.
44:59don't you remember? Tar sir. Ricky Tar the lawyer's boy from Marseille. changed my
45:05first nappies as we used to say. they were very tough interviews he used to give
45:10us tender young recruits. of course 12 years ago and uh is that long Mr Smiley?
45:15well you don't look any different to me sir. no 12 years ago nobody but nobody got
45:22taken on unless we got past you. not even scalp hunters. aren't quite your type. we
45:29all had to get the nod from Mr Smiley. Tar. of course I remember you Ricky. your
45:36father was an Australian I recall. a solicitor and a nonconformist lay
45:41preacher. altogether a most unusual chap to pop up in Marseille. but just such odd
45:48circumstances do seem to provide us with suitable personnel. hmm bad boys like Ricky.
45:55daddy thought he could beat the sin out of me but you knew better. didn't you Mr Smiley?
46:01he only beat it further in and that's what scalp hunters are made of. isn't that
46:08right Mr Guillaume? we're waiting for you Tar. yes I do think we ought to get on. well I
46:15guess I'd better make my pitch then. let's keep it precise shall we? all the way along.
46:19before you begin Ricky do I understand correctly that no one at the circus knows
46:26you're in England? only Mr Guillaume. you're officially absent without leave.
46:35I think I'm safe now. I've got a story to tell you it's all about spies. and if it's true
46:52which I think it is you boys are going to need a whole new organization. right?
46:58shall I start with the day you sent me to Lisbon. change my life. you might find it's going to change all your life.
47:07hmm
47:11Lord now let us know thy servants devise in peace.
47:26according to thy words
47:35according to thy word
47:41according to thy word
47:51through my eyes
47:54through my eyes
47:55through my eyes
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48:15through my eyes
48:16through my eyes
48:17through my eyes
48:18through my eyes
48:19To be a light, to lighten the chances, and to be the money of thy people here.
48:49To be a light, to lighten the chances, and to be the money of thy people here.
49:19To be a light, to lighten the chances, and to be the money of thy people here.
49:21To be a light, to lighten the chances, and to be the money of thy people here.
49:25God will not end again.
49:33To be a light, to lighten the chances, and to be the money of thy people here.
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