- 12 hours ago
First broadcast 5th October 1980.
Andy Drake, a protégé of Cowley, is arrested on suspicion of spying for the Chinese.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Patrick O'Connell - Manton
Norman Jones - Andy Drake
Karin MacCarthy - Sara Ryan (as Karin McCarthy)
Niall Buggy - Gorky
Simon Oates - Tully
Richard LeParmentier - Ivan (as Richard Parmentier)
David King - Ambassador
Tom Georgeson - Pymar
Bernard Gallagher - Minister
Chua Kah Joo - Choy (as Chua Kahjoo)
Yuri Borienko - Maroff
Anthony Chinn - Sikor
Kristopher Kum - Minder
Nigel Miles-Thomas - 1st Cop
Mike Kemp - 2nd Cop
Andy Drake, a protégé of Cowley, is arrested on suspicion of spying for the Chinese.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Patrick O'Connell - Manton
Norman Jones - Andy Drake
Karin MacCarthy - Sara Ryan (as Karin McCarthy)
Niall Buggy - Gorky
Simon Oates - Tully
Richard LeParmentier - Ivan (as Richard Parmentier)
David King - Ambassador
Tom Georgeson - Pymar
Bernard Gallagher - Minister
Chua Kah Joo - Choy (as Chua Kahjoo)
Yuri Borienko - Maroff
Anthony Chinn - Sikor
Kristopher Kum - Minder
Nigel Miles-Thomas - 1st Cop
Mike Kemp - 2nd Cop
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TVTranscript
00:004 pounds, please, go ahead.
00:11Keep it.
00:12Thank you very much.
00:21Mr. Drake.
00:24Pymar, special branch.
00:27It happened a week ago, day after you left for France.
00:30We tried to contact you at your hotel, but apparently you'd moved on.
00:34Yes, yes, the hotel was not satisfactory.
00:37You should have left a forwarding address, sir.
00:39Of course, you being who you are, we were moved in straight away.
00:42No question of arson.
00:44Quite accidental, we've searched it thoroughly.
00:46We found this under the floorboards.
00:48Fortunately, the fire hadn't reached there.
00:51It is yours, sir?
00:53Yes, sir. Thank you.
01:07Wrapworth, sir.
01:08Wrapworth?
01:08Uh-huh.
01:09Mr. Manson wants you there right away, sir.
01:10Oh, what the devil does he want?
01:13Tell him I'll come along right after the security meeting.
01:15Uh, no.
01:17Right away, sir.
01:18Those are the orders, sir.
01:19Orders?
01:19I give the orders around here.
01:21Yeah, well, this is above your head, sir.
01:23At the very top, actually.
01:25Got to take you in, sir.
01:26You mean you're arresting me?
01:28Well, we'd rather you looked upon it as a friendly escort, sir.
01:31Yeah.
01:33All right.
01:33Uh, no.
01:35No, Carson.
02:35What are we supposed to do now?
02:53Wait.
02:54What for?
02:55Well, until he comes back.
02:57And what makes you think he's coming back?
02:58I don't believe it.
03:05Andy Drake?
03:06I don't believe it.
03:08You mean you can't.
03:09You don't want to.
03:09I mean, it was a shock to us all, George.
03:12But the evidence in the transmitter, the papers, the codes, it's undeniable.
03:19I mean, you've got to face up to it, George, as we've had to.
03:23Andy Drake is the biggest, most treacherous double agent since Philby.
03:27And he was your man.
03:29You put him in.
03:30Oh, for God's sake, Manton, he was screened a dozen times.
03:34He had the same clearance rating we give to the Prime Minister.
03:37The evidence suggests he's been working more than 15 years for the Chinese.
03:40The Chinese?
03:42The Russians aren't involved then.
03:43How long has Drake been running the show?
03:46Since Cowley.
03:47He took over from Cowley.
03:49Ah, yes, Cowley.
03:52Before your time?
03:53A bit.
03:55Wily old fox.
03:58He still does extremely well at home.
04:00Home is different.
04:02Home is thuggery and violence most of the time.
04:06Home lacks subtlety.
04:09I want Drake.
04:10Not for what he can tell us about the British Secret Service, not just that.
04:16But for what he can tell us about our yellow friends.
04:22When are you taking your leave?
04:24Tomorrow.
04:27I've cancelled it.
04:31Cowley.
04:33He put Drake in, didn't he?
04:36I'll bet he's a worried man.
04:38Can I see him?
04:40Drake, if I can see him, talk to him.
04:42Oh, come on, George.
04:44You not only know the rules, you made them.
04:46Collusion?
04:47Anyway, isn't he here.
04:48Special branch fouled up.
04:50Oh, eager to enhance their reputation.
04:52A straight arrest.
04:53I'm afraid so, yes.
04:55Drake's on remand in Bedford Prison.
04:57Judges' rules, lawyers, everything.
04:59He's under British law now.
05:01Outside ours.
05:02But we needed him under wraps for a couple of weeks at least.
05:04Yes, I know that, George.
05:05But it isn't possible now.
05:07It'll hit the papers within an hour and then we'll have no chance to interrogate him properly.
05:11Oh, this is a foul up.
05:14But I'm here.
05:15And under arrest, I presume.
05:16Of the house variety, George.
05:19We'd like you to report in here every day for...
05:21For questioning.
05:22Just for a little chat.
05:24I see.
05:24And you need my passport too.
05:26Uh, no.
05:26We already have it.
05:28I'm sorry, George.
05:29Yes, yes, Tully.
05:29I know.
05:30I made the rules.
05:31It's just a formality, George.
05:33Oh, come on, Manton.
05:34You know as well as I do that mud sticks.
05:36The mud of association.
05:38If we could have that Drake alone kept him under wraps for a week or two.
05:41It's not to be.
05:42Too bloody right.
05:44If Drake isn't delivered properly, then I can look forward to remaining mud splattered for the rest of my life.
05:48Which one of you got my passport?
06:01Uh, I, uh...
06:03You didn't break the desk lock?
06:04No, no, sir.
06:05I found a key.
06:06That desk's an antique.
06:08Cost me a fortune.
06:09I was very careful.
06:10No care less, both of you.
06:13If it was a passport grab, you knew it was a vital arrest, yet you didn't put the cuffs on me.
06:17Damn slag.
06:21I appreciate it, though.
06:23My place.
06:26It isn't a bribe, Doyle.
06:28I'm under house arrest now.
06:30On my honour.
06:32Always thought you had a lot of that, sir.
06:33Why, thank you, Bodie.
06:35Cheers.
06:37Don't know what it's all about, sir.
06:38Drake, I suppose.
06:40Why are you involved?
06:41Yeah, you left the service years ago.
06:43You never leave the service, Bodie.
06:45Not completely.
06:46Totally.
06:47Your mistakes always follow you.
06:50Is that what Drake was?
06:52Your mistake.
06:53And that's what you're going to help me find out.
06:57I am formally requesting permission to mount an operation to free Drake within the next few days.
07:04Next few days?
07:05But security will be at its tightest, then.
07:07Hmm, British law is on our side.
07:10Drake has been remanded into custody.
07:12In order to satisfy the law, he must be produced for further remands until the case against him is complete.
07:18He will be transported from prison to court several times.
07:22Getting him out of the country will be very difficult.
07:24That is the beauty.
07:26He is not our man.
07:29We do not have to repatriate him.
07:31I don't need him out of the country.
07:34Just in my hands, in some quiet place.
07:39For as long as it takes.
07:41Years, perhaps.
07:43There is another urgency.
07:45Whatever Drake knows will be more valuable now.
07:48Every day that passes erodes that value.
07:51The British will retaliate.
07:53Against the Chinese.
07:55Drake will be freed by his masters, the Chinese.
07:57Clever.
07:58I have permission.
08:00You will have to lean heavily on our number one for information.
08:03Of course.
08:06I put it to the committee tonight.
08:07You have your answer tomorrow.
08:09But I know they'll pose the question.
08:12Would such an operation put our number one at risk?
08:16No, as well as I do.
08:17Having a man within British security is of more value than a dozen drakes.
08:22I shall be relying on him for inside information, of course.
08:25Possible traceback.
08:26If there were.
08:28I too know the value of number one.
08:31I will not move until the whole plan has been vetted by you, the committee.
08:36Very well.
08:38Tomorrow, then.
08:44I shall, of course, advise my client of his rights, Mr. Manning.
08:47That he has the right to remain silent, yes.
08:50I'm deeply concerned with the security of this country, Miss Ryan.
08:54Put yourself in my place.
08:55No, Mr. Manning.
08:56Put yourself in his place.
08:58My only concern is, and can only be, justice for my client.
09:02Despite the fact...
09:03Despite, Mr. Manning.
09:07Hello, Freddie.
09:08Drake.
09:10I'll tell you first.
09:11You don't have to answer any of my questions.
09:14Well, let's try it anyway, shall we?
09:16Mr. Drake...
09:17There's no harm in trying.
09:19Your holiday in France...
09:21Irrelevant.
09:22Any charges brought against my client are alleged to have taken place in Britain.
09:25We'll try, then.
09:26Yes, my holiday in France.
09:29Well, you know there's a lot there, Freddie.
09:32Had the operation just two months ago.
09:34My elbow, you, uh...
09:35Want to feel the steel pin?
09:38Went to France to recuperate.
09:39You booked into a hotel, then you checked out and went somewhere else entirely different.
09:43Mr. Drake...
09:43I moved on to Nice, following the sun.
09:46Anyway, the first hotel didn't measure up.
09:47You didn't give an address.
09:49You didn't follow procedure.
09:51Procedure?
09:53Winnerfellas on holiday?
09:56Now, let me ask you a question.
10:01George Cowley.
10:03I see you taking it.
10:13Hello, hello, hello.
10:40Hey, hello.
10:40Hey, listen, how'd you ever do anything in these outfits?
10:44You'd be surprised, mate.
10:47All right, let's get it over with, then, eh?
10:49Synchronised your watch.
10:51Eh?
10:52Somebody might want to ask you the time, mate.
10:54God, look at the hat.
11:00Ah, Minister.
11:01George, how are you?
11:02Fine, fine.
11:03Come on in.
11:06And yourself?
11:07Surviving?
11:08Overworked, of course.
11:09What are you for?
11:10The usual.
11:11A double, with exactly twice as much more than it.
11:14Ah.
11:15Luxury these days.
11:17My wife, you know, insists I cut down on it.
11:19May become drink-reliant.
11:21Well, she must have been listening to the broadcast from the House of Commons.
11:24The swinish herd.
11:25A radio hee-haw, someone called it.
11:28You're a jocular for a man whose career may be a whisper away from ruin.
11:30If it happens, it won't be a whisper, but a shout from the headlines on all the rooftops.
11:36Sit you down.
11:38Andy Drake.
11:40All regarded him as just a bureaucrat.
11:43Good man, but not like you, George.
11:46No fire.
11:46Andy Drake.
11:49I never thought he had it in him.
11:53It's in everyone, Minister.
11:55It just needs the right key to unlock it.
11:58I'm worried about you, George.
12:01This business.
12:03I just hope you're taking the right precautions.
12:06Oh, you sound like a wee lassie behind the pub on a Saturday night.
12:10Very jocular.
12:12It's my neck on the line.
12:14And though I despise myself for it, the tension, the gamble, the chance to...
12:19As I said, Minister, it's in everyone.
12:23A bit of a tear-away in everyone.
12:25This Chinese club, huh?
12:27Looking for a man to push a reductin' your doorway.
12:35Now, China.
12:36I suppose no-one's seen a China-man come in, have they?
12:47Roy.
12:47Empty out your pockets, all of you.
12:50On that table, then line up facing the wall.
12:53You know what, Leonard?
12:53M'hoh j'o k'am, you know what?
12:57Everything out.
12:59Wallets, handbags, knives.
13:03Now, I'm looking for a pusher.
13:04Drugs, you understand?
13:06So just cooperate nicely.
13:08Sooner it's done, sooner we'll be gone.
13:09Hey, we are your bailes, your bailes in the mar, aren't you?
13:12You what, John?
13:12Get over there.
13:13Ah, take it, ho, boy!
13:16No!
13:16No!
13:17Stop.
13:20No!
13:20No!
13:37No!
13:39No!
13:41No!
13:42No!
13:43I hate to admit it, mate, but you were right.
13:59Was it?
14:01I must be off, George.
14:07Thanks for the drink.
14:08Sir, if I were you, I'd keep a low profile.
14:11You mean, um, pull my hat down?
14:13I know it's just house arrest, sir, but, well, Manson is a stickler for detail.
14:19There could be a man watching the place.
14:23Good luck, George.
14:24Thank you, sir.
14:29I'll be glad to get out of this.
14:31Saved our hides, mate.
14:34We've been playing clothes there to cut us to pieces.
14:37The Chinese are like that.
14:39They respect authority.
14:40Is that one of the sayings of Mao, is it?
14:42Oh, I know.
14:43It's experience.
14:45I used to walk a beat down Chinatown.
14:47Got to know them quite well.
14:49What, birds as well?
14:51Oh, yeah, especially the birds.
14:53Never had a Chinese bird.
15:02Macaulay.
15:03Just to confirm that your order's been filled.
15:06One Chinese takeaway.
15:07With lots of rice.
15:10Oh, yeah.
15:11Lots of that.
15:12Excellent.
15:13Well, hold the order till tomorrow for me.
15:18Tomorrow.
15:20Looks like you got yourself a room, mate.
15:22Gorky.
15:32Gorky.
15:34Yes.
15:36Yes.
15:40We are to present our plan to snatch Drake.
15:43They will probably transfer you from prison to prison.
15:46And the remand proceedings, always a different court.
15:48That's procedure.
15:50That's policy in these cases.
15:51Scared they might be an attempt to snatch me, to disappear me.
15:55Oi.
15:56Take the cops off him.
15:57Eh?
15:58The cops.
15:59The cops.
16:00Take them off.
16:01OK.
16:02Yes, sir.
16:03Except I'm out of rice.
16:04Take the cops off him.
16:05Eh?
16:06The cops.
16:07The cops.
16:08Take them off.
16:09OK.
16:10Do you speak English?
16:12Do you speak English?
16:14Better than your Chinese.
16:18What did you grab them with?
16:19Uh, two packets.
16:20Uncut.
16:21Two packets.
16:22Uncut.
16:23Two packets.
16:24Uncut.
16:25Makes you a pusher.
16:26That makes, er, what do I?
16:27Oh, I say about three years, sir.
16:28Three years hard.
16:29For this.
16:30OK.
16:32Stand up, Sonson.
16:33What do you want?
16:34That's better.
16:35You stay home and close to your Chinese.
16:38You're Chinese.
16:39What did you grab them with?
16:40What did you grab them with?
16:41Uncut.
16:42What do you want?
16:43That's better.
16:45You stay home and close to a phone where we can reach you.
16:50Three days at the most.
16:52Then we'll call you.
16:53I don't understand.
16:55But you understand that we're letting you off the hook.
16:58You could be facing a three year stretch.
17:00Yes.
17:01Then go home and stay by the phone.
17:04Gunkai.
17:11I know you've got to deliver me to Rapworth for interrogation.
17:16Gunkai.
17:22You first met in Edinburgh?
17:24At the festival?
17:26The recital of Bach?
17:28Not just Bach.
17:29There was also Beethoven, Chopin and some Prokofiev.
17:33Prokofiev's not my style.
17:35Not enough melody.
17:37It was Lord Amesworth who made the introduction.
17:42No.
17:43He hadn't been elevated to the peerage at that time.
17:46He was still Sir Geoffrey Amesworth.
17:48Later you dined at the Brecon Rooms.
17:50No.
17:51That first evening we just had drinks together in the Brecon Rooms.
17:55We dined on the Thursday following at Sir Geoffrey's home.
17:58This is a farce.
17:59George frames these questions.
18:01How could we ever trip him up?
18:02Assuming that there is anything to trip up, Tully.
18:05I'm sorry, George.
18:06You know what I mean.
18:07Look, I think the best thing is for you two to put your heads together,
18:10throw aside anything I might have established in the past
18:12and come up with something new.
18:14I'll see you here again tomorrow at 10.30, right?
18:17Right.
18:18Oh, no, please.
18:20No need for protocol, gentlemen.
18:22After all, you are in charge these days and I am your prisoner.
18:28Be clever.
18:29Tricky.
18:30I am very anxious for you to prove me innocent.
18:39Home, sir?
18:40Yes, your home, Bodhi.
18:41I've just heard from number one.
18:54Drake will be moved around a bit.
18:56Prison to prison.
18:57But?
18:58But at all times he can provide us with routes.
19:02A full itinerary.
19:03Good.
19:04Get these off straight away.
19:07Meroff and Secor?
19:09Reinforcements of a very special kind.
19:12We cannot move without them.
19:14Oh, it's all right, Bodhi, it's for me.
19:21Could hardly have it delivered to my place, could I?
19:24Not while I'm under suspicion someone might make something of it.
19:28Friends and low places, Bodhi.
19:30Essential part of our business.
19:34A present from Sergeant Mackay.
19:36What, that map bastard?
19:37No, that's not fair.
19:38I happen to know his father rather well.
19:40It's the thought of that SAS monster, Mackay, breaking into my flat.
19:44He didn't break in.
19:45I gave him a key.
19:46Grenade.
19:47Aye.
19:48All due respect, sir, I'm sure I'm not entirely happy about anyone having the key to my flat.
19:54I mean, what if you were to come in unexpectedly while I was in the...
19:59Doing...
20:02Well, anything, you know.
20:05I'd be very discreet, Bodhi, I promise you.
20:07I'd wait until you were finished, well, doing whatever you were doing.
20:14Ah.
20:16I think Mackay must have left this for you, Bodhi.
20:18It was in Amsterdam, wasn't it, that he beat you in the judo championships?
20:21I was ill.
20:22Oh, I don't know, sir.
20:23It might not be that.
20:24It might be some kind of, um, bouquet.
20:27I mean, uh, you never can tell these days, you know.
20:30Yeah, yeah.
20:31Now, stop with you two.
20:32This is a serious business.
20:33Don Grenade.
20:34Aye.
20:35I thought they were restricted home office permission only.
20:37Yeah, that's why I had to smuggle them.
20:40The stun grenade, aptly named.
20:42Yeah, knockout.
20:43Incapacitates, but doesn't kill.
20:46That's what we'll be using.
20:47The ultimate Mickey Finn.
20:49The next move was in the red corner.
20:51Right.
20:52Get yourself some food, and then some red corner.
20:53Right.
21:06Get yourself some food, and then some rest, and stay out of sight.
21:23Well?
21:24They look Chinese enough.
21:25By the time I've finished with them, they'll be Chinese.
21:26And when we make the snatch, they'll be seen.
21:28That's imperative.
21:29Which will lead a subtle trail of evidence pointing towards Peking.
21:30Drake will be snatched back by the men he betrayed his country for.
21:31Oh, yes.
21:32I can see it might work.
21:33Might.
21:34It will work.
21:35You haven't mentioned number one.
21:36He's protected.
21:37He is giving us the information, the means of snatching back,
21:38the people of the country.
21:39Who could be the one who would be the two?
21:40Who would be the one who would be the one who would be the one who would be,
21:41Well?
21:42They look Chinese enough.
21:43By the time I've finished with them, they'll be Chinese.
21:44And when we make the snatch, they'll be seen.
21:45That's imperative.
21:46Which will lead a subtle trail of evidence pointing towards Peking.
21:47The two way they take the two years.
21:48And when we make the snatch, they'll be seen.
21:49Which will lead a subtle trail of evidence pointing towards Peking.
21:50Drake will be snatched back by the men he betrayed his country for.
21:51Oh yes, I can see it might work.
21:54Might.
21:55It will work.
21:56will work. You haven't mentioned number one.
22:00He's protected. He is giving us the information, the means
22:04of snatching Drake. If they trace back... I have built in a failsafe
22:08there. Rhine. Sarah Rhine,
22:12Drake's counsel. She played right into our hands. Everywhere Drake goes, she
22:16has to know. It's perfect. I don't like that. The British
22:20citizen... She's Irish. And who's to say
22:24which side the Irish are on now of what they might be up to? The IRA.
22:28It's another way of confusing the issue. It is essential
22:32that we move soon. I'll study these.
22:36Let you have my decision as soon as
22:40possible.
22:54He's got that crafty look on him, hasn't he?
23:00Ah, good day, gentlemen.
23:02Sorry I'm a wee bit late.
23:04Oh, that doesn't matter. The traffic these days.
23:06It wasn't the traffic.
23:08Can we reverse the process for a moment?
23:12Me questioning you. Sit down, Tully.
23:16You too, Manton.
23:18Now look here, George.
23:20Sir Frederick Manton.
23:22Has quite a ring to it, don't you think?
23:26I'm outside of this organisation now.
23:30Oh, I know nobody ever leaves the service.
23:32But undeniably I now control CI5.
23:34And that's a new mob altogether.
23:36Now, you chaps aren't quite prepared to go all the way
23:38and ask for my suspension.
23:40You're not that sure of yourselves.
23:42So, I've got a lot of muscle
23:44and a lot of expertise.
23:46And I command as much loyalty
23:48as I ever did here.
23:50We're poised and ready to spring Andy Drake.
23:52George.
23:54No, Tully.
23:56Just keep going.
23:58George.
24:00Oh, I know nobody ever leaves the service.
24:02But undeniably I now control CI5.
24:04George.
24:06No, Tully. Just keep listening and looking.
24:12He would be seen in the area.
24:14Chinese.
24:16It would be attributed, blamed on the Chinese.
24:20I promise you.
24:22And there would be no casualties either.
24:24My boys would use stun grenades.
24:26But they're restricted. Yes, I know.
24:28And that would point even more towards the yellow peril.
24:30It would happen between prison
24:32and whichever court Drake is taken to
24:34for his next remand.
24:36And that's why I need your help.
24:38I need details of the route.
24:42The place I'll make the snatch.
24:44George, you can't be serious.
24:46Deadly.
24:47And my motives are selfish too.
24:49Drake's treachery has tainted me
24:51and there's only one way I can ever get clear.
24:53George.
24:54We trust you implicitly.
24:56Ah, but you've still got to interrogate me.
24:58And at the end of it what?
24:59Not proven.
25:00And that's as bad as guilty as far as the record books are concerned.
25:04Drake and I would be under the same umbrella forever.
25:08My only way out, and let's face it, your only way out,
25:12is Drake alone somewhere under wraps for as long as we need him.
25:16Drake subjected to our methods of interrogation.
25:20We'd milk him dry and clear me in the process.
25:26I'll use CI5 to snatch him,
25:30deliver him into your tender hands,
25:33and the rest of the world will think he's living it up in Peking.
25:39Well, Tully?
25:40It's madness.
25:41Anything that succeeds in this business usually is.
25:45Nanton.
25:47I see the virtues, George.
25:49Ah.
25:50But I agree with Tully.
25:51It's madness.
25:53Let me play my ace.
25:55Their embassy this morning.
26:00Ah, just two KGB replacements.
26:04But look at their faces.
26:06Asiatic Russians.
26:08And to the western eyes, near as damn it, Chinese.
26:11If we don't do this, the Russians will.
26:13They're planning it, I'm sure of it.
26:16George, if we agree to this,
26:18after we've done with Drake, what then? What happens to him?
26:21He would never be seen again.
26:23You understand, we can never be directly involved in any of this.
26:28All I need from you are details of Drake's movements.
26:31My boys will do the rest.
26:32And if it's a foul up?
26:34If it fails, George?
26:35It will be my failure, mine alone.
26:38I take full responsibility and carry the cannon to instant retirement.
26:41And what about your boys?
26:43If you go, they fall with you.
26:44Then that would be their hard luck, wouldn't it?
26:48Nothing says we have to mount an op with a controller who's under house arrest.
26:52Nothing in the rules that says that.
26:55I looked.
26:56Yeah.
26:57There's nothing that says we can't, either.
26:59Eh?
27:01I looked as well.
27:08There's green light all the way.
27:10Let's go.
27:11Not involving the Rhine.
27:14Helps.
27:15I agree, but not enough.
27:16There could be a grain of suspicion against our man.
27:19And one grain is too much.
27:21I'm sorry.
27:22I know you have your responsibilities, but I also have mine.
27:25But surely...
27:26You look at the specifics.
27:27I must look at the overall.
27:30It's a good plan.
27:31It's an excellent plan.
27:33But...
27:34I really am sorry.
27:36Of course, if there should be a change in circumstances...
27:39There may well be.
27:41Urgent from number one.
27:48Beautiful, beautiful, Ivan.
27:52It's unbelievable.
27:53It's an opportunity.
27:55We will let Cowley do our job for us.
27:58Let him snatch Drake, and then we'll snatch from the snatchers.
28:05The Americans have a phrase, egg on the face.
28:07I never really appreciated it until now.
28:16No.
28:17Cheers.
28:19More apt, eh?
28:20Since we are drinking to the British.
28:23Cowley is already under suspicion.
28:24And this, if he goes through with it, will seal his guilt.
28:27They'll...
28:28They'll say...
28:29They'll say he was springing his friend.
28:31His comrade and treachery.
28:33You will be taken to court tomorrow for further remand.
28:35They won't tell me which court yet.
28:37But I think they're being honest when they say that even they don't know.
28:40But don't worry.
28:41The minute they move you from here, they have by law to call me and let me know.
28:44You won't be spirited away to some dark cellar, Mr. Drake.
28:49We called your home.
28:50You didn't answer.
28:51No tea.
28:52Well, you have found me now.
28:53Right.
28:54No, wearing uniform this time, eh?
28:55No, that's because we're here as friends.
28:56Best of friends.
28:57If anything should happen to us, guess it'd be the first to get his neck broken.
28:59Go on.
29:00At least let me finish this hand.
29:02Okay.
29:04At least let me finish this hand.
29:06Well, he's here.
29:07I was here.
29:08Why?
29:09No?
29:10No, and you're not here.
29:11No, we're not here.
29:12No, it's not here.
29:13Oh, sure.
29:14No, sir.
29:15What's wrong?
29:16I'll leave you there.
29:17Oh.
29:18No.
29:19So, you're going to take that thing.
29:20My.
29:21Well, you have found me now.
29:22Right.
29:23No.
29:24No, wearing uniform this time.
29:25And, that's because we're here as friends.
29:26Best of friends.
29:27If anything should happen to us, I guess it'd be the first to get his neck broken.
29:29Now.
29:30Oh, hang on, Doyle. Can't drag a man away from his poker game.
29:34Not when he's finessing on two kings and a jack.
29:40Well, George.
29:41Oh, I don't know.
29:44It's all just so much gobbledygook to me.
29:47Well, it can never be absolutely clear-cut.
29:50Just a foreign office interpretation of Russian policy.
29:53A gleaning from notes here, remarks there.
29:55But is it the clean, cold wind of detente?
29:59Or just the breeze before the storm?
30:01Anybody's guess?
30:03Yours?
30:04My guess would be just...
30:07a guess.
30:08Nevertheless, I'd value it more highly than most.
30:11Hmm.
30:13I think Moscow are genuinely seeking calm.
30:17I don't think they'd sanction anything extrovert at this time.
30:20And if they were forced to?
30:21In that case, there'd be conditions.
30:22The strong hand in the velvet glove.
30:25Very thick velvet.
30:27No casualties?
30:28If possible.
30:30But it is just my opinion, George.
30:33I wouldn't want you to stake your career on it.
30:35My career?
30:36I'll take a chance on that.
30:39It's lives I'm gambling with.
30:40Do you want to tell me more?
30:43I'd like to.
30:44But I don't intend telling you anything at all.
30:47I owe you that.
30:49I hope you know what you're doing, George.
30:52So do I.
30:55It's agreed.
30:56One proviso.
30:58Cowley's men are agents.
31:00Home agents may be, but agents just the same.
31:02We want no cause for retaliation.
31:04It must be a bloodless coup.
31:07Is that all?
31:09Don't worry.
31:11Cowley even contributed an idea for that, too.
31:16Stungus.
31:18Tully.
31:19Right, yes.
31:21I understand.
31:26Drake will be on remod at Hammersmith.
31:28Hammersmith?
31:29They'll be moving in ten minutes.
31:31Prison van escort.
31:31Afterwards, he'll be transferred to Cheltenham.
31:34Route C.
31:35Route C.
31:36Uh-huh.
31:39Nice stretch of open country there.
31:42That's where we'll make the snatch.
31:44Right.
31:47Aren't you going to wish me luck, gentlemen?
31:48With what, George?
31:49As far as we know, you're just going home.
31:59Yes?
32:01Yes.
32:02Map.
32:04To Cheltenham.
32:11Yes.
32:11Yes, yes, I have it.
32:13Take care of the Rhine, woman.
32:18Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
32:48Oh, my God.
33:18Oh, my God.
33:48Oh, my God.
34:18One's enough, isn't it?
34:20No, we want everyone to stay in touch.
34:22Are we expecting trouble?
34:24Oh, well, you know us.
34:26We always expect trouble.
34:33Poor bastards.
34:35It's just a headache.
34:37Just like a handover.
34:39Yeah, without the pleasure of drinking.
34:41Better than dead, though, isn't it?
34:43Yeah.
34:48Yeah.
35:11I want to see all sides here.
35:13Yeah.
35:18I could interrogate Drake, of course.
35:21Of course.
35:22Given the time at our disposal, there is no doubt I could do it.
35:25No doubt.
35:26But, number one, with his special knowledge, it will save a great deal of time.
35:32There's been a hitch.
35:33Drake, his lawyer, didn't turn up.
35:36Yeah, thanks.
35:37Great.
35:38Doesn't feel right.
35:39Mounting an op against our own.
35:41I was not to reason why, man.
35:42Yeah, well, I have been.
35:43Snatched Drake.
35:44Hold him away for questioning as long as it takes.
35:45Yeah.
35:46Well, they're not going to release him to talk, are they?
35:48Well, it says there is to murder, mate.
35:49That's what we are.
35:50Either that or magnificent bloody patriot.
35:51Oh, here we go.
35:52Oh, here we go.
36:03Well what?
36:04If we were.
36:05Oh.
36:06What did she do you do?
39:17Here.
39:19Take it easy.
39:21Easy.
39:23That's it.
39:25Easy.
39:27Right.
39:29Right.
39:31Right.
39:33Easy.
39:35Easy now.
39:37Breathe deep.
39:39Slowly.
39:41Slowly.
39:43Slowly.
39:45That's good.
39:47Yeah.
39:49Here.
39:51Here.
39:53Here.
39:55Here.
39:57Here.
39:58Here.
39:59Here.
40:00Here.
40:01Here.
40:07Oh.
40:08A failure, sir.
40:10I'm sorry.
40:11Oh, don't be.
40:12Don't be.
40:13It was perfect.
40:14Quite perfect.
40:15We failed, but then we always had to.
40:16Come on.
40:17Can you get up?
40:18Take it easy now.
40:19That's it.
40:20Easy.
40:21Here.
40:22Here.
40:23Here.
40:24Here.
40:25Here.
40:26Here.
40:27Here.
40:28Here.
40:29Here.
40:30Okay.
40:37Good.
40:39Tell number one I'll pick him up at rendezvous in ten minutes.
40:43Here.
40:50Have one on me.
40:54Right.
40:57Yes.
41:00I understand.
41:02Drake's been snatched.
41:03Yeah.
41:04I've just heard.
41:05Well, there's no sense hanging around here.
41:07Let's wait till we have him Cowley.
41:14I don't get it.
41:15Exactly.
41:16If you had got it, if I had told you, you would have behaved differently.
41:20And the KGB boys are cute.
41:21Too experienced.
41:22But they snatched Drake.
41:24I'm glad to say they have.
41:27You wanted it.
41:28Aye.
41:30So he wouldn't be around to talk about you.
41:33That kind of double think.
41:35You might have been a good man for the service, too.
41:38I've advanced a triple think.
41:41What the hell are you up to?
41:43Locating Drake.
41:45They won't dare risk transporting and fire 30, 40 miles at most.
41:49And Pymar's transmitter is good for a hundred.
41:53Drake's butt?
41:55Since his operation a few months ago,
41:58he inserted a pin in his elbow, but no ordinary pin.
42:02But just a minute.
42:03How long have you been planning this?
42:05A long time.
42:06A very damn long time.
42:09Planning what?
42:10A man trap.
42:13Cowley to Pymar, come in.
42:15Have you got any bearings yet?
42:17Pymar to Cowley, 155 degrees west.
42:2255, 53 degrees north.
42:26A house.
42:27All right, got it.
42:28Do you know the area?
42:29Uh, not too well.
42:30Well, you're about to.
42:32Meet me the road north of the house, right?
42:36Okay.
42:37Out.
42:39All right, who the hell's Pymar?
42:40A friend of mine from Special Branch.
42:43He set the ball rolling by arresting Drake.
42:51Thank God.
42:52They're sprung with it.
42:53What?
42:54What?
42:55What?
42:56What?
42:57What?
42:58Are you.
43:04You're not.
43:05What can I do?
43:07But no ass.
43:09Or shit?
43:13Can I do nothing?
43:14Gorky, so you're going to debrief me personally?
43:32No, I shall merely be an observer.
43:36You will be debriefed by an old friend.
43:44Gorky's car just went past two men.
43:56Ivan?
43:57Not slim enough. Your man, do you think?
43:59Oh, it has to be. It's got to be.
44:00My God, Pymar, it's working.
44:02Damn fast, too. They're not letting any grass grow.
44:04Oh, would I. I'm gambling on it.
44:06Get your hands on the man you want, but always assume that he might be snatched back.
44:10So work fast. Get on with it.
44:12How far?
44:12Less than a mile.
44:13We'll walk it from here. Come on.
44:18The woman.
44:20Well, I am preparing Mr. Drake.
44:32He's in there.
44:33I know it. The man I want is in there.
44:37Minimum of force.
44:38No shooting unless we absolutely have to, and then no kill wounds.
44:42We could go in with our hands tied.
44:44Minimum of force.
44:46Right.
44:47Let's not rush it.
44:49We'll split up and then...
44:52Damn!
44:54It's the rhyme, woman.
44:56Damn, damn!
44:57They leave her walking about, are they?
44:59Bodie, Doyle, but quietly.
45:01And no blood.
45:02A few moments, then it's all yours.
45:17A few moments, then it's all yours.
45:17I don't think it's 30 minutes.
45:35Watch out.
45:36A few moments...
45:37What?
45:42Oh.
45:42Oh!
45:45Oh, my God.
45:49Oh, my God.
45:52Let's save...
45:55Oh.
45:55Oh, my God.
45:56Oh, joy.
45:58Oh, come on.
46:01Interrogation of Andrew Drake, real one, day one.
46:31No, no, no, no, no.
47:01Manton
47:13I'm glad to say I lost a bet with myself
47:18I thought it was Tully
47:20So did Andy here
47:22Is he okay?
47:25Yeah, seems like I said
47:26Drake, treat him gently
47:27He's a very brave man and a very loyal one
47:29A set-up
47:29A baity trap and you obligingly sprung it
47:32You and your number one here
47:33We knew there was a number one, but not who
47:36So we drew you out and here you are
47:40Cowley
47:41Mr. Cowley
47:42You better round up your thugs and go
47:45A lot of explaining for you to do when you get back home
47:49Safe trip, Tavarish
47:52All right, Pai Mar
47:54All right
47:55Someone spoke to me, but I don't see anyone
47:56That's right, Pai Mar
47:57No one at all
47:58No cuffs
47:59No formal arrest
48:00Just somewhere quiet in the country, eh, Manton?
48:04Somewhere like this
48:05Where we can talk and talk for hours
48:08Months
48:10Years even
48:12Take him
48:14Okay
48:18Hi, Mark
48:37No
48:40Manton
48:42Halt
48:44He couldn't have told us anything, Andy
49:00It was our organisation he was milking, not theirs
49:03And along the way he was responsible for more than a dozen men
49:08Good men
49:10Friends
49:12Sir, you put these stun grenades in their mines, um, sold them hard
49:21Yeah, I suppose him there can come for it, yeah
49:35I had you both covered, I'm a very good shot
49:38Yeah, I saw that
49:39Yeah, I saw that, nevertheless, what if something had gone wrong?
49:41Oh, in that case I would have arranged a nice headstone for the two of you
49:45Out of my own pocket, of course
49:47Permission to make an observation, sir?
49:49Aye?
49:50You're a ruthless old bastard
49:51Not so much of the old, sonny
49:53Yeah, I saw that
49:55No
50:00Uh-huh
50:011000
50:021000
50:03Ha
50:06Ha
50:08Ha
50:09Ha
50:10Ha
50:11Ha
50:12Ha
50:13Ha
50:14Ha
50:15Ha
50:16Ha
50:18Ha
50:19A
50:19Ha
50:21Ha
50:22Ha
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