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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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19:07Let's go.
19:37Let's go.
20:07Let's go.
20:37Let's go.
21:07Let's go.
21:37Let's go.
22:07Let's go.
22:37Let's go.
23:07Let's go.
23:37Let's go.
24:07Let's go.
24:37Let's go.
25:07All right, George, if you say so.
25:09You look well, Roddy, but I mustn't delay you.
25:12Oh, no, George, really, my dear old friend, you can't get away like that.
25:16Roddy Martindale simply wouldn't let you.
25:18It's months and months since we last had a chinwag.
25:20Let's go.
25:21Let's go.
25:21but let's go.
25:34role in life George we all need to be good at something we mustn't forget
25:43Jebedee wasn't he your old tutor yes once upon a time how do you rate Spark the
25:48one who came from the school of oriental languages place him in the batting
25:51order George not quite there trouble with his nerves so they say all dead and
26:00gone now cause properly appreciated by only a select few like you and me you
26:05flatter me now George let's talk about your old boss control the only head of
26:13the circus whoever kept his name a secret shall we talk about control if you
26:16insist of course it wasn't a secret to you was it George she never had any
26:20secrets from you his tried and trusted right hand did he I don't know that's
26:24the point about secrets closest thieves control and smiley wear right to the end
26:29so they say they are very complimentary now don't flirt George I'm an old
26:35trooper you and control were just like that that's why you were thrown out it's
26:45why Bill Hayden's got your job it's why Percy Aveline got into controls chair when
26:50it ought to be you why Bill Hayden's his cup bearer and you're out altogether if you
26:56say so Roddy I do I say more than that far more I say this control never died at all he's been
27:10seen in South Africa now we can't blame a man for wanting a bit of peace in the
27:18evening of his life Willie Andrew Arthur walked straight into him in Joburg
27:25Airport in the waiting room not a ghost flesh that's the most idiotic story I've
27:32ever heard control died of a heart attack after a long illness through most of
27:37which he continued to work besides he hated South Africa he hated every word
27:41except Surrey the surface and Lord's cricket ground yes of course Willie
27:48Andrew Arthur was always the most god-awful liar I said the same myself
27:52Willie you should be ashamed of yourself I suppose what put the last nail into
28:02controls coffin was the Checo scandal the poor devil that got shot in the back the
28:08one who was so thick with Bill Hayden with his picture in the newspapers under
28:13some fictitious name but we know his real name don't we
28:20Jim Pareto
28:27somehow I don't think I can ever quite believe in Percy Aveline as chief can you
28:34do it might be just my natural cynicism but power sits poorly on those we've
28:41grown up with doesn't it and there are so few who can carry it off for me nowadays and
28:46poor Percy such an obvious fellow especially after control who's a positive
28:50serpent how can anyone take Aveline seriously oh that heavy good fellowship one has
29:00only got to think of him in the old days lolling in the bar of the travelers sucking away on that
29:05log of a pipe and buying drinks for all the moguls really and that's like one's
29:12perfectly to be subtle don't you agree now what's his knack George living off
29:17the wits of his subordinates am I right really Roddy I can't help you I never knew
29:24Percy as a force you see only as a striver right with his eyes on controls purple day
29:31and night yes well now he's actually wearing it the mob loves him so who's doing the business
29:38for him hey George who is it I cannot help you who's the clever boots I'm not Percy that's for sure
29:47and don't tell me the Americans have started trusting us again because they'd never fall for
29:52Percy Roddy please stop this wonderfully well he's doing we hear it from all sides
29:57little committees popping up with funny names red carpet for Percy wherever he
30:02goes tripping the light fantastic along the Whitehall corridors you're out of my
30:06depth truly so who's earning him his reputation no thank you I think we've
30:14finished now it's my party George I'll get the bill when I'm ready
30:22so who's pulling the strings for Percy puppet how about dashing Bill Hayden your old rival
30:35in every sense I'm told of course he never was orthodox was he genius never is
30:43all right then it's Roy Bland the shop soiled white hope the first red brick don to make the circus and if it's neither of them and control is really dead then there's only one possibility left it's someone who's pretending to be in retirement you George admit it you feather head Martin
30:55you you pompous bogus gossiping old feather head
31:08Roy Bland is not red brick he was at St Anthony's College Oxford now don't be silly dear of course St Anthony is red brick it doesn't make the slightest difference there's a bit of sandstone in the same street just because he was your protege I suppose he's Bill Hayden's boy now Bill was father to them all wasn't he or something like that
31:21it's not mine thank you I hope you're not going to tip him it's a guinea at Christmas anyway it's my party
31:28draws them like bees to a honeypot doesn't he our bill good night buddy you fancy a nightcap start afresh with the bubbly
31:36why not George I think I will of course Bill's got the glamour hasn't he not like some of us star quality I call it one of the very few until the women literally bow down before him
31:43I'm sure he's not going to tip him it's a guinea at Christmas anyway it's my party
31:48it's my party draws them like bees to a honeypot doesn't he our bill good night buddy you fancy a nightcap start afresh with the bubbly why not George I think I will
31:53of course Bill's got the glamour hasn't he not like some of us star quality I call it one of the very few until the women literally bow down before him
32:05if that's what women do good night love to Anne everybody's love to Anne
32:35oh it's a sandstone shop soil white hope everybody's love to Anne oh damn oh damn
32:52oh
32:54oh
32:55oh
32:57oh
32:59oh
33:01oh
33:05oh
33:07oh
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.
35:05You sound a little testy, George, old boy.
35:08Lakon is waiting for you.
35:11Me, Peter?
35:13George, I've been sent to deliver you.
35:16I've been reviewing my situation in the last half hour of hell, and I've come to a very grave decision.
35:30After a lifetime of living by my wits and on my memory, I shall give myself up full time to the profession of forgetting.
35:39I'm going to put an end to some emotional attachments which have long outlived their purpose.
35:46Namely, 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.
36:01From there, I shall establish myself as a mild eccentric.
36:06Discursive, withdrawn, but possessing one or two lovable habits, such 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.
36:27You can even pick my front door locks.
36:31Clever, beautiful woman.
36:33I saw you parking this toy in Kirsten Street this afternoon.
37:01I ran away immediately.
37:03Good guess on your part.
37:04What made you think I was looking for you?
37:06I hoped you went.
37:07However, you found me eventually.
37:09You had to come home sometime.
37:14It's far too young for me.
37:17It'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.
37:25Good 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 tell myself it's for politeness sake.
37:46It's not.
37:47It's weakness.
37:48And the fact that I've nothing better to do.
37:53My wife's fine, thank you.
38:05They put me in charge of scalp hunters.
38:07You are Jim Fredo's successor.
38:11You?
38:11Looking after the heavy.
38:13Why not?
38:15Tucked away at downtown Brixton,
38:17behind the broken glass and the barbed wire.
38:20Dispatching the thugs occasionally.
38:22Kept a good arm's length from the circus ringmasters.
38:25How is Jim, do you know?
38:27In quarantine.
38:29I don't mean to pry.
38:30I merely ask.
38:31Can he get around?
38:33Can he walk and so on?
38:34Bad backs can be terribly tricky, I believe.
38:37The word is he manages pretty well.
38:40He's back in England.
38:41Address unknown.
38:43Travel.
38:44Is that still the scalp hunter's official name?
38:48Hit and run, caution carry?
38:50No.
38:51Sorry.
38:53Our control always preached
38:55that good intelligence work is gradual
38:57and rests on a kind of gentleness.
39:01It's not my department.
39:02No.
39:03Well, the scalp hunters were always
39:06the exception control allowed to his own rule.
39:09Well, Bill Haven's persuasion.
39:11A reflection of Bill's temperament, of course.
39:14The solo initiative.
39:17Very dashing.
39:19Very audacious.
39:21Very acabar.
39:21It's not good at all.
39:23The other.
39:23Yes.
39:24It's not good at all.
39:33I'll do a section.
39:34Taker-taker.
39:35Taker-taker.
39:36Rata-taker.
39:37You-
39:38You-
39:39You-
39:40You
39:41You-
39:43You-
39:45You-
39:46You-
39:48I'm sorry, Peter. What?
39:53Lateralism. I said, are you familiar with the word?
39:55I most certainly am not.
39:57It's the inn doctrine now. We used to go up and down. Now we go along.
40:02What's that supposed to mean?
40:03In your day, the circus ran itself by regions.
40:06Africa, satellites, Russia, China, Southeast Asia, West Indies, you name it.
40:11Each region was commanded by its own juju man.
40:14Control sat in heaven and held the strings, remember?
40:17It strikes a distant horn.
40:19Well, today everything operational is under one hat.
40:22It's called London Station.
40:25Regions are out. Lateralism is in.
40:28Who's Station Commander?
40:30Bill Hayden. His number two is Roy Bland.
40:33Toby Esterhazy runs between them like a poodle.
40:36They're a service within the service.
40:39Share their own secrets and don't mix with the pros.
40:42There are three of them and Alaline.
40:44That's right.
40:46The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:49A very good idea.
40:50The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:51The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:52The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:53The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:54The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:55The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:56The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:57The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:58The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
40:59The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
41:00The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
41:01The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
41:02The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
41:03The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
41:04The object of Dole is to make us more secure.
41:05Why did Lacan send you for me, Peter?
41:22Do 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.
41:35You remember your last day at the circus, just one day before control departed and the new regime took over.
41:44You stuck your head around my office door and said, Peter, I've been sacked.
41:49We went straight out and you got drunk.
41:53Why pick me, George?
41:54I was pretty low-grade, running some very sketchy networks of merchant seamen out of London dockland.
42:00Whatever poles, Russian chinks, I could cobble together.
42:02Why me, George?
42:05You want a reason?
42:08You fastened on the same word that night when I asked why you've been kicked out.
42:12I'll tell you exactly what you said.
42:14I hope this isn't going to be embarrassing.
42:16You said reason as logic or reason as motive, or reason as a way of life.
42:22You said they don't have to give me reasons.
42:24I can write my own damn reasons, and that is not the same as the half-baked tolerance that comes from no longer caring.
42:32I thought that was pretty impressive stuff from a man as drunk as you were.
42:37At least I had the good sense not to let you drive me home.
42:45Lakin sent me for you, George.
42:46Looks like Count Dracula's blood bank.
43:03Lakin once described it to me as his Hampshire Camelot, built by a teetotal millionaire.
43:09She seems to think explains everything.
43:10That's out of touch, Peter.
43:17Does Lakin have any particular title nowadays?
43:20Nothing new.
43:21Just Sir Oliver of the Cabinet's Office.
43:23Permanent watchdog of all intelligence affairs.
43:25You know how he loves being one of nature's prefects.
43:28George, hello.
43:33Thanks for coming.
43:34Come on in, will you?
43:36Will him?
43:37Hope we didn't get too burnt about George in that little girl, Will.
43:46You've been enjoying retirement, George?
43:50You haven't missed the wars of human contact.
43:55I rather would, I think.
43:56One's work, one's old buddies.
44:00Oh, I think I manage very well, thank you.
44:03Yes.
44:03Yes, I'm sure I do.
44:05And you, all goes well with you?
44:08Oh, no great changes, no, no.
44:10All very smooth.
44:12Charlotte got her scholarship to Rodine, which was nice.
44:15Oh, very good.
44:17How about your wife?
44:19In the pink and so on?
44:20Very bonny, thank you.
44:24Ah.
44:24All spruce and ship-shape again, Willem?
44:28You were grubby.
44:29He did look a rough end, didn't he, George?
44:33Well, shall we?
44:35Oh, please, George, I want him to talk particularly to you.
44:50All right, Paul, log us in, please.
44:52I think you know Mr. Smiley, don't you?
44:56Yes, of course I do.
44:58Once gave me a job, Mr. Smiley.
45:00Don't you remember?
45:01Tar, sir.
45:02Ricky Tar, the lawyer's boy from Marseille.
45:05Changed my first nappies, as we used to say.
45:08They were very tough interviews you used to give us tender young recruits.
45:11Of course, 12 years ago, and it's that long, Mr. Smiley.
45:16Well, you don't look any different to me, sir.
45:19No, 12 years ago, nobody but nobody got taken on unless we got past you.
45:25Not even scalp hunters.
45:27Aren't quite your type?
45:28We all had to get the nod from Mr. Smiley.
45:32Tar, of course I remember you, Ricky.
45:35Your father was an Australian, I recall.
45:38A solicitor and a non-conformist lay preacher.
45:43Altogether, a most unusual chap to pop up in Marseille.
45:47But just such odd circumstances do seem to provide us with suitable personnel.
45:54Bad boys like Ricky.
45:55Daddy thought he could beat the sin out of me, but you knew better.
46:00Didn't you, Mr. Smiley?
46:01He only beat it further in.
46:04And that's what scalp hunters are made of.
46:08Isn't that right, Mr. Gwiland?
46:09We're waiting for you, Tar.
46:11Yes, I do think we ought to get on.
46:14Well, I guess I'd better make my pitch, then.
46:17Let's keep it precise, shall we?
46:18All the way along.
46:19Before you begin, Ricky,
46:20Do I understand correctly that no-one at the circus knows you're in England?
46:28Only Mr. Gwiland.
46:30You're officially absent without leave.
46:39On the wanted list?
46:40I think I'm safe now.
46:47I've got a story to tell you.
46:49It's all about spies.
46:51And if it's true, which I think it is,
46:54you boys are going to need a whole new organisation.
46:57Right?
46:59Shall I start with the day you sent me to Lisbon?
47:03Changed my life.
47:04You might find it's going to change all your life.
47:08Hmm.
47:34According to thy word.
47:46For my eyes have seen thy salvation.
48:03Which love has breathed before the face of all people.
48:20To be a light, to lighten the chances,
48:36And to be the body of thy people, Israel.
48:38And to be the body of thy people, Israel.
48:51Lord have they энергically.
48:53To be the質問, Israel.
48:54Then be first I understand.
48:59Glory be to the Father,
49:02And to the Son,
49:08And to the Holy Ghost.
49:12As it was in the beginning,
49:15is now
49:18and ever shall be
49:22born
49:26without end
49:29again
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