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Classy, intelligent, witty political drama series about the fascinating, ruthless businessman/politician sir John Wilder who becomes Special Envoy (the original name of the series was "Special Envoy'') - ambassador for special situations and trade - and has to deal with the equally ruthless competition. His wife is the witness, trying to support him without interfering much, while his handsome secretary is too ambitious for his own good. The sequel to "The Plane Makers". Starring Patrick Wymark, Barbara Murray, Jack Watling, Michael Jayston, Clifford Evans, Peter Barkworth, George Sewell, Ian Holm, Richard Hurndall, Barrie Ingham, Donald Burton, Norma Ronald, Robin Bailey, James Maxwell, Rachel Herbert, William Devlin, Philip Madoc, Norman Tyrrell, John Brooking, Peter Hughes, Peggy Sinclair, Ralph Michael. Written by Peter Draper, Wilfred Greatorex, Edmund Ward, John Bowen, Raymond Bowers.
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03:01Good morning, Sir John.
03:03The press boys would like to work with you, if you do mind.
03:06Yes, I thought they might.
03:17Good morning, Sir John.
03:19Welcome home, Sir John.
03:21Perhaps we should also congratulate you, Sir John.
03:24If you feel you ought to.
03:26Can you confirm that you've brought back a contract for the Cabala hydroelectric scheme?
03:30Yes, yes, it's all tied up.
03:3175 million pounds has been mentioned.
03:34Well, I won't argue, but 80 would be nearer.
03:37You have no qualms about winning this contract for a French firm.
03:41I have no qualms about winning any contract.
03:44Well, you are British, Sir John.
03:46Well, I congratulate you on your accuracy, Mr. Talbot.
03:50Well, isn't it true, Sir John, that several British firms were in for this contract?
03:54Well, I should ask them about that.
03:55Don't you think you should have been representing a British and not a French firm?
03:59Well, the French don't think so.
04:01Do you think that what you've done is patriotic?
04:05Hmm.
04:08Put that to the four-hour-a-day national heroes who represent us abroad.
04:12Don't know the difference between the contract and the boys' own paper,
04:15the deadbeats who think work is cocktails at sundown,
04:19the pension seekers, the time servers, the politicians, the civil servants,
04:25living it up on the gravy train.
04:28Then, put it to me.
04:29We don't wish to embarrass you, Sir John.
04:32I'd always heard you were very humane, Mr. Lucas.
04:35But what about the British firms you were up against in this deal?
04:38In memoriam.
04:40Fought hard, but lost.
04:42And their salesmen on the spot?
04:45Oh, they're out on a limb, left to do what they could.
04:48Let down by our civil servants out there.
04:51Little Napoleon.
04:53If Whitehall had been left to run Duncorp, we'd never have got a man out.
04:58You'd think he'd won a bloody war.
05:00No, Foreign Secretary.
05:04Only a battle.
05:06All right, Castle, I watched him.
05:09Doesn't it give you an idea, Foreign Secretary?
05:13I'd love to haul him before the bar of the house.
05:16For heaven's sake, don't be coy, Caswell.
05:19Apart from all this wilder loot going to Paris, you must admit the man has a certain flair.
05:27Caswell, what are you trying to tell me?
05:30Only that you should use him.
05:33I'd sooner recruit from Dartmoor.
05:35He has ingenuity.
05:36Serve men serving life.
05:39May I remind you, Foreign Secretary?
05:42Caswell, why are you so formal when you're at your most devious?
05:46We've known each other for 30 years.
05:48We were talking about special situations and trade.
05:51So, why drag Wilder in?
05:54Arthur, he has landed an £80 million contract for the French.
06:00I don't like it any more than you do.
06:03Wilder, in special situations and trade.
06:07You need another brandy.
06:11Good night, Arthur.
06:12Oh, don't be ridiculous, Caswell.
06:14I mean it.
06:15Wilder?
06:16In her majesty's diplomatic service.
06:19It was your idea.
06:20A roving ambassador covering special situations and trade.
06:24Yes, but never Wilder.
06:27Anyway, there's no such desk.
06:29Yet.
06:32Caswell.
06:35You know career diplomats?
06:38They'd have soon died at their posts as Sir Uncle Wilder.
06:42Show me just one.
06:43Huh?
06:44Who'd ever died at his post.
06:46Their occupational hazard is indigestion.
06:49You want people lobbying for him?
06:52You practically hacked one another into a communal grave.
06:56Well, he'd try to grab my firm.
06:58Now the choppers are buried?
07:02You two made the mafia look like a game of hopscotch.
07:06He'll put bombs
07:09under those feather-bedded nonentities we've got dozing around the world.
07:12Yes, and we'd feel the blast.
07:14No Caswell, but thanks for the suggestion.
07:20Hello, Foreign Secretary here.
07:23Oh, yes, thank you.
07:28Yes, Prime Minister.
07:34Yes, Prime Minister, right away.
07:39I would have thought it more courteous had you mentioned Caswell that you'd already raised this at a higher level.
07:46I was just coming to it.
07:48I'm not against change, Caswell, even radical change.
07:50I can even see certain qualities in Wilder that we need in a roving ambassador.
07:54But aren't you even better equipped yourself?
08:00I know the job I want, Arthur.
08:03Some of us Caswell simply grow wrinkled and grey.
08:06You just grow more devious.
08:31You just grow more devious.
08:37I'm surprised the French didn't demand a transfer fee.
08:40Well, they'd have wanted it in gold.
08:43Anyway, John, a stroke of genius on your part to think of it.
08:46I didn't.
08:47Oh, whoever did then.
08:51John, I hope they've armed you with enough power.
08:54You'll need to pull rank quite a bit if you're to rouse the dead.
08:59Wonderful news, darling.
09:01You will, of course, be going with him.
09:02Except to the South Pole, two gold.
09:05And all those receptions at Lancaster Huss.
09:07Yes, I can't wait to put up my CD plates and park on the yellow band outside the Chinese embassy.
09:12I didn't realize you had diplomatic immunity.
09:14Oh, we'd better.
09:15Or that the Chinese embassy had yellow bands.
09:18I must be confusing it with four members.
09:20Excuse me.
09:23We should have gone out to dinner in some Chelsea cellar, just us.
09:27Oh, darling, they are your friends.
09:29Well, they should be doing what they're best at.
09:31Boring each other at bridge.
09:45Stop at the house this time, Inley.
09:49Take it easy.
09:51I don't want to get there too early.
09:55Something tells me the old boy net in Whitehall be buzzing tonight.
09:58They should give you civil servants' jigsaw puzzles to keep you out of mischief.
10:02We don't like outsiders poaching the best jobs.
10:06The territorial imperative.
10:08All animals have it.
10:09Some of your people remind me of birds with duck's disease from sitting too long on their tiny empires.
10:15Anyway, you're one of us now.
10:18Almost.
10:18You're one of us now.
10:20I never believed in reincarnation.
10:26It's old blood, sweat, toil and tears himself.
10:37I didn't know it was Halloween.
10:40What the hell do you want?
10:42It's such a long time, John.
10:44And you've lost none of your delicacy.
10:46You'd better come this way.
10:48You will allow me the honor of meeting Pamela again.
10:54Caswell, you're looking more distinguished than ever.
10:59And you more beautiful.
11:00You're making me regret I didn't invite you in the first place.
11:02He is a bit ancient for gate-crashing parties.
11:05Two years older, John, than when we last met, but at least ten the wiser.
11:08I shan't keep him more than a few minutes.
11:10Nonsense, Caswell. Stay and join us.
11:12No, thank you, but I'm afraid that I think John and I ought to look at the ten o'clock
11:19news.
11:23You're looking disgustingly robust, Caswell.
11:31But I thought he was dead.
11:33Hmm?
11:34Caswell, darling.
11:36He looks to me dangerously match fit.
11:41News tonight of fresh riots in the Far East, with hundreds killed and injured.
11:46At home, two new strike threats.
11:49And further information about the role of Sir John Wilder,
11:53whose appointment as Britain's first ever roving ambassador for trade
11:57was announced in our earlier bulletin.
12:00And news has just been released of another trade appointment.
12:03Caswell Bly, a former business colleague of Sir John Wilder's,
12:06is named tonight as the minister responsible for special situations and trade.
12:12He's given an immediate life peerage.
12:15First, news abroad.
12:17In the Far East...
12:21We make a great team, John.
12:24You were told there'd be strings.
12:26Strings, yes.
12:28But not a noose.
12:29It's safe.
12:31As long as you don't drop from a great height.
12:35You will go back to your conniving political friends, Caswell,
12:39and take the smirk off their faces by telling them nothing doing.
12:42I have already accepted the job.
12:45Publicly.
12:46And I have just resigned mine.
12:51You're an impulsive man, John.
12:54But you are not often foolishly so.
12:57This would just make me your leg man.
13:00That with a whole world to go at, John.
13:04And ambassador status.
13:09John.
13:11Fleet Street seems to have nothing better to do tonight than to telephone you.
13:15I put them all off except Sandy Warren.
13:19He says you two are in business again and have the hospitals been warned.
13:24He's on the line now if you'd care to pick it up.
13:29Shall I get you a drink?
13:35Hello?
13:37Sandy.
13:38What can I do for you?
13:43Sandy, you know I wouldn't have taken the job without knowing.
13:47Yes.
13:49On the record.
13:51And for the record I am delighted to be working again with Will.
13:58He's getting a bit long in the tooth.
14:00And is in need of visible support.
14:03And I am increasingly given to good works.
14:06That's off the record.
14:09Good night Sandy.
14:14Still scotch on the rocks with water Caswell?
14:18Please Pamela.
14:20I haven't changed.
14:25Make it blood.
14:27He's going to need every pint of it.
14:32Not at all.
15:00Wait a minute.
15:39I won't keep you, John. Do come in.
15:43I had no idea you were such a snob, Caswell.
15:46Hmm?
15:47To fall for the pox Britannica.
15:50Among civilians, John, we must distinguish somehow between the field marshals and the mere colonels of industry.
15:58No, I couldn't live with that.
16:01Now, what's... what's this?
16:05A lot of insects.
16:07Oh.
16:08I'll give that to the beetles.
16:09They're young bees, Lord Bly.
16:11Bees, you say?
16:11They're industrious bees, and you're an industrialist.
16:14Oh, well, sir.
16:18How the devil's that?
16:19Oh, that's a beaver, Lord Bly.
16:21I took it for a rat.
16:24Very good.
16:25Any other ideas, John?
16:27I didn't know that life peers qualified for coats of arms.
16:30Oh, this one is going to.
16:31Well, why not a skull and crossbones with an old fox rampant?
16:35Remember, the garter king of arms has to approve the design.
16:42God, that's obscene.
16:46Friesen, what are you doing down there?
16:47I want the folds right.
16:49Well, never mind what the folds.
16:50All that matters is that I don't trip up.
16:52Lord Bly, it has to be right.
16:54Well, John, so there aren't any you like.
16:57Out there, they're building steel, cars, aeroplanes.
17:02Not puncing around in medieval drag.
17:05Show Sir John the one I like, thank you.
17:08Yes, sir.
17:14Well, looks like a public lavatory in Soho.
17:18There's the first park railings that Bly construction ever put up at Bilton.
17:23And they're still there.
17:25Now, it's those rampant stags I'm not so very keen on.
17:29Well, call me at the opening of Parliament.
17:30I wouldn't miss it for all the gold in France.
17:32No, John, wait, wait, wait, wait.
17:34All right, priests, and that'll do now.
17:38And I'll have a look at some more of those tomorrow.
17:42Yes, sir.
17:43And if you haven't got those folds right now, I'll hire a blasted robe.
17:52What happens when you clap your hands?
17:57Get me, Burns Wickham.
18:00You once said that you'd rather drop dead than accept a peerage.
18:03Ah, now they'd have to hang me with a silken halter.
18:07And when they chuck me out of this job, I'd be able to claim four and a half kilos a
18:11day for warming a bench in the law.
18:15Every day is your birthday, isn't it, Caswell?
18:18Now you can even tell me what to do.
18:20Only in the national interest, John.
18:26Oh, and ask him to bring the papers on Malia.
18:39Malia?
18:41Yes, you know the place.
18:44I remember how much it cost by construction the last time you went down.
18:55Jemina may have the run of the salon today, but I pinched the two best models in view of your
19:00S.O.S.
19:02If roving ambassador means anything at all, darling, it means he roves.
19:06Yes, well, he'll not rove alone.
19:08But I know husbands, darling.
19:10An airline ticket gives them fantasies of freedom.
19:13From now onwards, it's double bookings or resign.
19:16Well, Remy never left the house for two months.
19:19Then he upped and went, and all I've had is a cable saying he's interested in silk in Siam.
19:26What's inside the silk?
19:27That's what I want to know.
19:31Do you want to see the heavier dresses?
19:33I can lay on a special show later this week.
19:36For every climate you can think of.
19:57God, who's that?
19:59Your new private secretary, John.
20:01No, I mean that.
20:03Sir Peyton Grindley Whittaker.
20:06Hyphenated?
20:07I'm afraid so.
20:08He served Lord Carcery after Waterloo, especially at the Congress of Vienna.
20:12He helped make sure the defeated French were humanely treated.
20:15We may need another like him before long.
20:17Now, John, meet Dowling.
20:19Lincoln, darling.
20:20Sir John Wyland.
20:21How do you do?
20:22Well, how's the club taking my appointment?
20:24The club?
20:25Keep your tongue out of your cheek, darling.
20:27We might get them very well together.
20:29The club, the career diplomats.
20:31They don't like these appointments from outside.
20:34What you mean is that they're plotting like mad to stop them and me?
20:37There is a consensus for giving plum jobs to professionals.
20:42Well put, darling.
20:49Always assuming that this is a plum job.
20:52Would you like, uh, would you like us to leave you with this bump here for a bit, uh, John?
20:57Or...
20:58Or what?
20:59Dowling could brief you?
21:00All I know is a small African nation is showing its gratitude for past British aid by taking over our
21:06copper mines and turning over British residents' cars in the street.
21:09Five British subjects were beaten up last night and an aircraft sent in by the mining company today was detained
21:14and its crew arrested.
21:17Send out a battalion of paratroops.
21:19Or the International Red Cross.
21:21There could be, uh, some personal risk, John.
21:25Oh, if you'd rather not go.
21:27I've booked two seats on tomorrow's flight via Lagos.
21:29Make it three.
21:30Three?
21:31Three!
21:33Hardly the place to take Pamela, John.
21:36One via Zurich.
21:38Via Zurich?
21:40Are you hard of hearing, darling?
21:46Well, what are you waiting for?
21:55John, you learned that this department is not rich in men of Dowling's calibre.
22:00Well, you ought to know.
22:02You planted him.
22:03He's the best at his rank.
22:05Now, he also knows Whitehall and he knows the diplomatic service.
22:08And he's out to know what I'm doing.
22:11If you didn't put him in here to check on me, somebody else put him in here to check on
22:15both of us.
22:23Oh, and Caswell, uh, Minister, do something about this mausoleum.
22:30And see that Goldilocks there is either decently buried or burnt.
22:39Our service has no place for men like Wilder.
22:41They're motivated by greed.
22:43Security risks, all of them.
22:44He's got all the money he'll ever need.
22:46His kick is power.
22:47We have evidence that he's been a heavy buyer recently of shares.
22:51In aircraft and construction firms.
22:53They're the industries he knows best.
22:54All the same, darling.
22:55I smell scandal.
22:57You never did with Filby.
22:59That was rather below the belt, darling.
23:02I know the Wilders.
23:04They're dangerous outsiders.
23:06With luck, Marlier frightened him off, from all I hear.
23:09I can't honestly say he went pale with fright.
23:11Oh, Kerr, darling.
23:12He's experienced.
23:13My briefing says he's never gambled in his life.
23:16I trust he hasn't succeeded in mesmerising you already.
23:20I told him I'd book two seats on tomorrow's flight.
23:22He told me to book a third.
23:24A third?
23:25A third man?
23:26Oh, a woman.
23:27Who?
23:28I should imagine his wife.
23:29Oh.
23:31Well, if so, she goes at his expense.
23:34She can afford it, Fowler.
23:36She's a woman of enormous personal wealth.
23:40Oh.
23:40And I hear a considerable presence.
23:47Heavens.
23:48Where's he ambassador to?
23:50Sir Peyton Grindley Whittaker.
23:53He was very busy after Waterloo.
23:55Met his, if that's anything to go by.
24:02Hansard, debates in Parliament.
24:051066 and all that?
24:06The plague and Bonnie Prince Charlie?
24:08What?
24:09Is that there?
24:09No.
24:11If we look hard enough, we'll probably find the debate on Oliver Cromwell.
24:15You can't work here, is it?
24:17It's hideous.
24:23Yes?
24:26Good.
24:28All right.
24:28And send in tea for three, Jane.
24:33Three?
24:35Ina, the first of the diplomatic correspondents.
24:39That nervy accountant with the clickety ballpen?
24:44Your new private secretary at the F.O.
24:47No.
24:48They have given you one.
24:49The very best.
24:51Is she young?
24:53She is a he.
24:54And needs watching.
24:56Well, have I moved?
24:57Well, they'd only replace him with somebody else with the same brief.
24:59To keep an eye on me.
25:02Is it worth it, darling?
25:04Oh, yes.
25:06I'm going to put in somebody to watch the watcher.
25:13Don!
25:14Don!
25:15I had no idea.
25:18Well, you mean he didn't let on.
25:19Not a murmur.
25:20Don, it's been years.
25:22True, exactly.
25:23How's business?
25:24Oh, up to here.
25:25I don't know where the country's balance of payments would be without us.
25:27Wonderful, Don.
25:28Well, that's not what I heard.
25:30Well, the world's full of knockers.
25:41Oh, thank you.
25:45I heard that you had less than three months' work in hand,
25:49that your technical director was leaving to join by construction,
25:53that you had two very bad debts outstanding,
25:55which only could be recovered by expensive litigation.
25:58You have opened Joanna's Southcock's box.
26:01Sounds desperate.
26:02Well, isn't it?
26:05Come on, Don.
26:05You can tell me
26:07how near to folding are you and Kenneth.
26:09Oh, no, Don.
26:11Oh, it's a bad patch.
26:12We'll get through it.
26:13Don,
26:13I want you back as my PA.
26:18I'm sorry, John.
26:19The days are over when captains went down with their ships.
26:22They grabbed the first seat in the lifeboat.
26:24Well, thanks for the offer, John.
26:26I appreciate it, but...
26:26He's not being kind, Don.
26:28He really wants you back.
26:31In the civil service?
26:32Same jungle.
26:34Only the predators wear pinstripes.
26:36Don,
26:37if you stay on with Ken,
26:38how much capital would you need?
26:40Charity is the last thing they want.
26:43Don,
26:43suppose I guaranteed your firm
26:45one year's work.
26:46I've no doubt you could.
26:49Two phone calls.
26:50That's all.
26:52You're very generous.
26:54There's nothing for nothing, Don.
26:56I want your services.
26:57Ah.
26:59Three years ago,
27:00Kenneth Bly landed the power station contract
27:02in Malia.
27:04Oh,
27:04he's had his own conscience ever since.
27:06He wasn't cut out for bribing people.
27:08It was
27:09rewarding for someone,
27:11a minister
27:12in Malia.
27:13I know.
27:14I countersigned a check
27:16for 50,000 pounds.
27:21Yes.
27:22Kenneth
27:23wouldn't want that cupboard opened up.
27:25He knows the man with the key.
27:28You know Kenneth, John.
27:30He wouldn't betray a confidence like that
27:32even if it paid him to.
27:33Try him.
27:35No, John.
27:36He's my partner.
27:37They'll wallow in bankruptcy together.
27:39I can see you don't, Don.
27:44When, um,
27:47would you want me to start?
27:50Now.
27:51Now?
27:52This minute?
27:52I am flying to Malia tomorrow.
27:55You, all being well,
27:56will be coming also,
27:57but
27:57via Zurich.
28:00Where do I go, via?
28:02Malia is no place for women.
28:04Not for men,
28:04unless they're travelling in tanks.
28:05I suppose that your
28:07vaccinations are all up to date.
28:09I'm not going anywhere for you again, John.
28:12Oh, yes, you are.
28:36I'm glad Kenneth is so well.
28:40I can give you further proof of identity.
28:43Not necessary, Mr. Henderson.
28:45Kenneth talked to me last night over the telephone.
28:48He said you were coming to Zurich and, uh,
28:50described you accurately.
28:52Oh.
28:53Uh, Kenneth asked me to admit,
28:55you know, this was asking a lot.
28:57Numbered accounts in our banks must be secret, Mr. Henderson.
29:00Otherwise, uh, where would Switzerland be?
29:02You know, every income tax department in the world
29:06spends too much time
29:08and the taxpayers' money
29:09trying to penetrate us.
29:11Yeah.
29:13Kenneth did say that you might help.
29:15I could not possibly disclose the identity of a client
29:19with a numbered account, Mr. Henderson.
29:21I see.
29:23However...
29:35three recent deposits in the account you are interested in.
29:39I hope this will do for your purposes.
29:41Yes, indeed.
29:44You will, of course,
29:46not try to communicate these figures
29:48over the telephone or by cable.
29:51You can rely on that.
29:53I suppose you have
29:54some arrangement with Kenneth over...
29:56I always did find
29:59my country's neutrality embarrassing, Mr. Henderson.
30:03Kenneth well knows this.
30:06All three payments
30:07were made by a Chinese cultural mission.
30:32The ambassador's compliments.
30:33My fixture bag is through customs.
30:35The car's outside.
30:36John Lacey.
30:37How do you do?
30:38Lincoln.
30:39We were learners together.
30:40Now you're an expert
30:41who put us in the picture.
30:43Is it any worse today?
30:45Not really, Wilder.
30:46A brick through the embassy windows,
30:48two British businessmen's cars overturned,
30:50and a couple of beatings up.
30:52I suppose you know who those two are.
30:55Marley and Special Branch.
30:57Trained by Scotland Yard,
30:58and here, no doubt, for your protection.
31:01No doubt.
31:04Well, they have done things since I was last here.
31:07They have some determined ministers.
31:09Don't forget, Lacey,
31:10I've had dealings with them.
31:12Was my meeting with the Prime Minister
31:14tonight or first thing tomorrow morning?
31:17I'm not certain.
31:18You don't know?
31:19Well, um, yes.
31:21As a matter of fact,
31:21the ambassador wants to brief you first.
31:23Brief me?
31:25Sir Trevelyan felt it vital
31:26you should first see him.
31:28You did get my message.
31:30Your telegram got through, yes.
31:33And nothing has been done
31:34about my appointment with the Prime Minister?
31:36No, Sir John.
31:39I merely wanted to warn you
31:41against rash and ill-considered moves.
31:44You were told to fix an appointment
31:46with the Prime Minister.
31:49Diplomacy, Wilder,
31:50like the big business you understand,
31:52is a matter for professionals.
31:55You know about turning a profit.
31:58I know about representing our country abroad.
32:01Tell that to the mining engineers
32:03who've been arrested.
32:04Inconvenience, Wilder.
32:05They haven't been shot.
32:07Even to me.
32:08There'll be old-age pensioners
32:10before you get them out.
32:11Wilder, we have been here
32:12for more than a hundred years.
32:14Only now the rules have changed.
32:17We're as foreign here as the French.
32:19And from what I hear,
32:21more foreign just now
32:22than the Chinese.
32:24Wilder,
32:26I do not want you charging in
32:28on the Prime Minister here.
32:30It would be a waste of time
32:31not to say stupid.
32:33He is a friend of ours.
32:35He may be in the driving seat,
32:36but others are doing the steering
32:38for the moment.
32:39I know who's doing the driving.
32:42May I?
32:46Get me the Minister of Home Security,
32:49Mr. Naranda.
32:53I'm glad you've done your homework, Wilder.
32:55But he still won't see you.
32:57We'll see.
32:58It was Naranda who brought in the Chinese.
33:00I know.
33:01After our lords and masters
33:02and their wisdom
33:03cut off our aid to this poor land.
33:05He's a fanatic, Wilder,
33:06an idealist.
33:07I know my idealist, Ambassador.
33:10They look you straight in the eye
33:11for five minutes
33:12and then start trimming.
33:14Not Naranda.
33:16Especially Naranda.
33:20Yes.
33:26One moment.
33:29Naranda is out.
33:37Sir, he's out.
33:39I happen to know
33:40that he is very much in.
33:43How good is their security?
33:45I'm sorry, Wilder.
33:47If I send a cable,
33:48will it be vetted?
33:49Well, the service is the embassy
33:51at your disposal, Wilder.
33:53We can send in cipher
33:53or by Queen's Messenger.
33:54No, I don't want that.
33:55I want to send an open cable.
33:57Will it be vetted?
33:59Our chaps have been out here
34:01teaching them how to do it
34:02with diplomacy.
34:04Good.
34:08Humphreys.
34:10Humphreys.
34:12Sir John Wilder
34:13has a telegram to send.
34:14He wants it to go in clear.
34:17It's to
34:19Don Henderson,
34:21Hotel Plaza,
34:22Zurich,
34:23via our consulate there.
34:25Proceed,
34:27Malia,
34:28urgentist,
34:29Wilder.
34:32But I thought you said earlier
34:34that he is already
34:35on his way here.
34:36If he hadn't been,
34:37I should have known by now.
34:39Only if things went wrong
34:41was he told
34:41to use the official grapevine.
34:45Then he won't even
34:46get your telegram.
34:49Somebody else might.
34:54It will not be sent.
35:02Tell Sir John Wilder
35:04to come over and see me.
35:16Don't you want your bedsocks?
35:18Hmm?
35:26I must say,
35:28your appointment
35:29surprised me.
35:31I always thought of you
35:32as purely commercial.
35:40Like you,
35:42Britann caught off our aid.
35:44She hardly has the moral right
35:46to seem offended
35:47because we choose
35:48more generous friends.
35:50I'm talking about you.
35:52Such a dull subject, Wilder.
35:54Look, Miranda,
35:55I want those Chinese
35:55kicked out of the mines
35:57and the British staff
35:58set free.
36:00I'm not Prime Minister here.
36:02It is my brother-in-law
36:04you should be talking to.
36:06Your puppet.
36:08London has the answer
36:09in its own hands, Wilder.
36:11She can resume aid
36:13to my land.
36:14Or have its subjects
36:15arrested or clobbered
36:16over the head
36:17or the property confiscated.
36:20Things must be brought
36:21home to you.
36:23By blackmail?
36:24Who is the hypocrite now?
36:27I'm just bringing
36:28things home to you.
36:33By the way,
36:35how is my friend
36:36Kenneth Bly
36:38and his partner
36:39who used to be
36:40your assistant?
36:41Henderson.
36:42Ah, that's the one.
36:43He came here with Kenneth
36:44though I never met him.
36:46He's on his way
36:47here now.
36:48From London.
36:49Zurich.
36:51Are you sure?
36:52Are you sure he isn't?
36:58I want facilities to visit
37:00the British engineers
37:01in the mine tomorrow.
37:02I'm sorry, Wilder.
37:03I can't let you.
37:05Your Chinese overlords
37:06would not approve?
37:07No.
37:08I wouldn't.
37:11Look.
37:11You have my word
37:14that your fellow
37:14countrymen are not
37:15being roughly treated.
37:17Your word is not
37:18worth a Chinese yen.
37:21What was it you told
37:22the Parliament here
37:23in that speech
37:24right from the heart?
37:25I have done everything
37:27in my power
37:28to ensure
37:28without fear or favour
37:30that the contract
37:30for the new power station
37:32will go to the firm
37:33with the best design
37:35and the lowest tender.
37:37Your firm got it, Wilder.
37:39Yes.
37:40We got it.
37:43What did you get?
37:48But these are the methods
37:50of gangsters, darling.
37:51Wilder grew up
37:52in a rough school.
37:53Even so,
37:53he must be stopped.
37:55God knows
37:56what diplomacy's coming to.
37:57We don't know for certain
37:58what information
37:59Henderson's bringing.
38:00You can be sure
38:00if Wilder's behind you,
38:01it won't be cosy.
38:04If Miranda
38:05did indeed yield
38:06to temptation
38:07in Wilder's murky past,
38:09then the Prime Minister
38:10might well be grateful
38:11to be told about it.
38:13He might even be induced
38:14to agreeing
38:15to talk starting
38:16on condition
38:16that Wilder
38:17was recalled to the UK.
38:19Wouldn't that mean,
38:19Ambassador,
38:20that we are using
38:21Wilder's gangster methods?
38:24Yes, you're quite right, darling.
38:27We mustn't lower
38:28our own standards.
38:31Besides,
38:31we don't yet know
38:33what Henderson
38:33has got on Miranda,
38:34do we?
38:35Hmm.
38:47Mr. Henderson?
38:48Yes?
38:49Follow me, please.
39:02Turn out your pocket.
39:03Wait a minute.
39:04Quickly, please.
39:06Look, I have
39:06diplomatic immunity.
39:08Your name
39:09is not on
39:10our diplomatic list,
39:11Mr. Henderson.
39:12Now, please,
39:13will you please cooperate?
39:30Your clothes.
39:31Take them off.
39:35Take them off.
39:49Take them off.
39:50Take them off.
39:53Take them off.
39:54Take them off.
39:55Take them off.
39:56Take them off.
39:56Take them off.
39:56Take them off.
39:57Take them off.
40:14Get my wife, please.
40:24You won't have to wait much longer, Mr. Anderson.
40:26You have been refused. Leave to land.
40:30Have you contacted Sir John Wilder?
40:32You are being returned where you came from.
40:34On the first available flight.
40:36I asked to speak to Sir John Wilder.
40:38I'm sorry. We have no idea where he is.
40:51I will leave it to you, Sir John.
40:53Where the hell are you going?
40:54It's very urgent.
41:03Would you like a wash, Mr. Anderson?
41:05You'll feel much better for it.
41:06This way, please.
41:18Don Henderson.
41:19Hmm?
41:20Lincoln Dowling. Wilder's private secretary.
41:23Or should I say joint private secretary.
41:26John Lacey, her Britannic Majesty's Embassy Malia.
41:30It's empty.
41:31I believe you have something to communicate, Sir John.
41:34Is he all right?
41:35Five minutes ago, he was rather red in the face.
41:37Otherwise, in good nick.
41:38Hmm.
41:41Has anybody got a pen?
41:47Just tell him, never count numbers possible.
41:51Deposits of 10,000 on August the 4th.
41:5410,000 on September the 9th.
41:56And 5,000 in gold bullion on December the 20th.
42:01A Chinese cultural mission.
42:03Mr. Henderson has to go to the plane now.
42:06Oh, that was short and sweet.
42:08Thanks for the welcome.
42:28Does it mean anything?
42:30Only if we know who paid them.
42:32Some Chinese cultural mission.
42:33That's all we need.
42:38You've begun well, Sir John.
42:44It's a bit drastic, isn't it?
42:46My brother-in-law agrees.
42:48It is the best solution.
42:50Well, if there's anything I can do for you in Britain.
42:53Ah, we're going to Switzerland.
42:55There's much to be said for neutrality.
43:00But I may yet need your help in England one day.
43:09What about Henderson?
43:13Oh, he got all we need.
43:16He won't come to any house.
43:39Mr. Henderson?
43:42Yes.
43:43Yours, I think.
43:44It has a few personal things in it I thought you would need.
43:50Naranda.
43:53You leaving?
43:55Yes.
43:56For good.
43:59For a long while.
44:01Don't apologize.
44:02It's all part of the game.
44:11I think you should know that my brother-in-law wasn't giving the Chinese too much rope.
44:16Then may we take it, Prime Minister, that the British mining staff are now free.
44:20I've ordered their immediate release.
44:23And the mine?
44:25It was always our intention to leave it in British hands, Simon.
44:30That isn't as it looked to us.
44:33It wasn't the way we intended it to look for the moment.
44:38We need the best of both worlds.
44:41One of us had to offer a hand to the Chinese.
44:43It was a difficult duty.
44:46Naranda is more pro-British even than I.
44:50Like you, Sir John.
44:52He had a job to do.
44:54Even though your methods were hardly diplomatic.
44:57On occasion one has to try something new.
45:02Or someone, Sir John.
45:07And good news tonight of the British mining staff in Malia, released from detention.
45:13Sir John Wilder, the roving ambassador who secured their release, arrived back in Britain tonight and said,
45:19This is a triumph.
45:21Gone the chance for your big rescue act, Caswell.
45:23He did it off his own bat.
45:26I'd like to know how much it's going to cost us.
45:29Then stop touching your money box, Caswell.
45:32We've no bribes to pay.
45:34Congratulations, Wilder.
45:35Thank you, Foreign Minister.
45:37Well, we've got your department off to a good start, Caswell.
45:41And I hope you can keep it up.
45:43Now I'm wanted in my office.
45:45Oh, you must see this, Wilder. I hear your wife is leading a petticoat revolution in the old place.
45:49Ah.
46:11Well, it was all so tatty, darling.
46:14And as I shall be coming with you on your future jaunts,
46:17I thought this was the last opportunity I'd have to do something here.
46:22Well, what do you think, darling?
46:24All you need is your own private lift.
46:45I think I can work here.
47:13All right.
47:16All right.
47:46All right.
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