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In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
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00:03Well, the circus is jargon for the secret intelligence service.
00:09It gets its name from Cambridge Circus, where it operates out of.
00:14When I started trying to make a parallel universe,
00:17I thought Cambridge Circus was an amusing spot.
00:20In my day in the secret world,
00:22SIS inhabited whole suites of dusky little rooms,
00:26and Control, i.e. the chief of the secret service,
00:30lived halfway up a little crooked staircase.
00:34Generally speaking, the ethic is the higher you go, the more secret you get.
00:38The strong boys, the hard boys, the people who go out, the people who work in the field.
00:42It's kind of like a pyramid, too, in which Control is right at the top,
00:45and then he has the top fives there.
00:49Hallerline, Asterhaus, Hayden, Bland, and Smiley, of course.
00:54If the rules of the floors and whose territory belongs to whom is established,
01:00then if you're on the wrong floor, maybe you're up to no good.
01:03I think the very, very right people picked from early on, from school days,
01:09and already knows, like the scientists, so...
01:11Being buttoned up, not giving too much away,
01:15doing what you're told, not complaining.
01:18If a close friend of yours was shut down, you just never really mentioned anything.
01:21I get a very strong opinion of people giving up their lives, marrying an idea.
01:28You can't mention me.
01:29I don't know exactly what kind of people that were drawn into that world.
01:34He's a fanatic, and the fanatic is always concealing the secret.
01:39At the lift of a telephone, you give some information that you know is going to involve the depth of
01:46one of your comrades.
01:47Hello, Rick.
01:48I need you to see him.
01:49Who do you trust, if you can't trust people around you?
01:53Ow!
01:56Everybody has their own agenda.
02:00I know something new there now.
02:03That is interesting.
02:04You know what?
02:05I know what?
02:07I know.
02:08But...
02:08I know.
02:08I know it before all of it.
02:08I know there is thing I got.
02:08Well, I know there.
02:09But it is very...
02:09But I know there is...
02:09You know, in my Isn't a movie, perhaps you know.
02:10And long time, that being on the island, I know.
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