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Alright...we shall start.
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{\an8}TANZANG LUMA FIVE ENTERTAINMENT
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{\an8}TANZANG LUMA FIVE ENTERTAINMENT
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- Has he called yet?
- No. Six minutes to go yet, Control.
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Will you speak up, please?
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City Removers here.
I believe you wanted an estimate.
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You're always welcome.
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You did exactly what I told you?
Talked to nobody?
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Remember, Jim, trust no one. No one.
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You work to me alone.
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I'm sorry, there's no vodka.
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I didn't expect any.
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I've got a job for you.
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Familiar territory. Czechoslovakia.
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- Perhaps a bit too familiar.
- Which identity do you want to use?
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I'd suggest Vladimir Hajek.
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- Still a Czech journalist?
- Yes.
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- Based in Paris?
- Yes.
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- Has anyone else used him?
- No.
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Do you agree?
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I think it's safe.
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I've had an offer of service, Jim...
on the military side.
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His cover name is Testify.
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You're a military-minded chap. You
should hit it off. He's fond of horses.
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Something else you've got in common.
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We can chat polo, I suppose, sir.
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His real name is Stevcek.
At the moment he's an artillery general.
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In the past, he's worked in close liaison
with Russian Intelligence...very close.
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And now he wants to talk to us.
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I have personally interviewed
an intermediary in Austria.
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Stevcek now wants to...testify...
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to a ranking officer of mine
who can speak Czech.
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Why?
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There was a girlfriend...a student.
20 years difference between them.
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Such things happen.
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She was shot during the uprising in '68.
Stevcek never forgave the Russians.
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He's been after their blood ever since.
Lain low, stayed friendly.
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All the time, he's been
waiting his chance.
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Now he's ready.
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How sure are you?
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Stevcek.
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Rocketry...ballistics.
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Fourth man in Czech Army Intelligence.
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Secretary to the National
Internal Security Committee.
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Anglo-American desk in Prague.
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He's big, Jim,
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and he's got treasure for us.
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He's worked for Moscow Center's
England section.
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He'll give us the name of the agent
Moscow planted inside our set-up.
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We have a mole, Jim.
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- In London?
- Very near the top.
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In the Circus?
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One of the top five.
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Their codename for him is Gerald.
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We've a rotten apple, Jim, and the
maggots are eating up the Circus.
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These people? One of these?
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Why not?
Are the British incapable of deception?
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We've turned members of other outfits.
Russians, Poles, Czechs, Americans.
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Why shouldn't there be a mole in
the Circus? Now...look at them.
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- Control, I know who they are.
- We've got to have codenames for them.
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Remember the nursery rhyme,
"Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor"?
Finish it.
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Richman, poorman, beggarman, thief.
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Percy Alleline, Director
of Operations...Tinker.
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Tinker.
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Bill Haydon, Head of Personnel...Tailor.
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Roy Bland, Head of Iron Curtain
Networks...Soldier.
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We leave out sailor. Too much
like tailor.
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- Richman.
- Don't like it.
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Sounds like police work...fraud,
Swiss banks.
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Toby Esterhase, Top Lamplighter,
exquisite head sleuth, Poorman.
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Yes...Poorman.
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And George Smiley, my devoted
deputy...Beggarman.
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- Have you got it?
- I'll remember.
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All I want from you, Jim,
is...one word.
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Just the one codename.
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If you have to scrawl it on the front
door of the Embassy in Prague
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or phone our resident hood and shout it
in his ear before you go underground...
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if there's some kind of a fumble and it's
necessary, just give me that one word.
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Remember, if you're caught, deny me.
I don't know you're there.
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Where do I meet Stevcek? How? When?
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On Friday March 20...
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Stevcek will be inspecting the weapon
research station at Tisnov near Brno,
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about 100 miles north
of the Austrian border.
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He'll be visiting a hunting lodge
for the weekend.
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It's a place high up in the forest
not far from Racice.
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He'll provide you with
an escort from Brno,
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and he expects you on the evening
of Saturday March 21st.
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Mm. What does he get from us?
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The usual assurances. If and when
he wants to come, we'll look after him.
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One word will do it, Jim.
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I'm almost there.
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Here on business?
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And some pleasure, I hope.
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The French can't make beer.
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How are you?
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OK, but the doctor says I mustn't
drive more than 3 hours at a time.
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Open it.
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No. You must sit with me.
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Like hell.
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- It's more democratic.
- Open it.
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- Have you a pistol?
- Open it!
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Have you a message for the general?
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I'll tell you a story.
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There's an old woman who can't
keep her hands off young blokes.
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Always grabbing at their balls.
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Well, it was beginning to rain...
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Don't move. And don't speak.
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Get out, Baraku...slowly.
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Put it on.
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Walk to the hut.
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I'll go see the general
when you come back and it's safe.
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Why? I know it's safe.
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Go! If I put on the headlights...
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I can get you easily.
Go on. Go go go!
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Barabbas was a bookseller.
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Mr Smiley, please.
You're making an investment.
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Remember that when I sell it
back to you.
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A pleasure to do business with you, sir.
You always have a joke for me.
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- We could trust this to the Post Office.
- I'll send it on.
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- I'll slip out that way,
if you don't mind.
- Not at all, sir.
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George! Hello, there!
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My dear boy! The maestro himself!
Don't say you've forgotten me?
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- Hello, Roddy.
- How marvelous to run into you.
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They told me you were locked up with
the monks in St Gallen or somewhere!
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Self-exile, they said. I knew
it wasn't true. You, George, you'd
never leave England.
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You're not capable
of such an act of abandonment,
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no matter how shabbily
the Circus treated you.
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So...what have you been doing
all these months?
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I want to know everything, every
little bit. How's the delectable wife?
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How is the lovely Lady Ann?
Not in town at the moment, I hear.
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Pound to a penny you're shopping
for her. Little prezzies all the time,
they tell me.
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Are you back on the beat, George...
or did you never really chuck it in?
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Has it all been cover? Cover, George?
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- Roddy, I've retired.
- Alright, George, if you say so.
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- You look well, but I mustn't
delay you.
- No, George, really!
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My friend, you can't get away like that!
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Roddy Martindale simply
wouldn't let you. It's months since
we last had a chin-wag!
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Let me buy you an aperitif and then
let me take you to dinner. Allow me
that privilege.
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Honor me, George. I can tell that
no one else has claimed you tonight.
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- It's kind of you...
- It's my role in life.
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We all need to be good at something.
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- Wasn't Jebedee your old tutor?
- Yes, once upon a time.
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How do you rate Sparke, the one who came
from the School of Oriental Languages?
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Not quite there.
Had trouble with his nerves, they say.
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What a pity.
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All dead and gone. Only appreciated
by a select few, like you and me.
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You flatter me.
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Now, George, let's talk
about your old boss.
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Control. He kept his name a secret.
Shall we talk about Control?
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- If you insist.
- It wasn't a secret to you, was it?
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He never had any secrets from you,
his trusted right hand.
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I don't know. That's the point
about secrets.
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Close as thieves
Control and Smiley were, so they say.
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- THEY are very complimentary.
- Don't flirt, George!
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I'm an old trooper.
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You and Control were just like that.
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That's why you were thrown out.
It's why Bill Haydon's got your job.
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It's why Percy Alleline got into
Control's chair when it ought to be YOU
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and why Bill Haydon's his cup-bearer
and you're out altogether.
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- If you say so, Roddy.
- I do.
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I say more than that. Far more.
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I say this.
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Control never died at all.
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He's been seen...
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in South Africa.
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Now, we can't blame a man for wanting a
bit of peace in the evening of his life.
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Willy Andrewartha walked
straight into him in Jo'burg Airport
in the waiting room.
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Not a ghost. Flesh.
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That's the most idiotic story I've heard.
Control died of a heart attack.
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After a long illness, through which
he worked. He hated South Africa.
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He hated everywhere except Surrey,
the Circus and Lord's Cricket Ground.
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Yes, of course. Willy was always
the most god-awful liar.
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I said, "Willy, you should
be ashamed of yourself."
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I...suppose what put the last nail
into Control's coffin
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was the Czecho scandal, the poor devil
that got shot in the back.
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The one who was thick with Haydon.
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With his picture in the newspaper
under some fictitious name,
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but we know his REAL name.
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Jim Prideaux.
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Somehow I don't think I
can ever quite believe
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in Percy Alleline as Chief, can you?
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It might be just my natural cynicism,
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but power sits poorly on those
we've grown up with.
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There are so few who can carry it off.
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Percy's such an obvious fellow,
especially after Control, who was
a positive serpent.
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How can anyone take Alleline seriously?
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All that heavy good fellowship.
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One thinks of him in the old days,
lolling in the Travelers' bar,
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sucking away on that log of a pipe...
and buying drinks for all the moguls.
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Really! One does like one's perfidy
to be subtle, don't you agree?
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What's his knack?
Living off the wits of his subordinates?
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Really, Roddy, I can't help you.
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I never knew Percy as a force,
only as a...
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Striver? Right. With his eyes
on Control's purple, day and night.
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Now he's actually wearing it
and the mob loves him.
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So who's doing the business for him?
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- Who is it?
- I cannot help you.
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Who's the clever-boots?
Well, not Percy, that's for sure.
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Don't say the Americans trust us again.
They'd never fall for Percy.
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Please stop this!
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Wonderfully well he's doing.
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Little committees popping up,
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red carpet for Percy wherever
he goes, tripping the light fantastic
in Whitehall!
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- You're out of my depth, truly.
- So who's earning him his reputation?
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- Anything you want, sir?
- No, thank you. We've finished now.
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It's my party, George.
I'll get the bill when I'm ready.
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So who's pulling the strings
for Percy Puppet?
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How about dashing Bill Haydon,
your old rival...
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in EVERY sense, I'm told.
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Of course, he never was orthodox,
was he? Genius never is.
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Alright, then, it's Roy Bland,
the shop-soiled white hope.
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The first redbrick don
to make the Circus.
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If it's neither of them, and Control
is really dead, then there's only one
possibility left.
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It's someone who's pretending
to be in retirement.
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YOU, George. Admit it!
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You featherhead, Martindale!
You pompous, bogus, gossiping
old featherhead!
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Roy Bland is not redbrick.
He was at St Antony's College, Oxford.
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Oh, don't be silly, dear.
Of course St Antony is redbrick.
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Makes no difference there's a bit
of sandstone in the same street.
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Bill was father to them all, wasn't he?
Or something like that.
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- It's not mine, thank you.
- Don't tip him.
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It's a guinea at Christmas.
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Anyway, it's MY party.
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- Bill draws them like bees
to a honey pot.
- Goodnight, Roddy.
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Fancy a nightcap?
Start afresh with the bubbly?
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Why not, George? I think I will.
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Of course, Bill's got the glamor.
Not like some of us.
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Star quality, I call it.
One of the very few.
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I'm told that women literally bow down
before him...if that's what women do.
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Goodnight.
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Love to Ann.
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EVERYBODY'S love to Ann.
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Bits of sandstone...shop-soiled
white hope.
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Everybody's love to Ann.
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Oh, damn! Oh...damn!
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Peter?
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I'd leave that coat on if I were you,
George. We've a long way to go.
238
00:34:56,667 --> 00:35:02,344
Well, you're not me. Before I go
anywhere, I shall change out of my
sopping shoes.
239
00:35:02,507 --> 00:35:06,864
- And, also, make a pot of coffee.
- You sound a little testy, George.
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- Lacon is waiting for you.
- Me, Peter?
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George, I've been sent to deliver you.
242
00:35:22,147 --> 00:35:27,426
I've been reviewing my situation
in the last half-hour of hell
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and I've come to a very grave decision.
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After a lifetime of living
by my wits and on my memory,
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I shall give myself up full-time
to the profession of forgetting.
246
00:35:40,187 --> 00:35:45,705
I'll put an end to emotional attachments
which have long outlived their purpose.
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Namely the Circus, this house,
my whole past.
248
00:35:51,307 --> 00:35:55,505
I shall sell up and buy a cottage,
in the Cotswolds, I think.
249
00:35:55,667 --> 00:35:59,819
Steeple Aston sounds about right.
Do I need overnight things?
250
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- I'm not taking any.
- I shall establish myself
as a mild eccentric.
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Discursive, withdrawn, but possessing
one or two loveable habits,
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such as muttering to myself
as I bumble along innocent pavements.
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I shall become an oak
of my own generation.
254
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You make the coffee.
255
00:36:23,227 --> 00:36:25,422
You know where everything is.
256
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You can even pick my front door locks.
257
00:36:32,267 --> 00:36:34,258
Clever Peter Guillam.
258
00:36:58,027 --> 00:37:03,897
I saw you parking this toy
in Curzon Street. I ran away.
Good guess on your part.
259
00:37:04,067 --> 00:37:09,141
- Why did you think I was
looking for you?
- I hoped you weren't, but you found me.
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You had to come home sometime.
261
00:37:13,707 --> 00:37:18,178
- It's far too young for you, Peter.
- It's quick.
262
00:37:19,467 --> 00:37:25,463
I'm surprised you didn't get thrown
out, too. You had all the qualifications
for dismissal.
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Good at your work, loyal, discreet.
264
00:37:31,227 --> 00:37:33,821
What happened tonight, George?
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How's Ann?
266
00:37:38,947 --> 00:37:42,144
Roddy Martindale happened tonight.
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Why do I permit it?
I tell myself it's for politeness' sake,
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It's not. It's weakness.
269
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And the fact that I've
nothing better to do.
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My wife's fine, thank you.
271
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They've put me in charge
of scalphunters.
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You are Jim Prideaux's successor?
You? Looking after the heavy mob?
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Why not?
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Tucked away at Brixton
behind the broken glass and barbed wire,
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dispatching thugs occasionally,
kept at arm's length from the Circus
ringmasters.
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00:38:25,027 --> 00:38:28,622
- How is Jim? Do you know?
- In quarantine.
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00:38:28,787 --> 00:38:34,259
I don't mean to pry. I merely ask. Can
he get around? Can he walk and so on?
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- Bad backs can be terribly tricky.
- The word is he manages pretty well.
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He's back in England. Address unknown.
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Travel. Is that still
the scalphunters' official name?
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Hit and run, cosh and carry.
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00:38:51,747 --> 00:38:57,936
Sorry. Now, Control always preached
that good intelligence work is gradual
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and rests on a kind of gentleness.
284
00:39:01,067 --> 00:39:03,865
- It's not my department.
- No.
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00:39:04,027 --> 00:39:08,305
The scalphunters were the exception
Control allowed to his own rule.
286
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On Bill Haydon's persuasion. A reflection
of Bill temperament, of course.
287
00:39:14,227 --> 00:39:16,821
The solo initiative.
288
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Very dashing...very audacious.
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00:39:50,387 --> 00:39:52,343
I'm sorry, Peter. What?
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00:39:52,507 --> 00:39:57,058
- Lateralism. Are you familiar
with the word?
- I most certainly am not.
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00:39:57,227 --> 00:40:01,778
It's the "in" doctrine. We used to go
up and down. Now we go along.
292
00:40:01,947 --> 00:40:06,338
- What does that mean?
- Before, the Circus ran itself
by regions.
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00:40:06,507 --> 00:40:11,217
Africa, Satellites, Russia,
China, South East Asia, West Indies.
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00:40:11,387 --> 00:40:14,584
Each region was commanded
by its own juju man.
295
00:40:14,747 --> 00:40:19,343
- Control held the strings. Remember?
- It strikes a distant chord.
296
00:40:19,507 --> 00:40:24,058
Today everything operational is under
one hat. It's called London Station.
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Regions are out, lateralism is in.
298
00:40:27,307 --> 00:40:29,423
Who's station commander?
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00:40:29,587 --> 00:40:33,057
Bill Haydon. His No.2 is Roy Bland.
300
00:40:33,227 --> 00:40:36,424
Toby Esterhase
runs between them like a poodle.
301
00:40:36,587 --> 00:40:41,581
They're a service within
the service, share secrets and
don't mix with the proles.
302
00:40:41,747 --> 00:40:45,820
- There are three of them and Alleline.
- That's right.
303
00:40:45,987 --> 00:40:50,981
- The object is to make us more secure.
- A very good idea.
304
00:41:19,027 --> 00:41:21,222
Why did Lacon send you for me?
305
00:41:21,387 --> 00:41:25,221
Why did he send ME for you
or WHY did he send me?
306
00:41:25,387 --> 00:41:28,777
Quite right.
I should've known better than to ask.
307
00:41:38,507 --> 00:41:40,702
Remember your last day at the Circus?
308
00:41:40,867 --> 00:41:44,860
One day before Control departed
and the new regime took over.
309
00:41:45,027 --> 00:41:49,623
You stuck your head round my door
and said "I've been sacked".
310
00:41:49,787 --> 00:41:52,585
We went out and you got drunk.
311
00:41:52,747 --> 00:41:55,978
Why pick me, George? I was
pretty low grade.
312
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Running some very sketchy networks
of merchant seamen...
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whatever Poles, Russians, Chinks,
I could cobble together
314
00:42:03,387 --> 00:42:05,378
Why me, George?
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00:42:05,547 --> 00:42:07,538
You want a reason?
316
00:42:07,707 --> 00:42:12,064
You fastened on that word when I asked
why you'd been kicked out.
317
00:42:12,227 --> 00:42:16,425
- I'll tell you what you said.
- I hope this won't be embarrassing.
318
00:42:16,587 --> 00:42:21,980
You said, "Reason as logic or reason
as motive or reason as a way of life?"
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00:42:22,147 --> 00:42:25,981
"They don't have to give reasons.
I can write my own,"
320
00:42:26,147 --> 00:42:32,143
"and that is not the same as the
half-baked tolerance that comes
from no longer caring."
321
00:42:32,307 --> 00:42:37,301
I thought that was pretty
impressive stuff from a man
as drunk as you were.
322
00:42:37,467 --> 00:42:41,665
At least I had the good sense
not to let you drive me home.
323
00:42:45,147 --> 00:42:47,138
Lacon sent me for you, George.
324
00:43:00,907 --> 00:43:06,459
- It's like Dracula's blood bank!
- Lacon said it was his Hampshire
Camelot.
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00:43:06,627 --> 00:43:10,461
Built by a teetotal millionaire.
He thinks that explains everything.
326
00:43:15,067 --> 00:43:19,857
I'm so out of touch. Does Lacon have
any particular title nowadays?
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00:43:20,027 --> 00:43:22,621
Just Sir Oliver of the Cabinet Office.
328
00:43:22,787 --> 00:43:27,781
Permanent watchdog of intelligence
affairs. He loves being one of nature's
prefects.
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00:43:31,787 --> 00:43:35,985
George, hello! Thanks for coming!
Come on in, will you?
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Guillam.
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00:43:46,907 --> 00:43:49,899
Been enjoying retirement, George?
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00:43:50,067 --> 00:43:53,855
You haven't missed
the warmth of human contact?
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00:43:54,987 --> 00:43:57,182
I rather would, I think.
334
00:43:57,347 --> 00:43:59,736
One's work with old buddies.
335
00:43:59,907 --> 00:44:04,503
Oh, I think I manage very
well, thank you.Yes, yes, I'm
sure I do.
336
00:44:05,507 --> 00:44:07,702
And you? All goes well with you?
337
00:44:07,867 --> 00:44:12,145
Oh, no great changes. No, no,
all very smooth.
338
00:44:12,307 --> 00:44:17,017
- Charlotte got her scholarship
to Roedean.
- Oh, very good.
339
00:44:17,187 --> 00:44:20,384
How about your wife?
In the pink and so on?
340
00:44:20,547 --> 00:44:22,697
Very bonny, thank you.
341
00:44:24,307 --> 00:44:28,016
Ah, all spruce and shipshape again,
Guillam?
342
00:44:28,187 --> 00:44:32,226
You were grubby. He did look a ruffian,
didn't he, George?
343
00:44:33,427 --> 00:44:35,418
Well...shall we?
344
00:44:45,707 --> 00:44:49,495
Please, George,
I want him to talk particularly to you.
345
00:44:50,507 --> 00:44:52,896
Alright, Fawn, lock us in, please.
346
00:44:54,107 --> 00:44:59,898
- I think you know Mr Smiley, don't you?
- 'Course I do. You once gave me a job.
347
00:45:00,067 --> 00:45:04,857
You remember? Tarr, sir. Ricki Tarr.
The lawyer's boy from Marseilles.
348
00:45:05,027 --> 00:45:07,666
You changed my first nappies.
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00:45:07,827 --> 00:45:12,298
They were very tough interviews
you gave us tender young recruits.
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00:45:12,467 --> 00:45:17,541
Of course, 12 years ago. It's that long.
You don't look any different to me, sir.
351
00:45:18,907 --> 00:45:24,345
No, 12 years ago nobody, but nobody,
got taken on unless we got past you.
352
00:45:24,507 --> 00:45:28,341
Not even scalphunters,
who aren't quite your type.
353
00:45:29,227 --> 00:45:32,617
- We all had to get the nod
from Mr Smiley.
- Tarr.
354
00:45:33,507 --> 00:45:38,103
Of course I remember you.
Your father was an Australian, I recall.
355
00:45:38,267 --> 00:45:42,465
A solicitor
and a Nonconformist lay preacher.
356
00:45:42,627 --> 00:45:46,506
Altogether a most unusual chap
to pop up in Marseilles.
357
00:45:46,667 --> 00:45:53,061
Just such odd circumstances do seem to
provide us with...suitable personnel.
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00:45:54,307 --> 00:45:56,901
Bad boys like Ricki.
359
00:45:57,067 --> 00:46:01,504
Daddy thought he could beat the sin
out of me, but you knew better.
360
00:46:01,667 --> 00:46:03,817
He only beat it further in...
361
00:46:03,987 --> 00:46:06,979
and that's what scalphunters
are made of.
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00:46:07,987 --> 00:46:10,785
- Isn't that right, Mr Guillam?
- We're waiting, Tarr.
363
00:46:10,947 --> 00:46:13,177
Yes, we ought to get on.
364
00:46:14,707 --> 00:46:19,303
- I guess I'd better make my pitch.
- Let's keep it precise.
365
00:46:19,467 --> 00:46:23,176
Before you begin, Ricki,
do I understand correctly
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00:46:23,347 --> 00:46:27,420
that no one at the Circus
knows you're in England?
367
00:46:28,227 --> 00:46:30,058
Only Mr Guillam.
368
00:46:30,227 --> 00:46:33,424
You're officially absent without leave.
369
00:46:39,027 --> 00:46:41,222
On the wanted list.
370
00:46:44,307 --> 00:46:46,298
I think I'm safe now.
371
00:46:47,587 --> 00:46:53,696
I've got a story to tell you all
about spies. And if it's true, which
I think it is,
372
00:46:53,867 --> 00:46:59,339
you boys are gonna need
a whole new organization, right?
373
00:46:59,507 --> 00:47:05,443
Shall I start with the day you sent me
to Lisbon? It changed my life.
374
00:47:05,507 --> 00:47:08,221
You might find it's going
to change all your lives.
375
00:47:15,987 --> 00:47:21,584
Lord, now lettest thou
thy servant
376
00:47:21,747 --> 00:47:26,343
Depart in peace
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00:47:36,147 --> 00:47:41,938
According to
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00:47:42,107 --> 00:47:46,305
Thy word
379
00:47:51,107 --> 00:47:57,501
For mine eyes have seen
380
00:47:57,667 --> 00:48:04,425
Thy salvation
381
00:48:08,627 --> 00:48:13,826
Which thou hast prepared
before the face
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00:48:13,987 --> 00:48:21,462
Of all people
383
00:48:24,747 --> 00:48:28,945
To be a light
384
00:48:29,107 --> 00:48:33,180
To lighten
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00:48:33,347 --> 00:48:37,056
The gentiles
386
00:48:37,227 --> 00:48:42,460
And to be the glory
387
00:48:42,627 --> 00:48:46,825
Of thy people
388
00:48:46,987 --> 00:48:54,462
Israel
389
00:49:00,187 --> 00:49:04,260
Glory be to the Father
390
00:49:04,427 --> 00:49:07,624
And to the Son
391
00:49:07,787 --> 00:49:11,382
And to the Holy Ghost
392
00:49:12,587 --> 00:49:16,375
As it was in the beginning
393
00:49:16,547 --> 00:49:23,020
Is now and ever shall be
394
00:49:25,027 --> 00:49:29,817
World without end
395
00:49:29,987 --> 00:49:34,981
Amen