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Our resident buffoon...old galloping
major called Tufty Thessinger...

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wanted a helping hand.

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My boss says you've got your eyes
on a likely piece of merchandise for us.

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- What's his style, then, this Boris?
- He's a real Flash Harry.

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Not your common-or-garden
Russian granite-face.

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During the day,
he fulfills his norm like the rest.

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There's a mixed bag of
technical advisers. Boris
is with civil engineers.

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At night, he makes his own arrangements.

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Bashes the bars and clubs
as if there's no tomorrow.

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The man hasn't slept for a week.
My boys are folding at the knees.

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A Muscovite with official connections
and an appetite for the fleshpots

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seems ripe for the picking.

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- Always use another defector, can't we?
- Absolutely. Got to keep in stock.

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Nothing else on him,
apart from the booze?

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If I'd got something to blackmail
him on, I would hardly have needed
London to come and fix it.

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Temper, temper, Tufty!

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You think we Russians disapprove
of comfort. No, that's the Chinese.

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All miserable boiler suits and
the smallest comfort for the biggest
number. Not for me.

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Boris looks after number one
like any real person the world over.

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It's nice talking to you.

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Some people, when I say I'm from Moscow,
I see this look in their faces.

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I know what they are thinking...
"He's going to indoctrinate us,"

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"put our names in his little black book
and then awful men in black"

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"will tap at our door at night
and they'll say,<i>Boris says you
are good friend of Russia</i>"

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"<i>and you'll tell us all about the secret
sex life of your MP and the mayor.</i>"

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Let me get you all another drink.
Yes, indeed, be my guest. Waiter!

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And I am telling YOU

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we're definitely in the wrong ball game
with this, chummy.

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That's a professional, a
Moscow Center-trained hood.

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The way he sets himself. That alone!

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Well...if you're right.

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OK, you know.

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He'd be quite a catch.

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We scalphunters are forbidden
to trawl for double agents.

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New orders from above.

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At the first smell of the opposition,
drop hot potato into ample lap of London
Station.

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No, I'm cabling Guillam "no sale"
and booking a flight home.

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Okey-dokey, Ricki.

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And since the job is finished...

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let us seal it, so to speak.

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Nags me a bit, though, this Boris.

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Makes his rounds every night, does he?

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Never missed yet. I told you, my boys...

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Well, before I go, I might just take
a peep inside Boris's kennel,

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see what's under the mattress.

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Can't be any harm in that, can there?

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- Orders is orders.
- I like keeping my hand in.

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It's been quiet lately.
You can get rusty.

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Well, enjoy yourself, my son,

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but don't break any eggs, Ricki, please.

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I have to live here. Remember?

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Blessed are the poor in spirit,

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for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

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Blessed are they that mourn,
for they shall receive comfort.

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Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.

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Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness...

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for they shall be filled.

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Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain...Boris?

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Good question, lady. Where IS Boris?

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This is his room, right?

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I wish you no harm. Sorry
if I frightened you.

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You caught me by surprise.
I wasn't expecting a lady, just Boris.

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- I'm his wife.
- I don't wanna upset you...

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- Does my husband know you?
- No point in pussyfooting, lady.

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Your Boris walked off with my girl.
That's a liberty.

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To add insult to injury,
he was drinking on my wallet.

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I thought I'd come up here
and have a word with Boris. Sorry,
but that's the way it is.

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Thanks for not screaming the place down.

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You should be careful what you say
about my husband. He's an important man.

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- He has influential friends.
- You frightening me off, Mrs Boris?

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I've got quite a name for
looking after myself.

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I'm your original Australian
self-made success story.

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Rags to riches and punching all the way.

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Bureaucrats don't scare me,
not even the Russian kind!

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Don't call me Mrs Boris.
My name's Irina.

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- I'm Tony Lawrence.
- Are you?

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Yeah. You just mention
that name in Adelaide.

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I'm in car sales, property,
frozen foods.

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If I was Boris, I wouldn't be out
chasing other blokes' women.

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- I wouldn't feel the need.
- Boris is Boris.

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And Lawrence...

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is someone else.

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I don't know anything about Australia.

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Perhaps somewhere tomorrow? The evening?

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Are you sure you don't want something
stronger? You look as if it might help.

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Don't misunderstand me, Irina.
You look great. Really lovely.

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I just meant it might...relax you.

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You seem more scared now
than you were last night.

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It can't be me.

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I'm not supposed to do this...
meet people, talk without official
approval.

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- I can't do that.
- Where's the harm?

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Just two strangers in a foreign land
getting to like each other. It's normal
behavior.

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I do special work.

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I travel as a trade delegate
in my own right.

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Textiles.

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I'm highly trained, experienced.

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Tired of it. I hate it.

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I want to escape from it.

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- Textiles?
- It's like a prison.

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I need someone to help me.
I can be quite brave, Lawrence.

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- Tony!
- I shall call you Lawrence.

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Colonel Lawrence.

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Like Lawrence of Arabia.

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He was English.

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I know.

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There's an English expression.

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"It takes one to spot one."

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You wouldn't have fooled me for long,
even without putting those wedges in
the door.

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It's the way we look for things,
isn't it?

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We don't stare.
We don't seem to be looking.

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We are not like tourists...
or prostitutes...or pickpockets.

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We just know how to see.

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Boris isn't as good as he ought to be.

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He enjoys showing off too much,
so he misses things.

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He missed you, didn't he?

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But you didn't miss him,
did you, Colonel?

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- Are you very good?
- The best.

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God gave me ALL the talents.

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Try me.

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I like being in the presence
of Christianity.

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I understand why some women become nuns.

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Give themselves.

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Their whole lives given...willingly.

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There's freedom in that.

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I've met Christians I've envied
very deeply.

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Envy is a sin, I know that,

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but I confess it here
in this holy place.

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There, Christians were
being interrogated.

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The worst time to see people.

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And the best sometimes.

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I'm studying the Bible.
Secretly, of course. That isn't freedom.

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"Come unto me, all you
who are heavy laden."

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Is that it?

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Do you know how it goes on?

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There's a village below here.
Right by the sea. Very quiet.

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We could take a room.

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Would you like that?

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How long have you worked with Boris?

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They made us a team a long time ago.

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He's a specialist in picking up
foreign businessmen for Moscow Center.

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I look after communications for him.
The special codes.

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Couldn't we be a team?

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You could take me to England.

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That's what I want, Lawrence.

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You could.

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I know something.

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Something so important.

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It's one of the biggest secrets ever.

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It would make you so famous.

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But it's so secret.

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Tell me.

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Tell me, Irina.

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- I'm frightened.
- I can look after you. You'll be safe.

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I can only speak to your Chief.
Alleline. Nobody else.

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It's too dangerous.
I can only speak to Alleline.

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- Tell me.
- Only the Head of the Circus.

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I've got to go back now.

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They'll be looking for me.

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There's too much to tell now.

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Maybe tomorrow...if I can.

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The cemetery.

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- Come on, Lawrence!
- We can talk in the car.

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Tomorrow.

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There's too much.

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I have to be calm...

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or tonight they'll notice.

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I drink too much sometimes.

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They are used to that.

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Some of the priests are drunkards.
They told me that at school.

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When I was still in Moscow,
before I started traveling with Boris,

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I had a relationship with a filing clerk
at the Center in Dzerzhinsky Square.

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We went against regulations. We used
to meet outside. He was very sweet.

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Your looks remind me of him.

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His name was Ivlov...
and he told me a story.

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He was frightened to...

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but sometimes, if you know
something so big, so secret,

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you have to tell it to someone.

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It has to be someone you love...

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like I'm telling you now.

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It's alright, darling. It's alright.

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Have you heard of Karla?
He's an old fox, the most cunning
of them all at the Center.

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He works so secretly that some people
don't even know he exists.

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This story Ivlov told me concerns
one of Karla's greatest conspiracies

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and it is happening in England.

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Do you know what is meant
by the word "mole"? Yes.

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Moles burrow very deep
into the fabric of Western imperialism.

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They are very dear to Moscow

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because it may taken 15 or 20 years
before they are used.

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Well, my friend Ivlov told me
he had worked in London.

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His cover was as a driver
at the Embassy.

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Do you have a name to give me?

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Ivlov's work name in London
was "Lapin". He didn't know it
meant rabbit in French.

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It fitted because he was just a nobody,

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serving drinks with women at receptions.

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But, all the time, he was the
secret right-hand man to Colonel
Gregor Viktorov,

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and Viktorov is the agent
who briefs and debriefs the mole.

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His name, Irina.

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known as Polyakov.

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I'm so frightened.

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So tired. You must take me
home with you. We could be happy.

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Finish the story.

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Who's the mole? Where is he?

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00:24:19,942 --> 00:24:25,542
I can only speak to Alleline. We are
in danger. You must get me to him.

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Face to face with the Head of the Circus.
Nothing else is safe.

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You trust me, don't you?

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- I want you.
- Alleline will take some persuading.

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Tell him...I have information crucial
to the well-being of the Circus.

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Use those words.

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Morning, Tufty.

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Can I come and play with your toys?

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00:25:19,742 --> 00:25:25,142
I thought you'd finished your
hols, Ricki. What must they be
thinking back home?

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They'll be alright.
I've got a postcard to send them.

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They're going to love me for it.

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Thank you.

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How much are you going to tell me?

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The message is graded "flash"
to London Station...

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and "By hand of duty officer only".

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Uh..hm. Drastic stuff, eh?

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That's maximum security limit.

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What did you get on Boris?

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It's your show, my son.

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00:26:42,822 --> 00:26:44,822
Nothing for you, Ricki...

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again.

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"Supply date of intake
into Moscow Center."

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"Name her present Head of Section.
Name previous sections employing her."

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"Also..." Someone's stalling.

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But if that's what they want.

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"Lawrence, listen,
I'm talking to you."

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"This is my gift for you in case
they take me away before I can
speak to Alleline."

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"I would prefer to give you my life,
Lawrence"

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"but I think it more likely that
this secret will be all I have to
make you happy."

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"Use it well."

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"I started to tell you about Ivlov,"

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"who's known in London,
or used to be, as 'Lapin',"

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"and about Viktorov, who's
really Polyakov."

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"The mole in London is known
by the codename of Gerald."

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"There are many remarkable measures to
preserve his security...most secret."

238
00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:27,262
"Written reports from Gerald to Karla
in Moscow Center"

239
00:29:27,422 --> 00:29:32,822
"are cut in two and sent by separate
couriers, even after coding."

240
00:29:33,902 --> 00:29:39,742
"And Gerald's output has sometimes been
almost too much for Polyakov to handle."

241
00:29:39,902 --> 00:29:42,902
"Some of it is spoken onto tape
at secret meetings"

242
00:29:43,062 --> 00:29:46,502
"and can only be played back
on special machines."

243
00:29:46,662 --> 00:29:49,062
"There is also undeveloped film."

244
00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:53,302
"Anyone opening the reels wrongly
destroys it immediately."

245
00:29:55,902 --> 00:29:59,662
"Lawrence, this is the secret
I'm giving you..."

246
00:29:59,822 --> 00:30:01,822
"...with all my love."

247
00:30:02,622 --> 00:30:07,422
"The mole Gerald is a high functionary
in British Intelligence."

248
00:30:07,582 --> 00:30:10,382
"Very close to the Head of the Circus."

249
00:30:11,462 --> 00:30:15,462
"Lawrence, I fear for the safety
of anyone employed by the Circus."

250
00:30:21,982 --> 00:30:24,982
"Take care with this knowledge."

251
00:30:25,142 --> 00:30:29,462
"I'm telling you this because I'm afraid
it's all finished for me."

252
00:30:29,622 --> 00:30:33,622
"The guards have started watching me
like animals."

253
00:30:33,782 --> 00:30:39,742
"Were you indiscreet? Did you tell them
in London more than you let me think?"

254
00:30:40,742 --> 00:30:44,182
"Now you understand why
only Alleline would do."

255
00:30:45,422 --> 00:30:47,622
"But do not blame yourself."

256
00:31:01,422 --> 00:31:04,822
"Will they let us live in Scotland,
Lawrence?"

257
00:31:04,982 --> 00:31:08,422
"I've read everything about Scotland."

258
00:31:08,582 --> 00:31:11,182
"It's the Garden of Eden, isn't it?"

259
00:31:15,982 --> 00:31:17,582
Read it!

260
00:31:23,182 --> 00:31:27,782
"In my heart, I am free. Inside me
burns a new and blessed light."

261
00:31:28,782 --> 00:31:34,142
"I used to think that the secret
world was a separate place and
I was banished..."

262
00:31:34,302 --> 00:31:40,021
"but God has shown me we have
only to open the door and step outside
to be free."

263
00:31:40,182 --> 00:31:43,622
"Always long for the light
which I have found."

264
00:31:43,782 --> 00:31:50,062
"It is called love. Now I shall
take this to our secret place while
there is still time."

265
00:31:58,742 --> 00:32:04,742
"Why could you remember so few prayers?
Your father must have been a great man."

266
00:32:06,342 --> 00:32:08,342
And that's it.

267
00:32:12,302 --> 00:32:16,502
- See? She was crazy.
- That's not the original notebook?

268
00:32:16,662 --> 00:32:18,701
- No, sir.
- Where is it?

269
00:32:18,862 --> 00:32:23,102
- I put it back in the dead letter box.
- And then?

270
00:32:23,262 --> 00:32:26,462
I tried the airport, just
on the off chance.

271
00:32:26,622 --> 00:32:29,862
Put it this way, sir, I had to know!

272
00:32:31,342 --> 00:32:35,422
I got hold of a little Italian
air hostess. She liked me.

273
00:32:35,582 --> 00:32:39,742
She said an unscheduled Soviet plane
took off a few hours before.

274
00:32:39,902 --> 00:32:43,622
Center of attraction was an invalid
...lady in a coma.

275
00:32:43,782 --> 00:32:47,782
They carted her on a stretcher.
Her face was bandaged.

276
00:32:47,942 --> 00:32:52,022
The rest of the party included
two male nurses and a doctor.

277
00:32:52,182 --> 00:32:55,502
I didn't let it go at that.
I checked the hotel.

278
00:32:55,662 --> 00:32:57,822
No Irina, no Boris.

279
00:33:07,782 --> 00:33:09,982
My musical daughters.

280
00:33:23,062 --> 00:33:25,462
Perhaps she really was ill.

281
00:33:26,622 --> 00:33:32,622
Not much more than 24 hours
between your first telegram and
Irina's departure.

282
00:33:32,782 --> 00:33:37,382
- You can hardly lay it
at London's door.
- You can...just.

283
00:33:37,542 --> 00:33:41,942
If someone in London
had good footwork and in Moscow, too.

284
00:33:42,102 --> 00:33:47,102
That's what I told myself...
what you said. My very words,
Mr Smiley.

285
00:33:47,262 --> 00:33:51,062
The Russians could've tumbled
to her having it off with me

286
00:33:51,222 --> 00:33:56,102
or she'd started blabbing to Boris
to pay him off for boozing and whoring,

287
00:33:56,262 --> 00:34:00,862
but then I thought, "Come on, Ricki,
that was gold she was giving you!"

288
00:34:01,022 --> 00:34:03,782
"She had to sweat it out of herself!"

289
00:34:04,902 --> 00:34:10,502
I figured they'd give her another
going over on the plane, then the
big boys would take over.

290
00:34:10,662 --> 00:34:14,662
Not more than a day or two
before they went to the cemetery.

291
00:34:14,822 --> 00:34:20,142
- So you made yourself scarce.
- He panicked and went native. Istanbul.

292
00:34:20,302 --> 00:34:25,502
- Playing the loving father
with his daughter.
- That's right. Danny's my little kid.

293
00:34:25,662 --> 00:34:29,942
The mother seems to be leader
of the pack of his numerous wives.

294
00:34:30,102 --> 00:34:36,062
You've been away three months.
Why choose this particular moment
to come to us?

295
00:34:41,302 --> 00:34:42,782
Go on.

296
00:34:44,422 --> 00:34:48,142
- Did something frighten you?
- Someone looking for me.

297
00:34:48,302 --> 00:34:51,302
- Who?
- I didn't find out. That's why I came.

298
00:34:55,422 --> 00:34:59,222
Now, Ricki...passports.

299
00:35:01,342 --> 00:35:06,142
- Who are you at the moment?
- Poole. British.

300
00:35:07,102 --> 00:35:13,302
I reckoned Lawrence wasn't
the flavor of the month in Moscow,
so I had that run up.

301
00:35:13,462 --> 00:35:17,102
- It's not bad.
- In Lisbon, he had two Swiss escapes.

302
00:35:17,262 --> 00:35:21,302
- One for him, one for Boris.
- What did you do with them?

303
00:35:22,702 --> 00:35:26,302
- How did you get rid of them?
- Burned them.

304
00:35:29,142 --> 00:35:33,622
- How did you get back to England?
- Via Dublin. I told Mr Guillam.

305
00:35:33,782 --> 00:35:35,782
I'm checking.

306
00:35:35,941 --> 00:35:40,222
Be damn careful! I don't want
the wrong people on my back!

307
00:35:40,982 --> 00:35:45,182
He took my gun away, too.
He shouldn't have done that, Mr Smiley.

308
00:35:47,022 --> 00:35:49,222
Why did you go to Mr Guillam?

309
00:35:49,382 --> 00:35:53,382
Didn't it cross your mind
he might turn you over to Alleline?

310
00:35:53,542 --> 00:35:56,142
Mr Guillam's my boss.

311
00:35:56,302 --> 00:36:02,022
I don't figure he likes the new
arrangements at the Circus any more
than YOU do.

312
00:36:02,182 --> 00:36:06,142
We don't need that, Tarr.
He kept well out of sight.

313
00:36:06,302 --> 00:36:12,302
When he gave me his story,
I rang Sir Oliver from a call box.
I rang him here, not London.

314
00:36:14,062 --> 00:36:17,462
There was no reason
to suppose the phone was tapped.

315
00:36:17,622 --> 00:36:19,622
There was every reason.

316
00:36:25,022 --> 00:36:28,742
Unusual for Moscow Center
to use a husband-wife team.

317
00:36:32,142 --> 00:36:34,902
Hard to believe...

318
00:36:35,062 --> 00:36:37,942
unless they had children in Moscow.

319
00:36:39,222 --> 00:36:41,222
- Hostages.
- They have.

320
00:36:41,382 --> 00:36:45,102
It's true. Common law marriage.
Unofficial, but permanent.

321
00:36:45,262 --> 00:36:49,462
There's a lot the other way around
these days, Mr Smiley!

322
00:36:55,502 --> 00:36:57,742
Fit, George?

323
00:36:57,902 --> 00:37:00,142
Natter. Garden.

324
00:37:01,142 --> 00:37:03,942
- Super.
- Fawn!

325
00:37:19,342 --> 00:37:24,342
When you came to me six months ago
talking about a mole in the Circus,

326
00:37:24,502 --> 00:37:28,102
I threw you out. I was remiss.

327
00:37:28,262 --> 00:37:33,702
You instructed me to abandon
my inquiries because they were
"unconstitutional".

328
00:37:33,862 --> 00:37:38,342
Was that the word I used?
How very pompous of me.

329
00:37:42,422 --> 00:37:45,622
- You never had any, did you?
- What?

330
00:37:45,782 --> 00:37:48,782
Children. You and Ann.

331
00:37:49,822 --> 00:37:51,142
No.

332
00:37:53,262 --> 00:37:59,382
I didn't absolutely trust your motives.
I thought Control had put you up to it.

333
00:37:59,542 --> 00:38:03,742
As a way of hanging on
to the power and keeping Alleline out.

334
00:38:03,902 --> 00:38:08,502
"There are three of them...and
Alleline."Control's words.

335
00:38:09,982 --> 00:38:14,982
The composition of the now
all-powerful London Station.

336
00:38:15,142 --> 00:38:19,142
Bill Haydon, Roy Bland, Tony Esterhase.

337
00:38:19,302 --> 00:38:22,222
Three of them. And Alleline.

338
00:38:22,382 --> 00:38:28,822
Yes, quite. But at the time,
George. After all, we both held
perfectly honorable positions.

339
00:38:29,982 --> 00:38:34,702
You felt Jim Prideaux had been betrayed
and you wanted a witch hunt.

340
00:38:34,862 --> 00:38:40,022
My Minister and I felt there had been
incompetence on the part of Control.

341
00:38:40,182 --> 00:38:45,222
- A view which the Foreign Office shared.
- I quite understand your dilemma.

342
00:38:46,262 --> 00:38:52,462
Thank you. It isn't every day that
the head of one's secret service embarks
on a private war.

343
00:38:52,622 --> 00:38:56,222
And, don't forget, you
were Control's man.

344
00:38:56,382 --> 00:38:58,382
He preferred you to Haydon.

345
00:38:58,542 --> 00:39:02,662
When he launched that misadventure,
you fronted for him.

346
00:39:03,582 --> 00:39:08,782
You were in the hot seat. You had to go.
You didn't offer a suspect.

347
00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:16,742
Remember the circumstances, George.

348
00:39:20,862 --> 00:39:26,862
- Percy Alleline has done extremely well.
- With Haydon to field for him,
who wouldn't?

349
00:39:27,022 --> 00:39:31,622
He's produced intelligence, not scandal,
and won the trust of his customers.

350
00:39:31,782 --> 00:39:38,502
That special source of Percy's...
it produced the Witchcraft material.
Is that still running?

351
00:39:38,662 --> 00:39:42,662
Since you ask, yes.
Source Merlin is our mainstay.

352
00:39:42,822 --> 00:39:46,022
And, yes, the name of his product
is Witchcraft.

353
00:39:46,182 --> 00:39:51,582
The Circus hasn't had such good material
in living memory. In mine, anyway.

354
00:39:51,742 --> 00:39:55,742
- Does it still get the same
special handling?
- Certainly.

355
00:39:56,982 --> 00:40:00,382
Now precautions will have
to be more rigorous.

356
00:40:00,542 --> 00:40:03,982
No. Gerald the mole
would soon latch on to that.

357
00:40:04,142 --> 00:40:06,142
Of course he would.

358
00:40:06,302 --> 00:40:11,742
We can't move. We can't investigate
because we can't employ the Circus.

359
00:40:11,902 --> 00:40:18,502
We can't eavesdrop or watch or open
the mail because we'd need Esterhase's
lamplighters.

360
00:40:18,662 --> 00:40:22,382
And Esterhase is suspect
like the others.

361
00:40:23,382 --> 00:40:29,382
It's the oldest question of all, George.
Who can spy on the spies?

362
00:40:29,542 --> 00:40:33,742
Get the security mob in.
They'll do a job for you.

363
00:40:33,902 --> 00:40:37,902
You know the Minister
won't have that. Rightly, too.

364
00:40:38,062 --> 00:40:41,862
Ex-colonial bobbies ploughing
through the Circus files.

365
00:40:42,902 --> 00:40:45,302
It's a serious point, George.

366
00:40:45,462 --> 00:40:50,982
I wouldn't give much for field
agents' chances once the security
gentlemen come barging in.

367
00:40:51,142 --> 00:40:53,142
How many do we have?

368
00:40:54,342 --> 00:40:56,662
600...give or take a few.

369
00:40:57,822 --> 00:41:00,662
Plus 120 behind the Iron Curtain.

370
00:41:09,902 --> 00:41:15,102
So I can tell the Minister you'll do it?
You'll take the job, clean the stables.

371
00:41:15,262 --> 00:41:18,862
Go backwards, go forwards,
do whatever's necessary.

372
00:41:19,022 --> 00:41:23,222
It's your generation, after all.
Your legacy.

373
00:41:23,382 --> 00:41:29,182
I never heard of anyone
who left the Circus without
some unfinished business.

374
00:41:29,342 --> 00:41:32,622
There's no...emotional or other reason

375
00:41:32,782 --> 00:41:36,582
which you feel might debar you
from the assignment?

376
00:41:38,422 --> 00:41:40,862
You must speak up, George.

377
00:41:41,022 --> 00:41:46,422
The state of my marriage must
be common knowledge if it has
got as far as Ricki Tarr.

378
00:41:46,582 --> 00:41:50,982
For the record, the thing with Ann
and Bill Haydon is long over.

379
00:41:51,142 --> 00:41:55,342
My wife's present infatuation
is with a young actor...

380
00:41:55,502 --> 00:41:57,502
currently unemployed.

381
00:41:59,942 --> 00:42:04,662
There's always that part of us
that belongs to the public domain.

382
00:42:04,822 --> 00:42:07,422
You always knew that, I'm sure.

383
00:42:07,582 --> 00:42:10,582
- So did Jim Prideaux.
- What does that mean?

384
00:42:10,742 --> 00:42:16,942
Well, good Lord, a bullet in the back
is held to be quite a sacrifice...even
in your world.

385
00:42:17,102 --> 00:42:19,102
Two bullets, actually.

386
00:42:21,742 --> 00:42:25,942
They were at Oxford together,
weren't they...Bill and Jim?

387
00:42:26,102 --> 00:42:30,822
Stablemates at the Circus, the famous
Haydon-Prideaux partnership.

388
00:42:30,982 --> 00:42:34,382
"The iron fist in the iron glove"
somebody called it.

389
00:42:35,462 --> 00:42:38,862
Prideaux was far too old
for that Czech nonsense.

390
00:42:39,022 --> 00:42:42,422
- It made no difference.
- No, quite.

391
00:42:48,582 --> 00:42:53,062
I shall need some help.
Remember Control's man Mendel?

392
00:42:53,222 --> 00:42:55,022
Yes, of course.

393
00:42:56,102 --> 00:42:58,102
If he's the chap you want.

394
00:43:19,502 --> 00:43:21,302
Oh, Norman!

395
00:43:22,462 --> 00:43:27,862
The table's Georgian, so you
will love it for me, won't you,
Mr Barraclough?

396
00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:31,822
I shouldn't lend it to you, really.
It was the Major's.

397
00:43:31,982 --> 00:43:33,982
I'm very grateful, I'm sure.

398
00:43:34,142 --> 00:43:36,142
- Everything alright?
- Yes, fine.

399
00:43:36,302 --> 00:43:38,502
We'll leave you in peace, then.

400
00:44:02,662 --> 00:44:07,422
I shall want every scrap...and you've
known me long enough.

401
00:44:08,582 --> 00:44:11,182
Times of who comes and goes.

402
00:44:11,342 --> 00:44:15,142
Most of all, more important
than you can imagine, this.

403
00:44:15,302 --> 00:44:20,502
Any suspicious characters
putting questions to your staff
under ANY pretext,

404
00:44:20,662 --> 00:44:24,262
even if they're the Guards Armored
or Sherlock Holmes.

405
00:44:24,422 --> 00:44:29,582
There's only me and Norman,
and they won't get far with Norman,
will they, dear?

406
00:44:29,742 --> 00:44:31,942
You're too sensitive.

407
00:44:36,342 --> 00:44:41,942
The same with any incoming letters
for him. I'll want to see postmarks and
times posted.

408
00:44:42,102 --> 00:44:46,902
One thing more. There'll be objects
he will ask to be lodged in the safe.

409
00:44:47,062 --> 00:44:52,062
Mainly they'll be papers.
There's only one person who'll
look at them apart from him.

410
00:44:52,222 --> 00:44:54,222
That's me.

411
00:44:54,382 --> 00:44:59,782
Don't try fiddling with them,
'cause he's sharp, and you've
known me long enough.

412
00:45:14,502 --> 00:45:18,222
Tarr's cables to the Circus
were detailed and specific.

413
00:45:18,382 --> 00:45:23,182
London Station required him
to submit copious background on Irina.

414
00:45:23,342 --> 00:45:27,662
Names of former contacts,
acquaintances inside Moscow Center.

415
00:45:27,822 --> 00:45:32,062
There should be a file of some size
and we need to see it.

416
00:45:33,302 --> 00:45:37,102
That's Circus material.
I can deliver only from the Minister.

417
00:45:42,782 --> 00:45:47,382
I know that look, George.
I'm breaking into the Circus, am I?

418
00:45:47,542 --> 00:45:50,742
- Playing Burglar Bill.
- If you wouldn't mind.

419
00:45:50,902 --> 00:45:56,942
While you're enjoying yourself,
I shall visit Oxford to look up an old,
invaluable friend.

420
00:45:58,982 --> 00:46:02,942
Please, don't take any
unnecessary risks.

421
00:46:10,742 --> 00:46:16,342
<i>Lord, now lettest
thou thy servant</i>

422
00:46:16,502 --> 00:46:21,302
<i>Depart in peace</i>

423
00:46:30,902 --> 00:46:36,702
<i>According to</i>

424
00:46:36,862 --> 00:46:40,662
<i>Thy word</i>

425
00:46:45,862 --> 00:46:52,222
<i>For mine eyes have seen</i>

426
00:46:52,382 --> 00:46:58,982
<i>Thy salvation</i>

427
00:47:03,382 --> 00:47:08,582
<i>Which thou hast prepared
before the face</i>

428
00:47:08,742 --> 00:47:15,742
<i>Of all people</i>

429
00:47:19,502 --> 00:47:23,702
<i>To be a light</i>

430
00:47:23,862 --> 00:47:27,942
<i>To lighten</i>

431
00:47:28,102 --> 00:47:31,822
<i>The gentiles</i>

432
00:47:31,982 --> 00:47:37,222
<i>And to be the glory</i>

433
00:47:37,382 --> 00:47:41,582
<i>Of thy people</i>

434
00:47:41,742 --> 00:47:48,142
<i>Israel</i>

435
00:47:54,942 --> 00:47:59,022
<i>Glory be to the Father</i>

436
00:47:59,182 --> 00:48:02,382
<i>And to the Son</i>

437
00:48:02,542 --> 00:48:07,182
<i>And to the Holy Ghost</i>

438
00:48:07,342 --> 00:48:11,142
<i>As it was in the beginning</i>

439
00:48:11,302 --> 00:48:17,302
<i>Is now and ever shall be</i>

440
00:48:19,782 --> 00:48:24,582
<i>World without end</i>

441
00:48:24,742 --> 00:48:29,942
<i>Amen</i>