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Assume, Peter, the Circus
has the dogs on you 24 hours a day.
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Think of it as a foreign country.
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Hello, Bryant.
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Hello. Nice to see you again, sir.
Just a moment, please.
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Mr Guillam, sir.
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Mr Lauder Strickland's expecting you.
He'll meet you on the 5th floor.
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Right.
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Thanks.
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- About time someone oiled this.
- We keep asking.
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You can talk till you're blue
in the face!
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Well met, Peter. Greetings.
A trifle late, but never mind.
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Sorry, Lauder. You have to make
allowances for country yokels.
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- How long have you had that monster?
- You really are a stranger, aren't you?
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It saves man hours. Fantastic.
Quite fantastic.
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- Sorry, terribly sorry.
- Hello, Bill.
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What the hell are YOU doing here,
you pariah?
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He wants to buy a diplomatic courier.
He needs to wash some dirty money.
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That's a job for Banking Section,
so we're sorting out the tangle.
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He knows it has to be cleared here. He
told me the papers were routed to you.
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- They're probably in your
in-tray now, Bill.
- They had better be, Peter.
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Lock up the spoons. Scalphunters
will have the gold out of your teeth!
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Lock up the girls, as well
...if they'll let you!
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There you go, Bert. Keys of the city.
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London Station couldn't be
in better hands.
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Everything's a lot tighter here
these days, Guillam.
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Hey, Lauder, hold on!
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Have you seen bloody Bill anywhere?
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Indeed I have seen Bill. We were having
a brief word back down the corridor.
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- He's wanted urgently.
- Immediately. We've put out
an alert for him.
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I suspect he may well be on his way
to you at this moment.
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Peter...hello.
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Hi.
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Thanks for the glad hand.
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I did wipe the cow dung off my boots.
What's the joke, Roy?
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No joke, Peter, old lad. Just...
surprised to see you, that's all.
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- We're used to having this floor
to ourselves.
- Like to see my pass, Toby?
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- How are you keeping?
- I wintered very well.
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You know what it's like in Brixton these
days. Plenty of Ludo, ping pong.
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- Normally I have my afternoon zizz now.
- Off with you, Peter.
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- Don't waste Lauder's time.
- No, sir. Sorry, sir.
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Shut up, Flush! Stop it.
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Stop it, boy. It's only a dunderhead.
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Flush, shut up!
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George Smiley!
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Oh, but you lovely, darling man!
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You haven't come to sell me a hoover!
You're my gorgeous George!
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- Connie.
- Oh, George.
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Jingle, darling, could you possibly
make it tomorrow? Don't be cross.
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It isn't often my oldest, oldest lover
comes to see me.
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Oh, George, if only I'd seen you first.
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I'll give you a whole hour all to
yourself. Honestly I will, darling.
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One of my dunderheads.
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I will teach...
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I don't know why.
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Oh, George, of all the lovely,
darling men I ever knew.
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He walked, Flush. Don't you see
his shoes?
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Oh...bless you, darling.
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God bless.
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Did he walk alone, Flush?
Not accompanied, were we?
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Quite alone, Connie.
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So...what does George want from Connie?
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The bad boy!
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Her memory.
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To go over some very old ground, Connie.
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Hear that, Flush? First, they chuck
us out with an old bone, then they
come begging to us.
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I was the best Head of Research
the Circus ever had! Everyone knew that!
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And what did they say
the day they gave me the chop?
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That personnel cow! "You're losing
your sense of proportion, Connie."
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"Time you got out into the real world."
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I hate the real world!
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I like the Circus and my lovely boys!
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Polyakov.
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Polyakov.
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Born March 3rd, 1922...
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in the Ukraine.
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Graduate of Leningrad State University.
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Height five-foot-ten.
Color of eyes, green.
Color of hair, black.
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Married, but unaccompanied by wife,
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and a six-cylinder Karla-trained
hood if ever I saw one!
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But don't tell Percy Alleline
or Toby Esterhase.
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Oh, no,
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Aleksey Aleksandrovich
was as pure as the driven snow.
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He was Persil white, wasn't he, Flush?
And Connie's an old silly.
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If she doesn't lay off and do
as she's told, she'll have to pack
her bags and go.
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He's come alive...Polyakov.
Just as you predicted.
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'Course he has! Of course he has!
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I knew it in my bones!
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The day he arrived, I thought,
"Hello, I'll have some fun with YOU."
Tough as a button!
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Army written all over him.
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But not declared, George, not a mention.
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Oh, he had a lovely voice.
Mellow, like yours.
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I used to play the tapes
over and over just to bathe in it.
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Bottom pincher, too. I just know.
Not that we ever caught him at it.
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We might have if Tobe had played along
and offered him a bum,
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but tiny Tobe wouldn't.
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Eight years.
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I watched Pretty Polly for eight years.
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Then last Remembrance Day, I got him.
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There he was, that smashing
November morning, at the wreath laying.
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We photographed his medals...
two gallantry and four campaign.
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Oh, yes. Aleks Polyakov was a
star soldier just as I'd told them,
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and not a word.
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So I said to Toby,
"Listen, you two-faced ferret,"
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"ego has got the better part of cover
and that's nothing new."
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"Now will you turn Pretty Polly
inside out for me?"
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"Because Connie's little hunch
has turned up trumps."
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What did Toby Esterhase say?
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Oh, I got the dead-fish voice.
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- "Tell Percy Alleline.
Percy's in charge."
- And then?
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"Not every ex-warrior's a
Karla agent," says Percy.
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I said, "Listen, Percy, Polyakov's
running an English mole."
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So I get the rude letter.
"Stop it or else."
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I wrote at the bottom...
"Yes, repeat no!"
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So...here we are...
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Flush and me.
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Please kiss me, George.
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Hey..ho. Halcyon days.
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- Did I start the landslide, George?
- You were always dead right, Connie.
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- Is George now picking up the pieces?
- Something of the sort.
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Poor loves. Trained to Empire,
trained to rule the waves.
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Englishmen could be proud then.
They could, George.
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All gone.
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Taken away.
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Bye-bye, world.
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If it's bad, George...
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don't come back.
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Promise?
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I want to remember you just as you were.
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My lovely, lovely boys.
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Promise?
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Alright, Lauder, I'll just have
to wait for the wheels to turn.
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I don't need a pass to use
the gent's, do I?
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Stop that moaning!
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Pages had been removed with a
razor blade. No mention of Ricki Tarr's
cable from Lisbon.
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No Irina, no Boris, no Tarr.
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There's a note scribbled on
the next page. "All inquiries
to Head of London Station."
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It's in Toby Esterhase's handwriting.
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The janitor's attendance list
has also been removed.
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Nothing to tell us who was
duty officer...or even who was
in the building.
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Connie's appraisal
matches the story Irina gave Ricki Tarr.
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The implications, the indications,
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are that Karla has managed
to build himself a cadre
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of senior men placed about the globe
who work exclusively to him at Moscow
Center.
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- Polyakov is Karla's executant
in London
- You offer that as a working
hypothesis?
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Operation Witchcraft,
that vital flow of Russian intelligence
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which happily came Alleline's way.
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"Supplementary estimates
to the Treasury."
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"Special accommodation in London."?
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"Wider exploitation."
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"See also Secret Annex." May I see it?
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- The Minister keeps it in his safe.
- Do you know the combination?
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- Certainly not.
- What's the title of this unobtainable
document?
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It doesn't have one. It's highly
secret and we've kept the readership
to a minimum.
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The supplier of the Witchcraft
material is Merlin. Does the file
give his identity?
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Don't be ridiculous. The Minister
wouldn't want to know and Alleline
wouldn't want to tell him.
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- What does "wider exploitation" mean?
- I refuse to be interrogated.
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Why do you waste your time
pursuing this? I should have you
cleared before you see this.
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- Witchcraft cleared?
- Yes, George.
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Do we have a list of people
who've been cleared in that way?
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I hope you're not going fey, George.
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Please, stick with the primary
problem...the mole Gerald...
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instead of rootling around
in extraneous matters.
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This is no time to be whimsical.
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Are you off? You won't forget Prideaux?
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Anything you can get on him,
even scraps, would help.
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He has a point, George.
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Witchcraft and Merlin,
Polyakov and the mole.
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Prideaux getting himself shot up
on some wild goose chase of Control's
in Czechoslovakia.
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- You think it all connects?
- I think I am not the first
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to make this journey of exploration.
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I believe Control was here before me.
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He might even have made the full distance
but for the bullets in Prideaux's back.
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"There are three of them and Alleline."
Control's words.
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He meant Operation Witchcraft.
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Merlin's minders or inventors
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or programmers or marionettes
...or what?
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Why was Control so hostile to Alleline?
Percy wasn't a fool.
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Percy can flirt, Peter. And Control
hadn't reckoned on the power of
the Alleline lobby.
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- Who were they?
- Golfers.
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"Golfers and Conservatives."
That's what Control said to me.
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I got a call from Control one day...
very sharp, very combative.
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"George, come in here or
there'll be bloodshed."
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Brother Percy's trying to twist my tail.
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Take a look at this nonsense.
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Top-level Soviet naval dispatch.
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Specially prepared for the Soviet
High Command...
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isn't it, Percy?
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An appreciation of a naval exercise
in the Med and the Black Sea,
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of which our sailors
have been screaming for details.
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- Haven't they, Percy?
- Topicality's always suspect.
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Yes, George.
Would you like to repeat that for Percy?
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- Who made the translation?
- God made it, didn't he, Percy?
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- Don't ask him. He won't tell you.
- Shore-to-sea strike power.
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Radio activation of enemy
alert procedures. This is hardly
my territory.
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Don't let that worry you. Total ignorance
of subject matter doesn't bother Percy.
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- Whose initials are these?
- Zharov. Admiral, Black Sea Fleet.
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- What do our own evaluators say?
- They've not seen it.
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What's more, they're not going to.
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However, Lilley of Naval Intelligence
has passed a preliminary opinion,
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has he not, Percy?
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Percy showed it to him last night.
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- Over a pink gin, was it, Percy?
- At the Admiralty.
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Note that, George. They battened down
the hatches for Percy.
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Brother Lilley telephoned me
half an hour ago to congratulate me.
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He believes this material to be neither
a plant nor chickenfeed, but gold dust,
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and he seeks our permission to...
Percy's, I suppose I should say...
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to apprise his fellow Sea Lords
of its conclusions.
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Quite impossible. It's for his eyes only
for another couple of weeks.
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- It's so hot, you see, George.
- But where does it come from?
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- Who's the case officer?
- You'll enjoy this.
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Source Merlin has access to the most
sensitive levels of Soviet policymaking.
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We've dubbed his product Witchcraft.
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Ask him who "we" are, George.
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Merlin is the fruit of a long cultivation
by certain people in this service.
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People who are bound to me
as I am to them.
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People not entertained
by the failure rate about this place.
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There's been too much blown,
too much lost, wasted.
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Too many scandals. I've said
so many times.
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I could've talked to the wind
for all the heed HE paid me.
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"He" means me, George.
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The ordinary principles of security
have gone to the wall in this service.
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It's all divide and rule, stimulated
from the top.
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- Me again.
- We're losing our livelihood,
our self-respect.
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We've had enough.
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We've had a bellyful, in fact. Please.
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Like everybody's who's ever had enough,
he wants more.
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"This service."
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Alleline would sell his mother for
a knighthood and "this service" for
a seat in the Lords.
228
00:23:10,861 --> 00:23:14,581
- Suppose Merlin's genuine?
- Suppose Merlin would pick Percy?!
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It seems somebody has.
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I gather Percy's under the impression
he picked himself and a whole team.
231
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You're sure he left you out,
are you, George?
232
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- What are you going to do about it?
- Depends on "it".
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I'll wait for "it" to show itself.
234
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In the meantime, I see nothing
to deal with except Percy's envious
eye on my chair.
235
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And I've put my thumb
in that optic before.
236
00:24:05,581 --> 00:24:09,381
- George, tittle-tattle Tuesday again?
- Hello, Percy.
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Toby, Roy.
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00:24:13,581 --> 00:24:15,381
This time.
239
00:24:24,781 --> 00:24:28,781
Oh, Lor'! I thought it would
be half over by now.
240
00:24:30,501 --> 00:24:35,901
Got a rabbit to pull out
of your hat, Percy? You've got
that Britain-can-make-it look.
241
00:24:36,061 --> 00:24:40,621
Very intimidating. Should we have
brought our sandwiches?
242
00:24:40,781 --> 00:24:44,501
I'll be brief, Bill, so long as
I'm not obstructed.
243
00:24:44,661 --> 00:24:48,621
I'm sorry. Traffic. I should've walked.
244
00:24:48,781 --> 00:24:53,781
I think you and Percy between you are
contriving to keep me off the streets.
245
00:24:57,301 --> 00:25:01,701
They're all here now, sir.
Would you go in, please, gentlemen?
246
00:25:24,661 --> 00:25:28,861
How often do I have to emphasize
the extreme sensitivity
247
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of the source of the Witchcraft product?
248
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There is no existing method of Whitehall
distribution to meet the case.
249
00:25:37,461 --> 00:25:42,621
Need I remind you of that disgraceful
incident when an Undersecretary...
250
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Albeit it overworked, so be it.
251
00:25:46,061 --> 00:25:49,461
But the fact remains
the man actually gave
252
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his dispatch box key to
his personal assistant.
253
00:25:53,701 --> 00:25:58,181
We simply cannot afford
that kind of ludicrous insecurity
254
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when we are handling Witchcraft.
255
00:26:02,221 --> 00:26:04,221
Now...
256
00:26:09,021 --> 00:26:14,621
I have already discussed the problem
with Lilley of Naval Intelligence.
257
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He is prepared to put at our disposal
a special main reading room
258
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in the Admiralty main building,
259
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where Witchcraft material can be seen
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and watched over
by a senior janitor of this service.
261
00:26:29,581 --> 00:26:32,381
Wouldn't you rather have Securicor?
262
00:26:37,181 --> 00:26:40,781
The reading room will be known
for cover purposes
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as the conference room of the Adriatic
Working Party, the AWP room, for short.
264
00:26:46,701 --> 00:26:48,021
Thank you.
265
00:26:49,021 --> 00:26:55,421
Customers with reading rights will
not have passes, since these can be
too accessible.
266
00:26:55,581 --> 00:26:59,581
Instead, they will appear
on a special list with photographs.
267
00:26:59,741 --> 00:27:03,261
They will identify themselves
personally to MY janitor.
268
00:27:04,421 --> 00:27:09,861
- Whose janitor, Percy?
- He's already got his own
personal wizard.
269
00:27:10,021 --> 00:27:14,021
The odd commissionaire
seems modest enough domestic staff.
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00:27:18,061 --> 00:27:21,381
- Allowing that all this is necessary...
- Essential.
271
00:27:22,861 --> 00:27:26,661
...my Minister will want to know
more about the cost.
272
00:27:26,821 --> 00:27:31,541
It must appear to be borne by
the Admiralty, even if you reimburse
covertly.
273
00:27:31,701 --> 00:27:36,701
Of course. The reading room will have
to be extensively rebuilt to begin with.
274
00:27:36,861 --> 00:27:40,741
Now, I'd like to call your attention
to the Foreign Office comment
275
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on the most recent Witchcraft product.
276
00:27:43,781 --> 00:27:48,421
And I quote, "This document sheds
an extraordinary sidelight"
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00:27:48,581 --> 00:27:51,101
"on Soviet aggressive thinking."
278
00:27:55,501 --> 00:27:57,941
Does that mean they like it, Percy?
279
00:28:00,661 --> 00:28:04,861
Do you like it, Bill? It's from the
very heart of your territory.
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00:28:09,581 --> 00:28:13,581
In 25 years, I haven't laid hands
on anything of that quality.
281
00:28:13,741 --> 00:28:17,141
Unless I'm mistaken,
nor have our American cousins.
282
00:28:17,301 --> 00:28:20,901
Anyone taking it to Washington
could drive a hard bargain.
283
00:28:21,061 --> 00:28:23,061
- Early days, Bill.
- Agreed.
284
00:28:23,221 --> 00:28:27,821
But if Merlin maintains that
standard, we can buy whatever's
in the Yanks' shop.
285
00:28:27,981 --> 00:28:33,181
I don't think Control's going
to play. That would rule me out,
as well, of course.
286
00:28:34,581 --> 00:28:37,981
- Percy will get his reading room.
- Yes.
287
00:28:39,141 --> 00:28:42,341
And after that, I suppose
anything's possible.
288
00:29:00,421 --> 00:29:03,221
Did you want to ask me something?
289
00:29:05,501 --> 00:29:08,221
I'm afraid he's not seeing anyone today.
290
00:29:08,381 --> 00:29:10,181
Again?
291
00:29:11,181 --> 00:29:16,381
I'm being asked why he's canceled
the Tuesday conferences.
292
00:29:20,061 --> 00:29:24,141
I can't add anything
to his memorandum, even for you.
293
00:29:25,101 --> 00:29:28,901
- Even if I could, Mr Smiley...
- No, of course.
294
00:29:29,061 --> 00:29:34,061
I was rather hoping, before I set off
on this Hong Kong trip...
295
00:29:34,221 --> 00:29:40,141
Well, when I get back, perhaps he'll
have got through that little lot.
296
00:29:51,821 --> 00:29:56,821
Now there's a committee.
The Minister is in the chair,
Alleline's vice-chairman.
297
00:29:56,981 --> 00:30:01,301
Merlin's become an industry.
It's THE industry and I'm not employed.
298
00:30:01,461 --> 00:30:06,421
- You won't even read Alleline's reports.
- I haven't time.
299
00:30:07,181 --> 00:30:11,381
Buying their way in
with counterfeit money. Tell them that.
300
00:30:11,541 --> 00:30:14,021
Tell them anything. I need time.
301
00:30:17,301 --> 00:30:20,021
There are three of them and Alleline.
302
00:30:20,181 --> 00:30:23,661
Sweat them. Tempt them.
Bully them. Anything.
303
00:30:23,821 --> 00:30:26,901
Give them what ever they eat.
I need time.
304
00:31:15,541 --> 00:31:17,541
Prompt as ever, Mr Smiley.
305
00:31:27,221 --> 00:31:30,541
- How are your children, Toby?
- Doing terribly well.
306
00:31:31,941 --> 00:31:37,141
The boy's at Westminster.
Is that right? You daughter's probably
left school by now.
307
00:31:37,301 --> 00:31:41,101
- First year medical student. Loves it.
- Good for her.
308
00:31:41,261 --> 00:31:44,301
Toby...I have to ask you this.
309
00:31:44,461 --> 00:31:46,941
Sorry to come prying.
310
00:31:47,101 --> 00:31:51,221
Your department's behind
with its work sheets. Two months almost.
311
00:31:51,381 --> 00:31:53,381
Now, why is that?
312
00:31:55,061 --> 00:31:57,301
It's not lamplighter style.
313
00:31:57,461 --> 00:31:59,461
We're not infallible, George.
314
00:31:59,621 --> 00:32:04,861
Two months? Well, I won't question it.
Is it terribly important?
315
00:32:05,021 --> 00:32:08,221
If you say it is, I'll see
it's dealt with.
316
00:32:08,381 --> 00:32:11,381
The question is WHY, Toby.
317
00:32:11,541 --> 00:32:14,621
- Let me be blunt.
- Not YOUR style, George.
318
00:32:16,941 --> 00:32:19,541
I'm allowed to say that, surely?
319
00:32:24,821 --> 00:32:30,941
You haven't been using your staff
for any special jobs? Either at home
or abroad?
320
00:32:31,101 --> 00:32:35,101
The kind of special jobs which,
for reasons of security,
321
00:32:35,261 --> 00:32:38,781
you haven't felt able to mention
in your returns.
322
00:32:40,181 --> 00:32:45,261
Who would I do that for?
In my book, that's completely illegal.
323
00:32:45,421 --> 00:32:50,221
Well, if Percy Alleline, for example,
ordered you to do something
324
00:32:50,381 --> 00:32:53,981
and not record it, that would put you
in a difficult position.
325
00:32:55,141 --> 00:32:59,341
- What sort of something?
- Clear a letter box, prime
a safe house.
326
00:32:59,501 --> 00:33:04,981
Watch someone's back. Spike an embassy.
It's all lamplighter work.
327
00:33:05,141 --> 00:33:07,141
If Percy told you to do it,
328
00:33:07,301 --> 00:33:12,301
you might reasonably assume he was acting
on instructions from the fifth floor.
329
00:33:20,701 --> 00:33:26,341
I do like the service. I may be
sentimental about it, but I prefer
to stay in it.
330
00:33:27,421 --> 00:33:30,421
Now, you understand that.
You of all people.
331
00:33:37,261 --> 00:33:39,421
My problem is promotion.
332
00:33:40,741 --> 00:33:43,221
I mean, the absence of it.
333
00:33:44,821 --> 00:33:49,421
I've so many years' seniority
that I feel quite embarrassed
334
00:33:49,581 --> 00:33:53,581
when these young fellows ask me
to take orders from them.
335
00:33:54,781 --> 00:33:56,621
Who, Toby?
336
00:33:56,781 --> 00:34:00,501
Which young fellows? Roy Bland? Percy?
337
00:34:00,661 --> 00:34:03,061
Would you call Percy young?
338
00:34:04,061 --> 00:34:05,781
Who?
339
00:34:05,941 --> 00:34:09,261
When you're overdue
for promotion and working hard,
340
00:34:09,421 --> 00:34:13,021
anyone looks young
who is above you on the ladder.
341
00:34:14,661 --> 00:34:20,261
- Have you been taking orders?
- You know the line of command,
George.
342
00:34:25,221 --> 00:34:28,541
Perhaps Control could move
you up a few rungs.
343
00:34:30,621 --> 00:34:32,621
Well, you know, actually...
344
00:34:32,781 --> 00:34:36,941
I'm not sure he's able to
these days...are you?
345
00:34:44,261 --> 00:34:48,261
- So what's the deal?
- There isn't a deal, Roy, really.
346
00:34:48,421 --> 00:34:52,221
It's just that Control feels
the present situation is unhealthy.
347
00:34:53,141 --> 00:34:57,941
He doesn't like to see you
getting mixed up with a cabal. Nor do I.
348
00:34:58,101 --> 00:35:01,701
- So what's the deal?
- What do you want?
349
00:35:01,861 --> 00:35:05,901
What about 5,000 quid
out of the reptile fund for starters?
350
00:35:06,061 --> 00:35:09,661
- Then a house and a car?
- And the kid to Eton.
351
00:35:09,821 --> 00:35:16,301
- Your father would turn in his grave.
- Let him rotate, the old Commie thug.
352
00:35:18,901 --> 00:35:24,501
If there's no deal, George, you'll have
to tell Control he can get stuffed.
353
00:35:25,501 --> 00:35:28,341
I've paid, you see. You know that.
354
00:35:28,501 --> 00:35:33,061
I don't know what the hell I've bought
with it, but I've paid a packet.
355
00:35:33,221 --> 00:35:38,501
Poznan, Budapest, Prague,
back to Poznan.
356
00:35:38,661 --> 00:35:41,501
Have you ever been to Poznan?
357
00:35:41,661 --> 00:35:44,261
Sofia, Kiev.
358
00:35:44,421 --> 00:35:48,981
Two bloody nervous breakdowns
and still between the shafts.
359
00:35:49,141 --> 00:35:53,741
That's big money at any age
...even yours.
360
00:35:54,541 --> 00:35:57,141
No one can deny that, Roy.
361
00:35:57,941 --> 00:36:01,901
And...you brought me in, remember.
362
00:36:02,061 --> 00:36:06,781
If you think I'm going to the bad,
you've only got yourself to blame.
363
00:36:11,221 --> 00:36:14,181
You're an educated sort of a swine.
364
00:36:14,341 --> 00:36:20,061
"An artist is a bloke who can hold two
fundamentally opposing views"
365
00:36:20,221 --> 00:36:22,021
"and still function."
366
00:36:22,181 --> 00:36:25,901
- Who dreamed that one up?
- Scott Fitzgerald.
367
00:36:26,061 --> 00:36:30,061
Well, Fitzgerald knew a thing or two.
368
00:36:30,221 --> 00:36:33,021
And I'm definitely functioning.
369
00:36:33,181 --> 00:36:36,421
As a good socialist,
I'm going where the money is.
370
00:36:36,581 --> 00:36:39,741
As a good capitalist,
I'm sticking with the revolution
371
00:36:39,901 --> 00:36:43,341
because, if you can't beat it,
spy on it.
372
00:36:44,861 --> 00:36:49,941
Don't look like that, George?
It's the name of the game these days.
373
00:36:50,101 --> 00:36:54,141
You scratch my conscience,
I'll drive your Jag, right?
374
00:36:54,301 --> 00:36:56,741
No. Did you get that from Haydon?
375
00:36:56,901 --> 00:37:02,301
Is that one of Bill's jokes
about materialist England,
the pigs-in-clover society?
376
00:37:03,301 --> 00:37:05,901
- Don't you like it?
- Not much.
377
00:37:06,061 --> 00:37:10,061
Of course there are acquisitive
instincts in Western society.
378
00:37:10,221 --> 00:37:13,821
They are offset against other concerns
you won't find in...
379
00:37:13,981 --> 00:37:18,141
Poznan, Budapest, Kiev, Sofia.
380
00:37:18,301 --> 00:37:20,821
Tell me all about it, George.
381
00:37:21,821 --> 00:37:24,661
I'm just saying that's England now, man.
382
00:37:24,821 --> 00:37:28,701
All you have to do is look out
the bloody window.
383
00:37:28,861 --> 00:37:32,461
You're seen with Bill Haydon
a great deal these days.
384
00:37:33,461 --> 00:37:37,061
Jealous, George? You've got his job.
385
00:37:37,221 --> 00:37:41,261
You're Control's High Chamberlain.
What more do you want?
386
00:37:42,061 --> 00:37:44,061
Long as it lasts.
387
00:38:07,261 --> 00:38:11,061
- They do say you write the reports.
- That's Roy's job.
388
00:38:11,221 --> 00:38:16,661
No. Bland makes the translations.
YOU write the covering reports.
389
00:38:16,821 --> 00:38:19,141
They're typed on your machine.
390
00:38:19,301 --> 00:38:22,701
The material's not cleared for typists.
391
00:38:24,621 --> 00:38:28,221
Percy Alleline won't do.
Is that the premise?
392
00:38:28,381 --> 00:38:34,221
Which means that Merlin won't do either.
Poor old Control. He is in a pickle.
393
00:38:34,381 --> 00:38:37,581
Merlin would do
if he were MY source, wouldn't he?
394
00:38:37,741 --> 00:38:43,541
If dazzling bloody Bill had hooked
a whacking big fish and wanted to
play him alone,
395
00:38:43,701 --> 00:38:45,701
what would happen then?
396
00:38:45,861 --> 00:38:51,461
Control would say,
"That's very nifty of you, Bill boy.
You do it just the way you want."
397
00:38:51,621 --> 00:38:53,981
"Have some filthy jasmine tea."
398
00:38:54,141 --> 00:38:59,621
He'd be giving me a medal now...instead
of sending you snooping round corridors.
399
00:39:01,301 --> 00:39:06,101
We used to be rather a classy bunch.
Why are we so vulgar these days?
400
00:39:06,261 --> 00:39:11,061
- He thinks Percy's on the make.
- So he is. I also want to be head boy.
401
00:39:12,141 --> 00:39:15,541
And Toby and Roy have designs
on your spot.
402
00:39:16,901 --> 00:39:21,101
Since when was ambition
an offense in our beastly outfit?
403
00:39:22,261 --> 00:39:24,261
Is Ann at home?
404
00:39:28,141 --> 00:39:31,741
Sent her out to play
while you grill your old buddy.
405
00:39:34,021 --> 00:39:37,981
- Who runs him, Bill?
- Percy? Who do you think?
406
00:39:38,141 --> 00:39:40,741
Karla runs him. Stands out a mile.
407
00:39:40,901 --> 00:39:44,701
Lower-class bloke with upper-class
sources. Must be a bounder.
408
00:39:44,861 --> 00:39:49,581
- Bill...
- Percy's sold out to Karla.
Only explanation.
409
00:39:49,741 --> 00:39:53,581
- Percy's our house mole.
- I meant who runs Merlin?
410
00:39:54,701 --> 00:39:57,541
Who is Merlin?
411
00:39:57,701 --> 00:39:59,501
What's going on?
412
00:40:05,261 --> 00:40:07,941
This is a Callot, isn't it?
413
00:40:08,101 --> 00:40:09,981
- Nice, very nice.
- Bill.
414
00:40:11,381 --> 00:40:15,181
Doesn't anyone think
MY nose should be out of joint?
415
00:40:15,341 --> 00:40:20,341
I'm supposed to be in charge
of the Russian target. Given it
my best years.
416
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:23,901
Set up networks, talent-spotters,
all mod cons.
417
00:40:24,901 --> 00:40:28,101
You've all forgotten
what it's like to run an operation
418
00:40:28,261 --> 00:40:33,061
where it takes three days to post a
letter and you don't get an answer.
419
00:40:33,221 --> 00:40:35,221
That's hardly fair to Control.
420
00:40:35,381 --> 00:40:39,861
You know how he detests glamor-boy
agents who hog the budget,
421
00:40:40,621 --> 00:40:45,621
how he hates "miracles" if they
put the networks out of focus.
422
00:40:45,781 --> 00:40:48,981
Pity he doesn't have the same
hatred of failure.
423
00:40:49,981 --> 00:40:52,541
Has he lived with it too long?
424
00:40:54,061 --> 00:40:57,061
Face it, George, it's Percy.
425
00:40:57,221 --> 00:41:01,661
Percy's success...it's thrown Control.
426
00:41:01,821 --> 00:41:03,821
And me, a bit.
427
00:41:04,901 --> 00:41:08,501
Trouble is,
my networks haven't been good enough.
428
00:41:08,661 --> 00:41:10,701
This is new.
429
00:41:10,861 --> 00:41:12,981
I fancy this very much.
430
00:41:15,301 --> 00:41:17,101
Ann gave it me.
431
00:41:17,261 --> 00:41:19,581
- Making amends?
- Probably.
432
00:41:20,421 --> 00:41:22,821
Must have been quite a sin.
433
00:41:24,941 --> 00:41:26,941
How is she?
434
00:41:30,581 --> 00:41:33,741
George...cut the cord.
435
00:41:33,901 --> 00:41:35,901
Get away from Control.
436
00:41:37,941 --> 00:41:40,701
He's cut you out of his life for weeks.
437
00:41:40,861 --> 00:41:44,621
Dispatching you with errands
a probationer could handle.
438
00:41:45,661 --> 00:41:48,061
What's he doing up there?
439
00:41:49,021 --> 00:41:53,421
He's gone through files of Circus
folk heroes from year minus-one
440
00:41:53,581 --> 00:41:55,781
Half of them under the earth already.
441
00:41:55,941 --> 00:42:00,141
Sniffing out the dirt to see
who was pink, who was a queen.
442
00:42:00,301 --> 00:42:02,221
He's given us all up.
443
00:42:03,261 --> 00:42:09,101
- I don't think that's true.
- Senile paranoia. Control's
going potty.
444
00:42:09,661 --> 00:42:11,661
And he's also dying.
445
00:42:12,741 --> 00:42:15,741
It's just a question of
which gets him first.
446
00:42:20,141 --> 00:42:23,741
And within six months of
Bill Haydon's diagnosis,
447
00:42:23,901 --> 00:42:26,861
Control was indeed dead.
448
00:42:28,701 --> 00:42:32,501
And what killed him?
Operation Witchcraft
or Operation Testify?
449
00:42:32,661 --> 00:42:34,461
Neither.
450
00:42:35,461 --> 00:42:38,621
Let's not be melodramatic.
Control would disapprove.
451
00:42:38,781 --> 00:42:40,981
He died of old age.
452
00:42:41,141 --> 00:42:43,341
A little early.
453
00:42:43,501 --> 00:42:47,781
But Testify destroyed his function
in life, which was a form of murder.
454
00:42:51,101 --> 00:42:54,261
I don't have nearly enough
on Testify, Peter.
455
00:42:56,421 --> 00:42:58,221
Would you, please...er...?
456
00:43:01,421 --> 00:43:03,421
Of course, George.
457
00:43:11,341 --> 00:43:16,941
Lord, now lettest thou
thy servant
458
00:43:17,101 --> 00:43:21,701
Depart in peace
459
00:43:31,501 --> 00:43:37,301
According to
460
00:43:37,461 --> 00:43:41,661
Thy word
461
00:43:46,461 --> 00:43:52,861
For mine eyes have seen
462
00:43:53,021 --> 00:43:59,501
Thy salvation
463
00:44:03,981 --> 00:44:09,181
Which thou hast prepared
before the face
464
00:44:09,341 --> 00:44:16,821
Of all people
465
00:44:20,101 --> 00:44:24,301
To be a light
466
00:44:24,461 --> 00:44:28,541
To lighten
467
00:44:28,701 --> 00:44:32,421
The gentiles
468
00:44:32,581 --> 00:44:37,821
And to be the glory
469
00:44:37,981 --> 00:44:41,981
Of thy people
470
00:44:42,141 --> 00:44:49,181
Israel
471
00:44:55,141 --> 00:44:59,541
Glory be to the Father
472
00:44:59,701 --> 00:45:02,861
And to the Son
473
00:45:03,021 --> 00:45:07,381
And to the Holy Ghost
474
00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:11,541
As it was in the beginning
475
00:45:11,701 --> 00:45:18,021
Is now and ever shall be
476
00:45:19,981 --> 00:45:24,981
World without end
477
00:45:25,141 --> 00:45:30,541
Amen