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Three, two, one...go!

2
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Come on! Come on!

3
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Handbrake on, gear in neutral,
switch off ignition.

4
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Please, sir, how long, sir?
A time, sir?

5
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- Timekeeper, time, please, Rhino?
- Please, sir, how long?

6
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Well done, Roach, knew you would,
second time round.

7
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Sir, how long?

8
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Now then, Jumbo...see that man...

9
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- Seen him before?
- No, sir.

10
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- Anybody seen him before?
- No, sir.

11
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He's not staff, not village, so who
is he...beggarman, thief?

12
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor.

13
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Richman, Poorman, Beggarman, Thief.

14
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Why doesn't he look this way?
Something funny about that.

15
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A bunch of boys burning up a car
and he doesn't give them a glance!

16
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- You would, wouldn't you?
- Yes, sir.

17
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Doesn't he like boys? Cars?

18
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Didn't even look at that car,
best Britain ever made and years
out of production!

19
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Right. Gather round. Come on!

20
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Anybody sees him again, let me know,
or any other sinister bodies.

21
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Yes, sir.

22
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Don't want juju men wandering around,
pretending they don't know we exist.

23
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- First glimpse, tell me?
- Yes, sir.

24
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Jumbo, I don't hold with odd bods
wandering around a school.

25
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Last place I was at,
a gang cleared the place out.

26
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House cups, money, boys' watches,
nothing's sacred to them.

27
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We don't want them swiping the Alvis.

28
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It's irreplaceable, thanks to socialism.

29
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- Color of hair, Jumbo?
- Sort of light, sir.

30
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- Height?
- About the same as you, sir.

31
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- Age?
- Well...hard to say, sir.

32
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Of course, at that distance.
You'd know him again, I'm sure.

33
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Best watcher in the unit, Jumbo Roach.
If he keeps his specs clean.

34
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Aa-ah. Ow!

35
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Please, sir!

36
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- Oh, it's you, Jumbo.
- I've hurt my leg, sir.

37
00:08:03,131 --> 00:08:05,411
Oh, dear.

38
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Can you get up? Slowly.

39
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Slowly.

40
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Fell off the bricks, did you, Jumbo?

41
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Let's have a look...nothing broken.

42
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Just a graze. Matron will soon
put that right.

43
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A good excuse for getting in late,
missing Evensong.

44
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Tripped over in the lane,
is that what you'll tell her?

45
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We've a secret. I can trust you,
I know that.

46
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We're good at keeping secrets,
loners like you and me.

47
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Is it because of that man?
Would you shoot him?

48
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Are you working undercover,
like Bulldog Drummond in the book?

49
00:09:02,251 --> 00:09:07,371
Some boys wanted to call you Bulldog,
but we thought Rhino was better.

50
00:09:07,531 --> 00:09:12,891
- Bigger than a bulldog.
- Well...I used to be a soldier.

51
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What you saw just now,
that's a souvenir.

52
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You know, it's like this.

53
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How I got it, they're both secrets,
I keep them to myself.

54
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- You understand, don't you, Jumbo?
- Yes, sir.

55
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Knew you would, knew you would.

56
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- Goodnight, Jumbo.
- Night-night, sir.

57
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Thank you, sir.

58
00:10:02,811 --> 00:10:06,811
- Well, well, long time no see.
- Hello, sir.

59
00:10:07,611 --> 00:10:10,931
- Care for it?
- Very impressive.

60
00:10:15,131 --> 00:10:18,211
Better than selling washing machines!

61
00:10:18,611 --> 00:10:22,611
It's odd putting a dinner jacket on
at ten in the morning.

62
00:10:26,291 --> 00:10:29,771
Reminds me of diplomatic cover,
come to think of it.

63
00:10:35,331 --> 00:10:39,091
Believe it or not, it's straight.
Makes a change.

64
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- All our help is from the arithmetic.
- I'm sure it is.

65
00:10:56,411 --> 00:11:00,531
My employers might let me
invest a few pennies.

66
00:11:00,691 --> 00:11:04,091
They're tough boys but very
go-ahead, you know.

67
00:11:04,691 --> 00:11:06,851
Rather like we were in the old days.

68
00:11:07,211 --> 00:11:11,411
So...what can I do for you?

69
00:11:15,131 --> 00:11:18,771
I want to talk to you
about the night Jim Prideaux was shot.

70
00:11:18,931 --> 00:11:23,131
The night of Operation Testify,
which is what it was called.

71
00:11:23,291 --> 00:11:27,291
- Writing your memoirs, George?
- We're re-opening the case.

72
00:11:27,451 --> 00:11:30,051
Who's this "we", old boy?

73
00:11:30,211 --> 00:11:32,851
Lacon called me in, with
the Minister's blessing.

74
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I can give you a number
to confirm, but I'd prefer not.

75
00:11:36,451 --> 00:11:39,571
All power corrupts, but
some must govern,

76
00:11:39,731 --> 00:11:43,051
and in that case Brother Lacon
will scramble to the top.

77
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The record's been filleted.

78
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Of what is on the file,
the most useful information

79
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is that you were duty officer
that night.

80
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Yes. I'd just come back from Tokyo,
a three-year stint.

81
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Thought I'd push off to the south
of France for a month's leave.

82
00:12:01,171 --> 00:12:04,411
Old Mendel, Control's minder,
picked me up in the passage

83
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and marched me to Control.

84
00:12:06,451 --> 00:12:10,051
Place felt weird, no one about
except radio and code people.

85
00:12:10,211 --> 00:12:14,891
That harridan, Molly somebody,
was monitoring, a busy little body.

86
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Molly Purcell.

87
00:12:16,891 --> 00:12:19,611
You were in Berlin, Bill Haydon
was up-country

88
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and Percy Alleline in Scotland.

89
00:12:21,811 --> 00:12:25,291
Control had cleared the decks.
My God, he was a shock.

90
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I'd heard he wasn't his old self,
but I wasn't prepared.

91
00:12:29,891 --> 00:12:34,891
It was like opening a coffin lid.
He didn't waste time on pleasantries.

92
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I need somebody to man the switchboard,
got to be an old hand.

93
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I could bring someone from the
out-stations, but you're better.

94
00:12:43,091 --> 00:12:47,371
You've been away from the in-fighting
and vendettas around here.

95
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You don't know what I'm
talking about, good.

96
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Just do exactly what I tell you.

97
00:12:57,651 --> 00:13:02,651
There could be a crisis tonight.
I've got a man doing a special job.

98
00:13:02,811 --> 00:13:05,531
It's of the utmost importance
to the service.

99
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The service, us...it could change
everything for us.

100
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Your job tonight is to act as cut-out.

101
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Cut-out between me and whatever
goes on in the building.

102
00:13:20,331 --> 00:13:26,091
If anything comes in...radio signal,
phone call, letter, anything,

103
00:13:26,251 --> 00:13:31,771
no matter how trivial it seems,
you are to wait...

104
00:13:31,931 --> 00:13:37,211
wait till the coast is clear
then bring it to me, by hand, Sam.

105
00:13:38,371 --> 00:13:40,531
Don't use the internal phones,

106
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don't put anything down
on paper for future reference.

107
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Is that understood?

108
00:13:49,411 --> 00:13:55,291
When it's all over...you're not
to breathe a word about it.

109
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Never, not to anybody. Not to Smiley.

110
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Not to Haydon, not to Bland, nobody.

111
00:14:03,411 --> 00:14:07,571
- If I have to send out something?
- Only what I tell you.

112
00:14:18,571 --> 00:14:23,451
It could cost them the match,
which will be sewn up by Paul Mariner.

113
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Or by Woods...still down...
or by Muhren...or by Wark...

114
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and in the end by none of them.
Unbelievable.

115
00:14:37,611 --> 00:14:40,811
Paul Mariner is completely flattened.

116
00:14:42,811 --> 00:14:47,731
He deserves better than that.
He's my man of the match.

117
00:14:48,251 --> 00:14:49,691
Bollocks!

118
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Yes. Duty officer.

119
00:16:02,131 --> 00:16:04,051
Mmm.

120
00:16:05,211 --> 00:16:08,691
Right, yes, I see.

121
00:16:09,251 --> 00:16:12,891
I'll have to call you back.
It all sounds very unlikely.

122
00:16:16,611 --> 00:16:19,091
Collins? This is urgent.

123
00:16:19,251 --> 00:16:21,731
Well, it's open.

124
00:16:21,891 --> 00:16:24,211
All hell's broken out on
the Czechoslovak air.

125
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Half is coded but enough isn't.

126
00:16:26,811 --> 00:16:28,811
- Prague or Brno?
- Brno.

127
00:16:37,931 --> 00:16:41,051
Yes. Go back, Molly, keep listening.

128
00:17:01,851 --> 00:17:04,251
Control?

129
00:17:04,931 --> 00:17:09,891
Control, the resident clerk
from the Foreign Office came on first,

130
00:17:10,051 --> 00:17:13,971
with a story from Reuter's head man
in London. Molly picked it up too.

131
00:17:14,131 --> 00:17:17,971
Reuters and Fleet Street papers have had
another go at the Foreign Office.

132
00:17:18,131 --> 00:17:22,251
They're saying a British spy
has been shot in Brno.

133
00:17:23,611 --> 00:17:28,451
The Czechs are telling the world of an
act of provocation by a Western power.

134
00:17:29,731 --> 00:17:32,011
They haven't named the dead man yet.

135
00:17:35,251 --> 00:17:38,171
Can I have a brief, please?

136
00:17:41,011 --> 00:17:43,611
Control, I need a brief.

137
00:17:45,771 --> 00:17:48,571
We must say something.

138
00:17:49,451 --> 00:17:54,131
Do you want me to deny it,
a flat denial, to start with?

139
00:17:57,811 --> 00:18:00,131
Do you want me to get someone else in?

140
00:18:04,851 --> 00:18:08,691
Do you want to come downstairs
and handle it yourself?

141
00:18:10,851 --> 00:18:14,011
It's deniable. He had foreign documents.

142
00:18:14,171 --> 00:18:18,171
No one could know he was British yet,
there hasn't been time.

143
00:18:18,531 --> 00:18:21,171
Even if he's not dead.

144
00:18:25,651 --> 00:18:28,651
- Find Smiley.
- He's in Berlin.

145
00:18:35,491 --> 00:18:37,371
Yes.

146
00:18:41,171 --> 00:18:45,931
Well, anyone will do, it
makes no difference.

147
00:18:58,411 --> 00:19:01,811
Tell Mendel to get me a taxi.

148
00:19:07,131 --> 00:19:09,451
You sent Mendel home.

149
00:19:50,371 --> 00:19:52,451
He's been named.

150
00:19:52,731 --> 00:19:55,891
Hello? Hello.

151
00:19:56,051 --> 00:19:58,731
Is that Mrs Smiley?

152
00:20:15,371 --> 00:20:18,411
You got my message, then?

153
00:20:20,211 --> 00:20:23,451
- Where did you leave it?
- I rang George Smiley's house,

154
00:20:23,611 --> 00:20:26,531
in case his wife happened
to know where you were.

155
00:20:26,691 --> 00:20:29,011
You are a friend of the family?

156
00:20:30,931 --> 00:20:36,531
I saw the ticker-tape at the club,
some God-awful shooting party.

157
00:20:36,971 --> 00:20:39,651
Tell me, Czechoslovakia, right?

158
00:20:43,211 --> 00:20:45,411
Jim Prideaux's been shot.

159
00:20:45,571 --> 00:20:49,291
The Czechs only have his
work name, Ellis.

160
00:20:51,131 --> 00:20:54,251
Jim...shot dead?

161
00:20:54,411 --> 00:20:59,931
That was the first flash. Since then
the word used is simply "shot".

162
00:21:00,611 --> 00:21:03,651
The Czechs are saying
that Prideaux...Ellis...

163
00:21:03,811 --> 00:21:07,651
traveling on false papers and assisted
by Czech counter-revolutionaries,

164
00:21:07,811 --> 00:21:11,811
tried to kidnap a Czech general,
unnamed, in a forest near Brno

165
00:21:11,971 --> 00:21:17,731
and smuggle him over the Austrian border.
Further arrests are imminent.

166
00:21:20,171 --> 00:21:23,451
- Go on.
- According to our military,

167
00:21:23,611 --> 00:21:26,731
there are heavy Czech tank movements
along the Austrian border.

168
00:21:26,891 --> 00:21:29,131
Lacon's been on and so has the Minister,

169
00:21:29,291 --> 00:21:32,091
wanting to know "What the hell?"
and "Why?"

170
00:21:32,251 --> 00:21:37,291
I've put out emergency calls
to Smiley, Alleline, Bland.

171
00:21:40,251 --> 00:21:44,131
I'm glad to see you. I'm sorry, Bill.

172
00:21:45,051 --> 00:21:51,451
Alright, Sam. Now. First thing
we do...you call this number.

173
00:21:51,611 --> 00:21:56,051
It's Toby Esterhase.
Tell him you're speaking for me.

174
00:21:56,211 --> 00:22:00,771
He's to pick up the two Czech agents
at the London School of Economics.

175
00:22:00,931 --> 00:22:02,531
Lock them up...now.

176
00:22:03,091 --> 00:22:07,171
Straight away, Sam.
Jim's worth a lot more than those two.

177
00:22:07,331 --> 00:22:09,691
But it's a start.

178
00:22:09,851 --> 00:22:12,851
I'll have a word with the chief hood
at the Czech Embassy.

179
00:22:14,771 --> 00:22:17,211
If they hurt a hair on
Jim Prideaux's hair,

180
00:22:17,371 --> 00:22:20,811
I'll strip the entire Czech network
in this country bare.

181
00:22:20,971 --> 00:22:24,211
You can pass that on to his masters.

182
00:22:25,411 --> 00:22:28,691
I'll make him the laughing stock
of the profession.

183
00:22:43,731 --> 00:22:46,331
I'm bound to say, Haydon
was a treat to watch.

184
00:22:47,531 --> 00:22:51,331
I used to think of him
as a pretty erratic sort of devil.

185
00:22:52,091 --> 00:22:54,251
Not that night, believe me.

186
00:22:54,411 --> 00:22:58,251
He virtually dictated a press statement
for the Foreign Office to put out.

187
00:22:58,411 --> 00:23:01,811
There it was the following morning
in the Sunday papers.

188
00:23:01,971 --> 00:23:07,051
"Prague radio sensation" dismissed
with dignified scorn.

189
00:23:09,171 --> 00:23:12,451
It was good light reading
over breakfast at the Savoy.

190
00:23:12,611 --> 00:23:16,331
- Then you went to the south of France.
- Two lovely months.

191
00:23:16,571 --> 00:23:21,051
- Did anyone question you again?
- Percy Alleline.

192
00:23:21,771 --> 00:23:24,331
He was acting Chief by then,

193
00:23:24,491 --> 00:23:26,851
you were out and Control
was in hospital.

194
00:23:27,011 --> 00:23:31,411
He wanted to know why I was
duty officer on the fateful night.

195
00:23:31,571 --> 00:23:34,251
That chap Masterman was down for it.

196
00:23:34,411 --> 00:23:37,651
I told him I'd nowhere to kip
and a quiet weekend at the Circus

197
00:23:37,811 --> 00:23:40,531
would save me money for France.

198
00:23:40,771 --> 00:23:44,331
- Percy said I was a liar.
- That's why they sacked you?

199
00:23:44,491 --> 00:23:46,091
- For fibbing?
- Alcoholism.

200
00:23:46,251 --> 00:23:49,851
There were five empty beer cans
in the duty officer's waste bin.

201
00:23:50,011 --> 00:23:52,331
There's an order against
booze on the premises.

202
00:23:52,491 --> 00:23:54,251
What was your offense?

203
00:23:54,411 --> 00:23:57,371
I couldn't convince them
I wasn't involved.

204
00:23:57,531 --> 00:24:00,291
If you want anyone's throat cut,
give me a buzz.

205
00:24:01,251 --> 00:24:05,731
Sam, listen, it was too late
for Haydon's club

206
00:24:05,891 --> 00:24:07,931
to be running ticker-tape, wasn't it?

207
00:24:08,331 --> 00:24:12,771
He was making love to Ann that night.
You guessed and were right.

208
00:24:12,931 --> 00:24:16,691
You phoned her, she told you
he wasn't there,

209
00:24:16,851 --> 00:24:19,731
and as soon as you rung off
she pushed him out of bed,

210
00:24:21,011 --> 00:24:26,171
and Bill turned up an hour later,
knowing about Czecho.

211
00:24:28,331 --> 00:24:32,531
But you didn't tell Ann about Czecho.

212
00:24:37,211 --> 00:24:39,651
I'll find my own way down.

213
00:24:40,651 --> 00:24:42,651
Mind how you go, George.

214
00:25:55,051 --> 00:25:57,211
- Smiley.
- Jim.

215
00:25:58,331 --> 00:26:03,651
If you're not on your own,
I swear I'll break your neck.

216
00:26:03,811 --> 00:26:05,811
Quite alone, Jim.

217
00:26:37,051 --> 00:26:41,571
God damn you, George,
what the hell do you want?

218
00:26:41,731 --> 00:26:44,891
I'm sorry, Jim, but I have
to know what happened.

219
00:26:45,051 --> 00:26:50,131
I'm finished, man.
Told to draw the line and I've drawn it.

220
00:26:51,771 --> 00:26:53,771
How do you like school mastering?

221
00:26:53,931 --> 00:26:58,091
You had a spell of it after the war,
was that at a prep school?

222
00:26:58,251 --> 00:27:03,331
Don't come playing cat and mouse with me,
George Smiley. Look at the file.

223
00:27:03,491 --> 00:27:07,211
Circus file? Not available
to me, Jim, I'm blackballed.

224
00:27:07,451 --> 00:27:09,491
Hard luck!

225
00:27:14,571 --> 00:27:19,931
I've had access to a few papers
which Lacon borrowed for me.

226
00:27:21,051 --> 00:27:22,571
Pretty old stuff.

227
00:27:22,731 --> 00:27:27,251
It went back to your undergraduate days
with Bill Haydon at Oxford.

228
00:27:28,051 --> 00:27:32,291
There's a letter Bill wrote
about you to his tutor, Fanshawe,

229
00:27:33,291 --> 00:27:35,251
Circus talent spotter,

230
00:27:35,411 --> 00:27:39,011
in which he named you suitable
material for British Intelligence.

231
00:27:39,171 --> 00:27:42,611
I can quote the odd line from memory.

232
00:27:43,691 --> 00:27:47,331
"He has that heavy quiet that commands."

233
00:27:47,851 --> 00:27:53,131
"He's my other half. Between us
we make one marvelous man."

234
00:27:53,291 --> 00:27:56,011
"He asks nothing better than
to be in my company,"

235
00:27:56,171 --> 00:27:58,931
"or that of my wicked, divine friends."

236
00:27:59,091 --> 00:28:02,451
"I'm vastly tickled by the compliment."

237
00:28:02,611 --> 00:28:05,491
"He's virgin, about eight foot tall,"

238
00:28:05,651 --> 00:28:09,371
"and built by the same firm
that did Stonehenge."

239
00:28:09,531 --> 00:28:11,571
Christ!

240
00:28:11,731 --> 00:28:14,491
Christ, man, we were children.

241
00:28:14,971 --> 00:28:16,531
Yes, of course.

242
00:28:17,891 --> 00:28:20,011
What do you want to know?

243
00:28:21,131 --> 00:28:25,731
I thought we could at least be
comfortable while we talk. It isn't far.

244
00:28:58,091 --> 00:29:02,811
I came round in a prison hospital,
barred windows, high up.

245
00:29:02,971 --> 00:29:04,971
They operated, after a fashion.

246
00:29:05,451 --> 00:29:09,571
Next time I came round,
I was in a cell with no windows at all.

247
00:29:12,491 --> 00:29:15,771
I tried to work out a campaign
to meet the interrogation,

248
00:29:15,931 --> 00:29:19,171
but I'd never be able to keep quiet,
no chance of that.

249
00:29:19,331 --> 00:29:23,811
If I was to stay sane, possibly
even survive,

250
00:29:23,971 --> 00:29:28,531
there had to be dialogue, they had
to believe I'd told them all I knew.

251
00:29:29,251 --> 00:29:34,011
I decided I'd give them
my version of Operation Testify first,

252
00:29:34,171 --> 00:29:36,451
the one Control spelled out for me.

253
00:29:36,611 --> 00:29:38,811
I was head of scalphunters.

254
00:29:38,971 --> 00:29:41,931
I mounted my own campaign
without the knowledge of my superiors

255
00:29:42,091 --> 00:29:44,491
because I wanted to prove
I was worth promotion.

256
00:29:44,891 --> 00:29:47,051
If I could believe that,

257
00:29:47,211 --> 00:29:51,291
I could bury all thoughts
of a traitor inside the Circus.

258
00:29:52,091 --> 00:29:57,011
No mole. No meeting with Control.
No Tinker, Tailor.

259
00:29:57,171 --> 00:30:01,651
I was there to turn General Stevcek
and just that.

260
00:30:03,811 --> 00:30:06,691
Then I thought I could
throw them the names

261
00:30:06,851 --> 00:30:10,891
of one or two other Soviet and satellite
visuals who'd turned recently.

262
00:30:11,411 --> 00:30:15,331
Even give them the rundown
of my entire Brixton stable, anything.

263
00:30:15,491 --> 00:30:20,211
So long as I forgot the mole
and Tinker, Tailor.

264
00:30:20,371 --> 00:30:23,291
I kept to myself our Czech networks.

265
00:30:24,931 --> 00:30:27,331
You know I recruited
the founder members?

266
00:30:28,251 --> 00:30:31,331
- A fine piece of work.
- That's the joke.

267
00:30:31,491 --> 00:30:35,531
They couldn't care less about
the networks, knew it all. Rolled
them up.

268
00:30:35,691 --> 00:30:39,211
They knew damn well that Testify
wasn't my private brainchild.

269
00:30:40,731 --> 00:30:46,851
I began exactly where I wanted to end,
at the briefing in St James's.

270
00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:51,091
All they wanted to talk about
was Control's rotten apple theory:

271
00:30:51,251 --> 00:30:53,891
Tinker, Tailor and the Circus spy.

272
00:30:54,851 --> 00:30:57,371
Did they know the address
of the St James's flat?

273
00:30:57,531 --> 00:31:00,211
Yes, they even knew the brand
of the sherry.

274
00:31:02,531 --> 00:31:08,891
What about Control's charts on Stevcek's
career, did they know about those?

275
00:31:10,331 --> 00:31:14,051
No. Not at first.

276
00:31:20,451 --> 00:31:24,331
Tell me about the networks.
Did anyone get out?

277
00:31:24,491 --> 00:31:26,491
No.

278
00:31:27,571 --> 00:31:29,811
It seems they were shot.

279
00:31:29,971 --> 00:31:33,371
The story is you blew them
to save your own skin.

280
00:31:33,531 --> 00:31:35,971
I know that isn't true, of course.

281
00:32:04,571 --> 00:32:07,731
For Christ's sakes, let's go
somewhere we can breathe.

282
00:32:34,691 --> 00:32:40,931
They moved me about a lot,
different rooms, different prisons.

283
00:32:41,491 --> 00:32:46,331
Depending on who was interrogating
and what methods they used.

284
00:32:47,571 --> 00:32:49,531
There was quite a lot of muscle.

285
00:32:51,011 --> 00:32:52,931
Electrical, most of it.

286
00:32:57,091 --> 00:33:03,051
Yes, movement...cars, lorries,
corridors, cells.

287
00:33:04,251 --> 00:33:08,611
Once a plane. I was hooded
and passed out after take-off.

288
00:33:08,771 --> 00:33:11,651
Punished for that, huh.

289
00:33:13,811 --> 00:33:17,571
I think I was in Russia
part of the time.

290
00:33:19,451 --> 00:33:23,411
Would you like
to stretch your legs? It might help.

291
00:33:45,811 --> 00:33:48,331
They went straight to the heart of it.

292
00:33:49,211 --> 00:33:53,251
Why did Control go it alone?
What did he hope to achieve?

293
00:33:53,411 --> 00:33:57,291
His comeback, I said. That got a laugh!

294
00:33:57,451 --> 00:34:00,931
With tinpot information
about Czecho military emplacements?

295
00:34:01,091 --> 00:34:03,371
Wouldn't get him a meal at his club.

296
00:34:03,531 --> 00:34:09,611
So I said maybe poor old Control
was losing his grip.

297
00:34:09,771 --> 00:34:14,811
That bored them.
Back to the cooler, punished again.

298
00:34:32,811 --> 00:34:36,211
You know, I-I hoped I'd go mad.

299
00:34:37,051 --> 00:34:43,091
Oh, no. They knew how to stop that.
They left me alone for a couple of days.

300
00:34:43,411 --> 00:34:46,531
Got me ready for the long one.

301
00:34:48,051 --> 00:34:51,731
That was when I ga...ga...gave...

302
00:34:52,891 --> 00:34:56,451
g...gave them what they wanted.

303
00:34:56,611 --> 00:34:59,611
It's a matter of health as much
as anything.

304
00:34:59,771 --> 00:35:02,771
You don't break exactly,
just run out of stories.

305
00:35:03,971 --> 00:35:09,611
Only the things locked away deep down
were what was coming into my brain.

306
00:35:10,411 --> 00:35:15,131
That was when I told them
about Control's charts on Stevcek.

307
00:35:15,291 --> 00:35:18,131
Also Control's rotten apple theory?

308
00:35:18,291 --> 00:35:22,771
Yes, the mole, codenames
we worked out for Control's suspects.

309
00:35:22,931 --> 00:35:26,291
Tinker...Percy Alleline,
Tailor...Bill Haydon,

310
00:35:26,451 --> 00:35:32,251
Soldier...Roy Bland,
Poorman...Toby Esterhase,

311
00:35:32,411 --> 00:35:36,491
- Beggarman...George Smiley.
- What was the reaction?

312
00:35:36,651 --> 00:35:40,531
He thought for a bit
then he offered me a cigarette.

313
00:35:40,691 --> 00:35:44,291
- Who did?
- What?

314
00:35:45,691 --> 00:35:52,251
Oh, sorry, by this stage there was
some frosty bearded fellow left.

315
00:35:52,971 --> 00:35:55,251
He seemed to be head boy.

316
00:35:55,411 --> 00:35:59,571
Just him and a couple of guards
standing back while he made his kill.

317
00:36:00,771 --> 00:36:03,771
- I hated that damn cigarette.
- Why?

318
00:36:03,931 --> 00:36:08,371
It was a foul American thing, Camel.
I remember the packet.

319
00:36:08,531 --> 00:36:11,371
- Did he smoke them?
- Never stopped.

320
00:36:12,451 --> 00:36:16,651
- Was that the end of it?
- More or less, yes.

321
00:36:16,811 --> 00:36:19,451
I have to know everything, Jim.

322
00:36:20,491 --> 00:36:24,411
The rest was just gossip. He wanted
to know Circus tittle-tattle,

323
00:36:24,571 --> 00:36:26,931
who's going up, who's going down,
a lot of tripe.

324
00:36:27,091 --> 00:36:31,171
- About what? Who?
- Bland, how much he drank.

325
00:36:31,331 --> 00:36:35,571
Esterhase, how can anybody
trust a man dressed like that?

326
00:36:35,731 --> 00:36:38,051
A lot of tripe.

327
00:36:38,691 --> 00:36:42,371
What did he say about me?

328
00:36:42,691 --> 00:36:45,371
He showed me his cigarette lighter,
said it was yours.

329
00:36:46,291 --> 00:36:50,331
A present from Ann..."All my love"
...her signature engraved.

330
00:36:51,771 --> 00:36:55,771
- Did he say how he came by it?
- A confrontation years ago.

331
00:36:55,931 --> 00:36:58,531
- Said you'd remember.
- Anything else?

332
00:36:59,251 --> 00:37:05,451
Come on, I'll not buckle just because
a Russian hood's made a joke about me.

333
00:37:06,491 --> 00:37:12,171
He reckoned after Haydon's
fling with her, she may care to
redraft the inscription.

334
00:37:13,331 --> 00:37:16,371
I told him to his face he
could go to bloody hell.

335
00:37:16,531 --> 00:37:20,131
You can't judge Bill by things like that.
He's got different standards.

336
00:37:21,051 --> 00:37:25,931
- He was never one for regulations.
- You weren't one to see him straight.

337
00:37:29,891 --> 00:37:32,811
That's it, everything.

338
00:38:00,971 --> 00:38:05,011
Bill made a huge fuss about
your repatriation.

339
00:38:05,171 --> 00:38:09,331
He said any price was fair
to get one loyal Englishman home.

340
00:38:10,011 --> 00:38:14,451
I remember his verdict
on Control's handling of Testify.

341
00:38:14,611 --> 00:38:17,211
"The most incompetent operation
ever launched"

342
00:38:17,371 --> 00:38:23,011
"by an old man for his dying glory, and
Jim Prideaux paid the cost of it."

343
00:38:23,171 --> 00:38:25,211
Proud of your memory, aren't you?

344
00:38:25,371 --> 00:38:28,611
- Did you see Bill when you got back?
- No.

345
00:38:30,531 --> 00:38:35,571
- Your oldest closest friend?
- I was in quarantine.

346
00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:39,571
Well, yes, but...never mind.

347
00:38:39,731 --> 00:38:44,491
Let's go over your debriefing
at Sarratt to wrap it up.

348
00:38:44,651 --> 00:38:48,011
Were the inquisitors sympathetic or not?

349
00:38:48,171 --> 00:38:51,571
Never appeared, no questions at all.

350
00:38:51,731 --> 00:38:54,531
I was in limbo. Ate a lot,
drank a lot, slept a lot.

351
00:38:54,691 --> 00:38:59,211
Then Toby Esterhase turns up.
New suit, full of himself.

352
00:38:59,371 --> 00:39:03,491
Says the Circus has nearly gone under
due to Operation Testify

353
00:39:03,651 --> 00:39:05,731
and I'm currently number one leper.

354
00:39:05,891 --> 00:39:11,531
Control's out of the game and there's
a reorganization to appease Whitehall.

355
00:39:11,691 --> 00:39:15,651
- They sent Toby?
- Yes, the little charmer!

356
00:39:16,211 --> 00:39:19,091
- He told me not to worry.
- About what?

357
00:39:19,251 --> 00:39:22,611
My special brief, whatever
Control had told me.

358
00:39:23,851 --> 00:39:29,331
- Did Toby spell it all out?
- Said a few people knew the real story

359
00:39:29,491 --> 00:39:32,131
and I needn't worry, it was
being taken care of.

360
00:39:32,291 --> 00:39:35,851
- All the facts were known.
- Were they indeed...?

361
00:39:36,011 --> 00:39:41,851
Then he gave me 1,000 quid in cash,
to add to my gratuity.

362
00:39:42,011 --> 00:39:44,451
- Who from?
- Didn't say.

363
00:39:45,731 --> 00:39:47,771
Didn't all this strike you as a bit odd?

364
00:39:47,931 --> 00:39:53,091
No inquisition.
Toby throwing loose money around?

365
00:39:53,491 --> 00:39:57,131
Through you, the Russians have
discovered the exact reach

366
00:39:57,331 --> 00:40:01,331
of Control's suspicions
about a traitor in the Circus.

367
00:40:01,491 --> 00:40:08,331
He'd narrowed the field to five
and no one's asking you anything?

368
00:40:10,971 --> 00:40:13,011
The facts were known, man.

369
00:40:16,131 --> 00:40:22,011
Toby ordered me not to approach anyone
or to try to make my story heard.

370
00:40:22,771 --> 00:40:24,971
The Circus was back on the road.

371
00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:28,931
I could forget Tinker, Tailor,
the whole damn game, moles, everything.

372
00:40:30,011 --> 00:40:35,811
"Drop out," he said.
"You're a lucky man, Jim, forget it."

373
00:40:35,971 --> 00:40:39,651
"Eh? Forget it."

374
00:40:41,331 --> 00:40:46,131
So Toby actually mentioned
Tinker, Tailor to you?

375
00:40:49,051 --> 00:40:52,531
However did he get hold of that?

376
00:41:02,051 --> 00:41:04,851
That's what I've been doing.

377
00:41:06,091 --> 00:41:09,171
Obeying orders and forgetting.

378
00:41:46,251 --> 00:41:51,771
<i>Lord, now lettest thou
thy servant</i>

379
00:41:51,931 --> 00:41:56,731
<i>Depart in peace</i>

380
00:42:06,491 --> 00:42:12,491
<i>According to</i>

381
00:42:12,651 --> 00:42:16,651
<i>Thy word</i>

382
00:42:21,371 --> 00:42:27,771
<i>For mine eyes have seen</i>

383
00:42:27,931 --> 00:42:34,131
<i>Thy salvation</i>

384
00:42:38,811 --> 00:42:44,211
<i>Which thou hast prepared
before the face</i>

385
00:42:44,371 --> 00:42:51,171
<i>Of all people</i>

386
00:42:54,971 --> 00:42:59,211
<i>To be a light</i>

387
00:42:59,371 --> 00:43:03,491
<i>To lighten</i>

388
00:43:03,651 --> 00:43:07,531
<i>The gentiles</i>

389
00:43:07,691 --> 00:43:12,651
<i>And to be the glory</i>

390
00:43:12,811 --> 00:43:16,811
<i>Of thy people</i>

391
00:43:16,971 --> 00:43:24,371
<i>Israel</i>

392
00:43:30,251 --> 00:43:34,651
<i>Glory be to the Father</i>

393
00:43:34,811 --> 00:43:38,011
<i>And to the Son</i>

394
00:43:38,171 --> 00:43:41,931
<i>And to the Holy Ghost</i>

395
00:43:42,931 --> 00:43:46,931
<i>As it was in the beginning</i>

396
00:43:47,091 --> 00:43:52,571
<i>Is now and ever shall be</i>

397
00:43:55,171 --> 00:44:00,171
<i>World without end</i>

398
00:44:00,331 --> 00:44:05,331
<i>Amen</i>