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George, old boy. What an amazing thing.
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- Trust you popping up out of nowhere.
- How are you, Jerry?
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George, this is terrific. What are
you doing? How's the demon wife?
How's everything?
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First things first, what'll you have?
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Fancy a bottle of bubbles? Shall we?
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- A brandy and ginger ale is fine.
- Sure? Alright.
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Linda, give us a double brandy
and ginger ale and another bucket
of gin, will you?
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- I think I'll marry her.
- How many would that be?
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I'm a divorce addict, hopeless case.
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Not lucky like you, George,
but there's only one Ann.
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I'll do a deal, an offer
you can't refuse.
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I'll shack up with Ann, be the envy
of London, and you can have my job
on the comic.
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You've the turn of phrase
for the women's ping-pong.
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"Inscrutable Chinese Wizardess".
Do you fancy it?
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Is that the task for today?
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Much bigger stuff, old boy.
Footer, the opiate of the people.
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Heap big transfer...
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Scottish Thunderboots to rescue
of ex-champs now on the slide.
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- Thanks, Linda, my love.
- Will I write it down, Mr Westerby?
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Ah, please, Linda.
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- Cheers, George.
- Cheers.
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This isn't entirely a chance meeting.
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I got the letter you wrote me,
last football season. I burnt it
straight away.
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Right, thanks. Stupid of me,
talking out of school...sorry.
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No, you did what you felt
was right at the time and so did I.
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Haven't seen many of the boys
and girls lately, actually.
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Guess they've put both of us
on the shelf. With me I can hardly
blame them.
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Firewater not good for braves.
They think I'll blab, crack up.
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I'm sure they don't.
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I expect they're resting you up.
They do that, you know?
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In case you've wondered,
I didn't tell anyone about your letter.
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I was out of favor...out of work.
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Writing to me wasn't what put them off,
if that's what you thought.
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In your letter you said you were
a bit worried about Toby Esterhase.
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Felt you ought to get something
off your chest.
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I got all xenophobe and suspicious.
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Thought Toby had gone
a bit haywire, in fact.
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- I should talk.
- Tell me now.
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You'd just come back
from Czechoslovakia, hadn't you?
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Last job I did for Tobe.
Looks like the last I'll ever do.
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- Letterbox job?
- Yes, nothing to it, really.
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Telephone kiosk, ledge at the top,
dump a package ready for collection.
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That was Budapest.
The Czechoslovak thing,
I ran into by accident.
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Had to go on to Prague, for the comic.
Nothing to do with Tobe.
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- Linda, sweetheart.
- Again, Mr Westerby?
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Please, my beauty. Oh, no, no, no.
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Got time to eat?
We'll go Dutch on that, shall we?
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I was in this bar in Prague,
always use it. Locals go there,
all sorts.
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Well, I got in with this crowd
round a corner table,
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a bloke playing a squeeze box,
we're all hugger-mugger to the music...
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Ah, thank you, Linda, my love.
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And there's this kid with
a pudding bowl haircut. Army...obvious.
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He's on leave, well in his cups,
and knows I'm English.
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Suddenly he says, do I want to
know the truth about the British spy
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shot by the Russian secret police?
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Just like that. Yells it
right in my ear.
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I play dumb, and he
goes right on with it.
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You know, the Jim Prideaux shambles.
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He was belly-aching
about being a foot soldier of the line.
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Seems on the two nights in question,
they were being chased till dizzy.
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Make camp, break camp, move up,
move back...fix bayonets!
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But the big point was the Russian
contingent.
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Full warpaint...tanks,
motor-bikes, tracker dogs
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and a big car load of very
sinister civilians.
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Dirty work afoot in the forest,
up near the Austrian border.
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So, my little friend, being
a sassy little devil,
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decides to ask his sergeant
what's it all about.
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"Sarge," he says, "What's going on?
We being invaded, Sarge?"
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"No, son," says the sergeant.
"The Russians are after a British spy"
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"who tried to kidnap a general."
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- "Are" after...or "were" after?
- Exactly.
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That's what the kid wanted to tell me.
The Russians moved in on the Friday.
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It was the day after when they got Jim.
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As he said, they were ready and waiting
for him. Knew the lot, in advance.
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Heap bad story.
Bad for our big chief. Bad for tribe.
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So, as soon as I got back,
I went and told all to Tobe.
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How did he take it?
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To begin with it was
"Thanks a million, Jerry, old boy."
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He'd go and pow-wow with the top brass.
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Then the next morning...
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You're so plastered these days,
you can't tell fact from fiction!
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You're an embarrassment!
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You go on a bender,
drink yourself into cloud cuckoo land,
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then come staggering back here
with a load of tripe like this!
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You're pathetic!
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- Look, old boy...
- I don't want any excuses.
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- I had to report what I heard.
- You believed every stupid word!
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Swallowed it like mother's milk!
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A load of half-baked rumors,
you come spreading them round here,
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what you can remember,
through your alcoholic haze!
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- I didn't forget a thing.
- Well, you will now!
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You'll forget the lot!
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Don't you see? The boy was a plant...
provocateur, in layman's language.
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He was doing a job
for Moscow Center. Object...disruption.
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Make the Circus chase our own tails.
And you fell for it, Jerry. That's all.
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OK, Tobe, you know best.
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If you don't want the story,
that's your business. I'll do it
for the paper.
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You'll what?
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Not about the Russians
getting there first, but the rest,
it's all good stuff.
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Story wasn't covered well at the time,
just the official statement.
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If old Jerry gets a splash about the day
the Czechs mobilized for WWIII...
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except it was one lone Englishman
surrounding them...that's a good piece.
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The comic might even run
an ad on the telly.
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The day after that I was called for
by the editor.
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THE editor, not the sports bloke.
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He tells me some clown has been
on the phone with a formal warning.
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"Keep that baboon Westerby
off the Czecho spy story."
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"Any further reference against
the national interest."
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"End of message."
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So, I didn't get the Reporter
of the Year award.
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Can't, can you, when your story's
on the spike? Cheers.
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You didn't spike it entirely.
I mean, you wrote to me.
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Dropped the letter in by hand.
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Must have been the same day
you talked to Toby Esterhase.
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Well, as I said at the time,
it just felt odd.
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My mistake, old boy.
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When I heard you got the heave-ho,
I felt an even bigger damn fool.
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I thought it was you who
phoned the editor.
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It wasn't.
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'Course not. Sorry.
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Nothing untoward going on?
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Tribe hasn't gone on the rampage?
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But are you hunting alone?
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I'm not the brightest, but when
you start asking questions, there's
got to be something.
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All I'm saying is, any time, old boy.
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Thank you, Jerry.
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- Rum chap, Toby Esterhase.
- But good.
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00:12:03,691 --> 00:12:05,851
God, first rate, brilliant, but rum.
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You won't forget to give my love to Ann?
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One of the great marriages,
always said so.
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Come on, Jerry, out with it.
Did Toby say something about Ann?
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Some story he'd got. I told him
to stuff it up his silk drawers.
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- I suppose I should have been prepared.
- Take on a temporary, you
can't expect loyalty.
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Well done, that boy!
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We're going to lose this match.
So much for Prideaux's coaching.
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I'm absolutely furious with that man.
It's monstrous to clear off.
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Did he say what's wrong with his mother?
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00:13:12,651 --> 00:13:16,851
No, he did not. She is supposed
to be dying.
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That's one excuse for absence
he can hardly use again.
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00:13:21,291 --> 00:13:24,851
Not at all, Mother. One false alarm
can easily lead to another.
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I'll ask for a full medical diagnosis
next time.
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00:13:36,251 --> 00:13:39,411
Those front row forwards
of theirs look over-age to me.
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Did he ever tell you
how he got that awful shoulder?
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- Fell off a bus with
a bottle of vodka...
- What?
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Fell off a bus with a bottle of vodka
inside him, I shouldn't wonder.
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I suppose I shall have
to take his French.
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Oh, come on, Thursgood, keep up!
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He's gone in the Alvis. He'd never
trust any other form of transport.
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If he'd gone for good, he wouldn't
leave the caravan behind, would he?
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00:14:09,611 --> 00:14:11,611
Stands to reason, that!
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00:14:12,731 --> 00:14:16,291
Besides, he'd have said "Goodbye"
properly, Rhino would.
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00:14:16,451 --> 00:14:20,051
Wouldn't just go, not Rhino.
Not like a juju man.
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I've come about the furs.
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- Hello, Toby.
- Peter.
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It's not exactly five-star. But then
we are shopping a bit downmarket.
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Safe houses I have known!
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Take the weight off your feet,
won't be long.
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So, we're expecting a Pole,
are we, Peter?
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In the fur trade. You think
I might take him on as a courier?
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I'd like him on my own payroll,
for preference. Looks useful.
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But what's the point?
My lads are under-employed as it is.
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Very generous of you, Peter.
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Stay put, Toby.
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Sorry about this, Toby.
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Against the wall, Tobe.
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Did he come alone or is there
a little friend waiting in the square?
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Looks all clear to me, sir.
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Go back to the other room
and don't take your eyes off the street.
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- Seen something?
- Turn the light out a moment.
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Just a shadow, I suppose.
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00:18:05,051 --> 00:18:07,051
Yes, I think so.
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I want to put a thesis to you, Toby,
about what's been going on.
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Let's cast our minds back,
say about 18 months, when
Control is still with us.
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Percy Alleline wants his job,
everyone knows that.
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Though Control is sick
and past his prime, Percy
can't dislodge him.
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It's a time of uneasiness in the Circus.
Morale is low, activity is low. Yes?
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I remember, George.
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Well, Percy's door opens one day
and one of our senior men walks in.
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We'll call him Gerald. It's just a name.
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Gerald says, "Percy, I've stumbled on a
major source of Russian intelligence."
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"It could be a gold mine."
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Perhaps they take a walk or a drive.
Whatever, Percy listens,
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because what Gerald goes on to say
is music in Percy's ears.
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"Some of us," Gerald tells him,
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"are worried sick about the state
the Circus is in."
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"Look at our operational losses,
agents, networks."
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He's careful not to suggest
there's a traitor inside the Circus,
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but emphasizes that slovenliness at
the top is leading to failure all round.
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That is to say, it's all
Control's fault.
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My thesis, you understand.
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- Sure, George.
- Another notion
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is that Percy Alleline
was his own Gerald.
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He bought himself a top Russian spy
and then manned his own boat.
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I don't believe that.
I think he'd mess it up, don't you?
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Sure, George.
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00:20:03,531 --> 00:20:06,891
So the next thing is for Gerald
to say to Percy,
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"I and a little group of
like-minded friends"
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"want you to be our
father-figure, Percy."
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"We're not political men, we don't know
our way in the Whitehall jungle."
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"But you do." Did you bring
a baby-sitter, Toby?
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00:20:23,531 --> 00:20:29,291
Why should I? I came to meet Peter
and some Pole in the fur trade.
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00:20:29,451 --> 00:20:31,931
Do you want Fawn to go down
and have a look?
203
00:20:32,091 --> 00:20:35,611
No, need him here. Can't
take the chance.
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Yes, well, Gerald says that if Percy
will handle the committees,
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he and his friends will handle Merlin.
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00:20:44,971 --> 00:20:48,531
Merlin being the Moscow
intelligence source
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and Witchcraft the name of the material
he supplies. How well it all worked.
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Merlin's material proved excellent,
as everyone agreed, except Control.
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00:21:00,691 --> 00:21:05,491
Eventually Control was out
and Percy was king.
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00:21:05,651 --> 00:21:10,851
- So what's new, George?
- Ever bought a fake picture, Toby?
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00:21:14,771 --> 00:21:16,771
I sold a couple once.
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00:21:17,091 --> 00:21:20,771
The more you pay, the less inclined
you are to doubt its authenticity.
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00:21:21,851 --> 00:21:26,411
Merlin's price was 20,000 francs
a month into a Swiss bank,
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00:21:27,331 --> 00:21:30,011
according to the file.
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00:21:30,171 --> 00:21:32,331
Yes, Toby, this is official.
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00:21:34,371 --> 00:21:41,171
There came the day when Gerald admitted
Percy to the greatest secret of all:
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That the Merlin set-up has a London end.
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00:21:44,931 --> 00:21:48,531
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Polyakov,
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You're on record
as grading him snow-white, Toby.
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Quite untainted with the mischief
of espionage.
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In fact, he's Merlin's London
representative.
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That's the start, I should tell you now,
of a very clever knot.
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Everything to do with Witchcraft
is secret, of course,
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but a lot of people are involved...
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transcribers, translators,
codists, evaluators, God knows what.
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It doesn't worry Gerald, of course.
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He likes it because the art of being
Gerald is to be one of a crowd.
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When it comes to Polyakov,
that's a different story.
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Who knows it? Only you,
Roy Bland, Bill Haydon and Percy.
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Three of you and Alleline.
You're the magic circle.
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Who meets him, Toby?
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For God's sake, let me
sweat the bastard.
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You all meet him. How's that?
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Percy represents the authoritarian side.
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Asks after his wife,
suggests it's time he took a holiday.
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Very paternal, Percy would be.
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Bill Haydon, I think,
would see Polyakov much more often.
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Bill's a Russian expert
and good entertainment value.
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Bill would shine when it comes
to the briefings and follow-up sessions,
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making sure the right messages
went back to Moscow.
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Roy Bland's good on economics and is
top man on the satellite countries,
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so he'd have plenty to chat about.
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Then there's you, Toby.
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You'd have solo sessions with Polyakov
as there's tradecraft to discuss
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and all those little snippets
about goings-on inside the Embassy,
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which are pretty much your field.
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If the magic circle wanted him to do
some photography inside the Embassy,
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it would be you who would
supply the film.
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Replenish his stock from time to time.
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Take him little sealed packets.
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Toby, you wouldn't be lying?
Did you bring a baby-sitter?
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- Cross my heart.
- What would you use
for a job like this?
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- Cars?
- No. On foot.
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- Keep walking them through.
- How many?
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- Eight. Ten, maybe.
- What about one man, alone?
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- One? Never. Impossible.
- I can call Mendel to take a look.
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I'm sure Toby's right.
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Listen, George, I know Polyakov
works for Moscow Center.
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Of course I do. We all know.
But come on.
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Think how many other operations
we've run this way.
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We've bought Polyakov, right. He's a
Moscow hood but he's also our joe.
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He's got to pretend to his own people
that he's spying on us.
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So we've got to give him
one or two goodies now and then.
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Sure, I've passed him
the odd sealed packet...chickenfeed.
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He can send them home,
Moscow Center clap him on the back,
say he's a big man.
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It happens all the time.
Come on, George, you know the game.
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Are you Polyakov's agent
inside the Circus?
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Someone has to be.
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If his cover for meeting you people
is that he's spying on the Circus,
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then he must have a man on the inside.
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Polyakov can't report back
to Moscow Center
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after he's picked up a great load
of Circus chickenfeed
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and say, "I got this from the boys."
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He's got to have a whole history.
How he selected his man,
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courted him, bought him,
how they meet and where.
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The whole paraphernalia
of running a double agent.
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And all this in Moscow Center's
archives.
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You, Toby?
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Toby Esterhase masquerades as a Circus
traitor to keep Polyakov in business.
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My hat, Toby. A dangerous job like that
deserves a whole chestful of medals.
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You're on a damn long road. What happens
to you if you never reach the other end?
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With Lacon and the Minister behind me?
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Why pick on the little guy?
Why not go for the big ones...
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Percy Alleline, Bill Haydon?
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- Thought you were a big guy these days.
- You're the perfect choice, Toby.
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Resentful about slow promotion,
sharp-witted, fond of money...
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With you as his agent,
he has a cover story that really works.
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The big three give you
the little sealed packets of chickenfeed
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and Moscow Center thinks
you're all theirs.
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The problem arises when it
turns out you've been handing
Polyakov the crown jewels
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and getting Russian chickenfeed
in return.
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If that's the case, Toby, you're going
to need good friends, like us.
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Gerald of course, is a Russian mole.
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- And he's pulled the Circus inside out.
- But Witchcraft material
isn't chickenfeed.
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- It's the best.
- It was good at first.
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George, suppose you're wrong?
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- Toby...I
- Who told you to muzzle Jerry Westerby?
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and the instruction, "Get lost"?
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- Speak up.
- Was it Percy?
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I think so. Maybe it was Bill, though.
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Listen, it was a big operation.
Sometimes Roy...
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It never seemed to come straight
from one. There was a committee.
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I took a lot of orders.
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You told Prideaux to forget
about Tinker, Tailor. Where
did that come from?
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I never knew what that meant.
Now, George, that's the truth.
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Poor Toby...yes, I do see.
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What a dog's life you must have been
leading, running between them all.
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George, if there's anything
I can do, of a practical nature.
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You know me, George.
My boys are pretty well trained.
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If you want to borrow them...
I'd have to speak to Lacon, of course,
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but...you'd expect that.
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All I want is for this thing to
be cleared up. For the good
of the Circus.
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I want nothing for myself.
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Where's this safe house you keep
exclusively for meeting Polyakov?
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5 Lock Gardens, Camden Town.
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You'll be staying here for a night
or two. Fawn will look after you.
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Fawn!
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You'll have to make
appropriate explanations to
the Circus, by telephone.
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You're having girl trouble or whatever
sort of trouble you're in these days.
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Then there's your wife, of course.
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Sure, George, I can handle that.
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If he's any bother, Fawn,
use your own discretion.
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Peter, I want you to watch my back.
Will you do that?
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- Look for one man. But look!
- We'll join up in Sussex Gardens.
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Same as you, George. Just a feeling...
someone, but couldn't say for certain.
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I covered you both to the front door.
If you did have company, he's cleverer
than me.
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But it's been known.
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Do you have anyone in particular
in mind? Will I go to pavement level
and take a sniff?
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- Well, proceed?
- Yes.
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Right. Now, the Minister has
one major worry. In his own words,
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"How much porcelain gets broken
at the end of the day?"
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Scandal, he's talking about.
If we unmask the mole,
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will the Russians cut their losses
by telling the world's press
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- how they made fools of us?
- I think not.
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Make your enemy look stupid, you lose
the justification for taking him on.
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- I've told him that, George.
- So isn't his mind at rest?
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He hopes there'll be nothing messy.
Nothing that could provoke Moscow.
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- But proceed?
- Heavens, yes.
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Clean the stables.
Problem, flush out the mole.
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Method?
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We need to alarm him, just sufficiently
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to make him call for a crash meeting
with Polyakov at the safe house.
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A meeting Gerald the mole
needs all to himself,
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secret from the rest
of the Witchcraft magic circle.
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There are two of them and Alleline.
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- You've definitely cleared Esterhase?
- Oh, yes.
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- Thank you.
- Karla really did bring off
the perfect fix...
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For a while. It would be
beautiful in another context.
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Tinker...Alleline. Tailor...Haydon.
Soldier...Bland.
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- Spot the mole.
- Quite. Ways and means, George?
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Ricki Tarr will go to Paris.
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He'll make use
of the appropriate Embassy facilities
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to send a signal to the Head
of London Station.
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"Something, something, something,"
which we'll now concoct.
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The message will be,
"Have information vital to the
safeguarding of the service."
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"Request immediate meeting. Personal."
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Remember, "Vital to the safeguarding
of the service."
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- It's even true.
- Don't forget that.
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No mistakes, Ricki. Your head's
on the block.
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Not the only one, Peter.
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Lord, now lettest thou
thy servant
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Depart in peace
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According to
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Thy word
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For mine eyes have seen
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Thy salvation
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Which thou hast prepared before the face
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Of all people
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To be a light
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To lighten
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The gentiles
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And to be the glory
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Of thy people
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Israel
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Glory be to the Father
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And to the Son
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And to the Holy Ghost
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As it was in the beginning
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Is now and ever shall be
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World without end
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Amen