1 00:02:26,851 --> 00:02:31,051 George, old boy. What an amazing thing. 2 00:02:31,211 --> 00:02:34,971 - Trust you popping up out of nowhere. - How are you, Jerry? 3 00:02:35,331 --> 00:02:40,811 George, this is terrific. What are you doing? How's the demon wife? How's everything? 4 00:02:40,971 --> 00:02:43,011 First things first, what'll you have? 5 00:02:43,171 --> 00:02:45,651 Fancy a bottle of bubbles? Shall we? 6 00:02:45,811 --> 00:02:49,771 - A brandy and ginger ale is fine. - Sure? Alright. 7 00:02:49,931 --> 00:02:55,851 Linda, give us a double brandy and ginger ale and another bucket of gin, will you? 8 00:02:57,571 --> 00:03:00,611 - I think I'll marry her. - How many would that be? 9 00:03:00,771 --> 00:03:02,771 I'm a divorce addict, hopeless case. 10 00:03:02,931 --> 00:03:06,771 Not lucky like you, George, but there's only one Ann. 11 00:03:06,931 --> 00:03:09,611 I'll do a deal, an offer you can't refuse. 12 00:03:09,771 --> 00:03:14,851 I'll shack up with Ann, be the envy of London, and you can have my job on the comic. 13 00:03:15,011 --> 00:03:18,371 You've the turn of phrase for the women's ping-pong. 14 00:03:18,531 --> 00:03:21,451 "Inscrutable Chinese Wizardess". Do you fancy it? 15 00:03:21,611 --> 00:03:23,491 Is that the task for today? 16 00:03:23,651 --> 00:03:27,411 Much bigger stuff, old boy. Footer, the opiate of the people. 17 00:03:28,251 --> 00:03:29,851 Heap big transfer... 18 00:03:30,011 --> 00:03:33,771 Scottish Thunderboots to rescue of ex-champs now on the slide. 19 00:03:33,931 --> 00:03:37,251 - Thanks, Linda, my love. - Will I write it down, Mr Westerby? 20 00:03:37,411 --> 00:03:39,491 Ah, please, Linda. 21 00:03:39,691 --> 00:03:43,451 - Cheers, George. - Cheers. 22 00:03:47,051 --> 00:03:50,491 This isn't entirely a chance meeting. 23 00:03:50,651 --> 00:03:55,371 I got the letter you wrote me, last football season. I burnt it straight away. 24 00:03:57,091 --> 00:04:02,851 Right, thanks. Stupid of me, talking out of school...sorry. 25 00:04:03,011 --> 00:04:07,451 No, you did what you felt was right at the time and so did I. 26 00:04:07,611 --> 00:04:10,811 Haven't seen many of the boys and girls lately, actually. 27 00:04:10,971 --> 00:04:16,291 Guess they've put both of us on the shelf. With me I can hardly blame them. 28 00:04:16,531 --> 00:04:20,331 Firewater not good for braves. They think I'll blab, crack up. 29 00:04:20,491 --> 00:04:21,931 I'm sure they don't. 30 00:04:22,091 --> 00:04:25,131 I expect they're resting you up. They do that, you know? 31 00:04:25,291 --> 00:04:30,411 In case you've wondered, I didn't tell anyone about your letter. 32 00:04:30,571 --> 00:04:32,611 I was out of favor...out of work. 33 00:04:32,771 --> 00:04:36,651 Writing to me wasn't what put them off, if that's what you thought. 34 00:04:37,371 --> 00:04:43,531 In your letter you said you were a bit worried about Toby Esterhase. 35 00:04:43,691 --> 00:04:46,011 Felt you ought to get something off your chest. 36 00:04:47,211 --> 00:04:49,851 I got all xenophobe and suspicious. 37 00:04:50,611 --> 00:04:53,331 Thought Toby had gone a bit haywire, in fact. 38 00:04:53,491 --> 00:04:56,051 - I should talk. - Tell me now. 39 00:04:56,451 --> 00:05:01,371 You'd just come back from Czechoslovakia, hadn't you? 40 00:05:01,531 --> 00:05:05,651 Last job I did for Tobe. Looks like the last I'll ever do. 41 00:05:05,811 --> 00:05:09,931 - Letterbox job? - Yes, nothing to it, really. 42 00:05:10,971 --> 00:05:14,811 Telephone kiosk, ledge at the top, dump a package ready for collection. 43 00:05:17,211 --> 00:05:21,451 That was Budapest. The Czechoslovak thing, I ran into by accident. 44 00:05:21,611 --> 00:05:25,491 Had to go on to Prague, for the comic. Nothing to do with Tobe. 45 00:05:26,131 --> 00:05:28,771 - Linda, sweetheart. - Again, Mr Westerby? 46 00:05:28,931 --> 00:05:31,331 Please, my beauty. Oh, no, no, no. 47 00:05:33,931 --> 00:05:38,651 Got time to eat? We'll go Dutch on that, shall we? 48 00:05:40,091 --> 00:05:45,451 I was in this bar in Prague, always use it. Locals go there, all sorts. 49 00:05:45,611 --> 00:05:49,171 Well, I got in with this crowd round a corner table, 50 00:05:49,331 --> 00:05:53,531 a bloke playing a squeeze box, we're all hugger-mugger to the music... 51 00:05:53,691 --> 00:05:56,131 Ah, thank you, Linda, my love. 52 00:05:57,371 --> 00:06:02,451 And there's this kid with a pudding bowl haircut. Army...obvious. 53 00:06:02,611 --> 00:06:05,771 He's on leave, well in his cups, and knows I'm English. 54 00:06:05,931 --> 00:06:09,571 Suddenly he says, do I want to know the truth about the British spy 55 00:06:09,731 --> 00:06:11,651 shot by the Russian secret police? 56 00:06:11,811 --> 00:06:14,171 Just like that. Yells it right in my ear. 57 00:06:14,331 --> 00:06:16,851 I play dumb, and he goes right on with it. 58 00:06:17,011 --> 00:06:20,091 You know, the Jim Prideaux shambles. 59 00:06:20,251 --> 00:06:23,931 He was belly-aching about being a foot soldier of the line. 60 00:06:24,091 --> 00:06:28,731 Seems on the two nights in question, they were being chased till dizzy. 61 00:06:28,891 --> 00:06:31,811 Make camp, break camp, move up, move back...fix bayonets! 62 00:06:33,051 --> 00:06:37,571 But the big point was the Russian contingent. 63 00:06:38,011 --> 00:06:42,611 Full warpaint...tanks, motor-bikes, tracker dogs 64 00:06:42,771 --> 00:06:45,491 and a big car load of very sinister civilians. 65 00:06:46,491 --> 00:06:50,931 Dirty work afoot in the forest, up near the Austrian border. 66 00:06:52,771 --> 00:06:56,931 So, my little friend, being a sassy little devil, 67 00:06:57,091 --> 00:06:59,531 decides to ask his sergeant what's it all about. 68 00:06:59,691 --> 00:07:03,571 "Sarge," he says, "What's going on? We being invaded, Sarge?" 69 00:07:03,731 --> 00:07:08,131 "No, son," says the sergeant. "The Russians are after a British spy" 70 00:07:08,291 --> 00:07:11,091 "who tried to kidnap a general." 71 00:07:11,251 --> 00:07:17,251 - "Are" after...or "were" after? - Exactly. 72 00:07:17,411 --> 00:07:21,891 That's what the kid wanted to tell me. The Russians moved in on the Friday. 73 00:07:22,051 --> 00:07:24,731 It was the day after when they got Jim. 74 00:07:24,891 --> 00:07:29,611 As he said, they were ready and waiting for him. Knew the lot, in advance. 75 00:07:29,771 --> 00:07:36,011 Heap bad story. Bad for our big chief. Bad for tribe. 76 00:07:37,491 --> 00:07:42,291 So, as soon as I got back, I went and told all to Tobe. 77 00:07:44,651 --> 00:07:46,451 How did he take it? 78 00:07:48,171 --> 00:07:51,931 To begin with it was "Thanks a million, Jerry, old boy." 79 00:07:52,091 --> 00:07:55,011 He'd go and pow-wow with the top brass. 80 00:07:56,411 --> 00:07:59,131 Then the next morning... 81 00:07:59,771 --> 00:08:03,811 You're so plastered these days, you can't tell fact from fiction! 82 00:08:05,251 --> 00:08:07,611 You're an embarrassment! 83 00:08:08,491 --> 00:08:12,451 You go on a bender, drink yourself into cloud cuckoo land, 84 00:08:12,611 --> 00:08:16,371 then come staggering back here with a load of tripe like this! 85 00:08:18,051 --> 00:08:20,331 You're pathetic! 86 00:08:21,491 --> 00:08:24,491 - Look, old boy... - I don't want any excuses. 87 00:08:24,651 --> 00:08:27,931 - I had to report what I heard. - You believed every stupid word! 88 00:08:28,731 --> 00:08:32,251 Swallowed it like mother's milk! 89 00:08:34,211 --> 00:08:38,091 A load of half-baked rumors, you come spreading them round here, 90 00:08:38,931 --> 00:08:43,051 what you can remember, through your alcoholic haze! 91 00:08:44,411 --> 00:08:47,611 - I didn't forget a thing. - Well, you will now! 92 00:08:48,651 --> 00:08:51,411 You'll forget the lot! 93 00:08:53,051 --> 00:09:00,331 Don't you see? The boy was a plant... provocateur, in layman's language. 94 00:09:06,611 --> 00:09:10,611 He was doing a job for Moscow Center. Object...disruption. 95 00:09:10,771 --> 00:09:15,731 Make the Circus chase our own tails. And you fell for it, Jerry. That's all. 96 00:09:24,971 --> 00:09:27,171 OK, Tobe, you know best. 97 00:09:28,811 --> 00:09:32,811 If you don't want the story, that's your business. I'll do it for the paper. 98 00:09:32,971 --> 00:09:34,771 You'll what? 99 00:09:34,931 --> 00:09:39,851 Not about the Russians getting there first, but the rest, it's all good stuff. 100 00:09:40,011 --> 00:09:43,771 Story wasn't covered well at the time, just the official statement. 101 00:09:45,411 --> 00:09:49,851 If old Jerry gets a splash about the day the Czechs mobilized for WWIII... 102 00:09:50,011 --> 00:09:55,411 except it was one lone Englishman surrounding them...that's a good piece. 103 00:09:58,251 --> 00:10:01,611 The comic might even run an ad on the telly. 104 00:10:04,331 --> 00:10:07,531 The day after that I was called for by the editor. 105 00:10:07,691 --> 00:10:10,051 THE editor, not the sports bloke. 106 00:10:11,251 --> 00:10:15,651 He tells me some clown has been on the phone with a formal warning. 107 00:10:15,811 --> 00:10:19,971 "Keep that baboon Westerby off the Czecho spy story." 108 00:10:20,491 --> 00:10:24,051 "Any further reference against the national interest." 109 00:10:25,451 --> 00:10:27,891 "End of message." 110 00:10:31,291 --> 00:10:34,211 So, I didn't get the Reporter of the Year award. 111 00:10:35,611 --> 00:10:39,091 Can't, can you, when your story's on the spike? Cheers. 112 00:10:39,251 --> 00:10:42,571 You didn't spike it entirely. I mean, you wrote to me. 113 00:10:42,731 --> 00:10:44,811 Dropped the letter in by hand. 114 00:10:44,971 --> 00:10:49,731 Must have been the same day you talked to Toby Esterhase. 115 00:10:51,331 --> 00:10:55,131 Well, as I said at the time, it just felt odd. 116 00:10:56,211 --> 00:10:58,411 My mistake, old boy. 117 00:11:00,011 --> 00:11:04,171 When I heard you got the heave-ho, I felt an even bigger damn fool. 118 00:11:10,011 --> 00:11:12,371 I thought it was you who phoned the editor. 119 00:11:13,411 --> 00:11:15,491 It wasn't. 120 00:11:16,931 --> 00:11:18,771 'Course not. Sorry. 121 00:11:21,971 --> 00:11:24,171 Nothing untoward going on? 122 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:28,211 Tribe hasn't gone on the rampage? 123 00:11:31,651 --> 00:11:33,731 But are you hunting alone? 124 00:11:35,851 --> 00:11:41,171 I'm not the brightest, but when you start asking questions, there's got to be something. 125 00:11:45,531 --> 00:11:49,371 All I'm saying is, any time, old boy. 126 00:11:51,971 --> 00:11:53,931 Thank you, Jerry. 127 00:11:59,411 --> 00:12:02,971 - Rum chap, Toby Esterhase. - But good. 128 00:12:03,691 --> 00:12:05,851 God, first rate, brilliant, but rum. 129 00:12:08,491 --> 00:12:11,131 You won't forget to give my love to Ann? 130 00:12:11,291 --> 00:12:13,891 One of the great marriages, always said so. 131 00:12:14,051 --> 00:12:18,891 Come on, Jerry, out with it. Did Toby say something about Ann? 132 00:12:20,851 --> 00:12:27,331 Some story he'd got. I told him to stuff it up his silk drawers. 133 00:12:47,371 --> 00:12:52,931 - I suppose I should have been prepared. - Take on a temporary, you can't expect loyalty. 134 00:12:54,851 --> 00:12:57,771 Well done, that boy! 135 00:13:00,291 --> 00:13:05,171 We're going to lose this match. So much for Prideaux's coaching. 136 00:13:05,331 --> 00:13:10,171 I'm absolutely furious with that man. It's monstrous to clear off. 137 00:13:10,331 --> 00:13:12,491 Did he say what's wrong with his mother? 138 00:13:12,651 --> 00:13:16,851 No, he did not. She is supposed to be dying. 139 00:13:17,011 --> 00:13:21,131 That's one excuse for absence he can hardly use again. 140 00:13:21,291 --> 00:13:24,851 Not at all, Mother. One false alarm can easily lead to another. 141 00:13:25,011 --> 00:13:27,451 I'll ask for a full medical diagnosis next time. 142 00:13:36,251 --> 00:13:39,411 Those front row forwards of theirs look over-age to me. 143 00:13:39,571 --> 00:13:42,611 Did he ever tell you how he got that awful shoulder? 144 00:13:42,771 --> 00:13:45,251 - Fell off a bus with a bottle of vodka... - What? 145 00:13:45,411 --> 00:13:49,011 Fell off a bus with a bottle of vodka inside him, I shouldn't wonder. 146 00:13:49,571 --> 00:13:52,571 I suppose I shall have to take his French. 147 00:13:56,331 --> 00:13:59,851 Oh, come on, Thursgood, keep up! 148 00:14:01,491 --> 00:14:05,131 He's gone in the Alvis. He'd never trust any other form of transport. 149 00:14:05,291 --> 00:14:09,451 If he'd gone for good, he wouldn't leave the caravan behind, would he? 150 00:14:09,611 --> 00:14:11,611 Stands to reason, that! 151 00:14:12,731 --> 00:14:16,291 Besides, he'd have said "Goodbye" properly, Rhino would. 152 00:14:16,451 --> 00:14:20,051 Wouldn't just go, not Rhino. Not like a juju man. 153 00:15:17,171 --> 00:15:19,971 I've come about the furs. 154 00:15:28,891 --> 00:15:31,611 - Hello, Toby. - Peter. 155 00:15:48,691 --> 00:15:53,571 It's not exactly five-star. But then we are shopping a bit downmarket. 156 00:16:06,211 --> 00:16:08,891 Safe houses I have known! 157 00:16:14,771 --> 00:16:18,171 Take the weight off your feet, won't be long. 158 00:16:43,171 --> 00:16:46,011 So, we're expecting a Pole, are we, Peter? 159 00:16:46,971 --> 00:16:50,091 In the fur trade. You think I might take him on as a courier? 160 00:16:51,491 --> 00:16:55,211 I'd like him on my own payroll, for preference. Looks useful. 161 00:16:55,371 --> 00:16:58,931 But what's the point? My lads are under-employed as it is. 162 00:16:59,251 --> 00:17:01,531 Very generous of you, Peter. 163 00:17:08,851 --> 00:17:12,651 Stay put, Toby. 164 00:17:25,011 --> 00:17:27,211 Sorry about this, Toby. 165 00:17:27,731 --> 00:17:30,091 Against the wall, Tobe. 166 00:17:30,451 --> 00:17:35,411 Did he come alone or is there a little friend waiting in the square? 167 00:17:35,571 --> 00:17:37,651 Looks all clear to me, sir. 168 00:17:37,811 --> 00:17:41,211 Go back to the other room and don't take your eyes off the street. 169 00:17:48,371 --> 00:17:52,011 - Seen something? - Turn the light out a moment. 170 00:18:01,731 --> 00:18:03,971 Just a shadow, I suppose. 171 00:18:05,051 --> 00:18:07,051 Yes, I think so. 172 00:18:21,451 --> 00:18:26,771 I want to put a thesis to you, Toby, about what's been going on. 173 00:18:28,411 --> 00:18:34,171 Let's cast our minds back, say about 18 months, when Control is still with us. 174 00:18:34,331 --> 00:18:36,531 Percy Alleline wants his job, everyone knows that. 175 00:18:36,691 --> 00:18:41,971 Though Control is sick and past his prime, Percy can't dislodge him. 176 00:18:42,131 --> 00:18:48,891 It's a time of uneasiness in the Circus. Morale is low, activity is low. Yes? 177 00:18:49,051 --> 00:18:51,051 I remember, George. 178 00:18:51,811 --> 00:18:56,091 Well, Percy's door opens one day and one of our senior men walks in. 179 00:18:56,251 --> 00:19:00,851 We'll call him Gerald. It's just a name. 180 00:19:01,011 --> 00:19:05,771 Gerald says, "Percy, I've stumbled on a major source of Russian intelligence." 181 00:19:05,931 --> 00:19:08,491 "It could be a gold mine." 182 00:19:08,651 --> 00:19:12,811 Perhaps they take a walk or a drive. Whatever, Percy listens, 183 00:19:12,971 --> 00:19:18,771 because what Gerald goes on to say is music in Percy's ears. 184 00:19:18,931 --> 00:19:21,211 "Some of us," Gerald tells him, 185 00:19:21,371 --> 00:19:23,971 "are worried sick about the state the Circus is in." 186 00:19:24,131 --> 00:19:28,091 "Look at our operational losses, agents, networks." 187 00:19:28,251 --> 00:19:33,851 He's careful not to suggest there's a traitor inside the Circus, 188 00:19:35,011 --> 00:19:40,691 but emphasizes that slovenliness at the top is leading to failure all round. 189 00:19:40,851 --> 00:19:44,891 That is to say, it's all Control's fault. 190 00:19:45,051 --> 00:19:47,571 My thesis, you understand. 191 00:19:48,611 --> 00:19:51,011 - Sure, George. - Another notion 192 00:19:51,171 --> 00:19:54,211 is that Percy Alleline was his own Gerald. 193 00:19:54,371 --> 00:19:58,051 He bought himself a top Russian spy and then manned his own boat. 194 00:19:58,211 --> 00:20:01,291 I don't believe that. I think he'd mess it up, don't you? 195 00:20:01,451 --> 00:20:03,371 Sure, George. 196 00:20:03,531 --> 00:20:06,891 So the next thing is for Gerald to say to Percy, 197 00:20:07,051 --> 00:20:11,331 "I and a little group of like-minded friends" 198 00:20:11,491 --> 00:20:14,651 "want you to be our father-figure, Percy." 199 00:20:14,811 --> 00:20:19,331 "We're not political men, we don't know our way in the Whitehall jungle." 200 00:20:19,491 --> 00:20:22,851 "But you do." Did you bring a baby-sitter, Toby? 201 00:20:23,531 --> 00:20:29,291 Why should I? I came to meet Peter and some Pole in the fur trade. 202 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. 204 00:20:36,291 --> 00:20:42,051 Yes, well, Gerald says that if Percy will handle the committees, 205 00:20:42,211 --> 00:20:44,811 he and his friends will handle Merlin. 206 00:20:44,971 --> 00:20:48,531 Merlin being the Moscow intelligence source 207 00:20:48,691 --> 00:20:54,611 and Witchcraft the name of the material he supplies. How well it all worked. 208 00:20:54,931 --> 00:21:00,531 Merlin's material proved excellent, as everyone agreed, except Control. 209 00:21:00,691 --> 00:21:05,491 Eventually Control was out and Percy was king. 210 00:21:05,651 --> 00:21:10,851 - So what's new, George? - Ever bought a fake picture, Toby? 211 00:21:14,771 --> 00:21:16,771 I sold a couple once. 212 00:21:17,091 --> 00:21:20,771 The more you pay, the less inclined you are to doubt its authenticity. 213 00:21:21,851 --> 00:21:26,411 Merlin's price was 20,000 francs a month into a Swiss bank, 214 00:21:27,331 --> 00:21:30,011 according to the file. 215 00:21:30,171 --> 00:21:32,331 Yes, Toby, this is official. 216 00:21:34,371 --> 00:21:41,171 There came the day when Gerald admitted Percy to the greatest secret of all: 217 00:21:41,331 --> 00:21:44,771 That the Merlin set-up has a London end. 218 00:21:44,931 --> 00:21:48,531 Aleksey Aleksandrovich Polyakov, 219 00:21:51,891 --> 00:21:56,411 You're on record as grading him snow-white, Toby. 220 00:21:56,571 --> 00:21:59,651 Quite untainted with the mischief of espionage. 221 00:21:59,811 --> 00:22:05,211 In fact, he's Merlin's London representative. 222 00:22:05,371 --> 00:22:08,451 That's the start, I should tell you now, of a very clever knot. 223 00:22:08,611 --> 00:22:11,451 Everything to do with Witchcraft is secret, of course, 224 00:22:11,611 --> 00:22:13,451 but a lot of people are involved... 225 00:22:13,611 --> 00:22:18,051 transcribers, translators, codists, evaluators, God knows what. 226 00:22:18,691 --> 00:22:20,971 It doesn't worry Gerald, of course. 227 00:22:21,131 --> 00:22:27,131 He likes it because the art of being Gerald is to be one of a crowd. 228 00:22:27,611 --> 00:22:33,451 When it comes to Polyakov, that's a different story. 229 00:22:33,771 --> 00:22:42,331 Who knows it? Only you, Roy Bland, Bill Haydon and Percy. 230 00:22:42,891 --> 00:22:48,651 Three of you and Alleline. You're the magic circle. 231 00:22:51,731 --> 00:22:54,851 Who meets him, Toby? 232 00:22:58,731 --> 00:23:01,851 For God's sake, let me sweat the bastard. 233 00:23:09,851 --> 00:23:13,251 You all meet him. How's that? 234 00:23:15,051 --> 00:23:17,851 Percy represents the authoritarian side. 235 00:23:18,011 --> 00:23:20,891 Asks after his wife, suggests it's time he took a holiday. 236 00:23:21,051 --> 00:23:22,891 Very paternal, Percy would be. 237 00:23:23,051 --> 00:23:27,251 Bill Haydon, I think, would see Polyakov much more often. 238 00:23:27,411 --> 00:23:30,211 Bill's a Russian expert and good entertainment value. 239 00:23:30,371 --> 00:23:36,211 Bill would shine when it comes to the briefings and follow-up sessions, 240 00:23:36,371 --> 00:23:41,451 making sure the right messages went back to Moscow. 241 00:23:41,611 --> 00:23:46,291 Roy Bland's good on economics and is top man on the satellite countries, 242 00:23:46,451 --> 00:23:48,691 so he'd have plenty to chat about. 243 00:23:48,851 --> 00:23:52,091 Then there's you, Toby. 244 00:23:52,651 --> 00:23:58,651 You'd have solo sessions with Polyakov as there's tradecraft to discuss 245 00:23:58,811 --> 00:24:03,251 and all those little snippets about goings-on inside the Embassy, 246 00:24:03,411 --> 00:24:05,531 which are pretty much your field. 247 00:24:05,691 --> 00:24:09,971 If the magic circle wanted him to do some photography inside the Embassy, 248 00:24:10,131 --> 00:24:14,091 it would be you who would supply the film. 249 00:24:15,491 --> 00:24:18,691 Replenish his stock from time to time. 250 00:24:20,771 --> 00:24:24,851 Take him little sealed packets. 251 00:24:26,371 --> 00:24:30,571 Toby, you wouldn't be lying? Did you bring a baby-sitter? 252 00:24:30,731 --> 00:24:33,691 - Cross my heart. - What would you use for a job like this? 253 00:24:34,331 --> 00:24:37,571 - Cars? - No. On foot. 254 00:24:38,131 --> 00:24:41,011 - Keep walking them through. - How many? 255 00:24:41,171 --> 00:24:45,531 - Eight. Ten, maybe. - What about one man, alone? 256 00:24:45,691 --> 00:24:50,051 - One? Never. Impossible. - I can call Mendel to take a look. 257 00:24:51,491 --> 00:24:53,851 I'm sure Toby's right. 258 00:24:55,011 --> 00:24:59,131 Listen, George, I know Polyakov works for Moscow Center. 259 00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:03,331 Of course I do. We all know. But come on. 260 00:25:03,491 --> 00:25:06,651 Think how many other operations we've run this way. 261 00:25:08,051 --> 00:25:13,891 We've bought Polyakov, right. He's a Moscow hood but he's also our joe. 262 00:25:15,051 --> 00:25:18,651 He's got to pretend to his own people that he's spying on us. 263 00:25:18,811 --> 00:25:22,051 So we've got to give him one or two goodies now and then. 264 00:25:23,851 --> 00:25:27,571 Sure, I've passed him the odd sealed packet...chickenfeed. 265 00:25:27,731 --> 00:25:32,771 He can send them home, Moscow Center clap him on the back, say he's a big man. 266 00:25:34,211 --> 00:25:38,731 It happens all the time. Come on, George, you know the game. 267 00:25:40,731 --> 00:25:43,651 Are you Polyakov's agent inside the Circus? 268 00:25:45,251 --> 00:25:48,091 Someone has to be. 269 00:25:48,251 --> 00:25:53,451 If his cover for meeting you people is that he's spying on the Circus, 270 00:25:54,131 --> 00:25:56,691 then he must have a man on the inside. 271 00:25:57,731 --> 00:26:00,051 Polyakov can't report back to Moscow Center 272 00:26:00,211 --> 00:26:03,451 after he's picked up a great load of Circus chickenfeed 273 00:26:03,611 --> 00:26:06,531 and say, "I got this from the boys." 274 00:26:06,691 --> 00:26:11,491 He's got to have a whole history. How he selected his man, 275 00:26:11,651 --> 00:26:17,731 courted him, bought him, how they meet and where. 276 00:26:17,891 --> 00:26:21,811 The whole paraphernalia of running a double agent. 277 00:26:21,971 --> 00:26:25,691 And all this in Moscow Center's archives. 278 00:26:26,851 --> 00:26:28,771 You, Toby? 279 00:26:31,011 --> 00:26:37,531 Toby Esterhase masquerades as a Circus traitor to keep Polyakov in business. 280 00:26:37,691 --> 00:26:43,851 My hat, Toby. A dangerous job like that deserves a whole chestful of medals. 281 00:26:44,971 --> 00:26:50,451 You're on a damn long road. What happens to you if you never reach the other end? 282 00:26:50,611 --> 00:26:52,971 With Lacon and the Minister behind me? 283 00:26:55,571 --> 00:27:00,131 Why pick on the little guy? Why not go for the big ones... 284 00:27:00,291 --> 00:27:02,891 Percy Alleline, Bill Haydon? 285 00:27:03,331 --> 00:27:08,011 - Thought you were a big guy these days. - You're the perfect choice, Toby. 286 00:27:08,171 --> 00:27:14,131 Resentful about slow promotion, sharp-witted, fond of money... 287 00:27:15,611 --> 00:27:19,411 With you as his agent, he has a cover story that really works. 288 00:27:19,571 --> 00:27:24,571 The big three give you the little sealed packets of chickenfeed 289 00:27:24,731 --> 00:27:28,891 and Moscow Center thinks you're all theirs. 290 00:27:29,051 --> 00:27:35,251 The problem arises when it turns out you've been handing Polyakov the crown jewels 291 00:27:35,411 --> 00:27:38,571 and getting Russian chickenfeed in return. 292 00:27:39,131 --> 00:27:45,531 If that's the case, Toby, you're going to need good friends, like us. 293 00:27:46,891 --> 00:27:49,691 Gerald of course, is a Russian mole. 294 00:27:49,851 --> 00:27:55,651 - And he's pulled the Circus inside out. - But Witchcraft material isn't chickenfeed. 295 00:27:55,811 --> 00:27:58,251 - It's the best. - It was good at first. 296 00:28:00,811 --> 00:28:03,371 George, suppose you're wrong? 297 00:28:03,531 --> 00:28:07,011 - Toby...I - Who told you to muzzle Jerry Westerby? 298 00:28:11,491 --> 00:28:14,091 and the instruction, "Get lost"? 299 00:28:15,091 --> 00:28:18,131 - Speak up. - Was it Percy? 300 00:28:18,851 --> 00:28:22,251 I think so. Maybe it was Bill, though. 301 00:28:24,811 --> 00:28:28,931 Listen, it was a big operation. Sometimes Roy... 302 00:28:30,251 --> 00:28:34,971 It never seemed to come straight from one. There was a committee. 303 00:28:35,611 --> 00:28:37,891 I took a lot of orders. 304 00:28:38,051 --> 00:28:42,651 You told Prideaux to forget about Tinker, Tailor. Where did that come from? 305 00:28:42,811 --> 00:28:46,171 I never knew what that meant. Now, George, that's the truth. 306 00:28:48,131 --> 00:28:53,651 Poor Toby...yes, I do see. 307 00:28:55,411 --> 00:28:59,851 What a dog's life you must have been leading, running between them all. 308 00:29:02,051 --> 00:29:07,011 George, if there's anything I can do, of a practical nature. 309 00:29:07,331 --> 00:29:11,171 You know me, George. My boys are pretty well trained. 310 00:29:11,331 --> 00:29:17,571 If you want to borrow them... I'd have to speak to Lacon, of course, 311 00:29:17,731 --> 00:29:20,371 but...you'd expect that. 312 00:29:25,211 --> 00:29:29,611 All I want is for this thing to be cleared up. For the good of the Circus. 313 00:29:29,771 --> 00:29:31,851 I want nothing for myself. 314 00:29:33,411 --> 00:29:37,691 Where's this safe house you keep exclusively for meeting Polyakov? 315 00:29:37,931 --> 00:29:40,851 5 Lock Gardens, Camden Town. 316 00:29:44,411 --> 00:29:49,171 You'll be staying here for a night or two. Fawn will look after you. 317 00:29:55,091 --> 00:29:56,691 Fawn! 318 00:29:56,851 --> 00:30:01,091 You'll have to make appropriate explanations to the Circus, by telephone. 319 00:30:01,491 --> 00:30:07,291 You're having girl trouble or whatever sort of trouble you're in these days. 320 00:30:07,451 --> 00:30:10,611 Then there's your wife, of course. 321 00:30:10,771 --> 00:30:13,411 Sure, George, I can handle that. 322 00:30:16,131 --> 00:30:20,131 If he's any bother, Fawn, use your own discretion. 323 00:30:32,211 --> 00:30:35,691 Peter, I want you to watch my back. Will you do that? 324 00:30:40,851 --> 00:30:45,491 - Look for one man. But look! - We'll join up in Sussex Gardens. 325 00:32:27,811 --> 00:32:34,731 Same as you, George. Just a feeling... someone, but couldn't say for certain. 326 00:32:34,891 --> 00:32:40,091 I covered you both to the front door. If you did have company, he's cleverer than me. 327 00:32:40,251 --> 00:32:42,251 But it's been known. 328 00:32:43,531 --> 00:32:49,571 Do you have anyone in particular in mind? Will I go to pavement level and take a sniff? 329 00:32:52,171 --> 00:32:54,851 - Well, proceed? - Yes. 330 00:32:55,011 --> 00:32:59,051 Right. Now, the Minister has one major worry. In his own words, 331 00:32:59,211 --> 00:33:02,331 "How much porcelain gets broken at the end of the day?" 332 00:33:02,491 --> 00:33:06,131 Scandal, he's talking about. If we unmask the mole, 333 00:33:06,291 --> 00:33:09,211 will the Russians cut their losses by telling the world's press 334 00:33:09,371 --> 00:33:11,851 - how they made fools of us? - I think not. 335 00:33:12,011 --> 00:33:15,931 Make your enemy look stupid, you lose the justification for taking him on. 336 00:33:16,091 --> 00:33:19,731 - I've told him that, George. - So isn't his mind at rest? 337 00:33:19,891 --> 00:33:24,251 He hopes there'll be nothing messy. Nothing that could provoke Moscow. 338 00:33:24,411 --> 00:33:26,251 - But proceed? - Heavens, yes. 339 00:33:28,851 --> 00:33:33,211 Clean the stables. Problem, flush out the mole. 340 00:33:33,371 --> 00:33:35,291 Method? 341 00:33:35,451 --> 00:33:38,291 We need to alarm him, just sufficiently 342 00:33:38,451 --> 00:33:43,291 to make him call for a crash meeting with Polyakov at the safe house. 343 00:33:43,451 --> 00:33:46,491 A meeting Gerald the mole needs all to himself, 344 00:33:46,651 --> 00:33:50,811 secret from the rest of the Witchcraft magic circle. 345 00:33:50,971 --> 00:33:54,171 There are two of them and Alleline. 346 00:33:54,331 --> 00:33:56,811 - You've definitely cleared Esterhase? - Oh, yes. 347 00:33:56,971 --> 00:34:01,051 - Thank you. - Karla really did bring off the perfect fix... 348 00:34:01,211 --> 00:34:05,291 For a while. It would be beautiful in another context. 349 00:34:05,731 --> 00:34:10,331 Tinker...Alleline. Tailor...Haydon. Soldier...Bland. 350 00:34:10,491 --> 00:34:14,611 - Spot the mole. - Quite. Ways and means, George? 351 00:34:15,251 --> 00:34:17,491 Ricki Tarr will go to Paris. 352 00:34:17,851 --> 00:34:22,291 He'll make use of the appropriate Embassy facilities 353 00:34:23,851 --> 00:34:26,771 to send a signal to the Head of London Station. 354 00:34:26,931 --> 00:34:32,331 "Something, something, something," which we'll now concoct. 355 00:35:50,291 --> 00:35:55,571 The message will be, "Have information vital to the safeguarding of the service." 356 00:35:55,731 --> 00:35:58,411 "Request immediate meeting. Personal." 357 00:35:58,571 --> 00:36:03,251 Remember, "Vital to the safeguarding of the service." 358 00:36:03,411 --> 00:36:06,491 - It's even true. - Don't forget that. 359 00:36:06,651 --> 00:36:11,171 No mistakes, Ricki. Your head's on the block. 360 00:36:11,331 --> 00:36:14,331 Not the only one, Peter. 361 00:37:19,851 --> 00:37:25,371 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant 362 00:37:25,531 --> 00:37:30,331 Depart in peace 363 00:37:40,091 --> 00:37:46,091 According to 364 00:37:46,251 --> 00:37:50,251 Thy word 365 00:37:54,971 --> 00:38:01,371 For mine eyes have seen 366 00:38:01,531 --> 00:38:07,731 Thy salvation 367 00:38:12,411 --> 00:38:17,811 Which thou hast prepared before the face 368 00:38:17,971 --> 00:38:24,771 Of all people 369 00:38:28,571 --> 00:38:32,811 To be a light 370 00:38:32,971 --> 00:38:37,091 To lighten 371 00:38:37,251 --> 00:38:41,131 The gentiles 372 00:38:41,291 --> 00:38:46,251 And to be the glory 373 00:38:46,411 --> 00:38:50,411 Of thy people 374 00:38:50,571 --> 00:38:57,971 Israel 375 00:39:03,851 --> 00:39:08,251 Glory be to the Father 376 00:39:08,411 --> 00:39:11,611 And to the Son 377 00:39:11,771 --> 00:39:15,531 And to the Holy Ghost 378 00:39:16,531 --> 00:39:20,531 As it was in the beginning 379 00:39:20,691 --> 00:39:26,171 Is now and ever shall be 380 00:39:28,771 --> 00:39:33,771 World without end 381 00:39:33,931 --> 00:39:38,931 Amen