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Inner strength.

Equality.

The recognition of the total freedom of the individual.

When you're free, it's easy to take your liberty for granted.

Of course, I knew deep down I'd never be safe.

No matter where I went, there was always a chance someone would find me.

From the start, all I ever had was a wish to be free.

And I can't be a crime.

Still in good shape.

My entire generation driven to the front.

And sacrificed in a firestorm.

Get up, get up!

and the red storm consumed us.

Be strong, and you'll survive anything.

Loyal to new masters.

In debt for a life rebuilt.

Dedicated people with a strong sense of ideology were needed.

Loyal people who could not be tempted.

I was one of these people.

Not a citizen, but a soldier.

And I could be sacrificed.

Like my generation many years before.

When I got away.

I was unable to see the truth.

My whole existence was a lie, and I thrived on persecuting the helpless and

workers.

I was deranged. I believed in a man who was mentally ill.

On the orders of this man, I murdered and I looted.

I was an enemy of freedom.

I know this now, and I want only to express my love and gratitude to our

leader, Comrade Stalin.

I further declare myself a dedicated and loyal socialist worker.

His name is Albert Steiner.

That was in 1950.

Do you remember him?

No.

But I remember that in the cinema you raised

fascists a little.

With the year I graduated from the Suvorov.

As far as I know, he worked in one of our groups in the West.

But it was discovered that he was an informer for the British secret police.

You are new identity.

Loyalty. It has changed.

Details.

Coded messages.

It was highly complex.

And for my part, I knew only where to go.

And for security, I knew no more.

62.

Right on time, 62.

Anything to report?

To the letter.

Good. Your rendezvous? Tomorrow.

Midday. Hyde Park.

Your contact will approach you.

Understood. Your report with me will be at ten on the following morning.

Tally -ho.

You got a name?

Edward.

Edward Cook.

I'm Yvonne.

You're from out of town, then?

Yes.

Are you sure Mr. Daly won't mind me looking while he's not here? No, I never

uncle. He's all right like that.

Don't surprise us.

What do you think?

Just what I'm looking for.

Great.

Well, you're moving in then.

Uncle Neville wants someone in quickly.

Today?

Here's one week's in advance.

Like it said in the paper. That's all right. I trust you.

You can settle up with Uncle Neville. He'll be home soon.

Could I interest you in some blooms, sir? You look like you're waiting for a

young lady.

How many do you have for sale?

How many would sir like?

62.

Excellent.

I think I can be of service, sir.

Good to meet you, 62. You can call me Dennis.

What's the message?

Message?

No, there is no message. Not today.

Just a simple face -to -face introduction.

My way of doing things.

I like to know who I'm dealing with.

You know, friendly face and all that.

You can tell Control, or what is known as Control, that there is nothing to

report as yet.

First, from here on, all our meetings will be arranged by ourselves.

And strictly by no one else. Second, if you are followed to a meeting, break

contact and reconvene.

One hour earlier, the next day, at St Paul's. What do you mean by what is

as control?

Well, you know, really, we are all our own controllers, aren't we?

I don't follow you.

Well, it's words and their meanings.

Control is control by name, but how far does that name as a word

stretch?

To a meaning.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand where this conversation leads.

I'm sorry, it doesn't lead anywhere.

Unless you really want it to.

Just simple chat between passing friends.

So when do we meet next?

Okay. Things are moving pretty fast.

Let's say... Friday.

One o 'clock.

Trafalgar Square Thank

you sir Have

a really lovely day

Loyalty. That was why Krivosha ever sent me to London.

The KGB's theory of a link between ex -Nazi Albert Steiner's betrayal and

Dennis, his previous contact, had made me cautious.

But I didn't report my own suspicions of Dennis to Tally Ho.

I decided to watch.

Wondered if you'd fancy to buy a dinner with us tonight.

You paint!

A bit.

Oh, in art college.

It's not professional, just a pastime.

Do you mind?

Wow.

How long you been doing it?

Started yesterday.

No, how long you been painting?

I don't know.

As long as I can remember.

You've got a cool style.

Open and cool.

This stuff's your inspiration.

No, I like the illustrations.

The style.

Bought them at the shop earlier.

We didn't really have very much of that stuff when I was growing up.

Oh, where were you brought up then?

Well, my family were British, but I grew up in India.

I thought you got family looking up or something.

No, none to my knowledge.

I was a merchant themer for quite a few years in the Far East.

So I should see England?

Maybe try and find work on dry land.

Right, so you're an artist then?

What do you think?

The work is fantastic.

Thank you.

Well, is he eating or not?

I want to know how much rice to put on.

Yes, Uncle Ned, he's coming.

Good.

My friend's having a party at the weekend.

You'd love it before the war.

Yvonne's energy made me want to know more about her.

About life.

And about me.

A side of me that had been lost for years.

The real me.

How are you, man?

You well?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm great.

My team won yesterday.

2 -0.

Your team? Yeah.

2 -0.

It's a football score, not a code.

Yeah, cool.

All right, down to business.

I need to know the reason T plus Z equals T and what SQ

means to XZ.

Okay.

What do you need tomorrow?

Ten o 'clock.

Tomorrow night.

Bestop Street on the dot.

Oh,

before you go.

How about the other day?

I know you're the keen type.

I am, Sean.

But I'm also old.

Life's too short, eh?

So how long have you been involved anyway?

Most of my life.

One form or another.

How about you?

Pretty much the same.

When I was young, I was committed to the common cause.

An old school idealist.

I had a blind loyalty to the struggle.

Things are not so simple now.

To understand loyalty, you need to experience betrayal.

When were you betrayed?

I don't remember.

Too long ago.

It's true, it's important that you remember who you are, not what you are.

Tear the football.

Tally -ho.

How are you, 62?

Fine.

Requisition for reason why T plus Z equals T.

For my part, a soldier.

The code itself meant nothing.

Its answer, even less.

Yep. Now, listen carefully.

You've got a zero.

But a zero I did understand.

A killing.

Every instruction to be carried out to the letter. Yeah.

And once given information on a target, that knowledge made you the greater

danger. Okay.

You were then accountable.

Okay, we'll speak then.

Execute the order, or else.

British agent?

KGB spy?

Who knows?

But to the world a rich man died at the hands of a burglar.

Do you like Charlie's paintings?

Yeah, very much.

It's not right or wrong, just... just is what it is.

Beholden to no one.

That's the way of life, too.

What about you?

What's your way of life?

I'll never conform.

Strength that comes from the happiness within.

A time seemingly untainted.

A golden time of youth and promise

and of my heart.

Did you turn off the stove? Yes, I did, Mom.

Sorry, is it okay?

If you don't feel too guilty, it's your mom who could do it, I guess.

We were all very upset.

to hear the news about your father.

The plants are coming back.

It didn't hurt.

It looks beautiful.

What are you doing tonight, Thomas?

Go home.

You want to have a cigarette?

I don't smoke.

Would you please?

Times have been much harder.

You look like a real gentleman.

Thank you.

It's wonderful.

Staying real kept us alive.

Stay strong, and you'll survive anything.

If you want to smoke, you should smoke.

Make your own decision.

That's the best way.

Believe me.

It's the only way.

Melanie's boyfriend on home leave.

But with all the men and all the boys conscripted, a 14 -year -old could take

form.

Relaxation for the collection of prank for more work.

That's our motto.

The Troy Division is an admirable organization and shining example of

practical socialism.

People gain strength through experiencing happiness and again become

To achieve this goal, you, the youth, must chase your desires.

Art, craft, sport, whatever it may be.

Strength through joy gives you new life interest. And placement will help you

understand the meaning of comradeship, hard work and reward.

Did Hans give you the bracelet?

Yes.

Yes, you do.

I've seen you.

Every worker has a right to vacation, see the beauty of nature, and rise to a

higher standard of culture.

Vacationing for a new strength.

Our numbers would stretch 54 times around the world and twice from planet

to the moon and back.

We have strength in numbers. Your strength will come from the happiness

yourself.

Strengths through joy is the recognition of total freedom of the individual.

Born out.

Give to me, please.

Definitely.

He swapped a packet of cigarettes for it with an American prisoner he caught.

That's fantastic.

Can I borrow it?

No, but you may have it.

So long as you've got something to swap for it.

Melanie.

They're done at the weekend.

I know.

Would you like to come with me?

Of course I would.

And when I was alone, my inspiration could take form.

I'd paint.

That was my strength through joy.

The source of my inner strength through happiness.

You really like her, don't you?

You've loved her all your life, it's no secret.

This came for you.

Let her read it before Mom comes up.

Where are you going?

To the factory.

There's a war on.

If this thing can only fire once, what will happen once you fire it? If you

shoot it right, you won't need to do anything else.

Good evening.

No, it's the people's army. All able -bodied men between 16 and 16 have been

conscripted.

But you're only 14.

Ah, a couple of years makes no difference.

You know yourself that all the 16 -year -olds have gone already.

Um, Melanie.

Listen, I have to go to a training camp for the weekend.

But I brought this for you.

What for the book Thomas that's wonderful

When did you paint it after I saw you the other day

We can put it up in here

I see you after the weekend.

Emily, close that door. The bumpers will see the light.

My house took a direct hit.

My mother and sister both killed.

But far worse was the dawn upon our town.

But I wasn't to be there.

1944 drew to a close.

The whole world was about to change.

Thomas!

Get in here. Still in good shape.

It's wrong walls.

The vision is clear.

We'll see those bastards as they come in.

She's not set worth for dates.

But last night I heard you whispering her name.

Get a grip of yourself.

I don't understand.

Thanks. Get over here now.

There's a lot of Germans here, a lot of Germans!

How far are the Soviets?

How far are the Soviets?

Quick!

Get undressed.

If they catch you in that uniform, they'll kill you.

Don't you want to survive?

Christ's sake.

Put this on.

Come on.

Let's go.

After he was a medical student,

Taking to the road weeks earlier, she'd managed to keep just ahead of the Thovia

spearheads.

If she hadn't... I'd not be here now.

After it became the mother and sister I'd lost.

And an inspiration for survival.

Excuse me, where does this road lead?

It leads westwards.

To Frankfurt, I think.

Thank you.

I've got relatives in Leipzig.

I think so long we have to rest, we'll be safe.

Even if we fall into British or American hands.

For God's sake, move.

Jump up and down.

Lads, lads, look, hold on. Wait, wait, listen.

Look, I'm Sergeant Harry Stone, all right, of the British Free Corps, and

calling on you as white men to other white men, all right? Forget about the

between Britain and Germany.

There's no British interest.

Look, this is the last chance for the civilised world to unite.

But push the Bolshevik old...

Alba, homewrecker, back in a state to Asia!

Wait here. I'm going to go around and find more clothes for you.

Why are you doing this?

I mean, you don't have to.

Why is anyone doing it?

To survive.

Keep warm.

There's enough.

If Germany falls to the right scum, the rest of Europe will be under Stalin's

boot!

You fucking wankers!

Fucking wankers!

worry about?

We can hear them coming.

was destroying with fierce speed across Tilesia.

And the choice?

Hope was to recapture a town that had been overrun.

The hope that others had escaped.

Hi!

The red horse had engulfed the humble trunk.

And nowhere was safe.

An unstoppable force of nature swept through my heart.

Hands up!

Open fire at will!

We see it!

Melanie and the others left our town.

They followed the tanks that had destroyed them, hoping to keep ahead of

next wave.

Melanie ran and she walked and she ran.

But the next wave caught up.

Varsha.

Makes you wonder.

What they've been through to paint something like this.

You know I'm not in the habit of sleeping in stray lodges.

I hope not.

How long were you asleep for?

Ten years. What about you?

You must have liked it, though.

The job.

Simple.

And plenty of time to yourself.

As one emotion tumbled into another.

Like an unstoppable force.

One lie became another.

I hated keeping the truth from Yvonne, but I believed it protected her.

From what I was.

And from my past.

Both of which were bound together.

But when two people find each other...

Some things refuse to stay hidden.

It happened a long time ago.

There was someone I liked very much and... Well,

you know, things can happen when you're a kid.

I had to pass on a code from Tally Ho to Dennis.

Something which Dennis was waiting for.

And we met in the old German quarter of East London.

In the warmth of the Princess of Prussia.

The security of a public place.

You look well.

Cheers.

So, how did it go?

T times T equals 10.

Good.

What about the rest?

Sorry, they couldn't tell me.

Said you'd have to wait.

All right.

All right.

Well, it goes back to Batman.

I'll contact you as soon as I know the answer.

Yeah, I know you will.

What's your story?

Yeah, I reckon. And though your tongue's sharp, I reckon you're from mainland

Newark somewhere, right?

Yeah. And like me, you're in it up to your neck.

But unlike me, you haven't got a clue what's going on.

Right?

Right.

So what are you then, an idealist?

I was just too worried to go to war.

Such a time, the war, when I grew up.

And there was nothing left.

No home, no family, no future.

Back then I was scooped up by Mother Russia and delivered to a suburb of

military school.

And then my life was rebuilt.

So what about you then?

What's your story?

Well, like I said, I was an idealist.

And that was then.

There were good reasons then.

I mean, what's going on? Two world orders locked in conflict.

But are we preventing or creating a war?

Now, whichever one it is, is that what you and I live for?

I mean, would you want to see all that again?

Hmm? The death?

All this destroyed.

Are we the leaders?

Are we the lead?

Or are we neither?

A lot to think about.

Not really.

This is simple.

Do you want your freedom or not?

Well, I want freedom for the people from imperial capitalism.

Through revolution.

What, freedom for another lot of dictators to come and do as they see

Do you really want to go through all that again?

But anyway, what about us?

The tools?

What's supposed to happen to us? I mean, what do we do? We just disappear?

Hmm?

The men with no identity.

The men with no further use.

Good spies are not moral philosophers.

Ours is the secret world of the individual.

He's Stephanie Pfeiffer. KGB.

Confirmed.

They're the network observers, recruiters, fixers.

And the conspiracy?

Well, Steiner was convinced that one person controls the entire network in

UK. Dennis Bergman is definitely our man.

If this is a coup, a British coup, Budapest in reverse, then it's going to

soon, and it's going to be big.

And I want clearance to bring him in now so that we can avoid the whole bloody

mess. His network will break contact and go straight into a plan B. I think we

can offset that risk, sir, with the greater advantage of infiltrating Soviet

control. So, you have good reason to believe that Dennis Bergman will defect.

Yes, okay.

62.

Tally -ho.

Previously requested is denied. You have an immediate zero.

As Edward, I had fallen in love with Yvonne.

At 62, I had shared a dream of freedom with Dennis.

I had found new life interest.

But for me, Thomas,

To disobey control would mean counter -conspiracy.

Hunted to the death by scores of loyal agents like myself.

But counter -conspiracy was exactly what I wanted to do that day.

The day that Tally Ho ordered me to kill Dennis.

They didn't trust him anymore.

I know why you're here.

Been through it all myself.

The other night in the pub, I didn't fully fill you in on your role as a

operative, did I?

No, you didn't.

Well, it's like this.

You're here to spy on me.

And you do that by taking coded messages from me to your contact at Control.

And finally, when Control begin to mistrust me...

You get the unenviable task of killing me.

And then take it over my post.

I really don't understand this.

Any of it.

I don't take it personally.

Coded messages.

Hidden agents.

It's almost impossible to understand.

Unless you're a key player.

If you ever reach that point... Why don't you just run?

They've got people in every country.

The situation with you.

The British secret police believe that there's a Soviet coup being planned here

on the island between KGB agents and British revolutionaries.

I don't know what you know, but as far as I understand it, it's simply a push

orchestrated by double agents to eliminate leftist groups.

There's no coup being plotted.

Before I left for England, I was briefed about a man called Steiner.

Albert Steiner.

Albert Steiner wasn't a... a conspirator or a revolutionary. He was just a

lonely defector.

The lowest form of currency in this war.

A man in denial.

I don't know whether he's alive or dead, but as long as his fate remains

unknown...

The concept of Steinerism is a threat to the

enemy within, which both sides crave.

Maybe that makes me an agent of Steiner.

Shall I tell you something?

It's quite possible.

Right now, that you and I could both be working for the other side and not

realize.

Except that, that it naturally follows that the whole Cold War could be a

farce. And that we're all ruled by one central control.

A kind of new world order.

The powers that be want me to disappear.

And so I shall.

But if I don't, then the messenger and I both shall.

My final performance.

But the show goes on, eh?

It's wonderful.

The secret police got Dennis.

When did you find out?

Time is not on our side.

Find out from Control the arrival time of XZ and meet me tonight, 9 o 'clock,

the Underground Ticket Office, London Bridge.

Sorry. I'm a tourist.

And your passport states that you're one Anneliese Keitel from West Germany.

That's correct, Mr. Harris.

And I would like to know why I've been brought here.

You think?

It's really not much that we don't know about you, Stephanie.

You know, people's responses can be controlled by conditioning. It's awfully

simple.

It's to do with the connection between physical reflexes and mental

Right now, we know the correct answers.

Whenever you fail to give those answers, we shall begin the process of

conditioning. Now, this man, as you well know, is Dennis Bergman.

What can you tell us about his involvement with the coup prior to his

Coup?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I do not know this man.

Could you please stand up?

Now remove all your clothes.

Lies will not protect you here.

I demand to see your superiors.

This is Commander Botheringay.

He's my superior. Now do as I say, or we shall do it for you.

You people are mad.

On several occasions, you were followed from hotel rooms where you

had stayed with this man.

He was murdered in his home.

One occasion, you were followed directly to a meeting with the head of a left

-wing pressure group, the Workers' Lobby.

What can you tell me about that meeting?

for me to answer your question. I do not know what it is you talk about.

Will you please turn around?

Lean over and touch your toes.

Hold that position.

Both these men were murdered by an agent of the war criminal Albert Steiner.

And we know that you are a direct link.

In a darkened world of deception where loyalty meant obedience, the individual

was lost.

We're not questioning your sense of idealism.

We're talking about where you stand in relation to the beast, side by side or

against it.

That's also idealism.

Our idealism.

Loyalty.

Very touching subject for all of us.

But you must realize, Stephanie, you've been betrayed many times before today.

We know that you met this man today because he led us to you.

Actually, he's an agent of Tyna.

But his betrayal of you is of quite a different nature.

You too can make the same decision that he did, but come over to work with us

instead.

We simply want to know the attitude of the KGB towards certain British

groups, and how far they intend to support that attitude.

The fact that my new contact didn't know what really happened to Dennis meant

either that somebody didn't want her to know, or she wasn't who she claimed to

be.

Another Steiner, perhaps.

At best, if she was KGB, it meant that the secret police had got to her after

our meeting.

If that was true, I could only assume they were also on to me.

The only choice for me now was to go back or to run.

A choice similar to one I was forced to make many years before.

A town we had recaptured.

Genuine life interest.

An outpost of hope amidst the carnage.

The last of the westward exodus staggered into our fortress.

And the retreating convoy which had found a group of women and children left

dead on the roads after being attacked by enemy tanks.

Melanie?

Melanie!

Melanie with a shell.

Let me just leave him.

Tanya. She was a commissar.

In denial of my crime, we headed to a military school for war orphans in

A place to be re -educated.

A home.

Something new to be loyal to.

Stalin's secret army.

And whilst Silesia was removed from history, my people slain or herded east

slavery.

I was to escape.

62 reporting.

Tally ho.

The girl was deported.

You face immediate danger. Break contact.

Rendezvous on the runway at dawn.

If you want to survive.

Come on.

Hold on!

You okay?

Fine, thank you, devil.

Well, you don't look it.

A man came for you earlier.

He left this.

Said his name was a Mr. Harris, an old friend of yours.

Now, you let me know if there's a problem, eh?

Come on, devil, hurry up, man. I'll come in.

What's the matter?

I have to go away tonight.

Back to sea, then? No.

No, I was never in the Merchant Navy.

Okay.

So why did you tell me you was?

To Thomas Wagner.

Would like to meet to discuss your problem.

Waiting for your call on this number.

Who's Thomas Webner?

It's me.

I have to leave here tonight.

As long as I'm here, it's not safe.

While I've been with you, you've made me feel real again.

Like I am somebody.

For 17 years this was the only part of me that was real.

Tally -ho.

So you're Tally -how.

I nearly didn't come.

Bureau Sheriff is dead.

Umbrella gun.

Point and bullet.

Who do they think is responsible?

Agents of Albert Steiner?

Counter -conspirators?

You?

Deductions after the Dennis episode made the British secret police.

Think that you were Soviet control.

They've had followers on you since your arrival.

They want you to defect.

But you're not control, are you?

Since the end of the war, our policies in the West have been defensive, non

-aggressive.

But this is fast changing.

and due to a new form of ruthlessness.

One good turn, if there's another.

New life interests.

Strength through experiencing happiness to again become strong.

The real me.

For the first time.

And Europe?

Long gone.

It's as free as it gets.

I remember what Dennis said.

The secret war begins in John.

I have my own life now My own strength through joy

Thank you.