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So, bitte, wir unterbrechen jetzt für ein paar Minuten und jeder widmet sich

noch einmal seinen schwierigen Stellen.

Und dann bringen wir meinem Freund hier eine konzertreife Darbietung.

They are wondering whether I had to practice on a Thursday afternoon.

They probably believe you are a famous Russian impresario.

Fifteen years playing quintets with them and all for this moment, our one

meeting.

It means your system has worked very well about it.

Is it a bad sign they've sent you?

You asked for me.

I ask for you because I feel you will not betray me.

That does not mean to say you will do what I want you to do.

That courage to come back.

You saved my life in Weimar, Walter.

Perhaps I've been waiting 15 years to say thank you.

It's a lonely business, and I've been left too long on my own bonnet.

It has its effect, I'm afraid.

I know what you have come to ask me.

Twice already I've done that.

Silas Grant sends me smoked salmon and tilting and asks me...

to hang on for another year.

I'm too old, Bernard.

I cannot take the being afraid all the time.

No more can my wife.

Whoever it is in London, something has been said here or in Moscow.

I can almost feel them begin to...

You say you can identify this, whoever it is in London?

Have you brought the evidence with you?

That is my bargain, Bernard.

I conditioned it.

You get me and my wife out, and I'll bring the evidence with me.

I'm tired.

It doesn't work no longer to believe it will happen sometimes in the future.

What is this evidence of yours?

Four pages of handwriting.

A report?

Soviet agent breaking all the rules.

Deliberately. It was a minute.

A meeting between Bank of England and... Cabinet office.

Bound to end up on my desk sooner or later.

At which point I call for you.

As I've done.

And the KGB hope to catch the two of us before you get me and the evidence out

over the wall.

They'll be looking for you today all over Berlin.

You'll move in London still.

She doesn't know my real identity.

It is the handwriting.

I'm sorry.

We only have these two hours to practice.

I think I should pretend everything is normal today.

Walter, I need to phone London.

Use office up the corridor.

The privilege of rank even for amateur musicians.

Dial five and then the number.

You'll be listening. Be discreet.

Jason has done his work.

I worry him.

Where are you?

How long have I got?

Watch me, Betty.

They'll be coming out of school in ten minutes.

It is sad I cannot say goodbye to them as I would have liked to.

Next week, they will know I was a traitor.

What will happen to me on the other side?

You'll be flown directly to England in an RAF plane. No formalities, Walter.

And then?

Place in the country while they debrief you.

Will I see Silas?

Oh, he'll be there, sure.

Strange how

now the time has come.

I almost hesitate.

It's frightening to leave everything behind.

So many years of your life.

All of your life.

And to be able to take so little with you.

Was ist eigentlich los?

You know who it is, the woman with the handwriting.

Mein Gott, es ist eine Frau.

that Medbalt had this whole business with Herbert Funnyside.

You sent for me all the way over here because you trust me.

And then we discovered that my wife is the defector.

I don't think there's any funnyside.

Not for you, Bernd.

You are on the wrong side of the world to suddenly discover your wife is a

defector.

The first time in five years.

They sent you back into the East.

And now you have to tell them your wife is KGB.

You have told them on the telephone?

I couldn't get through.

It's time to try again.

You have no urgency?

Like you said, Walter, I'm on the wrong side of the wall.

Yes, that's enough this afternoon.

Oh, no, it's all right. Leave it.

Cryer.

Diggy Cryer.

Fountain.

Bernard?

Where the hell are you? I thought you were supposed to... Diggy, listen.

I have identified the mole.

Security, Bernard. Security.

Fiona Ramson.

I can't believe it, Bernard. Fiona runs the Yellow Submarine. She can't get a

leak.

Children have been taken to my mother.

They'll need protection.

My mother has the key.

They'll be going for the children.

What do you expect me to do?

I don't think you should sleep at home tonight.

Bring your wife and tell her to meet you somewhere.

We have a laube out in Buchholz, a little camera house, an allotment.

Tomorrow you come into the offices if everything was normal.

Bring photocopies of the handwritten pages meeting on the lake. You know the

quarries?

And my wife? I'll bring your wife.

Just tell her to stay in the laube tomorrow until I come.

I wish I could think of something to say.

You know what people say in the East?

Why can't the damn Nazis come back to look after their roots?

It's an old joke.

Have you a document?

I'll be all right as long as they stop the statue of the KGB.

Looks like traffic has started.

Look at them.

Obsessed with uniform.

These people never will change.

Where's the gallery then, Walter?

It's near there.

And it's not a place to get trapped now.

You be careful too, Walter.

I make that 1 ,250 miles.

Six and a half hours in the air.

Five border crossings.

44 minutes late.

We picked the children up from the school.

I met your London colleague in a school playground.

I looked around at the other man. He looked around at the other man.

He looked like sexual perverts.

And your nanny thought we were both kidnappers.

The real kidnappers arrived one half minute too late.

Time takes clothes, Bernie.

They're safe at your mother's.

Arm cut.

Antigone crier.

You look puzzled.

It's going to be bad tomorrow.

Was it Fiona?

To go, son.

Taylor?

Me, probably.

Ever since I came through the checkpoint.

Major Erich Stinnes.

KGB Berliners.

Here is first, Victor.

Schulting to warn you of?

That means they know you're here, Bernie.

They're still waiting for us to lead them to bronze.

You tread very carefully tomorrow, Enfroyton.

He's going to need your help.

We'd better get a move on. They're bound to know we're here. Where's Walter?

Waiting by the lake.

With his four sheets of paper.

What happened?

They're at the Stasi's, front and back, as soon as he puts them in the photocopy

machine.

Your Dr. Walter von Munt is a very cool man.

Yet it was just a plant.

We're running out of time.

No, you take these to England. Give them to Silas.

You're not coming with us?

Don't worry about me. I'll find a way back.

Makes us all square for Weimar.

I'm sorry, Bernd.

The way it happened for you...

As fast as you can. I'll be waiting.

So, now take the mask. No fear.

All right.

All right?

You'll be out in half an hour.

Good luck.

Good luck, Walter.

Bye, bye, bye.

How is he going over?

A car?

A truck?

A train?

Or with a tourist bus to that point, Charlie?

You'll have Dr.

Walter von Munte.

If he reaches the West in safety, I don't think he will ever see you

Ah, yes, yes.

No hands on you, they told me. Such concern. I wonder who protects me. Don't

so carefully.

Don't worry about you all, Herr Dr. Von Munze.

We caught him an hour ago.

May I?

I think you can give up the charade.

The only thing that matters is the plan.

It's strange, isn't it, having to remember identification stories?

We used to spend a week on that in training.

The invention of stories and foreign languages.

My specialization, Latin America.

It's a bloody nightmare.

Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me why there's been no serious attempt to

interrogate me.

You're right.

It's ridiculous not to make an advantage of your state of mind.

We should have been interrogating for five hours while you were warm.

Or to be more precise, cold.

Frightened cold, Mr. Sampson.

But instead I was overruled by some KGB.

Some party bastard sitting behind a fat desk.

You know what it's like.

We both were the tough side of the business.

Major?

Major Erich Stinnes, KGB Berlin office.

Mrs. Sampton, SIS, later London Central.

Yes, my wife, Erich Stinnes.

Mother of my children.

The children were picked up at your mother's last night, after Vernet left.

It's going to cause you a lot of trouble back at London Central, that telephone

call.

Sentimental, really.

Thank you.

You will be going home.

Can't it start a bit, will it?

Having your husband down the end of the road?

I've made it a condition that you should have access to the children.

Access? Where?

In Moscow, I'm afraid.

Berlin's too close to the border.

I'm too full of your school chums.

Safe passage.

I can protect you there.

How long have you been protecting me?

You haven't needed it for five... How long, Fiona?

God, what a perfect cover I was for you.

Every time I came back from the East, I saw your little thigh of relief.

Had me on the head, told me how brave I was.

Put your arms around me.

Made me feel warm and safe.

Jesus Christ.

How many lives have you made me live?

The relief was genuine.

I suppose I should say I'm glad the pretending is all over.

I hope you'll do everything you can to make things easier for the children.

Well, it depends who's got them, doesn't it?

They're waiting for me in Monaco.

Apparently for me in London.

I don't know what would have happened if your little gamble had come off.

You'd have been able to carry on, I suppose.

You had to have got rid of me, though.

Have you been spying?

I've had my own private goodbye plan for every hour of every day and night.

You're being swapped.

Why?

You're more used to me back there.

And there's nothing you can tell them here that I can't tell them.

Besides, you always were very good at tiring the mud.

I wouldn't want Dickie and Brett to have too easy a time.

But don't ask me.

You love me because you're told to.

I expect you'll want to sleep.

You'll have a bed.

I'm sorry, Bernard.

Save it, Frank.

Where are the kids?

With your mother.

How do you know?

I talked to them an hour ago on the phone.

Poor Fiona.

Poor Fiona?

Did Brahms make it?

Yes. And his wife?

Let's go home.

What's going on? What are you doing?

You'll find out.

Just making sure that MI5s stay within the parameters of decency, Bernard.

And within the limits of their brief.

That's very thoughtful of you, Brett.

Well, I can leave you to keep an eye on them yourself now.

Your nanny had to go home.

To see her own family.

Doris will be looking after you.

Why are you doing that?

Oh, I, uh... I expect your daddy must have lost something.

Excuse me.

Not while the kids are here.

Okay?

If you want to play hide -and -seek, you wait till they're at school.

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