1 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:06,797 This fellow comes with a strong recommendation from Brotherhood. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:12,718 Picked him up in church in Bern. He's barely out of school. Nothing's sacred to Brotherhood. 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:19,400 Behave yourself, Terry. Brotherhood's a star womaniser and a war hero. 4 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,711 The boy ran a few errands. 5 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,274 Some eavesdropping among the long-hairs at the university. Good mixer. Very willing. 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,797 Then there's his army service, for what that's worth. 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,590 - Nice girl you're marrying. - Do you know Belinda? 8 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,991 Just good reports. 9 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,679 - Do you like danger? - I love it, actually, sir. 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,835 Will you adore your country right or wrong so help you God and the Tory Party? 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,400 Yes, of course. 12 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,074 Tell us about your father, will you, Pym? 13 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,800 He seems a bit of a colourful sort to me. 14 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,429 He's a bit too colourful sometimes, sir. I don't see a lot of him, to be honest. 15 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,951 We're still friends, but I do rather steer clear. I feel I have to, actually. 16 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:26,356 A friend of mine says he knew a Pym. He kept a dirty great office somewhere in Mayfair. 17 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,513 Best man at his job my friend ever knew. A con man. 18 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,400 Any relation? 19 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,792 It must be my distant wicked uncle. 20 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,675 There's no harm in a healthy streak of criminality in a young spy's background. 21 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,832 Positively useful. 22 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:56,310 Look here, Pym. You're by way of being a Czecho buff - speak their language, know their people. 23 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,473 What do you say to these purges and mass arrests? 24 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,236 Appalling, sir, but only to be expected. 25 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,552 - It's a rotten system. - What would you do about it? 26 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,919 - In what capacity, sir? - As one of us, man. Officer of this service. 27 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,436 Anyone can talk. We DO. 28 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,239 I'd play their game, sir. 29 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,634 Divide them against themselves. Spread rumour, false accusations, suspicion. 30 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,678 I'd let dog eat dog. 31 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,394 You wouldn't mind getting innocent men chucked into prison? 32 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,952 - Being a bit harsh, aren't you? - A bit immoral? 33 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,675 No, I don't think so, sir. 34 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,798 Not if it shortens the life of the system. 35 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,240 Both eyes out. It takes no longer than it does to say it. 36 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,555 Or, Belinda, I could break your windpipe with a single blow. 37 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,753 Like this. 38 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,874 I could, Bel. I was one of the best on the unarmed combat course. 39 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,792 Did you really enjoy it? 40 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,633 Smashing. 41 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,396 What else did they teach you, or can't you say? 42 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,634 Well, I shouldn't really. 43 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,953 I mean, if it was anyone else... 44 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,555 How to use guns, knives, 45 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,280 cameras, radios. 46 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:13,720 We're the chaps who have to do the dirty work so that purer souls can sleep in bed at night. 47 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,113 It's true, Bel. That's what the Firm's for. 48 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:20,511 Someone's got to do it. 49 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,559 So you know what you're marrying into. 50 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,157 I'm marrying YOU. 51 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,349 Well, I can see that my new son-in-law Magnus 52 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,196 has been giving you all the benefit of his wit and charm. 53 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,320 No doubt about it. 54 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:48,316 If it's charm that gets a man through the ranks to the top of the Christmas tree, 55 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,076 then, no doubt about it, he is Prince Charming himself. 56 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,840 Ask my daughter. Ask my wife. Magnus can do no wrong. 57 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,110 And who am I to question the wisdom of the distaff side? 58 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,233 Magnus is a man of many parts, I'll have you know. 59 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:17,078 He tells me he's moving on from his government-sponsored language laboratory 60 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,517 and he's going into electronics. 61 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,872 Well, I'm sure we all wish him well in his new chosen field. 62 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:37,431 But this young man IS Mr Success, and, as my wife keeps telling me, 63 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,594 it's high time we had some of that in the family. 64 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,637 Which puts me in my place - 65 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:50,159 which is where a father-in-law ought to be, according to the rules of modern family life. 66 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,074 Sorry. Oh, Daddy, please shut up. 67 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,836 - I won't keep you from the feast much longer... 68 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,754 Hello, old son. 69 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,477 Didn't you expect your old pal? 70 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,951 Think I'd let you down on your wedding day, hmm? 71 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,438 Now, son, where's this bride of yours? Come here, my dear. 72 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,910 Give your old father-in-law a kiss. 73 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:27,194 My God, there's some flesh here, son. Where have you been hiding her all these years? 74 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,673 You're a lucky fellow. A match made in heaven if ever I saw one. 75 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:34,480 Come and see what I've got for you. 76 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,313 Congratulations, Titch. 77 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,474 - I wish you everything you wish yourself. - Thanks, Syd. 78 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,916 You know what this is? 79 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,152 Your old man's gift to the pair of you. 80 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,198 Oh, but it's... 81 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,389 - Mr Pym, it's so expensive! - Call me Rick. Ricky, if you like. 82 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,552 Well? What do you think of it, old son? 83 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,313 Will it do for you? 84 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,480 Did you think your old man would ever let you down? Your best pal? 85 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,632 - Of course not. - Course not. 86 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,430 - Course not. - Mr Richard Theodore Pym? 87 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,594 There's some mix-up about the car's registration book. 88 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,152 My father can be a bit careless about things like that. He'll sort it out. 89 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,312 I think he stole it for us. 90 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,276 I like your father. 91 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,114 - You said he was abroad. - I thought he was. 92 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,272 India, actually. 93 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,070 Mummy and Daddy were furious. 94 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,599 Some geezer said to give you these. He came up whilst I was waiting for you. 95 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,353 Poppies? 96 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,318 Are you gonna take 'em, then? 97 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,192 Well, I want them, darling. 98 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,952 Thank you. 99 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,792 There's no card. 100 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,952 No name. Nothing. 101 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,112 Isn't that funny? 102 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:19,275 It was probably meant for another wedding altogether. Chap got the wrong hotel. 103 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:29,797 Sales drive? My own boy, a commercial traveller selling electric shavers to foreign communists? 104 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,989 We did all that. It's over. What did I buy you an education for? 105 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:45,037 They're not electric razors. I sell oscillators, alternators and sparking plugs. 106 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,071 It's important - opening up the East European market. 107 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,551 - Could you stop doing that? - Where's your patriotism? 108 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,598 It's a damn shame when a man gives up everything to make his son a great lawyer 109 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,798 and he gets into some shady racket, trading with the reds. 110 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,830 How's your glass? 111 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,479 Magnus Richard Pym? 112 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:11,832 - You are Magnus Richard Pym? - Yes. 113 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,036 You are charged with espionage, provocation of the people, 114 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:29,037 incitement to treason and murder and sabotage on behalf of an imperialist power. 115 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:34,594 Face the wall. 116 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,235 Face the wall, hands on your head. Hands on your head! 117 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:58,840 This is an outrage. 118 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,791 - I demand to see a British consul immediately. - Shut up! Walk to the stairs. 119 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:10,760 - This is a ridiculous and scandalous act. - If you collaborate, you will not be harmed. 120 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:14,519 My government will insist that you be punished. 121 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:16,990 If you try to escape, you will be shot. 122 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,631 You've been watched by the protectors of the people. 123 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,952 Go in. 124 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,394 You are very dangerous friend, Sir Magnus. 125 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,316 Why in God's name couldn't you have used an alias? 126 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,310 They said I would be better being me. 127 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,790 They call it natural cover. 128 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,192 This was my aunt's house. 129 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,352 Really? 130 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,595 The aristos I work for, they want me to blackmail you. 131 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,480 That is the only good news I have for you. 132 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,152 Blackmail? 133 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,879 How? 134 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:36,911 They think I should show you the photographs of the two of us coming out of the barn together 135 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,710 and play you the recordings of our conversations. 136 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,312 Yes, it's true. 137 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,597 In Austria I set you up. 138 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,480 I entrapped you with a pretty girl. 139 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,474 Crude. 140 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,393 God forgive me. 141 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,597 These guys I work for are very crude people. 142 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,551 This is a very crude country, as you have no doubt noticed on your journeys. 143 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,632 Actually, I rather like it. 144 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,719 Have you got the flowers OK, Sir Magnus? 145 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,832 They were super. 146 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,358 Best surprise of the wedding. 147 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,235 So what will they find in your room? 148 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,870 - Pretty well everything, I suppose. - What's everything? 149 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,560 Secret ink. 150 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,599 - Film. - Film from your agents? 151 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,672 Yes. 152 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,311 Like from the dead letter box you cleared yesterday? 153 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:22,834 Yes. 154 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,835 Then don't bother to develop it. It's cheap pedlar material. 155 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,719 - Money? - Some, yes. 156 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,156 - Codebooks? - A couple. 157 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,672 What else? 158 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,953 There's a concealed camera. It's hidden in the talcum powder tin. 159 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,233 If you peel the sticky paper off the lid, it makes a lens. 160 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,789 We've got to get ourselves out of this. 161 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:01,952 Out, Sir Magnus. 162 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,029 We've got to rise in the world. 163 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:11,400 We have to help each other until we become the aristos ourselves 164 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,997 and we can kick the other bastards goodbye. 165 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,677 You make it so difficult for me, you know that? 166 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,554 They put me in prison because of you. 167 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,876 It gave me bad thoughts about you. 168 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,917 You know what they will do with you, these aristos of mine, 169 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,037 unless I make them listen to me? 170 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,960 They mean to parade you before the world's press. 171 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:50,999 Have a show trial. 172 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,231 Hang some people. 173 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:59,833 When they start to do that, it will be sheer oversight if they don't hang me, too. 174 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,515 They would prefer an American, 175 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:08,755 but they will settle for an Englishman until they can get hold of the real thing. 176 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,911 We've got to get out of this, Sir Magnus. 177 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,911 I'm sick of bad superiors. 178 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,072 Bad food. 179 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,199 Bad prisons. Bad tortures. 180 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,595 It's time I looked after your career and you looked after mine. 181 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,150 And this time, properly. 182 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,392 No bourgeois shrinking back from the big scoops. 183 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,509 This time we are professionals. 184 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,672 I mean it. 185 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,838 Sir Magnus, you have in the past betrayed me. 186 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,436 But more important, you have betrayed yourself. 187 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,718 Even when you are telling the truth, you lie. 188 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,880 You have loyalty and you have affection, 189 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,670 but to what, to whom? 190 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,752 I don't know. 191 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,674 One day maybe you will tell me. 192 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,550 Maybe you have put your love in some bad places now and then. 193 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,919 Yet you also have morality. You search. 194 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,477 What I'm saying, Sir Magnus... 195 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,670 ..is, for once, nature has produced a perfect match. 196 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,718 You are a perfect spy. 197 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,275 All you need is a cause. 198 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,432 I have it. 199 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,914 I know the revolution is young and sometimes the wrong people are running it. 200 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,238 In the pursuit of peace, we are making too much war. 201 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,837 Looking for freedom, we are building too many prisons. 202 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,357 But in the long run, I don't mind. 203 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,597 Because I know this. 204 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:25,472 All the junk that made you what you are - the privileges, the snobbery, the hypocrisy, 205 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,271 the Church, the school, its fathers, the class systems, the historical lies, 206 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,750 the little laws of the countryside, 207 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,915 the little laws of big business and all the greedy wars that result from them - 208 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,471 we are sweeping all that away for ever. 209 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,960 For your sake. 210 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,519 So... 211 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,917 I have said it. 212 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,631 You are a good man and I love you. 213 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,998 Axel, in Bern when we first met... 214 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,715 - ..were you already...? - A spy? 215 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,280 No. 216 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,636 No, Sir Magnus. 217 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,594 I was just Axel. 218 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,879 I wanted to be a poet and a great novelist. 219 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,599 And your friend. 220 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,676 It was Jack Brotherhood who did all this to us. 221 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,150 He recruited us both into the great big game. 222 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,789 The secret world. 223 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:46,639 The only difference was with me. 224 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,435 He didn't know it. 225 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:06,798 There's no doubt about it. It's the same plant the Americans photographed with overflights. 226 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,474 No question. 227 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,077 It's the nuclear plant at Pilsen. Confirmed. 228 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,836 - Important. - Well done. 229 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,913 Very well done. 230 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:29,629 Those two workmen you gave a lift to, Magnus, did they just start opening their hearts to you? 231 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,671 Not exactly. It was seven o'clock in the morning by then, 232 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,231 and the rain was piddling down. 233 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,950 They felt like a good old grumble about life in general, 234 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:49,117 and the stuff about them having to handle radioactive material without protective clothing 235 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,670 leaked out with the rain, you might say. 236 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,198 You don't think they were a bit too ready to give their names and addresses? 237 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:00,513 No. We were talking about coffee by then. It's a big grumble in Czecho. 238 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:06,278 I said I'd take them round a pound or two of decent English stuff next time I was in the area. 239 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,512 They thought their wives would like that. 240 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,400 Or some other chaps' wives! 241 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,272 What makes you think they won't turn you in if you show up on their doorstep? 242 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,432 It's a hunch, that's all. 243 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,592 I think they both trusted me, 244 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:28,711 and they hope that I'll play grocer's delivery boy one evening, just as I said I would. 245 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,669 We've run them through. There's nothing known. 246 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,516 It looks as if you're about to start putting a network together, Magnus. 247 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,960 You'll need official status. 248 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,511 Joined the Foreign Office? 249 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:02,074 And how do you do that from a deadbeat electronics firm in Walthamstow? 250 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,232 Well, well, I must say! 251 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,074 He's boosting British trade, Daddy. 252 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,072 You wouldn't understand. 253 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,439 - I hope he gets a decent cover story! - It's a contract appointment. 254 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:18,356 British Embassy in Prague. Second Secretary Commercial and Visa Officer. 255 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,400 - They need Czech speakers. - Sure they do, old boy. Sure they do! 256 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:33,280 The second anniversary of the founding of our first network, Sir Magnus - Conger. 257 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,956 Our first repertory company of make-believe agents. 258 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,396 We have earned a little celebration. 259 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:46,431 I shall take you to an enchanted castle set aside by my aristos for people they think the world of. 260 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,716 People like you and me have a right to play the libertine from time to time. 261 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,033 Besides, it's not good if we always look too much on our guard. 262 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,274 Relax, Sir Magnus. I have a nice surprise lined up for you. 263 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,274 You're sure it's not a torturers' party night? 264 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,514 Your people haven't called me in to extract a confession out of me? 265 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,516 Zzz! Yes, I am Jack Brotherhood's man! Zzz! Yes, I am planting disinformation. 266 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,400 Zzz! Yes! Yes! Anything but this! 267 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:24,671 I'm delivering so much of the Firm's material to you. Don't you think I'm too good to be true? 268 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,596 You told me how much your people admire Jack Brotherhood. I MUST be suspect. 269 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,151 Of course. Someone will always suspect you. 270 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:34,754 And me. 271 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,913 In our world, suspicion is a way of life, 272 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,756 but I can protect you because I know my people. 273 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,960 I know when to slam the table and when to threaten. 274 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:49,033 And you protect me with the product you bring. 275 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,034 They won't risk losing that. 276 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,990 Mutual survival. Pledged for ever. 277 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,311 Exactly. 278 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,836 And success. 279 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,357 We are aiming for the very top, Sir Magnus. 280 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,080 One day America - land of the free. 281 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,560 Yes, yes. 282 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,910 What are you thinking of, Sir Magnus? 283 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,472 Two men such as ourselves can live out our lives as spies 284 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,474 without ever having spied on the Americans? 285 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,157 - It cannot be! 286 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,270 Sorry, Bel. Got to go up country again. 287 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,875 May be a day or two. 288 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,671 Can't help it, Bel. 289 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,832 Duty calls. 290 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,992 You know. 291 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,197 Come on, Bel. 292 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,352 Kiss-kiss. 293 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,880 Be my lovely girl. 294 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,360 I have decided to present you with an excellent new agent - 295 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,637 the nice surprise I promised you. 296 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,237 - More work? Some surprise. - Wait and see. 297 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,278 - Which network? - Watchman. 298 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,831 It's lamentably short of industrial intelligence. 299 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,836 Here we have the Americans devoted to the collapse of my country's economy, 300 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,517 but what is the Firm providing to support their optimism? Nothing. 301 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,195 You must put that right, Sir Magnus. 302 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,079 Oh, sure. 303 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,472 How would you like the services of a middle executive 304 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,792 from our great National Bank of Czechoslovakia 305 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,079 with access to some of our most serious mismanagements? 306 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,630 Where am I supposed to have found him? 307 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,634 Did I say him? 308 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,551 Sabina! 309 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,360 My Sabina from Graz! 310 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,309 Sir Magnus, meet Olga Kravitsky, 311 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:06,512 who will rise to become secretary to the Prague Internal Committee on Economic Affairs, 312 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,275 or so they will believe in London. 313 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,478 It takes time to build a career. 314 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,876 You are still hommsexual, Magnus. 315 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,834 Berlin. That's a whole garrison of a Station, Magnus. 316 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,950 Tunnellers. Smugglers. Forgers. Watchers. Listeners. 317 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,911 Seducers. Assassins. And whatever we have, the Yanks have it twice over, 318 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,596 the East Germans have five of it and the Russians ten. 319 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,231 - You will enjoy yourself, old boy! - Can't wait, Jack. 320 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,711 - Rougher than Prague. - All the same if you get caught. 321 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,477 Depends who catches you, so you watch your step. 322 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,996 We have some very funny committees springing up around the place these days. 323 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,994 Outside talent, supposed to be. 324 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,550 Watchdogs of the secret war. 325 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:15,675 They reckon we're too blinkered, people like you and me. Too incestuous. 326 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,800 Interfering little bastards. They're dangerous. 327 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,351 - Committees. Christ! 328 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,594 Don't you laugh at me, young Magnus. Nothing funny about Berlin. 329 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,877 Of course not, Jack. 330 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,032 Why are you telling me? 331 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,235 I wondered if you'd like to come with me. 332 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,952 No. 333 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,152 What will you do? 334 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,119 Do you care? 335 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,235 I'm sorry, Bel, but somehow we never... 336 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,199 You're sorry you married me, that's all. 337 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,714 We both wanted to marry. 338 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:14,432 You needed a wife because the bloody Firm likes wives. 339 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,478 All part of the cover. 340 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,837 And you picked me because I was easy. 341 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,992 Available. 342 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,512 And weak. 343 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,149 And I didn't scare you. 344 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:36,430 And you could leave me on my own whenever you felt like it, and never even think about me. 345 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,393 Five years. 346 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,640 Of nothing! 347 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,395 Bel, I'm sorry you were so unhappy in Prague, but the job... 348 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,713 I was just some kind of hiding place for you. Another hiding place. 349 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,837 How many more are there, Magnus? 350 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,313 Berlin sounds just the spot. Your father should never find you there. 351 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,120 Sounds like hiding places all over town! 352 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,670 Come on, Bel. What's this about? 353 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,435 No, he's not here, Rick. 354 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,954 Gone abroad, Rick. 355 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,596 Sorry, Rick. He's back in London. 356 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,275 Or is it Mars or bloody Timbuktu? 357 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:22,198 Anything will do, as long as we keep Rick out of sight and out of mind. 358 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,958 Sad, that, 359 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,919 because he actually loves you, 360 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,754 if you know what that means. 361 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:37,473 - It's complicated with Rick, you know that. - RickWhat's complicated about Rick? 362 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,396 He's a con man, that's all, but you... What are you? 363 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,958 You'd come home one person, I'd try to match you, 364 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,399 and in the morning, you're someone else. 365 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,876 Go to Berlin. 366 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,712 Leave me alone. 367 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:15,800 Divorce me. 368 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,117 Bel... 369 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,272 I'm sorry. 370 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,995 Forgive the bad parts. 371 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,192 Hello, Jack. 372 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,112 Ein Bier. 373 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,789 What's up? Why so grumpy-looking? 374 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:24,632 These wise men. These no-nonsense, unfettered, idiot outsiders. 375 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,679 Do you know what they're dreaming up now? 376 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,874 You won't believe this. 377 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:39,394 These lunatics are proposing to get us plugged into the Soviet ground control, 378 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,715 talk a MiG over allied airspace, blow it out of the sky, and if the pilot survives, 379 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,271 offer him the choice of being put on trial for espionage 380 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:53,390 or staging a public defection in front of the microphones and cameras. It's true! 381 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,711 They'll start a war. They want to. 382 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,715 Calm yourself, Sir Magnus. Have another drink. 383 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,032 Jack was right. We're dealing with madmen! 384 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,955 The Firm will handle them. It will close ranks. You will see. 385 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,998 I'll keep you posted. 386 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,437 Countdown to Armageddon. God help us! 387 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:22,359 You will see. I have total faith in the great Brotherhood and all the Brotherhoods! 388 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,431 I hear you are seeing his girlfriend. I didn't know that. 389 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,630 Mary? A couple of times. When Jack's away. 390 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,710 Nothing heavy. 391 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,031 Tell me about her. 392 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,190 I don't know much. She's a daughter of the Service. 393 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,196 One of our cleverer forgers. Good with papers. Watermarks. 394 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,556 But personally, Sir Magnus. 395 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,472 We're not that close yet. 396 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,118 Jack the Stoat. 397 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,272 Jack the Stripper. 398 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,319 - His women don't stray lightly. - I'd like to know about Mary. 399 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,070 Next time, Sir Magnus, yes? 400 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,072 Herr Pym? 401 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,471 Herr Pym, wake up, please! 402 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,438 Just a minute. 403 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,752 Who is it? 404 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,792 I'll be right with you. 405 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:32,510 Lieutenant Dollendorf, what's the problem? It's two o'clock in the morning. 406 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,230 Forgive us, Herr Pym. Excuse the disturbances so late. 407 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,474 Our Herr Kommandant asks that you come immediately to headquarters 408 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,360 on a personal and urgent matter. 409 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,313 He assures me that everything can be arranged discreetly. 410 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,195 He wishes at this stage to be delicate. 411 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,279 He has made no approach to your superiors. 412 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,156 The Kommandant has high respect for you, Herr Pym. 413 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,637 Yes. Um... 414 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,394 - I'll have to get dressed. - Yes, but quickly, if you are so kind. 415 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,473 The Kommandant wants the matter to be dealt with 416 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,394 before he has to hand it over to someone else. 417 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,359 He means to the day shift, Herr Pym. 418 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,794 I'll get dressed, then. 419 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,236 I may use your telephone? 420 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,673 Yes. Go ahead. 421 00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,633 The Herr Kommandant will be pleased you are cooperating. 422 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,789 I am a man of the world, Mr Pym. 423 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,634 I'm not didactic, I'm not political. 424 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,837 I do not make moral judgments. 425 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,920 I am conversant with what I call the "intimate sphere". 426 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:50,475 Misdeeds, a spectrum running from human error which can be pardoned... 427 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,474 to calculated crime. 428 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,552 Do you agree? 429 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,671 In my experience, foreigners in a strange country 430 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,880 often feel a sense of false security 431 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:14,718 when they contemplate performing what might strictly be regarded as a felonious act. 432 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,670 Is that your experience? 433 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,073 I would say so, yes. 434 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,433 We have a man in our cells, Mr Pym. 435 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,073 When they brought him to me, 436 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:39,631 I looked at him and I listened to him, and I said, "No. 437 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,759 "This cannot be so. I do not believe this. 438 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,752 "Not Mr Pym. 439 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,235 "The man is an impostor." 440 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,831 However, as I continued to listen to him, 441 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,155 I detected a sense of, shall I say, vision. 442 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,553 There's an energy here. An intelligence. 443 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,075 I may also say charm. 444 00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:11,678 Maybe this man IS what he says he is. 445 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:17,795 I thought, "Only Mr Pym can tell us." 446 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,712 I may confront him with you? 447 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,319 Of course. 448 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,120 Father? 449 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,599 It's me. 450 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,151 God in heaven, old son! What are they trying to do to me? 451 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:35,759 Can't an honest fellow do a bit of business in this country? Have you seen the food here? 452 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:41,439 These German sausages! What do we pay our taxes for? What did we win the war for? 453 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:45,594 What's the good of having a son who's head of the Foreign Office 454 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,356 if he can't keep these German thugs away from his old man? 455 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:56,279 I knew you wouldn't let me down. I told them, "My son's damn as near ambassador!" 456 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,594 "He'll have your hides if you lay a finger on his old man!" 457 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:12,000 Two sisters. Real Prussian nobility. Old school- you could see the breeding - 458 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:17,792 but don't know the ways of the hard little world of commerce, so I offered to lend a hand. 459 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,670 Got some paintings they wanted to sell and some other stuff - 460 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,594 a diamond brooch, a few furs, what have you. 461 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,992 All I was trying to do was to maximise their profit. 462 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,518 You see, I met this fellow who had an aeroplane for sale - fighter-bomber. 463 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,672 Mint condition inside and out. 464 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,800 So I thought, "Good investment for these two nice old dears. 465 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,118 "Use their stuff to buy the kite, then sell it at a decent mark-up, 466 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:48,911 "and everyone's helping the great wheel of finance to keep turning." 467 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,994 But the old dears wouldn't give me time to clinch the deal. 468 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,432 Came clamouring for their money. "Right now. Pronto. Instanta." 469 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,437 They just don't understand the problems of liquidity. 470 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,992 Set the German bobbies on me. 471 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:16,270 A couple of damn storm troopers hauled me off. Well, you can't do business from a cell, old son. 472 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,392 Would you like me to go and see these old ladies? Do what I can? 473 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,079 Just this once. 474 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,471 For old times' sake. 475 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,917 I'll see you right in a week or two, of course. 476 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,549 Well, you know that. 477 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:50,433 Sure, Father, sure. 478 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,317 Listen, old son... 479 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,478 I understand that 999 Gold can be got here at par. 480 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:13,471 Now, someone in high position with access to the diplomatic bag 481 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:20,831 could earn himself a nice little informal reward in this sector of international commerce. 482 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,480 Rick. 483 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:44,555 You'll never let me see you in prison again, will you? 484 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,273 Do you love your old man? 485 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,160 Yes. 486 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:06,840 Well, then. 487 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:26,634 A long-stemmed English rose. I have it right? 488 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,996 Very good, Axel. 489 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,596 Mary's a "Country Life" girl. 490 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:40,275 "Country Life" magazine - society weddings, hunt balls, desirable country residences for sale. 491 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,032 She is a lady? 492 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,591 - You mean morally? - If you like. 493 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,160 But by reputation. 494 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,638 Well, she's not an office bicycle. 495 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,358 No ex-husband or nasty business in her cupboard? 496 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:10,153 No. She lost her virginity to the under-gardener at her boarding school at 16. 497 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,439 Since then, she's kept to her own class. Pretty choosy. 498 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,398 She told you this? 499 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,272 No. She told Jack Brotherhood. Jack told me. 500 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,796 - What about her family? - Soldiers. Heroic deaths. 501 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,270 Her grandfather at Passchendaele, 502 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,434 her father, eventually, from what hit him in North Africa. 503 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,479 He left her a small manor house in Dorset. 504 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,154 She's quite rich. 505 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,480 Good in company? 506 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:46,760 She was born to it. 507 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,319 Sir Magnus, she is what we need. 508 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,360 She is the ideal diplomatic wife. 509 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:03,994 Maybe she's a ticket that will get us to Washington. 510 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,470 Yes! Why not? 511 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:10,873 You can't move up the ranks without a wife. You know that. 512 00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,874 Mary is made for you. 513 00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:15,520 Court her, Sir Magnus. 514 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,355 Think...America. Home at last! 515 00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:26,994 Court her. 516 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,797 I shall have to court Jack Brotherhood first. 517 00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,678 Sir Magnus and Mary. 518 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,752 And America. 519 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:03,794 Well, if you ask me, you could travel a lot further and fare a damn sight worse. 520 00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:10,518 She's one of the best girls we've got. I've never met one who understood the service better, 521 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,196 or who could tickle a key out of a concierge the way she can. 522 00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,877 - I didn't know we used her that way. - Oh, yes. Once or twice. 523 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,556 You'll have to behave yourself, young Magnus. 524 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,352 Smart girl, Mary. 525 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,671 She doesn't miss much.