1 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:28,480 LILY THOMAS: January the 8th, 1963. 2 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,080 Official statement of Mrs Flora Solomon 3 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,880 of 19 Spencer Square, Kensington. 4 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:46,920 Erm... 5 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,080 Before I-I begin, erm... 6 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:59,400 ..I'd like to make it clear, I... I didn't go to MI5. 7 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,760 You came to me. 8 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,280 All because of a private conversation... 9 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,080 ..or at least one that I was lead to believe was private... 10 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,840 with a friend. 11 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,600 And, as unlikely as it may sound, 12 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,160 I have known Kim Philby for a very long time... 13 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:26,360 ..and, erm... 14 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,560 ..I simply didn't put... two and two to... 15 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,040 I still can't quite believe that... 16 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,400 I very much regret that it has taken me all these years 17 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,160 to realise who he really is... 18 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,600 ..and the despicable, hateful things he's done. 19 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,640 PAPER RUSTLES 20 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,400 I'm sorry, Nick. 21 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,880 I know you always considered Kim a close... I'm fine. 22 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,240 DOOR OPENS 23 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:19,640 Fine. 24 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,480 You should know, Mrs Solomon's statement to MI5 25 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,920 is the final piece of the puzzle that confirms everything 26 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,960 that Golitsyn told us when he defected in Helsinki last year. 27 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,240 I read his debrief file. 28 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,680 He only ever mentioned an unidentified Soviet agent. 29 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,840 I have a team standing by to go to Beirut first thing. 30 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,000 But what you're now telling me is that, in fact, 31 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,720 Golitsyn specifically identified Kim 32 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,800 as the traitor? PHONE RINGS 33 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:57,080 A team from MI5? That'll never fucking work. 34 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,480 CAR HORNS BEEP, PEOPLE CHATTER 35 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,720 Kim has to be handled by SIS, not MI5. 36 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,840 That would be madness. And by "SIS"... 37 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,000 I mean me. Utter bloody madness. 38 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,360 'I disagree, Sir Roger.' 39 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,600 Philby must, for the time being, 40 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,360 be viewed and treated as a potential asset. 41 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,120 He must be handled with care by an SIS man 42 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,040 for foreign intelligence purposes, 43 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,000 not arrested by MI5 for criminal prosecution. 44 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,960 Forgive me, but... ten years ago, when MI5 suspected Philby 45 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,560 of helping Burgess and Maclean escape to Moscow, 46 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,720 you, as I recall... 47 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,760 ..were his staunchest ally. 48 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,920 So, I'll say it again - 49 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,720 sending you to Beirut would be a colossal mistake. 50 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,040 KNOCK ON DOOR 51 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:11,480 Hello, Kim. 52 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,600 I rather thought it would be you. 53 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,440 CAR HORNS BEEP 54 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,040 Bet you wish you were still in Beirut. 55 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:41,480 PHILBY RETCHES 56 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,920 E! Zakhodim v port. Dvadtsat' minut do stykovki. 57 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,160 In English, please. 58 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,640 Russia, huh? Russia! 59 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,240 HE PANTS 60 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,240 TYPEWRITERS CLICK AND PING 61 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,560 HE GRUNTS 62 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,760 We can send a man... into space, but... 63 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,000 Ah. 64 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,840 I wouldn't shut that all the way again if I were you. 65 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:45,920 Oh, right. Well, is there another room I can use...? 66 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,520 It's the damp. Expands the wood, see. 67 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,040 This is all there is, I'm afraid. 68 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,160 PHONE RINGS DISTANTLY 69 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,800 Don't forget, curtain's at eight. 70 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:16,960 ON TAPE: 'What theatre?' 71 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,440 'That'd be telling. Spoil the surprise. 72 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,480 'Nice try, though.' 73 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,040 Go. 'We'll get through this. 74 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:26,600 'I believe in you.' 75 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:28,800 Kiss me. 76 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,400 CHURCH BELLS TOLL 77 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,240 BELLS CHIME 78 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,800 THEY CHAT INDISTINCTLY 79 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,120 Uh-oh. Don't tell me - we lost. What? 80 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,600 The cricket, Tim, the cricket. 81 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:00,080 Actually, it was a draw. England were 223 for four. 82 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,040 Thanks to Barrington, who was 134, not out. Hm. 83 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,880 DOOR RATTLES 84 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,840 Oh, give it a good, hard... 85 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,040 Always forget about that. You think I'd know by now. 86 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,640 Mr Elliott. 87 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,440 It's been like that as long as I can remember. You must be Mrs Thomas... 88 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,560 How do you do? ..of MI5 fame. 89 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:21,000 Hardly. 90 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,160 Ah... What? 91 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,240 We need another chair. Hello? 92 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,240 How do you do? Hello. 93 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,480 Tim Milne. 94 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,240 My instructions are to debrief Mr Elliott alone. Ah. 95 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,000 Well, what you need to understand, Mrs Thomas, 96 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,920 is that Mr Elliott is one of SIS's most respected officers, 97 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,560 and C has asked me to sit in 98 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:48,760 and make sure that everything is, er... 99 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:51,920 ..you know... Tickety-boo. 100 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,840 May I speak freely? In this building (?) 101 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,080 My orders are to debrief Mr Elliott alone 102 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,280 with no SIS involvement or assistance, 103 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:05,720 but should you need clarification, I'm to ask you to... 104 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,320 ..call this number. 105 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,000 Before you go, is there someone here... 106 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,280 ..who might be able to do something about that door? 107 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,120 There's a good fella. 108 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,240 Mr Elliott, I'd like to begin by saying how sorry I am. 109 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,080 I realise how painful this must be for you and everyone else here 110 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,040 at the Intelligence Service who counted Mr Philby as a friend... 111 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,480 ..and trusted colleague... 112 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,960 ..for such an awfully long time. 113 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:51,920 Is that Northumberland I hear? 114 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,960 You and Mr Philby were friends for, what, 25 years? 115 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:01,800 23. 116 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,960 Could you please explain to me how he was able to escape from Beirut? 117 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,400 Smart money's on a boat. 118 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,360 No, thank you. 119 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,360 Newcastle... 120 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:21,480 ..the accent? 121 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,880 Mr Elliott... 122 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,920 ..I completely understand why you might need a moment or two 123 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,400 to break the ice - believe me, I do. 124 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,320 Would you mind if we now consider it broken? 125 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,600 The word "escape"... would suggest that 126 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,200 Philby was in some sort of custody, which he was not. 127 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,200 But I do understand the drive of your question, 128 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,440 and the answer is this - I simply didn't think he'd run. 129 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,440 I was offering him complete immunity and secrecy, 130 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,000 with a nice little retirement in the country with his wife and children, 131 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,960 for a full confession of everything he ever did for the KGB. 132 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,200 I didn't for a moment think he'd choose Russia over that. 133 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,640 Durham. My accent. 134 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,800 Ah. Mr Elliott, you are aware that we have all the... 135 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:23,360 ..34 hours of recordings of you and Philby in that flat? 136 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,080 ON TAPE: 'Hello, Kim.' 137 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,800 PHILBY: 'I rather thought it would be you.' 138 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,320 What did he mean by that, "I rather thought it would be you"? 139 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,240 I don't know. If you were to guess? 140 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:43,800 Well, that would be playing his game, 141 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,960 and I'd sooner not do that at this juncture. Game? 142 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:50,680 'Come on in.' 143 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,840 DOOR CLOSES 144 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,080 Can I offer you some tea? 145 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:07,680 You look a little peaky. How's your health? 146 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:10,360 Oh, it's... perfectly tolerable, 147 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,040 despite recent bouts of flu AND bronchitis. 148 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,520 Oh, nasty. Yes, they were both against me. 149 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,360 Ah, little did they know. 150 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,840 I must say, I'd rather hoped "tea" 151 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,960 was code for something a little stronger. 152 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,080 LIQUID POURING 153 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,680 Kim, I don't have time to postpone this and... 154 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:40,520 we've known each other forever, so... 155 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:42,520 if you don't mind, I'll get right to the point. 156 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,080 Oh, bloody hell. 157 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,040 Would you believe it? I've left my pipe at home. 158 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:48,520 Ah... 159 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:51,720 Ah, good man. 160 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,920 I came to tell you that your past has caught up with you. 161 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:09,240 Oh? 162 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,640 We found additional information about you 163 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,120 that puts everything in place. 164 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,200 And now... even I'm convinced, absolutely convinced... 165 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,600 ..that you worked for the Soviet intelligence service... 166 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,600 ..right up until the end of the war. 167 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,520 TAPE DECK CLICKS 168 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,560 Within the first few minutes of the tape, 169 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,360 you state loud and clear, as if for the record 170 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,280 and anybody else who might be listening, 171 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,520 that he stopped spying for the Soviets at the end of the war. 172 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,520 Yes. Did he? 173 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,600 So, that was a lie. 174 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,840 A nuance... A nuance. 175 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,160 ..to protect the relationship with our American cousins 176 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,720 who, I assumed, had to be listening... 177 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,960 Not as far as I know. ..or would get hold of the tape. 178 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,120 Again, to my knowledge... 179 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,000 Because if they ever discovered that he had been active for the KGB 180 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,800 all the way up to now, 181 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,560 especially during his stint in Washington from '49 to '51... 182 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,680 They'd be out for blood. Not just HIS blood. 183 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,360 So, am I right in saying that you were letting him know 184 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,240 from the beginning you were willing to protect him from the Americans? 185 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,480 I'd... rather like to think of it as protecting the service... 186 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,720 And the country. ..whilst, at the same time... 187 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,360 ..trying to offer him every incentive to tell the truth. 188 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,080 By the way, why wasn't he in some sort of custody? 189 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:43,840 Well, that's not how we... 190 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,240 I was trying to appeal to his better nature. 191 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,400 As an Englishman. And husband. 192 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,600 And father. 193 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,440 How did you and he first meet? 194 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,000 Not sure what that has to do with what happened in Beirut. 195 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,800 Oh, er, wh-what happened in Beirut... 196 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,720 ..erm, is that the most dangerous Soviet penetration agent 197 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,560 this country's ever known legged it on your watch. 198 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,000 Odds are to the Soviet Union, who, just a few months ago, 199 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 aimed missiles at America from Cuba. 200 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 So we - you and I - 201 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,480 are gonna look into every single nook and cranny 202 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,400 of yours and Philby's friendship. 203 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,040 ANNOUNCEMENT OVER TANNOY 204 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,760 METAL DOOR SLIDES 205 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,520 How do you do, Comrade Philby? 206 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,360 Or I should say... Agent Stanley? 207 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:55,680 I'm Sergei. 208 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:58,760 May I...? 209 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,760 I'd like to begin with an apology. Is not necessary. 210 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,520 Even so... 211 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,240 You are sorry that your hand was forced in Beirut 212 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,080 and that you had to escape to Soviet Union. 213 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,000 Actually, what I'd like to apologise... 214 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,600 I say... apology is not necessary. 215 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:36,600 First... you are KGB hero for work as penetration agent 216 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,240 into British and American intelligence since '34. 217 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,320 '33. 218 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,080 Second... we keep you active too long. 219 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,800 In all honesty, I would've liked to have gone on forever. 220 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,240 And to never leave England. 221 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,200 To never underestimating the English again. 222 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,280 GLASS THUNKS ON TABLE 223 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,200 SIGHS 224 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,400 I first met him in 1940. 225 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,880 'At my club. 226 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,840 'My closest childhood chum had just been shot down and killed 227 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,240 'by the Luftwaffe.' 228 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,160 The first thing I noticed about Kim 229 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,360 was that he had this capacity to draw people in... 230 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,240 and sort of appeared, just in how he carried himself, 231 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,400 to know things no-one else knew... 232 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,240 LAUGHTER AND CHATTER 233 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,520 Thank you, sir. 234 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,040 '..exuding what I can only describe as this very British confidence 235 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,240 'that everything would be all right in the end.' 236 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:51,280 They were not in any... 237 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,400 EXPLOSION 238 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:02,080 That was, as it happens, the first night of the Blitz. 239 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,840 STAGGERED BREATHING 240 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:18,600 All right there, old bean? 241 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,320 Your hand. 242 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,560 GASPS 243 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,160 GLASS SMASHES 244 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,320 Ups-a-daisy! Arms, legs, all present and correct. 245 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,880 You couldn't scare us up a couple of pink gins, could you? 246 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,680 Are you a member, sir? What? 247 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,960 I'm sorry, sir, only members are allowed to... 248 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,360 Put it on my bill, Sam. 249 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,400 He didn't seem at all rattled by the near miss. 250 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,920 Which I have to say at the time was really rather reassuring. 251 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,320 Kim Philby. 252 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,520 Do you think Philby was playing you... 253 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,880 from the very first moment that you met? 254 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,320 No. 255 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,200 I don't know. 256 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,640 You didn't ask him that in Beirut? 257 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,960 That would've been the first thing I'd have asked him... 258 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,280 ..if I hadn't killed him first. 259 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,720 So... 260 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:37,360 ..why it was so easy for you to escape SIS in Beirut? 261 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,960 I wouldn't exactly call it "easy". 262 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,240 'Mr Philby?' 263 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,680 Mr Philby? Sir? 264 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,840 Breakfast. 265 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,840 From... a friend. 266 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,760 After I received the warning in Beirut from Moscow Centre, 267 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:22,120 I first had to see if there was a way to weather the storm. 268 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:26,960 'After all, ten years ago, I managed to survive a full-force hurricane... 269 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,640 '..brought on by Donald Maclean and Guy fucking Burgess.' 270 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,800 PHONE RINGS 271 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,240 Philby. 272 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,720 Oh, hello, Peter. 273 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,160 No, no, no, wide awake. 274 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:53,520 The next morning, Peter Lunne, our Beirut station chief, 275 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:59,080 he rang to invite me to tea that afternoon at his secretary's flat, 276 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,560 which, as I'm sure you know, is code for one of the safe houses. 277 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,040 KNOCK ON DOOR 278 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,880 But when Nicholas Elliott opened the door, 279 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,560 I'll admit, I was caught more than a little off-guard. 280 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,560 I rather thought it would be you. 281 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:24,920 Come on in. 282 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,360 He looked like he wanted to kill me. 283 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,840 And four days later, you confess? 284 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,160 That's not exactly how I'd put it, no. 285 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,120 A typed, signed confession, no? 286 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:41,560 After four days of denying everything... 287 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,240 and getting nowhere, I felt my time was running out. 288 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,920 I needed to give him something to get him to drop his guard. 289 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,480 So, yes, I signed, which you would know, if you'd actually seen it, 290 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,920 what amounted to a few pages of chicken feed. 291 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,720 No more. 292 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,880 To give myself an opening, a chance to make a move 293 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,400 before this whole... bloody nightmare got any worse. 294 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,360 Why did they send Elliott to Beirut? 295 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,080 Knowing him, he talked them into it. 296 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,440 SONG: 'Colours Out Of Grey' 297 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,080 CHATTER 298 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,120 PHONE RINGING 299 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,440 CLEARS HIS THROAT MAN: 'Hello?' 300 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:45,480 Speak. 301 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,840 'Elliott met a Russian in a cemetery. 302 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,160 'Handed him a newspaper. 303 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,120 'Now I'm watching that same Russian sitting in a coffee shop.' 304 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,760 'Well, stay on him. 305 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,280 'And do not fucking lose him.' 306 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,920 How long were you and Nicholas Elliott friends? 307 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,760 Since 1940. 308 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,680 When you were both already in SIS? 309 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,800 Different sections. 310 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,160 I ran operations in the Iberian Peninsular, 311 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,400 he covered Holland. 312 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,880 Friends... for over 20 years. 313 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,400 Not easy. 314 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,480 Requires a certain attention to detail, I suppose. 315 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,440 Hard to believe he never suspected. 316 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,560 You must understand... 317 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,760 A friendship within the British ruling class... 318 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,960 it's built on an ingrained belief that victory over one's enemy 319 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,200 is preordained, God given. 320 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,200 When you think about it, it's really remarkable, 321 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:56,320 the... the level of sentimentality and arrogance that it must take 322 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,080 in order to be so wilfully blind 323 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,720 to the possibility that one of your own might see things differently. 324 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,520 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 325 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,200 Tony's the only one who knows the words! 326 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,560 Happy new year, darling. 327 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,880 Happy new year. Happy new year, old socks. 328 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,000 To peace, at last. To us. 329 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,600 And to getting away with it. KIM CHUCKLES 330 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,360 Why did you let him go? 331 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,360 I didn't. He ran. 332 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:34,600 At night. 333 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,440 He waited until after dark. That's all it took? 334 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:38,880 Do you not think that in hindsight, 335 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,080 perhaps MI5 should've gone to Beirut, not you? 336 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,280 Kim gave me an eight-page, signed confession, 337 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,000 that he never would've given anyone from MI5. 338 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Ooh, right, yeah. Sorry, you mean this? 339 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,600 Yeah. 340 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,560 Er... Yeah. 341 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:58,880 Isn't this what you SIS chaps call, er... "chicken feed"? 342 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,680 Or is there something you're not telling me? 343 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:06,520 When I... grasped the scope of his betrayal... 344 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,480 ..I realised that our friendship had led, over the years, to... 345 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,880 ..the deaths of hundreds... 346 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,920 ..possibly thousands of people at the hands of the Soviets. 347 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,040 Try to imagine for a moment, if you will... 348 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,360 ..how that might feel, and... 349 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,720 ..give me one good reason why I'd deliberately let him go. 350 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,680 I can give you several. Firstly, you were friends for years. 351 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,080 Second, there's his wife and children, not to mention SIS, 352 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,080 all of whom I'm sure you wanted to protect from a public scandal. 353 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,840 So I have to ask if the two of you came to some sort of quid pro quo 354 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,240 out there in Beirut? 355 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,240 I'm sorry, I need... 356 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,560 DOOR RATTLES Fucking thing! 357 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,320 It's all right. I can manage. 358 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,200 HEAVY BREATHING 359 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,000 METAL CLANGS 360 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,960 HE PANTS 361 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,040 SIGHS WITH RELIEF 362 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,480 363 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,880 364 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,160 365 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,880 366 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,880 SHE GIGGLES 367 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,720 368 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,480 Because it's hers... 369 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,920 Elizabeth Holberton, one of my gals on the Iberia desk. 370 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,760 She's fluent in French, Spanish, German, Italian... 371 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,640 110 words a minute. 372 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,720 Don't pretend you weren't ogling. 373 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,880 SHOUTS: Elizabeth? Over here! 374 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,520 375 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,840 What are you doing? Deep breath, old bean. 376 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,600 I'm pretty sure she doesn't bite. 377 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,640 Elizabeth, may I introduce to you my dearest and most eligible friend, 378 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,120 Nicholas Elliott. 379 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:55,800 GLASS SMASHES 380 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,320 Nick! MAN: All right, old chap? 381 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,160 'Are you all right? Nick! 382 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,680 'Somebody get a bloody doctor!' 383 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,640 SIGHS 384 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,120 In 1951... 385 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,880 ..you helped Comrades Burgess and Maclean escape from the West 386 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,080 to the Soviet Union. 387 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,880 In a manner of speaking. 388 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,600 At great... personal risk. 389 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,120 When I found out the codebreakers were onto Maclean, 390 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,120 there was no indication Burgess was also blown. 391 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,520 Maclean had no choice. 392 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,080 He was blown. He had to run - no question about it. 393 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,040 Burgess, on the other hand, he was safe. 394 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,680 But he panicked and decided to run anyway. 395 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,280 And because he'd just been my house guest in America, 396 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,360 drying out for a couple of months... 397 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,560 The British suspected you were also a... traitor? 398 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,840 You don't like that word. 399 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,080 GRAND THEME MUSIC 400 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,840 REPORTER: Mr Harold Philby, on the right, 401 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,440 holds a press conference to deny charges that he was involved 402 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,400 in the disappearance of Burgess and Maclean. 403 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,600 The 43-year-old former Foreign Office diplomat 404 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,440 has challenged his accuser, an MP, 405 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,880 to repeat the charges outside the Commons. 406 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,440 Mr Philby. Mr MacMillan, the Foreign Secretary, 407 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,240 said there was no evidence that you were the so-called "Third Man" 408 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,800 who allegedly tipped off Burgess and Maclean. 409 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,800 Are you satisfied with that clearance that he gave you? 410 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,200 Yes, I am. 411 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,280 Well, if there WAS a third man, were you, in fact, the third man? 412 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,800 No, I was not. Do you think there was one? 413 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,240 No comment. 414 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,800 Mr Philby, the disappearance of Burgess and Maclean 415 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,000 is almost as much of a mystery today as it was when they went away - 416 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,120 about four years ago or more. 417 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,520 Can you shed any light on it at all? 418 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,040 No, I can't. 419 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,080 In the first place, I'm debarred by the Official Secrets Act 420 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,800 from saying anything that might disclose... 421 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,000 WOMAN TRANSLATES IN RUSSIAN ON TAPE 422 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,520 ..information derived from my position 423 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,600 as a former government official. 424 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,640 In the second place, the Burgess-Maclean affair 425 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,280 has raised issues of great delicacy 426 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,880 in the sphere of international affairs. 427 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,200 And the Foreign Secretary has said that in the past, 428 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,200 you had communist associations. 429 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,760 Is that why you were asked to resign? 430 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,120 I was asked to resign because of an imprudent association. 431 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,280 That was your association with Burgess. Correct. 432 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,840 What about these alleged communist associations? 433 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,480 Can you say anything about them? 434 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,080 The last time I spoke to a communist, 435 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,640 knowing him to be a communist, was sometime in 1934. 436 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,000 That rather implies that you've also spoken to communists unknowingly 437 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,800 and you now know about it. 438 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,680 Well, I spoke to Burgess last in April or May of 1951. 439 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,800 Would you still regard Burgess, who... 440 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,600 lived with you for a while in Washington, 441 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,160 would you still regard him as a friend of yours? 442 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,480 How do you feel about him now? 443 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,920 I consider his action deplorable. 444 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,760 On the subject of friendship, 445 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,280 I prefer to say as little as possible, 446 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,200 because it's very complicated. 447 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,280 A virtuoso performance. 448 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:21,640 Good God. 449 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,720 Are you suggesting what I think you are? 450 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,640 What really happened in Beirut between you and Nicholas Elliott? 451 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,720 You are. You're calling me a liar. 452 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,720 Who will go down in history. 453 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,560 DOOR OPENS, CLOSES 454 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,160 Eternal Father... 455 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,240 whose son Jesus Christ was sent to the throne of Heaven... 456 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,240 that he might rule over all things 457 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,800 as Lord and King... 458 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,560 ..keep the church in the unity of the spirit 459 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,840 and in the bond of peace... 460 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:27,480 and bring the whole created order to worship at his feet, 461 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:34,320 who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit. 462 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,600 One God, now and forever. 463 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,000 Amen. CONGREGATION: Amen. 464 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,920 And now will you join me in the Lord's Prayer? 465 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,240 CONGREGATION: Our Father Which art in heaven 466 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,560 Hallowed be thy name 467 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,440 Thy kingdom come 468 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,080 Thy will be done 469 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,600 On Earth as it is in heaven... 470 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:03,720 KNOCK ON DOOR 471 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,080 Thought you might like a cuppa. Thank you. 472 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,720 DOOR CLOSES 473 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:22,640 Mm, just a drop. 474 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,000 WHISPERS: Sorry. Thank you. 475 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,160 I'm diabetic. 476 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,240 Sometimes, I forget to take my medicine - 477 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:38,840 don't tell my wife - and gets the better of me. 478 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,560 We were talking about... I know what we were talking about. 479 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:48,040 Squashed fly? 480 00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:51,000 Thank you. 481 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,400 DISTANT CHURCH BELLS 482 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,160 There was no quid pro quo. 483 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,120 No final act of friendship. 484 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,400 No. 485 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,400 SHE HUMS 486 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,840 What made you go into intelligence? 487 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,600 We were on the brink of war, and I wanted to do my bit... 488 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,680 without doing all that marching and square-bashing, 489 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,960 if at all... possible. 490 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,040 I won't have time to get to the shops today... 491 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:40,800 ..and my husband always forgets. 492 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,440 SHE GRUNTS 493 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,440 When I was seven, my parents sent me off to boarding school. 494 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,440 A brutal place that reeked of floor polish and custard. 495 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,960 Sometimes, at night, when everyone was asleep, 496 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,840 I'd climb out on the roofs, 497 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,120 where I'd imagine that I was the Count of Monte Cristo... 498 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,400 ..and plot my enemies' downfall by means of surveillance, 499 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,880 disinformation, sabotage. 500 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,840 Why did Philby spy for the Russians? 501 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,800 Espionage can at times be... intoxicating. 502 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,040 'But where the thrill of fooling your enemy 503 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,040 'might be enough for most of us, 504 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,520 'it is not, it appears, sufficient for Kim.' 505 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,800 Double-crossing your friends, lying to your fellow spies... 506 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,360 ..must have been... 507 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,600 JOVIAL CHATTER 508 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,040 GLASS CLINKS 509 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,160 APPLAUSE 510 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,720 HE CLEARS HIS THROAT 511 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:51,040 Ah, Elliott, oh, hold on. 512 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,600 EXAGGERATED BRITISH ACCENT: Oh, Elliott, oh, just the fellow. 513 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,080 Please, have a seat. I would like a frank word with you. 514 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,400 Certainly, sir. 515 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,000 Does your wife know what you do? Yes. 516 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,480 Er, how did that come about? 517 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,120 Well, she was my secretary for two years, 518 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,760 and I think the penny must have dropped. 519 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,440 Yes, quite so, quite, quite. And what about your mother? 520 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,920 She thinks I work for something called SIS, 521 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,720 which she believes stands for Secret Intelligence Service. 522 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:18,240 Good God! How did she come to know that? 523 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:21,920 A war cabinet... A member... LAUGHTER 524 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,320 A war cabinet fell on her at a cocktail party. 525 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,560 Oh, goodness! That must've caused all sorts of damage. 526 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,360 A member of the war cabinet told her at a cocktail party. 527 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,200 LAUGHTER 528 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,200 It's true. It's actually true. 529 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,400 But he IS a communist? Oh. Chicken, egg... 530 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:44,800 Please. 531 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,600 That does not look like enemies to me. 532 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,240 The reason, by the way, I don't like the word "traitor" 533 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:55,560 is because I'm not a fucking traitor. 534 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,640 I've been loyal to Marxism and to the Soviet Union 535 00:37:58,640 --> 00:37:59,880 my entire adult life. 536 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,360 What were you talking about here? I don't know. 537 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,760 All I remember is it was getting rather stuffy in that flat. 538 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,600 It was seven days ago. 539 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,080 We were drinking every day, and Nicholas is nothing if not witty. 540 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,400 Witty? 541 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,760 He obviously knew the KGB were watching 542 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,880 and wanted to plant exactly these seeds of doubt in your mind. 543 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,000 And there? 544 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:38,960 I don't remember. 545 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,360 You know what it looks like to me? 546 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,800 I think you say... "partners in crime". 547 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:51,640 For God's sake, man, I have not been turned by British intelligence. 548 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,040 I had to run, otherwise, they would've killed me. 549 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,160 I had no other option. 550 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,400 Do you seriously think I wanted to come here? 551 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:07,240 I'm sorry. 552 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,280 Slip of the tongue. 553 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,240 BRIEFCASE CLASPS CLICK 554 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,320 I don't believe you've ever had a slip of the tongue, comrade. 555 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,760 DOOR CLANGS SHUT 556 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,640 By "quid pro quo", what I mean is... I'm familiar with the term. 557 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,720 ..maybe you let him go in exchange for something? 558 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:50,520 Some important piece of information... 559 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,320 that might resurrect your career? 560 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,360 Wouldn't that be nice? Or, God forbid, protect England. 561 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,960 I didn't let him go. 562 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,760 On the last day, you both go out onto the balcony. 563 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,720 For four consecutive days, you meet in that flat 564 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,080 for roughly eight hours a day. 565 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,880 Only once do you go out onto the balcony, 566 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,640 for a sum total of about three minutes. 567 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:11,560 KNOCK ON DOOR 568 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,960 Who is it? 569 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,520 TED: 'Come to look at the door for you, miss.' 570 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,280 Oh, right. Erm... 571 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,080 Yeah, hold on a minute, please. 572 00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:28,720 I wanted Kim's Russian friends, if they were out there, 573 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,200 to see him and me together. 574 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,360 Hm. 575 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,000 Were you aware that the bug in the flat 576 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,640 couldn't hear you out on the balcony? 577 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,240 Can't say I gave it much thought. In other words, you didn't care. 578 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:48,480 What I... cared about was getting Kim to tell the truth. 579 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,000 DOOR CLANKS Hold on, Ted! 580 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,840 Am I under arrest? No. 581 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,200 Good. 582 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,720 Cos my wife's arranged tickets for the theatre tonight. 583 00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:59,400 Oh... 584 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,600 What are you gonna see? She's surprising me. 585 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,400 Apparently, I need cheering up. 586 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,600 MAN: Kensington Palace Gardens, please. Russian Embassy. 587 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,360 'Your typical SIS man, as we all know, 588 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,800 'concurrent with his upbringing, 589 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,520 'considers himself to be part of a secret, elite club, 590 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,560 'which, by design, has no rules. 591 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:54,440 'Because rules... by design, are strictly for commoners... 592 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,360 'like us here at MI5.' 593 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:02,120 In many ways, SIS's real enemy is a change to the status quo 594 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,760 that might, erm... threaten the existence of their club. 595 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,480 So for them, Philby's worst crime 596 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,200 is that he broke their one unwritten rule, 597 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,080 which is that no member should ever do anything 598 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,600 that might expose them all to the scrutiny of the peasants... 599 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,240 Or, God forbid, a woman. 600 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:24,360 So I wonder if Mr Elliott insisted he be the one to go to Beirut 601 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,960 so that he and Philby could find or... 602 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,360 Thank you. 603 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,440 ..create some sort of last-minute save. 604 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,240 DOOR CLOSES 605 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:35,560 For example... 606 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,960 ..what if he went out there to initiate... 607 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,400 an operation to run Philby back at the KGB? 608 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,280 Bloody hell, you actually mean that. 609 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:56,440 For our old friend. 610 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,240 I'm sorry, I just don't believe... That SIS are that devious? 611 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:12,960 If they were running Philby back into the USSR, they'd have told us. 612 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,360 Well, that's sweet, Arthur. Quite unlike you. 613 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:17,400 Or at the very least, 614 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,480 one would think they'd have asked us to back off. 615 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:20,640 Leave Elliott alone. 616 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,600 What if he didn't even tell SIS what he was up to? 617 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:04,000 Taxi's here. 618 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,000 You look stunning. 619 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,160 You lost him? How? 620 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,080 He's a pro, for sure. 621 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,000 He gave me the slip in the church. Switched hat and coat. 622 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,600 Now he's in the fucking wind. Long gone. 623 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,000 Which means he almost certainly is not. 624 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,720 CHILDREN CHATTER 625 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:47,680 Hello? 626 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,320 ON TAPE: 'Were you aware that the bug in the flat 627 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,000 'couldn't hear you out on the balcony?' 628 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,560 'Can't say I gave it too much thought.' 629 00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,840 'In other words, you didn't care.' 'What I...' 630 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,200 Oh! '..cared about...' 631 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,480 How long have you been there? No. Don't let me interrupt you. 632 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,160 Don't be daft. Come here. 633 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,280 Mm. Uh-uh - more, please. 634 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,920 Yeah, boy. That... was what I needed. 635 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,760 Look at you! 636 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,080 What's the time? I totally lost track. 637 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,120 I'm so sorry, you must be starving. 638 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,680 Do you wanna light a fire and I'll rustle us up some supper? 639 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,520 Do you want a beer, love? BOTTLES CLINK 640 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,680 VIOLIN TUNING UP 641 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,640 Thanks, John. 642 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,200 Here we are. 643 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:18,680 'He's at some Russian port on the Black Sea.' 644 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,440 How was work? 645 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,600 Flu season, you know? 646 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,560 And with all the long waits these days, 647 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,560 which can be up to ten times as long for my patients, 648 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,080 it's all I can do to stop them from catching pneumonia, you know? 649 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,560 I believe in you, love. 650 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:54,880 Hm! 651 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,960 This is delicious. Very tasty. 652 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,200 Stew left over from the other day. 653 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:07,440 VIOLIN: 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' 654 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,240 BAND JOINS IN 655 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:24,480 LAUGHTER 656 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,160 657 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:34,280 658 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,680 659 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,040 660 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,400 What you doing? Well, I-I'm singing, aren't I? 661 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:45,880 662 00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,160 INHALES SHARPLY 663 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,640 LAUGHTER MAN: Boom! 664 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,200 Give 'em an "ooh", Sid. 665 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,800 Ooh! LAUGHTER 666 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,000 Didn't wanna part with that, did you? 667 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,240 I'll give you a two-in, here we go. A one... two... 668 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,280 A boom. Ooh! Ya-ta-ta-tah. 669 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,440 A boom. Ooh! Ya-ta-ta-tah. 670 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,040 And boom. Egg! Yeah-yeah-yeah. 671 00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,920 And boom. Egg! Yeah-yeah-yeah. 672 00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:40,560 Just... Just... No, stop! 673 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:41,960 Boom! 674 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,840 A boom... 675 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,480 A boom. Just a little. 676 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,400 I'm ya-ta-ta-tah-ing, you see. 677 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,200 Oh, of course. No, you shouldn't be. 678 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,200 No, I should be singing Are You Lonesome Tonight? 679 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,200 Cos you've got the sideboards. You're the star. 680 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:55,240 I go right down to here. 681 00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:57,040 There's something gone wrong with the star. 682 00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,360 Oh, I know! 683 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,400 Sid - you start us off. Give us the one-two, will you? 684 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,440 Then you'll be all right. A one, two... 685 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,480 A boom. Ooh. Ya-ta-ta-tah! 686 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,200 A boom. Ooh. Ya-ta-ta-tah! 687 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,800 And boom. Egg. Yeah-yeah-yeah! 688 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,520 And boom. Egg. Yeah-yeah-yeah! 689 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:22,960 And boom. Egg. Yeah-yeah-yeah! 690 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,320 A boom. Ooh. Ya-ta-ta-tah! 691 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,480 PHILBY, SHADE: 692 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,400 693 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,560 694 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,280 695 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,840 696 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,800 697 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,560 698 00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,440 699 00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,840 700 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,320 701 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,880 702 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,440 703 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,760 SILENCE 704 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,320 I interviewed this man today... 705 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,360 It's OK, my love. I know you're not allowed to talk about your work. 706 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,880 ..who's just found out that his best friend of over 20 years... 707 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,160 ..has been betraying him all along. 708 00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:42,360 How long? 709 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:44,960 23 years. 710 00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,880 And he only just found out? 711 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,960 You were spot on. CIA. 712 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,880 Angleton? James Jesus in the flesh. 713 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,080 Let's keep that under our hats for now. 714 00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:43,280 Are you trying to get me killed? 715 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,440 Now, there's a thought. 716 00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,040 You don't really mean that. 717 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,880 Give me one good reason why not, Kim. 718 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,160 And it better be a fucking good one. 719 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,160 You know, Nick... 720 00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,480 ..we're all wondering what happened in Beirut. 721 00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,680 And I for one find it hard to believe you came back empty-handed. 722 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,720 Subtitles by accessibility@itv.com