1 00:01:23,833 --> 00:01:26,595 - Sidney Reilly, I want to see the Ambassador. 2 00:01:26,629 --> 00:01:27,457 - This way sir. 3 00:01:28,769 --> 00:01:29,770 - Thank you. 4 00:01:32,531 --> 00:01:34,085 - If you'll excuse me sir, I'll inform His Excellency. 5 00:01:34,119 --> 00:01:34,948 - Thank you. 6 00:02:00,214 --> 00:02:02,044 - Good day Mr. Reilly. 7 00:02:04,771 --> 00:02:06,358 This is a surprise. 8 00:02:07,532 --> 00:02:09,292 We haven't seen you for some time. 9 00:02:09,327 --> 00:02:12,779 Since you took up with your German friends in fact. 10 00:02:12,813 --> 00:02:14,608 - I need to borrow your cipher clerk. 11 00:02:14,643 --> 00:02:15,816 - Thompson? 12 00:02:15,851 --> 00:02:17,404 - I have a message that needs decoding, 13 00:02:17,438 --> 00:02:19,302 he may well have the key. 14 00:02:19,337 --> 00:02:21,304 - Mr. Reilly, are you intimating to me 15 00:02:21,339 --> 00:02:24,411 that you are still engaged by our Secret Service? 16 00:02:31,211 --> 00:02:32,419 Thompson. 17 00:02:32,453 --> 00:02:34,386 This is Mr. Reilly. 18 00:02:34,421 --> 00:02:35,456 - We've met before sir. 19 00:02:35,491 --> 00:02:37,527 - He has a little work for you. 20 00:02:52,025 --> 00:02:53,233 - It's from the German Trade Mission 21 00:02:53,267 --> 00:02:54,993 here in St. Petersburg sir, 22 00:02:55,028 --> 00:02:57,064 to the Department of War, Berlin. 23 00:02:57,099 --> 00:02:59,273 Tuesday 27th of October. 24 00:02:59,308 --> 00:03:01,724 It is imperative we retain Sidney Reilly 25 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:05,107 as our advisor in all future dealings with the Russians. 26 00:03:05,141 --> 00:03:07,247 Please clear this with Naval High Command. 27 00:03:08,213 --> 00:03:09,628 That's all sir. 28 00:03:09,663 --> 00:03:10,664 - Thank you Thompson. 29 00:03:10,699 --> 00:03:12,148 - Pleasure sir. 30 00:03:12,183 --> 00:03:14,357 It's not every day I get to crack a German navy code. 31 00:03:14,392 --> 00:03:15,565 - Alright, thank you Thompson. 32 00:03:16,739 --> 00:03:18,120 - Good day sir. - Good day. 33 00:03:20,225 --> 00:03:24,298 So, you're now actually taking their money? 34 00:03:24,333 --> 00:03:27,198 - If the clearance goes through, yes. 35 00:03:27,232 --> 00:03:29,925 - I don't see that that serves our interests. 36 00:03:29,959 --> 00:03:30,788 - You don't? 37 00:03:32,168 --> 00:03:35,516 I shall sell the Russians a German naval fleet 38 00:03:35,551 --> 00:03:37,622 and I shall forward copies of every blueprint 39 00:03:37,656 --> 00:03:40,038 to the Admiralty in London. 40 00:03:40,073 --> 00:03:41,764 Couldn't be clearer. 41 00:03:41,799 --> 00:03:43,593 - In the spring of 1910, 42 00:03:43,628 --> 00:03:46,320 Cummings, the head of the British Secret Service, 43 00:03:46,355 --> 00:03:49,876 was called to the Foreign Office to "clarify" the position of 44 00:03:49,910 --> 00:03:52,671 Sidney Reilly in St. Petersburg. 45 00:03:52,706 --> 00:03:54,777 Reilly had been sent to the Russian capital 46 00:03:54,812 --> 00:03:56,675 two years earlier by Cummings, 47 00:03:56,710 --> 00:04:00,058 with orders to infiltrate the German business community. 48 00:04:00,093 --> 00:04:02,509 So successful had he been in doing this, 49 00:04:02,543 --> 00:04:04,994 that he aroused the fears of Basil Zaharov, 50 00:04:05,029 --> 00:04:07,479 the International Armaments King. 51 00:04:07,514 --> 00:04:09,792 Zaharov was prepared to risk his reputation 52 00:04:09,827 --> 00:04:12,277 to win the huge Russian Battle Cruiser contract 53 00:04:12,312 --> 00:04:14,383 for Vickers and the British Dockyards. 54 00:04:14,417 --> 00:04:16,109 But he had discovered to his alarm 55 00:04:16,143 --> 00:04:18,974 that Reilly was equally determined to secure the order 56 00:04:19,008 --> 00:04:21,321 for his new German masters. 57 00:04:21,355 --> 00:04:22,771 - Morning Cummings. 58 00:04:22,805 --> 00:04:24,289 - Mr. Edward. 59 00:04:24,324 --> 00:04:27,465 - You know we're trying to sell the Russians a new navy? 60 00:04:27,499 --> 00:04:30,261 - We're not entirely cut off in Whitehall Court Square. 61 00:04:30,295 --> 00:04:32,297 - Well France and Germany have got the same idea 62 00:04:32,332 --> 00:04:35,369 and a commercial war has broken out in St. Petersburg. 63 00:04:35,404 --> 00:04:38,614 Zaharov has written a most disturbing letter 64 00:04:38,648 --> 00:04:39,684 to Cartwright here. 65 00:04:40,858 --> 00:04:42,273 Cartwright will read it out. 66 00:04:43,412 --> 00:04:44,965 I might explain that Cartwright here 67 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,346 is from the Board of Trade. 68 00:04:47,623 --> 00:04:48,727 - "Dear Cartwright. 69 00:04:48,762 --> 00:04:49,970 "I have just received information 70 00:04:50,005 --> 00:04:52,041 "from many sources in St. Petersburg 71 00:04:52,076 --> 00:04:54,009 "that a campaign of vilification has been mounted 72 00:04:54,043 --> 00:04:56,252 "against the British Trade Mission. 73 00:04:56,287 --> 00:04:57,495 "There are slanderous attacks 74 00:04:57,529 --> 00:04:59,635 "on the quality of British workmanship, 75 00:04:59,669 --> 00:05:02,500 "the expensiveness of our products and their late delivery. 76 00:05:02,534 --> 00:05:03,501 "This campaign has been mounted 77 00:05:03,535 --> 00:05:05,744 by a man called Sidney Reilly." 78 00:05:06,918 --> 00:05:08,609 Does the name ring a bell Commander? 79 00:05:08,644 --> 00:05:10,059 - Please go on. 80 00:05:10,094 --> 00:05:12,613 - "Reilly represents many German interests in St. Petersburg 81 00:05:12,648 --> 00:05:14,857 "and is much respected in Navy circles. 82 00:05:14,892 --> 00:05:16,100 "He has become a close friend 83 00:05:16,134 --> 00:05:18,033 "of the Russian Minister of Marine 84 00:05:18,067 --> 00:05:19,275 "and is on the most intimate terms 85 00:05:19,310 --> 00:05:20,829 with the Minister's wife." 86 00:05:22,244 --> 00:05:24,625 Zaharov ends his report by saying that in his view, 87 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:27,180 Reilly is in the pay of the British Secret Service 88 00:05:27,214 --> 00:05:31,184 and I quote "if this is so, could some pressure be brought 89 00:05:31,218 --> 00:05:32,875 to stop him rocking the boat." 90 00:05:34,843 --> 00:05:36,189 - What do you say Cummings? 91 00:05:37,293 --> 00:05:38,294 - What can I say? 92 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,400 - Well to begin with, is he one of yours. 93 00:05:43,921 --> 00:05:45,992 - That's a difficult question to answer. 94 00:05:46,026 --> 00:05:48,201 I should have to have notice of it. 95 00:05:48,235 --> 00:05:49,202 - My dear fellow, it's quite simple. 96 00:05:49,236 --> 00:05:51,204 Is he or isn't he? 97 00:05:51,238 --> 00:05:52,688 - Well he was. 98 00:05:52,722 --> 00:05:57,175 But one might surmise from that letter that he no longer is. 99 00:05:57,210 --> 00:05:59,798 - When you say was, am I to deduce that this man 100 00:05:59,833 --> 00:06:02,180 is still drawing a salary from HMG? 101 00:06:02,215 --> 00:06:03,388 - Not at all. 102 00:06:03,423 --> 00:06:05,666 He was given several hundred pounds. 103 00:06:05,701 --> 00:06:07,151 - Several? 104 00:06:07,185 --> 00:06:09,532 - Six to be exact. 105 00:06:09,567 --> 00:06:11,155 And told to go to Russia. 106 00:06:11,189 --> 00:06:12,881 - With what brief? 107 00:06:12,915 --> 00:06:15,262 - To get into society and make himself useful. 108 00:06:15,297 --> 00:06:17,506 - And do you consider that the demoralization, 109 00:06:17,540 --> 00:06:19,680 not to say discrediting of the British Trade Mission 110 00:06:19,715 --> 00:06:20,958 falls into that category? 111 00:06:22,407 --> 00:06:23,719 - Arguably not. 112 00:06:23,753 --> 00:06:25,755 - In view of the circumstances, 113 00:06:25,790 --> 00:06:27,688 don't you think it would be a good idea 114 00:06:27,723 --> 00:06:29,069 if you recalled Reilly? 115 00:06:29,104 --> 00:06:33,625 - In view of the circumstances, I don't think he'd come. 116 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:36,076 Reilly stands to make a great deal in this matter. 117 00:06:36,111 --> 00:06:36,939 - In what way? 118 00:06:38,113 --> 00:06:40,701 - Well, the German yards are fancy 119 00:06:40,736 --> 00:06:43,014 to capture the Cruiser contracts 120 00:06:43,049 --> 00:06:45,189 and Reilly is lucky to be their broker. 121 00:06:46,224 --> 00:06:47,191 - Hmm. 122 00:06:47,225 --> 00:06:48,433 Any other way of warning him off? 123 00:06:49,503 --> 00:06:52,851 - Short of shooting him, no. 124 00:06:52,886 --> 00:06:55,302 - Well that thought had crossed my mind. 125 00:06:55,337 --> 00:06:57,580 - Shooting Reilly? 126 00:06:57,615 --> 00:07:00,031 - Yes. 127 00:07:00,066 --> 00:07:01,619 - Is that the way you normally go about things 128 00:07:01,653 --> 00:07:02,654 at the Board of Trade. 129 00:07:02,689 --> 00:07:04,139 - No. 130 00:07:04,173 --> 00:07:06,935 But in this case it is a particularly large order. 131 00:07:08,212 --> 00:07:09,420 - Sir I would like to say 132 00:07:09,454 --> 00:07:10,524 that I don't think shooting Reilly 133 00:07:10,559 --> 00:07:12,526 is a very good idea. 134 00:07:12,561 --> 00:07:14,390 After all we only have Zaharov's word 135 00:07:14,425 --> 00:07:15,874 that he's not on our side. 136 00:07:17,048 --> 00:07:20,155 "His object all sublime, he may achieve in time." 137 00:07:25,815 --> 00:07:26,955 What I mean is, 138 00:07:28,025 --> 00:07:30,889 he may well be playing a double game. 139 00:07:41,107 --> 00:07:42,763 - Um, is Sidney Reilly here? 140 00:07:42,798 --> 00:07:44,075 - Yes at Souvorin's table. 141 00:07:53,567 --> 00:07:57,675 ♪ With a glass that's full like a summer flower ♪ 142 00:07:57,709 --> 00:08:02,024 ♪ Breathing out perfume 143 00:08:02,059 --> 00:08:06,408 ♪ Let us drink a toast to forest dear ♪ 144 00:08:06,442 --> 00:08:10,032 ♪ The forest I belong with 145 00:08:36,369 --> 00:08:37,197 - Psst. 146 00:08:41,098 --> 00:08:41,926 - Where's Sidney? 147 00:08:45,171 --> 00:08:46,034 Boris. 148 00:08:48,829 --> 00:08:50,659 - Do you recognize this one? 149 00:08:51,970 --> 00:08:56,803 - Yes it's from Spirit Nova in Moscow. 150 00:08:56,837 --> 00:08:59,875 - Why do all the best shoemakers come from Moscow? 151 00:09:01,049 --> 00:09:02,602 - Because that is where the money is. 152 00:09:04,293 --> 00:09:06,847 - Then why don't we leave here and go there? 153 00:09:06,882 --> 00:09:09,471 - Because your husband, who is a close friend of mine, 154 00:09:09,505 --> 00:09:13,199 would divorce you and demand a vast sum in compensation. 155 00:09:14,579 --> 00:09:15,477 - How much? 156 00:09:16,926 --> 00:09:19,205 - I don't know, maybe quarter of a million. 157 00:09:19,239 --> 00:09:21,103 - Do you think I'm worth that much? 158 00:09:24,589 --> 00:09:25,487 Well? 159 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,803 - I'd like to get you for nothing. 160 00:09:33,564 --> 00:09:35,083 - That is a dangerous notion. 161 00:09:36,429 --> 00:09:37,533 This is Russia. 162 00:09:38,983 --> 00:09:41,227 - Very well if you insist on a financial transaction, 163 00:09:41,261 --> 00:09:45,438 I would pay the money but make a profit on it. 164 00:09:47,750 --> 00:09:48,682 - Very well Sidney. 165 00:09:49,614 --> 00:09:51,237 But make your bid soon. 166 00:09:52,410 --> 00:09:53,653 There are other interested parties 167 00:09:53,687 --> 00:09:56,897 and I'm getting tired of living with Jan. 168 00:09:59,383 --> 00:10:01,109 - Good evening friends. 169 00:10:01,143 --> 00:10:04,215 - Ah now dear, you know my lawyer, Shasha Grammaticoff. 170 00:10:04,250 --> 00:10:05,458 - Good evening Shasha, how are you tonight? 171 00:10:05,492 --> 00:10:08,046 - My darling Nadia, how delightful to see you. 172 00:10:08,081 --> 00:10:10,877 - I thought I left you at my apartment? 173 00:10:10,911 --> 00:10:12,154 - Yes something came up. 174 00:10:12,189 --> 00:10:13,776 I think we ought to go old boy. 175 00:10:16,296 --> 00:10:17,401 - Would you excuse us? 176 00:10:26,548 --> 00:10:28,170 Well? 177 00:10:28,205 --> 00:10:30,621 - I've located your wife. 178 00:10:42,322 --> 00:10:43,772 - You're sure she's in there? 179 00:10:44,011 --> 00:10:46,395 - Her name's in the book, that's all I know. 180 00:10:53,091 --> 00:10:54,541 - Thank you. 181 00:10:54,576 --> 00:10:55,853 Mrs. Reilly. 182 00:10:55,887 --> 00:10:57,199 - She left. 183 00:10:57,234 --> 00:10:58,062 - When? 184 00:10:58,096 --> 00:10:59,270 - This morning. 185 00:10:59,305 --> 00:11:00,616 - Did she leave a forwarding address? 186 00:11:00,651 --> 00:11:03,378 - Nope, nor did she pay her bill. 187 00:11:04,655 --> 00:11:07,313 So if either of you gentlemen will oblige. 188 00:11:08,348 --> 00:11:09,487 - How much is it? 189 00:11:09,522 --> 00:11:10,350 - Don't. 190 00:11:12,110 --> 00:11:12,939 - What? 191 00:11:13,871 --> 00:11:15,355 - Pay it. 192 00:11:15,390 --> 00:11:17,392 That's tantamount to saying you're responsible for her. 193 00:11:17,426 --> 00:11:19,083 - I am responsible for her. 194 00:11:20,740 --> 00:11:21,982 How much? 195 00:11:22,017 --> 00:11:24,675 - With taxes, 150. 196 00:11:26,159 --> 00:11:28,644 - That 150 could cost you your future Sidney. 197 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,577 A hundred thousands times that sum. 198 00:11:31,785 --> 00:11:34,374 - You're a lousy lawyer Shasha, you always were. 199 00:11:42,140 --> 00:11:43,694 - Hello. 200 00:11:43,728 --> 00:11:45,385 Why'd you leave so quickly? 201 00:11:46,317 --> 00:11:47,145 - Where are you? 202 00:11:47,180 --> 00:11:48,008 - At home. 203 00:11:50,356 --> 00:11:52,185 I just wanted to tell you I love you. 204 00:11:54,222 --> 00:11:56,293 - Nadia when you talked about leaving Jan, 205 00:11:57,777 --> 00:11:58,812 were you serious? 206 00:12:00,573 --> 00:12:01,401 - Very. 207 00:12:02,816 --> 00:12:05,440 - Good, then I shall come round to talk to him tomorrow. 208 00:12:06,372 --> 00:12:07,373 - First thing. 209 00:12:44,099 --> 00:12:45,514 Thank you Thomas. 210 00:13:16,752 --> 00:13:19,410 - What happened to that little gypsy girl? 211 00:13:21,170 --> 00:13:22,724 - What little gypsy girl? 212 00:13:22,758 --> 00:13:24,312 - The pretty little one. 213 00:13:24,346 --> 00:13:25,623 She seemed to disappear. 214 00:13:26,935 --> 00:13:29,317 - She did disappear, with Boris. 215 00:13:29,351 --> 00:13:31,042 - I thought Boris was with Penina? 216 00:13:31,605 --> 00:13:33,459 - He took them both home. 217 00:13:33,493 --> 00:13:35,908 - Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. 218 00:13:38,291 --> 00:13:40,604 Her Mama will be onto me. 219 00:13:41,950 --> 00:13:44,159 And I have to be at the Ministry at 12. 220 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,748 - How are you feeling? 221 00:13:46,782 --> 00:13:48,508 - I have a head like a foot. 222 00:13:50,648 --> 00:13:53,858 - Jan, I am in love with Nadia. 223 00:13:54,997 --> 00:13:59,105 - The whole world is my dear Reilly. 224 00:13:59,139 --> 00:14:00,278 The whole world is. 225 00:14:02,142 --> 00:14:03,385 Are you in love with him? 226 00:14:05,283 --> 00:14:06,568 - Yes. 227 00:14:06,602 --> 00:14:08,873 - Well we'd better arrange for some sort of divorce. 228 00:14:11,566 --> 00:14:14,431 I mean, if that's what you want? 229 00:14:22,197 --> 00:14:24,095 This is what you want? 230 00:14:26,408 --> 00:14:28,237 Is that what you want! 231 00:14:47,843 --> 00:14:50,536 Perhaps we'd better wait until she's made up her mind. 232 00:14:53,090 --> 00:14:55,506 Meanwhile if you would convey me to the Ministry of Marine, 233 00:14:55,541 --> 00:14:56,852 I should be most grateful. 234 00:14:58,336 --> 00:15:00,615 I mean, I'm perfectly capable of walking in a straight line, 235 00:15:00,649 --> 00:15:04,066 it's turning the corners that might prove difficult. 236 00:15:09,244 --> 00:15:12,005 - So what about the settlement? 237 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:13,766 - It's going to cost you money. 238 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,284 It is regrettable 239 00:15:15,319 --> 00:15:17,735 but it will have to be large enough to satisfy my honor 240 00:15:17,770 --> 00:15:19,565 and my honor, as you well know, 241 00:15:19,599 --> 00:15:21,532 is about all I have left. 242 00:15:21,567 --> 00:15:22,430 - How much? 243 00:15:24,017 --> 00:15:28,263 - Half a million, that's a nice round figure. 244 00:15:28,297 --> 00:15:29,229 - Too round for me. 245 00:15:31,128 --> 00:15:35,960 - We could bisect it, that is, if she's serious. 246 00:15:37,445 --> 00:15:38,238 - A quarter? 247 00:15:39,136 --> 00:15:39,964 - Cash. 248 00:15:41,621 --> 00:15:42,450 - It's possible. 249 00:15:42,899 --> 00:15:45,591 - Where are you going to get that sort of money? 250 00:15:45,625 --> 00:15:48,214 - I intend to join Mendrovovich and Lubinsky. 251 00:15:48,248 --> 00:15:50,803 It looks as if they might get the Blohm and Voss Agency 252 00:15:50,837 --> 00:15:52,114 and Blohm and Voss looks like a good shot 253 00:15:52,149 --> 00:15:54,013 for the Cruiser contract. 254 00:15:54,047 --> 00:15:55,946 - Mendrovovich and Lubinsky are not accredited 255 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:57,430 with the Ministry of Marine. 256 00:15:59,328 --> 00:16:00,951 - Not at this moment, no. 257 00:16:00,985 --> 00:16:02,677 - They import rail stock. 258 00:16:02,711 --> 00:16:05,403 Freight cars, locomotives, that sort of thing. 259 00:16:05,438 --> 00:16:07,854 They won't wear them at the Ministry. 260 00:16:07,889 --> 00:16:09,200 - They will if you say so. 261 00:16:10,995 --> 00:16:14,758 Make sure that when Mendrovovich's application comes up, 262 00:16:14,792 --> 00:16:16,794 nobody on your staff vetoes it. 263 00:16:18,313 --> 00:16:21,868 I'm not asking you to do anything underhand, 264 00:16:21,903 --> 00:16:24,353 merely to ensure that an old and well established 265 00:16:24,388 --> 00:16:27,564 Russian firm gets the right to represent 266 00:16:27,598 --> 00:16:30,118 a German naval yard if it should want to. 267 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:35,848 - I would do that anyway. 268 00:16:35,882 --> 00:16:40,197 - Good, I knew you would. 269 00:16:40,231 --> 00:16:41,854 - You really want her, don't you? 270 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,512 - Yes. 271 00:16:46,928 --> 00:16:48,792 But I also want that order. 272 00:16:51,311 --> 00:16:54,936 - Well you're going to have to work for it damned hard. 273 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:55,971 Damned hard. 274 00:17:07,101 --> 00:17:09,931 - Tell Mr. Mendrovovich that Mr. Reilly is here. 275 00:17:20,010 --> 00:17:20,839 - Ah. 276 00:17:23,945 --> 00:17:24,774 Well? 277 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,053 - There will be no problem with the license. 278 00:17:28,087 --> 00:17:29,054 - Good. 279 00:17:29,088 --> 00:17:30,469 - Lebinsky has gone? 280 00:17:30,503 --> 00:17:31,332 - He has. 281 00:17:32,609 --> 00:17:35,129 - Good. 282 00:17:35,163 --> 00:17:36,855 - Here's the draft agreement. 283 00:17:39,167 --> 00:17:42,792 If you agree, we will both be partners. 284 00:17:43,965 --> 00:17:44,897 Equal partners. 285 00:17:47,417 --> 00:17:48,487 - I want control. 286 00:17:50,454 --> 00:17:51,283 - Control? 287 00:17:52,422 --> 00:17:53,734 - 51, 49 Mendro. 288 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:58,497 Or I take my German friends elsewhere. 289 00:18:06,263 --> 00:18:07,540 - Good morning. 290 00:18:07,575 --> 00:18:08,714 - Morning sir. 291 00:18:16,757 --> 00:18:20,139 - Gentleman, for those of you who are unacquainted with him, 292 00:18:20,174 --> 00:18:21,485 this is Admiral Popakatoff, 293 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,626 my Naval Advisor for this session. 294 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:35,810 So without further ado, let us begin. 295 00:18:35,845 --> 00:18:38,710 The first tender is that of Vickers Armstrong, is it not? 296 00:18:55,268 --> 00:18:57,521 - Gentleman, this is a warship 297 00:18:57,556 --> 00:18:59,765 of the improved Queen Mary class. 298 00:19:39,529 --> 00:19:42,670 - Hello Basil, when did you arrive? 299 00:19:42,705 --> 00:19:43,706 - Yesterday morning. 300 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:51,921 - How was your reception? 301 00:19:51,955 --> 00:19:54,371 - Characteristically low key. 302 00:19:55,787 --> 00:19:59,722 I was met by the Ambassador, the band played Rule Brittania. 303 00:20:01,171 --> 00:20:03,208 There was short speech and a station buffet, 304 00:20:03,242 --> 00:20:05,244 mainly for the benefit of the press. 305 00:20:09,076 --> 00:20:11,078 Then I was driven to the Hermitage, 306 00:20:12,148 --> 00:20:13,908 where I had been allotted the West Wing. 307 00:20:16,773 --> 00:20:18,361 The whole thing had that indefinable air 308 00:20:18,395 --> 00:20:20,604 of understatement so typical of the British. 309 00:20:22,089 --> 00:20:23,884 Who incidentally are under the impression 310 00:20:23,918 --> 00:20:26,231 that you've gone over to the Germans. 311 00:20:26,265 --> 00:20:28,440 Blohm and Voss was mentioned, is that true? 312 00:20:29,682 --> 00:20:30,511 - Yes. 313 00:20:31,995 --> 00:20:35,688 - Is there some particular reason for your defection 314 00:20:35,723 --> 00:20:37,276 or is it merely for the money? 315 00:20:38,830 --> 00:20:42,212 - Basil the words merely and money never go together. 316 00:20:43,559 --> 00:20:46,699 - Ah the famous collection of Napoleona, 317 00:20:46,734 --> 00:20:49,012 grows more impressive with the years. 318 00:20:49,047 --> 00:20:51,359 What is that? 319 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,120 - That was used to sign the Treaty of Tilsit. 320 00:20:53,154 --> 00:20:54,293 - How historic. 321 00:20:57,365 --> 00:20:59,989 I see there is even some ink left in the well? 322 00:21:01,404 --> 00:21:04,407 Would it be an act of sacrilege if I used it? 323 00:21:05,270 --> 00:21:06,858 - Not at all. 324 00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:10,378 - I have come here you see, to write you a check. 325 00:21:10,413 --> 00:21:11,655 - How very kind of you. 326 00:21:12,898 --> 00:21:14,797 - As a matter of fact, it's a bribe. 327 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:17,144 - For how much? 328 00:21:18,490 --> 00:21:19,318 - 100. 329 00:21:20,906 --> 00:21:21,769 Thousand. 330 00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:24,703 Pounds. 331 00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:28,155 That is the sum which I consider necessary 332 00:21:29,570 --> 00:21:34,333 to buy you out of the Mendrovovich partnership. 333 00:21:34,368 --> 00:21:35,852 - My new job's hardly announced 334 00:21:35,887 --> 00:21:39,338 and yet here you are in St. Peterburg buying me off. 335 00:21:39,373 --> 00:21:41,375 - Not off, out. 336 00:21:43,032 --> 00:21:45,379 So I suggest you take this small fortune 337 00:21:45,413 --> 00:21:49,659 and depart from this city as speedily as decency allows. 338 00:21:49,693 --> 00:21:52,386 - Basil why don't you accept the fact 339 00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:54,181 that you've lost this one. 340 00:22:07,194 --> 00:22:09,265 - Margaret is here in St. Petersburg. 341 00:22:10,783 --> 00:22:11,854 Did you know? 342 00:22:12,889 --> 00:22:14,270 - Yes. 343 00:22:14,304 --> 00:22:16,548 - She's heard that you're in the money again. 344 00:22:16,582 --> 00:22:17,790 And she's homing in on you 345 00:22:17,825 --> 00:22:20,621 with all the accuracy of a Harrington torpedo. 346 00:22:20,655 --> 00:22:24,314 A design for which, incidentally, I own all the patents. 347 00:22:24,349 --> 00:22:25,488 - There was a lot of trouble 348 00:22:25,522 --> 00:22:27,283 with the Harrington's at Port Arthur. 349 00:22:27,317 --> 00:22:29,768 - The snags have since been ironed out. 350 00:22:31,770 --> 00:22:35,498 - Margaret or no Margaret, I'm home and dry. 351 00:22:36,499 --> 00:22:37,707 - We shall see. 352 00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:47,130 When I first arrived in St. Petersburg, 353 00:22:47,165 --> 00:22:48,373 I couldn't understand 354 00:22:48,407 --> 00:22:51,514 how Massino could fit into the scenario. 355 00:22:52,411 --> 00:22:53,861 So honest a man is he, 356 00:22:53,896 --> 00:22:57,934 that he would have made George Washington appear devious. 357 00:22:57,969 --> 00:23:01,110 And the fact that you were sleeping with his wife 358 00:23:01,144 --> 00:23:03,871 would seem to work against any arrangement. 359 00:23:05,286 --> 00:23:06,632 But there was something about your affair with her 360 00:23:06,667 --> 00:23:09,704 which was altogether too open. 361 00:23:09,739 --> 00:23:13,881 And then of course, the whole thing became clear to me. 362 00:23:16,470 --> 00:23:18,437 There is to be a divorce. 363 00:23:18,472 --> 00:23:21,371 And with the divorce, a settlement. 364 00:23:22,994 --> 00:23:26,411 The scheme is breathtaking in its simplicity. 365 00:23:26,445 --> 00:23:31,243 The Countess, is to be transferred from Count Massino to you 366 00:23:32,175 --> 00:23:34,419 in the full glare of publicity 367 00:23:34,453 --> 00:23:37,491 and with the blessing of the Church. 368 00:23:37,525 --> 00:23:40,494 Simultaneously a very large sum of money 369 00:23:42,013 --> 00:23:46,810 disguised as divorce court damages will go the other way. 370 00:23:51,988 --> 00:23:54,887 You know you've restored my faith in human nature. 371 00:23:54,922 --> 00:23:58,132 Lately I had begun to doubt that every man has his price. 372 00:23:59,582 --> 00:24:02,309 But now I see it's just a matter of the currency. 373 00:24:05,001 --> 00:24:07,245 - We now turn to the armor. 374 00:24:08,349 --> 00:24:10,696 As you'll from your specifications 375 00:24:10,731 --> 00:24:13,423 the magazines are particularly well protected. 376 00:24:15,460 --> 00:24:17,358 - What about the hoists? 377 00:24:17,393 --> 00:24:18,946 - The hoists? 378 00:24:18,981 --> 00:24:20,741 - In action shells will be hoisted 379 00:24:20,775 --> 00:24:22,363 from the magazines to the guns. 380 00:24:22,398 --> 00:24:24,814 Your hoists are not armored. 381 00:24:24,848 --> 00:24:26,850 - That lesson we learnt at Port Arthur. 382 00:24:30,026 --> 00:24:34,065 - Gentleman, the hoists are not exposed. 383 00:24:35,963 --> 00:24:39,725 May I refer you to page 96. 384 00:24:44,420 --> 00:24:49,425 In it you will see details of the very latest modifications. 385 00:25:31,156 --> 00:25:32,468 - Who is it? 386 00:25:32,502 --> 00:25:35,160 - Grammaticoff, Shasha. 387 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,239 - You been drinking? 388 00:25:45,274 --> 00:25:46,965 - Sidney if you think I'm going to change 389 00:25:46,999 --> 00:25:49,381 the habits of a lifetime because you're in trouble 390 00:25:49,416 --> 00:25:50,555 you're very much mistaken. 391 00:25:50,589 --> 00:25:52,074 - Quiet, Nadia's here. 392 00:25:53,144 --> 00:25:55,594 - Who is it? 393 00:25:55,629 --> 00:25:58,218 - It's Shasha darling. 394 00:26:02,636 --> 00:26:04,431 - My god what a body. 395 00:26:06,122 --> 00:26:08,055 - Shasha, what do you want? 396 00:26:09,953 --> 00:26:12,024 - Your lady wife old boy. 397 00:26:12,059 --> 00:26:13,543 Has finally broken cover. 398 00:26:14,579 --> 00:26:15,407 - Where is she? 399 00:26:16,581 --> 00:26:18,134 - At the Hotel Europa. 400 00:26:19,342 --> 00:26:21,310 - Good, let's get going. 401 00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:25,624 - Sidney, is four o'clock in the morning. 402 00:26:25,659 --> 00:26:27,971 - The time of least resistance my dear fellow. 403 00:26:29,663 --> 00:26:31,768 - Yes, hers or yours? 404 00:26:49,717 --> 00:26:50,546 Mrs. Reilly. 405 00:26:58,140 --> 00:26:59,141 - Who is it? 406 00:26:59,175 --> 00:27:00,072 - Sidney. 407 00:27:25,028 --> 00:27:25,857 - Go away. 408 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:36,488 Sidney. 409 00:27:39,526 --> 00:27:40,561 - How are you Meg? 410 00:27:42,977 --> 00:27:44,289 - Lost. 411 00:27:44,324 --> 00:27:45,394 Terribly cold. 412 00:27:47,223 --> 00:27:49,812 - What are you doing in St. Petersburg? 413 00:27:49,846 --> 00:27:50,951 - I wanted to see you. 414 00:27:51,986 --> 00:27:53,264 Basil gave me the tickets. 415 00:27:54,989 --> 00:27:57,199 When I got here there was no one to meet me. 416 00:27:58,165 --> 00:27:58,993 I have no money. 417 00:28:00,754 --> 00:28:02,100 I couldn't find you. 418 00:28:04,930 --> 00:28:06,138 - I'll call the porter back, 419 00:28:06,173 --> 00:28:08,624 he'll bring you up some wood and light a fire. 420 00:28:08,658 --> 00:28:09,487 - No, don't. 421 00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:13,560 You take care of me. 422 00:28:17,805 --> 00:28:20,843 You will. 423 00:28:20,877 --> 00:28:22,258 Won't you? 424 00:28:28,644 --> 00:28:31,543 - Yes darling, I'll see what I can do. 425 00:28:37,446 --> 00:28:40,000 - The time of least resistance indeed. 426 00:29:01,263 --> 00:29:02,747 - You're up early. 427 00:29:03,427 --> 00:29:05,232 - I'm going to the station to make arrangements 428 00:29:05,267 --> 00:29:06,647 for your return to Brussels. 429 00:29:08,339 --> 00:29:11,514 - Now Sidney, I don't want any of your grand gestures. 430 00:29:13,067 --> 00:29:14,276 I've only just got here. 431 00:29:15,794 --> 00:29:17,037 It was a long journey, 432 00:29:17,071 --> 00:29:19,246 and I'm going to take some time to recover. 433 00:29:21,283 --> 00:29:22,456 - I don't think you know what a hornet's nest 434 00:29:22,491 --> 00:29:23,768 you're stirring up. 435 00:29:25,287 --> 00:29:27,323 - Why is it that even before we've had breakfast 436 00:29:27,358 --> 00:29:28,531 you're telling me to go? 437 00:29:30,292 --> 00:29:31,879 I'm not one of your whores. 438 00:29:38,230 --> 00:29:40,302 We have a lot to discuss. 439 00:29:41,475 --> 00:29:44,271 We haven't seen each other for four years. 440 00:29:44,306 --> 00:29:47,101 - Before you go, I want you to meet Shasha Grammaticoff. 441 00:29:48,379 --> 00:29:49,311 He's my lawyer. 442 00:29:49,345 --> 00:29:50,484 - Sidney. 443 00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:52,935 - I don't want to discuss money with you. 444 00:29:54,316 --> 00:29:55,489 But he will. 445 00:29:55,524 --> 00:29:57,215 - Why do you always talk about money? 446 00:29:59,286 --> 00:30:01,737 - I'm playing for high stakes this time Margaret. 447 00:30:03,186 --> 00:30:05,257 And you are being used by Basil to compromise me. 448 00:30:08,330 --> 00:30:09,434 - Think about me. 449 00:30:10,884 --> 00:30:12,299 For once, think about me. 450 00:30:14,405 --> 00:30:16,096 - I am thinking about you. 451 00:30:18,374 --> 00:30:21,101 Your life may be at risk, do you understand that? 452 00:30:24,242 --> 00:30:26,589 - I have left a number of letters at my bank in Brussels 453 00:30:26,624 --> 00:30:28,315 in case of that eventuality. 454 00:30:30,731 --> 00:30:34,528 - In normal times Margaret such a threat 455 00:30:34,563 --> 00:30:39,084 would freeze the marrow of even an old hand like myself. 456 00:30:39,119 --> 00:30:41,155 But these are not normal times. 457 00:30:41,190 --> 00:30:43,192 - You leave that bag alone. 458 00:31:05,870 --> 00:31:07,803 - I'll keep these around. 459 00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:19,608 - I'm sick. 460 00:31:25,648 --> 00:31:26,477 Sidney. 461 00:31:29,272 --> 00:31:32,414 - I'll have McGildry come and see you. 462 00:31:35,417 --> 00:31:38,005 He's the doctor at the Embassy. 463 00:31:44,529 --> 00:31:48,119 - The hull as you see, under the water line 464 00:31:48,153 --> 00:31:52,434 has a bulbous stem leading to tapered chime. 465 00:31:52,468 --> 00:31:55,229 This is repeated under the after quarters, 466 00:31:55,264 --> 00:31:58,923 which of course greatly adds to her speed. 467 00:31:58,957 --> 00:32:01,028 - Now I notice you've fitted bilge keels. 468 00:32:02,478 --> 00:32:07,069 - Ah yes, the prototype showed a tendency to roll. 469 00:32:07,103 --> 00:32:09,243 - What was the angle? 470 00:32:09,278 --> 00:32:11,142 - 18 degrees. 471 00:32:11,176 --> 00:32:12,419 Beaufort scale eight. 472 00:32:14,248 --> 00:32:18,252 - On page 104 of the specifications 473 00:32:18,287 --> 00:32:21,566 the vessel is described as "a stable gun platform." 474 00:32:23,223 --> 00:32:25,087 How would reconcile that Herr Schroeder 475 00:32:25,121 --> 00:32:26,985 with an 18 degree roll? 476 00:32:28,435 --> 00:32:32,059 - We have fitted bilge keels, Your Excellency. 477 00:32:33,648 --> 00:32:35,546 - May I ask you a question? 478 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:38,065 - By all means. 479 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:39,998 - Assuming that bar bit guns 480 00:32:40,033 --> 00:32:43,623 are framed upon the beam and fired on broadside-- 481 00:33:06,404 --> 00:33:07,888 - So Sidney is married? 482 00:33:07,923 --> 00:33:08,751 - Yes. 483 00:33:09,614 --> 00:33:10,477 - To you? 484 00:33:11,547 --> 00:33:12,375 - Yes. 485 00:33:14,585 --> 00:33:15,965 - So what does that make me? 486 00:33:16,794 --> 00:33:18,312 - His whore. 487 00:33:23,145 --> 00:33:24,560 - You have come to claim him? 488 00:33:27,149 --> 00:33:28,081 - To warn you. 489 00:33:32,154 --> 00:33:33,258 Look what I've become. 490 00:33:35,226 --> 00:33:36,952 - You blame your situation upon him? 491 00:33:40,542 --> 00:33:41,577 - He destroyed me. 492 00:33:44,166 --> 00:33:45,512 I didn't want to come here. 493 00:33:47,618 --> 00:33:48,446 - But you did. 494 00:33:51,449 --> 00:33:52,968 - I don't know anybody. 495 00:33:56,834 --> 00:33:57,938 I have to have help. 496 00:34:02,115 --> 00:34:02,978 - Never mind. 497 00:34:04,151 --> 00:34:05,152 I shall give you tea 498 00:34:06,326 --> 00:34:08,017 and we shall talk about Sidney, 499 00:34:08,052 --> 00:34:09,881 which is what you want to do isn't it? 500 00:34:11,124 --> 00:34:11,918 How long have you been married? 501 00:34:11,952 --> 00:34:12,781 - 10 years. 502 00:34:24,724 --> 00:34:25,587 - I met her. 503 00:34:27,105 --> 00:34:27,899 - Who? 504 00:34:27,934 --> 00:34:29,004 - Your wife, Margaret. 505 00:34:30,143 --> 00:34:31,454 She came to my house. 506 00:34:31,489 --> 00:34:33,215 I gave her tea. 507 00:34:33,249 --> 00:34:34,526 She is as mad as a hatter. 508 00:34:34,561 --> 00:34:36,149 She is also dangerous. 509 00:34:42,673 --> 00:34:45,330 Did you really murder her first husband? 510 00:34:45,365 --> 00:34:46,677 - Who else was there? 511 00:34:46,711 --> 00:34:48,195 - Only Thomas, he let her in. 512 00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:50,715 - What about Jan? 513 00:34:50,750 --> 00:34:51,923 - He doesn't know, yet. 514 00:34:57,688 --> 00:34:59,068 Why didn't you tell me about-- 515 00:34:59,103 --> 00:35:00,552 - Would it have made that much difference? 516 00:35:00,587 --> 00:35:01,415 - Yes! 517 00:35:09,941 --> 00:35:10,770 No. 518 00:35:21,246 --> 00:35:22,609 - Look. 519 00:35:24,335 --> 00:35:27,649 Zaharov imported her with the idea of embarrassing me. 520 00:35:31,929 --> 00:35:33,378 - Well he has succeeded. 521 00:35:44,113 --> 00:35:45,252 It's pathetic really. 522 00:35:47,082 --> 00:35:49,498 She wants to tell everyone she's married to you. 523 00:35:54,089 --> 00:35:55,677 - The fact is she is. 524 00:36:05,756 --> 00:36:08,586 - Get her out of here before she destroys us all. 525 00:36:54,874 --> 00:36:57,290 - She left the Europa at 10. 526 00:36:57,324 --> 00:36:58,429 Went to Zanier Street. 527 00:36:59,430 --> 00:37:01,087 God knows what happened there. 528 00:37:01,121 --> 00:37:02,744 But she went from there to lunch at Krill's 529 00:37:02,778 --> 00:37:04,124 where she got drunk. 530 00:37:04,159 --> 00:37:05,608 Accused the waiter of assaulting her, 531 00:37:05,643 --> 00:37:07,093 accused me of following her, 532 00:37:07,127 --> 00:37:09,681 picked up a knife, you know the kinds they cut a-- 533 00:37:09,716 --> 00:37:10,959 - Where is she now? 534 00:37:10,993 --> 00:37:12,995 - At the Nevski Police Station. 535 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:15,032 My friend Grigorenko has her in custody. 536 00:37:16,102 --> 00:37:17,724 She's asked for a bottle of gin 537 00:37:17,759 --> 00:37:21,107 and the British Ambassador, in that order. 538 00:37:21,141 --> 00:37:22,764 - Go to the Europa, pay the bill 539 00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:25,974 and remove the rest of her belongings. 540 00:37:27,389 --> 00:37:29,909 Then let me talk to Grigorenko. 541 00:37:55,017 --> 00:37:56,225 - Good evening Mr. Reilly. 542 00:37:56,259 --> 00:37:58,503 You are expected, do come in sir. 543 00:37:58,537 --> 00:37:59,918 - Thomas. 544 00:37:59,933 --> 00:38:01,471 - All my papers are with my husband. 545 00:38:01,506 --> 00:38:02,576 - What about your luggage? 546 00:38:02,610 --> 00:38:04,405 - It is at the hotel. 547 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:05,234 - The Europa? 548 00:38:05,268 --> 00:38:06,683 - Yes. 549 00:38:06,718 --> 00:38:09,134 - I'm sorry madam, your luggage is not at the Europa. 550 00:38:09,169 --> 00:38:10,446 - I tell you it is. 551 00:38:10,475 --> 00:38:15,431 - Madam not only is your luggage not at the hotel, but no person of your name is registered there. 553 00:38:15,465 --> 00:38:17,625 - Call Basil Zaharov, he will identify me. 554 00:38:17,660 --> 00:38:19,662 - Madam if you are Mrs. Reilly, 555 00:38:21,043 --> 00:38:23,390 why is it that you have not at any time 556 00:38:23,424 --> 00:38:25,426 asked to see your husband? 557 00:38:25,461 --> 00:38:27,187 - Because he had me arrested. 558 00:38:27,221 --> 00:38:30,984 - Zaharov is showing considerable energy. 559 00:38:31,018 --> 00:38:32,502 He's making a meal of the fact 560 00:38:32,537 --> 00:38:34,988 that the Tsar and the King of England are cousins. 561 00:38:35,022 --> 00:38:38,025 The palace is crawling with British Naval Officers. 562 00:38:40,579 --> 00:38:42,064 - Why did you ask me here Jan? 563 00:38:49,105 --> 00:38:52,660 - This woman who claims to be your wife, 564 00:38:52,695 --> 00:38:53,834 she must be got rid of. 565 00:38:57,596 --> 00:38:59,460 - She is my wife. 566 00:38:59,495 --> 00:39:02,084 - I cannot allow Nadia to divorce me 567 00:39:02,118 --> 00:39:04,362 unless you're free to marry her. 568 00:39:04,396 --> 00:39:07,261 Any other course, here of all places, is unthinkable. 569 00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:10,471 The matter did not come up before 570 00:39:10,506 --> 00:39:13,578 because I assumed from your behavior, you were not married. 571 00:39:14,855 --> 00:39:16,098 I was wrong to do so. 572 00:39:18,272 --> 00:39:20,757 - If I didn't know you better. 573 00:39:20,792 --> 00:39:23,691 I would've assumed that you were not married either. 574 00:39:23,726 --> 00:39:26,902 Nor for that matter, your wife. 575 00:39:28,041 --> 00:39:29,766 - Please take me seriously Sidney. 576 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:33,701 This woman has only got to get herself invited 577 00:39:33,736 --> 00:39:35,634 to one of our many official receptions 578 00:39:35,669 --> 00:39:37,084 and she will deliver the performance 579 00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:39,121 she's come 1,000 miles to give. 580 00:39:39,155 --> 00:39:40,950 And the fat will be in the fire. 581 00:39:40,985 --> 00:39:42,227 - She'll be gone within 48 hours. 582 00:39:42,262 --> 00:39:45,334 I hope so. Be careful. 584 00:39:45,368 --> 00:39:47,646 I am not to be relied upon. 585 00:39:48,903 --> 00:39:51,236 My sense of honor sometimes gets the better 586 00:39:51,271 --> 00:39:52,928 of my instinct for survival. 587 00:39:54,446 --> 00:39:55,654 - I shall deal with her. 588 00:39:58,243 --> 00:39:59,900 - Discretely please. 589 00:40:10,393 --> 00:40:12,257 - Why have you brought me here? 590 00:40:41,010 --> 00:40:42,218 - Do you know this woman? 591 00:40:44,082 --> 00:40:45,635 We pulled her out of the canal. 592 00:40:47,258 --> 00:40:48,811 - Please. 593 00:40:48,845 --> 00:40:51,227 - These were found on her person. 594 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,989 - They're mine. 595 00:41:00,961 --> 00:41:03,929 - And what were they doing on the deceased? 596 00:41:09,694 --> 00:41:10,522 - Sidney! 597 00:41:41,933 --> 00:41:42,761 Alright. 598 00:41:46,420 --> 00:41:47,870 What do you want? 599 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,424 - Leave St. Petersburg right away. 600 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,500 There's a steamer sailing tonight for Egret, and I shall see that you're fixed up 602 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:56,948 with the necessary warrants. 603 00:41:56,982 --> 00:41:58,846 You'll be given new clothes 604 00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:02,057 and enough money to get you back to Brussels. 605 00:42:04,128 --> 00:42:06,613 I do advise you not to return here. 606 00:42:08,097 --> 00:42:10,479 Nor to communicate with Zaharov again. 607 00:42:11,963 --> 00:42:14,276 Should you even attempt to do so, 608 00:42:17,865 --> 00:42:20,661 you will end up like the woman through there. 609 00:42:29,739 --> 00:42:31,534 - I need more money when I get back. 610 00:42:32,397 --> 00:42:33,847 - It will be waiting for you. 611 00:42:35,425 --> 00:42:36,919 - And what about Basil? 612 00:42:36,953 --> 00:42:38,127 - Forget 613 00:42:38,162 --> 00:42:38,990 Basil. 614 00:42:41,020 --> 00:42:43,201 - I owe him for the ticket. 615 00:42:43,236 --> 00:42:46,135 - And it is the committees unanimous approval 616 00:42:46,170 --> 00:42:48,413 that the order for the prototype Battle Cruiser 617 00:42:48,448 --> 00:42:50,760 go to the yard of Blohm and Voss, 618 00:42:50,795 --> 00:42:53,832 agents Mendrovich and Lubinsky. 619 00:43:29,903 --> 00:43:32,354 - Keep her door locked until you're at sea. 620 00:43:35,115 --> 00:43:36,392 Goodbye Mrs. Reilly. 621 00:45:07,897 --> 00:45:09,140 Good night Charles. 622 00:45:09,174 --> 00:45:11,073 - Good night sir, many thanks. 623 00:45:11,107 --> 00:45:12,281 Good night Oliver. 624 00:45:12,316 --> 00:45:14,663 We'll see you at the chancery tomorrow. 625 00:45:14,697 --> 00:45:17,079 Yes, goodnight ladies. 626 00:45:17,113 --> 00:45:18,080 Goodnight sir. 627 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,299 - Evening sir. 628 00:45:30,334 --> 00:45:32,819 - Another message Mr. Reilly? 629 00:45:34,061 --> 00:45:34,855 - Afraid so sir. 630 00:45:45,349 --> 00:45:46,350 Good evening Basil, 631 00:45:47,696 --> 00:45:49,491 I thought you left town. 632 00:45:49,525 --> 00:45:51,147 - Not quite, 633 00:45:51,182 --> 00:45:53,598 I'm invited to have dinner with the Tsar tomorrow. 634 00:45:54,703 --> 00:45:56,498 - Some sort of a consolation prize hmm? 635 00:45:57,671 --> 00:46:00,364 - It will be he who needs the consolation. 636 00:46:00,398 --> 00:46:02,607 When I tell him my little after dinner story 637 00:46:02,642 --> 00:46:05,990 of espionage and intrigue in the Imperial Navy. 638 00:46:06,024 --> 00:46:08,682 Of ladies bartered for battleships 639 00:46:08,717 --> 00:46:10,926 and the divorce courts used as banks. 640 00:46:12,479 --> 00:46:15,344 - The Ambassador phoned and said you had a job for me sir? 641 00:46:15,379 --> 00:46:18,209 - Yes, this cable I want it unscrambled. 642 00:46:18,243 --> 00:46:20,901 It's an Admiralty cipher of some kind. 643 00:46:20,936 --> 00:46:22,455 - It won't take long sir, would you care to-- 644 00:46:22,489 --> 00:46:23,387 - That's alright Thompson. 645 00:46:23,421 --> 00:46:25,147 Mr. Reilly can keep me company. 646 00:46:26,010 --> 00:46:28,737 - Give me five minutes sir. 647 00:46:40,611 --> 00:46:44,822 - I hear Margaret has left St. Petersburg. 648 00:46:44,856 --> 00:46:45,685 - Yes. 649 00:46:46,858 --> 00:46:48,377 - In something of a panic I hear? 650 00:46:49,861 --> 00:46:53,140 Still who can define what goes on in a woman's mind. 651 00:46:56,074 --> 00:46:59,008 - It was a mistake to have brought her here Basil. 652 00:46:59,043 --> 00:46:59,871 - Perhaps. 653 00:47:06,084 --> 00:47:09,571 - So, tell me more about this dinner tomorrow. 654 00:47:11,020 --> 00:47:14,299 - I shall propose a toast to the British Navy, 655 00:47:14,334 --> 00:47:17,164 without whose enthusiasm the shipyards of Germany 656 00:47:17,199 --> 00:47:21,237 would not now be enjoying their very full order books. 657 00:47:23,826 --> 00:47:27,416 - You're cheating Basil, you've been beaten fair and square. 658 00:47:27,451 --> 00:47:29,453 - This isn't a game dear boy. 659 00:47:29,487 --> 00:47:30,937 - Yes it is. 660 00:47:30,971 --> 00:47:34,630 - You would throw 35,000 British workers out of jobs 661 00:47:34,665 --> 00:47:38,807 so that Russian orders would go to German yards, 662 00:47:38,841 --> 00:47:40,671 for no other reason that the Royal Navy 663 00:47:40,705 --> 00:47:42,880 gets its hands on the German drawings. 664 00:47:43,846 --> 00:47:45,020 - There's a war coming. 665 00:47:45,054 --> 00:47:47,505 The plans are important. 666 00:47:47,540 --> 00:47:49,611 And in that context, 667 00:47:49,645 --> 00:47:52,821 your actions could be construed as treason. 668 00:47:52,855 --> 00:47:53,753 - Oh now, come now. 669 00:47:53,787 --> 00:47:55,479 We are selling battleships. 670 00:47:55,513 --> 00:47:58,309 Let us leave emotional words like treason out in the hall 671 00:47:58,343 --> 00:48:01,036 together with the dress swords and the umbrellas, hmm? 672 00:48:03,487 --> 00:48:05,074 - I can't believe that you would stoop 673 00:48:05,109 --> 00:48:08,112 to such a childish maneuver. 674 00:48:09,354 --> 00:48:10,701 Smacks of pique. 675 00:48:12,116 --> 00:48:14,946 - There will be repercussions at court of course. 676 00:48:14,981 --> 00:48:16,534 The King won't speak to me. 677 00:48:17,742 --> 00:48:19,019 But you will be discredited 678 00:48:19,054 --> 00:48:21,712 and with you the German shipyards. 679 00:48:21,746 --> 00:48:23,230 And I will have the order. 680 00:48:23,265 --> 00:48:26,130 Not only that, but every damn ship on the tender. 681 00:48:27,856 --> 00:48:30,479 - No no, the price is too high. 682 00:48:30,514 --> 00:48:32,343 You can't afford the unpopularity. 683 00:48:34,310 --> 00:48:37,279 You're already known as the merchant of death. 684 00:48:37,313 --> 00:48:39,523 - Amongst certain sections of the press maybe. 685 00:48:39,557 --> 00:48:41,317 But the shipyard workers will be behind me, 686 00:48:41,352 --> 00:48:42,318 they need the jobs. 687 00:48:43,768 --> 00:48:45,943 It could even save the government's bacon, 688 00:48:45,977 --> 00:48:48,428 such is the magnitude of the order. 689 00:48:48,463 --> 00:48:50,637 So you may have your Admirals, 690 00:48:50,672 --> 00:48:53,640 but I ultimately have the Prime Minister. 691 00:48:57,955 --> 00:48:59,715 - Here's your message sir. 692 00:48:59,750 --> 00:49:01,303 It's from Buckingham Palace. 693 00:49:02,822 --> 00:49:03,857 - Thank you Thompson. 694 00:49:08,275 --> 00:49:09,104 Oh dear. 695 00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:13,764 "Please advise Zaharov to cancel all further engagements 696 00:49:13,798 --> 00:49:16,421 "and to return to London without further delay." 697 00:49:22,013 --> 00:49:23,221 Signed by the King. 698 00:49:28,468 --> 00:49:30,574 - Check the text for errors. 699 00:49:30,608 --> 00:49:31,471 - Yes sir. 700 00:49:36,062 --> 00:49:37,304 - Your move Basil. 701 00:49:41,664 --> 00:49:42,793 - Ah, very well. 702 00:49:43,104 --> 00:49:46,000 I will allow you the game. 703 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,383 - Allow me. 704 00:49:51,629 --> 00:49:52,768 Allow me. 705 00:49:54,598 --> 00:49:56,600 I've run rings around you Basil.