1 00:02:09,895 --> 00:02:12,731 How are you today, counselor? 2 00:02:12,798 --> 00:02:14,733 Oh, thank you. 3 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,834 Well. 4 00:02:19,839 --> 00:02:21,973 I hope you enjoyed your little excursion 5 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,475 to the country on Friday. 6 00:02:32,885 --> 00:02:37,489 The old city of Thun is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, 7 00:02:37,556 --> 00:02:40,592 by members of our distinguished diplomatic community here. 8 00:02:40,659 --> 00:02:43,094 In my opinion, it is to be recommended 9 00:02:43,161 --> 00:02:44,763 not only for its antiquity 10 00:02:44,830 --> 00:02:47,164 but also for its banking facilities. 11 00:02:47,232 --> 00:02:48,833 You agree? 12 00:02:48,901 --> 00:02:50,668 My name is Kurt Siebel, sir. 13 00:02:50,736 --> 00:02:52,404 I am chief investigator 14 00:02:52,471 --> 00:02:55,039 to the Kantonalbank Bern in Thun. 15 00:02:55,107 --> 00:02:57,174 We have certain questions 16 00:02:57,242 --> 00:03:01,045 relating to Dr. Adolf Glaser's private account with us. 17 00:03:01,113 --> 00:03:03,748 You would do well to pretend to know me, eh? 18 00:03:05,217 --> 00:03:08,052 Please do not be alarmed. 19 00:03:10,055 --> 00:03:12,891 If you could spare us an hour, sir, 20 00:03:12,958 --> 00:03:15,126 I am sure we could arrange matters 21 00:03:15,193 --> 00:03:17,194 without troubling your domestic 22 00:03:17,262 --> 00:03:20,064 or your professional position. 23 00:03:22,668 --> 00:03:23,735 Please. 24 00:03:26,972 --> 00:03:29,841 There are irregularities, counselor-- 25 00:03:29,909 --> 00:03:32,444 grave irregularities. 26 00:03:32,511 --> 00:03:35,313 We have a dossier upon your good self 27 00:03:35,380 --> 00:03:37,682 which makes lamentable reading. 28 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:40,552 If I placed it before the Swiss police, 29 00:03:40,619 --> 00:03:45,156 not all the diplomatic protests in the world would protect you 30 00:03:45,223 --> 00:03:48,159 from the most acute public embarrassment. 31 00:03:48,226 --> 00:03:50,962 What irregularities?! 32 00:03:51,029 --> 00:03:52,764 Who is this Glaser you speak of? 33 00:03:52,832 --> 00:03:53,832 I am not Glaser. 34 00:03:53,899 --> 00:03:56,167 I am a diplomat, Grigoriev. 35 00:03:56,234 --> 00:03:59,170 The account you speak of has been conducted 36 00:03:59,237 --> 00:04:00,705 with total propriety. 37 00:04:00,773 --> 00:04:02,707 As commercial counselor, I have immunity, 38 00:04:02,775 --> 00:04:05,409 and I also have the right to own foreign bank accounts. 39 00:04:05,478 --> 00:04:08,112 There is also the delicate question 40 00:04:08,180 --> 00:04:10,348 of your marriage, counselor. 41 00:04:10,415 --> 00:04:13,885 I must advise you that your philanderings 42 00:04:13,953 --> 00:04:15,219 in the embassy 43 00:04:15,287 --> 00:04:18,322 have put your domestic arrangements in grave danger. 44 00:04:35,273 --> 00:04:36,841 ( car engine starts ) 45 00:04:47,452 --> 00:04:48,553 Remember, go easy. 46 00:04:48,621 --> 00:04:49,554 No speeding. 47 00:04:49,622 --> 00:04:50,555 No laughing. 48 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:51,956 It's a Bernese Sunday. 49 00:04:52,024 --> 00:04:53,391 ( groans ) 50 00:04:53,458 --> 00:04:54,626 ( groans ) 51 00:05:42,441 --> 00:05:48,646 ( Grigoriev grunting ) 52 00:05:52,785 --> 00:05:55,219 GRIGORIEV: Where am I? 53 00:05:55,287 --> 00:05:58,322 I demand to know where I am. 54 00:05:58,390 --> 00:06:01,659 I am a senior Soviet diplomat. 55 00:06:01,727 --> 00:06:05,129 I demand to speak to my ambassador immediately. 56 00:06:07,099 --> 00:06:08,666 I have been kidnapped. 57 00:06:08,734 --> 00:06:10,101 I am here against my will! 58 00:06:10,168 --> 00:06:13,304 If you do not return me immediately to my ambassador, 59 00:06:13,371 --> 00:06:15,840 there will be a grave international incident. 60 00:06:18,077 --> 00:06:20,078 You want ransom? 61 00:06:20,145 --> 00:06:22,379 You are terrorist? 62 00:06:23,548 --> 00:06:25,116 But if you are terrorist, 63 00:06:25,183 --> 00:06:26,818 why don't you bind my eyes? 64 00:06:26,885 --> 00:06:28,920 Why do you let me see your faces? 65 00:06:28,988 --> 00:06:30,254 You must cover them! 66 00:06:30,322 --> 00:06:32,023 I want no knowledge of you! 67 00:06:34,192 --> 00:06:35,392 I demand! 68 00:06:35,460 --> 00:06:36,894 I demand! 69 00:06:36,962 --> 00:06:38,462 SMILEY: You are Counselor Grigoriev 70 00:06:38,530 --> 00:06:40,564 of the Soviet Embassy in Bern? 71 00:06:40,633 --> 00:06:41,565 Grigoriev. 72 00:06:41,634 --> 00:06:42,634 I am Grigoriev! 73 00:06:42,701 --> 00:06:44,736 Yes, well done-- I am Grigoriev. 74 00:06:44,803 --> 00:06:46,070 And who are you, please? 75 00:06:46,138 --> 00:06:47,071 Al Capone? 76 00:06:47,139 --> 00:06:49,373 Who are you? 77 00:06:49,441 --> 00:06:51,242 Why do you rumble at me like a commissar? 78 00:06:51,309 --> 00:06:53,645 Then, counselor, since we cannot afford to delay, 79 00:06:53,712 --> 00:06:56,580 I must ask you to study the incriminating photographs 80 00:06:56,649 --> 00:06:59,651 on the table beside you. 81 00:06:59,718 --> 00:07:01,185 Photographs? 82 00:07:01,253 --> 00:07:02,787 What photographs? 83 00:07:02,855 --> 00:07:06,791 How can you incriminate a diplomat? 84 00:07:06,859 --> 00:07:10,128 I demand to telephone my ambassador immediately. 85 00:07:10,195 --> 00:07:13,531 I would advise the counselor to look at the photographs first. 86 00:07:13,598 --> 00:07:15,667 When he has looked at the photographs, 87 00:07:15,734 --> 00:07:18,169 he is free to telephone whomever he wants. 88 00:07:18,236 --> 00:07:19,871 Kindly start at the left. 89 00:07:19,938 --> 00:07:23,174 The photographs are arranged from left to right. 90 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:09,854 The telephone 91 00:08:09,922 --> 00:08:12,556 is at your disposal, counselor. 92 00:08:18,063 --> 00:08:21,398 Copies of these photographs will receive generous distribution 93 00:08:21,466 --> 00:08:24,936 within 48 hours from now unless something is done to prevent it. 94 00:08:25,003 --> 00:08:26,537 You will also appreciate 95 00:08:26,605 --> 00:08:29,607 that the Swiss authorities do not take kindly 96 00:08:29,674 --> 00:08:31,843 to the misuse of their passports-- 97 00:08:31,910 --> 00:08:33,677 least of all by diplomats. 98 00:08:33,746 --> 00:08:35,279 They are also sensitive 99 00:08:35,347 --> 00:08:38,883 when it comes to infringement of their banking laws. 100 00:08:38,951 --> 00:08:43,387 Your womanizing won't go down too well in Moscow either, 101 00:08:43,455 --> 00:08:46,357 will it? 102 00:08:46,424 --> 00:08:48,392 How is Madame Grigorieva these days? 103 00:08:48,460 --> 00:08:51,629 Will she be pleased by a sudden home posting, 104 00:08:51,696 --> 00:08:53,965 followed by premature retirement 105 00:08:54,032 --> 00:08:56,500 to some inclement part of Russia? 106 00:08:56,568 --> 00:08:58,836 You and all your family, 107 00:08:58,904 --> 00:09:00,671 no car, 108 00:09:00,739 --> 00:09:02,606 no privileges, 109 00:09:02,674 --> 00:09:04,508 un-persons. 110 00:09:06,044 --> 00:09:07,444 Sit down. 111 00:09:16,088 --> 00:09:18,055 We have also, of course, to consider 112 00:09:18,123 --> 00:09:20,557 the effect of these photographs and reports 113 00:09:20,625 --> 00:09:21,993 upon certain organs 114 00:09:22,060 --> 00:09:24,762 of Soviet state security, haven't we? 115 00:09:24,830 --> 00:09:28,132 Certain directorates of Moscow Center-- 116 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,001 special directorates. 117 00:09:30,068 --> 00:09:31,702 We have to consider 118 00:09:31,770 --> 00:09:35,072 whether exile is sufficient punishment 119 00:09:35,140 --> 00:09:38,109 for one who has so gravely bungled his instructions. 120 00:09:38,177 --> 00:09:39,177 Oh, yes. 121 00:09:41,246 --> 00:09:42,479 At what time exactly 122 00:09:42,547 --> 00:09:44,548 do you expect Madame Grigorieva 123 00:09:44,616 --> 00:09:48,152 to return from her mushrooming expedition, counselor? 124 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:51,122 We don't want you to be missed at home, do we? 125 00:09:53,892 --> 00:09:55,492 You are spies, eh? 126 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,296 You are Western spies. 127 00:09:58,363 --> 00:09:59,430 We are officials. 128 00:09:59,497 --> 00:10:01,299 That's all you need to know. 129 00:10:01,366 --> 00:10:02,800 When you have done as I ask, 130 00:10:02,868 --> 00:10:04,735 you will walk out of here a free man. 131 00:10:04,803 --> 00:10:05,970 You have my assurance. 132 00:10:06,038 --> 00:10:08,072 Neither your wife 133 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:10,942 nor even Moscow Center will be any the wiser. 134 00:10:11,009 --> 00:10:12,776 Now, please tell me 135 00:10:12,845 --> 00:10:16,914 at what time your family returns from Elfenau. 136 00:10:21,353 --> 00:10:22,887 ( groans ) 137 00:10:26,691 --> 00:10:30,094 ESTERHASE: Don't do that again, you hear me? 138 00:10:31,096 --> 00:10:32,897 I don't speak to scum like you! 139 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:33,998 What are you? 140 00:10:34,066 --> 00:10:35,066 A Polish? 141 00:10:35,133 --> 00:10:36,267 Magyar? 142 00:10:36,335 --> 00:10:37,801 I don't speak to antiparty elements! 143 00:10:37,870 --> 00:10:39,237 I am Russian! 144 00:10:39,304 --> 00:10:41,005 Don't do it again. 145 00:10:41,073 --> 00:10:42,439 ( grunts ) 146 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:50,214 GRIGORIEV ( moaning ): Ah, Grigoriev... 147 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:53,784 You fool! 148 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,021 You are so weak, 149 00:10:57,089 --> 00:11:00,091 so weak. 150 00:11:00,158 --> 00:11:01,893 Why didn't you say no? 151 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,562 You are a fool and a clown! 152 00:11:05,630 --> 00:11:07,531 You should be in an asylum 153 00:11:07,599 --> 00:11:08,966 instead of the girl. 154 00:11:09,034 --> 00:11:11,402 You are an idiot. 155 00:11:11,469 --> 00:11:12,736 You fool. 156 00:11:12,804 --> 00:11:14,372 Regarding your wife and children, 157 00:11:14,439 --> 00:11:16,340 counselor. 158 00:11:16,408 --> 00:11:19,076 She will be home at 1:00. 159 00:11:19,144 --> 00:11:22,980 But perhaps she will be late? 160 00:11:23,048 --> 00:11:25,349 Oh, she's never late. 161 00:11:25,417 --> 00:11:27,785 Then kindly begin by telling me 162 00:11:27,852 --> 00:11:32,656 of your relationship with the girl called Alexandra Ostrakova. 163 00:11:33,658 --> 00:11:34,758 Huh! 164 00:11:34,826 --> 00:11:36,193 You hear that, Magyar? 165 00:11:36,261 --> 00:11:39,263 Ostrakova. 166 00:11:39,331 --> 00:11:41,598 He asks me about some girl called Ostrakova. 167 00:11:41,666 --> 00:11:42,833 I know of no such person. 168 00:11:42,901 --> 00:11:43,867 I am a diplomat. 169 00:11:43,936 --> 00:11:44,902 Release me immediately. 170 00:11:44,970 --> 00:11:47,538 I have important engagements. 171 00:11:47,605 --> 00:11:51,008 Alexandra Borisovna Ostrakova-- so called. 172 00:11:51,076 --> 00:11:53,978 A Russian girl, but she has a French passport-- 173 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:55,712 just as you are a Russian, 174 00:11:55,780 --> 00:11:58,115 but have a Swiss passport, counselor. 175 00:11:58,183 --> 00:12:02,286 How did you come to be involved with her, please? 176 00:12:02,354 --> 00:12:03,421 I need vodka. 177 00:12:03,488 --> 00:12:06,958 Give him a glass-- one only. 178 00:12:07,025 --> 00:12:08,826 GRIGORIEV ( over radio ): Involved? 179 00:12:08,893 --> 00:12:12,496 You think I am so base I sleep with mad girls? 180 00:12:19,471 --> 00:12:22,206 SMILEY: Take the bottle outside. 181 00:12:27,312 --> 00:12:31,148 I was, uh, in Moscow. 182 00:12:31,216 --> 00:12:32,783 The date, please, counselor. 183 00:12:32,851 --> 00:12:34,685 Give the date when you were in Moscow. 184 00:12:34,752 --> 00:12:37,054 Henceforth, please give the date at all points. 185 00:12:37,122 --> 00:12:38,990 August. 186 00:12:39,057 --> 00:12:40,024 Of which year? 187 00:12:40,092 --> 00:12:43,294 Which year? 188 00:12:43,362 --> 00:12:46,364 I say August, he asks me which August. 189 00:12:46,431 --> 00:12:47,631 ( chuckles ) 190 00:12:49,201 --> 00:12:53,104 I was recalled to Moscow for an urgent economic conference. 191 00:12:53,171 --> 00:12:54,205 Wait. 192 00:13:00,912 --> 00:13:01,879 Go on. 193 00:13:01,946 --> 00:13:04,348 I had arranged to pass two days 194 00:13:04,416 --> 00:13:07,784 in the apartment of a girl called Evdokia, 195 00:13:07,852 --> 00:13:11,088 formerly my secretary. 196 00:13:11,156 --> 00:13:13,957 Her husband was away on military service. 197 00:13:14,026 --> 00:13:16,394 Unfortunately, I was prevented 198 00:13:16,461 --> 00:13:18,996 by adhering to these arrangements 199 00:13:19,064 --> 00:13:21,632 by intervention of Moscow Center. 200 00:13:21,699 --> 00:13:24,001 ( phone rings ) 201 00:13:27,705 --> 00:13:29,273 ( phone rings ) 202 00:13:36,047 --> 00:13:38,849 We are advised your wife has returned home. 203 00:13:38,916 --> 00:13:40,651 It's now become necessary 204 00:13:40,718 --> 00:13:42,386 for you to telephone her. 205 00:13:44,822 --> 00:13:46,323 Telephone her? 206 00:13:46,391 --> 00:13:50,761 You will kindly tell her you are unavoidably delayed. 207 00:13:50,828 --> 00:13:52,929 I tell this to my wife, eh? 208 00:13:52,997 --> 00:13:55,366 You think she will believe me? 209 00:13:55,433 --> 00:13:57,801 She will report me to my ambassador immediately: 210 00:13:57,869 --> 00:13:59,470 "Ambassador, my husband run away! 211 00:13:59,538 --> 00:14:00,504 Find him!" 212 00:14:00,572 --> 00:14:02,206 Each Thursday, the courier Krassky 213 00:14:02,274 --> 00:14:05,376 brings your weekly instructions from Moscow, does he not? 214 00:14:06,911 --> 00:14:09,680 Oh, your commissar, he knows everything, eh? 215 00:14:09,747 --> 00:14:11,582 Well, if he knows everything, 216 00:14:11,650 --> 00:14:14,385 why doesn't he speak to Grigorieva himself? 217 00:14:14,452 --> 00:14:17,921 You are to adopt an official tone with her, counselor. 218 00:14:17,989 --> 00:14:20,090 Do not refer to Krassky by name, 219 00:14:20,158 --> 00:14:23,194 but suggest that he has ordered you to meet him 220 00:14:23,261 --> 00:14:26,297 for an urgent discussion somewhere in the town. 221 00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:30,902 If she protests, tell her it is a secret of state. 222 00:14:32,905 --> 00:14:34,738 A secret... 223 00:14:34,806 --> 00:14:36,874 A secret of state. 224 00:15:11,009 --> 00:15:12,643 Hello. 225 00:15:12,710 --> 00:15:14,078 Here is Grigoriev. 226 00:15:16,514 --> 00:15:18,782 Don't speak to me about food, woman! 227 00:15:18,850 --> 00:15:20,952 I am not interested in mushrooms! 228 00:15:21,019 --> 00:15:23,120 Now, listen. 229 00:15:23,188 --> 00:15:28,692 I shall be delayed by matters of state. 230 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,729 Matters of great urgency and importance. 231 00:15:34,099 --> 00:15:37,601 I shall be delayed for several hours. 232 00:15:39,104 --> 00:15:40,972 No, you may not know the reason. 233 00:15:41,039 --> 00:15:42,039 Good-bye! 234 00:15:42,107 --> 00:15:43,074 ( depresses hook ) 235 00:15:43,141 --> 00:15:44,541 ( all applauding ) 236 00:15:46,678 --> 00:15:48,279 Thank you, counselor. 237 00:15:48,347 --> 00:15:49,813 You were describing 238 00:15:49,881 --> 00:15:53,017 how you were approached by Moscow Center. 239 00:15:53,085 --> 00:15:55,886 Kindly continue with your narrative. 240 00:15:58,723 --> 00:16:04,161 Well, "Grigoriev," they tell me, "you come with us, we need you." 241 00:16:04,229 --> 00:16:07,264 In Moscow, when they say that to you, 242 00:16:07,332 --> 00:16:09,967 you do not say "Call tomorrow." 243 00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:10,968 You go. 244 00:16:11,036 --> 00:16:12,269 And you went. 245 00:16:12,337 --> 00:16:14,205 We drive, all night. 246 00:16:14,272 --> 00:16:16,207 Then big gates, 247 00:16:16,274 --> 00:16:17,674 soldiers. 248 00:16:17,742 --> 00:16:19,676 I ask my escort, "Is this a camp? 249 00:16:19,744 --> 00:16:22,980 What have I done wrong, you are taking me to a camp?" 250 00:16:23,048 --> 00:16:26,117 They tell me to shut up. 251 00:16:26,184 --> 00:16:28,252 We climb a hill. 252 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:34,591 On the hill, a small dacha, a few lights, no luxuries. 253 00:16:34,659 --> 00:16:36,927 "Who is this strange baron," I ask myself, 254 00:16:36,995 --> 00:16:39,796 "who can live in a hut and look at the whole world 255 00:16:39,864 --> 00:16:41,598 without wishing to possess it?" 256 00:16:41,666 --> 00:16:43,267 Give me a cigarette. 257 00:16:56,014 --> 00:17:04,055 And inside, this man-- not a baron, a priest... 258 00:17:05,957 --> 00:17:08,692 with a deep quiet in him. 259 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,028 Behind a desk, like you. 260 00:17:11,096 --> 00:17:12,296 "Grigoriev, 261 00:17:12,364 --> 00:17:16,567 "I am a high official of state security. 262 00:17:16,634 --> 00:17:19,470 "I am also a man, like you. 263 00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:20,837 Sit down." 264 00:17:23,308 --> 00:17:25,342 I sit down. 265 00:17:29,181 --> 00:17:30,747 Like now. 266 00:17:32,016 --> 00:17:34,085 The room. 267 00:17:34,152 --> 00:17:36,587 Barren as a prison cell. 268 00:17:36,654 --> 00:17:40,757 A high official, and needs so little. 269 00:17:40,825 --> 00:17:43,360 A man clearly of deep experience. 270 00:17:43,428 --> 00:17:45,096 I see it in his face. 271 00:17:45,163 --> 00:17:48,432 You meet few men like that. 272 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:49,467 Smoking. 273 00:17:49,534 --> 00:17:50,534 Smoking what? 274 00:17:51,636 --> 00:17:52,570 Please? 275 00:17:52,637 --> 00:17:53,571 What did he smoke? 276 00:17:53,638 --> 00:17:55,772 The question's plain enough. 277 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,874 A pipe, cigarettes, cigar? 278 00:17:58,876 --> 00:17:59,977 Ah! 279 00:18:00,044 --> 00:18:01,145 Cigarette. 280 00:18:01,213 --> 00:18:02,313 American. 281 00:18:02,380 --> 00:18:04,982 Oh, the room was full of their aroma. 282 00:18:05,049 --> 00:18:07,351 Imagine the influence of such a man-- 283 00:18:07,419 --> 00:18:10,354 to chain-smoke American cigarettes in Russia. 284 00:18:10,422 --> 00:18:12,055 And he gave you no name? 285 00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:14,458 No. 286 00:18:14,526 --> 00:18:15,959 Describe the first topic 287 00:18:16,027 --> 00:18:18,129 of your conversation with this man. 288 00:18:18,196 --> 00:18:19,497 Huh. 289 00:18:19,564 --> 00:18:21,165 Ah... 290 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:24,602 Women. 291 00:18:25,604 --> 00:18:27,804 He knew everything... 292 00:18:27,872 --> 00:18:30,774 about my little Evdokia, 293 00:18:30,842 --> 00:18:34,245 my plans to love her that weekend. 294 00:18:34,312 --> 00:18:35,912 About typists. 295 00:18:35,980 --> 00:18:38,649 Wives of certain comrades. 296 00:18:38,716 --> 00:18:41,185 A ballerina in Leningrad. 297 00:18:41,253 --> 00:18:44,588 He disposed of all this information 298 00:18:44,656 --> 00:18:47,691 in the most disturbing details. 299 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:51,228 "Grigoriev, you have no secrets from me. 300 00:18:51,296 --> 00:18:53,797 "I see into your very heart. 301 00:18:53,865 --> 00:18:55,766 "But never mind. 302 00:18:55,833 --> 00:18:58,902 "Now you will be my ally. 303 00:18:58,970 --> 00:19:00,204 "My soldier. 304 00:19:00,272 --> 00:19:01,672 "My friend. 305 00:19:01,739 --> 00:19:04,908 And I will reward you." 306 00:19:06,110 --> 00:19:08,412 He was like you... 307 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,481 exactly. 308 00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:14,785 First pressure, then the reward. 309 00:19:14,852 --> 00:19:17,054 The friendship. 310 00:19:17,121 --> 00:19:18,389 Go on. 311 00:19:18,456 --> 00:19:23,160 First, I was to open a Swiss bank account. 312 00:19:23,228 --> 00:19:26,029 Not in Bern, where I was known, 313 00:19:26,097 --> 00:19:32,135 but in Thun, in the name of a Swiss subject, Glaser. 314 00:19:32,204 --> 00:19:34,705 "But I am a Soviet diplomat! 315 00:19:34,772 --> 00:19:37,641 I am not Glaser, I am Grigoriev!" 316 00:19:37,709 --> 00:19:41,545 He hands me a Swiss passport in the name 317 00:19:41,613 --> 00:19:42,879 of Adolf Glaser. 318 00:19:44,249 --> 00:19:46,417 ( chair moves suddenly ) 319 00:19:52,257 --> 00:19:55,359 Every month this account should be credited 320 00:19:55,427 --> 00:19:57,894 with several thousand Swiss francs. 321 00:19:57,962 --> 00:19:59,029 Sir, 322 00:19:59,097 --> 00:20:02,032 you should observe his calmness, 323 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:05,469 his authority in all circumstances. 324 00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:08,239 In chess game, he would win everything, 325 00:20:08,306 --> 00:20:09,806 merely by his nerves. 326 00:20:09,874 --> 00:20:12,409 But he was not playing chess. 327 00:20:12,477 --> 00:20:14,245 Sir, he was not. 328 00:20:15,347 --> 00:20:16,913 So what was he playing? 329 00:20:16,981 --> 00:20:18,716 Make haste. 330 00:20:20,051 --> 00:20:22,119 "Grigoriev," he says to me... 331 00:20:24,088 --> 00:20:25,723 "Pay close attention. 332 00:20:25,790 --> 00:20:28,559 "In a private clinic in Switzerland, 333 00:20:28,627 --> 00:20:31,762 "not half an hour from the town of Thun, 334 00:20:31,829 --> 00:20:34,831 "is confined a young Russian girl 335 00:20:34,899 --> 00:20:39,536 "suffering from an advanced state of schizophrenia. 336 00:20:39,604 --> 00:20:43,507 "Her name is Alexandra Borisovna Ostrakova. 337 00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:47,978 "In the Soviet Union, this form of illness 338 00:20:48,045 --> 00:20:51,348 "is not sufficiently understood. 339 00:20:51,416 --> 00:20:55,653 "Diagnosis, treatment are too often complicated 340 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,355 "by political considerations. 341 00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:02,058 "In Switzerland, a more enlightened attitude is taken 342 00:21:02,126 --> 00:21:03,661 "to these matters. 343 00:21:03,728 --> 00:21:10,100 Grigoriev, I speak to you as a father, not a politician." 344 00:21:10,168 --> 00:21:11,802 "Comrade," I reply, 345 00:21:11,869 --> 00:21:15,572 "if this Alexandra Borisovna is your child, 346 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,074 you have my deep sympathy." 347 00:21:19,076 --> 00:21:20,911 He laughed. 348 00:21:20,978 --> 00:21:23,980 I had misunderstood him. 349 00:21:24,048 --> 00:21:25,482 "She is not my child 350 00:21:25,550 --> 00:21:28,084 "and my name is not Ostrakov. 351 00:21:28,152 --> 00:21:29,520 Pay attention." 352 00:21:29,587 --> 00:21:31,221 "Oh, I apologize." 353 00:21:31,289 --> 00:21:36,293 I feel the natural truthfulness of this man. 354 00:21:36,361 --> 00:21:38,762 His warmth of heart. 355 00:21:38,830 --> 00:21:40,163 His mercy. 356 00:21:40,231 --> 00:21:44,335 You are a perceptive and kindly man, Grigoriev. 357 00:21:44,402 --> 00:21:48,104 These qualities have not passed unnoticed. 358 00:21:50,041 --> 00:21:53,577 Then he tells me a great secret. 359 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:59,316 "Grigoriev, in the whole history of Moscow Center, 360 00:21:59,384 --> 00:22:01,485 "there is no greater heroine 361 00:22:01,553 --> 00:22:04,221 "than Alexandra Borisovna Ostrakova. 362 00:22:04,288 --> 00:22:07,558 "She has protected us against many enemies. 363 00:22:07,625 --> 00:22:11,495 "She has mixed with the most dangerous elements 364 00:22:11,563 --> 00:22:13,530 "in order to deceive them 365 00:22:13,598 --> 00:22:16,533 "and report their conspiracies. 366 00:22:16,601 --> 00:22:20,003 "She has given her very body 367 00:22:20,071 --> 00:22:24,040 "in the cause of the Revolution. 368 00:22:24,108 --> 00:22:25,275 "Unfortunately, 369 00:22:25,343 --> 00:22:28,879 this experience has now deranged her mind." 370 00:22:29,714 --> 00:22:32,115 "She is an invalid." 371 00:22:33,217 --> 00:22:35,786 "Help her, Grigoriev. 372 00:22:35,854 --> 00:22:38,889 "Comfort her in her agony. 373 00:22:38,956 --> 00:22:41,692 Be a father to her." 374 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:42,926 Your task. 375 00:22:42,994 --> 00:22:44,327 What was your task? 376 00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:46,597 Well, to visit Alexandra 377 00:22:46,664 --> 00:22:48,699 every week in her clinic. 378 00:22:48,767 --> 00:22:52,335 To pay her fees from special bank account. 379 00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:55,272 To speak to her physicians. 380 00:22:55,339 --> 00:22:57,073 To be a father to her. 381 00:22:57,141 --> 00:22:59,610 And when courier Krassky calls, 382 00:22:59,677 --> 00:23:03,647 to give him each week my report upon her condition 383 00:23:03,715 --> 00:23:07,518 and receive special instructions for next visit. 384 00:23:07,585 --> 00:23:10,487 To place before her special questions 385 00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:13,023 prepared for me by the priest. 386 00:23:14,992 --> 00:23:16,259 And you agreed? 387 00:23:16,327 --> 00:23:19,296 I ask him first two questions for myself. 388 00:23:19,363 --> 00:23:23,199 "Comrade," I say, "why cannot this task be undertaken 389 00:23:23,267 --> 00:23:26,703 "by one of the many Swiss-based representatives 390 00:23:26,771 --> 00:23:28,472 of our state security?" 391 00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:30,607 An excellent question. 392 00:23:30,675 --> 00:23:32,876 How did he reply to it? 393 00:23:32,944 --> 00:23:34,277 "Comrade," he said... 394 00:23:37,482 --> 00:23:39,917 "This is matter is too secret. 395 00:23:39,984 --> 00:23:44,755 "Even for the people of my own directorate, too sensitive. 396 00:23:44,823 --> 00:23:48,959 "As things are now, if ever there should be a leak, 397 00:23:49,026 --> 00:23:53,797 I shall know that Grigoriev alone is the man responsible." 398 00:23:53,865 --> 00:23:57,100 I was not grateful for this distinction. 399 00:23:57,168 --> 00:23:58,435 I should think not. 400 00:23:58,503 --> 00:24:01,705 And what was your second question, counselor? 401 00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:05,976 "Has Ostrakova no parents? 402 00:24:06,043 --> 00:24:09,012 "Friends, relations of her own, in Russia? 403 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,147 "If our mental clinics are no good, 404 00:24:11,215 --> 00:24:13,984 perhaps a special arrangement could be made?" 405 00:24:14,051 --> 00:24:15,352 And he replied...? 406 00:24:15,419 --> 00:24:19,456 He became quiet. 407 00:24:20,658 --> 00:24:22,025 For the first time, 408 00:24:22,093 --> 00:24:25,095 I would say he showed certain hardness. 409 00:24:27,031 --> 00:24:32,970 "In secret operations," he told me, "each may only know part. 410 00:24:33,037 --> 00:24:38,208 None but the Comrade Director himself may know all." 411 00:24:39,243 --> 00:24:40,978 And did you believe him? 412 00:24:42,647 --> 00:24:43,981 No, sir. 413 00:24:45,416 --> 00:24:46,449 Why not? 414 00:24:47,886 --> 00:24:50,286 He had tears. 415 00:24:50,354 --> 00:24:51,555 Tears... 416 00:24:51,623 --> 00:24:54,157 in his eyes. 417 00:25:04,936 --> 00:25:08,371 SMILEY ( on tape ): Next Friday, you will on no account visit 418 00:25:08,439 --> 00:25:09,973 the girl Alexandra. 419 00:25:10,041 --> 00:25:13,043 You will tell your wife this was the substance 420 00:25:13,110 --> 00:25:16,112 of today's meeting with the courier Krassky. 421 00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:18,882 When Krassky brings your instructions 422 00:25:18,950 --> 00:25:21,018 on Thursday, accept them normally, 423 00:25:21,085 --> 00:25:23,954 but you will not visit Alexandra. 424 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:25,321 And if I refuse? 425 00:25:25,389 --> 00:25:27,357 The priest will recall you, 426 00:25:27,425 --> 00:25:29,225 the Swiss will expel you, 427 00:25:29,293 --> 00:25:31,227 Grigorieva will murder you, 428 00:25:31,295 --> 00:25:33,664 and you will forfeit all chance 429 00:25:33,731 --> 00:25:36,399 of a friendly reception in the West... 430 00:25:36,467 --> 00:25:39,102 alone or accompanied, as you wish. 431 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:42,105 Tidy up. 432 00:25:49,047 --> 00:25:51,347 When will I see you again? 433 00:25:51,415 --> 00:25:52,683 You desert me? 434 00:25:52,750 --> 00:25:54,918 Leave me to this Magyar? 435 00:25:54,986 --> 00:25:56,954 This gentleman will take care 436 00:25:57,021 --> 00:25:58,755 of all matters of detail. 437 00:25:58,823 --> 00:26:00,023 Good-bye. 438 00:26:00,091 --> 00:26:01,458 Good-bye, sir. 439 00:26:07,098 --> 00:26:08,164 Sir? 440 00:26:08,232 --> 00:26:09,365 SMILEY: Yes? 441 00:26:10,935 --> 00:26:11,902 Yes? 442 00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:13,403 What is it? 443 00:26:37,628 --> 00:26:39,629 George, this is a madhouse. 444 00:26:39,696 --> 00:26:42,499 I mean, how long can we hold the dam? 445 00:26:42,566 --> 00:26:44,467 This guy is a total crazy. 446 00:26:44,535 --> 00:26:47,203 When does Krassky return to Moscow? 447 00:26:47,271 --> 00:26:49,439 Saturday, midday. 448 00:26:49,507 --> 00:26:52,475 Tell Grigoriev he must arrange a meeting 449 00:26:52,543 --> 00:26:54,844 with Krassky before he leaves... 450 00:26:56,514 --> 00:26:58,048 On Saturday. 451 00:26:59,550 --> 00:27:02,052 He should tell Krassky 452 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,555 he will have an important message for him... 453 00:27:06,690 --> 00:27:09,859 an urgent letter to take to Moscow. 454 00:27:09,927 --> 00:27:11,127 Sure. 455 00:27:12,629 --> 00:27:13,796 Sure, George. 456 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,207 Herr Lachmann. 457 00:27:57,274 --> 00:27:58,274 Oh, yes. 458 00:27:58,342 --> 00:28:00,143 Mother Felicity expects you. 459 00:28:09,786 --> 00:28:11,121 Thank you, Sister Beatitude. 460 00:28:11,188 --> 00:28:12,422 Mother Felicity. 461 00:28:18,129 --> 00:28:19,529 So. 462 00:28:19,596 --> 00:28:21,531 You are Herr Lachmann. 463 00:28:21,598 --> 00:28:24,600 Herr Lachmann is an acquaintance of Herr Glaser, 464 00:28:24,668 --> 00:28:27,303 and Herr Glaser is this week indisposed. 465 00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:31,508 Have you met Alexandra before? 466 00:28:31,575 --> 00:28:33,243 No. 467 00:28:33,310 --> 00:28:35,178 You are perhaps her father? 468 00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:40,083 You are the absent Mr. Ostrakov in disguise? 469 00:28:40,151 --> 00:28:41,384 In this profession, 470 00:28:41,452 --> 00:28:43,253 I have ceased to be surprised at anything. 471 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,722 I am merely standing in for Herr Glaser. 472 00:28:46,790 --> 00:28:48,258 Who is standing in for the parents. 473 00:28:48,325 --> 00:28:49,725 Good. 474 00:28:49,793 --> 00:28:51,194 Now everything is clear. 475 00:28:54,231 --> 00:28:58,101 You must be very careful with her, Herr Professor. 476 00:28:58,169 --> 00:29:01,871 Sometimes she lives in the dark. 477 00:29:01,939 --> 00:29:03,940 And sometimes she sees too much. 478 00:29:05,042 --> 00:29:07,710 Both are painful. 479 00:29:07,778 --> 00:29:10,346 She has grown up in Russia. 480 00:29:10,414 --> 00:29:12,915 I don't know why. 481 00:29:12,983 --> 00:29:14,817 It is a complicated story, 482 00:29:14,885 --> 00:29:18,688 full of contrasts and full of gaps. 483 00:29:18,755 --> 00:29:21,724 If it's not the cause of her illness, 484 00:29:21,792 --> 00:29:25,395 it is certainly, let us say, the framework. 485 00:29:27,898 --> 00:29:29,132 You do not think 486 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,167 Herr Glaser is the father. 487 00:29:31,235 --> 00:29:32,302 No. 488 00:29:33,870 --> 00:29:35,705 Nor do I. 489 00:29:35,772 --> 00:29:37,673 Have you met the invisible Ostrakov? 490 00:29:37,741 --> 00:29:39,342 Oh, you have not. 491 00:29:39,410 --> 00:29:41,344 Does the invisible Ostrakov exist? 492 00:29:41,412 --> 00:29:44,314 Alexandra assures me that he is a phantom. 493 00:29:44,381 --> 00:29:48,851 Alexandra would have quite a different parentage. 494 00:29:48,919 --> 00:29:51,187 Well... so would many of us. 495 00:29:51,255 --> 00:29:52,589 ( buzzer rings ) 496 00:29:52,656 --> 00:29:56,192 May I ask what you have told her about me? 497 00:29:56,260 --> 00:29:57,860 Everything I know. 498 00:29:57,928 --> 00:30:00,029 Which is nothing. 499 00:30:00,097 --> 00:30:01,764 You are a friend of Uncle Anton, 500 00:30:01,832 --> 00:30:04,000 whom she refuses to accept as her uncle. 501 00:30:04,067 --> 00:30:06,702 I have told her it is her father's wish 502 00:30:06,770 --> 00:30:09,139 to have someone visit her every week. 503 00:30:09,206 --> 00:30:11,641 She assures me her father is a brigand 504 00:30:11,708 --> 00:30:15,011 who pushed her mother off a mountain at dead of night. 505 00:30:15,078 --> 00:30:17,147 ( knock at door ) 506 00:30:17,214 --> 00:30:18,948 MOTHER FELICITY: Come in, my child. 507 00:30:33,264 --> 00:30:34,264 ( kisses ) 508 00:30:40,937 --> 00:30:42,672 ( door closes ) 509 00:30:42,739 --> 00:30:44,374 ALEXANDRA: Is Anton dead? 510 00:30:44,441 --> 00:30:45,841 No. 511 00:30:45,909 --> 00:30:47,277 ( places hat on desk ) 512 00:30:47,344 --> 00:30:49,812 Anton has bad flu. 513 00:30:51,948 --> 00:30:54,016 Anton says he is my uncle, 514 00:30:54,084 --> 00:30:55,685 but he is not. 515 00:30:55,752 --> 00:30:58,988 He also pretends he has no car. 516 00:31:00,857 --> 00:31:02,659 Where is your list? 517 00:31:02,726 --> 00:31:03,793 Anton always brings 518 00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:05,195 a list. 519 00:31:05,262 --> 00:31:07,930 Oh, I have my questions in my head. 520 00:31:07,998 --> 00:31:09,599 It is forbidden to ask questions 521 00:31:09,667 --> 00:31:11,401 without a list. 522 00:31:11,468 --> 00:31:12,835 Questions out of the head 523 00:31:12,903 --> 00:31:15,271 are all completely forbidden by my father. 524 00:31:15,339 --> 00:31:17,607 Who is your father? 525 00:31:19,876 --> 00:31:22,612 I saw your car. 526 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,214 "BE" stands for "Bern"? 527 00:31:24,281 --> 00:31:26,115 Yes, it does. 528 00:31:27,784 --> 00:31:30,086 What kind of car does Anton have? 529 00:31:30,153 --> 00:31:31,087 A Mercedes. 530 00:31:31,154 --> 00:31:32,522 A black one. 531 00:31:32,590 --> 00:31:33,923 Very grand. 532 00:31:33,990 --> 00:31:36,292 Then why does he come to see me on a bicycle? 533 00:31:38,095 --> 00:31:39,429 Perhaps he needs the exercise. 534 00:31:41,198 --> 00:31:42,965 No. 535 00:31:43,033 --> 00:31:44,634 He has a secret. 536 00:31:46,870 --> 00:31:48,238 Have you a secret, 537 00:31:48,305 --> 00:31:49,805 Alexandra? 538 00:31:49,873 --> 00:31:52,475 My secret is called Tatiana. 539 00:31:54,144 --> 00:31:56,846 That's a good name-- Tatiana. 540 00:31:56,913 --> 00:31:59,982 How did you come by that? 541 00:32:00,050 --> 00:32:03,219 Oh, it's forbidden to talk about it. 542 00:32:03,287 --> 00:32:06,522 If you talk about it, nobody will believe you, 543 00:32:06,590 --> 00:32:08,625 but they put you in a clinic. 544 00:32:08,692 --> 00:32:11,261 But you are in a clinic already. 545 00:32:11,328 --> 00:32:13,630 ( laughs quietly ) 546 00:32:13,697 --> 00:32:17,600 I appreciate your kindness, Herr Lachmann, 547 00:32:17,668 --> 00:32:20,637 but I know that you are an extremely dangerous man. 548 00:32:22,072 --> 00:32:26,576 More dangerous than teachers or police. 549 00:32:26,644 --> 00:32:27,777 Mother Felicity 550 00:32:27,844 --> 00:32:31,581 is too close to God. 551 00:32:31,649 --> 00:32:34,116 She doesn't know that God is somebody 552 00:32:34,184 --> 00:32:37,186 who has to be ridden and kicked like a horse 553 00:32:37,254 --> 00:32:39,889 until he takes you in the right direction. 554 00:32:41,892 --> 00:32:45,695 But you, Herr Lachmann, 555 00:32:45,763 --> 00:32:49,599 you represent the forgiveness of the authorities. 556 00:32:49,667 --> 00:32:51,401 Yes, I am afraid you do. 557 00:32:56,807 --> 00:32:58,374 Are you God? 558 00:32:58,442 --> 00:33:00,510 No. 559 00:33:00,577 --> 00:33:02,745 I am just an ordinary person. 560 00:33:04,715 --> 00:33:06,215 Mother Felicity says 561 00:33:06,283 --> 00:33:10,019 that in every ordinary person, there is a part that is God. 562 00:33:10,086 --> 00:33:11,921 I have heard it said, too. 563 00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:18,461 You are supposed to ask me 564 00:33:18,529 --> 00:33:20,463 whether I have been feeling better. 565 00:33:20,531 --> 00:33:22,532 Are you feeling better, Alexandra? 566 00:33:24,267 --> 00:33:26,235 My name is Tatiana. 567 00:33:26,303 --> 00:33:29,138 Then how does Tatiana feel? 568 00:33:31,375 --> 00:33:36,479 Tatiana is the daughter of a man who is too important to exist. 569 00:33:36,547 --> 00:33:39,816 He controls the whole of Russia, but he does not exist. 570 00:33:41,785 --> 00:33:44,620 When people arrest Tatiana, 571 00:33:44,688 --> 00:33:47,724 her father arranges for her to be freed. 572 00:33:49,125 --> 00:33:53,863 He does not exist, but everyone is afraid of him. 573 00:33:53,930 --> 00:33:56,466 Tatiana does not exist either. 574 00:33:56,533 --> 00:33:59,969 What about Tatiana's mother? 575 00:34:01,805 --> 00:34:05,107 She was punished. 576 00:34:05,175 --> 00:34:08,310 That is to say, she was not obedient to history. 577 00:34:10,614 --> 00:34:13,549 She was mistaken. 578 00:34:13,617 --> 00:34:17,887 People should not attempt to change history. 579 00:34:17,954 --> 00:34:23,359 It is the task of history to change people. 580 00:34:23,427 --> 00:34:25,661 Did Tatiana ever meet her father? 581 00:34:28,365 --> 00:34:32,167 A man used to watch the children walk to school. 582 00:34:32,235 --> 00:34:34,036 And then? 583 00:34:34,104 --> 00:34:35,872 From a car. 584 00:34:35,939 --> 00:34:39,475 He would lower the window, but he looked only at me. 585 00:34:40,878 --> 00:34:43,513 And did you look at him? 586 00:34:43,580 --> 00:34:44,914 Of course. 587 00:34:44,981 --> 00:34:47,149 How else would I know that he was looking at me? 588 00:34:50,053 --> 00:34:52,955 What was his manner? 589 00:34:53,023 --> 00:34:54,690 Did he smile? 590 00:34:54,758 --> 00:34:55,758 ( buzzer sounds ) 591 00:34:55,826 --> 00:34:57,326 He smoked. 592 00:34:57,394 --> 00:34:59,762 Feel free, if you wish. 593 00:34:59,830 --> 00:35:03,966 Mother Felicity likes a cigarette sometimes. 594 00:35:04,034 --> 00:35:07,169 Well, it's only natural, isn't it? 595 00:35:07,237 --> 00:35:10,540 Smoking calms the conscience, so I am told. 596 00:35:13,176 --> 00:35:15,478 I would like to come with you in your car. 597 00:35:18,048 --> 00:35:20,683 I require your gentleness. 598 00:35:21,819 --> 00:35:23,419 I love you. 599 00:35:23,487 --> 00:35:25,087 ( door opens ) 600 00:35:57,821 --> 00:35:59,088 Thank you, Herr Professor. 601 00:36:07,130 --> 00:36:08,230 ( scolding ): Sasha. 602 00:36:08,298 --> 00:36:10,099 ( sobbing ) 603 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,788 SISTER BEATITUDE: Alexandra! 604 00:36:32,856 --> 00:36:35,057 Come back! 605 00:36:35,125 --> 00:36:36,759 Sister Agnes! 606 00:36:36,827 --> 00:36:39,194 Help us, please! 607 00:36:51,742 --> 00:36:52,742 Go in! 608 00:36:58,415 --> 00:36:59,481 ( door closes ) 609 00:37:46,863 --> 00:37:50,833 SMILEY: The young woman known as Alexandra Borisovna Ostrakova 610 00:37:50,901 --> 00:37:52,401 is your daughter. 611 00:37:52,469 --> 00:37:55,705 You arranged for her illegal departure from Russia 612 00:37:55,772 --> 00:37:58,207 by pretending she was a secret agent 613 00:37:58,274 --> 00:38:00,309 of the Thirteenth Directorate. 614 00:38:00,376 --> 00:38:01,744 You stole public money 615 00:38:01,812 --> 00:38:04,446 and misused the resources of your service. 616 00:38:24,534 --> 00:38:26,201 You caused the murders of two men, 617 00:38:26,269 --> 00:38:29,538 the first in England and the second in West Germany. 618 00:38:29,606 --> 00:38:33,009 I do not ask what you did to the wretched Oleg Kirov. 619 00:38:33,076 --> 00:38:36,879 Any one of these offenses would be enough to ensure your death 620 00:38:36,947 --> 00:38:39,749 at the hands of your rivals in the Collegium. 621 00:38:39,816 --> 00:38:41,517 There is also the open question 622 00:38:41,584 --> 00:38:44,020 of what may be done with your daughter here, 623 00:38:44,087 --> 00:38:47,289 now that her true identity is known. 624 00:38:47,357 --> 00:38:50,492 It is possible that she is curable, I am told, 625 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,295 with the right treatment, here in the West. 626 00:38:53,363 --> 00:38:55,998 In the East it's different, as you know. 627 00:38:56,066 --> 00:38:57,533 But what will happen 628 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,703 once she is deprived of money and proper papers? 629 00:39:00,771 --> 00:39:03,272 She will become a perpetual and ailing exile, 630 00:39:03,339 --> 00:39:06,676 ferried from one public hospital to another. 631 00:39:06,743 --> 00:39:11,346 I do not need to imagine her solitude, or yours. 632 00:39:11,414 --> 00:39:13,448 I have seen her. 633 00:39:20,123 --> 00:39:23,859 When we met in Delhi, I urged you to come to the West. 634 00:39:23,927 --> 00:39:27,462 I promised you, within reason, a decent life. 635 00:39:27,530 --> 00:39:29,565 If you do that now, 636 00:39:29,632 --> 00:39:31,801 if you cooperate in your interrogation, 637 00:39:31,868 --> 00:39:34,203 you will be resettled in the usual way 638 00:39:34,270 --> 00:39:37,707 and your daughter's future in the West will be secure. 639 00:39:55,391 --> 00:39:56,792 By your actions, 640 00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:59,328 you have disowned the system that made you. 641 00:39:59,396 --> 00:40:02,164 You have placed love above duty. 642 00:40:05,702 --> 00:40:08,404 The ground on which you once stood is cut away. 643 00:40:08,472 --> 00:40:11,774 You have become a citizen of no-man's-land. 644 00:40:11,842 --> 00:40:14,877 I send you my greetings. 645 00:41:12,569 --> 00:41:13,870 Maybe he'll just... 646 00:41:13,937 --> 00:41:16,071 He won't. He can't. 647 00:41:16,139 --> 00:41:17,573 Sure. 648 00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:19,008 When you give it to Grigoriev, 649 00:41:19,075 --> 00:41:20,877 tell him to put it in another envelope 650 00:41:20,944 --> 00:41:23,178 before handing it over to the courier Krassky. 651 00:41:23,246 --> 00:41:25,581 Make it look like the usual weekly report. 652 00:41:25,649 --> 00:41:27,783 He's already got it prepared. 653 00:41:27,851 --> 00:41:29,218 George... 654 00:41:30,487 --> 00:41:32,588 There's nothing more to say. 655 00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:37,760 ESTERHASE: Okay, boys. 656 00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:39,261 Mr. Smiley has a few days to kill, 657 00:41:39,329 --> 00:41:41,096 but he doesn't want to go back to London. 658 00:41:41,164 --> 00:41:42,331 So take care of him, eh? 659 00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:43,633 Don't get in his way, 660 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:46,235 but make sure he doesn't slip in the snow. 661 00:41:46,302 --> 00:41:47,302 Right? 662 00:41:49,506 --> 00:41:50,773 See you, George. 663 00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:52,341 See you, too, Toby. 664 00:42:01,585 --> 00:42:04,787 ( phone ringing ) 665 00:42:05,923 --> 00:42:07,023 Ja? 666 00:42:07,090 --> 00:42:08,323 OPERATOR: Telefon aus England. 667 00:42:08,391 --> 00:42:09,458 Von wem? 668 00:42:09,526 --> 00:42:10,292 OPERATOR: Fur Mr. Standfast. 669 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,494 In Ordnung. 670 00:42:14,531 --> 00:42:15,932 Standfast speaking. 671 00:42:15,999 --> 00:42:17,099 MAN: Berlin, sir, next Thursday. 672 00:42:17,167 --> 00:42:18,634 I see. 673 00:42:18,702 --> 00:42:20,603 And where will the package be delivered? 674 00:42:20,671 --> 00:42:21,704 MAN: Oberbaumbrucke. 675 00:42:21,772 --> 00:42:23,072 Ah, yes. 676 00:42:23,139 --> 00:42:24,774 Well, that's where he would choose, I suppose. 677 00:42:24,841 --> 00:42:25,808 MAN: It's the safest. 678 00:42:25,876 --> 00:42:27,409 Yes, it's natural. 679 00:42:27,477 --> 00:42:28,410 MAN: Good luck, sir. 680 00:42:28,478 --> 00:42:29,946 Thank you. 681 00:42:34,751 --> 00:42:36,852 Berlin. 682 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,754 Thursday night. 683 00:42:38,822 --> 00:42:40,255 It's on. 684 00:42:41,391 --> 00:42:42,424 ( exhales ) 685 00:43:14,557 --> 00:43:22,331 ( man yelling in German in distance ) 686 00:43:27,904 --> 00:43:30,206 ( man continues yelling ) 687 00:44:39,976 --> 00:44:46,081 ( recorded Turkish music playing ) 688 00:44:48,285 --> 00:44:51,420 What cover will he use? 689 00:44:51,487 --> 00:44:54,290 Something humble, something that fits in. 690 00:44:56,126 --> 00:45:00,196 Those that pass here are mostly old-age pensioners, I gather. 691 00:45:03,499 --> 00:45:05,801 What on earth do old-age pensioners want here? 692 00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:11,340 Some visit dependents, some work. 693 00:45:11,407 --> 00:45:15,510 I didn't inquire very closely, I'm afraid. 694 00:45:15,578 --> 00:45:19,248 We pensioners tend to keep ourselves to ourselves. 695 00:45:30,126 --> 00:45:35,998 ( humming tune softly ) 696 00:45:54,750 --> 00:45:56,018 George. 697 00:45:57,020 --> 00:45:59,955 If he comes, he'll come on time. 698 00:46:00,023 --> 00:46:01,756 Then why did we get here two hours early? 699 00:46:01,824 --> 00:46:03,525 We owe it to him. 700 00:46:03,593 --> 00:46:05,794 Nobody else is on his side. 701 00:46:10,566 --> 00:46:11,933 More coffee, George? 702 00:46:12,002 --> 00:46:14,203 No, thank you, Peter. 703 00:46:14,270 --> 00:46:15,504 No, I... 704 00:46:15,571 --> 00:46:18,173 don't think so. 705 00:46:18,241 --> 00:46:20,109 No, no more coffee. 706 00:46:20,176 --> 00:46:21,243 ( bicycle bell rings ) 707 00:46:52,275 --> 00:46:53,708 It's only a possibility, George. 708 00:46:53,776 --> 00:46:55,010 Don't get excited, okay? 709 00:46:55,078 --> 00:46:57,446 Just a slim chance, that's all I'm saying. 710 00:46:57,514 --> 00:46:59,281 George, listen. 711 00:46:59,349 --> 00:47:01,216 Good luck, eh? 712 00:47:01,284 --> 00:47:03,385 But keep calm-- be like Karla. 713 00:47:03,453 --> 00:47:05,020 Remember? 714 00:47:14,697 --> 00:47:17,533 ( men yelling in German in distance ) 715 00:47:19,436 --> 00:47:20,869 Eh? 716 00:47:20,937 --> 00:47:25,207 ( men yelling in distance ) 717 00:47:49,832 --> 00:47:51,233 George, quick. 718 00:48:06,282 --> 00:48:08,250 Yeah, we're hoping that the package 719 00:48:08,318 --> 00:48:10,185 will be along very shortly, sir. 720 00:48:10,253 --> 00:48:13,655 The van has left the warehouse and we can actually see it 721 00:48:13,723 --> 00:48:15,857 heading towards the firm's premises. 722 00:48:15,925 --> 00:48:18,293 I would say that in about 30 seconds' time, 723 00:48:18,361 --> 00:48:19,661 we should be sending you 724 00:48:19,729 --> 00:48:22,197 a telegram of profound congratulation, sir. 725 00:48:27,036 --> 00:48:29,505 GUILLAM: Oh, George... 726 00:48:29,572 --> 00:48:31,373 You genius. 727 00:48:31,441 --> 00:48:34,042 You angel. 728 00:48:34,110 --> 00:48:35,043 How far? 729 00:48:35,111 --> 00:48:37,179 50 yards and closing. 730 00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:38,280 He limps-- did you know that? 731 00:48:38,348 --> 00:48:40,415 He trails the left foot. 732 00:48:40,483 --> 00:48:42,751 He must have had a stroke. 733 00:48:42,818 --> 00:48:43,985 He's carrying something. 734 00:48:44,053 --> 00:48:45,020 A knapsack. 735 00:48:45,087 --> 00:48:47,689 30 yards. 736 00:48:47,757 --> 00:48:49,525 Lord, he's cool. 737 00:48:50,993 --> 00:48:54,829 ( man yells in distance ) 738 00:48:54,897 --> 00:48:55,930 GUILLAM ( whispers ): No. 739 00:48:55,998 --> 00:48:58,233 No, keep moving. 740 00:48:58,301 --> 00:48:59,834 Move, come on. Shift. 741 00:48:59,902 --> 00:49:03,672 ( men yelling in German in distance ) 742 00:49:14,584 --> 00:49:16,051 GUILLAM: Come on. 743 00:49:16,118 --> 00:49:17,786 Shift. 744 00:49:17,853 --> 00:49:19,388 Come to Uncle. 745 00:49:31,634 --> 00:49:33,868 ( whispers ): That's it. 746 00:49:33,936 --> 00:49:35,003 That's it. 747 00:49:35,071 --> 00:49:37,072 Oh, my dear God. 748 00:49:37,139 --> 00:49:39,174 That's my baby. 749 00:49:39,242 --> 00:49:40,742 Nice and easy. 750 00:49:40,810 --> 00:49:43,945 ( slowly ): Take it easy. 751 00:49:55,491 --> 00:49:58,360 ( men yelling in German in distance ) 752 00:50:07,903 --> 00:50:10,539 ( people running ) 753 00:50:11,974 --> 00:50:13,642 Get back. 754 00:50:13,710 --> 00:50:16,077 Back to your posts, damn you. 755 00:50:29,792 --> 00:50:31,526 ( man laughs ) 756 00:50:31,594 --> 00:50:33,629 George. 757 00:50:33,696 --> 00:50:34,929 You've got to look. 758 00:51:22,578 --> 00:51:23,945 ESTERHASE: George, all your life! 759 00:51:24,013 --> 00:51:25,380 Fantastic! 760 00:51:26,749 --> 00:51:27,783 Take care, George. 761 00:51:29,151 --> 00:51:31,219 Go well, you hear me? 762 00:51:40,262 --> 00:51:46,768 ( cars driving off ) 763 00:52:10,893 --> 00:52:12,260 Come on, old friend. 764 00:52:12,328 --> 00:52:13,962 It's bedtime. 765 00:52:15,398 --> 00:52:16,398 George... 766 00:52:16,466 --> 00:52:18,600 You won. 767 00:52:21,637 --> 00:52:22,704 Did I? 768 00:52:24,841 --> 00:52:27,542 Yes. 769 00:52:27,610 --> 00:52:29,745 Yes, I suppose I did. 770 00:52:45,895 --> 00:52:49,898 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org