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This is something very special.

I could of course remind you that we could hand you over at any time to...

any of a dozen western police and intelligence agencies.

If

I

may.

You've enough calories on your payroll.

It must have nothing to do with us, nothing.

You'd be on your own, utterly alone, no support.

This could have been your finest moment.

Most murders are only crimes, some are history.

You have just said no to history.

These are political matters.

Think of yourself as the bomb in the cargo hold. Don't try to understand the

reasons you've been placed there.

You have three days until he arrives.

We'll be right back.

about Mac now

Your people are leaving the embassy.

Hey,

you okay, Mac?

He's just a drunk. Leave him alone.

Hey, listen to this.

One of our people in D Station has just had some information passed to him from

an informer.

He claims to be a leg man for a top honcho in state security.

Bodyguard, salaried muscle.

So what's he trying to sell?

Nothing big.

Just that the honcho's looking to knock off the Soviet general secretary.

Another one of those, huh? What's that, the fifth this month?

This one looks more solid than most.

He says the honcho's meeting with someone he recognizes from a spell he

did in the Middle East.

An Irish Republican army guy who did contract work all over.

Specializing in political assassination.

It smells like it's going to ruin my weekend.

The British are still looking for him for the Brighton Hotel bombing when they

nearly got Thatcher.

So what does the local station make of it?

They don't want to be inside a mile of it. Could be a setup, provocation.

So.

We just stick it in the no action file?

They take the shit if it turns out to be Dallas on the Danube. I got a boy that

wants to go to medical school and the wife that's in the horses. I need this

job.

We'll go private on this.

You're saying there's positive risk.

This guy's got to be able to handle that. Yeah, but mainly he's got to be

good. Good.

I'll go you one better.

I'll give you somebody career.

Career enough not to ask questions, okay?

He goes in, checks the guy, sees what the deal is, and gets the hell out.

Plus, if anything blows up, he stays denial.

We're looking for a bag man, not a white knight.

Guy I'm thinking of will play it any way you want it.

He needs a break so bad he'll do it for $39.95 and pay for his own round trip.

Well, no, I just need a little bit, maybe $10,000.

And if we could delay the payment for another month, I'll work my way out of

this.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Nobody... I'm not... I'm not to blame for that.

Nobody anticipated that zoning shit or that sewage problem.

Listen, goddammit, are you trying to put me out of business? This is a big

project.

This is a copy of the note that the guy passed to us. His name is Vlasic. We

haven't got anything on him, and he won't tell us who his boss is.

If the Soviet deaths us, whoever it is, he's got to have high-level contacts

with hard-line factions within the KGB.

But from what little he did give us, there's a preliminary identification of

the SS.

Planting.

You hit him so hard you busted your belt buckle.

Yeah, we run down to Strasser, six dozen Vopo chasing after us.

And you're holding up your pants with one hand.

They want you to go back in, Bell.

Run the rule on this guy.

See if we ought to let him in.

Who is he?

Just the leg, man.

What you selling?

Orders of battle.

Changes of personnel and KGB.

Oh, and, uh, they want you to ID this, uh, new player.

Usual.

I retired, remember?

Hey, I don't work for him myself anymore.

Yeah, but you run errands.

I keep in touch.

Ah, what the hell? I got a business to look after.

You were class spook, Bill.

The best I ever ran.

You could do this thing standing on your head. It's low-grade, zero risk,

checking out a potential asset.

That's all.

How you gonna make the payment to the bank this month?

You son of a bitch.

They say nobody loses money in real estate.

All we want you to do is go in, check this guy out, come out in 48 hours, and

we'll fix you up. Take care of everything you owe, set you up in

consultancy.

How'd you like to fly a desk three days a week like I do and spend the rest of

the time goofing off working on your backswing?

The one on staff you can use?

Deniability, Bill.

That's what we're after.

Anywhere east, we're walking on eggshells these days.

Everything's changing. Soviets are the good guys now.

If we send somebody a tributable in, then the operation gets blown.

PR disaster, Bill.

Now we're the black hats.

Now Uncle Sam's trying to heat up the Cold War again, making trouble in Ivan's

backyard.

So, what do you say?

Don't fight it, Bill.

You're no businessman. Your career's spook. Half hitman, half believer.

I know that if there's one spot on earth that you'd rather not draw a free ticket

to, this is it.

Because of all your personal problems over there. Take your hand off my

shoulder.

Bill. Take your goddamn hand off my shoulder.

Don't lose any sleep over my personal shit and tell a home office not to worry

about it either I need this job and the money Too bad to blow this

State

confirms Red King will personally be leading a delegation at the end of this

week trying to keep the reform movement from stalling kicking leadership's ass

in private and fraternal bear hunts in public.

Photo opportunity.

Meet and greet the people.

Press the flesh.

That's his style.

You'd think he was ready for mayor of Chicago.

This guy's running for his life.

If he don't pull this off, he don't get to play golf with Bob Hope in

retirement.

Starting to firm up.

Moving from the speculative to the interesting.

To the scary as hell.

Why don't you take us upstairs?

This stoner guy, can he stay off the booze?

He's dry.

Hasn't had a drop in six years.

He knows nothing about this. He thinks it's strictly low-level and routine.

100%. Doesn't know a thing.

Let's keep it that way.

Last thing we want is for him to get scared back on the booze again, right?

McMurray, Canadian, vacation.

Thank you.

I want a new identity.

Passport, social security number, all my papers.

And a place to live. These are the minimum conditions.

Remember the life pass to Disneyland, too.

Why don't you just cross the border? It's open now.

To a security policeman on the run?

Whose two comrades have already been killed? Who has to hide out in his

sister's old apartment?

Oh, hey, look, I know you want out of here, pal, but please don't put too many

peppers in the chili, huh?

These things don't happen here, not according to my information.

American.

When you live so near to Russia, there are only two seasons, winter and spring.

This is now a little spring, but it will not last much longer.

This is my chance to escape before the winter comes again.

A winter that will last for the rest of my lifetime.

And theirs.

Tell your people to hurry.

It is already too late to stop them, maybe.

Morning, sir. Good morning, Doug.

Where to, Mr. Bendy?

Take me across the bridge. I have to see the government boys.

You know, it's an interesting thing, Doug.

Every four years in this country, we have an election.

Get a new administration, new president, new Congress.

But the government boys go on and on, feeding them the same information.

If you want to get anything done, you see the government, boys. It doesn't

make a damn who's president.

Wonderful thing, democracy.

This is McMurray. Your guy looks like the real thing.

He's worked the Mid-East, Latin America, Washington.

Whatever he's selling, I suggest you buy.

The KGB's trying to kill the General Secretary?

That'd be like us trying to knock off the President.

Out of stone and red.

Straight A's director until his wife died.

Career grade, self-starter.

Marked especially high in initiative.

Real front and center kind of guy.

Do you want us to call him off? Get the local station onto it? No.

Stone is the asset in place, and if this thing really is what it's beginning to

look like, then we have some policy matters to consider.

We have a contingency plan should anyone in the Soviet military or secret police

decide to get rid of the general secretary by illicit means Update the

political policy aspects quickly and quietly

Jim? Hi.

Oh, busy, you know.

Well, Margie and I try to get down to the farm every couple of weeks.

Well, you must try and drop by sometime.

Uh, Jim, um, perhaps you've got some time for me in your busy life.

I don't want to see you as a senator.

I'd like to talk to you strictly off the record.

Well, the situation is still developing, but unless somebody screws up in the

next 36 hours, the president will be able to go to the Soviets with it.

Now, the policy question is, does he do that?

Your briefing of the president will have to outline the consequences of not

making that call.

Of, in effect, not interfering in the internal affairs of another sovereign

state.

Haven't we been waiting for this guy for the last 40, 50 years?

Someone with the real guts to turn the system around.

And make it look respectable. Is that what you want?

You want business as usual, hmm? They've had their asses kicked out of

Afghanistan. The Arabs don't want to know them.

Africa just wants the foreign aid.

Europe has gone to the right. Even China has adapted a market economy.

Exactly. We have them on the run.

Now... Isn't he helping that?

He has no choice except to present it as reform.

Hell, we don't want reform. We want smash.

I'm an old man.

I know the misery and madness that godless system brought this century.

It looks to me like we could bury the idea of state socialism by the year

2000.

Bury it.

Put it in the history books and move on.

It'd be a damn shame if we got it wrong and ended up saving the one man who

looks like giving it the kiss of life.

Everything you ask for, you go to business class, have a nice trip.

You are flying out with me. That was agreed.

I'm not crossing any line with this.

That's my proof, my evidence.

I have written it all down in case anything happens to me.

It'll get there. Keep it in your pants.

I have to trust you.

You have to trust me, and I have to trust you.

Send photographs to border police, special units, immigration controls,

airport security.

Quickly.

Please.

What are you doing here?

It's a restricted area.

Attention please.

Flight 286 to Amsterdam is now boarding on date 18.

Will all passengers please proceed to date 18 immediately.

Attention, please.

Flight number 286 to Amsterdam.

Immediately boarding at gate number 18.

All passengers are allowed to leave.

Your warning card, sir.

Vasek.

How nice.

Flight 286.

Your lucky number.

Shoot him.

Shoot him.

Get me entry visa forms as everyone who has flown into the country in the last

two or three days and is still here.

What's the panic? We just got a flash of a shooting incident at the airport

there. The timing is dead on the nose for the flight to Amsterdam that Stoner

and the goods were booked on.

I want these visas checked even if it takes all night.

Exclude those in family parties, anyone from the East.

Bring any visas that have been issued very recently that do not check against

the hotel registration or worry you for any reason.

Do you understand?

I have cold soup and salad and goose I can cook with garlic.

I always promised to make you that, didn't I?

You're here because you want me to help you, of course.

What is it, a mail drop or a trapdoor?

Yes, for tonight, just the one night.

And then you will go and I won't see you again for another ten years, except we

do not have so many ten years left, you and I.

You may not want me here for even one night.

I seem to have walked into something bigger than I was warned.

I know I'm going to be dumb enough to open this and find out.

I'd be scared even worse.

I've never worn this dress.

I wasn't even sure you got it.

But I think I might wear it tonight.

And sit across the table from you and look at you and see what has happened to

you.

Since we were lovers.

The flight just got in. Stoner and the goods weren't on it.

Can we get Stoner out, assuming he's alive, and made the swap?

We have to find him first.

He isn't going to go back to the embassy, and we have no communications

back up with him.

Bentik thinks that he'll be smart enough to hold up tonight.

And he'll ship out tomorrow.

Let's hope it isn't a Boris whole-upping.

I work at the university bookstore three days a week.

One of those party hacks took my job.

Do you make enough to live on it?

Well, you know the old joke. They pretend to pay us and we pretend to

work.

But I have a little secret class.

Some students would like a history that doesn't change every month.

After I got home, I guess I filled a hot tub with booze, climbed in, and

stayed there.

The agency put me in an alcoholic's program, dried me out, and retired me.

I decided to make some money. Screw them.

Everybody knows you can't lose money in real estate. That's a fact known even in

Eastern Europe.

I've used you before.

I got you to do those things that...

I'm dying sitting here with

you like this.

I look at you and I see a person I had the best thing with ever.

I also see my wife, who maybe killed herself because of what you and I had.

I hurt whenever I get near you, even if it's only in my mind.

And that's how it's been these last ten goddamn awful years.

Yes.

And I paid my price, too.

Life imprisonment. Only I got lucky. I got out in 18 months.

But you know, every night for 10 years, I thought about putting on this dress

you gave me.

And of you taking it off again.

This dress you sent me instead of saying goodbye.

Make love to me, Bill.

And how do you feel that the changes the General Secretary is making will affect

U.S. policy?

Well, there are some things about their system we've never liked.

But, um...

We've pretty much had stability in Europe now for about 40 years. And now

that somebody comes along and starts shaking the tree, but it seems to me

nobody can tell where the apples are going to fall.

Look, in his own way, the man's a revolutionary, too.

Revolution goes with chaos.

Out of chaos, you get war.

Believe it or not, we soldiers hate war more than anybody. We know what it's

like. We're always the first to get asked in, and we're the last to leave.

What is it?

If I'm to be of any use to you, I have to know what it is.

What? To life.

I regret troubling you with this, Al, but you may be able to help me.

So why him?

For the same reason I was selected, deniability, in case anything goes

wrong.

Only he was given a better deal than I was. At least he knows what he's into.

I mean, what are we talking here?

A bunch of pissed-off guys worried about their...

free lunches and careers and so that's kind of bastard son of a bitch well you

should understand that more than anybody i mean you made a good enough living out

of suspicion and mistrust the cold war did you well do you think the bill

stoners on our side are going to easily give up their cars and their places in

their country and their special stores i mean one way or another one person in 15

works for the security here they like I'm not being players as much as you do.

I'm not playing now.

Then why are you here?

All right.

Give me to a phone that doesn't have a policeman's ear attached to it, and this

bag man will be out here tomorrow.

It's him.

Yeah. What the hell's Stoner calling himself?

McMurray.

McMurray? I wish you were here, pal.

I miss you, and I'd like to take that pointy corporate head of yours and shove

it up that big fat corporate ass.

Look, it's very important that we know what's in those samples. We've got to

know what we've bought.

We want you to take a look. If you haven't already done it, do it. Did

that.

It's everything you wake up screaming about at 3 o'clock in the morning. I

would suggest you get on the telephone, make some phone calls, long distance,

international, high level. You got that?

Get him back.

This is hands-off now.

Besides, he's still deniable. If we start fooling around, we'll have our

fingerprints all over him. Bring him back, you son of a bitch. Nobody's

expendable on my watch.

All right, we'll arrange a ticket for you at the airport.

Now, I'll arrange it. I want two tickets. I don't trust you after that

last fiasco.

Is there any way that you can get the stuff out and stay in place for a couple

of days? That place is standing over a deep fryer with my balls in hot oil. I

kind of don't think so.

Is that you, Mickey?

There's no Mickey here, lady. Get off the line. What the hell was that?

Bill!

Bill, can you hear me? I hear you. Speak up.

Ask him about Bassick's boss. Who is he working for?

Mickey, have you received the results of your test yet? We're losing him.

Bill! Bill, we've got to have a name.

Who is your friend's honcho? I can't hear you. You're fading out.

Speaker you there what the hell's wrong with these phones?

We lost him it's for you

Stoner.

Could you find him?

Possibly.

Thank you.

They use the student unrest as an excuse to close down the university for an

extra month. But you know, really, it's to save money.

The whole system's breaking down.

You can't believe how bad it's got, Bill. Come back with me.

This time tomorrow you could be eating cheesecake-flavored frozen yogurt.

Looking at soft porn. Real soft porn.

Technicolor.

Colorized any way you want it.

Cheesecake-flavored frozen yogurt? Yogurt.

You'll have more of a chance at the border. You look less like a black

marketeer. How do I look?

Gorgeous.

Completely invisible.

Twenty-seven television shows.

Yes, all showing the same game show. And no three-year waiting list to buy a new

car. No, but then you sit in a traffic jam all day, and if you get in someone's

way, they shoot you.

That's true.

You've got drug dealers, serial killers. Big deal, big deal.

We've got a few people doing things like that for us.

And muggers and rapists. Everywhere.

And we've got the best medical treatment in the world. That's how we look after

people in America.

That sounds wonderful.

When do we leave?

Zass. Somebody came to me with a photograph. I remember the face, yes.

I asked myself where this man would go if he was in trouble.

This reactivated American intelligence agent.

He would go to the woman who worked for him before.

She would help him.

That is forbidden.

Now, please.

I want to be home now, working in my vegetable garden. I'm retired.

Any other papers?

This would perhaps stop them from tearing the apartment down.

There was a photograph.

You boys better run for cover. I copied Washington three hours ago on it. No,

please, no details.

I have three rows of beans to see to before dark.

You should have slammed the door in my ugly face.

Then I would never have got to wear that beautiful dress.

What was this photograph?

The face of the man you sent to kill the soviet general secretary

I knew nothing about this.

You were not told?

I'm retired.

So am I.

So our conclusion is the report is probably real and that the Soviets

should be alerted.

So I guess that's it, huh?

Not quite.

We have a policy lock.

Policy lock?

Every aspect of this thing must be considered before any action is taken.

So in the meantime, shut everything down and lock it away.

Didn't you know somehow that it would come to this?

Inside us, don't you know how the story ends?

The wicked nobles kill the good Tsar.

Oh, yes, I know that story.

Do you think expecting it to happen somehow makes it happen?

Perhaps. It's going to happen because this guy T'Layev wants it to happen.

No, Bill.

You're different from us. You're from the West. You believe in progress.

We believe in history.

And to you, history is a ladder.

To us, it's a wheel.

And it turns again.

And again, they are plotting to take the good soul from us.

It's almost how I would have planned it myself.

Textbook, huh?

And there are many who would welcome it.

You will stay here while I decide what to do with you and to life.

I was good at what I did and proud of what I did.

We worked very hard.

We did what we had to.

Sometimes terrible things had to be done for the party, the revolution, the

people.

You don't believe that good men sometimes have to do evil things for the

greater good, no?

You believe in this.

Do you understand what it is like to have the reformers tell you there was no

greater good?

That history has to be rewritten.

That the people are waking from a nightmare.

And you have been part of what caused that nightmare.

The privileges were thefts. You weren't crying.

You're now the opposition.

You don't know how bad that word sounds to us.

You know what happens through the opposition here?

You don't negotiate, deal, share.

You do what the sailors did to the officer cadets in the October

Revolution. You hunt them down one day.

and crush their skulls under the lid of the grand piano in the imperial

ballroom.

The Tulaeans are afraid that will happen to them, so they are moving first.

Think if you had been a religious person, a believer, and the church

suddenly turned around after a lifetime of your belief and said it had been a

hoax. There is no God. All the scriptures are forgerous. You understand

this?

When I had to do those terrible things, things which went against my conscience,

I could close my eyes, tell myself there was a greater good.

This was for my children, my grandchildren.

But now this man, this one man tells me we have to start again.

The priests lied.

There never was a God.

You understand? The anger.

Why, to lie if the others want to kill the man.

Who now speaks the latest version of the truth.

They have to be stopped. You must know that.

I don't know.

Why? Just because he's had one reasonable thought after a lifetime in

the gulag? I don't give a shit either way, as long as we hit the border in one

piece.

What is it?

It was never cleared out.

They never closed the file.

Nobody ever signed off, least of all me, on what exactly happened in that hotel

room.

It was most likely suicide, yeah.

I remember she was the wife of an intelligence officer who was starting to

string together a few results recruiting assets that would pay off and...

20, 30 years when it got top jobs.

So they killed her.

What better way to break a man than that?

And if that's how it was, guess who was the point man on the murder?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have to decide what our recommendations to the

president will be with regard to the threat to Red King.

Well, the point is not whether we approve or disapprove of what the

General Secretary is trying to achieve, even supposing that that is any part of

our business.

But the growing instability, as you might say, the empire begins to crack,

is a problem for every other power grouping, too.

Well, here's a part of the world where you have six million soldiers and airmen

armed with 10,000 nuclear weapons nose to nose.

On balance, a prudent council...

might suggest we should have more investment in a less dangerously rushed

reform process.

Taking note, our best advice is that there is no guarantee that Red King can

succeed anyway.

I don't want Zaz.

I don't want any of them.

I just want you, Bill, now.

They

have

trouble in the cities with rising demands for consumer goods. The system

just can't meet.

Trouble in the country as he struggles to undo the biggest man-made disaster

this century, Soviet agriculture.

Trouble with the minorities, racial and religious, with some estimates going as

high as 50% of the population being Muslim by the year 2000.

And with our figures showing 18 million hardline conservatives in the Soviet

Union, there will be trouble with the armed forces and the security apparatus.

They see their power base is threatened.

He has troubled the Warsaw Pact allies, who either want to go further, faster,

or want the whole reform movement killed, because they're getting

pressured too.

The U.S. has failed to meet the Japanese, South Korean, Pacific Rim

economic challenges, and now we're facing the United States of Europe in

the 1990s.

If the Soviet economy turns around, we'll be in real trouble, with every

trade indicator.

Anyone around this table really want to encourage another low-cost, high-volume

competitor? Now, who would buy a Russian VCR machine?

If it comes in at $80, you'd be surprised.

Breakfast Stepkin 9x18 double-action pistol

I'm not going with you, Bill.

Sure you are.

It has been calculated that if the stated policy of the Chinese government

to put a refrigerator into every Chinese home by the year 2000 succeeds, that

this alone will destroy what is left of the ozone layer.

I've found a genuine concern that if a country physically as large as the

Soviet Union became a fully-fledged consumer society... The environmental

and pollution costs would break the back of any attempt to put things right

worldwide. Acid rain?

Millions of tons more lead from gasoline?

All those things. Plus increasing competition for the natural resources

we're already running short of.

Forget Europe and their politics.

They've been squabbling amongst themselves for centuries. They've been

murdering their own leaders and everybody else's.

My father died in Normandy in 1944.

My son is a tank commander in the Rhine Army.

I don't want him coming home in a box from Europe, too.

I'll go to security headquarters and try to find out if Washington has called.

Then I'll take you to the border.

Anyone else wish to speak?

This isn't just another Shah of Iran or a Marcos.

We're not talking about just another throwaway politico.

We have to consider the man himself.

Is part of your report?

If it is, we'll consider it now before we vote.

No, it's not part of my report, but somebody has to say it.

Please place your recommendations in the envelopes provided and leave all the

briefing notes and files in the room.

Thank you.

You take just him to the border. I'm staying here.

We get out now, today.

I'm not getting out at all.

Look sooner or later summit is gonna nail the guy and it's gonna be winner

again all across Eastern Europe The good guys got to be lucky all the time the

bad guys just once I Stay

No prizes for guessing what's in these. These are not personal opinions, Victor.

They are the considerations of professional specialists from all the

relevant departments.

They're going to kill him.

Nothing is certain.

And this is how we respond.

Director, these difficulties they speak of, these problems... have to be faced

and solved by all humanity, not a few narrow, power-broking, so-called

specialists locked in some secret room.

They do not have the faintest idea of what we are talking about.

We are talking about a nation that has suffered like no people on Earth in the

history of man.

Millions upon millions of people butchered, murdered, destroyed.

Brutality and suffering on a scale that even Hitler would have had trouble

imagining. And from amongst it comes a man...

fighting a life and death struggle to free these 200 million people from

centuries of oppression.

This is an extraordinary man. This is a man of history whose name could be

remembered in a thousand years.

We have to be as extraordinary as the times this man has created.

My grandmother used to tell me about it when I was a child.

She told of the banging on the door in the middle of the night.

Of waking to find all the men.

All the menfolk of whole villages gone.

Of how it was forbidden to grieve. How it was whispered about in the back

rooms. Because officially these things had never happened.

I think this man has given the Russian people the freedom to laugh.

The freedom to speak.

But he has given them another gift.

Perhaps greater.

He has said...

You may weep.

Director, you must tell the president to warn him.

I can't tell the president to do anything.

I can only advise.

He will make up his own mind.

Just make sure that all this material is shredded.

I'm staying here. That is my vote.

You don't get a vote. And if you did, who the hell's gonna hear it?

She hears it inside.

Stop here, please.

No, keep going.

Here? Yes.

I haven't come through all this to run away now.

Wait a minute.

Till I... Whatever's out there.

Clancy's out there. We still don't know if Washington's going to make that phone

call. It's too dangerous.

Wait, listen to me.

For you and me.

You came through for that too. I can't come with you.

For you and me. For what we had.

For the reason you kept that dress for ten years. For the reason I stood at

your apartment that first day I was here in the rain.

Don't. We can have breakfast together.

Do the boring things. Do you think I don't want that? Do you think I don't

want to eat cheesecake flavored frozen yogurt and listen to you while you talk

of nothing? But I came through for all those who didn't. For my parents and the

students enduring Bill. Saying no, not now, but sometime in the future. It's

things you don't understand.

This is my country. This is where my bones are.

I don't want to leave without you.

So the recommendation has gone to the president.

What do you think it was?

As they tell him, tales they don't.

They don't?

Hey, it's heads.

I know.

Surely they'll tell him.

Ramp E?

Yes, sir.

No, you missed him. He's just gone.

You know an American called Stone?

That was years ago.

I was 18 months in prison.

You were sentenced to life. I had you freed. I gave your life back to you.

And since then, I have done everything you asked of me.

I even reported on my students to you. I've shown my loyalty.

Small things.

Now I will ask you to do one last thing.

You will help me to find him.

You must have his photograph.

You could find him yourself.

Not such an easy thing.

I need to find him quickly in a crowd.

And you would trust me to do that?

Not entirely.

But I trust Stoner.

He'll betray himself when he sees you.

With me.

Victor.

Where are you to meet him?

I don't know where he is.

You really don't, do you?

Once more, he's only thought of himself.

Nothing's changed.

Oh, yes, something has changed.

And it's changed so fast, I sometimes forget.

You are the way things used to be, not how they are going to be.

And I don't have to be afraid of you anymore.

I choose not to be afraid.

One person at a time, we can learn not to be afraid.

That is a revolution.

That is the way things change.

But I am the way things are.

The way they're going to be.

Because in two hours' time, we will kill the man who wants to change it all.

I'll go and see if they made the call.

Don't get yourself arrested while I'm in there.

I appointed you.

I had faith in you.

What you have done is not only a betrayal of your adopted country, but of

me personally.

Those people.

Those...

If you trusted us so little, why did you come here?

You heard them.

How could I trust them?

How could you?

The president has just made the call.

What do you want, sir?

Do you want a drink?

Is there a panic on?

Am I in your way?

The Americans know about Clancy. You will be stopped.

We have a surprise for Mr. Stallman.

You think for something this important we would leave it to just one man?

This man Stoner, who you'd risk so much to protect, who will fail anyway because

he comes from a place where there is no struggle except for more things, no

passion for ideas, because whatever we believe in, we believe it harder than

they do.

He's a user, Anna.

You loved him.

He used you and he used his wife.

You went to prison and she killed herself.

And now he's back again after ten years' silence.

For what?

What does he care for you?

How much does an expensive dress buy?

A call has been made.

Headquarters was a beehive turned upside down.

All the plans for the visit have been changed at the last minute.

No public appearances, no walks in the crowd.

The official version is that top man has a chill.

All they will let him do is one wreath laying.

Wait a minute, I thought you... This wreath laying, tell me about the wreath

laying.

It's a new memorial.

It's dedicated to people who died under Stalinism.

He has to be seen to acknowledge the popular movements of the Eastern Bloc.

Or the whole lot could blow up.

There will just be a few hundred people there.

Honored party members, military, security.

Only the sort of people who want him killed anyway, right?

Look, you know Talaev better than I do, so if you tell me that he didn't target

the Wreath-Laying as a perfect failsafe, I gotta believe you, don't I?

And headquarters is in token confusion.

He's got every angle covered.

So it doesn't matter if Washington has made the call or not?

Not a damn bit of difference.

And the wreath laying is just over an hour from now.

Look, I'm going to do something right for once. I'm going to go back for Anna.

Now, you can go on out and save the world's signs. You were always better at

it than I was anyway.

To life.

Is this your taste in bars?

All I ask of a bar is that it be open.

She was working for you all along.

For Tulaev, after she came out of prison.

Low-grade stuff of no real importance.

Just fingering students, huh, and anybody else who trusted her.

I wonder if she's singing about me.

You, you think she's serving you up in a platter?

She may just be trying to keep herself alive.

You should know that, that's it.

And it's you who knows her best.

Correction. I slept with her.

And what do you have to do to get a drink around here?

Beats me how bad the service is in a situation where you got six people doing

the same damn job. I loved her, damn it.

I was gonna drag her out by her hair.

But do I know her?

You. I don't know.

But what it wasn't her that set me up ten years ago.

All this time I've had this on my back that maybe it was her that suckered me.

Was that how it was?

How did my wife die?

Did Anna help? Was it her idea?

You want to know?

We trade.

You phone Washington, tell them Clancy is still in play, and I'll tell you how

it was. Excuse me.

I've got a better idea.

I'll do it the other way around while I soak my face in this.

They brought your affair with Anna to my desk.

At first I thought it was a trap. You wouldn't be that careless.

But when Anna stood, you really cared for her. Then I knew I had you.

The obvious would have been to blackmail you into going home.

But I knew your wife was vulnerable.

So I let her find out bits and pieces.

And when the time was right, I sent someone to her.

I chose the young man very carefully.

We used him before.

She killed herself because of that young man.

She couldn't live with the lies you and I could.

The lies you and I made a career of. You see the tradecraft?

How could I ignore the possibility of turning the wife of one of your best

operatives?

You take that drink.

You stick your head in the bottle again. You killed her.

And I killed her.

But what really killed her was the hate.

And the mistrust of what we help make.

You just drink.

And let them do this thing. And our children and grandchildren will have to

lead the same filthy, twisted lives.

You get one phone call. After that, I don't do a damn thing.

No local lines.

No international lines.

They're gonna kill him.

And you are the only one who knows what Clancy looks like.

So what is your analysis, being a leg man yourself?

Well, Tlaib can cover Clancy three ways. He can get him in as a party official,

military delegation, security personnel, which is how I'm inclined to think he's

going to do it, because this is Tlaib, I'm sure as hell. He ain't going to do

it that way.

And we know how...

Clancy operates alone.

Even Talayev probably doesn't know what he's going to do, which I'm sure suits

them both just fine.

Clancy likes to get in close, so that means we've got to get in close too.

Which may not be so easy without a pass.

Don't lose this.

Cost me two bottles of vodka and 40 years of service.

Please, move along.

Maybe you better stay here by the gate, check them coming in. I'll see if he's

here already.