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thank you

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no six minutes to go yet control

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can you speak up please

the city removers here I believe you

wanted an estimate

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you did exactly what I told you talk to

nobody

remember Jim trust no one no one

you worked me alone

I'm sorry there's no vodka

I didn't expect any

I've got a job for you

familiar territory Czechoslovakia

perhaps a bit too familiar which

identity do you want to use

I'd suggest Vladimir Hayek

still a Czech journalist yeah still

based in Paris yes has anyone else used

them

you agree

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I've had an offer of service Jim

on the military side his cover name is

testify

our village reminded chap two of you

should hit it off pretty well he's fond

of horses too something else you've got

in common

we can share Polo I suppose

his real name is stefchik at the moment

he's an artillery General but

in the past he's worked in closely as

and with Russian intelligence

there it looks

and now he wants to talk to us

I have personally interviewed an

intermediary in Austria

Steph check now wants to

testify

to a ranking officer of mine who can

speak check

why

there was a girlfriend student 20 years

difference between them

such things happen

she was shocked during the uprising of

68 Civic never forgave the Russians for

it he's been after their blood ever

since lame low stayed friendly

all the time he's been waiting his

chance

now he's ready

how sure are you

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rocketry

ballistics

Fourth Man in Czech Army intelligence

Secretary of the national internal

security committee

anglo-american desk in Prague he's big

Jim

and he's got treasure for us

he's worked for Moscow Center's England

section and he's going to give us the

name of the agent Moscow planted inside

our setup

we have a mobile gym

London

very near the top

in the circus

one of the top five

their code name for him is Gerald

an apple juice

and the maggots are eating up the circus

these people one of these

why not

are the British incapable of deception

we've turned enough members of other

outfits Russians polls Czechs even the

art American why shouldn't there be a

mobile in the circus now

look at them oh control I know who they

are listen Jim we've got to have code

names for them

do you remember the nursery rhyme Tinker

Taylor Soldier sailor

Finish It Rich Man Poor Man beggar man

Thief [ __ ] alanine director of

operations tinker

tinker

Bill Hayden head of personnel Taylor

Roy Bland head of Iron Curtain networks

Soldier

we leave out sailor too much like Taylor

could be misheard rich man don't like it

sounds like police work fraud Swiss bank

stuff Toby Esther hazy top Lamplighter

are Exquisite heads truth poor man yes

poor man and George Smiley my devoted

deputy

bigger man

have you got it I remember

all I want from you Jim is one

one word

just the one

code name if you have to straw it on the

front door of the embassy in Prague

phone our resident hood and shouted in

his ear before you go underground

if there's some kind of a fumble and

that should be necessary just give me

that one word

but remember Jim if you're caught deny

me I don't know you're there

where do I meet Steph check how when

on Friday March 20th

staff check will be inspecting the

weapon research station at tishnoff

about 100 miles an hour for the Austin

border

from there you'll be visiting a hunting

lodge for the weekend alone it's a place

high up in the forest not far from

ajitsi

he'll provide you with an escort from

Barnum

and he expects you on the evening of

Saturday March 21st hmm what is what

does he get from us usual assurances

even when he wants to come we look after

him

one word will do it Jim

I'm almost there

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thank you

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today

represents

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laughs

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yeah give up

doctors

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Ducati

Buddhism

radish

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so much

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everybody

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was a Bookseller Mr Smiley please

you're making an investment I hope

you'll remember that the day I sent it

back to you it's always a pleasure to do

business with you sir you always have a

joke for me

I think after all we could trust this to

the post office yes I asked about that

way if you don't mind

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my dear boy if it isn't the Meister

himself didn't say you've forgotten me

hello Roddy nice to see you I'm Bob

let's go run into you they told me you

were locked up with the monks in suit

gallon or somewhere pouring over

manuscripts self-exile they said of

course I knew that wasn't true because I

know you George you'd never leave

England you're just not capable of such

an act of abandonment no matter how

shabbily the circus treated you

so

what have you been doing all these

months I want to know everything every

little bit

how The Delectable wife

how is the lovely lady Anne

not in town at the moment I hear

pound to a penny or shopping for her

little Presley's all the time they tell

me going away gifts coming home gifts

are you back on the beat George

or did you never really Chucky did is

that a joke

has it all been covered

cover George Roddy I retired all right

George if you say so you look well Roddy

but I mustn't delay oh No George really

my dear oh friend you can't get away

like that Bloody Martindale simply

wouldn't let you months and months since

we last had a chin wax ah let me buy you

a little a penalty and then let me take

you to dinner allow me that

follow me George

I can tell by the look of you that no

one else has claimed you tonight oh it's

kind of yours it's my role in life

George we all need to be good at

something

and we mustn't forget Jeopardy

welcome to your old tutor yes Once Upon

a Time how do you write spark the one

who came from the school of Oriental

languages placed him in the batting

order George

not quite there

make trouble with his nerves so they say

all dead and gone now of course properly

appreciated by only a select few like

you and me you flatter me

now George

let's talk about your old boss control

the only head of the circus who ever

kept his name was secret shall we talk

about control if you insist of course it

wasn't a secret to you was it George she

never had any secrets from you his tried

and trusted right hand did he I don't

know that's the point about Secrets

closest thieves control and smiley wear

right to the end so they say they are

very complimentary now don't flirt

George

I'm an old Trooper

you and control were just like that

it's why you were thrown out

it's why Bill Hayden's got your job it's

why Percy everline got into control's

chair when it ought to be you

why Bill Hayden's his cup Bearer and

you're out altogether

you say so Ronnie I do

I say more than that

far more

I say this

control never died at all

he's been seen

in South Africa

no we can't blame a man for wanting a

bit of Peace in the evening of his life

Willie Aldo Arthur walked straight into

him in joburg airport in the waiting

room not a ghost

flesh that's the most idiotic story I've

ever heard control died of a heart

attack after a long illness through most

of which he continued to work

besides he hated South Africa he hated

everywhere except Sade the circus and

Lords cricket ground

of course Willie Andrew was always the

most god-awful liar I said the same

myself really you should be ashamed of

yourself

I um suppose what put the last nail into

controls coffin

was the checo Scandal

the poor devil that got shot in the back

the one who was so thick with Bill

Hayden with its pictured in the

newspapers under some fictitious name

but we know his real name don't we

Jim

a I don't think I can ever quite Believe

In Percy alaline as Chief can you

might be just my natural cynicism

but Power sits poorly on those we've

grown up with doesn't it and there are

so few who can carry it off for me

nowadays and poor Percy such an obvious

fellow especially after control who's a

positive serpent

how can anyone take allies seriously

but heavy good Fellowship when I've only

got to think of him in the old days

lolling in the bar of The Travelers

sucking away on that log of a pipe and

buying drinks for all the mogul's world

really and that's like one's perfectly

to be subtle don't you agree

oh what's his neck George living off the

Wits of his subordinates to my right

really Roddy I can't help you

I never knew Percy as a force you see

only as a driver

right

with his eyes on controls purple day and

night yes well now he's actually wearing

it and the mob loves him

so who's doing the business for him hey

George

who is it I cannot help you who's the

clever boots

I'm not Percy that's for sure

and don't tell me the Americans have

started trusting us again because they'd

never fall for Percy Roddy please stop

this wonderfully well he's doing we hear

it from all sides little committees

popping up with funny names red carpet

for Percy whenever he goes tripping the

light fantastic along the Whitehall

corridors you're out of my depths truly

so who's earning him his reputation

no thank you

it's my party George

I'll get the bill when I'm ready

so who's pulling the strings for Percy

puppet

how about dashing Bill Hayden your old

rival

in every sense I'm told

of course he never was Orthodox was he

genius never is

all right then it's Roy Bland the shop

soiled white hoop the first red brick

Dom to mix the circus and if it's

neither of them and control is rarely

dead then there's only one possibility

left

it's someone who's pretending to be in

retirement you George admit it you

feather head Martindale you pompous

bogus gossiping old featherhead

land is not my brick

he was at Saint Anthony's College Oxford

no don't be silly dear of course Saint

Anthony is red brick it doesn't make the

slightest difference there's a bit of

sandstone at the same street just

because it was your Protege I suppose

he's Bill Hayden's boy now bill was

father to the mall wasn't he or

something like that it's not mine thank

you I hope you're not going to tip in

it's a guinea at Christmas

anyway it's my party

draw some like bees to a honey pot

doesn't he our bill good night buddy you

fancy a night cap starting fresh with a

bubbly

why not George I think I will

of course Bill's got the glamor hasn't

he not like some of us

Star Quality I call it one of the very

few

and told the women literally bow down

before him if that's what women do good

night

love to Anne

everybody's love to Anne

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everybody's love to hand

oh damn

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huh

Peter

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I'd leave that coat on if I were you

George we've got a long way to go well

you're not me Peter and before I go

anywhere at all I shall change out of my

sopping shoes

and also I think make a pot of coffee

you sound a little test here George oh

boy

Lacon is waiting for you

me Peter

George

I've been sent to deliver you

I've been reviewing my situation in the

last half hour of hell

and I've come to a very grave decision

after a lifetime of living by my wits

and on my memory

I shall give myself up full time to the

profession of forgetting

I'm going to put an end

to some emotional attachments which have

long outlived their purpose namely the

circus this house my whole past

I shall sell up and buy a cottage in the

Cotswold I think steeple Aston sounds

about right do I need overnight things

I'm not taking any

there I shall establish myself as a mild

eccentric

discussive withdrawn

but possessing one or two lovable habits

such as muttering to myself as I bumble

along innocent Pavements

I shall become an oak of my own

generation

you make the coffee

you know where everything is

you can even pick my front door locks

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Street this afternoon I ran away

immediately good guess on your part what

made you think I was looking for you I

hoped you win

however you found me eventually

you had to come home sometime

it's far too young for

quick

I'm surprised you didn't get thrown out

with the rest of us

had all the qualifications for dismissal

good at your work

loyal

discreet

what happened tonight Joe

how's Anne

Roddy Martindale Hamilton

tonight why do I permit it

I tell myself it's for politic

ize weakness

and the fact that I have nothing better

to do

my wife's fine thank you

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they put me in charge of scalp Hunters

you are Jim friedle's successor you

looking after the heaven why not

tucked away at downtown Brixton behind

the broken glass in the barbed wire

smashing the thugs occasionally

kept a good arm's length from the circus

wingmasters how is Jim do you know

in quarantine

I don't mean to cry I merely asked

can he get around can he walk us or bad

backs can be terribly tricky I believe

the word is he manages pretty well

he's back in England address unknown

trap

is that still the scalp Hunter's

official name

hit and run caution carry

sorry

our control always preached that good

intelligence work is gradual

and rests on a kind of gentleness it's

not my department I'm

well the scalp Hunters were always the

exception control without resolved

can't build here for some persuasion

a reflection of Bill's temperament of

course

solo initiative

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very audacious

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Peter what

lateralism I said are you familiar with

the word I most certainly am not it's

the in Doctrine now we used to go up and

down now we go along what's that

supposed to mean in your day the circus

ran in so far regions

Africa satellites Russia China southeast

Asia West Indies you name it

each region was commanded by its own

Juju man

trolls sat in heaven and held a string

remember and strikes a distant horn

well today everything operational is

under one hat

it's called London Station

Legions are out lateralism is in

New Station Commander Bill Hayden his

number two is Roy Bland

Toby Esther hazy runs between them like

a poodle

had a service within the service

share their own secrets and don't mix

with the pros there are three of them

and Ally that's right

the object of all is to make us more

secure

a very good idea

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why did Lake on send you for me Peter

did you mean why did you send me for you

well why did he send me for you quite

right Peter I should have known better

than to ask

you remember your last day at the circus

just one day before control departed and

the new regime took over

you stuck your head around my office

door and said

Peter I've been sacked

we went straight out and you got drunk

why pick me draw

I was pretty low grade running some very

sketchy networks of merchant Seaman out

of London dockland whatever opposed

Russians chinks I could Cobble together

why me George

you want a reason

you fastened on the same word that night

when I asked why you've been kicked out

I'll tell you exactly what you said and

I hope this isn't going to be

embarrassing

you said reason is logic or reasoner's

motive

or Reason as a way of life

you said they don't have to give me

reasons I can write my own damn reasons

and that is not the same as the

half-baked tolerance that comes from no

longer caring

I thought that was pretty impressive

stuff from a man as drunk as you were

at least I had the good sense not to let

you drive me home

sent me for you John

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once described it to me as his Hampshire

Camelot built by a tea Turtle

millionaire she seems to think explains

everything

that's out of touch Peter

does lakeon have any particular title

nowadays nothing new just Oliver of the

cabinet's office permanent Watchdog of

all intelligence affairs

you know how he loves being one of

Nature's prefix

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hello thanks for coming come

you've been enjoying retirement George

you haven't missed the walls of human

contact

I rather would I think

want to work on Old Buddies oh I think I

manage very well thank you

yes yes I'm sure I do

and you all goes well with you oh no

great changes no no all very small

Charlotte got his scholarship to roading

which was nice no very good

how about your wife

in the pink and so on very Bonnie thank

you

God all Spruce and Ship Shape again

Willem it were grubby it did look a

Ruffian didn't he George

well um shall we

please George I wanted to talk

particularly to you

all right for all Lockers in peace

I think you know Mr Smiley don't you

of course I do

once give me a job Mr Smiley don't you

remember

tasa Ricky tar the lawyer's boy from

Marseille

change my first nappies as we used to

say

they were very tough interviews used to

give us Tinder young recruits

of course 12 years ago and it was that

long Mr smiley

well you don't look any different to me

sir

no 12 years ago nobody but nobody got

taken on unless we got past you

not even scalp Hunters

I want quite your type

we all had to get the nod from Mr Smiley

tar

of course I remember you Ricky your

father was an Australian I recall

a solicitor and a non-conformist lay

preacher altogether a most unusual chap

to pop up in Marseille but just such odd

circumstances who seem to provide us

with suitable personnel

hmm bad boys like Ricky

daddy thought he could beat the sin out

of me but you knew better didn't you Mr

smiley he only beat it further in

and that's what scalp Hunters are made

of

isn't that right Mr guilla we're waiting

for you Tom yes I do think we ought to

get up

well I guess I better make my pitch then

let's keep it precise shall we all the

way along before you begin Ricky

do I understand correctly that no one of

the circus knows you're in England

only Mr gulam

you're officially absent without leave

on The Wanted list

I think I'm safe now

I've got a story to tell you it's all

about spies

and if it's true which I think it is you

boys are going to need a whole new

organization

right

should I start with the day you sent me

to Lisbon

changed my life

you might find it's going to change all

your life

our resident buffoon old Galloping major

called tufti fessinger wanted a helping

hand

my boss says you've got your eyes on a

likely piece of merchandise for us

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she's a real flash Harry

exactly not your common a garden Russian

Granite face at all during the day he

fulfills his Norm like the rest of his

mouth as a whole big bag of technical

advisors here bodices for civil

engineers

which at night before he makes his own

Arrangements that's just a master clubs

you there's never going to be another

tomorrow the man hasn't slept for a week

and my boys are Photoshop their knees

a young musculate with official

connections and that kind of appetite

for the flesh once seems right for the

fishing

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we'll use another Defector company

absolutely gotta keep in stock

nothing else on him apart from the booze

I've got something to blackmail him on I

would probably need in London to come

and fix it

and the temperature

thank you

very much

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even though it's nice talking to you

like this some people when I say from

Moscow

I see these look in their faces

so funny I know what they're thinking oh

my God there's gonna be drenators what

our names is

black overcoats

is your good friend of Russia you want

to tell us all about these secret sex

life Member of Parliament yes

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and I am telling you we're definitely in

the wrong ball game with this chummy

that's a professional a Moscow

center-trained Hood

why he sets himself

that alone

well

if you're right

okay

you know

it's gonna be quite a cat wouldn't you

we scalp Hunters are expressly forbidden

to draw for double agents new orders

from above

the first smell of the opposition

abandoned and dropped Hot Potato into

ample map of London Station

nope I'm cabling Willem no sale and

booking myself a flight home

and since the job is finished

it is seated so to speak

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makes his rounds every night does he

never missed yet

I told you my boys

well before I go I might just take a

peep inside boris's kennel

see what's under the mattress

that can

I like keeping my hand in

it's been quiet lately

you can get rusty

well enjoy yourself my son

but don't break any eggs Ricky please

I have to live here

remember

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no no no

no

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blessed are they the moon

so they shall become

blessed are the meek

for they shall inherit the earth

blessed are they which do hunger and

thirst of the righteousness

so they shall be filled

blessed are the merciful for they shall

obtain

Paris

good question lady where is Boris

this is his room right

and believe me lady I wish you no harm

I'm sorry if I frightened you you caught

me by surprise I can tell you I wasn't

expecting a lady just Boris I'm his wife

what are you doing look I don't want to

upset does my husband know you

no point in [ __ ] footing lady well it's

this way your Boris walked off with my

girl tonight and that's one diabolical

Liberty and to add insult to injury he'd

been drinking on my wife so I thought

I'd come up here and have a word with

Boris sorry but that's the way it is

thanks for not screaming the place down

you should be careful what you say about

my husband

he's an important man

he has influential friends you frighten

me off Mrs Boris

I got quite a name for looking after

myself

I'm your original Australian self-made

success story rags to Rich isn't

punching all the way

bureaucrats don't scare me not even the

bloody Russian kind don't call me Mrs

berries

my name's Irina

I'm Tony Lawrence

are you yeah Tony Lawrence you just

mentioned that name in Adelaide I mean

Car Sales property frozen foods

you know if I was Boris I wouldn't be

out at night chasing other blokes women

I wouldn't feel the need but it's his

buddies

and Lawrence

someone else

I don't know anything about Australia

perhaps somewhere tomorrow

evening

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thank you

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are you sure you don't want something

stronger you look as if it might help

I don't misunderstand me Irena you look

great

really lovely

I just mended my relaxer

you know you seem more scared now than

you were last night

that can't be me

I'm not supposed to do this meet people

talk without official approval I'm not

free to do that where's the hand just

two strangers in a foreign land getting

to like each other

it's normal behavior

I do special work

travel as a trade delegate in my own

right

textiles

trained experienced

painted

I want to escape from it

Tech stuff

it's like a prison

I need someone to help me

can be quite Brave Lawrence

Pony

I shall call you Lawrence

colonel

Lawrence like Lawrence of Arabia

he was English

I know

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there's an English expression

it takes one just bought one

he wouldn't have fooled me for long

even without putting those wedges in the

door

it's the way we look for things isn't it

we don't stare

we don't seem to be looking

we are not like tourists

or prostitutes I'll pick pockets

we just know how to see

Paris isn't as good as he ought to be

he enjoys showing off too much so he

misses things

he missed you didn't he

but you didn't miss him did you colonel

are you very good

the best

God gave me all the talents

try me

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I like being in the presence of

Christianity

I understand why some women become memes

give themselves

their whole lives given willingly

there's freedom in that

I've met Christians I've ended very

deeply

and resisting I know that

I confess it here in this holy place

the Christians were being interrogated

the worst time to see people

and the best sometimes

I'm studying the Bible

secretly of course that isn't freedom

come on to me

all you who are heavy laden

is that it

you know how it goes on

The Village below here right by the Sea

very quiet

we could take a room

would you like that

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how long have you worked with Boris

they made us a team a long time ago

he's a specialist in picking up foreign

businessmen from Moscow Center

I look after Communications for him

special cards

couldn't we be a team

could take me to England

that's what I want Lawrence

you could

I know something

so important

it's one of the biggest secrets ever

it will make you so famous

that's so Secret

tell me

tell me Irene

I'm frightened

I can look after you you'll be safe

I can only

if you're chief I'm in Ireland nobody

else

it's too dangerous I can only speak to

online

tell me

only the head of the circus

I'll be looking for me

it's too much to time now

maybe tomorrow

Cemetery

come on Lawrence

I'm talking the car

tomorrow

it's too much

to be calm

tonight they'll notice

I drink too much sometimes

they're not used to that

some of the priests are drunkards

they told me that that's cool

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Moscow

before I started traveling with Paris

I had a relationship with her filing

clerk at the center

Square

we went against regulations we used to

meet outside

he was very sweet

your looks remind me of him

his name was ivlov

and he told me a story

he was frightened to

but sometimes if you know something

that's so big so secret you have to tell

it to someone

has to be someone in love

like I'm telling you now it's all right

darling it's all right

have you heard of Carla

he's an old Fox the most cunning of them

all at the center

and he works so secretly that some

people don't even know he exists

the story of love told me concerns one

of Carla's greatest conspiracies

and it is happening in England

do you know what is meant by the word

mole

moles burrow very deep into the fabric

of Western imperialism

they are very dead to Moscow Center

because it may take 15 or even 20 years

before they are used

well my friend ivlov told me he had

worked in London

his cover was as a driver at the embassy

damn name to give me

if Love's worked name in London was La

pan

he didn't know it meant rabbit in French

fitted because at the embassy he was

supposed to be just a nobody serving

drinks with women at receptions

but all the time

he was the secret right-hand man the

colonel Gregor victorov

and victorov is the agent who breathes

and debriefs them all

name Arena

in London

Victoria's cover is cultural at the

share

known as

I'm so frightened

you must take me home with you you could

be happy finish this

to the mall

where is

I can only speak to Allah

we are in danger you must get me to him

face to face with the head of the circus

nothing else is safe

you trust me

and the line will take some persuading

tell him

I have information crucial to the

well-being of the circus

use those words

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morning tafty

can I come and play with your toys

I thought you'd finish your house Ricky

what must they be thinking back home

it'll be all right

the postcard to send them

they're gonna love me for it

how much you're gonna tell me

the message is graded flash to London

Station

and by hand of duty officer

only

drastic starving

that's maximum security limit

it's your show my son

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date of intake into moscow's Center

name her present head of section

also named previous sections employing

her also

someone stalling

but if that's what they want

amazing

Florence

listen I'm talking to you

this is my gift for you in case they

take me away before I can speak to

aleline

I would prefer to give you my life

Lawrence

but I think it more likely that this

wretched secret will be all I have to

make you happy

use it well

I started to tell you about if love

who's known in London or used to be as

La pan

and about victorov who's really paleakov

the mall in London is known by the code

name of Gerald

there are many remarkable measures to

preserve his security the most secret

imaginable

written reports from Gerald to Carla in

Moscow Center are cut into and sent by

separate couriers even after coding

and Gerald's output has sometimes been

almost too much for polyakov to handle

some of it is spoken on the tape at

secret meetings and can only be played

back on special machines

and there is also undeveloped film

and anyone opening the reels the wrong

way destroys it immediately

Lawrence

this is the secret I'm giving you

with all my love

the more Gerald is a high functionary in

British intelligence

very close to the head of the circus

Lawrence I fear for the safety of anyone

employed by the circus

take care with this knowledge

I'm telling you this because I'm afraid

it's all finished for me

the guards have started watching me like

animals

have you been in discreet Lawrence

did you tell them in London more than

you let me think

now you understand why only aleline

would do

but do not blame yourself

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will they let us live in Scotland

Lawrence

I've read everything about Scotland

it's the Garden of Eden isn't it

Elizabeth at the end read it

in my heart I am free deep inside me

Burns a new and blessed light

I used to think that the secret world

was a separate place and I was banished

forever to an island of half people but

God has shown me we have only to open

the door and step outside to be free

Lawrence you must always long for the

light which I have found it is called

love

now I shall take this to our secret

place while there is still time

and that's it

I take it that's not the original

notebook yes

where is it well I put it straight back

in the dead letter box once I'd copied

it and then

I had this idea I tried the airport you

know just on the off charts we'll put it

this way sir I had to know

I got hold of a little Italian air

hostess and she liked the look of me see

she told me an unscheduled Soviet plane

had taken off two or three hours before

the center of attraction was a woman

invalid lady in a coma

they had to Carter the plane on a

stretcher and a face was wrapped in

bandages

the rest of the party was made up of two

male nurses and a doctor

and I didn't let it go at that Mr Smiley

no I checked the hotel

no Arena no Boris

my musical daughters

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perhaps she really was ill

not much more than 24 hours between your

first telegram and irina's departure

and hardly laid at London's door on that

timing well you can just

if someone in London had very good

footwork

and in Moscow too of course that's what

I told myself I mean what you said my

very words Mr smart

well I figured the Russians could have

tumbled to it about her having it off

with me or how she'd started blabbing to

Boris just to pay him off the boozing

and whoring all the time

but then I thought no come on Ricky that

was gold she was giving you

remember how she had to sweat it out of

herself

I figured they'd give it another going

over on the plane then the big boys

would Pile in first thing after the

touchdown I figured not more than a day

or two before my skill center had a

footpath round of the cemetery so you

made yourself scarce he panicked and

went native Istanbul so he says playing

the loving father with a daughter called

Danny

that's right Danny's my little kid

the mother seems to be leader of the

pack as far as his numerous wives are

concerned just now

you've been away for three months

why choose this particular moment to

come to us

go on

did something frighten you

someone looking for me who I didn't stop

to find out that's why I came

no Ricky

passports

who are you at the moment

pool British

well I reckon Lawrence wasn't exactly

the flavor of the month in Moscow so I

had that run up

it's not bad for the money when he went

to Lisbon he had two Swiss escapes one

for him one for Boris what did you do

with them

how did you get rid of them Brandon

and how did you get back to England

soft fruit via Dublin I've given Mr

quillum the details so I'm doing what I

can to check but you'd be damn careful

baby because I don't want the wrong

people on my back

took my gun away too

I shouldn't have done that should he

missed a smiley

why did you go to Mr Gilliam

didn't it cross your mind he might turn

you straight over to alaline Mr gorham's

my boss

besides I didn't figure he's got any

more liking for the new Arrangements at

the circus than you have Mr Smiley we

don't need that top

he kept well outside

as soon as he gave me a story I ranked

Oliver from a call box I rang him here

not London

well damn it there was no reason to

suppose the phone was tapped there was

every reason

foreign

Center to use her husband and wife team

hard to believe

unless of course they had children in

Moscow

hostages they have it's true common law

marriage unofficial but permanent

there's a lot the other way around these

days Believe It or Not Mr smun

Victor

NATA Garden

super Paul

when you catch me six months ago talking

about a mole in the circus I'm afraid I

threw you out

I was remiss you instructed me to

abandon my inquiries because they were

unconstitutional

or is that the word I used

how very pompous are they

you never had any did you what

children

no

I have to admit I didn't absolutely

trust your motives

I'd rather thought control had put you

up to it to see as a way of hanging onto

the power keeping Percy alaline out

there are three of them and alanine

controls words

the composition of the now all-powerful

London Station

Bill Hayden Roy Bland Toby esterhaze

three of them

and animal

yes quite but at the time George

after all we both held perfectly

honorable positions

you felt Jim Fredo had been betrayed in

that shoot up in Czechoslovakia and you

wanted to Witch Hunt

my Minister and I felt they've been

gross incompetence on the part of

control we wanted a new broom

The View was the foreign office shared

to put it mildly no I quite understand

your dilemma

thank you

it isn't every day the head of one

Secret Service embarked on a private war

against the checks

and don't forget George your work

controls man he preferred you to Hayden

when he lost his grip and launched that

extraordinary misadventor it was you who

fronted for him

you were in the hot seat you had to go

it wasn't as if you offered a suspect

remember the circumstances George

all in all I'd say Percy airline has

done extremely well with Bill Hayden the

field for him who wouldn't he's produced

intelligence instead of Scandal and won

the trust of his customers

that special source of purses

It produced the Witchcraft material is

that still running since you asked yes

Source Merlin is our mainstay

and yes the name of his product is

witchcraft

the circus hasn't produced such good

material in living memory

mine anyway

does it still get the same special

handling

certainly

and now precautions will have to be more

rigorous than ever won't they no Gerald

the mole would soon latch onto that

of course he would

we can't move can we

can't investigate because we can't

employ the circus

the Gandhi's drop or what or open mail

because they do any of that we need the

services of Esther Hayes's lamplighters

and Esther hazy is suspect

like the others

it's the oldest question of all George

who can spy on the spies get the

security Marvin

they'll do a job for you they know the

minister won't have that brightly too

a lot of ex-colonial Bobbers flying

through the circus files

the serious Point George

we do have agents in the field and I

wouldn't give much for their chances

once the security didn't come barging it

how many do we have

600

people take a few

plus 120 behind you out there

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so I can't tell the minister you'll do

it can I

he'll take the job clean the Stables go

backwards go forwards do whatever's

necessary

but your generation after all

your legacy

I never heard of anyone yet who left the

circus without some unfinished business

there's no

emotional or other reason which you feel

might devour you from the assignment

you must speak up George

the state of my marriage must be very

common knowledge if it's got as far down

the line as Ricky Tarr for the record

the thing with Anne and Bill Hayden is

long over

my wife's present infatuation is with a

young actor

currently unemployed

as always that part of us that belongs

to the public domain isn't it

he always knew that I'm sure

so did Jim Fredo what does that mean

well good Lord George a bullet in the

back is held to be quite a sacrifice

isn't it

even in your world

two bullets actually

they were at Oxford together weren't

they Bell and Jim

and stablemates at the circus the famous

Hayden Fredo partnership

the iron fist in the iron gloves only

once called it

not too old for that Czechoslovakian

nonsense

why

I shall need some help

remember controls man Mendel yes of

course

if he's the champion one

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oh no

the table's Georgian so you will love it

for me weren't you Mr Barry cluff

I shouldn't lend it to you really

it was the majors I'm very grateful

Andrew everything all right Mr Barack

love yes fine we'll leave you in peace

then

as you want every scrap

and you've known me long enough

times of entry and exit who comes who

goes and most of all more important than

you can possibly imagine this

any suspicious characters taken an

interest or putting questions to your

staff under any pretext

even if they say they're the guards

armored and Sherlock Holmes roll into

one

and they won't get far with Norman will

they do

now Ricky tiles cables for the circus

were detailed and specific he was

required by London Station to submit

copious background on Arena names of

former contacts acquaintances inside

Moscow Center

there should be a file of some size and

we need to see it

that circus material George

I can deliver only from the minister

I know that look George

I'm breaking into the circus am I

playing burglar Bill if you wouldn't

mind Peter and while you're enjoying

yourself I shall visit Oxford to look up

an old and invaluable friend

please don't take any unnecessary risks

you must assume Peter the circus has the

dogs on you 24 hours a day think of it

as a foreign country

hello Brian

Hello nice to see you again sir

Mr gulum Sir

it's an honest expected we'll meet you

by the barrier on the fifth floor all

right

thanks

foreign

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how long have you had that monster you

really are a stranger aren't you

it says man eyes fantastic quite

fantastic

so hello Bill

what the hell are you doing here your

pariah he's got some French Diplomatic

Courier he wants to buy and he needs to

watch some dirty money that's a job for

banking section of course so we're

sorting out the tangle for him

he knows it has to be London the station

cleared he told me the papers were

already rooted to you

no probably in your intra in our bill we

have better be

mind your lock up the spoons these scalp

handles they have the gold out of your

teeth

lock up the girls as well if they'll let

you

[Applause]

London Station couldn't be in better

hands

everything's a lot tighter here these

days Willem

hey Lauder hold on

machine Bloody Bill anywhere

indeed I have seen very well we were

having a brief word about a couple of

things back down the corridor he's

wanted urgently immediately Lord

actually we put out an alert for him I

suspect he may well be on his way to you

at this moment

foreign

hello

hi

thanks for the Glad hand

I did wipe the cow dung off my boots

what's the joke right

joke Peter old ladjust

surprise to see you that's all

we're used to having this floor to

ourselves

would you like to see my past Toby

how are you keeping

oh I wondered very well thanks

you know what it's like living in the

Brixton rest house these days plenty of

Ludo ping pong normally I'd be having my

afternoons is at this time half review

don't wear his Lord as attack I know sir

sorry sir

all right Lord I'll just have to wait

for the wheels to turn

I don't need a pass to use the gents do

I

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foreign

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foreign

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foreign

flash shut up

don't smile

over your lovely darling man

you haven't come to tell me a Hoover

you're my Gorgeous George

oh George

jingle darling could you possibly make

it tomorrow

across jingle this isn't often my oldest

oldest lover comes to see me

oh George if only I'd seen you first

darling

I will teach

you I don't know why

all the lovely darling men I ever knew

oh

bless you darling

God bless

did he walk alone and flush

not accompanied were we quite alone

Connie

so

what does George want from Connolly bad

boy

her memory

to go over some very old ground Connie

hear that flush for us to Chuck us out

with an old bone I think I'm begging to

us

I was the best head of research the

circus ever had everyone knew that

and what did they say the day they gave

me the chop

that Personnel cow you're losing your

sense of proportion Connie it's time you

got out into the real world

maybe hate the real world

my lovely boys

Alexander alexandrovich palikov cultural

attache Soviet embassy London

born March 3rd 1922

in the Ukraine

graduate of Leningrad State University

height five foot ten

televised green colored hair black

married but unaccompanied by wife

and a six-cylinder Carla trained Hood If

Ever I saw one

but don't tell Percy alaline or Toby

Esther hazy

oh no

Alexa alexandrovich was as pure as the

driven snow

it was personal white wasn't it flush

Khan is an old silly because if she

doesn't lay off and does she's told to

have to pack her bags and go

he's come alive

polygoff just as you predicted of course

he has

of course he as I knew it in my bones

the day he arrived I thought hello I'm

gonna have some fun with you

top of the button

cultural attach a balls Army written all

over him

but not declared George not a mention

oh he had a lovely voice

mellow like yours

I used to play the tapes over and over

just to bathe in it

bottom picture too I just know

not that we have a caught him at it we

might have done if toe had played along

and offered him a bum or two but tiny

tube wouldn't

eight years

I watched Pretty Polly for eight years

then last Remembrance Day and got him

there he was that smashing November

morning at the wreath laying and we

photographed his medals two gallon trim

four campaign

oh yes Alex poliocoff was a star Soldier

just I'd told them I'm not a word

so I said to Toby listen you two-faced

ferret

egos got the better part of cover and

that's nothing new now you turn Pretty

Polly inside out for me because Connie's

little hunt just turned up trumps

and what did Toby Esther has you say no

I've got the dead fish voice

tell Percy Adeline purses in charge

and then not every ex-warriors are Carla

agent says Percy I said listen Percy

polyakov's running an English mole

so I get the rude letter

stop it or else

star out at the bottom yes repeat no

so

here we are

flushing me

please kiss me George

hey ho

Halcyon Days

did I start the landslide George you

were always dead right Connie

and is George now picking up the pieces

something of the sword

poor loves

trained to Empire

trained to rule the waves

Englishmen could be proud then

they could George

oh God

bye bye world

if it's bad George

don't come back

promise

I want to remember you

just as you were

my lovely lovely boys

promise

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the pages have been removed with a razor

blade

no mention whatever of Ricky Tire's

cables from Lisbon no Arena no Boris no

tar

there's a note scribbled on the next

page which says all inquiries to head of

London Station

it's in Toby Esther Hayes's handwriting

the janitor's attendance list has also

been removed

nothing to tell us who was duty officer

that night

nor even who was in the building

got his appraisal matches the story

Arena gave the guitar

the implications the indications are

that Carla has managed to build himself

a card

senior men placed about the globe who

worked directly and exclusively to him

at Moscow Center

polyakov

is Carla's executant in London

you offer that the working hypothesis

operation witchcraft that vital flow of

Russian intelligence which happily came

out of Line's way supplementary

estimates to the treasury

[Applause]

special accommodation in London

[Applause]

wider exploitation

see also Secret Annex

may I see it

the minister keeps it in his personal

safe do you know the combination

certainly not

What's the title of this unobtainable

document

it doesn't have one

it's highly secret and we've done

everything humanly possible to keep the

leadership to a minimum the supplier of

the Witchcraft material is our old

friend Merlin does the vial give his

identity but don't be ridiculous the

minister wouldn't want to know

another line wouldn't want to tell

anyone what does wider exploitation mean

I refuse to be interrogated George

I entirely failed to see why should

waste your time pursuing this line of

inquiry

by right I should have especially clear

before I let you see any of this

witchcraft cleared yes George

do we have a list of people who've been

cleared in that way

I hope you're not going Fair George

please stick with the primary problem

the mole Gerald instead of ruggling

around in extraneous matters

there's no time to be whimsical

oh you off you won't forget predo

William anything at all you can get on

him even the scraps would help

he has a point George

Witchcraft and Merlin

predo getting himself shot up on some

wild goose chase have controls and the

rural charms of Czechoslovakia

you think it all connects I think Peter

I'm not the first to make this journey

of exploration

I believe control was here before me he

might even have made the full distance

but for the bullets in predo's back

there are three of them and aleline

controls words

amen operation witchcraft of course

Merlin's minders or inventors

programmers

or marionettes

or what

was control almost so hostile to Adelina

Percy wasn't a complete fool the person

can flirt Peter

and control hadn't reckoned on the power

of the alaline lobby

who were they golfers

golfers and conservatives that's what

controls said to me

I got a call from control one day very

sharp very competitive

George come in here or there'll be

bloodshed foreign

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take a look at this nonsense

top level of Soviet Naval dispatch

especially prepared for the Soviet High

command

isn't it Percy

and appreciation of a naval exercise in

the middle in a black seed which our

Sailors have been screaming for details

haven't they perceived topicality is

always suspect yes George

would you like to repeat that for Percy

who made the translation

God made it didn't he Percy

and ask him anything he won't tell you

sure to see his strike power

radioactivation of enemy alert

procedures this is hardly my territory

don't let that worry you total ignorance

of subject matter doesn't bother Percy

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whose initials are these Zaroff Admiral

Black Sea Fleet

what do our own evaluators say they've

not seen it and what's more they're not

going to

however my brother in Christ Lily of

Naval intelligence has passed a

preliminary opinion has he not posing

Percy showed it to him last night

over a pink gin was it busy at the

airport note that George they battened

down the hatches and banged up the

portholes for Percy

brother Lily telephoned me half an hour

ago to congratulate me he believes this

material to be neither a plant nor

chicken feed but genuine gold dust and

he seeks our permission too

Percy's I suppose I should say to a

prize his fellow sea Lords of its

conclusions quite impossible it's for

his eyes only at least for another

couple of weeks

so hot you see George

but where does it come from

who's the case officer

you'll enjoy this

Source Merlin has access to the most

sensitive levels of Soviet policy making

we've dubbed his product witchcraft

and ask him who we are George Merlin is

the fruit of a long cultivation by

certain people in the service people who

abound to me as I am to them

people who are not at all entertained by

the failure rate about this place

been too much blown too much loss

Twisted too many scandals I've said so

many times where I might as well have

talked to the wind for all the heed he'd

paid me he means me George the ordinary

principles of tradecraft and security

have gone to the wall in this service

it's all divide and Rule stimulated from

the top

me again we're losing our livelihood our

self-respect

we've had enough

we've had a bellyful in fact

please

thank you and like everybody who's ever

had enough he wants more

this is

Percy Airline would sell his mother for

a Knighthood in this service

or a seat in the House of Lords

suppose Merlin's genuine suppose Merlin

would pick Percy it seems somebody has

I got a passage under the depression he

picked himself and a whole team

you're sure he left you out are you

George

what are you going to do about it

depends on it

I'll wait for it to show itself

in the meantime I see nothing to deal

with

except because he's envious eye on my

chair

and I've put my thumb in that object

before

George little Tuesday again

this time

foreign

bye now

you've got a rabbit to pull out of your

head today Percy you've got that Britain

can make it look about you very

intimidating

should we brought our sandwiches

I'll be brief bill so long as I'm not

obstructed

I'm sorry traffic

should have walked I didn't go and pass

it between you I've been trying to keep

me off the streets

they're all here now sir

would you go in please gentlemen

foreign

how often do I have to emphasize the

extreme sensitivity of the source of the

Witchcraft product

I must insist there is no existing

method of white wall distribution to

meet the case

do I have to remind you of that

disgraceful incident when an under

secretary

albeit over word so beard but the fact

remains the man actually gave his

dispatch box key to his personal

assistant

we simply cannot afford that kind of

ludicrous insecurity when we are

handling witchcraft

now

I have already discussed the problem

with Lily of Naval intelligence

and he is prepared to put at our

disposal a special main reading room in

the ad volunteer main building

where witchcraft material can be seen by

our customers and watched over by a

senior director of this service wouldn't

you rather have securicor

the reading room will be known for cover

purposes

as the conference room of the Adriatic

working party the op room for short

thank you

customers with reading rights will not

have passes since these can be too

accessible like Keys instead it will

appear on a special list with their

photographs and they will identify

themselves personally to my janitor

who's janitor Percy

well he's already got his own personal

wizard the odd commissioner seems modest

enough domestic star

allowing that all this is necessary

essential

my Minister will want to know a lot more

about the cost

he wanted to appear to be born by the

admiralty even if you have to reimburse

covetly yes of course the reading room

will have to be extensively rebuilt to

begin with

now I would like to call your attention

to the foreign office comment on the

most recent witchcraft product and I

quote

this document sheds an extraordinary

side light on Soviet aggressive thinking

does that mean they like it Percy

do you like it bill

it's from the very heart of your

territory

buying their way in with counterfeit

money tell them that

tell them anything I need time

three of them

and Allah

sweat them George tempt them bully them

any damn thing give them whatever they

eat I need time

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problem is ever Mr smiley

foreign

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Toby doing terribly well thank you

George

the boys at Westminster have I got that

right

your daughters probably left school by

now has she first year medical student

loves it good for her

Toby I have to ask you this sorry to

come prying

your Department's a long way behind with

its worksheets two months almost now why

is that

it's not lamplighter's Style

no we're not infallible George

two months well I won't question it

is it terribly important

of course if you say it is then I'll see

it's dealt with of course

the question is why Toby

let me be blunt not your style George

I'm allowed to say that surely

I am after all one of your earliest

proteges

Vienna was a long time ago you haven't

perhaps been using your staff for any

special jobs lately have you

either at home or abroad I mean the kind

of special jobs which for good reasons

of security you haven't felt able to

mention in your returns

who would I do that for George

you know in my book that's completely

illegal well if Percy aleline for

example ordered you to do something and

not recorded that would put you in a

difficult position

what sort of something clear of our

Inlet about prime a safe house watch

someone's back Spike an embassy it's all

Lamplighter work

if Percy told you to do it you might

quite reasonably assume he was acting on

instructions from the fifth floor

I do like the service George

I may be sentimental about it but I

prefer to stay in it

now you understand that you of all

people

my problem is promotion

I mean the absence of it

I have so many years seniority

but I feel actually quite embarrassed

when these young fellas asked me to take

orders from them

who Toby

which young fellas Roy Bland

Percy would you call Percy Young

who

when you're overdue for promotion and

working your fingers to the Bone anyone

looks young who's above you on the

ladder

have you been taking orders

you know the line of command George

perhaps control could move you up a few

runs

well you know actually

I'm not sure he's able to these days

are you

so what's the deal that isn't a deal Roy

really

it's just the control feels the present

situation is unhealthy

doesn't like to see you getting mixed up

with a kebab

frankly nor do I so what's the deal what

do you want

what about 5 000 quid at the reptile

fund for starters and a house and a car

and the kid to eat it

father would turn in his grave let him

rotate

your old call me suck

if there's no deal George you'll have to

tell control he can get stuffed

I've paid you see you know that

I don't know what the hell I bought with

it but I've paid a packet

Paulson and Budapest Prague back to

poznan have you ever been to positan

Sophia Kiev two bloody nervous

breakdowns and still between the shafts

that's big money at any age

even yours

no no one can deny that right

and

you brought me in remember if you think

I'm going to the bad you've only got

yourself to play

foreign

educated sort of a swine

an artist is a bloke who can hold two

fundamentally opposing views and still

function who dreamed that one up Scott

Fitzgerald

well

Fitzgerald knew a thing or two

and I'm definitely functioning as a good

socialist I'm going where the money is

as a good capitalist I'm sticking with

the revolution because if you can't beat

its spy on it

don't look like that George it's the

name of the game these days you scratch

my conscience I'll drive your Jag right

no

did you get that from Hayden is that one

of Bill's jokes about materialist

England the pigs in Clover Society

and you like it not much

of course there are competitive and

acquisitive instincts in Western Society

they are offset against other concerns

which you won't find

posnan Budapest Kiev Sofia tell me all

about it George

I'm just saying that's England now man

all you have to do is look out the

bloody window

your scene with Bill Hayden a great deal

these days

jealous George

you've got his job

your controls high Chamberlain what more

do you want

long as it lasts

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foreign

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makes the translations

you write the covering reports they're

typed on your machine

the materials not clear for typists

the other line won't do is that the

premise

which means that Merlin won't do either

thorough control he isn't a pickle

Merlin would do if he were my source

wouldn't he

a dazzling Bloody Bill here buttered

along and said he took a whacking big

fish and wanted to play him alone and

saw the expense

what would happen then

Crow would say that's very Nifty of your

bill boy you do it just the way you want

little boy

have some filthy jasmine tea

you'll be giving me a medal now

instead of sending you Snoopy around

corridors

we used to be rather a classy bunch

why recent vulgar these days he thinks

Percy is on the make so he is I also

want to be Head Boy

and Toby and Roy have designs on your

spot

since when was ambition and offense in

our beastly outfit

is Anne at home

sent her out to play while you grill

your own body

foreign who

do you think

Carla runs him stands out a mile lower

class bloke with upper class sausage

must be a band up Percy is sold out to

Carla any possible explanation

Percy is our house mode I meant who runs

Merlin

who is Merlin

what's going on

this is a callow isn't it

snows fair enough bill

doesn't anyone think my nose should be

out of joint

I'm supposed to be in charge of the

Russian Target

giving it my best years set up networks

Talent spotters all mod cons

new chaps on the top floor have

forgotten what it's like to run an

operation where it takes you three days

to post a letter and you don't even get

an answer for your trouble that's hardly

fair to control

you've heard him a hundred times on how

he detests the glamor boy agents who

hogged the budget

how he hates Miracles if they put the

bread and butter networks out of focus

so pretty he doesn't have the same

hatred of failure

has he lived with you too long

face it George

it's Percy Percy's success

it's Throne control

and me a bit

trouble is my networks haven't been good

enough

this is new

how fancy is this very much

and gave it man

making amends probably

must have been quite a sin

how is she

George

cut the cord get away from control

he's cut you out of his life for weeks

on end

watching you about with Adam's a

probation I could handle

what's he doing up there

he's been going through files of old

circus folk heroes from yeah minus one

half of them under the Earth already

sniffing out the dirt to see who was

pink who was a queen

he's given us all up hasn't he

I don't think that's true senile

paranoia controls going potty

and who's also dying

it's just a question of which gets

inside

and within six months of Bill Hayden's

diagnosis control was indeed dead

and what killed him

operation witchcraft or operation

testifier neither

dramatic and control would disapprove he

died of old age a little early

but testify destroyed his function in

life which was a form of murder

nearly enough on testify Peter

would you please

of course George

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foreign

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foreign

says it's someone from your garage and I

can quite believe it right

your rude mechanic has some bad news for

you

personally I find mechanics of bad news

by and large

on the left

well at least get onto the head office

today and find out when they can supply

the damn thing

hang on a minute I think I got the

number

I'll swing that bag across for me will

you please I will sir

go

open it for you oh thanks

right are you ready

the number you want is

four three seven

six two nine nine

seems to be going according to plan

thank you

but it does sound jumpy

you might have ever done it a bit there

he was very loud

I've seen it happen before tough ones

who crack at 40. and lock it all away

pretend it isn't happening and all of a

sudden you find them at the desks the

tears pouring on the blotter

I thought I ought to say what's on my

mind

I think people will manage

you heard something about his murderous

assignment in French North Africa I

suppose something Whispers

Peter was overmatched and he lost

agents were hanged

no one recovers entirely from that sort

of thing

that is I wouldn't trust a man

who did

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right back please

Peter I am sorry to disturb you but we

have a tiny crisis

Percy alaline would like a word with you

quite an urgent one can you come now of

course Toby have you been waiting

didn't you tell Mr Esther hazy where I

was

we've only just got here p-town

your office told us you were doing a

spot of dividing

and the uh Percy is anxious to speak to

now you see

so Alwyn there's a midday shuttle to

Brixton isn't there yes you might get

transported buzz and ask them to take

that thing over for me would you will do

sir we'll do

Percy wants to consult you

Peter

please

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watch your feet

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so she put them on again

foreign

young Peter Golem

welcome to my house

about which you've been making calls I

have

are you lonely in the Brixton outposts

tired of chasing the local virgins if

there are any in Brixton which I would

doubt

I'm going to excuse my freedom

you do know that Mo Delaware is our new

head of research to you

man with message and cleft's stick does

reach Brixton as him

barring the monsoon

I hear you've been hobnobbing with the

lit lamented Ricky tar

formerly of your section dispatched by

you to Lisbon and since then listed by

this service

as a Defector

how is him that's right chief Ricky and

I have tea at fortnum's every afternoon

Jasmine

Peter William

may not be aware of this but I am

possessed of an extremely forgiving

nature

I positively see with good will

all I require from you is the matter of

your discussion with tar

I do not ask for his head or any other

part of his offensive or natomy and I

will restrain my impulse personally to

strangle him

for you

I would even go so far as consider

bringing you back into the palace from

hateful Brixton uh presently you linga

in well-earned obscurity

in that case I can't wait for him to

turn up

and there's a free pardon with your

friend Ricky

until I get my hands on him I'll tell

him that word for word he'll be thrilled

I'm very disappointed in you young Peter

I pay you honest money and you stab me

in the back

I consider that extremely a poor reward

for keeping you alive

against the entreaters of my advisors I

may tell you

let us Begin Again

if you won't give me a straight answer

perhaps you'll unburden to somebody more

persuasive

Roy

Nikita's got a daughter hasn't he

yes of course her Danny

talk about her a lot

he told me he was fond of them

that's all I know what the hell are you

sucking at us like that for I'm accusing

you of playing hooky behind my back with

a damn Defector from your own damn

section of playing damn fool party games

and you don't do the stakes and all you

do is shrug at me

consorting with enemy agents

do you want me to throw the book of Joe

I haven't seen him

who's playing games not me you are so

get off my back

who's Dennis mother

you Asian girl

but tar likes to think she passes for

full European and the child 12 years old

long blonde hair brown eyes Slim is that

Danny

it could be

so if I told you with Danny and her

mother were due to arrive in London

three days ago on a direct flight from

Tunis

I take it you would share our perplexity

yes I would

when you keep your mouth shut

when we let you out of here

it isn't ordinary flight information

Peter the source is very private

Ultra Ultra sensitive in fact Peter

Peter in that case Toby I'll try and

keep my mouth Ultra Ultra shot

so

what do you make with young Peter come

on you were his boss guide philosopher

friend

tell me why Ricky tarz in London you

didn't say that he said his girl and his

kid were expected juice man

well little Danny goes there goes Tom

except he'd move first and have his

impedimenter follow

yes that would be favorite

all right tar was supposed to be sitting

in Moscow and now he's supposed to be

back here on the Russian payroll but why

is it all so hot

what kind of plant can he be when we

know everything about him

daughter who's lost attack of swine

fever from which he's only partially

recovered in my view

excuse my freedom mode

I'm sorry but what kind of plant is that

well never mind what sword muddying

pools poisoning Wells maybe that damn

sort pulling the rug out

now listen just you remember this at the

first peep the first Whisper of tar or

his lady or his wee band young Peter

gullum you'll come to one of us

grown-ups

anyone you'll see at this table

but not another damn soul

the name on the passport is cool

p double o l e

all three of them

titled is one so we understand in case

of difficulties she should come to you

sign that Peter would you

stupid bloody Cabaret

Percy gets more insufferable every day

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Peter Slow Down slow down

the file on testify seemed a bit thin

I hope it was worth the sweat

Ricky tires not lied to his Peter not in

any material way

he has simply done what agents the world

overdue failed to tell us the whole

story on the other hand

he has been rather clever

are you actually pleased with him well

yes

we now know that Source Merlin Works to

Moscow Center because that's where

Merlin's information on Ricky tar must

have come from

from Carla

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he's been a lot better today so not

nearly so nervy why did his football

pools this morning and this afternoon we

planted some trees in the garden and

then this evening we had a nice game of

cards has he been out alone oh no use

the telephone I wouldn't answer

has he talked about his daughter Danny

or her mother well he did over the

weekend sir but I sort of called off

about them since

I think it's in view of the emotional

side did he ever mention any

arrangements for meeting them again

anything about passports no sir what has

he talked about for God's sake well most

of the Russian ladies say Arena oh he

mentions her name a lot Irina he likes

to read a diary

he says he's going to make Moscow Center

swap the Mulberry Arena when the mole's

being caught and all this has been

cleared up and then and then he's going

to buy a little place in Scotland oh and

he says he'll see me right too get me a

big job in the circus I uh I just

listened girls

right

you don't post those football pool

coupons do you fault oh no Mr Smiley

well let's hope he doesn't have a win

that would be expensive for us

thank you for your help Mr Brimley sorry

to impose on you he's gone to bed

I must ask you once more

what did you do with the two Swiss

Escape passports you took with you to

Lisbon

I told you

burn them

when you bought your fake British

passport in Istanbul a passport for

yourself in the name of Richard Henry

Poole did you buy any others from the

same Source why

why should I

to protect your child and her mother

that seems quite reasonable

after all it wouldn't be a very Gallant

act to leave the woman and the child you

love to the mercy of the Moscow hood on

your tail while you escaped to all this

VIP protection

it's horrible to think of

truly horrible

to contemplate the lengths Carla might

go to in order to obtain your silence

or your services

but perhaps what you actually did and

forgot to tell us about

was to burn the British passports you

obtained for Mrs Paul and Miss Danny

Poole but kept your own to convince

Carla's footpads you thought it was

still safe

then probably

you made travel bookings in the name of

the pool family for the same reason you

doctored the Swiss passports for Danny

and her mother and made other

arrangements for them like

staying in Marseille perhaps

thank you

thank you

I don't know where they are

but I'm sure no harm has come to them

does that satisfy you maybe you should

keep a closer eye on your own damn woman

and leave mine alone nope

perhaps it's just as well I shouldn't

know where you've hidden them so long as

you don't try to communicate

unless of course you want me to help in

some way money or whatever no need let's

trust each other shall we

are we friends again Mr guilla

it won't be long though

have you got all you need can I have my

gun back

yes

why not Peter

do we buy that oh yes

I told you he'd been clever a little bit

of the truth is indispensable in the

game's agents play you know that

Ricky put his family in safe keeping and

found his own way home he fooled the

Russians if Carla had a deal with him do

you think you and I would be alive and

well and living in Hope

not by now I think

foreign

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foreign

let it breathe a little

oh just leave it we'll pour it when

we're ready

does anyone know Carla's real name

um how old is he another mystery Decades

of his life unaccounted for

so many of the people he's worked with

have a way of dying off

he was in England in 1936 and 41 that's

documented we can assume it was sometime

during that period he recruited our mole

Gerald

I met him once

in Delhi

oh this was long before we came to know

him as the legendary Carla

in the mid 50s moscow's Center was in

pieces on the floor wholesale purgings

and shootings

and as a result defection everywhere

I became a kind of commercial Traveler

the whole world was my territory

expecting the goods fixing the terms

exposing has seemed best on London's

instructions of course

well I found myself off to India

where the authorities had arrested at

our request on some trump top

immigration nonsense a Mr guest man

Connor's name at that time

he was on his way back to Moscow from

San Francisco

except that he didn't know when he left

California that he was Moscow man

he'd been told to Rendezvous with a task

correspondent in Delhi

the message from the task man was an

airplane ticket and

don't ask me any questions comrade

Carla was in disgrace

summoned

and doomed

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there were two other things he didn't

know the first was that we'd intercepted

the radio signal directing him to Delhi

the second was that the San Francisco

Network he'd organized had been rolled

up Haydn hair the day he left

could we take those things off his hands

foreign

for you don't I

Mr guest man

you are the Cold War

if you go home to Moscow as ordered

you'll be either shot or sent to die in

one of the camps wouldn't you prefer to

ask us for protection

we have no powers of permanent arrest

and our arrangement with the Americans

was that they hit your agents and we

make you this invitation

I can't see an alternative for you

if you cooperate

we can give you a new start a new

identity

seclusion a modest amount of money

why don't you start by telling me your

true name

would you like a cigarette

I know you're a train smoker

I'll be

I know this is what you smoke

look

I'm not offering you wealth or smart

women or your choice of fast cars I know

you haven't any use for those things

and I'm not going to make any claims

about the moral superiority of the West

I'm sure you can see through our values

just as I can see through yours in the

east

you and I have spent our lives looking

for the weaknesses in each other's

systems

I'm sure each of us is experienced

innumerable

technical satisfactions

in our wretched Cold War

but now your own side is going to shoot

you

for nothing

for misdemeanors you have not committed

because of a power struggle within your

own hierarchy

because probably of someone's Treasury

or sheer incompetence

let me show both of us when we were

young subscribe to Great visions

but not anymore

After all you've seen

you can't still be committed to that old

Grand Design

you know it's achieved nothing

except new forms of the old misery

don't destroy yourself

they're not worth it

do you know where your wife is

I mean at this moment

you have to think about her

she'll have to make a new life

did you have a friend

one really good friend who could look

after her

and perhaps we could get in touch with

her secretly

stay with us we might be able to arrange

something now

in exchange for someone you know people

won't return

but if you go back

you can do her nothing but harm

she'll be cold shouldered

suspected

the best she can hope for is to be

allowed to see you before your shot

another meaningless firing squad

God

what did control have to say when you

got back I hope to guard the do shooting

but they didn't

his boss was the one who faced the

firing squad as it turned out

Mr gastman survived and thrived

how he's thrived

he went on to build his Legend and

become the caller we know the caller who

all the time he sat looking at me was no

doubt thinking of Gerald the mole

have you noticed Peter

that whenever I really trouble one of

our acquaintances with my questions

he'll raise the matter of my failure as

a husband

to confront me

instructive Ricky Tarr tried it twice

unimportant in his case

spite

well

that was sumptuous

good it is Judah isn't he karate George

Judo is what Fawn would call just your

little cuddle Mr smiley

foreign

people would follow us here

the food's well below the standard

they've come to expect

so Carla's fireproof he can't be bought

and he can't be beaten not fireproof

because he's a fanatic

I may have behaved like a soft doll for

very archetype of a flabby Western

liberal but I'd rather be my kind of

fool than his

one day that lack of moderation will be

Carla's downfall

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he's never touched radio since the day

back in San Francisco

got it right out of his handwriting

his agents aren't allowed in here that's

something else you and Carla have in

common

yes I am prejudiced against radio men

awesome breed over strung unreliable

what's the other thing

well the cigarette lighter I assume you

still have it as far as I know

sorry Jordan

how'd you feel Peter

I'm all right

after Delhi you know control gave me

three months leave without the option

when this is over I hope you'll take it

easy for a while

we are not quite there but nearly

Peter have you got the handbrake on

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thank you

thank you

operational witchcraft

align to minister

extremely secret and personal

we spoke

Merlin as you may have known for some

time is not one source but several it

would do the treasury no harm to learn

because he was enjoying himself wasn't

he to learn that Merlin's ten thousand

Swiss Francs a month in salary and a

similar figure for expenses and running

costs are scarcely excessive when the

cloth has to be cut so many ways then he

adds nevertheless I regard it as

Paramount the knowledge of the London

house and the purpose for which it is

used remain absolutely at a minimum in a

sense personality is quite right about

murdering of course Merlin represents

several sources there is Departments of

Moscow center with Carla queuing them in

on the basis of the most timely material

of the given moment sometimes he likes

to direct circus attention to a topical

subject sometimes to deflect it

for example after the guitar's encounter

with arena in Lisbon Merlin delivered

some vivid insights on the ideological

penetration of the United States but

Carla doesn't know what Charles done

with the information from Irena which

brings us to your interrogation by

alanine and his reference to tar's

probable role over here in muddying

pools Etc

Merlin's message on Taha I suggest was

that Ricky would be trying to sell to

someone in London on Carla's behalf

fictitious material about a traitor in

the circus

nothing muddier than that who's there

remember Merlin is totally believed

so now we have a clear connection

between Merlin and the mole

and at the heart of this beautifully

symmetrical plot is a house in London

for which the treasury paid sixty

thousand pounds

plus another 10 for making it more to

Merlin's liking or Geralds

laughs

fascinating Road

thank you

and how do you suggest I explain to my

Minister least painfully that Merlin's a

fraud and he'll have to tell the

Americans so

he's devoted to Merlin

impress upon him that whatever he's

buying from the Americans with Merlin's

discredit in currency is going straight

to Moscow via Gerald the mole that

should do the trick

this document is not one you've asked me

to do

survived only today Source unknown

according to a recently released

prisoner from lubianka jail moscow's

Center held a secret execution in the

punishment Block in March

the victims were three return

functionaries

all were shot in the back of the neck

one

was a woman

though it's vital he gets no wind of

this God knows what he'd do or not to if

he found out Arena was dead and we may

need to make further use of it do you

really believe all that Guff about tar

being in love with her the little

Homestead in the highlands the avenging

lover The Honorable Ricky tuck you may

feel compelled Peter everybody has a

loyalty somewhere

he mustn't no I agree

not Georgia I've wrote what I could find

on Jim Freda is that as it is thank you

Fredo and Bill Haden were rarely

very close to now

didn't realize is

thank you operational testify

still need to understand what happened

or rather why it happened the file you

bothered Peter does at least give us a

nudge in the right direction I think I

know who to talk to next your day was

hardly wasted

I am glad about Jordan

we've traced prito he's become a teacher

first good Proprietary School for boys

it's in the west country

right

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on

oh my God

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please sir how long is that what's my

time sir donkey but time please run out

please sir how long well done Roach knew

you would second time Ron

sir how long

now they're in jumbo

see that man

who's he then see number four no sir

anybody seen him before

he's not staff and he's not Village so

who is he beggar man Thief

Tinker Taylor Soldier sailor Rich Man

Poor Man Mega Man

why doesn't he look this way something

funny about that

here's a bunch of boys burning up a car

on the playing field and he doesn't even

give them a glance

you would wouldn't you yeah

doesn't he like boys doesn't he like

cars

doesn't even look at that car

this Brit never made in years out of

production

right

gather on

come on

anybody sees him again

let me know or any other Sinister bodies

understand

I don't want Juju men wandering around

pretending they don't ever exist

first glimpse

tell me

right

you know jumbo

don't hold with odd bods wandering

around to school last place I was at we

had a whole gang broke in clear the

place out host cups money boys watches

nothing sacred to types like that

we don't want to swiping the Elvis

where's Irreplaceable

thanks to socialism

color of hair jumbo so

right about the same as useful age

wow hard to say really sir

go as it was at that distance

your name again jumbo for sure

best Watcher in the unit jumbo roaches

huh

as long as he keeps his specs clean

foreign

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oh

oh

foreign

foreign

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foreign

oh it's you jumbo

oh dear

can you get up and slowly

slowly

fell off the Brick City of jumbo

let's have a look

nothing broken

Mr graze

matron let's even put that right

one thing gives you a good excuse for

getting in late

missing Eden song

tripped over in the lane is that what

you would tell her

you get a secret haven't we

I can trust you I know that

we're good at keeping secrets loners

like you and me

is it because of that man

would you shoot him

are you working undercover like Bulldog

Drummond in the book

some of the boys wanted to call you

Bulldog but we thought Rhino was better

bigger than a bulldog

I used to be a soldier jumbo

what's your soldiers now that's a

souvenir

you know it's like this

oh I got it they're both secrets

I keep unto myself

you understand don't understand

knew you would

knew you would

Alexa

thank you sir

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foreign

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believe it or not it's straight which

makes the change

you get all the help we need from the

arithmetic I'm sure you do

my employers might let me invest a few

pennies of my own before too long

they're tough boys but very go ahead you

know

another night we were in the old days

so

what can I do for you

I want to talk to you about the night

Jim Prado was shot

the night of operation testify which was

what it was called in case you didn't

know writing your Memoirs George we are

reopening the case

who's this we feel by lecon called me in

with The Minister's blessing I can give

you a telephone number to confirm

although I'd prefer not

or power corrupts but some must govern

and in that case brother Logan were

reluctantly scramble to the top of the

Heap

the records being filleted

of what there is on the file the most

useful piece of information is that you

were duty officer that night

yes yes I just come back from Tokyo

three years didn't nobody seemed to have

any plans for me so I thought I'd push

off to the south of France for a month's

leave and then oh Mendel controls minor

picked me up in the passage and marched

me off to see control their place felt

weird there was nobody about except the

radio and code people that harrodden

Molly somebody or other was monitoring a

busy little body mole Purcell

you were in Berlin Bill Hayden was up

country and Percy aniline was in

Scotland control seemed to have cleared

the decks

my God he was a shock

I'd heard he wasn't his old self anymore

but I hadn't been prepared for this

it was like having a coffin lid

he didn't waste time on any pleasantries

I need somebody good to man the

switchboard

it's got to be an old hand

I could bring in somebody from one of

the out stations but you're better

because you've been away for so long

away from the infighting and the

vendettas around this place

you don't know what I'm talking about

that's good

let's do exactly what I tell you

it could be a crisis tonight

I've got a man doing a special job it's

of the utmost importance to the service

the service it's for us it could change

everything for us

your job tonight is to act as cut out

cut out between me and whatever goes on

in the rest of the building

if anything comes in

radio signal phone call letter anything

at all

no matter how trivial it seems

you want to wait

wait until the coast is clear and then

bring it straight to me by hand Sam

you don't use the internal phones

you don't put anything down on paper for

future reference

is that understood

and when it's all over

you're not to breathe a word about it

never

not to anybody not to smiley not to

Hayden not to blend

nobody

what if I have to send out something

only what I tell you

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how I think cost of the match which

could now be thrown out by Paul Mariner

of I was two are still down all by Muran

oh my walk and in the end by none of

them unbelievable

and Paul Mariner is completely planted

and he deserves a great deal better than

that because I think my shade he's my

man of the match

foreign

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foreign

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likely

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Collins this is urgent when it's open

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there's all hell broken out on the

czechoslovak air half of it's coded but

there's enough that isn't Prague

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yes all right mommy keep listening

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thank you so

oh control

the resident Clark from the foreign

office came on First with a story from

writers head man in London Molly picked

the same thing up on the radio the

writers and a couple of Fleet Street

papers have already had another go at

the foreign office they're saying that

the British spy has been shot

in Brunner

the checks are telling the word about an

act of gross provocation by a western

power

they haven't named the dead man yet

can I have a brief please

control I need a brief

we must say something

do you want me to deny it a a flat

denial just to start with

do you want me to get someone else in

do you want to come downstairs and

handle it yourself

it's deniable he had foreign documents

no one could know he was British at this

stage there hasn't been time

even if he's not dead

Find Smiley

he's in Berlin

yes

well anyone will do

it makes no difference

tell Mandel to get me a taxi

you sent Mendel home

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foreign

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Ed

hello

is that Mrs smiley

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you got my message then

how did you leave it I ran George

Smiley's house just in case his wife

happened to know where you were

if you had a friend of the family aren't

you

I saw the ticket of the club

and I gather there's been some god-awful

shooting party

tell me Czechoslovakia all right

Jim pridow's been shot the checks

haven't got his real name yet they're

using his work name Ellis

gym

shop dad well we're not sure that was

the first flash since then the word used

is simply shot

what the checks are saying that prida

what the hell is traveling on false

papers and assisted by Czech

counter-revolutionaries tried to kidnap

a check General unnamed in a forest near

Brunner and smuggle him over the

Austrian border

they say that further arrests are

imminent

go on well according to our military

there are heavy checked tank movements

along the Austrian border lakeland's

been on and so is the minister they want

to know what the hell and why

now I have put out emergency calls to

smiley aleline

Bland

I'm glad to see you

I'm sorry Bill

all right Sam now

first thing we do

call this number

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you're speaking from me and used to pick

up the two check agents we've had our

eyes on at the London School of

economics and lock them up now

straight away Sam

's worth a lot more than those two

but it's a start

I have a word with the chief hood of the

Czech Embassy

if they hurt ahead of Jim Fredo's head

I'll strip the entire check Network in

this country there

and you can pass that on to his master

I'm about to say Hayden was a treat to

watch

I used to think of him as a pretty

erratic sort of devil

not that night believe me he virtually

dictated a press statement for the

foreign office to put out and there it

was the following morning in the Sunday

papers

Prague radio Sensational Revelations

dismissed with dignified School

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I found a good Light reading over

breakfast at the supply and then he went

to the south of France

two lovely months

did anyone question you again

line

well

he was acting Chief by then he were out

on your ear and controls in hospital

Percy wants to know how I'd come to be

doing duty officer on the Fateful night

chap mastman was down for it well I told

him what I'd put to Mastermind that I'd

never had a kip and a quiet weekend in

the circus would save me a bit of

spending money for the south of France

Percy said I was a liar and that's why

they sacked you for fibbing alcoholism

there were five empty beer cans in the

duty officer's Waste Paper basket well

as a standing order against booze on the

premises

so what was your offense George oh I

couldn't convince them that I wasn't

involved oh well if you want anyone's

throat can't give me a buzz

Sam listen

it was too late for Hayden's Club to be

still running ticket tape wasn't it

he was making love to Anne that night

you made a guess of that and you were

right

you telephone her she told you he wasn't

there and then as soon as you run off

she pushed him out of bed

and bill turned up an hour later

knowing about checker

but you didn't tell Anne about checkers

I'll find my own way down

find how you go George

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man Jim

if you're not on your own

I swear I'll break your neck quite a

long trip

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what the hell do you want I'm sorry Jim

but I have to know what happened

I'm finished man

he told me to draw the line of dominant

how'd you like school mastering I think

you had a spell of it after the war

didn't you was that at a prep school

don't come around here playing cat and

mouse with me George Smalley look at the

file circus file not available to me Jim

I'm Blackboard

hard look

I've had access to a few papers

which lick on borrowed for me

pretty old stuff

part of it went right back to your

undergraduate days when you and Bill

Hayden met at Oxford

there's a letter Bill wrote about you to

his tutor fanchor

circus Talent spotter

in which Bill named you a suitable

material for British intelligence I can

quote the odd line from memory

he has that heavy quiet that commands

he's my other half

between us we make one marvelous man he

asks nothing better than to be in my

company or that of my Wicked Divine

friends and I'm vastly tickled by the

compliment

his virgin

about eight foot tall and built by the

same firm that did Stonehenge

right

oh Christ man we were children yes of

course

what do you want to know

I thought we could at least be

comfortable while we talk it doesn't

matter

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Hospital

bad Windows high up

they operated after a fashion

next time I came around I was in the

prison cell no one knows at all

try to work out a Plano campaign to meet

the interrogation I knew I'd never be

able to keep quiet no chance of that

it has to stay sane

possibly even survive that have to be

dialogue at the end they'd have to

believe I've told them all I knew

I decided I give them my version of

operation testify first the One controls

spelled out to me

I was head of scalp Hunters

I mounted my own campaign without the

knowledge of my superiors because I

wanted to prove I was worth promotion

if I could believe that

could bury deep inside myself all

thoughts of a traitor inside the surface

no more

no meeting with control no Tinker Taylor

I was there to turn General Steph check

just that

then I thought

I could throw them the names of one or

two other Soviet and satellite visuals

who've been turned recently

I might even give them a rundown of my

entire Brixton stable anything as long

as I forgot the mole and Dinka Taylor

and kept myself our check Networks

you know I recruited the founder members

yes a fine piece of work that's a joke I

couldn't care less about the networks

you at all rolled them up out there and

you damn well the testify was my private

brain child

I'm beginning exactly what I wanted to

end

with the briefings in James's all they

wanted to talk about was

controlled rotten apple Theory Tinker

Taylor the circus spy

did they actually know the address of

this and James's flat yeah they knew the

brand of the Sherry

all about the charts

controls charts on General step Trek's

career do they know about those

no

not at first

tell me about the networks did anyone

get out

no

it seems they were shot

the story is you blew them to save your

own skin I know that isn't true of

course

um

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they moved me about a lot

different rooms different prisons

depending on who was doing the

interrogating and what methods they

wanted to use

it's quite a lot of muscle

electrical most of it

YES Movement

cars lorries

Corridor sells

once in a plane I was hooded for it and

passed out soon after takeoff

punished for that

I think I was in Russia part of the time

would you like to stretch your legs

might help

it went straight to the heart of it

why do you control God Alone what did he

hope to achieve

his comeback guys then

I Gotta Laugh the tin pot information

about checo military emplacements

wouldn't get him a square meal at his

Club so I said

maybe poor old control is losing his

grip that bored them

back to the cooler punished again

you know I I hope to go mad

I know

they knew how to stop that they left me

alone for a couple of days

got me ready for the long run

that was when I

go

gave them what they wanted it's a matter

of Health as much as anything

yes you don't break exactly you just run

out of stories to tell

I'd reached the point where the things

I'd locked away deep down were the only

things coming into my brain

that was when I told them about controls

charts on Steph check and also about

controls rotten apple theory yes the mo

the code names we'd worked out for

controlled Suspects

Tinker percyalalan Taylor Bill Hayden

soldier I've land

poor man Toby Esther hazy beggar man

George smiley

what was the reaction

he thought for a bit

then he offered me a cigarette who did

right

oh sorry

by this stage there was some Frosty

bearded fellow left

seem to be ahead by just him and a

couple of guards standing back a bit

while he made his kill

I hated that damn cigarette why

as a final American thing come on

actually I remember the packet did he

smoke them never stopped

and was that the end of it

oh no smaller [ __ ] I have to know

everything Jim

Russ was just gossip he wanted to know a

lot of circus Tittle Tittle who was

going up who was going down a lot of

tripe about what

who Bland how much was he drinking

Esther hazier how could anybody trust a

man who dressed like that

not a tribe

what did he say about me

he showed me a cigarette lighter said it

was yours

present for man with all my love her

signature engraved

did he tell you how I came by it some

confrontation years ago said you'd

remember

anything else

oh come on Jim I'm not going to weaken

at the knees just because some Russian

hoods made a bad joke about me

he reckon that after Bill Hayden's fling

with her

she might care to redraft the

inscription

I told him to his face he could go out

of bloody hell

you can't judge a bill by things like

that he's got different standards

he was certainly another one for

regulations and you were never one to

see him straight

that's it

everything

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foreign

bill made a huge fuss about your

repatriation

he said any price was fair to get one

loyal Englishman home

I remember his verdict on controls

handling of testify the most incompetent

operation ever launched by an old man

for his dying glory and Jim Prado paid

the cost of it

priority of memorandum did you see Bill

at all after you got back no

your oldest closest friend I was in

quarantine wasn't I well yes but

never mind

let's just go over your debriefing at

salad to wrap it up where the

inquisitors sympathetic or not

never appeared no questions at all

as in limbo ate a lot drank a lot slept

a lot

then Toby Esther hazy turns up new suit

full of himself

tells me the circus had nearly gone

under because of operation testify and

I'm currently number one leper controls

out of the game and there's a

reorganization going on to appease

Whitehall there's a Toby yes the little

charmer

you tell me not to worry

about what my special brief whatever

control it told me

did Toby spell it all out he said a few

people knew the real story and I needn't

worry because it was being taken care of

all the facts were known where they

indeed and then he gave me a thousand

quid in cash to add to my gratuator who

from didn't say

didn't all this strike it was a bit odd

no Inquisition

Toby throwing loose money around

after all through you the Russians have

discovered the exact reach of control

suspicions about a traitor in the circus

it nodded the field to five

and no one's asking you anything

the facts were known man

Toby ordered me not to approach anyone

or to try and make my story heard

the circus was broken the road I could

forget Tinker Taylor and the whole damn

game molds everything

drop out he said

you're a lucky man Jim forget it yeah

forget it

so Toby actually mentioned Tinker Taylor

for you

however did he get hold of that

that's what I've been doing

obeying orders and forgetting

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trust you popping up out of nowhere

George is just terrific what are you

doing now how's the demon wife how's

everything no damn it first things first

what do you have you don't fancy a

bottle of the bubbles do you shall we a

brand in ginger ale would suit me very

well thanks yeah sure all right hey

Linda Sweetheart give us a double Brandy

a bottle of ginger ale and a another

bucket

good girl and I think I'm married how

many would that be Judy I'm a divorce

addict hopeless case not lucky like you

George

but there's only one hand

I'll do a deal with you and offer you

can't refuse I'll check off with Anne

and be the Envy of London and you can

have my job on the comic you've got just

a turn of phrase of the women's ping

pong inscrutable Chinese wizard do you

fancy it is that the task for today a

much bigger stuff old boy footer the

opioid of the people

big transfer Scottish Thunder Boots the

rescue of ex-champions now on the slide

thanks Linda my love do you want me to

write it down Mr westerby ah please

Linda

cheers George cheers

this isn't entirely a chance meeting

I got the letter you wrote me last

football season I burnt it straight away

stupid of Mayor

talking out of school sorry no no no you

obviously did what you felt was the best

thing at the time and so did I

haven't seen many of the boys and girls

lately as a matter of fact

I guess they've put us both on the Shelf

with me I can hardly blame them

fire water not good for Braves I think

our blab crack up I'm sure they don't I

expect they're just resting you up for a

bit they do that you know

in case you've been wondering I didn't

tell anyone else about your letter I was

out of favor indeed out of work by then

writing to me wasn't what put them off

you if that's what you thought

in your letter

you said you were a bit worried about

Toby Esther hazy felt sure to get

something off your chest

yes well I got all xenophob and

suspicious

I thought Toby gone a bit Haywire as a

matter of fact

I should talk

tell me now

you'd just come back from Czechoslovakia

haven't you last job I did for term

looks like the last I've ever done

letterbox job yes

and I think there's really there

telephone kiosk ledge at the top down a

little package ready for collection

and that was Budapest the czechoslovak

thing I ran into by accident

I had to go on to Prague you see for the

comic nothing to do with two

a Linda sweetheart and again Mr westerby

a p is my beauty oh no no no no no no no

no no

you've got time to eat

mm-hmm oh we'll uh go dutch on that

shall we I am

I was in this bar in Prague always using

locals here there all sorts anyway I got

in with this crowd at a corner table

without playing The Squeeze Box we're

all Hugga mugger to the music oh thank

you Linda my love

and there's um there's this kid with a

pudding bowl haircut Army obvious anyway

he's on leave well in his cups and he

knows I'm English and he suddenly says

do I want to know the truth about the

British spy who got himself shot up at

the Russian secret police just like that

yells it right in my ear

I played dumb of course and he goes

right on with it you know that Jim Prado

shambles oh

the kid was barely aching about the

trials and tribulations of being a foot

soldier of the line it seems as on the

two nights in question he and his mates

are being chased around the place to lay

with Dizzy make can't break Camp move up

move back fix Bandits

but the big point

was the Russian contingent

full war paint tanks motorbikes tracker

dogs and a big car load of very Sinister

civilians

dirty worker foot in the forest

up near the Austrian border this was

so my little friend being a sassy little

devil decides to ask his Sergeant what's

it all about look Saji says what's going

on are We being invaded Serge no San

Francisco sergeant

the Russians are after a British spy

tried to kidnap a general

after

oh where after exactly

he wanted to tell me the Russians moved

in on the

it was the day after when they got Jim

as the kids said they were ready and

waiting for him knew the lot in advance

bad story

bad for our big chief

bad for tribe

so

as soon as I got back I went and towed

old to toe

how did he take it

to begin with it was thanks a million

Jerry oh boy

he'd gone pow-wow with the top brass

and then the next morning

you're so plastered these days you can't

tell fact from fiction

you're an embarrassment

you're gonna Bender

drink herself in the Cloud Cuckoo Land

and come staggering back here with a

load of tripe like this

you're pathetic

now look your boy I don't want to hear

any excuses

I had to report what I heard yes we

believed every stupid word of it didn't

you

swallowed it like

like mother's milk

a load of half-baked rumors you come

spreading them around here

what you can remember

through your alcoholic Haze

I didn't forget a thing well you will

now

you'll forget the lot

don't you see

the boy was a plant

provocate her in layman's language

he was doing a job for Moscow Center

object disruption make the circus chase

our own tales and you fell for it Jerry

that's all

okay Toby you know best

if you don't want the story that's your

business I do it for the paper

you'll what

the bit about the Russians getting there

first of course not but the rest of it's

all good stuff

the story wasn't covered very well at

the time just the official statement

I thought Jerry gets himself a splash

about the day the checks mobilized for

the Third World War

except it was one lone Englishman

surrounding him all by himself and

that's a good piece

comic might even run an ad on Natalia

well the day after that I was called for

by the editor

the editor I mean not the sports bloke

he tells me some clown has been on the

phone with a formal warning

keep that baboon rest of me off the

checkout spy story

any further reference against the

national interest

end of message

sir I didn't get the report of the Year

award

I can't can you in your store is on the

spike cheers

but you didn't spike it entirely

I mean you wrote To Me drop the letter

in by hand

must have been the same day you talked

to Toby Esther easy

yes well as I said at the time it just

felt hard

to stay home boy

and I heard you'd got the heave her

anywhere I felt an even bigger damn

phone

I thought it was you who found the

editor you see

it wasn't

of course not sorry

nothing under Ward going on this robot

tribe hasn't gone on the rent page or

anything

but are you hunting alone

I mean I know I'm not the brightest but

when you start asking questions there's

got to be something

all I'm saying is

any time over

thank you

rum chapter

God First Rate brilliant my view but run

don't forget to give my love to Anne

William

one of the great marriages that always

says her oh come on Jerry out with it

Toby says something about Anne

some story had gone

I told him to stuff it up his silk shot

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I suppose I should be prepared for

something let's take on a temporary the

last thing you expect he's loyalty

[Applause]

well done that boy

[Applause]

I'm gonna lose it

too much for widow's coaching

I'm absolutely curious with it man it's

monsters to care of did he say what's

wrong with his mother no he did not

she is supposed to be dying well that's

one excuse for absence that he can

hardly use again not at all mother it's

quite the reverse one false alarm can

easily lead to another and she'll ask

for a full medical diagnosis next time

foreign

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fell off a bus with a bottle of vodka

inside him I shouldn't Wonder

because I shall have to take his French

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oh come on that's good

he's gone in the Elvis because he'd

never trust any other form of Transport

but if he'd gone for good he wouldn't

leave the Caravan behind would he stands

to reason that

besides he just said goodbye properly

Rhino would

wouldn't just go not Rhino not like a

JuJu man

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Peter

it's not exactly five star but then we

are shopping a bit down Market

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safe houses I have now

take a weight off your feet won't be

long

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are we Peter

the Pearl in the fair trade you think I

might like to take on Sequoia

I'd like him on my own payroll for

preference looks useful

but what's the point my Lads are

underemployed as it is

very generous of you Peter

I stay put Toby

sorry about this Toby

against the wall tube

did he come alone or is there some

little friend waiting down in the Square

looks all clear to me sir

go back to the other room don't take

your eyes off the street

you've seen something

turn the light out at a moment

up

just a shadow I suppose

yes I think so

I want to put a thesis to You Toby

about what's been going on

let's cast our minds back say about 18

months when control is still with us

Percy alaline wants his job everyone

knows that but although control is sick

and past is prime Percy can't dislodge

him

it's a time of uneasiness in the service

morale is low activity is low yes I

remember George

well Percy's door opens one day and one

of our senior men walks in we'll call

him Gerald well it's just a name and

Gerald says Percy I've stumbled on a

major source of Russian intelligence it

could be a gold mine

perhaps they take a walk in the park or

drive in a car but whatever Percy

listens

because what general goes on to say is

music

in Percy's ears some of us Gerald tells

him are worried sick about the state the

circus has got into I mean look at our

operational losses

agents Networks

he is careful not to suggest there's a

traitor inside the circus

but he emphasizes that slovenliness at

the top is leading to failure all run

that is to say it's all controls fault

my thesis you understand

sure George another notion is that Percy

alaline was his own Gerald that he went

out and bought himself a top Russian spy

and manned his own boat from then

armored I don't believe that's what

happened I think he'd mess it up don't

you

children so the next thing is for Gerald

to say to Percy I and a little group of

like-minded friends want you to be our

Father Figure Percy we are not political

men we don't know our way in the

Whitehall jungle but you do did you

bring up babysitter Toby

George why should I

I came to meet Peter and some Pearl in

the fur trade

do you want Fawn to go down and have a

look no need him here

can't take the chance

as well Gerald says that if Percy will

handle the Committees he and his friends

will handle Merlin Merlin being the

Moscow intelligence source and

Witchcraft the name of the material he

supplies and how well it all worked

Merlin's material proved excellent as

everyone agreed they accept control

and eventually control was out and Percy

was King

so what's new George

ever bought a fake picture Toby

sold a couple once

the more you pay for it the less

inclined you are to doubt it's

authenticity

Merlin's price was 20 000 francs a month

into a Swiss bank

according to the file

oh yes Toby this is official

there came the day

when Gerald admitted Percy to The

Greatest Secret of all

that the Merlin set up

as a London end

Alexey Alexander rich polyagov

cultural attache at the Russian Embassy

in London you're on record as grading

him Snow White Toby quite untainted with

the Mischief of Espionage in fact

is Merlin's London representative

that's a start I should tell you now but

very clever not now everything to do

with witchcraft is Secret of course but

inevitably a lot of people are involved

transcribers translators codists

evaluators God knows what

doesn't worry general of course

he likes it

because the art of Being Gerald is to be

one of a crowd

that when it comes to polyakov

that's a different story

who knows it

only you

Roy Bland Bill Hayden and Percy

three of you and Allen I

you're the magic circle

who meets him Toby

for God's sake let me sweat that bastard

you all meet him

how's that

Percy represents the authoritarian side

asks after his wife suggests this time

he took a little holiday very paternal

Percy would be

Bill Hayden I think would see polyakov

much more often Bill's a Russian expert

for one thing and he is good

entertainment value I'd expect Bill to

shine when it comes to the briefings and

follow-up sessions making sure the right

messages went back to Moscow

rhyme land's good on economics as well

as being top man on the satellite

countries so he'd have plenty to chat

about

then there's You Toby

you'd have your solo sessions with

polyakov because this tradecraft to

discuss and all those little Snippets

about goings on inside the embassy which

are very much our field

and if the magic circle wanted polycarf

to do some photography inside the

embassy it would be you who would Supply

the film

replenish his stock from time to time

take him little sealed packets

two of you wouldn't be lying would you

did you bring a babysitter who crossed

my heart Georgia I swear to you what

would you use for a job like this

cars no one foot

keep walking them through

how many eight

ten maybe what about one man alone one

never impossible I can call Mendel to

take a look

I'm sure Toby is right

listen George

I know polyakov works for Moscow Center

of course I do

we all know

but come on

think how many other operations we've

run this way

we've bought polikov right

he's a Moscow Hood but he's also our Joe

oh he's got to pretend to his own people

that he's spying on us

and so we've got to give him one or two

goodies now and again

sure I've passed him the odd sealed

packet you can feed

so he can send them home

Moscow center clap him on the back and

tell him he's a big man

it happens all the time

come on George you know the game

so are you polyakov's agent inside the

circus

someone has to be

if polikovs cover for meeting you people

is that he's spying on the circus

then they must have a man on the inside

mustn't he

a polyakov can't report back to moscow's

center after he's picked up a great load

of circus chicken feed and just say I

got this from the boys

he's got to have a whole history

how he selected his man

courted him

bought him

how they meet and where

oh paraphernalia of running a double

agent and all this in Moscow centers

archives

You Toby

Toby Esther has a masquerades as a

circus traitor in order to keep polyakov

in business my hat Toby a dangerous job

like that deserves a whole chest full of

medals

you're on a damn long road George

what happens to you if you never reach

the other end with Lacon and the

minister behind me

why become a little guy

why not go for the big ones Percy

Airline Bill Hayden thought you were a

big guy these days You're The Perfect

Choice Toby

resentful about slow promotion

sharp-witted

fond of money

with you is his agent polyakov has a

cover story that really sits up and

works the big three give you the little

sealed packets of chicken feed and

Moscow Center things sure all theirs

the only problem arises when it turns

out you've been handing polyakov the

crown jewels and getting Russian chicken

feed in return

if that's the case Toby

you're going to need some good friends

like us

Gerald causes of Russian mole

and he's pulled the circus inside out

but witchcraft material isn't chicken

feed

the best it was good at first

listen George suppose you're wrong Toby

who told you to muzzle jelly where's to

be

the same person who sent you down to

Sarat with a thousand pounds for Jim

Credo and the instruction get lost

speak up

was it Percy

I think so

maybe it was Bill though

well listen it was a big operation

sometimes why

it never seemed to come straight from

one

there was a committee

I took a lot of orders you told Peter to

forget about Tinker Taylor

where did that come from I never knew

what that meant now George that's the

truth

yes I do see

what a dog's life you must have been

leading running between them all

George

if there's anything I can do of a

practical nature

oh you know me George

my boys are pretty well trained

and if you want to borrow them

I'd have to speak to Lacon of course but

uh

how you'd expect that

all I want is for this theme to be

cleared up

for the good of the circus

I want nothing for myself

where's this safe house you keep

exclusively for meeting polio health

five lock Gardens at Camden town

you're going to be staying here for a

night or two

Thorne will look after you

perform you'll have to make appropriate

explanations to the circuits by

telephone

you're having girl trouble or whatever

sort of trouble you're in these days

and there's your wife of course

sure George I can handle that

if he's in a bother foreign use your own

discretion

Peter and I want you to watch my back

will you do that for me

foreign

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foreign

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thank you

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same as you George

just a feeling

someone and I couldn't say for certain I

covered both of you right to the front

door

if either of you did have company is

cleverer than me

that's been done

do you have anyone particular in mind

shall I go down to Pavement level take a

sniff

well proceed yes right now the minister

has one major value

in his own words how much porcelain gets

broken at the end of the day

Scandal he is talking about

if we unmask the mole are the Russians

going to cut their losses by telling the

Press of the world how they've made

fools of us all this time I think not if

you make your enemy look stupid you lose

the justification for taking him on yes

I've told him that John so isn't his

mind at rest he hopes there'll be

nothing messy George

nothing that could provoke must go but

proceed haven't yes

clean the Stables

problem flush out the mole method

we need to alarm him just sufficiently

to make him call for a crash meeting

with polyakov at the safe house a

meeting Gerald them all needs all to

himself secret from the rest of the

Witchcraft magic circle

there are two of them and Adeline we

have definitely declared Esther here oh

yes

thank you Carla really did bring off the

perfect fix for a while

it would be beautiful in another context

Tinker Adeline Taylor Hayden

Soldier Bland

spot the mole quite wazen means George

will go to Paris

he'll make use of the appropriate

Embassy facilities

to send a signal to the head of London

Station

something something something

which we'll now concoct

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vital to the safeguarding of the service

request immediate meeting personal

remember vital to the safeguarding of

the service

it's even true no forget that no

mistakes Ricky your head's on the Block

well the only one Peter

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did say two full milk bottles and all's

well and you may enter yes yes George

and that's the second time is it

when it's not pretend we're not nervous

the change

to record

should we try it

I'll go upstairs

sure would you like Monty Verdi I think

Berlin Mick Jagger

this Machinery installed at Great

expense to the British taxpayer is voice

activated

when I stopped speaking the tape will

stop recording

see

just keeps rolling

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soldiers just arriving

that's all three of them in there now

start his orders now the important point

is who gets away first

just going for a walk back with you in a

minute

Peter

all clear

as far as I can judge no promises I

think you should come down now

proceed

proceed

nothing just fiddling

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someone just leave it

can't quite make him out

hold a taxi right to the door

okay

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thank you

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great big one

anything on you

that you prefer I should

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I go to bed

just long enough to keep his sticky

but never stick his neck out

something to buy back is good

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thank you

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you butchered my agents

how many cents

how many

200.

three

four

stop it right

are you armed Bill I'm a Soviet Diplomat

this Behavior shut up

Peter will you please telephone Percy Al

the line and ask him and Roy Bland to

come here immediately then lick on then

Toby Esther hazy I think the first thing

to do is to play them this evening's

tapes

that should save a great deal of time in

explanations

it's really

oh they're um

do you mind if I finish my drink George

there was no one out there you noticed

quite as a grave

very proper George

don't want anything irrelevant do we

very tidy George

repairs long enough to keep his dignity

You Can't Jump the man and Ricky cartels

into

well you know his Tower would never

stick his neck out like this unless he

got something precious

something to buy back his goodness

and then some

and you and I know what it is

Carla's got 24 hours to pull me out

the time has come addicts

well that's that

congratulations George

Next Step gentlemen

would you agree with me Percy that our

best course is to make some positive use

of Bill Hayden

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we need to salvage whatever's left of

the networks he's betrayed

we sell Bill to Moscow Center whereas

many of our men in the field as can be

saved for humanitarian reasons

professionally of course they're

finished

quite

and the sooner you open negotiations

with Carla the better

well you are a much better place to talk

terms with our friend downstairs than I

am

polyakov remains your direct link with

Karma the only difference is this time

you know it

it's definitely your job Percy

you're still Chief officially

for the moment

very well George

excuse me sir Mr Gillum says is it all

right if the inquisitors take Mr Hayden

away or not

should I go first

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all the best Percy

I want four numbers too

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thank you

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I'm sorry about the assault

unprofessional

it was just that it would have to be

Bill Hayden wouldn't it

he was always our hero in capital

letters

I mean for the younger Lord my kind

anyway

the Antiquated English Patriot

never mind all the dirt we have to do

it's for England

the funny thing about all this

it's quite an effort now not to think of

him with affection

I suppose bill would say that means

you've grown up Peter Peter always good

for a laugh wasn't he in bill

I'd like to thank you by the way

you helped enormously no truly Peter

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assures me there's been no coercion I

hope that's true oh yes no complaints

George

bit of a nosebleed keep feeling dizzy

I'm sure it's just the excitement of the

door

why have you been weeping sharing's

aspiration really the pettiness of our

inquisitors they're utterly incompetent

they actually believe I know the names

of Carla's Alamos around the world

I can't talk to people like that

but you're prepared to say something to

me according to Leighton can't Percy get

a move on doing his horse training with

Carla oh I'm sure it'll only be a matter

of a day or two now

what do you want to know

whoa

why when how

you asked that

because it was necessary that's why

someone had to

we were bluffed you me control all of us

the circus Talent spot is all those

years ago they picked us when we were

going with hope told us we were on our

way to the Holy Grail a lifetime of

Glory in front of us service to the

great cause

Freedom's protectors

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Western democracy George

greed

and constipation moral political ascetic

I hate America very deeply

the economic repression of the masses

institutionalized

even Lennon couldn't foresee the extent

of that

Britain

no viability whatever in world affairs

I suppose that's when it began

turning my eyes to the east I mean

and I saw how trivial we'd become as a

nation

say

mid-40s

by 1950 I was slipping Carla occasional

Gifts of intelligence carefully selected

morsels to help the Russian cause

against America

at that time I was scrupulous not to

give Moscow anything harmful to

ourselves

our own agents in the field

I still believe the secret services are

the only real expression of a nation's

character

until the mid-50s

I still had hopes

lingering loyalty to what we represented

self-delusion of course

we were already America's Street walkers

I was granted the Soviet citizenship 12

years ago

you've given me a couple of medals

what medals I didn't ask him does it

matter

quite a lot to Bill once opposite

possibly

we're going to get a bit more from him I

hope

I do hope so George

he's right about the State of Affairs

down there slovenly

they don't even Patrol the perimeter day

or night I have mentioned it the

thinking on salad is that it should be

as inconspicuous as possible I'm

concerned for Hayden's safety

bunch of being a little bit dramatic

the only place he can go to is Russia

and we're selling him there anyway

the number of people who need to be told

about all this as we agree must be kept

as small as possible

I suppose your wife will have to be

among them

I know you told me she and Hayden rolled

over and done with now as I've said but

there's always the unknown factor in

matters of the heart as a verb

I'm thinking about the future any

possible further contact and Ivan

doesn't know

she does meet so many different sorts of

people

she gets around

not at all I quite take your point

and must let us know of any approach

directly or indirectly made by or on

behalf of exactly or even apparently on

behalf of or merely concerning Bill him

thank you

I was going to tell her anyway

you might call it balancing the books

absolutely

you know George one thing perplexes me

more than anything else about the male

conspiracy

Carla devised operation witchcraft

primarily as a means of putting poor

personality on controls throne

but why didn't Karla want Hayden to take

over the circus himself

and surely would have been less

difficult to arrange with all bills

acknowledged accomplishments

no no

we had the perfect setup

Percy Mig of running I slipstream behind

him Roy and Toby did the leg work

far better for me to remain the

freewheeling subordinate

The Laughing Cavalier

being in charge could have bogged me

down too much admin diary full of

meetings dinners chewing the cut in

Whitehall never happened to control a

natural recluse control

I couldn't have behaved like that and

got away with it

no no George

Carla and I agreed I'd have been wasted

as cheap

could have done it of course of course

I'd like to go inside now

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picture the whole country covered in

cloud and rain yes you're right

the Czechoslovakia in business was a bit

of a desperate throw

but something pretty bird was called for

I was certain control was getting very

warm indeed

all that buttering and the files he was

doing

it was paying off I knew

he'd built up an uncomfortably

impressive inventory of the number of

operations I'd either blown or managed

to [ __ ]

and then of course he was narrowing his

field of suspects

a short list of officers of a certain

age experience rank

he did well

considering he was so ill

surprised Carla

was the offer of information from

General stepchek genuine good Lord no it

was a fix from start to finish Steph

Checker existed of course still does

very distinguished man but he never

offered anything to control or anybody

else

did you expect control to send Jim prida

well

obviously we needed to be certain

control would rise to the bait

we had to spell it out that he'd got to

send a big gun to make the story stick

and we knew he'd only settled for

someone outside London Station

someone he trusted

and someone who spoke chick of course

naturally

it had to be a man who was owed circus

to bring the temple down a bit yes I see

the logic of that

oh

it was perhaps the most famous

partnership the circus ever had you and

Jim back in the old days

the iron fist in the iron glove who was

it who coined that

I got him home didn't I

yes

that was good of you

the thing with them was Carla's idea was

it yes

did you think it was has

the point was Carla always thought if

there was a threat it would come from

you

he said you were quite good

not that you had this one weak spot

and

it was a double fix actually

on the one hand you weren't likely to

think of me as a circus spy if you were

preoccupied with what your wife and I

got up to in bed

and on the other

if it was well known around the place

that I was her lover

it was bound to look like personal

Vengeance if you ever did suggest I

might be the mo

so Carla said

not string it

but if possible

join the queue

point

presumably it was on Carla's

instructions you were with Anne on the

night of the predo shoot-up as insurance

oh yes he was adamant on that

they tell me I could be away tomorrow

or the day after at the latest

can you make sure any mail gets

forwarded from my club

oh and the balance of my salary of

course

I will

anything else oh yes

nearly forgot

you've got a pen somewhere

thanks

girlfriend

give her this

I'm aware on work of national importance

maybe for years

so she can forget me

and I can't take her with me can I

even if I could should be a bloody

Millstone

oh and um

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there's one particular boy

cherub but no angel

I haven't seen a lot of him

I better give him a couple of hundred

can you do that out of the reptile fund

I would think so good

oh God I'm tired

my pen please

all right

oh

certainly

sorry

thank you

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turn around

ah it's YouTube

Time to Say Goodbye

nice of you

I'm glad to see you haven't lost your

touch

must be in pretty good shape

why did you get me back

I couldn't leave you rotting in a Czech

prison

Russian

why didn't Carla finish me off was that

out of delicacy to you

wasn't that was it

you both thought that a corpse might

create a lot more of us than just

another repatriated harmless [ __ ]

didn't you

the shooting wasn't part of the plan Jim

no not the shooting

but everything else

and that food shall be bestowed to the

land against the seven years of famine

which shall be in the land of Egypt that

the land perish not through the famine

and the thing was good in the eyes of

pharaoh and in the eyes of all his

servants

and Pharaoh said unto his servants

can we find such a one as this

a man in whom the spirit of God is

and Pharaoh said unto Joseph

for as much as God hath

shooed thee all this

for as much as goth God hath shooed

for as much as

for as much as God has

shooed

for as much as God hath showed the all

this

for as much as God hath showed thee all

this

there is none so discreet and wise as

Thou Art

Thou shalt be over my house

and announce Thy word shall all my

people

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it seems that at half past 10 Hayden

told the guards he felt a bit sick and

he thought a breath of air would help

him because his case was now considered

closed they saw no reason to tear

themselves away from some horror film

that had just started on the television

and they let him wander off

half an hour later they thought they'd

better go and look for him

receive no letters messages during the

day I was the only Outsider to see him

but his suit had come back from the

cleaners

possibly a message was concealed in it

inviting him to a rendezvous

the gods had not inspected the suit

before giving it to him I'm afraid that

doesn't surprise me

any comments anyone

what if someone went to the clean but

said he'd lost his ticket and could he

look through the stuff ready for

collection

that's one way

would the Russians

it gives Carlo all the reason he needs

to cancel the deal on our Networks

that Moscow Center Prides itself on

getting its people back

important point right

well who then

we will all of course have to account

for our movements

last night necessarily A formality

also mental form or guitar

then as to the Future

I've been asked to

look after things for a while

I'd like everyone to take some leave

and afterwards there'll be some

redeployment

for those of you who wish to remain with

the service

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hello

and

just the same

you too

no

um

Julian was that his name

Jake

and no Jake gone

I actually got a job somewhere

I'm quite free at the moment

enjoying it

Uncle Gaza gas is away too Madrid so

I've got the household of myself I

brought you this

it goes um

very nice of you

oh

what been happening have you all been

did Bill say anything about me I mean

me as a person would have thought about

me

not really

are you glad he's dead

please

don't say not really

no I'm not glad

there was a moment

when I knew

when I heard his voice talking to

paulikov

just for a moment I wanted to shoot him

but it passed

will betrayed totally didn't he

everything everyone

are you taking some kind of Revenge

he must have talked to you quite a lot

should I passed all that on to you

pillow talk

scribe bill

yet another man trying to find a little

place in history

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himself

he loved being a traitor

I'm glad he's dead his life was over

I'm glad for him

did you love him

and

did you

no George

poor George

life's such a puzzle to you isn't it

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his father

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be the

it's of thy people

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sorry

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