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hungry three two one go

oh my God

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come on

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hey

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come on

please sir hello sir what's my time sir

don't keep up time please run out please

sir how long well done roach knew you

would second time Ron

so how long

now then 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 who

is he bigger man Thief

Tinker Taylor sold sailor Richmond poor

man bigger man

why didn'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

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

right now anybody sees him again

let me know or any other Sinister bodies

understand

don't want Juju men wandering around

pretending they don't ever exist

first glimpse

tell me

right

you know jumbo

you don't hold with odd bods wandering

around to school last place I was up we

had an old gang broken clear the place

out host cups money boys watches nothing

sacred to types like that

we don't want to swiping the Elvis

Irreplaceable

thanks to socialism

color of hair jumbo sort of like colored

stuff right

about the same as used though page 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

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thank you

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oh it's you jumbo

oh dear

can you get up and slowly

fell off the bricks to your jumbo

let's have a look

uh 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 tell her

you got 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 on the cover 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 uh

I used to be a soldier jumbo

but you saw just now that's a souvenir

you know it's like this

how I got it they're both Secrets I keep

unto myself

knew you would

knew you would

Alexa

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well well long time no see hello sir

please

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get on putting the dinner jacket on at

10 o'clock in the morning

reminds me of a diplomatic cover I can't

believe it

believe it or not it's straight

change

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to 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

gym predo was shot

the night of operation testified 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 who 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

scrambled 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 old Mendel controls

minder 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 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

just 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

how I think cost of the match which

could now be thrown out by Paul Mariner

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or by Woods two are still down all by

Muran

oh my walk and in the end by none of

them unbelievable

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all Mariners completely black

there's a great deal better than that

because I think my shade he's my man of

the match

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likely

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this is urgent when it's open

it's all hell broken out on the

czechoslovak air half of it's coded but

there's enough that isn't Prague or

Brunner brother

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you might want to keep listening

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thank you

control

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 and

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 Czechs are telling the world 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 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

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Ed

hello

is that Mrs smiley

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how did you leave it I rang George

Smiley's house just in case his wife

happened to know where you were

you I had a friend of the family aren't

you

I saw the tickets at the club and I

gather there's been some god-awful

shooting party

tell me Czechoslovakia right

Jim predo's been shot the Czechs haven't

got his real name yet they're using his

work name Ellis

Jim

shot dead 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 check

counter-revolutionaries tried to kidnap

but check General unnamed in a forest

near brinner 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 alaline

Bland

I'm glad to see you

I'm sorry Bill

all right Sam now

first thing we do

you call this number

it's Toby Esther has you

tell him 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 that

it's a start

I have a word with the chief Hood At the

Czech Embassy

if they hurt ahead of Jim Fredo's head

I'll strip the entire check Network in

this country there

and we can pass that on to his Masters

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I'm bound 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

I found a good Light reading over

breakfast at the supply

and then you went to the south of France

two lovely months

did anyone question you again

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

that 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 Officers 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 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 drunk off

she pushed him out of bed

and bill turned up an hour later

knowing about a checker

but you didn't tell Anne about checkers

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how you go George

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thank you

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gym

if you're not on your own

that's where I 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

they told me to draw the line I've done

it

how do you like school mastering I think

you had a spell of it after the ward

didn't you was that at a prep school

don't come around here playing cat and

mouse with me George Smiley look at the

file circus file not available to me Jim

I'm Blackboard

hard Luck

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

circa's Talent spotter

in which Bill named you a suitable

material for British intelligence I can

quote the art line from memory

he has that heavy quiet that commands

he's my other half

between us we'd 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 we're

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 a

prison cell no windows at all

tried to work out a Plano campaign to

meet the interrogation I knew I'd never

be able to keep quiet no chance of that

that has to stay sane

possibly even survive that had to be

dialogue at the end they'd have to

believe I told them all I knew

I decided I give them my version of

operation testify first the One controls

spelled out for 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

I could barely deep inside myself all

thoughts of a traitor inside the surface

no mole

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 amount

of Brixton stable anything as long as I

forgot the mole and Tinker Taylor and

kept myself our check Networks

you know I recruited the founder members

yes a fine piece of work that's the joke

I couldn't care less about the networks

you know at all rolled them up out there

and you damn well that testify was my

private brain child

I began exactly what I wanted to end

with the briefing in Saint 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

what about the charts

controls charts on general staff checks

career do they know about those

no

not at first

tell me about the networks did anyone

get out

no

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

oh okay so let's go somewhere I can

breathe

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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

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it's quite a lot of muscle

electrical most of it

YES Movement

cars lores

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 goes in

I Gotta Laugh the tin pot information

about checo military emplacement

wouldn't give him a square meal at his

Club so I said

maybe poor old control was losing his

grip that bored them

back to the cooler punished again

you know I I hoped her go mad

and now 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 tell them about controls

charts on stefcheck 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 arrived 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

hi

oh sorry

by this stage there was some Frosty

bearded fella left

seemed to be ahead boy just him and a

couple of guards standing back a bit

while they made his kill

I hated that damn cigarette why

was the final American thing come on

actually I remember the packet did he

smoke them never stopped

and was that the end of it

more or less more or less yes 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 is going down a lot of

tribe about what

who planned how much was he drinking

Esther he's here 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 he 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 reckoned that after Bill Hayden's

fleeing with her

she might care to redraft the

inscription

I told him to his face he could go on a

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 and everyone to see

him straight

hurts it

everything

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bill made a huge fuss about your

repatriation

he's at 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

proud of your 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

he told 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 gratuity who

from didn't say

didn't all this strike 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 I

want to try and make my story heard

the circus was back in 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 forgetting

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Lord know let us

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according to

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Energies

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as it was at the beginning

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