Our Kind of Traitor

of British politicians, lawyers and bankers, 333 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,917 all recruited by our friend Aubrey. 334 00:33:06,625 --> 00:33:09,214 <i>The game's about to start. We should find our seats.</i> 335 00:33:17,125 --> 00:33:18,461 Is that it? 336 00:33:18,917 --> 00:33:20,252 For now. 337 00:33:21,709 --> 00:33:24,876 I'm not getting involved in your personal vendetta with Longrigg. 338 00:33:25,042 --> 00:33:27,126 - It's more than my job's worth. - There's nothing personal about it. 339 00:33:27,292 --> 00:33:28,792 The man's a traitor. 340 00:33:28,959 --> 00:33:31,502 He was corrupt when he was in the service and he's corrupt now. 341 00:33:31,667 --> 00:33:33,584 He's working for the Russian mafia, 342 00:33:33,792 --> 00:33:35,541 and so are dozens of the most powerful bankers 343 00:33:35,709 --> 00:33:38,334 - and politicians in this country. - You've no proof. 344 00:33:39,250 --> 00:33:42,170 Let me make the source an offer and I'll get you the proof. 345 00:33:43,667 --> 00:33:47,544 Never before have we had an informant this high up in Russian organised crime. 346 00:33:47,875 --> 00:33:50,667 You won't get another opportunity like this, Billy. 347 00:33:53,042 --> 00:33:54,500 What does he want? 348 00:33:54,709 --> 00:33:57,293 - Asylum for himself and his family. - That's out of the question. 349 00:33:57,459 --> 00:34:00,459 The last thing the Foreign Office needs is another row with Russia, 350 00:34:00,625 --> 00:34:02,251 and the Home Office doesn't offer asylum to criminals. 351 00:34:02,417 --> 00:34:04,834 These men are betraying their country, Billy. 352 00:34:05,042 --> 00:34:07,749 I'm sorry, Hector, I'm not going after Longrigg or anybody else 353 00:34:07,917 --> 00:34:11,417 based on some Russian mobster's word. 354 00:34:13,292 --> 00:34:15,584 I don't like the cunt any more than you do. 355 00:34:16,459 --> 00:34:18,500 But I'm protecting you from yourself. 356 00:34:22,084 --> 00:34:24,084 This stops now. 357 00:34:49,125 --> 00:34:51,750 - What did Matlock say? - He said we're on. 358 00:35:01,709 --> 00:35:03,750 "Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, 359 00:35:04,459 --> 00:35:07,750 "a crowd flowed over London Bridge, 360 00:35:07,959 --> 00:35:09,417 "so many, 361 00:35:09,917 --> 00:35:13,125 "I had not thought death had undone so many, 362 00:35:13,667 --> 00:35:16,917 "sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, 363 00:35:17,125 --> 00:35:19,625 "and each man fixed his eyes before his feet." 364 00:35:19,834 --> 00:35:21,957 You see, Eliot is borrowing from Dante's <i>Inferno</i>, 365 00:35:22,125 --> 00:35:24,249 drawing a parallel between his century 366 00:35:24,417 --> 00:35:26,542 and the Florentine poet's vision of hell. 367 00:35:29,334 --> 00:35:32,542 Both writers, their societies had become corrupt, 368 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:34,459 and more than that, listless. 369 00:35:35,917 --> 00:35:39,584 And Eliot felt that 20th-century Britain 370 00:35:39,834 --> 00:35:42,000 was full of lost souls. 371 00:35:42,209 --> 00:35:44,751 There's nothing that links him to the house on Tuesday 372 00:35:44,917 --> 00:35:49,540 and all of the forensic evidence we can explain away because of their past... relationship. 373 00:35:49,750 --> 00:35:52,082 Can I speak to you later about this, please, Dolly? 374 00:35:52,250 --> 00:35:54,167 - Yes, of course. - Great. Thank you. 375 00:35:55,209 --> 00:35:57,167 Well, this is a coincidence. 376 00:35:57,375 --> 00:35:59,000 Not exactly. 377 00:35:59,584 --> 00:36:01,250 I don't even know your name. 378 00:36:01,459 --> 00:36:02,875 Luke. 379 00:36:03,084 --> 00:36:05,292 I'm gonna bet that's not your real name. 380 00:36:05,584 --> 00:36:07,042 No? 381 00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:10,375 Shall we? 382 00:36:17,292 --> 00:36:19,417 <i>I'm sorry to call you back like this,</i> 383 00:36:19,625 --> 00:36:22,794 <i>but we've had a chance to examine the contents of the memory stick.</i> 384 00:36:22,959 --> 00:36:24,375 <i>Did Dima</i> 385 00:36:24,625 --> 00:36:27,917 ever mention your involvement in any future negotiations? 386 00:36:30,667 --> 00:36:31,917 What negotiations? 387 00:36:32,084 --> 00:36:34,584 He's asked to meet us in Paris. 388 00:36:34,792 --> 00:36:36,624 He wants you there when we make contact with him. 389 00:36:36,792 --> 00:36:39,000 - Why? - He doesn't trust us. 390 00:36:39,792 --> 00:36:43,761 Probably worried we'll get the information we need out of him and feed him back to the wolves. 391 00:36:43,917 --> 00:36:45,207 But he hardly knows me. 392 00:36:45,375 --> 00:36:48,917 He knew you well enough to know you'd pass on his message. 393 00:36:49,125 --> 00:36:51,294 Obviously thinks you're a man of principle. 394 00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:53,750 I can't get involved. 395 00:36:55,667 -