Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

365 00:45:27,016 --> 00:45:28,802 # I mean just for you 366 00:45:29,518 --> 00:45:31,179 # Spinning wheel 367 00:45:31,312 --> 00:45:34,770 # Keep on spinning through, Drop all your troubles... # 368 00:45:34,899 --> 00:45:37,641 'I guessed he was waiting for a connect. 369 00:45:39,445 --> 00:45:41,777 'Working a letterbox, maybe. 370 00:45:41,906 --> 00:45:46,491 'Or trailing his coat and looking for a pass from some mug like me.' 371 00:45:46,619 --> 00:45:49,782 'So the second night I went to the import/ export outfit 372 00:45:49,914 --> 00:45:54,578 'that Tufty had set up with a cipher room hidden in the back. 373 00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:57,747 'I cabled "No sale" to Mr Guillam. 374 00:45:58,923 --> 00:46:00,914 'And that was that.' 375 00:46:02,385 --> 00:46:04,592 You were due to fly home the next day. 376 00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,130 Yes. 377 00:46:08,099 --> 00:46:09,885 But you didn't. 378 00:46:23,364 --> 00:46:25,605 'Boris had a wife. 379 00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:27,151 'Common-law. 380 00:46:28,077 --> 00:46:32,116 'Apparently she was a member of the delegation in her own right. 381 00:47:30,056 --> 00:47:33,719 'You once told me to trust my instincts about women, Mr Smiley. 382 00:47:35,019 --> 00:47:38,477 'Well, my instincts told me this woman had some treasure. 383 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:47,104 'When Boris went out for the night, I found myself going into her hotel.' 384 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,104 'So you dropped Boris.' 385 00:47:49,241 --> 00:47:52,608 'I know. It was breaking protocol. 386 00:47:54,038 --> 00:47:57,951 'But I was acting on my own initiative, as it were. ' 387 00:47:58,084 --> 00:48:01,076 Your man's a bit of a bastard, isn't he? 388 00:48:01,212 --> 00:48:04,295 I just wanted to mak e sure you were all right, OK? 389 00:48:04,423 --> 00:48:06,539 'So you didn't come home? ' 390 00:48:07,885 --> 00:48:10,752 I would have. 391 00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:13,004 Boris was a dead end, but... 392 00:48:15,101 --> 00:48:16,466 Um... 393 00:48:17,228 --> 00:48:18,468 I could... 394 00:48:19,814 --> 00:48:22,726 I could sense something in her. 395 00:48:23,984 --> 00:48:26,191 A secret. 396 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:31,781 And how did you intend to get this secret out of her? 397 00:48:39,083 --> 00:48:42,075 'I played this businessman, Michael Trench. 398 00:48:46,465 --> 00:48:48,126 'Holiday romance.' 399 00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:54,754 'I thought I'd tak e my time with it.' 400 00:49:45,566 --> 00:49:47,852 I know who you are. 401 00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:52,690 I want to talk to your boss. 402 00:49:52,823 --> 00:49:54,404 Control. 403 00:49:57,119 --> 00:49:59,656 I have something to trade. 404 00:49:59,788 --> 00:50:01,324 Something big. 405 00:50:02,541 --> 00:50:05,123 I want a new life in the West. 406 00:50:06,754 --> 00:50:08,836 That's the deal. 407 00:50:11,217 --> 00:50:13,128 You tell them. 408 00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:25,682 Look, you can't expect them to jump at every offer of service. 409 00:50:29,193 --> 00:50:33,152 If you won't tell me more, there is nothing I can do. 410 00:50:38,786 --> 00:50:41,493 If I tell you everything, 411 00:50:41,622 --> 00:50:43,533 I'm putting my life in your hands. 412 00:50:45,918 --> 00:50:48,000 And the lives of other people. 413 00:51:49,481 --> 00:51:52,439 'So she told me what she had to trade. 414 00:51:54,194 --> 00:51:56,150 'Her secret. 415 00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,612 'I mean, 416 00:51:58,741 --> 00:52:00,948 'the mother of all secrets. 417 00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:06,578 'I told her I'd alert the Circus. 418 00:52:06,707 --> 00:52:10,325 'She made me promise I wouldn't give any of the details to London.' 419 00:52:10,461 --> 00:52:13,328 'And you agreed? ' 'Yes. 420 00:52:14,632 --> 00:52:16,293 'I mean it was... 421 00:52:16,425 --> 00:52:19,667 'I couldn't believe I'd got hold of something this big. 422 00:52:19,803 --> 00:52:22,590 'I went back to the import/ export, 423 00:52:22,723 --> 00:52:26,807 'sent the message to the Circus, graded, "Flash, highest priority", 424 00:52:26,935 --> 00:52:30,177 'just that I had a Moscow-trained hood wanting to defect.' 425 00:52:30,314 --> 00:52:35,149 You're supposed to have gone. London stations have been on to me. 426 00:52:35,277 --> 00:52:37,518 Want to know what the hell you're doing. 427 00:52:42,451 --> 00:52:44,032 Fuck off. 428 00:52:45,287 --> 00:52:47,243 'Anything else, Ricki? ' 429 00:52:51,669 --> 00:52:54,536 I know what I am to the Circus. I'm one of the scalp-hunters, 430 00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:57,584 someone that you can hand your dirty little jobs to. 431 00:53:01,178 --> 00:53:02,714 I just... 432 00:53:04,348 --> 00:53:07,055 I just wanted to bring this one in myself. 433 00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:09,516 Well, I understand how you felt....