1. Right. We shall start.Copy !req
2. Has he called yet?Copy !req
3. No. Six minutes to go yet, Control.Copy !req
4. Will you speak up, please?Copy !req
5. City Removers here.Copy !req
6. I believe you wanted an estimate.Copy !req
7. You're always welcome.Copy !req
8. You did exactly what I told you?
Talked to nobody?Copy !req
9. Remember, Jim, trust no-one. No-one!Copy !req
10. You work to me alone.Copy !req
11. I'm sorry, there's no vodka.Copy !req
12. I didn't expect any.Copy !req
13. I've got a job for you.Copy !req
14. Familiar territory. Czechoslovakia.Copy !req
15. Perhaps a bit too familiar.Copy !req
16. Which identity do you want to use?Copy !req
17. I'd suggest Vladimir Hajek.Copy !req
18. - Still a Czech journalist?
- Yes.Copy !req
19. - Still based in Paris?
- Yes.Copy !req
20. - Has anyone else used him?
- No.Copy !req
21. Do you agree?Copy !req
22. I think it's safe, yes.Copy !req
23. I've had an offer of service, Jim.Copy !req
24. On the military side.Copy !req
25. His cover name is Testify.Copy !req
26. You're a military-minded chap.Copy !req
27. The two of you should hit it off
pretty well. He's fond of horses too.Copy !req
28. Something else you've got in common.Copy !req
29. We can chat polo, I suppose, sir.Copy !req
30. His real name is Stevcek. At the moment,
he's an artillery generalCopy !req
31. but in the past, he's worked in close
liaison with Russian intelligence.Copy !req
32. Very close.Copy !req
33. And now he wants to talk to us.Copy !req
34. I have personally interviewed
an intermediary... in Austria.Copy !req
35. Stevcek now wants to testify...Copy !req
36. to a ranking officer of mine
who can speak Czech.Copy !req
37. Why?Copy !req
38. There was a girlfriend. A student,
20 years' difference between them.Copy !req
39. Such things happen.Copy !req
40. She was shot during the uprising of '68.Copy !req
41. Stevcek never forgave the Russians
for it.Copy !req
42. He's been after their blood ever since.Copy !req
43. Lain low, stayed friendly.Copy !req
44. All the time,
he's been waiting his chance.Copy !req
45. Now he's ready.Copy !req
46. How sure are you?Copy !req
47. Stevcek.Copy !req
48. Rocketry.Copy !req
49. Ballistics.Copy !req
50. Fourth man in
Czech army intelligence.Copy !req
51. Secretary the National Internal
Security Committee.Copy !req
52. Anglo-American desk in Prague.Copy !req
53. He's big, Jim.Copy !req
54. And he's got treasure for us.Copy !req
55. He's worked for Moscow centre's
England section,Copy !req
56. and he's going to give us the name of the
agent Moscow planted inside our setup.Copy !req
57. We have a mole, Jim.Copy !req
58. In London?Copy !req
59. Very near the top.Copy !req
60. In the Circus?Copy !req
61. One of the top five.
Their code name for him is Gerald.Copy !req
62. We've a rotten apple, Jim...Copy !req
63. and the maggots are eating up
the Circus.Copy !req
64. These people? One of these?Copy !req
65. Why not?Copy !req
66. Are the British incapable of deception?Copy !req
67. We've turned enough members
of other outfits -Copy !req
68. Russians, Poles, Czechs,
even the odd American.Copy !req
69. Why shouldn't there be a mole
in the Circus?Copy !req
70. Now... look at them.Copy !req
71. Control, I know who they are.Copy !req
72. Listen, Jim, we've got to have
code names for them.Copy !req
73. Do you remember the nursery rhyme
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor?Copy !req
74. Finish it.Copy !req
75. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.Copy !req
76. Percy Alleline,
Director of Operations - Tinker.Copy !req
77. Tinker.Copy !req
78. Bill Haydon, Head of Personnel - Tailor.Copy !req
79. Roy Bland,
Head of Iron Curtain Networks - Soldier.Copy !req
80. We leave out Sailor -
too much like Tailor - could be misheard.Copy !req
81. - Rich Man?
- Don't like it.Copy !req
82. Sounds like police work -
fraud, Swiss bank stuff.Copy !req
83. Toby Esterhase, top lamplighter,
our exquisite head sleuth. Poorman?Copy !req
84. Yes, Poorman.Copy !req
85. And George Smiley,
my devoted deputy - Beggarman.Copy !req
86. Have you got it?Copy !req
87. I'll remember.Copy !req
88. All I want from you Jim, is...Copy !req
89. one word, just the one code name.Copy !req
90. If you have to scrawl it on the front door
of the embassy in Prague...Copy !req
91. or phone our resident hood
and shout it in his earCopy !req
92. before you go underground.Copy !req
93. If there's some kind of a fumble
and that should be necessary,Copy !req
94. just give me that one word.Copy !req
95. But remember, Jim, if you're caught,
deny me. I don't know you're there.Copy !req
96. Where do I meet Stevcek?Copy !req
97. How? When?Copy !req
98. On Friday March 20th.Copy !req
99. Stevcek will be inspecting the weapons
research station at Tisnov, near Brno,Copy !req
100. about 100 miles north of the
Austrian border.Copy !req
101. From there, you'll be visiting
a hunting lodge for the weekend alone.Copy !req
102. It's a place high up in the forest,
not far from Racice.Copy !req
103. He'll provide you with an escort
from Brno.Copy !req
104. And he expects you on the evening
of Saturday March 21st.Copy !req
105. Hmm. What does...
What does he get from us?Copy !req
106. The usual assurances. If and when he wants
to come, we'll look after him.Copy !req
107. One word will do it.Copy !req
108. I'm almost there.Copy !req
109. Business trip, Mr Hajeck?Copy !req
110. And some pleasure, I hope.Copy !req
111. They can't make beer in Paris.Copy !req
112. How are you?Copy !req
113. OK. But the doctor told meCopy !req
114. I mustn't drive for more than
three hours at a time.Copy !req
115. Open it.Copy !req
116. No. You must sit next to me.
It's safer.Copy !req
117. Like hell!Copy !req
118. Also more democratic.Copy !req
119. Open it!Copy !req
120. Have you got a pistol?Copy !req
121. Open it.Copy !req
122. Have you got a message
for the general?Copy !req
123. I'll tell you a story.Copy !req
124. There's this old woman who
can't keep her hands off young blokes -Copy !req
125. always grabbing at their balls
in the queue.Copy !req
126. Well, it was just beginning
to rain...Copy !req
127. Don't move, and don't speak.Copy !req
128. Get out, Baraku, slowly.Copy !req
129. Put it on.Copy !req
130. Walk to the hut.Copy !req
131. I'll go to see the general
when you come back and when it's safe.Copy !req
132. Why? I know it's safe.Copy !req
133. Go. If I put the headlights on,
I can get you easily.Copy !req
134. Go, go, go.Copy !req
135. Barabbas was a bookseller.Copy !req
136. Mr Smiley, please!Copy !req
137. You're making an investment.Copy !req
138. I hope you'll remember that
the day I sell it back to you.Copy !req
139. It's always a pleasure
to do business with you, sir.Copy !req
140. You always have a joke for me.Copy !req
141. I think, after all, we could trust this
to the Post Office.Copy !req
142. Yes, sir. I'll send it on.Copy !req
143. I'll slip out that way, if you don't mind.Copy !req
144. Not at all, sir.Copy !req
145. George!Copy !req
146. Hello there.Copy !req
147. My dear boy.Copy !req
148. If it isn't the maestro himself!
Don't say you've forgotten me.Copy !req
149. Hello, Roddy. Nice to see you.Copy !req
150. How marvellous to run into you.Copy !req
151. They told me you were locked up with the
monks in St Gallen, or somewhere,Copy !req
152. poring over manuscripts.
Self-exile, they said.Copy !req
153. Of course I knew that wasn't true,
because I know you, George.Copy !req
154. You'd never leave England.Copy !req
155. You're just not capable of such
an act of abandonment,Copy !req
156. no matter how shabbily
the Circus treated you.Copy !req
157. So...Copy !req
158. what have you been doing
all these months?Copy !req
159. I want to know everything,
every little bit.Copy !req
160. How's the delectable wife?Copy !req
161. How is the lovely Lady Ann?Copy !req
162. Not in town at the moment, I hear.Copy !req
163. Pound to a penny
you're shopping for her.Copy !req
164. Little pressies all the time,
they tell me.Copy !req
165. Going-away gifts, coming-home gifts.Copy !req
166. Are you back on the beat, George?Copy !req
167. Or did you never really chuck it in?
Is that it, George?Copy !req
168. Has it all been cover?Copy !req
169. Cover, George?Copy !req
170. Roddy, I've retired.Copy !req
171. All right, George, if you say so.Copy !req
172. You look well, Roddy,
but I mustn't delay you.Copy !req
173. Oh, no, George, really!Copy !req
174. My dear old friend,
you can't get away like that.Copy !req
175. Roddy Martindale simply wouldn't let you.Copy !req
176. Months and months since we last
had a chinwag.Copy !req
177. Now, let me buy you a little aperitifCopy !req
178. and then let me take you to dinner.
Allow me that privilege.Copy !req
179. Honour me, George.Copy !req
180. I can tell by the look of you that no-one
else has claimed you tonight.Copy !req
181. - Oh, it's kind of you, but...
- It's my role in life, George.Copy !req
182. We all need to be good at something.Copy !req
183. We mustn't forget Jebedee.
Wasn't he your old tutor?Copy !req
184. Yes, once upon a time.Copy !req
185. How do you rate Spark,Copy !req
186. the one who came from the
School of Oriental languages?Copy !req
187. Place him in the batting order, George.Copy !req
188. Not quite there.Copy !req
189. Had trouble with his nerves, so they say.Copy !req
190. What a pity.Copy !req
191. All dead and gone now, of course.Copy !req
192. Properly appreciated by only a select few,
like you and me.Copy !req
193. You flatter me.Copy !req
194. Now, George, let's talk about
your old boss, Control.Copy !req
195. The only head of the Circus who ever
kept his name a secret.Copy !req
196. - Shall we talk about Control?
- If you insist.Copy !req
197. Of course it wasn't a secret to you,
was it, George?Copy !req
198. He never had any secrets from you,
his tried and trusted right hand, did he?Copy !req
199. I don't know.
That's the point about secrets.Copy !req
200. Close as thieves, Control and Smiley were,
right to the end, so they say.Copy !req
201. They are very complimentary.Copy !req
202. Now, don't flirt, George.
I'm an older trooper.Copy !req
203. You and Control were just like that.Copy !req
204. That's why you were thrown out.Copy !req
205. It's why Bill Haydon's got your job.Copy !req
206. It's why Percy Alleline got
into Control's chairCopy !req
207. when it ought to be you.Copy !req
208. Why Bill Haydon's his cup-bearer
and you're out altogether.Copy !req
209. - If you say so, Roddy.
- I do.Copy !req
210. I say more than that.Copy !req
211. Far more.Copy !req
212. I say this.Copy !req
213. Control never died at all.Copy !req
214. He's been seen.Copy !req
215. In South Africa.Copy !req
216. Now, we can't blame a man for wanting
a bit of peaceCopy !req
217. in the evening of his life.Copy !req
218. Willy Andrewartha walked straight into him
in Jo'burg Airport,Copy !req
219. in the waiting room.Copy !req
220. Not a ghost.Copy !req
221. Flesh!Copy !req
222. That's the most idiotic story
I've ever heard.Copy !req
223. Control died of a heart attack
after a long illness,Copy !req
224. through most of which
he continued to work.Copy !req
225. Besides, he hated South Africa.Copy !req
226. He hated everywhere except Surrey,Copy !req
227. the Circus and Lord's Cricket Ground.Copy !req
228. Yes, of course.Copy !req
229. Willy Andrewartha was always
the most god-awful liar.Copy !req
230. I said the same myself.Copy !req
231. "Willy, you should be ashamed
of yourself."Copy !req
232. I, um, suppose what put the last
nail into Control's coffinCopy !req
233. was the Czecho scandal.
The poor devil that got shot in the back.Copy !req
234. The one who was so thick
with Bill Haydon,Copy !req
235. with his picture in the newspapers
under some fictitious name.Copy !req
236. But we know his real name, don't we?Copy !req
237. Jim Prideaux.Copy !req
238. Somehow, I don't think I can
ever quite believeCopy !req
239. in Percy Alleline as chief, can you?Copy !req
240. Might be just my natural cynicism,Copy !req
241. but power sits poorly on those we've
grown up with, doesn't it?Copy !req
242. And there are so few who can carry
it off for me nowadays.Copy !req
243. Poor Percy's such an obvious fellow,Copy !req
244. especially after Control,
who was a positive serpent.Copy !req
245. How can anyone take Alleline seriously?Copy !req
246. All that heavy good fellowship!Copy !req
247. One has only got to think of him
in the old days,Copy !req
248. lolling in the bar of the Travellers',Copy !req
249. sucking away on that log of a pipeCopy !req
250. and buying drinks for all the moguls!Copy !req
251. Well, really!Copy !req
252. One does like one's perfidy
to be subtle, don't you agree?Copy !req
253. What's his knack, George?Copy !req
254. Living off the wits of his subordinates?
Am I right?Copy !req
255. Really, Roddy, I can't help you.Copy !req
256. I never knew Percy as a force, you see,
only as a...Copy !req
257. Striver? Right.Copy !req
258. With his eyes on Control's purple
day and night.Copy !req
259. Yes, well, now he's actually wearing it,
and the mob loves him.Copy !req
260. So who's doing the business for him,
hey, George?Copy !req
261. - Who is it?
- I cannot help you.Copy !req
262. Who's the clever-boots?Copy !req
263. Well, not Percy, that's for sure.Copy !req
264. And don't tell me the Americans have
started trusting us again,Copy !req
265. because they'd never fall for Percy.Copy !req
266. Roddy, please stop this.Copy !req
267. Wonderfully well he's doing.
We hear it from all sides.Copy !req
268. Little committees popping up
with funny names.Copy !req
269. Red carpet for Percy wherever he goes,Copy !req
270. tripping the light fantastic along the
Whitehall corridors.Copy !req
271. You're out of my depth, truly.Copy !req
272. So who's earning him his reputation?Copy !req
273. - Anything more, sir?
- No, thank you.Copy !req
274. I think we've finished now.Copy !req
275. It's my party, George.Copy !req
276. I'll get the bill when I'm ready.Copy !req
277. So who's pulling the strings
for Percy Puppet?Copy !req
278. How about dashing Bill Haydon?
Your old rival in every sense, I'm told.Copy !req
279. Of course he never was orthodox,
was he?Copy !req
280. Genius never is.Copy !req
281. All right, then. It's Roy Bland,Copy !req
282. the shopsoiled white hope,Copy !req
283. the first redbrick don to make the Circus?Copy !req
284. And if it's neither of them,Copy !req
285. and Control is really dead,Copy !req
286. then there's only one possibility left.Copy !req
287. It's someone who's pretending to be
in retirement.Copy !req
288. You, George! Admit it.Copy !req
289. You featherhead, Martindale!Copy !req
290. You pompous, bogus,
gossiping old featherhead!Copy !req
291. Roy Bland is not redbrick.Copy !req
292. He was at St Antony's College, Oxford.Copy !req
293. Now, don't be silly, dear.Copy !req
294. Of course St Antony is redbrick.Copy !req
295. It doesn't make the slightest differenceCopy !req
296. there's a bit of sandstone
in the same street.Copy !req
297. Just because he was your protégé!Copy !req
298. I suppose he's Bill Haydon's boy now.Copy !req
299. Bill was father to them all, wasn't he?Copy !req
300. - Or something like that.
- It's not mine. Thank you.Copy !req
301. I hope you're not going to tip him.Copy !req
302. It's a guinea at Christmas.Copy !req
303. Anyway, it's my party.Copy !req
304. Draws them like bees to a honeypot,
doesn't he, our Bill?Copy !req
305. Good night, Roddy.Copy !req
306. Do you fancy a nightcap?
Start afresh with the bubbly.Copy !req
307. Why not, George? I think I will.Copy !req
308. Of course, Bill's got the glamour,
hasn't he?Copy !req
309. Not like some of us.Copy !req
310. Star quality, I call it.Copy !req
311. One of the very few.Copy !req
312. I'm told the women
literally bow down before him.Copy !req
313. If that's what women do.Copy !req
314. Goodnight!Copy !req
315. Love to Ann.Copy !req
316. Everybody's love to Ann!Copy !req
317. Bits of sandstone...Copy !req
318. Shopsoiled white hope...Copy !req
319. Everybody's love to Ann!Copy !req
320. Oh, damn.Copy !req
321. Damn!Copy !req
322. Peter?Copy !req
323. I'd leave that coat on,
if I were you, George.Copy !req
324. - We've got a long way to go.
- Well, you're not me, Peter.Copy !req
325. And before I go anywhere at all,
I shall change out of my sopping shoesCopy !req
326. and also, I think, make a pot of coffee.Copy !req
327. You sound a little testy, George, old boy.Copy !req
328. Lacon is waiting for you.Copy !req
329. Me, Peter?Copy !req
330. George, I've been sent to deliver you.Copy !req
331. I've been reviewing my situation
in the last half hour of hell,Copy !req
332. and I've come to a very grave decision.Copy !req
333. After a lifetime of living by my wits
and on my memory,Copy !req
334. I shall give myself up full time to the
profession of forgetting.Copy !req
335. I'm going to put an end
to some emotional attachmentsCopy !req
336. which have long outlived their purpose,Copy !req
337. namely the Circus, this house,
my whole past.Copy !req
338. I shall sell up and buy a cottage -
in the Cotswolds, I think.Copy !req
339. Steeple Aston sounds about right.Copy !req
340. Do I need overnight things?Copy !req
341. I'm not taking any.Copy !req
342. And there I shall establish myself
as a mild eccentric.Copy !req
343. Discursive, withdrawnCopy !req
344. but possessing one or two lovable habitsCopy !req
345. such as muttering to myself as I bumble
along innocent pavements.Copy !req
346. I shall become
an oak of my own generation.Copy !req
347. You make the coffee.Copy !req
348. You know where everything is.Copy !req
349. You can even pick my front door locks.Copy !req
350. Clever Peter Guillam.Copy !req
351. I saw you parking this toy
in Curzon Street this afternoonCopy !req
352. I ran away immediately.Copy !req
353. Good guess on your part.Copy !req
354. What made you think I was looking for you?Copy !req
355. I hoped you weren't.Copy !req
356. However, you found me eventually.Copy !req
357. You had to come home sometime.Copy !req
358. It's far too young for you, Peter.Copy !req
359. It's quick.Copy !req
360. I'm surprised you didn't get thrown out
with the rest of us.Copy !req
361. You had all the qualifications
for dismissal.Copy !req
362. Good at your work.Copy !req
363. Loyal.Copy !req
364. Discreet.Copy !req
365. What happened tonight, George?Copy !req
366. How's Ann?Copy !req
367. Roddy Martindale happened tonight.Copy !req
368. Why do I permit it?Copy !req
369. I tell myself it's for politeness' sake.Copy !req
370. It's not.Copy !req
371. It's weakness, and the fact that I have
nothing better to do.Copy !req
372. My wife's fine, thank you.Copy !req
373. They've put me in charge of scalp-hunters.Copy !req
374. You are Jim Prideaux's successor?Copy !req
375. - You? Looking after the heavy mob?
- Why not?Copy !req
376. Tucked away at downtown Brixton,Copy !req
377. behind the broken glass
and the barbed wire,Copy !req
378. dispatching the thugs occasionally,Copy !req
379. kept a good arm's length from the
Circus ringmasters.Copy !req
380. How is Jim? Do you know?Copy !req
381. In quarantine.Copy !req
382. I don't mean to pry.Copy !req
383. I merely ask.Copy !req
384. Can he get around? Can he walk, and so on?Copy !req
385. Bad backs can be terribly tricky,
I believe.Copy !req
386. The word is, he manages pretty well.Copy !req
387. He's back in England.Copy !req
388. Address unknown.Copy !req
389. Travel.Copy !req
390. Is that still the scalp-hunters'
official name?Copy !req
391. Hit and run, cosh and carry.Copy !req
392. Sorry.Copy !req
393. Now Control always preached that good
intelligence work is gradualCopy !req
394. and rests on a kind of gentleness.Copy !req
395. - It's not my department.
- No.Copy !req
396. Well, the scalp-hunters were
always the exceptionCopy !req
397. Control allowed to his own rule,Copy !req
398. on Bill Haydon's persuasion.Copy !req
399. A reflection of Bill's temperament,
of course.Copy !req
400. The solo initiative.Copy !req
401. Very dashing.Copy !req
402. Very audacious.Copy !req
403. I'm sorry, Peter. What?Copy !req
404. Lateralism. I said, are you familiar
with the word?Copy !req
405. I most certainly am not.Copy !req
406. It's the in doctrine now.
We used to go up and down.Copy !req
407. Now we go along.Copy !req
408. What's that supposed to mean?Copy !req
409. In your day, the Circus ran itself
by regions -Copy !req
410. Africa, satellites, Russia, ChinaCopy !req
411. Southeast Asia, West Indies, you name it.Copy !req
412. Each region was commanded by
its own juju man.Copy !req
413. Control sat in heaven
and held the strings, remember?Copy !req
414. It strikes a distant chord.Copy !req
415. Well, today, everything operational
is under one hat.Copy !req
416. It's called London Station.Copy !req
417. Regions are out, lateralism is in.Copy !req
418. Who's station commander?Copy !req
419. Bill Haydon. His number two is Roy Bland.Copy !req
420. Toby Esterhase runs between them
like a poodle.Copy !req
421. They're a service within the service.Copy !req
422. Share their own secrets
and don't mix with the proles.Copy !req
423. There are three of them and Alleline?Copy !req
424. That's right.Copy !req
425. The object of it all
is to make us more secure.Copy !req
426. A very good idea.Copy !req
427. Why did Lacon send you for me, Peter?Copy !req
428. Did you mean, why did he send me for you,Copy !req
429. or why did he send me for you?Copy !req
430. Quite right, Peter. I should have
known better than to ask.Copy !req
431. You remember your last day
at the Circus?Copy !req
432. Just one day before Control departed and
the new regime took over.Copy !req
433. You stuck your head around my office door
and said, "Peter, I've been sacked."Copy !req
434. We went straight out,
and you got drunk.Copy !req
435. Why pick me, George?Copy !req
436. I was pretty low grade,Copy !req
437. running some very sketchy networks of
merchant seamen out of London dockland,Copy !req
438. whatever Poles, Russians, Chinks
I could cobble together.Copy !req
439. Why me, George?Copy !req
440. You want a reason?Copy !req
441. You fastened on the same word that night,
when I asked why you'd been kicked out.Copy !req
442. I'll tell you exactly what you said.Copy !req
443. I hope this isn't going to be
embarrassing.Copy !req
444. You said, "Reason as logic
or reason as motiveCopy !req
445. "or reason as a way of life."Copy !req
446. You said, "They don't have to give me
reasons.Copy !req
447. "I can write my own damn reasons,Copy !req
448. "and that is not the same as the
half-baked toleranceCopy !req
449. "that comes from no longer caring."Copy !req
450. I thought that was pretty impressive stuff
from a man as drunk as you were.Copy !req
451. At least I had the good sense not to
let you drive me home.Copy !req
452. Lacon sent me for you, George.Copy !req
453. Looks like Count Dracula's
blood bank.Copy !req
454. Lacon once described it to me
as his Hampshire Camelot.Copy !req
455. Built by a teetotal millionaire,Copy !req
456. which he seems to think
explains everything.Copy !req
457. I'm so out of touch, Peter.Copy !req
458. Does Lacon have any particular
title nowadays?Copy !req
459. Nothing new. Just a Sir Oliver of the
Cabinet Office.Copy !req
460. Permanent watchdog
of all intelligence affairs.Copy !req
461. You know how he loves being one
of nature's prefects.Copy !req
462. George, hello! Thanks for coming.Copy !req
463. Come on in, will you?Copy !req
464. Guillam.Copy !req
465. I hope you didn't get too bounced about,
George...Copy !req
466. You've been enjoying retirement,
George?Copy !req
467. You haven't missed the warmth
of human contact?Copy !req
468. I rather would, I think.Copy !req
469. One's work, one's old buddies.Copy !req
470. Oh, I think I manage very well,
thank you.Copy !req
471. Yes. Yes, I'm sure I do.Copy !req
472. And you? All goes well with you go?Copy !req
473. Oh, no great changes. No. No.
All very smooth.Copy !req
474. Charlotte got her scholarship to Roedean,
which was nice.Copy !req
475. - Oh, very good.
- Hmm.Copy !req
476. How about your wife?Copy !req
477. In the pink, and so on?Copy !req
478. Very bonny, thank you.Copy !req
479. Ah!Copy !req
480. All spruce and shipshape again, Guillam?Copy !req
481. You were grubby.Copy !req
482. He did look a ruffian, didn't he, George?Copy !req
483. Well, shall we?Copy !req
484. Please, George, I want him to talk
particularly to you.Copy !req
485. All right, Fawn, lock us in, please.Copy !req
486. - I think you know Mr Smiley, don't you?
- Yes, of course I do.Copy !req
487. You once gave me a job, Mr Smiley.Copy !req
488. Don't you remember?Copy !req
489. Tarr, sir. Ricki Tarr, the lawyer's boy
from Marseilles.Copy !req
490. Changed my first nappies,
as we used to say.Copy !req
491. They were very tough interviews you used
to give us tender young recruits.Copy !req
492. Course, 12 years ago, and it's that long,
Mr Smiley,Copy !req
493. but you don't look any different to me,
sir.Copy !req
494. No, 12 years ago, nobody but nobody
got taken onCopy !req
495. unless we got past you.Copy !req
496. Not even scalp-hunters,
who weren't quite your type?Copy !req
497. We all had to get the nod
from Mr Smiley.Copy !req
498. Tarr...Copy !req
499. Of course I remember you, Ricki.Copy !req
500. Your father was an Australian, I recall.Copy !req
501. A solicitor
and a nonconformist lay preacher,Copy !req
502. altogether a most unusual chap
to pop up in Marseilles,Copy !req
503. but just such odd circumstances do seem to
provide us with suitable personnel.Copy !req
504. Hmm.Copy !req
505. Bad boys like Ricki.Copy !req
506. Daddy thought he could beat the sin
out of me, but you knew better,Copy !req
507. didn't you, Mr Smiley?Copy !req
508. He only beat it further in,Copy !req
509. and that's what scalp-hunters
are made of.Copy !req
510. - Isn't that right, Mr Guillam?
- We're waiting for you, Tarr.Copy !req
511. Yes, I do think we ought to get on.Copy !req
512. Well, I guess I better make my pitch,
then.Copy !req
513. Let's keep it precise, shall we,
all the way along?Copy !req
514. Before you begin, Ricki,
do I understand correctlyCopy !req
515. that no-one at the Circus knows you're
in England?Copy !req
516. Only Mr Guillam.Copy !req
517. You're officially absent
without leave.Copy !req
518. On the wanted list.Copy !req
519. I think I'm safe now.Copy !req
520. I've got a story to tell you.
It's all about spies.Copy !req
521. And if it's true, which I think it is,Copy !req
522. you boys are going to need
a whole new organisation.Copy !req
523. Right?Copy !req
524. Shall I start with the day
you sent me to Lisbon?Copy !req
525. Changed my life.Copy !req
526. You might find it's going
to change all your lives.Copy !req