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[music playing]

[non-english chanting]

[knocking on door]

[buzzer]

Morning, Carruthers.

You're late.

I waited half hour for a bus, so I walked.

Then I had to fight my way through the chorus

of Miss Saigon down there.

Anyway, I'm off.

Carruthers?

Is that your real name?

Yes, it is.

Why?

Nothing.

How long have you been on this assignment, Harry?

Two years.

Anything ever happened across the way?

Well, they changed the curtains.

And the windows, they're now bulletproof, I think.

Hmm, you'd better start filling in the C 1 form.

Otherwise, you'll have Colonel Wilson on your back.

Carruthers?

Yes?

They also started taking milk.

I think they're secretly putting it in their tea.

Very valuable.

Thank you, Harry.

[non-english chanting]

[music playing]

Woo hoo.

[laughs]

JEAN [ON PHONE]: Hello?

Jean?

It's me, Harry.

JEAN [ON PHONE]: Oh, hello, Harry.

What's that noise?

Well, that, that's some students

outside the North Korean embassy.

JEAN [ON PHONE]: What do they want?

I don't know what they want.

I know what I want.

[non-english chanting]

Great.

So we're on for tomorrow night then?

JEAN [ON PHONE]:Of course, yeah.

Where are you taking me?

My pad.

I'll think up something spicy.

JEAN [ON PHONE]: I hope so.

Hold on a moment, Jean.

Looking ugly.

JEAN [ON PHONE]: Well, thanks.

No, no, not you.

JEAN [ON PHONE]: You sure you want to see me tomorrow?

[laughs] Of course I'm looking forward to seeing you.

Been a long time, yeah?

JEAN [ON PHONE]: Yeah. A very long time.

Uh-oh.

I'll call you back.

[non-english chanting]

[gunshots]

Get down!

[screaming]

Who the hell are you?

Palmer.

What the fuck are you doing here?

MI you wouldn't believe me.

[non-english speech]

What?

[non-english speech]

What did he say?

Death to the Reds, I think.

Couldn't find his passport anywhere, but we've

managed to identify him.

His name is Anatoly Kulbitsky.

He's Russian, a genetic research scientist,

and I bet he's a part-time KGB agent.

I think he most probably had a heart attack.

Do me a favor, doctor.

Have a look at his chest just about there.

Hmm.

If it's a poison, it must be very powerful.

It's the old Bulgarian umbrella trick,

a KGB speciality.

I thought they were out of business.

[horn honks]

[brooding music]

Hey, mate. Where do you think you're going?

HARRY: It's me, Palmer.

Make a note, I'm having lunch with Harry

McMillan at the club tomorrow.

- Oh, do you want to see me, Palmer? Yes, sir.

Oh, you'll have to make an appointment with Henrietta.

HARRY: You sent for me, sir.

Oh, did I?

Yes, sir.

Well, in that case, you better come in.

Oh, and, Henrietta, remind me to call my wife in four minutes.

Very nice.

Shut the door, will you, Palmer?

I suppose you'd better sit down.

You probably guessed what I need to talk to you about.

Yes, sir.

The dead Russian at the North Korean embassy.

I read your report and passed the file to Carruthers.

Oh?

I thought I was dealing with that?

You've seen the headlines?

I haven't read the papers, sir.

We've been very busy, what, with the staff reductions.

Don't get much time to read the paper.

Which brings us to your case.

Oh, yes, here we are, Palmer.

As I feared.

We're going to have to ask you for accelerated retirement,

effective immediately.

Of course, you'll have your pension.

Unfortunately, grade five, your acting rank,

has never been confirmed.

So you only qualify for grade six.

Bastards.

I beg your pardon?

I'd like to remind you, sir, that I

have been with this department for 30 years.

Well, we mustn't live in the past, Palmer.

I have been involved in some very important cases.

There was the Ipcress file affair,

the funeral business in Berlin.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, Palmer.

All before my time with the department.

I don't deny that you may have done

some good work in your time, but that was yesterday.

And today is today.

Thank you, Palmer.

Well, good luck in city street, Palmer.

You never really were the proper military type.

Screw you.

What did you say?

Goodbye, sir.

Give my regards to your wife in the customary manner.

[phone ringing]

HARRY [ON PHONE]: Hello?

WOMAN [ON PHONE]: Mr. Palmer?

HARRY [ON PHONE]: Speaking.

WOMAN [ON PHONE]: We understand that your services

might be available.

Meet us tomorrow at the Savoy Hotel at noon.

We assure you, it will be worth your while.

[taxi engine rumbling] [mysterious music]

Thanks.

Cheers, gov.

Morning, sir.

Morning.

- Will you be eating? - Not now.

- Just a drink? - Yes, please.

Follow me, please.

Can I have a vodka on the rocks, please?

Yes, right away, sir.

I'm expecting someone.

My name is Palmer if anyone asks.

Very good, sir.

[piano music in the background]

- Mr. Palmer? - Yeah.

Yeah, someone left this for you.

- Thank you. - My pleasure.

Here's your drink, sir.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

HARRY: St. Petersburg, Russia.

Well.

[music continues]

[aerolane engine roars]

[non-english speech]

Mr. Palmer?

Mr. Palmer?

That's me.

You need to follow me, please.

There's a car outside.

Where else?

[laughs] Have we met before?

Well, we've never been introduced.

My name's Nikolai.

Oh.

By the way, who was that woman who phoned me in London?

Ah, that would be Mother.

[laughs] Very original.

We use that.

Will I be meeting her?

No.

Follow me.

Where are we going?

You'll find out when we get there.

[tense music]

[non-english speech]

[non-english speech]

[tense music continues]

[non-english speech]

We're being followed, aren't we?

Yes, we are.

In a car?

You still do that here?

Yes.

Is there a seatbelt?

No.

[horns honking] [tyres screeching]

Who are they?

The Chechens.

Is that bad?

Very.

Are you planning on losing them?

[non-english speech]

[horns honking] [tyres screeching]

He is staying with us.

[non-english speech]

[tense music continues]

[non-english speech]

- What? - Plan B.

Oh.

This is plan B?

NIKOLAI: Get out.

She's a girl.

NIKOLAI: She knows.

Now, would you get on the boat?

Who are they after?

NIKOLAI: You.

Why me? I only just got here.

You'll find out later. Now, get on the boat.

I'll get on the boat.

[tense music continues]

[non-english speech]

Are you in charge of this operation?

Yes.

You're a bit young for the job, aren't you?

Mr. Palmer, if you don't worry about my youth,

I won't worry about your age.

[non-english speech]

Get down!

Get down!

[tense music continues]

[gunfire]

- Stop. - Stop?

Get down! Go!

Stop!

Oh.

[non-english speech]

Ow.

What the bloody hell?

My job is to get you where you're going alive,

and that's what I intend to do.

Now, lay down and shut up.

[tense music continues]

NIKOLAI: [non-english speech]

Got him.

[non-english speech]

Watch out. He may not be dead.

He's dead.

I'm sorry about that incident.

HARRY: You call that an incident?

Bloody hell.

Is that the Hermitage?

NIKOLAI: Yes.

I never made it there last time.

You won't this time, either.

[non-english speech]

HARRY: You want to tell me where we're going?

To see Alex.

Who's Alex?

NIKOLAI: Alex is a--

[dogs barking]

Ah.

--true survivor.

He's outlasted many regimes--

Brezhnev, Khrushchev,and hopefully, Yeltsin.

You speak very good English.

I was educated in England.

My father is English.

My mother is Russian.

HARRY: That accent.

Where did you go to school?

- Eton. - Eton?

I thought you bloody did.

Who's this?

A friend.

You sure?

[non-english speech]

Ah, Mr. Palmer.

Welcome back to Russia.

You call this a welcome?

I've been shot at, practically--

Shh.

I apologize.

You're working for me now, and I suppose I have enemies.

[laughs] A bonus.

Another $5,000.

Let's call it danger money.

A good name for it, sir.

[laughs]

[non-english speech] Mr. Palmer,

you must be curious as to why I brought you to Russia.

You could say that, sir, yes.

Let me help you. My name is Alexei Alexeyevich.

This is my home.

Nikolai, leave us alone, please.

Please.

Come this way, please.

Nice place you got here, sir.

Yes, a legacy of pre-revolutionary days.

You must be tired, Mr. Palmer.

Oh, I'm knackered, actually.

I will endeavour to satisfy your curiosity.

I want to employ you on some extremely secret business.

Why me?

The usual agencies have their disadvantages.

The police are unreliable and indiscreet.

And for various political reasons,

the KGB are no longer suitable.

It's very hard, you know,

these days to find unswerving loyalty

in a brand-new market economy.

So I get the job, whatever it is.

[laughs] Britain's loss is my gain.

Salud.

Cheers.

You see, Mr. Palmer, Russia is a country

that has always needed a strong man as a savior.

I'm going to dedicate what is left of the rest of my life

to that end.

I have an agenda.

And what is that?

I'm sorry.

I cannot tell you that yet, but believe me, our ends

will justify the means.

You see, before the dissolution of the USSR,

I was in charge of some extremely secret research

into the science of genetics and its military implications.

All that has since been privatized.

I am now what you call the chairman of the board,

and now, one of its most important genetic experiments

has disappeared.

But please, eat, Harry.

[laughs] Eat, please.

Do.

Good.

[laughs]

The code name of our project was Alarax.

Our earlier experiments were with rodents.

I see.

But as our knowledge advanced, we planned

to move on to human subjects.

Oh, really?

Please sit.

Centuries ago, there was a plague

which came from the Orient by way of Russia.

It destroyed between 2/3 and 3/4 of the population of the West.

It was called the Black Death.

I was starting to wonder why you wanted me.

[laughs]

One single drop of Alarax is enough to mutate

and destroy the entire population

of a city of 1 million souls.

They would become the human counterparts of these rodents.

Oh, bloody disgusting.

That is why we call it the Red Death.

I see.

Alarax is a binary product.

Binary? What's that mean?

Made up of two separate substances.

It's only when these are combined together,

it becomes dangerous.

Last week, we discovered that our sample was missing,

along with a certain professor, Kulbitsky.

Kulbitsky? I don't know that name.

Who would-- who would want to buy this--

what do you call it-- Red Death?

Well, our information tells us that it's

a certain ambitious but politically unacceptable power.

China.

Too obvious.

Iraq?

Try again.

What about North Korea?

Has it occurred to you, sir, that whoever stole the Alarax

might have already tried to sell it?

Our information is the Alarax has not yet reached the customer.

That's why you're here, Mr. Palmer.

I want you to find the route by which it's being shipped.

You must locate the courier.

And what else?

Bring the Alarax back by whatever

means you find necessary.

I'm not being overdramatic, Mr. Palmer, when I tell you

the fate of the world could be in your hands.

Oh, I've saved the world a couple of times before, sir.

What's the going price now?

250,000 American dollars in cash.

No rubles?

No rubles.

Perhaps I should warn you, Mr. Palmer,

the people who followed you here from the airport today

must have known why I brought you here.

They wanted information.

I haven't any information to give.

In that case, they would have killed you.

Well, Mr. Palmer?

$250,000.

That's 180,000 pounds right? Yeah.

Earned abroad, tax free.

It's a deal.

When do I start?

You have already started.

When?

This morning.

Oh.

[traffic rumbles]

You think we could have a quieter day tomorrow, Nick?

Nikolai.

You're on your own tomorrow, Harold.

Harry.

OK, fellas.

Let's go.

Hello. My name is Palmer. I have a reservation.

Welcome to the Nevsky Palace Hotel, Mr. Palmer.

Here is your registration card, and may I have your passport,

please?

It's a formality to stamp your visa.

Yeah. Thank you.

You'll get it back in an hour.

[music playing]

[non-english singing]

Hello, Harry.

I'm so sorry.

Bless you.

- Good to see you, Andrei. - You, too.

How are things at the Lubyanka?

The prison is now a tourist attraction,

and I am the manager of this restaurant.

It happens to the best of us.

Let's have a drink.

[music continues]

Here is to glasnost, perestroika, democracy.

To market economy and big tits.

[laughs] Big tits.

Yeah.

Cheers.

I'm looking for a firm who has stolen a deadly poison,

a substance called Alarax.

Well, there are three mafia groups in St. Petersburg.

It could be any one of them.

At least crime is flourishing in Russia.

Yeah.

[music continues]

I should like to make you a present, Harry.

I think you'll need it.

I can offer you a Luger, a Colt,

or its Russian equivalent.

I'll take the Colt.

You see that man looking at us?

His name is Yuri Stephanovich.

He's a big shot in the St. Petersburg Mafia.

Would you like to meet him?

If you must.

I don't think you have a choice.

Hello, Yuri.

Meet Harry Palmer.

I have heard about you, Mr. Palmer.

You work for Alex.

You should know that a friend of Alex is not a friend of mine.

HARRY: I'll bear that in mind.

[non-english speech]

Russia can be expensive.

Bloody hell.

You're not kidding.

But some things are cheap.

For instance, for $200, you can have a man killed.

Here's to a long life.

Whose life, Mr. Palmer?

[music continues]

She's pretty.

[ship horn blares]

[suspenseful music]

[non-english speech]

Louis, sorry I'm late.

Hi. How are you?

It's been a long time.

Yeah, it sure has.

A long time, Louis.

Who's this?

Grandson Sasha.

- Hello, Sasha. - Hello.

Ah, he speaks English.

The future.

Still with The New York Times?

No.

They said that since I had no longer

had contact with the KGB, I didn't fit in their budget.

You've lost the KGB?

They didn't have a budget.

What about the CIA?

They said the reason was budget cuts.

And the French Sureté?

Oh, they simply stopped paying me.

[laughs]

[non-english speech]

Poor old Louis. You lost all your contacts, hey?

Oh, I still keep in touch with everybody.

I have lots of friends.

You still do the English football pools Louis?

Every week.

[laughs] So what brings you to St. Petersburg?

I need your help, Louis.

You only have to ask, but I could use a little money.

Oh, why not, Louis?

Could you make it dollars, Harry?

Why not, Louis?

100 do you?

Could you make it two, Harry?

Why not, Louis?

That OK?

- Thank you. - All right.

[non-english speech]

How much?

[non-english speech]

10,000, Harry.

This will bring him good luck.

[non-english speech]

Thank you.

You're welcome.

It looks like good luck is running out.

- What? - Behind us.

- Where? - Don't look around.

Walk normally. Car is around the corner.

[non-english speech]

[suspenseful music continues]

Stop.

It's OK. It's OK.

Why are they after you?

I guess they found out I'm looking for the Alarax.

You know about the Red Dead?

Yeah. That's why-- down!

Louis! Louis! Louis, unlock the door.

[non-english speech]

Open the bloody door.

Louis.

Louis, Louis, unlock the bloody door.

Unlock the door.

[non-english speech]

It's OK, Sasha. It's all right.

[non-english speech]

[gunshot booms] [Sasha screams]

[non-english speech]

Shit.

Ah.

Bloody gun.

[rapid gunfire]

Ah!

[Sasha crying]

Harry, it's me.

[non-english speech]

Will you stop following me?

I don't need--

[non-english speech]

[suspenseful music continues]

Give me the gun.

Get in the car.

Go that way!

Go that way.

[sirens]

[non-english speech]

Louis! Louis!

[cars crash]

[non-english speech]

Mr. Palmer, you used to work for British intelligence?

Yeah, but not anymore.

So you said.

What brings you to Russia, Mr. Palmer, business or pleasure?

Pleasure, but I haven't had very much so far.

It appears from your visa that you are here as a tourist.

Yeah, looking, seeing the sights.

Some of them are not very pretty.

For instance, those three gangsters we found dead.

Did you kill them?

I don't even have a gun, captain.

But a police car has been badly damaged.

Yeah, well, I wasn't driving the other car.

[laughs]

What have you been up to, Mr. Palmer?

Well, you know, I've just been seeing old friends.

Apparently, you have some quite important old friends--

and enemies.

But if I were you, Mr. Palmer, I would be very, very careful.

Some people would prefer you dead.

I don't even know who they are, captain.

By the way, make sure that you don't break the law.

- Yes, sir. - Mm-hmm.

Thank you, sir.

Excuse me, sir.

Thanks for the lift, sir.

Appreciate that.

[suspenseful music continues]

[knocking on door]

This is for you, from Grandfather.

This is from me for good luck.

Thank you.

Thank you.

"Take the Bullet to Beijing tonight at midnight.

The Alarax will be on board.

Be careful.

They're trying to kill you."

[suspenseful music continues]

[laughs]

[non-english speech]

[non-english speech]

[suspenseful music continues]

[train engine rumbling]

[horn honks]

[gentle music]

[knocking on door]

Yes?

NATASHA: Mr. Palmer, I need to speak with you.

Just a minute.

Can I come in?

It's OK.

No one knows I'm on the train.

You're Natasha, the girl in the boat.

You've been following me.

That's right.

Oh.

You're an American?

No, no, I'm Russian.

Russian?

Well, my father was a military attache in Washington,

so I grew up in America.

Oh.

Are you going somewhere?

Do you like it?

Yeah, it's very nice, hmm.

But what can I do for you?

Well, actually, Harry, I was hoping there was

something I could do for you.

Oh, you feel I might be a bit lonely, right?

Well.

[train rumbles] [horn honks]

[gentle music continues]

Are you trying to seduce me?

Because if you are, I don't know any secrets.

Hey.

Hey. Hey.

Hey.

You haven't done this before, have you?

No.

I thought so.

Sit down.

Go on.

Sit down.

Do you want to tell me why you're really here, huh?

Huh?

You're working for Alex, aren't you?

Did he send you here?

Come on.

I'm supposed to help you in any way I can.

Funny you should say that, because I do need some help.

Could you have breakfast with me in the morning?

- Breakfast? - Yeah.

Just breakfast.

Thanks.

Harry Palmer.

You don't remember me?

No.

Well?

Well.

Well?

Well, what do you think?

I did my job.

Isn't that what you wanted me to do?

Craig Warner, CIA.

Washington, 1983.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What are you up to?

Well, I'm not working for Uncle Sam anymore.

They're cutting back to their last 20 aircraft carriers.

They made me expendable.

Well, that'll help.

[laughs] What are you doing in Russia?

Sort of freelancing.

I'm really glad to see you.

Great to see you.

By the way, congratulations.

Oh?

Friend of the family.

Oh.

[laughs] Nice to see you.

Good.

You got any spares?

[laughs] No.

Hey, buddy, let's get together.

Sure.

I'd like to hear what you've been up to.

- Take care. - Yeah.

[music playing]

Good morning.

Good morning.

Tea, please.

Do you know him?

He's an American.

I know who he was, but I don't know who he is.

[non-english speech]

Do you know him?

Who?

Him.

Oh, that's Colonel Gradsky.

[non-english speech]

What does he do?

He was a diplomat.

And KGB.

[laughs] Another unemployed spy.

He works.

For whom?

I don't know.

Honest?

[laughs]

[train rumbles] [horn honks]

[knocking on door]

Who is it?[

It's Nikolai.

Good evening, Harry.

What a surprise.

Are you following me?

Just making sure you're all right.

Alex wants to make sure I don't get lonely, huh?

I could do with a drink.

Care for a midnight stroll?

How did you know I was on this train?

Don't tell me.

Alex knows everything.

You said your father was English.

That's right.

Do you know what he did for a living?

Only what my mother told me.

He was in intelligence.

British intelligence?

That's right.

Maybe you knew him.

Maybe.

Why didn't your mother try to keep in touch with him?

It's not easy to keep in touch with British intelligence.

It is hard to find, isn't it?

You see, when they met, she was also in intelligence.

In Russian intelligence?

Oh, I see.

The old honeypot trap.

But they fell in love, and I was the one who got stung.

[laughs]

She kept me a secret from him.

You were educated in England, huh, at Eton?

Who paid for that?

My motherland.

Oh, you regard this as your motherland, do you?

Well, it certainly is my mother's land.

But is it yours?

Yes.

But your father was English.

When you don't know your father's name,

you'd be amazed how often the word bastard comes up in conversation,

especially at Eton.

You don't think you were the only bastard at Eton, do you?

[laughter]

- No. - No.

So now you work for Alex?

Yes.

Is he a bastard?

No.

He may be the one man to save us Russians.

I hope you're right.

How much does he tell you?

As much as I need to know.

Do you know the reason I'm on this train?

No.

Alex asked me to find something.

Will you help me look for it?

My job is just to keep an eye on you,

but you might want your gun back.

Thanks.

[tense music]

What does that say?

"To be delivered to the North Korean

Embassy, Beijing, China."

It's got a diplomatic seal.

Let's open it.

You think that's a good idea?

I'm gonna show you how to open the box

without disturbing the seal.

That's far enough, Mr. Palmer.

I'd prefer you both with your hands up.

- Thank you. - That's better.

I didn't notice much improvement.

I'm afraid we have different points of view, Mr. Palmer.

Why can't we be friends, Colonel?

Hmm?

I understand you're ex-KGB.

We're both in the same boat.

We're both recently redundant.

But not inactive.

At the moment, Mr. Palmer,

your curiosity is causing me some inconvenience.

What are you going to do, shoot us?

[non-english speech]

Well, I'm not a cruel man.

And you're right.

We are all-- what is the phrase?

in the same boat.

And up the creek.

You said you weren't a cruel man, Colonel.

Can we wait for a slow bit?

Get off.

[yelling]

My bloody arm.

Is this Siberia?

Of course it's bloody Siberia.

You haven't got a train timetable, have you?

[laughs] Ah.

"Can we wait for a slow bit?"

I can't believe you bloody said that.

Where the hell are you going?

To follow the train.

This is the only way it can go.

We have a track, a trail.

Have you got a better idea?

Yeah, shoot you.

Have you ever been chucked off a train before?

No, I've never been that stupid.

- Have you? - Yeah, twice.

What did you do then?

I took a taxi.

It was in London.

[laughter]

[plane engine roars]

Where the hell did that come from?

There's an airport.

Huh?

There's an airport.

Over this way.

[mysterious music]

[non-english speech]

What did she say?

She said that the ticket office will be open a little later.

I'll toss you for it.

Heads or tails?

Heads.

What does that say?

Café bar.

I'll be in there.

[mysterious music continues]

Shit.

[non-english speech]

So what did you find out?

Well, the good news is I got two tickets on the evening

flight to Irkutsk,

and the train doesn't get there until tomorrow morning.

Great.

So what's the bad news?

Nick, you said there were only two seats left on the plane,

one in the cockpit with the pilot.

Yes, I know, I know.

And the other in the toilet.

Heads or tails?

Tails.

You're in the toilet.

Let me--

I'm learning from you all the time.

[non-english speech]

Shut the door.

[non-english speech]

[laughs]

[non-english speech]

For the benefit of our English passenger,

please make sure that everything is in upright position

and prepared to take it off.

Thank you.

[music playing]

When do we get to Irkutsk?

When do we get to Irkutsk?

We shall not get to Irkutsk.

Not enough gas.

You must have known that before you left.

On this plane, nothing works.

How was I to know the fuel gauge works?

We land here.

Brest?

Where the hell is Brest?

Down there.

[engine roaring]

[goats bleating]

HARRY: Congratulations.

How was the cockpit, Harry?

You don't want to know. How was the toilet?

Harry, meet Ilona.

Ilona, Harry.

Hello.

You found her in the toilet?

Oh, this is not Irkutsk.

No, no, this is Brest.

- Brest? - Brest!

Where the hell is Brest?

It's somewhere else in Siberia.

But I must get to Irkutsk.

My mother is waiting there for me.

I wish my mother was, love.

Do you think there's a Hertz or Avis around here?

I wouldn't bank on it.

I'll tell you what, if we could find

a place where we could buy vodka,

I bet we'd find our way to Irkutsk.

[music playing]

How about over there?

Yeah, that might be a bar.

We have American dollars.

And we will give to anybody who would drive

us to Irkutsk $1 for each mile.

[non-english speech]

Come here.

You will drive my friends to Irkutsk.

[non-english speech]

Go, go.

[non-english speech]

[laughs] My capitalist friends.

OK, let's go.

I suppose you're checking in with Alex, are you?

Come on.

Brest?

Where the hell is Brest?

Get me Louis.

Mummy.

Daddy.

You'll see your mummy in the morning.

[car starting]

[sighs]

[phone ringing]

Hello?

What did you tell Harry Palmer?

Tell him?

I told him the Alarax was on the train.

Well, Colonel Gradsky has had him thrown off the train.

And I have a feeling it's your fault.

Alex, you're my best friend.

I did nothing.

Alex, Alex, I did nothing.

[ring tone]

[music playing]

What do you want, Louis?

I am busy.

It wasn't my fault. I just did as I was told.

I give the message to Harry to watch Colonel Gradsky.

Don't you realize, you bloody fool?

Gradsky works for Alex.

I want what Gradsky's got.

That's why Professor Kulbitsky was working for me.

Harry Palmer is becoming a nuisance.

Where is he now?

Brest.

Brest?

Where the hell is Brest?

[non-english speech]

Wait a minute.

I know somebody in Brest.

Louis, don't talk to anybody.

Stay home.

[non-english speech]

Yuri wants Harry Palmer killed.

[non-english speech]

[suspenseful music]

How far to Irkutsk?

I suppose about five miles.

What time is it?

Nearly 8 o'clock.

What time does the train leave?

8:15.

No problem.

[suspenseful music continues]

Just pick any gear.

They're all in the same box.

Funny.

What time is it?

10 past 8:00.

We've got plenty of time, five minutes.

No problem.

What the fuck?

[gunfire]

Faster.

I've got my foot on the floor.

[suspenseful music continues]

[non-english speech]

[screaming]

Where did you learn to drive like that?

The pyramids.

We're after you!

We'll never make it.

Buy yourself a new car.

Say goodbye to your mother.

I'm too old for this.

[non-english speech]

Goodbye!

Woo!

[laughs]

[non-english speech]

[blow thuds]

[knocking on door]

Surprise.

Two surprises.

NIKOLAI: What are you doing here?

She's my daughter.

What?

She's my daughter.

He is your father?

Yes.

Three surprises.

Sit down.

If your father is the courier I'm looking for,

he may be stealing from Alex.

And you are helping him.

He's not stealing from Alex.

We're both working for him.

You're both working for Alex?

Then why did you throw us off the train?

I didn't know you were working for Alex until Natasha told me.

By then, you were both somewhere in Siberia.

Tell me about it.

So we're all working for Alex, right?

Question, what have you got in the box

that you're taking to Beijing?

I don't know.

You don't know?

When you work for Alex, you don't want to know.

I think it's time you found out.

[knocking on door]

[non-english speech]

[suspenseful music continues]

Open it.

[non-english speech]

Why didn't you tell me he was your father?

Because I was told not to.

You know how Alex works.

Nobody's told more than they need to know.

Give me one of the bottles.

Substance A232.

Open it.

Are you crazy?

No, it's all right.

Alarax is a binary chemical weapon.

It consists of two ingredients,

both of which are harmless separately.

A232 is one of them.

It's probably disguised as fertilizer

or some other industrial chemical.

Put the top back.

Welcome back, Harry.

Do yourself a favor, put that gun away.

Close that case.

You're not up to your old tricks again, are you, Craig?

You haven't got the other half of the Alarax, have you?

No?

You're still making guesses?

I know.

You deliver the Alarax and get paid in heroin in Beijing.

Arms for drugs, just like the Contras in Nicaragua.

Another guess?

I don't have to guess where you fit in, Craig.

We're all working for Alex.

And you, Colonel, are about to start smuggling drugs.

That's why he's here.

He's an expert.

He's here to make sure the drugs are pure.

Quite a step down, hey, Colonel,

from military attache in Washington.

[non-english speech]

That's enough.

You, open the door.

What is it?

The Mongolian border.

I recommend we all go back to our compartments

and get our passports as quickly as possible.

Now, move.

Move it.

Did you know about this?

Or were you told not to tell me?

Is this how you're building Alex's new Russia?

I don't know who this guy is, but Harry is wrong.

[non-english speech]

I never knew the whole story.

Well, the North Koreans get the Alarax.

Alex gets the drugs and winds up stinking rich.

We have to stop him.

No one can stop him.

We can try.

You're letting him make a fool of you.

Alex doesn't care about Russia, or you, or me,

or anyone else but himself.

Natasha has been trying to turn him against Alex.

It could be suicide.

Hmm.

Their whole lives have been suicidal.

What do you say?

What does he say?

I say that Alex has an agenda.

I say that he knows what he's doing and why he's doing it.

I say neither you, or anyone else here,

is going to stop him.

That's what I say.

You know what Alarax is and what it does.

What do you say to that?

The end justifies the means.

I bet you get paid in drugs, not cash.

But that wouldn't be a problem with you, either, would it?

That's why he had me carry $5 million to Switzerland.

That's right.

At least we can do something about the Alarax.

Will you help me?

[suspenseful music continues]

[ glass clinks] - Cheers. - Cheers.

It needs something else.

Another ingredient.

I know just the ingredient.

I'll be back in a minute.

Keep drinking, Colonel.

I can't top off all these bottles by myself.

[suspenseful music continues]

In less than an hour, we'll be in Beijing.

I just don't want to be around when North Koreans

find out what's in my case.

Your contact in Beijing is Kim Soo, right?

He was in the embassy at London.

I know him well.

My problem is, I still haven't found the other ingredient.

You don't have it, do you?

No.

What about Natasha?

No, not Natasha.

Alex wouldn't trust her that far.

And Nick?

Not his job.

Well, there's no one else.

What do they say at airport security?

"Is this your bag?

Did you pack it yourself?

Did anyone give you a present?"

Take the Bullet to Beijing.

The Alarax will be on board.

No wonder Louis knew it would be on board.

The bullet to Beijing.

And I thought it was a fucking train.

[non-english speech]

Colonel Gradsky, the Honorable Kim Soo sends greetings,

so please follow me, please.

You, too, Mr. Palmer, please.

You come with us, too.

You can keep Harry company.

What the fuck are you doing, Craig?

Your job is done.

Get lost.

Okay, move it.

So this way, please.

You still think the end justifies the means?

[non-english speech]

Guess your way out of this, Harry.

[non-english speech]

Greetings, my dear Colonel, and welcome back to Beijing.

Kim Soo, may I present my daughter, Natasha?

I am honored to meet you, Natasha.

Harry.

Good to see you again.

Hello, Kim Soo.

Long time no Soo.

[laughs] Mr. Palmer is an old friend.

When I was at our embassy in London,

we used to meet for lunch every Friday

and toss for whether I put him on my expense account,

or he put me on his.

[laughs] We usually did both.

You have new dirty stories, Harry?

Of course, Kim.

[laughs] Mr. Warner, everything is ready.

Please take a look.

So this is A232.

Hmm.

Strange.

I expected a stronger smell.

Could be vodka with a little bit of ammonia.

[laughs]

Well, we'll soon find out about that.

Harry, you have something for me?

No.

Something from Louis?

From Louis?

Is that it?

That's it.

One more thing, Harry.

Hmm.

Your passport.

Passport?

How am I going to get out of China?

Don't worry.

We have plenty of new British passports.

Why do you need my passport then?

Souvenir of old friend.

Souvenir, huh?

We really must be going, or we may miss the train.

You Russians, always in a hurry, but getting nowhere.

And Mr. Warner, are you satisfied?

Yep. Everything checks out.

You may go now.

Mr. Warner, the merchandise will be in the truck.

It's been great to see you again.

Kim?

I am truly sorry about this, Harry.

Unfortunately, you know too much.

It looks harmless, doesn't it, Harry?

It will take 24 hours to find out.

And if there is a problem, we will find our friends,

and they will die, too.

[phone ringing]

[non-english speech]

Kim Soo?

It's Nikolai Petrov, Alex's assistant.

Is Mr. Palmer there?

Yes, we have him.

There's been a change of plan.

I've had an order from Alex,

and Mr. Palmer has to come back to Russia.

And we'll take care of him later.

Don't worry.

I'll take care of him.

All right, Harry.

You can go now.

I don't like these new passports.

Tell me, Kim Soo.

Would you really have done it?

Happily, we will never know, will we, Harry?

[jet engine roars]

If Alex thinks I'm dead,

you're going to have to find me a safe house.

You all right, Nick?

[non-english speech]

No, thank you.

Nick?

I'm going to break rule number one.

I'm going to tell you more than you need to know.

The Alarax was fake.

Oh, really?

So why did Alex hire me?

To make it look real.

It was a scam.

We sell fake Alarax to the North Koreans,

and they finance our cause.

When they find out it's fake, you take the fall.

Finance your cause?

Finance it with heroin?

Because that's what it was.

I saw it.

Or didn't Alex tell you that?

It was real heroin and real Alarax.

Kim Soo asked me for my passport.

I always carry two.

I gave him one.

And this is the one that I handed in at the hotel,

the one that Alex knew I had to take with me.

And this is what Alex left inside,

the formula for Alarax.

And do you know where he got it?

From the passport that you and the old lady

lifted off Kulbitsky's body.

Yeah, I saw you.

You were in London.

Were you saving Russia then, huh?

Do you know how much that's worth?

Millions of dollars on the open market.

And it could cost millions of lives.

Give me your lighter.

I'll show you what I think of it.

[tense music]

It's not Alex who was saving Russia.

It's you who should be saving Russia from Alex.

There's one more thing I'd like to ask you.

Why did you take such a risk in Beijing,

to phone and get me out?

You ever get caught in a honeypot trap, Harry,

with a Russian agent?

No.

No?

You're lying.

[mysterious music]

[non-english speech]

What are you doing?

Just in case.

[laughs]

Yuri is on his way up.

The drugs are being loaded.

They're yours for the taking.

Everything is as I said.

[suspenseful music]

It's nice doing business with you, Mr. Palmer.

And their surprise?

It's all arranged.

You've got five minutes to get your friends out of there.

I'm glad you're no longer friends with Alex.

[non-english speech]

I just hope the police get here within the next five minutes.

Yeah.

That truck is about ready, too.

Uh-oh.

Nick?

I know.

I saw him.

Keep walking.

[non-english speech]

Surprised?

Guess your way out of this.

Oh, shit!

Get down!

Get down!

[gunfire]

Get down!

[screaming]

I thought you were dead.

We could all be dead.

Yuri is working for Kim Soo.

This is Kim's revenge.

[gunfire]

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

[gunfire]

We've got to stop the truck.

I'll toss you for it. Heads or tails?

- Heads. - You lose.

I'll go.

Keep me covered.

Follow me.

[gunfire]

Ah!

Great, Nick.

Where the hell are the police?

Do you see what I see?

Yeah.

Gradsky, light a cigar.

I don't want to smoke.

- Light a cigar. - OK, OK.

[gunfire]

[sirens]

We're innocent bystanders.

Get rid of your guns and get up slowly.

Nobody knows us here.

[non-english speech]

How did he get out of there?

[sirens blaring]

- Harry!- What?

Get down! Get down!

[gunfire]

[car tyres screech]

Oh.

Ah.

What the hell is this?

Who are you working for?

DEA.

- DEA? - DEA?

You got it.

I've been trying to bust these guys for two years.

Jesus Christ.

Get up.

Oh, easy, easy, easy.

Oh.

[non-english speech]

Oh.

- You OK? - Yeah.

Look innocent.

I'll give it a shot.

[non-english speech]

NIKOLAI: Look.

Now, we're in real trouble.

That's Alex's car.

If you think we're in trouble now,

wait till this guy sees me.

Mr. Palmer, do not move.

You are under arrest.

If they find you Harry, then we're all under arrest.

Give me your cigar.

[suspenseful music continues]

Run.

What?

[non-english speech]

[explosion booms]

Mr. Palmer, what are you really doing here in Russia?

I told you, I'm a tourist.

I came to see my friends.

This is Colonel Gradsky of the KGB.

It's all under control, Captain.

You are dismissed.

[non-english speech] Don't break the law.

Yes, sir.

Nikolai tried to convince me you were dead,

but somehow I suspected you would turn up today.

I see you've managed to turn them all against me.

No matter.

Nothing will deter my course.

What are you going to do, kill me?

No, not today, Harry.

Some other time, maybe.

I'm an honorable man.

I always pay my debts.

Oh, by the way, thank you for saving

me the inconvenience of explaining

my connection with the heroin.

Here's your money.

Spend it quickly before we meet again.

I hope not.

Let's go.

[suspenseful music continues]

Nick, take me back to the hotel.

NIKOLAI: But-- but you'll miss your flight.

HARRY: No, I'm thinking of staying here in Russia.

NIKOLAI: What for?

HARRY: I don't know, maybe start a business.

NIKOLAI: You're joking?

HARRY: No, there's a lot of insecurity in this country.

NIKOLAI: And you're going to provide the security?

HARRY: Why not?

NIKOLAI: Well, what are you going to call this business?

HARRY: I don't know, the Tight Fit T-shirt Company.

That will be my security.

Maybe Craig and General Gradsky will join me.

What about you?

NIKOLAI: Well, Natasha was thinking about going to the States.

HARRY: Yeah, she told me.

But she didn't mention you.

NIKOLAI: She didn't?

HARRY: No.

NIKOLAI: Well, I guess I won't be going there.

Anyway, I've been there. I've done that.

HARRY: You want to try for a T-shirt?

NIKOLAI: Have you got anything in medium?

HARRY: At Tight Fit, one size fits all.

NIKOLAI: [laughs] All right.

But on one condition, you tell me the truth

about the honeypot trap.

HARRY: So you want to know the truth about the honeypot trap, huh?

All right.

But tell me, Nick, have you got a mole

on the left cheek of your arse?

NIKOLAI: No.

HARRY: Neither have I.

You know, we could be related.

[music playing]