1 00:00:57,690 --> 00:00:59,990 Journalists are not supposed to know about it. 2 00:01:00,770 --> 00:01:04,709 We see our memorial to the December that we are just planning the inauguration 3 00:01:04,709 --> 00:01:05,710 ceremony. 4 00:01:07,010 --> 00:01:13,430 But maybe I can get for you an interview with Lech Walesa. 5 00:01:14,430 --> 00:01:15,430 Lech Walesa? 6 00:01:15,850 --> 00:01:16,850 Coming here? 7 00:01:17,070 --> 00:01:18,610 Lech Walesa is here. 8 00:01:33,149 --> 00:01:34,470 Leaders of Solidarity. 9 00:01:35,510 --> 00:01:36,510 The Church. 10 00:01:37,810 --> 00:01:39,130 Three agents from the West. 11 00:01:41,310 --> 00:01:42,710 Great, they've worked it well. 12 00:01:43,190 --> 00:01:45,550 You're just going to walk through the front door, back into the middle of 13 00:01:47,490 --> 00:01:52,150 He knew as well as I did that that old man had been manoeuvred and manipulated 14 00:01:52,150 --> 00:01:54,450 by Vicky and London Central. 15 00:01:55,590 --> 00:02:00,550 An insane escapade that depended totally on the trust and loyalty between a 16 00:02:00,550 --> 00:02:01,550 father and son. 17 00:02:02,250 --> 00:02:04,550 You hadn't seen each other for 20 years. 18 00:02:07,770 --> 00:02:08,769 Success. 19 00:02:10,889 --> 00:02:12,690 I'm sorry, I'm not here for an interview. 20 00:02:14,210 --> 00:02:16,550 You are not the journalist, are you? 21 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:18,930 No. 22 00:02:20,910 --> 00:02:21,910 Out. 23 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:29,310 Whoever you are and whatever you are doing, you shouldn't put us at risk. 24 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:53,960 Let me talk to him, Bert. 25 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,800 We came here to talk to him. 26 00:02:56,660 --> 00:02:58,460 Yuri, you're not alone. 27 00:03:51,980 --> 00:03:52,980 What's the matter with you? 28 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,400 All you have to do is hate him! 29 00:04:00,740 --> 00:04:02,980 Point of 30 00:04:02,980 --> 00:04:19,279 no 31 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:20,279 return, Bernd. 32 00:04:20,510 --> 00:04:21,510 I can take you no further. 33 00:04:22,010 --> 00:04:23,390 I've been here before, Rolf. 34 00:04:28,490 --> 00:04:29,490 Oh, good. 35 00:04:37,030 --> 00:04:39,150 It was the point of no return for me. 36 00:04:40,790 --> 00:04:44,410 London Central had sacrificed us with their ignorance and arrogance and 37 00:04:44,410 --> 00:04:45,410 stupidity. 38 00:04:47,980 --> 00:04:51,100 But, Julie, I hope you never realize they made your son betray you. 39 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:56,420 Why didn't we play with Wolf, Bernard? 40 00:04:57,660 --> 00:05:01,920 He has a dozen places to cross and a dozen frontier guards in his pocket. 41 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:05,400 Who is it? 42 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,160 Someone telling you the Browns Network effect retained? 43 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,840 So we have to put our loan index right in the middle of the news? 44 00:05:18,340 --> 00:05:20,180 Yuri, we're at the Waldorf. 45 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:24,220 You don't fool me, Bernard. 46 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,640 You are as happy about all this as I am. 47 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:32,780 It's worked before. It'll work again. 48 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:37,960 What is it? 49 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:39,500 The Waldorf? 50 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:41,600 They open the gates at midnight. 51 00:05:42,660 --> 00:05:43,840 Which one? What gates? 52 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:47,040 Down to the river. 53 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,200 On the border. 54 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,380 They patrol the jeeps along the riverbank. 55 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,560 The gate's left open for them. 56 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:57,740 And for us. 57 00:06:00,140 --> 00:06:04,120 And beyond that gate? 58 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:08,200 Oh, clear track through the minefield. 59 00:06:10,020 --> 00:06:11,020 Ah. 60 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:13,180 Fine. 61 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:24,900 Track. 62 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:27,100 Through the minefield. 63 00:07:28,820 --> 00:07:30,580 It's directly ahead, in line with those trees. 64 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,660 They've relayed the bloody miles. 65 00:11:03,630 --> 00:11:06,050 Rostov, young, deceased. 66 00:11:06,770 --> 00:11:11,310 Samson, burned, resigned, non -operational. 67 00:11:16,850 --> 00:11:21,810 Waldorf, East German border, operation terminated. 68 00:11:22,970 --> 00:11:25,250 One fatality, abandoned. 69 00:11:26,490 --> 00:11:27,910 One survivor. 70 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,060 No, I'm eating that thing. Look, look at that one. 71 00:11:54,460 --> 00:11:55,460 You know what that is? 72 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,520 What? A snake going upstairs. 73 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:02,820 Baths running, children. 74 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:04,360 Right, upstairs. 75 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,500 Now look, just look at that. 76 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,960 They're all covered in goo and yellow. 77 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:12,280 Go on, brush those teeth. 78 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,080 Oh, darling. 79 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:16,480 Like that, precious? 80 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,360 Oh, 81 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:21,040 monkey. 82 00:12:21,130 --> 00:12:22,130 I'll keep you up to date. 83 00:12:22,890 --> 00:12:24,630 I'll come and tuck you in in a minute, all right? 84 00:12:25,070 --> 00:12:26,070 Peace. 85 00:12:28,810 --> 00:12:30,890 Oh, thanks, darling. I needed that. 86 00:12:32,490 --> 00:12:34,250 I thought this stuff was all meant to be redundant. 87 00:12:35,090 --> 00:12:36,590 Our system's under scrutiny. 88 00:12:36,970 --> 00:12:38,250 We've got to double -check some operations. 89 00:12:42,750 --> 00:12:44,210 Worried about security, are we? 90 00:12:45,790 --> 00:12:46,790 What would I know? 91 00:13:13,060 --> 00:13:14,280 Don't get too comfortable, Bernie. 92 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:16,920 Dickie Cryer wants you upstairs to share his coffee. 93 00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:22,120 And he's sent you his tray of appendix for you to deal with. 94 00:13:38,780 --> 00:13:41,200 Different colour than the last time I was in here, Dickie. 95 00:13:41,690 --> 00:13:43,090 A shade bitter, would you say? 96 00:13:43,330 --> 00:13:44,390 It tastes the same to me. 97 00:13:45,370 --> 00:13:47,130 It is pure chaga, Bernard. 98 00:13:47,330 --> 00:13:49,050 Fresh roast and ground this morning. 99 00:13:51,190 --> 00:13:53,530 You really are a terrible tease. 100 00:13:54,470 --> 00:13:56,890 It's all very entre nous this afternoon, Bernard. 101 00:13:57,170 --> 00:13:59,910 German desk discretions are not of the usual sort. 102 00:14:01,110 --> 00:14:02,650 Frank's been on the phone from Berlin. 103 00:14:03,950 --> 00:14:06,250 As you know, Frank is to a degree autonomous. 104 00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:10,910 But on matters of security, the desk as a whole becomes responsible. 105 00:14:12,110 --> 00:14:14,070 I need you to tell me all the permutations. 106 00:14:16,330 --> 00:14:17,970 Sounds like a Christmas game, Dickie. 107 00:14:19,590 --> 00:14:22,530 This is one occasion, Bernard, when I'd be grateful if you'd refrain from the 108 00:14:22,530 --> 00:14:26,330 facetious. I need to know all the permutations in order to arrive at an 109 00:14:26,330 --> 00:14:29,730 assessment of source material in Berlin, Bernard. 110 00:14:32,250 --> 00:14:33,990 Berlin, I know, is five years out of date. 111 00:14:34,430 --> 00:14:35,430 Oh, come along. 112 00:14:35,930 --> 00:14:38,690 We used to know all the dark corners and what came out of them. Things can't 113 00:14:38,690 --> 00:14:39,690 have changed that much. 114 00:14:40,590 --> 00:14:45,270 For instance, I should like to know what Frank might call a usual source. 115 00:14:47,290 --> 00:14:48,290 Pretty girl. 116 00:14:48,950 --> 00:14:51,630 You really do make serious conversation very difficult at times. 117 00:14:53,110 --> 00:14:54,110 Permutations, Bernard. 118 00:14:54,850 --> 00:14:57,730 Well, Berlin is 99 % communication sticky. 119 00:14:57,970 --> 00:14:59,330 The actual source could be anywhere. 120 00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:01,290 East Germany, Poland, Russia. 121 00:15:01,590 --> 00:15:03,870 It all gets channeled through Berlin at some time or another. 122 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:07,150 You ought to ask Werner Volkmann. He used to sit in the communications hutch. 123 00:15:07,310 --> 00:15:09,370 Werner Volkmann's the last person I intend to ask. 124 00:15:12,530 --> 00:15:18,110 What you're trying not to say to me, Dickie, is that there's been a leak in 125 00:15:18,110 --> 00:15:19,110 Berlin. 126 00:15:22,710 --> 00:15:24,550 It's our German desk, Bernard. 127 00:15:30,830 --> 00:15:33,250 Anything wrong in Berlin reflects on us all. 128 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:36,560 Exactly, it's been leaked. 129 00:15:38,540 --> 00:15:39,540 Berlin stuff. 130 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:40,760 That's all Frank would say. 131 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,740 I mean, it's not so much the leak itself, it's the fact that they've 132 00:15:43,740 --> 00:15:44,740 leak back to us. 133 00:15:44,980 --> 00:15:46,260 Makes people jumpy, Bernard. 134 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,860 For instance, how are your Brahms people going to react? 135 00:15:49,380 --> 00:15:51,600 Not my Brahms people, Dickie. 136 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:53,960 You set the network up. 137 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,360 Oh, and apropos, and rather Brett Rensselaar didn't hear a word about 138 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,500 last thing I need is him marching in here with all his Brahms network 139 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:04,290 preoccupations. He's very thick with Fiona at the moment, computerising all 140 00:16:04,290 --> 00:16:06,090 rubbish, so no pillow talk, Bernard. 141 00:16:08,910 --> 00:16:10,110 Don't worry, Richard. 142 00:16:14,050 --> 00:16:16,410 I'm always fast asleep by the time Fiona comes to bed. 143 00:16:18,630 --> 00:16:20,130 No offence, no offence. 144 00:16:20,470 --> 00:16:23,470 I just know how easy it is between husband and wife, chit -chat. 145 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:28,050 Put the permutations down in a memo for me. Would you do that, Bernard? Please? 146 00:16:29,550 --> 00:16:30,550 Yes. 147 00:16:36,010 --> 00:16:39,150 Oh, no, Bernard, on second thoughts, there's no need for a memo. 148 00:16:39,730 --> 00:16:40,730 Just a piece of paper. 149 00:16:42,570 --> 00:16:43,570 Handwritten. 150 00:16:44,250 --> 00:16:45,250 Invisible ink. 151 00:17:33,149 --> 00:17:34,149 I do. 152 00:17:34,510 --> 00:17:35,510 Well, 153 00:17:36,810 --> 00:17:39,610 where have you been out of my life all this time? 154 00:17:39,810 --> 00:17:42,110 I think it is you out of our life, Bernie. 155 00:17:42,730 --> 00:17:44,210 Why, did I send you Christmas cards? 156 00:17:45,150 --> 00:17:46,590 Fiona sent me Christmas cards. 157 00:17:48,810 --> 00:17:52,330 Three years we don't see each other, and then you ask me out to tea in a transit 158 00:17:52,330 --> 00:17:53,330 lounge. 159 00:17:53,530 --> 00:17:58,210 Where you have access with your ID card, and where I go through no passport 160 00:17:58,210 --> 00:17:59,210 control. 161 00:17:59,590 --> 00:18:01,370 So no one knows we meet, Mika. 162 00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:08,270 Except now I have, um, perfectly an unnecessary flight to Dublin and back. 163 00:18:14,570 --> 00:18:15,570 Expenses? 164 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,840 I think it's Bernard Sampson on his own. 165 00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:28,320 How's the Browns network? 166 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,820 I only seen them unofficially. 167 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:35,400 And? 168 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,180 Maybe they are a little jumpy these days. 169 00:18:49,710 --> 00:18:51,450 What the hell is it all about, Bernie? 170 00:18:52,490 --> 00:18:53,510 Do you go over a lot? 171 00:18:54,230 --> 00:18:55,690 Two, three times a month. 172 00:18:58,530 --> 00:19:00,390 Oh, in and out of the East like that? 173 00:19:01,750 --> 00:19:06,310 Perhaps Frank Harrington thinks you're doing some kind of black market racket. 174 00:19:08,090 --> 00:19:11,490 Frank told you that? 175 00:19:12,910 --> 00:19:16,190 Frank hasn't told me anything for four years. You'll have to ask Fiona what the 176 00:19:16,190 --> 00:19:18,610 computers are writing about you in the yellow submarine. 177 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:26,180 They say she's, um... Yeah, she has a higher security clearance than me now. 178 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:31,600 She's... She's doing fine. She's very good at her job. How's your Zena? 179 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:34,540 She changed my life. 180 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,140 Like Fiona changed yours. 181 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,420 Have I come all this way to talk about my wife? 182 00:19:43,940 --> 00:19:45,400 You have never heard of the telephone? 183 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:49,099 Come on. 184 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:50,100 Bernie. 185 00:19:58,460 --> 00:19:59,820 There's been some leak in Berlin. 186 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,060 And the East is feeding back what has been leaked. 187 00:20:08,180 --> 00:20:11,620 And they'd only do that if they wanted to destabilize someone or something. 188 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,960 So, if anything does go wrong, Frank Harrington has your name down. 189 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:35,960 So, I have to thank you for the warning, but I also keep an ear to the ground 190 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:36,960 for you. 191 00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:45,920 A little nothing for your kids. 192 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,980 Remember, Mr. Fiona, and love to the kids. 193 00:20:56,940 --> 00:20:58,160 Maybe we'll have tea again. 194 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:02,300 One day in three years' time. 195 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:56,880 Silas had worked for intelligence back in the days when reports were done in 196 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,300 copperplate and agents paid in sovereigns. 197 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:02,820 Brett Rensselaer. 198 00:22:05,060 --> 00:22:11,400 It's like a working weekend for you, my girl. 199 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:15,520 Darling! 200 00:22:17,220 --> 00:22:18,420 Hello. Andrew. 201 00:22:19,060 --> 00:22:20,060 All alone? 202 00:22:22,510 --> 00:22:23,510 Open them, Bernard. 203 00:22:24,090 --> 00:22:28,110 And hide the cassies from Dickie Cryer. Good lovely little things. 204 00:22:31,550 --> 00:22:33,930 Dickie, how absolutely lovely. 205 00:22:36,890 --> 00:22:41,570 I like to see a real slice of meat on my plate. 206 00:22:41,810 --> 00:22:44,770 I hate all these sauces and purees. 207 00:22:45,370 --> 00:22:47,470 The French can keep that nonsense. 208 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:51,900 Steady on, Silas. Can't let you defame la cuisine française in that cavalier 209 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:52,900 fashion. 210 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,040 The cradle will get blackballed by Paul the Cuse, Dickie. 211 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,420 Cooking, like adultery, is the art of the possible. 212 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,760 All the French have been brought up on odds and ends. You don't want that muck 213 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,860 if you can afford proper food. 214 00:23:09,540 --> 00:23:12,100 But I think you ought to try la cuisine nouvelle. 215 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:13,560 Don't you, Dickie? 216 00:23:14,580 --> 00:23:15,580 Lightweight dishes. 217 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:18,700 With every plate of food designed like a picture. 218 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,580 Big coloured plates with tiny scraps of carrots and leek. 219 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,700 And puddles of wet stuff that look like cat vomit. 220 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,000 The beef is perfect, Uncle Silas. 221 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:34,880 But just a small slice. 222 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:36,120 Well done, Sally. 223 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,300 Good God, woman. 224 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:39,660 Well done, meat? 225 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:42,200 No wonder she looks so damn peaky. 226 00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:44,320 What's peaky? 227 00:23:45,130 --> 00:23:47,470 Pinched, anemic, white, and ill -looking. 228 00:23:48,590 --> 00:23:50,950 Get some of that down here. Make your hair curl. 229 00:23:52,810 --> 00:23:54,870 Don't tell me you want it well done. 230 00:23:55,670 --> 00:23:56,890 Bleu, for me. 231 00:23:57,510 --> 00:23:59,930 Avec un petit peu de moutarde anglaise. 232 00:24:02,030 --> 00:24:04,210 Parfait, the pomme de terre, someone. 233 00:24:05,010 --> 00:24:06,810 Give you something to get hold of. 234 00:24:10,870 --> 00:24:11,870 Eat. 235 00:24:15,389 --> 00:24:18,810 Mrs. Porter, lay out coffee for the gentleman in the billiard room. 236 00:24:19,130 --> 00:24:21,150 Women and children will be in the drawing room. 237 00:24:22,050 --> 00:24:25,050 Fiona, you will take charge of the fresh air brigade. 238 00:24:28,130 --> 00:24:29,130 Well, 239 00:24:29,690 --> 00:24:31,250 let's go. 240 00:24:37,910 --> 00:24:38,910 Well, 241 00:24:40,030 --> 00:24:42,610 it's no bloody good at ball games, so you'd better partner me. 242 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,420 If you two promise not to quarrel. 243 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:47,700 No problem. 244 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:49,760 If we're only here to play snooker. 245 00:24:51,020 --> 00:24:52,020 You break. 246 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,980 You have a leak in Berlin, and Brahms IV is acting the goat. 247 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:12,180 Don't all shout at once. 248 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,400 I was not aware this leak originated in Berlin. 249 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,900 A bit off limits, aren't we? Don't, don't, you bloody fool, Dickie. 250 00:25:20,260 --> 00:25:22,540 The GG knows you're all down here. 251 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,440 He wants a few heads banged together. 252 00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:30,120 One could say if B4 was playing the goat, he's no longer reliable as a 253 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:34,780 If there's been a leak in Berlin, it's bloody obvious why he's lying low, and I 254 00:25:34,780 --> 00:25:36,000 should have been told about it. 255 00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:39,780 The memo's on your desk. It's waiting for Monday morning. 256 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:43,580 Let's establish priorities, shall we? 257 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,960 Number one priority being that neither the department nor Whitehall can afford 258 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:48,960 to lose Brahms 4. 259 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:55,220 Possibly you mean your particular branch of the department can't afford to lose 260 00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:56,220 him, Brett? 261 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,180 Isn't he about the only raison d 'etre for your committee? 262 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:07,120 My committee is currently the raison d 'etre for the whole of MI6. 263 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:11,480 The DD said you'd put up Burnham's name to sort out Brahms. 264 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:14,420 Well, Burnham's not the bloke to send over to the other side. His face is too 265 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:15,179 well known. 266 00:26:15,180 --> 00:26:16,940 They'll just sit in his tail until he makes contact. 267 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:21,860 Next thing we know, we'll be trying to figure out who we can swap for him. 268 00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:25,660 Bernard's been sitting on his ass in London for the past five years, Dickie. 269 00:26:26,380 --> 00:26:27,840 Who's going to remember him in Berlin? 270 00:26:28,820 --> 00:26:31,280 At your insistence, he's been sitting in London. 271 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:33,920 And it's you who's insisting now. 272 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:37,100 Children. 273 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:50,639 Down there. 274 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:51,640 Up here. 275 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,720 Have we asked ourselves what we think might have happened to him? 276 00:26:59,380 --> 00:27:01,000 I mean, it's not the first time there's been a leak. 277 00:27:02,180 --> 00:27:04,840 Brahms IV has blown a fuse, hasn't he? 278 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,400 Out of the blue? 279 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,000 Well, he has been a bit soggy for the last year or so. 280 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,860 Then there have been big changes over there. 281 00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:15,260 Oh, PG. 282 00:27:16,020 --> 00:27:17,880 What the hell's PG, Dickie? 283 00:27:18,410 --> 00:27:20,310 Oh, F .O. Slag, sir. Postcorporate. 284 00:27:21,630 --> 00:27:23,890 He was also asking for more money. 285 00:27:25,350 --> 00:27:26,350 Did he get it? 286 00:27:27,730 --> 00:27:28,730 Oh, yes. 287 00:27:32,010 --> 00:27:34,370 Do you still maintain your contact with him, Silas? 288 00:27:35,270 --> 00:27:36,270 What contact? 289 00:27:37,610 --> 00:27:40,050 Well, Silas ran Browns as a personal control. 290 00:27:42,470 --> 00:27:43,470 Personal? 291 00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:45,230 We were Germans. 292 00:27:46,290 --> 00:27:49,190 Sharing girls, falling down drunk together, that sort of thing. 293 00:27:49,570 --> 00:27:51,310 And you've been running him ever since? 294 00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:57,650 Running him as a sleeper for the first 20 years. 295 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:05,610 That was why he was never blown. 296 00:28:06,270 --> 00:28:08,390 The Philby crowd never saw his file. 297 00:28:10,030 --> 00:28:11,390 You don't know much about him. 298 00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:13,310 It's a very restricted file. 299 00:28:14,010 --> 00:28:15,790 In fact, it's a non -existent bloody file. 300 00:28:18,390 --> 00:28:19,530 How much do you know? 301 00:28:21,290 --> 00:28:24,370 He could walk into this room now, and I wouldn't know him. 302 00:28:26,550 --> 00:28:28,590 Everything else about him I think I do know. 303 00:28:29,510 --> 00:28:33,730 That makes only two people this side of the Iron Curtain who knows what the poor 304 00:28:33,730 --> 00:28:34,730 old sod looks like. 305 00:28:35,710 --> 00:28:39,550 A matter of some importance if we're going to decide who's going over the 306 00:28:39,550 --> 00:28:40,550 to talk to him. 307 00:28:41,330 --> 00:28:43,290 So you laid him in as a sleeper. 308 00:28:43,580 --> 00:28:45,800 And Bernard activated him. 309 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,200 Well, I had no idea he had had direct contact. 310 00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:53,340 Brahms IV saved Bernard's life once. 311 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,660 But some considerable risk to himself. 312 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,300 We found ourselves holed up at Weimar. 313 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,340 Usual bloody cock -up. 314 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,320 What are you doing? 315 00:29:46,380 --> 00:29:47,380 Booch. 316 00:30:10,459 --> 00:30:13,200 Silas said you'd be feeling like you'd been on the hooch. 317 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,400 High in perception, low in spirit. 318 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,100 First few words you ever spoke to me, I'd say, in the park. 319 00:30:24,380 --> 00:30:25,720 Hello, you're Bernard Sampson. 320 00:30:27,020 --> 00:30:30,180 Uncle Silas says you've just come back from doing something rather dangerous. 321 00:30:32,620 --> 00:30:35,040 He's very good at setting me up, your Uncle Silas. 322 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,600 He told me to look after you. 323 00:30:44,170 --> 00:30:46,550 Do you realize that's when this whole Brahms business started? 324 00:30:48,030 --> 00:30:49,810 I'd just come back from setting up the network. 325 00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:18,800 That's what this afternoon was all about. 326 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,700 I was beginning to feel quite left out. 327 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,480 Listen, if I'd known it was me and not you that were going to hang out to dry, 328 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,480 wouldn't have come. 329 00:31:36,580 --> 00:31:38,180 Who is Brahms for? 330 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,600 When I was trapped in Weimar, he was the man that came back for me. 331 00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:50,520 Brave thing to do for a man as frightened as he was. 332 00:31:52,780 --> 00:31:55,120 And now Silas is going to nail me with it. 333 00:31:56,060 --> 00:31:57,060 What's his name? 334 00:32:32,110 --> 00:32:33,110 Okay, Silas. 335 00:32:33,690 --> 00:32:36,530 If Walter knows there's a leak in Berlin, that's why he's jumping. 336 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:38,749 Browns, Bernard. 337 00:32:38,750 --> 00:32:40,750 Even my walls could have ears. 338 00:32:44,810 --> 00:32:49,050 And if there is a leak, we ought to be getting him out. 339 00:32:50,110 --> 00:32:51,890 Do you think it's Berlin leaking? 340 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,700 We were set up in Gdansk by somebody in London. 341 00:33:06,980 --> 00:33:10,900 I made a report about that four years ago. The report has been buried ever 342 00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:11,900 since. 343 00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:15,700 Conjecture, an ancient history, and paranoia. 344 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,440 Eternal paranoia, my old dad used to tell me, is the price of liberty. 345 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:22,640 Vigilance is not enough. 346 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,760 I'm meant to be knocking heads together this weekend. 347 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,260 Not listening to self -indulgence. 348 00:33:34,820 --> 00:33:37,420 In that case, Silas, perhaps you could start by being honest. 349 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:43,380 I beg your pardon, Your Honor. 350 00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:47,560 Does Bronze IV know you're no longer his personal control? 351 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,420 I mean, unless I misread the signs yesterday, it seems control has passed 352 00:33:53,420 --> 00:33:54,420 Brett Rensselaer. 353 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,760 It would have been an absurd security risk to tell him. 354 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,140 I sent him the odd stilt and smoked salmon so he knows I'm still here. 355 00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:08,920 You swapped personnel and kept the code names the same. 356 00:34:10,260 --> 00:34:11,260 It's been done before. 357 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,440 Not with Rose for it, hasn't it? 358 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:17,239 He's probably wondering who the hell it is on the end of his line. I mean, 359 00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:19,100 people have different ways of doing things. 360 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,120 Brett Rensselaer's no pussyfoot. No wonder he's bloody twitching. 361 00:34:24,580 --> 00:34:26,280 It's very lonely out there, Silas. 362 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:28,760 You know that. 363 00:34:38,670 --> 00:34:42,469 He asked specifically for you, Brahms. 364 00:34:44,150 --> 00:34:46,070 He knows you would never betray him. 365 00:34:47,190 --> 00:34:48,190 Wouldn't I? 366 00:34:48,710 --> 00:34:49,710 No. 367 00:35:00,990 --> 00:35:02,330 I'm not going, Silas. 368 00:35:05,210 --> 00:35:07,350 I haven't been through that wall for nearly six years. 369 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,100 I'd get the boat killed. 370 00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:20,260 Trust Brett to be teaching a good English girl how to hold a cricket bat. 371 00:35:53,930 --> 00:35:57,530 Brett Rensselaer's the only man I know who keeps a special chair by his desk 372 00:35:57,530 --> 00:35:58,630 that he can chuck it on. 373 00:36:01,350 --> 00:36:02,350 Morning, Brett. 374 00:36:05,750 --> 00:36:06,750 Oh, nice weekend. 375 00:36:15,950 --> 00:36:17,330 Reading between the lines. 376 00:36:18,490 --> 00:36:22,330 I'd say Dickie Cryer's decided the Brahms 4 has flipped his lid. 377 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,240 I'd say he intends to call in a consultant psychiatrist to study the 378 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,060 He what? 379 00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:41,180 Let the head shrinkers into a meeting and we'll be on the front page of you 380 00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:42,840 -know -which of next Sunday's newspapers. 381 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:49,640 Complete with misquotes, misspellings, bits by our own special correspondents. 382 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,120 Kill it, Bernard. 383 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,480 Yes, we should ask ourselves in passing, of course, whether some of his paranoia 384 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:58,480 isn't justified. 385 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,040 Justified? 386 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,640 Ah. 387 00:37:06,220 --> 00:37:07,940 High -level leaks here in London. 388 00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:13,260 This request for a list of everyone in London who has access to his files. 389 00:37:13,780 --> 00:37:15,020 How about Werner? 390 00:37:22,410 --> 00:37:23,630 You're quite a poker player, Bernard. 391 00:37:28,390 --> 00:37:29,390 Only for matchsticks. 392 00:37:30,010 --> 00:37:32,090 Ever wonder what'll happen to you when you retire? 393 00:37:32,510 --> 00:37:35,290 No. Well, I guess your wife has money. 394 00:37:36,390 --> 00:37:39,830 Though I'd say you're the kind of inverted snob who wouldn't want to use 395 00:37:39,830 --> 00:37:40,830 it. 396 00:37:40,870 --> 00:37:47,270 On the other hand, if you were to invest her dough and double it, you'd do no 397 00:37:47,270 --> 00:37:48,390 one any harm, right? 398 00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:51,610 Or join you in moonlighting in the city, you mean. 399 00:37:52,710 --> 00:37:55,510 Each time I ask you a question, I find you ask me one back. 400 00:37:58,550 --> 00:37:59,990 I didn't know I was being questioned. 401 00:38:01,150 --> 00:38:02,150 Are you vetting me? 402 00:38:02,890 --> 00:38:07,270 In this business, it does no harm to flip the pages of someone's bank balance 403 00:38:07,270 --> 00:38:08,270 from time to time. 404 00:38:09,130 --> 00:38:12,770 Well, of course, people like you who work in the field always have stuff 405 00:38:12,770 --> 00:38:14,610 away in numbered accounts elsewhere. 406 00:38:15,270 --> 00:38:17,170 What would I stash away? Luncheon vouchers? 407 00:38:21,350 --> 00:38:25,870 Verna's in a tough business, Brett, and on very low margins. He has no fat to 408 00:38:25,870 --> 00:38:28,190 give me kickbacks, if that's what you're implying. 409 00:38:28,430 --> 00:38:29,810 So how's he stayed in business? 410 00:38:30,170 --> 00:38:31,170 By scratching. 411 00:38:31,590 --> 00:38:35,450 If he goes out of business, we lose a good opportunity and a very useful 412 00:38:35,450 --> 00:38:36,450 contact. 413 00:38:36,670 --> 00:38:38,170 What kind of bread are we talking about? 414 00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:39,730 An overdraft facility. 415 00:38:41,130 --> 00:38:42,270 One million Deutschmarks. 416 00:38:43,150 --> 00:38:46,150 Did Verna Valkman put you up to this? 417 00:38:46,650 --> 00:38:49,070 I haven't been in close contact with Verna for years. 418 00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:52,200 Besides, He always likes to make out he's doing well. 419 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,760 So how do you know he's strapped for cash? 420 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:02,340 Because, Brett, in this business, it does no harm to flip the pages of 421 00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:04,520 bank account from time to time. 422 00:39:09,460 --> 00:39:12,960 According to Lord Moran, there are four categories. Those who have no fear at 423 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,480 all... Yeah, yeah, yeah. And those that crack up. 424 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,520 Everyone loses their nerve sooner or later. You can't go on being frightened 425 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:21,740 every hour of your life. 426 00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:25,340 Well, does Brett agree Bramsfall might have lost his nerve? How should I know? 427 00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:27,040 It's years since I had anything to do with it. 428 00:39:27,820 --> 00:39:30,780 How would you feel, Bernard, about a cheap day return to Burnley? 429 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,480 How should I feel, Richard? 430 00:39:39,580 --> 00:39:40,900 I've been back in a long time. 431 00:39:41,260 --> 00:39:42,260 Four years? 432 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:43,680 Five. 433 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,660 Am I saying so, Dickie? But you seem to spend the whole bloody weekend trying to 434 00:39:46,660 --> 00:39:47,660 keep me out of Germany. 435 00:39:48,220 --> 00:39:49,320 B4 at Charlie. 436 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,100 Meeting Brahms 4 at checkpoint Charlie, Bernard. 437 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,400 Brahms coming over the wall. 438 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,780 Brett didn't seem to know anything about that. 439 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,860 If Brahms is threatening to walk out, that's the station's job. German death. 440 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,120 Berlin Field. 441 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,980 Must we consider it a security priority? 442 00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:12,540 He's threatening to walk out on an old US passport he's dug up. 443 00:40:12,940 --> 00:40:14,060 It would be fairly embarrassing. 444 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,980 But fairly dangerous if things go wrong. 445 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,080 For him. 446 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,180 What do you want me to do if he does come over? Send him back? 447 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,060 He just strikes me as the sort of man who might panic. 448 00:40:30,180 --> 00:40:33,080 I mean, if he intends taking a walk down Norman Strasser with the KGB 449 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,620 debriefers, we'll have to move a little fast. 450 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:37,320 You mean kill him? 451 00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:40,380 Expedient demise, Bernard. 452 00:40:42,339 --> 00:40:43,860 He's one of our own people, Dickie. 453 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:48,860 He's an old man who's been working in extreme danger for us for 20 years. 454 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,840 Jesus Christ, is it my turn next? 455 00:40:53,140 --> 00:40:57,100 This little trip to Berlin is strictly a one -off. I have no intention of 456 00:40:57,100 --> 00:40:58,100 letting you back in the field. 457 00:40:58,980 --> 00:41:00,940 I have no intention of going back in the field. 458 00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:06,000 Yes, well, you'd better get down to the Yellow Star. 459 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:07,700 Refresh yourself on some of the files. 460 00:41:09,980 --> 00:41:11,100 No clearance. 461 00:41:11,420 --> 00:41:12,860 I'll ring it down to them. 462 00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:36,060 Hello? 463 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,680 Can I help you? 464 00:41:38,660 --> 00:41:39,900 Yes, could you find me those, please? 465 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:41,700 Yeah, sure. 466 00:41:55,820 --> 00:41:56,820 Here are your discs. 467 00:41:58,940 --> 00:41:59,940 And paper. 468 00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:20,960 You need an access code. 469 00:42:21,380 --> 00:42:23,060 May I? I think you're pressing the wrong button. 470 00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:31,000 Look, I'm sorry to have to ask you this, but do you have clearance for these 471 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000 files? 472 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:37,900 Oh, Mr. 473 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,260 Sanson, I'm sorry. All right. 474 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,780 Don't worry. I know my wife makes the rules down here. 475 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,420 I wouldn't want to be the one caught breaking them. 476 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,000 And you're going to have to enter your ID number as well for a restricted file. 477 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,140 Okay? I see. All is revealed. 478 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:57,560 Great. Thank you. 479 00:43:15,690 --> 00:43:16,690 All set, are you? 480 00:43:20,130 --> 00:43:21,910 It's not a trip to Mars, Mackenzie. 481 00:43:23,690 --> 00:43:25,270 Cut me into the action one day. 482 00:43:25,690 --> 00:43:28,910 Be your friend forever. Double Cambridge first, don't get sent in the field. 483 00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:31,730 You're going to hold that against me for the rest of my days? 484 00:43:32,490 --> 00:43:33,490 No, 485 00:43:33,870 --> 00:43:34,870 on the contrary. 486 00:43:37,130 --> 00:43:40,630 Anyone in this building who isn't Belial Oxford has ipso facto earned my 487 00:43:40,630 --> 00:43:43,930 friendship. And what about Jesus Oxford, Samson? 488 00:43:52,650 --> 00:43:54,090 I hear you're being sent to Berlin. 489 00:43:55,750 --> 00:43:56,970 City no one told me. 490 00:43:59,410 --> 00:44:02,250 You're staff and desk, Samson. You pick up a passport. 491 00:44:02,470 --> 00:44:04,410 The DG has to know, see, and approve. 492 00:44:05,650 --> 00:44:07,950 Unless I put things to him, he doesn't get to know anything. 493 00:44:09,370 --> 00:44:10,950 I saw the DG this morning. 494 00:44:11,410 --> 00:44:12,770 He thinks I'm my father. 495 00:44:13,690 --> 00:44:17,670 But whoever I am, I'm quite sure he's well aware of where I'm going. 496 00:44:24,819 --> 00:44:25,819 Berlin Mackenzie. 497 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,880 Mr. Sampson used to be a field agent out there. Used to be very good, I think. 498 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:31,680 Yeah. 499 00:44:33,140 --> 00:44:35,400 Well, you should have more respect for men that used to be. 500 00:45:49,890 --> 00:45:51,670 Four years you've been away. 501 00:45:53,210 --> 00:45:55,270 And you slip back like a thief in the night. 502 00:45:55,810 --> 00:45:57,190 And away again in the morning. 503 00:45:58,730 --> 00:46:00,730 I don't want Frank Harrington to know I'm here. 504 00:46:01,190 --> 00:46:03,110 You mean the Berlin office hasn't been told? 505 00:46:05,230 --> 00:46:08,410 Not unless they have a tap into the personal computer here. 506 00:46:08,730 --> 00:46:09,730 They have. 507 00:46:09,990 --> 00:46:11,150 But it's run by idiots. 508 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:20,980 clowns up there now, Bernie. 509 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,940 Not interested no more in the old Berlin friends. 510 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,080 You include me in with them? 511 00:46:36,700 --> 00:46:38,100 They pulled me out, Bernard. 512 00:46:38,860 --> 00:46:40,380 They pulled us both out, Dan. 513 00:46:42,420 --> 00:46:43,660 Look, I lost my nerve. 514 00:46:44,460 --> 00:46:45,460 I doubt that. 515 00:46:46,660 --> 00:46:48,660 Maybe they just say you lost your nerve. 516 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,180 Well, I suppose it should cheer me up to see Berlin again. 517 00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:56,600 It never came back to cheer me up. 518 00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,080 You got married. You got a new car. You don't need cheering up. 519 00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:04,140 How is, what's her name? 520 00:47:05,260 --> 00:47:06,260 You mean Zina? 521 00:47:07,780 --> 00:47:08,980 You won't see her tonight. 522 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:10,940 She's visiting her mother, Munich. 523 00:47:13,020 --> 00:47:14,340 I'll show you the photographs. 524 00:47:33,550 --> 00:47:35,590 Fuck, the bleach is still living, thankfully. 525 00:47:53,170 --> 00:47:53,650 My 526 00:47:53,650 --> 00:48:00,870 God! 527 00:48:01,710 --> 00:48:04,130 typewriter, tidy debt, no model airplanes. 528 00:48:04,410 --> 00:48:06,390 Things have changed since I was last here. 529 00:48:06,870 --> 00:48:09,390 Young wives, Bernie, they take charge. 530 00:48:09,670 --> 00:48:12,310 You know what it feels like, Bernie, with a young woman. 531 00:48:12,850 --> 00:48:14,990 The whole world starts all over again. 532 00:48:20,330 --> 00:48:24,130 Is that why Frank Harrington doesn't use me anymore? Because I'm married? 533 00:48:26,790 --> 00:48:29,070 I wouldn't know anything about Frank Harrington these days. 534 00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,460 What's this, a Catholic church, you heathen shiksa? 535 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,120 She wanted to be in white, Bernie. 536 00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:43,720 Big party. 537 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,040 You both had invitations. 538 00:48:53,740 --> 00:48:54,740 Oh, no. 539 00:49:01,820 --> 00:49:02,820 Where is she? 540 00:49:09,290 --> 00:49:13,050 Last time I was here, their checkpoint was like a shed. 541 00:49:15,610 --> 00:49:17,370 Charlie looks like a bus station now. 542 00:49:19,990 --> 00:49:22,070 But it still scares the hell out of me, darling. 543 00:49:28,090 --> 00:49:29,850 Jack, how long have we been waiting here? 544 00:49:31,990 --> 00:49:33,450 Exactly a quarter of a century. 545 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,780 That Vopo, watching with his binoculars. 546 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,620 He wasn't even born when we started. 547 00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:54,340 And we thought the wall would be knocked down after a few days. 548 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,120 Yeah, well, we were young then, weren't we? 549 00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:04,760 Youth, the tough will not endure. 550 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,380 Then come kiss me, sweet and sweaty. 551 00:50:32,270 --> 00:50:33,270 Checkpoint's closing. 552 00:50:35,710 --> 00:50:36,710 Maybe tomorrow. 553 00:50:37,390 --> 00:50:38,390 Whoever he is. 554 00:50:40,930 --> 00:50:41,930 Uh -oh. 555 00:50:44,890 --> 00:50:45,890 He was the one off. 556 00:50:46,450 --> 00:50:47,610 No contact, abandoned. 557 00:50:49,470 --> 00:50:50,970 I don't think he ever meant to come over. 558 00:50:52,650 --> 00:50:54,030 I think he was trying to tell us. 559 00:50:55,550 --> 00:50:56,830 I'm drowning, not waving. 560 00:50:58,970 --> 00:51:00,170 Why did they send you? 561 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,240 That's a clerk's job. 562 00:51:05,420 --> 00:51:08,320 Picking up agents through the wire. 563 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,440 Well, I'm a clerk, Bernard. That's what I've become. 564 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,800 Besides, you had an agent who needed a briefing. 565 00:51:21,740 --> 00:51:22,960 She's run off, Bernie. 566 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,240 The Coca -Cola salesman from Munich. 567 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,040 More her age, perhaps. 568 00:51:33,420 --> 00:51:34,420 Or her size. 569 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:50,120 Brahms. 570 00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,500 That's who we were waiting for tonight. 571 00:51:57,060 --> 00:51:58,520 Someone of the Brahms Network. 572 00:52:00,420 --> 00:52:02,380 That's the only reason they would have sent you. 573 00:52:12,750 --> 00:52:17,550 is to put my feet up at home and never have to be frightened ever again. 574 00:52:19,050 --> 00:52:20,510 Don't kid yourself, Bernie. 575 00:52:22,550 --> 00:52:26,770 Sooner or later, they'll be sending you back over the other side. 576 00:52:29,310 --> 00:52:33,790 If it's Brahms, you're the only person they can send.