1 00:00:20,270 --> 00:00:23,990 So please, we'll stop now a few minutes and everyone devotes themselves 2 00:00:23,990 --> 00:00:25,310 once again his difficult places. 3 00:00:26,070 --> 00:00:30,690 And then we'll bring my friend here a concert-ready performance. 4 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,300 They are wondering whether I had to practice on a Thursday afternoon. 5 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,200 They probably believe you are a famous Russian impresario. 6 00:00:59,860 --> 00:01:04,819 Fifteen years playing quintets with them and all for this moment, our one 7 00:01:04,819 --> 00:01:05,820 meeting. 8 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:11,060 It means your system has worked very well well about it. 9 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,140 Is it a bad sign they've sent you? 10 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,020 You asked for me. 11 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,680 I ask for you because I feel you will not betray me. 12 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,300 That does not mean to say you will do what I want you to do. 13 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:33,980 That courage to come back. 14 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:39,380 You saved my life in Weimar, Walter. 15 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,640 Perhaps I've been waiting 15 years to say thank you. 16 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,400 It's a lonely business, and I've been left too long on my own bonnet. 17 00:01:59,020 --> 00:02:00,760 It has its effect, I'm afraid. 18 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:05,760 I know what you have come to ask me. 19 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,280 Twice already I've done that. 20 00:02:16,460 --> 00:02:20,540 Silas Grant sends me smoked salmon and tilting and asks me... 21 00:02:21,050 --> 00:02:22,530 to hang on for another year. 22 00:02:25,870 --> 00:02:27,270 I'm too old, Bernard. 23 00:02:29,770 --> 00:02:32,670 I cannot take the being afraid all the time. 24 00:02:33,490 --> 00:02:34,850 No more can my wife. 25 00:02:36,930 --> 00:02:42,850 Whoever it is in London, something has been said here or in Moscow. 26 00:02:44,230 --> 00:02:46,630 I can almost feel them begin to... 27 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:00,940 You say you can identify this, whoever it is in London? 28 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,520 Have you brought the evidence with you? 29 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,060 That is my bargain, Bernard. 30 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:18,700 I conditioned it. 31 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,080 You get me and my wife out, and I'll bring the evidence with me. 32 00:03:28,460 --> 00:03:29,460 I'm tired. 33 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:33,980 It doesn't work no longer to believe it will happen sometimes in the future. 34 00:03:37,140 --> 00:03:38,580 What is this evidence of yours? 35 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,700 Four pages of handwriting. 36 00:03:45,220 --> 00:03:46,220 A report? 37 00:03:48,260 --> 00:03:49,920 Soviet agent breaking all the rules. 38 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,120 Deliberately. It was a minute. 39 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,120 A meeting between Bank of England and... Cabinet office. 40 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:02,260 Bound to end up on my desk sooner or later. 41 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:06,480 At which point I call for you. 42 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,480 As I've done. 43 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:15,720 And the KGB hope to catch the two of us before you get me and the evidence out 44 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:16,720 over the wall. 45 00:04:17,380 --> 00:04:19,700 They'll be looking for you today all over Berlin. 46 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,780 You'll move in London still. 47 00:04:24,140 --> 00:04:25,900 She doesn't know my real identity. 48 00:04:33,070 --> 00:04:34,070 It is the handwriting. 49 00:04:46,230 --> 00:04:47,230 I'm sorry. 50 00:04:48,530 --> 00:04:50,930 We only have these two hours to practice. 51 00:04:51,490 --> 00:04:53,810 I think I should pretend everything is normal today. 52 00:04:56,210 --> 00:04:57,530 Walter, I need to phone London. 53 00:04:58,930 --> 00:05:01,110 Use office up the corridor. 54 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,940 The privilege of rank even for amateur musicians. 55 00:05:06,020 --> 00:05:07,520 Dial five and then the number. 56 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,300 You'll be listening. Be discreet. 57 00:05:51,150 --> 00:05:52,150 Jason has done his work. 58 00:05:55,330 --> 00:05:56,390 I worry him. 59 00:05:59,030 --> 00:06:00,030 Where are you? 60 00:06:07,830 --> 00:06:08,830 How long have I got? 61 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:39,100 Watch me, Betty. 62 00:06:40,380 --> 00:06:42,220 They'll be coming out of school in ten minutes. 63 00:08:07,690 --> 00:08:11,870 It is sad I cannot say goodbye to them as I would have liked to. 64 00:08:15,190 --> 00:08:18,890 Next week, they will know I was a traitor. 65 00:08:22,550 --> 00:08:24,390 What will happen to me on the other side? 66 00:08:26,970 --> 00:08:30,650 You'll be flown directly to England in an RAF plane. No formalities, Walter. 67 00:08:31,070 --> 00:08:32,069 And then? 68 00:08:32,230 --> 00:08:34,049 Place in the country while they debrief you. 69 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,100 Will I see Silas? 70 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:40,559 Oh, he'll be there, sure. 71 00:08:46,540 --> 00:08:53,380 Strange how 72 00:08:53,380 --> 00:08:54,660 now the time has come. 73 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,000 I almost hesitate. 74 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,480 It's frightening to leave everything behind. 75 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,980 So many years of your life. 76 00:09:06,590 --> 00:09:07,590 All of your life. 77 00:09:08,910 --> 00:09:11,430 And to be able to take so little with you. 78 00:09:16,390 --> 00:09:17,650 Was ist eigentlich los? 79 00:09:20,850 --> 00:09:23,190 You know who it is, the woman with the handwriting. 80 00:09:26,090 --> 00:09:28,230 Mein Gott, es ist eine Frau. 81 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,420 that Medbalt had this whole business with Herbert Funnyside. 82 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,700 You sent for me all the way over here because you trust me. 83 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,100 And then we discovered that my wife is the defector. 84 00:09:52,420 --> 00:09:54,660 I don't think there's any funnyside. 85 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,400 Not for you, Bernd. 86 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,500 You are on the wrong side of the world to suddenly discover your wife is a 87 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:03,500 defector. 88 00:10:05,070 --> 00:10:06,510 The first time in five years. 89 00:10:07,530 --> 00:10:09,510 They sent you back into the East. 90 00:10:09,910 --> 00:10:13,450 And now you have to tell them your wife is KGB. 91 00:10:16,310 --> 00:10:17,870 You have told them on the telephone? 92 00:10:19,750 --> 00:10:23,210 I couldn't get through. 93 00:10:23,950 --> 00:10:25,770 It's time to try again. 94 00:10:27,290 --> 00:10:28,310 You have no urgency? 95 00:10:30,250 --> 00:10:32,530 Like you said, Walter, I'm on the wrong side of the wall. 96 00:11:11,210 --> 00:11:12,410 Yes, that's enough this afternoon. 97 00:11:15,230 --> 00:11:16,530 Oh, no, it's all right. Leave it. 98 00:11:19,610 --> 00:11:20,610 Cryer. 99 00:11:24,910 --> 00:11:25,910 Diggy Cryer. 100 00:11:27,470 --> 00:11:28,470 Fountain. 101 00:11:29,070 --> 00:11:30,070 Bernard? 102 00:11:31,390 --> 00:11:34,050 Where the hell are you? I thought you were supposed to... Diggy, listen. 103 00:11:37,650 --> 00:11:39,970 I have identified the mole. 104 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,220 Security, Bernard. Security. 105 00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:48,660 Fiona Ramson. 106 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:53,340 I can't believe it, Bernard. Fiona runs the Yellow Submarine. She can't get a 107 00:11:53,340 --> 00:11:54,340 leak. 108 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:57,800 Children have been taken to my mother. 109 00:11:59,180 --> 00:12:00,180 They'll need protection. 110 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:05,460 My mother has the key. 111 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:07,580 They'll be going for the children. 112 00:12:08,580 --> 00:12:09,980 What do you expect me to do? 113 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:32,940 I don't think you should sleep at home tonight. 114 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:35,420 Bring your wife and tell her to meet you somewhere. 115 00:12:35,820 --> 00:12:40,340 We have a laube out in Buchholz, a little camera house, an allotment. 116 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,300 Tomorrow you come into the offices if everything was normal. 117 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:47,400 Bring photocopies of the handwritten pages meeting on the lake. You know the 118 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,400 quarries? 119 00:12:48,420 --> 00:12:50,060 And my wife? I'll bring your wife. 120 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,600 Just tell her to stay in the laube tomorrow until I come. 121 00:13:04,110 --> 00:13:06,010 I wish I could think of something to say. 122 00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:19,070 You know what people say in the East? 123 00:13:20,410 --> 00:13:23,610 Why can't the damn Nazis come back to look after their roots? 124 00:13:25,050 --> 00:13:26,050 It's an old joke. 125 00:13:28,150 --> 00:13:29,150 Have you a document? 126 00:13:29,970 --> 00:13:32,590 I'll be all right as long as they stop the statue of the KGB. 127 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,480 Looks like traffic has started. 128 00:13:36,460 --> 00:13:37,460 Look at them. 129 00:13:38,460 --> 00:13:39,460 Obsessed with uniform. 130 00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:43,040 These people never will change. 131 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:49,800 Where's the gallery then, Walter? 132 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:52,840 It's near there. 133 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:57,160 And it's not a place to get trapped now. 134 00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:01,800 You be careful too, Walter. 135 00:15:15,850 --> 00:15:17,890 I make that 1 ,250 miles. 136 00:15:18,110 --> 00:15:19,770 Six and a half hours in the air. 137 00:15:23,250 --> 00:15:24,550 Five border crossings. 138 00:15:28,770 --> 00:15:30,070 44 minutes late. 139 00:15:34,490 --> 00:15:36,610 We picked the children up from the school. 140 00:15:40,670 --> 00:15:42,950 I met your London colleague in a school playground. 141 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:47,380 I looked around at the other man. He looked around at the other man. 142 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:49,960 He looked like sexual perverts. 143 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,120 And your nanny thought we were both kidnappers. 144 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,040 The real kidnappers arrived one half minute too late. 145 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:02,140 Time takes clothes, Bernie. 146 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:08,360 They're safe at your mother's. 147 00:16:20,620 --> 00:16:21,620 Arm cut. 148 00:16:22,740 --> 00:16:23,740 Antigone crier. 149 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:26,700 You look puzzled. 150 00:16:31,420 --> 00:16:32,680 It's going to be bad tomorrow. 151 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:38,540 Was it Fiona? 152 00:16:51,630 --> 00:16:52,630 To go, son. 153 00:17:38,570 --> 00:17:39,570 Taylor? 154 00:17:39,730 --> 00:17:40,730 Me, probably. 155 00:17:41,350 --> 00:17:42,910 Ever since I came through the checkpoint. 156 00:18:18,250 --> 00:18:19,390 Major Erich Stinnes. 157 00:18:19,850 --> 00:18:20,850 KGB Berliners. 158 00:18:24,930 --> 00:18:29,970 Here is first, Victor. 159 00:18:43,390 --> 00:18:44,610 Schulting to warn you of? 160 00:18:45,330 --> 00:18:47,290 That means they know you're here, Bernie. 161 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:51,820 They're still waiting for us to lead them to bronze. 162 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,540 You tread very carefully tomorrow, Enfroyton. 163 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:00,220 He's going to need your help. 164 00:19:42,310 --> 00:19:44,830 We'd better get a move on. They're bound to know we're here. Where's Walter? 165 00:19:45,370 --> 00:19:46,370 Waiting by the lake. 166 00:19:46,870 --> 00:19:48,150 With his four sheets of paper. 167 00:19:48,430 --> 00:19:49,430 What happened? 168 00:19:49,890 --> 00:19:53,510 They're at the Stasi's, front and back, as soon as he puts them in the photocopy 169 00:19:53,510 --> 00:19:54,510 machine. 170 00:19:55,130 --> 00:19:57,230 Your Dr. Walter von Munt is a very cool man. 171 00:19:57,910 --> 00:19:58,930 Yet it was just a plant. 172 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:48,500 We're running out of time. 173 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,780 No, you take these to England. Give them to Silas. 174 00:20:52,060 --> 00:20:53,120 You're not coming with us? 175 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,220 Don't worry about me. I'll find a way back. 176 00:20:56,220 --> 00:20:57,500 Makes us all square for Weimar. 177 00:20:59,660 --> 00:21:00,660 I'm sorry, Bernd. 178 00:21:02,260 --> 00:21:03,420 The way it happened for you... 179 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,520 As fast as you can. I'll be waiting. 180 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,280 So, now take the mask. No fear. 181 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,520 All right. 182 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:10,540 All right? 183 00:22:14,820 --> 00:22:15,820 You'll be out in half an hour. 184 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:19,560 Good luck. 185 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:23,000 Good luck, Walter. 186 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:24,720 Bye, bye, bye. 187 00:24:04,330 --> 00:24:05,330 How is he going over? 188 00:24:06,470 --> 00:24:07,470 A car? 189 00:24:07,630 --> 00:24:08,630 A truck? 190 00:24:08,710 --> 00:24:09,710 A train? 191 00:24:10,210 --> 00:24:12,930 Or with a tourist bus to that point, Charlie? 192 00:24:13,930 --> 00:24:15,150 You'll have Dr. 193 00:24:15,450 --> 00:24:16,690 Walter von Munte. 194 00:24:18,210 --> 00:24:23,030 If he reaches the West in safety, I don't think he will ever see you 195 00:24:26,370 --> 00:24:27,550 Ah, yes, yes. 196 00:24:28,270 --> 00:24:33,500 No hands on you, they told me. Such concern. I wonder who protects me. Don't 197 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:34,500 so carefully. 198 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:40,940 Don't worry about you all, Herr Dr. Von Munze. 199 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:46,000 We caught him an hour ago. 200 00:25:42,410 --> 00:25:43,410 May I? 201 00:25:51,310 --> 00:25:53,430 I think you can give up the charade. 202 00:25:59,770 --> 00:26:01,430 The only thing that matters is the plan. 203 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,100 It's strange, isn't it, having to remember identification stories? 204 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,340 We used to spend a week on that in training. 205 00:26:24,260 --> 00:26:27,640 The invention of stories and foreign languages. 206 00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:33,560 My specialization, Latin America. 207 00:27:08,620 --> 00:27:09,620 It's a bloody nightmare. 208 00:27:24,540 --> 00:27:27,560 Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me why there's been no serious attempt to 209 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,560 interrogate me. 210 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:44,240 You're right. 211 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,600 It's ridiculous not to make an advantage of your state of mind. 212 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,500 We should have been interrogating for five hours while you were warm. 213 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,120 Or to be more precise, cold. 214 00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:03,480 Frightened cold, Mr. Sampson. 215 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,640 But instead I was overruled by some KGB. 216 00:28:14,730 --> 00:28:16,710 Some party bastard sitting behind a fat desk. 217 00:28:16,930 --> 00:28:17,970 You know what it's like. 218 00:28:21,530 --> 00:28:23,670 We both were the tough side of the business. 219 00:28:33,910 --> 00:28:34,910 Major? 220 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,400 Major Erich Stinnes, KGB Berlin office. 221 00:28:55,980 --> 00:28:58,980 Mrs. Sampton, SIS, later London Central. 222 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,560 Yes, my wife, Erich Stinnes. 223 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,100 Mother of my children. 224 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,900 The children were picked up at your mother's last night, after Vernet left. 225 00:29:48,210 --> 00:29:52,330 It's going to cause you a lot of trouble back at London Central, that telephone 226 00:29:52,330 --> 00:29:53,330 call. 227 00:29:55,190 --> 00:29:56,190 Sentimental, really. 228 00:29:59,820 --> 00:30:00,820 Thank you. 229 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,500 You will be going home. 230 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,220 Can't it start a bit, will it? 231 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,040 Having your husband down the end of the road? 232 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,260 I've made it a condition that you should have access to the children. 233 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:22,680 Access? Where? 234 00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:25,560 In Moscow, I'm afraid. 235 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,660 Berlin's too close to the border. 236 00:30:29,610 --> 00:30:31,530 I'm too full of your school chums. 237 00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:33,330 Safe passage. 238 00:30:34,770 --> 00:30:36,290 I can protect you there. 239 00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:00,560 How long have you been protecting me? 240 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,580 You haven't needed it for five... How long, Fiona? 241 00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:10,900 God, what a perfect cover I was for you. 242 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:21,660 Every time I came back from the East, I saw your little thigh of relief. 243 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,860 Had me on the head, told me how brave I was. 244 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,320 Put your arms around me. 245 00:31:29,550 --> 00:31:30,910 Made me feel warm and safe. 246 00:31:33,830 --> 00:31:35,570 Jesus Christ. 247 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:39,710 How many lives have you made me live? 248 00:31:42,690 --> 00:31:44,170 The relief was genuine. 249 00:31:51,790 --> 00:31:55,150 I suppose I should say I'm glad the pretending is all over. 250 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,500 I hope you'll do everything you can to make things easier for the children. 251 00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:07,260 Well, it depends who's got them, doesn't it? 252 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:09,680 They're waiting for me in Monaco. 253 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,480 Apparently for me in London. 254 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,300 I don't know what would have happened if your little gamble had come off. 255 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,780 You'd have been able to carry on, I suppose. 256 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,760 You had to have got rid of me, though. 257 00:32:41,610 --> 00:32:42,610 Have you been spying? 258 00:32:46,750 --> 00:32:51,810 I've had my own private goodbye plan for every hour of every day and night. 259 00:32:57,070 --> 00:32:58,090 You're being swapped. 260 00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:00,770 Why? 261 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,330 You're more used to me back there. 262 00:33:05,330 --> 00:33:08,090 And there's nothing you can tell them here that I can't tell them. 263 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,280 Besides, you always were very good at tiring the mud. 264 00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:24,680 I wouldn't want Dickie and Brett to have too easy a time. 265 00:33:26,020 --> 00:33:27,260 But don't ask me. 266 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:39,800 You love me because you're told to. 267 00:33:43,860 --> 00:33:45,420 I expect you'll want to sleep. 268 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:47,960 You'll have a bed. 269 00:35:22,060 --> 00:35:23,060 I'm sorry, Bernard. 270 00:35:23,140 --> 00:35:24,140 Save it, Frank. 271 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:27,840 Where are the kids? 272 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,080 With your mother. 273 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:30,180 How do you know? 274 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,960 I talked to them an hour ago on the phone. 275 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,120 Poor Fiona. 276 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:38,920 Poor Fiona? 277 00:35:42,620 --> 00:35:43,740 Did Brahms make it? 278 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,360 Yes. And his wife? 279 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:47,960 Let's go home. 280 00:36:46,030 --> 00:36:47,490 What's going on? What are you doing? 281 00:36:47,790 --> 00:36:48,790 You'll find out. 282 00:37:11,340 --> 00:37:15,340 Just making sure that MI5s stay within the parameters of decency, Bernard. 283 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,200 And within the limits of their brief. 284 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,920 That's very thoughtful of you, Brett. 285 00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:30,760 Well, I can leave you to keep an eye on them yourself now. 286 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,400 Your nanny had to go home. 287 00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:39,260 To see her own family. 288 00:37:41,020 --> 00:37:42,460 Doris will be looking after you. 289 00:37:51,540 --> 00:37:53,060 Why are you doing that? 290 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:57,940 Oh, I, uh... I expect your daddy must have lost something. 291 00:38:00,260 --> 00:38:01,260 Excuse me. 292 00:38:11,150 --> 00:38:12,270 Not while the kids are here. 293 00:38:13,170 --> 00:38:14,170 Okay? 294 00:38:14,950 --> 00:38:17,370 If you want to play hide -and -seek, you wait till they're at school. 295 00:39:30,570 --> 00:39:35,250 Len Dayton's trilogy is available in hardback and paperback from bookshops. 296 00:39:37,750 --> 00:39:42,370 This episode of Game, Set and Match can be seen again this Saturday night at 5 297 00:39:42,370 --> 00:39:44,530 past 8 on Channel 4.