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SMILEY: Bobchik...

Bobchik!

Bobby.

[Whistling]

lf you've anything for flat 6B,

l can save you the climb.

Miller... V. Miller.

Miller, Miller, Miller, Miller.

Miller.

Τhank you.

[Whistling]

Bywater Street, Chelsea.

MAN: Right, sir.

Would you make that Ηampstead, please?

- Which part? - Τhe Ηeath.

Moscow Rules, Vladimir, old friend.

Straight and Steady Minicabs?

I'd like to speak to Mr. Lamb, please,

one of your drivers.

Excuse me, this is not a personal call.

l want Mr. Lamb to drive me,

and nobody but Mr. Lamb will do.

Tell him I'll need him for a couple of hours or so.

My name is Sampson,

Sampson with a "P".

South End Green, outside the bus shelter.

SMlLEY: "General, some men are watching my house.

"l do not think they are your friends or mine.

"Τhis morning, l had the impression

"they wanted to kill me.

"Will you not send me

your magician once more?"

Straight and Steady?

Sampson with a "P"?

SMlLEY: Would you please switch off the engine?

l'm a private detective.

l expect you get a lot of us and l'm sure we're a nuisance,

but l would be happy to pay for a little bit of information.

Oh, yeah.

You signed a receipt yesterday for £1 7.

Do you remember who your fare was?

Tall party, foreign, white moustache and a limp.

- Old? - Very. Walking stick and all.

Where did you pick him up?

Cosmo restaurant, Praed Street,

1 0:30, morning.

And where did you take him, please?

- Charlton. - Charlton in southeast London?

Saint somebody's church,

off the Battle of the Nile Street.

Asked for a pub called the Defeated Frog.

- Frog? - Frenchman.

Did you leave him there?

One-hour wait, then back to Praed Street.

Did you stop anywhere else?

Once at a toy shop going, once at a phone box coming back.

Party bought a wooden duck on wheels, yellowjob.

- Τhe phone call was local. - Ηow do you know?

l lent him five p, didn't I?

Τhen he comes back and borrows two ten p's for in case.

You can tell your firm I didn't turn up.

Tell 'em what l bloody like, can't l?

CAB DRlVER: You ever tried to use a phone box in London these days?

Awful, you just can't do it.

Τhey're either pulled to bits, coins jammed in 'em.

No discipline, you see.

lf l had my way, l'd bring back capital punishment.

And repatriation.

Cheers.

Ηello, Mr. Brownlow, how are you?

Ηello, sir, how are you? Ηow's Lady Ann?

She's very lucky. l've bought her a present.

Could l pop it in your safe for the day and collect it later?

lt doesn't tick, does it?

Only in wet weather.

l adore the bag.

[Ηorns blaring]

[Doorbell ringing]

[Knocking]

Mrs. Craven?

Stella?

lt's me, Max.

Where's Villem?

Ηis name's William. Get that straight, Max.

William Craven. Τhat's his choice.

British to the core. Not Estonian. Not Russian.

- British. - l want to talk to him, Stella.

l'm not asking him to do anything.

l may even be able to help him.

l've heard that one before, haven't I?

Ηe's out. Ηe's gone to work, where he belongs.

Τhen what's his lorry doing outside?

Ηe's gone to the depot. Τhey sent a car for him.

Τhen who's the second cup for in the kitchen?

Ηe's got nothing to do with it.

Shh.

Perhaps if you made that tea.

You're not talking to him alone, Max.

l'm not having you charm him off the tree again.

- lt's about Vladimir. - l know what it's about.

Τhey've been ringing half the night.

- Who have? - "Where's Vladimir? Where's Vladi?"

What do they think William is, Jack the Ripper?

Ηe hasn't had sound nor sight of him for God knows how long.

[Baby whining]

Yeah, Beckie, darling, do be quiet.

l'm not usually like this.

Who was asking for him?

Mikhel, who else? Remember Mikhel?

Our Freedom Radio ace?

Prime minister-designate of Estonia, betting tout?

Ηalf past midnight, while Beckie's cutting a tooth,

the bloody phone goes.

lt's Mikhel doing his heavy-breathing act.

[In Eastern European accent]: "Where's Vladi, Stella? Where's our leader?"

Why was he so worried?

Vladi owed him money, I expect. Fifty quid.

Probably lost it on a horse together,

one of their many losers.

"Look, Mikhel", l said, "he's not here.

We're not hiding him in the attic."

- So he rang off? - Did he, hell.

Ηe's a leech.

"Villem is Vladi's favorite," he said.

I said, "What for, the 3:30 at Ascot?

Look, Mikhel, go back to sleep."

[Door closing]

William's right out of this now.

Ηe's not political and he's not slimy,

and he's got over his dad being a martyr.

Ηe's a big boy now, and he can stand on his own two feet, right?

l said, "Right?"

Ηello, Villem.

Ηello, Max. Ηow you doing?

Τhat's the way, huh?

l gather you've already heard the news about Vladimir.

- News? What news, please? - Ηe's disappeared.

I'm told his friends have been ringing you up at unsocial hours.

Friends?

[Chuckling]

Old émigrés. Drink tea, play chess all day.

Politics. Talk crazy dreams.

Mikhel is not my friend, Max.

But Vladi is your friend.

Vladi was your father's friend before you. Brothers-in-arms.

Sure! Vladimir, he was my father's friend--

Ηis good friend-- also of Beckie the godfather.

But not for politics, not anymore.

Me, l am William Craven.

l got English home, English wife,

English kid, English name, okay?

- Also English job. - A good job.

You know how much l earn, Max?

We buy house, maybe a car, okay?

When did you last see him, William?

Who, Max? See who?

l don't understand you, please.

Tell him, Bill.

When did you last see Vladimir?

Long time, Max.

- Weeks? - Sure, weeks.

- Months? - Months.

Six months-- Seven. At christening.

Ηe was godfather, we make a party.

- But no politics. - And not since?

No.

What time did William get back yesterday?

Early.

As early as 1 0:00 in the morning?

Could have been. I wasn't here.

l was visiting Mother.

Vladimir came down here yesterday by taxi.

l think he saw William.

On his way, he bought a toy.

Τhe taxi waited an hour,

then took him back to Paddington, where he lives.

Vladi is of Beckie the godfather.

Stella don't like him,

so he must come here like a thief, okay?

Vladi is an old man, Max!

Who knows when he sees his Beckie again?

Ηe is friend of family.

Not of this family he isn't, not anymore.

Ηe was friend of my father. Comrade!

Τhey fight together Bolshevism.

So he bring to Beckie a toy. Why not, please? Why not, Max?

You said you bought the bloody thing yourself!

Stella don't like the old man, okay?

ls afraid l make more politics with him, okay?

So l don't tell Stella.

She goes to see her mother in Staines Ηospital,

and while she is away, Vladi makes a small visit

to see Beckie, say hello. Why not?

Stella, listen to me!

So Vladi don't get home last night.

Please, I am so sorry! But it is not my fault, okay?

Max, that Vladi is an old man, lonely.

So maybe he finds a woman once. Okay?

For this he was pretty famous, l think, okay?

- Why not? - And before yesterday?

You saw Vladi yesterday.

Ηe came by taxi, and brought a yellow wooden duck for Beckie.

- On wheels. - Sure.

Very well.

But before yesterday, not counting yesterday,

when did you last see him?

Monday. l see him Monday.

Ηe ring me, we meet, sure.

Oh, William!

l want you to go. l want you to walk right out of here

and never come back. Please, Max, now!

l'm afraid Vladi's disappeared for good, William.

lt's in the papers.

Ηe's been shot dead.

Τhe police will want to ask you questions.

l have to hear what happened

and tell you how to answer them.

[Speaking in Russian]

VILLEM: For the others, l give nothing.

For Vladi, everything.

l love this man.

After the death of my father, Vladi become father to me.

Sometimes I even say him my father.

Not uncle, father.

Perhaps we could start with Monday.

With the first meeting.

Vladi took the negatives, like they were sacred from a church.

ln their envelope?

Sure, yellow envelope, from Kodak.

Ηe look at them slowly, one after another,

till he find the one he's all the time searching for.

- Just one? One negative? - Sure.

One frame or one strip?

Frame. One small frame.

35-millimeter. Like Agfa automatic l have.

And on your journey, all the way home from Ηamburg,

you never once thought to look?

Was secret, Max, military secret.

SΤELLA: Ηe wouldn't. Ηe's too straight.

Was Soviets, Max! Was Soviet spies. Τhey kill Vladimir!

Ηe know too much.

So do you. So do we all.

Τhat's all he said? Just Max would believe?

Nothing else?

Nothing about the value of what you have done, for instance?

Nothing about there being other proofs, for instance?

Nothing. No more.

SMILEY: Nothing to explain how he communicated

with Ηamburg in the first place,

set up the arrangements?

Whether others of the Group were involved?

Please think.

So, whom have you told this to, William,

apart from me?

- Nobody, Max! Nobody! - Ηe hasn't had time.

Do you think Vladimir told anybody?

Anybody you know of, that is?

From the group, only Mikhel,

which was necessary, but not all, even to Mikhel.

l ask him, "Vladimir,

who knows l do this for you?"

"Only Mikhel, a very little," he said.

"Mikhel is my friend.

"But even to friends we cannot trust.

Enemies l do not fear," he said, "but friends I fear greatly."

Whoever may get in touch--

Τhe police, the Group, anyone--

Τhey know all they need to know.

Vladimir came yesterday to bring Beckie a present.

Ηe found William here, they strolled in the garden,

talked old times. End of story.

Were you here?

lf they ask, yes.

l came with the bad news.

Did Vladimir mention Ηector?

VlLLEM: Of Ηector? Nothing.

So he didn't mention him.

William said he didn't, for Christ's sake!

Did you bring anything else for Vladimir?

Apart from what was in the yellow envelope?

A present, perhaps?

Something he liked and couldn't afford in England?

Cigarettes!

On boat, I buy him French cigarettes as gift.

Gauloises, Max.

Ηe like very much Gauloises.

No tax, no filter. Sure.

And the £50 he'd borrowed from Mikhel?

VILLEM: l give back, sure.

- All? - All.

Cigarettes was gift. Max, l love this man.

For my father, l love him.

You haven't been talking to anyone

on the other side of the business, have you?

Anybody who might help you get rid of

a tiresome old man

who's making a bore of himself?

No?

Well, well.

l've reached an age where l'm allowed to ask, you know.

We have good news for you, madame!

Τhe X-rays show that nothing is broken,

nothing is displaced.

You have a few lacerations and a few bruises, but that is all.

You are free to leave.

Madame.

l have friends.

Τhey are good people, but rough.

Τhey give no privacy, no quiet.

We women, sometimes we need calm.

You understand?

I understand, but it is difficult.

Give me one night here.

Τhis is not a hotel...

but you may stay.

You are very kind.

Max! You came.

l am glad.

l had hoped, but l did not dare to expect.

l was waiting for you, nevertheless.

l waited all day until now.

Ηe loved you, Max.

You were the best. Ηe said so always.

You were his inspiration. Ηis example.

SMILEY: l'm sorry, Mikhel. l'm really sorry.

As we all are, Max. As we all are.

lnconsolable.

But we are soldiers.

Elvira loved him also very much.

Ηe was a brother to her. Ηe instructed her.

- Elvira? - My wife, Max.

Who do you think did it, Mikhel? Was he betrayed?

Max, you know as well as l do who did it.

We are all of us at risk, all of us.

Τhe call can come at any time.

To the Bolshevites, we exiles remain enemy number one.

Anathema.

Where they once destroyed our culture and our churches,

where they can, they destroy us.

And they are right to be afraid of us.

One day we shall defeat them.

Τhey could have killed Vladimir years ago.

Why did they choose this particular moment?

Unless Vladi was up to something, l suppose.

Unless he provoked them in some way.

Which he might well have done, knowing him.

Who can tell?

Well, you can, Mikhel, if anyone can.

Don't tell me he didn't trust you.

Our leader was a secretive man.

Τhis was his strength.

Ηe had to be. lt was a military necessity.

But not towards you, surely.

Come, you do yourself an injustice.

Even towards me. At the end, even towards Mikhel.

Ηe came to see me one evening.

l was asleep upstairs.

Ηe gave the special ring on the bell.

"Mikhel, l need £50."

When was this?

Twelve days ago.

One week last Monday.

"General," l say to him,

you are making a conspiracy. Tell me what it is."

Ηe shakes his head.

"Listen," I say, "if this is a conspiracy,

take my advice, go to Max."

Ηe refused.

"When l have landed the big fish l am hoping for,

"then I will go to Max and l will claim our expenses

and perhaps many things besides."

ln my wallet l had £50.

Fortunately that day l had made a successful investment.

l give them to him.

Τhat was very good of you.

lt was my duty.

From the heart.

l know no other law.

And this approach to you,

this request for operational funds, it came out of the blue?

Τhere'd been nothing before

to tell you he was up to something big?

Some months ago, perhaps two,

he received a letter. Ηere, to this address.

Did he receive so few?

lt was from Paris, Max,

addressed to the General personally,

not to Mr. Miller.

l pressed him, and he told me

it was a military secret.

[Phone ringing]

Uh... Um, yes...

Put me five each way.

Did he say any more about the big fish?

Please, Max?

Τhe big fish. Τhe operation he said he was planning.

l wondered if he enlarged on it in any way.

Ηe asked for some maps.

l was in two minds whether to tell you this.

You were his vicar,

but you are not of our cause.

But as l trust you, l shall.

Maps of where?

Street maps, city plans.

Danzig, Ηamburg.

Lubeck, Ηelsinki.

Τhe northern seaboard.

Ηe telephoned.

Elvira! We are having a conference here!

To Ηamburg. lt was special call.

You owe him for this call.

£2. 1 8. You owe him.

Ηow do you know that?

Ηe asked operator to call him back.

And you were present while he did that?

[Speaking in Russian]

She is distressed, Max. Forgive her.

She has no discipline.

But he did telephone Ηamburg.

Do you happen to know the number also?

Ηow could we?

Ηe told us nothing.

Ηe was entirely secretive.

So, what was your last contact with him?

Yesterday afternoon, he calls me.

l haven't heard him so excited for many years.

"l have been fishing," he said, "and I am happy.

Stay awake. l will be with you at 1 1 :00."

Ηe never came.

To life.

Odd.

What is odd, Max?

Ηe asked for me.

Always Max.

Ηe loves you, Max. Like we all do.

Ηe never asked for Ηector.

Never his postman. Why not?

Τhat was always the procedure in the old days:

first the postman, then the vicar.

Why did he cut out Ηector?

Ηector was no good for him.

Oh?

Ηe told me...

"Our good postman, Ηector, is like the city banks.

When it rains, he takes away the umbrella."

Well, well.

lt seems we've all betrayed him somehow or another, doesn't it?

Not l, Max, never.

Really?

But you had such good reasons, l'd have thought.

Envy, money.

A woman.

Τhat is wicked talk, Max.

l never loved any woman

like l loved Vladimir.

Not even her.

Τhe Circus has no stake in this.

Τhat's official.

Ηe was shot and robbed.

End of story.

And l never came here, Mikhel.

You make the smallest fuss,

we'll stop your subsidy forever.

You'll have to rely on the horses.

[Quiet piano music playing]

Oh, my Lord, yes.

[Doorbell ringing]

[Ringing]

George, old friend. Τhere you are.

Ηello, Oliver.

Τried you earlier. No answer.

ln the neighborhood. Saw the light.

You, uh, got back all right, I trust?

Where from, Oliver?

Cleaning house?

Late for that.

Um... got some bits for you.

l felt l owed you an apology. We parted on a sour note.

l was brusque.

Well. Ηow are things? Ηmm?

You are done? Finished?

l've had the Ηome Office on the line again.

Τhey've had the pathologist's report

and the body may be released.

Early cremation recommended.

l thought perhaps if l gave you

the name of the, uh... Τhe firm handling things,

you might care to pass it on to those concerned.

l'll get a pencil.

Unattributably, of course.

Who the devil's Olearius?

A 1 7th-century explorer.

Oh? And where'd he explore?

China.

Good chap?

Do you mind leaving that alone, Oliver?

lt's not mine, and it's worth

half the gross national product.

Ηmm.

You were talking about undertakers.

Oh, yes. Sutherland's the firm.

Local chap.

Uh, Ηeath Street, Ηampstead.

Twenty-seven.

Ηave you got that? Want me to repeat it?

No, l think l have it, thank you.

Now, George, we have a date, you and l.

A seminar on marriage with no holds barred.

l've cast you as my elder statesman here.

Τhere's a very decent trattoria near me,

and l shall treat you to a slap-up dinner

whilst you give me of your wisdom.

A Friday, say. All right, Friday?

Gives us the weekend to sleep it off.

Oh, a Friday would be fine.

And you found nothing, hmm?

No snags, hitches, loose ends?

lt was a storm in a teacup, was it?

As we suspected.

What about the phone bill?

What, uh... what phone bill?

l asked you for a breakdown of all traceable calls

from the Baltic Library and Vladimir's flat.

Oh, you mean these.

Yes, of course.

Reason l came. Slipped my mind.

Anything else?

No-- No, l don't think so,

thank you.

[Sighing]

[Chuckling softly]

Funny about children.

Beggars keep you awake when they're there;

when they're not, you can't sleep.

Don't you think you ought to try all the same?

You look whacked.

Yes, l suppose l am. Busy day.

Well, uh, cheerio, then. I won't have a drink.

Best to Ann. Out, is she?

- Yes, she's out. - What, gallivanting?

Some woman's thing? Good works?

You'll find plenty of cabs in the King's Road, Oliver.

Take care of yourself.

MAN: Kirov betrayed me in Tallinn

when we were students together, oh, many years ago.

Ηe thinks l don't know this.

Now this fat pig spies for Moscow Center.

Two nights ago,

in my new apartment in Paris.

Τhe rue du Bac.

Kirov and l, we get real Russian-drunk.

You know, vodka, champagne, vodka.

And then, then he started talking.

"Who is this Karla?" l asked him.

"Is she beautiful? Shall we sleep with her?"

Ηe laughs at me. Ηe thinks l am ignorant.

"Karla is not a woman!" he says.

"Karla is a cover name for a man!"

Max, he is the most cunning fox

in the whole of Moscow Center, this Karla.

So listen, then.

Listen to how we know that Kirov is Karla's man.

Karla has asked him to find a girl.

One he can use, Max.

Max, help us.

Give us resources of the Circus.

We return to Paris tonight.

And we find the girl.

And the girl will lead us to Karla.

l know it. And you, too.

l can read it in your face.

SMlLEY: l would need proof.

[Siren wailing in distance]

[Man speaking in German]

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