Misery Loves Company: The Life & Death of Bruce Gilden Page #6

Hand me the picture. You got it?

Let's go.

We turned her place upside down,

Found these--

Coded phrases their coded equivalents

And, uh, one-time cipher pads

To break the codes.

So now we're waiting for Sasha's cutout to call.

Im also gonna need some repairs

On a 1952...

Bentley.

The windshield is cracked and, uh...

Needs to be replaced.

And the 1957 Bel Air g.s...

Got him! Payphone-- 8th street and 11th.

Is no longer for sale in case interested parties ask.

I will pass message along, Gene.

N. S. A. is working on the codes

Phone call right now.

I think it's best we wait

And see if the cutout calls back.

And if he doesn't call, pick her up and flip her?

No, she could lead us to Sasha.

A cut out who moves around for 23 years

Who has his own cutout to shield his identity--

This guy's too important,

Whoever he is.

How many people have you shown this to?

No one.

Just you.

I can't make heads or tails of it.

It's a list of contact numbers

That don't exist as far as i can tell

And a series of dates.

The numbers are not contact numbers.

What are they?

Bank accounts...

And swift codes.

What you are seeing here, jack,

Are the threads

Of kholstomer.

???? Kholstomer's $63 billion

Thatld have an effect.

It's the panic that would ensue from a sudden sell-off.

If--if fund managers and central banks

And foreign entities get the impression

That the dollar is in a freefall,

Kholstomer could have devastating consequences

Worldwide.

At the federal reserve to back the dollar on d-day.

Flood the media with inside stories

About federal reserve's resolve

To support the dollar.

Let the world's financial community know

The reserve has an almost unlimited ability

To back American currency. Will that be enough?

Angleton said it himself--

"prevent the panic, and we crush kholstomer."

And what about Sasha?

Won't he know,

Warn the Russians not to implement kholstomer?

Sasha won't know as long as this stays in this room.

why not let it leave the room?

Leak it to the company.

Let Sasha know we're onto kholstomer.

Let him postpone it.

No. We can't let Sasha know.

Kholstomer will always be out there to come back and haunt us.

We need to deal with this now.

Eugene, is that you?

Yes, its me.

Oh, I didn't think i would hear from you

Until next month, my dear boy.

Do you need more repairs for your... Starting trace.

You have to send a warning

To the old man immediately. I'm listening.

The other party knows about his intent to sell

The 220 seb coupe Mercedes with the white finish.

They know about the price, the date of the sale,

All of it. He has to postpone...

He's on east 8th and maple crest.

I will let him know immediately.

this time we got him. what's his name?

Renting an apartment under the name of Ludwig.

We're checking background.

He's careful.

Switched cabs twice and took two different buses coming home.

And the old lady?

We nabbed her before she could spill the beans.

With Lutwidge's contact gone, won't he get suspicious?

I'm really not too comfortable

Leaving this guy out there for so long, jack.

Let's wait just a little longer.

Tell me about this cutout, jack.

Dr. Kramer, phone...

dr. Kramer, phone call on line two.

He hasn't left his apartment in two days.

Couldn't get a clear photo of him yet.

Neighbors think he might be a writer.

He tends to keep to himself.

well, we--

We looked in the library of congress

To see if he had written anything

Or published anything.

It turns out the only thing that came back was, uh...

Under his name was "Alice in Wonderland"

And "through the looking glass."

What was this cutout's name?

He goes by the name of Lutwidge, Gene Lutwidge.

The writer of "Alice in Wonderland"...

Lewis Carroll-- we know.

Lewis Carroll's pen name...

Is Charles...

Lutwidge...

Dodgson.

Dodgson?

The delivery boy

We never caught...

who is it, Adrian?

From Kahns liquor shop...

That same delivery boy, jack,

Who made deliveries

To other people.

Leo was cleared.

Not by me, he wasnt, jack.

You came to me for advice.

Snatch him up.

snatch Dodgson up now.

Pick him up.

Mr. Lutwidge, you are gonna be taken to a secure--

Yevgeny?

Well, jack, you can't still be mad

About that raccoon coat.

Oh, my god.

I'm going to say a name to you, Leo.

Okay.

Yevgeny Tsipin.

Yevgeny?

He, um...

Slept with my girlfriend at Yale.

Did you know that?

We just arrested him for espionage

Right here in D.C.

You're joking.

Yevgeny's a spy?

We think he's Sasha's cutout.

Wow.

Yevgeny was the delivery boy

From Kahns liquor store.

Yevgeny delivered your liquor,

Delivered it to your house, Leo!

You're telling me that if he was at this door,

You wouldn't recognize him?

Are you trying to tell me this is just a coincidence? Relax, jack,

I can explain. Okay, please do. Please do, Leo,

Because, god help me, i got you

Out of Angletons prison, and if i was wrong, Leo,

If i was wrong, and you killed the Cubans,

And you--you betrayed the Hungarians,

And if you killed Lily, Leo,

If you killed Lily,

I don't know what the hell i will do to you.

Look, you were Yevgeny's friend, too.

I'm not accusing you of being Sasha.

Yeah, you and Yevgeny have shared a girlfriend--

Stella Bledsoe.

I ran a check on her, Leo. I never forgot her name.

She was an American communist

Who got caught a while down the road

For trying to recruit an undercover FBI agent.

She kept tabs on Yevgeny at Yale,

And she recruited you, Leo, didnt she?

Coach waltz recruited us, jack.

Coach waltz recruited us to the company!

Stella recruited you to the KGB.

Tell me Stella didn't recruit you!

Sasha.

I need an ambulance

To 1544 victory lane.

A man's been shot.

Jack, i never took a penny.

I want you to know that.

I did it because i believed in serving the country whose

System of government offered the best hope for the future.

That system was socialism, jack.

Adelle--she knew, didn't she?

Yes, she did, and Im not proud of it.

I was assigned to her to get secrets out of her father,

But guess what?

I fell in love with her, jack.

I did. I swear.

You are scum, Leo!

The company trained secret police in Argentina,

Chile, Iran, Iraq, Dominican Republic.

The list is as long as my arm.

This is the business we're in.

So here we are now.

You think this is what i had in mind when i joined?

Do you think this is what i signed up for?

You're a hero to me.

I'm sorry, buddy.

I wanted to protect my children.

That's why i stayed-- to protect my kids.

You're a traitor, Leo!

Leo!

Go to hell!

paramedics. Anyone in here? Anyone here?

Harvey?

the extraordinary if restrained action

taken in the Persian gulf early this morning

was overshadowed through the day

by scenes such as wall street has never witnessed

as the Dow Jones industrials

took off on a fear-fed free fall

to close down

a record 508.32 points.

panicked traders worked through lunch hours

in a desperate but losing attempt

to keep up with tickers that rolled up

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