Our Kind of Traitor Page #5

Synopsis: When Perry and his girlfriend, Gail, cross paths with the charismatic Dima on their Moroccan holiday, the forceful Russian is quick to challenge Perry to a friendly game of tennis. But this innocuous contest is not all it seems - Dima is a long-time servant of the Russian mafia, whose new boss, 'The Prince', wants him and his family dead. His only hope is to ask the unsuspecting Perry to broker him sanctuary with the British intelligence services, in return for exposing a vein of corruption that runs right to the heart of the City of London. Soon they find themselves on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps and, with the might of the Russian mafia closing in, begin to realise this particular match has the highest stakes of all.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Susanna White
Production: Film4
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
R
Year:
2016
108 min
$3,152,725
Website
510 Views


Longrigg convinced

the Home Office

to deny you

and your family entry.

And what can you

do about it?

Go back to London

and change their minds.

I'll need those account numbers.

F*** you.

It'll help me make a case.

You get my family to London,

I'll give you those numbers.

You should come back

on the plane with me.

No. We're staying with them.

I can't guarantee your safety.

They'll be coming after you.

Then you'd better hurry.

I knew

I couldn't trust this guy.

Change cars.

Get them across the border.

Head for Pralognan.

There's a safe house near there.

You went

behind my back.

- What do you expect?

- Your support.

Get off your f***ing

high horse, Hector.

You're lucky

I'm even considering this.

If Longrigg has got

a scent of something,

we need to act quickly.

It isn't

just Longrigg.

You know how delicate

relations are with Russia.

If their Foreign Minister

picks up the phone about this,

we can't ignore him.

What, so we're still taking

orders from the Kremlin?

Where are you hiding them?

We have a meeting

with the secretary tomorrow.

You'd better convince him

what Dima has to offer

is worth the grief.

Hector.

You look ravishing.

It's really noisy.

Time for bed, my sweet.

Come on. I'll read to you.

Don't worry. I won't be long.

I assume

this isn't a social visit.

No, actually.

You betrayed

the service, Aubrey,

and now you've betrayed

your country,

and I'm gonna hang you up

by your f***ing balls

if ifs the last thing I do.

Have we not

had this conversation before?

It didn't tum out quite

as you expected

as far as I remember.

How is your son, by the way?

Not as well

as your beautiful family.

Keep swinging, Hector.

I'll leave that to the prince.

I'm going to make sure

that your plan to help

your Russian friends

doesn't go as smoothly

as they expect.

And then I'll watch them

f*** you up.

Thank you.

Andrei?

Yes.

I tried to call you

so many times.

Are you okay?

No, I'm not.

Everything will be okay.

I'll look after you.

I don'! know what to do.

I can't bear this any longer.

Just tell me where you are.

I can't.

Then talk to me.

I love you.

If the committee

will allow me

to fly the asset and his family

here to the UK,

I can prove that Aubrey Longrigg

and these other traitors

are being paid between five

and 20 million pounds each

for their support.

Mr Secretary,

the Arena Bank is not Russian,

it's not subject to sanctions,

and on top of that

it's proposing to put billions

into the City of London.

If we investigate them

based on the testimony

of a self-confessed criminal,

they'll simply

take their money elsewhere.

A man launders a million pounds,

he's a crook,

but a few billion,

now you're talking.

Money has no smell as long

as there's enough of it.

Who cares what the Russians do

as long as they

spend their cash here?

There's really no need to be

quite so emotional.

You're right, Mr Secretary.

We've all seen

too much of the world.

Not wanking around?

And all the dirty money

that's sloshing around,

the profits of heartache

and pain,

we've seen that, too.

Heroin in Afghanistan, billions.

Arms in the Sudan, billions.

Female trafficking, billions.

An eighth of the world's

f***ing economy black as black.

We all know that.

Blood money.

That's all it is.

It can be in a box

under a drug lord's bed

or in a city bank

next to the vintage port.

It doesn't change colour.

It's still blood money.

Help!

I'm a nice old bear!

No!

Hey, don't tickle me!

Don't tickle me.

Don't tickle me.

Don't tickle me!

Don't tickle me!

Hello?

We're fine. How did it go?

Just a sec.

Perry?

It's Hector.

He wants a word.

They want me to go alone.

They want you to go ahead.

They're gonna send

a helicopter to pick you up.

- When?

- Tomorrow morning.

And my family?

They'll follow in a few days.

You believe them?

Hector seems confident.

I've f***ed up

your life, Professor.

Why are you still here?

I've no idea.

Why did you choose me?

There was

no one else in the restaurant.

I was lucky to pick

the only guy in the world

crazy enough to help me.

You're a good man,

Professor.

A man with honour.

Will you and Gail look after

Tamara and the kids?

- Of course.

- She's a good woman, Gail.

Keep her. You're lucky.

It's the only thing

that matters, you know.

All the rest is...

The rest is bullshit.

We'll play tennis in London.

Wimbledon.

ls there room for two?

Lel me see what I can do.

What are you

thinking about?

I'm just thinking about Dima

and the family.

I really thought that

I could make a difference.

You have.

Yeah.

When he asked for your help,

I don't think he imagined

in his wildest dreams

how far you'd go for him.

You know, I'm almost jealous.

Maybe we're better

at looking after

other people than each other.

No, we're not.

What's the matter?

Nothing.

Don't lie to me.

What's wrong?

I love him.

Who do you love?

Andrei.

I want to be with him.

Don't f***ing say that.

- But it's true.

- Don't f***ing say that.

I am pregnant.

I'm gonna kill him!

I'm gonna f***ing kill him!

You can't kill him.

You can't even protect us.

It's okay, Katya.

Professor.

- You know how to use this?

- No.

There's no safety.

Easy. Poof, poof, poof.

And they're dead.

F***...

Danny, let him go,

see where he goes.

Shh. I've got you.

I've got you.

Attack, attack.

Ollie.

I'll lake the north side.

Luke!

Three coming down the hill!

Danny!

4min groans)

4min groans)

Stay here.

Perry? Perry!

F***.

'- Perry?

- Luke?

- Over here.

- Are you all right?

We got two of them.

Are you hurt?

I'll be fine.

Just my shoulder.

Where's Dima?

He followed the last guy

into the woods.

Right.

Perry, stay here.

Perry.

I will not take that helicopter.

I'll go with the family.

Your family will be safe.

Ollie's moving them

to a secure location.

Ollie said this was secure.

Can't even protect yourself.

The best way to protect them

is to come with me to England.

This is your only chance.

F*** you.

I could go with you.

See you

in a couple of days.

Papa.

We'll talk later, okay?

Bye.

I'll go alone.

What?

I don't want you to come.

Stay with my family.

Are you sure?

See you in London.

We're ready.

It's just us.

The professor is staying.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

- Perry?

- They're just leaving now.

Didn't want me to go with him.

And how was he?

He seemed fine.

I'd better speak to Ollie

so that I know where he...

Hello?

Perry?

Perry, are you there?

Dima!

And today's financial news.

The Arena Bank of Cyprus

started trading

in London this morning.

Among the guests a1 the launch

was the new Minister of Trade

and Industry, Aubrey Longrigg,

who welcomed {he new bank

to the city community.

- This a bad time?

- No. No, not at all. Come in.

- You're expecting people.

- No, no, it's just me.

I like to cook.

Wilfred bloody Owen,

Siegfried bloody Sassoon,

Robert bloody Graves et al.

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John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré (), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author. In 2011, he was awarded the Goethe Medal. more…

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