The Fourth Protocol Page #2

Or did someone approach you?

I met someone at a party.

Or did he meet you?

Jan Marais...

It seems our Secret Service

is up to scratch.

Just what exactly

have you been passing him?

It would be awfully helpful to know.

I gave him any relevant documents

to NATO taht crossed my desk.

NATO?

Mmm-huh.

Well,

I hope they didn't pay you in cash,

Berenson the Rand's taken a bit

of a dive lately.

I didn't do it for money.

I did it because I believed

it was right!

A man of principle to the last.

You can bloody well sneer,

Irvine but perhaps I'm rather more

of a patriot than you are.

You may be interested in this.

It's an extract from the debriefing

of a recent Soviet defector

which pinpoints a Soviet agent

in the South African Foreign Service.

And this is a summation of the South

African internal investigation

which identifies the man

as one Jan Marais.

What have I done?

You've betrayed your country.

You've passed untold numbers

of secrets to Moscow...

And endangered the lives of British men

and women and I'd say,

you've weakened NATO

perhaps irretrievably.

Oh my God!

Just your

and your schoolboy politics...

And your idiotically conceited faith

in your own importance.

Now some of our more muscular

colleagues favour taking you to a cell

and going to work on you with

a carving knife and a pair of pliers.

The rest would like to feed you

to the newspapers and throw what's left

into prison for 20 years.

It's a tricky choice, isn't it?

However this is what you will do.

You will resume

your "special relationship" with Moscow

Only this time I shall be suplying

the papers. Understand?

Then later when we're finished

we can decide what to do with you.

I'm very grateful, Nigel.

Good operation. Damn good.

The turning of Berenson?

No. The false flag recruitment,

the way he was run.

Very clever.

I've been thinking it reminds me

of someone...

Who?

General Yevgeni Sergeivitch Karpov,

Deputy Head KGB...

Sort of your opposite number, then?

You could say that, yes.

I shall enjoy feeding him

a few wrong turns for a change.

The well-known Kremlin watcher

we also have

with us Colonal K who quit Moscow

to come to the West last year Colonel,

who's now the leader

of the minority hard line group

in the Politburo?

Certainly it would be a KGB chief,

Govorshin.

How secure would you say he is?

You know, Govorshin is in

a very delicate situation unless comes

some change in world power balance

to justify his his hard line policies.

You talk about a hard line, I...

KGB Chief, Govorshin.

How secure would you say he is?

Govorshin is in

a delicate situation unless comes

some change in world power balance...

General Karpov?

General Borisov on line one.

General Borisov.

General Karpov.

Pavel Petrovich, how are you?

Fine. I need to talk to you.

Yes?

It's serious. Can we meet today?

Well, where are you?

I'm out of town. I'm fishing.

All right,

I'll drive out this afternoon.

Good. Good.

Natasha, I won't be back after lunch.

I'll call your driver.

No. I'll drive myself.

Karpov my friend.

That was quick.

How are you?

I'm good. I'm good.

Bistovia.

Yevgeni Sergeivitch how long have

we known each other?

Get to the point Pavel Petrovitch.

Why are you stripping my department?

Why am I what?!

Stripping me clean.

Everyday something new is taken from me

First, the very best agent

we have specialising

in Britain Major Valeri Petrofsky.

And then, a forged life story

meticulously maintained over the years

a legend that fits Valeri Petrofsky

like a glove.

Where do you want me to stop?

Couriers,

their documentations radio men

and then the coding crystals

for that sleeper transmitter

you yourself planted when you were head

of the KGB in London.

What the hell

are you mounting over there?

Whose authority has been

on all these transfers?

Govorshin!

But Comrade, General Chairman Govorshin

knows nothing about Western Europe.

That's why I was sure that

you knew of it.

Pavel Petrovitch, old friend,

I give you my word.

I'm not the one

who's wrecking your department.

Then what the hell is going on?

Yevgeni Sergevitch, I'm sorry.

I thought that you...

No. No. In your position

I would have thought the same.

So, who is advising Govorshin

on England, apart from ourselves?

Do you think he's trying

to embarrass you?

Maybe remover you?

Not as far as I know.

No... He and I have not had any,

er fireside chats lately.

Something's wrong here, Yevgeni.

Take care.

Take care.

I'll look into it.

Stay well old friend.

And stay silent.

By the way, what's the name?

What's the name of the legend?

The name of the legend?

Ross.

James Edward Ross.

Mr Ross?

Yes?

I'm so sorry I'm late...

I'm Jill Dunkley.

How do you do?

It's absolute bloody mayhem out there!

I'm sorry?

The traffic. Quite frightening.

I got stuck for half

an hour behind

some motorised carrot pulper

or something.

Anyway, I gather you're looking for

a three month leg?

Yes, that kind of thing.

Are you a single man, Mr Ross?

My wife will be joining me as soon

as we sell our house in Plymouth.

Oh, well that's nice.

This is the attic, upstairs.

I see. Thank you.

Then there's the bathroom

and this is the second bedroom.

Of course one does hear

the occasional sound from

the Baywaters American Airbase.

But I hope it doesn't bother you.

No.

That doesn't bother me at all.

Yes?

General...

Tell the first courier to proceed.

Yes sir.

Would passengers arriving

on swiss Air Flight 307,

please collect their luggage...

Hey...

You must be our new neighbour.

I suppose I must be. Jim Ross.

Tome McWhirter.

Any time you feel

like dropping around, huh?

I'll do that. Thank you.

You're a problem, Preston.

You see, while you've been away,

young Mayhurst has

been heading up your section.

And he's done

an excellent job very thorough so

of course it would be grossly unfair

to push him back to his second slot now

But, as luck would have it,

a vacancy has suddenly appeared.

In C5.

C5!

That's airports and ports, isn't it?

Do you know, I do believe it is.

But I think you could look on it as

a real career move.

Well, you can't keep a good man down,

can you Mr Smith?

Well, I expect your talents

will be equally appreciated

in airports and ports.

John this telex just came in for you.

Give it to 'young Mayhurst'.

I don't work here anymore.

Where are you working then?

In airports and bloody ports.

Hey, seaman?

Where's your pass?

Did you forget something?

What's in your bag?

Gold fillings.

Lily white hands.

Soft palms.

So what we've got is a 'deckhand' from

a Russian trawler who looks like

he's never handled anything harder

than a bar of soap coming out

of Glasgow docks at two a.m.

In the morning.

No forged papers?

Nothing unusual at all.

I think we better have another look

at these effects.

It's polonium.

What'a polonium?

Well combined with lithium

the two together form an initiator.

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