The Looking Glass War Page #5

The Germans will produce

the equipment, the knife, his radio.

We'll point out that it is 25 years old

and say they planted it.

lt's preposterous.

They're not as inept as that.

lf he exists, the Germans

clearly invented him...

...to embarrass our minister

in Geneva.

You mean you gave him

an obsolete radio deliberately?

You know my aide, Avery?

He was most astute in giving him

a knife instead of a gun.

How...? How do the Americans

figure in this?

This sort of overlaps into our

West German operations.

Oh, l see.

Johnson, pack that up.

Now, wait! You listen to him, just listen

to him! You've gotta listen to him!

-He's dead.

-How can you say that?

Don't be an ass.

lt's a technical phrase, "live" or "dead"

agents. He's dead to us.

Now they know he's there,

we can't trust what he transmits.

They'll show him what

they want him to tell us is there.

They're good. They're professionals.

This was the discipline you admired.

We trained him

because we needed him.

We abandon him

because we must.

We play the war rules.

Rules.

lt's a game to you.

And you love it.

l'd hear you better, John,

if you sat down.

-l thought you believed in it yourself.

-l do.

l should have listened.

"The London sky red with fire...

...tracers like diamonds in the sky."

You were alive then.

No wonder you love it.

This must've been better than

monkey glands for you...

...making you feel young again.

l always thought fathers

were supposed to love their sons.

Now l know that they don't.

The truth is, they hate.

The old hate the young

for being young.

That's war.

The old sending the young out...

...slaughtering them by the millions.

Go on, die, get out of my world.

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