Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Page #2

- Yeah, I cut my hand open on a drawer.

When are you going

to get some new furniture up here?

I'll have a word with Esterhase.

We'll mak e it a priority on the top floor.

- Where are you off to?

- Lunch.

Want some company?

According to the personnel files,

seven were due for retirement anyway.

Another four don't seem

particularly mysterious.

Jerry Westerby was dismissed

December 4.

Connie Sachs retired November 28.

That's just two week s

after you and Control were forced out.

- Return to Oxford, please.

- That's 1. 15.

Percy has always resisted

any proposal

of a wider exploitation

of Witchcraft's intelligence.

Drop the bloody jargon, Lacon.

I've refused to share Witchcraft

with our allies so far, Minister.

Greedy boy.

My goal has been to establish

its track record beyond all doubt.

I think the time has come to approach

our American brothers-in-arms.

- Will they tak e us back into bed?

- I'm not interested in a one-off trade.

I want on-going access

to American intelligence.

You think we can get it?

With Witchcraft on our side, we can

get anything we bloody well want.

Fine.

Carry on.

Thank you.

And I strik e thee down...

Oh, I, er...

Not supposed to.

Doctor's orders.

Wicked, wick ed George.

I don't know about you, George,

but I feel seriously under-f*** ed.

I heard Ann left you again.

She doesn't deserve you, George,

not one hair on your head.

You left the Circus

shortly after I retired.

I didn't leave. I was dismissed.

Chuck ed out on the rubbish heap,

lik e you.

Why?

'Polyak ov.

'Do you remember him? '

'From the Soviet Embassy? '

'Alexsey Polyak ov,

cultural attach here in London.

'When he arrived here 15 years ago,

I requested he be check ed out.

'He was graded whiter than white.

Didn't put a foot wrong.'

'But you disagreed? '

'There's a story

you must have heard

'that Karla has set up a secret cell.

'The personnel are all ex-military,

'trained to handle

deep-penetration agents, moles.'

'There are always stories,

Connie. '

'But what if this story was true?

'One night in research

I saw something, George.

'There was our friend Polyak ov

at a May day parade in Berlin

'receiving a salute.'

'Why would you salute

a cultural attach? '

'Exactly.

Unless he was a war veteran himself.'

And if he was, why hide the fact?

What did you do?

I went straight to Esterhase and Alleline.

Here.

Polyak ov is a Karla-trained hood

if ever I saw one.

If he's here, it must be

because he's running a mole.

You're to leave Polyak ov alone.

You're becoming obsessed with him.

- You're losing your sense of proportion.

- But that's ridiculous.

Perhaps it's time

you went out into the real world.

What does it matter?

Old Circus is gone anyway.

Here we are.

The N ursery in our day.

Jim Prideaux.

And Bill Haydon.

Together, of course.

The Inseparables.

There's Control himself.

All my boys.

All my lovely boys.

That was a good time, George.

A real war.

Englishmen could be proud then.

So I was right, then?

About Polyak ov.

There is a mole.

If it's bad, don't come back.

I want to remember you all as you were.

Percy?

Percy, did you mix this?

Aye, I did so.

You Calvinistic, penny-pinching Scot.

Can you nae learn

to tak e a bloody order?

Nobody tampers with the recipe!

- I followed the recipe.

- Come on.

It'll tak e us five hours

to get drunk on this monk ey's piss.

# He's not the first

- # He's not the first

- Oh, well.

- # He's the second best secret agent

- Merry Christmas.

# I n the whole wide world

# He's not number one

# But not the worst

# He's just the second best

secret agent

# I n the whole wide world

# He's every bit

# As good as what's-his-name

# With a dame

# Any dame

# And all those bullet holes

are in his vest

# To prove you work a little harder

# When you're second best... #

- Courtesy of Mrs P.

- H m?

You been up all night?

Yes.

What's this?

Request for 1,000 in cash

from the Reptile fund.

To a Mr Ellis.

It was one of J im Prideaux's

work names.

Prideaux was killed

in H ungary a year ago.

October 21.

So why was someone giving him

1,000 two months later?

I wonder where he is then, sir.

Settle down now.

- Hand those out.

- Sir.

What is it?

The H unchback of Notre-Dame?

The bells, the bells!

- Ohh!

Come here.

- I'm a new boy.

- New arrival, eh?

- What's the story?

- My mother and father.

My father left, so...

Hm.

Bill.

The unpaid Bill.

- Anyone ever call you that?

- No, sir.

Known a lot of Bills in my time.

They've all been good 'uns.

What are you good at?

Nothing, sir.

You're a good watcher, though, eh?

Us loners always are.

Best watcher in the unit,

Bill Roach is, I'II bet.

- Long as he's got his specs on. Right?

- Yes, sir.

This is good, very good.

Hello, Ricki.

You've missed the wedge.

Where have you been, Ricki?

They're going to kill me.

- Who is?

- Your lot.

Or their lot.

Whoever gets me first.

I'm innocent.

Within reason.

How long have you been here?

Sorry, I've run out of places now.

I needed to see you.

Why?

There's a woman.

I need you to trade for her.

I need you to get her back off Karla.

A woman?

Her name's Irina.

'This was last November.

'Mr Guillam sent me to Istanbul

to check out a Russian trade delegate

'who might be persuaded to defect.'

'Tufty Thesinger, resident.'

- 'Yeah.'

- H iya, Ricki.

- All right, mate?

'Did you know him? '

'No, never met him.'

'Bit of a drink er.'

Hangover from hell.

'Bit of a f***ing idiot.

'Apparently this Russian,

name of Boris,

'was spending high and wide

in the nightclubs. '

'So you were sent

to persuade this Boris? '

'Yeah.

He was your typical Russian.

'Trade delegation by day,

out boozing every night.

'Didn't seem to sleep.

'Tufty was worn out

from following him around.'

I think it's going to be

a long night, son.

'His favourite haunt

was this club in Tak sim.

'Lt had a hellhole in the basement

where the sailors and the tourists went.

'Anyway, I took one look at him

and I knew I'd wasted a journey.

'Boris was no delegate.

'What delegate bothers

to play drunk er than he really is?

'You get to recognise your own,

don't you, Mr Smiley?

'Moscow Centre trained.'

# Someone is waiting

# I mean just for you

# Spinning wheel

# Keep on spinning through,

Drop all your troubles... #

'I guessed he was waiting

for a connect.

'Working a letterbox, maybe.

'Or trailing his coat and looking

for a pass from some mug like me.'

'So the second night

I went to the import/ export outfit

'that Tufty had set up with

a cipher room hidden in the back.

'I cabled "No sale" to Mr Guillam.

'And that was that.'

You were due

to fly home the next day.

Yes.

But you didn't.

'Boris had a wife.

'Common-law.

'Apparently she was a member

of the delegation in her own right.

'You once told me to trust my instincts

about women, Mr Smiley.

'Well, my instincts told me

this woman had some treasure.

'When Boris went out for the night,

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