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The only way we'll know when and at
what targets a nuclear button will be pressed
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is by electronic espionage-
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That’s what makes it so appalling
that Dodgson,
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a self-confessed and convicted Soviet agent,
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was able to hold a position of trust here
for ten years.
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It must not happen again.
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Each of you, not only section heads,
but each and every one of you,
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has simply got to report oddities of behaviour
among your colleagues,
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strange events or anything else
that strikes you as out of the ordinary.
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It’s not only your jobs that are at risk,
it’s the survival of the free world.
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Did you spy
for the Russians for ten years?
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Yes.
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Did you watch kiddy-porn videos
with Stephen Kedge?
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Yes.
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Does the photograph that I’ve just shown you
contain Allen Goodburn?
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Yes.
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Did you sometimes see him socially
with his wife Cynthia?
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Get this thing off me!
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Mr Dodgson,
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you’ve already told me this machine
is no better than a fortune-teller at a fair.
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I mean, if it’s junk, what’s your problem?
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Are you anti-Black or just anti-American?
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A lot of people detest your country
and all it stands for.
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In England, that’s not yet a crime.
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I think we have a problem.
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Utah was painful to us, Dodgson. We don’t
forgive you for making us look foolish
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and for putting another wedge between us
and our good friends.
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You’re here to answer yes or no
to our friend’s questions. Yes or no.
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And get on with it.
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I'm gonna have to start all over again.
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Sit real still.
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Keep your eyes on the board.
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Your friend Kedge fell under a train.
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Looks as though
they’ve taken the bait.
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As soon as we’re sure
they’ve bitten on Goodburn, I'll let you know.
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Take the pills that evening.
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Check.
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And mate.
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Tickets, please.
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- Thanks. Cheltenham next stop, sir.
- Thank you.
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Any more tickets now, please?
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The train on platform two
is the 12:10 from London Paddington -
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This is Cheltenham Spa, Cheltenham Spa -
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The train will be leaving in five minutes, 12:15,
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for Gloucester, Stroud, Kemble,
and London Paddington -
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- Dad?
- Bob. You shouldn’t have bothered to come.
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- Well, you’ve braved British Rail to get here.
- I’ve got a present for you.
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The bloke in the Russian book shop
said it was a fair translation.
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It’s beautiful. Thanks.
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- How’s business?
- Struggling.
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Yeah?
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Over here. By the way, there’s someone
coming I particularly want you to meet.
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A girl, eh? It’s about time.
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- Two of them, actually.
- Two?
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PV.
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PV?
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- It’s to do with security. Positive vetting.
- Yeah, PV.
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- PV? It sounds rude.
- It’s all in your mind.
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No, no, she’s quite right. It is rude.
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And I speak as one
who’s being PV'd at the moment.
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- It’s routine.
- Known as the quinquennial review.
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Yeah, we are PV'd by IOs, Tiffany.
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An IO is not, as you may think,
an intelligence officer,
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still less an intelligent officer,
he is an investigating officer.
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If something dodgy happens, like someone
with the same name turns up at a peace rally,
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then our case is referred to an HEOPVA,
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who is, in his glory,
a Higher Executive Officer Positive Vetting...
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- You’re drunk!
...Assessor. How dare you say I'm drunk?
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Should you be talking like this?
I mean, the Official Secrets Act and all that.
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No, no. You’re quite right, Dad.
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We shouldn’t. It is, after all, a method devised
to let people like Dodgson get away with it.
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- That’s not fair. Dodgson was clever.
- This isn’t the Soviet Union.
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A timely reminder.
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- Right.
- Oh, look. Isn’t Tiger beautiful?
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- Tiger?
- Beautiful?
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You know that cat? He’s abnormal.
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He gets himself right down there
and he can’t get back up again.
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Then he howls, and who do you think has to
get up at four in the morning to let him in?
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Me.
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Come on. Come here, you little monster.
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Yes. Look at you.
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I sometimes think
if I could assemble a cat-like ladder
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then he could make his own way back.
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It’s nearly 30 feet.
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I’m going to phone for a taxi
to take me to the station.
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- We ought to wash up lunch.
- OK.
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- You, too, Mark.
- Bossy cow.
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- Bob?
- Mm?
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I told Allen.
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- How did he take it?
- Terrible.
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Bob, hold me.
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Make it in about an hour, could you?
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Fine. Thank you.
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... second thoughts?
- No, of course not.
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I just wish we didn’t have to
hurt anyone else.
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Bob.
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- Do you fancy a walk?
- Um, yeah, sure.
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And then again, no.
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No, I... I want to have a word with you,
so let’s go.
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Oh...
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I’m so clumsy. It’s bloody ridiculous.
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You intend to chuck the job. That’s it, isn’t it?
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- Yeah.
- Why?
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- Well, it’s a bit complicated.
- Yes, I thought it would be.
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Don’t be so aggressive, Dad.
It’s not very helpful.
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In an odd way,
this Dodgson business focused how I feel.
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I wondered if you knew him
when I read about the trial.
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There are 7,000 of us working at GCHQ.
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It’s an industry. Ordinary.
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Accepted.
I didn’t even know Dodgson by sight.
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The net result is the business of informing on
one another has now become respectable.
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All of us are encouraged to report anything
that strikes us odd about colleagues.
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Can you imagine what it’s like
to be at the mercy of a secret report
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from someone you’re living with
or working with?
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Is that what’s happening, Bob?
Someone informed on you?
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- You’re being asked to resign?
- No way.
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I’m not being judged. It’s the other way round.
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The security people
had egg all over their faces-
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Ten years he got away with it-
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And then there are the lies-
They start the very first day-
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Nobody's what they seem-
Nothing is what it's made out to be-
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And you never realise till later,
years later in my case,
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that from the very first day,
the truth recedes.
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- Don’t forget, what they do is necessary.
- That’s a fatal argument, Dad.
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It’s common sense.
You need a posting or a holiday.
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Take one, but don’t throw away
six years of seniority.
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- God, there’s more to life...
- Listen to me.
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When I came out after 12 years,
it was no joke making a living
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and it’s taken me over 20 years since then
to find my way, and it’s still very dodgy.
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Cleverer men than me go bankrupt every day.
Times are bad and getting worse.
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Let’s face it, you’re not a computer man
or an engineer or a doctor.
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You’re a linguist. Who needs them?
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- Are we going to have an argument?
- I shouldn’t be surprised.
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- Tea?
- All right.
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- Go ahead. Knock on the door.
- OK.
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- Ta-da! Surprise.
- Oh!
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- Ta-da! Happy birthday!
- That’s really kind.
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We couldn’t do the honours
with the cake without you.
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Right. Look at that.
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- Shall I blow them out?
- Mm-hm.
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One, two, three.
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- Don’t forget to wish.
- No, I won’t.
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- Is everything all right?
- Yes.
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Your room, Bob,
is even more of a tip than mine.
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- Would you like us to tidy it?
- No. Not at any price.
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I'd never find anything, would I? Hm?
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- It may look a bit chaotic, but...
- It surely does.
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- Basically, it’s very clean.
- And it is his room.
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I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to...
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Well, I’m going to watch television
with Mark and Rose.
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All right. Will that be OK?
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Yeah. Here, look, um...
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- Bribe them.
- Yes. See you later.
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- Bye.
- Bye.
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Sit down, Dad.
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- Is it all right?
- Very nice.
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Here we are. A cup of tea.
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Thank you.
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Listen, it seems to me
that underneath ordinary life...
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God, it’s so hard to put this clearly.
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Underneath the commonplace -
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buses in the street, newspapers,
cricket scores, paying the bloody mortgage -
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underneath all of that,
there is another, an entirely secret world.
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Now, the people who run it,
thousands of them,
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appear to live in the light, but they don’t.
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And I don’t.
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You see, every day, or nearly every day,
I go to this place to translate surprising,
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sometimes terrifying,
and occasionally appalling things.
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Look, you know how much
I love the Russian language.
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And their literature.
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Yes, I do.
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Pushkin, for example, killed in a duel
provoked by his unfaithful wife.
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Tolstoy, stinking rich and all that guilt.
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Dostoevsky missing the firing squad,
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gambling like a maniac.
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Chekhov, Stanislavsky. You know?
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You see, I have a... a world inside my head,
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a perspective of Russian life to set against
interminable telephone conversations from...
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party officials.
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You listen to telephone conversations
with Russian party officials?
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Yeah. Out of the Kremlin, even.
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I don't care whether professional sceptics,
the hard-boiled boys who run the world,
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talk casually of the Bolshoi Ballet
being a cultural weapon, which it is,
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and feel nothing as they say it-
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I feel something. It hurts me personally.
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If the Bolshoi comes,
if I watch and listen to Romeo and Juliet,
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I mean, the joy of it
is poisoned by the certainty
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that the KGB man
is sitting in the bloody prompt corner.
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Their secret world
has put out the light of the ordinary world.
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All the more reason
to stick at what you’re doing.
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No.
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I believe, with all my heart,
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that our secret world
is on exactly the same tack as theirs.
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Enough. Self-righteous little prick.
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Our best advice is that he’s not a serious risk.
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But naturally, we'll keep him covered.
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Bother, he’s not back yet.
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You go in, darling, and I’ll put the car away.
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God! God, Allen! No!
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It’s Dodgson, sir.
The duty officer didn’t like the look of him.
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He says there’s hardly any pulse.
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Call Hammersmith Hospital.
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- Ambulance?
- No, car. Quick, we could lose the bugger.
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- Fool!
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- It’s all right. Shh. It'll be all right.
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Shh. Listen to me. L"II deal with the police.
You go and look after Tiffany.
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It’ll be all right. Go on.
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Now, either I’m mad,
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or somebody killed Allen
and faked it to look like suicide.
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- Why on earth should they do that?
- Well, he knew Dodgson, right?
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Just suppose Allen
was mixed up in what he was doing.
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Hm? The last thing security want
is another scandal.
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You don’t seriously think
they’d go to those lengths?
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I don’t know. I don’t even know who to ask.
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I thought you might have a bright idea.
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Not off the top of my head. I mean...
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- Let me think about it.
- Fancy a beer?
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Thanks. There’s a panic on to calculate
the track of this new Russian spacemongery.
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- Well, some other time, then.
- Sure.
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Good morning, good morning.
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You have slept like a hero.
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The woman will make you
the bacon and eggs now.
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Is it morning, Alex? It is Alex, isn’t it?
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Correct. Ah, you remember my name.
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Yes, it is morning.
To tell you the truth, it is afternoon.
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There’s something...
familiar about this place.
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It was here that you met your controller
when he came over in "83.
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- That’s right.
- Do you remember?
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We smuggled you in
in the bottom of the school bus.
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Russian territory in England.
That appeals to me.
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It is amusing, yes?
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00:24:13,352 --> 00:24:18,809
But you must,
on no account, touch the curtains.
233
00:24:18,899 --> 00:24:21,473
Outside, the British are like crazy men
234
00:24:21,569 --> 00:24:25,353
trying to find you
before the press learn of your escape.
235
00:24:25,448 --> 00:24:29,908
When they do, there will be
the most enormous outcry.
236
00:24:29,994 --> 00:24:35,830
We do not believe that the British security
services know you came here before,
237
00:24:35,916 --> 00:24:41,789
but we must assume they will have all our
properties under surveillance with cameras.
238
00:24:41,881 --> 00:24:44,039
You must stay low.
239
00:24:47,303 --> 00:24:51,550
This chap tried to recruit me.
I couldn’t tell you before.
240
00:24:53,225 --> 00:24:56,725
He used to be a tearaway -
ripping up telephone directories,
241
00:24:56,812 --> 00:24:59,303
taking the tops off bottles with his teeth.
242
00:24:59,398 --> 00:25:04,393
I can’t imagine what made him think
I could get into all that. Anyway, he'll see you.
243
00:25:04,487 --> 00:25:06,894
I’ve got his address in the car.
244
00:25:24,090 --> 00:25:27,624
- Morning. Is my guest here?
- Ah, Mr Greig. Ah, yes, Mr Jones.
245
00:25:27,718 --> 00:25:30,007
Yes, he’s just through here.
246
00:25:33,015 --> 00:25:35,637
Frank!
247
00:25:35,726 --> 00:25:39,890
Charlie Greig, as I live and breathe.
I couldn’t believe it when you called.
248
00:25:39,980 --> 00:25:43,349
- What’s your poison?
- No, no. This is my treat. Pinkers?
249
00:25:43,442 --> 00:25:47,060
- What else, Commander?
- Same for me and make them large ones.
250
00:25:47,154 --> 00:25:48,696
Let’s sit down over there.
251
00:25:48,781 --> 00:25:51,901
- This is a turn-up for the book.
- It’s been a few years.
252
00:25:51,992 --> 00:25:53,985
Mm-hm.
253
00:25:54,078 --> 00:25:57,992
The only pilot who enjoyed the rocket takeoff
when the catapult failed.
254
00:25:58,082 --> 00:26:00,371
We said we did,
but you meant it, you mad sod.
255
00:26:00,459 --> 00:26:02,950
Well, we were younger in those days.
256
00:26:03,045 --> 00:26:08,170
I remember you blowing your commission,
taking a swing at that chief petty officer
257
00:26:08,259 --> 00:26:10,666
cos you thought he was a bully.
258
00:26:10,761 --> 00:26:16,218
Well, he was, too. CPO Pratt.
Pratt by name and prat by nature.
259
00:26:16,308 --> 00:26:21,979
I know, I know. All the same, I couldn’t have
spent my life savings on that kind of gesture.
260
00:26:22,064 --> 00:26:24,638
Well, I wasn’t into promotion like you were.
261
00:26:24,734 --> 00:26:27,521
HMS Hawke - white band round your cap.
262
00:26:27,611 --> 00:26:31,443
Thank you.
No dipping your biscuits in your tea.
263
00:26:31,532 --> 00:26:35,115
It was the only way a pilot
could crash the class barrier.
264
00:26:35,202 --> 00:26:38,785
Yeah, well, as you said,
in those days we were younger.
265
00:26:43,627 --> 00:26:45,287
Thank you.
266
00:26:46,797 --> 00:26:52,670
Just when we thought we got civvy street
squared away, Kathy developed this lump.
267
00:26:52,762 --> 00:26:56,629
It wasn’t much to speak of.
Turned out to be cancer.
268
00:26:56,724 --> 00:27:00,804
- Dear old boy.
- At least she went quickly.
269
00:27:00,895 --> 00:27:03,433
There didn’t seem to be
much point in going on,
270
00:27:03,522 --> 00:27:06,607
especially as my son
wasn’t interested in the business.
271
00:27:06,692 --> 00:27:09,064
That’s right. Of course, you had a boy.
272
00:27:09,153 --> 00:27:12,320
Yeah, Bob. Apple of his mother’s eye.
273
00:27:12,406 --> 00:27:15,775
Mine, too, but you wouldn’t want
to share a cabin with him.
274
00:27:15,868 --> 00:27:18,739
- What? Untidy?
- Shambolic.
275
00:27:18,829 --> 00:27:20,988
What’s he doing now?
276
00:27:21,081 --> 00:27:24,118
He’s a Russian-language specialist at GCHQ.
277
00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:26,617
Bright boy, then.
278
00:27:26,712 --> 00:27:31,588
A bit too bright for his own good. More brains
than sense, you know what I mean?
279
00:27:31,675 --> 00:27:37,215
No, that’s not quite fair, but I went down there
the other day for his birthday
280
00:27:37,306 --> 00:27:42,264
and, number one, he’s got himself mixed up
with a married woman with a kid.
281
00:27:42,353 --> 00:27:45,603
On top of that,
he’s talking about leaving the job.
282
00:27:45,689 --> 00:27:49,473
He’s got it in his head that
what the Russians do in that line of country
283
00:27:49,568 --> 00:27:52,355
is not a lot different from what we do.
284
00:27:52,446 --> 00:27:54,937
- Student talk.
- He’s 28.
285
00:27:55,032 --> 00:27:59,409
Well, it’s just the time
for pulling the old man’s beard.
286
00:27:59,495 --> 00:28:03,575
I was surprised. I mean, he shouted the odds
from time to time, we all did,
287
00:28:03,666 --> 00:28:08,162
but he went for the quiet life
at the end of the day.
288
00:28:08,254 --> 00:28:10,626
He’d run a mile rather than risk trouble.
289
00:28:10,714 --> 00:28:14,249
- Not like you, then?
- No. Takes after his mother, thank God.
290
00:28:14,343 --> 00:28:16,419
Well, that’s nice.
291
00:28:20,307 --> 00:28:26,061
What about you? Don’t tell me none of those
Wrens managed to drag you to the altar?
292
00:28:26,146 --> 00:28:29,183
You know what they say -
safety in numbers.
293
00:28:29,275 --> 00:28:34,150
The last time I heard of you,
you’d joined the cloak-and-dagger brigade.
294
00:28:34,238 --> 00:28:36,610
Still at it, are you?
295
00:28:36,699 --> 00:28:40,779
Retired. In so far as they ever let you retire.
296
00:28:40,870 --> 00:28:46,030
They’ve set me up with a nice little sideline -
vetting firms to make sure they’re kosher,
297
00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:50,205
which, not to beat about the bush,
is why I’m here.
298
00:28:51,255 --> 00:28:56,629
A little bird told me you’ve been supplying
some fair-sized outlets lately.
299
00:28:56,719 --> 00:28:59,470
Satisfied customers, one and all.
300
00:28:59,555 --> 00:29:03,968
Now, there’s a government department -
no names, no pack drill -
301
00:29:04,059 --> 00:29:09,895
on the brink of elbowing their quill pens
in favour of word processors.
302
00:29:09,982 --> 00:29:13,766
It’s not a contemptible contract, so, um...
303
00:29:13,861 --> 00:29:18,938
always provided your beamish boy isn’t
seriously intent on upsetting the apple cart...
304
00:29:19,033 --> 00:29:20,361
Thank you.
305
00:29:20,993 --> 00:29:23,151
...it’s yours.
306
00:29:30,461 --> 00:29:32,537
I’m sorry.
307
00:29:35,090 --> 00:29:36,834
What?
308
00:29:37,885 --> 00:29:40,043
This just feels all wrong.
309
00:29:44,266 --> 00:29:47,801
Well, you wouldn’t let me come to your place.
310
00:29:48,938 --> 00:29:51,429
Would you, Bob?
311
00:29:51,523 --> 00:29:56,269
If I’m not under surveillance,
I bloody well should be.
312
00:29:56,362 --> 00:29:59,197
- It’s not funny.
- I’m not laughing at you.
313
00:29:59,281 --> 00:30:00,989
No?
314
00:30:01,075 --> 00:30:05,653
It’s just the thought of some SAS type
trying to recruit Mark.
315
00:30:06,872 --> 00:30:10,039
Yes, it’s a pretty bizarre idea, isn’t it?
316
00:30:12,336 --> 00:30:14,412
- Rose, well...
- Yes, Rose.
317
00:30:14,505 --> 00:30:18,372
I can just see her
laying someone out with her handbag.
318
00:30:24,139 --> 00:30:28,433
Do you really have to go and see
that man Mark put you on to?
319
00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:30,891
Yes, I do.
320
00:30:30,980 --> 00:30:33,435
It’s not just going to go away, you know.
321
00:31:03,554 --> 00:31:06,223
- Hello, Mahroof.
- Hello, sir.
322
00:31:08,642 --> 00:31:11,394
- Hello.
- Is it wise to smoke on top of that brandy?
323
00:31:11,478 --> 00:31:14,847
- You think I’ve been on the town, right?
- Dead right.
324
00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:19,768
In fact, thanks to my service connections
and a willingness to risk liver and lungs,
325
00:31:19,862 --> 00:31:22,697
we are in the running
for a government contract.
326
00:31:22,781 --> 00:31:24,359
That’s fantastic, Frank.
327
00:31:24,450 --> 00:31:27,700
Yes, and if we get it right this time,
there’s plenty more.
328
00:31:27,786 --> 00:31:29,779
- Any messages?
- The bank.
329
00:31:29,872 --> 00:31:32,541
Oh, on the strength of this,
I can face even them.
330
00:31:32,624 --> 00:31:37,583
And Bob called. Could you phone him?
Something about meeting him in Gloucester.
331
00:31:37,671 --> 00:31:39,747
Gloucester?
332
00:31:43,427 --> 00:31:47,472
Sorry to drag you all this way, Dad,
but I think I’m close to something
333
00:31:47,556 --> 00:31:51,720
that makes my original misgivings
about GCHQ seem like pleasant dreams.
334
00:31:51,810 --> 00:31:56,852
To understand, you’ve got to remember what
the American secret world has done for years.
335
00:31:56,940 --> 00:32:01,270
I don't just mean
in the way of secret ways and secret codes,
336
00:32:01,361 --> 00:32:05,311
but in perjury, bribery, blackmail,
337
00:32:05,407 --> 00:32:07,981
drug trafficking all over the world,
338
00:32:08,077 --> 00:32:10,746
and, yeah, plain old-fashioned murder.
339
00:32:10,829 --> 00:32:17,164
I mean, Watergate proved the extent these
people can work against their own people.
340
00:32:17,252 --> 00:32:21,120
- That was the end of it.
- No. That just pushed it further underground.
341
00:32:21,215 --> 00:32:23,884
We could never have
a Watergate in this country.
342
00:32:23,967 --> 00:32:29,009
Our secret world is beyond the norm,
which brings me back to what I was saying-
343
00:32:29,098 --> 00:32:35,432
GCHQ Cheltenham is hugely funded by,
and totally integrated with,
344
00:32:35,521 --> 00:32:37,597
the Americans.
345
00:32:38,816 --> 00:32:44,237
Now, you don’t believe
we don’t do anything they do, hm?
346
00:32:44,321 --> 00:32:46,112
All right.
347
00:32:47,157 --> 00:32:51,618
I don’t know what you know
and I don’t read what you read,
348
00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:56,994
but I do know that no one in his right mind
risks a secure job these days.
349
00:32:57,084 --> 00:33:00,951
You do have the right to give it up,
so for God’s sake leave it at that.
350
00:33:01,046 --> 00:33:03,122
Resign and walk away.
351
00:33:03,215 --> 00:33:08,589
It would be conniving of me to...
to do nothing, knowing what I know now.
352
00:33:08,679 --> 00:33:11,633
- Don’t you see?
- No, I don’t. I bloody well don’t.
353
00:33:11,723 --> 00:33:17,559
I’m sorry, I didn’t want to get you going.
I just wanted you to know, that’s all.
354
00:33:24,111 --> 00:33:26,353
- Well...
- Yes?
355
00:33:26,989 --> 00:33:30,322
- Mind how you go.
- And you.
356
00:33:30,409 --> 00:33:34,656
Dad, you know
all my movie heroes were American?
357
00:33:34,746 --> 00:33:38,614
Do you remember when we used to be
glued to the telly when I was a kid?
358
00:33:38,709 --> 00:33:44,047
We used to watch them go to the moon and
walk on it. Christ, wasn’t that marvelous?
359
00:33:44,131 --> 00:33:47,381
Yeah, well, the world’s changed, that’s all.
360
00:33:47,467 --> 00:33:52,379
I still believe the man in the white hat always
wins in the end, and I intend to prove it.
361
00:33:52,472 --> 00:33:54,548
You do, do you?
362
00:33:57,060 --> 00:33:58,768
Yes, sirree.
363
00:34:04,109 --> 00:34:05,769
Bye.
364
00:34:23,420 --> 00:34:25,709
So...
365
00:34:25,797 --> 00:34:29,131
now we see. Please stand up.
366
00:34:33,138 --> 00:34:37,266
It’s wonderful. I can hardly recognise myself.
367
00:34:37,351 --> 00:34:39,723
This calls for a toast.
368
00:34:39,811 --> 00:34:45,054
And see, I brought
the comrade colonel something else.
369
00:34:47,986 --> 00:34:50,228
Now, isn’t that something?
370
00:34:50,322 --> 00:34:53,074
Alex.
371
00:34:57,621 --> 00:35:01,120
- Thank you.
- No, no, please. It’s for you to keep.
372
00:35:05,587 --> 00:35:07,794
- To Russia.
- To Russia.
373
00:35:15,597 --> 00:35:18,717
I wish the comrade colonel
a pleasant journey.
374
00:35:19,309 --> 00:35:23,473
- Thank you for all your help.
- L"II see our friend safely off the premises.
375
00:35:23,563 --> 00:35:25,936
Don’t drink all the vodka before I get back.
376
00:35:26,024 --> 00:35:28,396
Trust me.
377
00:35:34,074 --> 00:35:36,565
Let’s look before we leap.
378
00:35:37,911 --> 00:35:40,118
All clear.
379
00:35:42,082 --> 00:35:45,368
- You see, you can’t fault our security.
- Safe journey.
380
00:36:03,812 --> 00:36:07,513
- 0331 -
- May I speak to Sir Adrian Chapple, please?
381
00:36:07,607 --> 00:36:08,806
Speaking-
382
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:12,649
Château Direct here.
Sorry for being so long in getting back to you.
383
00:36:12,738 --> 00:36:18,610
It appears your order was detained in bond,
but I’m assured it'll be released very shortly.
384
00:36:18,702 --> 00:36:21,454
Thank you for letting me know.
385
00:37:24,393 --> 00:37:26,469
This way, please, sir.
386
00:37:57,467 --> 00:37:59,923
One of my better productions.
387
00:38:02,264 --> 00:38:08,053
- They made a wonderful job of the furniture.
- They did indeed, Flecker. Well, well.
388
00:38:10,647 --> 00:38:14,146
Incidentally, what’s happening
to Dodgson’s prison contact?
389
00:38:14,234 --> 00:38:17,105
The one who passed him the pills and so on?
390
00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:20,398
He’s having ten years off his sentence
391
00:38:20,490 --> 00:38:24,654
and then we’re sending him
to Northern Ireland.
392
00:38:24,744 --> 00:38:28,576
You do take away with one hand
what you give with the other.
393
00:38:28,665 --> 00:38:30,741
Coming from you?
394
00:38:38,425 --> 00:38:42,043
I don’t think
you should find that displeasing.
395
00:38:42,137 --> 00:38:44,924
Good God. Chapple?
396
00:38:45,015 --> 00:38:50,140
We'll never hear the end of it if the Americans
find that out. Well done. Excellent.
397
00:38:50,228 --> 00:38:55,353
He was a very good subject. It helped he’d
been to the flat to see his controller before.
398
00:38:55,442 --> 00:38:57,731
- Is it all on video?
- Of course.
399
00:40:38,878 --> 00:40:42,164
- How good of you to come.
- How good of you to ask me down.
400
00:40:42,257 --> 00:40:45,258
First thing first, you like this, I believe?
401
00:40:45,343 --> 00:40:47,419
- Quite right.
- Water? Ice?
402
00:40:47,512 --> 00:40:50,798
- Just as it comes.
- Spoken like a Scotsman.
403
00:40:51,850 --> 00:40:54,851
- There we are.
- Your good health.
404
00:40:54,936 --> 00:40:59,479
My dear fellow. Well, rather different
from the last time you were down here.
405
00:40:59,566 --> 00:41:01,724
Very.
406
00:41:01,818 --> 00:41:04,391
It’s as well the Irish are besotted by racing.
407
00:41:04,487 --> 00:41:07,025
Bomb here and the country
would grind to a halt.
408
00:41:07,115 --> 00:41:09,867
- A sobering thought.
- Come and mingle.
409
00:41:12,037 --> 00:41:14,278
Sorry.
410
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:19,908
I agree with your solution, by the way.
411
00:41:20,003 --> 00:41:23,336
It avoids the courts on the one hand
and on the other...
412
00:41:23,423 --> 00:41:27,290
Quite. It used to be thought,
and I was inclined to agree,
413
00:41:27,385 --> 00:41:30,801
that such mistakes were forgivable
414
00:41:30,889 --> 00:41:35,966
because, unlike the enemy,
we err on the side of decency and trust.
415
00:41:36,061 --> 00:41:38,730
When we pry, we do so blunderingly
416
00:41:38,813 --> 00:41:43,522
and even our most hardened snoopers
are given to thoughts of fair play.
417
00:41:43,610 --> 00:41:46,231
However, that’s in the past.
418
00:41:47,656 --> 00:41:53,908
With regard to Chapple, there have been talks
with the attorney general and he has agreed.
419
00:41:53,995 --> 00:41:59,950
But since Blunt, those sort of people,
senior people, have been very, very cagey.
420
00:42:00,043 --> 00:42:03,293
They don’t want old age ruined
by a journalist writing a book
421
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:07,247
or some prime minister making a statement
so they’re publicly blown,
422
00:42:07,342 --> 00:42:09,418
lose their cane, all that.
423
00:42:09,511 --> 00:42:12,796
- Of course.
- I mean, one can understand it.
424
00:42:12,889 --> 00:42:16,009
When it comes to Chapple,
we are not dealing with a grocer.
425
00:42:16,101 --> 00:42:18,852
Immunity should mean immunity,
wouldn’t you say?
426
00:42:18,937 --> 00:42:23,729
- Oh, absolutely.
- Let’s go down and see the parade.
427
00:42:30,156 --> 00:42:34,534
My view is that we let him get on with it until
we find out how much damage he has done
428
00:42:34,619 --> 00:42:39,115
and have him dead to rights,
which we do not at the moment, legally.
429
00:42:39,207 --> 00:42:43,419
Then we turf out his Soviet contacts
and give him the choice.
430
00:42:43,503 --> 00:42:46,587
Now, as for the other fellow,
he’s in the grocer class.
431
00:42:46,673 --> 00:42:48,749
I propose we leave him to Flecker.
432
00:42:48,842 --> 00:42:51,380
Flecker has a very creative bent.
433
00:42:52,429 --> 00:42:56,426
It really is useful having the two of them
in our sights at the same time.
434
00:42:56,516 --> 00:42:59,185
I think we have a knack for this sort of thing.
435
00:42:59,269 --> 00:43:01,345
In the matter of Jones...
436
00:43:01,438 --> 00:43:04,522
Yes, I understand your man
failed to read him right.
437
00:43:04,607 --> 00:43:09,400
It would seem so. Although had the good
friends been less precipitative or more deaf...
438
00:43:09,487 --> 00:43:11,444
Speculation.
439
00:43:11,531 --> 00:43:15,695
The matter is,
if that young man blows the whistle on it,
440
00:43:15,785 --> 00:43:19,700
this entire operation will have been
much worse than pointless.
441
00:43:19,789 --> 00:43:22,031
I hear you.
442
00:43:22,125 --> 00:43:26,205
I’m looking to you
to preserve the special relationship.
443
00:43:26,296 --> 00:43:27,754
Or what’s left of it.
444
00:43:27,839 --> 00:43:31,789
Sir Adrian Chapple
will be presenting the owner and trainer
445
00:43:31,885 --> 00:43:35,419
of Sea Captain with a trophy,
446
00:43:35,513 --> 00:43:41,883
and a special trophy will be presented to
the winning jockey in the winners' enclosure-
447
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,987
- Mr Jones?
- Yes?
448
00:43:58,077 --> 00:44:01,696
Can I have a word with you a moment, sir?
449
00:44:01,790 --> 00:44:05,289
- Yes. Who are you?
- I’m a police officer.
450
00:44:05,376 --> 00:44:08,128
I’ve got a bit of bad news.
451
00:44:08,213 --> 00:44:11,130
- What?
- It’s about your son, sir.
452
00:44:12,467 --> 00:44:15,836
It seems he fell off a roof.
453
00:44:15,929 --> 00:44:18,883
It’s very bad news, I’m afraid, sir.
454
00:45:18,324 --> 00:45:22,369
- Are you all right?
- Yes, thank you.
455
00:45:22,453 --> 00:45:24,779
Is he your son?
456
00:45:24,873 --> 00:45:27,624
You formally identify him
as Robert Arthur Jones?
457
00:45:27,709 --> 00:45:29,785
- Yes.
- Thank you.
458
00:45:56,237 --> 00:45:58,609
This has all your son’s gear in it.
459
00:46:00,783 --> 00:46:05,611
- It’s very light.
- It’s all he had on him. It’s been examined.
460
00:46:05,705 --> 00:46:08,326
He was dressed. The bed wasn’t slept in.
461
00:46:09,876 --> 00:46:12,663
Did you see him often?
462
00:46:12,754 --> 00:46:14,711
Sir?
463
00:46:14,797 --> 00:46:18,629
- His bed wasn’t slept in, you say?
- Correct.
464
00:46:18,718 --> 00:46:23,131
- How do you know?
- Well, from the scene-of-crime officer.
465
00:46:23,222 --> 00:46:27,351
Who let him in? The first thing I was told
by your Inspector Brown...
466
00:46:27,435 --> 00:46:30,721
- Bourne.
- Inspector Bourne.
467
00:46:30,813 --> 00:46:33,186
...on the phone this morning
468
00:46:33,274 --> 00:46:39,727
was that Bob was alone in house
over the weekend. The other two were away.
469
00:46:39,822 --> 00:46:46,441
My colleagues borrowed a ladder, went
onto the roof and into the house that way.
470
00:46:46,537 --> 00:46:52,161
I suppose these are cheaper
than a cardboard box or something decent?
471
00:46:52,251 --> 00:46:55,039
It’s all there, sir. If you’d just sign for it.
472
00:46:55,129 --> 00:46:57,205
Where do I sign?
473
00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:35,917
- Mr Jones?
- Yes?
474
00:47:36,004 --> 00:47:38,162
Bill Pickett.
475
00:47:39,424 --> 00:47:43,753
I had an appointment to talk to your son.
I’m very sorry to hear what happened.
476
00:47:43,845 --> 00:47:45,718
- Who are you?
- A journalist.
477
00:47:45,805 --> 00:47:49,304
I don’t want to talk. Which paper?
478
00:47:49,392 --> 00:47:52,309
A weekly. The Senator.
Bob may have mentioned me.
479
00:47:52,395 --> 00:47:53,973
No.
480
00:47:54,063 --> 00:47:57,563
- Who did you say you are?
- Bill Pickett.
481
00:47:57,650 --> 00:47:59,442
- The Senator?.
- That’s right.
482
00:47:59,527 --> 00:48:01,603
Prove it.
483
00:48:06,993 --> 00:48:10,528
Well, what did he want to talk to you about?
484
00:48:10,621 --> 00:48:12,910
- Bob?
- Yeah, Bob.
485
00:48:12,999 --> 00:48:17,376
- I don’t really know.
- Don’t fuck about with me! He’s dead!
486
00:48:26,012 --> 00:48:29,844
- You’re a lefty, aren't you?
- What else?
487
00:48:29,932 --> 00:48:33,432
You want to stir up the Dodgson business.
That’s it, isn’t it?
488
00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:35,726
Now Bob’s dead, you want to use him.
489
00:48:35,813 --> 00:48:39,478
I don’t need to use him to do that,
I assure you.
490
00:48:39,567 --> 00:48:43,150
- How did he get in touch with you?
- He telephoned me.
491
00:48:43,237 --> 00:48:45,942
I checked up on him and called him back.
492
00:48:46,032 --> 00:48:47,775
What?
493
00:48:47,867 --> 00:48:51,532
You don’t take it on trust
when someone you’ve never heard of phones
494
00:48:51,621 --> 00:48:54,871
and says they work at GCHQ
and they want to talk.
495
00:48:54,957 --> 00:48:59,454
I mean, there are laws, and things have been
very jumpy since brother Dodgson.
496
00:48:59,545 --> 00:49:02,997
- When was this?
- Last week.
497
00:49:03,091 --> 00:49:07,040
So why the delay?
I mean, in you two getting together?
498
00:49:07,136 --> 00:49:10,256
Bob said what he wanted to discuss
involved someone else.
499
00:49:10,348 --> 00:49:14,048
The other person didn’t want to talk to me.
He hoped to persuade him.
500
00:49:14,143 --> 00:49:18,093
- That’s the lot.
- No, it isn’t. Why the appointment today?
501
00:49:18,189 --> 00:49:21,356
He said he’d be in touch
with the other person this weekend.
502
00:49:21,442 --> 00:49:24,479
- In touch?
- Yeah.
503
00:49:24,570 --> 00:49:27,488
I brought this to discuss with him.
504
00:49:27,573 --> 00:49:29,649
Look...
505
00:49:29,742 --> 00:49:34,534
I’ll give you my telephone number.
You might want to call me.
506
00:49:34,622 --> 00:49:36,780
Not on your life.
507
00:49:37,834 --> 00:49:41,119
- Who told you he was dead?
- That one.
508
00:50:41,898 --> 00:50:44,056
- Hello.
- Hello, Bob?
509
00:50:44,150 --> 00:50:47,519
- No, this is his father.
- Oh, yes, Mr Jones- We've met-
510
00:50:47,612 --> 00:50:50,613
This is Cynthia Goodburn- Is Bob there?
511
00:50:50,698 --> 00:50:53,865
- Uh, no.
- OK, I'll call back- When do you think... - ?
512
00:50:53,951 --> 00:50:57,237
Uh... He’s dead.
513
00:50:57,330 --> 00:50:58,824
What?
514
00:50:58,915 --> 00:51:02,497
- It was an accident.
- Oh, my God!
515
00:51:02,585 --> 00:51:06,203
Oh, my God! Poor Bob!
Oh, God-
516
00:51:06,297 --> 00:51:08,622
- Mrs Goodburn.
- Oh, my God! Not Bob!
517
00:51:08,716 --> 00:51:12,085
- Cynthia.
- Oh, God-
518
00:51:26,192 --> 00:51:29,643
- Mr Jones? I saw you arrive.
519
00:51:29,737 --> 00:51:32,572
I thought you might like some tea.
520
00:51:48,631 --> 00:51:51,336
- I’d like to thank you, Rose.
- Why?
521
00:51:51,425 --> 00:51:54,877
- For clearing the place up.
- I didn’t. What makes you think...?
522
00:51:54,971 --> 00:51:57,640
Someone did.
523
00:51:57,723 --> 00:52:00,261
- Mr Jones. Mr Jones.
- Perhaps Mark?
524
00:52:00,351 --> 00:52:02,427
- You were in the navy.
- Yes.
525
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,103
- So you'll understand about orders.
- Oh, yes.
526
00:52:07,149 --> 00:52:13,947
I’m a section leader, and I have to say this
now and then we’ll all know where we stand.
527
00:52:14,573 --> 00:52:15,772
Oh.
528
00:52:15,866 --> 00:52:20,694
You must be very shocked. Believe me,
it hasn’t been easy at my end, either.
529
00:52:20,788 --> 00:52:24,239
- In what way?
- I can’t discuss that.
530
00:52:24,333 --> 00:52:26,409
So...
531
00:52:26,502 --> 00:52:29,622
what I have to say is this.
532
00:52:30,673 --> 00:52:33,128
We have orders, Mark and I,
533
00:52:33,217 --> 00:52:35,969
not to discuss Bob’s...
534
00:52:36,053 --> 00:52:38,260
What happened.
535
00:52:38,347 --> 00:52:40,256
- Orders?
- Yes.
536
00:52:40,349 --> 00:52:44,429
Particularly with relation to the press,
but with everyone, really.
537
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,304
So if we can just observe that, Mr Jones.
538
00:52:48,399 --> 00:52:50,641
Even relatives?
539
00:52:51,277 --> 00:52:54,646
You can’t talk to a father about his dead son?
540
00:52:56,949 --> 00:53:01,113
You can’t say anything,
even though it might be comforting?
541
00:53:02,538 --> 00:53:06,239
Do you know what I find difficult, Rose?
542
00:53:06,334 --> 00:53:10,462
Is why it is against the national interest
543
00:53:10,546 --> 00:53:14,045
for the press to print
that you and Mark liked him,
544
00:53:14,133 --> 00:53:19,554
and that, although he tended to have
two left feet and fall over the cat,
545
00:53:19,638 --> 00:53:23,138
he was a decent person with a good heart.
546
00:53:23,225 --> 00:53:25,348
That’s not absolutely fair.
547
00:53:25,436 --> 00:53:29,599
You’re perfectly aware of the way
the press twist things and make them up.
548
00:53:29,690 --> 00:53:33,558
- We have our jobs and our futures, too.
- Yes. Yes, I know.
549
00:53:35,321 --> 00:53:37,812
I can see you’re really going to miss him.
550
00:53:37,907 --> 00:53:40,113
How dare you say that?
551
00:53:40,910 --> 00:53:43,780
I’m sleeping here tonight. This is Bob’s room.
552
00:53:43,871 --> 00:53:49,541
You can put a notice on his food cupboard
and a label on his towel in the bathroom.
553
00:55:21,594 --> 00:55:25,010
Dozy bugger. You nearly had me over.
554
00:55:26,557 --> 00:55:31,053
Is that what happened?
You got under his feet?
555
00:55:31,145 --> 00:55:34,430
No. You were down there.
556
00:57:02,611 --> 00:57:06,360
- Apparently, he fell off the roof in the dark.
- I don’t understand.
557
00:57:06,448 --> 00:57:09,366
What was he doing out there?
558
00:57:09,451 --> 00:57:14,576
Rescuing the cat. At least that’s what
everybody seems to want me to believe.
559
00:57:14,665 --> 00:57:17,582
Either that or he committed suicide.
560
00:57:21,338 --> 00:57:23,414
Bob, too?
561
00:57:30,180 --> 00:57:33,881
You must feel pretty bruised,
one way and another.
562
00:57:36,604 --> 00:57:38,762
I thought you didn’t like me.
563
00:57:39,815 --> 00:57:45,900
I just thought you were bad news for Bob.
I mean, married with a kid and everything.
564
00:57:46,947 --> 00:57:50,067
None of that seems to matter much now.
565
00:57:50,159 --> 00:57:52,235
We’ve both lost him.
566
00:57:53,996 --> 00:57:56,487
Not that I’m not prejudiced, you understand.
567
00:57:56,582 --> 00:58:02,003
It’s just that my prejudices
don’t always seem to stand up to actuality.
568
00:58:03,547 --> 00:58:06,216
- That’s what Bob said.
- He did?
569
00:58:06,300 --> 00:58:08,625
Actually, what he said was
570
00:58:08,719 --> 00:58:13,926
that you weren’t really the old
stick in the mud you made yourself out to be.
571
00:58:14,016 --> 00:58:16,092
That sounds like Bob.
572
00:58:18,103 --> 00:58:21,887
Is there something wrong
with your telephone?
573
00:58:21,982 --> 00:58:24,473
No, I don’t think so.
574
00:58:25,694 --> 00:58:30,024
"They have put out the lights
in the ordinary world."
575
00:58:30,115 --> 00:58:32,322
What?
576
00:58:33,452 --> 00:58:36,488
It was something Bob said.
577
00:58:42,169 --> 00:58:45,538
- Mr Jones?
- Yes, very good of you to see me.
578
00:58:45,631 --> 00:58:48,964
What’s the trouble
that the coroner couldn’t deal with?
579
00:58:49,051 --> 00:58:54,507
Just to clear my mind,
I'd be very grateful if you would tell me...
580
00:58:54,598 --> 00:59:00,221
I’d be grateful if you could tell me whether
your officer took away anything as evidence?
581
00:59:00,312 --> 00:59:02,471
Is something missing? Is that it?
582
00:59:02,564 --> 00:59:05,269
- Yes, I think so.
- You think so.
583
00:59:05,359 --> 00:59:08,775
I think my son’s diaries
for this year and last year,
584
00:59:08,862 --> 00:59:12,278
some letters written to him
and some books are missing.
585
00:59:12,366 --> 00:59:17,740
Presumably, because you knew they were
in the room on Sunday last? You’re definite?
586
00:59:17,830 --> 00:59:21,697
No, Inspector. Was anything taken away?
587
00:59:21,792 --> 00:59:25,291
Nothing was removed from the premises
to my knowledge.
588
00:59:25,379 --> 00:59:28,664
I find it a bit difficult to sink in.
589
00:59:29,717 --> 00:59:32,552
Your men went through the house?
590
00:59:32,636 --> 00:59:34,712
Yes.
591
00:59:34,805 --> 00:59:39,763
None of the beds had been slept in and there
was no evidence of anyone having broken in?
592
00:59:39,852 --> 00:59:43,600
- Correct.
- Which leaves the security people.
593
00:59:43,689 --> 00:59:47,058
- What security people?
- GCHQ, of course.
594
00:59:47,151 --> 00:59:49,439
You must’ve been in contact with them.
595
00:59:49,528 --> 00:59:54,273
- What we do is our business, Mr Jones.
- L"II remember that for the interview.
596
00:59:56,368 --> 01:00:00,366
- What interview?
- The BBC phoned me.
597
01:00:00,456 --> 01:00:02,863
Right.
598
01:00:02,958 --> 01:00:05,627
We informed your son’s place of work.
599
01:00:05,711 --> 01:00:09,495
A sergeant interviewed
some of his colleagues.
600
01:00:09,590 --> 01:00:14,252
We received full cooperation
and there was nothing unusual to report.
601
01:00:14,344 --> 01:00:17,298
I hope that puts your mind at rest.
602
01:00:17,389 --> 01:00:21,054
- How did he die?
- Well, that’s for the coroner to decide, sir.
603
01:00:21,143 --> 01:00:25,188
How do you think he died
based on reports you received?
604
01:00:28,317 --> 01:00:30,986
It was almost certainly an accident.
605
01:00:32,279 --> 01:00:34,568
But it could have been a suicide.
606
01:00:35,616 --> 01:00:38,154
There’s no evidence either way. No witnesses.
607
01:00:38,243 --> 01:00:41,992
There’s me. Bob was the last person
in the world to commit suicide.
608
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:46,541
- Oh, people do it every day.
- Your men took away nothing?
609
01:00:46,627 --> 01:00:50,375
So there was no note and no letter?
610
01:00:50,464 --> 01:00:56,253
If my son had committed suicide,
he would have said why.
611
01:00:56,345 --> 01:00:59,595
- And there was the state of his room.
- What do you mean?
612
01:00:59,681 --> 01:01:02,054
Tidy, really squared away.
613
01:01:03,101 --> 01:01:05,390
Someone else did that. Not Bob - never.
614
01:01:05,479 --> 01:01:09,227
With respect, sir,
you’ve been watching too much television.
615
01:01:14,530 --> 01:01:16,818
I’m sorry I’m late.
616
01:01:20,285 --> 01:01:23,322
What do you think of this wine, eh?
617
01:01:33,715 --> 01:01:37,250
- Thanks for coming.
- How was it?
618
01:01:37,344 --> 01:01:42,136
Infuriating. The inspector
was too condescending by half.
619
01:01:42,224 --> 01:01:46,969
And there was another bloke there -
plain clothes. Never opened his mouth.
620
01:01:47,062 --> 01:01:49,933
I’ve asked Bill Pickett to join us.
621
01:01:52,693 --> 01:01:55,148
You could see I was trying to get in there.
622
01:01:55,237 --> 01:01:57,443
Oh, tough titty.
623
01:01:58,574 --> 01:02:00,317
All I know is that since Dodgson,
624
01:02:00,409 --> 01:02:04,358
there have been three sudden deaths
at GCHQ Cheltenham in as many months.
625
01:02:04,454 --> 01:02:08,784
The last thing I want to find out is that
our security services had a hand in them.
626
01:02:08,876 --> 01:02:10,952
Why should they?
627
01:02:11,044 --> 01:02:15,623
Do you know what was the most
surprising thing about the CIA revelations?
628
01:02:15,716 --> 01:02:17,792
Their paranoia.
629
01:02:17,885 --> 01:02:21,051
People who spy and tell lies
are like mental patients.
630
01:02:21,138 --> 01:02:25,598
It’s a form of flight from reality.
They’re not answerable and they know it.
631
01:02:25,684 --> 01:02:28,389
There’s no reason for them not to overreact.
632
01:02:28,478 --> 01:02:30,886
And it won’t do.
633
01:02:30,981 --> 01:02:35,358
They’re completely incapable of
distinguishing between dissent and treason.
634
01:02:35,444 --> 01:02:40,900
As far as they’re concerned, anyone
who rocks the boat is a threat. To what?
635
01:02:40,991 --> 01:02:44,407
Their idea of good order.
636
01:02:44,494 --> 01:02:48,195
All right. The point is,
what are we going to do?
637
01:02:48,290 --> 01:02:51,291
Bob didn’t tell you the name of the man
Mark put him onto?
638
01:02:51,376 --> 01:02:56,881
He said, uh, what I didn’t know
wouldn’t hurt me or Tiffany.
639
01:02:57,841 --> 01:03:01,044
Yeah, but he went down
to see this Mr X at East Grinstead
640
01:03:01,136 --> 01:03:04,339
the weekend before he called me.
641
01:03:04,431 --> 01:03:06,340
And came back absolutely certain
642
01:03:06,433 --> 01:03:10,929
that our side wouldn’t have thought twice
about murdering Allen if it had suited them.
643
01:03:11,021 --> 01:03:16,608
Presumably that’s what he hoped to
persuade this character to confirm to me,
644
01:03:16,693 --> 01:03:20,608
at which point... Bob falls off a roof.
645
01:03:20,697 --> 01:03:24,149
When he was conveniently
alone in the house.
646
01:03:24,242 --> 01:03:26,994
Well, I’d better get on and find this Mr X.
647
01:03:27,079 --> 01:03:32,073
There can’t be that many dirty-tricks men
living in retirement in East Grinstead.
648
01:03:32,167 --> 01:03:35,501
Although on second thoughts...
I’ll be in touch.
649
01:03:35,587 --> 01:03:39,751
- Pickett, I want the truth.
- Don’t we all?
650
01:03:39,841 --> 01:03:45,132
I am not interested in making political capital
out of the death of my son.
651
01:03:45,222 --> 01:03:50,429
If this story holds up,
you might not be able to avoid it.
652
01:03:50,519 --> 01:03:54,303
In fact, with a bit of luck,
it might bring down the government.
653
01:03:54,398 --> 01:03:56,058
See you.
654
01:03:57,109 --> 01:03:59,979
I’m not out to change the system.
655
01:04:00,070 --> 01:04:03,403
No, but we need someone
with that kind of commitment.
656
01:04:03,490 --> 01:04:08,318
If we’re right,
what happened to Bob and Allen and us
657
01:04:08,412 --> 01:04:11,662
doesn't affect 98% of the population,
658
01:04:11,748 --> 01:04:15,793
but it could hit any one of them
like a car crash.
659
01:04:15,877 --> 01:04:18,629
The least we can do is tell them the odds.
660
01:04:21,091 --> 01:04:23,712
Let’s just stay with the facts.
661
01:04:23,802 --> 01:04:28,380
The people who live there, the police,
the security services, all agree
662
01:04:28,473 --> 01:04:35,010
that there was no suspicion of anything
except an accident or suicide.
663
01:04:35,105 --> 01:04:37,228
- Not suicide.
- OK.
664
01:04:37,315 --> 01:04:40,269
You say that’s out of character.
You should know.
665
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,527
In which case, pace the coroner,
666
01:04:43,613 --> 01:04:48,359
the verdict has got to be a tragic accident.
667
01:04:49,661 --> 01:04:52,033
But one -just one -
668
01:04:52,122 --> 01:04:57,578
not very distinguished
politically motivated journalist is in there
669
01:04:57,669 --> 01:05:00,753
trying to whoop it up
into another GCHQ scandal.
670
01:05:00,839 --> 01:05:02,915
And what do you do? You cry murder.
671
01:05:03,008 --> 01:05:05,166
There was his room.
672
01:05:06,219 --> 01:05:10,051
For God’s sake, couldn’t your son
have decided to clean up his own room
673
01:05:10,140 --> 01:05:12,761
just once in 28 years?
674
01:05:14,311 --> 01:05:16,802
You may be right.
675
01:05:17,856 --> 01:05:20,608
There’s no "maybe" about it.
676
01:05:21,651 --> 01:05:26,479
Look, I’m going to be based in your friendly
neighbourhood Sheraton Hotel for a bit,
677
01:05:26,573 --> 01:05:29,859
so if you feel like drowning your sorrows,
give me a bell.
678
01:05:29,951 --> 01:05:31,944
Right.
679
01:05:32,037 --> 01:05:33,661
Take it easy.
680
01:05:40,504 --> 01:05:45,415
If you tell the majority of people that a bloke
was about to breach our security service,
681
01:05:45,509 --> 01:05:50,634
but he fell off a roof and was killed, they’d
say, ‘serves him right. What do you expect?"
682
01:05:50,722 --> 01:05:54,257
And so would I, because up until now
I was part of that majority.
683
01:05:54,351 --> 01:05:58,016
I would have said you don’t sign on for that
and then break your word.
684
01:05:58,105 --> 01:06:00,181
- And now?
- I don’t know.
685
01:06:00,273 --> 01:06:05,944
I don’t have any powerful friends. I can’t go to
my lawyer or my MP. The verdict’s already in.
686
01:06:06,029 --> 01:06:10,193
The only way of telling ordinary people
is to go over the heads of that lot.
687
01:06:10,283 --> 01:06:14,411
And that, God help me,
puts me in bed with a bastard like Bill Pickett.
688
01:06:22,129 --> 01:06:24,536
- Hello?
- It's Bill Pickett- Is Frank there?
689
01:06:24,631 --> 01:06:28,463
- Yes.
- We've found our man-
690
01:06:28,552 --> 01:06:31,469
Frank, it’s Bill for you.
691
01:06:31,555 --> 01:06:33,880
He’s found Mr X.
692
01:06:36,518 --> 01:06:39,602
He wouldn't
give me the name over the phone,
693
01:06:39,688 --> 01:06:45,275
but we were to meet him
at the junction of the A4 and the A217-
694
01:07:17,934 --> 01:07:20,508
Shit!
695
01:07:29,946 --> 01:07:31,820
No!
696
01:07:51,343 --> 01:07:53,501
You might as well take your time, lads.
697
01:07:53,595 --> 01:07:56,382
Move along, please, sir.
698
01:08:00,227 --> 01:08:04,723
For as much as it has pleased
Almighty God of his great mercy
699
01:08:04,814 --> 01:08:09,523
to take unto himself the soul
of our dear brother, Robert Jones...
700
01:08:11,279 --> 01:08:15,194
We therefore commit his body to the ground.
701
01:08:15,283 --> 01:08:17,608
Earth to earth,
702
01:08:17,702 --> 01:08:19,362
ashes to ashes,
703
01:08:19,454 --> 01:08:21,411
dust to dust.
704
01:08:21,498 --> 01:08:26,658
In sure and certain hope of resurrection to
eternal life through Our Lord, Jesus Christ,
705
01:08:26,753 --> 01:08:32,626
who shall change our vile body
that it may be like unto his glorious body,
706
01:08:32,717 --> 01:08:35,043
according to the mighty working
707
01:08:35,136 --> 01:08:40,723
whereby he is able
to subdue all things to himself.
708
01:09:14,926 --> 01:09:18,046
I never understood about revolutionaries.
709
01:09:19,681 --> 01:09:21,757
I do now.
710
01:09:23,059 --> 01:09:25,811
But I don’t have the stomach for it.
711
01:09:31,067 --> 01:09:34,650
I don’t know what else I can do, Bob.
712
01:09:40,327 --> 01:09:42,900
And that’s the truth.
713
01:10:01,681 --> 01:10:05,430
- I was relieved about the verdict, Mr Jones.
- Oh?
714
01:10:05,518 --> 01:10:07,677
I, um...
715
01:10:07,771 --> 01:10:13,891
Sorry to be conspiratorial. There’s nothing to
be conspiratorial about, but since Dodgson...
716
01:10:13,985 --> 01:10:20,438
Look, we were all told to do it after him.
They said it helped keep people on the rails.
717
01:10:20,533 --> 01:10:26,120
And in my position... When they PV’d me,
I kept something back, so when Bob...
718
01:10:26,206 --> 01:10:29,954
I told them he’d been asking questions
about Goodburn’s suicide.
719
01:10:30,043 --> 01:10:33,661
Well, you can’t blame yourself
for telling the truth.
720
01:10:33,755 --> 01:10:37,005
No. No, of course not. I just...
721
01:10:38,927 --> 01:10:43,221
Look, there’s been a terrible atmosphere
at work and every kind of rumour.
722
01:10:43,306 --> 01:10:45,879
I can’t imagine how bad it must be for you.
723
01:10:45,975 --> 01:10:48,929
I just wanted to get it off my chest
that I’m very sorry.
724
01:10:49,020 --> 01:10:54,394
Don’t worry about it. I know you were
Bob’s friend and wouldn’t let him down.
725
01:10:54,484 --> 01:10:58,434
I wouldn’t let them bring in
a verdict of suicide, anyway.
726
01:10:58,530 --> 01:11:03,441
- I can’t tell you what a relief it is.
- You see, I think he was murdered.
727
01:11:04,994 --> 01:11:06,952
Oh, Christ.
728
01:11:07,038 --> 01:11:09,743
No, that’s impossible. I didn’t mean to...
729
01:11:09,833 --> 01:11:13,747
- Look, I’d better go.
- Yes, go and tell them what I think.
730
01:11:13,837 --> 01:11:17,040
No, I’d never do that,
but I don’t believe Bob was murdered.
731
01:11:17,132 --> 01:11:20,880
Oh, yes, you do. You believed it when I said it.
732
01:11:20,969 --> 01:11:23,720
You felt it like I did.
733
01:11:23,805 --> 01:11:25,963
Why do you feel like that, Mark?
734
01:11:27,016 --> 01:11:28,676
Bob was...
735
01:11:28,768 --> 01:11:30,844
like Dostoevsky’s idiot -
736
01:11:30,937 --> 01:11:33,808
no help to anybody.
737
01:11:33,898 --> 01:11:39,818
All the same, I loved him. I’m not gay,
but I loved him because he had this quality.
738
01:11:41,448 --> 01:11:45,659
I don’t know why I betrayed him. The quality
he had was to show you what you are.
739
01:11:45,743 --> 01:11:50,820
I don’t know.
If it was, I’m a sort of natural Judas.
740
01:11:52,167 --> 01:11:54,539
I did it in a dream, almost.
741
01:11:56,254 --> 01:11:59,919
I never meant to, right up to the moment
I knocked on the HEO’s door.
742
01:12:00,008 --> 01:12:03,044
The same as now -
I never meant to betray them to you.
743
01:12:03,136 --> 01:12:06,836
You sent him to see someone, we know that.
Who was it?
744
01:12:08,183 --> 01:12:11,801
- I can’t say it. I can’t say it to you.
- You fucking fruitcake!
745
01:12:11,895 --> 01:12:14,765
Who did you send him to? Eh?
746
01:12:14,856 --> 01:12:16,813
Greig.
747
01:12:19,110 --> 01:12:20,984
Greig?
748
01:12:22,572 --> 01:12:26,107
They told you to send him to Charlie Greig?
749
01:12:26,201 --> 01:12:29,201
They said he was a friend of the family.
750
01:13:19,003 --> 01:13:21,329
Come in, come in.
751
01:13:22,382 --> 01:13:24,789
Get an eyeful, huh?
752
01:13:25,843 --> 01:13:30,173
Thank God for the old expense account.
Where would we be without it?
753
01:13:30,265 --> 01:13:33,135
- Where indeed.
- Take your coat off.
754
01:13:33,226 --> 01:13:35,598
Sit down. What'll it be?
755
01:13:35,687 --> 01:13:38,142
Vodka with anything, really. Tonic.
756
01:13:38,231 --> 01:13:40,105
Right.
757
01:13:40,191 --> 01:13:43,560
Well, it’s not the real thing,
758
01:13:43,653 --> 01:13:45,444
so, um...
759
01:13:45,530 --> 01:13:48,899
we don’t have to be too frugal, do we?
760
01:13:50,702 --> 01:13:52,778
- Are you all right?
- I’m fine.
761
01:13:56,416 --> 01:14:00,710
Remember that time
the old man went bananas?
762
01:14:00,795 --> 01:14:04,496
He came onto the main deck,
he said to the marine corporal...
763
01:14:04,591 --> 01:14:10,047
I was there. He said to the marine corporal,
"Get that horse out of my cabin."
764
01:14:11,264 --> 01:14:14,763
Marvellous.
He was a two-bottle-a-day man, he was.
765
01:14:16,811 --> 01:14:19,384
- Well, cheers.
- Cheers.
766
01:14:23,026 --> 01:14:26,726
Nobody remembers
any of that, do they? Korea.
767
01:14:26,821 --> 01:14:31,697
By God. If we’d had the same publicity
they gave the Falklands, eh?
768
01:14:31,784 --> 01:14:34,951
All those smartarses saying it wouldn’t work,
769
01:14:35,038 --> 01:14:38,074
then when it did,
saying it shouldn’t have happened.
770
01:14:38,166 --> 01:14:45,082
I mean, there we were in Korea
flying piston-engined aircraft against MiGs.
771
01:14:45,173 --> 01:14:48,090
How many pilots did we lose
in those two years, eh?
772
01:14:48,176 --> 01:14:50,583
And that was just us.
773
01:14:52,305 --> 01:14:55,923
- We did it, though.
- Yes, we did, didn’t we?
774
01:15:00,355 --> 01:15:07,353
You were the best Carmen Miranda
I ever saw.
775
01:15:07,445 --> 01:15:11,359
And you were the best pilot I ever met.
776
01:15:11,449 --> 01:15:12,729
No.
777
01:15:12,825 --> 01:15:18,033
"Fixed wing", as they say now,
but definitely a natural.
778
01:15:19,415 --> 01:15:21,622
So, cheers, old boy.
779
01:15:21,709 --> 01:15:23,785
Cheers.
780
01:15:28,591 --> 01:15:31,960
It’s bite-on-a-bullet time.
781
01:15:32,053 --> 01:15:36,382
I’m finally beginning to get myself
sorted out about old Bob.
782
01:15:37,433 --> 01:15:41,265
I’ve been a bit of a bore about it,
I know, but...
783
01:15:41,354 --> 01:15:43,761
I really miss the silly bugger.
784
01:15:43,856 --> 01:15:46,727
Of course you do.
785
01:15:48,027 --> 01:15:50,269
Oh.
786
01:15:50,363 --> 01:15:52,901
Time to pump ship.
787
01:15:52,990 --> 01:15:55,446
The old bladder’s beginning to shrink.
788
01:15:55,535 --> 01:15:58,204
You want to watch that - that’s the first sign.
789
01:16:01,541 --> 01:16:03,118
Hold hard!
790
01:16:12,468 --> 01:16:16,336
I can’t get over you
doing the old James Bond.
791
01:16:16,431 --> 01:16:20,179
I should be so lucky. No birds,
792
01:16:21,227 --> 01:16:23,848
nothing stirred and not much shaken.
793
01:16:25,106 --> 01:16:29,056
Ooh, God. It’s... it’s my turn now.
794
01:16:29,152 --> 01:16:30,943
Oh! Oh!
795
01:16:31,028 --> 01:16:34,694
Oh, God! Oh!
796
01:16:34,782 --> 01:16:36,739
Oh!
797
01:16:36,826 --> 01:16:39,068
Oh! Oh-ho!
798
01:16:39,162 --> 01:16:40,905
Oh, the relief!
799
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:48,415
Did you... did you hear the one
about the blind man out for a walk?
800
01:16:48,504 --> 01:16:51,838
The guide dog cocks its leg all over him
801
01:16:51,924 --> 01:16:57,001
and the blind man stops
and fishes out a dog biscuit.
802
01:16:57,096 --> 01:17:00,465
He’s just about to offer it
to the faithless hound
803
01:17:00,558 --> 01:17:03,808
when this Barbara Woodhouse character
dashes across...
804
01:17:03,895 --> 01:17:08,604
"Look here," she says,
"you can’t reward the animal for doing that!"
805
01:17:08,691 --> 01:17:12,689
"Reward it?" the man says. "Reward it?!"
806
01:17:12,779 --> 01:17:16,230
"I may be blind but I’m not daft."
807
01:17:16,324 --> 01:17:19,906
"I’m just trying to find out
which end his head is
808
01:17:19,994 --> 01:17:22,829
so as I can kick his arse in!"
809
01:17:25,124 --> 01:17:28,992
- Christ, it’s warm in there.
- Here we are. Double-O Charlie.
810
01:17:29,086 --> 01:17:32,290
- Double-O Charlie.
- Bottoms up.
811
01:17:33,966 --> 01:17:37,300
- Up spirits.
- Stand...
812
01:17:37,386 --> 01:17:39,924
stand fast the Holy Ghost.
813
01:17:42,058 --> 01:17:43,967
Jesus.
814
01:17:44,060 --> 01:17:45,969
- You want some tonic?
- Tonic, yes.
815
01:17:46,062 --> 01:17:49,228
Here we are.
Here we are. Here’s some tonic.
816
01:17:49,315 --> 01:17:50,975
- Ice.
- You want ice with that?
817
01:17:51,067 --> 01:17:53,772
- Yeah.
- Here we are.
818
01:17:53,861 --> 01:17:57,277
There’s some ice, Charlie.
Cheers. Cheers.
819
01:18:00,827 --> 01:18:02,369
- Oh, lovely.
- Oh!
820
01:18:08,501 --> 01:18:12,249
- I keep thinking about that weekend.
- Eh?
821
01:18:12,338 --> 01:18:15,173
Bob alone in the house.
822
01:18:16,425 --> 01:18:18,714
He was my son.
823
01:18:20,096 --> 01:18:22,135
My son.
824
01:18:22,223 --> 01:18:24,761
My son.
825
01:18:26,060 --> 01:18:29,643
Old pal. Old pal.
826
01:18:30,857 --> 01:18:36,776
That’s why I didn’t want to get involved.
I told them. I said, "I don’t want any part of it."
827
01:18:36,863 --> 01:18:39,235
But...
828
01:18:39,323 --> 01:18:41,695
once you’re in, you’re in for life.
829
01:18:41,784 --> 01:18:45,782
They’ve got you by the short and curlies.
You know how it is.
830
01:18:45,872 --> 01:18:48,576
Yeah, I know.
831
01:18:49,166 --> 01:18:52,535
And you... you weren’t any help.
832
01:18:53,588 --> 01:18:56,458
Making out Bob was a timid sort of bloke.
833
01:18:59,969 --> 01:19:04,132
- So you tried to scare him off, eh?
- I knew I bloody could.
834
01:19:04,223 --> 01:19:08,766
"Oh, all right", I said. "Leave it to me", I said.
835
01:19:08,853 --> 01:19:13,230
But because of what happened
to Cynthia’s husband,
836
01:19:13,316 --> 01:19:17,645
Bob was so shocked,
he became even more suspicious.
837
01:19:17,737 --> 01:19:21,236
You can imagine where that left me.
838
01:19:21,324 --> 01:19:25,784
"You got us into this, Commander,
you get us out of it."
839
01:19:25,870 --> 01:19:27,779
Bastards.
840
01:19:27,872 --> 01:19:31,739
"Oh, yes, sir. No, sir. Three bags full."
841
01:19:36,964 --> 01:19:40,914
I still don’t see why you had to kill him.
842
01:19:45,556 --> 01:19:49,720
Kill your son? Me?
Come on, Frank. I know you.
843
01:19:49,810 --> 01:19:52,348
I flew with you.
844
01:19:52,438 --> 01:19:56,851
Besides, we don’t do that sort of thing
to our people. Don’t look at me like that.
845
01:19:56,943 --> 01:20:01,486
Don’t you realise what happened?
Can’t you... put it together?
846
01:20:01,572 --> 01:20:06,483
There was no sign of a struggle,
there was no break-in that Sunday.
847
01:20:07,578 --> 01:20:09,654
- Bob was expecting you.
- Nice, but...
848
01:20:09,747 --> 01:20:12,914
Now, if you didn’t kill him,
849
01:20:14,043 --> 01:20:18,835
I don’t know many ways to fix an accident,
but I’ve read about three,
850
01:20:18,923 --> 01:20:23,051
and one of them
is where you jab a certain point
851
01:20:23,135 --> 01:20:28,806
and the bloke blacks out
without leaving any mark. Eh?
852
01:20:30,559 --> 01:20:32,635
Was that your job?
853
01:20:32,728 --> 01:20:37,936
When I’d done it,
I went out, left the door unlocked.
854
01:20:39,902 --> 01:20:43,485
But I swear to God, Frank,
he was only unconscious!
855
01:20:43,572 --> 01:20:46,028
I didn’t know those bastards...
856
01:20:46,117 --> 01:20:48,240
Fr... Frank.
857
01:20:49,286 --> 01:20:51,030
Forgive me.
858
01:20:51,122 --> 01:20:52,450
I forgive you.
859
01:20:52,540 --> 01:20:55,113
My job was...
860
01:20:55,751 --> 01:20:59,879
to make sure the other lot
could get in without any aggro.
861
01:20:59,964 --> 01:21:05,883
I thought they were just going to, you know,
lean on him a little bit. I mean, I didn’t know...
862
01:21:05,970 --> 01:21:08,342
Which other lot?
863
01:21:08,431 --> 01:21:12,511
- You what, old dear?
- Which others, Charlie?
864
01:21:12,601 --> 01:21:15,175
Oh, well,
865
01:21:15,271 --> 01:21:19,767
whoever the Yanks sent in
to do their dirty work for them.
866
01:21:21,193 --> 01:21:23,863
Yanks?
867
01:21:23,946 --> 01:21:25,227
Uh...
868
01:21:25,322 --> 01:21:28,988
The whole setup was...
869
01:21:30,077 --> 01:21:34,823
was so that the Yanks
wouldn’t rumble who the real villains were.
870
01:21:34,915 --> 01:21:41,499
- Do you know who they are?
- Oh. Some cipher clerk at GCHQ and...
871
01:21:41,589 --> 01:21:43,795
Who else, Charlie?
872
01:21:44,884 --> 01:21:47,968
No. I’ve talked enough already.
873
01:21:48,054 --> 01:21:52,466
That’s cos I’m feeling rotten about Bob.
874
01:21:52,558 --> 01:21:56,971
Anyway, knowing won’t do you any good.
They'll just lock you up,
875
01:21:57,063 --> 01:21:59,850
or worse, and me if I tell you.
876
01:21:59,940 --> 01:22:02,478
You’re still going to.
877
01:22:03,944 --> 01:22:05,818
Oh!
878
01:22:07,281 --> 01:22:08,526
Chapple!
879
01:22:08,616 --> 01:22:11,285
For God’s sake, Frank!
880
01:22:11,368 --> 01:22:14,535
Sir Adrian bleeding Chapple.
881
01:22:19,460 --> 01:22:22,995
Now do you see? Bob got too close.
882
01:22:23,089 --> 01:22:26,006
That’s why they threw him to the wolves.
883
01:22:27,051 --> 01:22:31,713
There’s not a blind thing that you and me...
We can’t do anything about it. No.
884
01:22:31,806 --> 01:22:35,886
Because they’re establishment,
they’re the closed ranks!
885
01:22:35,976 --> 01:22:38,812
So, for God’s sake, Frank...
886
01:22:38,896 --> 01:22:41,268
Oh, Jesus!
887
01:22:41,357 --> 01:22:45,189
I used to be able to drink, you know.
888
01:23:49,258 --> 01:23:53,469
There’s no reason for Mrs Goodburn
or the child to come to any harm,
889
01:23:53,554 --> 01:23:55,879
providing you’re sensible.
890
01:24:59,328 --> 01:25:03,491
You must understand that
our special relationship with the Americans
891
01:25:03,582 --> 01:25:05,658
is at a low ebb.
892
01:25:08,087 --> 01:25:13,757
Our record in the matter of security
has been quite appalling.
893
01:25:13,842 --> 01:25:18,504
40 years of damage
inflicted on the alliance by vassals.
894
01:25:18,597 --> 01:25:22,725
Blake, Blunt, Prime, Bettaney,
895
01:25:22,810 --> 01:25:25,348
old uncle Kim Philby and the rest.
896
01:25:28,732 --> 01:25:34,071
We are at the beck and call of the Americans.
Our national survival depends upon it.
897
01:25:36,782 --> 01:25:43,070
The so-called "independent British deterrent"
is a meaningless indulgence to the past.
898
01:25:43,163 --> 01:25:49,415
The days when nuclear stalemate
meant no nuclear war are long gone.
899
01:25:49,503 --> 01:25:53,335
Now, nuclear war is expected and planned for.
900
01:25:54,383 --> 01:25:58,167
All that remains in question
are its timing and extent.
901
01:25:59,513 --> 01:26:02,597
Such warning as we get
will be from electronic espionage
902
01:26:02,683 --> 01:26:08,519
by GCHQ Cheltenham
and its linked stations at home and abroad.
903
01:26:09,690 --> 01:26:16,653
The consequences were the Americans to
deny us access to their giant spy machine
904
01:26:16,739 --> 01:26:19,823
are simply too awful to contemplate.
905
01:26:25,664 --> 01:26:29,792
I could justify a great deal
in terms of the coming wrath.
906
01:26:29,877 --> 01:26:36,460
It is not, happily, my task
to justify the sequence of events
907
01:26:36,550 --> 01:26:40,085
which resulted in your son’s tragic death.
908
01:26:41,138 --> 01:26:48,019
I am merely authorised by Her Majesty’s
government to set the matter in its context.
909
01:26:52,941 --> 01:26:55,017
The Americans believed
910
01:26:55,110 --> 01:26:59,856
that Dodgson had two named associates
involved with him at GCHQ Cheltenham,
911
01:26:59,948 --> 01:27:02,949
and they suspected there was a third man.
912
01:27:03,035 --> 01:27:06,238
Do you see now
why we had to go along with that?
913
01:27:07,498 --> 01:27:11,745
You’re telling me that this whole thing
was to prevent the Americans,
914
01:27:11,835 --> 01:27:14,753
our allies,
from finding out that the real traitors
915
01:27:14,838 --> 01:27:18,670
were higher placed than Kedge or Goodburn?
916
01:27:18,759 --> 01:27:21,297
One of them, certainly.
917
01:27:21,387 --> 01:27:24,423
It was the only chance we had
to uncover him.
918
01:27:24,515 --> 01:27:27,184
- Well, have you?
- Yes.
919
01:27:27,267 --> 01:27:29,011
What did you do with him?
920
01:27:29,103 --> 01:27:31,510
Left him until we assess
the damage he’s done
921
01:27:31,605 --> 01:27:35,306
and how most effectively to use him
to embarrass the Russians.
922
01:27:35,401 --> 01:27:41,688
When you’ll do a deal with him so he can
draw a pension and have tea with the queen.
923
01:27:41,782 --> 01:27:46,907
And you expect me to shut up about the fact
that my son, among other innocents,
924
01:27:46,995 --> 01:27:49,665
were expendable in this charade?
925
01:27:52,084 --> 01:27:55,417
You don’t have any alternative, Jones.
926
01:27:55,504 --> 01:27:58,588
What will you do? Arrange another accident?
927
01:27:59,842 --> 01:28:01,834
That won’t be necessary.
928
01:28:01,927 --> 01:28:06,388
Any attempt on your part
to publish or broadcast, expose, sue, litigate
929
01:28:06,473 --> 01:28:12,594
on the basis of what you know or may
surmise will simply never see the light of day.
930
01:28:12,688 --> 01:28:15,891
I have killed people before.
931
01:28:15,983 --> 01:28:20,063
And when my best friend
was shot down over Korea,
932
01:28:20,154 --> 01:28:22,823
I also did it with pleasure.
933
01:28:22,906 --> 01:28:28,826
And if I were to kill you,
the publicity surrounding my trial...
934
01:28:28,912 --> 01:28:32,744
Cases involving national security
are held in camera.
935
01:28:32,833 --> 01:28:38,040
If you’re thinking of other ways of drawing
public attention to yourself, don’t bother.
936
01:28:38,130 --> 01:28:43,207
We would merely arrange for you
to be taken into psychiatric care.
937
01:28:43,302 --> 01:28:47,798
A breakdown following
your son’s tragic accident.
938
01:28:47,890 --> 01:28:51,424
As for Mrs Goodburn,
well, you wouldn’t be here
939
01:28:51,518 --> 01:28:56,892
if you didn’t realise that the child makes her
much more vulnerable than you are.
940
01:29:12,539 --> 01:29:15,326
I had a phone call.
941
01:29:15,417 --> 01:29:18,501
Anonymous. They were polite but, uh...
942
01:29:20,631 --> 01:29:24,165
I’ve already lost two people that I loved.
943
01:29:24,259 --> 01:29:28,589
I couldn’t bear it
if anything were to happen to Tiffany.
944
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:31,254
Or you, come to that.
945
01:29:32,226 --> 01:29:37,137
I never, ever thought I’d be beaten,
not in my ordinary life.
946
01:29:37,231 --> 01:29:42,770
I always knew I’d have to fight,
but I always reckoned I’d win.
947
01:29:44,196 --> 01:29:47,446
That’s the worst part of it. I let you down.
948
01:29:48,492 --> 01:29:50,698
You and Bob.
949
01:29:51,745 --> 01:29:53,987
What do you want, Frank?
950
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:57,365
L"II tell you what I want.
951
01:29:57,459 --> 01:29:59,617
I want to believe in England again.
952
01:30:39,042 --> 01:30:42,874
Ah. Collecting for the British Legion,
I imagine?
953
01:30:42,963 --> 01:30:47,340
You’re fortunate. It’s my man’s day off.
He lacks charity. Do come in.
954
01:30:57,603 --> 01:31:01,054
Can I offer you a drink?
I expect you’d like a beer.
955
01:31:01,148 --> 01:31:05,145
I may not be able to accommodate you there,
but gin or whisky?
956
01:31:05,235 --> 01:31:06,266
No, thank you.
957
01:31:06,361 --> 01:31:10,655
Oh, you don’t drink while on duty.
Very laudable, I’m sure.
958
01:31:15,871 --> 01:31:17,745
Here.
959
01:31:20,626 --> 01:31:22,998
I don’t get it.
960
01:31:24,046 --> 01:31:26,797
- Who are you?
- My son was killed because of you.
961
01:31:26,882 --> 01:31:29,088
You’re clearly deranged.
962
01:31:29,176 --> 01:31:32,545
He got too close to finding out
that our security people
963
01:31:32,638 --> 01:31:35,841
were letting the Americans eliminate stooges
964
01:31:35,932 --> 01:31:39,764
so that they could get a line
on the real villain - you.
965
01:31:39,853 --> 01:31:41,810
So why haven’t I been arrested?
966
01:31:41,897 --> 01:31:45,147
They wanted you to stay in place
until they found out enough
967
01:31:45,233 --> 01:31:48,400
to make you an offer you couldn’t refuse.
968
01:31:52,574 --> 01:31:55,065
If you’re right, there’s nothing you can do.
969
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:58,529
Not a lot. They made that clear.
970
01:31:59,998 --> 01:32:04,909
Just tell me...
I mean, my son was killed because of you.
971
01:32:05,003 --> 01:32:10,294
I don’t understand how someone like you
with everything going for you
972
01:32:10,384 --> 01:32:12,709
could become a traitor.
973
01:32:12,803 --> 01:32:17,512
I can’t be expected to explain my thoughts
to someone of your intellectual calibre.
974
01:32:17,599 --> 01:32:23,269
Oh, I thought the whole point was
that you were on the side of the workers.
975
01:32:24,314 --> 01:32:26,521
Very well.
976
01:32:28,694 --> 01:32:34,447
I had an average, upper-class education.
Genuinely of the right. Churchill was my hero.
977
01:32:34,533 --> 01:32:39,278
I went up to Oxford
and joined the civil service as a high-flyer
978
01:32:39,371 --> 01:32:42,787
content with Britain’s part in the world.
979
01:32:42,874 --> 01:32:45,282
- So, what happened?
- Nothing.
980
01:32:45,377 --> 01:32:49,161
By which I mean
there was no blinding flash of revelation.
981
01:32:49,256 --> 01:32:53,752
Just gradually I became aware
how insignificant we were.
982
01:32:53,844 --> 01:32:56,798
The world had to choose
between the two superpowers.
983
01:32:56,888 --> 01:32:59,510
I chose Russia.
984
01:32:59,599 --> 01:33:03,727
It wasn’t a moral judgment initially,
more an aesthetic one.
985
01:33:03,812 --> 01:33:09,566
It took the Suez affair to bring home
the total futility of the British position.
986
01:33:10,694 --> 01:33:15,570
We tried and failed humiliatingly
to halt the march of progress,
987
01:33:15,657 --> 01:33:18,611
and we had no alternative to offer.
988
01:33:18,702 --> 01:33:23,079
Paradoxically, it was the way
in which the Americans, our allies,
989
01:33:23,165 --> 01:33:28,788
sabotaged that desperate venture that
confirmed my commitment to the other camp.
990
01:33:28,879 --> 01:33:31,998
Nothing that’s happened since
has caused me to change it.
991
01:33:32,090 --> 01:33:36,966
Our own political posturing
is neither moral not relevant.
992
01:33:38,013 --> 01:33:43,849
As for America, the standard-bearer
of the West, she’s not simply in decline,
993
01:33:43,935 --> 01:33:49,559
she’s dying from a combination of greed,
paranoia and social injustice.
994
01:33:49,649 --> 01:33:55,438
And her death throes drive her to
ever more dangerous feats of brinkmanship,
995
01:33:55,530 --> 01:33:58,567
both in Europe, Central America and in space.
996
01:34:00,368 --> 01:34:06,537
If you really believe all that,
why don’t you go and live in bloody Russia?
997
01:34:06,625 --> 01:34:09,246
I knew I was wasting my time.
998
01:34:09,336 --> 01:34:15,374
L"II tell you why. Because your sort
always manages to have its cake and eat it.
999
01:34:15,467 --> 01:34:18,384
I mean, look at this place.
1000
01:34:19,429 --> 01:34:24,138
- It makes me sick.
- Well, what is it you want?
1001
01:34:24,226 --> 01:34:30,893
I want your written confession of what you’ve
been giving to the Russians and for how long.
1002
01:34:30,982 --> 01:34:32,809
It won’t do you any good.
1003
01:34:32,901 --> 01:34:35,937
I know it won’t bring my son back,
1004
01:34:36,029 --> 01:34:41,486
but it’ll stop you living off the fat of a country
you’ve been betraying for so long
1005
01:34:41,576 --> 01:34:46,285
from your secure, pensionable position
near the top of the heap.
1006
01:34:47,290 --> 01:34:51,240
- You can’t force me...
- Just do it.
1007
01:34:53,797 --> 01:34:56,039
As you wish.
1008
01:36:04,242 --> 01:36:06,912
I imagine you’ll want to vet it.
1009
01:36:21,718 --> 01:36:24,007
This will do.
1010
01:36:25,180 --> 01:36:28,465
- And now perhaps you’ll return it.
1011
01:36:30,143 --> 01:36:33,393
One hates to be melodramatic, but, um...
1012
01:36:44,115 --> 01:36:46,322
Argh!
1013
01:36:58,838 --> 01:37:05,007
"Any attempt on your part
to publish, broadcast, expose, sue or litigate
1014
01:37:05,095 --> 01:37:07,586
will simply never see the light of day-"
1015
01:37:27,450 --> 01:37:33,037
And to God’s gracious mercy
and protection we commit you.
1016
01:37:33,123 --> 01:37:36,207
The Lord bless you and keep you,
1017
01:37:36,292 --> 01:37:42,331
the Lord make his face to shine upon you
and be gracious unto you.
1018
01:37:42,424 --> 01:37:47,584
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace,
1019
01:37:47,679 --> 01:37:50,799
both now and evermore.
1020
01:37:50,890 --> 01:37:52,966
Amen.
1021
01:37:59,399 --> 01:38:01,854
Quick march!
1022
01:39:56,891 --> 01:40:03,143
It would be conniving to do nothing,
knowing what I know now, don't you see?
1023
01:40:04,858 --> 01:40:09,436
Their secret world
has put out the light of the ordinary world-
1024
01:40:19,205 --> 01:40:22,823
I still believe that the man in the white hat
always wins in the end,
1025
01:40:22,917 --> 01:40:25,455
and I intend to prove it-