Come to the West and we can give you a comfortable life, after questioning. Or you can...
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George Smiley:
I met him once. Karla. In fifty-five. Moscow Centre was in pieces. Purge after purge. Half their agents were jumping ship and I traveled around signing them up. Hundreds of them. One of them was calling himself Gerstmann. He was on his way back to Russia, and we were pretty sure he was going to be executed. Plane had a twenty-four hour layover at Delhi, and that's how long I had to convince him to come over to us instead of going home to die. Little room. I'm sitting here... he's sitting there. The Americans had had him tortured. No fingernails. It's incredibly hot. I'm very tired and all I want to do is get this over with and get back home. Things weren't going well with Ann. I give him the usual pitch: come to the West and we can give you a comfortable life, after questioning. Or you can catch your plane and fly home and be shot. "Think of your wife. You have a wife, don't you? I brought you some cigarettes, by the way. Use my lighter. We could arrange for her to join you, we have a lot of stock to trade. If you go back, she'll be ostracized. Think of her. Think about how much she..." Kept harping on about the damn wife. Telling him more about me than... Should have walked out, of course, but for some reason it seemed important to save this one. So I go on. "We are not so very different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to recognize there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?"... Never said a word. Not one word.
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I kept on
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harping on about the damn wife
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telling him more about me than
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I should have walked out of course
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We're not so very different you and I
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We've both spent our lives
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looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems
Clip duration: 37 seconds
Views: 191
Timestamp in movie: 01h 13m 56s
Uploaded: 19 March, 2022
Genres: drama, mystery, thriller
Summary: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
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00:13 He said there's a mole
00:06 All I want from you is one code name
00:36 Mr Guillam
00:15 That was a good time George
00:05 It'll take us five hours to get drunk on this...
00:05 Everything the Circus thinks is gold is shit made in Moscow
00:04 There is a mole
00:04 I know who you are
00:13 So she told me what she had to trade
00:09 Thought I'd pop in and catch a glimpse of the new girl...
00:12 You got clearance for that
00:12 Known a lot of Bills in my time
00:07 Well a man should know when to leave the party
00:06 I have something to trade
00:05 And the West has become so very ugly
00:22 After today Peter
00:35 Well go on then Read it out loud Personal for Tarr from...
00:04 Want to know what the hell you're doing
00:09 He has some information that I need Jim
00:10 'You really are a poisoned dwarf Toby