The treasurer can't understand why can't the intelligence service simply put in a request...
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Oliver Lacon:
The treasurer can't understand why can't the intelligence service simply put in a request for a general increase in funding and then you'll account for the spend on your special operation?
Percy Alleline:
Operation 'Witchcraft' needs to remain a secret; it's a fiefdom of its own.
Oliver Lacon:
Yes, that's what's winding us; whole thing's very unaccountable isn't it? This London house that no one knows the address of, is that really necessary?
Percy Alleline:
Now more than ever, we need to protect our Soviet source.
Roy Bland:
[lights a cigarette]
So where do you propose we meet, in a café?
Oliver Lacon:
The rent and rates on this house have... doubled.
Roy Bland:
We spent millions on nuclear warheads, we're asking for a few thousand for a house. I wonder if Karla has the same problem with the treasury at the Kremlin.
Oliver Lacon:
Look, nobody underestimates the importance of the jobs you chaps are doing.What happened in Budapest last year... That was a disaster.
Roy Bland:
With respect, sir, that wasn't one of your civil servants that got killed, was it? Now this isn't about soldiers in trenches anymore. We're the front line now...
Oliver Lacon:
Roy...
Roy Bland:
For 25 years we've been the only ones standing between them and Karla and Moscow and the Third bloody World War!
Oliver Lacon:
Look, the minister is very pleased with your progress so far. He's less pleased though, with our progress with our American cousins. You see, in their eyes... You're still a leaky ship.
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with the Treasury at the Kremlin
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Look nobody underestimates
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the importance of the job you chaps are doing
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But what happened in Budapest last year
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that was a disaster
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With respect sir
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it wasn't one of your civil servants that got killed was it
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Now this isn't about soldiers in trenches any more
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We're the front line now Roy
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For 25 years we've been the only thing standing between them and Karla
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and Moscow and the third bloody world war
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Look the Minister's very pleased with your progress so far
Clip duration: 36 seconds
Views: 247
Timestamp in movie: 00h 13m 45s
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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00:16 You're supposed to have gone London stations have been...
00:10 Not supposed to Doctor's orders
00:08 What did he look like
00:06 I know that it is one of five men
00:06 I held on for as long as I could to let everyone get the...
00:06 I'm retired Oliver
00:11 What did you make of it Jim
00:04 You wanted to do something
00:04 Then they worked me for
00:07 And if he was why hide the fact
00:04 That bloody mess in Budapest
00:07 If I tell you everything
00:04 Visiting aunts
00:05 The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled
00:03 Mr Haydon Not now
00:05 And is doing everything they can to discredit him
00:06 And Bill Haydon Together of course
00:04 I needed to see you
00:15 That was a good time George
00:06 It was nice work I couldn't have done it better myself