Smiley's People (1982) s01e04 Episode Script

(HOOTER) (RINGS BELL) Herr Leipzig? I'm sorry.
I was looking for Herr Leipzig.
| It's rather important.
Not here.
(THEY SPEAK GERMAN) Not here.
No money.
Nobody has money.
How long since you saw him? Thursday.
Five days ago.
- Thursday.
| - I've got good news for him.
Money.
Pinka-pinka.
All for Otto.
(SPEAKS GERMAN) My friend says don't give it to him, or Otto will come back and move us out | and we have nowhere to make love.
Where can I find him? Do you know? Try the water camp.
Two kilometres along the main road, over the railway and past a windmill, then right Yes, right.
Keep right until you come to the lake.
- What is the place called? | - It has no name.
It's just a place.
Ask for holiday houses to let | and then drive on to the boats.
Ask for Walther.
If Otto's around, | Walther will know where to find him.
- Thank you.
| - (WOMAN) Walther knows everything.
- He's like a professor.
| - A bad professor.
Walther bad man.
- Are you a professor too? | - No.
No, unfortunately not.
(WOMAN) Then Otto is twice lucky for a change.
- What was that? | - I said then Otto is twice lucky for a change.
Why? Why is he twice lucky? Last week the unexpected visit from the East.
And today the money.
Otto's a Sunday's child for once, that's all.
Visitor? Who was the visitor? From the East.
Not his brother, was it? | Small chap, spectacles like mine.
No.
No, a big fellow.
With a chauffeur.
Rich.
Then I don't know him.
Otto's brother was certainly never rich.
Unless he was the chauffeur, of course.
Are you Walther? I'm looking for Otto Leipzig.
| They told me at the wharf I might find him here.
(WALTHER) Isadora.
How do I get to him? If you want him, call him.
Otto? Otto! Call again.
Keep calling if you want him.
Is he in there or not? I said is he there? Did you see him go aboard? - The wild pig comes and goes.
What do I care? | - So when did he come last? I'm looking for Otto Leipzig.
Can anyone tell me, please, whether he's around? Is there anybody on board the Isadora? You should see his car.
They took it to the wood.
Who did? Who took it? Come far? I'm a friend of his.
(STATIC INTERFERENCE) (SLOW, GENTLE MUSIC) (LAUGHTER) Drunk, hm? Sleeping it off? It was a party.
Music, singing.
They warned us it would be loud.
Maybe they quarrelled.
| So what? Lots of people quarrel.
They make some noise, play some music.
We are musical people here.
They were police.
When police go about their business, | it is the duty of the citizen to keep his trap shut.
Show me his car.
He was scum.
They all are.
Look at them.
| Polacks, criminals, subhumans.
(DOG BARKING) (WALTHER) I'll do it.
- What do you want? | - I'm so extremely sensitive to pain.
(ENGINE REVS) (WOMAN) Yes? What do you want? No, she's not there.
She's on holiday.
Oh, my God! Oh, my God! (WOMAN) She has friends in Marseilles, | you hear me? Cousins.
- Ever since her husband died | - (RINGS BELL) She left Paris | and also to forget the day of grief.
You think I have nothing better to do all day | than lie for my lodgers? She is in Marseilles.
- She went to be with children | - (RINGS BELL) You don't think it's natural, | to want to be with children? (THEY SPEAK RUSSIAN) (TRAIN WHISTLE) (GERMAN VOICE ON RADIO) (UPBEAT JAZZ) Who's this, then? Who is this nice surprise? The family Kretzschmar | is going about its pleasures.
- What can we do for you, sir? | - I have to speak to Herr Kretzschmar.
Cläuschen does no business in daytime.
Kindly tell your husband this is not business.
| This is friendship.
How can it be friendship | when I don't know your name? Go, look after the cooking.
Otto Leipzig is dead.
- Two men killed him at the water camp.
| - Ohh! He asked you to look after the product | of his blackmail operation.
The tapes, whatever there is.
I assume you also have the letter | which you received on his behalf from London.
Who killed him? Herr Max, I ask you as his friend, his comrade.
Who killed him? I demand to know.
This is what you expected me | to have on me last night.
He called it his Moscow Rules.
Both he and the general insisted on it, | though it struck me as ridiculous.
- You have the other half of the card? | - Naturally.
Then make the match and give me the material.
I shall use it exactly as Otto would have wished.
- You promise this? | - Yes.
- And the killers? What will you do with them? | - Most likely they are safe across the water.
- They only had a few kilometres to drive.
| - Then what good is the material? The material is an embarrassment | to the man who sent the killers.
Will it kill him also? It will do worse than kill him.
What happens now? I shall take these to the people | for whom he intended them.
- I will accompany you.
| - Thank you.
There's no need.
Herr Max, you are in danger.
I should like a bag of some kind.
| Can you provide one? If you need anything, just tell me.
| Tomorrow.
Ten years from now.
I have my people.
These are violent times.
- I'd like you to telephone the airport for me.
| - Of course.
Anything.
Well, write it down.
Make a reservation for Mr G Standfast | on the next available flight to London.
- Say it's urgent.
| - You're a wanted man.
- People will look for you.
| - Yes, they will.
(KNOCKING) - Yes? | - It is I.
La Pierre.
Who is with you? - I brought you a tisane, madame.
| - Put it outside the door.
(CLINKING) Who is with you? (KNOCKING) - (KNOCKING CONTINUES) | - Who is it? Who is there? Who is there? I told the others you were in Marseilles, | but you are ill.
One cannot say this to the whole world.
| It's not right.
You understand, one has responsibilities | to the other tenants.
You hear? You hear? Madam! She is there.
Madam, you are there.
(WHISPERING OUTSIDE DOOR) Madame Ostrakova.
Madam, he is a doctor.
Listen to me! - Tell her.
| - No.
I am not a doctor.
I am a friend of General Vladimir.
Trust me, madame.
I'm here to help you.
No, no.
Let us.
Let us.
Be quiet.
Madame you are going away for a short holiday.
You will have to put yourself in my hands.
| Will you do that? You must be ready to leave in an hour.
Madame la Pierre will fetch whatever you want.
There'll be plenty of time to talk later.
Alone.
Why don't you have a little lie-down? I say, Guillam.
Shove that thing round the back.
Ambassador will go mad | if he sees a foreign car.
Bad for trade.
Doesn't like sports coats either, to be frank.
- Morning.
| - Morning.
(TYRES SCREECH) (PHONE RINGS) Stango, I'm out.
Hello.
Yes.
One moment, please.
It's a Mr Barraclough for you, sir.
| Says you'll remember him.
Of course I remember you, Mr Barraclough.
I'm so glad.
You probably remember | a little removals job we did together on a friend's house in Helsinki | some few years back.
That's right.
To help him out.
I want you to arrange | a repeat performance for me.
Yes, here.
Now.
Can you manage that? Let me give you the address, then.
Have you gone mad? Oh, you are so very kind, really, monsieur.
Félix is completely overcome.
| You are too kind.
He never dreamed See, madame, is he not beautiful? Like a Cossack.
Better than a Cossack.
Our transport is due any moment.
| Please stand by, madame.
- You! Where are you going? | - Press.
What a perfectly revolting little car.
| However will we fit in? Typical of London not telling me you were here.
| That's just par for the course these days.
I usually hear it from the Queen's Messengers | six weeks later.
Not like in your day.
I'm sorry to have to tell you, Peter, | I'm working on my own these days.
Bloody hell, George! I must say you put a strain on friendship, you do.
I called out the entire emergency service of Paris | to assist you in a private enterprise? Find a phone box, ring your wife.
| If anybody's there, ask her to get rid of them.
- I'm sure she's understanding.
| - George, she's pregnant.
Forgive us, madame.
- You're abducting me? | - Oh, no, madame.
- I'm a little disappointed, monsieur.
| - The ambassador's going to love this.
(DOOR CLOSES) - May I know who are my hosts? | - Your witness, George.
Your hosts are British diplomats, madame, | but their hospitality is necessarily discreet.
I'll say so.
You said you are a friend of General Vladimir.
He had an assistant.
| A little man.
He came to see me.
I called him the magician.
What has become of him? I'm afraid he fell in the same battle | as the general, madame.
But he did what he set out to do, I promise you.
I hope that at some convenient moment | you will allow me time to mourn, monsieur.
I don't want any of this going by diplomatic bag.
- Is Stango still your clerk these days? | - Since you ask.
Get him on a midday plane.
Enderby can send | somebody to Heathrow to meet him.
- Where's the writing paper? | - Try the desk.
There was a French couple we used to have.
She was something in the Resistance.
Owned a farmhouse up near Arras.
- The Delbarres.
| - Are they still on the books? Tell them we're bringing them a guest.
- Use a phone box.
| - (PHONE RINGS) You're very piano, Peter.
I'm just feeling my age.
- Peter, it's the embassy.
Are you here? | - No.
Stango is to take this with him as well.
It's personal for Saul Enderby.
I want a meeting in London | tomorrow night at the latest.
He can confirm by signal.
- Anything else? | - Yes, there is.
- How long since you had the ferrets in? | - A month.
Ring a bell? - Deafening.
| - Find out what's become of him.
Whether he's still in town.
| Do it before you do anything else.
- Get London to do an all-stations trace.
| - Can I go now? The sooner the better.
Meanwhile, I think I'll take a little doze myself.
Mind if I use your sofa? You'll use Marie-Claire's car, won't you, Peter? What was it Goethe said? You must dance but I must sleep.
Or was it the other way around? Very pretty, your wife.
- How's our other guest? | - Also asleep.
Who is she? God knows.
Ambassador's private secretary's | looking for you, sir.
And so is the head of chancery.
Just a moment.
The present count is seven charges | by the French police to the foreign ministry and forwarded to the private office | for the ambassador's consideration.
They cover everything | from parking to attempted manslaughter.
There's an extraordinary request to interview you in connection with a hoax | played upon the authorities.
We won't wait for the Frogs | to declare you persona non grata.
- We'll do it ourselves.
| - If you want to speak to me, press that.
- Stango.
| - Sir.
We're sending you to London today.
Book a flight and have the bag room | send a courier to Heathrow.
- Yes, sir.
| - You're not ecstatic, then? - I quite like flying.
| - There's a file on Kirov.
Oleg Kirov.
It's got a "hands off" sticker on it.
| Take it off and give it to me.
Then get me the NATO watch list | for Paris-based Russian hoods.
We're not going to mount an operation, are we? God forbid, Stango, God forbid.
After that, I want to make a signal, | personal, to Chief.
Decipher yourself.
- Is it your birthday? | - No.
Then get a move on! Brother Saul says to handle you at arm's length.
| How do I do that? You'll find a way.
You used to say | when the whistle goes, we stop play.
It was your one sporting metaphor.
| The rest were beyond me.
- What else did Saul say? | - He's getting his ducks in a row.
- He'll phone tomorrow.
| - I asked for a meeting.
And Saul says wait.
| And as a matter of fact, I work for him these days.
J'espère que vous avez bien dormi, madame.
- Vous prendrez bien encore un peu de café? | - Merci, madame.
- (GUILLAM) Whatever you say.
| - Aimerez-vous vous reposer? - Et vous, monsieur? Un peu de café? | - Merci, madame.
Il faudra revenir nous voir au printemps.
| C'est si joli ici.
Vous avez un jardin? Yes, sir.
Whatever you say, sir.
No.
He hasn't told me a thing.
I assume that he's saving it for you.
All right.
He won't like it.
But I will pass it on, of course.
The ducks are not yet in a row.
He did, however, use the term "rogue elephant".
- Of me? | - Yes.
- Un oeuf sur le plat? Oui? | - Merci.
Voilà.
I wrote to him.
I had no reply.
I did not dare approach the police.
| Who are the police today? We need a police to catch the police.
Maybe they were the police themselves.
| I did not know.
I knew nothing.
I thought, "Should I telephone?" But the magician had told me, | whatever I do, do not use the telephone.
And with the post, who knows today? Maybe the letter had not arrived.
Maybe it had been taken and opened by them.
I was one woman in a whole world of spies.
I was afraid.
Afraid of the night, | afraid of the day, afraid of fear itself.
In all my time in Russia, with Ostrakov | and with Glikman, I never knew such fear.
All I ever wanted was to have back my child.
The child I had borne | and could not see or speak to or write to.
The child I had abandoned | for the sake of Ostrakov.
The child whose memory | burned my conscience like - (PHONE RINGS) | - Oh, like the sun.
Whatever burns.
- You have children, monsieur? | - Alas.
Excuse me, madame.
The big chief says this evening at eight.
I'm to deliver you bound and gagged | to the portcullis.
Is there any hope that after all maybe after all they let my Alexandra come to me? No hope? At all? In the whole world? Not in the whole world.
None.
You have to live with that.
Hm.
I had to be certain.
Enderby's also cleared you | for the latest word on Kirov.
- Which is? | - He was recalled to the Soviet foreign ministry to take up a senior position | which had become vacant.
- Date? | - Like two weeks ago.
Left Paris with the usual diplomatic trappings.
Hasty farewell parties, | flogged his washing machine.
Yes.
That, of course, | is exactly what Karla would do, isn't it? He would call Kirov back | on the prospect of promotion just to make sure he really came.
I don't know, George, do I? | I don't know what it's about from Adam.
- You mean Enderby hasn't cleared you? Ah.
| - Look, George, what is all this? Karla, woodshed meetings with Enderby, | calling out the cavalry in Paris? You of all people running a private war | when you should be keeping bees and - And? | - And, dammit, looking after Ann.
You're an institutional man, George.
You put my first harness on me, remember? Now what are you telling me? Wake me when we get to Calais, will you? - You know what you said to me once? | - Remind me.
"Karla isn't fireproof because he's a fanatic.
"And one day, if I have my way, | that lack of moderation will be his downfall.
" You really got to me.
| I practically wrote it on my shaving mirror.
And now? I just hope it won't be your downfall too, | that's all.
In my time, Peter Guillam, I have seen Whitehall's skirts | go up and come down again.
I've listened to all the excellent argument | for doing nothing and reaped the consequent frightful harvest.
I've watched people hop up and down | and call it progress.
I've seen good men go to the wall and the idiots get promoted | with a dazzling regularity.
All I'm left with is me and 30-odd years of cold war without the option.
What does that mean in little words? It means that if a rogue elephant, to use Saul Enderby's happy phrase, charges at me out of the thickets of my past | and gives me a second shot at it, I intend to shoot it dead, but with the minimum of force.
- Mr Smiley, sir, and Mr Guillam.
| - George! Thank you, Ferguson.
- You know, his name really is Ferguson.
| - I never doubted it.
Recognise the old place, do you? We've had it tarted up since your day.
| Blew the dust out.
And you'll remember | the beautiful Molly Meakin, I dare say.
- One of your many talented protégés.
| - Yes.
Yes, of course.
Molly's head of research.
| She replaced Connie Sachs.
Our policemen get a little younger every day, | don't they? - Hello, Guillam.
| - (KNOCK AT DOOR) Over here, Strickland.
- Mr Smiley, sir! How are you? | - Close the door, will you, Strickland? (ENDERBY) So