Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Page #2

Synopsis: In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him.
Director(s): Tomas Alfredson
Production: Focus Features
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 35 wins & 93 nominations.
 
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Year:
2011
122 min
$20,200,000
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Smiley is suspicious, Percy.

Where did it come from?

What's the access?

A new secret source of mine.

But how could he

possibly have access?

He has access to the most sensitive

levels of policy-making.

We've named the operation Witchcraft.

Oh, Percy and his pals

bypassed us, Smiley.

Gone straight to the minister.

Percy has been allowed to k eep

the identity of his new friend

top secret.

The minister agrees too many secrets

are blown around here.

Too much failure,

too many scandals.

- Too little solid intelligence.

- Percy does have a point, Control.

We should be fighting Communism,

not each other.

Meanwhile we're losing our reputation,

our partners.

Your bloody Yank s!

We've had enough!

There's going to be changes.

We need to decide if want to be

part of the past or part of the future.

I should have left you

where I found you.

- Look!

- Control...

Out, all of you!

If Witchcraft is genuine...

Nothing is genuine any more.

George...

Do you want me to get

this stuff over to the hotel?

Thank you. Er, anywhere will do.

- Peter?

- Hm?

I need you to do something for me.

I'd lik e you to go to the Circus.

'Ln the cabinet

at the duty officers' station

'are records of staff recently retired.

'I'd like photographs of them

'and of the diagram of the Circus's

reorganisation under Percy Alleline,

'along with a list of all payments

made from the Reptile fund.'

- Help you with anything, Bill?

- I was just looking for his Majesty.

Well, he's out walking the battlements.

Oh.

- Heard you had an accident, Peter.

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

When are you going

to get some new furniture up here?

I'll have a word with Esterhase.

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

- Where are you off to?

- Lunch.

Want some company?

According to the personnel files,

seven were due for retirement anyway.

Another four don't seem

particularly mysterious.

Jerry Westerby was dismissed

December 4.

Connie Sachs retired November 28.

That's just two week s

after you and Control were forced out.

- Return to Oxford, please.

- That's 1. 15.

Percy has always resisted

any proposal

of a wider exploitation

of Witchcraft's intelligence.

Drop the bloody jargon, Lacon.

I've refused to share Witchcraft

with our allies so far, Minister.

Greedy boy.

My goal has been to establish

its track record beyond all doubt.

I think the time has come to approach

our American brothers-in-arms.

- Will they tak e us back into bed?

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

I want on-going access

to American intelligence.

You think we can get it?

With Witchcraft on our side, we can

get anything we bloody well want.

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Bridget O'Connor

Bridget O'Connor (18 January 1961 – 22 September 2010) was a BAFTA-winning author, playwright and screenwriter. She may be best known for the play The Flags, and her posthumously Oscar-nominated adaptation, with her husband, Peter Straughan, of the book Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for the film of the same name. She died in 2010, aged 49, from cancer. In 2012, she posthumously won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay along with her husband. more…

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