I See a Dark Stranger Page #4

Not everything, mind.

Ireland is still partitioned.

I'm aware of that.

But I believe that if England and Ireland

come together...

...and discuss it

on a friendly basis...

...partition won't last very long.

"A friendly basis"?

It can't be you, saying these things,

Mr Callaghan.

Not after the way

father said you talked.

After the fight, yourself and himself

put up.

After all the English have done to Ireland,

since Cromwell.

Child of grace!...

Cromwell's been dead 300 years.

So? Not in Ballygarry.

No, I'd forgotten that.

You seem to have forgotten a great deal,

if I may say so.

Perhaps I'm more in contact

with reality.

Life is real enough in Ballygarry.

It's also very romantic,

and very remote.

We have the papers and

we can listen in to Raidi ireann.

Young lady... I'm going to give you

a piece of advice.

Times have changed.

And believe me, things are best done

nowadays by constitutional means.

So, forget this wild notion, will you?

And go home.

You're not going to help me?

No.

But I've come all this way.

I've dreamed of it for years.

I'm really very sorry.

So that's all you've got to say!

You're sorry, and do it

by constitutional means.

You've grown old and soft and comfortable

sitting here, Mr Callaghan!

Go out in that gallery...

and look at the pictures there.

Look at your own picture and ask yourself

if you're the same man.

Maybe I'm not.

We all lose something

as we grow older.

But if we're very lucky, we gain

a little wisdom on the way.

All I'm asking you is to think over

what I've said.

Goodbye.

There's nothing like books

for collecting dust.

Yes, they seem to be well-stocked here.

I've been looking for a 'Life of Curzon'

for years.

We were afraid

you wouldn't be here on time.

I was told on Wednesday, in Lisbon...

caught the first plane.

You've got your papers for England,

I take it?

Yes... I've an Argentine passport...

I could have thought of happier excuses...

I don't like bulls.

Bulls will be the easiest part

of your business.

Dis you ever meet Oscar Pryce?

Yes, in Leipzig, last autumn.

Did you know that he was in England?

No.

At the moment he's awaiting trial

in a military prison...

...in a little place called Wynbridge Vale,

in the west country.

Bad luck.

Well?

Pryce has vital information...

we HAVE to know what it is.

How?

We must get him

out of that prison.

I see what you mean about the bulls.

If we lost 20 lives over this matter,

it would be worth it.

Was anyone else arrested?

I don't know.

Then they may be suspect,

in which case I don't use them.

I'll have to get an entirely

new team together.

Do we know when Pryce will be tried?

No.

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