The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Coffee, sir.

Why don't you go back and sleep,

Mr. Leamas?

We'll ring you if he should show up.

Maybe he'll come some other time.

We can have the police contact you.

You can be back here in 20 minutes.

You can't wait forever, sir.

He'll come with the workmen.

He'll come with the night crowd.

He'll come.

That's what you said last night.

Agents are not airplanes, you know.

They don't have schedules.

Didn't they teach you that in the CIA.?

He's on the run.

Mundt is after him at this moment.

Let him choose his own time.

Mundt may have caught him

like he's caught all the others.

Riemeck's not like the others.

You need some sleep, sir.

Look, if you want to go, go.

You've been very good.

I'll tell the Agency you've been damn good.

I'll be around.

- What's wrong? Why are the Vopos so close?

- I don't know.

What are your orders for giving covering

fire to protect a man, a man on the run?

If they shoot into the West,

we shoot back. That's all.

We cannot give covering fire.

That's the truth.

They tell us there would be war if we did.

I've got a man coming over tonight.

Here? At this crossing point?

It'd mean a great deal

if we could get him out.

There are still places

where you can climb.

Ah, not that kind. He,

He'll bluff his way through.

He's got papers, if the papers are any good.

A man with a bicycle.

Halt!

Halt! Halt!

Why has Control called me back?

Control's pretty vexed

about Mundt liquidating Riemeck.

Then why doesn't he have the sense

to let his station head stay in Berlin...

and arrange for somebody

to liquidate Mundt?

- Pawson.

- Yes, sir?

- What section are you in?

- Personnel.

- Do you like it?

- Fascinating.

You get to know everybody's fate.

- What's mine?

- Better let Control tell you that.

It's not my job.

But you do know, of course.

Thank you.

Ah. Leamas.

Control.

- Coat.

- Mmm.

Thank you.

Well, do sit down.

You must be tired.

Ginnie's away, I'm afraid.

And this new girl,

she never warms the pot.

Hmm.

She's called Patrice. Imagine.

Hmm.

- It used to be two lumps.

- It still is.

And, of course, uh, no milk.

No milk.

Simply maddening, isn't it?

One wonders how they catch them all.

Landsor...

Salamon. Now Karl Riemeck.

Such a pity we lost him.

- Would you like a drink?

- I'll wait.

Can you still do that?

Hmm. I wonder whether

you're tired, burnt out.

Well, that's a phenomenon

we understand here.

It's like metal fatigue.

We have to live without sympathy, don't we?

We can't do that forever.

One can't stay out-of-doors all the time.

One needs to come in.

In from the cold.

I'm an operator, Control.

Just an operator.

There's a vacancy in Banking Section

which might suit you.

Sorry. I'm an operational man.

I'll take my pension.

I don't want a desk job.

- You don't know what's on the desk.

- Paper.

I want you to, uh,

to stay out in the cold...

a little longer.

Please, do sit down.

Our work, as I understand it...

is based on a single assumption that

the West is never going to be the aggressor.

Thus...

we do disagreeable things...

but we're defensive.

Our policies are peaceful...

but our methods can't afford to be

less ruthless than those of the opposition.

Can they?

You know, I'd say, uh...

since the war, our methods,

our techniques, that is,

and those of the Communists,

have become very much the same.

Yes.

I mean, occasionally...

we have to do wicked things.

Very wicked things indeed.

But, uh, you can't be less wicked...

than your enemies simply because

your government's policy is benevolent.

Can you?

What I have in mind for Mundt...

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