Ponies (2026) s01e01 Episode Script
Second Hand News
1
Coldest day of the year.
Worst city in the world.
I heard your wife just
got in. I want to meet her.
You'll meet her.
I think there's been a leak.
We've prepared a plan to exfiltrate you.
If you say yes now, me and my associate
will get you and your family
across the border into Finland.
You have one minute to decide.
I know, I said you had
a minute. Now you don't.
No! My god!
- Lady, what are you doing?
- Wait, what. You speak English?
- No. Do you?
- What?
You should put your money away. Yeah.
Everyone in this market's
a fucking con artist
if you give them a chance.
Don't you just love how
none of these people
understand English till
you start insulting them?
Then they're all suddenly fluent.
Yeah. Okay, now.
Look 'egg woman' in the
eye and repeat after me,
in Russian, obviously, 'cause you can.
Okay.
- Go fuck yourself, bitch.
- Gimme my fuckin' eggs.
I cannot say that.
You want your eggs or not?
Bitch?
Yeah.
Okay, well, maybe
maybe don't say it so much.
I don't usually see
Americans at this market.
Really?
It's right down the
road from the embassy.
Well, yeah, but I don't know
people don't normally
leave the compound.
So, what made you decide
to venture out today, be a?
- How do you know my name?
- Educated guess.
Some of the other embassy
wives were talking about someone
and you fit their description perfectly.
Well, how how how
did they describe me?
- Just like this.
- Like what?
Let's pull over and ask.
Don't be an asshole. He's scared.
I don't want to die.
I have two children!
Don't worry. We've
done this a hundred times.
Nyet!
How long have you been in Moscow?
I was here for two
years, a few years ago.
But this time around,
just since yesterday.
Stayed in Stockholm a
while after my husband
was transferred, 'cause you know!
- Moscow.
- Shh.
You can't just insult their city out loud.
Sure you can.
They're well aware it's a shit hole.
- How long have you been here?
- Six months.
But I still have a lot to learn, clearly.
And what does your husband do?
Communications envoy for
the associate to the "U.S."
Ambassador to the u.S.S.R.
- Stop it.
- Come on.
We both know what
our husbands really do.
I'm supposed to meet
a new contact tonight.
Write down location for the meet.
Here.
Snowshoe? We're almost at the airfield.
Snowshoe!
Snowshoe?
- Sergei!
- Fuck. We're fucked.
But but but what? No one's listening.
We're the wives. No
one cares what we say.
So it's probably
unnecessary that you went out
and learned all that Russian.
Well, no, I studied
Russian lit at Wellesley,
- so, you know?
- Did we?
Yeah, that was some real
"war and peace" shit
back there at the egg stand.
- Well
- impressive.
- Thanks?
- Okay.
Well, I'll see ya sometime.
Are you going to the embassy
Christmas party tonight?
I'm gonna do my best to get out of that.
Well, I I think we're
all supposed to go, so
I'm sure we all are.
Okay.
This is a disaster.
I mean, I could barely
find passable ingredients.
This is like, beet sugar.
Did you even know that
beets made sugar? I didn't.
And I do not get this thing about
how we have to boil the milk here.
It just makes me wonder,
what am I boiling off?
Try this and tell me it doesn't
strongly suggest mayonnaise.
- You know, actually, I kinda like it.
- No, you do not have to lie.
I love you for trying though.
Look, I promise you, it's gonna be
one of the better cakes down there.
I just do not need the
other wives judging me.
- Who's judging you?
- Everyone.
This new wife that I
met at the market today,
she had already heard about me,
which just makes me
wonder what is she
if the other wives are
talking, they're just
- they're just jealous.
- What, jealous,
because my husband's in the "C.I.A."?
Look, they wouldn't know that for sure.
I meant they're jealous of you.
- Yeah. Sure.
- Come on, beebee.
You're educated, you're ambitious.
I mean, most of the
women in the embassy,
they don't have anything
else going on besides gossip.
Well, yeah, I might be educated,
but I'm not doing anything with it.
You're the one off
saving the world all day.
I'm just here.
Another secretary in the embassy.
The smartest secretary in the embassy.
Well, you've met the other
wives. That's barely a compliment.
Come on, be a, look,
just a few more years.
Then I'll be the one at
home holding down the fort,
while you're off doing great things.
You don't have to say that.
Look, I'm not just saying it.
Look, that was our deal, right?
And you're not gonna believe the cakes
I'm gonna make for you and the kids.
Really?
The kids?
Chris, honey, you're bleeding.
That's, that's not my blood.
Well, take off your shirt. I will wash it.
And then take off your pants.
There's blood on my pants too?
No.
Whoa!
I knew it!
The truth comes out.
- You're right.
- You're an awful liar.
It's awful.
It's terrible, it's just
like a salami sandwich.
It's disgusting.
Wait.
Are they listening?
The Russians.
God, I hope so.
So so why do you
even want me there?
- Why do you care?
- Because even if we can't have a family,
I still I still need a wife.
Wow.
So you're just gonna leave?
I have to go deal with something.
I thought you had to go to this party.
I do. Okay? I do.
I just have to go and take
care of something first.
Which is why I am
asking you to get there
on time on our behalf.
Okay, can you just do that for me, baby?
- Please?
- Yes. Yes, baby.
Thank you. Smile at the ambassador.
Take a picture with
Santa. I'll be there later.
Okay.
So, I I get it, so, I gotta go to
this stupid embassy party alone,
while you go on your fun little mission
- with the "C.I.A."
- twila!
Fuckin' stupid.
Great.
Have fun! See ya
baby!
Whoa!
Hon, you're gonna
wanna make that a double.
It's freezing in here.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Have you met Beatrice?
She's on my desk.
- Hi.
- Best secretary I ever had.
Well, I'm sure you say that to
all the secretaries, mister salek.
- Alan.
- Alan.
- Always Alan.
- Alan.
Everyone? Everyone!
Just a bit of great news.
It's gonna take a while for it to,
warm up, but the heat
is back on so so, yeah.
- Hallelujah!
- Yeah.
Thank you!
I I couldn't have done it without y'all,
the little people, right?
Why is it so cold in here? Hello?
Guess I'm the only one who's
gonna do anything about anything.
Okay.
Hello.
- Hello.
- The the the Soviets
cut our heat, but it's being handled.
Well, look at you!
Knowing the ins and outs
of what's being handled.
Fuck. Cheryl's here.
Didn't know she was in Moscow.
We were stationed together
in Vietnam for two months.
It was my own personal Vietnam.
Yeah.
So, the the the
way that it ended up
- no, no. It was like this.
- The, the well
- when ray first proposed
- she loves this story.
I just said I said I said no.
I said flat out no, and then
a few weeks later he
proposed again and I said
no.
Third time I said yes, okay? I said yes.
Bea, how did you meet Chris?
How did we meet? Okay, so
I was I was at Wellesley
Put it down.
And they always used
to bus us into Cambridge
for these mixers with
with Harvard and mit.
This one time, my friend Amy,
she was building up the courage
to talk to a boy that she
liked, so I went with her.
And there I was, standing in the corner
reading "twelfth night"
I don't know 'Cause I had an
exam the next day, you know?
I, had to study.
And this this handsome
man just walks over
and and and starts
talking about Shakespeare.
You know? And it it it
wasn't a "come on" or anything.
He just really wanted to talk.
So, you know, I just guess
we haven't stopped talking since.
Bea, that's lovely.
I'm just so glad that my
husband's secretary here
has such a strong
marriage with her husband.
After what happened
with that girl in an twerp, I
How many people
do you actually kill, like how
many people have you killed?
- Just -You know, ball park
- Missus hasbeck.
I need to speak with you. It's important.
Missus Grant,
I need to speak with you
and missus hasbeck in private.
Would you follow me please?
We can speak in private in here.
I I I'm sorry, sir.
I'm just in the in the
- Mister szymanski.
- Sorry, sir. Just have to
- mister szymanski.
- Yes, sir.
Missus Grant.
Missus hasbeck.
Earlier this evening, a
small single-engined aircraft
crashed in a field 30
kilometers south of Moscow.
I regret to inform you that
both of your husbands
were on that plane.
What? I don't understand.
There were no survivors of the crash.
But that
Doesn't make, I
no, because Chris would have told me
if he was if he was getting on a plane.
No, he wouldn't have.
No, but he's such a
good pilot. I I don't
- be a. Bea.
- I think you've got this wrong.
- But he's he he flew missions.
- Bea.
What are we supposed to tell people?
You can tell them that
two embassy employees
on diplomatic business
were flying a small
single-engined Soviet made aircraft
and after encountering engine failure,
- the plane crashed and that
- you're giving us the cover story?
What happened?
You'll be escorted back
to your living quarters now.
- Pack only essentials.
- What?
The staff will gather and ship
the rest of your belongings
to you at a later date.
You're going home to
be with your families.
We are very sorry for your losses.
They are losses that
we all share with you.
Bullshit.
No.
- No! I
- come on. I know.
What?
My mishka.
Come on in. Your parents are still asleep.
That's okay.
We weren't expecting
you 'til this afternoon.
- Yeah.
- You want me to wake them up?
No. No, no, no. Don't worry.
Your room is all ready for you.
- Thank you.
- Here.
Take this.
I'm so not hungry.
So, don't eat the pickles.
Okay.
God.
Yeah?
What you want
if it isn't the jetsetter.
- Parlez-vous francais, madame?
- Yeah. Is is my mother here?
What?
She took off months ago.
She didn't tell you?
- Probably just forgot.
- You wanna crash?
I got a couch.
I just don't know what I'm gonna
do with my life now. You know?
Like, I I mean, I guess I could
take a correspondence course.
And go to get a masters.
Or, I could see if my
old elementary school's
looking for teachers. You
know, I was great with kids.
- Sha!
- What?
- Sha, sha, sha, sha, sha.
- What?
Calm your mind. You don't
need to make any plan now.
I do, though.
Because, you know, we
were gonna take turns.
First, it was gonna be, you
know, Chris was gonna get
to where he was gonna get to at work.
And then it was gonna be my turn.
What?
Nothing.
Men do that now, husbands, you know,
are different than they were.
What do you want to do?
I wanna find out what happened to Chris.
Well, sometimes in life,
you have to live with not knowing.
I will never know what
happened to your grandfather.
You ever think about going back?
Trying to see if you can
find out what happened.
I used to.
But now I'm an alter kocker.
No, you're not.
You are young, you still have time
to find these answers, if you want them.
Does this mean anything to you?
Doesn't mean anything to
me, but it's probably some
Moscow slang or some I don't know.
What is this card?
Found it in Chris' pocket.
It's just
another question I
don't have an answer for.
What the fuck happened out there?
We don't know, sir.
The agents have gone
quiet, and there's no chatter
- on the surveillance lines.
- Did the Soviets kill them?
We don't know for certain
who's responsible, sir.
Who's the head of the Moscow station?
Me, sir.
Then I guess you're
responsible, mister Walter.
The world in which we live
and work is one of secrets.
As a consequence, few can know
the ultimate sacrifice
paid by these two men.
But we, in this room, know.
We know they lived as
heroes, and died as heroes.
On behalf of myself
and director George Bush
and in accordance with the traditions
of the central intelligence agency,
two stars have been
added in their memory,
etched in marble to the memorial wall.
Their names will not live on the wall,
but these men will live in
our memory and our hearts.
Thank you.
Missus hasbeck.
Missus Grant.
That's it?
What were you expecting?
Wait. That's that's it?
Like that that's all you're gonna say?
I though t you were
gonna tell us something.
Like what, missus Grant?
Like what happened to our husbands?
I'm very sorry for your loss.
No.
I grew up down the road from the base.
Figured I'd just keep dating military guys,
'til one of them agreed to
take me the fuck out of there.
And Tom was
He was handsome, he was confident.
And like an old fashioned
gentleman, or something.
Like, something out of a movie.
He courted me.
Then I got pregnant. So, we got married.
I didn't know you two had kids.
We don't. It's a
I lost it.
I am so sorry.
- It's okay. It's
- yeah. You know I -okay.
I'd never even left
Indiana until I met Tom,
and now I've been
just about everywhere.
- So
- so Where are you off to next?
I'm
nowhere. There's now here for me to go.
Not a place I
I can't believe I'm gonna say this one,
but I'd go back to Russia, at this point.
I mean, I'd have this
whole place to myself,
paid for by the United
States government.
- No rules
- what? Were you paying attention?
There are so many rules.
You know what? That's so
weird with you saying that.
- Because i
- I was thinking about going back.
Even before the memorial,
I was thinking the only
way I'm gonna find out
what happened to Chris is if I go back.
Can I show you something?
God, are you one of those people
who asks if you can ask a question?
Right after Chris died, this
this was in the pocket of his coat.
- "My beautiful wife"
- but open it.
Yes.
Right. I can't read that.
No, well I can.
And it's not Chris' handwriting.
Interesting. What's it say?
It says. "Winged horse
over the entire world."
- The fuck does that mean?
- I don't think it's some thin
we can figure out
unless unless we go back.
The only way I'm gonna find out
what happened to Chris
is if I go back to Moscow.
You know, 'cause is
if if we don't go back,
then we're letting them tell us nothing.
And we're agreeing that we're
fine knowing nothing forever.
No.
- Mister
- Dane!
- Mister Walter? Mister Walter?
- Dane?
What are you still doing here?
You shouldn't be here.
We'd like a word.
- Yes.
- Might we have a word, kind sir?
My god. Shut up.
Follow me.
And I have experience translating.
So I could be incredibly helpful
with the Russian language.
And and I am very
experienced in foreign service.
I have been to many countries
- Yeah.
- I know people all over the world.
We have a full
administrative staff in Moscow.
There is no reason for us to bring
more Americans into the country,
unless they are key
to our intelligence work.
Then let us do that.
- What?
- Yes.
Yeah yes. Let us do that.
I want to make an impact,
sir. And I know that I can.
I have to do something
important with my life.
- Yeah.
- I I I minored in political science.
I I have incredible references.
Yeah, yeah. And get this.
Look at us.
No one would ever
suspect us of anything.
I mean, we're women,
people only look at us
if they wanna fuck us
or marry us, and that's it.
So nobody would ever
think that two people like us
would be spies and you know that.
Missus hasbeck, I heard you.
No.
You wanna do what?
Sir, one of them
speaks Russian, fluently.
Good accent. She could pass.
And the other one is fearless, like a bull.
Now, I don't know if
they could do much alone.
But together, they could
make a good officer.
What the fuck are you talking about?
These are girls.
We've sent the best
officers we have to Moscow
and it's blown up in our face.
These two ladies?
They'd get murdered, day one.
But they're women. We could use that.
Director, we have never successfully run
a Soviet agent in Moscow.
I've spent my entire career trying.
The k.G.B. Is all over us, all the time.
If you are a man, and you
walk out of the embassy,
you have a Soviet shadow.
But the one thing the
Russians would never do
is bring on a woman as a case officer.
So, they'd never suspect that we would.
This could be our chance to be
one step ahead of them, on their turf.
No.
No, I'm afraid it isn't my
ship to steer anymore.
I'm out, inauguration day.
You have to sit on this,
'til there's a new "d.C.I."
Sir, we have a Soviet
agent on the inside now,
who is working on the ground
with new Soviet technology.
He's scared, but he wants to help.
Every case officer I send in
has his cover blown on the first meet.
And sir, if if I may
This might be an opportunity for you
to do something real for this agency.
This could be your legacy, sir.
If we do this
This mission would have
to be completely in the black.
I can stall for a week, maybe two.
But then I would have to
brief the president-elect.
Understood, sir.
I'll use them to pass
and retrieve documents,
but they will never be
privy to the intelligence.
They're not a part of this operation.
Understood, sir.
- Walter?
- Sir?
When this thing blows up,
and I strongly suspect that it will,
it can never come back to me,
that I sent two American
girls to the Soviet union to die.
Yes, sir.
Hello, missus Grant.
Apologies for bothering you
- What?
- At this hour, but,
we have to do a bug sweep
of the entire apartment.
Let's do the bedroom.
Kitchen, bathroom as well.
What?
What is happening?
Excuse me?
- What?
- What I
- shoes off?
- Shoes off, gentlemen.
No, that's not what are wait.
I Don't have any pictures of Chris here.
Could I take that?
Please, ray, I just need
to be able to see his face.
Alright, fine, but if anyone finds out
I gave that to you,
we will both be in a lot of trouble.
Okay, thank you.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
Stevenson?
Okay.
This is the bubble.
The only room in the
embassy we can be sure
we're not being listened to or watched.
Anytime you are anywhere
else in the entire complex,
assume someone can hear you.
Do you both understand?
- Yes, sir.
- Good.
Missus Grant, you will be reinstated
in your previous position as a secretary
to the U.S. cultural attaché.
Okay.
Meanwhile, missus
hasbeck, I couldn't find
any kind of a
Job history connected to
your previous embassy posts.
Yeah. That is correct.
They gave me the
option to be a secretary
or to not be a secretary.
Well, starting today, you'll
work the secretarial desk
for the special assistant
to the ambassador.
So, you suspect him of something?
What what do we think he's doing?
Working with the Soviets,
or you want me to listen in
on his calls and report back to you?
Or I could covertly
take pictures of his files.
None of those things.
We would like you to perform
the duties of a secretary.
What do you mean?
I mean, typing, scheduling.
Do you know shorthand?
No!
You'll have to learn shorthand.
I mean, why would I have to
learn shorthand to be a spy?
I I'm sorry, I, I
already was a secretary.
- Yeah.
- And I didn't come back
to be a secretary again.
I thought you had a
real assignment for us.
Yeah, I mean, we're
not gonna risk our lives
to learn how to use a xerox machine.
You don't know how
to use a xerox machine?
Thes jobs are your cover.
- Okay.
- All right.
We will be in touch
with your covert
assignment this evening.
Until then, missus hasbeck,
please learn how to type.
Beatrice, you wanna come in here?
- Sir?
- I have a little present for you.
A dictation.
When the special assistant
has an appointment,
you need to Mark it
down on his desk calendar,
his pocket calendar
and his wall calendar.
How many places did you record it?
- All of them.
- See you say that, but you didn't.
Let's try and do it, but
the right way this time.
- Okay.
- Okay.
I just wanted to say how
sorry I am about Chris.
Thank you so much.
Anyway, if you need anything from me,
please let me know.
I feel like I should be asking you that.
It's just funny.
When they said they were
bringing you back as a secretary,
I assumed it was because you had
I don't know, any
experience as a secretary.
I can see where you'd find that funny.
But that's just 'cause you
don't know my background.
I actually have
four years of experience
in secretarial work,
at the tredway hotel
group which is unfortunately
no longer in operation
but it was world-renowned.
You wouldn't know it, beautiful place.
We did scheduling slightly
differently at tredway.
It was slightly more advanced,
but I'm sure your way is fine too.
- Twila? Wait.
- Just gonna hang this up.
- -Yep. Cheryl?
- Hi.
Retract the claws. She's new.
Don't worry, honey.
I'm comfortable with
a real learning curve.
The embassy really moved heaven
and earth to get you back here.
All because I told them the
temp we had wasn't working out.
It's it's almost odd that they did that.
You know what, sir?
I think that they must
really value the work you do here.
You know?
I think you're right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
I'd like you both to look behind us.
But slowly, do it casually.
You see the car?
- Yeah?
- That's the k.G.B.
Shit. Whoa, so
they they already know about
us? They're they're onto us?
No, the k.G.B.'S always following me.
To them, I'm a p.O.I. A person of interest.
But you two are p.O.N.I.'S.
Ponies?
Persons of no inter est.
Exactly, you're not on their radar Yet.
Then why do they think we're with you?
We're getting dinner,
we're seeing the view,
you know, we're fucking you.
As the k.G.B. May or
may not be well aware,
I am a happily married man.
You notice the little triangle of dirt
on their windshield?
That's an issue with the k.G.B. Carwash,
which they've never fixed because,
well, because it's Russia.
But all k.G.B. Cars will
have that triangle of dirt.
Alright.
For about a year now,
we've been trying to turn a Soviet agent.
You do not need to know his name.
To you, he will be c.K. Solar.
What does he know
that we need to know?
You don't need to know that.
C.k. Solar is highly placed
and working with important
Russian intelligence.
We need to get that intelligence.
Missus Grant, you will
interact with c.K. Solar,
because of your proficiency
with the Russian language.
That being said, -you
should not converse.
Okay.
Just give or get what
you need, and walk away.
- Yes, sir.
- Missus hasbeck?
- Yeah.
- You'll be the lookout.
- Right.
- It's not a question, missus hasbeck,
of if there is k.G.B. Around.
There will be, always.
It's your job to figure out if they know
what's going on or not.
Trust your gut.
- Do you both understand?
- Yes, sir.
Missus Grant, when you meet c.K. Solar,
you will say, "it looks
like it might snow today".
Looks like it might snow today.
And he will say, "not to worry,
I think spring is coming soon."
Is coming soon. Okay.
Yeah. In Russian, of course.
Of course.
Other details and
instructions are in this folder.
Please read them
and then destroy them.
This is what you're gonna give him.
- Why?
- You don't need to know.
Wow. So, when do we
go? When do we do it?
Not tonight. But soon.
Look for a lipstick Mark on
your door. That'll mean it's time.
You're gonna meet him in a Soviet pub.
Should be crowded enough
that no one should notice you.
Missus hasbeck, you and I
will step out of the car now.
Do I get to know why this time?
For the benefit of the k.G.B.,
you're my dinner companion tonight.
You know, if I'd wanted
a lukewarm potato,
I could've just found one at the embassy.
Yes. You've logged your
disgust with the potato.
Mister Walter!
Dane, is it?
Dane Walter.
It's quite a coincidence
passing you on the street like this.
Yeah, quite a coincidence.
I hope I'm not interrupting anything.
I don't think I've made
your acquaintance, ma'am.
Andrei vasiliev.
And, where, may I ask,
are two of you heading
to at this late hour?
We were just at a dinner.
Not illegal to eat in
the Soviet union, is it?
Seems like you've traveled
quite a ways to have dinner.
It was a highly recommended restaurant.
- And delicious, I hope.
- Yeah, indeed.
Good evening.
I was sorry to hear about your men.
I'm sorry, andrei, which
men are you referring to?
You lost two men.
Tragic accident.
I wouldn't believe everything you hear.
Such good advice.
For you as well.
Lovely meeting you, ma'am.
You never met.
Creep.
So, was that guy k.G.B.?
Well, why don't you just hand
him my picture on a silver platter?
I know what I'm doing.
How am I supposed to
get anything done here,
if the comrades think
I'm your right hand?
Missus hasbeck, everything we
did this evening was for a reason.
You weren't gonna be quiet.
You were gonna be noticed.
If I tried to hide you from the k.G.B.,
they would still know you were here.
And you would look like
someone I'm trying to hide.
And if he does suspect, you know,
that I'm more than just
some widowed secretary
at the embassy, would we even know?
Yeah. We'd know.
Because vasiliev would kill you.
And for the record
You're not my right hand.
Hey! Hi, you speak English, yeah?
I know you speak English.
Don't bullshit me. I
remember from last time.
Yeah, I've got some,
western clothing, electronics.
I'd be interested in selling or trading, or
Selling. Yeah.
What electronics?
It's, my husband's.
Yeah, or, was, I guess,
they're not his anymore,
because he is no more.
Anyway, this is nice.
Speaker, nice. Yeah.
It's broken, but you know,
you could fix it and and sell it for a lot.
I got some cables in here to go whoa.
This is not stereo speakers.
Someone was removing the wires.
This this is antenna.
Well You know the
k.G.B. Bug everything, right?
But this is not bug. It's veshchaniye.
- Excuse me?
- For broadcast.
And this, this is loop for tape.
This may be your husband playing?
No, no, yeah, he didn't
play any instruments.
At least he said he didn't.
Maybe you did not know your husband
as well as you thought.
You, recognize the tune?
It's napevy.
In Russia, it is how we do
- Da, Dee-Dee, da, Dee
- Morse code?
Yes, morse.
Yeah. Wow, okay.
Well well what's it saying?
This will take more time.
Time is not for free.
How much?
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hi?
Wow. Okay.
What you been doing?
You been in bed all day?
- You know it's almost six.
- No, I don't know.
Well, I've just, you
know, I was at the market.
They love American
everything in countries like this.
And I could bring some
of Chris' old clothes
- next time I go, get you some money?
- No.
You're just planning on keepin' em, or
I'm just not ready.
- Okay. Well, I'm gonna
- well, I'm gonna go. -Okay.
Actually, do you know
if there's a piano in the
embassy complex somewhere?
I I don't know. I don't
why?
- Curious.
- Okay.
- Shit.
- That's lipstick, right? Yeah.
- How long has that been there?
- I don't know.
- Okay. We gotta go.
- God.
We gotta get the book.
I've been checking the transmissions.
They they haven't
brought anybody new in.
No officers, not in the British embassy,
or the Americans.
But I I did hear my
boss muttering something
about how Dane Walter is
trying a different approach.
I don't know what that means.
What do you think it means?
Anything, really.
Two officers are dead.
Maybe they're regrouping.
- Taking a break.
- Dane Walter doesn't take breaks.
You know the Americans.
Work, work, work.
Look, andrei, sir.
I'm going home To London.
Next flight out, they're
they found my kit in my desk.
Yes, I am sorry to hear that.
My fault.
Shouldn't happen,
shooting up heroin at work.
I I didn't. I I I know, sorry.
But I I still need it, if if you
Here.
Thank you.
For what? You didn't tell me anything.
- I told you everything I know.
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm certain you did, and now maybe,
you will tell somebody
else everything you know.
About me. About what we talked about.
What we did.
I would never.
You would never.
And yet, here you are, telling
me everything you know.
I don't need you anymore.
Okay.
- No, no, no. Please, please
- I don't need you anymore.
- People will ask questions.
- I'm a British citizen.
Nobody's gonna ask questions.
They fund heroin in your desk.
It was just a matter of time.
Please! No.
Third building from the
north, last seat at the back.
Right. Which way is north?
Well, that's ursa minor,
and so polar is, the north star is
fuck, I should've gone to college.
So, that would be the pub.
- Okay.
- Okay.
I guess I guess I'm going in.
Yeah. Okay.
I'll just, stay out here by
this disgusting window.
And if anything seems weird at all,
I'll I'll pound on it and
that'll be your cue to,
- you know, get outta there.
- Yes.
- All right.
- Okay.
Take off your, wedding ring.
Yeah, men'll be more helpful
if they think you're single.
Hey.
You can do this.
Yeah.
No! Nyet!
Nyet!
Shoo!
A winged horse over the entire world.
Coldest day of the year.
Worst city in the world.
I heard your wife just
got in. I want to meet her.
You'll meet her.
I think there's been a leak.
We've prepared a plan to exfiltrate you.
If you say yes now, me and my associate
will get you and your family
across the border into Finland.
You have one minute to decide.
I know, I said you had
a minute. Now you don't.
No! My god!
- Lady, what are you doing?
- Wait, what. You speak English?
- No. Do you?
- What?
You should put your money away. Yeah.
Everyone in this market's
a fucking con artist
if you give them a chance.
Don't you just love how
none of these people
understand English till
you start insulting them?
Then they're all suddenly fluent.
Yeah. Okay, now.
Look 'egg woman' in the
eye and repeat after me,
in Russian, obviously, 'cause you can.
Okay.
- Go fuck yourself, bitch.
- Gimme my fuckin' eggs.
I cannot say that.
You want your eggs or not?
Bitch?
Yeah.
Okay, well, maybe
maybe don't say it so much.
I don't usually see
Americans at this market.
Really?
It's right down the
road from the embassy.
Well, yeah, but I don't know
people don't normally
leave the compound.
So, what made you decide
to venture out today, be a?
- How do you know my name?
- Educated guess.
Some of the other embassy
wives were talking about someone
and you fit their description perfectly.
Well, how how how
did they describe me?
- Just like this.
- Like what?
Let's pull over and ask.
Don't be an asshole. He's scared.
I don't want to die.
I have two children!
Don't worry. We've
done this a hundred times.
Nyet!
How long have you been in Moscow?
I was here for two
years, a few years ago.
But this time around,
just since yesterday.
Stayed in Stockholm a
while after my husband
was transferred, 'cause you know!
- Moscow.
- Shh.
You can't just insult their city out loud.
Sure you can.
They're well aware it's a shit hole.
- How long have you been here?
- Six months.
But I still have a lot to learn, clearly.
And what does your husband do?
Communications envoy for
the associate to the "U.S."
Ambassador to the u.S.S.R.
- Stop it.
- Come on.
We both know what
our husbands really do.
I'm supposed to meet
a new contact tonight.
Write down location for the meet.
Here.
Snowshoe? We're almost at the airfield.
Snowshoe!
Snowshoe?
- Sergei!
- Fuck. We're fucked.
But but but what? No one's listening.
We're the wives. No
one cares what we say.
So it's probably
unnecessary that you went out
and learned all that Russian.
Well, no, I studied
Russian lit at Wellesley,
- so, you know?
- Did we?
Yeah, that was some real
"war and peace" shit
back there at the egg stand.
- Well
- impressive.
- Thanks?
- Okay.
Well, I'll see ya sometime.
Are you going to the embassy
Christmas party tonight?
I'm gonna do my best to get out of that.
Well, I I think we're
all supposed to go, so
I'm sure we all are.
Okay.
This is a disaster.
I mean, I could barely
find passable ingredients.
This is like, beet sugar.
Did you even know that
beets made sugar? I didn't.
And I do not get this thing about
how we have to boil the milk here.
It just makes me wonder,
what am I boiling off?
Try this and tell me it doesn't
strongly suggest mayonnaise.
- You know, actually, I kinda like it.
- No, you do not have to lie.
I love you for trying though.
Look, I promise you, it's gonna be
one of the better cakes down there.
I just do not need the
other wives judging me.
- Who's judging you?
- Everyone.
This new wife that I
met at the market today,
she had already heard about me,
which just makes me
wonder what is she
if the other wives are
talking, they're just
- they're just jealous.
- What, jealous,
because my husband's in the "C.I.A."?
Look, they wouldn't know that for sure.
I meant they're jealous of you.
- Yeah. Sure.
- Come on, beebee.
You're educated, you're ambitious.
I mean, most of the
women in the embassy,
they don't have anything
else going on besides gossip.
Well, yeah, I might be educated,
but I'm not doing anything with it.
You're the one off
saving the world all day.
I'm just here.
Another secretary in the embassy.
The smartest secretary in the embassy.
Well, you've met the other
wives. That's barely a compliment.
Come on, be a, look,
just a few more years.
Then I'll be the one at
home holding down the fort,
while you're off doing great things.
You don't have to say that.
Look, I'm not just saying it.
Look, that was our deal, right?
And you're not gonna believe the cakes
I'm gonna make for you and the kids.
Really?
The kids?
Chris, honey, you're bleeding.
That's, that's not my blood.
Well, take off your shirt. I will wash it.
And then take off your pants.
There's blood on my pants too?
No.
Whoa!
I knew it!
The truth comes out.
- You're right.
- You're an awful liar.
It's awful.
It's terrible, it's just
like a salami sandwich.
It's disgusting.
Wait.
Are they listening?
The Russians.
God, I hope so.
So so why do you
even want me there?
- Why do you care?
- Because even if we can't have a family,
I still I still need a wife.
Wow.
So you're just gonna leave?
I have to go deal with something.
I thought you had to go to this party.
I do. Okay? I do.
I just have to go and take
care of something first.
Which is why I am
asking you to get there
on time on our behalf.
Okay, can you just do that for me, baby?
- Please?
- Yes. Yes, baby.
Thank you. Smile at the ambassador.
Take a picture with
Santa. I'll be there later.
Okay.
So, I I get it, so, I gotta go to
this stupid embassy party alone,
while you go on your fun little mission
- with the "C.I.A."
- twila!
Fuckin' stupid.
Great.
Have fun! See ya
baby!
Whoa!
Hon, you're gonna
wanna make that a double.
It's freezing in here.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Have you met Beatrice?
She's on my desk.
- Hi.
- Best secretary I ever had.
Well, I'm sure you say that to
all the secretaries, mister salek.
- Alan.
- Alan.
- Always Alan.
- Alan.
Everyone? Everyone!
Just a bit of great news.
It's gonna take a while for it to,
warm up, but the heat
is back on so so, yeah.
- Hallelujah!
- Yeah.
Thank you!
I I couldn't have done it without y'all,
the little people, right?
Why is it so cold in here? Hello?
Guess I'm the only one who's
gonna do anything about anything.
Okay.
Hello.
- Hello.
- The the the Soviets
cut our heat, but it's being handled.
Well, look at you!
Knowing the ins and outs
of what's being handled.
Fuck. Cheryl's here.
Didn't know she was in Moscow.
We were stationed together
in Vietnam for two months.
It was my own personal Vietnam.
Yeah.
So, the the the
way that it ended up
- no, no. It was like this.
- The, the well
- when ray first proposed
- she loves this story.
I just said I said I said no.
I said flat out no, and then
a few weeks later he
proposed again and I said
no.
Third time I said yes, okay? I said yes.
Bea, how did you meet Chris?
How did we meet? Okay, so
I was I was at Wellesley
Put it down.
And they always used
to bus us into Cambridge
for these mixers with
with Harvard and mit.
This one time, my friend Amy,
she was building up the courage
to talk to a boy that she
liked, so I went with her.
And there I was, standing in the corner
reading "twelfth night"
I don't know 'Cause I had an
exam the next day, you know?
I, had to study.
And this this handsome
man just walks over
and and and starts
talking about Shakespeare.
You know? And it it it
wasn't a "come on" or anything.
He just really wanted to talk.
So, you know, I just guess
we haven't stopped talking since.
Bea, that's lovely.
I'm just so glad that my
husband's secretary here
has such a strong
marriage with her husband.
After what happened
with that girl in an twerp, I
How many people
do you actually kill, like how
many people have you killed?
- Just -You know, ball park
- Missus hasbeck.
I need to speak with you. It's important.
Missus Grant,
I need to speak with you
and missus hasbeck in private.
Would you follow me please?
We can speak in private in here.
I I I'm sorry, sir.
I'm just in the in the
- Mister szymanski.
- Sorry, sir. Just have to
- mister szymanski.
- Yes, sir.
Missus Grant.
Missus hasbeck.
Earlier this evening, a
small single-engined aircraft
crashed in a field 30
kilometers south of Moscow.
I regret to inform you that
both of your husbands
were on that plane.
What? I don't understand.
There were no survivors of the crash.
But that
Doesn't make, I
no, because Chris would have told me
if he was if he was getting on a plane.
No, he wouldn't have.
No, but he's such a
good pilot. I I don't
- be a. Bea.
- I think you've got this wrong.
- But he's he he flew missions.
- Bea.
What are we supposed to tell people?
You can tell them that
two embassy employees
on diplomatic business
were flying a small
single-engined Soviet made aircraft
and after encountering engine failure,
- the plane crashed and that
- you're giving us the cover story?
What happened?
You'll be escorted back
to your living quarters now.
- Pack only essentials.
- What?
The staff will gather and ship
the rest of your belongings
to you at a later date.
You're going home to
be with your families.
We are very sorry for your losses.
They are losses that
we all share with you.
Bullshit.
No.
- No! I
- come on. I know.
What?
My mishka.
Come on in. Your parents are still asleep.
That's okay.
We weren't expecting
you 'til this afternoon.
- Yeah.
- You want me to wake them up?
No. No, no, no. Don't worry.
Your room is all ready for you.
- Thank you.
- Here.
Take this.
I'm so not hungry.
So, don't eat the pickles.
Okay.
God.
Yeah?
What you want
if it isn't the jetsetter.
- Parlez-vous francais, madame?
- Yeah. Is is my mother here?
What?
She took off months ago.
She didn't tell you?
- Probably just forgot.
- You wanna crash?
I got a couch.
I just don't know what I'm gonna
do with my life now. You know?
Like, I I mean, I guess I could
take a correspondence course.
And go to get a masters.
Or, I could see if my
old elementary school's
looking for teachers. You
know, I was great with kids.
- Sha!
- What?
- Sha, sha, sha, sha, sha.
- What?
Calm your mind. You don't
need to make any plan now.
I do, though.
Because, you know, we
were gonna take turns.
First, it was gonna be, you
know, Chris was gonna get
to where he was gonna get to at work.
And then it was gonna be my turn.
What?
Nothing.
Men do that now, husbands, you know,
are different than they were.
What do you want to do?
I wanna find out what happened to Chris.
Well, sometimes in life,
you have to live with not knowing.
I will never know what
happened to your grandfather.
You ever think about going back?
Trying to see if you can
find out what happened.
I used to.
But now I'm an alter kocker.
No, you're not.
You are young, you still have time
to find these answers, if you want them.
Does this mean anything to you?
Doesn't mean anything to
me, but it's probably some
Moscow slang or some I don't know.
What is this card?
Found it in Chris' pocket.
It's just
another question I
don't have an answer for.
What the fuck happened out there?
We don't know, sir.
The agents have gone
quiet, and there's no chatter
- on the surveillance lines.
- Did the Soviets kill them?
We don't know for certain
who's responsible, sir.
Who's the head of the Moscow station?
Me, sir.
Then I guess you're
responsible, mister Walter.
The world in which we live
and work is one of secrets.
As a consequence, few can know
the ultimate sacrifice
paid by these two men.
But we, in this room, know.
We know they lived as
heroes, and died as heroes.
On behalf of myself
and director George Bush
and in accordance with the traditions
of the central intelligence agency,
two stars have been
added in their memory,
etched in marble to the memorial wall.
Their names will not live on the wall,
but these men will live in
our memory and our hearts.
Thank you.
Missus hasbeck.
Missus Grant.
That's it?
What were you expecting?
Wait. That's that's it?
Like that that's all you're gonna say?
I though t you were
gonna tell us something.
Like what, missus Grant?
Like what happened to our husbands?
I'm very sorry for your loss.
No.
I grew up down the road from the base.
Figured I'd just keep dating military guys,
'til one of them agreed to
take me the fuck out of there.
And Tom was
He was handsome, he was confident.
And like an old fashioned
gentleman, or something.
Like, something out of a movie.
He courted me.
Then I got pregnant. So, we got married.
I didn't know you two had kids.
We don't. It's a
I lost it.
I am so sorry.
- It's okay. It's
- yeah. You know I -okay.
I'd never even left
Indiana until I met Tom,
and now I've been
just about everywhere.
- So
- so Where are you off to next?
I'm
nowhere. There's now here for me to go.
Not a place I
I can't believe I'm gonna say this one,
but I'd go back to Russia, at this point.
I mean, I'd have this
whole place to myself,
paid for by the United
States government.
- No rules
- what? Were you paying attention?
There are so many rules.
You know what? That's so
weird with you saying that.
- Because i
- I was thinking about going back.
Even before the memorial,
I was thinking the only
way I'm gonna find out
what happened to Chris is if I go back.
Can I show you something?
God, are you one of those people
who asks if you can ask a question?
Right after Chris died, this
this was in the pocket of his coat.
- "My beautiful wife"
- but open it.
Yes.
Right. I can't read that.
No, well I can.
And it's not Chris' handwriting.
Interesting. What's it say?
It says. "Winged horse
over the entire world."
- The fuck does that mean?
- I don't think it's some thin
we can figure out
unless unless we go back.
The only way I'm gonna find out
what happened to Chris
is if I go back to Moscow.
You know, 'cause is
if if we don't go back,
then we're letting them tell us nothing.
And we're agreeing that we're
fine knowing nothing forever.
No.
- Mister
- Dane!
- Mister Walter? Mister Walter?
- Dane?
What are you still doing here?
You shouldn't be here.
We'd like a word.
- Yes.
- Might we have a word, kind sir?
My god. Shut up.
Follow me.
And I have experience translating.
So I could be incredibly helpful
with the Russian language.
And and I am very
experienced in foreign service.
I have been to many countries
- Yeah.
- I know people all over the world.
We have a full
administrative staff in Moscow.
There is no reason for us to bring
more Americans into the country,
unless they are key
to our intelligence work.
Then let us do that.
- What?
- Yes.
Yeah yes. Let us do that.
I want to make an impact,
sir. And I know that I can.
I have to do something
important with my life.
- Yeah.
- I I I minored in political science.
I I have incredible references.
Yeah, yeah. And get this.
Look at us.
No one would ever
suspect us of anything.
I mean, we're women,
people only look at us
if they wanna fuck us
or marry us, and that's it.
So nobody would ever
think that two people like us
would be spies and you know that.
Missus hasbeck, I heard you.
No.
You wanna do what?
Sir, one of them
speaks Russian, fluently.
Good accent. She could pass.
And the other one is fearless, like a bull.
Now, I don't know if
they could do much alone.
But together, they could
make a good officer.
What the fuck are you talking about?
These are girls.
We've sent the best
officers we have to Moscow
and it's blown up in our face.
These two ladies?
They'd get murdered, day one.
But they're women. We could use that.
Director, we have never successfully run
a Soviet agent in Moscow.
I've spent my entire career trying.
The k.G.B. Is all over us, all the time.
If you are a man, and you
walk out of the embassy,
you have a Soviet shadow.
But the one thing the
Russians would never do
is bring on a woman as a case officer.
So, they'd never suspect that we would.
This could be our chance to be
one step ahead of them, on their turf.
No.
No, I'm afraid it isn't my
ship to steer anymore.
I'm out, inauguration day.
You have to sit on this,
'til there's a new "d.C.I."
Sir, we have a Soviet
agent on the inside now,
who is working on the ground
with new Soviet technology.
He's scared, but he wants to help.
Every case officer I send in
has his cover blown on the first meet.
And sir, if if I may
This might be an opportunity for you
to do something real for this agency.
This could be your legacy, sir.
If we do this
This mission would have
to be completely in the black.
I can stall for a week, maybe two.
But then I would have to
brief the president-elect.
Understood, sir.
I'll use them to pass
and retrieve documents,
but they will never be
privy to the intelligence.
They're not a part of this operation.
Understood, sir.
- Walter?
- Sir?
When this thing blows up,
and I strongly suspect that it will,
it can never come back to me,
that I sent two American
girls to the Soviet union to die.
Yes, sir.
Hello, missus Grant.
Apologies for bothering you
- What?
- At this hour, but,
we have to do a bug sweep
of the entire apartment.
Let's do the bedroom.
Kitchen, bathroom as well.
What?
What is happening?
Excuse me?
- What?
- What I
- shoes off?
- Shoes off, gentlemen.
No, that's not what are wait.
I Don't have any pictures of Chris here.
Could I take that?
Please, ray, I just need
to be able to see his face.
Alright, fine, but if anyone finds out
I gave that to you,
we will both be in a lot of trouble.
Okay, thank you.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
Stevenson?
Okay.
This is the bubble.
The only room in the
embassy we can be sure
we're not being listened to or watched.
Anytime you are anywhere
else in the entire complex,
assume someone can hear you.
Do you both understand?
- Yes, sir.
- Good.
Missus Grant, you will be reinstated
in your previous position as a secretary
to the U.S. cultural attaché.
Okay.
Meanwhile, missus
hasbeck, I couldn't find
any kind of a
Job history connected to
your previous embassy posts.
Yeah. That is correct.
They gave me the
option to be a secretary
or to not be a secretary.
Well, starting today, you'll
work the secretarial desk
for the special assistant
to the ambassador.
So, you suspect him of something?
What what do we think he's doing?
Working with the Soviets,
or you want me to listen in
on his calls and report back to you?
Or I could covertly
take pictures of his files.
None of those things.
We would like you to perform
the duties of a secretary.
What do you mean?
I mean, typing, scheduling.
Do you know shorthand?
No!
You'll have to learn shorthand.
I mean, why would I have to
learn shorthand to be a spy?
I I'm sorry, I, I
already was a secretary.
- Yeah.
- And I didn't come back
to be a secretary again.
I thought you had a
real assignment for us.
Yeah, I mean, we're
not gonna risk our lives
to learn how to use a xerox machine.
You don't know how
to use a xerox machine?
Thes jobs are your cover.
- Okay.
- All right.
We will be in touch
with your covert
assignment this evening.
Until then, missus hasbeck,
please learn how to type.
Beatrice, you wanna come in here?
- Sir?
- I have a little present for you.
A dictation.
When the special assistant
has an appointment,
you need to Mark it
down on his desk calendar,
his pocket calendar
and his wall calendar.
How many places did you record it?
- All of them.
- See you say that, but you didn't.
Let's try and do it, but
the right way this time.
- Okay.
- Okay.
I just wanted to say how
sorry I am about Chris.
Thank you so much.
Anyway, if you need anything from me,
please let me know.
I feel like I should be asking you that.
It's just funny.
When they said they were
bringing you back as a secretary,
I assumed it was because you had
I don't know, any
experience as a secretary.
I can see where you'd find that funny.
But that's just 'cause you
don't know my background.
I actually have
four years of experience
in secretarial work,
at the tredway hotel
group which is unfortunately
no longer in operation
but it was world-renowned.
You wouldn't know it, beautiful place.
We did scheduling slightly
differently at tredway.
It was slightly more advanced,
but I'm sure your way is fine too.
- Twila? Wait.
- Just gonna hang this up.
- -Yep. Cheryl?
- Hi.
Retract the claws. She's new.
Don't worry, honey.
I'm comfortable with
a real learning curve.
The embassy really moved heaven
and earth to get you back here.
All because I told them the
temp we had wasn't working out.
It's it's almost odd that they did that.
You know what, sir?
I think that they must
really value the work you do here.
You know?
I think you're right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
I'd like you both to look behind us.
But slowly, do it casually.
You see the car?
- Yeah?
- That's the k.G.B.
Shit. Whoa, so
they they already know about
us? They're they're onto us?
No, the k.G.B.'S always following me.
To them, I'm a p.O.I. A person of interest.
But you two are p.O.N.I.'S.
Ponies?
Persons of no inter est.
Exactly, you're not on their radar Yet.
Then why do they think we're with you?
We're getting dinner,
we're seeing the view,
you know, we're fucking you.
As the k.G.B. May or
may not be well aware,
I am a happily married man.
You notice the little triangle of dirt
on their windshield?
That's an issue with the k.G.B. Carwash,
which they've never fixed because,
well, because it's Russia.
But all k.G.B. Cars will
have that triangle of dirt.
Alright.
For about a year now,
we've been trying to turn a Soviet agent.
You do not need to know his name.
To you, he will be c.K. Solar.
What does he know
that we need to know?
You don't need to know that.
C.k. Solar is highly placed
and working with important
Russian intelligence.
We need to get that intelligence.
Missus Grant, you will
interact with c.K. Solar,
because of your proficiency
with the Russian language.
That being said, -you
should not converse.
Okay.
Just give or get what
you need, and walk away.
- Yes, sir.
- Missus hasbeck?
- Yeah.
- You'll be the lookout.
- Right.
- It's not a question, missus hasbeck,
of if there is k.G.B. Around.
There will be, always.
It's your job to figure out if they know
what's going on or not.
Trust your gut.
- Do you both understand?
- Yes, sir.
Missus Grant, when you meet c.K. Solar,
you will say, "it looks
like it might snow today".
Looks like it might snow today.
And he will say, "not to worry,
I think spring is coming soon."
Is coming soon. Okay.
Yeah. In Russian, of course.
Of course.
Other details and
instructions are in this folder.
Please read them
and then destroy them.
This is what you're gonna give him.
- Why?
- You don't need to know.
Wow. So, when do we
go? When do we do it?
Not tonight. But soon.
Look for a lipstick Mark on
your door. That'll mean it's time.
You're gonna meet him in a Soviet pub.
Should be crowded enough
that no one should notice you.
Missus hasbeck, you and I
will step out of the car now.
Do I get to know why this time?
For the benefit of the k.G.B.,
you're my dinner companion tonight.
You know, if I'd wanted
a lukewarm potato,
I could've just found one at the embassy.
Yes. You've logged your
disgust with the potato.
Mister Walter!
Dane, is it?
Dane Walter.
It's quite a coincidence
passing you on the street like this.
Yeah, quite a coincidence.
I hope I'm not interrupting anything.
I don't think I've made
your acquaintance, ma'am.
Andrei vasiliev.
And, where, may I ask,
are two of you heading
to at this late hour?
We were just at a dinner.
Not illegal to eat in
the Soviet union, is it?
Seems like you've traveled
quite a ways to have dinner.
It was a highly recommended restaurant.
- And delicious, I hope.
- Yeah, indeed.
Good evening.
I was sorry to hear about your men.
I'm sorry, andrei, which
men are you referring to?
You lost two men.
Tragic accident.
I wouldn't believe everything you hear.
Such good advice.
For you as well.
Lovely meeting you, ma'am.
You never met.
Creep.
So, was that guy k.G.B.?
Well, why don't you just hand
him my picture on a silver platter?
I know what I'm doing.
How am I supposed to
get anything done here,
if the comrades think
I'm your right hand?
Missus hasbeck, everything we
did this evening was for a reason.
You weren't gonna be quiet.
You were gonna be noticed.
If I tried to hide you from the k.G.B.,
they would still know you were here.
And you would look like
someone I'm trying to hide.
And if he does suspect, you know,
that I'm more than just
some widowed secretary
at the embassy, would we even know?
Yeah. We'd know.
Because vasiliev would kill you.
And for the record
You're not my right hand.
Hey! Hi, you speak English, yeah?
I know you speak English.
Don't bullshit me. I
remember from last time.
Yeah, I've got some,
western clothing, electronics.
I'd be interested in selling or trading, or
Selling. Yeah.
What electronics?
It's, my husband's.
Yeah, or, was, I guess,
they're not his anymore,
because he is no more.
Anyway, this is nice.
Speaker, nice. Yeah.
It's broken, but you know,
you could fix it and and sell it for a lot.
I got some cables in here to go whoa.
This is not stereo speakers.
Someone was removing the wires.
This this is antenna.
Well You know the
k.G.B. Bug everything, right?
But this is not bug. It's veshchaniye.
- Excuse me?
- For broadcast.
And this, this is loop for tape.
This may be your husband playing?
No, no, yeah, he didn't
play any instruments.
At least he said he didn't.
Maybe you did not know your husband
as well as you thought.
You, recognize the tune?
It's napevy.
In Russia, it is how we do
- Da, Dee-Dee, da, Dee
- Morse code?
Yes, morse.
Yeah. Wow, okay.
Well well what's it saying?
This will take more time.
Time is not for free.
How much?
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hi?
Wow. Okay.
What you been doing?
You been in bed all day?
- You know it's almost six.
- No, I don't know.
Well, I've just, you
know, I was at the market.
They love American
everything in countries like this.
And I could bring some
of Chris' old clothes
- next time I go, get you some money?
- No.
You're just planning on keepin' em, or
I'm just not ready.
- Okay. Well, I'm gonna
- well, I'm gonna go. -Okay.
Actually, do you know
if there's a piano in the
embassy complex somewhere?
I I don't know. I don't
why?
- Curious.
- Okay.
- Shit.
- That's lipstick, right? Yeah.
- How long has that been there?
- I don't know.
- Okay. We gotta go.
- God.
We gotta get the book.
I've been checking the transmissions.
They they haven't
brought anybody new in.
No officers, not in the British embassy,
or the Americans.
But I I did hear my
boss muttering something
about how Dane Walter is
trying a different approach.
I don't know what that means.
What do you think it means?
Anything, really.
Two officers are dead.
Maybe they're regrouping.
- Taking a break.
- Dane Walter doesn't take breaks.
You know the Americans.
Work, work, work.
Look, andrei, sir.
I'm going home To London.
Next flight out, they're
they found my kit in my desk.
Yes, I am sorry to hear that.
My fault.
Shouldn't happen,
shooting up heroin at work.
I I didn't. I I I know, sorry.
But I I still need it, if if you
Here.
Thank you.
For what? You didn't tell me anything.
- I told you everything I know.
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm certain you did, and now maybe,
you will tell somebody
else everything you know.
About me. About what we talked about.
What we did.
I would never.
You would never.
And yet, here you are, telling
me everything you know.
I don't need you anymore.
Okay.
- No, no, no. Please, please
- I don't need you anymore.
- People will ask questions.
- I'm a British citizen.
Nobody's gonna ask questions.
They fund heroin in your desk.
It was just a matter of time.
Please! No.
Third building from the
north, last seat at the back.
Right. Which way is north?
Well, that's ursa minor,
and so polar is, the north star is
fuck, I should've gone to college.
So, that would be the pub.
- Okay.
- Okay.
I guess I guess I'm going in.
Yeah. Okay.
I'll just, stay out here by
this disgusting window.
And if anything seems weird at all,
I'll I'll pound on it and
that'll be your cue to,
- you know, get outta there.
- Yes.
- All right.
- Okay.
Take off your, wedding ring.
Yeah, men'll be more helpful
if they think you're single.
Hey.
You can do this.
Yeah.
No! Nyet!
Nyet!
Shoo!
A winged horse over the entire world.