The Company (2007) s01e01 Episode Script
Hour 1 & 2
Proudly Presents The Company Season 1 Episode 1 how do you know I'm mad? Said alice.
You must be,said the cat, or you wouldn't have come here.
I think we may have over stayed our welcome here.
20 minutes late.
I don't think our prospective joe is gonna show up,sport.
We should go.
What are we doing here,harvey? What are we doin' here? Well,we're not in this dry-rotten rain wash of a city because I like it or because it brightens my life any.
We're here because the goths are at the damn gate,plain and simple, and somebody's gotta man the damn gate.
And you're that somebody,harv? Yeah,sure.
Why not? sweet jesus doesn't see anyone down there.
Should he keep looking? Oh,my back.
what's sweet jesus sayin'? He says it's cold down there.
They say there are 7,000 spies in berlin, all ready to put down cold cash for secrets.
Oh,maybe we got outbid.
Quiet! he's here! I am constantine vishnevsky.
now getting you,your wife and your child out of east germany's very complicated.
A lot of people will be asked to jeopardize their lives for you.
A lot of money will be spent to set you and your family up in the united states, and what I'm getting tonight,buddy, just doesn't warrant that expense.
But I--what I gave you-- yeah,I could get it for a lotless sturm and drang,buddy.
What if.
I am able to reveal the identity of a soviet agent in britain's intelligenceservice--the mi6? You got a name? No.
I know precise datehe was debriefed in stockholm last summer and date of debrief in zurichthe previous winter.
No,I'm gonna needmore than that.
With that information,evena child could identify him.
Wait! Wait.
I give you the recording of this soviet mole'slast debrief.
I give youthe man's voice.
since last night, I have been meticulouslycross-referencing vishnevsky's informationfrom the sorcerer'S.
His bona fidesmatch my information.
good.
Keep me informed.
Will do.
Any s-spies in the house? Adrian,take a load off.
Tell me what worlds you'veconquered this morning.
You and your damn cards.
How do you keep trackof them all? Well.
certain cardssimply cry out for me.
I am their mother.
A s-soviet molein mi6.
It can't be.
Everything in the sorcerer'sreport checked out.
Sorcerer planson smuggling vishnevsky and his family intowest berlin tomorrow night.
Kgb won't even knowhe's missing till we havethe tape in hand.
I can hardly believe this,but vishnevsky seems b-bloody legitimateto me,james.
The more valuablethe real information, the biggerthe potential deception.
True genius,as churchill taught us, resides in the capacityto evaluate conflicting information.
You,jimbo,have true genius.
No,it's true.
You have that unique skillto find patterns within what seems like conflicting trivia and useless piecesof information.
And patterns,as every spyworth his salt grasps, are the shells of conspiracy.
Deceptionswithin deceptions.
Moves behind moves.
Well,don't get lost in the wildernessof mirrors.
mother.
okay,let's playthis one out.
Let's say vishnevskyis a disinformation agent.
He'd be programmedto give us his history chapter and verse without soundinglike he made it up.
Does thathave to be on? Prying ears,sport.
Bugs have been found.
How do we know the kgbisn't one step ahead? You know,that--that theyprogrammed vishnevsky to hem and haw his waythrough the legend? My nose didn't twitch.
My nose always twitcheswhen I sniff a phony.
And if vishnevsky is a black agent? Even if we know the defectoris a double agent, we play the gameas if we don't know.
We use the false informationthe russians are giving us against them.
Plus,we use somedisinformation of our own.
It's a delicate game,isn't it? More than you know.
But in orderto be a player,you gotta cross overinto the, uh,wilderness of mirrors.
Angleton's words,not mine.
What if I don't want to? You already have.
push! Set three,push! Set four! Five! congratulations! Uh,hello.
Who in the devilwas that? Yevgeny tsipin--thief of raccoon coat as well as girlfriends.
And she's slipping away.
So are you a stalinistor a marxist,yevgeny? I'm neither.
I'm A.
a tolstoyist.
And who knows what that means? well,tolstoy spentmost of his life searching fora unifying theory-- a single key that wouldunlock every door.
Booze? a universal explanationfor our poverty,our politics,our passions.
Economics.
My parents were chased outof russia by the bolsheviks, and here I amrooming with one.
You know,that isvery insulting,leo.
It's very insulting.
I am not a bolshevist--bolshevik.
what I am is,um.
I'm--I'm--I'm drunk.
one final toast.
To all the good talkswe've had along this river when we probably should havebeen studying for exams.
This is probablythe last of our talks,gents.
And stella.
The troika.
the truman doctrine of 1947 promised that america would aid free peoples everywhere in the struggle against totalitarianism.
The principal instrumentof american foreign policy in that struggle isthe central intelligence agency.
Make no mistake about it-- western civilizationis under attack.
It is a war of attrition and a very thin line of patriotsmans the ramparts.
Who will remain standingthe longest? Class of '46.
Skull and bones.
Elliott ebbitt iii.
Call me ebby.
Jack mcauliffe.
Leo kritzky.
Class of '50.
How'd you knowwe were yale? Please.
So how'd you twoget tapped? our crew coach.
You? O.
S.
S.
In the war.
There areno textbooks on spying.
You make it upas you go along.
And the real world of espionage is less glamorousand, uh,a lot more dangerous than any fiction writercan imagine.
It's a lifetime of secrets,of countermoves and deception.
Those who do not wantto enter this world can leave nowwithout embarrassment.
To those who choose to stay,welcome to the company.
In my experience,russiansare always late for meetings and early for defections.
If vishnevsky's blown,harvey,the safehouse could be blown.
Yeah,I know that,sport.
That's why my nose istwitchin' to beat the band.
you wanna stop that? Yes,okay.
Yes.
let's pack up.
Move out.
Sweet jesuspicked up the dog.
That means trouble.
Police! Let's disappear.
Yeah,disappearingsounds good.
damn! come on.
But my radio! Leave the damn radio! that oughta slowthe bastards down.
damn crap-piss holster! only the ones in uniform.
not to shoot! hold yourfire,jack! Not to shoot! Not to shoot.
I'm kgb! Kgb's not on the menu.
If they don't shoot at us,we don't shoot at them.
I know it is you,torriti! Drop your weapon! now can anyone-- anyone on my payroll tell me how that happened? vishnevsky now hasa rendezvous with a bulletin the back of his skull.
His wife and kid'll probablyspend the rest of their lives in a labor camp.
Vishnevsky counted on me to gethim out,and I didn't do it.
How come every assetwe try and pull in winds up in frontof a firing squad? And why is all the informationwe're getting garbage? And how come the kgb knows moreabout what we're doing than we do? Why? I'll tell you why.
'Cause we're beingjerked around by a damn mole! Do you believethe sorcerer,jimbo? I believehe believes it.
If the leak really wasin the company's end, the mole in mi6 wouldhave to have heard it from the deputy directorof operations or the D.
C.
I.
Himself.
That's a handfulof very powerful people.
Do you knowwhat you're saying? If he does exist,I will find that mole.
Believe me.
Well,use caution when shaking thosecorridors of power,jimbo.
pavel,you honor uswith your presence.
My son,I would like youto meet an old friendof your mother'S.
Pavel zhilov.
It is a shamethat a tragedy should bring you homefrom your studies in america.
Your father is very proud.
Thank you,comrade zhilov.
Starik to my friends.
I remember howyour mother loved to read.
Dostoyevskywas her favorite.
She seemed like a characterstraight from one of his books the way she would spit overher shoulder for good luck.
The way she would always sit-- on her suitcase before every voyage.
What did your fathertell you about me? Only that I would be foolishnot to come here today.
I would like you to dosomething for me,yevgeny.
Speak to me plainlyand openly about a subject that holds a greatfascination for me-- america.
America is,um.
america is a countryfilled with a great people.
I have a great affectionfor america.
I cannot ignoretheir faults or their shortcomings.
Americans aretrapped in A.
a system which brings outthe worst in them.
They're raised to believethat democracy is the ideal, yet they turn a blind eyeto the 25 million americans that go to bedhungry every night.
Your american englishis impeccable.
You went to high schoolin new york city,then to yale.
Your mother taughtyou english as well as germanand french.
You have an aptitudefor languages.
Your grades at yalewere of the highest order.
You were popular.
You made friends.
Your troika,as you called it,included jack mcauliffeand leo kritzky.
How do you know that? It was I who positionedyour father at the united nations, and it was I who made sureyou got into yale.
I am a generalin the kgb,yevgeny.
Your father was a spy.
He worked for me.
At the kgb,we are idealists.
We believethe soviet way of life is worth fighting for.
We believe that all shouldbe equal without poverty,crime,racist hatred, without all the thingsthat make america the grotesque giant it is.
And your abilityto pass for an american makes you an absolutelyunique soldier in this war.
Will you followin your father's footsteps? In the footsteps of men who carve out historyfrom blank stone? Yevgeny tsipin, I offer you a chanceto enlist in the ranks of those who promotethe genius and the generosityof the human spirit.
Will you fight this battleby my side? Chaps in my departmentbelieve vishnevsky's claim to be rubbish,of course, but,uh,the whole affair has caused a b-bitof a shaking down of the tree, so we'll see if anybad apples fall out.
Thank you,adrian.
James,anything? Who's that young manbehind you,frank? You've met leo kritzkyhalf a dozen times,jim.
Sharp as a tack.
Yes,but whatis he doing here? Colby is breaking him inas his future right-hand man.
Leo's one of us.
Angleton scare you,kritzky? He should.
Bite's worse than his bark.
I have conducted a thorough search here.
I hope you haven't beenpoking your nose into my phone records,james.
Your records are clean,frank,as are everyone else'sin the room.
Good lord,james,you have us followed,too? It is my opinionthat our house is clean.
The alleged mole in mi6,as I suspect-- an apparition.
Conclusion-- the defectionwas blown by a leak somewhere in berlin.
Son of a bitch! Well,if that's the way motherwants to play it,fine.
I'm game.
I'm gonna findthat mole,sport! Oh,by the way,here's your firstfully fledged asset to handle.
you are oldfor a ballet student.
How'd you knowI spoke english? Americans havea certain walk.
And how do I walk? With false confidence,as if you own the world.
You must be rainbow.
I find the name fitting.
You may call me lili.
You are not followed? You may turn.
Please.
give that to your boss.
See if he thinkswe are worth the effort.
It's still warm.
What is it? Herr professor workedall night on it.
Who's this professor? Your lover? If you follow me or try to find outwhere I live, I will end all contact.
I will not identifyherr professor-- not ever.
If your boss likeswhat's on the silk, you may meet me hereevery thursday.
this is the damnmother lode,sport.
Rainbow's professor sent us plain-text copies of messagesfrom east german higher ups and their soviet bossesin moscow.
Messages we intercepted,encrypted.
See,this--this code meant nothing until we gotthis piece of silk.
We cracked a code,gentlemen.
We cracked a damn code.
Down the hatch.
You did good.
You did real good.
You know,there'san old russian proverb that says you're supposedto wash the bear without gettingits fur wet.
That's whatI want you to do with this ballet dancerof yours.
Find out who rainbow is,where she lives and who this professor is.
the successful agent is invariably one who has mastered the art of thinking conventionally.
That is thinking as a member of the other side of the principle adversary.
and then that agent systematically challenges the conventional thinking to develop alternatives that will take the principle adversary by complete surprise.
this is how you will succeed,yevgeny.
This will be your weapon.
The peasants saythat bee stings can alleviate rheumatism.
Quietly,girls.
Your daughters? Nieces.
Aye! How many? A man can never havetoo many nieces.
They keep me feeling young.
Aye,aye--enough,enough.
I'm starting to preferthe idea of rheumatism to bee stings.
I have been toldby my people that the pentagon thinks there will be a warwith the soviet union.
They even have predicteda starting date-- America doesn't havethe appetite for another world war, let alone an atomic one.
I mean,they are foolishand greedy,yes,but not insane.
Americans are very goodat self-preservation.
I dislike summerso very much.
Why would anyonedislike summer? You must excuse meif I have awaked you.
I think that it's,awakened you.
Awakened you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Why would someonedislike summer? For the reasonthat it is too short.
I'm azalia.
Azalia ivanova.
Yevgeny.
Uh,nice to meet you.
Are you herewith your husband? no.
I have comewith my roommate.
She's the daughterof comrade khrushchev.
They are talking aboutboring party subjects.
And I was toldyou speak english.
I lust to practicemy english,yevgeny.
Is that correct? Yes,that's correct.
I lust as well,azalia.
it's a ticketto giselle.
Markova is dancing.
Hey,lili,no stringsattached,all right? It's,uh.
it's just a thank you for all the risks you've beenputting yourself through.
Come on.
We'll watch the ballet, and then I'll buy youone beer, and afterwards you canduck like a spider back to your crackin the wall.
I am tempted,jack-in-the-box.
I have heardalicia markova defies gravity.
All right,well,I'll be waiting in front ofthe opera house for you.
If you show,you show.
If you don't,well.
I will not show.
I am compiling names of those who disappeared, the many millionswho vanished.
Jews,gypsies,undesirables-- all gonewithout a whisper.
Stalin is worseeven than hitler.
a list like thatcould get you killed,azalia.
Don't be foolish.
azalia,what would you thinkif I told you that.
I might be going awayfor a while? For how long? perhaps a very long time.
I should be very upset,yevgeny.
Every time you call meon the telephone.
my heart races.
I can feel itin your voice.
The longing in your words.
That's because every timeI leave you.
a part of my soulstays in your possession.
Next sunday,my roommate will be away.
I want you to cometo my apartment.
I want to possessall of you now.
Danke.
I am here,jackstraw.
I knew you'd show.
Come on.
Let's see if this markova womandefies gravity.
How did you get here,jack? Doing this kind of work? And not the suave jack answer--the real answer.
There are some americanswho understand that we are ina life-and-death crisis with the communists.
When it's over,only one side will survive.
I've been askedto join the battle.
And you believe this? We're in a war,lili,and even though it's a cold one,it is no less deadly.
I believe thatin my soul.
How much do you believe it? Are you willing to perishfor this cause,or.
are you able to return to your safe american worldof comfort whenever you please? I may seem likethe cocky american who,uh,walkslike he owns the world, but that doesn't mean I don't havestrong convictions about the futureof this world.
What are you afraid of? I cannot know you.
I warned you of this.
If you get too close,if you try to find out who I am or who the professor is, you will never see me again.
rainbow's real name is helga agnesmittag de la fuente.
Her parents were spanishand german.
Her mother was arrestedfor spying for the republicans in the spanish civil war.
She was sentto the firing squad.
What about sniper? Herr professor? Uh,real name--ernst loffler.
Teaches theoretical physicsat the humboldt institute.
Before the war,sniper hung out with max planckand albert einstein.
A theoretical physicist-- wait till the wizhears about that.
Oh,do me a favor,sport, put a teardrop in,uh,sniper's wall.
That will be tricky.
There's an old womanthat lives below him,and she never goes out.
So kill her.
We can't just killsomebody,harvey.
We're--we're the good guys,remember? Can't you yale guystake a joke? Lure her out of the house.
Whatever.
okay.
You are to leavefor america within days.
Within days? Isn't thatwhat you wanted? Uh,of course.
It's just that-- it's,uh.
it's complicated.
Are you actuallyconsidering a jewish girl over the careerI have shaped for you, craftedsince you were a boy? Are you going to give up everything you havelearned here, all that you can dofor mother russia, for a zhidov girl? I love her.
zhidov girl or not.
Well,your abilityto love this jewish girl, the luxury to evenhave this freedom is only possible because menlike your father, your grandfatherand men like me have provided it for you, have sacrificed, have spilled blood and hadtheir own blood spilled.
Now it is timefor your sacrifice,yevgeny tsipin, for you to be a soldier and a man.
I don't knowwhat to do.
It is your choice,yevgeny-- a life of simple domesticitywith a woman who will never allow youto rise in the party ranks, or a lifeof changing the world.
I'm eugene.
Eugene dodgson.
What do you seewhen you watch yourself? my faults.
Only my faults.
This must be alwaysthe frontier of our intimacy.
We can go no further.
Herr professor lets you taketoo many risks.
I would neverlet that happen if you were mine.
I owe him my life.
Why? What happened? When the russian soldierscame through germany on drunken rampages.
I was 15.
That's when I metherr professor.
He showed me that lifewas worth living again.
I cannot leave.
come with me,lili.
I need you.
You do not need meas much as he needs me.
Why? - Without me - without you,what? Without you,what? Without me,herr professorcannot survive.
He's new? My shabbas goy.
Hamlet--he turns onthe lights, answers the phone and kills people for meon saturdays.
I didn't know you wereso religious,ezra.
I am a protectorof my people,harvey.
I want to savethe jews from stalin.
In that sense,I'm very religious.
But you do believein god? Certainly not.
I believe inan eye for an eye.
The mossad manual.
There's been a leak.
Maybe one of your shabbas goysmoonlights for the opposition.
Harvey,everyone herehas walked through fire.
Hamlet is missingall the fingernails of his right hand.
They were extractedby kgb pliers.
Keep your yarmulke on.
I'm just checkingall the angles.
There's a soviet molein the higher echelons of mi6.
We share everythingwith the british cousins-- everything! Don't I know it.
how can your rabbi help? That's why I'm here.
I need some advice.
Head to the source,harvey.
You still have connectionswith the brits from the war.
Go to london.
and bring a barium meal.
You look fit and fatall at once,harvey.
Are you? Both and neither.
You? I'm suffering from a touchof that aristocratic malady-- gout.
You wired,elihu? Afraid so,harv.
Friends are friends,but I have to cover my ass.
After your phone call,I'm very much afraid I shall have neither pension,nor retirement.
Well,you havemy sympathies.
Harvey,you realizewhat you're implying.
I'm not implying,elihu.
It's fact.
There's a mole inside mi6,and it's the russian kind.
Years ago,there wasa rumor floating around about a mole--code name parsifal-- supposedly trainedin his youth by a kgb agent known to usas starik.
Rumor or fact? You know what they sayabout rumors,harvey.
They're all true.
Parsifal,huh? If this parsifal has succeededin surviving all these years, he must bea master of deception.
How can ipossibly help you? Barium meals.
Barium meals? Yeah,it's a drink they giveyou when you go for an x-ray.
It shows up anything thatmight be floating around-- yes,I-I know whata barium meal is, harvey,but how does it pertainto parsifal? I'm gonna sendeach of my suspects in the vishnevsky leaka juicy piece of information about an ongoingsecret operation.
He'll think that thisoperation is being sent to many people alongthe pipeline.
Yeah,but you'll just sendit to one person.
Yeah,brilliant,harvey.
Quite brilliant.
You can't feed this parsifalany old junk.
He'll know the difference.
I know.
It has to bea real operation.
An ongoing secret operation, but it has to come from you,elihu.
Oh,no,harvey.
No,please.
Two years.
Two years,and I'll bedrinking and daydreaming.
Just release the memo.
Today.
harvey,you needto get some rest.
No,I can'T.
I'm waitingfor a phone call.
From whom? I don't know whom,but my nose'll twitch.
I'll man the phone.
No,no,no.
It's gotta be me.
Why? I sent outmy last barium meal to my prime suspect,to wit-- I know the identityof the soviet mole inside mi6 who betrayedthe vishnevsky defection.
In which case,my prime suspect willcontact his russian handlers, and they in turnwill do everything they can to either kidnapor kill me.
I-I thought the kgbdidn't do that to us,we don't do that to them? No,this isa special occasion.
They'll do everything they canto protect their mole.
If I'm offed,jack,it means my barium mealhit the target, and my prime suspectis confirmed.
That doesn't do us a lotof good if you're dead.
Well,I've left instructionsin the safe should I,uh,pass away.
what's on your mind? It's lili.
She hasn't beento the studio all week.
Doors are locked.
She hasn't tried to contact me.
Well,she'll turn up.
That's it--she'll turn up? What if she's hurt,harvey? What if the east germans have her? They don'T.
How do you know? Because we've been careful.
Haven't we? Listen to me,mcauliffe.
You can woo her.
You can screw her.
You can do whateveryou need to do to make her whispersweet secrets in your ear, but don't fall in love with her.
That way lies madness.
hello? Why,yes.
Yes,I'm very interestedin meeting this person.
herr torriti? In the flesh,my darling.
You are likingwhat you see? We are meeting againand performing exchange-- my letters,your 25 thousand american dollars.
Looks likewe have a deal.
Where and when? Here.
Tomorrow nacht.
You comprehend? I comprehend,madame.
tomorrow nacht it is.
If anything's going to happen,it's going to be now.
Coming out.
drop your weapon! That was the ambush,harvey? that was amateur hour.
Where the hell'dthey come from? You are having trouble? Shoot him,sport.
Let's skedaddle.
phony cops to save youfrom a phony mugging.
Oh,get in the car,they say,for your own safety.
Sure,why not? You gotno reason not to trust 'em.
And then--whoosh! Nobody sees you againin the western sector.
The good news isI can now identify the soviet mole in mi6 without a shadow of a doubt.
I'm gonna nailthat bastard! ike and I have been friends for 20 years.
I had his office check you out,young man,and you don't workfor the state department.
Sir,I came here to ask foryour blessing,not to quibble.
I don't think inquiringabout the prospects of a man who wants to marrymy daughter is quibbling, especially when he liesabout his work.
Especially when he works Cockroach alley.
the cia,mr.
Kritzky.
That's where youspend your days.
I want you to knowthat your daughter has been a bright ray of sunlight in my gloomy daysat the office.
She makes me happy.
I look forwardto being with her,and I'm in lovewith her,sir.
Do you love him,honey? I do,daddy.
I really do.
I can tell you one thing,kritzky.
Your taste in matesis better than my daughter'S.
That's the truth,sir.
Oh,daddy,thank you! I knew you'd like him.
my dear yevgeny,by now,you're established within our principal adversary's homeland.
You are the most vital piece of this great game at this time.
You will be activated several times a year-- sometimes not at all for several months.
Be patient.
I will never contact you again this way, but you will always feel my guiding hand.
Be brave.
Be clever,and you will someday come home a hero of mother russia.
In what well-known book do you find the lines "and the moral of that is.
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ths more there is of mine, the less there is of yours?" lewis carroll's alice adventures is wonderland that is correct and tonight's winning lottery numbers are.
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This is eugene.
Who's this? that isnot important.
I am only to tell you how to contact and delivernecessary items to a man named parsifal.
Go to dead drop 6 thursdayat 3:00 P.
M.
With bag and place on park benchnext to you.
Wait theretill you are met.
After,go to georgetownuniversity law library at precisely 3:45 P.
M.
Go to blackstone's commentaryof laws of england and remove volume fourfrom shelf.
Within it will be addressand telephone number for parsifal and a calling card of sorts.
starik must be combingpreparatory schools for his spies these days.
My working name is eugene.
American,are you? Starik sends gifts.
Well,these'll doin a pinch.
Oh,good,good.
Oh,and listen, I've heard news that the headof the berlin station is on to the f-factthat I exist.
He may even knowmy identity,which could bea problem-- b-bloody big problem.
I'll pass it along.
What's his name? Harvey torriti.
He's known asthe sorcerer.
Where have you been? I thought the kgbhad you,lili! I'm sorry,jack.
There wasno way of getting word to you.
If you had been arrested.
we had to go to dresdenfor a funeral.
Herr professor's brotherdied suddenly.
There was no possibilityfor me to tell you in time.
I can't lose you,lili.
Then do not lose me.
The momentI treasure most is when I wakefrom a heavy sleep and do not knowwhere I am.
For a few delicious seconds,I am in a huge void free of gravity.
At such moments I dance as I have neverbeen able to before.
That is what it is likewhen I am with you.
What are we gonna do,lili? We will keep playingthe game,jack,until the game is over.
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a letter has beenattached to back of garbage bin behind storesat m and fourth streets.
I would liketo speak more with you but have been instructed not to.
jack mcauliffe! Jacko! Borisov! Vanka borisov--the european crew championship.
Munich.
I was rowing strokein a russian coxed four.
Oh,yeah! You and meand leo kritzky-- we fell crazy in love with threeaustralian peacenik sisters, and we drank and screwedthem till sunrise.
Oh,of course--borisov! I-I'm sorry.
What are you doing in berlin? Zwei beer,peter.
I'm at the sovietimport/export commission.
We conducttrade negotiations withthe german democratic republic.
What about yourself,jacko? I landed a soft jobwith the state department.
Cheers! ah,the only thing betterthan a soft job is a soft woman,huh,jacko? Hey.
Did you everget to the states to, um,screw the peace-and freedom-loving women of colorado, I believe you said? I don't know how youcame up with colorado.
I saw photos of colorado in a banned copyof life magazine-- beautiful country.
I think they musthave beautiful women,da? Ah,probably.
I-I'venever been to colorado.
And I never gotto the U.
S.
Tell me something,jack.
What's a lot of moneyover there? well,it dependson the-- on the person's tastes.
Uh,I mean,if theyhave expensive tastes,if they have to havea-a cadillac and all that,um.
let's say,for the sakeof argument,they have expensive tastes.
Is $25,000 a lot of doughover there? $50,000? It's a good amount.
Tell me,jack.
What do you makeat the,what was it again,state department? I make $6,000a year,borisov.
Hmm,I see.
And what if someonewere to come to you, right here,right now, and offer you150,000 bucks in cash? In exchange for what? In exchange for the odd pieceof information.
If the amount is not enough,we can negotiate,jacko.
Please,jack.
You're in the greatgame now,as am I, and in the game,all is negotiable.
All is possible--everything.
Anything.
It's always good to seean old crew buddy, but if we run intoeach other again, borisov,things might notbe so pleasant.
they are you in a go ahead,sir.
well,still stickingto your story, kritzky,that you're workingfor the state department? who is it out there,phil? It's that clown who up and proposedto my daughter,mr.
President.
He's got your,uh,dailybriefing here in his hand.
He must be rising upin the ranks of the company pretty quickly,sir.
Kritzky? Well,don't let himstand out there,phil.
Send the poor sap in.
Son of a bitch.
what I am doing is I'm breeding a hybrid orchid known as the cattleya cross.
It comes in a rainbow of colors.
I plan on naming itafter my wife cicely.
That chair will neverhold your weight,harvey.
Your horticultural lesson'svery interesting,jim.
Well,crossing orchidsis a very long,very tedious process, not unlike the business of counterespionage.
You don't say.
I do say.
It can take 12 monthsjust to develop the seedpod and then another 12 months for that pod to sprouteven an inch or 2.
The eventual flowering, if there evenis a flowering can take five years.
Counterespionageis like that.
It requires the patienceof a saint, which you,harvey,do not have.
I'm here to tell you thatI'm going to the director to lay out my caseagainst your pal philby.
Adrian? What case? He blew the vishnevskydefection,for one thing.
He's a soviet spy,jim-- has been sincethe early '30s.
You are joking.
I don't joke about traitors.
That's rubbish.
Rubbish.
I've known adrianfor 15 years.
He's been vetted a dozen times,and you know that,harvey.
And you know there are waysaround a lie detector test.
The russians are mastersat beating them.
You're not seriousabout this? I'm as seriousas a $5 whore, serious enough to flyacross the atlantic overnight sitting on a mailbag.
Adrian kim philby is working for the kgb.
As the company'scounterintelligence honcho, I thought it was only fairthat you be warned.
And on top of that,I thinkwe should take precautions to make sure philby doesn't fly the coop.
Are you hearing meon this,jim? Take precautions.
You'll only make a foolof yourself,harvey.
I've got the son of a bitchby the balls! so do you stilldislike summer so very much? It's you.
Yeah,it's me,azalia.
Yevgeny.
I thought you were goneforever from my life.
I thought the worst,that I would neversee you again.
that.
that you would disappear,like my parents.
Well,I'm alive,azalia.
I'm well,and I miss you.
But.
where are you,yevgeny? Why did younot say good-bye? I'm sorry.
I can tell you nothing,other thanthat I'm doing my duty.
and I longto be with you.
please deposit25 cents.
I have to go.
But at least,tell me where you are, at least that so I can see youin my mind and-- and know you're safe.
America.
I'm in america.
america.
Thanks for coming,buddy.
Wouldn't have missed itfor the world.
She's beautiful.
How the hell'd you find her? Well,she found me,I think.
She found mewhen no one else could.
The hours I've been working,I feel like a coal miner-- never see the light of day,and then she.
came along.
I'm happy for you.
I'm really happy.
MaybeI'll settle down someday.
And maybe it'll snow in hell.
No.
Oh,come on,buddy! This party's gonnacarry on after we go.
There are lotsof single girls here.
Well,I'm on a short leash.
Gotta get back to berlinto handle my asset.
I thought the sorcererwas in D.
C.
He doesn't want metagging along after him like a littlelost duckling.
I'm heading out tonight.
Oh,I see.
Poor jack has to go back to hislong-legged ballet dancer/asset,the rainbow.
Tough life.
Leo honey,everyone's waiting.
I'm coming.
Fine.
Starting to be tough.
Hey,what's that look? What look? That love look.
Aw,come on.
It's all overyour face,buddy.
There,you see? Come on,stay for a bit.
We'll go rowingin a couple days.
You can tell me all about her.
No.
I'm on the 11:00 P.
M.
Airmail charter to berlin.
Come on.
You got a honeymoon to think of.
Yeah,if that's whatyou want to call it.
Two nightsat the hay-adams.
They want me backat work on monday.
Yeah,we all gotta makesome sacrifices,buddy.
There's a war on,a cold one.
So I've heard.
Leo,let's go! oh,don't worry,jack.
I'll take good care of him.
I didn't order anything.
Yes,you did.
who is it,adrian? Just a liquordelivery,james.
Didn't want itto run out on us,did we? there'sinstructions inside.
Now keep the change,old boy.
hello,jack.
Your tradecraftis excellent.
Borisov.
We know you alwayscome by here,but we lose youafter that.
Every time,we lose you.
How do you do it? Don't makea mistake,jack.
We just want to talk.
Talk about what? The girl.
Who is she? I wish there was a girl,borisov.
Where does she live? We saw you with herat the restaurant,then again at the opera.
Who is she? It was the ballet,asshole! come again to east berlin,and we will kill you,jack! Do you hear me? We will kill you! at least have doc pattersoncheck you out.
I'm fine.
Maybe you can give mea hand with something then, if you're feelingall fine and dandy.
What do you got? It's these transcripts fromthe teardrop in sniper's flat.
What about 'em? I comparedthe surveillance tapes with the informationwe got from rainbow's silk.
And.
there are someminor discrepancies.
good how.
.
how How do you knowour real names? Why do you risk coming herebefore the arranged time? Because what I haveto say can't wait,helga.
Your professor,your supposed savior,has betrayed you.
He works for the kgb.
He's what we calla disinformation agent, giving us variationsof the truth and trying to get usto spin our wheels and-- and to send usin the wrong direction.
The silk I gave you wasfilled with valuable items.
You read it,jack.
Leftoversfrom a lousy meal.
All the good stuffwas edited out.
How could you know this? We bugged your apartment.
The professor was speaking with another scientistcolleague the other night.
When you left the room, theytraded secrets with each other, none of which ended upon the silk.
I must leave.
Lili,you don't understand.
It's over.
Now I have a truckaround the corner.
It has a compartmentwe can hide you in.
We need to get you out ofthe soviet sector now-- for good.
I cannot leave,jack.
I cannot.
The professor used you.
He is a soviet agent.
Wake up! But I am awake,jack.
It is not.
I am awake.
It is not herr professorwho is a soviet agent.
It's me.
I have betrayed him.
I have betrayed you.
what? The kgb found out that we weregiving you information.
To this day,I do not know how.
They told methat ernst would be tried for high treason and shot.
They said I wouldnever dance again, because they would-- because they wouldbreak my kneecaps.
God,lili.
They promised ernstwould not be hurt if.
if you delivereddisinformation to me.
They said it wasthe only way out.
I took the silkto the kgb,who wouldedit the information.
I would give the new silkto you at the studio.
After each meeting,I was supposed to writea report about everything.
They knowyour identity,jack.
Borisov.
they tried to kill meto keep.
of course.
It was a charade to make me trust youeven more,wasn't it? they swore to meyou would not be hurt.
they did not tell me whatthey were planning to do.
I wanted to die,jack.
did you tell them thatyou're in love with me? Are you even in love with me,lili? Or are you that good? I love you more than anythingin this world,jack.
Lili,if he loves you,if he truly loves you, he would want youto save yourself.
youcould save us,jack.
you could saveus.
You could take us both.
It's too risky.
It won't work! We can meet tonight at 7:00 when the crowds will be thick.
It could work.
It must work.
It is the only way.
Don't this to me,lili.
Please.
tonight at 7:00,my dearest.
mother himself knowsthat there is a kgb agent somewhere inside the britishintelligence community.
Jim knows that this agent,code name parsifal, was supposedly recruitedand trained in spain duringthe spanish civil war by none other than the soviet case officer known only as starik.
Your point? Philby was on assignmentfor the london times during the spanish civil war,allen.
James doesn't think you've madeyour case at all,harvey.
Mother's too close to this.
He's an unwitting pawnin starik's game.
I made sure that noneof our british friends received any memos concerningthe vishnevsky defection, yet jim here dines weekly withphilby.
They share information.
Jim,your officeis the only place where he could havefound out about vishnevsky.
Your line of reasoningis intriguing,but,uh, what if it's justa series of coincidences? In our line of work,coincidences don't exist.
Monday,january 1st,torriti's cable arrived on james angleton's desk.
Starting late afternoonon tuesday,january 2nd, radio intercept logsshow a dramatic increase in the volumeof cipher wireless traffic between the soviet embassy and moscow.
Now it seems to me that someonesomewhere pushed a button.
Jim,did you show philby the memoon vishnevsky's defection? It is standard that philby and ishared information.
Yes,I showed himthe vishnevsky memo.
Proves nothing.
A leak can comefrom anywhere-- a courier,a secretary,a nosy office worker.
I fed philby a barium mealto the effect that I could identifythe soviet mole inside mi6.
The very next week,a bunch of jokers in berlin tried to take meout of circulation.
I call thatproof positive! What mr.
Torriti failsto mention in his report is that adrian philby knew everything about his hottest sourcein germany-- code name rainbow,code name sniper.
They're stillgiving us information on a weekly basis.
Now if adrian philbywere a soviet spy, would not operation sniper have been shut downimmediately by the kgb? Sniper is still delivering,isn't he,harvey? Yes he is,jim.
Then there youhave it,gentlemen.
He's delivering disinformation.
I suppose you're preparedto elaborate on that.
I suppose I am.
Yesterday I receiveda flash memo from my apprenticejack mcauliffe.
He's the manhandling rainbow.
The russians already knewabout the operation, and they turned rainbowinto their agent, which is why sniperwasn't shut down when philby passed it onto his handlers.
There are two.
There are five,seven.
different ways to interpret any given set of facts.
Oh,face it! Your buddy's a damn spy.
He's been betraying assetsfor years.
His actions have causedthe deaths of dozens,maybe hundreds.
Wake up! So who pushedthe bloody p-panic button? Maclean fled englandlast night.
What's the problem? Burgess went with him.
Burgess buggered offas well? Bloody little bastard! Starik figures you don'thave a lot of time to flee the country.
You brought your backuppassport,I hope.
So starik wants meto run for it? You don't have a choice.
In that,there's hair dye,a mustache,eyeglasses,$4,800 in $10s and $20s.
The car has clean plates.
Your route's written outfor you.
There'll be a boat waitingfor you in halifax.
You've been on the firing linefor a long time.
It's time for youto come home.
Home? I'm a c-c-communist and a m-marxist, but russia is not my home.
England is my home.
What I relishedall these years was the great game.
But I'm n-necessary.
Without me,starik has nothing.
Starik has another.
I hadn't thought of that.
Of course,he would do that,wouldn't he? Starik is bloody brilliant.
Philby didn't comeinto the office this morning, and there was no answerat his house.
Ernst? Faster! Come on! Any faster,and weturn over,mr.
Jack.
it wasn't your fault,jack.
You offered hera ticket out.
She wanted to savethe professor.
I should have insistedthat she come with me.
It wasn't your fault.
She said the kgbhad caught on to her.
Said she didn't know how.
Let me ask yousomething,harvey.
Lili wasn't part of yourbarium meals,was she? 'cause if she was,harvey,if she was.
sniper was my crown jewel.
I was readyto give up a lot.
but not sniperand not rainbow.
There's no way I'd putlili and the professor on the line.
On my mother's grave,kid.
Onwards and upwards.
yeah.
Onwards.
Whatever.
there i have anther? code.
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with .
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and when.
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You must be,said the cat, or you wouldn't have come here.
I think we may have over stayed our welcome here.
20 minutes late.
I don't think our prospective joe is gonna show up,sport.
We should go.
What are we doing here,harvey? What are we doin' here? Well,we're not in this dry-rotten rain wash of a city because I like it or because it brightens my life any.
We're here because the goths are at the damn gate,plain and simple, and somebody's gotta man the damn gate.
And you're that somebody,harv? Yeah,sure.
Why not? sweet jesus doesn't see anyone down there.
Should he keep looking? Oh,my back.
what's sweet jesus sayin'? He says it's cold down there.
They say there are 7,000 spies in berlin, all ready to put down cold cash for secrets.
Oh,maybe we got outbid.
Quiet! he's here! I am constantine vishnevsky.
now getting you,your wife and your child out of east germany's very complicated.
A lot of people will be asked to jeopardize their lives for you.
A lot of money will be spent to set you and your family up in the united states, and what I'm getting tonight,buddy, just doesn't warrant that expense.
But I--what I gave you-- yeah,I could get it for a lotless sturm and drang,buddy.
What if.
I am able to reveal the identity of a soviet agent in britain's intelligenceservice--the mi6? You got a name? No.
I know precise datehe was debriefed in stockholm last summer and date of debrief in zurichthe previous winter.
No,I'm gonna needmore than that.
With that information,evena child could identify him.
Wait! Wait.
I give you the recording of this soviet mole'slast debrief.
I give youthe man's voice.
since last night, I have been meticulouslycross-referencing vishnevsky's informationfrom the sorcerer'S.
His bona fidesmatch my information.
good.
Keep me informed.
Will do.
Any s-spies in the house? Adrian,take a load off.
Tell me what worlds you'veconquered this morning.
You and your damn cards.
How do you keep trackof them all? Well.
certain cardssimply cry out for me.
I am their mother.
A s-soviet molein mi6.
It can't be.
Everything in the sorcerer'sreport checked out.
Sorcerer planson smuggling vishnevsky and his family intowest berlin tomorrow night.
Kgb won't even knowhe's missing till we havethe tape in hand.
I can hardly believe this,but vishnevsky seems b-bloody legitimateto me,james.
The more valuablethe real information, the biggerthe potential deception.
True genius,as churchill taught us, resides in the capacityto evaluate conflicting information.
You,jimbo,have true genius.
No,it's true.
You have that unique skillto find patterns within what seems like conflicting trivia and useless piecesof information.
And patterns,as every spyworth his salt grasps, are the shells of conspiracy.
Deceptionswithin deceptions.
Moves behind moves.
Well,don't get lost in the wildernessof mirrors.
mother.
okay,let's playthis one out.
Let's say vishnevskyis a disinformation agent.
He'd be programmedto give us his history chapter and verse without soundinglike he made it up.
Does thathave to be on? Prying ears,sport.
Bugs have been found.
How do we know the kgbisn't one step ahead? You know,that--that theyprogrammed vishnevsky to hem and haw his waythrough the legend? My nose didn't twitch.
My nose always twitcheswhen I sniff a phony.
And if vishnevsky is a black agent? Even if we know the defectoris a double agent, we play the gameas if we don't know.
We use the false informationthe russians are giving us against them.
Plus,we use somedisinformation of our own.
It's a delicate game,isn't it? More than you know.
But in orderto be a player,you gotta cross overinto the, uh,wilderness of mirrors.
Angleton's words,not mine.
What if I don't want to? You already have.
push! Set three,push! Set four! Five! congratulations! Uh,hello.
Who in the devilwas that? Yevgeny tsipin--thief of raccoon coat as well as girlfriends.
And she's slipping away.
So are you a stalinistor a marxist,yevgeny? I'm neither.
I'm A.
a tolstoyist.
And who knows what that means? well,tolstoy spentmost of his life searching fora unifying theory-- a single key that wouldunlock every door.
Booze? a universal explanationfor our poverty,our politics,our passions.
Economics.
My parents were chased outof russia by the bolsheviks, and here I amrooming with one.
You know,that isvery insulting,leo.
It's very insulting.
I am not a bolshevist--bolshevik.
what I am is,um.
I'm--I'm--I'm drunk.
one final toast.
To all the good talkswe've had along this river when we probably should havebeen studying for exams.
This is probablythe last of our talks,gents.
And stella.
The troika.
the truman doctrine of 1947 promised that america would aid free peoples everywhere in the struggle against totalitarianism.
The principal instrumentof american foreign policy in that struggle isthe central intelligence agency.
Make no mistake about it-- western civilizationis under attack.
It is a war of attrition and a very thin line of patriotsmans the ramparts.
Who will remain standingthe longest? Class of '46.
Skull and bones.
Elliott ebbitt iii.
Call me ebby.
Jack mcauliffe.
Leo kritzky.
Class of '50.
How'd you knowwe were yale? Please.
So how'd you twoget tapped? our crew coach.
You? O.
S.
S.
In the war.
There areno textbooks on spying.
You make it upas you go along.
And the real world of espionage is less glamorousand, uh,a lot more dangerous than any fiction writercan imagine.
It's a lifetime of secrets,of countermoves and deception.
Those who do not wantto enter this world can leave nowwithout embarrassment.
To those who choose to stay,welcome to the company.
In my experience,russiansare always late for meetings and early for defections.
If vishnevsky's blown,harvey,the safehouse could be blown.
Yeah,I know that,sport.
That's why my nose istwitchin' to beat the band.
you wanna stop that? Yes,okay.
Yes.
let's pack up.
Move out.
Sweet jesuspicked up the dog.
That means trouble.
Police! Let's disappear.
Yeah,disappearingsounds good.
damn! come on.
But my radio! Leave the damn radio! that oughta slowthe bastards down.
damn crap-piss holster! only the ones in uniform.
not to shoot! hold yourfire,jack! Not to shoot! Not to shoot.
I'm kgb! Kgb's not on the menu.
If they don't shoot at us,we don't shoot at them.
I know it is you,torriti! Drop your weapon! now can anyone-- anyone on my payroll tell me how that happened? vishnevsky now hasa rendezvous with a bulletin the back of his skull.
His wife and kid'll probablyspend the rest of their lives in a labor camp.
Vishnevsky counted on me to gethim out,and I didn't do it.
How come every assetwe try and pull in winds up in frontof a firing squad? And why is all the informationwe're getting garbage? And how come the kgb knows moreabout what we're doing than we do? Why? I'll tell you why.
'Cause we're beingjerked around by a damn mole! Do you believethe sorcerer,jimbo? I believehe believes it.
If the leak really wasin the company's end, the mole in mi6 wouldhave to have heard it from the deputy directorof operations or the D.
C.
I.
Himself.
That's a handfulof very powerful people.
Do you knowwhat you're saying? If he does exist,I will find that mole.
Believe me.
Well,use caution when shaking thosecorridors of power,jimbo.
pavel,you honor uswith your presence.
My son,I would like youto meet an old friendof your mother'S.
Pavel zhilov.
It is a shamethat a tragedy should bring you homefrom your studies in america.
Your father is very proud.
Thank you,comrade zhilov.
Starik to my friends.
I remember howyour mother loved to read.
Dostoyevskywas her favorite.
She seemed like a characterstraight from one of his books the way she would spit overher shoulder for good luck.
The way she would always sit-- on her suitcase before every voyage.
What did your fathertell you about me? Only that I would be foolishnot to come here today.
I would like you to dosomething for me,yevgeny.
Speak to me plainlyand openly about a subject that holds a greatfascination for me-- america.
America is,um.
america is a countryfilled with a great people.
I have a great affectionfor america.
I cannot ignoretheir faults or their shortcomings.
Americans aretrapped in A.
a system which brings outthe worst in them.
They're raised to believethat democracy is the ideal, yet they turn a blind eyeto the 25 million americans that go to bedhungry every night.
Your american englishis impeccable.
You went to high schoolin new york city,then to yale.
Your mother taughtyou english as well as germanand french.
You have an aptitudefor languages.
Your grades at yalewere of the highest order.
You were popular.
You made friends.
Your troika,as you called it,included jack mcauliffeand leo kritzky.
How do you know that? It was I who positionedyour father at the united nations, and it was I who made sureyou got into yale.
I am a generalin the kgb,yevgeny.
Your father was a spy.
He worked for me.
At the kgb,we are idealists.
We believethe soviet way of life is worth fighting for.
We believe that all shouldbe equal without poverty,crime,racist hatred, without all the thingsthat make america the grotesque giant it is.
And your abilityto pass for an american makes you an absolutelyunique soldier in this war.
Will you followin your father's footsteps? In the footsteps of men who carve out historyfrom blank stone? Yevgeny tsipin, I offer you a chanceto enlist in the ranks of those who promotethe genius and the generosityof the human spirit.
Will you fight this battleby my side? Chaps in my departmentbelieve vishnevsky's claim to be rubbish,of course, but,uh,the whole affair has caused a b-bitof a shaking down of the tree, so we'll see if anybad apples fall out.
Thank you,adrian.
James,anything? Who's that young manbehind you,frank? You've met leo kritzkyhalf a dozen times,jim.
Sharp as a tack.
Yes,but whatis he doing here? Colby is breaking him inas his future right-hand man.
Leo's one of us.
Angleton scare you,kritzky? He should.
Bite's worse than his bark.
I have conducted a thorough search here.
I hope you haven't beenpoking your nose into my phone records,james.
Your records are clean,frank,as are everyone else'sin the room.
Good lord,james,you have us followed,too? It is my opinionthat our house is clean.
The alleged mole in mi6,as I suspect-- an apparition.
Conclusion-- the defectionwas blown by a leak somewhere in berlin.
Son of a bitch! Well,if that's the way motherwants to play it,fine.
I'm game.
I'm gonna findthat mole,sport! Oh,by the way,here's your firstfully fledged asset to handle.
you are oldfor a ballet student.
How'd you knowI spoke english? Americans havea certain walk.
And how do I walk? With false confidence,as if you own the world.
You must be rainbow.
I find the name fitting.
You may call me lili.
You are not followed? You may turn.
Please.
give that to your boss.
See if he thinkswe are worth the effort.
It's still warm.
What is it? Herr professor workedall night on it.
Who's this professor? Your lover? If you follow me or try to find outwhere I live, I will end all contact.
I will not identifyherr professor-- not ever.
If your boss likeswhat's on the silk, you may meet me hereevery thursday.
this is the damnmother lode,sport.
Rainbow's professor sent us plain-text copies of messagesfrom east german higher ups and their soviet bossesin moscow.
Messages we intercepted,encrypted.
See,this--this code meant nothing until we gotthis piece of silk.
We cracked a code,gentlemen.
We cracked a damn code.
Down the hatch.
You did good.
You did real good.
You know,there'san old russian proverb that says you're supposedto wash the bear without gettingits fur wet.
That's whatI want you to do with this ballet dancerof yours.
Find out who rainbow is,where she lives and who this professor is.
the successful agent is invariably one who has mastered the art of thinking conventionally.
That is thinking as a member of the other side of the principle adversary.
and then that agent systematically challenges the conventional thinking to develop alternatives that will take the principle adversary by complete surprise.
this is how you will succeed,yevgeny.
This will be your weapon.
The peasants saythat bee stings can alleviate rheumatism.
Quietly,girls.
Your daughters? Nieces.
Aye! How many? A man can never havetoo many nieces.
They keep me feeling young.
Aye,aye--enough,enough.
I'm starting to preferthe idea of rheumatism to bee stings.
I have been toldby my people that the pentagon thinks there will be a warwith the soviet union.
They even have predicteda starting date-- America doesn't havethe appetite for another world war, let alone an atomic one.
I mean,they are foolishand greedy,yes,but not insane.
Americans are very goodat self-preservation.
I dislike summerso very much.
Why would anyonedislike summer? You must excuse meif I have awaked you.
I think that it's,awakened you.
Awakened you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Why would someonedislike summer? For the reasonthat it is too short.
I'm azalia.
Azalia ivanova.
Yevgeny.
Uh,nice to meet you.
Are you herewith your husband? no.
I have comewith my roommate.
She's the daughterof comrade khrushchev.
They are talking aboutboring party subjects.
And I was toldyou speak english.
I lust to practicemy english,yevgeny.
Is that correct? Yes,that's correct.
I lust as well,azalia.
it's a ticketto giselle.
Markova is dancing.
Hey,lili,no stringsattached,all right? It's,uh.
it's just a thank you for all the risks you've beenputting yourself through.
Come on.
We'll watch the ballet, and then I'll buy youone beer, and afterwards you canduck like a spider back to your crackin the wall.
I am tempted,jack-in-the-box.
I have heardalicia markova defies gravity.
All right,well,I'll be waiting in front ofthe opera house for you.
If you show,you show.
If you don't,well.
I will not show.
I am compiling names of those who disappeared, the many millionswho vanished.
Jews,gypsies,undesirables-- all gonewithout a whisper.
Stalin is worseeven than hitler.
a list like thatcould get you killed,azalia.
Don't be foolish.
azalia,what would you thinkif I told you that.
I might be going awayfor a while? For how long? perhaps a very long time.
I should be very upset,yevgeny.
Every time you call meon the telephone.
my heart races.
I can feel itin your voice.
The longing in your words.
That's because every timeI leave you.
a part of my soulstays in your possession.
Next sunday,my roommate will be away.
I want you to cometo my apartment.
I want to possessall of you now.
Danke.
I am here,jackstraw.
I knew you'd show.
Come on.
Let's see if this markova womandefies gravity.
How did you get here,jack? Doing this kind of work? And not the suave jack answer--the real answer.
There are some americanswho understand that we are ina life-and-death crisis with the communists.
When it's over,only one side will survive.
I've been askedto join the battle.
And you believe this? We're in a war,lili,and even though it's a cold one,it is no less deadly.
I believe thatin my soul.
How much do you believe it? Are you willing to perishfor this cause,or.
are you able to return to your safe american worldof comfort whenever you please? I may seem likethe cocky american who,uh,walkslike he owns the world, but that doesn't mean I don't havestrong convictions about the futureof this world.
What are you afraid of? I cannot know you.
I warned you of this.
If you get too close,if you try to find out who I am or who the professor is, you will never see me again.
rainbow's real name is helga agnesmittag de la fuente.
Her parents were spanishand german.
Her mother was arrestedfor spying for the republicans in the spanish civil war.
She was sentto the firing squad.
What about sniper? Herr professor? Uh,real name--ernst loffler.
Teaches theoretical physicsat the humboldt institute.
Before the war,sniper hung out with max planckand albert einstein.
A theoretical physicist-- wait till the wizhears about that.
Oh,do me a favor,sport, put a teardrop in,uh,sniper's wall.
That will be tricky.
There's an old womanthat lives below him,and she never goes out.
So kill her.
We can't just killsomebody,harvey.
We're--we're the good guys,remember? Can't you yale guystake a joke? Lure her out of the house.
Whatever.
okay.
You are to leavefor america within days.
Within days? Isn't thatwhat you wanted? Uh,of course.
It's just that-- it's,uh.
it's complicated.
Are you actuallyconsidering a jewish girl over the careerI have shaped for you, craftedsince you were a boy? Are you going to give up everything you havelearned here, all that you can dofor mother russia, for a zhidov girl? I love her.
zhidov girl or not.
Well,your abilityto love this jewish girl, the luxury to evenhave this freedom is only possible because menlike your father, your grandfatherand men like me have provided it for you, have sacrificed, have spilled blood and hadtheir own blood spilled.
Now it is timefor your sacrifice,yevgeny tsipin, for you to be a soldier and a man.
I don't knowwhat to do.
It is your choice,yevgeny-- a life of simple domesticitywith a woman who will never allow youto rise in the party ranks, or a lifeof changing the world.
I'm eugene.
Eugene dodgson.
What do you seewhen you watch yourself? my faults.
Only my faults.
This must be alwaysthe frontier of our intimacy.
We can go no further.
Herr professor lets you taketoo many risks.
I would neverlet that happen if you were mine.
I owe him my life.
Why? What happened? When the russian soldierscame through germany on drunken rampages.
I was 15.
That's when I metherr professor.
He showed me that lifewas worth living again.
I cannot leave.
come with me,lili.
I need you.
You do not need meas much as he needs me.
Why? - Without me - without you,what? Without you,what? Without me,herr professorcannot survive.
He's new? My shabbas goy.
Hamlet--he turns onthe lights, answers the phone and kills people for meon saturdays.
I didn't know you wereso religious,ezra.
I am a protectorof my people,harvey.
I want to savethe jews from stalin.
In that sense,I'm very religious.
But you do believein god? Certainly not.
I believe inan eye for an eye.
The mossad manual.
There's been a leak.
Maybe one of your shabbas goysmoonlights for the opposition.
Harvey,everyone herehas walked through fire.
Hamlet is missingall the fingernails of his right hand.
They were extractedby kgb pliers.
Keep your yarmulke on.
I'm just checkingall the angles.
There's a soviet molein the higher echelons of mi6.
We share everythingwith the british cousins-- everything! Don't I know it.
how can your rabbi help? That's why I'm here.
I need some advice.
Head to the source,harvey.
You still have connectionswith the brits from the war.
Go to london.
and bring a barium meal.
You look fit and fatall at once,harvey.
Are you? Both and neither.
You? I'm suffering from a touchof that aristocratic malady-- gout.
You wired,elihu? Afraid so,harv.
Friends are friends,but I have to cover my ass.
After your phone call,I'm very much afraid I shall have neither pension,nor retirement.
Well,you havemy sympathies.
Harvey,you realizewhat you're implying.
I'm not implying,elihu.
It's fact.
There's a mole inside mi6,and it's the russian kind.
Years ago,there wasa rumor floating around about a mole--code name parsifal-- supposedly trainedin his youth by a kgb agent known to usas starik.
Rumor or fact? You know what they sayabout rumors,harvey.
They're all true.
Parsifal,huh? If this parsifal has succeededin surviving all these years, he must bea master of deception.
How can ipossibly help you? Barium meals.
Barium meals? Yeah,it's a drink they giveyou when you go for an x-ray.
It shows up anything thatmight be floating around-- yes,I-I know whata barium meal is, harvey,but how does it pertainto parsifal? I'm gonna sendeach of my suspects in the vishnevsky leaka juicy piece of information about an ongoingsecret operation.
He'll think that thisoperation is being sent to many people alongthe pipeline.
Yeah,but you'll just sendit to one person.
Yeah,brilliant,harvey.
Quite brilliant.
You can't feed this parsifalany old junk.
He'll know the difference.
I know.
It has to bea real operation.
An ongoing secret operation, but it has to come from you,elihu.
Oh,no,harvey.
No,please.
Two years.
Two years,and I'll bedrinking and daydreaming.
Just release the memo.
Today.
harvey,you needto get some rest.
No,I can'T.
I'm waitingfor a phone call.
From whom? I don't know whom,but my nose'll twitch.
I'll man the phone.
No,no,no.
It's gotta be me.
Why? I sent outmy last barium meal to my prime suspect,to wit-- I know the identityof the soviet mole inside mi6 who betrayedthe vishnevsky defection.
In which case,my prime suspect willcontact his russian handlers, and they in turnwill do everything they can to either kidnapor kill me.
I-I thought the kgbdidn't do that to us,we don't do that to them? No,this isa special occasion.
They'll do everything they canto protect their mole.
If I'm offed,jack,it means my barium mealhit the target, and my prime suspectis confirmed.
That doesn't do us a lotof good if you're dead.
Well,I've left instructionsin the safe should I,uh,pass away.
what's on your mind? It's lili.
She hasn't beento the studio all week.
Doors are locked.
She hasn't tried to contact me.
Well,she'll turn up.
That's it--she'll turn up? What if she's hurt,harvey? What if the east germans have her? They don'T.
How do you know? Because we've been careful.
Haven't we? Listen to me,mcauliffe.
You can woo her.
You can screw her.
You can do whateveryou need to do to make her whispersweet secrets in your ear, but don't fall in love with her.
That way lies madness.
hello? Why,yes.
Yes,I'm very interestedin meeting this person.
herr torriti? In the flesh,my darling.
You are likingwhat you see? We are meeting againand performing exchange-- my letters,your 25 thousand american dollars.
Looks likewe have a deal.
Where and when? Here.
Tomorrow nacht.
You comprehend? I comprehend,madame.
tomorrow nacht it is.
If anything's going to happen,it's going to be now.
Coming out.
drop your weapon! That was the ambush,harvey? that was amateur hour.
Where the hell'dthey come from? You are having trouble? Shoot him,sport.
Let's skedaddle.
phony cops to save youfrom a phony mugging.
Oh,get in the car,they say,for your own safety.
Sure,why not? You gotno reason not to trust 'em.
And then--whoosh! Nobody sees you againin the western sector.
The good news isI can now identify the soviet mole in mi6 without a shadow of a doubt.
I'm gonna nailthat bastard! ike and I have been friends for 20 years.
I had his office check you out,young man,and you don't workfor the state department.
Sir,I came here to ask foryour blessing,not to quibble.
I don't think inquiringabout the prospects of a man who wants to marrymy daughter is quibbling, especially when he liesabout his work.
Especially when he works Cockroach alley.
the cia,mr.
Kritzky.
That's where youspend your days.
I want you to knowthat your daughter has been a bright ray of sunlight in my gloomy daysat the office.
She makes me happy.
I look forwardto being with her,and I'm in lovewith her,sir.
Do you love him,honey? I do,daddy.
I really do.
I can tell you one thing,kritzky.
Your taste in matesis better than my daughter'S.
That's the truth,sir.
Oh,daddy,thank you! I knew you'd like him.
my dear yevgeny,by now,you're established within our principal adversary's homeland.
You are the most vital piece of this great game at this time.
You will be activated several times a year-- sometimes not at all for several months.
Be patient.
I will never contact you again this way, but you will always feel my guiding hand.
Be brave.
Be clever,and you will someday come home a hero of mother russia.
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ths more there is of mine, the less there is of yours?" lewis carroll's alice adventures is wonderland that is correct and tonight's winning lottery numbers are.
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This is eugene.
Who's this? that isnot important.
I am only to tell you how to contact and delivernecessary items to a man named parsifal.
Go to dead drop 6 thursdayat 3:00 P.
M.
With bag and place on park benchnext to you.
Wait theretill you are met.
After,go to georgetownuniversity law library at precisely 3:45 P.
M.
Go to blackstone's commentaryof laws of england and remove volume fourfrom shelf.
Within it will be addressand telephone number for parsifal and a calling card of sorts.
starik must be combingpreparatory schools for his spies these days.
My working name is eugene.
American,are you? Starik sends gifts.
Well,these'll doin a pinch.
Oh,good,good.
Oh,and listen, I've heard news that the headof the berlin station is on to the f-factthat I exist.
He may even knowmy identity,which could bea problem-- b-bloody big problem.
I'll pass it along.
What's his name? Harvey torriti.
He's known asthe sorcerer.
Where have you been? I thought the kgbhad you,lili! I'm sorry,jack.
There wasno way of getting word to you.
If you had been arrested.
we had to go to dresdenfor a funeral.
Herr professor's brotherdied suddenly.
There was no possibilityfor me to tell you in time.
I can't lose you,lili.
Then do not lose me.
The momentI treasure most is when I wakefrom a heavy sleep and do not knowwhere I am.
For a few delicious seconds,I am in a huge void free of gravity.
At such moments I dance as I have neverbeen able to before.
That is what it is likewhen I am with you.
What are we gonna do,lili? We will keep playingthe game,jack,until the game is over.
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a letter has beenattached to back of garbage bin behind storesat m and fourth streets.
I would liketo speak more with you but have been instructed not to.
jack mcauliffe! Jacko! Borisov! Vanka borisov--the european crew championship.
Munich.
I was rowing strokein a russian coxed four.
Oh,yeah! You and meand leo kritzky-- we fell crazy in love with threeaustralian peacenik sisters, and we drank and screwedthem till sunrise.
Oh,of course--borisov! I-I'm sorry.
What are you doing in berlin? Zwei beer,peter.
I'm at the sovietimport/export commission.
We conducttrade negotiations withthe german democratic republic.
What about yourself,jacko? I landed a soft jobwith the state department.
Cheers! ah,the only thing betterthan a soft job is a soft woman,huh,jacko? Hey.
Did you everget to the states to, um,screw the peace-and freedom-loving women of colorado, I believe you said? I don't know how youcame up with colorado.
I saw photos of colorado in a banned copyof life magazine-- beautiful country.
I think they musthave beautiful women,da? Ah,probably.
I-I'venever been to colorado.
And I never gotto the U.
S.
Tell me something,jack.
What's a lot of moneyover there? well,it dependson the-- on the person's tastes.
Uh,I mean,if theyhave expensive tastes,if they have to havea-a cadillac and all that,um.
let's say,for the sakeof argument,they have expensive tastes.
Is $25,000 a lot of doughover there? $50,000? It's a good amount.
Tell me,jack.
What do you makeat the,what was it again,state department? I make $6,000a year,borisov.
Hmm,I see.
And what if someonewere to come to you, right here,right now, and offer you150,000 bucks in cash? In exchange for what? In exchange for the odd pieceof information.
If the amount is not enough,we can negotiate,jacko.
Please,jack.
You're in the greatgame now,as am I, and in the game,all is negotiable.
All is possible--everything.
Anything.
It's always good to seean old crew buddy, but if we run intoeach other again, borisov,things might notbe so pleasant.
they are you in a go ahead,sir.
well,still stickingto your story, kritzky,that you're workingfor the state department? who is it out there,phil? It's that clown who up and proposedto my daughter,mr.
President.
He's got your,uh,dailybriefing here in his hand.
He must be rising upin the ranks of the company pretty quickly,sir.
Kritzky? Well,don't let himstand out there,phil.
Send the poor sap in.
Son of a bitch.
what I am doing is I'm breeding a hybrid orchid known as the cattleya cross.
It comes in a rainbow of colors.
I plan on naming itafter my wife cicely.
That chair will neverhold your weight,harvey.
Your horticultural lesson'svery interesting,jim.
Well,crossing orchidsis a very long,very tedious process, not unlike the business of counterespionage.
You don't say.
I do say.
It can take 12 monthsjust to develop the seedpod and then another 12 months for that pod to sprouteven an inch or 2.
The eventual flowering, if there evenis a flowering can take five years.
Counterespionageis like that.
It requires the patienceof a saint, which you,harvey,do not have.
I'm here to tell you thatI'm going to the director to lay out my caseagainst your pal philby.
Adrian? What case? He blew the vishnevskydefection,for one thing.
He's a soviet spy,jim-- has been sincethe early '30s.
You are joking.
I don't joke about traitors.
That's rubbish.
Rubbish.
I've known adrianfor 15 years.
He's been vetted a dozen times,and you know that,harvey.
And you know there are waysaround a lie detector test.
The russians are mastersat beating them.
You're not seriousabout this? I'm as seriousas a $5 whore, serious enough to flyacross the atlantic overnight sitting on a mailbag.
Adrian kim philby is working for the kgb.
As the company'scounterintelligence honcho, I thought it was only fairthat you be warned.
And on top of that,I thinkwe should take precautions to make sure philby doesn't fly the coop.
Are you hearing meon this,jim? Take precautions.
You'll only make a foolof yourself,harvey.
I've got the son of a bitchby the balls! so do you stilldislike summer so very much? It's you.
Yeah,it's me,azalia.
Yevgeny.
I thought you were goneforever from my life.
I thought the worst,that I would neversee you again.
that.
that you would disappear,like my parents.
Well,I'm alive,azalia.
I'm well,and I miss you.
But.
where are you,yevgeny? Why did younot say good-bye? I'm sorry.
I can tell you nothing,other thanthat I'm doing my duty.
and I longto be with you.
please deposit25 cents.
I have to go.
But at least,tell me where you are, at least that so I can see youin my mind and-- and know you're safe.
America.
I'm in america.
america.
Thanks for coming,buddy.
Wouldn't have missed itfor the world.
She's beautiful.
How the hell'd you find her? Well,she found me,I think.
She found mewhen no one else could.
The hours I've been working,I feel like a coal miner-- never see the light of day,and then she.
came along.
I'm happy for you.
I'm really happy.
MaybeI'll settle down someday.
And maybe it'll snow in hell.
No.
Oh,come on,buddy! This party's gonnacarry on after we go.
There are lotsof single girls here.
Well,I'm on a short leash.
Gotta get back to berlinto handle my asset.
I thought the sorcererwas in D.
C.
He doesn't want metagging along after him like a littlelost duckling.
I'm heading out tonight.
Oh,I see.
Poor jack has to go back to hislong-legged ballet dancer/asset,the rainbow.
Tough life.
Leo honey,everyone's waiting.
I'm coming.
Fine.
Starting to be tough.
Hey,what's that look? What look? That love look.
Aw,come on.
It's all overyour face,buddy.
There,you see? Come on,stay for a bit.
We'll go rowingin a couple days.
You can tell me all about her.
No.
I'm on the 11:00 P.
M.
Airmail charter to berlin.
Come on.
You got a honeymoon to think of.
Yeah,if that's whatyou want to call it.
Two nightsat the hay-adams.
They want me backat work on monday.
Yeah,we all gotta makesome sacrifices,buddy.
There's a war on,a cold one.
So I've heard.
Leo,let's go! oh,don't worry,jack.
I'll take good care of him.
I didn't order anything.
Yes,you did.
who is it,adrian? Just a liquordelivery,james.
Didn't want itto run out on us,did we? there'sinstructions inside.
Now keep the change,old boy.
hello,jack.
Your tradecraftis excellent.
Borisov.
We know you alwayscome by here,but we lose youafter that.
Every time,we lose you.
How do you do it? Don't makea mistake,jack.
We just want to talk.
Talk about what? The girl.
Who is she? I wish there was a girl,borisov.
Where does she live? We saw you with herat the restaurant,then again at the opera.
Who is she? It was the ballet,asshole! come again to east berlin,and we will kill you,jack! Do you hear me? We will kill you! at least have doc pattersoncheck you out.
I'm fine.
Maybe you can give mea hand with something then, if you're feelingall fine and dandy.
What do you got? It's these transcripts fromthe teardrop in sniper's flat.
What about 'em? I comparedthe surveillance tapes with the informationwe got from rainbow's silk.
And.
there are someminor discrepancies.
good how.
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how How do you knowour real names? Why do you risk coming herebefore the arranged time? Because what I haveto say can't wait,helga.
Your professor,your supposed savior,has betrayed you.
He works for the kgb.
He's what we calla disinformation agent, giving us variationsof the truth and trying to get usto spin our wheels and-- and to send usin the wrong direction.
The silk I gave you wasfilled with valuable items.
You read it,jack.
Leftoversfrom a lousy meal.
All the good stuffwas edited out.
How could you know this? We bugged your apartment.
The professor was speaking with another scientistcolleague the other night.
When you left the room, theytraded secrets with each other, none of which ended upon the silk.
I must leave.
Lili,you don't understand.
It's over.
Now I have a truckaround the corner.
It has a compartmentwe can hide you in.
We need to get you out ofthe soviet sector now-- for good.
I cannot leave,jack.
I cannot.
The professor used you.
He is a soviet agent.
Wake up! But I am awake,jack.
It is not.
I am awake.
It is not herr professorwho is a soviet agent.
It's me.
I have betrayed him.
I have betrayed you.
what? The kgb found out that we weregiving you information.
To this day,I do not know how.
They told methat ernst would be tried for high treason and shot.
They said I wouldnever dance again, because they would-- because they wouldbreak my kneecaps.
God,lili.
They promised ernstwould not be hurt if.
if you delivereddisinformation to me.
They said it wasthe only way out.
I took the silkto the kgb,who wouldedit the information.
I would give the new silkto you at the studio.
After each meeting,I was supposed to writea report about everything.
They knowyour identity,jack.
Borisov.
they tried to kill meto keep.
of course.
It was a charade to make me trust youeven more,wasn't it? they swore to meyou would not be hurt.
they did not tell me whatthey were planning to do.
I wanted to die,jack.
did you tell them thatyou're in love with me? Are you even in love with me,lili? Or are you that good? I love you more than anythingin this world,jack.
Lili,if he loves you,if he truly loves you, he would want youto save yourself.
youcould save us,jack.
you could saveus.
You could take us both.
It's too risky.
It won't work! We can meet tonight at 7:00 when the crowds will be thick.
It could work.
It must work.
It is the only way.
Don't this to me,lili.
Please.
tonight at 7:00,my dearest.
mother himself knowsthat there is a kgb agent somewhere inside the britishintelligence community.
Jim knows that this agent,code name parsifal, was supposedly recruitedand trained in spain duringthe spanish civil war by none other than the soviet case officer known only as starik.
Your point? Philby was on assignmentfor the london times during the spanish civil war,allen.
James doesn't think you've madeyour case at all,harvey.
Mother's too close to this.
He's an unwitting pawnin starik's game.
I made sure that noneof our british friends received any memos concerningthe vishnevsky defection, yet jim here dines weekly withphilby.
They share information.
Jim,your officeis the only place where he could havefound out about vishnevsky.
Your line of reasoningis intriguing,but,uh, what if it's justa series of coincidences? In our line of work,coincidences don't exist.
Monday,january 1st,torriti's cable arrived on james angleton's desk.
Starting late afternoonon tuesday,january 2nd, radio intercept logsshow a dramatic increase in the volumeof cipher wireless traffic between the soviet embassy and moscow.
Now it seems to me that someonesomewhere pushed a button.
Jim,did you show philby the memoon vishnevsky's defection? It is standard that philby and ishared information.
Yes,I showed himthe vishnevsky memo.
Proves nothing.
A leak can comefrom anywhere-- a courier,a secretary,a nosy office worker.
I fed philby a barium mealto the effect that I could identifythe soviet mole inside mi6.
The very next week,a bunch of jokers in berlin tried to take meout of circulation.
I call thatproof positive! What mr.
Torriti failsto mention in his report is that adrian philby knew everything about his hottest sourcein germany-- code name rainbow,code name sniper.
They're stillgiving us information on a weekly basis.
Now if adrian philbywere a soviet spy, would not operation sniper have been shut downimmediately by the kgb? Sniper is still delivering,isn't he,harvey? Yes he is,jim.
Then there youhave it,gentlemen.
He's delivering disinformation.
I suppose you're preparedto elaborate on that.
I suppose I am.
Yesterday I receiveda flash memo from my apprenticejack mcauliffe.
He's the manhandling rainbow.
The russians already knewabout the operation, and they turned rainbowinto their agent, which is why sniperwasn't shut down when philby passed it onto his handlers.
There are two.
There are five,seven.
different ways to interpret any given set of facts.
Oh,face it! Your buddy's a damn spy.
He's been betraying assetsfor years.
His actions have causedthe deaths of dozens,maybe hundreds.
Wake up! So who pushedthe bloody p-panic button? Maclean fled englandlast night.
What's the problem? Burgess went with him.
Burgess buggered offas well? Bloody little bastard! Starik figures you don'thave a lot of time to flee the country.
You brought your backuppassport,I hope.
So starik wants meto run for it? You don't have a choice.
In that,there's hair dye,a mustache,eyeglasses,$4,800 in $10s and $20s.
The car has clean plates.
Your route's written outfor you.
There'll be a boat waitingfor you in halifax.
You've been on the firing linefor a long time.
It's time for youto come home.
Home? I'm a c-c-communist and a m-marxist, but russia is not my home.
England is my home.
What I relishedall these years was the great game.
But I'm n-necessary.
Without me,starik has nothing.
Starik has another.
I hadn't thought of that.
Of course,he would do that,wouldn't he? Starik is bloody brilliant.
Philby didn't comeinto the office this morning, and there was no answerat his house.
Ernst? Faster! Come on! Any faster,and weturn over,mr.
Jack.
it wasn't your fault,jack.
You offered hera ticket out.
She wanted to savethe professor.
I should have insistedthat she come with me.
It wasn't your fault.
She said the kgbhad caught on to her.
Said she didn't know how.
Let me ask yousomething,harvey.
Lili wasn't part of yourbarium meals,was she? 'cause if she was,harvey,if she was.
sniper was my crown jewel.
I was readyto give up a lot.
but not sniperand not rainbow.
There's no way I'd putlili and the professor on the line.
On my mother's grave,kid.
Onwards and upwards.
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Onwards.
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