"And did the countenance divine" "Shine forth upon our clouded hills?" "And was Jerusalem builded here" "Among those dark satanic mills?" "Give me my bow of burning gold" "Bring me my arrows of desire" "Bring me my spear" "O, clouds unfold" "Bring me my chariot of fire" "I will not cease from mental flight" "Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand" "Till we have built Jerusalem" "In England's green and pleasant land" " Kim, we're being looked at." " Yes." "It's more than looking." "It's watching." "Definitely." "In fact..." " I think it's an invitation." " I hope so, Donald." "I really hope so." "What?" "What?" "I think..." "That girl, do you think I should?" " Should what?" " Talk to her." "No." "I think I should talk to her." "You spilled her drink." "I think you should get her another." "She's a Jew." "I don't buy drinks for Jews." " Get her another drink." " I think you should be quiet..." "Jew lover." " Is it the uniforms, Givens?" " Keep out of this." "Rowing eights, rugby fifteens." "Groups of men in the same clothes." "Is that the attraction?" " Shut up." " The best clothes are in Berlin." "Black boots, leather belts." "Click your heels, Givens." "Click, click, click." "I'm warning you, keep out of this." "Keep out?" "But that's the whole point, isn't it?" "Not keeping out." "You bloody ponce!" "Hit me." "Go on." "It's what you do, isn't it?" "Go on, Givens." "Hit the bloody ponce." "Shh!" "Ruddy hell!" "It's morning." "Miriam!" " You're right." " It's morning." "If you're found here..." "We'll both be sent down and our families will never speak to us again." "Fabulous." "Get back into bed and make love to me." "Morning, Mr. Givens." "Morning, Mr. Thomas." "Quickly!" "Mr. Philby, good morning." "Get dressed." "No, you don't have time." "Am I still drunk?" "You know, I think I'm still drunk." "Mr. Givens?" "He comes in next time round." "You're such an adventure, Kim Philby." "Right." "Let's go." "Morning, Mr. Philby." "Stuck-up bastard." "Go that way." "I'll see you later." "Bye." "Good morning, Mr. Philby." "Good fuck?" "Yes, I think so." "Thank you." " Isn't it appalling?" " What?" " The dollops." " Sorry?" "It's an Empire breakfast." "The British Empire is run by men with heavy, dull dollops in the belly, and it all starts here." "Talking of dollops." "Morning... dollop." " Philby." " HAR." "Harold Adrian Russell Philby." "Kim for short." "Guy Burgess." "Finished?" " I was wondering..." " What?" " It's May." " And?" " Oh, the coat." " Yes." "Vladivostock, Moscow, the Kuznets Basin and Cambridge - coldest places on earth - and of the four, Cambridge." "Permanently the 19th February." "And I like pockets." "No, thank you." "You've been watching me." "Is that a question or a statement or hasn't it quite made up its mind yet?" "Look at that." "February 19th in a face." " How are you?" " It's almost the end of term." " And?" " The college lays us off for the vacation." "Then we're employed again at the start of next term." " Saves the college money." " And leaves you penniless for three months?" "Well, we'll do something about it." "Stay away from him." "We'll do something about it." "I'll see to it... personally." " It was a question." " Hmm?" "What I was saying to you about you watching me." "Guy?" "Isn't he beautiful?" "His name's Julian Bell." "He frightens me because he burns so brightly." " Bright, beautiful flames burn out." " Er, just in case, you should know... in case you get me... wrong." "Wrong?" "I'm not at all... you know." " No, I don't think I do know." " Homosexual." "Three girlfriends in the last three terms." "Miriam Block as your fourth." "Something of a sexual athlete, HAR Philby." "The university'll have to give you a blue for red-bloodedness if you keep it up." "It's a simple, unavoidable choice, Donald" " Communism or Fascism." "Everything in the middle is asleep." "To fight Fascism, you must be a Communist." "Anything else is appeasement." " The Apostles." " Apostles?" " Blunt, Burgess and Bell." " They sound like a firm of solicitors." ""Blunt, Burgess  Bell - solid, honest and incorruptible. "" "I think they want us to join." " It'd be a honor." " Would it?" "The Apostles is the most influential society in Cambridge." "All the top men are Apostles." " They're committed anti-fascists." " So they think we're suitable top men?" "What else could it be?" "Even when you're silent, the noise is remarkable." " Noise?" " Your heart pumping away on your sleeve." "The cacophony of your gawp." "Does it show that much?" "You talk to Maclean." "He has an Achilles heel." " His father." " The cabinet minister?" "He's very ill." "Use it." "I'll get closer to Philby." " Sure Philby's right for us?" " I want a longer look." "We can't afford to get it wrong." "Our friends would never forgive us if we got it wrong." "Doesn't it make you uncomfortable, all this privilege?" "So much privilege." "Don't you want to smash it up, pull it all down?" "No." "I don't." "My father died fucking my mother." "I heard her calling - bleating, really." "When I came into the room, for a moment I thought her calls were bleats of pleasure." " She's got a narrow range of expression." " Why are you telling me this?" "I had to roll him off." "I was too vigorous." "He fell off the bed and onto the floor and broke his arm." "He was dead, so he didn't mind, but it made it tricky with the coroner." "My mother had to give evidence about how he died." "She did it very well... as only an Englishwoman of decent heart and stout bosom can, rising splendidly above the absurd." " That's how I'd like to be remembered." " Rising above the absurd?" "As an Englishwoman of stout heart and decent bosom." "It flops, by the way, the penis, before rigor mortis, so they got the coffin shut." "It gave me something, the death of my father." "What?" "Freedom." "It gave me freedom." "It was a huge sadness, but a great rush of freedom, too." "It sounds ridiculous, but the death of a parent can be a beginning, especially if the parent's loved." "One of the supposed perks of being a fellow of Trinity is drinking sherry and eating overcooked meat with men 100 times my age." "Come and sit with me at High Table." "We could do with some fresh air up there." "So, Mr. Philby, how are you spending the happiest days of your life?" " I have a motorcycle." " Mr. Philby has a motorcycle." "And I'm a Communist." "Which do you find funny?" "Motorcycles are a force to be reckoned with." " Political movements come and go." " Seventeen years... since the Russian Revolution began, and showing no sign of going away." "I've always felt that attaching oneself so wholeheartedly to the success or otherwise of a foreign power amounts to implicit treason, which it would be if the Communists in this country could be taken remotely seriously." "Tell me, Arthur, is Hitler to be taken seriously?" "Or Mussolini?" "Or are you content to be wearily omniscient about them, too?" "Will they come and go without their stinking breath passing down our table, disturbing conversation?" "Where's the dinner?" "Where are the bloody waiters?" " Watch this." " Now." " Fantastic!" " Did you see their faces?" "We're the first waiters ever to strike at Cambridge." "To the revolution." "Waiters don't strike!" "Waiters don't bloody strike!" " Thank you, Mr. Givens." " Give it five minutes." "Make sure it's discussed." "I can answer your question about Hitler and Mussolini." "We must turn a blind eye." "We must let them make their small imperial gain." "We must let them behave badly towards the Jews." "This country fought the war to end all wars only 20 years ago." "I was at the Somme, and I know it must never happen again." " Mr. Burgess, sir." " Michael." " I wanted to thank you." " Thank me?" "What for?" "Personally." "Perhaps you'd like to thank me somewhere more comfortable." "Disgusting." " The waiter has been asked to leave." " You can't." " It's done." " A quarter of the male population of this university is homosexual, and a third of the academic staff." "And it's a shocking hypocrisy to punish a transgressing waiter because of his sexual activity?" "How dare we?" "The nerve!" "It's not the sex." "It's never the sex." "Sit down." "Hey!" "Hey!" "You are - how can I put it?" " one of us." "Eton, a scholarship here, one of this college's brightest stars." "What next?" "Whitehall?" "Parliament?" "From quadrangle to quadrangle." "A life mapped out in squares." " It's what the best people do." " The most privileged people, you mean." "Whatever you bloody well call it, it's right." "The right people are in charge - us." "And we shouldn't think we're like them." "Us and them don't mix." ""All men are equal." "All men, that is to say, that possess umbrellas. "" "EM Forster, the well-known ponce!" "Look, you've got the wrong man." "Michael Frank didn't organize the waiters' strike." "Of course he didn't." "He's a waiter." "I'm responsible." "I should suffer the consequences, not him." "Very touching, but it's not as easy as that." "This is a club here." "And membership is for life." "You're saying you're not going to punish me?" "The club makes allowances for the mistakes of its members." "Are you a homosexual?" "The club even allows for mistakes which last a lifetime." "Mr. Givens gave me a year's pay, just like that." "A whole year's pay in an envelope." "I can't say no to an offer like that." "You betrayed Guy." "You betrayed your fellow workers." "What about principles, Mr. Frank?" "I can't afford principles." "It's all right for you." "You don't have to think about ordinary things, like how to pay the rent or where the next meal's coming from." "Why don't you bugger off and leave the real world to real people, Mr. Philby?" " Sir!" " You can't live without principles." "No one can." "The waiter was paid to get caught in bed with Guy." "How do you know?" "Who told you?" "I saw Givens give him an envelope full of money." "Don't tell Guy." "It would hurt him to know." "I don't want him hurt." "You care deeply, don't you, about fighting Fascism?" "It's what I live for." "I'd do anything." " Are you still here?" " Of course I'm still bloody here!" "I'd have to bugger the Dean to get sent down!" "This room, it's so bloody careful." "It's a careful bloody room in a careful bloody place." "It's a smug, complacent, dead bloody place!" "Good." "Well, that's a relief." "Kim." "I don't want to smash it up or pull it down because it's what I want for everyone." "I want everyone to have it." " It's what I live for." " You're right." "We want the same thing." " Do we?" " Don't we?" " "Moby Dick"." " Sorry." "Inside the copy in your room, you'll find instructions." "Follow them." "Tell no one." "Instructions about what?" "Disingenuousness isn't part of your character, Kim." "Don't pretend it is." ""Moby Dick", "Moby Dick"..." ""Moby Dick"!" " Hello." " Miriam." " I wanted to see you." " Yes." "Hello." " What's that?" " Nothing." "What kind of nothing?" "The nothing that's nothing or the nothing that's something?" "Give it back." "Give it back!" "Can I trust you, Kim?" "Yes... you can trust me." "The test tells us a great deal about a man - how well he follows instructions, how he copes with surprises." " Not whether his heart's in the right place." " It's not hearts we're interested in." "It's souls." "I'm worried about Philby." "His enthusiasm is suspicious." "We must be careful." "Give it a little longer," "What is the expression?" "Why are you "out on a limb" for Philby?" "I'm not sure about him either," "But if he is the real thing, he will be a valuable soul." "How will you find out?" "By asking for his word as a Cambridgeman?" "What else is there?" " Can it have been...?" " What?" "Our own lot?" "Men in hats and bad coats reading the "Daily Express"?" "British Intelligence?" "Of course not!" "Only insurance salesmen and Russian agents look like that." "Bloody hell." " Not our lot?" " No." "They've been watching us, probably for months." "That was a test, which means they want us." "And we passed, Donald." "Scotch and toothpaste." "Mmm!" "A drink I know and love." "Camping trips as a child with my father." "You don't see much of him, do you?" "No." "This is it, Donald." "No more standing by and doing nothing." "It's frightening... and completely wonderful." "He's dying, Kim." "My father's dying." "It's funny." "He's a cabinet minister, a deeply religious man, a pillar of the Establishment - everything I hate..." "But he's my father." "I don't think I can do this to him." "I've been looking for you." " I should go." "Work to do." " Where've you been?" " Out on the motorcycle." " Your voice has gone up an octave." "A test." "I want to go on holiday, and I have to be sure that the motorcycle's going well." "And I'd been meaning to ask you to come with me." "You smell of scotch... and toothpaste." " The philanderer's double." " It was a test." "A test to check suitability for a long and exciting journey." "The journey of a lifetime." "You look like little boys." "You both look like little boys." "Otto's wrong about Kim." "I'd bet my life he's genuine." "Our job is to talent spot." "In my opinion, Kim Philby is extremely talented." "Come in." " Julian." " I was looking for Donald Maclean." "Haven't seen him." "Sorry." "It's his father." "I'm afraid he's dead." "Is there anything...?" " You and Julian, there's nothing, is there?" " This is the moment." "His moment." " What?" " Donald." "He has to know what's best for him." "If he doesn't know, he has to be told." "By me?" "By Kim Philby." "If Philby brings Donald to the comrades, they'll find it hard to say no to Philby." "We'd be four talented friends." "And friendship is everything." "Julian." "Guy... this is what I think it is, isn't it?" " Am I in?" "Guy?" " We want you to talk to Donald." " Am I in?" " Talk to Donald." " It's not the right time." " Now is exactly the right time." " His father's just died." " You should know," "Moscow is not as fond of you as you imagine." " Moscow?" "It's the first time you've said it." " I don't want it to be the last." "They'd like you much more if you brought them Donald." "I bring them Donald Maclean, then they'll have me?" "Is that the deal?" " Is that how Moscow's thinking?" " Listen, babies are dying in this country because they're not fed properly." "Old men and women die alone without dignity." "Why?" "Because they're poor." "That's all." "Because they're poor." "I hate it." "I hate it with all my being and I would do anything to change it." "Personal feelings, small indignities, they just have to be put aside." "It's hard - sometimes it's very hard - but it has to be." "And I know you feel the same." "I'm not used to this." "Nor am I." "Really?" "You kept your socks on." "My Aunt Virginia gave them to me." "They're hers." ""Whatever you do, don't take the socks orf." ""Not under any circumstances. "" "I'm in bed with Virginia Woolf's socks." "Not in front of the socks, Julian." "My father had a crisis of faith," "He lost confidence in the existence of God." "It was a terrible lonely agony for him." "In his study, he drew an imaginary line down the center of the room." "All night, he paced his study." ""On this side, I walk with Christ." ""One step across the line..." "I turn away forever. "" "He paced until daybreak." "Up and down." "Up and down." "I know how much you loved your father... but..." "life goes on, and... it matters what you do, Donald." "It matters so much what we all do, more than it has ever mattered." "He paced until daybreak on the right side of the line." "His faith stayed." "His life didn't change." " He won't ever know." " Betrayal is betrayal, whether the betrayed knows it or not." "I didn't kiss him before he died." "I didn't hug him." "Now I never will." "I loved him and I didn't hug him." "The end of Cambridge." "To real life." "Real life." "You all right?" "Am I all right?" "I'm completely fucking desolate." "Goodbye, Cambridge." "Goodbye, old life." "Goodbye!" "Goodbye!" " Guy!" "Guy!" " Guy!" " Guy!" " Guy!" " Guy!" " Burgess!" "Guy!" " Stop the punt!" " Where is he?" " Guy!" " Guy!" "Guy, where are you?" "Where the hell is he?" "I love this country!" "This sceptered fucking isle!" "This wonderful, foolish England." "We're going to change it forever, aren't we?" " Yes." " Yes." " Goodbye, Cambridge." " Goodbye, old life." "Whoo!" "And did those feet in ancient times" "Walk upon England's mountains green?" "And was the holy lamb of God" "On England's pleasant pastures seen?" "You're going to Vienna." "Deliver this." "122 Bauhaus Strase, apartment 4." "Name's Ozer." "When you make the delivery, the contact will know you are genuine." "Anything else?" "A place to stay." "She's a Communist, not an agent." "A good Viennese woman." "And some money." " Money?" "I don't want any money." " Expenses in Vienna." "Take it." "I want you to know..." "And I know this sort of talk is not..." "What I mean is, I'm very honored to have this chance." "I will give everything I have to fighting Fascism." "Everything I have." "Sorry." "Never apologize... for feeling that way." "Never." "Sehr gut." " What are you doing?" " Seeing how much money you've got." "A hundred pounds." "My..." "My mother gave it to me." "You don't need it." " Were you going to steal it?" " No..." "Yes." "If I don't give it to you, will you steal it anyway?" "Yes." "Kim, Professor Klein from Berlin." "With what is left of his life." "He is a Jew and a Communist and he likes talking, none of which are appropriate in Berlin." " How long will he be staying with you?" " As soon as we can, we'll move him on." "Austria is too German to stay long." " It's a huge risk you're taking." " What should I do?" "Do nothing?" " Is that what you think?" " No." "I..." "Well, what did you mean?" "I want you to be safe, that's all." " You're a brave woman." " Brave?" "No." "Bravery is when there's a choice and the dangerous route is taken, the safe route ignored." "I'm not brave." "I'm doing what I must do." "The English gentleman." "My father taught me three things when I was a boy." "Walk on the right-hand side of stairs and corridors, open doors for women, let everyone else out of the lift first." "Do these three things, and every day, you will have moments when people like you, and that will make everything easier." "I have to visit someone." "Ja." "Dieser." " Um..." "Was kosten das?" " Ein schilling." "Where've you been?" " A delivery." " Please." "Where've you been, Kim?" "A delivery." "I'm sorry." "Trust... is not easy." " For you." " You can't afford them." "No." "You see what they do?" "You see what the Nazis do?" " It happened." " What happened?" "The Social Democrats called out the power workers in Linz today." "In one day, 300 strikers murdered." "It's over before it started." "They hanged the leaders." "I need your help." "We have to move him tonight." "Halt." "Komm hier rein." "I went to Trinity College, Cambridge." "My back is straight and my top lip stiff." "And I have a British passport." "Guten Abend." "Danke schon." "God save the King." "This is Gunter." "He'll take you to a safe place." "Nein." "Kim." "Books." "All books." "A suitcase full of books." " Why are you laughing?" " You are walking on the outside." "Another of your father's rules for happiness, protecting the woman from cars?" "Like you would if you were walking down the Strand." " You are ridiculous." " There." " What?" " I heard it." "You said you loved me." " Did I?" " "You're ridiculous. "" "Kim Philby... you are ridiculous." "Litzi Friedman... the feeling is mutual." "Oh, my God!" "Nein!" "Nein!" "No!" "Hier!" "Schnell!" "Halt!" "Come on!" "Come on!" " Come on!" " We must separate." "You go on." "Go on!" "Go." "Live." "Live!" " Hey!" "Hey!" " Halt!" "Thank God!" "Thank God!" "Sometimes I think that if the world is like this..." "You know the big wheel in Vienna?" " Mmm." " I went on it a week ago." "You can open the door and look at the people below, like little dots." "I thought I might jump." "But then I remembered - I care about all of them, every single little dot, and that's what stopped me." "I have faith in each and every dot." "Even if they're saying and doing and believing terrible things?" "They will see what is right in the end." "You can get a British passport." "Then you'll be safe." " I want you to be safe badly." " How?" "How can I get a passport?" " You're serious?" " Very." " A pragmatic marriage." " No." "A marriage of love, hope and faith." "Have faith." "And the living room." "It's horrible." " It's horrible." " We'll take it." "I feel like a refugee." "An Austrian in London." "You're not a refugee." "You're Mrs. Philby, and I love you." " Are you nervous?" " Meeting your friends..." "They're not frightening." "They're really very... very ordinary." ""HALLELUJAH CHORUS" BY HANDEL)" " Very patriotic, Guy." " You know me, queen and country." "Go and get a cup of tea, Jack." "Jack Hewitt, decorator and chorus boy in the hit musical "No, No, Nanette"." "My new boy." "Hello." "Some things never change." "Hello." "So Kim Philby went to Vienna and came back with a little wife." "Not little." "Brave, dedicated, beautiful." "And a comrade." "I have a confession." "I think I was photographed in Vienna." "You knew?" "Why?" "!" "Insurance." "You want something on me in case I ever have doubts, is that it?" "I said no to the money, so you needed photographs for future blackmail." "It's what always happens." "Nothing personal." " Don't you understand?" "I believe in this." " It shows." "Passionate Communists." "You and your friends have your red hearts on your sleeves." "What good is that?" " I don't understand." " Store your anger and your feeling." "It is yours." "You'll never lose it, but no one must see it." "Your passion must be secret, and your past must be buried." "Litzi's a remarkable girl." "Yes." "And a Communist." "She's known." "Here." "Everywhere." "Litzi Friedman, the Communist." "She's everything to me." "Everything?" "Being with you gives me hope." "Kissing you gives me..." "What did you say?" "A stiff upper lip." "I'd lost it a little, hope, but you've given it back to me." "It's a precious gift." "Thank you." " I'm glad you're here." " Glad?" " I had to make you safe." " And I am." "We are." "I don't think you'd come if it was only an arrangement." "I had to love you." "Had to?" "You're scaring me, Kim." "Talk to me." "Talk to me!" "What do you mean, "had to"?" "Look at me." "Look at me." "Tell me you love me." "Say it." "Please." "I can't." "Because it wouldn't be true." "Tell me you don't love me." "Look me in the eye and tell me you don't love me." "I don't love you." "I don't love you." "I don't love you, Litzi Friedman." "It's done." "I no longer have a brave, dedicated..." "beautiful comrade for a wife." "What now?" " One across." " Verisimilitude." " We're ready." " No." " What?" " You're not ready." "None of you is ready." "We want to be sure you are above suspicion." "The British Establishment must believe in you." " So..." " You must become all that you despise." "Become part of the Establishment and then your inconvenient years will be buried and forgotten." "The BBC has always meant a great deal to me." "What does it stand for?" "The British Broadcasting Corporation." "If we were to give you this job, what sort of programs would you want to produce?" "A series on the eastern Balkans." "A program entitled "Whither Albania?"" "And an in-depth look at the problems in building the telegraph line to Lhasa." "All the things the BBC is for." " Or I could do something lighter." " Lighter?" " And cheaper." " Cheaper and lighter?" "What sort of program?" "I'd simply love to produce a program for people with problems." "Live in the studio with their problems." "Title?" ""Auntie's Agony..." "Auntie"." "Brilliant." "Brilliant." "Everyone has to believe we have changed." "A complete burying of the past." "Everyone, Guy." " You still...?" " I love him." "I always will." "My name is Julian Bell." "Something happened today - something which changes us all." "The Government have announced it is illegal for men and women to go to Spain and fight for freedom against Franco." "This is Luisa Jimenez." "She's a singer." "Both her father and brother died fighting for freedom." "She's here to ask for help from us." "It's our choice whether we give it or, like our Government, turn our backs on Luisa... her father, her brother and Spain." "Si solamente" "Me tocaras el corazon" "Si solamente" "Pusieras tu boca" "En mi corazon" "Tu fina boca" "Tus besos" "Si solamente" "Me tocaras el corazon..." "Thanks." "Como un alma solitaria" "Si solamente" "Si solamente" "Si solamente" "Bravo." " Hello, Guy." " Julian." "Broke?" "I can put in for you." "I'm not broke." "I just didn't like her voice." "What?" "Her voice?" "What are you talking about?" "I don't want to contribute, Julian." "Not sure if I believe in all this any more." "Sorry." "We should be more overt, more right-wing." "Scream it from the bloody rooftops and get it over with." "Let's get the whole thing done quickly." " "Double Burgess, Mr, Burgess?" - "Three,"" " Double Burgess?" " Vodka, grapefruit juice, vodka." "My morning drink." "Chocolate?" "No." " Isn't that one dead?" " It's all dead." "On the contrary, it couldn't be more alive." "This is everything." "This is where an empire does its thinking." "Listen." "The club breathes - a small foreign country's annexed." "The club sighs - women and children scream in the night." "Look." "In..." ".. out." " The belly of the British Empire." " When he gets here, make it subtle, Guy." "When who gets here?" "Sets one up for the day... for the next one." " Here we are." " Here we are what?" "Lord Raveley." "Subtle, Guy." "Be subtle." "Burgess." "Knew your father." "Fine man." "What do you want to see me about?" "Hitler and how much you admire him." "I want to be in the admiration society." "I gather there's quite a crowd." "Room for more." "Room for more." "Guy..." "Guy." "Our instructions are to avoid behaving like rabid Nazis." "Too much noise is suspicious." "The Anglo-German Fellowship is discreet, profoundly English." "If I were to catch you enjoying yourself, you'd go right down in my estimation." " Morning, sir." " Morning." "There are no German planes in Spain and no German pilots in Spain - officially." " Officially, Germany is not helping Franco." " Unofficially?" " Unofficially, a little quiet guidance." " Guidance, not interference." "His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." " What about the Jews?" " We're not concerned with the Jews." "We're promoting the friendship between Germany and England - temperamentally a natural alliance." "Herr Hitler has views on the Jewish temperament that can't be ignored." " True, and those views must be respected." " Tolerated or respected?" "Respected." "The Jew is dangerous, corrupt and impure." "That is an opinion I respect." "It's an opinion, I think, we can all respect." "Good breeding is vital to the health of any nation." "You're completely over the top." " The Jew." "You said "the" Jew." " What?" "The." "The Jew." "You said "the"." "Are you suggesting that by putting the word "the" in front of "Jew", I've compromised us?" "Burgess." "Friend of Blunt's, aren't you?" " Yes." " We're related - him, us." " So I believe." " Pictures man." " Pardon?" " Pictures." "Blunt." "Art." "We could do with a bit of help on the art front at Windsor." "Send regards, will you?" "And tell him to see us." "Me." "You." "Us." "Go." "Let's." "Mad bastard." "If I should take the notion to ump into the ocean" "Ain't nobody's business if I do" "If I go to church on Sunday Then cabaret all day Monday" "Ain't nobody's business if I do..." " You can hobnob with big knobs." " Meaning, Guy?" " Blunt related." "Him." "Us." " The biggest knob of the lot." " What are you talking about?" " HRH wants to see you." "Really?" "Julian." " I'm going to Spain." " When?" "Tomorrow." "It's time to act." "The time for writing to the "New Statesman" is over." " I had thought it might be something you..." " Don't go..." "You shouldn't go." "Why?" "Because your new politics tell you Franco's a good thing?" " Because it's dangerous." " It's a war." "I came to say goodbye and... to tell you how sad it makes me to see that you're not... what you were." "People keep talking about the dark clouds gathering over Europe." "Clouds?" "Clouds?" "It's already raining!" "Why doesn't anyone see it's bloody raining?" "!" "Funny." "See?" "Feel it?" "Rain." "In the still and the chill of the night" "I see the horizon" "The great unknown" "My heart has an ache, it's as heavy as stone..." "Good evening, sir." "Bailed to attend Bow Street Magistrates Court for trial." "I'm following Oscar Wilde, and I've got a lot more to declare than my genius." " A criminal record would..." " Destroy everything, Kim." "In a nutshell." " Where are we going?" " To tell people about our weekend." "What people?" "Mad, the lot of them. 50... 50 MPs, three directors of the Bank of England, generals, admirals, bishops and bankers." "A signal to Hitler there is real sympathy for his policies in England." " I have to go." " Where?" "To speak to the British intelligence services." "It's a way in - telling them about the lunatics." "When they realize how invaluable I am, they'll employ me." " You've arranged a meeting?" " Yes." " It's a very good idea, Otto." " A very good idea." "Never do anything like this again without permission." "You are not free agents." "And never, never meet with me together." "It breaks the rules." "It's amateur." "It's English." "And I want you to be safe." "It's a good idea." "I will get Moscow to suggest it themselves, then it will be an even better idea." "I thought you should know the extent of the friendship being offered to Germany." "I'm well placed to carry on reporting to you." "Eton." " I left in 1920." " A bit before my time." "Ties that bind." " You look like a queer." " I am a queer." "Guy, there are people who'd like you to pretend not to be for an hour or two." "What are you doing for lunch?" "All rise!" "I was so engrossed in "Middlemarch" that I stayed for a long time." "Great literature cannot be disturbed, but I was." "A note came through from the next lavatory." "I read it and, frankly, I was horrified." "Does Your Worship mind if I don't repeat what it said?" "I passed the note back." "The prosecution have suggested that the note emanated from you." "I give you my word as an Eton man and a Cambridge man that it didn't." "You're suggesting that this man is a liar and his word is worth less than yours?" "I was so excited by the preparation of Rosamund's marriage linen that I cannot say for sure from which side the note came." "I may have passed it back the wrong way to this, no doubt innocent, man." "All rise!" "Guy Burgess." "This case turns on whether your word as a gentleman is to be relied on." "I have made up my mind." "I find... it can be relied on." "The verdict is not guilty." "You are free to go." "We were considering more formal relations." " Anything to make my country better." " Eton, Cambridge..." " The intelligence services." " It's a well-trodden path." " Ties that bind." " I hadn't noticed." "The BBC have asked us to vet their staff for them." "The mouthpiece of the nation must have healthy gums." "Since you're at the BBC, would you mind?" "A few discreet inquiries." "Nothing too blunt." "My name is Fanny Battle and I have a terrible callus on my sole." "I've tried everything." "I'm at my wit's end." "Can you help me, Auntie?" "A callus on the sole?" "How long have you had this condition?" "Where were you born?" " Chislehurst." " School?" " Yes, sir." " Which one?" " Chislehurst Girls." " Are you a Communist?" " No, sir!" " Good." "Very good." "That Marx - dreary old bugger." "Donald's been thinking about the Foreign Office." "It's important at times like these to put the right people in the right places." "Does Donald have the same ideas about the friends of this country?" "Why don't you ask Donald as Donald's here?" "I'm in favor of strong, friendly ties with Germany." "Hitler's a great man." "You'd like me to put in a word?" " Mr. Blunt, a gentleman to see you." " Excuse me." "What is it?" " Julian Bell." " What?" "Tell me." "Dead?" "Guy?" "Guy." "I have something to tell you." "It's Julian." " "How?" - "Blown up, Driving an ambulance,"" "His family made him promise he would drive ambulances rather than fight." "What's this?" " Write a report on it for the minister." " What is it?" "Information on German armaments sent to Spain." "Number and size of shells, number of aircraft, tanks." "It's a very full account." "I don't know your name." "Norma." " When does the minister need it?" " Plenty of time." " Not today?" " No." "It's your first day, isn't it?" "Yes." "Relax." "You'll be fine." "Am I ready?" "Otto, tell me I'm right-wing enough." "I'm writing for the "Times"." "I'm a member of the Reform Club!" " You're leaving London." " The "Times" are sending me to Spain." "It's a chance for me to do some real work for you, to be useful." " No." " What?" "Your reports on the war will be heavily biased in favor of the Fascists." "Listen." "The deeper that Moscow want you to bury your past, the more importance they attach to your potential." "It's a simple equation." "Nice bar." "You could report the war from here." "Drink gin and get all the stories you need." "Who's that?" "Lady Frances." "Pro-Franco English aristocrat." " Part-time reporter." " Full-time socialite!" " Who's she with?" " They're German Embassy." "Why does she keep looking at us?" " You, I'd say." "Not us." " Welcome to Spain." "I'm very sorry about your friend, Julian Bell." "I loved him." " I was a priest before this." " What happened?" "The Great War." "I saw things that took away my faith." "If there is a God, He wouldn't have allowed it." "Where was God at Passchendaele?" "Now you have a new faith." "My family can't come to terms with me leaving the Church." " I was very close to my brother." " Was?" "Yes." "We don't speak." " Is he a priest?" " No, no." "A pianist, a brilliant one." "I've never seen him play." "He's playing a concert here in London soon." "Will you go?" "I want you to go to Spain to pass on an order." "It's very good to see you, Guy." "Very good." "I hear you're the Fascists' favorite reporter." "I go where they send me." "A guided tour, then I write what they want me to write." "It can't be easy sleeping with the enemy." "I'm so good at it, they're going to give me a medal." "Franco himself will pin it on my heroic breast." "Moscow wants you to do something." "It comes from the very top." "How do you know?" " You'll be so close to him." "Terribly close." " My God." " Yes." " Kill Franco?" " When Stalin has an idea, it's a good idea." " He's right." " Of course." " Franco should die." "He's a monster." "It's time to act." "If I do this, then the network that we're building..." "Will be no more." "Everyone who's ever been near you will be tainted and..." "And?" "There's almost no chance of you surviving." "Kill Franco and be killed in the act of doing it." "You have to decide between your friends, your own death... and a good idea." "Who would pay?" "If I don't do it, who would pay?" "I'm a bit worried." "There's a woman at work." " What's her name?" " Norma." "She's behaving strangely." "What does she look like?" " A little faded." "Older than me." " She's 44." " How do you know?" " She's a friend." "A good friend." "I didn't realize who you were, at first." "Things are seldom what they seem." " I know we're not supposed to ask, but..." " Do I come here often?" "Have I been doing this work long?" "Am I all right?" "Sorry." "I'm new to all of this, as you know." "I just wondered what it's like to live with it for a long time." "It gets lonely." "It becomes... lonely." "You know that." "Very lonely." "Sorry." "I can't..." "Sorry." " It's all right." " Sorry." "Sorry." "For your heroic actions in the struggle against Communism." "Did you know I wouldn't do it?" "If I had to betray my country or betray my friend," "I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." "Friendship, Kim." "Friendship above everything." " Even if it's an adopted country?" " Any country." "England, Russia, it doesn't matter." "Friendship first." "I wanted to find where he died, but it's not possible." "Would you...?" "Sounds silly, but..." "I was going to bury it here in Spain." "Buenos dias, padre." " Compreme algo, senora." " No, gracias, hoy no." "A German officer came to see me today." "Would I consider helping?" ""Helping?" I said. "The Third Reich. "" " What did you say?" " I said I'd think about it." "Do you know something?" "The real temptation for a girl like me?" "The uniforms." "Really very glamorous and so clean." "You can see your face in the boots of a German soldier." "Any girl who says a Nazi in full kit isn't to die for is a liar." "Am I making you jealous?" "Poor darling." " Are you a little green-eyed?" " Shh!" " What?" " Listen!" "Something's happened." "A place called Guernica." "Periodista ingles." "Aviones." "Aviones." "Bombas." "Muchas bombas." "Hitler." " He said bombs, bombs..." " I know what he said." "Quiero que le digas al mundo lo que esta pasando en Guernica." "He hopes that you will tell the world what has happened here in Guernica." "There is no German involvement here." "Herr Hitler is innocent in this." "Dice que no lo va a hacer." "Que los alemanes no estan involucrados." "Que Hitler es inocente." "Shall I tell you what happened?" "What really happened?" "This is my report." ""The Republicans did it themselves." "The Reds blew up their own town." ""Why?" "To get international sympathy. "" "So you're right about there being no German planes?" "Communist propaganda." ""Rojos." "Comunista. "" "I saw my German officer." "He's very interested in what I might offer him." " Go away." " What?" "Go away, please." " You're busy." " Go away!" "Thank you." " There's going to be a war." " Yes, ma'am." "And the Germans will be a formidable enemy." "We will all of us need..." "Courage?" "Strength?" "Resilience?" " Bottom." "Lots of bottom, Anthony." " Yes, ma'am." " Drink?" " Thank you." " By Royal Appointment." " Ma'am?" "The gin." "Which is more than can be said for that wretched American woman." "Mrs. Simpson?" "Dreadful snob and mad keen on that ridiculous man with the nostril warmer." " Ma'am?" " Hitler." "Never trust a man with a bad moustache." "Homosexualists never have moustaches." "Have you noticed?" "I think it's a signal to other chaps." ""Look." "No moustache." "Come and get me. "" "Ponces and spies, Anthony." "The people with most to hide never have moustaches." "So which are you, Anthony?" "Ponce?" "Or spy?" "Oh... a little of both." "Aren't we all?" "I'm off sentry duty now, Mr. Blunt." "Did they tire you out, the ladies?" " No." "No, they didn't." "Ladies don't." " Then I can buy you a drink." "I don't want a drink." "Sorry." "Couldn't get away from the palace." " Changing of the guard and all that." " Anything interesting?" " We drank gin together, the Queen and I." " How much gin?" " Three." " Three?" " Doubles." " Doubles?" " Before six." " Is it a problem, her drinking?" "Put it this way, I don't think she'll outlive Stalin." " What is it?" " Nothing." "Really?" "Moscow will be pleased with your royal news." " Good." " Comrade Stalin will be very pleased." ""He knew human folly like the back of his hand" ""and was greatly interested in armies and fleets." ""When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter." ""And when he cried, little children died in the streets. "" "It's called "Epitaph on a Tyrant"." "The royal favorite returns." "What's that smell?" "Crushed lavender." "The whiff of perfumed Windsor bosom to which you have been taken." " What's this?" "Sex." "I smell sex." " Shut up, Guy." "It's happened." "Anthony's been up a Windsor." "Who's Auden talking about in the poem?" "Who's the tyrant?" " Kim." " Hitler." "Hitler is the tyrant, Jack." "He has to be stopped." "He has to be." "I've seen what his planes and his weapons and his pilots have done in Spain." "I've seen children dead in the streets." "Little children." "This burying of our past and pretending to be right-wing..." "Enough!" "The past is buried." "We have to start fighting for the future, and the fight starts now." "You have all the credentials - background, experience." "I'm sure you'll be a real asset to us." "But I want a colleague to confirm my impression." "Tomorrow." "Here." "Same time." "Why does she want a second opinion?" "Is it something they've traced?" "Did they go back to Cambridge and look?" "Guy?" "Maybe it's Litzi." "Maybe they've dug up my marriage to a Communist." " Relax." "It'll be fine." " How the hell do you know?" " You know each other?" " From university." "We were at Trinity together." "Mad bastard, Guy!" "Do they really not know we're friends?" "So amateur." "School and university gets you in." "The tea lady could give you more serious vetting." " They have a tea lady?" " A very nice tea lady." " Cake?" " Good cake." " Where did she go to school?" " Eton." "Sound fellow, our tea lady." "So here we are, all in place." "The FO." " Intelligence." " Buck House." "The BBC." "A foot in all the right doors." " Bowler hats." " Jermyn Street gents." " Right inside the Establishment." " Ready to do wonderful damage." " To a better future." " A better future!" "It's your brother's concert tonight." "I'm going." "Are you?" " Otto?" " I am being called back." " What?" " To Moscow." "Franco is alive and well." "Good ideas don't fail." "Not without someone paying the price." " Why don't you...?" " What?" "Go to Switzerland?" "Hide for the rest of my life?" "No." "I will go back." "There's a funny phrase you have." "I've loved it since I first heard it." ""Face the music. " I will face the music." "Did you know that Siberia has one-twelfth of the world's land mass and almost none of its people." " Otto, I..." " Of course, it won't be Siberia." "What do you mean?" "We both know what being recalled to Moscow means." "Don't make me say it." " I'm so sorry..." " Please." "I don't blame you at all." "The good idea was a bad idea." "You shouldn't have been asked, but you were." "I have to go now." "Goodbye..." "Kim Philby." "Hitler and Stalin agreeing not to fight?" "Is the world upside down?" "Stalin must have a reason." "He's not ready for war, he's buying time." "I've given them everything:" "Litzi, my dignity." "I stood in the blood at Guernica and denied everything I believed in..." "For what?" "How could he?" "How could he do this?" " Kim, listen..." " I gave them my life." "Listen." "You and I, we have to be strong." "We have to keep the four of us together." "This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them by 11..." "No such undertaking has been received and, consequently, this country is at war with Germany," "Stalin is buying time to rearm." "He cares only about Russia and her survival." "What people feel about signing a treaty with Hitler is irrelevant." "Irrelevant?" "It's like the Pope making friends with the Devil!" "If Stalin hadn't signed, Moscow would be full of Germans by now." "He knows he'll have to fight Hitler." "He wants it to be later." " You know I'm right." " I'm going for a pee." "We're at war with Germany." "Hitler and Stalin are technically allies." " Our position is different." " Position?" "We used to be simple traitors." "Now we're traitors in wartime." "If we're caught, it's a different game." "We could be executed." "You're worried about Guy and Donald." "We stand or fall together - one of us goes, we all go." "What would you say if I were to tell you I was a Soviet agent?" "I am, you know." "You can be whatever you want, and I can be a nurse or a nanny or the girl you're pining for." "It's all the same to me." "Ten shillings will buy you a good time." "My place is round the corner." "Coming?" " What?" " Guy?" " What did you say?" " He didn't say anything." " I don't think it's funny." " Come on." "Come on, what?" " What are you saying?" " Nobody spoke." " Nobody spoke?" " No." " Nobody spoke?" " No." "You looked at him and he looked at you and there was a whole fucking conversation." ""Guy's emotional." "It's the Hitler-Stalin business." "He's not taking it well. "" "Nods and winks and catching each other's eyes." "Like spies." " Mad bastard." " What did you say?" " Come on, Guy." " Wait a minute." " Mad bastard?" "Is that what you said?" " Guy." "I'm asking you a question, Kim." "Did you call me a mad bastard?" " Mad bastard." " What did you say?" "You didn't flinch." "You didn't move when the glass went past your face." " Have faith, Guy." " Faith?" "It's hard." "If it weren't, it wouldn't have such profound rewards." "Oui bien, monsieur." " Hello." " Hi." " You're English." " It shows?" "You say hello with the letter U where the letter E oughta be." " You're American." " You noticed." "You say hello with the letter I where the E, L, L and O ought to be." "I hate America." "Are you gonna tell me why?" "For the way you treat workers, black people, and the way you mutilate perfectly good English words." "Cigarette?" "Are you trying to be nice to me?" " Jesus Christ!" " You all right?" " He stole your bag." " Who?" "That man." "He's got your bag." "I saw him." "Aren't you going to go after him?" "He's gone." " Go after him." " It's only work." "I won't miss it." "Nobody will." "If I went after him, I'd have to stop talking to you." " What's your work?" " British Embassy." " Secrets." " That kind of thing." "Secrets, lies and propaganda." "Don't tell me - the Germans are about to be driven back out of France." "We're evacuating tomorrow." "There'll be Nazis here in a month." " God, it's..." " Appalling." "An abomination." " Where do you live?" " Here." " I meant where in Paris." " Here." " Upstairs." " Oh." "Do you wanna see it?" " My apartment." " All right." "Nice place." "I feel like skipping the nice place bullshit and cutting straight to the chase." "Chase?" "Alternatively, we could drink tea, clear our throats a lot and have a long conversation about the weather while we wait for Herr Hitler." "So..." "What do you think?" "Overcast?" "Some light rain?" "Sunny spells?" "Are we in for a spot of high pressure?" "Wait." "You're not..." " What?" " You know." "No, I don't know." "Am I a prostitute?" "Is that what you're asking?" "Oh, my God, no." "No." "I am not a prostitute." "I'm a lapsing Catholic, but I haven't lapsed that far." "I'm sorry." "It was..." "I thought..." "I'm so sorry." "Do me a favor..." "Shut up and kiss me." "Hi..." "Hello." " You're leaving." " Seems like the smart thing to do." "Yes, of course." "I'm gonna try and get to England." "With no gas and no trains running, it won't be easy." "What about you?" "We're evacuating the embassy tonight." "We've hoarded enough petrol and a couple of trucks." " We'll make a run for the Channel." " That's good." "You have to grab it when it comes along." "Grab it and hold on for dear life." " What?" " The thing is..." "Come with me, Melinda." "I'll get you to England." "On the back of your white horse?" "Donald, it's easy to confuse things at moments like these." "Everything is crazy." " You might think I'm the real thing..." " You are." "I don't think you can trust your feelings now." "I've never been clearer about anything." "I'm not letting you go." "You don't have a choice." " What is it you have to grab?" " Happiness, of course!" "Happiness." "Good morning." "Here are my papers." "You wait here." "My orders are embassy staff and dependants only." "There isn't room for anyone else." "There's no way for her to get out of the city." " That's not my problem." " What's happening?" " He wants to bring his friend." " Not unless you're married." "That's ridiculous." " How long have you known her?" " Not long." " How long?" " Two days." "Sorry." "Look." "I love you." "I think you're beautiful and funny and clever." "And beautiful." " I understand." "Thank you for trying." " No." "That's not what I'm saying." " What are you saying?" " I'm asking you to marry me, actually." " I don't know." " You have to decide." " Now?" " Now." "Yes... actually!" "If any man can show any just cause why Donald and Melinda may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak or else hereafter forever hold his peace." "I pronounce that Donald and Melinda... be man and wife together." "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost..." " Amen." " Amen." "You may kiss the bride." "Allons enfants de la patrie" "Le jour de gloire est arrive" "Contre nous, de la tyrannie" "L'etendard sanglant est leve" "L'etendard sanglant est leve" "Entendez vous..." "Thank you, Jack." " To Donald's new wife." " Cheers." "Why do you want a French letter?" "Why do you care where your emissions end up?" " Amazing what you can get in this." " Anything I need to know?" "About things?" "Anthony's got himself into MI5 and I'm now Head of Soviet Counter-Intelligence." "So I'm the man in British Intelligence in charge of making sure people like us don't become people like us!" "No Soviet mole will get past Kim Philby." "Welcome home, Donald." " Are you happy?" " Yes, very." "That's what I thought." " I have to go." " Back to the wife." " I'm off to the lavatory." " Which one?" "Hyde Park Corner, I think." " You're very quiet." " Who's Colonel Winter?" " The Chief Vet." "Why?" " Vet?" " Head of Vetting at MI5." " I've been summonsed." "I think they're onto me." "How?" "Wait." "They told you?" "They told you to see him?" "If they were sure, they'd pull you in, they wouldn't tell you in advance." "Or they warn the suspect and watch how he behaves." " You waited?" " What?" "You wanted until Guy and Donald had left before telling me." " Yes." " You're listening." " Servants have ears." " You're not a servant." "I cook, I clean, I fuck Guy Burgess." "Or rather he fucks me." "What else am I?" " You changed the subject." " I want to protect them." "You tell each other everything." " They're out of kilter." "Donald is..." " Happy." "Happiness is unreliable." "It's the worst thing that can happen to an agent." " And Guy is..." " Deeply unpredictable." "It's best they don't know." "He does things with cigarettes." "It's to see if the hand shakes." "And he'll know you smoke, so don't say no to one." "You'll be fine." "Cigarette?" "Thank you." " It doesn't work." " Sorry, old chap." "Kim, this is James Jesus Angleton." "He's from American Intelligence and he's here to learn." "He's going to be shadowing you." "Hello." "You were a Communist." "I had sympathies, yes." "Leanings, in fact." "At Cambridge." "As a lot of Cambridge men did." " I'm getting over it now." " You're not there yet." "I was leaning a long way and correcting the lean is a bit of a process." " What do you think of that?" " The painting?" "It's terrible." "Unforgivably bad." " Art is very close to your heart." " Yes." ""If a picture has no social function, it has no value. " "Spectator"." "Do you believe that?" " I wrote it." " It sounds very left-leaning to me." "I suppose my art criticism is the last to stop leaning." "Be best if it did, old chap." " Are we finished?" " Yes." " May I ask who...?" " No." "No." "Of course." " Are you OK?" " Fine, fine." " You're Anthony Blunt." " Do I know you?" "I'm over here learning how to do things." "We're babies at this game." " I'm..." " Game, yes." "Like cowboys and Indians." " Will you excuse me?" "I have to get home." " Sure." "Perhaps if you Americans had the courage to join the war, it wouldn't be a game." "Guy Liddell is his name." "Cheer him up, Jack." "Go on." "His wife, Calypso, has just run off with his step-brother, which is a bit upsetting." "If he's married, what can I do?" "I think he's been looking in the wrong direction all his life." "And he's something important in Intelligence?" "He's very important in MI5 and we'd love him to be our friend." " Off you go, Jack." " You treat me like a tart." "Do stop whining." "There's a war on." "Anthony." "Kim looks pleased with Donald's new wife." "What's your name, ducky?" "Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov." "Don't tell a soul." "I'm Stalin's man in Soho, ducky." "Stalin?" "Hitler's friend?" " Kim's new girlfriend?" " No." " Soon will be." " Why do you say that?" "She's a helluva lady and he's a helluva guy." " This isn't an American musical." " She'd be a great catch." "She's my wife." "Excuse me." "All right?" " It was all about art." " No mistakes?" "They think Communism is like undergraduate measles." "A rash in one's youth." "I slipped in a stupid question - who'd pointed out the left-winger in me." "No real Soviet agent would ever be so crass." "I'd still like to know who it was." "Who is that?" "James Jesus Angleton." "My new shadow." "He's young, keen." "Easy enough to handle." "No one's remembered it's my birthday." "Nobody move!" "Nobody leave!" "It's Anthony's birthday!" "The Luftwaffe can go to hell!" "Hooray!" "I saw you." "I'm not stupid." "You were touching him." " You're drunk." " Doesn't make me wrong." "Touch of the arm, a whisper in the ear." "I saw you." "Where did you learn that?" "The American way of adultery, to go with American arrogance and..." " I'm pregnant." " What?" "I'm pregnant." "Whoopsy!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Happy birthday, dear Anthony" "Happy birthday" "To you!" "This was delivered this morning." " It's from Queen Mary." " What is it?" "It's a reticule, obviously." " What's a reticule?" " It's a handbag." "The Windsors have given Anthony a handbag!" ""Now that you have hurdled the Colonel, we're expecting you soon. "" " Windsor." " What?" "My God, it's the House of Windsor." "You saw the Vet because the Windsors want to give you a job." "Of course." "Anthony Blunt, By Royal Appointment." "Where is it?" "Who's stolen my present?" "There wasn't anyone before you, Melinda." "You're the one." "When I see you not being with me..." "I feel scared." "It all comes out." "I want to tell you everything." "If I feel jealous, I want to tell you." "No secrets." "No secrets." "Christ!" "Come on." " We're safe here." " Melinda..." "I'm cold." "Better?" "When I was five, my father took me to the cathedral at Orvieto in Italy." "I asked him what the boxes with curtains were and he explained about confession and sin." "I asked him how long it would take to confess all your sins." "About two days?" "He laughed." "A big laugh." "I thought he meant two days wouldn't cover it." "All the sins." " There's something you need to know." " What is it?" " Donald, what?" " It's..." "It's..." "It's what I do." "What?" "Donald, don't scare me." "I'm just going to say it." "I'm a spy." " You're laughing." " It's a war." "People work in intelligence." "I knew." "It's obvious." "You silly man." "I knew." "But it's good work." "I'm proud of you." "Melinda..." "I don't want to know any more." "It's important and it's secret." " Let's keep it simple." " It can never be simple." "Let's talk about it later." "I'm so tired." "I work for someone else." "Who?" "Moscow." "What?" "I work for Moscow." " What are you doing?" " I don't think it's funny." "It's a wonderful thing to get a present from her." "Wonderful." "I've had enough of tarting for Guy." "I'm tired of cheering up important men." "Particularly when there's somebody close to home who needs cheering up." "Do you mind if I sit down?" " What are you doing?" " I want to be in a safe place for the baby." "I'm going home." "New York." "When will you be back?" "Melinda?" "You will come back?" "I don't know." "Yesterday I saw a man walking his dog." "Man and dog... walking." "Very moving, frankly." "Routine, you see?" "Structure, order." "In the middle of all this war horror." "Comb your hair, clean your teeth... walk your dog." " That's my tip." " Yes, sir." "It's what I want this nation to understand." "Of course, I can't say it." "It would sound so... banal next to him." "Churchill?" "Fight them on the beaches..." "clean your teeth." "People always need a straight man alongside the comedian." " What is your relationship to us?" " Queen Mary and my mother are cousins." " What does that make us?" " The sons of cousins and a bit German." "You know what I can't understand?" "How the German people cannot see it." " Sir?" " The little Austrian corporal." "Can't they see how ludicrous he is?" "He's so... preposterous." "Anyway..." "It's a mess here." "Needs cataloguing - all the art." "Can you fit it in with your hush-hush work?" "I could put in a word if you find the hush-hush gets too... onerous." "I love this country." "I did not realize how much I loved it until now." "We're going into the East End this afternoon - the Queen and I." "We're going to pretend to be ordinary people." "Her idea." "Betty Windsor for the afternoon, mucking in with the Joneses." "The Germans have moved four divisions to the Polish-Russian border." " They're about to invade?" " Yes." "My God." "How did we get this information?" "Our infiltration of the army is non-existent and there's no air reconnaissance." " We've decided not to warn the Russians." " What?" "Why not?" " We have to protect our source." " What source?" "Wait." "Is it the codes?" "It's the German codes." "My God, we're breaking Enigma!" "That's all, Kim." "Thank you." " Breathtaking." " What?" "Why is he telling you and me?" "It's so slipshod." "We don't need to know, so we shouldn't." "Take the rest of the day off, Angleton." "What have we got? "Classified. "" ""Secret. "" ""Top secret. " "Most secret. "" "Very good." "What a hard day at the office." " It's going to happen." " What is?" " At last." " What?" "Germany is going to invade Russia." "Great Britain and Russia - allies against Hitler." "Born again." "Born again!" "Thank God." " On the side of the angels." " The bulldog and the bear." "This means we're double patriots." "Born again, Anthony?" "Is that how you feel?" "Or is it too late for you?" "Eton old school." " Sir was at Eton?" " Trinity College?" " Sir was at Cambridge?" " And something red." "Sir is a very happy Communist." "Which tie would sir like to wear now?" "Spoilt for choice." "So bloody wonderfully spoilt for choice." "HANDEL'S "MESSIAH")" "Missing Melinda?" "Yes." " She didn't go home to escape the war?" " No." "You were too much in love." "No one steps back from love." "Not even if there's a war on your doorstep." "It was something I told her." "What did you tell her?" "I told her about me." "About what you do?" "Yes." "I don't want you to tell anyone else about this." "Don't tell Moscow." "We can deal with this." "Can't we?" "Can't we?" "This is highly irregular." "What is it?" " Has something happened?" " Yes." "You seem a little nervous." "One of our mutual friends in trouble?" "I just wanted you to know there are no British agents working inside Russia." "None." "Anything else?" "I want out." "I want to stop working for British Intelligence." "I'm more tired than it's possible to be and my nerves are shot." " Moscow doesn't let well-placed men leave." " Unless they're better-placed elsewhere." " For example?" " The royal family, chatting with the King." "We've lost a man, or rather, he's in limbo." "He worked for us, then he went quiet." "You've changed the subject." "We think he may have access to very important secrets and the responsibility has affected him." "It can happen." "A weaker man than you." "Where is he?" "His name is Cairncross and he's working in Bletchley Park." "I wonder if you might dig him up and see how he's feeling." "If you did a good job, Moscow would look favorably on your request." "I'm getting nods and winks." "I think promotion is in the air." " Anthony?" " I'm being followed." " Are you sure?" " No, not entirely." "Will you do something for me?" "Moscow wants me to visit a friend who's gone quiet." " Where?" " Bletchley." "Tomorrow." "I want you to follow me." "And see who else is forming a queue behind Anthony Blunt." "Mind the doors!" "Stand clear!" "Mind the doors!" " I know who they are." " Is the game up?" "Are they MI5?" "They're Soviet, Anthony." "They're Soviet." "Bletchley is half a mile from here." "Is there anything you said that could have been misinterpreted?" " No." "Nothing." " I don't understand." "Why?" " The look on his face." " Who?" "What?" "Henry." "When I told him Britain had no agents inside Russia." "His look was disbelief." " But it's true." " I know it's true." "But Moscow has an ego that doesn't believe that Britain isn't paying them attention." " They think we're lying?" " Feeding them disinformation." " They think we might be..." " Double-crossing them." "Moles?" "What do we do?" "Tell them we're not?" "No." "We'll make sure we get the biggest secret there is and pass it on." "If a gift is large enough, it always comes with love, and they'll see that." "I know why you're here." "It must be a lonely life." "12-hour shifts of code breaking and then back here to the gas fire and the crossword and damp bread for tea." "You won't get at me." "I've made my mind up." "Are you thinking straight?" "Codes, codes, codes." "It must dominate the mind." "It's very simple." "The Red Army is hopelessly infiltrated by German spies." "If we tell the Soviets what we're getting from Enigma, the Germans will pick it up." "Have you seen the casualty figures?" "30,000 a week on the Eastern front." "30,000 Russians every week." "I think there's a moral obligation to help them." "But I understand." "Your world is small." "I don't blame you for not seeing the moral perspective." "It's winning us the war!" "Breaking the code." "We know so much about what the Germans are doing, and if the Germans find out and change the code... that would damage us very, very badly." "Us?" "The 30,000 are us too." "Aren't they?" "If the average Russian weren't prepared to die fighting the Fascists," "Hitler would be in Downing Street now." "Churchill doesn't mind if Russians die in their millions because they're not "us"." "That's his moral perspective." ""Let the Reds die. "" "The answer is no." "I won't do it." "That's my choice." "The answer is not no." "The answer is you made a bigger choice some time ago to work for Moscow to fight Fascism." "And that doesn't go away... ever." "I hope you understand that." " Are you threatening me?" " Of course." "Of course I am." "Not tonight, Jack." " It used to be so exciting." " Sex?" " Spying." " I don't like that word." "It's so underhand." "Excitement was one of the main reasons for doing it - apart from the good reason." "The whiff of danger, all that." "I think I've been running away from boredom all my life." "A flight from ennui." " It's funny..." " Funny?" "You, I talk to." "Is it getting too much?" "Anthony..." "Is it?" "Look at me." "Look at me." "Melinda." "I lost the baby, Donald." "He died." " He was born and he died." " He?" " We missed you yesterday." " I went to see an old friend who's unwell." "Would you mind, Angleton?" "Walter Krivitsky." "He's with the Soviet Embassy in Washington." " Or he was." " Where is he now?" "He's coming over to us and we've got a taster." "We've got a mole inside the British intelligence services." "Does he give a name?" "A tall, fair Scot with bohemian tastes from a well-to-do family." " No name?" " Not yet." " Is he the real thing?" " We're checking." "We have Krivitsky holed up in a hotel in Washington." "A tall, fair Scot." "Bohemian tastes." "Any ideas?" "Can I have a look at the file?" "Krivitsky." "To D-Day - the start of the end of the war." " I didn't know you two knew each other." " Americans in London." "We're a couple of swells, we stay in the best ho..." "Hello, darling." " Drink?" " Uh-huh." "Happy again." "Dangerous thing - happiness." " We should have dinner." " Donald's very busy." " Just the two of us." " He's the jealous type." "So tell him you're meeting a woman." "How about it, Melinda?" "A couple of swells and a hell of a dame." "Kim." "Excuse me." "What was all that about today at the office?" " It's secret." " Secret?" "It must be something big if the Yank is not permitted to know." "But not so secret that Mr. Blunt can't hear it." " A tall, fair Scot with bohemian tastes." " Donald." "Donald." "Krivitsky will have to be taken care of." "Few people know of his intended defection and I'm one of the few." "If he is "taken care of", some others - not many - and me." "We have no choice." "If he identifies Donald, we all go down." "We're like skittles - one goes, we all go." " The domino effect." " Dominoes, skittles - we fall together." "No choice, Kim." "We're in this together." "Moscow will have to be told." "And don't tell Donald." "You look like a ghost walked through you." "Cheer up, Anthony." "It could be worse." "I need to pass water." "Shut up, can you?" "Just shut up." "You always kept parts of your life in separate compartments." "Painting, spying, sex... royalty." "You can close a compartment down and it's as if it's never been there." "But this time it's your friends that you're trying to close down." "And they don't belong in one of your compartments." "They're your heart." "You're closing down your heart." "That's the end of life." " Guy..." " Top secret." "Private." " Guy..." " Quick." "Out." "Whelk?" "Don't you Soviets understand English any more?" "Would you like a fucking whelk?" "Do you know what that is?" "A list of agents we're dropping into Albania by parachute." "Where, when, who." "And it's all yours, Boris." "So Moscow can arrange to catch them as they fall." "Bumpy landing, eh, Boris?" "Out of the sky and into the arms of death." "Bump 'em off, Boris!" "Bump-bloody-bump!" "Walter Krivitsky, Washington." "Your embassy thinks he's on leave, but he's in a hotel." "If the Americans think he's the real thing, he'll defect." "You know which hotel?" "Yes, I do." "We're grateful." "Moscow is grateful." "Thank you." "There is something delicate we would like you to undertake on our behalf." "It's a retrieval job." "And it concerns the Duke of Windsor - my fool brother - and some letters he wrote to a relative in Germany." "What kind of letters?" "Letters that speak of his love for Germany and his... fondness for Herr Hitler." "Letters we should like to have under our control." "It would be an honor." "Here's a note authorizing you to take possession of the letters." "I know that we can rely upon your finesse in retrieving them and your tact once you have brought them home." " The hush-hush work..." " If you do this for us... it will be the last hush-hush thing you do." "I shall see to that." "I don't care if the Queen of Sheba has given you authorization." "This castle is American territory in Germany and we decide what stays and what goes." " Would you at least call your HQ?" " This is my HQ." "Then call your commanding officer." "Wait there." " Head for the attic." " Why the attic?" "Aristocratic families are all the same - secrets at the top of the house." "Bad news, I'm afraid." "My CO says nothing leaves." "I understand." "I quite understand." "Has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are?" "We are very grateful." "We should like you to accept a position." "Surveyor of the King's Pictures." "Welcome to the family." " Did you manage to...?" " No more hush-hush." "Thank you, sir." " Safer life in art." " Yes, sir." "Much safer." "You heard?" " Suicide." "There was a note." " Three young children left." " You should have looked after him better." " What?" "He was in Washington." "He was your man." "You let him slip." "You Americans have got a lot to learn." " James Jesus Angleton." " What about him?" " Haven't you noticed?" " What?" " I think he's keen on Melinda." " Aren't you becoming a little paranoid?" "I've got something to tell you." " I've made us safe - all of us." " What do you mean?" "The one thing about this country of ours is that we have a royal family who are loved and cherished by all." "Nothing can be allowed to tarnish their image." "Windsor cosying up to Adolf?" "The nation couldn't bear it." "The Duke and the Fuhrer cheek to cheek would break our heart." "What are you getting at, Anthony?" "I went to Germany and I took photographs of some letters - letters that suggest the Duke and the Fuhrer were very good friends." "If someone were to suggest that any of us might be traitors..." "I'd be perfectly happy to whip out the photographs." "I think they'd dissuade any prosecution." "We're safe." "Brilliant!" "Come on, you." "I'm in with the King." " The Kremlin's interested..." " Tittle tattle." "They want me to spend more time with the Windsors." "How much more time?" "All of my time." "My God." "My God, you're backing out, aren't you?" "You've lost your nerve, haven't you?" "Anthony?" " Anthony." "Tell me I'm wrong..." " I've made you safe, Kim." "Safe?" "!" "You've left me in charge of two mewling infants!" "I trusted you." "I gave you all my trust." "We trusted each other." "I had a man killed to keep us safe and what have you done?" "You've smashed it up!" "One fucking skittle has taken a walk." "You bloody fool." "You bloody, bloody fool." "For he's a jolly good fellow" "For he's a jolly good fellow" "For he's a jolly good fellow" "And so say all of us..." "Give me 15 seconds." "Let's talk about it." " Do excuse me." "Wait here." " What?" "Hello, Colonel." " Blunt." " Fancy bumping into you." " Haven't seen each other since..." " I packed in the hush-hush." "Can't fathom a man giving it up for art." "Never trust a man who looks down his nose at art." "Although, looking down your nose, you arrive at your moustache and can't see much at all." " Are you trying to be funny or insulting?" " Insulting." "I'd finished in hush-hush, so I packed it in." "Finished what?" "Passing the name of every MI5 agent onto the Russians." "Good to see you, Winter." " About now, he should be telling Liddell." " If Liddell trusts us." " He does." " As a Cambridge man." "If every security issue goes through Liddell, he'll block anything awkward." " We're safe." " Liddell the road block." "Anthony Blunt's been passing the names of our agents to the Russians." "What?" "!" "Says who?" " What?" " Says Anthony Blunt." "He told the Colonel." "Pompous fool, Winter." "Wouldn't spot a tongue in a cheek in a million years." " Fool." " He wants me to pass it to the headmaster." " Will you?" " Of course not." "Make me look an idiot." " Moscow is pleased." " Good." "Donald Maclean has been posted to Washington." "Stop telling me what I know and tell me what you want to say." "You and Mrs. Maclean are friends." "She likes you." " I want you to suggest something to her." " What?" "That she spends some time in New York with her family." "Maclean needs to be run by our best man, and he's in New York, so Maclean will have to visit New York." " A wife in Manhattan is perfect cover." " But you need her to agree." "We think you might be in a position to persuade her." "So how's married life?" "I bet she knows the difference between cottage pie and shepherd's pie and can quote from all of England's best-loved poems." "Am I right?" "Have you married someone who irons your underpants?" "Do you think it's possible to love two people at the same time?" "I think it's possible to be two people at the same time." "I'm scared, Kim." " Why?" " I'm pregnant again." " Why does that scare you?" " Donald." "It's hard enough for him as it is." "Becoming a father, having a child, will make it harder still." "Do you forget sometimes which is which?" "The real and the secret?" "Your question assumes that the two are not the same thing." "It might be an idea for you to spend some time apart from Donald." " He'd hate it." "He's drinking a lot..." " I'm thinking of you, Melinda." "Why don't you have the baby in New York?" "Be with your family." "Donald can come over from Washington at weekends." "You're very kind to me." "Am I safe, Kim?" "People like me - wives and outsiders - we're not supposed to know, and if we do know, we're a threat, aren't we?" "Moscow doesn't know." "Why not?" "I haven't told them." "That's a kind of betrayal, isn't it?" "It's the first time I've lied to them." "I should go." "What's the difference between cottage pie and shepherd's pie?" "Cottage pie is beef, shepherd's pie is lamb." " Do you believe in ironing underpants?" " Absolutely." "What is this?" ""Stand the church clock still at ten to three... "" ""And is there honey still for tea?"" "Lights out." " You're highly regarded." " Thank you." "So alongside attending all those interminable Embassy drinks parties," "I want you to do an important job for me." "Yes, Ambassador." "Secretary to the Joint Policy Committee on Atomic Development." "The bomb." "The bombs." "Make it your bag, Donald." "I want a good Brit among the Yanks." "We should know everything they know." "I'm not sure they agree." " Right." " Be aggressive about what you want to know and listen hard." "I won't have the Yanks getting possessive about it." " Come for a drink on Saturday." " I can't, I'm afraid." "Oh, yes." "Wife in New York." "Good idea." "Wives and work should be kept separate." "Or do I mean wives and life?" "Yes, I think I do." "Life on the one hand and wife on the other." "Will it be long?" " Could we have a minute alone?" " Yes." "I want us to have a new start." "I'm going to tell them I can't do it any more." " Don't make promises you can't keep." " I'm going to do it." "I want a normal life." "I want to look after my son and not feel that half of me's absent." "I have to go." "Do you?" "I'm going to tell them it's over." "There's something I want to say." "My wife had a baby today." "Let's make the world a better place for him." "How do you know it's a boy?" "You're our most important agent." "If we could send flowers, we would." "Your appointment to the Joint Policy Committee on Atomic Development - you think you might access the Atomic Energy Commission?" " It's nuclear physics, for God's sake." " Listen, Homer..." "Please stop the spy stuff." "Homer?" "It's ridiculous." "You know my name." "I thought agents weren't supposed to know their codenames." " We can help you with nuclear physics." " An evening course?" "We have man inside weapons program - a physicist." "He can tell you everything." " Then, get him to bring what you need." " He doesn't have your access." "So a spot of nuclear physics with my work at the Embassy, my new baby, the Embassy social whirl, keeping my wife happy and my run-of-the-mill spying." "America has weapons that could destroy Soviet Union." "We do not have same weapons." "There are those inside US Government who advocate using these weapons." "This is most dangerous time for our cause." "You are very important." "We care about the stress you are under." "But in the scheme of things, forgive me for seeing your personal problems as secondary." "You have something personal with you - a photograph or something?" "Need a guide?" " She is beautiful, your wife." " Yes." "Are you married?" "They tear all our loved ones in half." " Does she know about what you do?" " She is dead." " I'm sorry." " Committed suicide." "Strange term - "committed suicide. " Like a crime." "She killed herself because she couldn't stand to live in a world with the Nazis." "Her suicide was an act of profound moral principle, not a crime." "Donald Maclean." " We're not supposed to exchange names." " No." "Against the rules." "Klaus Fuchs." " You lived in Germany?" " Ja." "I came to America in 1939 along with most of the German scientists I knew." "Our gift to my new country has been the bomb." "I have some glue." "You can stick your beautiful wife back together." "By the time she is dry, you will know everything you need to know about nuclear physics." " He's in New York." " She's back in Washington." " You know what the whisper is?" " What?" " What's the whisper?" " That Donald's got a mistress in New York." " Really?" " Where did you hear that?" "An "intelligent" friend." "Hello, Melinda." "Don't let me interrupt." "Go ahead, what were you saying?" "We were just... gossiping." "I love gossip." "What's the gossip?" "Something exciting?" " This and that." " This and what?" "Let me in on it." "I can see you're dying to tell." "Go on." "What's the matter?" "Mouth a bit dry?" "Lips dry too?" "Here, have a drink!" "Melinda." "Lost none of your balls, I see." " It's easy when everyone around you's so..." " British?" " You still learning from the Brits?" " They taught me nothing." "And you know everything?" "I'm Head of Counter-Intelligence in the new agency - the CIA." "Your own acronym." "I'm impressed." "Are you going to tell me what that limey did or do I need to impress you some more?" "No." " No to which question?" " Both." "See you later, James Jesus Angleton." "Darling?" "Where is he, upstairs?" " How was the party?" " You haven't told them, have you?" "You'll never tell them you want out." "It's too important, Melinda." "What I'm doing." "More important than him growing up with a father who lies for a living?" " That's not fair." " No." "You're right." "You're out there changing the world." "I have to put up with a little humiliation because the future of mankind is at stake." "Humiliation?" "They think you're in New York fucking another woman." "Do you know how that feels?" "Do you know how unbelievably humiliating that is?" " It's really hard, Melinda." "I need you..." " Hard for you." "Hard for you!" "I so badly wanted to tell them - he's not fucking another woman, he's in New York fucking you all!" "Fucking the entire country, in fact!" "The irony is I threw a glass of wine in a diplomat's face to protect your honor!" "Our honor!" "Which no doubt makes all of them think they're right." "You do have a mistress." "I've given you the perfect cover." "Why else would she be throwing wine about?" "America is being run by dangerous, paranoid maniacs." "They have the bomb, they have the enemy and the power." "It makes them capable of anything." "I'm working for his safety, his freedom." "But where is us in all of this?" "Where is our life?" "Where is our family?" "I want our life back." "Just give me a little time." "I don't believe you." "I don't believe you'll get out." "One of our planes operating a long-range detection system tracked a suspicious cloud over the Pacific." "They got an air sample - it's radioactive." "The radioactivity and the position of the cloud suggests one thing..." "Oh, my God." "The USSR tested its first atomic bomb, probably the day before yesterday." "Years early." "Our intelligence was saying at least two years..." "I know what our intelligence was saying!" " There must be a leak." " Atom bomb spies." "I've had two-thirds of my stomach removed due to ulcers." "I'm planning on keeping the rest of my stomach." " No more ulcers." " Find the leak." "Plug it." "The President wants all Americans to know that we have evidence that recently an atomic explosion occurred in the USSR," ""Remember this day" - "the day the USSR" tested its first atomic bomb, the day the world changed, the day the world got much colder..." "During the war, we found a KGB code book in Finland." "Roosevelt made us send it back." " To our Soviet ally." " And we did, but we copied it first." "By itself, the code book is useless..." "Cut the crap and give me the beef!" "The only copies of the pads they used to decipher this are in KGB HQ in Moscow." " If Moscow uses them only once..." " Fuck the pads!" "Give me the damn beef!" " We can read parts of their coded messages." " And what have we got?" "Sections of a scientific report written from inside the Manhattan Project." " Author?" " We're working on it." "Won't take long." "Anything else?" " Something sensitive." " It's all sensitive!" "Spit it out!" "What we've decoded seems to tell us that there's a mole inside the British Embassy." "Seems to?" "Do you have a name?" " Only his Soviet codename." " Homer." "And one clue." "Homer has family in New York." "Family in New York?" "Then he must be an American employee." "In the kitchen probably." " Somebody downstairs." " A cleaner?" "Or maybe a commis chef?" "Leave it to me." "We'll root out Homer." "Will you be looking upstairs as well as downstairs?" "Why should we do that?" "Upstairs is beyond reproach, Angleton." "All that complacency and smugness." "I can't stand it!" ""Upstairs is beyond reproach. "" "I have some good news." "We've confirmed who was leaking from inside the Manhattan Project." "A German Jew called Klaus Fuchs." " Bloody hell!" " Darling?" " I don't know where the photograph is." " Photograph?" "What photograph?" "It's of you." "I can't remember where we put it." "Jesus Christ." "What?" "You want my money?" "Why don't you just bloody say it?" "The money, mister." "Hey, hey!" "Get outta here!" "He's under a lot of stress." "There's a new baby and a new job." " Yes." " Yes." "Melinda, if there was something else, it would be a good idea to tell me." "Why do you think there might be something else?" "Well, how can I put it?" "Donald has a very solid, very reliable forehand, but he has another side to his game." "A heavy slice on his backhand and lots of disguise on his lob." "I'm sorry?" "Well, he has you - his wife - and he has a mistress." "That's what people are saying." "Have you...?" "I preferred not to ask." "No, no." "Quite." "Too painful." "I understand." " You're sending him home?" " He needs it." "Slapped wrists and a ticket home for being a violent lunatic?" "!" "You can't do it!" "It's done." "He's on his way home now." "Unbelievable." "The carpet in this office?" "Wall-to-wall." "Only it isn't." "There's a loose corner." "Far side of the room - furthest from the door." "You can lift it right up, sweep anything you choose under it." "Knowing what to sweep under the carpet is the art of diplomacy." " How's the Homer investigation?" " We're halfway through the waiting staff." " It's been weeks, for Christ's sake!" " Methodical is best." "Why not look from the top down at the same time as the bottom up?" "Traitors don't come from the top." "Not in England." "I'm all yours." "My hush-hush days are over." "You no longer work for MI5?" "They're princesses." "Do you think they're going to ring up the "Daily Mail"?" "Are you tired, Charles?" "I'll take you up." " There, there." " Hello." " Terrific ears for a young chap." " Yes." "So..." "Any skeletons, Anthony?" "Anything you wouldn't want the "Daily Mail" to know?" "No." "You're fond of the princesses, particularly Margaret?" "Very." "Pity about your married quarters going missing." " Ma'am?" " Your downstairs arrangements." "Ladies, so I'm told, are not permitted to show an interest in Anthony's Percy Pointer." "Not even princesses." "Any other vices you'll be prepared to lie to me about not having?" "I don't consider the modus operandi of my Percy a vice..." "I don't do Latin, Anthony." ""Honi soit qui mal y pense" is as far as I go." "Drink?" "Thank you." "You didn't answer my question about vices." "You rather swerved it." "Um..." "I used to be quite keen on Marx." " Groucho?" " The other one." " Harpo, the deaf one?" " Karl, the bearded one." " Boils." " Lots, apparently." "On his married quarters." "No, on his bottom." "Another country altogether." "So..." "You're a homosexualist, a lapsed Marxist..." "And I'm related to you." "You and me, Anthony." "Two queens in a pod." "You and I, ma'am." "There's a married Group Captain sniffing about Margaret." "Oh, dear." "Poor Margaret's completely blinded by his twinkle." "I know I can trust you to keep this to yourself." "I would never betray a member of the family." "Spotted dog." "Or is it dick?" "Language changes so quickly, one can't keep track." "Plates." "Anyway, it's spotted." " Reminds me of school." " Reminds me of school." " Reminds me of school." " Reminds me of school!" " Custard?" " Oh, yes, please!" "Oh, my dog's on fire." "Or is it my dick?" " Talking of my dick..." " It's Bird's custard." "Alfred Bird, 1811 to 1878." "His wife suffered from a terrible digestive disorder." "She couldn't eat anything made with eggs or yeast, so no custard, but she loved custard so her husband experimented and came up with a new custard made with cornflour and milk." "Bird's custard." "People think of it as inferior, cheap, a substitute." "It's not." "It's made with love." "I've got some news." "It's not official yet, but I can tell you." "The Philbys are going to Washington." "Kim is replacing Donald." "Pity you and Donald won't have time to catch up." "Nor you and Melinda." " Delicious custard." " Bought or made?" "You must stay with Donald, you know that?" "I take it from you." "I take everything you say and do it." "It's a relief to be told what to do." "Be strong." "Help Donald and you'll be helping me." " You wouldn't use me, would you?" " Use you?" "No." "God, no." "It's a relief to talk to someone who means what they say." "I couldn't stand it if I didn't have that." "That's the first time you've touched me." "The question you asked - can you love two people at once?" "The answer's no." "We'll be moving into your house in Washington." "Mr. and Mrs. Philby in Mr. and Mrs. Maclean's house." "And because the answer's no, I'm not going to try." "I'm going to be Mrs. Maclean." "The Americans are deeply unreliable." "McCarthy and his witch-hunts, the FBI/CIA rivalry." "Everyone's a Communist." "We mustn't catch the disease." "Paranoia's crippling." "The Homer investigation." "I want to do it properly." "My way, our way." " I'll go over the waiters and cleaners." " Has to be the place to look." "We have to keep our feet on the ground." "Just because the Yanks are jumpy, doesn't mean we have to be." "I'm glad you're here, Kim." "Safe pair of hands." "By the way, we've got a new man joining us." "Bit of a cove, apparently." "Guy Burgess?" "It's against the rules to have fellow agent in your house," "Look, I'm going to be C. I'm going to be head of MI6, and Moscow will know everything in British Intelligence." "I won't jeopardize it by letting Burgess run amok." "He's going to live with me." "End of story." "It'll be fine." "What can he do?" " Mmm." " Guy lives in the spare room." " It's an arrangement that works well." " You didn't invite him tonight?" "Separate lives." " Hello." " Hello, Guy." "Care to join you?" "Yes, I fucking well will, actually." "The wifely hand on the husband's arm." ""Darling, get him under control or goodness knows what he might do. "" " Guy." " Kim." " Darling..." " Darling, please, really." " Guy." " Kim." "What happened, Burgess?" "I got beaten up by a keen theatregoer, Angleton." "Why?" "In England, when one is having a piss at a urinal and eight urinals either side are unoccupied and a man comes in and doesn't piss seven urinals away or three urinals away, but stands right bloody next to you, it means something." "But when he starts up a bit of a chat about new writing in the theatre, it means "Bugger me", frankly." "But not here, it would seem." "Apparently, in this appallingly friendly country, it means nothing of the kind." "It means what it is - passing pleasantries in a public lavatory in the middle of the night." "What happened?" "What happened?" "What happened?" "I asked him to say hello to Great Britain's answer to Enola Gay." " Do you know the story of Bird's custard?" " We're going home!" " James..." " I'll be back for my car in the morning." "I don't believe in drinking and driving." "A little touch of Harry in the night." "Does it feel like the night before Agincourt?" " We've come a long way together." " 20 years." "It still burns." "Belief." "In the belly." "D'you think we'll be all right?" "You didn't answer my question." " Are we going to be all right?" " The dominoes going..." "When one of us falls, he knocks the next one down." "The second knocks the third man down and the third, the fourth." "We stand or fall together." "I think you could think about that, Guy." "Guy?" ""The poor condemned English." ""Like sacrifices by their watchful fires," ""sit patiently and inly ruminate the morning's danger." ""And their gestures sad, investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats," ""Presenteth them under the gazing moon..." ""So many horrid ghosts. "" "Lord Halifax, we're down to four and none are downstairs." "Homer is upstairs." "In the spirit of co-operation between our countries, we thought we'd help." "Are you saying that Philby has been slow?" "What do you think this is?" "A game of chess?" "It's real life." "Things happen because of people like Homer." "People die." "Freedom is threatened." "It matters!" "Stiff upper lips and decorum and good manners can go hang!" "Down to four?" "Here's the list of names." "I'd be grateful if you kept them to yourself." "No one else should see it." "Gore-Booth." "Jendrell..." "Neame." "Maclean." "They're down to four." "Homer is one of four." "Maclean is on the list." "I see." "What the hell are you going to do about it?" "What?" "The longer the inquiry goes on, the greater the chance of connecting you to Homer." " You are very valuable to us." " What are you saying?" "You could be about to become best-placed agent we have ever had." "Having you as C would be more useful than anything in our history." "If we need to make sacrifice to protect you, it should be made." " What are you saying?" " Homer is burnt out." "You're saying I should sacrifice Donald?" "If you help bring inquiry to conclusion, you and our cause would be better served." " Give Donald up." " Give Homer up." "His name is Donald Maclean." "I won't do this." "I won't." "You know I'm right." "You might be angry but you know I'm right." "He hasn't been Donald Maclean for years." "He is Homer." "And Homer is lost." "Hello." " What do you think?" " Is it safe?" "I haven't finished." "It will be safe, I promise." " Penny for your thoughts, Kim." " My thoughts are more expensive than that." "Homer." " What about it?" " We were down to four." "Now we're down to two:" "Paul Gore-Booth, Donald Maclean." "They both have family in New York." "They were both on the Embassy staff." "The Russian for "Homer" is "Gomer"." "It's a near anagram of Gore." "Will you excuse me?" "Nature calls." "Philby's known Maclean for years." "The British Intelligence Service works like a gentleman's club." "They look after each other because they wear the same tie." "Ties are everything." "Philby's pointing us towards Gore-Booth." "Philby doesn't know Gore-Booth." "I think we've got our man." "So..." "Middle of the night, a house call?" "What's the story?" " There are two men who might be Homer." " Gore-Booth and Maclean." "Both have family in New York." "Both were in the right place at the right time." "Yes." " Gore-Booth is short, dark, smart." " Yes." "Donald Maclean is a tall, fair Scot with bohemian tastes." "So?" "Some years ago, a KGB man called Walter Krivitsky tried to defect to the West." "Murdered in a Washington hotel." "Before he was murdered... he gave us a taste of what he could offer." "He told us there was a spy in the Foreign Office." "He didn't give a name, just a description." "What was it?" "Short, dark, smart?" "A tall, fair Scot with bohemian tastes." " I know who Homer is." " Maclean." " How did you...?" " Philby told me." "The British beat you to it after all." " I've had concerns about Philby." " Well, that's the end of them." "Kim Philby is on the side of the angels." "The Devil was an angel." "Don't tell me you're a sore loser, James?" "Philby got there first." "He shopped Maclean." "What kind of a traitor would shop another traitor?" "Close the door on the way out." "I played tennis with him." "Do it our way." "I don't want the Americans all over this." " Private grief." " It's a huge shock to us all." "I'll contact London." "He was a friend of yours." " Yes, he was." " I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "We're worried he won't go, leaving his son." "And his wife." " Hard to leave happy family." " Are they happy?" "That's what I'm told." "He needs an escort." "Someone needs to go with him." "Drink up," "Now get in your car." "You're going home, Guy." " How?" " Bad behavior gets you sent home." "Shouldn't be too hard for a man like you." "White picket fences." "HANDEL'S "MESSIAH")" "God bless America." "White picket fences, apple pie, Shirley Temple." "The Ku Klux Klan, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the CIA." "White Sox, bobby socks, rednecks." "God bless America." "String up those niggers!" "Fry them Communists!" "God bless America!" "Land of the Free!" " Burgess is being sent home." " Why?" " He invented his own un-American activity." " I can imagine." " It was planned." " What do you mean?" " Maclean needs escort." " To Southampton?" "To France?" "Philby's valuable, you are valuable." " We think we can keep you safe..." " Moscow?" " You want Guy to go too?" " He doesn't know and he mustn't know." " He thinks he's going to France." " You want me to lie?" " Reassure him." " Lie!" " He's burnt-out case." " He's my best friend!" "Maclean gets the 5.19 from Charing Cross every night." "The man in the hat and coat with the briefcase and the brolly." " I've always had my concerns." " I don't want a "told you so" speech now." " Let's put a tail on him." " We've had a directive from above." " What?" " No tails at weekends." " It's a money problem." "Saves on overtime." " What?" " What?" "!" " We'll pick him up on Monday." "He has no reason to suspect we're onto him." "Let him come into the office as normal... then swoop." " You should get a coat." " I've got this one." "Channel crossings can be chilly, and St Malo's a cold place." "Nothing as cold as Cambridge, remember?" "Permanently the 19th February." "I'd like to go back." "There isn't time, Guy." "No." "One or two places as cold..." " .. as Cambridge." " One or two." "I'll buy you a coat." "I'd like to." "You should have a good coat." " You all right, sir?" " I'm fine." " You sure you're all right?" " I'm fine, thank you." "Winter?" "I think I saw Guy Burgess." "Here in London." "You know he's here?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "Christ!" "Why would he come back now?" "It's too much of a coincidence." "He's been living with Kim Philby and Philby will know we're pulling Maclean in." "Bloody hell!" "I think Maclean's going to go - make a run for it." " Can't find my copy of "Middlemarch"." " Borrow mine." " I'll let you have it back as soon as..." " When you can." "I know." "I know." "The house could be bugged, We'll have supper, talk about nothing," " You and I will go out, drive to the pub." " I see." "My name is Roger Stiles for the purposes of supper and the benefit of the bugs." " I'm an old school friend." " Do you think it'll hold?" "The swing?" "Looks like it." "I should test it." "Do you mind?" "Did you put the swing up yourself?" "Two lengths of rope, Roger, and a piece of wood." "A couple of holes in the wood, feed the ropes through, and tie the ends with really good knots." "Knots that will never slip or come undone." "Good strong knots." "Good for a lifetime." "How about a nightcap at your local?" "Good idea." "Good idea." " How much further?" " A couple of minutes." "Where are you going, Daddy?" " Just out." "I'll be back." " Why is Mummy crying?" " Mummy isn't crying." " Mummy isn't crying." "Up to bed, lovely boy." "Up to bed, darling." " Bye, darling." " Bye, Daddy." "See you in the morning." " Where the hell are we now?" " I don't know the actual house." "Best to ask in the pub." "I wish it were not dark." "I wish we could see the English countryside." "Is he here?" "Where is he?" "Melinda, where is he?" "Can I use your phone?" "I have to use your phone!" "He's sleeping." "My son - he's asleep." "I won't have you wake him." " Hey, what about the car?" " Back Monday!" "Keep looking." "Keep looking." "There." "England." "England." "Out of my way!" "He's gone." "Maclean's gone." " Guy's gone too, hasn't he?" " I don't know." "How would I know?" "No, of course." "You're only friends." "Yes." "Only friends." " Mr. Blunt, isn't it?" " Yes." " How are you, sir?" " All right." " And your lot?" " My lot?" "Let me see now..." "Burgess, Maclean, Philby." "Have they all gone on to great things?" "I don't know." " Lost touch?" " Yes." "Lost touch." "All gone." "Great things?" "Yes..." "Yes." "They all went on to great things." "And did these feet in ancient times" "Walk upon England's mountains green?" "And was the Holy Lamb of God" "On England's pleasant pastures seen?" "And did the countenance divine" "Shine forth upon..."