Yes, it is easy to see now. I knew but I didn't see. They picked her because of her father.

I must have been insane, mad. Behaved like an idiot, to believe in her with her clinging kisses.

Stop wallowing in your foul memories.

Then what do I do? There's nothing to do. I'm done, finished. They'll find out.

They won't find out.

They'll find out what I'm married to. Look what they did to Emil Hupka, Emil who did nothing. And I've betrayed them, I've bungled and there's no excuse. I'd do the same myself - kill the fool that betrayed them.

There's no need for them to find out.

Mathis is very sharp.

Yes. He dislikes you. But his criticism of your talents wouldn't go that far to imagine that you are married to an American agent. You are protected by the enormity of your stupidity - for a time.

Alicia, I'll take care of her myself.

No, not that way. Let me arrange this one. Listen to me. No one must know what she is. There must be no suspicion of her, of you or me. She must be allowed to move about freely. But she will be on a leash. She will learn nothing further to inform. She must go, but it must happen slowly. If she could become ill and remain ill for a time, until...