Control You weren't followed?
Control Better come in. Trust no one, Jim. Especially not in the mainstream. Sit down. I understand you still have one Hungarian identity running.
Control I want you to go to Budapest. This is not above board. Nobody else knows. They're after my head, Jim-boy. You understand? I have had an offer of service. A Hungarian general wants to come over. I would like you to meet him. He has some information that I need, Jim.
JP Jim Prideaux
What information?
Control Treasure. He has the name of the mole the Russians have planted in the British intelligence service, right at the top of the Circus. There's a rotten apple, Jim; we have to find it.
Control [Control has just signed an official document of the British Intelligence Service.]
Would you witness this for me?
PA Percy Alleline
I wish I could've done more, Control.
Control You did all you could, Percy. Well, a man should know when to leave the party.
TE Toby Esterhase
What about Smiley?
Control Smiley is leaving with me. [Smiley nods to the affirmative.]
[having an inaudible conversation with Esterhase. Esterhase then waves mockingly at Control and Smiley, both of whom are leaving 'The Circus'.]
You little prick, Esterhase!
Control George! George, get in here! [Smiley enters.] George, sit down. [Smiley sits.] Take a look at this nonsense. Report by Soviet high command on their recent naval exercises in the Black Sea, just what the Admiralty has been begging us for some information on...
Control I didn't. Percy and his little cabal walked in with it.
E Esterhase
Look, Control...
Control Shut up!
[flicking through document, casually.]
Style appalling, blatantly a fabrication from beginning to end. It just could be the real thing.
If it's genuine it's gold dust. But its topicality makes it suspect.
Control Smiley is suspicious, Percy!
Where did it come from? What's the access?
A Alleline
A new secret source of mine.
But how could he possibly have access-
A Alleline
He has access to the most sensitive levels of policy making. We've named the operation 'Witchcraft.'
Control [archly.]
Oh, Percy and his pals bypassed us, Smiley. Gone straight to the minister. Percy has been allowed to keep the identity of his new friend TOP secret.
A Alleline
The minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blown around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.
B Bland
Percy does have a point, Control; we should be fighting Communism, not each other.
A Alleline
No, we're losing our reputation, our partners-
Control Your bloody Yanks!
A Alleline
-and we've had enough! There's going to be changes.
E Esterhase
We need to decide if we want to be part of the past or part of the future.
Control I should have left you where I found you.
Control OUT! ALL OF YOU!
[Alleline, Bland and Esterhase leave. Control glares at Haydon until he too exits, leaving only Smiley and Control.]
If Witchcraft is genuine-
Control Nothing is genuine anymore!
