Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series)

Tinker Tailor (1979)

Ian Richardson: Bill Haydon

Quotes 

• Bill Haydon : All right, Sam. Now, first thing you do, you call this number, it's Toby Esterhase's. Tell him you're speaking for me, and he's to pick up the two Czechos we've had our eyes on in London School of Economics, and lock them up. Now, right away, Sam. Jim's worth a lot more than those two, but it's a start. I'll have a word with the chief hood of the Czech Embassy. If they hurt a hair on Jim Prideaux's head, I'll strip the entire Czech network in this country bare. You pass that on. I'll make him a laughing-stock!

• Sam Collins : You got my message, sir?

  Bill Haydon : [shakes his head]  How did you get me?

  Sam Collins : I rang George Smiley's house just in case his wife happened to know where you were. You are a friend of the family, aren't you?

  Bill Haydon : [nods]  I caught the ticker tape at the club. I gather there's been some God-awful shooting in Czechoslovakia.

  Sam Collins : Jim Prideaux's been shot. The Czechs haven't got his real name yet, they're using his workname Ellis.

  Bill Haydon : Jim? Shot dead?