Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series)
Return to the Circus (1979)
Ian Bannen: Jim Prideaux
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Quotes
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Control : Listen, Jim, we've got to have codenames for them. D'you remember the nursery rhyme "Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor"? Finish it.
Jim Prideaux : "Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief."
Control : Percy Alleline, director of Operations: "Tinker".
Jim Prideaux : "Tinker".
Control : Bill Haydon, head of Personnel: "Tailor". Roy Bland, head of Iron Curtain Networks: "Soldier". We leave out "Sailor"; too much like "Tailor", could be misheard.
Jim Prideaux : "Richman"?
Control : Don't like it, sounds like police work: fraud, Swiss banks stuff. Toby Esterhase, top lamplighter, our exquisite head sleuth...
Jim Prideaux : "Poorman"?
[Control chuckles]
Control : Yes..."Poorman". And George Smiley, my devoted deputy: "Beggarman".
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Control : We have a rotten apple, Jim, and the maggots are eating up the Circus.
Jim Prideaux : These people? One of these?
Control : Why not? Are the British incapable of deception? We've turned members of other outfits: Russians, Poles, Czechs and the odd American.
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Jim Prideaux : [about the car's rear door] Open it.
Barak : No, you must sit next to me. It's safer.
Jim Prideaux : Like hell!
Barak : Also more democratic.