- Lily Thomas: [Talking about Kim Philby] By the way why wasn't he in some sort of custody?
- Nicholas Elliott: Well, that's not how we...
- [breaks off]
- Nicholas Elliott: [after a pause] I was trying to appeal to his better nature.
- Lily Thomas: As an Englishman.
- Nicholas Elliott: And husband. And father.
- Lily Thomas: How did you and he first meet?
- Nicholas Elliott: Not sure what that has to do with what happened in Beirut...
- Lily Thomas: Oh, what happened in Beirut is that the most dangerous Soviet penetration agent this country's ever known, legged it. On your watch.