Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Ciarán Hinds: Roy Bland

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• Oliver Lacon : The treasurer can't understand why can't the intelligence service simply put in a request for a general increase in funding and then you'll account for the spend on your special operation?

  Percy Alleline : Operation 'Witchcraft' needs to remain a secret; it's a fiefdom of its own.

  Oliver Lacon : Yes, that's what's winding us; whole thing's very unaccountable isn't it? This London house that no one knows the address of, is that really necessary?

  Percy Alleline : Now more than ever, we need to protect our Soviet source.

  Roy Bland : [lights a cigarette]  So where do you propose we meet, in a café?

  Oliver Lacon : The rent and rates on this house have... doubled.

  Roy Bland : We spent millions on nuclear warheads, we're asking for a few thousand for a house. I wonder if Karla has the same problem with the treasury at the Kremlin.

  Oliver Lacon : Look, nobody underestimates the importance of the jobs you chaps are doing.What happened in Budapest last year... That was a disaster.

  Roy Bland : With respect, sir, that wasn't one of your civil servants that got killed, was it? Now this isn't about soldiers in trenches anymore. We're the front line now...

  Oliver Lacon : Roy...

  Roy Bland : For 25 years we've been the only ones standing between them and Karla and Moscow and the Third bloody World War!

  Oliver Lacon : Look, the minister is very pleased with your progress so far. He's less pleased though, with our progress with our American cousins. You see, in their eyes... You're still a leaky ship.

• Percy Alleline : The Minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blowin' around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.

  Roy Bland : Percy does have a point, Control. We should be fighting communism, not each other.

  Percy Alleline : Well, we're losing our reputation. Our partners.

  Control : [scoffs]  Your bloody Yanks!

  Percy Alleline : And we've had enough! There's going to be changes.

  Easterhase : 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.

  Easterhase : Look!

  Roy Bland : Control-...

  Control : Out! All of you!