Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series)

How It All Fits Together (1979)

Michael Jayston: Peter Guillam

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• Peter Guillam : So Karla's fireproof. He can't be bought, and he can't be beaten.

  George Smiley : NOT fireproof, because's he's a fanatic! I may have acted like a soft dolt, the very archetype of a flabby Western liberal but I'd rather be my kind of fool than his. One day that lack of moderation will be Karla's downfall.

• Bill Haydon : Stupid bloody cabaret. Percy's getting more insufferable every day.

  Peter Guillam : I wouldn't know, would I?

• Peter Guillam : [on Smiley's meeting Karla]  What did Control say?

  George Smiley : He said, "I hope to God they do shoot him."

• George Smiley : How do you feel, Peter?

  Peter Guillam : I'm all right.

  George Smiley : After Delhi, you know, Control gave me three months leave without the option. When this is over, I hope you'll take it easy for a while. We're not quite there yet, but nearly. Peter, have you got the handbrake on?

• Percy Alleline : Well, now, young Peter Guillam, welcome to my house, about which you've been making calls, I hear. Are you lonely in the Brixton outposts? Tired of chasing the local virgins? If there are any in Brixton, which I would doubt!

  Percy Alleline : If you'll excuse my freedom, Mo. You DO know that Mo Delaware is our new Head of Research, don't you? Man with message in cleft stick does reach Brixton, does he?

  Peter Guillam : Barring the monsoon.

• Peter Guillam : [to Mendel, faking a phone call]  Well, at least get on to the head of office today and find out when they can supply the damn things!

• Peter Guillam : [to Esterhase, about Skordeno]  Paul and I were paired together at a tough-guy course. We all but killed each other.

• Percy Alleline : What the hell are you shrugging at us like that for? I'm accusing you of playing hooky behind our back with a damn defector from your own damn section, of playing damn-fool parlour games when you don't know the stakes! And all you do is shrug at me? There's a law, Guillam, against consorting with enemy agents! You want me to throw the book at you?

  Peter Guillam : I haven't seen him! If anybody's playing parlour games it's not me, it's you! So get off my back!

• Peter Guillam : [fuming]  That bastard Tarr...!

  George Smiley : Peter, slow down. Slow down!

• George Smiley : [Hearing of Irina's execution]  Ricky Tarr mustn't know. It's vital that he gets no wind of this! God knows what he would or would not do if he found out, and we may need to make further use of him.

  Peter Guillam : Do you really believe all that guff about Tarr being in love with her? The little homestead in the Highlands? The avenging lover, the honourable Ricky Tarr?

  George Smiley : He may be compelled, Peter, everyone has a loyalty somewhere. He mustn't know.