Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series)

Smiley Tracks the Mole (1979)

Terence Rigby: Roy Bland

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• Roy Bland : You're an educated sort of a swine. "An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function." Who dreamed that one up?

  George Smiley : Scott Fitzgerald.

  Roy Bland : Well, Fitzgerald knew a thing or two. And I'm definitely functioning. As a good socialist, I'm going where the money is; as a good capitalist, I'm sticking with the revolution, because if you can't beat it, spy on it! Don't look like that, George. It's the name of the game these days. You scratch my conscience, I'll drive your Jag, right?

• Roy Bland : So, what's the deal?

  George Smiley : What do you want?

  Roy Bland : What about five thousand quid out of the reptile fund for starters?

  George Smiley : And a house, and a car...

  Roy Bland : And the kid to Eton.

  George Smiley : Your father would turn over in his grave.

  Roy Bland : Let him rotate, the old Commie thug!

• Roy Bland : [to Smiley]  If there's no deal, you'll have to tell Control to get stuffed! I've paid, you see, you know that! I don't know what the hell I've bought with it, but I've paid a packet. Poznan, Budapest, Prague, back to Poznan - have you ever been to Poznan? - Sofia, Kiev, two bloody nervous breakdowns and still between the shafts! That's big money at any age. Even yours.