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Smiley's People Season 1 Episode 6

Smiley's Lighter

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AIRED: 10/25/82

With information from Grigoriev and after a meeting with the mysterious Alexandra, Smiley can put the pieces of the puzzle together. It gives him a chance to face his nemesis once more.

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Game, set and match - George Smiley gains his final and absolute revenge on the diabolical Karla. But is it worth it?

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By orswel, Apr 16, 2010

The cigarette lighter given to George Smiley by his faithless wife so long ago proved to be the key to "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", and now it reappears in the final moments of this sequel. Its full significance will be denied to those didn't see "Tinker, Tailor", but its impact for those who did is shattering. In trapping his arch-enemy, Smiley has had to find Karla's one weakness - the tiny streak of humanity hidden so far under his ruthless surface. In doing so, Smiley is only too aware that he has, after all, become like his enemy and no longer has the moral high ground. You won, someone tells him. Alec Guinness's delivery of the last line ("I... suppose I did") is perfect.moreless
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Alec Guinness

George Smiley

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Michael Byrne	Peter Guillam	Guest Star
Bernard Hepton	Toby Esterhase	Guest Star
Michael Lonsdale	Grigoriev	Guest Star

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- Smiley: How is Madame Grigorieva nowadays? Will she be pleased by a sudden home posting, followed by premature retirement to some inclement part of Russia? You and all your family. No car. No privileges. Unpersons.
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- Mother Felicity: Please, do not lower your voice merely because I'm a nun. We run a noisy house here and nobody is the less pious for it.
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- Alexandra: Tatiana is the daughter of a man who is too important to exist. He controls the whole of Russia, but he does not exist. When people arrest Tatiana, her father arranges for her to be freed. He does not exist, but everyone is afraid of him.
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- Alexandra: People should not attempt to change history. It is the task of history to change people.
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- (Final lines)
  Guillam: George, you won!
  Smiley: Did I? Yes. Yes, I suppose I did.
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- Patrick Stewart only appears in one scene and doesn't utter a word, exactly like in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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