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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Season 1 Episode 6

Smiley Sets a Trap

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AIRED: 10/15/79

After a meeting with Jerry Westerby, Smiley has the information he needs. He starts to stir things up with the men of which Control suspected one to be the mole. He is able to eliminate two, himself and one other. The waiting begins, when suddenly the message arrives that Prideaux has disappeared.moreless

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The great plan of "Gerald", the mole, becomes clear to Smiley, as does the devastating extent of its success.

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By orswel, Apr 17, 2010

Slowly, oh, so slowly, the confusion clears and the picture becomes crystalline. Once again, with Joss Ackland's beautiful performance as Jerry Westerby, the underlying theme of "Tinker, Tailor" - that spies are children at play in a terrifying, adult world - is trenchantly expressed. (Jerry, who speaks incessantly in an old-fashioned minor-public-school slang, is the hero of a later John Le Carre novel actually entitled "The Honourable Schoolboy"). The fiendish cunning of the Karla-Gerald plan - so that vital information has gone out, but only minor chicken-feed has been offered in exchange - becomes finally apparent. But which one of the five senior intelligence executives is "Gerald"?moreless
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Alec Guinness	George Smiley
Michael Jayston	Peter Guillam
George Sewell	Inspector Mendel
Michael Aldridge	Percy Alleline
Bernard Hepton	Toby Esterhase
Ian Richardson	Bill Haydon

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Joss Akland	Jerry Westerby	Guest Star
John Wells (I)	Headmaster	Guest Star
Betty Hardy	Headmaster's Mother	Guest Star
Ian Bannen	Jim Prideaux	Recurring Role
Hywel Bennett	Ricki Tarr	Recurring Role

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- Smiley: Come on, Jerry, out with it. Did Toby say something about Ann?
  Westerby: Some story he'd got. I told him to stuff it up his silk drawers.
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- Smiley: Karla really did bring off the perfect fix... for a while. It would be beautiful in another context.
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- Smiley: Ever bought a fake picture, Toby?
  Esterhase: I sold a couple once.
  Smiley: The more you pay for it, the less inclined you are to doubt its authenticity.
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- Smiley: If you make your enemy look stupid, you lose the justification for taking him on.
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