Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series)

How It All Fits Together (1979)

Michael Aldridge: Percy Alleline

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• 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.

• 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!