Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 英語發音 繁體中文語言字幕版(DVD版)(適用任何家用DVD播放機)
Through a love affair with the wife of a Moscow Centre intelligence
officer, British agent Ricki Tarr discovers that there may be a high-
ranking Soviet mole within the Circus. Tarr alerts Oliver Lacon, the Civil
Service officer responsible for the Intelligence Services, and Lacon
enlists Peter Guillam and retired agent George Smiley, to investigate. Smiley
and Guillam must investigate without the knowledge of Circus leadership,
which is headed by Percy Alleline and his deputies Bill Haydon, Roy Bland,
and Toby Esterhase, as any of these could be the mole.
Smiley suspects that the mole was responsible for the failure of Operation
Testify, a mission in Communist Czechoslovakia whose ostensible purpose was
the kidnapping of a Czech Army general. Operation Testify ended with Circus
agent Jim Prideaux shot in the back, and caused the disgrace and dismissal of
Control, former head of Circus, who has since died. Prideaux, who survived
and was repatriated, reveals to Smiley that Control suspected the mole's
existence and the true aim of Operation Testify was to discover the mole's
identity.
Percy Alleline, who was Control's rival, has risen to prominence as a
result of seemingly top-grade Soviet intelligence from a source code-named "
Merlin". Smiley's investigation leads him to believe that the Merlin source
is false, and is being used by Moscow Centre to influence the leadership of
Circus. Cleverly, Moscow Centre has induced Circus leadership to believe that
Merlin maintains his cover in Moscow by feeding them British intelligence
from a false Circus mole. As a result, Circus leadership cover up any rumours
of a mole, thus protecting the actual mole.
Smiley contrives a trap for the real mole using a communication from Tarr,
and the mole is revealed to be Bill Haydon, a respected colleague and
former friend who once had an affair with Smiley's estranged wife. Haydon
acknowledges he was recruited by Karla, the Moscow Centre spymaster. Haydon
is to be exchanged with the Soviets, but is killed before he leaves
England. Though his killer is not explicitly revealed, it is strongly implied
to be Prideaux, whose motivation was revenge.
Smiley is appointed temporary head of Circus to deal with the fallout.
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