Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

David Dencik: Toby Esterhase

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• George Smiley : I want to talk about loyalty, Toby. Control recruited you, didn't he? He found you starving in a museum in Vienna, a wanted man. He saved your life, I heard. And yet, when the time came... when it came to picking sides between him and Alleline, you didn't hesitate. It's understandable, perhaps, with your war experience. You survived this long, I suppose, because of your ability to change sides, to serve any master.

  Easterhase : What's... what's this about, George?

  George Smiley : It's about which master you've been serving, Toby.

• George Smiley : [discussing the veracity of a new report]  Where did you get this?

  Control : I didn't. Percy and his little cabal walked in with it.

  Easterhase : Look, Control...

  Control : Shut up!

  Bill Haydon : Style, appalling. Blatantly a fabrication from beginning to end. Just could be the real thing.

  Control : Smiley is suspicious, Percy.

  George Smiley : Where did it come from? What's the access?

  Percy Alleline : A new secret source of mine.

  George Smiley : But how could he possibly have access?

  Percy Alleline : He has access to the most sensitive levels of policy making. We named the Operation Witchcraft.

  Control : Well, Percy and his pals bypassed us Smiley. Gone straight to the minister. Percy has been allowed to keep the identity of his new friend top secret.

• [from trailer] 

  Easterhase : [to Smiley]  Things aren't always what they seem.

• Percy Alleline : The Minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blowin' around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.

  Roy Bland : Percy does have a point, Control. We should be fighting communism, not each other.

  Percy Alleline : Well, we're losing our reputation. Our partners.

  Control : [scoffs]  Your bloody Yanks!

  Percy Alleline : And we've had enough! There's going to be changes.

  Easterhase : We need to decide if we want to be part of the past or part of the future.

  Control : I should have left you where I found you.

  Easterhase : Look!

  Roy Bland : Control-...

  Control : Out! All of you!