Colin Firth credited as playing...
Bill Haydon
- George Smiley: Is there anything you would like me to pass on to Ann?
- Bill Haydon: That was nothing personal, George. You have to understand. Karla said that you were good; the one we had to worry about. If I were to known as Ann's lover, he'd figure that you wouldn't be able to see me straight. And he was right, up to a point...
- George Smiley: Up to a point.
- George Smiley: Did Karla want you take over the Circus?
- Bill Haydon: I'm not his bloody office boy!
- George Smiley: [angry] What are you then, Bill?
- Bill Haydon: I'm someone who's made his mark.
- Bill Haydon: [on the phone] As I said, you may fuck me but you still have to call me "Sir" in the morning.
- Bill Haydon: I thought I'd pop down and catch a glimpse at the new girl before Bland gets to her.
- Peter Guillam: Ah, yes, Belinda the Blonde.
- [Haydon rides a bicycle into the Circus office]
- Peter Guillam: You got clearance for that?
- Bill Haydon: Well, I'm not bloody chaining it up outside. Mind you, probably no better off in here with this bunch of bloody cut-throats, they'll have the gold out of your teeth!
- Bill Haydon: You really are a poison dwarf, Toby. Why don't you fuck off to his majesty and stop trying to involve me in your little cabaret.
- 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.