Toby Jones credited as playing...
Percy Alleline
- 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.
- Oliver Lacon: The treasurer can't understand why can't the intelligence service simply put in a request for a general increase in funding and then you'll account for the spend on your special operation?
- Percy Alleline: Operation 'Witchcraft' needs to remain a secret; it's a fiefdom of its own.
- Oliver Lacon: Yes, that's what's winding us; whole thing's very unaccountable isn't it? This London house that no one knows the address of, is that really necessary?
- Percy Alleline: Now more than ever, we need to protect our Soviet source.
- Roy Bland: [lights a cigarette] So where do you propose we meet, in a café?
- Oliver Lacon: The rent and rates on this house have... doubled.
- Roy Bland: We spent millions on nuclear warheads, we're asking for a few thousand for a house. I wonder if Karla has the same problem with the treasury at the Kremlin.
- Oliver Lacon: Look, nobody underestimates the importance of the jobs you chaps are doing.What happened in Budapest last year... That was a disaster.
- Roy Bland: With respect, sir, that wasn't one of your civil servants that got killed, was it? Now this isn't about soldiers in trenches anymore. We're the front line now...
- Oliver Lacon: Roy...
- Roy Bland: For 25 years we've been the only ones standing between them and Karla and Moscow and the Third bloody World War!
- Oliver Lacon: Look, the minister is very pleased with your progress so far. He's less pleased though, with our progress with our American cousins. You see, in their eyes... You're still a leaky ship.
- 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!