Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series)

How It All Fits Together (1979)

George Sewell: Mendel

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Mendel : [about Jim Prideaux]  We've traced him. He's become a teacher, Thursgood's Catholic School for Boys. It's in West Country.

  Sir Oliver Lacon : Right!

• Mendel : [about Guillam]  He does sound jumpy. He might have overdone it a bit there. He was very loud. I've seen it all before, tough ones who crack at 40. They lock it away, pretend it isn't happening, all of a sudden you find 'em sat in front of their desks, the tears pouring on the blotter.

  [Smiley looks at him critically] 

  Mendel : I think I should say what's on my mind.

  George Smiley : I think Peter will manage. You heard something about his murderous assignment in French North Africa, I suppose?

  Mendel : Something. Whispers.

  George Smiley : Peter was over-matched, and lost. His agents were hanged. No one recovers entirely from that sort of thing. That is, I wouldn't trust a man who did.