Mark Strong credited as playing...
Jim Prideaux
- Control: I know that Moscow has planted a mole, and I know it is one of five men.
- [starts placing out chess pieces with photos on them]
- Control: Alleline: Tinker. Haydon: Tailor. Bland: Soldier. We leave out "Sailor", too much like "Tailor". Esterhase: Poorman.
- Jim Prideaux: And the fifth?
- Control: Smiley.
- [last lines]
- Bill Roach: I made this for you, sir.
- Jim Prideaux: I don't want you hanging around here anymore. Keep away from me from now on. Go and join the others.
- Bill Roach: But...
- Jim Prideaux: Just bloody join in, will you?
- Jim Prideaux: Go and play! Damn you!
- Jim Prideaux: [on Roach] I've known a lot of Bills in my time. They've all been good ones. Whatcha good at?
- Control: Trust no one, Jim. Especially not in the mainstream. Sit down. I understand you still have one Hungarian identity running.
- Jim Prideaux: I do.
- Control: I want you to go to Budapest. This is not above board. Nobody else knows. They're after my head, Jim-boy. You understand? I have had an offer of service. A Hungarian general wants to come over. I would like you to meet him. He has some information that I need, Jim.
- Jim Prideaux: What information?
- Control: Treasure. He has the name of the mole the Russians have planted in the British intelligence service, right at the top of the Circus. There's a rotten apple, Jim. We have to find it.
- Jim Prideaux: [on Roach, to Bill] Best watcher in the unit, I'll bet. As long's he's got his specs on, aye?
- Jim Prideaux: I tried to hold out as long as I could. Did any make it out?
- George Smiley: No, they were blown.
- [from trailer]
- George Smiley: What did you think of Control's theory?
- Jim Prideaux: I thought it was madness!
- KGB Agent: [calmly knitting]
- Jim Prideaux: [Voice over, he's in headphones, forced to listen to recorded screams] For two weeks they worked me over.