Black Bag (2025)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: David Koepp
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgård, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Pierce Brosnan
Plot: George Woodhouse, a counterintelligence officer with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is given one week by his superior, Philip Meacham, to investigate the leak of a top-secret software program code-named Severus. One of five suspects is his wife, Kathryn, who is also an intelligence officer. He invites the other four suspects, also NCSC operatives, over for dinner. The four suspects are satellite imagery specialist Clarissa, her boyfriend and case officer Freddie, counterintelligence officer James and his girlfriend Zoe, who is also the staff psychiatrist. At dinner, George drugs their food to lower their inhibitions. In an effort to learn more about his guests, George engages them in a psychological game. Among other things, it is revealed that Freddie has been cheating on Clarissa, to which Clarissa responds by stabbing Freddie in the hand with a steak knife.
That same evening, Meacham dies of a heart attack while drinking in his home. George begins to focus on Kathryn after finding a ticket to a movie theatre in her dresser waste basket, and she denies having seen the film. He tricks her into giving him access to her office, logs into her computer and learns that she will be traveling to Zurich. Later, James informs George that Kathryn has access to a Zurich bank account containing £7 million in misdirected and unexplained funds. In a psychiatric session, Zoe asks if Kathryn prioritizes her career or her husband. In a subsequent session, Zoe breaks up with James. George uses Clarissa’s infidelity to pressure her to redirect a spy satellite and watches Kathryn meet with a Russian dissident, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Kulikov, in Switzerland.
It is revealed that during the few minutes George had the satellite redirected, another dissident Russian named General Vadim Pavlichuk disappeared from a Liechtenstein safehouse with a copy of the Severus program, and he and Kulikov are now en route to Eastern Europe to use it to cause a nuclear meltdown in Russia. Clarissa tells Freddie, with whom she has reconciled, about her involvement, and Freddie secretly warns Kathryn that George suspects her. In bed that night, the couple compare notes and realize they are being set up. Kathryn uses Clarissa to track Pavlichuk. She suspects that their boss, Stieglitz, deliberately leaked Severus to cause a nuclear meltdown and destabilize the Russian government even though it would kill thousands of innocent people. She leaks the expat Russians’ location to a CIA contact, resulting in a drone strike that kills them as they travel through Poland. George subjects all suspects except Kathryn to a polygraph test to determine who is behind the leak.
They invite the other four suspects to a second dinner party. Instead of serving dinner, Kathryn places a gun on the table while George announces they will play a game in which he asks each of them a single question. His questions reveal several secrets, including that Freddie and Zoe had an affair, and that Zoe learned of the Severus program from James and attempted to stop its dissemination due to her Catholic faith. George states that there were two plots: one by Stieglitz and James to leak Severus and cause a nuclear meltdown to destabilise the incumbent Russian government and end the war in Ukraine, and another by Zoe and Freddie to use Kathryn to stop it. James grabs the gun, confesses to plotting with Stieglitz and killing Meacham, and fires at George twice. However, the gun is loaded with blanks. Kathryn pulls a gun from her bag and kills James, after which she firmly warns the remaining colleagues to never exploit her and George’s mutual fidelity again. George dumps James’s body in a lake. Kathryn informs Stieglitz that his plot failed and suggests he remove himself from his position. She and George reaffirm their love for each other. At Kathryn’s questioning, George reveals that the Zurich bank account containing £7 million is still untouched.
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Black Bag (2025) | Transcript
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[lively chatter]
GEORGE: I’m here to see Mr. Meacham.
[ice rattling]
[lively chatter]
[“Polyrhythmic” by Phil Kieran playing]
[music continues louder downstairs]
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[music and chatter fade]
[siren wailing in distance]
MEACHAM: You were right, George.
We have a traitor in the house.
There are five names on there.
Your wife’s one of them.
Why is that?
You asked me to look at everyone.
I looked.
She has the security clearance, she has the motive, and she has the capability.
I had to put her down.
How long do you think you’ll need?
Give me two weeks.
If Severus is deployed as intended, thousands of innocent people will die.
Okay. One week.
If it is Kathryn, do you really think you can do that?
How’s Anna?
[inhales sharply]
Still mad.
I’m sorry.
I made a mistake, that’s all.
She just can’t let it go.
She will, eventually.
Yeah?
Some things really are best swept under the rug.
I just wish it wasn’t so fucking easy.
To cheat.
For us.
Mm.
Not everyone aspires to your flagrant monogamy, George.
If you’d like Anna to be less angry, you might consider going home.
Good luck finding the rat.
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[steam hissing]
[water bubbling]
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I can feel when you’re watching me.
Sorry.
[zipper zips]
I like it.
GEORGE: I understand this is not the casual dinner you’d prefer.
Yeah. It’s an unusual group.
Data scraper, two agents and the inhouse shrink.
What are we hunting this time?
Severus.
And you think one of them took it?
Possibly.
Hmm.
It’s been a while since we had a traitor to dinner.
At least knowingly.
We shouldn’t be discussing this.
No, probably not.
I would’ve thought you’d start with polygraphs.
I wanted to try something more elegant first.
What’s on the menu?
Fun and games.
Will there be a mess to clean up?
With any luck.
They suit you.
Mm.
No, you spent too much.
It’s boring how much you think about money.
It’s terrifying how much you don’t.
Avoid the chana masala.
Contains a healthy amount of DZM 5.
Darling, you may not dose our guests.
One of them is a liar.
I want to know which.
♪ I never thought
it would happen ♪
♪ With me and the
girl from Clapham ♪
♪ Out on the windy common ♪
♪ That night I ain’t forgotten ♪
♪ When she dealt
out the rations ♪
♪ With some or
other passions… ♪
Matthew.
Hello, sir.
I want to settle up for the table by the door.
Of course.
And I’ll have a double Jameson.
Straightaway, sir.
I know they’re not that much older, really, but I kind of feel like I’m going to my parents’ house.
If-if they weren’t divorced and didn’t hate each other.
STOKES: Well, here’s what I know.
You don’t get invited to dinner twice if you say no the first time.
But why now?
With 24 hours’ notice?
And why us?
We all work together.
Two couples in the same field.
It’s not that much of a reach.
So you believe this was just spontaneous?
I’m assuming so until I see reason to believe otherwise.
You and Freddie sitting across from each other after what just happened?
That could be read as provocative.
Freddie’s fine.
Right?
[chuckles]: How should I know?
Ask the shrink.
Whose idea was it, do you think?
George or Kathryn?
STOKES and CLARISSA: George.
Sorry, sorry. So sorry.
For fuck’s sake, Freddie.
I mean, you booked the table.
You’re the one that wanted to meet beforehand.
I am absolutely at fault, I admit it.
And Dr. Vaughan, were she allowed to say so, would claim there’s a certain hostility in my chronic tardiness.
But in order to make it up to you all, I have paid the bill and tipped like a gangster.
Oh, come on.
We are celebrating James’s well-deserved, meteoric ascent through the ranks.
Cheers.
Shall we?
Right.
Wait.
I was hoping for some pointers.
I mean, how shall I behave?
Praise his cooking, and I promise all will be magical.
[doorbell rings]
KATHRYN: Hello.
FREDDIE: Kathryn.
Hello.
On time and everything.
Come in.
Thank you.
Oh, shall I take that?
No, I’ll take it to the kitchen.
Come in. Yes, it’s cold, isn’t it?
[chuckles]
Hello.
Lovely to see you.
All right.
I should take your coat.
Wow.
Thank you.
This is, um… beautiful.
[chuckles]: Oh, yeah.
The joys of not having children, hey?
[Clarissa laughs]
What would you like to drink?
Rum.
Rum.
Mmm.
’98 for the table.
Right.
Oh, yes, lovely.
[chatter continues in other room]
Should we get this over with?
I get it, why you went with him.
Yes?
James is the smart play.
Young, aggressive and…
How shall we say it?
Uncompromised.
I’d always hoped it would be you.
I drink too much, I fuck too much, and I owe more than I’m worth.
The pills are becoming a problem as well.
I’m so glad I can confide in you, George.
I need to change.
KATHRYN: Oh, give them a break.
Most of NCSC is 25yearolds.
They were just mucking around, trying to zero-day a central router.
They didn’t know they’d brick the whole system.
Wait. Syria 2012?
That was you?
That was us?
I don’t know.
I don’t work on that side of the house.
That op was tight.
I’ve read that string.
It’s a very sexy piece of code.
STOKES: Mm. It was all fine till little Eddie Snowden decided to call everybody out, said it was a fuckup.
It shut Assad’s ass right down, didn’t it?
How many civilians died as a result?
Greater good.
Yeah, I don’t find amorality attractive.
Then give up either your profession or your sex life.
I give it two weeks.
[snickers] Optimistic.
CLARISSA: Did you get hell from oversight?
Nothing I couldn’t handle.
Oh, please.
The committee fucked with Kathryn exactly once.
Half of them lost their assignments.
’Cause that’s what bad bitches do.
[polite chuckling]
Chana masala is fantastic, by the way.
Absolutely delicious.
ZOE: Mm.
Thank you.
Come on.
Syria’s hardly the worst thing we’ve ever done.
I once outed my kid’s teacher as a pedophile just to get him fired.
Oh.
[Clarissa laughs] Figures.
Turns out the guy’s eight-year-old had a rash.
Guess he shouldn’t have emailed those pictures.
That is uniquely loathsome, Freddie.
You hand me an angle, I play it.
New teacher gave Matty an “A.”
Don’t fuck with SIS dad.
So we’re all horrible people.
Is that what the point is here?
I prefer to say “complex.”
And what’s wrong with “patriotic”?
Come on, most of us are sick as shit.
Nobody can lay a glove on Oedipus over there.
What, you all don’t know about that?
Careful, Freddie.
It’s common knowledge.
Well, that’s for him, not you.
It’s all right. But thank you, darling.
FREDDIE: See?
George can handle it.
Handle what?
Little Georgie surveilled his own father.
Ouch.
Oh, my.
FREDDIE: Well…
[slurring]: Daddy was an inveterate cheater.
Rarely if ever kept it in his pants.
But he was senior service, and he was, shall we say, careful.
When half your life’s in the black bag, how’s little civilian wifey ever gonna have a prayer of knowing where you’re sticking it?
That’s crass.
So was Thomas Woodhouse.
And his boy didn’t like that one bit.
STOKES: So what happened?
FREDDIE: George got the goods on him.
On video.
Played the tape one Sunday night at a family dinner I would have paid money to be present at.
George torched Daddy’s marriage and his career at the same time.
Who will ever hire a field op who’s bested by his own kid?
I don’t like liars.
You are so rock and roll.
That must have been deeply traumatic.
How old were you?
Thirty-seven.
Oh.
Did your father not know what you do for a living?
KATHRYN: Oh, no, he knew.
Thomas just thought he was very good.
George was better.
I hear you’ve never been beaten in the chair.
You’re like some kind of legend.
Is it true? No one can lie to you?
Better not to find out.
Well, when are you gonna poly me, George?
Sorry.
FREDDIE: Of course, what came after can hardly be blamed on George.
KATHRYN: I think that’s enough.
The man had been depressed for 30 years.
Freddie, it ends.
Right now.
CLARISSA: Shut the fuck up when you talk to people, Freddie.
I have a game.
We go around the table and each of us makes a resolution.
The way you might at New Year.
Some personal issue that needs to be addressed.
“I resolve to quit smoking,” for example.
FREDDIE: Oh, this is some groundbreaking shit, George.
But we don’t make the resolution for ourselves.
We make it for the person to our right.
STOKES: I’m not sure that’s a good idea.
I’m certain it’s a terrible one.
FREDDIE: Are you joking?
KATHRYN: I don’t believe he is.
I’m in.
I’m getting another bottle.
This is a new one.
Brand-new.
[laughter]
ZOE: Well, I wasn’t aware the agency would track that, but I’ll, um… I’ll keep it in mind.
Thank you, George.
So, when you say “erotic fiction…”
Leave the poor woman alone.
I don’t need defending.
I like a dirty story.
It’s not a crime.
I believe it’s my turn.
Yeah?
Okay.
“I resolve to…”
Wait, I’m speaking in his voice, yeah?
Okay.
“I resolve to do my best to finish second whenever possible.”
[snickers]
Or once, even.
Once would be a refreshing change of pace.
Sing it, sister.
Trust me, one day, you’ll be thrilled to finish at all.
CLARISSA: You are so full of shit, Freddie.
Note taken. You’ll be begging me to stop.
Oh, what every woman longs for.
An endless, abrasive experience.
[Stokes scoffs]
Let’s move on.
My turn.
This one’s for you, right?
Okay.
“I resolve to figure out this old man obsession of mine.”
Oh.
I figured that one out a long time ago, hon.
Young men bore the shit out of me. [laughs] I mean, you, you know, you haven’t done anything.
You haven’t been anywhere.
All you want to do is invite me over to watch you play video games.
[Zoe laughs]
Oh, God.
Did I get that one right?
ZOE: Second date:
Call of Duty: Pacific Theater.
[laughter]
KATHRYN: Well, this has been
absolutely delightful.
FREDDIE: I may be old and wizened, but at least I know how to book a decent restaurant, Major.
It’s Colonel.
Colonel Xbox.
Okay.
Major Minecraft.
Fucking hilarious shit, mate.
Promise you’ll go down on him while he plays Zelda so he can die a happy little soldier, won’t you?
CLARISSA: Shut the fuck up, Freddie.
FREDDIE: What is your problem tonight?
CLARISSA: You know, the real problem with old men is the miserable, suffocating fear of death.
I mean, it’s there, so… so they can feel it, and they are quite literally pissing themselves with fear, which II suppose explains their pathetic, priapic lunging at anything that moves.
I’m wondering if perhaps you’ve had enough to drink.
But it’s my turn now, right?
I get to speak for Freddie now, right?
“I’m gonna stop fucking her.”
Well, I’m afraid I can’t, gorgeous.
I am powerless before you.
Not me.
Her.
Is this some sort of prank?
This is why you can’t date SIGINT.
They’re all fucking insane.
It would appear… it would appear my young friend and I might benefit from a private conversation.
I’m not going anywhere.
I am…
You know, maybe on Monday, the two of you could find a few minutes to come by my office.
We could sit down and then…
I’m not going anywhere.
My God, you are an infant.
It’s not the issue.
You’re psychotic.
Pathological.
I have indulged your constant need for support and encouragement and reassurance and fucking paternal engagement for a year and a half now, and I’m sick to fucking death of it.
He left.
I’m so sorry Daddy walked out the door, probably because he didn’t love Mummy, but maybe because he became so hopelessly bored with your needy, constant demands that he figured getting out was better!
And that is a shitting tragedy, but it happens.
It happens, and you move on!
That’s what a healthy human being does.
You are a perversion of what a man is supposed to be.
KATHRYN: Stop it.
You are a diseased creature who has spent the last 20 years of her life running in frantic circles, trying to compensate for a socalled tragedy that is quite possibly the most boring story ever told, and I’ve had it with you.
I hate you. I hate you so fucking much!
I have slept with no one but you for the past year and a half, you sweet fucking lunatic!
No one!
And, my God, how I regret it now.
Get some help!
And stop spraying your sickness on the rest of us, on the loyal, faithful, decent men who have only tried to love you as well and as truly as they possibly could.
GEORGE: The Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell.
I beg your pardon?
That’s the hotel you prefer.
Normally, Mondays and Thursdays, easiest for you because it’s the department meetings and you can slip away.
Your lover pays with a credit card in her own name.
I assume you split it in cash, but that’s immaterial.
As is her name.
The junior suite with city view is your favorite.
I don’t like liars.
STOKES: Fucking hell!
Wait, don’t move it.
Don’t move it. Don’t fucking move it!
ZOE: Okay, I got it.
I got it. I got it.
That is the most boring thing you’ve ever done.
[laughing]
Hands down.
Stay still. Stay still.
STOKES: Look at me. Look at me.
[Freddie laughing]
All right, I’ll swap you.
ZOE: Okay.
Give me the arm.
I wonder if it’s possible you went just a bit heavy on the DZM 5.
I may well have.
Did you see what you needed to see?
I don’t know yet.
That was the rock. Now I watch the ripples.
Leave the rest.
I will.
Just give me two minutes.
KATHRYN: Leave it.
GEORGE: I will.
KATHRYN: What does it do?
What does what do?
KATHRYN: Severus.
GEORGE: I’m afraid that’s in the black bag.
KATHRYN: Want me to guess?
No.
Dirty tricks, malware, meant to disable a government.
Why would you say that?
KATHRYN: Hmm? Oh, Severus Alexander.
You know, the Roman emperor whose, uh… uh, assassination led to 50 years of civil war.
If you like.
You know what I like. Hurry up.
George.
Sorry.
Come here.
If you were in a situation, if you needed my help…
I do need your help.
Scratch my back.
Wouldn’t matter what it was…
Please stop talking.
I would do anything for you.
Would you?
Yes.
Anything at all?
Yes.
Would you lie?
Yes. But never to you.
That’s sweet.
Would you lie to me?
Only if I had to.
Would you kill for me, George?
Yes.
Would you?
Yes.
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[sighs]
I’m going to bed.
What’s wrong?
Nothing.
Maybe this weekend?
Someplace nice.
Don’t stay up too late.
[sighs]
[clears throat]
[sniffs]
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The fuck?
[gasps]
[grunting]
[grunting]
[gasps] Wait, wait, wait.
Phil? Phil?
[pours coffee]
I thought maybe a movie this week.
Uh, I’m out of the country Wednesday, back Thursday.
Maybe tomorrow, then.
Sure.
Is anything playing?
I hear Dark Windows is good.
Dark Windows. Don’t know that one.
Should we see it?
Love to.
Where are you off to on Wednesday?
Black bag.
Right.
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[quiet chatter]
George Woodhouse.
Forgot my badge. Can I get a temporary?
Proper badge protocol is essential, Mr. Woodhouse.
Never happen again.
[quiet chatter]
[phones ringing]
[door lock beeps]
Great party.
Glad you could make it.
Fingers still work.
Look, I know she’s crazy as a fucking loon, but she makes me happy.
My whole life, all I’ve done is do for people, Susan and the kids.
I get nothing but hate for it.
Clarissa expects exactly nothing.
Okay.
You’ve heard about Meacham?
He’s dead. Coronary.
When?
Last night.
I just saw him.
People always say that.
Little young for a heart attack, don’t you think?
Yes.
Do you know what he was working on?
No.
I need to see Kathryn.
She’s got Stieglitz in there. You might want to…
STIEGLITZ: …all here, the task at hand, to fully express those needs and desire to you over the last month and a half.
But have I seen it? Do I…
Sorry to interrupt.
Why would your key be in my bag?
Found it on the closet floor and thought it was yours.
They all look alike.
My bag’s by the desk.
I need my key back by 1:00.
Two minutes.
You okay?
I just heard about Meacham.
Terrible.
Anything else?
No.
[door lock beeps] Grab yourself something on the way home, if you don’t mind.
I might stop off at the lake.
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[door lock beeps]
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Zurich?
47.3701 north, 8.5411 east.
[door lock beeps]
Sorry. Running behind.
ZOE: Mmhmm.
Can you go a few minutes late?
If we don’t do 45, I can’t clear the mandate.
Uh, I make that 2:06.
Fine.
[phone vibrates]
Uh, sleep remains inconsistent.
I take two-point-five to three milligrams of lorazepam, the first at 8:00, the second at 11:00 and the third in the night.
After the first nightmare.
You’re still having them every night?
Yes.
Um… the herbal sleep aids leave me groggy, so II discontinued, and zolpidem is at most an everyotherday option.
More than point-five milligrams two days in a row produces unmotivated rage the next morning.
And three or more days in a row… [chuckles] …things get even uglier.
What?
I just… II think that’s an extremely careful report.
How so?
Uh, lorazepam three milligrams or below, zolpidem below 20 milligrams per month, and the herbal, that’s… that’s ashwagandha, right?
Yes.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think those amounts and dosages are just under my reporting requirements.
And you know that.
And you feel it’s duplicitous for me to want to avoid involvement in psych services reporting chains?
As I said, II think it’s careful.
I’m the head of sig ops; of course I’m careful.
Well, that’s not the goal in here.
The goal is to satisfy the mandate so I can get back to work.
Why on earth are you sleeping with Ramrod Jimmy Stokes?
He’s beneath you.
Let’s keep this professional.
Professional?
You came to my home.
You drank, you ate, you talked about your sex life.
What in God’s name is professional about that?
Maybe it was an observational visit.
I’ve had it up to my eyeballs being watched by every single person around me.
Oh, yes, by all means, write that one down.
Paranoid ideations.
Buy me another mandatory six months.
You know, I always know when you’re arriving.
Because the aroma of hostility wafts in ahead of you.
Oh, well, that’s the first interesting thing you’ve said.
How are things with George?
The other day, Arthur Stieglitz told me that my devotion to my marriage is my professional weakness.
That my feelings for George are a gaping wound through which any idiot can attack me.
He told me I want too much and that I cannot have it all.
I’m going to have his job.
[chuckles]: You watch.
Is he right?
If a situation presents itself, would you choose your marriage over everything else?
I value loyalty.
To what?
You were raised Catholic, weren’t you?
Hmm? Mm.
Never mind. You were.
12 years at St.
Anthony’s in Blackpool.
Yeah. Did they tell you you were a bad little girl?
Oh, is that why you like erotica?
Because it’s naughty.
It’s against the rules.
Says everything you can’t.
Yeah. Oh, I bet you go for dirty talk, too.
I’ll report you completed the session.
You can go.
Why?
This is just getting good.
Zoe Vaughan, nice Catholic girl from the North, just wants to help people, wants to talk about their problems.
Come on. Why us?
I’m curious about people.
And right now, I’m curious about you.
[sighs softly]
Zolpidem.
After three days, you said “things get even uglier.”
I get moods.
What kind of moods?
Dark.
Suicidal?
No.
Panicked.
Over money still?
Despite all evidence to the contrary?
Well, I’ll not end up like my mother.
That’s the first interesting thing you’ve said.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[reel clicking]
If Severus is deployed as intended, thousands of innocent people will die.
When are you gonna poly me, George?
[reel clicking]
♪ ♪
[clicking continues]
Shit.
Sorry.
I know I’m intruding.
A situation’s come up that I think falls outside our usual reporting parameters.
If you prefer, we could use a SCIF.
Go on.
It’s awkward.
Preamble noted.
Our financial people have been working with HMRC, running a sweep of banks in tax haven countries.
They routinely run ID scrapes past us for non-insignificant balances, in case one of our persona IDs is used to open an offshore account.
Never once has been.
This time, they got a hit.
What’s the fake name?
“Margaret Langford.”
DOB and name match an SIS-generated passport from 2008.
Who registered it?
Scrubbed in ’09.
Search old case files for the name and date of birth.
Also scrubbed. She’s a nonentity post2009.
Thumbprint?
None required.
It was just before Phase II.
What bank holds the account?
Asia Trust & Capital.
Obscure choice. It’s what I would’ve picked.
Facial rec on surveillance cams outside the bank the day the account was opened.
That was eight months ago, and Myanmar’s non-coop.
Sometimes if you know who to ask…
If it’s Myanmar, how do we know about the account at all?
Well, somebody got jumpy and transferred the money out of there when it looked like there’d be another coup.
We got a hit on the incoming SWIFT at the new bank.
Where?
Raffenkalt/Suisse AG.
Zurich.
Zurich?
That mean something?
How much is in the account?
Seven million.
Pounds.
So one of our people stole a straw man identity and has been paid seven million pounds under it.
Yes.
What?
“Margaret Langford” was used a handful of times by a SIGINT op in 2008 before discontinuance.
Used by whom?
Your wife.
I see.
I see.
As I said, I thought this was outside our normal reporting parameters.
Who else knows?
No one.
Leave it with me, please.
James.
Was the money deposited in increments or lump sum?
Lump sum.
Someone sold something extremely valuable.
WOMAN [onscreen]: Alice?
[suspenseful music playing onscreen] Alice, are you here?
Alice?
[thump onscreen]
[audience gasps, screams]
Richard, what are you doing?!
RICHARD [onscreen]: What?
I just opened the door.
Where’s Monica?
She’s gone to get help.
[bird screeching, dog barking]
[audience gasps, screams]
[Richard and woman scream]
[Richard and woman laughing]
WOMAN [laughing]: You should’ve heard yourself.
RICHARD: I hate birds.
Give me the torch.
WOMAN: I like the torch.
Use your phone.
♪ ♪
Trout?
Vendace.
Oh.
Been saving it.
Delicious.
Is it a difficult catch?
Next to impossible.
When will you be back?
Oh, tomorrow, late.
[papers shuffling] Don’t wait up.
I hate the distance.
Well, we’re pretty good at it.
It seems grotesque.
What’s asked of a person.
[phone ringing and vibrating]
Oh, shit.
Bon voyage.
Or Gute Reise. Love you.
[car door opens]
[car door closes]
[“To Love” by Suki Waterhouse playing over speakers]
♪ To love, to love, to love ♪
[dish clatters loudly]
[panting softly]
[whispers]: Shit.
♪ Oh, how lucky we are… ♪
[gasps, sighs]
What the fuck, George?!
Am I in trouble?
Not at all.
So what’s up, man?
I understand, uh, you and Freddie are still together.
Yeah.
Isn’t that a bit awkward?
Because I pinned his hand to the table with a steak knife?
That comes to mind.
He forgave me. I forgave him.
You know? The hand thing kind of evened us out.
[chuckles]: Okay.
George, you come to my apartment at 11:00 at night asking about my relationship.
I’m not shocked, and I’m not even sure I’m saying no, but are you actually doing this?
Uh, no.
Then what do you want? [scoffs] You have MOD imagery oversight in Building 321 on one of the 64 eyes.
For a minute there, I thought you were human.
I need a brief Keyhole redirect tomorrow morning, and it needs to be unlogged and unrecorded.
I don’t even think that’s possible.
It is.
There are brief periods between sat-link handovers where a satellite could be used for another purpose without detection.
I’ve done it, in Ratcliffe.
But this one has to be unofficial.
Why would I do something like that?
I would consider myself in your debt.
What does that get me?
Privacy.
I have personally never found ecstasy use to be a compromising factor.
But combined with multiple sexual partners…
[scoffs softly]
…it would be of issue, to Freddie.
His infidelity is one thing, but yours…
Freddie’s old-fashioned.
You’re a bastard.
It’s important.
What if I love him?
Then you’ll help me.
But does that matter to you?
You know, the human part.
Does that… do you care about that?
Who am I supposed to be with?
Tell me.
Sorry, uh, it seemed rhetorical.
[stammers] I can’t date outside.
They don’t understand.
And I can’t date inside because we’re all fucking liars.
You know, professional ones with a perfect excuse every time.
“Well, where were you last week?”
“Black bag.”
“What did you do on Friday?”
“Black bag.” [chuckles] When you can lie about everything, when you can deny everything, how do you tell the truth about anything?
How does that work?
How can that possibly work?
I don’t know.
But you do know.
You do know because it works for you.
And you’re the perfect fucking couple, and everyone knows it, so tell me.
Tell me how it works.
6:30 a.m. tomorrow.
A few minutes early to be safe.
Is there a secure view site?
There’s a lookdown SCIF off the main 64.
Good.
Thank you for the wine.
You didn’t have to come at me like that, you know.
I would’ve done it for you anyway.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[door lock beeps]
Ready for some treason?
That isn’t funny.
Sure it is.
Where are we looking?
47.3701 north,
[typing] 8.5411 east.
CLARISSA: Okay. There’s only one good option there.
Very masculine Milstar satellite up at 938 miles.
Ops arc isn’t used much.
It’s over Liechtenstein.
It’s that one. Second row down, third from the right.
About to hand off to a Gaofen4. GEORGE: How long will we have? CLARISSA: Three minutes, 20 seconds. Does he miss anything?
The major? Never once.
Ready?
Wait.
George.
No, George, I’m naked out here. Are we doing this or not?
Go.
Handoff.
Zurich? What the hell’s in Zurich?
GEORGE: Move in.
Closer. Same coordinates.
Closer.
Nice bench. Are we done?
Wait.
They’re late.
♪ ♪
You are one naughty husband, George.
You asked how it works.
To be with someone in this business.
This is how.
You each know what you know, and you know what you’ll do, and you never discuss certain things again.
I watch her. I assume she watches me.
If she’s in trouble, even of her own making, I will do everything in my power to extricate her.
No matter what that means.
You understand?
My God, that’s so hot.
[chuckles]
That’s how it works.
It’s the only way.
Can you get any closer?
Facial rec?
[typing]
Nothing?
Give it a minute.
[Clarissa sighs]
GEORGE: Kulikov.
One minute.
Hang on.
Trying something.
It’s a lipreading AI.
Still in beta.
Audio coming.
KATHRYN [over speaker]:
The money’s in place.
Do your fucking job, and I’ll release.
She isn’t selling.
She’s buying.
KULIKOV [over speaker]: It’s a complicated situation.
14 seconds.
KULIKOV: You need to think about it.
Get them back.
Yeah, trying.
I’ve got to let them go.
Get them back!
I’ve got to let them go!
Shit.
What?
It’s not responding.
Get rid of it.
I don’t know what…
I’m trying. I…
Why the…
Shit!
♪ ♪
CLARISSA: Did he see? I don’t know. Did you record?
It’s automatic.
Go into the root files and delete.
Keystroke logs, too.
Yeah, well, I hope you got what you wanted.
If I’m going down, you’re coming with me.
I’ll keep that in mind.
[door lock beeps]
STOKES: I don’t understand.
ZOE: Which part?
All of it.
James, come on. How old are you?
Come over here.
What?
Come over here.
It’s not that kind of visit.
What kind of visit is it, then?
The kind where I say we’re not seeing each other anymore.
And why not again?
[scoffs softly]
Because I don’t want to.
What about the times we had our little sessions, over there?
You wanted to then.
Yeah.
And now I don’t.
You see, this isn’t normal.
The way you’re doing this, just so you know.
And what we did in here…
None of this is normal.
No, it isn’t.
You’re as sick as your patients.
Possibly.
But there’s no law that says that therapists can’t have issues of their own.
Are you seeing someone else?
Yes.
[scoffs] Fuck me, you’re cold.
Yeah, a bit.
Yeah, you’re even cold about whether or not you’re cold.
I’m gonna clear your mandate permanently.
I’ll tell psych services to recommend a psychiatrist for any prescriptive issues you might have in the future.
I told you things.
All your thoughts and feelings are confidential.
Our relationship can just…
Yeah, I don’t give a shit about the relationship.
I’m over it. I got something else on the side, too.
I told you operational things.
Are you referring to Severus?
I was drunk as hell.
Anything you told me regarding Severus is also privileged.
That’s great.
’Cause it’d be a real drag to have to kill you.
I’ve never appreciated that sort of humor.
Yeah, and I never liked that about you either.
You know what you could use in here?
A velvet Jesus with eyes that follow you.
You’d like that, wouldn’t you?
[phone ringing and vibrating] It’s duty desk.
Go ahead.
Thanks, Mom.
Yes?
When?
How long?
I’ll be right there.
I got to go.
I left some things at your place.
They’re in a pouch at the desk under your name.
I left it there this morning.
This is the best breakup I ever had.
Seriously, I enjoyed myself.
Take care, Zoe.
You’re a fucking piece of work.
The major called.
We’ve got a breach.
It’s me. Don’t be a dick. Come on.
Jesus.
[dialing]
[sighs]
You’ll want to know about this.
♪ ♪
Oh, no, no, no.
♪ ♪
All right.
Let’s get started.
Ms. Childs, would you please?
ANGELA: Okay, so this is Vadim Pavlichuk, the dissident Russian general under house arrest in Liechtenstein for the past six months.
Pavlichuk’s been known to be working with a network of exiled militarists for the overthrow of the Russian regime due to its mismanagement of the war.
We’ve had the house on lockdown for 24 hours since he arrived.
If Pavlichuk made a move, we wanted to know first.
He has now made a move.
These are the heat signatures in the house at 6:31 a.m.
Central European Time.
Seven unique sigs.
We then lost signal with the house during a routine sat-link handover for about…
Three minutes, 20 seconds.
Thank you.
Three minutes, 20 seconds.
When we regained signal and ran thermals again at 6:35, this is what we see.
There are now only five.
For the last two hours, we’ve been accounting for all the individual sigs.
We got all five as they came and went.
None of them were Pavlichuk.
So the son of a bitch is out, hmm?
STOKES: How could that happen?
How would he know the exact timing of a sat-link handover?
Well, fucking exactly.
How could he know unless someone here told him?
We look away, he takes off.
It was an operation.
Very precise.
Hmm?
There is a stranger in our house.
STOKES: Have we picked up Pavlichuk since he left?
He’s good.
He’s hunched over in a black van somewhere, off to malefact.
ANGELA: Uh, well, our assumption is that his righthand former lieutenant Andrei Kulikov is en route to pick him up now.
Their intentions are unclear.
Kulikov had a meeting with an unknown party in Zurich this morning, so we’re waiting on visuals for that.
STIEGLITZ: Mmhmm. Keep at it.
Should we… [clears throat] Should we notify CIA?
Oh, fuck them.
I’m sick of being treated like an ATM for intel.
And I’m certainly not showing them our dirty linens.
If there’s a traitor in the house, I want to know who it is before they do.
This stays in the room.
You said the major was, uh… [clears throat] …aware of the redirect?
Yes. I got a signal alert and called him.
He already knew.
Hmm.
Have him reassigned… somewhere lovely, the Bahamas.
Tell him it’s a promotion, effective immediately.
He travels tomorrow.
Can I ask, strategically, why do we care that Pavlichuk is out?
S6 and below, please clear.
♪ ♪
[door opens]
[door closes]
Severus.
We believe Pavlichuk has been given a physical copy.
That’s why we watched him.
If Kulikov manages to get him back into Moscow with it, well… [chuckles] Mr. Smalls, educate our colleagues.
FREDDIE: Severus is a Stuxnet polymorph we developed with NSA.
It has to be physically introduced to a nuclear reactor to get past an air gap.
But once it’s in, it can target and melt down the reactor core.
It was a CYBERCOM op.
Why the fuck would we make that?
Theoreticals. Capabilities.
It shouldn’t have left the building.
And we realized, if we can do it to them,
once the thing is out there…
They can do it to us.
It was a good idea.
Hmm?
A meltdown would cause political havoc.
For an enemy involved in an endless war and a teetering government, they’d run dear leader out of Moscow on a rail.
We’d be rid of the prick once and for all.
We didn’t do it…
[chuckles]
…but it was a damn good idea.
FREDDIE: It would appear someone here felt the same way.
Mmhmm. And redirected the eye so Pavlichuk could escape with the drive.
He’s on his way to Russia now to initiate a meltdown, and it’ll be our goddamn fault!
Find the leak.
Methods won’t be questioned.
♪ ♪
[door closes]
[indistinct announcements over P.A.]
♪ ♪
This can’t be good.
It isn’t.
George ordered the redirect.
I helped him do it.
♪ ♪
[indistinct announcements over P.A.]
KATHRYN: Thanks.
FREDDIE: Kathryn.
[sighs] Jesus, Freddie.
Got a minute?
KATHRYN: Does anyone else know?
FREDDIE: No.
Can you trust Clarissa?
Not particularly.
To keep it to herself, I mean.
I think so.
She’s fond of George.
She’s concerned.
Whatever operation he’s running, he’s in a very leaky boat.
If Pavlichuk gets back to Russia, it’s on him.
He’d get 35 years.
Is there anything you can do?
How was Zurich?
It was pointless.
He had nothing.
I don’t know why I was there.
I spent the rest of the day chasing down Gunther at FIS, but he was useless.
Do you have any idea why George would be watching you?
None whatsoever.
All right.
You be ready in the morning.
I need a night to think.
FREDDIE: Okay.
KATHRYN: Just you and me.
Yes?
FREDDIE: Of course.
I believe I’ve been set up.
I think I have been, too.
By Freddie, of all people.
Why?
Well, he’s playing me.
He thinks I’ll take action to protect you.
And he’s right.
I will kill for you, George.
You know that.
Freddie stole Severus.
Ah, maybe, maybe not.
It’s not really about that anymore, is it?
Somehow it’s…
…it’s about us.
There’s a plan.
And a counterplan.
One is using you to get to me, the other, me to get to you.
Well, what are we going to do about that?
Disrupt.
All of it.
Bait someone into an overreaction.
Will there be another mess to clean up?
Only if we do it right.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
Wish you’d called sooner. I didn’t really have any gear.
GEORGE: Hop in.
STOKES: Fishing’s not really my thing.
GEORGE: Patience.
All you need.
We’ll be back in plenty of time.
It’s easier to think out here.
[door lock beeps]
I need something.
Geofencing on Andrei Kulikov.
Last known is Zurich.
I want a moving trace on his cell, and I want it to be unlogged.
I’m not going to prison for you psychos.
Oh, you’re too far in to worry about that now, don’t you think?
Fucking made for each other.
[reel clicking]
I’d like to set up a series of polygraphs.
Today.
The usual room at Vauxhall.
Who did you have in mind?
Freddie Smalls.
Clarissa Dubose.
Dr. Zoe Vaughan.
Why her?
Freddie saw her twice a week for the past eight months.
Leakage.
And I’ve seen her, too.
I know. Put yourself down as well.
Transparency.
Anyone else?
Not for the moment.
So, that Swiss banking issue.
STOKES: I’d been meaning to follow up with you.
GEORGE: Of course one’s mind goes to a possible Severus connection.
GEORGE: That had occurred to me.
Had it?
It would appear to be linked.
Have you shared your suspicions with anyone else?
Of course not.
But you still feel certain of the identity of the person who opened the offshore account?
No.
No, that’s the thing.
That’s why I’d been meaning to follow up with you.
Oh.
“Margaret Langford.”
The passport name that Kathryn used in ’08.
Turns out there was some sort of glitch.
It was repeatedly recycled by the system, passed around SIS for a decade.
There’s at least a dozen uses.
40 or 50 border records.
Seems odd you’d miss that.
Yes.
Yeah, I’m kicking myself.
It was sloppy.
The point is… it could’ve been anyone.
We’re no longer looking at Kathryn.
“We”?
You and me.
[reel spinning]
Whoa, whoa! Wh-What do I do?
Let him run for a minute.
[busy chatter]
Americano for Emma.
Thank you.
Live cell zone lock.
That’s the trace login.
He’s moving.
[American accent]: What is this, my birthday?
Can you get it approved quickly?
To keep Severus from getting out?
Speed of light.
I’ll owe you.
Really, why do you care?
It’s a private agenda.
That’s not really an answer.
One of our people is compromised.
Drone strike resets everything.
Just Kulikov or am I taking anybody else out with him?
It’s a gift from fucking heaven.
Do you want it or not?
Yes, we want it.
I’m just getting my arms around the global.
He’s traveling across Poland for the next three hours.
Don’t wait.
[siren wailing in distance]
[quiet chatter]
[opera music playing]
[sighing]
WAITER: This is ikizukuri.
STIEGLITZ: Thank you, Jimmy.
[sets down chopsticks]
What do you want? Hmm?
Ikizukuri is illegal in the U.K.
If you don’t mind, I prefer to eat alone.
You know, I can’t see all the corners, but I can tell the shape.
And this, all yours.
[chuckles softly]
What could you possibly be talking about?
Oh, please.
Your operation stops.
Right now.
Mm.
You’re a little late for that.
Yeah?
Mm.
Ask for the CIA drone logs when you get back.
How many would a meltdown have killed?
10,000? 20,000?
What did you do?
Hmm?
Canceled your op.
[opera music continues]
♪ ♪
You stupid son of a bitch.
You cannot imagine the damage you just did.
Mm?
Now, I don’t know who you enlisted to help, but George has got his teeth in it now.
Mm.
Have you seen him when his jaws lock on something?
You’ll rip yourself apart before he’ll let go.
[groans softly]
Eat up.
This ends with someone in the boot of a car.
[chopsticks clink on plate]
If we could make this quick.
Shall we?
Be my guest.
[air pumping]
[Freddie sighs]
Is today Friday?
Yes.
Do you reside in the United Kingdom?
Yes.
Is Frederick Alan Smalls your true legal name?
Yes.
GEORGE: Did you masturbate this morning?
CLARISSA: Oh, good.
The embarrassing personal questions start early.
Yes or no whenever possible, please.
You know, I’ve been looking forward to this.
Did you masturbate this morning?
No.
Didn’t have time.
Are you sitting down?
Yes.
Are the lights on in this room?
ZOE: Yes.
GEORGE: Are you now in the City of Westminster?
No.
Do you enjoy toast?
Very much.
Yes or no.
Yes.
GEORGE: Have you ever physically assaulted a significant other during an argument? Girl, you know I have.
GEORGE: Again, yes or no.
Yes.
Enthusiastically.
GEORGE: Do you wear contact lenses?
STOKES: Yes.
GEORGE: Do you smoke cigarettes?
No.
Are you seated at the moment?
Yes.
GEORGE: Is it morning or afternoon?
Afternoon. Can we go back to the EPQs?
They’re more fun.
GEORGE: Is your mother’s name Quiana?
Yes.
When did you first become aware of Severus?
What’s Severus?
GEORGE: Have you ever failed to support any child of yours?
Uh… only emotionally.
Yes or no.
Yes.
Were you resentful that I passed you over for the CI job?
I’m fucking human.
Yes or no.
Were you resentful that I passed you over for the job?
Yes.
Did you steal Severus as a means of getting even?
[chuckles]
No.
GEORGE: When did you first become aware of Severus?
About two months ago.
GEORGE: How did you become aware?
Professional restrictions prevent me from answering the question.
How did you become aware?
Same answer.
Did a patient divulge the information to you?
Same answer.
GEORGE: Outside of war, have you ever killed another person?
Define “war.”
Declared or undeclared conflict between the United Kingdom and another country or nonstate actor.
No.
Outside of war, have you ever been in a shooting, knifing or fight where someone was seriously injured?
Yes.
GEORGE: Have you ever betrayed your country?
No.
GEORGE: What is your relationship with Dr. Zoe Vaughan?
FREDDIE: Patient and social acquaintance.
Would you like to take a break?
I’m good.
GEORGE: Is your middle name Beatrice?
No.
Is your middle name Beatrice?
No.
[air pumping]
Please answer the question truthfully.
Is your middle name Beatrice?
Yeah.
Are you tightening your anal sphincter muscle right now?
Yes.
Have you read Physiological Stress Response and Polygraph Deception by Weymouth and Coombs?
Cover to cover.
Yes or no.
Yes.
Will you please release your sphincter muscle?
Sure thing, George.
Who asked you to plant the movie stub in the wastebasket in my closet?
What?
No one.
GEORGE: How many people are you personally connected with who were aware of Severus?
That question is inappropriately operational.
How many people are you personally…
George, you’re CI. You know I can’t answer that.
GEORGE: Did you steal Severus?
No.
Did you steal Severus for money?
No.
Did you steal Severus for ideology?
What ideology?
Did you steal Severus because of your ideology?
The question assumes I stole Severus.
True or false: There is no God.
False.
How many sexual partners have you had in the last three months?
Two.
GEORGE: True or false:
The greater good outweighs immediate legal or ethical limits.
Impossible to answer without specifics.
GEORGE: Do you think you’re smarter than most people?
Georgie, I know I am.
Yes or no.
Yes.
Would you like to come for dinner at our home tomorrow evening?
Huh?
I need your help individually to figure something out.
Can you come?
Um… [chuckles] Yeah, sure.
Well, I had so much fun last time.
GEORGE: Yes or no.
Is this an order?
We’ll expect you at 8:00.
Wait, what the fuck did we just learn here?
See you tomorrow.
You okay?
Just nerves.
[sighs] Only one thing left to learn.
Will it go there?
That’s what scares me.
It should.
[sighs]
I haven’t had this much fun in years.
What’s with the command performance?
Come in.
Work or social?
Yes.
STOKES: I thought it was just me.
CLARISSA: We all did.
So where’s this fucking dinner?
I didn’t cook.
We have a game.
Ah, shit. Really?
I don’t think I’m willing to submit to this.
And here’s how it works.
We go around the table and George will ask each one of you a question.
And if you get it wrong, you lose.
This is inappropriate.
And the loser doesn’t get up from the table.
For fuck’s sake.
Are you out of your mind?
The two of you, I swear to God.
I’m leaving.
Sit down.
FREDDIE: You are cordially invited to an evening of fun and games with George and Kathryn.
That’s a new rug.
KATHRYN: Anyone who’d prefer to answer the questions in front of an OSRAC committee is free to go.
Why is there a new rug?
You’re disturbed. All of you. Do you realize that?
You’re sick!
I mean, you just fuck each other, literally, and back and forth and back and forth.
Is there one normal person inside that entire fucking building?
Fine!
I’ve got nothing to hide.
Then we’ll start with you.
When did you first sleep with Freddie?
Oh, that’s just gross.
Sick.
My apologies.
That was ungentlemanly but necessary.
Dr. Vaughan is the woman Freddie’s been meeting at the Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell.
FREDDIE: You motherfucker. ZOE: Seven or eight weeks ago.
GEORGE: Thank you.
STOKES: Is that a joke? With him? Why?
GEORGE: Manipulation. She thought she’d need something from him eventually.
Ah, come on. Don’t be a prick.
Isn’t it just possible…
No, it isn’t.
He’s right.
GEORGE: After the redirect was discovered, you alerted Dr. Vaughan, didn’t you?
Yes, that’s right.
You’ll want to know about this.
I need you to do something.
I am putty in your hands. What is it?
KATHRYN: So, you told me about the redirect, knowing that I would take action to cover for George.
He’s traveling across Poland for the next three hours.
Don’t wait.
♪ ♪
Yes.
GEORGE: Clarissa.
What the fuck do you want?
Only to congratulate you.
You’re the best manipulator of the polygraph I’ve ever seen.
I didn’t lie.
I know.
You didn’t need to.
You had nothing to do with any of it.
Was it your idea to plant the movie ticket so I’d find it or someone else’s?
What movie ticket?
Did catch my eye.
Not so hard to do, given my profession.
The hell are you talking about, George?
Was Stieglitz the one who came to you with the idea of stealing Severus?
That would make the most sense.
To destabilize Moscow, to implicate Kathryn, who threatened Stieglitz, and to move me out of your way.
Three birds, one stone.
Somehow, you removed the Severus malware from the building. But you got excited about your plan, you drank too much and told Dr. Vaughan about it.
What you didn’t know is how profound her religious beliefs are.
STOKES: You’re turning on me to cover up your own treasonous actions.
GEORGE: The kind of beliefs that would not permit her to allow the deaths of tens of thousands in a meltdown.
STOKES: This is a fantasy.
This is all one of his fucking fantasies.
It’s why I had a hard time at first.
It wasn’t one plan, you see, it was two.
Separate but interlocking.
Working for and against each other.
You manipulated me so Pavlichuk could escape.
And you and Freddie did the same with Kathryn so she would have him killed to bail me out.
Causa et effectus. Isn’t that right?
You two make it almost easy.
The only thing you give a shit about is each other.
For the record, I knew.
I did it anyway because it needed doing.
And you had me lured to Zurich.
I thought I was buying back Severus, but you made it look like I was selling.
GEORGE: You opened the account in Myanmar yourself, didn’t you?
This is all conjecture.
GEORGE: Turns out Myanmar does cooperate.
You just have to know who to ask.
Razman still owes me.
[Zoe gasps]
Severus was a good plan.
I’d do it again, ten times out of ten.
It was a decent frame, and it would have ended the fucking war!
It was right, it was brave, and it was noble.
Which one was the reason you killed Meacham?
Because it was right or because it was noble?
Because it was necessary.
I never told you all the name of the game.
What’s the game, Kathryn?
“See Who Picks Up the Gun.”
[gun racks]
For fuck’s sake.
Come on, George.
What? You take me out in handcuffs, you say your bit, I say mine, then what?
You still go down.
Maybe she doesn’t, but you will.
You got nothing… nothing hard.
You got suspicions, hearsay and pillow talk.
And, you know, your recorded confession.
Shall we discuss the terms of your surrender?
STOKES: You’re bluffing.
You should’ve killed me on the boat, George.
[two gunshots]
[shells clatter on floor]
[Zoe gasping]
[Kathryn sighs]
Now, I don’t mind what you two did.
You saved lives.
But don’t ever fuck with my marriage again.
ZOE [softly]: Okay.
[Kathryn sighs]
GEORGE: Freddie. Table.
FREDDIE: Darling, we need the rug.
[panting]
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[scanner beeps]
[elevator bell chimes]
AUTOMATED VOICE: Ninth floor.
Doors opening.
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[button beeps]
Lift going down.
Doors closing.
Terrible about Stokes.
So strange.
Mm.
Disappearing like that.
It’s a very dangerous line of work.
Mm, I’ll say.
Given all you’ve accomplished, maybe it’s time to consider stepping away, Arthur.
Feet first.
[elevator bell chimes]
AUTOMATED VOICE: Second floor.
Doors opening.
Any way you like.
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Lift going down.
GEORGE: He’s completely rattled. Fantastic.
He won’t be able to sleep for a whole month.
He wasn’t rattled.
He took credit for the whole thing.
The CIA is lap dancing all over him.
It’s a fiction.
He won’t be able to keep it up forever.
And Stieglitz bores me.
Let’s… let’s talk about you.
Why didn’t you just ask me about the movie ticket?
Hmm? See if I was lying?
Faith.
You’d never be that sloppy.
A movie stub. Please.
Well, exactly.
It’s almost insulting.
I knew you’d never lie to me.
Only if I had to.
Obviously.
[Kathryn gasps]
One thing.
The, uh, seven million pounds Stokes put into the Swiss bank account?
Still there.
Oh. Is it?
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[music ends]
