S3E1 "One via Zurich". Colour version. Fascinating political drama series with a splendid cast. Businessman and politician sir John Wilder, after becoming ambassador and special envoy for special situations and trade, pursues his tangled schemes, despite many adversaries (the original name of the series was "Special Envoy''). This is series 3 of this sequel to "The Plane Makers". Starring Patrick Wymark, Barbara Murray, Michael Jayston, Clifford Evans, Peter Barkworth, Donald Burton, David Savile, Richard Hurndall, Jack Watling, Deborah Grant, Barrie Ingham. Written by Peter Draper, Wilfred Greatorex.
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05:00war? No, Foreign Secretary. Only a battle. All right, Caswell, I watched him. Doesn't it give you an idea, Foreign Secretary? I'd love to
05:13haul him before the bar of the house. For heaven's sake, don't be coy, Caswell. Apart from all this wild loot going to Paris, you must admit
05:24the man has a certain flair. Caswell, what are you trying to tell me? Only that you should use him. I'd sooner recruit from Dartmoor. He has ingenuity. Serve men serving life.
05:38May I remind you, Foreign Secretary? Caswell, why are you so formal when you're at your most devious? We've known each other for 30 years. We were talking about
05:49special situations and trade. So? Why drag Wilder in? Arthur, he has landed an 80 million pound contract for the French. I don't like it any more than you do.
06:03Wilder? Special situations and trade? You need another brandy. Good night, Arthur. Oh, don't be ridiculous, Caswell. I mean it. Wilder? In Her Majesty's diplomatic
06:19service? It was your idea, a roving ambassador covering special situations and trade. Yes, but never Wilder. Anyway, there's no such desk. Yet. Caswell, you're no career diplomat.
06:39They'd as soon die at their posts as serve under Wilder. Show me just one. Whoever died his post, their occupational hazard is indigestion. You have all people lobbying for you. You practically hacked one another into a communal grave.
06:56I tried to grab my firm. Now the choppers are buried? You two made the Mafia look like a game of hopscotch. He'll put bombs under those feather-bedded nonentities we've got dozing around the world. Yes, and we'd feel the blast. No, Caswell, but thanks for the suggestion.
07:16Hello, Foreign Secretary here. Oh, yes, thank you. Yes, Prime Minister. Yes, Prime Minister, right away. I would have thought it more courteous had you mentioned, Caswell, that you'd already raised this at a higher level.
07:45I was just coming to it. I'm not against change, Caswell, even radical change. I can even see certain qualities in Wilder that we need in a roving ambassador, but aren't you even better equipped yourself? I know the job I want, Arthur. Some of us, Caswell, simply grow wrinkled and grey. You just grow more devious.
08:15Hello, John. Congratulations, John. Congratulations. Better late than never. I knew there was something big in the wind that Pamela invited us this morning, but she wouldn't let on, would you, darling? I knew nothing. Coincidence. Oh, no, you sound like a foreign office wife already. I need a drink.
08:37I'm surprised the French didn't demand a transfer fee. Well, they'd have wanted it in gold. Anyway, John, a stroke of genius on your part to think of it. I didn't. Oh, whoever did, then. John, I hope they've armed you with enough power. You'll need to pull rank quite a bit if you're to rouse the dead.
09:00Wonderful news, darling. You will, of course, be going with him. Except to the South Pole, to gold. And all those receptions at Lancaster House. Yes, I can't wait to put up my CD plates and park on the yellow band outside the Chinese embassy. I didn't realise you had diplomatic immunity. Oh, we'd better. Or that the Chinese embassy had yellow bands. I must be confusing it with Portland. Excuse me.
09:22We should have gone out to dinner in some Chelsea cellar, just us. Oh, darling, they are your friends. Well, they should be doing what they're best at, boring each other at bridge.
09:34Stop at the house this time, Inley. Take it easy. I don't want to get there too early.
09:54Something tells me the old boy-net in Whitehall will be buzzing tonight. They should give you civil servants' jigsaw puzzles to keep you out of mischief. We don't like outsiders poaching the best jobs. The territorial imperative. All animals have it. Some of your people remind me of birds with duck's disease from sitting too long on their tiny empires. Anyway, you're one of us now. Almost.
10:20I never believed in reincarnation. It's old blood, sweat, toil and tears himself.
10:37I didn't know it was Halloween. What the hell do you want? It's such a long time, John, and you've lost none of your delicacy. You'd better come this way.
10:48You will allow me the honour of meeting Pamela again.
10:54Caswell, you're looking more distinguished than ever. And you more beautiful. You're making me regret I didn't invite you in the first place. He's a bit ancient for gate-crashing parties. Two years older, John, than when we last met, but at least ten the wiser. I shan't keep you more than a few minutes, ma'am. Nonsense, Caswell. Stay and join us.
11:13No, thank you, but I'm afraid that I think John and I ought to look at the ten o'clock news.
11:24You're looking disgustingly robust, Caswell.
11:32But I thought he was dead.
11:34Caswell, darling. He looks to me dangerously much fit.
11:41News tonight of fresh riots in the Far East, with hundreds killed and injured. At home, two new strike threats, and further information about the role of Sir John Wilder, whose appointment as Britain's first ever roving ambassador for trade was announced in our earlier bulletin.
12:00And news has just been released of another trade appointment. Caswell Bly, a former business colleague of Sir John Wilder's, is named tonight as the minister responsible for special situations and trade. He's given an immediate life peerage. First, news abroad, in the Far East.
12:22We make a great team, John. You were told there'd be strings.
12:26Strings, yes, but not a noose.
12:29It's safe, as long as you don't drop from a great height.
12:35You will go back to your conniving political friends, Caswell, and take the smirk off their faces by telling them nothing doing.
12:42I have already accepted the job, publicly.
12:46And I have just resigned mine.
12:51You're an impulsive man, John, but you are not often foolishly so.
12:56This would just make me your leg man.
12:59That with a whole world to go at, John.
13:03And ambassador status.
13:08John, Fleet Street seems to have nothing better to do tonight than to telephone you.
13:14I've put them all off except Sandy Warren.
13:18He says you two are in business again and have the hospitals been warned.
13:23He's on the line now, if you'd care to pick it up.
13:28Shall I get you a drink?
13:34Hello? Sandy, what can I do for you?
13:41Well, Sandy, you know I wouldn't have taken the job without knowing.
13:46Yes, on the record.
13:50And for the record, I'm delighted to be working again with...
13:55Well, he's getting a bit long in the tooth and is in need of visible support.
14:02And I'm increasingly given to good works.
14:05That's off the record.
14:08Good night, Sandy.
14:13Still scotch on the rocks with water, Caswell?
14:17Please, Pamela.
14:19I haven't changed.
14:24Make it blood.
14:27He's going to need every pint of it.
15:19I won't keep you, John. Do come in.
15:22I had no idea it was such a snob, Caswell.
15:25To fall for the...
15:27I don't know what you're talking about.
15:30I'm not talking about the snob.
15:33I'm talking about the snob.
15:36I'm not talking about the snob.
15:39I'm talking about the snob.
15:42I'm not talking about the snob.
15:45I'm talking about the snob.
15:48To fall for the pox Britannica.
15:51Among civilians, John, we must distinguish somehow
15:53between the field marshals and the mere colonels of industry.
15:59No, I couldn't live with that.
16:02What's this?
16:06A lot of insects.
16:09Give that to the Beatles.
16:10They're young bees, Lord Bly.
16:11Bees, you say?
16:12Industrious bees. And you're an industrialist.
16:14Oh, well, sir.
16:18What the devil's that?
16:19Oh, that's a beaver, Lord Bly.
16:21I took it for a rat.
16:23Very good.
16:25Any other ideas, John?
16:26I didn't know that live piers qualified for coats of arms.
16:29Oh, this one is going to.
16:31Oh, why not a skull and crossbones with an old fox rampant?
16:35Remember, the garter king of arms has to approve the design.
16:39God, that's obscene.
16:43Friesen, what are you doing down there?
16:45I want the folds right.
16:46Well, never mind about the folds.
16:47All that matters is that I don't trip up.
16:49Lord Bly, it has to be right.
16:51Well, John, so there aren't any you like.
16:54Out there, they're building steel cars, aeroplanes,
16:59not poncing around in medieval drag.
17:02It shows you, John, the one I like, frankly.
17:04Yes, sir.
17:06Well?
17:08Looks like a public lavatory in Soho.
17:11That's the first park railings that Bly Construction ever put up, at Bilton.
17:16And they're still there.
17:18It's those rampant stags I'm not so very keen on.
17:22Call me at the opening of Parliament.
17:23I wouldn't miss it for all the gold in France.
17:25No, John, wait, wait, wait, wait.
17:27All right, dear.
17:28I'll be back in a minute.
17:29I'll be back in a minute.
17:30I'll be back in a minute.
17:31I'll be back in a minute.
17:32I'll be back in a minute.
17:33I'll be back in a minute.
17:34I'll be back in a minute.
17:36All right, priest, that'll do now.
17:38And I'll have a look at some more of those tomorrow.
17:42Yes, sir.
17:44And if you haven't got those folds right now, I'll hire a blasted rogue.
17:53What happens when you clap your hands?
17:58Get me Burns Wickham.
18:01You once said that you'd rather drop dead than accept a peerage.
18:05Now they'd have to hang me with a silken halter.
18:08And when they chuck me out of this job,
18:10I'll be able to claim four and a half guineas a day
18:12for warming a bench in the law.
18:15Every day is your birthday, isn't it, Caswell?
18:18Now you can even tell me what to do.
18:21Only in the national interest, John.
18:25Burns Wickham?
18:28Tell Dowling to meet us in Sir John's room.
18:31Oh, and ask him to bring the papers on Marleya.
18:39Marleya?
18:40Yes.
18:41You know the place.
18:44I remember how much it cost Bride Construction the last time you went there.
18:53Oh.
18:55Jemima may have the run of the salon today,
18:57but I pinched the two best models.
19:00In view of your S.O.S.
19:02If roving ambassador means anything at all, darling,
19:05it means he roved.
19:06Yes, well, he'll not rove alone.
19:08Well, I know husbands, darling.
19:10An airline ticket gives them fantasies of freedom.
19:13From now onwards, it's double bookings or resign.
19:17Remy never left the house for two months.
19:20Then he upped and went, and all I've heard is a cable
19:22saying he's interested in silk in Siam.
19:26What's inside the silk?
19:27That's what I want to know.
19:30Do you want to see the heavier dresses?
19:32I can lay on a special show later this week.
19:35For every climate you can think of.
19:56God, who's that?
19:58Your new private secretary, John.
20:00No, I mean that.
20:02Sir Peyton Grindley Whittaker.
20:05Hyphenated?
20:06I'm afraid so.
20:07He served Lord Castlereagh after Waterloo,
20:09especially at the Congress of Vienna.
20:11He helped make sure the defeated French were humanely treated.
20:14We may need another like him before long.
20:16Now, John, meet Dowling.
20:18Lincoln Dowling, Sir John Wyler.
20:20How do you do?
20:21Well, how has the club taken my appointment?
20:23The club?
20:24Keep your tongue out of your cheek, Dowling.
20:27The club, the career diplomats.
20:29They don't like these appointments from outside.
20:31What you mean is that they're plotting like mad
20:33to stop them and me.
20:35There is a consensus
20:36for giving plum jobs to professionals.
20:40Well put, Dowling.
20:47Always assuming that this is a plum job.
20:51Would you like us to leave you with this bump here
20:55for a bit, John?
20:56Or...
20:57Or what?
20:58Dowling could brief you.
21:00All I know is a small African nation
21:02is showing its gratitude for past British aid
21:04by taking over our copper mines
21:06and turning over British residents' cars in the street.
21:08Five British subjects were beaten up last night
21:10and an aircraft sent in by the mining company
21:12today was detained and its crew arrested.
21:16Send out a battalion of paratroops
21:18or the International Red Cross.
21:20There could be some personal risk
21:22Oh, if you'd rather not go...
21:23I've booked two seats on tomorrow's flight
21:25via Lake Ossoff.
21:26Make it three.
21:27Three.
21:28Three!
21:29Hardly the place to take Pamela, John.
21:32One via Zurich.
21:34Via Zurich?
21:36Are you out of hearing, Dowling?
21:42Well, what are you waiting for?
21:45John,
21:46you learn that this department
21:48is not rich in men of Dowling's calibre.
21:50Well, you ought to know.
21:52You planted him.
21:53He's the best at his rank.
21:55Now, he also knows Whitehall
21:57and he knows the diplomatic service.
21:59And he's out to know what I'm doing.
22:01If you didn't put him in here to check on me,
22:03somebody else would have.
22:05Well, I don't know what you're talking about.
22:07I don't know what you're talking about.
22:09I don't know what you're talking about.
22:11I don't know what you're talking about.
22:14Somebody else put him in here to check on both of us.
22:24Oh, and Caswell,
22:26Minister,
22:28do something about this mausoleum
22:30and see that
22:32Goldilocks there is either decently buried or burnt.
22:39Our service has no place for men like Wilder.
22:41They're motivated by greed,
22:43security risks, all of them.
22:45He's got all the money he'll ever need.
22:47His kick is power.
22:49We have evidence that he's been a heavy buyer recently of shares
22:51in aircraft and construction firms.
22:53They're the industries he knows best.
22:55All the same, Dowling, I smell scandal.
22:57You never did with Filby.
22:59That was rather below the belt, Dowling.
23:01I know the Wilders.
23:03They're dangerous outsiders.
23:05With luck, Marlier
23:07frightened him off, from all I hear.
23:09I can't honestly say he went pale with fright.
23:11Don't care, Dowling. He's experienced.
23:13My briefing says he's never gambled in his life.
23:15I trust he hasn't
23:17succeeded in mesmerising you already.
23:19I told him I'd book
23:21two seats on tomorrow's flight. He told me to book a third.
23:23A third?
23:25A third man?
23:27Oh, a woman. Who? I should imagine his wife.
23:29Oh.
23:31Well, if so,
23:33she goes at his expense.
23:35She can afford it, Father.
23:37She's a woman of enormous personal wealth.
23:39Oh.
23:41And, I hear, considerable presence.
23:45Heavens!
23:47Where's he ambassador to?
23:49Sir Peyton
23:51Grindley Whittaker.
23:53He was very busy after Waterloo.
23:55Met his, if that's anything to go by.
24:01Hansard.
24:03Debates in Parliament.
24:051066 and all that?
24:07Craig and Bonnie Prince Charlie.
24:09What? Is that there?
24:11If we look hard enough, we'll probably find the debate
24:13on Oliver Cromwell.
24:15You can't work here,
24:17is it, Tiz? It's hideous.
24:23Yes?
24:27Good. All right.
24:29And send in T for three, Jane.
24:33Three?
24:35Einer.
24:37The first of the diplomatic correspondents.
24:39That nervy accountant
24:41with the clickety ball pen.
24:45Your new private secretary at the F.O.
24:47No.
24:49They have given you one.
24:51The very best.
24:53Is she young?
24:55She is a he and needs watching.
24:57Well, have they moved?
24:59Well, they'd only replace him with somebody else
25:01with the same brief to keep an eye on me.
25:03It's worth it, darling.
25:05Oh, yes.
25:07I'm going to put in somebody to watch the watcher.
25:13Tom! Darling!
25:15I had no idea.
25:17You mean you didn't let on?
25:19Not a murmur. Don, it's been years.
25:21Two, exactly.
25:23How's business? Oh, up to here.
25:25I don't know where the country's balance of payments would be without us.
25:27Wonderful, Don.
25:29That's not what I heard.
25:31The world's full of knockers.
25:41Oh, thank you.
25:45I heard that you had
25:47less than three months' work in hand,
25:49that your technical director
25:51was leaving to join via construction,
25:53that you had two very bad debts outstanding
25:55which only could be recovered by expensive litigation.
25:57You have opened Joanna Southcock's box.
25:59Sounds desperate.
26:01Well, isn't it?
26:03Come on, Don, you can tell me.
26:05How near to folding are you and Kenneth?
26:07Oh, no, Don.
26:09Oh, it's a bad patch. We'll get through it.
26:11Don, I want you back as my P.A.
26:15I'm sorry, John.
26:17The days are over when captains went down with their ships.
26:21They grabbed the first seat in the lifeboat.
26:23Thanks for the offer, John. I appreciate it, but...
26:25He's not being kind, Don.
26:27He really wants you back.
26:29In the civil service?
26:31Same jungle.
26:33Only the predators wear pinstripes.
26:35Don, if you stay on with Ken,
26:37how much capital would you need?
26:39Charity is the last thing they want.
26:41Don, suppose I guaranteed your firm
26:43one year's work.
26:45I've no doubt you could.
26:47Two phone calls, that's all.
26:51You're very generous.
26:53There's nothing for nothing, Don.
26:55I want your services.
26:57Ah.
26:59Three years ago, Kenneth Bly
27:01landed the power station contract in Malia.
27:03He's had it on his conscience ever since.
27:05He wasn't cut out for bribing people.
27:07It was rewarding for someone,
27:09a minister in Malia.
27:11I know.
27:13I countersigned a cheque for 50,000 pounds.
27:19Yes.
27:21Yes.
27:23Kenneth wouldn't want that cupboard opened up.
27:25He knows the man with the key.
27:27You know Kenneth, John.
27:29He wouldn't betray a confidence like that
27:31even if it paid him to.
27:33Try him.
27:35No, John, he's my partner.
27:37We're all in bankruptcy together.
27:39I can see you don't, Don.
27:43When, um...
27:45When do you want me to start?
27:47Now.
27:49Now, this minute?
27:51I am flying to Malia tomorrow.
27:53You, all being well, will be coming also,
27:55but via Zurich.
27:57Where do I go via?
27:59Malia is no place for women.
28:01Nor for men, unless they're travelling in tanks.
28:03I suppose that your
28:05vaccinations are all up to date.
28:07I'm not going anywhere for you again, John.
28:09Oh, yes, you are.
28:11John?
28:13Oh, yes, you are.
28:37I'm glad Kenneth is so well.
28:39I, uh,
28:41can give you further proof of identity.
28:43Not necessary, Mr. Henderson.
28:45Kenneth talked to me last night over the telephone.
28:47He said you were coming to Zurich
28:49and, uh, described you
28:51accurately.
28:53Uh, Kenneth asked me to admit
28:55that this was asking a lot.
28:57Numbered accounts in our banks must be
28:59secret, Mr. Henderson.
29:01Otherwise, where would Switzerland be?
29:03You know, every income tax
29:05department in the world spends
29:07too much time and the taxpayers'
29:09money trying to penetrate us.
29:13Kenneth did say that you might help.
29:15I could not possibly
29:17disclose the identity of a client
29:19with a numbered account, Mr. Henderson.
29:21I see.
29:23However...
29:25...
29:35three recent deposits in the account
29:37you are interested in.
29:39I hope this will do for your purposes.
29:41Yes, indeed.
29:45You will, of course, not try to communicate
29:47these figures over the telephone
29:49nor by cable.
29:51You can rely on that.
29:53I suppose you have some arrangement
29:55with Kenneth over...
29:57I always did find
29:59my country's neutrality
30:01embarrassing, Mr. Henderson.
30:03Kenneth well knows this.
30:05All three
30:07payments were made by a Chinese
30:09cultural mission.
30:23...
30:31The ambassador's compliments.
30:33I fixed your baggage through customs.
30:35The car's outside. John Lacey.
30:37How do you do? Lincoln.
30:39We were learners together. Now you're an expert
30:41and put us in the picture.
30:43Is it any worse today?
30:45Not really, Waldo. A break through the
30:47embassy windows, two British
30:49businessmen's cars overturned, a couple of beatings up.
30:51I suppose you know
30:53who those two are.
30:55Marley and Special Branch.
30:57Trained by Scotland Yard and here, no doubt,
30:59for your protection.
31:01No doubt.
31:05They have done things since I was last here.
31:07They have some determined ministers.
31:09Don't forget, Lacey, I've had
31:11dealings with them.
31:13Was my meeting with the Prime Minister
31:15tonight or first thing tomorrow morning?
31:17I'm not certain. You don't know?
31:19Well, yes.
31:21As a matter of fact, the ambassador wants to brief you first.
31:23Brief me?
31:25Sir Trevelyan felt it vital you should first see him.
31:27You did
31:29get my message.
31:31Your telegram got through? Yes.
31:33And nothing has been done about my appointment
31:35with the Prime Minister?
31:37No, sir.
31:39I merely wanted to
31:41warn you against rash and ill-considered
31:43moves.
31:45You were told to fix an appointment with the Prime Minister.
31:47Diplomacy, Wilder,
31:49like the big business you understand,
31:51is a matter for professionals.
31:53You know
31:55about turning a profit.
31:57I know about representing
31:59our country abroad.
32:01Tell that to the mining engineers who've been arrested.
32:03An inconvenience, Wilder.
32:05They haven't been shot.
32:07Even to me.
32:09They'll be old-age pensioners before you get them out.
32:11Wilder, we have been here for more than a hundred years.
32:13Only now the rules have changed.
32:15We're as foreign here as the French.
32:17And from what I hear,
32:19more foreign just now than the Chinese.
32:21Wilder,
32:23I do not want you
32:25charging in on the Prime Minister here.
32:27It would be a waste of time
32:29not to say stupid.
32:31He is a friend of ours.
32:33He may be in the driving seat,
32:35but others are doing the steering
32:37for the moment.
32:39I know who's doing the driving.
32:41May I?
32:43Get me
32:45the Minister of Home Security,
32:47Mr. Naranda.
32:51I'm glad you've done your homework, Wilder.
32:53But he still won't see you.
32:55We'll see.
32:57It was Naranda who brought in the Chinese.
32:59I know.
33:01After our lords and masters and their wisdom
33:03cut off our aid to this poor land.
33:05He's a fanatic, Wilder, an idealist.
33:07I know my idealists, Ambassador.
33:09They look you straight in the eye for five minutes
33:11and then start trimming.
33:13Not Naranda.
33:15Especially Naranda.
33:19Yes?
33:25One moment.
33:29Naranda is out.
33:37Sir, he's out.
33:39I happen to know that he is very much in.
33:43How good is their security?
33:45I'm sorry, Wilder?
33:47If I send a cable, will it be vetted?
33:49Well, the service is the embassy
33:51at your disposal, Wilder.
33:53We can send in cipher or by Queen's Messenger.
33:55I don't want that. I want to send an open cable.
33:57Will it be vetted?
33:59Our chaps have been out here
34:01teaching them how to do it with diplomacy.
34:03Good.
34:09Humphreys?
34:11Humphreys?
34:13Mr. John Wilder has a telegram to send.
34:15He wants it to go in clear.
34:19It's to Don Henderson.
34:21Hotel Plaza, Zurich.
34:23Via our consulate there.
34:25Proceed
34:27Malia Urgentist.
34:29Wilder.
34:33But I thought you said earlier
34:35that he's already on his way here.
34:37If he hadn't been, I should have known by now.
34:39Only if things went wrong
34:41was he told to use the official grapevine.
34:45Yet he won't even get your telegram.
34:49Somebody else might.
34:55It will not be sent.
35:03Tell Sir John Wilder to come over and see me.
35:17Don't you want your bed socks?
35:27I must say,
35:29your appointment surprised me.
35:31I always thought of you
35:33as purely commercial.
35:37Like you?
35:39Britain caught off our aid.
35:41She hardly has the moral right
35:43to seem offended
35:45because we choose more generous friends.
35:47I'm talking about you.
35:49Such a dull subject, Wilder.
35:51Look, Miranda.
35:53I want those Chinese kicked out of the mines
35:55and the British staff set free.
35:57I'm not Prime Minister here.
36:01It is my brother-in-law you should be talking to.
36:03Your puppet.
36:05London has the answer
36:07in its own hands, Wilder.
36:09She can resume aid to my land.
36:11Or have its subjects arrested
36:13or clobbered over the head
36:15or their property confiscated?
36:17Things must be brought home to you.
36:19By blackmail?
36:21Who is the hypocrite now?
36:23I'm just bringing things home to you.
36:31By the way,
36:33how is my friend Kenneth Bly
36:35and his partner
36:37who used to be your assistant?
36:39Henderson.
36:41Ah, that's the one.
36:43He came here with Kenneth,
36:45though I never met him.
36:47He's on his way here now.
36:49From London?
36:51Zurich.
36:53Are you sure?
36:55Are you sure he isn't?
36:57I want facilities
36:59to visit the British engineers
37:01by tomorrow.
37:03I'm sorry, Wilder. I can't let you.
37:05Your Chinese overlords would not approve?
37:07No.
37:09I wouldn't.
37:11Look, you have
37:13my word that your fellow countrymen
37:15are not being roughly treated.
37:17Your word is not worth
37:19a Chinese yen.
37:21What was it you told the Parliament here
37:23in that speech right from the heart?
37:25I have done everything
37:27in my power to ensure
37:29without fear or favour that the contract
37:31for the new power station will go
37:33to the firm with the best design
37:35and the lowest tender.
37:37Your firm got it, Wilder.
37:39Yes.
37:41We got it.
37:43What did you get?
37:49These are the methods of gangsters, darling.
37:51Wilder grew up in a rough school.
37:53Even so, he must be stopped.
37:55God knows what Diplomacy is coming to.
37:57We don't know for certain what information
37:59Henderson is bringing.
38:01You can be sure if Wilder's behind it, it won't be cosy.
38:03If Miranda
38:05did indeed yield to temptation
38:07in Wilder's murky past,
38:09then the Prime Minister might well
38:11be grateful to be told about it.
38:13He might even be induced to agree
38:15into talks starting on condition
38:17that Wilder was recalled to the UK.
38:19Wouldn't that mean, Ambassador, that we are using
38:21Wilder's gangster methods?
38:23Yes, you're quite right, darling.
38:27We mustn't lower our own standards.
38:31Besides, we don't yet know
38:33what Henderson has got on Miranda, do we?
38:47Mr. Henderson?
38:49Yes?
38:51Follow me, please.
38:57Turn out your pockets.
38:59Wait a minute.
39:01Quickly, please.
39:03Look, I have diplomatic immunity.
39:05Your name is not on our diplomatic list,
39:07Mr. Henderson.
39:09Now, please, will you please cooperate?
39:27Your clothes.
39:29Take them off.
39:57Get my wife, please.
40:07You won't have to wait
40:09much longer, Mr. Henderson.
40:11You have the right
40:13to stay here.
40:15I'm going to get my wife.
40:17I'm going to get my wife.
40:19I'm going to get my wife.
40:21I'm going to get my wife.
40:23I'm going to get my wife.
40:25You won't have to wait much longer, Mr. Henderson.
40:27You have been refused leave to land.
40:29Have you contacted Sir John Wilder?
40:31You are being returned
40:33where you came from,
40:35on the first available flight.
40:37I asked to speak to Sir John Wilder.
40:39I'm sorry.
40:41We've no idea where he is.
40:51We'll leave it to you, Sir John.
40:53Where the hell are you going?
40:55It's very urgent.
41:03Would you like a wash, Mr. Henderson?
41:05You'll feel much better for it.
41:07This way, please.
41:19John Henderson.
41:21Sir John Wilder's private secretary.
41:23Or should I say, joint private secretary.
41:25John Lacey,
41:27Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy, Malia.
41:29An empty.
41:31I believe you have something to communicate,
41:33Sir John.
41:35Is he all right?
41:37Five minutes ago, he was rather red in the face,
41:39otherwise in good nick.
41:41Has anybody got a pen?
41:47Just tell him,
41:49it's as simple as possible.
41:51Deposits of 10,000 August the 4th,
41:5310,000 on September the 9th,
41:55and 5,000 in gold bullion
41:57on December the 20th.
42:01A Chinese cultural mission.
42:03Mr. Henderson has to go to the plane now.
42:05Well, that was short and sweet.
42:07Thanks for the welcome.
42:29Does it mean anything?
42:31Only if we know who paid them.
42:33Some Chinese cultural mission.
42:35That's all we need.
42:39You've begun well, Sir John.
42:45It's a bit drastic, isn't it?
42:47The law agrees. It is the best solution.
42:51Well, if there's anything I can do for you in Britain...
42:53We're going to Switzerland.
42:55There's much to be said for neutrality.
43:01But I may yet need your help
43:03in England one day.
43:09What about Henderson?
43:13Oh, he got all we need.
43:15He won't come to any harm.
43:39Mr. Henderson?
43:41Yes?
43:43Yours, I think.
43:45It has a few personal things in it
43:47I thought you would need.
43:49Miranda.
43:53You're leaving?
43:55Yes.
43:57For good?
43:59For a long while.
44:01Don't apologize.
44:03It's all part of the game.
44:05I think you should know
44:07that my brother-in-law
44:09wasn't giving the Chinese too much rope.
44:11Then may we take it, Prime Minister,
44:13that the British mining staff are now free?
44:15I've ordered their immediate release.
44:17And the mine?
44:19It was always our intention
44:21to leave it in British hands, Sir John.
44:23That isn't as it looked to us.
44:27It wasn't the way we intended it to look.
44:29It was a mistake.
44:31It wasn't as it looked to us.
44:33It wasn't the way we intended it to look.
44:35For the moment.
44:39We need the best of both worlds.
44:41One of us had to offer a hand to the Chinese.
44:43It was a difficult duty.
44:47Miranda is more pro-British, even than I.
44:51Like you, Sir John.
44:53He had a job to do.
44:55Even though your methods were hardly diplomatic.
44:57On occasion,
44:59one has to try something new.
45:01Or someone,
45:03Sir John.
45:07And good news tonight
45:09of the British mining staff in Malia
45:11released from detention.
45:13Sir John Wilder, the roving ambassador
45:15who secured their release,
45:17arrived back in Britain tonight and said,
45:19this is a triumph.
45:21Gone the chance for your big rescue act, Caswell.
45:23He did it off his own back.
45:25I'd like to know
45:27how much it's going to cost us.
45:29Stop touching your money box, Caswell.
45:31We've no bribes to pay.
45:33Congratulations, Wilder.
45:35Thank you for a mincer.
45:37Well, we've got your department
45:39off to a good start, Caswell.
45:41And I hope you can keep it up.
45:43Now I'm wanted in my office.
45:45Oh, you must see this, Wilder.
45:47I hear your wife is leading a petticoat revolution
45:49in the old place.
46:11Well, it was all so tatty, darling.
46:13And as I shall be coming with you
46:15on your future jaunts,
46:17I thought this was the last opportunity
46:19I'd have to do something here.
46:22Well, what do you think, darling?
46:24All you need is your own private lift.
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