Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Quote
Control: Listen Jim, we've got to have codenames for them. D'you remember the nursery rhyme Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor? Finish it.
Jim Prideaux: Richman, poorman, beggerman, thief.
Control: Percy Alleline, Director of Operations: Tinker. Tinker. Bill Haydon, Head of Personnel: Tailor. Roy Bland, Head of Iron Curtain Networks: Soldier. We leave out Sailor, too much like Tailor, could be misheard.
Jim Prideaux: Richman?
Control: Don't like it. Sounds like police work - fraud, Swiss banks stuff. Toby Esterhase, Top Lamplighter, our exquisite head sleuth: Poorman? [Control chuckles]
Control: Yes...â?Poorman. And George Smiley, my devoted deputy: Beggerman.
Jim Prideaux: Richman, poorman, beggerman, thief.
Control: Percy Alleline, Director of Operations: Tinker. Tinker. Bill Haydon, Head of Personnel: Tailor. Roy Bland, Head of Iron Curtain Networks: Soldier. We leave out Sailor, too much like Tailor, could be misheard.
Jim Prideaux: Richman?
Control: Don't like it. Sounds like police work - fraud, Swiss banks stuff. Toby Esterhase, Top Lamplighter, our exquisite head sleuth: Poorman? [Control chuckles]
Control: Yes...â?Poorman. And George Smiley, my devoted deputy: Beggerman.
Movie: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
