spy pawn

Alexandrine 2022-03-14 08:01:02

During the Cold War in the 1960s, British spy Alec Limas was stationed in West Berlin for many years to conduct espionage operations. However, after witnessing his colleague lurking in East Germany being shot and killed by the East German border guards, Alek returned to the British Secret Intelligence Service headquarters to accept the secret ultimate mission. In order to infiltrate East Germany, Alek deliberately exposed his weakness, even his degenerate side, in order to divide the relationship between the head of the East German intelligence agency Munt and his subordinate Fiedler, and to disintegrate his power. However, under the bewildering mask of a double agent, Alek gradually discovered that he was just a trivial chess piece, and his inner moral judgment and the increasingly blurred distinction between good and evil also tortured Alek!

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes

  • Alec Leamas: I'm a man, you fool. Don't you understand? A plain, simple, muddled, fat-headed human being. We have them in the West, you know.

  • Alec Leamas: Mundt was a Nazi, wasn't he?

    Fiedler: He was a member of the Hitler Youth... as a boy.

    Alec Leamas: Now he's a grown-up Communist. He's what I would call... available.

    Fiedler: Like you!... Shall we begin? Let me start by asking you an amusing question.

    Alec Leamas: Let me start by asking you one! Make you laugh your head off! Where's my money? When can I go wherever... wherever home is? I mean, Carleton's gone home! Peters has gone home! What about me?

    Fiedler: The agreement was...

    Alec Leamas: Agreement!... You've broken the bloody agreement and barring miracles you've broken my bloody neck too! The agreement was that I should be interrogated for two weeks in Holland, paid, and allowed to slip quietly back to England without anyone knowing I'd ever been away. And nobody would have known if you hadn't broken the story.

    Fiedler: Just who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come stepping in here like Napoleon ordering me about? You are a traitor! Does it occur to you? A wanted, spent, dishonest man, the lowest currency of the Cold War? We buy you - we sell you - we lose you - we even can shoot you! Not a bird would stir in the trees outside. Not a single pheasant would turn his head to see what fell.