Quotes from
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
[Harcourt-Smith was embarassed by Preston's unauthorized, though successful previous mission]Brian Harcourt-Smith: May I remind you that this is a Service, not a free-for-all! And when you're done showing off you come to work for me! And I as Director-General of Her Majesty's Services...
John Preston: ACTING Director-General. Bernard Hemmings isn't dead yet.
Brian Harcourt-Smith: [through growing, though restrained anger] IF, or rather WHEN, I am confirmed as Director-General, you are simply going to DISAPPEAR, without trace! Meantime, I want a complete report of all your activities during the last 24 hours before you leave today!
John Preston: Would that include this meeting, sir?
Brian Harcourt-Smith: DO IT!
Sir Nigel Irvine: Hello, George. Had a good holiday? Not missing anything, are you?
[shows George his diamonds, then the top secret NATO documents]
Sir Nigel Irvine: [referring to the diamonds] These are yours, I believe.
[referring to the documents]
Sir Nigel Irvine: But these, beyond a doubt, never were!
George Berenson: I don't know how to explain.
Sir Nigel Irvine: Try me.
George Berenson: I have adopted the attitude that there was only one struggle on this planet worth a damn! The fight against world Communism. I have long thought it ridiculous that the most committed anti-Communists in the Southern Hemisphere, the South Africans, should be excluded from NATO planning because of some... unfashionable domestic attitudes!
George Berenson: [George just found out that his South African contact is a Russian spy] My God! What have I done?
Sir Nigel Irvine: You've betrayed your country. You've passed on numerous military secrets to Moscow, and endangered the lives of British men and women. And I'd say you've weakened NATO. Perhaps irretrievably. Just you, and your schoolboy politics, and your idiotically conceited face of your own importance!
Sir Nigel Irvine: [pause] Now some of our more muscular colleagues would like to lock you in a cell and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a carving knife. The rest would like to feed you to the newspapers and throw whatever's left into prison for 20 years. It's a tricky choice.
Sir Nigel Irvine: [pause] However, HERE is what you will do! You shall resume your special relationship with Moscow, but this time I will be supplying the papers. Do you understand?
[George nods]
Sir Nigel Irvine: Then when you are finished, we shall decide what to do with you.
George Berenson: [very shakily] I'm much obliged.
[Petrovsky is engaged in a drinking game with McWhirter]
Tom McWhirter: [holding up his vodka] Estrovia! That's Russky for UP YOURS!
Valeri Petrofsky: [holding up his vodka] Estrovia.
John Preston: [to Karpov] You and Irvine set it up. You gave us Petrovsky in exchange for the evidence you will use to destroy Govershin. You could very well become the next Chairman of the KGB, couldn't you?
Sir Nigel Irvine: Preston, you're out of your depth.
John Preston: It's just a game to you, isn't it? You both don't give a damn about anything except your own careers! It's about time they locked you up in a fucking museum!
General Karpov: [as Preston walks away] Do you think he'll talk?
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