:09:01
...or you can go through
life as a diplomatic valet.
:09:05
After all, what if I were a thief?
What could I steal from you?
:09:31
First, let me warn
you not to breathe...
:09:33
...a word of it to anyone
but your chief.
:09:36
My life will depend
upon your discretion.
:09:38
A responsibility I do not
choose to accept.
:09:40
You have no choice. Your
life will depend upon it, too.
:09:45
State your proposition.
- Very well.
:09:49
Certain British documents
classified as Most Secret...
:09:52
...have come into my possession.
:09:54
Military and political documents of
utmost value to your government.
:09:58
I am prepared to sell them.
:10:00
The price is 20,000 pounds.
English pounds sterling.
:10:04
20,000 pounds. Who are you?
:10:08
I am a spy, obviously.
:10:11
And your life work is espionage?
:10:14
Not exactly.
:10:17
But I have spent a lot of my
life preparing for this day.
:10:21
No spy in history has ever been
paid 20,000 pound for any information.
:10:25
No spy in history has had
to sell what I have to sell.
:10:29
Besides, spies are notoriously
poor businessmen.
:10:33
They are patriots, frustrated
liberals or victims of blackmail...
:10:37
...whose emotional
involvement weakens...
:10:40
...their bargaining position and
destroys sound business judgements.
:10:43
Would you consider it sound business
for the German Government...
:10:46
...to pay 20,000 pounds
to an unidentified amateur...
:10:51
...for a set of so-called
'secret' documents?
:10:53
Not so-called. Not secret.
:10:58
Most secret. Top secret.