The

The Flashy.

We did talk about this in our episode on The Spy,

we came in from the cold. I mean, part of the contrast, too, is if James Bond's

heroic qualities are his sort of like physical daring, his willingness to put himself

in physical danger, his, you know, very real, like, courage when it comes to life or death situations.

I would call, I would call Smiley also a courageous person, but in the sense, yeah, very

differently, in a sense, it's sort of like a, a resolve, a willingness to follow the facts

and follow things wherever they end up,

whatever the consequences and implications may be to follow them. And that might be,

you know, just in terms of the world, that might be why, although he might be admired

among his colleagues for his intelligence and skill he may not necessarily be

liked because that's a that's a kind of rigidity right it's like sort of a commitment to an ethos

a commitment to a set of ideals and ideas that um a lot most people would be willing to bend uh depending

on the circumstances but smiley does not seem like the kind of person who is

necessarily willing to bend once the heat is on, which is what makes them so good for this task.

So well suited to seeking out the mole, because if it is a high-ranking person, which is what it's suggested, both by

original control in the first episode, but also it's the second episode where we see

the agent, a younger agent recruited by Smiley, in fact, in earlier days, who is stationed in

Lisbon and has a little affair with a Russian agent who she tells him that there's a high-ranking

mole in the circus. No, I think that this one thing that people should know about this question of moles and betrayal

is that this is based on LeCari's experience being in the Secret Service because he experienced

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