Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983): Season 1, Episode 7 - Gambit - full transcript

[pleasant music]

[dog barking]

- Must be the last
dog in Petersburg.

[gun fires]
[dog yelps]

- Was the last
dog in Petersburg.

Do you eat dog?

- Yes, if it doesn't actually
say dog on the menu I do, yes.

Usually says something like
[bell rings]

[speaks foreign language]

or something like that.

- It's a disgusting
practice, Sasha.



- Oh come on old
boy, how do you think

Amundsen got to the South Pole?

He ate his dogs.

Suppose the English ate
each other, did they?

- Sidney Reilly?
- Yes.

- Come in, I'm Cromie.

Have you got a rank Mr. Reilly?

- [Sidney] Yes, I'm
captain flying corps.

- Ah the flying corps.

And Mr. Grammaticoff?

- I'm Sidney's lawyer.

- Really?

Does he usually take a legal
adviser on active service?

- Well sir, if there
was ever an enterprise



in which a man needed a lawyer,

it is this one.

By the way can I use your phone?

- In the study.

Captain Reilly, this
is captain Hill.

George, Sidney Reilly.

- [George] You're
one of Cumming's men.

- [Sidney] Yes.

- Have some coffee.
- Thank you.

- [Cromie] George has
his own organization.

- In Ukraine mostly,
although recently

I've extended my
operations to Moscow.

- Like all pongos,
he's not really happy

unless he's blowing
something up.

George is here because
I wanted a witness.

- [Sidney] How much is in there?

- A million pounds.

Of which you will be
getting 100,000 pounds.

- That's generous of you.

- I'm not being
generous, captain Reilly.

It's a loan, from the Navy,
and I shall expect it back.

- What are you
going to do with it?

- I'm going to take
it up to Moscow

to see what it will buy in
the way of a new government.

- Any particular model in mind?

- Not really, as long
as it fights Germans.

- Well, if you want
any help let me know.

- [Narrator] In 1917 when the
Great War was at its height,

the Bolsheviks took
Russia by storm,

promising peace with Germany.

This so concerned the British
prime minister Lloyd George

that Reilly was sent
back into Russia

to see what could be done
to reverse the situation.

Officially he was attached
to commander Cromie

at the British
legation in Petrograd,

but within days Reilly
left for Moscow,

taking his old friend Sasha
Grammaticoff with him.

They planned to overthrow the
Bolsheviks and replace them

with a new government which will

continue the war
against Germany.

That government was to be
headed by Reilly himself.

[dramatic music]

[thunder rumbles]

- Mademoiselle Friede.

- What do you want?

- To speak to your brother.

- Well he's at the Kremlin.

He's a garrison
commander this week.

- I know, Dagmara sent me.

My name is Sidney Reilly.

- Well, come in I'll telephone.

[humming]

He says it will have
to wait 'til next week.

He can't leave his post.
- Can't wait a week.

Tell him I shall meet
him in 15 minutes

at the savior gate.

I have an appointment
with Lenin.

Madam, we are embarked
on a great adventure.

This is no time for hesitation.

- He has an
appointment with Lenin.

Will you meet him in 15
minutes at savior gate?

He says you must be
mad, but he'll be there.

- Good.

[dramatic music]

- What do you want?

- I want to speak to Lenin.

- Wait here.

[phone rings]

- Lockhart.

- We have a man at the gatehouse
who wants to see Lenin.

He has a message
from Lloyd George.

- What's his name?
- Sidney Reilly.

He also has a letter from
our man in London, Litvinov.

- Captain Reilly?
- Yes.

- I'm colonel Friede.

Follow me.

- That places us in an
extremely embarrassing position.

Here we have a man
who claims he comes

from a British government,

you say you know
nothing about him.

- Places me in an embarrassing
position, Karachan, not you.

- Seems genuinely put out.

Doesn't know anything
about this man.

- You've been here before?
- Yes in the old days.

- Things have changed.
- So I've noticed.

For instance, the
Kremlin is now guarded

entirely by Latvian troops.

- That's because
Latvian soldiers

are the best ones in
the Bolshevik army.

Some say the only soldiers.

- And you are commander.

- I'm honored to do so.

There are only two
disciplined armies

in the whole of Russia.

The first is Latvians,
the second is the Czechs.

- There will soon be a third.

Within a month the British
will land at Archangel.

Their orders will be to engage

the Germans wherever
they may find them,

then to wheel west to
liberate Latvia and Estonia.

Now what the British
would dearly love to know

is whether your Latvians
will support them.

Or will they obey
Lenin's orders,

which undoubtedly will be to
drive them back into the sea?

- Highly unlikely that Lenin
would risk such an an--

- You're evading the
question, colonel.

- The loyalty of the Latvian
troops is to their officers.

Our loyalty is to Lenin.

- Despite the fact that the
peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk

handed Latvia to
Germany on a plate?

- In the long run we
will repossess it.

- You may be able to take the
long view, but can your men?

I suggest colonel that
you give serious thought

to the question I put to you.

- What is your proposal?

- Just this.

That if Lenin resists
the idea of a landing

he should be replaced.

With the aid of your
troops, of course.

- Captain Reilly.

- I am Bonch-Brouevich,
this is Mr. Karachan.

Lenin is busy, but
perhaps we can help?

- I have a letter from Litvinov.

- He says you brought
a personal message

to Lenin from Lloyd George.

- Yes that's right.

- Let's have it.

- Mr. Lloyd George addresses
Mr. Lenin as follows.

The Germans are about to launch

a major offensive on
the western front.

In order to prevent
our complete collapse,

it is imperative that
you reenter the war.

Ludendorff has
amassed a vast army

which includes many units which
were previously in Russia.

- That is the message.

- That's the first part.

He goes on to assure you
that if you do as he asks,

the British government
will do all it can

to support you in the
difficult days which lie ahead.

- And if we don't?

- Mr. Reilly.

The Bolshevik party
did not want to

get out of the war with Germany.

We were persuaded with
eight million casualties

that it would be better
to accept the most

humiliating peace terms
than to see the defeat

of our revolution, and that
is why we signed the treaty.

- If we revoke the
treaty tomorrow,

the Germans could be in
Moscow the following day.

That is the harsh
reality of the situation.

We have no alternative.

- There is an alternative.

We could land our own troops

and engage the Germans
on your behalf.

- That is a polite way of saying

that you intend to
invade our country.

- They would be deployed against

the Germans, not
against yourselves.

- The British envoy
to Moscow assured us

there would be no intervention.

- That was before
the German buildup.

Believe me gentlemen, the
situation is desperate.

Paris will fall, there
is a distinct possibility

that we will lose the war.

- Lenin has made
his attitude plain.

He will view any
landing of Allied troops

on Russian soil as a violation
of our territorial integrity.

It will be considered a direct
threat to the revolution,

and treated accordingly.

- What is more, he will
repudiate all Russian war debts

and confiscate all Allied
property including banks,

factories, and transport systems

and drive your soldiers
back into the sea!

If necessary, with the help
of the German invaders.

- That is the message I am
to take to Lloyd George?

- Yes captain it is.

- Colonel Friede.

Show captain Reilly
to the gatehouse.

A word, captain Reilly.

I wish we could have
been of more help to you.

- Not at all.

- How did Lenin react?
- Predictably.

- [Sasha] What about Friede?

- [Sidney] He's hooked.

- [Sasha] So where's
the next port of call?

- Commisar Orlov, secret police.

- Sidney, you son of a bitch!

Sasha!

Welcome to Bolsavia!

- Orlov you old hound!

[chuckles]

[ominous music]

- Who was that?

- Felix Dzerzhinsky old
boy, head of the Czech.

This is his headquarters.

Don't get mixed up
with him, Sidney.

He shows his teeth in his
eyes if you know what I mean.

- You're looking for?
- Commissar Orlov.

- Follow me please.

- That Rolls was outside
Miss Friede's tonight.

- Yeah he's something of
a ladies man I'm told.

When he isn't eating
babies and killing people.

- She his mistress?

- I think it's a
reasonable assumption.

- Sidney, how are you?

Let me introduce you.

This is Smidchen of
the Latvian brigade.

Smidchen the pigeon as
he is known about here.

- That was uncalled
for commissar.

- Lieutenant Smidchen
reports to us

all tittle tattle
in the Latvian mess.

- Gentlemen, you must
excuse the commissar.

He has dined too well.

- Get out!

You son of a St.
Petersburg pimp!

[laughing]

I see you too have
survived the deluge.

- Yes, not with quite the
same style as you old boy.

- Well you know what
my father used to say,

when you live amongst wolves

you should howl like one.

Well, here's to us.
- I'll drink to that.

So.

You joined the Czech?

- It's only been
going for six months,

but during that time
we've got together

the biggest gang of nasties

you're likely to see
this side of hell.

I was one of the
few who could read,

so I've risen to my present
position with meteoric speed.

[chuckles]

- And how is Moscow?

- The Bolsheviks lumber
from one crisis to another.

We're running a book on
how long we can last.

The German army's within
three hours by train

and they've installed a
fearful man called Meerbach

who constantly threatens
to call them in.

A social revolutionary
party who include

many of the Czechies are about
to take to the streets again

to protest against the German
occupation of the Ukraine.

There are more
and more shootings

and the whole thing could end up

in a bloodbath if
we're not careful.

So, in answer to your question,

situation Moscow
is deteriorating.

- Well, Petrograd's
no better you'll find.

There was no food, they've
eaten all the dogs.

No transport, they've
eaten all the horses.

Typhoid's everywhere.

- They've eaten all the doctors?

[laughing]

- Not quite.

- Well, let's emigrate.

How's Paris these days?

- It's about to be overrun
by the German army.

- Oh, a desperate
times we live in!

- However, the British

are landing at Archangel.

- When?

- In a month or so.

- How many men?

- Hopefully between
10 and 20,000.

- They're not going to
get far with 20,000 men.

This is Russia, not
the Dardanelles.

- I know, so Savinkov
plans a rising in the north

and I'm going to try and
see what I can do in Moscow.

- You mean a coup of some sort?

- With the aid of
the Latvian guard.

- We take over the
Kremlin, arrest Lenin,

and form an interim government.

You will have the
justice department,

I shall be the
treasury, Savinkov

if he survives, will
be minister of war.

- And the number one?

- Will be Sidney here.

- And where do the Romanovs
fit into your plans?

- They don't.

- Land reform?

- There will be no going
back to the old ways.

The people will keep their land.

- Sounds all right to me.

What are your requirements?

- We need papers, passes,
automobiles, fuel requisitions,

slips, whatever it takes

to move couriers
around the country.

- Have to build up an
organization from scratch.

- I tell you what's going
to be your big problem.

The German army.

Social revolutionaries are doing

everything in their
power to provoke them.

- Then we must talk to these
social revolutionaries.

- Sure, that can be arranged.

By the way, you want to
become officers of the Czech?

It's the easiest
way to get about.

- Is that possible?

- Listen, everything is
possible in Bolsavia.

[laughing]

- Ah, Sidney this
is my niece Dagmara.

And her friend Natalia Chekalva.

Girls, this is Sidney Reilly
of whom I've told you so much.

- And that's Sonia.

Did you talk to Marie Friede?

- Yes I think she would
have thrown me out

if I hadn't mentioned your name.

- We used to do class together.

- That's dance classes, old boy.

They're all dancers here.

Their bones crack like hell.

Can get bloody noisy at night.

- Well that's all right with me.

I can sleep through anything.

- Do you want to eat?

- No I just want to
get my head down.

Where do I sleep?

- You sleep in my bed,
Sasha bunks with Natalia,

Sonia has the stove.

- Is that all right with you?

- Would you rather I
slept on the floor?

- No, no, no.

- Tomorrow night Sonia
will have the bed

and I'll have the stove.

[sighs]

- I've got it all
worked out old boy.

- Who is Sidney Reilly?

And what is he doing in Moscow?

- Sidney Reilly is one of
our most experienced agents.

He has been sent in
fact to Petrograd

to ensure that the
Russian fleet is scuttled

if the Germans take the city.

- I thought that
was the Navy's job.

- The Navy asked for political
advice, we sent them Reilly.

- So Reilly was
sent to Petrograd.

To advise Cromie on the timing

for the scuttling of
the Russian fleet.

- Correct.
- So,

what is he doing in Moscow?

- Nothing in particular
and doing it very well.

- Well according to Lockhart,

he knocked at the Kremlin door

and demanded to see Mr. Lenin.

He said he had a message
from Lloyd George.

Well had he a message
from Lloyd George?

- You would have to ask
the prime minister that.

- I'm asking you.

- Reilly saw the prime minister

before he went,
that's all I know.

- And what do you know
of a Boris Savinkov?

- Savinkov is a
social revolutionary

and he's minister of state
in Karinsky's cabinet.

- Is there a relationship
between Reilly and Savinkov?

- I really couldn't say, sir.

Certainly Reilly has
great admiration for him.

- Did you know that Savinkov
was planning an uprising?

To coincide with the British
landings at Archangel?

- No sir I did not.

- Is it conceivable
that Reilly and Savinkov

got together to topple Lenin,

and put themselves at the head

of a new government in Russia?

Is it?

- It is just conceivable.

- That is indeed what
Lockhart told me.

If this event comes to pass,

I shall hold you
personally responsible.

- On what grounds?

- Because he is one of your men.

- Reilly is Russian
born and a free agent

when it comes to politics.

- He is not free when it
comes to throwing a spanner

into our entire
eastern strategy.

- The situation in
Moscow as I understand it

is that the Bolsheviks are by
no means in control of events.

They may well be
stripped from power

with or without
Reilly's efforts.

My theory is that we
shall wake up one morning

to find a new Russian government

controlled directly from Berlin.

- That is precisely why we have

given our support to Mr. Lenin.

- But what if Mr. Lenin fails?

- He will not fail,
given our support.

- There are those who
disagree with his policies.

- What you fail to
realize commander,

is that I view a
Russia run by Reilly

with as much alarm as I view
one run by the Bolsheviks.

At least we know where
we stand with them.

Furthermore, they
will be removed

when the time is ripe,

but through the proper
political channels.

Not by some part time employee

of the British Secret Service.

Do I make myself clear?

- Perfectly.

[orchestral music]

- Ah wonder if master
Savinkov is up here.

- So it's 180 miles
from here to Moscow,

500 to Archangel, so you see
it's ideal for our purpose.

Have you had
confirmation from London?

- Oh yes the landings are
going ahead as planned.

- Good, good.

- I have to say however Boris,

I'm more than a little
concerned for you.

- Don't worry.

There's nothing between
here and Archangel

but a few Latvian regulars
and a trip or two of cavalry.

If the British
land on time, yes?

Together we'll win
a great victory.

- How will you raise a
province with five men?

- Napoleon landed
in France with less.

I always make sure that my
underwear is sterilized.

More people die from
gangrene in the field

than from their original
wound, did you know that?

- You're also short of supplies.

- We'll pick up what
we need from the enemy.

Greatest danger that we face

is incursions by
the German army.

Anything that you can do to
keep them out of Yuroslavo,

anything, yes will be
greatly appreciated.

- I'll see what I can do.

In the meantime, I
hope you'll accept

some money for
this insurrection.

- Do I need this?

- [Sidney] It's sometimes
easier to bribe armies

than it is to shoot them.

- Yes, but it takes time.

[knocking]
Come in.

- Your friends have arrived.

All five of them.
- Good.

- Before you go, a toast.

- I don't drink.

- It's a Napoleon
brandy old boy.

- Well in that case,
I'll make an exception.

Well, here's to a great victory.

[glass tinkling]

- Last night my car was ambushed
in the Derdrinka district

and my chauffeur killed.

- We very much regret that
this happened, your excellency.

- Had I been in the car,
Mr. Bonch-Brouevich,

I would have been killed.

In such a situation would not
be regretting the incident,

you would be deploring it

because you know and I know
that the imperial German army

would by now be at
the gates of the city.

And you would be
out in the streets,

hunting down my murderers

in order to placate my
superiors in Berlin.

Now, I wish to bring
to the attention

of the committee two facts.

First, the social
revolutionary party

which is responsible
for last night's outrage

does not seem to
accept the peace treaty

which our two nations
have jointly signed.

And second, not only
are you helpless

in face of their
operations here in Moscow,

but I am informed that
you are actually financing

their terrorist
activities in the Ukraine.

- [Man] Felix, can you
shed any light on this?

- On what Elliott?

- Are we funding terrorist
groups in the Ukraine?

- Not to my knowledge.

- There seems to be some
mistake there, count Meerbach.

We are not funding any
social revolutionary

activity in the Ukraine.

- Not only are you doing so sir,

but the money you give to
the terrorists in the Ukraine

is part of the money
we give to you.

- Karachan.
- Ilyich?

- Are we getting any
funds from the Germans?

- Not a sausage.

[laughing]

- You have been misinformed,
your excellency.

- I have not been
misinformed, Mr. Lenin

on either score.

- It is unfortunate that
the social revolutionaries

have never accepted the
principles of our peace treaty,

but there's very little
we can do about that.

And when they see your armies
plundering our countryside

and pillaging our
industries I ask you,

is it any wonder they
continue to oppose you?

- What you call plunder

are the legitimate
fruits of victory.

I demand that something be done

to halt the social
revolutionaries in their tracks!

If you're not prepared to

stamp out terrorism
in your own city,

then the Germany army
will do so for you.

- The SRs will be dealt with
in due course, your excellency.

In the meantime, I
advise you to be calm.

We will do everything possible
to protect you and your men.

Won't we Felix?

- Well.

If that's all you
have to say, sir.

- Yes your excellency,
that's all.

- Now remember this, we
put you into power sir

and we will remove
you if need be.

[men chattering]

- There is some truth
in what he said.

The social revolutionaries
are out of control.

- What do you want me
to do, lock them up?

Start a civil war?

- Well either you
stop them or we have

Prussians turning
up at the gates.

- That's a chance
that I have to take.

- What about the funds for
the guerrillas in the Ukraine?

- Double them.

[dramatic music]

- Welcome to the headquarters

of the social
revolutionary party.

- What are you doing
here George, helping out?

- We shot up the
ambassador's car last night.

- Yes, good job he wasn't in it.

- Why?

- 'Cause the Germany army
would now be on the march.

- I thought that
was the whole point

to get Russia back into the war.

- The plan's changed, George.

[dramatic music]

- Elena, this is Sidney
Reilly and Sasha Grammaticoff.

This is Elena Petrovna
and Alex Alexandrovich.

Both of them are members of
the SR central committee.

- What can we do
for you Mr. Reilly?

- I'm here to prevail upon
you to stop operations

against the Germans
until such time

as the British have landed.

We don't want them provoked
until the troops are ashore.

Now if you persist, the
Germans will occupy Moscow.

- That's exactly what we want.

- But it will be premature,

and it'll be a hell of
a job to get them out.

- You underestimate
the anger of the people

when they see German
troops in the Kitagarod.

- Look, it would be
considerably more effective

if we could all act together.

Savinkov has already
agreed to hold his fire.

- What Savinkov does
is his own business.

We have our central
committee to answer to.

[phone rings]

- What is it Felix?

- The man you saw a
month ago, Sidney Reilly?

He's still in Moscow.
- So?

- He's the most dangerous
agent in the British bag

and he's trying to
buy your Latvians.

[phone rings]

- Yes?

- Captain Reilly?

This is Marie Friede.

My brother has thought it over
and has agreed to help you.

Can you meet him tonight
to discuss it further?

- [Sidney] Where?

- Here.
- When?

- 10 o'clock?

- I'll be there.

- He's agreed.
- Excellent, excellent.

- Take care of yourself.

- I will.

- Captain Reilly?
- Yes.

- [Woman] Robby, Reilly's here.

- Lockhart.

The Kremlin garrison is with us.

I'm meeting Friede tonight.

- So?

- So we move onto stage two.

I shall need money.

- May get it from Cromie,
he's got a million I'm told.

- Cromie's in Petrograd
and anyway it's Navy money.

- Well how do you
expect me to raise it?

- From the banks.

They all want to get
their money out of Moscow.

We offer to repay
them in lenten.

- Why do you need me?

- Because the notes
will need the signature

of the official British envoy

in Moscow and that
is you, dear boy.

- Reilly, when I first met you

I thought you were either
a madman or a crook.

And now I'm convinced
you're both.

You want me to underwrite an
unauthorized loan of say--

- 10 million.

- 10 million kerensky rubles

to be repaid in London at the

standard rate of
exchange, am I right?

- Look Lockhart, you
know the situation here.

You know that very soon,
everything can fall apart

and we have to move now.

- I'll lose my job.

And possibly be charged
with embezzlement

if I do what you're suggesting.

- You're quibbling
about a bloody loan

when your brother's
dead in France

in a war which we can end if
we get the Bolsheviks out.

- We'll be able to redeem
this note in London.

- And the rate of exchange?

- Will be calculated
on date of surrender.

It should operate in your favor

since gold's going
up all the time.

Who shall I make
this payable to?

- The Baltic Exchange.

- How much?

- 10 million.

- He looks uneasy, as if it was

someone else's money
and not his own.

- We've met before, haven't we?

- Yes, St. Petersburg
before the war.

- You had a lot
of German friends.

- So did you.

- So, what brings you to Moscow?

- Lockhart.

I like him.

- I want to thank you on behalf
of the British government

for loaning us this money.

I was sent out here to
make friends with Lenin

to promise him our support.

Now I'm forced to connive

in an attempt to
remove him from office.

It's dirty, it's dishonorable,
and it won't work.

- A little faith, Lockhart.

Seven come from the north, the
British landing at Archangel

a palace revolt here,
it's all coming together.

[knocking]

- [Marie] Felix.

- Search the house.

- Well I suppose he could
just be taking her to dinner.

- [Man] Where are your shoes?

- They were taken from me.
- Anything else?

- My watch.
- Fetch them.

- Has my brother been arrested?

- Oh yes.

We're in the middle
of a revolution.

And a very dangerous
allied agent

calls on the sister of the
commander of the Kremlin guard.

Now what am I to make of that?

I, who am entrusted
with the task

of protecting the
revolution from its enemies.

He was going to call on you.

You're very fond
of your brother?

- Yes.

- Then for his sake you
should make a statement.

- He was going to call, but...

It was a personal matter.

- Are you trying to tell me
that you succumbed to his charm?

- It was the other
way around, I think.

- I'm going to put you in
the cells for the time being.

And I regret that you
have to stay there

until he's been caught.

[knocking]

- Tell me which are
hers, commissar.

- None of them are mine.

- Take her downstairs.

- Live for the present.

Die for the future.

[bell rings]

Czech.

- An officer of the Czech
is here your excellency.

He says it's urgent.

- What does he want?

- He has news of an
attempt on your life.

- Show him in.

- You can go in now.

- What's your name?

- Blumkin sir.

I'm from the Bianca seven.

- There's to be an
attempt on my life.

- Yes your honor.
- When?

[gun fires]

- Your excellency!
[gun fires]

[gunfire]

[phone rings]

- Good morning citizen.

This telephone exchange
is under control

of the socialist
revolutionary party.

[booming]

- Yes what's going on?

- Following the
assassination of the

German high commissioner, the
socialist revolutionary party

has taken up defensive positions

in the following
public buildings.

Post office, the Crosky
barracks, the Bianca.

- Sasha!

The SRs have jumped the
gun, they've shot Meerbach!

[gunfire]

- George?
- What are you doing here?

- Looking for a woman
called Marie Friede.

She was picked up
yesterday by Dzerzhinsky.

[gunfire]

- She's probably downstairs.

It's like a rabbit
warren down there.

- What have you
been up to George?

- Well, I helped
install a few buildings.

They have a good chance
of taking the city

if they put their minds to it.

They outnumber the
Bolsheviks three to one.

- It's the garrison at Cazan.

Do we need assistance?

- Inform the commissar at Cazan

that everything
is under control.

- The Soviets also
asked the same question.

- Inform the Soviet that the
situation is under control.

- With all due respect skipper,

is the situation under control?

- Simburski's 200 miles away,

Cazans on the other
side of the Volga.

What good can they do us?

[gunfire]

- It's 26, George.

Grab the keys.

- Are the units moving colonel?

- No, they're waiting for
the motorized regiment.

- [Man] What's wrong
with the motorized?

- They say their
trucks won't start.

- Well get down there
and get them moving.

- [Colonel] Sir.

- What's the
situation in Bianca?

- We've lost both buildings.

- I want them retaken
colonel, do you understand?

[gunfire]

- Sorry it took some
time to track you down.

- What's happened?

- The SRs have
taken the building,

we can just walk out of here.

- No please, my brother.

I can't leave without him.
- Where is he?

- I don't know.

- Can we argue this upstairs?

If the Bolsheviks
counterattack--

- No just leave me here.

- Madam it is my
fault you are here.

- Thank you for
coming to help me,

but can't you see it's
better that I stay here.

Can you guarantee that
my brother will be safe?

- I think they're
beginning to pull out.

- One minute!

Look, it is important
that you come.

You influence the others.

The whole fate of our
enterprise may depend on you.

- No!

You must, you must
use Berta now.

- Who's Berta?

- Give this to him.

He is my brother's
second in command.

Tell him that you saw me, and
that I want him to help you.

- [Sasha] Sidney!

- What's the position?
- The Czech have over.

- What have we got left?

- The Latvians,
and there's a call

come from the post office.

They say it's Dzerzhinsky.

- Put him through.

[booming]

- Pick it up commissar.

- Dzerzhinsky here.

- Felix would it be impolite
to ask what you are doing?

- Came here to persuade them

to call off their demonstration.

Unfortunately I was
not able to do so.

And I am being held
here at gunpoint.

- I see.

Well, we've been here
before, Felix, at Kachina.

- They were the tsar's men.

This time it's different.

These are our comrades.

- We are in the middle

of a revolution.

Their actions today can only
be construed as treason.

So there'll be no compromise.

Should they wish to
talk about surrender,

their calls will be
taken by Karachan.

Otherwise, as soon as I've
gathered sufficient forces,

we will storm the building.

I hope

that for once you agree

with my analysis.

- I do.

- Goodbye Felix.

- Well?

- There will be no deals.

[dramatic music]

- [Narrator] Although it
seemed a foregone conclusion

that the social revolutionaries
will take over Moscow,

Lenin's Latvian regiment
outnumbered three to one

fought them to a standstill.

The rest of the
troops in the city,

uncertain of their allegiance

held back awaiting the outcome.

By the evening, the
insurrection was crushed.

[somber music]

While Lenin went off
to placate the Germans

who were threatening
to invade Moscow,

an angry Dzerzhinsky
returned to Bianca

to reap the grim revenge.

- You're--
- Yes, indict them tonight.

- What do we do with them?
- Shoot the men.

- Hello Felix.

To what do I owe the pleasure?

- Where's my Rolls?

- I gave it to Berzin.

His car was shot up.

Listen!

He saved the day!

Elena Petrovna.

- The same.

- At ease.

Keep your eye on that car.

Shoot anybody who
tries to steal it.

You're Reilly aren't you?

How did you get in?

- One of your officers
brought me here.

- Dzerzhinsky wants
you very badly.

[knocking]

- Commissar Dzerzhinsky
outside sir.

He wants the key to his car.

Thank you sir.

- I think we should talk.

- I think we should.

[pleasant music]