The investigation of Vladimir's murder leads Smiley to interrogate his latest suspect. Smiley is told to stop investigating the case by a man on a motorcycle, and he just blows him off. Smiley's next stop is Oxfordshire, soeaking to a mother and a daughter about the case.

• John le Carré
• John Hopkins

• Michael Lonsdale
• Bill Paterson
• Alan Rickman