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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Finding out that your best friend is a Soviet mole will invoke this. As will finding out that your best friend has found out that you're a Soviet mole. As will a near-miss from a ''Luftwaffe'' bomb on what turns out to be the first night of the Blitz.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Finding out that your best friend is a Soviet mole will invoke this. As will finding out that your best friend has found out that you're a Soviet mole. As will a near-miss [[NearMisses near-miss]] from a ''Luftwaffe'' bomb on what turns out to be the first night of the Blitz.
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** After confronting him in Beirut, did Elliott deliberately let his old friend Philby go, or did Philby manage to get the better of Elliott and escape to Moscow? [[spoiler: The show eventually concludes that Elliott, knowing that if Philby were to escape to Moscow it would be the end of his spying career, in addition to which it would likely take years for the KGB to fully trust him, ''tricked Philby into escaping''.]]
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** After confronting him in Beirut, did Elliott deliberately let his old friend Philby go, or did Philby manage to get the better of Elliott and escape to Moscow? [[spoiler: The show eventually concludes that Elliott, knowing that if Philby were to escape to Moscow it would be the end of his spying career, in addition to which it would likely take years for the KGB to fully trust him, ''tricked in addition to which taking him back to Britain would, through the likely resulting trial, end up being highly embarrassing for British intelligence and even ''the Prime Minister himself'' [[note]] UsefulNotes/HaroldMacmillan, who as Foreign Secretary back in 1955 had officially cleared Philby of claims that he was a Soviet mole [[/note]], tricked Philby into escaping''.escaping.]]
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* SpySpeak: Downplayed; there are no code-phrases used, but we do get some examples of spy jargon such as "chicken-feed" (a term used to describe information that, while accurate, is not particularly useful) -- which is used to describe Philby's typed confession by everyone who reads it. This phrase is also used to describe Philby's exposing (to Elliott) of Blunt as a Soviet mole, given that Blunt hasn't been active in the intelligence world since 1945.
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* SpySpeak: Downplayed; there are no code-phrases used, but we do get some examples of spy jargon such as "chicken-feed" (a term used to describe information (information that, while accurate, is not particularly useful) useful due to it being low grade and/or out of date) -- which is used to describe Philby's typed confession by everyone who reads it. This phrase is also used to describe Philby's exposing (to Elliott) of Blunt as a Soviet mole, given that Blunt hasn't been active in the intelligence world since 1945.
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* SpySpeak: Downplayed; there are no code-phrases used, but we do get some examples of spy jargon such as "chicken-feed" (information that, while accurate, is not particularly useful) -- which is used to describe Philby's typed confession by everyone who reads it. It's also used to describe Philby's exposing (to Elliott) of Blunt as a Soviet mole, given that Blunt hasn't been active in the intelligence world since 1945.
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* SpySpeak: Downplayed; there are no code-phrases used, but we do get some examples of spy jargon such as "chicken-feed" (information (a term used to describe information that, while accurate, is not particularly useful) -- which is used to describe Philby's typed confession by everyone who reads it. It's This phrase is also used to describe Philby's exposing (to Elliott) of Blunt as a Soviet mole, given that Blunt hasn't been active in the intelligence world since 1945.
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* ShoutOut: In one of the show's more light-hearted moments, Creator/IanFleming appears in one of the wartime flashbacks. He's overseeing the testing of a diving suit underneath which an agent is wearing [[SpyTuxReveal a dinner jacket]], thus enabling him to do a BlackTieInfiltration; this was, of course, done by James Bond in the pre-credits sequence of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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* ShoutOut: In one of the show's more light-hearted moments, Creator/IanFleming appears in one of the wartime flashbacks. He's overseeing the testing of a diving suit underneath which an agent is wearing [[SpyTuxReveal a dinner jacket]], thus enabling him to do a BlackTieInfiltration; this was, of course, done by James Bond in the pre-credits sequence of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' [[note]] better still, it was actually done ''for real'' by a Dutch [=MI6=] agent under Elliott's command in 1941 [[/note]].
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* ElvisImpersonator: When the Elliotts go to the theatre, it's to see the Creator/MorecambeAndWise take on this, with Eric dressed like Elvis and attempting to sing "Are You Lonesome Tonight", but getting mixed up with the backing vocalists. The act can be seen [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZl4bhOTAA here]].
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* ElvisImpersonator: When the Elliotts go to the theatre, it's to see the Creator/MorecambeAndWise at the theatre, one of the sketches (and the only one the viewer sees) is Eric and Ernie's take on this, with in which Eric is dressed like Elvis and attempting to sing "Are You Lonesome Tonight", but getting only to get mixed up with the backing vocalists. The act full sketch can be seen [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZl4bhOTAA here]].
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* ImagineSpot: When he and Elizabeth go to the theatre to see Creator/MorecambeAndWise perform, Elliott imagines Philby on stage singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight".
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* ImagineSpot: When he and Elizabeth go to the theatre to see Creator/MorecambeAndWise perform, theatre, Elliott imagines Philby on stage singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight".
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* HopeSpot: Angleton has one after Philby's defection, as he thinks the latter is still on his side and so can be used as a CIA asset within the KGB. [[spoiler: He is disabused of this notion when his agents in Moscow are attacked at their safe house (one of them is killed, the other taken prisoner), Philby having proved his loyalty to the KGB by reporting them after they make contact with him. Subverted in a way, as Philby had hoped to use them to feed false information to the Americans, a plan that's rendered useless by the KGB going in with all guns blazing.]]
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* HopeSpot: Angleton has one after Philby's defection, as he thinks the latter is still on his side and so can be used as a CIA asset within the KGB. [[spoiler: He is disabused of this notion when his agents in Moscow are attacked at their safe house (one of them is killed, the other taken prisoner), Philby having proved his loyalty to the KGB by reporting them after they make made contact with him. Subverted in a way, as Philby had hoped to use them to feed false information to the Americans, a plan that's rendered useless by the KGB going in with all guns blazing.]]
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** Who exactly is Elliott's Russian contact in London who the CIA are trying (and failing) to follow?
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: During a wartime flashback, we see Philby and Elliott's comedy double act, which makes fun of how both Elliott's wife and mother know that he works for the SIS -- the former because she was his secretary for a time, the latter because a Cabinet minister told her. Everyone else -- work colleagues letting their hair down with a few drinks in a SmokyGentlemensClub -- seems to find it rather amusing. Later on, a drunk Philby insists on doing it at the dinner party in Beirut, only this time it's rather forced (especially given that Elliott is now fully aware that Philby is a mole, and Philby knows this) and no-one finds it funny.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: During a wartime flashback, we see Philby and Elliott's comedy double act, which makes fun of how both Elliott's wife and mother know that he works for the SIS -- the former because she was his worked there as a secretary for a time, (which is how they met), the latter because a Cabinet minister told her. Everyone else -- work colleagues letting their hair down with a few drinks in a SmokyGentlemensClub -- seems to find it rather amusing. Later on, a drunk Philby insists on doing it at the dinner party in Beirut, only this time it's rather forced (especially given that Elliott is now fully aware that Philby is a mole, and Philby knows this) and no-one finds it funny.
