Spies Two

	Stephen is sitting at his desk in the spies' office. Hugh 
	enters carrying a cup of coffee. He puts it down on 
	Stephen's desk.


Stephen		Hello, Murchison. Nice to see you.

Hugh		Whoops! You gave me rather a fright, Control.
		Sorry - I nearly upset your coffee there.

Stephen		No harm done, I can easily mop up that very small
		drop and it was very kind of you to bring me some
		at all. I'm most grateful.

Hugh		It was no trouble, I was coming in anyway and I
		though "why not bring in a coffee for Control? It's
		eleven o'clock, I expect he'd welcome a cup."

Stephen		Greatly appreciated.

Hugh		I checked with Valerie and she said you like a little
		bit of milk, not too much, and no sugar. I hope
		that's right.

Stephen		That's exactly how I like my coffee, Murchison.

Hugh		Anyway I ought to tell you why I came in.

Stephen		Mm, yes. Was there something you wanted to tell
		me? Or perhaps you wanted to ask me a question?

Hugh		Well a bit of a mixture of both really, Control. Do
		you remember we decided to put a tail on the new
		Cultural Attache at the Russian Embassy?

Stephen		Yes, I do remember. I remember the very day we
		talked about it. We thought he might be a spy
		working for the KGB, and I said, "let's follow him
		around and see if he does anything that might look
		suspicious".

Hugh		That's right. We gave him the Codename Big
		Bad Wolf, and you decided that it would be good
		to put Philip and his F division in charge of the
		surveillance.

Stephen		Yes, Operation Coathanger if memory serves me
		correctly. You were sitting over there - it was quite
		a rainy day and Philip was standing by the desk,
		I think.

Hugh		Yes. Though if you remember it was before you
		moved your desk round this way, so he would have
		been over there.

Stephen		Oh yes. I must say I do prefer it like this. I
		don't think I'll go back. I can see all the door and
		have quite a nice view over St Giles Circus.

Hugh		Yes. That must be nice. Anyway, it looks as if the
		Big Bad Wolf probably is a spy after all.

Stephen		Oh dear. Well we certainly feared as much. Just as
		well we took the trouble to find out. It shows how
		it's always worth checking things up, isn't it? Has
		he been meeting known KGB agents then?

Hugh		Yes, he certainly has. As you can see.

	Hugh stands there. Stephen puts his hands out and 
	Hugh gives him a blue folder.

Stephen		(Looking at the folder) I must say I like this folder.
		Didn't the old ones used to be blue?

Hugh		Yes. It was Valerie's idea to change to blue. She
		thought it would brighten the place up a bit.

Stephen		Very nice too. (Reading) "Big Bad Wolf has a
		Meeting with Colonel Andreyev in John Lewis's."
		Did Philip take this photograph himself, do
		you think?

Hugh		(Coming round to look) It certainly looks like Philip's
		handiwork.

Stephen		You can't see which department they're in. I hope
		Big Bad Wolf isn't stealing any of our secrets or
		trying to persuade out agents to defect.

Hugh		That would be galling, wouldn't it?

Stephen		I tell you what. You leave this one with me,
		Murchison.

Hugh		Are you going to tell the Minister?

Stephen		I'll certainly have to do that, yes. Meanwhile Philip
		had better keep up his surveillance.

Hugh		Would you like me to tell him? I'll be seeing him
		later today.

Stephen		Would you? That would certainly save me the
		trouble.

Hugh		No problem at all.

Stephen		Thanks.

Hugh		You're welcome. Anyway, I'd better get back to
		my office now. The Prague desk has been in a bit
		of a flap.

Stephen		Uh-oh. Mustn't keep you then.

Hugh		I'll let you know if anything else crops up.

Stephen		That would be appreciated. And thanks again for
		the coffee. It tasted very nice.

Hugh		Really such a pleasure. See you then, Control.

Stephen		Bye bye, Murchison.