"People in Germany were suspicious. As I said, the way I'd cornered him- it was a big mistake on Mundt's part, there were ripples all through the system."

Explaining, leaning into him.

"So, Leamas. A year later, alcoholic, working in a library with a pretty German girl who he happens to love. He says goodbye to her and then is arrested the next day for punching a bank manager over a refusal for credit. He's released from jail a few months later, desperate and with a record and miserably bitter against our country, and Germany steps in. They offer him a great deal of money for information about us, and he takes it and is brought over for debriefing." Adding, because Tony is normal; "They think he's theirs, he thinks he's ours, trying to kill Mundt."