Star City

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-22

on new dissident group Zeta.

Issued 8th of November 1963.

First identified during Lacy-Zarubin Cultural Exchange,

Zeta members show incentive to work against Soviet interests.

Initial funding request approved after asset Andrei Zaitsev

recruited other disaffected musicians.

Request continued support of group as Zaitsev has developed system

to smuggle banned musical works by composers

such as Denisov, Schnittke, Gubaidulina out of USSR

by way of hiding them in the lining of instrument cases.

Suggest continued surveillance.

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-26.

Issued 15th of May 1964.

Pressures of dissident activity appear to be taking a toll.

Significant conflict has emerged within the group.

Zaitsev and romantic interest Tanya Danilova frequently argue.

There is concern that discord in group will undermine mission,

but suggest continued funding for now.

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-32.

Issued 10th of September 1964.

New suitor of subject Danilova.

Lieutenant Valentin Mironov, pilot in the Soviet Air Force.

In light of Washington's directive seeking new assets in Soviet military

there is an opportunity present.

Mironov is unaware of Danilova's illegal dissident activity.

Request continued surveillance.

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-40.

Issued 24th of December 1964.

Danilova and Mironov relationship progressing.

Source indicates Mironov being recruited for Soviet space program.

Continued surveillance a priority.

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-45.

Issued 15th of January 1965.

Mironov engaged to Danilova.

Wedding set for February, before start of cosmonaut training.

Danilova seems to have ceased dissident activity.

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-51.

Issued 28th of February 1965.

Source indicates imminent move of Tanya and Valya Mironov to Star City.

Surveillance opportunities to become extremely limited.

Urgent request for direct contact with subject Mironov.

Will use wife's dissident past to ensure cooperation.

Lovely day, isn't it?

Yeah.

Congratulations on the wedding, by the way.

How did you know I was married?

Field intelligence report reference number S/BF-53.

Issued 1st of March 1965.

New asset, cosmonaut Valya Mironov.

Code name "Nikolay."

Chief Designer.

Out! All of you.

Here we are.

What is it?

This is the culprit.

I need a...

Excellent craftsmanship.

The circuitry, it's the same as a signal amplifier.

You'd find one in an old argon processor.

It's... Yes, look.

That is a GT-104 transistor.

It's very common in Soviet transmitters.

It's Soviet?

Yes.

But this...

this is not part of the original technology.

This is...

this is added later.

It's a micro transmitter.

That's why it looked like interference, but really it was just drawing power.

So it wasn't sabotage.

It was espionage.

Thank you, Sergei.

You can go now.

Another one of my Eagles is dead.

- What are you implying? - I'm not implying anything.

I'm telling you explicitly,

I will not have any more deaths on my watch because of your paranoia.

It was a transmitter.

Forcing me to reboot the system was an overreaction.

I made a decision based on the information we had at the time.

Our operations must remain secure.

Not "we." Not "ours."

My cosmonauts did the best they could.

My systems would have functioned without your interference.

You didn't hold up your side.

I wasn't aware we were on different sides.

I handle the engineering.

You handle security.

What is the point of you if you can't do that?

I'm not taking the fall for your failures.

Go and say that to Moscow.

Excuse me.

Excu...

Hello?

Comrade Chadha?

From India?

How did you guess?

Your name's on the boxes.

So, how are you settling in to Star City?

Off to a great start.

No one has told me what I'm to be working on.

This is normal. Now we must get back to work.

Where's the rest of my equipment?

Do you know where I could find the chief designer?

I really feel like there might have been a mix-up.

Good luck with that.

He's a very busy man.

Lakshmi...

They're listening to us.

You are being paranoid.

I am not.

I was unpacking and yelling about all the cursed flies in here and then

after I get back from the market...

I find this.

It wasn't here before.

I am telling you they must have microphones in the walls.

Do you think they have them in the bathroom? Oh, goodness!

Bedroom?

You're laughing?

We were warned about this.

- We knew what to expect. - No, Lakshmi.

Hearing about Soviet surveillance is very different than living it.

Are you a spy, then?

- No. Of course not. - Then what is the problem, Manu?

I'm the one who should be upset.

I thought this was my time.

My chance to do something.

They are doing the most amazing things, but...

You should see where they put me.

- Why did they bring me here? - Sorry.

Sorry, my love.

Sorry.

Got him.

Sorry.

Colonel Raskova wants to see you.

Comrade Colonel?

Yes?

I've been reviewing notations of any suspicious activity after what happened.

Even if it's just petty speculation.

Irina Vasilievna,

do you want to document petty speculation for the rest of your life?

No.

I thought as much.

Find someone to cover your assignments.

I need this device traced.

Quickly and quietly.

Find out where it was manufactured.

I want to know who ordered it.

They could lead us to the mole.

Find out what this is.

Bring this with you.

I don't need that.

You go into the field alone, you take a weapon.

You received the training, yes?

Yes.

You can go.

Hello?

What are you doing home?

Training finished early. I thought I'd eat something.

Any mail? Anyone stop by?

No.

Why would they?

What's wrong? Why are you acting like this?

"Like this"? Like what?

I'm sorry.

I thought we had a really good night in Moscow, didn't we?

Did I do something wrong?

Tell me.

No, I'm just tired.

Arseni.

Arseni.

Arseni.

MORE SPEECHES TODAY. BACK TONIGHT. A.

You must understand, Mila Aleksandrovna,

that all missions, training and otherwise, are highly confidential.

Here's...

here's the letter he wrote you.

My condolences.

Comrade Mironov trained him, and Comrade Polivanov...

was with him when he died.

They're here for you now.

He-He-He went the way he would've wanted to.

He wanted to come back.

What happened?

I don't wanna lie to you.

Then don't.

I didn't do enough.

- It should've been me. - Sasha.

Stop it. Stop, stop, stop.

Sorry.

She doesn't need to hear that.

You didn't kill him.

I was the pilot.

I sent him into that compartment.

Did you cause the interference?

No.

No.

Up there...