Reilly: Ace of Spies — S01E02 — Prelude to War
1983 · 50 MIN · IMDB 8.0 · DIR. Martin Campbell
Overview
1904: Reilly is stationed in Port Arthur and forced to help the Japanese, against his better judgement, in taking the port from the Russians. As a mass evacuation gets under way, Reilly’s plans are put at risk by a soft-spoken detective.
Dialogue Timeline — 680 lines
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00:01:41 Port Arthur, February the eighth,
00:05:06 a land so rich that both the Russians and the Japanese
00:06:16 What time tonight?
00:07:57 Hello Minna, you're packing?
00:09:03 it's been like for me here.
00:10:19 I have to get to the office.
00:13:01 That is an order.
00:14:05 I do not think that the Japanese are likely
00:15:38 Yes, sir.
00:17:37 Do you know I cabled Cummings for advice
00:20:02 All coal stocks?
00:21:47 Whose is this?
00:23:42 Battleships, troop ships, cruisers.
00:24:34 and you'll tell them there what you saw at Ronde.
00:26:03 Also, this is the latest position of our own ship.
00:28:16 Yes.
00:29:29 I don't know.
00:32:48 I have dispatched the destroyer
00:35:31 So I've noticed.
00:37:05 when they were no more than the serfs of the great Kahn.
00:39:02 Once the war starts, they will go even higher.
00:40:21 and so I've been left with nothing better to do than to make
00:42:43 We are approaching the coast.
00:48:35 Reilly escaped and returned to Europe a year later.
Cast & Characters
Sam Neill
Sidney Reilly
David Suchet
Inspector Tsientsin
Derek Newark
General Stoessel
Joris Stuyck
Greenberg
Paul Williamson
Ericson
Alex McCrindle
Macdougal
Richard Rees
Captain Tanaka
Richard Ireson
Tyrkov
Richard Ridings
Vanderberg
David Belcher
Port Official
Jacqueline Chan
Minna
Vincent Wong
Captain
Andy Ho
Lee Pin
Ric Young
Sergeant
Anthony Chinn
Lieutenant
Nigel Bennett
Port Official's Assistant
Jeananne Crowley
Margaret
Robert Lee
Admiral Togo
Michael Bryant
Narrator (voice)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed680
Dialogue density13.6 lines / min
First line00:01:41
Final line00:48:35
Production Record
DirectorMartin Campbell
LanguageEnglish
Factoids
Episode
Reilly: Ace of Spies, season 1, episode 2: Prelude to War.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/12026/season/1/episode/2
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