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After seeing both movie and series...question of Mark Strong's character (SPOILER).....


In the movie, it almost seems Mark Strong's character kills Bill Haydon out of sympathy - that he does not want him to be tortured or killed if he is returned to Russia. But in the series, the same character seems to kill the Haydon character because he felt he was only brought out because his dead body would have created more problems than if left alive. I have not read the book and was wondering what others thought was his motivation

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To me it seemed like wounded lover’s revenge. Prideaux was tortured and nearly killed to find the mole - who turned out to be Hayden, who had betrayed everyone.

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