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Tinker Tailor Older Spy

Episode aired Nov 21, 2024
TV-14
27m

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Encouraged by his daughter to try something new, widower Charles Nieuwendyk answers an ad from a private eye seeking a mole at a retirement community.Encouraged by his daughter to try something new, widower Charles Nieuwendyk answers an ad from a private eye seeking a mole at a retirement community.Encouraged by his daughter to try something new, widower Charles Nieuwendyk answers an ad from a private eye seeking a mole at a retirement community.

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The episode's title is a reference to the John le Carré spy novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Early in the episode, Charles is reading Smiley's People, another spy novel written by John le Carré that includes several of the same characters.

Goofs
Charles says he was a professor at Cal Sate East Bay, over in Oakland. Cal State East Bay is in Hayword. (it changed name from Cal State Hayword in 2004.)

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References Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

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The Opera House
Written by Bill Doss, John Fernandes, Eric Harris, Will Cullen Hart
Performed by The Olivia Tremor Control

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6/10

Tinker Tailor Older Spy

The episode begins with a deaged Ted Danson as he is about to get married.

It then flits to the present day. Charles (Ted Danson) is a retired college professor and a widower. He is bored and his daughter wants him to do something interesting.

So Charles answers a strange ad from private investigator Julie. She is looking for an older man to infiltrate a care home to find a thief.

Charles gets the job as he can email a picture. The others could not deal with mobile phones.

Although Charles is not so good with the on the job training such as surveillance and detailed observation and taking covert pictures.

Still he will be spending the next few weeks in the care home.

The first episode was rather like Charles. Easy going but a bit aimless. It fits well with Ted Danson's approach as you suspect Charles will find a new zeal for life at the care home.