<P> Edward is assisted by an interpreter, Hanna Schiller (Martina Gedeck), who wears what appears to be a hearing aid . After Edward learns from his son during a rare phone call home that Clover is having an affair, he accepts Hanna's invitation to dinner at her home, and sleeps with her . Afterwards, Edward realizes that Hanna can hear without the use of her hearing aid, exposing her as a Soviet operative . She is killed and Ulysses is notified by her hearing aid being planted in his teapot . After six years in London, Edward returns home to a distant Clover, who now prefers to be called Margaret . Edward presents his son with a miniature model ship inside a glass watch - casing . Margaret explains that her brother was killed in the war; she also confesses that she previously had a brief relationship with another man . When she asks if he had any relationships, Edward replies that "it was a mistake ." General Sullivan approaches Wilson again to help form a new foreign intelligence organization - the CIA - where Wilson will work with his former colleague, Richard Hayes (Lee Pace), under Phillip Allen (William Hurt). Edward accepts, hiding the details of his position from everyone but Clover / Margaret . </P> <P> Edward's first assignment deals with coffee plantations in Central America where the Soviets are trying to gain influence . Edward spots Ulysses in the background of footage of the country's leader, but doesn't disclose this . Another agent is sent covertly as a representative of the Mayan Coffee Company; Edward warns him not to wear his Yale class ring . Edward arranges for airplanes to fly over and release locusts during a public event where the Soviets (including Ulysses) are present in order to intimidate the Central American leader . Edward later receives a can of Mayan Coffee presumably from Ulysses, containing a severed finger, and Yale class ring, evidently of the American agent . Wilson and Margaret go to a Christmas party with their son, who wets himself, out of a heightened state of fear resulting from his fragmented awareness that his father is involved in dark secrets . At the party General Sullivan reveals to Edward that Phillip Allen was going to be on the Mayan coffee company's board of directors, prompting Edward to ask Sam Murach to check on Phillip's finances . </P> <P> A Soviet defector requesting asylum and claiming to be a high - ranking KGB officer named Valentin Mironov, who knows Ulysses, is interviewed by Edward . Edward is fully convinced of his honesty . While attending the theater with Mironov and Cummings, Edward encounters his former sweetheart, Laura . They leave the theater separately, meet at a restaurant and rekindle their old romance . Sometime later, Margaret anonymously receives photos of Laura and Edward getting into a taxi together and kissing . A distraught Margaret confronts him . Edward ends the relationship with Laura by returning her jeweled crucifix, which he had kept from their college romance days . </P> <P> Another Soviet defector appears, claiming that he is the real Valentin Mironov, and that the other man actually is Yuri Modin, a KGB operative working for Ulysses . Edward does not believe him, and agents beat and torture the man, and administer liquid LSD because of its alleged truth serum properties . Despite the combined effects of drugs and torture, the second defector insists that he is the true Mironov . He further ridicules his interrogators for their need to believe in the myth of Soviet power which he calls a "great show" and "painted rust". Realising that he will never be believed, the defector once more affirms "I am Valentin Grigorievitch Mironov and I am free" before hurling himself through the window to the pavement several stories below . The first man claiming to be Valentin Mironov, who has watched the entire ordeal together with Edward, then offers to take LSD to prove his innocence, but Edward doesn't think it's necessary . </P>

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