Watch Black Bag

Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunts a mole in 1970s MI6; le Carre at his best on film.

Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.

Tom Cruise's HALO jump, a helicopter chase in Kashmir and a broken ankle on camera.

Gary Oldman as the flatulent head of MI5's rejects; le Carre with jokes.

De Palma's heist: the wire drop into Langley and a train through the Chunnel.

A CIA analyst convinced a returned POW is a terrorist; Claire Danes and the first two seasons.

Soderbergh cuts the Lem novel to ninety-nine minutes, with George Clooney on a station where the dead come back.

A legal clerk with no training takes on a utility poisoning a California town, and wins.