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Part 1, Winding the Clock: Chapter 1, How the Circus Left Town, and Chapter 2, The Great Call

• A group of reporters sits around a bar in Hong Kong talking about current events.

• One reporter mentions that a famous mansion, High Haven, has been abandoned.

• The reporters go to check out the mansion and discover that High Haven really has been abandoned.

• The reporters rush to write the first article about High Haven, but most are rejected.

• Craw's article is published and re-published, so he retires.

• Jerry is a journalist trying to write a novel in Tuscany.

• The Tuscan villagers love to gossip about Jerry.

• Jerry quickly returns to England when he hears his guardian is dying.

Part 1, Winding the Clock: Chapter 3, Mr. George Smiley's Horse, and Chapter 4, The Castle Wakes

• George Smiley takes over as head of the Circus, replacing Haydon.

• Smiley starts his new job by investigating and reorganizing...

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