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The Courier (2021)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 2021 historical spy thriller directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Benedict Cumberbatch .Set at the height of the Cold War, British businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI-6 to make contact with a high-ranking Soviet mole. He agrees to what is laid out as a single, completely secure trip but is soon forced by circumstance and his own conscience to get more and more involved in a mission that holds the safety of the whole world at stake.Not to be confused with The Courier (2019), a previously-released action thriller of the same name but otherwise unrelated.
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Can't Refuse the Call Anymore: After spending most of the film looking forward to the day he could stop working for MI-6, Wynne is finally allowed to return to his normal life... only to realize that, with his friend and potentially the world in danger, he cannot bring himself to quit quite yet.
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Bittersweet Ending: Wynne is released, goes home to his family and dies peacefully in 1990. Penkovsky is executed and buried in an unmarked grave, but his family is at least left alone (albeit mourning his loss) and thanks to Wynne he died knowing his actions saved potentially millions of people.
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Adult Fear: Exploited by Emily Donovan, CIA, to convince Wynne to keep working with them. To paraphrase, "The four-minute warning won't be enough. Your son's school basement? As a fallout shelter, it's a joke. So is your home's. So what will you be thinking of in the four minutes before the bomb hits?"
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Binge Montage: A couple. Strictly business-related, of course.
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