“Nicholas Elliot writes about Sinjin, Philby's father. He left at tea time, had a nap, made a pass at the wife of a member of embassy staff in a nightclub, had a heart attack, and died early next morning. His last words were, God, I'm bored. I mean, that is Sinjin Philby. That 24-hour snapshot of his life.”

…forth, you know, out in and out of the Middle East. September 1960, Nicholas Elliott has lunch with both Philby's, father and son. He remembers that Sinjin was agreeable company. Sinjin is on his way back to London, looking forward to take Kim's sons, who, of course, now orphaned, but in Britain.

Yeah, what is going on with his kids in the UK? Because Aliens passed. And Philby is in Beirut and traveling. Traveling, and, you know, other people are looking

because Sinjin had converted to Islam, Philby buries him the next day, according to Muslim tradition, and then files a story for the Observer about

that. But it is interesting because some people, this whole father-son dynamic is a weird one between the two of them. And people saying, well, you know, was he trying to follow his father? Was it his father's absence? And then he was looking for a father figure in his Soviet handlers. Who can say?…

murdered someone. It's