His role in “No Way Out!” was probably real life for this commy con artist.
The film ends with a surprising plot twist; The following day, Farrell is mourning at Susan’s grave when two plain clothes men arrive and take him away for questioning to a local hotel where another man emerges from behind a two-way mirror.
The interrogator is Farrell’s landlord Mr. Schiller (Michael Shillo). After a few moments, he addresses Farrell in Russian and Farrell responds in kind. Farrell is, in fact, the real “Yuri,” and his landlord is his KGB supervisor and handler. Yuri/Farrell was planted in the U.S.A. as a teenager and became the “mole” in the Department of Defense this whole time.
As the KGB was aware of Brice’s affair, Farrell was assigned to seduce Atwell and gather intelligence from the Secretary of Defense’s mistress. Although his handlers demand that he return to the Soviet Union immediately since his cover was nearly blown, Farrell refuses and leaves. The KGB agents are about to chase after him when Schiller stops them and tells them to let Farrell go for the time being. Schiller quips: “He’ll be back. Where else does he have to go?”
Hey, at least he got to see Sean Young naked.