The Last Enemy s01e02 Episode Script

PREVIOUSLY - Who are you? - Yasim.
You must be Stephen.
- Yasim who? - I'm Michael's wife.
Well, his widow.
ID please, sir.
- Ezard.
Stephen Ezard.
- Yes.
T.
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Total Information Awareness.
T.
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is the entire UK on one database.
Birth to death, day to day, upto date and in real time.
What people need to know is that if T.
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becomes law, then every person's card will not only show who they are, but will monitor every single second of their lives, both public and private.
- There's a woman lying in there, unconscious.
- Nadir Al-Fulani.
- What's wrong with her? - I don't know.
The illness has so far proved fatal to all those infected.
It is a mystery to health officials, and it is thought that close personal contact - is the cause of the contamination.
- It's not good.
Professor John Moreton.
- We should stop Ezard now.
- We don't know who all the players are.
We need to find out.
- Thank you for helping me chase death away.
- I think we did a lot more than that.
A few days ago, Dutch police detained a group of illegal immigrants.
Your person forwarded on photos and biometric details, just in case any of them were of special interest.
Eight of them are not.
Number nine certainly is.
He's David Russell.
Two years ago, he disappeared.
There's no record of where he went or what he's been doing.
Russell is rather good at disappearing that and wet operations.
Assassination.
Yasim! Yasim! START T.
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A LOADING SETTINGS WELCOME TO T.
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A The Last Enemy Season01 Episode02 THE THE LAS THE LAST ENEMY Come on! Right man.
Wrong woman.
I know she was staying at this Hostel.
I saw her.
She came out of here maybe three or four hours ago.
No.
She was never here.
The introduction of ID cards into the United Kingdom has been a huge success.
More than 25 million of us carry the card, but as we anticipated, with a voluntary system, those who pose the most threat are those least likely to carry one.
I haven't got one! We need this T.
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vote.
- An hour ago we had the numbers.
- What happened? They went and got two out of hospital, but unless they raid the morgue, we're still one ahead.
Excuse me.
- Stephen.
- Something's happened.
- Now is really not a good time.
- I need to see you.
Not possible, my love.
We're bare knuckle all night.
Reason versusjudiciary, and reason is having a very hard time.
Eleanor, please! - This is very, very serious.
- Tomorrow.
Come and see me tomorrow.
I can't go home.
I'm frightened.
Check into a hotel, and we'll sort it out in the morning.
Meanwhile, in the Killi Faizo refugee camp on the Afghan border with Pakistan, It is now thought that up to 286 people may have died from a mysterious virus that has affected the area.
Aid agencies and government research departments are combining Housekeeping.
Good evening, sir.
- Turn your bed down? - No, thank you.
No problem.
Polish your shoes? I'll have them back for you in the morning.
- Good as new.
- There's no need.
It's complimentary, sir.
Mr Speaker, the introduction of a compulsory ID card and the expansion of the national database in the form of the T.
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bill is a logical progression of this government's and relenting fight against crime and terrorism.
Mr Speaker, with T.
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A, there will be nowhere to hide.
This government is going to drain the swamp! Go! Go! No! Some people claim they can smell it.
Electricity.
Have a sniff.
That's about 15,000 volts.
Who are you? Every home should have one.
Patching Agent T.
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database.
Host programme activated.
Reviewing science database, - Micro-Biologists.
- What is this place? Have a seat.
I've got a question for you.
How many micro-biologists does it take to change a light bulb? Go on, have a stab at it.
How many do you think? - I don't know.
- Just the one, but you'd better ask quick, cos they're dropping like flies.
15 Micro-Biologists, all dead in the last three years, and not one from natural causes.
Not one.
Ring any bells? - Look, I don't know.
- See, five Brits, three Americans, five Israelis.
Israelis all went together.
Shot down on a commercial flight by a rogue missile, apparently.
And two Russians.
This guy here committed suicide, shot himself in the head, twice.
Dead micro-biologist number 16.
Professor John Moreton.
Now, you know him.
I I met him once for a few minutes.
I don't know him.
Why did you meet? Because I was looking for someone, and I thought Moreton might know where they were.
- I want to know who you are and what you want.
- Who were you trying to find? - Doctor Yasim Anwar.
- Why ask if you already know? See, all these people, they're all dead, and they all specialised in either infectious diseases or DNA sequencing.
Professor Moreton here, he fits the same pattern.
Worked for a Bio-Tech Company, sometime advisor for the government on nasty diseases.
I wouldn't know, and I don't care, because none of this has anything to do with me.
Nadir Al-Fulani.
You met her.
Where did you meet her? - Where did you meet her? - In my apartment.
Oh, yeah? Where is she now? She's dead.
She was sick, very sick.
I don't know what was wrong with her.
I found her in my apartment, in a coma.
I didn't get to talk to her.
- Where's the body? - I don't know.
- I don't know.
It disappeared.
- Along with Doctor Yasim Anwar your dead brother's wife.
And you went along to see Doctor Anwar, - so that she could tell you where Nadir's body was? - No.
Dead or alive, I had no interest in Nadir Al-Fulani.
Only Doctor Anwar? - Yes.
- What's so special about Doctor Yasim Anwar? I came back from China to bury my brother.
I don't know anything about any of this or any of these people.
Why her? Why her? Why did you need to see Yasim Anwar? I just had to see her again! I just had to see her again! One more time.
I had to.
You spent one night with her, and you 'just had to see her again'.
Eh? Oh, no.
Oh, no, wait a minute.
No, no, no.
You came back to bury your brother.
You turn up late.
I was on time, and unlike you, I hung around for the after-coffin party.
You didn't even stay to toast your brothers memory, and this is what I'm thinking here.
You spent the night of your brother's funeral banging your brother's wife.
Oh, that's good.
That's really good.
Fond of him, were you? She played you, boy.
She played you like a fish, then disappeared.
Sorry, my friend.
- I had you down as a player.
- Aaah! - Congratulations, Minister.
- Now we just have to win it outside the House.
- It's all in place, we kick the campaign off first thing tomorrow.
- Good.
Hello, this is Stephen Ezard, please leave a message.
Stephen, it's Eleanor.
Where are you? Why couldn't you go home? What's happened to you? Call me back, will you? Do we have any idea where Yasim Anwar is? We hired in a double blind so it can't come back at us.
There's a danger of exposure if we try to make contact.
- Sir, Madam.
- Hello.
So there's no calling him back.
He'll either disappear, or he'll continue until he's fulfilled his contract.
- With a cost of how many more innocent victims? - George, John Moreton was innocent.
Yasim Anwar is innocent.
What the hell was Stephen Ezard doing in there? As far as I can tell, he hasn't alerted anyone to what he saw.
Not yet, anyway.
We need to understand him.
What he knows, how he's involved.
Then we can take a decision on him.
Breaking news now.
We are getting reports of two deaths in the city, and we're going live.
- Eleanor, call me back.
- our reporter on the scene.
The two bodies were found by early morning cleaning staff.
A police spokesman confirmed that a man and a woman had apparently died from gunshot wounds.
Professor John Moreton was considered to be one of the country's leading Micro-Biologists.
John was a brilliant Scientist.
Dedicated, highly respected.
Police enquiries have centred on examining CCI'V footage inside the building.
I've been told to expect a further statement at any time.
Stephen, What's happened? You said if anything out of the ordinary happens, that I shouldn't go to the police, that I should talk to you.
I need to do that.
Ministerial drivers know more state secrets than the intelligence services, and they are totally discreet.
Stephen What's happened? - What do you mean, kidnapped? - By a complete lunatic.
- What did he want? - Don't know.
Look, it's nothing to do with me.
I was looking for Michael's wife.
- Why? - Look, that's not important.
I was there by accident.
When I came to, Moreton's body was on the ground, and I handled the gun, I panicked, and then and then I ran.
You have no idea how big I've gone on you.
Websites, newspapers, television.
Yes.
Commander, thank you.
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.
It was suicide.
Moreton shot the receptionist, and turned the gun on himself.
No, no, it wasn't suicide.
I was there, - I saw someone.
- Think it through.
You saw a dead woman.
Moreton must have shot her, knocked you out, and shot himself.
The police have it all on camera.
- Then they'll have me, too.
- There was no mention of you.
They'll want to question you, but we'll ask them to keep your name out of it until any formal inquest, hopefully several months from now.
They may not agree, but it's worth a try.
- Suicide? They're certain? - They found a note.
Moreton and the receptionist were lovers.
- What about the lunatic with the electric fence? - Brought you back to your Hotel unharmed.
Those 'access denied' buttons I warned you not to press Well, did your 'lunatic' tell you what your involvement was in all of this? Well, he's probably working for us.
There are so many levels of security now.
And I'm sure he's come to the conclusion that you're perfectly harmless.
How many biochemists does it take to change a light bulb? Please! Focus! I know Michael's death has been a huge sadness, a terrible upset, but you've got a very long and important day ahead of you.
Put last night behind you, and concentrate on T.
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Now, go home and relax.
No amount of worrying will bring Michael back.
AFGHAN-PAKISTAN BORDER Which one? The old man.
Get details, everything he saw.
Mr Nye, be careful.
Landmines.
He heard two explosions, saw smoke.
The vehicle had burnt it self out by the time he got here.
No survivors.
How long between him hearing the explosions and him getting here? He was the other side of that ridge, and on foot, so at least 20, 30 minutes.
There was another man, already here, up on that hill, watching.
- When the old man showed up, he disappeared.
- Younger? Older? Tall, short? He was like you, a Westerner.
What about a vehicle? No vehicle.
No sound of one, either.
The man on the hill was on foot.
You've got no use for that.
He'd like the shoe.
He's already got the other one.
Mr Nye, what are you looking for? - Tyre tracks.
- The old man said no vehicle.
How can a Westerner, like me, get out here without a vehicle? So the camera missed him.
Must have.
You had the hawk up in the sky for how long after the jeep was hit? Five minutes, no longer.
Then we were gone.
So, between you going and the old man arriving, there was a 20 minute window - in which we have no idea what happened.
- A man without a vehicle.
Yeah.
Those dead refugees Start digging.
Receiving data from zero-point-zero-point three-one-five on secure transfer protocol.
Starting facial recognition software.
Starting facial recognition software.
- But T.
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surely has possibilities, Lord Cawston? - Well, if we join everything up, then we'd be drowning in information, much of it contradictory information.
All we are going to end up with is another UK database disaster.
Stephen Ezard? - These databases, they never work? - Well, you say that Of course they never work! The idea that T.
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will introduce a greater bureaucratic efficiency is a nonsense.
The public services won't benefit from it.
They'll just be strangled by 60 million different sets of data all trying to talk to each other.
- It's beige, by the way.
- What is? The colour of the universe.
Thanks to genius here, it takes four days to explain the shape of it, but some Simple Simon in a garden shed and a homemade telescope managed to work out the fucking colour, and it's beige! So, Stephen Ezard, a country strangled by information? Yeah, well, that's a worry.
Or it would be, if it was true.
I've been listening to this rubbish argument all day long.
Think of T.
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as an encyclopaedia, an enormous amount of information.
Good encyclopaedia include several points of view on any given subject, including contradictory ones.
Now yes, a moron would be overwhelmed by it, confused, but if you ask specific, intelligent questions, you'll be able to extract the correct information.
The T.
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is enabled to ask it self specific intelligent questions, even when operated by a moron, and it asks those questions and gets the correct information at a phenomenal speed.
Lord Cawston, Mr Ezard, thank you.
Focus group feedback.
Ezard doesn't give a toss, so he comes across as honest.
They love him.
The people love him.
- Hello? - Good news from our source.
The cameras weren't working in Moreton's lab.
The police have no plans - to interview you or anybody else.
It's as if you were never there.
- Thank God.
Oh, and Stephen.
Thank you for earlier, the feedback's been brilliant.
Bye.
- Why were you following John Moreton? - What? - Why?! - I I wasn't.
Liar! He phoned me, told me You were asking about Michael, about me.
Then that night Moreton was dead - murdered! - I was trying to find you.
- Why? - I was looking for you.
I have been going crazy ever since you vanished, looking for you! After that night together I had to find you.
I took a job, a government job.
The only reason I took the job is cos I knew it would give me access to information that I needed to to track you down.
I cyber-stalked you.
I used satellite surveillance, street cameras.
I knew about your meeting with Moreton, I knew about the man who pretended to live downstairs, and helped you to move Nadir's body.
With T.
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A, you can find out everything about anybody and I followed you last night to your meeting with Moreton.
I went into the lab.
- What did you see? - Two dead bodies.
I don't understand what's happening.
I I can't cleare was goen anymore.
I can't read the signs, don't understand the language.
Away for four years, it feels like a different world.
Not that I paid that much attention to how it was before, but it wasn't like this, it can't have been.
- Why did you come after me? - I had to.
If you'd left a note I didn't want to involve you.
In what? The receptionist I think they killed her by mistake.
It was meant to be me.
Stephen, - you should be back in China.
- No, if this has anything to do with Michael, I have a right to know.
I'm certain now that Michael was murdered.
He was trying to uncover a link between a Hep B vaccine and the sickness.
Michael persuaded Nadir to fly over with a vaccine for Moreton to test, but before she got it to Moreton, her apartment was broken into, the vaccine was stolen And then she got sick.
- What did she die from? - She injected herself with the vaccine a few months earlier, to persuade a group of kids to take the jab.
- But you're not certain that was the cause? - No.
She had the same signs ofthe sickness, but she could have picked it up through contact.
It could be contagious? I got a sample of her blood to Moreton.
That's where I was when Mike was buried.
Moreton ran tests.
They didn't want to talk over the phone.
I went to see him, but I never got to talk to him.
What happened to Nadir's body? - It's safe.
- From what? If it contains any answers, whoever is trying to hide this link between the death and the vaccine may be after it.
No.
Never seen her.
A couple of nights she stayed.
A couple of nights! There was another guy, just like you, looking for her, showing her photo around.
Him.
That's him.
He was looking for her.
- Is that the last of them? - Yes.
Burn them.
Burn them all.
I hope I didn't wake you.
I miss you.
Both of you.
I just want you to know that I'm very lucky to have such a beautiful and wonderful family.
And I'll see you all very soon.
- Michael said you could be a little obsessive.
- I know that it shouldn't have happened.
But it did.
I was a good wife to Michael.
I really was.
I'm just not a very good widow.
The last time I felt safe was being held by you.
We could get away from here.
Somewhere remote.
- Southern Europe.
I've got money, they gave me an advance.
- No, no, no, no.
John was a brilliant Scientist.
Dedicated, highly respected and admired by those who knew him, - as was Wendy.
Wendy - Lawrence Cooper is in the same field as Moreton.
I know Moreton thought him a good man.
- He might help me.
- With what? Nadir's autopsy.
I can do it, but I'll need Cooper to tell me what to extract so I can run tests.
- You could cut open somebody that you knew? - I need to know why she died.
Then have it done properly, an official post-mortem.
Make it legal.
- I don't trust the authorities.
- Now you sound - like Michael conspiracy theories and plots.
- Moreton didn't trust them, and he knew better than me.
Michael went to the proper authorities and told them about his suspicions.
He was dead a week later.
I need evidence.
No-one is going to listen to me without it.
I can't prove Michael was murdered.
I just know he was.
- Moreton too, and the receptionist.
- That could have been suicide.
Stephen, it's OK, you don't have to get involved.
I'll be gone in the morning.
- I promise.
- No, no, you're staying here.
What if someone's after you? And you can't just walk up to Cooper and proposition him.
We need to know more about him, make sure that he's more than likely to be sympathetic.
- How can we do that? - I can find out about anyone.
You're not going anywhere.
Hello, Salah.
Guess who? I'll give you a hint.
Baghdad.
Now, don't panic.
We don't want to upset Mr Nye.
Put your hazards on.
Health and Safety would have a fit.
Put them on, so I know you care about your health and safety.
Now, we need a trade.
Some information for your life.
- Fire crews and ambulance services are working round the clock.
- Dancing.
- That's all they were doing.
- Dancing.
They were a target because they were young, they were innocent.
We're up against fascist scum who want to destroy our hope, our vitality, the very essence of who we are.
Please, tell the Prime Minister that we won't fail.
We'll use T.
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in its entirety.
He knows that.
That's why he chose you.
But I'll tell him.
Has anyone seen Stephen? He said he'd be here for the meeting, can't find him anywhere.
Accessing science database.
Searching Micro-Biologists.
Professor Lawrence Cooper.
Employment.
Lecturer, University of Central London.
- It's Stephen Ezard, isn't it? - Logging off.
Barbara Turney.
I'm from the Prime Minister's office.
- Hello.
- I've seen your promotional work on T.
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A, it's very good.
- I like your clear, no-nonsense approach.
Well done.
- Thank you.
I don't want to interrupt anything important, but I noticed in the corridor there's a - hunting party out for you.
- Oh? - A T.
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briefing meeting you're supposed to be at.
- Right.
Welcome, Ms Turney.
Retrieving previous data.
Stephen Ezard, viewed Professor Lawrence Cooper.
T.
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can cross-reference acquaintance and activity, so it would automatically profile individuals who try to avoid joining the database.
If someone interacts with anyone on the database, and they themselves are not registered, they will be flagged and the system would automatically investigate them.
We'll be able to enhance citizen profiling.
We've all got used to the idea of profiling, especially in air travel.
With T.
I.
A, - we'll be able to go nationwide.
- It's used to identify the buying patterns of customers, predict customers who are likely to change credit card affiliations, - or those susceptible to certain offers.
- With T.
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we'll have enough information on all UK citizens to predict individuals with likely intent of criminal or terrorist acts.
Stephen! Come in, come in.
Where's Yasim? In the shower.
- Why are you here? - Same reason as you.
We're on the same side.
- What happened to you? - I got caught up in this lot.
A Magna Carta demo.
We're an anti-ID movement.
We'd collected over half a million signatures to petition for the 15th June to become a national holiday.
Magna Carta Day.
Just to remind everyone how important those rights are so.
Return to sender, I think.
I owe a lotto Michael, and he woke me up.
He got me involved.
- In what? - In what was going on around me.
I was never a joiner, always a spectator.
He changed all that in an afternoon.
Hi, Stephen.
It's a shame you never saw Yasim and Michael together as a couple.
I've never seen two people who were so meant to be together.
What's he doing here? He's found me a clinic that I can use for the autopsy.
He's got a big heart.
He's been wonderful.
He was devoted to Michael, so We need to be discreet.
What about Cooper? I think he's worth a try.
He's top of his field, no-one's got a bad word to say about him.
His politics appear sympathetic.
He's giving a lecture tonight at UCL.
I'll be there.
Close your eyes and relax.
I want you to imagine that you are a nasty, virulent virus.
A quick look around the hall tells me that some of you will find this easier than others.
Open you eyes.
That's my virus.
He's called Alan, which is also the name of the bastard who keeps stealing my parking slot.
Right, I want you to see the world from your virus's point of view.
Obviously, you want to spread yourself around to as many humans as possible, but the last thing you want to do is to kill them all off, because then you'd have nowhere to live.
If you're going to be a successful virus, you have to learn how to tread carefully.
So, first off, I want to take a look at decreased virulence phenomenon, the different ways in which a virus can hide within the host's body, sometimes lying dormant in localised clusters of nerve cells for the life of the host.
Holy shit.
Illegals! This is Delta Seven, Delta Seven.
We're at HZ22.
We've got an IM50.
Repeat, an IM50.
We must separate.
You go.
No, we stick together.
Stay where you are.
Get your hands on the vehicle.
No wait Haman.
Look.
Hurry.
Faster.
Excuse me, Professor Cooper, can I have a word? - Oh, I'm sorry, I'm rather busy.
- My name's Stephen Ezard.
It's very important.
Ezard? Ezard's Theorem? Yeah.
You're suggesting I take part in a backstreet autopsy? - More of a private clinical examination.
- Well, this isn't your field.
- What's your role? - I'm just a messenger.
But you obviously believe it, or you wouldn't be here.
I don't know what I believe, but if an examination came up with the answers, then I think it might be worth the effort.
John Moreton obviously thought so.
The doctor in question wanted you to look at the evidence.
To be honest, we all have misgivings about John's death.
It is true those last few days, he looked like he was under a lot of pressure, maybe because of this, but I don't know anyone who was more unlikely to commit suicide.
Ezard has such a brilliant mind.
Shame we couldn't confide in him, bring him on side.
Then he might not have been so useful.
And Russell? He's been doing what he's good at - disappearing.
- It must stop.
Now.
Everything.
We agreed to let it play.
Our man is still out there looking for Yasim Anwar.
There's nothing we can do.
Our group came in last night in a container.
We have one of them, and he's talking.
- About what? - Our mystery man on the hill, so he should be with us soon.
George, we can contain this.
Try to see the bigger picture.
Keep your nerve.
It's what you're good at.
Cooper said yes, he'll do it.
This is what he needs from the body.
What's wrong? Andrew was supposed to meet here me an hour ago to show me the clinic, so I could check if it was suitable for the autopsy.
- He didn't show up.
- If we go back to the flat, he'll know where to find us.
- I don't know.
He's - Stephen! How you doing? Get in.
I want to talk to your girlfriend.
Strip.
Both of you.
Everything off! Right fucking now! He's tagged for sure, maybe you too.
He's that stupid, he probably let them shove one up his arse.
Put these on.
Put everything in this bag.
Everything.
Where's Nadir's body? You know, your brother wasn't killed by a landmine.
His jeep was hit by two RPGs.
I've spoken to the scumbag who set it up.
That's all you get for now.
It's your turn.
Where's Nadir's body? It'll probably take about nine shots to kill him.
He's a definite screamer up.
You're going to break after the second shot.
Don't tell him anything.
Never give into his kind! Never! OK! Get out of there, move! Andrew? Oh, no.
No! This is where she was buried.
They take the bodies away and burn them.
What did you want with her? She was my daughter.
Wait.
Who killed Andrew? Who is doing this? Who is killing them? Please, help us! Come on.
Let's go home.
Logging off.
NEXT TIME We have no idea what's happened to Stephen Ezard or Yasim Anwar.
We don't know what they know, or who they know.
A new generation of readers were developed, linked to a satellite.
It was a relatively simple step from tracking the jeans, tracking the person who wore the jeans.
Believe me, genius, you were tagged.
Michael's death could be related to the deaths of refugees, - the deaths of scientists, biochemists, a lot of them, including Moreton - Stop.
Patrick Nye, British Intelligence.
A senior officer, possible connections to the Cabinet Office.
You just sent Stephen in there without warning him! I'll tell you what I know about Nye.
He was checking over and making sure that the remains of the dead the dead for the virus, or whatever it is, were burnt.
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