Occupation (2009) s01e03 Episode Script
Episode 3
We need you to put a word in for us at the hospital.
You recommend these people.
And they know what they promise? They won't let you down.
I'll sign what you need.
I admit it.
You're a genius.
GUNFIRE Yunis! Yunis! Yunis was like a brother to me.
I loved your father.
You call me if you need any more, yeah? You call me, yeah? That's my number.
What are you going to do? Drive around, hope you find him? My name is Lee Hibbs.
I should not be here.
HEAVY BREATHING MEN: Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
INTERROGATOR: How many Iraqi refugees are there in Jordan and Syria? LEE:I don't know.
INTERROGATOR: Please try and guess.
SLAPPING LEE:I don't know.
INTERROGATOR: But you keep telling me how much you care about my country.
How about this? Whose grandfather was woken up in the middle of the night, made to dress in front of his teenage granddaughters, while British soldiers stood by and laughed? And he died of a heart attack two weeks later.
Whose grandfather was that? Do you suppose? If you're going to do it, then do it.
Just do it.
If I'm going to die in this shithole, then just do it! Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
HE GROANS AND PANTS MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello?'Salaam.
' Here you are.
Tell him I wanna talk to Hibbsy.
Tell him we're outside and I wanna talk to Hibbsy.
THEY CONVERSE IN ARABIC He says Hibbsy's busy.
Tell him if I don't talk to Hibbsy, there's no deal.
HE SPEAKS ARABIC Hibbsy?Danny? You hang in there, son.
You keep hanging in there.
I'm with Yunis' lad.
He saw who took you.
We're outside the building.
Give the phone to the haji.
I'll sort it.
I promise you.
I'll sort it.
Yeah? All right, lad.
Ask them how much.
The price! HE SPEAKS ARABIC What did he say?Nothing.
Look.
SHOUTING You keep an eye out, Bruno.
Don't shoot until I give the word.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC They want the man on top to put his gun down.
They want him to put the gun down.
You're frightening them, Bruno.
Turn your gun away from them.
If you say so.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC They want us both to get out of the truck.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC Me and Yasin are getting out, Bruno.
Bad idea.
Shocking idea.
We're happy.
Are you happy? We're all good.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC They want to see the money.
No, no, no.
Tell them to take the hood off Hibbsy.
And set his hands free.
Then he can see the money.
Tell him! SHOUTING IN ARABIC SHOUTING CONTINUES HE GROANS So you know I've got nothing on me.
(SHOUTING IN ARABIC) SPEAKING ARABIC Easy, tiger.
MACHINE GUNFIRE MACHINE GUNFIRE I don't know what to say.
He doesn't know what to say, Bruno.
How about, "I fucked up"? I think Bruno's still trying to come to terms with your error of judgment, Hibbsy.
He's right.
Thank you.
All of you.
It's not us you should be thanking, it's Yasin, here.
He tipped us off.
He saw the fellas who took you.
If it wasn't for him, we'd still be driving round the desert with an A to Z.
Thank you.
What are you doing?! What the fuck?! Next time you have a death wish, put a gun in your mouth and get it over with! Don't take the rest of us with you! Lester! We had a result here! We brought a man back from the dead! Where's my money?I had to oil the wheels.
I had to Where's my goddamn money?! Me and you need a board meeting now before I cut your bollocks off.
Get in there.
Get in there! We have men who risk their lives every day for a good reason.
What he did, didn't have any reason! DANNY:I know he messed up.
He'll get your money.
Just get him out there again.
LESTER:Out there again? He's on the next plane out of here! Don't I get a say? You had your say when you said his head was OK after Yunis got whacked! I listened to you! DANNY:You listened to me because I'm a partner in this business.
Yes, this is a business, not a charity for mental cases! What about the Kuwaiti deliveries? What about them? You're always saying that's a waste of a proper soldier.
Why can't Hibbsy do that? That's it, there.
That one.
I don't get it.
We're subcontracted to deliver stuff to Baghdad that comes in from Kuwait once a week.
Dried meals, bottled water, burger buns There's nothing in there.
Doesn't matter!We get paid anyway.
Why don't they ring up from Kuwait and say nothing's ordered? Because we're contracted to make the run! So why don't the Kuwaitis just ring up and say nothing's been ordered? Right, say you're a bus driver, yeah? I'm beginning to wish I was.
You still get paid if there's no passengers on board, don't you? Yeah, I suppose.
There you go, then.
That's all we're doing.
Nothing dodgy about it.
Just the way the world works.
How's your mum? She's all right, you know.
Redecorated, changed her hair.
I suppose I should redecorate, too.
I haven't much choice about me hair.
How are you doing? Counting the weeks until I'm out of the green.
Keeping my head down.
Any idea what you're going to do next? No, not yet.
What about you? HE LAUGHS Mum's told you I'm thinking of joining up, hasn't she? It's not an easy option.
I know.
The fact that you've got a dad in the green means they might go harder on you.
You know when I joined up, there was Northern Ireland and that was it.
It was a fair bet you wouldn't see action.
Now it's a fair bet you will.
Maybe I want to see action.
HE SIGHS You know, maybe you should take a look at your old man, eh? A year to go, living back at base, divorced.
I'm not exactly a great example.
I'm not like you, Dad.
I'm not like me, either.
Come on, Danny.
We're out of here.
I've got the contract.
We're bringing the car round.
It's an estimate based on our phone conversation.
Can you promise this time or will it be falling down and cheap like always? Hey, doctor, it's not us bombing you.
I mean, you can't blame the militia on us.
Unbelievable what you people do to each other.
Unbelievable.
What's this figure? Sundries, ¤6,000? It's a mistake.
It should say 60, not six.
¤60,000? Just initial it where I added a nought.
Yes, but I don't know what it's for.
Let's just go with 6,000 as agreed.
The security bill's pretty hefty, doc.
But you are the security company as well as the building company, yes? So this figure means you are paying yourself.
Like I say, my partner and I will go away and work up a more detailed breakdown.
We can write off our costs in other ways.
It's not easy getting builders out here.
Oh, I see.
So we're to blame? Nobody's saying that.
How long you can blame the Brits and the Yanks? You've run the country on your own for four years.
Yes, of course.
But you know it's easy to forget with you all still here.
Do you think this is bad? Wait till we've all left.
Then it'll be bad.
Let's just sign the contract as agreed, with no SURPRISE extras.
Hmm? Why is it that the government can change the people and the ministries can change, but nothing changes at all? It's just you two getting richer and this hospital getting poorer.
I think we are done here, gentlemen.
I'm not going to sign this contract.
Good day, gentlemen.
LookThank you.
Why did you do that?Just maximising profits like you taught me.
He needs to be our friend.
You just pissed him off for the grand sum of ¤54,000.
He's the gatekeeper to work worth millions.
Reputation is everything.
And you're still playing the small time cowboy.
Danny, the industry has moved on.
I advise you do the same.
DISTANT SHOUTING IN ARABIC Give us that contract.
Why? Just give us that contract.
Yasin, how do you write Dr Sadiq Alasadi? Sign it for me there.
Go ahead.
What the hell are you doing? There, go on.
You don't think anybody will check the signature? As long as there's a signature no-one gives a shit! The funds get released, things get built, things get bombed.
Just oiling the wheels, Lester.
Just oiling the wheels.
PUNCHING AND MUFFLED GROANING MUSIC PLAYS ON THE RADIO Trust in me Trust in me Take me by the hand Take me by the hand Oh, give us a dream Give us a dream Dream this dream across the sand Dream this dream across the sand You won't need money You won't need money MACHINE GUNFIRE Don't fuck about! Give me the contract.
.
.
They drive me crazy, I'm climbing the walls.
So show me the way, the way to her school Cause I'm so sick, so sick of it all When the penny drops So you've come out here to babysit? Unbelievable.
What else was I gonna do? I'm trying to pay Nicky back for all the shit I put her through.
You're divorced.
The shit you put her through isn't important anymore.
She's not exactly gonna take you back, is she? It just felt like the right thing to do, OK? Yeah, and you really know what that feels like, eh? I just want to keep an eye on the lad.
He'll be safe enough here.
You Army boys are on lockdown now.
Don't even go out on patrol without permission from the mullah.
Sorry, I mean "Independent Iraqi Police Force".
All right, son? Why are you back here? You shouldn't be back here.
Why not? The worst thing that could have happened has happened.
This is the only place I feel at home now.
I don't believe that.
I mean it.
What I see out there matches what I see in here.
Oh, Christ.
That's Danny talk.
DANNY:How was your training? Yeah, it was fine.
I'll tell you how mad it is.
The doctor you helped got kidnapped last month.
Aliya? No, no, the bloke in charge of the hospital.
Aliya's husband.
See, nobody's safe.
Nobody.
Excuse me? Excuse me? I'm looking for Doctor Aliya Nabil.
She works here, or used to work here.
SPEAKING ARABIC I can speak English.
We don't have any female staff, I'm sorry.
I heard her husband was taken.
I've come to see if I can help in any way.
There's a pharmacy lab at the back of the hospital.
I'll meet you there in ten minutes.
The mosque insists that women may only work here if they are not seen.
And Aliya puts up with that? She doesn't mind? When you talk to her, please don't address her directly.
Talk to her as if you are asking me and I will translate.
Wait here.
SPEAKS ARABIC I would like to try and help you find Sadiq and get him home.
Don't talk to her directly, Sergeant Swift.
Talk to me, I will tell her She speaks English.
I've spoken to her in the past! If you would show some respect for our culture, that would be helpful.
Thank you.
Please Could you tell her that if I can help her find Sadiq, then I will? HE SPEAKS ARABIC SHE SPEAKS ARABIC She says she's very grateful, but she doesn't know where he's being held or who's holding him.
None of the militias have been in touch about the ransom.
I'll need his details.
A photograph HE SPEAKS ARABIC Andcould you ask her if she's bearing up? Is she all right? It must be a terrible time for her.
Tell him I'm used to bad luck.
And does she still smoke? Yes, I still smoke.
Oh, no.
Suppose her bag was searched by the police and they find Western cigarettes? They'll think she's a prostitute.
They will kill her.
Look, I'm sorry.
Stupid.
You are attracting attention.
You should go now.
Now maybe you understand why I want to leave this country? You know.
Now you have seen what the country has done to your pleasure wife.
Do you want to walk back? It's a bandit country.
Shut the fuck up then.
LAUGHTER BANGING ON THE DOOR Danny? Danny, we're gonna be late.
What are you doing? We've got a presentation in ten minutes.
Heavy night.
Yeah, I can see that.
Jump in the shower, I'll get you a coffee.
I'm not coming, Lester.
What do you mean you're not coming? I'm bored! I'm bored of it! This contract is worth ¤100 million, so whether you're bored or not does not really figure.
I didn't do this so I could spend my time trying to impress wankers.
Fuck it! How did it go?Great.
Great, especially the part about our dynamic partnership.
Did we get it? They don't exactly give out the cash there and then.
They used to.
When we first started, they used to.
I liked it.
Why have you started to do everything you can to stop this thing from moving forward? I'll tell you what - why don't we play to our strengths? You stay here and look after the business stuff, the meetings.
You love it.
You're good at it.
I'll go and run things down in Basra.
Cracking heads.
That way we'll both be - what's it? Maximising our human resource potential.
Gimme a beer.
QUIZMASTER: Which planet is closest to the sun? Uranus? LAUGHTER All right, son? You doing all right? Yeah, great, man.
Good.
Good lad.
I was on patrol today.
Oh yeah, how was that? I was shitting it, to be honest.
Well, that's the right reaction, believe me, son.
QUIZMASTER: In which rock opera did a deaf, dumb and blind kid sure play a mean pinball? LEE:Mike, old man's music question.
QUIZMASTER: In which rock opera did a deaf, dumb and blind kid Tommy.
Just Tommy? Get it down.
MIKE: Yasin, can I have a word? This guy? He's a doctor at the hospital, isn't he? That's right.
You know he's disappeared? His wife thinks maybe a militia took him.
Did anybody ask for a ransom? No, not so far.
They wouldn't kidnap a professional, not unless they wanted a ransom.
And I would have heard something about it.
So who else would have taken him? The Brits, the Yanks.
They'll pick up anybody suspected of terrorist activity.
No, this fella's not a terrorist.
If someone he worked with didn't like him, or he had argument with his neighbour, they tell the Army he's this, he's that, and they'll pick him up.
Hibbsy, I need a big favour.
Tell me the most common pub name in England, I'll listen.
Red Lion.
No it's not.
It's Red Lion.
Red Lion? It's not the Coach and Horses, it's the Red Lion.
Put the Red Lion down! All right, all right! What's your favour? Ayers Rock is in which Australian territory? Does anyone know you've come here? Of course they don't.
I'm not stupid.
I remember.
How are your children? They're both well.
Growing up.
My son, Richard, he's out here.
I didn't want him to join the Army, but he wouldn't listen.
Sons don't listen to their fathers over here any more either.
Why would they take a man like Sadiq? I don't think Sadiq was taken by the militias.
Do you know something? I've spoken to some people.
They seem to think he may have been arrested by the Americans or even the British.
But why? Why would they do that? It's good news if it's true.
It means I have a better chance of finding him if he's been picked up by the military.
Thank you.
SHE COUGHS So, you and Sadiq decided to stay, then? Yeah.
We have.
All our friends have left, but we've stayed here together.
I got divorced.
Oh.
And I know it wouldn't make any difference, after all this time No.
It doesn't really.
I just wanted you to know that .
.
I wasn't lying in England, you know, about how I felt, and that.
No, it could've worked, you and me.
A man would always say that.
A man can live with uncertainty.
That's why they kill.
I see you're still top at flirting.
I wanted to talk with you .
.
like we used to talk, you know? Now everything I want to say has gone out of my head.
Me too.
There was never very much in your head to begin with.
I'm sorry.
Stupid.
I'm sorry.
No.
I have to go.
I never have it like that.
I hate it like that.
Wait! Right, now I can't do it.
Ow! Ow! SHE LAUGHS Sorry.
Will you promise me one thing? Just one? I'm being serious.
What?Will you promise me you'll leave Iraq before the British pull out? Promise me you and Sadiq will go to Jordan, Egypt, anywhere.
Just don't stay.
Please.
Hey, it's not Ramadan already, is it? Please don't ask me to do this again, Hibbsy.
I don't want to be around immoral women.
Listen to young Mullah 'ere! I've seen you looking at the bare ladies on the internet! LAUGHTER She's not what you say she is, yeah? You've got it wrong.
I know what I saw.
Summat with their culture, Hibbsy.
No respect for women.
Well, nobody seems to know why he's been arrested.
Any chance I can call off-base? Yes, I need a contact for Eden Legals.
Well, how do I get a reference number? I thought you might be able to pull some strings.
I thought you might have connections.
Maybe he had connections.
What?You met the fella.
He's always mouthing off about something.
Maybe he got lifted for a good reason.
Maybe he was a terrorist.
He's a doctor.
Oh, right, yeah, and doctors never become terrorists(!) There's no way he's involved.
They all know someone in the militia.
You need the militia's permission to work in any government job these days.
Sounds like you and the militias have it all sewn up.
Yeah, we're in the same line of work.
They're paid by the mosque, we're paid by the businessmen.
I'm not sure they'd see it that way.
You kidding me?! Offer 'em a fridge and plumbing and it's goodbye, Mohammed.
Who would have thought you'd have all the answers? Who exactly have you helped over here, Mike? You're coming over all superior, so I was just wondering.
What's that got to do it? You've a lot of sympathy for our Muslim brethren, but let me tell you, when we build a hospital, some twat blows it up or nicks a generator or blows up a busload of builders! The reason this country's on its knees is nothing to do with me and Lester and private security, it's to do with the fact that these people can't stop killing each other.
What, "these people"? You don't believe that any more than I do! If it's not politics, it's religion.
If it's not religion, it's tribal.
They're like Scousers at a wake.
They can't fucking help themselves! When we're both home and we're brokeI've changed! You haven't! Fucking get over it!Cos right now, I listen to this shite, and I can hear Lester saying every word.
Danny, look at me! A doctor, a good man who's done more good for Iraq than you and me, has been banged up by the Americans and he's done nothing wrong! But you are so far gone that you can't pick up the phone to help him! HE WHISPERS: Jesus.
HE WHISPERS: Danny.
Welcome to paradise, Dan.
GLASS SMASHES Hibbsy, I've got a job for you.
Can't do it.
Yasin hasn't shown up.
You don't need Yasin for this.
You and Spike can handle it.
I need a pick-up.
The less staff, the better.
Just me and top cover? Two of us? Never gonna be enough.
I'm only asking you to drive up and down the road, not open a wine bar in Sadr City.
A team of six is the recommended minimum.
Jesus Christ, have you been talking to Mike?! Look, truth is, Hibbsy, we can't afford a team of six! The work's drying up, and if you don't wanna do it, well then, I'll just find two fellas with a bit of bottle who can.
Right.
All right.
What are we picking up? SPEAKS ARABIC Hello? Hello? Listen, I'm not having this.
Hibbsy, is that what Danny said you should do?Fuck Danny.
Danny's not here.
Oh, fuckin' hell.
Spike, get him in the car.
Hurry up and get him in the car.
Yeah.
Nice one.
You're a good lad.
All right, get yourself out of there.
I'll see you in a bit.
Lester When did you get back? You asked me to sort it, and I sorted it.
I meant go down and charm the guy, not kidnap him! I was respecting their culture, like you advised.
Kidnapping's how you get things done.
The rules of the game have changed.
We can't play rough any more.
That's not how we make money.
You've forgotten what it's like here.
Look up from your arse-licking once in a while.
My ass-licking days are over.
Glad to hear it.
Because all the ass-licking in the world didn't get us the oilfield contract.
What? You screwed the oilfield contract when you bullied and bribed and forged documents.
What's the main course today? Stew and dumplings.
So, how are you, Richard? I'm sorry I've been off the grid.
That's OK.
Wellyou know where I am when you're ready to talk.
I wanna talk now.
DadI wanna talk now.
OK.
.
.
Here Hey, hey, hey.
It's OK, son.
It's OK.
It's OK.
Have I been charged with anything? No.
No Mistaken identity.
Oh.
That's why I'm giving you this.
Compensation.
Oh, I see.
Compensation.
Who was I mistaken for?What? Who was I mistakenly picked up for? Who did you intend to arrest? Oh, can't you just be glad you got released, eh? Maybe asking questions got you picked up in the first place.
Except it was mistaken identity.
Just get out, yeah? Get out the car.
When did boys like you start giving orders? Who thought it was a good idea? RICHARD:I know you told me it wouldn't be easy.
But I thought I could hack it and I can't.
Tell me what the problem is.
There's nothing I can't sort out for you.
I'm scared.
That's the problem.
Son, everybody's scared.
They just don't let on.
I know.
But it just won't go away.
Son, every single man out here is shitting themselves.
Anyone who says they're not is lying.
Even Danny? Especially Danny.
It all sounds so great, Dad - all the stories, all the "mates together" stuff Jesus, don't tell me that! They're so funny.
I only told you that because I didn't want you to worry whenIwas away.
I hated it as much as you do.
And I was every bit as scared.
AHMED:Mike? Mike! Five minutes, Ahmed, all right? Aliya wants you to come to the hospital.
Something has happened.
Listen, once you've got this tour under your belt, it'll start to feel fine, I promise.
OK? You're quiet.
What do you think all that was about with the doctor? What do you think we just did? Stuffed if I know.
It's bullshit.
What, like you didn't know that? It's all fucked.
I've had enough.
I'm done with this.
Done with it.
Do what you like.
SHOUTING NEARBY Shit.
ANGRY SHOUTING Shit! Fuck! ANGRY SHOUTING, HORN HONKS GUNFIRE, SHOUTING What are we gonna do?! Get out the car.
Get out the fucking car! Hibbsy, get me out! Go, go! GUNFIRE, SHOUTING Oh, shit! Get back! Get back in! GUNFIRE SUSTAINED GUNFIRE What are we gonna do? We can't cover both sides with just two of us.
Cover me.
I'm ringing Danny.
HIBBSY:'We can hold them for a while, but you've gotta hurry!' Are you happy now? Can't you at least take some responsibility?! I am doing.
Who are you calling?The Army.
No!The proper Army.
We can't handle this on our own.
We'd be hanging off a bridge by our cocks before we could fire a round.
You do realise that if you have to call in the regulars to bail us out, it's over for us down here, don't you? I know.
DANNY: Yeah, contact reported.
Private contractor Junction at Yellow 13.
PMC saloon.
Cargo ambushed and kicked it all off.
We've been asked to go in and dig 'em out.
Now, we're gonna keep it tight, and remember your training.
So you're saying that the people who arrested you and the people who you've accused of corruption are the same people? Pacific Solutions.
Danny's mob? No.
The people you vouched for, Mike.
Your friends.
They did it.
I'll talk to Danny.
Yeah? And say what? Can I just talk to him, all right? Why do you need to talk to him? Don't you believe what he's saying? Yeah, course! But, you know, Danny's my I recognised the boy who released me, Mike.
They call him Hibbsy.
Nice boy.
Scared boy.
He didn't seem to be a good liar.
So what is it to be, Mike? Oh I can speak up for you, but who's gonna believe you? They'll just tell the world that the allegations are unfounded.
If a British soldier said all this, then they would listen.
What if you and me did it together, Sadiq? What about that, eh? What if I can get you to the Green Zone? Without you, there's no credibility.
Without me, there's no press conference.
KNOCKING SADIQ SPEAKS IN ARABIC Aliya should do it.
Me? No! They'd say I was a suspected terrorist, and you can't practise medicine here anyway.
Please, do the press conference and then leave Iraq.
Please.
But where would I go? Huh? The doctors that we know in Jordan can't get work.
You could go to England.
For a while.
Couldn't she, Mike? She could come to England, yes.
And she would be safe.
She would be safe.
TRANSLATION: KNOCKING THEN SPEAKING IN ARABIC SHOUTING SHOUTING, GUNFIRE Sergeant, come in.
I'm on my own.
I need cover.
Come in.
Shit! SHOUTING IN ARABIC Shit! CONFUSED SHOUTING We have to go - the militias are arriving.
Tell them I'm an Army medic.
Tell them I can help.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on! I'm going to insert this into her chest.
OK? RINGING TONE Fucking answer, come on! Good.
Good girl.
Answer, fucking answer! OK.
OK.
Good girl.
Hold this.
Hold this.
It mustn't move.
Fuck this.
SHOUTING What's going on over there? He says Aliya shouldn't be working here, this is no place for a woman.
Tell him if he doesn't stop threatening her right now, I'll arrest him.
Tell him! I can't do thatTell him! I can't do it! Mike, we have to go.
Tell her mother that this will help with her breathing.
SHE MOUTHS Mike, we should go.
Yasin? Come on.
I know you're not one of them.
Come on, son, Yasin, come on.
I'm not your son! Just keep going.
That boy called me by my name.
They know who I am, Mike.
We'll get you out in a wee bit.
That's not what I've been told.
I've got this letter.
They say I don't qualify for asylum.
My son's in trouble.
WE are in trouble! My son's in trouble.
We've got to go.
SHOUTING, ALIYA SCREAMS ALIYA SCREAMS SPEECH DROWNED BY MUSIC GUNSHO Lonely soldier, go home Lonely, but never alone Good eyes see nothing to shoot Good feet feel good getting off good boots So ask your father how to fall Ask your father how to fall Right, so when you come out the Green, give us a bell, lads.
I'm based in Dubai, but I'm over here once a month.
You've done it for your country, why not do it for yourselves? Eh? Good boys.
Still using the same patter, then? It worked for you, didn't it? Still in the same line? What, peace-keeping? Yeah.
What about you?Got a job, yeah.
You might need me one day.
This isn't what you do, is it? Hold hands with ex-Toms who've lost their bottle.
And they pay you? I counsel ex-servicemen, yeah.
Do I look like a man who needs help? Just keep the card, eh? Have you spoke to him yet? Not really.
You? Not yet.
No, not yet.
Richard had not intended to follow his father into the Army.
But he did.
Having talked with fellow soldiers and friends who knew him during his short military career .
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they all agreed on one thing - Richard had found his true vocation.
He loved the Army.
He loved soldiering.
And so today, as we gather to celebrate his life, we have to remember that.
As difficult as it is for his father, Michael, his mother, Nicola, and his sister, Jessica, this was a young man who died doing what he felt was right - for him, for his loved ones, for his country.
And for the people of Iraq.
And now a colleague of Mike's has asked to say a few words.
I, um I just wanted to read something from a book that Mike gave to me to help me make sense of things when I came back from Iraq.
Erm, it took me a while, but .
.
I think I got it.
Anyway "Gilgamesh, what you seek you will never find.
"For when the gods created man, they let death be his lot.
"Eternal life lay with hell.
"Let your every day be full of joy.
"Love the child that holds your hand.
"Let your wife delight in your embrace.
"For these alone "are the concerns "of humanity.
" So long, Mike.
They say, don't they? The killer often turns up at the funeral.
I think they get a kick out of seeing what they've done.
He sent me a text in the middle of the battle.
Do you want to know what it said? "Dad, I need help.
" "Dad.
I.
Need.
Help.
" I've got to live with that for the rest of my life, so be a man and take some responsibility.
I didn't kill your son, Michael.
It was your fault he was there.
He was there because he was a soldier.
He's was there because of us, Danny.
He was there because me and Spike got into a situation.
Because you panicked.
And why? There were only two of them because you were saving money.
If I could stop it from being your lad that died, Mike, I would.
I've known him since he was born.
But if believing this makes it any easier for you to take, carry on Don't patronise me! You killed him! Why not beat the shit out of me and get over it? I'll do better than that.
You and Lester just fucking watch me.
I don't think you'll lay a glove on us.
I'll nail you for Sadiq's kidnapping! Or maybe I'll name all the companies you set up so that no-one could blame you! I've told him everything.
With your mental problems? Who'll believe you? Just admit you did something wrong! Maybe that will be enough for now! You're right about everything.
I hope it makes you feel better, because it doesn't make any difference to me.
What me and Lester do mightn't seem fair, but that doesn't make it against the law.
It mightn't seem right, but that doesn't make it corrupt.
It's the way the world is, mate.
No matter what line of business you're in, you follow the market.
That might be selling stocks and shares or making bathroom plugs or you're a soldier.
Is that a bad thing? The lads in Northern Ireland, in the Falklands, you and me in the Balkans, did we really, deep down, have a fucking clue why we were there? And if we did, did we really actually care? This way, this way, I know what I'm doing.
I'm making money so someone else can make money.
And that's what makes the world go round.
If you can think of a better way, then tell me, because I can't think of one.
I don't know if that makes me better or worse than you, but at least now I know what I'm risking my life for.
What happened to you? I went to Iraq.
Why, what happened to you? Will you tell me when the lights are fading? Cos I can't see I can't see no more Will you tell me when the song stops playing? Cos I can't hear I can't hear no more She said, I don't know what you did it for Said, I don't know what you did it for at all But I will run until my feet no longer run no more And I will kiss until my lips no longer feel no more And I will run until my heart it aches And I will love until my heart it breaks And I will love until there's nothing more to live for And I will love until
You recommend these people.
And they know what they promise? They won't let you down.
I'll sign what you need.
I admit it.
You're a genius.
GUNFIRE Yunis! Yunis! Yunis was like a brother to me.
I loved your father.
You call me if you need any more, yeah? You call me, yeah? That's my number.
What are you going to do? Drive around, hope you find him? My name is Lee Hibbs.
I should not be here.
HEAVY BREATHING MEN: Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
INTERROGATOR: How many Iraqi refugees are there in Jordan and Syria? LEE:I don't know.
INTERROGATOR: Please try and guess.
SLAPPING LEE:I don't know.
INTERROGATOR: But you keep telling me how much you care about my country.
How about this? Whose grandfather was woken up in the middle of the night, made to dress in front of his teenage granddaughters, while British soldiers stood by and laughed? And he died of a heart attack two weeks later.
Whose grandfather was that? Do you suppose? If you're going to do it, then do it.
Just do it.
If I'm going to die in this shithole, then just do it! Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
HE GROANS AND PANTS MOBILE PHONE RINGS Hello?'Salaam.
' Here you are.
Tell him I wanna talk to Hibbsy.
Tell him we're outside and I wanna talk to Hibbsy.
THEY CONVERSE IN ARABIC He says Hibbsy's busy.
Tell him if I don't talk to Hibbsy, there's no deal.
HE SPEAKS ARABIC Hibbsy?Danny? You hang in there, son.
You keep hanging in there.
I'm with Yunis' lad.
He saw who took you.
We're outside the building.
Give the phone to the haji.
I'll sort it.
I promise you.
I'll sort it.
Yeah? All right, lad.
Ask them how much.
The price! HE SPEAKS ARABIC What did he say?Nothing.
Look.
SHOUTING You keep an eye out, Bruno.
Don't shoot until I give the word.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC They want the man on top to put his gun down.
They want him to put the gun down.
You're frightening them, Bruno.
Turn your gun away from them.
If you say so.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC They want us both to get out of the truck.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC Me and Yasin are getting out, Bruno.
Bad idea.
Shocking idea.
We're happy.
Are you happy? We're all good.
SHOUTING IN ARABIC They want to see the money.
No, no, no.
Tell them to take the hood off Hibbsy.
And set his hands free.
Then he can see the money.
Tell him! SHOUTING IN ARABIC SHOUTING CONTINUES HE GROANS So you know I've got nothing on me.
(SHOUTING IN ARABIC) SPEAKING ARABIC Easy, tiger.
MACHINE GUNFIRE MACHINE GUNFIRE I don't know what to say.
He doesn't know what to say, Bruno.
How about, "I fucked up"? I think Bruno's still trying to come to terms with your error of judgment, Hibbsy.
He's right.
Thank you.
All of you.
It's not us you should be thanking, it's Yasin, here.
He tipped us off.
He saw the fellas who took you.
If it wasn't for him, we'd still be driving round the desert with an A to Z.
Thank you.
What are you doing?! What the fuck?! Next time you have a death wish, put a gun in your mouth and get it over with! Don't take the rest of us with you! Lester! We had a result here! We brought a man back from the dead! Where's my money?I had to oil the wheels.
I had to Where's my goddamn money?! Me and you need a board meeting now before I cut your bollocks off.
Get in there.
Get in there! We have men who risk their lives every day for a good reason.
What he did, didn't have any reason! DANNY:I know he messed up.
He'll get your money.
Just get him out there again.
LESTER:Out there again? He's on the next plane out of here! Don't I get a say? You had your say when you said his head was OK after Yunis got whacked! I listened to you! DANNY:You listened to me because I'm a partner in this business.
Yes, this is a business, not a charity for mental cases! What about the Kuwaiti deliveries? What about them? You're always saying that's a waste of a proper soldier.
Why can't Hibbsy do that? That's it, there.
That one.
I don't get it.
We're subcontracted to deliver stuff to Baghdad that comes in from Kuwait once a week.
Dried meals, bottled water, burger buns There's nothing in there.
Doesn't matter!We get paid anyway.
Why don't they ring up from Kuwait and say nothing's ordered? Because we're contracted to make the run! So why don't the Kuwaitis just ring up and say nothing's been ordered? Right, say you're a bus driver, yeah? I'm beginning to wish I was.
You still get paid if there's no passengers on board, don't you? Yeah, I suppose.
There you go, then.
That's all we're doing.
Nothing dodgy about it.
Just the way the world works.
How's your mum? She's all right, you know.
Redecorated, changed her hair.
I suppose I should redecorate, too.
I haven't much choice about me hair.
How are you doing? Counting the weeks until I'm out of the green.
Keeping my head down.
Any idea what you're going to do next? No, not yet.
What about you? HE LAUGHS Mum's told you I'm thinking of joining up, hasn't she? It's not an easy option.
I know.
The fact that you've got a dad in the green means they might go harder on you.
You know when I joined up, there was Northern Ireland and that was it.
It was a fair bet you wouldn't see action.
Now it's a fair bet you will.
Maybe I want to see action.
HE SIGHS You know, maybe you should take a look at your old man, eh? A year to go, living back at base, divorced.
I'm not exactly a great example.
I'm not like you, Dad.
I'm not like me, either.
Come on, Danny.
We're out of here.
I've got the contract.
We're bringing the car round.
It's an estimate based on our phone conversation.
Can you promise this time or will it be falling down and cheap like always? Hey, doctor, it's not us bombing you.
I mean, you can't blame the militia on us.
Unbelievable what you people do to each other.
Unbelievable.
What's this figure? Sundries, ¤6,000? It's a mistake.
It should say 60, not six.
¤60,000? Just initial it where I added a nought.
Yes, but I don't know what it's for.
Let's just go with 6,000 as agreed.
The security bill's pretty hefty, doc.
But you are the security company as well as the building company, yes? So this figure means you are paying yourself.
Like I say, my partner and I will go away and work up a more detailed breakdown.
We can write off our costs in other ways.
It's not easy getting builders out here.
Oh, I see.
So we're to blame? Nobody's saying that.
How long you can blame the Brits and the Yanks? You've run the country on your own for four years.
Yes, of course.
But you know it's easy to forget with you all still here.
Do you think this is bad? Wait till we've all left.
Then it'll be bad.
Let's just sign the contract as agreed, with no SURPRISE extras.
Hmm? Why is it that the government can change the people and the ministries can change, but nothing changes at all? It's just you two getting richer and this hospital getting poorer.
I think we are done here, gentlemen.
I'm not going to sign this contract.
Good day, gentlemen.
LookThank you.
Why did you do that?Just maximising profits like you taught me.
He needs to be our friend.
You just pissed him off for the grand sum of ¤54,000.
He's the gatekeeper to work worth millions.
Reputation is everything.
And you're still playing the small time cowboy.
Danny, the industry has moved on.
I advise you do the same.
DISTANT SHOUTING IN ARABIC Give us that contract.
Why? Just give us that contract.
Yasin, how do you write Dr Sadiq Alasadi? Sign it for me there.
Go ahead.
What the hell are you doing? There, go on.
You don't think anybody will check the signature? As long as there's a signature no-one gives a shit! The funds get released, things get built, things get bombed.
Just oiling the wheels, Lester.
Just oiling the wheels.
PUNCHING AND MUFFLED GROANING MUSIC PLAYS ON THE RADIO Trust in me Trust in me Take me by the hand Take me by the hand Oh, give us a dream Give us a dream Dream this dream across the sand Dream this dream across the sand You won't need money You won't need money MACHINE GUNFIRE Don't fuck about! Give me the contract.
.
.
They drive me crazy, I'm climbing the walls.
So show me the way, the way to her school Cause I'm so sick, so sick of it all When the penny drops So you've come out here to babysit? Unbelievable.
What else was I gonna do? I'm trying to pay Nicky back for all the shit I put her through.
You're divorced.
The shit you put her through isn't important anymore.
She's not exactly gonna take you back, is she? It just felt like the right thing to do, OK? Yeah, and you really know what that feels like, eh? I just want to keep an eye on the lad.
He'll be safe enough here.
You Army boys are on lockdown now.
Don't even go out on patrol without permission from the mullah.
Sorry, I mean "Independent Iraqi Police Force".
All right, son? Why are you back here? You shouldn't be back here.
Why not? The worst thing that could have happened has happened.
This is the only place I feel at home now.
I don't believe that.
I mean it.
What I see out there matches what I see in here.
Oh, Christ.
That's Danny talk.
DANNY:How was your training? Yeah, it was fine.
I'll tell you how mad it is.
The doctor you helped got kidnapped last month.
Aliya? No, no, the bloke in charge of the hospital.
Aliya's husband.
See, nobody's safe.
Nobody.
Excuse me? Excuse me? I'm looking for Doctor Aliya Nabil.
She works here, or used to work here.
SPEAKING ARABIC I can speak English.
We don't have any female staff, I'm sorry.
I heard her husband was taken.
I've come to see if I can help in any way.
There's a pharmacy lab at the back of the hospital.
I'll meet you there in ten minutes.
The mosque insists that women may only work here if they are not seen.
And Aliya puts up with that? She doesn't mind? When you talk to her, please don't address her directly.
Talk to her as if you are asking me and I will translate.
Wait here.
SPEAKS ARABIC I would like to try and help you find Sadiq and get him home.
Don't talk to her directly, Sergeant Swift.
Talk to me, I will tell her She speaks English.
I've spoken to her in the past! If you would show some respect for our culture, that would be helpful.
Thank you.
Please Could you tell her that if I can help her find Sadiq, then I will? HE SPEAKS ARABIC SHE SPEAKS ARABIC She says she's very grateful, but she doesn't know where he's being held or who's holding him.
None of the militias have been in touch about the ransom.
I'll need his details.
A photograph HE SPEAKS ARABIC Andcould you ask her if she's bearing up? Is she all right? It must be a terrible time for her.
Tell him I'm used to bad luck.
And does she still smoke? Yes, I still smoke.
Oh, no.
Suppose her bag was searched by the police and they find Western cigarettes? They'll think she's a prostitute.
They will kill her.
Look, I'm sorry.
Stupid.
You are attracting attention.
You should go now.
Now maybe you understand why I want to leave this country? You know.
Now you have seen what the country has done to your pleasure wife.
Do you want to walk back? It's a bandit country.
Shut the fuck up then.
LAUGHTER BANGING ON THE DOOR Danny? Danny, we're gonna be late.
What are you doing? We've got a presentation in ten minutes.
Heavy night.
Yeah, I can see that.
Jump in the shower, I'll get you a coffee.
I'm not coming, Lester.
What do you mean you're not coming? I'm bored! I'm bored of it! This contract is worth ¤100 million, so whether you're bored or not does not really figure.
I didn't do this so I could spend my time trying to impress wankers.
Fuck it! How did it go?Great.
Great, especially the part about our dynamic partnership.
Did we get it? They don't exactly give out the cash there and then.
They used to.
When we first started, they used to.
I liked it.
Why have you started to do everything you can to stop this thing from moving forward? I'll tell you what - why don't we play to our strengths? You stay here and look after the business stuff, the meetings.
You love it.
You're good at it.
I'll go and run things down in Basra.
Cracking heads.
That way we'll both be - what's it? Maximising our human resource potential.
Gimme a beer.
QUIZMASTER: Which planet is closest to the sun? Uranus? LAUGHTER All right, son? You doing all right? Yeah, great, man.
Good.
Good lad.
I was on patrol today.
Oh yeah, how was that? I was shitting it, to be honest.
Well, that's the right reaction, believe me, son.
QUIZMASTER: In which rock opera did a deaf, dumb and blind kid sure play a mean pinball? LEE:Mike, old man's music question.
QUIZMASTER: In which rock opera did a deaf, dumb and blind kid Tommy.
Just Tommy? Get it down.
MIKE: Yasin, can I have a word? This guy? He's a doctor at the hospital, isn't he? That's right.
You know he's disappeared? His wife thinks maybe a militia took him.
Did anybody ask for a ransom? No, not so far.
They wouldn't kidnap a professional, not unless they wanted a ransom.
And I would have heard something about it.
So who else would have taken him? The Brits, the Yanks.
They'll pick up anybody suspected of terrorist activity.
No, this fella's not a terrorist.
If someone he worked with didn't like him, or he had argument with his neighbour, they tell the Army he's this, he's that, and they'll pick him up.
Hibbsy, I need a big favour.
Tell me the most common pub name in England, I'll listen.
Red Lion.
No it's not.
It's Red Lion.
Red Lion? It's not the Coach and Horses, it's the Red Lion.
Put the Red Lion down! All right, all right! What's your favour? Ayers Rock is in which Australian territory? Does anyone know you've come here? Of course they don't.
I'm not stupid.
I remember.
How are your children? They're both well.
Growing up.
My son, Richard, he's out here.
I didn't want him to join the Army, but he wouldn't listen.
Sons don't listen to their fathers over here any more either.
Why would they take a man like Sadiq? I don't think Sadiq was taken by the militias.
Do you know something? I've spoken to some people.
They seem to think he may have been arrested by the Americans or even the British.
But why? Why would they do that? It's good news if it's true.
It means I have a better chance of finding him if he's been picked up by the military.
Thank you.
SHE COUGHS So, you and Sadiq decided to stay, then? Yeah.
We have.
All our friends have left, but we've stayed here together.
I got divorced.
Oh.
And I know it wouldn't make any difference, after all this time No.
It doesn't really.
I just wanted you to know that .
.
I wasn't lying in England, you know, about how I felt, and that.
No, it could've worked, you and me.
A man would always say that.
A man can live with uncertainty.
That's why they kill.
I see you're still top at flirting.
I wanted to talk with you .
.
like we used to talk, you know? Now everything I want to say has gone out of my head.
Me too.
There was never very much in your head to begin with.
I'm sorry.
Stupid.
I'm sorry.
No.
I have to go.
I never have it like that.
I hate it like that.
Wait! Right, now I can't do it.
Ow! Ow! SHE LAUGHS Sorry.
Will you promise me one thing? Just one? I'm being serious.
What?Will you promise me you'll leave Iraq before the British pull out? Promise me you and Sadiq will go to Jordan, Egypt, anywhere.
Just don't stay.
Please.
Hey, it's not Ramadan already, is it? Please don't ask me to do this again, Hibbsy.
I don't want to be around immoral women.
Listen to young Mullah 'ere! I've seen you looking at the bare ladies on the internet! LAUGHTER She's not what you say she is, yeah? You've got it wrong.
I know what I saw.
Summat with their culture, Hibbsy.
No respect for women.
Well, nobody seems to know why he's been arrested.
Any chance I can call off-base? Yes, I need a contact for Eden Legals.
Well, how do I get a reference number? I thought you might be able to pull some strings.
I thought you might have connections.
Maybe he had connections.
What?You met the fella.
He's always mouthing off about something.
Maybe he got lifted for a good reason.
Maybe he was a terrorist.
He's a doctor.
Oh, right, yeah, and doctors never become terrorists(!) There's no way he's involved.
They all know someone in the militia.
You need the militia's permission to work in any government job these days.
Sounds like you and the militias have it all sewn up.
Yeah, we're in the same line of work.
They're paid by the mosque, we're paid by the businessmen.
I'm not sure they'd see it that way.
You kidding me?! Offer 'em a fridge and plumbing and it's goodbye, Mohammed.
Who would have thought you'd have all the answers? Who exactly have you helped over here, Mike? You're coming over all superior, so I was just wondering.
What's that got to do it? You've a lot of sympathy for our Muslim brethren, but let me tell you, when we build a hospital, some twat blows it up or nicks a generator or blows up a busload of builders! The reason this country's on its knees is nothing to do with me and Lester and private security, it's to do with the fact that these people can't stop killing each other.
What, "these people"? You don't believe that any more than I do! If it's not politics, it's religion.
If it's not religion, it's tribal.
They're like Scousers at a wake.
They can't fucking help themselves! When we're both home and we're brokeI've changed! You haven't! Fucking get over it!Cos right now, I listen to this shite, and I can hear Lester saying every word.
Danny, look at me! A doctor, a good man who's done more good for Iraq than you and me, has been banged up by the Americans and he's done nothing wrong! But you are so far gone that you can't pick up the phone to help him! HE WHISPERS: Jesus.
HE WHISPERS: Danny.
Welcome to paradise, Dan.
GLASS SMASHES Hibbsy, I've got a job for you.
Can't do it.
Yasin hasn't shown up.
You don't need Yasin for this.
You and Spike can handle it.
I need a pick-up.
The less staff, the better.
Just me and top cover? Two of us? Never gonna be enough.
I'm only asking you to drive up and down the road, not open a wine bar in Sadr City.
A team of six is the recommended minimum.
Jesus Christ, have you been talking to Mike?! Look, truth is, Hibbsy, we can't afford a team of six! The work's drying up, and if you don't wanna do it, well then, I'll just find two fellas with a bit of bottle who can.
Right.
All right.
What are we picking up? SPEAKS ARABIC Hello? Hello? Listen, I'm not having this.
Hibbsy, is that what Danny said you should do?Fuck Danny.
Danny's not here.
Oh, fuckin' hell.
Spike, get him in the car.
Hurry up and get him in the car.
Yeah.
Nice one.
You're a good lad.
All right, get yourself out of there.
I'll see you in a bit.
Lester When did you get back? You asked me to sort it, and I sorted it.
I meant go down and charm the guy, not kidnap him! I was respecting their culture, like you advised.
Kidnapping's how you get things done.
The rules of the game have changed.
We can't play rough any more.
That's not how we make money.
You've forgotten what it's like here.
Look up from your arse-licking once in a while.
My ass-licking days are over.
Glad to hear it.
Because all the ass-licking in the world didn't get us the oilfield contract.
What? You screwed the oilfield contract when you bullied and bribed and forged documents.
What's the main course today? Stew and dumplings.
So, how are you, Richard? I'm sorry I've been off the grid.
That's OK.
Wellyou know where I am when you're ready to talk.
I wanna talk now.
DadI wanna talk now.
OK.
.
.
Here Hey, hey, hey.
It's OK, son.
It's OK.
It's OK.
Have I been charged with anything? No.
No Mistaken identity.
Oh.
That's why I'm giving you this.
Compensation.
Oh, I see.
Compensation.
Who was I mistaken for?What? Who was I mistakenly picked up for? Who did you intend to arrest? Oh, can't you just be glad you got released, eh? Maybe asking questions got you picked up in the first place.
Except it was mistaken identity.
Just get out, yeah? Get out the car.
When did boys like you start giving orders? Who thought it was a good idea? RICHARD:I know you told me it wouldn't be easy.
But I thought I could hack it and I can't.
Tell me what the problem is.
There's nothing I can't sort out for you.
I'm scared.
That's the problem.
Son, everybody's scared.
They just don't let on.
I know.
But it just won't go away.
Son, every single man out here is shitting themselves.
Anyone who says they're not is lying.
Even Danny? Especially Danny.
It all sounds so great, Dad - all the stories, all the "mates together" stuff Jesus, don't tell me that! They're so funny.
I only told you that because I didn't want you to worry whenIwas away.
I hated it as much as you do.
And I was every bit as scared.
AHMED:Mike? Mike! Five minutes, Ahmed, all right? Aliya wants you to come to the hospital.
Something has happened.
Listen, once you've got this tour under your belt, it'll start to feel fine, I promise.
OK? You're quiet.
What do you think all that was about with the doctor? What do you think we just did? Stuffed if I know.
It's bullshit.
What, like you didn't know that? It's all fucked.
I've had enough.
I'm done with this.
Done with it.
Do what you like.
SHOUTING NEARBY Shit.
ANGRY SHOUTING Shit! Fuck! ANGRY SHOUTING, HORN HONKS GUNFIRE, SHOUTING What are we gonna do?! Get out the car.
Get out the fucking car! Hibbsy, get me out! Go, go! GUNFIRE, SHOUTING Oh, shit! Get back! Get back in! GUNFIRE SUSTAINED GUNFIRE What are we gonna do? We can't cover both sides with just two of us.
Cover me.
I'm ringing Danny.
HIBBSY:'We can hold them for a while, but you've gotta hurry!' Are you happy now? Can't you at least take some responsibility?! I am doing.
Who are you calling?The Army.
No!The proper Army.
We can't handle this on our own.
We'd be hanging off a bridge by our cocks before we could fire a round.
You do realise that if you have to call in the regulars to bail us out, it's over for us down here, don't you? I know.
DANNY: Yeah, contact reported.
Private contractor Junction at Yellow 13.
PMC saloon.
Cargo ambushed and kicked it all off.
We've been asked to go in and dig 'em out.
Now, we're gonna keep it tight, and remember your training.
So you're saying that the people who arrested you and the people who you've accused of corruption are the same people? Pacific Solutions.
Danny's mob? No.
The people you vouched for, Mike.
Your friends.
They did it.
I'll talk to Danny.
Yeah? And say what? Can I just talk to him, all right? Why do you need to talk to him? Don't you believe what he's saying? Yeah, course! But, you know, Danny's my I recognised the boy who released me, Mike.
They call him Hibbsy.
Nice boy.
Scared boy.
He didn't seem to be a good liar.
So what is it to be, Mike? Oh I can speak up for you, but who's gonna believe you? They'll just tell the world that the allegations are unfounded.
If a British soldier said all this, then they would listen.
What if you and me did it together, Sadiq? What about that, eh? What if I can get you to the Green Zone? Without you, there's no credibility.
Without me, there's no press conference.
KNOCKING SADIQ SPEAKS IN ARABIC Aliya should do it.
Me? No! They'd say I was a suspected terrorist, and you can't practise medicine here anyway.
Please, do the press conference and then leave Iraq.
Please.
But where would I go? Huh? The doctors that we know in Jordan can't get work.
You could go to England.
For a while.
Couldn't she, Mike? She could come to England, yes.
And she would be safe.
She would be safe.
TRANSLATION: KNOCKING THEN SPEAKING IN ARABIC SHOUTING SHOUTING, GUNFIRE Sergeant, come in.
I'm on my own.
I need cover.
Come in.
Shit! SHOUTING IN ARABIC Shit! CONFUSED SHOUTING We have to go - the militias are arriving.
Tell them I'm an Army medic.
Tell them I can help.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on! I'm going to insert this into her chest.
OK? RINGING TONE Fucking answer, come on! Good.
Good girl.
Answer, fucking answer! OK.
OK.
Good girl.
Hold this.
Hold this.
It mustn't move.
Fuck this.
SHOUTING What's going on over there? He says Aliya shouldn't be working here, this is no place for a woman.
Tell him if he doesn't stop threatening her right now, I'll arrest him.
Tell him! I can't do thatTell him! I can't do it! Mike, we have to go.
Tell her mother that this will help with her breathing.
SHE MOUTHS Mike, we should go.
Yasin? Come on.
I know you're not one of them.
Come on, son, Yasin, come on.
I'm not your son! Just keep going.
That boy called me by my name.
They know who I am, Mike.
We'll get you out in a wee bit.
That's not what I've been told.
I've got this letter.
They say I don't qualify for asylum.
My son's in trouble.
WE are in trouble! My son's in trouble.
We've got to go.
SHOUTING, ALIYA SCREAMS ALIYA SCREAMS SPEECH DROWNED BY MUSIC GUNSHO Lonely soldier, go home Lonely, but never alone Good eyes see nothing to shoot Good feet feel good getting off good boots So ask your father how to fall Ask your father how to fall Right, so when you come out the Green, give us a bell, lads.
I'm based in Dubai, but I'm over here once a month.
You've done it for your country, why not do it for yourselves? Eh? Good boys.
Still using the same patter, then? It worked for you, didn't it? Still in the same line? What, peace-keeping? Yeah.
What about you?Got a job, yeah.
You might need me one day.
This isn't what you do, is it? Hold hands with ex-Toms who've lost their bottle.
And they pay you? I counsel ex-servicemen, yeah.
Do I look like a man who needs help? Just keep the card, eh? Have you spoke to him yet? Not really.
You? Not yet.
No, not yet.
Richard had not intended to follow his father into the Army.
But he did.
Having talked with fellow soldiers and friends who knew him during his short military career .
.
they all agreed on one thing - Richard had found his true vocation.
He loved the Army.
He loved soldiering.
And so today, as we gather to celebrate his life, we have to remember that.
As difficult as it is for his father, Michael, his mother, Nicola, and his sister, Jessica, this was a young man who died doing what he felt was right - for him, for his loved ones, for his country.
And for the people of Iraq.
And now a colleague of Mike's has asked to say a few words.
I, um I just wanted to read something from a book that Mike gave to me to help me make sense of things when I came back from Iraq.
Erm, it took me a while, but .
.
I think I got it.
Anyway "Gilgamesh, what you seek you will never find.
"For when the gods created man, they let death be his lot.
"Eternal life lay with hell.
"Let your every day be full of joy.
"Love the child that holds your hand.
"Let your wife delight in your embrace.
"For these alone "are the concerns "of humanity.
" So long, Mike.
They say, don't they? The killer often turns up at the funeral.
I think they get a kick out of seeing what they've done.
He sent me a text in the middle of the battle.
Do you want to know what it said? "Dad, I need help.
" "Dad.
I.
Need.
Help.
" I've got to live with that for the rest of my life, so be a man and take some responsibility.
I didn't kill your son, Michael.
It was your fault he was there.
He was there because he was a soldier.
He's was there because of us, Danny.
He was there because me and Spike got into a situation.
Because you panicked.
And why? There were only two of them because you were saving money.
If I could stop it from being your lad that died, Mike, I would.
I've known him since he was born.
But if believing this makes it any easier for you to take, carry on Don't patronise me! You killed him! Why not beat the shit out of me and get over it? I'll do better than that.
You and Lester just fucking watch me.
I don't think you'll lay a glove on us.
I'll nail you for Sadiq's kidnapping! Or maybe I'll name all the companies you set up so that no-one could blame you! I've told him everything.
With your mental problems? Who'll believe you? Just admit you did something wrong! Maybe that will be enough for now! You're right about everything.
I hope it makes you feel better, because it doesn't make any difference to me.
What me and Lester do mightn't seem fair, but that doesn't make it against the law.
It mightn't seem right, but that doesn't make it corrupt.
It's the way the world is, mate.
No matter what line of business you're in, you follow the market.
That might be selling stocks and shares or making bathroom plugs or you're a soldier.
Is that a bad thing? The lads in Northern Ireland, in the Falklands, you and me in the Balkans, did we really, deep down, have a fucking clue why we were there? And if we did, did we really actually care? This way, this way, I know what I'm doing.
I'm making money so someone else can make money.
And that's what makes the world go round.
If you can think of a better way, then tell me, because I can't think of one.
I don't know if that makes me better or worse than you, but at least now I know what I'm risking my life for.
What happened to you? I went to Iraq.
Why, what happened to you? Will you tell me when the lights are fading? Cos I can't see I can't see no more Will you tell me when the song stops playing? Cos I can't hear I can't hear no more She said, I don't know what you did it for Said, I don't know what you did it for at all But I will run until my feet no longer run no more And I will kiss until my lips no longer feel no more And I will run until my heart it aches And I will love until my heart it breaks And I will love until there's nothing more to live for And I will love until