Spyship (1983) s01e05 Episode Script
Episode 5
1 Eleven men - that's a whole team.
- Sorry? - Cricket.
Be nice to think there were no reserves.
Thankfully most of them were all too eager to be bought off.
They all have unhappy past which we can resurrect, if necessary.
Springfield in Special Branch - if you want any of them in quickly.
This Evans He hasn't been contacted? No, he's our problem man.
He won't respond to Aircall.
Payment address? The house is empty.
He just used to go there and sign for it, apparently.
We don't even know his real name.
SIMON: Cleverer than the rest then? Looks like it.
And more of a danger.
Oh, why is Main being so bloody minded and uncooperative! I think you'd better exploit your association, stop him doing some other stupid thing.
Understood.
Thank you.
- HILLMORE: Have you spoken to Dowdall yet? - It's in hand.
HILLMORE: Hmmm You see one is caught I mean, you've worked for newspapers, so you understand.
Where are you going to pitch yourself? Do you see? I mean our minds intuition or whatever tells us when something is wrong.
Nothing to do with the law.
It's our moral sense.
Yes, but is this the same thing? It's simply deception.
Well, of course it is.
"Simply deception.
" D'you see what you've just said? Your expectations.
Look, you you don't have to convince me, lam on the same side as you.
Quite possibly.
Possibly just curiosity, "a good story".
Your motives are important, you know.
My father is missing, presumed dead.
I'm presumed dead.
And if my body isn't found amongst the debris down in the docks, he'll come after me again.
Doesn't that qualify me? DOWDALL: Mmm.
But I can hardly believe that Carpenter overlooked the significance of my conclusions.
Firstly, no hydrostatic pressure damage at all and that's very unusual, you know.
Worth investigating.
Well, perhaps it became detached before the Caistor sank.
- Possibly.
But secondly the organic life.
- Diatoms? Mmm.
They simply didn't tally.
I found both fresh water and sea water diatoms.
But no chiloseras, no rhizolenias none at all.
Or melosira.
.
.
and there are great carpets of the stuff in the Barents, you know.
So the lifebuoy hasn't been out to sea at all? It hasn't been further than three miles from the coast! The shallow water diatoms would have been killed by the salt.
Well, if it hasn't been out to sea, and it hasn't been submerged to any depth where has it been? Well, perhaps you can help me.
Hmm? - Did you find the towel alright? - SUZY: Yes, thanks.
I won't offer you another.
I'm not driving anywhere.
No, I'm fine.
Tell me, is your interest in this really only personal? It is really.
Honest.
- Bit of a wasted journey for you.
- No, not really.
- Oh, what a depressing place.
- "Are you, or have you ever been" Quite.
What an unpleasant woman! Poor Peter looked terrible.
I'm glad the boys weren't there.
They sedate him.
I found it difficult to hear what he said He sounded a bit drunk.
He has been worse, though.
One day I went to visit him and he wasn't making any sense at all.
He shouted at me as if I was a complete stranger.
He told me he'd been ordered to sink the Caistor.
- Could that be true? - He really believed it.
I thought he'd actually lost his mind.
He shouted so much, I had to call the Sister.
- Fed up with the cold war? - Look, no hands! After you.
I wouldn't go chasing your medal of honour for a couple of days.
Why? ROKOFF: I'm not going to be disappointed, am I? The Inquiry is over.
Aren't we pleased with ourselves.
You may be.
The fact is, one of my operatives hasn't made contact for seventy-two hours.
- And? - Hold off a while that's all I'm saying Now, look.
Moscow has already been told that everything is alright.
If we're implicated now, I'm back on the streets.
Now, you know that, don't you?! I'm not doing too well myself.
Hillmore's breathing down my neck.
You know what he thinks of direct confrontation.
How soft you people are.
I don't think I'll ever understand, really, this everlasting need to forgive your enemies.
That may be useful if I'm going to be one of them.
- People like that don't last on our side.
- You send them to mental hospitals.
- That's a cheap jibe, I think.
- Nemirovick is in one I understand.
Nemirovick.
.
.
if you damage a four-thousand-ton nuclear submarine isn't that madness? Anyway, you're not free of blame.
Your Captain Huninger, isn't he in a psychiatric hospital? Yes, but he's actually had a breakdown.
Nemirovick will in time.
The man who discovered the buoy was Nils Jakobsen.
I spoke to a young lady at the local newspaper.
She she sent me she sent me this.
DOWDALL: Now, Jakobsen was not a local man.
I wondered whether perhaps he'd washed the buoy, or left it in the harbour at all.
- He's an ill mannered man.
- You spoke to him? - Mmm? - You spoke to him? Oh, yes.
An experience I don't want to go through again! (LAUGHS) Now then, I insist on contributing something towards this.
- No, no, please.
- No, no, no.
Please, please, please.
Now whatever you discover will also be of use to me, so it's quid pro quo.
Alright? I'm not without my influence, you know.
Do you know Sir Philip Strang? - No.
- Well, he's a sort of civil servant.
I feel it's time to exercise the old school tie.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Come on! - Are you are you leaving or somat? - Well, er the room service was terrible! Oh, come on.
Don't knock her, she's a lovely boat.
- What's happened to you? - Yeah, I'm going on holiday.
- Ooh, aye.
Somewhere hot? - No.
Oh, I see.
Mind m'own business.
Well, I shall expect a postcard.
Sam, have you seen any, um strange people knocking about the docks, snooping around? No.
No, can't say that I have.
Someone looking for you? No, no.
Everything's fine.
Right.
Well, give my love to that lassie of yours when you see her, will you? Yeah, yeah I will.
And l'd like to you know thank you for everything you've done.
Ta.
- Can you take me to the airport, please? - You must be bloody joking! Can you please take me to the airport? - Sam? - Oh, hello, hen! If you're looking for that fella of yours, he's just left.
- Oh, when? - Oh, 'bout an hour ago.
Did he say where he was going? Oh, come on, lovey.
He's got less chat than Harpo Marx.
- Did he not say anything? - Well, he's going on a holiday.
On holiday, where? Well, he he went for a cleanup, I suppose, and then he went.
There's a cup of tea in the hut if you'd like that, hen.
No, I'd better not, Sam.
I've got to go.
Thanks anyway.
Ta-ra.
Tar-ra, hen.
Yeah, well how long does a teleletter actually take? Yes, yes, yes alright, thank you very much.
Bloody hell! TANNOY: Air UK announce the arrival of flight UK-571 from Amsterdam.
TANNOY: Passengers for Air UK flight UK 214 to Aberdeen should check in now.
SUZY: Martin? Martin? No No! - No! No!! - Where is he?!! TANNOY: Passengers for flight 102 to Oslo Miss Summerfield? Hello? (SOUND OF SUZY SOBBING QUIETLY) Miss Summerfield? Are you there? Miss Summerfield? - Oh my god! What the hell's he done to you?! - Help me! Help me! Ticket to Oslo, please.
TANNOY: (NORWEGIAN) This is the last call for flight SAS-734 to Montreal.
TANNOY: (NORWEGIAN) Will all passengers for flight SAS-734 to Montreal, please go TANNOY: This is the last call for flight SAS-734 to Montreal.
TANNOY: Will all passengers for flight SAS-734 to Montreal, please go Well, why didn't you tell him what he wanted to know?!! You knew Martin had left the boat.
I didn't know where he was.
Sigh So, he's in Norway! Well, any idea why? No.
- Suzy, I don't like to give anyone advice, but - Good.
That's good.
I can come this evening after work.
Do you want me to? It's fantastic.
It's beautiful.
Hello.
Yes, it's me again.
Hello.
Yes.
I'd like to phone a Mr.
Nils Jakobsen Yes, Jakobsen, yes, I I don't know where he lives I don't know his address Yes oh, all right, then.
Oh yes? Yes.
Oh, I see! Yes, it's like being Smith in England! Yeah.
Alright.
Never mind.
Alright.
Thank you very much.
(SINGING TO SELF) - ls this your office? - No.
Pity, it's lovely.
- (KNOCK ON DOOR) - Ja? BERIT: Martin Taylor is here.
Oh, come in, come in.
How do you do, Mr.
Taylor? Oh! Please please, sit down.
Thank you.
Can I be of any help? Well, I don't really know where to begin, but I suppose it's a NATO thing, really.
NATO things they are really not our province.
We're a local paper, Mr.
Taylor.
We prefer not.
.
.
not to get involved.
Look a new school is to be opened.
A man is jailed for fraud.
Front page.
Well, I'll help you if I can, but I'm sure you have come to the wrong place.
- Well, it's nothing sensative.
- It never is and yet it always is.
Please, go on.
Just recently.
.
.
a British trawler disappeared north west of here and I'm trying to find out what happened to it.
What was the name of the boat? The Caistor.
I don't know.
Berit! - Berit! - Ja? (NORWEGIAN) May we have some coffee, please? Ja.
Um would you like it black, Mr.
Taylor? - The coffee.
- Oh, yes.
Yes, thank you.
There was a there was a big search.
There was a NATO exercise going on at the same time.
I know.
So much goes on it's difficult.
And I'm sure you have come to the wrong place.
"Local Fisherman finds Caistor lifebuoy.
" Coffee! So you don't recognise the front page of your own newspaper? Great! - I cannot help you, Mr.
Taylor.
- I know.
It's none of your business.
That's right.
Mr.
Taylor! Mr.
Taylor!! Mr.
Taylor! (INAUDIBLE) It's no use being angry with Bolset.
He's not in charge.
Not really.
Oh, I'm not angry.
But what do you mean "he's not in charge.
" He's he's not the editor? Oh, he is.
But I don't know.
It's not made easy for him.
Sometimes it's difficult choosing what to print.
It may be a small paper, but there are people who take very much interest in it's business.
- Who? - Who? Well, I can't say anything for sure, but I have this strange feeling that something is happening.
Some evenings, occasionally, I leave and Bolset is talking another two hours, maybe more.
- Who's he talking to? Who are they? - I don't know.
But well, I think there's a Russian.
And there's an American.
He has to be cautious.
He wants to work for a bigger paper in the south It's important that he succeeds.
- So, he does what he's told? - I think so.
Was it you who, um sent that article to Dr.
Dowdall? Yes.
Well, it might be better if Bolset didn't know about that.
It could make things difficult for me.
- I see.
- Well it used to be better.
Well, it's unlikely I shall ever be talking to him again.
You should talk to the man who wrote that article.
He used to work at the paper, a real journalist.
But he and Bolset, they didn't get on.
- I I like him already.
What's his name? - Erik Starvik.
- What? - Erik Starvik.
Erik Starvik.
He was trouble to the owners, I think.
He was too strong.
Well where does he work now? Freelance.
Oh, he has stories in the national papers, in Oslo.
But he still lives here.
- Do you think he'll be at home now? - Maybe.
I don't know.
MARTIN: Erik Starvik? STARVIK: Ja.
- Martin Taylor? - Yes.
- What do you want? - Ah, you you speak English.
- Of course.
- Good.
- Ah, Berit must have talked to you? - She did.
What's wrong with your leg? Well I I fell of a quay.
You shouldn't go so close to the edge.
No.
Tell me the truth.
Well, er I didn't fall I was pushed by a man in a oar.
Who was he working for? That's what I'm trying to find out.
And then I'll tell a nice policeman.
Well, we'd better get inside.
MARTIN: These are incredible! Yes.
- Did you take them? - No, no, no.
Let me show you something here.
You know, the Russians are very interested in any sort of foreign ship activity.
See here this is a British trawler on fire, and the photo is taken from the back of a Russian destroyer.
This here is the same trawler two hours later in Murmansk harbour.
- Where the hell did you get these? - (SPEAKING NORWEGIAN) - What? - Well, it fell off a lorry! - Cheers! - Cheers! One thing you you always have to remember that we appear very aware all the time that you know, the Russians are that far away from here.
STARVIK: (NORWEGIAN) Ah, there you are! Ah, let me introduce this is Ulla, my wife and this is Martin Taylor.
A journalist from London.
- Hello.
- Hello.
I'm just going to pick up Ingrie.
(SPEAK NORWEGIAN TO EACH OTHER) - We've got some trouble with the car, you see.
- Mmm.
- Ok, bye bye.
See you later.
- Bye, bye.
MARTIN: It's magical! STARVIK: Yes, it is.
STARVIK: So what do you hope to find? MARTIN: Peace of mind.
I want to know a secret.
And everyone is determined to keep me from it.
- STARVIK: Oh, my favourite kind! - (MARTIN LAUGHS) I want to know about The Caistor.
Which I suppose is somewhere out there.
Somewhere out there And I I thought the local newspaper office was a reasonable place to start.
Oh, Belset.
Ja ja.
Yeah, well I didn't get anything out of him as you probably know.
And then I left and Berit told me about you.
She sounded unhappy.
Was everything okay at the paper? Yes, yes, as as far as I could tell.
You were asking about the lifebuoy? Yes! Well I, er I showed Bolset your article, which was published in his paper and and he couldn't remember it.
- Haha! Oh, that is Bolset.
Have you seen Jakobsen? No, no.
I talked to the harbour master and they're expecting him tomorrow.
- I know him.
- Who is he? He's a weekend fisherman and I've talked to him.
You won't get anything out of him.
He's stubborn.
Well, what did you get out of him? Well, you know I've been doing some investigation around here and a lot of people want to bury me for it.
That's, er that's something we have in common.
You know, I need to know I need to know where Jakobsen found that buoy.
It was analysed in England by a specialist who said that it hadn't been out to sea and it hadn't been submerged to any depth at all.
An enigma.
Yes, an enigma.
Well, there was a set up.
There was an Inquiry and the report had been tampered with.
- Did he allow that to happen? - Well, I talked to him and I don't think he will.
So Jakobsen was lying? Yes.
Yes.
I think he was.
STRANG: I'm very busy, Doctor.
- DOWDALL'S VOICE: But I must meet with you.
DOWDALL: Phillip, some of your boys have been making a terrible blunder over this Caistor business.
STRANG: That's a departmental responsibility.
DOWDALL: Well, it may be at the moment, but I don't want to talk on this line.
Are you speaking from the University? DOWDALL: I do not like the way I've been used in this matter.
I've been lied to threatened and my work misrepresented in the most appalling way.
Again, it's departmental.
DOWDALL: Phillip! These chaps are your responsibility! Arthur.
Arthur? DOWDALL: I want us to meet.
I'm in London tomorrow.
- Can you get here early? Eight? - DOWDALL: Prefer nine.
Eight o'clock.
Look forward to seeing you.
STARVIK: Half the allied forces were up there at that time.
STARVIK: I mean, if the conditions were so bad, why was only one vessel affected? STARVIK: I mean, the ship was designed for that kind of weather! MARTIN: Yes, yes.
I agree.
What I'm saying is I never believed that.
It didn't sink because of the sea.
I I mean if it was spying, then it would make sense somebody could have taken it away or just, well blown it out of the water.
Yes, but why?! Both sides do it they know it goes on.
And and, and if the Russians really have destroyed it well, why hasn't the British government made capital out of it? Because it was spying.
Yeah, but no-one really cares about that, not really, not really.
But to lose a ship like that with all hands on board, that's what people really care about.
You're talking about the public now.
They're not in charge.
I mean it's a cover-up.
Well, I'm convinced.
How are you going to prove that? Well, alright you know the lifebuoy evidence, ignored.
Tom Silvers, framed.
The letter from the radio operator to his wife, destroyed the day after it was mentioned in the Inquiry.
And you know, on top of all that, they've tried to kill me twice! Yeah, how are you going to prove that? You might have fallen off the quay, like you said to me.
I mean, suggestions that is no good.
You know that.
- Hello.
- Oh, hey! Hello! Sorry to disturb you.
MARTIN: That's alright.
This is Ingrie.
And I think she'd like to tell you something.
STARVIK: Oh, your mummy been talking English? ULLA: (NORWEGIAN) Say the rhyme you learned at school.
Dandelion, dandelion, yellow and gold.
What do you do all day? I wait and wait in the long green grass until the children come to play.
Dandelion, dandelion, yellow and gold.
What do you do all night? I wait and wait in the long green grass until my hair grows long and white.
BOTH: (NORWEGIAN) Off to bed.
Mummy will come and settle you down later.
MARTIN: Good night! - Would you like to stay and eat with us? - Yes, I'd love to.
- ULLA/STARVIK: Good.
- Oh.
I have to make a phone call.
- Well, make a phone call.
- Well, it's to England.
- Oh, make a phone call.
It's in the hall.
- Okay.
(NORWEGIAN) ls he really a journalist, or what? (NORWEGIAN) Yes, he is.
Why? (NORWEGIAN) Well, I don't want you to get into that old trouble again.
(NORWEGIAN) No, no, no it's not dangerous.
He has just come to look for his father (NORWEGIAN) who went down with the Caistor.
Yes, it's Martin Yeah.
Martin Yes, is Suzy there? What?!! What are you talking about?!! Hang on.
St.
Catherine's.
And I wouldn't try ringing her because she's asleep that's something she hasn't had much of.
No, Martin Martin! Frankly, I think it would be in her best interest if you didn't call her at all.
She will get over you, she's had practice.
It's odd really, she's so mature in other ways and when Hello? No, no.
I'm a friend I'm a close friend! Yes, yes, well alright can you tell me if she's she's comfortable at least? Yes, I understand Alright, well could you give could you give her a message? Yes, well, it's from Martin Martin, yes.
Could you tell her that I phoned and that I'll phone again as soon as I can Yes, alright.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
STARVIK: ls she alright? - Well, she's um she's been attacked or something.
I'm sorry, I this is the same man that? I don't know.
Possibly.
I'm I'm sorry.
You want to phone someone? No.
No.
We go and eat and you'll feel better and then we'll we'll visit a friend of mine.
Okay? Okay.
- Good.
- Okay.
You shouldn't have left it so long.
(NORWEGIAN) Nils, tell Martin about the radiation.
I've been treating cases of um radiation sickness.
A few weeks ago a fisherman came to see me Iverson.
Very bad stomach pains great spots really unnatural.
BJORNSON: They have him for observation in Oslo now.
Tell him about the others.
How many are there, I wonder? Three other men came here.
His friends.
The crew of a fishing boat "Nidar.
" They got the same pains.
The same spots.
And now they lose their hair.
I took blood samples and sent them to the medical centre.
Mine were not the first they had.
I sent samples to Oslo, to the World Health Authority.
The fish must have been contaminated as well.
I should think so.
But no-one will admit it.
In the papers there is nothing.
There was a ban on the fishing at that time, in that area it never should have happened.
To Iverson and his friends, bans are not important.
Then where did it come from, the radiation? We don't know.
I mean we probably never find out, the security's very strong around here.
One day Ingrie, my daughter, came home from school she told me she'd seen those men on the shoreline with strange clothes on vacuum cleaning the shoreline.
So, I go and look and there they were, in their protective clothing taking samples to test for radiation.
You think they tell me anything? Nothing.
I even phoned the Defence Department in Oslo.
What did they say? Nothing.
They didn't answer my question.
There's nothing we can do about it.
Each time a nuclear submarine goes by out there, we hold our breath.
And there are a lot of them.
There could have been a collision.
A nuclear submarine.
That would explain the leak, the loss of the ship everyone's reaction No, it can't be.
It can't be because there's no wreckage.
Try and get some sleep.
Yeah, I should do.
I should go back to the hotel.
No, no.
It's much too late.
I'll get you a quilt.
Thank you.
- Sorry? - Cricket.
Be nice to think there were no reserves.
Thankfully most of them were all too eager to be bought off.
They all have unhappy past which we can resurrect, if necessary.
Springfield in Special Branch - if you want any of them in quickly.
This Evans He hasn't been contacted? No, he's our problem man.
He won't respond to Aircall.
Payment address? The house is empty.
He just used to go there and sign for it, apparently.
We don't even know his real name.
SIMON: Cleverer than the rest then? Looks like it.
And more of a danger.
Oh, why is Main being so bloody minded and uncooperative! I think you'd better exploit your association, stop him doing some other stupid thing.
Understood.
Thank you.
- HILLMORE: Have you spoken to Dowdall yet? - It's in hand.
HILLMORE: Hmmm You see one is caught I mean, you've worked for newspapers, so you understand.
Where are you going to pitch yourself? Do you see? I mean our minds intuition or whatever tells us when something is wrong.
Nothing to do with the law.
It's our moral sense.
Yes, but is this the same thing? It's simply deception.
Well, of course it is.
"Simply deception.
" D'you see what you've just said? Your expectations.
Look, you you don't have to convince me, lam on the same side as you.
Quite possibly.
Possibly just curiosity, "a good story".
Your motives are important, you know.
My father is missing, presumed dead.
I'm presumed dead.
And if my body isn't found amongst the debris down in the docks, he'll come after me again.
Doesn't that qualify me? DOWDALL: Mmm.
But I can hardly believe that Carpenter overlooked the significance of my conclusions.
Firstly, no hydrostatic pressure damage at all and that's very unusual, you know.
Worth investigating.
Well, perhaps it became detached before the Caistor sank.
- Possibly.
But secondly the organic life.
- Diatoms? Mmm.
They simply didn't tally.
I found both fresh water and sea water diatoms.
But no chiloseras, no rhizolenias none at all.
Or melosira.
.
.
and there are great carpets of the stuff in the Barents, you know.
So the lifebuoy hasn't been out to sea at all? It hasn't been further than three miles from the coast! The shallow water diatoms would have been killed by the salt.
Well, if it hasn't been out to sea, and it hasn't been submerged to any depth where has it been? Well, perhaps you can help me.
Hmm? - Did you find the towel alright? - SUZY: Yes, thanks.
I won't offer you another.
I'm not driving anywhere.
No, I'm fine.
Tell me, is your interest in this really only personal? It is really.
Honest.
- Bit of a wasted journey for you.
- No, not really.
- Oh, what a depressing place.
- "Are you, or have you ever been" Quite.
What an unpleasant woman! Poor Peter looked terrible.
I'm glad the boys weren't there.
They sedate him.
I found it difficult to hear what he said He sounded a bit drunk.
He has been worse, though.
One day I went to visit him and he wasn't making any sense at all.
He shouted at me as if I was a complete stranger.
He told me he'd been ordered to sink the Caistor.
- Could that be true? - He really believed it.
I thought he'd actually lost his mind.
He shouted so much, I had to call the Sister.
- Fed up with the cold war? - Look, no hands! After you.
I wouldn't go chasing your medal of honour for a couple of days.
Why? ROKOFF: I'm not going to be disappointed, am I? The Inquiry is over.
Aren't we pleased with ourselves.
You may be.
The fact is, one of my operatives hasn't made contact for seventy-two hours.
- And? - Hold off a while that's all I'm saying Now, look.
Moscow has already been told that everything is alright.
If we're implicated now, I'm back on the streets.
Now, you know that, don't you?! I'm not doing too well myself.
Hillmore's breathing down my neck.
You know what he thinks of direct confrontation.
How soft you people are.
I don't think I'll ever understand, really, this everlasting need to forgive your enemies.
That may be useful if I'm going to be one of them.
- People like that don't last on our side.
- You send them to mental hospitals.
- That's a cheap jibe, I think.
- Nemirovick is in one I understand.
Nemirovick.
.
.
if you damage a four-thousand-ton nuclear submarine isn't that madness? Anyway, you're not free of blame.
Your Captain Huninger, isn't he in a psychiatric hospital? Yes, but he's actually had a breakdown.
Nemirovick will in time.
The man who discovered the buoy was Nils Jakobsen.
I spoke to a young lady at the local newspaper.
She she sent me she sent me this.
DOWDALL: Now, Jakobsen was not a local man.
I wondered whether perhaps he'd washed the buoy, or left it in the harbour at all.
- He's an ill mannered man.
- You spoke to him? - Mmm? - You spoke to him? Oh, yes.
An experience I don't want to go through again! (LAUGHS) Now then, I insist on contributing something towards this.
- No, no, please.
- No, no, no.
Please, please, please.
Now whatever you discover will also be of use to me, so it's quid pro quo.
Alright? I'm not without my influence, you know.
Do you know Sir Philip Strang? - No.
- Well, he's a sort of civil servant.
I feel it's time to exercise the old school tie.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Come on! - Are you are you leaving or somat? - Well, er the room service was terrible! Oh, come on.
Don't knock her, she's a lovely boat.
- What's happened to you? - Yeah, I'm going on holiday.
- Ooh, aye.
Somewhere hot? - No.
Oh, I see.
Mind m'own business.
Well, I shall expect a postcard.
Sam, have you seen any, um strange people knocking about the docks, snooping around? No.
No, can't say that I have.
Someone looking for you? No, no.
Everything's fine.
Right.
Well, give my love to that lassie of yours when you see her, will you? Yeah, yeah I will.
And l'd like to you know thank you for everything you've done.
Ta.
- Can you take me to the airport, please? - You must be bloody joking! Can you please take me to the airport? - Sam? - Oh, hello, hen! If you're looking for that fella of yours, he's just left.
- Oh, when? - Oh, 'bout an hour ago.
Did he say where he was going? Oh, come on, lovey.
He's got less chat than Harpo Marx.
- Did he not say anything? - Well, he's going on a holiday.
On holiday, where? Well, he he went for a cleanup, I suppose, and then he went.
There's a cup of tea in the hut if you'd like that, hen.
No, I'd better not, Sam.
I've got to go.
Thanks anyway.
Ta-ra.
Tar-ra, hen.
Yeah, well how long does a teleletter actually take? Yes, yes, yes alright, thank you very much.
Bloody hell! TANNOY: Air UK announce the arrival of flight UK-571 from Amsterdam.
TANNOY: Passengers for Air UK flight UK 214 to Aberdeen should check in now.
SUZY: Martin? Martin? No No! - No! No!! - Where is he?!! TANNOY: Passengers for flight 102 to Oslo Miss Summerfield? Hello? (SOUND OF SUZY SOBBING QUIETLY) Miss Summerfield? Are you there? Miss Summerfield? - Oh my god! What the hell's he done to you?! - Help me! Help me! Ticket to Oslo, please.
TANNOY: (NORWEGIAN) This is the last call for flight SAS-734 to Montreal.
TANNOY: (NORWEGIAN) Will all passengers for flight SAS-734 to Montreal, please go TANNOY: This is the last call for flight SAS-734 to Montreal.
TANNOY: Will all passengers for flight SAS-734 to Montreal, please go Well, why didn't you tell him what he wanted to know?!! You knew Martin had left the boat.
I didn't know where he was.
Sigh So, he's in Norway! Well, any idea why? No.
- Suzy, I don't like to give anyone advice, but - Good.
That's good.
I can come this evening after work.
Do you want me to? It's fantastic.
It's beautiful.
Hello.
Yes, it's me again.
Hello.
Yes.
I'd like to phone a Mr.
Nils Jakobsen Yes, Jakobsen, yes, I I don't know where he lives I don't know his address Yes oh, all right, then.
Oh yes? Yes.
Oh, I see! Yes, it's like being Smith in England! Yeah.
Alright.
Never mind.
Alright.
Thank you very much.
(SINGING TO SELF) - ls this your office? - No.
Pity, it's lovely.
- (KNOCK ON DOOR) - Ja? BERIT: Martin Taylor is here.
Oh, come in, come in.
How do you do, Mr.
Taylor? Oh! Please please, sit down.
Thank you.
Can I be of any help? Well, I don't really know where to begin, but I suppose it's a NATO thing, really.
NATO things they are really not our province.
We're a local paper, Mr.
Taylor.
We prefer not.
.
.
not to get involved.
Look a new school is to be opened.
A man is jailed for fraud.
Front page.
Well, I'll help you if I can, but I'm sure you have come to the wrong place.
- Well, it's nothing sensative.
- It never is and yet it always is.
Please, go on.
Just recently.
.
.
a British trawler disappeared north west of here and I'm trying to find out what happened to it.
What was the name of the boat? The Caistor.
I don't know.
Berit! - Berit! - Ja? (NORWEGIAN) May we have some coffee, please? Ja.
Um would you like it black, Mr.
Taylor? - The coffee.
- Oh, yes.
Yes, thank you.
There was a there was a big search.
There was a NATO exercise going on at the same time.
I know.
So much goes on it's difficult.
And I'm sure you have come to the wrong place.
"Local Fisherman finds Caistor lifebuoy.
" Coffee! So you don't recognise the front page of your own newspaper? Great! - I cannot help you, Mr.
Taylor.
- I know.
It's none of your business.
That's right.
Mr.
Taylor! Mr.
Taylor!! Mr.
Taylor! (INAUDIBLE) It's no use being angry with Bolset.
He's not in charge.
Not really.
Oh, I'm not angry.
But what do you mean "he's not in charge.
" He's he's not the editor? Oh, he is.
But I don't know.
It's not made easy for him.
Sometimes it's difficult choosing what to print.
It may be a small paper, but there are people who take very much interest in it's business.
- Who? - Who? Well, I can't say anything for sure, but I have this strange feeling that something is happening.
Some evenings, occasionally, I leave and Bolset is talking another two hours, maybe more.
- Who's he talking to? Who are they? - I don't know.
But well, I think there's a Russian.
And there's an American.
He has to be cautious.
He wants to work for a bigger paper in the south It's important that he succeeds.
- So, he does what he's told? - I think so.
Was it you who, um sent that article to Dr.
Dowdall? Yes.
Well, it might be better if Bolset didn't know about that.
It could make things difficult for me.
- I see.
- Well it used to be better.
Well, it's unlikely I shall ever be talking to him again.
You should talk to the man who wrote that article.
He used to work at the paper, a real journalist.
But he and Bolset, they didn't get on.
- I I like him already.
What's his name? - Erik Starvik.
- What? - Erik Starvik.
Erik Starvik.
He was trouble to the owners, I think.
He was too strong.
Well where does he work now? Freelance.
Oh, he has stories in the national papers, in Oslo.
But he still lives here.
- Do you think he'll be at home now? - Maybe.
I don't know.
MARTIN: Erik Starvik? STARVIK: Ja.
- Martin Taylor? - Yes.
- What do you want? - Ah, you you speak English.
- Of course.
- Good.
- Ah, Berit must have talked to you? - She did.
What's wrong with your leg? Well I I fell of a quay.
You shouldn't go so close to the edge.
No.
Tell me the truth.
Well, er I didn't fall I was pushed by a man in a oar.
Who was he working for? That's what I'm trying to find out.
And then I'll tell a nice policeman.
Well, we'd better get inside.
MARTIN: These are incredible! Yes.
- Did you take them? - No, no, no.
Let me show you something here.
You know, the Russians are very interested in any sort of foreign ship activity.
See here this is a British trawler on fire, and the photo is taken from the back of a Russian destroyer.
This here is the same trawler two hours later in Murmansk harbour.
- Where the hell did you get these? - (SPEAKING NORWEGIAN) - What? - Well, it fell off a lorry! - Cheers! - Cheers! One thing you you always have to remember that we appear very aware all the time that you know, the Russians are that far away from here.
STARVIK: (NORWEGIAN) Ah, there you are! Ah, let me introduce this is Ulla, my wife and this is Martin Taylor.
A journalist from London.
- Hello.
- Hello.
I'm just going to pick up Ingrie.
(SPEAK NORWEGIAN TO EACH OTHER) - We've got some trouble with the car, you see.
- Mmm.
- Ok, bye bye.
See you later.
- Bye, bye.
MARTIN: It's magical! STARVIK: Yes, it is.
STARVIK: So what do you hope to find? MARTIN: Peace of mind.
I want to know a secret.
And everyone is determined to keep me from it.
- STARVIK: Oh, my favourite kind! - (MARTIN LAUGHS) I want to know about The Caistor.
Which I suppose is somewhere out there.
Somewhere out there And I I thought the local newspaper office was a reasonable place to start.
Oh, Belset.
Ja ja.
Yeah, well I didn't get anything out of him as you probably know.
And then I left and Berit told me about you.
She sounded unhappy.
Was everything okay at the paper? Yes, yes, as as far as I could tell.
You were asking about the lifebuoy? Yes! Well I, er I showed Bolset your article, which was published in his paper and and he couldn't remember it.
- Haha! Oh, that is Bolset.
Have you seen Jakobsen? No, no.
I talked to the harbour master and they're expecting him tomorrow.
- I know him.
- Who is he? He's a weekend fisherman and I've talked to him.
You won't get anything out of him.
He's stubborn.
Well, what did you get out of him? Well, you know I've been doing some investigation around here and a lot of people want to bury me for it.
That's, er that's something we have in common.
You know, I need to know I need to know where Jakobsen found that buoy.
It was analysed in England by a specialist who said that it hadn't been out to sea and it hadn't been submerged to any depth at all.
An enigma.
Yes, an enigma.
Well, there was a set up.
There was an Inquiry and the report had been tampered with.
- Did he allow that to happen? - Well, I talked to him and I don't think he will.
So Jakobsen was lying? Yes.
Yes.
I think he was.
STRANG: I'm very busy, Doctor.
- DOWDALL'S VOICE: But I must meet with you.
DOWDALL: Phillip, some of your boys have been making a terrible blunder over this Caistor business.
STRANG: That's a departmental responsibility.
DOWDALL: Well, it may be at the moment, but I don't want to talk on this line.
Are you speaking from the University? DOWDALL: I do not like the way I've been used in this matter.
I've been lied to threatened and my work misrepresented in the most appalling way.
Again, it's departmental.
DOWDALL: Phillip! These chaps are your responsibility! Arthur.
Arthur? DOWDALL: I want us to meet.
I'm in London tomorrow.
- Can you get here early? Eight? - DOWDALL: Prefer nine.
Eight o'clock.
Look forward to seeing you.
STARVIK: Half the allied forces were up there at that time.
STARVIK: I mean, if the conditions were so bad, why was only one vessel affected? STARVIK: I mean, the ship was designed for that kind of weather! MARTIN: Yes, yes.
I agree.
What I'm saying is I never believed that.
It didn't sink because of the sea.
I I mean if it was spying, then it would make sense somebody could have taken it away or just, well blown it out of the water.
Yes, but why?! Both sides do it they know it goes on.
And and, and if the Russians really have destroyed it well, why hasn't the British government made capital out of it? Because it was spying.
Yeah, but no-one really cares about that, not really, not really.
But to lose a ship like that with all hands on board, that's what people really care about.
You're talking about the public now.
They're not in charge.
I mean it's a cover-up.
Well, I'm convinced.
How are you going to prove that? Well, alright you know the lifebuoy evidence, ignored.
Tom Silvers, framed.
The letter from the radio operator to his wife, destroyed the day after it was mentioned in the Inquiry.
And you know, on top of all that, they've tried to kill me twice! Yeah, how are you going to prove that? You might have fallen off the quay, like you said to me.
I mean, suggestions that is no good.
You know that.
- Hello.
- Oh, hey! Hello! Sorry to disturb you.
MARTIN: That's alright.
This is Ingrie.
And I think she'd like to tell you something.
STARVIK: Oh, your mummy been talking English? ULLA: (NORWEGIAN) Say the rhyme you learned at school.
Dandelion, dandelion, yellow and gold.
What do you do all day? I wait and wait in the long green grass until the children come to play.
Dandelion, dandelion, yellow and gold.
What do you do all night? I wait and wait in the long green grass until my hair grows long and white.
BOTH: (NORWEGIAN) Off to bed.
Mummy will come and settle you down later.
MARTIN: Good night! - Would you like to stay and eat with us? - Yes, I'd love to.
- ULLA/STARVIK: Good.
- Oh.
I have to make a phone call.
- Well, make a phone call.
- Well, it's to England.
- Oh, make a phone call.
It's in the hall.
- Okay.
(NORWEGIAN) ls he really a journalist, or what? (NORWEGIAN) Yes, he is.
Why? (NORWEGIAN) Well, I don't want you to get into that old trouble again.
(NORWEGIAN) No, no, no it's not dangerous.
He has just come to look for his father (NORWEGIAN) who went down with the Caistor.
Yes, it's Martin Yeah.
Martin Yes, is Suzy there? What?!! What are you talking about?!! Hang on.
St.
Catherine's.
And I wouldn't try ringing her because she's asleep that's something she hasn't had much of.
No, Martin Martin! Frankly, I think it would be in her best interest if you didn't call her at all.
She will get over you, she's had practice.
It's odd really, she's so mature in other ways and when Hello? No, no.
I'm a friend I'm a close friend! Yes, yes, well alright can you tell me if she's she's comfortable at least? Yes, I understand Alright, well could you give could you give her a message? Yes, well, it's from Martin Martin, yes.
Could you tell her that I phoned and that I'll phone again as soon as I can Yes, alright.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
STARVIK: ls she alright? - Well, she's um she's been attacked or something.
I'm sorry, I this is the same man that? I don't know.
Possibly.
I'm I'm sorry.
You want to phone someone? No.
No.
We go and eat and you'll feel better and then we'll we'll visit a friend of mine.
Okay? Okay.
- Good.
- Okay.
You shouldn't have left it so long.
(NORWEGIAN) Nils, tell Martin about the radiation.
I've been treating cases of um radiation sickness.
A few weeks ago a fisherman came to see me Iverson.
Very bad stomach pains great spots really unnatural.
BJORNSON: They have him for observation in Oslo now.
Tell him about the others.
How many are there, I wonder? Three other men came here.
His friends.
The crew of a fishing boat "Nidar.
" They got the same pains.
The same spots.
And now they lose their hair.
I took blood samples and sent them to the medical centre.
Mine were not the first they had.
I sent samples to Oslo, to the World Health Authority.
The fish must have been contaminated as well.
I should think so.
But no-one will admit it.
In the papers there is nothing.
There was a ban on the fishing at that time, in that area it never should have happened.
To Iverson and his friends, bans are not important.
Then where did it come from, the radiation? We don't know.
I mean we probably never find out, the security's very strong around here.
One day Ingrie, my daughter, came home from school she told me she'd seen those men on the shoreline with strange clothes on vacuum cleaning the shoreline.
So, I go and look and there they were, in their protective clothing taking samples to test for radiation.
You think they tell me anything? Nothing.
I even phoned the Defence Department in Oslo.
What did they say? Nothing.
They didn't answer my question.
There's nothing we can do about it.
Each time a nuclear submarine goes by out there, we hold our breath.
And there are a lot of them.
There could have been a collision.
A nuclear submarine.
That would explain the leak, the loss of the ship everyone's reaction No, it can't be.
It can't be because there's no wreckage.
Try and get some sleep.
Yeah, I should do.
I should go back to the hotel.
No, no.
It's much too late.
I'll get you a quilt.
Thank you.