Coming Up (2012) s01e06 Episode Script

Why did you never dance again? Mum? After you defected in London, you never went on the stage.
Not once.
Nureyev did, Baryshnikov, Makarova.
You know, everyone who ran did.
That was the point, freedom of expression.
It was the past.
It was behind me.
Was it my father? Did he not want you to? Did he not want you to? It was not your father.
Is this still on? Why did you leave the Soviet Union? Marsha, it was a different lifetime.
This is going to be the worst documentary in history if you won't to talk to me.
Hello.
I have come to look at the house.
It is to be sold, yes? Oh, well, yeah, come in.
Um, the house has been in our family for five generations.
We've had a lot of interest, even with the state of the market.
Why are you selling now? My father died.
My condolences.
He was older than my mother and ill for a very long time.
He's come to look around the house.
Yes.
I can stay if you want me to show him around.
No, I will.
You're already late.
Go home OK.
Well, don't forget to show him the view.
It's beautiful.
Alicia.
English.
Speak in English.
KGB taught you English.
Use it.
Show me the house.
You want to buy my house? I have money.
I could help.
Yes.
The wall came down and our spies became millionaires.
We had certain skills.
I have come for you.
I could give you a tour of my house.
Al Alicia.
This is where I sat with my husband the night his father died.
That night, he couldn't make his mouth form words.
So we sat silently together.
He was a good man, your husband? Michael was not like you.
He lived in a different world.
You are so beautiful.
- You - No.
Leave me.
Whatever story you have written in your head, it will not have life.
The Russian state is guilty of crimes in Chechnya.
The Russian state is guilty of the killing of civilians, of arbitrary arrests and torture.
How do you know this? I was an agent of the KGB and its successor, the FSB.
Were you involved in these crimes? Yes.
Why are you telling your story now? I want to try to live a different type of life.
Why have you now come to London? It's not always sensible to tell the truth in Russia.
Are you afraid, Mr Borodin? I have something you must see.
If you please.
We have received a message from your sister, Katya.
It came two days ago.
Katya.
Has Borodin seen this? Yes, he has.
But he will not return.
But he will not listen to me.
I can't make him go back.
He never married, you know? But he wrote about you for years after you defected in a private diary.
He would speak to you late at night, alone in his apartment.
You listened to him? It was many years until he was trusted again.
He did not know I was going to defect.
I lied to him, I lied.
Yes, you did, but he loved you and that could save their lives.
You're the only one who can make him go back.
He could not live without hearing your voice.
What is this? How he listened to your life.
You should shed no tears for him.
Leave me.
This is a man without worth.
Get out! I know who he is.
Our buyer.
Your repentant killer.
But who is he to you? He was my KGB guard on Bolshoi tour to London.
Were you lovers? Why don't you trust me? You think it's like a book? The past, like something imagined? It was 30 years ago.
And I am still afraid.
Do you understand me? I am still afraid.
No, I don't understand.
How can I? I left him, I betrayed him, I used him.
So, you could be free.
So I could be safe.
Nothing bigger.
Just safe.
And you are.
Are we to be recorded? My daughter is making a documentary about me.
I'm an unwilling subject, she tells me.
I can believe it.
Masha, she's my youngest.
Masha.
Masha.
I just want to look at you.
I never looked at famous photographs of you.
I had my own up here.
I was very careful with it.
Why did you speak out? I did not want to be who I was.
It was war.
Terrible things happen.
Now now I want to be a different man.
Sukhov came to me.
I know that you can save them and that you refuse to do it.
I want you to go back.
Whatever happens to you, I want you to do it.
I must give up my life now? I love you, Olesya.
You love me? This is your love, is it? How many of these? You have listened to me and my children.
I did not do this, Olesya.
It is English, not Soviet.
Sukhov, no.
This is not ours.
I would not have listened to your happiness.
Olesya Why did you never dance again? It reminded me of home.
I remember every detail.
How you slept.
Your arm curved over your face in the air, so precise.
Only dancer sleep like that, I thought.
It was only a few weeks we spent together, Dima.
My life, it was those weeks.
You should not have spent your life alone.
I know, I know.
I loved Michael.
He was a good man.
But I always thought of you and those weeks we spent together.
Did you? We can start again.
They will come for Masha.
Sukhov has been following her.
I don't know what they will do, what they might do, but I can protect you.
No-one can protect us.
We can disappear.
We can disappear.
Disappear? Yeah, all of us.
I know how to get passports, new names, different names.
We leave England.
We can leave whenever we want.
Rome, Istanbul, Marrakesh.
I will not die the man who I was when I lived.
I did love you.
I loved you so much.
I never forgot you.
Do you believe me? Not every word is a suspect.
Not every word belongs to them.
Early morning viewing? Perhaps I will make an offer.
Well, we've got a big garden.
You could bury your bodies there.
Do you own a shovel? Cos we wouldn't include one in the price.
Masha, keep quiet.
You don't know this man.
No, I don't.
No, Olesya.
She's like you, isn't she? Brave.
Don't worry.
I'm going home.
Goodbye.
You have not contacted me since he left.
They are safe, Olesya.
He did what he needed to.
Good.
They are safe, Olesya.
They were always safe.
There were no terrorists, there were no hostages, there was no deadline.
We needed someone to convince Borodin to come back to Russia.
The insult of him had to be answered.
Your sister was used.
You were used.
I remember seeing you on stage when we were young.
You were perfect.
We were so proud of you.
You shouldn't have left us.
These things are not forgotten.