Spyship (1983) s01e06 Episode Script
Episode 6
1 - SIMON: Who chooses the meeting place? - MAN: Rokoff, usually.
It depends.
- What's he like? - A little bit theatrical perhaps.
- I wonder what he knows about me.
- Everything.
I should think.
He can be a great help to us.
He knows about our position with Hillmore.
- Your position.
- Come on, Simon.
Don't bugger about.
You've got no reason to be smug.
Hillmore may be keeping you sweet, but only as long as he has to.
- I know him.
- I don't see how Rokoff can help us.
Hillmore has always kept my regional work very hush-hush.
So Rokoff has just sent the details to Moscow.
Do you remember Petrov, the KGB who disappeared in Glasgow last year? Didn't he go to the States? He was disposed of by my north-west operative.
On Hillmore's direct orders.
When that hits Strang's desk he'll crucify Hillmore.
- If your soldier testifies.
Loyalty.
Should it ever come to that.
You see before Moscow makes this information public, you and I will go to Strang and express our reservations about Hillmore's capability.
Culpability! So, the whole thing was Hillmore's idea? Wicked, isn't it? We can't have a man like that running our intelligence service.
This man Evans on the loose really it's not good enough.
What does Rokoff get out of all this? Hillmore's far too inscrutable for the Soviets.
They like to know where they are.
Even if it's in the dog house.
Hello! MAIN: Ah.
(SPEAKING NORWEGIAN) STARVIK: Go and see mummy.
Martin! Hey! Martin! Wake up.
Jakobsen is back.
Let's go! But, Arthur.
What makes you think the report was substituted? Now look, Strang.
I know it was substituted.
I went there.
I saw it for myself!! - You went to the Inquiry? - Directly after I'd seen the young man, Taylor.
But I was too late, it was all over.
The Clerk wouldn't even show me a copy of the damn thing! All I was shown were a few pages of the most futile well, I I can hardly call it an analysis! - Carpenter understood it to be genuine.
- But you know it wasn't! Arthur, lam a pragmantist.
In my business, virtues are commodities I'm a trader.
Most of my reps spend all their time sifting through dirt.
I have to share a little of that.
But you are responsible.
Ultimately! - And you are ruled by your conscience? - And I hope so.
I hope I always will be.
Mmm yes It wasn't a good idea talking to that young man.
If you appreciate the seriousness of these events, as you do then you must understand the dangers you're exposing people to.
I'm sorry you've unwittingly been given some of our dirty linen.
It does seem crass.
I shall do what's practical.
STARVIK: Hey! Oh, hey! (NORWEGIAN) Do you remember me? Starvik.
May we come on board? JAKOBSEN: And you are the Englishman? Yeah.
- I didn't know you spoke english.
- I don't! (NORWEGIAN) What do you want? Okay, ask him about the buoy.
(NORWEGIAN) My english friend is interested in the buoy you found.
(NORWEGIAN) Get off my boat! Please, speak to us.
(NORWEGIAN) He's come a very long way.
Mr Jakobsen, the Caistor was from my home town.
It's very important to me to find out (NORWEGIAN) You're trespassing! Get off my boat now! He says we're trespassing.
Yeah, but why are you angry.
I'm just trying to find out what happened! (NORWEGIAN) Get off my boat! You're trespassing! (NORWEGIAN) Okay, okay! We're going! Come on, Martin.
Are you frightened? Did somebody tell you not to talk to me? - STARVIK: Come on, Martin! - No, no! It's absurd! What are you gonna do, kill me?!! He just might, Martin! Come on! (NORWEGIAN) Stay away, Taylor! - Come on, let's go, come on! - No! Come on, let's let's Come on, let's leave it, Martin.
It's no use I've talked to the man before We can't just leave it! Listen to me, listen! I've come two thousand miles to talk to this guy, okay? Now, if I don't get something out of him now - Listen listen, Martin Listen! Listen - he's going to go back to Kirkenes or - Listen, Martin! - wherever it is, and what have I got? Nothing! He was not alone in the boat, you see? Well, how do you know that? He can't handle the boat alone.
He has to have someone with him.
Now, I know a man, he's called Pedersen sometimes he goes with Jakobsen when he goes to sea.
Can we go and see him instead talk to him? - I don't know, I mean - This idiot, you can kill him you don't get a bloody word out of him, you see? - Let's go and see Pedersen, ok? It's no use.
- Ok.
Ok.
Yes, sir? We could be in trouble.
- One of the clinics playing up? - No.
Young journalist got through to Dowdall.
Told him the lot apparently.
Oh dear.
Strang is getting quite excited about it.
Threatens to put his nose in.
Anything I can do? No.
I'd rather manage this myself.
It's getting terribly messy.
Do we know where this journalist bloke is? No, but his girlfriendâs in hospital.
- Could she be involved, do you think? - At least we know where she is! (PEDERSEN AND STARVIK TALK TO EACH OTHER IN NORWEGIAN) PEDERSEN: There were no other men.
I left the boat directly when we came in.
Nothing to unload.
STARVIK: You didn't catch anything? PEDERSEN: We didn't fish PEDERSEN: Jakobsen said the weather was going to be bad.
What was your position? Your position.
Jakobsen's a kind man generous boat.
They didn't fish at all.
Jakobsen said the weather forecast was bad, but I don't think he believes that.
In the newspaper, Jakobsen said he didn't know his position.
- Yes, I asked him that.
- What did he say? He said Jakobsen is a kind and very generous man.
Yes, yes Ask him how long he's known Jakobsen.
- You speak English? - Well that much, you know.
I I don't know him very well All right.
Was he expecting to find the buoy? Was he looking for the buoy? (REPEATS IT IN NORWEGIAN) I think that's yes.
Jakobsen is a very good man, you know.
I I wouldn't work with him if he weren't.
My father was a fisherman.
He was on board the Caistor.
MARTIN: Do you understand that? Yes, yes.
I haven't haven't done anything wrong.
So, why don't you tell the truth? He knew where to find the buoy! (REPEATS IT IN NORWEGIAN) (NORWEGIAN) He had a chart.
.
.
the right position was marked.
He had a chart.
The exact position was marked.
with my family and all that.
I'll go.
No.
You stay here and watch out.
I I mean, I can't be quicker.
Jakobsen won't be there now.
Yeah, but if he does come back, you can keep him talking! Yes, he makes such good conversation! Listen, I'll be very fast.
Where would you look for a chart on a boat like that? - Erik.
I'll go.
- No.
No, I must, I must! It's important to me.
It's important I find anything there is to be found! I must see it with my eyes.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
I understand that.
Okay.
- See you in a minute.
- Yeah.
MARTIN: Come on! Open! You bastard! You bastard! I I don't I don't Oh, shit.
Martin! Martin! What the hell's Martin! Are you all right? - Are you all right, Martin? - Yeah.
- He's dead! - Yeah.
- What shall we do? - I don't know.
I could call the police.
That would be a lot of trouble.
I er I don't think we should call the police at all.
Ready? Martin.
Martin.
Come on.
MARTIN: Have you got a cigarette? Thank you.
Thanks.
There was never any kind of reckoning.
I mean, they they were both dead within a month of each other and I never really knew them as as an adult.
I never knew them.
I mean when I was a kid, you know, they were my parents I loved them I loved them and then I er I er left home and er I didn't go back that often and sol, er I never really I never really knew them I I st I still loved them you know I still loved them! I mean lt's not it's not something you say when you're thirty! D'you know what I mean? ULLA: Mmm.
STARVIK: (NORWEGIAN) What's up? (NORWEGIAN) Nothing.
I just came to say "Adieu!" - Yeah.
Fantastisk! Now, you must go and see your own doctor when you get back home.
- Yes, I will.
- Can you see without glasses? - Oh, yes.
Well, I can can hold them up.
- Fine.
Look, Martin you keep in touch.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
(TANNOY VOICE SPEAKS) You nail those bastards! Yeah.
(INAUDIBLE) BJORNSON: Martin! What you do next is very important.
Not just for you, but for all of us who can see the dangers in this secret war.
Now, all loan do is to aid the wounded.
I can't stop the madness that brings these things about.
But maybe you can do something.
Maybe just telling the truth will help.
Good luck.
Did you miss me? I missed you too.
It's this way.
- What happened to your face, Mr.
Brierley? - Oh, rugby! Could I ask you not to make your meeting any longer than is absolutely necessary? It's very important that Captain Huninger isn't tired or upset in any way.
- Yes.
Yes, of course.
- Thank you.
Down there.
If you require assistance, this will ring in my office.
Please press it when your business is completed.
Alright, thank you.
My name's Martin Taylor.
What happened to you? Cigarette? I'm surprised they let you see me.
I'm their prize patient, I think.
Being a solicitor was your wife's idea.
She thought that "changing your will" might appeal to their sense of honour.
"Honour!" I've never been to this side of the building.
It's beautifully quiet.
Your young lady has been very kind to my wife.
It's beastly for her.
How long are you going to be here? You had a relative on the Caistor? Yes.
My father.
I'm awfully sorry, old man.
John Taylor.
Chief Engineer.
- He is dead? - Oh, yes.
Why? Duty.
All the men died as far as I know.
She was a spyship? I was ordered to disable her.
I couldn't reach her, not in time.
One missile.
A direct hit.
When we eventually reached her, stern was well down.
I went in to pick up the survivors and then suddenly.
.
.
there was the submarine.
There was no warning.
Russian? Damn great thing.
Soviet hotel class.
Nuclear.
She came forward stopped me reaching the men.
None of them had any life belt.
I keep hearing them, screaming in the water.
Everytime I tried to reach them, this bloody Russian blocked me.
He was quite prepared to let them drown.
I rammed him.
They said afterwards it was an accident, but I don't think it was.
It's not clear What was the reason? Why were you ordered to fire? I was ordered.
- Shall we go to your room, Captain Huninger? - Yes, I I do feel rather tired.
Come on! HEAVY: This way! Detestable.
.
.
this espial of one's conduct.
Yes.
In a perfect world What would we all do! I must thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
It isn't easy to speak up when someone senior to you loses his discretion it's a risk to oneself.
Had Hillmore known that you were aware of his activities he could easily have excised you from the Service.
Quite.
Personal allegiance can go so far.
Quite.
Anyway you've been pleased with Simon Tait? He is resourceful.
He was very understanding about our little bit of trouble.
He gets on well with you, good team? I'll consider it.
HILLMORE: Thank you, Mullen.
HILLMORE: I'm sorry if they alarmed you.
HILLMORE: I didn't want to lose the chance of speaking with you.
Who are you? MI6? Yes.
- How did you get your injuries? - You should know.
What did Captain Huninger tell you? Why should I talk to you? I know what happened! - You don't know why.
- It doesn't matter why, it doesn't matter! - Are you gonna kill me too? - That's not up to me.
- God - It's up to you.
- Why was the Caistor destroyed? - We're at war.
We've been at war every day for the past forty years.
A war of Intelligence.
The Caistor was part of that and due to circumstance, she became a casualty.
Twenty-six men became a casualty! It's nothing they're nothing.
Look at the world.
Open your eyes.
Hundreds, thousands, dying the most hideous deaths every day.
All they have is fear.
indignation is a luxury.
It doesn't work like that.
What kind of world do you live in? Forgive the parable.
There are two men in a darkened room, separated by a wall.
They fear each other, each wondering what the other is plotting.
But they learn that by turning on the light and peering over the wall they can see the other man, what he's doing.
It's called security.
It's what I sell.
Now there's a price to be paid for looking over that wall.
It's the premium we have to pay for peace.
Why was the Caistor destroyed? She was engaged in monitoring radio frequencies used by the Soviets to control their SS-NX-20 missiles.
Naturally, the Soviet shore stations were sending out jamming signals to prevent us hearing.
Now, something unforeseen occurred.
The Caistor's monitoring frequencies started to build up against the Soviet shore station signals and the missile test signature.
The three signals together were building up to a harmonic which was rapidly approaching the firing frequency Of a chain of Soviet sea-bed nuclear mines in the Barents Sea.
Now, the jamming signals prevented me reaching the Caistor via HMS Tuscan to stop her monitoring.
I could not risk the mines being armed and fired unintentionally with the NATO exercise fleet within their range.
Sol had to order Captain Huninger to stop the Caistor.
He questioned my order, but, thank god, obeyed on the repeat signal.
The rest I know Captain Huninger told you.
If you divulge what I have just told you, we will be back in that darkened room.
- Why have you told me this? - To help you come to a sensible decision.
Sensible! You want me to forget this this catastrophe? Not forget it, no.
But to do nothing further.
- All those people? - Unintentional.
But it happened! The crew, Mrs.
Millar, the the girl you beat up, it all happened.
It's something I'm unlikely to forget! For as long as you live.
A long time, I hope.
I can't I won't keep silent I'd be very disappointed if that were true.
I would have misjudged you.
If you attempt to publicise anything I have told you in confidence It's wrong!! you'll destroy the most successful intelligence programme since 1945.
Public alarm will stop dead the vital exchange of information which enables you to be free, perhaps forever.
But it's wrong! You used those men! They were fishermen, not spies! You murdered them! There can be no excuse! You're wrong.
Learn that, or you will be dealt with.
- This is a threat? - The broader view.
Accept it.
I implore you.
I er I need time to think.
Could I see you again? It isn't necessary.
HILLMORE: Phillip? STRANG: Do sit down, Peter.
But they wouldn't have let you leave if they were going to harm you.
So what? They just going to go on following us? Well, it's reassuring in a way.
They must know you'll write it all down.
Yeah, well it's only a story, isn't it? No evidence.
- The chart you sent to Dowdall? - Pfft! Dowdall won't even speak to me.
- Nobody wants to know you, eh? - Ain't it the truth.
Well, what the hell.
Publish and be damned! If something happens to you, there's the proof! Great! Thanks! Great! What's depressing, actually is that even if I did get the story done, I don't think anybody would want to do anything about it.
They expect it.
People expect it.
They know there's a war going on constantly, which they'll never see.
So, if it doesn't affect the daily routine of their lives, what the hell! It's forgotten! Do you really believe that? No.
- Kuhlau.
- Sorry? - Kuhlau.
Contemporary of Beethoven.
- Ah.
Quite nice.
So what will Hillmore do now? Oh, sit around the pool at his club telling all his chums how he was out- manoevered, I should think.
- Double-crossed.
- By a more dedicated man.
Ohoho! Come, come.
He wanted Hillmore's job, and he got it.
You don't seem very surprised? Sir Francis Main.
He only had one eye, you know Kuhlau.
- What about a drink? - Where? SIMON: Halkin Street.
Prince of Wales.
ROKOFF'S VOICE: That's miles away! SIMONE VOICE: Yes.
We've got a lot to talk about.
(LAUGHING IN THE DISTANCE) Do you like living round here? Not especially.
Why? Well, er I thought we could go somewhere else.
Perhaps get married.
What do you think of that? - Where? - Where!! Where would we go? I don't know.
Somewhere far away.
- Huddersfield.
- (BOTH LAUGH) Okay! Okay! - Can we go down by Heddon Road? - Yeah.
Why? Just something I want to show you.
It depends.
- What's he like? - A little bit theatrical perhaps.
- I wonder what he knows about me.
- Everything.
I should think.
He can be a great help to us.
He knows about our position with Hillmore.
- Your position.
- Come on, Simon.
Don't bugger about.
You've got no reason to be smug.
Hillmore may be keeping you sweet, but only as long as he has to.
- I know him.
- I don't see how Rokoff can help us.
Hillmore has always kept my regional work very hush-hush.
So Rokoff has just sent the details to Moscow.
Do you remember Petrov, the KGB who disappeared in Glasgow last year? Didn't he go to the States? He was disposed of by my north-west operative.
On Hillmore's direct orders.
When that hits Strang's desk he'll crucify Hillmore.
- If your soldier testifies.
Loyalty.
Should it ever come to that.
You see before Moscow makes this information public, you and I will go to Strang and express our reservations about Hillmore's capability.
Culpability! So, the whole thing was Hillmore's idea? Wicked, isn't it? We can't have a man like that running our intelligence service.
This man Evans on the loose really it's not good enough.
What does Rokoff get out of all this? Hillmore's far too inscrutable for the Soviets.
They like to know where they are.
Even if it's in the dog house.
Hello! MAIN: Ah.
(SPEAKING NORWEGIAN) STARVIK: Go and see mummy.
Martin! Hey! Martin! Wake up.
Jakobsen is back.
Let's go! But, Arthur.
What makes you think the report was substituted? Now look, Strang.
I know it was substituted.
I went there.
I saw it for myself!! - You went to the Inquiry? - Directly after I'd seen the young man, Taylor.
But I was too late, it was all over.
The Clerk wouldn't even show me a copy of the damn thing! All I was shown were a few pages of the most futile well, I I can hardly call it an analysis! - Carpenter understood it to be genuine.
- But you know it wasn't! Arthur, lam a pragmantist.
In my business, virtues are commodities I'm a trader.
Most of my reps spend all their time sifting through dirt.
I have to share a little of that.
But you are responsible.
Ultimately! - And you are ruled by your conscience? - And I hope so.
I hope I always will be.
Mmm yes It wasn't a good idea talking to that young man.
If you appreciate the seriousness of these events, as you do then you must understand the dangers you're exposing people to.
I'm sorry you've unwittingly been given some of our dirty linen.
It does seem crass.
I shall do what's practical.
STARVIK: Hey! Oh, hey! (NORWEGIAN) Do you remember me? Starvik.
May we come on board? JAKOBSEN: And you are the Englishman? Yeah.
- I didn't know you spoke english.
- I don't! (NORWEGIAN) What do you want? Okay, ask him about the buoy.
(NORWEGIAN) My english friend is interested in the buoy you found.
(NORWEGIAN) Get off my boat! Please, speak to us.
(NORWEGIAN) He's come a very long way.
Mr Jakobsen, the Caistor was from my home town.
It's very important to me to find out (NORWEGIAN) You're trespassing! Get off my boat now! He says we're trespassing.
Yeah, but why are you angry.
I'm just trying to find out what happened! (NORWEGIAN) Get off my boat! You're trespassing! (NORWEGIAN) Okay, okay! We're going! Come on, Martin.
Are you frightened? Did somebody tell you not to talk to me? - STARVIK: Come on, Martin! - No, no! It's absurd! What are you gonna do, kill me?!! He just might, Martin! Come on! (NORWEGIAN) Stay away, Taylor! - Come on, let's go, come on! - No! Come on, let's let's Come on, let's leave it, Martin.
It's no use I've talked to the man before We can't just leave it! Listen to me, listen! I've come two thousand miles to talk to this guy, okay? Now, if I don't get something out of him now - Listen listen, Martin Listen! Listen - he's going to go back to Kirkenes or - Listen, Martin! - wherever it is, and what have I got? Nothing! He was not alone in the boat, you see? Well, how do you know that? He can't handle the boat alone.
He has to have someone with him.
Now, I know a man, he's called Pedersen sometimes he goes with Jakobsen when he goes to sea.
Can we go and see him instead talk to him? - I don't know, I mean - This idiot, you can kill him you don't get a bloody word out of him, you see? - Let's go and see Pedersen, ok? It's no use.
- Ok.
Ok.
Yes, sir? We could be in trouble.
- One of the clinics playing up? - No.
Young journalist got through to Dowdall.
Told him the lot apparently.
Oh dear.
Strang is getting quite excited about it.
Threatens to put his nose in.
Anything I can do? No.
I'd rather manage this myself.
It's getting terribly messy.
Do we know where this journalist bloke is? No, but his girlfriendâs in hospital.
- Could she be involved, do you think? - At least we know where she is! (PEDERSEN AND STARVIK TALK TO EACH OTHER IN NORWEGIAN) PEDERSEN: There were no other men.
I left the boat directly when we came in.
Nothing to unload.
STARVIK: You didn't catch anything? PEDERSEN: We didn't fish PEDERSEN: Jakobsen said the weather was going to be bad.
What was your position? Your position.
Jakobsen's a kind man generous boat.
They didn't fish at all.
Jakobsen said the weather forecast was bad, but I don't think he believes that.
In the newspaper, Jakobsen said he didn't know his position.
- Yes, I asked him that.
- What did he say? He said Jakobsen is a kind and very generous man.
Yes, yes Ask him how long he's known Jakobsen.
- You speak English? - Well that much, you know.
I I don't know him very well All right.
Was he expecting to find the buoy? Was he looking for the buoy? (REPEATS IT IN NORWEGIAN) I think that's yes.
Jakobsen is a very good man, you know.
I I wouldn't work with him if he weren't.
My father was a fisherman.
He was on board the Caistor.
MARTIN: Do you understand that? Yes, yes.
I haven't haven't done anything wrong.
So, why don't you tell the truth? He knew where to find the buoy! (REPEATS IT IN NORWEGIAN) (NORWEGIAN) He had a chart.
.
.
the right position was marked.
He had a chart.
The exact position was marked.
with my family and all that.
I'll go.
No.
You stay here and watch out.
I I mean, I can't be quicker.
Jakobsen won't be there now.
Yeah, but if he does come back, you can keep him talking! Yes, he makes such good conversation! Listen, I'll be very fast.
Where would you look for a chart on a boat like that? - Erik.
I'll go.
- No.
No, I must, I must! It's important to me.
It's important I find anything there is to be found! I must see it with my eyes.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
I understand that.
Okay.
- See you in a minute.
- Yeah.
MARTIN: Come on! Open! You bastard! You bastard! I I don't I don't Oh, shit.
Martin! Martin! What the hell's Martin! Are you all right? - Are you all right, Martin? - Yeah.
- He's dead! - Yeah.
- What shall we do? - I don't know.
I could call the police.
That would be a lot of trouble.
I er I don't think we should call the police at all.
Ready? Martin.
Martin.
Come on.
MARTIN: Have you got a cigarette? Thank you.
Thanks.
There was never any kind of reckoning.
I mean, they they were both dead within a month of each other and I never really knew them as as an adult.
I never knew them.
I mean when I was a kid, you know, they were my parents I loved them I loved them and then I er I er left home and er I didn't go back that often and sol, er I never really I never really knew them I I st I still loved them you know I still loved them! I mean lt's not it's not something you say when you're thirty! D'you know what I mean? ULLA: Mmm.
STARVIK: (NORWEGIAN) What's up? (NORWEGIAN) Nothing.
I just came to say "Adieu!" - Yeah.
Fantastisk! Now, you must go and see your own doctor when you get back home.
- Yes, I will.
- Can you see without glasses? - Oh, yes.
Well, I can can hold them up.
- Fine.
Look, Martin you keep in touch.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
(TANNOY VOICE SPEAKS) You nail those bastards! Yeah.
(INAUDIBLE) BJORNSON: Martin! What you do next is very important.
Not just for you, but for all of us who can see the dangers in this secret war.
Now, all loan do is to aid the wounded.
I can't stop the madness that brings these things about.
But maybe you can do something.
Maybe just telling the truth will help.
Good luck.
Did you miss me? I missed you too.
It's this way.
- What happened to your face, Mr.
Brierley? - Oh, rugby! Could I ask you not to make your meeting any longer than is absolutely necessary? It's very important that Captain Huninger isn't tired or upset in any way.
- Yes.
Yes, of course.
- Thank you.
Down there.
If you require assistance, this will ring in my office.
Please press it when your business is completed.
Alright, thank you.
My name's Martin Taylor.
What happened to you? Cigarette? I'm surprised they let you see me.
I'm their prize patient, I think.
Being a solicitor was your wife's idea.
She thought that "changing your will" might appeal to their sense of honour.
"Honour!" I've never been to this side of the building.
It's beautifully quiet.
Your young lady has been very kind to my wife.
It's beastly for her.
How long are you going to be here? You had a relative on the Caistor? Yes.
My father.
I'm awfully sorry, old man.
John Taylor.
Chief Engineer.
- He is dead? - Oh, yes.
Why? Duty.
All the men died as far as I know.
She was a spyship? I was ordered to disable her.
I couldn't reach her, not in time.
One missile.
A direct hit.
When we eventually reached her, stern was well down.
I went in to pick up the survivors and then suddenly.
.
.
there was the submarine.
There was no warning.
Russian? Damn great thing.
Soviet hotel class.
Nuclear.
She came forward stopped me reaching the men.
None of them had any life belt.
I keep hearing them, screaming in the water.
Everytime I tried to reach them, this bloody Russian blocked me.
He was quite prepared to let them drown.
I rammed him.
They said afterwards it was an accident, but I don't think it was.
It's not clear What was the reason? Why were you ordered to fire? I was ordered.
- Shall we go to your room, Captain Huninger? - Yes, I I do feel rather tired.
Come on! HEAVY: This way! Detestable.
.
.
this espial of one's conduct.
Yes.
In a perfect world What would we all do! I must thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
It isn't easy to speak up when someone senior to you loses his discretion it's a risk to oneself.
Had Hillmore known that you were aware of his activities he could easily have excised you from the Service.
Quite.
Personal allegiance can go so far.
Quite.
Anyway you've been pleased with Simon Tait? He is resourceful.
He was very understanding about our little bit of trouble.
He gets on well with you, good team? I'll consider it.
HILLMORE: Thank you, Mullen.
HILLMORE: I'm sorry if they alarmed you.
HILLMORE: I didn't want to lose the chance of speaking with you.
Who are you? MI6? Yes.
- How did you get your injuries? - You should know.
What did Captain Huninger tell you? Why should I talk to you? I know what happened! - You don't know why.
- It doesn't matter why, it doesn't matter! - Are you gonna kill me too? - That's not up to me.
- God - It's up to you.
- Why was the Caistor destroyed? - We're at war.
We've been at war every day for the past forty years.
A war of Intelligence.
The Caistor was part of that and due to circumstance, she became a casualty.
Twenty-six men became a casualty! It's nothing they're nothing.
Look at the world.
Open your eyes.
Hundreds, thousands, dying the most hideous deaths every day.
All they have is fear.
indignation is a luxury.
It doesn't work like that.
What kind of world do you live in? Forgive the parable.
There are two men in a darkened room, separated by a wall.
They fear each other, each wondering what the other is plotting.
But they learn that by turning on the light and peering over the wall they can see the other man, what he's doing.
It's called security.
It's what I sell.
Now there's a price to be paid for looking over that wall.
It's the premium we have to pay for peace.
Why was the Caistor destroyed? She was engaged in monitoring radio frequencies used by the Soviets to control their SS-NX-20 missiles.
Naturally, the Soviet shore stations were sending out jamming signals to prevent us hearing.
Now, something unforeseen occurred.
The Caistor's monitoring frequencies started to build up against the Soviet shore station signals and the missile test signature.
The three signals together were building up to a harmonic which was rapidly approaching the firing frequency Of a chain of Soviet sea-bed nuclear mines in the Barents Sea.
Now, the jamming signals prevented me reaching the Caistor via HMS Tuscan to stop her monitoring.
I could not risk the mines being armed and fired unintentionally with the NATO exercise fleet within their range.
Sol had to order Captain Huninger to stop the Caistor.
He questioned my order, but, thank god, obeyed on the repeat signal.
The rest I know Captain Huninger told you.
If you divulge what I have just told you, we will be back in that darkened room.
- Why have you told me this? - To help you come to a sensible decision.
Sensible! You want me to forget this this catastrophe? Not forget it, no.
But to do nothing further.
- All those people? - Unintentional.
But it happened! The crew, Mrs.
Millar, the the girl you beat up, it all happened.
It's something I'm unlikely to forget! For as long as you live.
A long time, I hope.
I can't I won't keep silent I'd be very disappointed if that were true.
I would have misjudged you.
If you attempt to publicise anything I have told you in confidence It's wrong!! you'll destroy the most successful intelligence programme since 1945.
Public alarm will stop dead the vital exchange of information which enables you to be free, perhaps forever.
But it's wrong! You used those men! They were fishermen, not spies! You murdered them! There can be no excuse! You're wrong.
Learn that, or you will be dealt with.
- This is a threat? - The broader view.
Accept it.
I implore you.
I er I need time to think.
Could I see you again? It isn't necessary.
HILLMORE: Phillip? STRANG: Do sit down, Peter.
But they wouldn't have let you leave if they were going to harm you.
So what? They just going to go on following us? Well, it's reassuring in a way.
They must know you'll write it all down.
Yeah, well it's only a story, isn't it? No evidence.
- The chart you sent to Dowdall? - Pfft! Dowdall won't even speak to me.
- Nobody wants to know you, eh? - Ain't it the truth.
Well, what the hell.
Publish and be damned! If something happens to you, there's the proof! Great! Thanks! Great! What's depressing, actually is that even if I did get the story done, I don't think anybody would want to do anything about it.
They expect it.
People expect it.
They know there's a war going on constantly, which they'll never see.
So, if it doesn't affect the daily routine of their lives, what the hell! It's forgotten! Do you really believe that? No.
- Kuhlau.
- Sorry? - Kuhlau.
Contemporary of Beethoven.
- Ah.
Quite nice.
So what will Hillmore do now? Oh, sit around the pool at his club telling all his chums how he was out- manoevered, I should think.
- Double-crossed.
- By a more dedicated man.
Ohoho! Come, come.
He wanted Hillmore's job, and he got it.
You don't seem very surprised? Sir Francis Main.
He only had one eye, you know Kuhlau.
- What about a drink? - Where? SIMON: Halkin Street.
Prince of Wales.
ROKOFF'S VOICE: That's miles away! SIMONE VOICE: Yes.
We've got a lot to talk about.
(LAUGHING IN THE DISTANCE) Do you like living round here? Not especially.
Why? Well, er I thought we could go somewhere else.
Perhaps get married.
What do you think of that? - Where? - Where!! Where would we go? I don't know.
Somewhere far away.
- Huddersfield.
- (BOTH LAUGH) Okay! Okay! - Can we go down by Heddon Road? - Yeah.
Why? Just something I want to show you.