The Capture (2019) s02e06 Episode Script
The Flip
Correction is a method of real-time
image manipulation
using the deployment
of deepfake technology.
They kill people to protect it.
It's Yvonne, isn't it? If
there's anything I can do.
You can get the bastard who did it.
Thanks to the intervention
of our US partners,
Operation Vanguard is secure.
I stopped by the Commissioner's
office this morning,
handed in my 728.
- You're resigning?
- Don't worry, Gemma.
I didn't give the real reason.
Isaac, the deal is still intact.
What deal?
Somebody got to you, didn't they?
And with power, you can do all
the good you ever dreamt of.
I was with Isaac Turner.
He doesn't trust us.
- And that is your fault.
- Lower your tone.
I don't let anyone raise
their voice at me off camera.
What am I looking at?
Stage 4 stomach cancer.
- Hello?
- I need you to do something for me.
Look in the bathroom.
There's a laptop.
Gregory Knox, I am arresting you
for obstructing a police officer.
What are you saying?
You in?
Yes.
Shots fired. Threat neutralised.
Target down. Repeat. Target down.
Everything's falling
perfectly into place.
Also present was Commander Hart
and DSU Garland,
who stated there are up
to 50 operatives across
GCHQ.
Isaac Turner. This is DCI Rachel Carey.
Isaac Turner. This is DCI Rachel Carey.
In place of hidden camera recording,
I'm filming this eyewitness
testimony for my dossier detailing
the systematic illegal practice
of video evidence tampering
known as corrections.
Let me ask you something.
You think a person can change?
I don't know if I do.
You told us you could change.
My British chums went for it.
Danny Hart, thinking
with his famous hard-on.
Garland.
God only knows what she was thinking of.
Me, I told them
I'll believe it when I see it.
As for you, fast track.
Boy, you better pray
a person can change.
The only hope you have of getting
out of here alive depends on it.
- Hello?
- Sorry for the unsociable hour.
The empire's struck back.
Gill, the Home Sec that just won't die.
We need to regroup. Respond.
The car's on its way.
Erm OK.
I mean, you heard the recording, right?
I have got him admitting he
colluded with Aliza to obstruct
Victoria Bello's application.
And for that, I salute you, Isaac.
But that alone is not a strategy.
It's time to launch Operation Kill Gill.
I'll bring pastries. Any allergies?
Any?
No. Erm
Gregory, is is this safe?
I mean, us talking on
the phone like this.
So long as it's me you're
talking to, Isaac, you're safe.
Face the camera.
Read the highlighted paragraph.
Aloud.
I Rachel Carey
- Understand
- Oh, Colonel Kurtz. I said aloud.
I, Rachel Carey,
understand that I am currently
within the legal jurisdiction
of the United States of America.
Whilst I remain within
the legal jurisdiction
of the United States of America,
I am bound by the rules, regulations
and limitations of US federal law.
Strange expecting others
to obey your laws
while you break every last one of ours.
Settle down, wildcat.
You've already got one battle scar.
Why did you withhold this
critical piece of intelligence?
Russian state assassin
captured on camera.
- You didn't share it?
- I'm not talking without a lawyer.
You're not under arrest.
Garland, then.
Beg your pardon?
I want DSU Gemma Garland
present at my interrogation.
I'm guessing she's in on this, too.
Right?
Sorry, kiddo.
Momma's not home.
Why don't you tell me exactly
how you got a hold of this image.
I'd like to ask you the same thing.
I'd like to put a soaking cloth
over your face between questions.
But I'm exercising restraint.
Gregory Knox shared
this with you, didn't he?
I strongly suggest you
exercise some yourself.
But you already knew who
the man behind the mask was.
Nikolai Mirsky, if that's his name.
Remember when we talked about change?
He's not a Russian national, is he?
Now would be a good time to start.
I'm going to say he worked for you
until he became a liability,
and you had his partner
blow his brains out.
I mean I try to do the right thing.
I don't know what you're
plotting with Gregory Knox,
but I do hope it's worth it.
- And for what?
- A lot of people seem
- to be dying in the process. Yao.
- An entitled fast-track princess
Joseph Mwangi. Jason McKenna.
- In my ear Doesn't know when
- Lee Bradbury.
- Patrick Flynn
- To shut the fuck up!
Your boy had shitty luck.
Saw something he shouldn't.
It happens.
But you, on the other hand, nah,
you got all the luck in the world,
don't you?
Wearing a wire, catching
my boy on camera.
You should be lying in the
morgue right next to him.
You would be, too, if it wasn't
for your fucking guardian angels.
Frank.
Operation Kill Gill, phase two.
We need to put Isaac Turner in
front of his biggest audience yet.
Take down the Home Secretary
with the whole country watching.
Every public denial this doofus makes,
the story grows bigger.
Meanwhile, Isaac Turner
is simply trying to get on
with his important new schedule
promoting business schemes,
opening war memorials.
Sports initiatives?
Yes.
But those pesky reporters
won't stop badgering him
about Rowan Gill.
In the public interest, you
agree to an exclusive interview.
Look, I I don't want, you know,
to seem like I'm out for revenge.
I knew you'd get it.
Approximately one hour ago,
I was present at a briefing
with Home Secretary Rowan Gill,
who I learned has full knowledge
of Correction and its use within the UK.
Also present was Commander
Hart and DSU Garland.
It appears somebody recently tried
to wipe it all from your computer.
The laptop hidden in your bathroom?
But hadn't quite managed to
delete it from the deleted folder.
- Rookie mistake.
- Fucking Abigail.
I must say, I found it rather sweet
Your little journal.
Not quite Edward Snowden.
More Adrian Mole.
And then I reminded myself
that naivety and treachery
are not mutually exclusive.
Who else is involved
In your plot?
- Guv.
- Yeah.
I think the SO-15 contingent
is seriously overdue a briefing.
I sent three armed units off to
the suspect vehicle last night.
Ten minutes later, we get "shots
fired" over comms and "target down".
- And?
- Between all three units,
not one firearms
officer claimed the kill.
You're questioning the comms traffic?
I'm questioning everything,
after recent events.
- Did we take down a suspect?
- Yes.
Is there a body?
There usually is when someone's killed.
There was a lot of confusion in
the vicinity, by all accounts.
There was a lot of confusion
in the control room, guv.
Disappearing vehicles sound familiar?
A major event in Operation Vanguard
and not one of us had eyes on.
A bit of reassurance wouldn't go amiss
from someone we can trust.
Welcome to the nightmare
that is Correction, Isaac.
Our enemies fake things
which we can't deny.
There's a lot of information
on this video file,
and I don't mean from Rowan Gill.
The resolution suggests the type
of camera used more by journalists
than police.
So I ask you again
Who else is involved?
Khadija Khan?
It's over, Rachel.
We have everything from your first
transgression to your most recent.
Not forgetting
This little gem.
Patrick wasn't meant to be
a target, though, was he?
After everything we've done for
you, this is how you repay us.
And it wouldn't be the first time
- you failed to stop it!
- That is enough!
Hannah Roberts was an
enemy of the British state.
What did you expect?
You monitor me in my home.
- I beg your pardon?
- Cameras in every room,
- watching me day and night.
- Naturally, I can neither
- confirm or deny any such operation.
- In my bedroom!
- If you were under surveillance
- Watching me in
- bed. I can't sleep!
- It's turned out to be justified.
You secretly recorded
British intelligence.
I needed insurance!
Oh!
What a crushing
disappointment you are, Rachel.
After all the chances you've been given.
You kept me in the dark from the
moment I joined the department,
banishing me to Mapping
- What is it about your generation
- Keeping me under surveillance.
that causes you to melt at the
denial of instant gratification?
You were serving a penance. You were
supposed to be earning our trust.
I was impressed with you.
You saw this was all
Frank Napier's doing.
Before me.
Before any of us.
You even managed to get the
man to blurt out his culpability
right in front of you,
even if it did mean nearly
getting your throat slit.
You're not bad, Rachel.
You've got the capacity
for the work, all right.
And you want to squander it all
So you can be some whistle-blower?
And then what?
Go into hiding, take refuge in
Russia for the rest of your life?
There were opportunities for you.
Still would be.
I mean, if I felt for a
second I could trust you.
What does that mean?
Danny Hart's handed in his notice.
SO-15 will need a new commander.
The new commander of SO-15
Me?
No. What?
Me.
But if I were to step
into Danny Hart's shoes,
I'd need someone to step into mine.
You expect me to
believe, after all this,
you'd want me on your team?
I should have known
you'd fail to understand.
Well, forgive me, but I like
my work a little less tainted
with murder and corruption.
Perhaps you're concussed.
You, Frank Napier, Gregory Knox
I'm guessing you're
all in on this together.
Gregory Knox
is a scourge on human society.
He's everything that's wrong with
power, politics and technology
in the world today.
Then why are you protecting him?
You told me that I would see
Correction used as a force for good.
I've seen it used to help
people like Napier and Knox.
I was as appalled as you to
discover Frank was involved in this.
But there's a difference
between the aims of an operation
and the running of it.
Whatever it is, it makes
you complicit in the murders
of five innocent people
I would never sanction the
killing of a British national.
Complicit in the cover-up
The two things are not the same!
Explain the difference to a judge.
You really want to know?
My intervention into this shitstorm
prevented British killings
specifically
Yours.
Don't do it!
Everything all right?
You don't seem on the
precipice of a new dawn.
You have it?
- Were you expecting a big suitcase?
- It's locked.
Needs a code.
And you shall have it upon
completion of your work.
Brains on your flooring is
not complete enough for you?
That isn't funny, Frank.
I've had nightmares.
I thought you were
coming to deal with her,
not settle your internal affairs
in my corridor.
They're cleaning it up, aren't they?
I've got journos sniffing
around the building,
and not the kind I like.
Rumours of another
armed attack in London.
The story needs wrapping up.
No loose threads.
Well
Again, I wouldn't
expect you to understand.
Consider this the sort of
thing you might learn from me
if you could bear to give me
your trust, instead of constantly
trying to betray me.
When the police uncover a
conspiracy, they make arrests.
A spy
flips it.
Keeps it running to their advantage.
I confirmed Frank Napier's
involvement in this
not 36 hours ago
when he came to me in a sharing mood.
His gunmen were outside your flat,
waiting for his order.
You caught one of them on camera,
of course you were going to be
next on Frank Napier's kill list.
Until you stopped him.
Until I persuaded him
to let me take the reins.
How did?
Let's just say I mediated a
crisis of moral leadership.
So
I'm sorry if you disapprove
of my joining the operation.
But if I hadn't
The door to this opportunity
will not stay open long, Rachel.
I suggest you take
advantage before it shuts.
Give me everything you have
on Correction,
tell me who you're working with
and we'll find a way to move on.
And if I don't?
Oh, dear, oh, dear.
I thought you might ask that.
Phillips.
I'd brace yourself for
this, if I were you.
- Simone Turner is at Security.
- Why?
- Isaac's not here.
- She's asking for you.
OK.
I wonder if you'd be quite
so determined to fight Correction
if you saw what it was capable of.
I, Rachel Carey, am currently
within the legal jurisdiction
of the Russian Federation.
I have been offered safe
harbour by the Russian state
and I have accepted.
Make that "safe harbour and protection".
I have been offered safe harbour
and protection by the Russian state
and I have accepted.
"Gratefully accepted"?
Sounds good to me.
And I have gratefully accepted.
This is the program
used on Isaac Turner.
I forgot to mention the other
perk of joining the operation.
I have control of the kit.
Do you feel guilty for
your betrayal, DCI Carey?
I do.
I deeply, deeply regret what I've done.
You can't win, Rachel.
Surely you can see that.
Have you read the Home Office
whistle-blower's claims, Mr Turner?
You know, Ralph, today's meant
to be about these young people
trying to achieve their goals.
OK, fine people of the press,
if you'd care to decamp
to the hospitality suite,
Mr Turner will join presently
to answer any related
questions you have.
Let's keep them related, please.
All righty.
Hi, darling.
Are you OK? What are you?
Wait. How How did you
even know I'd be here?
You've been tweeting
about it all morning.
What's up?
I went to see Aliza.
Aliza? Why did you do that?
I thought I might get somewhere.
Somewhere with?
The question no-one
seems inclined to answer.
We good?
Erm, just a second.
If Victoria Bello was lying, why
was her application obstructed
by the Home Office?
Oh, right. You know, I've
actually been looking into that.
I managed to collar
the Home Secretary about it.
You can stop, Isaac. Aliza
obviously knows you better than I do.
It seems the whole of Westminster does.
- Simmy
- Why did they assume it was true?
Erm probably because they judge me
by the same pathetically low
standards as the rest of them.
The Palace of Westminster
is basically a midlife
crisis support centre.
- "I was away from home."
- Go on.
You know, "I was away from home.
It was an emotional time. She's"
She's a good-looking girl.
Yes, I suppose. Woman.
You were in a mood with me.
I was in a mood?
It was my mother's funeral.
Yes, I was upset. I-I needed support.
And Victoria Bello gave you some.
No.
Swear on the children.
Swe? What?
I need to shake this
lingering doubt, Isaac.
You know, I am in
the middle of a press conference.
Swear on the children none of it's true.
OK. OK.
Erm I swear.
I swear
on the children, on us,
on everything I hold dear
Victoria Bello's claim was false.
Her son's not mine.
Obviously.
You didn't submit a sample, did you?
For the paternity test?
It's a simple question, Isaac.
Did you submit a sample of your DNA?
No.
So, they faked the result on
TV, like you said they would?
No. The result was negative.
A fake result would have been positive.
So it's only fake
if you disagree with it?
I'm not the father of that kid,
Simone. Everyone knows that.
Everyone knows it because
it's on the news.
- Yes.
- You told me not to trust the news.
- How are we doing, guys?
- OK.
You You can trust the news, Simone.
Why would you say I couldn't?
I I was confused.
- Confused?
- Need another minute?
What about those racial
profiling comments?
OK
- What about them?
- Were you confused then?
Erm yes.
Confused when you made them,
or confused when you told
me you didn't make them?
Jesus, Isaac! Do you even know?
The confusion is pretty
non-fucking-stop, Simone.
But now now things are good.
Things are going our way. So you
don't need to keep asking questions
and picking everything apart.
Oh, but I do, Isaac, because
I need to get to the truth.
And right now, I'm
nowhere fucking near it!
How do I know nothing happened
between you and that woman?
Because you just heard me
swear it on our kids' lives!
But that's that's not quite
what you said, though, is it?
You thought I wouldn't notice.
Oh, my. You have lost me.
Do you think I'm stupid?
- No.
- I've been around politicians too long.
OK, what did I say, then?
You said Victoria Bello's
claim was untrue.
- Yes.
- And that her son's not yours.
- Which he isn't.
- But you didn't say nothing happened.
How do you know her
son's not yours, Isaac?
If there's no paternity test.
Is it because you didn't fuck her
or because you used protection?
Erm Isaac.
- Just fucking wait!
- No, it's OK.
I came for the truth,
I think I've seen it.
- Listen
- You know
You know condoms aren't 100%.
Do you realise that?
Isaac Turner and I discovered
a shared interest in exposing
Correction, an interest the MP
no longer appears to share.
Khadija Khan became aware of Correction
after the hack on the studio.
Because you enlightened her.
I saw an ally in
blowing the whistle, yes.
Does Khan have your dossier?
No, sir.
I was concerned she'd broadcast
before I gained enough evidence.
I decided not to share it.
She knows about Correction.
- I mean
- What?
All Khadija Khan seems to
care about is Khadija Khan,
getting her claws into
the next exclusive.
She knew that interview
with Victoria Bello
would mean losing Isaac's
trust. She couldn't help herself.
Isaac Turner doesn't trust Khan?
Erm there's something else, ma'am.
You'll find copies of all the files
in my dossier on SD cards hidden
beneath the radio in my car.
- Jen.
- Anthony.
I'm calling for a favour.
Right. Well, you know me.
You're retiring, I hear.
Spend more time with the family,
or can't take any more guilt?
We need you to provide a statement.
About the dossier.
About Vanguard.
As sole witness to last night's events,
your testimony is critical.
You were following up on a
routine inquiry in the offices
of Truro Analytics when you became
aware of intruders in the building.
Your priority then became the
safety of their assumed target
Mr Gregory Knox.
Shortly after securing Mr Knox in
his office, armed support arrived
to neutralise the threat. Due
to their ongoing deployment
on covert operations,
the identities of the armed officers
will be redacted from your report.
However, you can confirm the
identity of the man fatally
wounded at the scene
as that of Nikolai Mirsky
A Russian national and the
prime suspect in the murders
of Edison Yao and Joseph Mwangi,
Jason McKenna, Lee Bradbury
And Patrick Flynn.
Surprised you didn't
just fake the signature.
You're not concerned about
the fallout from Moscow?
Moscow will deny it,
but they won't disprove it.
I prefer it that way
no-one knowing what to believe.
Sir, I understand that you
are asking me to comply with
a false-flag op to protect
Frank Napier and Gregory Knox.
I just
I'd just like to know why.
You hear that prick? Hands me the drive,
tells me I've got to wait for the code.
Yes, I can believe it.
Get me into this.
Knox is the prick.
You're kind of hard to
get rid of, aren't you?
Like a stubborn turd just won't flush.
Why don't you brief Rachel
on the contents of that drive?
Is that an order?
Yeah.
Greg Knox may be a piece of shit,
but he crunches data for every big
tech company that matters.
Know how long we've been trying
to make a deal with somebody like that?
What kind of deal?
I helped him play puppet
master to his politician.
For that, he gave me
the secret weapon
Truro's algorithm.
Access to almost 3 billion
social media accounts worldwide.
So you can track the
activity of just about anyone?
Not track, predict.
The algorithm calculates behaviour
right down to how suggestible a guy
is to changing his toothpaste
or who he's going to vote for.
You can also predict how
prone he is to dissent.
Anyone from Bangkok to Mexico City
to Portland, Oregon
even thinks about subversion,
we'll know about it.
Not if we can't access
the drive, we won't.
What am I looking at?
Well, you're looking at it
I just can't transfer it.
You mean you can get into
the BBC but you can't hack into this?
This has AES 256-bit cipher.
I can hack it, if you want to lose data.
Why won't Knox give you the code?
He's not happy with the work
Carnage
The trail of bodies.
He's concerned it might
all lead back to him, right?
Right.
He'll give me the code.
When everybody is looking the other way.
East.
Good work, Rachel.
A landmark move for global security.
If not democracy.
Have you forgotten already?
What did I teach you about flipping
an operation to our advantage?
The room's yours, Todd.
Rachel and I are
stepping out for a while.
Where are we going, ma'am?
You heard Frank. Gregory Knox
is trying to plant a politician
who answers to big tech.
We are going to stop him.
Can I get a very weak Earl Grey
with lots of milk?
How's the all-seeing AI, Gregory?
The great and powerful programme.
Is there a problem?
Erm a slight problem, yes.
It seems I've hit
a slight bump in the road
that your algorithm failed to predict.
Simone says she's going to
fucking leave me.
- Already?
- Al? What?
Ah, right.
Wow.
You You don't seem too alarmed.
I can't imagine your algorithm's
going to love my chances of success
if I end up getting divorced.
You can never second guess that thing.
So what?
We might not have a problem if
someone does, in fact, leave me?
Not necessarily.
- You knew?
- Hmm?
You knew. You knew.
You knew dragging Victoria
Bello out the woodwork
- would destroy my marriage.
- No, I knew it it might.
It? What the fuck?
Isaac, you told us when we first
met you wanted to get to the top.
Not if it meant losing my family.
- You didn't stipulate that.
- Are you insane?
I'm sorry, Isaac, but the program
just doesn't see you with Simone.
A significant percentage
of the electorate perceives
your marriage as somewhat
strategic and they don't like it.
Do you really think it's the
first time I've heard that
that I married Simone
to climb the ladder?
I've had it thrown at me for 13 years.
So if you really think I'm
going to give in to it now,
you and your algorithm can
both go fuck yourselves.
- It's bullshit.
- It's what people think.
Then why don't you
change what they think?
- I thought that was your job.
- My job is to get you into power.
Your job is to change the
world when you get there.
Ah, gentlemen.
Guess which swinging
dick of broadcasting
I've just got off the phone
to Anthony Reed OBE.
He's offering an exclusive interview
Thursday night, 8pm, BBC One.
Shall we pencil it?
What about the boy?
The boy?
Amandi.
Victoria's son?
Seeing as you seem to know so
much, I thought you might oblige me.
What about?
Is he?
Yours?
Heavens, I have no idea.
There are some details,
Isaac, even I'm not privy to.
- Weak Earl Grey with lots of milk.
- Ah, perfect.
Erm, are we?
Meeting Khadija Khan.
If you're hoping to flip Khadija, ma'am,
I'm the wrong person to take with you.
- We didn't end on good terms.
- I know.
I deployed someone to keep
track of your movements
while Vanguard was down.
I imagine this is going to be
pretty awkward for you, huh?
I find myself with a problem.
Some highly classified intelligence
has recently been disclosed to you.
I trust DCI Carey's presence
leaves you in no doubt
as to what intelligence I am referring.
As DCI Carey will confirm,
this serious breach coincided with
a period of personal difficulty
for the detective, which she now
recognises impacted negatively on
her mental health and wellbeing,
in particular her behaviour
in the workplace.
Forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn.
No. I can confirm all of that.
It explains the public outburst.
Last person who yelled at me like
that's now editing the One Show.
So, I realise I need
something solid on the table
if I'm to earn your cooperation.
The service has long enjoyed
a mutually beneficial relationship
with one trusted individual
inside this organisation.
The incumbent isn't getting any younger.
Anthony Reed?
He's a fucking spook?
In some ways, you're better
informed than him already,
and I'll wager we can agree
on one operational goal
in the immediate term.
Sorry, are you tapping me up?
There's no official contract,
no financial agreement.
Your reward will be doing
your bit for national security
and in the bountiful source
of information that will become
available to you from the all-seeing eye
of British intelligence
directly and exclusively
to you.
What operational goal?
Today brings to an end a highly
sophisticated campaign of targeted
gun violence that has
gripped counter-terrorism
command for six long days.
A devastating campaign
that has claimed the lives
of five innocent victims
three of which were
serving police officers.
The manhunt was concluded in
a standoff during which a 39-year-old
white male was fatally
wounded by firearms officers.
The identity of the individual has
been confirmed as Nikolai Mirsky,
a Russian national and the prime
suspect in our investigation.
Our assessment of the motive
for these attacks continues,
but the evidence
overwhelmingly indicates
the involvement of
agents of a foreign state.
I would like to pay a heartfelt
tribute to those officers who made
the ultimate sacrifice
Giving up their lives
in the service of protecting us.
I did say you should give her a call.
You did, ma'am, yes.
It's Rachel, isn't it?
Yvonne, I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
They told me you were
there when it happened.
I
I was the first to reach the
ward the night of the attack,
but, by the time I got to Patrick
I'm not talking about Patrick.
I'm talking about the Russian.
You were there when they killed him.
Yes.
Thank you.
You're coming down the Crown, Carey.
You're not putting your hand
in your pocket all night.
I don't think so.
You're the hero of Vanguard.
We're not going without you.
Perhaps you ought to
hero.
Abi.
I was seriously thinking
about checking the news
to see if you'd been
found in a ditch somewhere.
Sorry. Shit sister.
Was that all right the other day?
The laptop?
Did I do it right?
Yeah, Abi.
You did it just right.
I've got to go.
Big day tomorrow.
Should he stay or should he go?
As Gill fights for his political
life, the security minister who saw
the Home Office crisis from inside
could deliver the decisive blow.
Join me for an exclusive
interview with Isaac Turner,
tonight live on BBC One.
Home Office.
Home truths.
Right. So, first-hand knowledge,
Gill obstructed
Victoria Bello's application.
Fast-tracked his housekeeper's visa,
his wife's
cousin's passport application.
Yes, I know. We've been over this.
Well, Gregory would like
us to run over it again.
Where's Reed?
Oh, shit.
"Apologies for the hold up,
nanoseconds away, Anthony."
We're ready to line up
when you are, Mr Turner.
- Here's your water, Mr Turner.
- Thank you.
Just going to mic you up.
Intercept in six minutes.
Camera feed secure.
Video capture in progress.
Bring it up.
I still remember my first time.
Can I just check the level on that mic?
- What did you have for breakfast?
- Er, eggs, toast.
- Coffee? Caviar.
- Perfect.
Where Where is Reed?
Zac, catch me. I'm parachuting in.
- You're You're not Anthony Reed.
- Well, thanks.
You're not the Prime Minister,
but we play the hands we're dealt.
Anthony sends his apologies.
Family matter.
I have my theories.
- Bollocks. I'm pulling it.
- What? Why?
- Let's go.
- I should really call the office.
You don't need to call
the office, I'm pulling it.
- The interview's been trailed, mate.
- Yeah, not with her
asking the questions, it hasn't.
Isaac.
Isaac. You really want to
make this decision unilaterally?
Rhys, remind me who do you work for?
No, it's not a trick
question or a difficult one.
You work for me, but if you'd
rather work for someone else, please,
by all means, fuck off!
Isaac.
Clear set. Strike this please,
Mel. Thank you. Take water.
Let's get her mic'd up.
Intercept in four minutes.
Thank you.
Come right in. Right over here.
Digital asset rendering.
Billy? Do you have a mirror, please?
Check the batteries on that. Yeah? Good?
Where Where is Reed?
What did you have
for breakfast, Khadija?
I had some porridge.
- Bollocks.
- Got enough?
More than enough.
Digital assets standing by.
- Hello.
- So, listen, I've pulled the interview.
- What?
- 20 seconds to transmission.
Deploy the asset.
Asset deployed. Asset deployed.
Time for some home truths
now on BBC One.
In an update to our
advertised programme
Anthony Reed never showed.
Khadija Khan turned up
at the last minute.
Something's not quite right.
An exclusive live interview
with the MP on everybody's mind.
You've pulled the interview?
Yes. I walked.
The truth is coming.
And when it comes, you'll
know about it, believe me.
If proof were ever needed that a week
is a long time in politics,
hit replay on Zac Turner's.
60 seconds to intercept.
60 seconds to
Digital asset standing by.
Digital asset standing by.
A Home Office scandal
worthy of soap opera.
- We don't have to
- No, no, it's fine.
The latest twist has seen
Zac strike back
with the help of a Home Office
whistle-blower and a dossier of
dirt on his former boss, Rowan Gill.
Motherfuck you all!
Tonight, in an exclusive interview
live from London, we hear from
- Isaac Turner
- 30 seconds to intercept.
- Eyeline check
- About the most controversial
week of his career,
his own political ambitions
Khadija.
And who he believes
should take the hit
- How's that?
- Eyeline set.
- Clear frame. Clear frame.
- For the crisis at the Home Office.
Is she going to be all right?
I hope you know what you're doing.
I'm heading back to you
right now. But, listen,
the two of us need to talk.
Intercept in six, five, four
Things have got to be
different, OK? From now on,
I want to be involved in every decision.
OK?
- Gregory?
- You walked.
Yes.
Intercept is live. Intercept is live.
Was the wrong man fired from
the Home Office this week?
If you're referring to my erstwhile
colleague, the Home Secretary,
it's not my call to make.
I'm not the Prime Minister.
If the rumours in Westminster
are to be believed,
- you'd like to be.
- Oh-ho, in Westminster's a big if.
It's not a denial, then?
After the week I've had, Khadija,
I think it'd be unwise for me
- to launch a bid for Number 10.
- Gregory? Hello?
- Just the Home Office?
- Who is this?
Erm
Gregory, it's
It's me.
You said no more deep fakes.
Britain deserves a Home
Office that's fit for purpose.
I tried to stop them.
- I really tried.
- Is it fucking him?
- Is what fucking him?
- Britain deserves a Home Secretary
who's up to the job.
- Ah I don't know what this is.
- Right.
By up to the job, I don't mean
scurrying around SW1A
getting caught up
in allegations of misconduct.
He's doing OK.
- I mean rising above the Westminster
- Gregory?
Bubble to confront every threat
to British democracy head-on.
But, Greg Gregory. It's not him.
Erm, excuse me. Can you turn around?
I need to go back to the hotel.
Erm
Hello. Excuse me.
Driver! Hello!
Are you suggesting there are
threats to British democracy
- not being confronted?
- I'm not suggesting it, Khadija,
I'm saying it loud and clear.
Can you indicate the nature
of some of those threats?
Two words
Big tech.
- What?!
- Big tech?
Whatever Gregory Knox is paying you,
it's not going to be worth the hell
I'm going to unleash if you don't
turn this fucking car around!
We all know the extent to which
technology and social media
has infiltrated our daily lives.
It's in our homes, it's on our screens.
It's got our children hooked.
I dare say I'm not the only dad in
the country who regrets giving in
to their daughter's
demands for a smartphone.
Nice detail.
But it's also infiltrated
our political systems
not just in Britain,
but around the world.
Infiltrated how?
By harvesting our data without our
consent and using it to interfere
with elections, referendums,
political campaigns.
You're saying that tech
corporations are meddling
in UK politics directly?
Well, not directly.
The dirty work tends to be
done by data analytics companies
- outside of Silicon Valley.
- Shit!
Here in the UK, for instance?
I can think of one such
example here in the UK, yes.
Frank, is this you?
What the fuck are you doing to me?!
How much of this is illegal?
Well, we've seen how nimble
these guys can be when it comes
to dancing around tax laws.
Clearly, Khadija, if a plot
to affect British democracy
was directed by a member
of a foreign state,
that's a serious international incident.
If a British national is
found to have colluded in such
an attempt, that's treason.
Holy shit!
Is he fleeing already?
My money's on Ecuador.
Do you see any hope of
holding them to account?
Not as things stand.
Tech giants behave as
if they're untouchable.
Britain needs a Home Secretary
indeed, a Prime Minister who
isn't afraid to tell them otherwise.
What do you mean, none?
How's that possible?
We knew it was going to
be inconclusive until we received
the results of the biopsy.
So, from riddled to all clear?
I agree it's unusual.
Erm, CT imaging throws up
anomalies from time to time,
but rarely this inconsistent.
- You'll have to come in for a biopsy.
- Wait a second.
These images you've been showing me
black tar covering all
my internal organs,
did you receive those electronically?
- It's all electronic.
- By email?
Uploaded to the hospital
servers. I get it from there.
Motherfucker.
Alarmingly, the tech industry
has done absolutely nothing
to combat the issue of
election interference.
And, frankly, one has to ask why.
In fact, one has to wonder what
such corporations have to gain.
If I'm not mistaken, DCI Carey,
you appear to be enjoying this.
Gregory Knox's plan has been sabotaged.
An attack on British
democracy has been averted.
Thanks to your work in
particular, DS Flynn's family
feel a strong sense
of justice for Patrick.
Are you starting to see the
potential for good in this strange
little programme we call Correction?
Frank!
Are you OK?
Never better.
Fit as a mule, apparently.
I mean, doctor says I may be looking
at a benign stomach ulcer, but
- You mean?
- Hm?
Biopsy report came back.
I don't have cancer.
But that's incredible.
It is incredible,
when you consider that, just
the other day, my CT scan
- indicated I was riddled with it.
- It doesn't make sense.
That's right after I told you
how sick I was.
- You need to go in for some more tests.
- What the fuck did you do?
- What did I do?
- Don't fucking lie to me.
Frank, I have no idea
what you're talking
- I know you're behind this.
- You're obviously very upset.
All that talk about redemption,
about Sunday School.
You wanted my fucking op, didn't you?
Well, something had to be
done after the shit shower
- you made of it!
- Are you out of your fucking mind?
You hacked my medical records!
Don't you hate it
when mum and dad argue?
Think about it.
You're not dying it's good
Don't worry. I've got you.
It's good news, Frank.
You're not dying. It is good
- It's good news!
- Have you any idea
what I've been through?
I was up on the roof.
- You were what?
- I was looking right down
into the traffic. I could have jumped!
But, obviously, Khadija,
there are other ways in which
the government has failed us.
- Which other ways?
- That would have been
deeply regrettable.
Regrettable?!
I would have been tomato
bisque on the sidewalk.
- Are you fucking nuts?
- Wait!
The extent to which
deepfake technology has already
- pervaded our society.
- In what sense?
The truth is, deepfakes have
been deployed by the British
- authorities for a number of years now.
- What's this?
In ways that threaten our core
values of democracy, liberty
- What is this?
- Rule of law.
Mr Turner, you have to admit that
the idea of British authorities
This is not in the script.
This is not my script.
This is not my script.
This operation is compromised.
Compromised? What the
fuck you talking about?
- It's the transcript you gave me.
- No, it isn't. Khadija, wrap it up.
- Did you switch the script?
- No, of course not!
Khadija, wrap it up.
- Wrap it up.
- Deepfakes have been deployed
- Khadija, wrap it up!
- She can't hear you.
- If I ever
- Unless she's in on it.
Shut the whole thing down.
- I can't get in!
- The asset or the transmission?
Everything.
Everything.
Ma'am, you can't cut the broadcast.
Right now, he's just a politician
with a conspiracy theory.
Shut it down, everyone will believe it.
She's got a point.
Does she?
Mr Turner, deepfakes have
been deployed in what way?
They call it Correction.
It's a method of real-time video
manipulation, using the disruption
of camera feeds and the deployment
of deepfake technology.
- Who do you mean by "they"?
- Members of our own
intelligence services,
our government and the police.
But, Mr Turner, to be clear,
you're asserting that there's some
sort of programme within
British intelligence to create
fake video footage.
Well, let's say they have
intel of a terrorist plot,
but the evidence against
the suspects is insufficient
They make up incriminating footage?
Well, they would say they turn
intelligence into evidence.
- Rachel Carey
- This is a serious accusation.
You are under arrest for breach
of the Official Secrets Act.
You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention when questioned
I am sorry, ma'am, but you're
currently within the legal
jurisdiction of
the United States of America.
- Frank.
- Whilst you remain within
- the legal jurisdiction
- You don't have
- the power to arrest
- Of the United States of America,
you must abide by the rules, regulations
- and limitations of US
- Frank!
- Would you shut the fuck up?
- Now, if you'll excuse me,
I know how this ends.
Frank, please detain DCI Carey.
I've reason to suspect she's
involved in subversive action
- against the state.
- Not my state.
He hasn't said anything about the US.
Frank, help!
For crying out loud!
She gives me cancer,
then she asks for my help.
The moment you set foot
outside this building,
you are eligible for arrest!
As we all are
Ma'am.
Rachel!
Listen!
You don't know what you've done.
I know one thing
Patrick Flynn hated Correction.
- And this so-called Correction
- Correction programme.
Correction programme,
when were you made aware of it?
- When I became a victim.
- A victim?
People may have noticed there
have been a number of things
I've said out of character
recently absurd ideas
I would never advocate.
Racial profiling, for example.
Are you suggesting that it wasn't
you who made those comments?
No, I'm not suggesting it, Khadija,
I'm saying it loud and clear.
Mr Turner, you have to
admit that the idea of
I always knew you were
destined for greatness
- Creating false evidence
- One way or another.
You were railing against a moment ago.
You should get down there.
You're missing the best bit.
You're not worried
people will think this is
some outlandish conspiracy theory?
Well, people should question it.
We need to challenge everything
we're told and question
everything we see.
We need to ask of every voice
on every recording of every image
on every screen
How do we know this is real?
In his interview, for example.
- It purports to be a live broadcast.
- Well, it is a live broadcast.
- Can you prove it?
- Well, I can go online,
show the latest news headlines.
All right, now we're getting
somewhere. But what about me?
What about you?
Well, I look like Isaac Turner,
I sound like Isaac Turner.
How do we know I'm the real deal?
Who's to say the real Isaac
Turner isn't in a car, right now,
on the way to Piccadilly Circus?
Who's to say the cameras filming
this interview haven't been hacked?
Who's to say Isaac Turner's
image hasn't been captured,
animated by artificial intelligence?
Who's to say, since the
very start of this interview,
while you believed you
were watching Isaac Turner,
you were, in fact, watching me
A deepfake. Fake
It's impossible to say.
Unless, of course, you happen to
be in Piccadilly Circus right now
and can see Isaac Turner
with your own eyes, then
Perhaps you can.
If you are in or near Piccadilly Circus,
look around you.
Take out your phones and start filming.
Hopefully, together, we can
shine a light on the challenges
we face surrounding deepfakes.
And, hopefully, we can begin to
raise awareness of the illegal
practice of Correction.
Because only by bringing this
conspiracy out into the open
can we hope to confront it.
As you can see, I'm not in the studio
with Isaac Turner MP.
Mr Turner is in Piccadilly Circus,
graciously playing his
part in our, hopefully,
eye-opening stunt.
You have indeed been
watching a deepfake interview.
But the alarming practice
of Correction described in it
is very much real.
Working with a team of
whistle-blowers from the heart
of British intelligence, the BBC
has obtained evidence that knowledge
of the so-called Corruption
programme extends across multiple UK
intelligence agencies and to senior
members of the British government.
In a series of exclusive reports,
starting tonight, we will
be examining these alarming
revelations in detail.
We will be sharing the evidence
obtained by the BBC.
And, finally, we will be confronting
those ultimately responsible.
image manipulation
using the deployment
of deepfake technology.
They kill people to protect it.
It's Yvonne, isn't it? If
there's anything I can do.
You can get the bastard who did it.
Thanks to the intervention
of our US partners,
Operation Vanguard is secure.
I stopped by the Commissioner's
office this morning,
handed in my 728.
- You're resigning?
- Don't worry, Gemma.
I didn't give the real reason.
Isaac, the deal is still intact.
What deal?
Somebody got to you, didn't they?
And with power, you can do all
the good you ever dreamt of.
I was with Isaac Turner.
He doesn't trust us.
- And that is your fault.
- Lower your tone.
I don't let anyone raise
their voice at me off camera.
What am I looking at?
Stage 4 stomach cancer.
- Hello?
- I need you to do something for me.
Look in the bathroom.
There's a laptop.
Gregory Knox, I am arresting you
for obstructing a police officer.
What are you saying?
You in?
Yes.
Shots fired. Threat neutralised.
Target down. Repeat. Target down.
Everything's falling
perfectly into place.
Also present was Commander Hart
and DSU Garland,
who stated there are up
to 50 operatives across
GCHQ.
Isaac Turner. This is DCI Rachel Carey.
Isaac Turner. This is DCI Rachel Carey.
In place of hidden camera recording,
I'm filming this eyewitness
testimony for my dossier detailing
the systematic illegal practice
of video evidence tampering
known as corrections.
Let me ask you something.
You think a person can change?
I don't know if I do.
You told us you could change.
My British chums went for it.
Danny Hart, thinking
with his famous hard-on.
Garland.
God only knows what she was thinking of.
Me, I told them
I'll believe it when I see it.
As for you, fast track.
Boy, you better pray
a person can change.
The only hope you have of getting
out of here alive depends on it.
- Hello?
- Sorry for the unsociable hour.
The empire's struck back.
Gill, the Home Sec that just won't die.
We need to regroup. Respond.
The car's on its way.
Erm OK.
I mean, you heard the recording, right?
I have got him admitting he
colluded with Aliza to obstruct
Victoria Bello's application.
And for that, I salute you, Isaac.
But that alone is not a strategy.
It's time to launch Operation Kill Gill.
I'll bring pastries. Any allergies?
Any?
No. Erm
Gregory, is is this safe?
I mean, us talking on
the phone like this.
So long as it's me you're
talking to, Isaac, you're safe.
Face the camera.
Read the highlighted paragraph.
Aloud.
I Rachel Carey
- Understand
- Oh, Colonel Kurtz. I said aloud.
I, Rachel Carey,
understand that I am currently
within the legal jurisdiction
of the United States of America.
Whilst I remain within
the legal jurisdiction
of the United States of America,
I am bound by the rules, regulations
and limitations of US federal law.
Strange expecting others
to obey your laws
while you break every last one of ours.
Settle down, wildcat.
You've already got one battle scar.
Why did you withhold this
critical piece of intelligence?
Russian state assassin
captured on camera.
- You didn't share it?
- I'm not talking without a lawyer.
You're not under arrest.
Garland, then.
Beg your pardon?
I want DSU Gemma Garland
present at my interrogation.
I'm guessing she's in on this, too.
Right?
Sorry, kiddo.
Momma's not home.
Why don't you tell me exactly
how you got a hold of this image.
I'd like to ask you the same thing.
I'd like to put a soaking cloth
over your face between questions.
But I'm exercising restraint.
Gregory Knox shared
this with you, didn't he?
I strongly suggest you
exercise some yourself.
But you already knew who
the man behind the mask was.
Nikolai Mirsky, if that's his name.
Remember when we talked about change?
He's not a Russian national, is he?
Now would be a good time to start.
I'm going to say he worked for you
until he became a liability,
and you had his partner
blow his brains out.
I mean I try to do the right thing.
I don't know what you're
plotting with Gregory Knox,
but I do hope it's worth it.
- And for what?
- A lot of people seem
- to be dying in the process. Yao.
- An entitled fast-track princess
Joseph Mwangi. Jason McKenna.
- In my ear Doesn't know when
- Lee Bradbury.
- Patrick Flynn
- To shut the fuck up!
Your boy had shitty luck.
Saw something he shouldn't.
It happens.
But you, on the other hand, nah,
you got all the luck in the world,
don't you?
Wearing a wire, catching
my boy on camera.
You should be lying in the
morgue right next to him.
You would be, too, if it wasn't
for your fucking guardian angels.
Frank.
Operation Kill Gill, phase two.
We need to put Isaac Turner in
front of his biggest audience yet.
Take down the Home Secretary
with the whole country watching.
Every public denial this doofus makes,
the story grows bigger.
Meanwhile, Isaac Turner
is simply trying to get on
with his important new schedule
promoting business schemes,
opening war memorials.
Sports initiatives?
Yes.
But those pesky reporters
won't stop badgering him
about Rowan Gill.
In the public interest, you
agree to an exclusive interview.
Look, I I don't want, you know,
to seem like I'm out for revenge.
I knew you'd get it.
Approximately one hour ago,
I was present at a briefing
with Home Secretary Rowan Gill,
who I learned has full knowledge
of Correction and its use within the UK.
Also present was Commander
Hart and DSU Garland.
It appears somebody recently tried
to wipe it all from your computer.
The laptop hidden in your bathroom?
But hadn't quite managed to
delete it from the deleted folder.
- Rookie mistake.
- Fucking Abigail.
I must say, I found it rather sweet
Your little journal.
Not quite Edward Snowden.
More Adrian Mole.
And then I reminded myself
that naivety and treachery
are not mutually exclusive.
Who else is involved
In your plot?
- Guv.
- Yeah.
I think the SO-15 contingent
is seriously overdue a briefing.
I sent three armed units off to
the suspect vehicle last night.
Ten minutes later, we get "shots
fired" over comms and "target down".
- And?
- Between all three units,
not one firearms
officer claimed the kill.
You're questioning the comms traffic?
I'm questioning everything,
after recent events.
- Did we take down a suspect?
- Yes.
Is there a body?
There usually is when someone's killed.
There was a lot of confusion in
the vicinity, by all accounts.
There was a lot of confusion
in the control room, guv.
Disappearing vehicles sound familiar?
A major event in Operation Vanguard
and not one of us had eyes on.
A bit of reassurance wouldn't go amiss
from someone we can trust.
Welcome to the nightmare
that is Correction, Isaac.
Our enemies fake things
which we can't deny.
There's a lot of information
on this video file,
and I don't mean from Rowan Gill.
The resolution suggests the type
of camera used more by journalists
than police.
So I ask you again
Who else is involved?
Khadija Khan?
It's over, Rachel.
We have everything from your first
transgression to your most recent.
Not forgetting
This little gem.
Patrick wasn't meant to be
a target, though, was he?
After everything we've done for
you, this is how you repay us.
And it wouldn't be the first time
- you failed to stop it!
- That is enough!
Hannah Roberts was an
enemy of the British state.
What did you expect?
You monitor me in my home.
- I beg your pardon?
- Cameras in every room,
- watching me day and night.
- Naturally, I can neither
- confirm or deny any such operation.
- In my bedroom!
- If you were under surveillance
- Watching me in
- bed. I can't sleep!
- It's turned out to be justified.
You secretly recorded
British intelligence.
I needed insurance!
Oh!
What a crushing
disappointment you are, Rachel.
After all the chances you've been given.
You kept me in the dark from the
moment I joined the department,
banishing me to Mapping
- What is it about your generation
- Keeping me under surveillance.
that causes you to melt at the
denial of instant gratification?
You were serving a penance. You were
supposed to be earning our trust.
I was impressed with you.
You saw this was all
Frank Napier's doing.
Before me.
Before any of us.
You even managed to get the
man to blurt out his culpability
right in front of you,
even if it did mean nearly
getting your throat slit.
You're not bad, Rachel.
You've got the capacity
for the work, all right.
And you want to squander it all
So you can be some whistle-blower?
And then what?
Go into hiding, take refuge in
Russia for the rest of your life?
There were opportunities for you.
Still would be.
I mean, if I felt for a
second I could trust you.
What does that mean?
Danny Hart's handed in his notice.
SO-15 will need a new commander.
The new commander of SO-15
Me?
No. What?
Me.
But if I were to step
into Danny Hart's shoes,
I'd need someone to step into mine.
You expect me to
believe, after all this,
you'd want me on your team?
I should have known
you'd fail to understand.
Well, forgive me, but I like
my work a little less tainted
with murder and corruption.
Perhaps you're concussed.
You, Frank Napier, Gregory Knox
I'm guessing you're
all in on this together.
Gregory Knox
is a scourge on human society.
He's everything that's wrong with
power, politics and technology
in the world today.
Then why are you protecting him?
You told me that I would see
Correction used as a force for good.
I've seen it used to help
people like Napier and Knox.
I was as appalled as you to
discover Frank was involved in this.
But there's a difference
between the aims of an operation
and the running of it.
Whatever it is, it makes
you complicit in the murders
of five innocent people
I would never sanction the
killing of a British national.
Complicit in the cover-up
The two things are not the same!
Explain the difference to a judge.
You really want to know?
My intervention into this shitstorm
prevented British killings
specifically
Yours.
Don't do it!
Everything all right?
You don't seem on the
precipice of a new dawn.
You have it?
- Were you expecting a big suitcase?
- It's locked.
Needs a code.
And you shall have it upon
completion of your work.
Brains on your flooring is
not complete enough for you?
That isn't funny, Frank.
I've had nightmares.
I thought you were
coming to deal with her,
not settle your internal affairs
in my corridor.
They're cleaning it up, aren't they?
I've got journos sniffing
around the building,
and not the kind I like.
Rumours of another
armed attack in London.
The story needs wrapping up.
No loose threads.
Well
Again, I wouldn't
expect you to understand.
Consider this the sort of
thing you might learn from me
if you could bear to give me
your trust, instead of constantly
trying to betray me.
When the police uncover a
conspiracy, they make arrests.
A spy
flips it.
Keeps it running to their advantage.
I confirmed Frank Napier's
involvement in this
not 36 hours ago
when he came to me in a sharing mood.
His gunmen were outside your flat,
waiting for his order.
You caught one of them on camera,
of course you were going to be
next on Frank Napier's kill list.
Until you stopped him.
Until I persuaded him
to let me take the reins.
How did?
Let's just say I mediated a
crisis of moral leadership.
So
I'm sorry if you disapprove
of my joining the operation.
But if I hadn't
The door to this opportunity
will not stay open long, Rachel.
I suggest you take
advantage before it shuts.
Give me everything you have
on Correction,
tell me who you're working with
and we'll find a way to move on.
And if I don't?
Oh, dear, oh, dear.
I thought you might ask that.
Phillips.
I'd brace yourself for
this, if I were you.
- Simone Turner is at Security.
- Why?
- Isaac's not here.
- She's asking for you.
OK.
I wonder if you'd be quite
so determined to fight Correction
if you saw what it was capable of.
I, Rachel Carey, am currently
within the legal jurisdiction
of the Russian Federation.
I have been offered safe
harbour by the Russian state
and I have accepted.
Make that "safe harbour and protection".
I have been offered safe harbour
and protection by the Russian state
and I have accepted.
"Gratefully accepted"?
Sounds good to me.
And I have gratefully accepted.
This is the program
used on Isaac Turner.
I forgot to mention the other
perk of joining the operation.
I have control of the kit.
Do you feel guilty for
your betrayal, DCI Carey?
I do.
I deeply, deeply regret what I've done.
You can't win, Rachel.
Surely you can see that.
Have you read the Home Office
whistle-blower's claims, Mr Turner?
You know, Ralph, today's meant
to be about these young people
trying to achieve their goals.
OK, fine people of the press,
if you'd care to decamp
to the hospitality suite,
Mr Turner will join presently
to answer any related
questions you have.
Let's keep them related, please.
All righty.
Hi, darling.
Are you OK? What are you?
Wait. How How did you
even know I'd be here?
You've been tweeting
about it all morning.
What's up?
I went to see Aliza.
Aliza? Why did you do that?
I thought I might get somewhere.
Somewhere with?
The question no-one
seems inclined to answer.
We good?
Erm, just a second.
If Victoria Bello was lying, why
was her application obstructed
by the Home Office?
Oh, right. You know, I've
actually been looking into that.
I managed to collar
the Home Secretary about it.
You can stop, Isaac. Aliza
obviously knows you better than I do.
It seems the whole of Westminster does.
- Simmy
- Why did they assume it was true?
Erm probably because they judge me
by the same pathetically low
standards as the rest of them.
The Palace of Westminster
is basically a midlife
crisis support centre.
- "I was away from home."
- Go on.
You know, "I was away from home.
It was an emotional time. She's"
She's a good-looking girl.
Yes, I suppose. Woman.
You were in a mood with me.
I was in a mood?
It was my mother's funeral.
Yes, I was upset. I-I needed support.
And Victoria Bello gave you some.
No.
Swear on the children.
Swe? What?
I need to shake this
lingering doubt, Isaac.
You know, I am in
the middle of a press conference.
Swear on the children none of it's true.
OK. OK.
Erm I swear.
I swear
on the children, on us,
on everything I hold dear
Victoria Bello's claim was false.
Her son's not mine.
Obviously.
You didn't submit a sample, did you?
For the paternity test?
It's a simple question, Isaac.
Did you submit a sample of your DNA?
No.
So, they faked the result on
TV, like you said they would?
No. The result was negative.
A fake result would have been positive.
So it's only fake
if you disagree with it?
I'm not the father of that kid,
Simone. Everyone knows that.
Everyone knows it because
it's on the news.
- Yes.
- You told me not to trust the news.
- How are we doing, guys?
- OK.
You You can trust the news, Simone.
Why would you say I couldn't?
I I was confused.
- Confused?
- Need another minute?
What about those racial
profiling comments?
OK
- What about them?
- Were you confused then?
Erm yes.
Confused when you made them,
or confused when you told
me you didn't make them?
Jesus, Isaac! Do you even know?
The confusion is pretty
non-fucking-stop, Simone.
But now now things are good.
Things are going our way. So you
don't need to keep asking questions
and picking everything apart.
Oh, but I do, Isaac, because
I need to get to the truth.
And right now, I'm
nowhere fucking near it!
How do I know nothing happened
between you and that woman?
Because you just heard me
swear it on our kids' lives!
But that's that's not quite
what you said, though, is it?
You thought I wouldn't notice.
Oh, my. You have lost me.
Do you think I'm stupid?
- No.
- I've been around politicians too long.
OK, what did I say, then?
You said Victoria Bello's
claim was untrue.
- Yes.
- And that her son's not yours.
- Which he isn't.
- But you didn't say nothing happened.
How do you know her
son's not yours, Isaac?
If there's no paternity test.
Is it because you didn't fuck her
or because you used protection?
Erm Isaac.
- Just fucking wait!
- No, it's OK.
I came for the truth,
I think I've seen it.
- Listen
- You know
You know condoms aren't 100%.
Do you realise that?
Isaac Turner and I discovered
a shared interest in exposing
Correction, an interest the MP
no longer appears to share.
Khadija Khan became aware of Correction
after the hack on the studio.
Because you enlightened her.
I saw an ally in
blowing the whistle, yes.
Does Khan have your dossier?
No, sir.
I was concerned she'd broadcast
before I gained enough evidence.
I decided not to share it.
She knows about Correction.
- I mean
- What?
All Khadija Khan seems to
care about is Khadija Khan,
getting her claws into
the next exclusive.
She knew that interview
with Victoria Bello
would mean losing Isaac's
trust. She couldn't help herself.
Isaac Turner doesn't trust Khan?
Erm there's something else, ma'am.
You'll find copies of all the files
in my dossier on SD cards hidden
beneath the radio in my car.
- Jen.
- Anthony.
I'm calling for a favour.
Right. Well, you know me.
You're retiring, I hear.
Spend more time with the family,
or can't take any more guilt?
We need you to provide a statement.
About the dossier.
About Vanguard.
As sole witness to last night's events,
your testimony is critical.
You were following up on a
routine inquiry in the offices
of Truro Analytics when you became
aware of intruders in the building.
Your priority then became the
safety of their assumed target
Mr Gregory Knox.
Shortly after securing Mr Knox in
his office, armed support arrived
to neutralise the threat. Due
to their ongoing deployment
on covert operations,
the identities of the armed officers
will be redacted from your report.
However, you can confirm the
identity of the man fatally
wounded at the scene
as that of Nikolai Mirsky
A Russian national and the
prime suspect in the murders
of Edison Yao and Joseph Mwangi,
Jason McKenna, Lee Bradbury
And Patrick Flynn.
Surprised you didn't
just fake the signature.
You're not concerned about
the fallout from Moscow?
Moscow will deny it,
but they won't disprove it.
I prefer it that way
no-one knowing what to believe.
Sir, I understand that you
are asking me to comply with
a false-flag op to protect
Frank Napier and Gregory Knox.
I just
I'd just like to know why.
You hear that prick? Hands me the drive,
tells me I've got to wait for the code.
Yes, I can believe it.
Get me into this.
Knox is the prick.
You're kind of hard to
get rid of, aren't you?
Like a stubborn turd just won't flush.
Why don't you brief Rachel
on the contents of that drive?
Is that an order?
Yeah.
Greg Knox may be a piece of shit,
but he crunches data for every big
tech company that matters.
Know how long we've been trying
to make a deal with somebody like that?
What kind of deal?
I helped him play puppet
master to his politician.
For that, he gave me
the secret weapon
Truro's algorithm.
Access to almost 3 billion
social media accounts worldwide.
So you can track the
activity of just about anyone?
Not track, predict.
The algorithm calculates behaviour
right down to how suggestible a guy
is to changing his toothpaste
or who he's going to vote for.
You can also predict how
prone he is to dissent.
Anyone from Bangkok to Mexico City
to Portland, Oregon
even thinks about subversion,
we'll know about it.
Not if we can't access
the drive, we won't.
What am I looking at?
Well, you're looking at it
I just can't transfer it.
You mean you can get into
the BBC but you can't hack into this?
This has AES 256-bit cipher.
I can hack it, if you want to lose data.
Why won't Knox give you the code?
He's not happy with the work
Carnage
The trail of bodies.
He's concerned it might
all lead back to him, right?
Right.
He'll give me the code.
When everybody is looking the other way.
East.
Good work, Rachel.
A landmark move for global security.
If not democracy.
Have you forgotten already?
What did I teach you about flipping
an operation to our advantage?
The room's yours, Todd.
Rachel and I are
stepping out for a while.
Where are we going, ma'am?
You heard Frank. Gregory Knox
is trying to plant a politician
who answers to big tech.
We are going to stop him.
Can I get a very weak Earl Grey
with lots of milk?
How's the all-seeing AI, Gregory?
The great and powerful programme.
Is there a problem?
Erm a slight problem, yes.
It seems I've hit
a slight bump in the road
that your algorithm failed to predict.
Simone says she's going to
fucking leave me.
- Already?
- Al? What?
Ah, right.
Wow.
You You don't seem too alarmed.
I can't imagine your algorithm's
going to love my chances of success
if I end up getting divorced.
You can never second guess that thing.
So what?
We might not have a problem if
someone does, in fact, leave me?
Not necessarily.
- You knew?
- Hmm?
You knew. You knew.
You knew dragging Victoria
Bello out the woodwork
- would destroy my marriage.
- No, I knew it it might.
It? What the fuck?
Isaac, you told us when we first
met you wanted to get to the top.
Not if it meant losing my family.
- You didn't stipulate that.
- Are you insane?
I'm sorry, Isaac, but the program
just doesn't see you with Simone.
A significant percentage
of the electorate perceives
your marriage as somewhat
strategic and they don't like it.
Do you really think it's the
first time I've heard that
that I married Simone
to climb the ladder?
I've had it thrown at me for 13 years.
So if you really think I'm
going to give in to it now,
you and your algorithm can
both go fuck yourselves.
- It's bullshit.
- It's what people think.
Then why don't you
change what they think?
- I thought that was your job.
- My job is to get you into power.
Your job is to change the
world when you get there.
Ah, gentlemen.
Guess which swinging
dick of broadcasting
I've just got off the phone
to Anthony Reed OBE.
He's offering an exclusive interview
Thursday night, 8pm, BBC One.
Shall we pencil it?
What about the boy?
The boy?
Amandi.
Victoria's son?
Seeing as you seem to know so
much, I thought you might oblige me.
What about?
Is he?
Yours?
Heavens, I have no idea.
There are some details,
Isaac, even I'm not privy to.
- Weak Earl Grey with lots of milk.
- Ah, perfect.
Erm, are we?
Meeting Khadija Khan.
If you're hoping to flip Khadija, ma'am,
I'm the wrong person to take with you.
- We didn't end on good terms.
- I know.
I deployed someone to keep
track of your movements
while Vanguard was down.
I imagine this is going to be
pretty awkward for you, huh?
I find myself with a problem.
Some highly classified intelligence
has recently been disclosed to you.
I trust DCI Carey's presence
leaves you in no doubt
as to what intelligence I am referring.
As DCI Carey will confirm,
this serious breach coincided with
a period of personal difficulty
for the detective, which she now
recognises impacted negatively on
her mental health and wellbeing,
in particular her behaviour
in the workplace.
Forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn.
No. I can confirm all of that.
It explains the public outburst.
Last person who yelled at me like
that's now editing the One Show.
So, I realise I need
something solid on the table
if I'm to earn your cooperation.
The service has long enjoyed
a mutually beneficial relationship
with one trusted individual
inside this organisation.
The incumbent isn't getting any younger.
Anthony Reed?
He's a fucking spook?
In some ways, you're better
informed than him already,
and I'll wager we can agree
on one operational goal
in the immediate term.
Sorry, are you tapping me up?
There's no official contract,
no financial agreement.
Your reward will be doing
your bit for national security
and in the bountiful source
of information that will become
available to you from the all-seeing eye
of British intelligence
directly and exclusively
to you.
What operational goal?
Today brings to an end a highly
sophisticated campaign of targeted
gun violence that has
gripped counter-terrorism
command for six long days.
A devastating campaign
that has claimed the lives
of five innocent victims
three of which were
serving police officers.
The manhunt was concluded in
a standoff during which a 39-year-old
white male was fatally
wounded by firearms officers.
The identity of the individual has
been confirmed as Nikolai Mirsky,
a Russian national and the prime
suspect in our investigation.
Our assessment of the motive
for these attacks continues,
but the evidence
overwhelmingly indicates
the involvement of
agents of a foreign state.
I would like to pay a heartfelt
tribute to those officers who made
the ultimate sacrifice
Giving up their lives
in the service of protecting us.
I did say you should give her a call.
You did, ma'am, yes.
It's Rachel, isn't it?
Yvonne, I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
They told me you were
there when it happened.
I
I was the first to reach the
ward the night of the attack,
but, by the time I got to Patrick
I'm not talking about Patrick.
I'm talking about the Russian.
You were there when they killed him.
Yes.
Thank you.
You're coming down the Crown, Carey.
You're not putting your hand
in your pocket all night.
I don't think so.
You're the hero of Vanguard.
We're not going without you.
Perhaps you ought to
hero.
Abi.
I was seriously thinking
about checking the news
to see if you'd been
found in a ditch somewhere.
Sorry. Shit sister.
Was that all right the other day?
The laptop?
Did I do it right?
Yeah, Abi.
You did it just right.
I've got to go.
Big day tomorrow.
Should he stay or should he go?
As Gill fights for his political
life, the security minister who saw
the Home Office crisis from inside
could deliver the decisive blow.
Join me for an exclusive
interview with Isaac Turner,
tonight live on BBC One.
Home Office.
Home truths.
Right. So, first-hand knowledge,
Gill obstructed
Victoria Bello's application.
Fast-tracked his housekeeper's visa,
his wife's
cousin's passport application.
Yes, I know. We've been over this.
Well, Gregory would like
us to run over it again.
Where's Reed?
Oh, shit.
"Apologies for the hold up,
nanoseconds away, Anthony."
We're ready to line up
when you are, Mr Turner.
- Here's your water, Mr Turner.
- Thank you.
Just going to mic you up.
Intercept in six minutes.
Camera feed secure.
Video capture in progress.
Bring it up.
I still remember my first time.
Can I just check the level on that mic?
- What did you have for breakfast?
- Er, eggs, toast.
- Coffee? Caviar.
- Perfect.
Where Where is Reed?
Zac, catch me. I'm parachuting in.
- You're You're not Anthony Reed.
- Well, thanks.
You're not the Prime Minister,
but we play the hands we're dealt.
Anthony sends his apologies.
Family matter.
I have my theories.
- Bollocks. I'm pulling it.
- What? Why?
- Let's go.
- I should really call the office.
You don't need to call
the office, I'm pulling it.
- The interview's been trailed, mate.
- Yeah, not with her
asking the questions, it hasn't.
Isaac.
Isaac. You really want to
make this decision unilaterally?
Rhys, remind me who do you work for?
No, it's not a trick
question or a difficult one.
You work for me, but if you'd
rather work for someone else, please,
by all means, fuck off!
Isaac.
Clear set. Strike this please,
Mel. Thank you. Take water.
Let's get her mic'd up.
Intercept in four minutes.
Thank you.
Come right in. Right over here.
Digital asset rendering.
Billy? Do you have a mirror, please?
Check the batteries on that. Yeah? Good?
Where Where is Reed?
What did you have
for breakfast, Khadija?
I had some porridge.
- Bollocks.
- Got enough?
More than enough.
Digital assets standing by.
- Hello.
- So, listen, I've pulled the interview.
- What?
- 20 seconds to transmission.
Deploy the asset.
Asset deployed. Asset deployed.
Time for some home truths
now on BBC One.
In an update to our
advertised programme
Anthony Reed never showed.
Khadija Khan turned up
at the last minute.
Something's not quite right.
An exclusive live interview
with the MP on everybody's mind.
You've pulled the interview?
Yes. I walked.
The truth is coming.
And when it comes, you'll
know about it, believe me.
If proof were ever needed that a week
is a long time in politics,
hit replay on Zac Turner's.
60 seconds to intercept.
60 seconds to
Digital asset standing by.
Digital asset standing by.
A Home Office scandal
worthy of soap opera.
- We don't have to
- No, no, it's fine.
The latest twist has seen
Zac strike back
with the help of a Home Office
whistle-blower and a dossier of
dirt on his former boss, Rowan Gill.
Motherfuck you all!
Tonight, in an exclusive interview
live from London, we hear from
- Isaac Turner
- 30 seconds to intercept.
- Eyeline check
- About the most controversial
week of his career,
his own political ambitions
Khadija.
And who he believes
should take the hit
- How's that?
- Eyeline set.
- Clear frame. Clear frame.
- For the crisis at the Home Office.
Is she going to be all right?
I hope you know what you're doing.
I'm heading back to you
right now. But, listen,
the two of us need to talk.
Intercept in six, five, four
Things have got to be
different, OK? From now on,
I want to be involved in every decision.
OK?
- Gregory?
- You walked.
Yes.
Intercept is live. Intercept is live.
Was the wrong man fired from
the Home Office this week?
If you're referring to my erstwhile
colleague, the Home Secretary,
it's not my call to make.
I'm not the Prime Minister.
If the rumours in Westminster
are to be believed,
- you'd like to be.
- Oh-ho, in Westminster's a big if.
It's not a denial, then?
After the week I've had, Khadija,
I think it'd be unwise for me
- to launch a bid for Number 10.
- Gregory? Hello?
- Just the Home Office?
- Who is this?
Erm
Gregory, it's
It's me.
You said no more deep fakes.
Britain deserves a Home
Office that's fit for purpose.
I tried to stop them.
- I really tried.
- Is it fucking him?
- Is what fucking him?
- Britain deserves a Home Secretary
who's up to the job.
- Ah I don't know what this is.
- Right.
By up to the job, I don't mean
scurrying around SW1A
getting caught up
in allegations of misconduct.
He's doing OK.
- I mean rising above the Westminster
- Gregory?
Bubble to confront every threat
to British democracy head-on.
But, Greg Gregory. It's not him.
Erm, excuse me. Can you turn around?
I need to go back to the hotel.
Erm
Hello. Excuse me.
Driver! Hello!
Are you suggesting there are
threats to British democracy
- not being confronted?
- I'm not suggesting it, Khadija,
I'm saying it loud and clear.
Can you indicate the nature
of some of those threats?
Two words
Big tech.
- What?!
- Big tech?
Whatever Gregory Knox is paying you,
it's not going to be worth the hell
I'm going to unleash if you don't
turn this fucking car around!
We all know the extent to which
technology and social media
has infiltrated our daily lives.
It's in our homes, it's on our screens.
It's got our children hooked.
I dare say I'm not the only dad in
the country who regrets giving in
to their daughter's
demands for a smartphone.
Nice detail.
But it's also infiltrated
our political systems
not just in Britain,
but around the world.
Infiltrated how?
By harvesting our data without our
consent and using it to interfere
with elections, referendums,
political campaigns.
You're saying that tech
corporations are meddling
in UK politics directly?
Well, not directly.
The dirty work tends to be
done by data analytics companies
- outside of Silicon Valley.
- Shit!
Here in the UK, for instance?
I can think of one such
example here in the UK, yes.
Frank, is this you?
What the fuck are you doing to me?!
How much of this is illegal?
Well, we've seen how nimble
these guys can be when it comes
to dancing around tax laws.
Clearly, Khadija, if a plot
to affect British democracy
was directed by a member
of a foreign state,
that's a serious international incident.
If a British national is
found to have colluded in such
an attempt, that's treason.
Holy shit!
Is he fleeing already?
My money's on Ecuador.
Do you see any hope of
holding them to account?
Not as things stand.
Tech giants behave as
if they're untouchable.
Britain needs a Home Secretary
indeed, a Prime Minister who
isn't afraid to tell them otherwise.
What do you mean, none?
How's that possible?
We knew it was going to
be inconclusive until we received
the results of the biopsy.
So, from riddled to all clear?
I agree it's unusual.
Erm, CT imaging throws up
anomalies from time to time,
but rarely this inconsistent.
- You'll have to come in for a biopsy.
- Wait a second.
These images you've been showing me
black tar covering all
my internal organs,
did you receive those electronically?
- It's all electronic.
- By email?
Uploaded to the hospital
servers. I get it from there.
Motherfucker.
Alarmingly, the tech industry
has done absolutely nothing
to combat the issue of
election interference.
And, frankly, one has to ask why.
In fact, one has to wonder what
such corporations have to gain.
If I'm not mistaken, DCI Carey,
you appear to be enjoying this.
Gregory Knox's plan has been sabotaged.
An attack on British
democracy has been averted.
Thanks to your work in
particular, DS Flynn's family
feel a strong sense
of justice for Patrick.
Are you starting to see the
potential for good in this strange
little programme we call Correction?
Frank!
Are you OK?
Never better.
Fit as a mule, apparently.
I mean, doctor says I may be looking
at a benign stomach ulcer, but
- You mean?
- Hm?
Biopsy report came back.
I don't have cancer.
But that's incredible.
It is incredible,
when you consider that, just
the other day, my CT scan
- indicated I was riddled with it.
- It doesn't make sense.
That's right after I told you
how sick I was.
- You need to go in for some more tests.
- What the fuck did you do?
- What did I do?
- Don't fucking lie to me.
Frank, I have no idea
what you're talking
- I know you're behind this.
- You're obviously very upset.
All that talk about redemption,
about Sunday School.
You wanted my fucking op, didn't you?
Well, something had to be
done after the shit shower
- you made of it!
- Are you out of your fucking mind?
You hacked my medical records!
Don't you hate it
when mum and dad argue?
Think about it.
You're not dying it's good
Don't worry. I've got you.
It's good news, Frank.
You're not dying. It is good
- It's good news!
- Have you any idea
what I've been through?
I was up on the roof.
- You were what?
- I was looking right down
into the traffic. I could have jumped!
But, obviously, Khadija,
there are other ways in which
the government has failed us.
- Which other ways?
- That would have been
deeply regrettable.
Regrettable?!
I would have been tomato
bisque on the sidewalk.
- Are you fucking nuts?
- Wait!
The extent to which
deepfake technology has already
- pervaded our society.
- In what sense?
The truth is, deepfakes have
been deployed by the British
- authorities for a number of years now.
- What's this?
In ways that threaten our core
values of democracy, liberty
- What is this?
- Rule of law.
Mr Turner, you have to admit that
the idea of British authorities
This is not in the script.
This is not my script.
This is not my script.
This operation is compromised.
Compromised? What the
fuck you talking about?
- It's the transcript you gave me.
- No, it isn't. Khadija, wrap it up.
- Did you switch the script?
- No, of course not!
Khadija, wrap it up.
- Wrap it up.
- Deepfakes have been deployed
- Khadija, wrap it up!
- She can't hear you.
- If I ever
- Unless she's in on it.
Shut the whole thing down.
- I can't get in!
- The asset or the transmission?
Everything.
Everything.
Ma'am, you can't cut the broadcast.
Right now, he's just a politician
with a conspiracy theory.
Shut it down, everyone will believe it.
She's got a point.
Does she?
Mr Turner, deepfakes have
been deployed in what way?
They call it Correction.
It's a method of real-time video
manipulation, using the disruption
of camera feeds and the deployment
of deepfake technology.
- Who do you mean by "they"?
- Members of our own
intelligence services,
our government and the police.
But, Mr Turner, to be clear,
you're asserting that there's some
sort of programme within
British intelligence to create
fake video footage.
Well, let's say they have
intel of a terrorist plot,
but the evidence against
the suspects is insufficient
They make up incriminating footage?
Well, they would say they turn
intelligence into evidence.
- Rachel Carey
- This is a serious accusation.
You are under arrest for breach
of the Official Secrets Act.
You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention when questioned
I am sorry, ma'am, but you're
currently within the legal
jurisdiction of
the United States of America.
- Frank.
- Whilst you remain within
- the legal jurisdiction
- You don't have
- the power to arrest
- Of the United States of America,
you must abide by the rules, regulations
- and limitations of US
- Frank!
- Would you shut the fuck up?
- Now, if you'll excuse me,
I know how this ends.
Frank, please detain DCI Carey.
I've reason to suspect she's
involved in subversive action
- against the state.
- Not my state.
He hasn't said anything about the US.
Frank, help!
For crying out loud!
She gives me cancer,
then she asks for my help.
The moment you set foot
outside this building,
you are eligible for arrest!
As we all are
Ma'am.
Rachel!
Listen!
You don't know what you've done.
I know one thing
Patrick Flynn hated Correction.
- And this so-called Correction
- Correction programme.
Correction programme,
when were you made aware of it?
- When I became a victim.
- A victim?
People may have noticed there
have been a number of things
I've said out of character
recently absurd ideas
I would never advocate.
Racial profiling, for example.
Are you suggesting that it wasn't
you who made those comments?
No, I'm not suggesting it, Khadija,
I'm saying it loud and clear.
Mr Turner, you have to
admit that the idea of
I always knew you were
destined for greatness
- Creating false evidence
- One way or another.
You were railing against a moment ago.
You should get down there.
You're missing the best bit.
You're not worried
people will think this is
some outlandish conspiracy theory?
Well, people should question it.
We need to challenge everything
we're told and question
everything we see.
We need to ask of every voice
on every recording of every image
on every screen
How do we know this is real?
In his interview, for example.
- It purports to be a live broadcast.
- Well, it is a live broadcast.
- Can you prove it?
- Well, I can go online,
show the latest news headlines.
All right, now we're getting
somewhere. But what about me?
What about you?
Well, I look like Isaac Turner,
I sound like Isaac Turner.
How do we know I'm the real deal?
Who's to say the real Isaac
Turner isn't in a car, right now,
on the way to Piccadilly Circus?
Who's to say the cameras filming
this interview haven't been hacked?
Who's to say Isaac Turner's
image hasn't been captured,
animated by artificial intelligence?
Who's to say, since the
very start of this interview,
while you believed you
were watching Isaac Turner,
you were, in fact, watching me
A deepfake. Fake
It's impossible to say.
Unless, of course, you happen to
be in Piccadilly Circus right now
and can see Isaac Turner
with your own eyes, then
Perhaps you can.
If you are in or near Piccadilly Circus,
look around you.
Take out your phones and start filming.
Hopefully, together, we can
shine a light on the challenges
we face surrounding deepfakes.
And, hopefully, we can begin to
raise awareness of the illegal
practice of Correction.
Because only by bringing this
conspiracy out into the open
can we hope to confront it.
As you can see, I'm not in the studio
with Isaac Turner MP.
Mr Turner is in Piccadilly Circus,
graciously playing his
part in our, hopefully,
eye-opening stunt.
You have indeed been
watching a deepfake interview.
But the alarming practice
of Correction described in it
is very much real.
Working with a team of
whistle-blowers from the heart
of British intelligence, the BBC
has obtained evidence that knowledge
of the so-called Corruption
programme extends across multiple UK
intelligence agencies and to senior
members of the British government.
In a series of exclusive reports,
starting tonight, we will
be examining these alarming
revelations in detail.
We will be sharing the evidence
obtained by the BBC.
And, finally, we will be confronting
those ultimately responsible.