Spooks s03e03 Episode Script
Who Guards the Guards?
You are not acting in the interests of this service! In this matter, I am the interests of this service! - What's Adam Carter doing here? - I've drafted him in.
- You know his reputation.
- Brilliant.
Carter won't help you stop the change that's coming to this building.
What's your name? Obviously give me a false name - just one that I can think of.
ALARM I don't really know what we're doing here any more.
- Running an entrapment scam.
- That's immoral.
- What's the matter with you! - I've woken up to this job, that's what! This is your operation, Tom.
Why are you wrecking it? After everything we've been through! Please! - I'm decommissioning you.
- Oh, don't be ridiculous.
You are no longer an officer of the service.
And of course you realise we'll never meet again.
Yeah.
Good luck in the real world.
You know this plant.
The more you try to rid the desert of it, the more it spreads.
It has no known predator.
Early in '97, I was told that there was a traitor in my organisation, but by the time I uncovered him, it was too late.
He'd been spirited away.
I assume you and the Americans are still looking after him.
The witness protection scheme, or whatever misnomer you give it.
This man is the price of our co-operation.
That's not going to be possible.
Why on earth do you think we would betray an old friend like that? Because I'm your new friend, and am now more important to you than the old one.
HE SPEAKS IN URDU .
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and the problem can be solved.
Cutting it fine.
So, what's our illustrious author up to today? Tea with a friend.
For someone with a fatwa hanging over him, Zuli sure gets out a lot.
- Who's the friend? - Harakat.
Bookseller.
Checks out OK.
Isn't that a bit low status? He usually hangs out with glitterati.
The Home Secretary's a big fan.
Oh, so that's why we're on this op.
With high-level protection.
Showing how much the government disapproves of the fatwa.
One thing worries me.
The last thing we want is to keep Zuli alive long enough to inflict a new novel on us.
What do you think, Danny? My Urdu's a little rusty.
Harakat thinks I should consider renouncing what I wrote - the fatwa would be lifted.
What about me? What would I do then? Go back to breaking into foreign embassies or stitching up Greenpeace! - Or whatever you were doing before.
- (If only you knew.
) It must be a loose connection.
Get down! Code red, code red! Zoe! V12? We're being hit! - 'Code red.
Can anyone hear me?' - Go! Go, go, go! 'Zoe!' Armed police! Stay down! Will, just give me a second with Danny.
I'll see you outside.
Danny Danny? It's me.
You should get some sleep.
- Where are you going? - I'm going to a wedding.
- Oh, you look great.
- Listen, I'll be back on Sunday.
Will you be OK? Yeah.
Zoe, I've been thinking about Tom, what he did He was right.
You've got to seize the day.
I guess he thought he had to act get out while the going was good.
- You're not thinking about - No, no, not at all, it was just, you know, how our job, what we go through, can only really be understood by someone who lives this life? They have a particular understanding of it No, it's more than that.
It's made me realise we've been ignoring it - pretending there's nothing going on.
- I'm with Will, Danny, you know that.
- Zoe Look, this weekend Just think about what you really want, who you really want.
What are you doing? Just checking to see whether there's an ejector seat.
Oh, no.
I just flick a switch down there and - bang - you're toast.
I'd better behave myself then, hadn't I? It's so much easier than a long, drawn-out break-up - all those wasted cinema tickets, rows over dinner, broken promises One flick of a button, out with the old, in with the new.
Talking of old, have you and Danny ever had a thing? Why do you ask? You seem very careful, attentive around him.
Like just now.
Ah.
No.
No.
Definitely not.
I think he thinks he'd like to, you know It's OK.
It's something for me to deal with.
He's had a bad week.
It's fine if you don't want to tell me.
- What the hell happened? - All comms went down.
- Zuli Where's Zuli? - Fine.
Unhurt.
- Harakat? - Superficial injuries.
He's in hospital.
Best place for him - there's more police than nurses in that place.
That wouldn't be hard! Hey.
Get the ballistics done first.
DANNY: That's not it.
- That's it.
- The short-stocked Scorpion? No, it isn't.
There's something missing.
The barrel had some sort of silencer.
The sound was muffled.
- It had some sort of silencer.
- I really don't think so.
I mean, I'll look into it, but Zuli's here.
Can we finish the weapon stuff later? It's OK, we're through.
Who did it? You're asking me? How long have you got? Half the Muslim world wants me dead.
- Aren't you meant to be protecting me? - We did.
You're here.
We protected you.
Yes, it is our job and it was through a heightened sense of threat to yourself that we came on board.
Whilst we deeply regret what happened Look I arrange tea with a friend, and the friend ends up getting shot.
That's not "full protective surveillance".
We might as well have just gone to Starbucks on our own.
- Coffee.
- Danny Starbucks That would have been for coffee, not tea.
Anyhow, we do appreciate your coming here Good.
You'll be pleased to hear I've been in touch with the Home Secretary.
Oh, Sam.
Could you No need.
I told the Home Secretary that from now on I'd organise my own protection.
I have some boys outside already - ex-CIA.
Ex-CIA.
I am impressed(!) Oh, please, don't say he's got a point! Over the river you guys may do things differently, but here He's got a point And me, I'm here, not over there.
But if Harry changes his mind, you can be the first to escort me across the river.
Danny, this isn't about you.
Your work was outstanding.
You saved Zuli's life, but you were seriously compromised! We all were.
I mean, somebody knew exactly where we were, how to get in, how to get away Right.
Two things we need: who did it, and what are they going to do next? What happened then? Danny? - What happened? - Um I fired two more, missed and tried to protect Zuli.
- And the gunman? - He was crouched and we exchanged fire.
Books were being shredded everywhere.
It was like it was all happening slowly Then, Harakat came straight across at the gunman here.
Yeah, and took the hit.
Brave man.
This is the crucial part.
The gunman had a clear shot at Zuli here, and time Why didn't he at least try and shoot him? Because I started firing at him.
But when he had the chance? Ruth? I need some research done on one of the people involved Zuli? No, he's being covered.
Zoe and Danny will be on the hit man.
I want you to to check out our friend.
The bookseller Harakat.
It's useful to look at an operation from a less obvious viewpoint.
You know, cover all the bases.
Harry tells me you're the soul of discretion.
Did he? Well - I try - Good.
Thought so.
Oh, and Tom Sorry God So sorry Adam I assume that means you don't want me to distribute my research to the rest of the office? That's right Ruth.
I'd also prefer it if it came to me, Adam, rather than Tom.
Yes, yes, of course, Adam.
Adam.
That's fine.
Just do as he says.
I brought Adam in to resolve the Tom problem And now you intend to keep him on? I haven't decided.
But whatever I decide, whoever joins the team, I still very much see you as one of the senior pros To use an old cricket expression.
And Adam's what? Our new captain? I don't know.
I only know that I want someone from outside.
So all that makes someone like Malcolm, what, head groundsman? I think we can probably take the analogy too far, don't you? Right.
Harakat's application for citizenship? That he wrote out when he applied for immigration.
What of it? Give me the highlights.
Well, it reads to me like like a not very good legend Something an MI6 case officer would make up.
It seems too real to be a real life, if you know what I mean Adam.
Thank you Ruth.
I shall look into it.
Danny.
I want you to arrange protection for Harakat.
- The bookseller? - He's a witness.
He may have seen the guy, know something.
Shouldn't I get on to Special Branch? No, I want you to do this.
Spend some time with him.
Listen to him.
- OK.
- Cheers.
You were very brave.
I went for him before he got you, that's all.
You saw it, you were there.
If I think about it, you know what it was? It's the moment you spend your whole life trying to avoid.
The man on the bridge about to jump, the lunatic with a knife I tell you, if I'd had anywhere to run, I would have been the first one out.
- And I would've been close behind.
- That's where you're wrong.
The world is divided with two types of people: people like you, who look for trouble, and sensible people who try to avoid it.
In a moment of insanity, I stepped over the line, and look what happened.
I should have stuck to my books.
Well, Zuli and I are still around because of you.
Why do they think I need protection? I guess because you saw the hit man and he may come after you.
Someone's heard some chatter on the wire somewhere.
You saw him, too.
Maybe I need protection as well.
But who guards the guards? I think they expect us to be able to look after ourselves.
I'm happy to go and ask Mace, but we must remember that one swallow does not make a summer and all that.
I hate to put this on your shoulders, but Let me talk to him.
Why should I be interested in this man's immigration application? Does it now say Visas and Passports on my door? Actually, it says Department of Livestock and Freshwater Fish.
Don't be facetious, Harry.
Oliver, this is the man who was hit when someone took a pop at our esteemed novelist Zuli.
So what? Wrong time, wrong place.
To me this application looks like something written by an analyst.
One of those spotty MI6 mutants they keep in the dungeons at Vauxhall Bridge Road, beside where C grows his magic mushrooms.
We may not be able to see the massed, red-coated ranks of England's finest piling across the field of Waterloo, but to all intents and purposes, we are at war And you're asking me to check up on whether 20 years ago, some Mr Harakat really was a trainee shelf-stacker at the Karachi Pic 'n' Mix? I'll keep it simple - you oversee both Five and Six.
Is there anything you are not sharing about Harakat? Of course not.
Harry, we're on the same side.
Don't you think that instead of pursuing this childish inter-agency rivalry, you should concentrate on trying to plug the gaps in your own security? Meaning what? As I hear it, the reason this poor chap got shot was that half of London knew Zuli's schedule.
So there's nothing that you're not telling me about Harakat? My role is no longer operational.
I just oversee.
Precisely.
Everything goes across your desk.
Anyone running operations within the UK without informing MI5 is playing a dangerous and foolish game.
Which is why I explicitly forbid it.
The forensic boys found this under our wagon.
It's a jamming device that can be triggered up to 500 metres away.
- It's what brought down the comms.
- Thanks, Malcolm.
And there's a list of everybody that had access to Zuli's schedule.
MI6, Home Office, No 10, Cabinet Office and most of the rest of Whitehall, by the looks of it.
And a ton of security camera footage from the bookshop.
My guess is that the hit man checked out the bookshop at some point before.
Just on the Iranians now.
I cross-referenced footage from the bookshop with all known hit men.
Three more Middle Eastern embassies left and And then I'm left with assorted mercenaries and nutcases.
Well, you might get lucky.
Check this out.
The Syrian security advisor.
No match.
Nonetheless, I do think we ought to put him under round-the-clock surveillance.
What do you think? You can have night duty.
Malcolm, what do you think about Mr Handsome over here? - He's OK.
- OK? - That is more than OK.
That's like - The business? I'd say it depends what you think makes a man attractive to women.
Well, somebody that looks like that and someone that makes me laugh - Oh - No, no, Zoe's right.
I'm too serious.
I should lighten up.
Maybe you could help me.
I could practise jokes, stuff like that.
Mm.
Ruth? She'd love to, Malcolm.
Go on, then, Malcolm.
Try your joke out.
See if that brings us any luck.
OK.
Right.
Um Man walks into a doctor's surgery.
"Doctor, I've a cricket ball stuck up my bum.
" Doctor says "Howzat?" Bloke says "Don't you start.
" In some ways, Malcolm, I don't think I'm the best person for you on this.
There's one about two ants and an elephant Wait.
There it is.
Finally, that's it.
That's a match.
- Someone up there must like your joke.
- Outstanding! This is our main hit man suspect.
His name is Sharaf Al-Youm.
He came through Heathrow on a tourist visa a few weeks ago.
These were taken a week before the shooting.
- Taken where? - On the CCTV in the bookstore.
Who is he and why's he on our database? He's a big-time hit man, with no allegiance that we know of to any groups or countries he's worked for.
Bosnia '96, where he spent his summer killing Serbs.
Algiers.
Apparently, the regime was strapped for cash, so they paid him with a military helicopter.
Land it in the garden - neighbours know you mean business.
So he's a hired assassin.
Chances are he'll try again.
We need to find this man and who he's working for.
Will's asked me to go to a wedding with him.
- When? - This weekend.
- Whose? - His best friend from college.
That's great! Yeah, but it's It's the first thing we've done in public together.
- So are you going to get him vetted? - He already has been.
It's a shame the service has to be first to know when we're serious about someone.
Especially before they do! - So, was anybody following us? - For a while, but we lost them.
I didn't see you looking.
You wouldn't, would you? That's the point.
There's a lot about this I don't understand.
It just becomes instinctive after a while.
There are some things you can do to make sure.
- Like going twice around a roundabout? - That's more 'Starsky and Hutch'.
No that's what we just did.
No, that's cos you don't know how to read a map.
So sometimes the lie is just me pretending to be somebody else.
- Like the insurance thing.
- Yeah.
It's OK.
You can tell me.
You've really got to promise not to tell anyone about these conversations.
Promise.
OK.
I have four or five full other identities.
Now, the initials of the other names are usually the same as our own.
It just makes it a bit easier to remember.
They've got different backgrounds, jobs, addresses - And people who work and live there - Will vouch for me as that person.
So, say I'm going undercover as, I don't know Zoe Reynolds.
Er Zelda Ringbinder the notorious drug thief.
OK, and the Medellin Cartel will send someone to check Zelda out.
So somebody answers that phone or answers that door and says yes, she lives here, but she's not here now.
And I have credit cards, post, a passport in that name, at that address.
A whole past.
Do you ever forget who you're meant to be, Zelda? Oh, all the time.
CHURCH BELLS RING - Ruth, where's Adam? - Had to dash out.
Anniversary present for his wife.
- PHONE RINGS - Yeah.
- Go on.
- We just had a tip-off from immigration.
Al-Youm.
The hit man - he's back in the UK.
Just got off the Eurostar.
He could be back to try again.
OK.
Well, let's be ready for him then.
OK, our hit man came out of Waterloo, took the tube to Shepherd's Bush and he's just picked up a car that was parked on a W12 back street.
He's heading into town along the Westway.
I've got a tail on him.
- Deliberate decoy route.
- Must be.
- Hope he's paid his congestion charge.
- Or Ken will be cross.
Oh Sorry, Ruth.
That's mine.
Fine.
Good.
Of course it is.
Stand by next car.
Next car's ready for rotation in five minutes.
Great.
OK.
Stay with him.
'Affirmative.
' Where are you going? 'Looks like our hit man's arrived at his destination.
' Sam, message Danny and tell him I want him to get Harakat to a safehouse, and stay there.
Thanks, Danny.
I appreciate the help.
- So where are we going? - A safehouse.
Where we can keep an eye on you.
Will it be you? Some of the time.
I'll be doing shifts.
You know.
So I go home when? Truthfully? Danny, you work for British Intelligence.
That's the last thing I expect.
Ah, you sound like Zuli now.
What is it that is written at CIA headquarters - isn't there a motto? "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
" So then when do you set me free? Well So this isn't going to be over soon, is it? Will you do something for me? Sure.
If I give you a list of books, could you please collect it from my shop? OK.
And if you fancy something, you can have it.
Thanks - I think there are probably rules about no freebies.
There are about most things.
Al-Youm took a circuitous route to East London, checking no-one was on him.
- Any blips? - None.
We put surveillance and a technical team on.
House opposite would be perfect.
Get whoever's in there out.
"Holiday in the Sun" competition usually works, Sam.
This'll make Malcolm's day.
What postcode are we talking about? E8.
When will someone give me an NW3? So much more interesting.
E8 Costa Blanca sounds right.
Maybe Benidorm.
Malcolm, has anybody ever told you you're a dreadful snob? Am I right in thinking, Mrs Barnes, that you brought garden furniture with your Visa card in April? A bench, right That purchase automatically entered you into our free draw! Well, I have some wonderful news! Get your suitcases and get packing.
If you need me to get some more books, it can easily be arranged.
No, I've got all I need, thanks.
But I tell you what I'm really itching to do, and that's to go outside.
That, I'm afraid, isn't so easy to pull off.
So they think I'm still under threat? Yeah.
Possibly.
It's not my favourite feeling.
You sound like you've experienced it before.
Thanks.
Still nothing? Nothing.
Harry got nowhere with Oliver Mace.
Sometimes this happens.
You get these lulls.
Doesn't make it any easier.
I mean, look at this.
This is all the surveillance footage since he arrived.
What's he waiting for? If there's anything more you need me to do, you just have to ask.
Danny I've got this for you.
I'm sorry for what Zuli said in that meeting, but he was certainly not speaking on my behalf.
And gratitude is not one of his things.
Clearly.
Please open it.
If you don't like it, you can give it back to me or just sell it.
How did you know? I saw you notice them in my shop.
- And I knew that - You like cricket? I don't like it I just love it.
I used to play a lot in Islamabad, but I'm not in demand any more so I just watch it, when I can.
And collect Wisdens.
I have the full set.
The only one I don't have is - 1884? - Exactly.
The one that contains the obituary of John Wisden.
Aristotle famously referred to "what of life" and "how of life", and I learned both these things while playing cricket.
Thanks.
I've a friend on the ground staff at Lords.
I could organise a private tour for us.
That'd be wonderful! Is there something about you I should know? What all this history teaches me is that man learns nothing from his past.
He just repeats it.
Thank you, Sam.
But where did it come from? It was delivered to Harry anonymously.
Mohammed Khordad - leader of the Pakistani terrorist group the Path of Light.
Originated in Kashmir, but have now extended their operations to include South East Asia - certainly one of the most vicious and bloody groups we've dealt with.
Taken from an American spy plane.
Probably a Predator from about 25,000ft over the Middle East.
Even from that height, the cameras can read the letters on a Coke can.
What is the point of it being able to do all this if you can't see the result? We need to find out who Khordad's talking to.
The American Embassy has an image enhancer.
We'll go there.
This software is state of the art.
It maps the contours of the skull and then creates an image of the face.
- Oliver Mace! - With Muhammed Khordad.
Doubt they're forming a book group.
With Mace, you never can tell.
My guess is it's some sort of deal.
- How about two swallows, Harry? - What are you talking about? Do you think two swallows could make a summer? Anything you can bring to the table would be more than welcome.
Like what are they talking about? So they know about my little chat with Khordad? Any idea how they got hold of the picture? You're probably right.
These days most people's idea of a secret is something you're only allowed to tell one person at a time.
I want to know who's talking.
Tell Six to put a team of watchers on Harry Pearce's lot.
And keep me fully informed.
The source behind the photo - she's willing to talk.
A deep throat? It's not a term I care for much, but yes.
You'll understand she's not someone I can be seen anywhere near, but here's when and where you can meet her.
None of it's negotiable, I'm afraid.
She's taking a tremendous risk in helping us.
- If she's identified or even suspected - Who is it? Let's just say she's a very senior government official.
Don't let me down on this, Adam.
Because afterwards I think we should talk about the future.
You and MI5.
This is our chance to get a world exclusive on what went on between Mace and Khordad at the West Bank, and maybe there's a connection to Al-Youm.
The contact who donated the photo has agreed to a rendezvous.
They're the only person who knows what's discussed and whether there's a link to events at the bookstore.
No-one can know this person has spoken to me.
They're taking a massive risk, so if I'm followed, we must know who's following me, and we lose them.
Category A counter-surveillance.
Zoe, run the route for me.
If we get this right, we'll nail this once and for all.
Danny, I know our hit man still hasn't moved an inch, but Understood.
Harakat.
CQP.
Day shift.
Before we start, there's something about Tom that I want to get straight.
He was an outstanding case officer, who, with all of you, established a great team.
This is no disservice to him, because his record stands for itself, but I need you to forget about what's happened.
I need you on my side.
OK, before the bridge, the sign is where? The Festival Pier.
This'll do.
OK, watch Adam carefully.
He's one of the best.
He made his name with this stuff in the Middle East.
Get it wrong there and you end up on a meat hook in the Bekaa Valley.
He's just Adam in a suit on his way to a business meeting in the city.
He's not yet working a cover.
- Are you all clear, Mike? - 'Clear.
' Good.
'Ready in position.
' - 'In position now.
' - Passing check point one' 'Mr Ohnia.
' This footage is our control.
Logging all cars going through it five minutes before and after.
OK.
Blue Mondeo, reg number P506 LLM The crossword's been started, telling him so far he's not been followed.
We've got four hours left to keep him clear before the meeting.
So they're using Adam, are they? Well, he is good.
With luck, he'll take us straight to whoever's talking.
Excellent.
Where now? Or is that "need to know"? You'll just have to close your eyes and count to ten.
Right, ready to go to Phase Two.
His next cutout.
Adam Carter Where are you off to? That's him.
Oh, Adam, don't you have another hat? - Now move in the watchers.
- Move Five.
Move Six.
Move Seven, Eight Nine - That's right, Adam, all the way home! - Nothing.
No matches.
At this point there's either no-one following him or so many that they're not yet rotating.
So force the issue.
Go to a chokepoint.
He can take the Millennium Footbridge.
Tell him.
- Move Seven and Eight? - Absolutely.
OK, it looks like he's clear.
The other bridges? Surrounding roads? - There's a number plate match.
- Where? It might be nothing.
Where did we first see it? On the Embankment.
By the Obelisk.
People like that don't travel in cars together.
Get the teams on the ground to follow our two friends.
OK, they must have a very big team if this is the first repeat in two hours.
It's MI6.
They're the only ones with this much manpower.
Ruth, tell him we think it's his old friends over at Six.
He probably trained those guys.
OK.
Ready for phase three, his next cut-out.
We're running out of ideas.
They're all over us.
Less than three hours.
It's nothing.
Tell Adam to abort? No.
It's today or we lose the source.
Where's the next contact point? Last stop - Eva.
It'll be the secretary.
She'll have told him someone's on him.
Are we missing anything? Wait! Go back.
Here! Oh, very good, Adam.
- He's heading down to the Jubilee Line.
- Good.
Move Eight into position.
- Keep them closed.
- There'll be complaints, you know, sir.
Oh, you'll think of something.
Say they were the wrong sort of doors.
'Due to an earlier incident in the station, passengers will not be able to alight this train.
' 'We apologise for any inconvenience.
' Thank you.
I'm sorry, we've lost him, sir.
Damn you, Harry.
What did you just put in the bin? A jammer.
All the signals are jammed.
He must have got there.
Thanks, Sam.
CROWD ROARS So, what's the deal in the picture? Primarily it's the result of pressure from the multinationals with mining interests in that country.
The terrorist Khordad is a much-feared man.
With him on their side, they'll get what they want.
And what do we give Khordad in return? What's our part? - Harakat.
- What do you mean? You don't know who he is? - My friend left us these.
- Ahh! Shall we? Ayman Harakat has not always been a bookseller.
He came to the UK about five years ago from Pakistan where he worked for Khordad and the Path of Light as their top engineer.
Until? Something happened - he got caught out, they turned him.
It took a while for his conscience to kick in, but eventually he became a double agent for MI6.
Anyhow, after a year of running him, it got too hot, so they exiled him and relocated him here.
A few years later, and it's all change.
Our government, in its infinite wisdom, decides that it now needs the previously unspeakable Khordad as their new best friend.
From terrorist to ally.
The fact that Harakat knows the novelist Zuli makes it even more perfect - a meeting could be arranged, the hit could happen and it could all be made to look like a botched attempt to kill the novelist.
And after the hit failed? They went back to Khordad to try to get a new deal.
But they didn't manage it.
He simply threatened to go over to the French.
They're going to try and hit Harakat again? As they see it, they've got no choice.
- Same gunman, Al-Youm? - No.
No.
He's now the decoy.
It'll be someone else.
I don't know who, and don't know where, but it'll be soon.
The reason I'm here The reason I passed on the photograph is that I disapprove of what's going on.
This is being done more for the corporations than for anyone else.
Their hold over our foreign policy grows by the hour.
It's not something I approve of.
Tails.
- Tails.
- Your field.
PHONE RINGS - Zoe, I was right! Harakat is the target.
- Stay on the line.
Malcolm, warn Danny, Harakat's the target.
I'll check his itinerary.
- OK.
- Al-Youm is a decoy! They're using another hit man.
Danny, I have something very important to tell you.
But after this.
Everything can wait for cricket.
Adam.
OK, there's a problem.
Danny said he was going to the safehouse, but via Lords.
It's in his itinerary.
They must still be there, but his phone's off.
Get somebody! A groundsman, anyone, I don't care! Picture the scene - the ground's full, you need four for your 100 and to win the test.
Right arm over.
OK.
I can't get through to Danny or Lords.
The lines are still down.
- I can't bear to watch this.
- His phone's been jammed.
We've got five units on their way.
There's Adam.
There's the car there.
DANNY! INAUDIBLE Do you think if Tom had been here, things would have been different? - And Harakat might still be? - No.
No, nobody could have foreseen this.
You're probably right.
You know what, Danny? Everything's going to be all right.
Yeah.
Whatever happens, there'll still be you and me.
Do you know how Harakat behaved when he worked for them? Before he got a conscience and came to us? I was in Karachi at the time.
- It wasn't pleasant.
- Not much there was.
We had taken on a responsibility to protect Harakat.
We made a deal.
If we so disapproved of him, then you shouldn't have been in business.
His deal was superseded by another.
We gave Khordad our word as well.
Just wait and see.
Who's to say that Harakat's life isn't worth all the lives that will be saved by befriending the new, improved Khordad? If you're asking me is there at present anything we shouldn't do to achieve our ends, then frankly, I don't know.
Post 9-1 1 , we made a decision that nothing, nobody, was off limits any more.
Look around at what's been happening since Iraq.
We're up against it.
We can't say any more, "This we do not do.
" In the long term, it will be proved right as the strategy.
Whose "long term" are we talking about? Before you get on your hobby-horse, Harry, do you think we did this alone, without help from Langley? And that justifies it?! Part of the reason for all this is most Americans think anything east of the Hudson is like those blank spaces on medieval maps, where they drew in a monster and wrote "Here Be Dragons".
Do you believe Khordad will stay with us?! Keep his promises? As I was leaving, we were getting reports of explosions in Peshawar.
It looks like them, and this is with the ink barely dry on the deal! That could have been anybody.
If you people continue like this there won't be any long term for any of us, not that I can see.
Oh, Harry, Six would quite like to get Adam Carter back.
- Isn't the loan period up? - No.
It's over when I say.
I'm thinking of making it more permanent.
But they're right about one thing, though.
He is rather good.
Thanks for stopping the tube for me.
I want you to keep working with us, Adam I'll try and make sure it's not too often against your old crowd.
Yeah, well, you'd have thought there were enough enemies in the world without creating our own.
There are two spooks that are hiding out in the woods, one MI5, one MI6.
After a while they realise they're being chased by a bear, so they start to run.
After a bit, the MI5 guy stops, takes off his boots, and puts on his running shoes.
The MI6 guy goes, "What are you doing? You think you can outrun a bear?" - To which our guy replies, "No" - "But I can outrun you.
" I told you I was no good at jokes.
Now you'll tell me that that story was true, and that was you? It's the government's policy not to comment on intelligence issues.
I wouldn't know about that, but you're with me now, and what happens at other times is just that.
Bear or no bear.
I know that now.
After today.
"When my love swears that she is made of truth "I do believe her though I know she lies "Therefore I lie with her, and she with me "And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
" Shakespeare, sonnet 34.
Well, it's an MI5 favourite.
You're a know-all.
You know what, Will? With you I'll always tell the truth, just so long as you promise to always laugh in the right places.
- She's the agent.
- I'm not an Israeli spy.
Catherine's my daughter.
So, what made you need to meet me so urgently? - You support these terrorists.
- He doesn't want peace! Some lunatics have just kidnapped the UN's Chief Negotiator.
A word of advice - this is far too big for a middle-ranking spook.
It can't be her.
You don't know her, Adam.
At the moment you're the biggest danger to her.
Stay with me.
No! You can't touch me.
- You know his reputation.
- Brilliant.
Carter won't help you stop the change that's coming to this building.
What's your name? Obviously give me a false name - just one that I can think of.
ALARM I don't really know what we're doing here any more.
- Running an entrapment scam.
- That's immoral.
- What's the matter with you! - I've woken up to this job, that's what! This is your operation, Tom.
Why are you wrecking it? After everything we've been through! Please! - I'm decommissioning you.
- Oh, don't be ridiculous.
You are no longer an officer of the service.
And of course you realise we'll never meet again.
Yeah.
Good luck in the real world.
You know this plant.
The more you try to rid the desert of it, the more it spreads.
It has no known predator.
Early in '97, I was told that there was a traitor in my organisation, but by the time I uncovered him, it was too late.
He'd been spirited away.
I assume you and the Americans are still looking after him.
The witness protection scheme, or whatever misnomer you give it.
This man is the price of our co-operation.
That's not going to be possible.
Why on earth do you think we would betray an old friend like that? Because I'm your new friend, and am now more important to you than the old one.
HE SPEAKS IN URDU .
.
and the problem can be solved.
Cutting it fine.
So, what's our illustrious author up to today? Tea with a friend.
For someone with a fatwa hanging over him, Zuli sure gets out a lot.
- Who's the friend? - Harakat.
Bookseller.
Checks out OK.
Isn't that a bit low status? He usually hangs out with glitterati.
The Home Secretary's a big fan.
Oh, so that's why we're on this op.
With high-level protection.
Showing how much the government disapproves of the fatwa.
One thing worries me.
The last thing we want is to keep Zuli alive long enough to inflict a new novel on us.
What do you think, Danny? My Urdu's a little rusty.
Harakat thinks I should consider renouncing what I wrote - the fatwa would be lifted.
What about me? What would I do then? Go back to breaking into foreign embassies or stitching up Greenpeace! - Or whatever you were doing before.
- (If only you knew.
) It must be a loose connection.
Get down! Code red, code red! Zoe! V12? We're being hit! - 'Code red.
Can anyone hear me?' - Go! Go, go, go! 'Zoe!' Armed police! Stay down! Will, just give me a second with Danny.
I'll see you outside.
Danny Danny? It's me.
You should get some sleep.
- Where are you going? - I'm going to a wedding.
- Oh, you look great.
- Listen, I'll be back on Sunday.
Will you be OK? Yeah.
Zoe, I've been thinking about Tom, what he did He was right.
You've got to seize the day.
I guess he thought he had to act get out while the going was good.
- You're not thinking about - No, no, not at all, it was just, you know, how our job, what we go through, can only really be understood by someone who lives this life? They have a particular understanding of it No, it's more than that.
It's made me realise we've been ignoring it - pretending there's nothing going on.
- I'm with Will, Danny, you know that.
- Zoe Look, this weekend Just think about what you really want, who you really want.
What are you doing? Just checking to see whether there's an ejector seat.
Oh, no.
I just flick a switch down there and - bang - you're toast.
I'd better behave myself then, hadn't I? It's so much easier than a long, drawn-out break-up - all those wasted cinema tickets, rows over dinner, broken promises One flick of a button, out with the old, in with the new.
Talking of old, have you and Danny ever had a thing? Why do you ask? You seem very careful, attentive around him.
Like just now.
Ah.
No.
No.
Definitely not.
I think he thinks he'd like to, you know It's OK.
It's something for me to deal with.
He's had a bad week.
It's fine if you don't want to tell me.
- What the hell happened? - All comms went down.
- Zuli Where's Zuli? - Fine.
Unhurt.
- Harakat? - Superficial injuries.
He's in hospital.
Best place for him - there's more police than nurses in that place.
That wouldn't be hard! Hey.
Get the ballistics done first.
DANNY: That's not it.
- That's it.
- The short-stocked Scorpion? No, it isn't.
There's something missing.
The barrel had some sort of silencer.
The sound was muffled.
- It had some sort of silencer.
- I really don't think so.
I mean, I'll look into it, but Zuli's here.
Can we finish the weapon stuff later? It's OK, we're through.
Who did it? You're asking me? How long have you got? Half the Muslim world wants me dead.
- Aren't you meant to be protecting me? - We did.
You're here.
We protected you.
Yes, it is our job and it was through a heightened sense of threat to yourself that we came on board.
Whilst we deeply regret what happened Look I arrange tea with a friend, and the friend ends up getting shot.
That's not "full protective surveillance".
We might as well have just gone to Starbucks on our own.
- Coffee.
- Danny Starbucks That would have been for coffee, not tea.
Anyhow, we do appreciate your coming here Good.
You'll be pleased to hear I've been in touch with the Home Secretary.
Oh, Sam.
Could you No need.
I told the Home Secretary that from now on I'd organise my own protection.
I have some boys outside already - ex-CIA.
Ex-CIA.
I am impressed(!) Oh, please, don't say he's got a point! Over the river you guys may do things differently, but here He's got a point And me, I'm here, not over there.
But if Harry changes his mind, you can be the first to escort me across the river.
Danny, this isn't about you.
Your work was outstanding.
You saved Zuli's life, but you were seriously compromised! We all were.
I mean, somebody knew exactly where we were, how to get in, how to get away Right.
Two things we need: who did it, and what are they going to do next? What happened then? Danny? - What happened? - Um I fired two more, missed and tried to protect Zuli.
- And the gunman? - He was crouched and we exchanged fire.
Books were being shredded everywhere.
It was like it was all happening slowly Then, Harakat came straight across at the gunman here.
Yeah, and took the hit.
Brave man.
This is the crucial part.
The gunman had a clear shot at Zuli here, and time Why didn't he at least try and shoot him? Because I started firing at him.
But when he had the chance? Ruth? I need some research done on one of the people involved Zuli? No, he's being covered.
Zoe and Danny will be on the hit man.
I want you to to check out our friend.
The bookseller Harakat.
It's useful to look at an operation from a less obvious viewpoint.
You know, cover all the bases.
Harry tells me you're the soul of discretion.
Did he? Well - I try - Good.
Thought so.
Oh, and Tom Sorry God So sorry Adam I assume that means you don't want me to distribute my research to the rest of the office? That's right Ruth.
I'd also prefer it if it came to me, Adam, rather than Tom.
Yes, yes, of course, Adam.
Adam.
That's fine.
Just do as he says.
I brought Adam in to resolve the Tom problem And now you intend to keep him on? I haven't decided.
But whatever I decide, whoever joins the team, I still very much see you as one of the senior pros To use an old cricket expression.
And Adam's what? Our new captain? I don't know.
I only know that I want someone from outside.
So all that makes someone like Malcolm, what, head groundsman? I think we can probably take the analogy too far, don't you? Right.
Harakat's application for citizenship? That he wrote out when he applied for immigration.
What of it? Give me the highlights.
Well, it reads to me like like a not very good legend Something an MI6 case officer would make up.
It seems too real to be a real life, if you know what I mean Adam.
Thank you Ruth.
I shall look into it.
Danny.
I want you to arrange protection for Harakat.
- The bookseller? - He's a witness.
He may have seen the guy, know something.
Shouldn't I get on to Special Branch? No, I want you to do this.
Spend some time with him.
Listen to him.
- OK.
- Cheers.
You were very brave.
I went for him before he got you, that's all.
You saw it, you were there.
If I think about it, you know what it was? It's the moment you spend your whole life trying to avoid.
The man on the bridge about to jump, the lunatic with a knife I tell you, if I'd had anywhere to run, I would have been the first one out.
- And I would've been close behind.
- That's where you're wrong.
The world is divided with two types of people: people like you, who look for trouble, and sensible people who try to avoid it.
In a moment of insanity, I stepped over the line, and look what happened.
I should have stuck to my books.
Well, Zuli and I are still around because of you.
Why do they think I need protection? I guess because you saw the hit man and he may come after you.
Someone's heard some chatter on the wire somewhere.
You saw him, too.
Maybe I need protection as well.
But who guards the guards? I think they expect us to be able to look after ourselves.
I'm happy to go and ask Mace, but we must remember that one swallow does not make a summer and all that.
I hate to put this on your shoulders, but Let me talk to him.
Why should I be interested in this man's immigration application? Does it now say Visas and Passports on my door? Actually, it says Department of Livestock and Freshwater Fish.
Don't be facetious, Harry.
Oliver, this is the man who was hit when someone took a pop at our esteemed novelist Zuli.
So what? Wrong time, wrong place.
To me this application looks like something written by an analyst.
One of those spotty MI6 mutants they keep in the dungeons at Vauxhall Bridge Road, beside where C grows his magic mushrooms.
We may not be able to see the massed, red-coated ranks of England's finest piling across the field of Waterloo, but to all intents and purposes, we are at war And you're asking me to check up on whether 20 years ago, some Mr Harakat really was a trainee shelf-stacker at the Karachi Pic 'n' Mix? I'll keep it simple - you oversee both Five and Six.
Is there anything you are not sharing about Harakat? Of course not.
Harry, we're on the same side.
Don't you think that instead of pursuing this childish inter-agency rivalry, you should concentrate on trying to plug the gaps in your own security? Meaning what? As I hear it, the reason this poor chap got shot was that half of London knew Zuli's schedule.
So there's nothing that you're not telling me about Harakat? My role is no longer operational.
I just oversee.
Precisely.
Everything goes across your desk.
Anyone running operations within the UK without informing MI5 is playing a dangerous and foolish game.
Which is why I explicitly forbid it.
The forensic boys found this under our wagon.
It's a jamming device that can be triggered up to 500 metres away.
- It's what brought down the comms.
- Thanks, Malcolm.
And there's a list of everybody that had access to Zuli's schedule.
MI6, Home Office, No 10, Cabinet Office and most of the rest of Whitehall, by the looks of it.
And a ton of security camera footage from the bookshop.
My guess is that the hit man checked out the bookshop at some point before.
Just on the Iranians now.
I cross-referenced footage from the bookshop with all known hit men.
Three more Middle Eastern embassies left and And then I'm left with assorted mercenaries and nutcases.
Well, you might get lucky.
Check this out.
The Syrian security advisor.
No match.
Nonetheless, I do think we ought to put him under round-the-clock surveillance.
What do you think? You can have night duty.
Malcolm, what do you think about Mr Handsome over here? - He's OK.
- OK? - That is more than OK.
That's like - The business? I'd say it depends what you think makes a man attractive to women.
Well, somebody that looks like that and someone that makes me laugh - Oh - No, no, Zoe's right.
I'm too serious.
I should lighten up.
Maybe you could help me.
I could practise jokes, stuff like that.
Mm.
Ruth? She'd love to, Malcolm.
Go on, then, Malcolm.
Try your joke out.
See if that brings us any luck.
OK.
Right.
Um Man walks into a doctor's surgery.
"Doctor, I've a cricket ball stuck up my bum.
" Doctor says "Howzat?" Bloke says "Don't you start.
" In some ways, Malcolm, I don't think I'm the best person for you on this.
There's one about two ants and an elephant Wait.
There it is.
Finally, that's it.
That's a match.
- Someone up there must like your joke.
- Outstanding! This is our main hit man suspect.
His name is Sharaf Al-Youm.
He came through Heathrow on a tourist visa a few weeks ago.
These were taken a week before the shooting.
- Taken where? - On the CCTV in the bookstore.
Who is he and why's he on our database? He's a big-time hit man, with no allegiance that we know of to any groups or countries he's worked for.
Bosnia '96, where he spent his summer killing Serbs.
Algiers.
Apparently, the regime was strapped for cash, so they paid him with a military helicopter.
Land it in the garden - neighbours know you mean business.
So he's a hired assassin.
Chances are he'll try again.
We need to find this man and who he's working for.
Will's asked me to go to a wedding with him.
- When? - This weekend.
- Whose? - His best friend from college.
That's great! Yeah, but it's It's the first thing we've done in public together.
- So are you going to get him vetted? - He already has been.
It's a shame the service has to be first to know when we're serious about someone.
Especially before they do! - So, was anybody following us? - For a while, but we lost them.
I didn't see you looking.
You wouldn't, would you? That's the point.
There's a lot about this I don't understand.
It just becomes instinctive after a while.
There are some things you can do to make sure.
- Like going twice around a roundabout? - That's more 'Starsky and Hutch'.
No that's what we just did.
No, that's cos you don't know how to read a map.
So sometimes the lie is just me pretending to be somebody else.
- Like the insurance thing.
- Yeah.
It's OK.
You can tell me.
You've really got to promise not to tell anyone about these conversations.
Promise.
OK.
I have four or five full other identities.
Now, the initials of the other names are usually the same as our own.
It just makes it a bit easier to remember.
They've got different backgrounds, jobs, addresses - And people who work and live there - Will vouch for me as that person.
So, say I'm going undercover as, I don't know Zoe Reynolds.
Er Zelda Ringbinder the notorious drug thief.
OK, and the Medellin Cartel will send someone to check Zelda out.
So somebody answers that phone or answers that door and says yes, she lives here, but she's not here now.
And I have credit cards, post, a passport in that name, at that address.
A whole past.
Do you ever forget who you're meant to be, Zelda? Oh, all the time.
CHURCH BELLS RING - Ruth, where's Adam? - Had to dash out.
Anniversary present for his wife.
- PHONE RINGS - Yeah.
- Go on.
- We just had a tip-off from immigration.
Al-Youm.
The hit man - he's back in the UK.
Just got off the Eurostar.
He could be back to try again.
OK.
Well, let's be ready for him then.
OK, our hit man came out of Waterloo, took the tube to Shepherd's Bush and he's just picked up a car that was parked on a W12 back street.
He's heading into town along the Westway.
I've got a tail on him.
- Deliberate decoy route.
- Must be.
- Hope he's paid his congestion charge.
- Or Ken will be cross.
Oh Sorry, Ruth.
That's mine.
Fine.
Good.
Of course it is.
Stand by next car.
Next car's ready for rotation in five minutes.
Great.
OK.
Stay with him.
'Affirmative.
' Where are you going? 'Looks like our hit man's arrived at his destination.
' Sam, message Danny and tell him I want him to get Harakat to a safehouse, and stay there.
Thanks, Danny.
I appreciate the help.
- So where are we going? - A safehouse.
Where we can keep an eye on you.
Will it be you? Some of the time.
I'll be doing shifts.
You know.
So I go home when? Truthfully? Danny, you work for British Intelligence.
That's the last thing I expect.
Ah, you sound like Zuli now.
What is it that is written at CIA headquarters - isn't there a motto? "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
" So then when do you set me free? Well So this isn't going to be over soon, is it? Will you do something for me? Sure.
If I give you a list of books, could you please collect it from my shop? OK.
And if you fancy something, you can have it.
Thanks - I think there are probably rules about no freebies.
There are about most things.
Al-Youm took a circuitous route to East London, checking no-one was on him.
- Any blips? - None.
We put surveillance and a technical team on.
House opposite would be perfect.
Get whoever's in there out.
"Holiday in the Sun" competition usually works, Sam.
This'll make Malcolm's day.
What postcode are we talking about? E8.
When will someone give me an NW3? So much more interesting.
E8 Costa Blanca sounds right.
Maybe Benidorm.
Malcolm, has anybody ever told you you're a dreadful snob? Am I right in thinking, Mrs Barnes, that you brought garden furniture with your Visa card in April? A bench, right That purchase automatically entered you into our free draw! Well, I have some wonderful news! Get your suitcases and get packing.
If you need me to get some more books, it can easily be arranged.
No, I've got all I need, thanks.
But I tell you what I'm really itching to do, and that's to go outside.
That, I'm afraid, isn't so easy to pull off.
So they think I'm still under threat? Yeah.
Possibly.
It's not my favourite feeling.
You sound like you've experienced it before.
Thanks.
Still nothing? Nothing.
Harry got nowhere with Oliver Mace.
Sometimes this happens.
You get these lulls.
Doesn't make it any easier.
I mean, look at this.
This is all the surveillance footage since he arrived.
What's he waiting for? If there's anything more you need me to do, you just have to ask.
Danny I've got this for you.
I'm sorry for what Zuli said in that meeting, but he was certainly not speaking on my behalf.
And gratitude is not one of his things.
Clearly.
Please open it.
If you don't like it, you can give it back to me or just sell it.
How did you know? I saw you notice them in my shop.
- And I knew that - You like cricket? I don't like it I just love it.
I used to play a lot in Islamabad, but I'm not in demand any more so I just watch it, when I can.
And collect Wisdens.
I have the full set.
The only one I don't have is - 1884? - Exactly.
The one that contains the obituary of John Wisden.
Aristotle famously referred to "what of life" and "how of life", and I learned both these things while playing cricket.
Thanks.
I've a friend on the ground staff at Lords.
I could organise a private tour for us.
That'd be wonderful! Is there something about you I should know? What all this history teaches me is that man learns nothing from his past.
He just repeats it.
Thank you, Sam.
But where did it come from? It was delivered to Harry anonymously.
Mohammed Khordad - leader of the Pakistani terrorist group the Path of Light.
Originated in Kashmir, but have now extended their operations to include South East Asia - certainly one of the most vicious and bloody groups we've dealt with.
Taken from an American spy plane.
Probably a Predator from about 25,000ft over the Middle East.
Even from that height, the cameras can read the letters on a Coke can.
What is the point of it being able to do all this if you can't see the result? We need to find out who Khordad's talking to.
The American Embassy has an image enhancer.
We'll go there.
This software is state of the art.
It maps the contours of the skull and then creates an image of the face.
- Oliver Mace! - With Muhammed Khordad.
Doubt they're forming a book group.
With Mace, you never can tell.
My guess is it's some sort of deal.
- How about two swallows, Harry? - What are you talking about? Do you think two swallows could make a summer? Anything you can bring to the table would be more than welcome.
Like what are they talking about? So they know about my little chat with Khordad? Any idea how they got hold of the picture? You're probably right.
These days most people's idea of a secret is something you're only allowed to tell one person at a time.
I want to know who's talking.
Tell Six to put a team of watchers on Harry Pearce's lot.
And keep me fully informed.
The source behind the photo - she's willing to talk.
A deep throat? It's not a term I care for much, but yes.
You'll understand she's not someone I can be seen anywhere near, but here's when and where you can meet her.
None of it's negotiable, I'm afraid.
She's taking a tremendous risk in helping us.
- If she's identified or even suspected - Who is it? Let's just say she's a very senior government official.
Don't let me down on this, Adam.
Because afterwards I think we should talk about the future.
You and MI5.
This is our chance to get a world exclusive on what went on between Mace and Khordad at the West Bank, and maybe there's a connection to Al-Youm.
The contact who donated the photo has agreed to a rendezvous.
They're the only person who knows what's discussed and whether there's a link to events at the bookstore.
No-one can know this person has spoken to me.
They're taking a massive risk, so if I'm followed, we must know who's following me, and we lose them.
Category A counter-surveillance.
Zoe, run the route for me.
If we get this right, we'll nail this once and for all.
Danny, I know our hit man still hasn't moved an inch, but Understood.
Harakat.
CQP.
Day shift.
Before we start, there's something about Tom that I want to get straight.
He was an outstanding case officer, who, with all of you, established a great team.
This is no disservice to him, because his record stands for itself, but I need you to forget about what's happened.
I need you on my side.
OK, before the bridge, the sign is where? The Festival Pier.
This'll do.
OK, watch Adam carefully.
He's one of the best.
He made his name with this stuff in the Middle East.
Get it wrong there and you end up on a meat hook in the Bekaa Valley.
He's just Adam in a suit on his way to a business meeting in the city.
He's not yet working a cover.
- Are you all clear, Mike? - 'Clear.
' Good.
'Ready in position.
' - 'In position now.
' - Passing check point one' 'Mr Ohnia.
' This footage is our control.
Logging all cars going through it five minutes before and after.
OK.
Blue Mondeo, reg number P506 LLM The crossword's been started, telling him so far he's not been followed.
We've got four hours left to keep him clear before the meeting.
So they're using Adam, are they? Well, he is good.
With luck, he'll take us straight to whoever's talking.
Excellent.
Where now? Or is that "need to know"? You'll just have to close your eyes and count to ten.
Right, ready to go to Phase Two.
His next cutout.
Adam Carter Where are you off to? That's him.
Oh, Adam, don't you have another hat? - Now move in the watchers.
- Move Five.
Move Six.
Move Seven, Eight Nine - That's right, Adam, all the way home! - Nothing.
No matches.
At this point there's either no-one following him or so many that they're not yet rotating.
So force the issue.
Go to a chokepoint.
He can take the Millennium Footbridge.
Tell him.
- Move Seven and Eight? - Absolutely.
OK, it looks like he's clear.
The other bridges? Surrounding roads? - There's a number plate match.
- Where? It might be nothing.
Where did we first see it? On the Embankment.
By the Obelisk.
People like that don't travel in cars together.
Get the teams on the ground to follow our two friends.
OK, they must have a very big team if this is the first repeat in two hours.
It's MI6.
They're the only ones with this much manpower.
Ruth, tell him we think it's his old friends over at Six.
He probably trained those guys.
OK.
Ready for phase three, his next cut-out.
We're running out of ideas.
They're all over us.
Less than three hours.
It's nothing.
Tell Adam to abort? No.
It's today or we lose the source.
Where's the next contact point? Last stop - Eva.
It'll be the secretary.
She'll have told him someone's on him.
Are we missing anything? Wait! Go back.
Here! Oh, very good, Adam.
- He's heading down to the Jubilee Line.
- Good.
Move Eight into position.
- Keep them closed.
- There'll be complaints, you know, sir.
Oh, you'll think of something.
Say they were the wrong sort of doors.
'Due to an earlier incident in the station, passengers will not be able to alight this train.
' 'We apologise for any inconvenience.
' Thank you.
I'm sorry, we've lost him, sir.
Damn you, Harry.
What did you just put in the bin? A jammer.
All the signals are jammed.
He must have got there.
Thanks, Sam.
CROWD ROARS So, what's the deal in the picture? Primarily it's the result of pressure from the multinationals with mining interests in that country.
The terrorist Khordad is a much-feared man.
With him on their side, they'll get what they want.
And what do we give Khordad in return? What's our part? - Harakat.
- What do you mean? You don't know who he is? - My friend left us these.
- Ahh! Shall we? Ayman Harakat has not always been a bookseller.
He came to the UK about five years ago from Pakistan where he worked for Khordad and the Path of Light as their top engineer.
Until? Something happened - he got caught out, they turned him.
It took a while for his conscience to kick in, but eventually he became a double agent for MI6.
Anyhow, after a year of running him, it got too hot, so they exiled him and relocated him here.
A few years later, and it's all change.
Our government, in its infinite wisdom, decides that it now needs the previously unspeakable Khordad as their new best friend.
From terrorist to ally.
The fact that Harakat knows the novelist Zuli makes it even more perfect - a meeting could be arranged, the hit could happen and it could all be made to look like a botched attempt to kill the novelist.
And after the hit failed? They went back to Khordad to try to get a new deal.
But they didn't manage it.
He simply threatened to go over to the French.
They're going to try and hit Harakat again? As they see it, they've got no choice.
- Same gunman, Al-Youm? - No.
No.
He's now the decoy.
It'll be someone else.
I don't know who, and don't know where, but it'll be soon.
The reason I'm here The reason I passed on the photograph is that I disapprove of what's going on.
This is being done more for the corporations than for anyone else.
Their hold over our foreign policy grows by the hour.
It's not something I approve of.
Tails.
- Tails.
- Your field.
PHONE RINGS - Zoe, I was right! Harakat is the target.
- Stay on the line.
Malcolm, warn Danny, Harakat's the target.
I'll check his itinerary.
- OK.
- Al-Youm is a decoy! They're using another hit man.
Danny, I have something very important to tell you.
But after this.
Everything can wait for cricket.
Adam.
OK, there's a problem.
Danny said he was going to the safehouse, but via Lords.
It's in his itinerary.
They must still be there, but his phone's off.
Get somebody! A groundsman, anyone, I don't care! Picture the scene - the ground's full, you need four for your 100 and to win the test.
Right arm over.
OK.
I can't get through to Danny or Lords.
The lines are still down.
- I can't bear to watch this.
- His phone's been jammed.
We've got five units on their way.
There's Adam.
There's the car there.
DANNY! INAUDIBLE Do you think if Tom had been here, things would have been different? - And Harakat might still be? - No.
No, nobody could have foreseen this.
You're probably right.
You know what, Danny? Everything's going to be all right.
Yeah.
Whatever happens, there'll still be you and me.
Do you know how Harakat behaved when he worked for them? Before he got a conscience and came to us? I was in Karachi at the time.
- It wasn't pleasant.
- Not much there was.
We had taken on a responsibility to protect Harakat.
We made a deal.
If we so disapproved of him, then you shouldn't have been in business.
His deal was superseded by another.
We gave Khordad our word as well.
Just wait and see.
Who's to say that Harakat's life isn't worth all the lives that will be saved by befriending the new, improved Khordad? If you're asking me is there at present anything we shouldn't do to achieve our ends, then frankly, I don't know.
Post 9-1 1 , we made a decision that nothing, nobody, was off limits any more.
Look around at what's been happening since Iraq.
We're up against it.
We can't say any more, "This we do not do.
" In the long term, it will be proved right as the strategy.
Whose "long term" are we talking about? Before you get on your hobby-horse, Harry, do you think we did this alone, without help from Langley? And that justifies it?! Part of the reason for all this is most Americans think anything east of the Hudson is like those blank spaces on medieval maps, where they drew in a monster and wrote "Here Be Dragons".
Do you believe Khordad will stay with us?! Keep his promises? As I was leaving, we were getting reports of explosions in Peshawar.
It looks like them, and this is with the ink barely dry on the deal! That could have been anybody.
If you people continue like this there won't be any long term for any of us, not that I can see.
Oh, Harry, Six would quite like to get Adam Carter back.
- Isn't the loan period up? - No.
It's over when I say.
I'm thinking of making it more permanent.
But they're right about one thing, though.
He is rather good.
Thanks for stopping the tube for me.
I want you to keep working with us, Adam I'll try and make sure it's not too often against your old crowd.
Yeah, well, you'd have thought there were enough enemies in the world without creating our own.
There are two spooks that are hiding out in the woods, one MI5, one MI6.
After a while they realise they're being chased by a bear, so they start to run.
After a bit, the MI5 guy stops, takes off his boots, and puts on his running shoes.
The MI6 guy goes, "What are you doing? You think you can outrun a bear?" - To which our guy replies, "No" - "But I can outrun you.
" I told you I was no good at jokes.
Now you'll tell me that that story was true, and that was you? It's the government's policy not to comment on intelligence issues.
I wouldn't know about that, but you're with me now, and what happens at other times is just that.
Bear or no bear.
I know that now.
After today.
"When my love swears that she is made of truth "I do believe her though I know she lies "Therefore I lie with her, and she with me "And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
" Shakespeare, sonnet 34.
Well, it's an MI5 favourite.
You're a know-all.
You know what, Will? With you I'll always tell the truth, just so long as you promise to always laugh in the right places.
- She's the agent.
- I'm not an Israeli spy.
Catherine's my daughter.
So, what made you need to meet me so urgently? - You support these terrorists.
- He doesn't want peace! Some lunatics have just kidnapped the UN's Chief Negotiator.
A word of advice - this is far too big for a middle-ranking spook.
It can't be her.
You don't know her, Adam.
At the moment you're the biggest danger to her.
Stay with me.
No! You can't touch me.