Spooks s04e08 Episode Script
The Russian
It came from an act of love between us.
It's neither stupid nor selfish.
What kind of a world is he going to know? You can't hesitate for a second.
You do that and we could be dead.
This is insane.
Fiona saw that list, she knew he'd be there.
I don't know what to do.
I think I've screwed up.
Where is she? Fiona's ex-husband is still alive and was a double agent all along.
Working for the Syrians.
Adam! Keep Wes safe.
Promise me you will.
Don't.
CARTOON MUSIC PLAYS 'The country wide crisis in the NHS 'has been highlighted by a leaked report of planned emergency measures being put into action immediately.
'The report details a "black hole" 'of £100 million of debt owed by London Hospitals.
'Last night, a leading consultant claimed that at least three 'hospital trusts in the capital are on the verge of bankruptcy.
'The leaked report comes as Labour backbench MP, Malcolm Stackley confronted Claire Stacey, 'Junior Minister of Health, in a heated session 'of the House of Commons Select Committee on health last night.
' 'There is no plan to sell off hospitals.
' Isn't that what the new private/public initiative is all about? 'Flogging off bankrupt hospitals to private firms who think they can make a quick buck?' 'This is about people having treatment free when they visit their local hospital.
' 'It won't be "their hospital".
'So who are these firms buying into hospitals? Are they foreign firms?' 'It is an open, regulated market.
' 'You mean hospital beds being flogged off from barrow stalls?' # Arise, ye workers from your slumbers # Arise, ye criminals of want # For reason in revolt now thunders # # Oh, comrades, come rally # And the last fight, let us face # The Internationale # Unites the human race.
# Oh, Hugo.
Now, what was I saying in 1975? No gentlemen of the press? We don't count any more, Hugo.
Don't bet on it.
But there's other scum here.
Oh, Hugo no.
Oh, please, please, spare me.
Tell Harry Pearce I haven't changed! I haven't changed! Keep on going over and over it, seeing myself standing there outside, doing nothing.
You can't blame yourself.
Fiona knew what she was doing.
Knew it was going to get her killed? Listen to me, Jo, you can't think like that.
I know! Imagine what Adam's going through.
I thought this job would be cool.
Imagine that.
Cool.
Look, you know, sometimes it helps to stick together.
My flat, why don't you take that room after all? I don't know.
I don't know if I even want this job any more.
Well, OK.
Well, um, look, personnel have got the keys, if you want to look the place over.
Thanks, Zaf.
You cannot stop the operation.
We've been told, in no uncertain, terms to end the investigation, to end the surveillance and to close the whole Op down.
No room for manoeuvre? None.
I thought the deal would happen in the Autumn but the Government have brought the whole thing forward.
To when? The end of next week.
Can they do that? The Government can do what it likes.
This deal could wreck the whole economy.
It'll be a disaster for the National Health Service.
I agree.
I'm afraid I do too.
Then you must go on.
That means that MI5, in effect, would be conducting a conspiracy against the Government.
Cometh the hour, cometh the conspirators.
Now let us understand our position.
If we are to fail, then a lot of unpleasantness will come our way.
Then we mustn't fail.
Mr Stackley, Adam Carter.
I'm a great admirer.
I hope we can help you.
The whole bloody thing could go down the pan.
What thing? The whole health service! Flogging NHS hospitals to a foreign billionaire? Harold Macmillan called it selling off the family silver.
Shall we? Adam, how was it? It was just a couple of boring old commies.
What's this about selling hospitals? What foreign billionaire? Erm Come on, Ruth, what's Harry cutting me out of? I can't say.
Adam, I'm sorry.
Look, should you be here? Busy, busy, you know.
Keep the gremlins away.
Ruth! Jo! Zaf! There was a message for you, in the cover stories voice box, from Fiona's father.
He asks if Fiona's still coming to see them this weekend.
You haven't told them yet.
Or Wes.
Adam, you've got to.
And arrange a memorial service.
I don't want that.
No, I can understand, but all of us here, we want to What? Have a good cry over me and Wes? Sorry.
Ruth! Come now! I'll handle it.
Yeah, it's Adam Carter, Miss Evershed just sent a file to you.
Operation Songbird.
She meant for me to see it, could you send it to my station please? Eyes only.
I haven't changed anything.
Thank you.
Is he alive? No, Hugo.
He died in 1985.
I should have been told.
We thought you had enough to bear.
Vodka.
To comrade Boris Kandinsky! Comrade Boris Kandinsky! Go and say goodbye to Daddy.
Bye-bye, Daddy.
Bye-bye.
I'll see you on Saturday.
Will we go on Frencham ponds? Yes.
Will Mum row the boat with me? Wes, I told you.
Mummy's away.
In Egypt.
So she won't be back to go on the ponds? No.
Come on you.
Up to bed.
Wes, Wes.
I love you.
Bye-bye, Daddy.
Bye-bye.
Come on.
So Fiona won't be here at the weekend? No.
We have had Wes for a whole week already.
I really appreciate it, honestly.
You and Fiona all right? Clive, please, just take him for a couple more days.
Please, do it for me.
OK.
Give her a big hug.
So how erm How do Are you trying to ask me how I feel? Numb.
You know we're all upset beyond anything we can say.
Yeah, yeah.
Well Why have you got me doing chores, taking snaps of some burnt out old traitor? Hugo Ross was one of the biggest spies for the Soviet Union ever jailed in this country.
When I was a young officer I had the job of going to see him in jail, once a month.
Never gave me anything.
I came to admire him.
A very dangerous man, of course.
Did you let him spot you? Yeah, yeah he shouted at me.
"Tell Harry Pearce I've not changed.
" Hugo Ross, keeper of the communist faith.
Harry, you've got me doing slops and I know there's something big on I'm afraid it's slops or go to Tring.
I don't need the psych tank.
What's the thinking here? My wife died and I'm going bonkers? Adam, calm down, Adam, I blocked it.
I need something to fill the day, fill my mind.
Not this Mickey Mouse stuff.
Adam, stick with Hugo Ross for the moment, please.
Did you get the bug in his house? Yeah, Malcolm's taking care of it.
What is it with you and this old red anyway? OK, OK.
Oleg Korsakov's life is one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of the new Russia.
Mr Korsakov never gives press interviews, but it's believed he never knew his father and mother.
He was brought up in a state orphanage in the Russian city of Gorki.
But recently, the American magazine Wealth Watch placed him as the third richest man in the world.
After the collapse of Soviet Russia, he suddenly emerged as a brilliant entrepreneur.
He was accused by some of using brutal and illegal means.
But for a while he was feted as a hero of the new Russia.
In 2001, the Kremlin launched an investigation into his business empire.
He was charged with fraud and massive tax evasion.
Then last year the charges were suddenly dropped.
Mr Korsakov came to live in Britain.
World Russia analyst, Roger Vintner, is with me in the studio.
Roger, one foreign investor owning so much in Britain.
Good or bad for the country? Anything interesting? Just an old movie.
Dog house.
Two hours.
Adam, you look terrible.
Ask Harry for a few days off.
Go home.
Operation Songbird.
Oleg Korsakov.
God, Adam, how do you know? You know me.
Things pass in through my skin.
You want to tell me.
You know you do.
We were given a tip-off.
Oleg Korsakov may be running a mole at GCHQ Cheltenham.
Who's the tip from? Malcolm Stackley.
How does he know? He's obsessed with Korsakov.
He had a suspicion.
Which turned out to be true.
Looks likely.
Who's the mole? Her name is Sally Curtis.
She's an analyst on a commercial desk.
What's she like? Single.
Likes clubbing, though she's in her early 30s.
Gets wasted on the weekends, but sees her mother on Tuesdays.
So good girl, bad girl.
What's she selling? Information on British and American firms in the Health Sector.
Deep financial analysis.
How's she dropping the material? Electronically.
From her computer.
Through GCHQ firewalls? Is that possible? Korsakov could afford the best IT in the world.
How did he turn our Sally? Love.
Oh, that.
So what, Korsakov seduced her? No.
No, he sent a pro.
A real stud.
Picked her up in a club.
They meet in a London Hotel that Korsakov owns.
She's blown.
Why haven't you lifted her yet? Oleg Korsakov is about to make a huge investment in the NHS.
Not in his name, but through companies he owns.
The public don't know? Ministers assume people won't care who owns the hospitals.
Flog great chunks of it off to a crook? Adam.
You could suddenly not recognise the country you're living in.
Can this Korsakov do anything he wants? The Government see him as a saviour.
But the nightmare is that Korsakov may do in Britain what he did in Russia.
Asset strip, sell off.
Goodbye NHS.
Ruth, if Korsakov's the golden goose, what does the Government think about us trying to bring him down? They've told us to stop.
A direct order? From the Cabinet, yes.
And Harry and Juliet Have said carry on.
It's desperate.
The Government are going to sign a deal with Korsakov next week.
So MI5 are deliberately trying to wreck a Government policy? Isn't that illegal or something? So illegal it's very nearly treason.
Why hasn't Harry told me this? Adam! Oh, no! He shouldn't be here, should he? Let him in.
Friendly visit.
Doughnuts anyone? Look Zaf, I know you're running this in the field.
I'm just here out of interest, that's all.
That's Korsakov.
The whole top floor of the hotel's reserved for him.
He's turned the entire top floor into a hi-tech paradise.
It's a very advanced version of a Faraday cage.
Can stop any hostile signal getting in or out.
You've found a way of getting through it? Theoretically.
Practically, I've no idea.
There's the boyfriend.
He's going to meet Oleg Korsakov.
This should be interesting.
He's switching the Cage on.
He must know we're bugging him.
Not necessarily.
You've got to pick up Sally Curtis.
Not in our brief.
Just pick her up and turn her! Adam, step out.
You and I both know you're not meant to be anywhere near this Op.
Adam, I think Zaf's right.
You shouldn't be here.
Adam! Adam.
I'm sorry I spoke to you like that.
No, no you were right.
You should know, I'm going to resign from the service.
Why? Because my wife died? If I can still do this job, so can you.
How can you bear it? You just try to lead a normal life.
Is this normal? Look, all I know is if I left I'd be nothing.
Right now you're still an MI5 officer on duty.
Get back in there.
Oleg Korsakov left the hotel an hour and a half ago.
What about the boyfriend? He's still inside.
Wait.
We've got an arrival on Sally Curtis.
Harry, are you sure you don't want us to lift her after all? No.
Repeat, no.
Continue to observe.
'Will do.
Delta six out.
' Maybe Adam should be at Tring.
He doesn't want to go.
We're running out of time to crack Korsakov.
You need Adam.
You need his instinct.
Really? In his present condition, can you really trust his instinct? I know he's not his usual charming self.
He needs to work to save himself.
Save himself? What, at the expense of national security? I can't take the risk.
If this Op fails, we could all go to jail.
I'll always trust Adam.
He's a friend.
In this job, Ruth, none of us have friends.
Colleagues who we'd die for, but no friends.
It's Sally and her boyfriend.
Here they go! THUMPING HOUSE MUSIC PLAYS No! Oh, no! Stay on it.
What's he doing here? Ask me another.
Who the hell do you think you are? My name is John and I'm MI5.
Oh, God.
Sally! Sally, you've been hit.
That man injected you with something.
Listen! You are crazy.
Listen, listen to me.
You've been passing GCHQ product to Oleg Korsakov.
Yes.
Sally? You're, you're MI5, oh, God.
It's all right, it's all right.
I'm sorry, what have I done? We can help you.
Just tell us what you know.
All right? Sorry, who did you say you were? My name's John and I'm MI5.
Five what? Adam, what the hell are you doing? She's been hit.
Ambulance, now! Sally! Sally! This is a nine ten call Just say something, just say something Sally, anything.
Sorry, who did you say you were? The drug they injected her with was anaoxide diethylamide.
It was developed during the cold war.
We made it at Porton Down.
It was assumed the Soviets did too in the KGB's Minsk laboratories.
It was a prototype for a battle field weapon.
And it Destroys the frontal lobe memory centres of the cerebrum.
They wiped her memory.
Yes.
A drug that wipes your mind? Is there any hope that There is an antidote, but it's a prototype and it's too late for Sally.
Adam was right Harry, we should have lifted her.
In the matter of Adam Carter, how did he find out about Songbird and Oleg Korsakov? One of you told him.
I don't want to know who, but it was misplaced loyalty.
This is a very dangerous operation for the country, and particularly for this service.
I want no more indiscipline.
Office.
Adam, you know how much we all sympathise with you, but you joined an operation without orders to do so.
Yes, I did.
You are on compulsory leave in Tring.
I don't need the psych tank.
Then the DG will dismiss you from the service.
What does Hugo Ross have to do with Oleg Korsakov? Adam, give yourself time.
I beg you, as a friend.
You told me once in this job we can't have friends.
PHONE RINGS Juliet.
The Government have granted Korsakov British citizenship.
His application has been fast-tracked.
The usual back channel from the Home Secretary's Office.
No time.
Absolutely.
Are we anywhere nearer hard evidence? Running a mole at GCHQ and all but murdering her was evidence enough(!) We need a smoking gun, Harry.
Why is the Government so far up the behind of this Russian billionaire? Have you picked anything up? Yes.
Well? It's not new information, it's more of a rethink after a heavy discussion.
With whom? It was put to me, at a very high level, that the public has no idea how bad the NHS situation is.
Hospitals are going to have to close their doors right across the country.
The great unspeakable truth at the heart of British politics is the NHS is collapsing.
We know that.
I now have to tell you that I agree with Downing Street.
I can't be party to what you are doing.
We.
What WE are doing.
You told us about Korsakov.
You asked us to start Songbird.
I was wrong.
Korsakov has assured the Prime Minister of his moral standing.
Now he's the only hope for the NHS.
That's clear to me.
Is it? What have they offered you, you shabby little man? Don't take that tone with me.
I'm an elected representative.
You two are just servants.
Stop the operation as you were told to do and leave Korsakov alone.
Don't be reckless.
Breathtaking.
What're we gonna do? Be reckless.
We've got 48 hours at the most before the JIC start checking up on what we're doing.
You're going to have to entrap Korsakov.
Fast.
I've been thinking of a way.
What can you possibly want from him after all these years? This is a courtesy call.
Courtesy? From British counterintelligence? Harry, what am I doing here? I want your fresh eyes and ears.
Why? You're going to work with him.
Harry Pearce.
Hugo.
The sight of enemies embracing each other embarrasses your young companion.
Oh, forgive me, this is Zafar Younis.
Mr Younis.
You must understand that during the so-called cold war we could salute each other across the ideological divide.
And sometimes kill each other.
It was a war.
I enjoyed your visits.
Why did you stop coming? You ceased to be of importance.
Vodka? I think so.
Fascinated by the size of the dinosaur let out of his cage, Zafar? I read up about you.
Did you indeed? A house on Hampstead Heath this size? Got to be worth what, two million? The housing market is disgusting, deeply immoral.
Oh, I don't know.
Houses have to be bought and sold somehow.
Oh, no, they don't! Shelter is a human right.
Housing should be held in common and given when needed.
You mean concrete council tower blocks for all? Great! Well, this is very entertaining, but did you really come to talk housing policy? Boris Kandinsky.
Yes.
Boris Kandinsky Was Mr Ross's control.
My KGB contact at the Russian Embassy.
To whom you sold information that cost the lives of British agents.
And saved many others.
You were a fast-tracked civil servant in the Ministry of Defence.
And you gave Kandinsky the names of agents in the Soviet missile programme.
The KGB executed them.
What I did helped to keep the nuclear stalemate between West and East.
The KGB executed the men you betrayed.
Terrible times require terrible things to be done.
Forgive me, Mr Ross.
To my generation, communism is all propaganda and gobbledegook.
Yes, yes.
Did you know he had a son? No, Boris never married.
He always felt that as a KGB Officer in the field, he might make himself vulnerable.
Oh, he married.
His wife was kept away from Moscow, they never appeared in public together.
She died about a year after he did.
And the son? Took another name.
Had a cover story as an orphan.
He's hugely successful.
Oleg Korsakov.
The entrepreneur? The man who stole half the Soviet ship-building industry? That rabid young dog of a capitalist is Boris's son? He's acquired many businesses in this country.
Amongst them, a chain of hotels.
He has his London headquarters in one, The Excelsior.
You should give him a call.
Why do you think I would do anything that MI5 suggested? Well, aren't you fascinated? I mean, once a spy Morning, sir.
Mr Carter, welcome.
I'm Diana Jewell.
Yeah, head shrink, I know.
If we could do the formalities, then we can show you to your room.
Formalities? Do you have any reading material with you? Laptop? Yes.
You'll have to surrender them.
We don't want you to have distractions.
You're fond of Jane Austen? Yeah, she noticed things.
And do you have a mobile phone? Good.
Jonathan will show you to your room.
Can I call you Adam? Familiarity, first step? Tell me, what's the most attractive thing about being a spy? You won't get anywhere with me.
I helped devise the MI6 interrogator's course.
Good.
We fit.
Fit? You are the mind breaker, I am the mind healer.
The most attractive thing about spying is telling lies.
Did you just tell one? No.
And how deep does your lying go? How do you mean? Do you lie to yourself? Of course.
Every time you go in the field you have to leave your real self in a box.
But do you lie to yourself? About what? Your love for your dead wife.
I don't lie about that.
How do you know? I don't lie about that.
Are you sure? I don't lie about that! Good.
But you lie to yourself about her being dead.
What about his blocking device? Not turned on yet.
It's common protocol.
It gives people like me less time to crack it.
'Air air? What is this air? 'What are these stupid little pumps in the heels? 'It's not necessary! 'But it is beautiful commerce! It is built in obsolescence!' What's he talking about? Trainers, I think.
This guy's meant to be the financial master of the universe, the guy who's gonna rescue the NHS.
Which is exactly why we've been told not to do what we're doing.
I mean, of course, I will break the fingers of little children in Taiwan any day, but for good product, useful product, like rubber chickens.
No, don't you laugh, I have sold rubber chickens in Siberia, unfrozen! Here we go.
Hugo Ross.
He's in.
We'll patch the surveillance through.
$2, 000 a pair.
Hugo.
I am so glad you called me.
You're kind, Mr Kandinsky.
No, no, no, no, you must call me Korsakov.
You old reds knew all about false names, hmm? Trotsky's name wasn't Trotsky, Lenin's wasn't Lenin.
The new Russia.
The Soviet Union.
Past and present glories of the motherland.
I can drink to that.
When you telephoned and asked to see me, I had something sent from Moscow.
The highest battlefield honour of the Soviet Union.
You were awarded it in 1975, when you were sentenced to jail.
It could not be announced, of course.
The Soviet authorities never acknowledged their agents publicly.
The Order of The Red Banner.
Please.
Sentimental old men? Harry, what are you after? Please.
So, Hugo, now that you are a free man, what are you going to do? What can I do? I'm 73, and what the Americans call an ex-con.
Who will employ me? I will.
Hello.
I can always find work for ruthless men.
I don't mean to offend you, but I know what you've done to Russia.
The asset stripping of the State-owned industries, the corruption.
People unemployed in their millions.
Under Socialism, unemployment was unknown in Russia.
Yes, six men to open one hotel door.
You Russian capitalists, so-called masters of the world.
You're gangsters! You've stolen Russia! You have become the enemy your father sought to destroy.
The old man's got guts.
Beautiful, beautiful.
This is exactly why you're here.
Hugo, I have job for you.
Moment.
Malcolm I've adjusted the phasing.
This time Oh, no! No! Anyone fancy a beer? Adam! Freddy? Freddy Frost! How you doin'? I didn't know you were in here.
Yeah, it was after the Beirut business.
But that was Yeah, a while ago.
But I'm doing well.
Look, there is a grapevine even in here.
Fiona I was gutted when I heard.
Do you fancy that beer? Sorry, my drug regimen, y'know? I'll see you later.
See ya.
Why am I shut up with nutters? You're not shut up, you're free to leave.
But not free to go back in the service.
The guests here are all distinguished intelligence officers.
Like yourself.
My problem, if I have a problem, is grief! Ordinary, common, grief! And how are you dealing with it? That doesn't concern you.
But it does concern the service.
The security of the state depends on my state of mind.
Doesn't it? That's too much to lay on me.
But your job does lay it on you.
Adam, have you told your son his mother's dead? Have you told her parents? Korsakov has got the better of you and the techies of C department? At this point in time, this is the worst day of my life.
Well, it's not over yet.
Fix it! You're not ready to leave, Adam.
Stay here and I never will be.
I'll end up babbling about some bar in Beirut.
Adam.
How do you know if I'm over it.
If, anyway? Only you will know that.
And you don't, do you? Do you? So long, Diana.
Thanks for the rest.
Adam? You went to see Oleg Korsakov.
Meaning you listened to our conversation in the hotel room.
Yes.
Ah, like the old days.
Enter an empty room and say, "Hello.
" What did you think of the job he offered me? We didn't hear.
His anti-bugging devices defeated us.
Really?! Just like his father.
Always one step ahead of the game.
Sensitive.
Impeccable manners.
Secretly, a brute.
Very attractive.
He, er, wants me to write his father's biography.
Did you agree? Certainly not! He offered me an advance of $100, 000.
These Westernised, they think they can buy anyone.
I want to buy you, Hugo.
But not with money.
I've got something very urgent to talk to you about.
I should ask you to sign the Official Secrets Act really but These are highly sensitive documents.
Go back to Tring.
What's the link between Boris Kandinsky and Oleg Korsakov? Adam.
Come on, this is me, this is what I do.
Oleg's father was Boris Kandinsky.
The KGB agent who recruited Hugo Ross? Yes.
So Harry's had Hugo in mind all along, just in case he became useful? Harry, the fox.
I want you to persuade Harry to take me back on the Op.
Talk to him.
Do this for me.
I need this.
Hospitals.
We have no time.
He is going to sign a contract with the Government in three days.
He is going to totally destroy the NHS.
Why don't you shoot him in the back of the neck? Oh, sorry.
The veneer of bourgeois democracy doesn't permit that.
What we need is information that will completely discredit him, something concrete, final.
Hugo, I'm asking you to fight the good fight against capitalism, as you always have.
I need you to bring down Korsakov.
You are recruiting me to work for MI5?! All right.
I'll do it.
Oleg Korsakov is a disgrace to his father's memory.
Let's just see how rusty I am at the game.
Who will baby-sit? Zafar.
I'm gonna leave him with you.
Welcome back.
Where is he now? In the canteen.
I've had Diana Jewell on the phone.
She wants her star inmate back.
All right.
Ask him to come up.
You need me to go in undercover with Ross.
Zaf's doing that.
He's not experienced enough.
All right, if Zaf's undercover, who's riding shotgun? You know it should be me.
You need me to do this and I need to do it.
Do you know what will happen if we fail on this? We are acting against the explicit instructions of the Cabinet.
Harry.
Very well.
Time is of the essence.
Get up to speed.
Thanks.
We have visuals, we have audio.
Game plan on.
Right, we screw this up and part of England disappears.
Who's this? This is Sikandar Khan.
We met in jail.
Mr Khan is going to be my secretary.
Very bright boy.
What were you imprisoned for? Identity theft.
State of the art criminal.
Forgive this.
It's natural caution.
A mobile? Comrade Ross is catching up with the modern world.
What is this for? Personal use.
Violent man, are you? When it's personal.
Interesting company you keep, Hugo.
You know where you are with criminals.
Lenin liked bank robbers.
Indeed.
So! We have material here.
The family archives go right back to my great, great grandfather.
He was in the Tsar's secret police.
See.
The blood that flows in me, it will flow in your book! I have cleared the whole day.
We will organise the book! Chapter one, of my childhood and my father, please.
The ego explodes.
My mother told me of the night Stalin died, my father wept.
The great helmsman was dead! That man has talked seven hours non-stop.
Should deport him for yapping.
That's all we've got on him so far.
Hugo and Zaf have got to get him to blow off about the NHS takeover.
I want him hero.
Which he was.
Good, good! Good days work.
Drink.
Mr Ross tells me you're one of Moscow's sharpest operators.
Stole half of Russia? Yes, Oleg.
Why aren't you in prison? Most of the other "robber barons" of the 1990s are.
Ah.
My father hadclose friends.
Close? To the Kremlin.
Doesn't that fly in the face of everything your father believed in? My father is hero to me.
How can that be? I am continuing his work.
Is this it? Go on.
Go on, tell us! My father wanted to change the West.
So do I.
Change, in what way? Ironic, isn't it? What my father and all the communist armies, institutions of the state, KGB could not do, I can.
Exactly what do you mean? No, no, no.
I have gone far enough.
Hugo, this session has been delight.
Oh, no.
Are you sure there's nothing else you want to discuss? I think we have covered nearly everything, for first day.
Get writing, my friend! It will be more than biography of my father, it will be the great Russian novel of our time, but a real story! Hmm? Is there nothing we can do? Have you got his mobile number? Yes.
Dial it, now.
Excuse me.
Yes? This is your estate agent.
The quote we gave you is not working.
We're going to have to double it, yeah? Double it.
Yes, are you absolutely sure? 'Absolutely.
' I'm in a meeting at the moment, so I'll, er, I'll return your call.
See if he got the message.
Message, what message? Pushy estate agent.
I'm selling my house.
Joining the world of property speculation? Welcome to the club.
Hugo Ross.
You are a born field agent.
What have you done? There's something else I want to join.
What? Your organisation.
Hugo, I don't think I have something to sell.
Wait.
Wait.
Here comes the cage.
Theory become reality.
Please, please.
Is it working? I always kept this quiet but I had doubts about a backup system.
I've done it.
Success is with me.
Yes, Hugo.
This man is an MI5 officer.
Adam, they'll kill him! What is this? MI5 gave me no alternative.
They sent me in here with this boy to mind me.
This child! I want to join you because I am sick of what your father represented.
I've paid my dues, It's a new world.
New delights.
I want a decadent old age.
And what use can you be to me? I can be your mole in MI5.
I can walk out of this room your creature.
And what about your minder? He can walk out too.
Put him in a car.
Drive him somewhere quiet, then lose him.
I'll say that he disappeared.
MI5 are desperate to have me close to you.
You want to be double agent? Yes.
At my age! Good, good.
I lived with security services in Russia that close to me.
Spies are just molecules in the air I breathe.
You're nothing but a cheap criminal.
I am new breed of merchant which will change the world.
Your father thought he could change the world.
Democratic government stopped him.
Democratic government? Thieves and pigmies! What, they think my billions will save their pathetic, socialistic health service.
I will squeeze it for profit, strip it bare! If hospital is on valuable land, sell it! Let there be casino, car park! Let the market work! I'll inject him.
I'll destroy his mind.
Like I did to the wretched girl at GCHQ.
That's it! Send'em in! Delta Six to Mercury One, activate all units.
What? A triple agent, Hugo? What ambition.
You are a disgrace to the memory of your father and to your country.
And you are speck of dust up the chimney of history.
Stop there! Zaf! Zaf, all right? He's been hit with a needle.
What? What is it? An antidote.
OK, Sergeant, great work.
I'm just going to have a look around.
Sir.
PHONE RINGS 'Adam.
' MI5 agent, estate agent.
'It's great, great work.
'Welcome back.
' Thanks.
Thanks, Harry.
Malcolm, will you wipe that last bit of tape? So how's Adam Carter? Back to his old self? I'm not so sure.
Although Diana Jewell's given him a clean bill of health.
Oh, good.
Actually she was rather gushing about him.
Oh, dear.
And Korsakov? Well, he arrived back in Moscow three hours ago, where he was arrested at the airport.
Bundled into an unmarked van.
Someone at the Kremlin must have seen those hotel tapes.
Now the Korsakov deal has fallen through, the money to save the NHS has to come from somewhere.
So they are going to put 5p on the basic rate of income tax.
Oh, my God.
I know, Harry.
What have we done? We're selling the house.
Excellent.
We want to live in France.
Can you help us with the French authorities, my record I'm sure.
I'll leave you.
Why the change on the house? Well, it's for her.
How's Zafar? Fine.
Yes, he did well.
A good little bourgeois spy in the making.
I'm pleased with him.
What of our other friend? The transcripts of your discussions have been delivered to all members of the Cabinet.
There is a general shock.
The Minister of Health's career is looking, shall we say, sickly.
It is true that men make their own history but not always just as they please.
The dead past BOTH:.
.
lies like a nightmare on the minds of the living.
I really thought, when you visited me as a young man while I was in jail, that I could turn you.
But you turned me in the end.
Not really.
You wanted Korsakov destroyed too.
Yes.
The minds of the living.
Who said that? Karl Marx.
Speech, to the 20th congress of the party of the Soviet Union.
Yes.
It was that that made me join them.
Speech.
Who made that speech? Kruschev.
Nurse! Who? Nurse! The antidote, it's failing! Harry? Why are you looking at me like that? Hugo, what is the I think I can remember.
Remember? Remember what it was I believed in.
Hugo, what is the first line of the Communist Manifesto? A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of ofof what? Look straight ahead now.
Four litres of O2, nurse.
What is your name, sir? Can you answer me? What's your name, sir? I'm so sorry.
In God's name, what kind of a world do you people live in? We need to know how she died, Adam.
I can't tell you much.
She died in the line of service, protecting the people she loved.
Were you there? Did she say anything before she She said, "Look after Wes.
" There There'll be a memorial service at the Foreign Office Chapel.
It'll have to be private because of security.
Yes.
Yes.
Good.
I'm going to tell him now.
You let the guy go, for God's sake.
So what? Whatever he's planning is bigger, much bigger than a double murder.
We won't get a second chance to find this weapon.
Adam, 53 seconds.
You cannot override the White House with no repercussions.
He's got a lock on.
Harry is finished.
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It's neither stupid nor selfish.
What kind of a world is he going to know? You can't hesitate for a second.
You do that and we could be dead.
This is insane.
Fiona saw that list, she knew he'd be there.
I don't know what to do.
I think I've screwed up.
Where is she? Fiona's ex-husband is still alive and was a double agent all along.
Working for the Syrians.
Adam! Keep Wes safe.
Promise me you will.
Don't.
CARTOON MUSIC PLAYS 'The country wide crisis in the NHS 'has been highlighted by a leaked report of planned emergency measures being put into action immediately.
'The report details a "black hole" 'of £100 million of debt owed by London Hospitals.
'Last night, a leading consultant claimed that at least three 'hospital trusts in the capital are on the verge of bankruptcy.
'The leaked report comes as Labour backbench MP, Malcolm Stackley confronted Claire Stacey, 'Junior Minister of Health, in a heated session 'of the House of Commons Select Committee on health last night.
' 'There is no plan to sell off hospitals.
' Isn't that what the new private/public initiative is all about? 'Flogging off bankrupt hospitals to private firms who think they can make a quick buck?' 'This is about people having treatment free when they visit their local hospital.
' 'It won't be "their hospital".
'So who are these firms buying into hospitals? Are they foreign firms?' 'It is an open, regulated market.
' 'You mean hospital beds being flogged off from barrow stalls?' # Arise, ye workers from your slumbers # Arise, ye criminals of want # For reason in revolt now thunders # # Oh, comrades, come rally # And the last fight, let us face # The Internationale # Unites the human race.
# Oh, Hugo.
Now, what was I saying in 1975? No gentlemen of the press? We don't count any more, Hugo.
Don't bet on it.
But there's other scum here.
Oh, Hugo no.
Oh, please, please, spare me.
Tell Harry Pearce I haven't changed! I haven't changed! Keep on going over and over it, seeing myself standing there outside, doing nothing.
You can't blame yourself.
Fiona knew what she was doing.
Knew it was going to get her killed? Listen to me, Jo, you can't think like that.
I know! Imagine what Adam's going through.
I thought this job would be cool.
Imagine that.
Cool.
Look, you know, sometimes it helps to stick together.
My flat, why don't you take that room after all? I don't know.
I don't know if I even want this job any more.
Well, OK.
Well, um, look, personnel have got the keys, if you want to look the place over.
Thanks, Zaf.
You cannot stop the operation.
We've been told, in no uncertain, terms to end the investigation, to end the surveillance and to close the whole Op down.
No room for manoeuvre? None.
I thought the deal would happen in the Autumn but the Government have brought the whole thing forward.
To when? The end of next week.
Can they do that? The Government can do what it likes.
This deal could wreck the whole economy.
It'll be a disaster for the National Health Service.
I agree.
I'm afraid I do too.
Then you must go on.
That means that MI5, in effect, would be conducting a conspiracy against the Government.
Cometh the hour, cometh the conspirators.
Now let us understand our position.
If we are to fail, then a lot of unpleasantness will come our way.
Then we mustn't fail.
Mr Stackley, Adam Carter.
I'm a great admirer.
I hope we can help you.
The whole bloody thing could go down the pan.
What thing? The whole health service! Flogging NHS hospitals to a foreign billionaire? Harold Macmillan called it selling off the family silver.
Shall we? Adam, how was it? It was just a couple of boring old commies.
What's this about selling hospitals? What foreign billionaire? Erm Come on, Ruth, what's Harry cutting me out of? I can't say.
Adam, I'm sorry.
Look, should you be here? Busy, busy, you know.
Keep the gremlins away.
Ruth! Jo! Zaf! There was a message for you, in the cover stories voice box, from Fiona's father.
He asks if Fiona's still coming to see them this weekend.
You haven't told them yet.
Or Wes.
Adam, you've got to.
And arrange a memorial service.
I don't want that.
No, I can understand, but all of us here, we want to What? Have a good cry over me and Wes? Sorry.
Ruth! Come now! I'll handle it.
Yeah, it's Adam Carter, Miss Evershed just sent a file to you.
Operation Songbird.
She meant for me to see it, could you send it to my station please? Eyes only.
I haven't changed anything.
Thank you.
Is he alive? No, Hugo.
He died in 1985.
I should have been told.
We thought you had enough to bear.
Vodka.
To comrade Boris Kandinsky! Comrade Boris Kandinsky! Go and say goodbye to Daddy.
Bye-bye, Daddy.
Bye-bye.
I'll see you on Saturday.
Will we go on Frencham ponds? Yes.
Will Mum row the boat with me? Wes, I told you.
Mummy's away.
In Egypt.
So she won't be back to go on the ponds? No.
Come on you.
Up to bed.
Wes, Wes.
I love you.
Bye-bye, Daddy.
Bye-bye.
Come on.
So Fiona won't be here at the weekend? No.
We have had Wes for a whole week already.
I really appreciate it, honestly.
You and Fiona all right? Clive, please, just take him for a couple more days.
Please, do it for me.
OK.
Give her a big hug.
So how erm How do Are you trying to ask me how I feel? Numb.
You know we're all upset beyond anything we can say.
Yeah, yeah.
Well Why have you got me doing chores, taking snaps of some burnt out old traitor? Hugo Ross was one of the biggest spies for the Soviet Union ever jailed in this country.
When I was a young officer I had the job of going to see him in jail, once a month.
Never gave me anything.
I came to admire him.
A very dangerous man, of course.
Did you let him spot you? Yeah, yeah he shouted at me.
"Tell Harry Pearce I've not changed.
" Hugo Ross, keeper of the communist faith.
Harry, you've got me doing slops and I know there's something big on I'm afraid it's slops or go to Tring.
I don't need the psych tank.
What's the thinking here? My wife died and I'm going bonkers? Adam, calm down, Adam, I blocked it.
I need something to fill the day, fill my mind.
Not this Mickey Mouse stuff.
Adam, stick with Hugo Ross for the moment, please.
Did you get the bug in his house? Yeah, Malcolm's taking care of it.
What is it with you and this old red anyway? OK, OK.
Oleg Korsakov's life is one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of the new Russia.
Mr Korsakov never gives press interviews, but it's believed he never knew his father and mother.
He was brought up in a state orphanage in the Russian city of Gorki.
But recently, the American magazine Wealth Watch placed him as the third richest man in the world.
After the collapse of Soviet Russia, he suddenly emerged as a brilliant entrepreneur.
He was accused by some of using brutal and illegal means.
But for a while he was feted as a hero of the new Russia.
In 2001, the Kremlin launched an investigation into his business empire.
He was charged with fraud and massive tax evasion.
Then last year the charges were suddenly dropped.
Mr Korsakov came to live in Britain.
World Russia analyst, Roger Vintner, is with me in the studio.
Roger, one foreign investor owning so much in Britain.
Good or bad for the country? Anything interesting? Just an old movie.
Dog house.
Two hours.
Adam, you look terrible.
Ask Harry for a few days off.
Go home.
Operation Songbird.
Oleg Korsakov.
God, Adam, how do you know? You know me.
Things pass in through my skin.
You want to tell me.
You know you do.
We were given a tip-off.
Oleg Korsakov may be running a mole at GCHQ Cheltenham.
Who's the tip from? Malcolm Stackley.
How does he know? He's obsessed with Korsakov.
He had a suspicion.
Which turned out to be true.
Looks likely.
Who's the mole? Her name is Sally Curtis.
She's an analyst on a commercial desk.
What's she like? Single.
Likes clubbing, though she's in her early 30s.
Gets wasted on the weekends, but sees her mother on Tuesdays.
So good girl, bad girl.
What's she selling? Information on British and American firms in the Health Sector.
Deep financial analysis.
How's she dropping the material? Electronically.
From her computer.
Through GCHQ firewalls? Is that possible? Korsakov could afford the best IT in the world.
How did he turn our Sally? Love.
Oh, that.
So what, Korsakov seduced her? No.
No, he sent a pro.
A real stud.
Picked her up in a club.
They meet in a London Hotel that Korsakov owns.
She's blown.
Why haven't you lifted her yet? Oleg Korsakov is about to make a huge investment in the NHS.
Not in his name, but through companies he owns.
The public don't know? Ministers assume people won't care who owns the hospitals.
Flog great chunks of it off to a crook? Adam.
You could suddenly not recognise the country you're living in.
Can this Korsakov do anything he wants? The Government see him as a saviour.
But the nightmare is that Korsakov may do in Britain what he did in Russia.
Asset strip, sell off.
Goodbye NHS.
Ruth, if Korsakov's the golden goose, what does the Government think about us trying to bring him down? They've told us to stop.
A direct order? From the Cabinet, yes.
And Harry and Juliet Have said carry on.
It's desperate.
The Government are going to sign a deal with Korsakov next week.
So MI5 are deliberately trying to wreck a Government policy? Isn't that illegal or something? So illegal it's very nearly treason.
Why hasn't Harry told me this? Adam! Oh, no! He shouldn't be here, should he? Let him in.
Friendly visit.
Doughnuts anyone? Look Zaf, I know you're running this in the field.
I'm just here out of interest, that's all.
That's Korsakov.
The whole top floor of the hotel's reserved for him.
He's turned the entire top floor into a hi-tech paradise.
It's a very advanced version of a Faraday cage.
Can stop any hostile signal getting in or out.
You've found a way of getting through it? Theoretically.
Practically, I've no idea.
There's the boyfriend.
He's going to meet Oleg Korsakov.
This should be interesting.
He's switching the Cage on.
He must know we're bugging him.
Not necessarily.
You've got to pick up Sally Curtis.
Not in our brief.
Just pick her up and turn her! Adam, step out.
You and I both know you're not meant to be anywhere near this Op.
Adam, I think Zaf's right.
You shouldn't be here.
Adam! Adam.
I'm sorry I spoke to you like that.
No, no you were right.
You should know, I'm going to resign from the service.
Why? Because my wife died? If I can still do this job, so can you.
How can you bear it? You just try to lead a normal life.
Is this normal? Look, all I know is if I left I'd be nothing.
Right now you're still an MI5 officer on duty.
Get back in there.
Oleg Korsakov left the hotel an hour and a half ago.
What about the boyfriend? He's still inside.
Wait.
We've got an arrival on Sally Curtis.
Harry, are you sure you don't want us to lift her after all? No.
Repeat, no.
Continue to observe.
'Will do.
Delta six out.
' Maybe Adam should be at Tring.
He doesn't want to go.
We're running out of time to crack Korsakov.
You need Adam.
You need his instinct.
Really? In his present condition, can you really trust his instinct? I know he's not his usual charming self.
He needs to work to save himself.
Save himself? What, at the expense of national security? I can't take the risk.
If this Op fails, we could all go to jail.
I'll always trust Adam.
He's a friend.
In this job, Ruth, none of us have friends.
Colleagues who we'd die for, but no friends.
It's Sally and her boyfriend.
Here they go! THUMPING HOUSE MUSIC PLAYS No! Oh, no! Stay on it.
What's he doing here? Ask me another.
Who the hell do you think you are? My name is John and I'm MI5.
Oh, God.
Sally! Sally, you've been hit.
That man injected you with something.
Listen! You are crazy.
Listen, listen to me.
You've been passing GCHQ product to Oleg Korsakov.
Yes.
Sally? You're, you're MI5, oh, God.
It's all right, it's all right.
I'm sorry, what have I done? We can help you.
Just tell us what you know.
All right? Sorry, who did you say you were? My name's John and I'm MI5.
Five what? Adam, what the hell are you doing? She's been hit.
Ambulance, now! Sally! Sally! This is a nine ten call Just say something, just say something Sally, anything.
Sorry, who did you say you were? The drug they injected her with was anaoxide diethylamide.
It was developed during the cold war.
We made it at Porton Down.
It was assumed the Soviets did too in the KGB's Minsk laboratories.
It was a prototype for a battle field weapon.
And it Destroys the frontal lobe memory centres of the cerebrum.
They wiped her memory.
Yes.
A drug that wipes your mind? Is there any hope that There is an antidote, but it's a prototype and it's too late for Sally.
Adam was right Harry, we should have lifted her.
In the matter of Adam Carter, how did he find out about Songbird and Oleg Korsakov? One of you told him.
I don't want to know who, but it was misplaced loyalty.
This is a very dangerous operation for the country, and particularly for this service.
I want no more indiscipline.
Office.
Adam, you know how much we all sympathise with you, but you joined an operation without orders to do so.
Yes, I did.
You are on compulsory leave in Tring.
I don't need the psych tank.
Then the DG will dismiss you from the service.
What does Hugo Ross have to do with Oleg Korsakov? Adam, give yourself time.
I beg you, as a friend.
You told me once in this job we can't have friends.
PHONE RINGS Juliet.
The Government have granted Korsakov British citizenship.
His application has been fast-tracked.
The usual back channel from the Home Secretary's Office.
No time.
Absolutely.
Are we anywhere nearer hard evidence? Running a mole at GCHQ and all but murdering her was evidence enough(!) We need a smoking gun, Harry.
Why is the Government so far up the behind of this Russian billionaire? Have you picked anything up? Yes.
Well? It's not new information, it's more of a rethink after a heavy discussion.
With whom? It was put to me, at a very high level, that the public has no idea how bad the NHS situation is.
Hospitals are going to have to close their doors right across the country.
The great unspeakable truth at the heart of British politics is the NHS is collapsing.
We know that.
I now have to tell you that I agree with Downing Street.
I can't be party to what you are doing.
We.
What WE are doing.
You told us about Korsakov.
You asked us to start Songbird.
I was wrong.
Korsakov has assured the Prime Minister of his moral standing.
Now he's the only hope for the NHS.
That's clear to me.
Is it? What have they offered you, you shabby little man? Don't take that tone with me.
I'm an elected representative.
You two are just servants.
Stop the operation as you were told to do and leave Korsakov alone.
Don't be reckless.
Breathtaking.
What're we gonna do? Be reckless.
We've got 48 hours at the most before the JIC start checking up on what we're doing.
You're going to have to entrap Korsakov.
Fast.
I've been thinking of a way.
What can you possibly want from him after all these years? This is a courtesy call.
Courtesy? From British counterintelligence? Harry, what am I doing here? I want your fresh eyes and ears.
Why? You're going to work with him.
Harry Pearce.
Hugo.
The sight of enemies embracing each other embarrasses your young companion.
Oh, forgive me, this is Zafar Younis.
Mr Younis.
You must understand that during the so-called cold war we could salute each other across the ideological divide.
And sometimes kill each other.
It was a war.
I enjoyed your visits.
Why did you stop coming? You ceased to be of importance.
Vodka? I think so.
Fascinated by the size of the dinosaur let out of his cage, Zafar? I read up about you.
Did you indeed? A house on Hampstead Heath this size? Got to be worth what, two million? The housing market is disgusting, deeply immoral.
Oh, I don't know.
Houses have to be bought and sold somehow.
Oh, no, they don't! Shelter is a human right.
Housing should be held in common and given when needed.
You mean concrete council tower blocks for all? Great! Well, this is very entertaining, but did you really come to talk housing policy? Boris Kandinsky.
Yes.
Boris Kandinsky Was Mr Ross's control.
My KGB contact at the Russian Embassy.
To whom you sold information that cost the lives of British agents.
And saved many others.
You were a fast-tracked civil servant in the Ministry of Defence.
And you gave Kandinsky the names of agents in the Soviet missile programme.
The KGB executed them.
What I did helped to keep the nuclear stalemate between West and East.
The KGB executed the men you betrayed.
Terrible times require terrible things to be done.
Forgive me, Mr Ross.
To my generation, communism is all propaganda and gobbledegook.
Yes, yes.
Did you know he had a son? No, Boris never married.
He always felt that as a KGB Officer in the field, he might make himself vulnerable.
Oh, he married.
His wife was kept away from Moscow, they never appeared in public together.
She died about a year after he did.
And the son? Took another name.
Had a cover story as an orphan.
He's hugely successful.
Oleg Korsakov.
The entrepreneur? The man who stole half the Soviet ship-building industry? That rabid young dog of a capitalist is Boris's son? He's acquired many businesses in this country.
Amongst them, a chain of hotels.
He has his London headquarters in one, The Excelsior.
You should give him a call.
Why do you think I would do anything that MI5 suggested? Well, aren't you fascinated? I mean, once a spy Morning, sir.
Mr Carter, welcome.
I'm Diana Jewell.
Yeah, head shrink, I know.
If we could do the formalities, then we can show you to your room.
Formalities? Do you have any reading material with you? Laptop? Yes.
You'll have to surrender them.
We don't want you to have distractions.
You're fond of Jane Austen? Yeah, she noticed things.
And do you have a mobile phone? Good.
Jonathan will show you to your room.
Can I call you Adam? Familiarity, first step? Tell me, what's the most attractive thing about being a spy? You won't get anywhere with me.
I helped devise the MI6 interrogator's course.
Good.
We fit.
Fit? You are the mind breaker, I am the mind healer.
The most attractive thing about spying is telling lies.
Did you just tell one? No.
And how deep does your lying go? How do you mean? Do you lie to yourself? Of course.
Every time you go in the field you have to leave your real self in a box.
But do you lie to yourself? About what? Your love for your dead wife.
I don't lie about that.
How do you know? I don't lie about that.
Are you sure? I don't lie about that! Good.
But you lie to yourself about her being dead.
What about his blocking device? Not turned on yet.
It's common protocol.
It gives people like me less time to crack it.
'Air air? What is this air? 'What are these stupid little pumps in the heels? 'It's not necessary! 'But it is beautiful commerce! It is built in obsolescence!' What's he talking about? Trainers, I think.
This guy's meant to be the financial master of the universe, the guy who's gonna rescue the NHS.
Which is exactly why we've been told not to do what we're doing.
I mean, of course, I will break the fingers of little children in Taiwan any day, but for good product, useful product, like rubber chickens.
No, don't you laugh, I have sold rubber chickens in Siberia, unfrozen! Here we go.
Hugo Ross.
He's in.
We'll patch the surveillance through.
$2, 000 a pair.
Hugo.
I am so glad you called me.
You're kind, Mr Kandinsky.
No, no, no, no, you must call me Korsakov.
You old reds knew all about false names, hmm? Trotsky's name wasn't Trotsky, Lenin's wasn't Lenin.
The new Russia.
The Soviet Union.
Past and present glories of the motherland.
I can drink to that.
When you telephoned and asked to see me, I had something sent from Moscow.
The highest battlefield honour of the Soviet Union.
You were awarded it in 1975, when you were sentenced to jail.
It could not be announced, of course.
The Soviet authorities never acknowledged their agents publicly.
The Order of The Red Banner.
Please.
Sentimental old men? Harry, what are you after? Please.
So, Hugo, now that you are a free man, what are you going to do? What can I do? I'm 73, and what the Americans call an ex-con.
Who will employ me? I will.
Hello.
I can always find work for ruthless men.
I don't mean to offend you, but I know what you've done to Russia.
The asset stripping of the State-owned industries, the corruption.
People unemployed in their millions.
Under Socialism, unemployment was unknown in Russia.
Yes, six men to open one hotel door.
You Russian capitalists, so-called masters of the world.
You're gangsters! You've stolen Russia! You have become the enemy your father sought to destroy.
The old man's got guts.
Beautiful, beautiful.
This is exactly why you're here.
Hugo, I have job for you.
Moment.
Malcolm I've adjusted the phasing.
This time Oh, no! No! Anyone fancy a beer? Adam! Freddy? Freddy Frost! How you doin'? I didn't know you were in here.
Yeah, it was after the Beirut business.
But that was Yeah, a while ago.
But I'm doing well.
Look, there is a grapevine even in here.
Fiona I was gutted when I heard.
Do you fancy that beer? Sorry, my drug regimen, y'know? I'll see you later.
See ya.
Why am I shut up with nutters? You're not shut up, you're free to leave.
But not free to go back in the service.
The guests here are all distinguished intelligence officers.
Like yourself.
My problem, if I have a problem, is grief! Ordinary, common, grief! And how are you dealing with it? That doesn't concern you.
But it does concern the service.
The security of the state depends on my state of mind.
Doesn't it? That's too much to lay on me.
But your job does lay it on you.
Adam, have you told your son his mother's dead? Have you told her parents? Korsakov has got the better of you and the techies of C department? At this point in time, this is the worst day of my life.
Well, it's not over yet.
Fix it! You're not ready to leave, Adam.
Stay here and I never will be.
I'll end up babbling about some bar in Beirut.
Adam.
How do you know if I'm over it.
If, anyway? Only you will know that.
And you don't, do you? Do you? So long, Diana.
Thanks for the rest.
Adam? You went to see Oleg Korsakov.
Meaning you listened to our conversation in the hotel room.
Yes.
Ah, like the old days.
Enter an empty room and say, "Hello.
" What did you think of the job he offered me? We didn't hear.
His anti-bugging devices defeated us.
Really?! Just like his father.
Always one step ahead of the game.
Sensitive.
Impeccable manners.
Secretly, a brute.
Very attractive.
He, er, wants me to write his father's biography.
Did you agree? Certainly not! He offered me an advance of $100, 000.
These Westernised, they think they can buy anyone.
I want to buy you, Hugo.
But not with money.
I've got something very urgent to talk to you about.
I should ask you to sign the Official Secrets Act really but These are highly sensitive documents.
Go back to Tring.
What's the link between Boris Kandinsky and Oleg Korsakov? Adam.
Come on, this is me, this is what I do.
Oleg's father was Boris Kandinsky.
The KGB agent who recruited Hugo Ross? Yes.
So Harry's had Hugo in mind all along, just in case he became useful? Harry, the fox.
I want you to persuade Harry to take me back on the Op.
Talk to him.
Do this for me.
I need this.
Hospitals.
We have no time.
He is going to sign a contract with the Government in three days.
He is going to totally destroy the NHS.
Why don't you shoot him in the back of the neck? Oh, sorry.
The veneer of bourgeois democracy doesn't permit that.
What we need is information that will completely discredit him, something concrete, final.
Hugo, I'm asking you to fight the good fight against capitalism, as you always have.
I need you to bring down Korsakov.
You are recruiting me to work for MI5?! All right.
I'll do it.
Oleg Korsakov is a disgrace to his father's memory.
Let's just see how rusty I am at the game.
Who will baby-sit? Zafar.
I'm gonna leave him with you.
Welcome back.
Where is he now? In the canteen.
I've had Diana Jewell on the phone.
She wants her star inmate back.
All right.
Ask him to come up.
You need me to go in undercover with Ross.
Zaf's doing that.
He's not experienced enough.
All right, if Zaf's undercover, who's riding shotgun? You know it should be me.
You need me to do this and I need to do it.
Do you know what will happen if we fail on this? We are acting against the explicit instructions of the Cabinet.
Harry.
Very well.
Time is of the essence.
Get up to speed.
Thanks.
We have visuals, we have audio.
Game plan on.
Right, we screw this up and part of England disappears.
Who's this? This is Sikandar Khan.
We met in jail.
Mr Khan is going to be my secretary.
Very bright boy.
What were you imprisoned for? Identity theft.
State of the art criminal.
Forgive this.
It's natural caution.
A mobile? Comrade Ross is catching up with the modern world.
What is this for? Personal use.
Violent man, are you? When it's personal.
Interesting company you keep, Hugo.
You know where you are with criminals.
Lenin liked bank robbers.
Indeed.
So! We have material here.
The family archives go right back to my great, great grandfather.
He was in the Tsar's secret police.
See.
The blood that flows in me, it will flow in your book! I have cleared the whole day.
We will organise the book! Chapter one, of my childhood and my father, please.
The ego explodes.
My mother told me of the night Stalin died, my father wept.
The great helmsman was dead! That man has talked seven hours non-stop.
Should deport him for yapping.
That's all we've got on him so far.
Hugo and Zaf have got to get him to blow off about the NHS takeover.
I want him hero.
Which he was.
Good, good! Good days work.
Drink.
Mr Ross tells me you're one of Moscow's sharpest operators.
Stole half of Russia? Yes, Oleg.
Why aren't you in prison? Most of the other "robber barons" of the 1990s are.
Ah.
My father hadclose friends.
Close? To the Kremlin.
Doesn't that fly in the face of everything your father believed in? My father is hero to me.
How can that be? I am continuing his work.
Is this it? Go on.
Go on, tell us! My father wanted to change the West.
So do I.
Change, in what way? Ironic, isn't it? What my father and all the communist armies, institutions of the state, KGB could not do, I can.
Exactly what do you mean? No, no, no.
I have gone far enough.
Hugo, this session has been delight.
Oh, no.
Are you sure there's nothing else you want to discuss? I think we have covered nearly everything, for first day.
Get writing, my friend! It will be more than biography of my father, it will be the great Russian novel of our time, but a real story! Hmm? Is there nothing we can do? Have you got his mobile number? Yes.
Dial it, now.
Excuse me.
Yes? This is your estate agent.
The quote we gave you is not working.
We're going to have to double it, yeah? Double it.
Yes, are you absolutely sure? 'Absolutely.
' I'm in a meeting at the moment, so I'll, er, I'll return your call.
See if he got the message.
Message, what message? Pushy estate agent.
I'm selling my house.
Joining the world of property speculation? Welcome to the club.
Hugo Ross.
You are a born field agent.
What have you done? There's something else I want to join.
What? Your organisation.
Hugo, I don't think I have something to sell.
Wait.
Wait.
Here comes the cage.
Theory become reality.
Please, please.
Is it working? I always kept this quiet but I had doubts about a backup system.
I've done it.
Success is with me.
Yes, Hugo.
This man is an MI5 officer.
Adam, they'll kill him! What is this? MI5 gave me no alternative.
They sent me in here with this boy to mind me.
This child! I want to join you because I am sick of what your father represented.
I've paid my dues, It's a new world.
New delights.
I want a decadent old age.
And what use can you be to me? I can be your mole in MI5.
I can walk out of this room your creature.
And what about your minder? He can walk out too.
Put him in a car.
Drive him somewhere quiet, then lose him.
I'll say that he disappeared.
MI5 are desperate to have me close to you.
You want to be double agent? Yes.
At my age! Good, good.
I lived with security services in Russia that close to me.
Spies are just molecules in the air I breathe.
You're nothing but a cheap criminal.
I am new breed of merchant which will change the world.
Your father thought he could change the world.
Democratic government stopped him.
Democratic government? Thieves and pigmies! What, they think my billions will save their pathetic, socialistic health service.
I will squeeze it for profit, strip it bare! If hospital is on valuable land, sell it! Let there be casino, car park! Let the market work! I'll inject him.
I'll destroy his mind.
Like I did to the wretched girl at GCHQ.
That's it! Send'em in! Delta Six to Mercury One, activate all units.
What? A triple agent, Hugo? What ambition.
You are a disgrace to the memory of your father and to your country.
And you are speck of dust up the chimney of history.
Stop there! Zaf! Zaf, all right? He's been hit with a needle.
What? What is it? An antidote.
OK, Sergeant, great work.
I'm just going to have a look around.
Sir.
PHONE RINGS 'Adam.
' MI5 agent, estate agent.
'It's great, great work.
'Welcome back.
' Thanks.
Thanks, Harry.
Malcolm, will you wipe that last bit of tape? So how's Adam Carter? Back to his old self? I'm not so sure.
Although Diana Jewell's given him a clean bill of health.
Oh, good.
Actually she was rather gushing about him.
Oh, dear.
And Korsakov? Well, he arrived back in Moscow three hours ago, where he was arrested at the airport.
Bundled into an unmarked van.
Someone at the Kremlin must have seen those hotel tapes.
Now the Korsakov deal has fallen through, the money to save the NHS has to come from somewhere.
So they are going to put 5p on the basic rate of income tax.
Oh, my God.
I know, Harry.
What have we done? We're selling the house.
Excellent.
We want to live in France.
Can you help us with the French authorities, my record I'm sure.
I'll leave you.
Why the change on the house? Well, it's for her.
How's Zafar? Fine.
Yes, he did well.
A good little bourgeois spy in the making.
I'm pleased with him.
What of our other friend? The transcripts of your discussions have been delivered to all members of the Cabinet.
There is a general shock.
The Minister of Health's career is looking, shall we say, sickly.
It is true that men make their own history but not always just as they please.
The dead past BOTH:.
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lies like a nightmare on the minds of the living.
I really thought, when you visited me as a young man while I was in jail, that I could turn you.
But you turned me in the end.
Not really.
You wanted Korsakov destroyed too.
Yes.
The minds of the living.
Who said that? Karl Marx.
Speech, to the 20th congress of the party of the Soviet Union.
Yes.
It was that that made me join them.
Speech.
Who made that speech? Kruschev.
Nurse! Who? Nurse! The antidote, it's failing! Harry? Why are you looking at me like that? Hugo, what is the I think I can remember.
Remember? Remember what it was I believed in.
Hugo, what is the first line of the Communist Manifesto? A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of ofof what? Look straight ahead now.
Four litres of O2, nurse.
What is your name, sir? Can you answer me? What's your name, sir? I'm so sorry.
In God's name, what kind of a world do you people live in? We need to know how she died, Adam.
I can't tell you much.
She died in the line of service, protecting the people she loved.
Were you there? Did she say anything before she She said, "Look after Wes.
" There There'll be a memorial service at the Foreign Office Chapel.
It'll have to be private because of security.
Yes.
Yes.
Good.
I'm going to tell him now.
You let the guy go, for God's sake.
So what? Whatever he's planning is bigger, much bigger than a double murder.
We won't get a second chance to find this weapon.
Adam, 53 seconds.
You cannot override the White House with no repercussions.
He's got a lock on.
Harry is finished.
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