Spooks s04e09 Episode Script
The Sting
Keep Wes safe.
Promise me you will.
Just imagine what Adam's I thought this job would be cool.
Imagine that.
The security of the state depends on my mind? Doesn't it? Who the hell do you think you are? I'm MI5.
You need me to do this, and I need to do it.
Very well.
Adam.
MI5 agent, estate agent Great work.
It's great.
Wellcome back.
Thanks, Harry.
Did she say anything before? She said, "Look after Wes.
" I'm going to tell him now.
This is a priority, Harry, we have no choice! But the Americans are drowning us in paperwork, Juliet.
Their paranoia knows no bounds.
Everyone is a potential terrorist.
You know as well as I do that the PM values his relationship with the Americans above all other services, so if the CIA want our But what they're asking for is so over the top, as to be ludicrous! I mean, have you even seen what they want? Take a look at this list.
Their requests for assistance would monopolize my entire staff.
That is what they're paid for, Harry.
We have more important things to do! Tell that to the Foreign Office.
Adam.
She's not staying for a cup of tea then? What are these? Just couriered over by the CIA.
Latest updates and profiles on the people they're watching.
When can I tell them we'll give feedback? Right I think my phone's ringing.
TV: 'The US military build up on the borders of Iran continued today.
'This time, with the arrival of the USS Enterprise, 'which was used extensively during the Iraq War.
'Despite this, the President issued assurances 'that the US wants to avoid war at all costs.
' They'll run out of countries to invade.
I don't think America want another war.
When did that ever stop it from happening? There's another extradition.
Private chopper, Isle of Dogs.
Oh, for God's sake! Yeah, that's our guy.
Get him out of here.
Adam Carter.
How can we help you? A word of advice.
When you're out kidnapping a foreign citizen from his home country, make sure none of his neighbours see your goons pile him into a van.
Kind of gives it away.
I'll remember that next time.
There won't be a next time.
Not in this country.
You see, we have this pesky 1963 Act, which gives us the right to check documents relating to immigration and departure issues.
Well, there won't be a problem, since we don't have documentation.
They can't get away with this, Harry.
This is the third time in a month.
If you want to extradite this man, you go through the due process.
We'd love to.
Damn it, Adam, don't you see the news? The world's on the brink of war, if we let people like him spout off, all hell could break loose in Iran.
You're not taking him, Alex.
As long as you're standing on this soil, you're under UK law.
No! I'm under US law and that allows us to pick up anyone who we believe to be a threat to our national security, anywhere in the world.
Let's have coffee sometime.
PHONE RINGS Now listen to me, Alex, and listen carefully.
Harry? I don't care if that man killed Abraham Lincoln.
You are not kidnapping any more British citizens, not on my watch.
You're going to hand him over to us, or I'm ordering Adam to use whatever force necessary to bring you and your cohorts back to sample the minimalist charms of our basement holding cells.
Have you even seen the files on this guy? You're missing the point.
Whatever you're accusing him of, he's a British citizen.
He has rights.
Don't mess with us, Harry.
Not on this one.
Try me.
You getting this, Adam? Every word.
We're ending this round up, here and now.
Lewis Khurvin - there's nothing in his report we haven't already seen.
It's your call.
Are we going to detain him or not? Well, he's no more dangerous than any of the other hundreds of radicals out there.
I know it's difficult but what are we supposed to do, lock them all up? It fuels their anger.
Keep him under surveillance.
If he steps out, pull him in, like the others.
Subject has arrived home at 5.
47pm.
Switching to internal surveillance.
That's the log for the day.
Anything interesting? I'd give it a U rating.
Well, I'm back to Thames House.
Give me a call if it gets more exciting.
BELL RINGS Police reports are still coming in about yesterday's murder of two government officers.
A leaked memo suggests that a British-Iranian man, suspected of terrorist activities, could be involved.
There was nothing in Khurvin's file to suggest he was a present danger to this country or the US.
One had three-year-old twins.
I read the files.
You must see how this looks, Harry.
The CIA feel vindicated.
You can't over-ride The White House and expect no repercussions.
Just when did this country become a US colony? Oh, for God's sake! Lewis Khurvin cold-bloodedly murdered two of my officers in broad daylight! He did that because what he plans is much bigger than a double murder.
My priority is to track him down and prevent him perpetrating that act.
What? Juliet? Our relationship with the Americans is so important right now.
No-one wants a war with Iran.
You let the guy go for God's sake.
It was a judgement call.
It was the wrong one! So, what? If there was something I could do, I would.
You're out, Harry.
I'm sorry.
Look, I am prepared to stick my neck out for my friends, but not when the odds make it pointless.
I'll try to remember that.
Yes, because I'm not going to baby-sit you lot forever.
The sooner they work out who'll run this, the better.
It could be you.
Don't you think you should wait for the hearing before redecorating his office? Adam, the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
The PM and the Americans Give me a break! Bollocks.
If every politician who screwed up got the sack, there wouldn't be any left! Harry is finished.
So, if you play your cards right You've been sitting behind a desk for way too long.
Lewis Khurvin is a highly dangerous terrorist and I want him found.
Anything else can wait.
What about the CIA's assistance requests? They're coming in by the dozen.
I heard you're good at multi-tasking, Ruth.
It's what Harry would have said, but it sounds better coming from him.
You'll get used to it.
Look, I know this is very unfortunate.
You're all fiercely loyal to Harry and I respect that.
But we have a job to do and I'm sure that finding Lewis Khurvin is what Harry would want most.
More importantly, it's what I want.
Do I make myself clear? Now remember Harry is under investigation, which means he's strictly off limits.
In case any of you were thinking otherwise.
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like strapping her to a car battery? She had a point though.
Excuse me? Harry made the wrong call.
And because of that, two men I talked to minutes earlier, are dead.
Maybe if the Americans didn't grab people off our streets it wouldn't have come to this.
Obviously not so indiscriminate! It doesn't matter anyway.
Harry wouldn't have stayed on.
Not after something like this.
I'm sure he'd resign.
They just beat him to it.
No, he would have Enough.
We have to find Khurvin.
And meanwhile Meanwhile nothing.
Look, if Khurvin launches an attack, it could light the blue touch paper that sends us into an all-out conflict with Iran.
We find Khurvin.
PHONE RINGS I'm ready.
TV: 'Against a backdrop of increased military build up in the area, 'the US president today repeated his accusation of Iranian support of international terrorism.
'The Prime Minister is expected to issue a statement in the house today.
' Lewis Khurvin.
27, born in Tehran, father Iranian, mother Irish, hence Lewis.
Family moved here when he was six.
He's also not a fan of Americans.
Our cells would be full if we detained everyone sharing that.
What else? He was on our radar but no more than a lot of the internet freakshow.
Erm, "It is time for righteous brothers to rise up in defence "of those slaughtered by the crusaders in Chechnya, Iraq etc.
" It's not like we haven't heard that before.
He was a fan of Mushta Islam which in Farsi is Fist of Islam.
If Khurvin had those connections Mushta Islam smash cars filled with explosives into police stations.
OK, get security increased at all high-profile targets, especially around Westminster, Scotland Yard and the embassies.
It gets worse, take a look at this.
This has just been sent over from the CIA.
And if you could pixilate an accompanying sneer, we'd be looking at it.
Oh, dear.
Doesn't look like a paintball outing.
According them, this is Khurzin at a Mushtaf Islam camp last July.
Why wasn't this in the file they originally sent over? There was a two-month gap.
How convenient these should just pop up now.
I'm sorry, this has got fake back-story all over it.
They wanted him, it's their way of getting carte blanche next time.
Pretty clever to fake two men with their brains on walls.
We have to come back to this, Ruth.
He killed two M15 officers so he could slip back under the wire.
What's he gonna do next? OK, I want every connection chased down, starting with the neighbours who called us about his arrest.
I want that pulled to pieces to check its authenticity.
I'm off to inform Juliet that we have a substantial lead on Khurvin's whereabouts.
Find me one.
Look, I don't know Harry as well as you.
I mean, I think he made a mistake, but Getting picked up like that, with no due process, no day or night, no Red Cross visits.
Harry was right to insist that we be sure before we let them do that to a British citizen.
You OK? The guys that Khurvin shot - they were joking with me, just before it happened.
I wasn't trying to undermine Harry.
I do understand, you know.
TV: 'Can Ollie do it? Two more questions between you and £50, 000.
'Ollie, geography.
'What is the current name of the country formerly known as Portuguese West Africa?' Angola.
'Tanzania?' Tanzania?! 'No, Angola.
Last chance.
Entertainment.
'Who played the role of Sheriff Wyatt Earp in the 1946 John Ford movie My Darling Clementine?' Henry Fonda.
'Kevin Costner?' Costner! Wasn't even born then.
Bonehead! 'US military build-up on the borders of Iran continued' You knew it wasn't Kevin Costner, didn't you, boy? Yes, you did.
'Despite the build up, 'the President assured us that the US wants to avoid war at all costs 'and his repeated' I'm sorry.
Well, give us a call if you remember anything relevant.
Yeah.
Talk about a sense of belonging.
You'd think Khurvin lived in a bubble.
It's the same story all along the street.
Nobody wants to admit seeing anything.
If someone was prompted to dial why won't they talk to us now? Come on.
Let's go.
So, you have no target, you have no weapon and you say from Khurvin's file, you have no idea of what he's planning.
Call that headway? We hit a brick wall.
Suddenly nobody wants to know the guy.
What about the neighbour? We've traced the 999 call to a pay-as-you-go mobile, paid in cash.
No-one wants to own up to having made that call.
I spoke to Special Branch.
They're not making headway either.
Plus, I've got the Secret Service swamping us with more requests.
Tell them to take a number and wait.
We completed a preliminary analysis of the training-camp photo.
You want the bad news first? We cross-matched the topography of the mountains in the background.
It's near Farah, close to the Afghan/Iran border.
A Mushta Islam stronghold.
Do we know when the photo was taken? Yeah, well, using the date on this newspaper and position of the sun, we have a date when it was taken.
Which was? July the 28th of last year, give or take a week, because we can't be sure this was of that same day.
It fits with the months missing.
If he was at the Farah camp Extremely highly trained.
And he was released.
Good news? Actually, it's just worse news.
The photo's genuine.
Now, we looked at matching the resolutions of the shadows and the area around the ears and the neck - those are the usual weaknesses - but there was nothing out of place.
So Khurvin was definitely there? Either that, or this is an incredibly well-made fake.
Why don't we run his file through link analysis? I'm just saying, I mean, I know it's a big file It's a radical new way of accessing, organising data known as the waterfall.
Look, Kevin, I know exactly what it is Too many links.
Khurvin knows we're chasing him, so he'll strike quickly.
We just haven't got time.
In the absence of the thousands of analysts at the NSA, I have to say that I agree with Ruth.
I agree, of course, you'reyou're right, only You see, we've managed to tweak their software somewhat.
Tweak it? Yes.
We've layered a weighting algorithm onto it, so it doesn't throw up a ton of links to check, it lists them according to importance, relevance if you like and it's Colin.
Oh? So, er, what are you waiting for, Colin? So the American's were right about Khurvin.
And we let him go.
TV: 'A secret report leaked today in Washington claims Lewis Khurvin, 'the terrorist thought responsible for the deaths 'of two government officials, was flagged 'as a security risk by the CIA up to three months ago.
' Scarlet.
'Downing street has refused to comment on the' Morning, Malik.
Thank you.
ENGINE STARTS UP It's been chewing up his bank details, credit cards, travel movements, college classmates and tutor lists, mobile and cell positioning, NHS files Won't the Americans have done this? Yes, but we have access to information that they don't have.
By marrying the two, we can find new links that they won't.
Anyway, so far it hasn't found anything hugely out of the ordinary, except for this.
He used this cash point in Paternoster Square three times in the last month.
We can pinpoint which route he took from his underground travel pass.
Interestingly, he never took the most direct route.
So, he took three trips to the City and took an odd route and ? The cash point's nowhere near anywhere he'd normally go to.
Not his college, not his mosque, no friends or work It's something.
Ruth, let's get down there.
Keep running it.
Why was Khurvin using this particular cash point? Why was he here? What do you see? Well, they're all here cos it's where they work.
There are no outsiders.
So Khurvin was here to meet someone.
And whoever it was will work close by.
Colin, look for a link between Khurvin and all the offices within 100 metres of this spot.
Calls, fax, e-mail, anything.
Adam, there are a lot of offices around.
What if we can't find anything? If we don't find anything, we'll expand the radius to He had to be here for a reason.
PHONE RINGS Who's that? Thank you very much.
What was that all about? Harry.
Interesting choice for a dog house, Harry.
I thought you'd appreciate the irony.
Next trial's in five minutes.
Trial? What's that? It's how they work out grading - how fast they go, whether they run better on the rail, off it.
It's also a good opportunity to inspect the form.
Right.
You OK? Eating well? Ruth's just worried about you, you know, she's worried you're living off crisps and canned tuna.
Sweet.
No, the food she sent was more than enough.
She'll be pleased.
So, any luck tracking down our elusive Mr Khurvin? I can't talk about it Harry, you know how it is.
Thanks for coming.
You'll get a bollocking when you get back.
The wonder is they can afford to keep me under surveillance.
What do they think I'm going to do? I guess it's standard procedure - leaving under a cloud.
You haven't come down here checking up on me, have you, Adam? Harry? Oh, sorry.
How's Wes? You should bring him down here, you know.
Father-son bonding and all that.
He'd like that.
It's hard for him without his mum.
How are you doing? It feels like something's broken that can never be fixed.
I'm selling the house.
Wes and I need a clean start.
Come on, let's walk.
DOGS BARK I want you to get a copy of Khurvin's file.
Everything we've got.
Why? We're missing something.
I don't know what but we've got to be.
I'm going to miss working with you.
The feeling's mutual.
The strongest connection the link analysis found is this - Cardassia Financial Services.
They buy bad debt.
When you default, they come for twice the amount.
Khurvin owed money on his card? Cards.
He had three of them with over 11 grand outstanding and paid Cardassia several visits.
That doesn't seem right.
Mushta Islam are not short of wealthy sponsors.
Why would they leave a leading light with bad debt? The point of a debt recovery is they come after you.
Which is promising because we like unusual.
Something else doesn't seem right.
State-of-the-art firewalls.
Well, which you'd hope for from a company that has financial and personal details of thousands of people.
Yes, but you wouldn't really expect them to also have E-Bing.
Oh, well, you've lost me there.
A computer that isn't linked to the outside world via a phone line presents problems for us to hack.
We tried using transient electro-magnetic pulse emanation surveillance technology - Tempest - a technique which recognizes the pattern of characters on the screen via the tiny radiation they let off.
Tempest reads through walls? It can read through pretty much anything.
Tempest couldn't read Cardassia's computers? No.
Because they have E-Bing which disguises the screen with a cloud of radiation - a bit like a plane firing out chaff to fool a missile.
Somewhat over the top for a debt recovery company.
So, er, who is Khurvin's bailiff at Cardassia? This man.
Mr Nick Pollard.
He's American.
Been here nine months, came here to set up Cardassia.
We're running background checks on him, and GCHQ are monitoring his calls, but he seems clean.
Seems clean? A terrorist, with credit card debts, who visited the company to whom he owed money.
And a company with technology out of all proportion to their activities.
We focus all our attention on this Mr Pollard.
Jo, we'll break into his office and find out what he's hiding behind his cloud in Cardassia.
Oh, it's not my best angle.
What were you doing? What does it look like? I'd hate to speculate.
I was just making sure he was all right.
That all? I'm not stupid, Juliet.
I know the protocol.
And besides, I assume you've read the transcripts, haven't you? You know the rules about contacting people Of course I do.
But I also know you need to bend the rules when supporting a friend.
I know this hasn't been the easiest year for you.
But, Adam, are you sure you're as committed to this job as you need to be? If I've given you reason to doubt it, let's hear it.
Just don't disappoint me, that's all.
It depends on your expectations.
Now, I've a break-in to plan.
She missed her calling.
Really? As what? A Victorian headmistress.
Ruth, I need you to copy the whole Khurvin file onto a memory card very discretely.
Why? For Harry.
How is he? Later.
You're contract cleaners working for a maintenance company.
Here are your IDs.
Electronic swipe card, programmed for the sixth floor, where Pollard's offices are.
Bear in mind every doorway is equipped with a scanner, so security can see where everyone is at any given moment.
If you go anywhere else, you'll trip an alarm, so memorise your route and stick to it.
Adam, how are you doing? We're ready to go.
Zaf? Alpha team set.
Alpha three and four are in position.
It's official.
We are go.
Repeat, we are go.
Eyes on.
Pollard is on the move.
Adam, he's on the move.
Handing over visual to alpha two.
Target heading for western exit.
Alpha two, are you in position? Affirmative, Scorpion.
Let's not crowd him, give him space guys.
Got him.
The security system's logged you into the building.
Go to the end of this corridor and turn left.
Breaking off now.
Eye ball.
He's on course for the river.
Subject heading south on grid reference 22F.
Alpha three, move into primary position.
He's crossing the road.
What's he doing? Alpha five from alpha three, no visual on subject.
That guy's had counter-surveillance training.
You can tell by the way he ties his shoelace.
Show me again, Malcolm.
Zoom in! His shoelaces weren't undone.
Zaf, don't let your people get too close.
Pollard is looking for a tail.
Adam, be careful in Pollard's offices.
I think he's a professional.
Ah One second.
He seems to have changed the c-code.
You do surprise me.
Try that.
Thank you, Malcolm, I think we'll take it from here.
When the future lets you down.
Bravo one ready for handover, on grid reference 24A.
Roger, Bravo one.
Let's hope he hasn't changed it.
Wait.
Don't touch anything.
See.
Everything's arranged around them, but it just seems haphazard.
You sometimes use bits of cotton, piles of clothing or papers.
Either way, if we move anything, he's gonna know about it.
How do you know which files to download? I don't.
Subject is on the bridge.
Alpha two, proceed with caution.
Everyone be careful, this bridge is the best choke-point in London.
Subject turned 180.
Alpha two compromised.
He's turned back.
Repeat, turned back.
My whole team is redundant.
Adam Pollard is on his way back.
Shit.
How long? It it took him, er, 2.
30 to get to where he was, so, say two minutes.
Bravo one, to Bravo two.
Stand down.
Repeat, stand down.
Adam, he's speeding up, I think he must be on to us.
Get your stuff and go.
Go on.
If Pollard spots a thing out of place, we're screwed.
Come on.
He's definitely speeding up.
Zaf, he needs to be slowed down.
Can't do it, my team are redundant.
We can't risk the same face twice.
OK, pull out now, we can't risk Pollard catching you.
No, Juliet.
We've got no links to Khurvin other than this hard drive.
If he catches you in there, we'll have nothing.
He's crossing the square.
Thirty seconds.
He's coming through the front entrance.
Twenty seconds.
Got him, crossing the lobby, Adam.
Adam.
Pull out, that's an order! I'm getting as much as I can, it's our only hope.
He's in the lift.
11 seconds.
First floorsecond floor third floor.
Adam, come on.
Sixth floor, he's on your level.
Nice night out? I thought you were some weirdo.
I may not be your boss anymore, there's no need to be insulting.
How did you know I'd be here? A couple of months ago, I passed you standing at the bus stop in the rain.
I was being driven home, and to my eternal shame and now regret I didn't stop.
That's fine.
I like the bus.
I have something for you.
Thanks.
Keep an eye on Adam for me.
He's st (Thank you.
) Adam.
Something terrible has happened.
What? The plan of the office, for the break in.
I've gone through everything and I can't find it anywhere.
I think I left it on Pollard's desk.
Well, that's it, we're dead.
It's over.
Oh, God.
You bastard.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Sometimes.
How are you getting on with Pollard's computer? Not so good.
There's one folder we can't crack yet.
The encryption is highly sophisticated, unusual for a civilian.
I have put GCHQ on it.
The rest are information for credit cards.
Including information on Khurvin? Yes.
You can get an idea with this information.
Spending habits, where and when he's been to places.
Plus credit card companies share data.
It's all here.
This debt collection agency is a great way to recruit potential candidates.
What, you think Pollard's CIA? Well, it would explain all this high-tech wizardry.
You said he used counter-surveillance techniques.
Well, why would they recruit Khurvin and ship him off to Guantanamo? Why not ask the CIA? I ran him through our systems.
He's not one of ours.
Sure about that? Juliet, we've never heard of Pollard.
You want my advice? Concentrate on Khurvin.
Why are you wasting your time on some American business man, instead of getting your guys to work WITH us on the stuff that really matters? Because his name came up.
It sounds like one of Harry Pearce's wild ideas.
It's not.
You wouldn't be trying to help him by finding a connection where there isn't one, would you? You know me better than that, Alex.
I also know that Harry isn't just another water-cooler buddy to you.
That's history.
Are you sure about that? Run another check on Pollard.
He's American for God's sake.
You must be able to find some dirt on him.
Morning, Malik.
I'm rusty, but I'm sure we're on our own, Harry.
You've never let me down.
It's been a while.
It certainly has.
Not too much chocolate.
I've been spoiling her lately.
Yeah, the Jack Russell has a tendency towards portliness.
Oh, not in her earshot, very sensitive.
Adam! You need to see this.
I was going over Khurvin's link-analysis files.
He was prescribed pain killers last year, so I followed that trail.
He had an infected tooth which required treatments over a three-week period.
That was in July last year - the same month he's posing for holiday snaps in that training camp.
The photo's are fake.
The best we've seen.
We're being bloody played.
Anyone seen Harry? Why? He's disappeared.
Michael Gorman.
You're a difficult man to track down.
Not difficult enough, it seems.
The Agency think you're in South America.
Well, it's a big enough place to keep them occupied for a while.
Hear about Belgrade? Three dead American construction workers? They sent a kill team after me.
Like they don't have enough to do with their time.
I want to pick your brains.
About Pollard? He smells like Agency.
Sure, but which agency? Central Intelligence? National Security? Things aren't black and white for men like this.
Men like you? I'm retired.
Your Head of Station brought you up on charges for an illegal black op and you blew up his car.
Exactly what kind of pension plan do they give you? It was only supposed to scare him.
I notice we're not talking in your cosy Thames House office over a glass of brandy.
It's very difficult to get a pass for someone who no longer exists.
Hmm, sure.
That and you don't have an office any more? The word is out.
That weight you like to throw around it seems like you slimmed down, my friend.
Men like Pollard Nixon used to call them The Horribles - Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy.
The Watergate burglars.
On a good day.
Freelancers, deniables.
You want something dirty done, don't want to get bit on the ass Government work? Believe me, I'd love to point the finger at the Agency.
This hasn't got their dirty paw-prints on it.
They may have trained him, but they don't own him any more.
Who does? You want the who, look at the why.
Look at Iraq - the reconstruction work, the construction contracts, oil-drilling rights.
Lot of powerful people making a lot of money.
They want the Middle East and they want it piece by piece.
Right-wing Christians, oil barons - you take your pick.
But Iraq wasn't too popular and nobody wants Iran next.
Not me, not you, not the people or the administrations of either of our countries.
They need a catalyst.
What'll it take for Britain to get behind a war in Iran? Fear and a lot of dead bodies in Britain.
You got a man like Pollard, you put him in London, have him look for disaffected Iranians.
Not terrorists, maybe, not yet.
But men and women of extremist sympathies.
Maybe left to their own devices they're gonna make some speeches and write some articles, go on a march.
But lean hard enough, give them times and places and the means And you turn them into soldiers.
Pollard already has his fall-guy, his Lee Harvey Oswald.
The smart money says he's arming them up as we speak - telling him what his target is, when to pull the trigger.
The legend is prepared, the patsy is ready.
Whatever Pollard and his masters have planned, when it comes down, you get Pollard's boy handed to you, gift-wrapped in an Iranian flag.
The new face of terrorism.
And they shall have their war.
Did Roscoe know what was happening? Is that why they tried to take Khurvin out of the picture? Roscoe's a foot-soldier.
He's told what he needs to know.
I can't help thinking, to forcibly remove Khurvin from his house, put him into orange overalls, and attempt to transport him to Guantanamo Bay may have just been the final push to send him over the edge.
D'you think Pollard set it up? I don't think we'll ever know how much influence Pollard and his superiors have.
Did Jo manage to trace the neighbour who made the call? No.
Pollard? Tipped us off, stopped the extradition.
Whether it's an unlucky coincidence or a ploy to get our attention, he couldn't risk having Khurvin taken off the field.
We think the photo of Khurvin sent to the CIA, the one in a training camp, was a fake.
Pollard's manufacturing a legend for Khurvin, making him the bogey-man.
If Pollard's setting Khurvin up as the ultimate Iranian terrorist, what better way of getting our attention than dead MI5 officers? Colin is trying to decrypt the files on Pollard's hard drive.
We've no way of knowing what they're up to.
Whatever he's planning, it's gotta be something big enough to drive this country into war.
Big enough to sway public opinion behind an invasion of Iran.
Something catastrophic.
Lockerbie, Bali, World Trade Center.
It's on our doorstep and on our watch.
Bravo team standby, standby to take eyeball.
Alpha one.
He's gone.
Repeat, he's gone.
Confirming that, no sign of him.
What d'you mean he's gone? He can't disappear.
Shit! Ruth, Colin, CCTV, any sign? Not yet.
If we lose him we'll have nothing.
Team, change of horses.
Khurvin, Khurvin heading South.
Alpha two, I'm on him.
Don't contact, the attack must be imminent.
Alpha's one to three stay with Khurvin, I'll send back up.
Four and five stay and find Pollard.
What's the news on Khurvin? He's in a cottage one hour outside London.
No sign of movement and Colin's still trying to crack Pollard's computer.
Where is Pollard? Er, at the office, working late.
Without a weapon, or a target, we've got nothing.
We need a smoking gun.
Zaf, stand down.
Jo and I will take the night shift.
Khurvin's on the move.
Take these.
What are you doing? I want you to do the looking.
Better be quick.
I can't see a thing.
Slow! Stop! TYRES SQUEAL Which way? Left.
OK, left hander in 100 yards, Left or right? Quickly! HORN BLARES Brake in 20, then sharp right.
Do you want them back now? No, not until we find him.
Roger.
Zaf, I thought you'd gone home.
Yeah, I got bored.
No-one to play with.
20 minutes behind you.
Slow left! Break, then sharp right.
OK, panic over, I've got Khurvin's tail lights.
Well done.
Adam, GCHQ cracked Pollard's encryption.
The file contains terminal blueprints and air-traffic control data.
According to your GPS, you're two miles west of the airport.
Adam, you're directly beneath transatlantic flight approach.
He's marked out the approach zones.
He's gonna bring down a plane.
Khurvin's on the move.
Adam, take him in.
Let's go.
Ruth, keep the armed response teams back.
I don't want to scare him off.
Adam, I'm calling in the team.
We have to find the missile.
Khurvin will lead us straight to it.
There could be hundreds of people on that plane.
God knows what the death count would be.
We won't get a second chance to find it.
It has to be this way.
First plane's coming in.
What was that? The Radar flash from a missile.
Adam, it's a surface-to-air missile.
You've got 53 seconds.
Before? Before the battery charges and they fire.
Forty seconds.
Thirty.
RADAR BEEPS He's got a lock on.
Twenty.
Khurvin! I wouldn't.
Ten seconds.
I don't think we've met.
Roscoe, I'm sending the package over.
What the Hell is this? Where's Khurvin? He was shot dead, whilst attempting to commit a terrorist act.
Which is why we were trying to extradite him in the first place.
Except it wouldn't have happened without this man - an American, who is charged with conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism.
We'll be holding on to him, too.
If he is an American You want him, go through the proper channels.
In the meantime, Alex, inform your superiors to put their house in order before they even think about messing about in mine again.
Think we've picked a sure-fire winner there, Wes.
What about you, Adam? What have you backed? Sweet Juliet.
Had to be really, didn't it? What about you? You know, she offered me your job? I thought so.
What did you say? They couldn't afford me.
Don't tell me that my one's the undersized one? "Trap fiveSweet Juliet.
" Yes, it is.
I get the feeling I'm being set up here.
You're not part of some race-fixing syndicate? Are you in on this with him? Give me one of those.
Come on, Harry, which one's yours? Er, it's a red coat.
The one in the red coat? Twice the size of mine! Go on, my son, go on! What's happened to it? Go on, Juliet! That's bad luck, that's bad luck, Adam.
Go on, Jimmy's Lads! Go on, my son! Go on! £20 on the nose, a winner.
Lovely! Now don't spend it all at once, eh, Harry? Can we have another go with the dogs, Uncle Harry? I don't see why not.
Maybe this time I'll let your father choose the dog.
Dad doesn't know anything about dogs.
He's more of a cat man.
Hah! Says it all.
It's good to have you back.
It's good to be back.
I'd better get up to speed.
Lot's of files to read.
I wouldn't want to miss anything.
Don't work too late.
I'll get the last bus.
The security forces killed the People's Princess.
The Contingent Events Committee.
This is a no-eye's document.
It's meant to be destroyed in the room after it's read.
It's the greatest scandal of the age.
MI5 and MI6 did it, in a joint operation.
Did you ever serve on the Contingent Events Committee? This is a crackpot conspiracy theory.
The security forces killed the People's Princess.
And I'll show you how.
Self-control.
Self-denial.
These things keep us together in this job.
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Promise me you will.
Just imagine what Adam's I thought this job would be cool.
Imagine that.
The security of the state depends on my mind? Doesn't it? Who the hell do you think you are? I'm MI5.
You need me to do this, and I need to do it.
Very well.
Adam.
MI5 agent, estate agent Great work.
It's great.
Wellcome back.
Thanks, Harry.
Did she say anything before? She said, "Look after Wes.
" I'm going to tell him now.
This is a priority, Harry, we have no choice! But the Americans are drowning us in paperwork, Juliet.
Their paranoia knows no bounds.
Everyone is a potential terrorist.
You know as well as I do that the PM values his relationship with the Americans above all other services, so if the CIA want our But what they're asking for is so over the top, as to be ludicrous! I mean, have you even seen what they want? Take a look at this list.
Their requests for assistance would monopolize my entire staff.
That is what they're paid for, Harry.
We have more important things to do! Tell that to the Foreign Office.
Adam.
She's not staying for a cup of tea then? What are these? Just couriered over by the CIA.
Latest updates and profiles on the people they're watching.
When can I tell them we'll give feedback? Right I think my phone's ringing.
TV: 'The US military build up on the borders of Iran continued today.
'This time, with the arrival of the USS Enterprise, 'which was used extensively during the Iraq War.
'Despite this, the President issued assurances 'that the US wants to avoid war at all costs.
' They'll run out of countries to invade.
I don't think America want another war.
When did that ever stop it from happening? There's another extradition.
Private chopper, Isle of Dogs.
Oh, for God's sake! Yeah, that's our guy.
Get him out of here.
Adam Carter.
How can we help you? A word of advice.
When you're out kidnapping a foreign citizen from his home country, make sure none of his neighbours see your goons pile him into a van.
Kind of gives it away.
I'll remember that next time.
There won't be a next time.
Not in this country.
You see, we have this pesky 1963 Act, which gives us the right to check documents relating to immigration and departure issues.
Well, there won't be a problem, since we don't have documentation.
They can't get away with this, Harry.
This is the third time in a month.
If you want to extradite this man, you go through the due process.
We'd love to.
Damn it, Adam, don't you see the news? The world's on the brink of war, if we let people like him spout off, all hell could break loose in Iran.
You're not taking him, Alex.
As long as you're standing on this soil, you're under UK law.
No! I'm under US law and that allows us to pick up anyone who we believe to be a threat to our national security, anywhere in the world.
Let's have coffee sometime.
PHONE RINGS Now listen to me, Alex, and listen carefully.
Harry? I don't care if that man killed Abraham Lincoln.
You are not kidnapping any more British citizens, not on my watch.
You're going to hand him over to us, or I'm ordering Adam to use whatever force necessary to bring you and your cohorts back to sample the minimalist charms of our basement holding cells.
Have you even seen the files on this guy? You're missing the point.
Whatever you're accusing him of, he's a British citizen.
He has rights.
Don't mess with us, Harry.
Not on this one.
Try me.
You getting this, Adam? Every word.
We're ending this round up, here and now.
Lewis Khurvin - there's nothing in his report we haven't already seen.
It's your call.
Are we going to detain him or not? Well, he's no more dangerous than any of the other hundreds of radicals out there.
I know it's difficult but what are we supposed to do, lock them all up? It fuels their anger.
Keep him under surveillance.
If he steps out, pull him in, like the others.
Subject has arrived home at 5.
47pm.
Switching to internal surveillance.
That's the log for the day.
Anything interesting? I'd give it a U rating.
Well, I'm back to Thames House.
Give me a call if it gets more exciting.
BELL RINGS Police reports are still coming in about yesterday's murder of two government officers.
A leaked memo suggests that a British-Iranian man, suspected of terrorist activities, could be involved.
There was nothing in Khurvin's file to suggest he was a present danger to this country or the US.
One had three-year-old twins.
I read the files.
You must see how this looks, Harry.
The CIA feel vindicated.
You can't over-ride The White House and expect no repercussions.
Just when did this country become a US colony? Oh, for God's sake! Lewis Khurvin cold-bloodedly murdered two of my officers in broad daylight! He did that because what he plans is much bigger than a double murder.
My priority is to track him down and prevent him perpetrating that act.
What? Juliet? Our relationship with the Americans is so important right now.
No-one wants a war with Iran.
You let the guy go for God's sake.
It was a judgement call.
It was the wrong one! So, what? If there was something I could do, I would.
You're out, Harry.
I'm sorry.
Look, I am prepared to stick my neck out for my friends, but not when the odds make it pointless.
I'll try to remember that.
Yes, because I'm not going to baby-sit you lot forever.
The sooner they work out who'll run this, the better.
It could be you.
Don't you think you should wait for the hearing before redecorating his office? Adam, the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
The PM and the Americans Give me a break! Bollocks.
If every politician who screwed up got the sack, there wouldn't be any left! Harry is finished.
So, if you play your cards right You've been sitting behind a desk for way too long.
Lewis Khurvin is a highly dangerous terrorist and I want him found.
Anything else can wait.
What about the CIA's assistance requests? They're coming in by the dozen.
I heard you're good at multi-tasking, Ruth.
It's what Harry would have said, but it sounds better coming from him.
You'll get used to it.
Look, I know this is very unfortunate.
You're all fiercely loyal to Harry and I respect that.
But we have a job to do and I'm sure that finding Lewis Khurvin is what Harry would want most.
More importantly, it's what I want.
Do I make myself clear? Now remember Harry is under investigation, which means he's strictly off limits.
In case any of you were thinking otherwise.
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like strapping her to a car battery? She had a point though.
Excuse me? Harry made the wrong call.
And because of that, two men I talked to minutes earlier, are dead.
Maybe if the Americans didn't grab people off our streets it wouldn't have come to this.
Obviously not so indiscriminate! It doesn't matter anyway.
Harry wouldn't have stayed on.
Not after something like this.
I'm sure he'd resign.
They just beat him to it.
No, he would have Enough.
We have to find Khurvin.
And meanwhile Meanwhile nothing.
Look, if Khurvin launches an attack, it could light the blue touch paper that sends us into an all-out conflict with Iran.
We find Khurvin.
PHONE RINGS I'm ready.
TV: 'Against a backdrop of increased military build up in the area, 'the US president today repeated his accusation of Iranian support of international terrorism.
'The Prime Minister is expected to issue a statement in the house today.
' Lewis Khurvin.
27, born in Tehran, father Iranian, mother Irish, hence Lewis.
Family moved here when he was six.
He's also not a fan of Americans.
Our cells would be full if we detained everyone sharing that.
What else? He was on our radar but no more than a lot of the internet freakshow.
Erm, "It is time for righteous brothers to rise up in defence "of those slaughtered by the crusaders in Chechnya, Iraq etc.
" It's not like we haven't heard that before.
He was a fan of Mushta Islam which in Farsi is Fist of Islam.
If Khurvin had those connections Mushta Islam smash cars filled with explosives into police stations.
OK, get security increased at all high-profile targets, especially around Westminster, Scotland Yard and the embassies.
It gets worse, take a look at this.
This has just been sent over from the CIA.
And if you could pixilate an accompanying sneer, we'd be looking at it.
Oh, dear.
Doesn't look like a paintball outing.
According them, this is Khurzin at a Mushtaf Islam camp last July.
Why wasn't this in the file they originally sent over? There was a two-month gap.
How convenient these should just pop up now.
I'm sorry, this has got fake back-story all over it.
They wanted him, it's their way of getting carte blanche next time.
Pretty clever to fake two men with their brains on walls.
We have to come back to this, Ruth.
He killed two M15 officers so he could slip back under the wire.
What's he gonna do next? OK, I want every connection chased down, starting with the neighbours who called us about his arrest.
I want that pulled to pieces to check its authenticity.
I'm off to inform Juliet that we have a substantial lead on Khurvin's whereabouts.
Find me one.
Look, I don't know Harry as well as you.
I mean, I think he made a mistake, but Getting picked up like that, with no due process, no day or night, no Red Cross visits.
Harry was right to insist that we be sure before we let them do that to a British citizen.
You OK? The guys that Khurvin shot - they were joking with me, just before it happened.
I wasn't trying to undermine Harry.
I do understand, you know.
TV: 'Can Ollie do it? Two more questions between you and £50, 000.
'Ollie, geography.
'What is the current name of the country formerly known as Portuguese West Africa?' Angola.
'Tanzania?' Tanzania?! 'No, Angola.
Last chance.
Entertainment.
'Who played the role of Sheriff Wyatt Earp in the 1946 John Ford movie My Darling Clementine?' Henry Fonda.
'Kevin Costner?' Costner! Wasn't even born then.
Bonehead! 'US military build-up on the borders of Iran continued' You knew it wasn't Kevin Costner, didn't you, boy? Yes, you did.
'Despite the build up, 'the President assured us that the US wants to avoid war at all costs 'and his repeated' I'm sorry.
Well, give us a call if you remember anything relevant.
Yeah.
Talk about a sense of belonging.
You'd think Khurvin lived in a bubble.
It's the same story all along the street.
Nobody wants to admit seeing anything.
If someone was prompted to dial why won't they talk to us now? Come on.
Let's go.
So, you have no target, you have no weapon and you say from Khurvin's file, you have no idea of what he's planning.
Call that headway? We hit a brick wall.
Suddenly nobody wants to know the guy.
What about the neighbour? We've traced the 999 call to a pay-as-you-go mobile, paid in cash.
No-one wants to own up to having made that call.
I spoke to Special Branch.
They're not making headway either.
Plus, I've got the Secret Service swamping us with more requests.
Tell them to take a number and wait.
We completed a preliminary analysis of the training-camp photo.
You want the bad news first? We cross-matched the topography of the mountains in the background.
It's near Farah, close to the Afghan/Iran border.
A Mushta Islam stronghold.
Do we know when the photo was taken? Yeah, well, using the date on this newspaper and position of the sun, we have a date when it was taken.
Which was? July the 28th of last year, give or take a week, because we can't be sure this was of that same day.
It fits with the months missing.
If he was at the Farah camp Extremely highly trained.
And he was released.
Good news? Actually, it's just worse news.
The photo's genuine.
Now, we looked at matching the resolutions of the shadows and the area around the ears and the neck - those are the usual weaknesses - but there was nothing out of place.
So Khurvin was definitely there? Either that, or this is an incredibly well-made fake.
Why don't we run his file through link analysis? I'm just saying, I mean, I know it's a big file It's a radical new way of accessing, organising data known as the waterfall.
Look, Kevin, I know exactly what it is Too many links.
Khurvin knows we're chasing him, so he'll strike quickly.
We just haven't got time.
In the absence of the thousands of analysts at the NSA, I have to say that I agree with Ruth.
I agree, of course, you'reyou're right, only You see, we've managed to tweak their software somewhat.
Tweak it? Yes.
We've layered a weighting algorithm onto it, so it doesn't throw up a ton of links to check, it lists them according to importance, relevance if you like and it's Colin.
Oh? So, er, what are you waiting for, Colin? So the American's were right about Khurvin.
And we let him go.
TV: 'A secret report leaked today in Washington claims Lewis Khurvin, 'the terrorist thought responsible for the deaths 'of two government officials, was flagged 'as a security risk by the CIA up to three months ago.
' Scarlet.
'Downing street has refused to comment on the' Morning, Malik.
Thank you.
ENGINE STARTS UP It's been chewing up his bank details, credit cards, travel movements, college classmates and tutor lists, mobile and cell positioning, NHS files Won't the Americans have done this? Yes, but we have access to information that they don't have.
By marrying the two, we can find new links that they won't.
Anyway, so far it hasn't found anything hugely out of the ordinary, except for this.
He used this cash point in Paternoster Square three times in the last month.
We can pinpoint which route he took from his underground travel pass.
Interestingly, he never took the most direct route.
So, he took three trips to the City and took an odd route and ? The cash point's nowhere near anywhere he'd normally go to.
Not his college, not his mosque, no friends or work It's something.
Ruth, let's get down there.
Keep running it.
Why was Khurvin using this particular cash point? Why was he here? What do you see? Well, they're all here cos it's where they work.
There are no outsiders.
So Khurvin was here to meet someone.
And whoever it was will work close by.
Colin, look for a link between Khurvin and all the offices within 100 metres of this spot.
Calls, fax, e-mail, anything.
Adam, there are a lot of offices around.
What if we can't find anything? If we don't find anything, we'll expand the radius to He had to be here for a reason.
PHONE RINGS Who's that? Thank you very much.
What was that all about? Harry.
Interesting choice for a dog house, Harry.
I thought you'd appreciate the irony.
Next trial's in five minutes.
Trial? What's that? It's how they work out grading - how fast they go, whether they run better on the rail, off it.
It's also a good opportunity to inspect the form.
Right.
You OK? Eating well? Ruth's just worried about you, you know, she's worried you're living off crisps and canned tuna.
Sweet.
No, the food she sent was more than enough.
She'll be pleased.
So, any luck tracking down our elusive Mr Khurvin? I can't talk about it Harry, you know how it is.
Thanks for coming.
You'll get a bollocking when you get back.
The wonder is they can afford to keep me under surveillance.
What do they think I'm going to do? I guess it's standard procedure - leaving under a cloud.
You haven't come down here checking up on me, have you, Adam? Harry? Oh, sorry.
How's Wes? You should bring him down here, you know.
Father-son bonding and all that.
He'd like that.
It's hard for him without his mum.
How are you doing? It feels like something's broken that can never be fixed.
I'm selling the house.
Wes and I need a clean start.
Come on, let's walk.
DOGS BARK I want you to get a copy of Khurvin's file.
Everything we've got.
Why? We're missing something.
I don't know what but we've got to be.
I'm going to miss working with you.
The feeling's mutual.
The strongest connection the link analysis found is this - Cardassia Financial Services.
They buy bad debt.
When you default, they come for twice the amount.
Khurvin owed money on his card? Cards.
He had three of them with over 11 grand outstanding and paid Cardassia several visits.
That doesn't seem right.
Mushta Islam are not short of wealthy sponsors.
Why would they leave a leading light with bad debt? The point of a debt recovery is they come after you.
Which is promising because we like unusual.
Something else doesn't seem right.
State-of-the-art firewalls.
Well, which you'd hope for from a company that has financial and personal details of thousands of people.
Yes, but you wouldn't really expect them to also have E-Bing.
Oh, well, you've lost me there.
A computer that isn't linked to the outside world via a phone line presents problems for us to hack.
We tried using transient electro-magnetic pulse emanation surveillance technology - Tempest - a technique which recognizes the pattern of characters on the screen via the tiny radiation they let off.
Tempest reads through walls? It can read through pretty much anything.
Tempest couldn't read Cardassia's computers? No.
Because they have E-Bing which disguises the screen with a cloud of radiation - a bit like a plane firing out chaff to fool a missile.
Somewhat over the top for a debt recovery company.
So, er, who is Khurvin's bailiff at Cardassia? This man.
Mr Nick Pollard.
He's American.
Been here nine months, came here to set up Cardassia.
We're running background checks on him, and GCHQ are monitoring his calls, but he seems clean.
Seems clean? A terrorist, with credit card debts, who visited the company to whom he owed money.
And a company with technology out of all proportion to their activities.
We focus all our attention on this Mr Pollard.
Jo, we'll break into his office and find out what he's hiding behind his cloud in Cardassia.
Oh, it's not my best angle.
What were you doing? What does it look like? I'd hate to speculate.
I was just making sure he was all right.
That all? I'm not stupid, Juliet.
I know the protocol.
And besides, I assume you've read the transcripts, haven't you? You know the rules about contacting people Of course I do.
But I also know you need to bend the rules when supporting a friend.
I know this hasn't been the easiest year for you.
But, Adam, are you sure you're as committed to this job as you need to be? If I've given you reason to doubt it, let's hear it.
Just don't disappoint me, that's all.
It depends on your expectations.
Now, I've a break-in to plan.
She missed her calling.
Really? As what? A Victorian headmistress.
Ruth, I need you to copy the whole Khurvin file onto a memory card very discretely.
Why? For Harry.
How is he? Later.
You're contract cleaners working for a maintenance company.
Here are your IDs.
Electronic swipe card, programmed for the sixth floor, where Pollard's offices are.
Bear in mind every doorway is equipped with a scanner, so security can see where everyone is at any given moment.
If you go anywhere else, you'll trip an alarm, so memorise your route and stick to it.
Adam, how are you doing? We're ready to go.
Zaf? Alpha team set.
Alpha three and four are in position.
It's official.
We are go.
Repeat, we are go.
Eyes on.
Pollard is on the move.
Adam, he's on the move.
Handing over visual to alpha two.
Target heading for western exit.
Alpha two, are you in position? Affirmative, Scorpion.
Let's not crowd him, give him space guys.
Got him.
The security system's logged you into the building.
Go to the end of this corridor and turn left.
Breaking off now.
Eye ball.
He's on course for the river.
Subject heading south on grid reference 22F.
Alpha three, move into primary position.
He's crossing the road.
What's he doing? Alpha five from alpha three, no visual on subject.
That guy's had counter-surveillance training.
You can tell by the way he ties his shoelace.
Show me again, Malcolm.
Zoom in! His shoelaces weren't undone.
Zaf, don't let your people get too close.
Pollard is looking for a tail.
Adam, be careful in Pollard's offices.
I think he's a professional.
Ah One second.
He seems to have changed the c-code.
You do surprise me.
Try that.
Thank you, Malcolm, I think we'll take it from here.
When the future lets you down.
Bravo one ready for handover, on grid reference 24A.
Roger, Bravo one.
Let's hope he hasn't changed it.
Wait.
Don't touch anything.
See.
Everything's arranged around them, but it just seems haphazard.
You sometimes use bits of cotton, piles of clothing or papers.
Either way, if we move anything, he's gonna know about it.
How do you know which files to download? I don't.
Subject is on the bridge.
Alpha two, proceed with caution.
Everyone be careful, this bridge is the best choke-point in London.
Subject turned 180.
Alpha two compromised.
He's turned back.
Repeat, turned back.
My whole team is redundant.
Adam Pollard is on his way back.
Shit.
How long? It it took him, er, 2.
30 to get to where he was, so, say two minutes.
Bravo one, to Bravo two.
Stand down.
Repeat, stand down.
Adam, he's speeding up, I think he must be on to us.
Get your stuff and go.
Go on.
If Pollard spots a thing out of place, we're screwed.
Come on.
He's definitely speeding up.
Zaf, he needs to be slowed down.
Can't do it, my team are redundant.
We can't risk the same face twice.
OK, pull out now, we can't risk Pollard catching you.
No, Juliet.
We've got no links to Khurvin other than this hard drive.
If he catches you in there, we'll have nothing.
He's crossing the square.
Thirty seconds.
He's coming through the front entrance.
Twenty seconds.
Got him, crossing the lobby, Adam.
Adam.
Pull out, that's an order! I'm getting as much as I can, it's our only hope.
He's in the lift.
11 seconds.
First floorsecond floor third floor.
Adam, come on.
Sixth floor, he's on your level.
Nice night out? I thought you were some weirdo.
I may not be your boss anymore, there's no need to be insulting.
How did you know I'd be here? A couple of months ago, I passed you standing at the bus stop in the rain.
I was being driven home, and to my eternal shame and now regret I didn't stop.
That's fine.
I like the bus.
I have something for you.
Thanks.
Keep an eye on Adam for me.
He's st (Thank you.
) Adam.
Something terrible has happened.
What? The plan of the office, for the break in.
I've gone through everything and I can't find it anywhere.
I think I left it on Pollard's desk.
Well, that's it, we're dead.
It's over.
Oh, God.
You bastard.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Sometimes.
How are you getting on with Pollard's computer? Not so good.
There's one folder we can't crack yet.
The encryption is highly sophisticated, unusual for a civilian.
I have put GCHQ on it.
The rest are information for credit cards.
Including information on Khurvin? Yes.
You can get an idea with this information.
Spending habits, where and when he's been to places.
Plus credit card companies share data.
It's all here.
This debt collection agency is a great way to recruit potential candidates.
What, you think Pollard's CIA? Well, it would explain all this high-tech wizardry.
You said he used counter-surveillance techniques.
Well, why would they recruit Khurvin and ship him off to Guantanamo? Why not ask the CIA? I ran him through our systems.
He's not one of ours.
Sure about that? Juliet, we've never heard of Pollard.
You want my advice? Concentrate on Khurvin.
Why are you wasting your time on some American business man, instead of getting your guys to work WITH us on the stuff that really matters? Because his name came up.
It sounds like one of Harry Pearce's wild ideas.
It's not.
You wouldn't be trying to help him by finding a connection where there isn't one, would you? You know me better than that, Alex.
I also know that Harry isn't just another water-cooler buddy to you.
That's history.
Are you sure about that? Run another check on Pollard.
He's American for God's sake.
You must be able to find some dirt on him.
Morning, Malik.
I'm rusty, but I'm sure we're on our own, Harry.
You've never let me down.
It's been a while.
It certainly has.
Not too much chocolate.
I've been spoiling her lately.
Yeah, the Jack Russell has a tendency towards portliness.
Oh, not in her earshot, very sensitive.
Adam! You need to see this.
I was going over Khurvin's link-analysis files.
He was prescribed pain killers last year, so I followed that trail.
He had an infected tooth which required treatments over a three-week period.
That was in July last year - the same month he's posing for holiday snaps in that training camp.
The photo's are fake.
The best we've seen.
We're being bloody played.
Anyone seen Harry? Why? He's disappeared.
Michael Gorman.
You're a difficult man to track down.
Not difficult enough, it seems.
The Agency think you're in South America.
Well, it's a big enough place to keep them occupied for a while.
Hear about Belgrade? Three dead American construction workers? They sent a kill team after me.
Like they don't have enough to do with their time.
I want to pick your brains.
About Pollard? He smells like Agency.
Sure, but which agency? Central Intelligence? National Security? Things aren't black and white for men like this.
Men like you? I'm retired.
Your Head of Station brought you up on charges for an illegal black op and you blew up his car.
Exactly what kind of pension plan do they give you? It was only supposed to scare him.
I notice we're not talking in your cosy Thames House office over a glass of brandy.
It's very difficult to get a pass for someone who no longer exists.
Hmm, sure.
That and you don't have an office any more? The word is out.
That weight you like to throw around it seems like you slimmed down, my friend.
Men like Pollard Nixon used to call them The Horribles - Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy.
The Watergate burglars.
On a good day.
Freelancers, deniables.
You want something dirty done, don't want to get bit on the ass Government work? Believe me, I'd love to point the finger at the Agency.
This hasn't got their dirty paw-prints on it.
They may have trained him, but they don't own him any more.
Who does? You want the who, look at the why.
Look at Iraq - the reconstruction work, the construction contracts, oil-drilling rights.
Lot of powerful people making a lot of money.
They want the Middle East and they want it piece by piece.
Right-wing Christians, oil barons - you take your pick.
But Iraq wasn't too popular and nobody wants Iran next.
Not me, not you, not the people or the administrations of either of our countries.
They need a catalyst.
What'll it take for Britain to get behind a war in Iran? Fear and a lot of dead bodies in Britain.
You got a man like Pollard, you put him in London, have him look for disaffected Iranians.
Not terrorists, maybe, not yet.
But men and women of extremist sympathies.
Maybe left to their own devices they're gonna make some speeches and write some articles, go on a march.
But lean hard enough, give them times and places and the means And you turn them into soldiers.
Pollard already has his fall-guy, his Lee Harvey Oswald.
The smart money says he's arming them up as we speak - telling him what his target is, when to pull the trigger.
The legend is prepared, the patsy is ready.
Whatever Pollard and his masters have planned, when it comes down, you get Pollard's boy handed to you, gift-wrapped in an Iranian flag.
The new face of terrorism.
And they shall have their war.
Did Roscoe know what was happening? Is that why they tried to take Khurvin out of the picture? Roscoe's a foot-soldier.
He's told what he needs to know.
I can't help thinking, to forcibly remove Khurvin from his house, put him into orange overalls, and attempt to transport him to Guantanamo Bay may have just been the final push to send him over the edge.
D'you think Pollard set it up? I don't think we'll ever know how much influence Pollard and his superiors have.
Did Jo manage to trace the neighbour who made the call? No.
Pollard? Tipped us off, stopped the extradition.
Whether it's an unlucky coincidence or a ploy to get our attention, he couldn't risk having Khurvin taken off the field.
We think the photo of Khurvin sent to the CIA, the one in a training camp, was a fake.
Pollard's manufacturing a legend for Khurvin, making him the bogey-man.
If Pollard's setting Khurvin up as the ultimate Iranian terrorist, what better way of getting our attention than dead MI5 officers? Colin is trying to decrypt the files on Pollard's hard drive.
We've no way of knowing what they're up to.
Whatever he's planning, it's gotta be something big enough to drive this country into war.
Big enough to sway public opinion behind an invasion of Iran.
Something catastrophic.
Lockerbie, Bali, World Trade Center.
It's on our doorstep and on our watch.
Bravo team standby, standby to take eyeball.
Alpha one.
He's gone.
Repeat, he's gone.
Confirming that, no sign of him.
What d'you mean he's gone? He can't disappear.
Shit! Ruth, Colin, CCTV, any sign? Not yet.
If we lose him we'll have nothing.
Team, change of horses.
Khurvin, Khurvin heading South.
Alpha two, I'm on him.
Don't contact, the attack must be imminent.
Alpha's one to three stay with Khurvin, I'll send back up.
Four and five stay and find Pollard.
What's the news on Khurvin? He's in a cottage one hour outside London.
No sign of movement and Colin's still trying to crack Pollard's computer.
Where is Pollard? Er, at the office, working late.
Without a weapon, or a target, we've got nothing.
We need a smoking gun.
Zaf, stand down.
Jo and I will take the night shift.
Khurvin's on the move.
Take these.
What are you doing? I want you to do the looking.
Better be quick.
I can't see a thing.
Slow! Stop! TYRES SQUEAL Which way? Left.
OK, left hander in 100 yards, Left or right? Quickly! HORN BLARES Brake in 20, then sharp right.
Do you want them back now? No, not until we find him.
Roger.
Zaf, I thought you'd gone home.
Yeah, I got bored.
No-one to play with.
20 minutes behind you.
Slow left! Break, then sharp right.
OK, panic over, I've got Khurvin's tail lights.
Well done.
Adam, GCHQ cracked Pollard's encryption.
The file contains terminal blueprints and air-traffic control data.
According to your GPS, you're two miles west of the airport.
Adam, you're directly beneath transatlantic flight approach.
He's marked out the approach zones.
He's gonna bring down a plane.
Khurvin's on the move.
Adam, take him in.
Let's go.
Ruth, keep the armed response teams back.
I don't want to scare him off.
Adam, I'm calling in the team.
We have to find the missile.
Khurvin will lead us straight to it.
There could be hundreds of people on that plane.
God knows what the death count would be.
We won't get a second chance to find it.
It has to be this way.
First plane's coming in.
What was that? The Radar flash from a missile.
Adam, it's a surface-to-air missile.
You've got 53 seconds.
Before? Before the battery charges and they fire.
Forty seconds.
Thirty.
RADAR BEEPS He's got a lock on.
Twenty.
Khurvin! I wouldn't.
Ten seconds.
I don't think we've met.
Roscoe, I'm sending the package over.
What the Hell is this? Where's Khurvin? He was shot dead, whilst attempting to commit a terrorist act.
Which is why we were trying to extradite him in the first place.
Except it wouldn't have happened without this man - an American, who is charged with conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism.
We'll be holding on to him, too.
If he is an American You want him, go through the proper channels.
In the meantime, Alex, inform your superiors to put their house in order before they even think about messing about in mine again.
Think we've picked a sure-fire winner there, Wes.
What about you, Adam? What have you backed? Sweet Juliet.
Had to be really, didn't it? What about you? You know, she offered me your job? I thought so.
What did you say? They couldn't afford me.
Don't tell me that my one's the undersized one? "Trap fiveSweet Juliet.
" Yes, it is.
I get the feeling I'm being set up here.
You're not part of some race-fixing syndicate? Are you in on this with him? Give me one of those.
Come on, Harry, which one's yours? Er, it's a red coat.
The one in the red coat? Twice the size of mine! Go on, my son, go on! What's happened to it? Go on, Juliet! That's bad luck, that's bad luck, Adam.
Go on, Jimmy's Lads! Go on, my son! Go on! £20 on the nose, a winner.
Lovely! Now don't spend it all at once, eh, Harry? Can we have another go with the dogs, Uncle Harry? I don't see why not.
Maybe this time I'll let your father choose the dog.
Dad doesn't know anything about dogs.
He's more of a cat man.
Hah! Says it all.
It's good to have you back.
It's good to be back.
I'd better get up to speed.
Lot's of files to read.
I wouldn't want to miss anything.
Don't work too late.
I'll get the last bus.
The security forces killed the People's Princess.
The Contingent Events Committee.
This is a no-eye's document.
It's meant to be destroyed in the room after it's read.
It's the greatest scandal of the age.
MI5 and MI6 did it, in a joint operation.
Did you ever serve on the Contingent Events Committee? This is a crackpot conspiracy theory.
The security forces killed the People's Princess.
And I'll show you how.
Self-control.
Self-denial.
These things keep us together in this job.
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