Spooks s05e10 Episode Script
Aftermath
We are officers of the state.
We do not play God.
Then what God is going to save these people? Sea level's rising.
Oil's running out.
Terrorists are going nuclear.
Do you really think this current system is capable of dealing with that? Adam! Adam, it's Ros, can you hear me? Are you hurt? Adam! You're all aware that on the last mission I had a.
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a bad moment.
I'd appreciate it if this just, you know, this stayed in the team.
I don't think Harry needs to know.
Are you seeking treatment? For what? Well, I think nowadays they call it post-traumatic stress disorder, but I still prefer burn out.
Sometimes I think it was stupid, selfish of us, to have a child.
What kind of a world's he going to know? The Met Office has issued a flood warning to the south-east of England.
A depression in Scotland is now moving down into the North Sea.
Low barometric pressure, combined with one of the highest spring tides in 50 years, is likely to result in historically high water levels in the Humber, Stour and Thames estuaries.
The effects of a severe flood in London would be catastrophic.
The central part of the London Underground would be paralysed.
Flood defences are being activated and the authorities are confident that these defences are sufficient to repel a tidal surge.
Robert Cash, Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs.
I'm here with the International Delegation.
Thank you, sir.
We've been expecting you.
Carry on.
No, Mum, of course it's not a hassle.
I really want to see you.
I'll call you on your mobile if I'm going to be delayed.
Is it? All right, well I'd better be on time then.
OK, see you later.
Bye.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm Alan Jackson, your guide.
You've picked quite a day, what with the depression on the Atlantic.
So we heard.
It's going to get very busy later on so we should make a start.
'Bringing new attention to the threat of climate change.
'A recent study.
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' Morning, Carlos.
Thank you.
And the almond croissant.
Rush-hour traffic.
They should ban all cars - except mine.
Thank you.
The central piers are out of bounds to the public and we keep professional and academic visits to a minimum.
The closing operation is managed from the control building on the South Bank, but we have various on-site backup systems in case of power failure.
We're about to enter one of four central pier chambers.
Each of these piers houses a gate weighing 3,700 tonnes and standing as high as a three-storey building.
Truth is, this little beauty is London's guardian angel.
Without it, there'd be no London.
Shall we move on? No, you're OK.
We'll go on alone from here.
Go! ALARM SOUNDS Oh, shit! Shit! it's your judo stuff.
It's your gym stuff, um.
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Where's my recycling project? On the coffee table, there, where you were doing it last night.
Oh, no, it's broken! What? No, it isn't.
Come here.
Look at that.
That's brilliant.
They're going to love it.
Now, you take that.
I've got your judo kit.
Come on, quick, let's go.
No, I'm sorry, he's not here.
Can I take a message? Dr Jewell - could he do Thursday? Come on, move.
Move! Keep going.
Move! Out! Now! Out! Turn round.
Right, you give this to the British Government.
Go, go.
Adam, the terrorists are deep inside the barrier.
They're controlling the central two piers.
All staff ejected.
No news on casualties but there were gun shots.
Do we have any news from the PLA? They're putting out a cover story contact with the terrorists? Not yet.
All comms are down.
OK, they should say it's only a routine drill and the Barrier's being raised for testing.
Zaf, contact the Barrier security.
Tell them the Home Secretary's issued a quarantine on all Barrier staff and visitors.
Make sure nobody leaves the Barrier complex.
Confiscate all mobile phones.
This only gets out to the press when we tell them.
Adam.
COBRA will meet in 15 minutes.
Set up a secure negotiation line.
Deputy PM's on her way.
Deputy Prime Minister, welcome.
Joint Chiefs of Staff are waiting for you in COBRA along with engineers from the Barrier.
Harry, this is Janet Wheeler, the Government's Chief Scientist.
Janet, good morning.
The Prime Minister has authorised me to take the chair.
He will be in contact throughout the day from Tokyo.
Have you had any contact with the terrorists? Divine Earth stormed the Barrier about 8.
15 this morning.
Before sealing off the central Barrier area, they delivered a computer disc.
Our planet is dying.
Ice caps are melting.
Sea levels are rising by many metres.
Southern Europe will become a desert.
Northern Europe will experience a new Ice Age where we'll all become casualties of the climate's revenge on mankind's insanity.
This is not tomorrow's problem.
The nightmare has already begun.
Unless our demands are met, Divine Earth will today offer London a warning of the chaos to come.
A chaos of our own creation.
What do we have on them? Some form of environmental terrorism not on our radar before.
CCTV footage from the Barrier's being sent over now.
General Clark, when can we expect contact? They've kept one telephone line open from the Barrier to the bankside control building.
We've diverted the line to Thames House.
My senior officer is waiting for them to call.
How long can we cope without control of the Barrier? Deputy Prime Minister, over the last few days there has been a large low pressure system driving east over the Atlantic, creating a surge of sea water.
This combined with a high spring tide will produce a six metre wall of water in the Thames Estuary at 5 o'clock this evening.
This kind of tide happens two or three times every year.
The levels have been rising over the last few years due to climate change but the Barrier would normally cope without a problem.
It's a stunning piece of engineering.
And without the Barrier? The Environment Agency has created a mapping programme showing the extent of flooding in London for every metre's height of water.
This surge would flood the Essex flatlands and the Thames Gateway within minutes.
Within an hour, the Houses of Parliament, Waterloo and Victoria stations would be under six feet of water.
This flood would extend to Lambeth, Fulham, Battersea, Hammersmith, Putney, Barnes and as far as Richmond and Twickenham.
Children, the old and the ill will be the first victims.
Estimated death toll? Without evacuation, 1.
25 million people are at risk.
Deputy Prime Minister, we have a phased city evacuation plan ready to go and I have the necessary troops standing by to enforce it.
I want to talk to these people before we push any panic buttons.
There are two men missing presumed dead - Alan Jackson, the Barrier guide was shot trying to raise the alarm and a civil servant, Robert Cash, still unaccounted for.
Don't tell their families yet.
We need to keep this absolutely quiet.
For sure.
Well, get back to me as soon as you've got it.
Oh, and a Dr Jewell rang, I said you'd ring her back.
Right.
Yeah that's the uh.
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the shrink, I've been seeing her a couple of times.
How's that going? Fine.
She's given me the all clear.
Recommended a couple of extra orange juices and go easy on the self-pity.
So you're not seeing her any more? What? You're not seeing her any more? No.
Adam, we have something.
We ran an ID check on all the delegates.
The three that have remained on the Barrier are from the Dutch Environmental Commission.
Unless we've declared a tulip embargo, it's probably not the Dutch.
Look, CCTV of the Dutch delegation checking in to the Fitzwallace Hotel in Mayfair last night.
And this is them checking out this morning.
Different people.
They had full ID - photocards, paperwork, vetting forms, everything.
How did an environmental terror group manage to replace a government commission? And where are the delegates? CCTV from the Barrier entrance.
He's not exactly camera-shy.
Let's find out who he is.
Adam! Adam, they're calling! This is Nick Harding representing the British Government.
Did you get the disc? Who am I speaking to? That doesn't matter.
We're missing a British civil servant, Robert Cash, and a member of Barrier staff, Alan Jackson.
Can you confirm what happened to them? We heard gunshots.
I'm sorry that happened but if people don't listen, they may suffer the consequences.
What do you want? The British Government are in possession of a document.
It's called Aftermath.
Never heard of it.
It exists.
What is it? You'll find that out when you publish it.
And if we refuse? We won't close the Barrier gates for the high tide tonight.
And at 5 o'clock this evening, London floods.
And if we publish it? We'll leave the Barrier and give ourselves up for arrest.
How do I know I can trust you? I'll call you at 10.
45.
Try anything silly and we blow the hydraulics on all four central piers.
Three-pound of Grade A Semtex.
And if that goes up, the Barrier never closes.
The Dutch delegates have been picked up.
They were tied up in their hotel room.
obvious assumption from the disc was an environmental connection but we've checked every DEFRA database and no environmental or rural issue has any mention of Aftermath.
Yeah, we've also checked Government strategy on the effects of chemical and biological attacks on major cities - no mention of Aftermath.
Nuclear? Same story.
All we've come up with so far is a mental health charity in Sheffield.
and a thrash metal rock band in Iowa.
For God's sake, Malcolm, this isn't a bloody joke.
They're playing with us.
They're using a fictional document as a smokescreen to justify doing as much damage as possible.
We get the blame and they become martyrs to the cause.
I'm going to go and brief COBRA.
Ros, you look after things from here.
Sure.
Yeah, this is Dr Susan Gold, Head of Psychiatry at the Merlin Institute in Roehampton.
Yeah, I'm sending through request form P334 now.
Come on, Harry, are you telling me this is the best you can do? We still have seven hours.
It isn't possible to negotiate with someone who wants something that doesn't exist.
Divine Earth don't want money so we have nothing to offer them.
There must be something we can do.
They have CCTV cameras monitoring both tunnels, we can't get to them or the explosives without being seen.
They've cut power, heating, air supply.
It's like a fortress.
Why have they cut the air supply? They're probably worried we'd use the vents to get at them.
Could we? We'd need the power back on.
Can we reconnect the power to the air supply? They've destroyed the main circuit but there's a power intercept box halfway across the tunnel leading from the north side.
You'd have to get to that without being caught by the cameras.
Well, we could travel along the plant tunnel underneath the floor.
And then what? You could redirect the power for the air supply to the mains.
It's a different circuit to the one that they've destroyed.
So we reconnect the air supply.
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And then we gas them.
It would have to work almost instantaneously otherwise they'd detect it.
How big a space are we dealing with? The central pier, lower section, it's a 16 by 10 metre space.
Who's going in? We have a Special Operatives Unit on standby.
I'll take them in.
They'll never find the intercept box in the darkness.
I know it better than anyone - I helped design it.
Well, let's get going.
I'm requesting your authority to use an opiate of a lethally high concentration.
The effect will be instantaneous.
We can't afford to take any risks.
If just one of them remains alive.
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I can't stopmy hands shaking.
Don't worry, Andrew, you're going to be fine.
Andrew.
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Look, are you sure you're OK to do this? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine.
On second thoughts I think I'll come in with you.
I always like to see a master at work.
OK, great.
Thanks.
And don't worry about these, they're just a precaution.
We don't need to put them on till the last minute.
They're in the tunnel.
I've been checking the Civil Service's vetting procedure for the delegation.
They've got top security.
There's no way they could have slipped through.
Someone helped them? Who? The only civil servant who had access to all the papers was Robert Cash.
I thought Cash was dead.
No, no, that's what they wanted us to think.
He's with them.
Jo, get background ID on Cash.
Everything.
He's worked at the Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs for six years.
No known connections with environment groups but he visited America in 2005.
Why? He went to New Orleans.
Just after Katrina.
Did he go on behalf of the Government? No, he went on an emergency visa.
Why would they issue him an emergency visa? His daughter.
She died in the flood.
They never found the body.
OK, it's here.
All yours.
Barrier records show that Robert Cash went on a preparatory site visit two days ago with a junior from the Department of the Environment.
They spent 20 minutes on the Barrier alone.
What was the name of the junior? Simon Ritter.
No, there is no Simon Ritter at the Department of Environment and Rural Affairs.
They've prepped the operation.
What if they know about the intercept box? We've got to isolate the electricity to the air supply.
Malcolm! We've got to connect it to the mains without turning everything else on.
Malcolm, get Zaf out of there! I can't, he's out of signal range.
Five, three, no six, zero.
Is there a problem? It looks different.
What does? The wiring.
Maybe it doesn't.
It must just be me.
I've got it.
Andrew, abort now.
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EXPLOSION PHONE BLEEPS What the hell are you doing? I have no idea.
Yes, you do.
What have you done? Wait.
Sir, we've got to get out of here now.
It was an anti-personnel device - sophisticated kit.
The explosion decapitated him.
He wouldn't have felt a thing.
Deputy Prime Minister, these people are deadly serious.
I'm recommending we begin a phased evacuation plan according to the London Resilience Team strategy.
We don't have much time.
High tide is at 5 o'clock.
If we commit to evacuation, people will die and we set in motion something we cannot control.
The Stock Exchange crashes, the markets go into a tailspin, money pours out of the UK into anywhere that'll take it.
We enter a major recession within hours.
I'm not giving these people the satisfaction of witnessing their own success.
We'll reconvene shortly.
In the meantime, I'd like you all to investigate other solutions.
I don't understand, why won't she evacuate? Something to hide? We have a positive ID on the group.
He's the most interesting - Craig Fletcher.
He used to work with Rachel in New Orleans and guess what, they were engaged.
Adam, Cash's daughter Rachel was an activist working with the poor black community in New Orleans.
When Katrina hit she disappeared.
Cash went over to find her body but he never did.
In New Orleans he met Craig Fletcher.
He worked for the same environmental organisation as Rachel trying to raise awareness of flood risk due to climate change.
They're doing all this for a dead girl? Hell of a memorial.
I'm on my way back.
Harry, this changes the picture.
They're acting out of grief.
We can't be sure what their intentions are.
I have to get in there.
You told me we could do this without hurting anyone.
It was always a possibility if they didn't stick to their word.
Look, you've got to be realistic about this, Robert.
We have committed to the greater cause for Rachel.
We're making a difference to this planet before it's too late.
OK? OK, let's see if they'll listen to us now.
PHONE BLEEPS I want to talk about New Orleans.
I want to talk about Rachel Cash.
Rachel Cash disappeared in the flood in New Orleans.
Her body was never found.
That's what you and Robert are doing there today.
I'm not interested in personal conversations.
You'd better start evacuating.
Two people are dead already.
They had friends and families just like Rachel.
If we're going to avoid more killings, we need to talk now.
No way.
No more talking.
We've had enough.
Aftermath exists.
You said it didn't.
I lied but no-one is going to let you have it unless we trust you.
So we need to talk.
So talk.
Not on the phone - face-to-face.
You've got to be kidding.
Then there's no deal.
You have to work with us, Craig.
'OK, come up the north tunnel.
Just you.
Don't forget, 'I've got someone here with a finger on the detonator.
' Your operative had no authority to make that decision.
He had to find a way on to the Barrier.
Our best hope is to negotiate face-to-face.
By confessing to some ridiculous fiction? It weakens our position.
Aftermath does not exist.
It buys us time, it gets us closer to the target.
And then what? What's he going to give them at the end of it all? The truth is simple - we have nothing to offer these people and the sooner they find that out, the better.
This emits a tracker signal.
We'll be able to follow you wherever you go.
If you change the signal from red to green, we'll take that as an order to storm.
We need to get Divine Earth away from the detonators and the CCTV monitors.
It's the only way in, Adam.
If you can create enough of a distraction, that'll give special forces the 30 seconds they need.
Divide and rule.
More information on Craig Fletcher.
Ex-soldier, joined up at 17 and was stationed in Northern Ireland, awarded a medal for bravery when his patrol unit in West Belfast was ambushed by an IRA hit squad.
He saved the lives of two fellow soldiers.
Fast-tracked to officer training at Sandhurst, became a Lieutenant in peace keeping forces in East Africa and Bosnia.
A spotless record.
He retired from the Army with full honours.
And now he's on a mission to avenge the death of his girlfriend.
Solo negotiation is extremely risky.
Fletcher knows what he's doing, don't take any unnecessary risks.
Don't worry, my doggy paddle's unsurpassed.
PHONE RINGS Deputy Prime Minister.
It's the right decision.
We have to hold our nerve.
I'm on my way back now.
She's jumpy and I don't think it's Divine Earth she's scared of.
I think it's what they're after.
Sorry, I don't quite follow.
I want to authorise a phone tap - a somewhat sensitive one.
You don't mean.
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That requires a signature from the Prime Minister.
Come on, you've been doing this almost as long as I have, does it smell right to you? Harry, I don't feel comfortable with this.
Report only to me.
Write nothing down.
No traces.
Zaf, are you OK? Yeah.
We shouldn't have sent Starkey in there.
He wasn't ready for it.
Listen, I know this probably isn't the right time, I'm meant to be meeting my mum at the Tate Modern at 5 o'clock.
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Have you tried calling her? Yeah, her phone's off.
Jacket off, jewellery off.
Where's Adam? He's gone.
Gone where? The Barrier.
Get him on the phone.
Well, it's not possible.
We can track him but we can't.
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For the last three months he's been suffering from acute post-traumatic stress.
Read the final paragraph.
"The patient has agreed that continuing in his current role risks leading to a nervous collapse.
"He will request immediate leave from all duties.
" Get me who wrote this.
Three pound of Semtex on each hydraulic mechanism.
The monitors are being watched at all times.
We see anything strange on those screens, or you try anything unwise, she presses the button, the whole thing goes up.
OK? BEEPING Sit down.
Now, don't move.
Adam's with them in the lower area.
Harry? Back in COBRA in five minutes.
I've downloaded every text from Caroline Fox's phone today.
This one was sent at 11.
47 to the Prime Minister's private secretary, Michael Fitzgerald.
Five minutes after receiving Fox's text, Michael Fitzgerald called a private security company with an order to deliver a parcel from the back entrance of Number Ten to an undisclosed address.
This is DZ43.
Central Office.
Your Time for a coffee.
Copy that.
PHONE RINGS Hello.
Sir, this is DZ Security concerning your delivery pick-up.
It's late, what's going on? I'm afraid the van's stuck in traffic in Bethnal Green.
It could be half an hour.
I can offer you a motorbike courier with a secure lock-up facility, would be there in less than five minutes.
I'm not sure how big the parcel is.
Get me the motorbike - fast.
Right away, sir.
Z3, move into position.
Give him the access code.
Aftermath - a bilateral US-UK agreement agreeing to end the fight against global warming and to focus strategy on maximising economic, military and political influence in a world devastated by climate change.
We give up fighting climate change.
And focus instead on being the first to take advantage of the consequences.
Aftermath advocates methodical US and UK acquisition of global fossil fuels and other natural resources in the 21st century in anticipation of increasing resource scarcity, oil depletion and spiralling prices.
It advocates sustained military operations to secure natural resource networks.
It anticipates a global population reduction of between 20% and 35%.
This it describes as not only an inevitability but a necessity.
Read the final recommendation.
The proposal recommends implementing a cosmetic series of environmental measures to neutralise green lobbies, whilst establishing an international stranglehold on carbon resources in the next hundred years.
This will involve the reintroduction of a full nuclear weapons programme, to create effective deterrents in an unstable global climate.
In short - a Cold War scenario for the environmental age.
Why did we not know this? ! That proposal is in the early consultation stage.
Is that why you didn't consult your Chief Scientist? Not to mention military chiefs, intelligence officials - you're making senior establishment figures look like schoolboys.
The necessity for discretion makes wide consultation impossible.
And who exactly are you consulting with? Aftermath is a light-pencil proposal that has been through no kind of consultation process.
It must never be made public.
Why not? If that's what you're really intending.
We publish that and basically we're accepting the death of millions of people.
If anyone even suspects we believe global warming will deliver this degree of change.
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And you think it will? Of course it will.
Everything Janet's been telling us tells us it will.
The point is, we can't stop it without destroying our economies.
There's no way international governments will collaborate in the way necessary for a unified battle to be fought.
How do you know that? Oh, come on, Janet, you've been to Kyoto.
You think America will ever agree to those cuts, let alone China and India? And that's a fifth of what's required.
If we go it alone it will cripple us.
We'll be the dinosaur of the global economy.
We must hold our position.
Then why not come clean, open up the debate? And watch confidence shatter? There'd be a global crisis within days.
That's when the wars begin.
It strikes me that if Aftermath is adopted then the wars will begin anyway.
This is a direct order from Downing Street - it doesn't leave this room.
PHONE RINGS Yes.
You're asking me to break the Hippocratic oath.
I have an operative in a situation where one wrong decision could cause the death of thousands of people.
Adam Carter is suffering an acute form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
He's experiencing chronic flashbacks, suicidal impulses and manic episodes.
His condition is rooted in survivor guilt.
He wishes he was dead and that his wife was still alive.
We have to get him off the operation, Harry.
We have no way of communicating with him.
Diana, I'd like you to stay here on the grid.
Tell us about Aftermath.
I haven't seen it.
It's highly classified.
But you know it exists.
I know they'll only publish it if they trust you.
Why wouldn't they trust us? You're at the centre of the world's attention.
I'd just be tempted to blow it anyway.
We don't want to blow the Barrier.
We want you to publish Aftermath.
Is that what you want too, Craig? I've been reading your military record.
What are you talking about? The two soldiers who were killed in Belfast.
He hid and watched while two of his friends were ambushed by an IRA hit squad.
It was advisable that Lt Fletcher be released from the service.
That's utter bullshit.
I saved those men.
You have a history of mental illness, Craig, which is why we have our concerns about guarantees you're giving us.
We've seen your medical history, can you blame us for suspecting that you've.
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you've chosen a decent man in a state of grief to fulfil some twisted fantasy? Robert, he's lying, don't fall for it.
The man you blew up at the intercept was called Andrew Starkey.
He has three children.
Before you set that booby trap, did someone assure you that it was just a deterrent? It was a deterrent.
Are you sure that some of these people don't just want to punish the world? Punish people like Andrew Starkey? Like me? I mean, I have a son - eight years old.
He'll die.
He knows more about the environment than I do.
Who's to say he won't end up like another Rachel? But that doesn't matter to you, does it? You just want blood! Enough! You know you're lying.
Craig.
Are you going to fire that? Go on.
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Show Robert what you're really about.
Go on.
Harry, they'll be calling in 15 minutes.
What do I offer them? Nothing.
What about the document? Nothing.
We don't have a Plan B.
If Adam doesn't succeed.
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I am aware of that but if we publish Aftermath, we enter the political unknown.
What if he's not all right? I don't know, Ros.
What's she doing? Janet, what are you playing at? What? Give that to me.
What? Janet, this building has the highest level of security of any in the country, you're not going anywhere with that document.
Aftermath is a wake - up call the world needs.
We have a duty to publish it.
You are not in a position to decide that.
You're a servant of the state, as am I.
I am also a woman of individual conscience.
You think individual conscience is in charge down there on the Barrier? You think Divine Earth give a damn about moral decency? Yes.
That's why I told them, Harry.
Do you realise what you've done? I had to know what was going on.
I've spent five years walking a tightrope between doing my duty to my Government and duty to my planet and I have been lied to, misled and ignored.
So you told Cash.
Robert came to me after his daughter had died because he was concerned about Government policy.
I thought that he would go to the papers.
You have no idea what is going on.
The world is living in a state of wilful ignorance.
The warning signs are right in front of our eyes and still we do nothing.
This may be our way out of this.
Yes.
Professor, no-one knows what you did and we can keep it that way if you help us.
What do you want? I want you to help us convince Divine Earth we're publishing.
You're the one person they'll believe.
Janet, we understand why you did this but this is out of control.
You have to help us stop it.
You can save people's lives.
They have a website.
That's how I communicate with Robert.
I'm about to make the call to your colleagues.
If you do this without my support, then all hope of any agreement goes with me.
Maybe that's what you want.
We all want the same thing.
I don't think so.
I think Robert's a decent man who just wants his daughter's death to mean something.
Don't listen to him.
He's trying to divide us.
That's why you insisted that whatever happened, you'd never actually blow the Barrier.
This has never been about blowing the Barrier.
It's been about ensuring Rachel didn't die in vain.
We don't want to kill people.
Now, listen to me.
No-one's listening to you.
Just listen to me! A 50-page document is not going to satisfy your friend.
He suffers from sever mental imbalance, absences, manic episodes.
We cannot do deals with him.
I need fully integrated website and news footage convincing enough to support Janet Wheeler's message.
Got it.
Harry, if Adam gives us the signal, how can we trust him? He's been lying to us.
In his current state, Adam is likely to take unnecessarily high risks.
How can you know for sure what's going on in there? I've conducted hundreds of operations with Adam Carter.
I know how he works.
So you know, for example, that Adam has seriously considered suicide in the last few weeks? We have a fully prepared alternative plan ready to go.
Harry, you've got to understand - he's deliberately putting himself under immense pressure.
He's daring himself to crack.
Robert.
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just, please, just.
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walk out with me now.
That's all you have to do.
Just walk out with me.
Please believe me.
We're never going to publish with this maniac in charge.
Right, that's enough! I'm sorry, Craig.
I can't take the risk.
Look, can't you see what he's trying to do? Come on.
Come on, Robert, let's go.
Don't move.
Harry, Adam's signal's gone green.
Special forces are standing by on your order.
Harry.
Robert.
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Robert, I just want you to walk over there and pick up that phone, call my colleagues and tell them you're walking out with me.
You pick up that phone, we'll shoot him.
Robert, just pick up the phone.
Pick up the phone.
We're never going to do anything with this man in charge.
Don't you dare move.
Craig, you wouldn't shoot me.
I'm her father.
WES: Is Mummy coming home? Where's my mummy? BEEPING I need to talk to you.
No.
I need to talk to you.
We're publishing Aftermath.
They're publishing.
I have a timetable.
A press release about the document will be sent to the Press Association in one hour.
Also in one hour, the Deputy Prime Minister will speak to the House, 'and the document will be published in full.
' We have a web connection.
'If we see the Aftermath document published on all major websites, we'll close the Barrier.
' You'll see it.
Good.
And one more thing.
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get rid of this madman.
'Not a problem.
We still need a guarantee of the safe transfer of the Barrier into our hands.
' We'll find a suitable replacement.
'We'll be waiting for them.
' PHONE GOES DEAD MOBILE RINGS Zaf? He's on his way to you now.
Good luck.
GUNSHOT ROS: 'You're not well, Adam.
Go home.
Go home.
' WES: 'Are we dreaming? Are we dreaming? Are we dreaming?' The document'll be published in 20 minutes.
You can expect the political effects to be unprecedented.
'In publishing this controversial document.
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' How are we doing? A few minutes more.
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my primary.
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' Nearly there.
Just need to paste the Deputy Prime Minister onto this website.
We've redirected their internet connection to our server.
What they see is what we want them to see.
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OK, it's done.
'In publishing this.
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' I want to send a message to Robert Cash's website from Janet Wheeler.
Sending now.
BEEPING Craig, it's from Janet.
It's true - they've published.
Check the rest of the web.
'In publishing this controversial document, 'my primary aim is to open debate.
'There will of course be a full public enquiry.
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' Check another site.
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as to why the British people weren't told the truth about Aftermath before now.
'I shall personally be tendering my resignation.
' Craig, it's everywhere.
So much for not negotiating with terrorists.
They must have seen it by now.
Harry, Adam hasn't come out and he's turned off his tracking device.
What's he playing at? ADAM: 'No! No! 'No! No!' Keep Wes safe.
Promise me you will.
ADAM CACKLES MANIACALLY 'Wes has gone missing.
Wes has gone missing.
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' GUNSHOT WES: 'Daddy!' ADAM: 'Fiona, I'm sorry.
' ROS: 'Adam, you've got to get out.
Adam, you've got to get out.
' 'Why wasn't it me?' WES: 'Daddy.
Daddy, get up.
Listen to me.
' VOICES OUTSIDE They've given us what we asked for.
There's something else we'd like to offer.
If you walk off the Barrier now, we'll say there were never any explosives.
You'll get off with a suspended sentence for disturbing the peace and become heroes of your cause.
Why do you want to do that? We avoid the British public knowing they were moments from a catastrophe.
We can all win.
All you have to do is walk out the door.
You've got what you came for, haven't you? This is what Rachel would have wanted, Craig.
It's what we agreed.
Come on, we've done it.
I look at you and I see all those politicians who've lied to me.
I see the United Nations, US envoys.
In East Africa, they lied about desert encroachment while whole villages died of starvation because their crops failed.
Liars - every single one of them.
And you're lying to me now.
I'm not lying.
You've seen the document.
You see, that's the thing.
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I just don't believe you.
Please don't do this.
You're just like Rachel - you have such faith in people - but they're lying.
They're not lying! Afraid so.
We've won, Craig.
No, we haven't.
It's been too easy.
They never let you win that easily.
No.
Craig, we can't do this.
BEEPING Say goodbye.
We were always prepared to die for this.
BEEP Yes? Tell them.
Yes? Hello? Tell them.
They're going to blow the Barrier.
They've told me to say goodbye.
No.
No, wait.
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PHONE GOES DEAD They've cut the line! Can we storm? They'd see us coming.
It would be tantamount to suicide.
What if we evacuate now? We can instigate Phase One.
I can close the Underground, get key figures out of the city.
Phases Two and Three are no longer an option.
BEEPING 'Harry, they're closing the Barrier.
' If they close it now while the tide builds, then blow the hydraulics, the water will force the Barrier to collapse.
It'll create a tidal wave through London.
It'll rip out the entire heart of the capital.
Excuse me.
ROS: How's this going to help Rachel? You people just don't understand.
You never had any intention of giving yourself up, did you? I'm sorry, but people only ever learn from war and catastrophe.
Has Adam signalled in yet? No, not yet.
Right, think.
Anything we can do to get to these bastards.
We've got just over an hour till high tide.
Yes, hello, um, listen, there's a woman, possibly in a brown coat, um, she might be standing outside your cafe.
Well, could you take a closer look? Well, just have a look, please! No, wait, wait, wait, don't hang up.
Listen, she's my mother, and I really need to speak to her.
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Hello? Hello? Shit! Where is she? Tate Modern.
Her phone's broken.
You have 20 minutes.
Malcolm.
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I think I've got something.
Mum! Mum! Mum! You're early.
Thank God.
Listen to me.
Mum, you have to get out of here.
Go straight to London Bridge and get a train south now, please.
What are you talking about? Just listen to me.
Now, just calm down and tell me what's wrong.
Mum, I don't work for a newspaper, I work for MI5.
Are you all right, Jo? I'm fine.
I work in Sector D at Thames House.
I'm looking at you very calmly and I'm telling you that you have to go now.
But what about you? I'll be fine.
But I can't leave you.
I have to go.
I'll call you, I promise.
We've closed the Underground stations, citing a security alert.
The Army have mobilised the trains and buses but there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the danger zone.
The water on the seaward side of the Barrier is at record level.
At 1700 hours.
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MOBILE RINGS .
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an RAF Chinook will fly yourself and the rest of COBRA.
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Zaf.
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to the Stanfield Bunker which will serve as operations base till this crisis is over.
Deputy Prime Minister, I think we can blow the chamber.
By closing the Barrier, Divine Earth have caused the water to rise on both sides.
The build up of river water on the upriver side means that the low water maintenance tunnel is for the first time under water.
If we blow this from the outside, the chamber will immediately flood.
The bomb will be rigged by a diver using a 40lb waterproof explosive, taking out a sizeable section of the upriver wall.
The Barrier itself will remain unaffected.
They wouldn't have time to detonate.
Everyone in the chamber dies? Everyone.
Including your own officers? Yes.
Deputy Prime Minister, we need to evacuate you to safe ground.
We need a decision now.
Do it.
You have to.
It's wrong.
You have to.
You can't do this.
Don't do this, Craig.
Please, I know how angry you are.
I know what you've seen but this isn't what Rachel would have wanted - killing ordinary people.
Look, I loved your daughter but this is nothing to do with her.
We did this in her name.
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to get Aftermath published.
to raise awareness.
You can't read a document to a sleeping man.
The human race is sleepwalking to disaster.
We have to be woken up.
Exactly how does what you're about to do qualify as waking people up? You don't understand.
You're killing people.
Children.
You could have evacuated.
You didn't.
You could have published.
You didn't, did you? DID YOU? ! When London floods, someone will ask why we did it.
The people will find the truth about Aftermath.
What we're doing will change the world.
BEEPING BEEPING CONTINUES, STOPS Next time, trust me.
Next time, don't lie to me.
All communications lines have been cut.
Come on.
Detonation of upriver wall in 30 seconds.
DISTANT BANG THEY SHOUT Adam! They can't have just left us here! They know we're down here.
Someone will come, someone will come! HELP! It's bolted.
Help! Somebody! Help! Help us! HELP! SHE SCREAMS Send in the divers.
See if there are any.
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survivors.
Just do it.
Harry, it was a 40lb bomb.
'Are we dreaming, Daddy? 'Are we in this dream together?' 'That's brilliant, they're going to love it.
' DESPERATE GASP
We do not play God.
Then what God is going to save these people? Sea level's rising.
Oil's running out.
Terrorists are going nuclear.
Do you really think this current system is capable of dealing with that? Adam! Adam, it's Ros, can you hear me? Are you hurt? Adam! You're all aware that on the last mission I had a.
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a bad moment.
I'd appreciate it if this just, you know, this stayed in the team.
I don't think Harry needs to know.
Are you seeking treatment? For what? Well, I think nowadays they call it post-traumatic stress disorder, but I still prefer burn out.
Sometimes I think it was stupid, selfish of us, to have a child.
What kind of a world's he going to know? The Met Office has issued a flood warning to the south-east of England.
A depression in Scotland is now moving down into the North Sea.
Low barometric pressure, combined with one of the highest spring tides in 50 years, is likely to result in historically high water levels in the Humber, Stour and Thames estuaries.
The effects of a severe flood in London would be catastrophic.
The central part of the London Underground would be paralysed.
Flood defences are being activated and the authorities are confident that these defences are sufficient to repel a tidal surge.
Robert Cash, Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs.
I'm here with the International Delegation.
Thank you, sir.
We've been expecting you.
Carry on.
No, Mum, of course it's not a hassle.
I really want to see you.
I'll call you on your mobile if I'm going to be delayed.
Is it? All right, well I'd better be on time then.
OK, see you later.
Bye.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm Alan Jackson, your guide.
You've picked quite a day, what with the depression on the Atlantic.
So we heard.
It's going to get very busy later on so we should make a start.
'Bringing new attention to the threat of climate change.
'A recent study.
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' Morning, Carlos.
Thank you.
And the almond croissant.
Rush-hour traffic.
They should ban all cars - except mine.
Thank you.
The central piers are out of bounds to the public and we keep professional and academic visits to a minimum.
The closing operation is managed from the control building on the South Bank, but we have various on-site backup systems in case of power failure.
We're about to enter one of four central pier chambers.
Each of these piers houses a gate weighing 3,700 tonnes and standing as high as a three-storey building.
Truth is, this little beauty is London's guardian angel.
Without it, there'd be no London.
Shall we move on? No, you're OK.
We'll go on alone from here.
Go! ALARM SOUNDS Oh, shit! Shit! it's your judo stuff.
It's your gym stuff, um.
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Where's my recycling project? On the coffee table, there, where you were doing it last night.
Oh, no, it's broken! What? No, it isn't.
Come here.
Look at that.
That's brilliant.
They're going to love it.
Now, you take that.
I've got your judo kit.
Come on, quick, let's go.
No, I'm sorry, he's not here.
Can I take a message? Dr Jewell - could he do Thursday? Come on, move.
Move! Keep going.
Move! Out! Now! Out! Turn round.
Right, you give this to the British Government.
Go, go.
Adam, the terrorists are deep inside the barrier.
They're controlling the central two piers.
All staff ejected.
No news on casualties but there were gun shots.
Do we have any news from the PLA? They're putting out a cover story contact with the terrorists? Not yet.
All comms are down.
OK, they should say it's only a routine drill and the Barrier's being raised for testing.
Zaf, contact the Barrier security.
Tell them the Home Secretary's issued a quarantine on all Barrier staff and visitors.
Make sure nobody leaves the Barrier complex.
Confiscate all mobile phones.
This only gets out to the press when we tell them.
Adam.
COBRA will meet in 15 minutes.
Set up a secure negotiation line.
Deputy PM's on her way.
Deputy Prime Minister, welcome.
Joint Chiefs of Staff are waiting for you in COBRA along with engineers from the Barrier.
Harry, this is Janet Wheeler, the Government's Chief Scientist.
Janet, good morning.
The Prime Minister has authorised me to take the chair.
He will be in contact throughout the day from Tokyo.
Have you had any contact with the terrorists? Divine Earth stormed the Barrier about 8.
15 this morning.
Before sealing off the central Barrier area, they delivered a computer disc.
Our planet is dying.
Ice caps are melting.
Sea levels are rising by many metres.
Southern Europe will become a desert.
Northern Europe will experience a new Ice Age where we'll all become casualties of the climate's revenge on mankind's insanity.
This is not tomorrow's problem.
The nightmare has already begun.
Unless our demands are met, Divine Earth will today offer London a warning of the chaos to come.
A chaos of our own creation.
What do we have on them? Some form of environmental terrorism not on our radar before.
CCTV footage from the Barrier's being sent over now.
General Clark, when can we expect contact? They've kept one telephone line open from the Barrier to the bankside control building.
We've diverted the line to Thames House.
My senior officer is waiting for them to call.
How long can we cope without control of the Barrier? Deputy Prime Minister, over the last few days there has been a large low pressure system driving east over the Atlantic, creating a surge of sea water.
This combined with a high spring tide will produce a six metre wall of water in the Thames Estuary at 5 o'clock this evening.
This kind of tide happens two or three times every year.
The levels have been rising over the last few years due to climate change but the Barrier would normally cope without a problem.
It's a stunning piece of engineering.
And without the Barrier? The Environment Agency has created a mapping programme showing the extent of flooding in London for every metre's height of water.
This surge would flood the Essex flatlands and the Thames Gateway within minutes.
Within an hour, the Houses of Parliament, Waterloo and Victoria stations would be under six feet of water.
This flood would extend to Lambeth, Fulham, Battersea, Hammersmith, Putney, Barnes and as far as Richmond and Twickenham.
Children, the old and the ill will be the first victims.
Estimated death toll? Without evacuation, 1.
25 million people are at risk.
Deputy Prime Minister, we have a phased city evacuation plan ready to go and I have the necessary troops standing by to enforce it.
I want to talk to these people before we push any panic buttons.
There are two men missing presumed dead - Alan Jackson, the Barrier guide was shot trying to raise the alarm and a civil servant, Robert Cash, still unaccounted for.
Don't tell their families yet.
We need to keep this absolutely quiet.
For sure.
Well, get back to me as soon as you've got it.
Oh, and a Dr Jewell rang, I said you'd ring her back.
Right.
Yeah that's the uh.
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the shrink, I've been seeing her a couple of times.
How's that going? Fine.
She's given me the all clear.
Recommended a couple of extra orange juices and go easy on the self-pity.
So you're not seeing her any more? What? You're not seeing her any more? No.
Adam, we have something.
We ran an ID check on all the delegates.
The three that have remained on the Barrier are from the Dutch Environmental Commission.
Unless we've declared a tulip embargo, it's probably not the Dutch.
Look, CCTV of the Dutch delegation checking in to the Fitzwallace Hotel in Mayfair last night.
And this is them checking out this morning.
Different people.
They had full ID - photocards, paperwork, vetting forms, everything.
How did an environmental terror group manage to replace a government commission? And where are the delegates? CCTV from the Barrier entrance.
He's not exactly camera-shy.
Let's find out who he is.
Adam! Adam, they're calling! This is Nick Harding representing the British Government.
Did you get the disc? Who am I speaking to? That doesn't matter.
We're missing a British civil servant, Robert Cash, and a member of Barrier staff, Alan Jackson.
Can you confirm what happened to them? We heard gunshots.
I'm sorry that happened but if people don't listen, they may suffer the consequences.
What do you want? The British Government are in possession of a document.
It's called Aftermath.
Never heard of it.
It exists.
What is it? You'll find that out when you publish it.
And if we refuse? We won't close the Barrier gates for the high tide tonight.
And at 5 o'clock this evening, London floods.
And if we publish it? We'll leave the Barrier and give ourselves up for arrest.
How do I know I can trust you? I'll call you at 10.
45.
Try anything silly and we blow the hydraulics on all four central piers.
Three-pound of Grade A Semtex.
And if that goes up, the Barrier never closes.
The Dutch delegates have been picked up.
They were tied up in their hotel room.
obvious assumption from the disc was an environmental connection but we've checked every DEFRA database and no environmental or rural issue has any mention of Aftermath.
Yeah, we've also checked Government strategy on the effects of chemical and biological attacks on major cities - no mention of Aftermath.
Nuclear? Same story.
All we've come up with so far is a mental health charity in Sheffield.
and a thrash metal rock band in Iowa.
For God's sake, Malcolm, this isn't a bloody joke.
They're playing with us.
They're using a fictional document as a smokescreen to justify doing as much damage as possible.
We get the blame and they become martyrs to the cause.
I'm going to go and brief COBRA.
Ros, you look after things from here.
Sure.
Yeah, this is Dr Susan Gold, Head of Psychiatry at the Merlin Institute in Roehampton.
Yeah, I'm sending through request form P334 now.
Come on, Harry, are you telling me this is the best you can do? We still have seven hours.
It isn't possible to negotiate with someone who wants something that doesn't exist.
Divine Earth don't want money so we have nothing to offer them.
There must be something we can do.
They have CCTV cameras monitoring both tunnels, we can't get to them or the explosives without being seen.
They've cut power, heating, air supply.
It's like a fortress.
Why have they cut the air supply? They're probably worried we'd use the vents to get at them.
Could we? We'd need the power back on.
Can we reconnect the power to the air supply? They've destroyed the main circuit but there's a power intercept box halfway across the tunnel leading from the north side.
You'd have to get to that without being caught by the cameras.
Well, we could travel along the plant tunnel underneath the floor.
And then what? You could redirect the power for the air supply to the mains.
It's a different circuit to the one that they've destroyed.
So we reconnect the air supply.
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And then we gas them.
It would have to work almost instantaneously otherwise they'd detect it.
How big a space are we dealing with? The central pier, lower section, it's a 16 by 10 metre space.
Who's going in? We have a Special Operatives Unit on standby.
I'll take them in.
They'll never find the intercept box in the darkness.
I know it better than anyone - I helped design it.
Well, let's get going.
I'm requesting your authority to use an opiate of a lethally high concentration.
The effect will be instantaneous.
We can't afford to take any risks.
If just one of them remains alive.
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I can't stopmy hands shaking.
Don't worry, Andrew, you're going to be fine.
Andrew.
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Look, are you sure you're OK to do this? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine.
On second thoughts I think I'll come in with you.
I always like to see a master at work.
OK, great.
Thanks.
And don't worry about these, they're just a precaution.
We don't need to put them on till the last minute.
They're in the tunnel.
I've been checking the Civil Service's vetting procedure for the delegation.
They've got top security.
There's no way they could have slipped through.
Someone helped them? Who? The only civil servant who had access to all the papers was Robert Cash.
I thought Cash was dead.
No, no, that's what they wanted us to think.
He's with them.
Jo, get background ID on Cash.
Everything.
He's worked at the Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs for six years.
No known connections with environment groups but he visited America in 2005.
Why? He went to New Orleans.
Just after Katrina.
Did he go on behalf of the Government? No, he went on an emergency visa.
Why would they issue him an emergency visa? His daughter.
She died in the flood.
They never found the body.
OK, it's here.
All yours.
Barrier records show that Robert Cash went on a preparatory site visit two days ago with a junior from the Department of the Environment.
They spent 20 minutes on the Barrier alone.
What was the name of the junior? Simon Ritter.
No, there is no Simon Ritter at the Department of Environment and Rural Affairs.
They've prepped the operation.
What if they know about the intercept box? We've got to isolate the electricity to the air supply.
Malcolm! We've got to connect it to the mains without turning everything else on.
Malcolm, get Zaf out of there! I can't, he's out of signal range.
Five, three, no six, zero.
Is there a problem? It looks different.
What does? The wiring.
Maybe it doesn't.
It must just be me.
I've got it.
Andrew, abort now.
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EXPLOSION PHONE BLEEPS What the hell are you doing? I have no idea.
Yes, you do.
What have you done? Wait.
Sir, we've got to get out of here now.
It was an anti-personnel device - sophisticated kit.
The explosion decapitated him.
He wouldn't have felt a thing.
Deputy Prime Minister, these people are deadly serious.
I'm recommending we begin a phased evacuation plan according to the London Resilience Team strategy.
We don't have much time.
High tide is at 5 o'clock.
If we commit to evacuation, people will die and we set in motion something we cannot control.
The Stock Exchange crashes, the markets go into a tailspin, money pours out of the UK into anywhere that'll take it.
We enter a major recession within hours.
I'm not giving these people the satisfaction of witnessing their own success.
We'll reconvene shortly.
In the meantime, I'd like you all to investigate other solutions.
I don't understand, why won't she evacuate? Something to hide? We have a positive ID on the group.
He's the most interesting - Craig Fletcher.
He used to work with Rachel in New Orleans and guess what, they were engaged.
Adam, Cash's daughter Rachel was an activist working with the poor black community in New Orleans.
When Katrina hit she disappeared.
Cash went over to find her body but he never did.
In New Orleans he met Craig Fletcher.
He worked for the same environmental organisation as Rachel trying to raise awareness of flood risk due to climate change.
They're doing all this for a dead girl? Hell of a memorial.
I'm on my way back.
Harry, this changes the picture.
They're acting out of grief.
We can't be sure what their intentions are.
I have to get in there.
You told me we could do this without hurting anyone.
It was always a possibility if they didn't stick to their word.
Look, you've got to be realistic about this, Robert.
We have committed to the greater cause for Rachel.
We're making a difference to this planet before it's too late.
OK? OK, let's see if they'll listen to us now.
PHONE BLEEPS I want to talk about New Orleans.
I want to talk about Rachel Cash.
Rachel Cash disappeared in the flood in New Orleans.
Her body was never found.
That's what you and Robert are doing there today.
I'm not interested in personal conversations.
You'd better start evacuating.
Two people are dead already.
They had friends and families just like Rachel.
If we're going to avoid more killings, we need to talk now.
No way.
No more talking.
We've had enough.
Aftermath exists.
You said it didn't.
I lied but no-one is going to let you have it unless we trust you.
So we need to talk.
So talk.
Not on the phone - face-to-face.
You've got to be kidding.
Then there's no deal.
You have to work with us, Craig.
'OK, come up the north tunnel.
Just you.
Don't forget, 'I've got someone here with a finger on the detonator.
' Your operative had no authority to make that decision.
He had to find a way on to the Barrier.
Our best hope is to negotiate face-to-face.
By confessing to some ridiculous fiction? It weakens our position.
Aftermath does not exist.
It buys us time, it gets us closer to the target.
And then what? What's he going to give them at the end of it all? The truth is simple - we have nothing to offer these people and the sooner they find that out, the better.
This emits a tracker signal.
We'll be able to follow you wherever you go.
If you change the signal from red to green, we'll take that as an order to storm.
We need to get Divine Earth away from the detonators and the CCTV monitors.
It's the only way in, Adam.
If you can create enough of a distraction, that'll give special forces the 30 seconds they need.
Divide and rule.
More information on Craig Fletcher.
Ex-soldier, joined up at 17 and was stationed in Northern Ireland, awarded a medal for bravery when his patrol unit in West Belfast was ambushed by an IRA hit squad.
He saved the lives of two fellow soldiers.
Fast-tracked to officer training at Sandhurst, became a Lieutenant in peace keeping forces in East Africa and Bosnia.
A spotless record.
He retired from the Army with full honours.
And now he's on a mission to avenge the death of his girlfriend.
Solo negotiation is extremely risky.
Fletcher knows what he's doing, don't take any unnecessary risks.
Don't worry, my doggy paddle's unsurpassed.
PHONE RINGS Deputy Prime Minister.
It's the right decision.
We have to hold our nerve.
I'm on my way back now.
She's jumpy and I don't think it's Divine Earth she's scared of.
I think it's what they're after.
Sorry, I don't quite follow.
I want to authorise a phone tap - a somewhat sensitive one.
You don't mean.
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That requires a signature from the Prime Minister.
Come on, you've been doing this almost as long as I have, does it smell right to you? Harry, I don't feel comfortable with this.
Report only to me.
Write nothing down.
No traces.
Zaf, are you OK? Yeah.
We shouldn't have sent Starkey in there.
He wasn't ready for it.
Listen, I know this probably isn't the right time, I'm meant to be meeting my mum at the Tate Modern at 5 o'clock.
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Have you tried calling her? Yeah, her phone's off.
Jacket off, jewellery off.
Where's Adam? He's gone.
Gone where? The Barrier.
Get him on the phone.
Well, it's not possible.
We can track him but we can't.
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For the last three months he's been suffering from acute post-traumatic stress.
Read the final paragraph.
"The patient has agreed that continuing in his current role risks leading to a nervous collapse.
"He will request immediate leave from all duties.
" Get me who wrote this.
Three pound of Semtex on each hydraulic mechanism.
The monitors are being watched at all times.
We see anything strange on those screens, or you try anything unwise, she presses the button, the whole thing goes up.
OK? BEEPING Sit down.
Now, don't move.
Adam's with them in the lower area.
Harry? Back in COBRA in five minutes.
I've downloaded every text from Caroline Fox's phone today.
This one was sent at 11.
47 to the Prime Minister's private secretary, Michael Fitzgerald.
Five minutes after receiving Fox's text, Michael Fitzgerald called a private security company with an order to deliver a parcel from the back entrance of Number Ten to an undisclosed address.
This is DZ43.
Central Office.
Your Time for a coffee.
Copy that.
PHONE RINGS Hello.
Sir, this is DZ Security concerning your delivery pick-up.
It's late, what's going on? I'm afraid the van's stuck in traffic in Bethnal Green.
It could be half an hour.
I can offer you a motorbike courier with a secure lock-up facility, would be there in less than five minutes.
I'm not sure how big the parcel is.
Get me the motorbike - fast.
Right away, sir.
Z3, move into position.
Give him the access code.
Aftermath - a bilateral US-UK agreement agreeing to end the fight against global warming and to focus strategy on maximising economic, military and political influence in a world devastated by climate change.
We give up fighting climate change.
And focus instead on being the first to take advantage of the consequences.
Aftermath advocates methodical US and UK acquisition of global fossil fuels and other natural resources in the 21st century in anticipation of increasing resource scarcity, oil depletion and spiralling prices.
It advocates sustained military operations to secure natural resource networks.
It anticipates a global population reduction of between 20% and 35%.
This it describes as not only an inevitability but a necessity.
Read the final recommendation.
The proposal recommends implementing a cosmetic series of environmental measures to neutralise green lobbies, whilst establishing an international stranglehold on carbon resources in the next hundred years.
This will involve the reintroduction of a full nuclear weapons programme, to create effective deterrents in an unstable global climate.
In short - a Cold War scenario for the environmental age.
Why did we not know this? ! That proposal is in the early consultation stage.
Is that why you didn't consult your Chief Scientist? Not to mention military chiefs, intelligence officials - you're making senior establishment figures look like schoolboys.
The necessity for discretion makes wide consultation impossible.
And who exactly are you consulting with? Aftermath is a light-pencil proposal that has been through no kind of consultation process.
It must never be made public.
Why not? If that's what you're really intending.
We publish that and basically we're accepting the death of millions of people.
If anyone even suspects we believe global warming will deliver this degree of change.
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And you think it will? Of course it will.
Everything Janet's been telling us tells us it will.
The point is, we can't stop it without destroying our economies.
There's no way international governments will collaborate in the way necessary for a unified battle to be fought.
How do you know that? Oh, come on, Janet, you've been to Kyoto.
You think America will ever agree to those cuts, let alone China and India? And that's a fifth of what's required.
If we go it alone it will cripple us.
We'll be the dinosaur of the global economy.
We must hold our position.
Then why not come clean, open up the debate? And watch confidence shatter? There'd be a global crisis within days.
That's when the wars begin.
It strikes me that if Aftermath is adopted then the wars will begin anyway.
This is a direct order from Downing Street - it doesn't leave this room.
PHONE RINGS Yes.
You're asking me to break the Hippocratic oath.
I have an operative in a situation where one wrong decision could cause the death of thousands of people.
Adam Carter is suffering an acute form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
He's experiencing chronic flashbacks, suicidal impulses and manic episodes.
His condition is rooted in survivor guilt.
He wishes he was dead and that his wife was still alive.
We have to get him off the operation, Harry.
We have no way of communicating with him.
Diana, I'd like you to stay here on the grid.
Tell us about Aftermath.
I haven't seen it.
It's highly classified.
But you know it exists.
I know they'll only publish it if they trust you.
Why wouldn't they trust us? You're at the centre of the world's attention.
I'd just be tempted to blow it anyway.
We don't want to blow the Barrier.
We want you to publish Aftermath.
Is that what you want too, Craig? I've been reading your military record.
What are you talking about? The two soldiers who were killed in Belfast.
He hid and watched while two of his friends were ambushed by an IRA hit squad.
It was advisable that Lt Fletcher be released from the service.
That's utter bullshit.
I saved those men.
You have a history of mental illness, Craig, which is why we have our concerns about guarantees you're giving us.
We've seen your medical history, can you blame us for suspecting that you've.
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you've chosen a decent man in a state of grief to fulfil some twisted fantasy? Robert, he's lying, don't fall for it.
The man you blew up at the intercept was called Andrew Starkey.
He has three children.
Before you set that booby trap, did someone assure you that it was just a deterrent? It was a deterrent.
Are you sure that some of these people don't just want to punish the world? Punish people like Andrew Starkey? Like me? I mean, I have a son - eight years old.
He'll die.
He knows more about the environment than I do.
Who's to say he won't end up like another Rachel? But that doesn't matter to you, does it? You just want blood! Enough! You know you're lying.
Craig.
Are you going to fire that? Go on.
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Show Robert what you're really about.
Go on.
Harry, they'll be calling in 15 minutes.
What do I offer them? Nothing.
What about the document? Nothing.
We don't have a Plan B.
If Adam doesn't succeed.
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I am aware of that but if we publish Aftermath, we enter the political unknown.
What if he's not all right? I don't know, Ros.
What's she doing? Janet, what are you playing at? What? Give that to me.
What? Janet, this building has the highest level of security of any in the country, you're not going anywhere with that document.
Aftermath is a wake - up call the world needs.
We have a duty to publish it.
You are not in a position to decide that.
You're a servant of the state, as am I.
I am also a woman of individual conscience.
You think individual conscience is in charge down there on the Barrier? You think Divine Earth give a damn about moral decency? Yes.
That's why I told them, Harry.
Do you realise what you've done? I had to know what was going on.
I've spent five years walking a tightrope between doing my duty to my Government and duty to my planet and I have been lied to, misled and ignored.
So you told Cash.
Robert came to me after his daughter had died because he was concerned about Government policy.
I thought that he would go to the papers.
You have no idea what is going on.
The world is living in a state of wilful ignorance.
The warning signs are right in front of our eyes and still we do nothing.
This may be our way out of this.
Yes.
Professor, no-one knows what you did and we can keep it that way if you help us.
What do you want? I want you to help us convince Divine Earth we're publishing.
You're the one person they'll believe.
Janet, we understand why you did this but this is out of control.
You have to help us stop it.
You can save people's lives.
They have a website.
That's how I communicate with Robert.
I'm about to make the call to your colleagues.
If you do this without my support, then all hope of any agreement goes with me.
Maybe that's what you want.
We all want the same thing.
I don't think so.
I think Robert's a decent man who just wants his daughter's death to mean something.
Don't listen to him.
He's trying to divide us.
That's why you insisted that whatever happened, you'd never actually blow the Barrier.
This has never been about blowing the Barrier.
It's been about ensuring Rachel didn't die in vain.
We don't want to kill people.
Now, listen to me.
No-one's listening to you.
Just listen to me! A 50-page document is not going to satisfy your friend.
He suffers from sever mental imbalance, absences, manic episodes.
We cannot do deals with him.
I need fully integrated website and news footage convincing enough to support Janet Wheeler's message.
Got it.
Harry, if Adam gives us the signal, how can we trust him? He's been lying to us.
In his current state, Adam is likely to take unnecessarily high risks.
How can you know for sure what's going on in there? I've conducted hundreds of operations with Adam Carter.
I know how he works.
So you know, for example, that Adam has seriously considered suicide in the last few weeks? We have a fully prepared alternative plan ready to go.
Harry, you've got to understand - he's deliberately putting himself under immense pressure.
He's daring himself to crack.
Robert.
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just, please, just.
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walk out with me now.
That's all you have to do.
Just walk out with me.
Please believe me.
We're never going to publish with this maniac in charge.
Right, that's enough! I'm sorry, Craig.
I can't take the risk.
Look, can't you see what he's trying to do? Come on.
Come on, Robert, let's go.
Don't move.
Harry, Adam's signal's gone green.
Special forces are standing by on your order.
Harry.
Robert.
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Robert, I just want you to walk over there and pick up that phone, call my colleagues and tell them you're walking out with me.
You pick up that phone, we'll shoot him.
Robert, just pick up the phone.
Pick up the phone.
We're never going to do anything with this man in charge.
Don't you dare move.
Craig, you wouldn't shoot me.
I'm her father.
WES: Is Mummy coming home? Where's my mummy? BEEPING I need to talk to you.
No.
I need to talk to you.
We're publishing Aftermath.
They're publishing.
I have a timetable.
A press release about the document will be sent to the Press Association in one hour.
Also in one hour, the Deputy Prime Minister will speak to the House, 'and the document will be published in full.
' We have a web connection.
'If we see the Aftermath document published on all major websites, we'll close the Barrier.
' You'll see it.
Good.
And one more thing.
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get rid of this madman.
'Not a problem.
We still need a guarantee of the safe transfer of the Barrier into our hands.
' We'll find a suitable replacement.
'We'll be waiting for them.
' PHONE GOES DEAD MOBILE RINGS Zaf? He's on his way to you now.
Good luck.
GUNSHOT ROS: 'You're not well, Adam.
Go home.
Go home.
' WES: 'Are we dreaming? Are we dreaming? Are we dreaming?' The document'll be published in 20 minutes.
You can expect the political effects to be unprecedented.
'In publishing this controversial document.
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' How are we doing? A few minutes more.
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my primary.
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' Nearly there.
Just need to paste the Deputy Prime Minister onto this website.
We've redirected their internet connection to our server.
What they see is what we want them to see.
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OK, it's done.
'In publishing this.
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' I want to send a message to Robert Cash's website from Janet Wheeler.
Sending now.
BEEPING Craig, it's from Janet.
It's true - they've published.
Check the rest of the web.
'In publishing this controversial document, 'my primary aim is to open debate.
'There will of course be a full public enquiry.
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' Check another site.
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as to why the British people weren't told the truth about Aftermath before now.
'I shall personally be tendering my resignation.
' Craig, it's everywhere.
So much for not negotiating with terrorists.
They must have seen it by now.
Harry, Adam hasn't come out and he's turned off his tracking device.
What's he playing at? ADAM: 'No! No! 'No! No!' Keep Wes safe.
Promise me you will.
ADAM CACKLES MANIACALLY 'Wes has gone missing.
Wes has gone missing.
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' GUNSHOT WES: 'Daddy!' ADAM: 'Fiona, I'm sorry.
' ROS: 'Adam, you've got to get out.
Adam, you've got to get out.
' 'Why wasn't it me?' WES: 'Daddy.
Daddy, get up.
Listen to me.
' VOICES OUTSIDE They've given us what we asked for.
There's something else we'd like to offer.
If you walk off the Barrier now, we'll say there were never any explosives.
You'll get off with a suspended sentence for disturbing the peace and become heroes of your cause.
Why do you want to do that? We avoid the British public knowing they were moments from a catastrophe.
We can all win.
All you have to do is walk out the door.
You've got what you came for, haven't you? This is what Rachel would have wanted, Craig.
It's what we agreed.
Come on, we've done it.
I look at you and I see all those politicians who've lied to me.
I see the United Nations, US envoys.
In East Africa, they lied about desert encroachment while whole villages died of starvation because their crops failed.
Liars - every single one of them.
And you're lying to me now.
I'm not lying.
You've seen the document.
You see, that's the thing.
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I just don't believe you.
Please don't do this.
You're just like Rachel - you have such faith in people - but they're lying.
They're not lying! Afraid so.
We've won, Craig.
No, we haven't.
It's been too easy.
They never let you win that easily.
No.
Craig, we can't do this.
BEEPING Say goodbye.
We were always prepared to die for this.
BEEP Yes? Tell them.
Yes? Hello? Tell them.
They're going to blow the Barrier.
They've told me to say goodbye.
No.
No, wait.
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PHONE GOES DEAD They've cut the line! Can we storm? They'd see us coming.
It would be tantamount to suicide.
What if we evacuate now? We can instigate Phase One.
I can close the Underground, get key figures out of the city.
Phases Two and Three are no longer an option.
BEEPING 'Harry, they're closing the Barrier.
' If they close it now while the tide builds, then blow the hydraulics, the water will force the Barrier to collapse.
It'll create a tidal wave through London.
It'll rip out the entire heart of the capital.
Excuse me.
ROS: How's this going to help Rachel? You people just don't understand.
You never had any intention of giving yourself up, did you? I'm sorry, but people only ever learn from war and catastrophe.
Has Adam signalled in yet? No, not yet.
Right, think.
Anything we can do to get to these bastards.
We've got just over an hour till high tide.
Yes, hello, um, listen, there's a woman, possibly in a brown coat, um, she might be standing outside your cafe.
Well, could you take a closer look? Well, just have a look, please! No, wait, wait, wait, don't hang up.
Listen, she's my mother, and I really need to speak to her.
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Hello? Hello? Shit! Where is she? Tate Modern.
Her phone's broken.
You have 20 minutes.
Malcolm.
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I think I've got something.
Mum! Mum! Mum! You're early.
Thank God.
Listen to me.
Mum, you have to get out of here.
Go straight to London Bridge and get a train south now, please.
What are you talking about? Just listen to me.
Now, just calm down and tell me what's wrong.
Mum, I don't work for a newspaper, I work for MI5.
Are you all right, Jo? I'm fine.
I work in Sector D at Thames House.
I'm looking at you very calmly and I'm telling you that you have to go now.
But what about you? I'll be fine.
But I can't leave you.
I have to go.
I'll call you, I promise.
We've closed the Underground stations, citing a security alert.
The Army have mobilised the trains and buses but there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the danger zone.
The water on the seaward side of the Barrier is at record level.
At 1700 hours.
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MOBILE RINGS .
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an RAF Chinook will fly yourself and the rest of COBRA.
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Zaf.
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to the Stanfield Bunker which will serve as operations base till this crisis is over.
Deputy Prime Minister, I think we can blow the chamber.
By closing the Barrier, Divine Earth have caused the water to rise on both sides.
The build up of river water on the upriver side means that the low water maintenance tunnel is for the first time under water.
If we blow this from the outside, the chamber will immediately flood.
The bomb will be rigged by a diver using a 40lb waterproof explosive, taking out a sizeable section of the upriver wall.
The Barrier itself will remain unaffected.
They wouldn't have time to detonate.
Everyone in the chamber dies? Everyone.
Including your own officers? Yes.
Deputy Prime Minister, we need to evacuate you to safe ground.
We need a decision now.
Do it.
You have to.
It's wrong.
You have to.
You can't do this.
Don't do this, Craig.
Please, I know how angry you are.
I know what you've seen but this isn't what Rachel would have wanted - killing ordinary people.
Look, I loved your daughter but this is nothing to do with her.
We did this in her name.
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to get Aftermath published.
to raise awareness.
You can't read a document to a sleeping man.
The human race is sleepwalking to disaster.
We have to be woken up.
Exactly how does what you're about to do qualify as waking people up? You don't understand.
You're killing people.
Children.
You could have evacuated.
You didn't.
You could have published.
You didn't, did you? DID YOU? ! When London floods, someone will ask why we did it.
The people will find the truth about Aftermath.
What we're doing will change the world.
BEEPING BEEPING CONTINUES, STOPS Next time, trust me.
Next time, don't lie to me.
All communications lines have been cut.
Come on.
Detonation of upriver wall in 30 seconds.
DISTANT BANG THEY SHOUT Adam! They can't have just left us here! They know we're down here.
Someone will come, someone will come! HELP! It's bolted.
Help! Somebody! Help! Help us! HELP! SHE SCREAMS Send in the divers.
See if there are any.
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survivors.
Just do it.
Harry, it was a 40lb bomb.
'Are we dreaming, Daddy? 'Are we in this dream together?' 'That's brilliant, they're going to love it.
' DESPERATE GASP