Spooks s08e05 Episode Script

- Hey, Lucas.
My boss.
- Samuel Walker.
Unidentified agents meeting in Switzerland.
Talk of a new world order.
Harry Pearce came to me with some talk of a global conspiracy.
- You don't suspect Lucas? - I suspect everyone.
I have something for you.
A covert meeting in Switzerland.
'Be careful who you trust.
' I asked Swiss immigration to send photos of all passengers into Basel that week.
I should get the information tonight.
- If you want me to leave - Stay.
I love you so much.
You OK? Can't stop thinking about Sam's girls.
- They're too young to lose a father.
- Do they have any idea? About his illness? Walker was a fighter, wasn't he? It seems odd that he'd wave the white flag to cancer.
He didn't.
Sam wasn't sick.
He was under surveillance for months.
in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Eight deposits, 50 grand at a time.
- Who from? - The Chinese.
- Dear God.
- I was supposed to confront him.
The plan was a signed confession followed by a dignified resignation.
So did he sign? No, it never got that far.
An hour after I called him, he was dead.
- It could have been handled better.
- Listen, Walker made his own choices.
He knew the risks.
What the hell am I doing here? Sorry.
Yes! Whoo! Whoo! Yeah! - Champ! - Champ, champ, champ! Champ, champ, champ! Home run! - Ohh! - Next time, you're dead.
You guys need the bathroom? Double pistachio all round.
'The American Embassy is reeling today after a memorial service 'for the respected diplomat Samuel Walker.
'Officials paid tribute to "an outstanding public servant".
'Lt's understood he left a suicide note referring to a recently-diagnosed cancer.
' found, he phoned me to arrange to meet.
- Coincidence? - Hardly.
- Ah! - We're leaving! - We haven't had our ice cream! - Go to the car! Right now! Hustle! What's going on? Get in! - Did Walker say what he wanted? - Just that it was about Basel.
Less than an hour later he was dead.
Somebody wanted him silenced, Ruth.
Dad? Dad? Are you OK? Dad? What's wrong? - Dad? - What's going on? Dad! Dad! Got any coffee? Still can't sleep? - What have you got? - Recognise this guy? - Should I? - Michael Braydon.
Comms expert.
Ex-SEALs.
Ex-Special Services.
Recently on a covert joint op with GCHQ.
- Busy bee.
- Not any more.
He had a heart attack yesterday after playing softball with his kids.
Sorry.
The Agency Fed-Exed his blood samples back to the States.
Standard practice.
The results just came back.
Turns out he had traces of oxo-metacaline in his bloodstream.
You know all about that one, Lucas.
Ml6's drug of choice.
You can't seriously think it was Six.
They found a puncture mark on his left thigh.
It was murder, no question.
One of our guys in your city.
Ml6 fingerprints all over it.
They're not the only people to use it.
I sincerely hope not.
Why would they want him dead anyway? Not everyone was a fan.
His remit was security breaches.
- God knows what he found.
- All right.
Leave it with me.
Thanks.
- Now how about some breakfast? - I'm not hungry.
Sarah, I know how close you were to I'm fine, OK? Just I'm sorry.
Just give me time.
- 'Ls your Walker cover holding? ' - So far.
'Keep it that way.
We've got a long way to go with this.
No screw-ups, OK? ' The American Ambassador's not happy and I can't say I blame him.
- Two in a week.
What's going on? - Honest answer? We don't know.
So far we've made no connection other than they both worked for the CIA.
There is one other possibility.
Shortly before he was killed, Walker called me.
Said he had more on the Basel meeting.
- Did he give specifics? - Unfortunately not.
You have to find out, Harry.
If this is connected to Basel, it's top priority.
- Heard any more from your contact? - No, he was terrified as it was.
Brief your team now.
If these two deaths have anything to do with that meeting, we may already be too late.
The Home Secretary has received a warning from a highly-placed source about a meeting in Basel.
Officers from Western and Chinese Intelligence.
All travelling under assumed names.
Their agenda: To realign the geopolitical map once and for all.
- So Darshavin was right.
- Why wasn't I briefed? - Why keep it to yourself? - It was all rumour.
That's changed with Walker's death.
We need to find out what he was about to tell me and why it was worth killing for.
Twice.
- The building where Walker died? - A CIA observation post.
The Met found all exits and entrances secure.
They impounded his body while the Home Office pathologist was still in his PJs.
- CCTV? - Conveniently disabled.
- Can we get feed from the vicinity? - Yes.
- One-mile radius, two-hour window.
- Braydon? He was working with GCHQ on a suspected security breach.
- Six won't use oxo-metacaline now.
- Assuming it was ever in his body.
- You think Sarah's lying? - It wouldn't be the CIA's first time.
Sarah could just have been the messenger and it goes higher and deeper.
Yes? - 'Still saving the free world? ' - Who is this? Coleville, Jack Coleville.
My God.
How are you? I have something I think you'll find interesting.
- The old place.
Half an hour.
- Jack, I Thanks for coming, Ros.
You knew I'd come, Jack.
Are you OK? - Just tired.
- Enjoying retirement? No.
Do you still love the job? No regrets? Nothing the occasional vodka can't sort.
I've missed you, Ros.
Did I do right by you? Getting you involved? I worry about that.
- I wouldn't have it any other way.
- You mean that? No husband? Family? - You said you had something for me.
- Always the professional.
You know how it is, Jack.
- You're not serious? Your memoirs? - Just the first few chapters.
- Why? - When one gets to a certain age, one thinks of posterity.
- The Scrutiny Committee won't allow it.
- Plenty of foreign publishers.
But don't expect your driving licence to work.
Or your passport or credit card.
You know the Service.
They don't like bright lights.
I need to get them published, Ros.
They're all I have left.
I dabbled in some investments, got out of my depth.
I've been very foolish.
- But this - My past is the only asset that they couldn't take.
Please.
Read them, then give me a call and tell me what I can get away with.
OK.
I'm flattered.
I knew you'd help.
- Sorry.
- Of course, of course.
Oh, you may find Chapter Three of particular interest.
It's all about Harry and Gibraltar.
Good to see you, Jack.
Her story adds up.
Sarah phoned Walker for a meeting.
He realised the game was up.
- Why didn't she tell us earlier? - No one likes dirty linen in public.
- He was very dirty.
- We only have Sarah's word.
Sorry! I suppose it comes down to whether we thought Walker was the type.
- You knew him, Harry.
- He was an old-fashioned patriot with an old-fashioned sense of duty.
I can't see him selling out to the Chinese.
If the suicide is a smokescreen, then Braydon If he found a lapse of security, he'd tell Walker.
Before sharing anything with GCHQ.
Braydon gives intel to Walker, Walker contacts Harry Someone gives him the push.
We need to focus on the big question - how deep inside the CIA does this go? We need to find out what went on inside that building.
- 'Swipe reader ahead.
' - Package.
- The place is closed.
- You sign for it? - No packages.
- I've got to deliver it.
- Like I said - Yeah, I get the message.
I've just got to make a call.
Mel, I'm at Gordon Street.
A jobsworth won't sign.
Contact made.
Starting download.
- Dispatch want to talk to you.
- You got a problem with this package? I'm not authorised to take any packages.
- None at all? Not a single package? - None at all.
I don't want to bring it back here.
- It's not a discussion.
- 'You're not being very helpful.
' - It's bloody rude, actually.
- That is not necessary.
Have a good day.
Yeah, you too.
- What do you want me to do? - 80%.
Traffic's not too bad today.
Transfer complete.
Bring her home.
On my way.
Thanks a lot, mate.
Really helpful I pulled details of Walker's mobile calls.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Family, the office, one to his bank.
Pretty much what you'd expect.
- Maybe too much.
- Dummy phone? It was surprisingly easy to access.
- Any trace of any other mobiles? - Not that I could find.
He used a payphone to call you, which suggests he didn't trust his mobile.
Cross-reference with numbers he called.
See how far back we can go.
- You have something? - More what we haven't got.
- The package did the trick.
- We downloaded swipe data for 14 days, bracketing either side of Walker's death.
Nobody in or out.
- So he did commit suicide? - He wasn't there, either.
According to the database, no one went in or out.
We know Walker called Harry from a payphone in Hammersmith at 6.
43.
After that, there's no record of him swiping back in.
- Not in the building where he died.
- So what's the deal? Somebody wiped the data.
See all those zeroes? There's nothing for 20 minutes either side of Walker's death.
- Professional job? - Looks like it was done in a hurry.
- I saw Jack Coleville this morning.
- THE Jack Coleville? How is he? - He didn't look well.
- I'm sorry to hear that.
I never understood why he opted out.
He could be running the Service.
- I've to ask about Gibraltar.
- Gibraltar? Never been there.
- Really? - Really.
Give him my best if you see him.
- Yeah? - 'Literary masterpiece? ' Booker? - Jack, I've only flicked through it.
- Bit of a shocker about Gibraltar.
No, Jack, Harry was never there.
- You mean he denied it.
- Yes.
- Remember interrogation training? - Of course.
"There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face" "He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.
" Macbeth.
I was there, Ros.
I saw what he did.
Check the records.
Harry Pearce, Gibraltar, 1983.
You'll see.
Three dead officers in a week.
One of ours - Alex Winchcombe.
Born 1957, BA and PhD in Modern Languages.
MOD for eight years, seconded to US Army, early '90s.
Joined us from GCHQ in '95.
An expert in Balkan dialects.
He's been on the fourth floor ever since.
Apparently he's one of only two experts in his field.
- Was.
- How did the police know he was ours? Someone left a helpful note.
A full CV, complete with details of every operation he worked on.
- Half is classified.
- He was in Gibraltar? Yes, he was stationed there from '83 to '85.
Walker, Braydon, Winchcombe.
Is there a connection? Get a breakdown of his postings and liaison officers, including Americans.
Specifically Walker and Braydon.
Ruth, dig up the personal.
Relationships, finance, recent trips.
And his calls for a couple of months.
Whoever compiled this had full security clearance.
- What else have they got access to? - Just about every asset we have.
Contact all serving officers.
Increase alert levels across the board.
With this access, we're all at risk.
We need to stop this before any more Ml5 officers are killed.
- As I thought, pure fiction.
- No element of truth? - I murdered a civilian in interrogation? - No.
- Thank you.
- Why write it? Jack knew I could check.
- There are rumours he had a breakdown.
- He seemed perfectly rational.
And desperate for cash.
Sensation sells and is almost impossible to disprove.
- Of course.
- Sorry.
I know he was important to you.
He was a fine officer.
Oh, my God Jack.
There must be something, Tariq.
There's something here.
A combo Bluetooth/Wi-Fi chip.
Intercepts local Bluetooth traffic and re-transmits via a short-range network - Data, not audio.
- Keystrokes from wireless keyboards.
There should be a relay outside hooked up to a mobile.
From there you could send it anywhere.
So Coleville could have a record of every keystroke I've made.
Pretty neat piece of kit.
- He knew I'd check his accusations.
- And he got a copy of your password.
- What's the damage? - Can't be sure yet.
He accessed Winchcombe's records, but didn't see Ros until after Walker and Braydon.
He knew enough about them? Why take out one of his own? He was fiercely loyal.
Lived and breathed the Service.
- Just doesn't add up.
- What are our options on data security? Emergency reset, block all passwords.
If it locks him out, he'll vanish.
But he can access whatever he likes.
I could set up a mirror site with a time lapse, give us time to react.
- How long would that take? - An hour.
- Do it.
How does Coleville make contact? - Phone.
Never the same number.
We have to find him, go through everything we have on him.
- Can you monitor what he looks at? - No problem.
Call me if he tries.
If he gets too close to classified files, pull the plug.
- Is his chip still transmitting? - Not until the mirror site is up.
- Turn it back on.
- Isn't that risky? - Bluetooth hooks up to a mobile? - Yeah.
- Which calls another mobile.
- Which we can triangulate - as soon as the call goes through.
- Smart boy.
- We've got an address for Jack.
- Get CO19.
- No, we don't know for sure.
- Ros Let me talk to him, please.
- I need to find out why.
- Take Lucas.
And, Ros - No heroics.
- Yeah.
Place is empty, Lucas.
Apart from a copy of Macbeth, Coleville's favourite play.
He claimed it told you everything you needed to know about the rise of evil.
- He knew you were coming.
- Yeah.
One step ahead, as ever.
Yes? - 'You all right? ' - No! I am not bloody all right.
- You shouldn't have broken in, Ros.
- You could have killed me.
- But I didn't.
I knew you'd be fine.
- No, you couldn't have known that.
I told you, I know how you think, Ros.
- I know everything you're going to do.
- Jack, what is this about? I'm glad you're safe.
Jack Coleville was one of the finest officers Six ever had, operating in pretty much every theatre for the last 25 years.
Smart, courageous, innovative.
The complete package.
He's also the reason I'm here.
He recruited me.
- Any association with Walker? - Nothing definite.
The only link so far is Operation Acorn.
A joint UK-US covert operation in the Balkans.
Shut down in the '90s.
Work on it.
Get a full list of personnel from Six.
Lucas, liaise with Sarah.
See what she can give from her end.
Officers involved, nature of missions, any unforeseen consequences.
Coleville's accessing the database.
We've got a 20-second real-time lapse.
Want me to close him down? - We'll lose Coleville if you do.
- Let him run with it.
He's downloading a file.
- He's got it.
- What's Roger Maynard to Coleville? - Unless we get to him first, he's dead.
- Find him.
And pull Sarah Caulfield in.
We need help.
We've got a lead on who killed Braydon.
And Walker.
So it wasn't suicide? - Doesn't look like it.
- Who is he? We think he did another murder.
- Was I right? Is it Six? - Ex.
Jack Coleville.
Coleville? Are you sure? I thought he retired years ago.
- Yeah.
So did we.
- Is there something I should know? - Is it another mega Brit screw-up? - We'd appreciate any help from you.
What do you need? A trace on everyone involved in a joint UK-US operation, codenamed Acorn, '91 to '95.
Any personnel in the UK need full protection.
How much worse is this going to get? We think his next target is an ex-officer, Roger Maynard.
Lucas Sam Walker was a friend.
If you find Coleville You'll be the first to know.
Yeah, we just got lucky.
Get me everything you can on Roger Maynard.
- 'Sure.
Why? ' - Because Jack Coleville wants him.
And I need to get to Coleville before Ml5 do.
Yes - Mr Maynard - Ros, I've got him.
- Where? Right here.
'So far Vladic refuses to acknowledge the International Court of Human Rights.
' We have to get there before Coleville.
Get Lucas over there now.
And contact Maynard.
Give him a liaison point.
Just make the call.
- Would you like directions? - No.
OK.
I'm in.
On my way.
'What are the wider implications? 'This trial has embarrassed the West.
They used Vladic when it suited them.
'He could implicate their Intelligence.
' 'Maynard's still in the studio.
Third floor.
' - Maynard.
Code 378.
- Confirmed.
Exit 19.
Copy.
Exit 19.
'lntercept from Ml5.
Target to Exit 19.
Check back.
' OK.
'Contact made.
Exit 19, north-east corner.
Ground level.
' Copy that.
I need Maynard back here Exit 19.
No sign of Maynard.
- He's on his way.
- I'll intercept.
Roger Maynard? Sarah Caulfield, Section D.
I'm here to escort you to Exit 19.
- Stop.
- What? - Change of plan.
We're to wait.
- Wait? It's not safe to proceed.
We're to wait here.
This is crazy.
We're sitting ducks! You'll be safe, Roger.
Stay here.
Tariq, something's wrong.
He's not here.
I'm going to go and look for him.
- Maynard.
- Where are you? Go to Exit 19.
- I was told there was a change.
- Are you with Lucas North? Hold it right there.
Don't think I'd hesitate.
Drop it.
Kick it.
- Hands where I can see them.
- You're making a mistake.
- CIA? - Shut up.
- I have no argument with you.
- You're my Get Out Of Jail Free card.
Sarah! - Tariq, ambulance! Third floor! - I tried to stop him.
You're OK, Roger.
There's an ambulance on the way.
Did you recognise the man who did this? His name's Jack Coleville.
He was Ml6.
How do you know him? Look at me! Stay with me.
I need to know why he targeted you.
- Baranova Mina Baranova.
- Who is she? Is she Russian? Come on, Roger, fight it.
Fight it! - Coleville got away.
- 'Unfortunate.
- 'Rethink your Walker cover.
' - I'll deal with it.
I think Maynard made it up.
Nothing's coming up.
I've tried alternate spellings.
All drawing a blank.
I've got a Mitko Baranov.
Serbian.
He's at the Court of Human Rights.
- War crimes? - Witness.
Get a full transcript of his evidence.
Sarah said Braydon was in Bosnia in the '90s, What are we missing? The connection.
We know Coleville and Braydon were in Bosnia in the early '90s.
Winchcombe - expert in Serbo-Croatian dialects, but no record that they met.
Which leaves Maynard.
He used to be Ml6 Station Head in Belgrade, but 13 years later, after they'd left.
- What about Walker? - He was never posted to the Balkans.
He only met Braydon in Washington, which comes back to Mina Baranova, - who doesn't seem to exist.
- He could have got the name wrong.
- Or given a false one.
- Maybe there is no pattern.
I've circulated Coleville's details.
- All officers have been put on alert.
- It won't be enough.
- Bring them in, it cripples the Service.
- Presumably what Coleville wants.
Coleville is murdering our officers.
- We have to shut the system down.
- I have something on Mitko Baranov.
- He had a sister.
- Mina? - Buried in his evidence.
- Where is she? He says she died at the hands of Muslim extremists 5 years ago.
No records.
- Nothing.
It's as if she never existed.
- Maybe that's how they want it to look.
Shadow Protection Programme.
Created by Six during the Balkans Crisis to protect sources.
Informers were offered new identities, a new life abroad, past lives completely obliterated.
- Can we get access to those files? - We'll have to.
Coleville was Mina Baranova's case officer, running her as an informer.
He arranged a new life for her.
- Until five years ago, she was in Greece.
- And then? File closed.
Participant deceased.
- Who was the last one to make an entry? - Maynard.
Roger Maynard.
Search for Winchcombe.
- He was her translator.
- He's getting revenge.
- Coleville's getting revenge.
- Coleville's trying to access the system.
- Let him in.
- Risk another life? We have to.
It's the only way to find out what he's after.
Be ready to cut him off.
He's drilling down.
Accessing Mina's file.
- He's after the signature officer.
- The lead officer.
- Change the name to mine.
- What? - You've got 20 seconds.
Do it.
- Ros, it's too dangerous.
Tariq, just do it.
He may not come after you.
In all other cases, he killed within hours of accessing their files.
This won't be any different.
In the street, in my flat - He won't wait until tomorrow.
- You don't have to.
- I know.
- I mean it.
I want to, Harry.
I need to.
Approaching now.
Home, sweet home.
- The flat's clear.
- Hope they polished the floor.
'Alpha Team, stand by.
' - Alpha Four update.
- Lima One approaching property now.
- Get a trace of the caller.
- It's not her phone.
- Yes? - 'Hello, Ros.
' - What the hell are you playing at? - Where's he calling from? - I've always respected you, Ros.
- Can we meet and talk? - I think it's a little bit late for that.
- No.
- I never think it's too late to talk.
- Then you'd better come and find me.
Goodbye, Ros.
- I thought this place was clean.
- It was.
How the hell did he have a phone in here? - Did you get a trace? - He used a Skype account from Croatia.
'Routed through a pay-as-you-go.
He's good.
' - He's nearby.
I can feel it.
- Get out.
No.
- That place is compromised.
Get out.
- Don't you think he'd have known that? We have to see this through.
I need to talk to him.
- Harry? - Five minutes and I'm pulling you out.
- Any news? - Still no sign of him.
'Ros is on the move.
' It's over, Jack! Contact made.
Stand by, everyone.
Ros? Put the gun down, Ros! Hands where I can see them.
I'm too old for this kind of thing.
Why? No, I think you owe me more than that.
I don't know what to say, Ros.
Try the truth.
If anyone deserves the truth it's you.
I realise that.
It's not easy.
Ros? I don't know myself, half the time.
It's all such a mess.
OK, move, all units! Go, go, go! 'Lucas, I've lost Ros's comms.
' Ros? Where are you? Ros? 'Ros's comms are still down, Lucas.
' - Still no answer.
- Keep trying her.
I want to know the moment you see her.
Coleville is capable of anything.
- She could be anywhere.
- 'Keep looking, Lucas.
' Just give me the gun, Ros.
Now just keep going.
Don't look back.
Thinking of calling the cavalry? I wouldn't bother.
No one can reach us here.
Why, Jack? Why did you do it? - Someone had to pay.
- For what? Mina.
Do you remember her? Mina Baranova.
You signed her death warrant.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Please.
When you wanted to turn Mitko Baranov, he had a price.
The whereabouts of his sister.
The informer.
And you gave it to him.
Without blinking an eyelid.
- What was she to you, Jack? - Everything.
- You were in love with her? - Not very professional.
But we were careful and it worked.
Until Braydon wanted some scrap of information from her shit of a brother, so he told him that his sister was seeing a British Intelligence officer.
- She got a new identity.
- New name, new papers.
Even I didn't know where she was.
But it was the price for her safety.
We would be apart, but she would be safe.
Forever.
That was the promise.
And you broke it.
- There was a war on, Jack.
- Not when they caught up with Mitko.
Do you know what he did? He burned a lorry load of Muslims to death.
They wanted him on trial for war crimes.
And then some smart young officer in London realised that maybe there are bigger fish to fry, maybe Mitko could be persuaded to testify.
Mina was Mitko's price.
A decision like that must be referred up.
Someone had to sign the death warrant.
Yes.
It didn't take them long to find Mina.
A little help from the Belgrade office and Mitko was on his way.
Do you want to see what your signature did, Ros? He didn't kill her immediately, as you can see.
Reap as you sow, Ros.
Reap as you sow.
Tell me, did you know about Mina and me? And just decided to do it anyway? Or was it just another name? Another anonymous victim signed to oblivion from your air-conditioned office.
- I didn't sign anything.
- Please Not the denial.
I expected more of you, really.
When we found the chip, we inserted my name on the database.
You have the wrong person, Jack.
That's not possible.
- Who did it? Who signed it? - Does it make a difference who did it? It makes a difference to me! I don't know who signed it.
The officer who happened to be on duty on that desk that day.
Could have been me, or anyone.
We'd have all done the same.
No, no, no, no It was the right thing to do.
The intelligence Mitko gave was invaluable.
The information put away not only the guilty, but it saved lives, Jack.
- Hundreds of lives.
- That makes it OK to sacrifice Mina? Yes.
Yes, it does.
You want revenge, go ahead and take it.
Maybe I deserve it.
If not for this, then for other decisions I've made where innocent people got hurt.
That's what the job's about, Jack.
Don't make a decision you can't live with.
That's what you taught me.
There has to be a reckoning.
Goodbye, Ros.
There's something you need to know.
- You shouldn't be here.
- Why not? - Go home.
- That's the last place I want to be.
- What's up? - Ruth has Walker's phone records.
Em, I wasn't getting anything useful, so I requested records from the nearest relay tower to where Walker died.
I got a full list of mobile phones active in the same cell around the time of death.
And? One of them was Sarah Caulfield's.
She was in the building where Walker died.
When he died.
- Are you sure about this? - No more than 5 metres away.
Lucas, she may not be responsible.
There could be any number of reasons why she was there.
Only one way to find out.
Think I'm beginning to get a hang of the Special Relationship.
Yeah, I'd say you were.
I'm sorry I've been so You know.
Walker's death threw me.
I understand.
Do you? Can't have been easy for you.
No.
Being close to someone finding out they're not who you thought they were.
It's painful.
I'm just glad you got the guy who killed him.
We didn't.
Coleville didn't kill Walker.
He told Ros before he died.
So it's my fault, then.
When I called Sam to meet he fobbed me off.
Told me he'd come by the office later.
And I just stayed home all night.
He must have known we were on to him.
But I should have insisted.
I should have gone to see him right then.
I could have stopped him.
And maybe if I had been there, he'd still be alive.
It's OK.
It's over now.
You can't change the past.
- 'You're sure? ' - She lied.
Plain and simple.
Sarah killed Walker.
'Yeah.
' Yeah, I think she did.
I've run out of other explanations.
OK, well, I suppose the question is was she working for the Agency 'or had she gone freelance? ' I really don't know.
'Then I suggest we find out.
' Why did you kill your boss? We know you threw him from the balcony.
'The country's on the brink.
' The UK is bankrupt until Saturday morning, so we need the bank's money.
It's tax evasion in the billions! 'What do you think they're going to want to do to you' for recording their names? - They'll do a deal.
- No, they won't.
'This is bad, Lucas! These guys won't stop! ' - My life is over now! - Baisley! Duck!