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I regret to have to inform you that

as of this moment, our former section chief,

Lucas North, is to be regarded as a rogue officer.

He is believed to be in pursuit of information,

which, if it fell into the wrong hands,

would pose an unprecedented threat to national security.

I don't need to remind you

that he's a skilled, resourceful,

and dangerous operative.

Our main priority is to find him

and bring him in, whatever the cost.

The man we know is Lucas North.

What does he think?

What does he feel?

What's driving him?

We must find something that will tell us

what's going on inside his head

before it's too late.

Look at everything,

personal belongings, case histories,

where did he spend his time,

whether he has weak points.

He's on the edge.

We have to discover what's taken him there.

He's highly trained, fragile, and desperate.

We cannot allow him to find the Albany file.

By seeking it, he has made himself a traitor.

This man was our colleague and friend,

but have no illusions,

he is now our enemy.

We didn't find anything at Lucas's flat.

It's like a show home

and everything you'd expect,

but anybody could have lived there.

No mementos, no photos, no letters.

It's just blank.

What if we're too late?

He could be on the other side of the world by now.

Harry, we need to know what Albany is.

If we're going to find him,

we have to know what he's chasing.

Albany is a blueprint for a genetic weapon,

a nerve agent tailored to attack specific racial

or ethnic groups.

Isolate the genes, modify the sequence,

deploy it in a region,

and it will attack only that ethnicity,

leaving everyone else alive.

Can you imagine the damage

if they had something like this?

It is imperative Lucas does not obtain Albany.

We have to stop him.

Where's Vaughn?

Vaughn dead.

I want two new identities for myself and a woman.

I want safe passage to a country

with no extradition treaty with the UK.

I want $20 million.

If you give me that,

I will deliver Albany to you.

Small price to pay to change the world.

You don't know what Albany is, do you?

I don't wanna know.

How the hell could we have let this happen?

I don't understand how he could take the place

of an MI5 officer.

The vetting for the real Lucas North had been done.

And in his place, Bateman was a natural.

Sailed through the interviews, buying himself time,

filling in the gaps, making the legend watertight.

Why is he after Albany?

The story he gave is that

he was being blackmailed by a man named Vaughn Edwards,

a freelance fixer type with very dirty hands.

Who's pulling his strings?

We can't be certain.

But several of his phone calls have been routed

through a satellite hovering some 800 miles

above Guangdong Province.

The Chinese aren't the first to come after Albany,

and they won't be the last,

not with something so precious, so awful.

North with their backing,

should we be concerned?

Lucas was one of my most capable officers,

and right now, he's confused, desperate,

and thus more dangerous.

We don't really know who we're dealing with.

So I've decided to call in a specialist.

Hmm.

Alec White?

Yeah.

You know who I am?

Yeah.

If I knew you were coming, I'd move around.

They still talk about you

as one of the best people

Internal Affairs ever had.

We have a developing situation with one of our own.

And I'd like you to consult.

You're having a laugh.

I wish I was.

I'm not interested in the facts

surrounding your dismissal

or your, how can I put this delicately?

Abject, personal, and professional failure since.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

You blamed us for everything.

I've read your file.

And whilst the reasons for your

decommissioning may seem unfair,

there's little disagreement about the fact

that you were difficult to work with:

arrogant, aggressive, lazy.

Five shafted me, Pearce.

My face didn't fit, so they burned me.

Your borderline alcoholism played no part at all.

I'll give you three months' pay at your old rate.

Six months' pay.

No, three should do it.

I've looked at your bank balance.

Car's outside when you're ready.

I can't stop thinking about Michael.

His name is Vaughn.

And he manipulated me too.

It's what he does.

Oh, please. Let's just go.

Yeah, in a couple of hours, we'll be gone.

And you will never have to think about this ever again.

It's just something I have to do first.

No!

Speak freely.

Lucas is running interference.

He's booking flights to every major international hub.

He's cloned cards.

He's bouncing fake phone calls all over the world.

In short, we have nothing.

If Albany is so well-hidden,

how is Lucas even gonna get near it?

You all need to stop calling him Lucas.

He's not Lucas.

And he's not John Bateman either, not anymore.

You're not gonna find him

if you insist on chasing a man

who doesn't exist.

This is Alec White, former IA investigator.

He's brought in a lot of rogue officers.

He'll help us bring in this one.

So last week, he was our boss.

Now, he's a rogue agent?

Well, you should forget last week.

Got something.

I've been cross-checking Lucas's last calls.

One address sticks out. I'm thinking it's Vaughn.

Get over there. Take Alec with you.

This is nasty, knife been twisted.

Must have bled to death.

Bateman did this.

Question is if he isn't being blackmailed anymore,

and we must assume he isn't,

what the hell is he doing?

Welcome back, Lucas.

Right, Vaughn was blackmailing Lucas to obtain Albany.

Vaughn is dead, killed by Lucas.

Why hasn't he simply fled?

We know he's still in London

because of the smokescreen he's running.

He's gone into business for himself.

He's still after Albany.

It's Lucas!

Speaker.

Lucas.

Harry, I'm sorry.

I never meant (exhaling heavily).

Look, I don't know what I'm doing here.

I need help, I wanna come in today.

We'll pick you up. Where are you?

Greenwich, uh, Thorndon Road.

I'll call again in 30 minutes.

I'm sorry, Harry.

Okay, go, but make no assumptions.

Remember, Albany's too valuable.

Lucas's too unpredictable.

Be ready for anything.

Alphas, check home.

Alpha One, check.

Alpha Two, check.

Alpha Three, check.

Tango One in position.

Tango Two in position.

So where is he?

I've got something. He lied to you.

I've been listening to the recordings.

When he told you the truth

about Vaughn killing the real Lucas North,

the bombings, that was bullshit.

You see, I know liars, Harry.

Good ones can construct entire lives

on the spot out of thin air.

He mixes in enough truth,

details that reflect badly on himself,

but the narrative was too perfect.

The thing is,

you know liars too.

There were times during that interrogation

when you could have pushed him.

You should have pushed him.

What are you insinuating?

No one likes to believe these things

about the people who are close to them.

Lucas or Albany, Harry?

You might not be able to save them both.

This is it.

Lucas, it's Ruth.

Ruth.

I need someone to come and meet me, someone I know.

I'm in the cafe at the end of the road.

I'll go.

Dimitri's coming.

You can talk, and when you're ready,

he can bring you out.

Alphas, report. What's going on?

He's cornered, we've got him.

Wait, I can't do this.

This is the rest of my life.

Lucas, calm down.

No! I, I can't.

I can't do this. - Lucas?

Lucas, wait.

Lucas, just sit tight!

Lucas?

Target is running!

Go, units, go!

Stop, Lucas!

Please, Lucas, come on.

Stop! Lucas, stop!

Stop, Lucas!

Get an ambulance, Lucas is down!

He's down!

It's not him.

It's not Lucas.

Ruth, get to Ruth.

Get to her now!

Lucas! Stop!

No, stop it!

- You all right? - Yeah.

Harry, he's taken Ruth.

I repeat, Ruth's gone.

Yes.

Simple and clean, Harry.

A straight swap, Albany for Ruth.

Today or you'll never find the body.

Don't you dare hurt her.

You've got 90 minutes.

We both know that's not enough time to find me.

Harry, police found the delivery van.

He switched vehicles.

We're waiting on satellite,

but it looks like his backup car

was parked in a multi-story.

So we've lost him.

How does this get him closer to Albany?

Lucas has identified one of the people

who know where the file is, me.

Ruth is leverage over you.

And now he wants to trade.

Ruth's life for Albany.

Of course, given the nature of the file,

there's no prospect of making that deal.

And there are other people

who know the location of Albany.

We cannot allow him to compromise them in the same way.

I'll have to move it, make it safe.

Harry, is that wise?

He's got Ruth.

You said it yourself.

You're compromised.

You're suggesting I would consider making the deal?

Well, come with me.

What was that man's life worth?

How much did you pay him?

They didn't need to kill him.

I've killed people.

And I've saved people.

I'm still in credit.

So it's just a balance sheet.

It's not you talking.

Why, Lucas?

What is this all for?

What if there was one time in your life

when everything made sense?

What wouldn't you do to go back?

With lies, you can go ahead in the world,

but you can never go back.

Don't quote Russian proverbs at me.

Harry won't give you Albany.

I really hope that he does.

Let's say you, you do get Albany.

You, um, you sell it to the Chinese.

What happens when someone uses it?

You think you can live with that?

I don't care.

You do know what it is, don't you?

For God's sake, Lucas,

if you knew what it did-

Ruth, please.

It's a genetic weapon!

- Be quiet. - Okay, it can be engineered.

- Ruth. - Listen, listen to me.

Listen to me, whatever it is that you've done-

You don't know what I've done.

Do you? Do you know what you've done?

Lucas, do you know it?

I've spent half my life hiding.

I've been so careful.

There's only been one person

that I worried would find out.

It's you.

Harry, I found the missing element.

Dr. Maya Lahan,

girlfriend of Michael O'Brien,

Vaughn's most recent UK alias.

I found that in his wallet, had a hunch,

so I ran it through the system.

And?

She also went to Leeds University

at the same time as John Bateman.

She hasn't been to work for three days.

Harry,

Vaughn's murder wasn't a professional execution.

It was a crime of passion.

This woman's at the center of it all.

Find her.

Hello?

Hello, Ms. Lahan, it's reception.

We have an urgent message for you

to call John on 077 0090 0785.

Thank you.

Someone's ringing back, must be her.

Mm, mm.

Gotcha.

Albany's under here.

How do you know?

I put it there.

If Lucas finds this place,

I want him to think he has it.

This one's fitted with a tracker.

Make it look like we were never here.

I'll hold onto this if you'd like.

That's very helpful of you.

I'll meet you upstairs.

I have to brief the home secretary.

Can you smell that?

It's fentanyl, stun gas.

Harry asked me to marry him.

I said, "No."

Why?

You love him, don't you?

Everything that's happened between us,

it's too much.

I couldn't begin to unpick it all.

God's sake, Ruth.

Be brave, be selfish for once.

You're like me, you've done enough. Say yes!

Did you find the woman?

Tariq found her.

Hotel in East London.

Is that it?

Yes.

Harry, I realized you hired me

because I have neither the right

nor the inclination to ask tricky questions.

But if you're about to do what

I think you're about to do,

you realize what it'll mean?

There'll be no way back.

Dimitri and Beth are in the vault.

Wait 10 minutes for the gas to subside,

check they're all right.

Then all of you go to the hotel

and prepare to take Lucas.

Do not spook the woman.

Be prepared for anything.

He will come for her.

Time's up.

I have it. Where do you want me?

What's the angle?

The angle is you've won.

All right, we'll let this play out, shall we?

Go to Shanbond Street, Fitzrovia.

You've got five minutes.

There's a green door. You see it?

The key's inside the tire.

Let yourself in.

Okay, stand on the cross.

Hang up, strip your phone battery and SIM.

There's one on the table. I'm calling it.

It only connects to this number.

And now you're gonna strip.

Put all your clothes into the bin,

pass through scanner review,

and then get dressed with the clothes

that I've left for you.

Good, you're up.

Harry sends his apologies.

Harry?

Why did he?

He's protecting you.

Making sure you can't be implicated in what he's doing.

He doesn't have the same concern for me,

it would seem.

What is he doing?

He's taking Albany, he's gonna make a deal.

Okay, Harry, you're leaving through the big doors

out the back.

There's a car outside.

Get in the car.

The satnav is pre-programmed with a destination. Drive fast.

I'm watching.

This isn't you.

This isn't the man I know.

I want to speak to Lucas North.

I want to speak to Lucas.

Who are you?

Where is he?

Too many lies, John.

Where is he?

Ruth.

Five miles outside Dakar,

there's a, an estuary.

The east bank is covered with mangrove trees.

Soft ground.

That's where Lucas North is.

Harry's never going to give you Albany.

You've always underestimated yourself, Ruth.

Lucas, no.

No, please, Luke, Luke!

Don't struggle.

Ruth, don't struggle! - No!

Lucas!

What was that? What have you done?

Don't fight it.

Come, don't fight it. Relax, relax.

It's okay, just relax. Ruth.

What have you done?

You're all right.

Just relax, relax, relax.

Relax.

Come on, lie down, lie down.

That's all right.

It's good, just sleep.

Just sleep.

Go to sleep.

I'm here.

Okay, Harry, there's a bin in front of you.

Place Albany in it,

and then walk down the white gum tree towards the river.

Once I've checked it, I'll tell you where she is.

Don't let me down on this, Lucas.

Keep walking, steady pace.

Don't stop. Don't look back.

Don't hang up.

I'll know if this isn't real, Harry.

The Chinese gave me their encryption codes.

So it better be for Ruth's sake.

This is it.

Harry Pearce

giving up a state secret.

Committing treason for just one life.

Not just any life.

Where is she?

You're playing me.

Can't you see? You've won.

You've beaten me. Now tell me where she is.

Good to see you.

I'm Harry.

No.

The deal was-

I know what the deal was.

You found Maya, haven't you?

What? People at the hotel waiting for me?

Come on, Harry.

We both know you wouldn't give this to me

unless you knew you could get it back.

Okay, here's what's gonna happen.

I'm gonna go to the hotel,

and I'm gonna take Maya,

and your team are not gonna touch me.

Alternatively, I throw Maya in a cell,

issue a kill order on you,

and find Ruth myself.

Ruth's sedated on an anesthetic drip.

In three hours, she'll overdose.

Her heart will stop.

You think you can find her by then?

I really don't wanna hurt her, Harry.

Please don't make me.

You leave Maya alone.

You stand your team down.

I walk right past them. They don't follow me.

They don't even talk to me. Is that clear?

Yes.

Once Maya and I are in the air,

I'll tell you where Ruth is.

Emergency outside line, Harry's codes.

Patch it through.

Harry.

Lucas will be at the hotel within 15 minutes.

You stand down. Let him through.

Do not touch him.

What?

We can take him later.

If we do it now, Ruth dies.

Harry, we can make him tell us where she is.

There's no way we'd break him in the time we have.

Harry, recovering Albany

has to take priority over Ruth.

If the Chinese get their hands on it-

You have your orders, you will follow them.

If you do not, I will decommission you.

Do you understand?

Tariq, patch me through to Alec.

Alec, I need you to do something for me.

Maya, we need to go.

Maya?

Hey.

Come on, we're nearly there.

We're gonna go on a plane.

We're gonna go anywhere you want and do anything.

It's just you and me.

But we have to leave now.

Okay.

You should know what your boyfriend's doing, Ms. Lahan.

He's poisoned a woman, his colleague, a friend,

just so you can get away, she's dying!

He said you poisoned someone.

What's he talking about? - I didn't poison anyone.

It's what I told them. I had to take her.

It's our only way out.

John, you have to let her go.

Please get in the car.

Look, I will tell them where she is,

but not until we're safe.

Harry, it's done.

Home Secretary.

Tell me good things, Harry, is Albany safe?

No, Lucas has it.

How the hell did he?

I gave it to him.

What are you doing?

We're changing cars for the last few miles

to the airfield.

So we're almost there.

Then you can make that call.

You can't let her die, John.

15 Wamsley Road.

Thank you.

It's not me you have to thank.

Walmsley Road, now.

Call paramedics, have them meet us there.

What's the matter?

The guy who spoke to us at the hotel,

his name's Alec.

He works for a guy called Harry Pearce.

How do you know that?

Just before you arrived, John,

he came to my room, asked for my help.

What did he tell you?

He told me everything.

Well, I'll live, I hope.

You're a liar, John.

How are you doing all of this?

This thing that you're selling to the Chinese,

do you even know what it does?

- He lied. - No, you lied!

That's all you've ever done is lie!

John, you're a murderer.

He's told me how you killed those people in Africa!

How you killed Michael!

And how you would've killed that woman!

That man works for Harry Pearce.

And Harry Pearce is the same as Vaughn.

He uses people, he controls them.

No!

After he finished telling me everything,

do you know how I knew it was true?

'Cause for the very first time, it made sense.

Maya.

We love each other.

No.

Look at you, John.

Listen to yourself. You must believe it, don't you?

You're a liar.

Who are you?

They gave you a tracker.

Maya, get down.

Lucas, there's no way out of this!

Lucas, let us take you in!

Just give yourself up.

It's all right.

Everything's gonna be fine.

I'm gonna fix things.

Tariq, how long 'til back-up?

CO19 11 minutes away.

Air support just behind them.

Lucas, don't do this!

Get in the car.

- No. - Get it in the car!

Lucas, don't make us open fire!

We've got a signal.

Maya, we did it.

We got away. (pants) Maya?

Maya?

Shit, Maya, look at me.

Keep your hand there. Press down hard!

Oh, shit.

Maya, stay with me. Look at me!

There's gonna be people at the airfield

that can help us, okay?

You're gonna be fine.

Mayas, Maya!

Maya.

Come on, come on, breathe.

We're so close.

Maya.

Breathe in, Maya.

Betrayal is a cancer

that will need your soul.

I love you, Maya.

Betrayal, betrayal.

Too many lies, John.

You're a liar, John, liar.

Eight years ambushing.

Betrayal is a cancer

that will eat your soul.

Ruth!

She's alive.

Yeah.

Mm.

Harry, we found the tracker.

Maya Lahan's dead.

And Lucas?

He's gone. We've lost Albany.

Mr. North, where's your friend?

She's not coming.

What's happening?

Where's Lucas?

We don't know.

Thanks for coming for me.

Hope you didn't pay too high a price.

I've got something from air traffic.

An identified helicopter flew out

of a private airfield in Essex last night,

probably heading for another airfield

in the Channel Islands to change to a plane.

Had to have been it.

Right, well, he's gone, isn't he?

I can't believe you just gave Albany to Lucas.

He was going to kill you.

But to trade away something like Albany just to save me?

It's not the Harry I know.

And the Lucas you and I both know

wouldn't have kidnapped you

or threatened to kill you, but he did.

But all the others who've given up

their lives, their sacrifice.

I'm not worth more than them.

It was my turn, Harry.

At that moment

when you decided to make that deal,

it was unfair of you to love me.

We're getting a live video stream.

Lucas's access codes.

Oh no.

I'm at London Bridge Station.

So a lot of people will die.

You would never do that.

Well, I've done it before, remember?

What do you want?

I want you, Harry.

Come and meet me.

Just the two of us.

Top of the Enver Tower, Farringdon, 20 minutes.

Oh yeah.

And before you send the cavalry,

you should know that this bomb

is on a looped countdown.

I have to send a code

every three minutes to reset it.

So if I see anything I don't like,

if you try to shoot me,

if you try to evacuate the station,

the bomb detonates by default.

Where's Albany?

Oh, it's long gone, Harry.

Gave it to the Chinese.

How do you think I got the explosives?

This is about Maya.

He blames you, Harry.

He'll kill you.

I'd rather think so too.

You can't go.

We have 20 minutes, I'm going.

Don't follow me.

There has to be another way.

Find the bomb.

Make it safe. That's the other way.

Harry!

It's my turn.

We can shadow him. We'll stay low.

Lucas won't see us.

No!

You heard him. He's on his own.

Okay, we can't evac the station,

but we can find and diffuse the bomb.

Tariq, find out which room it's in.

Hi, this is Catherine.

Leave a message, and I'll get back to you.

Hi, Catherine, it's Dad.

I, um, suppose you're at work.

Just wanted to say that, um,

well, I'm just checking in really.

And uh,

would be nice to have dinner soon.

You and your brother.

Unfortunately, I don't have a number for him at the moment.

But, um, you could say hello for me

and well, I, I know you'll look out for him.

So, uh,

well, I hope to see you soon.

Okay, bye.

Bomb's in a storage room on the west side

of London Bridge, next to Exit Seven.

Inform the bomb squad.

Tell 'em not to raise the alarm.

We'll meet them there.

Why here?

Someone I used to know lived here, Harry,

long time ago.

Lucas North.

Besides, I wanted us to be alone for this.

This being my death?

Maya didn't need to die.

You could have stopped it.

Yes, I could have.

So why didn't you?

Regnum Defende, Lucas? Whatever the cost.

I'm sorry she died,

but I'd do the same again.

I loved her.

All this was for her.

Some of the worst things are done in the name of love.

I understand that too, don't forget.

Fake!

It's been almost three minutes.

No one else need die except me.

The bomb's not real, Harry.

But hey, did its job.

It brought you here.

Now we're the same.

You gave me Albany, I gave it to the Chinese.

Now you're a traitor too.

You didn't give them anything.

Albany doesn't work, it never did.

What?

The project never got past

the primary research stage.

The Russians got wind of it.

They realized its potential.

They were scared.

It worked as a deterrent,

but it was never real, Lucas.

So it's for nothing.

She, she died for nothing.

What happened in Dakar, the bomb?

If you knew what you were doing,

how could you do it?

Vaughn gave me the chance to be someone

to do something!

Wish you'd met me first.

So do I.

I can still help you, Lucas.

Whatever you've done, the service owes you.

I can't go back to prison, Harry.

I'll die there. You know I will.

And you'll sit in your office, and drink whiskey,

and feel sorry for yourself.

And you'll tell people what you told me once

that this job, what we do is a machine.

Good people go in, they get chewed up,

they get spat out.

That's how you make sense of it.

The service didn't do this to me.

I was bad before I went in.

Turn around, please.

Lucas.

Don't call me that.

Turn around!

Well, what should I call you?

Who are you?

Are you John, the murderer?

Or are you Lucas?

The man who gave up so many years

to help so many people, saved so many lives?

Who are you?

I'm nothing.

If you're going to shoot me, shoot me now.

Shoot me now.

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Home Secretary, have you spoken to the Chinese?

Well, it took them about half a day

to realize the file was worthless,

but that makes them look rather stupid.

So we proposed a partnership.

They're going to leak to the world

that they took it from us,

and that it works.

Bit of a blow to towards ego

to realize that what's been kept in the dark

about Albany being a fake,

but I think we stage-managed the fallout fairly well.

Look, Harry,

I have some bad news.

I'm sorry to heap it on,

especially after this business with your section chief.

But the buzzards are circling.

Fake or not, Albany was a state secret,

and you gave it away.

There's going to be a full inquiry

and not just into this sorry affair,

into you, Harry, your whole career.

You're the spy they want to kick back out

into the cold, I'm afraid.

Now I'll be in there, batting for you,

but I can't see this ending well.

I'd start preparing for life after MI5.

I'm truly sorry.

Good night.