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Previously on The Hack...

So, Nick Davies and The Guardian

are losing the exclusive,
but winning the war.

Alan Rusbridger and The Guardian

have been in touch with us
at Panorama.

It's the hacking stuff,
but there's also this story

on Jonathan Rees
that they've been pushing.

We found invoices on his desk,
Rees to Alex Marunchak,

at the News of the World
while Andy Coulson was the editor.

There was a name that appeared
in the top corner of Glenn's notes.

Ian Edmondson.
Ian Edmondson?

He reported directly to Coulson.

Someone I want you to meet.
David Cook. Gordon Brown.

I'm interested in hearing more
about what's happened to you.

I, er...
I think I might be able to help.

GORDON: 'I, er...'
GORDON CLEARS THROAT

'I hear you're a fan of walking.'
DAVE: 'I am.'

Do you have a favourite spot?

Hillwalking on Arran, sir.

GORDON LAUGHS
You don't need to call me "sir".

Policeman's habit.

Well, I like Arran,
particularly, and...

and this might point to a certain
masochistic quality on my part,

particularly in the winter time.

Well, it's the colours -
Arran in the winter.

Well, we shall have to go.
You can show me the route.

Oh, you're making me quite homesick.

Surely, you can get up there
more often now...

Now that I don't have a job?
No, I didnae mean...

GORDON LAUGHS

I should be able to, shouldn't I?

And yet I keep being dragged
back to London.

Glen has told me something
about what happened to you -

your story.

OK.

The intrusion, the surveillance,
the meeting with Rebekah Brooks.

It sounds a merry mess.

Yeah, well, look,
I made mistakes I shouldn't have.

Well... Well, we all do.

We all do.

My father was a minister,

as I think you know,
in the Church of Scotland.

He would...

He would hear everyone's stories.

It's a great failing on my part
that I don't have the time

nor the patience that he does,
so I think it's my responsibility

to tell you why your cruel
and unusual story mattered to me.

It's because...

It's because I think this country
has become polluted,

and I think that we could all,
should all,

try to do something about it,
don't you?

You've read the pieces
in The Guardian, about the hacking.

Yeah, Nick's a friend of mine.

Did you read the pieces
in The New York Times, too?

I did.

And you know the work that Glen
is doing at Panorama? Yeah.

Rupert Murdoch is trying
to take control of BSkyB.

If he does that,
it's a valuable organisation,

and he will leverage the value of it
to accumulate the debt

needed to buy
a huge multinational company,

perhaps Disney or Time Warner.

He'll have control
of our media landscape

and a good hold of America.

He needs to be stopped.

I agree.

I will tell you my stories,
and you will tell me yours.

And then perhaps, David...

perhaps we can work out
how to help each other.

What do you say?

What do you want me to say?

KEYBOARD KEYS CLICK

MUSIC: 'Ain't That A Kick
In The Head' by Dean Martin

# How lucky can one guy be?

# I kissed her, and she kissed me

# Like the sailor said, quote
"Ain't that a hole in the boat?" #

Into the shark's cage.

I don't think they'll be
providing us with cages tonight.

You're late.

Who in the hell thought press awards
were a good idea?

A narcissist, who realised
it's an industry full of narcissists

who pay to be rewarded
for the narcissism.

I can't be here.

Look over there. News of the World.

You know, they actually have members
of staff under arrest,

and many more being investigated -

the brass neck on them
is ridiculous.

So the least I can attempt
is some neck?

No. I just want you here.

You think
we're going to win something.

You're mad. Everyone here hates us.

I want you here because I want us
to lose with dignity together.

I've missed you.

I feel itchy. I hate this shirt.

Well, it makes you look
extremely handsome.

Oh, well...

Now I have to go and play nice
with some rich board members.

But please remember, these people,

they're more frightened of you
than you are of them.

Oh, there's a difference
between hate and fear.

# Oh, ain't that a kick?

# Tell me quick
Ain't love a kick in the head? #

MC: Ladies and gentlemen,
your attention, please.

Before our awards
start this evening,

we have a special update
from journalist Nick Davies.

On Wednesday the 26th of January,

News International passed
Scotland Yard three email messages

which they claimed
to have "only just discovered"

in Ian Edmondson's computer,
and Ian Edmondson was sacked.

Once in receipt of these emails,

Scotland Yard announced
a new inquiry,

Operation Weeting,
under the command of Sue Akers.

I dismissed Weeting as a PR move
by the Met

until, on the 9th of February,
they released a statement.

The new evidence recently provided
by News International

is being considered
alongside material

already in the Metropolitan
Police Service's possession.

It couldn't be.

They weren't
finally going to investigate

the last four years
of their incompetence.

All actions and decisions
by the previous investigation

are being reviewed.

Or were they?

Were we winning, finally?

I certainly
didn't feel like a winner.

MC: ..showbusiness, shall we,

and the award for showbiz reporter
of the year goes to...

It's Stephen Moyes,
of the News of the World.

Congratulations, Stephen.

OK, and the award for news reporter
of the year goes to...

It's the fake Sheikh,
Mazher Mahmood,

from the News of the World.

The Scoop of the Year now.

The Scoop of the Year is awarded
to the News of the World

for its excellent coverage
of the cricket corruption scandal.

And the award goes
to the News of the World.

To The News of the World!
ECHOING

OK, the moment
we've all been waiting for.

It's the big one,
the Newspaper of the Year.

Now, the Newspaper of the Year
goes to...

for what the judges say is a paper

"completely unafraid
to take on the powers that be".

So, the newspaper
of the year award goes to...

The Guardian!

APPLAUSE

KNOCK ON DOOR

Jacqui Hames?
Yes.

Hello, my name is DS Slater,
and this is DC Grossman.

Is it David?

David Cook? No.

No. Well, I suppose, erm,
in a way, yes.

We are here investigating.

We're part of a new operation -
Operation Weeting.

We're investigating allegations
of phone hacking.

Do you work for John Yates?

No, we're part
of the Special Crime Directorate,

under the command of
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Akers.

Great. Thank you.

You were found in the notebooks
of Glenn Mulcaire.

This doesn't surprise me.

We'd like you to take a look
at these details.

Is this your police payroll
and warrant numbers?

Yes.

How did he have these? That...

That's where I lived in 1977.

Is this where you worked in 2002?
Yes.

And this phone number, this is...?
Yeah.

This is correct, yeah.

There's information here

that could only have come
from my police personnel file.

Yeah, we... That's what we think.

Someone within the Met
sold him my information,

David's information?

It's, erm...

It's possible.

When was this known?
I'm sorry?

When did the Metropolitan Police
have this information?

A notebook was taken
from Mulcaire in 2006.

2006?
Yeah.

And the Met chose
neither to inform me

nor investigate
this "possible" corruption.

Well, that's...

..that's what
we're trying to do now, ma'am.

Glen Campbell.
Nick Davies.

Hi.
Honour and a privilege.

I hear that you're not well liked
at Panorama.

I hear you're adored
at The Guardian.

So, who do you usually meet here?

This where you meet criminals
or politicians?

I float between cafes and pubs,
like a butterfly at a festival.

I liked the Panorama
on Alex Marunchak.

It wasn't one of mine.
You helped, a lot. It was good.

You've got some particularly
great hits in on Jonathan Rees.

I really liked your piece
on him too.

Mr A. Very good.

Are you writing more?
No.

I'm... Didn't Dave say? I'm out.

Coulson's gone.
This is as far as I can go.

Don't look like that.

An engineered death, but something.

I wanted people
to take it seriously.

They didn't.
So I'm handing everything on.

I'm trying to persuade Alan
to give me Belgium.

They gave you Newspaper of the Year.

That was for The Guardian, not me.
I lost my category.

You're getting somewhere, Nick.
I got somewhere.

Look, I know
what this must have cost you.

Cost me isn't the half of it.

But no-one... no-one cared.

The whole industry turned away
like a complicit snake.

What if I said I came
to see you today with an agenda?

I'm friends
with Clare Rewcastle Brown,

the journalist and sister-in-law
of Gordon Brown.

He's leaning in.

I took Dave to see him,
and he now wants to meet you.

Gordon Brown?

Gordon's been looking at your work,

and he thinks there's a way
to use it to go further.

Come on, Nick.
What's meeting him gonna cost you?

Well, it's...
it's wonderful to have you all here.

Thank you, Clare and Glen,
for organising it.

You know, I have such respect for
the work of everyone in this room.

And I used to be Prime Minister.
There, does that start us off?

Yes.
THEY LAUGH

CLARE: Just about.

The Murdoch BSkyB bid
would be a disaster for our country.

This hacking investigation
needs better scrutiny

than people have chosen to give it.

If people understood,
properly understood the hacking,

what was happening with hacking,

it may mean
they rethink the BSkyB bid.

We have a shared objective.

How we achieve that objective is...

well, I increasingly believe,
as does Clare

and Tom,
would be best achieved together.

And perhaps
everyone would like some tea?

And perhaps everyone
would like some tea.

Just sit, sit. I'll pour.
No, I'll pour.

Right. Who would like to begin?

Well, maybe I should speak first.

I was recently interrupted
in an investigation room

and shown details of my case
and Operation Weeting that were...

Well, the level of intrusion
was troubling.

It's just possible
that Operation Weeting

is the first Met op
to be run properly.

Well, the secret is,
John Yates isn't running it.

Good. Good.

So, how do we help them?
Where will they struggle?

Well, we have to get them
to include Jonathan Rees.

It makes no sense
to tackle Mulcaire and not Rees.

I've got invoices to show

that they were both
up to exactly the same activities.

Prepare me a file,
and I'll send it to Sue Akers.

Is it that simple?

Well, I have access to Sue
through the Select Committee.

I can't promise results,
but it's a start, no?

Well, Sue and I were DS's
at the same time.

I've already asked her to expand
the investigation, but...

It'll mean more coming
from a Parliamentary perspective.

Good. What else?

You seem to all be
constantly looking at me surprised.

Correct me if I'm wrong,
but the problem we have

is that the police,
politicians and press

are all collaborating
under Murdoch's aegis.

We are also made up of police,
politicians and press -

an unofficial opposition,
if you like.

So let's talk.
What do we need to do?

Are you...?
Are you having a nice time?

Er, I'm fine.

You know, you're a remarkable
campaigner, Nick.

Did you ever consider
full-time politics?

Erm...

Well, I don't know. I don't know...
Why would you say that?

Perhaps a bit too suspicious
of other people to be a politician.

Something I struggle
with myself sometimes.

And I believe it
because I've seen it, on this case.

You're not sure
whether I mean this, are you?

Sorry?
You don't trust me.

Think this is a ball that I've
picked up that I will quickly drop.

You're saying
you won't drop the ball?

You know, they...

They came at me in every way,
as you might expect.

They blagged my lawyer.

They procured
my family's medical information.

And they, erm...
HE LAUGHS

This is quite something -
they impersonated me

to get into
my building society account.

That's a lot.

I tried to hold a judicial inquiry
into phone hacking in,

let's see now, autumn 2009,
after I read a piece of yours.

That was my first article.

The civil service resisted it,
I think is the kind term.

"It did not meet the tests
of public concern."

You know, everyone...

everyone thinks
they're close to Rupert.

He's very adept at that.
He talks quietly, you know all this.

He rarely disagrees,
he asks questions,

and he makes everyone
feel interesting.

It fascinates me
how the powerful let him in.

I wasn't as good at it,
at that game, as Tony.

When he came for me, and he did,
I was unprepared,

whether it was how I bowed my head
at the cenotaph

or how I wrote to the grieving
mothers of dead soldiers.

Yes, I remember.

You know, I rang Rupert

to tell him that his papers
were damaging morale in Afghanistan.

As Prime Minister,
I was asking people to fight,

to risk, and he was telling them,
article after article,

that I was casual with their lives,
with soldiers' life,

that I didn't care,
to undermine that,

to make those young people feel...

..undervalued by their government.

It's just not right.

Sometimes, you can tell
that you're the son of a preacher.

THEY LAUGH

You know he wants everything.
His ambition is limitless.

But he's overstepped here,
and badly.

We can, and we should, do
something important to counter him.

But this started with you,

and it's going to need to end
with you.

All of which is to say...

..we need you, Nick.

Dave? Dave?
Yes, sir.

How's life at SOCA?
We're getting somewhere.

Did I hear you've been giving orders
to GCHQ?

That must be fun.

It's a bit more complicated
than that.

What can I do for you, John?

Would you mind popping in at mine
for a minute?

Sure.

Internal Investigations caught
an email coming from your computer

to Mike Sullivan at The Sun.

Which email?

So, why is this a problem?

I said you'd rather be told it
by me...

He was useful on Morgan.
He's still useful now.

You've got a good relationship
with him yourself, haven't you?

I also have one or two questions

about the Panorama programme
that went out. Yeah.

I believe you're friends
with Glen Campbell at Panorama.

I have been.

Do you think you could ask him

how he got footage of Jonathan Rees
at his computer?

Well, he's quite protective
of his sources.

Rees is convinced, as am I,

that the footage could only
have come from inside the Met.

He's threatening to take action,
again.

Did it? Come from inside the Met?

Is that a further press relation...?

The request to pass information
to Mike Sullivan came from you.

I mean, he's your mate.

But there are rules, Dave,
and you know that.

I do.

And how's Operation Weeting
treating you, Mr Rules?

Give Panorama, Mike Sullivan,
Nick Davies, or anyone fucking else,

anything about our cases, and
you'll be strung up for all to see.

Do you hear me?

Yeah, I hear you.

I've got permission to talk about it
with you and you alone.

I am privileged.

That means private meetings,
you and I, outside of editorial.

Of course.
When have we not had those?

Welcome back.

Alan, our Scottish friend,
you know him better than I do.

We can trust him, right?
I want to say two things.

One, you're a journalist,

and I am scared that getting
into bed with certain politicians,

well, we'll lose
our vital independence.

You do it all the time.

I share my bed
with all political parties,

and I hope I'm pretty fair
at sharing the covers.

Nick, we've just removed

a senior member
of Conservative staff,

and I don't want that dismissed

as coming from the newspaper arm
of the Labour group.

Yeah, understood.
But I asked about Gordon.

And that's the second thing.

You don't go into a room
with Gordon Brown

and get what you want.

You go into a room
and get what he wants.

He's ferociously intelligent
and very used to power.

But if your interests align,
as I think they do here...

..he can be a remarkable ally.

One last push, is it?
And then I want Brussels.

And then you want
your well-paid chocolate dream.

Of course. Good.

But please, Nick, take it slow.

To work - what have you got?

The flood of cases
is overwhelming the courts,

so they've appointed
a Hacking Judge.

He's already causing trouble.
At the Andy Gray trial,

he said it's clear Mulcaire
had been regularly hacking him.

So that's an invitation.

Any man, woman or creature
who has anything in those books

has been given licence to sue.

And you'll write it up?
Yeah.

Why do you think they gave us this?

Oh, for good journalism.

None of them support the story,
our story.

Guilt, the world's
most powerful motive.

I love you, darling.
Yeah, love you too.

Dinner's in an hour.
OK.

It's mac and cheese.

She's not been sleeping very well.

I've been making her leave her phone
downstairs most nights.

I'm not sure
you'll get away with that.

I'll do my best.
Also, erm...

I've been contacted
by Operation Weeting.

Oh, have you?

You knew, then?

The things they had on me.
I know. I'm sorry.

I should have warned you.
Yeah.

Yates came after me today.
And?

Didn't land a punch.
Good.

They're keeping me at arm's length,

but they did tell me
a few pieces of useful information.

You remember that time Surrey Police
got a call fishing for my details?

Mm-hm.
Well, Weeting told me that

it was probably Mulcaire
who made that call.

Jesus Christ.

I don't think anyone's understood
the depth of criminality here.

Destabilising police investigations,

I mean, we're talking
about a murder charge being...

Yeah. Look who I'm telling, right?

Please don't laugh at me about this.
I'm not.

I'm not.

You know, right at the beginning of
this, I went to see Rebekah Brooks.

And I said,
"What you're doing is outrageous."

And you know what she said?

She said, "We believed that you
and Jacqui were having an affair,

"and as you're both public figures,
public interest was on our side."

They thought
we were having an affair

when we were already married?
Ridiculous.

Absurd.
Cruel, I think, is a better word.

Yeah.

I have a source in the police
who's been quite openly victimised.

Might stop
the whining celebrity angle.

What whining celebrity angle?

People dismissing it

because they think
it's just celebrities whining.

Get him on the record.

It's just, he's been badly damaged
by all this already...

You're Nick Davies?

Only on weekdays.
Have we met? How can I help?

By telling me what the fuck

you think you're doing
stealing my story?

Can we use your office?

Which story have I stolen?
Apparently, you're Mr Hacking.

Every hacking story
carries your byline.

It doesn't.

Today, in the paper, published.

You didn't write one word of it.
No.

Well, aren't you going to apologise?
No.

SHE SCOFFS

You know,
The Guardian gives out all this shit

about what kind of world
that it wants, and yet...

This is well written.
Fuck off.

I didn't ask for a credit on it.
Whoever said I did was wrong.

Right, then, who do we see next?

Alan?
It's bold, don't you think?

Writing a story about the hacking
scandal without consulting someone

who's spent the last three years
having his life destroyed by it?

Is this what works for you?

When you're attacked,
you just attack back?

No. Sometimes.

Maybe.
You could have something there.

This is about Operation Weeting.
It's a totally different thing.

How come I haven't seen you
round the offices before?

I work alone. My own hours.

They're supportive of it.
And what have you got on Weeting?

A contact of mine in the force
has been put on it.

He's feeding me.
Tell me everything.

No.
HE LAUGHS

He says it's timid.
He's eager for more action.

What's he giving you?
Each arrest as it happens.

Neville Thurlbeck is going to be
at Kingston Police Station

between nine and ten, so I'm there
conveniently for the arrest.

Can you - might you -
tell your source,

tell him to look into the
initial Select Committee hearings,

and in particular
the letter they received

from the News International lawyers.

Because there's disclosures in that
the police never got the answer to.

WOMAN: Can someone turn it up?

Thanks. I will.

Would it be so bad,
us working together?

You need to see this.

REPORTER: 'Here's Ben Brazier
in Wapping with more on this story.'

REPORTER: 'First, the denials

'that celebrity voicemail messages
were listened to,

'then they claim it was down

'to a single rogue reporter and
his private investigator sidekick.'

What?

'Now the admission, "We failed
to uncover what was going on."

' "We're going to apologise,
and we're going to pay up." '

Fuck.
Absolutely right.

What exactly are
the News of the World admitting to?

It's brilliant.
Is it?

Well, by admitting they're at fault
and agreeing to cooperate,

in fact, what they're doing
is they're finding a new device

for concealing the truth.

Nick, will it be cheaper?

Standard-rate damages rather than

the million-pound hush money
they've had to pay out.

And getting this out in court now
is next to impossible, am I right?

Well, if you are...

for instance, Sienna Miller
and you do take it to trial,

then if she ends up getting less
at trial

than they offered her before,
then she risks being ordered

to pay both sides' costs,
which could be astronomical.

And so, then, yes, it makes
getting to trial almost impossible.

Shit.

My advice is, they've twisted
one way, we must twist another.

I've had a reply
from Sue Akers on Rees.

She's shutting you down?

She says her remit is limited
to Mulcaire and the notebooks.

She isn't going near Rees.

Should we try to leak something?
Put pressure on that way.

I've got Rees specifically
targeting Kate Middleton.

I've just heard
he targeted John Yates.

Or we could... Do you think...?

If we twisted an arm or two,

do you think we could get me
up the list for PMQs?

Ah. That's a very good idea.
I'm not following.

What does Sue Akers want?

To be free to take the evidence
wherever it leads her.

With a swift prod from the left,

maybe the Prime Minister
will extend her brief.

You could even name Rees.

Oh. Good. Good.
Hang on.

All of this exposes Dave
to scrutiny again.

I'm ready.
Tom, can I help?

Please do.
Good. Good.

Let's box Cameron in.

As the Prime Minister
has previously said,

the hacking inquiry should go
where the evidence takes it.

The Metropolitan Police
are in possession of paperwork,

which details the dealings

of criminal private investigator
Jonathan Rees.

It strongly suggests that on behalf
of News International,

he was illegally targeting members
of the Royal Family,

senior politicians
and high-level terrorist informers.

Yet the head of Operation Weeting
has recently written to me

to explain that this evidence

may be outside
the inquiry's terms of reference.

Prime Minister,

I believe powerful forces
are involved in a cover-up.

Please, please tell me
what you intend to do

to make sure
that this doesn't happen.

DAVID CAMERON: The point I'd make
to the Honourable Gentleman,

who I know takes a close interest
in this,

is there is a police inquiry.

A police inquiry
doesn't need terms of reference.

The police are free
to investigate the evidence

and take that wherever it leads them

and then mount a prosecution
with the CPS.

Amelia. Hi.
Saw you go in.

Sorry, a bit weird to wait
for people outside toilets.

Oh, I've done worse.

Got a minute?
Sure.

Two inquiries are being set up.

Operation Tuleta, looking
specifically into Jonathan Rees.

Good.
Operation Elveden...

I can never get over Scotland Yard's
need for strange names.

..to investigate the alleged payment
of bribes to police officers

and other officials from journalists
from the News of the World.

What's made them do this?
You didn't see Tom Watson's speech?

Oh, I may have done.
Did you write it?

HE LAUGHS

Also, the Select Committee wading
you suggested to my officer,

let's call him...
Jingle.

Fine. It proved fruitful.

Operation Weeting forced some emails
out of News International.

The Met discovered on their servers
some systematic deletions.

Of course.

In particular,
one enormous deletion in January.

While they were handing over those
three emails from Ian Edmondson?

Bastards!

Can we print?
I'm... I'm working on it.

Look, Jingle was grateful
for the advice.

He said he can't volunteer
information on active cases,

but ask him a question,
he'll tell no lies.

HE EXHALES

We've had something interesting
come up.

What is Judge Voss doing?

I feel like we've only seen
a tiny percent of Mulcaire's note.

Voss is being robust with everyone.

It's yielding fruit.
Sienna Miller is being typically...

The Sky Andrew case feels important.
Where are we...?

I've got something,
if you're interested,

but you will need to listen.
Sorry. Go on.

I've been representing, as you know,
Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman.

Yeah, I read about it.
You're doing brilliantly.

SHE CHUCKLES

You're like my ex -
you always get complimentary

when you know you're in the wrong.

Sorry. I am sorry.

I heard you were a mess.

Oh, fine.
I can see an island of sanity.

I'm... I'm floating close to it.
Go on.

I went to Putney
so that the Weeting officers

could show me the notes
Mulcaire had taken from Leslie Ash

and Lee Chapman's voicemail.
Yeah.

Now, some genius
combined the two names

and gave me the details
of Leslie Chapman.

Remind me.
Jessica Chapman's father.

Jessica Chapman was one
of the murdered schoolgirls, right?

The Soham murders?

It looks like Leslie Chapman's
voicemail was hacked.

They hacked the voicemail
of a grieving father?

I'm not sure, but it looks that way.

You can't use it... yet.

This could change everything.
I need to talk to the family.

I need permissions.
I need to be sure.

The Chapman family,
I could talk to them.

That's not why I'm telling you this.

Nick, think.

If they're doing this
to the Chapmans...

Where else have they been?
Exactly.

'Jessica Chapman.'

Oh, the Soham murders
tore the police apart for a while.

She's sure they were
into the parents' phone?

It's in Mulcaire's notebooks.
But I can't get in there.

I've got to find another way in.
You will.

I envy your confidence.
No, I'm just...

HIGH-PITCHED TONE
INTERNALLY

I'm just happy to have you back.

I thought that was better.
Sometimes.

It comes and goes.

Are you just frying that cheese?

It's halloumi cheese.
You'll like it.

I'm not hungry any more.
What?

No, I just don't get it. I mean...

I eat when I know
that I have to eat.

I just don't get hungry any more.

Don't.
What?

With that sympathy look.
I'm not being sympathetic.

Don't try and pretend
you're in any better state than me.

I've seen you, mate -
you are this close

to total collapse, I'm telling you.

You know the story
of the dung beetle?

Oh, God. Have I stooped that low?

What?
It's what you trot out.

You trot out that story quite a lot,
you know.

Ask your kids.
Christ, pity your kids.

Whatever's going on...
"Have you heard of the dung beetle?"

An aggressive response.

HE LAUGHS
Come on.

That'll make you hungry.
Thank you.

You want to know how I do it?
Hmm.

I focus on the details.
Always the next detail.

I've been phobic of blood
ever since a body exploded on me.

A body exploded on you?
Yeah, an older man full of hernias.

Normally, when a pathologist scalpel
enters a cadaver, you hear a hiss.

Well, this time, he exploded.

Blood was everywhere.
I was covered in it.

But I was in homicides,

so going to pathology is a key part
of my job, right?

So I focused on the details.

Ears, toes.

Even how the wound looked.

The blood, I made disappear.

So how do you do it, Nick?

KEYBOARD KEYS CLICK

Tell me I'm mad.

With pleasure.
I was in the database.

News of the World, April 14th, 2002.

250 words long, page nine.

It claims that voicemail messages

were sent to Milly's phone
after she disappeared.

Milly Dowler.

"Police say voicemails were left
by a mentally disturbed woman

"who has hoaxed previous inquiries."

It even quotes
what the message said.

"Hello. We're ringing because
we have some interviews starting.

"Can you call me back?
Thank you. Bye-bye."

This is six days
after Milly had disappeared.

Final edition of the paper.

That reference was removed.

Because they might have realised
what a boo-boo they had made.

Charlotte has evidence
that they hacked

Jessica Chapman's father
on the Soham case.

We can't get close to that,
that was the family,

but this is the girl herself.

Rebekah was editor then.

This was under her aegis.

C-Can you confirm this?
I think so.

Is this as big as I think it is?

Yes, it is.

Make sure it stands up.

NICK: Yeah, hi. Any fruit?

AMELIA: 'Jingle says
they've been investigating.'

Is that confirmation?

Are they confirming
that it happened?

'Yes. There is a page on Dowler
in Mulcaire's notebooks.'

Right, we need
to be absolutely watertight.

'Nick, he also says
they're pursuing a line of inquiry

'they deleted messages
because the voice mailbox was full.'

They deleted messages?

'I'll get us a firm anonymous quote
from Jingle.'

OK, thanks, Amelia. Yeah, bye-bye.
'Bye.'

I have a source from inside Weeting,
I've got the article. Glen.

I've got a good source
saying Surrey Police knew about it

and the Dowler family did not.

Well, this is it. This is it.

I don't want to believe, but I do.

The source is clear.
Stuart Kuttner...

Remember him?
..even called Surrey Police.

He didn't just hear the voicemail.
He followed up on it.

They even think they deleted
her answerphone messages

to allow space
for messages to be given,

which made the family
think she was still alive.

Oh, God.

Do you know, if we can land this,
this changes everything.

How?
A child? A dead child's phone?

It's despicable.

You know, part of the British public
think that celebrities, politicians,

journalists, even,
deserve everything that they get,

but when an innocent is harmed,
an innocent already wronged,

trust me, the News of the World
will not be forgiven for this.

PHONE BUZZES

VOICEMAIL:
'Hi, this is Dave. Leave a message.'

David, I've been offered
to go on to Channel 4.

I don't have a career to protect,
and I think I should do it.

If you have a problem
with any of this,

could you just call me
or text me, please?

Thank you.

DOORBELL RINGS

DOOR OPENS
Mrs Dowler?

My name is Nick Davies.
I know.

They said you'd be coming by.

I've just been watching you
on YouTube.

Come on. Come in.
Thank you.

Thank you.

So the police are keeping you...?
Up to date with it all, yes.

Operation Weeting,
a good team, it seems.

They say it was true.

Our daughter was hacked.

Yes.

Can you tell us why?

Why? Sorry?

What we don't understand
is why someone would do this.

You're a journalist.
Can you explain?

I think they thought
there was a good story in it.

A good story?

They wanted to...
either to find her,

or to find something printable
about her.

So the phone
promised all those things.

But we'd only just lost her -
didn't they know it was wrong?

I think they didn't consider that.

Didn't they know it would hurt us?

Milly...

At that time, Milly was
the most famous person in the UK,

and everyone wanted to read
about her.

And, I'm afraid,
they needed to sell their newspaper.

And now you're here.

Someone else selling a newspaper.
I am.

Yes, but I'm hoping
what we are doing...

..will help expose a wrong
that was done to your daughter.

However, yes, I...
we are selling newspapers,

and I know that all this
will be bringing her

back into the spotlight again,

and I know...
That that's painful?

Just slightly.
Yeah.

But you should do it all the same.

You have our permission, Nick -
if you needed it, that is.

Thank you.

Always can never get used to
microphones being poked everywhere.

SHE SCOFFS
I'm used to it, for Crimewatch.

Of course. Of course you are.
MOBILE BUZZES

More used to it than me.
No.

Do you want to share
the byline with Amelia?

Her source helped confirm it.

It needs something clearer.

News of the World targeted...
Illegally targeted.

Good. Illegally targeted
the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler

and her family, in dates...
Yup.

..interfering with the police
investigation into...

No, interfering
with police inquiries

into her disappearance
and deleted messages.

Then what the family believed -

she's alive, the lie of that.

Do we have a source
and a secondary source?

Yes, we do.
Have we spoken to Scotland Yard?

Of course. I even asked for a quote.

This is... quite something.

TV:
'Channel 4 News can tonight reveal

'that allegations have been aired
that a Metropolitan Police detective

'was put under surveillance
by the News of the World journalists

'and his personal details
were targeted.

'The former Crimewatch presenter
and Detective Jacqui Hames

'has spoken out for the first time.'

So, Jacqui, you were approached
by Operation Weeting.

What did they show you?

They showed me various sheets
of paper,

which I was told came from
Glenn Mulcaire's diaries and notes

and sat there and read

the extent to which he had delved
into my private life,

and it was quite a body blow.

I want to know
who instigated the surveillance

and the research
that was done on us.

I would like to know
how they got and who they got

that personal information from
about us.

'I would like to know what
the purpose of it was from them.'

'Do you think there was an attempt,
here, to interfere

'with your ex-husband's
criminal investigation,

'and if so, what...
where's the evidence for that?'

'It's very difficult
when you look at the...'

SHE CLEARS THROAT

'..the order in which things
happened, the chronology of this.'

Not to at least want to shine
a light on it, and say, you know,

how is it that the day after
that appeal went out on Crimewatch,

that this started to happen.

And it's very difficult
not to come to that conclusion

that they were somehow complicit
in all this,

or somebody
within the organisation was.

Complicit in what, exactly?

'In trying to discredit David,
or myself.'

BUZZING

Of course, they didn't print it.

And so it finally begins.

More revelations...

The pressure
on News of the World grows.

Another day of dramatic development.
Shocking story.

REPORTER:
It is alleged Glenn Mulcaire...

..hacked into the mobile phone

of the murdered schoolgirl
Milly Dowler.

Well, this poor girl's dead,
and they're trying to get stories.

REPORTER: There is a new allegation
that the tabloid may have hacked

into the phones of the relatives
of soldiers killed in Iraq.

If these actions are proved
to have been verified,

I'm appalled
and find it quite disgusting.

Tonight, Chief Executive
Rebekah Brooks says,

we're told, that she's shocked,
and that she knew nothing about it.

REPORTER:
Today is the anniversary of 7/7.

REPORTER: Relatives of victims
of the London bombings

may also have had their phones
hacked into.

Somebody was listening to that.
It's a violation, isn't it?

An extraordinary moment
in British journalism.

REPORTER:
The News of the World is to close.

What happened,
happened very, very quickly.

It's like a bomb's hit the place.

Those decent people up there
have been thrown out of a job.

REPORTER: The sense that everyone
gets is that Rupert Murdoch

is getting rid of News of the World

in order to protect
taking over BSkyB.

I'm interested in those
who were responsible

being brought to justice.

Scotland Yard confirmed today
that it had received documents

suggesting a number of its officers

were given inappropriate payments
by News International.

Paying police for information
is a criminal offence.

It's corrupt, it's bribery.

REPORTER: David Cameron's
former head of communications

is arrested over corruption
and phone hacking.

The decision to hire him was mine,
and I take full responsibility.

There's an awful lot
I'd like to say, but I can't.

REPORTER: The pressure
is mounting on Rebekah Brooks.

Both her and James Murdoch
should be leaving their desks.

REPORTER: The Prime Minister
has announced details

of the independent public inquiry
led by Lord Justice Leveson...

..who will have the power to summon
and question...

..newspaper proprietors,
journalists, police and politicians.

I recognise the vital importance

of reaching a number of conclusions,
and I will strive to do so.

Rebekah Brooks, who finally bowed
to pressure and resigned.

REPORTER: For the past ten days,

she's been at the heart
of the storm.

Now she has decided to step away.

REPORTER: Assistant Commissioner
John Yates has also quit.

It is with great regret
that I make this decision.

The mighty Murdoch empire

has suffered
its most humiliating blow yet,

as it suddenly dropped its bid
to take control of BSkyB.

REPORTER ON TV:
'Murdoch has abandoned

'his bid for BSkyB,
but will he face wider consequences

'in relation
to the phone hacking scandal?

'What will come next
in this shocking saga?'

MAN: And I heard, as it were,
the noise of thunder...

..one of the four beasts saying,
"Come and see."

And I saw, and behold,

a white horse.

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