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Whoa!

HANA: Kate Ward is dead, she was stabbed.

NOLAN: Shaped like a star.

PILOT: There was no turbulence.

The starboard aileron control was switched off.

Bie shuo la!

Jess, it's been a minute. Is it weird being Hana's boss now?

It is a bit, yeah.

What the hell?

Here's the report on the incident at World Pacific Medicine.

DELANEY: What incident? TENNANT: There was a break-in.

GUNSHOTS Get down!

JESS: Do you know why any of this is happening?

Only that it could jeopardise the Anglo-China nuclear deal.

GUNSHOTS, CHAPMAN MOANS

Does Langley have any ideas who has the balls to gun down

an MI6 officer in his own home?

It's OK to be sad.

Which is something my dad would never had said.

JESS: Sir George said something to me before he died.

He told me that Nolan has something.

He told me the same thing, but I don't!

DELANEY: This isn't about what one of them knows,

it's about what one of them was given.

Hana, what do I do? 'It'll be all right.'

Please just go to Dad's, and I will call Simon right away.

SILENCER CLICKING

I was so scared, Mum.

DOORBELL RINGS

Dad, check who it is before you answer the door. Baba!

Hi, Mr Li. Simon O'Brien. We met before?

Yes, of course. Please, come in.

My daughter is inside.

Are you all right? Course I'm not bloody all right.

I know you've been through a lot, but we need to go. Go?

Well, she's safe here, isn't she?

Your daughter witnessed a murder, Mrs Li.

The safest place for her is in protective custody.

She's not going anywhere until you tell us what's going on.

Who killed that man?

Why is Jess in danger? Baba.

IN CANTONESE:

Mr Li, if I knew, I would tell you. Nobody is safe here.

The two of you need to find somewhere else to stay.

Jess, you need to come with me.

OK.

Your sister's going to be OK.

I know. Of course.

Things always have a way of working out for Jess.

I sense a story there.

SCOFFS No.

We just had very different upbringings, that's all.

Jess was born in England.

She's only half Chinese.

And I've always felt that

the other part of her is what lets life be that bit kinder.

At least that part of her belongs.

She wrote an article about me

for her paper last year.

She didn't ask. Just assumed it'd be OK.

Hmm. It was her first job, her big break.

And I killed it.

She is going to be OK.

PHONE BEEPS

Tell me you have her.

SIMON: 'I do. She's OK.

'Your parents are going to stay with friends, you be safe.'

I'm going to take her to the station.

Thank you, I owe you.

TYRES SCREECH

Hey! What are you doing?

It's a matter of national security. Stay out of this, Superintendent.

This is Thames House business.

Mum? Who are you? Get your hands off my daughter!

Where are you taking her?

Stand down.

MR LI: What is going on here!?

TYRES SCREECH

MUM: Simon, I don't understand. Who are they?

MI5.

Are you OK?

MI5 just took Jess from Simon.

What?

Are you sure?

That's what Simon said, but I'm checking.

I'm glad she's OK.

Thanks.

Listen, I'm sorry about Sir George.

I don't know if you guys were close.

Not really.

Selfishly, I think I think I'm more upset

because he felt like my last hope.

And you don't know why he's so adamant

you have whatever this thing is?

I can't have it.

I was strip-searched at Heathrow,

they went through everything I have.

Maybe it's in your head.

Like something she said to you.

She drugged me.

That's hardly the best way to get somebody to remember something.

Jesus. What?

What if she wasn't drugging me?

You said she was. I mean...

I'm sorry.

...what if she was sedating me?

What's the difference? Intent.

Uncuff me.

Where are you going with this?

All this time,

I thought it was a bouncer at the nightclub

that had stabbed me.

But what if it was her?

What if it's buried inside me?

I need to get it out.

Find the scissors.

Wait, so she sedates you at the club,

stabs whatever it is into you,

you wake up with a hangover with no idea

why your side is hurting, and smuggle it back to the UK.

Look... scissors.

Um... can you release the stitches?

WINCES

SCISSORS CLIPPING

Now you need to wash and sterilise your hand.

Why? Because I need you to feel inside the wound

with your fingers.

SCOFFS Are you serious?

I can't reach.

Please?

Right, it's gonna bleed, so take this gauze,

and with your free hand, open the wound.

I get it, I get it.

Are you ready?

Yeah.

CRIES OUT IN PAIN

I don't think I... feel anything.

I...

Wait, maybe there is something.

Oh, wait.

Found it.

I can't get to it. Oh... Wait.

Here. OK.

WINCING

You OK? Should I stop?

Keep going. OK, OK, almost there.

Almost got it.

I got it!

What is it?

It's a nano SIM card.

DOOR OPENS

Could you sit down, please?

So, you're Jess Li.

Sister of Hana Li,

the officer on board flight 357.

That's right.

I'm Director Delaney.

I'll cut to the chase.

Did you work for Sir George, Jess?

I work for the London Echo.

You could be doing both.

Should I be asking for a lawyer or something?

We're not the police, you're not under arrest, so no lawyers.

DOOR OPENS

Your parents are from Hong Kong.

My father is. My mum's from Camden.

You and Hana have different mothers.

Yes, hers died in Hong Kong.

It says here that Hana's mother was arrested

after the Chinese takeover and died in custody.

Uh, that's right.

Do you have a Chinese passport, Jess?

I'm British, born here.

Does Hana?

No. What does this have to do with anything?

I'm just trying to get a full picture of a woman

who breaks into World Pacific Medicine,

and then survives while a trained officer was assassinated.

Hey, I didn't break into anywhere.

And if anything's missing,

you should ask those government agents about it.

What government agents?

I filmed them.

Take a breath, Madeline.

Take a breath? What the hell is this, John?

Why have you got OSCT officers

destroying files at World Pacific Medicine?

National security, maybe you've heard of it.

I couldn't chance China making a connection

between Nolan and Blindside.

Covering your arse, you mean. Covering everybody's arse...

MI6, Downing Street, yours included.

Don't rope me into your mess. You roped yourself in.

Sir George Chapman is dead because you kept Blindside secret from me.

Oh, get off your high horse, Madeline.

George knew the risks, just like the rest of us.

And what about those victims on the flight?

The unwitting couriers for MI6?

Did they know the risks? You've crossed lines, here, John.

I'm not shutting this down, you've gone way too far!

I think you're forgetting who's in charge here.

Explain to me!

Knowing everything that you know,

why would you let Nolan or any of the others

be flown back to China?

Nolan didn't have what we were looking for.

China was threatening the deal.

I saw no harm in recommending we cooperate.

He was no longer of any use to you,

so you cut him loose and threw him to the wolves.

Did it never occur to you that if Nolan didn't have it,

one of the others might?

KNOCKING ON DOOR What?!

Hana's on the phone, ma'am. She's found it.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Put her on speaker phone.

MEGAN: She's on.

Hana, it's me. What have you found?

It's a nano SIM card. 'Where was it?'

'Nolan had it the whole time. It was buried in his wound.'

He wasn't stabbed by a bouncer in Beijing, ma'am.

Shen Zhao stuck it into him.

And had no idea about this?

She never told him what she was going to do.

TENNANT: That's because he wasn't the intended courier.

This was improvised.

Have you seen what's on it yet?

No. 'Find a laptop that'll read it.'

She'll need a caddy for the nano SIM to make it full size.

You heard that? Yeah. I'll do my best.

Call me when you're ready, and I'll give you a secure address.

And Hana...

'Stay public.

'Now you have it, you're in more danger than ever.'

I'd suggest once it's sent, that she destroys the SIM.

Thank you, John, I'll take that under advisement.

Ruth, set up end-to-end encryption through our own satellites.

I don't want anyone else reading this before we do.

I'll need to set up a password.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

PHONE RINGING

DELANEY: Quiet, everyone! Hana, did you find a laptop?

Yes. I opened the SIM, and there are two files.

TENNANT: DC Li, are the files labelled?

Uh, yes. One is called "original," the other "C-A-E".

MEGAN: Hana, in the address bar,

type, "asterisk, backslash, three, T, seven, backslash asterisk."

Done.

'It'll ask for a password.'

Type, "zebra, alpha, George, six, hashtag one."

I'm in.

Drag the files into the box, they'll automatically upload.

OK.

Now you're both on.

What's going on?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

They're large files, ma'am, so it's taking a moment to upload.

'That's fine, Hana.' What's uploading? What is that?

Almost done.

CRACKLING

Uh, something's wrong, it's stopped uploading.

Should I try again?

Ma'am? What's happened?

Hello?

Where's the link? What's the status?

BLEEPING

Talk to me, where are the files?

They haven't come through.

Satellite data indicates 357 has stopped transmitting or receiving.

In English, please. Their Wi-Fi's down.

Can we turn it back on remotely?

MEGAN: No, ma'am. TENNANT: It's the Chinese.

They know we've found it. We don't know that.

Oh, come on, Madeline. The file is called "C-A-E"...

"China Atomic Energy". Who else could this be?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Did it send? I don't think so.

Yunxi, what's happening? I don't know.

The Wi-Fi's down. It should reboot in just a few...

BEEPING

It is imperative I send this.

There must be a problem below.

JET ENGINES DRONE

CRACKLING

Did you fix it?

It cannot be fixed. Why not?

Because somebody has torn out the wires.

What do you mean, "somebody"?

The internet was working a moment ago, so who went down there?

Nobody. But you should know that...

Co-Pilot Wu! No. Captain, this has gone too far!

There was no turbulence when Dr Hurst fell down the stairs. What?

Gou le! Somebody turned off the aileron control unit

to make it look like an accident.

Captain, you knew about this the whole time, and you didn't tell us?

Shame on you!

The killer's been hiding down there the whole flight,

finding some other way in and out.

What do you want to do?

If he really is down there, what's to say he won't crash the plane?

He's right.

Open it. HANA: Lead the way.

JET ENGINES DRONE

All clear!

I'll lead the way. Stay behind me.

HANA: I told you, I thought I saw something down here.

OK, you go that way. I'll go this way.

I have a quicker way. OK, come on out!

We know you're down here!

What are you doing?

What the fuck? Don't move!

You're under arrest!

No, you don't move.

Hands behind your head, on your knees.

What the fuck are you doing?

My job.

CAMERA CLICKS Go get Nolan, he has the SIM.

Show him the photo if he resists.

You're going to pay for what you've done.

I think you mean "get paid".

This shouldn't be taking so long.

Can I just go in there? Maybe I can help.

No. NOLAN SIGHS

Bloody hell.

INTERCOM BEEPS

CAPTAIN: 'Sorry about that slight disturbance, folks.

'It was just an air pocket, no reason to be alarmed.'

Shaped like a star.

Watch the laptop. I need to go downstairs to check something.

BREATHING HEAVILY

I'm sorry.

Hey, what's going on?

Nolan, get out of here! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Where's the SIM card? Don't give it to him.

Shut up. Hey!

I know you're not stupid enough to leave it upstairs.

Give it to me or I'll take it from your corpse.

Don't do it! Here it is.

Toss it to me. Nolan.

I'm not letting him shoot you for this, Hana.

I didn't choose to do this and neither did you.

It's not our fight.

Give it to me now!

Excuse me, you can't be up here. Business Class passengers only.

I'm talking to you.

CRIES OUT

MAN: Where's Dr Nolan?

He went downstairs.

GRUNTING

PASSENGERS CLAMOURING

GRUNTING

Nolan! Get the gun!

GUNSHOT, NOLAN CRIES OUT

INTERCOM BEEPS

Captain, there are gunshots in the hold.

You think we can't hear them? Try and keep the passengers calm.

Tell them it was another air pocket.

Ni yao gan ma?

Zhe shi wo de fei ji. Wo dei xia qu kan kan.

'Ladies and gentlemen, please do not be alarmed.

'We are experiencing air pockets

'which has caused baggage to fall in the hold.'

GRUNTING

Stop!

BREATHING HEAVILY

Do you even know how to use that?

Ask your friend.

Are you OK?

Not really.

OK.

BREATHING HEAVILY

Hand over the SIM.

No! ZHANG GRUNTS

You broke my tooth.

Yeah, well, you're lucky that's all I broke.

Handcuff yourself, you're under arrest.

You don't understand. You just killed me.

What are you talking about?

Is that white powder? He's foaming at the mouth.

What is on that SIM? Tell me!

SNIFFS Can you smell the almonds?

Tell me or I will shoot you! Cyanide.

I'd save the bullets for yourself, Wing Yee.

You won't leave Beijing alive.

What's going on?

What's going on? Is he dead? Whoa.

Yeah. Captain, why would an air marshal have cyanide in his tooth?

He wouldn't.

But Ministry of State Security could.

Why did he call you Wing Yee?

It's my given name. Hana was just easier to get by.

You're Wing Yee Li?

I saw your name...

...on a luggage tag.

Dr Nolan? It's OK.

There was a man in a green hoodie. Danger's over.

I've never seen this bag before in my life.

That's Songyun's case.

Bring her here.

INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

PHONE BEEPS

Mike.

'How you holding up?'

Well, we've, uh...

We've hit a speed bump, but there's progress.

Are you alone?

Yeah.

Why? What's going on?

Tennant told me that your girl and Nolan found something on 357.

Tennant called you?

'He's playing all angles, Maddie.'

So you need to, as well.

'Did he tell you what was found?'

Even he knows when not to overshare.

But I did sense he's concerned

he may have backed the wrong horse over this power plant deal.

Let me guess.

He's lining up the US as a buyer,

in case China is implicated in the deaths on 357,

and the nuclear deal goes south.

Naturally.

He has no idea what information Shen Zhao gave Nolan.

I'm just giving you a heads-up, honey.

He's already laying track that everything that went wrong tonight

is because of you breaking protocol

and taking over comms lead with DC Li.

And if he's telling me,

you can be damned sure he's telling the PM.

So, watch your six. Always.

If you need anything, call me.

Thanks, Mike.

BACKGROUND CHATTER

JET ENGINES DRONE

Captain, you wanted to see me.

Why is my name on your case?

I, uh...

I am past the point of asking twice.

What's in it?

American bearer bonds.

Tai chun le, tai bu fu ze ren le!

What's the combination?

I don't know.

GRUNTING

Oh, that is not bearer bonds.

All these passports have my photo

but different names. Why?

Who paid you to smuggle this on board?

I never met them. It was all electronic.

Do you know what you've done to me?

Do you have any idea? Hana, don't.

Breathe.

Songyun, assist Yunxi upstairs.

IN MANDARIN:

I don't care about your excuses!

I'm being framed. Join the club.

This makes me look like a British spy,

like I've got my passports and my money to get out of China.

The death will be pinned on me.

I'll be arrested the moment we land in Beijing.

This is what Zhang meant by we're not getting out of China alive.

We need to turn this plane around.

I can't.

Captain, you can see what's going on here.

You know we are innocent.

It's impossible for me to give the orders to turn back.

Only Beijing can do that, and they won't!

So you need to convince them!

Bad things will happen to my family if I try.

But you know what will happen to us if you don't?

I'm sorry.

I wish I could help you, but it's out of my hands.

Do you?

Do you wish you could help us?

Of course.

Then what if we took the decision out of your hands?

My family would still suffer for me opening the cockpit door to you.

So, don't.

MONITOR CHIMES

Ji zhang, chu shen me shi le? You ren shou shang ma?

Ni mei shi ba?

I'm fine.

I guess I'm still a little shaken.

What happened?

It was Officer Zhang, and an accomplice.

Where are they?

Both dead.

Beijing are going to have a lot to say about this.

Except we're not going to Beijing.

Fly the plane.

How did you get in? Wu, didn't you lock the hatch?

I did. Well, clearly not!

Detective Li, put down the gun, what are you doing?

What does it look like I'm doing, Captain?

I'm taking over, and you're going to turn this plane back to London.

That's not possible.

My orders... Are changed.

OK, no-one needs to get hurt.

I have to talk to Air Traffic for a new flight plan.

Talk to whoever you want. Just turn this plane around.

Hana just hijacked flight 357.

What?

She's forced it to turn around. It's headed back to London.

MEGAN: Beijing air traffic control received this from 357, ma'am.

CAPTAIN: 'What are you doing?'

HANA: 'What does it look like I'm doing, Captain?

'I'm taking over and you're going to turn this plane back to London.'

'OK. OK. No-one needs to get hurt.

'I have to talk to...'

Where are they now? Still in Russian airspace.

They turned back 12 miles from China-Mongolian border.

Have they got enough fuel to get home?

The plane holds 17 hours of fuel.

They're eight and a half hours out.

They should make it, just.

Get me through to the cockpit.

CAPTAIN: Understood, Tower, patch them through.

The government wishes to speak to you, Detective Li.

Of course they do.

HANA: 'Hello.'

Hana, what the bloody hell's going on up there?

'We can't land in China, ma'am.'

I've been framed now as well as Nolan.

Explain.

'There was a bag with my name on it.'

It was full of cash and fake passports,

enough to convince anyone that I'm a spy.

'They were going to frame me for the murders.'

Who's "they"? Zhang,

the air marshal, was behind the killings.

Him and another officer hiding in the hold.

Where are they now?

Dead.

I shot one of them, and the second took his own life.

He had cyanide in his tooth,

which implies he was really Chinese State Security.

'Ma'am?

'Ma'am?'

Hana, do you still have what we discussed?

We do.

'You're not safe until you hand it to us.'

Stay alert, and I'll meet you at the airport.

OK.

Have Dunsfold Airbase clear a runway.

I want our boys on the tarmac to meet that plane.

RUTH: Ma'am.

Minister Tang is on the line for you.

Tell him I'm busy.

She just walked in, ma'am.

PRIME MINISTER: 'Madeline.'

Prime Minister.

'What the fuck is going on over there?

'I've got Beijing and DC screaming at me for an explanation,

'and my press office is already getting calls.'

If you'll let me explain, ma'am...

'I'm the one stuck explaining this mess.

'MI5 is not set up to handle international operations like this,

'and you taking point has just made matters worse.'

I understand how you might think that, Prime Minister,

but this all unravelled because I was unaware of an active MI6 op

that these doctors were unwittingly part of.

'John's already filled me in on Blindside,

'and it strikes me that his handling of it

'is the only thing that's gone right tonight.'

Excuse me? Thank you, ma'am.

'I don't know whether you came back too soon

'after your husband's accident,

'but at this juncture, I'm asking John to take over

'and you to step down.'

You... you can't be serious.

Whatever you need, ma'am.

'Now if you'll excuse us, Madeline, I need to talk with John.'

She's just leaving, ma'am.

Uh, Madeline, if you could close the do...

WHISPERING: Ruth.

Can I trust you?

Of course.

The PM's put Tennant in charge.

He's so focused on covering his arse on Blindside,

I don't trust him to protect Hana or Nolan.

I need to get the sister out of here

before he orders me to be escorted from the building.

What can I do?

Watch him like a hawk.

Jess, grab your things, we're leaving.

I know it's a big ask,

but can I have your mobile phone and your car keys?

Company vehicles are too trackable.

Of course.

Thank you for everything that you've done for me tonight.

I'm sorry I didn't believe you sooner.

Why would you?

After seeing how hard you tried to save Lomax,

I should've realised then

that you wouldn't have just left Shen Zhao to die.

Wouldn't I?

I honestly don't know.

I was really scared.

All I could think about in that nightclub

was getting away.

Part of me thinks that if she was in the car,

I might've run.

I think you're wrong.

I'd like to think so.

But I'll never really know for sure.

Where the bloody hell is my detainee?

She left with Director General Delaney, sir.

Megan, where's her car right now?

Parked downstairs.

I guess at the end of the day,

we're all just trying to figure out who we are

versus who we pretend to be.

I think, ultimately, that's why I joined the police.

Why?

Because I was lost.

Growing up, I hated being Chinese.

Really?

Yeah, I was...

I was so embarrassed to embrace my culture,

but I didn't feel British, either.

So you put on a uniform, and everyone knows who you are.

What did your parents say?

SCOFFS

My dad is still waiting for me to become a doctor.

CHUCKLES Or at least marry one.

What about your mum?

She died in Hong Kong, when I was five.

I'm sorry.

What happened?

She was a university lecturer.

She was arrested for inciting anti-communist dissent

among her students.

They took her away, and I never saw her again.

She died in custody, and they never told us how.

God.

That's hard.

Dad emigrated us to England,

but I've never been back.

And the worst part is, is that it, um...

it broke him, in some way, you know?

Not knowing how she died.

So, he just doesn't talk about her, at all.

Even to me.

She's just a photo in the hallway.

TRAFFIC PASSING

JESS: Where are we going?

DELANEY: To help Hana.

How?

She's hijacked her flight.

She's what? She's heading back to London,

but when she lands, she's in real trouble.

Whoever is behind the deaths on 357

is still prepared to kill for what she has.

I need you to trust me.

Well, what can I do?

Right now, if I was your sister,

I wouldn't know who to believe about anything.

You're my assurance that she knows I'm on her side.

Are you?

On her side?

Oh...

I'll probably lose my career for what we're about to do.

PHONE BUZZES

Maxwell. DELANEY: 'Mike, it's me.'

Maddie? What number is this?

I had to borrow a phone. 'What's happening?'

Tennant's done what you said.

He's taken over Thames House operations.

'I'm in a car with Jess Li, Hana Li's sister.'

Have you heard that Hana and Nolan have hijacked their plane?

Heard? It's deafening.

The White House is on with Downing Street

and Beijing as we speak.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Listen, I need your help.

I don't trust that Tennant isn't involved

in whatever's going on any more.

That's a big swing, Maddie.

Do you got a bat to back it up with?

All I know is he's had me on the back foot all night,

and he's lied about everything.

Does that information implicate him directly? I don't know.

But the only way that I can be sure

is if I see what Nolan's carrying before he does.

'Will you help me do that?'

Of course.

I'd do anything to help you.

You know that.

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