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[Rav] That's Mr Ryan Walker leaving the NATO conference

to go AWOL with the Russian Foreign Minister.

-[suspenseful music playing] -No official car, no PPOs,

and no Special Adviser, Melissa Morris.

Does Ryan often go AWOL? Does he shut you out of things?

That's not why I got into politics.

Why are you working for Ryan Walker then?

There is always room

for someone like you in our office.

Look, can we just leave the cross-questioning

to the journalists, please?

Your colleagues say to me that you should resign.

I won't be resigning any time soon.

[Ryan] Did you leak my meeting with Dmitri Krimsov

-to the press? -No.

Do not meddle with the democratic process.

It is my great pleasure to announce my campaign

to be the next leader of our party...

-[camera shutters clicking] -...and of our great country.

The man in the Merc is Lev Amatov,

our cuddly British oligarch.

There's plenty of dirty money in Montenegro, you know.

[Kate] Why would Imogen accept a two-hundred-grand donation

from a man like Lev Amatov?

She spent an awful lot of time horsing around with her aide.

Joshua Long.

Do you think Imogen's ever been unfaithful?

No, not that I know of. Why?

What, a sex video of Imogen Conrad?

How do you know it is gonna leak?

I don't. I've just been tipped off that it might.

[Lena groans]

When did you last hear from Echo?

It's possible Moscow knows we're watching Igor.

[speaking Russian]

[Igor]

[Kyril, in English] Your little Lenochka

was spying on us.

Can you authorize a team to extract her?

It's too risky, Kate.

I'm not leaving her there, Rose.

I'm really sorry, but I have to go away again tomorrow.

It's a potentially hostile environment.

[Kyril] Everything is in place.

Now you're going to find out what Henderson knows.

[music concludes]

[tense music playing]

[door creaks softly]

[mobile buzzing]

-[Rav] Sorry. -[Kate] No need.

I told you it was your choice.

[Rav] I'm sorry that I'm late.

I made the cab stop for a coffee.

[theme music playing]

[music concludes]

[footsteps approaching]

Okay.

You're a good girl, Lena.

Going to morning mass.

Right?

Say it for mic.

I'm a good girl going to morning mass.

[Kyril] Perfect. Let's go.

[church bells ringing in distance]

[tense music playing]

Clear sky.

[exhales deeply] Okay.

-[radio static buzzes] -[Kate] How's the weather?

Still cloudy here.

[error code beeps]

[error code beeps]

-[Kate] ETA? -A minute.

I hope.

[error code beeps]

[indistinct chatter]

Hostile in church.

-[motorcycle engine rumbling] -[suspenseful music playing]

[music falls]

-[laptop chimes] -[Rav] Yes.

-Let's get it on! -[music rises]

We're in business. Clear sky.

[music intensifies]

Exit street clear,

but assume hostile still in church.

In position and clear.

[softly] Amber position in five.

[Rav] Car approaching.

Marketplace location.

Car parked in the usual place.

Lena.

You know what to do.

[in Russian]

[indistinct chatter]

[softly, in English] Eyes on Echo.

She's on the approach.

Possible tail, blue shirt.

[speaking French]

[softly] Tail has dropped off.

Second tail, red baseball cap on foot,

following her up Republic.

Confirm tail two.

-[radio static buzzes] -[Kate] Green positions.

Take out tail two in five seconds.

-[grunts] -[Kate grunts]

[tense music playing]

[car engine starting]

-[Lena gasps] -[Kate] Lena!

Come on, I've got you.

-Get in. -[Lena pants]

[music falls]

[music rises]

Fuck!

[grunts]

[Kate] You're safe.

[motorcycle engine rumbling]

[tyres screech]

[tyres screeching]

[tyres screeching]

Come on.

Come on, come on.

[gentle music playing]

[bullet rips]

-[tense music playing] -[Julie] Fuck!

[rifle cocks]

-[bullet rips] -[grunts]

[rifle cocks]

-[bullet ricochets] -Fuck!

[music concludes]

[Zak] Are you all right? The team?

-Yeah. We made it to Sicily. -[sombre music playing]

I'm sorry.

[Zak] I know what it's like to lose an agent.

[sighs softly]

We'll talk when you're back.

[music concludes]

[car door closes]

-[keys jingling] -[door opening]

Hello, you.

It looks like you've been in a war.

I have.

What, has something bad happened?

-I lost someone. -[Stuart] Oh, my love.

I'm so sorry.

So am I.

Well, do you wanna... do you wanna talk about it?

-Can you talk about it? -No.

[Stuart] Are you okay?

-I'm alive. -Yeah.

-Come here. Come here. -[sobs]

-[Stuart] There you go... -[sobs]

There you go.

["Les Parfumes de La Nuit" playing]

[cork squeaks]

[alcohol pouring]

[bottles clinking]

[swallows, exhales softly]

[chair scrapes]

[keyboard clacking]

[Kate sighs]

[exhales, sniffles]

[sighs]

[computer beeps]

All right, I've got you now.

[music concludes]

[lock clicks]

[keys jingling]

You look rested.

Ditto.

I've got something to show you.

I found the Russian ops team.

They flew Moscow to Istanbul on their real passports

the day before we arrived in Malta.

They used three different credit cards,

but they're all linked to the same billing address,

which is a known SVR back office.

Well, they're not as clever as they think.

No.

No, I figured they'd switch to aliases

once they got to Istanbul,

so I looked up anyone who paid in cash.

Simonov, Smirnov. Palachnikov, Kuznetsov.

[tense music playing]

[keyboard clacking]

That's more than stupid. That's totally reckless.

-[Rav] What is? -They travelled on old aliases.

It's unheard of for Moscow Centre

to take risks using worn passports.

Unless you're in a massive rush.

Yeah.

So, bottom line, they didn't know about our op

until the day before yesterday.

[Kate] Which means someone must have tipped them off

-about Echo. -Yeah, who?

Someone who knows about our op.

Can you send these to Zak and Rose?

-Yeah. -Do you want a coffee?

No, I'm good, thanks.

[traffic whizzing]

[music concludes]

[Zak] I warned you

that going back might end in disaster.

I know you did.

We've spent all night swimming in a river

of Maltese ministry shit.

Next time we trigger a shootout around church-going civilians,

they'd rather we asked first.

[Kate] I'm sorry.

But shouldn't they be blaming the Russians?

I know you wanted to save your agent.

But you were lucky to get out alive.

It wasn't just luck, Zak.

Can't we just agree this proves Moscow

was trying to stop our op

to protect their asset in London?

[sighs]

Go on.

Igor rushed his team out on well-known aliases,

ignoring all their protocols.

That's a man that's desperate to protect

a high-stakes operation.

You think he found out we bugged his villa?

How?

Well, why would he be moving an ops team out

in such a panic?

So he was tipped off?

-I think so. -[Zak] From London?

It's a possibility.

[Zak] And their aim was to kill you as well as Echo?

Reduce the Russia Desk to ground zero?

It's crude, but they might think it was worth it

if their London op was big enough, which it is.

It's a possibility.

But let's say Moscow fed you the idea

that they've got an asset here in the cabinet.

Isn't this exactly what they do?

Set you up, aim close and near miss just enough

to make you believe they were trying to kill you.

Or they were trying to take me out

to stop my op and get their asset into Downing Street.

It's plausible. We have to acknowledge that.

Look, this isn't just

about what happened in Valletta.

Rav and I have found credible grounds

for suspecting both Ryan Walker and Imogen Conrad.

What?

Are you serious?

The PM expressly forbade us

from investigating his ministers.

-I know, but I had to-- -[Zak shouts] No buts!

Jesus, Kate, when you breach a direct order

from the PM,

you put the entire service in jeopardy.

He didn't leave us any choice.

He's the Prime Minister!

I will have to take this upstairs.

[Kate] To the Foreign Secretary?

Right now there's a strong chance

he'll be the next Prime Minister, Zak.

But a slim one he's a Russian asset.

And if he is,

then it'll be too late to do anything about this.

Our democracy is more important than your suspicions.

-[lift chimes] -[trolley wheels rattling]

We need to get Echo-- Lena's brother, out of Russia.

We owe him that much at least.

I wasn't going to tell you today.

[inhales deeply] Our team lost Alexei in St Petersburg.

Lost him?

Moscow got there first.

I'm sorry.

-[brooding music playing] -[exhales]

You did all you could.

But right now, we've got bigger problems.

[Kate] We do.

If Zak keeps sidelining my intelligence...

If he won't do it

then I will talk to Sir Alan and the PM myself.

You cannot go behind his back.

You're in enough trouble as it is,

and you're not thinking straight.

You need time to process everything.

What time?

In a few days, we might have a Russian asset

running the country.

For all we know, Igor's tip-off about Lena came from our side.

Get some rest, then we'll talk.

[Imogen] He must resign, Anushka.

[Anushka] But he won't, will he?

[Imogen] He must.

He met with our political enemy off the books,

without his protection officers or officials present.

That's the kind of naked corruption we expect

from the opposition.

It's inexplicable and it's inexcusable.

So just to be clear,

are you accusing the Foreign Secretary

of collusion with the Kremlin?

I'm saying he has no principles.

And that populist rhetoric he's spouting

could have been written in Moscow.

He's not fit for public office.

[Anushka] And what about you?

If you behaved inappropriately, would you resign?

Well, I've not met with the Russian Foreign Minister

-off the record, have I? -That wasn't my question.

I'm trying to understand what your moral code is

-in the case of-- -No, I'm sorry, Anushka.

I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals.

-[elevator chimes] -[indistinct chatter]

Fucking ITV. They're worse than the Beeb.

What the hell was all that moral code bullshit all about?

[Stuart] She was just trying to get under your skin.

[Imogen] Yeah, but with what?

I felt like she had something on me.

[Stuart] No. Trust me,

if they thought they had anything on you,

I would know about it.

Did you find out whether Kate and her team were looking into

this Krimsov business?

Nope. Haven't asked, and she wouldn't tell me anyway.

Oh, come on. Unsupervised contact

with the Russian Foreign Minister

in the middle of a war.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I agree. It fucking stinks.

Yeah, so can't she throw us a crumb?

If we knew Ryan was being investigated by SIS,

we could finally drive a stake through his heart.

Listen, I am not going to push her on it.

She's under enough pressure as it is, okay?

With what?

-She can't say, can she? -And the alternative is what?

Ryan is prime minister?

Look, if we give the nod

that SIS are investigating Ryan's links with Moscow,

then it will land on Kate, won't it? I can't do it.

I'm sorry, I can't.

Well, call all the cabinet SpAds.

I tell them Meg, Ted and I are going to release

a joint statement tonight calling for Ryan's resignation.

If we can get enough ministers to join us,

he'll have to resign.

-[Stuart] Okay. -All right.

[overlapping chatter]

-[journalist clamouring] -[journalist] Melissa!

He's got no further comments, Rom.

Mel?

-Is he going to resign? -What do you think?

-[overlapping chatter] -[doorbell buzzing]

[doorbell buzzing]

[Amanda] Can you get that?

I don't want my morning face everywhere.

Shit.

[Amanda] What's up?

Mylar might be headed for administration.

They just fired John.

[Amanda] Does it mention your investment?

-No, thank God. -[Amanda] Oh.

[overlapping chatter]

Please tell me you are bringing

some good news this morning, Melissa.

I could really, really do with it.

[chuckles softly]

I came to tell you I'm resigning.

Now?

-[scoffs] -[Ryan] In the middle

of my campaign?

I'm sorry.

I just don't think our values align anymore.

I assume you value honesty.

-Absolutely. -[Amanda] Good.

So did you tell the press about Ryan's meeting with Krimsov?

Of course I didn't.

I'm glad to hear it,

because nobody in Whitehall wants to hire a snitch.

[Ryan] Resignation accepted, then.

Maybe it's for the best.

Well, good luck.

I really hope it's a fair fight.

[Amanda scoffs]

This is politics. There's nothing fair about it.

What like ruining Imogen Conrad's life?

Oh, for Chri... I'm not gonna use

the video, Melissa.

[Amanda] Yeah, right, what he means is,

we've got no idea what you're talking about.

But in case there's any doubt, remember that you're still bound

by the NDA in your contract.

Tell me something.

Did Dmitri Krimsov really lose a child,

or did you make it up to save face?

Get out!

[sighs]

-[door opens] -Oh, God.

[journalists clamouring]

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay, we'll erm...

-[door closes] -We'll survive.

I just need to weather this Mylar clusterfuck.

[Amanda] Can't your dad help you out again?

I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know.

It's just...

Sorry. It's just... It's just a lot.

All at once.

Do people really think we'd use our son

as a "get out of jail" free card?

No. No. Come on.

Of course they don't. [kisses]

You know I suffer too.

You've got a funny way of showing it.

Well, I had to put the story to bed.

[Amanda scoffs]

-When we're in Number 10-- -[Amanda] That's your dream.

It's not mine.

Well, we agreed it'd be a new chapter for us both.

Did we?

Or did you just assume that we'd stumble on

in the service of your career?

You know I'll wait.

For what?

For you to come back.

At least you've got your ambition.

It's something to hold on to.

I said I'd help to try to get us there,

and then we can think again.

So now you'd better go and butter up your dad.

I've spoken to every single SpAd.

All of their ministers are complete cowards,

bar none.

Thank you very much.

So, as of now, all we have is you,

Meg, and dear old Ted.

Now, trust me, three Cabinet resignations

does not a rebellion make.

Tell them, if Ryan wins,

he's gonna clear the stables anyway,

so most of them won't have jobs.

Or a party to speak of.

Oh, we definitely need more than three of you.

Okay, try them again.

I'll call some of the principals myself.

I'll tell them Meg, Ted, and I are gonna come out

just before the News at Ten tonight.

-Okay. -[tense music playing]

[Kate] We need to know why Lev Amatov wanted Imogen

at the Montenegro conference.

[Rav] Right, and who she was hanging out with.

[Kate] According to Angela White,

she was horsing around with Joshua Long.

[Rav] Okay, so maybe he was a go-between?

[Kate] Or the honey trap.

Maybe Lev has some kind of hold on her

and Long could be the reason why.

See you later.

[Joshua] Kate Henderson.

-Yes. -Hi.

I'm Joshua Long. How are you? You wanted to see me.

-Yes. I'm sorry to bother you. -It's all right.

-I work for the Foreign Office. -Yeah.

I wanted to have a word with you

about your time working with Imogen Conrad.

What did Stuart tell you about it?

This has got nothing to do with him.

Oh, well, I left politics last year,

so I'm not sure how much help I can really be.

Not even in the interest of national security?

Right.

Let's start with your visit to Montenegro.

What about it?

Well, it's been alleged that you and Imogen

-were having an affair there. -What?

Who the fuck told you that?

[music concludes]

Who are you, really?

SIS.

I've never been unfaithful in my marriage,

let alone with Imogen.

So why did you leave her office shortly after the trip?

Lev Amatov had been sniffing around her for a while.

He was the one who invited her to the conference.

-Why did he want her there? -No idea.

He kept her pretty busy with meet and greets/

I wasn't invited.

After Stuart got ill, I was the one

who had to sit through all the conference talks,

-which was a pointless exercise. -So this alleged affair...

Yeah, I've told you all I know, so I've got to go now.

-Well, if you remember... -Yeah.

...anything else, you know how to find me, yeah?

[tense music playing]

[music fades]

[Imogen] Jamie‘s come good.

That's cabinet rebels with a cause.

Melissa, are you selling some intel

or are you suing for peace?

I've resigned.

Welcome to the Ryan resistance movement.

Please tell me you've got some dynamite in that bag.

I've got some information,

but you're not going to like it.

Okay, spit it out. I'm a big girl.

Ryan says that he's managed to get his hands

on some compromising footage of you.

What kind of footage?

Nobody's seen it.

Apparently, it was filmed in a hotel room.

And you're with a man who isn't your husband.

[unsettling music playing]

Look, assuming that it does exist,

what I'd do is I would get out ahead of it, warn the public

that there's a fake porn video in circulation

before someone releases it

and tries to claim that it's real.

Would it make any difference? Once it's out, it's out.

People can't unsee things, fake or not.

I know, I know, but I actually think

that the public will sympathize.

I mean, Russia's well known for churning out crap like this.

I can't believe this is happening.

Look, I told Ryan that he'd be mad to leak it.

I mean, he'd be the first person that everyone will suspect.

And he claimed he agreed with me, guys.

But you think he'll do it anyway?

Depends how desperate he gets.

Well, I think he's gonna be pretty fucking desperate

when he finds out we're trying to out him from the race.

[Stuart] Fuck.

Imogen, what are you thinking?

Phone Meg, Ted, the others. Tell them...

we're gonna hold off on the joint statement

for 24 hours. For tactical reasons.

Okay, and then what?

I need to see Ryan.

Maybe he'll choose his humanity over his ambition for once.

[coach] Okay, let's attack this one now.

[tennis balls bouncing]

[coach] Very nice, very nice.

Get under-- Oh.

You can't even fucking call me yourself.

I just asked the campaign team to schedule a meeting

in my diary, Dad.

I've heard the construction firm's

about to go bust.

Yeah, well, it looked like a solid investment at the time.

[Geoff] Yeah, well, if you'd come and work for me,

you wouldn't have had to go grubbing about in the margins.

What the hell do you know about property?

[Ryan] Look, is there any way that we could have

this conversation face to face?

[Geoff] Oh, obvious bloody hindrance.

Fucking hell.

Look, I need to plug a hole in the deal.

If it gets out I'm involved. I'm finished.

It's not a good look for a Labour MP, is it?

Building luxury flats on a Union car park.

Either way, I can't go

into Downing Street bankrupt, Dad.

How much do you need?

A million.

It's a loan. You'll get your interest.

You get into bed with the devil, son,

and he eventually fucks you so hard

you can hear your teeth rattle.

So what's the answer?

[Geoff] Well, come up for the ceremony

like I asked you.

[Ryan] I can't. I'm in the middle of a campaign.

Aren't they your voters?

If you want me to bail you out of a hole,

you need to work for it.

[brooding music playing]

[music concludes]

[Kate sighs]

[grunts]

Oh, fuck. How long was I out?

Long enough for me to find an agent report

from the Montenegro conference. Guess who was there?

-I don't know. Igor Borodin? -Close. Kyril Markov.

What? At the same time as Imogen?

-Yeah. -[suspenseful music playing]

"Agent recognized Kyril Markov

in audience at delegate welcome address."

"Identification verified."

[sighs] It's a hell of a coincidence.

Yeah.

I mean, do we think Imogen knew who he was?

I have no idea.

But if she didn't then, she might do now.

[mobile beeps]

[groans] I've got to go and see Stuart and the kids.

-I'll see you, yeah? -Yeah.

[car engine rumbling]

-[lock clicks] -[door opens]

-Hello, my love. -[Kate] Hiya.

[music concludes]

[Stuart] Your priest says that you must drink

before your confession.

Confession or absolution?

Depends what you need, I suppose.

-[Kate sighs] -Cheers.

[Kate] Cheers.

That helped.

Do you know what? I actually nicked

a cheeky packet of fags from an intern at work.

I've got a lighter here...

-Was that cigarettes? -Absolutely not.

You two are such fucking hypocrites.

-Don't swear, Fiona. -See what I mean?

[sighs]

[sighs]

Are you okay?

I'll survive.

Yeah?

Do you want to talk about what happened

on your last trip, or?

I was trying to extract an agent.

And she was killed on the way out.

Okay.

-Were you hurt, or? -Not physically.

[Stuart] But are you safe now, here?

Are we safe, the kids and everything?

[Kate] Okay, listen.

Moscow has never tried to take out a British agent

on home turf, okay? Let alone their families.

Are you sure?

That convention has been in place

since the Cold War. There is nothing to suggest

that they would breach it, right?

[Stuart] It's just that you recently said that the rules

of the game have changed, so I'm just a little...

[mobile beeping]

[sighs]

Oh, I've got to go.

Sixth floor summons.

-I'm sorry, love. All right. -[Stuart] All right.

[door opening]

[music darkens]

-Evening. -Evening.

Take a seat.

[music concludes]

I'm very sorry for the situation I created.

But I hope you can agree I had no choice.

Kate.

You've been suspended.

On what grounds?

Do we really need to spell it out?

Yes, please.

[Zak] Ignoring a direct instruction,

putting your team at risk without due cause.

The Foreign Secretary is insisting you stand down.

In two days' time,

we might have a Russian asset in Downing Street.

-Nobody doubts your integrity. -But, what?

We're going to just let it happen?

In case their exposure damages our democracy?

The only fact here is you ignored

a direct order from the PM.

[Sir Alan] I'm afraid you've put us

in a very difficult position, Kate.

First, the Krimsov leak, now this diplomatic firestorm

around Malta.

The Foreign Secretary is furious.

So the minister that might be working for Moscow

wants me gone, and we'll just roll over.

Bury my intelligence because it's too inconvenient.

I hope you know me better than that.

This is a temporary measure,

but we'll follow our own line of inquiry from here.

So Echo was just collateral damage?

The life of a vulnerable young woman was

an incredible stake to gamble with.

God, you can be a heartless bastard, Zak.

[Zak] It's the truth, and you know it.

I need my Head of the Russia Desk

to know where to draw a bloody line

and when to see the bigger picture.

Enough, both of you.

You'll have the opportunity to make your case

at the board of inquiry, both you and Rav.

Not Rav.

-He was following my orders. -Your orders weren't authorized.

Is there anything else you want to say?

No.

I'll save it for the inquiry.

Good night.

I've told security to sign you out.

[pensive music playing]

[sighs]

-Thanks for coming in. -It's all good.

What happened?

[sighs] We're both suspended.

[scoffs]

[Kate] I think Zak would have fired me then

if C hadn't stayed his hand.

[music concludes]

I'm sorry.

Man, fuck them. All right.

While you was up there talking to the suits.

I did some more digging around the Montenegro conference.

Those are the flight logs from all the closest airports

over the two days before the conference started.

You want to guess who else was rubbing shoulders

with the delegates?

Our very own Zak Hussein.

[unnerving music playing]

Can... Can you place him in Portonovi?

He flew to Dubrovnik and then hired a car with Hertz.

I even tracked his office phone IP

to a little cafe near the conference centre

on the day it started

because his stupid little VPN dropped out.

Zak in situ with Imogen and Kyril Markov?

Could be.

I mean, do they know each other, Zak and Imogen?

Fuck knows. She's never mentioned him.

Well, if he's there, then theoretically

it could be Imogen, not Ryan in Moscow's pocket.

With Zak helping her.

The man who learned of our op the day Echo's cover was blown.

-[error code beeping] -[sighs]

Well, that confirms it then. We're on our own.

[theme music playing]

[music concludes]