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Sorry we couldn't give you more notice of the move, lad.

But that's what you get for being category A.

You'll like it down south, though.

I mean, they'll kick the living shit out of you.

But there's less rain.

You probably think it's a city.

Liverpool.

It's not.

It's a village.

So when you hear people like you in Liverpool, you have to take them from

same place as us, the same street.

Don't you worry about the move, mate.

We have plenty of notice.

No, no, no.

Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I should have taken the time during your training to

explain that it would be very much appreciated if, while you're performing

duties, you do your level best not to burn down any houses.

It's fine.

It's a lot of things, but it is not fucking fine.

We signed Sean off sick and got him and his family a long way from Manchester.

And I placed a story through a Manchester press agency calling it a

Oh! You think you got away with it? Let me tell you something about this game.

You never get away with anything.

All you can do is wait and see how much it's cost you. Whatever they did, it's

worked. The Turks say they're going to send a load to Felixstowe, a proper

It doesn't matter what the Turks say.

Until that load's on that boat, it's not real. So get it on the bloody boat.

And we need to firm up the evidence.

Now, you've got a lot on Carter's team, but not a lot on Carter. And now you

need to find a new way of getting it.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

Well, if you're not, you need to tell me, because it's only going to get

I said I'm all right, didn't I?

Right.

How did they do that, then?

A bench crew tipped them off about their transfer.

Got themselves sprung from the van.

Didn't think they had the minerals for that.

They'll come for us.

For me?

They're not that fucking stupid.

They'll be halfway to Spain in the boot of a car.

But we don't risk it.

Done with this place for a start.

Get everything out of here, then torture it.

Find some safe houses for the gear. Where? From our loyal customers.

That'll drive a hard bargain, what with them being smackheads and all.

That's all the gear we've got till the Turks come through.

Look after her.

Car keys, company paperwork, and the mail you wanted.

Thanks.

Listen, we have the Shawns on the both of us. We need to incriminate Carter.

We can't get back into his gang.

We haven't got an informer, so we need to go directly to him and try and find a

way to incriminate him before it's too late. I'm just saying, one of the best

things we could do for Shawn right now is to calm down. He tried to kill a kid,

Bailey.

When Carter found out about Shawn, he tried to kill Shawn.

And his wife.

And his kid.

Because of us. I didn't kill anyone because of us.

He didn't blink before giving that order.

So now I'm going back in with him on my own, protected by a few bits of paper,

and I will fucking do it too.

Because he tried to kill a kid.

Okay.

So what's your plan?

He wants to get into a world that won't have him.

I know a bit about that.

So I'm going to make myself a representation of that world.

I'm going to try and find a weakness.

And we'll try not to fall over in these bloody shoes.

Good luck, mate.

Thanks.

Someone on the line wanting to speak to whoever was working with Sean.

Put them for.

Hello.

16 Walker Road on the Boot Estate.

There's two kilos of smack under the kitchen floorboards.

So what are you waiting for?

It could be a trap.

Of course it could be a trap.

What couldn't be a trap?

So how do I do it?

Very carefully.

Which means don't call anyone in Liverpool.

I'll get you a police contact in Manchester.

And remember, if you're watching there, that probably means they're watching

you.

that their economic policies continue to prove unpopular.

I won't find any of it.

Let's see if they need some help moving this stuff.

No. Fire.

Well?

It was legit.

Good.

How would you do?

Get to whoever told me about it, see what else they'll tell me.

Correct.

It's a delicate dance that one son and I'm glad it's you doing it

Thanks

What's going on?

You have never asked me why I was in prison.

It is a long story.

Yeah, some bloke asked you for protection money, so you shot him.

That is the short story.

When's the love getting shipped?

No, you will not ask that.

Maybe you are tired.

Maybe you want this to end, to go home.

But the man you pretend to be, the man they think you are,

He would know that these things take time.

Why is nothing happening?

Or he would not ask that either.

He would know that in this world, something is always happening.

And if you don't know what is happening, then it is probably happening to you.

Guy, the English.

He's gone.

We need him.

For now.

Then we learn what he does.

Then he's gone.

Then we do what he does.

Who?

Who will do what he does?

Ziki.

Baba, this is learning systems.

Setting up companies.

Dealing with customs.

Zeki is a hooligan.

What is this?

Hooligan?

You are too English.

You read their newspapers. You think like them.

Do you know what we call a hooligan?

Where we are from?

We call him a delico.

A man.

The longer you live here, the more Turkish you get.

Do you even remember where you're from?

I remember being poor, Baba.

I remember being hungry.

England has given us what we have.

And now it can give us even more if we work together.

I have given us what we have.

We work with Turks.

If we work with English, it is only to learn what they know.

Then they're gone.

You think too little of the English.

And too much of the Turks.

Why?

Because Hakan is old.

And Aziz is weak.

It is time for a change, and Aziz cannot be the change.

We have known Hakan for a long time.

Then you know his limits.

Hakan has come a long way from where he started, but he is an old man in a new

world.

In what we do, there is more money to be made than ever before.

Hakan and Aziz want to share that money with the English.

I want to share it with you.

There's nothing more dangerous in this world than a Kurd with a grudge.

If Hakan knew that we talked like this, he would kill us all.

Hakan will never know.

He will not be around to find out.

Neither will Aziz.

Neither will anyone who does not agree that this is the solution.

Then let us know when it's done.

Thanks for joining me, sir.

You're the organiser of Saturday's anti -drugs march in Liverpool?

Yes, absolutely.

Wayne Duffy, community organiser.

Well, it looks like it's going to be the largest protest yet. What do you hope

to achieve?

We want to send a message to the drug dealers that the people of Liverpool

want them on their estates that we're fighting back.

The police won't do their job, so we will.

We're the ones that live here.

We know who's to blame for this and we know what to do about it. We'll get

off our streets and protect our kids. And if the dealers think that we're

joking, they'll soon find out how serious we are.

Got your post.

Oh, sorry.

You're new.

Oh, er, yeah.

You're not from Liverpool?

No, I'm here with work.

Oh, what's that?

Property development.

What kind of property?

Regeneration projects.

We look for post -industrial spaces that we can rezone for residential.

Well, you're in the right city for that.

Where does the money come from?

Private investors.

I do some investment myself.

Oh.

We're not looking for additional funding right now.

No? No.

I wouldn't just be any kind of investor.

See, I know Liverpool.

I know where the opportunities are. I know more about this city than you could

ever know.

No matter how long you spend here, no matter how hard you look,

So you're local, then?

Not around here, no.

No, I'm from real Liverpool.

All the places you'll be buying up and knocking down.

So why are you here and not there?

Cos I used to tell my mum that a buyer's from way around here.

Used to tell her that.

Cos she never believed me.

Well, she must be very proud of you now.

She's dead.

They were all posted on the same day.

Sorry? Your letters, they were all postmarked on the same day, through the

sorting office. That's a bit unusual, isn't it?

I've no idea.

Thank you for bringing them over, though.

The O 'Connells aren't in Spain, and they are taking us on.

Who?

Jed.

There's a couple of lads missing too, but they wanted us to see Jed.

We need to meet.

I'm on my way.

Sorry, I've got to go.

I'll see you around.

Yeah.

Yeah, you will.

We need to find the O 'Connells before they find us.

We'll find them.

What happened to their walk of roads, Dosh?

It's like you said, character -ish, my kids.

The busies probably slipped them a ten of them on them, we did.

I'm going to keep my head down for a few days.

Good idea.

You'll come in with me.

Is that a problem?

No.

Thank you for coming.

We have good news.

It's on its way?

Soon, but first, Vicky has a plan.

Oh, great.

I have a guard at Felixstowe Docks, the Turk.

He will help us.

Tell me no more problems, not like last time. Last time was fine.

The lesson of last time is that I deal with importations. I don't need your

help, and I certainly don't need some bent guard getting in the way.

Why would you not want our help?

You do not trust the Turk.

I have a system.

This is not the system.

Maybe you worry he will tell us that you do not know what you say you know.

This is a bad idea.

Let's meet the guard.

Then we can decide what is a bad idea.

I will arrange it, Hakan.

I need you to run for every employee at Freelisto Customs and find anyone with a

Turkish surname.

Where do we draw the line?

I'll need to set parameters. Jesus Christ, it's very bloody simple. Do any

work at Felix Dodot? No, it's not simple.

Turkish surnames spread far beyond the country's borders, so if I went by

nationality, I'd risk missing someone, which could presumably lead to you being

put in mortal danger, which would be my fault. So, seeing as you're

investigating Kurds, I suggest you'd include Iraq, Syria and Iran. And seeing

you don't have a clue about any of this stuff, then I'd suggest that you don't

tell me that my job is bloody simple.

You're doing a good job.

Someone should tell you that.

Do you need me to tell you that you're doing a good job?

No.

So why would I?

I think I'll go back to Greenland.

It's safer than here.

How long for?

Just a couple of nights.

We've taken over the doors of a few clubs down there.

You're going to miss it?

Miss what? The march.

You've got to be there, Eddie. We owe it to Tommy to stand up for kids like him

and tell those scumbag dealers the time's up.

Hello?

27 Wood Street night and there's 10 kilos in the shed.

No.

You what?

We can find our own bus.

Bollocks, you can't.

Look, I want Carter.

And I think you do too. And I need more than this to get him.

Why are you doing this?

Because of what he's done to this city.

To the family.

Let's make we can sort something out. Ten kilos in the shed.

Yes? I need all heroin deaths in Liverpool in the last year.

Names, addresses, next of kin.

Families.

Good evening, sir.

Look at this, mate.

And then think about us working the doors.

Monday nights, two in the morning, freezing our tits off for 20 quid and

chance of getting knifed up by some pissed -off kid.

And I told you there was more to life than that.

Now here we are.

This is for you, dear Delphi.

We're in a suite at the Adelphi because there are bullets out there with our

names on them.

That's good. It's only when people come for you, you get to show your strength.

This is an opportunity.

To send a message.

To remind people how far we've come.

Didn't have to come this far, though, did we?

We could have stopped after taking over the doors.

We could have stopped with the weed.

You couldn't stop, though, could you?

Now here we are.

You're on the couch.

Sleep face in the door.

What do you mean, no?

I mean that I don't want you distracted.

Not by us.

So she's fine.

And she'll always be fine until you're back. Come on, tell me what it is or

think it's something worse.

She's just nervous, you know, about the recital.

About today?

Yeah.

She don't get nervous.

She don't get nervous.

She doesn't.

Mum!

We're going to be late!

Well, now she does. But that's for me to deal with and I've got to go. Love you.

Love you.

O 'Connell's taken care of by tonight.

I got half of the pool looking for them.

It'll end today.

One way or the other.

Hi. No Turks at Felix de Customs.

Right.

That bad?

Well, it ain't good.

Is there anything else I can help with?

I've got to go.

They're coming.

Okay, let's go.

What? You know?

Get on with it.

Let them go.

You

were

right, English.

Get in the way.

Do you know what, mate?

A lot of places I could be right now.

A lot of places I should be.

The back of the dry cleaners in Green Lanes ain't one of them.

I'm here to do business, and he ain't my problem.

Do what you want with him.

Let me know when you're ready to start work.

Who else was involved?

Istanbul.

Good.

You did not lie.

Please, Hakan.

I wanted you to take me seriously to see I can do more than you let me do.

That's true.

It was a mistake.

And I am a Kurd, Hakan.

Those other two were not, but I, I am a Kurd.

We're united by blood.

Don't worry, Zeki.

I never killed a girl, and I'm too old to start now.

Thank you, Hakan.

Okay.

May God be with you.

Well, the short answer is we're close.

Very close.

Well, seeing as I've been summoned to the Home Secretary, I think I might

trouble you for the long answer.

Well, the load's coming soon, and we're working hard to make sure the evidence

arrives first.

But I think we've reached the stage, sir, where I need to protect you.

What does that mean?

It means I can give you more, or you can look him in the eye when you tell him

you don't have more to give him.

We're in a race, Tom.

Between our succeeding and our political and financial support running out, and

I don't think we're winning.

With what our lot are out there doing, with what they're becoming, I think

get there.

We just need to hold our nerve.

And how's that going?

How are they holding up mentally? Fine.

And they're not in too deep? No.

You know why I'm asking.

They're doing fine.

And you know why I'm asking you?

It's because of what happened to me that I know it hasn't happened to them.

Not yet, anyway.

Play dead, then.

Hello, mate. How are you? Hi.

She's all right.

Just a little nervous.

Thanks for coming.

No, you don't thank me for that. This is... This is my job.

There you are, Lily. Come along now.

Take it easy, mate. She's just saying hello.

You can speak to your children after the recital.

It's all right. She'll be all right.

That was quite the range of performance.

I'll just take a moment to gather my thoughts ahead of the presentation.

Please help yourself to tea and coffee at the back of the room.

I've been working away.

Sorry? Which is hard.

For a kid.

Hard for a wife, too.

It affects them.

More than I'd like to think.

More than they let on.

If there is something you would like to discuss, this is hardly the best... But

I have to ignore all that.

I have to shut that out.

Which isn't easy.

But I need to do it.

Or the old thing falls apart.

You see, I can't have guilt.

I can't have that going on.

While everything else is going on.

It would be dangerous for me to have guilt, which means it would be dangerous

for anyone who puts that guilt inside me.

Are you?

Are you threatening me? Of course not.

I'm just saying that life ain't easy right now for that girl out there.

And you could make it a little easier.

And I would very much like you to do that.

Now wash your hands.

We have a meeting.

Meet me there.

It is dangerous for both of us, but it had to happen one day, and it will

today.

Guy.

Go on, then. I'll see your dress.

What's this?

A match?

And with Wayne Duffy as their glorious leader.

I remember Duffy.

Community organiser. He's a pithead and crocksy.

Carrying on like he's Robin Hood.

Time out.

It's always the dealers getting in the back, isn't it?

What about the pen?

It's not our fault they can't keep their kids off fucking smack.

We need to get out of here.

Let's stand.

You get it, son?

Do him. I'm not told. It's in the castle.

Get him, Ron.

Okay?

Easy.

Put those away. There's kids about.

You should have come with us, Eddie.

And you should be a long way from Liverpool.

Once we've dealt with Carter, we'll be on our toes, and you should too.

You're going to kill us inside, Eddie.

Healers are the lowest of the low and decent that kids had.

It's the way this game's going.

Leverage.

That's what you two have got.

Doing Carter and going back inside for life is not a good use of it.

And listen to me.

There are things happening that don't need messed up by you two.

And being on your toes is expensive.

So there's a deal to be done.

And you need to go to Carter with it.

But not through me.

All right, good one.

Let's go.

What? We need to meet.

It's important.

Fine. Usual place. Coming now.

The O 'Connors want 200 grand and a pair of knocked -off passports.

I can get them the passports. You can get them the money.

Why didn't you nick them? Because they knew to come to me.

Which makes me wonder what else they know.

And it's confusing because no -one knows about me.

No -one's met me apart from you. Sue sent them to me. I don't know, but I do

know that I pay you to get rid of problems like this. I'm telling you how

rid of it.

200 grand to get sure those two's a bargain and you know it.

You're in enough trouble as it is.

Oh, yeah.

Look around you.

This city is turning on you, love.

Well, you think some poxy march led by that prick Duffy is going to take me

down? People are listening to Duffy.

Your people.

And if they turn on you, they start picking up the phone to us and it might

be me who answers.

I control this city.

Everything else has been forgotten.

By you.

By the O 'Connells.

By Duffy.

You all need help to remember it.

If you do have control, that would be the quickest way to lose it.

That's it.

But that's only three characters.

I was lucky to get that.

Look for Liverpool dresses and criminal records.

Thanks.

We are closing in on a large heroin importation

and the subsequent arrests and dismantling of two highly significant

networks. How much of that can be said publicly?

Nothing. Let me try again. How much of that can be said publicly by the Prime

Minister?

Nothing. Our party conference begins this evening and the Prime Minister has

never faced a more important one.

The cabinet is split.

The grey men are plotting against her. They think she is weak, replaceable. She

will show them that she is not. She understands the British people better

any of us.

She knows they need something to fear in order to see her as... there protect

her. She's planning a show of strength, a little red meat for the masses.

She will make the war on drugs the centrepiece of her speech.

With all due respect, Home Secretary, that timing is potentially unhelpful. If

the criminal networks think security is to be temporarily heightened at the

borders, then they may delay or even abort. This is not about your operation,

Blake. This is about a Prime Minister fighting for her life.

Watch her speech this evening.

What the faith is of the plotters, of the grey men, and you will understand

you are now a cog in the machine.

Of course, such a speech demands results.

We have three months left of our agreed operational timescale. This is politics.

Things change.

You have three weeks.

At which point, the Prime Minister can announce your results, or she can

announce the merging of customs anti -drug operations with the Metropolitan

Police. My team.

I'm not cogs, Home Secretary.

They're men and women.

And they're out there in the field.

And this is not about votes. This is not about grey men.

It's about the safety of my team.

Your comments are noted. And you never know, Blake, she might decide to give

Kinnock another kicking instead.

But if he goes with the war on drugs, then you have three weeks.

Do it.

Do what?

Pay them off.

Never thought I'd see you scared.

Don't be soft, lad. We don't show weakness.

If we pay them off, then that's the beginning of the end. We need them out

way to do what we need to do with the text. What if I tell you to get them out

the way?

I'd say that's not the way to go. And you think that'll be me snooker deal?

You think I can't get my hands dirty?

I'm saying there's a time to get your hands dirty, and this is me.

What the Turks are offering is big enough to get us out this game forever.

that right? You want out now, do you? Yeah, I do.

And don't be telling me you don't.

You've got plans, Carter.

You've got a life that you want, and this isn't it.

The money from the Turks can give you that.

You used to tell me you was going to own half of Liverpool. How's that going?

You're right.

This is a step to something else, and it is going to end sometime, but it's

going to end on my terms, and I will not be threatened by anyone, Eddie, and

that includes you. Hey, I'm trying to help you.

Protect you, just like I always have.

The busiest of it, the stash in Wood Street.

That's ten kilos.

Fucking go and run!

I'll handle that.

You do the deal.

23 Ford Granada owners in the Liverpool area with that registration.

Law -abiding, tax -paying citizens, half of them women, and a surprising number

of doctors.

If they're crook, they're hiding it well.

And that's the law?

Yeah, apart from public authority vehicles.

Sorry.

It's not your fault, mate.

Thanks for trying.

I've blown it.

No, you haven't.

That was Carter's connection, and I couldn't even get a full reg plate.

What?

Look at this.

Fucking hell.

Yeah.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to go try and turn that into something. Well, shouldn't we tell

someone or get support?

No.

This is what I'm here to do.

And I'm going to do it.

OK.

Yep.

You're handsome.

I did not say that you're handsome.

It is too late.

The cinnamon must go in with the meat.

If it does not go in with the meat, you do not get the flavor.

Now it is too late.

Cinnamon for my princess. It is too late. It is never too late.

You leave me alone with such a handsome man?

I was keeping him safe.

Oh, you think he's safe with me?

How are you, my friend?

Welcome to my home.

Oh, tonight, you have a treat.

Tonight, we eat Afghan food.

Made the old way.

With the cinnamon added late.

All right.

Yamas.

There,

another.

Yes. It's a funny thing, isn't it?

Blokes and control.

They all want more than they have and they've all got less than they think.

Right. But then there's Carter.

He thinks he's in control of the whole city.

And the difference with him is... I reckon he might be right.

He's been a step ahead of us the whole time.

He has.

Which means he's had information.

Did you have a question?

Public authority vehicles?

Yes. Does that include police?

It does. Why?

You've got a cop.

Mr. President, there are always new dangers to be faced, new battles to be

fought. We're at war against drugs, against those who produce drugs.

Against those who peddle drugs.

Against those who launder the profits of the drug trade.

Drugs stunt young lives. They break up families.

They injure babies before they are even born.

There are those in Britain who say we should legalise certain drugs.

As though burglary could be defeated by legalising theft.

I never thought I'd agree with you to such a...

of the muddled thinking of the so -called progressives. In fact, such

would expose many more of our young people to the danger of drug.

We must...

Will it just be you?

Yeah.

I'll be in short.

I will let you two gentlemen talk. That was lovely.

Thanks.

You like the food, then? No. Why am I here?

You are here, so you are not out there.

What's happening out there?

Some of it is happening.

Some of it has already happened.

None of it can be stopped.

What have you done?

What have we done?

You know, my friend, there is no greater risk in this world.

than thinking you have power that you do not have.

Because that creates confusion.

And there must be no confusion.

It must be clear who has the power.

And then, the only decision left is how to use

it.

About fucking time.

Hello, boys.

This is from Carter.

There were thousands of them. It's like bloody Zulu. They just kept coming over

the hill. I tell you, people will remember this day. They'll remember it.

was the day that Liverpool changed.

Wayne.

Fuck, lad, lad, lad, lad.

Ah! Ah, fuck!