1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,080 Sonia Baker was a bright, well-liked researcher 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:05,360 for the Energy Committee. 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,600 Everyone was shocked by her death. 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,600 Kelvin Stagg rang Sonia Baker to warn her she was on a hit list. 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,760 Why did you lot discount drugs in the Kelvin Stagg case? 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,680 Why were the postmortem results changed? 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,600 Is he being buried or cremated? 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,160 They don't own the story. 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:25,800 You do. 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,320 You couldn't resist her. That's totally unprofessional. 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,200 Foy was employing Sonia Baker. 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,200 We think that she was feeding preview information 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,080 to U-Ex via Warner-Schloss. 14 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,560 Warner-Schloss are lobbyists for U-Ex Oil! 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,080 The U-Ex Oil - story draw the line. 16 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,400 We can't afford to upset the Government. 17 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:49,800 It's a stop! 18 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,760 U-Ex's injunction, gagging every aspect of the story. 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,160 As from now, Yvonne will be making all my headline decisions for me. 20 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,880 Who knew Sonia was working for U-EX Oil?George, for one. 21 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,800 Did you put her into that position at U-Ex's request? 22 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,720 This conversation is over - a lot like your career, 23 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,560 if you repeat a single word of that accusation. 24 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:14,800 You've damaged me! 25 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,000 They're offering me a seat in the Cabinet. 26 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,680 She wanted to pull out of the whole deal. 27 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,280 She'd fallen in love with Collins. 28 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,000 She'd got herself pregnant to him. 29 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:26,560 Stephen! 30 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,440 YELLING 31 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,440 Get off me! Argh! 32 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:44,000 LAUGHTER 33 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,640 MUFFLED CHATTER 34 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,800 KNOCKING AT DOOR 35 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,080 Stephen? 36 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,560 There's a...a toothbrush and a shirt here. 37 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,560 Thanks. 38 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:52,800 I'll leave them outside. 39 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,600 THUD! 40 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,720 FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS 41 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,840 Your shoes are here. 42 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,720 How are you going to get round the injunction? 43 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,040 We don't know yet. 44 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,400 If you say George Fergus was taking backhanders, he'll sue you and win. 45 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,000 Yeah, that would get past an editor, wouldn't it! 46 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,480 "They're all clean as whistles. 47 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,120 "And I know because they sent my friend Stephen to tell me!" 48 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,320 The Government knew exactly who Sonia was. 49 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,880 George upwards - from day one. 50 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,120 What do you call that, eh? 51 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,600 It's not corruption. 52 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,760 What, inverted corruption? 53 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:54,600 They watched her leak anything relevant 54 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,840 and they watched U-Ex take the piss out of me. 55 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,560 I don't understand. 56 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,320 How come they just didn't blow it? Blow it?! 57 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,360 Why would they want to do that? That would involve a scrap. 58 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,200 This was never a scrap. 59 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,080 Just so long as U-Ex were eventually going to concede points 60 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,800 to the Treasury, they didn't mind them running the show. 61 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:18,360 Stephen. 62 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,080 Why are you telling me this? 63 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,400 You write it and print it. 64 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,240 If I... If I print that, they'll know it came from you. 65 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:31,680 Good. 66 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,080 It'll finish you. 67 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,520 So?! Not before I scare the shit out of U-Ex. 68 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,120 They'll concede points, then! 69 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:40,960 Whoa, Stephen, Stephen... LIQUID POURS 70 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Hang on, you're upset and you need to think. 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,520 Not before I bury George Fergus. 72 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,080 Oh, I've thought about it. 73 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,080 Select Committee Report. 74 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,480 The minutes of every meeting, every hearing. 75 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,160 Now, I can show you conversations we had in private 76 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,480 that directly relate to inexplicable changes in strategy by U-Ex. 77 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,720 I'll give you an affidavit repeating everything George Fergus told me. 78 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,720 I'll give you everything you need to blow this sky-high. 79 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,120 Am I allowed to print this off? 80 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,000 How much paper do you think you'll need? 81 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,000 Listen, we're on with Foy. 82 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,880 I need you to go with Della to the hospital, put the squeeze on him. 83 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,720 We need whatever information... We're on?!Yeah, we're on. We're on. 84 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,800 We need either a letter or a fax or...Take my car. 85 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:44,480 We need it tonight! 86 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,560 I've got Stephen Collins ready to put his name 87 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,960 to everything we've got and more. 88 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,840 He can implicate George Fergus upwards. 89 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,360 A lot more. 90 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,160 How much is he asking? He's not asking. 91 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,440 But he's going to need a lawyer acting solely on his behalf. 92 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,120 How do I go and ask her for that without sending flares up? 93 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,840 I'm still editor. 94 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,080 Yeah, but this story - 95 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,960 if she finds out we can back it, will she not try and fuck us over? 96 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,680 Pete, can you use upstairs? 97 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,040 Would Collins talk to anybody else?He came to me. 98 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,720 How do you know he's not stitching you up? 99 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,320 They've hurt him. He's going to talk. 100 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,640 Exclusively?Yes. 101 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,800 Can I hear him say that? 102 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,600 This a bad time? 103 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,480 No, we're finished now. 104 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,320 Argh!How are you feeling? 105 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,600 Here's something to cheer you up, Dom. 106 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,000 Ugh!No? 107 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,480 Dominic...Oh! 108 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,840 ..you implied you've got some kind of protection. 109 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,600 Something to verify what you've told us. 110 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,760 Letter?Nghh! 111 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,480 Taped call?Nghh! 112 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,640 No, what? There isn't, or never was? SPLUTTERING 113 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,200 HE GARBLES WORDS Forget it! 114 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,680 Look, that's... 115 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,280 That's mine! 116 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,040 Dominic, stands to reason, 117 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,920 the only way you cover yourself is by letting somebody else see it. 118 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,320 I don't need protection from you! 119 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,760 And I don't need to verify anything to people like you! 120 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,360 Dominic, you're not even here under your real name. 121 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,640 How come, if you're not scared? HE COUGHS 122 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,280 We've just heard. 123 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,240 Stephen Collins has resigned. 124 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:27,720 Good. 125 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,640 Yeah, not resigned, as in "resigned to". 126 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,160 He's raving. He's going to the press. 127 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,920 He'll name you. 128 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:36,360 He's bound to. 129 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:41,880 Give us a price.Oh, hang on. 130 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:44,720 What's he offering? 131 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:55,280 It's an email. 132 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,320 One sentence. 133 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,280 14...syllables. 134 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,400 He wants ten grand. 135 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,960 Jesus! For what? 136 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,200 Links one of the top brass at U-Ex, Richard Siegler, 137 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,160 to Paul Canning at Warner-Schloss, to Sonia Baker. 138 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,120 He says she's definitely mentioned in an email. 139 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,960 OK, erm, find Helen and go to my house. 140 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,800 Stephen knows you're coming. 141 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,640 And tell Dan to come back here, OK? 142 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:32,240 LIFT DINGS 143 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,640 KNOCKING AT DOOR 144 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:36,840 Cal. 145 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,840 DOOR SHUTS 146 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,680 Can we talk?I haven't finished going through it all. 147 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,640 Glad you're not a proof-reader. 148 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:56,520 I'm glad you don't compile crosswords. 149 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:59,680 Dominic Foy's changed his story every time you've interviewed him! 150 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,040 Yeah, it's a process. 151 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,320 If this went to court, U-Ex's lawyers would 152 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,880 bounce him all over the shop! 153 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,960 Look, if you don't want the story, then give it back. 154 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,400 The copyright is mine. 155 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,320 You're a staff writer. 156 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,280 Cameron sacked me long before all this. 157 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,040 I'm freelance. 158 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,280 14-day rolling contracts. 159 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,880 But only because I brought that story. 160 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,960 My terms say I can walk if it's not picked up. 161 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,240 Well, we had no option. We-We wanted the story. 162 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,800 Adam, can you go over Cal McCaffrey's 163 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,720 freelance contract for me? 164 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,480 I want to know how much it's going to cost me to break the terms. 165 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,560 Well, do I sound like I'm not serious? 166 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,800 You hard-faced bastard. 167 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:03,600 How long have I worked for you? 168 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,080 Long enough to know never to try threatening me. 169 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,080 Fine! Fine. 170 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,560 If the Media Group want to look like they bottled it 171 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,640 because they need favours from the Government... 172 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,080 You think the board's scared of the Government, suddenly?! 173 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,520 Well, I know that they want to buy the radio licences, 174 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:24,200 which will not happen if they've pissed the Government off. 175 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,200 Where did you get that? Is it that true? 176 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,000 Well, she doesn't care! She's been sent here to obstruct us! 177 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:30,560 Excuse me! That is not my brief... 178 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,680 If that gets out, and it will... 179 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,160 ..you're going to end up looking like a mug. 180 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,640 The say on this story is conditional to its legal status. 181 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:43,440 Oh, Yvonne, grow up! 182 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,600 Why have they given you power over the budget, but only on this story? 183 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:56,320 Another 20 grand would nail it, conclusively. 184 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,560 Legally and exclusively. 185 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,280 For that, I can give you an email linking U-Ex Oil 186 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,320 directly to Sonia Baker. 187 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,400 An email is not a quality document. 188 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,000 Well, it is, if you've got a sworn affidavit 189 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,440 from Stephen Collins confirming its contents. 190 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:14,720 Since when? 191 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:16,880 Since he rejected a seat on the Cabinet. 192 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,000 He won't talk to anybody else. 193 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,880 So I'll just take a hike and, uh, 194 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,920 and give it straight to the Telegraph. 195 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,160 DOOR OPENS 196 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,920 DOOR SHUTS And, um... 197 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,640 Well, if he... If he does that... 198 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:39,160 HE SIGHS 199 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,600 ..I'm going with him. 200 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,560 And you'd be very wise to follow, 201 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,520 unless you've got enough to retire on. 202 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:52,760 DOOR OPENS 203 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,240 DOOR SHUTS 204 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,520 FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING 205 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:03,400 Mr Stagg.Interview with Sonny Stagg, 18.05. 206 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,760 Present - Detective Chief Inspector William Bell 207 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,600 and Detective Sergeant Mark Cheweski. 208 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,160 So, what do you want to tell us about your brother's death? 209 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,160 Look for 19th May, 10th September. May, in particular. 210 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,160 We discussed U-Ex's history on environmental requirements. 211 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,600 As in no history? As in total disregard. 212 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,280 Within eight weeks, they launched two offensives. 213 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,800 New processing emission reduction in 15 plants. 214 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,760 I mean, they weren't fitting them, they were just announcing them. 215 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,800 And a national school science-awareness campaign. 216 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,200 Same in September, but recreational facilities. 217 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,160 We'd discussed a 10% decline 218 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,920 in their community obligations over 15 years. 219 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,600 Wasn't this starting to look obvious?Not across a year. 220 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,600 It just looked like they were in for a drubbing 221 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,640 and were shoring up their shareholders. 222 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,280 Oh, look up 22nd September. 223 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,920 Now, that was one of their own submissions to a Committee session 224 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,400 by a young guy called Chris... Oh. 225 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,840 I'll look it up. Obnoxious. 226 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,200 I mean, really how not to submit to a session. 227 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,440 We discussed what a prick he was - fortnight later, they fire him. 228 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,720 Look up the 18th September... 229 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,280 Yv... Yvonne, I-I was just doing you a coffee. 230 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,080 Tell him to spend the money.OK. LIFT DINGS 231 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:21,840 And for that, it had better be watertight. 232 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,960 How much do you need to tell them? 233 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,160 I'll work that out in the cab. 234 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,160 Lovely...shoes. 235 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,400 "Paul Canning, Warner-Schloss to Dominic Foy..." 236 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,480 HE CHUCKLES 237 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,920 Which computer received this? Home or office? 238 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,280 PHONE DIALS Office. 239 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,600 Yeah, well, hardware's included in the price, by the way.What? 240 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,640 Hi, Pete? Yeah, tell Cal I've got it. 241 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,520 Yeah, for once in his life, Dominic's done good. 242 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,080 I think the money helped. It reads... 243 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,280 DOOR SHUTS 244 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,640 75% of the details of most sessions 245 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,920 wouldn't carry as good currency for espionage, 246 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,920 but enough significant material passed through Sonia Baker's hands 247 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,040 to justify, in my opinion, why she would be useful to the oil industry. 248 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,960 Well, U-Ex in particular, 249 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,360 because they, again, in my opinion, were the only company 250 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,440 directly responding to hostile perceptions 251 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:45,800 of their working practices. 252 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,160 At no time was Sonia discussed with me 253 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,560 outside of her role as researcher. 254 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,280 I've since discovered that senior Cabinet members 255 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,600 knew about my relationship with her 256 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,240 before I was forced to disclose it at a press conference - 257 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:04,400 orchestrated by Andrew Wilson, but suggested by George Fergus. 258 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,360 My secretary, Greer Thornton, confronted George Fergus directly, 259 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,640 naming him as the architect of that deception. 260 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,160 When he most needed to make a denial, he said nothing. 261 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,920 Now, I've just heard that Greer's resigned from her post, 262 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,560 but I want to put it on record 263 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,000 that she did absolutely nothing wrong. 264 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,560 The mistake she made was going on recommendations 265 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,800 of a senior Cabinet minister and friend, 266 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,160 with no justifiable indication that he was a born liar. 267 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,640 And I'll put that statement on tape. 268 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,040 Greer Thornton made the mistake of acting on recommendations 269 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,880 from a senior Cabinet minister and friend, 270 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,600 with no justifiable indication that he was a born liar. 271 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,800 Well, what's the point in him resigning? 272 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,320 He's only resigning as Chairman of the Select Committee, 273 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,800 not as an MP. 274 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,640 The worst that can happen is they turn him into 275 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,760 a loud-mouthed backbencher, which sounds like Stephen Collins to me. 276 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,280 KNOCKING AT DOOR 277 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,080 Erm, just bike it over, then. 278 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,360 I'll fire it straight back. 279 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,320 OK. Yeah, cheers. 280 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,280 I just need to charge this up. 281 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,720 I guess I should phone Anne and the kids. 282 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,400 Sure, yeah. How did it go downstairs? 283 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:16,720 Long-winded, but... 284 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,440 Uh, listen, use the landline. 285 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,320 I'll... I'll leave you to it. 286 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:31,160 DIAL TONE DRONES 287 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,280 PHONE LINE RINGS 288 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,560 ANNE:Hello? 289 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,160 Hi, it's me, before you say anything embarrassing. 290 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,080 How are you? 291 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:48,640 Thank you. Thank you for your help. That was lovely. 292 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,200 Go OK?Mogadon lawyer, I wouldn't have picked him. 293 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,600 Is he staying here?I don't know. 294 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,360 Helps if he is.It doesn't help me. 295 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,640 Offer him a hotel and make it sound grubby. 296 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,480 You know where I am if you need me. Can I get a lift with you, Cameron? 297 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,280 Of course you can, we'll split the petrol. 298 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,760 Cal, Dan's trying to get you. He's got the document. 299 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,200 Della's going to try stinging Richard Siegler. 300 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,960 How much of this stuff are we actually going to need? 301 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,800 Enough to make it look like we've got more. 302 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,280 That's clear. 303 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,400 Hello? 304 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,080 Um, Richard Siegler, please. 305 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:30,360 Speaking. 306 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,400 My name's Della Smith. 307 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:38,000 I'm making enquiries about an employee of yours, Sonia Baker. 308 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:42,720 Mr Siegler? 309 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,480 You're a journalist?That's right. 310 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,120 How did you get my home number? 311 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,000 One of your other colleagues, I think. 312 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,680 Sonia Baker was never an employee of ours, 313 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,240 and that's all I want to say. 314 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,120 But you actually mentioned her in 315 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,160 an email to your lobbyists, Warner-Schloss. 316 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,680 That's not true. That's all I have to say. 317 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,520 HANGING TONE 318 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,960 PHONE DIALLING 319 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,720 LINE RINGING 320 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:17,800 PHONE PICKS UP 321 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,520 Richardsiegler@U-Ex.com 322 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:25,240 to paulcanning@W-Schloss, dated the 15th of last month. 323 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,960 Quote, "If Ms Baker's a lost cause, I hold you responsible." 324 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,400 That's what we're printing tomorrow. 325 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,320 Yours is the only name we're using. 326 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,000 What do you want to do about that? 327 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:05,200 I'll lose my job. I suppose that doesn't matter to you at all? 328 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:06,640 Sonia Baker lost her life. 329 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,560 Don't even pretend to connect me with that... 330 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,440 You personally endorsed the misinformation 331 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,040 of a Government department for commercial benefit. 332 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,480 I'm not suggesting you pushed her under a train 333 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,000 to cover your own back, but somebody did. 334 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,800 There was a confidential internal memo, 335 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,040 towards the end of last year - at Christmas-time. 336 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,080 It said we should treat all incoming information 337 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,600 from Sonia Baker as top priority. 338 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,720 I assumed she was a field worker. 339 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,240 Well, she was. 340 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,200 It was only when I was put in charge of her feedback 341 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,320 that I realised who and where she was. 342 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,760 I had nothing to do with her appointment. 343 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,480 Memos addressed to...? 344 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,000 Paul Canning at Warner-Schloss. 345 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,160 Freddie Meyer and Susan Sagattchean 346 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,200 in Communications. And me. 347 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,680 From? 348 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,800 From above me. 349 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,920 One name, on paper, to make yours disappear. 350 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,480 Ah, difficult. 351 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,400 Why would they need to kill her? 352 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,200 Here's a woman working for us, 353 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,120 came straight from the Department of Energy. 354 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,200 They recommended her for the post, for God's sake! 355 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,880 It was perfectly above board. But two days before Sonia died, 356 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,560 we know she came to you and told you she wanted to end the deal. 357 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,480 Yes, I know that... Only two days before... 358 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,960 Yes, I'm aware of that. At the risk of that size a scandal, 359 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,920 weren't U-Ex wishing they'd never got involved with her? 360 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,000 When I heard she'd been killed, I was. God, I... 361 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,640 I started wondering whether... 362 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,840 But, on the life of my family, I knew nothing about that. 363 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,160 Get me the memo. 364 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,000 I guarantee your email won't be needed. 365 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,880 But, if I were you, I'd talk to the police before they talk to you. 366 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,400 I'll... I'll drop you somewhere safe.I'm safe. 367 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,560 How much did you get? ENGINE IGNITES 368 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,080 Nearly all of it. 369 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,560 If you're going to change your mind, 370 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,000 do it before the affidavit's handed over. 371 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,360 I won't. 372 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,400 You never know, you know, this could do you more good than harm. 373 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,600 Yeah, Anne worded it differently, but... 374 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,520 ..I'm not interested. 375 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,000 You wouldn't put yourself through this 376 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,320 if you didn't think it was going to make a difference. 377 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:29,120 They crossed a line. 378 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,120 Yeah, and at least you've got a line. 379 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,040 I think people knew that when 380 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,840 we were trying to get you into Parliament. 381 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,000 You were a good campaign manager. 382 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,640 Anne was the one who thought you were too young, which... 383 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,280 ..is ironic now. 384 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,640 Well, it made my job ten times easier, 385 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,720 knowing that people trusted you. 386 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,600 George uses that word a lot. 387 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,000 Do you want to lay off that until we've finished the notes? 388 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,120 When you were first appointed Chairman, who told you? 389 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,200 No, that couldn't have been rigged. It was an all-party vote. 390 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,000 I think that was my first real nod 391 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,000 that I was being taken seriously all round. 392 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,960 Apologies, Gerard. Laptop again. OK, Mr Siegler. 393 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,120 Biggest insult being that George was my mentor. 394 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,960 You know, he was the one guy you'd go to for a straight answer. 395 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 And he sits there telling me all this shit 396 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,280 like I should be proud of him! 397 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,520 I swear, Cal, he thought everything he was saying 398 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:57,680 was laying my fears to rest. 399 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,200 He thought it would make me feel better. 400 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,080 16 people working their arses off, all year round, for what? 401 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,400 RUSTLING 402 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,720 Sonia meeting Paul Canning on a daily basis 403 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,240 down at the Trocadero and telling him everything! 404 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:25,800 RUSTLING 405 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,560 No scraps, no surprises! 406 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,440 Everyone knows everything, 407 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,000 and they're telling me it's in the country's best interests! 408 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,600 Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stephen, Stephen! Stephen, Stephen! 409 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,120 Come here, come here. Lay off the booze, lay off the booze. 410 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,040 Let's go and get some food. Let's get some food down you. 411 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,120 Come on, come on.I don't want food. 412 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,040 Well, you haven't slept since... 413 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,080 I don't know. Go and get some kip, then. 414 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:54,880 Come on. 415 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,080 TAPE RECORDER REWINDS 416 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,160 ON TAPE: Sonia meeting Paul Canning on a daily basis 417 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,560 down at the Trocadero and telling him everything! 418 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,800 Can you let her know it's here?Sure. 419 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,920 Now! I need to know she's got it. 420 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,360 Newsroom. 421 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,040 Della Smith, please. 422 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,160 Yeah, there's an envelope just arrived for you. From Mr...? 423 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,120 Siegler.Siegler. 424 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:02,480 ON TAPE: Sonia meeting Paul Canning on a daily basis 425 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,040 down at the Trocadero and telling him everything! 426 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,160 No scraps, no surprises! 427 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,440 Everyone knows everything, and they're telling me 428 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,480 it's in the country's best interests! 429 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,760 RUSTLING 430 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,640 Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stephen, Stephen! Stephen, Stephen! 431 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,280 Come here, come here. Lay off the booze. Lay off the booze. 432 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,720 Where's Della?Nipped downstairs. 433 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,560 I thought you were baby-sitting. 434 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,320 Can I help? 435 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:55,880 No. 436 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,320 He'd gone when I got there. 437 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,560 Who?Richard Siegler. 438 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,280 He's given us this - look. 439 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,080 Can I have a word? 440 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:37,440 Is there anything in Foy's transcripts 441 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,960 that say where Paul Canning used to meet Sonia? 442 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,800 No. 443 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,480 We haven't been told that by anybody? 444 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,480 No. 445 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,920 Why? 446 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,800 Because Stephen has just told me they used to meet at the Trocadero. 447 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,840 Good a place as any. 448 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,480 No. 449 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,000 If Stephen only knows what we've told him... 450 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,560 ..how does he know that? 451 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,000 The surveillance log in the hit man's briefcase. 452 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,760 That's the only place the Trocadero's mentioned. 453 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,240 Oh, Jesus. 454 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,720 Are you OK?Yeah. 455 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,040 Yeah, fine. We're just, um... 456 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,240 We're fine, honestly. 457 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,400 DOOR SHUTS 458 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,880 Thanks. ANNE:Stephen let me in. 459 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,800 I brought him some clothes from the flat. 460 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,280 He said you didn't get in till late. 461 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,320 Do you want some breakfast? 462 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,280 Where is he? 463 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,040 You've no bread, so he's gone down to the shop. 464 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,880 You should be in Manchester. 465 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,400 Well, if he's facing the press, 466 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,360 I thought I could show a little bit of support. 467 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,600 You should be in Manchester. 468 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:27,960 Can we just get over the big bumps 469 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,320 before we have to start dealing with...?What? 470 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,080 With this. 471 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,520 I'm not talking about "this." 472 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,280 But if "this" is you changing your mind about Stephen 473 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,840 because you feel sorry for him... 474 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,040 ..don't. 475 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,560 He didn't start it. 476 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,800 He was screwing her! 477 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,560 He wouldn't have met her, had that lot not been manipulating things. 478 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,920 Five years ago, you thought your marriage was dodgy. 479 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,920 Two years ago, you were certain. 480 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,760 Nine months back, he started having an affair. 481 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,120 Two months ago, he was about to move in with her. 482 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,840 Now, which bit of that would a self-respecting woman want back? 483 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,280 You arrogant prick. 484 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,480 The week before she died, she found out she was pregnant. 485 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,080 So... 486 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,560 ..that's how much... 487 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,960 ..you love me, eh? 488 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,880 Slinging a rock like that? 489 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:10,760 Thank you. 490 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,080 For your information, I'm not here for him. 491 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,760 I'm here because he doesn't need me against him right now, 492 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,280 putting himself through all this. 493 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,240 He is the father of my kids and, for their sake, 494 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,400 I don't want to see him in a bucket! Do you understand?! 495 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,360 SHE SCOFFS 496 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,760 No, you don't. 497 00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:39,280 You couldn't. 498 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,760 Because, if it doesn't directly benefit you, 499 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,360 you don't have the patience to listen! 500 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,320 DOOR UNLOCKS 501 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:50,480 DOOR SHUTS 502 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,600 Cal, if I'd known Anne was going to do this, I'd have said... 503 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,520 DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS 504 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,560 ON TV:Police are today exhuming the body of black teenager 505 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,320 Kelvin Stagg, after new evidence raised questions 506 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,320 about the original inquest. 507 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,360 The officer in charge of the case, Detective Inspector William Bell... 508 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,720 Look, I can't really talk now. I'm in a cemetery. 509 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,360 DELLA:I know. 510 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,920 I'm at the wire. They won't let me through. 511 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,760 Dominic Foy's given us written evidence that may implicate 512 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,840 the lobbyists for U-Ex Oil in the death of Sonia Baker. 513 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,080 At least Sonia Baker. 514 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,560 Saying what? 515 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,720 Proves Foy knew more than he told you. 516 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,160 So where is he now? 517 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,080 His secretary's just said he's in Spain, 518 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:52,480 but I know he hasn't left yet. 519 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,120 I think you're going to need him. 520 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,280 Right, Chewy, Dominic Foy's trying to leave the country. 521 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,760 Find out what flight he's on, stop him. 522 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:10,520 That's not all you came here for, is it? 523 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,920 The hit man that killed Sonia Baker. 524 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,720 Robert Bingham. 525 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,120 Can I see his file? 526 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:21,240 Which bit?Social background. 527 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,000 SCANNER BEEPS 528 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,720 SCANNER ZAPS 529 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,480 SCANNER BEEPS SHARPLY 530 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:39,720 SCANNER BEEPS 531 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,000 Dominic Foy, I'm arresting you on suspicion 532 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,920 of perverting the course of justice. 533 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,400 You do not have to say anything 534 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,920 which later may harm your defence when being questioned. 535 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,800 No! No, just...just... 536 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,160 You two-faced bastards! 537 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,240 You two-faced pieces of shit! 538 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,440 You pieces of shit! 539 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:43,920 Come on, Dominic. 540 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,520 Save your breath till we get you a speech therapist. 541 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,840 MUTTERING:They don't care. 542 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,960 Robert Bingham's an electrician by trade. Never worked outside London. 543 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,080 He's got no connections with Manchester. 544 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:01,320 No schools, clubs or interests that can tie him in to Stephen Collins. 545 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,000 Ex-Army. 546 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,120 Yeah, but way back. 547 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,640 And Collins isn't. 548 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,320 Stephen Collins used to be a civilian contractor 549 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,440 to the Ministry of Defence. 550 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,680 He taught literacy to squaddies. 551 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:17,920 Now, that's not on his parliamentary CV, but I know that for a fact. 552 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:23,560 They were at Aldershot together for 26 weeks in 1987. 553 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:29,920 Now, Robert Bingham's educational history says he was illiterate - 554 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,840 brackets - dyslexic. 555 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,600 They must've overlapped. 556 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,840 When Collins first moved to London as a new MP, 557 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,040 his flat was broken into. 558 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,440 The CCTV monitors were installed by KEN Security Limited. 559 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,520 The registered owner of that company is Robert Bingham. 560 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,200 We need to talk to Cameron. 561 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,440 No, no! Della, please, please... 562 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,000 Look, if I'm wrong about this, 563 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,520 everybody will just use that as an excuse to stall the story. 564 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,440 The board, Yvonne Shaps. 565 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,080 They'll just dive on anything that can weaken it. 566 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:13,880 If you're right, people need warning before we get the arse sued off us! 567 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,400 Della, not to Cameron, not to your copper. 568 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,640 If... If I'm right, then it still doesn't excuse what U-Ex has done. 569 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,160 And it certainly doesn't excuse what the Government's up to, does it? 570 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,400 She's down there. I was just freshening up. 571 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,320 Get rid of her, Stephen. We need to talk. 572 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,760 Hey, look, I didn't invite her, you know? 573 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,080 If she's here and we're talking, we should all talk. 574 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,400 About Robert Bingham? 575 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,400 Tell her what you need to. Get her out of here. 576 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,400 I'll be back in 15 minutes. 577 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,280 DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS 578 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,000 Grandad swims a lot better than I do. 579 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,280 You don't need me for a diving lesson. 580 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,600 Oh, your dad's here. Do you want to have a word? 581 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,920 He'll ring you back when he's just got a bit more time. 582 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,440 I'll ring you back, Karen. 583 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,360 I'll ring you back, sweetheart. Bye. 584 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,240 You've blown Cal out? 585 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:54,040 Is that what he says? 586 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,000 Speaks for itself, you being here. 587 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,840 I just think it's a bit more...complicated 588 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,200 than Cal wants it to be. 589 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,360 You'd take me back tomorrow, wouldn't you? 590 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,640 With changes. But they'd be minimal? 591 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:23,640 I'm just trying to be, um, more civilised than my gut says. 592 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,160 I mean, we've got two kids who need someone to say, 593 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,720 "It'll be fine, everything's going to be OK." 594 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,480 Let's try and find a way through this 595 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,000 that doesn't screw up our entire family. 596 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,920 Cal's a really good option for you. 597 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,600 I beg your pardon?! 598 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,040 I can't make any more changes for anybody. 599 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:45,720 If you're happy to even consider me, 600 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,400 I'd have to do you and the kids the favour of saying no. 601 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,640 You and him are looking at me like somebody without a bloody map! 602 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,280 Is that what you think? 603 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,720 Good. 604 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,800 Cos for every time that you've pumped yourself up 605 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,160 into something that you're not, 606 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,840 I've had the benefit of knowing exactly where I don't want to be. 607 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,120 No wonder you and Cal ended up glued to each other. 608 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,040 You're like peas in a fucking pod! 609 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,680 DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS 610 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,720 FRONT DOOR SLAMS 611 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,040 Stephen? 612 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,000 Stephen? 613 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,320 Where are you going? 614 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:28,600 Talk to me. 615 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,920 THUNDER RUMBLES 616 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:49,160 TAPE RECORDER CLICKS 617 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,040 Sonia hinted twice before that I might not like her flip side. 618 00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,800 I assumed she was referring to self-esteem. 619 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,360 She wasn't always so confident. 620 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:09,880 One Monday morning, I was feeling a bit rough, 621 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,400 taken the day off work - food poisoning, or... 622 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,600 It was only the second time I'd stayed at her place. 623 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,640 She'd gone into work. 624 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,200 I was half-asleep, half-awake, when the phone went. 625 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:25,560 Bloke's voice. 626 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,160 "Sonia, can we bring tomorrow forward to 1.30, 627 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,040 "because I have a meeting at three?" 628 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,960 That's all. No name, rings off. 629 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,440 But I knew his name, because I talked to him on a weekly basis. 630 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,640 Paul Canning - main lobbyist for U-Ex Oil. 631 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,920 Played it back about 15 times, just trying to put some rational sense... 632 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,360 Yeah, Robert Bingham, Stephen. 633 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,640 I met him again when his company fitted my alarm. 634 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,720 He used to be this chubby little squaddie 635 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,760 and he'd lost loads of weight and I didn't... 636 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,440 He recognised me. 637 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,680 He'd done security for... 638 00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,880 Well, he said Arabs, but that was laughable. 639 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,440 He'd left one of his business cards. 640 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,280 I wanted to know what damage she'd done me, 641 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,480 and I couldn't ask the security services to help me out, could I? 642 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,000 Come on! This was the biggest year of my life! 643 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:52,880 Bingham did that thing, you know, 644 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,320 his ex-teacher made it to the Commons, needed looking after. 645 00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,600 He loved it. 646 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,880 He took it on personally. 647 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,120 Wow, what a mate. 648 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,240 He wasn't a mate. He just wanted to be, you know? 649 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,120 I wasn't that optimistic, but he surprised me! 650 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,080 He went everywhere, he got everything! 651 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,360 He had her diary covered, her phone covered, 652 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,920 he had laptop her cloned so we knew when she emailed who. 653 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,520 What, he'd been in her flat? 654 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:21,840 Yeah. 655 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:27,400 Keys from you. 656 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,840 If I was going to have to go before Parliamentary Standards, 657 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,400 I needed every detail clear as a bell, 658 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,440 because I was the one that was going to be on trial! 659 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,560 Who did you contact in Parliamentary Standards? 660 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,000 Well, nobody by then because we didn't have...You liar! 661 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,200 No, I couldn't go to them until... You're a liar, Stephen! 662 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,720 If you had any intention of going to the Standards Committee, 663 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,840 you would have confronted Sonia first. 664 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,600 And we know, through Dominic Foy, that you didn't! 665 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,680 If she'd have coughed, you'd have had nowhere to go but down. 666 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,440 The night before she was murdered, you slept with her. 667 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,440 HE COUGHS 668 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,040 HE SPITS 669 00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:28,480 That wasn't my idea! 670 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:29,680 What? 671 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,240 That. 672 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,920 Which bit, Stephen? 673 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,480 Killing her? 674 00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:39,640 SOFTLY: Yeah. 675 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,200 No, that was Bingham's solution, was it? 676 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:44,800 I freaked out. I told him to shut his stupid mouth. 677 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,600 Was he listening? 678 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,160 He wasn't, was he? 679 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,400 So what did you do then? 680 00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,440 Fire him? Go to the police? 681 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,160 I told him no! 682 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,440 Oh, you told him no! 683 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,840 Well, big fucking deal! 684 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,040 You still carried on paying him, though, didn't you?! 685 00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,240 I loved Sonia! 686 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,720 If you go saying I didn't, then I've got nothing left! 687 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,080 You know better than anybody, 688 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,720 I was prepared to turn my family inside out for her! 689 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,880 For Christ's sake, she's turning in her bloody grave here! 690 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,880 Along with all the other poor sods that Bingham's murdered! 691 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,040 Sonia Baker stood up to U-Ex Oil. 692 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:24,920 She scared the shit out of them. 693 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,800 She had guts! 694 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,880 She would have blown the whole thing wide open, 695 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,400 because she loved you enough to take the flak! 696 00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,840 She was trying to protect you, 697 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,560 because she found out she was pregnant. 698 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,720 I only realised that yesterday! 699 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,600 All I knew, she's feeling like the best thing 700 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:42,920 that's ever happened to me, 701 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,680 but all the proof's pointing the opposite! 702 00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,040 So, what? He said he was going to make it look like 703 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,680 an accident, did he? 704 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,000 I told him no. 705 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,560 You saw more of her the week she died. 706 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,560 You knew something was going to happen. 707 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:17,680 He'd stopped making contact. 708 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:26,960 Which is how you knew. 709 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,560 Tell me this, cos I won't get it. 710 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,200 What did you think you could ever have achieved... 711 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:54,600 ..however high you went... 712 00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,480 ..that was worth demolishing all those families? 713 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:14,640 JANGLING 714 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,440 You're no good to Anne any more. 715 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,240 This is going on the front page with your name. 716 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,240 When you've had your own, you'll realise. Kids... 717 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,280 ..they shoot the messenger. 718 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,680 They just do. 719 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,560 You wouldn't stand a chance! 720 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:46,920 You'd better think about that! 721 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,120 George Fergus's office have seen the accusations 722 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,960 and issued a "no comment" on the record, 723 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,360 but I've had half a dozen calls for private briefings. 724 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,160 Well, just for ease of narrative, let's stick to "on the record"? 725 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,320 Andrew Wilson's offering some kind of exclusive on a Cabinet reshuffle. 726 00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,640 That's about as exclusive as a Selfridges open day! 727 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,200 I know for a fact the Telegraph got the same call. 728 00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:22,640 Is that McCaffrey? 729 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,560 Where's Collins? 730 00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:41,520 Well, did he come in with you? 731 00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,160 Is he coming in with you? Hello? 732 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:51,920 Cal! 733 00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:58,400 Yes or no? 734 00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:01,120 Just tell me. 735 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,360 On tape? 736 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,040 Yes or no? 737 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,080 COLLINS ON TAPE:That wasn't my idea. 738 00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,480 What? 739 00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,760 That. 740 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,400 Which bit, Stephen? Killing her? 741 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,840 Yeah. 742 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,120 FLUSTERED CLAMOUR 743 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,880 OVERLAPPING DEMANDS 744 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,920 Use that! Use that!No, hang on. 745 00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,040 CAL ON TAPE:Fire him? Go to the police? 746 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:53,560 I told him no! 747 00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,880 Oh, you told him no! Well, big fucking deal! 748 00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,760 You still carried on paying him, though, didn't you?! 749 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,160 I loved Sonia! 750 00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,520 If you go saying I didn't, then I've got nothing left! 751 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:05,920 You know better than anybody, 752 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,240 I was prepared to turn my family inside out for her! 753 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:12,280 For Christ's sake, she's turning in her bloody grave here! 754 00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:15,600 Along with all the other poor sods that Bingham's murdered! 755 00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,040 LOUD CLAMOUR CONTINUES 756 00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:28,640 DOOR SHUTS 757 00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,720 OVERLAPPING SHOUTING 758 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,120 I'm sorry, Michael, but you're going to have 759 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,480 to read that in tomorrow's paper. All right? 760 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,800 SILENCE MUFFLES SOUND 761 00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,840 SHUTTERS CLICK 762 00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,880 MUFFLED CHATTER 763 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:08,160 That's it. 764 00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,280 MACHINES WHIR 765 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,840 Subtitles by Red Bee Media