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[evocative music plays faintly]

[bell ringing]

[indistinct chatter]

[soldier] Identification, please.

Thank you.

[Bell] This is from the shard that fell out the bomb luggage pallet?

Yes, we at RARDE separated it out, and this is the largest piece.

[Bell] The damage, it looks clearer now.

[Feraday] Ultrasonic cleaning and magnification

have made production AG-145 very revealing.

Multiple materials have been fused together

by close proximity to the blast event.

Meaning?

Well, meaning this item wasn't just in the suitcase with the bomb,

it was the bomb, or part of it anyhow.

This… is the reverse side.

See the tracking pattern?

- Well, it's a circuit board. - Yeah.

Bomb makers tend to focus on two things.

Efficiency and disguise.

Find an electronic device with the components you need and adapt it.

This SRBP-printed circuit board

is just of ordinary commercially manufactured quality.

- From? - An item such as a radio.

You think the bomb was a radio?

Packed with explosives and a timer or a form of barometric switch

that will trigger the bomb once the device reaches cruising altitude.

Have you worked out the make and model?

The exact model I don't know, but two clues have led me to the make.

The diagnostic diamond shape here

and the legend visible in close-up, L106.

That combination,

manufacturer ID,

and diagnostic shape points to a Toshiba radio.

[tense music playing]

Uh, okay, uh…

I can have my team search HOLMES for any other radio-related debris.

Have you come across any bomb makers who use Toshiba radios?

I believe there's one in Germany.

[shutter clicks]

[suspenseful music playing]

[camera shutter clicks]

[man, in German] Bomb maker on the move.

Yes. Two o'clock. Khreesat.

[suspenseful music continues]

[man] All units, stand by. Khreesat at rendezvous.

Visual on target car.

On my command. Go!

Stop! Hands!

[continue shouting in German]

[shouting in German]

[groaning]

[handcuffs clicking]

[woman] Suspect device confirmed!

Bomb squad!

[suspenseful music continues]

[heavy breathing]

[phone ringing]

[distant siren blaring]

[phone continues ringing]

[in English] Hello?

Mr. Klink, DCS Orr here.

We need to know more about Operation Autumn Leaves.

About the warning that you issued to Interpol

two months before our plane went down and the man that you arrested,

Khreesat.

[Klink] I doubt Operation Autumn Leaves is of relevance to Pan Am 103.

It was a huge, coordinated operation

arising from unrelated domestic-terrorism concerns.

Yeah, we arrested Khreesat and 16 others.

Mr. Klink, the cell that Khreesat made bombs for

has been on my analysts' radar for some time.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command.

Widely thought to be funded by Iran.

They don't recognize Israel. They hate all of its allies.

So a 747 full of Americans could make sense as a target.

[Orr] Khreesat was making bombs only three hours from Frankfurt.

We still believe

that the bomb was loaded in West Germany.

You found evidence of a Khreesat radio bomb in Lockerbie?

That's the current line of inquiry. Can I ask you,

what was the make and model of the radio that you seized?

One moment.

[keyboard clacking]

It was a Toshiba BomBeat radio.

And, uh, did you find every bomb he made?

[Klink] We don't know that,

but the radio was set to detonate at cruising altitude.

So, if loaded in Germany, it would explode before reaching London.

Unless it came on board at Heathrow.

Our labs say that he could've modified it with a timer.

[exhales]

We still have the devices we seized. We can re-examine them.

See if they have timers.

Mr. Klink, we really need to interview Khreesat.

Where are you holding him?

[Klink] We did our part.

But a judge decided insufficient evidence.

Are you saying you released him?

[Klink] A few weeks before Lockerbie.

We believe he went back to Jordan.

[sighs]

This could be why Klink can't share the luggage list.

The Germans are scared they released the Pan Am bomber.

Have the profile boys dig deep into Khreesat.

I'll get everything I can from the FBI

and find out if the shard came from a BomBeat radio.

- Hello? - [dial tone]

Hello, are you still with me?

[indistinct chatter]

Are you Dick Marquise?

Yeah, have we met before?

Kathryn Turman, Senator Heinz's office.

- You've called me a couple of times. - I have.

- I haven't called back. - You haven't.

Look, I do wanna talk.

Then it's great we're talking.

What do you do for the senator?

A senior staffer analyzing policy and advising on legislation.

How do you know so much about this case?

Pat Noonan.

Do you know that name?

He was informed by Pan Am

that his daughter had checked into the flight.

And after that one phone call, silence.

From Pan Am and the State Department.

He kept calling, but no one would give him any information.

Mr. Noonan knew Senator Heinz.

He called, I picked up.

Listen, back in Dallas, I got involved with victims' rights issues.

Children's Medical Center too.

You see a lot.

Not much compares to hearing the voice of someone who just lost their child,

so I thought, "Fuck this."

I told Mr. Noonan

that any of the other families could call me, and they have.

- And how many families have you spoken to? - Several.

I am meeting two more on Friday, and they may be deep in grief,

but they are making change,

and they are pushing the White House for action and for answers.

Well, that's great. Pan Am has really let those families down.

Well, so have your FBI.

It's not the Bureau's responsibility to communicate with the families.

Unless you mistake them for suspects, like the Jaafars.

There is no victim-liaison person here.

Families have to travel to Scotland alone

to get any information.

This isn't just a comms mess,

it's a national disgrace.

Kathryn, we are closing in on the bomb maker.

We are trying to prevent further attacks,

save lives.

That's what we're doing for the families. That's our job.

Now, after the dust settles, we can, uh, we can do an after-action.

We can try and improve the systems, but…

You know,

the thing about after-action reports that I've always hated,

they are after the action.

They are past the point when people actually needed us most.

So the next time that I call you,

will you pick up?

Well, I guess I better give you my direct line, huh?

Tomorrow, I need you to focus on gathering all evidence and radios.

Check for relevant debris. Aerials, speakers, anything Toshiba.

Understood.

The FBI want to see everything we've got.

I'm going to open a satellite HOLMES office

in Washington, D.C. for them.

In return for?

Fuller cooperation between us both.

How would you feel about going over there in a few weeks?

Being our eyes in the FBI?

Show them how to take advantage of the system?

For how long?

Could be eight weeks.

Could be more. I don't know, to be honest.

Uh-huh.

[Orr] I know you have your kids. I appreciate that.

Talk to your wife, get back to me.

Aye.

It's exciting. You can't not go.

[Ed] But I'm leaving you with the girls.

A d you were excited about training as a driving instructor.

Don't put that on hold.

Mm, as long as I'm qualified in time to teach our girls.

[Ed] Anything to stop me doing it?

[chuckling]

So, how long would you go for?

Well… a few months, possibly.

- That long? - The FBI doesn't have a similar database.

Anyway, what they need is ours.

Yeah. I can handle a few months.

- Morning, Sandy. - You all right?

[Sandy] Eddie, what's this I'm hearing? America?

- I mean, I'm delighted for you. - Oh, fuck off.

Not gonna miss you either, pal.

Yeah, I can see you doing well over there.

Land of Opportunity.

[keyboard clacking]

[computer beeps]

[keyboard clacking]

[computer beeps]

[keyboard clacking]

[computer beeps]

[Ed] All right, guys, come on.

"Toshiba." "Radio." All terms are drawing a blank.

- Is that right? - [man 1] Nothing.

- [man 2] Aye. - [man 1] Sorry, DS McCusker.

[exhales]

Maybe we're looking at this wrong.

Aye, if it was blown to shite, maybe Feraday's shard is all that's left,

and there is no other radio debris.

How would you hide a radio in a suitcase?

Maybe you'd want it to seem new.

Still be in its box.

[keyboard clacking]

[Ed] 416.

[Sandy] A gift, perhaps?

[keyboard clacking]

[computer beeps]

Now I've got 219 results here.

If new, it might come with a manual.

[keyboard clacking]

[computer beeps]

[Ed] I think that's it, Sandy.

[intriguing music playing]

It's gotta be at Dexstar.

[intriguing music continues]

- [Lauren] Hello. - [Bell] How are you?

Good, thank you.

[Lauren clears throat]

Six-eight-nine.

Like Mr. Orr said,

"If it isn't growing, pick it up."

BomBeat.

Toshiba.

Same make as the bomb found in Germany.

We need to update Orr.

[mechanism clicking]

We now have evidence

that a Toshiba two-speaker BomBeat radio brought down the plane.

And we know a bomb maker who uses those Toshiba radios,

and his name is

Marwan Khreesat.

Current location unknown,

but the German BKA believe he's back in Jordan.

Swissair 330. Zürich to Tel Aviv.

1970. Bomb killed everybody on board.

More than likely that Khreesat was the bomb maker,

as he was the bomb-maker-in-chief for the Popular Front.

- Why has he not been in play lately? - [Orr] Unclear.

FBI thinks he left his cell ten years ago,

was reactivated for a big job.

If he made this bomb, then more than likely

his cell took advantage of the weak security at Frankfurt,

and he slipped it on to feeder flight 103A.

All this helps us pull together another key investigative strand.

Type of suitcase the bomber used.

Twenty-seven pieces of hardshell Samsonite have been recovered so far,

all bear cat one bomb damage, some have bits of paper blasted into them.

We now think the paper could be from the Toshiba BomBeat manual.

The manual and the radio bomb were inside the Samsonite case.

We haven't been able to match it to a passenger,

but Samsonite say the case is from the Silhouette 4000 range.

Only 487 manufactured and sold in the Middle East and North Africa.

They would've been available to Khreesat.

Other heavily damaged items at RARDE

include clothing I'm convinced was also in the case with the radio bomb.

A babygrow and a pair of checked trousers.

Okay, pursue the clothing lead,

but the absolute priority is finding Khreesat.

The CIA have good relations with the Jordanian intelligence.

If he's there, they'll know about it.

Meanwhile, McCusker setting up the HOLMES system with the FBI

is all part of it.

We share with the Americans, they share with us.

Understood?

[bells tolling in distance]

[woman] You left this letter at the Vienna embassy, Mr. Bollier?

True. Correct.

For what purpose?

Getting investigators off the wrong track, and onto the right track.

Why not leave your name?

- Make it easier for us to contact you? - Hmm.

Well, for reasons of my own security.

[woman] You wrote that the CIA should contact you

via radio-traffic frequencies.

It's a clever idea, no?

You claimed to be a Libyan radio officer with the Signal Corps.

Are you a Libyan radio officer with the Signal Corps?

No, no.

Definitely not.

[woman] Then why claim you were?

You also wrote that your preferred code name

for us to contact you was "Aga," and you'd call us "Agu."

Should we use the code in here?

We don't know who might be listening.

And what's the CIA view on the Vienna embassy tip-off?

[Lepley] Our agent says he's full nutjob.

- And she's met some nutjobs. - [chuckles]

[Dick] What about Khreesat?

Feels like your agency has been stonewalling us there.

- Really? It's quite the opposite. - Sure, okay.

Except the opposite would be you helping us.

If you want our ten cents, look to Iran.

Revenge for the incident last year.

By "incident," you mean a US Naval vessel shooting down Iran Air 655?

They didn't know it was a passenger jet.

Oh, so we're handing out points for stupidity now. Okay.

The US had already lost one frigate. They thought we were under attack.

[Dick] And now we are.

Gabe, our intelligence tells us that Khreesat has ties to Iran.

You know he does.

I just reviewed an NSA intercept.

Iran wired ten million to the Popular Front.

That could've funded this whole operation.

Our enemies are communicating better than we are.

[chuckles]

You look tired, Dick. A lot of vacation days saved up?

Yeah, I'd imagine your CIA knows that just like everything else.

Look, Khreesat made Toshiba radio bombs in Germany.

I need your help getting in front of Khreesat now.

There are things we can't do, Dick. The US-Jordan relationship is--

Sensitive, but I need to be in front of that bomb maker for an hour.

- Could be a wasted trip. - Better than an unexplored lead.

Unless you want the next attack to be down at the CIA.

[inhales softly]

All right.

If you're set on going to Jordan despite my counsel, I'll try.

[melancholy music playing]

[Ed] Oof.

[Steven] So…

America, eh?

- Been before? - No.

No, I've not traveled much, mate.

My brother David, he's planning to travel.

You know, see the world.

- If he can. - Ah, good.

Look, mate, I--

I got you a wee present.

Seeing as I won't be there on the day. Open it. Go on.

Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge. Supposed to be a good one.

I saw the Harleys have got a ZX.

Yeah, I was never really into games.

That's more David and Joanne, but…

I'll love this, I reckon.

Happy birthday, mate.

Happy 15th.

Here's the last of her clothing.

Thank you.

- This. - Cheers.

[Elma] I've got this wee necklace too.

Oh, and this.

It's just a ticket stub.

The show she went to see in London.

But it's hers. Should we add it?

If it means something to the family, it goes in.

We don't decide what matters. That's for them.

[Ella] Don't go getting soft on us now, hen.

Are you calling me soft? [scoffs]

[Ed] Afternoon.

- [Moira] Afternoon. - [Elma] Hello.

- Is that one for me? - Aye. To take with you to America.

These are all the belongings matched to her,

along with photos from the photo team. Are they ready?

Yes, they are.

[Lauren] Did a good job, eh? Developing all the rolls that were found?

It's been vital for the ID process, aye.

They're for the families now.

It's a lovely touch.

[Elma] Something from Lockerbie. From the land.

[pensive music playing]

- Lose a few volunteers? - [exhales] A few dropouts.

[Elma] It's been tough for some folk, but we'll keep at it.

- Right. - Good luck.

Thank you.

[seat belt unbuckles]

I'll be back before you know it.

Well… I'll just miss your washing-up skills.

You can keep a tally for when I'm home.

Eyes open, yeah? Stay alert.

Okay, girls. [grunts]

Wish me luck in the Land of Opportunity.

Be good for your mum.

[girls giggling]

- Bye. Love you. - Bye.

[car door closes]

[Dick] What are the next steps for your team?

I wanna blow up a plane.

Rather you didn't.

It doesn't have to be a whole 747, just pallets.

Identical to the ones we know held the radio bomb.

Pan Am can provide them.

Lost luggage.

What would test explosions achieve?

Well, before, nothing.

But we know the device now.

We buy Toshiba BomBeat radios, pack them with Semtex,

put them in parts of the pallet that held the Frankfurt bags,

then we can confirm the bomb was loaded at Frankfurt, not Heathrow.

Blast-pattern analysis? I mean, the variables can be massive, no?

Well, it's a long shot, but if it works,

we'll know where in the world this bomb came on board.

It's the next-best thing to the luggage list

and a bridge-builder to the Scots.

That could help while we're gathering intelligence on the bomb maker.

The CIA's still silent about Khreesat?

[exhales] Yeah, I put in an official request for help.

- Spies always know more than they say. - Yeah.

And the bomb tests?

Your budget, not mine.

[atmospheric music playing]

- [driver] DS McCusker? - Yes.

- Oh. - [driver] Right here.

Yeah.

- How you doing? - Good.

- How was your flight? - Good.

Just toss it in. I'll grab your bag.

- Just hop in the back there. - Okay.

[engine starts]

[atmospheric music continues]

- Detective Sergeant McCusker. - Yes.

Phil Reid. Special Agent here.

- [Ed] Ah. - Flight okay? Hotel?

Eh, brilliant, yeah. I, uh, don't wanna go back home.

Did you check behind the mirror yet?

We bugged the place. It's standard.

- Oh. - [chuckles]

- I know you guys like a joke, right? - [laughs]

- Yeah. - Let's get you signed in.

- Eh, DS Ed McCusker. - So the HOLMES room will be off my office.

You wanna give us a presentation on how it all works, maybe tomorrow?

I'm conscious we have the bomb tests next week.

Right, right.

It would be good to spitball some ideas before then.

- [woman] Your pass, sir. - Okay. Thank you.

- [woman] Thank you. - Thanks. Let's get you comfortable.

Okay.

- [door opens] - [assistant] She's just through here.

Kathryn Turman. Glad to meet you.

- Bob Monetti. - Hi.

- Joe Horgan. We spoke on the phone. - I remember.

It's great to meet you in person. Let's sit down.

Yeah.

It's, uh, not easy getting hold of anybody in this town.

I know.

So, you're lobbying the White House to set up a President's Commission

to look at aviation security?

We'd love Senator Heinz's support.

And you're doing this as part of…

Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, yeah.

There's a growing number of us families now.

Yossi Langotsky's security firm gave Pan Am a report two years ago,

warned the airline it was vulnerable to midair explosive charges in the cargo.

He told them the fact no disaster had occurred yet was merely providential.

It's an industry-wide issue.

We wanna stop other families going through what we've experienced.

Well, I've spoken to the senator.

We would happily help you all figure out

specific airline-safety asks, areas that a commission could look at.

Item one, more rigorous x-ray screening.

Item two, adequate airport security staff training.

And three, a full review of FAA warning systems.

You've clearly done a lot of work already.

So what I would say is that

it's the human stories that get senators and congressmen to cross the aisle.

So, if there is anything that I can also share about your loss.

Would journalists be involved?

Absolutely not. No.

Uh…

a journalist tricked Syracuse University into giving our phone number.

It's how we found out our son had died on the plane.

Oh my God.

Yeah, but… everyone's story is different.

Yeah, I mean, uh… I traveled to Lockerbie.

Well, my brother-in-law, Mikey, I brought him home.

I-I met a detective there, a DS McCusker.

He's a good guy. I believe he's actually in D.C. right now.

- You should meet him if you can. - I'll do that.

The Scottish are trying.

Coffins are sent off with dignified bagpipe ceremonies.

Here?

Families have to collect them themselves.

Wrapped in dirty cardboard.

From airport livestock cargo areas.

Do you have kids?

Not yet. It's just me.

This is, uh, my son's journal. It was, um…

It was cleaned. Some volunteers do that in Scotland, um…

Rick, uh…

he wrote a bit of wisdom here from his first 20 years.

"Read the sports section first. The news can wait."

[chuckles softly]

He was enjoying London.

He wrote here, a few days before he died, um…

"Do all you can while you can."

"Life is a one-time deal."

"There is no reason to hold anything back."

I'm gonna do everything that I can to help.

Thank you.

[indistinct chatter]

[clears throat]

So, eh… access to the HOLMES evidential database

will provide a window

into the investigation.

After my secondment ends,

another HOLMES specialist will come in to man it.

We can't man it ourself?

A Scottish detective will always be the person

physically managing the database to ensure total accuracy.

You don't think we can be accurate?

[murmuring]

Guys, look.

I've got no doubt you know how to do your job.

That was never in question here.

What matters is accuracy to the specific standards

of Scottish evidence-handling laws.

Now, I can help you sift through every clue found in Scotland.

Every finding from the bomb test we're about to jointly conduct,

it can all be inputed along with interviews with our bomb maker,

when we all manage to access him.

The beauty of HOLMES is that each part communicates with the next,

as a team system.

And the feeling that we have now, and hopefully you share,

is that if we solve this case,

we will solve it together.

[soft murmuring]

[gentle music playing]

[elevator bell dings]

Kathryn Turman.

The detective work begins.

Thanks for responding to my message.

Sorry, I've… I've read a lot about this building.

It's quite something.

Guess so.

I need to get out from under it. Fresh air?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

[Kathryn] Joe Horgan spoke highly of you.

And I know the FBI visited too.

Was it Dick Marquise?

Lockerbie. Yeah, he has.

You know, my sense is his heart's in the right place

if he can find it under his suit.

[Ed chuckles]

When we found out it couldn't have been Jaafar,

then we were back to square one.

Taking the news back to his boss couldn't have been easy for Dick.

No, but it's nothing compared to what the Jaafar family have been through.

No. I'm sure.

Did you know that Nazir Jaafar is bringing the first civil claim against Pan Am?

- No, I didn't. - Cost-cutting, inadequate security.

If he loses, he'll be bankrupt.

And if he wins?

America's biggest airline fails.

But they already failed, didn't they?

You meeting with families regularly?

Over here, yes.

I have belongings to return to a family in Upstate New York.

- Mm-hmm. - This week.

There's a group back in Scotland cleaning victims' possessions.

I heard.

And I wish the powers that be would take that kind of care here.

Actually, in our case,

it was just a few individuals who showed up and got on with it.

So, what's, uh… what's your background?

My background? Um…

Started as a volunteer at Dallas Children's Medical Center.

Tough work.

Meaningful work.

First job I loved.

Taught me what matters.

- [man] Morning. - [Sandy] Morning.

[birds chirping]

[knocking]

[dog barking]

[chuckles]

Hello, hello, hello!

All right, you've said hello. Come on. In.

[sighs]

This is DS Gay. Sandy.

And this is Mia.

Hi. Hello.

Over from America, yeah?

Yes. Mrs. Shearer has been so welcoming.

I'm here with my mother.

She's still in shock, but wants to see where her daughter fell.

Anything you need, I'm here.

We should get your mum.

Yes.

I'll wait here.

[pensive music playing]

This is it?

Where she fell?

Aye.

[Mia] Mom?

[in Spanish] This is where she fell.

There now. It's okay. It's okay.

[in English] You were on duty?

That first night?

Do you remember much?

I remember everything.

Yeah, a colleague of mine…

Friend says that my memory's an asset.

Even if it doesn't always feel that way.

[Rosa, in Spanish] It's so beautiful. I'm glad she fell here.

[in English] She said she's glad her youngest daughter fell here.

That it's beautiful.

[voice breaks] This part of the world.

Yeah, it really is.

I forget that sometimes.

[Mia and Rosa cry softly]

Boss, look at this clothing label.

It was separated from the checked trousers,

but there's a wee bit of fabric attached.

[Bell] Yorkie trousers?

That's a brand.

UK companies I've found, called Yorkie.

- [Bell] Not any clothing manufacturers? - No, but there's a chocolate bar, Yorkie.

I know, but maybe they make clothes.

- For promotions or whatever. - If it's a lead, we follow it. Yeah?

[pensive music playing]

[engine starts]

[pensive music continues]

Hi. It's Ed McCusker from Scotland.

Oh, well, we appreciate you making the trip.

McCusker.

Brief us.

Hotel sorted? Luggage pallets?

Yeah. Everything's in hand ready for the bomb tests.

FBI have been okay. Communicative, actually.

Oh, well, that makes a change.

- That was my experience with Tom. - Yep.

Don't get sucked in by the power.

The FBI still hasn't got us access to Khreesat.

Dick Marquise is telling Orr the CIA needs more time.

This is us against everybody.

DCI Bell can't solve the Yorkie trouser mystery,

and is unamused.

Even sent some of the boys to go and inspect Yorkie chocolate bars.

I have a team looking into international manufacturers now.

Those trousers bear serious fucking bomb damage.

[loud explosion]

This is where I learned the art of bomb-scene investigation.

We all got a lot riding on this. Are we on the same page, in terms of plan?

Yep, radio bombs are made, and that little bunker will keep us safe.

They're putting us in there?

Our objective is to recreate the blast hole and skid-rail damage.

And establish if the Toshiba BomBeat radio bomb in a bag

loaded at Frankfurt could've caused it.

And if Khreesat was the bomber.

Science has no interest in who your latest suspect is or isn't.

Uh, these radios, are they already loaded?

Yep. Semtex.

Try them in different positions consistent

to where the Heathrow handlers say the Frankfurt bags were?

The areas at the front and top of the pallet.

And if we can only recreate the real damage elsewhere?

Well, then the bomb didn't come from Khreesat.

It was checked in at Heathrow, and we're back to square one,

but at least we'll know.

[suspenseful music playing]

Scenario one, Frankfurt bags upper-middle-right position.

Three, two, one.

[loud explosion]

[Tom] Roof exploded, but skid rail intact.

And the blast hole isn't a match at all.

Let's move bags and try again.

Scenario two, also Frankfurt.

This one, right in the middle of the pallet.

[explodes]

[Tom] No blast penetration through the pallet wall,

and skid rail still intact.

I don't get it. How's that possible?

[exhales] The blast must've been cushioned by the bags in that spot.

Okay, so if the suitcase with the bomb just happened to be placed there…

The passengers might've survived.

The bomb plot had to be complex, but it also relied on blind luck.

[Feraday] Let's try a case at the bottom of the pallet

where the London cases were loaded.

[loud explosion]

Scenario number three was even further off.

This is a Frankfurt bag, I know it.

Let's position the next one front-left, near the overhang,

near the skin of the pallet.

[intriguing music playing]

[explosion]

[intriguing music continues]

Well, that's it. That's the shot.

The blast hole is almost identical. The skid rail too.

This proves the bomb came on in Frankfurt.

Looks like science likes our working theory after all, huh?

Need some help there, Allen?

- Right, that's-- Made a right mess. - [Tom] Oh!

- [laughing] - Oh my God!

Oh, look.

- Excuse me. - I warned you.

It's all about technique.

Always follow the advice of local law enforcement.

[laughing]

Here. Shall I get us another round, then?

Yeah.

- [Tom] I'll give you a hand. - [Bell] Cool.

[clears throat]

My father loved this place.

Oh, yeah?

Also an FBI agent.

Also named Dick.

Well, that's easy to remember.

[chuckling]

Did he pass along any wisdom?

Yeah. Yeah, he did.

He used to say, uh…

He used to say victims don't need sympathy.

They need justice.

You don't agree.

Yeah, I’m… I'm not sure.

Is there not room for both?

Did you always want to be an agent?

No, not until I was… 19?

There was a bombing in Wisconsin.

Sterling Hall case.

The fact that terrorists had killed an innocent civilian on US soil

just got under my skin.

I thought if I could be some small part,

catching people like that,

stopping them from ever doing it again, then…

Be a pretty good use of a life.

That, and the gun and the badge are pretty cool.

- What about you? - Eh…

When I joined the force,

I imagined I'd be on the world's biggest cases every day.

Here you are.

What was the Bureau like when you started?

Different.

There was a lot of noise about international terrorism, but now…

Now it's actually here.

We're reliant on the CIA to help us fight it.

Has there been any progress accessing Khreesat?

No.

No, not yet.

[reporter] America's President George Bush

vowed today to act against the Pan Am bombers.

Seek hard and punish

firmly, decisively,

those who did this, if we can ever find them.

- Marquise. - Gabe.

Congratulations on your bomb tests.

Got you access to the Jordanian bomb maker.

- You can fly to Amman immediately. - Thank you.

- Thank you, Gabe. This… - Share nothing with the Scots.

US security clearance only.

Is that a problem?

No.

Jordanian Secret Service are an important ally in the region,

and whatever intel they choose to share with you on Khreesat

may be very sensitive, so bear that in mind.

All right. Good night.

'Night.

[phone ringing]

Orr.

[Klink] Mr. Orr, do you have a minute?

Mr…

Mr. Klink?

Everything okay?

One of our agents from the Khreesat operation.

Hans Jürgen Sonntag. You met him at the international meeting.

Yes, yes. I remember him. Mm-hmm.

He was one of the agents re-examining the Khreesat devices and, uh…

one exploded and killed him.

How could that happen?

We think a screw at the side of the radio device was loose,

and his screwdriver must have touched it, and that was enough to detonate.

Another agent was with him.

Seriously injured.

But alive, thank God.

Khreesat has killed another person, one of my own men,

and your bomb tests appear to show the case with the bomb was loaded here,

in Germany.

There were pressures here, you know?

To be ahead of the story.

But I've now ordered another search for the luggage list.

A complete account of every bag that went on that plane in Frankfurt.

I'm really sorry for your loss, Mr. Klink, I really am.

And I appreciate the effort you're making to find the luggage list.

- Thanks for the call. - Thank you.

[call disconnects]

[traffic noise]

[man] Good afternoon.

Hi. Dick Marquise, FBI.

- This is Ed Marshman. - Hi.

All of us in Jordanian intelligence

want to make sure you have everything you need.

Presumably, the CIA has fully briefed you?

You feel happy to go directly into the interview?

Absolutely.

[Dick] Marwan Khreesat.

Let me tell you some of the things we know.

We know that you built a radio bomb that was seized by the BKA

on October 26th.

We know that a very similar bomb

was responsible for bringing down Pan Am 103.

And we just replicated blast damage from an area in the hold

that we know held luggage that you and your associates

could've placed on the plane in Germany.

So now, why don't you tell us what you know?

I made Toshiba BomBeat bombs for organization.

That much is true.

Tell us about the radios.

I bought five Toshiba BomBeat radios.

And these radios ended up in Germany?

Yes. BomBeat 453, one-speaker models.

- What about other models in the same line? - You mean the two-speaker models? No.

Who authorized the devices?

Ahmed Jibril.

I think he had a plan for an Israeli airliner.

One of the devices was found in the car when the BKA arrested us.

- But this device was harmless. - Harmless?

- Yes. - No.

No, the devices aren't harmless. One of them just killed a BKA agent.

Oh, I'm sorry, bombs kill people. Is that news to you?

I never armed the bombs I made.

Well, not recently.

Jibril's other men could have.

Speak freely, Marwan. They may not have been told everything.

Wait a minute. How well do you two know each other?

I left the group in 1973.

I came back to Amman, and I open electronic store for customers.

And then?

And then a few years ago,

agents from the police in Jordan visited me, and I was asked

to re-enter the Popular Front in Germany and become a mole, informant.

[Dick] Wait, wait.

Are you telling me that for the last several years,

this man has worked undercover for you?

That he's not actually a member of the Popular Front?

- He's just posing as a terrorist? - He was a real bomber, but we turned him.

You put this known murderer to work? You authorized him?

Do you understand that one of his devices just killed 270 people?

271!

No, please hear what he has to say.

I had the choice to become a mole or see my family suffering.

And so?

So I went back to Germany, and I fed information back here.

Perhaps to your CIA.

None of my radios did this.

I only made barometric detonators.

- A radio device just like yours. - "Just like"?

- Yeah. - Define "just like."

Perhaps all radios, like us, look the same to you.

No, no, no, no! You put a detonator in a box, okay?

- You don't get to tell us-- - I need the space.

And this is why I used the one-speaker model.

BomBeat.

It's taller.

I'm not your man.

But those copycat bomb makers?

Those that prefer two-speaker models?

Or timers?

When a product succeeds, it is copied by all freedom fighters around the world.

New talent, you Americans say, right?

But it's always coming through cracks.

Cracks which American policy makes in other people's lands.

You think you're ahead of them.

Trust me. They're ahead of you.

[uneasy music playing]

Dick.

Dick, listen. There's a chance that--

He's a murderer, but he's not our murderer.

And the CIA knew!

That's why Lepley advised us not to come down here.

He didn't wanna be the one to blow his cover.

We're trying to crack this case

with one hand tied behind our fucking backs!

Meanwhile, the guys who actually did it are out there planning the next attack.

So, you're telling me Khreesat was a false lead all along.

But you can't tell me how you know.

Well, look, we're still further along than we were.

We now know the device, the suitcase, thanks to your work.

Okay, we'll talk about this later.

It's coming through.

[exhales]

[uneasy music continues]

[printer whirring]

It's the Frankfurt list.

- [phone ringing] - [June] Fiona, it's almost bedtime.

Lynne, please, can you just help her with her toys?

- Hello? - June. June, is that you?

Uh… Oh, it's gotta be bath time.

- I'm sorry. - No, no.

- How's it going? - Good.

Yeah, good.

I'm, uh…

I miss you a lot, but keeping busy.

Spent a good bit of time with Dick Marquise

and the rest of the Lockerbie team. It's all happening here.

So, I was-- I was wondering today, just-- just spitballing.

Sorry, spitballing?

How about getting you all out here for a bit?

I could speak to Orr.

Someone's got to be here to man HOLMES long-term.

They might… They might sort a flat for a bit.

We'd be together.

Big… team McCusker.

Eddie, you've been there two minutes. [chuckles]

It's not reality.

So… we live in Scotland, and I happen to love it.

So, I'm sorry.

Forgive me if I don't pack all my bags, along with my plans.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Of course.

Double-check this one, this one, this one. Don't worry about this.

- These three. - How's it going? What's this?

- "KM 180." - Germans sent the luggage list.

Pan Am flight 103A was carrying seven pieces of interlined luggage.

- Luggage transferred between airlines. - I've got that, son. Aye. So?

One of the cases, unaccompanied by a passenger,

started its journey on flight KM 180.

Malta to Frankfurt.

The bomb came from Malta?

And there's more. We discovered a Yorkie Trading Company in Malta,

making clothes.

Sorry, Harry. You're back on a plane.

[closing theme music playing]