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Do you remember working with any Russian specialists?

Sorry, what's this about?

Any progress on our mole?

Sifting through the hay piece by piece.

There's nothing like going through your whole love life

with your husband's best friend. THEY LAUGH

No tall, dark strangers taking me aside.

Anything new, or unusual?

From China? Not that I'm aware of.

If they were after something, what might that be?

And it's definitely linked to Phil Draper?

Sorry, I forgot my smart card.

David. Charlie's found the mole.

I was born and grew up in Hong Kong.

My father was a biochemist and academic at HKU.

My mother...

...she enjoyed the expat life...

...though I've never truly understood why Brits are expats

when the rest of the world are immigrants.

When I was 12, my father got a post at Bristol.

We went home...

...or should I say the opposite of home?

What is that? CLICKS TONGUE

How did that make you feel?

How did I feel?

Like I'd lost part of myself.

At university, you had a relationship with a Nicky Chan?

You already know this and it's in my DV form.

BARBARA SIGHS

BARBARA CLEARS THROAT

University, Hong Kong.

He was a law postgrad.

I was at Oxford studying Mandarin.

It was my year abroad.

It was 1997.

I wanted to be there for the handover.

Historical moment.

Historical betrayal.

200 years, our military and trading post, our friends,

then our government abandons them to the Chinese Communist Party.

Nicky was a student leader, fiercely opposed to Chinese rule.

Before you ask, I loved him.

And then, one day, he doesn't show up for a date,

doesn't answer his phone.

I write him letters - nothing.

Had he been arrested?

At first, I was terrified that he had been...

...but then I heard from others

he'd joined another pro-democracy group to avoid me.

Paying me back for our "historical betrayal", I'm guessing.

BARBARA SIGHS

My relationship with Nicky

was bound up with my passion for Hong Kong and the politics.

You know, I...

It was years ago.

And have you seen Mr Chan since 1997?

In the course of my duties for MI6, yes.

We had a leak.

MI6 believed someone had infiltrated

the anti-Beijing group we supported...

...a CCP agent.

I was sent to Hong Kong to find them.

PHONE RINGS

Well...? How did it go?

Mark called me himself straight afterwards.

What, Mark as in Director of GCHQ? Mm-hm.

He offered me the post -

Deputy Director of Operations. You're joking.

Well, that's great! Danny, well done!

I said no.

You said what?

The reason he was calling was to make it quite clear that

I would need to be available 24/7.

And...?

And we have two young children, he knows that.

He knows what you do.

He made it clear I could only do the job...

If you had a good stay-at-home wifey - right. Yeah.

He said there's a post available at GCHQ on the China Team

any time you wanted it.

Less glamorous, more regular.

Excuse me, but he would never ask a husband to step back for his wife.

I'm not asking you to give up something you love.

Yeah, well, I wish I was there

so I could tell him exactly what I thought of his offer.

DANNY CHUCKLES

Look, we'll talk. We'll talk.

I'm sorry, I'm just tired.

I've been travelling all night

and I've still got to stop at the Consulate. Mm-hm.

Well done.

You are a star...

CAR RADIO CHATTER Hang on, hang on.

NEWS PRESENTER SPEAKS MANDARIN

Is everything all right? Yeah.

It's fine, just the protests.

Don't worry.

Will you kiss the kids for me? I will.

Love you. Love you.

NEWS PRESENTER: Hong Kong's burgeoning Umbrella Revolution

escalated today

with further mass demonstrations on the streets

as protestors clashed with Hong Kong police.

PROTESTORS YELL Activists say proposed reforms to

the Hong Kong electoral system

would undermine the democratic process.

We're very grateful to London

for sending someone at such short notice.

President Xi is visiting the UK next year.

Leaks detailing our support for the pro-democracy movements,

however minimal,

are proving deeply embarrassing to the Foreign Office.

There's nothing in existing agreements that prohibits it.

Perhaps,

but we believe these leaks have led indirectly

to the arrest of three protestors, maybe more.

So we'll need to find the source of the leaks

or they will close our HK operation...

...and neither of us want that.

Those of us who grew up out here...

...feel a responsibility.

Who brought you the leaks?

A lawyer.

One of the leaders in the Occupy Central movement.

And how do I make contact with them?

Well, he's asked for a meeting as soon as you arrived.

I've taken the liberty of arranging it.

Mr Nicky Chan.

You know him?

SIREN WAILS

CHATTER

Bi Ba Ya. You still wear it.

Well, it's my name.

The name I gave you.

Bi - beautiful,

Ba - precious,

Ya - elegant...

...Barbara.

I took the liberty of ordering.

Ha!

Dumplings, of course.

I mean, we lived off these as students.

I can't believe it's you they sent.

Any thoughts on who's leaking to the CCP?

Straight to business.

I have thoughts - that's why I flagged it.

Whoever it is has top access.

Everything we tell your people, or your people tell us,

the CCP seem to know immediately.

But I have no proof.

Well, hopefully I can help with that.

And you have family now?

I'm so glad you found someone.

You? Many.

No-one like you.

Ah, don't try and charm me.

You know, you left me standing in front of that cinema.

You didn't answer my calls, you didn't answer my letters.

Mm. It was wrong.

I should not have behaved like that.

But was I really so bad

that you had to go and work for the old colonial enemy in revenge?

I'm here to help you work with the old colonial enemy

against the new one.

"My enemy's enemy," and all that.

Did you ever think about me?

No. Never. NICKY CHUCKLES

And even if I tried not to, your name kept cropping up,

"Nicky Chan, the up-and-coming star of the Hong Kong bar.

"Nicky Chan, the human rights hero.

"Nicky Chan, Hong Kong democracy's great defender."

I'm flattered.

So...

...do you...?

Do you have a list of those you suspect

of passing information to the CCP?

The information leaked was only known by three people -

two of them my colleagues in the pro-democracy movement...

...and your guy at the embassy.

Rupert Wright.

OK.

OK, let's flush them out.

Right, um...

...I should go.

Thank you...

Thank you for the dumplings.

I've literally been on the go for 24 hours.

Right, here...

...tomorrow, lunchtime.

And I'm glad it was you...

...that we had this chance to meet again.

Helen Huen? Occupy?

An Occupy asset, but one of ours.

Her name has appeared in CCP comms.

She needs out.

I'll see what I can do.

Set a trap, plant some leads,

then see which one ends up in the hands of the CCP

or the Beijing press.

Then we'll know who our leak is.

I've taken care of my colleague.

Here's a file on two further assets for each of your two on the list.

Tell them we're arranging to get our people out in a hurry

and then see which one of the assets' flats is raided.

What about the assets themselves?

They're safe.

Already in transit.

I'm addressing supporters at the university today -

do you want to come?

Just like the old days.

Don't think I'll fall for that student leader act again.

Worth a try.

PHONE RINGS

Hi. Danny?

It's early there, isn't it?

Uh, yeah, it's nearly five.

I couldn't sleep.

Is everything OK?

I just, you know,

I couldn't reach you last night,

and the boys are asking when you're coming home.

I tired them out in the park,

so they're good. They're doing fine.

They just miss you.

Same as me. I miss you.

I miss you too.

PROTESTORS CHATTER

PROTESTORS CHANT AND YELL

DOOR OPENS

AUDIENCE BOO

POLICE SPEAK MANDARIN

No, no, no.

Let me go!

Leave me be.

I have diplomatic status - you can't...

The Consulate needs to make an official complaint.

TV NEWS CHATTER

Where's Rupert?

PHONE RINGS

Alex, what's going on?

We're getting you out. What?

What do you mean?

None of you are safe.

The Hong Kong Police searched the flat of Helen Huen

almost directly after you planted the story.

What, Rupert Wright was the leak?

Always a shock when it's one of us.

Jesus Christ, that smug Etonian bastard.

Look, I have to stay.

Barbara, the mission is complete.

You've found the source of the leak.

And given that he is one of ours,

it compromises you and the whole of the Hong Kong operation.

I'm heading into the office now to wind it down.

MI6 are abandoning the people of Hong Kong

when they most need British help.

You can't just leave them to the CCP.

I mean, we have an obligation...

We got our man, Barbara.

You got our man, sadly.

Console yourself with that. HANGS UP PHONE

PHONE BUZZES

Barbara?

Danny, can you talk?

Yeah, sure. What's happening?

What's going on?

You have to take it.

What? The job.

Are you crying?

Maybe.

You take the job, and I will take the China Team job, and...

Are you sure you're all right?

Yeah.

I love you.

I love... HANGS UP PHONE

And Nicky Chan?

The last I saw of him,

he was being hauled off by the People's Police.

God knows where he is now.

Dr Napier, welcome to GCHQ.

SIREN WAILS

As we can see from these recent clips taken on mobile phones,

they had to be smuggled out of the country.

In short, national security is being used to wage war

on Hong Kong civil society.

You are welcome, Dr Napier.

Dr Barbara Napier, China Team Leader, GCHQ.

Sorry I'm late. No problem.

Thank you for the first-hand testimony, Julia.

A late addition to today's seminar,

and our next speaker from the School of Oriental and African Studies,

University of London,

on the undermining by the CCP of the Hong Kong judiciary,

Mr Nicky Chan.

Thank you, Mr Chairman.

My life had become impossible.

The state was watching my every move,

clients were afraid to approach me,

people were afraid to be seen with me.

I had to get out.

I was very fortunate the School of Oriental and African Studies

offered me a guest lectureship.

I can do more to help the Hong Kong opposition

and dissidents of the regime here,

by telling the world,

or at least whoever will listen,

what's going on there.

How long have you been here? A few months.

And you didn't get in touch?

You have your life.

You should have.

I didn't know what had happened to you.

I saw you speak that day.

I saw you arrested.

Did they mistreat you?

No worse than others.

And you?

You're no longer with Her Majesty's Secret Service?

Oh...

...we parted company.

Difference of opinion - over Hong Kong, in fact.

What?

Sometimes I think I made a mistake...

...not showing up at the cinema that night.

25 years I've had to wonder, "Why?

"Why did I walk out on the one woman I ever loved?"

Well, why did you?

Do you remember when I finally took you to see my parents...

...and you charged on ahead to shake my mother's hand

while I was struggling up the stairs

carrying all those bags and flowers and...?

You know what my mother said to me in the kitchen? What?

She said I looked like your coolie.

I am so sorry, Barbara.

I beg you to forgive me.

Oh!

Of course I forgive you! It's water under the bridge.

But, um...

...I have to go.

That is very generous of you.

I hope that we can be friends at least,

while I am in exile here.

Of course.

And...

...if I can help your situation in any way...

OK, that's great.

I believe I will be seeing you all in two weeks, OK?

Thank you, guys.

OK, well, just do me a favour -

just run it again...

...just to be sure. Yeah.

Let me call you back.

What brings you up here?

I couldn't possibly say.

The China Nuclear Enquiry.

Uh...

I can neither confirm nor deny. DANNY CHUCKLES

So did tricky Dicky Marston take a brown envelope from the Chinese?

I thought you were going into London to see an academic friend?

Yeah. Yeah, I've got to go.

Don't forget the boys have rugby today. OK.

Yep. I'll see you. See you later.

SIREN WAILS

Come in.

Hello?

Not interrupting, am I?

No, not at all.

Seminar over. Ah.

Please, have a seat.

Your paper on the suppression of Occupy, you know...

...it is very powerful.

I only have a few comments.

Always straight to business.

First, what can I get you? Coffee? Tea?

Um, a glass of water would be fine.

Two ticks.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

DOOR OPENS

Once a spy, always a spy.

DOOR CLOSES What's this?

Pinned to my door this morning.

And it doesn't upset you?

Yes, a bit.

You get used to it.

I mean, Nicky, this is awful.

"Spy. Traitor. CCP stooge."

There are libel laws in this country.

Look at my deleted email file.

There are ways of tracking down the people who sent these -

my husband would know.

Let's get a drink.

It is a bit early, isn't it?

It's cocktail hour in Hong Kong.

CHATTER

You know, you should report it.

Let it go.

Let it go?

You can't.

Nicky, it's a clear CCP campaign to destroy your credibility.

It comes with the territory.

Yes, and finding and stopping these people comes with it too.

I know who they are -

Hong Kong students.

One threw eggs at me coming out of a lecture last week.

Well, I hope the college did something. Ha!

The students have been radicalised.

They think that non-violent protesters like me

are a waste of space,

that we've achieved nothing with decades of peaceful protest.

But violence will lose you international sympathy.

Exactly,

and that is the mistake that those who radicalised them

want them to make.

And who's that?

The CCP.

Covertly, of course, to discredit our movement.

If they can convince the British government that I am a CCP spy,

I'll be deported and sent straight to a re-education camp.

But who would believe them? You hate the CCP.

You've spent your whole life opposing them.

Sure, but...

...they are very smart.

I bet some of your guys down at GCHQ believe them.

Oh, come on.

I bet, if you look in your files,

you'll find me named as a CCP spy in intercepted messages.

I know you can't tell me,

but I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Correct, I can't tell you.

And I wouldn't want you to.

And for the moment, I'm here with you and I'm OK.

Whisky? No.

Sparkling water.

You were right...

...the CCP are trying to frame you.

They even photoshopped you into a picture

outside a Croydon Chinese takeaway.

We know it's an overseas Chinese police station.

So I AM in your files?

Were.

I've taken care of it...

...permanently.

Barbara, you're taking a terrible risk.

I believe one should do what one knows to be right.

You know, our government have only ever

exploited and then abandoned Hong Kong and its people.

I'm not going to be party to the CCP screwing you all over again.

I owe it to you.

We owe it to Hong Kong.

NICKY EXHALES What is it?

What is it? Are you OK?

Nicky?

Let's walk.

No, no. No, no, no, no.

What is it?

I need to tell you a story...

...about a boy...

...taught to hate his own culture...

...to grieve for the end of colonial rule.

And it took a beautiful, elegant and precious white woman

to show him the absurdity of his colonial upbringing.

I've spent the last 25 years

wondering what went wrong between us, Barbara.

Our relationship was always going to be unequal,

just like the relationship between China and the West.

For God's sake, Nicky, that sounds like CCP talk.

You...

Nicky?

Jesus, Nicky.

Nicky, tell me that you're not...

What?!

W...?

When did they get to you?

When you were arrested?

What, did they torture you? Is that how?

Before.

Before? But you were working for us.

No, I saw you at the protest, what you were saying.

You were arrested, and you...

POLICE SPEAK MANDARIN

You were the one that reported the leak to the Consulate.

You set the trap.

You wanted them to send me.

No, that was just luck.

MI6 were getting close to discovering I was the MSS agent.

Rupert had a lot of middle-class guilt, like you,

and a Chinese boyfriend -

that's how we turned him.

If you want to protect yourself and your boyfriend,

you'll need to take the fall.

We persuaded Rupert in return for looking after them.

"Looking after them..."

...after he's served his 14 years.

That's the UK's punishment for breaking official secrets,

not ours.

I'm sorry you had to find out this way, truly,

but you need to try to think

beyond all the propaganda that you've been fed.

The CCP is a responsible power.

China is not Russia.

We are not out to undermine the West.

You used to say you wanted to do what is fair and just.

Now is your opportunity.

What?

What, you want me to do something for you?

Are you out of your mind?

Are you out of your fucking mind? No, no, no.

I only erased your files

because I believed in what I thought you stood for.

Jesus Christ, this has all been a set-up...

...the hate mails, the email. Fuck!

You've been playing me ever since I arrived back in Hong Kong.

SHAKILY: I should have seen.

You saw what you wanted to see.

If this were to come to light,

I'd have to disappear, but you...

...you'd lose your job, go to jail,

and the worst part...

...your husband,

the new Director of Operations at GCHQ,

his career would be destroyed...

...and so, I imagine, would your marriage.

Hiya!

Is that you, Barb?

Hello?

Hey.

Barbara, what's wrong?

Hey, what's up?

I want a divorce.

This is a joke, right?

Why on earth...?

Where's this coming from?

I just, um...

It's me. I know, it's me.

I haven't been around much since I've been Director,

but, no, it's true.

It's true - you've given up so much for me

and you miss it, you know?

I'll... I'll resign.

No, you've only just been promoted.

You can't resign. I won't let you.

You'd sooner divorce me?

I'm resigning tomorrow.

What?

What is happening?

It's me.

BARBARA BREATHES SHAKILY

I'm so sorry, Danny.

WHISPERS: I'm doing this to save you...

...from me.

I just...

I just need a divorce.

OK, OK, OK, OK. Look, just...

If you can look me in the eyes and tell me that you don't love me...

VOICE TREMBLES: ..I will let you go.

BARBARA SOBS SOFTLY

Tell me you don't love me.

I love you.

One thing.

You said one thing.

This is the one thing.

We need the MAC address of a sandbox in Malware.

We launched a ransomware attack on the NHS.

It will land in Malware sometime soon.

It contains some Mandarin text.

They'll call your department.

What do you think?

I think it's a lot of Chinese text.

In coding terms, it's nonsense.

What's their game?

Don't know.

I'll call the linguists.

What have you got for me?

It's Phil, isn't it?

Dr Napier. Oh, Barbara, please.

Max said you've got some text.

Yeah. It looks like rubbish.

Uh, not sure I needed the head of department.

Well, I need to keep my hand in,

do my share of the grunt work.

Yeah.

Right.

But I did miss my morning coffee.

I don't think I can do this without caffeine.

You wouldn't be an angel and get me a latte from the coffee van, would you?

Here.

Have one yourself.

For the boss's wife, I guess.

Thank you.

Ah.

Sorry, just too much Chinese slang.

Calvin, however, is all over it -

cousins in Beijing.

Right, I'll leave you to it.

Barbara?

Yeah?

Your coffee.

Oh, of course.

Sorry.

In need of caffeine.

CHATTER

Do you have it?

I have done this one thing.

NECKLACE JINGLES

Now I never...

...ever want to see you again.

I never wanted to hurt you.

I have somewhere else I need to be.

Hey.

You got back in time.

Yeah.

Well, it's our anniversary.

What happened to your necklace?

I, um...

I got rid of it.

Consigned the past to the past.

Criminals always return to the scene of the crime.

LAUGHTER

You all right? Mm.

Hello, you. Hey.

How are you? Yeah.

Happy "When Danny Met Barbara" Day, you two.

Everything all right, guys?

Yeah, everything's all right.

All good.

Well, whatever it is,

tonight, we leave home at home and work at work.

Your usual - I took the liberty.

LAUGHTER Ah, thank you, Ravi.

Ms Napier.

Thank you.

Thanks, Ravi.

Thank you, sir.

I'll take those for you.

Cheers. Cheers.

Cheers.

15 years ago...

...on this day,

in this very restaurant,

a nervous young man was out on a date

with a beautiful MI6 agent...

...only for his...

...best friend to run into them and run off with the girl.

Married her, last I heard. Innocent, Your Honour.

I only stopped by to pick up a chicken tikka masala.

You asked me over.

Yeah.

To be fair, it wasn't going very well.

And when you brought him over, I looked up.

There you were, in your anorak.

It was a jacket. Yeah, mm-hm.

Jacket, OK.

And when I looked up, I thought...

"..Who is this beautiful man...

"..who I want to spend the rest of my life with?"

Are you all right?

Yeah. Yeah, I, um...

I'm just going to nip to the bathroom.

I'll be two secs.

SHE CLEARS THROAT

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