1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Strike_Back_2010 - S01 - E05 - Afghanistan_Part_One Re-Sync and Edit ( T_Media_Rips ) 2 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,400 Air Tac, Air Tac! We need air support! 3 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,680 "Sit tight, Sierra 2-0, we're on the way." 4 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:35,840 Aaargh! 5 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,080 Medic! Medic! I'm on it! It's gonna be OK! Just stay still! Stay still! 6 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,525 Come in, Air Tac! 7 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,680 Where are you?! Where the fuck is my air support?! 8 00:00:52,715 --> 00:00:55,880 "Fast Air inbound, Sierra 2-0." 9 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:28,120 Sir, enemy reinforcements coming in from the south! 10 00:01:28,155 --> 00:01:33,560 Enemy reinforcements! We need that air support! Now! 11 00:01:33,595 --> 00:01:36,120 "Saxon 4-3, inbound your location 1 minute." 12 00:01:36,155 --> 00:01:39,600 Josefa! 13 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,165 "30 seconds till contact." 14 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,920 Target painted, sir! Target painted! Target painted! 15 00:01:56,955 --> 00:02:01,005 Delta Oscar Bravo 7-4 Papa Alpha! Confirm! 16 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,280 "Target confirmed, Delta Oscar Bravo 7-4 Papa Alpha." 17 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,640 "Target locked, Sierra 2-0." 18 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,600 "Weapons going hot." 19 00:02:19,635 --> 00:02:21,880 Yes! 20 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,720 Fuck. Incoming! 21 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,400 You beauty! 22 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,365 Some kind of malfunction in our guidance system. 23 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,760 The fourth time our missiles have hit American troops 24 00:02:58,795 --> 00:03:01,485 in the last month. 25 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,760 RAF Fast Air JDAM was launched at a Taliban position. 26 00:03:04,795 --> 00:03:06,765 Struck the American Marines instead, 27 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,520 a full 600 metres wide of the painted target. Major casualties 28 00:03:10,555 --> 00:03:12,965 and the Americans want answers. 29 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,325 Air Tac HQ have identified an electronic footprint. 30 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,360 Someone on the ground cracked the encryption codes. Impossible. 31 00:03:20,395 --> 00:03:25,885 All our systems are 100% hack proof. Not any more. 32 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:29,840 If the Taliban can breach our systems and redirect our missiles, 33 00:03:29,875 --> 00:03:34,925 that's serious. We need answers and solutions quickly. OK. 34 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,600 We're now losing badly in Helmand. The tide's turned against us 35 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:42,297 and we don't know why. Maybe what we have on our hands 36 00:03:42,332 --> 00:03:45,960 is some kind of new-breed warlord. He has to be stopped. 37 00:03:45,995 --> 00:03:48,120 He's tying the operation in knots. 38 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,965 Gerald Baxter. Gerald Baxter in Iraq 2003 39 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,700 was a technical-support contractor, civilian, not military. 40 00:04:52,735 --> 00:04:56,567 A missile-guidance software engineer. But he screwed up. 41 00:04:56,602 --> 00:05:00,400 He was responsible for the accidental bombing of a village. 42 00:05:00,435 --> 00:05:03,485 Women and children died. 43 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,060 Baxter was deemed psychologically unfit for active service 44 00:05:07,095 --> 00:05:10,627 in conflict zones. Returned to Britain where he was diagnosed 45 00:05:10,662 --> 00:05:14,160 and hospitalised with post-traumatic stress disorder. We think 46 00:05:14,195 --> 00:05:17,205 he may now be in Afghanistan. All records of Baxter 47 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,880 stop at September 2005. There's no trace of him after that date. 48 00:05:20,915 --> 00:05:23,765 Keep at it, everything we can get on him. 49 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,280 OK, John, your mission is to locate and extract Gerald Baxter. 50 00:05:28,315 --> 00:05:30,485 So I go in as an arms dealer? 51 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,800 OK,... what are the three standard phases of missile guidance? 52 00:05:34,835 --> 00:05:39,237 I want a translator and a fixer with connections to the Taliban. 53 00:05:39,272 --> 00:05:43,640 Boost, mid course,... terminal. You're supposed to know this. 54 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,720 Give me two types of radar-control guidance. Command. 55 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,885 Locked? No, it's beam rider. 56 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:03,640 Is it? John, you're gonna have to be careful. 57 00:06:03,675 --> 00:06:07,280 I mean it, be careful. 58 00:06:07,315 --> 00:06:09,480 I'll be careful. 59 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,400 So that's 7.62 by.39 mil FMJ ammunition with steel core. 60 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,120 Let's say 170 million rounds at... 61 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,960 ..$85 US per thousand. 62 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,920 Come on, Ukrainian manufacture, fully-accredited EUCs. 63 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,760 The governor is not interested. 64 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,240 OK. 65 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,885 I have associates connected to Arafel Systems in Chandrigar. 66 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,000 These associates can get access to the LTD code encryption software 67 00:08:27,035 --> 00:08:31,000 on the next generation of Brimstone laser-guided missiles. 68 00:08:31,035 --> 00:08:34,480 Yeah, a hacker's paradise. 69 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,725 These weapons are due to come online with ISAF forces 70 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,320 within the next three months. Control them and you control the war. 71 00:08:44,355 --> 00:08:46,485 The governor would like to be sure 72 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,640 you are who you say you are,... Mr Wallace. 73 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,360 Go back to your hotel, he'll be in touch. 74 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,560 Come on then, get on with it. 75 00:09:13,595 --> 00:09:15,840 Oof! 76 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,445 Frank! Hey, Hugh. 77 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,160 Good to see you. Frank Arlington, this is Lieutenant Thompson. Sir. 78 00:09:55,195 --> 00:09:57,965 US Special Security attache to the London desk. 79 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,400 I'm your liaison for the blue on blue response operation. Sir. 80 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:04,765 Timing of these friendly fire incidents couldn't be worse. 81 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,560 The president's troop surge proposal comes before Congress next week, 82 00:10:08,595 --> 00:10:12,597 so we need to rectify this situation as soon as possible. 83 00:10:12,632 --> 00:10:16,600 I'm here to help. Liaise, facilitate. Whatever it takes. 84 00:10:16,635 --> 00:10:18,845 Glad to hear it, but let me assure you, 85 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,520 we've got this situation under control. Come this way. 86 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,800 Gerald Baxter. We're not sure how he got into Afghanistan. 87 00:10:56,835 --> 00:10:59,725 Maybe he's being held against his will, maybe not. 88 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,080 Are you extracting or eliminating? We want him back in one piece. 89 00:11:04,115 --> 00:11:06,817 We need to know how he's redirecting our missiles. 90 00:11:06,852 --> 00:11:09,485 Has he passed on his knowledge to the Taliban? 91 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,485 Plus his intel on Taliban strategy could be invaluable. 92 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,160 How do you plan to do that? We already have a man in the field. 93 00:11:16,195 --> 00:11:18,965 Who? Where is he? Hey. 94 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,320 We're not laughing about this at Langley or in the White House. 95 00:11:22,355 --> 00:11:25,640 A presidency's at stake in Afghanistan so it would be helpful 96 00:11:25,675 --> 00:11:29,200 if you were to keep me in the loop every step you take. 97 00:11:29,235 --> 00:11:31,520 Is that clear? 98 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,880 And will this information sharing be reciprocal? No, it won't. 99 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,960 But be assured we'll be pursuing our own enquiries 100 00:11:41,995 --> 00:11:44,600 with extreme vigour. 101 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,125 "OK, we've got a white pick-up." 102 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,440 "Several Talibs crammed in there." "Copy, standing by." 103 00:11:52,475 --> 00:11:56,720 "Could be a westerner in the back. Hold to confirm." 104 00:11:56,755 --> 00:11:59,960 "Copy that, Delta Bravo, copy." Don't move, OK? 105 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,520 "Yeah, it's a westerner." "Copied and confirmed." 106 00:12:09,555 --> 00:12:12,920 "OK, Afghan cops are checking the pick-up." 107 00:12:12,955 --> 00:12:16,125 "Yeah, they're paying them off." 108 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,680 "Haven't even challenged them. Moving 'em on now." 109 00:12:19,715 --> 00:12:22,565 "Copy, stand by." You move, I kill. 110 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,400 "OK, flag it up, Delta Bravo. Could be a kidnap, could be our lead." 111 00:12:26,435 --> 00:12:29,520 "Roger, we'll track and observe. Delta Bravo out." 112 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,880 Josefa! 113 00:13:02,915 --> 00:13:04,880 Si, si! 114 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,680 Josef Mohammed. What's your name? 115 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,720 Tom Wallace. Welcome to Chateau Taliban, Tom Wallace. 116 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,720 We've been expecting you. 117 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,480 You alright, pal? So what you got? 118 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,765 You already know what I've got. Arafel Systems, Chandrigar? 119 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,920 They're designing missile guidance software on new Brimstones. So what 120 00:14:07,955 --> 00:14:11,200 I've got access to the LTD code encryption on those missiles. 121 00:14:11,235 --> 00:14:13,360 You control their every move. 122 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,325 Tommy Wallace! 123 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,365 Arms trader, western decadent. 124 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,000 You have one minute on missile guidance system programming. 125 00:14:35,035 --> 00:14:37,765 Your time starts... now! No, I - 126 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,000 Name two control systems governing all missile guidance. 127 00:14:41,035 --> 00:14:44,200 Altitude, flight path. Two categories of radar guidance. 128 00:14:44,235 --> 00:14:47,040 Command and... beam rider. 129 00:14:47,075 --> 00:14:49,200 Name the only... 130 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,440 ..Nobel Prize-winning author to play the World Cup. 131 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,800 Albert Camus. 132 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,480 Which of the above categories does the current Brimstone use? 133 00:15:02,515 --> 00:15:05,960 Technically neither. It operates on homing, not radar. 134 00:15:05,995 --> 00:15:10,120 Uses an amplitude comparison monopulse method. 135 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,160 Who do you work for? Tom Wallace Enterprises. 136 00:15:15,195 --> 00:15:16,680 Alright. 137 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,080 You're coming with me. I don't think so. 138 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,725 I've come far enough. 139 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,620 You want these codes, you're coming with me. Bring protection 140 00:15:28,655 --> 00:15:32,767 but I want a guarantee that you aren't just a bunch of fanatics. 141 00:15:32,802 --> 00:15:36,921 I'm not here to play, I'm here to do business. Watch your lip. 142 00:15:36,956 --> 00:15:41,040 I don't trust you as far as I can throw you, and these chaps here, 143 00:15:41,075 --> 00:15:44,817 they reckon you're morally polluted, tainted and corrupt. 144 00:15:44,852 --> 00:15:48,560 I happen to have the ear of the only man in this country 145 00:15:48,595 --> 00:15:52,560 worth talking to about buying this shit. 146 00:15:52,595 --> 00:15:55,717 And scum like you, you're not fit 147 00:15:55,752 --> 00:15:58,805 to lick the boots of a man like... 148 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,680 A man like who? Excuse me? Who are you talking about? 149 00:16:01,715 --> 00:16:03,997 Who's your boss? 150 00:16:04,032 --> 00:16:06,245 Yeah, right. 151 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,520 Sorry, mate. I've got to kill you now. 152 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,480 Incoming! 153 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,520 Josef! Get down! 154 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,800 On your knees! On your knees now! Don't shoot! 155 00:16:33,835 --> 00:16:37,080 On your knees! Hands on your head! 156 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,125 Sir, Gerald Baxter's background, 2005. 157 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,200 It's not only him who disappeared but his whole family. Wife, kids. 158 00:16:48,235 --> 00:16:51,440 There's no trace of them. The whole family? You're sure? 159 00:16:51,475 --> 00:16:54,240 No trace? Absolutely nothing. New identities. 160 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,640 I'm sensing the hand of the firm. But if MI6 put Baxter 161 00:16:59,675 --> 00:17:02,085 back into the field after 2005 162 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,205 knowing he was psychologically unstable, I mean,... 163 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,160 if the Americans were to put Baxter through the courts... 164 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:11,965 ..it'd be the British government in the dock. 165 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,980 Treat Baxter's wife as a missing person but find her, OK? 166 00:17:16,015 --> 00:17:19,960 MI5 and 6. We need to know. Was Gerald Baxter on their books? 167 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,680 Let's get these prisoners bagged and tagged! Get them in there! 168 00:17:32,715 --> 00:17:35,160 Move them prisoners! 169 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:38,725 I wanna talk to you! 170 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,480 We're on your side, you numpties! 171 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,325 We're kidnap victims! We're aid workers! 172 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:52,800 We save the starving children and that! You can't do this! 173 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Your name, please, sir. Tom Wallace. 174 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,720 Your name, please, sir. Josef Mohammed. I demand a lawyer! 175 00:18:20,755 --> 00:18:23,760 I demand a phone call right now! I need to see your face. 176 00:18:23,795 --> 00:18:27,085 Just put your arms down. 177 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,840 Sir, put your arms down! Let me see your face. 178 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,725 Just intercepted this on US comms. 179 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:39,120 Two westerners picked up after a surprise attack on a Taliban base. 180 00:18:39,155 --> 00:18:42,977 They're being held at US marine base Victor. Shit! 181 00:18:43,012 --> 00:18:46,765 Anything about MI5 and 6? They say at no point 182 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,800 did they have Gerald Baxter on their books. They're lying. Keep pressing. 183 00:18:50,835 --> 00:18:53,405 We need to get Porter and Baxter out of there. 184 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,240 Looks like you might need to call in a few personal favours. Maybe. 185 00:18:57,275 --> 00:19:00,480 Ask Arlington to hand them over. Maybe. 186 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,960 US intelligence officers will handle everything, standard protocol. 187 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,565 We'll inform the appropriate UK authorities. 188 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,920 Sorry, request denied. Unless you have some vital information 189 00:19:18,955 --> 00:19:21,440 you'd like to share with us. 190 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,520 OK, Frank, the man you have in custody 191 00:19:26,555 --> 00:19:29,797 identifying himself as Josef Mohammed... 192 00:19:29,832 --> 00:19:33,005 we believe he's Gerald Baxter. Good. 193 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:38,320 If Gerald Baxter is responsible for the deaths of, what, 22 US marines, 194 00:19:38,355 --> 00:19:42,640 then under the terms of the treaty he has to be tried in the US. 195 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,085 Is there something else? 196 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,600 The other man who was captured. Excuse me? 197 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,720 The other westerner captured with Baxter is - He was captured alone. 198 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,400 Frank, according to US marine comms, a second man was picked up. 199 00:20:04,435 --> 00:20:08,200 He's our deniable asset. Deniable asset. 200 00:20:08,235 --> 00:20:10,520 More deniable liability, huh? 201 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,680 Either way, Baxter was captured alone. For Christ's sake, 202 00:20:14,715 --> 00:20:17,000 I've seen the photos! 203 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,520 Gerald Baxter... was captured alone. 204 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,600 My name is John Porter. 205 00:20:28,635 --> 00:20:31,405 34487566, zap code 807. 206 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,400 You might want to write that down. 207 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,380 The prisoner, the British man you're holding, he's mine. 208 00:20:39,415 --> 00:20:43,160 What British man? What the fuck are you lot playing at? 209 00:20:43,195 --> 00:20:45,360 That bloke over there. 210 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,365 His name... is Gerald Baxter. 211 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,520 He's responsible for the deaths of... 212 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,440 Yeah? 213 00:20:56,475 --> 00:20:57,720 Uh-huh. 214 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,920 Yeah. OK. 215 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,520 He's been designated R4. R4? What the hell... 216 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,885 Welcome to 1984. I am a British citizen. 217 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,160 I wanna phone my lawyer, I wanna speak to the embassy! 218 00:21:18,195 --> 00:21:20,325 You hear me?! We have rights! 219 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:23,360 We subjects of Her Majesty's government and that shit! 220 00:21:23,395 --> 00:21:25,405 Get in. In! 221 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,445 Who the hell are you guys?! 222 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,280 I don't understand. The Americans have reason to hold Baxter 223 00:21:31,315 --> 00:21:34,800 but Porter? Why would they deny he even exists? 224 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,520 They're going to kill him, aren't they? 225 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,840 Listen guys, I've got connections in this country, OK? 226 00:22:16,875 --> 00:22:19,045 I've got access to a lot of money. 227 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,800 Kill laughing boy and you name your price! 228 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,720 Cool. 229 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,885 Holy crap, that was amazing. 230 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,920 That was just like a movie. How did you, boom, boom? 231 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,600 Thanks, man. It's the second time you've saved my life, huh? 232 00:22:54,635 --> 00:22:57,320 Think you'll find I was saving my own life. 233 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,880 I know exactly what's going on here. 234 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,000 We're having a bromance! 235 00:23:06,035 --> 00:23:09,360 Shh. What is that? 236 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,540 Shit. Homing pigeon. They're coming to get us. 237 00:23:19,575 --> 00:23:22,600 It's a distress signal. Let's get out of here. 238 00:23:22,635 --> 00:23:25,005 Undo my cuffs! 239 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,840 Why do the Americans want you dead? Who gives a monkey's? 240 00:23:27,875 --> 00:23:30,040 Why do they want you dead?! 241 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,080 I work for them. What?! 242 00:23:36,115 --> 00:23:38,480 Not now. I used to. 243 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,165 The Yanks took me into Pakistan. Why? You're not military. 244 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,800 Cos they like what I can magic up on the old computer software design, 245 00:23:47,835 --> 00:23:51,520 missile guidance systems, hacking, you name it, I can do it. 246 00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:54,457 Then I went and got myself kidnapped, 247 00:23:54,492 --> 00:23:57,325 spent 18 months chained to a radiator. 248 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:00,300 Now the Yanks want me dead cos I know a lot of stuff. 249 00:24:00,335 --> 00:24:03,240 Secrets like what they were up to in Pakistan. What? 250 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,405 Danni. "Sir, I found Baxter's family." Where? 251 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,520 "Connecticut. Fast-tracked through the American citizenship process." 252 00:24:13,555 --> 00:24:15,600 Well done. Good work. 253 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,605 CIA. 254 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,800 CIA? I'm a bleedin' civilian. Tech support. 255 00:24:24,835 --> 00:24:26,925 CIA. 256 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,080 You converted to Islam? Is that what happened? Ptth! 257 00:24:30,115 --> 00:24:33,077 Right? Islam? Allah schmallah. 258 00:24:33,112 --> 00:24:36,005 Ramadama ding. I don't think so. 259 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,165 No. Look, forget it. Let's get the hell out of here! 260 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,440 Converted to what? What is going on with you? Who are you following? 261 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,320 I converted to Zahir Sharq. Do you know who that is? 262 00:24:48,355 --> 00:24:51,045 Zahir Sharq? 263 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,925 Zahir Sharq's your man. He's the future father of this nation. 264 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,720 Every rebuilding programme in this country pays dues to Zahir Sharq. 265 00:24:58,755 --> 00:25:02,165 Yeah, protection money. Protection money? Taxes. 266 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,720 He's a visionary. He'll take your missile encryption codes. 267 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:08,245 He will pay big time. 268 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,605 Don't mean to rush you or anything, 269 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,000 but the Yanks have got eyes in the sky, in the mountains and ground. 270 00:25:14,035 --> 00:25:17,640 If we don't get a move on, we are toast. Calm down. 271 00:25:17,675 --> 00:25:20,760 It's a deal. Where are we headed? 272 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,360 Ten miles down the road. Then we're on foot. 273 00:25:25,395 --> 00:25:27,805 Where to? Sharq's cave? 274 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,880 Cave? Man like Zahir Sharq doesn't hide in a cave, you English prick. 275 00:25:31,915 --> 00:25:34,517 This dozy English prick just saved your arse, 276 00:25:34,552 --> 00:25:37,120 so why don't you just tell me where he is? 277 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:39,440 Pakistan. 278 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,445 Great 279 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,800 But we do this my way. No funny stuff, understand? 280 00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:48,360 Don't tempt me. 281 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,360 Let's go swim with the Sharq, shall we?! 282 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,725 To the triumph of outcome over methodology. 283 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,040 To the non interference of the joint intelligence committee. 284 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,085 We've been digging. 285 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,720 Gerald Baxter was a civilian tech support operative 286 00:26:27,755 --> 00:26:30,445 recruited by Langley. 287 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,800 Family given new identities. Fast-tracked through US immigration 288 00:26:34,835 --> 00:26:37,525 quicker than a Nazi rocket scientist. 289 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,245 Your firm knew Gerald Baxter was psychologically unstable. 290 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,560 Yet you recruited him and sent him back into the theatre into Pakistan. 291 00:26:45,595 --> 00:26:49,457 You're responsible for the deaths of your own marines. 292 00:26:49,492 --> 00:26:53,426 Now 22, I believe, and you want Gerald Baxter dead 293 00:26:53,461 --> 00:26:57,360 and Porter too. Cover it up and blame it on us. 294 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,845 What do you want? I want them back. 295 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,725 The American government takes the blame for this. 296 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,560 I don't care how you spin it, but you do not dump it on us. 297 00:27:14,595 --> 00:27:17,005 And what do we get in return? 298 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,120 The truth will never see the light of day. 299 00:27:20,155 --> 00:27:23,280 I'll close down Porter and Baxter. 300 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,920 If you haven't already buried them in the Afghan desert. Very funny. 301 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,160 You haven't heard from them, have you? No. 302 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,400 And you don't have them to trade, do you? 303 00:27:43,435 --> 00:27:46,160 No. 304 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,725 John bloody Porter. 305 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,040 Forged on a Northern housing estate. Smart boy. 306 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,565 Give you the slip, did he? 307 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,720 Well, Frank, it's only a matter of time before he comes home. 308 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,440 Think about my offer. 309 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,525 Hey, Hugh, there are some in the administration 310 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,280 who think you guys are more part of the problem than the solution. 311 00:28:15,315 --> 00:28:18,165 The Anglo-American love in, it's over 312 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,600 and there's a 'go it alone' strategy on the table in the White House. 313 00:28:21,635 --> 00:28:26,320 So if I were you, I'd think twice before having principles. 314 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,680 "Get me Langley, code four." "Yes, sir. Connecting you now." 315 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,200 Shh, shh. 316 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,880 Down, get down. Move, move. 317 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,765 OK, we're clear. 318 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,405 OK, bad boy. Pick up's arranged. 319 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,440 You got a meet with Zahir Sharq. Great. So how far do we go, Joe? 320 00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:17,440 Not far and it's Josuf. Yeah, but what's your real name though? 321 00:29:17,475 --> 00:29:19,685 My real name is Josuf Mohammed. Bollocks. 322 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,160 You're not Arab, Afghan or Pakistani. You're from... Cowdenbeath. 323 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,365 Sir, MI5 and 6 have come back. 324 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,605 They categorically deny any knowledge of Gerald Baxter. Good. 325 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:38,080 All down to the Americans. Porter and Baxter have slipped their net. 326 00:29:38,115 --> 00:29:40,120 Sir? 327 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,605 Over there, Pakistan. Over there, Afghanistan. 328 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,685 Show me the border, Tommy, huh? Show me the border. Why? 329 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,160 Cos these are tribal lands. Tribal lands that have been tribal lands 330 00:29:55,195 --> 00:29:58,600 for thousands of centuries. People here don't give a monkey's shit 331 00:29:58,635 --> 00:30:01,440 about the nation bleeding state of international law. 332 00:30:01,475 --> 00:30:04,497 At least the Soviets had the balls to invade 333 00:30:04,532 --> 00:30:07,485 instead of dicking around with Afghanistan. 334 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,360 Listen, mate, I'm not here for a history lesson. 335 00:30:10,395 --> 00:30:12,565 I just wanna do business, sell some guns. 336 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,680 You see, you're following Zahir Sharq on point of principal. 337 00:30:16,715 --> 00:30:20,760 Cos you think that he somehow can solve this mess of a war. 338 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,800 I don't buy it. Oh, really? 339 00:30:24,835 --> 00:30:26,685 Who are you? 340 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,920 Alright, Mr Business man, I'll show you who I am. 341 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,685 You see this? Special Forces bit of kit. 342 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,760 Get one of these if you're gonna be cutting about Afghanistan, 343 00:30:38,795 --> 00:30:41,320 flogging weapons of mass destruction. 344 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,000 Look at that. My daughter did that. 345 00:30:46,035 --> 00:30:49,337 She was six at the time. 346 00:30:49,372 --> 00:30:52,346 It reminds me why I'm here. 347 00:30:52,381 --> 00:30:55,320 She was trying to help me. 348 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,120 To bring an end to all of this. 349 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,200 'Gerald Baxter was responsible for the accidental bombing of a village 350 00:31:05,235 --> 00:31:07,685 in Samara. Women and children died.' 351 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,280 That is the business that we're in. That is the business we're in. 352 00:31:12,315 --> 00:31:14,925 Drone. Shit! 353 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,200 "Commencing search pattern." 354 00:31:17,235 --> 00:31:19,320 Move! 355 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,200 "Switching to thermal imager." 356 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:29,200 So this is their last known position, US Marine FOB Victor. 357 00:31:29,235 --> 00:31:31,760 Not quite a needle in a haystack, but not far off. 358 00:31:31,795 --> 00:31:34,117 I want a team in there now to bring them out. 359 00:31:34,152 --> 00:31:36,405 Get our Electronic Intelligence looking for them. 360 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,480 We need to get to them before the Americans. Understood? 361 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,480 "Commencing IR sweep." 362 00:31:43,515 --> 00:31:46,080 Come on, move! In here! 363 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,480 Hold still, absolutely still. It'll think we're rocks. 364 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,365 I am a rock. 365 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,760 "Clearing November Zulu 2356." 366 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:02,720 Don't move! 367 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,760 I'm sorry, mate. 368 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,560 You fucking Americans! Go to hell! 369 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,160 I'll never see my little girl again. 370 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,080 Dad! 371 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:35,800 I don't deserve to. Till I've made all this stop. All this killing! 372 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,965 I gotta make it stop. 373 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,960 Maybe you're asking too much of yourself. 374 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,480 Maybe you're asking too little of yourself. 375 00:32:49,515 --> 00:32:52,937 Zahir Sharq will make it stop. 376 00:32:52,972 --> 00:32:56,360 That's what he's all about. 377 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,440 He's the only one who can. 378 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,360 Come on. Sharq's waiting. 379 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,320 Your carriage awaits, princess. 380 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,120 Salam Alaikum. 381 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:38,680 Nothing like a bit of homeland security, huh? 382 00:34:38,715 --> 00:34:43,200 If you're not on the list you're not coming in. 383 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,320 See, this ain't Afghanistan. And it ain't Pakistan. 384 00:34:52,355 --> 00:34:57,600 I guess, you'd have to call it... Sharqistan? 385 00:34:57,635 --> 00:35:00,400 Is there no end to your talent? 386 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,285 Salam Alaikum. 387 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,680 Mercenaries. The best. 388 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,485 The Taliban are paying us a visit. 389 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:50,885 This guy here, Zaman Qalzai, he's been extorting money. 390 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,480 I thought that's what you lot did. Na, Sharq's changed the rules. 391 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,805 He's not a Taliban fanatic. 392 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,525 Go back to your hotel, we'll be in touch. 393 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:08,240 He's a politician. And when politics fails? Who wins? 394 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:15,560 Oh, yeah. Guy with the biggest gun, silly me. 395 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,120 Josuf. 396 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,640 In tribal lands, nothing is what it seems, Mr Wallace. 397 00:36:32,675 --> 00:36:36,365 Mr Sharq. That man extorted $20,000 398 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,000 from a French Electricity supply company in Lashkar Gah. 399 00:36:40,035 --> 00:36:44,280 But, I had already done a deal with that company. 400 00:36:44,315 --> 00:36:47,045 I see. Protection. 401 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,720 Shadow taxes for a shadow government. 402 00:36:52,755 --> 00:36:56,045 Tea? No, thank you. 403 00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,440 You see in business, you need consistency, 404 00:37:00,475 --> 00:37:02,765 price stability, you know. 405 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,700 So I will return the money he extorted from the company. 406 00:37:06,735 --> 00:37:10,367 You spend the money you raise from those taxes on weapons. 407 00:37:10,402 --> 00:37:14,501 Which is why I'm here. You do want the encryption codes? 408 00:37:14,536 --> 00:37:18,888 Of course. So let's do a deal and get myself back to Kabul. 409 00:37:18,923 --> 00:37:23,240 All in good time, Mr Wallace. Look, I'm a business man. 410 00:37:23,275 --> 00:37:26,757 Indeed. Some business man. 411 00:37:26,792 --> 00:37:30,016 This guy's a real bad ass. 412 00:37:30,051 --> 00:37:33,205 Twice he's saved my life. 413 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:38,600 He's a strong man, a fit man, he's resourceful, ruthless, clever. 414 00:37:38,635 --> 00:37:42,045 He's a classic binary thinker. 415 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:47,660 This man is a British Special Forces operative. 416 00:37:47,695 --> 00:37:53,240 Very good, Josuf. Even better than an arms dealer. 417 00:37:53,275 --> 00:37:57,520 You, Tommy Wallace, are so outed. 418 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,205 They want intelligence. They? 419 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:22,560 Spare me the secret service mind games. They want intelligence. 420 00:38:22,595 --> 00:38:26,085 I'm trying to help you here. 421 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,165 Why? Do you think maybe I'm your only mate here now? 422 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,720 And that maybe you've screwed up and I'm not military after all. 423 00:38:34,755 --> 00:38:38,360 No, you're military all right. 424 00:38:38,395 --> 00:38:41,600 Am I? Oh, aye. 425 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,880 Prove it. 426 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,560 Dah, dah, dah, dah! 427 00:38:55,595 --> 00:38:58,845 Silk map. Dollars. 428 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:05,720 Note. Offering a reward for anyone that returns you to your people. 429 00:39:05,755 --> 00:39:08,240 Do you want this? 430 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,400 Your family. They miss you. 431 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:26,360 Time to come home, Gerry. 432 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,400 Gerry's gone, all right? Sharq's using you, Gerry. 433 00:39:34,435 --> 00:39:38,440 I told you already! I'm not Gerry! 434 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,680 'I'll never see my little girl again.' 435 00:40:00,715 --> 00:40:03,840 'Or her mother.' They miss you, Gerry. 436 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,645 "Good morning, Mr Sharq." "Good morning." 437 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,560 I have something you want and you have something I want. 438 00:40:49,595 --> 00:40:51,965 I'll give you the two men, 439 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:57,280 but I want access to information and hardware. 440 00:40:57,315 --> 00:41:00,645 OK, I'll talk to my people. 441 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,480 I'm sure they'll be interested in doing a deal. Good. 442 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,120 You've got the ballistics report. I can't reach Porter. But you can. 443 00:41:44,155 --> 00:41:46,640 Warn him his life is in danger. Otherwise... 444 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,565 He has bullet fragments lodged in his brain. 445 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,325 We will win this war. You're obsolete, you prick! 446 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:58,280 I know it all. Frank. You do not fuck with the big boys! 447 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,160 No, John, nothing is ever over. 448 00:42:03,185 --> 00:42:36,185 Strike_Back_2010 - S01 - E05 - Afghanistan_Part_One