1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,240 It's neither stupid nor selfish. 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,600 What kind of a world is he going to know? 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,040 You can't hesitate for a second. You do that and we could be dead. 4 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:11,240 This is insane. 5 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,560 Fiona saw that list, she knew he'd be there. 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:15,720 I think I've screwed up. 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,720 Where is she? 8 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:22,640 Fiona's ex-husband is still alive and was a double agent all along. Working for the Syrians. 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,760 Adam! 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,240 Keep Wes safe. Promise me, Will. 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,280 Don't. 12 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,120 CARTOON MUSIC PLAYS 13 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,160 'The country wide crisis in the NHS 14 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,560 'has been highlighted by a leaked report of planned emergency measures being put into action immediately. 15 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,760 'The report details a "black hole" 16 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,400 'of £100 million of debt owed by London Hospitals. 17 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,640 'Last night, a leading consultant claimed that at least three 18 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,360 'hospital trusts in the capital are on the verge of bankruptcy. 19 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:39,400 'The leaked report comes as Labour backbench MP, Malcolm Stackley confronted Claire Stacey, 20 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,920 'Junior Minister of Health, in a heated session 21 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,080 'of the House of Commons Select Committee on health last night.' 22 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,160 'There is no plan to sell off hospitals.' 23 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,400 Isn't that what the new private/public initiative is all about? 24 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,040 'Flogging off bankrupt hospitals to private firms who think they can make a quick buck?' 25 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,800 'This is about people having treatment free when they visit their local hospital.' 26 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,360 'It won't be "their hospital". 27 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,200 'So who are these firms buying into hospitals? Are they foreign firms?' 28 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,320 'It is an open, regulated market.' 29 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,880 'You mean hospital beds being flogged off from barrow stalls?' 30 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,000 from your slumbers 31 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,520 32 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,800 now thunders... 33 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:27,080 34 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,760 35 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:36,360 36 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,720 37 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,000 Oh, Hugo. 38 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,000 30 years, Hugo. 39 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,200 Now, what was I saying in 1975? 40 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,960 No gentlemen of the press? 41 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,880 We don't count any more, Hugo. 42 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,120 Don't bet on it. 43 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,840 But there's other scum here. 44 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,760 Oh, Hugo no. 45 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,640 Oh, please, please, spare me. 46 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,120 Tell Harry Pearce I haven't changed! 47 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:33,040 I haven't changed! 48 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,240 Keep on going over and over it, seeing myself standing there outside, doing nothing. 49 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,760 You can't blame yourself. Fiona knew what she was doing. Knew it was going to get her killed? 50 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,360 Listen to me, Jo, you can't think like that. I know! 51 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,200 Imagine what Adam's going through. 52 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,320 I thought this job would be cool. 53 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,280 Imagine that. Cool. 54 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,280 Look, you know, sometimes it helps to stick together. 55 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,000 My flat, why don't you take that room after all? 56 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,800 I don't know. I don't know if I even want this job any more. 57 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,400 Well, Ok. Well, um, 58 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,920 look, personnel have got the keys, if you want to look the place over. 59 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,520 Thanks, Zaf. 60 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,280 You cannot stop the operation. 61 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:21,840 We've been told, in no uncertain, terms to end the investigation, 62 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,440 to end the surveillance and to close the whole op down. 63 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:25,720 No room for manoeuvre? None. 64 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,840 I thought the deal would happen in the Autumn but the Government 65 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,240 have brought the whole thing forward. 66 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,320 To when? The end of next week. 67 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,760 Can they do that? The Government can do what it likes. 68 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:42,480 This deal could wreck the whole economy. It'll be a disaster for the National Health Service. I agree. 69 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,440 I'm afraid I do too. 70 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,120 Then you must go on. 71 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,880 That means that MI5, in effect, would be conducting a conspiracy against the Government. 72 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,240 Cometh the hour, cometh the conspirators. 73 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,640 Now let us understand our position. 74 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,480 If we are to fail, then a lot of... 75 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,840 unpleasantness will come our way. 76 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:06,800 Then we mustn't fail. 77 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,520 Mr Stackley, Adam Carter. I'm a great admirer. I hope we can help you. 78 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,800 The whole bloody thing could go down the pan. 79 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,160 What thing? The whole health service! 80 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,120 Flogging NHS hospitals to a foreign billionaire? 81 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,280 Harold Macmillan called it selling off the family silver. Shall we? 82 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,280 Adam, how was it? 83 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,520 It was just a couple of boring old commies. 84 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,600 What's this about selling hospitals? 85 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,880 What foreign billionaire? Erm... 86 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,200 Come on, Ruth, what's Harry cutting me out of? 87 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,080 I can't say. 88 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:51,960 Adam, I'm sorry. 89 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,080 Look, should you be here? 90 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,480 Busy, busy, you know. Keep the gremlins away. 91 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,680 Ruth! Jo! Zaf! 92 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,080 There was a message for you, 93 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,920 in the cover stories voice box, from Fiona's father. 94 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:20,360 He asks if Fiona's still coming to see them this weekend. 95 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,800 You haven't told them yet. Or Wes. 96 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,200 Adam, you've got to. 97 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,000 And arrange a memorial service. I don't want that. 98 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,360 No, I can understand, but all of us here, we want to... 99 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,360 What? Have a good cry over me and Wes? 100 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,240 Sorry. 101 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,720 Ruth! Come now! 102 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,800 I'll handle it. 103 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,160 Yeah, it's Adam Carter, Miss Evershed just sent a file to you. Operation Songbird. 104 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,480 She meant for me to see it, could you send it to my station please? 105 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,080 Eyes only. 106 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,640 I haven't changed anything. 107 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:52,960 Thank you. 108 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,840 Is he alive? 109 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,240 No, Hugo. 110 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,000 He died in 1985. 111 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,560 I should have been told. 112 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:21,520 We thought you had enough to bear. 113 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,440 Vodka. 114 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,160 To comrade Boris Kandinsky! 115 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,080 Comrade Boris Kandinsky! 116 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,680 Go and say goodbye to Daddy. 117 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,480 Bye-bye, Daddy. 118 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,120 Bye-bye. I'll see you on Saturday. 119 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,680 Will we go on Frencham ponds? Yes. 120 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:02,520 Will Mum row the boat with me? 121 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,160 Wes, I told you. Mummy's away. 122 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,960 In Egypt. So she won't be back to go on the ponds? 123 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,160 No. Come on you. 124 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,840 Up to bed. 125 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,640 Wes, Wes. 126 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:21,640 I love you. 127 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:23,400 Bye-bye, Daddy. 128 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,960 Bye-bye. 129 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,560 Come on. 130 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,840 So Fiona won't be here at the weekend? 131 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,360 No. 132 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,840 We have had Wes for a whole week already. 133 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,080 I really appreciate it, honestly. 134 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,440 You and Fiona all right? 135 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,120 Clive, please, just take him for a couple more days. 136 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,960 Please, do it for me. OK. 137 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,000 Give her a big hug. 138 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,480 So how erm... 139 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,000 How do... 140 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,560 Are you trying to ask me how I feel? 141 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,120 Numb. 142 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,600 You know we're all upset beyond anything we can say. 143 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,320 Yeah, yeah. Well... 144 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,520 Why have you got me doing chores, taking snaps of some burnt out old traitor? 145 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,920 Hugo Ross was one of the biggest spies for the Soviet Union ever jailed in this country. 146 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,720 When I was a young officer I had the job of going to see him in jail, once a month. 147 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,760 Never gave me anything. 148 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,880 I came to admire him. A very dangerous man, of course. 149 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,960 Did you let him spot you? 150 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,440 Yeah, yeah he shouted at me. "Tell Harry Pearce I've not changed." 151 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,400 Hugo Ross, keeper of the communist faith. 152 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,880 Harry, you've got me doing slops and I know there's something big on... 153 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,280 I'm afraid it's slops or go to Tring. I don't need the psych tank. 154 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,360 What's the thinking here? My wife died and I'm going bonkers? 155 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,720 Adam, calm down, Adam, I blocked it. 156 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,640 I need something to fill the day, fill my mind. Not this Mickey Mouse stuff. 157 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,400 Adam, stick with Hugo Ross for the moment, please. 158 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,240 Did you get the bug in his house? 159 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,680 Yeah, Malcolm's taking care of it. 160 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,320 What is it with you and this old red anyway? 161 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:26,560 OK, OK. 162 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,720 Oleg Korsakov's life is one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of the new Russia. 163 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:01,960 Mr Korsakov never gives press interviews, but it's believed he never knew his father and mother. 164 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,960 He was brought up in a state orphanage in the Russian city of Gorki. 165 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,760 But recently, the American magazine Wealth Watch 166 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,760 placed him as the third richest man in the world. 167 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,720 After the collapse of Soviet Russia, he suddenly emerged as a brilliant entrepreneur. 168 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,560 He was accused by some of using brutal and illegal means. 169 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,240 But for a while he was feted as a hero of the new Russia. 170 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,080 In 2001, the Kremlin launched an investigation into his business empire. 171 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,480 He was charged with fraud and massive tax evasion. 172 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,200 Then last year the charges were suddenly dropped. 173 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,320 Mr Korsakov came to live in Britain. 174 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,560 World Russia analyst, Roger Vintner, is with me in the studio. 175 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,760 Roger, one foreign investor owning so much in Britain. 176 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,280 Good or bad for the country? 177 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,320 Anything interesting? 178 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,800 Just an old movie. 179 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,920 Dog house. Two hours. 180 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,160 Adam, you look terrible. 181 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,120 Ask Harry for a few days off. 182 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,000 Go home. 183 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,720 Operation Songbird. Oleg Korsakov. 184 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,800 God, Adam, how do you know? 185 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,080 You know me. Things pass in through my skin. 186 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,480 You want to tell me. You know you do. 187 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,480 We were given a tip-off. 188 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,640 Oleg Korsakov may be running a mole at GCHQ Cheltenham. 189 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,800 Who's the tip from? Malcolm Stackley. 190 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,320 How does he know? He's obsessed with Korsakov. 191 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,800 He had a suspicion. Which turned out to be true. 192 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,800 Looks likely. Who's the mole? 193 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,520 Her name is Sally Curtis. She's an analyst on a commercial desk. 194 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,160 What's she like? 195 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,200 Single. Likes clubbing, though she's in her early 30s. 196 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,400 Gets wasted on the weekends, but sees her mother on Tuesdays. 197 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,640 So good girl, bad girl. What's she selling? 198 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:23,880 Information on British and American firms in the Health Sector. Deep financial analysis. 199 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,680 How's she dropping the material? 200 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,680 Electronically. From her computer. 201 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,240 Through GCHQ firewalls? Is that possible? 202 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,160 Korsakov could afford the best IT in the world. 203 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,640 How did he turn our Sally? 204 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:38,640 Love. 205 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,320 Oh, that. 206 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,000 So what, Korsakov seduced her? 207 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,080 No. No, he sent a pro. A real stud. 208 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,760 Picked her up in a club. 209 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,680 They meet in a London Hotel that Korsakov owns. 210 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,040 She's blown. Why haven't you lifted her yet? 211 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,320 Oleg Korsakov is about to make a huge investment in the NHS. 212 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,040 Not in his name, but through companies he owns. The public don't know? 213 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,480 Ministers assume people won't care who owns the hospitals. 214 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,600 Flog great chunks of it off to a crook? Adam. 215 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,080 You could suddenly not recognise the country you're living in. 216 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,920 Can this Korsakov do anything he wants? The Government see him as a saviour. 217 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,880 But the nightmare is that Korsakov may do in Britain what he did in Russia. 218 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,760 Asset strip, sell off. 219 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,000 Goodbye NHS. 220 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,880 Ruth, if Korsakov's the golden goose, what does the Government think about us trying to bring him down? 221 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,040 They've told us to stop. 222 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,680 A direct order? From the Cabinet, yes. 223 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,440 And Harry and Juliet... Have said carry on. 224 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:46,840 It's desperate. 225 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,040 The Government are going to sign a deal with Korsakov next week. 226 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:56,120 So MI5 are deliberately trying to wreck a Government policy? 227 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,520 Isn't that illegal or something? 228 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,800 So illegal it's very nearly treason. 229 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,200 Why hasn't Harry told me this? Adam! 230 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,880 Oh, no! He shouldn't be here, should he? 231 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,760 Let him in. 232 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,320 Friendly visit. 233 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,000 Doughnuts anyone? 234 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:39,600 Look Zaf, I know you're running this in the field. I'm just here out of interest, that's all. 235 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,400 That's Korsakov. The whole top floor of the hotel's reserved for him. 236 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,240 He's turned the entire top floor into a hi-tech paradise. 237 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,920 It's a very advanced version of a Faraday cage. 238 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,160 Can stop any hostile signal getting in or out. 239 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,280 You've found a way of getting through it? Theoretically. 240 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,880 Practically, I've no idea. There's the boyfriend. 241 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,920 He's going to meet Oleg Korsakov. This should be interesting. 242 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,720 He's switching the Cage on. 243 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,960 He must know we're bugging him. Not necessarily. 244 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,680 You've got to pick up Sally Curtis. Not in our brief. 245 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,200 Just pick her up and turn her! Adam, step out. 246 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,920 You and I both know you're not meant to be anywhere near this op. 247 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,480 Adam, I think Zaf's right. 248 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,040 You shouldn't be here. 249 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,840 Adam! 250 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,640 Adam. 251 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:38,920 I'm sorry I spoke to you like that. 252 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,720 No, no you were right. 253 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,120 You should know, 254 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:47,120 I'm going to resign from the service. 255 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,680 Why? 256 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,440 Because my wife died? 257 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,520 If I can still do this job, so can you. 258 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,360 How can you bear it? 259 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,000 You just try to lead a normal life. 260 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,760 Is this normal? 261 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,520 Look, all I know is... 262 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:08,960 ..if I left I'd be nothing. 263 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:16,120 Right now you're still an MI5 officer on duty. Get back in there. 264 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,680 Oleg Korsakov left the hotel an hour and a half ago. 265 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,400 What about the boyfriend? He's still inside. Wait. 266 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,280 We've got an arrival on Sally Curtis. 267 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,240 Harry, are you sure you don't want us to lift her after all? 268 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,040 No. Repeat, no. Continue to observe. 269 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,960 'Will do. Delta six out.' 270 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,160 Maybe Adam should be at Tring. He doesn't want to go. 271 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,120 We're running out of time to crack Korsakov. 272 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:58,200 You need Adam. 273 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,320 You need his instinct. Really? 274 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,320 In his present condition, can you really trust his instinct? 275 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:04,960 I know he's not his usual... 276 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,520 charming self. 277 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,520 He needs to work to save himself. Save himself? 278 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,240 What, at the expense of national security? I can't take the risk. 279 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,520 If this op fails, we could all go to jail. 280 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,920 I'll always trust Adam. 281 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,240 He's a friend. In this job, Ruth, none of us have friends. 282 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,280 Colleagues who we'd die for, but no friends. 283 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,600 It's Sally and her boyfriend. 284 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,120 Here they go! 285 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,640 THUMPING HOUSE MUSIC PLAYS 286 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,600 No! 287 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,760 Oh, no! 288 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,360 Stay on it. 289 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,240 What's he doing here? Ask me another. 290 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,160 Who the hell do you think you are? 291 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,280 My name is John and I'm MI5. Oh, God. 292 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,520 Sally! Sally, you've been hit. 293 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,400 That man injected you with something. Listen! 294 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,280 You are crazy. Listen, listen to me. 295 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,640 You've been passing GCHQ product to Oleg Korsakov. Yes. Sally? 296 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,680 You're, you're MI5, oh, God. 297 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,760 It's all right, it's all right. I'm sorry, what have I done? 298 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,520 We can help you. Just tell us what you know. All right? 299 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,040 Sorry, who did you say you were? 300 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,120 My name's John and I'm MI5. 301 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,360 Five what? Adam, what the hell are you doing? 302 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,840 She's been hit. Ambulance, now! 303 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,200 Sally! Sally! This is a nine ten call... 304 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,800 Just say something, just say something Sally, anything. Sorry, who did you say you were? 305 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:13,760 The drug they injected her with was anaoxide diethylamide. 306 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,800 It was developed during the cold war. 307 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,880 We made it at Porton Down. 308 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:23,480 It was assumed the Soviets did too in the KGB's Minsk laboratories. 309 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,560 It was a prototype for a battle field weapon. 310 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,640 And it... Destroys the frontal lobe memory centres of the cerebrum. 311 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,720 They wiped her memory. Yes. 312 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,480 A drug that wipes your mind? 313 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,120 Is there any hope that... 314 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:40,480 There is an antidote, but it's a prototype and it's too late for Sally. 315 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,320 Adam was right Harry, we should have lifted her. 316 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,160 In the matter of Adam Carter, how did he find out about Songbird and Oleg Korsakov? 317 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,080 One of you told him. 318 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,600 I don't want to know who, but it was misplaced loyalty. 319 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,880 This is a very dangerous operation for the country, and particularly for this service. 320 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,080 I want no more indiscipline. 321 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,160 Office. 322 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,280 Adam, you know how much we all sympathise with you, but you joined an operation 323 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,080 without orders to do so. Yes, I did. 324 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,400 You are on compulsory leave in Tring. I don't need the psych tank. 325 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,720 Then the DG will dismiss you from the service. 326 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,120 What does Hugo Ross have to do with Oleg Korsakov? 327 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,080 Adam, give yourself time. 328 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,200 I beg you, as a friend. 329 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,080 You told me once in this job we can't have friends. 330 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,120 PHONE RINGS 331 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:34,240 Juliet. 332 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,000 The Government have granted Korsakov British citizenship. 333 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,600 His application has been fast-tracked. 334 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,600 The usual back channel from the Home Secretary's Office. 335 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,000 No time. Absolutely. 336 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,960 Are we anywhere nearer hard evidence? 337 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,880 Running a mole at GCHQ and all but murdering her was evidence enough(!) 338 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,480 We need a smoking gun, Harry. 339 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,400 Why is the Government so far up the behind of this Russian billionaire? 340 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,000 Have you picked anything up? 341 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,600 Yes. 342 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,600 Well? 343 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:15,080 It's not new information, it's more of a rethink after a heavy discussion. With whom? 344 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:20,680 It was put to me, at a very high level, that the public has no idea how bad the NHS situation is. 345 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,960 Hospitals are going to have to close their doors right across the country. 346 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,240 The great unspeakable truth at the heart of British politics 347 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,800 is the NHS is collapsing. We know that. 348 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,960 I now have to tell you that... 349 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,080 I agree with Downing Street. 350 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,760 I can't be party to what you are doing. 351 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,880 We. What WE are doing. 352 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,600 You told us about Korsakov. 353 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,080 You asked us to start Songbird. 354 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,680 I was wrong. 355 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,320 Korsakov has assured the Prime Minister of his moral standing. 356 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,360 Now he's the only hope for the NHS. 357 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,720 That's clear to me. 358 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,120 Is it? 359 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:02,600 What have they offered you, you shabby little man? 360 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,800 Don't take that tone with me. 361 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:09,880 I'm an elected representative. You two are just servants. 362 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:15,160 Stop the operation as you were told to do and leave Korsakov alone. 363 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,480 Don't be reckless. 364 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,560 Breathtaking. What're we gonna do? 365 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,360 Be reckless. 366 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:29,240 We've got 48 hours at the most before the JIC start checking up on what we're doing. 367 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,040 You're going to have to entrap Korsakov. Fast. 368 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,880 I've been thinking of a way. 369 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,880 What can you possibly want from him after all these years? 370 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,720 This is a courtesy call. Courtesy? 371 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,040 From British counterintelligence? 372 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,160 Harry, what am I doing here? 373 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,160 I want your fresh eyes and ears. 374 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,920 Why? You're going to work with him. 375 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,360 Harry Pearce. Hugo. 376 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:05,040 The sight of enemies embracing each other embarrasses your young companion. 377 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,280 Oh, forgive me, this is Zafar Younis. 378 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,000 Mr Younis. 379 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,840 You must understand that during the so-called cold war 380 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,920 we could salute each other across the ideological divide. 381 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,680 And sometimes kill each other. It was a war. 382 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,640 I enjoyed your visits. 383 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,520 Why did you stop coming? You ceased to be of importance. 384 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,480 Vodka? I think so. 385 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,040 Fascinated by the size of the dinosaur let out of his cage, Zafar? 386 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,000 I read up about you. Did you indeed? 387 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,720 A house on Hampstead Heath this size? 388 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,800 Got to be worth what, two million? 389 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,320 The housing market is disgusting, deeply immoral. 390 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,240 Oh, I don't know. Houses have to be bought and sold somehow. 391 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,800 Oh, no, they don't! 392 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,640 Shelter is a human right. 393 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,440 Housing should be held in common and given when needed. 394 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,600 You mean concrete council tower blocks for all? 395 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,840 Great! 396 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,360 Well, this is very entertaining, 397 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,040 but did you really come to talk housing policy? 398 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,320 Boris Kandinsky. Yes. 399 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,840 Boris Kandinsky... Was Mr Ross's control. 400 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,280 My KGB contact at the Russian Embassy. 401 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,400 To whom you sold information that cost the lives of British agents. 402 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,120 And saved many others. 403 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,560 You were a fast-tracked civil servant in the Ministry of Defence. 404 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,960 And you gave Kandinsky the names of agents in the Soviet missile programme. 405 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,080 The KGB executed them. 406 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,840 What I did helped to keep the nuclear stalemate between West and East. 407 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,080 The KGB executed the men you betrayed. 408 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,640 Terrible times 409 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,240 require terrible things to be done. 410 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,960 Forgive me, Mr Ross. 411 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:58,240 To my generation, communism is all propaganda and gobbledegook. 412 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,920 1985 when he died, wasn't it? 413 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,800 Yes, yes. Did you know he had a son? No, Boris never married. 414 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,880 He always felt that as a KGB Officer in the field, he might make himself vulnerable. 415 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:15,640 Oh, he married. His wife was kept away from Moscow, they never appeared in public together. 416 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,200 She died about a year after he did. 417 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,120 And the son? Took another name. 418 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,760 Had a cover story as an orphan. 419 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,440 He's hugely successful. 420 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,960 Oleg Korsakov. 421 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,040 The entrepreneur? 422 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,920 The man who stole half the Soviet ship-building industry? 423 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,640 That rabid young dog of a capitalist is Boris's son? 424 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,480 He's acquired many businesses in this country. 425 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,440 Amongst them, a chain of hotels. 426 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:47,040 He has his London headquarters in one, The Excelsior. You should give him a call. 427 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,480 Why do you think I would do anything that MI5 suggested? 428 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,320 Well, aren't you fascinated? I mean, once a spy... 429 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,920 Morning, sir. 430 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,080 Mr Carter, welcome. I'm Diana Jewell. 431 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,000 Yeah, head shrink, I know. 432 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,240 If we could do the formalities, then we can show you to your room. 433 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,880 Formalities? Do you have any reading material with you? Laptop? Yes. 434 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,280 You'll have to surrender them. We don't want you to have distractions. 435 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,880 You're fond of Jane Austen? 436 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,040 Yeah, she noticed things. 437 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,880 And do you have a mobile phone? 438 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,880 Good. Jonathan will show you to your room. 439 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,440 Can I call you Adam? 440 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,360 Familiarity, first step? 441 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,160 Tell me, 442 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,920 what's the most attractive thing about being a spy? 443 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,600 You won't get anywhere with me. 444 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,440 I helped devise the MI6 interrogator's course. 445 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,360 Good. We fit. 446 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:37,960 Fit? 447 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,560 You are the mind breaker, I am the mind healer. 448 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,120 The most attractive thing about spying is telling lies. 449 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,640 Did you just tell one? 450 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,520 No. 451 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,760 And how deep does your lying go? 452 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,240 How do you mean? Do you lie to yourself? 453 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,200 Of course. Every time you go in the field you have to leave your real self in a box. 454 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,200 But do you lie to yourself? 455 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,800 About what? 456 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,640 Your love for your dead wife. 457 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,240 I don't lie about that. 458 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,280 How do you know? 459 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,160 I don't lie about that. 460 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,880 Are you sure? 461 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,360 I don't lie about that! 462 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,280 Good. 463 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,920 But you lie to yourself about her being dead. 464 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,880 What about his blocking device? 465 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,600 Not turned on yet. It's common protocol. 466 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,000 It gives people like me less time to crack it. 467 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,640 'Air air? What is this air? 468 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,000 'What are these stupid little pumps in the heels? 469 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,520 'It's not necessary! 470 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,600 'But it is beautiful commerce! It is built in obsolescence!' 471 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,160 What's he talking about? Trainers, I think. 472 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,280 This guy's meant to be the financial master of the universe, 473 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,520 the guy who's gonna rescue the NHS. 474 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,560 Which is exactly why we've been told not to do what we're doing. 475 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,240 I mean, of course, I will break the fingers of little children 476 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:11,520 in Taiwan any day, but for good product, useful product, like rubber chickens. 477 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:18,280 No, don't you laugh, I have sold rubber chickens in Siberia, unfrozen! 478 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,800 Here we go. 479 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,720 Hugo Ross. 480 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:25,240 He's in. We'll patch the surveillance through. 481 00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:26,960 $2,000 a pair. 482 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,000 Hugo. 483 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,720 I am so glad you called me. 484 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:50,320 You're kind, Mr Kandinsky. 485 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,960 No, no, no, no, you must call me Korsakov. 486 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,800 You old reds knew all about false names, hmm? 487 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:04,880 Trotsky's name wasn't Trotsky, Lenin's wasn't Lenin. 488 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,880 The new Russia. 489 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,080 The Soviet Union. 490 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,000 Past and present glories of the motherland. 491 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,760 I can drink to that. 492 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,920 When you telephoned and asked to see me, 493 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,520 I had something sent from Moscow. 494 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:42,520 The highest battlefield honour of the Soviet Union. 495 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:48,160 You were awarded it in 1975, when you were sentenced to jail. 496 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,720 It could not be announced, of course. 497 00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:55,480 The Soviet authorities never acknowledged their agents publicly. 498 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,920 The Order of The Red Banner. 499 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,440 Please. Sentimental old men? 500 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,400 Harry, what are you after? 501 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,680 Please. 502 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:20,600 So, Hugo, now that you are a free man, what are you going to do? 503 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,120 What can I do? 504 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,320 I'm 73, and what the Americans call an ex-con. 505 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,080 Who will employ me? 506 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,800 I will. Hello. 507 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:36,200 I can always find work for ruthless men. 508 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,040 I don't mean to offend you, but I know what you've done to Russia. 509 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,040 The asset stripping of the State-owned industries, the corruption. 510 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,920 People unemployed in their millions. 511 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:52,880 Under Socialism, unemployment was unknown in Russia. 512 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,160 Yes, six men to open one hotel door. 513 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,960 You Russian capitalists, 514 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,120 so-called masters of the world. 515 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:03,720 You're gangsters! 516 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,600 You've stolen Russia! 517 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,960 You have become the enemy your father sought to destroy. 518 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,520 The old man's got guts. 519 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,960 Beautiful, beautiful. 520 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,320 This is exactly why you're here. 521 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,600 Hugo, I have job for you. 522 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,240 Moment. 523 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,800 Malcolm... I've adjusted the phasing. This time... 524 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,040 Oh, no! 525 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,600 No! 526 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,600 Anyone fancy a beer? 527 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,000 Adam! 528 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,320 Freddy? 529 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,120 Freddy Frost! How you doin'? 530 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,040 I didn't know you were in here. 531 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,160 Yeah, it was after the Beirut business. 532 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,440 But that was... Yeah, a while ago. 533 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,040 But I'm doing well. 534 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,360 Look, there is a grapevine even in here. 535 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,120 Fiona... 536 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,400 I was gutted when I heard. 537 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,360 Do you fancy that beer? 538 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,640 Sorry, my drug regimen, y'know? 539 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,960 I'll see you later. 540 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,960 See ya. 541 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:37,600 Why am I shut up with nutters? 542 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,920 You're not shut up, you're free to leave. 543 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:45,000 But not free to go back in the service. The guests here are all distinguished intelligence officers. 544 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,640 Like yourself. 545 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,120 My problem, if I have a problem, is grief! Ordinary, common, grief! 546 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,520 And how are you dealing with it? That doesn't concern you. 547 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,000 But it does concern the service. 548 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,560 The security of the state depends on my state of mind. 549 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,120 Doesn't it? That's too much to lay on me. 550 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,800 But your job does lay it on you. 551 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,440 Adam, 552 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,920 have you told your son his mother's dead? 553 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,640 Have you told her parents? 554 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,840 Korsakov has got the better of you and the techies of C department? 555 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,680 At this point in time, this is the worst day of my life. 556 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,920 Well, it's not over yet. Fix it! 557 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,120 You're not ready to leave, Adam. Stay here and I never will be. 558 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,000 I'll end up babbling about some bar in Beirut. Adam. 559 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,840 How do you know if I'm over it. If, anyway? 560 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,520 Only you will know that. 561 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,000 And you don't, do you? 562 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,920 Do you? So long, Diana. 563 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,280 Thanks for the rest. Adam? 564 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,960 You went to see Oleg Korsakov. 565 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,440 Meaning you listened to our conversation in the hotel room. Yes. 566 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,080 Ah, like the old days. 567 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,640 Enter an empty room and say, "Hello." 568 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,080 What did you think of the job he offered me? We didn't hear. 569 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,040 His anti-bugging devices defeated us. Really?! 570 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,200 Just like his father. 571 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,440 Always one step ahead of the game. 572 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,880 Sensitive. Impeccable manners. 573 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,320 Secretly, a brute. 574 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,400 Very attractive. 575 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:45,400 He, er, wants me to write his father's biography. Did you agree? 576 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,280 Certainly not! 577 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,600 He offered me an advance of $100,000. 578 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,560 These Westernised, they think they can buy anyone. 579 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,560 I want to buy you, Hugo. 580 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,320 But not with money. 581 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,120 I've got something very urgent to talk to you about. 582 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,160 I should ask you to sign the Official Secrets Act really but... 583 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,080 These are highly sensitive documents. 584 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,520 Go back to Tring. 585 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,720 What's the link between Boris Kandinsky and Oleg Korsakov? Adam. 586 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:31,480 Come on, this is me, this is what I do. 587 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,720 Oleg's father 588 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:38,840 was Boris Kandinsky. 589 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,680 The KGB agent who recruited Hugo Ross? Yes. 590 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:46,040 So Harry's had Hugo in mind all along, just in case he became useful? 591 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,080 Harry, the fox. 592 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,800 I want you to persuade Harry to take me back on the op. Talk to him. 593 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,080 Do this for me. 594 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,880 I need this. 595 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,800 Hospitals. 596 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,080 We have no time. He is going 597 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,840 to sign a contract with the Government in three days. 598 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,840 He is going to totally destroy the NHS. 599 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,200 Why don't you shoot him in the back of the neck? Oh, sorry. 600 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,480 The veneer of bourgeois democracy doesn't permit that. 601 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:28,360 What we need is information that will completely discredit him, something concrete, final. 602 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:33,480 Hugo, I'm asking you to fight the good fight against capitalism, as you always have. 603 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,720 I need you to bring down Korsakov. 604 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,360 You are recruiting me to work for MI5?! 605 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:50,000 All right. 606 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,520 I'll do it. 607 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:57,720 Oleg Korsakov is a disgrace to his father's memory. 608 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:03,640 Let's just see how rusty I am at the game. 609 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,000 Who will baby-sit? Zafar. 610 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,760 I'm gonna leave him with you. 611 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,120 Welcome back. 612 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,320 Where is he now? In the canteen. 613 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,560 I've had Diana Jewell on the phone. 614 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,320 She wants her star inmate back. 615 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,240 All right. Ask him to come up. 616 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,680 You need me to go in undercover with Ross. Zaf's doing that. 617 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,360 He's not experienced enough. 618 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,920 All right, if Zaf's undercover, who's riding shotgun? 619 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,560 You know it should be me. 620 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,080 You need me to do this and I need to do it. 621 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,320 Do you know what will happen if we fail on this? 622 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,680 We are acting against the explicit instructions of the Cabinet. 623 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,840 Harry. 624 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,800 Very well. Time is of the essence. 625 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,040 Get up to speed. Thanks. 626 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,040 We have visuals, we have audio. Game plan on. 627 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,480 Right, we screw this up and part of England disappears. 628 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,320 Who's this? This is Sikandar Khan. 629 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,000 We met in jail. 630 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,680 Mr Khan is going to be my secretary. 631 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,800 Very bright boy. 632 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,680 What were you imprisoned for? 633 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,280 Identity theft. 634 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,520 State of the art criminal. 635 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,200 Forgive this. 636 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,280 It's natural caution. 637 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:58,600 A mobile? 638 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,560 Comrade Ross is catching up with the modern world. 639 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,320 What is this for? 640 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:31,800 Personal use. 641 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,800 Violent man, are you? 642 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,320 When it's personal. 643 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,080 Interesting company you keep, Hugo. 644 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,080 You know where you are with criminals. 645 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:51,000 Lenin liked bank robbers. Indeed. 646 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,320 So! We have material here. 647 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,480 The family archives go right back to my great, great grandfather. 648 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,480 He was in the Tsar's secret police. 649 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,120 See. The blood that flows in me, it will flow in your book! 650 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:05,520 I have cleared the whole day. 651 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,760 We will organise the book! 652 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,800 Chapter one, of my childhood and my father, please. 653 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,200 The ego explodes. 654 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:19,040 My mother told me of the night Stalin died, my father wept. 655 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,640 The great helmsman was dead! 656 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,480 That man has talked seven hours non-stop. 657 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,640 Should deport him for yapping. 658 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,840 That's all we've got on him so far. 659 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,280 Hugo and Zaf have got to get him to blow off about the NHS takeover. 660 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,520 I want him hero. Which he was. 661 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,240 Good, good! 662 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:40,680 Good days work. 663 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,320 Drink. 664 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,040 Mr Ross tells me you're one of Moscow's sharpest operators. 665 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,720 Stole half of Russia? Yes, Oleg. 666 00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:51,680 Why aren't you in prison? 667 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,080 Most of the other "robber barons" of the 1990s are. 668 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,040 Ah. 669 00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,600 My father had...close friends. 670 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,040 Close? 671 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:03,760 To the Kremlin. 672 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,560 Doesn't that fly in the face of everything your father believed in? My father is hero to me. 673 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,680 How can that be? 674 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,480 I am continuing his work. 675 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,200 Is this it? 676 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,360 Go on. 677 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:19,880 Go on, tell us! 678 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,600 My father wanted to change the West. 679 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:26,280 So do I. 680 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,120 Change, in what way? 681 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,680 Ironic, isn't it? 682 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:39,480 What my father and all the communist armies, institutions of the state, KGB could not do, 683 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,480 I can. 684 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,160 Exactly what do you mean? 685 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,480 No, no, no. 686 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,520 I have gone far enough. 687 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,600 Hugo, this session has been delight. 688 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,960 Oh, no. 689 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,720 Are you sure there's nothing else you want to discuss? 690 00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:00,520 I think we have covered nearly everything, for first day. 691 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,520 Get writing, my friend! 692 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:09,800 It will be more than biography of my father, it will be the great Russian novel of our time, but a real story! 693 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,840 Hmm? Is there nothing we can do? 694 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,920 Have you got his mobile number? Yes. 695 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,000 Dial it, now. 696 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,280 Excuse me. 697 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:20,920 Yes? This is your estate agent. 698 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,400 The quote we gave you is not working. 699 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,120 We're going to have to double it, yeah? Double it. 700 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,240 Yes, are you absolutely sure? 'Absolutely.' 701 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:33,520 I'm in a meeting at the moment, so I'll, er, I'll return your call. 702 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,400 See if he got the message. Message, what message? 703 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,240 Pushy estate agent. 704 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:40,880 I'm selling my house. 705 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:45,880 Joining the world of property speculation? Welcome to the club. 706 00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,120 Hugo Ross. You are a born field agent. What have you done? 707 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,280 There's something else I want to join. What? 708 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,040 Your organisation. 709 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,640 Hugo, I don't think... 710 00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,480 I have something to sell. 711 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,320 Wait. Wait. 712 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,000 Here comes the cage. 713 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,720 Theory become reality. Please, please. Is it working? 714 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:15,120 I always kept this quiet but I had doubts about a backup system. 715 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,320 I've done it. Success is with me. 716 00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,400 Yes, Hugo. 717 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,760 This man is an MI5 officer. 718 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,280 Adam, they'll kill him! 719 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,160 What is this? 720 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,000 MI5 gave me no alternative. 721 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,480 They sent me in here with this boy to mind me. 722 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:58,680 This child! I want to join you because I am sick of what your father represented. 723 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,200 I've paid my dues, 30 years in prison. 724 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,200 It's a new world. New delights. I want a decadent old age. 725 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,880 And what use can you be to me? 726 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,160 I can be your mole in MI5. I can walk out of this room your creature. 727 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,200 And what about your minder? He can walk out too. 728 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,040 Put him in a car. Drive him somewhere quiet, then lose him. 729 00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,000 I'll say that he disappeared. 730 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,760 MI5 are desperate to have me close to you. 731 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,840 You want to be double agent? 732 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,880 Yes. 733 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,000 At my age! 734 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,320 Good, good. 735 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,840 I lived 736 00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:52,440 with security services in Russia that close to me. 737 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:57,160 Spies are just molecules in the air I breathe. You're nothing but a cheap criminal. 738 00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,800 I am new breed of merchant which will change the world. 739 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:04,040 Your father thought he could change the world. Democratic government stopped him. 740 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,480 Democratic government? 741 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,160 Thieves and pigmies! 742 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:12,280 What, they think my billions will save their pathetic, socialistic health service. 743 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,760 I will squeeze it for profit, strip it bare! 744 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,840 If hospital is on valuable land, sell it! 745 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,720 Let there be casino, car park! 746 00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:22,280 Let the market work! 747 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,000 I'll inject him. 748 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,200 I'll destroy his mind. Like I did to the wretched girl at GCHQ. 749 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,240 That's it! Send 'em in! 750 00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:38,640 Delta Six to Mercury One, activate all units. 751 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,240 What? 752 00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:53,880 A triple agent, Hugo? What ambition. 753 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,200 You are a disgrace to the memory of your father and to your country. 754 00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,480 And you are speck of dust up the chimney of history. 755 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,560 Stop there! 756 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,840 Zaf! 757 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,840 Zaf, all right? He's been hit with a needle. 758 00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,880 What? What is it? An antidote. 759 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:38,280 OK, Sergeant, great work. I'm just going to have a look around. Sir. 760 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,520 PHONE RINGS 761 00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,240 'Adam.' 762 00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:54,400 MI5 agent, estate agent. 763 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,320 'It's great, great work. 764 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:58,840 'Welcome back.' 765 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:06,640 Thanks. Thanks, Harry. 766 00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:47,160 Malcolm, will you wipe that last bit of tape? 767 00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,720 So how's Adam Carter? 768 00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:59,760 Back to his old self? I'm not so sure. 769 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,560 Although Diana Jewell's given him a clean bill of health. Oh, good. 770 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,720 Actually she was rather gushing about him. Oh, dear. 771 00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:08,480 And Korsakov? 772 00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:13,160 Well, he arrived back in Moscow three hours ago, where he was arrested at the airport. 773 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,120 Bundled into an unmarked van. 774 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,080 Someone at the Kremlin must have seen those hotel tapes. 775 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:24,040 Now the Korsakov deal has fallen through, the money to save the NHS has to come from somewhere. 776 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:28,080 So they are going to put 5p on the basic rate of income tax. 777 00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:29,680 Oh, my God. 778 00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,080 I know, Harry. What have we done? 779 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,360 We're selling the house. Excellent. 780 00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,080 We want to live in France. 781 00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,040 Can you help us with the French authorities, my record... 782 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,040 I'm sure. 783 00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,720 I'll leave you. 784 00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:53,200 Why the change on the house? Well, it's for her. How's Zafar? 785 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,240 Fine. Yes, he did well. 786 00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:59,040 A good little bourgeois spy in the making. I'm pleased with him. 787 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:00,560 What of our other friend? 788 00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:05,560 The transcripts of your discussions have been delivered to all members of the Cabinet. 789 00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:06,880 There is a general shock. 790 00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:10,920 The Minister of Health's career is looking, shall we say, sickly. 791 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,880 It is true that men make their own history 792 00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:17,200 but not always just as they please. 793 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,480 The dead past... 794 00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,520 BOTH: ..lies like a nightmare on the minds of the living. 795 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:29,560 I really thought, when you visited me as a young man while I was in jail, that I could turn you. 796 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,200 But you turned me in the end. 797 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,920 Not really. You wanted Korsakov destroyed too. 798 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,640 Yes. 799 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:38,920 The minds of the living. 800 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,920 Who said that? Karl Marx. 801 00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,480 1956. 802 00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:50,000 Speech, to the 20th congress of the party of the Soviet Union. 803 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,720 Yes. 804 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:53,680 It was that that made me join them. 805 00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,720 Speech. 806 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:57,960 Who made that speech? 807 00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:59,040 Kruschev. Nurse! 808 00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,120 Who? 809 00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,040 Nurse! The antidote, it's failing! 810 00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,160 Harry? Why are you looking at me like that? 811 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,440 Hugo, what is the... I think I can remember. Remember? 812 00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:12,000 Remember what it was I believed in. 813 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,960 Hugo, what is the first line of the Communist Manifesto? 814 00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:21,280 A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of... 815 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,160 of...of what? 816 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,080 Look straight ahead now. Four litres of O2, nurse. 817 00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,640 What is your name, sir? Can you answer me? 818 00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,560 What's your name, sir? 819 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,520 I'm so sorry. 820 00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:52,840 In God's name, 821 00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,400 what kind of a world do you people live in? 822 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:01,680 We need to know how she died, Adam. 823 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,200 I can't tell you much. 824 00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,840 She died in the line of service, 825 00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,160 protecting the people she loved. 826 00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,600 Were you there? 827 00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,600 Did she... 828 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,840 say anything before she... 829 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,280 She said, "Look after Wes." 830 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:42,800 There... There'll be a memorial service at the Foreign Office Chapel. 831 00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,640 It'll have to be private because of security. 832 00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,480 Yes. 833 00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,320 Yes. 834 00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:52,520 Good. 835 00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,360 I'm going to tell him now. 836 00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,360 You let the guy go, for God's sake. So what? 837 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:40,480 Whatever he's planning is bigger, much bigger than a double murder. 838 00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:45,080 We won't get a second chance to find this weapon. Adam, 53 seconds. 839 00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,920 You cannot override the White House with no repercussions. 840 00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,800 30, 20, 10 seconds. He's got a lock on. 841 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:51,880 Harry is finished. 842 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,640 Subtitles by BBC Broadcast - 2005 843 00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,680 E-mail us at subtitling@bbc.co.uk