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(MAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

Five, four, three, two, one.

Fire!

(MISSILE FIRES)

Smile.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Ladies, ladies.

Thank you.

Thank you. Hey, hey, guys, listen up.

Okay, so we are your mother ship,

but we're not your mother, right?

You guys have to look after your own interests.

Make sure you're being efficient about things like rations,

safety, logging in on time and keeping us informed.

We'll re-supply you,

run interference if we have to,

but we'll also be busy making sure we get coverage.

There's no point in a campaign that no one gets to see.

WOMAN: Great.

You're gonna come back for my birthday, all right?

Yeah. Lookie here.

I miss this here.

-Yeah, it's somewhere around here. -I'd love to settle down.

They're on the port side.

MALE NEWSCASTER: Governments such as USSR, United States, France

must stop testing immediately.

FEMALE NEWSCASTER: Confrontations with the French military escalated.

MAN 1: (OVER RADIO) This is scaring the shit out of our country.

We don't need it. We don't want it.

MAN 2: If it is harmless, why you don't do it in Paris or somewhere else in France?

JOANNE: Fernando.

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

Coming!

Hey, Fernando.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

No, don't open the door.

As if I would!

It's your last night before you ship out.

(FERNANDO SPEAKS)

Rongelap needs help.

The people are still suffering.

The effects of the fallout are getting worse, not better.

And the fucking French haven't learnt the lesson, either.

Neither have you!

How long this time?

How long before you tuck in your kids again?

Joanne, please.

When's it going to be enough?

Who exactly are you saving the world for?

Certainly not your family?

I want our kids left with a world to grow up in.

And I want them to have a father!

They have a father!

(SCOFFS)

I want to be a father.

And a husband.

That's up to you, not me.

It's up to us.

Fine. Okay.

Stay tonight.

The kids'd like it if you were here in the morning.

If we were just fucking trying.

(BOTH SPEAK FRENCH)

General Saulnier.

What is this, Minister Hernu?

We're now planning operations against a bunch of hippies?

Lacoste prefers to call them "environmental terrorists."

Lacoste is an idiot.

He would've blown them out of the water years ago.

And why not?

Their actions are illegal.

And now they plan to disrupt our testing programme?

It has to be stopped.

The protest or our tests?

This Greenpeace, your bunch of hippies,

has annoyed the Canadians, the British, the Spanish...

I doubt we'll encounter opposition

if we force them to abandon their ridiculous plans.

Lacoste is on to it.

DGSE?

For God's sake.

Have you forgotten Beirut?

The Iranian Embassy?

Admiral Lacoste has had two years to tidy up.

This was a simple courtesy, to keep you informed.

We already have an operative on the ground.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Bonjour, Elaine. Lovely to meet you.

You too. This is Carole Stuart. Carol, Frederique Bonlieu.

Hi.

Frederique's the one I was telling you about.

Letter I got from France?

She's been helping us out over there.

Uh, just an informer. I volunteer when it's possible.

Carol's going to be putting you up. She's running the whole peace flotilla.

Thank you.

-So, the flotilla is... -We'll bring you up to speed.

Don't worry, there is plenty to do. (CHUCKLES)

I can see this.

As you, you're expecting a big...

Uh...

-Participation? -Huge.

The Warrior's coming over.

-The Rainbow Warrior? -Yep.

Fantastic.

She'll be the mother ship.

Supply, communications... Getting the message out to the world.

That's the main thing.

Let's get you to work.

(BOTH SPEAK DUTCH)

I don't want you to go.

I know you don't, but I have to.

We'll miss your birthday!

You can still have a cake.

More for you and Paul!

Okay?

Remember when you asked me why we were here, in Mummy's country,

when I'm from Portugal?

And I told you I left

because I didn't want to fight in a war.

In Angaler. Yes.

Angola. Yes.

Now, there's another war, and this time, I do want to fight.

Because it's important.

I know you miss me.

And I miss you, too.

But it's for you, darling, and for Paul.

It's a job I have to do. Okay?

Will you have a gun?

This is my gun.

(SHUTTER CLICKS)

(DOOR OPENS)

STEVE: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) They're actually allowed...

Allowed to shut 'em down for it.

CAROLE: Yeah, great images too.

Everyone getting arrested and bloody well shot.

Frederique, you're still here? Good on you.

I'm finishing the supply, er...

-What do you call? List? -Manifests.

There are many boxes to be filled.

The more, the better. This is Steve Sawyer.

He's been on the Warrior the last few months.

So, I had to ship out with a hole in my ribs. Nasty.

We're just off for a strategy meeting at my place.

You should knock off. Come home and sit in.

-Frederique's staying with me. -You're working for us.

You're a traitor to your country.

But a servant to humanity, yes?

So, you intend to make a landing on Mururoa?

Hey, sounds like a plan to me.

He's American.

He's yet to understand that yes, us Kiwis love taking risks

and yes, we will stand up and be counted, but no, Steve.

-Stupid. We act. -What's stupid?

You put it out there, make a big splash.

Hello, World. Bye-bye, bomb.

(ALL SPEAKING FRENCH)

But the test centre

is in French Sovereign Territory!

If they set foot in it, Admiral Frage's security

can arrest them immediately...

But that's my point, Lacoste.

These people are accomplished propagandists.

If we arrest them and they manage to get pictures out,

it'll be a PR disaster.

So we stop it before it starts!

It's time to send these troublemakers a definitive message.

I agree.

(LACOSTE SPEAKING)

The Rainbow Warrior is on its way to the Marshall Islands

and will be in Auckland by July.

And you want to be ready before then?

You're crazy.

It takes months to organise a mission like this!

Mitterrand has given his approval.

But he wishes to be kept at arm's length from intelligence matters,

so you, Saulnier, will sign the orders.

"Operation Satanic"?

(BOTH SPEAK DUTCH)

Promise to come back from the war.

I promise.

If you promise to look after Mummy and Paul for me.

I promise.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

(CAR ENGINE STARTING)

(CAR DRIVES AWAY)

MAN 1: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) And they were convinced

that their land had been poisoned

and that there were problems, and there were medical problems.

Thyroid cancer, noticeably,

and that the problems they were facing came from those nuclear tests,

were in their waters, in their land, in their trees

and that they had to move.

MAN 2: Basically, they were used as guinea pigs.

Guinea pigs by US authorities to see what radiation will do to human beings.

WOMAN: Hanne.

-You got it? -Yeah.

(CLATTERING)

(SIGHS)

(EXHALES)

(TRUMPET PLAYING)

Good dinner, that. Fresh fish.

I figured you'd be sick of tinned shit.

I love tinned shit. (CHUCKLES)

So, guys,

after this trip, we can only stay for a couple more weeks to help re-building.

No, we got to stay longer than that.

-We've done what we can. -He's right, guys.

We've to get out to Auckland to make sure this kind of crap doesn't happen again.

Davey, we gonna be set for the run down to New Zealand.

I'll get Henk to up maintenance next few nights.

So, Bunny might have to make do with the old teddy bear for a bit.

-(BLOWS TRUMPET) -(LAUGHS)

Thanks, Nat, good fish.

I hope so. I didn't have a Geiger counter.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(WOMAN HUMMING)

What's this Cree Indian prophecy thing about anyway?

(CHUCKLES)

When the world is sick and dying,

people will rise up like warriors of the rainbow.

-Do you feel like a warrior? -(SCOFFS)

Like a marathon runner, really.

-Or a criminal sometimes. -Hmm.

Jail cells in Spain

and Canadian campaign.

Never mind criminals, we were more quarry that time.

Stopped them bashing a few seals to death.

They tried to break the ice and drown us. (LAUGHS)

It's like when they tried to sink us on that one.

I mean, if it is a war,

we keep adding new battlefields,

in which case,

maybe decathlon rather than marathon, eh?

So what does that make me?

A war correspondent or a sports photographer?

Maybe just

a good man.

I've got kids

and I start to wonder,

is it all worth it?

And then these people,

their kids,

what's been done to them.

Can't fix the past, Freddy.

Just try to make sense of the future.

(HUMMING CONTINUES)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

-Here comes the birthday boy! -(CHEERING)

(LAUGHING)

ALL: (SINGING) Happy birthday to you

-(LAUGHING) -(SPEAKING DUTCH)

Happy birthday, Papa!

Yay!

-Hip, hip, hooray! -Hooray!

-Hip, hip, hooray! -Hooray!

ALL: (SPEAKING ENGLISH) Hooray!

-Hip, hip, hooray! -ALL: Hooray!

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Sorry, I forgot to pack birthday candles and icing.

One packet of candles wouldn't have been enough anyway.

How many minute, man?

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three...

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Thirty-five.

(ALL EXCLAIMING IN SURPRISE)

I know it's too many, it's too many.

Before you get too old and square, just think about wearing it.

-Happy birthday. -What are these?

MAN: Speech. HANNE: Speech, Freddy.

ALL: Speech!

-Thank you, everybody. -(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

You all mean a lot to me.

HANNE: Open the bloody present.

Okay, Hanne.

(LAUGHING)

"Rainbow Warrior Removals."

-You all signed it. -Put it on!

Put it on!

(ALL CHEERING)

MAN: Yeah! There you go!

Yeah! Nice.

-Happy birthday. -Thank you.

-Thanks, man. -Thank you.

Next up, Auckland.

(ALL CHEERING)

Thanks for everything this past month, Frederique.

Sorry you have to leave before the fun bit.

Yes, the fun bit.

I hope it all goes smooth.

So, er, don't wait around, too busy.

I'll be fine.

Au revoir.

(BOTH CHUCKLING)

Bye.

(INDISTINCT AIRPORT ANNOUNCEMENTS)

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

Satanic One.

I'm out of play. Zero contact. Three weeks.

(ALL SPEAK FRENCH)

Our recon operative is safely away.

Excellent.

I thought it best not to put anything in writing.

(LACOSTE SPEAKS)

So, the attack team leader will be on the ground tomorrow.

We hold back the others,

the divers, for operational reasons.

Also tomorrow, our man arrives in New Caledonia to source the yacht

and prepare to receive the...necessary equipment.

(HERNU SPEAKS)

And the equipment is sourced where?

(LACOSTE SPEAKS)

London.

At the end of the month.

It becomes part of a military shipment to New Caledonia.

Completely untraceable.

Good.

But what are the "operational reasons" for delaying the rest of the attack team?

(LACOSTE SPEAKS)

Simply a question of timing.

We have to allow time for their team leader

to get to know the target location.

(HERNU SPEKS)

Very good. It seems to be coming together.

(LACOSTE SPEAKS)

Yes, the target is travelling. Plenty of time.

Time for the yacht team to load the gear,

get to New Zealand and establish a good cover story

before passing the equipment to the liaison team.

(HERNU SPEAKS)

And they arrive when?

(LACOSTE SPEAKS)

In one month.

I don't want them there too soon.

Besides...

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Thank you.

...the yacht will need time.

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

Doctor, this crook wants 110,000 francs deposit.

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

I'll have it transferred.

I'm looking forward to this holiday.

Yeah. Us too.

MAN: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) The rainbows of the warrior,

heroes of many famous campaigns

are now in Auckland on a new campaign,

to help try to stop the French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

Welcome to New Zealand.

Good timing.

She just tied up at the wharf.

(CHUCKLES)

(IMITATES EXPLOSION)

(CHANTING)

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) More work for us, bloody drop-kicks.

Ease up, Harry. They're on our side.

Oh, bullshit. What side?

Just because we told the Yanks we don't play in somebody else's backyard,

does not mean we have to support these jokers.

I'm telling you, this detective is not getting wet

trailing a bunch of damp hippies.

Thank you.

-Harry, Dave. -BOTH: Sir.

-Busy one, sir? -Press conference.

Civil unrest.

See, more trouble than they're bloody worth, this Greenpeace lot.

They're not the ones picketing the embassy.

Consulate, Dave. Bloody frogs have got a consulate.

Whatever.

It's their supporters making all the noise, not them.

Oh, that's like saying

it was the bloody fire that burnt the house down,

not the bloke who lit the match.

You're expecting to have to run into Paris.

Well, with the French warships, we can if we have to.

Yeah, with the new sails, we can heave two.

Then keep motoring back into position as slow as one knot.

Ever try to do that with a fucking frigate, eh?

Or maybe they'll behave themselves this time.

Well, you'd hope so. The eyes of the world are going to be on this one.

Right, and you're the optic fucking nerve to their eye, mate.

We should still make sure there is as many cameras and camcorders

on as many boats as possible.

He's right. Eggs and baskets.

More eggs, the better.

Oh! Gotta make a call, sorry.

(PHONE RINGS)

(BOTH SPEAK DUTCH)

Hello, it's Joanne.

Babe. It's me.

We just made it to Auckland.

I was waiting 'til your morning.

Are the kids still there?

No. Paul's with Grandma.

And I just put Marelle on the bus for summer camp.

Shit.

Camp.

Sorry, sorry.

I forgot.

It's okay.

You must be exhausted.

How was the Rongelap thing?

Exhausting.

Some amazing pictures, though.

I'll mail you the copies.

The kids would like that.

Me, too.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Steve. Hey, man.

-How you doing? -I'm good.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

-How's the ribs? -Sore, but getting better.

Should be fit enough for my birthday in a couple of days.

One sort of the big 30.

Oh.

Hey, I'm sorry I missed your arrival, man. I've been busy.

Meetings about meetings about meetings.

How about we have our next meeting on the boat?

Get a taste of some of the luxury you've so enjoyed.

How about the 10th?

-My birthday day. -Well, fine. We can bake you a cake.

-Oh, yeah. We're good at cakes. -Wait up.

And do you want know the trick to it? So much sugar and ice...

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

I'll call on the 11th,

early, from here.

Can I get Marelle at her camp, then?

Is that okay?

Sure. I'll have the number for you.

It's good, right?

We're trying.

We are, babe.

We are.

I feel good about it.

We're lucky, you know. With our kids.

Very lucky.

I know.

And I do love you.

(BEEPING)

Fernando?

Hello?

(SIGHS)

(PHONE RINGS)

(BOTH SPEAK FRENCH)

You're late.

Is everything on schedule?

Apart from this damn phone call, yes.

We get your packages tomorrow morning.

Good. Getting them to us will be as arranged?

(ALAIN SPEAKING)

Auckland tomorrow night. Time and place as per plan. Be on time!

Fuck off, eh?

Give my regards to our friends.

There!

It's them.

(DOMINIQUE SPEAKING)

No, it's not them.

Let's go.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Bloody tourists.

-Thanks for doing this. -Not a problem.

-Don't forget. -I won't.

(MAN SPEAKING FRENCH)

I thought they said a camper van...

MAN 2: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) Hey!

Mate!

You can't park here, you'll bloody get mangled.

We got great trucks coming up and down here all bloody day.

Sorry. I'm looking for friends.

In a camper?

Yeah, there's a van two minutes ago, but they went back that way.

Hey! Hey!

Oi!

Merci for the help, you prick.

(CHEERING)

Thank you. Thank you.

See, we're still good at cake.

Hey, he got jellybeans, where were mine?

Oh, put in a complaint with Nathalie. She'll make it up to you next birthday.

Guys, look, this cake look absolutely amazing

and I'm so sorry, but I gotta shoot off.

Whoa, wait, you gotta eat some.

I... I'll take a slice to go.

But I... I got people waiting on me at Piha, there's a whole regional meeting.

We're done here anyway, yeah?

Yeah. Pete's briefed the flotilla captains,

who's gone over the load schedule, communications, coordination with TV,

press and every other little thing, so go and cut the bloody cake!

(LAUGHING)

(CHEERING)

Very nice.

Okay.

Good party.

I think I might follow Pete's lead, get some sleep.

-Good stamina, eh? -Yeah, well, no beer belly either.

-Don't worry, me too. -(LAUGHING)

I'm gonna get up early and call up my kids in the morning.

Oh, hey, did you post those photos? He asked me to remind you.

Bunny is taking them into the office for me.

He'll pass them on. Proof I've been working, you know.

You're getting some great shit, man. Great.

I'll see you guys in the morning.

Bye.

So, one, two, three.

But only two lagers left.

I wonder if the pubs are still open.

(LAUGHING) No. Guided tours are closed for the night as well.

Let's say we draw straws for that last one?

(EXPLODING)

(CRASHING)

What the fuck was that?

Did it get hit? The tank?

Get yourselves up on deck.

See what you can see. I'll check the engine room.

You look up to help there. I've gotta do the cabins.

Go. Go.

-Davey! -You okay?

Get up there quickly!

What was that?

I don't know, but we need to get everyone out, now.

-We get hit? -Shit!

Blown a boiler? What?

Hello? Is anyone in there?

What was that? What happened?

Can't talk, I gotta clear the cabins. Go!

Okay.

(METAL CREAKING)

(PANTING)

Come on, over here, over here.

You okay?

-Where's Fernando? -I don't know.

Go on, man, keep moving!

We gotta get out of here.

Pete, she's a goner.

Come on, mate.

Hello! Hello!

Hello! Is there anyone down here?

-JP, we okay? -We're fucked!

We need to get off. Are we clear down here?

You guys are clear?

Davey.

No, I'm all right. I just slipped.

(EXPLODING)

DAVEY: Are you okay? Are you okay?

(EXCLAIMING)

Abandon ship. Get off now.

Abandon ship.

Go, go, go. Everyone off. Everyone off.

Everyone get off, now.

-Everybody off? -Where's Hanne?

-Hanne! -She got off before, but Fernando...

Is he out, Grace?

He was with me, but I don't know where he's gone.

(PANTING)

(SCREAMS)

-No. -No, no, Davey.

He might be down there.

-Fernando! -Is anyone down there, man?

(SHIP CREAKING)

Now, there was a small explosion the first time,

and then about a minute later, there was a great big explosion

which shook the whole building of the sailor's home. Six storeys high.

Let go of me, you sons of bitches.

Let him go, he didn't do this.

I know! Look, you can't do this.

We've lost a friend. He might still down there.

Get your bloody hands off him.

-Which one of you is Captain Wilcox? -Yeah, that's me.

Get him in the back of the car.

This is bollocks! We did nothing here. Someone else...

Okay, okay. Ease up, fellas. We'll sort this out.

Just back off, back off. Or I'll place you all under arrest.

What, am I under arrest?

Wait. Hey, call the office, okay? Tell them what's happening.

And get a hold of Steve in Piha.

Shut him up and put him in the car.

This is fucking ridiculous!

-Someone's down there. -Someone's still down there.

Why, you blokes need to inject some fucking sense into the situation.

Get some divers down there, now!

NEWSCASTER: The explosion occurred just before midnight,

sinking the Greenpeace flagship in a matter of minutes.

Police divers are this morning assessing the damage to the vessel

to determine the cause of the explosion before undertake...

This is fucked.

They should be looking for Fernando, not assessing the fucking damage.

When will they let us back down to the wharf?

Fuck knows. They hustled us out of there as soon as they started closing it off.

Good job you weren't around. You'd have probably decked a copper or something.

Hmm.

Steve will keep us in the loop. Get us back on deck.

You got pretty lucky, Hanne.

-I thought you were going to bed. -So?

What are you saying? I just decided to get some air.

Hey, just, you got lucky.

Your bunk is on that side where it blew.

Hey, Hanne, be cool. He didn't mean anything.

We were all worried about you, too.

I'm glad you went for this walk, that's all.

That was a big fucking bang.

-What the hell was it? -Maybe it was in the engine room.

Nothing in the engine room did that, man.

It was like a fucking bomb went off, you know.

-Are you serious? -I don't know what else it could be.

A bomb?

Nobody'd be that stupid, surely?

No? Who have we pissed off, do you think?

The British, the Canadians, the Dutch, the French...

Spain, Japan. You fight wars on a lot of fronts,

you're going to make some enemies.

What's the matter with you?

Screw the boat, screw who did it.

What about Fernando? Is he dead or what?

Is he alive or trapped?

(SOBBING) What about Fernando?

He's fucking missing!

To be confirmed, and you moderate your language, okay?

Look, I've answered your questions.

-Am I under arrest... -You're being interviewed.

And I'll ask you again, what kind of munitions or explosives...

-I told you, we don't have... -Calm down, buddy.

(KNOCKING)

Harry, divers are going down to get a look of the hole in the site.

They have to get to it from the interior

through the flooding compartments or something.

At least let us be there, man.

Jesus.

I hope everyone's called their families. This is gonna be hittin' the airwaves.

People's folks are gonna be concerned.

Yeah, so that sooner we know, the better.

About Fernando.

Mr Wilcox, you're required at the Harbour Board offices.

I wanna stay here in case they find him.

It's not an invitation. I'll take you over.

I'll stay.

We can let him know, right? If there's any developments?

He's on his way.

Steve's right, this is bullshit.

-Captain Wilcox? -That'd be me.

-Yeah? -Good.

Perhaps you can tell me just when and how

are you gonna get your ship off the bottom of my harbour.

-The ship? -(PHONE RINGING)

Well, we're not allowed anywhere near the ship.

I mean, you have to talk to the detective here...

Marsden Wharf is a busy facility.

I'm gonna it cleared as quickly as...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on.

The police will decide when we can get our ship cleared away.

Right now, I'm waiting to hear if our friends been killed.

Waiting to see if they'll find his fucking body,

so hey, I'm sorry if that's such a God damn inconvenience...

-Calm down. -Excuse me, sir.

The detective's colleague's on the phone.

REPORTER: Superintendent. Superintendent.

(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)

Good morning, everyone. Please take a seat.

We have recovered a body from the vessel.

We've also established that the hull plates were driven inwards,

which would indicate the use of explosive devices

attached to the outside of the ship.

So...

Accordingly, we'll be treating this as a murder.

(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)

GALBRAITH: One at a time.

Erm...

Different questions this time.

Different kind of inquiry now.

You know, take a bit of time. I know you've lost a mate.

Cigarette?

Listen, I...

I owe you an apology.

The last thing any of us expected was to be looking at a bomb.

But no excuse, eh?

I prejudged you blokes. Not a good thing for a copper to do.

Not in any circumstances.

And I'm really sorry about your friend.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

"Just" one dead?

No, Lacoste, it's not a blessing.

It's another unmitigated disaster!

Where are the operatives now?

Well, as soon as you know, I want to know!

All they needed to do was to make a phone call.

"There's a bomb on your boat." Nobody would have had to die.

That's all that I can tell you for now.

I'm...

I'm so sorry.

I'll be in touch.

(DIAL TONE SOUNDING)

Let me know if there's anything else that we can do.

Your cooperation's appreciated.

Once we're done at the scene,

we'll want her re-floated, dry-docked in Devonport,

so we can continue our work there.

Just let me know what you need. Anything at all.

-Anything from the airport watch? -No, sir, not yet.

What the hell are we looking at here, do you think?

Well, a deliberate targeted attack.

Whatever, whoever, this is gonna be huge.

The commissioner is briefing the PM as we speak.

I might have caught a breakthrough, sir.

Public appeals turned up some possible witnesses.

Tamaki Drive.

Go.

-And what time was this? -10:52.

That's precise.

Yeah, we've had bastards nicking stuff off boats, so...

I was here watching, eh.

You guys should have the exact time. I called it in.

-What happened? -You didn't show up.

I mean, what happened to make you call the police?

Oh. Well, the buggers weren't in the marina,

but they were pretty suss.

There was three of them in an inflatable.

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

There!

Shit!

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

Perhaps they couldn't land by the bridge.

No, they couldn't!

I already told the boss we needed more time for proper reconnaissance!

Hey, here!

Come back!

Behind!

Turn around.

Come on, damn it!

MAN: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) Hey!

What are you doing?

Come on, come on!

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

Hey, the boat!

(SPY 1 SPEAKING)

Forget the damn thing!

Get in!

MAN: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) "LB 8945."

LB 8945.

LB 8945.

I even broke my bloody ankle

and then your uniform blokes didn't even show up.

You don't suppose you happened to get a make on the van?

I told you. I was on lookout.

I had my nockies, eh?

Even got the bloody rego.

LB 8945.

You bloody beauty.

Well, I heard them yelling.

In French, eh.

And they left their boat.

Vive la bloody France.

(AARNE SPEAKING DUTCH)

Marelle.

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

Uncle Aarne!

Your mother needs you.

Mummy? Why's Uncle Aarne here?

(SNIFFS)

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

Sweetheart...

I'm sorry.

It's...

(SOBBING)

Mummy?

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) The van is a rental. Newmans.

Right, so three tasks. Find the van, find the couple who rented it.

Alain and Sophie Turenge, so-called Swiss nationals.

Let's make another public appeal

to help us trace the thing's movements since it was hired.

Now, we've alerted all the Newmans braches,

but if it is related to this bombing,

I doubt they'd be dumb enough to return it.

-Okay, let's... -DAVE: I think your wrong there, Harry.

Dickens just dropped it off.

Where?

It won't be a minute, sir.

(BOTH SPEAK FRENCH)

Why are we waiting for a stupid $130 refund?

We need to go. And fast!

The girls said it's a problem with the paperwork.

It'll look suspicious if...

(SIGHS)

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Mr and Mrs Turenge?

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Yes.

DC Stewart.

Auckland Central Police.

Interpol just got back to us. Never thought I'd get to say that.

-And what did have to say? -Exactly what we expected.

They confirmed the passports are false. Very good forgeries, professional.

This is shaping up as a highly sophisticated operation, sir.

DGSE even.

Which means this is going to play out at state level.

So, no mistakes.

We know it's the bloody French.

REPORTER: Meanwhile in Wellington, the French Embassy has expressed sympathy

for the crew of the Rainbow Warrior.

An Embassy spokesman, while declining to appear on camera,

said it would be terrible if foul play was to blame.

The spokesman says there's no way France was responsible for the explosions.

Although the Rainbow Warrior was to have led a flotilla

to the French nuclear test site of Mururoa atoll,

the French Embassy says it was not worried about the sea-borne protest.

At parliament, the Prime Minister has been briefed by the police

on the blast and on the investigations.

At a lunch-time news conference

Mr Lange admitted New Zealand is vulnerable to a terrorist attack,

but he stressed that the cause of the explosions aren't known yet.

The radio jocks are already talking? And the press?

They reckon Lange's banging on about state-sanctioned terrorism.

Fair bloody enough, too. France is supposed to be our ally.

Arrogant bastards are just sticking to their story.

We've been interviewing them for 22 hours.

They're still just demanding to see the Swiss Consulate.

HARRY: Terrorist, my arse.

Oh, we can hold them on the passport irregularities anyway.

GALBRAITH: They're probably just intermediaries.

The fellows they've seen picking up were most likely the actual attack teams.

Teams? Plural?

If you think there could be more,

we should warn these Greenpeace types, sir.

No, no, Harry.

What we think we know and what we can prove

are two different things.

Thanks.

All the speculation is just muddying the waters.

No, we're gonna need the cooperation of our French colleagues

to get the information that we need.

This is a political bloody bombshell.

We don't put France front and centre. Not yet.

(ALL SPEAK FRENCH)

Mitterrand will visit our interests in the Pacific, as planned.

If we cancel,

it'll be seen as a tacit admission of guilt.

Oh! We've already denied involvement.

Your point being, General?

My point being, our own press is already on the scent.

We have two of your agents in custody in New Zealand,

and others still out there,

so perhaps it might be better to come clean.

Put our heads on the block?

Because of an unfortunate accident?

A man is dead.

You want to turn him into a martyr?

He already is, isn't he?

Isn't that the definition of martyrdom?

Dying for a cause you believe in?

STEVE: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) I remember when we first arrived in Hawaii,

and Fernando wanted to go dancing.

And like a true Latino,

he danced until the sun came up.

He was the centre of attention.

And I believe he knocked us all out with his energy.

I loved his passion,

even though he could've used a lesson or two on how to tie knots.

Yeah.

He was shit at tying knots, but he was a fucking good photographer.

STEVE: We like to think of ourselves as his Greenpeace family.

We all know how much we miss him.

I can't imagine the loss his wife and kids must feel.

We've all lost a good man.

Goodbye, my friend.

He's a bloody hero.

STEVE: Yeah,

he is.

And his pictures will change the world.

Sorry I forgot the jellybeans.

Now, the French government are still clamming up on us.

You hear their ambassador?

"Ze French government doesn't deal with its opponents in such ways." Crap.

Even Interpol's giving us zilch on the true identity of the Turenges.

They have to be DGSE.

Then we have to prove it. Which means we dig.

We dig even further back.

Find the link between these two and the people in the station wagon.

See where they fit into the bigger picture.

DAVE: The theory is, the forestry worker interrupted an attempted drop.

HARRY: Dive gear, the Zodiac, and most probably, the explosives.

They did eventually meet up with the Turenges.

-Here. -(TAPS BOARD)

Family on picnic spot spies loading bags from station wagon into camper.

About six Ks away from the buggered up forest rendezvous.

Fucking genius.

The station wagon had been swapped in Whangarei for a Ford Telstar.

Hired under the name of Raymond Robert Velche.

Now, he can be linked to this yacht.

Chartered in New Caledonia, the Ouvea.

DAVE: She cleared customs in Whangarei,

but that wasn't where she first made landfall.

Try Parengarenga.

(ALL SPEAK FRENCH)

So, we bury everything here

then put in for customs clearance at this, Whangarei.

They check us, we're clean.

Then we hire a van

and come back up for the gear.

There's nobody around for miles, so...

Not quite bloody right, I'm afraid.

Shit.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Crene, the ranger, was another interruption when he turned up.

CRENE: Oi!

Who are you? Have you been through Customs?

You have no authorisation to come on board.

-Are you Customs? -I will be...

HARRY: Crene gave him a bollock. Ballsy bugger.

He said he'd be calling Customs in Whangarei

and then sent them on there to get clearances.

We will definitely do that.

This is my fault, I'm afraid.

It's just a diving trip.

HARRY: Now, they did clear customs there,

but the Telstar was hired in Paihia,

so they must have landed again there first.

Judging by the mileage record,

the Telstar made several trips up and down,

probably ferrying all the gear from Paihia

while they waited for a wagon to become available.

These have to be the buggers who brought in the gear and explosives

from New Caledonia.

It makes sense. French military has radio access there,

but we have to prove it.

And if we can, then it really is state bloody terrorism,

in which case, we are swimming in very dodgy bloody waters.

The arrogant bastards.

Well, they certainly didn't go to any great lengths

to cover their tracks in Noumea. Or Whangarei.

You know, we're still on a yacht.

Très bien.

Why bother with motels when we have a nice, warm bunk?

(BOTH SPEAK FRENCH)

Except for the bed? For more room perhaps?

Careful.

(CHEERING)

Good evening, ladies.

Another drink?

(ALL CHEERING)

DAVE: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) Talk about a clue trail.

All that's missing is a beret, a baguette and a bottle of bloody Beaujolais.

Maybe a French letter or two.

Yes, well, their little entourage was certainly sorry to see 'em go.

On the 9th, the night before the bombing, they got out of dodge.

Burt White's had a coast watch up for the entire Pacific Basin,

-but no... -No buts any more, Dave.

She just turned up. We got a fax from Kingston.

On Norfolk Island.

Choose your people and pack your bags.

We need another break on this.

I've organised an Air Force Andover to get you there.

Well, they've opened the cheque-book on this one.

So they're telling me.

I have authorisation for a team of nine.

I want the people on that yacht interviewed till they drop,

while you go through that boat with a fine-toothed comb.

Fingerprints, swabs, the works.

Results, Peter, results.

We're looking for anything that connects the yacht to the Turenges

and you, Phil, are looking for trace of explosives, anything.

It'll take you a while to dust down the whole bloody yacht, Pete.

Well, I figure to rattle on, then.

We can only detain these buggers for 24 hours

before we have to wave 'em bye-bye.

Shit, that's assuming they're still there when we arrive.

Well, I think Galbraith has managed to get that organised.

(BOTH SPEAK FRENCH)

How was I to know someone would steal the fucking dinghy?

It's not stolen, you idiot.

The police are stalling you.

"Looking for a culprit"?

Rubbish!

Someone's onto us. You saw the news.

This is murder now and we're accessories.

I can't believe Paris didn't warn us!

It's all turned to shit!

So you cut and run?

Yes! Yes!

I was just a front for this operation.

It's done. I can leave when I like!

Scared of submarines, are you?

(SCOFFS)

I wouldn't count on a sub coming for you.

Either way, I suggest you get off this damn island fast.

And get rid of that boat!

(AARNE SPEAKING DUTCH)

"Warriors"?

"Warriors"...

Who do they think they are,

this Greenpeace?

Warriors are returned home with honours.

Where are they now?

(JOANNE SPEAKING DUTCH)

I told them not to come.

I don't want a fuss.

The press, all that.

(AARNE SPEAKING)

So, here you are, Joanne,

having to sign for your husband's body, like a piece of freight.

It's all a damn waste.

Please.

(SOBBING)

Don't say that.

Don't ever say that!

If it was a waste,

how will I forgive him?

If it was a waste, how will the children deal with it?

Now. Can I please have my husband!

(SIGNING)

DAVE: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) He was drowned.

He went back below to get his camera.

His pictures.

What pictures?

Photographs.

I don't understand your interest in us.

We know nothing of this.

We are on vacation, diving.

Got no diving gear.

Probably ditched at sea.

Burt's guys already found one scuba tank back at home.

HARRY: You see, we extended the search

on a line from the wharf where the explosions happened

to a cove in the bay where your mates dumped the Zodiac.

We found the outboard as well.

The one they dumped so they could make a silent landing.

(ALAIN SPEAKING FRENCH)

I don't understand you.

I don't speak English.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Oh, okay. French, then.

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

We know you did this.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) When you've got all your happy snaps, Stuart,

you only can help me bag and catalogue the rest of this.

We just don't have time.

We're gonna have to cease everything and take it all back with us.

And let the buggers go?

I've got hundreds of latents. I can't check 'em without a lab.

But Phil's got even more swabs to test, so yeah,

we'll let the buggers go unless they decide to confess,

which isn't gonna happen.

Bon voyage, then.

Merci.

I hope you find the people responsible.

We will, we definitely will.

Twenty bloody hours of questioning and nothing.

Save for the certainty that they're pros.

Don't worry, we'll get another shot at them.

Now, they're booked to fly out of Noumea.

We'll extradite them when they put in there.

Only if the bloody dickheads can get their act together in time.

Weeks? Oh, they'll be long gone by then.

I'm sorry, sir. Phil's explosives results will be quicker,

but I've got over 1,200 items to check and I need to flurry some of the material.

-Damn! -I have to cobble together

a laser unit at the university to do it as well, sir.

-I'm sorry. -I'm not blaming you, Peter.

It's just... (SIGHS)

I've got everyone from the PM down howling for blood.

And he's had to jump from refusing to publicly back this Greenpeace bunch

to having to go in to bat for them.

The politicians needs results to wave under Mitterrand's nose.

We've already missed the attack team.

And the Turenges, whoever they are, are just small fish.

I need a much fuller net, Harry,

and so does the whole damn country.

So, nothing on Pereira's family, I imagine.

REPORTER: Superintendent. Superintendent.

(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)

(SPEAKS IN DUTCH)

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Look, David.

Alain and Sophie Turenge.

The approval serial numbers on the scuba tank we recovered from the harbour

were issued in France.

The patterns on the outboard clamp heads

are a perfect match to the markings on the inflatable's transom.

This is the paint mark on the inside rear door of the station wagon.

-I know. -A perfect match

to paint scrapings from the outboard.

Limestone micro fossils

and sandstone road metal from both the van

and the station wagon

put the two vehicles in the same area of state forest,

which confirms sightings.

I know, Allen, but I don't...

The yacht tested positive for explosives.

TNT, EGDN.

Both ingredients in Semtex

and both used in trace at the site of both explosions.

I mean...

What more can you possibly need?

So far, you only have these two in custody.

-Yes, but... -No.

I went out on a limb today going for murder.

Conspiracy to commit arson and wilful damage by means of explosive,

I'm pretty comfortable with.

But when we go to trial,

if we are to succeed with a murder charge,

what I need is a solid link between them and the yacht.

Give me that and murder will stick.

(BOTH SPEAK FRENCH)

Still nothing?

We're on our own.

Shit.

(SPEAKS ENGLISH) That lot's been checked.

That lot's waiting to be checked.

Every page of every book, every surface.

Bloody hell.

The moisture on boats isn't good for prints.

So I left you lasers to look for any latents.

Could take a while.

It's the first time it's ever been done here.

Let's hope you find something, then.

The explosives evidence nails the yacht crew,

but we're not gonna get a crack at them by the looks.

So I've heard. No shows at Noumea, right?

Yeah, word is they scuttled the boat.

And got picked up by a sub.

Bit James Bond.

Especially after all the police say.

True, she did leave New Caledonia headed south

the day after we let them go.

On exercises.

So, the Turenges are our last shot at a conviction.

It's the only way we're ever gonna get the frog government to fess up.

It's all up to up now, Pete.

Pray for a print that connects your suspects to this boat, then.

Now, I got work to do. Bugger off.

Tented arch.

You little beauty.

GALBRAITH: The map we found on the yacht.

And that is the thumb print of the man who's been calling himself Alain Turenge.

(ALAIN SPEAKING FRENCH)

...just a crappy fold-out map.

So, of course we got lost a bit!

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

Here. Take this one!

Perhaps next time, you won't be late.

There won't be a next time. We're done.

-(SPEAKS ENGLISH) Murder. -State-sponsored murder.

And the French press agree. They're naming names.

Hernu, Lacoste...

Now, let's see their bloody government deny it.

I'm wondering...

Do you understand the meaning of the phrase

"Hung out to dry"?

A Kiwi term, is it?

More universal phrase, really.

Major Marfart.

My name is Turenge.

Not according to your government, Captain Prieur.

Or the report they've just put out.

Well, according to this Tricot bloke,

and the diplomatic people here,

you and your yet-to-be-identified associates

were directed to infiltrate Greenpeace and observe. That's all.

You weren't authorised to take any direct action.

Oh, this is absurd. (CHUCKLES)

Ridiculous, the whole thing.

HARRY: We know you're agents of the DGSE, Major.

Your boss, Admiral Lacoste, isn't it?

He confirmed it, right before he was fired.

And his boss, a Monsieur Hernu.

(SPEAKS FRENCH)

It's over, Charles.

DAVE: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) He's resigned.

Actions beyond his mandate.

Your government's still claiming the President had no knowledge.

HARRY: Still, whether he did or not,

your actions resulted in a death.

And you've been left to take the fall.

Hung out to dry.

Crown's got a case for murder now.

I want to see my consular representative.

I bet you bloody do.

French or Swiss?

ELAINE: The decision on the future of the Warrior

has now been made in the UK

by the entire Greenpeace council.

The final decision was arrived at after consideration of many factors

including the possibility of salvaging the ship,

that is, putting it back together again

to enable it to continue its interrupted Pacific peace voyage.

But the Warrior will not be returning to the Marshall Islands.

The council decided that repairing the ship

has just not been a practical option for Greenpeace.

It is our intention

that the Rainbow Warrior be sunk off the coast of New Zealand

at a suitable location.

DAVEY: I don't believe this.

Just when those frogs are being shown up to be

the arrogant pack of bastards they are, we get hit with this.

I know, but when you think about it, Davey, it make sense.

The cops have only just re-floated it.

For evidential purposes, yes.

They are taking it to dry dock.

And now we Greenpeace have to sink her all over again.

She was our home.

And she still can be.

Have you seen how much interest is coming in? How much money?

We could use some of it to fix her.

You saw those holes, Davey.

We can weld some plates.

The French didn't just sink her. They completely fucked her.

Well, she's been disabled before, she's been fixed before.

Look, I know you're attach to her, Davey.

We all are.

I mean, she was our home for a long time.

But the organisation can't afford to be sentimental here.

Is that it, is it?

When it comes down to it, dollars and cents.

You need dollars and cents to do what we do.

Well, fuck them!

And fuck you!

It's a shame Fernando won't be around to take pictures

when she goes under, isn't it?

I'm with Davey.

It's a sellout.

NEWSCASTER: With the Rainbow Warrior in dry dock,

we can finally see the damage.

Those bastards...

We can clearly see the result of the two explosions.

Police have now completed all forensic tests

on the sabotaged peace vessel,

and for the first time, her former crew will be allowed to return.

-Not me. I couldn't bear it. -Meanwhile in France,

the controversy continues.

And despite the efforts of the Tricot Report to deflect blame,

the political fallout from the bombing escalates.

(NEWSCASTER SPEAKING DUTCH)

Both our government

and the New Zealand government are pressing for justice and compensation

over the death of Dutch national, Fernando Pereira,

a photographer working with Greenpeace who was killed...

(SPEAKS DUTCH)

Mummy...

...when the Rainbow Warrior was attacked by French commandos

and sunk in Auckland Harbour...

I've been dreaming again.

I know, darling.

I know.

REPORTER: (SPEAKS ENGLISH) Excuse me, Captain Wilcox, how do you feel?

I really don't know how I feel. I...

Fernando, the ship...

It's kind of like a wake.

We're visiting with the dead.

They took everything.

I should've got the scuba gear.

Bollocks, man.

He was gone.

He was already gone.

REPORTER: Journalists from all over the world are gathered in Auckland today

as the so-called "Trial of the century" is set to begin.

Speculation as to both the political and legal outcomes of the trial

has revved up as Prime Minister David Lange,

presses a humiliated French government for compensation

for an act that is,

"In breach not only of international law,

"but all moral principle and New Zealand sovereignty."

GALBRAITH: We let 'em plead manslaughter? Why?

MORRIS: Intent.

Defence has argued there was no intent to kill.

GALBRAITH: With explosives?

So what? They're guilty of carelessness?

Well, I don't imagine anybody's gonna be happy with that as an outcome.

I mean, they weren't exactly delighted

when the trial of the century lasted only 35 minutes, were they?

REPORTER: You think the French government has escaped

a certain amount of embarrassment or further embarrassment

as a result of this guilty plea?

No, I don't.

They've just reconfirmed that they murdered somebody

and sunk our boat.

REPORTER: What comfort can the relatives

of Fernando Pereira take out of today's events?

Oh, still a victory, I suppose.

It still points the finger firmly at France.

Ten years.

It's fair, I guess.

Will they serve it?

Well, it'll come down to politics.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Cheers, lads.

McTAGGART: Well, I'm disappointed

that the French government, Mr Hernu and the other agents weren't here today.

And, er, but still, these agents

that were charged today were trained underwater terrorists.

And they knew

what could happen to our ship

and they didn't warn us.

They could've spent ten cents

and Fernando would be here today.

FERNANDO: "Hey, Joanne, kids.

"Here are the photos I promised.

"Some were fun,

"some are not so fun.

"But I guess there's no point doing all this stuff,

"then hiding parts of it from you.

"It just goes to show the world can only be as good a place

"as we're allowed to make it.

"Mururoa next,

"and then home.

"I can't wait to see you guys again.

(JOANNE SOBS)

"It's just one more month.

"Until then, kids, be good for your mommy.

"And, Mommy,

"you know the rest.

"I think it might start with,

"'I love you.'

"Let see how that works, okay?

"Soon, guys.

"I'll see you all soon."

I invite the Rainbow Warrior

into Whangaroa.

I can say to you now, it is with dignity and pride

that we receive the ship

and it is with dignity and pride that we will lay her to rest.

(MAN SINGING IN NATIVE TONGUE)

WOMAN: The Cree Indians, in their own way, believed in retribution.

They knew there would come a time when the destruction we wrought

would in turn destroy us.

The Earth would be ravaged.

The forests would wither, the birds would fall from the sky.

And as a consequence,

men would cease to exist.

The time has come,

the world is sick and dying and the people must rise up

like warriors of the rainbow.