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It's weird. A guy books into a hotel
with the best restaurant in London...

and then goes on a hunger strike.

SIREN

Hello. Michael Leonard, Sudan desk.

This is Sir Anthony Lane-Kelly,
Permanent Foreign Secretary.

Sir... Sir Anthony.

Er, Sir Anthony.

I understand that you
requested the Cold Case Unit?

I heard you were good
with old bones.

He's on a hunger strike and we're
here to indulge him. We're here to
get him off British soil.

If he dies here, we're the bad guys
and he's a martyr.

Just find the damn skull.

With respect, Sir Anthony,
we don't normally investigate
lost-property cases.

Try not to mistake your
current unaccountability

for expendability...
Detective Superintendent.

DOOR OPENS

Shall we?

BOYD CHUCKLES

Leonard...

Sir?

I thought he was on a hunger strike?
He's eating.

No, he's drinking. It'll be a
mixture of water, saline and vitamin
B1. He's drawing it out, then.

Well, that is the point of a
hunger strike, got to build up the
pressure so your demands are met.

Detective Superintendent Boyd.
This is Dr Grace Foley.

This way, please. Sorry. Sorry.

Have you found the Mahdi's skull?

Now, hang on a minute,
we've just arrived.

His Excellency will continue
his fast until the Mahdi's remains
are returned to the Sudan.

Um, His Excellency also remains our
best hope for both the forthcoming
elections and its aftermath.

If His Excellency dies,
we can write off the Sudan
for another generation.

Sewing his lips together's
gonna get him elected? He's been
in exile, he needs this,

the grand gesture.

The Mahdi is our country's hero.

All my father wants is his remains
returned for burial.

He's your father and
you're watching him die.

He will not die -
if you find the Mahdi's skull.

HE SPEAKS ARABIC

The Sudan was born out of
a bloody war,

but so was the United States
of America.

How are we different?

But in our struggle for independence
from the British Empire,

the Mahdi did not let his religion
stand in the way of alliances

between Muslims, Christians
and the followers of tribal gods.

If the head of General George
Washington was taken as a war trophy,

would the leaders of America
be content to let it remain,

undiscovered,

unmourned,

unburied?

They don't need us,
they need Indiana Jones.

Sir Cyril.

Not exactly my kind of place.
Why did you ask me here?

It is not a matter of caprice, Boyd,
my masters know you're here.

May I? Mm.

You still have masters?

This is a democracy. Only
dictators escape public service.

I may be retired, but I still have
responsibilities.

I hear you're the new saint
of lost causes, Boyd.

The Mahdi's skull.
News travels fast.

Just two hours ago I was told that
I could bring peace to the Sudan.

Am I being set up?

I am.

Er, your unit is self-contained,
that was seen as a virtue.

I thought it was my expendability.

Please, you should be flattered.

You got the job because
they're taking it seriously.

I know nothing about the Sudan
or the Mahdi's skull.

The Mahdi rewrote Islam
to make himself the harbinger
of the apocalypse.

He declared service in his armies
equivalent to the
pilgrimage to Mecca.

So he's responsible for
all our current problems?

You can't make your hunger striker
responsible for his forefathers'
crimes,

but, if Khaled Ahmed dies, it would
be a disaster for the Sudan

and a disaster for us in the UK.
Is that your opinion or
the Foreign Office's?

My opinion is that nothing in the
world will change, whether the Sudan

limps on for another hundred years,
or shatters into a thousand pieces.

And I love the place.

Sounds like it.

Sometimes the things you love are
beyond saving. But you can't let go.

HE COUGHS

I recommended your team, Boyd.

Perhaps I spoke out of turn.

But I wanted to make contact.

There is another matter,
one that also calls for a team
of semi-detached misfits.

BOYD LAUGHS

Now you're flattering me!

Indulge me,
take my admiration as read.

You once considered re-opening
the murder of an Iraqi refugee,
Omar Jaffiri.

Omar Jaffiri, yeah, yeah...

We review it every year,
but it's never seemed more hopeful
than it did in '93.

All it took was the fall of Saddam.

An Iraqi general was
sentenced to death in Baghdad today.

He confessed to Jaffiri's murder,
amongst others.

What's this?

The entire transcripts
of the killer's interrogation.

Jaffiri was killed
on my watch, Boyd.

So what am I supposed
to find in here?

A discrepancy. You won't miss it.

Well, I won't miss it if I know what
I'm meant to be looking for.

Ah, Boyd, Boyd, Boyd.

What is the police oath now? To
be faithful, honest and impartial?

Yeah, something like that.
What's yours? To keep my mouth shut.

Why should I help you?
A chance to bring a transient
stability to the Sudan.

The death of Jaffiri
is something else. Why?

Because it brings shame
on my entire profession.

I'm not exactly a fan of
your profession, Sir Cyril. No, you
want everything out in the open,

battle lines drawn,
enemies identified.

But what if I tell you there is a
connection between the death of Omar
Jaffiri and the skull of the Mahdi?

Would it interest you then?

It would, if I believed you.

Believe me.

ALL: ALLAHU AKBAR! ALLAHU AKBAR!

REGGAE MUSIC

Is it true about the skull?

So rumour has it, yeah.

When did it disappear?

Ooh, where to start?

The Mahdi's tomb was desecrated
by British troops in revenge for
the death of General Gordon in 1885.

And he was? He was
the then governor of the Sudan.

Mahdi's warriors
chopped his head off.

Why hasn't someone asked for the
Mahdi's skull back before now?
They did.

In 1956.

An investigation was requested
by the first Sudanese government
after independence.

Independence from the British?

No. No, from Egypt, and
Egypt got its independence from us.

Right. And the skull
is important now because...?

Well, the Sudan has had a civil war
for almost 50 years.

Two million people have died
and more than that
have fled the country.

And this guy is putting himself
forward as the man who can pull
it all together. Yeah. Sorry...

There's been a peace process in
place since 2005, but it's shaky.

The skull is a potent symbol
of past glory and unity.

Yeah, but the 1956
investigation was a joke.

It's just a list of rumours.

They say the skull might have been
used as an ink well, a paperweight,
or an ashtray.

1956 was Suez, so the Met are
hardly going to pull out
all the stops, are they?

Why is Khaled Ahmed threatening the
peace process by risking his life?

Politics, politics, politics.
Suppose we find this skull, is a
DNA comparison going to work, Eve?

After 120 years? Well, it very
much depends on the condition.

You know DNA degrades in bones?

I didn't. There are much more
sensitive new techniques, Low Copy
Number Analysis at 34 cycle PCR.

Anyway, what was I going to say?
Oh, yes, about this -
Lawrence Olivier's portrayal.

It wasn't particularly accurate.

It was quite a good film though.
Never saw it. It was good. The Mahdi
was a black African.

That's what I said.
Nubian or Dongolese.

But don't we all look
alike 125 years after we die?

That's a bit like saying we all look
alike when we take our clothes off.

The differences are heightened.

And on skeletons?

Narrow the frame of reference and
the complexity of a structure comes
into focus.

So what about X-rays? I've got some
injuries I want you to look at
on the old Jaffiri file.

Omar Jaffiri? Omar Jaffiri.

That's the case I was pushing for
last year and you knocked me back.

Yeah, his killer was sentenced
to death in Baghdad yesterday.

So why bother?

So why bother?

I've been told there's a
connection between the two cases.

Here's a transcript of the
condemned man's interrogation.

The Mahdi's skull
disappeared in the 1890s.

Omar Jaffiri was killed in 1993.

Can you help me out here?

D'you wanna take on the case or not?

Hell, yeah.

So tell me,
how did the transcripts of

a military interrogation in Baghdad
find its way into your hands?

Well, Sir Cyril Barrett, the MI6 guy.

Stubborn old bastard,
he wouldn't tell me what I'm
supposed to be looking for.

Mmm, another old man with
his lips stitched together. Yeah.
You know what he called us?

A bunch of misfits.
Oh, he knows us, then?

Semi-detached, expendable,
unaccountable, all in one day.
Makes you feel valued, doesn't it?

Mmm, don't let your ego get
in the way, Boyd. Why not?

A public servant isn't allowed one.

Servant, not slave. Or martyr.

I didn't know that DNA
degraded in bones, did you?

What about that 2,000-year-old ice
man that they found, and they traced

through his blood line to find out
where he came from, what he did...

She seems to know what
she's talking about. Yeah...

She said "narrow your terms
of reference" -

that helps you focus on things,
that's good because that's what
the team does,

which is good, so it's positive,
early days, but positive.

I like what she said about us
all being different with our
clothes off, that was bright.

Get out, Grace.

A Michael Leonard just called.

Ah, it's that little shit from the
Foreign Office. What did he want?

Is this the Foreign Office way?

Taking meetings in the open air?

Please, just sit down.

Not so close.

Not here.

What's your problem?

If you're uncomfortable,
we can talk at headquarters.

This might be a joke to you,
but it's not to me, OK?

So are we supposed to find the
Mahdi's skull at 8, Lorimer Gardens?

Listen, I have given you all I can,
OK? Just, please, keep me out of it.

8, Lorimer Gardens.

8, Lorimer Gardens...

BLEEPING

Yeah, I see it...

Good. It's on the edge
of the university area.

I'll do a title search
and I'll see you there, yeah?

OK, speak to you later. OK. Bye.
Bye.

I don't know if it belongs to Mel,
the envelope was addressed to her.

Well, I can't shed any light on
how it was stored or who handled it.

There's no mark
on the pendant itself.

There is a hallmark on the
clasp of the chain, 18-carat,
which is interesting,

because it's the number 18.
What's the number 18?

The letters 'het' and 'yod',
eight and ten.

What, so the letters
represent the number?

In the Hebrew alphabet, yeah.

And 18 means? Well, if you're Jewish
it's considered lucky to offer gifts

in multiples of 18,
but more significantly
the number 18 represents life.

So you'd give this to somebody
to wish them a long life?

Possibly.

Which is more than you're gonna have.

Right, thanks.

Excuse me. Do you live here, miss?

No, no-one does.

We're trying to trace the owners,
a company called Scott Grey.

Scott Grey aren't the owners.
They only set up the trust.

If anyone's responsible for the
lodge, I guess it's me. And you are?

Elaine Wilson, I'm a medical
student and I'm late for class.
So who are the owners?

It's owned by a historical society,
the Fakirs. I'm the lodge master.

Historical, like
relics from the past?

Some... What's the problem?
You're the lodge master?

Master, yes.

So you catalogue everything?

Who pimped this crib?

Wow.

Scott Grey bought this place?

The directors provided funds
to buy the leasehold and
undertake restoration.

Here's a copy of the inventory
with all the historical artefacts.

The directors of Scott Grey,
Catherine Braithwaite and James
Andrews, why were they so generous?

They were both
ex-members of the society.

I don't know Miss Braithwaite,
but I'm now late for
Professor Andrews' class.

There's several problems with the
Geneva Convention. But let's
concentrate on interrogation.

Under the Convention, a soldier is
only required to give his
rank and number.

And what's the assumption?
That a good soldier would
only speak under torture.

It's designed to protect
men like my father.

But better intelligence
might have saved his life.
So we overrule the Convention.

Battles are fought on the ground.
Ordinary soldiers are often the best
source of intelligence.

No. My father died as
a result of insurgency.

He wasn't facing combat troops,
he was trying to maintain security.

If we question Geneva, we've
got to make that differentiation.

Security isn't just a wartime issue.
No-one's suggesting we apply wartime
measures outside the battlefield.

I am. By definition, insurgents are
operating outside the battlefield.

If certain forms of interrogation
are legitimate in wartime, they
have to be legitimate at all times.

Geneva recognises that wartime
interrogation involves psychological

and physical stress, which is
exactly why these techniques can't
be applied outside of war. Why?

Because they breach universal
human rights, freedom, dignity...

If a state cannot guarantee
security, there is no dignity,
no freedom and no democracy.

So acute interrogation techniques
are legitimate at all times,
in all situations?

Who's going to apply that?
Who wouldn't apply them, if they knew
liberty and democracy were at stake?

Someone has to be willing
to step up to the mark.

Your big night tonight. Yeah.

You're going to be bloodied.

Dr James Andrews?

Can you confirm that you own
the freehold to 8, Lorimer Gardens?

And you are? DI Jordan.

DC Goodman.

Ah, I understand you spoke to
the current lodge master today.
I trust she was helpful.

Yes, she was, thank you.

You're one of the trustees,
along with a Catherine Braithwaite.
Do you know her whereabouts?

Currently, no, I couldn't say.
You don't know?

She travels. Outside the orbit
of a university professor.
When did you last see her?

A few months ago. I gave a paper
at Georgetown University, and she
was good enough to come along.

Though I expect I put her to sleep.
Sorry I can't be more help.

Was it something I said? 'Fraid so.

Here's the fracture of Jaffiri's
left humerus.

The pathologist assumed he was
injured in a struggle...

Jaffiri!

The killer said he took Jaffiri
by surprise, there's no mention
of a struggle.

There are other ways to break bones.
Now, bone is stronger along
its length than its width,

so any fractures will traverse
the grain, but this is unusual.

I've made additional findings
- defects adjacent to the
articular surface,

as though
ligaments have been pulled away.

So, tendons being pulled off
the bone. Mmm, taking tiny flakes
of bone with them, here and here.

The same defects suggesting
extreme rotational pressure

was applied to the joint, which
would be excruciatingly painful.

Now, could these injuries have been
sustained some time before, I mean,
you know, like old injuries?

There's no evidence of new bone
formation, so no sign of healing.

So you're saying that
these injuries took place
before death, just before death?

It would seem so.

So he was tortured...

before he was killed. Yes.
And a form of suspension torture.

Hung upside down or hung up or...?

There are five basic
techniques, cross,

butchery, when you hang
by one or both hands...

that's butchery by the leg...

Parrot perch, where you're hung
from a bar placed under the knees.

And this - Palestinian suspension.

Palestinian suspension. Because the
Israelis have used it intensively,
but they didn't invent it.

There's an older name, "strappado",
dating back to the Inquisition.
Right.

So you think that Hadid
softened up Jaffiri using this
technique before he slit his throat?

Would he have needed help to do that?

Would strappado be enough
to break an arm, though?

It might...with a sudden drop.

Aaggghh!

Hassan Hadid.

A Ba'athist general, convicted of
the murders of ten prominent Shias,
one in London, Omar Jaffiri.

In the transcript of Hadid's
interrogation there is no mention

of Jaffiri having been tortured
before he was killed...

Yeah, but can we trust
this testimony from Baghdad?

This guy could have been
tortured too, you know.

It wouldn't necessarily negate
what he said. What are you saying?

Evidence produced through torture
needn't be unreliable?

God, here we go, yeah.
"Torture is ethically indefensible.

"It pollutes
the entire justice system."

Yes. That is the argument,
though I didn't think I'd hear
you defending it. I'm not!

I'm quoting the British law lords.

But what if it gets results,
what do you want?

D'you want killers and terrorists
to be on the loose?

That is a very simplistic defence.

But that's the point.
Sometimes you have to encourage
suspects, just a little, to talk.

Yeah,
but they still have to be checked,
re-checked, analysed, repeated...

Oh, there isn't
always time to do all that work...

Then your argument is flawed.

Torture isn't a guaranteed
short cut to the truth.

Oh, OK, so if Hadid

tortured Jaffiri before he
killed him, it slipped his memory.

And if he didn't, then somebody else
did torture him. Two-man team,

and maybe someone's still out there.
You know, sometimes,

you're just not a help.
Not if I don't agree with you.

What have we got on the skull?

The Fakirs.
Founded at the end of the 19th
century by a military surgeon.

Lieutenant Dyer, who fell
in love with the Arabic world.

Aw, sweet(!)

Do they have the skull?
No, according to them. And there's
nothing in the inventory.

Let's get Michael Leonard in and
we'll encourage him to talk

ever so nicely, sweetly,
politely, make him tea with
lots of sugar in it...

The Fakirs had a skull.

They used it on certain occasions.

Such as?

Anniversaries, initiation
ceremonies, things like that.
They used to take it very seriously.

How d'you know all this?

I was one of them.

Why didn't you
tell me this before?

I made an oath.

That was part of the deal.

But you had a prick of conscience?

When I believed Khaled Ahmed would
carry out his threat, yes, I did.

Look, the only reason I
joined the Fakirs

was to keep my girlfriend happy,
and, yes, I should have spoken out,
but...

But what? You were scared?

What of?

Let's just say it was in
my best interests to keep my word.

What's with all the secrecy?
Have you been threatened?
I came here voluntarily.

Who is your girlfriend? The one
you wanted to please.

Catherine Braithwaite.

Are you still in touch with her?
No, er...no.
No, I haven't seen her for ages.

We split up not long after that.

She's a translator now...
She speaks Arabic.

Do you see anyone else involved
with the Fakirs at that time?

No. They were mostly junior doctors
and medical students.

I was an Orientalist,
as was Catherine, so we went
our different ways.

You were in the Middle East section.

You ever work the Iraq desk?

Er, no.

Have you heard of a man called
Omar Jaffiri? No, should I have?

That's what I'm asking you.

No, er,
his name means nothing to me.

OK.

Thank you, Michael.

Thank you.

Mike, please.

Tu es francaise, non? Oui, pourquoi?

Parce que...

Belle.

I like it. Maybe you should
come and do my flat.

You like the style?
I like...I like the style.

I'm pleased.

Right, OK, what have we got?

These are drawings made by
Leila Jaffiri.

She witnessed her father's murder.

She was too young at the time to
be questioned directly? Correct.

What did the original investigation
learn from them?

What you would expect,
suppressed memories, traumatised...
Is that your opinion?

Yeah, I agree.

Classic signs of withdrawal.

But she's not a little girl any more.
That little girl
is still inside her.

And that little girl
will have memories.

All right, you talk to her, then.

I will.

Jaffiri's wife said
he'd been out all night.

She heard the grille open
at 6.30 and the paper boys
found his body at seven.

His little girl was in the shop.

The paper boys found her
behind the counter.

So the shutters were open.

Yeah, it says, er, Jaffiri opened
the shutters from the outside.

Looking at the time frame, 6.30
when his wife heard the shutters,
seven when the body was found...

Jaffiri can't have been
tortured in the shop.

His shoulder
must already have been broken.

So...

who opened the shutters
and brought in the newspapers?

Hadid didn't mention that
in his interrogation, did he?

Jaffiri was stabbed in
the lower right side of his chest...

..nicking the adjacent rib.

The blade moved upwards
through his lower lung and liver.

He fell to the ground like so.

The blood spurted left.

Which means he must
have turned him over...

Hm-mm. and...cut his throat.

From left to right, the blood
pooling over a 125cm diameter.

We make a really good team,
you know that?

Why, Mr Spence!

I have always depended on
the kindness of strangers.

Well, it says here 1978...
KNOCKING

Mmm. Andrews?

I'll call you back.
KNOCKING CONTINUES

Why am I always speaking
to you through a door?

Coming. Sorry, Wilson.

Your inner sanctum.

Why wouldn't you defend me
at the seminar today?

I can only stimulate debate,
I can't direct it.

If I can provide the space...

We can arrive at the truth.

It seemed a shame to hide it
away in an album.

Look how tightly
I'm holding onto Dad.

Just like I'm gonna hold onto you.

I used to, um...
wake up in the morning,

to try and help my father
bring in the newspapers.

Before he died.

Before he was murdered.

Do you need a few moments?

What? To feel at home?

It was quiet...

SHUTTERS RATTLE

Sorry, why are we doing this?

I mean, the killer's been caught,
he's been sentenced to death.

I can't do this.

DOOR CLOSES

This is Catherine Braithwaite,
seen at Heathrow. Coming or going?

Coming, three days ago.

We drew a blank on tax records,

so we assume she's been working
abroad since leaving university.

We knew she was a translator,

so we started with the
UN and the Pentagon.

She's the CEO of a military
contractor based in the States.

So is she a contractor
or a translator?

She contracts translating services.

And get this, the company's
called Scott Grey.

Same company that bought
the Fakir Lodge house.

Aren't US military contracts
classified information?

Freedom of Information Act.

All this comes from the
Senate Defence Committee,

including...

her photograph.

Do we know where she is now?

No clue.

Time to meet the Fakirs.

MIDDLE-EASTERN MUSIC

That'll do, thank you. Ta.

Thank you.

Jaspers!

Thanks a lot.

How many have gone in?

I've counted nine.
I've got a good signal.

OK.

If we've got a full house,
we should take advantage.

Gotcha!

Right! Later!
Toodle-pip.

Yep, we're in.

DRUMMING

GONG SOUNDS

BEEPING AND CLICK

Where have you come from, traveller?

ECHOING: Where have you
come from, traveller?

From the desert, oh, Selina Hanom.

How did you travel?

By night.

Guided by the star of my beloved.

ECHOING: By night. Guided by
the star of my beloved.

Welcome, oh, Sheik of the Desert.

ECHOES: Welcome, oh,
Sheik of the Desert.

SCREAMING

If you betray your sacred vows...

May I be suspended between
this world and the next.

BEEPING

How did you get in here?
The door was open. May I?

It's poly-resin.

Yeah. But could it have been taken
from a mould of the Mahdi skull?

Granny Mahdi, maybe.
It's taken from an elderly woman.

Alas, poor Granny.

Don't! Sorry.

OK, Spence. Thank you.

D'you know why you're here?

You want to know the
whereabouts of the skull,

purported to be that of the Mahdi,
Mohammad Ahmed. Go on.

It's an urban myth.

PHONE RINGS

I'm not gonna pretend
I've never heard of the story,
there's nothing in it.

What have you heard?

Probably more than you.

And more about Mohammad Ahmed too,
leader of the fuzzy-wuzzies.

You know, big Afro hair, jogging
along with spears in their hands.

Why wasn't this skull
listed in your inventory?

It's plastic.

Hardly a historical artefact,
don't you think?

See how she's dominating
the interview.

Winding him up, answering
questions with questions.

What are you getting at?

They all have the same surety, which
comes from belonging to the pack.

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves? No,
they take themselves very seriously.

That's what Michael Leonard said.

Serious enough to lie about
having the Mahdi's skull?

Cliques and secrecy are synonymous.

WILSON: What about a policeman?

Every pack has its vulnerable point.

Don't bully that boy.

I don't wanna debate this now.
When are we going to debate it?

Don't compromise me. I won't. You
can watch me if you want. I will.

Good, OK.

Hello. Hello.

Jaspers. Yes, sir.

Unusual name.

A German phenomenologist.
My father was a philosopher.

And you're a psychology student?
Mm-hm.

What's this?

A rope.

Yeah...it's a rope.

The last image I have of you

is this was tying your hands
behind your back.

It's just a tradition, a bit of fun.

How much fun?

D'you wanna show me?

You were kneeling, yeah? Yes.

You don't have to kneel on the floor,
kneel on this, save your jeans.

I just wanna get this picture of you.

When I came into the room, there you
were here and there was a woman here.

You had your hands... May I?
Tie your hands behind your back?

Thank you.

This is where the fun starts, eh?

And there was a woman
here holding a skull.

So then what happened? I can't say.
Why? Because you took an oath?

Yes. To protect what?

I mean, if you take an oath,
you're hiding something.

So what are you protecting?
Hiding what?

Nothing that I'm aware of.

Tell me about the skull.

It's just a toy.

In a minute I'm going to be accused
of using stressing technique,

but I'm trying to save a man's life.

You know, and there's
always the conflict.

There's always that conflict.
Do you know what I mean?

Now I want to know where
the Mahdi skull is.

Can you please tell me
where the Mahdi skull is?

No.

You won't tell me? I don't know.

You don't know?

You sure you don't know
where the Mahdi skull is?

OK.

You're not gonna tell me
where the Mahdi skull is!

Spence!

So what did that prove?
Did you get an answer?

He's telling the truth.
How do you know?

Sir, Khaled Ahmed lost
consciousness 20 minutes ago.

OK, you and Spence baby-sit
the Fakirs. Grace...

It's one o'clock in the morning.

I know, you get some coffee.
Where are we going?

Civilised society has to have
barriers that we don't cross over.

If we keep moving the barriers,
where will it all end?

What do you do when law
and order breaks down?

How do we maintain
trust and security?

That's a hypothetical extreme.

No, it's not, it's not.

Boyd, you have such a bleak
view of humanity.

Put it down to 30 years
of rubbing up against it.

OK, so if you are advocating
torture, on the grounds of security,

would you say Pinochet was right,
Franco was right,

the juntas were right...?

I'm not advocating torture, it's
just extraction of information.

In certain... Situations. Yeah.

Forgive my appearance. I rarely
expect visitors at this time,

certainly not attractive women.

Is this the sort of club
that welcomes women?

If it didn't,
I doubt I could carry on.

Thank you, my dear.

What is the connection between the
Mahdi skull and Jaffiri's death?

I can't tell you, Boyd.

Khaled Ahmed is in a coma.
He could be dead by the morning.

I'm dying too, Boyd.

What are you dying of?

It's technical,
the old term is consumption.

Consumption is treatable nowadays.

Not mine. If you're dying,
why are you holding back?

I've got my reputation, Boyd.
What's the point of a reputation
if you're dead?

I don't know where
the Mahdi's skull is,

and my speaking out would not
bring justice for Jaffiri.

I would be ostracised, discredited
and die a foolish old man.

Isn't that the problem
with your profession?

If the intelligence services
are ever corrupt,

no-one speaks out,
everyone's in the dark?

"In much wisdom is much grief."

Am I right? "And he that increases
knowledge increases sorrow."

Tell me one thing,
was there more than one man
involved in Jaffiri's death?

Don't leap too far ahead, Boyd.

There are no all-male
preserves any more.

Not this club,
not even my old profession.

We're through here, Boyd.

Unless you can force
a sick man to speak.

Is that your wife? It is.

A bit of a daddy's girl, is she?

Sorry I couldn't make the wedding.

Oh, it was very quiet.

You know Michael Leonard
is running the Sudan desk?

You always said I had
such terrible taste in men.

I think I said he was bright and
approachable, perhaps a bit weak.

He was clingy, he was a leech.

What do you know about
this investigation?

Don't worry about it.

I'm not so sure. I can't leave
Wilson fielding questions all night.

That's what she's
there for, isn't it?

Trust me.

I'll take care of it.

How is he?

Stabilised.

Will you consider calling
this hunger strike off? No.

His orders were clear.

He can't win an election
if he's dead.

Then someone will take his place.

We will not return to the Sudan
without the Mahdi's remains.

If her father dies, do you think
she'll sew her own mouth up?

She's her father's daughter, I think
she'll match him step for step.

All the way to death?

Yes, I think so.

You know we don't know anything
about this Khaled Ahmed guy.

If we get his skull for him
he could go back to the Sudan
and create a terrorist state.

It's a possibility.
I'd rather deal in probability.

I wanna talk to
Michael Leonard again.

What's James Andrews doing here?
You know him?

He holds the Burkean Chair in
Psychology at University College.

What's James Andrews
doing here, Spence?

Um, he wants to see his wife,
Elaine Wilson.

God, I didn't see him
as the marrying kind.

Maybe it's the attraction
of the older man?

Not your type, eh, Grace?

No, too cool, too detached.

I've got a book of his
here somewhere.

His views are quite
similar to yours, Boyd.

My cool detachment you mean?

Now don't get paranoid.

Deus Ex Mashina. Machina.

Machina.

The moment when the god descends
onto the stage and wraps up the
drama, according to the Greeks.

Why's it in Latin?

I don't know. Why not?

I never thought about it.

I suppose some Roman theatre critic.
I thought that'd fascinate you.

Oh! I've got other things
to think about.

So why is he like me? Because he
advocates the use of stressing
techniques in interrogation.

I want a lawyer.
Why am I in an interview room?

You wanted to see Elaine Wilson.

Yes, she's my wife.

And she's also the lodge master
of this...Fakir Society.

As was I once.

Is she one of your protegees?

Not at all, Wilson attends
my psychology seminars,

but she was a member
of the society before we met.

And how did you meet her?
Was it at a reunion or...?

Yes. Why do you want to know?

Has your wife told you
why she's here?

I understand you're looking
for the Mahdi's skull.

If so you'll be unlucky.

If the skull exists then the
Fakirs have no knowledge of it.

Ah, you can speak
for all of them can you?

So when were you last
the Lodge Master?

The Fakirs are the same as they've
been for more than 100 years,

a glorified drinking society.

They're undoubtedly elitist
and self-consciously so,

but basically they get
together to get pissed.

"Drink to the health of Cardinal
Tut" and all that nonsense.

Till you end up with
your pants on your head.

Excuse me.

What are you thinking?

What are you going to do?

I dunno.

Just feed the sound from here into
there so that he can hear it.

I'm trying to save a man's life
and that's dependent on me
finding the Mahdi's skull.

I want you to help me. I want you
to tell me the truth about the skull.

Now I can't force you to tell me
the truth, I can't interrogate you.

I can't hurt you, slap you, scream
at you because I'm being watched,

and listened to.

But I really need you
to tell me about the skull.

If there was a skull, why should I
help the political ambitions

of a man who spoke in
favour of Sharia law?

I've got this phone.

I've got the...

newer version of this.

Why does your husband
call you Wilson?

How do you know that?

You call him Andrews? You do!

You call him Andrews,
that's really weird,

that surname thing? Who's Amma?

It's a name I call my grandmother.

Oh...

You close to her?

Very close, yes.

How old is she?

She's 95.

95?!

Does she know you're here?
She can wait.

Wow, how d'you think she'd feel
about receiving a phone call from a
strange man at 3.30 in the morning?

Has she got a phone in the bedroom?

She must be flat out, Amma.

How is she on the stairs?

PHONE RINGS

Do you know how long it
takes her to get to the phone?

OK, tell me about the skull.

PHONE RINGS AGAIN

Here we go.

The skull.

Hello, Amma.

I have your granddaughter with me.

Why don't you get your breath back?

You gonna tell me about the skull?

Amma...

(Where's the skull?)

It's up here, yeah?

MIDDLE-EASTERN MUSIC

Boyd said he wanted to speak
to Leonard tonight.

Yeah, I know.

He's not answering his phone.

He probably can't hear it
over that weird music.

DOOR BUZZES

BUZZING CONTINUES

"Day 312.

"Our forces captured
one of the Mahdi's warriors
at the siege lines yesterday.

"General Gordon's chief concern

"is the rumours of enemy
reinforcements.

"I informed him that the
prisoner expected fresh forces
to arrive by the river."

Hello?

This is the police. We need access
to the building, please.
DOOR BUZZES OPEN

"The question is,
would the Mahdi's army arrive

"ahead of the British relief force?

"The General had a second question.

"Can the prisoner be trusted?

"The General wanted to know
if you are an honest man.

"I think you're beyond lying."

Mr Leonard?

Mr Leonard?

Give me your hand.

Michael?

Hand me the torch.

Move, move!

Police!

WHEEZING

I broke...

I broke the vows.

SCREAMING