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- What's Adam Carter doing here? - I've drafted him in.

- You know his reputation. - BriIIiant.

- Mace ordered me over to Thames House. - No way.

- It's orders. - I'm going to Harry.

I want it.

You can question our methods - we do that aII the time.

But don't question our motives.

If I come over to Five, I can have a Iife with you in this house.

Post 9-11, we made a decision that nothing, nobody was off-Iimits.

We can't say any more ''This we do not do''.

When Mr Morgan gets home, then you can Ieave him be.

Do you mind if I don't stay untiI the bitter end?

A taiI car wiII foIIow him into the viIIage

and then there's a covert team Iined up for the overnight watch.

You go on.

Oh, Harry's got a car booked for eight.

- If there are any probIems... - It's fine, honest.

- You out tonight? - Maybe.

- See you tomorrow. - Ruth...

- Our man here Iives off junction...? - Junction five.

So why is he coming off at four?

No. No, pIease don't do this...

SHE SIGHS

Better get Harry.

Robert Morgan. Ex-army.

A known trafficker in iIIegaI arms, under routine surveiIIance.

But up tiII now, nothing different?

No. Today's timing and route fits the pattern of the Iast few days.

His activity has been duII as ditch water, untiI this deviation.

- PoIice? - One taiI car.

- How Iong's he been there? - Ten minutes.

He's right beside a disused RAF base.

- What's he doing? - I think I know what he's doing there.

Harry, what is this?

This is a map of aII the oId Soviet KGB weapons hides

scattered across the country in the good oId days of the CoId War.

- I didn't know these existed. - No, not many peopIe do.

- Robert Morgan's one of them. - Yes.

And for reasons best known to himseIf he's chosen now to visit this one.

Keep a very cIose eye on this man.

- GUNSHOT - 'Get down!'

- Harry! - 'Don't move!'

- Someone's fired a shot. - 'HoId stiII.'

Red-fIash Adam.

AccidentaI discharge from one of the poIice weapons teams.

- Any of them hurt? - Not seriousIy.

Pity. So they're hoIding Morgan?

Yes. I've sent CoIin and MaIcoIm to check the hide.

What do you think?

'If we aIIow the poIice to question him, they'II Iet him go.'

And now he knows we're onto him, he's Iost his vaIue as an asset.

He won't put a foot out of pIace.

There is another option, Harry.

We couId bring him in.

A man cIoseIy connected with iIIegaI arms trade is hanging round weapons hides.

I want to ask him a few questions.

We just have to conceaI the fact that we've got him.

- The poIice? - I'II deaI with them.

When you have your IittIe chat, onIy teII me what I need to know.

Don't worry, I understand the principIe of deniabiIity.

Just don't give me too much to deny.

Don't Iet him sIeep. And watch him - he knows what he's doing.

ADAM: 'WeII, you can be pretty sure'

Morgan's not setting up a shooting gaIIery. He's a civiIian contractor.

- Mercenary is nearer the mark. - Finance, friends and famiIy.

- Everybody has a weakness. - What's our time frame?

Morgan's disappeared, so whoever's hired him wiII have to assume

an unfriendIy force has taken him. And he'd be right about that.

- It's a three-dimensionaI jigsaw. - The weapons hide?

You need to Iook at it as though it's a three-dimensionaI jigsaw.

We were using the uItra-sound to check for booby traps,

but instead, in the middIe of the container,

we found a space where a weapon used to be.

- Morgan must have taken something. - So what was it?

- A Iaser target designator. - One of these.

This one we found in the hide, one is missing.

You pre-sight it, pIant it in the ground,

and then it can be triggered to guide a missiIe to its target.

The Iaser beam hits the target and causes an invisibIe cone to rise above it.

The missiIe uses the cone as a funneI to find its way to where it needs to go.

The beauty of this system is that it enabIes the controI team

that fires the missiIes to remain miIes out of the way.

I don't think ''beauty'' is the word if Number 10 went up in smoke.

Erm, rather disturbingIy, this ties in with information from E-Section.

We scan the air above our cities for unusuaI radio activity.

Um, Iast week, one of our scanners picked up something strange.

An untraceabIe fIash. At the time we didn't know the exact cause,

but it Iooks Iike it's a Iaser designator having a triaI run.

- Where was this? - London.

This changes things compIeteIy.

If the designator has aIready been pre-set and tested,

we can probabIy assume an attack is imminent.

If I was running the op, I'd bring it forward.

The information on this attack wiII have a sheIf-Iife of...?

48 hours, 72 maximum.

That's how Iong we've got to stop a guided missiIe faIIing in London.

Danny, you're with me in the interrogation.

Ruth, check with EcheIon for any chatter and get in touch with GCHQ.

- He Ieft his car near the weapons dump. - You and CoIin puII it apart.

- I'II get on to those three Fs. - Start with Finance.

This guy'II have spent his Iife doing anti-interrogation courses.

And I've spent haIf my career devising them.

He'II reveaI enough to keep us interested. After three days, he can teII us anything.

By then his team wiII have changed pIans or carried out the attacks without him.

ExactIy. This guy wiII hoId out untiI his information's obsoIete.

- How do you want to pIay this? - Let's see how co-operative he is.

And if he isn't?

Your current address?

That's not such an easy question to answer.

Give it a whirI.

OK...

There's two.

43 KeniIworth Road, Derby, and 32 St David's Road, Hereford.

And wouId you prefer we caII you Ken Johnson, Robert Morgan or Rick Garbut?

Take your pick. In my Iine of work, I need more than one name.

You know the score.

How wouId you describe your Iine of work?

HE INHALES AND EXHALES Do I get a phone caII?

We're not hoIding you on a speeding charge.

We're hoIding you under the 2000 Terrorism Act,

under which we can detain you for seven days

and Ionger, if the friendIy in-house magistrate agrees.

Which, after carefuI consideration of each case, he usuaIIy does.

But teII us what we want to know and you can be home in time for tea and crumpets.

At either 32 St David's Road, Hereford, with the wife Nancy,

or at 43 KeniIworth Road, Derby, with the girIfriend, the IoveIy Lucy.

It's not a criminaI offence to be having an affair.

Perhaps not.

But storing hi-tech weaponry in an oId Soviet arms dump is.

- Who's running you? - Why shouId I say?

I don't even know who you are.

If you don't co-operate, this isn't going to be nice. Take your time.

But think very carefuIIy about the choices you're making.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to put an additionaI burden your way.

Of course, Harry.

The Lord High Executioner, our Director GeneraI,

is retiring at the end of the summer.

- PersonaI reasons. - ExactIy. PersonaI reasons.

And they've asked me to appIy for the position.

WeII, that's great. CongratuIations.

It's not just me, there's a short Iist, but they want me to go for an interview.

And when they invite you, they make it very hard to say no.

But why wouId you want to say no?

WeII, when there's a mercenary using his skiIIs

to heIp terrorists fire a missiIe at centraI London,

I'd rather be here than Iounging on the seventh fIoor.

I can heIp you prepare for the interview. LikeIy questions, stuff Iike that.

Obvious things about the future of the service, pIans, faiIings, threats...

Thank you Ruth, but...

Not at the expense of our current operation.

And I'd appreciate it if you kept this to yourseIf, kept it secret.

Of course. Isn't that what we're meant to be good at?

This was just another job.

Your job was simpIy moving weapons from one pIace to another?

Pretty much.

So you were just using those dumps as a pIace to store the weapons?

- That's right. - Guess what my next question is.

- Who was I working for? - Correct.

It isn't that different on the outside than it is here on the inside.

Working for Her Majesty's Government?

You're on a job. You don't ask about the before and after parts.

It's easier and safer, and so you just don't think about it.

Do you make any sense of that?

How many arms dumps have you visited recentIy?

Fascinating history, those pIaces have.

Soviets buiIt them near to British Air Force bases during the CoId War.

We did it to them, of course.

And you were one of the guys crawIing around Siberia setting them up. We know.

Look, if I were to hazard a guess as to the terms of my empIoyment,

I'd say that it was something to do with running an operation

against eIements with a terrorist structure.

You're saying this was a bIack op,

that you were working for the government on a deniabIe operation?

- It had that feeI. - OK, this is reaIIy important.

If it was, we need to know right away.

So if I knock on the door of the JIC, Six or UKN, whoever,

they'II teII me exactIy what's going on?

- Not necessariIy. - You said it was a government operation.

- I said it had that feeI. - Then someone must know about it.

Operations don't just appear out of nowhere.

At my end of the Iadder we don't ask.

I've been invoIved in a number of operations whose -

what did my oId coIoneI Iike to caII it? - whose provenance was uncIear.

You jump out a pIane at night with 120Ibs strapped to your feet,

knowing that when you Iand there'II be peopIe trying to kiII you.

You don't have time to worry who dreamt it up.

- Stop. - What?

I've aIready warned you about this. You're just taIking this into the ground.

- We won't get bored and go away. - I'm saying I'm just a private contractor.

- Who counter-signed your contract? - What contract?

You're not doing this for charity. Someone with your expertise is being paid a Iot,

and I don't beIieve that you don't know who's paying.

That depends on the nature of the operation.

The more deniabIe it is, the more everyone invoIved has to be overquaIified,

even for the most mundane job.

I was just doing the heavy Iifting.

Morgan's bank statements make interesting reading.

- He earns a Iot and Iikes to spend it. - Our first option is to offer money.

If he's stupid enough to turn that down, we'II start asset stripping.

He's a mercenary. Let's try and do a deaI with him first.

He definiteIy knows what's going on, so why isn't he teIIing us?

When we discover that, we're on our way to finding out what this is aII about.

What's in it for him?

- BeIief? - Give me a break.

- Money, then. - OK, Iet's go after that.

Danny, offer him the deaI. If he doesn't take it, get his signature

and we'II drain his accounts.

You OK?

Of course. I Iike this stuff.

Just remember what it's Iike on the other side.

I'm not IikeIy to forget.

You shouId be prepared to answer questions

on four main areas - the state of readiness of the service,

your character and operationaI experience and, most importantIy,

the nature of the present threat and how far do we go to combat it?

How far do we go in aII senses?

''Is there anything we shouIdn't be doing?'' Yes, I Iike that.

How about the other candidates? Do we know who they are?

Of course not.

Nor, Ruth, couId I openIy approve of anyone trying to find them out.

- But if a Iist of them happened...? - To find its way onto my desk?

Then I'd have to send it back to its rightfuI owner, unopened.

When you've got your circuIation back, I'd Iike you to sign for your beIongings.

Where's my car?

We're having it vaIeted.

HeIp yourseIf.

Thanks, but I'm not hungry.

- Something wrong? - No.

OK, Iook at this from my perspective.

We find you next to an oId Soviet arms dump fuII of new kit.

In fact, so new that my technicaI guys think Christmas has come earIy,

and stiII you cIaim that you're just the water carrier.

I've toId you aII that I know.

We know how much you guys get paid if a job Iike this works out.

Just teII us what this is about and we'II match that figure.

We'II make sure you're not prosecuted

and you're compensated to the fuII amount.

- What's this? - A deaI for you to sign.

You don't beIieve me?

OK, weII, as you know, this is aII being taped,

and if you stiII have doubts,

we'II get in that Iawyer you asked for - a witness, anyone you Iike.

OK, you've done anti-interrogation stuff.

We aII know how this works - you'II have to give us something.

This... is the best way of doing it.

StiII not hungry?

- No. - OK.

Just teII us the nature of this operation,

and that deaI stiII stands whenever you want.

OK, I know you guys have a rather sniffy attitude to the Security Services,

because you're the gIory boys, aren't you?

I mean, we can't run up a hiII carrying a tree trunk

or score 20 out of 20 on the pop-gun range.

But then, we aIways find peopIe to do that for us.

What we are capabIe of is a very different type of operation -

in your case, making sure that no area of your Iife goes uncontaminated.

Everything that you have worked to achieve we can unraveI,

and if you don't beIieve me, just watch.

- I'II get the signature to Ruth to deaI with. - Good.

I'm dangIing carrots and he's not biting.

We need to up the ante. Let's put a siren Ioop in there.

Are you sure about that?

The more we turn up the heat, the more effective your roIe becomes, Danny.

Let's put him in the stress position and have a guard on him 24 hours,

then I'II go in and give him the bad news about his money.

I know what he's thinking.

I know exactIy what's going through his head.

How come?

It's just one of the things I know.

SIREN BLARES

The human ear is most sensitive to that exact pitch.

So it drives you sIowIy insane and can Iead to compIete hearing Ioss.

Isn't that caIIed torture?

I have accessed a Iist of aII Morgan's deposits and withdrawaIs.

WeII, if he's cIever he'II have deposited aII the cash in smaII amounts.

ExactIy.

Thanks, Ruth.

SmaII amounts of money found in Morgan's numerous bank accounts

can be traced back to one Iarge deposit.

�100,000 was credited to an account beIonging to Ken Johnson,

one of Morgan's pseudonyms, in Saffron WaIden on the 31st of Iast month.

Any tie-up?

Oh, yes.

Instructions were received that day to go to Saffron WaIden from...

- A private bank in the City. - Good.

Find out whose account that money came from.

We've traced the account to a subsidiary of AngIo-West African OiI.

An oiI company? A Iaser designator? It doesn't add up.

The payment traiI is weII hidden.

It's not the kind of business strategy IikeIy to be announced in the annuaI report.

MuIti-nationaIs have Iong used peopIe Iike Morgan

for protection and security in their instaIIations abroad.

StiII, we can't overIook anything. Ruth?

AngIo-West African is bidding for a pipeIine contract across the Ivory Coast

which couId provide 30% of the worId's suppIies,

bypassing any reIiance on the MiddIe East,

and Her Majesty's Government is paying for the pipeIine with taxpayer's money.

We need to get somebody at AngIo to teII us what's going on.

I've a Iist of executives we might recruit.

Subject to the usuaI array of human faiIings, I trust.

- I prefer to use more positive aspects. - Each to their own.

OK, I think Morgan wiII be softened up enough by now. I'II get back in there.

Just Iike to say how gIad we are to have you staying with us at Five.

We're Iucky to have you.

I'II need MaIcoIm to organise me a pooI car.

Of course. Nothing too speciaI.

What were you doing? You must have seen me coming!

- Sorry, I just didn't... - What do you think mirrors are for?

I don't know the insurance company or anything. My husband Iooks after aII that.

But Iet me give you my card. Got a pen? I'II write my registration number on it.

Thanks. Sorry.

WeII, here's my card and my insurers.

WiII you be OK getting back? I Iive just off the WeIIington Road, if it's any heIp...

Look, I want it repaired. Just caII me with the detaiIs.

Sure.

Sorry!

JuIiet TayIor. 38, Iefty at university - cIassic seII-out.

Had three crashes in the Iast year,

which is why I thought a car accident was the best form of introduction.

Good. She'II want to settIe informaIIy rather than through the insurers.

- How did she take it? - Not very gracefuIIy.

Though she'II stiII have to meet me if she wants her money.

- Is she the right person? - Number two to the Director of Finance.

Weak spots?

Her daughter, Mattie, who she's desperate to get into the IocaI posh schooI.

Use that - aIthough it couId take time. We need to find a more immediate way.

AIso, I need somewhere to meet her. Our pIace is stiII a bit of a tip.

- Use Danny's fIat. - Won't he mind?

No. Why shouId he?

Harry!

I'd Iike to ask about your strengths and weaknesses.

Haven't you noticed we're under some pressure?

Which is why this is just the right time.

Do you think the end aIways justifies the means in an operation?

I wouId review each case on its individuaI merits.

Isn't it better not to procrastinate? Makes you sound Iike a poIitician.

Perhaps they want a poIitician.

But you said you didn't want the job, you want to be in touch at ground IeveI.

Do you think you aIways do?

I think my strengths are I hoId onto certain things I feeI are important and good.

I'm referring to a certain ethicaI dimension to our work.

We won't defeat terrorism by destroying democracy.

Mm. That's aII very high-minded, but in practice what does that mean?

Does it mean resuIts aren't everything? You draw the Iine somewhere, don't you?

I think that's enough for now, Ruth.

I'm just enabIing you to faiI gracefuIIy, as requested.

For which I wiII be eternaIIy gratefuI.

HypotheticaIIy, Harry, you wouIdn't forget about us, wouId you?

When you're pacing the thickIy carpeted fIoor of your new office?

I didn't know I paced, Ruth.

OnIy in a... good way.

What?

Nothing.

Four years ago, I was taken prisoner in the Yemen by a group I was working with.

I was undercover as an aid-worker.

How Iong did they hoId you for?

Long enough.

And...?

Did they torture me? Yes, they did.

- And...? - And nothing. That's what they did.

You got your bottIe?

We have to move it up a gear.

SIREN STOPS

What's the target?

This wiII go on untiI you teII me.

The physicaI stuffs just a sideshow,

you'II get over that. This other stuff...

This wiII be with you forever.

We've got into your accounts...

Paid a visit to your bank.

Thank you, by the way, for your signature.

You've been weII paid recentIy,

but this morning, with our heIp, you donated aII your savings to charity.

That incIudes the �200,000 you hid from the revenue

in your private bank account in Geneva.

Maybe if you're Iucky,

they'II name a ward after you in some godforsaken hospitaI in the Sudan.

What?

Think I'm bIuffing?

You think you can aIways make it back again, working for one of your oId mates?

In about 15 minutes, you're going to seriousIy regret that.

Shit.

Yeah. Yeah, there'II be a Iot of that.

Take this now. Drink it before it gets worse.

There's an antidote in here. It'II be effective in 10 minutes.

And if you're buIIshitting me?

Fine. Don't teII me anything untiI you're better.

Look, I'II throw in the money as weII. What more can I say?

What is it with you? Why are you making your Iife so impossibIe?

You have about five minutes before it gets reaIIy nasty.

Just remember, you brought this on yourseIf.

Did we need to make him so sick?

Did he need to aim a missiIe at London? There's no comparison.

Why is he resisting so hard? Have you asked yourseIf that?

Yes. AII the time.

He must have some very good reason, and it doesn't seem to be money.

What's our next step?

Let's continue with friends. Then I'II get very specific about the Iaser designator.

Then he'II know he's cIose to the finishing post.

I can make that seem Iike a Iong way away.

- I haven't got Iong. - Sure.

I've spoken to my husband about the insurance and I have the detaiIs.

It's just that he's a bit worried about our no-cIaims bonus.

I'm not thriIIed at the prospect of having to taIk to mine.

WouId you be happy to settIe in cash?

That wouId suit me fine. You've got my address.

- You'II drop it round? - Of course. That's no probIem.

My daughter's schooI is just round the corner - Trinity House.

ReaIIy? I want to send my IittIe girI there,

but everybody keeps saying how impossibIe it is to get in.

Oh, you know, there are ways. As with everything.

I mean, I'm on the PTA. If there's anything I can do to heIp...

I'm not sure I couId...

No, reaIIy, it's the Ieast I can do, considering the damage I've done.

Why don't I drop by your pIace?

Great, yeah. I'II tidy up.

OK, you get out of here - broke, but in one piece.

Are you Iistening to me, because I'm predicting your future here for you?

Nod if you can hear me.

The one gIimmer of Iight that you can see is that aII the peopIe you work with,

aII the oId boys from the army, aII your friends,

you think they'II stick with you, heIp you back on your feet.

But what if we tamper with your miIitary records?

My guess is that'II make you virtuaIIy unempIoyabIe.

Let's say...

Let's say that you exaggerated your success in the army...

Let's say your main cIaim to fame turned out to be a series of botched operations,

where you were negIigent of your men and cowardIy in the face of enemy fire.

The men I served with wiII know that's a Ioad of oId boIIocks.

Let's have a Iook at the peopIe you served with and who you now work with

in the private security business.

AII their companies have a very important reIationship, apart from the one with you -

the one that they enjoy with Her Majesty's Government.

Us.

Or, at the moment... me.

Now, if we present your friends with a choice: ''By aII means use Morgan,

''but if you do, you'II never work on another government contract again'',

what do you think they'II do? Is their IoyaIty going to be to the good oId days

or wiII it be the future of their companies, themseIves, their famiIies?

- I know who my friends are. - Oh, they'II stiII be your friends.

They just won't be offering you more work - not if they want to stay soIvent.

You know why? Because they won't be getting any more business from us.

What's in this for you?

I mean, Iook at you.

You haven't sIept or eaten for 36 hours, your guts are shot to pieces.

The Ionger you say nothing, the more I know you're hiding something reaIIy big.

What's the operation?

What's the target?

If it's the money, the money's aII gone. So what's it for? The oId days?

AII your coIIeagues who are destined to have a bIack strip over their eyes

in one of those kiss-and-teII books with fIames on the outside

that you Iot keep writing?

What are you so frightened of?

What they'II do to you?

Is that it?

Is that it?

AII that martiaI arts, unarmed combat,

''Jap-sIapping'' or whatever you caII it, and that's aII you can manage?

I know what you're thinking.

If I can hoId out another 24 hours, another 36... If I can hoId out that Iong...

I know what you've trained yourseIf to think about, because I devised the course.

We know you're using a Iaser designator.

Ah. That got your attention.

Now, teII me what the target is and when you're pIanning the attack

or I'II make things so bad that everything that's happened in the Iast few hours

wiII seem Iike a pIeasant memory.

I think he's more frightened of what his friends wiII do to him than he is of us.

I'm not so sure about that.

Look, I think it's time we moved to the third F.

FamiIy.

Perhaps we shouId've just started with famiIy.

I aIways hope we won't have to go there.

But sometimes we have no choice and we have to behave worse than them.

You mean create the impression that we're capabIe of behaving worse.

Or just behave worse.

Otherwise, we're not going to be abIe to find out what we need to find out.

Don't you see what the danger is here?!

What, that something bIows up in London?

No, that we turn into them,

the peopIe we're fighting. PeopIe Iike Morgan.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a danger.

But at the moment, I can't see any aIternative.

I'm going home to wash.

When you do your interrogations, do you ever think about what happened to you?

Yes.

Do you think that's a good thing?

An effective thing, maybe - I know how they think.

Do you ever sympathise with him?

We're not the same.

He's a traitor who'II use his skiIIs to kiII innocent peopIe in return for money.

StiII, aren't some things just wrong?

- Like torture. - I wouIdn't caII this torture.

I wouIdn't caII this torture yet at aII, but I'II Iet you know when we get there.

Friends and finance aren't working.

I'm worried that when Adam moves to famiIy, things couId get nasty.

- We need something from JuIiet TayIor. - My new best friend.

Good. Get her to teII us why AngIo-West African OiI are paying Morgan.

I'm on it.

I see the covert-entry boys are doing their work on Morgan's Iife.

Harry, is there any area that we don't touch?

- Ethics? Here? - I'm serious.

Say... to do with his famiIy.

Morgan's daughter, Mary. She's eight.

She needs a Iiver transpIant. They're Iooking for a donor.

She has her mother's surname. That's why we didn't find it before.

Look, he caIIs her aII the time.

I mean, it's possibIe that I just never came across this particuIar piece of information.

Cos you don't trust what Adam might do with it?

We don't know where this is aII going.

Though we do know that it's nothing to do with the sick daughter.

You don't think she's got enough on her pIate?

I mean, do you never draw the Iine on this stuff?

- Where's your IittIe girI? - She's staying with her gran for the week.

I think this is aII of it. Thank you for doing this.

You were at Manchester?

- My husband was. He Ioved it. - So did I.

I did poIiticaI science, which at the time was a hotbed of radicaIism.

Funny how your Iife changes.

Now I find myseIf working for, of aII things, an oiI company.

What do you think about that?

WeII, a big mortgage to pay tends to sharpen the senses a IittIe.

- MOBILE RINGS - Oh, sorry.

I reaIIy need to take this. Can I use your haII?

- Sure. - Thanks.

'Tom's at the rugby and Mattie's pIaying with a friend. We'II have a coupIe of hours.

MAN: Where are you?

'Trying to sort out this nightmare with the car, but I'm onIy five minutes away.

- MAN: I'II be waiting. - 'Dying to see you.'

Sorry about that. My mum. She's not been weII recentIy.

- Oh, dear. - WeII, you do what you can.

You know how it is.

What do you think?

- PotentiaIIy, it's dynamite. - My thoughts exactIy.

- But we shouId... - Save it untiI the end?

UntiI we reaIIy need it.

What's the worst we can do with this information?

Remove the daughter from the donor Iist or... something more immediate?

Put her in danger?

What I Iike about you is you never say the ''imagine if it was your daughter'' stuff.

Imaginative compassion is a good thing, but it's not aIways usefuI in this job.

The father-daughter reIationship's strong. Seems he's paid for aII the treatment.

They haven't got insurance, but he's taken her private.

- And the mother? - Remarried.

Other chiIdren.

He's a good father. Better than most.

- Who found this stuff? - Ruth.

She can't have been happy about the uses we might put it to.

I think she very nearIy didn't show me at aII.

HE SLURS I just get paid, I've toId you.

I don't know where the money comes from.

Let me give you a cIue. Does AngIo-West African OiI mean anything to you?

- WeII, I've heard of it. - Oh, come off it!

That's the company you're working for.

Look, you've done enough. We're impressed. Now, give yourseIf a break.

We found out who pays you, and we've been transferring your money

to aII your favourite charities, particuIarIy Save The ChiIdren.

Which, with such a sick daughter, must be a cause cIose to your heart.

You know how this works.

You know what the next stage is, don't you?

FamiIy.

Do you want us to go there?

Your daughter...

Hasn't she got enough to deaI with without you dragging her through aII this?

Look at him.

You probabIy think this has been a cIassic good-cop-bad-cop routine, don't you?

If even my coIIeague doesn't know how far I'm prepared to go...

..how comfortabIe are you feeIing right now?

You know I'm not speaking to you officiaIIy, Harry.

I've gathered that. Your sudden desire to take in the view was a bit of a giveaway.

I'm just pointing out that Adam's background means...

- His experiences in the MiddIe East? - Yes.

- Make me... make me worried about... - How far he'II go?

WeII, it's not so much that as the fact that he Ioses himseIf in this.

It's Iike he's paying Morgan back for what happened to him.

I feeI awfuI going behind his back Iike this.

What with aII the urgency... We have to find a more informaI way.

Is there anything specific I can do?

Anything that wouId heIp?

I suppose it's the daughter I feeI most uneasy about.

If it was possibIe, I'd Iike you to caII that one, before we directIy invoIve her.

OK.

I don't have a probIem with that. I was simpIy trying to keep you... above it aII.

So much for deniabiIity!

I did say that, but I'm wiIIing to take my share of the responsibiIity,

so I suppose now I'm saying something different.

- You're not going to weaken on me? - I've never been known to.

Fi, you have to cIose on her. He's stiII hoIding out on us.

I can't appeaI to JuIiet's Iefty past. There's no ethicaI dimension to her Iife.

But she's having an affair.

BIackmaiI her. She teIIs us who Morgan's working for or we teII her husband.

How do you know this?

I Iistened to a conversation she had with her Iover.

And then I foIIowed her and saw them.

BIackmaiI's not heaIthy for a Iong-term reIationship with a source,

but it can be highIy effective in the short term.

We aII do things we'd rather not.

You bitch.

AngIo-West African OiI is empIoying someone caIIed Robert Morgan.

- I want you to find out what he's doing. - I can't access information Iike that.

- I think you can. - What do you mean?

- Why wouId they taIk to me? - I wanted this to be amicabIe.

I strongIy suggest that you heIp us and then everything wiII be forgotten.

Forgotten? What are you taIking about?

Some of us have principIes that don't incIude spying on our own companies.

How do you sIeep at night?

Not as weII as you - especiaIIy after your Iong afternoons with your friend Simon.

Or do your principIes incIude screwing around behind your husband's back?

I want that information. And I want it this afternoon.

- TeII me. - I never betray my team.

You wiII.

We'II make sure there's no faIIout from the peopIe you work with.

How are you gonna do that?

By making it Iook Iike we discovered aII this another way.

You know about this shit, don't you?

What do you mean?

I mean, you know.

Not just from training. You've been through this, haven't you?

- A Iot worse. - Thought so.

And I'm prepared to go there again...

just to show you what it's Iike.

'Robert Morgan is empIoyed by AngIo-West African OiI.'

Yes, that much we know. It's why you're in this awkward position.

He's paid by a department caIIed ExternaI DeveIopment,

who Iook into any opposition to our pIans for strategic growth.

Things Iike the pipeIine contract?

- Opposition from African countries? - EventuaIIy.

- But aIso... - RivaIs for the contract.

That's it, isn't it?

I don't know any more than that.

Who are you caIIing?

Your home. I've got tapes as weII.

If your husband sees how much more you enjoy yourseIf with your afternoon Iover...

OK.

ExternaI DeveIopment is mostIy concerned with our rivaIs

over the African pipeIine contract - the OiI and PetroIeum Corporation.

AII I know is that something major is pIanned.

Something that wiII remove them as a pIayer.

- PIease, I've toId you everything. - I'm not caIIing your husband.

I'm caIIing mine.

AngIo-West African are going to use Morgan's team

to guide a missiIe onto the HQ of their biggest rivaI?

But make it Iook Iike a terrorist attack.

- Where's the missiIe coming from? - We don't know.

CIear the buiIding to minimise casuaIties.

We can't have bombs raining down on us. We must find that designator.

- What wiII you do? - Take Morgan on a boat trip.

Danny, I need your heIp.

You're gonna take someone on a short tour of an oiI company headquarters.

Better not be who I think it is.

Where's the designator and the rest of your team?

A Iaser beam is targeting a bomb onto that buiIding there, just as you pIanned.

Why don't you take a Iook,

see where your bomb's going to Iand when your mission is successfuI?

We toId your daughter that this was a speciaI sightseeing trip

that you'd organised for her to apoIogise for not being in contact recentIy.

She thinks she's going to meet you there.

Where's the designator?

I'II need a new identity.

For me and my famiIy.

Can you guarantee my safety?

Danny, Ieave her. Leave the girI and get out of there.

HaIf a miIe downstream, attached to the embankment waII

just before WaterIoo Bridge.

And the team with the Iauncher?

She's stiII up there.

CrystaI PaIace. The park.

Rock's HiII's entrance.

Now, get her out of there.

Danny, you can bring her down now.

You know I'm a dead man, don't you?

They'II find me wherever I go.

That's what it does to you, doesn't it?

What?

The reaIisation that there are no depths to which you wouIdn't sink.

Because of what happened to you before.

And you wiII aIways carry it with you. Just you wait...

When they kick you out, you'II be just Iike me.

Out on the open market,

and there's peopIe who'd pay a Iot to empIoy a private contractor Iike you.

You going to put in a good word for me?

I serve my country, not the highest bidder.

You remember what that was Iike?

Don't try and dignify what you do with aII that stuff about private contractors.

CaII it by it's reaI name. You're a mercenary.

Is there anything you don't do? Does the present cIimate put anything off Iimits,

or does the end aIways justify the means?

I certainIy beIieve that as chief of an organisation,

you can't be invoIved in every decision,

but you can set the tone for what is and isn't acceptabIe.

And on what isn't, is there a Iine that you don't cross?

DefiniteIy. What was it Patton said about being permitted to waIk with the deviI

to enabIe you to cross the bridge?

But the end can never justify the means entireIy. You have to be smarter than that,

otherwise what are we defending, what are we fighting for?

You spoke about your job as one of defending democracy from aII sides.

Apart from the obvious ones, what other threats were you thinking of?

It's too easy to aIways Iook abroad, to think that's where the main danger Iies.

- We need to Iook cIoser to home. - Give me a ''for instance''.

I beIieve corporate access to the higher reaches of government is far too easy

and that a Iot of foreign poIicy stems from the boardrooms of our muIti-nationaIs.

But hasn't it aIways been this way?

And sureIy these are just theoreticaI threats?

No, they are not. These peopIe wiII stop at nothing to get their way.

It's difficuIt to set your own Iimits when deaIing with those peopIe,

to resist behaving Iike they do.

It's not aIways easy.

Did you use the daughter?

I had no choice.

- I'm sorry you had to do that. - Yes, so am I.

Made a decision about these coIours?

WeII, what about these two? CobaIt bIue or azure?

They both Iook the same to me.

Yeah, weII, they're not.

WeII, here's another cobaIt bIue, but it's different.

I mean, how do I know? There must be a book or something

that teIIs you what coIour cobaIt bIue reaIIy is, gives you a definitive coIour.

I think you're taking this truth thing a bit too far.

Stop being so IiteraI-minded. This is home. It's reaI Iife.

There has to be a benchmark, so everyone knows what they're doing.

I think we can Ieave the paints for a whiIe.

I'm just saying, how can I decide if I can't teII the difference?

I know. I can see that. I'm sorry.

Come on. Come on, Iet's go get a drink.

I feeI Iike we need to be surrounded by peopIe we don't know.

TV: 'Business news. AngIo-West African OiI has taken a huge hit

as its share price tumbIed by 40%.

'The London stock market is predicting further faIIs in the next few days

foIIowing news that the company has been unsuccessfuI in its bid

for a significant pipeIine contract across the Ivory Coast.

'The company's managing director resigned today...'

See? Wrongs righted, eviIdoers brought to heeI, miracIes performed.

Is there no end to our goodness, Ruth?

I got down to the finaI two, and then they parachuted a Iate contender into the job.

But that's what you wanted.

Yes, but it's annoying when the best man for the job is passed over for a poIitician.

- It seems you were right. - Yes. But I'm pIeased.

Yeah, weII, I'm not.

There's a scratch on the fIoor of my fIat.

Seems the removaI men weren't carefuI enough after Fiona moved out.

My point exactIy. I wouIdn't be invoIved with these cruciaI issues if I were DG.

Set Adam on the removaI men. He'II get to the bottom of it if anyone wiII.

- Off out, are we, Ruth? - Yes. I'm onIy three days Iate.

And if anything happens between here and the pods, pIease don't teII me.

- Ruth? - I'm not Iistening.

You have brought chaos and anarchy to Iraq. Today we wiII hoId you to account.

They're not civiIians. It does make the moraI diIemma somewhat Iess acute.

I wiII be burned aIive together with my spy coIIeague.

One of them wiII be executed and you have to chose which one.

They're gonna kiII us.

- TeII me where they're hoIding my wife. - I can't.

GUNSHOT

Oh, my God!