All language subtitles for Secret.City.S01E06

[chattering]

-[Toohey] What's she doing?
-Special privileges. Mother's request.

She thinks Dunkley's dissident story
got Sabine back.

Did it?

[airplane door opens]

-[man 1] Sabine!
-[man 2] Sabine!

[all clamoring]

-Sabine!
-Sabine!

-Sabine, how do you feel?
-How were the conditions, Sabine?

[Mrs. Hobbs] Sabine, it's Mum. Mum's here.

It's okay. It's all right, sweetheart.

-I'll take her.
-[woman 1] Over here!

-Sabine, over here.
-Sabine, come on.

Hello, Sabine. I'm Martin Toohey.
It's good to have you back.

What's it like to be back
on Australian soil?

There's more people this time.

[man 3] Were you tortured, Ms. Hobbs?

Time to go, sweetie. I'll call you.

[woman 2] Over this way.

-[man 4] Where are you taking Sabine?
-[man 5] Prime minister?

-[man 4] Where are they taking her?
-[woman 2] Any comment?

[man 6] Has there been any change--?

Did she just say
there's more people here this time?

[car starts]

[groans]

Was wondering when you'd come back.

I need to take a shower.

Yeah, I've got an early start, too.

We could save on water.

[chuckles]

Sounds environmentally friendly.

I'll be there in a second.

[sighs]

[shower running]

Have I ruined your marriage?

No, the marriage is great...
when there's a continent between us.

[cell phone beeping]

Is Sabine giving you an exclusive?

Yeah. I'm seeing her
at Maconochie Correctional.

I've been senior on this for months.

So, why you and not me?

Moral compass?

-Morning.
-Morning.

[Sasha] It's from Mrs. Dalgetty.

[Dan on recording]
Hey, Mr. and Mrs. D, it's Dan,

coming to you from Virginia
in the good old U.S. of A.

It's different compared to Georgetown,
but the people are friendly,

and the computers are fast.
Max would've really liked it.

Anyway, I hope you're both well.

I promise to come and visit
when I get back home, whenever that is.

Don't do that to me.

[chuckles]

Some cutting-edge technology there, I see.

Dan White, a.k.a. Max Dalgetty.

He used to send cassette tapes
to Max's parents.

From Langley, Virginia.

As in CIA.

The CIA target and recruit hackers
all the time.

Young prodigies.

What if Dan White wasn't a dissident?

What if he was working off the books
for one of ours?

Could've been with one of the listeners.

NSA, ASD.

Yeah. Everything points to ASD.

Maybe it's got nothing to do with Zheng.

I disposed of Dan White's body
at the request of ASD.

-You tell me this now?
-Well, now it's significant.

I thought it was a cleanup.
I didn't realize it was a cover-up.

If Dan White's an operative,
he had to have been vetted by ASIO.

Which means there's a file.

And even if I got it,
you couldn't publish it.

Oh, this is so far beyond publishing.

This is about Kim.

I need to see that file.

-It's all set to record.
-Thanks so much. Perfect.

Thanks for seeing me.

Shall we just start?

[beeps]

My mum says she trusts you.

She thinks that my article about
the illegal abduction of dissidents

helped to force Beijing
into a prisoner deal.

Sabine, at the air base, you said,
"There are more people here this time."

Are you saying yesterday wasn't
your first real homecoming?

I think I've been home for weeks.

Doesn't make any sense.

After the trial, they sedated me
for a two-hour flight.

Told me it was a transfer
from Qincheng to Harbin.

But I think it was to Australia.

Why?

The man on the plane escorting me
spoke Mandarin,

but his accent was wrong.

-It doesn't really prove anything.
-I know.

But then I heard a magpie.

They don't have magpies
in Heilongjiang Province.

[door opens]

If China handed you over a month ago,

why wouldn't
the government announce it?

And what was the bargain?
We know what was in it for Toohey.

-So, what was in it for China?
-I don't know.

Um...

I'm sorry. I'm not feeling very well.

Where is that media officer?

The dissidents?

We give MSS free rein to act
with impunity on Australian soil,

to disappear anti-China dissidents
while we close our eyes to it?

-Sorry.
-Sabine, did you know?

-Hello, are you still there?
-Sabine.

Did they make you name names, Sabine?

-Kevin Dang? Qiu Kwan Sing?
-[woman] That's enough.

-[woman] That's enough.
-Sabine.

I'll send you the audio file.

I just wanted to talk to my mum.

[woman] Just this way.

To Cerberus.

I thought this was supposed
to be a celebration.

Now that the shackles are off Sabine,

we need Toohey boots and all
in favor of the military buildup.

The president's eager to get you guys
into the game.

We'd need full inter-operability,
land, sea and air.

With key personnel
in the chain of command.

And our new defense chief working
hand in glove with your general.

[Brent grunts]

Until then, Brent, rest assured,
I'll be your point person.

Good. And what about
your defense minister?

-I'll handle him.
-[Brent chuckles]

Not for me, thanks, George.
I have somewhere I have to be.

My grandson's in town.

I didn't know you had children.

-[Paul] Me neither.
-[chuckles]

Ollie, why don't you go
and feed the ducks? Hm?

[sighs]

-Grandma, there are no ducks.
-Well, persevere, Ollie.

Don't let disappointment stop you
from trying.

There you go.

Grandma's got to work now, okay?

[line ringing]

We've been rat-fucked.

[Harriet] Sorry.

-Bryce.
-Harriet.

I've brought Bryce up to speed.

Now, this claim by the Hobbs girl.

On whose authority was
she secretly detained in Australia?

-Uh, if not government, then agency.
-It's supposed to be the same thing.

Has there been a coup
nobody told me about?

-Bryce has run it by the lawyers.
-[Harriet] And?

Well, any publishing of this claim
comes directly

under Section 35P of the ASIO Act.

And any breach of the ASIO Act
constitutes an offense

with a presumption against bail

and, under the special powers
of Safer Australia, a charge of treason.

Treason? I'm writing an article,
not killing a sovereign.

The legislation is,
if nothing else, Kafkaesque.

But this is a newspaper,
with a proud history of reporting

without fear or favor any conspiracy
of malfeasance, official or otherwise.

It will be seen as an attack
on national security.

By exposing an abuse of executive power.

You'll have to ask Catriona Bailey
for comment.

We do that, she gets an injunction.
Kills the story.

If you publish, they'll charge you.
A freshly minted law like Safer Australia,

believe me,
the government will be keen to prosecute.

So, let them.
My ex has been murdered.

I've been shot at,
my apartment's been ransacked.

Getting them into court may be
our only hope of getting to the truth.

And how many crippling legal bills

do you think this paper will pay for you?

So, what story can we publish?

Uh...

A deeply traumatized Australian girl
with third-degree burns

thought she heard a magpie
in a Chinese prison.

We're done.

Where did you find that?

[Dancer] I was packing.
It was in one of the boxes.

Well, it's supposed to be private.

Yeah. And so is this.

You only brought this because you know

that they're not gonna let me
print the story.

Well, that, and to help find out
who killed Kim.

-And will this help?
-It proves that Dan White was ASD.

Working for Vaughn.
And, ultimately, Paxton.

If Kim was killed
as part of Dan White's cover-up,

it's more than likely one of ours
than China's.

You look like you were in love.

Till death do us part.

There's just got to be some way
for me to get this story out, Dancer.

Just rattle the cage.

[sighs] Yeah, you do that
and they'll put you in one.

Kim risked everything for it.

-I need a drink. You?
-Yeah.

[door closes]

I've got Dan White,
a.k.a. Max Dalgetty's file.

He was undercover, on the payroll.

I'm late.

If I don't catch the last flight,
Wendy will kill me.

We can't let these people silence us.
We have to get them in front of a judge.

I live in the real world,
where the editor-in-chief makes his call

and you die a little inside
but live to fight another day.

Your approved article's
been uploaded online. End of story.

Yeah, but I accidentally sent
the wrong version

and it's riddled with errors.

So, um, we need to get the correct one
uploaded as soon as possible

before the tabloids get ahold
and have a field day.

Yeah, you can try
and get in touch with Reardon,

but he's on a plane.
By the time he lands, it'll be a circus.

You're a lifesaver. Thank you.

You should have it now.

[car starts]

Turn it off, Howie.
I have to go back inside.

[rock music playing quietly over earbuds]

Hello, Thomas.

So, you've seen it?

-Do you know what you've done?
-Yeah. I've published my last article.

The paper will cut me loose,
I'll get sent to prison.

But until then,

in the last hours of freedom
I've got left,

I am gonna find out
who killed Kim and why.

I can't help you.

I know you'll run to Vaughn
because you've done it before.

There's blood on your hands, Thomas.

It's why you can't sleep at night.

It's why you can't look me in the eye.

[sighs]

Okay, look, all I know

is she traced the second SIM
after Vaughn shut her down,

then she used my computer
to steal Vinegar Hill off ASD.

What is that?

It's a classified decryption program.

-Vaughn knew?
-Yeah. He wasn't happy.

Vaughn's never happy,
but this took it to another level.

-And this was the day Kim died?
-No, that's the day before.

There's a 24-hour period
that's unaccounted for?

I figure she went off-site
to decrypt the SIM.

Even with Vinegar Hill,
a file like that could take hours.

-Even days sometimes.
-Thomas,

I need you to access the ASD vehicle logs.

Okay, what am I looking for?

See if there were any agency vehicles
checked out by Vaughan

on the day that Kim was killed.

No, I could lose my job.

Not if you're as good as Kim said.

Hey, Dancer, it's me.
I think I know who we're looking for.

[Toohey] How the fuck does
an employee of ASD

end up gutted on the banks
of Lake Burley Griffin

and I find out about it
from Harriet Dunkley?

It's one thing to lie to the press
and the public

but to lie to me?

Dan White was a covert operation
undisclosed at ministerial level.

You're not gonna tell me you didn't know.

-We're looking into it, sir.
-Do that.

Meanwhile, the Federal Police has issued
a warrant for Dunkley's arrest.

The woman is unstable and friendless.

She isn't entirely friendless though,
is she, Catriona?

You've been backgrounding her for months.

On nothing of consequence, Martin.

So, you're happy to throw her
under the bus, then?

-Keep this under the radar, Vaughn.
-I'll take care of it, sir.

Now... Sabine Hobbs.

The story's a beat-up, Martin.
Conspiracy-theory twaddle.

We're talking about a traumatized girl
who's been through an ordeal,

and who, let's face it,
was obviously barking mad

to set herself alight in the first place.

My director general, Paul Wheeler,
has reassured me personally.

He flew to China to collect Sabine.

Really?

Well, then how is it
that this RAAF Hercules manifest

says that that plane took off
from Fairbairn

carrying the same number of passengers
it landed with

after circling the eastern seaboard
for 11 hours?

Because... Vice Admiral Hartzig...

falsified that document

in return for your guaranteeing her
chief of defense.

I haven't signed off on anyone
for chief of defense, let alone Hartzig.

[Ludie] It goes to Cabinet next week.

My office. Now.

-What?
-Hartzig got ahold of the manifest.

-So, we pin it on McAuliffe.
-They can't kill McAuliffe twice.

You co-signed the order, Paul.
I can't protect you.

[chuckles] Catriona...

You're going to have to fall
on your sword.

Paxton's drawn blood,
Toohey needs a body, and it has to be you.

[in Chinese] Beijing wants you
to return immediately.

-[in Chinese] Why?
-You've been compromised.

We all have.

-[Sean] Hi.
-Hi.

Handing yourself in?

-The warrant's out already?
-Yeah, come in.

Thanks.

-Yeah, I know what this is about.
-You do?

You're looking at five to ten,
and couldn't face

not knowing
what it'd be like to sleep with me.

What is that?

I just got back from the range.
My son likes to pin them on his wall.

[cell phone beeps]

Good news?

Vaughn used an ASD fleet vehicle,
a black SUV, the day Kim was killed.

The next morning, it was booked in
for a cleaning and detail.

I've just sent you the rego,
so you can check it

against the CCTV footage
en route to Mount Ainslie.

What's going on, Dunkley?

The 24 hours before Kim's body
was found are unaccounted for.

She wasn't at ASD.

She stole their decryption software
so that she could crack a file on the SIM

to find out
what Dalgetty was cut open for.

She went off-site,
somewhere that they couldn't find her.

Any ideas? You knew her best.

Not sure that I did.

Gareth Robbie might have.

I've got the credit-card details
from his motels,

where he and Kim met.

[sighs]

-Is this legit or did you doctor it?
-Told you I'm good.

Well, it's good to know
that if we're confronted by a paper man,

with a target on his chest,
you have us covered.

Dancer?

[shrieks]

No!

[Harriet panting]

No.

-[rustling]
-[gasps]

[Dancer over phone] Harriet?

Dancer, someone's trying to kill me.

I'm in the bathroom.

-Are you at Kim's?
-Please, can you help me?

Hang on, I'm coming.

Stay on the phone. Stay with me.

-Harriet? Harriet!
-Too late.

-It's too late!
-Harriet!

No. No. No.

[door slams]

[Dancer] Harriet? Harriet!

Okay.

[Dancer groans]

Okay. It's okay.

You're gonna be okay.

[panting]

You need to disappear, Harriet.
Get on a plane.

You're not safe here.

Where would I go?

Croatia. Morocco, Costa Rica?

As in no extradition treaty?

You think the Federal Police
would let me skip the country?

I can arrange a passport for you.

[in English] Beijing has summoned me back.

I know you've been running Bailey.

-I don't know what you're talking about.
-Don't lie.

This one's a burner.

I used it to send a fake text
to my phone from Hartzig.

In less than 24 hours,

the same false information came
from Catriona Bailey's mouth.

You'll return to Beijing a failure.

And we all know
how tolerant Beijing is of failures.

I fly out tonight.
I just wanted to say goodbye.

You could defect to the U.S.

They'd set you up
in the China Studies Program at Harvard.

A quiet life of academia
in exchange for MSS state secrets.

I'd be shot
before I reached embassy gates.

Let me make a few calls.

[in Chinese] Goodbye.

[sighs]

Here, if you need me.
I'm gonna go sort out your passport.

-You wait here.
-Thank you.

[speaking in Spanish]

[groans]

[cell phone buzzing]

-Sasha Rose.
-It's Harriet.

Whatever you do, don't come in.

They're going through your stuff.

That's why I need you
to do something for me.

I need you to log onto the server,

and in the reference library
there's a file

of a speech given in Mandarin
by ASD Director Vaughn,

at the International Terrorism Conference
last month.

When you've got it,

can you e-mail it to me, care of
Media Liaison at Maconochie Prison?

-Okay.
-Thank you.

No, thank you.

You've taught me a lot.

Oh, thanks, Sasha.

Mostly what not to do, but still.

-Goodbye.
-Bye.

Hannah Duncan, your new passport.

Now let's get you a plane ticket.

I need to see Sabine Hobbs.

You will call when you land?

[car starts]

I need to stop by the university
on the way.

[beeps]

[sighs]

[Dancer] This is crazy.

I mean, everyone's trying
to lock you up in here

-and here you are, walking in by choice.
-Yeah.

Well, you promise you'll come visit me?

-What, here or Costa Rica?
-Well, Costa Rica, preferably.

Go, go. I'll get the ticket.

I'll meet you here
and we'll go to the airport.

[Harriet] Bye.

I won't be long.

Open the door.

[speaks in Chinese]

[sobbing]

[Harriet] Sabine,
I want to play this for you,

and I want you to tell me
if this is the voice you recognize.

Okay.

[Vaughn in Chinese]
The Australian Signals Directorate

provides foreign signals intelligence
to the Australian Defense Force.

No, that's not him.

He had a really specific accent.

Are you sure?

Can you just keep listening?

[Vaughn continues in Chinese]

[applause on tablet]

[man speaking in Chinese]

That's him.

That's the voice.

The voice from the plane from Beijing?

That's him.

Harriet?

Do you know who he is?

-Guard.
-Harriet? Harriet, tell me.

Guard. Guard.

Guard, can you let me out, please? Guard?

She doesn't pose a threat.
She's been sacked and discredited.

She'll be out of the country
by the end of the day.

That won't shut her up.
She'll write a blog or something.

And she'll be one more
hysterical conspiracy theorist

saying the sky is falling.

We don't want another body, Paul.

Make sure you don't fuck this one up.

Come on.

Brimmer. Brimmer, forget Vaughn.
It's not Vaughn.

I know, Harri. I found the laptop.
You're gonna want to see what's on it.

-The Dalgetty SIM?
-Yeah.

Video file.

The Chinese filmed
Sabine Hobbs' handover.

In case we reneged on the deal.

That or blackmail.

You're never gonna believe
who they handed her over to.

No, I know. I know who.

[quietly] I'm with him now. Listen...

[whispers indistinctly]

Come on, you don't want
to miss your flight.

[man] Thank you. Here you go.

-Where's your gun?
-I left it in the car. Save time.

I'll drive. I, uh, know a shortcut.

Baudelaire was right.

The finest trick of the devil is
to persuade you that he doesn't exist.

But I know, Catriona.

And I know you've never read Baudelaire.

The genius of you...

is that you've been spying for China
for years

from inside the pocket of the Americans.

But it's over.

They're going to know
who the real Catriona Bailey is.

Are they now?

Obviously, you haven't heard the news.

Car accident on the way to the airport.

The ambassador's wife was killed.

Tomorrow morning,
you'll be resigning your ministry,

citing family reasons.

I've got you down for a rotting corpse
on the backbench.

Who's gonna believe the most pro-U.S.,

anti-China minister in the government
is a spy?

Not when there are MSS surveillance photos

of every rendezvous you and Weng ever had.

There's a difference between truth
and plausibility, Mal.

You can keep those. I've got copies.

-This isn't the way to the airport.
-I can't go without saying goodbye.

Kim and I used to meet up
at the lookout before we went hiking.

This was our shortcut.

She ever tell you about it?

No.

[car alarm chirps]

Harriet, if you miss the flight,
Vaughn will--

Just here.

Just where the path narrows.
It's between the pines. I, um...

I figure this was the place.

[sighs]

She saw the footage of you
at the Sabine Hobbs handover.

And she refused to give you the SIM.

You killed her here.

Harriet.

Get on that plane.

You shot at me on the lake.

You sent one of your men
to leave me to bleed out in the bath.

Now you're gonna kill me, too, right?

[exhales]

[groans]

[yelling]

-Stop it!
-No!

-Stop it! Stop it!
-No! No!

[Dancer grunting]

Stop it! Stop it! Stop!

-Stop!
-[gunshot]

Oh, my God.

[panting]

[Catriona] Freedom is not
a crown worn lightly.

It weighs heavy with responsibility

for those of us
who are fortunate enough to wear it.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

And the Safer Australia Agency is
about enshrining that vigilance

to protect all Australians
from the dangerous few.

To ensure that, at least on my watch,

no matter how dark the darkest night,

the light on the hill will never go out.

[gate buzzing]

[gate buzzing]

-You come to gloat?
-No.

I'd like to pay your legal defense costs.

[chuckles]

With misappropriated union funds?

[snickers]

Why?

Well, it's the age-old proverb.

The enemy of my enemy...

Is my friend.

How are they treating you?