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It's in our mutual interest to stand together.

I think Australians need to be for Australians,

Americans need to be for Americans.

The sacrament of the alliance.

Trust, but verify.

We cross live now to Myanmar in South-East Asia

where regional leaders meeting for the Asia-Pacific Conference

have been shocked by a growing rift

between Australian Prime Minister Philip Burke

And American President Larry Kerr.

American and Australia have never been closer.

In every major conflict for the last 100 years

America's been involved in,

Australia has been there,

our ally and our friend.

And the reason the alliance between America and Australia

has endured for seven decades

is because we trust one another.

We trust that Australia stands beside us,

and Prime Minister Burke should trust we will be there for them.

We look forward to maintaining our leadership position in Asia

based on the values and the tremendous resources we share

with our friends down under.

Or should I say mates?

Thank you.

Mate, I don't reckon you could find us on a map.

- COMINT, are you across the task? - Shit!

Um, yeah, yeah, of course. Sorry, I...

I didn't realise I was switched to you.

I'm still getting used to this set-up.

Focus on the communications and the VIP protection zone, please, Jasmina.

Eloise, where's your nearest bird?

Coming up for the next pass.

Denver, this is Alice.

We are continuing full monitoring of the protection zone

in Sittwe, Myanmar.

Roger, Alice.

Confirming POTUS and Australia's Prime Minister

are within the protection zone.

So, Gus, what happened to applying for that manager's job here with us?

Turns out I'm indispensable.

They wouldn't advance your application?

Something like that.

Be there forever at this rate. Thanks, Denver.

Is he always this grumpy?

Gus? Yeah.

Not usually. Great.

Denver's an open position? Yep.

So what does your dad think you are at the moment?

Gardener? Admin clerk?

Last time I could tell my dad the truth about what I do

I was 17 and flipping burgers.

What about you? What do you tell your folks?

A, don't ask. B, don't tell.

C...

I got something.

Channel 23. Thanks, Moses.

Channel 23 on satellite 17.

Coming up as target acquisition radar.

715B logged on channel 23.

Channel 23 receivers on an antenna pointed at Myanmar.

Who's targeting a missile there?

The frequency's 2203.7, unannounced.

The signal's consistent with a vampire short-range missile.

I'm getting a geo.

Myanmar? Shit.

715B geo's to Sittwe, Myanmar.

20.05 north, 93.02 east.

Thanks, Deb. Sending location to DEFSMAC.

Jasmina, do we have any Burmese comms on a weapons test?

Nothing scheduled. No.

Eloise, what's at that geo? An army base?

Just jungle.

Op 4, DEFSMAC has placed us on an event of interest

for a vampire surface-to-air missile out of Sittwe.

Moses, what are they testing?

What's the telemetry? I'm still looking.

I've got something.

Satellite's picked up a video signal from the missile.

527A logged on channel 54. Switching to the big screen.

What's it pointed at?

Denver, this is Alice. We have an unannounced 715B vampire SAM signal

in the executive protection alert zone.

Roger that, Alice. Please confirm the source.

The Bangladeshis? The Thais?

Nothing about a weapons test

on either country's military or leadership comms.

There's no telemetry.

This is not a test.

It's armed.

The missile is acquiring a target.

Vampire launch is highly likely.

Trev, draft a presidential CRITIC. OK, I'm on it.

Pentagon, this is Alice.

We have an armed vampire SAM

in the vicinity of the protection zone for POTUS.

Advise initiating security protocols and entering immediate lockdown.

Roger that, Alice. Please confirm target.

Target is currently unconfirmed.

Issue the CRITIC report. Get it to the President immediately.

Denver, this is Alice. We have no telemetry active with the missile.

This appears to be an armed warhead - repeat, armed warhead.

CRITIC has been issued. Alice, please confirm target.

Vampire launch at 02:57.15 Zulu from Sittwe.

Denver, we have a rogue missile -

repeat, rogue missile - near the President.

Any comms on a possible target?

Nothing from police or air-traffic control.

OK, go to all frequencies associated with insurgents and FTOs.

Now! Go! COMINT, I need a target.

ID on the aircraft? Is it Chinese air force? Vietnamese?

It appears to be civilian.

Denver, suspected target is a civilian aircraft...

20.12 north. ..approximately 20.12 north...

93.08 east. ..93.08 east.

Pentagon, a civilian aircraft is targeted. Yes, civilian.

Someone's shooting missiles over there.

Get POTUS into lockdown now.

527A video down.

Flight BM-24, twin engine turboprop, just taken off from Sittwe.

These are from the imagery bird's initial pass.

We'll get more soon.

Anyone bragging about it on phone or email?

COMINT hasn't picked up anything yet.

Is this the first shot in a wider attack?

Accidental launch by the Bangladesh or Burmese military?

Our threat assessments focused on Jemaah Islamiyah, ISIS, al-Qaeda.

We're running... Jesus, Gus.

Right now all you need to do is tell us,

can we leave the President and the Prime Minister in Myanmar or not?

Who were the attackers? Who was their target?

Do they have the capacity and plan to launch any more missiles?

The VIPs are in lockdown till we deliver our preliminary briefing.

Soon as you can, please.

The ancestors created the rivers,

mountains,

the sacred places.

So, for us Arrernte people,

land isn't something you make yours by sticking a fence around it.

It's a spiritual place

and we belong to it -

where we started and where we'll all end up.

And just over that range,

that's one of our most sacred valleys.

Only thing is, we can't go there anymore.

Pine Gap's a spy base.

All of America's intel on Russia, China, the Middle East,

India, Pakistan and North Korea

comes from all just down that road.

Most people outside of Alice Springs don't even know Pine Gap exists,

which is just the way the government likes it,

because anything America uses Pine Gap for,

Australia's automatically involved in too.

Drone strikes, war crimes.

Although, without it,

the Alice Springs economy would collapse, also, I'm told.

So, what's so sacred about down there?

Well, for thousands of years,

the Pine Gap valley was where our people gathered to talk to the stars.

That's why the Americans built it there.

Not that they'd know that.

The missile was a vampire MANPAD.

Shoulder launched, infra-red seeker guidance, fire and forget.

Except they used a target acquisition radar.

The missile operator had no line of sight.

Who in that region has vampires?

Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia.

China's got thousands.

And you had no comms about the attack?

Um...

Well, there's been the usual complaints about President Kirk,

criticism of the Asia-Pacific Conference,

lots of anti-American sentiment,

but, no actionable threats.

What about the plane? Who was the target?

The manifest lists 14 persons on board - 3 crew, 11 passengers.

Six Burmese nationals, two Thais, two from Hong Kong, and...

...four Americans.

Four American civilians are blown out of the sky

while Pine Gap was sleeping?

No-one had any idea an attack was coming.

It's on me.

If there's been a failure

in A-crew's communications intelligence,

as COMINT team leader, I take full responsibility.

Is there evidence of any failure from A-crew?

No-one on the ground in Myanmar had any idea this attack was coming.

Not one human agent reported any actionable intelligence of any kind.

And we've been listening from DC to daylight.

Exactly.

You had antennas on all the satellites

tuned to the protection zone, and yet...

...somehow someone still managed to blow a plane out of the sky

a stone's throw from the President and the PM.

Yes.

POTUS is waiting.

Split your teams.

Half listen live, half search offline archives.

Look for telemetry, any indications of previous vampire launches.

Prioritise JI, ISIS

then the mujahideen, Taliban and on through other FTOs.

How far back? At least a couple of years.

Gus.

The 10 square k area the missile was launched from -

there's no military base.

The only road's dirt, most likely impassable due to recent rain.

Could a terrorist group be using those buildings as a compound?

Unlikely.

They're shacks, deserted.

A shoulder-launched missile

could have come from anywhere in that jungle.

So there's no imagery intel - is that what you're saying?

I'll keep looking.

Listen to this.

A missile launch.

Telemetry pegged it as an unannounced vampire

from 17 months ago.

Most likely, they were testing the video link.

Where was it launched from?

Burmese-Bangladesh border.

Same missile, same general area.

How did we miss it?

The signal was found on the day

but it was low priority.

The NSA did an archived event report.

Conclusion - unreported launch by Bangladeshi or Burmese army.

No specific follow-up tasking

deemed necessary.

Merry Christmas.

Jasmina, 17 months back, who was saying what?

On it.

Ethan.

Kickboxers from Arkansas.

On that plane.

Three competitors and their manager-coach,

on a friendship tour.

If I could drag your thoughts away from Myanmar for a moment...

The game tonight - you going?

Belle's dragging me along. Why?

Hide a master of the senior game?

An exciting announcement

from Mr Lin Zhou of Shonguran Enterprises?

They're donating a new scoreboard.

Last month, Alice Springs Hospital got a new humidicrib.

The month before that, it was a floor for the library.

Mr Lin does like spreading his money around.

Well, under the terms of the Shonguran exploration licence,

they have to invest $2 million a year in the local area.

Haven't they stopped exploring?

I thought they applied for the actual permit to mine months ago.

Well, the Arrernte haven't consented

to mining their traditional lands yet.

They're... they're still negotiating.

But assuming they do consent,

your government still intends to approve

a state-owned Chinese company

owning a mine just 20 miles from Pine Gap?

Assuming China doesn't get a better offer

from some other gas-exporting nation first.

I'm just looking forward to the man-made island in the Todd River.

This deal is huge, Ethan.

There's thousands of jobs, billions of dollars -

HUNDREDS of billions of dollars.

I suppose America just has to suck it up.

Well, why not? We Aussies know all about sucking it up.

Excuse me.

The whole of Pine gap history,

the boss has always been American.

It's just a title, Kath.

You and I are on the same executive level.

Yeah. Equal partners.

Washington happy about this morning's little mishap?

Reserving judgement.

Canberra?

Fucking furious.

So, you've avoided meeting Zhou till now.

I think it's time you man up.

I'll introduce you tonight.

See you at tip off... partner.

The Little Rock Dragons kickboxing team

were on a friendship tour of Myanmar and Thailand.

Along with the four Americans, six Burmese nationals,

two Thai nationals and two Hong Kong nationals were killed...

I can't imagine that.

I can't imagine being at the airport waiting for your mum, sister,

just... just to be told that their plane had been shot down.

Yeah, it would be terrible.

If you're done, we should go.

President Larry Kerr...

...period, review archives of the last fortnight. Shift through all...

Sorry. Gus, hey. Do you have a sec?

Leave it with us, buddy. We'll get back to it tomorrow.

OK. Thanks.

What is it?

OK, the week before Moses's stray SAM launch,

there are a couple of Bangladeshi army comms

discussing a raid on one of their eastern border posts.

"What's missing?" says one,

and the reply is, "Four rockets, Captain."

Vampires? Yeah.

Around the same time there was heightened anti-American chatter

on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

Who'd it trace to?

A tiny foreign terrorist organisation called Shadhinota.

Shadhinota? Never heard of them.

It's Bengali for 'freedom'.

Now, they claim to be affiliated with ISIS

but, then, every bloke with an axe to grind

waves the black flag these days.

The few known comms we have for Shadhinota

do geo to the area where the vampires were stolen

and where the SAM launched 17 months ago.

Maybe this morning they shot for the big-time.

Look, I'm... I'm sorry for barging in. I just thought...

I know you're not a guy who likes to waste time.

"A lot of people are gonna say,

"'Be patient, you've got time on your side.'

"Truth is, we don't have a second to lose."

Wait - where did you hear that? YouTube.

What?

You googled me?

Yeah. But not in a stalky way.

I was just new to the crew and bored one night

and, boom, there was your valedictory speech.

Shouldn't be anything online.

Well, you should have done a better job of hiding your tracks.

Good line, though. Impressive.

Got it from my brother.

Not a "grass grow under his feet" kind of guy either?

No.

He in the community too?

No.

OK.

Kolatoli Beach, East Bangladesh, last November.

An IED in a market.

No injuries. Shadhinota claimed responsibility.

June 30 last year.

A car exploded on the outskirts of Chittagong.

Six wounded. Shadhinota again.

This is the leader, Adib.

Shadhinota is purity.

Shadhinota rejects the corruption of the West.

Shadhinota will expunge the poisonous influence of America...

OK, OK.

So this mob do a nice line in anti-Western rhetoric

with car bombs and damp-squib IEDs,

but nothing in their history

would indicate they could bring down a plane.

No-one expected al-Qaeda to fly jets into the Twin Towers.

Actually, there was heaps of intel before 9/11 -

just no-one put it all together.

You finished?

And they're certainly motivated against America.

BM-24 was a connecting flight to Yangon International.

Any westerner leaving Sittwe would be on it.

Bringing it down could be this group's big statement.

Then why hasn't Mr Purity here claimed responsibility?

Communications intel suggests

Shadhinota stole four Bangladeshi army vampires,

which means they've still got two left.

Pass it on to the CIA for vetting and confirmation.

In the meantime, focus on Adib.

President Larry Kerr attending the APEC conference in Sittwe

only a few kilometres from where the plane was shot down,

spoke to media earlier.

Taking the lives of ordinary, decent Americans will not go unpunished.

Our intelligence community is working to identify

those responsible for this atrocity

and bring them to justice.

Hey, why is it so cold in here?

Thermostat's stuck on 17 degrees.

That's... 62.6. I know.

I know you do, love.

Dishy.

Her school trip to Japan cost nearly eight grand!

No, I was secretly hoping she'd hate it

so that her sisters wouldn't want to go anywhere

but, no, no - she comes back,

"Kanazawa was great!

"School excursions are awesome!

"You've got to go too."

Australia offers all of our support to the Myanmar authority.

Prime Minister, have you asked President Kerr

to renew talks about updating the ANZUS Treaty?

Well, Australia continues to believe in the value

of forging stronger alliances with all of our friends.

President Kerr knows my proposal for strengthening ANZUS,

and he can raise that with me at any time.

Authorities are still working to identify...

Made a thing about the treaty, hasn't he?

Well, he was in the shit politically

and taking a stand on it has upped his approval rating.

Yeah, but after everything we've done together,

he really thinks we wouldn't have your back?

So, in a conflict, the US would choose Australia over... Japan?

South Korea?

The ANZUS Treaty only says you'll consider supporting us.

The PM asked Kerr to guarantee it and he just said no.

A lot of Australians aren't so sure anymore,

if push came to shove, you guys would actually turn up.

You know, most of these numbers associated with this Shadhinota mob

haven't been active for months.

Got a hit.

Gus, can you get the CIA to give us their file

on the cell phone number logged as known associate 5F?

CIA hates sharing intel.

Offer them sexual favours.

Come on, OK.

If you'd grown up in Australia, you'd know that was a joke.

Langley, this is Alice.

Can I have your South-East Asia desk?

Hi, Bob. Gus Thompson, Alice.

Yeah, sure. I'll hold.

Jasmina.

Yes?

Growing up in West Virginia didn't expose me to all that much humour.

I think sexual favours may be a useful interagency methodology.

As long as you end up in the compromising position.

Kath Sinclair.

No, I haven't been briefed yet.

Well, if it's classified, just tell her to come to my office

as soon as she lands.

What do you mean, off base?

According to the CIA,

Shadhinota known associate 5F is Cho Sanda, 29.

Married to a taxidriver, Arjan Thura.

She is Rakhine Buddhist,

no criminal record, no ISIS association.

Well, if she's Buddhist,

then she'd hardly be associating with the radical Islamists.

Especially in that region. It's crazy with religious tension.

Well, she comes from a village right on the border with Bangladesh

near where Adib grew up.

Her phone currently geo's

to 20.15 north, 92.88 east.

Pulling up low-orbit imagery now.

OK, northern outskirts of Sittwe.

Some pockets of residential. Pretty impoverished.

Lots of market gardens, rice fields.

Anyone who could be our target?

Assets in the vicinity are approximately 120cm tall,

so probably children.

And it's definitely geo'ing to these coordinates, Simon?

Yep.

If she's still associated with Shadhinota

then she may have dumped it.

She used it yesterday. Well, someone did.

Remember, it'll be out of range in a minute.

Not to mention it's almost the end of our shift, mate.

Maybe we should get the imagery drone up.

Need more evidence.

Without eyes in the sky, we could miss her.

Look, I want this as much as you

but I'm not requesting 400-G-an-hour drone support

on the strength of one piece of intel.

I got movement.

Is that Cho? A match with Cho is highly likely.

Who's that?

Is it him? Is it Adib?

Is he hitting her? Arsehole!

A match is...

...highly unlikely.

Gonna make it tonight?

Yeah, just got to Skype home first

and subtly dissuade my younger offspring

from going on expensive overseas trips.

Japan, Deb!

My school excursions were to the local box factory,

and that's if I was lucky!

Hey, good work today.

Fingers crossed D-crew hears something overnight.

Coming to the game?

No, I've got a, um... a date... thing.

Have fun.

Hi.

Hey. Jas, how are you?

So, how was your day?

Um, my day was...

...boring.

What about you? Did you take out an appendix, or diagnose a cancer?

Nah. ER work in Alice is mostly just split heads and diabetes.

I bet it is much more fun working at Pine Gap.

Yeah, I'm just in admin, so...

So, given this is date number three...

...what are you looking for in a girl?

Well...

I'll have to think on this.

Two arms, two legs...

...a sense of humour.

And I'm flexible about the two arms thing.

Well, thank God for that.

I think I can meet that criteria.

Adam, can I be straight with you?

Sure.

My work just has this rule

that if we start seeing someone, like, more than just casually,

they have to go through this... this process.

What kind of process?

A security check... by ASIO.

ASIO?

The Australian Security Intelligence...

Yeah, I know... I know what it is. OK.

It's just, um, you know,

your background, your police record,

your political affiliations, your family.

It's just that sort of thing.

To date an admin assistant?

Yes, but it's not invasive or anything.

Right.

OK. Um...

Defence! Defence!

OK, slow down.

Nice! Go for it. Come on.

- Yes! - Alright. Here we go.

There you are. Hey, buddy.

Mister gas mine here.

Yeah. Cute.

Please, sit down.

Wasn't Kath gonna give you a formal intro?

Yes! Great defence!

Ethan told me you were a basketball fan, Belle.

Yeah. I played all through college.

You? No, I just come here to use the gym.

Whoo! Well done.

Who'd have thought they'd switch to man on man?

Aren't you spies supposed to find out what our enemy's strategies are

so we can defeat them?

We're all just gardeners, Immy. Ha! Yeah, yeah.

Pine Gap must have the best bloody gardens in the Territory, then.

I do have an office, you know.

Your phone. It's secure.

Alright, enough of the cloak and dagger. What the fuck is going on?

Thank you, everyone.

I'd just like to say that I am delighted

that Shonguran can contribute to such a dynamic basketball community.

Thanks very much, Zhou. No worries.

And if any team needs a not-so-good point guard,

I'm your man.

We should get them home for dinner, yeah?

OK. Come on. Let's go.

Good to see you. You too.

So, do you have an answer for me yet?

Can't rush into these things, mate.

Look, if the elders need some more information

on sacred site protection or our compensation offer...

We'll ask. Don't worry.

I'm just waiting on some of the mob to come down off country

and get to town so we can talk things through.

OK.

Well played, Immy. Thanks.

When are you gonna join a team and show us these alleged skills?

Well, I'm going to Beijing for a couple of days...

Right. ..so, when I get back?

Cool. Joe, come meet the club treasurer.

Sure. Thank you. See you, Joe.

You still holding out on Shonguran?

Like I said to Joe, can't rush into these things.

He's not gonna rip us off.

He's been here for ages. He's consulted. He's been open.

Yeah, true.

But once we sign over our land, Immy,

we can never renegotiate.

Dad, Shonguran are offering our mob a fortune.

We'd be mad to miss out.

Across all that?

It has to be locked in pronto.

But I'll let you know as soon as we find a suitable replacement.

But they can't smell a rat.

We can't risk anyone knowing about this.

Teach it to your grandma, Gemma.

I was keeping my mouth shut before you were born.

Hello? Yes?

Hey. Dad, it's me.

I can't see you. You need to turn on the camera.

Darn thing's broken.

No, it's not broken, Dad. You need to click the camera icon.

You remember the little picture of the camera I showed you last time?

You need to click that.

It'll bring up the vision.

It's in the corner. Yeah.

Don't know why you don't use the phone.

How are things?

Your... your voice ain't coming out your mouth right.

No, that's just the video lag, Dad.

Hey, so, um...

You remember how I said I might be changing jobs,

move back stateside?

Doesn't look like that's gonna happen after all.

You'll miss your brother's birthday again.

You know, I have annual leave due.

I'll, come visit in the summer.

Definitely something wrong with this POS.

OK, well, then hang up and then I'll call you on the landline.

Well, I was about to head out and do some shopping.

Alright. Tomorrow, then.

Take care, Dad...

Hey, Brian. How's it going?

Yeah, good-o, Gus.

No worries, bro.

Hey.

Not much about you online either.

Ooh!

What do you want to know?

For starters, where you developed your complete lack of respect

for rank and discipline.

That's Australian. I got that here.

If our Prime Minister goes to a footy game, everyone boos him.

It's just... who we are.

And your background's Serbian?

The multilingual thing?

Why'd your parents emigrate?

They were killed in the war with Kosovo.

I'm so sorry.

It's OK. You must miss them.

I don't really remember them.

My brother and I grew up here with some cousins

who'd immigrated after World War II.

And why intelligence?

The world's a dangerous place.

I want to do my bit.

And you can wear what you like at Pine Gap,

so it's my kind of place

for, like, so many reasons.

Ethan! Can I have a word?

I'm sorry for bailing last night. I got trapped on a call with my ex.

I thought that was settled.

Not likely. He wants the house.

Worse, he wants the cat.

Ooh, nasty. Yeah.

Our lawyers will be able to retire on the fees they make from this divorce.

Just give him what he wants.

That's what I did with my first wife.

God.

Fuck that for a joke.

Canberra are after a discreet inquiry

into whether yesterday was a failure of intelligence from here.

Yeah. So's Washington.

Which means monitoring the crews,

A-crew in particular -

strengths, weaknesses.

And I've ordered Gus and the other three MDs

to report on just those things.

Well, we already know what Gus'll tell us.

As mission director, Gus is in the best place

to assess how his crew's operating.

Really? He'll be investigating himself, Ethan.

And he's already decided there wasn't any failure.

Well, shouldn't we get in a tiger team,

people who weren't a part of the team

that missed hearing about a plan to shoot down an aircraft

a mile from your president's head?

There's no evidence of failure.

Only because we haven't looked for it yet,

and Gus won't.

Canberra think it would be best if he specifically were removed

and a new MD appointed from outside the base.

It's about perception, Ethan.

This is Pine Gap.

It is the jewel in the crown of the whole Five Eyes network.

A posting here is a fast track to promotion

and Canberra expects this place to operate to the highest of standards.

And I know Washington does too.

Washington trusts our MDs.

They're the most senior people on the base when we're not here.

I, I don't think you're listening, Ethan.

I am listening, Kath.

It's not gonna happen.

Updated comment on the Shadhinota target.

Jasmina, anything new overnight?

D-crew logged one received call.

Female, highly likely Cho's sister.

Any mention of surface-to-air missiles?

They're mainly talking about whether Cho should leave her husband.

She should if he beats her.

Alright, we gotta get this moving.

She's our only viable link to Adib and Shadhinota.

The USS Bartlett's in the Bay of Bengal.

Let's spend some cash, get them to launch a drone.

Go, you, moneybags.

Alice, UAV drone has attained your coordinates.

Holding position at 12,000 feet.

Thank you, Bartlett.

EMINT, maintain surveillance of the target via drone video link.

Intercepting a signal.

She's getting a text.

Who's the sender? Unknown.

Come on. Come on, come on, come on.

Ta.hcai. Ta.hcai...

It's Burmese for 10.

A code?

Cho's moving, going inside.

She turned her phone off.

Tracking the SIM.

More movement.

She's heading somewhere. Looks like she's got her bag.

Starting geo's 20.15 north, 92.88 east.

Hang on - if she's going to a meeting with a covert cell,

wouldn't she know not to carry a trackable device?

She turned it off.

Might think that makes it untrackable.

Just doesn't seem very professional.

Look, Adib's a hard target.

Cho's got historical connections to him

and she just received a suspicious text.

That's actionable comment.

Bartlett Control, Alice request a further 60 minutes fly time

for the imagery UAV.

Fuck.

Alice, we're losing the drone over the horizon.

Switching control to Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.

Roger that, Bartlett.

Creech, this is Alice.

Updated coordinates are 20.32 north, 92.98 east.

Roger that, Alice.

OK, target is off the bus. Maintain current coordinates.

Where's she heading?

Is that a garage?

Wasn't the HUMINT report that the husband drives a taxi?

There's taxis in the drive.

She's meeting her husband, picking up his vehicle.

Creech, this is Alice.

Sorry - hold, Creech.

EMINT, punch in on them.

Is that her husband?

Checking identity.

I thought her husband was a brute.

That's not the husband.

That's Adib.

85% match. Best we'll get at this resolution.

It's him. Ta hcai. 10.

They certainly arranged a time to meet.

OK, well, that's a result.

I'll request a CIA...

I've got something.

What is it?

In the truck.

What, the... the plumbing stuff?

They're missiles, almost certainly.

Shit.

Creech, we have visuals of three possible SAMs.

Are these the guys we're after for the missile strike on the plane?

EMINT, can we confirm?

Those are almost certainly vampires,

same design as the Soviet Igla-S.

Could take out a jumbo.

Draft a CRITIC for the President. OK. Drafting.

Two in a week.

Creech, confirm targets are in possession of missiles

with similar specs as the one used in the BM-24 strike.

Roger that, Alice.

Decrypted a comms signal that geo's to that house.

They're talking about APEC.

How much security there is, where it's been placed.

The roads in and out of the President's hotel.

Do you want me to amend the CRITIC? Get it issued now.

Patching Creech to the floor.

Creech, targets appear to have breached APEC security comms.

Assume knowledge of the President's current location.

Thank you, Alice. Please stand by.

Alice, we are activating the UAV's offensive capabilities

and have executive permission to go to full deployment

subject to your checked and confirmed intelligence.

Roger that, Creech.

Wait - advise Creech to hold. Hold? Why?

They've got three SAMs. That's too many.

What do you mean, too many?

If they stole four and shot one 17 months ago and one yesterday,

they should only have two, not three.

So they got one more from somewhere.

We do not have a full picture of their movements.

OK, so we should vet and confirm. Confirm what?

That Adib's a terrorist with a history of anti-American violence?

Alice, we await your checked and confirmed intelligence.

Stand by, Creech.

Hey, we don't have this intelligence.

You can't just go ahead.

Looks like they've got the vehicle going.

They're getting ready to leave.

Alice, we await your checked and confirmed intelligence.

Creech, confirm targets are a known FTO

who have breached APEC security comms

and have three vampires in their possession.

Thank you, Alice. Moving the full deployment.

That missile strike might have been a false flag.

OK, there was nothing false about those three vampires.

We cannot confirm these guys shot down that plane.

We've confirmed they've got missiles.

They've cracked APEC's comms

and the President is in range.

I'm acting on that.

Thank you, Alice. Target achieved.

Kath. Hey.

Incident report just in from ops.

Yeah. Get me the Minister.

Honey, have you heard... Ouch!!

...any more about Canberra?

Nothing certain.

I'm just one of several possibles.

Well, I'm looking forward to my husband

being the next ambassador to Australia.

You know, I could... I could take the boys early

if I knew you weren't gonna be too far behind.

Hey.

Nothing is certain, OK?

I'm still here.

Coming!

Kath. Hi.

Sorry for barging in. No, not at all. Come in.

Ethan!

Give me a minute!

Hey, boys. Can you say hi to Ms Sinclair?

Hello. Hi.

Hi.

So, do you, do you have family here in Alice?

Yeah, I have Bruce.

Bruce? He's a cat.

Cat? That's... that's nice.

Kath.

Would you, excuse us, honey?

Gus Thompson should have forwarded on all relevant intelligence

before that strike.

He hadn't confirmed that Shadhinota were the ones that shot down BM-24.

He had three confirmed missiles

in the hands of a known terrorist with POTUS in range.

Now, we call that imminent threat.

So, an ambitious young MD chose not to vet and confirm

so he could be a hero?

Gus had to act. Time was running out.

He risked the reputation of this base, and you know it.

Look, as your President said, our alliance has worked for seven decades

because we trust one another.

Australia doesn't ask for much, Ethan.

But we like to be listened to.

Key members of the ISIS-affiliated terrorist group

responsible for shooting down flight BM-24 over Sittwe

have been killed in a US drone strike.

China has described the strike as an outrageous escalation

of American militarism in the region.

A short time ago, President Kerr issued a statement

pledging US protection for all American allies

in the disputed South China Sea.

Will Thompson. Leave a message.

Just me, Dad.

Calling, like we arranged.

Guess you're already up and at it.

I'll talk to you later.

Bye.

A marine save POTUS from being blown to smithereens,

he gets a Congressional Medal of Honour.

Our line of work, best you're gonna get

is one of these shit Aussie beers.

It wasn't a slam dunk.

I missed you on the bus. Yeah.

I was just...

Do you think I'm paranoid?

Paranoid?

Over-suspicious. Mistrustful. Wary.

Paranoid!

Ha.

Hey, this job makes us ALL paranoid.

I guess it's not... paranoia if it's true.

If what's true?

Nothing.

Hey, Ethan.

Hey.

Tough couple of days for A-crew.

And for the record...

I wouldn't have passed on that contradictory comment either.

99 MDs out of 100 wouldn't have.

However...

...Australia wants both BM-24 and the Shadhinota strike

investigated for possible failures of process.

The other MDs and I have already discussed that.

We're checking our crews...

Investigations into A-crew have gotta be particularly objective.

Be SEEN to be objective.

The Australians want your position reappointed.

I've agreed.

You'll stay at Pine Gap.

Put in a little bit more time back on the floor.

You'll keep your pay grade, of course.

A couple of weeks ago,

you persuaded me not to apply for that job in Denver

because I was so invaluable here as an MD.

We have to keep the Aussies on side, Gus.

The President's refusal to strengthen the ANZUS Treaty

already has them doubting us.

You believe I did the right thing?

I know this isn't what you had planned for your career.

Sometimes we gotta make sacrifices.

And I'm making one for Australia.

No.

For America.

Back on the floor.

I spent two years in the floor at Pine Gap to make MD.

Five years at the NSA before I came here.

If they'd just let me go to Denver,

I wouldn't even have been on the floor today.

And now everyone from here to Harrogate will hear

I've been fucking demoted.

I might as well become a fucking gardener.

I'm sorry.

...you came round before to talk about something?

It's nothing.

You know what really stinks? What?

The chief wants me to blame Australia.

But the truth is...

...this was America's call.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's all clear.

It took it at face value, from what I saw.

You find anyone else we can slot in?

Him?

No, it's great. He...

I understand he filled in here a few years ago as MD, so...

...he's plenty qualified.

Yep. Great.

Bruce?

This has not been an easy decision.

But this is a joint facility of the highest importance,

not only to the safety of the United States and Australia,

but also to the alliance between us.

Now, both Deputy Chief Sinclair and myself feel it's appropriate

that someone from outside takes over as MD for the interim.

And we're very fortunate that...

...Mr Kitto could join us at such short notice.

Thanks for that, Chief.

I want to stress that this does not reflect in any way

criticism of any member of A-crew.

Rather, it is evidence of the seriousness

with which we approach what we do here at Pine Gap.

Righto.

Let's get down to it, shall we?

Who should we be looking at?

Sorry - what?

If Shadhinota didn't shoot that plane down, who did?

They're still out there.

We can find them.

Yeah, we can.

Um... What is it?

I don't know if you ever use the cafeteria, but a couple of days ago

the thermostat got stuck at 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit

for exactly four hours.

Then it corrected itself to the standard 68.

Weirdly limited glitch in the system.

Yeah?

Our server controls everything electronic on the base,

from the computers on the ops floor, the doors, the boom gates,

even the thermostats.

I went through the coding.

It wasn't a glitch.

Moses, I am sure our mainten... It was malware.

What? Malicious software.

Microvirus.

There was a virus on OUR server?

One targeted to do a very specific job -

in this case, lower the cafeteria's thermostat for four hours.

Why? Why bother?

Well, the only reason that I could think of

is to test if the server's architecture could be hacked

without being detected.

What else could this malware do? Anything.

Everything.

Steal it all.

But Pine Gap isn't connected to the internet.

Our system's air gapped. Yep.

So whoever put the code into the server...

They work here.

Only a few of us have root access to the mainframe

and there have been no unauthorised log-in attempts down there.

It didn't get in that way.

It got uploaded as a small file

from one of the base's 1,200 computer terminals.

Unfortunately, unless we get lucky somehow,

I'm gonna have to go through the root directory

of every single one of them

to find out which one it was and how it got on there in the first place.

What's news out here?

Just talking politics.

Well, if it's possible to talk and barbecue

at least we can feed the kids.

On it. Don't burn them.

That's how they become carcinogenic.

Thanks.

Nothing to anyone.

The United States continues to defend the drone strike

on the Bangladeshi rebels, saying intelligence confirmed

that this small splinter group claiming to have links with ISIS

was responsible for the downing of flight BM-24

in which four American citizens were among the 14 people killed.

It was really shit what they did to you.

And when they just put all this pressure on me to stay.

That's what's really pissed me off.

Yeah, but without a formal review, no assessment of circumstances,

and then it all just falls back on us

whether we had a failure of intelligence.

Yeah. Which means I for one have to find out who shot down that plane.

So, how did your date thing go the other night?

God.

OK, so, it was the third time he'd asked me out,

so I thought it was only fair I let him know

that if we went much further he'd have to be vetted by ASIO.

And then that pretty much just killed any chance of anything -

true love, casual sex, Facebook friend.

I'm sorry.

He wasn't really my type anyway.

Hey...

...come join me for a sec.

I wish Alice had more than three bars.

Come on.

I, um, thought I should introduce myself properly

and get to know a few of you one on one.

I'm Jacob Kitto.

Jasmina Del... Yeah. Delic. Yeah.

COMINT. I remember.

And you're Gus Thompson, yeah?

Hey, um...

...I'm sorry, mate.

I know I'm probably not your favourite person right now.

You been enjoying yourself here so far?

I was.

I hear it's a pretty good posting for you guys.

Pays well, free housing, feather in your cap - all that stuff.

It's usually a good move.

Except when it's not, though.

Like now.

And what about you? You've been here, what, three, four weeks?

Three and a half, yeah.

Hey, um...

...I wouldn't have wanted anyone pausing

or reassessing that strike either, by the way.

Given that the Shadhinota were armed, the proximity of the VIPs,

and what they'd already done to that plane...

We don't think it was them, actually.

Really?

Are you sure? We'll know soon.

So, that was the famous Moses, yeah?

Idiot savant, Diogenes-like genius.

And you stay here for 10 years, that's what happens?

I don't think he was ever normal.

Hey, how's Louis settling in at kindergarten?

Yeah, he's having a blast. It's just...

Yeah, it's just left me a bit on my own is all.

Baby, there are 2,000 Americans living in this town.

It's a community. Dozens of other families.

Yeah, but not with young children, though, Ethan.

Yes, there are lots of singles and lots of women in their late 50s...

Who are all loving Alice. They're happy here.

But all the young moms are back home.

Yeah, but our family's staying together.

I made that mistake the first time round.

What about the young Aussie moms?

Sure, we chat, but, you know, if I get too close,

they end up on a CIA watch list, which isn't very fair to them.

OK, just start looking, alright?

You'll find something to keep your mind active.

Such as...? You like basketball - join a team.

There's always something happening at the college.

Some public lecture or something. Start there.

Alice Springs may be small...

...but there's a lot going on.

Or if you knew the Canberra job was happening I could take the boys.

Belle, this is our home, OK?

Canberra could be months away, if at all.

We're here now.

Yeah, well, there's being here and then there's being HERE, Ethan.

Andre has been asking you for weeks to teach him how to play chess,

but no, there's always another priority.

Jesus Christ.

It just...

It gets a little boring

when we can't talk about anything happening at your work.

But you knew that when we got married.

When we got married I had MY work,

and we lived in a city - a city of 4 million people.

And I had my friends, I had my family.

So, I must have missed the bit about spending the next three years

in the middle of the Australian outback.

You see, I thought my job was to carry out

a completely objective investigation

and conclude that there was no failure of intelligence

and that the Shadhinota really did shoot down that plane.

Correct.

Well, it's gonna be hard

when we've got a couple of analysts hell-bent on proving they didn't.

Well, you can't ask them not to - that will just ensure that they do.

Fuckin' don't talk to me like I'm straight out of university either.

Look, all that is required is some carefully planned deception.

Second nature for an agent of your experience, I would have thought.

And that, my friend, is a compliment under the circumstances.

No, 'cause I do, I hear that everywhere -

Kathleen Sinclair, so generous with her compliments.

Fuckin'...

Whoa!

Alright. Hey! Hey!

I'm thinking of keeping Louis home today

because he's running a temperature.

Feel his forehead if you don't believe me.

I believe you. It's a shame, really.

I was gonna go to a lecture on Indigenous art,

but, you know, if he's not well...

No, of course.

Mommy! Hey! Not inside!

Well, maybe next time.

Boys!

Apparently, we're in the world's capital for lesbian anthropologists.

So, there I was, right? Swipe, swipe, swipe.

I ran out of people.

Should have hung out with us. The offer was there.

You know, just some nights I just wanna, like, forget about everything.

A mindless hook-up - that's all I wanted.

Hey, where'd you get to?

You said you'd join us and you never showed.

I just fell asleep.

In front of the TV.

Since when do you watch TV?

What was on? What?

On the TV? Nothing.

No, just...

See you in there, Moses.

Hey, let's go by the collection room.

Sure.

Do you remember where it is?

It has changed a bit.

Yeah, everything's interconnected now.

Direct uploads from assessments on the ops floor.

These are the analysis boards for all the regions we have on tasking,

and this one is the one for APEC.

And Shadhinota doesn't even rate?

Well, here are the comms we logged on foreign terrorist organisations.

So... no, nothing from Shadhinota.

But there are thousands from these other FTOs.

There was a lot of anti-American chat from these guys,

but nothing suggesting a strike of any sort was being planned

and no intel on anyone buying

or stealing another vampire from anywhere.

OK. So, where's all this chat?

Are the transcripts on file? For everyone on tasking.

The last three months are all in here, on the CR drive.

And you can bring those up on the ops floor?

Sure.

Alright.

Well, search through those other groups again

using every keyword you can think of.

I have. Well, go further back.

Upload the files from here to me and then get stuff out of storage.

There's gotta be something.

Hey.

We need the calls and emails from all these groups -

ISIS, Taliban, al-Qaeda, Shadhinota.

And the search words are here.

And going back how far? Four years.

Four years? It's authorised.

Alright. I'll put the results up on the COMINT drive.

Thanks.

Tension escalated in South-East Asia overnight

when Beijing claimed a Malaysian survey ship, the Ratu,

had crossed into Chinese territory in the South China Sea.

President Kerr immediately guaranteed support

for Malaysia's right to freedom of navigation.

In return, China condemned America's contempt for sovereign rights,

citing the recent American drone strike in Myanmar.

From Canberra, Prime Minister Burke cautioned both sides

to show restraint.

Jacob, Channel 27 tuned to Chinese Air Command.

We have five J-31 fighters taking off from Hainan.

Where's that Malaysian ship, the Ratu?

Is that where they're headed? Main screen.

Give me a moment. Processing image resolution.

Is the Ratu in Chinese territory? Which is disputed territory.

Well, they've been saying it's theirs since 1948.

Actually, according to them, it's been theirs since 3,000 BC.

They just went to sleep for 100 years

and everyone just took it off them.

They still lost the court case.

Well, these are the Fiery Cross Islands,

where China's built a navy base.

I love the way they just... take islands.

Hawaii?

And the Ratu is here, 30 k's south of Fiery Cross.

Well inside Chinese-claimed territory.

Right where these Chinese fighters are heading.

Is this an attack plan, comms?

Unclear. No weapons armed yet.

13 minutes away at current speed.

Jasmina - those transcripts from the collection room?

Should be up on S drive already.

This is slow. Come on, come on, wake up. Come on.

What happened to real-time speed?

Don't we have mainframes in here?

I thought we had the best gear on earth.

Thank you.

I've got one bird passing over the Hainan airfield.

But the rest of the squadron's still on the apron.

Nothing else scrambling.

So it's just a show of force?

Probably. But it's still intimidatory.

It'll have to trigger some sort of active defence for a guy like Kerr.

You know one day this is gonna get really serious, right?

What? Like all the other shit hasn't been.

There you are.

It's me. Collection room.

We got it.

There. You see?

So, when Jas pulled 200 COMINT files from here

to the ops floor S drive,

it took just a few seconds longer than normal.

That was the clue.

The malware got onto our system

from this terminal in the collection room.

And it'll just keep migrating.

Yeah, I can see that.

Every time someone downloads anything from S drive,

a copy of the malware hitches a ride to their computer,

copies everything on that computer and sends it back to here.

I mean, this could spread like wildfire.

But at the moment nothing's left the base?

No. In fact, how can it?

We're totally air gapped.

No internet, no USB ports, no wi-fi, nothing.

How'd they get it on this computer in the first place?

What they've done is quite clever.

They've snuck into the collections room

and reprogrammed the video graphics card in this terminal

so it can be a radiofrequency transmitter receiver.

Then they've activated an RF tuner on a smartphone

and transferred the malware from the phone to this computer.

Via phone? Yep.

That's a thing?

You need some tech savvy, but, yeah, that's... it's possible.

Of course, we can't bring cell phones

inside the classified area,

so it had to be transmitted from outside the ops building.

But the transmitters in phones, they're pretty weak,

so they had to be close -

maybe 200 yards, you know, that sort of radius.

So, definitely an inside job?

Yeah. But 500 people use this room.

Does reprogramming a VGA card

automatically create a new system reset point?

I salute you.

Any changes to the factory default.

Wow. Wow.

So, yep, here we go.

And the system reset point is now midnight last Wednesday.

Which means the graphics card in here was reprogrammed

at some point in the 24 hours after that.

You just have to get your hands on the collection room entry logs

for last Wednesday, and it's one of those people.

Go back to the floor.

And forget everything.

I'll handle it from here.

OK.

How are you feeling? Can you walk? No?

Marissa Campbell. Come on, let's have a look at ya.

Have you two been in a fight or something?

Nah, it's the bloody dog.

- Dog? - Yeah.

It just, um, went for me, so I took off and I tripped on something

and smashed my head on a rock.

Are you sure? That's what she said, wasn't it?

Come on, let's get you cleaned up.

Tommy Walker.

G'day, Tommy. Come through.

Hey, Belle. Hey, Paul.

Who told you about this malware?

Moses. He certainly earns his keep, our resident genius.

He knows to keep quiet, right?

No. He's giving the whole story to the Alice Springs Gazette.

Come on.

The real question is, what do we do about it?

Try to solve it here quietly? Or tell truth unto power?

Which is the golden rule, but then Kerr is sick of Australia right now.

In his mind it's like the pet cat acting like the master of the house

when it's really just a... cat.

You know, which is why he'd love an excuse to give it a kick.

Which would almost certainly be counterproductive.

On the other hand, if I don't say anything to anybody

and this whole thing blows up, well, that wouldn't end well either.

Certainly not for you.

The Chinese have activated launch countdown

on a mid-range ballistic missile from Yulin silo.

The signal we're intercepting is TE1789R on channel 27.

Hey, guys, are you reading this? Channel 43.

What have we got? Second signal?

Yeah. TE2291R logged on channel 43.

Does that mean a second missile?

No. 2291R also geos to Yulin.

Buckle up, kids.

We got two signals from the one missile.

Probably means it's armed.

Alert DEFSMAC, Trevor. On it.

Deb, where are those J-31 fighters?

Three minutes from the Ratu, but peeling away. They're disengaging.

Chinese Air Command have called them back.

Launch - DF21.

Time? 031612.

Confirming TE2291R is a warhead.

The Chinese have launched an armed ballistic missile.

What sort? Yeah... that's pretty crazy.

Is it conventional? Not in the slightest.

It can't be nuclear. No, it's not that either.

Shit.

Where is it going? Trackers indicate south-east.

What? It's also headed for that Malaysian ship?

Pretty close. Got an antenna over the Ratu now.

Running full spectrum geo scan. Man, this is really weird.

What the fuck is going on?

Louis James. Yes.

Hey, Belle. Hi, Paul.

He's got the flu. A wounded soldier.

If you go with Dr Adam, he's got jelly beans.

Yeah?

Give us a call if you have any problems.

Hey, Paul. Joe.

Am I too early? No. I'm late.

Last patient and then we're out of here.

Skins? Only on the back nine.

DF21 has reached apogee.

Detonation in two minutes.

1:59, 1:58. I... I'm still trying to read the warhead on this thing.

This is a... It's a 900lb... something.

It's gonna miss the ship, though.

It's on line but too high.

Pictures on bird two, Gus.

Can you direct that to me next time, please? Put it up.

Sorry.

1:46.

Belle? They think it could be pneumonia.

Pneumonia? Maybe. They're still checking.

How do you get pneumonia in this heat?

I don't know.

They just said that they needed to rule it out,

and he's scared, Ethan, and he keeps asking for you.

I'll be there.

Eight seconds.

Holding high resolution over the Ratu.

Five, four, three...

- Payload release. - 1,000 feet above the Ratu?

My God!

I... It's not an explosive. I-I think I got it.

Because the fusing and firing pattern is exactly the same

as the EMP Nevada test September 4, 1986.

What? The Chinese have a 900lb electromagnetic pulse bomb?

That is the first time we have seen one that big inside a missile.

Jesus. Are there any signals from the Ratu?

No energy at all.

Wow. Every single watt of power is gone.

No phones, radios, radars, lights, nothing.

That's an EMP for ya.

Man, what a weapon. Kills power, spares people.

So, what? They've completely disabled a whole ship

without hurting anyone?

Yeah.

Well, Beijing did warn them to back off.

Well, so what happens now? That's really up to the President.

But they were in international water.

Not according to China.

So, why can China simply ignore

the international law of the sea?

So does America. We're defending it.

So ratify it. Your Congress hasn't agreed to it yet.

They're bullies, Jas. Congress or China?

Our Congress doesn't arrest people just for disagreeing with...

Alright, shut up, children!

Let's just remember we're all friends here, alright?

Yeah?

Alice, this is Denver.

Jacob, what the hell just happened?

Yeah...

Hey. How is he? Well, it's just a bad cold.

Sorry if I was an alarmist before.

It's just that... you know,

I don't know how good the doctors are out here, so...

I know.

That's fine. Don't worry about it.

Well, there's no need to come out if you haven't left already.

I mean, if you have, maybe the three of us, we can get some lunch.

Ethan?

Yeah, I probably oughta... stay at the base.

You know, if it's not serious.

OK.

Yeah, let's do something special at the weekend.

Sure. Thanks, hon.

I'll see you tonight. Love ya.

Bye.

Hey. Mind a third?

Ethan! Course not. Join us.

Joe, Ethan.

It's Ethan James, right? You work at the base.

That was his wife at the hospital.

With his little one.

Yeah. It's, Annabelle, isn't it?

I've seen her at the court a bit.

You're with Shonguran. I'm with Shonguran, yeah.

Still exploring? No, no.

We've done all the prep work, talked to everybody, made some adjustments.

All the plans are with his mob now.

We just need a tick from the Central Land Council,

then we can take it to Canberra,

agree a price, and then sign a deal, and then start drilling.

And what are the Arrernte thinking, Paul?

Your elders really gonna let him just dig in your land?

At least they asked.

Any news on that stuff from data retrieval?

Not much. It turns out in the whole four years we only picked up

one piece of talk about a vampire, and that was in the Uruzgan Valley.

Nothing in Sittwe.

Uruzgan? Afghanistan.

Way back. July something, 2014.

So, we're back at square one. Yeah.

You know what? I'm even starting to wonder

if we're looking in the wrong place.

You mean the Americans weren't even the target?

Well, nothing said they were - we just assumed that.

But if the real target was one of the other passengers...

Then it wasn't a terrorist attack at all.

So, we should go back and look at the other people on that plane.

Let's go to data management now, see what we can find.

Jas. Yeah?

Take a break. Time doesn't matter now.

You've got four days off.

Enjoy them, and just pick it up when you come back on shift, alright?

Moses.

Are you OK?

What?

When you ran out this morning,

I wondered if maybe you weren't feeling well.

No. I'm... I'm fine.

But thanks.

How are you?

Fine.

Let's go, people. Got a plane to catch.

How long was he here the first time? It was after you got here, right?

10 months.

He came in from ASIS when Sophie Knight went on maternity leave.

It was six years ago now.

Didn't talk to me then either.

I've got it covered.

I've just figured out who we can blame.

What? No, trust me.

New plan. Foolproof. OK? You can stop worrying.

It'll take a few days for the paperwork to arrive

and when everyone's back on shift

I can tie a nice bow around the whole thing.

And I'm gonna drag you out and shout you a nice beer -

one of those new boutiquey things.

No, you're not. One beer?

Really? That'd kill ya?

Hey! I thought you'd gone for the day.

I just met that Zhou fella from Shonguran.

So sorry I couldn't do the intros. He's a nice guy, though, right?

Maybe.

The list of everyone who was in the collections room last Wednesday.

You ever heard anybody call Belle by any other name?

No.

So, our little traitor...

...is one of these people.

Including Moses?

It was A-crew's shift from 7am, so there's 12 of them.

Marilyn and Sam from D-crew later that evening.

How many were in there on their own? Six.

They're underlined.

Simon Penny, Deborah Vora, Eloise Chambers,

Gus, Jasmina Delic... and Moses.

What do you think about Moses? Do we take him off?

Or is planting a virus and then telling us about it

the kind of complex, double-thinking way his mind works?

Well, we shouldn't rule him out.

But at the moment, definitely least likely.

Who was in there the longest?

Well...

...one of them went in and out five times.

Ethan!

Ma'am. I appreciate you coming out here.

It's a long flight for one conversation.

No option this week. You know about Langley and the Pentagon?

I read the daily briefings.

Have we confirmed the point of origin?

China, undeniably.

They hacked into both systems using some sort of new technology.

Hence we are temporarily avoiding using our internet

and even secure telephone lines.

Which has therefore led to this.

Well, I'm honoured nonetheless.

Don't be, it's actually worse than we put in the briefings.

Essentially, they took all the files

of all the American agents at Harrogate and here.

So, Beijing knows everything about all of you now.

And we also heard from an embassy worker in Mumbai

that Beijing had a quiet chat

with over 100 friends of the party this week.

Friends? Businessmen, investors. Not spies.

Just loyal Chinese with influence abroad.

Disturb and distract - that was the request.

Now, is your problem linked to this?

We're not sure.

We believe there's only one insider involved,

and we know that person has to be one of only six people.

Well, keep the malware in place until they reveal themselves.

OK, but the longer we let a conspiracy run,

the greater the chance they might achieve something.

I wouldn't have thought so.

We're expecting you to identify the perpetrator long before that.

I'm assuming there's no problem accessing phone and bank records.

There is, actually.

Inside Australia that can only happen via ASIO

or the Attorney-General's office.

Some of our suspects have very good friends in both those places.

We'd be inviting a tip-off.

And we can't use our own satellites either.

Not inside Australia.

First, it's a breach of our own directives

and, second, everyone on the ops floor would see it.

So, Pine Gap has the most technically advanced

surveillance equipment in history all right here

and you can't use any of it?

Not in this situation, no.

Ethan, if there's been a breach at this facility, of all facilities,

it is essential that we identify and neutralise the perpetrator.

If we keep it in and you're relying on just me and Rudi,

well, I can't guarantee we can stop another Snowden moment.

You'll have to.

Who else knows at Langley? Just me and the director.

And there's nothing on paper.

If these motherfuckers do achieve something...

...you tried to fix this all by yourself.

But if it's handled well,

then the President will be fully briefed

about your remarkable service

and that unfilled job in Canberra could well be in the cards.

Ethan. Ma'am.

Where was Simon going?

Just home to wifey and the kids.

How many does he have? Four.

Yeah. I think they all go to private school, which I think is ridiculous.

How does he afford four sets of school fees?

Brings his own lunch in, never buys anyone coffee.

Hey, have you kept those calls

about vampire missiles in the Uruzgan Valley?

Yeah. Do you want to listen to them?

Sometime, maybe. OK.

Hey. Um, I've been meaning to ask...

...what happened to that job as team leader for imagery?

Marilyn Johnson got it.

From D-crew? How does that work?

It's too small a section to have a lead in every crew.

Which is true, I suppose.

But you've been here longer.

Well, yeah, but Marilyn's great.

Hasn't she got, like, an eye like a hawk or something?

Yeah, she's really good. I can see why she got it.

OK, so, did we forget the wine?

Do you want to get stuck into it already?

After the week we've had? Are you kidding me?

We should have started hours ago.

Must still be in the trunk. OK.

Unique, aren't they?

According to the Arrernte legend,

the whole range was created by giant caterpillars.

Really? My God.

Don't you google anything, ever?

I googled you.

If you're looking for bolts, you won't find any here.

You climb too?

Not here, though. You're not allowed.

But there's a few good places.

You'll have to show me around sometime.

I've never spoken to Zhou about you or Belle.

We only ever met at community development meetings.

I had to check.

In fact, I didn't know her name was Annabelle. Is it?

I only ever knew her as Belle.

Which is my point.

Everyone calls her Belle.

Her credit card is Belle, Instagram, everything.

You would literally have to see her passport or her birth certificate.

And you think that he has?

Yes.

We know the Chinese hacked our security files.

They know every American agent here,

and I am sure he's been extensively briefed.

In fact, you should get ASIO to watch him.

Ethan, he's been here for 18 months

with no indication he's anything other than a geologist.

He's a Chinese national, Kath.

Friend of the party. And they have told him about us.

Now, why they picked him, I'm not sure.

But then, I could ask why about a lot of things recently.

Why don't we know who shot down a civilian plane

right over the APEC summit?

Do you not believe how important the US-Australia alliance is to us?

For heaven's sake. Do I look like an idiot?

Our relationship with America is immensely valuable,

and we get a lot more out of it that you get from us - we know that.

But you're 20 fuckin' times bigger than us in every way.

A lot would have to change

before this alliance starts costing Australia more than it's worth.

And I, for one, think that that day is a long way off.

Others don't, but I do.

Why do you need convincing?

What have we done to make you doubt it?

Is it because our leaders are trading insults at the moment?

Or is this because we insisted on the new MD?

Come on.

Are you coming? Ethan.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?

It doesn't matter where you keep your friends, Rudi.

They're only your friends if you trust them.

Sure. But remember what Ronald Reagan said - "Trust, but verify."

And when he said that he was talking about the Soviets

agreeing to reduce their nuclear arsenal.

And you know how he verified that?

Pine Gap. A shared facility.

Nothing else could do it.

I should've told you yesterday.

I just had to gather my thoughts.

My apologies.

Who found it? Moses.

I should've guessed.

Are you sure he's not playing some weird intellectual game?

Could be.

But highly unlikely.

He looked pretty shocked.

And to have any hope of neutralising this thing...

...sensibly, quietly...

No Canberra.

No Washington.

But at least...

...we know it's one of them.

Who spent the most time in there?

When I move my knight, it looks like you could take him.

But...

...when I moved it, my bishop is now attacking your queen.

Ta-da!

Now, so, you have to look real close...

...to see where all the attacks are coming from.

God, Kerr's just such a child. That's the problem.

He's like a big kid in a sandpit,

just trying to knock all the other castles over.

And that's your critique of the Asian pivot?

Yeah, it's my summary. OK.

Look, if you wanna read the long version,

it'll be on my blog tonight.

And this one is hilarious. Like, it's fucking fantastic.

It's gonna go viral. So was the last one, wasn't it?

One day it's gonna happen.

Yeah. Yeah, and one day I'm gonna have sex again.

Hi.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

It's about a woman's place. Caught my eye too.

If you like it, you should come inside and see her other works.

Cooee!

What was that? Man.

So, giant caterpillars, yeah?

That's the Dreaming.

They came out of the desert at Snail Ridge, about 50 miles that way,

and then went back underground near Alice.

That's a nice story. It's been around for 60,000 years.

Hey, how old were you when you left Serbia?

I was nine.

Do you remember much about it?

Enough.

What happened in the Uruzgan Valley?

My brother was there. Where is he now?

Arlington.

Partly.

They brought home as much as they could find,

but it was a light coffin.

And my dad was a coalminer,

and he married the daughter of a local gun shop owner.

I grew up in Philippi,

just outside this little Div II college town

called Alderson Broaddus.

One diner, one gas station, covered bridge - that's about it.

My brother went to West Point and I went to Fort Meade.

And lil Gus, he just gonna carve his name

into history one day - y'all see if he don't.

That was terrible. That was good.

That was terrible. That strawberry's awesome.

And it's much more Alabama than West Virginia.

Coffee at my place?

Wow. Clean bathroom.

I've gotta tidy up before I let you into my place.

No judgement. I promise.

So, what's with that cutthroat razor?

That is so Antiques Roadshow.

My great-grandfather's. Far out.

So, it has meaning, I suppose.

Plus it's good discipline. You have to concentrate.

Stay calm.

Makes me shiver.

You'd be fine with it.

I think. You reckon?

Sure.

If you ever wanna give it a go, I'd trust you with it.

I'd sit back and be all yours.

That sounds intimate.

Well...

...the real trick

is a light touch and a steady hand.

Then, as long as you don't hurry anything...

...it feels fantastic.

So, what happens now?

Maybe we should tackle a real climb next time we're off work?

I'm in.

No, no, the light. Just turn it back on, please.

What? Um...

I, um...

...I'm just gonna get going home.

Just this time.

Yeah, alright.

Sorry.

Alright.

Morning. Hey.

How you going today? Good. How are you?

Good, thanks. Great.

Hey.

Can I get a printout of these? What are these?

They're the phone archives for the non-American passengers

on that Burmese plane.

I'm trying to figure out who the real target was.

OK. I'll print them out now for you.

Shit.

We're wanted in the conference room.

What for?

I don't know.

Right, this man is the answer to the riddle of BM-24 - Pun Sang.

The plumber in seat 6B? Except it's not.

One of our ASIS agents discovered it's really Tiha Meng,

a Buddhist policeman accused of raping five Rohingya women.

Everyone thought that he'd gone to prison,

but in fact he'd been released with a new identity

for snitching on a cellmate.

A couple of weeks ago, the, Rohingya found out

about his new identity and his sudden freedom,

and they just went mental.

They found some Taliban traitors who sold them a vampire, and boom.

But because the Rohingya are an oppressed minority

and not anti-Western terrorists,

they weren't part of our threat assessment

and they certainly weren't on our tasking.

OK, but hang on.

I just pulled up the phone records of the other passengers on that flight,

and there's a text that Lwin Ho sent - the journo in 3A.

She wrote a message to her editor in Hong Kong, saying,

"Must meet 'cause got totes explosive news.

"Will call as soon as landed."

Yeah, she had recognised Tiha Meng getting on the plane.

Really? You think so? Absolutely. Yes.

It was a huge story over there.

But as far as the rest of the world need to know,

the plane was shot down by the ISIS cell Shadhinota.

This can just stay with us.

So, there is no intelligence failure from A-crew?

That's the finding?

No, it was an internal Burmese flight, not in our tasking,

and nor were the Rohingya.

Well, good.

Thank you. In which case...

Not now.

OK, let's all just move on.

Yeah. I'm sure we've all got work to do.

Sure do.

Are you gonna talk to her? I got it.

So, Gus, that EMP last week -

is that the biggest one we've ever seen?

Launched as a warhead, yeah.

Jas. Yeah?

A word? Come on.

POTUS is making a decision tonight, apparently.

OK, enough of that. After you.

Who else knows about that text?

No-one. Good.

Forget it.

Are we clear?

Rudi?

Do you seriously think a dispossessed, starving Rohingyan

would spend $50,000 on a surface-to-air missile,

kill 14 people, to get one rapist he could have followed and shot

when the plane got to Yangon?

The real truth is something the Australians are keeping secret.

Think. When the ISIS story looked like it might come unstuck,

they had us bring Jacob in to run the investigation.

Sidelining you.

And when the ISIS story did fall over,

they had to go and dig up a Rohingyan story

with an ASIS report that just dropped out of nowhere.

Well, dress me up and call me Hillary, but I don't believe it.

Come on, I didn't want to pull the mood down,

but she was a Hong Kong journo on her first ever trip to Myanmar.

She wouldn't have recognised a local rapist in witness protection.

That wasn't her explosive news.

Yes, it was. No, it wasn't, Jacob.

That... is what happened.

Aren't they one of our strongest allies?

Yeah. But against that, our President has just refused

to give their Prime Minister a guarantee

that we will protect them, so...

But we share everything with Australia.

They have access to all our intelligence here.

What if some of that got out? Frequency ranges? Encryption keys?

Can you imagine how many American lives would be at risk?

We have to know what really happened and why.

And the Australians who just left - Kath, Jasmina,

and whoever the hell Jacob Kitto really is -

they know.

And don't go jumping to conclusions as to what this means

because you will never be fuckin' right.

And this must remain secret, Jas, especially from the Americans.

Although...

...apparently, you are becoming quite friendly with one of them.

Which is OK, because we all need a personal life - we get it.

But we also trust that you will be loyal,

because that is the secrecy act that you have signed with us.

You two seem to be getting along reasonably well lately.

Sure. We're friends.

Well, staying friends might suit all of us.

First I'm invaluable, then I'm demoted for political expediency...

...and now I'm needed again.

Can you, um, head back to ops, please?

And Fort Meade will be told A-crew had no failure of intelligence

while I was mission director?

Eventually.

But the better our support information,

the more weight my report will have.

OK.

To refresh ourselves on the motives for treason.

Money. Ideology.

Compromise. And ego.

How are things at home? Perfect.

Or, they will be, once I win lotto.

Has Gus asked you about your family?

I told him they were killed by the Kosovo Liberation Army.

'Cause that is the truth, isn't it?

I'm with you, by the way, about being at the coalface.

The Australians, they're definitely hiding something.

Could it end in war?

I really wanna know what you think is gonna happen.

Just still wondering about the Rohingya shooting down that plane.

If it was about something else, aren't you curious what it was?

Informative evening? On many fronts.

Including Mr Jacob Kitto.

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