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Trying to find out why people die. A few billion might be a motive.

I've just spent 500 quid without authorisation. It's a bit dirty.

Sonia's dead cos she knew too much.

..Thought he was EMPLOYING Sonia.

I left her.

He wasn't screwing her. Not biblically. Syd reckons he's gay.

Helen has found untaxed income going into Dominic Foy's account.

Three payments of 25 grand from Warner-Schloss.

Third was paid in just before Sonia Baker died, but debited two days after.

And Warner-Schloss are lobbyists for...U-Ex Oil.

Collins chairs the Energy Committee.

U-Ex has spent double on environmental improvements than any other oil corporation.

The U-Ex Oil story - draw the line.

Giving what reasons?We can't afford to upset the Government.

You just couldn't resist her. That's unprofessional.

Yesterday he pretends to be my best friend.

Stephen says you compiled a list of interviewees for Sonia Baker's job.

Sonia knew she'd be here a month before you met her.Not possible!

The police need receipts from when I was seeing Sonia. Enough to show I wasn't paying her for anything.

There's a big invoice here for the Craymore House Hotel.

Sonia sprang a surprise on me. Weekend away - it was charged to U-Ex Oil.

He's only just realised how much trouble he's in.

This programme contains some strong language.

PHONE BLEEPS:Dom? Janine. I need to know what's going on.

The police keep saying you're back in England,

so where the hell are you? Ring me in the office.

THEY WHISPER

..As the Honourable Member said, however, I feel that the Bill is...

Sorry.

..I welcome the Government's increased funding for local authority social services, but...

'Ever heard of Dominic Foy?No.

'PR guy, small independent. Not one of ours.

'I've a budget of 16 million a year. I don't use whitebait.

'What if I know that he's banked 75 grand...?'

She walked out?And I paid! Doesn't prove she knows anything.

Suggests U-Ex were getting privileged information.

No, it proves you suggested it.

How much would you say this is up for? And guess who owns it.

1.2 million?

Greer Thornton. Stephen Collins' secretary.

You know what her salary is? 27,800.

How the hell can she afford this? Do you know who her dad was?

Where is it?

Admiral Sydney Thornton. 1926-2003. Left it to his only child, Greer.

She's probably selling it to pay the inheritance tax.

Share the spoils. You wanted me? Yeah.

Copy this, clean the background. Get it transcribed. ..Susan Saggatchean, U-Ex Oil.

To what extent? Not that brilliant.

No indication she knows anything but the size of Dan's penis.

Hey, hands up anybody who's NEVER screwed a source.

What's new, if that's the word? Month after they started sleeping together,

Baker's birthday present to Collins was a weekend at the Craymore House Hotel.How fey!

Bill was covered by Warner-Schloss. ..Recharged to U-Ex Oil.

Yeah, but do we know that for a fact?

Their account code's reference 47120, yeah?Yeah.

Documentary evidence?Pete's driving down to get a copy of the invoice.

If he gets it, we print it tomorrow. Saying what?

It speaks for itself. It's a stitch-up.

As a taxpayer, I'm right with you.

He thought she was paying. Cal, no offence - don't be thick.

IF U-Ex contrived Sonia Baker's appointment in Collins' office... I thought we took that as read.

..which is unlikely, given the scrutiny for a job like that.She was recommended by Greer Thornton -

Collins' secretary. Change your ribbon!

Cameron...every other applicant for that job was more experienced

and more qualified than Sonia Baker.So? You lot got jobs

when there were better. It's an economic compromise.

You're tying yourselves in knots. Just wrap it up.

Get decent professional coverage.

Put my money where your mouth is. That's all I've ever asked.

None of it makes sense yet. < Della.

Grow up! I'll be back in three hours.

If Pete's not back by then, tell him to fax that invoice over to me.

Cameron.

Who's leaned on you? Several people.

When?Since we opened this story.

So why start being obstructive now?

I can't afford to see my house flash before my eyes

and you worry me. Your bias in Stephen Collins' favour's gone up since you started poking his wife.

Collins is being stitched up.

Not without substantial contributions from himself.

He was still shagging his researcher when she was murdered.

Which he's admitted.Thank him for confirming the bloody obvious(!)

He came to me with that Craymore House stuff.

I'm the last person he'd want to confide in and HE came to ME because he's nowhere else to go.

He's shitting himself. You've got to admit, that takes a lot of guts to do that.

Bob Coutts made a telling error.

He said, "We can't afford to upset 'the Government' over this."

We've got nothing on paper that implicates the Government.

You must've talked to SOMEBODY within shouting distance recently.

George?

George? George.

Uh, I'll catch you later.

I'm sorry, George. It's just that I need five minutes later. Well, ten.Today's not good.

You OK?Yeah, I'm fine. I just don't know who else to talk to.

Um...Marion's at the theatre with friends.

Why don't you come round to the house after 7.30? But literally, ten minutes.No, I appreciate that.

It's always sortable, Stephen. Live by that.

Looking for the Greer...Yep.

Thanks.

Just fax it through.

BELL RINGS

Tried the bell. I was ignoring the bell.

Greer...about nine years back,

I spent a whole year as Stephen's campaign manager. I fought to get him elected.

Stephen's intelligent. I'm sure he achieved that alone. Yeah, OK, my ego.

But I was handling his life, his schedule.

Working out what he said, when. You know, I got to know him...

and like him. For all the reasons you do.

Now somebody somewhere... wants to see him hang for something he hasn't done.

Stephen's not bent.

No.

You're not telling me a woman with your experience...and workload

is gonna go for the least qualified joker in a deck like this.

Somebody advised you to pick Sonia Baker as Stephen's researcher.

As a professional recommendation. Which you need if you're as busy as you are. It's the same in my job.

The Energy Minister.

The current one? ..George Fergus?

UNVOICED WHISPER

Mr Foy?Yeah. Mr Foy, Mr Foy. OK. All right.

What do you want to see me about? OK? Got messages everywhere...

VOICES INAUDIBLE

Dominic Foy?I want it on record that I came here voluntarily.

Good of you.OK. Right, let's just get this over and done with.

Which bit?..OK.

Sonia Baker was...my girlfriend.

Um, my best friend.

Nobody was more upset than me when she died.

And whether she topped herself

or-or-or was murdered...

I mean, I had nothing to do with that. Nothing at all.

In fact, the last time I saw her, which was not that long before -

I mean we were, you know, really, really good...close. I mean...

Never been better. Really.

So?

So?

What else can I tell you?Just that in writing. ..Take a statement.

Hang on, hang on!What?So what was all the shit about?What shit?

Coming the heavy at my office! Following me! If that's all you needed...?

Um...we're not following you.

Liz, you seen Cal?Boys' room.

And you won't get an answer till you've faxed a proper question.

Oi!

Bell just called me.

Dominic Foy's volunteered a witness statement.Anything?All bullshit.

Less than he's told us. But he's convinced somebody's following him.

It's Fat Malcolm. Who's Fat Malcolm?

He used to work in the press hall.

Valets cars to bump up his pension. Got him doing this for 35 a day.

You knew where Foy was?!At home. Hiding his car round the corner.

You've had us schlepping all over the place!Foy won't jump for cover unless he's got nowhere else to go.

Is he at the police station? I can't confront him there. He'll know where I got the information.

Make an excuse. Go get him. I'll come.No, better on your own.

Find Syd and put him on red alert. Do we know where Helen is? Tell me why you want her.

Helen. Helen!It's Question Time, I can't miss it.

You know George Fergus well.Don't think he's here.Can you find him? It's a month to get an appointment.

One question. One answer. Did he personally recommend Sonia Baker for that job or not?George?!

He said specifically that he knew her family.

I'm not asking for a confession, a denial is fine. But before tonight.

I'll find him.Thanks.

Dominic!

Who told you I was here? I'm a witness. I've just finished making a statement.

OK, I saw your car.

If it's you following me, OK, right, I'm straight back in there, OK,

to file a complaint! Because there are privacy laws!

What about Sonia Baker's privacy? What about my privacy after my flat was ransacked?!

Dominic! You know more than anybody about why Sonia Baker was murdered.

You're a fool if you think they're gonna let you walk away from this.

ARE you being followed? Seriously? Yes.

Silver Rover.

Go back inside. Report it.

Look...I'm scared, OK?

Where are they parked exactly?

Just follow me.

Right, literally straight behind me. Don't look yet!

Yeah, see?

OK.

Keep your head down and crawl over to mine. The green Saab.

No.I'll take yours. Meet me in the hotel we were at yesterday.

Don't check in, just find somewhere in the lobby and stay put. OK?

Here.

KEYS JANGLE Go.

I think he'll talk. We're going to the hotel.

Tell Fat Malcolm to follow me, not him. I'm in the BMW.

Jesus, Cal, if it's urgent, you don't bring it here!

I've got Dominic Foy. ..This might be the last chance we get to get the right answers,

so I need the right questions. Ican't talk to him.

He wouldn't know you were there.I came to you for help - doesn't make me your Westminster correspondent.

No, I sent our Westminster correspondent to get a statement from George Fergus.

Greer named him.

Choose which direction you want your information coming from.

..Are you sure you're going to the woods to hunt bear?

Excuse me, sir, the young lady at the door wants to speak to you.

Going back to this thing before, the Green Paper, I don't know about you, but what surprised me...

Excuse me, sir.

Um, excuse me, gentlemen.

What I wouldn't have said - because I couldn't have said - was that I knew Sonia's father.

Because he's never heard of you. But we've got people on record

saying you did say you knew him, which is why she got the job.

I fail to see where you're taking all this.How did you hear of Sonia? She'd never worked in the building.

People mention names. Talent gets remembered.

She never applied to work in the building, so how did she qualify as talent? Whose talent?Helen...

how departments find researchers can't be of interest to you. It is if they come via U-Ex Oil.

Are you suggesting she was working for THEM?That's not disputable.

I'm asking if you put her into that position at U-Ex's request.

This conversation is over.

A lot like your career if you repeat a single word of that accusation.

You'll regret it profoundly.

Did they follow you?To the NCP. Cal McCaffrey was waiting for me. I switched cars before they arrived.

You OK?No, no, I'm not OK. ..Let's just get upstairs, OK?

We've got to wait for Dan. He's got the key. ..Why don't you sit with your back to the door?

You know who those people are, don't you? Who they're working for.

Either U-Ex Oil or Warner-Schloss.

If they wanted you dead, you wouldn't be here. So what are they waiting for?

Watch where you're bloody going!

Just get me out of here! Get me out of here!OK, OK.

Dominic. Well done, good to see you. Let's get Dominic out of here.

'Dan, Stephen's out front in my car. Wire him up.'

Dan Foster. You OK?

Della's wearing the earpiece. Any questions you've got,

just press the button and speak in your normal voice.

Do you wanna try it?

Do you know your team leader's sleeping with my wife, Della?

She heard that.

Dan Foster - what, as in Cameron Foster? Your dad's the editor?

So all this was laid on a plate for you, eh, Dan? Working for Daddy?

Cal McCaffrey knows I'm good at what I do.Sure(!)

My dad doesn't agree - it took me five years to get a job there.

You didn't know anybody in YOUR business?Don't be a smartarse.

It's late for me to apologise for that now.

Let's go.

You'd better come in.

So...

have you ever met Foy? Socially, or...?

Ah, sorry. Syd. Syd's with me. ..Syd, Stephen.

Hiya. "Man B" on any transcripts, yeah?

Drinks in the fridge. Help yourself.

Where's Dominic Foy? Ssh! Next door.

This goes way beyond the deal that we had before.Money.Yeah, money.

Yes, money. Yeah, yeah, money. And I want guarantees about my side of the story.

How can I if I don't know what you're offering? I am NOT going to prison for this.

Who said anything about prison? If the story's told exactly like it happened, I shouldn't go to prison.

I don't want "he alleges"...It's a legal phrase if we've no evidence.

Don't worry, cos I'm evidence.Who's your contact at Warner-Schloss? No, hang on. No names, right?

No names. I ain't doing that. Paul Canning.

He's their account director for U-Ex Oil.

OK, fine, Paul. Just Paul.

How did Sonia Baker get to be working for Stephen Collins

with a CV that's worse than yours, Dominic?

Paul asked me...if I knew anybody he could trust. Really trust.

Wanted somebody in the Energy Select Committee with the qualifications. What was in it for you?Nothing.

Consultancy fees?No.

Three payments of 25 grand, the last of which was bank-revoked after Sonia's death.

Cos she was no longer useful. Therefore nor were you.

Oh, yeah. OK.

All right. Consultancy fees, yeah, but, you know, for non-specified PR.

Did they say how they'd slot her into that job?Did they say how they'd squeeze her into that job?

No.

You can't just drop somebody into a parliamentary research position.

Paul thought they'd manage. With somebody in the Government?

U-Ex have ex-personnel all over the place. On this board, that committee. I mean, that's no secret.

George Fergus recommended Sonia.

Fine.

Did they mention him by name?

They mentioned him by name? They didn't.

Sonia did.

All right, months down the line, OK?

Stephen Collins' secretary got a bit steamed up over her CV, all right?

Sonia had upped her degree in politics to a first from a two-one.

The secretary found out accidentally

and blew her top, OK? And we all thought she was gonna get fired.

Then in steps George Fergus - everything's cleaned up.

Why didn't Greer Thornton go to Collins with this?How come the secretary never told Collins?

All I know is the one time Sonia came close to being found out,

secretary goes upstairs and George Fergus smooths out all the creases.

He shouldn't have had anything to do with it.

Stephen Collins is meant to be running an independent committee.

Sonia Baker was paid double wages to feed information to U-Ex Oil?

Yes.Was she efficient? She kept her job.

So why did they want her dead?

I don't know. I don't know.

I didn't... I don't know nothing about that.

You do now. Why did they want Sonia dead?

Who knew about the affair? Who told U-Ex about the affair?

That's not the question. How many people knew?She told you.

Did you tell Paul Canning at Warner-Schloss?No. No, no, no.

You and Canning discussed it.

So you've talked to Paul.How did he know if you didn't tell him?

OK.

All right, OK?

I told him. OK? I told him!

I told him, all right? I told him!

But only when I thought it was funny. Only when I thought Sonia was doing a good job.

It was...

The shit didn't hit the fan till she stopped filing back.

Till she stopped reporting back to Paul Canning details of the Select Committee meetings?

You're not recording this, are you?

What with?Up.

Dominic!Ssh!

Oh, I can't take this any more.

Paul turned up at my house.

Middle of one night... and he was...on...the ceiling.

"Talk to her. Talk to her. Tell her. She's your mate. She's YOUR friend. Talk to the stupid bitch!"

She'd told him...she wanted to pull out of the whole deal.

To stop working for Collins.

Against him?Yes, against him. She couldn't handle it any more.

The dirty money was getting to her. She was...

..terrified of being found out.

But Paul just went into orbit.

He told her he knows she was screwing Collins

and he said that he'd blow it to the press if she downed tools.

It was as simple as that.

By the time I got round to her flat, she was...

..totally freaked.

You know? She was...inconsolable.

She'd fallen in love with Collins.

She'd got herself pregnant to him.

She said if he ever found out how she landed in that office, that she'd rather...

..die than have to face him with that.

She could have been making that up. I said that! I said that. That was exactly what I said.

She showed me this thing... this test-kit thing.

Blue spot. She was pregnant.W-When was this?A week before she died.

Right, who's telling that story? Whose secret's that?!

Whose secret's that?! If you two don't know, whose secret's that?!

Cos nobody else mentioned it!

And that's why I'm shitting meself! I'm sick of it!

Stephen?

LOUD KNOCKING

Open this bloody door! I've got to.No, don't.

Stephen, calm down! Little shit! Where is he? FOY! Dan, get him out now.

Get out! Get out here!

Leave it.Come on, get out here!

Get out! Get out here!Who is it?

I want to see your face!Stephen!

You used her, you little prick! ..Get off me!

You used her! You prick! HE MOANS

You used her!

What the fuck's he doing here?

HE MUMBLES

I got her a job.

That's all I did. That's all I did. I just got her the job.

You killed her!

Stephen, come back. Stephen!

Hiya.

This is all on tape, by the way.

Stephen, come back.

If you leave me to mop this up, I can't... How can I keep you out of this?

Come back and talk to me.

He was in the bathroom. Then he's screaming for help. It sounded like he fell.From a trapeze?!

I fell.What?

I fell!OK, OK!

Clear the way, please.

Liz, put me on to Cameron.He's got people with him.Interrupt!

I've been told not to.What kind of people?It's all mineral water and big front teeth.

I'm going to e-mail a document. I want a print-off. Get a print-off to him. Discreetly, but fast. OK?

- Dot, dot, dot. It doesn't matter. - I've spelt legal wrong.

Stop worrying about typos, you poof! It makes me look illiterate. Syd, send it.

Poof ain't much of a thank you.

I didn't intend it as gender specific, either.

I just meant...poof.

Stephen Collins was prepared to leave his family for Sonia.I didn't know that then.

We can't keep you out of this, Dominic.

I don't want you to do anything else for me.

I don't want anything. I've got my own protection.

Like what?

U-Ex are going to deny any knowledge of you.

They can't.

Not on paper.Dominic?

Are you his girlfriend?

Yes.

Sorry, you can't come in with him. That's OK.

I'm fairly squeamish.

..I'll write the copy. You check for facts. Ring round anybody we need for corroboration.

You get confirmation that Paul Canning HAS lost his job and left his flat.

Find any phone numbers that might connect us to him and a phone log to see if he's been active.OK.

The very least we can say is underground or untraceable.

The presses are already running. We won't get it in tonight's now. Your dad's never stopped a run?!

That's why he lost his last job!I can't get a phone log in that time. I may be able to help.Your copper?

I've had more out of coppers than you'll ever get. I don't want to know.

Anybody really senior?!

This is terrific. >

It's amazing.

And all for under 40 grand.

Can we get Sonia Baker's medical records? >

If they're covering that up, the least we allege is, was she pregnant the week before she died?

And big black hole in a story this size, quotes from Stephen Collins. Did he know she was pregnant?

Given the accusations, what does he now make of his relationship with Sonia Baker? Can you get them?

Can you print it?Not right now, so take your time.

U-Ex's injunction gagging every aspect of the story on the grounds it could strangle their share price.

So?

Personal injunction from George Fergus's lawyers, naming a conversation he had with Helen.

Officially, no comment, but they're briefing left, right and centre.

George went nowhere near this level of involvement.

My gorgeous, generous offer of early retirement if the two documents are respected and adhered to.

It's a big story.

Big day.

Big hitters!

Who fancies a drink?

Not you. Find Stephen Collins. I want his permission to print the quotes he's given you personally.

Well, is he clean or not clean? Make him pick a team! ..Get me the press hall!

Everybody! Stop what you're doing!

Everybody! That means you. Phones down, computers down. Get your coats!

Anybody not essential to tonight's edition - Masons' Arms, ten minutes.

If you think I'm drunk now, look in at ten o'clock.Print Supervisor.

Eddie? How are you? How WERE you? It's a stop!

Are you getting this? ..Absolutely serious.

With my scanned signature at the bottom.

Absolutely no change to that without my personal consent.

Only people with expense accounts allowed in the lifts!

Stephen, it's me. Listen, I'm sorry you had to go through all that.

None of us knew it was going that way. I'm really sorry.

Can you call me as soon as you get this message? I'll try your other numbers.

RECORDED MESSAGE: 'Leave your name...' ..Hello?

How busy is your record shop at three in the morning?

ENGINE REVS Stop that!

Breakfast!

You daft...!

I woke up at half past two with a stonking hard-on,

thinking, "I'm not going to see her till the weekend."

You don't think I'm gonna have sex in this car?!You've sprinted round sticking make-up on for something.

So, you know, we're not completely ruling out rituals, are we?

ENGINE STARTS

I love you.

But if you're going to buy that, then you're going to have to start doing something about it.

You worried about Karen and Louis?

They know me and Stephen will probably get divorced.

Probably?

It's what you do with kids. You keep telling them probably, till they come to terms with inevitabilities.

It's not a lie.

I left Louis a note saying that the shop alarm had gone off.

Now that was a lie, so I shouldn't hang around.

You know the easiest thing in the world

would be pretending that we got to this because Stephen let you down.

I wouldn't be here if I thought you thought that.

But I wouldn't be here at all if he hadn't.

Suggesting what?

Sonia Baker was working for U-Ex Oil.

She was put into Stephen's office to spy on him.

She slept with him deliberately?

She was leaking his notes to U-Ex.

Bitch!

But she slept with him because they were having an affair, Anne.

Does he know this?

Yeah.

Well, he couldn't deny the facts after a while.

This is a late print, so his people won't have clocked it yet.

Maybe just...

ANIMATED CHATTER

MOBILE RINGS CONTINUOUSLY

DOOR CLOSES

Bit grown-up in here. Sure I'm invited?

You're involved, so you need telling. I don't care what you're offered,

this story remains confidential to the people in this room, or I'll personally punch you.

- Why are you picking on me? - It's for all of you. Until I tell you what we're saying, button it.

Adam and Georgia have filed an appeal against U-Ex Oil's blocking of the story.

We've instructed Geoffrey Thomas, QC.

What's the chance of an injunction? We'd have to pick at the wording.

There's always loopholes, but it's bound to emasculate the copy. This letter? They're sacking you?

What?!In a way.

Because of this?

I no longer have editorial control.

She does.

Would you like a cup of tea?

You're in a position to tie it up. That's a week, if it's not gone to print.

Then get the injunctions lifted! We need briefing statements ready

to get tomorrow's edition. I want a press conference.

We're all wanted back at the House. The Herald's withdrawn the appeal.

The board suspended Foster. That's one favour cashed in! It'll give us breathing space, but don't relax.

They're all chasing this now. Do NOT relax yet.

Cars are downstairs.

You knew Sonia was working for U-Ex Oil.

That's not a proven fact.

She was murdered.The police are investigating.With interference!

You had an affair. That's all.

You're not to blame for what went wrong in Sonia's life. If we can steer events clear of you, good.

If we can't, you're strong enough to take it on the chin. It's why you're being looked at.Who knew?

I don't know.George.I don't know. Why are you protecting him?

The energy report's bigger than both of you.It's a joke - stiffing the oil companies.

Stopping oil companies stiffing the government.U-Ex.

You knew what was in there because Fergus put Sonia into my office.

I want to know why he's not being flogged in public for that. I know why you're angry, Stephen.

You especially. But any hint of contamination sets us back a year.

We can throw the press, fragment the impact of any accusations. I can do that, I promise you.

But your recommendations are to be next session's cornerstone. It makes you an important individual.

You stink.Me?You don't connect two words without thinking. Good job one of us can.

So twisted!Do you want...?Your wife must be sick of you sleeping with your cock on the pillow!

My wife's substantially happier than yours is.

Sorry.

I couldn't have the arrogance to represent a constituency.

I think I'd be embarrassed to even say that.

You lot, you queue up with all the vanity of schoolboys!

You go to the front and the radical voices come out in falsettos.

You're your own worst bloody enemies.

I don't know whether George was taking a bung from U-Ex.

I know what I think. But I won't know until it lands on my desk,

which is when I'll have to mop it up. I'm just the cleaner, Stephen.

For your own protection, get the report out and over with. And get used to the attention.

They're offering me a seat in the cabinet?Private life permitting - which WILL land on my desk.

I'm not your enemy, Stephen.

He needs some air. He's walking.

DOOR CLOSES

< Come in.

Cal McCaffrey, Yvonne Shaps - legal executive, Legal.

As from now, Yvonne will be making all my headline decisions for me. Nowhere near true.

I'm avoiding printing material that invites more writs than readers.

I've withdrawn the appeal against the injunction.Great first move(!)

On the grounds we shouldn't be spending legals defending a story that can't defend itself!

That story is good. It's better than good.

Bits of it are. You can't accuse a big corporation of murder without evidence.Implying responsibility.

You paid an anonymous source for details of Sonia's assassination. Requiring less implication.

Anonymous source is not good enough on something this size. If you can't back it, we can't print it.

Oh, please, don't look at me like that message just came from Mars!

Listen...

Yvonne...

I don't know who sent you, but, um...

you'd have to be pretty thick not to...No, no! No spitting!

Yvonne's not saying the big no. Just little no's until we get a version of the story we can print.

Cameron, if we don't go with this, and soon, it'll get hijacked... I know. Shut up!

Maybe that's Yvonne's secret plan. We'll find out.

Why don't you go and, um, and type something, um, lovely,

and then we'll calm down

and regroup when she's had a chance to read it intelligently?

The mental bitch has withdrawn the appeal.

Yvonne Shaps can spend a thousand quid on a pair of shoes, but she's never found an outfit to match!

Just these glowing treasures on the end of her precious legs.

Dad, why aren't you walking? To?

In the direction of your balls! Why are you just standing there joking?

If I walk, I lose a 15-year pension.

If they sack me, the severance invites untold wealth in a Mediterranean climate.

You're gonna let 'em do it! They're trying to break the story up.

If it comes out like rabbit shit, where's the impact? A house in Tuscany worth the sacrifice, is it?

Or, indeed, your mother's medical bills?

Do you want another drink?No.

Turn your anonymous source round.

What's the point? They're not going to print the story anyway! They don't own the story.

YOU do.

What's going on?

Witness his signature.

And backdate it to the 11th.

Yup.

What action is being taken to make sure we adequately continue

to tackle world poverty after the current programme ends?

Some 900 million people worldwide

are likely to still be living in extreme poverty in 2015.

Even if goals are achieved, our commitment to work against poverty must continue.

I thank the honourable lady for recognising the importance

of the need to continue to fight world poverty.

Does she agree that the hopelessness that comes from it causes division worldwide...?

What do you mean?You've been a mate. At least I could warn you.

What do you mean?You won't grease your fat arse while I suffer. What are U-Ex paying you?

I've never taken money from U-Ex, or anybody.Directorship?Cut that out.

You manipulated Sonia into my department.Don't be ridiculous.

My secretary's prepared to go on public record saying the opposite.

I did talk to Greer. She's confusing one conversation with another.

Are you confused? No, I'm not. >

The words were, "Pick a good 'un, but make sure it's Sonia Baker.

"We could do with somebody like that backing Stephen up.

"I know her family."

You've let me down, George.

Hi.Hi.

Look, Olicia, I just...

Sonny.

I was asked to nominate Sonia. That's all I did. No lies.

Is you "knew the family" not a lie? That's it.Asked by?

You were made chairman of the Energy Committee as people trusted you.You trusted me to take it up the arse!

The opposite! To be regarded as independently minded - not against them, not for them.

Bright enough not to go too far with your recommendations.They've damaged me. You've damaged me!

Sonia Baker wasn't appointed at U-Ex's request.Bullshit! She was on their payroll. I can prove it!

I mean, we knew she was theirs. But they weren't aware of that, and still aren't.

God, Stephen...

It was obvious the oil companies would want an operator close to the committee. We created a vacancy.

We knew from Intelligence she was their candidate.

I primed Greer to allow something to happen because it was in our interests.

How, for God's sake?It made U-Ex more secure.The whole point was the opposite.Within reason.

We know from experience you don't mess with the oil industry.

If they can't be seduced, they throw tantrums. They can't be dragged into line.

We tried that. We had a fuel crisis, and the government nearly buckled.

So nobody took money, Stephen...

Well, apart from the country, hopefully, when they lower the cost of filling a tank.

So you must have known she was involved with me?What could I do?

Two adults, I couldn't interfere. You couldn't interfere?!

Not without undoing a lot of good work.She's dead, you stupid, disgraceful fuck!

Nobody here... knows how that happened. Nobody.

For God's sake, Stephen, the stakes weren't that high.

What the hell do you think we are?

I don't know.

Give me her name.

I want to talk to her family. We've got a 15-year-old girl on the run and that doesn't bother you?

Less than you talking her into stuff she can't handle.That briefcase is a major piece of evidence.

Which is why she gave it to you - to prove my brother was killed for it. Why do you think I'm here?Again!

Where's my Kelvin's name? Huh?

Where's your name, come to that?

You've got no power, man. You're toothless!

Kelvin's murder is the only reason we latched onto this story. I hope he haunts you.Sonny...

Sonny. Sonny, listen...

If I can produce somebody who can say where the briefcase came from...

So, I'll say I nicked it from a professional killer.He can't contradict that, can he? He's dead!

I've left a good job to be near my mum. MOBILE RINGS

Do you think I stand any chance of getting work if I admit I'm a thief? Hiya. ..Sorry. ..Call you back?

Come and see me.At work, yeah? I'm going to your house.

You only have to say that you were there when he took it.

That he rang Sonia Baker, a woman he'd never met, to warn her that someone was planning to kill her.

They would have to re-open the file!

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