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Go and have
the time of your life.

WILL: A newsflash.

Plane's gone down.

- Murray Guthrie.
- Jim Swire.

Full disclosure,
I'm a journalist.

JIM: They say in the press
it may have been Iran,
revenge attack.

MURRAY: Anonymous phone call
made to the US Embassy.

Embassy dismissed it as a hoax.

JIM: Your government knew.
They all knew.

JANE: I have nightmares.

Was our daughter conscious
as she fell through the sky?

JIM: How did a bomb get
through airport security

and onto Flight 103?

Why is there
so much secrecy around this?

JANE: Are we ever going to know
what really happened?

JIM: I will never stop.

Not until we know
the answer to everything.

JIM ON VOICEMAIL:
You've reached
the Swire household.

We're not home to take
your call at the moment.

Please leave a message
after the beep

- and we'll get back to you.
- (BEEP)

Oh, hi, Jim. Murray here.

I hope you're sitting down,

because I've just heard
Thatcher's ordered
an independent inquiry

into the Strangeways
Prison riot.

Sum total of deaths, two.

So we now have inquiries
into the Clapham Junction crash,

35 deaths,

the King's Cross fire,
31 deaths,

and the Piper Alpha disaster,
167 deaths.

But bugger all for Lockerbie.

Bugger all for 270 dead.

I mean...
(LAUGHS INCREDULOUSLY)

...what is it with these people?

What the hell do you have
to do to make them sit up
and take notice?

Actually get off their arses
and do something?

What is it they're hiding?

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS
OVER PA)

What's going on?

Security spot checks on luggage.

OFFICER: Am I okay
to look inside?

Yes.

Where are you flying to, sir?

Boston, via JFK.

Have you taken
the batteries out, sir?

We have new safety rules.

Yes. Yeah, I have. Mm-hmm.

Thank you.

Have a safe flight.

(OFFICER CLEARS THROAT)

- Sorry, the traffic.
- JANE: Hello, darling.

- Don't worry. How are you?
- Good. How are you?

JANE: (CHUCKLES) Good.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Oh, it was a gift.

Flora's boyfriend's father
painted it and sent it over
for us.

He's really caught her,
don't you think?

You don't think
there's enough reminders?

It's not Flora.

Dad made it to the airport
all right?

Oh... Oh, yeah.

Did you get any sleep
last night?

- (SNIFFLES)
- Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey.

Sit down and put your feet up.

I'll take those bags upstairs,
and then I'll make us some tea.

Okay?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- (EXPLOSION)
- (PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMS, PANTS)

You okay?

Mum, please. Will you go
and speak to someone?

It's okay. I'm fine.
I'm fine, Cathy. I'm fine.

It's fine.

(SIGHS)

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS
OVER PA)

Hello, Jim.

It's good to see you.

Everyone's excited
to finally meet you in person.

JIM: My very own
homemade version

of the bomb
which blew up Flight 103.

You brought that with you
on a plane?

Is that Semtex?

A very pliable,
odorless plastic explosive

favored by paramilitary groups
and terrorists.

I used marzipan.

Jim, I'm sorry.

Are you out of your mind?

How many times have we been told

that airport security
has improved,

that a bomb would never
get onto a plane nowadays?

Yeah, sure. But is this the way
to call them out?

Dan, a security officer
at Heathrow picked it up,
looked at it,

and wished me a safe
onward journey.

I got through three sets
of security checks

to get here via JFK.
I wasn't stopped once.

Now I'm sorry
if this upsets some of you.

I wanted it to be impossible
for me to do this, believe me.

The fact is, it wasn't.

And people need to know.

REPORTER: William, did you know
about the fake bomb?

Did you know
about the fake bomb?

Do you agree
with what your father's done?

(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

Incredible, audacious,
an act of gross stupidity.

Just some of the reactions
to Dr. Jim Swire,

spokesman
for UK Families Flight 103.

Why? Because he built
a fake bomb in his home

- and carried it in a suitcase...
- Did you know about this?

- ...on a flight from London
to New York.
- No.

The same route
on which his daughter,

Flora, was killed.

JIM: If I was a terrorist,
another plane would have been
blown out of the sky.

Hundreds more innocent people
would have been murdered.

NEWSCASTER: Twenty-four hours
since touching down in the US,

Dr. Swire has--

The Midlands doctor,
whose daughter died in
the Lockerbie plane bomb--

I cannot stress strongly enough
this government's determination

to enforce
the highest standards
of aviation security...

...and we will be speaking to
Dr. Swire

on his return to the UK.

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS
OVER PA)

JANE: Finally.

Questioned.
Given a verbal warning.

Bad boy, don't do it again.

(SIGHS)

I'm sorry.

What hurts the most
is being kept in the dark.

I didn't want
to get you involved.

(SIGHS)

There were press people outside,
Jim, dozens of them.

We hadn't a clue
what was going on.

And what
if you had been arrested,

here or in America?

Wh... Wh...
What would I have done?

And the kids.

Did you think about any of us?

- Did Murray put you up to this?
- JIM: No.

No, all my own doing.

Is that why you've been shut up
in your study all this time?

You've barely spoken
a word to us.

Spineless government
hiding behind secrets,

criminal investigation
taking forever.

I just wanted
to make some noise.

- Do something.
- You are doing something.

You're constantly giving
interviews, writing letters.

- Howling at the moon.
- No. No, Jim. That's not true.

This will cause consternation
and tutting for a few days,

then it will all go quiet again.

I should have told you.
It was wrong of me.

It's all for her.

You haven't stopped
since she died.

What else can I do?

For now, take a step back.

You have me,

you have two other children...

Be with us.

- (DOOR OPENS)
- Good to be back.

(CHUCKLES)

(JIM CLEARS THROAT)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER
AND LAUGHTER)

JANE: Here it goes.

- Thanks, darling.
- You're going down.

- Ready?
- Steady.

- Go!
- WILL: What? No!

(CATHY LAUGHING)

No, no! No, no!

Get behind me.

Come on!

Run!

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

WILL: Thanks, Dad.

(PATRONS APPLAUDING)

NEWSCASTER:
Now, three years later,

two suspects have finally
been identified.

Their names announced
earlier today

by Scotland's Lord Advocate
Peter Fraser.

FRASER: And yesterday,
Mr. McDougall obtained from him
the grant of warrants

for the arrest
of two Libyan nationals...

- Libya? I thought Iran did it?
- ...on charges of conspiracy,

murder and contravention

of the Aviation Security Act
of 1982.

The two accused are...

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi

and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah.

- Both accused are believed...
- They did it.

...to be in Libya.
The warrants will be

- ...circulated to Interpol...
- WILL: They got them.

...but it is considered unlikely
that they will be arrested.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(DOOR LOCKS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

- (TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)
- (DISHES CLATTERING)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

JIM: So I've gone through
the indictment

and set it out
in layman's terms,

together with some of the other
information that we have.

As we know, the bomb...

hand-built presumably,
was hidden inside

a Toshiba BomBeat
radio-cassette recorder

and placed amongst
articles of clothing

inside a brown
Samsonite suitcase.

Now we know this because
blast-charred fragments
of clothing and suitcase

were found by search teams
in Lockerbie

and forensically examined

by the Royal Armament Research
and Development Establishment.

Now at the same time,
a baggage record from Frankfurt

was turned over
to Scottish police.

It flagged one unattended piece
of luggage,

a suitcase not connected
with anybody on the flight.

That suitcase was destined
for Pan Am 103.

Via Frankfurt,
it had originated in Malta.

Forensic experts
then looked more closely

at the damaged clothing,

finding a pair
of Yorkie trousers,

which Scottish police traced
to a clothing manufacturer,
also on Malta.

That manufacturer then led them
to one of their buyers.

A shop called Mary's House,
again on Malta.

Now, Mary's House is owned
by the Gauci family.

Tony Gauci has positively
identified one of the suspects,

Megrahi, to Scottish police

as the man he sold the clothing
to on December 7th, 1988.

And then, amazingly,
found lodged inside the remnants

of one of the shirts
that Gauci sold...

was this.

Tiny piece
of electronic circuit board.

This is absolutely central
to the Crown's prosecution case.

Both British and American
forensic experts agree...

this is part of the timer

attached
to the bomb's detonator.

It was made by a Swiss firm
based in Zurich, MEBO,

owned by Edwin Bollier
and Erwin Meister.

MEBO supplied 20 of the timers
exclusively to Libya.

Not only this, but Megrahi
established a front company

under the name ABH,
used as a cover

for Libyan intelligence
operations.

This business was established

in the same office building
as MEBO.

And here are our suspects.

Both men live in Tripoli.

Both are said to be
Libyan intelligence agents,

with Megrahi owning
a second passport

given to him by the Libyan
Intelligence Agency, the JSO.

Both men worked
for Libyan-Arab airlines,

with Megrahi as Head
of Airline Security until 1986.

Fhimah, as Station Manager
at Malta airport until 1988.

Police believe the bomb was put
onto the plane at Malta airport,

using Fhimah's old security pass

to gain airside access,
using Air Malta baggage tags...

...to allow unaccompanied
baggage on board.

That is how Fhimah and Megrahi

were able to get
the suitcase airside.

That is how they were able
to get the bomb straight
through customs,

and bypass airport security.

That is how these men
killed 270 people.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

- Hello.
- MURRAY: So let me
get this straight.

For almost three years,
we've been told

that Flight 103
was a revenge attack by Iran

for the US shooting down
its Airbus, killing 290 people.

They paid
a Palestinian terror group,

the PFLP-GC,
who are based in Syria,

to carry out the bombing.

So, we've got motives,
named suspects.

But then everything changes.
We got it all wrong.

It was Libya.

Murray, have you actually
read the indictment?

The evidence against them
is pretty damning.

It's a remarkable
piece of detective work.

MURRAY: You know, I heard
an interesting rumor
this morning.

President Bush rang Thatcher

three months after Lockerbie
and told her, lay off Iran.

And then, on top of that,

a year later,
Iraq invades Kuwait.

So now, we need Syria's help...

...to liberate Kuwait,

keep Iran sweet
and out of the way.

That's how you defeat Saddam.

Can you not accept
that the Scottish investigators
and the CIA

might have got this right?

MURRAY: I'm just asking
the question, Jim.

The West kicks the Middle East
around like a football

to suit its needs,
always has done.

I think that's what
we're seeing here.

Now it's Libya's turn.

Rogue state ruled
by Colonel Gaddafi,

a murderous nutjob
with a history
of funding terrorism.

Exactly. They have a history
of this kind of thing.

And we've been trying to topple
Gaddafi for nearly a decade.

I mean, what better excuse?

Murray, I'm sorry.
I don't have time to listen
to your madcap theories.

MURRAY: You mark my words, Jim.

If you think Gaddafi is going
to let the West railroad Libya,

you've got another thing coming.

REPORTER: You going to do
anything about Gaddafi?

NEWSCASTER 1: The United States
carried out the attack

in retaliation for what it said
were terrorist acts.

Under the direct orders
of the Libyan regime...

NEWSCASTER 2: A noted
100 Libyans were killed...

And 30 in Benghazi...

NEWSCASTER 3: The defiance
of Libyans in the street
was soon apparent.

NEWSCASTER 4: Suicide squads
will be sent to attack
American targets.

Renewed anti-American feeling
within Libya.

NEWSCASTER 5: Syrian leader,
President Assad,

pledging his support
for Gaddafi.

NEWSCASTER 6:
Almost every major
terrorist incident

has been attributed
to Libya and Gaddafi.

NEWSCASTER 7: Libya
implemented the hijacking
of a Pan Am jumbo jet

carried out
by four Palestinians.

NEWSCASTER 8:
The bullet which killed
WPC Yvonne Fletcher

came from Libyans
inside the embassy.

NEWSCASTER 9:
Supported the Irish
Republican Army.

This mad dog of the Middle East
referred to the slaughter

in Rome and Vienna airports
as a noble act.

Iran and Libya are two
of the most dangerous supporters

of terrorism in the world.

America is a powerful country.
Will not intimidate us

to accept a responsibility
that is not ours.

(CAR DOOR CLOSES AND LOCKS)

JIM: Oh, my God!

My apologies.

I did not mean to frighten you.

JIM: Who the hell are you?

My name is Nabil Nagameldin.

I work for the Al-Ahram
newspaper in Cairo.

I have come to tell you
that Gaddafi will never release
these two suspects.

- That isn't possible.
- Oh, no, I'm afraid it is.

Libya is under immense
international pressure
to hand them over.

Which would make
most countries capitulate.

But Libya is not most countries.
Libya is ruled
by Muammar Gaddafi,

who loves nothing more
than thumbing his nose
at the West.

He will stall and obstruct
at every turn.

But he's not stupid.

He knows that he has to assuage
the other Middle Eastern
and African countries.

So there are rumors
these men will stand trial.

But in Libya.

No, they cannot be tried
in Libya.

It is imperative these men
stand trial in Scotland.

I agree. That is why
I have come here with a request,

or more appropriately
an offer...

(CLEARS THROAT)

...to take you to Libya
to meet with Colonel Gaddafi.

- (SCOFFS)
- NABIL: I have contacts
in the Libyan government.

I will write the article
and you will...

you will grant me
an interview after your meeting.

Why on earth
would I do something like that?

Look, Gaddafi is... is...
is impetuous and impatient.

He... he has to be approached
with... with certain,

shall we say,
unconventional ways.

An approach like this from you,
that is one of those ways,
I'm convinced.

Gaddafi doesn't have
the first idea who I am.

NABIL: You are wrong, Dr. Swire.

In the Middle East,
you have standing,

you are known.

You are admired.
People respect you. Truly.

They have seen you stand up
against your government.

Look, next month in New York,
the UN Security Council

will be meeting
to discuss Resolution 731,

compelling Libya
to hand over the two suspects.

Gaddafi will not comply.

Your country and America's
next move will be
to impose sanctions.

The moment that happens,

Libya will become
even more of a pariah state.

Gaddafi's position will harden,

and your... your Lockerbie trial
will be...

will be dead, finished.

Tell me this is a bad joke.

Are you sure
he's not making it all up?

Oh, no, he seems genuine.

He writes
for a newspaper in Cairo.

Dad, you're not going.

I didn't want to decide anything
until I'd spoken to all of you.

He's right, though.

If the UN do impose sanctions
on Libya,

those two men will never
stand trial in Scotland.

- It's crazy, I know.
- WILL: Crazy?

Terry Waite went to Beirut
to negotiate the release
of hostages,

and they locked him
in a basement for four years.

Do I have any choice?

If there's no trial, we will
never find out the truth.

WILL: Do you know what
they call Gaddafi?

The Mad Dog. He's a dictator.
His regime murders people.

JIM: I'm completely aware
of that.

I'm sure he's happy
to sit down with Jim Swire,

a GP from Bromsgrove,
and give him whatever he wants.

- Mum, are you gonna
say anything?
- I have.

- I didn't want it
to descend into this.
- What did you expect?

That we're all behind you?

No, please...
Will, please come back.

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

Well, Gaddafi's popularity stems

from his nationalist
achievements.

Demanding higher prices
for Libyan oil,

expelling foreign
military bases,

support for Palestine and other
anti-imperialist causes.

Gaddafi has also
had dozens of his critics

around the world assassinated.

The moral support you wanted?

- I have to do this.
- I can't tell you what to do.

- You would go.
- Like a shot.

But I don't have a family.

I'm not a spokesman
for UK Families Flight 103.

- Have you told them about this?
- Not yet.

But I'm hoping
they'll be in support.

The group... The family's
not exactly happy about it.

(EXCLAIMS HESITANTLY)

What?

Just make sure they don't say
anything to anyone.

- Why?
- Jim, are you kiddin'?

(CHUCKLES)

You took a fake bomb
on a passenger plane.

You've pissed off Thatcher's
government God knows
how many times.

- They'll be watching
your every move.
- No.

- You really think so?
- They'll get every fax
before you do.

Tap every phone call.

They've probably been
listening in for years.

From now on, you need to be
careful what you say.

But I promised Jane
I'd phone her every day.

(SIGHS)

Will they try to stop me,
you think?

Libya's been
on the state-sponsored
terrorism list since 1979.

So yeah, they might.

You watch yourself.

You're no good to anyone dead.

JIM: If I call you and say,
"Tell the family
everything's all right,"

that means what it says.

- I'm safe.
- Bye, darling.

JIM: If I say, "Tell the family
everything's fine..."

JANE: That means things
are not going as planned,
but they're not critical.

JIM: If I say, "Tell everyone
everything's all right."

That means I'm in danger.

Phone the Foreign Office
and tell them to get me out.

And what if you can't get
to a phone?

(ENGINE STARTS)

(TIRES SQUEAL)

(TIRES SQUEALING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

NABIL: It's okay. We wait here.

Who's this?

It's, uh, the 1986 attack,

when Reagan ordered
the bombing of Tripoli.

Gaddafi's adoptive daughter,
Hannah, was killed instantly.

She was 15 months old.

He has never forgotten.

Please.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(IN ENGLISH) Um, I will wait
for you here.

Good luck, Dr. Swire.

(DOOR OPENS)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Thank you for meeting
with me, sir.

You have come to talk with me.

So talk.

We, um, myself,

the families and relatives
of those who died,

our utmost desire is,
uh, to see justice done.

So tell me,
how will justice be done?

Already the West
has convicted them.

They are the Lockerbie bombers.

The Libyan mass murderers.
Is that justice?

No, sir. It is not.

If I may...

I brought some photographs
of my daughter Flora.

I ask only that the two men
accused of this crime
be made to stand trial.

I assure you,
they will be treated fairly.

When has Libya
ever been treated fairly?

Can you tell me?

My country is being blackmailed
and bullied into compliance

by the Americans, by the UN,
and your country.

If you do as they wish--

Why should I agree
to a trial here or anywhere?

Did the cowardly American pilot
who dropped the missile

on my home ever stand a trial?
No.

He was commended
for his bravery.

This meeting is over.

Sir, we both lost daughters.

I'm asking you,
father to father.

This is not about revenge.

Pan Am 103.

The truth must be known.

I only want to know
who killed my daughter.

A British man who lost his
daughter in the Pan Am 103
bombing

is being criticized for meeting
with Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi.

I fully understand
the repugnance

at anyone shaking the hand
of Colonel Gaddafi,

a man who may have known about,
or even ordered
the Lockerbie plot.

But let them also ask themselves
if they want to see

these two men
stand trial or not.

I'm angry because the British
perception of Jim Swire

is that he speaks for all of us.

BERT: Well, Jim's heart
was in the right place, but, uh,
he left his brain at home.

The Libyans have won
a propaganda coup
with this trip.

Jim Swire has been duped
by Gaddafi.

Jim Swire has become
Gaddafi's poodle.

JOHN MOSEY: We're glad
as a group to have
someone like Jim,

someone who is as active
and committed and dedicated.

Although it has, and it will
cost him a great deal.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(IN ENGLISH) Pierre Salinger,
ABC News.

Hello, sir.

Very grateful you've agreed
to speak with me, Mr. Megrahi.

America is very interested
in what you have to say
about these charges.

According to the indictment,
you traveled
with a special suitcase

from Tripoli to Malta Airport
on the 20th of December, 1988.

What you mean special suitcase?

A Samsonite suitcase.

No, that is wrong. Uh...

Whenever I go to Malta,

which is a lot,
because of my job, I... I...

I carry what I... what I carry
in a... a clothing case.

It's a small case, a small case.
A small case.

Nev... Never big case.

SALINGER: You keep a diary,
Mr. Fhimah, do you not?

Yes, a personal diary.

SALINGER: Hmm.

They say you wrote a reminder
to take some Air Malta
baggage tags,

the kind that get bags
onto planes unaccompanied
from the airport.

Now, why would you have
written that?

If I could, uh,
look at my diary,

I could tell you why.

The indictment also says
that when you went to Malta

on the 20th of December,

you did so on a false passport,
using a false name.

If I had written
something important in my diary,

I wouldn't have
just left it there.

In other words, if you felt
there was something in there

that might implicate you
in some crime?

Exactly. Exactly.

(CHUCKLES) I'm, uh, surp...
surprised they tell me this.

I'm here in Tripoli.

My family know I was here.
I was here.
They know I was here.

SALINGER: Well, the indictment
says you were in Malta.

That you stayed
at the Holiday Inn
on the night of the 20th,

into the 21st of December, 1988,
the day of the bombing.

My friend, I tell you, I'm...
I'm not on Malta on the day.

I was here.

You were here, in Tripoli,
on the 21st of December?

Yes.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(VAN DOOR SLIDING CLOSED)

(ENGINE STARTING)

(SIGHS)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

- JIM: (IN ENGLISH) Hello?
- NABIL: Hello, Jim.

JIM: Nabil.

NABIL: It's exactly as I feared.

The UN Security Council
have passed the resolution.

And now Gaddafi is refusing
to release the two suspects,

despite the sanctions.

No.

NABIL: We've reached
a stalemate, Jim.

A standoff has begun.

COUNCIL MEMBER:
The international community
will not tolerate such threats

to international peace
and security.

It is prepared to take
concerted political action

against the continuing defiance

represented by Libya's
state-supported terrorists.

NEWSCASTER 1: At a five-year
memorial service,

President Clinton had appeared
to throw down the gauntlet

for the Pan Am bombing.

It was an attack on America.

NEWSCASTER 2:
The next logical punitive step
by the United Nations

would be to order
a naval blockade.

NEWSCASTER 3:
...if not outright
military action.

Libyan anger over
United Nations' sanction vote

has apparently come to a boil.

Demonstrators attacked foreign
embassies in Tripoli today.

NEWSCASTER 4:
...took to the streets
to protest...

NEWSCASTER 5:
US sanctions have cost
nearly $2.5 billion.

FRANK RUBINO:
My clients have advised me
that they cannot

get a fair trial
in the United States...

...where people believe
they're already guilty.

NEWSCASTER 6:
Under no circumstances

will they be extradited
to face trial in the West.

Sorry, we cannot.

It is unacceptable to say
justice in Scotland is not fair.

About time all sides
stopped shouting at each other
from the touchlines.

I'm not here to talk politics.
I'm here to talk truth
and justice.

LIBYAN MINISTER:
We have the same
interest like Jim Swire.

We want the truth
to be revealed and to be found.

Have we done
everything we could do?

Well, uh, if that's so,
it hasn't been enough.

NEWSCASTER 7: Eight years
after Pan Am 103
was blown out of the sky,

the case against
the suspected terrorist bombers

is an international
standoff going nowhere.

Libya's leader refuses
to hand the men over.

Resolving the case of Pan Am 103
in a court of law

seems as distant as ever.

My latest proposal
will be my last.

If this doesn't work,
it may be the end of the line.

There is a slight chance
it will be accepted,

and any chance is better
than no chance.

JIM: Thank you for meeting me,
Professor Black.

Oh, please, Jim.
It's, uh, Robert.

I feel like I already know you.

Please.

After four long years,

this is where we stand.

We are proposing the trial
be held in a neutral country.

The Netherlands?

Uh, it's the only way
we'll get the Libyans on board.

It's the same with the jury.

Their lawyers are arguing
that any jury will be biased.

So we're proposing a panel
of Scottish judges,

which Libya are still... (SIGHS)

...mulling over.

You've had quite a battle of it.

We are making
legal history here.

Nothing like this on this scale
has ever been done before.

The only problem is the US
and the UK don't want

to be seen making concessions
to Gaddafi.

And Gaddafi wants the Arab world
to see him standing up

to the imperialistic dogs
of the West.

Behind closed doors, of course,
both sides are desperate
to agree.

The UK and the US
for the sake of the families,

and Libya because UN sanctions
are slowly killing the country.

Right now, it's Gaddafi
that worries me.

I think he's about to walk away,

whether his country
collapses or not.

- You can't give up.
- I don't want to.

I was born and raised
in Lockerbie, Jim.

We will do all we can.
Believe me.

But unless we can get Gaddafi
on board, it's game over.

I'll help you.

I have Gaddafi on speed dial.

(CELLPHONE KEYPAD BEEPING)

Last traces of my
sense of humor, Robert.

Ah. (CHUCKLES)

But I'm serious.

We should go
and pay him a visit.

(EXHALES)

Don't take waiting this long
as a bad sign.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(IN ENGLISH) This is
Professor Robert Black,

the legal expert
who first proposed the idea.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(IN ENGLISH) Have a seat.

My patience is being tested.

My legal experts has been
in a discussion

with yours for many years.

We are impatient also,
but we must persevere.

Uh...
Uh, the tide is turning, sir.

I note that the Arab League
have signaled their displeasure

at the current sanctions.

The whole world wants
to see this trial happen.

The one thing
they aren't expecting

is for you to take the lead.
Send the suspects.

The... the trial will be fair,
your reputation intact.

And they will have no choice
but to lift the sanctions.

You win.

JIM: On every count, sir.

A victory for both you
and your country.

The way you lead,
others will follow.

NEWSCASTER 1:
The Libyan government
has finally agreed

to allow the suspects
to be tried

in neutral territory
under Scottish law.

- (POUNDING ON DOOR)
- (AISHA GASPS)

NEWSCASTER 2:
The trial, masterminded
by Professor Robert Black,

will be held
at a former airbase
in the Netherlands,

a first in
international legal history.

NEWSCASTER 3: Some people said
there was never going to be

a criminal trial into
the mass murder over Lockerbie.

There now is going to be
a criminal trial.

And best of all,
the relatives will now have

the chance to hear the evidence

that we hold
brought out in a local court.

I know you want
to go to the trial.

But after it's over,

I want you
to promise me something.

What?

JANE: That that's the end of it.

You stop.

You accept the verdict,
whatever it is.

And we get you back.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

I promise.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)