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Go and have
the time of your life.

Plane's gone down.

CHANNON: Who was it you lost?
JANE: Our daughter, Flora.

I have nightmares.

(SCREAMS)

Your government knew,
they all knew.

The arrest of two Libyan
nationals...

Libya? I thought Iran did it.

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

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

I only want to know
who killed my daughter.

JANE: You accept the verdict,
whatever it is,

and we get you back.

I promise.

(HELICOPTER HOVERING)

NEWSCASTER: The top stories
in Scotland today.

Trial of the century opens...

NEWSCASTER 2: It's being called
the trial of the century.

(REPORTING IN OTHER LANGUAGES)

...finally are
standing trial...

REPORTER: Behind me
is Camp Zeist,

a former military base
outside Utrecht,

converted at a cost
of £12 million.

REPORTER 2: On a tiny
patch of Dutch soil,
designated as Scotland.

REPORTER 3: There is no jury.

Instead,
four Scottish Law Lords
will pass judgment...

REPORTER 4: ...American
families are here,
along with a smaller group...

This is our daughter,
Theo Cohen.

She was only 20 years old
when her plane was blown
up over Lockerbie.

BERT: It's going to be
difficult to prove the case
against two Libyans,

but that is not
important to me.

I'll just be happy to see
them in court.

It's important that we live
in a society where the
legal system

cannot be manipulated
for political ends.

My brother and the others
killed cannot demand the
justice they are due.

So we must speak for them.

The prosecution must prove
beyond all reasonable doubt

that they were responsible
for the bombing of Flight 103.

I have every faith that they
will do so.

- (REPORTERS SHOUTING)
- (HELICOPTER HOVERING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

So good to see you.

MURTAGH: Your attention
for a moment, folks.

Brian Murtagh,
US Department of Justice.

My colleague Dana is right now
handing around copies

of the prosecution witness list.

One thousand witnesses
to get through.

Any questions, we're right here.

- Honor to meet you, sir.
- Pleasure.

How often will you
be coming to the trial?

John and I are here representing
the UK Families Group.

We'll be here every day
until the verdict is announced.

I admire your dedication.

How long do you think
the trial will take?

It's hard to say, ma'am.

Six months... maybe more.

But be in no doubt,

no matter how long it takes,
these men are guilty,

and we will get a conviction.

Excuse me.

Ladies and gentlemen, the court
will shortly be convening.

The press gallery
is to the left,
ladies and gentlemen.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- (DOOR OPENS)
- (PEOPLE MURMURING)

WOMAN: Sick!

CLERK: Abdelbaset Ali
Mohmed al-Megrahi
and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah,

you are both charged
with conspiring together

to place onboard
Pan Am Flight 103

a suitcase containing
an improvised explosive device.

Having tagged the suitcase
to travel unaccompanied

from Malta airport to
Frankfurt airport, via
London Heathrow to New York,

which exploded in mid-air
over Lockerbie, Scotland,

resulting in the murder
of 259 passengers and crew,

and 11 people on the ground.

My Lord, the accused
plead not guilty.

The witness schedule reads as
follows. Number one...

TAXI DRIVER: Yeah, well,
enjoy your stay.
JANE: Thank you.

JIM: All right.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Can I now take you
back to the events of
the 21st of December, 1988?

ROLAND: I saw a wing,
the whole of the wing,

a silhouette against the skies,
coming towards us.

I followed it all the way
until it disappeared

behind the buildings,

and I saw the explosion
of flames rise up.

ELLEN: It was like
the world was on fire.

Thick smoke, fire everywhere.

The overpowering smell
of engine fuel.

The sound of screaming and...

objects and people
falling out of the sky.

FERRIE: We had, first of all,
to look for any passengers

that might be in need
of medical attention.

There were none.

Bodies were recovered
and body parts.

Many.

STUART: If you come
out my house,

you go down some steps,
and just to the left of it,

four or five feet away
from the steps...

there was a young lady
lying there.

VALERIE: There were bodies...

everywhere...

Men, women, children.

There was one
outside my house...

a baby.

There were more...
on the pavement...

on the golf course...

in hedges.

They were unrecognizable.

STUART: The whole town was
in shock for a long time.

I know one young man
done away with himself.

It affected a lot of people
for a long time.

ELLEN: People come from
across the world to...

visit the memorial,
to remember their parent or...

(TEARFULLY)
sister... or a child.

And some of them
ask to visit the place

where their loved one...
where the body was found.

And so you find yourself
taking someone you don't know,

a stranger,

to show them the place.

But in a way,
they're not strangers.

It's our duty

to welcome them, to say,
"We know what it feels like."

(DISHES CLINKING)

(JIM GRUNTS)

You all right?

Hearing all that today...

What she must have gone through.

And I still don't know
where she fell.

Where she was found.

I'm not sure what good
it would do.

Why didn't I come
to the ice rink with you?

How cowardly was I?

Those poor people in Lockerbie.
They never asked for
any of this.

Did they do it?

I watched them so closely.

Not a flicker of anything.

Yes, I think they did.

Everything points to them.

Thank you.

Give my love to
Catherine and William.

Why don't you
do it yourself, Jim?
Just pick up the phone.

(CAR DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

- Look after yourself.
- You, too.

(MURRAY SIGHS)

The press center's like a
desert. Thought I'd get
closer to the action.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

He's looking mighty confident.

HAYES: When a bomb explodes,
it generates

intense heat and
sends out tiny shards...

...from whichever housing
it is lodged in.

That is what we were
initially searching for.

Parts of the explosive device
lodged in charred and
damaged clothing

that would have been
near or around the bomb.

After several months
examining debris,

I found a blast-damaged
electronic fragment

lodged inside
the charred remains of a shirt.

My Lords, the fragment
is on the evidence table

but for the purposes
of clarity,

we will now show
an enlarged image of it.

Dr. Hayes, you identified this
fragment as being significant.

HAYES: I understood it
to be significant. Yes.

But I had left RARDE
before it was identified.

I was succeeded by my colleague,
Allen Feraday

with whom I published
the final forensic report.

This fragment seemed
to be the only part of the
circuit board from the timer

which detonated the bomb
aboard Flight 103.

Were you able to identify
what kind of timer it was from?

Not initially. No.

It was a bit of a needle
in a haystack.

There are thousands
of companies worldwide

which manufacture
circuit boards.

But finally, a year later,
another forensic colleague

in the United States,
Thomas Thurman of the FBI,
found a match.

TURNBULL: Can you tell the court
how exactly the circuit board
was identified?

FERADAY: The fragment materials
and tracking pattern

were extensively compared with
circuit boards within timers,

which the FBI had recovered
a few years previously,

of a type called MST-13,

which was designed
and manufactured

by a Swiss company
called MEBO, based in Zurich.

And from whom were
those timers seized?

Agents of the JSO.

The Libyan Intelligence agency.

TURNBULL: And you were
entirely satisfied

they were the exact same model
of circuit board?

FERADAY: It was conclusively
established that the tracks

present on the fragment
are of copper, covered by
a layer of pure tin.

Similar in all respects
to the sample boards
obtained from MEBO.

JIM: It was truly amazing
what the police did, Jane,

to find something so critical

among millions and millions
of pieces of debris.

JANE: That's amazing.

JIM: It's incredible.

That fragment of
circuit board is the first
crucial link to Libya.

The prosecution
will just have to prove

the fragment came from the same
batch of timers sold to Libya.

(DISTORTED) It's all about
joining the dots.

The prosecution
have to make a connection.

(MUFFLED POP MUSIC PLAYING)

- (WIND HOWLING)
- JANE: Jim...

- (RUMBLING)
- (STAMMERING) Jim...

JIM: ...and prove them.

Oh, yes, I see.

How are you?

Are the kids okay at uni?

Yeah. No, I'm fine.
Everyone's fine. Um...

So how's... What's next?

JIM: Star witness number one,

Edwin Bollier.

He's basically an arms dealer.

The prosecution need
to get it on record

that the timers were
supplied by his company.

BOLLIER: I am the co-owner
of MEBO,

a company which manufactures
and sells electronic and
electrical components.

Does that include timers such as
the MST-13 that we see here?

Yeah, that's correct. Yeah.

Did your company manufacture
and sell timers such as these

to the Libyan
Intelligence agency?

I am a legitimate businessman.

What I do is perfectly legal.

If you could just stick to
answering the question,
Mr. Bollier.

Yes, we supplied Libya
with 20 of these timers.

Libya are one of our
best customers.

Mr. Bollier, do you recognize
either of the two men
sitting in dock?

I do not know
the man on the right,
but the man on the left,

I know he was a partner in ABH,

which is a Libyan company
based in Zurich.

TURNBULL: I see.

And is it true
Mr. Megrahi's company

was based in the same building
as your company?

BOLLIER: Yeah. They rented
office space from us.
We were on the same floor.

Mr. Bollier, did Mr. Megrahi
personally order the MST-13
timers from you?

BOLLIER: No. My dealings were
with friends of Megrahi.

But Megrahi had a...

had a high position,
I'm sure of it.

He was always moving, you know.

Zurich, Tripoli, Malta.

He was well-connected.

TURNBULL: Can we bring up
the timer fragment image
PT35-B again, please?

Mr. Bollier?

LORD SUTHERLAND: Mr. Bollier.

Could the Crown counsel
have your full attention?

What is this?

This is the fragment found
at the Lockerbie crash.

No, this is not
the same fragment.

Mr. Bollier, it was confirmed
by two forensic scientists.

- One from RARDE,
one from the FBI.
- BOLLIER: No, it looks similar,

but this is not
the same fragment.

My company did not sell this,
I can assure you.

So, maybe it's a counterfeit?

TURNBULL: How can it be
a counterfeit?

It's been in police custody
since it was discovered.

May I examine
the actual physical fragment?

Hmm?

(WHISPERING)

There.

TURNBULL: Well, Mr. Bollier?

I am right.

This is not the same fragment
that I was shown in Scotland.

What's he doing?

He's trying to distance himself.

- Of course he is.
- MURRAY: Clearly panicking.

Probably afraid he'll get sued.

All he's bothered about
is his company's reputation

and saving his own skin.

...in 1999, as being made
by your company.

Bearing in mind

that scientific tests were made,

can you confirm that this
fragment of circuit board

was part of a batch of 20 timers
bought by the Libyans?

A batch of timers you delivered
to Libyan Intelligence
personally.

I remind you, you're under oath.

Yes.

TURNBULL: You traveled
to Tripoli with them
in your possession?

- BOLLIER: Yes.
- You took them to
the headquarters

- of Libyan Intelligence
in Tripoli?
- Yes.

And whilst you were there,
you witnessed trials involving
some of those timers.

Correct, Mr. Bollier?

Yes.

Hmm.

Thank you, Mr. Bollier.

(SIGHS)

MURRAY: Big day tomorrow.

- Star witness number two.
- Yep.

Tony Gauci.

Owns a clothes shop.

Mary's House. Sliema, Malta.

The indictment states that the
clothes wrapped around the bomb,

which brought down Flight 103,
were bought from his shop.

And in the collar of the shirt,
the forensics guy, Hayes,
found this.

When they interviewed him,

Gauci remembered
the Libyan customer he'd sold
the clothes to.

The prosecution need Tony Gauci
to link one of the suspects
to the bomb.

CAMPBELL: Mr. Gauci...

at the beginning
of September, 1989,

did Scottish police visit your
shop in Sliema, Malta?

Yes. Detective Harry Bell from
Scotland came to see me.

And were you asked about
a particular sale of clothing
you had made

in December, 1988?

Yes, I told them about
a customer who had bought
clothes from my shop.

And were you able to remember
when that particular sale
had taken place?

GAUCI: Uh...

It was slightly
before Christmas.

It was raining.

I do not remember
the exact date.
It was so long ago.

CAMPBELL: Of course,
I understand.

Now, this man to whom
you sold the clothing...

Did you recognize
his nationality?

To me, he was a Libyan.

CAMPBELL: Are you familiar from
experience in your shop
and in Malta with Libyans?

Oh. (CHUCKLES)

Many Libyan men fly to Malta
for business and for pleasure.

They are able to do
things in Malta that are
forbidden in Libya.

CAMPBELL: Mr. Gauci,
where do you source
these shirts from?

GAUCI: Malta. Only Malta.

I have dealt with Slalom,
the manufacturer,
for many years.

Now, Mr. Gauci, I want you
to take a moment to look
around the courtroom

and tell me if you see the man
who bought the clothes from you

in December, 1988.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

GAUCI: He is the man...
on this side.

CAMPBELL: Which man
are you pointing at?

GAUCI: Uh, not that one.

The one on the left.

That is the man who resembles
the man who came to my shop.

CAMPBELL: You're certain
about this?

This man here on the left
is the man you identified
for Detective Harry Bell?

GAUCI: Yes, I identified
this man from photographs
and in identity parades.

And I remember,
it did not seem important to him
what he was buying.

He said to me, "None of these
clothes are for me."

CAMPBELL: Thank you, Mr. Gauci.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Four months in,
and you haven't missed a day.

You're as good
as your word, Jim.

You don't think it's odd?

The DOJ is not part
of the trial, yet they're here
every single day.

They have every right.

They dropped the indictment.

There are Libyan
officials here, too.

A bit too pally with
the prosecution, if you ask me.

Mr. Gauci, I noticed
during the Crown's questioning,

Mr. Campbell omitted to mention

exactly how many interviews
you conducted

with Detective Harry Bell
and the Scottish police.

Can you remember?

No, I cannot.

Eighteen interviews
and 19 statements, Mr. Gauci.

Eighteen?

You gave 19 sworn statements.

In truth, Mr. Gauci, you've had
considerable difficulty

identifying Mr. Megrahi before,
haven't you?

- No, I...
- In the statement I have here,

you described the clothes
purchaser as, I quote,

"Around 50, and six feet tall."

Of course, Mr. Megrahi is 48.

Which means that in
December, 1988, when you say
you sold him the clothes,

he was 36 years old.

And here you list the items

you claim the clothes purchaser
bought from you.

Trousers, pullover, jacket,
babygro...

but no shirt.

No mention of a shirt,
Slalom or otherwise.

In fact, no mention of any shirt
until statement number 17.

What are we to make of that?

Did the clothes purchaser
buy a shirt from you or not?

It was a long time ago
to remember.

Of course.
Mr. Bell was interviewing you
a whole two years

after the tragedy happened.

Anyone would have difficulty
remembering anything

after that long, would they not?

Yes, that is it. Exactly.

TAYLOR: Thank you, my Lord.

JIM: The man was nervous.

And clearly muddled.

MURRAY: Yet there he was,
billed as a star witness.
Christ!

Eighteen interviews,
19 statements.

Did the police just
keep going back to him

until they got the story
they wanted?

I don't know what the hell
the prosecution were doing.

Did they just hope the defense
wouldn't bring all that up?

It just smacks of incompetence.

Yeah. Well, I did a bit more
digging when I went back
to my hotel room.

It was not only Megrahi
that Gauci identified
to Detective Bell

as the man that he sold
the clothes to.

So a year and a half
before he identified Megrahi,

Gauci mentioned
a Mr. Mohammed Abu Talb,

a convicted Palestinian
terrorist and one of the
Scottish police's

initial suspects
for the bombing.

Now, is there
an Iranian connection?

A Syrian connection?
A Palestinian connection?

Has there always been?

You need to get a picture of
Talb up there, by the way.

Look, I'm just asking
the question, Jim,

because suddenly there's
a whole lot more of them.

JIM: Megrahi,
he's linked to Bollier,
and the MEBO timer.

Timers are sold to Libya
by MEBO.

Megrahi's probably JSO.

Megrahi was
Head of Airline Security
for Libyan Arab Airlines.

Fhimah their Station Manager
on Malta.

Megrahi traveled to Malta,
using a passport under
a false name

issued to him by
the Libyan government.

And then he lied about
ever having been there.

Fhimah wrote in his diary
to procure Air Malta tags

for Megrahi on December 15th.

There's still a hell of a lot
stacked against them.

(telephone rings)

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.

(BEEPS)

JIM: Hello, Jane, it's me.

I suppose you must be
out somewhere.

We are four months
into the trial now,

and things have...

Well, things could be
going better.

- (WIND HOWLING)
- (WOMAN SCREAMS)

(ENGINE STARTS)

(DOG BARKING)

Mrs. Walker, I'm Jane...

I know who you are.

Then you'll know why I've come.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

This is Beechgrove.

This is where they found Flora.

I'll let you...

(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)

(SOBBING)

JANE: I love you so much.

I love you so much.

I love you. I love you, Flora.

I love you so much.

(CONTINUES SOBBING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(MURRAY SIGHS)

(JIM GRUNTS)

Star witness number three.
The super grass.

My Lords, every precaution
must be taken to ensure
Mr. Giaka's safety.

Therefore, the recording of
his voice will be distorted,

so as to avoid recognition

and the operator of the closed
circuit television cameras

has been directed
not to film at any time

whilst he is giving evidence.

I became a CIA informant,

because I no longer
wanted to work for
the Libyan Intelligence.

Because of their involvement
in terrorism.

I wanted to get out of Libya
and live a normal life.

CAMPBELL: Mr. Giaka,
in March 1986,

you were an employee
of Libyan Arab Airlines
at Malta airport,

where you worked under
Mr. Megrahi and Mr. Fhimah. Yes?

Yes. Megrahi was
the Head of Security for LAA,

and Fhimah was
the Station Manager.

CAMPBELL: Now, you told
your CIA handler

that you wrote an intelligence
report for the JSO,

the Libyan Intelligence service,
around that time.

Yes, I did.

CAMPBELL: What was this
intelligence report about?

GIAKA: Well,
it outlined in detail
how a person could place

an unaccompanied bag
onboard an airline flight.

That was two to three months
after the US attack on Tripoli
in 1986.

Many civilians and soldiers
were killed, and the JSO
were furious.

They declared that Libya
would have revenge.

CAMPBELL: And what did
your report conclude?

It concluded that,
yes, it could be easily done.

CAMPBELL: To whom did you
submit this report?

To the Head of Airline Security,
Abdelbaset Megrahi.

CAMPBELL: You shared
an office with Mr. Fhimah
at Malta airport.

Is that correct?

Yes, I did.

CAMPBELL: Could you
tell the court what
Mr. Fhimah showed you

was hidden inside his desk
in March 1986?

Ten kilos of TNT, brought to the
airport office by Mr. Megrahi.

And LAA rush tags.

CAMPBELL: Could you
explain to the court
what rush tags are?

GIAKA: Certainly. Rush tags
are used to allow baggages
onto planes unaccompanied.

CAMPBELL: I see.

Now, if we could
move forward to the evening
of December 20th, 1988,

the night before the crash.

GIAKA: I saw Megrahi with Fhimah

in the baggage arrival area
at Malta Airport.

CAMPBELL: And where did
they take this suitcase?
GIAKA: Towards Customs.

CAMPBELL: And was the suitcase
opened for inspection?

- No, it was not.
- CAMPBELL: So they just
walked through?

GIAKA: Yes.
CAMPBELL: Thank you, Mr. Giaka.

The JSO are a merciless
organization.

- Would you agree?
- GIAKA: Oh, yes.

Are you in fear of your life
because of them, Mr. Giaka?

Yes, I am.

Little wonder then
you wanted to get out of Libya

to live a normal life elsewhere.

In fact, you wanted to live
a normal life in America,
did you not?

Yes.

You asked the CIA several times
for money to help you emigrate.

GIAKA: Yes, I did.

KEEN: What was their answer?

They said no.

KEEN: But you were
a valued informant.

Did you demand
an explanation why?

Well, let me read to you
what your CIA case officer
wrote about you.

It might explain
their heartless decision.

"Giaka will be advised
in no uncertain terms

"on the 4th of September
that we will not provide

"any additional financial
assistance to him.

"We will only continue
his $1,000 per month salary

"through to the end of 1989.

"If Giaka is not able to
demonstrate

"sustained and defined access
to information of
intelligence value

"by January of 1990,
the CIA will cease all salary

"and financial support."

It seems the standard
of information that you
were giving them

just was not good enough.

You had to do better, otherwise
you were a waste of money.

I'm so sorry. Is something
amusing you, Mr. Giaka?

You seem to be smiling.

Is it forbidden to smile?

KEEN: That is
entirely up to you.

But I do notice you keep
looking to the back row
of the prosecution benches

to the two American
gentlemen there.

Why is that?

There's a man sitting there
wearing spectacles.

Do you know him?

What the hell is going on?

Brian Murtagh.

KEEN: So whose evidence
have we been hearing today?

Yours or your friend's,
Brian Murtagh?

Holy shit.

Why is the CIA informant
on first name terms

with the Department of Justice?

Who's pulling
Giaka's strings here?

- Fucked up.
- KEEN: See, I put it to you,
Mr. Giaka,

that all this security
protection

is a charade to deceive us into
thinking that you are genuine.

Those screens around you
obscure the truth.

My Lords,
Mr. Keen is going too far.

You didn't come forward
with this evidence

after Flight 103 came down,
did you?

No. You came forward
years later,

after your friends at the CIA
told you to give them
something bigger.

TNT, rush tags,

Fhimah and Megrahi taking
a Samsonite suitcase
through security.

Every single word you have said
is made up.

You are, in the CIA's own words,
a shirker and a fantasist

who is just not worth
investing in.

You're a fake and a liar.

Thank you, my Lord.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

It was always
going to be a risk.

A risk?

This is a court of law.

Giaka was paid for his evidence.

Let's let the judges decide.

He lied under oath. This will be
declared a mistrial.

No, it won't.

It damn well should be.

What do you want from this, Jim?

- Justice.
- We all want justice.

Everybody wants justice.

How are you gonna get that
without a fair trial?

I don't call murdering 270
innocent people fair. Do you?

Doesn't matter how you get a
conviction as long as you
get one. Is that it?

Those two men may be
small cogs in a big machine,

but I am telling you,
they were part of this.

Because our governments
decided they were?

This trial only happens once.

We got one shot
to take down these Libyans.

Do you want to come away
from this with nothing?

REPORTER: There's no doubt
that the clothes in the
suitcase containing the bomb

were bought at this shop
called Mary's House,
here in Malta.

The question is,
who bought them?

Mr. Gauci won't talk to
reporters, but his
identification of al-Megrahi

is anything but convincing.

REPORTER 2:
The prosecution case

has taken a further blow
after the eyewitness testimony

of a former intelligence agent,

who was previously employed
by Libyan Arab Airlines,

here at Malta airport.

Questions are now
being asked as to what he
stands to gain by testifying,

with claims being
circulated that he could
receive up to $4 million.

The amount of the reward
put up by the American
government

for evidence which leads
to a conviction of Megrahi
and Fhimah.

JIM ON VOICEMAIL: ...at the
moment. Please leave
a message after the beep

and we'll get back to you.

(BEEPS)

Hello, it's me.

I'm just calling to see
how you all are.

And to let you know
how things are here.

(PHONE HANGS UP)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

JOHN: First up today,
witness for the prosecution.

John Bedford,
a baggage handler from Heathrow.

The prosecution
believe that Bedford

loaded the unaccompanied
suitcase from Malta

containing the bomb.

TURNBULL: Were you on duty
on the afternoon of the 21st of
December, 1988, Mr. Bedford?

- Yes, sir.
- And do you remember

if any luggage arrived that was
destined for Flight 103?

BEDFORD: Yes. Yeah, it did.
But not till later
at the end of my shift.

I remember, because I had
my tea break first.

TURNBULL: And how long were you
away from the area?

BEDFORD: No more than
half an hour.

TURNBULL: And then you returned
to resume work?

Yeah. Yeah.
And that's when I saw them.

Them?

What do you mean, Mr. Bedford?

There was two new suitcases

lying in the container
when I got back from
my tea break.

I didn't put them there.

Two other suitcases?

I don't understand.

Did the prosecution
not check this out before?

TURNBULL: Did you see who put
those two other suitcases
into the container?

No. No, I didn't.

TAYLOR: Mr. Bedford,
is it conceivable

that persons other than you
or your colleagues

could have put those suitcases
into that container?

Yeah. I mean, anyone
that works at the airport.

TAYLOR: Anyone?

You are saying that anyone
who was airside could have
done that?

Yeah.

TAYLOR: For the avoidance
of doubt,

these cases appeared before the
Malta-Frankfurt flight arrived.

Yes, sir.

Can you describe these
suitcases to the court?

Yeah.

One was a brown color.
The other one, it was darker.

They were hard-shelled
suitcases, same type that
Samsonite make.

That's the same
as the Malta suitcase.

Bedford said his tea break
lasted half an hour.

Which means there was no one
around that container.

No security guards.

JIM: For all that time.

MURRAY: How did those cases
get in there?

Who put them there?

Did Bedford maybe see
the actual suitcase?

He can't have done.
The Frankfurt flight
hadn't arrived yet.

Unless there was
no bomb suitcase
on that Frankfurt flight.

Well, that would destroy
the whole case.

The entire basis of the trial.

After you.

JOHN: Why are the Crown
bringing in a German
explosives expert?

I thought that was
all done with?

So they can discredit
the defense's theory.

Palestinian terrorists.

The Crown are running scared.
They've got to shut it down.

CAMPBELL: Mr. Gobel...

In October 1988, you examined
some explosive devices

that had been seized in a raid

on the Palestinian terrorist
organization PFLP-GC.

Is that correct?

Yes, that is correct.

CAMPBELL: And it has been
claimed in various corners

that, in fact, one of those
devices may have brought down
Flight 103.

GOBEL: Yes,
this was an early theory
with the German police,

but we came to believe
that Flight 103

could not have been brought down
by a PFLP-GC device.

Can you tell us why?

The PFLP-GC use air pressure
sensitive equipment.

A combination of
a barometric switch...

In layman's terms,
if you could, Mr. Gobel.

Yeah. The PFLP-GC bombs were
made up of three components.

A switch, a timer,
and a detonator.

The switch's only job
is to turn the timer on.

And what triggers this
is a fall in air pressure

as a plane gains altitude.

It takes about seven minutes
to detect this change.

The PFLP-GC at this time were
known to use ice cube timers,

so called because
they resembled ice cubes.

Yeah. Once the switch
turns them on,

the timer has an approximate
run time of 30 minutes,

after which it triggers
the detonator,

which then causes the Semtex
within the device to explode.

If a PFLP-GC device had been
used to destroy Flight 103,

it would have exploded between
35 and 45 minutes into
its first flight.

Flight 103 could only
have been brought down
by this type of device

if it had been primed
or put on board at Heathrow.

The plane left Heathrow at 18:25
and it exploded at 19:03.

It did explode
38 minutes into the flight.

It must have been
put onto the plane at Heathrow.

One of Bedford's suitcases?

Why is no one challenging this?

It's too much of a coincidence.

Surely it was an ice cube timer.

T-13 would be much more
accurate, because...

The plane exploded after...

(INAUDIBLE)

What on earth is going on?

JIM: It must have been
an ice cube timer.

What about Bedford's suitcases?

Jim, sit down.

Come on.

LORD SUTHERLAND:
Will the court please disregard
this unfortunate interruption?

MURRAY: Come back.
LORD SUTHERLAND:
Please continue.

CAMPBELL: Thank you, my Lord.

You're okay.

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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

JIM: Thomas Thurman,
FBI forensic scientist...

MURRAY: Similar in all respects.

JIM: I clearly remember Murtagh
telling us we will get
a conviction.

MURRAY: Abu Talb
now in prison in Sweden,
for a bombing attempt.

JIM: Found in the cover.

MURRAY: Affiliated to the
PFLP-GC, who wanted revenge.

JIM: The bomb would've exploded
on the first flight.

MURRAY: Malta,
Frankfurt, Heathrow.

JIM: I keep coming back
to Heathrow.

MURRAY: Two new suitcases.

JIM: Was it put on board
the plane at Heathrow?

What happened to meeting me
at the airport?

Jane...

- What's wrong?
- (CHUCKLES)

Where do I start?

They didn't do it.

They didn't put that bomb
on the plane.

Of course they did.
What are you talking about?

We've gone through
the whole case over and over.

We've torn it apart,
put it back together.

Worked it all out.

They've been set up.

They've been framed.

The whole case against them
is a fiction. It's a lie.

They're innocent.

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