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REPORTER: Investigators are now retracing the victim's steps to get a better idea...

REPORTER 2: ...and how did they deploy it?

REPORTER 3: Could it have been somewhere like the ventilation system of their car?

So it was contained within that shell.

Find that needle in the haystack.

REPORTER 4: The most likely route is that someone during his walk through Salisbury

has brushed past him and wiped this on his skin.

It could have been a poison or a toxin that was ingested in...

REPORTER 5: They are fast acting.

...ingested? Was it airborne?

It only requires the tiniest of doses...

REPORTER 6: Experts point out the Russians have a long history

of developing and using undetectable poisons...

But officials are not directly blaming Russia so far.

REPORTER 7: For the first time, a weapon of mass destruction

by a state sponsor of terrorism

has been employed against one of our allies.

ENGINES ROAR — SIRENS WAIL

SHE SIGHS

DOOR OPENS

Present for you.

Mobile numbers. Located down to the square metre.

Wasn't easy.

Thank you, Paul. Thank you!

Join us in the Ops Room soon as you can.

These phones were all in the Maltings.

Find me the kid who took the bread from Skripal

anyone saying they're sweating, tiny pupils

blurred vision, hallucinations, get me.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

So, we found the Skripa|'s car, in the multi-storey.

We're sealing off the site. — What we doing with it?

We have a sterile vault at Porton Down.

Ah, OK. We'll put it there.

What about the ambulances that took them to hospital?

MILLS SIGHS We're gonna need to quarantine those as well.

Sir, there was also a... air ambulance at the scene.

Oh. They're gonna love me for this.

How big is your vault?

THEY SCOFF

Tracy. First call I made.

The boy from the river. He's been vomiting for two days.

MILLS: Keep us posted.

I'm not under arrest, am I?

It's just protocol, Mr Cassidy.

Ross. — Ross.

You like submarines?

I like 'em a lot more now I'm not serving on 'em.

DEVICE BEEPS

For the purposes of the tape, this is interview number one with Ross Cassidy.

Interviewing officers are Detective Inspector Late. Mishra

and Detective Sergeant Rob Andrews.

Ross, you mentioned when you called last night that you'd seen Sergei Skripal

over the weekend?

That's right, yeah. We picked up Yulia from the airport on Saturday.

She'd flown in from Moscow.

Sergei was worried about the snow, so I took them in the 4x4.

How are they? Can we visit them?

Uh, no, I'm sorry. They're very unwell.

How was he recently?

Did he seem... different to you?

Was he behaving differently?

Ross?

It's... it's just...

some of the things I've got to say might sound unbelievable... to you.

I mean, they're unbelievable to me.

Good afternoon. — If you could...

Thank you.

Tracy Daszkiewicz. Director of Public Health for Wiltshire.

I'm looking for a young lad.

He was in The Maltings on Sunday. First name Henry.

Oh, he's just been discharged. Winter vomiting bug.

And you're sure that's what it is? — Yeah.

Definitely.

OK, thanks.

But that police officer's just been admitted to ICU.

Sorry, did you say police officer?

Yeah.

INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT

What is it? What's wrong with him?

He's been poisoned.

Poisoned?

This is highly sensitive information.

The same toxin was used to attack the Russian couple on Sunday.

It's a nerve agent.

Mrs Bailey, listen to me. — SHE GASPS

I know what this substance is now, I know what it's doing to his body

and I have a plan to help him.

OK? - OK.

OK, so you say Mr Skripal changed his phone.

That's right, yeah, he had a new phone on Saturday.

Is that so unusual?

It's unusual to go from a top-of-the-range smartphone to an old brick though, isn't it?

And the thing is...

I think we were followed from the airport.

You think? Are you sure?

It was a black BMW, two people, a man and a woman.

Yeah, we were followed, alright.

And have you any idea who might have wanted to follow Mr Skripal?

I do, yeah.

Something Sergei said when he was round here last week.

Sat exactly where you are, in fact.

And can you remember exactly what that was?

He said...

"Putin's gonna get me."

Got it? — Yeah...

SHE SIGHS

MILLS: Tracy Daszkiewicz, Director of Public Health for Wiltshire.

Good afternoon, everyone.

I'm afraid no one is much going to like what I have to say here today.

The testing process has begun

but it's going to take at least two days before we have any reliable results.

We don't know the source of contamination

or have an established chain of events about how Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey

became contaminated.

Multiple sites are in play.

Zizzi's restaurant, the Mill Pub

various vehicles, Salisbury Cemetery and of course, the Skripal house itself.

There will be others that we haven't yet managed to identify.

All we do know is that this is one of the most toxic substances on Earth

that has been specifically designed to be invisible and undetectable

and that for the 46,500 people in Salisbury, we are their only line of defence.

Thank you.

CROWD MURMURS

SHE SIGHS

Oh, shit. Sorry.

I heard the car.

How was the nightclub?

Oh, very funny.

I was watching the news.

You must have had an interesting day.

Careful, it's hot.

How you bearing up?

I don't think I can do this, Ted.

Oh, not the old imposter syndrome?

God, I hate being married to a psychologist.

I'm serious.

Oh, come on.

No, I mean it. This is just too big.

I genuinely don't think I've got the experience.

This is really massive.

What's going on?

What's really going on?

I hardly even know myself

and what I do know, I can't tell you.

Right.

But there are lives at stake.

Maybe a lot of lives.

If I make one wrong decision, just one...

Listen.

Whatever this is...

I'm glad you're in charge. — SHE SCOFFS

Well, I'm not.

SHE SIGHS

MONITOR BEEPS

PHONE BUZZES

I love you.

Is Daddy OK?

Yes, my love.

He says, "hello".

RADIO PRESENTER: 180 military personnel, because as / speak

there is an absolutely enormous convoy heading towards this Cathedral City.

PHONE CHIMES — It's quite an extraordinary //st

We've been sent by the Ministry of Defence. — PHONE CHIMES

Specialists from the Balkans Squadron Royal Tank Regiment

specialists from the Royal Logistic Corps, 40 Commando Royal Marine

force protection wing, instructors from the chemical...

I'm an hour early.

TRACY: I know. I'm sorry, love.

Breakfast club's open isn't it?

Just get yourself a hot chocolate or something.

Please, sweetheart. I really need to be somewhere.

RADIO CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY

RADIO PRESENTER: to understand is, they shouldn't '2' be a/arnved

because this is all about precautionary measures.

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

INDISTINCT CHATTER

POLICE RADIO CHATTERS

MONITOR BEEPS STEADILY

MONITOR BEEPS RAPIDLY — Nick.

HE GROANS — Hey, hey, it's OK, it's OK.

I'm here. Hey, shh...

What's happening to him?

Nick!

Oh, God... — It's OK, calm down.

NICK GROANS — Let's just pop this back.

You're doing well, you're doing well. — Just breathe, just breathe, OK?

Just try and calm down.

Just breathe in and out... — NICK MUTTERS

SARAH: Dr Haslam?

Um, he's getting worse.

Look, Sarah...

We are thinking about putting Nick into an induced coma.

SHE SIGHS — We don't do it lightly.

It carries its own risks.

He is young and fit.

If he could fight this himself, I would prefer that.

Just keep doing what you're doing. OK?

OK.

TRACY: Morning. Thank you.

Tracy Daszkiewicz. — Ah, yeah, perfect.

MAN: Nobody will tell us anything.

Can somebody tell us something?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

TRACY: How many hits so far?

Fifteen, and counting.

All potentially lethal doses, 50 micrograms or more.

A wide contamination radius. Upstairs, downstairs.

Light switches, drawers, everywhere. — Shit.

TIM: Every dot is a Novichok deposit

but we've still no idea where they first came into contact with it.

GAS HISSES

There's no obvious source deposit.

None of this makes any sense to me.

Look, if it's any consolation, I've been working with chemical weapons

for 20 years, it doesn't make any sense to me either.

TRACY: But if we don't find the source, we can't track the contamination.

Is it here? Or is it in town?

Or are there multiple sources, all over Salisbury?

Truth is we just don't know yet.

OFFICER: I'm sorry but you need to show photo ID every time you enter the zone.

JAYNE: The zone? — TRACY: It's OK!

That's my bloody street you're talking about! — She can pass.

JAYNE: Look at this place!

You said you'd let me know what was going on.

Jayne“. — That's what you said.

And then this lot arrive this morning.

My kids are terrified! — I understand.

JAYNE: No, no, no, you do not understand!

You move your kids onto this street and then maybe

just maybe you will understand!

It's a bloody nightmare, is what it is!

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

OK, shh, shh, relax. OK?

HE BREATHES RAPIDLY

HE GROANS

Dad! _ Daddy!

NICK GASPS

Sarah...

I'm here.

NICK WHIMPERS — I'm here. I'm not gonna leave you, OK?

It's OK. It's alright.

HE WHIMPERS

H9Y-

I've brought Tim's map back with me. What are we looking at?

MILLS SIGHS It's a...

It's a video of Nick Bailey searching the Skripa|'s house.

MINTY: Turns out they recorded the whole thing on police body cam.

What does it show? — MINTY: Nothing much, yet.

But let's watch it backwards.

Sometimes you spot things you didn't see the other way round.

OK, yeah.

Light switch, dining room. Yes.

Picture. Yes.

Light switch living room. Yes.

Light switch kitchen. Yes.

And the hall light switch.

So he touched all the contaminated points.

MILLS: No, he contaminated the house.

Picked it up on his way in, on the door handle.

Oh, my God.

MILLS: This must be it.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

MAN: Oh, hang on, hang on. There he is.

WOMAN: Mr Cassidy? Mr Cassidy...

PRESS CLAMOURS

WOMAN: Excuse me!

PRESS CLAIVIOURS — CAMERAS CLICK

No bloody comment.

ROSS: No, I'm not interested in a fee.

Because I don't want to make money out of my sick bloody mate, that's why, alright?

Do not call again!

Alright. Let's get today's grilling underway.

Sorry, love.

DEVICE BEEPS

Interview number four with Ross Cassidy

Friday March 9th 2018, at 12.30pm.

When did you discover Sergei's background?

We googled him the day we met him.

It's all there for the world to see.

Like Mo says, why they never gave him a new name is beyond me.

ANDREWS: He was retired though.

Where'd you pick him up?

We never discussed it but he travelled.

A lot.

Weeks at a time.

Never told anyone where he was going.

Who knows what he was up to, but he must have pissed somebody off.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Uh, thanks to everyone for coming in at such short notice.

Something of a breakthrough. Tracy?

Yes, we now have good reason to believe we've found a source deposit.

On the Skripa|'s front door handle.

This could be where it all started.

The door is being removed for testing at Porton Down.

Stephen Kemp, Cabinet Office, Whitehall.

What's the contamination radius so far?

Uh, yes, there are eleven confirmed deposits at Zizzi's.

Six at the Mill. 14 in the Skripal car.

Fifteen in the Skripal house, all potentially lethal doses

and we get a positive new result approximately every hour.

If we hadn't shut down the primary sites so quickly, then without doubt

we would have been looking at a multiple casualty situation.

And we still may be.

We've been working under the assumption that the Skripals and Nick Bailey

ingested the poison minutes before they were sick

and that the Skripals were attacked in the town centre.

TIM: But they didn't eat or drink it.

It wasn't sprayed on them. They got it on their skin.

And then over the course of the next few hours, they slowly absorbed it.

Which explains why it took so long for Nick Bailey to get properly sick?

Yes. They all touched the front door, and then they went about their business.

During all of that time, the Skripals and Nick Bailey were moving around

with Novichok on their skin, spreading it as they went.

We have to track their movements

and close down anywhere else they might have been, immediately.

That's what we're facing now.

MILLS: Thank you.

Please remember that no folders are to leave this room.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

MAN COUGHS

REPORTER: It's not clear Why the police activity at Sergei Skr/pa/'s house

has increased so markedly today.

REPORTER 2: Clear/y, there are still many sites of interest

many objects of interest that st/// the police are examining.

REPORTER 3: Six days after the attack here in Salisbury, about 180 military personnel

specially trained in chemical Warfare, have joined police and forensic experts.

The/r job, to help secure key locations

recover evidence, and remove contaminated vehicles.

Experts say this is a highly unusual operation.

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

REPORTER 4: But such is the threat from anything that may have come into contact

with the nerve agent that the gathering of evidence

and removal of vehicles requires the highest...

Yeah, I know, Alistair. Requisition all vehicles.

H9Y-

Sarah. — Yeah, I'm here.

Did I hurt someone?

SARAH: What?

Did I hurt someone? — No.

NICK SOBS — No...

Nick, no, you haven't hurt someone.

Someone's hurt you.

NICK SNIFFS Where's the girls?

Where's the girls? Where's the girls? — No, no, no, just relax...

Are the girls OK? — Relax!

I've got to go and get the girls-- — No, no, no.

It's my fault... — No, no, please, just stay here.

It's my fault. — Nick, Nick!

It's my fault! — Nick... I need some help in here!

NICK SHOUTS — Nick, please, just lie down!

Please, darling, just lie down! Please, just help him.

DOCTOR: Five milligrams of midazolam, please.

NICK SOBS — Back down, back down.

It's OK...

HASLAM: So, he is going into the next stage, Sarah.

It's OK. Paranoia is a side-effect of the toxin.

We hope it won't last much longer. OK?

So sorry I'm late.

Gents. — Thank you.

And this is your plan?

Yes.

I'm sorry, we haven't been introduced.

Hannah Mitchell.

Hannah's advising us in Whitehall on the public health front.

So far you've requisitioned 24 vehicles

at a cost of £422,000 for testing?

27, at a cost of 488,000.

That list is from this morning. I've added a few more since.

Right, and you're now suggesting that we close Bourne Hill Police Station?

TRACY: Yes.

Why do you believe it's contaminated?

Because Nick Bailey went there to file his report, carrying a deposit

or deposits of Novichok somewhere on his body.

But he'd already removed the contaminated glove at the scene

which we've located, and he didn't become ill for 36 hours

which suggests that he got a very low dose.

Nick Bailey is in ICU. He's fighting for his life.

But there's no evidence that he's transferred--

No, no, no, with respect. We're not prosecuting a crime here.

We're assessing a risk, and I believe there is a risk.

There's risk enough to close it.

DCC Mills, closing down a police station will cause panic.

Well, let's try to work out a way to avoid that.

We can't close it.

But we can still test there, in limited areas.

I really-- - We do the tests.

We keep a lid on the panic.

TRACY: Fine.

PHONES RING

MOBILE RINGS

Hello?

MAN: Hello, am I speaking to a Mrs Bailey?

Yeah, this is Sarah Bailey.

This is DC' Rogers.

I'm just calling to /et you know there's gonna be a press conference.

So... What do you mean? What do you...

You're gonna do what?

Wi/tshire Police are gonna release your husband's name to the media.

When? — In about 15 minutes.

Fifteen minutes?

Yeah, I'm afraid so. — OK, thank you for letting me know.

REPORTER: OK, I'm just gonna bring you some breaking news coming in from the police

investigating the attack on the Russian spy.

We're just hearing they've given the name for the police officer

Who's being treated in hospital, um...

He's Police Sergeant Nick Bailey.

He's been confirmed as the Wi/tsh/re police officer injured

in that nerve agent attack in Salisbury... — PHONE RINGS

...on Sunday. — PHONE RINGS

Nick Bailey is the police sergeant Who was one of the first on the scene

as he came to the aid of the Russian agent...

PHONE CHIMES

PHONE RINGS

REPORTER: Plenty more on that to come in the next half hour

but now let's catch up With the Weather. — PHONE RINGS

VEHICLES PASS — INDISTINCT CHATTER

OFFICER: Yeah, you're through, come on!

ROSS: Oi. Oi!

What's going on?

Ross Cassidy? — Yeah.

I have a requisition order here for your vehicle.

You're joking.

We're taking it for testing at Portley Down.

I don't think so.

Hey, hey, he)”

How long are you taking it for?

If you have any questions, call this number.

I don't think you'll get it back. Sorry!

Let's go!

Bring it back! Let's go!

Keep clear, everyone! Stand back!

TRACTOR BEEPS

Our thoughts in particular are With Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey

who remains in a serious but stable condition.

It is now clear that Mr Skripa/ and his daughter were poisoned

with a military-grade nerve agent, of a type developed by...

So, listen, um...

I got offered me own flat.

What? — Yeah.

It looks nice. It's in Amesbury.

Amesbury? That...

Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of...

That's right near my mum and dad.

Wow, that's amazing.

Did you get any word yet?

Um...

Well, no. Not this time around.

Maybe next time.

I'm sorry, Dawn.

...Serge/ and Yul/a Skr/pal.

Mr Speaker, there are therefore only...

Hey, listen, um... this is good, yeah?

You can come and stay with me as much as you want.

...direct act by the Russ/en state, or the Russ/an. ..

Just have to be careful the social don't find out.

SHE LAUGHS

Gracie can come and visit you there, yeah? Not like here.

Mr Speaker, / Want to pay tribute...

Hey, hun, hey.

SHE SOBS — Come on. Hold it together, yeah?

Hold it together.

Hey. Things are gonna get better now.

Alright? I promise you. They are.

TV: ...incident has, of course... — SHE SOBS

Hey, turn that shit off, will ya?

...but as Public Health Eng/and have made clear

the risk to public health is /0 W.

SIRENS WAIL

INDISTINCT CHATTER

TRACY: I didn't know you were on-site.

Thank you.

I wanted to see it for myself.

It's a mistake not to shut it down.

We're doing the tests, aren't we?

TRACY: You're putting people's lives at risk.

The government has given us a very clear line on this.

They just don't want to scare the public unnecessarily.

With a good night's sleep behind you, you'll see things differently.

RADIO REPORTER: Wash clothing you haven't already, /dea//y in the Washing machine.

Any items which cannot be Washed and would normally be dry cleaned

should be double bagged in plastic until further information is available

and Wipe personal items such as phones, handbags and other electronic items

with baby Wipes and dispose of them in plastic bags in the bin.

WOMAN: People don't feel safe to come to Salisbury

and I know that shops down the other end, G& T's and places like that

they've really struggled.

MAN: Does it really matter? /f somebody gets /// after two months

Who's gonna be blamed?

TED: Hey, darling.

What are you doing?

I have to get back.

You're going back to work?

NOW?

Tracy, think about this.

You're exhausted.

It's 20 past 11 on a Friday night and you're going back to work?

Look, I know what you're doing is important...

You don't know what I'm doing

and I'm not allowed to tell you, but it is important.

It's more important than us, it's more important than anything right now

and it breaks my heart to say that...

but it really is.

I'm sleeping there tonight.

And probably quite a lot more from now on.

I'm sorry.

Hey, Tobes.

Tobes?

I've got to go. Love you.

Love you too.

DOOR OPENS — Hiya.

GIRL: They're still up, I'm afraid. — Oh, uh-oh.

Night. — Thanks so much.

SARAH: Night. — DOOR SHUTS

Hi.

ANNIE: Is Daddy alright?

Yeah, he's, uh... he's good.

Don't lie to us.

Everybody talks about it in school.

Someone even said Dad's going to die.

OK.

OK, come here.

Look.

Daddy was at work, OK?

Doing what he does, helping people

and, um, he had to go into a house

to see if there was anyone in there who needed his help.

And, um, there was a...

a thing in there, a... a bad thing.

A poison, and he got some on him and it made him sick.

And that's why he's in the hospital, OK?

THEY SOB — Hey, come here.

Come here.

It's alright, it's alright.

Hey. It's OK.

GIRLS SOB — It's OK, it's gonna be OK. OK.

She's asleep.

What are you doing?

Hm?

Is he really gonna be OK?

I don't know.

I don't know.

KNOCK ON DOOR — DOOR OPENS

Dave.

Everything OK?

Oh, you know. Hanging onto my job by my fingernails. You?

They've, uh, they've found it.

At Bourne Hill.

It's everywhere. You were right.

We're going to have to close it down.

Oh, and probably everywhere else he went afterwards too.

Either way, Whitehall are gonna freak out even more.

They're gonna take over, aren't they?

Maybe. Boss asked to see you upstairs.

Might want to change out of those pyjamas.

Thank you.

LOCK BUZZES — DOOR OPENS

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Hi.

KNOCK ON DOOR — Come in.

Hey, Paul. — Hi, Tracy. Have a seat, I'll be one sec.

Look, Paul, I understand. It's nothing personal.

What isn't?

Me stepping aside. The other agencies taking over.

I've just had Hannah recalled to London so you can do your job properly.

Right.

So let's crack on, eh? — COMPUTER CHIMES

Keep doing what you're doing.

Will you just have a look at the pictures again, OK?

Here you are.

OK?

Here you are, sweetie.

I don't want to look at those pictures. I don't like them.

We have to look at the pictures of Daddy because this is what he's gonna look like

when we see him, OK?

He's in a big bed, like this, see?

And, uh, he has some wires.

They're full of medicine that are gonna help him.

Can we just go and see him please?

Yeah. Yeah.

OK, let's go.

OK?

Hi, Sarah. Hi, girls.

Hello.

NURSE: I'm afraid we're not quite ready for you yet.

What?

What's...

Uh...

When can we see him? — It won't be long.

Where's Doctor Haslam?

If you'd just like to wait in the family room?

The family room? Why?

NURSE: It's just this way.

Uh, yeah, I know where it is. Um, yeah, OK.

Yeah, we'll, um... Yeah, we'll do that.

We'll go and see him in a sec, OK? Ahem.

Anything in here, hot chocolate or something?

It's OK, we'll see him in a minute...

There we go.

Listen, I just thought I'd come here today to explain things to you myself.

What kind of maniac puts that stuff on a door on a street like this?

GROUP MUTTERS — What if one of our kids had touched it?

WOMAN: Exactly! — No, I understand. I completely understand.

The good thing is, we're starting to work out how this all happened.

The downside of that is

we're gonna have to continue the work here for some time.

What does some time mean?

Months. — GROUP MUTTERS

I'm sorry, I am, I'm really, really sorry.

That's what it'll take to make it safe.

What I'm gonna do, is, um...

I'm gonna set up a WhatsApp group and if you have any problems

you just let me know. — GROUP MUTTERS

Alright?

Now where's that printer?

OK?

There they are, that's all of them. So no more ID checks, OK?

GAME ON PHONE BEEPS AND CHIMES

Back in a minute, OK?

Uh, when can I see my husband?

Where is Doctor Haslam?

Sarah, someone will be with you soon, I promise.

Dad.

I, uh... I need you to come and pick up the girls.

Yeah. Now, Dad.

I think there's something really wrong here.

Hey, Sarah.

Janet? What are you doing here?

This is my colleague, DS Izzy Rawlings.

Uh, well, he can't take visitors just now.

Sarah, we're not here to visit Nick.

We've been assigned as Family Liaison Officers.

What?

OK. What the hell is going on? Where is he?

Where's Nick? Is he dead?

JANET: No, no, no, no, no.

He's alright. He's alright, Sarah.

OK.

Then what... are you doing here?

PEN SCRATCHES

NICK: What you doing?

What you doing? Why are you...

Why you dressed like that? Why...

What's happening?

Why are you dressed like...

Why is he dressed...

Thank you, Adnan. Thank you.

NICK: Why is he dressed like that?

We've been told that you might be spreading nerve agent

so they want us to wear protective gear.

Why aren't you...

why aren't you wearing it?

Because I know you've already metabolised it

and, uh, I find those suits very uncomfortable.

Where have they found it?

Ah, they found it in your police station

and I'm told they're gonna start looking in your house.

I need you to put the mask back on, Nick.

OK. Just relax...

No.

No.

Well, they have to test in there, Sarah.

The stuff could be inside, on Nick's clothes.

Yeah, we've been living there for a week.

JANET: We're making arrangements. A hotel for tonight.

SHE SIGHS

Pippin.

Sorry?

It's the cat.

I have to get her. — No, look, I'm sorry, you can't...

I am going into my house

and I'm going to go and get our cat.

And I'm going to see my husband.

JANET: No, Sarah, Sarah, you can't go in there!

I've had enough. I'm going. I can. — Sarah!

You can't go in there! Sarah!

Sarah!

No, Sarah!

Sarah, don't come in!

Don't come in. Don't come in.

Don't touch me, don't bring the girls in, alright?

SHE SOBS — Don't bring the girls in cos I've spread it

no, I've spread it. Don't touch me! No... — SHE SOBS

SHE SOBS Thank God!

Thank God you're OK.

SHE SOBS