Original subtitles

In other news this morning,

the markets have responded positively

to the prime minister´s announcement

that the Indian government will underwrite sterling.

The pound rallied,

gaining more than two pence against the U.S. dollar.

This could be construed as a personal success

for Tom Dawkins,

although he has been criticized by environmental campaigners

for reneging on existing international agreements.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

WRIGGLESWORTH: All right, ladies and gents. Thank you.

Stand back, please.

[ Shouting continues ]

Behind the tape. Thank you.

Behind the tape, please.

I´ll be right back.

[ Indistinct conversations, shutter clicks ]

[ Siren wailing in distance ]

DAWKINS: Well?

What do you know?

Burglary, perhaps.

Signs of a struggle.

Someone´s been tearing the place apart looking for bugs...

Or... removing them.

Was he bugged?

If he was, I didn´t know about it, and it wasn´t by us.

Then by whom?

It may have been another agency targeting me through him...

hoping he´d be...indiscreet.

About Nightlight?

DUCHENNE: Nightlight was a fuckup, Tom.

And it was my fault, as I´m sure you know.

Some people think it led to the death of an MI6 officer

the following year.

Now, they are wrong, but...

Jesus Christ.

They wouldn´t have gone this far.

Not for that.

The bugging, maybe, but not this.

Then what?

DUCHENNE: It could be this photo he died for.

Did you give it to him?

Is that his blood?

We think it´s from one of Saeed Khan´s picture messages.

So you didn´t give it to him?

No.

DUCHENNE: If not you, then who?

HAYES: We may have a problem.

The Times called.

This is what they´ll be running tomorrow.

Tom served in the British Army in Bosnia with the U.N.

Peacekeeping.

Now, according to this article,

he crossed into an area he shouldn´t have been

and he broke U.N. rules of engagement

to free an Army translator taken prisoner by an armed gang.

What´s wrong with that?

The translator was killed, plus three other civilians

and a member of Tom´s company.

Civilians? You said it was an armed gang.

Criminals. Not combatants.

Well, in my book, that´s heroism, not a war crime.

Well, he covered it up.

It´s bad judgment then, bad judgment now.

Felix, you just don´t like it that he actually does something.

He´s acting like some crazed Marxist.

Championing small businesses? Marxism?

Nationalizing a bank?

Bringing PetroFex to book

and standing up for the people of Scarrow.

Shooting civilians?

Are they saying that?

HAYES: I´ve just told you everything I know.

Someone needs to speak to Tom.

Ros.

It´s you or me, isn´t it?

I´m sorry?

When he goes. Tom. If.

I´ve done a poll.

He´s swimming against the tide.

[ Dialing ]

WRIGGLESWORTH: He´s not happy.

[ Cellphone buzzing ]

[ Cellphone beeps ]

Get Ellis Kane here. Now.

You see why I didn´t want to stand.

Because the story would get out.

It´s a distraction, Tom. Nothing more.

Show you´re vulnerable on this, and the government will suffer.

Shrug it off. Move on.

That´s leadership.

Did you shoot civilians?

No.

No.

So it was a mistake 20 years ago.

Doesn´t mean you´re making a mistake now.

A mistake? It was a bloody mess.

So move on.

Tony Fossett is dead.

We´re sleepwalking into a war with Iran.

The whole thing is starting again.

You stepped up, Tom, when the country needed you.

You´re in the firing line. That´s your job.

It was then, and it is now.

We don´t know what happened to Tony Fossett.

What I can tell you is...

he wouldn´t want you crying in the lavatory.

He´d want you out there, making waves.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

It might have been an idea

to tell me about the skeleton in your cupboard.

Are you telling me you didn´t know?

Of course I didn´t know.

And I recall giving you some advice about Ellis Kane.

But I didn´t say anything to her.

So where could it have come from?

They are big, rough lads at the MOD, Tom.

And they´ve had a very hard time from government lately.

They´ve lost their Nimrod fleet, their aircraft carriers,

they´ve had budgets and troop numbers cut to ribbons.

If they´re starting to feel a little bit unmanned,

they´d be more than capable of feeding a smear story

to a well-placed journalist.

Ellis Kane´s here.

Tell me he´s joking.

Are you going to tell me

what the fuck you think you´re playing at?

Are you going to pretend I didn´t give you a chance

to give me your side of the story?

And why would I do that?

Yeah. Why would a journalist want to help?

You can´t sit on festering secrets like that

- and hope to take on the world. - Well, I bloody...

I told you something was out there.

I asked you to give me your side of the story.

You said, "There´s nothing there.

There´s nothing to give."

Well, fuck you, Tom Dawkins.

You´re not the only one trying to find their way in the world.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?

- Oh, fuck off. - The great hotshot journalist

Too big for your own story,

and now nobody wants to speak to you.

Is that what I am?

That´s what people say to me all the time.

- Then what are you? - I´m the fucking prime minister.

I received an anonymous e-mail...

A report you´d written about an unsanctioned mission

to rescue your translator from Bosnia.

You entered an area barred to the British Army,

and five people ended up dead in the firefight,

including the translator and the man you took with you,

Corporal Aiden Farlowe.

You redacted the report.

I allowed myself to be persuaded to redact that report.

You do a thing like that... supposedly for the best.

Oh.

You act on advice.

You try to persuade yourself that it´s for the greater good.

And you also know that it´s going to save your ass

And it dogs you.

It dogs you from that day to this.

You were rescuing your translator.

I was sleeping with her.

Ah.

[ Door opens ]

Thought you´d gone.

I´m going.

You mustn´t take it personally.

I´ve had targets die. It´s hard.

But they never knew you. Don´t forget that.

And you never knew them.

I think I need to take some time off.

The people on those lists are there for a reason.

It´s our job to monitor them.

No more than that.

Take a couple of days.

[ Door opens ]

[ Beeps ]

Somebody fucked up.

Other than you, you mean?

Fossett was Dawkins´ closest friend.

And the black box. W-What´s happening with that?

Forget about the flight recorder.

It´s never coming back.

And... once they´ve seen that, no one will ask about it again.

Nothing dodgy about this dossier.

Happier now?

Fossett had some of this information?

Where did he get hold of it?

We´re presuming Dawkins.

I´ll call you.

[ Cellphone dialing ]

Give me a secure line to GCHQ.

[ Telephone ringing ]

Hello.

Um, yeah, that´s right.

She does.

Right.

[ Buzzing ]

EVANS: Excuse me, Prime Minister.

You don´t know me, but my name is Agnes Evans.

Go through the press office like everybody else.

[ Beeps ]

[ Keys clicking ]

The Iranians have interned 30 U.K. nationals.

They´re describing them as spies, which is ludicrous.

What are they?

All the oil companies keep a skeleton staff in Iran

for the day when sanctions are lifted.

So they´re oilmen?

U.N. sanctions forbid Western oil companies

from operating in Iran,

so suddenly the Iranians are saying

they must be there under false pretenses.

Hard-liners banging the drum pre-election.

They know their time is running out.

They´re not the only ones.

They want us to jump up and down,

make threats, and behave like the warmongering imperialists

they´ve cast us as.

YELLAND: I suppose they do, yes.

To which our answer should be what?

I know what you want me to say, Tom.

You want me to say, "Violins and chamomile tea," but I´m not...

You´re not going to start telling me how the world works.

Then stop trying to reinvent it at our expense.

And if you´re going to sell the family silver to the Indians,

consult the bloody foreign secretary.

Or even the chancellor.

There´s a consensus growing out there

that you´re going to burn bright, but brief.

And you need to make a decision about Iran.

There are 312 MPs in this party.

And they´ve delegated us to make the decisions that matter.

What are you saying, Felix?

Felix isn´t saying anything.

Are you, Felix?

[ Door closes ]

Thank you, John.

I needed your support on that one.

And that doesn´t worry you?

Mm.

HAWLEY: Sami Sharour visited Tehran

on at least a dozen occasions in the last three years.

He was also seen visiting this mosque.

Now, the imams there

are known for their particularly anti-Western stance.

The, uh, guy on the right

is very close to the Iranian leadership.

A madrassa in New York known for its radical views.

He visited it several times in 2011.

And you think this Sharour was on Charles´ plane?

Oh, we´re certain of it.

Despite the fact that he wasn´t on the passenger manifest?

See, the plane was owned by PetroFex.

He worked for the company.

As I understand it, he was a late addition,

like Charles Flyte.

YELLAND: If he wasn´t on the passenger manifest...

That´s him there...

On the picture that Saeed Khan took.

Who´s had access to these pictures?

Well, only one has been made public.

And why the hell is this only coming out now?

The company are cagey about his presence there

because of his connection with the drone-fuel team.

Which was what?

He headed it up.

Now, the circumstances of the crash...

With so little information emerging,

it has taken a little bit longer than we´d hoped.

How long have you known?

Well, we´ve been following several different leads.

It has taken a while, I know, but...

You´re suggesting that he was somehow an agent

of the Iranian government.

Now, his family originated in Syria.

Sharour was born there. Grew up in the U.S.

But they´ve retained very close links with Iran,

Sami in particular.

It does look as though given an opportunity

to harm the prime minister, he took it.

[ Exhales deeply ]

This will tip us into war.

We have to keep control of the details

until we´re absolutely certain of the facts.

HAWLEY: Well, naturally, the Americans are aware.

The agreement on shared intelligence.

I don´t recall anybody adhering to that

when it came to the drone strike.

Oh. It´s secure with them.

It´d better be.

Ros, can you give us a moment?

I think the time for violins and chamomile tea may be over.

[ Door opens, closes ]

I saw another copy of one of those pictures today.

Did you?

Oh, yes, I did.

Covered in blood.

Tony Fossett´s?

So how did he get hold of it?

I´ll look into it.

[ Door opens, closes ]

[ Whistle blowing, indistinct conversations ]

[ Siren wailing in distance ]

Essentially, the Americans are saying that...

That no one could accuse you of belligerence or intemperance

if you retaliated.

Meaning?

Targeted strikes against their nuclear program.

How long have we been looking for clear justification

to take those facilities out?

But, Ros, strike like that,

and we guarantee the hard-liners an election victory.

We play right into their hands.

YELLAND: Do you know the mistake George W. made after 9/11, Tom?

He squandered the world´s goodwill

by moving out of Afghanistan and into Iraq.

When the news about Charles´ assassination gets out,

you´ll have a window of forgiveness in your hands.

And, to quote the U.S. secretary of state,

it´s a very powerful item

when paired with some Tomahawk cruise missiles.

[ Sighs ]

Oh, God.

But they´re right, aren´t they?

If Sharour is an Iranian agent and he killed Charles...

then we have to act.

Yes.

If you send cruise missiles into Iran,

the Iranians will send something back.

Not to us, maybe, but almost certainly Israel.

And if the Israelis respond in kind,

you´ll need the balls to see it through.

Well, without the flight recorder,

it comes down to a question of judgment.

Yours.

[ Cellphone buzzes ]

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Helicopter passing ]

MAN: She hasn´t been able to delete the conversation,

but she has done her best to lock it up and scramble it.

But you can access it?

MAN: It´ll be a first if I couldn´t.

[ Helicopter passing ]

[ Cellphone rings, beeps ]

Who the hell is this?

EVANS: I can´t talk now.

I need to see you.

I can tell you what happened to Tony.

And to Charles Flyte.

But I can´t talk now.

There´ll be someone monitoring this phone.

Well, you´re not Tony.

And where Tony is tonight, he won´t be doing any talking.

Okay?

[ Horn blaring ]

RIX: 350 years of continuous trading,

and shifting your fucking assets

is bringing my bank to its knees.

Don´t blame me, Michael.

I run the company, not the country.

Always the last to know.

Last to know what?

Look sharp, Sir Michael.

Room for one more inside.

CLARK: What are you doing here?

Didn´t you get my message?

[ Sirens wailing ]

I was wondering if you knew where Tony Fossett was.

He´s dead, love.

Your guess is as good as mine.

I mean where his body is.

You come in here once before, didn´t you?

Do you know where he is?

He said I could trust you.

Tony Fossett said that?

He´s at my cousin´s place in Southgate.

[ Keys clicking ]

Gotcha.

FOSSETT: I´ve decided you´re on my side.

Everyone else might have given up on me,

but I´ve still got, well... you.

Where is she now?

You´re wondering if this fella here, Sami Sharour...

MAN: Gravesend.

was on the fatal flight with our ex-prime minister.

JACOBSON: First Scarrow. Now Sharour.

Things are getting out of hand.

You´re the public face of this company, Paul.

You´re going to have to take one for the team.

So this is all of you, is it?

You all agree with this?

You all agree?

Well, fuck the fucking lot of you!

WRIGGLESWORTH: Thank you.

Just a precaution.

EVANS: I can´t talk now.

I need to see you.

I can tell you what happened to Tony.

And to Charles Flyte.

At this point, she was at Hungerford Bridge.

There´ll be someone monitoring this phone.

DAWKINS: Well, you´re not Tony.

And where Tony is tonight, he won´t be doing any talking.

She´s not in Gravesend.

She dropped the phone in a boat.

She´s wherever Tony Fossett is.

So you were bugging Tony Fossett?

- Yes. - Why?

We´re not told.

Trigger words?

Nightlight.

Go on.

[ Voice breaking ] I may have got him killed.

I´m so sorry.

I know he was your friend.

I just wanted to help him, but now...

How?

Do you know who Sami Sharour is?

Yes. Of course.

I thought he was involved in Charles Flyte´s death.

I passed the information on to Tony.

Why?

You´d lost faith in him.

And you know this because?

I was eavesdropping...

on your private conversations with him.

If it was your information that killed him,

then he died in vain.

I already knew about Sami Sharour.

But I was wrong.

It wasn´t Sharour.

Tony saw that.

And I wanted you to know what he saw.

He said if we´d seen it, others must have, too.

What others?

[ Door opens ]

They´ve come for me.

What?

Hold it.

- MAN: Is she in there? - WRIGGLESWORTH: They´re busy.

Prime Minister, you are in great danger.

Stay right where you are.

We´re intelligence officers.

You´ll have ID, then.

Prime Minister, step away from Agnes Evans.

Who sent you?

We´re from MI6.

Our information is that she may be armed.

I´m not here to hurt you.

Stop right there.

No more than a minute.

I want your hands in the air

and your MI6 authorization codes now.

They don´t want me talking to you.

You think this is why Tony was murdered?

I know it was.

I heard it.

They wanted his phone and they wanted these photographs.

He thought whatever was in that container

brought down the plane.

It got damaged... an accident.

He said it was like him... It fell off the wagon.

Agnes Evans, I´m arresting you for offenses

under the Official Secrets Act.

You do not have to say anything, but anything that you do say

could be used in evidence against you.

Oh, for Christ´s sake. Take it easy.

Prime Minister, if I could just take...

No, you damn well won´t.

So, can you run the story?

Well... I can.

But do these really prove what he´s saying?

Write the story, Ellis.

Tom?

You´re doing the right thing.

You know Felix is muttering about a vote of no confidence?

At a time like this.

Is he crazy?

Mm.

What are the Iranians saying?

Well, they deny any link with Sharour

or the death of Charles Flyte, naturally.

But there´s evidence out there,

and the press are digging... Here and in the U.S.

MI6, CIA.

It begins to look pretty compelling.

Yes. Well, what I´ve got is pretty compelling, too.

Mm.

Ellis Kane´s going to be a lone voice on that one.

Still fighting my corner, John?

Mm.

Go to bed, Tom.

Everyone´s waiting for your decision on Iran.

I think we all agree the future is what is important.

This country needs companies like PetroFex and RCB.

Nations and corporations both need to be run responsibly...

for the greatest benefit of the stakeholders

and with leadership equal to the task.

I believe we´ve secured the future of our companies.

Now we need to do what we can for our friends in government.

DURRELL: Sir Michael.

[ Telephone ringing ]

[ Indistinct conversations ]

DAWKINS: So what´s going on?

So how did this get out?

And, Tom, Ellis Kane was arrested last night.

On what charge?

Offenses under the Terrorism Act.

You´re joking.

Possession of material and photographs.

This is all bullshit.

It´s misinformation.

They just want me to go to war.

Does this entire country want war with Iran?

Is that what they´re saying...

That all I have to do is say the word and everybody´s happy?

Because that would be the easiest thing

in the fucking world!

WOMAN ON TELEVISION: It´s a day of reckoning

for Tom Dawkins and members of his government,

who are split over his stance on Iran

and its alleged involvement in the death of Charles Flyte.

So, are you coming in or not?

Good.

YELLAND: I hope you know what you´re doing.

Thank you.

I want Ellis Kane released today.

Now.

DUCHENNE: She was in possession of documents.

Yes, that I gave her.

Do you want me arrested as well?

Make life a lot simpler.

Look, Laura,

there´s a strong possibility that your opposite number at MI6

has been sitting on crucial information

about the death of Charles Flyte that points away from Iran.

And Ellis Kane has that story.

She´s one of the good guys, Laura.

Like you.

And while you´re at it, you can release Agnes Evans as well.

DURRELL: I´d like you to consider this...

The deadline debacle with PetroFex,

the bandying about of state secrets during the drone strike,

the allegations of war crimes,

the humbling of our great nation he brought about

by offering to exchange emissions for rupees.

[ Murmuring ]

And now he´s appeasing the Iranians,

despite a clear link with the murder of Charles Flyte.

[ Murmuring ]

[ Indistinct conversations ]

KANE: Tom?

Tom.

I´m sorry they buried your story.

But there´s something else.

There´s someone you need to talk to.

I´m afraid I haven´t got time right now.

We´re in a hole. Stop digging.

They killed our fucking prime minister.

Accept it.

The majority of people in this country

do not want war with Iran.

These are the only numbers that really matter.

You have a choice.

Come into the chamber now

and announce retaliation against Iran

or come in there and resign.

And what if I don´t?

Then right after the debate, we´re coming back in here,

and every man jack on that list will raise his right arm

and throw you out of that window.

WRIGGLESWORTH: [ Clears throat ]

Paul Clark´s here, sir.

I think you should hear what he has to say.

Do you know why we always find ourselves deep in the shit, Tom,

you and me?

We just didn´t go to the right schools.

For fuck´s sake, Clark.

They´re gonna do to you what they did to me.

They´re gonna cut you off at the knees.

They all want war, you see.

That´s your problem.

Gets you out of jail with the banks.

Conflict starts over there,

capital will flee the region like there´s no tomorrow.

And this is where it will come.

Our banks will be drinking it up.

And the oil companies, the markets,

the multinationals, the Americans.

Works on just about every level.

Wouldn´t you say, Felix?

I´d say that if somebody kills your prime minister,

you strike and you strike hard.

Sharour is no terrorist.

The only reason he went to Iran so many times

is ´cause I sent him.

And that mosque in New York...

He used to drag his nephew out of there by his ear.

Just thought you´d like to know.

[ Door opens, closes ]

What´s the matter, Felix?

Facts don´t fit the strategy any longer?

Facts?

From Paul Clark?

[ Chuckles ]

I´ll see you in the chamber.

How you feel?

[ Exhales deeply ]

You can do this, Tom.

Step out of the shadows and be the man.

You´ve brought it all within reach.

You want to throw it away now?

Everything you´ve ever wanted to achieve standing in the wings

can still be done, but not if you duck this.

Is that what you think I´m doing?

Ducking?

The principled stand. The man in the white suit.

Talking it up and never really engaging.

Do you want to change the world, Tom?

You have to live in it first.

SPEAKER: Honorable members of this house, the prime minister.

The Iranians did not kill our prime minister.

[ Murmuring ]

SPEAKER: Order.

Order!

Let the prime minister speak.

Order!

PetroFex did.

[ Murmuring, shouting ]

SPEAKER: Order!

Order! Let the prime minister speak!

It seems the company was transporting

a sample of the new drone fuel

in the plane the prime minister was using...

The same drone fuel that we now know accounted for the ferocity,

though not the onset, of the explosion at Scarrow

which killed 19 people and injured 94.

The container was damaged in an accident

at Houston Airport in Texas

and probably came into contact with a catalyst in the hold

when the plane passed through an electrical storm.

[ Murmuring ]

Am I certain of this information?

No, I´m not.

[ Indistinct shouting, laughter ]

SPEAKER: Order!

Am I certain that Sami Sharour blew the plane up

acting on Iranian instructions?

No, I´m not.

[ Murmuring ]

Am I sure that a shadowy coalition

of the markets, the banks, big business, and Americans

will go into meltdown if peace breaks out?

Again, no, I´m not.

But I put this to you... Are we going to toss away

countless British and Iranian lives

on the strength of information we´re less than sure of?

You tell me.

Because you´re going to have to vote on this.

So let´s put ourselves on the line here for once,

like Agnes Evans did, like Tony Fossett did.

Let´s forget party allegiance, forget vested interests,

forget votes of confidence.

Let each and every one of us think only of this...

Is this war justified?

- MAN: Hear, hear! - [ Murmuring ]

Is it what the people of this country want?

- [ Murmuring ] - SPEAKER: Order.

Is it going to achieve what we want it to achieve?

And if not, then what next?

[ Murmuring ]

Order!

Well, I´ll tell you what I think we should do.

We should represent the people of this country.

Not the lobby companies that wine and dine us

or the banks and the big businesses

that tell us how the world goes ´round.

Not the trade unions that try and call the shots.

Not the civil servants nor warmongering generals

or the security chiefs.

Not the press magnates

and multimillionaire donors demanding dinner at Number 10.

Not the whips. Not the party line.

Not the status quo.

The people of this country, I put it to you,

do not want another war.

Of that I am sure.

Sure enough to stake my political career on it.

- [ Cheering, shouting ] - SPEAKER: Order!

- Tom, please. Enough. - Order!

No, John, it´s not enough.

It´s not nearly enough.

I´ll tell you what enough should be.

Enough would be learning from our past

and not bulldozing our way into another unwarranted,

illegal war.

- Hear, hear. - Hear, hear.

- Enough? - SPEAKER: Order.

I say enough would be returning democracy to this house

and to the country it represents.

- Yes! - Hear, hear!

To that end, I take the unprecedented step...

of calling for a vote of no confidence in my own government.

[ Murmuring, shouting ]

What the hell is he doing?

SPEAKER: Order.

If you want war with Iran and you want business as usual,

go ahead.

Vote against me.

But if you are prepared to take back responsibility

and to take a step into uncharted territory

for something that you really care about...

something that you believe is right,

join me and vote against this government.

[ Cheering, shouting ]

SPEAKER: Order!

Order!

Order!

Order!

- Order! - [ Shouting continues ]

[ Indistinct shouting ]

All right. Stand back.

[ Shouting fades ]

KANE: When I first met you,

I didn´t think you had it in you.

You know what?

I think maybe you´ll do it.

I think maybe you really will.

I don´t know.

You get to the top, and you realize...

it´s really only the middle.

[ Knock on door ]

Come in.

- Welcome back, sir. - Thank you.

WOMAN: It was you that brought those cowboys here!

Your government!

So what are you gonna do?!