Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00Our Russian friends off his head, where did the Sheikh get hold of him?
00:14His Highness chooses his friends with great care.
00:18Once chosen, they're very well treated indeed.
00:28If certain colleagues in my party could see this.
00:30Yes, there are killjoys in my lot too.
00:33I find it best simply to lie about fun.
00:36Ah, your Highness, everything to your liking?
00:39At last, a British weapon that actually works.
00:44You're enjoying the desert?
00:47Oh yes, yes, a lot of offer.
00:50Well, your Highness, gentlemen, shall we?
00:53Come on, come on.
00:57Um, that's for you.
01:10No show yet.
01:12What's keeping him?
01:14Playing the governor's backhander.
01:16Here we go.
01:26What are you going to do now?
01:31I want to apologise.
01:34I've let down my colleagues, my friends, and my country.
01:41But I have now paid for that mistake.
01:44What's the real reason for your conviction?
01:46Illegal arms sales when you were minister?
01:48I now go into private life.
01:51The one shining thing for me from my time in prison
01:53is to have found that the Lord Jesus is my saviour.
01:56Thank you. Thank you very much.
02:16We're in. Where's the car park?
02:18Number one here.
02:24Thank you.
02:34Well, hello, Harry.
02:36Hello, Hampton. This better be about something big.
02:40How about the fall of the government?
02:51And you are?
02:52I thought we'd talk somewhere congenial.
02:54Good Lord.
02:56Champagne.
02:58Why not?
03:01You probably see through all this.
03:03You're poisoning me.
03:05It's a new interrogation technique to disorientate the subject.
03:08What do you think of it so far?
03:10I'm not here for an interrogation. I'm here at my own request.
03:14I don't think I'll go.
03:17You must realise you remain a category A security risk.
03:20Oh, how I've missed tough women.
03:23Thank you very much.
03:25Cheers.
03:27Thank you, number nine.
03:32Oh. Right.
03:35You call yourself by numbers now, do you?
03:38It's the latest fad.
03:40Some youth in an Armani suit advising the Joint Intelligence Committee.
03:44I don't want the waiter here.
03:46Thank you. We'll report from now on.
03:48Yes, sir.
03:52Before we talk seriously, would you mind if we joined in a moment of prayer?
03:56You're joking.
03:58Will you do the honours?
04:00Of course.
04:02Lord of all who sees of all, look down upon thy humble servants.
04:14Harry has gone way overboard
04:16after that psych-op seminar on disorientation effects.
04:21What are they doing?
04:23They're praying.
04:25Amen.
04:27Thank you for that, Hampton.
04:29Now, could you possibly tell us why you want to see us?
04:37Well, my trial was a deal with the government, of course.
04:41If I shut up and went down for embezzlement,
04:43I wouldn't be prosecuted for treason.
04:45But when I was in what is laughably called the prison system,
04:49I was consumed by a wholesome, burning hatred
04:53for those hypocrites who couldn't get enough of me
04:56when I was the rising star
04:58and wouldn't come near me when I fell.
05:00So I wrote my memoirs.
05:05Very full.
05:07Very frank.
05:09Very frank memoirs.
05:11And these memoirs tell?
05:13Everything.
05:14Oh, the parties, who slept with who, that kind of thing.
05:17But at a more profound level,
05:19I reveal how I tried to arrange a second super gun.
05:24Another?
05:25It didn't work out.
05:26But a lot did.
05:28The illegal trade in arms is worth millions to this country.
05:33Blind eyes are turned in all sorts of corners.
05:37And, of course, my main client
05:40was the royal family of the Confederated Gulf States.
05:44You wrote about Sheikh Vassal?
05:45Indeed.
05:46He's a wonderful host, you know.
05:49In my memoirs, I recount,
05:52rather well, I think,
05:54how one beautiful night in the desert,
05:56I corrupted a fellow British politician
05:59into the Sheikh's service.
06:01Ask me who.
06:03Who?
06:05Richard Maynard.
06:07Oh, yes.
06:08He fell open like a ripe peach.
06:11Squelch.
06:13Dick Maynard is one of the most respected men in Parliament.
06:16He's the Prime Minister's favourite in the government.
06:18A bosom friend, certainly, but respected.
06:22Most of his party think he's a sanctimonious little shit.
06:25What exactly did you write about golden boy Richard Maynard?
06:28How he continues my work.
06:31How he's hand in glove with the Sheikh's Mr Fixit,
06:33a Russian by the name of Sergei Lermov.
06:36Do you know him?
06:38Lermov, that bucket of filth.
06:40If you wanted revenge, why did you tell us this?
06:44Why didn't you just print it?
06:46That was the plan.
06:48But as my sentence wore on,
06:51Christ began to work in me.
06:58Five weeks ago, I let him into my life.
07:02And now I bitterly repent writing that book.
07:07Then why didn't you burn it?
07:08I couldn't.
07:09Why not?
07:10I went to its hiding place and it had gone.
07:11Gone?
07:12This may come as a surprise to you,
07:14but prison is full of thieves.
07:16Did you tell the Governor about this?
07:17I did, but so?
07:18You could have asked to see us when this happened.
07:20This is my first opportunity and I'm doing my duty.
07:23I want you to find it and destroy it.
07:29What you wrote, is it true?
07:32It is.
07:36Illegal arms sales in my day was relatively innocent.
07:41But now, weapons sold by a cabinet minister,
07:46reaching terrorist groups,
07:48being turned back on the country of manufacture.
07:51Who could survive this scandal?
07:55The Governor would fall.
07:57Where exactly in the prison did you hide this political neutron bomb?
08:01During my time behind bars,
08:03I became a very keen gardener.
08:28Is that where I think it is?
08:33Jesus Christ.
08:35Dope, five knives and a collection of pornographic videos,
08:37no deadly memoirs.
08:39That's because they don't exist.
08:40Why so sure?
08:41Because Hampton Wilder is a liar.
08:42He got under your skin, didn't he?
08:44There's a sense of evil about him.
08:46MI5 doesn't do evil, just treachery, treason and Armageddon.
08:50The man lies as naturally as the rest of us breathe.
08:53Oh, what the hell.
08:54You don't get it, Tess.
08:55Get what?
08:56It's not about whether Wilder's memoirs are telling the truth about Richard Maynard,
08:59or even if they exist.
09:01It's about the damage the very idea of them can do.
09:03That's how scandal works.
09:05Well then, he's way ahead.
09:07He's got us digging up prison gardens
09:08and fingering the Prime Minister's best friend.
09:10What do you suggest we do, ignore the whole thing?
09:12We've got to check Maynard out.
09:14I can see that.
09:15There's a routine M.O.D. briefing tomorrow.
09:17I've moved heaven and earth to get Maynard there,
09:19and I want you to sit in on it.
09:21Stroke him.
09:23See if he meows.
09:26Hampton Wilder and Richard Maynard did go on a visit
09:28to the Confederated Gulf States nine years ago.
09:30It was a general goodwill business trip, cross-party,
09:33and it sealed the delivery of some small British arms,
09:35but nothing spectacular.
09:36And there was a night in the desert.
09:39Maynard's file.
09:50And Wilder's.
09:53Ellie?
09:55Ellie?
10:04This is my daddy.
10:07Matthew Archer.
10:08Hello, Tom.
10:11Oh, yeah.
10:13The man who fiddles with computers.
10:15That's it.
10:17And you're the oil man ex.
10:20You're just back from the Gulf.
10:23It's a glamorous part of the world.
10:25You should come out there, Ellie.
10:27Gushes oil, doesn't it?
10:30Doesn't it? Just like you gushed promises to Ellie.
10:36Don't do this in front of my kid.
10:38You haven't been in front of your kid for two years.
10:41Go on, cupcake, do Mummy a drawing.
10:49Cupcake.
10:51I'm warning you.
10:54Chummy.
10:55Thank you very much.
11:00Ring me.
11:16Police Central, traffic.
11:17Ryan?
11:18Mark Hod.
11:19Hey, Mark, you home again?
11:20Yeah, back in the land of the living.
11:22Listen, Brian, I want to pull a favour off you.
11:25Car number.
11:27Yeah, all right, just for you.
11:28You are brilliant.
11:30Listen, it's a red Saab.
11:32You said your name was Matthew.
11:34Slip of the tongue.
11:36No, it wasn't.
11:40It comes out of what is wrong.
11:43It's your bloody job.
11:44Look, I hardly know what my name is myself.
11:47Oh, well, boo-hoo, poor you.
11:50And poor me.
11:52And poor Maisie.
11:53Ellie...
11:54Look, don't say anything.
11:56Because anything that you say will be wrong, OK?
12:04Maisie and I are going to Di's old flat.
12:07Where?
12:08Di's flat.
12:14You can't leave.
12:16Won't be secure.
12:19If the door's still dodgy, we'll get a deadlock.
12:21No, I mean you might not be safe because of me.
12:24What do you mean?
12:25In the service, dependency can sometimes be at risk.
12:28Risk?
12:29Yeah.
12:30I'm talking generally. I just blur.
12:32What do you mean?
12:35Once you've lived with a spy, you can't leave
12:37because of reasons of national security.
12:39There is a risk. It's real.
12:41That's why the service doesn't like mixed affairs.
12:43What?
12:44Five officers sleeping with...
12:46erm...
12:48real people.
12:51Oh, so they want you to sleep with each other.
12:54Well, you'd better go and find yourself a little Mata Hari
12:56that the job approves of.
13:00Have you any idea
13:02how horrible these things sound?
13:04Dependence at risk, mixed affairs.
13:15Amazing alpaca thing.
13:18This is so unfair.
13:21Do you mean to me or to you?
13:28Toss up. Main answer here.
13:34Minister.
13:37Miss Tessa Phillips.
13:39How do you do, Miss Phillips?
13:40Very well, thank you, Minister.
13:42Well, Harry,
13:43I haven't been briefed in the Holy of Holies before.
13:45You've been to Tam's house, surely?
13:47Never.
13:48Just looks like an office.
13:49I suppose it's all in the mind, secrecy.
13:51Absolutely.
13:52Shall we?
13:57This is a briefing about the illegal sale of
13:59battlefield weapons out of this country.
14:01We're very eager to have interdepartmental input on this,
14:03so I'd like to thank the Minister for being here.
14:06Now I'd like all of us to take a look at this man.
14:08Sergei Lermontov.
14:10Ex-cultural attaché at the Russian embassy.
14:12That is, ex-KGB.
14:13Yes, where are all the old comrades now?
14:16Well, some of them, like Mr Lermontov,
14:18have become powerful men.
14:20He has moved around the world,
14:21but at present he's resident in London.
14:23He works for a charity called Hope for Chechnya,
14:25which is trying to get food and medicine
14:27to that wretched part of the planet.
14:28No doubt wrapped up in the odd rocket grenade launcher.
14:41Sometimes you have to remind yourself
14:43of the reality with which you are dealing.
14:46Mr Lermontov is not only an arms dealer,
14:49he's also a spy.
14:50We've had him under surveillance for several months
14:52and we believe that he's been feeding information
14:54about Chechnyan contacts
14:55back to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
14:57What's this man's immigration status?
14:59Well, we can throw him out any time.
15:01Why don't we?
15:02Because he's also the middleman for a gun-running cartel
15:04run out of the Middle East,
15:05confederated Gulf states,
15:06a country with which we are friendly.
15:08Indeed.
15:09What we need, Minister, is to liaise closely.
15:12It would help us enormously
15:13if you could authorise a thorough audit
15:15of all weapons stocks.
15:17It's a massive task.
15:19We suspect weapons are being stolen
15:21and sold abroad through this man.
15:23Dear God.
15:25Well, of course, we will co-operate fully.
15:28Thank you, Minister.
15:30Well, that concludes things.
15:31Then, on behalf of my colleagues,
15:33I'd like to thank you for this briefing.
15:35So reassuringly alarming.
15:38It was very informative, Harry.
15:41I think I met him.
15:44Lermontov.
15:45On a trip a few years ago.
15:46Unsavoury bastard, I thought.
15:48I told MI6, of course.
15:50Of course.
15:52Would you like a personal tour
15:54of the more sensitive areas of Turner's house?
15:59Well, that would be very exciting.
16:06There are cameras.
16:08Where?
16:09Tiny. State-of-the-art.
16:10See?
16:11Good Lord.
16:12It's a new security drive.
16:14Ever since the war on terrorism began,
16:16there's been much more money for everything.
16:18Oh, yes.
16:19It's not perfect.
16:20There's a dead spot just beyond these doors.
16:22Dear, oh, dear.
16:27What are you doing?
16:29They're out to get you.
16:31What do you mean?
16:33Dick.
16:35What are you involved with?
16:38Well...
16:40With you.
16:42Yes.
16:49What?
16:51I don't think so.
16:53I do.
16:55Oh, dear.
16:57Oh, dear.
16:59Oh, dear.
17:01Tessa. Tessa.
17:14Shh.
17:16Tessa.
17:17Tessa, you are completely mad.
17:19Oh.
17:20Well, a bunk in the MI5 building.
17:23It's got to be worth some air miles.
17:25For God's sake.
17:26Let's just...
17:28We've got to talk.
17:29Somewhere safe.
17:33Hi, Brian, yeah.
17:34What have you got?
17:35Mark, that number you gave me, it's listed.
17:37What's listed mean?
17:38Listen, I don't know you, I don't want to, I never have.
17:40I've got to go.
17:41What?
17:49Mr Hod.
17:50You what?
17:51Mr Mark Hod.
17:52Yeah?
17:53Can I ask you a few questions?
17:54What about?
17:55The phone call you just made.
17:56The phone call?
17:57Now I...
18:04That's Lermonth.
18:11Where is it?
18:12Back of the bowling green hut.
18:27Come on.
18:45Order's from Moscow, Ace, OK?
18:50We are not lifting you, you understand?
18:51This is not a lift.
18:52Shut up.
18:54You're not MI6.
18:56Why not?
18:57You have bad manners.
18:59Never mind the messenger here, the message, you're blown.
19:02You're five?
19:03You've been blown for months.
19:05You're very confident, aren't you?
19:07I am very much so.
19:09You think you're safe because you have the powers of the state behind you.
19:12But the state can disappear.
19:14Like that.
19:15I know, I've seen this.
19:17Cold war.
19:18We won, you lost.
19:20What is it you want?
19:23Your contact in the Ministry of Defence.
19:25Helping you with illegal weapons procurement.
19:28He's in jail.
19:29But he has a successor.
19:30Really? Well, you must introduce me.
19:32Sergei, we won't touch you.
19:35You're simply a window through which we see the filthy world you live in.
19:39But you must try to keep open.
19:43We own you now, Sergei.
19:45But I have powerful friends, more powerful than you.
19:49All right, then.
19:54Ha ha.
19:56Just like the good old days.
20:00The name you want is Richard Maynard.
20:23Are you taking kickbacks from illegal arms sales in the Gulf?
20:27What?
20:29Dick, they're going to crawl all over you.
20:31How well do you know Sergei Lermontov?
20:33I told Harry I met him once.
20:35What is this? Where's this coming from?
20:37Hampton Wilder came to see us the moment he was released.
20:39Hampton Wilder? You believe what...
20:41You've got to be joking.
20:43Are you involved in any kind of deal?
20:48Do you for a moment believe...
20:50Believe that you're an unpatriotic lying bastard?
20:53I don't know.
20:54You can cheat on your wife.
20:56Maybe you can cheat on your country.
20:58Oh, God.
21:00I can help you.
21:03But you've got to tell me.
21:07There is nothing to tell.
21:10I want my solicitor.
21:13Don't be a whizzer.
21:25What is this?
21:29I don't know.
21:31I don't know.
21:33I don't know.
21:35I don't know.
21:37I don't know.
21:41Earlier you made a phone call to a Sergeant Brian Malhorn at Metropolitan Central.
21:45You asked him to do you a favour.
21:47To trace the car of this man.
21:50Sergeant Malhorn has been suspended from duty
21:52and at this moment in time
21:54is having a nasty experience with Special Branch.
22:00You can't do this.
22:02We can't do everything we'd like with you.
22:04But we can do a great deal.
22:09Everything okay?
22:11Fine.
22:14The money from that agent of mine.
22:16Is it safe?
22:18It's important.
22:20You mean the agent that doesn't exist?
22:25It's a deep operation, Zoe.
22:27Be careful.
22:29Right.
22:31The money's safe.
22:34Thank you.
22:50Zoe, please.
22:55What are you drinking?
23:00Your vodka.
23:04No, no, no.
23:28One, two, three.
23:35I knew you were pulling my leg.
23:37Fancy a real drink?
23:52What is that?
23:54Cold tea.
24:00Mr Lermontov, Tom.
24:04Yes, thank you, Gabriel. He's a guest.
24:06You can turn down and make sure anyone else
24:08goes to the upstairs bar, will you?
24:10Yes, sir.
24:16Ah, Sergei.
24:18I'm just having a drink before the opera,
24:20but you can join me.
24:22Help yourself to a drink.
24:24Get rid of those imbeciles.
24:28You'll have to be precise.
24:30You are MI6.
24:32Not MI5.
24:34Ah, those imbeciles.
24:36What have they been doing to you?
24:38They are threatening me.
24:42They want to own me.
24:44Me.
24:46You seem to have every security service in the world
24:48claiming they own you.
24:50Maybe we should have a special tie.
24:52The Iran Sergei Lermontov Club.
24:54You are taking me seriously.
24:56Oh, I'll always take you seriously, Sergei.
24:58Remember how we first met?
25:00In Moscow, that dead boy in the Hotel Ukraine.
25:02I saved you from your masters
25:04over that affair.
25:06Yeah.
25:08We go back.
25:10We certainly do.
25:12So what did the children want?
25:14A name.
25:16Well, they certainly seem
25:18to have you rattled.
25:20Well, come on, don't prick-tease,
25:22you Russian baboon. What name?
25:24They wanted to know if I had dealings
25:26with Richard Maynard.
25:28Did they now?
25:30I admired Maynard.
25:32I thought he was a good man.
25:34He is. Lermontov is probably lying.
25:36Why?
25:38It's in our nature, whichever side you're on.
25:40Yes, but there is still a huge question mark there, Harry.
25:42Get special bars to pull Maynard. Give him a good squeeze.
25:44That's not wanted.
25:46What do you mean it's not wanted?
25:48What?
25:50Downing Street?
25:52They want a ring of steel around Maynard's reputation.
25:54They don't want to destroy him.
25:56They want a politician from embarrassment.
25:58If Maynard goes down in an illegal arms sale scandal,
26:00it will open the floodgates for all kinds of things.
26:02The government could collapse.
26:04No, we are crossing a line.
26:06We are not protecting the country.
26:08We are protecting a political party, for Christ's sake.
26:10There is no line.
26:12Is that official?
26:14As far as you're concerned, yes,
26:16but we find out everything.
26:18Knowledge is power.
26:20Is there something else?
26:22Lermontov said he had powerful friends.
26:24I got the impression he's being protected.
26:26By whom?
26:28Oh, God.
26:30God.
26:52Do you mind awfully not doing that?
26:56Are you a Nazi, madam?
26:58I beg your pardon?
27:00I mean, we Wagner fans are a run lot.
27:02I myself bugger skinheads.
27:06So kindly don't tell me what I can or cannot do.
27:18Danny?
27:22I'm scared.
27:24Why?
27:28Because
27:30I don't know whether to tell
27:32or not.
27:36You should give us training, shouldn't you?
27:38How to decide decisions
27:40when you're more drunk.
27:44A pissed spook, of course.
27:46I'll drink to that.
27:58Tessa's running Phantom Agents.
28:06How do you know?
28:08Because I went to meet one
28:10and she turned up and she told me.
28:24Coffee, now.
28:28Thank you.
28:34Is it irritating?
28:42Gentlemen, thank you so much for coming out here.
28:44It's deep Velcro, you know.
28:46I've been waiting for this all year.
28:48Was it worth it?
28:50You're not Wagner, are you?
28:52Isn't it the most repugnant music ever written?
28:54It is a bit of a closet thing these days.
28:56So, what can I do you for?
28:58Have you turned an SVR agent
29:00named Sergei Lermontov?
29:02Sergei, yes. Terrific agent.
29:04Of course, we noticed your Section A has been all over him.
29:06We've had to have a word with him.
29:08May I ask why?
29:10We think he's trying to smear a government minister.
29:12Sergei will say anything about anyone.
29:14It's part of his charm.
29:16I assume we're talking about the Dick Maynard thing.
29:18Jules, what is going on?
29:20All right, I'll send him over in the morning.
29:22Send what over?
29:24Martin Wilder's memoirs.
29:26That's what you're celebrating for, huh?
29:28They exist?
29:30Of course they exist.
29:32You dug them up as soon as he put them in the prison's rose bed.
29:34You really aren't on top of this one, are you?
29:36We put an agent inside the prison as an inmate,
29:38just to keep an eye.
29:40MI6 had an agent inside the prison?
29:42What do you have on Dick Maynard?
29:44Did you have any trace that he and Lermontov did business together?
29:46Not outside the memoirs.
29:48So this is a straight slander?
29:50It looks that way.
29:52All right, I'll tell you.
29:54It was Dick Maynard
29:56who shot Hampton Wilder to us.
29:58Without him blowing the whistle, Wilder would never have been brought down.
30:00So it's a straight revenge.
30:02Well, the trouble with whistleblowers is they do tend to play their own tune.
30:04Do you distrust Maynard?
30:06To my mind, there's an ambiguity there.
30:08Do you do ambiguity, Tom?
30:10No.
30:12In the end of things, a liar is true.
30:14What an admirable point of view.
30:16Well, I mustn't miss the ride to the Valkyrie.
30:18Nice to see you gentlemen working so late.
30:20Can't someone run the country
30:22while the rest of us are at the opera?
30:24Good evening.
30:26Why's he being so nice to us?
30:28I do not know.
30:30So,
30:32Tessa's been taking you into her confidence.
30:36She gave me money.
30:38You mean the ten grand next door behind the plug socket?
30:40Yeah.
30:42Yeah, I was giving you a room a sweep, part of the game.
30:44I don't want to play that anymore, okay?
30:46So what's Harry say?
30:48Well, nothing. I haven't told him.
30:50Oh.
30:52What if it's a real op Tessa's running? I can't just...
30:54What? That involves giving you ten grand.
30:56She's got to be bent, Zoe.
30:58Tessa's...
31:00What?
31:02I don't know. She's what I've always wanted to be.
31:04I thought she was fantastic, Danny, all right?
31:06I still do.
31:08She's eating you alive. Go to Harry first thing in the morning.
31:10Look, you've laid this on me. Now I'm involved.
31:12Look, this is my problem, all right?
31:14I've got to keep... Shit.
31:16He said I could be one of the brightest and the best.
31:20Yeah, he said that to me too.
31:26Well, then we are both great spooks.
31:30You think?
31:32You are.
31:34You've got all my vodka.
31:40Look, I'm sorry.
31:42Don't let Tessa mess you up.
31:44You're too...
31:48PHONE RINGS
31:58Go.
32:14I have decided to say yes.
32:16Ah.
32:18Great.
32:20Wow.
32:22Nice flat.
32:24You must be Sally.
32:26Celestine told me about you.
32:28Did he?
32:32So, what's going on?
32:36My cat died.
32:38Yeah.
32:40I got a bit pissed.
32:42What was it?
32:44I just ate a tabby.
32:46Claws.
32:48So sad.
32:50Don't worry.
32:52We can get you another pushy cat.
32:54Where is Celestine?
33:00OK, speak.
33:02I asked her to spend the weekend.
33:04Oh, did you? Without one word to me?
33:06You're not my mum.
33:08The point is to ask if you've cleared this, I suppose.
33:10Well, I didn't really think it would happen.
33:12What about cover stories, Danny?
33:14Right, I'm a dealer in an exchange room in the city.
33:16What are you? What am I?
33:18You're a cleaner.
33:20And a watch!
33:22She asked me what my flatmate did and that's what I said.
33:24Oh, for God's sake, Danny.
33:26Celestine?
33:28Take a shower?
33:32Oh.
33:41Where are you from?
33:43Vladivostok.
33:45Ah, the mysterious east of our country.
33:47Sexy bodies.
33:51Do you miss our show?
33:53My motherland is...
33:55And where I'm being shagged.
33:59Like you.
34:05Why not?
34:07In the heart of what used to be
34:10the British Empire.
34:20They say you're a party animal.
34:23Who say?
34:25They say I'm a...
34:29Traitor of the motherland.
34:40PHONE RINGS
35:06What's going on?
35:09Just got to go into work.
35:11In the middle of the night?
35:13Crisis on the Singapore market.
35:15Sorry. Why are you dressed?
35:17Early office cleaning.
35:19You go back to bed, love.
35:21Maybe I will.
35:23Maybe I won't, love.
35:31Danny and Zoe are coming in.
35:33No.
35:35This is not for lower ranks.
35:38You can't leave her here.
35:40We've got to.
35:42Danny, there are bills and stuff with our real names on all over this flat.
35:45She won't notice.
35:47It's terrible tradecraft. Just throw her out.
35:49But I like her.
35:51Well, throw her out nicely.
35:53PHONE RINGS
35:55Yeah? It's me.
35:57Oh, Rodney.
35:59You can go back to bed now. Right.
36:02It's off.
36:08Look, I'm coming back to bed.
36:10What happened to Singapore?
36:11It went away.
36:12What about the cleaning?
36:14It wasn't that bloody dirty.
36:16Look, don't go.
36:18You want to sleep with her and with me?
36:20You are insane.
36:23Hey.
36:35I just want a normal life.
36:38Yeah, I know.
36:40Knifed by a bit of rough.
36:42I thought Lamoff was more of a pro.
36:44He had a fondness for a fumble in the dark.
36:46How many hardened professionals have we seen destroyed by that?
36:49Tom, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
36:51Within 12 hours of fingering a government minister for corruption,
36:54Lamoff is murdered.
36:56So maybe Maynard has a guardian angel.
36:58Turn that thing off, Samuel!
37:02What's going on?
37:04The pod's stopped, Tom.
37:12Some sort of infantile practical joke?
37:14Thank you, Tess. Jed.
37:18Oh, Jolly Jape's in the playground, Tom.
37:20I don't think he'll be bloody laughing long.
37:28There is someone in this building who is seriously disloyal.
37:33We could be looking at him or her right now.
37:35That is a very serious allegation to level at your sister service.
37:37Well, my sister should be bent over and given a good whack on the behind.
37:40I don't find that helpful.
37:42Helpful? You get an excellent asset of mine killed and you want my help?
37:47Oh, well.
37:49Suffer the little children to come under the senior service.
37:53I suppose you want to read Hampton Wilder's memoirs.
37:56That would be useful.
38:04I don't know that I can entrust such sensitive material to this organisation,
38:08but I am taking pity.
38:11I suppose we are, after all, on the same side.
38:14Needless to say, I shall expect your registry to monitor all readings.
38:17Thank you.
38:19It has been a very, very long night.
38:21The death of an agent,
38:23and possibly one of the worst productions of Wagner I have ever seen.
38:26Dear God, the Valkyrie all dressed in scuba gear.
38:30Good night to you, gentlemen.
38:37He's setting us up. I can feel it in my water.
38:40How?
38:41I don't know.
38:44We'll read this in the morning.
38:47You go at Maynard. Go at him hard.
38:49He's a minister. We'll need Downing Street clearance.
38:51Bugger Downing Street.
39:01Hey!
39:06All right. Let's have a walk.
39:10Everyone, this is a speed-reading job.
39:12You know the procedure.
39:14Nobody will leave the grid until we're done.
39:16All copies are numbered and will be collected by registry.
39:19We're looking for inconsistencies, errors of fact,
39:21anything that will discredit this manuscript,
39:24or indeed verify it.
39:26Maximum concentration.
39:28Begin.
39:40Christ.
39:42Shit.
39:44Christ.
39:46Christ.
39:50Margaret Thatcher, page 82.
39:58Christ.
40:01The wonders at the end of the tube, aren't they?
40:03You come out of a station, and you're sort of nowhere.
40:07Some woods up there. Let's go and take a look.
40:10Why?
40:12So I can put a bullet in the back of your neck. Why else?
40:18I only met Sergei Lermontov once.
40:21He was stabbed last night.
40:24Stabbed to death.
40:27Well, I'm sorry.
40:29That's terrible, but nothing to do with me.
40:31Good for you, though.
40:33How?
40:35Lermontov can't be a witness against you.
40:37Are you saying that I'm...
40:39Illegal arms is a dangerous world to be involved in.
40:42I am not involved here.
40:44God, what times are we living in?
40:46Does just to say you're innocent prove you're guilty?
40:51It all began nine years ago, didn't it?
40:54That's you, Lermontov.
40:56Hampton Wilder.
40:58A night under the stars.
41:00A night under the stars.
41:19All right, I'll tell you what happened.
41:22Wilder made a proposal.
41:24He wanted me to come in on a deal.
41:26A deal involving what?
41:28The illegal sale of anti-tank weapons.
41:31I was on the commons committee scrutinising arms procurement.
41:34He wanted me to make sure that no-one got wind of it.
41:37Did you?
41:39No, I went straight to MI6.
41:41I shopped Wilder.
41:43If he had got it, it was me who put them on to him.
41:46I brought him down.
41:49So why am I being persecuted?
41:51I mean...
41:55Who's doing this to me?
41:57I think we'll all know soon.
41:59What do you mean?
42:03Harry?
42:05Oh, ship of state.
42:07What are we on the great ship of state?
42:10The engine room? Hardly.
42:13I think we're the laundry, cleaning disgusting stains from the officers' sheets.
42:19Um...
42:21Right, I think that's everyone done.
42:23Can I read this?
42:25I imagine their real meaning will become apparent by tomorrow morning.
42:30Everyone, please write up your notes ASAP.
42:33For the moment, stay where you are.
42:35Registry will collect and account for every copy.
42:38Thank you for your work.
42:56Oh.
43:01I, um...
43:06You her, or what?
43:10Is there anything I can do?
43:12Help you settle in, or...?
43:20I don't know.
43:23Is Mark in there with you?
43:25Why?
43:27Don't know. I just thought...
43:29Did you do something to him?
43:31Like what?
43:33I don't know.
43:35His flat's empty. His mobile's dead.
43:39He got a mate of his in the Met who put a trace on my car.
43:42And your zombies frightened him off?
43:44Could have been someone trying to get to me.
43:46Yeah, but actually, it was the father of my child.
43:49Yeah.
43:51Yeah.
43:57I didn't, er... I didn't try and stop them giving him a hard time.
44:02I'm sorry.
44:05You're despicable.
44:07I'm in love.
44:11Ellie!
44:16Ellie!
44:21Ellie!
44:30You seen the scent spread?
44:32Someone leaked, didn't they?
44:34Danny, shut up.
44:42There is no way the leak could have come from us.
44:44I know. I was scrupulously paranoid about the copies.
44:47Who, then?
44:50Come.
44:52Sorry, but...
44:53No, no, Danny.
44:55It's all over the wires. Richard Maynard just resigned from the government.
44:58Well, there we have it.
45:00Thank you, Danny.
45:02Maynard's resigned?
45:04Spectacular, isn't it, when politicians destroy themselves?
45:08Go away, you nasty little man.
45:12Sorry.
45:15So, if it's not us, and it's not Downing Street, it's...
45:19Are you there yet?
45:21Jules Zivitter.
45:22Go on.
45:24The sisters are using the memoirs to get rid of Maynard.
45:26On?
45:28MI6 got hold of Hampton Wilder's memoirs, full of hatred for Maynard,
45:32and are using them to destroy him.
45:34And they're setting us up to blame us for the leak to the press.
45:37Oh, yes.
45:39But Maynard shot Wilder to MI6. Why would they turn against him?
45:42I think I may have drinkies with Mr Zivitter.
45:45And I think this thing stinks to high heaven.
45:48Have they just destroyed a good man?
45:50Don't brood, Tom.
45:52Politicians are conniving, wheeler-dealing scum.
45:54Don't have a fit of morals over them. They wouldn't over you.
46:02Stop.
46:07Hey!
46:09Is this a surprise?
46:21Look, you bastards, I...
46:29Right.
46:31Secret placement.
46:40Can I offer you something?
46:42No, thanks.
46:44I thought Alcohol would welcome me back,
46:47but she's turned against me.
46:52You leaked about Maynard to the press, didn't you?
46:57Ah.
46:59You lied about Richard Maynard, didn't you?
47:04I don't think he'll ever forgive me.
47:06I don't think he'll ever forgive me.
47:08Nor do I. He destroyed his career.
47:11I didn't mean him.
47:13Did you throw Lerm off to the wolves?
47:16No idea who did that.
47:18Good riddance, though.
47:20He was getting much too big for his murky pond.
47:23Right, it's over.
47:25I'm done for.
47:28You self-pitying bastard. Fight back.
47:31Oh, wake up, Tessa. I've been destroyed.
47:34I can't stand this.
47:36Not after what I've done for you.
47:39And, er...
47:41what prey was that?
47:43I had a man killed for you.
47:48Another?
47:51Another.
47:56Why?
47:58Why what?
48:00Why did you destroy Maynard?
48:10Nehemoth.
48:12You hadn't.
48:14How could you possibly do that?
48:16Simple.
48:18Simple?
48:20Tipped off the Russians. He was two-timing them.
48:23And, er...
48:25And why would you think, in any conceivable twisted way,
48:28that his death would help me?
48:30He could have exposed you.
48:32It was a gift.
48:34A gift? A man's life?
48:36Dear God.
48:38I know that secret services can be ruthless.
48:43Oh, well.
48:45From what I hear, he was a dog.
48:48Good riddance.
48:50From what you hear?
48:52You mean from what you know.
48:55So, was he bent?
48:57I've no idea and don't really care.
49:00I am going to sit here and drink your drink until you tell me.
49:06You think you can go one-to-one with me in a drinking contest?
49:10Oh, yes.
49:12You slandered Neynard. He was innocent.
49:18I wanted revenge.
49:20But I genuinely repent writing those memoirs.
49:23I'd like you to believe that.
49:25I was going to destroy them. I went to dig them up and...
49:28They weren't there.
49:30Someone else had need of them.
49:32No, I never had any corrupt dealings with Nehemoth. Ever.
49:35If you're innocent, why did he resign?
49:37Political critical mass.
49:39The rumours were too much. They could have damaged the PM.
49:42Even he, in the end, had to ask me to go.
49:44I agreed, of course. He's my friend.
49:47Who's left you with nothing?
49:49Not exactly. I've been offered a professorship.
49:52Teaching politics at Harvard.
49:54It's been kept warm for me for some time.
49:56You're going to America?
49:58I'm being looked after. A new life.
50:01No politics, no wife.
50:03No mistress.
50:05Looking forward to it.
50:07Goodbye, Tess.
50:09All right, Harry.
50:11Richard Maynard...
50:13was fast tracking up through the government ranks.
50:16With his Middle Eastern knowledge,
50:18experience at the Ministry of Defence,
50:20he would all too soon have made a brilliant Foreign Secretary.
50:23There was no way that we or the Foreign Office were going to let that happen.
50:26Why not?
50:28Because the White as Snow Richard Maynard...
50:31was a CIA asset.
50:34Could we really have a British Foreign Secretary who was a CIA agent?
50:46When did they recruit him?
50:48Years back.
50:50When did you find out?
50:52Six months ago.
50:54Drunk in conversation with an American cousin in this very bar.
50:57Didn't the PM...?
50:59The PM is blind to the faults of his friends.
51:01I'm not getting rid of Maynard.
51:03The memoirs were a godsend.
51:05It's a good outcome all round, Harry.
51:07Nasty foreigner dead.
51:09Dodgy Brit disgraced.
51:11Ship afloat.
51:13Absolutely.
51:15I've been involved in a filthy trade.
51:20Weapons I helped to be sold illegally
51:23have almost certainly found their way to terrorists.
51:28And I wrote lies...
51:30that destroyed a good man.
51:35You think I'm irredeemable, don't you?
51:38I think that's between you and your saviour.
51:42If you really believe in him.
51:44Oh, I do.
51:46But he asks a heavy price.
51:49No doubt.
51:54Do you want to see?
51:57I'm sorry?
52:01That can't be written off, you see.
52:05No.
52:07Really?
52:09Yeah.
52:11I'll leave you to your prayers.
52:14Come in.
52:17I need a drink.
52:19I'm way ahead of you, boss.
52:22Come in.
52:25I need a drink.
52:27I'm way ahead of you, boss.
52:51I need a drink.