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00:00A four-hour strike on London Underground started at 8 p.m. tonight,
00:05increasing pressure on the government to find a solution
00:08for what is now looking like a new winter of discontent.
00:11Shadow cabinet spokesman Charles Lindsay
00:13today attacked the government's domestic policy...
00:15Charles Lindsay?
00:16Isn't he the man who had the fling with the guy?
00:18He knew the girl, sold the thing.
00:20Yeah.
00:21Media's were being made the pawns of yet another political battle
00:24between the government and the unions.
00:26New Labour came to power on a wave of optimism,
00:29don't you two have homes to go to?
00:31Tube strike. It's raining, no cabs.
00:33We train you to be resourceful, I'm sure you'll find a way.
00:36Maybe we could book out a poor car on strike days?
00:38Operational purposes only, I'm afraid.
00:40I can provide you with specially designed waterproofing equipment.
00:43Standard field officer issue.
00:45Press this button here.
00:49The government must be asking itself, what next?
00:54Platoon! Platoon, charge!
00:58Girls out to the right! Right!
01:01Charge of fighting contrary to section 43A of the Army Act.
01:05The accused, Corporal Eric Woods,
01:07wishes to make a statement to a senior officer outside his regiment.
01:11Sir.
01:14I wish to inform you about a situation.
01:17A matter of national security.
01:20We have an enemy within.
01:22I can name the man who poses the single biggest threat
01:25to the British Army is currently facing.
01:27The man who rank and file army thinks walks on water.
01:31Major Samuel Curtis.
01:41Major Curtis may be a hero to a generation of junior ranks.
01:45He may have a chest full of medals and a place in the public heart.
01:50But it is my duty to inform you that he has the power to destroy our army.
01:55You see, Major Curtis is planning industrial action.
01:59A laying down of arms.
02:09This government is about to face a mutiny from the British Army.
02:26Shit.
02:33What's going on today in the wonderful world of espionage?
02:37Well, the tube dispute's ongoing.
02:39Our people inside the RMT and the TGWU
02:41say they're just about to get back into the ring.
02:43Possible wildcat actions planned.
02:45What's the headline, Intel?
02:46I've only had time to check the overnight Grade 1 headers.
02:48There's an avalanche coming in from our Union sources.
02:50Almost 50 agents in key sectors now all in the UK.
02:5450 agents in key sectors now all saying the same thing.
02:56Specifically?
02:57Well, that while the government's got its back turned on domestic issues,
02:59the Union's are gathering strength.
03:00Stay on it.
03:01Keeping this country's infrastructure working is part of defending the realm.
03:04Next.
03:05How's Tom getting on?
03:06Don't let him!
03:07Don't!
03:08Come on!
03:10Enemy front! Enemy front!
03:14Don't let him!
03:15Enemy front!
03:17Straight opposite!
03:18Get in!
03:19And move!
03:21Look out for us!
03:22Hold on! Hold on!
03:24Get him!
03:25Ricky!
03:28Don't!
03:35Stop!
03:36What are you doing?
03:40Everyone all right?
03:41Sir.
03:43Weapon.
03:49Never ever forget.
03:54The SAAT individual weapon cannot, under any circumstances,
03:58be fired from the left shoulder.
04:00Do so, the cocking handle will break your jaw,
04:02and you'll get a face full of red hot metal casings,
04:04even when firing blanks.
04:11I'm afraid that's the standard issue British Army rifle.
04:13Learn to love it.
04:14Yes, Major Curtis.
04:15Not your fault you didn't design the bastard.
04:17David, Endex, return your men to barracks.
04:20Sir.
04:21Sergeant Major Baker, stand the rest of the men down.
04:23Sir.
04:24Endex! Endex!
04:25Tom has been contacting us daily at 0700 and 2300 hours without fail.
04:29Curtis's company are next in line for overseas deployment as required,
04:32so they're on full-time exercise.
04:33But there are some morale problems on base.
04:36Tom photo messaged us over from his mobile last night.
04:39Fancy spending nine months away from home on crap pay,
04:42provide strike cover for firemen,
04:44earning twice as much money for six months' work,
04:47and face the possibility of being killed for a country full of greedy,
04:50pathetic and selfish individuals?
04:52Sign below.
04:54Army, be depressed.
04:56Well, it's a fair point.
04:57Satire never brought a country down.
04:59Curtis is a soldier's soldier.
05:01He'd rather be in the company of his men than sitting behind a desk.
05:04He takes full plough in all exercises.
05:06But Woods, our whistleblower corporal codenamed Nightingale,
05:09has come up with no proof, no evidence that Curtis is planning mutiny.
05:12We could be wasting our time.
05:14No strike cover for industrial disputes.
05:17No security backup in case of major terrorist incident.
05:20Britain's interests overseas put in severe jeopardy.
05:23Every tinpot general from Somalia to poor, sad little North Korea,
05:27and all points in between gloating on CNN.
05:30The special relationship with our cousins severely embarrassed.
05:33Until we know for sure, it's not time wasted.
05:36So, what do we know about Curtis?
05:40Well, Sam Curtis led five men over 200 miles of Iraqi desert in 1991
05:45and was the subject of a best-selling account of the operation.
05:48Eric Woods glassed a fireman in a pub
05:50and then put the spotlight onto Sam Curtis in a bid for leniency.
05:53He could be playing us.
05:54I say we just pass this over to army intelligence.
05:56Curtis' reputation precedes him throughout the country.
05:59It'd be like asking the Vatican to prove Mary wasn't a virgin.
06:02He's a military legend, a public hero,
06:04the sort of Englishman who'll end up with a statue in Trafalgar Square
06:06and a building named after him in Whitehall.
06:08Chief of Defence staff is adamant this is our jurisdiction.
06:11If Curtis is guilty, we've got to stop him.
06:15Thank you all.
06:20What if we went on strike?
06:22Well, if the army went on strike,
06:24it'd be pretty damn obvious once the Chinese Red Army started marching down Whitehall.
06:28If we went on strike, I don't think anyone would notice.
06:33Sir?
06:38Afternoon, sir.
06:39Afternoon.
07:02Afternoon, sir.
07:20You're late.
07:21Yeah, game of poker. I'm on a big pot.
07:23Three more minutes, I would have assumed you were compromised.
07:25You pulled the operation.
07:26Yeah, well, you didn't and I'm not.
07:28Right, I've been here two weeks.
07:30Curtis has said half a dozen words to me.
07:32You were on his diary. You pushed me in front of him, OK?
07:34Yeah, there's movement.
07:36Curtis is reassembling his old team, the crew from Desert Storm.
07:40Sergeant Major Baker's not the only one.
07:42Two more men are shipping in tomorrow, Wallace and Parks.
07:45Why's that significant?
07:46The bondsmen forging battle are the strongest you'll find.
07:49Curtis trusts them.
07:50He can't run an industrial action solo.
07:53He needs men beneath him to spread it through the ranks.
07:56Curtis is moving his pieces into place.
08:11How many officers are up for it?
08:1319.
08:14Budget?
08:15125.
08:16125 quid, is that it?
08:17You can't afford something like this on 650 an officer.
08:20657, actually.
08:23What about time, date, location?
08:251900 hours, 21st. Budget means we'll have to do it at home.
08:28What's the transport infrastructure going to be that night?
08:31Well, there are no tube strikes planned, if that's what you mean.
08:34Good, good. And we're sure...
08:36We are sure Harry suspects nothing.
08:38Nothing.
08:39Danny!
08:40We're not trying to infiltrate Baghdad.
08:42It's just a bloody birthday party.
08:44Shh!
08:47Right, OK.
08:52BATTERY CLICKS
09:23BEEPING
09:38He's bang on time every night. Watch.
09:43That is so cool.
09:45And yet so simple.
09:46Tom's phone allows him to sweep the bugs, then pre-record a message.
09:49Hits the button, the message is digitally compressed,
09:51electronically scrambled and transmitted in a 0.1-second microwave burst,
09:54almost impossible to intercept.
09:56Thank you, Melton.
09:57Nightingale reports activity.
09:59Eagle One has two men reporting for duty tomorrow,
10:01former colleagues from Desert Storm.
10:03Request confirmation and any relevant background.
10:05Face-to-face meeting at blue location to discuss.
10:081100 hours.
10:09What's the coefficient?
10:10Minus six. He wants to meet at 5am.
10:12Is it just me, or does he sound a bit hacked off?
10:14He doesn't exactly look forward to his fortnight's annual training with the SAS.
10:17Yes, I wouldn't say this is his dream assignment.
10:19Count yourself lucky it's only section heads who have to train alongside the regiment,
10:22otherwise you'd be in there.
10:24I could cope.
10:25You and the army.
10:26Don't do designer khaki, mate.
10:29Hugo, try and cheer him up a bit.
10:33I've accessed the MLD database for some background
10:35on the five men Curtis led in and out of Iraq.
10:38Sergeant Major Baker.
10:40Sergeant Philip Wallace and Corporal Harry Parks.
10:42They're the men joining Curtis tomorrow.
10:44Could you run me a couple of prints, please, for Tom?
10:47The other two have since left the army.
10:49William Scobie, whereabouts unknown.
10:50Last seen in a homeless hostel 18 months ago.
10:53And Derek Hanson lives on a North London council estate.
10:57They might be worth a look.
11:00Good.
11:02Right, well, time for three hours' sleep before I go.
11:17I don't trust Woods.
11:19What's Harry saying?
11:20Stick with it.
11:22Of course he does.
11:24Correspondence from the Chief of Defence Staff's office.
11:27Curtis has written 86 letters over a five-year period.
11:30A litany of suggestions, complaints and occasional sarcasm
11:33directed at the military brass.
11:35He has issues with everything from pensions to personal kit.
11:39He argues a good case.
11:41He's not wrong about the SAAT rifle.
11:43Harry's adamant.
11:44The strike could spread throughout the armed forces.
11:46Catastrophic in the current climate, I know.
11:50I reckon 48 hours.
11:52What do you want me to say to Harry?
11:54That I'm getting closer to Curtis.
11:56And that I said hello.
12:11Overnight intel.
12:12I haven't done yesterday's yet, Ruth.
12:14I've been up half the night. Don't you have top-sheet summaries?
12:16I can't analyse everything myself. You'll have to cherry-pick.
12:18Well, that's your job, isn't it?
12:19Not for much longer.
12:20What?
12:21How was Tom?
12:22Oh, grumpy.
12:23He'll survive.
12:24What do you mean?
12:25Look at that.
12:26Of all government ministers, I'd never have made him for a leather queen.
12:29No wonder he hasn't got time to sort out the unions.
12:32Ruth!
12:36Close quarter battle, escape and evasion, resistance to interrogation.
12:40We'll be practising the basic drills until we can do them in the dark,
12:43under fire and on our chin straps.
12:46Distribute the equipment, please, Sergeant Major.
12:48Sir.
12:49Today, we're going to stick you in that building
12:51and we're going to pump tear gas inside.
12:53By the end of the day, I want you in your respirators
12:56within nine seconds of a gas alert.
12:59If you don't, you'll end up in tears because Sergeant Major Baker
13:02will stick his toe so far up your arse at high speed,
13:04you'll be able to chew his toenails for him.
13:06War is shit.
13:09Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been in one.
13:12You train hard, you fight easy.
13:15You train easy, you fight hard.
13:18And die.
13:21Corporal!
13:22OK, fellas, start filing into the chamber then.
13:28Look, Ruth, Harry's not a fool.
13:31You're good.
13:32He'll want to keep you here.
13:34God, I hope so.
13:35I don't want to go back to GCHQ.
13:37Too many bloody mathematicians, for one thing.
13:39Nelson quit the army three years ago,
13:41claiming benefits ever since.
13:42Why hasn't he re-enlisted?
13:44The army offer good incentives for experienced soldiers
13:46to join up again.
13:47Well, I'll just go read a North Korea evening news or something.
13:52Ruth, what do you think?
13:54I think that for a man whose job's all about observation,
13:57perception and intelligence, you just failed a military test.
14:00Remember, lads, be in time. Mask's in nine.
14:05OK, step up!
14:08Go, go, go!
14:10Seven, six, five...
14:12Shit!
14:13Go, go, go!
14:14Come on!
14:15Come on!
14:16Come on!
14:17Shit!
14:20Go, go!
14:24Come on!
14:25Come on!
14:26Come on!
14:27Come on!
14:28Come on!
14:29Come on!
14:36I'm good at my job.
14:37I'm overworked, but I'm bloody good.
14:39No decision has been made yet.
14:41Our RMT source says there'll be a wildcat strike
14:43on the West Midland railway lines in the next 30 minutes.
14:45What do they want now?
14:46That's not the issue.
14:47There's a consignment of spent nuclear fuel
14:49on its way to Dover by rail.
14:50It's about a grind to a halt sitting in the urban countryside.
14:53Well, liaise with the nuclear authority and get it moving again.
14:56Right.
14:57Good intel, Bruce. Thank you.
15:02Thank you, Ruth.
15:07Breathe. Come on, breathe normally.
15:09Cough it up. Cough it all up.
15:10Come on, you'll be all right.
15:11Come on, come on.
15:12You'll be OK.
15:13Happens to the best of us.
15:14First time I put on a respirator, threw me guts up.
15:17Good job, David.
15:18Right, one more time.
15:19With all due respect, Major,
15:20company quartermaster should be shocked.
15:22Accidents happen.
15:23It's not good enough. Our equipment's a disgrace.
15:25We've got rifles spitting cartridges in our faces,
15:27gas masks falling apart.
15:28Thank you, David. Your comments are noted.
15:30Something should be done about it.
15:31That's enough, Lieutenant.
15:34Right.
15:36We do it again.
15:41The Watchers have located Derek Hansen.
15:43Go talk to him.
15:44Find out if he's joining his former colleagues for the class reunion.
15:47If not, why not?
15:48Right.
15:49And try not to spend all day in the pub.
15:56Ah, perfect. Thank you.
15:58On my own work?
16:13Hello.
16:15Whatever it is, the answer's no.
16:17But thanks for the drink.
16:19Thank you. I'd love to sit down.
16:21My name's Robert Simpkins.
16:22I'm writing an article for today's soldier magazine.
16:24What ex-serviceman have done since leaving the army?
16:28Piss off.
16:30I know who you are, Mr Hansen, and I know what you've been through.
16:33I read the Sam Curtis book.
16:36That bollocks.
16:38Thought Curtis was your friend.
16:41Curtis should never have told his story.
16:44Put all of us in the spotlight.
16:46He gave you pseudonyms?
16:47Book it all good, that did.
16:50You're a journalist.
16:51You know you're talking to me about it ten years later.
16:56The Nuclear Authority has an off-the-shelf plan
16:58to transport the spent nuke fuel by road
17:00on a low loader accompanied by its own security personnel.
17:03The convoy will be codenamed The Stick.
17:05Departs tonight, 10pm, arrives Dover tomorrow, 6pm.
17:09We've been tasked with maintaining a rolling threat assessment.
17:12This is highly irradiated uranium travelling halfway across the country.
17:15So if there's so much as a drawing pin on the inside lane of the M25,
17:18I want to know about it.
17:19You're the overseer.
17:20Ruth will process relevant reports as they come in.
17:23This might sound like a routine babysitting job,
17:25but something as simple as a punch could mean that we all have a really bad day,
17:28so thank you.
17:31This is a chance to make yourself indispensable in Harry's eyes, all right?
17:43No idea where Scobie is.
17:45Lost touch.
17:46Everyone else has.
17:48He was in a hostel two years ago, since then, nothing.
17:51There you go.
17:53Lots of ex-servicemen end up sleeping rough.
17:56Meantime, we provide hotels for asylum seekers.
18:00Still, can't all be the subject of bestseller books, can we?
18:04Why not?
18:05Never think of looking for a ghostwriter to tell your side of the story?
18:09Official secret, Axon.
18:11I signed it and I take it very seriously.
18:14Something people don't understand anymore.
18:16I understand it.
18:18Come across it all the time in this line of work.
18:20Well, you've just run into it again.
18:23That's why I don't talk about Iraq.
18:26And Curtis shouldn't have either.
18:30Everyone else seems to think Sam Curtis is a legend.
18:33In his own mirror, sure.
18:39I passed SA selection.
18:42They binned me when the book came out.
18:45Oh, you can't have a covert ops soldier whose face has been on the front page of every western newspaper.
18:52Curtis ruined my career.
18:56I told him.
18:58I'm a soldier.
19:00Not a bloody chauffeur.
19:03What do you mean?
19:08Excuse me.
19:14Come on.
19:39You okay, you slammed that, yeah?
19:42Army smoke.
19:45How are you?
19:47I've also signed the act.
19:49All I can tell you, it's important.
19:53And I think we're on the same side.
20:11Baker came to see me six months ago.
20:15Said Curtis wanted to give me a lead on some sort of driving job.
20:18I told him to stuff it.
20:21He was looking for Scobie as well.
20:22Don't know why.
20:24Don't want to know why.
20:27I believe Curtis was trying to recruit his own little squad of wild geese.
20:30For what?
20:32No idea.
20:34But no matter what he says,
20:36you can bet it'll be for the greater glory of Sam Curtis.
20:45Operational tours in Bosnia, Belfast and Sierra Leone.
20:51Hmm.
20:53Clean progress.
20:56Mr Getty seems extremely capable.
21:02I'd like to know more though.
21:04Dig deeper.
21:06Put Wallace onto it.
21:07Sir.
21:08Corporal Woods, do you need me?
21:12Sorry, sir.
21:13All right, didn't want to interrupt.
21:17Today's up report, sir.
21:24Dismissed, corporal.
21:44Hello there. Mr Getty?
21:46Yes.
21:47Hi, I'm a friend of David's.
21:49We served together in Belfast.
21:51Said I'd pop by, say hello, if I was in the neighbourhood.
21:54Oh dear, well I'm afraid David isn't here.
21:56Ah, he's not overseas, is he?
21:58No, he's on exercise in the UK.
22:00Well, if you want to talk to him,
22:02you'll have to get in touch with him.
22:04I'm afraid he's not here.
22:06I'm afraid he's not here.
22:08I'm afraid he's not here.
22:10I'm afraid he's not here.
22:11OK.
22:13Well, if you'd like to leave your details,
22:15I'll pass them on.
22:16I'll leave it, actually.
22:18But thank you very much.
22:29This is Gatekeeper.
22:31You're sure it's not just hearsay,
22:33a drunk with a grudge jumping to conclusions?
22:35I think Hanson's a principled ex-soldier
22:37turning his back on under-the-table offers.
22:39Our source in the TGWU
22:41is the RMT.
22:43If Dover shuts down, we have the same problem.
22:45A batch of uranium left sitting where it shouldn't be.
22:47How long?
22:49Best guess, 24 hours earliest.
22:51I'm pushing all of our agents on this.
22:53This could be coordinated nationwide action
22:55across a whole range of industries.
22:57Hassle the nuclear authority.
22:59Stress to them the urgency of getting that convoy moving.
23:01We're into head-of-section territory.
23:03During Tom's absence, I want you to run this op.
23:06Someone just took an eyeball at Tom's legend,
23:08fitted Philip Wallace's description.
23:10I think Derek Hanson was telling me the truth today.
23:12Update Tom.
23:15Zoe, CIA are looking for Tom on 9-4.
23:19Hi, it's Zoe. Tom's on operation.
23:21I'm acting CIA liaison.
23:23I thought you'd been a bit quiet.
23:25Is there anything I can do?
23:27No, no. How long's he away for?
23:29Well, you know.
23:31Right. If you speak to him, tell him I said hello.
23:34Sure.
23:36Bye.
23:37It all stands up, Sam.
23:39Wallace took a look at his parents,
23:41and I've, of course, checked his records.
23:43They even include a disciplinary charge,
23:45taking stores abandoned by the enemy.
23:47He found an IRA arms dump in Armagh four years ago.
23:50It included a case of whiskey,
23:52which ended up behind the bar in the naffy.
23:54Well, good for him.
23:57He might be one of us.
23:59Tell him I'd like to see him.
24:08George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan.
24:11Sent almost 500 men into the Valley of Death,
24:14in charge of the Light Brigade.
24:16It's, uh...
24:18It's there to remind me how easy it is
24:20for a soldier to be remembered for the wrong reasons.
24:22Drink?
24:24Thank you, sir.
24:26Take a seat.
24:32War's just an adventure to some of our boys.
24:34What they've been waiting for after months of training,
24:37they have no idea.
24:39No one does till they're in one.
24:41A teenager signs up for the army,
24:43spent his whole life wearing trainers,
24:45suddenly we give him a dirty great pair of boots to wear,
24:47usually he gets the wrong size,
24:49ends up buying his own civvy pair.
24:51It's no good trying to turn a man into a soldier
24:53if you start off by crippling him.
24:57Excuse me.
25:05Did you take part in Operation Fresco?
25:07Yeah.
25:09I just got back from six months in Belfast.
25:11I was due three weeks' leave,
25:13but they handed me a green goddess instead.
25:15Still haven't made up the leave.
25:17Try explaining to the junior ranks
25:19on 12 and a half grand a year
25:21why they're covering for some firefighters
25:23who earn nearly twice as much.
25:25You didn't agree with the strike?
25:27On the contrary.
25:29Yes, firemen risk their lives, so do we.
25:31How do you put a salary bracket on it?
25:33I, um...
25:35I understand what you were saying
25:37about rifles and respirators.
25:39You're not wrong.
25:41Can't you do anything about it?
25:43I can only look after the men below me.
25:45Can't be responsible for the ones above.
25:48Hmm.
25:50Sometimes you have to take on trust
25:52that our superiors know what they're doing.
25:54Hmm.
25:56That's the irony in defending democracy.
25:58You do it for peanuts and your equipment's
26:00made by the cheapest bidder.
26:03Hmm.
26:05Belfast.
26:07You were at Blackwood Barracks.
26:09Yes.
26:11Sullivan part of town.
26:13Yeah, two communities bashing up against each other,
26:15Brit base right in the middle.
26:17Pretty vicious, yes.
26:19Your O.C. there was Tim Derbyshire, right?
26:23Sorry, not trying to make you paranoid.
26:25You, platoon commander in my company,
26:27I took a look at your background.
26:29Do you find anything interesting?
26:32To be honest, David, you need to get out more.
26:35My Auntie Alice has a more exciting life.
26:39Ah, damn it.
26:41I'll go grab another.
26:58Here we go.
27:00Little top up.
27:02Cheers.
27:08Here's a question for you, David.
27:10Some of the stuff we've discussed,
27:13how strongly do you feel about it?
27:15How do you mean?
27:17I mean,
27:19would you take the chance to do something?
27:25If I really thought it would make any difference.
27:27I have a small
27:30protest in mind.
27:34Great if I could count on your support.
27:37What
27:39form would this protest take?
27:43I'm asking each man in the company
27:46if he's prepared
27:49to sign this.
27:51The issues we're worried about.
27:52I reckon I'm in a position
27:54to get them directed down extreme.
28:00It's a petition.
28:02You're organising a petition?
28:04You've got to start somewhere, David.
28:07Do you have a pen?
28:12They're about ready to go.
28:14Nuclear Authority Central Control
28:16have been assigned to call sign Polestar.
28:18Do you have a pen?
28:19Nuclear Authority Central Control
28:21have been assigned to call sign Polestar.
28:23Tell Polestar we're ready to go when they are.
28:25Polestar, this is Temp Cider.
28:27We're good to go.
28:29Copy that.
28:31Well, it's just you and me now.
28:33And they're off.
28:37Hardly the wacky races, is it?
28:45Eagle One is not a threat.
28:47Repeat, not a threat.
28:49Nightingale, however,
28:51is a weaselly little bastard
28:53who should be sent to the Tower.
28:55He's an amateur.
28:57Didn't even tell us Eagle One had two mobile phones.
28:59Those of you still of a paranoid disposition
29:01may confirm Eagle One's innocence
29:03by listening unlawfully to his voicemail
29:05on the following number, 07979234642.
29:08My next call in will be at 0700 hours
29:10when I tell you
29:12how I want to be extracted
29:14from this badly sourced pigsy of an operation.
29:16Night-night.
29:19Is he pissed?
29:21He's tired.
29:23Night exercise earlier on in the week.
29:25Rendezvous with me in the small hours yesterday.
29:27Just let him sleep, excuse me.
29:29Curtis' voice box is pin-protected.
29:31Get the code from his service provider, let's be sure.
29:33I don't like it.
29:35Dockers are coming out 7pm tomorrow.
29:37Let Polestar know, Sam.
29:39Stick has to stay on schedule.
29:41We're back to square one.
29:43Polestar, Polestar, be advised,
29:45industrial action at Dober in less than 20 hours.
29:47Vital you maintain schedule.
29:49Sam knows.
29:51The stick has to be put to bed by 6pm tomorrow night.
29:53Sam, you can get off.
29:55Paddy's present 25-year-old malt.
29:57Good choice.
30:03See you tomorrow.
30:05Listen.
30:07Yeah?
30:09Do you want to, some night,
30:11well, obviously, when we're a bit less busy,
30:13maybe,
30:16do you want to grab a beer sometime?
30:20Maybe dinner?
30:22We work together.
30:24I know.
30:26That's the good bit.
30:28They like us to date each other.
30:30Security reasons.
30:32Whose? Theirs or ours?
30:34Harry would be thrilled.
30:36You really know how to flatter a girl.
30:38Do you want to go out with me
30:40or do you want to get into Tom and Harry's good books?
30:42First bit.
30:44Definitely.
30:46Thought you'd never ask.
31:11What's happening?
31:13Why am I being shot?
31:15I don't understand! What's going on?
31:17Shot us!
31:19I said shut up!
31:21Get out!
31:23You!
31:28Get rid of that.
31:30Right!
31:32Name!
31:34Getty David.
31:35Name!
31:36Getty David.
31:37Name!
31:38Your real name!
31:39Getty David.
31:40You've forgotten it, haven't you?
31:42You've forgotten your real name!
31:43Who are you?
31:45Getty David.
31:46How do I spell Getty? With a Y or IE?
31:49Cannot answer that question.
31:50Well, it's hardly a trick question!
31:53Rank!
31:54Lieutenant.
31:55What's your regimen?
31:56Cannot answer that question.
31:57Are you stupid, mate?
31:58You must know your regimen!
32:01Cannot answer that question.
32:03You're in the shit, son!
32:05I need to know your regimen to get you out of here!
32:10Number!
32:11Number!
32:125-4-1-2-3-2.
32:14Regimen!
32:15Cannot answer that question.
32:16Look, arsehole!
32:17Name, rank, number means nothing to me!
32:19Any bastard can make those up!
32:22Until you tell me your regimen, you're not getting out of here!
32:31Well played, Lieutenant.
32:34Now get some sleep.
32:42Is this an exercise?
32:47What do you want to know?
32:52I can help you, you know.
32:55If it's not an exercise.
33:11What do you mean, Corporal?
33:36How long now?
33:37Twelve minutes.
33:39I'm telling Harry.
33:42Harry.
33:43Tom's missed a scheduled call-in.
33:45How late?
33:46Twelve minutes.
33:47Run the contingency plan.
33:48Run the contingency plan.
34:09I'm reassuring the backup plans actually work.
34:11My mobile's damaged in a training exercise.
34:13Everything's fine.
34:14You brought the transfer orders with you?
34:16Got them here.
34:17Lieutenant David Getty's been sent back to Belfast.
34:19Good.
34:20The M.O.D. were hoping I'd find something dirty around Curtis.
34:22I'm afraid they're going to be disappointed.
34:24He's a first-class soldier.
34:26I didn't get into this job to spy on my own side.
34:30I regard Curtis as a colleague.
34:32We're all doing the same job.
34:33Protecting this country.
34:36He's something of a loose cannon.
34:37He's lonely.
34:38He's rather pleased with himself.
34:40And he's pissed off about a whole bunch of armies.
34:41None of which constitute treason.
34:43Well.
34:44The paperwork will clear by the end of the day.
34:46And no one will ever know that you weren't for real.
34:49Story of my life.
34:58Second opinion, please.
34:59Curtis' voice box.
35:01He deletes messages after playback.
35:02It took me till now to recover it from the storage computer.
35:06Snipe one reporting in.
35:07Confirm R.V. at 0830 hours.
35:10Well, that could mean anything.
35:11Have you tried voice printing?
35:17Bring him over here.
35:25Morning, David.
35:26Sleep well?
35:27What I got of it, yes.
35:28Lucky you.
35:30We were up all night.
35:31Had a whole platoon to interrogate.
35:36You enjoyed your posting here?
35:38I've had considerably worse.
35:40Hmm.
35:42I've got to say,
35:43considerably worse?
35:45Hmm.
35:47Makes a change from sleeping with Russian spies
35:49or eavesdropping on Libyan trade delegations
35:52or whatever it is you people do to justify your existence these days.
35:56I don't know what you're talking about.
35:58Corporal Woods finally decided where his loyalties lie.
36:03You people screwed up your chance to defend the West.
36:06Now it's down to us, the armies, to sort it out.
36:10So you'll forgive me if I'm pissed off that M.I.5
36:12investigated a distinguished army officer
36:15at a time when espionage efforts could be better concentrated elsewhere.
36:20I was only following orders.
36:22I'm sure you can understand that.
36:26I'm sure you can understand that.
36:28I was only following orders.
36:29I'm sure you can understand that.
36:37Apology accepted.
36:39What did you think I was up to anyway?
36:42We received information that you were going to lead your men into industrial action.
36:47Industrial action?
36:48Yeah.
36:50Do I look like a socialist to you?
36:54Sitting around refusing to do what I'm trained to do.
36:58That isn't exactly my style.
37:03On the truck, please.
37:06Move it!
37:09Load up!
37:24There were no database matches for the voice print.
37:26I spoke to Curtis's mobile service provider.
37:28The footprint for the call he received came from there.
37:30The stick's starting point.
37:31Someone in that convoy made a phone call to Curtis
37:33just before they set off last night.
37:34Where's Danny? Any word? Red flash him.
37:36I want him on the phone now.
37:37Hansen told Danny that Curtis offered him a driving job.
37:39He was driving the stick.
37:42Personnel records from the nuclear authority.
37:49Snap.
37:51William Scobie, our missing presumed dead team member.
37:53He's driving the stick.
37:55Danny's phone is dead.
37:56The nuclear authority routinely recruits ex-military as drivers and escorts.
38:01Scobie's a plant.
38:03Polestar? Polestar, you have a situation.
38:18Don't worry.
38:21No one will get hurt.
38:25It's only a matter of time.
38:27Go, go, go, go!
38:30Hold still!
38:32Shit, what's happening?
38:34In position!
38:35Move, move!
38:38Move it, come on!
38:39Hands where I can see them!
38:40Down the hill!
38:42Come on, come on!
38:43Come on, come on!
38:45Get out of the car now! Get out of the car!
38:47Get out of the car!
38:56Go!
39:02What's happening, Polestar?
39:04What's going on?
39:17I don't know, Danny!
39:48Come on!
40:04Out!
40:08Move!
40:17Move!
40:35Friend of yours, I believe.
40:37This is for you, sir.
40:39Nice to be working with you again.
40:40Thank you, sir.
40:42Secure the perimeter, gentlemen.
40:44Change of positions!
40:48I know you're not a bad man, David, or whatever your name is.
40:52But you see, a matter of mind.
40:55What are you planning to do?
40:57I just want to make a point.
41:00Close up on Stick's location, please.
41:05That's only ten miles from the centre of London.
41:07Christ.
41:09Clear all other radio transmissions. I want to hear what they're saying.
41:14Ready when you are, Major.
41:15Ready when you are, Major.
41:18This is Major Sam Curtis.
41:22I have control of the nuclear transportation known to you as Stick One.
41:27You'll see from your GPS tracker our exact location,
41:31and you might want to start evacuating the area.
41:37Almost 500 British soldiers have died since the first Gulf War.
41:42Cause of death, Gulf War Syndrome.
41:4645,000 service personnel recently went into a second Gulf conflict,
41:50and we're left with an army that can't fight for at least 18 months.
41:54The authorities expect men to take the same risks again and again,
41:57with inferior weapons, minimal life insurance and laughable salaries.
42:02The full list of the issues I demand the British government address
42:05has been backed to the Chief of Defence Staff.
42:08Compensation and treatment for victims of Gulf War Syndrome
42:10did owe PTSD a 50% pay hike across the board.
42:13You can guess the rest.
42:15I've been campaigning in every legitimate way possible for years,
42:18but Whitehall refuses to take me seriously.
42:20So, now, it's come to this.
42:26If my terms are not agreed in the next 30 minutes,
42:29I'll be transmitting a videotape from my location via satphone
42:33to every major Western broadcaster.
42:36I don't think I flatter myself that it'll be headline news
42:39the second they realise who I am.
42:41Especially when they see I've surrounded a truckload of irradiated uranium
42:44with 50 pounds of plastic explosive.
42:53If my terms are still not met within 60 minutes...
43:11...then South East England will be twinned with Chernobyl.
43:15Somebody better get back to me quick.
43:18The clocks started ticking.
43:22And they thought I was a pain in the arse before.
43:24You won't do it.
43:25You think?
43:27What choice do I have?
43:29Your presence here pretty much makes my case for me.
43:33Seems the Third World and Eastern Bloc dictators
43:35are not the only powers who monitor and infiltrate their military.
43:38We're establishing a 20-mile cordon sanitaire around the stick.
43:41All air, road and rail transportation's been stopped
43:43and the police are evacuating civilians from the immediate area
43:46claiming there's a fractured gas pipe under the storage plant.
43:49A counter-terrorist team's choppering in ETA five minutes.
43:51Curtis has just created the world's biggest dirty bomb.
43:54What about Tom and Danny?
43:55Yes, I know. He can't explode the stick.
43:57I'd like to believe that.
43:58I mean, he physically can't.
43:59The container's made of titanium steel. It's several feet thick.
44:01He could run an express train into it. The train would end up in the scrapyard.
44:04It requires specialised tools to open.
44:05He can't just pop the lid off with a screwdriver.
44:07Those are oil vats.
44:09He's not going to bomb the truck. He's going to bomb those.
44:12It's a massive oil fire.
44:14What will that do to uranium?
44:16It would make it very angry.
44:37I don't think we need to trouble ourselves about that.
45:00CT team are in place. They're setting up a video feed now.
45:02We should have a picture in a couple of minutes.
45:04Tom and Danny must be in there.
45:07Sierra One, I'm loading VT link now.
45:11Thank you, Sierra One. Can you zoom in any closer?
45:15We have visuals.
45:19No one's talking to me yet.
45:21MOD.
45:22Sam, patch me into the stick communications. I'll talk to this bastard.
45:26Harry Pearce.
45:27Good request. Talk to you on this line immediate.
45:30Let's hope he doesn't come to that.
45:32Keep this line open.
45:33Two people in MI5. I know you're listening.
45:36I've got two of your men here.
45:38They'll each be receiving their very own close-up on international news channels.
45:44Major Curtis.
45:47Identify yourself.
45:49Are my officers OK?
45:51Of course they are. I'm not Genghis Khan.
45:53Let me speak to them.
45:54Negative, Mr MI5.
45:55Work with him.
45:57Let us get you out of this.
46:00You know everything, Major.
46:02How about William Scurby?
46:05So what makes you think we'd put him at the wheel of a genuine consignment of nuclear waste?
46:12Are you bluffing?
46:13No, he's not. We've been running this operation for weeks.
46:16Do you want to open Pandora's box and find out?
46:19You blow that site, all you're doing is killing your own men.
46:22Listen to him.
46:24My assignment was to prove your innocence.
46:26There is still a way back from this.
46:33It appears no-one's taking me seriously.
46:38If someone doesn't make me an offer in the next five minutes, I'm going to execute a spy.
46:43Like me, you get paid to take a risk.
46:46He's losing it.
46:47Harry, can't we call his bluff?
46:49Let me talk to the MOD.
46:50I hate it when people don't listen to me. I know what I'm talking about!
46:53They want you to do this!
46:55I'm happy to oblige!
46:56Sam!
46:57Shut up!
46:58This is Sierra One. I have a shot on primary. Advise, over.
47:02You are being manipulated!
47:04They want you to self-destruct. Now, your arguments are valid.
47:07This is the only way they can stop you.
47:09Don't be remembered for the wrong reasons.
47:16Don't lead your men into the valley of death.
47:22Don't. They will take the kill shot.
47:26Of course. Thank you.
47:27Sierra One, then.
47:33Now, you've made your point. You can't be ignored now.
47:37Drop your weapon, Major.
47:41Your men will be massacred. Stand them down.
47:46Sierra One. Green light.
47:48There isn't a British soldier alive who'd take a shot at me.
47:55T-1 neutralized.
48:25Sir.
48:43Tom.
48:44Hey, Mum.
48:48Welcome back.
48:50How are you doing?
48:51Very good.
48:55Harry renewed my succumbent.
48:56Good for you.
48:57Thought you'd want to know. Curtis videotaped. It's gone away.
49:03Hey, stranger.
49:04Hey.
49:06You look tired.
49:07You look great.
49:10My place later?
49:15Happy birthday.
49:16Welcome back.
49:17Chat?
49:18Absolutely.
49:26How long's that been going on?
49:28Not long.
49:31What happened to you?
49:32Who ordered Curtis's death?
49:33That doesn't matter.
49:34Did you?
49:35Or were you taking instruction from someone else?
49:37Curtis was out of control.
49:38I could have talked him down.
49:40He was about to surrender.
49:41We neutralized a threat to national security. That's our job.
49:44What part did Corporal Woods play?
49:46Hmm?
49:47Did he get a deal? Immunity? Promotion?
49:51He wasn't set up.
49:52What if Curtis had been an international terrorist rather than a British Army officer?
49:55You wouldn't have questioned how we resolved the situation then.
49:57I misjudged him.
49:59But much worse than that,
50:00I allowed myself to be used by the government of the day for their own ends.
50:03They wanted Curtis silenced and I was the blunt instrument.
50:06This country's army is never going to mutiny for God's sake.
50:09It does everything asked of it and more.
50:11Curtis was only trying to give them a voice.
50:14You got too close to the subject.
50:16Don't let personal feelings get the better of you.
50:19You got too close to the subject.
50:21Don't let personal feelings...
50:22Personal feelings.
50:25Yeah, I have personal feelings.
50:27Well, bury them because...
50:28Because fuck you.
50:29If the New World Order means we're in the business of destroying anyone who questions the political agenda,
50:33then I'm in the wrong job.
50:37Take a long weekend
50:39and put this operation behind you.
50:40Shame on you, Harry.
50:42Shame on you for allowing us to be manipulated.
50:44It's over.
50:45I will take your debriefing at a later stage.
50:47And as regards Mata Hari out there,
50:49no fraternising with foreign operatives even if they are friendless.
50:51You and I both know there's no such thing in our world.
50:53I will not be dictated to.
50:54Never question my decisions.
50:56End it.
50:57I don't care how, I do care when.
50:59The next time I see you, you're a single man.