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00:30Don't let him sleep.
00:38And watch him, he knows what he's doing.
00:46Well, you can be pretty sure Morgan's not setting up a fairground shooting gallery.
00:51This man's a civilian contractor.
00:52Mercenary is probably nearer the mark.
00:54Finance, friends and family, everybody has a weakness in one of those areas.
00:58What's our time frame?
00:59Morgan's disappeared, so whoever's hired him will have to assume that an unfriendly force
01:02has taken him.
01:03And he'd be right about that.
01:05It's a three-dimensional jigsaw.
01:07What is?
01:08The weapon's hide?
01:09What I'm saying is that you need to look at it as though it's a three-dimensional jigsaw.
01:12We were using the ultrasound to check the booby traps, but instead, right in the middle
01:15of the container, we found a space where a weapon used to be.
01:18So Morgan must have been in there before and taken something.
01:21So what was it?
01:22A laser target designator.
01:24One of these.
01:26This one we found in the hide.
01:28One is missing.
01:29You pre-sight it, plant it in the ground somewhere, and then it can be automatically triggered
01:32to guide a missile to its target.
01:34The laser beam hits the target and causes an invisible cone to rise above it.
01:38The missile then uses the cone as a kind of funnel to find its way to where it needs to go.
01:42The beauty of this system is that it enables the control team that fires the missiles to
01:47remain miles out of the way.
01:48I'm not sure the beauty is the word I would use if it were number 10 that went up in smoke.
01:52Rather disturbingly, this ties in with information from E-section.
01:56As you know, we scan the air above our cities for unusual radioactivity.
02:01Last week, one of our scanners picked up something strange.
02:04An untraceable flash.
02:05At the time, we didn't know the exact cause, but it looks like it might have been a laser
02:09designator having a trial run.
02:11Where was this?
02:12London.
02:13This changes things completely.
02:14The designator has already been pre-set and tested.
02:18We can probably assume that an attack is imminent.
02:20If I was running Morgan's up, I would bring things forward.
02:22The information he has on this attack will have a shelf life of what?
02:2548 hours.
02:2772 maximum.
02:28That's how long we've got to stop a guided missile falling somewhere in London.
02:32Danny, you're with me on the interrogation.
02:34Ruth, I need you to check with Eshlon for any chatter and get in touch with some of
02:37your mates at GCHQ.
02:38He left his car near the weapons dump.
02:40You and Colin, pull it apart.
02:41I'll get on to those three Fs.
02:42Start with finance.
02:43This guy's a pro.
02:44He'll have spent half his life doing anti-interrogation courses, and I've spent half my career devising
02:49them.
02:50If he plays it by the book, he'll reveal just enough information to keep us interested in
02:52keeping him alive.
02:53And then after three days, he can tell us what he likes.
02:56Which means by then, his team will have had time to change their plans or carry out the
02:58attacks without him.
02:59Exactly.
03:00This guy will use every trick in the book to hold out until his information is obsolete.
03:05How do you want to play this?
03:06Let's see how cooperative he's being.
03:07And if he isn't?
03:26Your current address?
03:30That's not such an easy question to answer.
03:33Give it a whirl.
03:36OK.
03:37There's two.
03:3843 Kenilworth Road, Derby, and 32 St. David's Road, Hereford.
03:44And would you prefer it if we called you Ken Johnson, Robert Morgan, or Rick Garbutt?
03:50Take your pick.
03:51In my line of work, I need more than one name.
03:54You'll know the score.
03:56How would you describe your line of work?
04:01Do I get a phone call?
04:02Who to?
04:03The duty solicitor?
04:04We're not holding you on a speeding charge.
04:05We're holding you under the 2000 Terrorism Act, under which we can detain you for seven
04:09days without charge, and longer, if the friendly in-house magistrate agrees.
04:13Which, after careful consideration of each case on its individual merits, he usually does.
04:18Tell us what we want to know, and then you can be home in time for tea and crumpets.
04:23At either 32 St. David's Road, Hereford, with the wife Nancy,
04:26or at 43 Kenilworth Road, Derby, with the girlfriend, the lovely Lucy.
04:31As far as I know, it's not a criminal offence to be having an affair.
04:35Perhaps not.
04:36But storing high-tech weaponry in an old Soviet arms dump is.
04:40Who's running you?
04:42Why should I say?
04:45I don't even know who you are.
04:46If you're planning on not cooperating, this isn't going to be nice.
04:51Take your time.
04:53But think very carefully about the choices you're making.
04:57Terrible timing, Ruth, I know.
04:58But I'm afraid I'm going to have to put an additional burden your way.
05:01Of course, Harry.
05:02As you know, the Lord High Executioner, our Director General, is retiring at the end of the summer.
05:08For personal reasons?
05:09Exactly, personal reasons.
05:11And they've asked me to apply for the position.
05:16That's great.
05:18Congratulations.
05:21Of course, it's not just me.
05:22There's a shortlist, but they want me to go for an interview.
05:25And when they invite you, they make it very hard to say no.
05:28But why would you want to say no, Harry?
05:31Well, when there's a mercenary using his skills to help a terrorist organisation fire a missile at central London,
05:36I'd rather be here than lounging on the seventh floor.
05:38Well, I can help you prepare for the interview.
05:41Likely questions, stuff like that.
05:43Obvious things about the future of the service.
05:45Plans, past operations, failings, threats.
05:48Thank you, Ruth, but...
05:49At the expense of our current operation.
05:51And I'd appreciate it if you kept this to yourself.
05:54You know, kept it secret.
05:55Of course.
05:57Isn't that what we're meant to be good at?
06:00This was just another job.
06:02If I've got you right, your job was simply being a courier, moving weapons from one place to another.
06:06Pretty much.
06:07So you were just using those dumps as a convenient place to store the weapons.
06:10I tried.
06:11Guess what my next question is going to be.
06:12Who was I working for?
06:14Correct.
06:16I mean, it isn't that different on the outside than it is here on the inside.
06:20Working for Her Majesty's government.
06:23You're on a job.
06:24You don't ask about the before and after parts.
06:27It's easier and safer.
06:29And so you just don't think about it.
06:33Do you make any sense of that?
06:36How many arms dumps have you visited recently?
06:38Fascinating history those places have.
06:41Soviets built them near to British Air Force bases during the Cold War.
06:45We did it to them, of course.
06:47And you were one of the guys crawling around Siberia setting them up.
06:50We know that.
06:51Look, if I had to hazard a guess as to the terms of my employment, I'd say that
06:56it was something to do with running an operation against elements with a terrorist structure.
07:00So you're saying this was a black op, that you were working for the government on a deniable operation?
07:05It had that feel.
07:06OK, this is really important.
07:07Because if it was, then we need to know right away.
07:10So then if I knock on the door of the JIC, Six or UKN, whoever,
07:13then they'll tell me exactly what's going on.
07:15Not necessarily.
07:16I thought you said this was a government operation.
07:18I said it had that feel.
07:19In which case, someone in government must know something about it.
07:21Operations don't just appear out of nowhere, sanctioned by whoever feels like it.
07:25At my end of the ladder, we don't ask.
07:27I've been involved in a number of operations whose...
07:30What did my old colonel like to call it? Whose provenance was unclear.
07:34You jump out of a plane at night with 120 pounds strapped to your feet,
07:37and you find that when you land, there's going to be people trying to kill you.
07:39You don't have the time to worry about who dreamt the whole thing up.
07:41Stop.
07:43What?
07:44I've already warned you about this. You're just talking.
07:46Just talking this into the ground.
07:48Well, we're not going to get bored and go away.
07:50I'm telling you that I'm just a private contractor.
07:52Who countersigned your contract?
07:53What contract?
07:54You're not doing this for charity.
07:55Somebody with your considerable expertise is being paid a lot.
07:58And I don't believe that you would be in a state of blissful ignorance about whoever's footing the bill.
08:01That depends on the nature of the operation.
08:05The more deniable it is, the more everybody involved has to be overqualified,
08:09even for the most mundane job.
08:12I was just doing the heavy lifting.
08:18Morgan's bank statements make interesting reading.
08:20He earns a lot and clearly likes to spend it.
08:22Clearly our first option is to offer him money.
08:24If he's stupid enough to turn that down, then we'll start with a little asset stripping.
08:26No, he's a mercenary. Let's try and do a deal with him first.
08:29He definitely knows what's going on, so why isn't he telling us?
08:32When we discover that, we're on our way to finding out what this is all about.
08:36What's in it for him?
08:39Belief.
08:40Give me a break.
08:42Money, then.
08:43OK, let's go after that. Let's go for finance first.
08:45Danny, offer him the deal, and if he doesn't take it, get his signature anyway.
08:48We'll drain his accounts.
08:56You OK?
08:57Of course. I like this stuff.
09:00Just remember what it's like on the other side.
09:04I'm not likely to forget.
09:14I think you should be prepared to answer questions on four main areas.
09:17The state of readiness of the service, your character, and operational experience.
09:21And most importantly, the nature of the present threat.
09:24How far do we go to combat it?
09:26How far do we go in all senses?
09:28Is there anything we shouldn't be doing? Yes, I like that.
09:30How about the other candidates? Do we know who they are?
09:32Of course not.
09:35Nor, Ruth, could I openly approve of anyone trying to find them out.
09:38But if a list of them happened...
09:40To find its way onto my desk, then I'd have to send it back to its rightful owner, unopened.
09:58When you've got your circulation back, I'd like you to sign for your belongings.
10:08Where's my car?
10:10I'm having it valeted.
10:14Help yourself.
10:17Thanks, but I'm not hungry.
10:20Something wrong?
10:22No.
10:25Okay, look at this from my perspective.
10:27We find you next to an old Soviet arms dumper, full of new kit.
10:31In fact, so new that my technical guys think Christmas has come early.
10:35And still, you claim that you're just the water carrier.
10:41I've told you all that I know.
10:43We know how much you guys get paid if a job like this works out.
10:46Just tell us what this is about.
10:48And we'll let you know.
10:51Look, we'll make sure that you're not prosecuted,
10:53and that you're compensated to the full amount.
10:59What's this?
11:00A deal for you to sign.
11:03You don't believe me?
11:04Okay, well, as you know, this is all being taped.
11:07And if you still have doubts, we'll get in that lawyer you asked for.
11:13I'm not going to let you get away with this.
11:16Okay, look, I know you've done all that anti-interrogation stuff.
11:19We all know how this works.
11:21You're going to have to give us something.
11:23This is the best way of doing it.
11:32Still not hungry?
11:34No.
11:36Well, I'm going to have to give you something.
11:38I'm going to have to give you something.
11:40I'm going to have to give you something.
11:42I'm going to have to give you something.
11:44No.
11:46Okay.
11:55Just tell us the nature of this operation,
11:57and that deal still stands whenever you want.
12:01Okay, I know you guys have a rather sniffy attitude to the security services
12:04because you're the Glory Boys, aren't you?
12:06I mean, we can't necessarily run up a hill carrying a treat trunk
12:09or score 20 out of 20 on the pop-gun range.
12:11But then, you always find people to do that for us.
12:14What we are capable of is a very different type of operation.
12:17In your case, making sure that no one else is involved.
12:20I'm going to have to give you something.
12:22Just tell us the nature of this operation,
12:24and that deal still stands whenever you want.
12:27I'm going to have to give you something.
12:30Making sure that no area of your life goes uncontaminated.
12:33Everything that you have worked to achieve, we can unravel.
12:37And if you don't believe me, just watch.
12:54I'll get the signature to Ruth to deal with.
12:56Good.
12:57Look, I'm dangling carrots and he is not biting.
13:00We need to up the ante.
13:01Let's put a siren loop in there.
13:04Are you sure about that?
13:06The more we turn up the heat, the more effective your role becomes, Danny.
13:10Let's put him in the stress position and have a guard on him 24 hours,
13:12then I'll go in and give him the bad news about his money.
13:16I know what he's thinking.
13:19I know exactly what's going through his head.
13:22How come?
13:24It's just one of the things I know.
13:29SIREN BLARING
14:00The human ear is most sensitive to that exact pitch.
14:04So it drives you slowly insane and can lead to complete hearing loss.
14:08Isn't that cold torture?
14:17I have accessed a list of all Morgan's deposits and withdrawals.
14:20If he's clever, he'll have deposited all the cash in small amounts.
14:23Exactly.
14:25Thanks, Ruth.
14:27Small amounts of money found in Morgan's numerous bank accounts
14:30can be traced back to one large deposit.
14:32£100,000 was credited to an account belonging to Ken Johnson,
14:35one of Morgan's pseudonyms,
14:37in Saffron Walden on the 31st of last month.
14:40Any tie-up?
14:43Oh, yes.
14:44Instructions were received that day to go to Saffron Walden
14:47from a private bank in the city.
14:50Good.
14:51Find out whose account that money came from.
14:54We've traced the account to Morgan's bank.
14:56We've traced the account to a subsidiary of none other than Anglo West African Oil.
14:59An oil company? A laser decimator? It doesn't add up.
15:01The payment trail is extremely well hidden.
15:03It's clearly not part of the kind of business strategy
15:05that's likely to be announced in the annual report.
15:07Multinationals have long used people like Morgan
15:09for various protection and security in their installations abroad.
15:12Still, we can't overlook anything.
15:14Ruth.
15:15Anglo West African is bidding for a pipeline contract
15:17right across the Ivory Coast.
15:18There's enough oil there to provide 30% of the world's supplies,
15:21which would bypass any reliance on the Middle East.
15:23Much so that Her Majesty's government has offered to actually pay
15:25for most of the pipeline with taxpayers' money.
15:27We need to get somebody high up at Anglo to tell us what's going on here.
15:30I've already got a list of possible executives we might recruit.
15:33Subject to the usual array of human failings, I trust?
15:36I prefer to work with more positive aspects.
15:38Each to their own.
15:40OK, I think Morgan will be softened up enough by now.
15:42I'm going to get back in there.
15:45I'd just like to say how glad we are to have you staying with us at five.
15:48We're lucky to have you.
15:50I'll need Malcolm to organise me a pool car.
15:52Of course. Nothing too special.
16:08What were you doing? You must have seen me coming.
16:11Sorry, I didn't. I just didn't.
16:13What do you think the mirrors are for?
16:14Look, I don't know the insurance company or anything.
16:16My husband looks after all that.
16:18Here, let me give you my card.
16:19If you've got a pen, I'll write my registration number on the back.
16:23Thanks. Sorry.
16:28Here's my card and my insurer's.
16:30Do you live nearby? Are you going to be OK getting back?
16:32I live just off the Wellington Road, if it's any help.
16:34Look, I want it repaired. Just call me with the details.
16:37Sure.
16:40Sorry.
16:43Juliet Taylor, 38. Lefty University. Classic sellout.
16:47Had three crashes in the last year,
16:48which is why I thought a car accident was the best form of introduction,
16:51given our time restraints.
16:52Good. She's going to want to settle in formally rather than through the insurers.
16:55How did she take it?
16:56Not very gracefully, though she'll still have to meet me a few more times
16:59if she wants to get her money.
17:00Is she the right person?
17:01Number two to the director of finance.
17:03Best person to ask about dodgy money trails and who's receiving them.
17:05Weak spots?
17:06Her daughter, Mattie. She's rather desperate to get into the local posh school.
17:09Use that. Although it could take some time, which we don't have.
17:12We need to find a more immediate way.
17:14Also, I need someone to meet her. Our place is still a bit of a tip.
17:17Use Danny's letter.
17:18Won't he mind?
17:19No. Why should he?
17:22Harry.
17:26I'd like to ask about your personal strengths and weaknesses.
17:28This isn't the right time, Ruth. Haven't you noticed we're under some pressure?
17:31Which is why this is just the right time.
17:34Do you think the end always justifies the means in an operation?
17:38I would review each case on its individual merits.
17:41Don't you think it's better not to procrastinate on these questions?
17:43Makes you sound too much like a politician.
17:45Perhaps they're looking for a politician.
17:47But you said you didn't want the job because you like to know exactly what's going on at ground level.
17:50Do you think you always do?
17:52I think my strengths are that I hold on to certain things that I feel are important and good.
17:57I'm referring to a certain ethical dimension to our work.
18:00We won't defeat terrorism by destroying democracy.
18:03That's all very high-minded, but in practice, what does that mean?
18:06Does it mean results aren't everything?
18:10There's somewhere where you draw the line, isn't there?
18:12I think that's enough for now, Ruth.
18:16I'm just enabling you to fail gracefully, as requested.
18:20For which I will be eternally grateful.
18:24Hypothetically, Harry, you wouldn't forget about us, would you?
18:28When you're pacing the thickly carpeted floor of your new office.
18:33I didn't know I paced, Ruth.
18:35Only in a good way.
18:57What?
19:00Nothing.
19:06Four years ago, I was taken prisoner in the Yemen by a group I was working with.
19:10I was undercover as an aid worker.
19:15How long did they hold you for?
19:16Long enough.
19:20And?
19:21Did they talk to me?
19:22Yes, they did.
19:27And?
19:28And nothing telling us what they did.
19:36You got your bottle?
19:41We have to move it up a gear.
20:06What's the target?
20:11This will go on until you tell me.
20:17The physical stuff is just a sideshow, you'll get over that.
20:20This other stuff, this will be with you forever.
20:26We got into your accounts.
20:30Paid a visit to your bank.
20:32Thank you, by the way.
20:33Your signature.
20:36You've been well paid recently, but this morning, with our help,
20:39you donated all your savings to charity.
20:41And that includes the 200,000 you didn't tell the revenue about
20:44that's been sitting in your private bank account in Geneva.
20:48Maybe if you're lucky, they'll name a ward after you
20:50in some godforsaken hospital in the Sudan.
20:56What?
20:58What?
21:01You think I'm bluffing?
21:04You think you can always make it back again
21:06working for one of your old friends?
21:08Or your old mates?
21:22In about 15 minutes, you're going to seriously regret that.
21:28Shit.
21:29Yeah.
21:31Yeah, there'll be a lot of that.
21:58Oh.
22:15Take this now. Drink it before it gets worse.
22:17There's an antidote in here, it'll be effective in ten minutes.
22:21And if you're bullshitting me?
22:23Fine. Don't tell me anything until you're better.
22:28I'll throw in the money as well. What more can I say?
22:33What is it with you? Why are you making your life so impossible?
22:38You have about five minutes before it gets really nasty.
22:45Just remember, you brought this on yourself.
22:58Did we need to make him quite so sick?
23:00Did he need to target a missile at central London? There's no comparison.
23:03Why is he resisting so hard? Have you asked yourself that?
23:06Yes, all the time.
23:07He must have some very good reason, and it doesn't seem to be money.
23:11What's our next step?
23:13Let's continue with Fred.
23:14Fred?
23:15Fred.
23:16Fred.
23:17Fred.
23:18Fred.
23:19Fred.
23:20Fred.
23:21Fred.
23:22Fred.
23:23Fred.
23:24Fred.
23:25Fred.
23:26Let's continue with Fred, and I'm going to get very specific about the laser designator.
23:29But then he'll know he's getting close to the finishing post.
23:31Oh, I can make that seem like a very long way away.
23:39I haven't got long.
23:41Sure, um, sorry. I've spoken to my husband about the insurance, and I have all the details and everything.
23:45It's just that he's a bit worried about our no-claims bonus.
23:48Well, I'm not thrilled at the prospect of having to talk to mine either.
23:51Well, um, would you be happy to settle in cash?
23:54That would suit me fine. You've got my address. You'll drop it round?
23:57Of course, that's no problem. My daughter's school's just round the corner. Trinity House.
24:02Really? I want to send my little girl there, but everybody keeps saying how impossible it is to get in.
24:08Oh, you know, there are ways. As with everything. I mean, I'm on the PTA. If there's anything I can do to help...
24:14Well, I'm not sure I could...
24:16Really, it's the least I can do, considering the damage I've done.
24:19Why don't I drop by your place?
24:21Your place? Great. Yeah, I'll, um, I'll tidy up.
24:26Okay. You get out of here broke, but in one piece.
24:33Are you listening to me? Because I'm predicting your future here for you.
24:38Nod if you can hear me.
24:44Now, the one glimmer of light that you can see at the moment is that all the people you work with,
24:48all the old boys from the army, all your friends,
24:51you think they'll stick with you, help you back on your feet.
24:54But what if we tamper with your military records as well?
24:57My guess is that'll make you virtually unemployable.
25:02Let's say...
25:05Let's say that you exaggerated your success in the army.
25:09Let's say that your main claim to fame actually turned out to be a series of botched operations
25:13where you were both negligent of your men and cowardly in the face of enemy fire.
25:18The men I served with will know that's a load of old bollocks.
25:22Okay, then, well, let's have a look at the people you served with
25:24and who you now work with in the private security business.
25:27All their companies have another very important relationship,
25:30apart from the one that they have with you,
25:32and that's the one that they enjoy with Her Majesty's government.
25:37Us.
25:40Or, at the moment, me.
25:45Now, if we present your friends with a choice,
25:48by all means, use Morgan, none better,
25:50but if you do, you'll never work on another government contract again,
25:53what do you think they'll do?
25:55Is their loyalty going to be to the good old days,
25:57or will it be the future of their companies?
26:00Themselves? Their families?
26:05I know who my friends are.
26:07They're your friends, they just won't be offering you any more work,
26:09not if they want to stay solvent.
26:11You know why?
26:13Because they won't be getting any more business from us.
26:22What's in this for you?
26:27I mean, look at you.
26:30You haven't slept or eaten for 36 hours, your guts are shot to pieces.
26:38The longer you don't tell me anything,
26:40the more I know you're hiding something really big.
26:43What's the operation?
26:45What's the target?
26:49I mean, if it's the money, then the money's all gone,
26:51so what's it for? The old days?
26:54All your colleagues who only just made it back,
26:56who are destined to have a black strip over their eyes
26:59in one of those kiss-and-tell books with flames on the outside
27:02that you lot keep writing.
27:08What are you so frightened of?
27:12What they'll do to you?
27:14Is that it?
27:38Is that it?
27:41All that martial arts,
27:43unarmed combat,
27:45jack-slapping or whatever you call it,
27:47and that's all you can manage?
27:58I know what you're thinking.
28:01If I can hold out another 24 hours, another 36,
28:06if I can hold out that long,
28:09I know what you've trained yourself to think about
28:11because I devised a course.
28:31We know you're using a laser designator.
28:34Oh.
28:36Did that get your attention?
28:40Now, tell me what the target is and when you're planning the attack,
28:44or I'll make things so bad
28:46that everything that's happened to you in the last few hours
28:49will seem like a pleasant memory.
29:03Oh.
29:25I think he's more frightened of what his friends will do to him than he is of us.
29:29I'm not so sure about that.
29:33Look, I think it's time we moved to the third F.
29:37Family?
29:39Perhaps we should have just started with family.
29:41I always hoped we won't have to go there.
29:44Sometimes we have no choice.
29:46Sometimes we have to behave worse than them.
29:48You mean we have to create the impression that we're capable of behaving worse?
29:52We'll just behave worse.
29:55Otherwise we're not going to be able to find out what we need to find out.
30:04Look, don't you see what the danger is here?
30:06What, that something blows up in the middle of London and we don't stop it?
30:08No, that we turn into them.
30:10The people we're fighting. People like Morgan.
30:13Yeah.
30:15Yeah, there's a danger.
30:18But at the moment I can't see any alternative.
30:24I'm going home to wash.
30:26I'm going home to wash.
30:48When you do your interrogations, do you...
30:51...do you do your interrogations?
30:54When you do your interrogations, do you...
30:56...ever think about what happened to you?
31:00Yes.
31:04Do you think that's a good thing?
31:06An effective thing, maybe.
31:08I know how they think.
31:12Do you ever sympathise with him?
31:15We're not the same.
31:18He's a traitor who'll use his skills to kill innocent people in return for money.
31:24Still aren't.
31:26Something's just wrong.
31:28Like torture.
31:30I wouldn't call this torture.
31:32I wouldn't call this torture yet at all, but I'll let you know when we get there.
31:41Friends and finance aren't working.
31:43I'm worried that when Adam moves on to family, things could get pretty nasty.
31:46We need something from Juliet Taylor.
31:48I'm your best friend.
31:50Good. Get her to tell us why Anglo-West African oil are paying Morgan.
31:52I'm on it.
31:57I see the covert entry boys are doing their work on Morgan's life.
32:01Harry, is there any area that we don't touch?
32:04Ethics, here.
32:05I'm serious.
32:07Say, to do with his family.
32:10Morgan's daughter, Mary, she's eight.
32:13She needs a liver transplant. They're looking for a donor.
32:15She has her mother's surname, that's why we didn't find it before.
32:18And look, he calls her all the time.
32:22I mean, it's quite possible that I just never came across this particular piece of information.
32:27You mean because you don't trust what Adam might do with it?
32:30We don't know where this is all going.
32:32Though we do know that it's nothing to do with his sick daughter.
32:35You don't think she's got enough on her plate?
32:37I mean, do you never draw the line on this stuff?
32:47Where's your little girl?
32:48Oh, she's staying with her granny for the week.
32:51I think this is all of it. Thank you so much for doing this. We really appreciate it.
32:55You were at Manchester?
32:56Oh, no, my husband was. He loved it.
32:57So did I.
32:58I did political science, which at the time was a sort of hotbed of radicalism.
33:02Funny how your life changes. Now I find myself working for, of all things, an oil company.
33:08What do you think about that?
33:09Well, a big mortgage to pay tends to sharpen the senses a little.
33:14Oh, sorry.
33:16Oh, I really need to take this. Can I use your hall?
33:18Sure.
33:19Thanks.
33:26Tom's at the rugby and Mattie's playing with her friend. We'll have a couple of hours.
33:30Where are you?
33:31Trying to sort out this nightmare with the car, but I'm only five minutes away.
33:35I'll be waiting for you.
33:36Dying to see you.
33:40Sorry about that. My mum, she's not been well recently.
33:43Oh, dear.
33:44Well, do what you can. You know how it is.
33:50Oh, dear.
34:15What do you think?
34:16Potentially, it's dynamite.
34:17Potentially.
34:18But we should...
34:19Save it until the end.
34:21Until we really need it.
34:22It's the worst thing we can do with this information.
34:25Remove the daughter from the list waiting for donors, or...
34:29something more immediate to put her in danger, wherever that may be.
34:32You know what I like about you, Harry, is you never say that imagine-if-it-was-your-daughter stuff.
34:36Imaginative compassion may be a very good thing, but it's not always useful in this job.
34:41The father-daughter relationship's strong. Medical records indicate that he's paid for all the treatment.
34:45Insurance, but he's taken a private.
34:47And the mother?
34:48Remarried. Other children.
34:52He's a good father.
34:54Better than most.
34:56Who found this stuff?
34:57Ruth.
34:58She can't have been happy about the uses we might put it to.
35:00I think she very nearly didn't bring it to me at all.
35:03I just get paid, I've told you.
35:08I don't know where the money comes from.
35:11Let me give you a clue.
35:12Does the name Anglo-West African Oil mean anything to you?
35:16Well, I've heard of it.
35:17Oh, come off it!
35:18That's the company you're working for.
35:20Look, you've done enough. We're impressed.
35:22Now give yourself a break.
35:24I'm not going to let you get away with this.
35:26I'm not going to let you get away with this.
35:27I'm not going to let you get away with this.
35:28I'm not going to let you get away with this.
35:29I'm not going to let you get away with this.
35:30I'm not going to let you get away with this.
35:31Now give yourself a break.
35:32We'll find out who pays you.
35:34And don't forget, we've been transferring your money to all your favourite charities,
35:37particularly to Save the Children.
35:39Which, with such a sick daughter, must be a cause close to your heart.
35:59You know how this works.
36:02You know what the next stage is, don't you?
36:08Family.
36:12Do you want us to go there?
36:16Your daughter.
36:20Haven't you got enough to deal with?
36:22Without you dragging her through all this?
36:32Look at him.
36:34Hmm?
36:35You probably think this has been a classic good cop, bad cop routine, don't you?
36:44But if even my colleague doesn't know how far I'm prepared to go,
36:49then how comfortable are you feeling right now?
36:55You know, I'm not speaking to you officially.
36:57I've gathered that.
36:58Your sudden desire to take in the view was a bit of a giveaway.
37:01I'm just pointing out that Adam's background means that...
37:03But his experience is in the Middle East.
37:05Yeah.
37:06Make me...
37:08I don't know, make me worried about the...
37:09How far he'll go.
37:11Well, it's not so much that as the fact that he loses himself in this.
37:14It's like he's paying Morgan back for what happened to him.
37:22I feel awful going behind his back like this.
37:24Oh, with all the urgency.
37:26We have to find a more informal way.
37:30Is there anything specific I can do?
37:32Anything that would help?
37:34I suppose it's the daughter I feel most uneasy about.
37:37If it was possible, I'd like you to call that one.
37:40Before we directly involve her.
37:44Okay.
37:48I don't have a problem with that.
37:49I was simply trying to keep you above it all.
37:51What was that stuff you said to me about deniability?
37:53You're right, I did say that.
37:54But I'm willing to take my share of the responsibility.
37:56So I suppose now I'm saying something different.
37:59You're not going to weaken on me, are you, Harry?
38:01Never been known to.
38:03You have to close on her.
38:04We're running out of time here and he's still holding out on us.
38:06I can't appeal to Judith's lefty past.
38:07There's no ethical dimension to her life.
38:09There is this, though.
38:10She's having an affair.
38:12Okay, use it to blackmail her.
38:13She tells us who Morgan's working for or we tell her husband.
38:16How do you know this?
38:17I listened to a conversation she had with her lover.
38:19Then, of course, I followed her to an address
38:20where she was met by a rather handsome stranger.
38:22Blackmail may not be healthy for a long-term relationship with a source,
38:25but it can be highly effective in the short term.
38:27We all do things we'd rather not.
38:32You bitch.
38:34Anglo-West African oil is employing someone called Robert Morgan.
38:38I want you to find out what he's doing for her.
38:40I can't possibly get access to information like that.
38:42I think you probably can.
38:43What do you mean?
38:44Why would they talk to me?
38:45Juliet, I wanted this to be amicable and friendly.
38:47I really did. It's just not turned out that way.
38:49I strongly suggest that you help us
38:50and then everything will be forgotten.
38:51Forgotten?
38:53What are you talking about?
38:55Some of us have some principles
38:56that don't include spying on our own companies.
38:59How do you sleep at night?
39:02I'm not as well as you.
39:04Especially after your long afternoons with your friend Simon.
39:06Do your principles include screwing around behind your husband's back?
39:10I want that information.
39:12And I want it this afternoon.
39:16Tell me.
39:17I never betray my team.
39:19You will.
39:20And make sure there's no fallout from the people you work with.
39:22Now how are you going to do that?
39:24By making it look like we discovered all this another way.
39:31You know about this shit, don't you?
39:34What do you mean?
39:36I mean you know.
39:38Not just from training.
39:40You've been through this, haven't you?
39:44A lot worse.
39:46I thought so.
39:47And I'm prepared to go there again.
39:50Just to show you what it's like.
40:05Robert Morgan is employed by Anglo West African Oil.
40:08Yes, that much we know.
40:09It's why you're in this awkward position.
40:11He's paid by a department called External Development
40:13who are just being used to look into any opposition
40:15to our plans of a strategic growth.
40:17You mean things like the pipeline contract?
40:19Opposition from within African countries?
40:21Eventually.
40:23But also...
40:24Rivals for the contract.
40:26That's it, isn't it?
40:28I don't know any more than that.
40:33Who are you calling?
40:34Your home. I've got tapes as well.
40:36If your husband sees how much more you're enjoying yourself with your afternoon lover...
40:39Okay.
40:42External Development is mostly concerned with our rivals
40:45over the African pipeline contract.
40:47The Oil and Petroleum Corporation.
40:49All I know is that something major is planned.
40:52Something that will remove them as a player.
40:55Please.
40:56I've told you everything.
40:58I'm not calling your husband.
41:00I'm calling mine.
41:01Anglo West African are going to use Morgan and his team
41:03to guide a missile onto the headquarters of their biggest rival?
41:05But make it look like a terrorist attack, yes.
41:07Where's the missile coming from?
41:09That's what we don't know.
41:10Well, clear the building. At least we can minimise civilian casualties.
41:12We can't have bombs raining down on our capital.
41:14We need to find that designator.
41:15What are you going to do?
41:16Take Morgan on a trip down the river.
41:18Danny, I need your help.
41:20You're going to take someone on a short tour of an oil company headquarters.
41:23Better not be who I think it is.
42:17Where's the designator and the rest of your team?
42:24A laser beam is targeting a bomb at that building there.
42:27Just as you planned.
42:30Why don't you take a look
42:32and see where your bomb is going to land when your mission is successful?
42:47We told your daughter that this was a special sightseeing trip
42:49that you'd organised for her
42:51to apologise for not being in contact recently.
42:55She thinks she's going to meet you there.
43:00Where's the designator?
43:03I'll need a new identity.
43:06Me and my family.
43:09I'm not going to let you down.
43:11I'll need a new identity.
43:14Me and my family.
43:17Can you guarantee my safety?
43:24Danny, leave her. Leave the girl and get out of there.
43:27Half a mile downstream, attached to the embankment wall,
43:30just before Waterloo Bridge.
43:34And the team at the launcher?
43:39She's still up there.
43:44Christina?
43:47She's still up there.
43:50She's still up there.
43:53She's still up there.
43:56Crystal Palace. A park.
43:59Rocks Hills entrance.
44:01I'll get her out of there.
44:03Danny, you can bring her down now.
44:11You know I'm a dead man, don't you?
44:13They'll find me wherever I go.
44:17That's what it does to you, doesn't it?
44:21What?
44:22The realisation
44:24that there are no depths to which you wouldn't sink
44:28because of what happened to you before.
44:32And you will always carry it with you.
44:35Just you wait.
44:39When they kick you out, you'll be just like me.
44:42Out in the open market.
44:45Unless people will pay a lot of money to employ a private contractor like you.
44:50You going to put in a good word for me?
44:55I served my country.
44:57Not the highest bidder. You remember what that was like?
45:00And don't try and dignify what you do with all that stuff about private contractors.
45:04Call it by its real name.
45:07Your mercenary.
45:25The End
45:46Is there anything you don't do?
45:48I mean, does the present climate put anything off-limits?
45:53Or does the End always justify the means?
45:56I certainly believe that as chief of an organisation,
45:58you can't be involved in every decision,
46:00but you can set the tone for what is and what isn't acceptable.
46:04And on what isn't, is there a line that you don't cross?
46:07Definitely.
46:08What was it Patton said about being permitted to walk with the devil
46:11to enable you to cross the bridge?
46:13But the End can never justify the means entirely.
46:15You have to be smarter than that.
46:17Otherwise, what are we defending? What are we fighting for?
46:19You spoke about your job as one of defending democracy from all sides,
46:23apart from the obvious ones.
46:25What other threats were you thinking of?
46:27It's too easy to always look abroad,
46:29to think that's where the main danger is coming from.
46:31We need to look closer to home.
46:33Give me a for instance.
46:35I believe that corporate access to the higher reaches of government is far too easy,
46:39and that a great deal of foreign policy can be traced back directly
46:42to the boardrooms of our large multinationals.
46:44But hasn't it always been this way?
46:46Surely these are just theoretical threats.
46:48No, they are not just theoretical threats.
46:50These people will stop at nothing to get their way.
46:54It's difficult to set your own limits when dealing with those people,
46:57to resist behaving like they do.
47:00It's not always easy.
47:13Did you use the door tap?
47:15I had no choice.
47:19I'm sorry you had to do that.
47:21Yeah, sure am I.
47:23I made a decision about these colours.
47:26What about these two?
47:28Cobalt blue or azure.
47:30They both look the same to me.
47:32No, they're not.
47:34Well, here's another cobalt blue, but it's different.
47:36I mean, how do I know?
47:38There must be a book or something that tells you what colour cobalt blue really is,
47:41you know, gives you a definitive colour.
47:43I think you're taking this truth thing a bit too far.
47:45Stop being so literal-minded.
47:48This is home, it's real life.
47:51There has to be a viable standard, a benchmark,
47:53so everyone knows what they're bloody doing.
47:55I think we can probably leave the paints for a while now, don't you?
47:57I'm just saying, how can I decide if I can't tell the difference?
48:04I know, I can see that.
48:06I'm sorry, come on.
48:08Come on, let's go get a drink.
48:11Come on, let's go get a drink.
48:13I feel like we need to be surrounded by people we don't know.
48:21Under business news today, Anglo West African Oil has taken a huge hit
48:24as its share price tumbled by 40%.
48:26The London stock market is predicting further falls in the next few days
48:30following news that the company has been unsuccessful
48:32in its bid for a significant pipeline contract across the Ivory Coast.
48:36The company's managing director resigned today with immediate effect...
48:39See? Wrongs righted, evildoers brought to heel, miracles performed.
48:42Is there no end to our goodness, Ruth?
48:46I got down to the final two,
48:48and they parachuted a late contender into the job.
48:50But that's good, isn't it? It's what you wanted.
48:52Yes, but it's still annoying when the best man for the job is passed over for a politician.
48:55It seems you were right.
48:57Yes, but I'm pleased.
48:59Yeah, well, I'm not.
49:01There's a scratch on the floor of my flat.
49:04It seems the remover men weren't careful enough after Fiona moved out.
49:07My point exactly. I wouldn't be involved in any of these crucial issues if I were DG.
49:11We'll get the removal men in and set Adam on them.
49:13He'll get to the bottom of it, if anyone will.
49:15Off out, are we, Ruth?
49:17Yes, I'm only three days late.
49:19And if anything happens between here and the pods,
49:21please don't tell me.
49:23Ruth?
49:25I'm not listening!