0:00:02 > 0:00:04# It's all right It's OK
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:00:07 > 0:00:08# It's all right I say it's OK
0:00:08 > 0:00:11# Listen to what I say
0:00:11 > 0:00:13# It's all right, doing fine
0:00:13 > 0:00:16# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:00:16 > 0:00:19# It's all right I say it's OK
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# We're gettin' to the end of the day. #
0:02:32 > 0:02:34- Good morning.- Morning.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39- What's this all about?- Don't ask me.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Strickland said eight o'clock. It's eight o'clock.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44- Yeah, but why here? - Dodgy cappuccino and a hot dog.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45That's not his style.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Here he is, Guv.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Morning, Sir
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Morning.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59- Where's your car?- It's a long story. Thanks for coming.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Why here? Someone burnt down the office?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04- I didn't want to do it in the office.- Why not?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06There was an explosion in Central London last night.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Yeah, a gas explosion. It was on the radio this morning.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11It was in Stephen Fisher's flat.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13And I don't think it was a gas explosion.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Was he killed?
0:03:15 > 0:03:16No, no. There's no trace of a body.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Oh, well.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- Was it a bomb?- I have good reason to believe it was deliberate.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Fisher's disappeared, which suggests he's running from someone.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28- Who is this Fisher?- Stephen Fisher.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30- Intelligence.- Or thereabouts.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32A bit shady. Machiavellian.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36- The Guv'nor and he are old friends. - So what's this got to do with UCOS?
0:03:36 > 0:03:40I believe it may be tangentially connected to an unsolved murder from 30 years ago.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43When Stephen Fisher was an officer candidate at Sandhurst,
0:03:43 > 0:03:45he was involved in a "black bag" operation
0:03:45 > 0:03:46on behalf of the security service.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48You mean a burglary.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52The target was a freelance journalist called Simon Bisley.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55It was believed that Bisley had important information
0:03:55 > 0:03:57on some recent IRA arms deals.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00So Fisher was approached to put a team together,
0:04:00 > 0:04:03break into Bisley's house, photograph the relevant documents
0:04:03 > 0:04:06and get out again without leaving a trace.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08The operation went according to plan.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Fisher handed over the pictures to his contact,
0:04:11 > 0:04:13who promptly disappeared into thin air
0:04:13 > 0:04:15as these people have a habit of doing,
0:04:15 > 0:04:18and no-one thought any more about it until two weeks later
0:04:18 > 0:04:20when Simon Bisley was killed in a hit and run accident.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22The driver was never traced.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Maybe the IRA found out that Bisley had dirt on them?
0:04:24 > 0:04:27A hit and run wasn't their style. They'd want everyone to know it was them.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31When Bisley died, Fisher and his team realised something was going wrong.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Fisher came up with a code-word "Maelstrom",
0:04:34 > 0:04:38a warning that was to be circulated to everyone in the team
0:04:38 > 0:04:40if anyone suspected they might be in danger.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Three days ago, someone from the team fell overboard
0:04:44 > 0:04:47and was drowned whilst sailing alone off the Isle of Wight.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49The death isn't being treated as suspicious
0:04:49 > 0:04:51but a few minutes before he died,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54the man sent out a text consisting of one word...
0:04:54 > 0:04:55- "Maelstrom".- Yes.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57But if the phone was recovered and he'd sent a text like that
0:04:57 > 0:05:00why isn't the death being treated as suspicious?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01The phone wasn't recovered.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Then how do we know he sent the text?
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Because I received it.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08You were part of Fisher's team.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Sandhurst was where we first met.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14But if someone is targeting members of that team...
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Someone broke into my garage last night.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18I think my car's been tampered with.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22What can we do to help?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26This is off the books. I want to make that very clear.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29There is a distinct possibility that being a police officer
0:05:29 > 0:05:31or being part of UCOS would afford no protection...
0:05:31 > 0:05:34What do you need us to do, Sir?
0:05:34 > 0:05:39Right. The murder of the journalist, Simon Bisley.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41It's an unsolved case.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Any progress that can be made into who might have been responsible,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48or why this has come to light 30 years later, would be very helpful.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49We'll get onto it.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Now, look...
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Whoever's behind this,
0:05:52 > 0:05:56assuming it's someone from the intelligence community,
0:05:56 > 0:05:58they don't have access to a pool of assassins.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00There's no license to kill at MI5,
0:06:00 > 0:06:03so whoever is actually doing the dirty work has been brought in
0:06:03 > 0:06:05from outside and is being paid by someone.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07We'll take that.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11What are you going to do now, Sir?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15I need to find the surviving members of the team from 30 years ago
0:06:15 > 0:06:18to see if we can work out quite why this is happening.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Is there a chance that a member of the team could be behind all this?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Given that no-one outside our immediate circle
0:06:25 > 0:06:29knew about the break-in or who the other participants were,
0:06:29 > 0:06:32yeah, I'd say there's a very real chance indeed.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Simon Bisley's case file was updated about three weeks ago.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Really? By who?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45His daughter, Ruth.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49She can only have been eight or nine at the time he died.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Anyway, she approached police claiming to have new evidence
0:06:52 > 0:06:55on her father's death and nothing was done about it.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- Do you think it was deliberately suppressed?- I don't know.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Right, Ruth Bisley's our first port of call.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Who was the original investigating officer?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Duncan Griffin. - Is he still around?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07No, he died about five or six years ago.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- He had a good reputation. - Don't they all?!
0:08:13 > 0:08:15SMASHES WINDOWS
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Ruth Bisley?- Yes.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Detective Superintendent Pullman, this is my colleague Brian Lane.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- We're from the Unsolved Crimes and Open Cases Squad.- About my father?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11- Yes.- Come in.- Thank you.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16I'm afraid there's nowhere to really sit,
0:09:16 > 0:09:18I'd offer you a cup of tea but the kitchen's in pieces.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21You contacted the police regarding your father's death.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24That's right. I was told someone would get back to me.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26I guess you must have a backlog.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28I understand you have some new information?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Yes. Well, I think so.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32My mother died at the end of last year.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- I'm sorry to hear that.- She was ill for a long time, but thank you.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38I'd moved home for the last few months, to look after Mum.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40When she died, I put the house on the market.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42There was a lot of stuff to clear out of there.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45A lot of stuff of my dad's that my Mum hadn't wanted to disturb.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48His office was always covered in scraps of paper and post-it notes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I went through everything,
0:09:50 > 0:09:53trying to piece together the story he was working on when he died.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54And I found something...
0:10:03 > 0:10:05These were on the wall of his study,
0:10:05 > 0:10:10right above his desk, pinned up exactly like this...
0:10:14 > 0:10:16There...
0:10:16 > 0:10:17There's a sheet missing.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Could that simply have been misplaced?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21I don't think so.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Dad was pretty well organised. Everything was catalogued and cross-referenced...
0:10:25 > 0:10:27This is something to do with finance.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Payments in and out of various accounts.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Quite big amounts.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32I can't make head nor tail of it.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Numbers just fog my brain.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38But I think it's important and I think whatever was on that sheet
0:10:38 > 0:10:39must be missing for a reason.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- Carl Dillon.- You know who he is?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45You could certainly say that he's someone who's known to the police.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Did you tell anyone else about this?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50I spoke to Nigel Baxter. He's a journalist.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51He was a friend of my dad's.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54He said he didn't know anything about what my father had been
0:10:54 > 0:10:56working on at the time but he'd make some calls.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59I haven't heard back from him, so I don't suppose he got anywhere.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03What makes you so sure that this missing page has something
0:11:03 > 0:11:05- to do with your father's death? - It's the timing.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08I was nine when my father died, and I didn't really know what he did for a living.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10But as I got older I started to read his stuff
0:11:10 > 0:11:13and read what other people had written about him.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14He was a good journalist.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17He broke big stories and he pissed a lot of people off.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Whatever was on that sheet pertains to the story
0:11:20 > 0:11:21he was working on at the time.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24His death meant that story could never be published
0:11:24 > 0:11:27and I think it's safe to say that someone benefited from that.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Unless it really was an accident, and the timing was just a coincidence.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I was there, Mr Lane. Nine years old.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39We'd just been to a gallery. The car came out of nowhere.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42It was going so fast.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45And it swerved towards us just as Dad stepped off the kerb.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49A woman grabbed me and pulled me back,
0:11:49 > 0:11:51otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you now.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55It wasn't an accident.
0:11:57 > 0:12:02PHONE RINGS
0:12:07 > 0:12:08Yes?
0:12:11 > 0:12:15OK, and you've talked to her?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20What document? What's it about?
0:12:22 > 0:12:26OK, you do that. Let me know when you've spoken to him.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32That was Sandra Pullman.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36There was a document missing from Simon Bisley's house.
0:12:40 > 0:12:45What document, Stephen? We didn't take anything.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47No, we didn't.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51I'm not sure it was a good idea to bring the UCOS team into this, Robert.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53It's all rather dangerous.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Says the man who just held a gun to my head.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01Pullman thinks the document might relate to a man named Carl Dillon.
0:13:01 > 0:13:02I don't know him.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06He's what we call a "key figure in organised crime".
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Interesting.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Is it?
0:13:13 > 0:13:15I don't know. I'm just playing along.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Stephen...
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- His name was on Bisley's documents? - Yes.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Interesting.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27What do you make of poor Clive?
0:13:27 > 0:13:31It looks like a heart attack, doesn't it?
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Although that would be a coincidence too far, I feel.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36There's no sign of forced entry.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38And yet I'm in here.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40He would have let you in.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43- Yes, he would. Do you think I killed him?- No.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Well, then you're more trusting than I am, Robert.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- What's going on here, Stephen? - I have absolutely no idea.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57- Oh, for God's sake.- Upon my word.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00I am, as I believe you're more than aware,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03rather senior in this country's intelligence community.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07And yet someone just blew up my flat.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13I'm not sure I'd consider myself to be "in the loop" right now.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28- Hello, Tinker.- Gerry Standing.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32We need to know who the new faces in town are.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34So, why are you asking me?
0:14:34 > 0:14:38The kind of person who can make a bomb in a flat in Pimlico look like a gas explosion.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Ah, that kind of person.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Well?
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- You're out of your depth. - Is that a fact?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48- This is all rumour and hearsay, you understand.- Go on.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Two new faces. In from abroad. Scarier than usual and proper...
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Where are they from?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59- Don't know. - Where are they now?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Don't know.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02Who hired them?
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Good question.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Well?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Don't know.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10You don't know me.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13- I know him.- I'm not him.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I think I'll have a fag.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Now...
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Look, if you're trying to... Aah!
0:15:37 > 0:15:38Get up and sit back down.
0:15:50 > 0:15:51Now...
0:15:53 > 0:15:59Who hired these two killers you've been telling us about?
0:15:59 > 0:16:00I don't know.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03You know what this reminds me of?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05The good old days. Remember the good old days?
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Nobody's watching, say what you like after the fact, nobody believes you.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11- I don't know who hired them. - I just don't believe you.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14You're a tough nut, aren't you? Been around a bit.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Not like these kids nowadays - one finger and they spill their guts.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21I bet you - you could take a finger and still stick to your story.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Two maybe, even.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24OK, so I'll tell you what we'll do.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Let's say...
0:16:27 > 0:16:28..three fingers.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Three fingers, and if you still stick to your story,
0:16:31 > 0:16:33hey, I'm on my way.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Ahhh...Ah!
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Carl Dillon! He hired them, he paid for it! Carl Dillon!
0:16:41 > 0:16:43I can't see how an old school gangster like Carl Dillon
0:16:43 > 0:16:46can be connected to anything that Fisher's involved with.
0:16:46 > 0:16:51No idea. But we're pretty sure my snout's telling the truth.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53'Steve put the wind right up him.'
0:16:53 > 0:16:54I don't want to know, Gerry.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55DOOR OPENS
0:16:55 > 0:16:57I'll call you when we get back to UCOS.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Bye.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00I was told you wanted to see me.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01- Nigel Baxter?- Yeah.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Detective Superintendent Pullman. This is my colleague, Brian Lane.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08We've been talking to Ruth Bisley about the death of her father.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- Ah, yes.- We understand that you and Bisley were friends, is that right?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13We were. A long time ago, obviously.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16She also said that she talked to you about a missing document
0:17:16 > 0:17:19from some research she was doing at the time of his death.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20That's right, yes.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22I'm sorry, I'm on a deadline. I have twenty minutes to file.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Is there a question you need to ask me?
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Ruth said that you were looking into this missing document.
0:17:27 > 0:17:32- Look, whether it was missing or not, I don't think it was important. - Ruth seems to think it was.- I know.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34It's some clue into her father's death.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I wish it was, and I can understand why she'd want to make some sense
0:17:37 > 0:17:40of what happened, to apportion some blame, but...
0:17:40 > 0:17:42You think she's wrong?
0:17:42 > 0:17:43I think there's blame.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45I think someone hit him with a car and fled the scene.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48But I don't think that's the same thing as premeditated murder. Do you?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Well, that's what we're here to find out.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53I'm afraid I can't help you out.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57- Sorry, I really need...- Does the name Carl Dillon mean...- No.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59..mean anything to you?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02No, I've never heard of him.
0:18:05 > 0:18:0815 minutes left to file this. May I?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15DOORBELL RINGS
0:18:18 > 0:18:21DOORBELL RINGS REPEATEDLY
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- I'll get it, then, shall I?- Thanks.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Hello, Sarah.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Robert?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Hello, Sarah.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Stephen Fisher.
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Yes, I remember.
0:18:36 > 0:18:37You had more hair then.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Sorry we couldn't call ahead. May we?
0:18:49 > 0:18:50Is that a Stanhope?
0:18:50 > 0:18:52It is.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54I used to play fives with his brother.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Rugby fives, of course, not Eton.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00What are you doing here?
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Yes, I'm sorry,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04I realise it must be awkward for you two after all these years.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06We need to speak to Christopher.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08He's in his study.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Stephen Fisher?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12And Robert Strickland. As I live and breathe!
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Mmm... Let's not take that for granted today.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Is there somewhere we can talk?
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Yes, of course.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Come upstairs.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29I didn't get a text message.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31I gave up my work phone when I left the bank,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33and got a new one with a different number.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Is this serious?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Marsden died a few minutes after sending out the message.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41Someone blew up my flat and tampered with Robert's car.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43And then there was Clive.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Poor old queen.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47So yes, Christopher, I think it's serious.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51And this is about back then?
0:19:51 > 0:19:52What do you remember?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Oh...
0:19:55 > 0:19:58I was on the bits and pieces in the filing cabinet.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03It wasn't like we were old hands at this sort of thing, was it? The adrenaline was pumping.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07I was concentrating on keeping my hands steady so I could take the photographs.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Anything at all that you can remember about those files?
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Well, it was Irish stuff.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13There were news clippings about the IRA,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17there were sheets of transcripts, there were some interviews.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21There was a document in that room that subsequently went missing.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Well, I didn't take anything. Why would I take something?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Someone believes that the six of us
0:20:25 > 0:20:28know something as a result of that night.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Something worth killing us to keep quiet.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Well, I don't know anything.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33We may not know what we know.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Well, even if we did know something,
0:20:36 > 0:20:41why let us carry it around for 30 years and do nothing until now?
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Something has obviously changed in the landscape.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48We just don't know what it is yet.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50We're trying to track down the others.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I haven't been in touch with any of the old gang for a while.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I've no idea where Hitch would be nowadays.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Except I guess it would be somewhere absurdly dangerous...
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Your loo, Chris?
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Er, yeah, sure, down the hall, second on the left.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Jane Ross.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08I did hear an interesting rumour about Jane.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37What did you do?
0:21:39 > 0:21:40You were listening at the door.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43What do you expect me to do?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45After nearly 30 years,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48you two turning up was hardly likely to be a social call.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51Is Chris in danger?
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Yes.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59But I hope we'll be able to get to the bottom of this very soon.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02And in the meantime?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Is there somewhere you can go?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10It's that bad?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Yes.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Do you remember when I used to come down to Sandhurst to visit?
0:22:18 > 0:22:20To visit Christopher.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28There was a period of a few weeks when you were all skulking around,
0:22:28 > 0:22:29being all secretive.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32And that was this.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Whatever this is.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Yes.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Stupid boys.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44We'll check into a hotel.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45That's a good idea.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47You used to think so.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06What did Maitland say about Jane Ross?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08This rumour that he heard.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Ah, the rumour, I suspect, is true.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Jane Ross graduated from Sandhurst,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15joined the army for a couple of years,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18then bought her way out and went to work for an oil company.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Oil?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Doesn't quite fit with the Jane we knew, does it?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Hence the rumour.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29The oil was a front.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Jane was working for TSAR.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34What's TSAR?
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Stands for Those Shits Across The River.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39MI6 to you.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Hunter.
0:23:41 > 0:23:454219 alpha 7.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Go secure.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49I need to know from housekeeping
0:23:49 > 0:23:52whether any guests have checked into the executive suites
0:23:52 > 0:23:53in the last 48 hours.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Really?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59OK. Which room is she in?
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Yes, on this number.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Thank you.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Apparently, Jane Ross is in a safehouse.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Somebody's sending me the address now.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Whatever Strickland, Fisher and their mates
0:24:23 > 0:24:26were really up to 30 years ago, it's lain dormant for all this time.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28So why is the shit hitting the fan now?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31It must be because Ruth Bisley came forward with new evidence.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33What new evidence, though?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35How is a missing page going to be a problem for anyone?
0:24:35 > 0:24:36I don't know.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38But this story that Bisley was working on
0:24:38 > 0:24:40definitely involved Carl Dillon,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43cos his name's plastered all over these notes.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44There's lots of Irish names too.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Strickland said that they broke in
0:24:46 > 0:24:49to gather information that Bisley had on the IRA.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53So maybe Dillon was dealing with the IRA,
0:24:53 > 0:24:56and maybe that's the story that Bisley was going to write.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59It would certainly be enough to get him killed.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00MESSAGE TONE
0:25:00 > 0:25:01But even if that is it,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04why are Strickland and Fisher's team being targeted now?
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Well, maybe there's more to it.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Maybe it has to do with the missing page.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11If one of Fisher's team photographed that page,
0:25:11 > 0:25:14then there's a good chance they clocked what was on it.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16The Bisley file is very thin.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Simon Bisley was killed in a hit and run on a London street.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21There should be witness statements,
0:25:21 > 0:25:23there should be more info on Bisley himself.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Here's an interesting thing.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28I've been looking into the records of the station
0:25:28 > 0:25:31that the original investigation was based out of.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35A week after Bisley died, somebody went into the station,
0:25:35 > 0:25:39and Duncan Griffin interviewed them on his own for two hours.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41There's no record of that interview anywhere in the file.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Who was it?
0:25:43 > 0:25:47- Is that thing on?- No.
0:25:47 > 0:25:48No-one else is listening in?
0:25:48 > 0:25:50No, just us.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54That conversation I had with Griffin...
0:25:54 > 0:25:55isn't in the case file, is it?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57How do you know that?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Because I saw a copy of the file three weeks ago.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I'm a journalist. There are ways and means.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04There's a lot that isn't in that file.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Witness statements?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07I know of four that were taken on the day,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09of people who saw the car hit Simon.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Did anyone identify the car?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12No, don't think so.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15So there's no reason to have misplaced the statements.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Depends what they did see, doesn't it?
0:26:16 > 0:26:19When I heard that Simon had been killed, I went to the house,
0:26:19 > 0:26:20to see his wife and daughter,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23see if there was anything I could do for them.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24I went into Simon's office.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28He was midway through researching a story - notes everywhere.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30It was chaos. That was always how he liked to work -
0:26:30 > 0:26:32just paper the walls with information
0:26:32 > 0:26:35and see what patterns emerged.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37I sat at his desk for a while, looked around the room,
0:26:37 > 0:26:40trying to work out what the story was going to be.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42And it started to come together.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45And I understood why someone might want to make sure
0:26:45 > 0:26:47that story never saw the light of day.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Why? What was the story about?
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Carl Dillon.
0:26:50 > 0:26:55Did you know there's ties with the IRA?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Carl Dillon was selling drugs for the IRA,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00and the money was going to fund weapons.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03And this is the theory that you shared with Inspector Griffin?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06There aren't many better motives for murder, are there?
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Dillon was an up-and-coming gangster,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10and somebody was about to write about his dealings with the IRA.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Not only did that put him firmly in the police's cross-hairs,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17that story would have gone down very badly with his Irish friends.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Dillon's facing jail or worse
0:27:20 > 0:27:23unless he can stop Simon's story being published.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29That's Dillon. The guy with him is Fisk. His right-hand man.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Dillon has a poker game downstairs in the basement,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35and Fisk waits upstairs acting as gatekeeper.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39- We've got eyeball on Dillon. - 'Brian and I are still trying to work stuff out,'
0:27:39 > 0:27:42but until we can really connect Dillon to any of this,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- I don't want to tip our hand. - OK, it looks like they're settling in for a while,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47we'll stay put till we hear from you.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50There's no mention in Dillon's file of any suspected IRA connections.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52I don't suppose there would be.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56You know, for a major organised crime figure, his file's light too.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59There's arrests, a few minor convictions when he was a kid,
0:27:59 > 0:28:01but for the past 30 years,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04he's barely seen the inside of a courtroom.
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Is he just careful?
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Well, no, cos I remember him being arrested a lot,
0:28:07 > 0:28:09often in connection with major crimes.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11But never a conviction.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Which does suggest he's being protected by somebody.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Now, would Griffin have destroyed
0:28:16 > 0:28:19everything he didn't put in that file, I wonder?
0:28:19 > 0:28:20No.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I'm sure he'd be as wily as anybody else in that situation.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25He'd realise he had something of value,
0:28:25 > 0:28:28and he would have squirreled it away for a rainy day.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Course, if evidence was hidden, we'd need to know where to look for it.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35Did you follow up on any of this with Griffin?
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I called him a couple of times, left messages,
0:28:37 > 0:28:39but he never got back to me.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Next thing I know, they've shelved the case.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44If you thought Simon Bisley was on to something,
0:28:44 > 0:28:48something which may have got him killed, why didn't you push it?
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Because I was scared.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Like you say, Simon was killed for this.
0:28:55 > 0:28:59I'd gone to the police with what I knew, or thought I knew,
0:28:59 > 0:29:01and they buried it.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04- I left it alone.- Until Ruth Bisley called you three weeks ago.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07She said she thought there was a document missing.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10One of the notes referring to this mystery document
0:29:10 > 0:29:12contained the phrase, "D.Ops".
0:29:12 > 0:29:15- "D.Ops"?- Director of Operations.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17It's a post within the intelligence community.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20And you think that they're involved with this somehow?
0:29:20 > 0:29:22It would certainly go a long way towards explaining
0:29:22 > 0:29:26why your Duncan Griffin would want to bury half the evidence
0:29:26 > 0:29:28in his investigation.
0:29:28 > 0:29:29I have a contact in Whitehall.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32I called him, laid out the whole story,
0:29:32 > 0:29:33and asked him if he knew anything.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36He said he'd get back to me. I'm still waiting for his call.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37What's his name?
0:29:37 > 0:29:38I've no idea.
0:29:38 > 0:29:40He's just a voice on the end of a phone.
0:29:40 > 0:29:44Posh, very dry, sarcastic.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47I doubt that narrows it down.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Oh, I don't know so much.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52I may have made a few discreet enquiries.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54This is your fault, Stephen.
0:29:54 > 0:29:55You drew attention to...
0:29:55 > 0:29:58I hardly think it's the time to start pointing fingers,
0:29:58 > 0:30:00- do you, Robert?- People are dead!
0:30:00 > 0:30:02A fact which had not escaped my attention.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Perhaps we could deal with the matter in hand,
0:30:06 > 0:30:09and then I'll take care of the internal politics
0:30:09 > 0:30:11of the intelligence community.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Which one's the safehouse?
0:30:15 > 0:30:17Oh, for God's sake!
0:30:17 > 0:30:19There on the corner.
0:30:19 > 0:30:20- I'm coming with you.- No.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22Stephen...
0:30:22 > 0:30:24This is a security service safehouse.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26They don't just let anyone in.
0:30:26 > 0:30:27What makes you think it's safe?
0:30:27 > 0:30:30What makes you think you're not walking straight into a trap?
0:30:31 > 0:30:33Well, there being two of us
0:30:33 > 0:30:36would hardly make the trap more difficult to spring,
0:30:36 > 0:30:38would it?
0:31:04 > 0:31:05If I'm wrong...
0:31:07 > 0:31:11Well, I suppose I'd like to say sorry
0:31:11 > 0:31:14for getting you involved in all this in the first place.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17Yeah, well, we all thought we were serving our country, Stephen.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20Yes, well...
0:31:21 > 0:31:24Naive to think our country would repay the favour.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Oh, bloody hell.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36Delightful to see you, Jane.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38Is it?
0:32:38 > 0:32:41I didn't realise you were in the Service.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Something slipped by the all-seeing eye?
0:32:44 > 0:32:45That must bug the shit out of you.
0:32:52 > 0:32:53This is bad.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58I debriefed an EIJ informant here three years ago.
0:32:58 > 0:32:59Sat right over there.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03Never thought I'd be checking myself into the bloody place.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04You came in last night?
0:33:04 > 0:33:05Yeah.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07I heard your flat blew up.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09So after I got over the initial jubilation,
0:33:09 > 0:33:12I thought I'd better take the Maelstrom warning seriously.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Should have known you had some lives left.
0:33:15 > 0:33:16You've lost weight.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20You were a tubby thing back then.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Yes, I always envied your eating disorder.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26I'm pleased to see you've put it behind you now.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28THEY LAUGH
0:33:28 > 0:33:30So go on. What's all this about, then?
0:33:30 > 0:33:33- That's what we're trying to get to the bottom of.- We?
0:33:33 > 0:33:34Robert Strickland and I.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36Ah, Robert's all right. That's good.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40- Someone thinks we know something. - Yeah, I'd got that far.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42And there's a document missing.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46One of Simon Bisley's documents was taken around the time he was killed.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Which means it was there when we broke in.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Which means one of us photographed it.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56Which means one of us saw it.
0:33:56 > 0:33:57Yes.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Nice mess you've got everyone into, Stephen.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03Thank you.
0:34:19 > 0:34:20I think I've got it.
0:34:20 > 0:34:24Duncan Griffin opened a case file for a murder that never happened.
0:34:24 > 0:34:25When?
0:34:25 > 0:34:27A month after Bisley's murder.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30- He gave it a crime number and everything.- That's the one.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Pull it.
0:34:34 > 0:34:35Thank you.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42MOBILE PHONE RINGS
0:35:19 > 0:35:22MOBILE PHONE RINGS
0:35:24 > 0:35:25'Keep listening.'
0:35:52 > 0:35:54HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:35:54 > 0:35:55Ohh!
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Sorry about that! Really sorry.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59- No, it's OK.- Let me help you there.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16He gave that biker an address. It's Sunderland Avenue.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19This thing lies dormant for 30 years.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22The Bisley girl discovers a document went missing,
0:36:22 > 0:36:25she calls a journalist friend of hers who contacts you,
0:36:25 > 0:36:28alleging a connection with the security service.
0:36:28 > 0:36:29Yes.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32But you already knew that the security service was involved.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34In the break-in, yes.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35But I didn't know that Bisley
0:36:35 > 0:36:37was working on a story that involved them.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42Bless your naivete, Stephen.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46- So you asked a few questions... - And all hell breaks loose.
0:36:46 > 0:36:51And the original contact who set up the break-in?
0:36:51 > 0:36:52Long gone.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55Are our names on file somewhere?
0:36:55 > 0:36:57It's possible. If they are, I don't know where.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01- So the chances are...- That one of us is involved in what's happening.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03Have you spoken to everyone?
0:37:04 > 0:37:06We were too late for Marsden and Clive Bateson.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08We spoke to Chris Maitland.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11He made a pile, I heard.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14He and Sarah seem very comfortable.
0:37:14 > 0:37:15Ah, Sarah.
0:37:18 > 0:37:19Did Robert go with you?
0:37:19 > 0:37:20Yes.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Awkward?
0:37:22 > 0:37:24Whatever they had, it was a long time ago.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29- It was a little awkward, yes. - SHE CHUCKLES
0:37:32 > 0:37:34What's your take on Maitland?
0:37:34 > 0:37:37He did the minimum term with the Welsh Guards,
0:37:37 > 0:37:38and went off to make money.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40- Or that's his cover.- Yes.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43It could be me.
0:37:43 > 0:37:44No.
0:37:44 > 0:37:45Why not?
0:37:45 > 0:37:48Because you'd have made extra sure I was dead.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51That's true.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53Hitch?
0:37:53 > 0:37:55He's proving a little harder to track down.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57You seen his service record?
0:37:57 > 0:38:00I've seen the unredacted version. It's very impressive.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02Hitch doesn't want to be found.
0:38:02 > 0:38:03Yes.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07My concern is whether he's hiding from them,
0:38:07 > 0:38:10or from us.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12OK, next left, then second right.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15'We've got to assume these guys are armed, we're going to need back-up.'
0:38:15 > 0:38:17I can't do that without explaining what we're doing.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Guv'nor, they're on the way to a job!
0:38:19 > 0:38:21'Yes I understand that.'
0:38:21 > 0:38:25If this missing evidence connects Dillon to this, I can make that official and get you back-up.
0:38:25 > 0:38:26But until then,
0:38:26 > 0:38:28'keep well out of sight, do you understand me?'
0:38:28 > 0:38:30MOBILE PHONE RINGS
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Sandra...
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Where do they think this bike is heading?
0:38:44 > 0:38:47OK, so we take a left here. Should be right in front of us.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49- Oh, shit.- 'Sir?'
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Sir..?
0:38:52 > 0:38:54Hello..?
0:38:57 > 0:38:58Hey!
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Hey!
0:39:04 > 0:39:05Hey!
0:39:10 > 0:39:11GUNSHOT
0:39:12 > 0:39:13Hold on to something.
0:39:15 > 0:39:16GUNSHOT
0:39:20 > 0:39:21GUNSHOTS
0:39:28 > 0:39:31GUNSHOT
0:39:35 > 0:39:36Bollocks!
0:39:36 > 0:39:37Come on.
0:39:42 > 0:39:43Fisher!
0:39:43 > 0:39:45Fisher!
0:39:45 > 0:39:46- Fisher!- Get an ambulance.
0:40:14 > 0:40:15GUNSHOT
0:40:19 > 0:40:21GUNSHOTS
0:40:28 > 0:40:30You ladies are a bit out of your depth, aren't you?
0:40:43 > 0:40:45The paramedics think Fisher's going to be OK.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48He took two bullets, but there's no damage to his vital organs.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50- The number of lives that man... - I should be out there.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52No. The minders will deal with this.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55The police need to be put back in their box and encouraged...
0:40:55 > 0:40:58- What about the two guys that work for me?- Guv'nor, we're here.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01And we are not happy about walking away from a murder scene
0:41:01 > 0:41:04on the say-so of laughing boy here, who claims to be a friend of yours.
0:41:04 > 0:41:05Hello, Robert.
0:41:05 > 0:41:06Hitch!
0:41:06 > 0:41:07Jane!
0:41:07 > 0:41:08How nice to see you!
0:41:08 > 0:41:09What happened?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11One of the gunmen got away,
0:41:11 > 0:41:14and the other one's brown bread, thanks to your mate here.
0:41:14 > 0:41:15You're welcome, by the way.
0:41:15 > 0:41:16Whose house is this?
0:41:16 > 0:41:19Box. But I rather think it's blown now.
0:41:19 > 0:41:20Yes, the question is, how?
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Oh, you'd better get a cleaner to the underground car park round the corner.
0:41:23 > 0:41:28Hey, hang on, we need to tape that scene off, get some fingerprints done and get an ID on that...
0:41:28 > 0:41:32It's not going to happen, dearie. Any search you put on that bloke, DNA, fingerprints,
0:41:32 > 0:41:34is going to get you a big fat zero.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37They were pros. They're not on anyone's database, trust me.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40- We've been looking for you, Hitch. - Yes, I gather I'm quite popular.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42I don't know who the hell you are.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45It's Brian Hitch. Gerry Standing, Steve McAndrew. They both work for me...
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Yes, I've been keeping tabs on you, Robert.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50- Nice to meet you, gents. - Hitch is with...- We don't say.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52There's been a lot of that going on today.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55- Yes, I can imagine there would be. - So you received Marsden's text?- No.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58The explosion at Fisher's place got red flagged at our unit.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01I put a search on the others, found out that Marsden had gone down.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05Doesn't take a genius to start seeing a pattern.
0:42:05 > 0:42:06The cleaner's on his way.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09We think it's to do with this Bisley thing.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Again, it doesn't take a genius.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15There was a document missing from the wall of Bisley's study.
0:42:15 > 0:42:16If it was there when we broke in,
0:42:16 > 0:42:19then one of us took a photograph of it.
0:42:19 > 0:42:24And someone is worried we might remember what was on it. Aah...
0:42:24 > 0:42:25They'd be right to worry.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27I took the photo.
0:42:29 > 0:42:30And I did see the document.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32And?
0:42:32 > 0:42:33Box, again.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35- Oh, shit.- Are you sure? - I'm positive.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Guv'nor...
0:42:37 > 0:42:38What does "Box" mean?
0:42:38 > 0:42:40It's a slang term for the security service. MI5.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42It was financial records.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44That page was a statement of money
0:42:44 > 0:42:47going in and out of an offshore account held by a company called Ellis Finch.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49- Ellis Finch?- You know them?
0:42:49 > 0:42:53Stephen Fisher brought us a case a few months ago that ended up concerning them.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56They were brokering a deal with the Chinese government over pension funds.
0:42:56 > 0:43:00Well, they're also an expediting company for the security service,
0:43:00 > 0:43:02channelling undeclared funds, providing cover identities
0:43:02 > 0:43:04and fake employment histories for operatives.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06How do you know this?
0:43:06 > 0:43:07How do any of us know anything?
0:43:09 > 0:43:12I've been loaned out to Box on occasions.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13And one of those times,
0:43:13 > 0:43:17my cover ID was as a sales representative for Ellis Finch.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20Well, the name rang a bell after the Bisley break-in,
0:43:20 > 0:43:22so I did a little bit of digging.
0:43:22 > 0:43:23But you didn't tell anyone?
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Look what happens when you rock the boat, Robert.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29So Simon Bisley was investigating a financial link
0:43:29 > 0:43:32between Carl Dillon, the IRA and the security service.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35Well I can see why somebody doesn't want this story
0:43:35 > 0:43:36to see the light of day.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38This is the Greg Rucka file.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Supposedly an old case of Duncan Griffin.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42Except that Greg Rucka never existed.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44Within this file are all the missing elements
0:43:44 > 0:43:48of the Simon Bisley investigation. And it gives us nothing.
0:43:48 > 0:43:49What?
0:43:49 > 0:43:51It's just statements from eyewitnesses
0:43:51 > 0:43:55who saw Bisley hit by the car. None of them got the registration number,
0:43:55 > 0:43:58and they don't agree on the make, the model or even the colour.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01Well, there must be something. Otherwise, why hide it for all this time?
0:44:01 > 0:44:02Be my guest.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04We know this is Dillon, right?
0:44:04 > 0:44:08- Yes.- And I watched Fisk, Dillon's right-hand man,
0:44:08 > 0:44:10meet up with those two hitmen
0:44:10 > 0:44:12directly before they headed off to an MI5 safehouse.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Circumstantial without a recording of that meeting, which we don't have.
0:44:16 > 0:44:17The phone call.
0:44:17 > 0:44:21- What phone call?- Right before Fisk met them, Fisk had a phone call.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24Yeah, but in fairness, that could have been from anyone.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Fisk gave those guys the address, he must have got it from somewhere.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29And he must have got it pretty recently,
0:44:29 > 0:44:32otherwise why would be risk being seen meeting them in a public place?
0:44:32 > 0:44:35So if it wasn't that call...
0:44:35 > 0:44:37It was still a call, and it came through on his phone.
0:44:37 > 0:44:39Those guys all use pay as you go.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41There's no way of tracking calls in or out.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43Not without the phone, there isn't, no.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45So what are you thinking?
0:44:45 > 0:44:47I'm thinking what he's thinking.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50I'm thinking it's time we paid Mr Carl Dillon a wee visit.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53- You can't be serious?! - Yeah, well I'd say it's worth a go.
0:44:56 > 0:45:00What was the point of hiding this bloody thing for three decades
0:45:00 > 0:45:02if there's nothing in it?!
0:45:02 > 0:45:04Unless that is the point.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08This file's been hidden for 30 years,
0:45:08 > 0:45:12so we were expecting it to provide the evidence to get Dillon.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14That evidence isn't here.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16But maybe what isn't here is the point.
0:45:16 > 0:45:20These witness statements are useless on the car that hit Bisley.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24But they all tally on something else.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27It's that something else that's missing here.
0:45:32 > 0:45:34I don't understand.
0:45:34 > 0:45:38There's no useful consensus amongst the witnesses
0:45:38 > 0:45:41as to the make or model of the car that killed your tad.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43What they did all see, though,
0:45:43 > 0:45:46is the woman who pulled you out of the way of that car.
0:45:46 > 0:45:49More than that, several of the witnesses reported
0:45:49 > 0:45:52having seen the woman at various points leading up to the event.
0:45:52 > 0:45:57You said your dad had taken you to see an art exhibition.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00- Canaletto. - This man was at that exhibition.
0:46:00 > 0:46:01He remembered seeing you and your father.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04But he also claimed to have seen this woman
0:46:04 > 0:46:06at the same gallery at the same time.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08That could just be a coincidence, though, right?
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Of course, it could.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12Do you remember where you went after the exhibition?
0:46:12 > 0:46:15There was a cafe across the road.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18I was hungry. Dad took me in there to get some chips.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21See, this man was at that cafe having his lunch.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25He describes seeing the same woman hanging around outside
0:46:25 > 0:46:27the whole time you and your dad were in there.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29You think she was following us?
0:46:29 > 0:46:32There's no statement here from this woman.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35And she's not named anywhere in the investigation.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38We think that she had something to do with your father's death.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41We're going to see your boss.
0:46:41 > 0:46:44Hey, good to see you again.
0:46:47 > 0:46:49I don't remember very much.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52He was saying something as we crossed the road.
0:46:52 > 0:46:53I was a little bit behind him,
0:46:53 > 0:46:55and I couldn't really hear what he was saying.
0:46:55 > 0:46:56I called to him to wait.
0:46:58 > 0:47:01He stopped and turned as I ran to catch up.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06That's why he didn't see it coming, because he was facing the wrong way.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12Someone grabbed me, and pulled me back.
0:47:12 > 0:47:13I think I screamed.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16And then there was this...
0:47:17 > 0:47:18..thud.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20And he wasn't there anymore.
0:47:20 > 0:47:23And the person who grabbed you?
0:47:23 > 0:47:24I wasn't looking.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28I couldn't understand why he wasn't standing in the road anymore.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32And then suddenly there were people all over the place,
0:47:32 > 0:47:35and someone was standing in front of me, a passer-by, I think.
0:47:35 > 0:47:36I couldn't see past him.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38I think that was the idea,
0:47:38 > 0:47:39to stop me from seeing what...
0:47:42 > 0:47:45This woman, the one who grabbed me, she sat me down.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47There was a bench a little way away from the road,
0:47:47 > 0:47:48and she sat me down on that.
0:47:48 > 0:47:52Told me to wait there, and she'd be right back.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54But I never saw her again.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57She left you on the bench, and she walked away?
0:47:57 > 0:47:58Yes.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00No.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03She spoke to someone.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06She stepped away from the bench, and she spoke to someone.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08A man.
0:48:08 > 0:48:10I don't remember what he looked like.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12Maybe the same sort of age as her.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14He was wearing a suit, I think.
0:48:14 > 0:48:15Grey.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17Dark grey.
0:48:17 > 0:48:21They spoke really briefly, and then went in opposite directions.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26Do you think that you would recognise them if you saw them now?
0:48:26 > 0:48:28After 30 years?
0:48:30 > 0:48:32I think I'd recognise her eyes.
0:48:33 > 0:48:34The look she gave me.
0:48:35 > 0:48:38If I saw that again, I think I'd recognise it.
0:48:38 > 0:48:39DOOR OPENS
0:48:48 > 0:48:50You're looking for me, I believe.
0:48:51 > 0:48:52I am?
0:48:52 > 0:48:53Robert Strickland.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56You had two friends of mine killed and put another in the hospital.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58Deputy Assistant Commissioner Robert Strickland.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02Anyone?
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I'm sorry, Deputy Assistant Commissioner,
0:49:04 > 0:49:06I think you've got the wrong number.
0:49:08 > 0:49:09Is that Gerry Standing?
0:49:09 > 0:49:11You remember Gerry, fellas.
0:49:11 > 0:49:12We all go back, don't we?
0:49:12 > 0:49:14Why don't you pull up a pew?
0:49:14 > 0:49:17- You think you're protected. Is that it?- I'm just playing cards.
0:49:17 > 0:49:21Do the other people round this table know who you really work for?
0:49:21 > 0:49:23I'm self-employed.
0:49:23 > 0:49:24LAUGHTER
0:49:24 > 0:49:27I wonder who else would be interested to know
0:49:27 > 0:49:29about your financial dealings with Ellis Finch?
0:49:29 > 0:49:32And just what they were paying you for.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34I'm sure a lot of water has passed under the bridge by now,
0:49:34 > 0:49:37but there must be a few people in Belfast who'd still care.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40People who don't take too kindly to being betrayed.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45What are you looking at him for? You think he's going to sort this out for you?
0:49:45 > 0:49:49I saw you, pal. I saw you meet the guys off the motorbike. You are in this up to your neck. Hey, hey, hey!
0:49:49 > 0:49:52Don't look at him, look at me. You think he's going to help you?
0:49:52 > 0:49:56He's going to be too busy sorting out his own problems. Steve... Oh! What is that look for?
0:49:56 > 0:50:00- Am I supposed to be scared or something?- Steve!- Eh? Am I supposed to be...- Steve! Get off!
0:50:00 > 0:50:02- Leave it!- Leave it, leave it!
0:50:02 > 0:50:03Is this how you hoped it would play out,
0:50:03 > 0:50:06Deputy Assistant Commissioner?
0:50:07 > 0:50:09Come on, out. Both of you.
0:50:11 > 0:50:13Mugs.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19- Did you get it?- Yeah, got it.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23DOORBELL RINGS
0:50:29 > 0:50:31Carl Dillon is an MI5 asset.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37I don't understand what this means.
0:50:38 > 0:50:41Simon Bisley was working on a story about IRA financing.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45He discovered that Carl Dillon was selling drugs for the IRA,
0:50:45 > 0:50:48and the money was going to finance arms deals.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51As he dug deeper into those finances, though,
0:50:51 > 0:50:53he found out that Dillon was also being bankrolled
0:50:53 > 0:50:56by a company called Ellis Finch,
0:50:56 > 0:50:58who have very strong connections to the security service.
0:50:58 > 0:51:03So we were sent into Bisley's home to find out just how much he knew.
0:51:03 > 0:51:06Yeah. One of the documents we photographed was a financial statement
0:51:06 > 0:51:08proving the link between Ellis Finch and Carl Dillon.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11And Dillon was informing on the IRA.
0:51:11 > 0:51:15And in return, MI5 were protecting him from prosecution.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18We provided the confirmation that Bisley had evidence of this,
0:51:18 > 0:51:19and was going to go public with it.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21So Bisley was killed, and the document was stolen.
0:51:23 > 0:51:25This was all a long time ago.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27Yeah, but Bisley's daughter discovered
0:51:27 > 0:51:29that a document had gone missing,
0:51:29 > 0:51:31and she talked to another journalist,
0:51:31 > 0:51:33a friend of her father's, about it,
0:51:33 > 0:51:37and he in turn contacted one of his Whitehall contacts.
0:51:38 > 0:51:39Stephen Fisher.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42Fisher started asking some uncomfortable questions.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44So MI5 gave Dillon the go-ahead
0:51:44 > 0:51:46to clean up their mess once and for all.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48Gosh, what a nasty business.
0:51:48 > 0:51:49Yes, it was.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51And it also suggests
0:51:51 > 0:51:54that the arrangement MI5 had with Carl Dillon was ongoing,
0:51:54 > 0:51:57lasting well beyond the Good Friday Agreement,
0:51:57 > 0:51:59and into MI5 re-tasking to organised crime.
0:51:59 > 0:52:04So if Carl Dillon had continued to be an informant through that period,
0:52:04 > 0:52:05he would have been invaluable.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07But it would also mean that MI5 were protecting a man
0:52:07 > 0:52:13involved in drug-running, prostitution, robbery,
0:52:13 > 0:52:15sex trafficking,
0:52:15 > 0:52:17and murder.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20- But now that you've got Dillon... - Oh, no, no, we don't have Dillon.
0:52:20 > 0:52:22No, MI5 are still protecting him.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25And we don't have a shred of evidence on him.
0:52:27 > 0:52:28So how can I help?
0:52:30 > 0:52:33Dillon's right-hand man was a chap called Fisk.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36He was getting instructions from someone
0:52:36 > 0:52:38as to where to direct his hitmen.
0:52:38 > 0:52:41This someone knew the address of an MI5 safehouse,
0:52:41 > 0:52:45which suggests that whoever it is was intrinsic to this plot.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47We, er...
0:52:47 > 0:52:50we managed to lift Fisk's phone.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56So now you can trace the calls?
0:52:56 > 0:52:58Yeah, yeah...we tried that.
0:52:59 > 0:53:03The number listed on his phone isn't on any service provider.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05What a shame.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07So I thought I'd just call it...
0:53:18 > 0:53:22MOBILE PHONE RINGS FAINTLY
0:53:28 > 0:53:30Evening, Sarah.
0:53:30 > 0:53:31Good evening, Robert.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35They recruited you at Cambridge?
0:53:35 > 0:53:37Yes.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40So you were already in when we first met.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42Ooh, I think "in" is a bit strong.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44They had their eye on me. They made an approach.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47And in the meantime, you'd already started seeing Christopher,
0:53:47 > 0:53:50and you met Fisher and the rest of us through him,
0:53:50 > 0:53:53so when MI5 needed someone to break into Simon Bisley's house,
0:53:53 > 0:53:55you knew just the people to suggest.
0:53:55 > 0:53:56No comment.
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Really?
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Who do you think you're talking to, Robert?
0:54:00 > 0:54:02You're just an assistant commissioner in the Met.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05No, no, I'm not even that. I'm a deputy.
0:54:06 > 0:54:07Well, then.
0:54:07 > 0:54:11I want Carl Dillon for the murder of Simon Bisley.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13- You can't have him.- Yes, I can.
0:54:13 > 0:54:14How's that?
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Because there are some things
0:54:16 > 0:54:18you can't crawl out from under, Christopher.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21I'm a retired banker, Robert.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24A respected member of the financial community.
0:54:24 > 0:54:28My wife sits on the board of various charitable trusts.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32We have friends in some very high places.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38We are not the kind of people that a deputy assistant commissioner
0:54:38 > 0:54:41should make accusations about,
0:54:41 > 0:54:44unless he has some extremely persuasive evidence.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46I have a witness that can place you both
0:54:46 > 0:54:50at the scene of an unsolved murder 30 years ago.
0:54:50 > 0:54:51Bisley's daughter.
0:54:53 > 0:54:54You saved her life.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56She remembers you.
0:54:56 > 0:54:57So I saved a girl.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59That's a good thing, isn't it?
0:54:59 > 0:55:03Witness statements have you shadowing Bisley and his daughter
0:55:03 > 0:55:04in the run-up to his murder.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06We had nothing to do with his murder.
0:55:06 > 0:55:07Oh, I believe you.
0:55:07 > 0:55:09You're both far too clever to have been there
0:55:09 > 0:55:11if you knew what was going to happen.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Now, I think you were shadowing Bisley
0:55:15 > 0:55:17while someone further up the food chain
0:55:17 > 0:55:19decided what to do about his story.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22And I think Carl Dillon took matters into his own hands.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26I also have a witness who can testify
0:55:26 > 0:55:29to the break-in of Bisley's house, the photographing of his research,
0:55:29 > 0:55:31and your involvement in that,
0:55:31 > 0:55:33and the more recent plot to cover it all up.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38What witness?
0:55:39 > 0:55:40Me.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43That would be the end of your career.
0:55:43 > 0:55:44Oh, you just try me.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48And if we let you have Dillon?
0:55:48 > 0:55:50You cut Dillon loose, you remove all his protection,
0:55:50 > 0:55:54and you do whatever you need to do to ensure any allegation he makes
0:55:54 > 0:55:56against the security service can't stick.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58That's very considerate of you.
0:55:58 > 0:56:00I want all this to stop. Now.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02If that means your superiors, whoever they may be,
0:56:02 > 0:56:07get to crawl back underneath their ghastly little rocks, then so be it.
0:56:07 > 0:56:08I'm a policeman.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11I want to prosecute Carl Dillon for the murder of Simon Bisley.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16We would still have Fisher to contend with.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19I can't protect you from Fisher, and I have no desire to.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23But I'd think about taking early retirement
0:56:23 > 0:56:25somewhere very far away, if I were you.
0:56:28 > 0:56:29He's yours.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31- No...- Oh, shut up, Christopher.
0:56:33 > 0:56:34Dillon's all yours.
0:56:49 > 0:56:50You did what?!
0:56:50 > 0:56:52The Maitlands are untouchable, Sandra.
0:56:52 > 0:56:54We get Dillon for the murder of Simon Bisley 30 years ago,
0:56:54 > 0:56:59- and that's the best possible outcome given the circumstances.- It stinks.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03Thanks for what you did.
0:57:03 > 0:57:04You and the team.
0:57:04 > 0:57:07It was a long way above and beyond the call of duty.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13So are you quite sure that you're all in the clear now?
0:57:13 > 0:57:14You, Fisher and the others?
0:57:14 > 0:57:15Well, now that Dillon's been arrested,
0:57:15 > 0:57:18I imagine a lot of people will be covering their tracks.
0:57:18 > 0:57:21And if the Maitlands have any sense, they'll be heading for the hills.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24- It's over.- And it's back to business as usual for Fisher.- Well...
0:57:24 > 0:57:27I'm sure he's been suitably humbled by the experience.
0:57:30 > 0:57:32MOBILE PHONE RINGS
0:57:36 > 0:57:38Well, that's excellent.
0:57:38 > 0:57:40Thank you so much.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48No, one does hate to leave loose ends.
0:57:48 > 0:57:54Yes, well, let everyone know I'll be back in the office in a few days.
0:57:56 > 0:58:00And that there's going to be something of a reshuffle.
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