0:00:02 > 0:00:10This programme contains strong language
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Ah! We haven't met.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44I'm putting out rubbish. Obsessively.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47- Do you want me to take it downstairs for you?- No, no, no, it's fine.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I'll do it later.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53- I've been living here for a year and I've never caught sight of you. I'm Nancy Pierpan.- Johnny Worricker.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57- How do you do?- I'm wondering if I could ask you in for a drink.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59But you seem to have company.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00Exactly.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03That is why I am asking you in.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05So you've started a website?
0:02:05 > 0:02:09That's right. It's a place where people can make contact.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12People find it easier to talk through a machine than they do direct.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Is that so?
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Couples talk best in the car because they're side by side.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20- They don't have to look at each other.- Was it you who noticed that?
0:02:20 > 0:02:23It was my mum actually.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Well, this has been nice, but bad news, Ralph, I'm going to have throw you out.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29What do you mean, right now?
0:02:29 > 0:02:33It's my fault. I'd completely forgotten that I'd promised to talk to Johnny about his novel.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35- Johnny writes novels?- Yes.
0:02:42 > 0:02:47- Am I going to see you soon? - Of course. I'm going to call you.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48It was great to see where you live.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52It was nice for me too.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Oh, God. I'm so sorry. I want to apologise.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05No need to apologise. I assume you asked the young man back and then changed your mind.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09- Yes. That's what happened. - Whose novel is that?
0:03:09 > 0:03:13I would love it if you'd stay and have a glass of wine with me.
0:03:13 > 0:03:14I can't. I've to go home.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17It's because I'm out of practice.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20You'll have to explain.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Well, it's been a long time since I asked anyone back. And, um...
0:03:24 > 0:03:25Has this ever happened to you?
0:03:25 > 0:03:29That you suddenly realise you've made a mistake?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Huh!
0:03:30 > 0:03:33And then
0:03:33 > 0:03:35I saw you on the landing it
0:03:35 > 0:03:37was like you were sent from God.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40It's very strange that I've never seen you before.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Do you live on your own?
0:03:42 > 0:03:45I've got to work tonight, if that's all right.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46Oh, God. I'm so sorry.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Call me if it happens again.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54It won't happen again.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18What are you thinking, Johnny?
0:04:22 > 0:04:24What have you been thinking?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Why did you ask me what was I thinking?
0:04:34 > 0:04:39It's unbelievable, someone who's meant to be responsible, someone who's meant to be my boss.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40I thought it was funny. No need to tell me.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Well, it isn't funny. Not in a fucking lift.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Anger management, Johnny.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46I can send you on a course if you like.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49I don't ask you, "What are you thinking?"
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Because my mind's a perfect blank. That's why.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Things are that bad I got home last night and watched the X Factor.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Yesterday was Tuesday, X factor's Saturday, so I know you're lying.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Not lying. Testing.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- Jill.- Morning, boys.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11I'm coming your way in half an hour. Jill's office.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Morning, Muna.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Good morning.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19So, there's an awful lot of stuff going on. An awful lot of traffic.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22What does that mean? Intercepts?
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Among other things.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26This building is swimming in information.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29We have information coming out of our ears.
0:05:29 > 0:05:36- So?- So the difficult thing is to notice when someone finally tells you something important.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40No reaction.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45He thinks he can be rude to me. He thinks he can treat me how he wants because we had a wife in common.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- In my case, a long time ago. - All your wives were a long time ago.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53- Is Jill "need to know" on my wives? - Everyone knows about your wives.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56So, my point is this. I've called the two of you together.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59I want to share a source.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03And before we go any further, God's very excited.
0:06:03 > 0:06:08- Why's God excited?- I suppose like all Home Secretaries, God can't resist a file marked Top Secret.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11You're going to read this and you're going to think, "Hold on,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14"the Americans are meant to be our allies."
0:06:14 > 0:06:19- I've never suffered from that delusion.- Johnny doesn't believe in the special relationship, do you?
0:06:19 > 0:06:22They're not what you'd call sharing partners, are they?
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Even you can't claim to have read it already.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26I've seen certain words. I gather we're back in the Middle East.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28We're always in the Middle East.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31I don't like faith jobs. I don't like anything to do with faith.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Still got no faith yourself, Johnny?
0:06:33 > 0:06:37The sun will rise in the morning. I'm going to have a drink at six.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- That's my faith.- Really? Lot of people in your church are there?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Most people. Most people are in my church.
0:06:42 > 0:06:47You're going to want to talk to me when you've read it properly.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51This country's under threat. It's under serious threat.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Our problem is we can't always tell you the nature of the threat.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58If we did, we'd be giving away intelligence and that's not something I'm willing to...
0:07:27 > 0:07:29- This is a bit close, isn't it? This place is a bit close?- Rollo.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- I thought this place was crawling with professionals? - That's why we're eating at 11:30.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36No-one'll see us, except your friends.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37How are you, Johnny?
0:07:37 > 0:07:42- I'm well, Rollo. And yourself?- Trying to get used to my new profession.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44I was hoping you could help me with an inquiry.
0:07:44 > 0:07:45What inquiry is that?
0:07:45 > 0:07:47She's called Nancy Pierpan.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Then she has a beautiful name.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- Do you know anything about her? - Are we going to do business before we have lunch?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54We're going to do business over lunch.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56And you're not going to let me have a drink first?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- Sei stupendo.- Grazie.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Anche tu stai benissimo...
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Sempre fedele allo stesso uomo?
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Che barba...
0:08:05 > 0:08:08- He's putting on weight. - Well, you would know.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11You haven't asked me about my new job.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- I read what you write, but some of it goes over my head.- Really?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Don't you have a double first?
0:08:16 > 0:08:21I'm not really clever, Rollo. I don't have what they call a first-class mind. You were first-class.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Sure. Look where it got me.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26- I'm a journalist. - You're a journalist who still works for us.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- Do I?- Don't you get the cheques?
0:08:28 > 0:08:31What are the cheques going to get me - a house in Tuscany?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33When? With whom?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35What with a waiter?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Can't you go and do some sort of profile on her?
0:08:38 > 0:08:42I work on the foreign desk, what possible interest would I have in Nancy Pierpan?
0:08:42 > 0:08:44- So you do know who she is. - You were always quick, Johnny.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Not too clever right enough, but you are quick.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50- England's a small country, isn't it? - You tell me.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52I mean, multi-cultural, sure.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55More chaps named Shah and Patel.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57But nothing's really changed. It's run by the same old crowd.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Is it? I don't know who runs England.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01The bankers did and look what happened to them.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06What I'm saying is, there are still an awful lot of people named Baron and Worricker. And Pierpan.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Nancy was born in Damascus. Her father is an Arabist.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13What sort of Arabist?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Romance of the desert, that sort of thing? Lawrence of Arabia?
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- Why do you need to know?- Because she's taking an interest in me.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21What sort of an interest?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Making a play? Is she making a play?
0:09:25 > 0:09:29She was putting out the rubbish. She pretended it was a coincidence.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Well, aren't you flattered?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34No.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40What's the file? Are you going to show it to me?
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Do you know?
0:09:43 > 0:09:44I don't think I am!
0:10:12 > 0:10:15What is this? They're saying I need a new pass, I was given a temporary.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18- What's going on? - Are you going to throw a wobbly?
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- Of course I'm not going to throw a wobbly. When was the last time I threw a wobbly?- 7/7.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Exactly. I threw a wobbly because suicide bombers killed 56 people on
0:10:26 > 0:10:28the streets of London and we had no idea it was going to happen.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31I didn't throw a wobbly because my pass had been blocked.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33No. You're really sweet.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Who changes the passes? Who orders the passes to be changed?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Who do you think?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48What did you think of the file?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- What did I think of it?- Yes.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53I haven't finished it yet. I haven't absorbed it.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57I hardly need say, on no account is that file to leave the premises.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Gold standard.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56I didn't know if you'd make it.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- I promised I'd make it, didn't I? - I thought you were abroad.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01- Who told you that?- Mum.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Mum said that. She always knows where you are.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Does she? Paranormal, is she?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Psychic?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- Hey, Dad.- Hello.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15You're going to have to explain these to me.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Do you want to have dinner afterwards?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20I thought you'd have lots of young men. Attendant. You don't want to have dinner with me.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Don't I?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26I hate these things more than you do.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54- Hello, Johnny.- Max, my goodness, what are you doing here?- I collect.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57I collect your famous daughter.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01In fact, if there's anything you can do to get me a family price...
0:13:01 > 0:13:04- You still where you used to be? - Of course I am. I like it.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Why would I change? And you, Max?
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Defence? Defence procurement?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13It's one business that's never going to suffer. Recession-proof.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Oh, these days I also raise a little money for the Party.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Don't look at me, I'm apolitical.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20You're a-everything, aren't you, Johnny?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22You're going to have to choose sides one day.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Remember, people get killed in the middle of the road.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Did you get my invitation?- Did I? Remind me.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31- I wrote to you, college reunion. - Oh, yes, I think I did get something.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- Give me a card, I'll call you. - I don't have a card.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36I have a website.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Wake up, Johnny.
0:13:38 > 0:13:4021st century.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49You again.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50You seem to be everywhere.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Why are you surprised? That's my business. Knowing people.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Including your daughter.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Beautiful.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01That's what I do, remember? Put people in touch.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03By the way, how did Nancy like your book?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06How many novels have you written?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Why do you want to know?
0:14:08 > 0:14:11I'm asking you. I'm asking you a civil question.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13It's my first.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24So...
0:14:24 > 0:14:25You haven't said what you thought.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27- No.- Why not?
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- Don't look at me like that.- Why not?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Because I never could refuse you.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40You could tell me the truth.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44For once in your life, you might try telling me the truth.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Only if you insist.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48I insist.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52All right. They look like works of despair.
0:14:52 > 0:14:57If the despair isn't real, then I don't like them because they're fake.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59They're unfelt. They're avant-garde protest and nothing more.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03But if the despair is real,
0:15:03 > 0:15:06then that hurts too because...
0:15:06 > 0:15:11Because you're my daughter and I don't want you to suffer.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13They're not fake.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15That's what I thought.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17So, what bothers you? If I'm unhappy, it's your fault?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19They make you feel guilty?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21The absent father? The evasive father?
0:15:21 > 0:15:23The pictures are morbid.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25They're morbid, Julianne.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29OK, I can see it may be my problem. To do with getting older.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32But why do you want to piss on life before you've even lived it?
0:15:34 > 0:15:37I don't think you should say any more.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55- I was wondering...- Yep?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58That young man you were talking to?
0:15:58 > 0:16:03- Which one?- I think his name's Ralph. Ralph Wilson.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07You're working.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Fuck, you're not even talking to me. You're working.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- Oh, come on, let me take you home. - No.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19I don't want you anywhere near me.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Do you have any honest relationships at all?
0:16:52 > 0:16:55How did I know? How did I know this?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Know what?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59That you would come to my door.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02You look unhappy. Do you want some company?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06I'll come to your place.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09I'm getting red wine.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I'd prefer whisky. Do you mind?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14You had a rough day.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16So how old's your daughter, then?
0:17:16 > 0:17:19She's... Let's see, mid-twenties.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22I split up from her mother when Julianne was very young.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Here you go.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26That's not true.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29I'm going to tell you the truth.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I split up with her when she was pregnant.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Why did you do that?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37- Because I was in love with someone else.- Do you fall in love easily?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Perhaps that's why my daughter doesn't trust me.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43It was hard for her,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45watching her father keep losing his heart.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48- Children don't like that.- No.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53Tonight I felt I had the right to say what I thought about her work.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Clearly I didn't.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Same thing's true with writers.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02You can say what you like about their personalities because they
0:18:02 > 0:18:06think, "Oh, I can change, I can improve." But work's different.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- What about you?- Me?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Isn't your father a writer?
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Joseph Pierpan?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Writer and activist, yeah.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23It must be odd having a famous father.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25I'm actually surprised you've heard of him.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Just how famous can you be in Syria?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29You were born in Damascus?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Yes.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35My brother was killed by the Israelis.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39When?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Two years ago.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44What was he doing?
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Waving a white flag.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Trying to stop the Israelis from knocking down a house.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53The Israelis were building a wall through the occupied territories.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55The wall went right through the house.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Been in that part of the world?
0:19:02 > 0:19:05What were you doing?
0:19:05 > 0:19:10- Oh, you know.- No, I don't know. You're going to have to tell me.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14- I was on holiday.- On the West Bank?!
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Where else do you go on holiday?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Darfur? Afghanistan?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Maybe this is the moment...
0:19:24 > 0:19:28..to tell me what's going on.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Nothing's going on.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34My life was changed when my brother was killed.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38He was killed by the Israeli Defence Force.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42Nothing they say makes...
0:19:42 > 0:19:45any sense. We don't believe a word of the official inquiry.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47So...
0:19:47 > 0:19:50It's hard enough to grieve, isn't it?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52I mean,
0:19:52 > 0:19:54grief is hard enough anyway, but...
0:19:56 > 0:19:58When you don't know the truth...
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Everything freezes and you can't move on.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16All right, let's just forget about it.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18I asked you in for a drink, that's all.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23I'm like you, I go to work, I get through the day.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Since Jake died I haven't been interested in making friends.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Please, it's nothing dramatic, and I'm not asking for anything. But...
0:20:32 > 0:20:34..you seem a nice man.
0:20:46 > 0:20:52You see. It's almost unbearable. The way she looks.
0:20:54 > 0:20:59She's so desperately in love with Lester Young, she can scarcely bear it when he plays.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08# He wears high-draped pants... #
0:21:08 > 0:21:09All the same...
0:21:09 > 0:21:11# Stripes are yellow... #
0:21:11 > 0:21:13She doesn't forget when it's her turn.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20# He wears high-draped pants... #
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Julianne, I wish I could find you.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25I wish I knew where you were.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29I made a fool of myself tonight...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32..and it's not the first time.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36You were right to be angry.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07All right. Let's start the bloody meeting.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09God knows you're hard enough to get hold of you, Benedict.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12You're far grander than I am.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Would you like me to get you a cup of coffee, Home Secretary?
0:22:15 > 0:22:19- Some mineral water?- I had no idea you were going to be invited, Johnny.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Well, I am.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25This is going to need long hours, Minister, it's going to need expertise and judgment.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28As my mother used to say, a problem shared is a problem halved.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30So, what's your next move?
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Give the whole thing to the Daily Mirror? Post it on the internet?
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- I'm trying hard not to be offended, Home Secretary.- Please try.
0:22:36 > 0:22:41Home Secretary, do you want to come back in and re-start this meeting at a lower level of tension?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43I don't know about anyone else but I've got a heart condition.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47I've got fatty deposits on my arteries. I have a stent.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51Benedict, I can take this file out of the room, cross the river to SIS
0:22:51 > 0:22:54and your department will be royally fucked.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56The service has been royally fucked many times - usually by
0:22:56 > 0:23:01your government jumping on us like Rover with a hard-on - and we've always survived the experience.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Oi! Out.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06With respect, Minister, politicians come and go.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09I've counted them in and I've counted them out.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11And if you want to get rid of me, you can.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14That's on the record, by the way. I'd like to go walking in Patagonia.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17I've heard the wild life is extraordinary. Johnny went.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20- I did.- He loved it.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24So, if you want a new DG, go ahead, get one.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29I'll gather up my whole family and take them on a packet boat to Antarctica.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34And a double bonus, I won't be around for the end of the Atlantic alliance.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Anthea, it won't have happened on my watch.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41OK, what are the Americans up to?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44The Americans are up to what we always suspected they were up to.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46This is different. This is proof.
0:23:46 > 0:23:51If this is true, they have prisoners all over the world who don't officially exist on black sites.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- So it appears.- Unknown sites that don't exist either.- Not officially.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58These prisoners are telling them things, which they then don't have the courtesy to tell us.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02Worse than that. Specifically, the Americans are failing to
0:24:02 > 0:24:05keep us abreast of things that are happening on our own doorstep.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Dangerous things.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10If we're willing to trust intelligence obtained by torture.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Quite.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- Where did you get this? - Well, I thought that might be your next question.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18- It is my next question. - I thought it might be.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21And don't give me any of that Jesuitical bullshit about not revealing your sources.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23I can't reveal my sources.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Benedict, you and I can play the game...
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Seems like we've already begun.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32But, at the end of the road, you work for me. Remember, people don't vote for you, they vote for me.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35They don't like the people who work in the dark.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37They don't know the people who work in the dark.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39And if they did, would they be reassured?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41My view is we go to the Americans.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44- No.- We speak to the Americans direct.- No.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47We tell them we know what they know,
0:24:47 > 0:24:51that they have a network of sites where they're illegally detaining and torturing prisoners.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54We frighten them by naming the sites.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Thailand, Afghanistan, Morocco, Poland, Romania.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Show them we're not idiots.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Why not?- Because.- Because what?
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Because you're going to tell your allies that they've been lying to you.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10- You have to think through the implications. - Are you saying I haven't?
0:25:10 > 0:25:14You also have to remember that going back to the Americans might endanger my source.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17You'd need my permission.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- What would you prefer me to do? - Right now?- Yes.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28- If it were my call? - Please. Imagine that.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Right now I'd prefer you to do nothing.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33If you want me to do nothing, why did you give me the file?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Because I don't want you to be able to say I didn't give you the file.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39- Further down the road? - Exactly. I answer to you.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42You gave me the file so that I would do nothing?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46I gave you the file so that you would know everything.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Makes sense.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- Johnny Worricker thinks it makes sense.- Johnny's an excellent judge.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Weak on tactics occasionally but strong on strategy.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Is that what you think? You back Johnny, do you?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Johnny's my best friend. Since Cambridge.
0:25:57 > 0:26:02Well, then perhaps "best friend" can tell us what the argument for doing nothing is.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08The argument for doing nothing, minister, is that, as yet, you know so little.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11- And you shouldn't move until you know more.- Continue.- One simple thing.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Her Majesty's Government has always denied complicity in torture.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17You've stood up in Parliament many times. You've said it in the press.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Changing the story is going to be embarrassing.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Well, it's only going to be embarrassing if people find out.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27How will they find out?
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Why would this intelligence leave this room? Who here would leak it?
0:26:31 > 0:26:36- I hope that question answers itself. - I hope it does. I hope so too.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41And, anyway, remember, I thought the claims were true at the time.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44When I made the claims, I didn't know they were untrue.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49That may or may not be sufficient defence. These things can get messy.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Politically.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- And?- What?
0:26:53 > 0:26:56You said, "One simple thing." What's the second simple thing?
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Oh. I haven't talked to Benedict about this, minister.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02So? Does "best friend" need permission to speak?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Very well, it's this. Has anyone actually read this thing?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07I don't mean cast your eyes over it.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I mean, read it. Jill..?
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Yes, I believe I've read it.
0:27:12 > 0:27:17- Home Secretary, you say you didn't know the Americans had these prisoners.- I didn't know.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20And you had no proof they'd been torturing them. I take your word.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23But perhaps someone else in your government did.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28- Someone else?- Take another look at the bottom of page eight.- Page eight?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Yes.- What's on page eight?
0:27:30 > 0:27:34You haven't read it, have you? I thought not. Page eight, please.
0:27:41 > 0:27:49American source quoted saying, "Downing Street already knows about this."
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I imagine that's what's
0:27:54 > 0:27:57bothering Benedict.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15There are two possibilities, aren't there?
0:28:15 > 0:28:21Either our source is wrong and the Americans lied to all of us,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24in which case Downing Street is going to be furious.
0:28:24 > 0:28:31Or our source is right and the Prime Minister knew everything all along.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33He just didn't bother to tell you.
0:28:35 > 0:28:42Now, I'm not sure which of those two possibilities you prefer.
0:28:47 > 0:28:51- It's been an interesting meeting. - Thank you. It has indeed.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54I'm going to do as you suggest and leave this for a day or two.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56- Fine.- Johnny?
0:28:56 > 0:28:57- Fine.- We'll re-convene.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Anna will be in touch.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04You keep staring at that painting.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07It's from the Government art collection. Don't blame me.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11- I didn't choose it.- Actually, it was painted by my daughter.
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Christ, then you're in more trouble than I am!
0:29:20 > 0:29:21Thank you.
0:29:24 > 0:29:25I'm glad you said that.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28- I'm sorry?- About page eight.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30I was hoping someone would say it and I'm glad it was you.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Oh, OK.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34I wasn't sure.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36I wasn't sure whether to speak.
0:29:36 > 0:29:38No, it was a good move.
0:29:38 > 0:29:40It means the game's in play.
0:29:42 > 0:29:43You. I need to talk to you.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45I need a word. Urgently.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Not here. Somewhere discreet.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52Traditionally, it's the stationery cupboard.
0:30:07 > 0:30:12- What were you doing?- When?- At that meeting. What were you up to? - What was I up to?- Yes.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16I'm an intelligence analyst, I was analysing intelligence. What's wrong with that?
0:30:16 > 0:30:19First thing wrong - you never mentioned it.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23You blurt out this extraordinary allegation before you talk to us? Before you tell us?
0:30:23 > 0:30:27What's happened to you - suddenly you can't speak? Well?
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Do you know the source? Do you trust the source?
0:30:31 > 0:30:35- Of course I don't know the source. I don't need to. - You don't need to?
0:30:35 > 0:30:38Jill, if Ben says it's good, it's good.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41Oh, right, I forgot! You were at college together.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43That just about sums up this whole fucking place.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46What's the problem, Jill? I don't get the problem.
0:30:46 > 0:30:51When are you going to wake up? There's a revolution going on and you haven't noticed.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53- What sort of revolution? - You live in the past.
0:30:53 > 0:30:57You still think there's something called pure intelligence.
0:30:57 > 0:31:01The world has changed. Brits are being killed by Brits, on British streets.
0:31:03 > 0:31:04Fuck!
0:31:04 > 0:31:08- If you don't know what I'm saying, I'm not spelling it out. - Why would you spell it out?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Get your hands off. I'm not one of your conquests.
0:31:11 > 0:31:17Are you going to charge me with assault in a cupboard? You asked me in. I'll counter-sue for enticement.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Sure. If you're still here next week.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29- TV:- The Prime Minister, Alec Beasley, today described Britain and America
0:31:29 > 0:31:32as two countries with shared values and common purposes.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36Nothing, he said, could divide our two countries in the worldwide fight against terror.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40The Prime Minister is visiting Washington at the request of the President.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42Well, it's great to be here.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44For me it's a home from home.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55Oh, I see. What, you're just going to go home?
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Yes, d'you mind? I was thinking of going home.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02It's choir practice in 40 minutes and the M4 is hell.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06- And you're not going to tell me what you're up to?- Me?
0:32:06 > 0:32:08- Yes, Ben. - What am I up to?
0:32:08 > 0:32:11- That's my question. - It's pretty obvious, I'd have thought.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16I've put a bomb in the water and I'm waiting to see where the dead fish land.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19And you didn't think it best to warn me first?
0:32:19 > 0:32:21Or am I one of the fish?
0:32:24 > 0:32:29If you don't trust me, Ben, who DO you trust?
0:32:36 > 0:32:39Distrust's a terrible habit, do you find that?
0:32:39 > 0:32:44There's a fine line, isn't there, between calculation and deceit?
0:32:46 > 0:32:47Must do better.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52You're right. I should have shown you page eight.
0:32:55 > 0:32:56Johnny, I'm sorry.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02Good. Tomorrow, we're going to talk it over, you and I,
0:33:02 > 0:33:05and we won't do it on the fourth floor.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Because this is about the survival of the department,
0:33:08 > 0:33:10and the Prime Minister.
0:33:10 > 0:33:12Coffee shop in Ebury Street.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14When?
0:33:14 > 0:33:15Ten o'clock.
0:33:21 > 0:33:22The old team.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS
0:34:22 > 0:34:24LAUGHTER
0:34:53 > 0:34:55PHONE RINGS
0:34:59 > 0:35:02- 'Emma?'- Yes. - 'It's me.'
0:35:02 > 0:35:04Do you have any idea what time it is?
0:35:04 > 0:35:08'I knew you'd be up.'
0:35:08 > 0:35:09I'm feeding the chickens.
0:35:09 > 0:35:13The point is this - I've had a row with Julianne.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16Yes. She told me. She had every right to be angry.
0:35:16 > 0:35:22- She'd asked you to stay because she wanted to tell you something. - What did she want to tell me?
0:35:22 > 0:35:23That she's having a baby.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27- I don't believe you.- It's true. She's pregnant.
0:35:29 > 0:35:34- 'Do you know who the father is?' - I don't. She hasn't told me.
0:35:34 > 0:35:39- She hasn't told you? - Johnny, it's the 21st century.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43How many more times? People keep saying that, like it justifies everything,
0:35:43 > 0:35:45'every piece of stupidity.'
0:35:45 > 0:35:48Julianne's not being stupid. She knows what she's doing.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50She wouldn't take it on if she couldn't see it through.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52Is she all right?
0:35:52 > 0:35:54'She was.'
0:35:55 > 0:35:57When will I see her?
0:35:58 > 0:36:00Johnny, you need to watch out.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09- Who was that? - Johnny.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12So you gave him the news?
0:36:17 > 0:36:19One egg or two?
0:36:21 > 0:36:24I'm sorry. I wanted to see you were all right.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26I'm all right.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29It's funny, I came to find you last night.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31It sounded as if you had company.
0:36:31 > 0:36:36- Why did you come looking for me? - Oh, because I'd bought you a CD.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Can I come in?
0:36:38 > 0:36:40Yes. Yes, you can come in.
0:36:45 > 0:36:46Wow!
0:36:48 > 0:36:52I know. It's a little overwhelming. I started collecting years ago.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55Believe it or not, I started with £100.
0:36:55 > 0:36:56It grew from there.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01You've got good taste. That's Christopher Wood.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03It's wonderful.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07There's no plan. I've just always bought what I've liked.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10They must be worth a fortune.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Yeah. But that's not why I do it.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14My second wife had very good taste.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16How many wives have you had?
0:37:16 > 0:37:17Fewer than five.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20Oh. Do you really have it?
0:37:20 > 0:37:21- What?- The CD.
0:37:21 > 0:37:27Of course. Why would I lie to you?
0:37:31 > 0:37:36- Lester Young. - Oh! Thank you.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42My daughter's pregnant.
0:37:45 > 0:37:46It turns out that's what the row was about.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48I thought it was about art, but it wasn't.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52She knew I was going to be upset, because I don't think the father's around
0:37:52 > 0:37:54so she was frightened that I'd judge her.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01I don't really know what it is you do.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03I assume you're some sort of secret service.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06The other night I was pissed off because you wouldn't tell me.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09What makes you think I'm in the security services?
0:38:09 > 0:38:13Because most people can tell you why they visit the Middle East.
0:38:13 > 0:38:19And the person I was with last night was my dad.
0:38:19 > 0:38:24- Oh, I see. He's in London? - You just worked that out? Is that your professional training?
0:38:24 > 0:38:27No. It's more my nerves.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Why are you nervous?
0:38:30 > 0:38:33Because I find myself confiding in you.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35Do you? Do you really?
0:38:35 > 0:38:39Or are you just pretending?
0:38:41 > 0:38:45I think it's brilliant because I can tell everyone I live opposite a spy.
0:38:45 > 0:38:51- I'd rather you didn't but... - Don't you think we have to be honest? You and I?
0:38:51 > 0:38:56I mean, isn't that important? At this point?
0:39:00 > 0:39:01PHONE RINGS
0:39:05 > 0:39:07- Yes?- 'Johnny?'
0:39:07 > 0:39:08Emma?
0:39:08 > 0:39:09'It's not about Julianne.'
0:39:09 > 0:39:12Then what is it about?
0:39:12 > 0:39:16RADIO: 'Yesterday, stock exchanges reacted sharply to demonstrations
0:39:16 > 0:39:17throughout the Arab world.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20'The Chancellor said, "These are volatile times..."
0:39:25 > 0:39:27You should come down right away.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29The sooner you get here the better.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33Well done.
0:39:33 > 0:39:37Worricker is here. OK. I've got to go. Bye.
0:39:38 > 0:39:39What's the verdict?
0:39:39 > 0:39:42- It's a heart attack. There's a coroner coming.- Real coroner?
0:39:42 > 0:39:44Of course, real coroner.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07You're going to examine him? That's going to help, is it?
0:40:12 > 0:40:15- Who did you call first? - Downing Street.
0:40:16 > 0:40:20- Are you from Downing Street? - I was asked to take charge.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22You're not taking charge. I am.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31Where's Julianne?
0:40:32 > 0:40:34I'm not sure.
0:40:36 > 0:40:37Have you rung her yet?
0:40:54 > 0:40:57I might have guessed. You're going through his stuff.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59Not going through it, taking it away.
0:40:59 > 0:41:02Then you'll go through it.
0:41:04 > 0:41:08If you think with his podgy fingers he could work that thing...
0:41:09 > 0:41:13I was there when he had his first heart attack and the second. They were identical.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16The doctor warned him. He said, "You're living in injury time."
0:41:16 > 0:41:19So you're not going to tell me there's anything suspicious.
0:41:19 > 0:41:22- I don't want a circus. - I know.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25And I most certainly don't want a territorial spat
0:41:25 > 0:41:26with that woman downstairs.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30Had he talked about dying?
0:41:31 > 0:41:34He was worried about the future.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37But he said whatever mess he left behind,
0:41:37 > 0:41:39he could trust you to clear it up.
0:41:41 > 0:41:48Benedict was honest and hard-working and he looked things in the eye.
0:41:48 > 0:41:52So I'd say it's important that you don't let him down.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57Julianne, it's your father.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04I've got bad news. Can you call me?
0:42:04 > 0:42:06Or call your mother.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10I may be hard to get hold of for a while.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11You must be Mr Worricker? Joseph Pierpan.
0:43:11 > 0:43:12How do you do?
0:43:12 > 0:43:14- My daughter's told me so much about you.- Has she?
0:43:14 > 0:43:17Nancy says you know a lot of influential people.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20- You work at the Home Office? - Oh, she told you.
0:43:20 > 0:43:26My son was murdered. Can you imagine?
0:43:26 > 0:43:31And I'm daily mocked by people who refuse to admit who did it and why.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36- Do you have children? - A daughter.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38I'm not going to detain you.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41But it would mean the world to us if you could help.
0:44:11 > 0:44:13DOG BARKS
0:44:16 > 0:44:19- This is kind of you. - Why is it kind of me?
0:44:19 > 0:44:22Don't you think it might be what I want as well?
0:44:33 > 0:44:37- What are they saying up your way? - They're saying it was a heart attack.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41- Do you have any reason to think differently? You went up there.- Yes.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43I saw the guilty egg.
0:44:49 > 0:44:53We were at university together. Ben was my tutor.
0:44:53 > 0:44:59We even went on the Vietnam marches together. He recruited me.
0:44:59 > 0:45:03First, counter-espionage, then counter-terrorism. There is no difference.
0:45:03 > 0:45:06He still said it was dishonourable work you could do
0:45:06 > 0:45:08- in an honourable way. - The better man?
0:45:08 > 0:45:11I betrayed my wife and he married her.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14I never knew if he did it for her or he did it for me.
0:45:18 > 0:45:19Whichever...
0:45:21 > 0:45:22I'm in his debt.
0:45:26 > 0:45:30He was an all-round decent person.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44- When is your husband getting back? - He's not getting back.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47- Why not? - Because we had a disagreement.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53Yeah, I'm up the Suwannee.
0:45:53 > 0:45:57I work for an unprincipled maniac. God, she's as mean as cat meat.
0:45:58 > 0:46:03And meanwhile I'm trying to hold down my pathetic high-powered job.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06- You want to get out? - I don't have the courage.
0:46:08 > 0:46:09I don't have the guts.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17They're going to go after you, you know?
0:46:17 > 0:46:20- Tell me.- What you hadn't guessed?
0:46:20 > 0:46:22Jill Tankard took me into a cupboard and told me
0:46:22 > 0:46:25there was no such thing as pure intelligence.
0:46:25 > 0:46:29Well, then. They don't trust you.
0:46:29 > 0:46:33They'll use Benedict's death. There's going to be a departmental shake-up.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35- They've been setting you up. - Setting me up? How?
0:46:35 > 0:46:39They're going to say you put Benedict up to it.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41It was you that gave Benedict the source.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43I didn't. I didn't give him his source.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45I only saw the file for the first time this week.
0:46:45 > 0:46:48- I know that.- I don't know the source. - I'm sure.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50But they don't care.
0:46:51 > 0:46:53They are going to tie a tin can around your tail
0:46:53 > 0:46:55and run you out of the building.
0:46:57 > 0:46:59They don't like you, Johnny.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02- It's personal.- Do they have a reason?
0:47:02 > 0:47:05Well, the usual reason. They think you're anti-American.
0:47:05 > 0:47:11- I'm not.- All right, they just feel you have more fun than they do.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19I've got a question.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23I mean, I don't mind if you don't answer.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25I don't mind. I'll answer anything.
0:47:25 > 0:47:29When I said, "I only saw the file for the first time this week,"
0:47:29 > 0:47:30and you said, "I know."
0:47:32 > 0:47:36- Oh, yes. So?- How do you know? It's important, Anna. How do you know?
0:47:36 > 0:47:39How do you know I hadn't seen the file?
0:47:40 > 0:47:46I know because when I started sleeping with you, I made a decision.
0:47:46 > 0:47:48What decision?
0:47:49 > 0:47:51I decided to trust you.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57- It's a bit arbitrary, isn't it?- Yes.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03But so far you've never let me down.
0:48:13 > 0:48:17- RADIO:- North Utsire, northerly becoming cyclonic, four or five,
0:48:17 > 0:48:21occasionally six in far north, becoming variable three later.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23Fair. Good.
0:48:23 > 0:48:27South Utsire, northwesterly, five or six veering easterly
0:48:27 > 0:48:30or southeasterly four or five, becoming variable three later.
0:48:31 > 0:48:32Fair. Good.
0:48:44 > 0:48:46Nothing if not predictable.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59Shit.
0:48:59 > 0:49:05Johnny? Johnny. Are you there? It's Jill.
0:49:05 > 0:49:07I'm answering. Good morning, Jill.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09'Have you forgotten? We're due to meet.'
0:49:09 > 0:49:11- We have a meeting. - Well, that's it.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14'Problem is, I've got that tickle you get at the back of the throat
0:49:14 > 0:49:17- 'when you know you're going to be ill.'- Where are you?
0:49:17 > 0:49:19'Aren't I at home? I'm in Battersea, aren't I?'
0:49:19 > 0:49:21That's not what it says here.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24- 'This is hardly the day to go under cover.'- Goodness.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26You're playing with the toys.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29- Are you playing silly buggers? - 'No, not at all.'
0:49:29 > 0:49:32I thought it was YOU playing silly buggers. Very much so.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36- After yesterday, we're on amber. Everyone has to open their safe. - I'm happy to open my safe.
0:49:36 > 0:49:40There's nothing in it but half a bottle of brandy and some shaving cream.
0:49:40 > 0:49:41But I can't do it today.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44Not if the whole department's to avoid the flu.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47You think with Benedict gone, you move up a peg.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50You don't, you move down.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52I hope to God you know what you're doing.
0:50:14 > 0:50:18- Ah, Mr Eliot, I thought I heard you. - Mrs Ashanti.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20- It's so long since we saw you. - I've been travelling.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23I'm only in this country for a couple of days.
0:50:31 > 0:50:34- RADIO:- 'The death has been announced of Benedict Baron,
0:50:34 > 0:50:36'the director general of MI5.
0:50:36 > 0:50:39'Baron will be remembered for his policy of making
0:50:39 > 0:50:41'the security service more accountable.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45'Under his direction, the secretive organisation...'
0:50:55 > 0:50:57The Road House. Rather a come down, isn't it?
0:50:57 > 0:50:59Isn't this where you used to meet Gerry Adams?
0:50:59 > 0:51:02- Is it, Rollo? You'd know better than me.- Who are you this time?
0:51:02 > 0:51:06- My name's Eliot. After the poet. - Eliot who?- Tom Eliot, you idiot.
0:51:06 > 0:51:11- Never heard of him. What does he do? Christmas cards?- Two coffees, please. You vanished.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14- I was in Israel.- Good. Do I owe you? - It's fine. The paper paid.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20- Are you going to open it? - I'd rather hear it from you.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24- She's perfect, isn't she? - Is she? Tell me.
0:51:24 > 0:51:27If they'd invented her, they couldn't have done better.
0:51:27 > 0:51:31- Tell me who THEY are. I'm assuming SHE is Nancy. - Is there anyone else in your life?
0:51:31 > 0:51:34- Nobody at all?- Since you ask.
0:51:34 > 0:51:39- Well, Nancy is a perfectly-pitched creation.- Is she? Is she a creation?
0:51:39 > 0:51:44If you want to know, it all stacks up. She had a romantic-looking brother who was killed.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47There was one of those Israeli army inquiries where they conclude
0:51:47 > 0:51:49that the Israeli army never does anything wrong.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Her father is indeed an impeccable Arab scholar,
0:51:51 > 0:51:54living a quiet and saintly life in Damascus.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56There she is, the wronged woman, the grieving sister.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Waiting for you.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01Brilliantly rehearsed, learnt her lines, ready to go.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03What are you saying? Too good to be true?
0:52:03 > 0:52:08I didn't ask you to pimp for me, Rollo. Nor did I ask you to vet a girlfriend.
0:52:08 > 0:52:13- She's not a girlfriend, she's a neighbour.- Yeah. She's kind of a fantasy neighbour, isn't she?
0:52:13 > 0:52:16Perfect for an old spy who's lost faith in the old values.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19- I haven't lost faith.- Haven't you? - No. I still believe in them.
0:52:19 > 0:52:23The purpose of intelligence is to find the truth, not to confirm what we believe.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26We look for what's there, not for what we want to be there.
0:52:26 > 0:52:29When they wanted communists, we gave them communists.
0:52:29 > 0:52:33- Now they want Arabs, we give them Arabs.- Thank you. - What has really changed? Nothing.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36I know what you're going through. You must be in a tricky place.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39Bad day for Ben but it wasn't great for me.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41Ben ran his own agents and kept them close.
0:52:41 > 0:52:45There are a few people waking up in your position. Benedict did a good job on you.
0:52:45 > 0:52:50The whole service believes you leaked security secrets to a newspaper for money
0:52:50 > 0:52:52because that's what Benedict told them.
0:52:52 > 0:52:56There's a flap going on, isn't there? A turf war, that's what I'm hearing.
0:52:56 > 0:52:59- Are you? Where are you hearing that? - Don't give me that
0:52:59 > 0:53:01answer a question with a fucking question lark!
0:53:01 > 0:53:05- I didn't go on the interrogation course, I wrote it!- Sorry.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08I went to Israel for you on what could be a wild goose chase.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11I dipped into the Tel Aviv beach scene. Got a tan on every inch of my body.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13Even so, you owe me this!
0:53:16 > 0:53:19All right. What this is about,
0:53:19 > 0:53:23Benedict had proof. The Americans have sites. Black sites.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27- Of course they do.- Yes, but now we can tell you where they are. We can draw the map.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31Why is that news? That's not news. You could hear the screams for the last ten years.
0:53:31 > 0:53:35Bits of intelligence, we're so careful not to inquire where they came from.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38- They came from torture chambers. We knew that.- We guessed.
0:53:38 > 0:53:41We didn't have evidence. And this is actually different.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45- Why? Why is it different? - Because it establishes who knew.
0:53:45 > 0:53:47Who's known all along.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52So, who knew? Who knew the sites?
0:53:52 > 0:53:58Our Prime Minister. Our Prime Minister knew.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07I see.
0:54:07 > 0:54:11- Party of one, is he? Dining alone? - Too right.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13Table by the fucking window.
0:54:13 > 0:54:16Our Prime Minister had access to American intelligence
0:54:16 > 0:54:20which might have helped save British lives and he didn't tell us.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22He didn't tell anyone.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27- OK, OK, I'm getting a picture here. - I'm glad you're getting a picture.
0:54:27 > 0:54:32- Presumably our Prime Minister didn't tell us because he doesn't trust us. - Correct.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35He didn't tell his Home Secretary because he doesn't trust her.
0:54:35 > 0:54:39- Correct.- Our Prime Minister doesn't trust anyone. - That's the way it looks.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41Because he stands alone, THE true saviour of his nation
0:54:41 > 0:54:45and everyone else except him is a wishy-washy liberal fuck.
0:54:45 > 0:54:50- They don't believe. Then what happened?- Benedict finds out.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53- How?- Through a source.- A source of his own? A source whose name you don't know?
0:54:53 > 0:54:58That is the interesting bit. What does Benedict do in that situation?
0:54:58 > 0:55:02On discovering his Prime Minister hides secrets from his own security service.
0:55:02 > 0:55:05Of all the things Ben could do, what does he do?
0:55:06 > 0:55:10Remember your first day, Rollo? First day in the service?
0:55:10 > 0:55:14Of course. Monday morning, 10am. You gave the first lecture.
0:55:14 > 0:55:15And what did I say?
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Never share intelligence you don't need to share.
0:55:22 > 0:55:27Consider - Benedict is given lethal information about his Prime Minister.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29What does he do with it?
0:55:29 > 0:55:32He gives it to Anthea. He gives it to you.
0:55:36 > 0:55:40What was his plan, then? Bring down the government?
0:55:50 > 0:55:53- The weather's changing. - It certainly is.
0:55:56 > 0:56:00- Feels like the end of an era. - Is for me. I'm fucked.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07I live out my life inventing stories for a national newspaper.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11I can't even come to the funeral.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19Rollo... Rollo, you have me.
0:56:20 > 0:56:24Sure. And how long are you going to last?
0:56:57 > 0:56:59Mon Dieu!
0:57:01 > 0:57:03I thought it would be you.
0:57:03 > 0:57:07- Don't be ridiculous. Why? - Because I dreamt of you this morning.
0:57:07 > 0:57:11- I had my Johnny dream.- Who ever taught you to lie like that?
0:57:11 > 0:57:16Who do you think? So how many years since I saw you?
0:57:16 > 0:57:20I guess five. You sold me a little Gertler, remember?
0:57:29 > 0:57:32You are sure? You really want to sell it?
0:57:34 > 0:57:39Christopher Wood. Died at 29, threw himself under the train.
0:57:39 > 0:57:42- I wouldn't sell it if I were you. - I have to.
0:57:42 > 0:57:46Bad times? Why did you bring it here?
0:57:46 > 0:57:49There are places in London you'd get much more.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52Because you have a safe. Because you have cash.
0:57:52 > 0:57:56- How do you know? - Because you showed me.
0:58:00 > 0:58:04- Well, will you take 60? - Do I have any choice?
0:58:24 > 0:58:25- Here.- Thank you.
0:58:26 > 0:58:28HE INHALES
0:58:28 > 0:58:31- Bel Ami by Hermes.- Well done.
0:58:32 > 0:58:36That daughter of yours... she's doing well.
0:58:36 > 0:58:40- Does she still adore you?- I think she does. She's just scared of showing it, that's all.
0:58:40 > 0:58:45And you, Johnny? Still winging it on charm?
0:58:46 > 0:58:48I'm late. Thank you, Leona.
0:58:50 > 0:58:52I've got to go.
0:59:27 > 0:59:29Thanks, sir.
0:59:32 > 0:59:34MOBILE RINGS
0:59:36 > 0:59:40- Yes?- 'Dad, it's me.'
0:59:40 > 0:59:43At last, where are you? I've been worried sick.
0:59:43 > 0:59:47'I know. I couldn't leave Mum by herself.'
0:59:47 > 0:59:49Julianne, are you at the farm?
0:59:49 > 0:59:53- Dad, a man came to see me. - What man? Who?
0:59:53 > 0:59:54I don't know. He came to my studio.
0:59:54 > 0:59:57- He wanted to know where you were. - 'What did you say?'
0:59:57 > 0:59:59I told him the truth.
0:59:59 > 1:00:00I said I hadn't seen you.
1:00:00 > 1:00:02Then I packed a bag and I came up to Mum's.
1:00:02 > 1:00:05Julianne, I'm going to see you so soon, I promise.
1:00:05 > 1:00:09Stay at your mum's, whatever you do. I need to talk to you.
1:00:09 > 1:00:12'He said they're looking for you.'
1:00:12 > 1:00:14Now here's a surprise!
1:00:14 > 1:00:17Julianne, I have to go, I'm sorry, Stay where you are. Please.
1:00:20 > 1:00:21Blow me down.
1:00:21 > 1:00:24- I thought the shy boy wasn't coming. - I wasn't.
1:00:24 > 1:00:25What made you change your mind?
1:00:25 > 1:00:29You know. Whim. Caprice.
1:00:37 > 1:00:39Good evening.
1:00:44 > 1:00:46BELL RINGS
1:00:53 > 1:00:57HE PRAYS IN LATIN
1:01:03 > 1:01:06ALL: Amen.
1:01:06 > 1:01:08DOOR OPENS
1:01:17 > 1:01:18Welcome.
1:01:18 > 1:01:20Thank you. Good evening.
1:01:46 > 1:01:48BELL RINGS
1:01:50 > 1:01:53The Prime Minister will now say a few words.
1:01:53 > 1:01:54- APPLAUSE - Thank you.
1:01:54 > 1:01:57Thank you. Thank you.
1:01:57 > 1:02:00I don't want to spoil such a wonderful occasion
1:02:00 > 1:02:01with a long speech.
1:02:01 > 1:02:04As my daughter says, "Daddy, you spoil everything."
1:02:04 > 1:02:05LAUGHTER
1:02:05 > 1:02:09But I would like to say a few words, if I may, about liberal values,
1:02:09 > 1:02:12and the price of defending them in the modern world.
1:02:15 > 1:02:16What do you think?
1:02:16 > 1:02:19What do you think of him?
1:02:19 > 1:02:22I don't know. I've never known what to make of him.
1:02:22 > 1:02:24At least he believes what he says.
1:02:25 > 1:02:27Is that enough?
1:02:27 > 1:02:30The Prime Minister wants a word. Not now.
1:02:30 > 1:02:33- When?- Afterwards.
1:02:33 > 1:02:34We'll tell you when.
1:02:46 > 1:02:47Sorry. It's past one.
1:02:47 > 1:02:49He had a long phone call.
1:02:52 > 1:02:55The White House doesn't admit we're in a different time zone.
1:02:59 > 1:03:03Ah, Johnny...it's been a long time.
1:03:03 > 1:03:04So it has.
1:03:04 > 1:03:07- I'm surprised you could make it. - Why?
1:03:07 > 1:03:08- I heard you had flu.- Really?
1:03:08 > 1:03:11- Who told you that? - Why? Isn't it true?
1:03:12 > 1:03:15- Isn't it? - Maybe the beginnings. The onset.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18Oh, and having just lost the DG, I didn't think you'd come.
1:03:18 > 1:03:22I'm sorry, everyone, but we're going to need some privacy.
1:03:32 > 1:03:33Please.
1:03:37 > 1:03:41I remember when peace first came to Northern Ireland,
1:03:41 > 1:03:42I took Ben for a drink.
1:03:42 > 1:03:45In those days I was just an MP.
1:03:45 > 1:03:48Benedict said, "The Cold War's over, Northern Ireland's fixed.
1:03:48 > 1:03:51"This could be very bad news for the service."
1:03:51 > 1:03:54All honour to Ben, but it turned out he was wrong.
1:03:54 > 1:03:55- On the contrary.- Yes.
1:03:55 > 1:03:57- We're busier than ever.- And larger.
1:03:59 > 1:04:00That's the problem, isn't it?
1:04:00 > 1:04:04There's so much intelligence, ceaseless intelligence,
1:04:04 > 1:04:06and there's barely time to consider it.
1:04:06 > 1:04:09The difficult thing being to decide what's important.
1:04:09 > 1:04:11- That's right.- And what's not.
1:04:13 > 1:04:17Basic point. There are times when the interests of the government
1:04:17 > 1:04:20and the interests of the country are coincident.
1:04:20 > 1:04:23You can't put a cigarette paper between them. Do you agree?
1:04:25 > 1:04:28- Do you agree?- I don't...disagree.
1:04:29 > 1:04:31So I need to be clear.
1:04:32 > 1:04:35I'm contemplating re-organisation. Had you heard that?
1:04:35 > 1:04:38- As a matter of fact, I had. - Really? Who from?
1:04:41 > 1:04:43Yes.
1:04:43 > 1:04:46A Department of Homeland Security.
1:04:46 > 1:04:48It would be a popular move,
1:04:48 > 1:04:50after the failures of the last ten years.
1:04:50 > 1:04:53Let's have a Royal Commission to give us cover,
1:04:53 > 1:04:56then let's reconfigure the services entirely. Why not?
1:04:56 > 1:04:59I hardly need say, for everyone already in place,
1:04:59 > 1:05:04it could mean huge advancement, Johnny...huge opportunity.
1:05:04 > 1:05:06Or its opposite.
1:05:08 > 1:05:10Quite. You understand me.
1:05:18 > 1:05:21There's one other thing I'd like to discuss.
1:05:21 > 1:05:24Before he died, Benedict gave you a file.
1:05:26 > 1:05:29My own view is, that file should not have been distributed.
1:05:29 > 1:05:32For that reason, I'd like it returned.
1:05:36 > 1:05:37Well?
1:05:37 > 1:05:39I don't know what to say.
1:05:39 > 1:05:41I don't carry secret files about my person,
1:05:41 > 1:05:43so I don't have it with me.
1:05:43 > 1:05:46After all, I came here tonight for social reasons.
1:05:46 > 1:05:48I find that very hard to believe.
1:05:48 > 1:05:51You don't strike me as a overly sentimental kind of person.
1:05:51 > 1:05:54Didn't you come because you wanted to talk to me?
1:05:54 > 1:05:58I think we both know we have a question to answer, Prime Minister.
1:05:58 > 1:06:00And what question is that?
1:06:00 > 1:06:03Why do you imagine Benedict gave me the file?
1:06:03 > 1:06:05- You tell me. - Why did he show it around?
1:06:05 > 1:06:08- Why did he do that? - I have no idea.
1:06:08 > 1:06:10- He showed it to the Home Secretary. - Indeed.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12What's your view?
1:06:12 > 1:06:14Given the sensitivity of the subject matter.
1:06:14 > 1:06:16My guess is Benedict knew he was ill.
1:06:16 > 1:06:20Sorry. He'd already had a heart attack?
1:06:20 > 1:06:23- But also his arm was dragging. - His arm?
1:06:23 > 1:06:25I noticed at a meeting with the Home Secretary.
1:06:25 > 1:06:27It's a familiar sign. He couldn't pick up his papers.
1:06:27 > 1:06:30- What meeting was that? - I think Benedict knew he was dying.
1:06:30 > 1:06:34He handed out the file because he wanted certain issues discussed.
1:06:34 > 1:06:37He wanted everything out in the open.
1:06:37 > 1:06:42And so, whatever else, we must respect his wishes.
1:06:44 > 1:06:48He was my friend, so for me it's a matter of honour.
1:06:48 > 1:06:50Honour?
1:06:54 > 1:06:58Do you know the famous saying about the yellow box?
1:06:58 > 1:06:59I've not heard it, no.
1:06:59 > 1:07:03Do not enter the yellow box unless your exit is clear.
1:07:03 > 1:07:05I wonder where you think your exit is.
1:07:05 > 1:07:08I don't have an exit, sir. I don't have a strategy.
1:07:08 > 1:07:09I'm not thinking that far ahead.
1:07:09 > 1:07:12I'm very conscious, Prime Minister, that I've been
1:07:12 > 1:07:16forced into an area closer to politics than it is to security.
1:07:16 > 1:07:19What I was saying earlier, in times of national emergency,
1:07:19 > 1:07:20the two are the same.
1:07:20 > 1:07:23Nothing is more dangerous than when people make mischief
1:07:23 > 1:07:25by trying to separate them out.
1:07:25 > 1:07:27But surely that's something you'll take up
1:07:27 > 1:07:32- with your Home Secretary? - Yes. I'm working on that.
1:07:32 > 1:07:34Right now I'm working on you.
1:07:35 > 1:07:36All right.
1:07:36 > 1:07:40If the file is correct, it suggests that you had intelligence
1:07:40 > 1:07:42which you failed to share.
1:07:42 > 1:07:45You knew the names of potential British terrorists,
1:07:45 > 1:07:46but you failed to pass them on
1:07:46 > 1:07:49because you didn't want to reveal where you got them.
1:07:49 > 1:07:51You risked lives.
1:07:51 > 1:07:55And you knowingly misled parliament about illegal practices.
1:07:55 > 1:07:58Let's look at the facts.
1:07:58 > 1:08:01The man who compiled that file is dead.
1:08:01 > 1:08:04And with him died the knowledge of who its source was.
1:08:04 > 1:08:07I don't know the source. Do you?
1:08:07 > 1:08:10You know as well as I do, without a source your file is worthless.
1:08:10 > 1:08:12The allegations can't be corroborated.
1:08:12 > 1:08:14Therefore the allegations can't be correct.
1:08:14 > 1:08:18Is that what you're telling me, sir? It's false?
1:08:18 > 1:08:20The allegations are false?
1:08:26 > 1:08:28What time is it?
1:08:29 > 1:08:30Just gone two.
1:08:30 > 1:08:33All other copies of the file have been returned.
1:08:33 > 1:08:36I want yours back within 12 hours.
1:08:37 > 1:08:39Two o'clock tomorrow, shall we say?
1:08:43 > 1:08:46You've been a loyal servant of this country for many years.
1:08:46 > 1:08:49I'm not expecting you to throw it all away.
1:08:49 > 1:08:52No, nor am I.
1:08:57 > 1:08:59It's late, can we get you a room?
1:08:59 > 1:09:02No, thank you, I'm staying at a friend's.
1:09:03 > 1:09:05Good night, sir.
1:09:08 > 1:09:11Good night, Max. Good night, Ted.
1:09:18 > 1:09:19How did it go?
1:09:19 > 1:09:20I want Special Branch.
1:11:16 > 1:11:17All right?
1:11:17 > 1:11:19Yes. But I'm freezing.
1:11:22 > 1:11:23Where are we going?
1:11:29 > 1:11:31I love it.
1:11:31 > 1:11:33This is what you do for a living?
1:11:33 > 1:11:34Occasionally.
1:11:34 > 1:11:36Wow!
1:11:37 > 1:11:39Wow!
1:11:39 > 1:11:41I had a feeling that if I asked a favour,
1:11:41 > 1:11:43you were the sort of person who'd come through.
1:11:43 > 1:11:46You trust me? Why on earth would you trust me?
1:11:46 > 1:11:50Because that's the job. Deciding who to trust. That's what the job is.
1:11:51 > 1:11:55- Also, you told your father I worked for the Home Office.- I lied.
1:11:55 > 1:11:56Yeah.
1:11:56 > 1:11:58You trust me because I lied?
1:11:58 > 1:12:00HE LAUGHS
1:12:01 > 1:12:03What were you doing in Cambridge?
1:12:03 > 1:12:06- Why, seeing the Prime Minister, of course.- Ah.
1:12:10 > 1:12:13- Anyone behind us?- No.
1:12:16 > 1:12:18- Are we going back to London?- No.
1:12:33 > 1:12:34Two rooms, please.
1:12:34 > 1:12:36One room. Two beds, please.
1:12:36 > 1:12:38Don't we need to talk?
1:12:44 > 1:12:47I don't want to spoil the evening, but I have a question.
1:12:47 > 1:12:50- The first time we met, the young man...- Ralph.
1:12:50 > 1:12:53Tell me, how did you know him?
1:12:53 > 1:12:55He came to the meetings.
1:12:55 > 1:12:58For the campaign? He just turned up? Out of the blue?
1:12:58 > 1:13:01He said he was keen to help.
1:13:01 > 1:13:02Did he?
1:13:05 > 1:13:08- What's this about? - I got you something.
1:13:08 > 1:13:11Something to thank you for coming to fetch me.
1:13:11 > 1:13:12What is it?
1:13:14 > 1:13:16It's the truth about your brother's death.
1:13:16 > 1:13:19I got hold of the Shabak report.
1:13:19 > 1:13:21How on earth did you do that?
1:13:22 > 1:13:24It's powerful stuff.
1:13:24 > 1:13:27You're right, Jake was killed in cold blood.
1:13:27 > 1:13:29There was a cover-up.
1:13:29 > 1:13:33You've a cast-iron case for manslaughter, you might get murder.
1:13:33 > 1:13:34It's all in there.
1:13:37 > 1:13:39Have you read it?
1:13:48 > 1:13:52The problem is going to be with using it.
1:13:55 > 1:13:56Why shouldn't I use it?
1:13:56 > 1:13:59Because everyone will know where you got it.
1:13:59 > 1:14:00How would they know?
1:14:00 > 1:14:03You're not cut out for this line of work, are you?
1:14:03 > 1:14:05Tell me what you mean.
1:14:05 > 1:14:08I mean, you live opposite me.
1:14:08 > 1:14:09We share a landing.
1:14:11 > 1:14:13I see.
1:14:15 > 1:14:17SHE SIGHS
1:14:27 > 1:14:28Do you want a drink?
1:14:28 > 1:14:33Um...am I driving?
1:14:33 > 1:14:35Not with me, you're not.
1:14:35 > 1:14:38Brandy.
1:15:03 > 1:15:07They say you can only begin to mourn once you know the facts.
1:15:10 > 1:15:11Do you think that's true?
1:15:16 > 1:15:18I'm mourning too.
1:15:19 > 1:15:22Who? Who are you mourning?
1:15:24 > 1:15:28My oldest friend died, a couple of days ago.
1:15:29 > 1:15:31He made an allegation.
1:15:33 > 1:15:37An allegation that, as yet, I've failed to make stick.
1:15:40 > 1:15:42I see.
1:15:46 > 1:15:48It must be tough.
1:15:51 > 1:15:53Well, it is.
1:15:57 > 1:16:03He left me a job to do and my life's not...
1:16:06 > 1:16:11..worth living until I see it through.
1:16:18 > 1:16:20I just got my life back.
1:16:24 > 1:16:27I don't suppose you'll let me thank you.
1:16:28 > 1:16:31I think I'd die if you thanked me.
1:16:38 > 1:16:41I think some people have been quite surprised by your new appointment.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43Yes, well, as you know the Prime Minister
1:16:43 > 1:16:45and I haven't seen eye to eye on every issue.
1:16:45 > 1:16:49But recently events have thrown us together, and do you know what?
1:16:49 > 1:16:51'We've found we actually like each other.'
1:16:51 > 1:16:52'You get on?'
1:16:52 > 1:16:55'Extremely well. We've always got on on a personal level
1:16:55 > 1:16:58- 'and now we want to work together...'- I didn't hear you get up.
1:16:58 > 1:17:02- Good morning, how are you? - Better, much better.- Good.
1:17:02 > 1:17:04Do you know the Home Secretary?
1:17:04 > 1:17:07- The one who says we can't be free because we have to be safe?- That's her.
1:17:07 > 1:17:09- Thank you, Mr Eliot. - Thank you very much.
1:17:09 > 1:17:13- She's our Deputy Prime Minister. - I thought we didn't have one.
1:17:13 > 1:17:17We do now. Beasley's saying he thinks of her as his natural successor.
1:17:17 > 1:17:18She's been bought.
1:17:18 > 1:17:21- We need to go to work. You coming with me?- Try and stop me.
1:17:21 > 1:17:24As you know some prime ministers designate a deputy, some don't.
1:17:24 > 1:17:27It's a mark of how well we are now working together
1:17:27 > 1:17:31that the Prime Minister wanted to give me this particular job title.
1:17:39 > 1:17:42- Emma, how are you?- Busy.
1:17:42 > 1:17:45You haven't met, have you? This is Nancy Pierpan.
1:17:45 > 1:17:48- OK.- So sorry to hear your news.
1:17:48 > 1:17:50She's my neighbour.
1:17:50 > 1:17:53She's kindly doing a stint as my chauffeur.
1:17:54 > 1:17:55Come in.
1:18:02 > 1:18:05Go to the barn. She's waiting for you.
1:18:07 > 1:18:11Do you think Nancy could possibly have a cup of coffee?
1:18:36 > 1:18:39I'm so sorry. I said terrible things.
1:18:39 > 1:18:42It's my fault. I've been stupid.
1:18:42 > 1:18:44I'm a bad father.
1:18:44 > 1:18:46Just put my mind at rest.
1:18:46 > 1:18:50It's not...Ralph Wilson, is it?
1:18:50 > 1:18:56- Ralph Wilson? Why would it be Ralph? - Because I saw you together.
1:18:56 > 1:18:58- Are you out of your head? - Thank God.
1:18:58 > 1:19:02- Is that what you've been thinking? Is that what you think of me? - I didn't know what to think.
1:19:02 > 1:19:08If you must know... it was a conceptual artist.
1:19:08 > 1:19:15Oh. Good. Well, I'm glad conceptual artists are good for something.
1:19:17 > 1:19:19How long did it last?
1:19:19 > 1:19:21It lasted a week.
1:19:22 > 1:19:23A good week?
1:19:26 > 1:19:28Then your daughter's in with a chance.
1:19:28 > 1:19:30How do you know it's a girl?
1:19:30 > 1:19:31Because I had a girl.
1:19:49 > 1:19:51I don't know why I bothered to make you all lunch,
1:19:51 > 1:19:54- God knows I've got enough to do. - It's delicious.
1:19:57 > 1:20:00Everyone says Benedict knew he was dying,
1:20:00 > 1:20:02so why didn't he at least leave us an order of service?
1:20:02 > 1:20:06Did he ask for anything in particular?
1:20:06 > 1:20:11Oh, you know. Stuff about... England.
1:20:14 > 1:20:15So typical, so typical of him.
1:20:15 > 1:20:19I don't think Benedict gave a damn about England, did he?
1:20:19 > 1:20:24Except as some version of paradise. Imaginary. Like all paradise.
1:20:24 > 1:20:30- I'm sure it's what the Belgians feel about Belgium.- I'm sure they do.
1:20:30 > 1:20:31And the frigging Albanians.
1:20:34 > 1:20:38And you're no use. You like jazz.
1:20:46 > 1:20:49Johnny, can you come with me, please?
1:21:00 > 1:21:02There was a politician.
1:21:02 > 1:21:03I'm sorry?
1:21:06 > 1:21:10An American politician came here for lunch. A couple of weeks ago.
1:21:12 > 1:21:14I don't suppose you remember his name?
1:21:18 > 1:21:21He piloted his plane to the local airfield.
1:21:24 > 1:21:26You didn't mention this before.
1:21:28 > 1:21:29I was angrier before.
1:21:40 > 1:21:42Is the plane enough of a clue?
1:22:44 > 1:22:46It's not certain,
1:22:46 > 1:22:49but there's a fair chance I'm going to have to leave the country.
1:22:51 > 1:22:55I have a feeling this week may not end well.
1:22:57 > 1:22:59I'm running out of rope.
1:23:01 > 1:23:04They're not going to make me Deputy Prime Minister.
1:23:08 > 1:23:10Will I see you at the funeral?
1:23:11 > 1:23:12I'll try.
1:23:15 > 1:23:17Try as in you will or try as in you won't?
1:24:34 > 1:24:35He's on his way.
1:24:43 > 1:24:46- Do you care to tell me what you're doing?- What you do for a living.
1:24:46 > 1:24:48Aren't you in the surveillance business?
1:24:48 > 1:24:52Going through your things and seeing what's there.
1:24:52 > 1:24:55Don't worry, I don't do guns or violence.
1:24:57 > 1:25:00How did you get in? That's a deadlock with a combination.
1:25:00 > 1:25:03We still have skills in the public sector
1:25:03 > 1:25:07you don't in the private. Contact, contact!
1:25:07 > 1:25:10Nancy, you can come up now.
1:25:10 > 1:25:12This is an expensive outfit.
1:25:12 > 1:25:15I was wondering who'd staked such a serious investment.
1:25:15 > 1:25:19- Then I saw the photo on the fridge. - I had you marked from the beginning. - I know you did.
1:25:19 > 1:25:24- From the moment I met you.- I've been taking photos of your operation. - Are they on that camera?
1:25:24 > 1:25:28And sending them to a computer. You're Jill Tankard's little boy.
1:25:30 > 1:25:31Nothing to say?
1:25:35 > 1:25:38This is the man who pretended to support your campaign.
1:25:38 > 1:25:42I can't believe what you did. I can't believe it.
1:25:42 > 1:25:46- How far would you have taken it? - I'd have slept with you...
1:25:46 > 1:25:50for Queen and country, I would. I wasn't interested in you. I was interested in him.
1:25:50 > 1:25:54I'm meant to believe that it was a coincidence?
1:25:54 > 1:25:58An M15 man just happens to live opposite a known subversive?
1:25:58 > 1:26:00- I'm not a subversive. - Then what the fuck are you?
1:26:00 > 1:26:03Ralph, it's time to have a word with your mum.
1:26:17 > 1:26:20I'm going to leave early. Please cancel all my appointments.
1:26:27 > 1:26:28He's back in contact.
1:26:43 > 1:26:44What made you choose this place?
1:26:44 > 1:26:46Best reason. Because the food is good.
1:26:46 > 1:26:50Hello. I've got whisky, but my friend usually drinks white wine.
1:26:50 > 1:26:53- Whisky.- Of course.
1:26:53 > 1:26:57So. Interesting choice. How does it feel to be unemployable?
1:26:57 > 1:26:59What's in the bag? Have you brought me the file?
1:26:59 > 1:27:03- I've been calculating how long you've been working this racket. - What racket?
1:27:03 > 1:27:08- You're running a cowboy unit out of Downing Street.- I don't think you can call it a cowboy unit.
1:27:08 > 1:27:11- We answer to the Prime Minister. - So do we.- What's your point?
1:27:11 > 1:27:17The Prime Minister never liked the security services because we were always bothering him with facts.
1:27:17 > 1:27:22So he started his own intelligence unit, am I right? Dealing directly with the Americans?
1:27:22 > 1:27:25In traditional practice,
1:27:25 > 1:27:27the torturers are meant to be held at arms' length.
1:27:27 > 1:27:29You have no proof.
1:27:29 > 1:27:34Well, as a matter of fact, I do. I've found Ben's source.
1:27:34 > 1:27:36I've spoken to Ben's source.
1:27:36 > 1:27:38I don't believe you.
1:27:38 > 1:27:40Believe what you like.
1:27:40 > 1:27:44And will that source go on the record? Can you produce that source?
1:27:44 > 1:27:46That's a gamble you're going to have to take.
1:27:46 > 1:27:50Johnny, you're bluffing with an empty hand.
1:27:50 > 1:27:52Is the Prime Minister willing to take that risk?
1:27:52 > 1:27:53I know the source.
1:28:02 > 1:28:06Face it, the world's changed. What are the British going to do?
1:28:06 > 1:28:09Get new allies? Allies who behave better?
1:28:09 > 1:28:12Benedict was on to you, wasn't he? That's why he put the file out.
1:28:12 > 1:28:15He knew you were betraying your own department.
1:28:15 > 1:28:18Reporting to the Prime Minister isn't betrayal.
1:28:18 > 1:28:22You financed a piece of private enterprise and employed your own son.
1:28:22 > 1:28:25I've taken photographs of his premises.
1:28:29 > 1:28:33Fuck this. This isn't the Student Union, I'm not here to debate.
1:28:33 > 1:28:36The world's moving on and it's time it did.
1:28:36 > 1:28:38Because you guys with your public school ties
1:28:38 > 1:28:42and your "after you, old chap" didn't make much of a job of it, did you?
1:28:42 > 1:28:46Last meeting of the club, Johnny. Last meeting of the club.
1:28:49 > 1:28:53In the last 48 hours, you've broken every rule in the book.
1:28:53 > 1:28:56You are no longer in your service, you will never work again,
1:28:56 > 1:28:57your pension is gone.
1:28:57 > 1:29:01If you blow the whistle now, you'll also go to prison.
1:29:01 > 1:29:02Is that what you want?
1:29:02 > 1:29:06Because that's what lies ahead if you don't give me that file.
1:29:06 > 1:29:10- I'm willing to cut a deal. - What's the deal?
1:29:10 > 1:29:13No Royal Commission. No re-organisation.
1:29:13 > 1:29:15- Is that all?- No.
1:29:15 > 1:29:19Publication of the internal Israeli report on the death of Jake Pierpan.
1:29:19 > 1:29:22- You're crazy.- We leak it.
1:29:22 > 1:29:28The government admits it's shocked at the cover-up in the occupied territories. That's the deal.
1:29:28 > 1:29:33- You know it's impossible.- Is it? - Of course.- It's the quid pro quo.
1:29:33 > 1:29:35You give me something, I give you something.
1:29:35 > 1:29:40Think about it, this is far worse.
1:29:44 > 1:29:49Isn't the temptation of heroism coming a little late in your career?
1:29:49 > 1:29:51I've watched you work. I always admired you.
1:29:51 > 1:29:56I thought, "Johnny's clever, Johnny keeps out of trouble.
1:29:56 > 1:29:59"Johnny's a lucky man. He's got a life."
1:30:02 > 1:30:06Don't you have a life? Jill?
1:30:12 > 1:30:17It's the girl, isn't it? You're doing this for the girl.
1:30:19 > 1:30:22They come and go, don't they, Johnny?
1:30:22 > 1:30:24They come and go.
1:30:28 > 1:30:29Not this time.
1:30:35 > 1:30:36Is the file in there?
1:30:46 > 1:30:48PHONE RINGS
1:30:49 > 1:30:53- Hello?- Is that Allegra?- 'It is.'
1:30:53 > 1:30:57- 'I believe my friend Rollo gave you a document.'- He did.
1:30:57 > 1:31:01Go ahead. Broadcast. You have my permission.
1:31:03 > 1:31:06- Thank you.- 'Good luck.'
1:31:30 > 1:31:33DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
1:31:43 > 1:31:45- What are you doing? - Just reading.- OK.
1:31:47 > 1:31:49Looking for the next great novel.
1:31:49 > 1:31:54They don't seem to understand that feelings are interesting, but the world is interesting too.
1:31:56 > 1:32:00- Want some coffee? - I have to say goodbye.
1:32:00 > 1:32:05- Goodbye?- Yeah.
1:32:05 > 1:32:06What does goodbye mean?
1:32:11 > 1:32:15If you want a Saab, it's waiting in Cambridge.
1:32:15 > 1:32:17You'll have to pay the parking charges,
1:32:17 > 1:32:19but it's nicer than your Peugeot.
1:32:22 > 1:32:25This is a small painting you might like.
1:32:25 > 1:32:30It's by the same artist, but not as good.
1:32:30 > 1:32:33- I couldn't possibly take it. - You can take it.
1:32:33 > 1:32:37You're going to live for many years and be an old woman,
1:32:37 > 1:32:41and this way, you'll always have something decent on your wall.
1:32:41 > 1:32:44Are you going to tell me why you have to go?
1:32:44 > 1:32:45I've cut a deal.
1:32:45 > 1:32:48They've gone along with it, but they don't like it.
1:32:48 > 1:32:50They'll make my life not worth living.
1:32:50 > 1:32:52Would you like me to come with you?
1:32:56 > 1:32:59I couldn't ask you to do that.
1:33:01 > 1:33:05Couldn't or...won't?
1:33:12 > 1:33:15I'm not really used to the idea of having feelings again.
1:33:15 > 1:33:20It's...dangerous, isn't it?
1:33:27 > 1:33:29Too dangerous for you?
1:33:34 > 1:33:38I'm frightened. I fuck everything up.
1:33:38 > 1:33:41Shh.
1:34:12 > 1:34:16- Thank you.- You're welcome. - This is very kind of you.
1:34:22 > 1:34:23We're heading north.
1:34:32 > 1:34:35CHURCH ORGAN PLAYS
1:34:42 > 1:34:46We're here today to remember the life of Benedict Baron.
1:34:46 > 1:34:49The hymns and readings have been chosen by his family,
1:34:49 > 1:34:54and the first hymn by his oldest friend, John Worricker.
1:34:54 > 1:34:56I Vow To Thee, My Country.
1:35:08 > 1:35:13# I vow to thee, my country
1:35:13 > 1:35:17# All earthly things above
1:35:17 > 1:35:23# Entire and whole and perfect
1:35:23 > 1:35:27# The service of my love
1:35:27 > 1:35:29# The love that... #
1:35:29 > 1:35:35'The government today responded officially to the document
1:35:35 > 1:35:38'obtained by the BBC, which reveals that the peace campaigner
1:35:38 > 1:35:42'Jake Pierpan was gunned down in the occupied territories
1:35:42 > 1:35:44'when he was clearly holding a white flag.
1:35:44 > 1:35:48'The Prime Minister, Alec Beasley, today visiting his constituency,
1:35:48 > 1:35:52'acknowledged the strength of public reaction to the revelation.'
1:35:52 > 1:35:54'Even at times of national crisis,
1:35:54 > 1:35:58'certain basic human freedoms have to be protected.
1:35:58 > 1:36:01'We must never stop insisting on telling the truth to our enemies,
1:36:01 > 1:36:05'but sometimes we have to tell the truth to our friends as well.
1:36:05 > 1:36:07'That's a difficult duty,
1:36:07 > 1:36:12'but between democracies with shared values, it's an essential one.'
1:36:12 > 1:36:17# And there's another country
1:36:17 > 1:36:21# I've heard of long ago
1:36:21 > 1:36:26# Most dear to them that love her
1:36:26 > 1:36:31# Most great to them that know... #
1:36:31 > 1:36:36'Politicians on all sides in Britain are today expressing their shock
1:36:36 > 1:36:39'at the news that the Israeli Army suppressed a highly critical Shabak report,
1:36:39 > 1:36:43'which established the truth about the death of a British peace campaigner...'
1:36:43 > 1:36:46I wonder, could we change the station?
1:36:46 > 1:36:47Anything you want?
1:36:47 > 1:36:50I'd like some jazz.
1:36:53 > 1:36:57SMOOTH JAZZ PLAYS ON RADIO
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