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00:01You are not acting in the interests of this service.
00:03In this matter, I am the interest of this service.
00:05What is this? Spain? Morocco?
00:07You want to reduce five to some kind of firm of decorators,
00:10only to be wheeled out when you want a whitewash.
00:12You're on very dangerous ground, Harry.
00:14I'm curious, sir, what it would be like to actually live together, like a real family.
00:17A real family, please.
00:18My own son doesn't even know my real name.
00:20My role is no longer operational. I just oversee.
00:24Precisely. Everything goes across your desk.
00:26Harry, we're on the same side.
00:31No!
00:36Realistic! Realistic!
00:43Twisting my views!
00:46Uncensored my views!
00:50Light up the sky!
00:53What could you learn?
00:57Night Bachelor.
00:59To receive the honour of knighthood for services to popular music.
01:08This way, Sir Riff.
01:09Riff, Sir Riff. Come a long way since your grunge days.
01:11Youngest man to be knighted.
01:13Oh, he's still a rocker, anyway.
01:14What did the Queen say to you, Sir Riff?
01:16She said that her corgis were musically more intelligent than I would ever be,
01:19I was really upset.
01:20It's such a lie. She said my grandchildren really love your music.
01:22I know, I said.
01:23Here he is, here he is.
01:24Nice sun in the air.
01:25Hey, what's it all about?
01:26Alfie, look.
01:27So, Sir Riff, what's next?
01:29Er, well, I suppose we'll have a bit of a party.
01:32Oh, yes.
01:54Oh, no!
02:24Oh, no!
02:54Sir Riff!
03:25SIREN BLARES
03:37Shit.
03:38BEEPING
03:40Nick! Nick!
03:41Someone take an Alfie!
03:47Oh.
03:50Maybe.
03:52It's okay, it's okay. We'll call the police.
03:54The police won't get him back. We've been knighted.
03:57I want hard, bastards. I want MI5.
04:03Horrible experience.
04:04Realistic, nihilistic. It's a jewel in the crown of British grunge.
04:08Is it?
04:09Fifteen million copies worldwide.
04:11Beg us belief.
04:13Look, it's distressing about the child being taken, but why does the service have to be involved?
04:17Downing Street look on the recovery of little Alfie as vital to national security.
04:21Nonsense. They're playing politics with us.
04:23And Sir Riff has done a lot for Wales.
04:25He's Welsh?
04:26No, Wales.
04:29She does good works too.
04:31Things for refugees.
04:33What, fashion shows in refugee camps?
04:35Yes.
04:36She did one on the Congolese border.
04:38A hundred thousand women turned up.
04:40The photos went worldwide.
04:43Well, Downing Street insists, Harry.
04:45And it won't do Five any harm to be seen to be doing something cuddly.
04:49Cuddly?
04:50Find the kidnappers. Get the child back in time for the Sunday papers.
04:54Then the country might love us too.
05:13Any word from the kidnappers?
05:15Not a squeak.
05:16I take it we ignore the drugs we're finding?
05:18Keep a note.
05:19I've never handled a kidnapping before.
05:21In this we are all virginal.
05:22Abduction procedures, police kidnap units, Bible, read it and speedily digest.
05:26Harry, this is police business. What are we doing here?
05:28Kissing behinds.
05:34Dreadful business.
05:35Let's knock and put a tap in.
05:37He's tried. The knight of the realms knows.
05:39Let's knock and put a tap in.
05:40He's tried. The knight of the realms lady doesn't like it.
05:43The manual says the first stage is to secure the co-operation of the kidnapped victims,
05:48close associates or family. What are they like?
05:51I did not agree to that!
05:52I understood.
05:53Then I'll understand!
05:55I don't want a black box bugging my grief!
06:00Kidnappers usually make a ransom demand by phone and quickly.
06:03When they do that, we need to record them.
06:05What, trace the call?
06:07They don't usually do that, but they'll use a public phone and be far gone by the time we get there.
06:11It's the tape that's really vital, that can tell us so many things.
06:14Background sounds, accents.
06:16No, I'm not having spies getting off on my private calls.
06:19You use a mobile phone.
06:21We've detected an anti-scanning device in your house, state of the art.
06:25Of course.
06:26Don't you get it?
06:28I've been snooped on the whole time.
06:30We really need to record a call from these bastards.
06:34OK.
06:35Plug it in.
06:38Beep.
06:40So you're the boss spook?
06:42Absolutely.
06:43You know James Bond.
06:45Well, I'll get off then.
06:48I'm a big fan, by the way.
06:55Thank you, that's really sweet.
07:03Do you want some tea?
07:04Thank you very much.
07:07Thank you.
07:13I don't believe this.
07:14God, I'm sorry.
07:16I'm sorry.
07:17I've been a difficult girl.
07:19It's just...
07:21I need to get him back.
07:23That's why I called Downing Street.
07:25Well, we'll do our best.
07:26But this is really police work, you know.
07:28For your secret police.
07:30You've got to be better than the other lot.
07:33Do you want a drink?
07:35Actually, it's a little early for me.
07:37Perhaps you could talk to your husband as well.
07:40Griff's unconscious.
07:41With emotion.
07:43Well, perhaps when he's feeling better.
07:45But there are a few questions.
07:48This girl...
07:49who...
07:51distracted your security guard, any idea who she is?
07:54No, I don't know her.
07:56Miss Bee, we have to find this girl.
07:58I don't know her.
08:00Look, please.
08:02Call me Bee.
08:04Miss Bee's so cold.
08:08My real name is Brenda.
08:10But when I started modelling,
08:11they said they couldn't do anything with a name like Brenda.
08:14It was the 90s.
08:17My image was everything.
08:19Absolutely.
08:22So what's your name, Mr Boss Spook?
08:24John.
08:26Find him for me, John.
08:28Dying inside.
08:35Won't they rung yet?
08:37They will.
08:43How many kidnaps have you handled?
08:45Dozens.
08:49Right.
09:05Want some of this?
09:07No, I'm working on it.
09:11So am I.
09:15I'm writing a new album.
09:19How's that going?
09:23The sick thing is...
09:26I hadn't had a lyric coming to me for weeks and then...
09:30as soon as they told me that...
09:32Alfie had been snatched...
09:35one came straight to me head.
09:37What?
09:39A song about him?
09:40Yeah.
09:42And I thought...
09:44I thought I'd better write it about a girl, you know.
09:47Thought it might be a bit tacky if people knew it was about Alfie.
10:22It's great.
10:24That's nice crying.
10:31That's just not there anymore.
10:33Talent's left me.
10:35That's not what your fans think.
10:37Fans? I ain't got fans.
10:39I've got people-eaters.
10:41People who want to eat me.
10:43Do you know what happened last week?
10:45I got through a post.
10:47A crisp packet full of pubic hair.
10:49A crisp packet full of pubic hair?
10:51I mean, what's all that about?
10:56It's gonna be all right.
11:01I've got an idea.
11:19Alfie.
11:23Alfie.
11:26Shh, shh, shh. Don't cry.
11:28Shh, shh, shh.
11:31Oh, where is he?
11:34He must be starving, my dear.
11:36He'll be all right.
11:38He'll be all right.
11:40Won't he?
11:42He'll be all right.
11:45He'll be all right.
11:47He'll be all right.
12:03Everything working?
12:04It's all operational.
12:05Yes.
12:06What?
12:07I got through the scanning device.
12:08We can listen to her mobile.
12:0913 hours and 24 minutes since the kid was taken.
12:11The book says contact's usually made in the first six hours,
12:13so we need to stay sharp.
12:14I have an informant to see.
12:18I do tell you about that.
12:21Michelle.
12:22Adam.
12:23My salad.
12:24Madam.
12:25I'll have the meatballs.
12:27Thank you, sir.
12:30Tell me what you know about Leffenby.
12:32Well, his career's on the slide.
12:34The Great Album was ten years ago.
12:35Since then, it's, you know, tracks with strings,
12:38Christmas novelty songs. He's lost his edge.
12:40Her modelling career's lasted longer than most.
12:42Some say it's bone structure, some say she's a stratshag.
12:45A what?
12:46A strategic shagger.
12:47So why does the nation love her?
12:49Fame and lust.
12:51Leffenby are a mass sexual fantasy.
12:53The danger for them is that at any moment,
12:55it could turn into a blood sport.
12:57You can't run this.
12:58Look, I'm your window into Fleet Street.
13:00You need my help.
13:01Help me in return.
13:02You're in breach of the official secret act.
13:04Oh, who isn't these days?
13:06Anyway, I know all about what's going on.
13:08I did an exclusive deal with Leffenby this morning.
13:10What, their baby goes out the window and they're on the phone to some...
13:12Trashy gossip magazine that I added.
13:14Of course.
13:15What else do you expect them to do?
13:18Look, I'll hold that from the next edition if you talk to me.
13:23Shred the hard copies and delete all the images from your computers.
13:26So MI5 are investigating the kidnapping.
13:29Fantastic.
13:32Taking all my love away.
13:35Away.
13:36Excuse me.
13:40I said excuse me.
13:42Sorry, Harry.
13:43What's that?
13:44It's a brilliant album.
13:45Bit of an oldie.
13:46Do you mind?
13:47This is my youth.
13:48What's B like, Harry?
13:50Beauty.
13:51Damaged.
13:53Harry, why are we investigating this?
13:55It's a police job.
13:57Do you understand atomic theory?
13:58Quantum mechanics?
14:00How there are six extra dimensions and infinite universes parallel to this one?
14:04No.
14:05Nor do I.
14:06I don't understand politics either.
14:14Yes?
14:15Harry!
14:16It's, er...
14:17It's John Sylvester.
14:22Trying to call in a favour here.
14:26Look, er, you remember I helped you out of that jam when I was in the Foreign Office?
14:30That business with the Sheikh from the Gulf and the, er, casino?
14:34That was a while ago.
14:38John, what's the problem?
14:40Well, fame.
14:42Fame.
14:43That's the problem.
14:46If I wasn't a government minister, TV face, I...
14:49What is it, money or a woman?
14:51I went with a girl in the park.
14:53What park?
14:54Kensington Gardens.
14:58We were in a hotel and she said let's go and do it in a park for fun.
15:02She was fun.
15:05But all along she knew who I was.
15:08She made threats.
15:10Tabloids.
15:11Me.
15:13My experience.
15:14Suckered by her kiss and tickle.
15:17So you want me to find her?
15:19She made me an arsehole.
15:23I lost control.
15:26I hit her.
15:28She fell.
15:31She hit her head or something.
15:35The way she was lying looked strange.
15:41I panicked.
15:44I ran.
15:46How did you contact her?
15:50The mobile.
15:53Then I think it ought to be destroyed.
15:55Don't you?
15:58Professionally.
16:03Sylvester's phone.
16:05Get Malcolm and Colin to take a look.
16:07Trace his life.
16:08He was the hope of his party.
16:09My flyer, now falling fast.
16:14Mr Mace?
16:15Miss Evershade.
16:28You were at Portcullis' house.
16:30Are we spying on each other now?
16:32Come on, Harry. We both have that place under surveillance.
16:35Tracking MPs, mistresses and...
16:37drink deliveries.
16:42Sylvester.
16:44Is it money or a woman?
16:46Neither.
16:50Really?
16:52No memory on a chip is ever deleted.
16:55Not even in a politician's phone.
16:57Tags are left to hidden files.
16:59Ditches for ghosts.
17:00We retrieved these photos from a SIM card on the phone.
17:03Hard copies.
17:04But who is she?
17:07Why is there no progress on the kidnapping of baby Alfie?
17:09I've told you to run this personally.
17:10Adam Carter is running it full stop.
17:12All right!
17:20There is another dimension to this.
17:22Downing Street are wondering whether, after all,
17:24the knighthood was appropriate.
17:27Downing Street had him kneel neath the royal bread knife
17:30because an election's coming.
17:31Anything for votes.
17:32Now they want to what?
17:33Unknight him?
17:35It's the wife that's worrying us.
17:37I want someone in there, undercover,
17:39to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid.
17:41Not on my budget.
17:43I'm sending an officer over from Six.
17:46She'll be brilliant.
17:48She?
18:02Fiona!
18:04Hi!
18:08What do you think?
18:10Very purple.
18:11Well, very purple is what Wes wants.
18:13Walls, floor and ceiling.
18:14Eight-year-olds make great interior decorators.
18:16Forget mine, then.
18:17Yeah, great.
18:22What did you really text me for?
18:26I'm sorry.
18:27What did you really text me for?
18:31Oliver Mace has ordered me over to Thames House.
18:34I'm to go undercover and you're if and be up.
18:36No way.
18:37It's orders.
18:38I'm going straight to Harry.
18:39Adam, I want it.
18:40If I come over to Five,
18:41I can have a life with you and Wes in this house.
18:43I don't want you working in the field, here or anywhere.
18:45Come on.
18:46Let's just see how this goes, all right?
18:49I need to be in the field, Adam.
18:50It's what I am. It's what I do.
18:51You'll get your killed one day.
18:54I know it.
18:56Look, I've got to do this.
19:03Is the cocaine here?
19:04Malcolm's got it.
19:05Cocaine?
19:06Yeah, it's bait.
19:07Customs and Excise won't party, but I bent them to my will.
19:09They'll be good stuff.
19:10You will know.
19:12Malcolm, do you have a substitute for the cocaine?
19:14You know, something harmless I can take
19:16in case I get myself in a situation.
19:17Section G have concocted this.
19:18Harmless, but it'll give you a convincing nasal discharge.
19:21Lovely.
19:22Harry.
19:24Adam.
19:26Look, I'm here and that's that.
19:35Did you get these from the police?
19:37Of someone in the Greater London Murder Squad.
19:40I know an IT girl working as a researcher in the incident room.
19:44She wants to get into GCHQ.
19:45I've said I'll put a word in for her.
19:47So she emailed this to me, without her superiors knowing.
19:50Dear God, Ruth.
19:51Is any institution in this country safe from you?
19:53I like to think not.
19:56Poor girl.
19:57Will we ever know her name?
19:59This is the girl Sylvester snapped.
20:01He told me they were in Kensington Gardens together.
20:12Break-in entry.
20:13Harry.
20:14Her body's in the Kensington mortuary.
20:16Police have been unable to identify her.
20:19They think she may be an illegal...
20:20I didn't kill her, I swear!
20:27Recognise her?
20:30Familiar pose?
20:32Not so pretty now, is she?
20:38Dear Prime Minister,
20:40I resign.
20:41You describe what happened, you sign it.
20:43Right.
20:54I'll put that in the internal mail for you.
20:57And now perhaps you'd like to help the police with their enquiries.
21:13Thank you.
21:32You spooks walk through walls, or what?
21:36Your letter did not arrive.
21:39You accepted a letter from me to the PM?
21:41I hope you haven't done anything stupid,
21:43like ringing the police.
21:44But I must resign.
21:45And you will, but not for the real reason.
21:49I can't get away with the old family chest,
21:50and I'll be losing my children's child.
21:52You can,
21:53if we have a good day to bury bad news.
21:57There's this Riff and Bee story running.
22:01What do you mean when they find the baby?
22:04You will be buried on that day.
22:06When do they find the baby?
22:07You will be buried on the inside pages.
22:10Timing is all.
22:12I will let you know exactly when.
22:14What about the...
22:17The girl will be recorded as a possible illegal,
22:21found dead.
22:23Ten days in the mortuary,
22:25then they'll cremate her.
22:28I'll always suffer with my conscience.
22:33All that concerns me
22:34is that the government does not fall
22:36because of your disgusting little thing.
22:40By the new year, we could be at war with Iran.
22:45Now, please, pull yourself together.
22:49We're giving you a legend with a French firm,
22:51Vita Nuova.
22:52Oh, do I get free make-up?
22:54Well, we'll see what we can do when this is over.
22:56So how come such a big firm lets us use it?
22:58The French security services uses them as cover.
23:00Free make-up for the wives of foreign ambassadors,
23:02girlfriends of UN delegates.
23:03It gets the French into lots of places.
23:05Harry's called in a favour to let us run you as one of their reps.
23:08Research on Brenda Rawlings,
23:10known to us as B.
23:11Anything I can use?
23:12Oh, she's sickeningly perfect.
23:14Um, she's had liposuction on her bum.
23:17Really?
23:18Thanks.
23:19And the next customer, please.
23:21Just been sent over from Vita Nuova's Bond Street shop.
23:24You'll have to sign for it.
23:26And they would very much like you to give it to B.
23:29She gets all this free?
23:30For a woman like that, everything is free.
23:32I think so.
23:33Here are your drugs. Here's the fake.
23:36The ring with the secret compartment.
23:39And here is the real stuff.
23:42Bolivia's finest.
23:43That should impress the knight and his lady.
23:46Why, thank you, kind sir.
23:50Any news about the baby?
23:51I don't know.
23:52I don't know.
23:53I don't know.
23:54I don't know.
23:55I don't know.
23:56I don't know.
23:58I don't know.
23:59I don't know.
24:11H.C.B.
24:12Andrea LaRouche from Vita Nuova Cosmetics.
24:14Sorry, miss, I will have to search you.
24:16Oh, right, OK.
24:18What are you?
24:20From Vita Nuova.
24:23Have you got any idea what is going down in this house?
24:27Vita Nuova.
24:28I'm Andrea LaRouche.
24:29It's OK, it's OK.
24:30Get out!
24:31Just wait, it's fine.
24:34What are you doing?
24:36I'm responsible for your security.
24:37Miss, I will have to search your bag.
24:39Ignore him, he's a tosser.
24:41Come and have a drink.
24:44You, downstairs.
24:52She's in.
24:54I think my boss left a message.
24:57I wasn't sure whether to come.
24:58I'm so sorry about what's happening to your family.
25:00It's got nothing to do with you, has it?
25:03Look, I can come back later if you like.
25:06No.
25:07Doing business will take my mind off Alfie.
25:12How's Henri?
25:14I'm managing director's in love with you.
25:17He's a fag.
25:19Saying I'm some kind of gay icon.
25:21No.
25:23Are you?
25:25If it sells.
25:31Are you cool?
25:34Sure.
25:36I've got some Bolivian, actually.
25:38Special sample.
25:51How am I going to get through today?
25:53You should get some sleep.
25:54I can't, not with a stranger in there.
25:56Well, why not a bed?
25:58I just can't do it.
26:01Why is that?
26:02I'm just not used to it.
26:03It's all the touring in the early days.
26:05Doing all the small festivals, sleeping on floors.
26:07I mean...
26:09It's how my world began, you know?
26:14I wonder if I can't sleep.
26:16Lee's chopping out some lines of Charlie in there, do you want some?
26:18Riff, I know I'm just a security man, but can I say something like a friend?
26:23Yeah.
26:24Stay straight today, you've got to get Alfie back.
26:29Yeah, you're right.
26:31I'll just do vodka.
26:48Andrea LaRouche.
26:50Are you French, then?
26:51Nah.
26:52I'm from Bromley.
26:54I'm from Bromley, too.
26:55Are you saying that just to suck up?
27:00I'm a Bromley girl.
27:02Went to Haunted Road School.
27:03We're all girls.
27:05What about you?
27:06The Grange.
27:08Private.
27:09Daddy had chops.
27:10Did you get on?
27:11He died.
27:12Sorry.
27:13No, it's all right.
27:15Bromley girls.
27:19People I went to school with wouldn't dream of some of the things I get up to these days.
27:23What do you get up to?
27:25Botox.
27:27Everywhere.
27:28I lie upon my bum.
27:30You've heard that, have you?
27:31I've told my baby.
27:32The thing that worried me was that they wouldn't, you know, get it equal each time.
27:37Yeah, I know.
27:38I heard of that after Alfie.
27:40I love him to death, but he wrecked my body.
27:42It's not like I can go back to work with a saggy arse.
27:45I fought too hard.
27:47Ten years ago, I was too short for the shows.
27:49It was all supermodels.
27:50We were the waifs.
27:52Now, one baby in, and I'm moving to the bum cheeks.
27:57It's tragic.
28:03You want Alfie back?
28:04This is what you do.
28:06Three million in a hold or non-supernatural notes.
28:09Do this, or you get little Alfie sent to you in the post.
28:11Contact.
28:12Bit by bit.
28:13Bit by bit.
28:14Put the money in a tan leather bag.
28:16Take it to the hole.
28:18Put the bag in the cloakroom.
28:20Stick the cloakroom ticket behind the pipe of the last toilet in the gents.
28:24Do it tonight, and you get little Alfie not cut up.
28:29Tell the cops if they follow us, he dies.
28:33Do you torture people?
28:34No, we don't.
28:36Well, you should, that bastard.
28:37What's the hole?
28:38It's a club.
28:39It's where Riff started.
28:40I want to pay them.
28:41That's not how to play it.
28:42What are you talking about?
28:43It's my money, it's my kid.
28:44I have to seriously advise you that that's...
28:46How much did he say?
28:47Three million.
28:48Yeah, yeah, we can do that.
28:49We can do that.
28:50We're looking like I can cut off both my arms,
28:51and I stick them in a bag, and if that's going to help get Alfie back...
28:55He can't do nothing to stop us.
28:58All right, but I run this all the way.
28:59Action man.
29:13Here's the cloakroom.
29:18It's my money.
29:25Give me back my kid.
29:32I'm going to wait for these bastards.
29:33No, no, no.
29:35I want to see their faces.
29:36Get back in the car.
29:37Now.
29:39I'm taking you home.
29:41Now.
29:42I'm taking you back home.
29:53This silence is losing it.
29:56Ticket in the loop, bag in the cloakroom.
29:58Doesn't make any sense.
30:00Kidnappers must know we'll be watching them.
30:10Come on.
30:27Malcolm, are you getting this?
30:28All operational systems at optimum, over.
30:31Just tell me if you can see the hole in the wall.
30:34Cameras at optimum, Roger and over.
30:37Great.
30:38Optimum cameras on the street outside.
30:41I'm really sweet and everything, but I should probably go.
30:45No, stay.
30:46Overnight if you like.
30:47I need someone to be with me for this.
30:50You know my boss.
30:52Your boss will cream his panties if he knows you're staying with me.
30:54He'll be dreaming endorsements.
30:58Hard to be sure.
30:59It's nothing.
31:01I've decided I like you.
31:03I'm good at people.
31:04All right?
31:05Yeah.
31:06Great.
31:08See you later.
31:39No.
31:40No.
31:41You were supposed to stay there.
31:42We've got things under control.
31:43Shut up.
31:44You're just the hired help.
31:45In fact, go away.
31:46I'm talking to my husband.
31:47He's trying to get...
31:48I'll keep that.
31:49Are you steady, all right?
31:50Maybe I should go.
31:51No, Andrea, stay.
31:52You, I need him.
31:53I don't.
31:54I'll let you know.
31:55Yeah.
31:56You promised me.
31:57You promised me you'd stay with the money.
31:58You promised.
31:59Breathe.
32:00Breathe.
32:01You've got it covered, all right?
32:02Breathe.
32:03Breathe.
32:04Breathe.
32:05Breathe.
32:06Breathe.
32:07You've got it covered, all right?
32:08The kidnappers are going to be here, all right?
32:09Where did you put the bag?
32:10Where did you put the bag?
32:11The briefcase!
32:12You told me!
32:13Up against the wall!
32:14You don't know what you're talking about!
32:15Adam, please use call signs.
32:18How's the famous couple?
32:19You don't understand what you're...
32:20Having a marital conversation.
32:22Anything happen?
32:25Minus seeing the gents, but nothing.
32:30Wait.
32:32We've got a visual.
32:33Trackers?
32:34All six devices are operational.
32:38He's masked.
32:39And this is on camera.
32:41Okay, he's not stupid.
32:42All you need to do is stay well back
32:43and let the trackers do their job.
32:46He's got the bag.
32:47I repeat, he's got the bag.
32:50Here we go.
32:57He's turning off the road.
32:59Grid reference 19-5-8-13.
33:03So far, so good.
33:0419-5-8-13.
33:07Some sort of scrapyard.
33:08CCTV?
33:09Nothing.
33:10Security systems on.
33:11Access to the cameras.
33:14Okay.
33:18What's he doing with the bag?
33:20An electromagnet.
33:21All units, interceptor grid reference 19-5-8-13.
33:24The trackers are not working.
33:25All of them.
33:26All units, do you have a visual?
33:28I repeat, does anyone have a visual?
33:30Negative.
33:31Negative.
33:32Damn it, we've lost them.
33:34So you lost them and the money.
33:35They took it to a scrapyard,
33:36put the bag under a magnet,
33:37knocked out the tracking devices.
33:39They seem to know what they're doing
33:40and you don't.
33:41Wait, wait, wait.
33:42So, well, they've got the money,
33:43so we get Alfie back.
33:44That's good, isn't it?
33:45We want to catch these people.
33:46No, no.
33:47If you want to catch them,
33:48then that's your gig.
33:49We want our kid back.
33:50Look, I apologise, but we've got to move on.
33:51Bullshit.
33:52Bee.
33:53Bee.
33:56Bee.
33:58Bathroom.
34:00Oh, sod.
34:01Put your head back.
34:02Put it back.
34:03What do you think?
34:04I think you're playing a dangerous game.
34:05No, I mean what they're up to.
34:06The kidnap's a fake.
34:07She did it, not him.
34:08He's afraid for the kid.
34:09She's not at all.
34:10The way she's reacting,
34:11everything is false.
34:12She told him to put the bag against the wall.
34:13She knew that's how it was going to be lifted.
34:14What's she doing?
34:15She's got someone she trusts,
34:16a snatch Alfie.
34:17Someone who knows what they're doing.
34:18The whole thing,
34:19hooks and ropes,
34:20they'll float him down in a bag
34:21and then when they get the kid back,
34:22the whole nation will rejoice.
34:23All for publicity.
34:24All for fame.
34:25The coke, it's dangerous.
34:26It's the only way I can stay with her,
34:27don't worry.
34:28What about the substitute stuff?
34:29She's too sharp.
34:30It's all right,
34:31I'm taking an antidote.
34:32What antidote?
34:33Valium.
34:34Valium?
34:35Look, you've got to stop this.
34:36I can handle it.
34:37Back in the field,
34:38best team ever, eh?
34:39Flash it.
34:40What?
34:41The loop.
34:42Oh, yeah.
34:43Only someone really heavyweight
34:44would think of this.
34:45And you really think they set this up?
34:46No.
34:47No.
34:48No.
34:49No.
34:50No.
34:51No.
34:52No.
34:53No.
34:54No.
34:55And you really think Vy set this up?
34:56Had her own child kidnapped,
34:57stole her own money?
34:58Vy thinks so too.
34:59So what,
35:00we're all just part of her publicity machine?
35:01Not anymore,
35:02I'm pulling Fiona out.
35:03Don't do that.
35:04Everything's changed.
35:06We're a very shallow grave.
35:07I dug in a hurry.
35:14It's only a few hundred yards from the house.
35:16The baby's got a head injury
35:18and the pathologist thinks he's next broken too.
35:20They dropped him?
35:22Probably coming out the window.
35:23Oh, dear God.
35:25No. No, no. No, no, it's not.
35:28What's wrong? Is it the money? That's wrong.
35:31Where is he? Where is he? Is it the police mortuary?
35:34No! I want to see my son!
35:37I want to see him! I want to see my son!
35:40We'll arrange that. I want to see him. I want to see my son!
35:43Someone's got to help me. Someone's got to help me!
35:46We will help you. We want to. Whatever it is you've done.
35:49What do you mean, whatever it is that we've done?
35:52B, whatever you've done...
35:54What's he talking about? What's he saying?
35:56I'm throwing him out. Him.
35:58The one that's lying. Manipulous piece of filth. Out of my house.
36:01I think you should consider the seriousness of your predicament.
36:04Don't tell them anything. Get a lawyer.
36:06And you are? A friend.
36:08Well, friend. Don't meddle.
36:10Don't you stand in her house without a warrant.
36:22Danny.
36:24Look at this.
36:28My office is tangled up in a sordid, cocaine-fuelled fantasy
36:32of the sick and rich. Harry, calm down.
36:35Knock! I want my wife out of that house.
36:38Our masters want this op to succeed.
36:40Fiona's in there without any proper backup.
36:42It's running out of control. Pull her out.
36:44We cannot afford that. Fiona reports that B's dangerously near the edge.
36:48Fiona reports?
36:50She's reporting to you now?
36:52She's on Six's payroll. I'm running her!
36:54In heaven's name, stop this!
36:56The nation's awash with emotion over Riff and B's little baby.
36:59It must end well. Or look to end well.
37:02In the Sunday papers.
37:04Ruth, turn this off.
37:07Keep me informed.
37:12I talked to an old contact. We worked on Italian drug routes.
37:15He recognised the girl who diverted the security guard's attention
37:18on the night of the kidnapping.
37:20Her name is Maria Abado and she's an associate...
37:22Of this man, Rudolfino Ponti.
37:24He runs a heroin trail, Afghanistan to the Dalmatian coast into Italy.
37:27Any convictions?
37:29It's rumoured he's got protection in the Italian government.
37:32You think Riff and B know this Ponti?
37:34He used to be Riff's road manager. He toured with the band.
37:37The dark pit opens.
37:39So B arranged for the kidnapping to be staged
37:42by her husband's old musical associate for the sake of publicity.
37:45Yes.
37:46Is Ponti wanted?
37:48With lust. By five European police forces.
37:50Then we have a whole new operation.
37:52You're not going to pull her out?
37:54Finally, we have something meaningful to pursue.
37:56We must catch this man. Fiona is a major field asset.
37:59Look... Knock! Knock! What do I have to do, beg?
38:02But, Luke, it's just out and I just got it and we're in it!
38:05Harry, the switchboard says they're getting lots of calls. All about Megamag.
38:09I'd better have lunch.
38:16Meeples. Yes, sir.
38:18Somebody else said it was fine to publish it.
38:20What someone? Oh, come on, Adam.
38:22Downing Street?
38:24The press office said they thought it showed MI5 in a good light.
38:28Makes you look very now.
38:30You rang the Downing Street press office about a security service operation?
38:34They rang me.
38:35She said the Downing Street press office.
38:38Thank you, Adam.
38:40Downing Street. Strings everywhere today.
38:43Nothing on the news about Sylvester's resignation?
38:46Why are they meddling?
39:13The other van's in the street, back of the house. Here's your link.
39:16You should have set up a dead drop. This isn't good tradecraft.
39:19It's not tradecraft. I had to see you. Now, be careful.
39:22Ponty's a killer. If he's in really deep...
39:24That's why I wanted to see you anyway.
39:26Ow! Get off me!
39:28You came on for me! What's going on?
39:30You distracted Paul, me! Paul! I told you to get out!
39:33You've ruined everything!
39:39Hey.
39:41Thanks.
39:43Yeah.
39:49Sarge, do you know anything about the kidnapping?
39:51Do you know Rhythm BD?
39:56Hello?
39:58X-ray Tango Base receiving. Please give call sign over.
40:01Repeat. X-ray Tango Base receiving. Please give...
40:04Fiona, it's Adam. Are you set up?
40:06I think so. Can you hear this?
40:08Fine. We'll be on our way.
40:10Fine. We'll be able to hear you all the way, OK?
40:12Please use the correct procedures. These call signs could save lives.
40:40Are you OK?
40:47Can I help?
40:49I don't think so.
40:52I don't trust you.
40:56I don't trust anyone.
41:03Do you want some coke?
41:05Where did you come from?
41:10Heaven?
41:12Yeah. Let's move.
41:17I think we won't record this.
41:19Yeah, and you can wipe the last...
41:21Yeah. Terrible things officers have to do in the field, all for liberty.
41:25Go on.
41:27Can I tell you something?
41:29I don't know.
41:31Go on.
41:33Can I tell you something?
41:37I want to trust you.
41:42You can have me fired if I let you down.
41:46They were right.
41:49It wasn't my fault.
41:51I killed my baby.
41:55It's all right. It's all right. It's all right.
41:57I didn't mean it to go this far.
41:59It's OK. Come on.
42:02It was supposed to be so simple.
42:04Take him to a house. He's going to be safe there.
42:06They take the money. You set that up in the club.
42:09300,000.
42:11Then they give us the rest and I...
42:13They took Alfie out the window.
42:15Oh! What am I going to do?
42:18What am I going to do?
42:20Don't do anything.
42:22Was that said to us?
42:24Yeah. Didn't use a call sign either.
42:26OK, Fiona.
42:28Take us to Ponty.
42:30Have you heard from them?
42:33Does Riff know about this?
42:35No.
42:37I love him, but...
42:39he's like...
42:41when you blow the inside out of an egg.
42:45It's a shell.
42:50But the story's all right, isn't it?
42:52The story?
42:54Riff and me's baby boy died during a kidnap
42:56and they never find out who did it.
42:58That has to be the story.
43:00It has to be left like that.
43:02Cos then the papers print that...
43:05and people still love us.
43:07Can you believe what she just said?
43:10Where's he going?
43:13Put the team on him.
43:15Team will stay down for the house, I think.
43:17But we've got no babysitters here.
43:19Watch it.
43:21Riff, what's the matter?
43:23Riff, what about Alfie?
43:25What about your son?
44:21Shit!
44:51I'm worried sick about Fede taking that stuff.
44:55Other people's pleasures are so boring.
45:00I want to meet you, Bea.
45:02Why would I want to do that?
45:04Ponty's ringing her.
45:06I want more money.
45:08You killed my son.
45:10I want who's really responsible.
45:12Trace?
45:14I'm sorry.
45:16I'm sorry.
45:18I'm sorry.
45:20Trace? No, no way.
45:22God help us, he'll tell the press.
45:24They won't print it.
45:26It's like a stain. It won't go away.
45:35Hello?
45:36Babe?
45:37Riff.
45:38Listen, Ponty's just phoned.
45:40Ponty?
45:42Yeah, he says he wants to meet you.
45:44Don't do that.
45:45He says he knows something about Alfie.
45:47All right.
45:49Where are you?
45:51Listen, I don't want to do this with him.
45:53They're listening, aren't they?
45:55Babe, you've got to give me a clue.
46:00That's the beginning of the world.
46:08Ponty'll tell him what I did.
46:10I've got to go.
46:12Bea, where?
46:14Oh, yeah.
46:16I'm coming with you.
46:18Beginning of the world? Where's that God knows...
46:20She's going with her, with no backup.
46:22In this thing, we'll never keep up with her.
46:30Ponty.
46:34Hello, mate.
46:37Bea's not here.
46:39Bea? No, no, she's just gone away.
46:42So you know something about Alfie?
46:44So you know something about Alfie?
46:46You don't know?
46:48Know what?
46:53Red 10 to Tango X-ray base.
46:55I'm in the whole club. Acknowledge.
46:57Bea. Acknowledge.
46:59Who's this?
47:01Friend. A friend?
47:03I don't want her here. I've come to talk business.
47:06Tough. She goes, I go.
47:10Babe.
47:12Do you want to go? There's nothing for you here.
47:15Please.
47:17She didn't tell you.
47:20Confidious wives.
47:25It was an accident, Reeve.
47:27From my heart.
47:29At the bank. A rope.
47:31I'm a good climber.
47:33But he slipped.
47:35And for that, I'm really sorry.
47:37But people need to be paid more when the stakes are higher.
47:42It was your idea.
47:44It was gonna be safe.
47:52I'll... I'll... I'll call with that.
47:56So you want some money now, is that it?
47:59I can sort that out right now.
48:03Pardon me.
48:05Pardon me, eh?
48:08We were such good mates in the old days, eh? Back in the day.
48:11I mean, it's not my fault if it's safe.
48:29Reeve, listen to me.
48:31I'm an MI5 officer, no drugs.
48:35I don't want anything.
48:37I don't care. I just want to live.
48:39Why?
48:41Why?
48:43To survive.
48:45To be loved.
48:47They don't like your new music, babe.
48:50I'm too old to be a model.
48:56You can have another baby.
49:05Oh!
49:29Hey, stars in suicide pack shock horror.
49:32Damn it!
49:35Get the medic in here!
49:37They weren't in range.
49:40Police picked up your message. They knew it was from the fire office.
49:43Medics!
49:45Pansy's still breathing.
49:48There's been a huge outpouring of grief
49:51at what is believed to have been the suicide pack
49:54to two of the nation's most loved figures, Riff and Bee.
49:57The speculation is that they were overcome by grief
50:00at the death of their baby son.
50:02The national soap opera continues.
50:04Are we going to get a crack at the Italian?
50:06When he's recovered from his wounds,
50:08the drug squad intelligence unit want to recycle him as an informant.
50:11Personally, I'm glad we don't have to deal with him.
50:13Next item. A sloppy disregard of call signs during radio communications.
50:16Thank you, Harry. I would like to propose
50:18a complete overhaul of call signs procedure.
50:20How is Fiona?
50:22She's OK. Still in hospital.
50:24I don't think she is.
50:26Oh, no.
50:28Fee.
50:30I've put in a claim to special contingencies.
50:32I don't think I can say...
50:34It's all right. Adam and I are going home now.
50:39Malcolm, leave your paper with me.
50:41Meeting done.
50:46Other news now.
50:48The boost for family values.
50:50The Treasury Minister, John Sylvester, has resigned for personal reasons.
50:53No other reason at all.
50:55I have a young, growing family. I don't want to miss their childhood.
50:58I'm saying goodbye to Papa Five.
51:00And with the tragedy that overcame Baby Alfie and his parents
51:03and all our minds, I do reflect on how worthless fame can be.
51:06And the Prime Minister?
51:08Oh, he's very kind. Said he fully understood
51:11and he'll wish me and my family well.
51:13Turn that off.
51:15He posted his full confession to the PM.
51:17Obviously, it was intercepted.
51:19Fiona, just lend him to me for one more job.
51:22Anything else, sir?
51:24Actually, I'll have caviar, beluga, and a steak tartare.
51:27Wow. What brought that on?
51:29A little exploitation of the media.
51:31Ah, well, I can afford it.
51:33Do you know I've been offered the editorship of a tabloid?
51:36The tabloid.
51:38Yes, I do know.
51:40Oh. No-one's meant to.
51:42We two have our contacts in the Downing Street press office.
51:45Terrible thing, death of the Baby Alfie and the suicide pact.
51:49Do you think you'll ever prune what really happened?
51:51Destroy the memory of the nation's favourite dream couple?
51:54I don't think so. Well, not yet, anyway.
51:57You know, a minister resigned today as well.
51:59That pathetic little man and his whinging about his family.
52:02It was buried by the Riffenby suicide.
52:04Deliberately buried.
52:06Downing Street covered it up.
52:09This is a present from Harry Pearce.
52:11Strictly non-attributable.
52:13Send it to the police.
52:15Think he'll use it?
52:17Maybe.
52:19Around election time.