"Sometimes you have to send a message in the only language they understand - blood for blood." "Whatever you need, Harry" "Anything at all." "I want nothing more than revenge." "I need to have a chips-down conversation with Viktor Sarkisiian." "We are walking directly into the arms of people who want you dead." "I spent eight years in a Russian cell, because I stayed loyal to my country." "Harry sweated blood to get you back here." "He'd rather die than let anything ever happen to you." "Your case file is trying to hit my officers in London." "I'm a much bigger prize." "You can make a gift of me to your superiors, a senior British Intelligence Officer." "I need to talk to Harry." "Harry?" "Has anyone made contact with him?" "You should eat." "This is as good as it gets." "What are you going to do with me?" "I will sell you on, of course." "You should be proud of the price you command." "There are some people who will be concerned as to my whereabouts." "This place is heavily guarded." "Your people have no idea where you are." "In the meantime, I will stroll around the gardens and reflect on my new-found independence from Moscow and the wealth that you will bring me and my men." "Feel free to try and escape." "It will provide us all with some entertainment." "Hello, old chap." "It's been a long time." "I hope they haven't treated you too badly." "Mr Sarkisiian?" "I told you I'd be missed." "HE LAUGHS" "What is it?" "He thinks you've come to rescue him." "It's true." "He does." "You're a fool, Harry." "This is the man who offered such a high price for you." "He just doesn't want to pay it." "True again." "Wait." "Wait!" "Cut off his ring finger and send it to Colonel Basukov at the Russian embassy." "Look around you, Harry." "This is the room in which you are about to die." "MEN CHANT IN ARABIC" "Can I leave a message for my family?" "No messages." "Look around you, Harry." "This is the room in which you are about to die." "Can I leave a message for my family?" "No messages." "MEN CHANT IN ARABIC" "GUNSHOT" "Posted on the internet but we pulled it, straight away." "If it does get back into the public domain, the official line is that we're studying it for authenticity." "What DO we think on its authenticity?" "The insignia on the gunman belongs to the Sacred Army of Righteous Vengeance." "OK, so let's say that Sarkisiian did a deal with an extreme Islamic group like SARV." "They certainly have the cash." "Still doesn't mean the execution is real." "What do you think, Malcolm?" "It could be a sophisticated cut and paste job." "But why would they go to all that trouble?" "If SARV have got him, they'd milk it for ages." "He's a massive trophy." "You're just talking yourselves into optimism." "What do you suggest?" "Start discussing the poem for his memorial service?" "Don't you dare patronise me!" "I've known him for far longer than you have." "Sorry, Malcolm." "I was rude and my comment was uncalled for." "All right, look." "Going back to Harry's trophy status, surely they'd want to interrogate him." "Very quickly." "They'd know we'd have red-flashed our assets and changed everything in hours." "They'd also know we'd be on the hunt." "It's dangerous holding on to a prize asset for too long." "All right, despite our personal involvement, we treat Harry just like any missing asset." "And remember, we still don't have a body." "What do you think, Malcolm?" "Really." "I think it's genuine." "Just seeing Harry like that, even if it's fake, it's just, the idea of it." "I know." "We have to proceed as if he's alive." "That video's not genuine." "You throw a ton of money at a Russian turncoat, you're gonna want to see a lot more for your investment than one video." "Even if the video is fake, when they no longer have any use for Harry, they will kill him." "Then we have to act fast." "Abdul Hussain." "The guy 6 allege have links to the SARV." "First port of call, I'd say." "Politically very sensitive." "He's claiming torture at Guantanamo with our collusion." "I'll go direct to the Home Secretary." "Get clearance to talk to him." "PHONE RINGS Yeah." "Mm-hmm." "Thank you." "Viktor Sarkisiian's body's just been found." "Identify the body, I'll go to the Home Secretary about Hussain." "You cannot approach Abdul Hussain, far less mount a covert operation against him." "He might have information that can help us." "It's too sensitive." "This is Stephen Hillier from MI6." "They have a long-standing interest in Mr Hussain." "I've heard of you." "And I you, of course." "Have you seen the video?" "Yes, I have." "And what do you think?" "I think it's certainly the SARV." "Whether the execution is real or not is less certain." "What about Abdul Hussain?" "I do have to agree with the Home Secretary on that one." "He's political dynamite." "I count Harry as a friend, as well as one of this country's finest servants." "You must find another way, Ros." "We know quite a lot about Hussain at our place." "A very devious individual." "I think you're right to consider him a legitimate source of interest." "Why didn't you say?" "It's politically difficult." "I didn't say that you were wrong to be interested in him." "OK." "Thanks." "Viktor Sarkisiian." "Can't say we're too sorry to see the back of him." "PHONE RINGS" "Yeah, this is Daybreak." "SHE LAUGHS" "Keep your warped fantasies to yourself, big guy." "Yeah, I can confirm - Sputnik is the stiff." "He should count himself lucky that whoever did this got to him before we did." "Certainly before Ros Myers did, from what I've heard about her." "Sarah Caulfield." "Ah, Libby McCall's replacement at Grosvenor Square, right?" "Yup, Libby's going home to Texas." "Sit on his porch, eat hamburgers and wait for the Rapture." "Out with the old." "And in with the new." "Libby McCall and his type are history." "So who did this?" "We don't know yet." "Sarkisiian went freelance, I guess somebody's telling the Russians not to bother going after him." "So some lucky FSB colonel gets a finger in the morning post." "You, on the other hand, get a video." "Oh, you've seen it then?" "Mm-hmm." "And?" "What can you say?" "Looks real enough, but then a decent forgery does." "I will say that we had an asset taken by that group and it was six weeks before they killed him." "Yeah, an anomaly we also spotted." "Although the SARV have also used guns in executions." "I hear anything at all, you'll be the first to know." "I doubt that." "Keep me high on the list, at least." "The Home Secretary's vetoed the operation on Hussain." "So we have nothing to go on." "I'm going to ignore the Home Secretary." "But I don't want either of you involved so if there are consequences I'll take the blame." "How are you going to get near him?" "He attends a clinic for trauma counselling." "I'd very much like to know what goes on there." "Get caught and they'll hang you out to dry." "Right now, Harry's either dead or facing death." "I know we're scraping the barrel, but it's all we can do." "Hello again, Harry." "You really think my team will believe a faked execution?" "I think they'll entertain the thought, but I agree they'll probably discover that you're alive." "We'll keep tossing them curveballs though." "The SARV video will keep them looking for the wrong people in all the wrong places." "Posing as a group of Islamic terrorists must have been hard for a died in the wool Indian nationalist like yourself." "Omelettes and eggs, Harry." "But I have to admit, it didn't come easily." "What have you done with it, Harry?" "Done with what?" "The very large quantity of weapons-grade uranium that you were supposed to be safeguarding." "Doing exactly that, safeguarding it." "Come on, Harry, we both know that everybody breaks in the end." "It's only a question of...when?" "More than one way to skin a cat, of course." "Jo said you had something." "The video is inconclusive." "There are some stutters but it was done on a mobile so that proves nothing." "All right." "The interesting thing is in the sounds, the jeering." "We've done some sound-splitting and redub to isolate each separate noise item." "No wonder you've been here all night." "Most of it's just incoherent but we got one word and put wave-enhancement treatment on it." "WORD IS PLAYED BACK REPEATEDLY" "What's that?" "It's an insult." "If these people are SARV, you'd expect to hear Arabic, English, perhaps Punjabi, right?" "Mm-hmm." "But this is Malayalam." "The official language of Kerala, in India." "Just one word." "Somebody forgot himself in the excitement." "But I'd be amazed if a foot soldier in SARV was recruited in Kerala." "So why would someone from India be involved in Harry's disappearance?" "WORD IS PLAYED BACK REPEATEDLY" "These are the psychiatric notes on Abdul Hussain." "What do they show?" "Hussain has no connection with the SARV nor any other terrorist group." "And according to this he never has." "The notes do give us stuff." "He refers a lot to an agent he knew as "Ronnie"." "Alleges collusions with the Americans in his torture." "Who is "Ronnie"?" "Stephen Hillier." "From 6?" "The same man who suggested it was worth going after him." "He wanted us to smear him and take responsibility for the fallout." "There'll be a reckoning on this one, wasting our bloody time on a personal vendetta." "This makes the whole SARV connection more tenuous." "To waste our time, while they try to get information from Harry." "But what information?" "I'm not a psychopath, Harry." "The sound of screaming actually sets my teeth on edge." "Especially women." "There is a woman, though, who also knows what I want." "The one who was with you in Baghdad." "She's dead." "You can't get to her." "She's very much alive, as both you and I know." "She doesn't know." "I think she does." "But even if I'm wrong, sometimes it's the pain of others that can make people break." "Are you coming in?" "Not if you want to eat tonight." "Looks good." "We need wine." "It's OK, I got a few bottles in on Friday." "And we finished them on Monday." "Would it be so wrong to send Nico to get more?" "Well, why bother having children if you can't make them do stuff for you?" "Well, I'm quite happy without it." "Me too, obviously." "Good, so we'll just have water." "All right, I'm going." "See you in ten." "Nico, get out and go and wait by the car!" "What, now?" "Yes, now!" "Why?" "Because, I, I, I feel bad about making your dad walk on such a hot day." "Come on, we'll surprise him." "Come on." "Get in the car!" "You all right?" "You'd better hope she returns to Britain now." "If you're lucky, she'll turn for help to the only place she really knows." "BEEPING" "I've got it." "Got what?" "Sarkisiian was close to a millionaire with a house in Moscow-on-Thames." "Go on?" "Massive place, secluded, plenty of space to land a helicopter and empty at the time of Harry's abduction." "Brilliant, Malcolm." "Let's get a team down there." "Someone was killed there - more than one person, actually." "They did a pretty good job of cleaning up but we found microscopic traces of three different types of blood." "One matched Sarkisiian's - he was executed there." "But none of the blood was Harry's." "They used the Russian's blood to simulate the pool at Harry's head." "Then he's alive." "PHONE RINGS" "'Echo." "Foxtrot." "Lima." "'Lady Lazarus.'" "What is it, Malcolm?" "I've just had a Code 10." "From Ruth." "Ruth?" "She's in trouble, she needs our help." "I don't like it here." "I just want to go home." "We can't go home." "Why not?" "Go upstairs and play, Nico," "I'll be up in a minute." "Any ideas, Ruth?" "How best to explain this to him?" "I'm so sorry." "You couldn't tell me?" "!" "I thought there'd never be any need." "Truth is an end in itself, it requires no other justification." "How much you have to learn." "I don't want to learn your moral values." "Hello, Malcolm." "I didn't think I'd ever see you again." "No." "I was happy, Malcolm." "Life was..." "Calm?" "It's like one of those scary dreams." "When you're taken back to a time and place you thought you'd left completely behind." "I'm so glad to see you again." "I left some fresh fish out on the side." "It was so hot, they'll be completely..." "Doesn't really matter any more, I suppose." "There's a car waiting." "We'll take you straight back to the grid." "How is he, Malcolm?" "What's happened?" "Harry's in great danger, Ruth." "Ruth." "I'm Lucas North." "I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances." "Why was I attacked?" "Hypothesis - whoever has Harry went after Ruth as well." "The South Asian appearance of her attackers would certainly suggest that." "Why?" "They're holding him because they want information." "The SARV red herring was just to buy them time." "Information that you and Harry share." "I don't know what that could be." "What did Harry ever share with you that was for your ears only?" "That no-one else could ever know?" "That would be worth all this effort?" "Ruth?" "Baghdad." "I think this might be about Baghdad." "What happened in Baghdad?" "Harry came across a clandestine operation there." "What was it?" "To smuggle weapons-grade uranium into the country and then "discover" it." "Vindicate the war." "Harry was involved in that?" "Harry stopped it." "So who else was involved?" "Elements of the CIA, some cowboys from 6, and a freelance chap from the Indian Intelligence Bureau." "It was completely below the radar." "When Harry discovered it, he went straight to the top and it was quickly stopped." "But why now?" "What do they want from Harry now?" "The uranium, I should think." "The uranium actually got there." "It was in Iraq already?" "Whole thing was a very close call." "There were voices in the States who wanted to green light it." "But Harry won the argument and we got it out again." "Brought it here." "And Harry knows where it is, and he told you as back-up." "Harry was the only person other than the Americans who knew where it was." "So yes, he told me." "You carry on." "I'm going to go and see the Home Secretary." "What did you know about it?" "Virtually nothing - it's a delicate matter." "And the Indian contractor involved?" "The one who stole the uranium in the first place." "A man called Amish Mani." "Ex-Indian Intelligence Bureau." "Well, he's here now." "And we think he's got Harry." "You must go to the Americans." "They were driving the operation." "The CIA guy was Libby McCall - horrible man." "He's been here for a few years." "He's now on the point of retiring." "He sided with Harry, in the end." "Once it became clear the plan wouldn't go ahead there was a lot of shape-shifting taking place." "And the MI6 guy at the dinner?" "Didn't know him." "He used the name Ronnie." "Also wriggled around afterwards suggesting he'd never really supported it." "That Ronnie?" "That's him." "Stephen Hillier." "I'm so bored." "There are some games here." "I had this as a boy." "My grandfather taught me how to play." "It's a game involving both skill and luck." "I've never been one for luck, but I always find that, er, a thorough assessment of possible dice combinations allows for a more precise risk analysis." "It's quite simple." "It's all about understanding the laws of probability." "He's ten." "Last birthday he got a train cake on chocolate finger rails." "Sorry." "I'm not so used to children." "Wouldn't it be possible to get a house with a garden at least?" "So the boy can play." "I'll try." "In the meantime, Nico, let's have a game." "But perhaps without mastering probability." "Takes all the fun out of it." "Stephen Hillier from 6." "Libby McCall from the CIA." "Amish Mani from the Indian IB." "Our three musketeers." "All of them knew about the plan." "OK, let's say Mani wants the uranium." "He knows Harry can give him its whereabouts." "Is one of these two working with him?" "Have they reunited as a team?" "McCall can't be involved." "He knows where the uranium is and he's had time to get it." "Maybe he wants Harry and Ruth removed because they're the only British elements that would know if he wanted to take it Stateside." "Well, surely he would have just killed them, save himself all this trouble." "True." "I just don't think there are only two musketeers in all this." "Not strong enough." "There's something else going on here." "OK, talk to Sarah Caulfield." "Shake the tree gently, see what flies out." "I wanted to find out what you knew about an MI6 officer whose codename out in Cuba was "Ronnie"." "You think I know more than you?" "There are certain allegations made about him, maybe a press story about to blow up." "He's trying to dodge the blame, put it all on you guys." "What's your interest?" "I'd just like to know who he deals with at your end." "OK, I'll try and find out for you, although obviously I'm sceptical that you'd mind him putting all the blame on us." "I'm not enjoying this handover period any more than you, so I'll get to the point." "MI5 are asking questions about our relationship with one of their guys." "Ronnie?" "What about him?" "Something to do with Camp Delta." "Thought I should warn you." "And why would you of all people want to do that?" "Because while I cannot wait for the day that you haul your sorry fat arse back to Texas," "I also don't want something to come out that further damages my country." "Well, thanks for the heads-up." "Last one you'll get." "Your days are over, Libby." "I wouldn't count on that." "Nothing lasts forever." "You've only got the White House on loan." "Malcolm, where's Ruth?" "Gone home to be with her husband and step-son." "I've just changed her location." "Why?" "The boy was climbing up the walls, he was so bored." "I've organised her a new safe house with a garden at least." "Did you put that through the system?" "Yes, was there any reason I shouldn't?" "It's just, you're being extra cautious." "Nobody told me there was an internal risk." "Well, there may not be." "All the same, we should call her." "Where have you been?" "I had to go and talk to some people, about what's been happening." "PHONE RINGS" "Please, not now!" "We need to talk, Ruth." "Turn that thing off." "You still owe us a little of your time." "PHONE CONTINUES RINGING Yes." "Yes, I do." "PHONE STOPS RINGING" "No answer." "I'm going over there." "Keep trying her." "Lucas?" "Hillier might have compromised us." "We cannot stay here!" "In this pokey little flat, practically next to a motorway." "They've already got us a new location sorted." "DOORBELL RINGS" "It's probably them now." "Look, this whole thing is only temporary." "They'll have found us somewhere much nicer." "OK, she's ours this time." "Who's looking after them?" "Had to use my people or she'd have suspected something." "Once the husband and son are alone, the Indians will take over." "We're on a limited timeframe." "Now we have the woman, things will move fast." "In the meantime I'm making retirement plans so I'd appreciate it if you'd speed up on that front." "Don't worry." "Everybody gets paid here." "As long as you deliver the uranium." "Good." "Lucas!" "Their bags have gone." "No sign of a struggle or forced entry." "So where the hell are they?" "Hillier's up to his neck in this." "Only he could have penetrated our safe-house system." "I still think McCall's in on this." "I still don't see why, if he knows where the uranium is." "Maybe we should ask him." "Hold fire." "At least until I've heard back from Sarah Caulfield." "OK, in the meantime I'll go and talk to Hillier again." "Friends reunited." "What have you done with my family?" "Were you two just friends back then?" "There was an obvious connection and everybody else out there was at it like rabbits." "Adrenaline, I suppose." "You two, though...?" "You know it wouldn't surprise me if it was all quite chaste in a frightfully outdated Brief Encounter kind of way." "I wouldn't speculate about it too much." "It's probably a bit beyond your vulgar little mind." "One or both of you knows where the uranium is." "I shall be back shortly to find out... ..which one of you breaks first." "It's all a bit midlife crisis round here, isn't it?" "It probably impresses the younger woman more." "You crazy bitch, you wouldn't dare." "This is about the uranium." "You know that, I know that." "It is about the uranium, but it's more than that." "Who are you working for?" "Harry Pearce only has himself to blame for this predicament." "Why?" "Because he double-crossed everybody." "If he hadn't moved the uranium, there would be no need for this." "And he didn't trust the other people who knew where it was." "And when they found out they didn't know where it was any more..." "they got very upset." "You betrayed Ruth Evershed and her family." "Where are they?" "All right, but..." "I do want assurances." "Talk!" "Evershed's family are in another safe house." "One of ours." "As for Harry..." "You got married out there?" "George is a doctor." "At the local hospital where I worked for a while." "Worked?" "Clerical work." "You were made for more than that, Ruth." "I loved it." "I did my job correctly and when it was finished I went to the market, or swimming." "It was simple." "Everything about my life was simple and elegant, for once." "And George?" "He's a good and kind man, Harry." "Do you love him?" "I feel... ..very guilty." "That wasn't my question." "Ruth?" "He doesn't deserve to be in danger." "And I'm not going to start discussing my feelings about him." "DOOR OPENS Not with you." "OK..." "Time to get serious now." "Where's the uranium?" "Don't hurt her." "You dare to hurt her!" "Calm down, Harry, no need to go all Shakespearean on us." "They think they are in their nice new house with a garden and that the men with guns are looking after them." "Which of course they are, for the time being." "Please, don't do anything to them." "If you cooperate with me, then I shall have no need to do so." "Ruth and her family are in one of Hillier's safe houses." "Tap into their system, find out where it is." "I'm on it." "You were right, Lucas." "McCall's involved." "How?" "Harry moved the uranium, he's the only one who knows where it is." "So it is Baghdad Reunited." "McCall realised what Harry had done and put the original team back together." "He's not sentimental either." "One of the musketeers has just been splattered over the roof of his car." "If McCall killed Hillier, we won't get near him." "Sarah Caulfield may still have access to McCall." "I want a tracker on him." "See if he can lead us to Harry." "How do I persuade her to do that?" "Any means necessary." "I'd try charm first." "How nice, a bit of father/son bonding." "See, there's no need for torture." "You think this isn't torture?" "One of my men will first shoot your husband and then the boy if you do not tell me where the uranium is." "Please, I'm begging you!" "Tell me where the uranium is." "She doesn't know." "We'll see." "You're wasting your time." "She doesn't know where it is." "Tell me, Ruth." "She only thinks she knows where it is." "Your husband and the boy are about to die." "I'm sorry, Harry, I can't." "It's in Norfolk." "An abandoned nuclear shelter from the Cold War years." "Oh, dear, Harry." "Take the boy inside." "Now, kill the man." "No!" "No what are you doing?" "I, I told you what you wanted to know." "Please...!" "NO!" "OH, GOD!" "NO!" "OH!" "MY GOD!" "OH...!" "This is all YOUR fault, Harry!" "If you'd played by the rules, none of this would have happened!" "If I'd played by the rules, the uranium would already be in the hands of terrorists." "OK, let's see how far your duty will go." "You were right." "You told the truth, for which I commend you." "But we've already looked in that place that you said." "Now Harry will have to do a whole lot better or the boy will meet the same fate." "Fetch me a new laptop." "Did you tell Libby McCall that we were looking into Stephen Hillier?" "I might have done." "Hillier's now dead." "So much for the new broom." "Still, it's not a completely disastrous outcome, as it confirms McCall's behind Harry's kidnapping." "You're crazy..." "He was part of a conspiracy to plant weapons-grade uranium inside Iraq." "Harry hid it from him." "If he gets his hands on it, it will be sold, could be turned into a dirty bomb." "Might be London that gets it, or just as easily lower Manhattan." "McCall's not going to care." "Waiting in Texas for the Lord Jesus Christ to come riding over the hill blowing a trumpet." "Your mess." "No, OUR mess." "Come on, Sarah, let's work together on this one." "What do you want me to do?" "We think McCall will lead us to Harry." "I want a track on him, and in return you get his co-conspirator, the uranium..." "..anything you want." "If you really are the new broom, it's time to start sweeping away the rubbish." "I've found Hillier's safe house, it must be where they're holding Ruth's husband and child." "OK, keep a watch on the house." "We can't just leave them there." "We can't go charging in there with Ruth and Harry still captive." "Keep it under surveillance." "If I hadn't moved them, maybe they wouldn't have been found.." "Malcolm, stop blaming yourself, Hillier would have found Ruth anyway." "Organise a surveillance team." "We're really close to Harry now." "I was the one who put them in danger!" "No, Malcolm, you weren't." "Get some rest, we're dealing with this." "One..." "..two..." "You'd kill a child?" "Of course I would." "Children are the first casualties of every conflict." "..three..." "Harry...!" "..four..." "He doesn't know his father's dead yet, of course." "We'll bury them together, though." "Harry!" "I can't." "Please!" "..five..." "The uranium will be used to build a dirty bomb." "It could kill thousands of children." "But I can only see mine in front of me." "I can't tell him." "Listen to her, Harry, listen to the voice of compassion." "You know nothing about compassion." "..six... .seven, eight, nine..." "Please, don't kill him!" "If you have any feelings at all, if you have any feelings for me... ..ten..." "Harry!" "All right..." "Stop!" "Good." "Listen to me, Mani." "I won't tell you." "And if I won't tell you now, killing the child is totally pointless." "What would you have then?" "A dead child and no uranium." "You heartless bastard." "You're calling my bluff?" "No." "I'm making a cold statement of fact." "If you kill the child, it will be for gratification but not for any purpose, because I won't tell you if you do...or if you don't." "Come on, Mani, you're an intelligence officer, you know when a man is bluffing." "All right." "We'll see how strongly your will holds out, when the child's in the room with us." "SHE SOBS" "A child in pain is a very distressing sight." "You promised the CIA both Mani and the uranium?" "Huge propaganda coup." "Sarah Caulfield finds a corrupt ex-contractor from Iraq with stolen uranium." "How good does she look?" "Harry will never agree." "If she doesn't help us, he won't have a say in the matter." "But if we save him, he'll countermand the deal." "Yeah, it's the flaw in my plan, but we only cross that bridge once Harry's safe." "Double-crossing the new CIA liaison officer on practically her first day." "I like your style, Lucas." "BLEEPING" "Well, she obviously likes you." "She's got a tracker on McCall." "OK, let's keep an eye on him." "Jo, can you coordinate the teams following him?" "We've got surveillance up on the house but we can only hear the boy." "Keep monitoring it." "He's alone." "What have they done to Ruth's husband?" "I don't know, but we can't go in yet." "We have to get to McCall first." "He's the only link we have to Harry and Ruth now." "BLEEPING" "DOORBELL RINGS" "My name's Malcolm Wynn-Jones." "I'm an MI5 officer with a great deal of knowledge of how things work at Thames House." "I'm unarmed, my superiors don't know I'm doing this." "I've come to offer myself for the child you're holding here." "An MI5 officer has turned up at the house where the child is being kept." "They're closing in." "OK, we'll take one last shot at the woman." "I'm coming over." "We're going to have to really work them this time." "Don't even think of double-crossing me to save your own skin." "If it were to save my own skin, I'd do it, of course." "But it's not necessary." "What about the child and the MI5 officer?" "We're running out of time and they can't help us now." "Kill them both." "I want my dad." "Do you want me to tell you a story?" "I just want my dad." "He's gone to see your st..." "What do you call her, actually?" "Ruth." "He's gone to see Ruth." "Now listen, OK?" "Er, here's a story I like very much." "It's about a little boy..." "who wants a dog for his birthday." "But he doesn't get a dog, he gets a picture of a dog instead." "Why?" "Because adults often make a mess of these things, we don't always get what we want." "So this little boy..." "How old is he?" "He's about your age." "Anyway, he shuts his eyes and he imagines things." "He imagines a dog so very, very small, that nobody else can see it." "Shut your eyes, Nico." "Imagine a dog." "It's your dog and nobody else's." "And while that dog's there... everything else is OK." "PHONE RINGS" "'Kill them.'" "Target's heading east along Sutherland Street." "I'm joining the Alpha intercept team." "So, after he's been hit by a car, they give the boy a real dog." "But he doesn't want it." "He tries to push it away." "Why?" "Well, because, you see, he's grown to love the dog that lives in his head too much." "He has to learn to love real things again." "HE WHISPERS:" "If you are a human being, if you have an ounce of humanity or compassion in you, then kill me but do not harm the boy." "Just walk away from this." "Please." "OK, I've got him in sight." "Jo, he's slowing down." "He must be close." "There's a disused warehouse behind the flats on your left." "He's pulling into the flats." "We're on him." "Where are they?" "McCall's been detained by your officers." "They'll be downstairs cutting a deal, and I'll be the fall guy." "Stop this now." "Close your eyes, Nico." "Think of your dog, tell me what it's like." "It's a brown dog with a white bit on the end of its tail." "It doesn't need to be that way." "We can do a deal, too." "I'm a dead man walking." "So I might as well finish what I was going to do at the end of this, anyway." "GUNFIRE" "Oh..." "Harry...!" "DOOR CLOSES" "Where's Lucas?" "Debriefing Libby McCall." "What's gonna happen to him now?" "He goes home as planned, of course." "Empty-handed, though." "I suppose a heart attack might beat the Second Coming." "And my side of the deal?" "Yeah, well," "I'm afraid Lucas jumped the gun there." "He didn't have the authorisation to offer you a deal." "He promised me Mani." "You're more than welcome to what's left of him." "And the uranium." "No." "We might give that back to the Indians." "Or keep it." "Still to be decided." "You bastards." "We'll give you something, though, I promise you that." "We're incredibly grateful." "Gratitude doesn't really cut it, Ros." "I don't like being messed about." "I'LL decide on the payback." "She's just told the boy that his father is dead." "Is she going home?" "She IS home." "What will she do now?" "I don't know." "Ruth is only alive now because of the work you did here." "I think when the grief is less raw... she will remember that." "Ruth's angry with you." "I know." "You were right, though." "Perhaps." "You saved the boy, though, Malcolm." "Harry, I want to retire." "What?" "I'm too old for this." "I'm dog-tired, really." "You can't retire." "What... what will you do?" "I don't know." "Read books somewhere near the sea." "I'm ready, Harry." "Please don't try and stop me." "I want to go now, otherwise I'll change my mind." "You've given such service." "Serving my country." "In spite of everything that goes with it." "Then go home, Malcolm." "Go home and rest." "Malcolm?" "Did you have a poem planned for my memorial service?" "I bet you did." "But I'll never ever tell you what it was." "The plant will be closed for at least six months." "It is with great regret that I must inform the House that the rolling power cuts will be from 3 to 5 hours." "We will have to increase piped supply." "The Russians?" "Tazbekstan." "The Tazbeks?" "We have little choice." "The Tazbek Trade and Industry Secretary's a rapist and a murderer." "You don't have carte blanche, Mr Urazov." "Why, what will you do?" "This man is a Central Asian Hitler in the making." "I underestimated him."