"MALE REPORTER:" "The full extent of the structural damage caused by what appears to have been a large explosion." "We are getting reports of one fatality." "We can cross live now to our reporter"," "Good news?" "Our utility holdings jumped 32 million." "Should be enough to satisfy the Pakistanis'" "Then everything's in hand." "Everything except Alex Kent." " Sam?" " Still no sign of her'" "Turner's made his millions from this," "Yep, and no one will ever suspect how." "They're reporting a fatality at the scene They're saying it's a woman." "But Aidan still hasn't reported in." " You wanted to see me?" " Come in." "Sit down." "No need to be frightened." "Am I in some kind of trouble?" "We just want to ask you a few questions about the work you've been doing with Aidan Marsh." "(CURTAINS CLOSING}" "DOCTOR:" "Miss Kent," "How are you feeling?" "Like someone stepped on my head." "How did I get here?" "You were found unconscious on the pavement." "Were you drinking last night?" "Just a little wine." "Any history of fainting, dizziness?" "No," "Tell you what." "I think you're fine, but we'd like lo keep you under observation a bit longer." " All right?" " Okay." "The nurse will be along in a minute." "Do you need anything?" "Could someone call my boss?" "He might be wondering where I am'" "Give the number to the nurse when she comes in." "(DOCTOR EXITS)" " Dad?" " Morning." "What time is it?" "It's time to get up, I'll see you downstairs." "Where's Alex?" "She went out." "She'll be back soon." "Hows Granddad's little soldier?" "Huh?" " Good." " That's my boy'" "You go get your breakfast." "I need to have a word with your dad'" "I'll call the Pakistanis, explain to them we don't have the funds'" "No, no, no, there's no need for that." "What do you mean?" "I told you I'd take care of it, and I have." " We have the thirty million?" " Of course." "Stevie, I wanted to ask you about Alex Kent." "What about her?" "I understand she's been gone all night." "She called you at all?" "Mr Stephen, it's for you." "Hello," "(TYPING)" "Where is it?" " There a problem?" " Yeah." "Stephen Turners on a call in the library." "I can't get the bloody volume." "STEPHEN:" "All right, {see." "Well, sure, if you'd shown me that before." "Yeah, okay." "Yeah, that's right." "Can you give me the address?" "No, no, I understand, Thank you." "That was the Royal Hospital." "Alex collapsed last night on her way back to the house'" "What's happened?" "I can't reach Aidan, and Sam never returned from Conroy's last night" "I gathered that much." "What about the cheese, then?" "DEACON:" "Zoe." "Sam's at the Royal Hospital." "She all right?" "I'm guessing it's cover for her late return, but Fowkes still can't reach Aidan." "If he shows up, send him to us." "What for?" "We got a situation." "Sam, hide." "(GIRL SCREAMS)" "YOUNG SAM:" "Get off!" "Good morning, Miss Kent." "Or should I say, Miss Hunter?" "It's all right' I'm not here to hurt you." " You injected me with something." " A sedative." "Wm'?" "I need to talk to you." "You jab me in the eye just so you can talk to me?" "To demonstrate my good will." "If I'd wanted to kill you, you'd be dead, obviously'" "You didn't have to put me in a hospital bed for that." "The hospital explains your absence, both to the Turners and to Byzantium." "So talk." "I'll just put these in water." "Your life is in danger." "No Shit" "Unfortunately I arrived in Tangier too late." "I spent the past year searching for you." "By the time I found you, you were already in the Turner house" "You impersonated Horst Goebel!" "just to get to me." "I could hardly enter that house as myself." "And the real Horst Goebel?" "Sedated, like you." "Though, he never woke up." "I need to take you somewhere safe, beyond their reach." "You mean "Hourglass."" " I'm not authorised to discuss that" " I'm not going anywhere with you." "Your absence now would raise too many questions'" "But time is running out." "Byzantium wilt soon realise the danger you are in." "You mustn't trust anyone, especially if they say they're trying to help you'" "You mean, like you." "Well, you can put down that knife now." "How did they know I was at that cafe?" "It was intemperate of you to have an affair with a colleague." "(DOOR CLOSES}" "Aidan." "You okay'?" "Something wrong, Deacon?" "You don't seem your usual jolly sell" "I need to ask you some questions." "Let's talk later." "I want to go check on Sam." "Let's talk now." "Of course." "(MOUTHING)" "Hello Mr Ballard, Mr Keel is wailing for you." "Hello, George." "You're looking very well." "I look like shit." "So do you." " Tea." "Earl Grey with lemon." " Right away," "It's good to see you again." "Nostalgia's the last thing I'd expect from you, Rupert'" "You were an excellent analyst, the best MI6 had." "And you were a brilliant strategist." "Always two steps ahead." "I suppose that's why you're sitting here in a bespoke suit while I'm living in Croydon on a government wage." "Well, you were an idealist." "You make it sound like a dirty word." "I'd like to think there are still certain causes worth fighting fort" "That's a pretty thought." "So, why did you ask to see me again after all these years?" "An operative of ours, Sam Hunter." "Don't pretend you don't know who she is." "Or that she disappeared for the past year." "You can believe anything you like." "She's mixed up in something." "I'm not sure what." "But I'm beginning to get an idea." "Hows this for a blank face?" "Hourglass." "I thought as much." "I don't know what Hourglass is, Rupert" "Of course you don't." "Enjoy your tea, George." "(CHURCH BELL TOLLING)" "Alex." " How you feeling?" " I'm fine." " She had us worried, didn't she, Eddie'?" " Yeah." " Are you all right?" " I am if you are." "So can we take you home now, or..." "The doctor wants me to stay a few hours for observation, just to be sure." "Will you be home when I get back from school?" "I hope so." "You know what this is about, don't you?" "Surprise party?" "We've got a mole on the team, run by MI6 officer Natalie Thorpe." "Is that so?" "You know it is," "You're the mole." "That kind of hurts my feelings, Deacon." "After all the ops we've worked together'" "Imagine how I feel..." "Losing Hasan." "Because someone on my team was spying for 6'" "What makes you think it was me?" "Do you want to leave this room in a body bag?" " That wouldn't be my preference, no." " Then here's how it works." "I ask the questions, you answer." "Or you don't leave this room, ever'" "(MOBILE VIBRATING)" "Sam?" " What have I missed?" " That!" "building exploded."" "Tumer secured his thirty million quid, thanks to Lewis Conroy," "What about Aidan?" "He's being held at Byzantium." "Crane thinks he's the mole." "I'll be in touch." "Yesterday you instructed Simran Bains to make unauthorised inquiries into something called Hourglass." "Wm'?" "I'd love to tell you Deacon, I really would." "Then do it." "Once you prove to me that you're not the mole." "Me?" "I'd hardly make "authorised" inquiries, would I?" "When anyone on my team might be the one who got Hasan killed?" "You're pulling this out of your ass." "I'm not the mole, Deacon." "And I'm not going to answer any more questions until I know you're not, either'" "Look who's pulling up to the Big Brother house now'" "What'd you do to her, Lewis?" "Alex Kent." "She's in hospital." "In hospital?" "What for?" "She fainted on the pavement." "You must have been too much for her." "I came here to tell you I'm done, Jack." "Done'?" "What do you mean, done?" "This whole business." "I've made enough money, so have you'" "Since when has anyone ever made "enough" money'?" "A woman was killed in that explosion." "And Vince."" "You don't seem to understand, Lewis." "You don't stop until I tell you to stop." "Did you bring the list I asked you for?" "No, I didn't bring the bloody list." "I'm not having you investigate my friends, the people I work with." "The woman you saw at the university might be the same woman who broke into your office last night." "You think I don't know that?" "I keep expecting the police to bust in my door at any second" "Whoever she is, she's not the police." " Then who is she?" " You let us worry about that," "Go home." "You've done well for us today." " I'll see you out." " I can see myself out" "He's become a problem, hasn't he'?" "Let's get our ducks in a row first." "You dig up what you can about that break-in last night," " Where are you going, sin'?" " Me?" "I fancy a drink down my local." "Should I follow them'?" "Yeah, you'd better." "I'll tell Crane." "Where you going?" " Conroy's ﬂat." " What for?" "Tumer's going to be looking for the woman who saw him murder the professor then broke into Conroy's office." "We have to make sure he finds her." "He suspects you..." " He's playing for time." " Come with me." "((VOMITING))" "Get it open!" "(GROANS)" "(MOBILE RINGING)" "Aidan's escaped." " Is he still in the building?" " Exits are sealed." "GUARD:" "Mr Marsh, raise your hands." " Two more guards down." " Let's split up." "Aidan, you're not going to shoot me." "I didn't betray you." "(GRUNTS)" "Anything?" "We have all eyes on the airports and train stations." "Not that he'd be that stupid." " He said "I didn't betray you."" " You believe him?" "He could've killed us both and didn't." "I thought you wanted this to be over." "It is over now." "Byzantium found me out." "When?" "This morning." "I managed to escape the building'" "We'll relocate you." "I need to fix this." "This can't be fixed." "I need to have a meeting with your boss." "I want to meet George Ballard." "Ballard?" "He's got a case file on something called Hourglass'" "How do you know who I report to?" "Or what case files he has?" "Natalie, I need answers." "I don't have them." " I've never heard of Hourglass." " Neither had I." "But whatever it is, ii has something to do with the men who tried to kill Sam in Tangier'" "I see how talking to Ballard might help her." "I don't see how it helps you." "Those gunmen nearly killed Sam because of Intel I gave you." "You should want to know how and why they got that information'" "Just as much as her." "I know you'll just tell me what you think I need to hear."" "But when you were with me, was it all just an act?" "At least when you don't talk I know you're not lying." "(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)" "(GUN COG KS}" "Thanks for not shooting." "I won't hurt you, Sam." "Go ahead, pull the trigger." "But I'm on your side." "You're the mole." "I didn't have any choice, but I couldn't tell you that without compromising you, too'" "You told MI6 where I'd be." "I didn't know anyone would try to kill you, and neither did she." "You're lying." "I did lie." "I had 10" "But I'm not lying now." "(SNIFFLES)" "Sam, I know about Hourglass." "How do you know'?" "I found your secret room." "(EXHALES DEEPLY)" "I know everything." "That's how I got caught, trying to help you." "And I can't go back to Byzantium." "I need answers, just like you." "What brings you to this dump, Jack?" "Come on in, son." "I want you to meet an old friend of mine'" "All right." "Brilliant," "Jack Turner." "I never expected to see you back in these parts again," "Well, you need a passport these days." "But we're still holding the fort, ain't we?" "Long time since we raised glasses in here, eh, Dave?" "Too long, Jack." "I want you to meet a friend of mine, Gary." "Gary." "(DAVE CLEARS HIS THROAT)" "Gary's a useful lad." "He helped Tyrone with those jobs." "I don't know what jobs you're talking about, Dave'" "Oh, of course, yeah." "Sorry." "Why don't you show me that little item you're holding for me'?" "Yeah." "Course, Jack." "It's down here, I think." "Here we are." "Safe and sound." "Everything in order?" "Now put it somewhere else." " No one comes in here, Jack" " Just do it." "All right." "Now who's this Gary?" "Okay." "She talked to Ballard." "He won't meet with me." "Just you, alone." "(SIGHS)" " Where?" " West wing of the National Gallery'" "In front of a painting called "The Ambassadors."" "If there's trouble, meet me out the back?" "(BUZZER SOUNDING)" "Trudy' What are you doing here?" "Why aren't you at work?" "I haven'!" "been feeling well." "You could at least pick up the phone." "TRUDY:" "There-'s a man called Bingham at the office." "Bingham." " He works for Jack Turner." " I know who he is." "Well, he said that you authorised him to look through your files'" "I told him he couldn't touch a thing until I spoke to you," "Go ahead." "Let him look." "Why?" "What's he looking for?" "Is this about the break-in last night?" "Lewis."" "If you're in some kind of trouble, please, just tell me," "Trudy..." "I didn't treat you very well, did I?" "I don't have any hard feelings." "Mark and I, we're very happy." "I'd really like to help you if I can." "(ELEVATOR DINGS}" " Can you hold that for me please'?" " Sure." "Trudy Barnes." "Conroy's secretary of four years'" "They had an affair last summer while she was engaged to many this man, Mark Rothman'" "He was away sewing a third tour of Afghanistan'" "What happened?" "From their text messages it appears Conroy just got tired of her" "And her fiancé?" "Now her husband." "That works for us." "You make sure Turner gets their names." "You know what he'll do." "That's the point, isn't it?" "These are innocents." " There must be some other way." " I'm open to suggestions." "Zoe found something in Amsterdam." "Err, yes, Horst Goebel." "His body was found ﬂoating in the Keizersgracht canal three weeks ago'" "I identified him from prints I lifted at his lab." "Murdered?" "Slipped and drowned, officially." "After he left the Turner house?" "He was never at the Turner house." "Whoever our imposter was, I believe he murdered Goebel and then took his place" "After nearly 500 years, its meaning remains obscure, even to scholars." "You asked me hereto talk about art, Mr Ballard?" "A subject which bores me to tears Except for this particular picture." "It was painted in 1533, a period of intense economic unrest in Europe, not unlike today'" "Some think it was commissioned by a French ambassador, but I believe it was British merchants." "Is this supposed to interest me?" "It should." "These merchants felt constrained by their governments, who wrote the laws and levied the taxes, so they formed a secret pact." "They called it "Hourglass."" "You see the skull?" "It's distorted, the artist's way of telling us, "Things are not what they seem."" "Everything in this painting is a clue." " A clue to what?" " Their plot," "To concentrate the world's wealth, power and influence into private hands" "To undermine the power of governments without arousing the ire of the people'" "Over the years, these conspirators evolved into five major multinational corporations." "It took them five centuries, but they've finally succeeded" "Even if all of this is true, I don't see what it has to do with me." "They've spent so much time trying to find you." "You obviously pose some kind of a threat." "I don't see how." "Then you have no idea why they've tried to kill you?" "(SIGHS)" "I had been hoping that you might be what I've been looking for all these years'" "A way to expose them for what they are a plague on civilization, bent on destroying it to enrich themselves'" "You've got the wrong girl, Mr Ballard." "You're going to have to be even more careful now." "Rupert Keel knows that Hourglass is interested in you'" "What's Keel's connection?" "Three members of the Byzantium board of directors are CEOs of Hourglass corporations." "Whichever corporation wants you dead doesn't want anyone to know." " What is it?" " Come with me." "He's right behind us." " You didn't lose him, did you?" " Not a chance." "Slop them." "You must stop them." "What's on your mind?" "You think God sees everything?" "If there is a God." "A question for which I've seen precious little evidence lately," "Be careful, Father." "You'll lose your job." "You didn't come here to talk about me." "I've done a lot of bad things in my life." "What is it?" "Two people are going to die." "People I've never met, who haven't done anything wrong'" "You can't stop it?" "I'm the cause of it." "It's something my job compels me to do." "Whoever you work for, I don't think they pay you enough for that" "If i don't let them die, then one of my colleagues will" "The church allows for killing in self-defense." "Or a just war, whatever that is." "This is neither." "Then you have to stop it." "It won't stop blood being spilled." "I'm not going to pretend I know if there's an all-seeing God." "But I do know if you commit a mortal sin it kills the soul, as surely as a fatal disease kills the body." "Do you have any idea who that was?" "He killed Emma Freeman." "And tried to kill me," "Those steps you fell down, that was him." "He offered Hasan money to kill me." "What?" "I killed him in self-defense." "Well, that's a relief." "A relief?" "What?" "I betrayed Hasan." "Wm'?" "You told me Keel was looking for a mole." "So you got Hasan captured to protect yourself." "Sam, it was him or me," "You put me in danger." "I knew you'd be ordered to kill him, and you did'" "(CAR DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)" "(SIGHS)" "Dave tells me you were in the Army." "Yeah, that's right." "Did my four years." "Four years?" "Good lad." "Queen and country." "What were you, then?" "SAS?" "Nah, just a squaddie." "Essex boy." "In the Anglians." "So what are you doing messing about in this dump?" "Be fair, Jack." "He's a good bloke." "I tell you what, he reminds me a bit of young Jack Junior." "Does he, Dave?" "Does he?" "Dave is referring to my eldest, John." "Perhaps you do look alike." "Can't see it myself." "Are you brave, Gary?" "Are you loyal?" "Are you the son of son to make your father proud?" "Well, I hope so." "For your sake." "For your Dad's sake," "But I tell you what, Gary..." "I hope you don't end up dead, cut to pieces with your dick stuffed in your mouth." " I'm sorry, Jack, I didn't mean..." " Just tum up the telly, Dave." "What?" "I said, turn up the sodding telly." "Yeah." "Sorry." "Of course." "WOMAN: ...threat these economic hit men pose to the developing world." "Forgive me, Madam Zahir, but it seems you are making very strong accusations," "I am." "I want people to become angry and inﬂamed about the corrupt elements in our country." "INTERVIEWER:" "You're referring to the privatization of the Khyber Dam," "It's a scandal." "And I intend to expose and stop it if I'm elected president," "(ZIPS BACKPACK)" "(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)" "Mr Keel." "I told you Aidan was looking into an MI6 case file belonging to a section chief named George Ballard'" "Yes?" "Ballard was just found dead outside the National Gallery'" "There are seven members of the Byzantium board of directors'" "Ballard said three of them are Hourglass conspirators'" "So where do we start?" "Hector Stokes, CEO of Polyhedrus, the third largest privately held corporation in the world." "Polyhedrus built the dam in Pakistan the Turners are bidding on'" " Do you think there's a connection?" " I'm guessing there is." "When did you start spying for MI6?" "Two years, seven months, eight days ago." "Why did you do it?" " The lovely Miss Thorpe was blackmailing me." " For what?" "Aidan Marsh isn't my real name." "It's an identity I assumed a long time ago." "If you're not Aidan Marsh, then who are you?" " Better you don't know" " I said, who are you?" "I don't know where you grew up, whether your mum had a temper, your dad drank too much before dinner."" "I don't know anything about your past." "But I know how you think," "I know how you feel," "I know you, Sam." "Better than anyone else in the world." "If that's supposed to make me trust you, it doesn't." "I'm trusting you." "Until now, Natalie Thorpe was the only person in the world who knew I'd lied about my identity." "Now you know it, too." "Keep walking, Natalie, if you don't want to be seen with me'" "What is it you want, Mr Keel?" "To offer my condolences for the murder of George Ballard." "He was a good man." "Thank you, but he wasn't murdered." "He died of a heart attack." "Is that the story you're peddling?" "You've infiltrated my organisation with a mole, and now your direct superior is dead'" "I need to know why." "I've told you before, Mr Keel." "I'm not one of your lackeys." "I work for Her Majesty's Government." "Well, that's where you're wrong." "You've already collected 80,000 pounds in unreported income." "I started making payments into a Swiss bank account" "I opened in your name after our last meeting." "You're setting me up." "You won'!" "be able to make it stick." "How many years will it take to prove your innocence?" "And what kind of career will you have at that point?" "What do you want?" "Everything." "Everything you know." "Eddie, how was your day'?" "It was fine, thanks." " Where's Alex?" " She's not back from hospital yet'" "What's this?" "You think she'll like it?" "(DOOR CLOSES}" "Mr Bingham, find your way all right?" "(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Excuse me." " I found her." " Who is it?" "Conroy's secretary, Trudy Barnes." "What makes you think it's hen'?" "I got a little bit of information from Conroy's e-mail account" " He was sleeping with her until last July." " So?" "Two months later she married another man." "Ex-military." "They're already having financial problems." "What, you think she intends to blackmail Lewis?" "You saw a man and woman at the university that night." "Last night there was a man and woman at Conroy's office'" "Check it out." "Let's find another way in." "(RINGING)" "YOUNG SAM:" "Let me out!" "Let me out!" "Let me out!" "What is it?" "Sam." "(SCREECHING)" "(GIRL SCREAMS)" "Let me out!" "Let me out!" "I've been here before." "What is this place?" "I was taken here..." "HS 3 Child." "Let me out!" "Let me out!" "(CAR PULLS UP)" "Sam, we need to go." "(COCKING suns}" "(DOOR CREAKS)" "(PANTING)" "(SCREAMS)" "(SCREAMS)" "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "(GASPS)" "You off, Jack?" "I've got something for Tyrone." "Everett'll need to clean up after." "Tyrone's got his hands full at the moment." "Why not use Gary over there?" "I don't like the smell of your friend, "Gary."" "He's a good bloke, Jack." "You ought to give him a chance'" "You telling me what to do now, Dave?" "You know me better than that." "(MOBILE VIBRATING)" " Yeah." " NATALIE:" "Are you back in London yet?" "Yeah." "Did you clean up?" "That was quite a mess you left." "What about Byzantium?" "I cleaned that up, too." " How?" " Listen to me." "Very carefully." "(CAMERA ZOOMING}" "Alex, you're back!" " Will you read me The Snow Maiden to me?" " You know I will." "Come see me after you put Edward to bed, will you?" "Sure." "(CREAK)" "Who are you?" "All right, thanks." "The police have arrived They found the bodies." "Look what the cat dragged in." "Dragged myself in, actually." "I knew you'd catch up with me in the end'" " As I told you before..." " Right" "You're innocent." "Sol hear." "Hasan was the mole." "Hasan?" "We think someone at 6 tripped him up, got him caught by the Turners." "Well, that explains a lot." "What do you mean?" "I overheard Hasan talking to someone on the phone the afternoon he got captured'" "That's where I heard the word Hourglass." "And you don't know what that means?" "Just what Simran said." "Anything else you haven't told me?" "Just that I'm sorry I ever suspected you." "(INAUDIBLE)" "You wanted to see me?" "Yeah, Eddie made you this." " It's so sweet." " Yeah." "I" "I went to the hospital this afternoon to give it to you." "You weren't there." "They said you checked yourself out right after we left." "I did..." "I needed to go for a walk and think." "About what?" "(SOBBING}" "It's okay."