"Sir Derek Forbes." "Businessman." "Politician." "Deceased." "He took a hypo in the thigh, here." "Two grains of pure poison." "Yes, murder." "And a murder proudly claimed by the Myer-Helmut Group." "Franz Myer." "Inge Helmut." "Hans Russheim." "Tony Kristo." "There are others, of course." "But these are the leaders." "These are the most dangerous." "The Myer-Helmut Group." "Anarchists, fanatics." "They've bombed, killed, or maimed at least a hundred innocent people in the last two years." "Now they're here, in Britain." "And I want them." "There you are." "See, Doc?" "The bullet tore the ligaments." "They heal slowly." "Yeah, but I can" "You can't close your hand." "And if you can't close your hand, you can't hold a gun, and if you can't hold a gun, there's no place for you in this organisation." "Quote, George Cowley." "Yeah, but, look, surely you can sign a little chit, can't you?" "I suggest you argue it with him." "Another week should see you all right." "A week!" "One week, and I'll certify you fit for duty again." "Meanwhile, give it a little gentle exercise, but don't overdo it." "At the moment, we don't have a single lead, so it's a question of nosing around, staying alert, keeping your eyes open." "Okay?" "That's all." " Hey." " Hi, Jax." "What'd he say?" "Good enough." "Excuse me, sir." "One more week, Bodie." "I've seen your medical report." "I don't like being a man short, but, until that hand heals, you're no good to me." "You didn't miss much." "It's just a routine stay alert." "Myer-Helmut Group." "Yeah?" "Heavy going." "Anyway, your timing's perfect." "Well, didn't you tell me the lovely Michelle was free this weekend?" "Julia." "The lovely Julia, free this weekend?" " Yeah." "I'll take her on the river." " Yeah." "Bodie, your hand." "You shouldn't be rowing." "I'm okay." "Come on, let me." "Look, it won't emasculate you to let me row for a while." "The mature man knows when to concede defeat." "I concede." "Morning!" "One of those little islands." "Perfect-- for almost anything at all." "How's the hand?" "Terrible." "But the eyes are having a great time." "They're staring." "They like faces, particularly pretty faces." "Faces." "Mugshots!" "I knew I'd seen that face somewhere before." "Pull in." "What?" "Come on, pull in!" "All right, wait here." "Hold it!" "Some picnic." "I see the table's laid for more than one." "Left hand." "Come on." "Right." "Always open for business." "Come on, back to the car." "Bodie, who is" "Come on, get in." "I'll explain later." "He's expecting company, and about one's all I can handle." "Right, off you go." "Inge!" " Quiet!" " Inge!" "All right, move it, quick as you can." "There's the boat." "The car park!" "For God's sake!" "Get up!" "He's a bomber." "A killer." "He's also a human being." "Yes, well, I'll be more human when we get back to the car." "Damn." "They've out-thought us." "Hans!" "We'll take that one." "You'll have to drive." "Okay." "No." "You'll hit Myer." "Stay behind me." "Keep calm, Julie." "Right." "Close the tailgate." " What?" " The boot!" "Close it!" "Right, get in." "Open the door!" "Right." "Move!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "They're gaining on us." "A warning shot." "Shut up!" "Watch out--the boat!" "Turn in there." "Turn it round!" "You..." "Get in." "Go!" "Fast as you like, Julie." "The nearest town's six miles." "We won't make it." "Pull up there." "Right, that way." "Come on." "We can't have missed!" "Up there, that road!" "Take your choice: you can walk, or I'll pistol whip you and carry you." "That way." "Bolt the door!" "Don't be frightened." "I'm not frightened." "Sara?" "What is all this?" "Who are you?" "CI5, sir." "I take it you believe in free speech?" " What?" " I want to use your phone." "It's through there." "Thank you." "All right, come on." "Be a good boy." "He's a bomber." "A killer." "And there are more outside." "Cowley." "Bodie!" "I've got one of those faces." "One of those faces on your board." "Myer-Helmut?" "Who?" "Which one?" "I dunno." "This fellow's about six-two, dark curly hair." "Curly hair?" "That's Myer himself." "Franz Myer." "Yeah, well, whoever it is, I need help." "His friends are closing in." "Where are you?" "I'm not sure exactly." "It's a little place nor" " Hallo?" "Bodie?" "Bodie?" "Are there shutters on every window?" "Are there?" "Yes." "Look here" "Right, you and Julie close every one." "Do as I say." "Where's the back door?" "I need help." "His friends are closing in." "Where are you?" "I'm not sure exactly." "A little place nor" "I need help." "His friends are closing in." "Where are you?" "I'm not sure exactly." "A little place nor" ""I need help."" "A little place north." "Aye, north, probably." "But north of where?" "Where, Doyle?" "Where was he going?" "The lovely Julia." " Eh?" " It's his girlfriend." "He was gonna take her on the river for the weekend." "Which river?" "The Thames, probably." "Ach, that's one hell of a river." "There is a pub he uses a lot;" "that's on the river." "Just below Marlow." "What did he check out of the car pool?" "Capri Ghia, I think." "Start with that." "Bodie's car, Capri Ghia, the one he checked out of the car pool." "APB all units to find it." "Concentrate around the Marlow area." "Come on, Doyle." "We're lucky; it's an old house with stout shutters and locks." "Bodie, they're armed." "So am I." "So am I." "We don't know that those wires were cut." "No, we don't." "Could be fire or flood or act of God, but I think they were cut." "HQ to Cowley." "Come in." "They've located Bodie's car." "Two miles north of Marlow." "Right, you understand the situation?" "They want him, but he's their leader, so they want him alive." "So, all we have to do is sit tight and wait." "Wait?" "For what?" "I made a call, but I was cut off." "But the people I work for can put two and two together." "They'll find us, eventually." "Eventually." "And meanwhile?" "Sit tight and wait." "And supposing one of my parishioners comes along?" "Is that likely?" "The church and village are nearly half a mile away." "But it is possible." "Deal with it when it happens." "In the heat of the moment, I forgot my manners." "This is Julie, my girlfriend, and I'm Bodie." "Edward Turnbull." "Mrs Turnbull?" "Miss Price." "Sara Price." "Sara's my housekeeper." "Yeah." "Well, I'm glad to see you're not a teetotaller, Vicar." "May we have a drink?" "I think we all need one." "May I have a drink, Vicar." "So polite, Vicar." "Let's all have a little tea party." "You English are all insane." "Not like the Myer-Helmut Group, eh?" "They just bomb and hijack and shoot the odd plane-load of hostages." "It's a necessary part of our strategy." "Thank you." "The end justifies the means, eh?" "You don't understand." "You will never understand." "No, not if I live a million years." "Your lifespan can be measured in minutes." "All of you." "Do you suppose they are going to let you hold me here?" "He may fool you" "Shut up!" "He may even be fooling himself, but you have nothing to wait for, except death." "I won't tolerate this." "I'm sorry, Vicar, but I'm in control here." "But if you have any influence in higher places, it would be most welcome." "Ah, yes, you are in control." "You are armed, you have a gun-- but no hand to hold it with." "Yeah?" "We are the Myer-Helmut Group." "We are not trash." "Who are these people outside?" "He just told you: a bunch of killers." "We are a political force." "Forget the political, Vicar, just concentrate on the force." "But, surely, if we talk to them." "They'll kill you." "We should at least try to talk." "We" "Hey!" "Hey, you in there!" "Come on." "You are like rats in a trap." "But don't listen to my words." "Listen to this." "We have the fire power to shoot this door right off its hinges." "To decimate it!" "Listen to me." "Your only hope is to give in." "No way, Myer." "Right, now, you listen to me." "You decimate this door and you'll decimate Myer along with it." "Because I've got him right in front of it." "Inge!" "He's telling the truth." "All right." "All right." "But why be foolish?" "Release Myer, and we'll go." "Why be a hero?" "A dead hero!" "Do as she says." "We do not want to hurt innocent people." "Oh, yeah?" "And what brought about that change of heart?" "What about the airliner at Beirut?" "Eh?" "Forty-two passengers, innocent people;" "I suppose you didn't want to hurt them, either." "That was different." "They had to die." "We were fighting for our cause." "But why you?" "You English, you know nothing about politics." "But why kill you?" "Do you know what it takes to kill?" "Sometimes just sheer desperation." "We do not want to kill you." "Release Myer, and we'll quietly go on our way." "Is everyone in there pig-headed?" "No!" "Vicar, you don't know what you're doing!" "I'm a man of God." "They'll listen to me, they'll listen to me." "Bodie!" "Now, don't shoot!" "Close the shutters!" "Round one." "Isn't that going to be too tight?" "Nope." "You won't feel a thing." "That's the idea." "So I'm ambidextrous, as far as they're concerned." "Quiet." "We got his, got his handset." "Bodie, always breaking the rules." "When next I see him, I'll" "Ah, you found the car pretty damn quick." "The local fuzz were ahead of us." "Investigating a stolen car, sir." "It was taken from here less than an hour ago, right from under the owner's nose." "He's still pretty shocked." "What kind of car?" "A brown Cortina Estate, sir." "Bodie must have taken it, sir." "Get an APB out on that car." "Cover" "Uh, we got that call about a half an hour ago." "Could have travelled twenty miles?" "Ah, thirty, the way Bodie drives." "Thirty miles' radius." "I want that car found!" "And the rubber boat." "Rubber boat?" "Seven years' bad luck." "Yes, bad luck." "But you haven't got seven years." "Bodie, what's that noise?" "The cellar!" "D'you have a cellar?" "Well, there's the boiler room." "Julie!" "Inge!" "Ich bin's." "Ich gebe Dir den Befehl, ohne Ruecksicht auf mich, stuermt das Haus!" "Stuermt das Haus!" "What did you say?" "Tell me!" "Attack!" "He told them to attack." ""You have my permission to attack." "Don't mind me."" "I took German at school." "Inge, Hans is dead." "Did you hear him?" "Attack." "Inge, he's dead." "Dead?" "We're all dead." "Franz told us to attack." "Inge!" "Are you faltering now, Kristo?" "Do you want me to do it alone?" "What do you want?" "That car." "Front of the house." "Can you get it?" "I don't know." "It's possible, I suppose, but" "Get it." "I'll meet you in front of the drive." "Looks like a car skidded into the boat and pulled off again." "Headed north." "Isn't that what Bodie was trying to say?" " I'm north of" " Where?" "Call HQ." "I want every available man rushed into this area." "Bodie's near, somewhere, holed up;" "we've got to find him." "Well, we've increased our firepower." "By a few rounds." "I can count." "Well, that'll be useful." "What's three hundred and sixty-five days multiplied by at least twenty-five?" "Years." "Bodie, isn't it?" "Oh, Bodie, save your show of confidence for them." "You and I, we are about the same age, perhaps." "But an intellect apart." "Well, one thing's for sure." "You know the psychology of the captor/captive?" "The growing together;" "the mutual understanding?" "That's not gonna happen here." "You can speak for yourself, Bodie." "But what about them?" "How does this concern you?" "You have no conception of what this fight is about." "It's not your fight." "Him, they will give him an honourable funeral, perhaps a volley over the grave." "But you-- how does this concern you?" "Answer him." "Truthfully." "I don't understand your politics." "There." "You see?" "But I understand good." "I understand evil." "I think you are evil." "You kill without cause." "Without cause!" "You do not understand." "You kill people who cannot possibly stand between you and your ideas." "You don't even know who they are." "Julie?" "You're right." "I have no idea what your fight is about." "I just know it means violence and killing, and someone's got to stop you." "You will die." "All of you." "You've never told me about Bodie." "I made you a team, what, two years ago?" "Two years and three months." "That's long enough." "Long enough for what?" "For him to get up your nose, irritate you." "Oh, he does that, all right." "Every day, he does that." "Chalk and cheese, eh?" "Yeah." "Ah, it's worked well, though." "Yeah, I've watched his back, he's watched mine." "We're both still alive." "At least, this morning, we were both still alive." "Aye." "Aye." "Bodie gets up my nose, too, and so do you!" "But I want you both to stay alive." "Now, I think this is the bit where I show my quality of leadership." "Yes." "Yes, organise games, singing." "Hmm?" "Keep us all occupied." "Interested?" "Hmm?" "So we don't die of exposure." " You know, this is" " Shut up, Bodie." "Ah, you saw the film, too, eh?" "Yes, the dissenter; the mandatory coward who cracks and runs wild" "Climbs out of a window and gets himself killed?" "Yeah." "Shut up, Bodie." "They're a long time coming." ""Sit tight and wait." "Put two and two together."" "They're a long time coming." "Who is it?" "Not the Seventh Cavalry." "Stay here." "Right." "Now!" "Upstairs!" "Now!" "Move!" "Keep going!" "Help me." "To the attic." "Turn around!" "Hell of a way to spend an afternoon." "Your last afternoon." "Try that again and I'll kill him." "Thirty miles." "D'you think he might have" "Mr Cowley." "Over." "Come in." "We found the stolen car, sir." "Where?" "About two, two-and-a-half miles off the Marlow slip road." "It's parked in a wood." "We're on our way." "Hey, look, see, Ma, I made it to the top of the world." "Didn't you ever see that old Cagney movie?" "I saw it." "He died." "Stop it." "You stop that!" "Sara." "You stop it!" "Sara!" "Can't you see he's goading you?" "I can't." "We aren't so very different." "Are we?" "You cry, Sara." "Cry it out." "Not so very different, eh?" "She isn't even on the same planet as you." "So, we're gonna die, are we?" "Our last afternoon." "Two hysterical women." "You can hardly hold a gun." "Against Inge and Kristo?" "Where would you put your money?" "Yeah, you might be right, Myer." "Now I come to think of it, it might be here." "You know, I've never given much thought to where I might die." "Dark alley, African bush, or running for the last bus." "But you listen to this, and listen carefully." "Wherever I go, you go." "Maybe even first." "Couldn't bear to leave you behind." "You understand that?" "Sprechen Sie Anglais?" "Do you hear me?" "Are you listening?" "No, Bodie, stop it." "You're not so very different, either." "Clever." "Very clever, Myer." "Yes, rattle us, get us off balance, eh." "Clever." "God knows what's happening outside." "Why don't we throw him out?" "That's what they want, that's what they're asking for." "Makes sense, Bodie." "No." "Why not?" "Look, if we throw him out" "No!" "Why?" "I want to know why?" "She's right." "If we're going to die, we have a right to know why." "I agree with you." "You keep out of this!" "I don't know why." "Because I hate his kind?" "Because I don't like to lose?" "I don't know why." "Ask Cowley; maybe he can tell you." "Cowley!" "Cowley's all right." "Look, I don't know why." "Because I say so." "And what you say goes?" "Yeah, so long as I'm holding this gun." "Holding it!" "You can scarcely feel it." "It's the car all right, sir." "Bullet hole." "Where does the Audi fit in?" "I don't quite know as yet, sir, but it is on the stolen car list." " Which way, Doyle?" " I dunno." "Two years, three months." "You know him better than any of us." "Which way?" "Well, Bodie would go for cover, sir." " That'll be the woods, then." " Yeah." "Direct all units into this area." "A full sweep." "Begin at the village, then right across the valley." "Right, sir." "We'll take the back road, Doyle." "Yes, sir." "Ironic, isn't it?" "Here we are, waiting to die, because you, Bodie, don't like to lose." "I'm doing this to protect you." "People like you." "You live by violence." "Just like him!" "Yes, well, you fight fire with fire in this job." "And, now, we're all going to die violently." "You're crazy!" "Crazy!" "Bodie, can't we at least" "The wrong way." "Damn you." "The wrong way!" "That's Cowley, I'm sure it's Cowley." "He's heading towards the village." "A shot?" "Nah, in a car, at this distance, he'll never hear it." "Even if he did, it'd only confuse." "Could come from anywhere." "Sara." "That road." "It disappears into the forest." "Does it reappear there?" "Yes, then it dips down again into the village." "Right." "That's my only chance." "Julie." "Bullet." "If I can just get their attention." "Isn't it too far?" "Nearly half a mile, isn't it, Sara?" "Yes." "This thing won't shoot half a mile." "Then why are you wasting shots?" "It won't shoot, but it'll reach." "A guy overshot the target once, on the range." "Hit a roof nearly a mile away." "The bullet was spent, of course, but it did reach." "Right." "Now, hold this." "Tight." "Cock it." "Right back, that's it." "Right." "Trajectory, like an arrow, allow for drift." "God, the wind could take it miles off." "Hold it tight." "Steady." "Steady." "Very steady." "Did you hit it?" "Oh, I dunno." "I dunno." "It's a bullet." "From where?" "We'd better check that house." "Well, perhaps they heard the shot." "I told you, at that distance, not a chance." "Is that going to be our epitaph, too, Bodie? "Not a chance."" "We're here." "And we're alive." "Yes, Inge, yes!" "Yes, Inge, yes!" "Julie!" "No!" "Bodie!" "You all right?" "Yeah." "I think that'll be safer in my hands." "Sir?" "Two more weeks, Bodie." "That's the medical report." "Yeah, but, the doctor just said that" "You should have returned to active duty ten days ago, but if you will get yourself involved in extra-curricular activities..." " Two more weeks." " Yes, sir." "You can't hold a gun, Bodie." "No use if you can't hold a gun." "Never mind." "You did very well, Bodie." "Thank you, sir." "But the damage to the side window of my car-- that will have to be deducted, of course." "Of course, sir." "From my pay!" "Doyle, you are grinning." "No." "No, it's just a nervous tic, sir." "As long as it's that." "Now, get out, the pair of you." "I don't want to see you again." "Until eight-thirty." "Eight-thirty, sir?" "In the Red Lion bar." "I intend getting the cost of that car side window back-- in pure malt Scotch!"