"...who took care of those around him." "And I know that in this time of sadness, he would have been glad, to know of the support that his friends have provided." "Those who are here..." "A friend of yours?" "A customer." "Well, ex-customer." "Oh." "How old was he?" "43." "43?" "That's young." "What did he die of?" "Blue ice." "Blue ice?" "What is that then, blue ice?" "He was sitting in his car outside a warehouse at Heathrow Airport when this great big chunk of ice, the size of a refrigerator, broke off a jumbo-jet toilet compartment and crashed straight through the roof of his Jaguar." "Stone dead." "Oh." "You're joking!" "Would I be joking stood out here," "£20 out for a wreath?" "43?" "That's tragic." "Not really." "He was a violent bastard." "The only reason he was at the airport, he was planning a cargo heist." "...the Son and the Holy Ghost, amen." " Hello, Charlie." " Hello, Harry." "You all right, luv?" "Thank you for making it." " Sorry about this." " All right, mate." "Say, you was having me on, wasn't ya?" "No." ""Waltham Stoneman dies in freak accident."" ""'Blue ice nothing to panic about,' says airline spokesperson."" " Oh, dear." " You never know, do you?" "Out of a clear sky, bang." "It doesn't bear thinking about." " Hello?" " Hey, it's me, Kyle." " l told you not to call." " Listen, don't hang up!" "It's-- it's important, okay?" "I don't need to see you." "I just want you to take something down for me, okay?" "Just hurry up, okay?" "I haven't got much time." "X-P-L-A..." " Kyle" " Yeah, just take it down." "C-l-F..." "Refer number:" "CVH-7 43." "I do not believe this!" "Look what you've done to my bloody car!" "What do you want me to do?" "I might have known, a woman driver talking on her bloody car phone." "Kyle..." "Kyle?" "Jeez." "Hello?" "Kyle, are you there?" "Kyle?" "Finished our call now, have we?" "Can I help you?" "Help me?" "You've just destroyed my bloody car!" "You see that?" "That is a traffic light." "And when it turns red, that means that the car in front of you is going to stop!" " Are you hurt?" " Hurt?" "Oh!" "Apart from whiplash and a few broken ribs, I'm fine." "It seems to me the dent in my fender cancels out your rear broken lamp, so we're even." " Even?" "!" " Bye." "Right!" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "Oh, hello!" "It's you again." "Let's say we look at the damage you claim I did." "Fine." "See?" "It's just a nick!" "The bumper's been buckled, the brakelight's smashed, the exhaust is split." " lt will still go, won't it?" " Go?" "Of course it will go." "Well, I know you are going to tell me" " Mister...?" "Anders." "Harry Anders." "Well, Mr. Anders, are you going to let me buy you off?" " The correct course of action" " Oh, dear!" "The bore-me- with-procedure type." "I can't do it that way." "The person who owns that car would be very upset." "Oh, the person who owns that car would be upset?" "The person who owns this car is bloody furious!" "Mr. Anders, my name is Stacy." "Would you like to buy me a drink?" "Why would I do that?" "If this argument's going to be a long one, I'd rather be somewhere a little warmer." "Yeah." "It's been a chilly afternoon, hasn't it?" "If you send me the bill, I'll pay for all the damages." "This guy you are involved with, the one who owns the car, are you that frightened of him?" "Nobody is frightened of Lewis." "He's a sweetheart." "It's just that it isn't exactly my first accident." "And what does "sweetheart" do?" "Goes to parties, tells okay jokes, and does what any good diplomat does." "Diplomat?" "Oh." "I have a little problem with diplomats." "Me and the Vienna Convention have a few miles on the clock." "You don't seem like the Foreign Office type." "I was... sort of foreign office." "Refill?" "You must know the owner of this place pretty well." "You could say that." "He's a wonderful guy." "You?" "I pay the bills, and I get the headaches." "It's the music you really love, right?" "A little blues, or soul maybe?" " Jazz." " Perfect!" "Go on." "You don't make much money, and the apartment upstairs has a kitchen that's... too small, and a bedroom that's too big." "But after all the headaches it's the one place you value more than anything else in the world." "I knew a girl like you once." "And I felt the same way about her as I feel about you." "I didn't know whether to love her or hate her." "So what did you do?" "A little of both." "Evening, Harry." " A little early, aren't you?" " Hi, Buddy." "That's Buddy, the jazz piano player." "This is his rehearsal time." "He's a very bad piano player." "If he had a work permit they'd kick him out of the country but he doesn't, so I'm stuck with him." "# Some day, we'll be close together #" "# Wait and see #" "# Oh, by the way #" "# This time the dream's on me... #" " l'd better go." " lf you go, you'll miss great jazz." "# And you look at me adoringly... #" "Stay." "# This time the dream's on me. #" "Here you are, sir." "You really do love it, don't you?" "There are easier ways of making a living." "But jazz clubs are special." "I've got High Court judges sitting out there, alongside some of the worst villains in London-- lords, hookers." "There's a guy over there who drives a refuse truck." "There's a Chinese man with one leg." "What do they all have in common?" "Loving jazz, like I do." "Tea leaf's been in again, Mr. Anders." "Cleaned out three handbags and a gent's wallet." " Not now, George." " All right, all right." " What's a tea leaf?" " Thief." "Cockney rhyming slang." "Trouble and strife, wife." "Apples and pears, stairs." "So what are you going to do with this tea leaf when you find him?" " Break his dairy farm." " Arm." "Excuse me." "A bit of a squabble." "All right, lads, that'll do." "All right, leave the furniture out of this." "How many times have I got to ban you before you start taking me" "Shit!" "You went for the stomach, Harry." "That's risky." "Hit a man in the chin and he'll go down." "That's what my dad used to say." "Your dad was right, but Ronnie is a steady customer, and you never hit a steady customer in the face." "They don't come back till their bruises are gone." "Do you like all music, Harry?" " Some of it." " Classical music?" "Everything except Schoenberg." "Schoenberg always struck me as being a bit of a wanker." "I'll be in touch." "Bye." "Hm, looks a bit fancy, Harry." "Opera, the Covent Garden." "Opera?" "Not exactly your speed, Harry." "Who's it from?" "You're beginning to sound like my mum, George." "Don't be ridiculous." "Don't be too late coming home, dear." "You're late." "But on account of that dress, I'm prepared to forgive you." "Shh-hh." "Don't you just love the opera, Harry?" "You could say I enjoyed it for the spectacle." "So where are we going to eat?" "I think I know just the place." "Wonderful ambiance, great food..." "Will it still be open?" "24 hours a day." "How much longer?" "I'd say about 14... minutes." "I don't know how anyone has the patience for cooking." "I can't handle all that waiting." "Waiting, Stacy, is the key." "I remember my old man used to say," ""Harry," he'd say," ""waiting is what cooking is all about." "The longer you wait, the better it tastes."" "I have a feeling you're a wonderful cook, Harry." "I never met a man who enjoyed waiting before." "Of course, a lot of what my old man told me was crap." "You know what you are, Stacy?" "You're blue ice." "Blue ice?" "What's blue ice?" "It's when-- it's when something unexpected and wonderful falls on you out of a clear blue sky... and changes your life." "What a great image." "You know something?" "You are a very interesting person, Harry." " Interesting?" " Yeah." "Very." "Parachute Regiment?" "Military Intelligence?" "Northern lreland, Middle East, Eastern Europe." "And in 1982... compulsory retirement." "Should I be flattered?" "Or do you do this much research on everyone?" "I have to be careful who I get involved with, don't I?" "You were a spy, weren't you, Harry?" "I adore you, Stacy." "And if I lie here long enough, I'd probably tell you everything about my life anyway." "But I don't like you digging in the nooks and crannies of my past." "Why did they fire you?" "The Czech agent broke the rules, he hurt the wife of one of my sources." "They asked me to ignore it." "I couldn't." "So what happened?" "I took him up onto the roof of my office building." " And?" " The Czech bounced." "I get a refill, please?" "Hi." "Give me an hour, Harry, and then we can sneak away." "I have to introduce some people to the American Ambassador." "Of course you do." "I'll tell you what, why don't I say hello?" "It's been a long time since I've met an ambassador." " You want to?" " Sure." "Okay." " Thank you very much." " Goodbye." "Lewis, this is Harry Anders, owner of the best jazz club in London." "I heard all about you, Harry." "In my college days I used to play a little jazz myself-- soprano sax." "Bechet." "Sidney Bechet, he was my hero." "Best soprano sax player ever." "Harry, this is Lewis Mansdorf, my husband." "Oh." "We seem to have the same tastes, Harry." "Like minds, eh?" "Great to meet you." "Now I gotta go and do some gripping and greeting." "Please excuse me." "Why didn't you tell me you were married?" " You never asked." " He knows about us." "He does and he doesn't." "He chooses what he wants to know." "I am having an affair with the wife of the American Ambassador." "I could wind up in the Tower of London for this!" "Wouldn't I be worth it?" "Oh, no..." "What?" "Oh, no!" "I don't like that look, Harry." "That gloopy look." "Don't go soft on me, please." "Now what the hell is "gloopy"?" "You don't fool me." "I know men like you, remember?" "All that tough-guy talk, and scar tissue on the outside, and hopeless romantics on the inside." "Well... it's nice to know that you have such a high opinion of me." "It isn't that." "This has to be strictly temporary, okay?" "Mm-hm." "Strictly Temporary is my middle name." "Lovely steak today!" "I've got some lovely steak!" "Good morning, Harry." "Harry, I want to ask you something." "I have a problem, I think, but I don't know if I should involve you." "How fresh?" "Today's catch, Harry." "You wouldn't try to con me, would you, Marvin?" "This sea-bass died of old age." " Are you in trouble, Stacy?" " Maybe." "Trouble is my middle name." "I thought "strictly temporary" was your middle name." "In England, we're very big on middle names." "Tell me what your problem is." "When Lewis and I came here, I had an affair with an American." "He took the relationship much more seriously than I did." "He started writing these crazy letters, and-- l'm afraid the tabloids might get ahold of one and make it really difficult for Lewis." "You want me to find this guy and have a chat with him?" "Well, no. I want you to find him so I can talk with him." "You know, my fee may be beyond your means." "I'm a very wealthy woman, Mr. Anders." "I'm still gonna require a down payment." "I drew a blank with the Immigration people." "Nobody of that name through Passport Control in the past six weeks." "I checked the Special Branch watch list." "Nothing doing there either." "You and I should have a word with the Yanks." "I know some of their security people at the Embassy." "I don't think so, Ozzie." "This has got to be handled with some finesse." "And finesse is not one of their strong points." "Well, I do have an in with a Fraud Squad guy who works the credit card beat, eh?" "If your man's in London, chances are he's using genuine plastic." "Even if he's bought himself a new passport." "Well, that sounds good." "Let's try that then." "Only it's, uh, 300 every time." "Well, he's got to pay off computer people." "It's highly not legal." "What's the commission on your favors these days, Ozzie?" " Eh?" " Still 30%, is it?" "Or have you pushed it up to 50?" "I wouldn't cheat you, Harry." "I hate taking your money." "I know, Ozzie." "You're a good old pal." "Oy!" "Oy!" "Busted." "Come here!" "Harry, we got him." "We got the tea leaf." "Bastard!" "Come here!" "Watch your backs." "Stand away, luv." "Oy, you!" "Don't be alarmed, that's just part of the entertainment." "It's a mistake!" "It's not what you think, Harry." "Honest it ain't." "What do you prefer, Westy, playing cards or playing football?" "If it's cards, I'm gonna break your leg, if it's football, I'm gonna break your arm." " Leg or arm?" " Harry?" " What?" " l got the old Bill on the phone." " Tell him to wait." " The bloke says it's urgent." "Name of Osgood." "This is your lucky day, Westy." "Let him go." " Are you sure it's him?" " Close it comes as will be." "It's the Villa Venetia, Critchley line." "Southeast London." "He likes it here." "He's used his card four times in the past 10 days." "The maitre d' eyeballed him for me." "Stay on him." "I'll be there in 20 minutes." " Hello?" " Write this down." "The Critchley Hotel, station approach, Southeast London." " Near London Bridge." " You found him." "Write it down, Stacy." ""Critchley Hotel, station approach, near..." "London Bridge."" "What do you want me to do?" "Just make sure he doesn't leave." "I'll be there as soon as I can." "Hello, Ozzie." "Christ, Harry." "I never saw you coming." "You must have been a good spook in your day." "James bloody Bond, mate." "Which one is he?" "That's him-- good-looking kid sitting on his own there." "There's gonna be no rough stuff, is there, Harry?" "I did this as a favor, you know, off-duty." "You did this for the 300 quid, Ozzie, so don't give me the Good Samaritan stuff." "That's the sort of place where defrocked vicars take young boys and hang themselves after." "Keep an eye on him, Ozzie." "I wanna make a phone call." "Ozzie?" "Ozzie!" "Shit." "Osgood?" "Osgood!" "Jesus Christ!" "Come on!" "Fuck." "Critchley Hotel." "Want some milk in that, mate?" "A lot of milk." "Cheers." "You are in a world of trouble, my friend." "I haven't done anything." "I've told you, Ozzie was an old pal." "If I thought-- l don't know who the American guy was. I know nothing about him." " So who does?" " l wanna help you" "You'd better had, friend, or you're gonna get a smack in the gums." "Ozzie was a cop." "He was one of us." "No offense, fellas... but I'd feel a lot more comfortable talking about this at a higher level." "Nothing personal." "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't particularly like women." "My primary pleasure is writing my name on people's foreheads with a baseball bat." "Let's go through this again, Anders." "Who were you working for?" "For the last time, I wasn't working for anybody." "I was doing a favor for a lady." "Oh, yeah-- the wife of the American Ambassador." "And if I thought she had anything to do with it" "You'd do what?" "Kill her too?" " l didn't kill anyone." " You're lying." "I am telling you the truth." "How come when we checked with the American Embassy, they said they'd never heard of you, and told us the American Ambassador's wife had been in Paris since yesterday evening?" " They're lying." " Oh, they're lying." " The American Embassy is lying?" " Mm-hm." "Not the crooked cheapskate club owner who's found with the copper's blood all over his hands." "Oh, no." "You're allergic to the truth, Anders." "Lock him up." "We'll do this the hard way." "Open up." "Oy, you." "Out!" "Morning, Officers." "What a beautiful day!" "I don't know who you've got pulling strings for you, Anders." "But this isn't over." "I hate to see an unhappy policeman." "I admire you." "Straight up, I do." "You've got big balls." "I couldn't put all my money into a place like yours." "I'd be worried about fire safety inspections, keeping my drinks license, drug busts, add in a rap for letting hookers use the place in-between clients." "Now look what you've done." "You've frightened me so much, I'm spilling my tea." "# Don't worry about me # # l get along... #" "How many more people have I got to tell?" "Anders, Harry Anders." "Mrs. Mansdorf is not available-- lt's important." "I have to talk to her." "I'm sorry, sir, but she is currently out of the country." "This is bullshit!" "Afternoon." "I'm looking for the body of one Kyle Belamy." "That's it." "Let's get out of here." "Thanks." "Stay close, stay close." "Oh, you shit!" "Move!" "Down!" "Get in!" "Get the car rolling!" "Move!" "Go!" "I said go!" "Go go go!" "Take the gap!" "Take the gap!" "Don't fight it." "Right, now go." "Reverse." "An eye for an eye." "That's it." "Keep moving." "You sack of sweating' soft git!" "He's just tried to kill you!" "Blow his face off!" "Kill him!" "That's it." "Well done." "Can we have a tea break, guv?" "Yeah yeah, fine." " All right, fellas!" " Bring those two over here." "Tea break!" "All right, lads, that's an all clear." "A foreign banker in Brazil is a very tempting target for a kidnapper, or a sickero from the favelas." "If you don't get better, you'll have a very short career and come home in a wooden box." "Go and have a cup of tea." "Thank God the world is full of bad guys, eh, Harry?" "I'd never pay the rent if they weren't." "Hello, Garcia." "How are you?" "I'm all right." "And you?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Maybe I went into the wrong business when I came out." "Yeah, you wanna swap?" "I'll have a nightclub any day." "You try teaching nervous businessmen to be Machine Gun Kelly." "The hardest thing is teaching them the killer instinct." "I had a problem with that." "You?" "Leave off!" "You were one of the rare ones-- always had it, you were born with it." "Maybe, maybe not." " Have you got five minutes?" " Yeah." "Here, come in here." "He wired an alarm system into his hotel room so he wouldn't be taken by surprise." " Either he knew the killer" " Or he thought he could trust him." " Or her." " You think the woman's involved?" "I don't know yet. I phoned her that night, but she didn't show up." "Obviously got mixed up in something very dodgy." "Or somebody you'd recognize again." "It doesn't look very good for the lady, Harry." "It doesn't, does it?" "The police were told to lay off?" "They faked the inquest." "The body bag sent direct to the United States, courtesy of the U.S. Army." "It's gotta be a spook, Harry." "Nobody else could pull strings like that." "Do you know anyone in the American Embassy?" "Are you kidding?" "I've got contacts in the Secret Service, the ClA, the N.S.A., the D.E.A., the l.R.S., Tobacco and Firearms, and a few organizations I don't even know the initials of." "Find out who it was, and I'll take it from there." " What, just like that?" " Yeah." "Harry Anders, 10 years retired and still looking for trouble?" "You think I'm rusty?" "It's been a long time, pal." "Here." "Let's see if I remember." "Dropped a stitch." "If the nightclub don't work out, Harry, maybe you come see me, huh?" "Great." " What do you think of them?" " Looking good, Harry." " Great." " Good, huh?" "Don't you think?" " Hi, Joe." " Hello, Harry." "Excuse me." "Um, the name is Stevens." "Um, you're Harry Anders, aren't you?" "Yeah." "Have you been here before?" "Oh, yeah." "Not as often as I'd have liked." " Join me in a whiskey?" " Sure." " Do you like them?" " Yep." "The horn player's a bit rusty." "He keeps missing the bridge." "He'll warm up." "He always starts a bit tame." "You seem to know your music, Mr. Stevens." "I've got a set of..." "Kid Ory's 1921 recordings on the Sunshine label." "As far as I know it's the only full set in the whole of England." "The San Francisco sessions?" "Yeah!" "Yeah, including "Society Blues," yeah." "I am impressed." "Like a code, isn't it?" "Music." "Especially jazz." "You take the notes of the tune and you change them according to the rules of jazz." "Stride piano, say." "And you hope that the message, the... melody still comes through." "It comes through if you know how to decode it." "For which you have to know how to listen, what to look out for." "Which is what happens in life sometimes, isn't it?" "Something happens-- puzzling because you don't have the key." "You don't know the rules of what jazz it is that they're playing, so the music doesn't seem to make sense." "You can't figure out what's going on." "It's just noise." "Who sent you?" "To find that out, Mr. Anders, you just have to follow the music, won't you?" "I'm sorry, sir." "He's busy at the moment." "I don't care how busy he is, pal!" "Get him!" "It's a priority." "No no, he's gone now, sir." "Disappeared." "Don't know where he is." "15 Mapleton Drive." "You've been here before?" "Yep." "I once babysat a Russian defector here for three months." "About 20 years ago." "He had very bad breath and played with himself a lot." "I'll just go get us a drink." "Fine." "Hot chocolate." "It's very warming this time of night." "I never go to bed without one." "So, what's going on?" "I'm not a field operative as you've probably already realized." "I understand you were, and a very good one too." "Until you overstepped the bounds... got a bit too physical on an assignment." "This isn't "This ls Your Life, Harry Anders."" "No." "So how come I'm suddenly up to my ass in British and American security and intelligence guys?" "Think of all that's been happening as music, as jazz." "It sounds jumbled." "Somebody upstairs is playing a different tune entirely." "But if you listen hard enough, somewhere... somewhere in the middle... you can hear the melody." "Where is everybody?" "No problem, Harry." "Tell them what they wanna know." "Problem?" "Who's got a problem?" "Let me give you a piece of advice, Harry." "Let go of me, you fucks!" "# Someday somewhere... #" "# We'll be close together, wait and see... #" "You know your music, don't you, Harry?" "Don't let them hurt me!" "# By the way #" "# This time the dream's on me. #" "I think we're gonna have trouble here." "Stop harassing me." "I didn't know he was an agent." "I just told him, I don't know anything." "We're not gonna get very far like this, are we?" " You're lying." " Why would I be lying?" "Why are you doing this?" "It's all a mistake!" "You'll just have to follow the music." "Tell them what you did in there." " l run a jazz club." " My name is Harry Anders." " Come on, Harry, tell them." " My name is Harry Anders!" " Don't know what you're talking about." " lt's so easy." "I do not know anything!" " Respectful of the bloody training." " l do not know anything!" "I do not know anything!" " You know the rules, Harry." " l can't tell you anything." "Tell us what we want to know." "Tell us what we want to know if you care about the girl." "Tell them what they wanna know, Harry." " The horn player's a bit rusty." " Stop, I can't see." "You're a bit rusty, Harry." "You have to know how to listen." "Here we meet again." "Just fucking keep on doing it!" "I can do it all bloody night if I want!" "Now tell me!" "I don't know anything!" "Harry?" "You're a bit rusty, Harry." "You're a bit rusty." "You're a bit rusty, Harry." "Fuck you!" "C-V-H-7-4-3" "You should have told them, Harry." "Fuck you!" "I don't know anything." "Bastards." "Hop in, sir." "Driving is not too bad there this time of day." "We should make it in 50 minutes nicely." "Do you mind if l--?" "I do find it relaxing." "Helps the day go by." "We're authorized to the lounge." "Carry on, sir." "We're here, Mr. Anders, sir." "The revised E.T.A. of the Minister's plane is 11-0-0 hours." "I've made arrangements to put the press conference and the reception at the Foreign Office back by three hours." "No." "A little breakfast, Sir Hector?" "Better make that breakfast for two, I think." "What have you been up to, Harry?" "You look absolutely ghastly." "I wish I could say the same about you, Sir." "Being a lord suits you." "Oh, no no, just a humble baronet, dear boy." "I never thought of you as the humble type, Sir." "They felt I had to have something when they put me out to grass." "Knighthood was probably the cheapest." "Gave me compulsory early retirement, you know, into the protocol division." "I'm just a greaser now, a handshake in a business suit." "Yes." "I've always admired your handshake, Sir." "Very firm." "Are you waiting for somebody now?" "Yes, the Finance Minister of Nepal." "You're joking." "No, I'm not." "Why don't you have some double kidneys?" "They're delicious." "No, thank you." "Do you still have that club?" "Just about." "I'll have to pop in there one day." "Do that." "Bring the Finance Minister with you." "Tuesday nights is Nepalese night." "Very popular." "Are you gonna tell me what the hell is going on, Sir?" "Or do I just stand here guessing?" "I had forgotten how insolent you actually are, Anders." "The Americans are up to something." "They won't cut us in." "It is thought you might know." "I couldn't have been asked nicely?" "Did it have to be done like that?" "Now, I wasn't party to that decision." "I'm just a handshake now, remember?" "Have some toast." "You recruited me, and you ran me." "If you're so far out of the loop, how come I'm here talking to you?" "That was rather unnecessary, Anders." "Look, you're here unofficially, I'm warning you unofficially." "Just stay out of this." " Stay out of what?" " This is all above my head." "All I know is that you're a target." "I don't want you to be any more of one than you already are." "I don't have to do what you say." "I don't work for you anymore." "I don't think you have any choice, dear boy." "That's where you're wrong, Sir Hector, because I have all kinds of choices." "I can go straight out of here around to Grovener Square for example, and kick up such a fuss that I get in to see the American Ambassador-- with whom, as it happens, I am on first-name terms." "And I could tell him that something stinks in his embassy, and that he ought to know about it." "That would mean the embassy's security staff got involved." " We don't want that." " Well... as a matter of fact, Sir Hector, I get on pretty well with Americans." "They're looking for you, Harry." "They want to talk to you about Sam Garcia." "Before he was shot, he was worked over with a knife to see what he knew." "The Americans are very angry with you, Harry." "You see, Garcia had a lot of friends here." "My name is Stacy." "Would you like to buy me a drink?" "Harry, I'm so happy." "You don't fool me." "I know men like you, remember?" " Come to bed, Harry." " All that tough-guy talk..." " Harry, come to bed." " ...scar tissue on the outside, hopeless romantics on the inside." "I think you'd better tell me what the hell is going on." " Nothing is going on." " What are you doing here!" "?" "I'm not here. I never was." "I just came to get my things." " Who was Kyle?" " You just don't understand." "I understand that you used me to get two of my friends killed and every spook in London on my tail." "You're hurting me." "I'll hurt you even more if I don't get some answers." "Now who was Kyle?" "He was my ex-boyfriend, like I told you." "What I didn't tell you was... he worked for Military Intelligence." "Christ." "Then why didn't you even show up at the hotel?" "I did come to the hotel, but it was crawling with police." "I knew something must have happened." "You're damn right something happened." "I couldn't get involved." "It would destroy Lewis." "Fuck Lewis." "You left me to swing in the wind!" "It was me who got you out of jail!" "It was because of you I was there in the first place." "What was Kyle involved in?" "It was some kind of undercover operation." "Then something happened, some kind of trouble." "What trouble?" "I'm not sure." "He had this information, but there wasn't... anyone he felt he could trust enough to pass it on to." "So he called you?" "Yes, but halfway through the call the line went dead." "I had to find him." "I had to know he was okay." "What information did he give you?" ""X-P-L-A, C-l-F" " Reefer."" " Or, uh, "refer."" "He was speaking so quickly, I can't be sure." "That's when I banged into your car." "That's exactly what happened." ""CVH-7 43." "KMF8."" "Have you any idea what that means?" "I don't have any idea." "You're the spy, Harry." "I thought you'd know." "I am so sorry." "I couldn't get involved, Harry." "You aren't, Stacy." "What are you going to do?" "I'm gonna find the people who killed my friends." ""Ory's Creole Trombone"... a collector's item." "What-- what is it you want?" "What does CVH-7 43 KMF8 mean?" "I don't know." "Try again." " l told you, I don't know!" " You bastards know everything." "They train you to know" "Stop it, please!" "You bureaucrats... you're funny." "I never know when you're lying!" "You bastard!" "What are you going to do?" "Shoot me?" "You're crazy!" "What was that all about last night?" "I don't know." "A 40-D came down, I just executed it." " Let's try that again." " l don't know!" "Knee's next, Stevens." "It has something to do with illegal arms." "Um... the Americans aren't-- uh, sharing." "People are getting worried." " Illegal arms?" " Yeah." "That's all I know!" "No!" "No!" "That's all I know!" "That's all I know!" "That's all I know!" "Absolutely fascinating." "Thank you for a lovely evening." " See you next week." " l look forward to it." "Bye-bye." "Sir Hector!" "Sir Hector!" "What the hell are you doing here?" " He shot me." " Get out of the light." "Quickly!" "For God's sake, what happened?" "I just came around to my flat." "He went crazy!" "He shot me." "He could have killed me!" "Why come here?" "I can't go to the hospital with a gunshot wound." "They'll report me to the police." "I need a friendly doctor." "I know one." "Have you got a piece of paper?" "I'll jot down the address for you." "Goodbye, Stevens." "Harry..." "Harry!" "It's gonna be all right." "Oh, Harry... ls something wrong, my dear?" "Do you remember Harry Anders?" " The jazz club owner?" " He's in trouble." "Anything I can do to help?" "You are so wonderful." "I love you." "You are always so good to me." "I want you to make a phone call for me." "Harry, where have you been?" "I've been looking for you everywhere." " l know what Kyle was working on." " So do I, illegal arms trade." "No, Harry, arms shipments." "He was working undercover at the docks." "Docks?" "X-P-L-A." "Export of London." "P.L.A:" "Port of London Authority." " Oh my God, Buddy!" " Buddy?" "Buddy is in there?" "You'll be all right, luv." "Just hang on." "Go back to the embassy and stay there till I call, you understand?" "Where are you going?" "Stacy, stay there and I'll call you." " l have been used" " Excuse me, sir!" "imprisoned, lied to and blown up," " and I've decided I've had enough, Sir." " l beg your pardon?" "In case the bastards responsible get me before I get them," " l want you to have this." " What is it?" "I don't know exactly, Sir, but I intend to find out." "If I end up brown bread, I'm relying on you to get that to the right people." " "Brown bread"?" " Dead, Sir. lt's rhyming slang." "If I end up dead, I'm relying on you to get that to the right people, and make sure that whoever did me gets done." "All right, Sir?" "I've got to get going." "Uh, Anders..." "Ring, damn it!" "To the docks." "Port of London." "Yes, ma'am." "Base, this is Security One." " We're moving proceeding west." " Roger, Security One." "Received and understood." " You with the police then, mate?" " You'll be with the bloody" "National Health Service if you don't tell me what this means." " All right." "X.P.L.A., Export" " Of London Authority." "I know that, what about C.l.F?" "Carriage insured Freight-- the load's ready to be shipped immediately." ""Reefer," that's a refrigerated container." " The rest of it is a serial number." " So where will it be?" "Ah... out there, mate." "With all the others." "Base, we've changed routes." "We're heading to the river." "Over." "We're now approaching Waterloo, do you copy?" "Roger, stay in pursuit." "Look out!" "Security One to Base." "We've been deliberately hit." "We've lost them." "Repeat, we've lost them." "Damn it, they got away." " Why isn't Gordon driving?" " Day off, ma'am." "He takes Sundays off." "You just sit back and relax, ma'am." "I see an unauthorized person inside the perimeter." "Over." "Received, we'll notify security immediately." "I'm still looking. I think he's gone to the east side." "Yeah, L-1 3, I see it." "Yeah, I'll come up and help you." "Roll up D-7." "Fine, I'll turn around and roll back the other way." "There he is!" "This is Car Two." "We're moving into Section D-7." "We're in pursuit." "Over." "I can't see him." "The farter's got to be around here somewhere." "I'm looking." "I still can't see him." "Well, neither can I!" "That's it." "Come on, we'll get him." "Transport to Seven, please move to Cargo Area B." "Freight is now departing from the north gate." "Attention, attention!" "Unauthorized person still on premises." "Report immediately if sighted." "Report immediately if sighted!" "Come on." "You got it." "Come on." "This is L-1 3." "I'm gonna turn into Section G-4." "Still no sign of him." "Wait a minute." "I've got him!" "He's in G-4, heading west!" "Repeat, G-4, heading west." "I'm right up his ass!" "Look at that bleeder run." "Shit!" "We're moving up behind L-14." "What do you want us to do?" "Over." "Shit, I've lost him!" "Say, "He's over the fence..."" "He-- he's over the fence." ""...in the railyard."" "In the railyard." "Drop the container." "Drop it now!" "Christ!" "L-14, do you copy?" "Come in, L-14." "Go towards that ship." "L-14, do you copy?" "Are you in pursuit?" "What's going" "Stay right where you are or I will get very angry." "Okay?" "Okay." "Going on your holidays, are you?" "Put the guns down." "Very slowly, put 'em down!" "You at the back, put both hands on top of the car." "So what's in CVH-734 KMF8?" "Warheads?" "Nothing so glamorous, I'm afraid, Harry." "High temperature aerospace furnaces for making missile components." "My customers are looking to upgrade their medium range and battlefield delivery systems." "Some lunatic in the desert replenishing his collection of toys?" "Oh, come on, Harry." "They were using poison gas 75 years ago." "It was our side that actually dropped the bomb, you know?" "Don't let's get all moral about this." "It's not a question of morals, I'm just scared of being turned into a french fry one morning." " How much are these things worth?" " 10 million, Harry." "But that's not the only reason I'm doing it." "They fired me!" "The pinstripes turned on me like they turned on you." "We don't owe them a damned thing, Harry." "Five million." " l can't do that." " We gave them everything!" "What did they give us in return?" "A wet handshake with a director on a Friday afternoon-- and he kept looking at his watch." "Five million, Harry." "I really hate to see you like this, Sir Hector." "I hate to see the man who taught me everything... end like this." "But I'm not going to end up like this, Harry." "Yes, I should, uh... I should have known that you would assume that you could get the better of me." "You always were an arrogant bastard, Anders." "Why don't we finish this at Scotland Yard?" "I don't think so, Harry." "Oh, I admit you forced my hand, made me start tying up some loose ends." "including the girl." "Stacy's safe." "Depends what you mean by safe, Harry." "Let her go, and I'll put the gun down." "Harry!" " Are you okay?" " Okay?" "Uh, yeah." "Billiards shot." "Gotcha!" "Stay there." "Okay." "# Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside # # l don't like to be-- #" "Why you, Harry?" "That's what I couldn't understand." "You see, that's why I couldn't kill her straightaway." "I had to find out how she knew to go to you." "Why you, Harry?" "Why you of all people?" "Blue ice." "Just put it down to blue ice." "Your time's running out, Harry." "I taught you... I know all about you." "Oh, you're good." "But I'm better." "I'll always be... better." "How close was Sam Garcia getting when you killed him?" "Too close." "He was beginning to ask the right questions." "He had to go." "I liked Sam." "I like all you boys." "It was never personal." "Even when you used the knife on him?" "Ice pick, Harry." "It goes deeper." "Well, Harry... I'm afraid it's time for you to be brown bread." "Nothing personal." "Whoa!" "Harry!" "Hut, hut, hut!" "Present... arms!" "Goodbye, Sir." "# Let there be me #" "# Let there be oysters #" "# Under the sea #" "# Let there be wind #" "# An occasional rain #" "# Chile con carne #" "# Sparkling champagne... #" "Christ, Buddy, aren't they suffering enough?" "Have you no compassion for your fellow patients?" "# But most of all, please... #" "# Let there be love. #" "You look so deep in thought, Harry." "I was doing some serious thinking." "About what?" "About the club." "I was thinking about a new name." "It was never intended to call it "Harry's."" "That just stuck." "I thought maybe... "Stacy's."" "You know, more flash." "You're being very kind." "But you know that's not such a good idea." "No?" "Why not?" "Lewis owns a couple of banks the regulators are looking into." "We gotta get back to Washington." " When?" " Three days from now." "So you, uh... you won't be staying on in London?" "Not by yourself, say?" "No, I can't." "Well..." ""Harry's" isn't such a bad name after all, then." "I owe Lewis." "Way back when my life was a complete mess, he was there for me." "And as much as I love you, and I do, Harry, there's no way I could ever hurt him." "That's okay, Stacy." "I wish it were different." "In a couple of years, who knows?" "Yeah." "At least you'll always know where to find me." "Third elbow from the left at the bar." "Will you still keep your promise?" "What promise is that?" "You said, when it was time for me to go, you'd have a glass of champagne with me at the airport." "A promise is a promise." "I love you." "# East of the sun #" "# And west of the moon #" "# We'll build a dream house #" "# Of love, dear #" "# Near to the sun in the day #" "# Near to the moon at night #" "# We'll live in a lovely way, dear #" "# Living in love and pale moonlight #" "# Just you and I #" "# Forever and a day #" "# Love will not die #" "# We'll keep it that way #" "# Up among the stars we'll find #" "# A harmony of life to a lovely tune #" "# East of the sun and west of the moon, dear #" "# East of the sun and west of the moon. #"