All language subtitles for COBRA (2020) 1x05 - Episode 5

Scott Arthur Minett,

former soldier who served honourably
in Afghanistan,

now leading People's Justice
in the Red Zone.

Here we are, Mr Prime Minister!
You'd better be listening now.

For better or worse,
Mr Nobody speaks for a lot of people.

I am not inviting him to Downing Street.

Chequers then.

Ellie's not coping well.

We will get her through this
if we just hold the line.

The law must take its course unimpeded.

I have never interfered with that

and I would never instruct
any of my staff to do so.

Why did he come back to
find you after so long?

I don't know.

Edin Tosumbegovic is connected to a
Balkan gangster called Toni Lulin.

- Do you love him?
- I don't know.

The capital has
effectively been encircled

and our attempts to move a new
transformer to the Red Zone paralysed.

You need to get the tankers
out of the depots,

which might not be so easy

if my members decide
to take matters further.

It's not us who's under pressure
here, Prime Minister.

Georgia was my best friend.

I loved her. She did not deserve
what happened to her

and she doesn't deserve
to be blamed for it now.

I'm sorry that I've added to
the suffering of her family.

I admit that it was all my fault.

I'm the one that provided the drugs
and I lied.

Not because of my privilege
but because I'm...

scared about going to prison.

She was scared she might go to prison.

Were you scared, Mrs Sutherland?

You'll have to be more specific.

When you discovered
Ellie had supplied the drugs,

were you scared she might go to prison?

Come on, detective,

you'll have to do better than "when
did you stop beating your wife?"

You didn't advise her to lie in
police interviews and put the blame

Are you asking me did I conspire
to pervert the course of justice?

No, I did not. Did anybody else?

Not to my knowledge.

Did you ever discuss it with Peter Mott?

With who?

You don't know the name of
your husband's press secretary?

Yes, of course I know who he is.

Did you ever discuss Ellie's
predicament with Peter Mott?

I think there might have...

There may have been a conversation

about the level of tabloid interest
a case like this would attract.

So you discussed
protecting your daughter

from press intrusion.

We've often had to do that.

I'm sure.

Look, my daughter has admitted to
an understandable error of judgement

because she is overcome
with pain and grief

over her best friend's death.

You now have to decide
whether to charge or not.

She's fully prepared for that.

But, in the meantime,
I'd like to go home and be with her

because, believe it or not,
for all her supposed privilege,

right now Ellie...

She's just a very, very frightened
young woman.

And she needs her mum.

OK. Fine. That'll do.

For now.

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I'll travel to Chequers by helicopter.

I can't run the risk of getting
trapped at a blockade.

A special train to Aylesbury
has also been laid on

and there are cars from there.

Trains? Good God.

We may as well hold this
in the waiting room at Paddington.

We have to show we're
not besieged in the capital,

that we can travel anywhere.

What's happening in the Red Zone?

Well, we've set up a new
Gold Command Centre

at the airbase near Hexham.

From now on only essential supplies
go to the hospital

and we've arranged buses to move
those who want to leave.

What a waste of time and resources.

I think People's Justice know
the action is somewhere else now.

They've still got their foot
on our throat.

Panic buying has increased
in a lot of areas.

There are big issues over fuel supply

now that the Dartford Tunnel is blocked.

Also enormous problems with bloods
and special medical couriers.

I seem to remember a time
when you dismissed such issues

as minor logistics.

Don't underestimate Scott Minett.

He's got a massive profile now

and he'll take that with him
to the barricades.

Surely his car comes off the road
somewhere on the A40?

What good's the deep state if it can't
organise a simple assassination?

The only deep state I'm familiar
with is my inbox.

OK, let me be absolutely clear.
I will meet with these people.

But if they push too hard,

I will drive them straight
off my fucking mountain.

Yes.

OK. Yeah, yeah, keep me updated, yeah.

Peter Mott's been arrested.

Searched his office, taken his
computers.

This is a full-blown witch hunt now,
isn't it?

I lied to Parliament, Rachel.

They'll keep on and on
trying to prove that.

They can't prove it.

They can say it, some people might
believe it, but they can't prove it.

And let's be honest.
These are different times.

The bar for misdemeanours is
way higher than it used to be.

Well, thank God for our degraded
sense of political honour.

There is nothing degraded about
wanting to protect your family, Robert.

Whatever it takes, family first. Always.

What?

That's what Scott Minett says too.

I guess we're all the same in the end.

Bunch of selfish apes.

Oh, sweetheart, don't get cynical.

It's not you at all.

I have a visual on lover boy
with an unknown female.

"Dear Diary,

busy morning lusting after Amy Williams
from The Mail on Sunday

followed by a spot
of coaching Ellie Sutherland

on how best to lie to the police."

- Oh, he hasn't?
- It's on his computer.

They're still going through it.

They're not questioning him
till later, which is frustrating.

A slight delay will probably help,

given that all the attention
will be on Chequers.

What about Anna Marshall?

- Sleeping with the enemy?
- In hand.

- So...
- My hands.

You bugging the flat?

No comment.

- Does she know you're bugging the flat?
- Archie...

Let me know if they pick up
anything particularly salacious.

I'll only share it
with my WhatsApp group.

Piss off, Archie,
you'll be late for Chequers.

Nothing can move down there.

We have to end this.

One way or another.

Looks like we're staying put until
we know the outcome from Chequers.

But they're not going
to agree on anything.

It's obvious the plan is
to bring down the government.

Maybe, but the PM's in a fighting
mood so we'll see.

Well, at least this means you can
go to your dad's funeral.

Obviously I'll be
reachable on the mobile.

- Are you gonna take Mabel?
- Sorry?

You know, you said you
were worried about going...

Oh, er, Francine Bridge
is coming along actually.

Francine Bridge from the Policy Unit?

- That's right.
- Ah.

- Just, you know, bit of moral support.
- Mm.

Now, where is the chief engineer?

I need to speak to him about these
elevated stretches of roadway.

He's slipping the move
on Francine Bridge?

Wow.

Good for you, Fraser, she is hot.
Aim high, dude.

Yes.

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Don't lose your focus now.
The government are on the ropes.

I'm going down to Chequers
with the lorry drivers today

and I'm going to deliver our message.

Soon there'll be a new government.

They're trying to starve
wor out of this building

but the struggle has already moved on.

We'll take the last of that fuel

and get down to the barricades in London

cos that's where this is gonna finish.

But I'm telling yous, I promise yous...

that in the years to come,
people are gonna look back on us,

marching down them stairs
and taking this room.

And they're gonna
remember us as the match

that lit the flame
of the people's uprising.

Hi, Mabel. Good dog.

- Hey, Holly.
- Hey, Dad.

- How are you?
- I came second in cross-country.

Holly. Come back here, please.

I love your shoes, Holly.

Holly!

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They only start listening
when it's London.

If this had been the Southeast,
it would've been fixed in five minutes.

Right.

It's true.
Look, I'm not anti-London, right?

In fact, I probably know
more real Londoners

than any of the liberals
down there in their mansions.

By real Londoners you mean...?

I don't just mean white, if that's
what you're trying catch us out on.

But you have to remember there are
still millions of white Londoners.

That's the reality and
there's nowt wrong with it.

Still plenty of fuel for
your generator, I see.

You see that house there?
On the end with the flag on it?

That's mad Thommo's house, right?

Raging commie, knits socks for refugees.

Across the street from him,
we've even got a couple of lesbians.

What I'm saying is not
everybody thinks the same.

It's not like yous lot make out.

You keep saying this.
"They. You lot. The media".

People who've got the power.

- Get out the way.
- Ah, shut up!

You see the thanks you get?

People think they can tell us
what we're allowed to think,

what we're allowed to say.

Celebrities with their blue ticks
and their rainbow flags.

As opposed to those salt-of-the-earth
types tying brown men to motorbikes?

Look, man, some people are
completely racist, right?

And some people are not.

Most of wor are just
somewhere in the middle.

Like you?

Look, some lairy kid in an Audi
cuts us up, right?

I might think to myself,
"Fuck you, Paki."

No offence.

I might even say it out loud.

It depends who I'm with,
it depends what mood I'm in.

So many people are, all over the
world, man, not just here.

How would your parents
react if you told them,

"Mam, Dad, I'm marrying a lass
from a different religion"?

They'd throw a party if it was a
girl from any religion, I imagine.

Do you think I am a racist?

Lots of people have been asking me that.

You know, when they're not
abusing me for normalising you.

What do you tell them?

Does it matter to you?

I wouldn't be asking if it didn't.

Well, I certainly think
you're pretty normal.

Thank you.

You're smart.

Maybe in another era
the local headmaster

would have come and pleaded with
your dad to let you stay on at school.

Nah, he wanted us to stay on
at school, my old man.

He was a deep thinker was John Minett.

Union man, like.

But, in the end, it doesn't matter
what I think of you personally

any more than what you think of me.

I'm just a journalist
and you're just my story.

Aye.

Howay then.
Come and see where your story lives.

Now, don't mind the Hitler shrine,
right. And try not to touch my arse.

I know it's tempting but
not in front of me daughter.

There she is.

Pride and joy.

All right, darlin'.
Come and meet my new friend Manish.

Bye, Mabel.

Come on, Holly.

Good luck.

- What with?
- Him.

We're colleagues.

- If you say so.
- I do.

Bye, Mabel. I love you, Mabel.
I'll miss you.

Bye, love.

- Right.
- Let's go for a drink.

What I'll say to
the Prime Minister is simple.

Call a general election.
Let the people decide.

Do you feel any responsibility
towards people not having operations

because there is a shortage
of blood in the capital?

Hang on. Hang on.

The responsibility for this lies
entirely with a government

who has always ruled
on behalf of an elite

and not the ordinary
folk of this country.

Folk(!)

I need a cigarette.

Did you coach Ellie on
what to say to police?

No.

Did you and... Rachel Sutherland

advise her to claim that Georgia
had supplied the drugs

- because Georgia was dead?
- No.

- Was the Prime Minister present...
- No.

Was the Prime Minister present at any

meetings where such a
strategy was discussed?

No.

- You keep a diary.
- Mm-hm.

We found some interesting extracts
on your computer.

"RS." That's Robert Sutherland, right?

No flies on you, Inspector.

"RS very anxious not to get involved
with discussions on ES

and leaving things to me and RJS."

Rachel Jane Sutherland.

So he knew that you two
were strategising.

The only strategy was how to deal
with the inevitable press interest.

"ES v upset after visit
from Georgia Nixon's father.

Took a concerted effort to persuade
her to keep to script."

- Figure of speech.
- "Disturbing news from the university.

"When I told RS, he bit my head
off about interview strategy

"with ES and police.

"Told him to leave it to me and RJS.

"She is much more
clear-sighted about the issues.

"Need to stop AM going all Cassandra.

So far RS keeping her out of it."

Anna Marshall, right?

At least she has an alibi.

At one point in her last interview,

Ellie told us that she felt...

pressured into lying.

She tried to backtrack but...
we've got it on tape.

Now, when we get her to tell us
who was pressuring her,

who do you think it will be
that she'll name?

You... or her mother?

And Sam knows?

And he's...?

Sad, I think.

Uncertain.

Well, I always thought it was a
good marriage, for what it's worth.

In many ways, it is.

So what happens now?

Eleanor is running checks because
of the Toni Lulin connection.

You did the right thing
going to her, of course.

Of course.

- But you can still see him?
- According to Eleanor, yeah.

And do you want to?

I'm a bit lost for words, actually.

I've never... I mean, adultery.
I mean, I've never...

- I'm not judging.
- Oh, don't worry.

Closest I ever thought I'd get to it
was reading Tolstoy in the cottage.

I've always thought it's a bit
too much like hard work.

Adultery, I mean, not...

...Tolstoy.

Easier when your partner's
hardly ever there.

Bat.

Oh, God.

Are bats a good omen or a bad omen?

I'm not sure.

Don't fuck with them though,

they're better protected
than the nuclear codes.

The cars are arriving.

Mr Rowntree, welcome to Chequers.

I believe it was Lady Thatcher

who said it was impossible not
to fall in love with this place.

And from your side, I believe Ramsay
MacDonald was enchanted by it.

There's a splendid portrait of him
in the National Portrait Gallery

here with his family.

Ramsay MacDonald was not from
'my side' at all, Home Secretary.

He was a traitor to the Labour movement.

Still, who needs him when
you've got Francine Bridge, eh?

Well, quite.

Harry, welcome.

Prime Minister.

Are we coming in or do you want us
to wait out in the garden again?

Well, you could do a lot worse.

Come inside and have some tea
before we get started.

Thank you.

Well, this is nice.

- Are People's Justice here yet?
- Not yet.

Scott Minett will be arriving after...

I did try and get you a ticket
for Chequers but, er,

they said you weren't VIP enough.

You're not on the main stage either.

Just wait until this time
next year, man.

No-one'll even remember
who Harry Rowntree is.

No!

Keep the kid inside.

Scott? Scott?

I'll sit next to Harry Rowntree
at dinner.

- I think it should be me.
- You?

We're the only two who still believe
in the undying nature

of the class struggle.

Well, it was a sacrifice
on my part but feel free.

Scott Minett's been involved
in a hit and run.

He's dead.

Harry...

People's Justice has called
for a boycott on talks

- until Minett's death is clarified.
- Clarified?

- What does that mean?
- We have to speak to them first.

You can't leave.
There's no time for this.

Harry. Harry!

Every second that transformer stays
blocked, more lives are lost.

People are dying
because of this blockade.

People are dying
because of your government.

We have a duty to the country.
You and I have to sort this thing out.

Are you going to use the Civil
Contingencies Act to keep me here?

Are you gonna throw me in front
of a tribunal if I try to leave?

Are you a dictator now, Prime Minister?

How do we know that you didn't have
Scott Minett taken out?

Don't be so fucking ridiculous.

This isn't about
the Civil Contingencies Act.

- And it's not about Scott Minett either.
- Robert...

It's about you

acting like you're on the bridge
of the Battleship Potemkin

because you can't control your members.

You're competing with People's Justice

while hardworking public servants

battle round the clock
to get the power back on.

So why don't you get back to your
barricade, you posturing idiot,

- because I'm coming for you tomorrow.
- Oh, yeah?

- Oh, fucking yes.
- Robert!

And I'm bringing APVs and bulldozers,
so if you do feel like

acting like Tiananmen Square Man,
which, quite frankly,

I doubt very much,
then fucking knock yourself out.

Anna.

Well, that cleared the air.

Fuck him. Let's get back to London.

Convene COBRA.
I'm taking these bastards on now.

Breaking news just now.
Reports are coming in

- that Scott Minett...
- What do you want?

- Vodka soda.
- Hi, two vodka sodas, please.

...targeted deliberately by two men
in a grey Ford Focus.

The police are looking
for both car and drivers,

one of whom was described
as either black or Asian.

- The journalist...
- No surprise there, then.

Truth hurt, does it, love?

We don't all know each other, you know.

I know you. You're a politician.

Bunch of crooks.
Only in it for themselves.

- What did he say?
- Let's go.

Hey, Dave.
Dave, do you remember that sign,

"No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs"?

We've only gone and got
a threefer here, mate.

- I think you'd better go, mate.
- Why do we have to go?

Well, it's no dogs allowed.

? No surrender, no surrender ?

? No surrender to the IRA ?

What's so funny?

Well, apart from the country going
insane, I just buried my dad.

My kids won't talk to me because
their mother's a lying sociopath.

And even though I've
done nothing to him,

I've got some guy singing in my face
"No surrender to the IRA".

What a setting for a wake,
my dad would have loved it here.

It's hilarious.

Let's go.

That's for Scott Minett, you slags.

- Keep walking.
- I was going to.

- We'll set up here.
- You OK, mate?

- Sure.
- What are you going to say?

- What I saw.
- No, I mean, about... him... his views.

You know, put it in some perspective

cos you got close to him,

and what with you being,
you know, diverse yourself.

- Diverse.
- So you can contextualise...

- Rob.
- Yeah?

Shut up.

- Let's go...
- Yeah.

Earlier today I witnessed
the brutal attack on Scott Minett

which was unquestionably deliberate.
The mood on the streets is...

Rob. Rob!

Get in. Get in!

It's gonna kick off big time.
They killed that Scott Minett,

- didn't they?
- Who's they?

Who do you think?
He just got too popular, didn't he?

They were never going to meet him,
it's obvious.

Why would a bunch of people here
in London care about a man...

People are fed up of
everything, in't they?

Lying politicians, no food in the shops.

Maybe we should drop you first.

You can come back to mine
for a bit if you like?

Will you take us to Kennington, please?

This is gonna be far worse
than last time.

Welcome back, Anna.

If anyone can sort out
this shit-show it's you.

That is your boyfriend having
dinner with Toni Lulin.

Lulin's business interests
are highly complex.

Some are quite legitimate.

He runs a very successful
fibre-optics company.

Others less so. The Turkish heroin
trade being the most obvious.

- So Edin could be involved?
- There is a rumour that Toni Lulin

uses an assassin. Based in London.

The assassin goes under the pseudonym
of Nico and is greatly feared.

- No. No way.
- I don't know.

But I'm definitely going to find out.

I need to talk to you, Mum.
Can I come and see you?

No. You need to stay inside.
The situation is really volatile

in London right now.

- Where's Barney?
- Upstairs. Look, I have to...

I wanna talk about what's
happening to our family.

You said I can come and see you
at the Pimlico flat any time.

Am I just not important to you now?

That's really unfair.

Look, please don't leave
the house tonight, all right?

We are getting reports
of rioting breaking out.

I will try to come home later but
I need to speak to your dad first.

All right? I love you. Bye.

We've had reports of
disturbances from a number of places

- and not just the crisis zones.
- Sheer opportunism.

We should round them up and use
Wembley as a mass detention centre.

Never really lost that loving
feeling for Pinochet,

have you, Archie?

A great man and an honourable soldier.

If I could drag us away from
murderous dictators for a moment

- and back to our current problem...
- Please do.

Anyone who is angry right now
is coming out onto the streets

and that is a hell of a lot of people.

Manchester, Birmingham, London.

The problem is that it's been a long
time since Northern Ireland.

We used to be a world leader in
handling serious urban disturbances.

Well, I want troops deployed
on the streets tonight.

I'll authorise the use of CS gas
and baton rounds if necessary.

And if it requires more than that?

If my men come under serious attack?

You were unwilling to make
that decision earlier.

We will restore legitimate authority
in the Red Zone,

clear the roads for the transformer
and deal robustly

with further rioting in our cities.
No more velvet gloves.

Why did you leave her?

Lots of things.

Values, lifestyle,

aspirations, politics.

- So just the small stuff, then.
- The kids are all I care about.

But she's managed to make them
believe I am responsible

for all the bad things,
and there's nothing I can do about it.

Well, it's obviously
made you very unhappy.

Maybe you should talk
to someone about it.

People talk too much.

They should bottle it all up
until it gets too much.

- And then they should medicate.
- That still working for you, is it?

I like you, Fraser.

I like you, too.

First reports of fatalities.

A man was attacked and beaten to death

trying to protect his shop.

Two dead in flats above shops
that were set on fire.

I can't let this continue.

- I cannot let anarchy prevail.
- I agree.

- Even if this time it means...
- A risk to life.

Hello, this is the Prime Minister.
Have General Pickering

meet me in the COBRA room, please.

Oh sorry, you may not have heard me.

This is the fucking Prime Minister.
Get General Pickering

out of his meeting and have him meet
me in the COBRA room immediately.

The city's burning.

Hello?

OK, coming now. I gotta go.

- Now?
- That was the Prime Minister.

He's about to take out the barricades
to release the transformer.

2-1 in position.
All subjects are inside the nest.

Allow the deal to proceed 2-1.
2-1 on standby.

- I think we all can agree to the terms, right?
- Yeah.

Everything is in place.
The shipment will be arriving next week.

Nico will be your final contact.

He will be in touch with you
nearer the time.

2-1 has the eyeball
on an unidentified female

approaching the nest.

Where's my mum?

You're Tess, right?

- Where's my mum?
- She's not here.

- Let me go!
- I got her.

What are you doing?

The unidentified female
is Anna Marshall's daughter.

- Should we go in?
- See how this plays out 2-1.

- Trust me.
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No!

- Help me!
- Trust me.

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Come with me.
You're going to be all right. Come on.

2-1 has the eyeball
on Loverboy, he has the girl.

All other targets are leaving the nest.

Let them leave 2-1.
Arrest team incoming for Loverboy.

Make sure the girl is safe and we'll
get a message to Eleanor James.

We have intelligence
that a far-right group

called National Spirit has
infiltrated the protestors.

They have links to the armed
forces so probably not wise...

Not a moment longer. I made a promise
to the people in the hospital

that I would turn the lights back on

and I am going to keep
that fucking promise.

Lives are already being lost.
Take that barricade down.

Charlie, Charlie, 1,
advance to the blockade.

The barricade is down.
But the protestors...

The first barricade is cleared.

But there are more
protestors approaching.

We need to take control
of this situation.

We're pushing their lines back well.

Incoming!

- What the hell was that?
- Phosphorous grenade.

These are military grade weapons.

Do I have authorisation to return fire?

They should retreat.

If they have grenades,
they may have guns.

Robert, listen to me. We can take stock.

Do I have authorisation?

Anna, tell him.

They're throwing grenades
at British soldiers.

This isn't a protest, Robert,
it's an armed attack.

It's too risky.

I'm authorising you to return fire.

Colonel, you have authorisation
to defend yourself

with live ammunition. Send fire team
forward, rules of engagement apply.

Copy that. Over.

Riflemen forward! Riflemen forward!

Disperse! Disperse! Force will be used!

- Rules of Engagement!
- Yes, Sarge!

3-1-Alpha, what are you seeing?
What are you seeing? Over.

Watch your front!

Weapon!

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