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Hey, Aaron, it's Delia again.

Just got to Amsterdam. Um...

It's Lucas. They've got to him, too.

Um, really worried.

Call me back.

Hey, Aaron, it's me again.

Um, look, I'm just calling to say I do... understand.

Do you think that...

You think you need to do this on your own, but you don't.

Lucas is in a fucking hospital The next time I see you,

I don't wanna see you in a morgue.

I just... I care about you.

We had to sedate him.

But his CT scans look promising.

There's no sign of bleeding.

And the fact that he's verbal, lucid, is positive.

So he'll be okay

We're monitoring him.

But his blood pressure's stabilising.

The rib should heal on its own.

Thank you.

What the hell were you thinking

When Aaron contacted me

and he told me to look into someone.

Rebin Tuerxon.

Kazakh mother and a Chinese father.

But Tuerxon's American educated. He's a scientist.

What kind of scientist

Rare earth metal.

Coltan.

But I never thought he would

actually follow that jet. Never.

And I think I know where that plane is going.

So the tailfin number was in

one of the pictures, I imagine

Yes.

And you tracked his destination

Yes.

My God, Etienne. Where

Amur Oblast.

It's, in East Russia.

Aaron has gone to Eastern Russia

Yeah.

Follow it where

Lucas.

Hey, are you okay How are you feeling

-What-what did he say -"Never better."

"You should see the other guy."

Do you want me to go get someone

There was a nurse. Here.

Y-you want some help Yeah...

Excuse me, excuse me

-Careful. -Do you remember what happened

No.

You were in the apartment...

Look, I really appreciate that you guys are here,

but if you really wanna help me then...

Follow it where

Um...

Can I

Okay, so during the Soviet era,

the most interesting places in the USSR were the ZATOs.

- The closed cities - Yes.

ZATOs

They were effectively military bases,

where they would develop weapons

and work on the Soviet space programme.

And look.

These are cargo trucks

transporting Congolese Coltan, okay

How do we know that

I checked the ID numbers on the container,

then I check them against

the open-source shipping manifest.

And finally tracked them back to their source.

Well, it's good to have you back, Etienne.

Thank you very much.

So these satellite pictures, they're all of, Skovo...

-Skovorodino. -Skovorodino.

Yes. And, and look.

A few hours later...

What... They...

The trucks returned, but they're empty

Yeah.

So you reckon that they unloaded

the Coltan in Skovorodino

It's just a theory.

Well, that's not stopping Aaron.

He's gone and chased your theory.

Etienne,

when you looked at the satellite data,

did you also look at the other part of the town

Did you... Did you look south

Yes.

What is that

Well, it's hard to tell, isn't it

It looks like a forest.

-So what are they hiding -I don't know.

But Congolese Coltan travelling

to a remote location in East Russia,

a former USSR military research town

So maybe it is a good place for Aaron to start looking

Yeah.

Hey, I know where you're going.

I'm not sure about this.

Just, try and get online when you can.

We're guessing Tuerxon

and Kuzmin are travelling to this

blurred area on the map.

There is an adoption agency in Skovorodino.

So you're gonna pretend to adopt a kid.

So y-you have a good reason to be there.

Just try to be convincing

as possible and be careful, okay

- No, no, no, no. - Fuck

-D-do you want some help No -No.

I'm gonna kick your ass in no time.

-Yeah. -You wanna kick my ass

Come on, kick my ass. Yeah Kick my ass.

You can't even move your arms So, please don't.

Why did you come back

Hey.

-Hey. -Hey.

Maya.

I knew they wouldn't keep you down for long.

It's so nice to have you back, Etienne.

-Thank you very much. -Rebin Tuerxon.

He majored in aerospace and...

Excuse me, Maya, but w-we already found that.

Yeah, but did you know he went on to work for NASA

Rockets and spaceships NASA

Full security clearance.

Well, if he worked for the Americans,

what's he doing with Kuzmin now

The simplest explanation is, he defected.

But maybe he was always working for the Russians

He did a couple of stints with specialist

communications companies.

Designing commercial satellite systems.

He even did one for some obscure Russian company,

Yegorovich Manufacturing.

Anyway, h-his employment record, it was pretty regular.

Until he joins NASA.

And eight months into the job, he quits.

-When was that -Five years ago.

And ever since, to all intents and purposes,

Tuerxon, he's become a ghost.

A-are you lost

I'm sorry

You need a room

Why are you here

For the adoption agency.

But you are here alone

I have the application form.

My wife, she got sick

the day before we were due to leave, so...

I... We decided that I should go on ahead alone.

I'm Nicholas, by the way.

-Ludmilla. -Hello.

Very nice to meet you. I'm Nicholas.

- Nikolai - Nikolai, yes.

I hope you like the room.

Yes, it's, it's wonderful.

Thank you.

Hello.

You can come in.

I'm Nicolas.

I'm going to send you some pictures

I took this afternoon.

Man.

Yes. The forest hides a factory.

Guards.

Yeah. With guns.

There's no way I'll get past them

to see what's inside.

There's still nothing that ties

this factory to the Coltan trucks.

Let alone, Tuerxon or Kuzmin.

Can you go back a few photos

Stop.

That one.

Yegorovich Manufacturing.

Maya told us that this is

one of Tuerxon's former employers.

Yeah, but Aaron still can't get inside.

Exactly, there's no way.

Yeah...

but maybe he doesn't need to.

-Not physically. -What do you mean

About 15 years ago,

the Americans and the Israelis, they had a problem.

Wh-what kind of problem

Iran was developing nuclear weapons,

and it was becoming too much of an existential threat.

Of course, they couldn't just send spies

directly into the Iranian factory.

So they had to come up with another idea.

A computer virus.

It's called the Stuxnet Worm.

Look, they managed to get this malware

inside the Iranian factory on a USB stick.

It completely sabotaged their systems.

What I'm trying to say is, if we can manage

to get a USB stick inside the factory

and if we can get someone to put it into their system,

then we can programme it to connect

to the factory's network

and maybe broadcast it to a dedicated receiver close by.

So we have a receiver outside

the factory, connected to a laptop

-Yeah -Okay.

And then we let the malware download

whatever files it can find.

Yeah.

Okay.

We'd be crossing the line again.

This hacking is not journalism.

Delia, look,

Steve Lush died when he found out the truth.

If we give up now...

Joshua died for nothing.

Okay.

Still, it could take weeks to ship that device to me.

And I highly doubt that this cover will last that long.

Okay, well... what if one of us brought the USB device to you

No fucking way.

It's way too dangerous for you to come here, Delia.

After St. Petersburg,

it will be difficult for you to enter Russia.

It's dangerous for you to be there alone, Aaron.

We started this thing together. Let's finish it together.

Alright.

I guess we need to-to go shopping.

-Yeah -Yeah.

Hi.

-Lucas sent me. -Lucas

Yeah. For-for the materials.

- Sure. - Yeah.

Excuse me, yeah.

Your receiver...

and a microcontroller

with its hidden Wi-Fi capabilities,

Standard BadUSB architecture.

- No returns. - No problem.

No problem with that.

Okay.

Now, we just load the malware and program it

to run when they plug this in.

Done.

-Receiver. -Thank you.

Now we just need to get you into Russia.

You'll find a way.

We think that the best access

is gonna be through China.

Wish me luck

So you would fly to Beijing.

And then you would get domestic flights

to the Sino-Russian border.

Thank you.

From there, Sergey says

he's gonna be able pull some strings.

Please be vigilant.

Hello

- You must be Katya, yes - Yes. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Nikolai

-Your wife is here. -Nice to meet you.

-Nicolas. -Katie.

Well, um, this, this is my wife.

This is Ludmilla and Ivan.

I've already told them everything about you,

about us...

-Our hopes -Yes, exactly.

Well, I can't wait to finally start with our new life.

Neither can I.

Nikolai, tell me...

How did you realise,

how do you say, that, Katya was the one

Um...

Well, it's funny,

because it took me quite a while to realise.

Because in the beginning, she really, really annoyed me.

Yeah

But then I started to see the small things.

She opens her mouth when she's concentrating,

I love that.

And then she has this thing, where she, like,

when she's getting annoyed,

she, like, has the wrinkles on her nose.

And then she does... She doesn't really laugh.

She does like a "". Like she just did.

I love it.

Um, I never ever have to explain myself.

And I think she sees me.

And that's how I knew she's the one.

And you, Katya

Well, he calls me a tsunami,

and says I'm stubborn and obsessive.

He-he's stubborn and obsessive, I mean, like me.

But he's now the person I go to for everything.

And when you're not with me...

I realise that I need you.

Your perspective and instincts.

You see people and things for what they really are.

I needed that.

Lucky man

For moments like this, we need to drink vodka.

Yes.

So, let us toast.

Our leaders often speak of strength and progress,

but they make their decisions, they choose their wars.

But we are the ones who are left with the consequences.

For example, our eldest son.

Ilya.

They sent him to Syria.

They said they had their reasons.

But they just sent him there to die.

-Vodka -Yes, please. Thank you.

"Ilya" is a beautiful name.

Ilya.

-Ilya. -Mama

Yeah.

Come, come.

Wow

Hey Katya

My God.

Going without you was irresponsible.

Well, if we're honest, there's probably a time

I would have done the same.

Don't shut me out again.

What

Don't shut me out again.

I won't.

W-what do you mean they are package

How did you get this

Delia, e-every mail package

has a unique tracking number.

And we figured out their format.

The last five digits are always the zip code.

So we looked for packages going to Skovorodino,

and we found some that were going to the Yegorovich factory.

Thank you.

Shit, ha-ha-ha, it's actually working

Coffee mugs And computer keyboards

Keyboards

Aaron's address.

So we changed the address and diverted them to you.

This is perfect.

Now-now, listen

You just have to switch one of the normal USBs

with the one with the malware.

And then you take off the old label,

get it to the post office,

there, it gets a whole shiny new label,

this time with the right address

and then it will be sent to our friends

at Yegorovich Manufacturing.

And they'll never know their package

took a little detour.

Once you're done, go get online near the factory,

and we'll remote access your computer,

and we'll take it from there.

And the package is in.

Okay, that's the receiver.

You should have access to the laptop.

Yeah, I see it. We're in.

Okay, I'm gonna take over and we're gonna try

to brute-force their Wi-Fi password by...

Okay, all or nothing.

-Got it -Gone a lot softer.

Sorry, Luc.

I got it, I got it.

Here you go.

-Got it, saved the password. -Okay.

Now we're in their network,

let's hope that someone plugs in that keyboard

and the USB.

Okay

They plugged in the USB.

So, what do we have

There must be thousands of files.

Everything from payroll, accounting,

through to employment contracts.

Has Tuerxon made an appearance

Yeah, he's chief engineer, if my translation is right.

Okay, in what exactly

Well, that's where things get really interesting.

There are bunch of schematics

and blueprints for various subsystems,

but if you combine them all together...

they form some sort of satellite.

Let's have a look.

If this is a satellite, where are the wings

That's where the solar panels will be, right

So how's this going on

Look, these plans must show the internals.

Wow Look how cool this is

That's the inside

Yeah. Yes, there must be thousands of microprocessors.

Well, a satellite with a computer systems

this dense, this complex,

would require a lot of raw material.

Yeah, precisely. And then there is this...

What is this

My guess, it's some sort of payload.

These are microwave arrays,

extremely high-power lasers,

possibly some signal jamming equipment

and some other stuff, TBC.

Guys, the satellites are Tuerxon's specialty,

so I do think we know now what they're building,

we just don't know why.

So we're gonna need more files.

We should go.

We've got, like, 30 gigs of data.

Um, so far, it's just more of the same.

Payroll, accounting, a whole bunch of scientific papers.

Papers on what

Lucas, these are decay rates of uranium.

Mystery payload

Do you think it's a nuclear weapon

Guys, please. Let's not jump to any conclusions.

Yeah, it would explain why everything

is blacked out in the schematics.

It would go against every international agreement.

But, Lucas, you cannot get past these guards. You can't.

Guys, look at this.

What is this document about

Is, is this a tunnel underneath the checkpoint

I don't think there are any guards around there.

There's an entrance.

Maybe we'll find out more about how they

control these satellites.

We have to know for sure.

It would be dangerous.

Aaron. Aaron, please.

Let's not cross that line again. Please.

We agreed we'd make decisions together now, so...

I'm not doing this without you.

We are citizen journalists behind a desk,

not secret agents

We're so close.

All we've lost, it has to be

worth something, right

It's worth a shot.

Say we go in,

I mean, what are we, what are we even looking for

Um, large centrifuges.

Industrial equipment, just anything.

Anything that proves they are processing uranium.

Pretty hard to hide this stuff.

Okay, guys.

I'm gonna call you now.

And as soon as we're in,

we're gonna stream live to the chat.

Just make sure you're recording.

Guys, we should think about this before...

Just keep downloading the files.

Get what you can.

Send me the blueprint, please.

Thank you.

Okay, guys, I will try to find a way to track you.

Up the ladder and down the chimney.

Right.

I'm uploading the building's plan

to my forensic architecture software,

so if you keep your phone on,

I should be able to track you inside the factory.

And please make sure your phone is on silent.

Are we sure we wanna do this

I mean, it should bring us behind those gates.

You might lose phone signal.

Do you have the Wi-Fi password

Yes, I've got it.

Okay, call us back from the network.

Better safe than sorry.

Yeah.

-We're in. -Great.

Guys, I'm putting you in my pocket.

Okay, so, centrifuges,

they're typically steel, like big metal tubes.

A few metres long.

See if you can find anything like that.

Whoa, wait, wait, wait. Is that...

Tuerxon

Try to follow him.

Get a closer look.

Jesus.

Aaron.

Look at this. The satellites...

Aaron, get out of there.

Go.

Go now, Aaron.

We have recorded everything, so get out now

Get out

Keep on walking.

He's still following you.

D-don't look. But is he still following you

-Guys. -Yeah

-Guys, do you see this -Yeah, we see it.

I'm in an elevator.

Yeah. Where are you going

I don't know. But I'm, I'm going down.

Aaron, I'm not sure about this.

I told you this was a bad idea.

No, no, no.

Guys, I think Tuerxon's satellites are weapons.

-Why this place -I don't know.

They are aiming at satellites all over the world.

Why are they targeting other satellites

Hello.

I admire the spirit.

My friend from St. Petersburg.

- God. - Who left in a hurry.

You can't blame me for trying.

We know about the payload in the satellite.

What is it Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon

We could have done that decades ago.

Lucas...

we need to get him o-out of here.

-How -I-I don't know.

I followed him down.

Is that what Josh found out

That you needed all of the Coltan for your satellites

Your friend was simply collateral damage.

And Steve Lush

And Claude

You murdered them.

Why

Why are your satellites targeting

other satellites

Do you want to start a war

We don't need to wage war against you.

We just shut down your systems.

Hospitals, transportation,

telecommunications, banking.

And when the world, as you know it, collapses...

very quickly you will realise...

we're all the same in the dark.

And after the darkness, we will turn

the telecommunications systems back on.

And your disinformation will have filled in the blanks.

The uranium's powering the jamming equipment

on your satellites and that's how you create the blackout.

The greatest victories are those that require no battles.

No one has the monopoly on truth.

Truth belongs to all of us.

We will see.

Guys Guys, I think I found a password

to their internal security system,

but I need a minute.

So this is how you do it,

all that real-time disinformation.

-A quantum computer. -Yes.

Now...

-Give me your phone. -No. No, no, no, no.

-Lucas, hurry up -Guys, what do I do

Aaron, I'm gonna need you

out of that room in three seconds.

-He can't hear you, wait... -Three.

-No, stop -Two.

-Aaron -One.

Now

Shit. We need another way out.

The elevator is on its way down

Please, just a second.

Etienne, we don't have a second.

-Come on. Come on. -Aaron, stay with me.

-Find a solution now -Okay

We see you.

Take a look at the right of the elevator doors.

You-you should see a vent.

Ge-get inside it.

You should see a service ladder.

Keep climbing up.

Well, wait, wait. You're on the wrong side of the building.

You're gonna need another way out.

Um, let me give you some cover.

Okay, hold on. Just a second.

We are still climbing up

We're back on ground floor

What do we do now

Okay, go. Now

The truck. Come.

We're on a truck.

But we-we don't know where we're moving to.

Guys.

My God, where are you going

You're heading west.

Bad news. According to these blueprints,

there's an army barracks that way.

It's Ivan.

And Boris.

Under the train.

Go. Go.

Goodbye, Nikolai.

Thank you, Boris. Thank you very much.

Today we are publishing 45 gigabytes of data.

We believe these documents uncover

a secret Russian space programme

designed to initiate a global digital collapse

and gain control of international media.

The whole truth lies hidden within these documents.

If you wanna help, click here.

The citizen journalist group

known as The Kollective have published a video

in which a Russian agent appears to describe

a new uranium-based space weapon,

the weapon, allegedly, has the capacity to destroy satellites

on which the world depends for internet,

air traffic control and the stock market.

This would be in violation of the Space Treaty

to which 130 countries are signatories,

including Russia.

The Russian government has, however, denied any involvement

claiming the agent to be a rogue operative.

If-if I get scared

Yes.

Yes, a-all the time.

But what's the alternative

Th-the important thing is

that we don't let it stop us.

That's, that's all, that's a-what I wanted to say.

If we give in to fear, we give in to them.

And that's not something we are willing to do.

We believe uncovering the truth can make a difference.

What happens next doesn't have to be left up

to these competing narratives.

It can be up to you.

So, if you find something that you care about,

it can be something local.

Find something that matters to you,

and then start to investigate.

The documents we posted

were downloaded by almost 1.8 million people.

Each one of you give me hope.

I believe if Joshua was still alive, he would say,

what we do matters.

If things had gone any other way,

there's a chance that we wouldn't be here today,

or that I'd be here alone.

It didn't go that way.

And... you're not alone.

None of us are.

Bye.

I'll see you online.