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GRUNTING

'At least Martin actually gives a shit about me.'

'Oh, that's where you're going?'

No, wait. Wait, wait. I don't think we should.

Fatemah's giving a talk at a university in Liverpool next week.

You honestly think they'd use a chemical nerve agent

as toxic and lethal as sarin?

I had my first threat to life ten years ago.

If I don't see evidence, I am not cancelling.

'I don't work for Qasem Asadi.

'Qasem Asadi works for us.'

He needs to make it look like he's going ahead with it,

but at the crucial moment, the device won't work.

'That flag on Jordan's phone, it's come good.'

MAN GRUNTS

HEAVY BREATHING, RINGING

HE GROANS

HE INHALES DEEPLY, EXHALES

HE GROANS

BANGS DOOR

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Let me get rid of him.

I warned him not to come back.

No. I will handle the journalist.

DOOR RATTLES

Craig, show Hossein the device.

QASEM SPEAKS FARSI

I need to just check it all out before we get some...

INDISTINCT CHATTER

I see you're doing all you can to blow my cover.

I know you're playing Six.

I've seen the lab. I'm not.

I'm on your side, John. Trust me.

Ehsan is dead. Jordan is dead.

You don't seem to care who gets hurt along the way.

I know Mehreen explained the plan to you.

The plan is bollocks.

You have no idea how fine the line is I have to tread.

I must think of my family.

Your family? Why, what is it?

What is it with your family?

I appreciate that you have to trust me.

Look, I'm sure you were one of the good guys once.

You won't be the first agent that's lost his way.

VOICES APPROACH There is a way back.

Make sure everything's spot on, and then we're off.

You will stay here until our business is concluded.

We have come to an arrangement.

Keep him here until you have disposed of Jordan's body.

What about Ehsan and my missing drugs?

He knows nothing.

Right, we'll get you back to the hotel.

Wes, you stay here and watch him. All right, boss.

METALLIC CLANGING, RETCHING

GROANING

Hey. Pack it in.

RETCHING CONTINUES

Where are you?

Shit!

WESLEY WHEEZES

WESLEY COUGHS

RINGING TONE

'Where the fuck are you?'

I'm at some premises near Warrington.

You need to get into them.

'The operation's been taken out of our hands.'

What?

'Qasem Asadi's an agent working for Six.'

I know he is.

I was informed last night Mehreen's taken over.

She's running the whole show from Six.

To be frank, I don't think she ever stopped working for them.

We need to get to the university and stop Fatemah's talk.

I found a lab here. It must be for making sarin.

I found Jordan's body there.

But senior management have been spoken to by the top at Six.

It's a done deal.

'You need to get back to London now.'

Shit. PHONE CHIMES

PHONE BEEPS

'Fatemah, you have to cancel.'

Look, some new intelligence has come to light.

I'm not cancelling.

But I think there's a risk. A real risk of mass casualties.

And what about the brave women in Evin Prison?

Women who have actually been silenced?

Someone needs to speak for my sisters,

and I will give them a voice.

HE EXHALES

Morning. Hm.

Can I help you, sir? Oh, I'm looking for the bathroom.

Third floor. Third floor.

Third floor!

DOOR CREAKS, CLOSES

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Oh. Hey. Nice to see you.

All clear.

Ah, shit!

LIFT DINGS

Stop! Stop right there! Whoa!

Put your hands in the air.

Get down on your knees. On your knees!

Where is it? WHERE IS IT?!

Where's what?

It's OK. Police. Move along.

Sorry.

Ladies and gentlemen, Fatemah Feyzi.

APPLAUSE If I may...

Thank you for having me.

I'm delighted to be here and speak with you

about the current state of Iran.

Wes?

Wes... Wes, what the...? Where is he?

Sorry, Craig.

PHONE BUZZES

What?

'Wesley's fucked up.

'The journalist has escaped.

'Are you sure he knows nothing?

'General?'

Continue with the plan.

LINE DISCONNECTS

While the big men decide what weapons Iran can have or not

and pontificate as to whether Iran

can ever have a civilian nuclear power programme,

I speak about other things.

No less important.

Women in Evin Prison in Tehran... SHUTTER CLICKS

...know they will face beatings,

solitary confinement and be refused medical treatment.

SHUTTER CLICKS

But surely...

surely they are allowed letters and food to be sent in

from relatives and loved ones.

Sadly, my sisters will not be celebrating...

SHUTTER CLICKS ...this New Year, Nowruz.

But I will always give them a voice.

I will not be intimidated.

We must free Iran.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

THEY MURMUR

I'm glad you heard Fatemah speak.

She's a great supporter of our Persian Centre

and the campaign against the regime.

See, John? Nothing happened.

This is my operation.

I found the lab where they're prepping the sarin.

Qasem needs to make it look convincing.

So convincing that they killed Jordan?

You're being played for a fool.

I think there's only one of us looking foolish right now,

and it's not me.

Qasem said the attack wouldn't happen, and it didn't.

Yeah, well, maybe this event wasn't the real target.

No, John, he saved my life. I trust him.

Well, what do you know about his life?

What do you know about his wife? His children?

What's that got to do with anything?

I spoke to him.

Why don't you do some digging? You spoke to him?

I think his wife and children are being threatened,

and he's being coerced to go through with this attack,

and you're either blind to it, or you're in on it.

Of course I'm not fucking in on it!

RINGING TONE

'Mehreen?'

I need a favour. I need you to track another phone.

RINGING TONE

'Hi.' Where are you?

Just came back to collect my things.

'We're staying at my parents'.' I didn't realise we were separating.

SHE SIGHS 'I think we should just...

'take some time...

'space apart.'

Please, Claire, don't do this.

No, John, I'm sorry, but...

SHE SIGHS ...we've hit rock bottom, and...

...I just... I just don't think we can come back from it.

DISCONNECT TONE

'Come on.'

It's been used to communicate with a burner that Beeston's using.

Sorry, Chief, I've been barred from helping you with anything like this.

Well, then I need you to get me some info

on the place I was held near Warrington.

Check for any suspicious vehicles. Look, I can't.

They know I dug up that shit on the doctor for you.

RUDY SCOFFS Look, at the end of the day,

being a rebel doesn't come naturally to me.

Look, Rudy, you don't defeat an adversary

obeying the rules and following procedure.

You find the weak spot, and you take them down.

Oh.

Chief?

RUDY SIGHS

Fucking rude of leadership to go above our heads like that.

I think Mehreen has either lost control of her agent

or she's colluding with him.

I'm not sure I buy either one of those theories.

She obviously came over from Six to keep an eye on you,

spike the investigation.

Everything you said checks out.

Well, except the attack on Fatemah's event at the university

never materialised.

But I did see where the sarin was being made.

And they killed Jordan.

This really isn't over. I think they've simply got a different plan.

Yes, but so long as we have no evidence to contradict Six,

we're obliged to accept that they're in charge and acting in good faith.

What if Asadi and Beeston have simply switched targets?

How many would die in a sarin attack?

100, 200?

I'm not sure Simone has a choice here.

I just don't believe Asadi would spike his own attack last minute.

I can't justify making enquiries when we've been told to back off.

We've never held a file on Major General Qasem Asadi.

I know it's frustrating.

I'm not frustrated. I'm angry! We have been fucked by our own side.

This arrived for you. Thanks, Janice.

HE CHUCKLES

RINGING TONE

'Rudy.' Hi, mate.

'You all right?' Yeah, I need a favour.

PHONE RINGS

Yeah, hi.

'The device you asked me to track down, it's in Streatham.'

It's where? 'Streatham. South London.'

And what about Asadi's family?

'Sources on the ground in the Elahiyeh district of Tehran

'are saying Asadi's family haven't been seen for five days.

'Mehreen?'

PHONE BEEPS

CAR DOOR CLOSES

Chloe's upset, isn't she? She's so sensitive.

Yeah, well, she adores John.

And what about Martin?

I feel really shitty about it.

Was it nice sex at least?

Well, it was hardly Champagne and bolero.

More like two shoves and a squirt. MARTA LAUGHS

And then he wept with guilt afterwards.

MARTA EXHALES

How did you and John meet?

We met on a night out.

Wow, old-school.

He chatted you up in a bar?

Not exactly.

He introduced himself.

My friends thought he was sure of himself.

Working-class chippy, you know?

But I liked him.

DOORBELL CHIMES

Hello.

SHE GASPS, HOSSEIN SPEAKS FARSI

CLAIRE BREATHES SHAKILY

HOSSEIN SPEAKS FARSI

No overreactions, and all will be well.

MARTA GASPS

What about her?

CLAIRE SOBS

SHE GASPS SOFTLY

GULLS SQUAWK

PHONE BUZZES

Hello?

I'm here with your wife... and your children's nanny.

OK.

'You need to come home.'

OK.

Come on your own.

Don't risk their lives pressing the alarm for a rescue team.

LINE DISCONNECTS

CLAIRE INHALES SHARPLY

It's gonna be OK. It's gonna be OK.

It's gonna be OK.

Phone.

And the other one, please.

Sit down.

CLAIRE BREATHES SHAKILY

Well, at least let Marta go. Yes, please, I would like to go.

And go running to the police. She won't. She won't.

No, I won't! GUN COCKING

No, please. No, no, no, no, no.

VOICES OVERLAP

I'm just gonna go home.

Marta!

GUNSHOT

CLAIRE SCREAMS It's OK. It's OK.

It's OK. CLAIRE SOBS

JOHN BREATHES HEAVILY

HOSSEIN SPEAKS FARSI

Oh!

OK, all right.

OK, just calm down. Please, just calm down.

It's not going to be long,

then Hossein and I will leave you in peace,

and we will return to Iran.

This does not have to be unpleasant.

Are you OK, Marta? It's gonna be OK. MARTA SOBS

COMPUTER WHIRRING

ELECTRONIC BEEPING

KEYS CLACK

ELECTRONIC WHIRRING

I identified a vehicle of interest with cloned number plates.

It's being driven by two of Beeston's top guys.

It's heading eastbound towards Manchester.

I see.

We know Fatemah Feyzi has a handful of other events today

over the Persian New Year.

My assessment is this isn't over.

What about that burner phone that John left you?

My mate hasn't got back to me yet

on the burner-phone location, but I've...

Have we really got to do this all again but with him instead?

Yeah, OK, Greg. KEYPAD TONES

Hello?

'Rudy, I tracked that phone. Craig Beeston.'

Yeah. 'He's in Stockport.'

Cool. Cheers, mate.

RUDY EXHALES

Beeston's in Stockport.

Well, that's his patch. That's where we'd expect him to be.

Fine, Beeston's in Stockport, but that eastbound van's

making the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

Every instinct I have is telling me

we got this wrong, Greg.

Asadi and Beeston are doing this.

And how dare Six take this away from us?

Fuck them.

Are you on board or not?

Oh, God.

CREAKING

DISTANT CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER

MARTA WHIMPERS

Are they threatening your family?

Then why is he here?

To make sure you go through with the attack?

All you need to do is stay here,

and there'll be no more attempts to prevent me carrying out my task.

GUN COCKING

No! SCREAMING

Just calm down!

Please, calm down. Calm down.

DOG BARKING

WHIMPERING

Does he know who you've been working for these past few years?

You need to be quiet now.

MI5 will help you, I promise you.

Just put the gun down.

If they've got your family, we can help get them out.

Qasem, please, tell me what you need.

DISTANT VOICES

Qasem? Mehreen?

GUNSHOT, CLAIRE GASPS

It's OK.

GUNSHOT, SHOUTING

It's OK.

Yeah, you really expect me to believe that, Mehreen?

GUNSHOT, GASPS

No, Claire, no.

I'm a doctor. Stop.

Tell me where you're gonna hit Fatemah Feyzi.

It's too late.

I know you don't wanna do this, Qasem.

Where are they gonna attack Fatemah?

Fatemah Feyzi's not the only Iranian dissident living here.

This is the biggest day of the year.

The regime is planning a big splash

against its critics in the UK.

On Nowruz, our New Year?

Where? There'll be hundreds out celebrating.

If you tell me where the attack will take place, I swear,

we'll get you and your family... CLAIRE GASPS

Get back! No, please don't. Take it easy. Let her go.

Qasem, let her go, please.

CLAIRE SOBS

Every year, I'm asking to get out with my family.

But what I was giving you was just so good, wasn't it?

All that military, scientific and nuclear intelligence?

Yeah. It's saved hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives.

And you kept me in my place.

CLAIRE WHIMPERS

If they'd got me out sooner, we would not be in this situation,

as the Persians of Stockport will find out.

Whatever happens on Nowruz is on MI6.

GUN COCKS

HE MOUTHS

I risked everything for her.

She knows I despise the regime.

She knows I want to be free of them like everyone else.

No... Hey! Hey!

CLAIRE PANTS All right. OK.

Let me remind you that you are both dispensable to me.

As I am dispensable like so many others.

Like Ehsan Taremi.

No. You know...

...she gave his murder her blessing.

She organised five kilos of heroin

to be planted in Ehsan Taremi's property.

Why?

To throw you and your colleagues off the...

GUNSHOT, CLAIRE CRIES

JOHN BREATHES HEAVILY

CLAIRE SOBS

CRYING CONTINUES

DISTANT SIRENS WAIL

They're on the M60.

ANPR ping. One minute ago. Eastbound.

There's a junction coming up.

Get the junction camera up. Sure.

There. Good.

Pull it up. Yeah.

That's it.

Call them.

RINGING TONE

'SO15 ops.' Counter Terrorist Command.

'Receiving.'

Hi, yes, State Threats, Thames House.

'Go ahead.'

Yes, we've a suspicious vehicle heading towards Manchester.

We need to get a drone up. I'll send you the co-ordinates.

'Understood. Stand by. Deploying now.'

'Hi, Rudy, son.' Chief.

They're gonna attack a Nowruz celebration.

I think it's gonna happen at the South Manchester Persian Centre.

'It's the main meeting place in Stockport

'for critics of the Iranian regime.'

OK, I'll get on it straightaway.

Probable target. Persian Centre, Stockport.

South of Manchester.

SK2 6NB. Beeston's on the move.

GPS on his phone.

He's heading north towards our potential target.

I need to get back into Six before the shit hits the fan.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

HE EXHALES

Just... Just go.

Hello? State Threats again, yes.

The developing situation in Manchester.

We need a team of armed officers now.

Hello, State Threats.

Yeah, it's regarding this situation in Manchester.

We need to get the fire service and the regional hazmat team stood up,

and the Stockport NHS needs to get

their emergency PRR action plan up and running.

No, no, no, don't intercept the van.

Head for the suspected target,

the South Manchester Persian Centre, now.

We can't risk a threat to life en route.

Possible mass casualty event.

Chemical nerve agent, sarin.

'Two occupants within the front of the van.

'We don't believe the occupants...'

'Simone?' Hello, boss.

'Are we on?' Yep, they're moving.

There absolutely is a risk of serious loss to life.

CHATTER, SINGING

SINGS IN FARSI

CHILDREN LAUGHING, SINGING DISTORTS

RADIO CHATTER

Persian Centre, we need to get into it.

Can you get us the CCTV? Yeah, sure. Already there.

BEEP

I'm in. Good. Pull it up.

Punching it up.

Deploy armed response unit.

Yeah. The van's pulling in now.

'Firearms teams deployed...'

That's them, is it, Rudy? Yes, Chief.

'The vehicle is a left, left, left into large car park.

'Travelling slowly northwards towards Persian Centre.'

'All units, suspect vehicle approaching Persian Centre.'

The vehicle has stopped directly at the rear of the Persian Centre.

'Black Range Rover is a right, right, right,

'towards the Persian Centre.'

Beeston's approaching the Persian Centre.

Stand by. Stand by. Stand by.

There is a serious risk of loss to life.

This is a critical threat.

'Occupants exiting vehicles. Two occupants in vehicle one...'

Punching up front-side camera. '..two in vehicle two.'

The driver of the white van is a white male

wearing shorts and a light-grey sweatshirt top.

Yeah, that's him.

We have a positive ID of Craig Beeston.

White male, six foot, stocky build, in all dark clothing.

They have removed an item from the rear of the white van

and are carrying it in the general direction...

That's it. That's the sarin. Condition Red.

'Firearms, Condition Red.'

Side entrance.

Intelligence suggests the package may contain sarin.

Follow them, Rudy.

Switching to back room. 'Drone to Control.

'Three suspects have entered the building.'

They're inside.

Three suspects along with the package are now in, in, in.

Pull up the main room, Rudy, mate.

There you go. We need to get them out.

Suspects appear to be prepping device in the back room.

Where's the response unit?

What is the ETA on the response unit?

We urgently need to extract civilians.

'Firearms vehicle inbound, community centre.'

One of them is exiting the building. Follow 'em.

'One suspect has exited the building.'

That's Karlson. 'Heading towards white van.'

Beeston and Wesley are setting the device.

Karlson's moving to the front of the building.

Positive ID on this male as subject Karlson,

who is moving to the front of the building. Fucking hell.

Where's the response unit? 30 seconds away.

'Suspect remains by black Range Rover.'

That's two of Beeston's crew out front.

Unidentified suspect, possibly armed, by Black Range Rover.

Come on. Come on.

Can we get the response from the dashcam? On it.

'Alfa response unit. Driving 500 yards from the car park.'

We need the bodycam.

'Alpha response unit. Approaching location.

'Firearms on scene.

'We have visual on the male by the black Range Rover.

'Male has reached inside his waistband.

'Male has taken cover behind bonnet.'

SHOUTING

OVERLAPPING SHOUTING

Police! Stop! Show me your weapons!

Show your hands now!

Second response vehicle up. Don't shoot!

Bravo one, two and three have a visual

on the male by the black Range Rover.

'On your knees!' 'OK, get on the floor.'

Karlson has surrendered.

MUFFLED SHOUTING

Drop your weapon! Hands where I can see 'em!

GUNSHOT 'Shot fired. Shot fired.'

Fuck. GUNSHOT

Fuck! Oh, God. GUNSHOT

'Drop it!'

OVERLAPPING SHOUTING

'Suspect down. Suspect down.

'Bravo team making ground towards the centre entrance.

'The shot male appears deceased.

'There is a large firearm at his side.'

'Control, firearm teams are positioned.'

Beeston's gone in the back.

'One subject down. Do not move medical forward yet.'

'Bravo team entering the building.'

'Bravo to Control. Going up three. Proceeding to next sector.'

'Firearms making ground towards the greenhouse.'

Rudy, pull up the CCTV from inside the centre, please?

Course, Chief.

Extract personnel before confronting the suspects.

Back room, please, Rudy.

Beeston's aware we are in the building.

Evacuate the building now!

'Police! Everyone out!

'Move! Move! Now!' 'Move! Move! Now!'

PANICKED SHOUTING OVER RADIO

'Everyone out the back door!'

'Everyone, out!' 'Everybody, move!'

'Wait over there.' 'Wait over there.'

'Civilians being directed away from the threat.

'Ignore the log. Additional casualties in the evacuation group -

'shock and minor injuries reported.'

That's the lot. Go to bodycam.

Neutralise the threat.

'Prepare to engage. Prepare to engage target.'

'Stand back! Stand back!'

'Bang the door! Bang the door!'

SHOUTING OVER RADIO

Get back, get back!

Fuck you! You fucking pricks!

GUNSHOTS, GROANING

'Suspects down.'

That's Beeston.

'Target neutralised. Checking device.

'Device active. Withdraw! Withdraw!' 'Withdraw! Get out! Get out!'

He's released the sarin.

'Everyone, back!

'Go back! Go back!'

Where's the hazmat team?

CBRN, where are they? It's urgent. 'Evacuate the building!

'Seal the doors! Seal the doors!'

'Move. Get in the van.'

'All right. I'm fucking going.'

'Hazmat team going in.

'Hazmat team to Control. We are entering the subject premises.'

HEAVY BREATHING OVER RADIO

'Device sealed.

'Sarin is contained. Clear for chemical clearance.'

'Confirmed.'

WOMAN SINGS IN FARSI

CROWD SINGS

CHILDREN LAUGHING

Come on, Kit. Who can make the bigger puddle?

CHILDREN GIGGLE

CHLOE, DISTANT: Splash me! Play football!

CHATTER CONTINUES OUTSIDE

Did you manage to stop the attack?

Careful.

You do realise that if you don't answer that question after today,

then we're getting divorced?

HE SCOFFS Are we getting divorced?

Oh, my leg. Oh, no!

Marta, catch.

Are you gonna answer my question? What question?

Fuck off.

Yes...

...we stopped the attack.

What about my question?

Oh, look at you.

You see, thing is, Claire...

...when I found out that you'd been with Martin...

...it was...

But then I realised that that's how I've made you feel all these years.

I love you.

This is so fun.

I don't know what's gonna happen between us, but...

...weirdly, I feel like I understand you now.

KIT GIGGLES

The PM's been informed sarin was present,

and he's spoken directly with the President of Iran.

He'll move against the hardliners before the end of the day.

The good news is Qasem Asadi's wife and family have left Tehran.

They're on their way to the UK via Germany.

What about Mehreen?

She's in with the boss. She's in with the boss?

SIMONE INHALES, SIGHS

And am I going to Royal Palaces and Bollards or...?

I haven't had a chance to discuss the matter

with senior management yet, but...

...I think you're staying at State Threats.

Thank you, boss.

I know you took a big risk yesterday.

Well, it was a reasoned decision.

And by the way, I saved your fucking arse.

There are conditions attached to you staying at State Threats.

You need to retake units one to three of basic agent handling...

You're sending me back to school? Don't push your luck, John.

You need to do a refresher on anti- and counter-surveillance protocol.

Redo the course on security and personal devices.

And Valerie will be expecting you later

to go through the operation beat by beat

from the perspective of ethical counselling.

What is ethical counselling?

SHE CLICKS TONGUE Well done. Rest up.

RUDY EXHALES

When are you heading back to Six?

I'm not. What?

Now Asadi's gone, Six won't touch me with a bargepole,

so I'm staying at Thames House.

In State Threats?

I know I underestimated you.

Did you really sign off on Ehsan's death?

Did you kill Asadi to save Claire,

or did he just pose too much of a threat to the reputation of MI6?

You know the game. Game? Why, what game is that?

You think Asadi is the only agent we've got

where innocent people have been sacrificed to protect them?

And that makes it OK? Oh, come on.

When you took out Ehsan's killer, who spared you?

He was an MI6 agent.

You killed one of our own, John.

If you're asking that question,

maybe you should get out of intelligence work.

Sometimes, when a sign says "don't touch",

don't touch and walk away.

Good luck, John.

'Before he died, Ehsan asked me a question.'

He said, "If you knew someone was trying to murder

"an Iranian woman with principles,

"would you do something about it?"

And I said to him, "You would have to do something about it.

"Because the day after they come for her,

"they come for another woman with ideals.

"And the day after that, they come for your wife.

"And the day after that, they come for your daughters."

CHILDREN GIGGLING, WIND CHIMES TINKLE

So, how have things been?

What have you been up to?

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