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Martha's not actually that boring once you get a drink in front of him. Glad

had a nice time.

Does he hate me, or is there something else?

Martha said some strange man was in our garden today.

You've been talking to that journalist guy.

It's him.

The general of Carson, Miss Addy.

John got a tracker on him, so we're compromised.

But don't worry.

He can still be stopped.

What's he saying, Rudy?

Junction 19.

Where's Dorian, mate?

He came off at Junction 19, but I can't track him on AMPL once he's off the

motorway. Are you sure it's him?

100%. Plate number ending Echo Echo Golf.

What happened to the other vehicle you were tracking? Ah, tracker's battery's

died.

There you go, that's him.

Sweet car's ahead.

I'll show you the money.

Don't get too close.

Yes.

Get closer.

Okay.

Quick, left, left, left, left, left.

What's wrong?

I'll pull into the car park.

Get the team's meters here.

Here they are.

We've got Asadi's room number, 404.

And we have confirmation he made a reservation at 2 .30pm.

That's our window.

Okay, let's be clear.

Marine will get eyes on Asadi. John, while Marine has control of Asadi,

gain access into his room and install the monitoring devices.

Marine will let us know if Asadi's on the move.

We good?

Mm -hmm.

We're good.

Take 100.

Macallan, single mark? Course mark.

What's happening?

Rudy? There must be some sort of interference.

Marines audio is down, Chief.

We're getting no signal.

Someone I had to bring with me.

Now he's watching me.

How's his English?

Somewhere between reasonably shit and just shit.

Good. It's been a long time.

You look the same.

Your McCallum, madam.

Thank you.

Who is John Hughes?

He works for the security service, but don't let him worry you. Stick to the

plan, and I'll handle him.

John Hughes lacks credibility.

Don't worry about it.

What are you reading?

Oh, it's about an Iranian culture.

Do you see Dolatabadi?

He's a king.

It starts on a rainy night. Two police officers come to the culture to take the

victim's daughter's body.

It's very scary to take her daughter's body.

Hossein, do you see?

What exactly do they know?

We continue with the ploy.

The truth is in God's hands.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

John?

So, is Thaddeus headed to the embassy tonight?

Yes, boss. No team of mobile surveillance officers are in place?

They are. They won't be able to squeak without us knowing about it.

When did you notice your kit wasn't working?

I didn't.

I assumed it was up and running.

We lost you for about four minutes of the operation.

My kit was down for four minutes. Jesus Christ, really?

God,

I didn't have to work this crap here at six.

What was he doing?

Who?

Who? The general.

He was reading a book.

I didn't see what it was. Okay, let's wait to debrief properly at the office.

Good night. You all right, Chief?

What time is he back?

Not until later, I imagine.

There's some highlights.

It's wrong before we left.

My informant's phone

is still off.

Jordan, should I get it flagged? Yeah.

Can you have a look at Marin's kit?

What are you thinking, Kappa?

I'm sure it's nothing, but, um...

Better to check and be sure, though.

Thanks, Rudy, son.

Oh, um, look, John, um, we can be grown up about this, can't we?

Just go downstairs.

He'll be gone in five minutes and then we can talk.

I had no idea you'd be home.

That makes you okay, does it?

Funny enough, I know how you feel.

Do you?

It really hurts, doesn't it?

Where are the kids?

At my mum and dad's.

I didn't mean it to happen.

You didn't mean it to happen?

You just shipped the kids off to your mum and dad's and Martin came down the

chimney on a bunch of carpet, is that it? Oh.

Well, they were!

He called me about a work thing.

I was upset.

Oh.

Just a shoulder to cry on.

Do you think I was born yesterday?

He was a shoulder to cry on, actually.

And then you fucked him.

I've had enough.

You've had enough?

Yeah. I think I'm done.

Oh, you think you're done?

I don't even know if I like you anymore.

This is fucked.

Yeah, it is.

This is so completely fucked.

Is that really all you've got?

What do you want me to say?

Anything.

Anything. Oh, what? You want tearful forgiveness, is that it?

Acceptance? I was devastated when you were unfaithful to me. Well, you've got

your own back now, haven't you? But I gave you a chance. No, but you never

forgave me. Oh, and is there any wonder?

What do you mean?

Well, did you meet that woman? What woman? The one who texted you, Penelope.

Was she the one that you had the affair with? Don't start turning around onto

me. You're the one that's just been caught red -handed. You made me feel so

and so worthless. Well, I hope you're feeling proud of yourself now, running

to Martin.

I didn't go running off to him.

He was worried about me. Oh, so Martin comes round in an Uber with a bottle of

wine and a box of tissues, and in two minutes' time, you're on your fucking

with your fucking knickers round your ankles.

Fuck you!

from me. Why?

Because I'm not Martin. At least Martin actually gives a shit about me. Oh,

that's where you're going, is it? You know he behaves like someone who

wants to be with me. Well, why don't you fuck off to Martin's house, then?

Five. I'm sure, like, you've had him. He'll give you one of his houses on the

Costa Brava if you really want to get away from me. Come on, one more minute

this. You know, the Revenue have been looking into his dodgy dealings in

Oh, pathetic, really.

And a patient made a sexual harassment complaint against him. Did you know

Do you know, any shred of respect I had for you is gone. This is what being a

spy has come to, has it? Digging up dirt on Martin.

Yeah, well, I can see which way the wind was blowing.

You know, he was completely exonerated at that harassment complaint.

And as for those properties in Spain, at least he's got a sensible retirement

plan. You can't even get yourself to adopt a devil under your fucking arse.

So you're half Iranian?

Yeah, a mixed dick.

And what about your extended Iranian family?

Do you see them?

No. My dad completely assimilated.

Distanced himself from them, from Iran.

He himself is totally British.

He even took my mum's last name. Really? You know the Asghari? I put that back

in myself.

Just thinking, when you were in Iran and Central Asia for six, did you

ever come across Major General Adani?

No.

I'd have said if I had, right?

Yeah, of course. Just the tequila.

OK.

Be honest.

Don't you think the investigation's running out of steam?

We're looking for things that aren't there.

Are we?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I feel like dancing.

I love her heart.

Isn't it great?

Forget it. Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.

I don't think we should.

It's okay.

That's from an old friend.

I've never quite been able to put it in a box in the loft.

The poet Rumi.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God.

It fell and broke into pieces.

I think if you were available, we'd be a thing.

A thing?

Yeah.

A thing thing.

What do you want?

I wanted to ask you about Marine Asghari Evans.

Did you record her at six?

I thought this was related to the GB operation.

It is.

I know two things.

That she worked on Iran's nuclear program at six, and she was kidnapped

operating on the Turkmenistan -Iran border.

That was all.

Kept very quiet. But she was MIA for two months, and for some reason, known to

no one, she was repatriated.

Were there any security concerns when she came back?

No.

That's all I can say.

I don't want to see you again.

Seeing you stirred up a lot of things for me.

I thought you were all I had.

And you knew it.

And when Claire found out, you dropped me like a hot potato.

Have you ever been honest with your wife? I mean, really honest?

Who has the luxury of complete honesty working in our game? Who?

It always suited you having the official secret sack to hide behind.

The routine dishonesty of intelligence work. It doesn't suit you, John. Well,

you think I'm routinely dishonest.

You are.

I was.

It corrodes you from the inside out.

Really soon.

Chief, there's new information in from the devices we placed in Asadi's room.

He's talking about a deal to be done.

He says that he's tired.

That it was a long way to come to buy a stallion.

It's a lot of money.

Two million stallions.

The reception at the embassy was tiring.

He says... I can't quite make it out.

Something about the talks on denuclearisation.

Says he's flying home tomorrow.

Come on.

You don't honestly believe he's flown into the UK to buy a racehorse. Do you

think that's why I was shot at? I ran the audio through translation software

earlier and checked.

He's booked a flight out of Heathrow to Toronto tomorrow morning by anchor.

Well, I don't know how many times I can keep saying, I told you so, and remain

dignified. There is no evidence of a plot to kill anyone, let alone using

foreign.

I think of the idea of using diplomatic cover for a face -to -face with Craig

Beeston regarding their heroin trafficking business. I think we're done

We'll pass it on to the police.

Simone, do you think somebody could have tipped off a study?

I'd be careful pointing the finger at Ivy. Greg's got it in for you as it is.

What do you know about Maureen's move from Six?

Maureen? It's all done by Five and Six leadership team. Six asked us if we

take her during a difficult time in her personal life. She comes highly

recommended and with glowing references.

Look, I know, it's disappointing.

that we didn't get more from bugging authority, especially with what happened

the airfield, but it simply is not on.

To start undermining your colleagues with zero evidence to substantiate those

claims. I don't trust her.

John!

I'm in a different place to you. You've always been able to play the maverick

card. My first day in this office as a fully grown -up intelligence officer, I

was mistaken for the cleaner.

The fucking cleaner.

I've had to work twice as hard, be twice as brilliant as everybody else, and I

have always had to play by the rules. Yeah, but that's what made us such a

team back in the day. Sorry, I am pulling the plug on this.

Apart from anything else, we don't have the resources.

I know what you've been saying about me.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, the concerns I had no longer apply.

In my book, that makes you an utter wanker.

And you, my son, are a fucking cock.

You think you intimidate me?

That I don't take the physical aspects of basic training seriously?

Or that I haven't got years of judo in my veins? I don't want to fight with

Greg. I don't want to hug you either, but I certainly don't want to fight with

you. You're going to face an internal inquiry into your actions.

I'm making sure it happens.

And I will be giving evidence even if no one else will. Like I give a fuck. You

used your personal phone to contact Ethan.

Everyone knows.

You will lose your job, your pension rights, you will be on your own.

And if the organisation thinks a crime was committed when you shot and killed

Ethan's attacker, then the file will be handed on to the police.

So he's clever now.

The Prime Minister of the United States and Iran to try and revive negotiations.

on denuclearization.

Sources at number 10 described early communications as cautiously optimistic,

with both sides agreeing to further dialogue.

The UK government says its role is to try and build a working relationship

between the two sides.

John.

Mine. If you have a moment, perhaps we could go to my office and chat. No, I'd

want to be late for my appointment.

Man to man.

I wanted to say I'm sorry.

I am.

Sorry. Fuck off, Martin.

Are you sorry?

For how you've hurt Claire?

No?

You don't know anything about my marriage. I know you took her for

John.

But you only think about yourself, don't you?

Listen, now's not the time or place, but I want you to know I think you're a

prize. See you next Tuesday.

What? See you next Tuesday? You work it out.

Please take a seat, Mr. Hughes.

I'll message her.

Dr. Stratakis will be testing for anemia. She could indicate something

worrying, but there are lots of possibilities.

It could just be an infection or an ulcer, diverticulosis.

I know you can't forgive me because you don't know what went on.

It was Penelope.

It started in Iraq and then continued when we came back to London.

It ended years ago.

And I only saw her recently because I had to. Related to a work thing.

Did you love her?

I think I felt like I did at the time.

Have there been other affairs?

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

What do you want

me to do about his mum?

He's having everyone fucking nuts asking where he is.

I know.

Manage the situation, yeah.

Locked.

Is he free?

Yeah.

All right, Mum.

I'm in... Turkey.

Turkey.

Love, Jordan.

The kit Maureen used isn't

faulty. And the transmitter is working perfectly.

Fuck. I wondered if Asadi had used some kind of... Jamming device, but there

was no signal issues reported from the hotel. So it must have been a very

localized block.

I think the range kit was placed in some kind of Faraday pouch.

If you've not got one of these, you can improvise. Tin foil.

Let's watch this.

It's not 100%, but... See?

Mm -hmm.

All the live audio was recorded for the operation as usual.

And I know Marines was pretty much a dead end, but I... You had a look

Chief. I had a look anyway, Chief.

Now, visually, you can see these occasional spikes in the audio, but

if I run it through the XP -05 filter, you get something we

can decode.

And if we run that through our software... We couldn't do the whole

conversation, but I cleaned up another spiking audio.

This stays between us.

You were held hostage for two months on the Iranian border by the Iranian

Revolutionary Guard, but for some reason they let you go. Why was that?

You have to come clean now.

I don't work for the Iranians. Don't lie to me. I don't work for Qasem Asadi.

Qasem Asadi works for us.

He's an agent for MI6.

Major General Qasem Asadi is Six's jewel in the crown.

No one in five knows about Asadi's true loyalty to us. Only half a dozen people

know about him at six.

Look at me.

You know I'm telling the truth.

So then, what was your job? Just to get in the way of my investigation?

Kazim's been undercover within the Hardliners faction for two decades.

And the regular intelligence he's provided is gold, John. It's gold.

He really belongs to Six.

But when his hardline masters wanted him to utilize his business relationship

with Beeston to assassinate Fatima Fazi, well, he was caught between a rock and

a hard place.

So is the attack happening?

He needs to make it look like he's going ahead with it. It has to be convincing,

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

Well, then why even pretend to do it?

Israel took out most of the high -ranking Revolutionary Guard, and

survived the bombings, He's a suspected traitor.

The hardline faction's testing him. But he's given me his word the attack won't

happen. And Kazim Asadi's word has been good for as long as I've known him. It's

always all just a matter of trust.

It is.

I've worked with him for ten years.

He saved my life when he secured my release on the border. He's risked his

life to provide us with intelligence that saved hundreds of thousands of

But you, you wouldn't let it go.

Cousins are men.

He's one of the good guys.

Don't blow this, John.

This will have repercussions for you, for me, for peace and security in Iran

the Middle East.

You have to keep this to yourself, because if this gets out, then we're all

totally fucked.

Mum? Is that you, John?

Hiya. Is Claire all right? Are the children all right?

Yeah, everything's all right.

Oh, it's late.

I thought something terrible had happened.

No, everything's fine.

I just missed you, Mum. That's all.

Oh, I miss you, son. Sometimes I could cry all day.

Oh, don't say that.

It's just hard to get up with so much going on at work.

Don't worry about me. I know you try.

Every time I see the Home Office come on the news, I say to myself, they work my

jaw not.

I was speaking to Claire.

We wondered if you wanted to come down to London at Christmas.

Yeah.

All the family can be together.

That'll be lovely.

You've made my day.

And Claire, she's all right with it?

Yeah, she's really looking forward to seeing you.

That's made my year, that is.

All right, well, I'll come up and pick you up.

See, it's a lime street and you can pick me up from Houston.

Sound.

Listen, I'd better go.

I love you, Mum.

Yes, Rudy.

Come.

Come, let's go.

Yeah. Yeah.

We're leaving.

We'll see you at reception.

Ugh.