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♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right, I say it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, doing fine ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

[Water sploshing]

[Engine revving]

[Water sploshing]

[Tense music]

[Engine revving]

[Door thudding]

[Alarm beeping]

[Door clacking]

[Engine whirring]

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[Keys clattering]

[Door squeaking]

[Door thudding]

[Keys thumping]

[Switch toggling]

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[Footsteps thudding]

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[Water splashing]

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[Water splashing]

[Knuckles thumping]

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[Tense music]

[Bomb explosion clattering]

[Engine whirring]

[Dramatic music]

[Engine revving]

Good morning.

Morning.

[Door thudding]

What's this all about?

Don't ask me,

strickland said eight o'clock,

it's eight o'clock.

Yeah, but why here?

Dodger, cappuccino and a hot dog.

That's not his style.

- Here he is cab. - [Engine revving]

[Door thudding]

Morning sir.

- Morning. - [Door thudding]

Where's your car?

It's a long story.

Thanks for coming.

Why here?

Someone burned down the office?

I didn't wanna do it in the office.

Why not?

There was an explosion in central London last night.

Oh yeah.

A gas explosion.

It was on the radio this morning.

It was in Stephen Fisher's flat.

And I don't think it was a gas explosion.

Was he killed?

No, no.

There's no trace of a body.

Oh, well.

Was it a bomb?

I have good reason to believe it was deliberate.

Fisher's disappeared,

which suggests he's running from someone.

Who is this Fisher?

[Pullman] Stephen Fisher.

Intelligence

[Robert] Or thereabout.

A bit shady, machiavellian.

The governor and he are old friends.

So what's this got to do with ucos?

I believe it may be tangentially connected

to an unsolved murder from 30 years ago.

When Stephen Fisher was an officer cadet at Santos,

he was involved in a black bag operation

on behalf of the security service.

You mean the burglary.

The target was a freelance journalist called Simon bisley.

It was believed that bisley had important information

on some recent ira arms deals.

So Fisher was approached to put a team together,

break into bisley's house,

photograph the relevant documents

and get out again without leaving a trace.

[Camera flickering]

The operation went according to plan.

Fisher handed over the photographs to his contacts,

who promptly disappeared into thin air,

as these people have a habit of doing

and nobody thought any more about it,

until two weeks later,

when Simon bisley was killed

in a hit and run accident.

The driver was never traced.

Maybe the ira found out that bisley had some dirt on them.

Hit and run wasn't their style at all.

They didn't want everyone to know it was them.

When bisley was killed,

Fisher and his team realised something was going wrong.

Fisher came up with the code word, 'maelstrom',

a warning that was to be circulated to everyone in the team,

if anyone suspected they might be in danger.

Three days ago,

someone from the team fell overboard

and was drowned while sailing alone off the island Wade.

The death isn't being treated as suspicious

but a few minutes before he died,

the man sent out a text consisting of one word,

maelstrom.

Yeah.

But if the phone was recovered

and he sent a text like that,

why isn't the death being treated as suspicious?

The phone wasn't recovered.

How do we know he sent the text?

Because I received it.

You were part of Fisher's team.

Santos is where we first met.

Because if someone is targeting members of that team,

someone broke into my garage last night.

I think my car has been tampered with.

What can we do to help?

This is off the books.

I wanna make that very clear.

There's a distinct possibility that being a police officer

or being part of ucos would afford no protection,

what do you need us to do sir?

Right.

The murder of the journalist, Simon bisley,

has an unsolved case.

Any progress that can be made

into whoever might have been responsible,

or why this has come to light 30 years later,

would be very helpful.

We'll get on to it.

Now look, whoever's behind this,

assuming it's someone from the intelligence service,

they don't have access to a pool of assassins.

There's no licence to kill at mi5.

So whoever's actually doing the dirty work,

has been bought in from outside

and is being paid by someone.

We get that.

Okay.

[Footsteps thudding]

So what are you gonna do now sir?

I need to find the surviving members

of that team from 30 years ago,

to see if we can work out quite why this is happening.

Is there a chance that a member

of the team could be behind all this?

Well given that no one outside our immediate circle,

knew about the break in,

or who the other participants were,

yeah, I'd say there's a very real chance indeed.

[Phone ringing]

[Door clanking]

Simon bisley's case file was updated three weeks ago.

Really? By who?

His daughter, Ruth.

She could only be in about eight or nine

at the time he died.

Anyway, she approached the police

claiming to have new evidence

on her father's death

and nothing was done about it.

Do you think it was deliberately suppressed?

I don't know.

Ruth bisley is our first port of call.

Who was the original investigating officer?

Duncan gryphon.

He's still around?

No, he died about five or six years ago.

Had a good reputation.

Don't they all.

[Suspenseful music]

[Bell chiming]

[Suspenseful music]

[Mail slot clanking]

[Bell chiming]

[Suspenseful music]

[Suspenseful music]

[Suspenseful music]

[Glass shattering]

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[Suspenseful music]

[Door creaking]

[Suspenseful music]

[Handle clanking]

[Door creaking]

Hi.

- Ruth bisley? - Yes.

Detective superintendent Pullman.

This is my colleague Brian Lane.

We're from the unsolved crime and open case squad.

About my father?

Yeah.

Come in.

Thank you.

[Footsteps thudding]

I'm afraid there's no where in to sit.

[Door thudding]

- [Water splashing] - I'd offer you a cup of tea

but kitchen's in pieces.

You contacted the police regarding your father's death.

That's right.

I was told someone will get back to me.

I guess you must have a backlog.

I understand you have some new information.

Yes, well I think so.

My mother died at the end of last year.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

She was ill for a long time,

but thank you.

I'd moved home for the last few months to look after mum.

When she died, I put the house on market.

It was a lot of stuff to clear out of there.

A lot of stuff from my dad's,

that mum hadn't wanted to disturb.

His office was always covered

in scraps of paper and post-it notes.

I went through everything,

trying to piece together the story he was working

on when he died.

And I found something.

[Box clanking]

[Papers rustling]

These were on the wall of my dad's study,

right above his desk,

pinned up exactly like this.

[Paper rustling]

There, there's a sheet missing.

[Pullman] Now could that simply have been misplaced?

I don't think so.

Dad was pretty well organised.

Everything was catalogued

and cross-referenced.

This is all to do with finance,

payments in and out of various accounts,

quite big amounts.

I can't make any tail of it.

Numbers just fog my brain.

But I think it's important.

And I think whatever was

on that sheet must be missing for a reason.

Doesn't it?

Carl Dillon.

You know who he is?

You could certainly say that he's someone

whose known to the police.

[Brian] Did you tell anyone else about this?

I spoke to Nigel Baxter.

He's a journalist.

He was a friend of my dad's.

He said he didn't know anything

about what my father had been working on at the time,

but he'd make some calls.

I haven't heard anything back from him

so I don't suppose he got anywhere.

[Paper rustling]

What makes you so sure that this missing sheet

has something to do with your father's death?

It's the timing.

I was nine years old when my father died,

and I didn't really know then what he did for a living.

But as I got older,

I started to read his stuff,

with what other people had written about him.

He was a good journalist.

He broke big stories

and he pissed a lot of people off.

Whatever was on that sheet pertained to the story

he was working on at the time.

And his death,

meant that story could never be published.

And I think it's safe to say

that someone benefited from that

unless it really was an accident

and the timing was just a coincidence.

I was there Mr. Lane.

Nine years old, we'd just been to a gallery.

The car came out of nowhere,

it was going so fast

-and it swerved towards us, -[Brakes screeching]

Just as dad stepped off the curb.

A woman grabbed me, pulled me back,

otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you now.

It wasn't an accident.

[Phone ringing]

[Phone ringing]

Yep.

Okay. And you've talked to her?

What document, what's it about?

Okay you do that.

Let me know when you've spoken to him.

That was Sandra Pullman.

There was a document missing from Simon bisley's house.

What document Stephen?

We didn't take anything.

No we didn't.

I'm not sure it was a good idea to bring the ucos team

into this Robert.

It's all rather dangerous.

Says the man who just held a gun to my head.

Pullman thinks the document might relate

to a man named Carl Dillon.

I don't know him.

He's what we call,

a key figure in organised crime.

Interesting.

Is it?

I dunno.

I'm just playing along.

Oh Stephen.

His name was on bisley's documents.

Yeah.

Interesting.

What do you make of Paul clive?

It looks like a heart attack,

isn't it?

Although that would be a coincidence too far, I feel.

There's no sign of forced entry

and yet I'm in here.

Well he would have let you in.

Yes, he would.

Do you think I killed him?

No.

Well, then you're more trusting than I am Robert.

What's going on here, Stephen?

I have absolutely no idea.

Oh for god's sake.

Upon my word.

I am, as I believe you're more than aware,

rather senior in this country's intelligence community

and yet someone just blew up my flat.

I'm not sure I consider myself to be

in the loop right now.

[Engine whirring]

[Door creaking]

[Door thudding]

Hello tinker.

Gerry standing.

We need to know who the new faces in town are.

[Book thudding]

So what are you asking me?

What kind of person can make a bomb

in a flat in pindicle look like a gas explosion?

Well, that kind of person.

Well, no idea depth?

Not a fact.

This is all rumour and hearsay you understand?

Go on.

It's the new faces,

came from abroad,

scarier than usual, like proper.

[Steve] Where are they from?

I don't know.

[Steve] Where are they now?

Dunno.

[Gerry] Who hired them?

Good question.

Well.

I don't know.

You don't know me.

I know him.

[Gerry] I'm not him.

I think I'll have a fag.

[Palm smacking]

[Footsteps thudding]

Now.

Look, if you're trying to...

[Chair thudding]

[Tinker shrieking]

Get up and sit back down.

[Wood clanking]

[Tinker panting]

Now, who hired these two killers

you've been telling us about?

I don't know.

You know what this reminds me of?

The good old days.

Remember the good old days?

Nobody's watching

and you can see me like after the fact,

nobody's gonna believe you.

I don't know who hired them.

I just don't believe you.

You're a tough nut aren't you?

Been around a bit,

but these kids nowadays

one finger and they'll spill their guts.

I bet you could take a finger

still set your story,

two maybe even.

Okay so tell me what we'll do.

Let's see.

Three fingers, three fingers.

And if you still stick to your story,

hey, I'm on my way.

[Both scuffling]

[Tinker shrieking]

[Knuckles cracking]

Carl Dillon, he hired them.

He paid for this,

Carl Dillon.

I can't see how an old school gangster

like Carl Dillon could be connected

to anything that Fisher's involved with.

No idea,

but we're pretty sure my snouts telling the truth.

[Indistinct] Up him.

- I don't wanna know Gerry. - [Key clanking]

I'll call you when we get back to ucos, bye.

I was told you wanted to see me.

[Pullman] Nigel Baxter?

Yeah.

Detective superintendent Pullman,

this is my colleague Brian Lane.

We've been talking to Ruth bisley

about the death of her father.

Oh yes.

We understand you and bisley were friends,

is that right?

We were a long time ago, obviously.

She also said that she talked to you

about a missing document from some research he was doing

at the time of his death.

That's right, yes.

I'm sorry am on a deadline,

I have 20 minutes to file.

Is there a question you need to ask?

Ruth said that you were looking

into this missing document.

Look, whether it was missing or not,

I really don't think it was important.

Ruth seems to think it was.

Yes. I know.

Its some clue into her father's death,

I wish it was.

And I can understand why she'd want to make some sense

of what happened to apportion some blame,

but...

You think she's wrong?

I think there's blame.

I think someone hit him with a car

and fled the scene,

but it's definitely not the same thing

as premeditated murder.

Do you?

Well, that's what we here to find out.

I'm afraid I can't help you out.

Sorry, I really need...

Does the name Carl Dillon mean any...

No!

Mean anything to you?

No, I've never heard of him.

15 minutes left to file this,

may I?

[Lock clanking]

[Bell chiming]

[Bell chiming]

I'll get it then shall I?

[Christopher] Thanks.

[Footsteps thudding]

[Lock clanking]

Hello Sarah.

Robert.

[Stephen] Hello Sarah, Stephen fischer.

Yes I remember.

You had more hair then.

Sorry we couldn't call ahead,

may we?

[Door thudding]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Indistinct]

It is.

I used to play fives with his brother.

Rugby fives of course,

not eating.

What are you doing here?

Yes am sorry,

I realised it must be awkward for you too,

after all these years.

We need to speak to Christopher.

He's in his study.

Stephen Fisher,

and Robin strickland as I live and breathe.

Let's not take that for granted today.

Is there somewhere we can talk?

Yes of course,

come upstairs.

[Footsteps thudding]

I didn't get a text message.

I gave out my work phone when I left the bank

and got a new one with a different number.

Is she serious?

Marsden died a few minutes after sending out the message.

Someone blew up my flat

and tampered with Robert's car,

and then there was clive.

Poor old queen.

So yes, Christopher, I think it's serious.

And this is about back then?

What do you remember?

[Chris sighing]

Well, I was on the bits and pieces in the filing cabinet.

It wasn't like we were old hands at this sort of thing.

Was it?

The adrenaline was pumping.

I was concentrating really hard

and just keeping my hands steady

so I could take the photographs.

Anything at all that you can remember about those files?

Well it was Irish stuff.

There were news clippings about the ira,

there were sheets of transcripts.

There was some interviews.

There was a document

in that room that subsequently went missing.

Well, I didn't take it.

I think, why would I take something?

Someone believes that the six

of us know something,

as a result of that night.

Something worth killing us to keep quiet.

Well I don't know anything.

We may not know what we know.

Well even if we did know something,

why let us carry it around for 30 years

and do nothing until now?

Something has obviously changed in the landscape.

We just don't know what it is yet.

[Footsteps thudding]

We're trying to track down the others.

I haven't been in touch with any

of the old gang for a while.

I have no idea where each would be nowadays.

So I guess it'd be somewhere,

absurdly dangerous.

Where your loo Chris?

Yeah, sure down the hall,

second on left.

Jane Ross?

I did hear an interesting rumour about Jane.

[Stephen] That wasn't new.

[Door thudding]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Tense music]

[Footsteps thudding]

What did you do?

You were listening at the door.

What do you expect me to do,

after nearly 30 years, you two turning up

was highly likely to be a social call?

[Sarah sighing]

Is Chris in danger?

Yes,

but I hope we'll be able to get to the bottom

of this very soon.

And in the meantime?

Is there somewhere you can go?

What is that bad?

Yes.

Do you remember when I used to come down

to Santos to visit?

To visit Christopher.

There was a period

of a few weeks when you were all skulking around,

being all secretive.

And that was this,

whatever this is.

Yes.

Stupid boys.

We'll check into a hotel.

It's a good idea.

You used to think so.

[Tense music]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Door thudding]

What did maitland say about Jane Ross?

This rumour that he heard.

-The rumour I suspect is true -[Keys clanking]

Jane Ross graduated from [indistinct]

Joined the army for a couple of years,

then bought her way out

and went to work for an oil company.

Oil?

Doesn't quite fit with the Jane knew, doesn't it?

[Door thudding]

Hence the rumour,

the oil was a front.

Jane was working for Zar.

What's Zar?

Stands for those shits across the river,

MI6 to you.

Hunter, four, two, one, nine, Alpha, seven.

Call secure.

I need to know from housekeeping,

whether any guests have checked

into the executive suites in the last 48 hours.

Really?

Okay, which room is she in?

Yes on this number.

Thank you.

Apparently, Jane Ross is in a safe house.

Somebody is sending me the address now.

[Keys clanking]

Whatever strickland Fisher

and their mates were really up to 30 years ago,

it's laying dormant all this time.

So why is the shit hitting the fan now?

Well, it must be because Ruth bisley

came forward with new evidence.

What new evidence though?

How is a missing page gonna be a problem for anyone?

I don't know.

But this story that bisley was working on

definitely involved Carl Dillon,

cause his name is plastered all over these notes.

There's lots of Irish names too.

Strickland said that they broke in

to gather information that bisley had on the ira.

So maybe Dillon was dealing with the ira

and maybe that's the story that bisley was going to write.

It certainly be enough to get him killed.

But even if that is it,

why are strickland and Fisher's team being targeted now?

Well, maybe there's more to it.

Maybe it has to do with the missing page.

If one of Fisher's team,

photographed that page,

then there's a good chance the clock work

was on it.

The bisley file very thin.

Simon bisley was killed in a hit and run on a London street.

There should be witness statements.

There should be more info on bisley himself.

[Keyboard clicking]

Here's an interesting thing.

I've been looking into the records

of the station that the original investigation

was phased out of.

A week after bisley died,

somebody went into the station

and Duncan gryphon interviewed

the money zone for two hours.

There's no record of that interview anywhere in the file.

Who was it?

Is that thing on?

[Pullman] No.

No one else is listening in?

Nope. Just us.

That conversation I had with gryphon,

isn't in the case file is it?

How do you know that?

Cause I saw a copy of the file three weeks ago.

I'm a journalist.

There are ways and means,

there's a lot that isn't in the file.

Witness statements.

I know of four that were taken

on the day of people who saw the car hit Simon.

Did anyone identify the car?

No, I don't think so.

So there's no reason to have misplaced the statements?

Eventually you did see isn't it?

When I heard that Simon had been killed

I went to the house,

see his wife and daughter,

see if there's anything I could do for them.

I went into Simon's office.

He was midway through researching a story,

notes everywhere.

It was chaos.

That was always how he liked to work.

Just paper, the walls with information

and see what patterns emerged.

I sat at this desk for a while

and looked around the room,

trying to work out what the story was going to be.

And it started to come together

and I understood why someone,

might wanna make sure that story never saw the light of day.

Why, what was the story about?

Carl Dillon.

Did you know he has ties with the ira.

Carl Dillon was selling drugs for the ira

and the money was going to fund weapons.

And this is the theory that you shared

with inspector gryphon?

Brought many better motives for murder

are there?

Dillon's an up and coming gangster,

and somebody is about to write

about his dealings with the ira.

Not only did that put him firmly

in the police's cross hairs,

that story would have gone down very badly

with his Irish friends.

Dillon's facing jail or worse,

unless, he could stop Simon's story being published.

[Tense music]

That's Dillon,

and the guy with him is fisk,

his right-hand man.

Dillon has a poker game downstairs in the basement

and fisk stays upstairs acting as gatekeeper.

Put an eyeball on Dillon.

Brian and I are still trying to work stuff out.

But until we can really connect Dillon to any of this,

I don't wanna tip our hand.

It looks like they're settling in for a while.

We'll stay put until we hear from you.

There's no mention in Dillon's file

of any suspected ira connections.

I don't suppose there would be.

Well you know for a major organised crime figure,

his files like two,

his arrest, a few manic convictions when he was a kid,

but for the past 30 years,

he's barely seen the inside of a courtroom.

Is he just careful?

Well, no.

Cause I remember him being arrested a lot,

often in connection with major crimes,

but never a conviction.

Which does suggest he's being protected by somebody.

Now would gryphon have destroyed

everything he didn't put in that file I wonder?

No, I'm sure he'd be as wild as anybody else

in that situation,

he'd realise he had something of value

and he would have squirrelled it away for a rainy day.

Of course if evidence was hidden,

we'd need to know where to look for it.

[Phone ringing]

Did you follow up on any of this with gryphon?

I called him a couple of times,

left messages

but he never got back to me.

Next thing I know, they've shoved the case.

If you thought Simon bisley was onto something,

something which may have got him killed,

why didn't you push it?

Because I was scared.

Like you say, Simon was killed for this.

I'd gone to the police with what I knew

or thought I knew

and they buried it.

I left it alone.

Until Ruth bisley called you three weeks ago.

She said she thought there was a document missing.

One of the notes,

referring to this mystery document,

contained the phrase 'dops'.

Dops.

Director of operations.

It's a post within the intelligence community.

And you think that they're involved with this somehow.

It would certainly go a long way

to explaining why your Duncan gryphon

would wanna Bury half the evidence in this investigation.

I have a contact in whitehall,

I called him, laid out the whole story

and asked him if he knew anything,

he said he'll get back to me.

I'm still waiting for his call.

What's his name?

I have no idea.

He's just a voice on the end of a phone.

Posh,

very dry, sarcastic,

but does that narrows it down.

I don't know so much.

I may have made a few discreet inquiries.

This is your fault, Stephen.

You drew attention to...

I hardly think it's the time to start pointing fingers,

do you...

People are dead.

A fact which will not escape to my attention.

Perhaps we could deal with the matter in hand

and then I'll take care of the internal politics

of the intelligence community.

Which one is the safe house?

Oh, for god's sake.

There on the corner.

I'm coming with you.

No.

Stephen?

This is a security service safe house.

They just don't let anyone in.

What makes you think it's safe?

What makes you think you're not walking straight

into a trap?

Well, there being two of us,

would hardly make the trap more difficult to spring.

Would it?

[Door clanking]

[Door thudding]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Window whirring]

If I'm wrong,

well, I suppose I like to say,

sorry for getting you involved

in all this in the first place.

Yeah, well we all thought

we were serving our country Stephen.

- Yes we are. - [Engine revving]

Naive to think our country would repay the favour.

[Sombre music]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Window whirring]

[Sombre music]

[Sombre music]

[Door clanking]

[Door thudding]

[Sombre music]

Oh, bloody hell.

Delightful to see you, Jane.

Is it?

I didn't realise you were in the service.

[Jane shrieking]

Something slipped by the old saying

I [indistinct] bug the shit out of you.

This is bad.

[Jane chuckling]

I debriefed an eij informant,

here three years ago.

I sat right over there,

I'd never thought I'd be checking myself

into the bloody place.

You came in last night?

[Jane chuckling]

I heard your flat blew up.

So after I got over the initial jubilation,

I thought I better take the maelstrom warning seriously.

[Jane sighing]

I should've known you had some lives left.

You false wing,

you were tubby thing back then.

Yes, I always envied your eating disorder.

I'm pleased to see you put it behind you now.

[Both chuckling]

So go on,

what's all this about then?

That's what we're trying to get to the bottom of.

We?

Robert strickland and I.

Oh, Robert's all right, that's good.

Someone thinks we know something,

yeah I caught that far.

And there's a document missing.

One of Simon bisley's documents was taken

around the time he was killed.

Which means it was there when we broke in,

[papers rustling]

Which means one of us photographed it,

[camera flickering]

Which means one of us saw it.

Yes.

Nice mess you've got everyone into Stephen.

Thank you.

[Dramatic music]

[Keyboard clicking]

I think I've got it.

Duncan gryphon opened the case file

for a murder that never happened.

When?

A month after bisley's murder.

He gave a crime number and everything.

That's the one.

Pull it.

[Paper rustling]

- There you go sir. - Thank you.

[Dramatic music]

[Phone ringing]

[Dramatic music]

[Door thudding]

[Phone ringing]

Keep listening.

[Footsteps thudding]

[Door thudding]

[Gerry clearing throat]

[Glass shattering]

- Oh sorry about that. - [Woman shrieking]

Really sorry.

- No it's okay. - I'll help you there.

[Engine revving]

[Engine whirring]

[Dramatic music]

[Door clanking]

He gave that biker an address.

- It's sunderland Avenue. - [Door thudding]

[Water simmering]

This thing lies dormant for 30 years,

the bisley girl discovers the document is missing.

She calls a journalist friend of hers,

who contacts you,

alleging a connection with the security service.

Yes.

But you already knew

that the security service was involved.

In the break-in yes,

but I didn't know that bisley was working

on a story that involved them.

I guess you might have tea Stephen.

So, you asked a few questions,

and all hell breaks loose.

And the original contact who set up the break-in.

He's long gone.

Are our names on file somewhere?

It's possible,

if they are, I don't know where.

So the chances are...

That one of us is involved in what's happening.

Have you spoken to everyone?

We were too late for marsden

and clive betson.

We spoke to Chris maitland.

He made a pile I heard.

He and Sarah seem very comfortable.

Sarah, did Robert go with him?

Yes.

Awkward.

Whatever they had it was a long time ago.

It was a little awkward yes.

[Both chuckling]

[Cup thudding]

What's your take on maitland?

He did the minimum term with the west guards

and went off to make money.

And that's his cover?

Yes.

It could be me.

No.

Why not?

Because you'd have made extra sure I was dead.

That's true.

Hitch?

He's proving a little harder to track down.

I've seen his service record.

I've seen the unredacted version.

It's very impressive.

Hitch doesn't wanna be found.

Yes. My concern is whether he's hiding from them

or from us.

Okay next left

and second right.

We've gotta assume these guys are armed,

we're gonna need back up.

I can't call the m without explaining

what we're doing Gerry,

I've no

they're on the way to a job.

Yes, I understand that.

Look, if this missing evidence

connects Dillon to any of this,

then I can make it official

and get you back up.

But until then,

keep well out of sight.

Do you understand me?

[Phone ringing]

Sandra?

Where do they think this bike is heading?

[Engine revving]

So if we take a left here,

it should be right in front of us.

Oh shit.

Sir.

[Engine whirring]

Hello?

[Suspenseful music]

Hey [yelling]

[Engine whirring]

Hey [yelling]

[Engine whirring]

[Tyres screeching]

[Gun firing]

[Dramatic music]

Hold on to summit.

[Gun firing]

[Glass shattering]

[Dramatic music]

[Gun firing]

[Engine whirring]

[Dramatic music]

[Gun firing]

[Dramatic music]

Come out.

[Dramatic music]

Fisher.

Fisher.

Get an ambulance.

[Tense music]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Door thumping]

[Footsteps thudding]

[Tense music]

[Both scuffling]

[Kick thudding]

[Gun firing]

[Siren blaring]

[Gun corking]

[Gerry panting]

You ladies are a bit out of your depth, aren't you?

[Siren blaring]

[Metal clanking]

[Door thudding]

The paramedics think Fisher is gonna be okay.

He took two bullets,

but there's no damage to his vital organs.

A number of lives that that man...

I should be out there.

No. The minders will deal with this.

The police need to be put back in their box,

and they...

What about the two guys that work for me?

Governor, we're here.

Yeah, we're not too happy about what could await

from a murder scene,

saying so, well life and a boy here

who claims to be a friend of yours,

[hitch] Hello Robert.

Hitch.

Jane. So nice to see you.

What happened?

Well one of the gunmen got away,

and the other one's brown bread,

thanks to your mate here.

You're welcome, by the way.

Whose house is this?

Borg's, but I'd rather think it's blown now.

Yeah.

Question is how?

Oh you better get a cleaner

to the underground car park round the corner.

Hey, hang on, hang on.

We need to tape that scene off.

Get some fingerprints done.

It's not gonna happen Gerry.

Any search you put on that bloke,

DNA, fingerprints,

and it's gonna get you a big fat zero.

They were pros.

They're not on anyone's database.

Trust me.

We've been looking for you hitch.

Yes, I gather I'm quite popular.

I don't know who the hell you are.

It's Bryan hitch.

Gerry standing, Steven mcandrew,

-they both work for -yes I have been keeping tabs

on you, Robert.

- Nice to meet you, gents. - Hitch is...

We don't say,

there's been a lot of that going on today.

Yes I can imagine there would be.

So you received marsden's text?

No, the explosion at Fisher's place

got red flagged at our unit.

I put a search on the others.

Find out that marsden's gone down.

It doesn't take a genius to start seeing a pattern.

The cleaner is on his way.

We'd think it's to do with this bisely thing.

Again, it doesn't take a genius.

There was a document missing

from the wall of bisley's study.

If it was there when we broke in

then one of us took a photograph of it.

Someone's worried we might remember what was on it.

Well, they'd be right to worry.

I took the photo

[camera flickering]

And I did see the document

and...

Box again.

Oh shit!

Are you sure?

I'm positive.

Oh governor?

What does 'box' mean?

It's a slang term for the security service mi5.

It was financial records.

That page was a statement of money going in and out

of an offshore account,

held by a company called Ellis Finch.

Ellis Finch?

You know them?

Yeah. Stephen Fisher brought us a case

a few months ago that ended up concerning them.

They were brokering a deal

with the Chinese government over pension funds.

Well, they're also an expediting company

for the security service,

channelling undeclared funds,

providing cover identities

and fake employment histories [indistinct]

How do you know this?

How do any of us know anything?

I've been loaned out to box on occasions.

And one of those times my cover ID

was as a sales representative for Ellis Finch.

Well, the name rang a bell after the bisley break-in.

So, I did a little bit of digging,

but you didn't tell anyone.

What happens when you rock the boat Robert?

So Simon bisley was investigating a financial link

between Carl Dillon, the ira and the security service.

Well, I can see why somebody doesn't want this story

to see the light of day.

This is the Greg rucker file supposedly an old case

of Duncan gryphon,

except that Greg rucker never existed.

Within this file,

are all the missing elements

of the Simon bisley investigation,

-and it gives us -[Papers thudding]

Nothing!

What?

These just statements from eyewitnesses witnesses

who saw bisley hit by the car.

None of them got the registration number

and they don't agree on the make, the model

or even the colour.

Well there must be something,

otherwise why hide it for all this time?

Be my guest.

We know this is Dillon, right?

Yes.

And I've watched fisk, Dillon's right-hand man,

meet up with those two hitmen,

directly before they headed off to an mi5 safe house.

Circumstantial without a recording

of that meeting which we don't have.

The phone call.

What phone call?

Right before fisk met them,

fisk had a phone call.

Yeah. But in fairness, that could have been from anyone.

Fisk gave those guys the address

and he must've got it from somewhere

and he must've got it pretty recently,

otherwise why would he risk being seen meeting them

in a public place?

So if it wasn't that call,

it was still a call

and it came through on his phone.

Those guys all use pay-as-you-go.

There's no way of tracking calls in or out.

Not without the phone there isn't, no.

So what are you thinking?

I'm thinking what he's thinking.

I'm thinking it's time we paid

Mr. Carl Dillon a wee visit.

You can't be serious.

- Well I say it's worth a go. - [Paper rustling]

[Door thudding]

Well, what's the point of hiding this bloody thing

for three decades,

if there's nothing in it?

[Door thudding]

Unless that is the point.

This file's been hidden for 30 years,

so we were expecting it to provide the evidence

to get Dillon,

that evidence isn't here.

But maybe what isn't here is the point.

These witness statements are useless

on the car that hit bisley,

but the all tally on something else.

It's that something else that's missing here.

[Papers rustling]

I don't understand.

There's no useful consensus amongst the witnesses

as to the make and model

of the car that killed your dad.

What they did all see though,

is the woman who pulled you out with the way

of that car.

More than that,

several of the witnesses reported

having seen the woman at various points

leading up to the event.

You said your dad had taken you

to see an art exhibition.

Ken leto.

This man was at that exhibition.

He remembered seeing you and your father

but he also claimed to have seen this woman

at the same gallery, at the same time.

That could just be coincidence though, right.

Of course it could.

Do you remember where you went after the exhibition?

There was a cafe across the road.

I was hungry.

Dad took me in there to get some chips.

See this man was at that cafe having his lunch.

He described seeing the same woman,

hanging around outside the whole time,

you and your dad were in there.

You think she was following us?

There's no statement here from this woman

and she's not named anywhere in the investigation.

We think that she had something to do

with your father's death.

[Door clanking]

We're gonna see your boss.

Hey, good to see you again.

[Footsteps thudding]

I don't remember very much.

He was saying something as we crossed the road.

I was a little bit behind him

and couldn't really hear what he was saying.

I called him to wait.

He stopped and turned,

as I ran to catch up.

That's why he didn't see it coming

cause he was facing the wrong way.

[Sombre music]

Someone grabbed me and pulled me back.

I think I screamed.

And then there was this thud,

and he wasn't there anymore.

And the person who grabbed you?

I wasn't looking.

I couldn't understand why he wasn't standing

in the road anymore.

And then suddenly there were people all over the place

and someone was standing in front of me,

a passer-by I think.

I couldn't see past him.

I think that was the idea,

to stop me from seeing what,

this woman the one who grabbed me,

she sat me down.

There was a bench, a little way away from the road.

And she sat me down on that,

told me to wait there

and she'd be right back.

But I never saw her again.

She left you on the bench

and she walked away?

Yes, no.

She spoke to someone.

She stepped away from the bench

and she spoke to someone.

A man, I don't remember how he looked like.

Maybe the same sort of age as her.

He was wearing a suit.

I think, grey,

dark grey.

They spoke really briefly

and then went in opposite directions.

Do you think that you would recognise them

if you saw them now?

After 30 years?

I think I'd recognise her eyes.

The look she gave me.

If I saw that again, I think I'd recognise it.

[Door clanking]

[Footsteps thudding]

You're looking for me I believe?

I am.

Robert strickland.

You had two friends of mine killed

and put another in the hospital.

Deputy assistant commissioner, Robert strickland

anyone?

I'm sorry deputy assistant commissioner,

I think you've got the wrong number.

Is that Gerry standing?

You remember Gerry fellows.

We all got back don't we?

Why don't you pull up a pew?

You think you're protected?

Is that it?

I'm just playing cards.

Do the other people around this table know

who you really work for?

I'm self employed.

[All chuckling]

I wonder who else would be interested to know

about your financial dealings with Ellie's Finch

and just what they were paying you for?

I'm sure a lot of water's passed under the bridge by now

but there must be a few people in Belfast,

who'd still care.

People who don't take too kindly to being betrayed.

What are you looking at him for?

You think he's gonna sort this out for you?

I saw you pal.

I saw you meet the guy off the motor bike,

you are in this up to your neck.

Hey, hey, hey don't look at him.

Look at me.

You think he's gonna help you?

He's gonna be too busy sorting his own problems.

- Steven. - [Steven exclaiming]

- What is that look for? - Steven.

Am I supposed to be scared or something?

- Am I? - Steven.

- Am I supposed to be scared. - Steve get off!

- Leave it! - Please.

Is this how you had hoped it would play out?

Deputy assistant commissioner.

Go on out,

both of you.

Mugs.

[Footsteps thudding]

Did you get it?

Yeah, I got it.

[Footsteps thudding]

[Bell chiming]

[Engine revving]

[Lock clanking]

Carl Dillon is an mi5 asset.

I don't understand what this means.

[Door thudding]

Simon bisley was working

on the story about ira financing.

He discovered that Carl Dillon

was selling drugs for the ira

and the money was going to finance arms deals.

As he dug deeper into those finances though,

he found out that Dillon was also being bankrolled

by a company called Ellis Finch,

who have very strong connections to the security service.

So we were sent into bisley's home

to find out just how much he knew.

Yeah.

One of the documents we photographed

was a financial statement,

proving the link between Ellis Finch

and Carl Dillon.

And Dillon was informing on the ira.

And in return, mi5,

who were protecting him from prosecution.

We provided the confirmation that bisley had evidence

of this and was gonna go public with it.

So bisley was killed

and the document was stolen.

This was all a long time ago.

Yeah, but bisley's daughter discovered

that a document had gone missing

and she talked to another journalist,

a friend of her father's about it.

He in turn contacted one of his whitehall contact.

Stephen Fisher.

Fisher started asking some uncomfortable questions.

So mi5 gave Dillon the go ahead to clean out

their mess once and for all.

Gosh, what a nasty business.

Yes it was.

And it also suggests that the arrangement

mi5 had with Carl Dillon

was ongoing,

lasting well beyond the good Friday agreement

and into mi5 retasking to organised crime.

So, if Carl Dillon had continued to be

an informant during that period,

he would have been invaluable,

but it would also mean that mi5

were protecting a man involved in

drug running, prostitution,

robbery, sex trafficking

and murder.

But now that you've got Dillon.

Oh no, no, no,

we don't have Dillon.

Now mi5 is still protecting him.

And we don't have a shred of evidence on him.

[Chris clicking]

So how can I help?

Dillon's right-hand man was a chap called fisk.

He was getting instructions from someone

as to where to direct his hitmen.

This someone knew the address of an mi5 safe house,

which suggests that whoever it is,

was intrinsic to this plot.

We managed to lift fisk's phone.

So now you can trace the calls.

Yeah we tried that,

well the number listed on his phone

isn't on any service provider.

What a shame.

So I thought I'd just call it.

[Phone ringing]

[Door clanking]

[Footsteps thudding]

Good evening Sarah.

Good evening Robert.

[Footsteps thudding]

They recruited you at Cambridge.

Yes.

So you were already in when we first met.

Your thinking is a bit strong.

They had their eye on me.

They made an approach.

And in the meantime,

you'd already started seeing Christopher

and you met Fisher

and the rest of us through him.

So when mi5 needed someone to break into bisley's house,

you knew just the people to suggest.

No comment.

Really?

Who do you think you're talking to Robert?

You're just an assistant commissioner in the map.

Oh no, no, I'm not even that.

I'm a deputy.

Well then.

I want Carl Dillon for the murder of Simon bisley.

- You can't have it. - Yes I can.

How's that?

Because there are some things you can't

crawl out from under Christopher.

I'm a retired banker, Robert.

A respected member of the financial community.

My wife sits on the board of various charitable trusts.

We have friends in some very high places.

We're not the kind of people that

a deputy assistant commissioner,

should make accusations about,

unless he has some extremely persuasive evidence.

I have a witness that can place you both

at the scene of an unsolved murder 30 years ago.

Bisley's daughter.

You saved her life.

She remembers you.

So I saved a girl.

That's a good thing,

isn't it?

Witness statements have you shadowing

bisley and his daughter in the run-up to his murder.

We had nothing to do with his murder.

No, I believe you.

You're both far too clever to have been there,

if you knew what was gonna happen.

Now I think you were shadowing bisley

while someone further up the food chain

decided what to do about his story.

And I think Carl Dillon took matters into his own hands.

I also have a witness who can testify

to the break-in of bisley's house,

the photographing of his research

and your involvement in that.

And the more recent plots to cover it all up.

What witness?

Me.

That would be the end of your career.

Well you just try me.

And if we let you have Dillon?

You cut Dillon loose,

you remove all his protection

and you do whatever you need to do

to ensure any allegation he makes

against the security service can't stick.

That's very considerate of you.

I want all this to stop, now.

If that means your superiors,

whoever they may be,

get to crawl back underneath their ghastly little rocks,

then so be it.

I'm a policeman.

I want to prosecute Carl Dillon

for the murder of Simon bisley.

We would still have Fisher to contend with.

I can't protect you from Fisher.

And I've no desire to,

but I'd think about taking early retirement

somewhere very far away,

if I were you.

He's yours.

- No. - Oh shut up Christopher.

Dillon's all yours.

[Pullman] You did what?

The maitland's are untouchable Sandra.

We get Carl Dillon Dylan for the murder of Simon bisley

from 30 years ago.

And that's the best possible outcome

given the circumstances.

It stinks.

Thanks for what you did.

You and the team.

It was a long way above and beyond the call of duty.

So are you quite sure that you're all in the clear now,

you Fisher and the others?

Well now that Dillon's been arrested,

I imagine a lot of people will be covering their tracks.

And if the maitlands have any sense,

they'll be heading for the hills.

It's over.

And it's back to business as usual for Fisher.

Well, I'm sure he's been suitably humbled

by the experience.

[Phone ringing]

Well that's excellent.

Thank you so much.

[Trunk thudding]

No one does hate to leave loose ends.

- [Door thudding] - Yes well,

let everyone know,

I'll be back in the office in a few days.

And that there's going to be

something of a reshuffle.

[Dramatic music]

[Engine whirring]

[Suspenseful music]