01x02 - Baal

[bunniefuu]

The following programme contains
strong language and violent scenes.

Who are you? Make
peace with your God.

You're English? No, no,
no, please no! Please!

[g*nshots]

Drive! Where to? Just drive!

He's evil. No loyalty
to anyone. He's a snake.

It's not just drugs I smuggle.
No? I smuggle antiquities too.

What antiquities? Statues.

You get the statues.
The payment...

is the shipment.

What's her name, your girl?
Laetitia. You're punching.

[LAUGHS]

Where were you taking your cargo?
Beirut. This isn't the usual trip.

MAN: They are ready.

The shipment's gone. They burnt
all of it. I was gonna use that...

to pay for the statues
my boss bought in Beirut.

Lose a shipment, the
cartel hunt you down.

Very simple job. Very
quick. In and out.

We heard you hit some
trouble? I lost my phone.

How was I meant to talk to you?

How are you gonna pay for the
statues without the shipment?

And who is this?

[YELLS] [GRUNTS]

We're taking your statues.

You can run, but you can't
hide. They have uranium.

Nuclear fuel... enough to
blow up the whole city.

[CAR HORNS HONKING]

All right, moving on.

The 2011 disaster at the
Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan

saw a large-scale release
of radioactive material.

Isotopes of iodine
and caesium...

were detected in air,
water, milk and food samples

collected across the
entire Northern Hemisphere.

With a half-life of eight days,

the iodine released
from the reactors...

disappeared after
about three months.

However...

the caesium radio-
[PHONE VIBRATES]

Excuse me.

[PHONE CONTINUES VIBRATING]

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[CLEARS THROAT]

However, the caesium
radionuclides...

[FAINT CHATTER]

Dr Cassandra Bryce?

Yes. My name is Khaled Awad.

I'm with the Drug Enforcement
Agency here in Beirut.

I called you earlier.

Uh... Mystery solved.

Or perhaps not. The DEA?
How can I help you guys?

Er... I have some
intelligence...

that needs your particular
nuclear expertise.

This might be an emergency.

♪ TSHEGUE: Survivor

[YELLING IN SPANISH]

In here!

f*ck.

They're all locked. Here.

Keep up.

We have to keep
the statues apart.

What? That guy down
in the dungeon.

He said it to me when
I took the statues.

Why do we have to keep
them apart? I dunno.

But it sounded serious.

Oh! Go, go, go! Come on!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MEN YELLING IN SPANISH]

Stay there!

♪ I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor

♪ I'm a survivor...

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[PANTING] Jump.

What?! [MAN YELLS
IN SPANISH]f*ck off.

[MEN YELL IN SPANISH]

f*cking jump.

[MAN YELLS IN SPANISH]

♪ I'm a survivor...

Catch!

Ooh! f*cking twat!

f*cking hurry up! Ooh. f*ck.

Come on!

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Careful!

Yargh!

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

JJ. Stop calling me f*cking JJ!

Tell me your f*cking
name, then! No!

I f*cking hate pigeons.
f*cking hate pigeons!

Stairs!

♪ I'm a survivor,
I'm a survivor ♪

[HORN HONKS, TYRES SCREECH]

[MAN YELLS IN OWN LANGUAGE]

[GROANS] Stop, stop, stop.

Hey! Come on! I'm f*cking
knackered. We have to keep going.

These are too heavy. How
the f*ck are these so heavy?

I don't know, cos they're f*cking
statues, maybe! [MAN YELLS]

[MEN CALL OUT] Oh, f*ck sake.

f*ck off. [MEN YELL]

♪ RADIOHEAD: Bodysnatchers

♪ I do not

♪ Understand

♪ What it is

♪ I've done wrong

♪ Full of holes

♪ Check for pulse

♪ It is the 21st century

♪ It is the 21st century

♪ All the lines
Wrapped around my face

♪ All the lines
Wrapped around my face

♪ And for anyone else to see

♪ And for anyone else to see

♪ I'm a lie ♪

Uranium? What type of
uranium? Weapons-grade?

I don't know. All my source
knows is it's uranium...

coming to Beirut to be paid
for by a shipment of cocaine

from a Venezuelan drugs cartel.

I passed it up the chain, they
told me to get in touch with you.

And waste my time.

The fact is, there is
very little uranium,

or any nuclear
material, out there

that is actually of the correct
grade to make a nuclear device.

It's much more likely to
be something low-grade -

in terms of purity -

that someone's trying to
pass off as weapons-grade.

Scammers, trying to make a bit of
money. Idiots selling to idiots.

My source said that it
was 50kg of uranium.



That could make a b*mb.
Like a dirty b*mb?

A Hiroshima-sized b*mb.

[PHONE RINGS]

Excuse me.

OK. [SPEAKS ARABIC]

The source of the intelligence.
Something's gone wrong.

I have to go. I think
I should come with you.

I mean, in case there
is any nuclear material.

And in case they're not idiots.

I can't do this much longer.

They don't f*cking
give up, do they?

They're from a drugs cartel. They
hunt you down. I told you that.

You told me it was gonna
be a quick job.[SCOFFS]

Pick up the statues, take 'em
to Morocco. In and f*cking out.

[PANTING] You lied to me.

[MEN YELLING IN DISTANCE]

We need to go.

In here.

[MAN YELLS IN SPANISH]

Where now?

[DOOR CREAKS]

[WINGS FLUTTERING] In here.

[DOOR CLOSES]

What? You threw your g*n at him.

I told you. I don't k*ll people.

You really don't, do ya? Hey.

You didn't k*ll anyone.
That's a first for you.

It's a church.

You OK being in a church?

I'm Muslim, not a
f*cking vampire.

[CHUCKLES]

Oh.

[PHONE RINGS]

I took it from your boss.

♪ JOAQUIN FLORES: Ya
Lo Se Que Tu Te Vas

[VOCALS IN SPANISH]

[MUSIC CONTINUES
FAINTLY IN BACKGROUND]

[LINE RINGS]

[VOICEMAIL MESSAGE IN FRENCH]

Say they can have the statues back,
but we wanna get paid. You do it.

I don't speak Spanish.
They all speak English.

[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]

Hello?

MAN: [ON PHONE] Danny? No, mate.
Danny's not here at the moment.

Who is this? Never mind
who this is. Who are you?

My name...

is Antonio Alam.

Says his name's Antonio Alam.
That's the boss of the cartel.

OK, Antonio. If you want your statues
back, you're gonna have to pay.

So you have a think about what they're worth
to you, and you give us a call back. Ta-ra.

You don't know what
you've just done.

This is how we get paid, Max. No,
mate. This is how we get k*lled.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[SIGHS SOFTLY]

Follow me.

Have the statues left Beirut?

On their way.

Everything is
proceeding to plan.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[DOOR OPENS NOISILY]

Clear!

Whose place is this? Belongs
to a man named Rifaat Atallah.

He's your source? Mm-hm.

[AGENTS YELLING IN DISTANCE]

He didn't say where the uranium
might have originated from? No.

What is that? Measures
radioactivity.

Enriched uranium doesn't
have much of a signature.

None of this protective equipment
would be necessary. Boss?

It's from the road outside.

They're both carrying something.

They're keeping apart.

If there was two pieces of uranium,
you would have to keep them apart

to stop them reacting
to each other.

If they react, depending
on the weight...

it could get interesting.

Interesting? A chain reaction.

A release of radiation.

And if you were very
unlucky, they might explode.

[SIGHS]

I need you to take me home.

Why would he say,
'Keep them apart'?

What sort of statues can't
you keep close together?

[SIGHS SOFTLY]
[SOFT, OMINOUS MUSIC]

[WINGS FLUTTER GENTLY]

This is Baal.

He's a god.

An old god.

Before Islam and Christianity.

God of w*r and storms.

Lord of the Flies.

Some people think
he's the Devil.

That's why Alam will
want him. He's a devil.

I've seen Baal before.

[OBJECT CLUNKS] In Syria.

You were in Syria?

When?

When all the fighting
was going on there?

This isn't stone.

Is that why them people
are after you? The army?

The base isn't
part of the statue.

It's where all the weight is.

[METALLIC SCRAPING]

What the f*ck are
you doing? [GRUNTS]

[BANGING STATUE] JJ, stop it!

What the f*ck are you
doing? [STATUE CRACKS]

[STATUE PIECE CLUNKS]
What the f*ck is that?

[STATUE THUDS]

Is this what I was
moving for the cartel?

Metal?

Doesn't matter what it is.

They want it. And we've got it.

If you want the money for you and
your girl, this is how you get it.

You get on the phone
with your boss.

You tell him if he wants his
stuff back, you want £1,000,000.

[DOOR OPENS]

[SOFT FOOTSTEPS]

[WINGS FLUTTER]

[MAN GASPS]

[GROANS]

Let's go. Yeah.

[SCOFFS]

Hello. ANTONIO: [ON
PHONE] Who is this?

Is this who I spoke to before?

No. This is Max.

Ah, Max.

This is Antonio Alam.

You know who I am?

Yeah. Yeah, I know who you are.

Do you have my statues?

Yeah, I've got what you want.

But it's not statues, is it? No.

It's not statues.

So what is it? It doesn't
matter what it is.

All I need to know is...

what do you want
to return it to me?

I want £1,000,000

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

OK, Max.

You win.

One million pounds.

But you must take the cargo
to a location I will send you.

♪ JEFFERSON AIRPLANE:
White Rabbit

[CHUCKLES] That was Alam.

He's gonna give us £1,000,000
if we bring these to him.

£1,000,000 each?

Yeah, £1,000,000 each.

Great! And did he
say what it was? Nah.

He wants us to meet them.
He's gonna send an address.

We're not just walking
into some address.

[PHONE BEEPS]

He wants to meet at seven. Ages.

Yeah, that's good.

If we go there now, we can
make sure there's no surprises.

I could do with a
munch. I'm starving.

[CHUCKLES] A million pounds!

♪ The White Knight
Is talking backwards

♪ And the Red Queen's
Off with her head

♪ Remember

♪ What the dormouse said

♪ Feed your head ♪

It's through there.

Some pictures of
ingots of uranium...

so you know what you
might be looking for.OK.

Easy to miss.

So how long you been
undercover in Beirut?

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Was it that obvious?

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Four years.

And you teach physics?

Physics and Public Policy.

It's very boring.

Not a fashionable field
of physics at all.

There's a fashionable
field of physics?

Always.

It's probably quantum theory
at the moment. Of course.

We can be two things
at once. Right?

We can be multiple things
at once. [PHONE CHIMES]

It's from Rifaat, my source.
He knows where they are.

Let's go.

This is the place?
It looks like it.

There's no-one here.

We should stash these somewhere.

Over there.

[GRUNTS]

What do you wanna do
when they turn up?

Somebody stays here with the gear,
then someone goes and speaks to 'em?

Listen.

[FAINT DANCE MUSIC]

Do you hear that?

Yeah. Think so.

[MUSIC BECOMES CLEARER]

['ENCORE UNE FOIS' BY
SASH! [PLAYS NEARBY]

See anyone you
recognise? Not yet.

[LAUGHS] f*cking hell!

I need a drink. Do you want one?

No.

Suit yourself.

♪ Encore une fois!

You all right, mate?

Can I get a beer...
two beers and a water.

♪ Encore une fois!

Cheers.

♪ Encore une fois

♪ Encore une fois

♪ Encore une fois

♪ Encore une fois,
encore une fois

♪ Encore une fois

♪ Encore une fois! ♪

[PHONE RINGS]

[MUSIC FADES SLOWLY]

[ETHEREAL WHOOSHING]

[MUSIC FADES FULLY]

[SOFT AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPE]

[SOUND BECOMES DISSONANT]

[MUSIC CONTINUES
IN DISTANCE] Hello?

[ON PHONE] Where
the f*ck are you?

We're at the
location you sent me.

There's some sort of a rave.

Listen carefully, Max.

The metal in the boxes...

...is uranium.

There will be consequences
if you don't deliver.

[PHONE CHIMES]

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

[SOFTLY] Max.

Do what they say! No!

She is very beautiful, Max.

And I'm going to k*ll
her very slowly...

if you don't bring me my cargo.

You understand?

I understand. Very well.

[SOFTLY] Max. Do
what they say! No!

[ENERGETIC DANCE MUSIC]

We've gotta go! Come on!

What happened? Alam
phoned me. He's...

He told me what's in the
statues - what the metal is.

Uranium. Uranium?

Nuclear fuel. That's why
we had to keep 'em apart.

What happens if you put
'em together? I don't know.

Maybe they explode.

I'm not smuggling f*cking
uranium, Max. No way.

Why the f*ck is your boss
smuggling uranium? I don't know.

But we have to take it to
them. No, we don't.We do!

We have to take it to them.
We have to do what they say.

Is that them?

Yes.

I'll check it out.
You get the goods.

[g*n c*ck] [TENSE MUSIC]

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

You can speak to Alam
now, Danny, yeah.

You got what you want.
He can let Laetitia go.

You really think you were going
to hold Antonio Alam to ransom?

[GROANS] Hey! There's
no need for that.

[WHEEZES] You got your stuff.

[GASPS]

[GROANS]

[COUGHS]

[ZIP OPENING] [MUSIC BUILDS]

[MUSIC STOPS]

That's it? Yeah.

That's uranium?

[LAUGHS] [GROANS]

What the f*ck is
that doing here?

I brought it.

The f*ck did you bring it?
Thought you liked him.No.

No, I don't like him. Said
you knew him, from Syria.

[TYRES SCREECH]

[VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[TENSE MUSIC]

You were in Syria?

I fought at Palmyra and Raqqah.

You were a Jihadi?

Give me the g*n. MAN: No!

Give me the f*cking g*n! Hey!

[GRUNTING]

Give me the f*cking
g*n! Let him go!

Go, go, go, go! [g*nf*re]

Drop your weapon! [AGENTS YELL]

Go, go, go, go!

You stupid mother
f*ck... [GROANS]

[g*nsh*t] [GROANING]

[GROANS] What are you gonna do?
You gonna throw that at me again?

Huh?

[g*nf*re] [AGENTS
YELL INSTRUCTIONS]

You're a f*cking
coward, you know that?

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

We're gonna make her suffer.

[MUSIC BUILDS]

Chop her into pieces.

[g*nsh*t] [MUSIC STOPS]

[FAINT g*nf*re] [WHIMPERS]

[FAINT g*nf*re] f*ck.

[g*nf*re] [AGENT YELLS]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

Come on. Let's go.

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

Go! Go! Go!

[g*nf*re CONTINUES] Hey!

[g*nf*re]

Who the f*ck were they?

Max. Do you think they're
after the uranium?

To make a b*mb.

Like that Oppenheimer bloke.
Would you shut up and stay back?!

[SIGHS]

What the f*ck is wrong
with you? [EXHALES]

That lass in the disco,
she gave me a pill.

It's OK. I'm having
a bit of a rush.

It just hit me hard
now. f*cking hell.

Un-f*cking-believable.
I'm all good.

♪ FRENCH 79: Hold On

This way. That way.

Max.

Back. Back.

Stop! Come on!

[DOG BARKS AND GROWLS]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

OK, quiet.

[MUSIC FADES]

Stay back.

I'm Mohamed Aziz.

Destroyer of worlds.

Let's go. [MUSIC RESUMES]

[MUSIC FADES]

[RATTLES CAR DOOR HANDLE]

Look at the stars, Max.

Get in. Yeah, I will.

If you take me to Syria.

Syria? Well I know
it sounds mad, mate.

But I have to go there.
[ENGINE SPUTTERS]

I have to take Baal home.
[ENGINE SPUTTERS, STARTS]

Baal. [SOFTLY] Yes!

We're not going to f*cking Syria.
We need to get out of here.

Before whoever that was catches
up with us, all right? Get in.

It's important, Max. [EXHALES]

[SIGHS] I need to make it right.

We need to go to Palmyra.

Baal.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm fine. MAN: Should've
gone to the hospital.

Mark.

What are you doing
here? I was in the area.

I heard something went
down earlier. You OK?

Yeah, sure. Um...

This my colleague Mark...
Mark Ellis from Langley.

Khaled Awad.

So what have we got here?

[FAINT CHANTING,
RHYTHMIC DRUMMING]

[MUSIC STOPS] [PHONE VIBRATES]

Excuse me.

[SPEAKS RUSSIAN]

[SCOFFS]

You didn't deliver, Max.

We did deliver.

But we were interrupted.

There was police... or someone.

Danny is dead.

Don't f*ck with me, Max.

I told you - I'm not
f*cking with you.

We've still got the uranium.
We can still deliver.

If there's a problem,
then perhaps I can help.

Where are you now?

We're heading north...
out of the city.

Who's 'we'? Me and JJ.

He's helping me. [SCOFFS]

I'm not JJ. That's not...
not my name. [CHUCKLES]

We have people in
Syria who can help.

Get to Syria, Max.

I will arrange
transport to Marrakesh.

Your girlfriend will be
here when you arrive.

Don't let me down, Max.

You know what I will do to her.

[GRUNTS]

We're going to Syria.

♪ THE PRODIGY: Climbatize

Palmyra.

Can we go there?

Um... Yeah, mate.

Sure. Course we can.

Yes, mate! [SNIFFLES]

I knew you were a good lad, Max.

You're a f*cking good lad.
I knew you'd understand.

[GROANS]

You got any water?
I'm f*cking parched.

[MUSIC BUILDS]

That's where Alam
wants us to go.

That's here. We have to go
there to get back to Marrakesh.

It's the only way... It's
the only way we get paid.

Get in the car. Those soldiers
were government soldiers.

They're heading for the Deir ez-Zor
province. Jihadi's going home.

He's on the list.
k*ll or capture.

But you don't wanna capture
him. You wanna k*ll him.

[SOLDIER YELLS IN ARABIC]

US SOLDIER: Drop your
weapons! These guys are ours!