01x07 - Episode 7

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Previously on The Hack...

I'm friends with
Clare Rewcastle Brown,

the journalist and
sister-in-law of Gordon Brown.

'He's leaning in.'

Murdoch's ambition is limitless,
but he's overstepped here.

Part of a new operation,
Operation Weeting.

We're investigating
allegations of phone hacking.

Contact of mine in the force has
been put on it. He's feeding me.

DAVE: This fell
into your lap, OK?

NICK: 'This could get
you in serious trouble.'

Hello. 'Dave, it's
Mike at The Sun.'

Give Panorama, Mike Sullivan,

Nick Davies anything
about our cases,

and you'll be strung
up for all to see.

NICK: I was in the database. News
Of The World, April 14th, 2002.

Milly Dowler.

AMELIA: 'Jingle says there is a page
on Dowler in Marquez' notebooks.'

The News Of The World will
not be forgiven for this.

I was being drawn to stories again
and again with the same theme.

A deep-seated urge to hit
back at anybody at all

who takes power and abuses it.

WOMAN: Our guest now joining us
from the newsroom of The Guardian

is Nick Davies,
award-winning journalist

who has brought phone
hacking into the light.

Hi. Now, Nick Davies...

could you have
predicted the furore

that the Milly Dowler
case seems to have caused?

Predicted? No.

But I do think it speaks
well for the British public,

for the world public, that
a furore has been provoked.

You have Rupert Murdoch
firmly on the ropes.

I have to say, I'm horrified that
they closed the News Of The World.

Good journalists
have lost their jobs.

I believe this was a cynical
move on Murdoch's part

to help aid his
capture of BSkyB.

'And what do you think it is
about the Milly Dowler case

'that has had such an impact?'

Well, what we discovered

was that during the period
of her disappearance,

News Of The World were
using a private investigator

to listen to her voice mails,

so that, in itself, is
horrid, deeply personal stuff.

Friends and family still
thought she may have run away

and were imploring
her to come home.

The voicemail filled up,

which is why they
deleted the messages.

Now, friends and family

who had previously heard
the message, voicemail, full

were surprised by this,

and the presumption became
that Milly was still alive.

'I guess we all wanna know whether
Rupert Murdoch will feature

'in front of your Leveson
Inquiry and what...' Ah. Ah.

Well, before Leveson, actually,
Rupert Murdoch is due to speak

at the House of Commons
Media Select Committee.

We want to get answers from him

as to what he knew
about phone hacking,

widespread practice
at his newspaper,

when he knew about it,
and why he didn't act.

'Nick Davies, thank
you for joining us.'

Thank you for having me.

Whether Rupert bails on us, I
don't know. You could compel him.

The thing you need to ask is

can you truly compel
Murdoch to do anything?

Are we singing Happy Birthday?

So, who's getting to ask the
first question? Well, I do.

Though Nick is intent
on writing it for me.

GLASS CLINKING I
think we should sing.

No. Happy Birthday
is a terrible song.

Nick thinks Happy
Birthday's fascistic.

It is culturally fascistic -

everyone has to sing the same
song on their bloody birthday.

Where's the individuality?
Well, we could sing, erm...

What's the one where we count
the candles on the birthday cake?

Have we the energy?
Oi. Well, speech.

At least we deserve a speech.
Yes, yes. On your feet.

Er, no. But, OK, I would like
to thank you all for coming.

And I would like to remind
you we have work to do.

The Select Committee... Boo!

The Select Committee is our chance,
with Murdoch on the stand...

And I won't let you down.

No, no, no, Tom, I'm not saying...
Maybe I should have let you retire.

You were gonna retire?
Move to Belgium.

Ah. Chocolate.

And then with Leveson making
sure we're fully prepared...

Nick... Nick,
today, we celebrate.

A prep session would've been much
more preferable to a birthday.

Not only are the
songs fascistic,

but Nick thinks birthdays
are narcissistic.

He likes to work. True.

How nice, then, that
none of his friends came,

just the people he works with.

Now you're treading a very fine
line between insulting... Sod this.

♪ Happy birthday to you... ♪
Oh, God.

♪ Happy birthday to you... ♪
Oh, God.

♪ Happy birthday, dear Nick

♪ Happy Birthday to you. ♪

CAMERA CLICKS

CAMERA CLICKS

Hi. Hi.

So, good news and bad news.

Good news, it's all cooking
nicely for the Select Committee.

The bad news, you are gonna have
to give evidence at Leveson.

It needs your heft. It needs...

Look, Alan's house may have
been compromised. What?

He hired someone to
sweep his house for bugs.

That person subcontracted it.

The person they
subcontracted it to...

Worked for Rees? ..was
an associate of Rees.

How do you know?
I can't tell you.

But I know Rees has been bragging
about how he knows the bug sweeper.

Are you sure?

Ask Alan about the socks
he keeps under the piano.

What socks?

Oh, Christ. It's true?!

I like, erm...

I get a better feel for the
piano if I play barefoot.

Alan, you do not have
good hiring practices.

Seems possible to claim.

You hired someone
to debug your house,

and instead, they may
have compromised...

Are my children in danger?

Dave doesn't think so.
Don't know about you and me.

We've got Murdoch on the stand.

They know they're being hunted.

Cornered animal, the most
vicious animal of all.

f*ck.

SIGHS

I thought the worst
of it was over.

HORN BEEPS

The day after Cameron
announced the Leveson Inquiry

into phone hacking, the
CMS Select Committee

issued an order summoning
Rupert Murdoch and his son James

to attend parliament
on the 19th of July

to basically explain themselves.

The significance of this moment
was not lost on any of us.

If we asked the right questions,
we could ensnare them,

both of them, father and son.

DOOR OPENS

WHITTINGDALE: OK, everyone,
settle now, please.

We are now in session.

Mr Watson will ask
the first question.

Mr Murdoch Sr, Mr Murdoch Jr,

good afternoon, thanks
for coming in today.

My first question is
for Mr Murdoch Sr.

You have repeatedly stated

that News Corp has zero tolerance
to wrongdoing by employees.

Is that right?

Is that me?

Yes.

In October 2010, did you
still believe it to be true

when you made your Thatcher
speech and you said,

"Let me be clear. We will
vigorously pursue the truth,

"and we will not
tolerate wrongdoing"?

Yes.

So if you were not lying
then, somebody lied to you.

Who was it? I don't know.

That is what the police
are investigating

and we are helping them with.

But you acknowledge
that you were misled?

Clearly.

If I can take you to...
WHISPERS: He's doing...

...2006, when Clive
Goodman was arrested

and subsequently convicted
of intercepting voice mails,

were you made aware of that?

I think so. I was certainly made
aware of when they were convicted.

And what did News
International do

subsequent to the arrest of
Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire

to get to the facts?

We worked with the police
on further investigation,

and eventually, we appointed,
very quickly appointed,

a very leading firm
of lawyers in the City

to investigate it further.

What did you personally
do to investigate that?

After Mr Goodman went
to prison, you...

you were obviously
concerned about it.

I spoke to Mr, erm...

...Hinton, who told me about it.

OK.

In 2008, another two years,

why did you not dismiss

News Of The World chief
reporter Neville Thurlbeck

following the Mosley case?

I'd never heard of him.

So none of your UK staff

drew your attention to
this serious wrongdoing,

even though the case received
widespread media attention?

I think my son can perhaps
answer that in more detail.

He was a lot closer to it.

I will come to your
son in a minute.

Can I ask you, when did you
first meet Mr Alex Marunchak?

Mr...?

Alex Marunchak.

He worked for the
company for 25 years.

I don't remember meeting him.

I might have shaken hands
walking through the office,

but I don't have any memory.

Mr Murdoch Sr, you
seem to indicate

that you had a rather hands-off
approach to your company.

Could you just give
us an illustration

of how often you would speak to
the editors of your newspapers?

For example, how often you would
speak to the editor of The Sun,

or to the editor of
the News Of The World.

Erm, very seldom.

Sometimes, I'd ring the editor
of the News Of The World

on a Saturday night and say,
"Have you got any news tonight?"

But it was just
to keep in touch.

Well, I'm intrigued as to how
these conversations might go.

I imagine that to the editor
of the News Of The World,

it might go along the lines
of, "Anything to report?"

And the editor of the
News Of The World says,

"No, no, it's been a standard week.
We paid Gordon Taylor £600,000."

LAUGHTER

He never said that
last sentence.

Well, I mean, surely in
your weekly conversation

with the editor of
the News Of The World,

with something as big as that,
paying someone a million pounds,

paying someone £700,000,

I mean, surely you'd
have expected the editor

to just drop it into the
conversation at some point

during your weekly chat.

No, I'd say, "What's doing?"

Sorry? I'd say, "What's doing?"

And what sort of response
would you expect?

Well, he might say, "We've got
a great story exposing X or Y,"

or he would say, more
likely, "Nothing special."

He might refer to the fact
that however many extra pages

were dedicated to the
football that week.

But he wouldn't tell you
about a million-pound pay-off?

Er, I just want to say that...

I was brought up by a
father who was not rich

but who was a great journalist.

And he, just before he
died, bought a small paper,

specifically in his will,

saying he was giving me
the chance to do good.

Now, I remember what he did
and what he was most proud of

and for which he was
hated in this country

by many people for
many, many years,

which was to expose the
scandal at Gallipoli,

which I remain
very, very proud of.

I think that all students
of history will be...

Scheming...! CLAMOUR

Erm, the-the sitting
is suspended.

f*ck it.

WOMAN ON TV: 'The
defence told the court

'the father-of-one from Windsor
had wanted to show his revulsion

'over the scandal at
News International.

'He'd admitted as*ault...'

If I get my hands on that
fool... He's in custody.

He thinks, what, that
his amateur dramatics

are more useful than what
we were doing in that room?

Good questions were asked.
Yeah, and they weren't answered.

And that obfuscation is
important. Or it was.

Oh, God, that... awful senile
act Murdoch was putting on,

that needed writing about.

But now, every paper will carry
one thing and one thing only -

Wendi Murdoch
fighting for her man.

You're worrying too much, Nick.
You don't understand news cycles.

Well, there's still Leveson.
Yeah, nothing else but Leveson.

There is no air but Leveson.
If Leveson doesn't produce...

Then what? You gonna hide under a
tea towel for the rest of your life?

Look, Nick, a serious inquiry
led by quite a clever bloke

is happening because
of your journalism.

It could mean
regulation, ethics,

maybe even an
appropriate relationship

between press,
politicians and police.

When did you become
the positive one?

Oh, f*ck off.

Lord Leveson's report's given us
a new press and a new Dave Cook.

f*ck off. Twice.

INAUDIBLE

What's the latest with
the Select Committee?

Get James Murdoch back
in. On what grounds?

Clarity on whether or not he was
told about the Neville email.

Why are there police
officers in our newsroom?

What?

PHONE RINGS

They want to talk to
Amelia. Amelia? What about?

They're citing the
Official Secrets Act.

PHONE RINGS

Yeah? NICK: 'Hi. Where are you?'

On my way somewhere.
Can't tell you where.

Amelia, this is Alan.

'Alan, I'm just on my
way to meet someone.'

What's going on? 'I think
you should come in.'

They're upstairs. They won't
leave until they've spoken to you.

No. No way. Not without
a lawyer. Agreed.

They don't like my biscuits,

and they don't like my
small talk about Chopin.

They're saying they
need your notebooks.

If you can't find
your notebooks,

they'll get a warrant
and enter your flat.

They're also saying if the
notebooks aren't in your flat,

they could visit your mother.

Tell them I'm not going to
give up my source or my notes.

I'd rather go to prison.

Right.

Good.

I'll contact some friends,
give you some recommendations,

or you can find a lawyer yourself,
a human rights specialist.

This will get leaked,
right? I'd expect so.

But you might need to stay
somewhere else tonight,

a friend's or... Is
this what happens?

We were exposing them,
not the other way around.

It isn't what happens.

But it does seem to
be what's happening.

I'm so sorry.

DIALLING TONE

DAVE: 'Hi.'

Hi. How are you?

I'm OK.

I'm calling about Leveson.

Erm, I'm going to apply
to be a core participant.

The group, Hacked Off, I don't
know if you've... Yeah, yeah.

Well, they saw the
Channel 4 interview,

and they've been pretty
insistent that I say something.

Not that they're
making me, erm...

They seem very good people.

'They don't really have anyone
to talk to about the Met

'from the inside, and I think
that's why they want me.'

Oh, they have you,
and they have me.

You're doing it, too?
I registered yesterday.

I was gonna email.

'There are implications.'

Sure. For the kids.

We'll have to speak to their school,
their friends. We could be targets.

Why is it worse me
doing it than you?

Because of Daniel Morgan,
because the case collapsed.

They said you were feeding
lines to a witness.

You don't think they're gonna use
that against you if you give evi...?

No, no, listen, listen, Jacqui.

I just want this out
there, same as you do, OK?

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Hi, Nick. Sue Akers. I hope
I'm not disturbing you.

Deputy Assistant
Commissioner, this is quite...

Call me Sue, please.
..quite the surprise, Sue.

I was hoping you might have a
moment to make me a cup of tea.

Of course I do. Yeah, of
course. Come in. Sorry.

Through here. Thanks.

You're coming to my house, not
a short distance, on a Saturday.

So... whatever this
is can't be good.

I mean, I have to assume...
it can't be good at all.

Maybe take a seat. Oh, God.

Nick, I'm afraid that part
of the story you published

about Milly Dowler
is inaccurate.

Inaccurate how?

It looks likely that
the News Of The World

did not delete voice messages
from Milly Dowler's phone.

It's probable it was
the phone company.

That's not... I have... I
have two separate sources.

The network she used automatically
deleted messages after 72 hours.

That's how we presume
they were wiped.

You're using words like
presumed, probable, likely.

And we believe those
deletions happened

prior to Glenn Mulcaire being
instructed to get inside her phone.

Before Mulcaire?

Nick, I came here in person to
acknowledge all you've done.

Without you, Weeting
is impossible.

Without you... You
can't know for certain

who deleted what.

I'm sorry. We'll be releasing a
statement to correct the record.

The article said messages
were deleted by journalists

in the first few days after
Milly's disappearance.

That's the only inaccuracy.
It's a large one.

I have a good source
which tells me

Surrey Police turned off the
automatic deletion system

on the fourth day,

and some voicemail appeared
to have been deleted after.

Will they sue?

No. Sure?

They were inside the phone? Yes.

They may have subsequently
deleted messages.

My source tells me they
did. I believe my source.

Then there is too much
for them to lose in court.

Right.

Well, then we issue a
retraction and an apology. Bah!

We made a mistake.
We may not have!

We made a mistake,
Nick, but there we are.

Ten lashes for you,
ten lashes for me.

Sue Akers agrees with
most of our story.

They did hack the phone.

Surrey Police did know about it,
surely. I have two priorities.

That they don't use this

to try and obfuscate the
crime they have committed.

A dead girl's phone was hacked.

And my other
priority is you. God!

What was that Carl
Bernstein quote?

All great reporting
is the same thing -

best obtainable
version of the truth.

I'm gonna be
absolutely monstered.

It serves them very well to try
and destroy your reputation.

I don't want to apologise.

Then don't.

The paper has to. You don't.

Stand up, put on some
iron underwear, and fight.

INHALES SHARPLY

The monstering was
high-energy. f*ck you!

Doubt turned into certainty
that we had got it wrong.

f*ck you!

Richard Caseby, managing
editor of The Sun,

told the House of
Lords Committee

that Alan Rusbridger had
sexed up his investigation

into phone hacking. f*ck you!

Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times

said boldly The
Guardian had made it up.

Shame on you.

But beneath all...

...beneath all that
exaggeration and hostility

was the fact that I
had stated as a fact

something which now
appeared to be untrue.

I had damaged myself, and
I'd exposed The Guardian.

So, how are you enjoying it?

Yeah, it's quite a thing.
To be outside your house?

Whatever fuel they have they're
readying to throw in the fire.

So why are you so calm? Oh,
I'm an optimist/pessimist.

I presume I'm capable
of great things

and yet assume the
worst's about to happen.

You always thought
you'd be found out.

My mother said I would be.

Maybe I should be an
optimist/pessimist.

I wouldn't recommend. It does
horrible things to your guts.

You're really going to New York?

The police haven't charged
me. I'm free to go.

But you could just stay here.
Yesterday's stale toast in no time.

The Evening Standard

tried to do a story about
me sleeping with my source.

A few weeks later, they rang and
said I was sleeping with an MP.

Wrong Amelia, and
she's married to him.

Yep. I just... I can't.

I don't want to be the story.

No.

No, I'm not sure I do, either.

Luckily, they had a booking free
for me on Newsnight tonight,

and Jeremy Paxman's a
notoriously kind interviewer [!]

You're going on Newsnight? Yeah.

Against whoever News International
think will do me most damage.

But, you know, steel underpants
filled with stale toast. Be fine.

If I don't come back...

I mean, I want to say something.

When this is all done and
they tell the story of it,

you know, when you look
back or write about it...

...don't paint me
as your protege.

I mean, I've been
at this a long time.

I worked Jingle across
multiple cases for years.

I mean, it was your story,

and Milly would've never
happened without you.

But it wouldn't have
happened without me, either.

You don't need to say anything.

Don't let them whitewash
the other people out.

Don't need to say any of this.

I actually do.

You have my word.

OK.

Email me when you get there.

If Paxman hasn't
k*lled you first [!]

Then email my corpse.

Good luck, Nick.

NEWSNIGHT THEME PLAYS

JEREMY: Tonight, who knew what and
when in the phone hacking scandal?

Could James Murdoch
really have been unaware?

Why did The Guardian claim
the News Of The World

deleted voice messages
when they had no evidence?

It was The Guardian
newspaper's claims,

stated as fact, that they'd been
erased by the News Of The World,

which triggered the
shutdown of what was once

the biggest-selling paper in
the English-speaking world.

Nick Davies, let's
cut to the chase.

What you claim to be a
fact wasn't a fact, was it?

NICK ON TV: 'The story
we published in July

'was squarely based on
the evidence available,

'correct in saying that
her voicemail was deleted.'

And it remains the case that News
International are not denying

that News Of The
World journalists

may have been responsible
for those deletions.

Well, let's look at the
front page here. Yeah.

"News Of The World hacked
Milly Dowler's phone

"during police hunt." Exactly.

Then, "The paper deleted missing
schoolgirl's voice mails",

"giving family
false hope." Yeah.

And you say in the copy

the messages were
deleted by journalists

in the first few days after
Milly's disappearance.

Everybody who was involved in
that story accepted it was true.

It's a very interesting
thing that... No, no, no.

...when that story was
done... No. No, no.

You're not allowing me to answer?
No, because you're not answering.

You're not asking
the right questions.

Oh, I'm sorry. JEREMY SCOFFS

Everybody... involved
in that story

accepted that that
story was true.

And you believed it to be
true. ..and continued to accept

until four months
later... Right, perhaps.

...new evidence which
was not available,

to everybody's surprise... You
did not report it like that.

...showed that one element of
that story is now in doubt.

It has not been proved to be untrue.
So you accept it wasn't true.

Jules Stenson was a features
editor. What do you say?

Well, the key point to this as well
is that this wasn't any old story.

This was a story that was
the most important story

in The Guardian's history.

It was vital that every single
element of it should be right,

and Nick Davies repeated
that allegation 34 times.

Let's get things
in proportion here.

Your newspaper had hacked a
m*rder*d girl's telephone.

What we did was indefensible,

not just to Milly but to
all the victims of hacking.

I'm not here to justify
that in any way.

What I am here to do, though, is
to attack the shoddy journalism

of The Guardian and the
shoddy journalism of Nick.

This-This is a classic example of
the way tabloid newspapers work.

You're in a heap of
trouble because for years,

you personally have
taken Murdoch's money

and ruined people's lives,

invaded people's privacy and
engaged in criminal activity.

You've hired private
investigators in the past

who've broken the law,
haven't you, Jules?

I'm not here to
justify... Haven't you?

You accuse me of
shoddy journalism

when your name is
all over the records

of Steve Whittamore,
private investigator,

convicted of using ill*gal
means. Your name's there.

Information about
Jamie Theakston,

about Anne Robinson,
about Anna Friel...

There are public interest factors...
Know what, Jules? Just stop.

Take a leaf out of Rupert
Murdoch's book and get humble.

Or else just go quiet.

People don't believe you any more.
Right. We're done being bullied

by you any more. We've
had enough of you.

Two years after this,

Jules Stenson pled guilty to
conspiracy to hack phones, but...

Well, I wish I knew
that at this moment.

SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS

♪ Do I want you?

♪ Oh, my, do I

♪ Honey, indeed I do

♪ Do I need you?

♪ Oh, why do... ♪

BANGING ON DOOR

♪ Honey, indeed I do. ♪

Detective Chief
Superintendent Dave Cook.

INAUDIBLE

PHONE BUZZES, SCRUBBING

BUZZING CONTINUES

Hello. 'Hi, Jacqui. It's Dave.'

David. What's this number?

Listen, Jacqui, I am...

I... I need you to
pick up the kids.

'Where are you calling from?'

It's, erm...

It's actually a police
station number, Jacqui.

I've been arrested. What?

On what charge?

It's misconduct,
data protection.

I...

They raided the house. Well,
did they find anything?

'Some old files.'

What files? What...? Why
did you have files at home?

HINGES CREAK I don't...

'What the f*ck are they doing?'

I don't know, Jacqui!

I don't know.

What do we do? How
can we help him?

GLEN: 'I'm not sure we're gonna
help until we know what they have.'

Well, we have to do something.

'Nick, we both know he was
passing information to both of us,

'and they've arrested
Amelia's source.

'Sit tight. We'll
find an answer.'

OK. Bye.

I don't know what you
think you have here.

How about a cup of tea, sir?
No. I would like to leave.

I'm supposed to be
giving evidence tomorrow.

I'm a participant in Leveson.

But, then, I suppose
you already know that.

This conversation is
being recorded, so... Yes.

I understand that you've refused
legal representation. Yes.

And I do need to check that you
do fully understand your rights.

I'm 40 years in the
police force, son.

Yes, I understand my rights.

Good. All right.

Let's start from the
beginning, then, shall we?

Tell me about your relationship
with the journalist Mike Sullivan.

No comment.

So you deny passing
information to journalists?

And, as you know, police officers
working for Operation Elveden...

Operation Elveden
is about bribery.

I have never accepted money
from a journalist in my life.

This is an operation looking
into the corrupt relations

between police and the press.

News International
sent us emails.

News International sent you emails?
They were sent from their server.

Have you any idea...?

Do you deny you were
in regular contact

with the journalist
Mike Sullivan?

Mike Sullivan and
I worked together.

It was John Yates
who introduced us.

He had access to
my investigation

in return for writing helpful
articles in the newspaper.

I have done nothing

that a million police officers
before me haven't done.

It is standard police practice.

So you did nothing
wrong? Nothing.

Forty years in
the police service

and you didn't know
you broke the law?

Shame on you.

SHARP RINGING IN DAVE'S HEAD

RINGING CONTINUES

They're trying to get us all.
They're waiting for any mistake.

Then let's try not to make
any mistakes. Come inside.

DOOR CLOSES

Lindsay found a spare
duvet from somewhere.

I don't need to stay. You
should. I'd like you to.

Doing a sleepover with the
editor of The Guardian?

Not editor. Friend.

This... This may not be
entirely comfortable.

I should be helping.

Yes, you should.

A journalist running
away to America,

two police officers
under arrest.

You're so paranoid, you're having
this house periodically debugged,

and it's...

It's all your fault.
SIGHING: Yeah.

You remember when we first met?

I felt like a child
who'd forgot his pencil.

You were so thrusting,
and, well, I wasn't.

But you were ambitious. Hugely.

Compensating for who knows what?

And I thought, "Well, if everyone
at The Guardian's like him",

"I'm done for." NICK LAUGHS

Thankfully, they weren't.

And thankfully, as it turns out,
I had something to offer you...

...as you had
something to offer me.

Nick...

...don't mistake the fact you
were first through the door

with the fact that everyone else

went through the
same door willingly.

The sacrifices weren't for
you. They were for your cause.

You're part of a team, Nick.

The funny thing is,
you always have been.

I think he's gonna
get away with it...

...Murdoch.

I think he's gonna get
away with it. Perhaps.

Perhaps that's what abusers do.

Get away with things.

Or perhaps not.

Not really. Maybe...

Maybe...

...deep down inside
them, there's just...

...damage.

Yes, but sometimes...

Yes, but sometimes, the damage
they caused sometimes...

But you're not trying
to excuse her. Him.

No, Nick.

I'm not trying to excuse
your mother or him.

I'm saying...

...all we can do is fight
the best we can, and...

...hope we prove to
be a valiant opponent.

And personally speaking, I...

I am so proud to
have been a part

of this great, valiant act.

Whatever happens...

...know that.

OK. You're OK.

BALL BOUNCES

DOOR OPENS, FOOTSTEPS

Don't worry. You're
before me. I'm just...

...insanely, horrifically early.

It's Jacqui, isn't it? Yes.

I read your statement.
Strong stuff.

Harrowing, punchy.
Nick, by the way.

I know, and thank you.

Coming from you,
that's... Thank you.

May I...? I mean, I
hope it's OK to ask.

How's David? Oh.

It's been a week since we spoke,

but he's back in
his house at least.

He won't take my calls.
He will when he's ready.

It won't be you. It'll be him.

It's generally him.

He helped, by the way.

I'm not sure whether you're
aware, but he helped all of us.

He was key.

We wouldn't be here
without his help.

Sorry. I'll leave you to let
you prep, run your lines.

Oh, God.

I'm usually good with details,
but for some reason today,

my mind keeps going blank.

INHALES DEEPLY

SIGHS

I didn't sleep much.

I didn't sleep much last night.

Not a wink.

But, then, I don't sleep.
I'm not someone who sleeps.

You always been like that?
Since I was a boy, yeah.

Dave did tell you I wasn't a
simple guy to understand, right?

I've had days recently where
I can't remember my own name.

I've been in rooms full of people
and forgotten why I'm even there.

I suffer, and I have done for
years, from panic attacks.

Every time I sat down to
write this statement, I'd...

But this morning, I woke
up, and I felt clear,

clearer than I
have done in years.

That's good. Yes.

Just remember,

in the storm of all of this,

in all the mea culpa of...

...News Of The World,

they decided that in the
middle of this inquiry

to launch The Sun On Sunday.

You're right. They're bold.

Hmm.

Hmm.

That thing you were doing
with the ball, I don't mind,

if it helps to calm you.

Oh, come on. Drive you insane.
I've been tested by bigger things.

Please. Do what you need to do.

Oh. Yeah.

DISTANT SIREN WAILS

'I'll be honest. I'm
scared of this inquiry.'

I'm scared because I think you'll
take the wrong recommendations...

...and because you'll destroy
something which is precious

without rebuilding
something better.

I don't want destroyed the
notion of the unofficial source.

Sue Akers has arrested...

...37, 38 people

in the four inquiries
she's been running.

There have been a couple of
arrests of police officers

in cases where I know quite a
lot about the circumstances.

'What's happened there is
those officers have been told

'they will be charged with
the common-law offence

'of misconduct in
a public office.

'Despite, to the
best of my knowledge,

'there being no allegation of
any kind of bribe or inducement.'

What those officers are being
told is, "You will be charged",

"and you can expect to get a
prison term of up to 18 months"

"because you've spoken to a
reporter without permission."

Now... these two cases are live,
we don't know how they'll turn out.

May well be that the Crown
Prosecution Service will say,

"Hang on a moment.
This doesn't apply."

But... I think it's worrying,

and this is in the wake
of the phone hacking...

I worry that it might be

a completely unjustifiable
and unnecessary backlash

to the allegation of collusion

between News
International and the Met.

And the ultimate effect here may
be to prevent unauthorised contact

between journalists and police.

When, as a matter of fact,
without this unauthorised contact,

the Metropolitan Police
would've been allowed

to carry on misleading
press, public and parliament

about this whole scandal.

I'm also scared
that this inquiry

might misstep in a
different direction.

Might soften itself... as it's
attacked from outside sources.

I have been under attack,
in one form or another,

ever since I first attempted to
reveal the practice of hacking.

And I-I-I...

I represent here today...

...a team of people, all of whom
have been under similar attacks.

'I've had to face extraordinary
things to be part of this fight.

'They've done so because
what you're doing here today

'is precious.

'News.

'I think... I think the
best definition of it...

'News is what someone somewhere
doesn't want you to know.'

The most difficult, skilful,
interesting, important... stuff

that reporters do is about
finding human sources

and motivating them to
help reveal that news.

And I can... I can tell you

of someone at the
front line of that.

News is also often what
someone is reluctant to tell.

So it's hard to
motivate a human source

to reveal their truth.

I'd say, look, if I talk to you
and they realise I've done this,

then I'll lose my
job or my career.

Or I'll be beaten
up, I'll be arrested,

or embarrassed or ashamed.

I will hurt people who love me.
It's a very sensitive moment.

You have to make
those people safe.

You have to make
those people realise

their truth is worth the risk.

What these hackers did was about
cutting out that human connection.

These so-called journalists
didn't find the truth.

They didn't persuade people to
come with them. They just stole.

They took.

And humanity was
lost in that moment.

Not only in the privacy
that was invaded,

but also in the
stories told from it.

Our papers became dish
rags of distorted content.

And a set of rogue journalists
working for a rogue corporation...

...undermine the very
tenets of journalism...

...the very tenets
of truth telling.

If this inquiry succeeds, we may
be able to rebuild our newspapers.

We may be able to make
them what they should be.

Fail...

and News International will have
trapped us all in their shadow.

And I'm scared that
we will never get out.

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