05x07 - Hostage Takers (Part 2)

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These men are trained. Military.

They weren't sneaked in here to pick
c*ck shells.

We're going to sell nuclear plants
to the Saudis?

These four Saudi princes

are flying in tomorrow to
sort out the fine print.

One of them may be providing the
information and funding to Al Qaeda.

Minister Wise, call off the
nuclear deal, before it's too late.

Think of your children.
Are you threatening me?

Six is sending Neil Sternum over,
he's been running with this in
Saudi.

Try not to make him feel too
uncomfortable.

I'm working for the Attorney General.

We're running an eternal
investigation.

I'd just like to know more about
exactly who is sanctioning this

and who I can talk to about it. I
don't like working in the dark.

The MI5 watchlist?

Yes, I agreed to keep you informed
about what was going on.

Don't ask me to do something like
this again. It's too dangerous.

Believe me, the last thing we want is
to lose an asset like you.

Enough, Adam. Enough lies.
Your wife - is she really dead?

We were on an operation together.
She died in my arms.

Is that what your nightmares
are about?

I just need you to be ready
to undertake your mission,

and to find me three other
brothers who are ready
for the final sacrifice.

When will this happen? Friday night.

the Armageddon scenario.

You invited me to a reception
at the Trade Centre. Oh, great.

We can hear you perfectly through
the microphone built into this
four-carat cubic zirconia.

We've got one! Who is it?
Hassan Khan.

It's putty.

It's what? It'sjust putty.

g*nsh*t AND SCREAMING

Mazeltov. Yalla.

The Trade Centre has been taken over
by armed t*rrorists. Do you copy?

Do you copy?

Ros! Ros, what's happening?

Ros, talk to me!

g*nsh*t, SCREAMS

Anyone moves and you will all die.

EMERGENCY SERVICE SIRENS BLARE

No expl*sives.

RADIO: All units. We have reports of
g*nf*re from the Saudi Trade Centre.

We have reports of g*nf*re
from the Saudi Trade Centre.

What's that?

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Yes? Adam, so far there haven't
detonated any bombs.
It doesn't make sense.

Well, it does if you want
to create a diversion.

In order to take
over the Trade Centre.

They had us chasing our tails trying
to stop an army of bombers. . .

Leaving the Trade Centre wide open.

Exactly. Get back here.
We've got some catching up to do.

Where the hell's Sally? She's running
late. She'll be in soon.

They've just picked up two
more bombers, from the same
cell as Hassan. No expl*sives?

Same thing. Putty.

Hassan and these two others.

They're on our Al Qaeda watchlist.
They chose them because we were
watching them.

They knew they'd get our attention.
How did they know we were watching
them?

THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS
SOME STRONG LANGUAGE

SIRENS SOUND

SIRENS SOUND

PHONE RINGS

Jo, it's Ros. I'm still inside.

I've lost my earpiece.

Ros, Ros, give us a brief.

The building's been taken over.

They're Arabs. I counted five
but there could be more. Weapons?

Sub-machine g*ns, automatic
pistols and expl*sives.

Can you get out? I'm not sure yet.

I'm in an upstairs office.
Any fatalities?

One. A bodyguard. Anyone else hurt?

Not that I could see.
They knew who they were targeting.
They let most people escape.

You should have got out.
No, I'm more use in here.

Have they made any demands? Not yet.

Is this something to
do with the bombers?

There weren't any.
It was a diversion.

They were after the Trade Centre.

Hostages. . . The royal family,
the ambassador, politicians.

All the key players.
NOISE OUTSIDE DOOR, VOICES

PHONE LINE GOES DEAD
Ros? Ros?

PHONE RINGS

ANSWERPHONE: Your call cannot be
answered. Please leave a message
after the tone.

Sally? It's Jo.

SHE SIGHS
Pick up. . . Are you there, Sally?

I'll cover for you as long as I can,
but if Harry finds out you're not
here he'll go ballistic.

Just get here as soon as you can.
PHONE LINE GOES DEAD

She's in there. She just called
from an office on the top floor.

OK.

Right.

Jo, you shouldn't have
covered for her.

Get someone round to her place
and bring her in.

If she's not at her desk in one hour,
she's out of a job.

We have contact with Ros!

Have they made any demands yet?

No. Ros, we've had a look at the
schematics of the building.

The nearest exit is on the corner,
in the east of the building. . .

TELEPHONE LINE GOES DEAD
Jo? Jo?

NOISE OUTSIDE DOOR

HE TRIES DOOR HANDLE

HE SHOUTS IN ARABIC

HE SHOUTS ANGRILY

There's been nothing else. No
explosions. No more fake bombers.

There were never going to be 24
bombers. We assumed that, didn't we?

We assumed it by extrapolating
what we knew. Which is what they
wanted us to do.

What are you saying? They sneak
t*rrorists into the Trade Centre.

It goes wrong at the
docks, they're discovered.

They know we'll throw everything
into finding who they are,

so they come up with a diversion -
suicide bombers.

One of them contacts someone on
our watchlist, asks him to
bring three of his friends.

They know we'll find out and they
have us thinking each one of the six
is leading a cell of four.

And drown us in our own chaff. Nice.

Harry, they knew exactly who we
were watching. They knew about
Firaz, they knew about Hassan. . .

The only way they could know is
from someone on the inside.

So Al Qaeda have a mole inside
the Intelligence Services.

I can just see the look of
bliss on the Home Secretary's
face when he hears that.

We'll have to lock everything down.
Screen everyone from scratch.

They're making their demands.
Where's the signal coming from?

They're broadcasting it online.
Special Ops are just
patching it through.

SPEAKS IN ARABIC

IN ENGLISH:
We are Shura Mujaheddin of Al Qaeda

and we have taken
over the Trade Centre of
the godless Saudi regime. . .

that has been helping
the Zionist-crusaders in
their w*r against Islam.

I speak this directly to the king.

You hold 387 of our
brothers in your jails.

You have one hour to free them.

We will execute a hostage every
hour until our demands are met.

There will be no negotiation.
No delays.

We will know when
our brothers are free.

Jo, liaise with GCHQ.

I want to know every whisper that
goes in and out of that building.

Neil, get onto your friends at Six.

These maniacs didn't
plan this yesterday.

I've isolated the signal from
the microphone in Ros's earring.
It must have fallen out.

Can you patch it
through on the speakers?

It won't work unless it's next to
the microchip planted in her ear.

And this equipment is
supposed to be state of the art?

Find another way to reach her.

What is it? It's Sally.

She's been found.

She was m*rder*d. Stabbed in
her flat, over 24 hours ago.

What if she was the mole?

Think about it. She's been m*rder*d.
It's a bit convenient, isn't it?

They got what they wanted
and silenced her. Like they
did with Prosnik.

There's nothing in her profile
to suggest that.

It's not in the profile of
anyone in this building.

But somebody in here led us to
the trough, Harry. It's too perfect.

Malcolm, check Sally's records.

Everything. Hard drive, server,
phone, bank details, text messages.

I want to know everything about her.

If the t*rrorists are getting
inside information they
might know about Ros.

I can't believe Sally
would have done that.

You hardly knew her. None of us did.

I spent more time with her than
anyone else. It doesn't feel right.

There's hundreds of ways
they could have got to her.

Maybe she had no choice.

One minute she's here,
the next she's gone.

She asked me how well
I knew Neil. Why?

I don't know. Maybe there was
something brewing between them.

No, I doubt it. Why?

Well, I know him.

She's not even remotely his type.

Besides, he still hasn't
got over his wife. His wife?

Six years ago. She was pregnant
with her first child getting on a
bus in Tel Aviv. . . She was Israeli.

She was blown up
by a suicide b*mber.

Poor man.

sh*t. What? The t*rror1st watchlist.

She overrode the copy protection and
downloaded it onto an external drive.

VOICES SPEAK IN ARABIC

Sorry, I was just looking
at that. Someone's. . .

Oh!

Listen to me. I have an officer
inside that building.

You do nothing until I have contacted
that officer and I will call
you when I have done so. Yes, sir.

Special Branch and the SAS are
drawing up plans to storm the
building.

We've got to let Ros know.
I can't have her caught in the
crossfire. Besides, she could help.

So I've been telling them.
What have you got?

They got the watchlist from Sally.

We're looking into her bank accounts
and talking to her friends and
family. The ones we know about. . .

Poor girl. God knows how
she got mixed up in this.

What about GCHQ? Nothing yet.

Dammit. What are these
people playing at?

They're sh**ting
themselves in the foot.

These people they've taken
hostage were here to get them
the first Arab nuclear plants.

You think they'd wait a few years
until the plants were up and running

and then try to take over the
country. . .along with the enriched
plutonium.

The deal wasn't public knowledge.
It's possible Bin Laden and his
people didn't know about it.

What bothers me more is, why use
putty? Why not use real bombs?

You said it yourself,
it was improvised. Maybe they didn't
have access to expl*sives.

They seem to have
access to anything.

Look at the way they got into
our country, turned Sally to get our
files, sending out those decoys. . .

It's unusually
sophisticated for Al Qaeda.

They pulled off 9/11. Yeah, but
something about this feels more. . .

more calculated. More strategic.

They're reacting to our moves,
beating us at our own game.

They're getting better at it.
They've had plenty of practice. . .

We're not talking about local
crackpots building something in
somebody's garage here.

These guys were smuggled in.

Yeah, but if I was Al Qaeda and had
bombers on tap, even if it was just
decoy, I'd use more than putty.

Blowing up half of London
would risk us retaliating
with everything we've got.

This way, it's just
between them and the Saudis.

But every time we've retaliated,
we've only strengthened their cause.

Our hour is up in six minutes.

We have her. We'll get rid of her.
No, it'll look suspicious.

Why not? They assume
we had some help.

Yes, but that lead was
closed down yesterday.

What do you mean?

You need to send a message to the
king, not to the people here.

Keep her alive for now. Besides,
if you need it, she could be useful.
We won't need it. Good.

SHE GROANS

Are you all right?

Yeah, I think so.

What's happening? What do they want?

Someone's time is up.

Tell me they won't choose Ros. They
won't. k*lling Ros won't
help get their people released.

Yeah, you're assuming
they're thinking clearly.

Up to now they have.

Neil. Hi, Sally. I've been
given clearance to talk
to you in more detail.

Nice flat.

Good divorce. Any chance of a drink?

Yes, of course.
I'll see what I've got.

Hayda.

Stop this, I beg of you.

This man is a guest of Her Majesty's
government. He's my responsibility.

You cannot do this. Please! He's
the ambassador! This is barba. . . !

g*nsh*t

g*nsh*t

They won't let this go on.

They'll send in help.

I'm not sure
if I want to wait that long.

We don't have much choice, do we?

I need to talk to them.

Are you trying to
get yourself k*lled?

I'm trying to save our lives.

The Foreign Office are putting
pressure on the king, trying to
persuade him not to cave in.

You really expect him not to?
The ambassador was near to the inner
circle. The others are just as close.

He's not going to sit back
and watch as they're m*rder*d.

To release the prisoners would be
a disaster. 400 hard-line fanatics
freed in one go?

Make Iraq
look like a Buddhist monastery.

That's not the only downside.

The nuclear plants.
The PM is apoplectic, Harry.

This deal is absolutely critical
in guaranteeing our oil supply.

You need to find a way
to end this siege.

WHISPERED CONVERSATION

Are you all right, Minister?
I've been better.

Who are you?

Ros Myers. MI5.

Did Harry Pearce assign you
to watch over me? No. Why?

I was being threatened.

They want me to k*ll
the nuclear deal. Who?

Take your pick.

This whole thing's been cursed
from day one.

Anything worthwhile usually is.

I can't see the Saudi king holding
out. He'll free the prisoners.

Doesn't mean they'll let us go.

In that case, how long before
our people storm in and get us out?

I don't think it's going to
be that easy this time, Minister.

I didn't think it was.

The bulletproof glass
means we can't listen in,

and they have encrypted
mobile phones we can't monitor.

GCHQ are in the dark.
These guys are well-prepared.

Yeah. They turned Sally. They k*lled
anyone they don't need any more.

And they've got all the right gear.
Yeah. I've been thinking. . .
PHONE RINGS

Is everything OK?
I'm watching the news.

You're part of this, aren't you?
Yeah.

Look, I'll be here with Wes.
Don't worry.

Just do what you have to do.

And be careful.

I will. Thanks.

OK. Let's go back a few steps.

Al Qaeda trick us in order to
take hostages. What are they after?

Release of their people from Saudi
jails. What does that get them?

Well, chaos in Saudi Arabia.


free to rip the country to shreds.

Car bombs, shootings, evacuations.
The collapse of the royal family.

It becomes politically unacceptable
for us to sell nuclear power to
a country in turmoil. The deal dies.

You think that's what this is about?
If it's Al Qaeda,
why use fake bombers?

Would any other country
want to destroy our deal
with Saudi Arabia that badly?

These are attacks on London.
Hang on.

If we can't sell them nuclear power,
I can't see how any other country
can do business with them either.

No-one gets the oil.
Turmoil in Saudi Arabia,
they don't get the plutonium.

It's a win-win situation.

If you're Israeli.

What did you say? Don't worry
about it. They won't touch us now.

Why not?

I believe you have an expression
that says, "Don't bite the hand
that feeds you."

I don't understand.
It's complicated.

But I didn't know they
were planning this.

Well, how would you know?

People I work with.

You know these people? Not exactly.

These t*rrorists want to overthrow
your government, they want to get
rid of your royal family, of you.

They're the future. No matter
who's running the country,

we still have 25% of the world's
oil reserves, which are worthless
if we don't sell them.

Why help t*rrorists?

They're going to win,
sooner or later.

And once they do, they'll need people
who know how to run a country.

People who can talk to the West.

Don't worry your little
head over it, hayati.

Just stay close to me
and you'll be fine.

I need you for something.

Quickly. I've been going
through Sally's computer,

and I remembered she was running
your face recognition software.
With the beta update.

Her computer crashed
while she was doing it.

We still haven't ironed out all the
bugs. OK, here's what's strange.

I was going through all her caches
and it looks like all the programs
locked at the same time.

It's as if something
crashed the system altogether,
rather than the software crashing.

That doesn't sound right.

RADIO CRACKLES

Excuse me.

Excuse me.
I really need to talk to your boss.

What are you doing? Sit down!

No, I need to talk to your boss.

You're going to get yourself k*lled!
Sit down. Please.

I really, really. . . Sit down!

BABBLE OF VOICES

SHRIEKS AND SHOUTS

Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel,
Daniel darling. . .

What do you want?

I really, really need
to use the ladies room.

Don't waste my time. Up, up!

Yeah, I know, Harry,
but they haven't missed a step.

Aside from being discovered
at the port. OK, one mistake.

The point is how they reacted to it.
Think about it.

There's one country with
the ideology, the political will

and the highly trained but
deniable officers that could
pull off something like this.

Some of the background programs
were still running.

Right, let's mine down
to the hex addresses.

This is unusual.

Someone sent her a spike.

Who? There's a terminal ident here.

Can you see whose it is?

COMPUTER BEEPS
Damn it.

What's caused that to quit?

Malcolm, can you try it one more
time? It'lljust do it again.

Please, Malcolm. Just do it.

Neil, do you have a minute?
Not really.

I just wanted to double check
some things. Is it urgent?

You're accusing Israel of an act
of terrorism on British soil. Yeah.

Even if you're right that this is
about stopping the nuclear deal,

there are many countries, many groups
who could be behind this.

I can't go upstream with no proof.
I need more. Oh, God. What? Neil.

You're familiar with the Arabic
dialects, aren't you?

It's not my area of expertise,
I'm sure there are other people
you can talk to. . .

He downloaded the watchlist
from Sally's computer.

He's done a hell of a lot more
than that. Activate a lockdown.

Activating immediate lockdown.

BEEPING

Get Malcolm on it!

It's over, Neil.
You can't get out the building.

I know.

And you can't get to me either.

He's put a lock on
the security chamber.
And you can't reverse the action?

He's corrupted his access profile.

What's the point of a security
system that works against you? It
wasn't designed to deal with this.

I don't think we'll have
to deal with it much longer.

Look, Neil,
we can, we can work this out.

Just help us to end the siege.

We've gone way beyond that, Adam.

This could escalate
into something horrific.

We live in a horrific world.

You think this is
what Rachel would want? Absolutely.

No, she wouldn't.
You didn't know her.

Everything I did, I did for her.

Look, I lost Fiona. . .

Then maybe
you'll start to understand. . .

. .maybe her death wouldn't have
been in vain after all.

Adam. He's taken cyanide.
Old-fashioned, but does the trick.

Who's your contact in Israel?

Neil, listen to me,
who's your contact in Israel?

Come on, Neil,
what's the purpose of the mission?

Come on - give me something!

Neil, come on!

Give me something - don't let
this happen. Give me something.

You know what's really strange?

For the first time
since Rachel's death. . .

. .it actually feels good
to think about her.

You b*stard, you f*cking coward.

His wife was Israeli? They had to
identify her through dental records.

I feel compassionate for him
about that,

but to collaborate with
these people - whose side was he on?

We used to argue for hours
over Middle Eastern politics.

He was hugely pro-Israeli.
So much so that I once asked him

if the UK was at w*r with Israel,
who he'd fight for.
What was his answer?

He never gave me one. Until now.

Another hour's nearly up.

Jo? Malcolm? Ros!

I'm in the ballroom
with 14 hostages.

They've got C4
all over the main entry points.

expl*sives on a wall
in the basement.

In the north-east corner.

Khaldoon's the Al Qaeda sympathiser.
Stop talking.

The t*rrorists know that.

Ros?!

Ros, listen. They're not Al Qaeda.

She's next. She's next.

STATIC AND FEEDBACK

g*nsh*t

This can't go on.

You're out of your mind.
What makes you think
we're behind all this?

Come on, Uri. This has got
Mossad written all over it.

You know what your mistake was?

You're too perfect.

You do things too well,
which normally would work for you,

but in this case,
it's what gave you up.

Be serious, Harry.
It's the Sabbath, for heaven's sake.
I've got better places to be.

Call them off, Uri.

You don't think this
serves both our purposes?

With Saudi Arabia up in flames,
I fail to see how that could
serve anybody's purposes.

Our American patrons finally have
an excuse to go in and grab those
oil fields for strategic reasons.

Put aside all this nonsense about
spreading freedom and democracy.

Let the rest go to hell.

Let them slaughter each
other till kingdom come.

There I was thinking the
neo-cons were the crazies.

These glorified Bedouins
squandered the greatest gift that
can be bestowed on any nation

and what did they waste it on?

Gold-plated yachts,
palaces in Marbella

while keeping their people
in a state of the middle ages.

And you, you want to sell them
nuclear technology? Ah.

So that IS what all this is about.

It's criminally irresponsible
and you know it.

These people can't be trusted
with that sort of thing.

Whereas "you people" can be trusted
to behave in a reasonable manner?

Be careful, Harry. Call them off
or this could blow up in your face.

Arab k*lling Arab?

It's a story as old as time itself.

Shalom, Harry.

Mossad? For God Sake, Harry,
have you been drinking?

I just met with Uri Kolchak.

They're trying to derail
the nuclear deal.

Harry, this is ludicrous.
Juliet. . . Do you have proof?

Juliet, for God's sake!

I'm telling you Israeli officers have
taken over the Saudi Trade Centre

and shot dead two leading diplomats
here in London.

God knows how the Arab world's
going to respond to this.

I mean, countries have gone
to w*r over far less.

All the more reason to
keep it under wraps.

We can't let them get away with it.
They've m*rder*d innocent people.

If what you're saying is true,
exposing this would be a
disaster impossible to contain.

Which is just as well because
the decision has already been made.

We are going in. What?
They won't negotiate, Harry.

The king is close to releasing
the prisoners. If he does, Saudi
Arabia will descend into chaos

and we can kiss our nuclear deal
goodbye. Forget about it.
That's not going to happen.

It will if we do this right.
We go in fast and hard.

We take them out
and no-one need know who they
were or where they came from.

What about the hostages in there?

Wise is there, with his wife.

And I've got Ros in there.

I. . .I'm sorry about Ros.

We have no choice. When?

Imminent.

What's the news?

They king's not giving in.
We knew that could happen.
It doesn't matter.

Once you're done, it'll create
enough of a stir to keep this
deal off the table.

Give us time to plan things better.

The SAS are going in.

When? Within the hour.

Before the next execution.

You know what to do.

Everyone down! Lie on the floor!
Down!

They'll know we're going in.
They had Neil, they'll have others.

They'll want to end this.
The building's surrounded.

It'll be a bloodbath.
But they're Mossad. They value
their people to the last.

They don't send officers
to a sure death

and they don't leave them behind
either. There must be a way out.

Ros said there were planting
expl*sives in the basement
on a wall in the north-east corner.

There must be an underground exit.

Let me check the local maps.

I'll check with London Underground.
You get yourself over there.

You people are animals.

You bring shame upon us.

I want everybody here to understand
that they do not speak for me.

They do not speak for Islam.

Prince Khaldoon wasn't one of you,
was he?

So why did you k*ll him?

Unless you're not really
who you say you are.

And your accent,

I knew someone who spoke just
like you. Mizrahi, am I right?

He was a Yemeni Jew.

You're a Jew? !

You. . .
You wanted to stop the nuclear deal.

I won't give our enemies
the means to destroy us.

As long as you think of them as
enemies and not as human beings. . .

You can think like that.
You live in Greenwich
in a nice house, safe.

See if you still think like that
when you have half of your family
blown up in a bus,

when you have two of your kids
die in a restaurant.

It's about the survival of our
people. No, it's about the future.

This deal is more important
to my government than you know.

They won't let this go any further,
regardless of the cost.

So how are you planning on going in?

We're going to go in here through
the kitchens on the lower floor

and here by means of access through
the fire escape to the upper floors.

MOBILE RINGS
We'll use a diversion here
by roof access. . . Zaf?

There's an underground exit shaft
that runs alongside
the east perimeter.

It's three feet outside
the basement wall.

So the correct expl*si*n
could break through it.

Yeah, I'm sending the schematics
through to your PDA.

OK, thanks. They're going to
try and escape through an
old underground exit shaft.

What you thinking?

We need to keep the plan going.
They could have moles.

Not with us. Trust me on this.
These guys know what they're doing.
Anything's possible.

You give me a small team with someone
who can handle expl*sives

and we'll go in just before you
through the exit shaft.

BLEEPING

Anyone moves, you will die.
Anyone speaks, you will die.

I will not repeat this twice.

This way. That's the exit shaft
going through the wall there.
Set the expl*sives.

k*ll the power.

Go.

Go, go, go, now! Please, please
stay calm, everyone stay calm.

Clear, clear.

Come on, come on, just keep moving!

Come on, quick! OK, up you get,
move! Mr Wise, are you OK?

I'm fine. Help my wife,
she's still in there.

Come on, come on, just keep moving.

Keep moving.

Ros, you all right?

What was the body count? Five.

There were six of them.
I know where he is.

So no-one will ever know what
really happened here tonight.
It's called transparent government.

There is a silver lining.

The Saudi government showed
great character and political will

in resisting the demands
of the fundamentalists.

The Prime Minister, fully vindicated
in selling them the nuclear plants

and carrying on with his valiant
nation-building endeavours

and we flushed out our sympathiser.

Well, he pretty much
flushed himself out.

Not a bad story for
tomorrow's newspapers.

Go home, Rosalind.

Is it over? Yeah.

So you can rest?

Yeah.

Congratulations, Harry.

The city is safe again

and now we can all sleep
comfortably in our beds.

But it isn't over yet.

Don't you want the bodies
of your men back?

My men? What are you talking about?

Astoundingly, there's not a trace
of evidence to link them to Mossad.

Because they were all anonymous Arab
t*rrorists and now they're all dead.

All?

You see, contrary to any
reports you might have read,

the leader of the anonymous
" Arab" t*rrorists didn't die
in the sh**t-out.

He's actually the
picture of good health.

Trouble is we don't know
what to do with him.

No-one's claimed him yet,
which is understandable.

Any country which did claim him
would have to explain

what he was doing leading a group
of t*rrorists to take over
the Trade Centre.

Would open up a really nasty
can of worms, don't you think?

No, I suspect our t*rror1st
is going to remain anonymous
for the rest of his days.

Don't you?

Shalom.

Welcome to Camp X-Ray, son.

Didn't God give man
free will?

He must have
realised it wouldn't
always go His way.

I am going to restore His kingdom.

They've issued a declaration
of w*r against Islam.

Let's get them firmly on the radar.

They declared w*r, now we join it.he
In the name of a peace-loving god!

What is fear anyway?

Who ever effected change
through fear?

Adam!