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02x04 - Episode 4

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Gold". Aired: 12 February – 19 March 2023.*
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Series covers the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery in which £26 million worth of gold bullion, diamonds, and cash was stolen from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, and the widespread events that followed over the following decade.

02x04 - Episode 4

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How close are you to nicking these two?

A few days, maybe a week.

Two bodies have been found
off Fort Lauderdale.

Last seen with a man
called Scott Errico,

who has links to organised crime.

Are you part of this insanity, Douglas?

The returns are hard to ignore, Logan.

We had a whole plan, Sarah,
a whole life, and then you left me

for some mystery man,
and knocked me for bloody six!

I left you for Logan.

Baxter's running. So is his mate.

Nick them.

- Miller's running, sir.
- If he gets away now,

he's got the money to stay gone forever.

ITV are planning a documentary
on Palmer in Tenerife.

From Russia with love.

We are partners now
with your business. 50-50.

- Hello?
- Hello, John.

I need a bit of help.

What do you want?

Your first interview
with a western journalist.

Western journalists call me drug dealer.

You ARE a drug dealer.

No drugs, no g*ns.

No g*ns, no freedom.

I have seen many men like you.

At the beginning, it's simple.

You want freedom, or justice,
or independence.

But along the way, you get fame,
money, power.

Eventually you get enough
of those things

to forget what you wanted
at the beginning.

We need international recognition.

That means I need to send envoys
to the west.

If you want to speak to me,
then I want visas.

I'm a journalist, not a diplomat.

Then you have come all this way
for nothing.

I won't leave without an interview.

Then you won't leave.

Six men break into a warehouse
at Heathrow

to steal three tonnes of gold, and
all these years and all this money later

you go to Heathrow
and shut down the airport.

Some might call that irony.

I prefer gross incompetence.

Forget the six men and forget the gold.

The Brink's-Mat investigation is
now about the largest criminal

fortune in British history,
and about us taking it from them.

We seized £500,000 at Heathrow.

Once it's gone through the courts,
that money is yours, sir.

Do spend it wisely.

How?

The new Drug Trafficking Offences Act.

Any criminal proceeds with
a provable link to drugs

can be seized by the investigatory body.

Now, one of Miller's network
is wanted on drugs charges,

so when I find Miller's money,
I can seize it on that basis.

Along with him.

Equally, when we bring down Palmer,

if I find one penny of drugs money
within John Palmer's

money laundering operation,
I can take everything he has.

That's tens of millions of pounds.

Every penny that's being spent on the
Brink's-Mat investigation and more.

The biggest financial
seizure in British policing history.

The kind of result that could
reinstate the reputation

of a police force beset by corruption.

And the kind of result that can
earn knighthoods,

for those that covet such things.

And the press?

I'll handle the press.

I believe you're looking to film
a documentary on John Palmer.

Being stonewalled by the Yard
is one thing.

You applying personal pressure
is quite another.

I know this is unusual, Mr Jarrett,
but I'll help you get him.

Why?

Because you'll help us get him.

My concern is
you haven't got to him yet.

He's careful.

He's careful, and he's clever,
but he's not without weakness.

So... how might we get to him?

Use a woman. And make it big.

For you.

I need a phone.

Come home, Tina.

England needs you.

It's not a great time, Henry.

Yes, sorry to interrupt
your little sojourn,


but we have an in on John Palmer.

- Undercover documentary, prime time.
- Palmer?

He was Brink's-Mat, wasn't he?

He was,
but he's a lot more interesting now.

All right, Kenny? How was the flight?

I told them to look after you.

So what's happened, Kenny?

Eh?

You've not been out long.

You can't have got yourself
into bother this fast, surely.

This is nice, John.

Your house.

Your plane.

Your life.

Oh, I've got my crosses to bear,
don't you worry about that.

Oh, yeah, I'm sure you do, yeah.

Could have been a lot worse, though,
couldn't it?

For you, anyway.

I, er...

I did my time.

So where you headed, Kenny?

My plane can get you
halfway round the world.

I think I'm going to stay here.

- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah. I thought it, erm...

..might be fun to spend
a bit of time with a mate.

Cos we're mates, aren't we?

Course we are.

Yeah.

More than that, really.

Partners.

I've got to get to work, Kenny.

Well, you're an important man, John.

Yeah, I'll drop you in town.

Plenty of decent boozers.

No, I'm fine here.

Right.

OK.

I mean, do you want me to...
stick around for a bit?

No, no. Best you go
and look after your millions.

Best for both of us.

I imagine this feels like the end.

But this isn't the end.

When you do get to the end,
you'll look back and you'll think,

"They were good times,
talking to those coppers.

"I wish I could go back to that."

You're in a conspiracy
with dangerous people

who will be concerned that
you'll reveal that conspiracy.

They'll do you in, mate,
is what he's saying.

Unless we offer you protection.

But protection must be earned.

I appreciate the clarity, gentlemen,
so let me offer a little of my own.

You have no evidence against me,
and in...

..11 hours' time, you have to
let me go, at which point,

I'll demand a written apology
and safe passage to the Isle of Man.

Safe passage? From what, pirates?

You know, the Isle of Man
doesn't offer much.

I once ordered a martini
in a pub over there,

and the landlord came at me
with a poker.

But the Isle of Man does offer something

to people like me, doing the kind
of things you perhaps imagine I do.

I don't need your protection.

I have all the protection I require.

Where's Miller's money?

And where is he?

Who's Miller?

You registered front companies for him

to launder proceeds
from the Brink's-Mat robbery.

Ah, Brink's-Mat.
How are you doing with that?

Better now you're here.

Oh, I disagree. I think in reaching me,

you have reached the very limits
of your power.

He's a belter, this one.

Your jurisdiction ends at borders,
but money doesn't respect borders.

If you take on money of this nature,
you are doomed to be forever

stuck behind a fence, watching it
slip away over the horizon.

We have one thing on our side.

What's that?



PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Hello?

Is that you, John?

John?

I'm not sure you should be doing that.

I ain't coming back here.
We'll take it with us.

This island has incredibly strict
financial confidentiality laws.

The Guvnor and Lundy will break him,
then he'll tell us what he has.

We're just getting a head start.

You know it won't be in there.

Money laundering is about movement.

If Miller's money was here,
then it's not here any more.

All we can look for is
a suggestion as to where it's gone.

When did you become the expert?

I'm interested in this stuff.

And I've learnt enough to know that,
whatever Baxter gives up,

we're only at the start of something.

And I reckon...

..this might be where it goes next.

I wonder what Isle of Man police
would say about ill*gal entry.

Isle of Man police are being very
helpful, which is good news for you.

They'll agree to reduced charges,
open prison,

and no company director ban.

If you tell us where Miller's money is,

which I suspect means telling us
about this

and the people behind it.

I can't.

I hope this isn't loyalty, Douglas.

The world you're in, this world,
is not the place for loyalty.

They'd give you up
in a bloody heartbeat, mate.

We're going to charge you,
which means we can choose to

give you police bail or to put you
on remand, and right now...

It's remand.

Sorry, I couldn't take the suspense.
It's remand. In the Scrubs.

Last time I enjoyed the hospitality
of Her Majesty,

I worked in the library, which was
heavy on Erle Stanley Gardner

but had a certain charm.

This would be different.

Errico's in custody.

And he needs a cellmate.

There's only one person behind this,
and he'd only speak to me.

Then you'd best go speak to him.

Where is everyone?

They're not back from the beaches.

But you have a visitor.

Can I help you?

I thought you could.
Now I'm not so sure.

Sorry?

I was told you could clean money.

Who told you that?

I was told you could clean
a lot of money, Mr Palmer.

Then I arrive on Tenerife and
discover you are a humble hotelier.

They're time-shares. Who told you that?

People in my world.

What world's that, then?

The Old Bill?

SHE CHUCKLES

Quite the opposite.

I help people who have a lot
of money, and are willing

to have a little less money
in order to keep that money.

It is a small community,
and in that community, people talk.

About a man in Tenerife
building a reputation.

I don't know what you're talking about.

But if you fancy a time-share,
do take a brochure.

I know you're working for the Russians.

I imagine it can't be
without its challenges.

I'm just a kid from Solihull, love.
I don't know no Russians.

This is simpler.

- One transaction.
- I've got a busy day.

$100 million.

From where?

Burma.

I could tell you some bollocks
about tax evasion,

or the looting of a regime, but I won't.

The money is the proceeds
of the heroin trade.

It will be wired to you
through a Singaporean Bank.

You clean it,
you send $80 million to Switzerland.

$20 million commission,
and not a Russian in sight.

This is Han-So.

He's one of the largest
heroin traffickers in the world.

And in two days' time,
he will be at the Ritz in London.

I'm afraid I can't help you.

That's not your answer.

If you don't come to the Ritz
to meet him,

that's your answer, and we'll give
the 20 million to someone else.

All right, Kenny?

It's Dave.

Mate of Barry's. Yeah,
we played golf at West Kingsdown.

Yeah, you sold me a couple
of watches which,

well, to be fair, Kenny,
barely lasted the journey home...

Yeah, you all right, Dave?

Yeah, you see it all, mate,
you see it all.

Yeah, well, er, have a good one, yeah?

- You on holiday, then, eh?
- Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, well, fair enough.

You deserve one, don't you,
after a stretch like that?

- Here, do you want a beer?
- No.

Yeah, well, all right, mate,
I'll tell...

I'll tell Barry you were
asking for him, yeah?

No, you won't.

You won't tell Barry nothing.

You won't tell no-one nothing.

Because if I find out that you told
Barry, or your missus,

or your f*cking dog,
that you saw me here,

then that ain't going to
work out well for you, Dave.

That ain't going to work out well
at all.

- OK?
- Yeah.

No, no, I ain't seen you, Kenny.

No.

- No, you ain't.
- Yeah.

I need a bit of time off from this.

The island's quiet.
My team are struggling.

They're not bringing in punters,

so there's no money in the system
to hide yours.

You clean our money, you send it on.

If you can't clean our money,
you send your own money on.

Whatever happens, you send us money
every week forever.

If you have problems, give them to me.

I make them go away.

I'll bear that in mind.

The end is coming, Senor Palmer.

Got myself out of worse than this.

You need money for the Russians,
but you have no money coming in.

There are some tourists asking
where their apartments are,

and some are asking
for their money back.

I've got the money for all of them.

This time.

Then they will all come back
again and again.

I could sell up.

Who will buy a development
that has been sold twice over?

The Russians.

If the Russians want it,
they will take it.

They are not your way out.

There is no way out.

There might be.

There's someone else.

They want me to clean $100 million.

One off.

We take 20 million
and get the f*ck off this island.

Could you do it?

I would be creating a mirage
that would last a few days.

No more.

Yeah, you can get a long way
from here in a few days.

$5 million.

- You what?
- For me.

Jesus Christ, kid,
what would you do with $5 million?

Wait outside.

I wait here now.

OK.

What's going on, Kenny?

Do you remember when I came to you
with that first bar of gold?

Course I do.

I thought...

it was going to change our lives, that.

Change who we were,
change who we could be.

But you knew that was bollocks,
didn't you?

Yeah, you looked at that gold,
and you didn't see none of that.

You just saw money.

And you were right.

Yeah, well,

money brings its own problems.

Wish I had problems like that.

What's going on?

I'm on the run, John.

From what?

It don't matter what I'm running from.

What matters is staying ahead of it.

And that ain't happening here.

The amount of English on this island,

I may as well be in bloody Kent.

Yeah, that's true.

I need to go somewhere quiet.

I can help with that.

And I need enough dough to stay there.

Because you don't want me
coming back here, do you?

Every time I need a little bit more
of what you got from the gold.

What I've got here
didn't come from the gold.

Everything comes from the gold, John.

Always will.

And you'd do well to remember that.

Because you see this, this life?

It's too big.

It's too flash.

They'll be coming for you, John.

Maybe.

But right now, it sounds like
they're coming for you.

Keep your jackets on.

You're going to the
British Virgin Islands.

Where?!

You'll co-ordinate with the DEA,
and use Baxter to get to

a Logan Campbell,
who has control of Miller's money.

Lundy will explain the rest
on the plane.

No, I won't be with them, sir.
I've got to find Miller.

You'll get to Miller through the money.

Come on, Guv.

The quicker you find the money,
the quicker you'll find Miller.

Take a wire,
and keep a close eye on Baxter.

He's about as weak as a
co-operating witness gets,

and I don't think he's fully decided
whose side he's on.

There you go, Kenny.

Viktor will get you to the plane.

Good luck, mate.

You know the difference between us,
John?

We're both on the run...

..but only I know it.

I ain't sitting beside Baxter
on the plane,

I'll tell you that for free.

f*cking hell!

And what about the wire?

Borrow it from Flying Squad?

- Fine, I'll give them a call.
- Just don't tell them what it's for.

Here we are again.

Me and all you nighthawks.

Well, you know, if we can't get you
home, we can sure get you drunk.

- Yeah!
- There you go.

♪ I knew a man, Bojangles

♪ And he danced for you

♪ In worn-out shoes

♪ Silver hair and ragged shirt
and baggy pants

♪ He would do the old soft shoe... ♪

From the guy at the bar.

Thank you, sir.

♪ He could jump so high

♪ Jump so high

♪ Then lightly touched down... ♪

What's your most expensive vodka?

This, I guess.

Jesus.

Well, we've got a whole lot of tequila.

I bet. Large vodka, no ice.

I'll get that.

No, you won't.

Why not?

Because I'm trapped in Arizona airport,

and there's not many things
that could make that worse,

but being hit on by a guy in a
sweater like that might just do it.

It's cashmere.

Sure it is, honey.

This is demeaning.

Imagine what it's like for us.

The problem when people wear a wire

is that all they think about
is that they're wearing a wire.

You need to put it out your mind.

And how might one do that?

Act normal.

Take your time.

Don't try and get him to confess
right off the bat.

What if it makes a noise?

It's a microphone, mate. It's not
going to start playing Radio 2.

Right, then.
I'll go and see the Americans.

Baxter, go to the toilet
before we activate the wire.

We don't get paid enough
to listen to that.

You should have contacted me
before you left London.

I have an active operation.

With all respect, we've nicked
Errico for you,

and we're here with an informant
to take out Campbell.

- What have you got?
- Jurisdiction.

We'll get to the paperwork later.

You don't have to.

I can authorise this
as a joint DEA operation.

You just need to take me
along for the ride.

Fine.

This Campbell, you haven't got to
anyone around him?

I'm working on that.

Today?

Today.

Why the rush?

Why the delay?

We go to the town hall,
pick up a marriage certificate,

I have it witnessed,
and then the admin's done

and we can plan the party.

The guy in your office - who was he?

He told me that he was the finance
director of a construction company.

I...

I've recently discovered that he...

..is a drug trafficker, which was
a somewhat disappointing revelation.

You launder money for drug traffickers?

No.

You do.

Your Government's policies
attract two types of people -

tax dodgers and criminals.

Then you ask people like me
to tell them apart.

And sometimes, the crooks
slip through the nets.

How much?

How much of this, how much of you,
is built on drug money?

Take that school
that I'm building for you.

Maybe one in ten bricks.

Which is a lot.

Take them away,
and everything collapses.

Same for your Government,
same for this island.

I would rather it collapsed
than be supported like that.

You are naive to think this island
can afford such morality.

Maybe it can't.

But I can.

I need that certificate.

We need it!

DOOR SLAMS

If I was you, in a place like this,

I wouldn't have thought
it was cashmere either.

I can deliver the message more politely,

but the message doesn't change.

I thought the old accent might get me
a bit more interest, you know...

just for the novelty.

I live in New York.

There are a lot of accents.

The name's Charlie.

Isn't it Charles, like your Prince?

Yeah, why not?

Who's waiting for you in New York?

No, that's not what this is.

This is me, exceptionally bored,
willing to talk to you

for as long as you temporarily ease
that exceptional boredom.

Deal.

Then I'm Alyssa,
and you can buy me one drink.

Gov, you're going to want to see this.

"A senior police source confirmed
the Brink's-Mat Task Force

"is active in the Caribbean
island of Tortola,

"following enquiries
in the Isle of Man."

I was protecting you, Boyce.

Showing your progress.

You were protecting yourself!

Avoiding criticism of your leadership

by endangering my team,
and a co-operating witness.

Without my intervention,
that story would have been,

as Britain shivers its way through
a recession, "The Brink's-Mat

Task Force have blown another few
million of your hard-earned..."

- This is bloody disgraceful!
- Boyce!

It's page 23 next to the obituaries,
Boyce.

I don't think it'll make it
to the colonies.

Let's hope not, sir, for both our sakes.

Hey.

Oh, hi.

Sorry, I need to get to work.

I've got through the financial
advisers on this island.

There aren't many. A chosen few.

And one more chosen than the others.

Which is why I saw you leave
Logan Campbell's house this morning.

We're engaged.

Congratulations.
Does he clean drugs money?

You should be speaking to me
with the Governor.

And yet I've chosen to talk to you
when you're not at work,

and you're not with her.

What does that mean?

That's what I'm trying to find out.

And you should do the same.

Well, this is an unwelcome surprise.

We've both had our share of them.

What happened with the American?

I met Errico,
gave him half a million pounds,

and haven't heard a peep since.

And Christ only knows where Miller
is, unless you can enlighten me.

You've come a long way to tell me that.

I didn't feel this conversation
was well suited to a phone call.

What do you want, Douglas?

How are you cleaning the money
from Errico and Miller's drug deals?

Oh, f*cking hell.

Pretty smooth.

What's going on?

What's going on
is that I'm sh1tting myself, mate.

Errico, Miller, the drugs.
I'm in over my head.

You might recall that
I tried to dissuade you from

- getting involved with them.
- We're both involved.

And we shouldn't be.

They're not our kind of people, Logan.

They're not in our f*cking league.

So tell me how you cleaned it,

and I'll tell you how we make sure
if this goes down,

it's those two bloody reprobates,
and them alone, who go down with it.

FAX MACHINE BEEPS, WHIRS

Perpetual motion.

What is that?

It's a fax machine.

In the Venn diagram of nations
offering reduced banking rates,

no extradition,
bribe-able local officials,

and political stability,
there are nine countries.

SPEECH MUFFLED

The money moves between those
nine countries in perpetual,

invisible motion.

Through which accounts?

One account, controlled by me, which
transfers money to temporary holding

accounts in the foreign banks,
takes it back, and sends it on.

And on.

And on.

FAX MACHINE STOPS

And where's that account?

I owe you an apology, Douglas.

An old friend comes all this way, twice,

and I don't even show him my home.

Oh, don't... Don't be daft.
We're talking shop here, Logan.

Let's go back to mine
and I'll give you what you need.

Why not?

This feels bad.

You two stay here.

See what you can find in Campbell's
office. We'll follow them.

So what do you do?

I work for a hedge fund on Wall Street.

Do any of those words
mean anything to you?

They mean money.

They mean money.

I'm in business myself.

Is that right?

So with a hedge fund, where's the
money...?

Is this interesting?

It doesn't feel interesting,
though not much does tonight.

I'm interested in how money works.

Er, we locate investment.

- What does that mean?
- It means I'm on my way back from Kansas,

and I should have taken the f*cking bus.

What's in Kansas?

THUNDER RUMBLES

That's getting closer.

What's in Kansas?

What are you drinking?

Well, she called it a beer,

but I'm starting to think
she was having me on.

Logan thought Errico was legit.

When he found out he wasn't,
he cut him loose.

I just don't know how much damage
was done before that.

Well, I'm sure that Logan
will be more careful in future.

That's it?

What do you want me to do, Kadene,
hand your fiance to the DEA?

You told me not to meet him.

The first time Logan asked me for
dinner, you told me not to meet him.

I know how men like that
see women on this island.

Those men don't propose.

And you should marry him.

Why?

Because you went for dinner, Kadene.

You wanted that life.

Now you have to do
what you have to do to keep it.

Bullshit.

This is about him and about you.

Me?!

What have you done, Lauretta?

You know what I've done.

I've cut poverty, raised literacy
levels, extended life expectancy,

and I have looked after you the way
I promised your mother I would.

These are the things you tell yourself.

This is what you choose to know.

We're both going to have to decide
what we choose to know.

The golden boy and a golden life.

You were the bright one.

And look what good it did me.

You're hot.

I'm not built for this kind of thing.

Let's cool off in the pool.

Erm, no, thanks.

We should really tie up our discussion.

We can talk in the pool.

Don't have any trunks.

Sure I can lend you some trunks, Dougy.

Is there somewhere I can change?

I was never... as confident as you
with matters of the flesh.

The wire's dead.

Could be the battery.

Or your man's ditched it.

No chance.

He knows what he's doing.

Looks like it.

For Christ's sake!

f*cking hell.

This is exciting.

Being here.

It's different to England.

There aren't the same barriers.

Well, this is America.

You have money, you've got a shot.

The storm's gone.

Better pay what ever I need to pay
to get out of here.

This was, er...

..better than I hoped.

Let's be honest,
exceptions where kind of low.

- What's in Kansas?
- Er...

It's a... It's a petroleum company.

It's found a lot of oil, and, er,

doesn't have the money
to get it out of the ground.

So I'm going to fly to New York,
raise the finance,

and then fly back to Kansas,
and close the deal.

Raise the finance from who?

- Financial institutions, pension funds...
- How much each?

Er, it was really nice to meet you.

How much?
SHE CHUCKLES

I don't know, er, two million apiece?

I'll have it sent to you tomorrow.

- Er, no.
- This is America.

I have money.

So give me my shot.

All right, I...

I think you're full of sh*t. But, erm...

..if two million dollars clears
in this account tomorrow,

then I will be flying back
through here the day after that

on this flight.

I'll meet you here.

Sure you will.

You know, I could have got out,
before the storm,

but I didn't.

I sat in here,
looking at all those flights,

all those places,
all those lives I could have.

And I couldn't decide.

So I stayed.

Now I'm glad I did.

Now I know where I'm going.

It's all in code.

We're not going to get anything
out of this without Campbell's help,

which means that we need a confession,

which means we need Baxter
to get that out of Campbell

before Campbell realises
that Baxter's flipped.

Too late.

Is there something you'd like
to tell me now that we're alone?

I don't know what you mean, Logan.

This island is a...

It's a magnet for the world's detritus.

They come here with their dirty
money and their bullshit stories

and one eye over their shoulders

to check for pursuers.
And I pity them, Douglas.

I sit behind my desk and I pity them
because you'd be surprised

how easy it is to tell myself
that I am above the fray.

With my office and my brochures
and my bank accounts,

it's easy to feel safe. Clean.

- Look, Logan...
- But I'm not.

I'm right there in the gutter
with the detritus

with their casual disregard
for the truth.

And loyalty. And friendship.

I don't think you want to bring
loyalty and friendship into this.

Laundering drugs money
is a federal crime.

I'd get 20 years.
Did they tell you that?

Did you weigh them up,
those two decades?

Did you hold 20 years of my life in your
grubby little hands before saying yes?

There is an
opportunity here for both of us...

You didn't think to mention,
that this was f*cking Brink's-Mat?

I didn't want to incriminate you.

I wouldn't have touched Brink's-Mat
with a barge pole,

- you f*cking imbecile!
- I know what you did!

- Know what?!
- I know about Sarah!

- Sarah?!
- About you and Sarah!

Oh, no. Oh, no, oh, Jesus Christ,
that's it?!

That's why you flipped?!
That's why I get 20 years?!

It ruined me, Logan!

It was bloody meaningless!

You are talking about me, about my life!

And it's a f*cking irrelevance.

I am not an irrelevance!

I am not an irrelevance!

I am not an irrelevance!
I am not an irrelevance!

Oh, Dougie.

What have you done?

Campbell knows we're here
for Brink's-Mat.

It was the fax.

f*ck it, let's go in.

- I'm not authorised for that.
- Well, then, you'd best stay here.

sh*t!

Oh, Christ! My bloody ticker!

Did you tell Campbell we're on him?

- He already knew.
- Where is he?

I have absolutely no idea.

Well, I've done my part.

Now you do yours.

Mr Palmer, it's lovely to see you again.

Let me introduce you to Han-So.

- All right, mate?
- Hello.

- Can we get you a drink?
- Oh, er, yeah.

- Water's fine, thanks.
- Right.

May we have a mineral water please.

Ice? Lemon?

- Erm, yeah, sure, why not, yeah?
- Thanks.

You know it won't stand up in court?

It's good TV, but legally
it doesn't give you much.

No, it doesn't have to.

He just needs to allude to criminal
activity in Spain, then I take

the tapes to Spain and get warrants
to find what I need for court.

He's nervous.

He grew up next to a dump
and he's in the Ritz Hotel.

He's allowed to be nervous.

Thought I'd pick you up.

Your reputation precedes you,
Mr Palmer, but...

for our peace of mind, can you outline

how you would go about
laundering the money?

How was your flight, mate?
Must have been a long one.

It was fine, thank you.

I've got my own plane, you see.

Makes it easier getting about.

When you clean the Russians' money,
do you use shell companies,

- or is it a case of...
- Sorry...

can you just give me a minute?

Of course.

Where's he off to, then?

He's suspicious.

We just need to hope that he's
desperate enough to ignore it.

Where would we go?

South America, then Europe.

Maybe Switzerland.

We could ski.

When?

Now, which I know feels kind of abrupt.

This is your chance to tell me
what the f*ck is going on.

There is a lot that
I could tell you, and I will.

But for now, what you need to know
is that I have...

..laundered large amounts
of drugs money,

and the DEA and the British police
are here to arrest me.

But instead, we're leaving.

Was any of it real?

You are real.

What we have is real.

And I'll build our new life around that.

A life that's clean...

and honest.

Just not here.

I live here.

Well, then, I guess
it's time to choose, Kadene...

..between me...

and Tortola.

♪ I knew a man, Bojangles,
and he danced for you

♪ In worn-out shoes

♪ Silver hair and ragged shirt
and baggy pants

♪ He would do the old soft shoe

♪ He could jump so high

♪ Jump so high... ♪

Why do you always play that song?

Because of the story.

Fourth of July weekend, New Orleans,


Jerry Jeff Walker gets thrown
in jail for being drunk.

In that cell...

is an old man called Bojangles...

who says: "Well...

we can stare at the floor
or we can talk."

And Bojangles started to talk about life
about love, about good times, bad times,

about what Bojangles
called "the whole fiasco."

They talked all night.

And the next day, Jerry Jeff Walker
said,

"Where's Bojangles?"

And he's told "He's gone.

"And his name sure as hell
wasn't Bojangles."

Another?

No.

Can I use your phone?



Sorry?

I'll clean it for 25 million.

For $25 million,
you will launder $100 million?

Yeah, go on, then.

I mean, I'm not cheap, but I'm good.

This money comes from
heroin trafficking, Mr Palmer,

and from powerful, violent men.

We can't afford a last-minute wobble.

Listen, love, in Tenerife
I'm doing a boatload of cash

every week for the Russians,
and they ain't no choirboys.

There won't be no wobble.

Hook, line, and bloody sinker.

Well, we should drink to that.

Champagne, mate.

The most expensive you've got.

- Certainly, sir.
- All right.

The number you have dialled
is not in service.


The number you have dialled
is not in service.


The number you have dialled is not...

I chose Tortola.

We won't keep you any longer, Mr Palmer.

I'll be in touch to finalise
the arrangements.

You ain't saying much, mate.

I just offered to clean
$100 million for you,

and you look like someone's
nicked your lunch money.

We are finished?

You have what you need?

What does he mean, what you need?
It's his dough, innit?

It's just his English.

Er, may we have the bill, please?

No.

I still get the visas?

I'll see you soon, John.

♪ Oh

♪ Can't anybody see?

♪ We've got a w*r to fight

♪ Never find our way

♪ Regardless of what they say

♪ How can it feel this wrong?

♪ From this moment

♪ How can it feel this wrong?

♪ Storm in the morning light

♪ I feel, no more can I say

♪ Frozen to myself

♪ I got nobody on my side

♪ And surely that ain't right

♪ Surely that ain't right... ♪