01x06 - Episode 6

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Previously on The Hack...

So, Nick Davies and The Guardian

are losing the exclusive,
but winning the w*r.

Alan Rusbridger and The Guardian

have been in touch
with us at Panorama.

It's the hacking stuff,
but there's also this story

on Jonathan Rees that
they've been pushing.

We found invoices on his
desk, Rees to Alex Marunchak,

at the News of the World while
Andy Coulson was the editor.

There was a name that appeared in
the top corner of Glenn's notes.

Ian Edmondson. Ian Edmondson?

He reported directly to Coulson.

Someone I want you to meet.
David Cook. Gordon Brown.

I'm interested in hearing more
about what's happened to you.

I, er... I think I
might be able to help.

GORDON: 'I, er...'
GORDON CLEARS THROAT

'I hear you're a fan of
walking.' DAVE: 'I am.'

Do you have a favourite spot?

Hillwalking on Arran, sir.

GORDON LAUGHS You don't
need to call me "sir".

Policeman's habit.

Well, I like Arran,
particularly, and...

and this might point to a certain
masochistic quality on my part,

particularly in the winter time.

Well, it's the colours
- Arran in the winter.

Well, we shall have to go.
You can show me the route.

Oh, you're making
me quite homesick.

Surely, you can get up
there more often now...

Now that I don't have a
job? No, I didnae mean...

GORDON LAUGHS

I should be able
to, shouldn't I?

And yet I keep being
dragged back to London.

Glen has told me something
about what happened to you -

your story.

OK.

The intrusion, the surveillance,
the meeting with Rebekah Brooks.

It sounds a merry mess.

Yeah, well, look, I made
mistakes I shouldn't have.

Well... Well, we all do.

We all do.

My father was a minister,

as I think you know, in
the Church of Scotland.

He would...

He would hear
everyone's stories.

It's a great failing on my
part that I don't have the time

nor the patience that he does,
so I think it's my responsibility

to tell you why your cruel and
unusual story mattered to me.

It's because...

It's because I think this
country has become polluted,

and I think that we
could all, should all,

try to do something
about it, don't you?

You've read the pieces in The
Guardian, about the hacking.

Yeah, Nick's a friend of mine.

Did you read the pieces in
The New York Times, too?

I did.

And you know the work that Glen
is doing at Panorama? Yeah.

Rupert Murdoch is trying
to take control of BSkyB.

If he does that, it's a
valuable organisation,

and he will leverage the value
of it to accumulate the debt

needed to buy a huge
multinational company,

perhaps Disney or Time Warner.

He'll have control of
our media landscape

and a good hold of America.

He needs to be stopped.

I agree.

I will tell you my stories,
and you will tell me yours.

And then perhaps, David...

perhaps we can work out
how to help each other.

What do you say?

What do you want me to say?

KEYBOARD KEYS CLICK

MUSIC: 'Ain't That A Kick
In The Head' by Dean Martin

♪ How lucky can one guy be?

♪ I kissed her,
and she kissed me

♪ Like the sailor said, quote
"Ain't that a hole in the boat?" ♪

Into the shark's cage.

I don't think they'll be
providing us with cages tonight.

You're late.

Who in the hell thought press
awards were a good idea?

A narcissist, who realised it's
an industry full of narcissists

who pay to be rewarded
for the narcissism.

I can't be here.

Look over there.
News of the World.

You know, they actually have
members of staff under arrest,

and many more being
investigated -

the brass neck on
them is ridiculous.

So the least I can
attempt is some neck?

No. I just want you here.

You think we're going
to win something.

You're mad. Everyone
here hates us.

I want you here because I want
us to lose with dignity together.

I've missed you.

I feel itchy. I hate this shirt.

Well, it makes you look
extremely handsome.

Oh, well...

Now I have to go and play nice
with some rich board members.

But please remember,
these people,

they're more frightened of
you than you are of them.

Oh, there's a difference
between hate and fear.

♪ Oh, ain't that a kick?

♪ Tell me quick Ain't
love a kick in the head? ♪

MC: Ladies and gentlemen,
your attention, please.

Before our awards
start this evening,

we have a special update
from journalist Nick Davies.

On Wednesday the


News International passed
Scotland Yard three email messages

which they claimed to have
"only just discovered"

in Ian Edmondson's computer,
and Ian Edmondson was sacked.

Once in receipt of these emails,

Scotland Yard announced
a new inquiry,

Operation Weeting, under
the command of Sue Akers.

I dismissed Weeting as
a PR move by the Met

until, on the 9th of February,
they released a statement.

The new evidence recently
provided by News International

is being considered
alongside material

already in the Metropolitan
Police Service's possession.

It couldn't be.

They weren't finally
going to investigate

the last four years
of their incompetence.

All actions and decisions by
the previous investigation

are being reviewed.

Or were they?

Were we winning, finally?

I certainly didn't
feel like a winner.

MC: ..show business, shall we,

and the award for showbiz
reporter of the year goes to...

It's Stephen Moyes, of
the News of the World.

Congratulations, Stephen.

OK, and the award for news
reporter of the year goes to...

It's the fake Sheikh,
Mazher Mahmood,

from the News of the World.

The Scoop of the Year now.

The Scoop of the Year is
awarded to the News of the World

for its excellent coverage of
the cricket corruption scandal.

And the award goes to
the News of the World.

To The News of
the World! ECHOING

OK, the moment we've
all been waiting for.

It's the big one, the
Newspaper of the Year.

Now, the Newspaper of
the Year goes to...

for what the judges
say is a paper

"completely unafraid to
take on the powers that be".

So, the newspaper of the
year award goes to...

The Guardian!

APPLAUSE

KNOCK ON DOOR

Jacqui Hames? Yes.

Hello, my name is DS Slater,
and this is DC Grossman.

Is it David?

David Cook? No.

No. Well, I suppose,
erm, in a way, yes.

We are here investigating.

We're part of a new operation
- Operation Weeting.

We're investigating
allegations of phone hacking.

Do you work for John Yates?

No, we're part of the
Special Crime Directorate,

under the command of Deputy
Assistant Commissioner Akers.

Great. Thank you.

You were found in the
notebooks of Glenn Mulcaire.

This doesn't surprise me.

We'd like you to take a
look at these details.

Is this your police payroll
and warrant numbers?

Yes.

How did he have these? That...

That's where I lived in 1977.

Is this where you
worked in 2002? Yes.

And this phone number,
this is...? Yeah.

This is correct, yeah.

There's information here

that could only have come
from my police personnel file.

Yeah, we... That's
what we think.

Someone within the Met
sold him my information,

David's information?

It's, erm...

It's possible.

When was this known? I'm sorry?

When did the Metropolitan
Police have this information?

A notebook was taken
from Mulcaire in 2006.



And the Met chose
neither to inform me

nor investigate this
"possible" corruption.

Well, that's...

...that's what we're
trying to do now, ma'am.

Glen Campbell. Nick Davies.

Hi. Honour and a privilege.

I hear that you're not
well liked at Panorama.

I hear you're adored
at The Guardian.

So, who do you
usually meet here?

This where you meet
criminals or politicians?

I float between cafes and pubs,
like a butterfly at a festival.

I liked the Panorama
on Alex Marunchak.

It wasn't one of mine. You
helped, a lot. It was good.

You've got some particularly
great hits in on Jonathan Rees.

I really liked your
piece on him too.

Mr A. Very good.

Are you writing more? No.

I'm... Didn't Dave say? I'm out.

Coulson's gone. This
is as far as I can go.

Don't look like that.

An engineered death,
but something.

I wanted people to
take it seriously.

They didn't. So I'm
handing everything on.

I'm trying to persuade
Alan to give me Belgium.

They gave you
Newspaper of the Year.

That was for The Guardian,
not me. I lost my category.

You're getting somewhere,
Nick. I got somewhere.

Look, I know what this
must have cost you.

Cost me isn't the half of it.

But no-one... no-one cared.

The whole industry turned
away like a complicit snake.

What if I said I came to see
you today with an agenda?

I'm friends with
Clare Rewcastle Brown,

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

He's leaning in.

I took Dave to see him, and
he now wants to meet you.

Gordon Brown?

Gordon's been
looking at your work,

and he thinks there's a way
to use it to go further.

Come on, Nick. What's
meeting him gonna cost you?

Well, it's... it's wonderful
to have you all here.

Thank you, Clare and
Glen, for organising it.

You know, I have such respect for
the work of everyone in this room.

And I used to be Prime Minister.
There, does that start us off?

Yes. THEY LAUGH

CLARE: Just about.

The Murdoch BSkyB bid would
be a disaster for our country.

This hacking investigation
needs better scrutiny

than people have
chosen to give it.

If people understood, properly
understood the hacking,

what was happening with hacking,

it may mean they
rethink the BSkyB bid.

We have a shared objective.

How we achieve that
objective is...

well, I increasingly
believe, as does Clare

and Tom, would be best
achieved together.

And perhaps everyone
would like some tea?

And perhaps everyone
would like some tea.

Just sit, sit. I'll
pour. No, I'll pour.

Right. Who would like to begin?

Well, maybe I
should speak first.

I was recently interrupted
in an investigation room

and shown details of my case and
Operation Weeting that were...

Well, the level of
intrusion was troubling.

It's just possible
that Operation Weeting

is the first Met op
to be run properly.

Well, the secret is, John
Yates isn't running it.

Good. Good.

So, how do we help them?
Where will they struggle?

Well, we have to get them
to include Jonathan Rees.

It makes no sense to tackle
Mulcaire and not Rees.

I've got invoices to show

that they were both up to
exactly the same activities.

Prepare me a file, and
I'll send it to Sue Akers.

Is it that simple?

Well, I have access to Sue
through the Select Committee.

I can't promise results,
but it's a start, no?

Well, Sue and I were
DS's at the same time.

I've already asked her to
expand the investigation, but...

It'll mean more coming from
a Parliamentary perspective.

Good. What else?

You seem to all be constantly
looking at me surprised.

Correct me if I'm wrong,
but the problem we have

is that the police,
politicians and press

are all collaborating
under Murdoch's aegis.

We are also made up of police,
politicians and press -

an unofficial
opposition, if you like.

So let's talk. What
do we need to do?

Are you...? Are you
having a nice time?

Er, I'm fine.

You know, you're a
remarkable campaigner, Nick.

Did you ever consider
full-time politics?

Erm...

Well, I don't know. I don't
know... Why would you say that?

Perhaps a bit too suspicious of
other people to be a politician.

Something I struggle
with myself sometimes.

And I believe it because
I've seen it, on this case.

You're not sure whether
I mean this, are you?

Sorry? You don't trust me.

Think this is a ball that I've
picked up that I will quickly drop.

You're saying you
won't drop the ball?

You know, they...

They came at me in every
way, as you might expect.

They blagged my lawyer.

They procured my family's
medical information.

And they, erm... HE LAUGHS

This is quite something
- they impersonated me

to get into my building
society account.

That's a lot.

I tried to hold a judicial
inquiry into phone hacking in,

let's see now, autumn 2009,
after I read a piece of yours.

That was my first article.

The civil service resisted
it, I think is the kind term.

"It did not meet the
tests of public concern."

You know, everyone...

everyone thinks they're
close to Rupert.

He's very adept at that. He
talks quietly, you know all this.

He rarely disagrees,
he asks questions,

and he makes everyone
feel interesting.

It fascinates me how
the powerful let him in.

I wasn't as good at it,
at that game, as Tony.

When he came for me, and
he did, I was unprepared,

whether it was how I bowed
my head at the cenotaph

or how I wrote to the grieving
mothers of dead soldiers.

Yes, I remember.

You know, I rang Rupert

to tell him that his papers were
damaging morale in Afghanistan.

As Prime Minister, I was
asking people to fight,

to risk, and he was telling
them, article after article,

that I was casual with their
lives, with soldiers' life,

that I didn't care,
to undermine that,

to make those young
people feel...

...undervalued by
their government.

It's just not right.

Sometimes, you can tell that
you're the son of a preacher.

THEY LAUGH

You know he wants everything.
His ambition is limitless.

But he's overstepped
here, and badly.

We can, and we should, do
something important to counter him.

But this started with you,

and it's going to
need to end with you.

All of which is to say...

...we need you, Nick.

Dave? Dave? Yes, sir.

How's life at SOCA?
We're getting somewhere.

Did I hear you've been
giving orders to GCHQ?

That must be fun.

It's a bit more
complicated than that.

What can I do for you, John?

Would you mind popping
in at mine for a minute?

Sure.

Internal Investigations caught an
email coming from your computer

to Mike Sullivan at The Sun.

Which email?

So, why is this a problem?

I said you'd rather
be told it by me...

He was useful on Morgan.
He's still useful now.

You've got a good relationship
with him yourself, haven't you?

I also have one or two questions

about the Panorama programme
that went out. Yeah.

I believe you're friends with
Glen Campbell at Panorama.

I have been.

Do you think you could ask him

how he got footage of
Jonathan Rees at his computer?

Well, he's quite
protective of his sources.

Rees is convinced, as am I,

that the footage could only
have come from inside the Met.

He's threatening to
take action, again.

Did it? Come from
inside the Met?

Is that a further
press relation...?

The request to pass information
to Mike Sullivan came from you.

I mean, he's your mate.

But there are rules,
Dave, and you know that.

I do.

And how's Operation Weeting
treating you, Mr Rules?

Give Panorama, Mike Sullivan, Nick
Davies, or anyone f*cking else,

anything about our cases, and
you'll be strung up for all to see.

Do you hear me?

Yeah, I hear you.

I've got permission to talk
about it with you and you alone.

I am privileged.

That means private meetings,
you and I, outside of editorial.

Of course. When have
we not had those?

Welcome back.

Alan, our Scottish friend,
you know him better than I do.

We can trust him, right?
I want to say two things.

One, you're a journalist,

and I am scared that getting into
bed with certain politicians,

well, we'll lose our
vital independence.

You do it all the time.

I share my bed with
all political parties,

and I hope I'm pretty fair
at sharing the covers.

Nick, we've just removed

a senior member of
Conservative staff,

and I don't want that dismissed

as coming from the newspaper
arm of the Labour group.

Yeah, understood. But
I asked about Gordon.

And that's the second thing.

You don't go into a
room with Gordon Brown

and get what you want.

You go into a room
and get what he wants.

He's ferociously intelligent
and very used to power.

But if your interests align,
as I think they do here...

...he can be a remarkable ally.

One last push, is it?
And then I want Brussels.

And then you want your
well-paid chocolate dream.

Of course. Good.

But please, Nick, take it slow.

To work - what have you got?

The flood of cases is
overwhelming the courts,

so they've appointed
a Hacking Judge.

He's already causing trouble.
At the Andy Gray trial,

he said it's clear Mulcaire
had been regularly hacking him.

So that's an invitation.

Any man, woman or creature who
has anything in those books

has been given licence to sue.

And you'll write it up? Yeah.

Why do you think
they gave us this?

Oh, for good journalism.

None of them support
the story, our story.

Guilt, the world's
most powerful motive.

I love you, darling.
Yeah, love you too.

Dinner's in an hour. OK.

It's mac and cheese.

She's not been
sleeping very well.

I've been making her leave her
phone downstairs most nights.

I'm not sure you'll
get away with that.

I'll do my best. Also, erm...

I've been contacted
by Operation Weeting.

Oh, have you?

You knew, then?

The things they had on
me. I know. I'm sorry.

I should have warned you. Yeah.

Yates came after me today. And?

Didn't land a punch. Good.

They're keeping me
at arm's length,

but they did tell me a few
pieces of useful information.

You remember that time Surrey Police
got a call fishing for my details?

Mm-hm. Well,
Weeting told me that

it was probably Mulcaire
who made that call.

Jesus Christ.

I don't think anyone's understood
the depth of criminality here.

Destabilising police
investigations,

I mean, we're talking about
a m*rder charge being...

Yeah. Look who I'm
telling, right?

Please don't laugh at
me about this. I'm not.

I'm not.

You know, right at the beginning of
this, I went to see Rebekah Brooks.

And I said, "What you're
doing is outrageous."

And you know what she said?

She said, "We believed that you
and Jacqui were having an affair",

"and as you're both public figures,
public interest was on our side."

They thought we were
having an affair

when we were already
married? Ridiculous.

Absurd. Cruel, I think,
is a better word.

Yeah.

I have a source in the police
who's been quite openly victimised.

Might stop the whining
celebrity angle.

What whining celebrity angle?

People dismissing it

because they think it's
just celebrities whining.

Get him on the record.

It's just, he's been badly
damaged by all this already...

You're Nick Davies?

Only on weekdays. Have
we met? How can I help?

By telling me what the f*ck

you think you're doing
stealing my story?

Can we use your office?

Which story have I stolen?
Apparently, you're Mr Hacking.

Every hacking story
carries your byline.

It doesn't.

Today, in the paper, published.

You didn't write
one word of it. No.

Well, aren't you going
to apologise? No.

SHE SCOFFS

You know, The Guardian
gives out all this sh*t

about what kind of world
that it wants, and yet...

This is well written. f*ck off.

I didn't ask for a credit on it.
Whoever said I did was wrong.

Right, then, who do we see next?

Alan? It's bold,
don't you think?

Writing a story about the hacking
scandal without consulting someone

who's spent the last three years
having his life destroyed by it?

Is this what works for you?

When you're attacked,
you just attack back?

No. Sometimes.

Maybe. You could
have something there.

This is about Operation Weeting.
It's a totally different thing.

How come I haven't seen you
round the offices before?

I work alone. My own hours.

They're supportive of it. And
what have you got on Weeting?

A contact of mine in the
force has been put on it.

He's feeding me.
Tell me everything.

No. HE LAUGHS

He says it's timid. He's
eager for more action.

What's he giving you?
Each arrest as it happens.

Neville Thurlbeck is going to
be at Kingston Police Station

between nine and ten, so I'm
there conveniently for the arrest.

Can you - might you
- tell your source,

tell him to look into the initial
Select Committee hearings,

and in particular the
letter they received

from the News
International lawyers.

Because there's disclosures in that
the police never got the answer to.

WOMAN: Can someone turn it up?

Thanks. I will.

Would it be so bad,
us working together?

You need to see this.

REPORTER: 'Here's Ben Brazier in
Wapping with more on this story.'

REPORTER: 'First, the denials

'that celebrity voicemail
messages were listened to,

'then they claim it was down

'to a single rogue reporter and
his private investigator sidekick.'

What?

'Now the admission, "We failed
to uncover what was going on."

' "We're going to apologise,
and we're going to pay up." '

f*ck. Absolutely right.

What exactly are the News
of the World admitting to?

It's brilliant. Is it?

Well, by admitting they're at
fault and agreeing to cooperate,

in fact, what they're doing is
they're finding a new device

for concealing the truth.

Nick, will it be cheaper?

Standard-rate
damages rather than

the million-pound hush money
they've had to pay out.

And getting this out in court now
is next to impossible, am I right?

Well, if you are...

for instance, Sienna Miller
and you do take it to trial,

then if she ends up
getting less at trial

than they offered her before,
then she risks being ordered

to pay both sides' costs,
which could be astronomical.

And so, then, yes, it makes
getting to trial almost impossible.

sh*t.

My advice is, they've twisted
one way, we must twist another.

I've had a reply from
Sue Akers on Rees.

She's shutting you down?

She says her remit is limited
to Mulcaire and the notebooks.

She isn't going near Rees.

Should we try to leak something?
Put pressure on that way.

I've got Rees specifically
targeting Kate Middleton.

I've just heard he
targeted John Yates.

Or we could... Do you think...?

If we twisted an arm or two,

do you think we could get
me up the list for PMQs?

Ah. That's a very good
idea. I'm not following.

What does Sue Akers want?

To be free to take the
evidence wherever it leads her.

With a swift prod from the left,

maybe the Prime Minister
will extend her brief.

You could even name Rees.

Oh. Good. Good. Hang on.

All of this exposes
Dave to scrutiny again.

I'm ready. Tom, can I help?

Please do. Good. Good.

Let's box Cameron in.

As the Prime Minister
has previously said,

the hacking inquiry should go
where the evidence takes it.

The Metropolitan Police are
in possession of paperwork,

which details the dealings

of criminal private
investigator Jonathan Rees.

It strongly suggests that on
behalf of News International,

he was illegally targeting
members of the Royal Family,

senior politicians and
high-level t*rror1st informers.

Yet the head of Operation Weeting
has recently written to me

to explain that this evidence

may be outside the inquiry's
terms of reference.

Prime Minister,

I believe powerful forces
are involved in a cover-up.

Please, please tell me
what you intend to do

to make sure that
this doesn't happen.

DAVID CAMERON: The point I'd
make to the Honourable Gentleman,

who I know takes a
close interest in this,

is there is a police inquiry.

A police inquiry doesn't
need terms of reference.

The police are free to
investigate the evidence

and take that
wherever it leads them

and then mount a
prosecution with the CPS.

Amelia. Hi. Saw you go in.

Sorry, a bit weird to wait
for people outside toilets.

Oh, I've done worse.

Got a minute? Sure.

Two inquiries are being set up.

Operation Tuleta, looking
specifically into Jonathan Rees.

Good. Operation Elveden...

I can never get over Scotland
Yard's need for strange names.

...to investigate the alleged
payment of bribes to police officers

and other officials from journalists
from the News of the World.

What's made them do this? You
didn't see Tom Watson's speech?

Oh, I may have done.
Did you write it?

HE LAUGHS

Also, the Select Committee wading
you suggested to my officer,

let's call him... Jingle.

Fine. It proved fruitful.

Operation Weeting forced some
emails out of News International.

The Met discovered on their
servers some systematic deletions.

Of course.

In particular, one enormous
deletion in January.

While they were handing over those
three emails from Ian Edmondson?

b*stards!

Can we print? I'm...
I'm working on it.

Look, Jingle was
grateful for the advice.

He said he can't volunteer
information on active cases,

but ask him a question,
he'll tell no lies.

HE EXHALES

We've had something
interesting come up.

What is Judge Voss doing?

I feel like we've only seen a
tiny percent of Mulcaire's note.

Voss is being robust
with everyone.

It's yielding fruit. Sienna
Miller is being typically...

The Sky Andrew case feels
important. Where are we...?

I've got something,
if you're interested,

but you will need to
listen. Sorry. Go on.

I've been representing, as you
know, Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman.

Yeah, I read about it.
You're doing brilliantly.

SHE CHUCKLES

You're like my ex - you
always get complimentary

when you know
you're in the wrong.

Sorry. I am sorry.

I heard you were a mess.

Oh, fine. I can see
an island of sanity.

I'm... I'm floating
close to it. Go on.

I went to Putney so that
the Weeting officers

could show me the notes Mulcaire
had taken from Leslie Ash

and Lee Chapman's
voicemail. Yeah.

Now, some genius
combined the two names

and gave me the details
of Leslie Chapman.

Remind me. Jessica
Chapman's father.

Jessica Chapman was one of the
m*rder*d schoolgirls, right?

The Soham murders?

It looks like Leslie Chapman's
voicemail was hacked.

They hacked the voicemail
of a grieving father?

I'm not sure, but
it looks that way.

You can't use it... yet.

This could change everything.
I need to talk to the family.

I need permissions.
I need to be sure.

The Chapman family,
I could talk to them.

That's not why I'm
telling you this.

Nick, think.

If they're doing this
to the Chapmans...

Where else have
they been? Exactly.

'Jessica Chapman.'

Oh, the Soham murders tore
the police apart for a while.

She's sure they were
into the parents' phone?

It's in Mulcaire's notebooks.
But I can't get in there.

I've got to find another
way in. You will.

I envy your confidence.
No, I'm just...

HIGH-PITCHED TONE INTERNALLY

I'm just happy to have you back.

I thought that was
better. Sometimes.

It comes and goes.

Are you just frying that cheese?

It's halloumi cheese.
You'll like it.

I'm not hungry any more. What?

No, I just don't
get it. I mean...

I eat when I know
that I have to eat.

I just don't get
hungry any more.

Don't. What?

With that sympathy look.
I'm not being sympathetic.

Don't try and pretend you're
in any better state than me.

I've seen you, mate
- you are this close

to total collapse,
I'm telling you.

You know the story
of the dung beetle?

Oh, God. Have I
stooped that low?

What? It's what you trot out.

You trot out that story
quite a lot, you know.

Ask your kids. Christ,
pity your kids.

Whatever's going on... "Have
you heard of the dung beetle?"

An aggressive response.

HE LAUGHS Come on.

That'll make you
hungry. Thank you.

You want to know
how I do it? Hmm.

I focus on the details.
Always the next detail.

I've been phobic of blood ever
since a body exploded on me.

A body exploded on you? Yeah,
an older man full of hernias.

Normally, when a pathologist scalpel
enters a cadaver, you hear a hiss.

Well, this time, he exploded.

Blood was everywhere.
I was covered in it.

But I was in homicides,

so going to pathology is a
key part of my job, right?

So I focused on the details.

Ears, toes.

Even how the wound looked.

The blood, I made disappear.

So how do you do it, Nick?

KEYBOARD KEYS CLICK

Tell me I'm mad.

With pleasure. I
was in the database.

News of the World,
April 14th, 2002.



It claims that
voicemail messages

were sent to Milly's phone
after she disappeared.

Milly Dowler.

"Police say voice mails were left
by a mentally disturbed woman"

"who has hoaxed
previous inquiries."

It even quotes what
the message said.

"Hello. We're ringing because we
have some interviews starting."

"Can you call me back?
Thank you. Bye-bye."

This is six days after
Milly had disappeared.

Final edition of the paper.

That reference was removed.

Because they might have realised
what a boo-boo they had made.

Charlotte has evidence
that they hacked

Jessica Chapman's father
on the Soham case.

We can't get close to
that, that was the family,

but this is the girl herself.

Rebekah was editor then.

This was under her aegis.

C-Can you confirm
this? I think so.

Is this as big as I think it is?

Yes, it is.

Make sure it stands up.

NICK: Yeah, hi. Any fruit?

AMELIA: 'Jingle says
they've been investigating.'

Is that confirmation?

Are they confirming
that it happened?

'Yes. There is a page on Dowler
in Mulcaire's notebooks.'

Right, we need to be
absolutely watertight.

'Nick, he also says they're
pursuing a line of inquiry

'they deleted messages because
the voice mailbox was full.'

They deleted messages?

'I'll get us a firm
anonymous quote from Jingle.'

OK, thanks, Amelia.
Yeah, bye-bye. 'Bye.'

I have a source from inside
Weeting, I've got the article. Glen.

I've got a good source saying
Surrey Police knew about it

and the Dowler family did not.

Well, this is it. This is it.

I don't want to
believe, but I do.

The source is clear.
Stuart Kuttner...

Remember him? ..even
called Surrey Police.

He didn't just hear the
voicemail. He followed up on it.

They even think they deleted
her answerphone messages

to allow space for
messages to be given,

which made the family
think she was still alive.

Oh, God.

Do you know, if we can land
this, this changes everything.

How? A child? A
dead child's phone?

It's despicable.

You know, part of the British public
think that celebrities, politicians,

journalists, even, deserve
everything that they get,

but when an innocent is harmed,
an innocent already wronged,

trust me, the News of the World
will not be forgiven for this.

PHONE BUZZES

VOICEMAIL: 'Hi, this is
Dave. Leave a message.'

David, I've been offered
to go on to Channel 4.

I don't have a career to protect,
and I think I should do it.

If you have a problem
with any of this,

could you just call
me or text me, please?

Thank you.

DOORBELL RINGS

DOOR OPENS Mrs Dowler?

My name is Nick Davies. I know.

They said you'd be coming by.

I've just been watching
you on YouTube.

Come on. Come in. Thank you.

Thank you.

So the police are keeping you...?
Up to date with it all, yes.

Operation Weeting, a
good team, it seems.

They say it was true.

Our daughter was hacked.

Yes.

Can you tell us why?

Why? Sorry?

What we don't understand is
why someone would do this.

You're a journalist.
Can you explain?

I think they thought there
was a good story in it.

A good story?

They wanted to...
either to find her,

or to find something
printable about her.

So the phone promised
all those things.

But we'd only just lost her -
didn't they know it was wrong?

I think they didn't
consider that.

Didn't they know
it would hurt us?

Milly...

At that time, Milly was the
most famous person in the UK,

and everyone wanted
to read about her.

And, I'm afraid, they needed
to sell their newspaper.

And now you're here.

Someone else selling
a newspaper. I am.

Yes, but I'm hoping
what we are doing...

...will help expose a wrong
that was done to your daughter.

However, yes, I... we
are selling newspapers,

and I know that all this
will be bringing her

back into the spotlight again,

and I know... That
that's painful?

Just slightly. Yeah.

But you should do
it all the same.

You have our permission, Nick
- if you needed it, that is.

Thank you.

Always can never get used to
microphones being poked everywhere.

SHE SCOFFS I'm used
to it, for Crimewatch.

Of course. Of course
you are. MOBILE BUZZES

More used to it than me. No.

Do you want to share
the byline with Amelia?

Her source helped confirm it.

It needs something clearer.

News of the World targeted...
Illegally targeted.

Good. Illegally targeted the
missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler

and her family, in dates... Yup.

...interfering with the
police investigation into...

No, interfering with
police inquiries

into her disappearance
and deleted messages.

Then what the family believed -

she's alive, the lie of that.

Do we have a source
and a secondary source?

Yes, we do. Have we
spoken to Scotland Yard?

Of course. I even
asked for a quote.

This is... quite something.

TV: 'Channel 4 News
can tonight reveal

'that allegations have been aired
that a Metropolitan Police detective

'was put under surveillance by
the News of the World journalists

'and his personal
details were targeted.

'The former Crimewatch presenter
and Detective Jacqui Hames

'has spoken out for
the first time.'

So, Jacqui, you were approached
by Operation Weeting.

What did they show you?

They showed me various
sheets of paper,

which I was told came from Glenn
Mulcaire's diaries and notes

and sat there and read

the extent to which he had
delved into my private life,

and it was quite a body blow.

I want to know who
instigated the surveillance

and the research
that was done on us.

I would like to know how
they got and who they got

that personal information
from about us.

'I would like to know what the
purpose of it was from them.'

'Do you think there was an
attempt, here, to interfere

'with your ex-husband's
criminal investigation,

'and if so, what... where's
the evidence for that?'

'It's very difficult
when you look at the...'

SHE CLEARS THROAT

'..the order in which things
happened, the chronology of this.'

Not to at least want to shine a
light on it, and say, you know,

how is it that the day after that
appeal went out on Crimewatch,

that this started to happen.

And it's very difficult not
to come to that conclusion

that they were somehow
complicit in all this,

or somebody within
the organisation was.

Complicit in what, exactly?

'In trying to discredit
David, or myself.'

BUZZING

Of course, they didn't print it.

And so it finally begins.

More revelations...

The pressure on News
of the World grows.

Another day of dramatic
development. Shocking story.

REPORTER: It is alleged
Glenn Mulcaire...

...hacked into the mobile phone

of the m*rder*d
schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

Well, this poor girl's dead, and
they're trying to get stories.

REPORTER: There is a new allegation
that the tabloid may have hacked

into the phones of the relatives
of soldiers k*lled in Iraq.

If these actions are proved
to have been verified,

I'm appalled and find
it quite disgusting.

Tonight, Chief Executive
Rebekah Brooks says,

we're told, that she's shocked,
and that she knew nothing about it.

REPORTER: Today is the
anniversary of 7/7.

REPORTER: Relatives of
victims of the London bombings

may also have had their
phones hacked into.

Somebody was listening to that.
It's a violation, isn't it?

An extraordinary moment
in British journalism.

REPORTER: The News of
the World is to close.

What happened, happened
very, very quickly.

It's like a b*mb's
hit the place.

Those decent people up there
have been thrown out of a job.

REPORTER: The sense that everyone
gets is that Rupert Murdoch

is getting rid of
News of the World

in order to protect
taking over BSkyB.

I'm interested in those
who were responsible

being brought to justice.

Scotland Yard confirmed today
that it had received documents

suggesting a number
of its officers

were given inappropriate
payments by News International.

Paying police for information
is a criminal offence.

It's corrupt, it's bribery.

REPORTER: David Cameron's
former head of communications

is arrested over corruption
and phone hacking.

The decision to hire him was mine,
and I take full responsibility.

There's an awful lot I'd
like to say, but I can't.

REPORTER: The pressure is
mounting on Rebekah Brooks.

Both her and James Murdoch
should be leaving their desks.

REPORTER: The Prime Minister
has announced details

of the independent public inquiry
led by Lord Justice Leveson...

...who will have the power
to summon and question...

...newspaper proprietors,
journalists, police and politicians.

I recognise the vital importance

of reaching a number of conclusions,
and I will strive to do so.

Rebekah Brooks, who finally
bowed to pressure and resigned.

REPORTER: For the past ten days,

she's been at the
heart of the storm.

Now she has decided
to step away.

REPORTER: Assistant Commissioner
John Yates has also quit.

It is with great regret
that I make this decision.

The mighty Murdoch empire

has suffered its most
humiliating blow yet,

as it suddenly dropped its
bid to take control of BSkyB.

REPORTER ON TV:
'Murdoch has abandoned

'his bid for BSkyB, but will
he face wider consequences

'in relation to the
phone hacking scandal?

'What will come next
in this shocking saga?'

MAN: And I heard, as it
were, the noise of thunder...

...one of the four beasts
saying, "Come and see."

And I saw, and behold,

a white horse.