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01x07 - Episode 7

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Red Election". Aired: August 6, 2022.*
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Follow Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy, who are pitched together in a desperate race against time.

01x07 - Episode 7

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Our intel has Torben Jensen in London. He's

in contact with the bias link to Daesh.

- Wait, don't come in.

- I have your food.

How many more times? I

don't know where Torben is.

That's him.

Halt! Stop!

Oh, f*ck! No! Kelvin's been k*lled.

Your as*h*le boyfriend betrayed me.

We had an agreement.

I have information you're going to be

interested in.

Redback.

Who is Redback?

Beatrice, they're arresting your father.

Take your hands off me.

What? No.

Your father is working for Moscow.

He's here voluntarily. What's changed?

He's being charged under

the Official Secrets Act.

Heard about William.

Is any of it true?

Whatever you think you have on him,

William Ogilvy will walk.

And when he does,

he'll be coming for you.

God, you look terrible.

Have they interrogated Sergov?

He offered them a deal. They took it.

What evidence did he conjure up?

He says you're working for Russia.

They told me that Counter Terrorism

found VX traces at your house.

Well, of course they did.

So, they're working on a theory that Oleg

Adamov spent the night

Insignificant amount of time.

Levi thinks it proves a connection.

Indicates. It doesn't prove anything. God

almighty, Beatrice.

This made me an

accessory to the m*rder of Glen Whitehall.

Has he even considered the possibility that

I've been set up?

I'm working on that.

And in the meantime I imagine he's shut his

decks and gone running to Dame Iris.

He called her last night.

And she's ordered the exfiltration

of all our agents from Moscow?

With immediate effect.

Can they not even think one f*cking move

ahead?

Neutralize the primary obstacle,

weaken resources and strike.

This is Redback.

As sure as night follows day.

Marcus, I want all the CCTV from outside my

father's house pulled for the last week.

And that includes any half-assed security

that his neighbors have got.

So, doorbell monitors, dash cams.

I want everything, front and back.

Same goes for this office and for

Sergov's club.

All right? Get a team on it.

Nobody leaves here till we found out

how that nerve agent got in his house.

Also, I want

Katrine Poulsen in for a debrief.

- What time?

- 10:30?

And how is your dad coping with the slam?

Like boarding school, but more consensual.

He says Redback's imminent.

And he should know.

Naughty step.

I spoke to the DG yesterday and he wanted

your security clearance revoked.

I fought your

corner. Was that a mistake?

What? Supporting one of your team?

Team? Can you put aside what happened

yesterday and focus on Redback?

Finding out who set up my father and

stopping Redback are the same thing.

I strongly advised you not to

visit him and you ignored me.

Should I have ordered you not to

go?

The Russians want us to

think that William is Redback.

They want us looking the other way,

exactly the moment that it's gonna happen.

Do you have proof it's a setup?

If I had proof, I'd have given it to you.

Right. No communication with your

father while this is sub judice.

Is that an order?

Yes, Beatrice! That's an order!

Beatrice?

Received an encryption from Green

Source.

I ran it through the program and this

is what came up.

That's a Jsteg. Forward it to me.

Do you know the first ever

recorded instance of steganography?

Histiaeus. 6th century BC.

Yes. Correct.

Well, I can never remember how he did it.

OK, so Histiaeus's army are under

siege and he's got to send for help.

Then he's like,

"I'll know what I will do.

I will shave a sl*ve's

head,

tattoo a message on it,

wait for the hair

to grow back and send him off."

When thou art come to Miletus,

bid them shave thy head

and look thereon - genius.

You're talking to yourself, mate.

That was rude.

Jelena.

Like I predicted, Daesh London have the

bio-fuels.

Torben Jensen?

We think so.

Did they mention the code Redback?

I don't know. I'll find out.

The attack is

planned for tonight.

Cathedral of Sound

nightclub.

OK. Where are you now?

GRU. Empty office in the basement.

Are you not worried about intercepts?

I know how to hack-proof my PDA.

Well, who else knows?

We have to act on this.

How many at the GRU know about this,

Jelena?

Look, before I pass on this

information,

I want assurances that we'll get

Jelena Alakin and her daughter

across the

border to Finland.

Wait, let me get this straight.

You've got information that could

benefit the UK and save lives,

and you're gonna withhold it

unless

No, look. Course I won't, but

I also have a

duty to protect my agent.

Your first duty's to your country.

Do you remember what they did to Ludmila

Ganev?

Yeah, they nailed her in a coffin

and they cremated her.

Of course I remember.

So, don't lecture me on duty.

OK. What's the information?

A bio-fuels attack, on a London nightclub,

tonight.

Torben Jensen's back in play?

So they believe.

Where did this intel originate from?

So, GRU have got a sleeper with Daesh

in Syria. Five years.

If all goes as planned, how

many casualties are we talking?

The nightclub holds 600.

Why haven't the GRU passed this on?

Their agent is too valuable to compromise.

So, let hundreds dies to save one

life? Same game, different rules.

Shall I go?

No. Get me Counter Terrorism command.

Commander Landau.

Wait. Hold on, hold on. So,

look, apart from the GRU agent,

the only people who have this

information are Jelena and her boss.

So, if we

send in uniformed officers now,

Moscow's

gonna know that Jelena was the tip-off.

We've got to act on this. We don't have a

choice.

Not immediately.

All right, look. They're not gonna

attack until the nightclub's full.

Ten hours to the Finnish border.

We can get Jelena to safety.

- Declan?

- Yeah, I'm on hold.

What are you gonna say to him?

Clear the surrounding area, get eyes on the

target,

- check the threat level.

- I've got Landau.

Look, I can't lose another agent. Please.

Talk to Jelena. Organize the escape. I'm

giving you 30 minutes.

30 minutes? At least let

me get her clear of Moscow.

You're wasting time.

f*ck.

Right, I'm setting up your escape, but you

need to be ready.

I can't leave Tiana.

I know. You're gonna bring her with you.

If I'm caught, I'm dead.

You're not gonna get caught.

They will k*ll me, and they

don't let witnesses survive.

Look, they're not gonna

k*ll a four-year-old child.

Beatrice, how long have you been doing

this?

Jelena

Wait. Give me a second.

Tiana has play time in an hour.

I'm going to see her.

We don't have an hour!

I'm going to see my daughter.

My mother will

pick her up after school.

Promise me, you'll

bring her to the UK.

Look, I promise, but we don't have time.

If Tiana is not with me within a week,

I will go

back for her.

Do you understand? I will go

back.

I know you will. Jelena

Jelena?

f*ck. Yes?

5You need to see this.

CCTV outside the club, two hours ago.

That's their beer cellar.

Owner says it hasn't been used for years.

What are they loading in?

I don't know. Their belongings?

In oil drums, yeah?

Couldn't possibly be

bio-fuels?

I've informed the CTC.

Commander Landau's on his way.

He's gonna wanna speak to you.

No, I know Landau, all right? He's gonna

wanna storm the building.

He's gonna take appropriate action.

Jelena put her life in her hands, right?

You promised her time.

The circumstances changed and I responded.

That's it.

Yes?

Jelena, something's changed.

You need to get out immediately.

No!

- Jelena.

- Not without seeing my daughter.

But you don't have time.

Jelena? f*ck!

You're out of shape, girl.

Are the GRU still sharing Daesh intel from

Syria?

We get some decent cuts.

That's gonna stop.

Unless what?

We have intel that indicates an action by

Daesh in London.

How sure are you?

Personally, not sure at all. But my boss is

insisting on immediate preventative action.

Which would expose the GRU mole in Syria.

No more decent cuts. That's based on flawed

intel.

How immediate is this immediate action?

Commander Landau is on his way to Thames

House now.

Landau? Fairly immediate then.

If you can get me one hour, I

will know if this threat is real.

And if the intel's flawed, our information

streams continues.

I guarantee it.

And if the intel's accurate?

We have time to stop it.

I've got Commander Landau downstairs

calling his heels.

Oh? How is he?

He's f*cking peachy.

Downing Street have

ordered the CTC to stand down

and await

further orders.

That's risky.

Extremely risky.

Apparently, they were operating

on advice sent from Vauxhall Cross.

How did they get involved?

Number Ten will change their orders?

Once they get the full facts.

You didn't do this to buy

Jelena Alakin more time?

Well, I wish I had that clout.

Don't. Just don't.

What if Vauxhall decide to

let this attack go ahead?

What if, in their

big-d*ck wisdom,

they decide that protecting

the bona fides of one GRU mole

is more important than

saving the lives of 600 people.

They won't do that.

You're sure about that?

What?

Cathedral of Sound DJ

has canceled their set tonight.

Bummer. I hear she's pure flames.

Her old man is MI6.

OK. They've got their job

and I've got mine.

Got something.

- What?

- It's gonna help your dad.

OK, one second.

Declan? This is what I need.

Little Duck?

Sergei Borsutzky. He's the boss. He speaks

English.

Your handwriting's terrible.

Can you just do this now?

- Now?

- Yes, now.

I know you didn't ask,

but I pulled the CCTV

from our underground car park.

That's your dad's car.

Right, I want that whole area tested.

Already on it.

Well done, Marcus.

I was two years in juvey.

Oh, I didn't know.

Your dad knew.

And he gave you the job?

He said two years in juvey was

better than a double-first from Oxford.

Thanks for coming in.

You know this

man? Gavriil Sergov.

I need to speak to him.

His club's ten minutes away.

I can't leave the building right now.

You want me to bring him in?

Preferably alive.

This is to help your father, yes?

Of course.

Hey. I've talked to Little Duck guy.

Pick-up set for Karpovich Bakery,

one o'clock, Moscow time, yeah?

OK.

Also,

Commander Landau is in room one and

he would like to speak with you.

Well, he can wait.

He's pretty insistent.

Yeah, good for him.

OK, Jelena? I've arranged

your pick-up.

Fine. I'll see Tiana,

then head whatever you want me to.

I'm trying to save your life here.

Can you

Tiana is my life.

I've gained us an hour of which 45 minutes

are left.

After that Counter Terrorism could go

in and your cover's blown.

OK. What do I need to know?

OK, we're using a driver who's

smuggled agents out of Russia before.

His van will

be registered to Little Duck.

Little Duck have links with the Chechen

mafia.

I know. We did a deal.

- No.

- Look, Jelena

If something's wrong, it's wrong.

We did a deal for exactly this.

The van is perfect cover.

OK. Tell me.

Right, the pick-up is Karpovich Bakery. One

o'clock, your time.

OK? He's not gonna wait.

The driver will ask you for directions to

Petrovsky Street.

You'll say you live near

there. The driver will open the door.

In Finland you'll be met by

two British Embassy officials

who will drive you to Tromsø.

Tiana!

And then from there,

you'll fly to London Jelena?

- Jelena?

- What?

Good luck.

Cathedral of Sound nightclub.

Surveillance vehicles

here, here and here.

Four officers in each.

Four points of entry.

I managed to drop

a wire down the cellar gate.

Thermal imaging.

Six in total. Three men, three women.

A lovely

little rats' nest.

How long will it take?

If our intelligence is correct,

could be all over in 30 seconds.

- Hey.

- Hey. How are you?

Is Beatrice pissed off? I'm late.

I think you're OK. Beatrice is up to

here.

Who's the uniform?

What? I save your Prime Minister's

life and I'm still a security risk?

So, what do you think?

Do you think that's

how the VX got into my father's house?

That's his car.

You have proof that's a nerve agent?

These

things can be dangerous.

Do you know, pretty soon

your bullshit statement

will be the only thing

that they can hold him on.

No, no, no, no. What he did on that film

We need my father here!

In your statement you accuse him

of working with the Russians.

You need to withdraw that.

Why would I do that?

Because you know it won't stick.

Will it? And

when he gets out

When he gets out, what?

He's going to come

for me, all g*ns blazing?

My father was 19 years in Belfast

and came through unscathed.

Not my impression.

Do you think I give a f*ck about your

impression?

I mean, look at you. You're

sweating like a prince.

My father isn't the all-g*ns-blazing

type, but he gets stuff done.

Why did you set him up?

I'd like to go.

See, I know you can't be bought,

so who's threatening you?

Apart from you, no one.

Sorry, but I really think

you need to know this.

One second.

My father has some friends who

are incredibly loyal.

I just met one. He was charming.

Right, but they don't often get a chance to

prove just how loyal that they can be.

You can go.

What is it?

Levi talked to Downing Street

and the Home Secretary's

overturned the previous order.

5CTC have set up surveillance outside the

nightclub.

Oh, you're f

I don't think you should go in there.

Why?

Well, Landau wants to arrest you.

Your boyfriend stole bio-fuels

and sold them to

Daesh.

Just just let Beatrice handle it, OK?

Jelena's not even in the car yet

and you've got

SVs surrounding the nightclub?

I'm amazed they're keeping you operational.

What?

Your father.

My father's been framed.

Not what I'm hearing.

The SVs are unmarked.

Oh, well, great! That'll fool any

GRU spooks that are down there!

Have you proof GRU agents are monitoring

the building?

This is bullshit!

Any intel to suggest they might be?

We don't have any.

Yeah. Well then, what's the problem?

Where are you getting these images

from?

Nightclub basement.

One officer in a telecoms uniform drilled a

hole, dropped the wire.

Somebody take her

phone and PDA.

I want her in a secure area

until this is over.

Are you serious?

Yes. I am deadly f*cking serious.

You allow her to wander around her

while we're dealing with a critical threat

created by her boyfriend?

Can we follow protocols, please?

Yeah.

Would Torben Jensen know how to use

bio-fuels as a weapon? Answer the question.

Torben wouldn't know how to operate a tin

opener.

Could he instruct whoever bought

the process how to store the fuel safely?

What do you mean?

The BF 100 process creates an incredibly

volatile, highly incendiary liquid.

One spark could flash-fry

every living soul in that building.

Who are they?

You don't know?

Our intels says they're Daesh.

Three men. Three women.

And where are the bio-fuels?

What? You don't know about moving the oil

drums into the basement?

No, but my question!

Where are the bio-fuels?

Thermal imaging would have

picked them up.

We're here because your dipshit

boyfriend sold Daesh WMDs.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

Your f*ck buddy has embroiled us in a mass

slaughter scenario

and you've the neck to

waltz in here and question my authority?

There are no bio-fuels in there.

Thermal imaging doesn't see through

concrete.

We don't know how many rooms are

down there.

I do.

Yeah, I checked the architectural plan.

The basement is one area.

Also, this isn't Daesh.

How the f*ck would you know?

Well, let's assume that they bought the

process,

spent millions on one massive hit.

You see? That's a pregnant woman.

Do you think that's Daesh

suicide squad?

Could it be squatters?

The intel is wrong. It's a canary trap.

Jelena. f*ck.

Sergei, you need to contact your driver.

You need to abort the pick-up.

Yeah, abort the pick-up. I'll contact

the target.

Did the intel come from your agent?

Yes.

OK. What time is the pick-up?

Now.

Right, Jelena, when you get this

message, do not get in the van, all right?

You

go back to work. You're being watched.

And if you're in the van,

then you've got to warn the

driver that you're being followed.

Any news?

No, I don't know where she is. I

don't know if she's got in the van.

If her phone's off she must be in the van.

We could have helped her if you

hadn't pulled agents out.

We didn't have a choice. William

Yeah, I don't wanna hear this!

It's

just f*cking rigi

d thinking. Yes? Thank you.

Little Duck boss, they had a lookout at the

pick-up. Jelena got in the van.

Let me go to the Embassy and see what they

can do.

Come on.

The prison governor is a member of my club.

I

Talked to your daughter.

You know what I did.

I

Had no choice.

Some of the men who used my

club after the raid,

they would have had me

k*lled.

At least with you it would be quick.

I'm

here to explain.

I don't want you as my enemy.

Right now, my hands are tied, but very soon

this will be over.

When you get out anything

you want.

Anything.

Call me and it's yours.

William!

Suddenly doing things by the book is wrong?

Rigid thinking.

When I joined 3 PARA,

platoon sergeant, black guy, took me aside.

He said, "In this regiment

you're allowed one f*ck-up.

Being black, you've already made it."

I have to do things by the book.

Anything from the Embassy?

Still on hold.

Sergei Borsutzky's been trying to

contact you.

What?

Their driver? Found his body.

What happened?

Doesn't know. Got a call from the

police.

Jelena, yes!

Beatrice, I'm in Toshino Park. Three

men are after me.

All right, well, we're gonna get help

to you, so keep moving. Find a crowd and

Let me f*cking go!

Jelena

Yes, we have an agent in Toshino

Park. She's being pursued.

She is in grave danger.

Repeat, grave danger.

- Declan?

- I'm trying to find her. I'm on it.

- With an exact location.

- I am on it. I'm trying.

Beatrice. Please, turn off your

phone.

Don't watch anything

from your phone. Please.

Don't watch.

Let me go!

f*ck. No.

I'm sorry, Beatrice.

Beatrice

f*cking hell.

You think she might quit?

Open it.

Why?

Because you might have to delete it, mate.

What if it's something horrific?

She's on the verge of quitting

and you tip her over the edge?

Come in.

Sorry.

I was fixing your phone and I accidentally

clicked on a message.

It's a Jsteg.

The time it was sent was when

she was in Toshino Park.

Double-click on the image.

The coordinates are for Copenhagen,

about half a mile from where

Katrine Poulsen was living.

I already opened it. Sorry.

Why did

Jelena send them?

There's a body buried there.

Beatrice We need to strategize.

The Copenhagen flight leaves in one hour.

You need to rest,

Yeah, I'll do that on the flight.

Look, Katrine Poulsen must

not know about this, all right?

Send those coordinates to the Copenhagen

police.

I want the whole location cordoned off.

Get Forensics down there and an excavation

team.

Beatrice, no.

We shouldn't have even been in

Denmark in the first place.

This needs to go to

the Foreign Office.

Jelena knew that she was gonna die

and the last thing that she did

was send me those coordinates,

so f*ck the Foreign Office

and f*ck you.

Hello, Miss Ogilvy.

Just over here.

OK. Let's start, then.

Katrine.

Uh, English?

Grief vampires.

They might know about the

loss.

But the guilt.

5They infect each other.

Grow like tumors.

Does it ever stop?

You can make it stop. I did.

How?

I decided to k*ll myself.

And then

Then there

was an angel.

Don't talk to them. Use your pain.

Katrine.

You have been coming

here for 6 months.

Are you ready to share?

Ok. That's fine.

Perhaps you can tell us who it was.

The one you lost.

My syster.

Hey. Hey, hey! Hello!

And I thought you were special. I asked you

not to talk to them.

I said two words.

That's all it needed. Everybody

in that room knows everything.

OK. How?

The tone of your voice.

You told them it was

your younger sister.

Much younger sister.

A

Sister you felt responsible for.

You practically

brought her up.

You saved her from your

mother. But before you know it

your sister is a teenager.

You're shouting at her and she's

screaming back at you.

And, one day, bang!

You're turning into your own mother.

And she's had enough.

She goes back

and within a week she's dead.

Your junkie mother sets

fire to the apartment.

She crawls out, but your

sister never does.

Who are you?

I'm going to tell you something.

But if discovered, it will put me

in prison for the rest of my life.

Well, I should probably

tell you who I work for.

I know who you work for.

Your GRU?

I'm not the GRU.

I work for Russia.

More than

any other nation in the world,

Russia knows

the pain and suffering and loss.

That's why

we assumed the role of world peacekeepers.

Our presence keeps the other powers in

balance.

Not many outsiders understand the

Russian mindset.

I thought you would.

The job you do.

Do you know the evils which are

done in the name of democracy?

The West.

So good at turning a blind eye.

Colonial atrocities. sl*very.

Never-ending wars against

the Third World.

And then they tell us

they are civilized.

I'm going to take a chance with you.

I'm going to tell you something

and what you do with it, it's up to you.

If there's police waiting for me,

then I've got it

wrong.

But if I'm right, your life, Katrine

Your life will begin again.

- You cannot come in!

- I have your supper.

- Can you just put it outside.

- Really?

Follow the rules

and you have nothing to fear.

What would you do

if I came in anyway?

"Then I would have to k*ll you!"

- Torben?

- Just let me finish this.

Katrine? Katrine?

- Can you move?

- No, don't touch me!

Hold my hand.

I'll be back.

Torben? Torben!

This was not part of

the plan.

It's part of it now.

And now?

I'll deal with Torben.

Say you were with him all

weekend.

You wake up Monday, he's gone.

Mikhail Kutuzov used snow and ice to defeat

Napoleon.

Every negative return to

advantage.

Got you.

She's been screwing us the whole

time.

She re ported Torben missing on

Monday morning.

Said he was with her all

weekend.

His watch stopped three days

earlier when he was buried.

Without me there would be no Redback.

Are people aware of that?

What you've achieved, it's really quite

something.

You make delivery.

You begin the final phase.

This can't come out before the referendum.

We need to keep this between us.

Just for now.

Give an unhappy woman some hope

and she is yours forever.

But I do think you should come

back.

Please let me finish this.

Then I'll come home. I promise.

Is the building fully secure?

Eight officers standing by.

Footsloggers follow the rules,

so people like

William can do whatever they want.

She k*lled her partner.

She said she was

framed to protect your dad.

Leave Ogilvy to me.

What is Redback?

You're that little Danish spook!

If this Redback happens, I will hold you

personally to account.

Just bring Katrine Poulsen in.

Keep her there.

I'm gonna take her apart.