Atomic (2025) s01e02 Episode Script
Baal
1
The following programme contains
strong language and violent scenes.
Who are you?
Make peace with your God.
You're English?
No, no, no, please no! Please!
(GUNSHOTS)
Drive!
Where to?Just drive!
He's evil. No loyalty to anyone.
He's a snake.
It's not just drugs I smuggle.
No?I smuggle antiquities too.
What antiquities?
Statues.
You get the statues. The payment
is the shipment.
What's her name, your girl?
Laetitia.You're punching.
(LAUGHS)
Where were you taking your cargo?
Beirut. This isn't the usual trip.
MAN: They are ready.
The shipment's gone. They burnt
all of it. I was gonna use that
to pay for the statues
my boss bought in Beirut.
Lose a shipment,
the cartel hunt you down.
Very simple job.
Very quick. In and out.
We heard you hit some trouble?
I lost my phone.
How was I meant to talk to you?
How are you gonna pay for
the statues without the shipment?
And who is this?
(YELLS)
(GRUNTS)
We're taking your statues.
You can run, but you can't hide.
They have uranium.
Nuclear fuel
enough to blow up the whole city.
(CAR HORNS HONKING)
All right, moving on.
The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima
nuclear plant in Japan
saw a large-scale release
of radioactive material.
Isotopes of iodine and caesium
were detected in air, water,
milk and food samples
collected across
the entire Northern Hemisphere.
With a half-life of eight days,
the iodine released
from the reactors
disappeared after
about three months.
However
the caesium radio-
(PHONE VIBRATES)
Excuse me.
(PHONE CONTINUES VIBRATING)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) (CLEARS THROAT)
However,
the caesium radionuclides
(FAINT CHATTER)
Dr Cassandra Bryce?
Yes.
My name is Khaled Awad.
I'm with the Drug Enforcement Agency
here in Beirut.
I called you earlier.
Uh Mystery solved.
Or perhaps not. The DEA?
How can I help you guys?
Er I have some intelligence
that needs
your particular nuclear expertise.
This might be an emergency.
# TSHEGUE: Survivor
(YELLING IN SPANISH)
In here!
Fuck.
They're all locked.
Here.
Keep up.
We have to keep the statues apart.
What?
That guy down in the dungeon.
He said it to me
when I took the statues.
Why do we have to keep them apart?
I dunno.
But it sounded serious.
Oh! Go, go, go! Come on!
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(MEN YELLING IN SPANISH)
Stay there!
# I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor
# I'm a survivor
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
PANTING)
Jump.
What?!
(MAN YELLS IN SPANISH)Fuck off.
(MEN YELL IN SPANISH)
Fucking jump.
(MAN YELLS IN SPANISH)
# I'm a survivor
Catch!
Ooh! Fucking twat!
Fucking hurry up!
Ooh. Fuck.
Come on!
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
Careful!
Yargh!
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
JJ.
Stop calling me fucking JJ!
Tell me your fucking name, then!
No!
I fucking hate pigeons.
Fucking hate pigeons!
Stairs!
# I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor #
(HORN HONKS, TYRES SCREECH)
(MAN YELLS IN OWN LANGUAGE)
(GROANS) Stop, stop, stop.
Hey!Come on!I'm fucking knackered.
We have to keep going.
These are too heavy.
How the fuck are these so heavy?
I don't know, cos they're
fucking statues, maybe! (MAN YELLS)
(MEN CALL OUT)
Oh, fuck sake.
Fuck off.
(MEN YELL)
# RADIOHEAD: Bodysnatchers
# I do not
# Understand
# What it is
# I've done wrong
# Full of holes
# Check for pulse
# It is the 21st century
# It is the 21st century
# All the lines
Wrapped around my face
# All the lines
Wrapped around my face
# And for anyone else to see
# And for anyone else to see
# I'm a lie #
Uranium? What type of uranium?
Weapons-grade?
I don't know. All my source knows
is it's uranium
coming to Beirut to be paid for
by a shipment of cocaine
from a Venezuelan drugs cartel.
I passed it up the chain, they
told me to get in touch with you.
And waste my time.
The fact is,
there is very little uranium,
or any nuclear material, out there
that is actually of the correct
grade to make a nuclear device.
It's much more likely
to be something low-grade -
in terms of purity -
that someone's trying to pass off
as weapons-grade.
Scammers, trying to make a bit
of money. Idiots selling to idiots.
My source said that it was
50kg of uranium.
50kg?
Yeah.
That could make a bomb.
Like a dirty bomb?
A Hiroshima-sized bomb.
(PHONE RINGS)
Excuse me.
OK. (SPEAKS ARABIC)
The source of the intelligence.
Something's gone wrong.
I have to go.
I think I should come with you.
I mean, in case there is
any nuclear material.
And in case they're not idiots.
I can't do this much longer.
They don't fucking give up, do they?
They're from a drugs cartel.
They hunt you down. I told you that.
You told me it was
gonna be a quick job.(SCOFFS)
Pick up the statues, take 'em
to Morocco. In and fucking out.
(PANTING) You lied to me.
(MEN YELLING IN DISTANCE)
We need to go.
In here.
(MAN YELLS IN SPANISH)
Where now?
(DOOR CREAKS)
(WINGS FLUTTERING)
In here.
(DOOR CLOSES)
What?
You threw your gun at him.
I told you. I don't kill people.
You really don't, do ya?
Hey.
You didn't kill anyone.
That's a first for you.
It's a church.
You OK being in a church?
I'm Muslim, not a fucking vampire.
(CHUCKLES)
Oh.
(PHONE RINGS)
I took it from your boss.
# JOAQUIN FLORES:
Ya Lo Se Que Tu Te Vas
(VOCALS IN SPANISH)
(MUSIC CONTINUES FAINTLY
IN BACKGROUND)
(LINE RINGS)
(VOICEMAIL MESSAGE IN FRENCH)
Say they can have the statues back,
but we wanna get paid.You do it.
I don't speak Spanish.
They all speak English.
(PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)
Hello?
MAN: (ON PHONE) Danny?No, mate.
Danny's not here at the moment.
Who is this?
Never mind who this is. Who are you?
My name
is Antonio Alam.
Says his name's Antonio Alam.
That's the boss of the cartel.
OK, Antonio. If you want your statues
back, you're gonna have to pay.
So you have a think
about what they're worth to you,
and you give us a call back. Ta-ra.
You don't know
what you've just done.
This is how we get paid, Max.
No, mate. This is how we get killed.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
Follow me.
Have the statues left Beirut?
On their way.
Everything is proceeding to plan.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(DOOR OPENS NOISILY)
Clear!
Whose place is this?Belongs
to a man named Rifaat Atallah.
He's your source?
Mm-hm.
(AGENTS YELLING IN DISTANCE)
He didn't say where the uranium
might have originated from?No.
What is that?
Measures radioactivity.
Enriched uranium doesn't have
much of a signature.
None of this protective equipment
would be necessary.Boss?
It's from the road outside.
They're both carrying something.
They're keeping apart.
If there was two pieces of uranium,
you would have to keep them apart
to stop them reacting to each other.
If they react,
depending on the weight
it could get interesting.
Interesting?
A chain reaction.
A release of radiation.
And if you were very unlucky,
they might explode.
(SIGHS)
I need you to take me home.
Why would he say, 'Keep them apart'?
What sort of statues
can't you keep close together?
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
(SOFT, OMINOUS MUSIC)
(WINGS FLUTTER GENTLY)
This is Baal.
He's a god.
An old god.
Before Islam and Christianity.
God of war and storms.
Lord of the Flies.
Some people think he's the Devil.
That's why Alam will want him.
He's a devil.
I've seen Baal before.
(OBJECT CLUNKS)
In Syria.
You were in Syria?
When?
When all the fighting
was going on there?
This isn't stone.
Is that why them people
are after you? The army?
The base isn't part of the statue.
It's where all the weight is.
(METALLIC SCRAPING)
What the fuck are you doing?
(GRUNTS)
(BANGING STATUE)
JJ, stop it!
What the fuck are you doing?
(STATUE CRACKS)
(STATUE PIECE CLUNKS)
What the fuck is that?
(STATUE THUDS)
Is this what I was moving
for the cartel?
Metal?
Doesn't matter what it is.
They want it. And we've got it.
If you want the money for you and
your girl, this is how you get it.
You get on the phone with your boss.
You tell him if he wants his stuff
back, you want £1,000,000.
(DOOR OPENS)
(SOFT FOOTSTEPS)
(WINGS FLUTTER)
(MAN GASPS)
(GROANS)
Let's go.
Yeah.
(SCOFFS)
Hello.
ANTONIO: (ON PHONE) Who is this?
Is this who I spoke to before?
No. This is Max.
Ah, Max.
This is Antonio Alam.
You know who I am?
Yeah. Yeah, I know who you are.
Do you have my statues?
Yeah, I've got what you want.
But it's not statues, is it?
No.
It's not statues.
So what is it?
It doesn't matter what it is.
All I need to know is
what do you want to return it to me?
I want £1,000,000
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
OK, Max.
You win.
One million pounds.
But you must take the cargo
to a location I will send you.
# JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: White Rabbit
(CHUCKLES) That was Alam.
He's gonna give us £1,000,000
if we bring these to him.
£1,000,000 each?
Yeah, £1,000,000 each.
Great! And did he say what it was?
Nah.
He wants us to meet them.
He's gonna send an address.
We're not just walking
into some address.
(PHONE BEEPS)
He wants to meet at seven. Ages.
Yeah, that's good.
If we go there now, we can
make sure there's no surprises.
I could do with a munch.
I'm starving.
(CHUCKLES) A million pounds!
# The White Knight
Is talking backwards
# And the Red Queen's
Off with her head
# Remember
# What the dormouse said
# Feed your head #
It's through there.
Some pictures
of ingots of uranium
so you know
what you might be looking for.OK.
Easy to miss.
So how long
you been undercover in Beirut?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Was it that obvious?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Four years.
And you teach physics?
Physics and Public Policy.
It's very boring.
Not a fashionable field
of physics at all.
There's a fashionable field
of physics?
Always.
It's probably quantum theory
at the moment.Of course.
We can be two things at once. Right?
We can be multiple things at once.
(PHONE CHIMES)
It's from Rifaat, my source.
He knows where they are.
Let's go.
This is the place?
It looks like it.
There's no-one here.
We should stash these somewhere.
Over there.
(GRUNTS)
What do you wanna do
when they turn up?
Somebody stays here with the gear,
then someone goes and speaks to 'em?
Listen.
(FAINT DANCE MUSIC)
Do you hear that?
Yeah. Think so.
(MUSIC BECOMES CLEARER)
('ENCORE UNE FOIS' BY SASH!
PLAYS NEARBY)
See anyone you recognise?
Not yet.
(LAUGHS) Fucking hell!
I need a drink. Do you want one?
No.
Suit yourself.
# Encore une fois!
You all right, mate?
Can I get a beer
two beers and a water.
# Encore une fois!
Cheers.
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois, encore une fois
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois! #
(PHONE RINGS)
(MUSIC FADES SLOWLY)
(ETHEREAL WHOOSHING)
(MUSIC FADES FULLY)
(SOFT AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPE)
(SOUND BECOMES DISSONANT)
(MUSIC CONTINUES IN DISTANCE)
Hello?
(ON PHONE) Where the fuck are you?
We're at the location you sent me.
There's some sort of a rave.
Listen carefully, Max.
The metal in the boxes
..is uranium.
There will be consequences
if you don't deliver.
(PHONE CHIMES)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(SOFTLY) Max.
Do what they say! No!
She is very beautiful, Max.
And I'm going to kill her
very slowly
if you don't bring me my cargo.
You understand?
I understand.
Very well.
(SOFTLY) Max. Do what they say! No!
(ENERGETIC DANCE MUSIC)
We've gotta go! Come on!
What happened?
Alam phoned me. He's
He told me what's in the statues -
what the metal is.
Uranium.
Uranium?
Nuclear fuel.
That's why we had to keep 'em apart.
What happens if you put 'em together?
I don't know.
Maybe they explode.
I'm not smuggling fucking uranium,
Max. No way.
Why the fuck is your boss
smuggling uranium?I don't know.
But we have to take it to them.
No, we don't.We do!
We have to take it to them.
We have to do what they say.
Is that them?
Yes.
I'll check it out. You get the goods.
(GUN COCKS)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
You can speak to Alam now,
Danny, yeah.
You got what you want.
He can let Laetitia go.
You really think you were going
to hold Antonio Alam to ransom?
(GROANS)
Hey! There's no need for that.
(WHEEZES)
You got your stuff.
(GASPS)
(GROANS)
(COUGHS)
(ZIP OPENING)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(MUSIC STOPS)
That's it?
Yeah.
That's uranium?
(LAUGHS)
(GROANS)
What the fuck is that doing here?
I brought it.
The fuck did you bring it?
Thought you liked him.No.
No, I don't like him.
Said you knew him, from Syria.
(TYRES SCREECH)
(VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(TENSE MUSIC)
You were in Syria?
I fought at Palmyra and Raqqah.
You were a Jihadi?
Give me the gun.
MAN: No!
Give me the fucking gun!
Hey!
(GRUNTING)
Give me the fucking gun!
Let him go!
Go, go, go, go!
(GUNFIRE)
Drop your weapon!
(AGENTS YELL)
Go, go, go, go!
You stupid motherfuck (GROANS)
(GUNSHOT)
(GROANING)
(GROANS) What are you gonna do?
You gonna throw that at me again?
Huh?
(GUNFIRE)
(AGENTS YELL INSTRUCTIONS)
You're a fucking coward,
you know that?
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
We're gonna make her suffer.
(MUSIC BUILDS)
Chop her into pieces.
(GUNSHOT)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(FAINT GUNFIRE)
(WHIMPERS)
(FAINT GUNFIRE)
Fuck.
(GUNFIRE)
(AGENT YELLS)
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Come on. Let's go.
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Go! Go! Go!
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Hey!
(GUNFIRE)
Who the fuck were they?
Max. Do you think
they're after the uranium?
To make a bomb.
Like that Oppenheimer bloke.
Would you shut up and stay back?!
(SIGHS)
What the fuck is wrong with you?
(EXHALES)
That lass in the disco,
she gave me a pill.
It's OK. I'm having a bit of a rush.
It just hit me hard now.
Fucking hell.
Un-fucking-believable.
I'm all good.
# FRENCH 79: Hold On
This way.
That way.
Max.
Back. Back.
Stop!
Come on!
(DOG BARKS AND GROWLS)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
OK, quiet.
(MUSIC FADES)
Stay back.
I'm Mohamed Aziz.
Destroyer of worlds.
Let's go.
(MUSIC RESUMES)
(MUSIC FADES)
(RATTLES CAR DOOR HANDLE)
Look at the stars, Max.
Get in.
Yeah, I will.
If you take me to Syria.
Syria?
Well I know it sounds mad, mate.
But I have to go there.
(ENGINE SPUTTERS)
I have to take Baal home.
(ENGINE SPUTTERS, STARTS)
Baal.
(SOFTLY) Yes!
We're not going to fucking Syria.
We need to get out of here.
Before whoever that was catches up
with us, all right? Get in.
It's important, Max. (EXHALES)
(SIGHS) I need to make it right.
We need to go to Palmyra.
Baal.
You all right?
Yeah, I'm fine.
MAN: Should've gone to the hospital.
Mark.
What are you doing here?
I was in the area.
I heard something went down earlier.
You OK?
Yeah, sure. Um
This my colleague Mark
Mark Ellis from Langley.
Khaled Awad.
So what have we got here?
(FAINT CHANTING, RHYTHMIC DRUMMING)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
Excuse me.
(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
(SCOFFS)
You didn't deliver, Max.
We did deliver.
But we were interrupted.
There was policeor someone.
Danny is dead.
Don't fuck with me, Max.
I told you -
I'm not fucking with you.
We've still got the uranium.
We can still deliver.
If there's a problem,
then perhaps I can help.
Where are you now?
We're heading north
out of the city.
Who's 'we'?
Me and JJ.
He's helping me.
(SCOFFS)
I'm not JJ. That's notnot my name.
(CHUCKLES)
We have people in Syria
who can help.
Get to Syria, Max.
I will arrange transport
to Marrakesh.
Your girlfriend will be here
when you arrive.
Don't let me down, Max.
You know what I will do to her.
(GRUNTS)
We're going to Syria.
# THE PRODIGY: Climbatize
Palmyra.
Can we go there?
Um Yeah, mate.
Sure. Course we can.
Yes, mate! (SNIFFLES)
I knew you were a good lad, Max.
You're a fucking good lad.
I knew you'd understand.
(GROANS)
You got any water?
I'm fucking parched.
(MUSIC BUILDS)
That's where Alam wants us to go.
That's here.We have to go there
to get back to Marrakesh.
It's the only way
It's the only way we get paid.
Get in the car. Those soldiers
were government soldiers.
They're heading for the Deir ez-Zor
province. Jihadi's going home.
He's on the list. Kill or capture.
But you don't wanna capture him.
You wanna kill him.
(SOLDIER YELLS IN ARABIC)
US SOLDIER: Drop your weapons!
These guys are ours!
The following programme contains
strong language and violent scenes.
Who are you?
Make peace with your God.
You're English?
No, no, no, please no! Please!
(GUNSHOTS)
Drive!
Where to?Just drive!
He's evil. No loyalty to anyone.
He's a snake.
It's not just drugs I smuggle.
No?I smuggle antiquities too.
What antiquities?
Statues.
You get the statues. The payment
is the shipment.
What's her name, your girl?
Laetitia.You're punching.
(LAUGHS)
Where were you taking your cargo?
Beirut. This isn't the usual trip.
MAN: They are ready.
The shipment's gone. They burnt
all of it. I was gonna use that
to pay for the statues
my boss bought in Beirut.
Lose a shipment,
the cartel hunt you down.
Very simple job.
Very quick. In and out.
We heard you hit some trouble?
I lost my phone.
How was I meant to talk to you?
How are you gonna pay for
the statues without the shipment?
And who is this?
(YELLS)
(GRUNTS)
We're taking your statues.
You can run, but you can't hide.
They have uranium.
Nuclear fuel
enough to blow up the whole city.
(CAR HORNS HONKING)
All right, moving on.
The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima
nuclear plant in Japan
saw a large-scale release
of radioactive material.
Isotopes of iodine and caesium
were detected in air, water,
milk and food samples
collected across
the entire Northern Hemisphere.
With a half-life of eight days,
the iodine released
from the reactors
disappeared after
about three months.
However
the caesium radio-
(PHONE VIBRATES)
Excuse me.
(PHONE CONTINUES VIBRATING)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) (CLEARS THROAT)
However,
the caesium radionuclides
(FAINT CHATTER)
Dr Cassandra Bryce?
Yes.
My name is Khaled Awad.
I'm with the Drug Enforcement Agency
here in Beirut.
I called you earlier.
Uh Mystery solved.
Or perhaps not. The DEA?
How can I help you guys?
Er I have some intelligence
that needs
your particular nuclear expertise.
This might be an emergency.
# TSHEGUE: Survivor
(YELLING IN SPANISH)
In here!
Fuck.
They're all locked.
Here.
Keep up.
We have to keep the statues apart.
What?
That guy down in the dungeon.
He said it to me
when I took the statues.
Why do we have to keep them apart?
I dunno.
But it sounded serious.
Oh! Go, go, go! Come on!
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(MEN YELLING IN SPANISH)
Stay there!
# I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor
# I'm a survivor
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
PANTING)
Jump.
What?!
(MAN YELLS IN SPANISH)Fuck off.
(MEN YELL IN SPANISH)
Fucking jump.
(MAN YELLS IN SPANISH)
# I'm a survivor
Catch!
Ooh! Fucking twat!
Fucking hurry up!
Ooh. Fuck.
Come on!
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
Careful!
Yargh!
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
JJ.
Stop calling me fucking JJ!
Tell me your fucking name, then!
No!
I fucking hate pigeons.
Fucking hate pigeons!
Stairs!
# I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor #
(HORN HONKS, TYRES SCREECH)
(MAN YELLS IN OWN LANGUAGE)
(GROANS) Stop, stop, stop.
Hey!Come on!I'm fucking knackered.
We have to keep going.
These are too heavy.
How the fuck are these so heavy?
I don't know, cos they're
fucking statues, maybe! (MAN YELLS)
(MEN CALL OUT)
Oh, fuck sake.
Fuck off.
(MEN YELL)
# RADIOHEAD: Bodysnatchers
# I do not
# Understand
# What it is
# I've done wrong
# Full of holes
# Check for pulse
# It is the 21st century
# It is the 21st century
# All the lines
Wrapped around my face
# All the lines
Wrapped around my face
# And for anyone else to see
# And for anyone else to see
# I'm a lie #
Uranium? What type of uranium?
Weapons-grade?
I don't know. All my source knows
is it's uranium
coming to Beirut to be paid for
by a shipment of cocaine
from a Venezuelan drugs cartel.
I passed it up the chain, they
told me to get in touch with you.
And waste my time.
The fact is,
there is very little uranium,
or any nuclear material, out there
that is actually of the correct
grade to make a nuclear device.
It's much more likely
to be something low-grade -
in terms of purity -
that someone's trying to pass off
as weapons-grade.
Scammers, trying to make a bit
of money. Idiots selling to idiots.
My source said that it was
50kg of uranium.
50kg?
Yeah.
That could make a bomb.
Like a dirty bomb?
A Hiroshima-sized bomb.
(PHONE RINGS)
Excuse me.
OK. (SPEAKS ARABIC)
The source of the intelligence.
Something's gone wrong.
I have to go.
I think I should come with you.
I mean, in case there is
any nuclear material.
And in case they're not idiots.
I can't do this much longer.
They don't fucking give up, do they?
They're from a drugs cartel.
They hunt you down. I told you that.
You told me it was
gonna be a quick job.(SCOFFS)
Pick up the statues, take 'em
to Morocco. In and fucking out.
(PANTING) You lied to me.
(MEN YELLING IN DISTANCE)
We need to go.
In here.
(MAN YELLS IN SPANISH)
Where now?
(DOOR CREAKS)
(WINGS FLUTTERING)
In here.
(DOOR CLOSES)
What?
You threw your gun at him.
I told you. I don't kill people.
You really don't, do ya?
Hey.
You didn't kill anyone.
That's a first for you.
It's a church.
You OK being in a church?
I'm Muslim, not a fucking vampire.
(CHUCKLES)
Oh.
(PHONE RINGS)
I took it from your boss.
# JOAQUIN FLORES:
Ya Lo Se Que Tu Te Vas
(VOCALS IN SPANISH)
(MUSIC CONTINUES FAINTLY
IN BACKGROUND)
(LINE RINGS)
(VOICEMAIL MESSAGE IN FRENCH)
Say they can have the statues back,
but we wanna get paid.You do it.
I don't speak Spanish.
They all speak English.
(PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)
Hello?
MAN: (ON PHONE) Danny?No, mate.
Danny's not here at the moment.
Who is this?
Never mind who this is. Who are you?
My name
is Antonio Alam.
Says his name's Antonio Alam.
That's the boss of the cartel.
OK, Antonio. If you want your statues
back, you're gonna have to pay.
So you have a think
about what they're worth to you,
and you give us a call back. Ta-ra.
You don't know
what you've just done.
This is how we get paid, Max.
No, mate. This is how we get killed.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
Follow me.
Have the statues left Beirut?
On their way.
Everything is proceeding to plan.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(DOOR OPENS NOISILY)
Clear!
Whose place is this?Belongs
to a man named Rifaat Atallah.
He's your source?
Mm-hm.
(AGENTS YELLING IN DISTANCE)
He didn't say where the uranium
might have originated from?No.
What is that?
Measures radioactivity.
Enriched uranium doesn't have
much of a signature.
None of this protective equipment
would be necessary.Boss?
It's from the road outside.
They're both carrying something.
They're keeping apart.
If there was two pieces of uranium,
you would have to keep them apart
to stop them reacting to each other.
If they react,
depending on the weight
it could get interesting.
Interesting?
A chain reaction.
A release of radiation.
And if you were very unlucky,
they might explode.
(SIGHS)
I need you to take me home.
Why would he say, 'Keep them apart'?
What sort of statues
can't you keep close together?
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
(SOFT, OMINOUS MUSIC)
(WINGS FLUTTER GENTLY)
This is Baal.
He's a god.
An old god.
Before Islam and Christianity.
God of war and storms.
Lord of the Flies.
Some people think he's the Devil.
That's why Alam will want him.
He's a devil.
I've seen Baal before.
(OBJECT CLUNKS)
In Syria.
You were in Syria?
When?
When all the fighting
was going on there?
This isn't stone.
Is that why them people
are after you? The army?
The base isn't part of the statue.
It's where all the weight is.
(METALLIC SCRAPING)
What the fuck are you doing?
(GRUNTS)
(BANGING STATUE)
JJ, stop it!
What the fuck are you doing?
(STATUE CRACKS)
(STATUE PIECE CLUNKS)
What the fuck is that?
(STATUE THUDS)
Is this what I was moving
for the cartel?
Metal?
Doesn't matter what it is.
They want it. And we've got it.
If you want the money for you and
your girl, this is how you get it.
You get on the phone with your boss.
You tell him if he wants his stuff
back, you want £1,000,000.
(DOOR OPENS)
(SOFT FOOTSTEPS)
(WINGS FLUTTER)
(MAN GASPS)
(GROANS)
Let's go.
Yeah.
(SCOFFS)
Hello.
ANTONIO: (ON PHONE) Who is this?
Is this who I spoke to before?
No. This is Max.
Ah, Max.
This is Antonio Alam.
You know who I am?
Yeah. Yeah, I know who you are.
Do you have my statues?
Yeah, I've got what you want.
But it's not statues, is it?
No.
It's not statues.
So what is it?
It doesn't matter what it is.
All I need to know is
what do you want to return it to me?
I want £1,000,000
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
OK, Max.
You win.
One million pounds.
But you must take the cargo
to a location I will send you.
# JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: White Rabbit
(CHUCKLES) That was Alam.
He's gonna give us £1,000,000
if we bring these to him.
£1,000,000 each?
Yeah, £1,000,000 each.
Great! And did he say what it was?
Nah.
He wants us to meet them.
He's gonna send an address.
We're not just walking
into some address.
(PHONE BEEPS)
He wants to meet at seven. Ages.
Yeah, that's good.
If we go there now, we can
make sure there's no surprises.
I could do with a munch.
I'm starving.
(CHUCKLES) A million pounds!
# The White Knight
Is talking backwards
# And the Red Queen's
Off with her head
# Remember
# What the dormouse said
# Feed your head #
It's through there.
Some pictures
of ingots of uranium
so you know
what you might be looking for.OK.
Easy to miss.
So how long
you been undercover in Beirut?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Was it that obvious?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Four years.
And you teach physics?
Physics and Public Policy.
It's very boring.
Not a fashionable field
of physics at all.
There's a fashionable field
of physics?
Always.
It's probably quantum theory
at the moment.Of course.
We can be two things at once. Right?
We can be multiple things at once.
(PHONE CHIMES)
It's from Rifaat, my source.
He knows where they are.
Let's go.
This is the place?
It looks like it.
There's no-one here.
We should stash these somewhere.
Over there.
(GRUNTS)
What do you wanna do
when they turn up?
Somebody stays here with the gear,
then someone goes and speaks to 'em?
Listen.
(FAINT DANCE MUSIC)
Do you hear that?
Yeah. Think so.
(MUSIC BECOMES CLEARER)
('ENCORE UNE FOIS' BY SASH!
PLAYS NEARBY)
See anyone you recognise?
Not yet.
(LAUGHS) Fucking hell!
I need a drink. Do you want one?
No.
Suit yourself.
# Encore une fois!
You all right, mate?
Can I get a beer
two beers and a water.
# Encore une fois!
Cheers.
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois, encore une fois
# Encore une fois
# Encore une fois! #
(PHONE RINGS)
(MUSIC FADES SLOWLY)
(ETHEREAL WHOOSHING)
(MUSIC FADES FULLY)
(SOFT AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPE)
(SOUND BECOMES DISSONANT)
(MUSIC CONTINUES IN DISTANCE)
Hello?
(ON PHONE) Where the fuck are you?
We're at the location you sent me.
There's some sort of a rave.
Listen carefully, Max.
The metal in the boxes
..is uranium.
There will be consequences
if you don't deliver.
(PHONE CHIMES)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(SOFTLY) Max.
Do what they say! No!
She is very beautiful, Max.
And I'm going to kill her
very slowly
if you don't bring me my cargo.
You understand?
I understand.
Very well.
(SOFTLY) Max. Do what they say! No!
(ENERGETIC DANCE MUSIC)
We've gotta go! Come on!
What happened?
Alam phoned me. He's
He told me what's in the statues -
what the metal is.
Uranium.
Uranium?
Nuclear fuel.
That's why we had to keep 'em apart.
What happens if you put 'em together?
I don't know.
Maybe they explode.
I'm not smuggling fucking uranium,
Max. No way.
Why the fuck is your boss
smuggling uranium?I don't know.
But we have to take it to them.
No, we don't.We do!
We have to take it to them.
We have to do what they say.
Is that them?
Yes.
I'll check it out. You get the goods.
(GUN COCKS)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
You can speak to Alam now,
Danny, yeah.
You got what you want.
He can let Laetitia go.
You really think you were going
to hold Antonio Alam to ransom?
(GROANS)
Hey! There's no need for that.
(WHEEZES)
You got your stuff.
(GASPS)
(GROANS)
(COUGHS)
(ZIP OPENING)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(MUSIC STOPS)
That's it?
Yeah.
That's uranium?
(LAUGHS)
(GROANS)
What the fuck is that doing here?
I brought it.
The fuck did you bring it?
Thought you liked him.No.
No, I don't like him.
Said you knew him, from Syria.
(TYRES SCREECH)
(VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(TENSE MUSIC)
You were in Syria?
I fought at Palmyra and Raqqah.
You were a Jihadi?
Give me the gun.
MAN: No!
Give me the fucking gun!
Hey!
(GRUNTING)
Give me the fucking gun!
Let him go!
Go, go, go, go!
(GUNFIRE)
Drop your weapon!
(AGENTS YELL)
Go, go, go, go!
You stupid motherfuck (GROANS)
(GUNSHOT)
(GROANING)
(GROANS) What are you gonna do?
You gonna throw that at me again?
Huh?
(GUNFIRE)
(AGENTS YELL INSTRUCTIONS)
You're a fucking coward,
you know that?
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
We're gonna make her suffer.
(MUSIC BUILDS)
Chop her into pieces.
(GUNSHOT)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(FAINT GUNFIRE)
(WHIMPERS)
(FAINT GUNFIRE)
Fuck.
(GUNFIRE)
(AGENT YELLS)
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Come on. Let's go.
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Go! Go! Go!
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)
Hey!
(GUNFIRE)
Who the fuck were they?
Max. Do you think
they're after the uranium?
To make a bomb.
Like that Oppenheimer bloke.
Would you shut up and stay back?!
(SIGHS)
What the fuck is wrong with you?
(EXHALES)
That lass in the disco,
she gave me a pill.
It's OK. I'm having a bit of a rush.
It just hit me hard now.
Fucking hell.
Un-fucking-believable.
I'm all good.
# FRENCH 79: Hold On
This way.
That way.
Max.
Back. Back.
Stop!
Come on!
(DOG BARKS AND GROWLS)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
OK, quiet.
(MUSIC FADES)
Stay back.
I'm Mohamed Aziz.
Destroyer of worlds.
Let's go.
(MUSIC RESUMES)
(MUSIC FADES)
(RATTLES CAR DOOR HANDLE)
Look at the stars, Max.
Get in.
Yeah, I will.
If you take me to Syria.
Syria?
Well I know it sounds mad, mate.
But I have to go there.
(ENGINE SPUTTERS)
I have to take Baal home.
(ENGINE SPUTTERS, STARTS)
Baal.
(SOFTLY) Yes!
We're not going to fucking Syria.
We need to get out of here.
Before whoever that was catches up
with us, all right? Get in.
It's important, Max. (EXHALES)
(SIGHS) I need to make it right.
We need to go to Palmyra.
Baal.
You all right?
Yeah, I'm fine.
MAN: Should've gone to the hospital.
Mark.
What are you doing here?
I was in the area.
I heard something went down earlier.
You OK?
Yeah, sure. Um
This my colleague Mark
Mark Ellis from Langley.
Khaled Awad.
So what have we got here?
(FAINT CHANTING, RHYTHMIC DRUMMING)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
Excuse me.
(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)
(SCOFFS)
You didn't deliver, Max.
We did deliver.
But we were interrupted.
There was policeor someone.
Danny is dead.
Don't fuck with me, Max.
I told you -
I'm not fucking with you.
We've still got the uranium.
We can still deliver.
If there's a problem,
then perhaps I can help.
Where are you now?
We're heading north
out of the city.
Who's 'we'?
Me and JJ.
He's helping me.
(SCOFFS)
I'm not JJ. That's notnot my name.
(CHUCKLES)
We have people in Syria
who can help.
Get to Syria, Max.
I will arrange transport
to Marrakesh.
Your girlfriend will be here
when you arrive.
Don't let me down, Max.
You know what I will do to her.
(GRUNTS)
We're going to Syria.
# THE PRODIGY: Climbatize
Palmyra.
Can we go there?
Um Yeah, mate.
Sure. Course we can.
Yes, mate! (SNIFFLES)
I knew you were a good lad, Max.
You're a fucking good lad.
I knew you'd understand.
(GROANS)
You got any water?
I'm fucking parched.
(MUSIC BUILDS)
That's where Alam wants us to go.
That's here.We have to go there
to get back to Marrakesh.
It's the only way
It's the only way we get paid.
Get in the car. Those soldiers
were government soldiers.
They're heading for the Deir ez-Zor
province. Jihadi's going home.
He's on the list. Kill or capture.
But you don't wanna capture him.
You wanna kill him.
(SOLDIER YELLS IN ARABIC)
US SOLDIER: Drop your weapons!
These guys are ours!