Atomic (2025) s01e05 Episode Script

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The following programme contains
strong language and violent scenes.
You put a tracker on them?
Not THEM, the backpacks.
'We track the HEU all the way
to the handover to the buyers.'
We walk into that place, they
don't care what happens to us.
They need BOTH ingots.
I'll go in first with mine,
make sure Laetitia's OK.
No! Don't follow me.
Vite! Vite! Go! Go, go, go, go!
Tish, I AM gonna
get you out of here.
Did Mark send you? To
bring me the HEU? Mark?
This is for Danny.
And for Carlos.
No! Please, God! No! No! No!
'I know what my
jihad is now, Max.
We have to find that bomb.'
Where you sending it?
'This bomb can go anywhere.'
You never thought someone would
find out she wasn't your girl?
I was in Guinea-Bissau.
She was in Spain.
Who was gonna find out?
Someone you told about her!
You told everyone about her!
You never shut up about her.
Showing that fucking picture,
talking about love all the time.
I didn't think they'd go
and get her - kidnap her!
Well, they did. That's what
people in drug cartels do.
If they can't get you,
they go for what you love.
WHO you love.
What happens when
you get the bomb?
I take it somewhere.
Out in the desert.
Middle of nowhere.
I'll bury it so no
one can find it.
Do you want me to help?
No. It's something
I've gotta do alone.
Oh. OK.
Cool.
I won't hurt anyone else.
No more violence.
Can you do that?
Sure.
I can do that.
If you can stop lying?
I can stop lying. Yeah?
I only lied about Laetitia
because I was lonely.
Is that a lie? No!
It's lonely being a drug
trafficker. You have to live a lie.
It's the only way to survive.
This is my jihad.
This bomb is the test
that Allah has sent me.
He hasn't. He hasn't really
sent you any fucking test.
And don't tell me something
was written, either.
I never believed any of it.
Any of the signs, or
the omens, or the faith.
God doesn't fucking
exist. The bomb exists.
And we're the reason it exists.
It's our responsibility, OK.
Can't let it be used to kill people.
I have to do something about it.
Whatever we do it isn't
gonna make a difference.
It's gonna make a
difference to ME.
I can do something that's good.
That's right.
Something Kamal would be
proud of me for doing.
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
Oh, the lines
wrapped 'round my face
Oh, the lines
wrapped 'round my face
Are for anyone else to see
Are for anyone else to see
I'm a lie ♪
Answer me, you motherfucker.
He's gonna catch up
with you, you know that.
And you could still have a normal
life if you help me now, Sayed.
Co-operation buys
a lot of goodwill.
Keep quiet.
Salam. Salam.
'They can't be out
of the country yet.'
We need to monitor the
airports, everything.
Where's the nearest port
to here? Casablanca.
Get a team there.
We're getting closer.
Something's wrong.
We need to go.
So we're stopped from embarking?
They were searching the
other trucks. We left.
Where are you now? We're
heading out of the city.
Heading north.
The uranium's on the move.
Where? Onto the boat?
No. They've left the port.
I think they're coming this way.
Stop!
You ever hijacked
a lorry before?
Once or twice.
How do you do it?
Well, you gotta stop it
and then get in the cab.
Is that it?
There, that's it?
They just stopped.
Honey Bee
Mad mullahs and dirty bombs
Alert the coastal
command Fuck.
Honey bee, let's fly to Mars
Honey bee, let's fly to Mars
Let's go. Let's go, let's go.
Honey bee, let's
fly to Mars
Wooh!
Keep up!
You're not going anywhere, mate.
Who the fuck is he?
Go on, my son!
Yeah, fuck off!
Cassandra.
There's more than one.
You weren't supposed to
be killing anyone else!
I didn't.
We need to get him to
hospital. No! No hospitals.
We need to get the
uranium out of here
before anyone else from
the Cartel shows up.
I came for the
bomb. I'm taking it.
He's on a jihad.
It doesn't mean what
you think it means.
I'm gonna make it disappear.
I wanna stop this, too.
And I want to trust you guys,
but I need you to promise me
that you WILL do it.
No bullshit.
And you don't need
to take the bomb.
You just need to
take the uranium.
I'm coming with you.
No! Max, listen
It's my jihad.
I have to do this.
Everyone, stay back!
S'il vous plait!
Je suis CIA.
FBI. INTERPOL.
It's your jihad,
but you can't drive.
You need my help now.
It's always been a two-man job.
I'll be your delivery driver.
I'll deliver you.
We need to hurry.
I thought it'd be smaller.
We'd have never got this in
the car. Where's Laetitia?
Oh, er Oh, yeah.
She's dead. She died.
One of the Cartel guys shot her.
A few times.
I'll grieve later, but y'know
once I'm done with this
jihad stuff, probably.
Right.
We do need to hurry, though.
Uh right.
Here you go, mate. You alright?
Your boss Alam. What's
gonna be his next move?
He'll try to go back
to Guinea-Bissau.
He won't go to an airport.
He'll go overland.
There's a route we sometimes
use through Algeria and Mali.
That's the way he'll go. Hey,
I'm so sorry about Laetitia.
I wish I could have
done something. Yeah
Get Alam. That
WILL be something.
Good luck.
I'll bury the uranium in the
desert. Far away from anyone.
You have to buy us
time. Do my best.
Did you tell her Laetitia died?
No. Yes, you did! I heard you!
Stop lying to me, you arsehole!
You stop killing people!
You killed that bloke in the lorry!
He pulled the trigger! He shot ME!
So, how the fuck did he
die? It was an accident!
Bollocks.
Unbelievable.
You trust her to give us time?
We don't have a choice. She
sent us into that riad to die.
They were never gonna
let us walk away.
Never gonna let me see Kamal
again. Or give you a new life.
They fucked us.
Yeah, they did.
There's no HEU.
Why'd you do it, Mark?
He was perfect for the role.
He could pass as an Islamist and
he just built a viable device.
Not for jihadis, for
Alam. For the Cartel.
What? And it's not the only one.
What do you mean, it's
not? Where are the others?
You lied to me
about the uranium.
You knew exactly
where it was going.
You used my report against him.
Jesus, Mark! What
were you thinking?
He's the enemy.
Is this from Sayed?
You're totally fucked.
Right now we need
to find the uranium
to prove the Russians are
involved in this plot.
Where is it? Who took
it? Mohamed and Max.
But you're not gonna find them.
Huh.
If there's other bombs,
we need to find Alam.
I think I need you to go
back to Beirut, Cassie.
I'm not going back to Beirut.
Go back.
Or I'll make life very
difficult for you.
I'll make life very
difficult wherever you go.
You're gonna pay for this.
I need you to do something for me. WEBVT
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How far do you
think we need to go?
As far as possible.
You need to make sure you have
enough petrol to get away.
What you gonna do
after you leave me?
Where you gonna go? I dunno.
Where will YOU go? I'm
staying in the desert.
Yeah?
Makes sense.
I've got no home.
No escape for me.
You can still escape. Can I?
Yeah.
Where do you wanna go?
I don't wanna go anywhere.
I wanna do something.
Something worthwhile.
The driver of the bomb
truck was intercepted.
The scientist is dead.
The police in Casablanca
have the truck.
If the Americans get the
uranium that is in the bomb-
That will be a problem
for you and your father.
My father doesn't
like loose ends.
Fortunately, they
don't have the uranium.
It wasn't in the bomb.
I'm going to get back
to Guinea-Bissau.
Do you want to get
back to London?
Yes.
I will arrange for a car to take
you somewhere you can fly from.
Thank you.
We will take care
of the loose ends.
You DID do something
good. You saved Laetitia.
YOU did that.
She didn't die.
She's alive.
That's the main thing.
I suppose.
What?
You really didn't think
someone would find out
she wasn't your missus?
Fuck off!
It's unfortunate.
No.
Am I still on the road?
Stay with me, JJ.
JJ!
JJ!
My name's not JJ.
Shit.
Must have driven off the road.
Alright.
This is as good a place
as any to bury it.
Max!
Salam.
Wa alaikum assalam.
I'll go and get the other one.
Oh
No. No hospital.
No.
Shukran.
It's uranium.
Here.
It's for a bomb.
Une bombe atomique.
What's that all about?
That moon.
It's fucking huge.
Always freaked me out when I
was in Guinea Bissau. The sky.
Same in the desert.
Nothing else to look at.
What do you think happens if
you put the uranium together?
Why?
Maybe I shouldn't bury it.
Maybe I should destroy it.
How you gonna do that?
Put the two pieces
of uranium together.
And if it explodes
you'll be a suicide
bomber. Fuck off.
I always knew you
wanted to be one.
Remember what you
said in Palmyra?
All that work, thousands of
years, and you destroyed it.
Destruction ain't the answer.
What other option is there?
What about HIM?
What if he lives here?
No killing anyone, remember.
Then I'll have to move on.
Then I'll stay.
Till the morning.
Then if you have to move
WE'LL movetogether.
Alright.
Morning, shagger. WEBVT
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Looks like fuck all, eh?
Get on the net. Tell them
that we've got the uranium.
You have to keep
them apart. I know.
I'm not a fucking eejit.
How did you find us?
Been following you ever
since you left the airbase.
You AND your little friend.
Don't trust those Yanks.
Or anyone.
Ouff.
You want a bandage?
Morphine?
Wee jab? Is there any point?
You're gonna kill me.
That's right, I am.
I have to take that
uranium to the Yanks first.
Or do I?
Move!
No! Wait!
Come on. You can't
just shoot him.
You gotta arrest him
or something first.
Arrest him? You're in the middle
of the fucking desert, pal.
I know he was a
jihadist, but you can't-
Jihadist? He's no fucking
jihadist. He was a jihadi.
He was in Syria.
JJ? My name's not JJ, Max.
You not been honest
with him, Mo?
Oh, mate, you don't get it.
He's one of us.
He was in the army.
The spooks needed people who are
on the inside of Islamic State.
Needed people on the ground
to feed them information.
He was there as a spy
for British intelligence.
He was very convincing, mind.
"Al Britani" they
used to call him.
Thought you was a true believer?
I became a true
believer in Syria.
And then you fucking
lost it. Swapped sides.
I tried to leave.
Couldn't take it anymore.
Too fucking late, man.
You killed my family.
I tried to get out, Max.
Get away.
When I told them where I was
they bombed my house with
my wife and child inside.
You betrayed us,
man. You disappeared.
You went rogue - full
Colonel fucking Kurtz.
You betrayed ME. I betrayed YOU?
I saved your fucking kid, man!
Fuck it.
You saved Kamal?
You're lying!
YOU'RE LYING! Why
the fuck would I lie?
After the air strike, team
landed, went through the rubble.
I found your kid.
His mum was dead.
It was like she'd protected
him with her body.
Fair fucking play,
man. Taking THAT blast.
But where the fuck
where YOU, eh?
Where the fuck where you?
How the fuck did YOU survive?
I ran.
I left my family to die.
You fucking did.
No! Stop! Boss!
It's the Cartel. They
after what you've got?
Probably.
Get to cover.
Move!
Move! Move!
Get behind me! They
hit them, we're dead!
Well, get it to cover, then!
Move! Move! Move!
And stay there!
We just got word that they've been
intercepted by a British patrol.
Do they have the uranium? Yes.
They have it.
Any news on Cassie? Not yet.
The fuck?
You fucking lied to me?
I'm sorry.
Cassie?
"Is it done?"
Hello?
Somebody else
caught up with them.
We'll be there ten minutes.
Max!
Fuckers.
Fucker!
Let's move! Let's go, go, go!
After all the shit you
gave ME about Laetitia?
It's not the same thing. It's
a lie. You're a fucking liar.
It was mostly the truth.
MINE was mostly the truth!
I DO love Laetitia. She
can hate me if she wants.
But that's not a lie.
What made you change, then?
When you were in Syria?
I joined the army to
try and prove something.
Prove I was one of them.
But you never are.
But when I was out there, I saw
the things that was happening.
The place where you are,
the people you're with
they change you, don't they?
They think we're the
worst people on earth -
a jihadi and a drug dealer.
We don't have to be the
thing they think we are.
We can be something different.
I see it.
That's them! Let's go!
What about the Brits?
Fuck the Brits! Keep going.
I'm sorry I dragged you into
this. I dragged YOU into it.
No, it was my fault. If
I hadn't ambushed ya.
I persuaded you to go to Beirut.
I persuaded you to go to Palmyra.
With Baal. That was fucking
stupid. You were on a pill, mate.
You weren't thinking straight.
Besides, they would've
caught up with us anyway.
There's no escape.
Let's see.
Don't get too close.
It's the end of the road. Yeah.
So what do we do?
Stop.
Stop here!
Is it an eclipse today?
Looks like it!
You ever seen one before? No.
You're not supposed
to look at it.
Damages your eyes.
What do you wanna do?
Get out?
Keep down. They've got a sniper.
Have you got a shot? One sec.
Out of view.
Get the other one.
Who the fuck are THESE
guys? Hey, keep them back!
Drop your weapons!
Drop your guns!
Tell me you've got
a shot? Almost.
Drop your fucking weapons!
I said, drop your
fucking weapons!
What the fuck's going
on HERE?! Stay back.
You promised him to ME. I'm
not finished with him, yet!
Too fucking bad. He's mine now.
Stay where you are! Fuck off!
It's Alam's men.
And Rab.
None of them are having it.
If we put them together
it might destroy 'em.
And us.
Ah.
It's beautiful.
They call it the totality.
I think it's a sign.
Yeah.
I think it's a sign, too.
It's our time, Max.
Fucking load of pish.
Fuck this.
Come on!
Don't go down there!
Hey! You son of a bitch!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Tell me you got a shot.
On three.
One! We going on three?
Or did we say, go AFTER
three? On three we go!
Take the shot. I see nothing.
You take the fucking
shot! I haven't got one!
One!
Two!
Three!
Did Alam do this to you?
Yeah.
Oksana, if I help you
you have to help me.
Can you do that for me?
Yeah.
Burning Down The House
Hold tight
Wait till the party's over
Hold tight
We're in for nasty weather
And there has got to be a way
Burning down the house
My house's
Out of the ordinary
That's right
Don't wanna hurt nobody
Some things sure can
sweep me off my feet
Ah, burning down the house
I don't know what you expect
Staring into the TV set
Fightin' fire with fire
Ahh! Burning down the house ♪