The Hack (2025) s01e05 Episode Script

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Previously on The Hack.
Think who edited the paper.
Think about where he sits now.
I mean, I know Andy Coulson.
Him sitting next to the Prime
Minister, that's wrong in every way.
The police have Mulcaire's notebooks.
If we can get them into the public
eye we'll see who hired who,
how high this goes, who's being hacked.
Just be safe with yourself. Just be safe.
It's the Daniel Morgan case. We've had
some witnesses finally come forward.
You cannot be taking phone calls
from a protected witness.
From today, you will have no further
contact with Gary Eaton, whatsoever.
Max, we've got them on the rack.
You settle, the whole thing
- gets covered up again.
- On the rack with what?
The Murdochs agreed to pay
Clifford more than a million pounds.
Our biggest gun was spiked.
Our liberal
conservative government will take
Britain in a historic new direction,
a direction of hope and unity,
conviction and common purpose.
I'm delighted to be standing here
with the new deputy Prime Minister,
and I would like now to invite him
to speak to us on what I think
is a remarkable and very welcome day.
Thank you, David. We've just
been through an election campaign.
And now we have a coalition.
Until today, we were rivals,
and now we're colleagues.
- Is it unusual?
- I know it'll cost you.
All that work given
to someone else's byline.
Finding it a little bit hard
to get my head around.
Look.
BBC are playing it on repeat.
I've watched it 15 times
and it was sickening the first time.
Andy Coulson now sits
at the right hand side of God.
There's a direct link
between number 10 and Murdoch,
I don't like that whisper chain.
We need our
- Our own coalition.
- We need allies.
We have allies. I'm assembling
a huge team of lawyers.
- People are working together.
- No, we need allies in the press.
You don't think I've tried?
Nobody will touch it.
Thank you.
Well, they won't on Fleet Street,
but I've always
thought a lot of Glen Campbell.
I think Panorama will bite.
No, no, no. The BBC won't risk
a battle with Murdoch.
But then there's Dispatches, maybe.
Internationally, Bill Keller.
You can't think the New York Times
would want to be involved.
Murdoch's hole on the Wall Street Journal
is galling to Bill, I think he could.
I've got resources, of course, but
Alan, they won't share back.
TV hacks might, but the New York Times.
This will always be your story, Nick.
No, it's bigger than that. Me.
I can't make friends at school.
Why not a pen pal?
I get it. Yeah.
Yeah, I get it. It's a good idea.
It's a necessary idea.
Good.
So Nick Davies and the Guardian
are losing the exclusive,
but winning the war.
- Steve.
- Yeah.
I'm aware
that it has taken a few years
to get to this point,
and many of us are eager
to draw these pre-trial hearings
to a close.
But I'm afraid, a new matter has arisen
that requires our attention.
Last night, an application was made
by the counsel for the defendants,
as regards a possible irregularity
in the conduct of this investigation,
in relation
to the prosecution witness,
Mr Gary Eaton.
In order to resolve this, it is my view
that we must spend some time
hearing evidence directly,
from DCS David Cook,
and the officers in his team,
which will begin on Monday.
These rules are ridiculous.
- They are tight on this.
- No conferring me colleagues?
I mean, I work with these officers
day in, day out.
They don't want you to prepare.
It's known as an ambush defence,
And they want me to tell them
everything about Gary Eaton?
While the suspects
are sitting right there.
If the judge does decide
to lose Gary Eaton's evidence,
it would be a a significant setback.
Oh, losing Gary Eaton
would be a fucking disaster.
So we do what the judge tells us to.
All you have to do
is answer the questions.
Dave will be fine.
He's good in the spotlight.
And while you sit in
the spotlight, boy scout behaviour.
Day in, day out, agreed? The defence
could put you under surveillance.
They could track your car, your phone,
They'd love nothing more
than to catch you out.
These men have been under arrest
for over a year.
This is a fucking farce.
Nothing to do with truth,
nothing to do with justice.
We do the best we can
within the system we've got.
What do you call three Pulitzer
Prize winners sitting in a row?
A murder? An ambush? An armada?
Do you really call them, "help"?
This is, er, quite something.
- It's remarkable journalism, Nick.
- Thank you.
Any chance they're doing it
in America, too?
A few suspected names.
Nothing firm. It's all in there.
You have no one on record
from News of the World?
- No.
- But plenty off the record.
Am I right?
She's trying to get you to reveal
who your Mr Apollo is.
Oh, I see, you think he's a News
International insider. Interesting.
Em. But no, not sharing.
And frankly, even if I wanted to,
he's disappeared.
Do you have an angle? The
You Paper
Well, Bill's instincts
were, er, Royal Family,
- Murdochs, press intrusion.
- In that order?
We'll find our way.
It's important no one can say that
we colluded with you or were baby fed
just to stand your story up.
You're not here to stand my story up.
- I wasn't saying that.
- We further each other's stories.
Anything new we get, we know
you're the keeper of the flame.
We'll bring you in.
I might say likewise,
but I've given you all I have.
I don't know when this started either.
Em, you might get a call
from the New York Times
- in the next few days.
- New York Times, fancy.
They're getting involved.
We're giving them what we have.
Two newspapers are better than one.
You know, Nick, when I look at the
kids who come around for playdates,
I instinctively know
who are good at sharing,
- and who aren't and you
- Alan thinks it's a good idea.
- I think it's a good idea.
- Oh, you weren't very good
- at sharing at all, were you?
- I'm not done.
They'll do their thing.
It actually makes it easier to pursue.
And I was actually quite good
at football as a kid, so
That's what I would have done
at your playdate.
I'd have found a ball and kicked it.
I didn't care about toys.
Anyway, I have an idea.
So Harry Evans wrote in his memoir
about a plane crash.
I don't know Harry Evans.
Editor of the Sunday Times, from
1967 to '81. Newspaper legend.
Doesn't that mean he worked for Murdoch?
- Oh, they didn't get on.
- Murdoch fired him?
Eventually, actually, first he
promoted him, gave him editorship.
- So that's not
- And he's the hero in this story?
- I haven't told the story.
- But your eyes imply he's the hero.
The DC-10, in Paris, passenger jet.
There was clearly a problem
with the manufacture of the plane
- but Harry couldn't print.
- Without evidence.
Exactly. So Harry got his reporters
to intervene.
Linked the bereaved families
with highly effective lawyers
in the US,
because US courts were more likely
to order McDonnell Douglas
to disclose internal paperwork.
- My plan is to do the same.
- Haven't we already tried that
- with Max Clifford?
- No. No. Then you
involve me in your case. Very kindly.
Now I'm going to recruit for you.
So they bribed Max.
They won't be able
to stop an army of people.
If I can get a list of the hacked and
encourage them to come forward,
we can flood the courts.
- I can't see you as a footballer.
- Fuck off.
Look, Andy Coulson created
a culture at the News of the World.
To prove he did so we need to get
as many of his top journalists
implicated as possible.
Mulcaire's notes had Clive Goodman's
name written
at the top. Court record.
So we can find the other editors
who commissioned him.
Come on, it's time to get nuclear,
don't you think?
The inevitable dig followed.
I had to identify with the help
of my furry friend,
every celebrity, politician,
and sports star they'd gone after.
High ranking, the low ranking,
the illustrious, the audacious.
And then I had to persuade
those people to fight.
Like MP Tessa Jowell.
Yes, I have been spoken to by the police.
All the dirt they had
on your ex-husband came from hacking.
And ruined my marriage, I am aware.
I'd like to publish an article
about your experiences,
and I'd like you to consider
pursuing it further in court.
- I have good lawyer recommendations.
- But that would mean stirring it up.
We've struggled enough.
Please, leave it alone.
I had proof that Charles Clarke
had been hacked.
I told a friend who knew him to tell him.
- My friend said
- He's not willing to engage.
With Charlotte's help, I identified
a dozen law firms who specialised
in representing celebrities.
I contacted all of them.
I wish I could tell you their names.
- I'm getting nothing.
- Nothing?
They're busy. They're worried about
reviving an embarrassing story.
They can't afford it. But mostly
Mostly, they're frightened.
I've heard rumours about Nicole Kidman.
- Hello, Charlotte.
- Nice to meet you.
A charming lawyer. How nice.
Nicole's lawyer is John Kelly.
Have you met John Kelly?
No. She wasn't warned by the police.
And no, she won't be meeting with you
or any other journalist.
Mr Kelly, this is worth pursuing.
For Nicole, for all your clients.
It's still a no, I'm afraid.
- A hard no.
- Her trustees say no.
Mark Thompson came about
because two of his clients,
one of whom was Big Brother's
Jade Goody, had been hacked.
Jade had died of cancer.
- They're not interested in pursuing.
- Perhaps I could talk to them.
Becuase you're more persuasive
than me? I get it. You're desperate.
There is another someone
I can't give you her name.
- We called her "AZP".
- She's very angry.
They've ruined her life.
She's leaning into all this.
- I'd love to
- Yeah, of course you fucking would.
If she's brave enough to talk more,
then you'll hear more. Until then
- They're just all so scared.
- They are profoundly scared.
Mr Cook, do you accept
that a number of rules
were broken with regard to Gary Eaton?
- I do.
- And the issue for the judge
to decide on is the spirit in which
these rules were broken.
Were they broken in bad faith,
or was it done transparently
and in the interests of justice?
Those are the two sides
that we are litigating at the moment,
- you understand that?
- Yes, I do.
Let us begin with your
initial meeting with Mr Eaton.
It's been suggested that you led
the witness during this conversation.
I think it's important for me to say
that I never wanted to meet
with Mr Eaton in the first place.
He insisted he would only speak
with me, so I went along.
And the job is to find out
if he was valid.
And to do that, you have to ask
some probing questions.
"Give me the name of the brothers."
That's hardly a probing question,
is it, Mr Cook?
He wasn't interested in any brothers
at all, was he?
You gave him the brothers.
I gave him the brothers. I did not
give him the name of the brothers.
You were aware at that first meeting
of how important it was to
preserve the integrity of the process?
And that's what I thought
we were doing, it was all recorded.
And we all have the transcripts
here before us.
But that wasn't my question.
It was a simple question.
Let's try another.
Do you accept that by having direct
phone conversations with a witness,
you were breaching
the sterile corridor system?
Yes, I do. But I would say
that this was a particularly
- difficult set of circumstances.
- Wasn't difficult at all.
All you had to do was say
to this man, "I'm sorry,
"the rules are, I'm not allowed
to have direct contact with you.
"You have your own witness
protection handler.
"They can sort out
any problems you may have,
"but from now on, you must not ring me,
"and if you do, my phone will bar you."
And that is what I did
on several occasions.
Did you ever bar Gary Eaton
from calling your phone?
It's not always possible
on every type of phone.
Are you saying that it's not possible
from a Metropolitan Police phone?
It's It's a terribly, simple question.
He changed his number.
I didn't know his number.
I'd like to turn now to the issue
of your note taking.
My Lord, between August the 23rd
and the 16th of September 2006,
not one of Mr Cook's numerous
telephone calls to Eaton
appears on the schedule.
Mr Cook, do you mind telling us
how it is that between the 23rd
of August and the 16th September,
you managed to make so many calls
without recording any of them?
From memory, the vast majority,
if not all,
were to do with Mr Eaton's welfare,
his domestic, stuff like that,
nuisance stuff.
But you accept, do you not,
that the court has no way of knowing
what was said during these calls?
I accept that. And my Lord,
do you mind if I sit down?
- I suffer from vertigo.
- Please.
Let us look at tab number nine.
We can see top line
that the debrief begins
on the 1st of August.
We can see that it's
followed the next day
by a call which is 15 minutes long.
That one is logged.
Then, on the 28th of August,
there's a nine-minute call,
which is not logged.
Then, on the 1st of September,
Eaton suddenly changes his story.
He says for the first time that he was
- at the scene of the murder.
- Well, what are you suggesting?
I'm suggesting that that may not be
a coincidence, Mr Cook.
I suppose you're going to deny it
and say that it is just
a coincidence. You're going
to deny that during these,
unlogged calls,
- you were feeding Mr Eaton his story?
- And why would I do that?
This case has been causing
the Metropolitan Police
untold embarrassment
for over two decades.
You were desperate to nail someone.
Of course, if you think you have somebody
who may be an eyewitness,
you embrace them with both arms.
But you allowed this dishonest,
mentally ill man
to run riot over your investigation.
Not only that, but you manipulated him
because he was easily manipulable.
And because he was your one way
of bringing this case back to life
and ending your career with a real coup.
Isn't that what has gone on here,
Mr Cook?
You could not be further
from the truth, sir.
If you haven't changed your ways.
No chance. Thanks.
Can you still win?
Now that we've lost Gary Eaton,
the entire case
rests on two witnesses. Lindsey Wright,
Jimmy Cook's ex-girlfriend,
who is basically a fucking nightmare,
and James Ward, our original
supergrass, who's erratic at best.
Nine days they kept me on that stand.
On day one, I really thought I could win.
- Hoped.
- Yeah, I remember hope.
I'm sorry they did that to you.
- You didn't deserve it.
- Ah, maybe I did.
So, what about you? Can you, erm, win?
Journalism isn't about winning or losing.
It's about the gradual erosion
of self-worth.
Alan's given the story to Panorama
and the New York Times,
and he's probably right
because I can't get anyone
to go to court, which means we can't
I I thought I had a way
to get to Mulcaire's notes,
I thought I was finally
getting somewhere,
but like everything I tried.
What about Jonathan Rees?
Surely he's just as bad as Mulcaire.
He's on trial, if you haven't noticed.
We raided his house a few years ago.
We found invoices on his desk.
Rees to Alex Marunchak
and the News of the World.
Rees went to prison for conspiring
to pervert the course of justice,
came out and went right back
into the employ of News of the World,
while Andy Coulson was the editor.
Under Coulson, News of the World
employed a convicted criminal?
Now, this fell into your lap, okay?
You can't quote me.
You can't name Rees.
But you can use this to nail them.
This could get you in serious trouble.
I'm already in serious trouble.
So you're calling Jonathan Rees, "Mr A"?
I think it's my best pseudonym yet.
I can't name him
till after the Morgan trial.
It's very tenuous, legally,
even to hide him under a pseudonym.
His lawyers can claim contempt of court.
Coulson being in government
is a contempt.
- It's a good story. Does it stand up?
- My source is solid.
Jonathan Rees was imprisoned
for conspiring to pervert
the course of justice.
And the News of the World rehired him.
After he was released from prison
while Coulson was editor.
- Feels a good one.
- We'll need to give Coulson
- right of reply.
- Ugh!
This is the most archaic practice,
giving people quotes,
in articles against them. It's just free
- advertising space for their lies.
- I think it's necessary.
If we publish his right of reply,
we'll be misleading our readers.
Whatever the fight, I think it's
better to stick to established
- journalist practice, don't you?
- What do you know about journalism?
- You're a lawyer.
- Nick. Could you maybe talk to her
- with a bit more respect?
- Oh, fuck off, with respect.
- Nick.
- Sorry. Sorry, Rufus. Sorry, Gill.
I know how vital you are to all this.
Just busy time, busy head.
I'll alert some people.
- Go backstairs.
- I know this will spread.
The other newspapers,
they can't ignore this.
- It has to.
- Gill?
If he gets the quote from Coulson,
I think we can argue public interest.
- I agree.
- Thank you. This is good.
Whoever your source is, this is good.
Would it surprise you to know
it didn't spread?
All the other newspapers
ignored the Mr A story.
You'll get them next time.
The trouble with next time
- The trouble with
- You'll get them next time.
- I don't have a next time.
- You stupid child.
Nicholas! Nicholas,
don't be dramatic, Nicholas.
Let's get a washcloth
for that blood, shall we?
I don't have a next time.
Er, Nick Davies.
Nick. It's Jo Becker, New York Times.
Oh, Yeah I
- Is now not a good time?
- No, it's fine.
- How can I help?
- We're going to publish.
- Great. What?
- Sean Hoare is going on the record.
- He's a genuine insider.
- Oh, more than that,
he's Coulson's friend. They worked
the celebrity Bizarre column
that Coulson made his name on.
What did he say?
Well, he talked about Coulson a lot.
I had a good relationship with him
as it goes.
Yeah, I could do the fuck I wanted
as long as I came in with a good story.
The brief was
"I don't give a fuck."
The News of the World meetings
sound more fun than Guardian ones.
You're not wrong. But I asked him
Did he know what's going on? Coulson?
The New York Times,
over here on this, are they?
- Yes.
- Oh Why?
We want to investigate whether
an ethical line has been crossed.
Fuck me, you sound like the Guardian.
You don't think the Guardian are valid?
I think the Guardian
are being beautiful beings,
gazing down from their mighty
high horses, the pious fucks.
You know? But the thing about you,
you see, is that you
You're foreign, so I like you.
I, personally
played voicemail recordings
to the bastard,
when we worked together
at the Sun and the Screws.
You played recordings to Coulson?
Sean, is that on the record?
- I want a New York Mets top.
- I'm sorry?
I want a New York Mets top,
and then it's on the record.
- Okay.
- Yeah?
- Sure.
- Great.
So what do you say we go completely crazy
- and have another orange juice?
- Thank you.
This is very good.
I don't think they made clear
the link with Coulson.
It's good journalism, but it's
I love an intimate party, Nick,
but it is nice, don't you think,
to have at least some other people
who want to be there.
This is the New York Times.
It's going to be a lot harder
to fight us both.
This matters.
Yeah.
It was an extremely good piece. It
The way it
It was extremely good.
And what happened next,
Alan was right, it made everybody braver.
Celebrities began to look up.
For instance, Charlotte Harris
began to get somewhere with a client.
- Football agent, Sky Andrew.
- They offered him £200,000
a year and £1.2 million
in free advertising
- for a charity if he'd drop his case.
- And?
- He said no.
- People were willing to fight.
Most unusual people.
- Hi, Nick Davies.
- Max Mosley, I'm a fan of your work.
And then, Max Mosley
did something extraordinary.
To be clear, we didn't meet at the
Guardian, but this setting will do.
I'd like to back, financially,
anyone wishing to bring a case
against the News of the World,
indemnify them against costs and damages.
Max, that could be millions.
I'm guessing you saw it.
Nazi sex orgy, photos of me.
It was not Nazi.
It was consenting, but they didn't care.
I sued, I got a small reward.
I survived.
My son didn't.
A heroin overdose, one year
after the story was published.
I'm sorry.
They can attack us.
But when our children are damaged
But are you sure that this is what
you want to spend your fortune on?
You underestimate my fortune, Mr Davies.
And my anger.
The world started to unfurl before us,
the strategy started to work.
Allies were
Well, not exactly everywhere
but gathering. And then
The game changed,
Mark Thompson got in touch.
His client, AZP, you remember AZP?
Well, apparently she loved
the New York Times piece
and the Mr A story.
And she wanted to meet.
Oh, and, AZP. She is
Sienna Miller, meet Nick Davies.
- Pleasure to meet you.
- Yes. Actor, tabloid magnate.
- Our ace card.
- He knows it's coming.
Everyone's been whispering to her
to stop. All of Hollywood.
Some roles are being withdrawn.
Others are being promised
if she just lets it go.
- But you've decided to keep fighting.
- They've also said,
they've told me that there
is more muck on me they'd use.
Which is, I mean,
probably true, but I mean,
how can they print anything worse?
All the papers are after her.
Can I ask Sienna, can I ask
what happened?
I I can't go into the The details.
And I really don't want to pry,
but what
What were they digging for?
Erm
Seemingly, erm, what, anything
about me is, er, interesting.
The restaurants I go to,
what I wear, people I meet.
But it seems their attention
was particularly grabbed by, I
I got, er
I got pregnant and erm
I had a decision.
To make. You understand?
- Mmm.
- And
Well, at that time, when you're
When you're dealing with that,
you need people that you can trust,
and I didn't, I didn't trust anyone.
I thought that they were
all selling stories about me
because they knew everything.
And I couldn't work out why.
I couldn't work out why
anything I told my friends or family
was being leaked. I thought, I mean, I
I started to, erm
Yeah. Mmm.
I, er
The number of people that I trusted
grew smaller and smaller
until there was almost no one at all.
I didn't know which way was up.
Not anymore. I drank too much,
did all the wrong things,
damaged my career, damaged myself.
And they feasted on it.
Was this Mulcaire?
We don't know.
We don't know who was doing what.
All we know is the results of it.
The thing that I was most, erm
sorry about was that I, erm
I damaged my family.
Once it was all, erm
I only, basically, told my mum.
And they still found out.
And they published,
and I thought it was her.
And the things I said to her, you know.
Must have been horrible.
But I'm a celebrity.
"I chose all this. It's not their fault.
"It's in the public interest." Hmm?
- We're taking this all the way.
- Good.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Thank you.
We're gonna have to disclose this.
I'm afraid there's no choice.
But I ain't done nothing.
Lindsey, your entire
search history's here.
We can see what you searched
and when you searched it.
But I'm allowed to be curious,
ain't I?
- Not against the law to be curious.
- Look.
You're accusing Jimmy Cook
of over 30 separate murders.
And each time you change a statement
and say you remember a new murder,
it comes off the back
of an Internet search
on how to commit that
particular type of murder.
Disclosing this means
that we can no longer
put you forward as a witness of truth.
And I'm afraid, Lindsey
I'm afraid we lost
the only other witness
who had evidence on Jimmy.
So, your statement,
that was all the prosecution
had to go on.
James Frederick William Cook.
- No.
- Stand, please.
I direct a verdict of not guilty
in respect of count one,
and you are now free to go.
No, no, no, no, no, no. What if he
Oh, shit! I'm now number one target.
You know that?
How could you let this happen?
How could you let this happen?!
- You take sugar?
- Er, just half.
And a splash of milk. Thanks.
- Erm, how long you been here then?
- Moved in a while ago.
I know, I just haven't the time to
- There's a sofa coming.
- Thanks.
Yeah. I was actually
pretty shocked when I heard.
You and Jacqui always seemed solid.
Ah
Heard you and Vicky got married,
that's great.
We invited you to the wedding,
but you never RSVP'd.
Did you?
I'm so I'm so sorry. It's just that
I've been I've been busy, frantic.
Work, life.
I know.
It's what you get for having friends
who are coppers.
They disappear on you for years on end.
So we're still pals?
But that's not why you're here.
You want something.
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. I know
you've been on Daniel Morgan, so
Rees is your bag, right?
Oh, I'm sorry.
We can talk about other things.
I'll take my BBC hat off.
Genuinely, wanted to see you.
How are you, you know,
coping?
Well, it's strange.
House without kids, pretty quiet.
Think I need to get better
at filling in the time.
We should be aiming for
- a coalition of lawyers.
- Coalition? Are we in government now?
I have other friendly lawyers
with very high profile clients.
- I do actually know who you're
- With the Sky Andrew case
still progressing under your watch,
he's still not accepting their terms.
- No.
- Max Mosley has promised
to financially back any client
who comes forward.
Surely we can encourage them all
to come forward.
Nick, breathe. Okay?
You are constantly swaying
between utter despair,
and this. It's exhausting.
The law takes time.
We are building something.
Let it fucking build.
Stop worrying about the New York
Times getting there before you.
- This is your case.
- Not worried about them.
I don't have Sienna Miller as a client.
You don't have Sean Hoare in your pocket.
But we are all working together. Stop
doing that thing with your hands.
I have another one for you,
a former politician.
Apparently, he's had sight
of Mulcaire's notebook.
Now, I've been reluctant
to share him because
Well, I think he's tricky.
But you want everyone, so.
What I'm interested in
is in Mulcaire's notebooks.
I have no interest in what it shows
but there'll be a name
at the top corner of the notes,
someone at News of the World.
Have you read
what the Guardian has written
about me, about this case.
Tommy Sheridan, a defamation case
which became a perjury case.
Process of disclosure on which
allowed him access to Mulcaire
and to his paperwork.
And he's right. The Guardian
haven't been kind about him.
What I'm looking to do is to build
a case against
Andy Coulson and the culture
at the News of the World,
- that the hacking was endemic.
- Yes, there's a name.
No, you can't see it.
And you certainly can't print it.
I don't trust journalists, Nick.
- Not anymore.
- Okay, the name is important because
it undermines
the one rogue reporter argument,
which Coulson keeps hiding behind.
The more
editors and senior journalists
we can implicate,
the more we show them lying.
- Greg Miskiw.
- Greg Miskiw. Are you sure?
I didn't tell you
and you're not printing.
Greg Miskiw was news editor
and later assistant editor.
He's retired now,
but he reported directly to Coulson.
- I know who Greg Miskiw is, Nick.
- Do you know how significant this is?
- This could blow the lid off.
- This has to be off the record.
Do I understand that you're
representing yourself in court?
- Yes.
- What if I was to help you?
Go on.
There's very little I know a lot
about, but this issue is one of them.
I can feed you questions, help with
your research, all for nothing.
- For the name in the notebook?
- That name is dynamite.
Greg Miskiw is dynamite.
And you can print it
because it's been stated in court.
And I have an idea
who you should call as a witness.
Go on.
Andy Coulson.
You're a traitor.
Start by asking him about Greg Miskiw.
He'll deny any knowledge.
Mr Coulson, these are the written notes
of the former News of the World
employee, Glenn Mulcaire.
Contractor. Not employee.
Mr Coulson, do you recognise the name
at the top left-hand corner of the page?
- It says, "Greg."
- This is the big one.
Do you think that name refers to
the former assistant editor, Greg Miskiw?
No. Not to my knowledge. No.
Do you have any knowledge of
Greg Miskiw ordering Glenn Mulcaire,
to hack Tommy Sheridan's phone?
Are you telling me
that you never ordered,
or were unaware of Greg Miskiw
ordering Mr Mulcaire to tap my phone?
No, I had absolutely
no knowledge of it, and I
I I certainly didn't instruct
anyone to do anything of the type.
Interesting, because Sean Hoare
in the New York Times
stated that he played you
hacked voice mails.
I remain confident there is no evidence
to support Mr Hoare's accusations.
That's my position.
Do you have any comment on why Mr Hoare
- would have made those accusations?
- You should ask Mr Hoare.
How bad was the culture
at your newspaper?
I don't accept there was any culture
of phone hacking at the
News of The World.
There was one unfortunate case
involving Clive Goodman,
and no one was more sorry
about it than me.
And that's why I resigned.
Tommy Sheridan?
We got Miskiw's name out there.
It wasn't enough,
but we're rattling Coulson's cage.
Well, let's see if this
sends him over the edge.
This was lodged in the high court
this morning.
Worth mentioning, in real life,
he made me go to the courthouse
to pick this up myself.
Possibly not worth mentioning.
- Mulcaire blagged her phone number.
- I changed my phone twice,
and somehow they always got it.
It wasn't just her phone
they were inside of.
They targeted Sienna's mother,
her boyfriend,
his assistant, her publicist.
We analysed my itemised phone bills
and then we used them,
to force the police to hand over
calls made by Mulcaire.
The police were sitting on
this information for four years,
I'll remind you. John Yates, four years.
And then we linked them
to the News of the World stories.
There was a name that appeared
in the top corner of Glenn's notes.
A name we haven't had before?
A name that could change everything.
Tell me the name.
- Ian Edmondson.
- Ian Edmondson?
- He reported directly to Coulson.
- Ian Edmondson is the current
news editor of the News of the World.
Just heard. Good work, Nick.
Sheridan?
Oh, Nick. I couldn't get through to you.
- So, well, I don't know how
- Is it the kids?
No. No, no. Erm
It's about your father.
God, I'm so sorry, Nick.
Yeah, Graham?
We found two crates in an old DPS office.
A cleaner found them.
It's old evidence on James Ward.
But we told the judge
we declared everything on Ward.
I'm sorry.
Huh, bye then.
Now this is the end, right?
Do you want the official answer
or the honest answer?
We don't survive this.
I don't understand.
How can they accuse us
of withholding evidence
when you didn't even know
that the crates existed?
It was a disused police building.
Nothing to do with your team, right?
Yeah.
The office was locked for years.
Nobody knew anything about it.
But even if we could make the case
that we weren't withholding the files,
the contents
The details about James Ward
that he didn't originally disclose
to us
If we'd have had the files earlier,
we may have been able to deal with it,
but all of it together, it's
Years and years and years, gone.
All because someone left
some files in the wrong room.
It's like everyone forgot.
All the people in their court.
This was supposed to be about Daniel.
Hi.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
I really loved him.
- I know.
- He was everything.
It was complicated,
but I really loved him.
"The Lord is my Shepherd.
I shall not want.
"He makes me lie down in green pastures,
"He leads me beside still waters.
"He restores my soul,
"He leads me in right paths
for His name's sake.
"Even though I walk through
the darkest valley, I fear no evil,
"For You are with me, Your rod
and Your staff, they comfort me.
"They comfort me.
"You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies,
"Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me
"all the days of my life,
"and I shall dwell in the house
of the Lord, my whole life long."
Hi.
On the 14th of January, 2011,
Rebekah Brooks asked her secretary
to find somewhere discreet
for her to meet Andy Coulson.
She did so the next day, at 7:45 am.
At the Halkin Hotel in Belgravia.
We don't know what Brooks said
to Coulson during that meeting
but we do know that on the 21st
of January, Andy Coulson resigned.
He said, "Unfortunately,
continued coverage of events
- connected to my old job
- at the News of the World,
has made it difficult for me
to give the 110% needed in this role.
I stand by what I said
about those events.
But when a spokesman needs a spokesman,
it's time to move on. Thank you.
Thank you.
This is the end of a long,
and as I am sure everyone associated
with this case will agree,
exhausting road.
In all the years,
that I have been a judge,
I have never come across a case
in which there have been so many issues
or such complex issues to be resolved
before a trial could even get underway.
The family will inevitably
be disappointed by the outcome.
But they, I think, should be commended
on the dignity with which
they have faced these proceedings.
Mr Rees, Mr Fillery, Mr Glenn Vian,
Mr Garry Vian, please stand.
You are free to go.
Verdicts of not guilty have been entered
in all of your cases.
Thank you, all.
Court rise.
Your dad. Yeah.
- He was a nice man.
- You didn't know him.
You made him sound nice.
And
To Andy Coulson.
May he disappear and never come back.
I may as well tell you,
we're reporting it.
Tomorrow.
Murdoch's going for full control
of BSkyB.
I did hear it was possible.
If he gets that, he'll be able to
leverage a serious amount of debt.
Buy more, buy bigger.
- We're talking world domination.
- Why are you telling me this?
To remind you it's not over.
Remind me that they cut Coulson loose
to save their BSkyB business.
- It's It's all a false victory.
- Not false at all.
Dissection is a slow process.
We tackle them
One limb at a time,
and eventually they run out of limbs.
Do they?
I'm tired, Alan.
- I wanna go home.
- Agreed.
We rest, we lick our wounds.
We take stock.
No, I don't
I I don't think
I think on this story,
I think you need to find someone
to take over.
Sometimes you need to know when to stop.
It's time to stop. I need to stop.
Sorry.
And I thought a bit
of fresh air might be in order.
- No, I'm fine.
- You're not.
I'm all right.
No, you're not, mate.
Someone I want you to meet.
He helped me. I think he can help you.
Get showered, get dressed.
Not leaving till you do it.
I'm serious.
Okay.
Glen.
David Cook, Gordon Brown.
Gordon Brown, David Cook.
I know a lot about you, DCS Cook.
I appreciate you coming all this way.
It's no problem.
I'm interested in hearing more
about what's happened to you.
I, er I think I might be able to help.
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