Red Election (2021) s01e07 Episode Script

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, fuck! No! Kelvin's been killed.
Your asshole 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 murder 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 fucking 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 slave'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.
Fuck.
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 kill me, and they
don't let witnesses survive.
Look, they're not gonna
kill 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?
Fuck. 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? Fuck!
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 fucking 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-dick 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 guns blazing?
My father was 19 years in Belfast
and came through unscathed.
Not my impression.
Do you think I give a fuck about your
impression?
I mean, look at you. You're
sweating like a prince.
My father isn't the all-guns-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 fucking 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 fuck 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 fuck 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. Fuck.
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 fucking 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
killed.
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 fuck-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 fucking 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!
Fuck. No.
I'm sorry, Beatrice.
Beatrice
Fucking 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 fuck the Foreign Office
and fuck 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 kill 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. Slavery.
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 kill 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 killed 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.
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