Spooks s04e04 Episode Script

You remember Juliet Shaw? Adam.
Juliet.
You used to be really good.
And I was too, but I lacked something that you had.
Integrity.
Any news from Adam? Just awaiting his status report.
Oh.
I thought it would have come in by now.
Fiona? He'll be all right.
Sometimes I think how selfish I was to have a child.
BANGS ON DOOR Morning.
This is Phillip Norton, he's an MI6 Officer stationed at our Embassy in Istanbul.
I've had him flown here to brief us personally.
It was Ali Mohamed Yazdi who killed my man in the souk.
Mr Norton, please, tell us from the beginning Yes.
We picked up information about an illegal immigration network in the cafe talk.
Cafe talk? Yeah, a major source in Istanbul.
It's surprising what you can piece together.
Have you checked out the cafe talk? Yes, and it's true there's an illegal immigrant route into the UK that starts in Istanbul.
A British truck's involved.
They go through Bulgaria into Serbia, then into Austria and across the Channel by ferry.
So you put a local agent in undercover? I baby-sat him at the souk.
The contact came.
Then I saw Yazdi.
You sure it was him? Yeah.
And he killed your man without any provocation? Took a look and didn't like him.
That's in Yazdi's profile.
Impulsive.
Sudden decision-making.
Do the chattering cafe classes know who runs this network? The word is it is run as a sideline by a Middle Eastern prince.
Name? All we could get is that he is called "The prince who eats diamonds".
Hmm What do you conclude? That Mohamed Yazdi planned to enter this country using an illegal immigrant route.
That's way under our radar.
And for what purpose? To lead a major terrorist attack, of course.
In the UK.
And it's MI5's responsibility to stop it.
The real thing.
Dead right.
Yazdi is special, though.
Born Iranian, trained as a doctor in the early 1990s, Kent University.
On his way to his first-class degree and then drops out.
September 1997.
That was when the Taliban took Kabul.
The bright lights of Al Qaeda training camps beckoned.
Why? Intellectuals everywhere can get bowled over by extremism.
Change the world or burn it.
It's a powerful thought.
I had it too for a while.
Don't worry, it passed.
He began his career in 1998.
Walked into a Cairo hotel and opened fire on a heavily guarded Israeli delegation.
Four killed, eleven wounded.
Next operation, killed 70 people with a bomb in Islamabad.
Fell out with Bin Laden.
Set up a splinter group, Al Kahf.
The cave, where the soldiers of the Jihad shelter.
His last operation, six months ago, went horribly wrong.
Morocco.
Car bomb at a government office.
A school bus was passing.
Twelve children were killed, eighteen badly injured.
He rang a newspaper, claimed the bombing, and shouted, "Do no harm !" We think what? This maniac's bringing Al Kahf to Britain? It's our turn for 9/11? No, there's no chatter about a major terrorist attack.
That's even more scary.
"Do no harm.
" Six have got all the watchers they have out in Istanbul.
Nothing.
He'll have bolted.
Think so? The prince who eats diamonds.
Sheik Abd Al Gawaad Ahmed bin Wali al Hakim.
Eldest son of King Ahmed bin Wali al Hakim, ruler of the Gulf state of Bahar.
Prince Hakim will become king when his father dies.
So if he's running an illegal immigrant network into this country, things could go pear-shaped diplomatically.
Sod diplomacy.
Our job's to find out what Yazdi wants to use the network for.
There could be a major threat to the UK.
Britain's a big ally of Bahar - oil, building contracts We've sold them 32 harriers.
If we're going to wreck British Foreign policy in the Arabian Gulf, let's make sure we've got the right prince.
It's him.
He's notorious for mixing ground diamonds into his food.
- Why does he do that? - To increase his potency.
- Does it work? - I really wouldn't like to know.
He has a permanent suite in the Regal Hotel, Park Lane.
What does he get up to there? Oh, nothing out of the ordinary - drink, sex, gambling.
So what's the link between Yazdi and the prince? Ask him.
I'll do it.
Your Royal Highness, I am from the immigration service.
I wonder if you could help me with a serious matter.
Now look, I should warn you Well, that didn't work.
Arrogant bastard! The Bahar government have made an official complaint about the gross conduct of an immigration official in The Regal Hotel.
Apparently you were drunk.
What? ! And as a result of this disgraceful incident, the prince will not speak to any Government agency in this country.
We need to get this joker.
Set up a rat trap? Good idea with Caroline as bait, I think.
Malcolm, bug the prince's suite.
Didn't we bug this suite when Bill Clinton used it? We did.
Happy days.
Observing the prince at table one.
OK, Caroline moving into position Well done! She's pulled him.
Please use call signs X-ray, Foxtrot, over and out.
You're not on the roster.
Charming, Mrwhoever you are.
I thought we could have a drink together.
Sorry madam, I'm working.
You're thinking of going after Yazdi.
Am I? I want to say don't.
Don't.
If you're going to do what I think you are, you'll be terribly exposed.
I'll look after myself.
Promise.
It's like pulling petals off a flower Who's going to get killed first? You? Me? Come on, Fi.
If you could go after Yazdi, you would.
Wouldn't you? Foxtrot.
Bird's on the wing, I repeat - bird's on the wing.
X-ray out.
Camera one, flickering.
Can we adjust? Wow! Eyes on the machinery, gentlemen.
Have you chosen the photos you're going to use? Yes, and GCHQ have sent over the phone numbers.
I'd better get going.
PHONE RINGS Internal phone off.
Is the mobile network disrupter? Just the upper floors of the hotel.
Hotel wire-free network Go pix.
PHONE RINGS Morning, your Royal Highness.
One click on my computer, and the material goes out on the internet.
I'm sure your father won't be happy to see you humiliated.
If you are a common blackmailer you have no idea of the power We are not blackmailers.
We're British Intelligence.
We need to have a conversation with you in the strictest confidence.
Your Highness? Very well.
Over to Harry.
I have here 432 photographs.
This CD is the master disk for the video taken What do you want from me? You run a network for immigrants entering this country illegally using a British truck.
The collecting point is in Istanbul.
Ridiculous.
We know this because an MI6 agent penetrated the network.
Ridiculous.
He was killed.
I have no knowledge of this.
The name of the man who killed the MI6 agent is Ali Mohamed Yazdi.
Ridiculous! What is your association with Ali Mohamed Yazdi? None.
How could there be an association? Yazdi's a terrorist! Six months ago, he killed innocent children in Morocco.
He has sworn to destroy the whole house of Hakim, turn Bahar into an Islamic republic.
You know the insane dreams of these people.
We strongly suspect that Yazdi himself will try to use the network to enter this country to mount an attack upon the British State.
I have no idea of that, Mr Forgive me, what is your name? Giles Farmer.
No idea, none! That the cave is using my little enterprise, I am sick to my soul, Mr Farmer.
Our two countries have long been friends.
I will co-operate with you fully.
Where does the route run from? A house in a poor quarter of Istanbul.
How often is the route used? The truck leaves on the first Thursday of every month.
And that is all I can tell you.
Please, if I can be of any further assistance, Mr Farmer You will not be allowed to leave this hotel suite until we say so.
This is outrageous! I have diplomatic immunity.
I am aware of that.
The prince denies knowing anything.
But could be lying.
Yazdi wants to get into this country.
He must have contacts here, but where? Special Branch did three raids.
They found nothing to link anyone we know to Al Kahf or to Yazdi.
I think he'll come.
I think he'll use the prince's truck.
But he knows that route's blown.
He thinks he's untouchable, he thinks he can walk through walls.
We send Special Forces to Istanbul.
If he's spotted trying to use the network, they take him out.
The Turks have offered full co-operation.
There is another way.
Adam Put someone in undercover in the truck.
Make contact with Yazdi, turn him.
That's insane.
Think! Yazdi is a double agent.
One of the founder members of Al Kahf, reporting to us.
He's an international terrorist! Why in hell's name should he turn? It's in his record.
He's all ego.
Each attack is more extreme than the last.
I know he can flip.
What's the greatest form of flattery? To be desired by your enemies.
And do no harm.
It's the Hippocratic Oath.
Yeah, doctors swear to do no harm.
I think to him, being a terrorist, being a doctor Same thing.
What do you mean? He can save people as a doctor, or overthrow what he sees as tyranny by blowing them up.
To him, the two extremes are the same - heal, change the world.
Anyway, we don't have an officer who could get away with it.
Don't we? I'll be a Circassian from Northern Syria.
They have fair hair, white skin, blue eyes.
DE Lawrence went undercover as a Circassian.
I'll work up a good legend.
I'll be from Aleppo.
This is reckless.
Yeah, but doable.
He'll just get himself killed.
It's a big prize.
Will his legend hold up? We'll do everything to make it work.
But I'll need a special dispensation.
Syrian identity card.
Your name is Ami Tlass.
Ami Tlass.
A Kuwaiti work permit.
Why Kuwait? You're from Aleppo but with a Kuwait residency.
That gives you a middle-class background.
Construction engineer, you said you're up to speed on that? The comm device has a range of one kilometre, it's in your lapel.
And this magnetic GPS device.
Your plane leaves in 45 minutes.
Zaf's waiting by the car.
Great.
Salam Alekem.
Alekem Salam.
HE SPEAKS TURKISH Not Turkish, speak English.
Where are you from? Kuwait, but I, er, I'm here for the truck.
No talk! In! Who's this? Not till I say so, pal.
Please, sir I mean, what is he anyway? He looks Circassian.
Yeah well, I don't want him in my truck.
White-looking Arab? I don't like it.
Come here.
I don't want any trouble.
Do you understand? No trouble, no trouble.
White Arab! Come on, get them in the truck.
Come on, up! Beta Base.
'Beta base.
' Zaf's on the satellite scrambler link.
'We may have a no-show.
'There's no sign of Yazdi.
' Maintaining observation, over and out.
All right, in you get, come on.
I even got you water.
Hey, old man Yeah, come on, chop-chop.
Target is present.
Repeat, target is present.
Yazdi.
Part of me wishes he hadn't shown.
The satellite's online.
Ruth, contact Juliet Shaw.
I want to go to a category-one terrorist alert.
Brother, do you speak English? A little.
When do you think we can pray? When the English idiot of a driver stops.
Where are you from? Aleppo.
Where are they now? An hour from the Bulgarian border.
Has Zaf called in? Yes, he's following.
What about the raids? Special Branch have houses in North London, Manchester, Bradford and Birmingham.
And there's nothing.
Right, I want all the trees shaken.
If there's an Al Kahf cell in this country, we've gotta find it.
I know Aleppo.
Where was your house? In Babel-Quinnisine.
What is your work? I am an engineer.
The steel structure of buildings.
What have you built? The Royal Bank of Bahar, in Kuwait City.
If you are such an eminent engineer, why are you in this truck? Why not a passport, airline ticket? My cousin, from my father's family he was martyred in Afghanistan.
The British think my family all are terrorists.
What was his name? Hussein bin Tlass.
You are Hussein bin Tlass' cousin? And you want a new life in the West? That is our destiny, don't you think? To be something new? Aleppo man, you were not born to be a philosopher.
The truck's stopped.
Near the Bulgarian border.
Tell Zaf to pass them and report what he sees.
Right, in the crate.
Come on! My father is too ill! Then he should have gone on the Orient Express.
Bulgarians They find you, they not nice Get him in the crate.
Come on! What kind of life will you have in England? Maybe none.
We are doing this for a new life.
YOU are.
What? And you are doing it for death? Why are there so many people like you? Why are you crammed into a crate like this, dreaming of, what? Prostitutes on London streets? Whisky bars? How will you be cured of this poison? Where did you learn to break a man's neck? Aleppo childhood.
Why do you think I want to be a civilised man? You think England is civilised? Right This is a quick break.
We're not here long, so hurry up.
They're moving again.
Do you want me to pass them? No, stay behind.
Anything from Adam? Nothing.
Stop! Stop! Stop! What are you bunch of clowns playing at? Has he gone and popped it? You're going to have to get him out of there, chuck him.
Come on! This boy is this man's son.
Well, that's not my problem, is it? Wrap it in that.
You've got half an hour.
You should go back to Aleppo.
Build beautiful buildings.
I will.
When I am rich.
You are like the prostitutes you dream of.
You are sneaking over borders into the West to sell yourself.
Don't talk to me again.
Zaf.
Dead end.
Repeat, dead end.
Zaf's on the satellite link.
Put him on, put him on! 'Signal from Adam.
'Repeat, a signal from Adam ' Dead end.
I repeat, dead end.
GUNFIRE Bandits.
Come on then, move, move! Open There's nothing Open the door! You, out! Hurry up! Move! Give us money.
I haven't got any! Hurry up! Hurry! We take the truck! No, you can't do that! You people, go! Please, look Inside, inside.
Now, sit down and shut up! We better find the others.
Forget them.
All that matters is I get to England.
Look, better we just walk back into Turkey.
Eh? It's a Muslim country.
We will get a lift back to Istanbul.
No, no, no, aren't men from Aleppo meant to be adventurers? You will help me get to London.
But they took our money.
We will have to get to the coast.
Steal a boat to England.
It's possible.
Everything is possible.
If I'm going to help you, I want to know what you are going to England for.
Once you know, you'll be cursed.
My people are used to curses.
I am from Al Kahf.
Help me or you're dead.
All right! All right! I've a martyr in my family, remember.
I can understand what you want to do.
Really? What do I want do? Attack the great Satan of the West.
And will you join me in doing that? If you tell me what you're going to do.
You'd like me to do that.
If we are going to work together.
I mean, not, not together, but if I'm going to help you.
Shall we drop our masks? What do you mean? Please please.
You're a spy.
British Intelligence? It was the lorry driver, wasn't it? Real bandits would have killed him.
We don't kill people.
Oh, I forget, your missiles don't kill( !) We have Prince Hakim.
The prince? Why did you still try and get through? You must have known you were blown.
Danger is addictive.
Don't we both know that? Are there men in the forest? A few moments away.
Call your men then.
The Moroccan school bus.
You did no harm? You want to discuss the morality of Jihad with me? You will never understand.
You wanted to be a doctor.
You've taken an oath to do no harm.
Call your men.
I can make you an offer.
I said, call your men! Come and work for us.
You'll be the most important agent in the world a double agent.
Which means you get to see both sides, almost like God himself.
No.
You do it for two years, then you can have any life you want.
No, I'd rather choose death.
It went wrong, didn't it? The bomb in Morocco.
Call your men.
After two years, you can have a new name, new identity.
You can go back to medicine, finish your training.
You can take the Hippocratic Oath.
No.
You'd rather choose death? Yes.
I don't believe you.
You see yourself as a healer, don't you? You want to heal the Islamic world.
Use bombs as scalpels.
Cut the disease of the West away.
But it's begun to sicken you and I think, given the choice now, you choose life, not martyrdom.
Life Two years as a traitor then I'm free? I believe in the House of Islam.
The whole of Arabia united in an Islamic republic.
With its government in Damascus.
The holy sites protected, America and you out of our lands.
And purity and the rule of God's law giving us peace.
It's just that I begin to see the suffering.
What were you going to London for? To take charge of the Al Kahf cell.
You have a cell in London? Ha! You cannot discover it, can you? Yes, there is a brigade of martyrs ready to die in your capital.
My name's John Baxter.
So, Mr Baxter how do you take me to England? Go, go, go! "Toys for the boys" isn't that the phrase? What are your true feelings about Morocco? I have wept, every night, for the children.
HELICOPTER APPROACHES A welcome return.
Don't put out the flags.
Do you buy Yazdi? I don't know.
Some have, hook, line and sinker.
Brilliant operation, Mr Carter.
It's not over.
Yazdi has informed me there's a brigade of Al Kahf martyrs in London, ready for action.
Then that Yes, Miss Shaw, the alert stays.
Now please, let us get on with our jobs.
Feel wonderfully alive, do you? Like death, actually.
Where's Yazdi now? Half an hour from Highbury Fields.
The VIP safehouse? I thought, pamper him.
I want first crack at him.
No.
It's my right to quiz him.
No, Fiona will do it.
He won't be expecting a female interrogator.
What we need from him is information we can check out.
DOOR OPENS Morning, sir.
Please, sit at the table.
I want to speak to John Baxter.
He knows me.
Please Sir.
One-nil to Fiona.
Do you have everything you need? I think so.
Can't read the body language.
Weeping because of what he's done? I don't know.
First, I am authorised to thank you on behalf of Her Majesty's Government for your offer of help.
I am aware of how deeply painful this must be for you.
The pain of apostasy.
Of denying everything you have believed in.
You have no idea what it is like.
Try to tell me.
I can't.
You're a woman.
After you've lived here for a while, you may find that you soften towards us.
All I want, after I've worked for you, if I'm still alive is to go back to medicine.
I've killed.
Now I'll heal.
John Baxter understands.
You were sent to this country by Al Kahf.
Yes.
For what purpose? To give my life.
As a martyr.
You were to be a suicide bomber? That is a Western phrase.
Where were you to, um, to martyr yourself? In London.
What's the target? The House of Commons.
How was this to be done? Was? I have to warn you, the attack will happen.
Another will take my place.
It will be done by boat.
On the river.
The explosives have been purchased and are being stored.
Who is your Al Kahf contact in London? Mr Yazdi, who are you to contact in London? The moment of betrayal.
The contact's name is Hussein Hadrami.
He lives in Walthamstow.
His address is 23 Dunning Street.
Go! Go! May God be with him.
THEY ALL SHOUT Don't move! Come on, get him out.
Nothing? Fifteen hours.
Questioned non-stop.
Bit of muscle too.
Nothing.
Not a word.
BLEEP 'Harry, Juliet Shaw on line three.
' Harry? The Prime Minister says to abandon Parliament will be a public relations disaster.
It could be a bigger disaster! He won't do it.
It's the Churchill thing with the PM, Harry.
You're going to have to break Hadrami quickly.
Adam, you have a go at Yazdi.
Treat him as a colleague.
Ask his help.
Not a word.
I wouldn't if I were in his place.
Would you? Is there anything you can think of that we could say to him? As one spy to another? Is the phrase, "I have to earn my spurs"? How can we make him talk? You can't.
But I could.
That would blow your cover.
Perhaps things are too urgent.
'I think it's a brilliant idea.
' I'm unhappy.
Mohamed Yazdi is fully co-operating! Adam? No.
Too dangerous.
I think we should do it.
Leave us.
It's against all interrogation protocol.
And this operation is dangerously fluid.
Fluid? We have no hard evidence whatsoever of an attack! Well, that's what we are trying to get! What's the matter with you? As security co-ordinator, I insist.
Put Yazdi and Hadrami together.
Sit down.
What's happening? What are they doing to us? You and I have never met.
No.
Ali Mohamed.
But you know who I am.
Yes, of course, brother! Then you will trust me.
Yes.
Then sit down, and listen to everything I say to you.
Burn it into your mindand answer.
The prince warned you I was coming? Prince Hakim of Bahar.
Yes.
But how can the prince be involved with Al Kahf? He denied knowing anything about them using his network.
So he did.
The plans for the martyrdom at the British Parliament.
They are well advanced? The prince has told you where the explosives are? No.
Nor the other members of the London Al Kahf brigade? He insists we act separately.
So the prince controls the cell? Yes.
But Al Kahf are sworn enemies of the Royal House of Bahar.
How can the prince be leading them in London? This is a nightmare.
And I suspect we're far from being awake yet.
When were you all to be brought together? When youwhen you arrived.
When you arrived to lead us.
Here I am.
But but these are BritishSecret Police.
Oh, my brother! We live in terrible times.
Maybe I'm not your leader any more.
No.
No, you are a traitor.
You have betrayed us.
You have betrayed the prince.
You have betrayed the Islamic Revolution and you will burn in hell for this.
No, I will be in paradise with you.
You'll burn in hell for this! How long is this imprisonment to continue? ! We have information that you knew very well Al Kahf were using your Istanbul network.
That is nonsense.
More, we have information you are actively involved with Al Kahf.
And that you were facilitating the organisation of a terrorist attack in this country.
Terrorist attack? On the Houses of Commons.
I am being totally maligned and slandered! I demand the right to leave this paranoid country at once! As of this moment, Your Royal Highness, you are detained under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
You think we are all terrorists, don't you? We are all just wogs to you! Poor immigrant in a truck, prince in the most expensive hotel in London.
All wogs! You have no idea of our history! Of what we are! I demand to speak to your Foreign Office and the Bahar Embassy here in London! Now! The prince.
Prince Hakim of Bahar.
Yes.
What did he tell you? He told me he told me to wait for you.
Here I am.
But these are British Secret Police.
Oh, my brother! We live in terrible times.
Maybe I am not your leader any more.
You have betrayed the Islamic Revolution and you will burn in hell for this.
No, I will be in paradise with you.
You'll burn in hell for this! I've been watching the recording of Yazdi interrogating Hadrami.
Have you indeed? There's something in his voice.
What do you mean? A false note.
Doesn't it make you uneasy the way he suddenly fingered the prince? Saving the best nugget till last? As a turncoat he has to sell to us.
Maybe.
The questions, they're all leading.
He's not a professional interrogator.
He's telling him what to say.
Why? I don't think Hadrami knew about an attack on London.
You think he's an innocent? He's like any student who flirts with extreme ideas.
He half means it, he half doesn't.
But he was an Al Kahf contact.
Yeah, but you know what happened.
He got sick of the college binge drinkers.
The values of Al Kahf attract him, they seem pure.
He gets on their list as a sympathiser and suddenly he's in a room with Yazdi, mesmerised.
His brain burned.
Good afternoon.
I want Yazdi to interrogate the prince.
Absolutely not.
He was successful with Hadrami.
Why do you believe Yazdi? We don't know who to believe.
So let's put them in a room together and see.
That's unprofessional! Parliament is still sitting and time is running out! We are about to make a terrible mistake.
And if I could just sit still for a while, then I would know what it is.
I'm overruling you, Harry.
I have the authority of the Home Secretary to order that this interrogation takes place.
I protest.
Noted.
Invite Prince Hakim into the room.
I have agreed to this to denounce this man.
That is why I have agreed to this.
Your Royal Highness.
Would you please sit.
No.
Get him out of there! Get him out of there! The body of the Crown Prince of Bahar, Sheik Abd bin Wali al Hakim was today flown back to Bahar City, the capital of his country, by RAF plane from Brize Norton.
Prince Hakim died early this morning of a heart attack in his suite at the Regal Hotel, in London.
In a personal message to the Prince's father, King Ahmed, the Queen has sent her profound condolences at the loss of his son.
I was thinking of Neither of us ever, ever resigns.
Let's make that a ground rule between us, OK? But it was a disaster.
Yes.
You're an assassin.
Yes.
Your mission was to kill the Prince.
Always.
Why here, why not in Bahar? To send you a message.
Have nothing to do with these old corrupt kingdoms.
We are going to destroy them.
Next we are going to destroy the king himself.
The people will rise in a holy war.
Al Kahf will lead them to the House of Islam.
What did you really think about the children you killed in that school bus? They are in Paradise.
You know, in all the countries you terrorise, there's no sign at all of the people rising in a holy war.
That is because they are corrupt.
All of them? Yes.
So, in this republic run by Al Kahf, what would you do with this vast corrupt majority? Re-educate them.
And if they don't learn? Kill them? One line about a sexed-up intelligence report nearly brought the Government down.
This is a whole book's worth - the story of a lifetime.
A very short lifetime if you carry on like this.
This could be a disaster.
I want the bastards who did this.
SCREAMING Putting your life on the line based on nothing more than a guess.
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