1 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:20,706 Go! Get in! 2 00:03:11,608 --> 00:03:14,194 Apologies once more, but due to equipment failure, 3 00:03:14,278 --> 00:03:16,822 this train will terminate at High Wycombe. 4 00:03:16,905 --> 00:03:19,241 The bus replacement service will take you to Oxford Pathway, 5 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:21,493 where you can proceed to your journey. 6 00:03:21,577 --> 00:03:22,578 Thank you. 7 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:06,163 Remaining passengers arriving from Marylebone, 8 00:04:06,246 --> 00:04:10,209 the bus replacement service offers a pathway available from the car park. 9 00:04:10,292 --> 00:04:13,253 It's just this way. The bus replacement service. 10 00:05:38,255 --> 00:05:40,424 Run with your head down! 11 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:50,559 Hey, we're here. 12 00:05:52,853 --> 00:05:54,188 Christ's sake. 13 00:05:59,276 --> 00:06:02,112 Come on, mate. Wake up for God's sake! 14 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:31,243 Welcome to High Wycombe. 15 00:07:31,326 --> 00:07:34,872 The train currently standing at platform two… 16 00:07:35,914 --> 00:07:40,085 …Bicester Village, Oxford Parkway, and Oxford. 17 00:07:51,346 --> 00:07:53,307 Yeah, mate, I'm not working that day. 18 00:07:53,390 --> 00:07:55,350 They're expecting 100,000 people. 19 00:07:55,434 --> 00:07:57,102 The toilets are gonna be like a barn. 20 00:07:57,186 --> 00:07:59,980 Mate, there is no way I'm working that day. 21 00:08:00,063 --> 00:08:01,315 Hang on. 22 00:08:03,192 --> 00:08:04,860 - Can I help? - Yes. 23 00:08:04,943 --> 00:08:08,739 I'm wondering if you could tell me where I might find the replacement buses. 24 00:08:08,822 --> 00:08:11,408 We don't have any today. Everything's running. 25 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:13,577 So, listen, you tell Head Office, yeah… 26 00:08:15,662 --> 00:08:17,748 I need the bus because… 27 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:20,709 Well, the other night my brother passed. 28 00:08:20,792 --> 00:08:22,586 I don't know whether you heard. 29 00:08:23,212 --> 00:08:24,213 Yeah… 30 00:08:24,296 --> 00:08:26,507 Hey, mate, I'm gonna call you back, yeah? 31 00:08:27,466 --> 00:08:30,093 Yes, I did. My condolences. 32 00:08:30,177 --> 00:08:32,554 The buses are run by a separate company. 33 00:08:32,638 --> 00:08:35,599 Well, perhaps you could give me the name of the company. 34 00:08:36,517 --> 00:08:38,727 We use different ones. I'm not sure… 35 00:08:38,809 --> 00:08:44,399 Please. I… I would very much like to see the place from where he left this earth. 36 00:08:46,735 --> 00:08:47,736 All right… 37 00:08:49,613 --> 00:08:52,866 Let me make a few phone calls, and I'll see if I can sort you out. 38 00:08:53,825 --> 00:08:54,826 Okay. 39 00:09:51,049 --> 00:09:52,259 Standish. 40 00:09:56,555 --> 00:09:57,848 This isn't working. 41 00:09:58,515 --> 00:09:59,933 Can you be more specific? 42 00:10:00,017 --> 00:10:02,561 Seniority dictates I should have my own office. 43 00:10:02,644 --> 00:10:05,564 I wouldn't take length of service in this shithole as a status symbol. 44 00:10:05,647 --> 00:10:06,815 Prisoners have hierarchies. 45 00:10:06,899 --> 00:10:08,901 Humans organize themselves according to power. 46 00:10:08,984 --> 00:10:11,111 I'll be down shortly with today's work. 47 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:14,740 Hurry up. If you don't give me something to do, I'm gonna kill him. 48 00:10:14,823 --> 00:10:16,450 Or at least maim him. 49 00:10:25,876 --> 00:10:27,002 Morning. 50 00:10:46,522 --> 00:10:48,357 Has anyone seen Lamb? 51 00:10:51,318 --> 00:10:53,779 Ambulance driver said it was a heart attack. 52 00:10:54,571 --> 00:10:55,822 Mercifully quick. 53 00:10:56,657 --> 00:10:59,868 Here one moment, the next, with the angels. 54 00:11:01,161 --> 00:11:03,956 Found him down there, second from the back. 55 00:11:04,998 --> 00:11:06,500 And I thought he was sleeping. 56 00:11:08,126 --> 00:11:10,295 Well, he was, wasn't he? 57 00:11:14,383 --> 00:11:18,136 Was there anything out of the ordinary? 58 00:11:19,388 --> 00:11:20,597 Apart from him. 59 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:23,725 Anything near him? 60 00:11:24,226 --> 00:11:26,687 Something he might've left? 61 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:28,897 There was a hat. Seat next to him. 62 00:11:28,981 --> 00:11:30,691 Oh, well, that could well have been his. 63 00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:34,278 Could I take a look at it? Be lovely to have a keepsake. 64 00:11:34,361 --> 00:11:36,029 Sure, it'd be in lost property. 65 00:11:37,281 --> 00:11:40,033 I'll go by when I'm done here. 66 00:11:42,077 --> 00:11:44,413 He looked quite calm-like. Your brother. 67 00:11:45,789 --> 00:11:48,292 Well, that's how he would've wanted to go. 68 00:11:50,544 --> 00:11:52,129 He liked buses. 69 00:11:54,381 --> 00:11:59,011 It's not that I believe in a life-force, precisely. 70 00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:03,974 But I'm not positive I don't believe in one. 71 00:12:05,976 --> 00:12:07,269 If you take my meaning. 72 00:12:09,229 --> 00:12:11,523 I'll… I'll give you a moment. 73 00:12:50,729 --> 00:12:53,649 - Sorry to bother, but… - Oh, yes. 74 00:12:53,732 --> 00:12:55,025 Will you be much longer? 75 00:12:57,861 --> 00:12:58,862 I've… 76 00:13:00,739 --> 00:13:04,034 I… I've said my… my final good-byes. 77 00:13:04,117 --> 00:13:07,371 Only we've just had a call. Gonna need to use the bus. 78 00:13:08,622 --> 00:13:09,623 Of course. 79 00:13:23,971 --> 00:13:24,972 Fuck. 80 00:13:41,780 --> 00:13:43,740 Has anyone seen River? 81 00:13:44,783 --> 00:13:48,036 Yeah, I'm just really excited to take what I've learned in government intelligence 82 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,956 and apply it a bit more to more concentrated, commercial… 83 00:13:51,456 --> 00:13:53,166 Taking what I've learned in government intelligence 84 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:56,962 and applying it to more commercial, targeted goals. It's something that I've… 85 00:13:57,045 --> 00:13:58,797 They are ready for you now, Mr. Cartwright. 86 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,015 And actually, now, at a time of real geopolitical uncertainty, 87 00:14:08,098 --> 00:14:12,519 private intelligence can fill the gaps left by the national agencies. 88 00:14:12,603 --> 00:14:13,729 You know? 89 00:14:13,812 --> 00:14:15,063 Absolutely. 90 00:14:15,147 --> 00:14:18,442 And it… it feels to me, actually, that those are the really interesting, 91 00:14:18,525 --> 00:14:22,905 and often unorthodox areas of fieldwork to which I'm probably best suited. 92 00:14:22,988 --> 00:14:24,114 Now, on your CV, 93 00:14:24,198 --> 00:14:27,701 it says that you're currently seconded to a unit near Aldersgate. 94 00:14:28,493 --> 00:14:30,454 Yes, I am. Yes. 95 00:14:31,246 --> 00:14:32,664 It's a bespoke unit. 96 00:14:32,748 --> 00:14:36,418 Deals more in analog methods of intelligence gathering 97 00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:39,880 that's actually given me a real grounding in more database… 98 00:14:39,963 --> 00:14:44,885 Yeah, and… That's great. So you work at Slough House? 99 00:14:46,261 --> 00:14:47,262 Yes. 100 00:14:48,055 --> 00:14:51,433 I understand that it's not everyone's first choice of assignment, I do. 101 00:14:51,517 --> 00:14:54,520 But actually, I've found it invaluable. 102 00:14:54,603 --> 00:14:56,104 So you work with Jackson Lamb? 103 00:14:57,981 --> 00:14:59,191 Yeah. 104 00:14:59,274 --> 00:15:00,484 What's he like? 105 00:15:07,741 --> 00:15:10,077 Where is everyone? 106 00:15:16,458 --> 00:15:18,377 Oh, Min, please can you sit down? 107 00:15:19,461 --> 00:15:21,922 Sorry, it's just that I'm trying to get my steps in. 108 00:15:22,005 --> 00:15:24,383 I should never have given you that thing. 109 00:15:28,262 --> 00:15:29,680 Well, Lamb's gonna kill us. 110 00:15:29,763 --> 00:15:31,890 No, it's fine. He wasn't even in this morning. 111 00:15:31,974 --> 00:15:34,643 Yeah. He's probably off wanking in a morgue somewhere. 112 00:15:36,603 --> 00:15:37,855 Okay. What about this one? 113 00:15:42,818 --> 00:15:44,027 300. 114 00:15:44,111 --> 00:15:45,112 300? 115 00:15:45,904 --> 00:15:46,905 Min, it's got a garden. 116 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:48,156 Okay, 310 then. 117 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,410 I mean it's… What, it's a "garden flat in Leytonstone." 118 00:15:51,493 --> 00:15:52,619 It can't be that much. 119 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:54,872 - 520. - Oh, my god. 120 00:15:54,955 --> 00:15:56,123 I mean, that's a lot. 121 00:15:56,206 --> 00:15:57,583 - It's not. - He's here. 122 00:16:04,673 --> 00:16:05,966 Here we go. 123 00:16:06,049 --> 00:16:07,092 It's gonna be fun. 124 00:16:11,763 --> 00:16:13,640 All right. Let's make this quick. 125 00:16:14,433 --> 00:16:15,809 I'm seconding you. 126 00:16:16,810 --> 00:16:18,228 Not for long, week or so. 127 00:16:19,021 --> 00:16:20,480 So you'll be reporting to me. 128 00:16:21,190 --> 00:16:22,441 On what sort of job? 129 00:16:22,983 --> 00:16:24,318 Security. 130 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:25,777 For an off-the-books meeting. 131 00:16:26,278 --> 00:16:28,614 Oh, okay. So that's why we're meeting here and not the Park. 132 00:16:29,114 --> 00:16:31,783 Yeah. And because you're not allowed in the building. 133 00:16:32,284 --> 00:16:33,577 Who's the meeting between? 134 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,078 Myself and Arkady Pashkin. 135 00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:37,164 Representative of Ilya Nevsky. 136 00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:38,832 The oligarch? 137 00:16:38,916 --> 00:16:40,375 Nah, the kid's puppeteer. 138 00:16:40,876 --> 00:16:42,085 Yeah, the oligarch. 139 00:16:42,794 --> 00:16:45,088 But I thought we were supposed to stay away from him. 140 00:16:46,298 --> 00:16:47,925 You're supposed to stay away from everyone, Min. 141 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:50,928 I meant "we" as in MI5. He's a dissident. 142 00:16:51,011 --> 00:16:53,722 He opposes a regime in Moscow, and we're not supposed to take sides. 143 00:16:53,805 --> 00:16:57,518 Well, Her Majesty's Government are prepared to be pragmatic in this matter. 144 00:16:58,018 --> 00:17:01,772 Nevsky made his money in oil and gas. We're worried about energy security. 145 00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:06,484 So, Nevsky's right-hand guy, Pashkin, Taverner's right-hand guy, moi, 146 00:17:07,027 --> 00:17:09,570 are gonna sherpa a little meeting between the two of them. 147 00:17:10,321 --> 00:17:14,742 Any face-to-face meetings are to be held at a pre-agreed secure location 148 00:17:14,826 --> 00:17:16,578 which I need you to assess, sweep, 149 00:17:17,454 --> 00:17:19,122 take out the bins. Usual routine. 150 00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:21,040 Well, who made the approach? 151 00:17:21,124 --> 00:17:24,962 Pashkin. Via an intermediary. Freelancer named Krimov. 152 00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:26,797 And does Krimov check out? 153 00:17:28,173 --> 00:17:30,843 I did the background. It's all in here. 154 00:17:34,513 --> 00:17:37,391 So, the meeting's this Saturday in the Glasshouse. 155 00:17:37,474 --> 00:17:39,434 Same day as the Anti-Capitalist March. 156 00:17:39,518 --> 00:17:43,355 Is that a problem? Are you thinking of making a placard and going along? 157 00:17:43,438 --> 00:17:45,357 No, no. Just getting up to speed. 158 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,277 Good. Well, I hope it's not too tall an order. 159 00:17:49,361 --> 00:17:50,821 But if you think you're too rusty 160 00:17:50,904 --> 00:17:53,866 or you're happy with the stale scraps Lamb throws you, just say the word… 161 00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:56,451 and piss off back to Slough House. 162 00:17:57,369 --> 00:18:00,414 - Should we take the job? - I think we just did. 163 00:18:00,497 --> 00:18:04,042 Well, yeah, I know. But Lamb's gonna cough up a bollock when he finds out. 164 00:18:04,126 --> 00:18:07,087 - Well, we don't really have a choice. - Well, we do. We can just not do it. 165 00:18:07,838 --> 00:18:09,339 Thing is, you're scared of Lamb. 166 00:18:10,382 --> 00:18:11,675 I'm not scared of Lamb. 167 00:18:13,343 --> 00:18:15,554 I mean, yeah, I am scared of Lamb. Yeah. 168 00:18:18,307 --> 00:18:21,935 You're looking at it. I did what you asked without being asked. 169 00:18:22,019 --> 00:18:25,397 Be great if you could do that without making me want to hit you. 170 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,858 - Just don't say anything. - Yes, okay. 171 00:18:29,067 --> 00:18:32,154 - What am I looking at? - Soho street cam footage. 172 00:18:32,237 --> 00:18:34,239 This is Soho? 173 00:18:34,323 --> 00:18:37,242 But where's all the prostitutes and the junkies? 174 00:18:37,326 --> 00:18:38,994 - Soho's changed. - Shut up, Mike. 175 00:18:39,077 --> 00:18:40,329 Marcus. 176 00:18:40,412 --> 00:18:42,539 Yeah, it'll take me six months to get your name right, 177 00:18:42,623 --> 00:18:45,083 and if I've done my job, you'll be long gone by then. 178 00:18:45,167 --> 00:18:49,004 It looks like he's heading for Marylebone. Can you pick him up there? 179 00:19:04,561 --> 00:19:06,146 Where's he gone? We lost him. 180 00:19:06,230 --> 00:19:08,440 We just need to switch to another camera. 181 00:19:09,191 --> 00:19:11,443 - Cause of death? - What's going on? 182 00:19:11,527 --> 00:19:14,154 Ex-service agent found dead on a bus in Oxford Parkway. 183 00:19:14,238 --> 00:19:15,739 Just got the coroner's report. 184 00:19:15,822 --> 00:19:16,907 Guy! 185 00:19:17,699 --> 00:19:18,700 Heart failure. 186 00:19:19,535 --> 00:19:20,702 That's bollocks. 187 00:19:20,786 --> 00:19:24,081 Well, he was in his 60s, smoked, drank. Was probably on the cards. 188 00:19:24,164 --> 00:19:28,043 But I do all that and look at me. I'm in my prime. 189 00:19:28,794 --> 00:19:30,379 Why would someone wanna kill this guy? 190 00:19:30,462 --> 00:19:33,465 Maybe he went for a job interview without telling his boss. 191 00:19:33,549 --> 00:19:35,175 That's grounds for murder. 192 00:19:36,593 --> 00:19:37,845 Are you sure it's murder? 193 00:19:37,928 --> 00:19:40,639 He left a note on his phone that tells me it was. 194 00:19:41,849 --> 00:19:42,975 And you gonna tell us what it says? 195 00:19:43,058 --> 00:19:46,186 Yeah, well, I would if I thought you could offer up any insights. 196 00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:48,522 Here's an angle by the ticket barriers. 197 00:19:53,819 --> 00:19:55,904 Dickie goes through the barrier without buying a ticket. 198 00:19:55,988 --> 00:19:58,907 - So it's not a planned journey. - Yeah, rewind. 199 00:19:58,991 --> 00:20:01,076 - Dickie? - His real name was Richard Bough. 200 00:20:01,159 --> 00:20:04,413 He was an occasional in Berlin. Kicked out just before the wall came down. 201 00:20:05,664 --> 00:20:07,749 He's following someone. 202 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:11,753 I wanna see them getting on the buses at High Wycombe station. 203 00:20:14,047 --> 00:20:17,301 Well, hang on. That… That bus is closer, but he walks over to that one. 204 00:20:17,384 --> 00:20:19,052 I think he's following the man in the hat. 205 00:20:19,136 --> 00:20:22,139 Well, this hat was found near where Dickie snuffed it in the luggage rack. 206 00:20:22,222 --> 00:20:26,476 Ladies and gentlemen, the death bus is now pulling into Oxford Parkway station. 207 00:20:29,354 --> 00:20:30,898 Well, there's no one in a hat. 208 00:20:31,732 --> 00:20:34,359 That's because the hat was left on the fucking bus, you pillock. 209 00:20:34,443 --> 00:20:35,819 I'm holding it. 210 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,698 Just show me the footage from both platforms. 211 00:20:41,325 --> 00:20:42,784 It's the bald man. 212 00:20:42,868 --> 00:20:43,869 Which bald man? 213 00:20:43,952 --> 00:20:45,996 Center of screen, on the northbound platform. 214 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:48,415 He's got his back to the camera. He doesn't want to be seen. 215 00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:53,837 Where did your bald man go? 216 00:20:53,921 --> 00:20:54,922 Must've got on the train. 217 00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:58,509 No, he's still on the platform. Fast-forward to the next train, Roddy. 218 00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:11,230 Right. I want footage from inside that Oxford Parkway train, 219 00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,899 so we can see where baldy gets off, okay? 220 00:21:13,982 --> 00:21:17,277 I wanna know who this fucker is and where he fucking went. 221 00:21:17,361 --> 00:21:19,488 Footage from inside the trains is stored on hard drives 222 00:21:19,571 --> 00:21:22,533 that are physically swapped out once a week and are taken to a data center. 223 00:21:22,616 --> 00:21:24,910 I just fell asleep with my eyes open. 224 00:21:24,993 --> 00:21:27,996 Where they're copied and wiped, then put back on the trains. 225 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,331 It's legwork. 226 00:21:29,414 --> 00:21:31,667 You need a donkey for that, and I'm a thoroughbred. 227 00:21:31,750 --> 00:21:34,962 You, Ho, are a massive horse's cock. 228 00:21:35,045 --> 00:21:38,215 But you're right. I need a donkey to fetch those hard drives. 229 00:21:38,298 --> 00:21:39,299 Harper. 230 00:21:41,468 --> 00:21:42,719 You see that? 231 00:21:42,803 --> 00:21:43,971 - See what? - No. 232 00:21:44,054 --> 00:21:47,057 Harper just shared a little look with his girlfriend. 233 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:48,517 I wonder what that means. 234 00:21:49,518 --> 00:21:51,186 We've been seconded. 235 00:21:51,270 --> 00:21:53,021 Who by? Twats "R" Us? 236 00:21:54,064 --> 00:21:55,691 - Webb. - What… Webb? 237 00:21:55,774 --> 00:21:57,860 You're gonna work for that dick after he fucked me over? 238 00:21:57,943 --> 00:22:00,404 I don't know. I think it shows excellent taste. 239 00:22:00,487 --> 00:22:04,783 What's the assignment, and please tell me you can't give me any details? 240 00:22:05,659 --> 00:22:07,995 Security on a Russian back channel meet. 241 00:22:08,078 --> 00:22:09,079 Jesus Christ, Min. 242 00:22:09,162 --> 00:22:12,165 You were what, 549th on the list? 243 00:22:12,249 --> 00:22:16,712 You know, if it was anyone else I'd go nuclear bananas, but I hate Webb, 244 00:22:16,795 --> 00:22:20,132 and you will doubtless fuck it up, so I consider that a result. 245 00:22:20,215 --> 00:22:23,760 I'll get the hard drives then. They're too busy working for the enemy. 246 00:22:23,844 --> 00:22:26,180 Fuck off. You're planning to jump ship for Elessar. 247 00:22:26,263 --> 00:22:28,682 Don't grandstand when you're chasing the private pound. 248 00:22:28,765 --> 00:22:30,184 Where the fuck are you going? 249 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:33,478 I turned them down. I didn't want to do it. 250 00:22:33,562 --> 00:22:35,981 Well, we just sorted out your farewell present. 251 00:22:36,064 --> 00:22:37,065 Here. 252 00:22:37,983 --> 00:22:39,902 What am I supposed to do with this now? 253 00:22:41,236 --> 00:22:42,988 I'm not giving you any juicy action. 254 00:22:43,071 --> 00:22:46,575 I'm still laboring under the illusion that Shelby… 255 00:22:46,658 --> 00:22:47,659 Shirley. 256 00:22:47,743 --> 00:22:50,162 …is only half shit and not full shit like everyone else. 257 00:22:50,245 --> 00:22:51,246 So she's going. 258 00:22:51,330 --> 00:22:53,999 But why risk her when you know I could do the job? 259 00:22:54,666 --> 00:22:57,169 Sorry, it's just this is in my wheelhouse. I don't know what we're… 260 00:22:57,252 --> 00:22:59,254 - You have a wheelhouse? - Yes, I do have a wheelhouse. 261 00:22:59,338 --> 00:23:03,175 Do you know why she's at Slough House? 262 00:23:03,258 --> 00:23:04,426 No. 263 00:23:04,510 --> 00:23:06,970 Well, consider yourself lucky you stopped when you did. 264 00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:09,598 Wait, so what do I do then? 265 00:23:09,681 --> 00:23:12,684 Fuck off to the job center for all I care. 266 00:23:34,623 --> 00:23:36,583 You can think about getting a gardener. 267 00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:38,585 Too much for you? 268 00:23:38,669 --> 00:23:40,087 No, I'm just saying, you know. 269 00:23:41,255 --> 00:23:43,340 Maybe someone to do stuff around the house too. 270 00:23:44,883 --> 00:23:46,176 If this is leading towards, 271 00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:47,761 "You'd be better off in a home," 272 00:23:47,845 --> 00:23:51,306 I think I should warn you I once killed a man with a pair of shears. 273 00:23:54,685 --> 00:23:55,769 Wait, really? 274 00:23:55,853 --> 00:23:58,230 No, but it's never too late. 275 00:24:00,899 --> 00:24:02,442 How did the interview go? 276 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:04,903 Jesus Christ. 277 00:24:06,071 --> 00:24:09,074 God, spooks never do retire, do they? How did you know that? 278 00:24:09,783 --> 00:24:11,743 The director got in touch with me. 279 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:15,747 I said you'd prefer to be judged on your own merits. 280 00:24:17,332 --> 00:24:20,002 Well, I was and I didn't get it. So that's nice to know. 281 00:24:20,085 --> 00:24:23,213 I think they just got me in to hear stories about Lamb anyway. 282 00:24:23,297 --> 00:24:25,841 I can't see you in private intelligence. 283 00:24:25,924 --> 00:24:28,218 Well, luckily neither can the people in private intelligence 284 00:24:28,302 --> 00:24:29,720 because to them I'm still the dickhead 285 00:24:29,803 --> 00:24:32,014 who crashed Stansted on a training exercise. 286 00:24:34,558 --> 00:24:36,351 I thought saving Hassan would wipe the slate clean, 287 00:24:36,435 --> 00:24:39,146 but I'm still sat around like a spare part. 288 00:24:40,105 --> 00:24:41,940 Well, something will turn up. 289 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:45,194 Already has, but Lamb's shut me out of that one too. 290 00:24:45,777 --> 00:24:47,613 Tracking an FSB wet squad. 291 00:24:47,696 --> 00:24:48,697 Who is the hit? 292 00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:50,199 Richard Bough. 293 00:24:50,908 --> 00:24:52,326 Christ. 294 00:24:53,076 --> 00:24:54,244 What? 295 00:24:55,579 --> 00:24:56,955 Oh, nothing. I'm just… 296 00:24:58,498 --> 00:25:00,876 I'm amazed he was still alive, is all. 297 00:25:02,127 --> 00:25:03,462 How did he die? 298 00:25:04,546 --> 00:25:06,798 Heart attack. On paper. 299 00:25:06,882 --> 00:25:09,384 Well, maybe it was just a heart attack. 300 00:25:09,927 --> 00:25:13,388 I mean, I don't see anyone wanting to have Dickie Bough killed. 301 00:25:15,057 --> 00:25:16,391 Wait, so you knew him? 302 00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:18,477 Yeah, of him. Yeah. 303 00:25:19,686 --> 00:25:20,687 God. 304 00:25:23,482 --> 00:25:26,193 Come on. I need a drink for all this. 305 00:26:22,958 --> 00:26:24,001 Shit. Sorry. 306 00:26:24,084 --> 00:26:25,252 No worries. 307 00:26:38,265 --> 00:26:40,559 - Someone dropped this. - Thank you. 308 00:26:48,984 --> 00:26:50,027 Yeah? 309 00:26:50,110 --> 00:26:53,030 I need you to cut the power to the Datalok building at nine o'clock. 310 00:26:53,530 --> 00:26:56,408 - I've got a date in 30 minutes. - No, you haven't. 311 00:26:56,491 --> 00:26:59,703 I just lifted a security guy's card, and I need to get in there before he notices. 312 00:27:00,204 --> 00:27:02,497 Why do you need me to cut the power if you've already got his card? 313 00:27:02,581 --> 00:27:04,041 It only gets me through the outer gate. 314 00:27:04,124 --> 00:27:06,418 It's facial recognition on the door to the building. 315 00:27:07,419 --> 00:27:08,420 What's in it for me? 316 00:27:09,296 --> 00:27:10,797 A quick death. 317 00:27:22,017 --> 00:27:23,227 Cicadas. 318 00:27:24,811 --> 00:27:27,439 Sleeper agents embedded in British society. 319 00:27:27,523 --> 00:27:30,984 So named because cicadas spend years underground before hatching. 320 00:27:31,068 --> 00:27:34,404 And do you remember how we concluded they were a hoax? 321 00:27:34,488 --> 00:27:36,573 Yes. Because the spy master controlling them 322 00:27:36,657 --> 00:27:37,950 turned out to be a bogeyman, yeah. 323 00:27:38,033 --> 00:27:42,037 Alexander Popov. My fearsome opposite number. 324 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,790 Invented by the Russians to keep us chasing our tails. 325 00:27:44,873 --> 00:27:46,166 Yeah, well. 326 00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:50,420 Dickie's big moment came when he went AWOL before the wall came down. 327 00:27:50,504 --> 00:27:53,298 We thought he'd defected, and, 328 00:27:53,382 --> 00:27:56,134 to be frank, the Germans were welcome to him. 329 00:27:57,135 --> 00:28:00,556 And then he came staggering back, blind drunk, 330 00:28:00,639 --> 00:28:04,142 claiming that Popov and a thug had abducted him 331 00:28:04,226 --> 00:28:07,688 and interrogated him and poured brandy down his throat. 332 00:28:08,355 --> 00:28:11,316 I mean, obviously he'd been on an enormous bender. 333 00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:15,571 And he came up with the worst possible excuse imaginable. 334 00:28:16,154 --> 00:28:17,406 So we threw him out. 335 00:28:19,324 --> 00:28:22,536 Right, so there's no chance that Dickie was actually telling the truth then? 336 00:28:23,203 --> 00:28:25,539 None. I mean, Popov was a ghost. 337 00:28:25,622 --> 00:28:27,791 We never found a single cicada. 338 00:28:27,875 --> 00:28:30,085 Well, it's definitely getting Lamb worked up. 339 00:28:30,169 --> 00:28:33,589 Well, he's probably doing due diligence on an old joe, but… 340 00:28:34,756 --> 00:28:37,968 you know, Dickie's death was nothing out of the ordinary. 341 00:28:39,845 --> 00:28:41,680 He was following someone when he died. 342 00:28:42,306 --> 00:28:43,891 Maybe he saw someone that he shouldn't have. 343 00:28:43,974 --> 00:28:45,392 No, in Berlin. 344 00:28:45,475 --> 00:28:47,144 And then now again in London. 345 00:28:47,227 --> 00:28:48,854 Look, I know you had a knock-back today 346 00:28:48,937 --> 00:28:50,689 and you're desperate for something to happen. 347 00:28:50,772 --> 00:28:53,150 But believe me, this doesn't sound like anything. 348 00:28:53,233 --> 00:28:54,234 Why not? 349 00:28:54,318 --> 00:28:57,196 Well, heart failure isn't the FSB's style, is it? 350 00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:00,449 I mean, all their recent hits have left a clear signature. 351 00:29:00,532 --> 00:29:02,284 Usually radioactive. 352 00:29:03,202 --> 00:29:05,412 No, they want us to see what they've done 353 00:29:06,538 --> 00:29:10,000 and dare us to come up with a response that will never happen. 354 00:29:10,501 --> 00:29:12,669 - But what if this isn't the FSB? - What? 355 00:29:13,212 --> 00:29:15,130 - What if it's KGB? - Oh. No, no. 356 00:29:16,006 --> 00:29:17,841 Now you're chasing after your own tail. 357 00:29:17,925 --> 00:29:20,469 Yeah, I mean, those guys, they left no trace. 358 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:23,680 You wouldn't see them coming. Brush past, a tap from an umbrella… 359 00:29:23,764 --> 00:29:26,558 No, no, no. Dickie wasn't bothering anyone. 360 00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:30,479 Yeah. Maybe not. 361 00:29:34,107 --> 00:29:35,234 Right, I better go. 362 00:29:35,317 --> 00:29:38,278 Can I not offer you dinner? 363 00:29:38,362 --> 00:29:40,572 No. It's fine. I had something before. 364 00:29:41,281 --> 00:29:42,616 I'll clean all that up. 365 00:29:42,699 --> 00:29:46,161 No. Leave it. I'll do it later. I enjoy the night air. 366 00:29:47,913 --> 00:29:49,081 Be careful, River. 367 00:29:52,251 --> 00:29:53,627 What made you say that? 368 00:29:55,295 --> 00:29:57,714 There's a streetlight out at the end of the lane. 369 00:29:58,549 --> 00:30:01,635 There's a dark stretch between there and the high street. 370 00:30:03,262 --> 00:30:07,266 Right. Don't drink too much. 371 00:30:36,461 --> 00:30:40,048 Right. This is the Glasshouse where Webb has agreed to meet Pashkin. 372 00:30:40,132 --> 00:30:42,801 The entrance to the underground car park is on the street behind. 373 00:30:44,344 --> 00:30:46,305 And then, for the meeting, we take a lift 374 00:30:46,388 --> 00:30:49,016 up to the boardroom and disable the cameras. 375 00:30:49,099 --> 00:30:51,727 So we need to do a bug sweep the night before. 376 00:30:51,810 --> 00:30:53,812 We could check it out now. I bet the view's amazing. 377 00:30:53,896 --> 00:30:56,106 No. We can't get access until Webb gives us passes. 378 00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:57,608 Or we just use the building opposite. 379 00:30:57,691 --> 00:30:59,943 Have a roofnic. Scope it out from there. 380 00:31:00,027 --> 00:31:01,612 - Roofnic? - Yeah. 381 00:31:02,571 --> 00:31:05,532 How come Lamb knew about River's interview? 382 00:31:05,616 --> 00:31:08,660 Catherine said that they called in for a reference. 383 00:31:09,161 --> 00:31:11,246 Fuck. Brutal. 384 00:31:11,747 --> 00:31:13,957 So what, did he just fart down the phone? 385 00:31:14,041 --> 00:31:16,043 No. Apparently, it was actually pretty good. 386 00:31:16,126 --> 00:31:17,794 - Really? - Yeah. 387 00:31:20,547 --> 00:31:22,382 Pashkin is gonna meet Webb in the boardroom 388 00:31:22,466 --> 00:31:25,552 above Nevsky's office which is on the 42nd floor. 389 00:31:26,053 --> 00:31:28,055 Does that say… Almaz Trust? 390 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,015 Nevsky's company. 391 00:31:30,891 --> 00:31:34,770 It's Russian for diamonds. Made his first million as a gem trader. 392 00:31:37,731 --> 00:31:41,485 So, 42nd floor would be one, two, three, 393 00:31:41,568 --> 00:31:45,113 four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12… 394 00:31:45,197 --> 00:31:47,115 Min, just count down from the top. 395 00:31:47,199 --> 00:31:49,868 It's 50 floors, boardroom's 47th floor, Nevsky's five down from that… 396 00:31:49,952 --> 00:31:52,329 All right. Okay. Yeah. I can do the maths, yeah. 397 00:31:53,205 --> 00:31:55,999 That's why he wants to have the meeting in this building then? 398 00:31:56,083 --> 00:31:58,043 Yeah. Once we establish the boardroom's secure, 399 00:31:58,126 --> 00:32:00,629 you can just sneak upstairs and no one will ever know. 400 00:32:00,712 --> 00:32:03,590 Yeah. And it's not like anyone's going to be looking through the windows, is it? 401 00:32:04,091 --> 00:32:05,551 What's above and below? 402 00:32:06,593 --> 00:32:07,636 Nothing above. 403 00:32:08,637 --> 00:32:11,348 Below, apart from Nevsky's, there are private banks, 404 00:32:11,431 --> 00:32:15,644 investment companies, and then 20 floors of luxury hotel. 405 00:32:16,311 --> 00:32:19,398 Well, maybe we should insist on staying in the hotel as part of the op. 406 00:32:19,481 --> 00:32:20,691 Should we make that a deal breaker? 407 00:32:20,774 --> 00:32:22,234 - Shall we? - Yeah. 408 00:33:27,508 --> 00:33:29,801 You are a fucking dead man, Ho. 409 00:33:30,344 --> 00:33:31,595 I said nine o'clock! 410 00:33:46,693 --> 00:33:47,945 Fuck. 411 00:34:29,319 --> 00:34:33,031 I only realized when I got home. She lifted my wallet and handed it in. 412 00:34:33,114 --> 00:34:36,201 The card was gone. Fucking crazy. 413 00:35:42,684 --> 00:35:43,894 You go that way. 414 00:36:51,461 --> 00:36:53,255 - So did you get it? - Yep. 415 00:36:55,632 --> 00:36:56,633 Good job. 416 00:36:57,885 --> 00:36:59,720 Guess I'm not full shit then? 417 00:36:59,803 --> 00:37:01,805 Oh, no. Definitely not full shit. 418 00:37:01,889 --> 00:37:04,057 Yeah. Full shit be crashing Stansted. 419 00:37:05,392 --> 00:37:08,353 Well, actually that was a setup, so it… Forget it. 420 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:12,733 So you're here for… Is it punching your case officer? 421 00:37:13,525 --> 00:37:14,693 Technically, no. 422 00:37:15,444 --> 00:37:17,529 I mean, I did punch him after he made a pass at me, 423 00:37:17,613 --> 00:37:20,407 but I could've escaped that with a reprimand and a note in my file. 424 00:37:21,033 --> 00:37:24,494 It was the second punch that did it, after he said I hit like a girl. 425 00:37:25,162 --> 00:37:26,413 Didn't get up after that. 426 00:37:28,540 --> 00:37:29,833 Fair enough. 427 00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:36,507 He took a train from Oxford Parkway to Stroud, Cotswolds. 428 00:37:39,176 --> 00:37:40,511 I checked the station CCTV. 429 00:37:40,594 --> 00:37:43,013 Our guy walks off camera towards the taxi booth. 430 00:37:43,805 --> 00:37:45,974 Right. So we don't know where he went after that? 431 00:37:47,601 --> 00:37:51,063 It's gonna sound strange, but did anyone come near Dickie with an umbrella? 432 00:37:51,146 --> 00:37:52,439 Yeah. Loads of people. 433 00:37:52,523 --> 00:37:54,566 - It was raining earlier. - Yeah, no. I meant… 434 00:37:54,650 --> 00:37:56,735 You meant like in the Markov assassination. 435 00:37:56,818 --> 00:37:57,819 Yeah. 436 00:37:57,903 --> 00:38:00,989 Got a big wide-on for old-school hits, but no one jabbed him with an umbrella. 437 00:38:03,742 --> 00:38:04,952 What about the bald man? 438 00:38:05,452 --> 00:38:07,871 Told you, we lose him at the taxi booths. 439 00:38:08,580 --> 00:38:10,666 Yeah, but how close did he get to Dickie? 440 00:38:29,518 --> 00:38:30,727 That seat's taken. 441 00:38:30,811 --> 00:38:32,521 Oh, yeah? By who? 442 00:38:32,604 --> 00:38:34,481 Gillian Anderson's in the lav. 443 00:38:35,107 --> 00:38:37,860 Well, I imagine she'll be a while throwing up after watching you eat. 444 00:38:42,447 --> 00:38:47,244 Do you know how much it hurt me to write you an even half-decent reference? 445 00:38:48,287 --> 00:38:51,039 And all for nothing. I mean, you're still here. 446 00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:55,502 What you do, take a shit in the wastepaper bin halfway through the interview? 447 00:38:55,586 --> 00:38:58,714 Actually, what went wrong was not having anything interesting to say about you. 448 00:38:58,797 --> 00:39:01,216 Should've just told them that you eat like a dying horse. 449 00:39:03,093 --> 00:39:05,387 It's my fault no one wants to hire you? 450 00:39:08,974 --> 00:39:10,517 Dickie was murdered. 451 00:39:10,601 --> 00:39:11,977 I know that, you twat. 452 00:39:12,060 --> 00:39:13,520 Yes, but you don't know how. 453 00:39:15,022 --> 00:39:16,023 If you… 454 00:39:18,567 --> 00:39:19,943 Can I sit there or I'm gonna… 455 00:39:20,027 --> 00:39:21,028 I can't. 456 00:39:25,908 --> 00:39:28,744 Shirley got that footage that you asked for from inside the train. 457 00:39:30,370 --> 00:39:31,371 So, look. 458 00:39:33,665 --> 00:39:35,209 Dickie's nearest the door, right? 459 00:39:35,292 --> 00:39:38,504 Meaning that he has to get off first if he doesn't want to draw attention to himself. 460 00:39:38,587 --> 00:39:41,507 But what that means is that it puts the man that he's following behind him 461 00:39:41,590 --> 00:39:43,008 when they get off at High Wycombe. 462 00:39:43,091 --> 00:39:45,677 But look. He's touching Dickie on the arm. 463 00:39:46,220 --> 00:39:49,473 And then, if you go to the footage from inside the station… 464 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:53,477 Dickie's rubbing his arm. 465 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,938 Our man must have dosed him with something untraceable 466 00:39:56,021 --> 00:39:57,481 that shows up as a heart attack. 467 00:39:58,607 --> 00:40:00,025 Unless you want to run a bunch of 468 00:40:00,108 --> 00:40:02,486 complicated and obscure tests, which I imagine the Park 469 00:40:02,569 --> 00:40:04,863 wouldn't want to bother with even if they thought it necessary. 470 00:40:04,947 --> 00:40:06,198 Now… 471 00:40:08,575 --> 00:40:12,496 I bet you 50 quid that I know the message on Dickie's phone. 472 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,081 Just one word. 473 00:40:15,123 --> 00:40:16,166 Cicada. 474 00:40:40,566 --> 00:40:41,567 Not bad. 475 00:40:42,943 --> 00:40:44,653 What, my pitch or your noodles? 476 00:40:46,113 --> 00:40:47,364 Yeah. Keep the change. 477 00:40:47,447 --> 00:40:48,866 Thank you, Mr. Lamb. 478 00:40:50,325 --> 00:40:52,578 You know, the fact that I'm right means you give me 50 quid. 479 00:40:52,661 --> 00:40:54,663 I mean, that's how bets work, generally. 480 00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:58,250 Well, I'll take it as a fee for writing your reference. 481 00:41:00,502 --> 00:41:04,047 Okay, clever bollocks, what's it all mean? 482 00:41:05,424 --> 00:41:08,468 What it means is that Dickie wasn't lying all those years ago. 483 00:41:09,303 --> 00:41:11,388 It means he was grabbed, force-fed a ton of booze 484 00:41:11,471 --> 00:41:14,558 and then questioned by someone wanting to spread the myth of Popov. 485 00:41:17,477 --> 00:41:18,937 It's still a myth. 486 00:41:19,021 --> 00:41:21,899 Yes, Popov didn't exist, but maybe the cicadas did. 487 00:41:21,982 --> 00:41:25,235 Do. Maybe they hid the truth in a lie. 488 00:41:26,486 --> 00:41:28,780 And Dickie has seen someone, he's tailed them, 489 00:41:28,864 --> 00:41:30,908 they've not liked it so they've killed him. 490 00:41:30,991 --> 00:41:34,703 Because maybe they've been reactivated and maybe more people are gonna die. 491 00:41:52,596 --> 00:41:53,597 Where are you off to? 492 00:41:55,098 --> 00:41:56,517 Cotswolds. 493 00:41:58,644 --> 00:41:59,645 Good. 494 00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:02,481 Find out what the bald man did there, 495 00:42:03,190 --> 00:42:05,943 who he spoke to, and if he's still there. 496 00:42:07,819 --> 00:42:08,820 Yeah. 497 00:42:18,163 --> 00:42:19,331 Cheers, Mr. Lao. 498 00:42:21,166 --> 00:42:24,086 Can I get a couple of those prawn buns to go?