HE GROANS
Come on!
ELECTRONIC VOICE: 'Doors closing.'
'Doors opening.'
'Doors closing.'
'Doors opening.'
PHONE RINGS
'Right man.'
Wrong woman.
I know she was staying at this hostel.
I saw her.
She came out of here maybe three or four hours ago.
No. She was never here.
SIRENS WAIL
The introduction of ID cards into the United Kingdom
has been a huge success.
CHEERING
More than 25 million of us carry the card,
but as we anticipated with a voluntary system,
those who pose the most threat are those least likely to carry one.
MAN: I haven't got one!
LAUGHTER
We need this TIA vote.
An hour ago we had the numbers. What happened?
They went and got two out of hospital,
but unless they raid the morgue, we're still one ahead.
PHONE RINGS Excuse me.
Stephen.
Something's happened. 'Now is really not a good time.'
I need to see you.
Not possible, my love. We're bare knuckle all night.
Reason versus judiciary, and reason is having a very hard time.
Eleanor, please!
This is very, very serious.
'Tomorrow. Come and see me tomorrow.'
I can't go home. I'm frightened.
Check into a hotel, we'll sort it out in the morning.
ON TV: 'Meanwhile, in the Killi Faizo refugee camp
'on the Afghan border with Pakistan,
'it is now thought that up to 286 people may have died
'from a mysterious virus that has affected the area.
'Aid agencies and government research departments
'are combining in an effort to...'
KNOCKING MAN: Housekeeping.
Good evening, sir.
- Turn your bed down? - No, thank you.
No problem.
Polish your shoes?
I'll have them back for you in the morning.
- Good as new. - There's no need.
It's complimentary, sir.
'Mr Speaker,
'the introduction of a compulsory ID card
'and the expansion of the national database
'in the form of the TIA bill is a logical progression
'of this government's unrelenting fight against crime and terrorism.
'Mr Speaker,
'with TIA, there will be nowhere to hide.
'This government is going to drain the swamp.'
ALARM RINGS
HE GRUNTS
MUFFLED SHOUTING
Some people claim they can smell it.
Electricity.
Have a sniff. That's about 15,000 volts.
Who are you?
Every home should have one.
COMPUTER: 'Patching agent TIA database.
'Host programme activated.
'Reviewing science database.
'Microbiologists.' What is this place?
Have a seat.
I've got a question for you.
How many microbiologists does it take
to change a light bulb?
Go on, have a stab at it. How many do you think?
I don't know.
Just the one, but you'd better ask quick,
cos they're dropping like flies.
15 microbiologists,
all dead in the last three years, and not one from natural causes.
Not one.
Ring any bells?
Look, I don't know.
See, five Brits, three Americans, five Israelis.
The Israelis all went together.
Shot down on a commercial flight by a rogue missile, apparently.
And two Russians.
This guy here committed suicide.
Shot himself in the head, twice.
Dead microbiologist number 16.
Professor John Moreton. Now, you know him.
I-I met him once...
..for a few minutes. I don't know him.
Why did you meet?
Because I was looking for someone,
and I thought Moreton might know where they were.
I want to know who you are and what you want.
Who were you trying to find?
Dr Yasim Anwar.
Why ask if you already know?
See, all these people, they're all dead,
and they all specialised in either infectious diseases
or DNA sequencing.
Professor Moreton here, he fits the same pattern.
Worked for a biotech company,
sometime advisor for the government on nasty diseases.
Well, I wouldn't know, and I don't care,
because none of this has anything to do with me.
Nadir Al Fulani.
You met her.
Where did you meet her?
- Where did you meet her?
- In my apartment. - Oh, yeah? Where is she now?
She's dead.
She was sick, very sick.
I don't know what was wrong with her.
I found her in my apartment, in a coma.
I didn't get to talk to her.
- Where's the body? - I don't know.
I don't know.
It disappeared.
Along with Dr Yasim Anwar,
your dead brother's wife.
And you went along to see Dr Anwar,
so that she could tell you where Nadir's body was?
No. Dead or alive, I had no interest in Nadir Al Fulani.
Only Dr Anwar?
Yes.
What's so special about Dr Yasim Anwar?
I came back from China to bury my brother.
I don't know anything about this or any of these people.
Why her?
Why did you need to see Yasim Anwar?
I had to see her again! I just had to!
One more time. I had to.
You spent one night with her, and you had to see her again, eh?
Oh, no.
Oh, no, wait a minute.
No, no, no.
You came back to bury your brother. You turn up late.
I was on time,
and unlike you,
I hung around for the after-coffin party.
You didn't even stay to toast your brother's memory,
and this is what I'm thinking here.
You spent the night of your brother's funeral...
..banging your brother's wife.
Oh, that's good.
HE LAUGHS
That's really good.
Fond of him, were you?
She played you, boy.
She played you like a fish, then disappeared.
Sorry, my friend.
I had you down as a player.
HE SCREAMS
Congratulations, Minister.
Now we just have to win it outside the House.
It's all in place,
we kick the campaign off first thing tomorrow.
'Hello, this is Stephen Ezard, please leave a message.'
Stephen, it's Eleanor.
Where are you?
Why couldn't you go home? What's happened to you?
Call me back, will you?
Do we have any idea where Yasim Anwar is?
We hired in a double-blind so it can't come back at us.
There's a danger of exposure if we try to make contact.
- Sir, Madam. - Hello.
There's no calling him back. He'll either disappear,
or he'll continue until he's fulfilled his contract.
With a cost of how many more innocent victims?
George, John Moreton was innocent.
Yasim Anwar is innocent.
What the hell was Stephen Ezard doing in there?
As far as I can tell,
he hasn't alerted anyone to what he saw.
Not yet, anyway.
We need to understand him.
What he knows, how he's involved.
Then we can take a decision on him.
ENGINE REVS
TYRES SCREECH
TV CHATTER
'Breaking news now.
'We're getting reports of two deaths in the city,
'and we're going live...'
Eleanor, call me back.
'The two bodies were found by early morning cleaning staff.
'A police spokesman confirmed that a man and a woman
'had apparently died from gunshot wounds.
'Professor John Moreton was considered to be
'one of the country's leading microbiologists.'
'John was a brilliant scientist.
'Dedicated...
'..highly respected.'
'Police inquiries have centred on examining CCTV footage
'inside the building.
'I've been told to expect a further statement at any time.'
WOMAN: Stephen, what's happened?
You said if anything out of the ordinary happens,
that I shouldn't go to the police, I should talk to you.
I need to do that.
Ministerial drivers know more state secrets
than the intelligence services, and they are totally discreet.
Stephen...
..what's happened?
- What do you mean, kidnapped? - By a complete lunatic.
- What did he want? - Don't know.
Look, it's nothing to do with me. I was looking for Michael's wife.
- Why? - Look, that's not important.
I was there by accident. When I came to,
Moreton's body was on the ground, and...
I handled the gun, I panicked, and then and then I ran.
You have no idea how big I've gone on you.
Websites, newspapers, television.
PHONE RINGS Yes.
Commander, thank you.
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.
It was suicide.
Moreton shot the receptionist, and turned the gun on himself.
No, no, it wasn't suicide. I was there, I saw someone.
Think it through.
You saw a dead woman.
Moreton must have shot her, knocked you out, and shot himself.
The police have it all on camera.
- Then they'll have me, too. - There was no mention of you.
They'll want to question you,
but we'll ask them to keep your name out of it until any formal inquest,
hopefully several months from now.
They may not agree, but it's worth a try.
- Suicide? They're certain? - They found a note.
Moreton and the receptionist were lovers.
Well, what about the lunatic with the electric fence?
Brought you back to your hotel unharmed.
Those "access denied" buttons I warned you not to press...
Well, did your "lunatic" tell you
what your involvement was in all of this?
Well, he's probably working for us.
There are so many levels of security now.
And I'm sure he's come to the conclusion
that you're perfectly harmless.
How many biochemists does it take to change a light bulb?
Please!
Focus.
I know Michael's death has been a huge sadness,
a terrible upset.
But you've got a very long and important day ahead of you.
Put last night behind you,
and concentrate on TIA.
Now, go home and relax.
No amount of worrying will bring Michael back.
Which one?
The old man.
Get details, everything he saw.
Mr Nye, be careful.
Landmines. HE CHUCKLES
He heard two explosions, saw smoke.
The vehicle had burnt itself out by the time he got here.
No survivors.
How long between him hearing the explosions
and him getting here?
He was the other side of that ridge,
and on foot, so at least 20, 30 minutes.
There was another man, already here, up on that hill, watching.
When the old man showed up, he disappeared.
Younger? Older? Tall? Short?
He was like you, a Westerner.
What about a vehicle?
No vehicle.
No sound of one, either.
The man on the hill was on foot.
You've got no use for that.
He'd like the shoe.
He's already got the other one.
Mr Nye, what are you looking for?
Tyre tracks.
The old man said no vehicle.
How can a Westerner, like me, get out here without a vehicle?
So the camera missed him.
Must have.
You had the hawk up in the sky for how long after the jeep was hit?
Five minutes, no longer. Then we were gone.
So, between you going and the old man arriving,
there was a 20 minute window in which we have no idea what happened.
A man without a vehicle.
Yeah.
Those dead refugees...
start digging.
COMPUTER: 'Receiving data from 0.0.315
'on secure transfer protocol.'
'Starting facial recognition software.'
REPORTER: But TIA surely has possibilities, Lord Cawston?
'Well, if we joined everything up,
'then we'd be drowning in information,
'much of it contradictory information.
'All we are going to end up with is another UK database disaster.'
Stephen Ezard?
These databases, they never work?
Well, you say that...
'Well, Of course they never work!
'The idea that TIA will introduce
'a greater bureaucratic efficiency is a nonsense.
'The public services won't benefit from it.
'They'll just be strangled by 60 million different sets of data
'all trying to talk to each other.'
- It's beige, by the way. - What is?
The colour of the universe.
Thanks to genius here,
it takes four days to explain the shape of it,
but some Simple Simon in a garden shed and a homemade telescope
managed to work out the fucking colour,
and it's beige!
REPORTER: 'So, Stephen Ezard, a country strangled by information?'
'Yeah, well, that's a worry.
'Or it would be, if it was true.'
I've been listening to this rubbish argument all day long.
Think of TIA as an encyclopaedia, an huge amount of information.
Good encyclopaedia include several points of view on any given subject,
including contradictory ones.
Now, yes, a moron would be overwhelmed by it, confused,
but if you ask specific, intelligent questions,
you'll be able to extract the correct information.
The TIA is enabled to ask itself specific intelligent questions,
even when operated by a moron, and it asks those questions
and gets the correct information at a phenomenal speed.
REPORTER: 'Lord Cawston, Mr Ezard, thank you.'
PHONE RINGS
Phwoar.
Focus group feedback.
"Ezard doesn't give a toss,
"so he comes across as honest."
They love him.
The people love him.
PHONE RINGS
Hello? 'Good news from our source.'
The cameras weren't working in Moreton's lab.
The police have no plans to interview you or anybody else.
'It's as if you were never there.' Thank God.
Oh, and Stephen, thank you for earlier,
the feedback's been brilliant.
'Bye.'
Why were you following John Moreton?
- What? - Why?!
- I-I wasn't. - Liar!
He phoned me, told me.
You were asking about Michael, about me.
Then, that night, Moreton was dead, murdered!
- I was trying to find you. - Why?
I was looking for you.
I have been going crazy ever since you vanished,
looking for you!
After that night together...
..I had to find you.
I took a job, a government job.
The only reason I took the job is cos I knew
it would give me access to information that I needed to...
to track you down.
I cyber-stalked you.
I used satellite surveillance, street cameras.
I knew about your meeting with Moreton,
and the man who pretended to live downstairs,
and helped you to move Nadir's body.
With TIA, you can find out everything about anybody and...
I followed you last night to your meeting with Moreton.
- I went into the lab. - What did you see?
Two dead bodies.
I don't understand what's happening. I...
I haven't got a clue what's going on any more.
I can't read the signs, I don't understand the language.
Away four years, it feels like a different world.
Not that I paid attention to how it was before,
but it wasn't like this, it can't have been.
- Why did you come after me? - I had to.
If you'd left a note...
I didn't want to involve you.
In what?
The receptionist...
..I think they killed her by mistake.
It was meant to be me.
Stephen, you should be back in China.
No, if this has anything to do with Michael,
I have a right to know.
I'm certain now that Michael was murdered.
He was trying to uncover a link
between a hep B vaccine and the sickness.
Michael persuaded Nadir to fly over with a vaccine for Moreton to test,
but before she got it to Moreton, her apartment was broken into,
the vaccine was stolen...
and then she got sick.
What did she die from?
She injected herself with the vaccine a few months earlier,
to persuade a group of kids to take the jab.
But you're not certain that was the cause?
No.
She had the same signs of the sickness,
but she could have picked it up through contact.
So it could be contagious?
I got a sample of her blood to Moreton.
That's where I was when Mike was buried.
Moreton ran tests.
Didn't want to talk over the phone. I went to see him, but...
I never got to talk to him.
What happened to Nadir's body?
- It's safe. - From what?
If it contains any answers...
..whoever is trying to hide this link between the death
and the vaccine may be after it.
No. Never seen her.
HE GRUNTS
A couple of nights she stayed. A couple of nights!
Argh! Ah!
There was another guy, just like you, looking for her,
showing her photo around.
Him. That's him. He was looking for her.
Argh!
- Is that the last of them? - Yes.
Burn them.
Burn them all.
ENGINE STARTS
I hope I didn't wake you.
'I miss you. Both of you.
'I just want you to know that...
'..I'm very lucky to have such a beautiful and wonderful family.'
And I'll see you all very soon.
HE SIGHS
Michael said you could be a little obsessive.
I know that it shouldn't have happened.
But it did.
I was a good wife to Michael.
I really was.
I'm just not a very good widow.
The last time I felt safe was...
being held by you.
We could get away from here.
Somewhere remote.
Southern Europe.
I've got money, they gave me an advance.
No, no, no, no.
'John was a brilliant scientist.
'Dedicated, highly respected,
'and admired by those who knew him.
'As was Wendy. Wendy...'
Lawrence Cooper is in the same field as Moreton.
I know Moreton thought him a good man.
- He might help me. - With what?
Nadir's autopsy.
I can do it.
But I'll need Cooper to tell me what to extract so I can run tests.
You could cut open somebody that you knew?
I need to know why she died.
Have it done properly, an official postmortem.
- Make it legal. - I don't trust the authorities.
Now you sound like Michael, conspiracy theories and plots.
Moreton didn't trust them, and he knew better than me.
Michael went to the proper authorities
and told them about his suspicions.
He was dead a week later.
I need evidence.
No-one is going to listen to me without it.
I can't prove Michael was murdered.
I just know he was.
- Moreton too, and the receptionist. - That could have been suicide.
Stephen, it's OK.
You don't have to get involved.
I'll be gone in the morning. I promise.
No, no, you're staying here. What if someone's after you?
And you can't just walk up to Cooper and proposition him.
We need to know more about him,
make that sure he's likely to be sympathetic.
- How can we do that? - I can find out about anyone.
You're not going anywhere.
PHONE RINGS
'Hello.
'Guess who?'
I'll give you a hint.
Baghdad.
'Now, don't panic.
'We don't want to upset Mr Nye.'
Put your hazards on. Health and Safety would have a fit.
Put them on, so I know you care about your health and safety.
Now, we need a trade.
Some information for your life.
REPORTER: 'Fire crews and ambulance services
'are working round the clock.' - Dancing.
- That's all they were doing. - Dancing.
They were a target because they were young,
they were innocent.
We're up against fascist scum
who want to destroy our hope, our vitality,
the very essence of who we are.
Please, tell the Prime Minister that we won't fail.
We'll use TIA in its entirety.
He knows that. That's why he chose you.
But I'll tell him.
Has anyone seen Stephen?
He said he'd be here for the meeting,
can't find him anywhere.
PHONE RINGS
COMPUTER: 'Accessing science database.
'Searching microbiologists.
'Professor Lawrence Cooper.
'Employment, lecturer, University of Central London.'
Stephen Ezard, isn't it? 'Logging off.'
Barbara Turney.
I'm from the Prime Minister's office.
Hello.
I've seen your promotional work on TIA, it's very good.
I like your clear, no-nonsense approach.
- Well done. - Thank you.
I don't want to interrupt anything important,
but I noticed in the corridor there's a hunting party out for you.
- Oh? - A TIA briefing meeting
you're supposed to be at. - Right.
'Welcome, Ms Turney.
'Retrieving previous data.
'Stephen Ezard viewed Professor Lawrence Cooper.'
TIA can cross-reference acquaintance and activity,
so it would automatically profile individuals
who try to avoid joining the database.
If someone interacts with anyone on the database,
and they themselves are not registered,
they will be flagged
and the system will automatically investigate them.
We'll be able to enhance citizen profiling.
We've all got used to the idea of profiling,
especially in air travel.
With TIA, we'll be able to go nationwide.
It's used to identify the buying patterns of customers,
predict customers who are likely to change credit card affiliations,
or those susceptible to certain offers.
With TIA we'll have enough information on all UK citizens
to predict individuals with likely intent
of criminal or terrorist acts.
Stephen. Come in, come in.
Where's Yasim?
In the shower.
Why are you here?
Same reason as you. We're on the same side.
What happened to you?
I got caught up in this lot.
Magna Carta demo.
We're an anti-ID movement.
We'd collected over half a million signatures
to petition for the 15th of June to become a national holiday.
Magna Carta Day.
Just to remind everyone how important those rights are.
Return to sender, I think.
I owe a lot to Michael.
He woke me up. He got me involved.
- In what? - In what was going on around me.
I was never a joiner, always a spectator.
He changed all that in an afternoon.
Hi, Stephen.
It's a shame you never saw Yasim and Michael together as a couple.
I've never seen two people who were so meant to be together.
What's he doing here?
He's found me a clinic that I can use for the autopsy.
He's got a big heart.
He's been wonderful.
He was devoted to Michael, so...
we need to be discreet.
What about Cooper?
I think he's worth a try.
He's top of his field,
no-one's got a bad word to say about him.
His politics appear sympathetic.
He's giving a lecture tonight at UCL.
I'll be there.
COOPER: 'Close your eyes and relax.'
I want you to imagine...
that you are a nasty, virulent virus.
Now, a quick look round the hall tells me
that some of you will find this easier than others.
You can open your eyes.
That's my virus.
He's called Alan.
Which is also the name of the bastard
who keeps stealing my parking slot.
LAUGHTER
Now, I want you to see the world from your virus's point of view.
Obviously, you want to spread yourself around
to as many humans as possible,
but the last thing you want to do is to kill them all off,
because then you'd have nowhere to live.
If you're going to be a successful virus,
you have to learn how to tread carefully.
So, first off, I want to take a look at decreased virulence phenomenon,
the different ways in which a virus can hide within the host's body,
sometimes lying dormant in localised clusters of nerve cells
for the life of the host.
TYRES SCREECH
Holy shit. Illegals.
This is Delta-seven, Delta-seven. We're at HZ22.
We've got an IM50. Repeat, an IM50.
ALARM BLARES
Stay where you are.
Get your hands on the vehicle.
CHATTER
Excuse me, Professor Cooper, can I have a word?
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm rather busy.
My name's Stephen Ezard. It's very important.
Ezard?
Ezard's Theorem?
Yeah.
You're suggesting I take part in a backstreet autopsy?
More of a private clinical examination.
Well, this isn't your field.
- What's your role? - I'm just a messenger.
But you obviously believe it, or you wouldn't be here.
I don't know what I believe,
but if an examination came up with the answers,
then I think it might be worth the effort.
John Moreton obviously thought so.
The doctor in question wanted you to look at the evidence.
To be honest,
we all have misgivings about John's death.
It is true, those last few days,
he looked like he was under a lot of pressure.
Maybe because of this.
But I don't know anyone who was more unlikely to commit suicide.
Hm.
Ezard has such a brilliant mind.
Shame we couldn't confide in him, bring him on side.
Then he might not have been so useful.
And Russell?
He's been doing what he's good at...
disappearing.
It must stop. Now.
Everything.
We agreed to let it play.
Our man is still out there looking for Yasim Anwar.
There's nothing we can do.
Our group came in last night in a container.
We have one of them, and he's talking.
About what?
Our mystery man on the hill, so he should be with us soon.
George, we can contain this. Try to see the bigger picture.
Keep your nerve. It's what you're good at.
Cooper said yes, he'll do it. This is what he needs from the body.
STEPHEN: What's wrong?
Andrew was supposed to meet here me an hour ago,
to show me the clinic,
so I could check if it was suitable for the autopsy.
YASIM: He didn't show up.
STEPHEN: If we go back to the flat, he'll know where to find us.
- I don't know. He's... - Stephen!
How you doing?
Get in. I want to talk to your girlfriend.
Strip.
Both of you.
Everything off! Right fucking now!
He's tagged for sure, maybe you too.
He's that stupid, he probably let them shove one up his arse.
Put these on.
Put everything in this bag. Everything.
Where's Nadir's body?
You know, your brother wasn't killed by a landmine.
His jeep was hit by two RPGs.
I've spoken to the scumbag who set it up.
That's all you get for now. It's your turn.
Where's Nadir's body?
It'll probably take about nine shots to kill him.
He's a definite screamer.
You're going to break after the second shot.
THEY SCREAM
Don't tell him anything. Never give into his kind! Never!
Argh! Argh!
OK!
Get out of there, move!
Andrew? Oh, no.
No. SHE SOBS
This is where she was buried.
They take the bodies away and burn them.
What did you want with her?
She was my daughter.
Wait.
Who killed Andrew?
Who is doing this?
Who is killing them?
Please, help us!
CHEERING
SHE SOBS
Come on.
Let's go home.
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