BLEEPING
BRAKES SCREECH
You're leaving them.
They're dead.
Shit!
Stop the van!
TYRES SCREECH
ENGINE ROARS
What? What!
I can't remember if I left the window open.
Maybe I did.
I left in a hurry. I... I forgot to close it.
HORNS HONK
TYRES SCREECH
Get in if you want to find out who killed your husband!
Don't. He doesn't know.
I'm all you've got. Get in!
It's not just a tag on your clothes, your whole life's tagged!
We don't know we were tagged.
You know for a genius, you're pretty fucking stupid!
Stephen. Wait.
I don't take rides from people who shoots guns at me!
Stephen.
Please.
Come on, genius!
TYRES SCREECH
What about the civil liberties of honest citizens?
Their freedom to go about their lives
without fear of crime or terrorism.
Think of how we lived ten, five, even two years ago
and how we live now.
And in trying to solve one set of crimes
you are creating the conditions for far more sophisticated ones.
Not with this system, it's new generation,
the encryptions are impossible to by-pass even if...
Do you know what an RFID tag is?
- Yes. - Radio Frequency Identification.
No thicker than a human hair, less than an inch long.
Developed as a way of tracking stock,
sewn into clothes, a pair of jeans
could be traced from manufacture to warehouse, to shop, to check-out.
Strap yourself in.
Do it!
A new generation of readers were developed,
linked to a satellite. It was a relatively simple step,
from tracking the jeans to the person who wore the jeans,
or the jacket or the shoes or whatever.
Believe me, genius, you were tagged.
I'll have them back to you in the morning. Good as new.
ENGINE ROARS
TYRES SQUEAL
BRAKES SCREECH
Fucking wanker!
Come on, you want to fucking have some with me?
HORN BLARES
He's not Nadir's father.
Stepfather.
Nadir's stepfather is dead.
Her mother died when she was 12,
her stepfather died two years ago. She told me.
Then it must be true.
OK, OK.
I don't have to tell you anything, OK?
And I don't have to tell you anything either.
But I'll tell you this,
we had a fight, OK, a big fight, bigger than normal.
She refused to contact me, she refused to acknowledge me.
I'm not proud of it.
I was in a job, it took me longer than I expected.
I came back to find my stepdaughter. Is that OK?
Anyway, where else are you going to go?
KEYPAD BLEEPS, LOCK CLICKS
She used to stay here from time to time.
Made this room her own.
There's a suitcase full of her stuff - you're about the same size.
Is it true that you've got three sets of identical clothes
and you just rotate them?
I've looked you up. There's a lot of weird stuff about you, pal.
Pick yourself something out from downstairs.
Recently deceased, but you're about the same size.
Nadir Alfalani. Burn her.
SIREN WAILS
He'll be early, he always is.
I know about your meeting with George Gibbon.
Am I under surveillance?
That's an odd question for someone in your profession.
There's nothing sinister about my meeting him.
It's just a hand holding exercise.
He has doubts about keeping Michael Ezard alive.
We've come this far at enormous risk.
We need to keep this between the three of us.
Circles within circles are not the answer.
I assume you'll find him lurking in front of a Nuna Dan painting.
Just a guess.
He has a part share in one.
He doesn't come to look at the art,
he likes to see the public file past in reverence.
It makes him feel secure about his investment.
Who killed Andrew?
In the coffin...
Who was following us?
Who is trying to kill me?
Hired help.
If it was in-house, they'd have got you first time.
As for who paid for it? I don't know.
What do you want?
I want to hurt the people who hurt my stepdaughter.
What about you?
Justice for my husband.
Bet I get mine before you get yours.
And you just want to lay something special at her feet, yeah?
I want to know why my brother was killed.
We have to assume they're going to keep coming after you.
Maybe someone thinks you know more than you do.
If it was more than you told me.
I've told you everything.
Well, in that case, you'd better stay right here.
No contact with the outside, nothing.
No phone, no internet, not even a pigeon.
And if you leave... you don't come back.
As for you, Stephen, you are our secret weapon.
You've got access to the most powerful database in the world.
Just don't let them catch you looking at it.
First you need to go home,
wear their tags and get back on the system,
then we need answers.
Start from the very beginning - a bad batch of vaccine.
Find the company that manufactured it.
You can't expect Stephen to do anything.
Whoever tagged you, now thinks you're a player...
..because you removed their tag.
What am I looking for?
I want you to sweep the apartment.
This thing will pick up on a wire.
It's also going to pick up microwaves, wireless networks,
everything, but it'll filter those out
and it'll pick up on frequencies
reserved for covert transmissions, cameras, etc...
Sweep for bugs but don't make it too obvious,
there could be cameras there,
you have to assume that all your clothes are tagged.
Test them, leave the tags in place and wear the clothes.
This thing.
I designed it so a kid could use it.
One button. BUTTON CLICKS
Don't come back here unless I bring you.
And she only ever used her own blood?
A pint per painting, mixed with various fixers.
Don't you find them rather depressing?
It's never depressing to have one's own feelings mirrored.
There's nothing worse than being in hell
and have everyone insisting on bright colours and happy music.
We're not in hell yet, George.
We have no idea what's happened to Stephen Ezard or Yasim Anwar,
we don't what they know, or who they know.
We haven't a clue who David Russell is working for.
What we do know, however, is
that we've given Michael Ezard the freedom of the city.
Someone who's not only capable of bringing down this government
but could also kick off World War III.
How close to hell do you want to get?
George, 30 minutes ago
Michael Ezard forced his way into the dead girl's apartment.
He looked around non-specific, took nothing and left.
And now we're locked onto him.
So, he's a few streets behind everyone else.
I think we can assume he'll lead us to his wife.
I know we're supposed to be celebrating
the miraculous resurrection of Michael Ezard,
but the sooner we get him off the streets
and into a place of safety...
First we have to let him run.
We need a complete picture, no loose ends.
MOBILE RINGS Excuse me.
Patrick Nye.
Didn't they all double in value after she committed suicide?
Yes. And then some.
I bought in afterwards.
The illegal that got picked up at the docks, it's not good.
I'd better go and take a look.
You don't have to go, you don't have to do this.
You don't have to compete with Michael.
Oh, Jesus!
KEYPAD BLEEPS, GATE CLATTERS
HORN HONKS
SINGS IN OWN LANGUAGE
It's me.
And I'm real.
I cried for you.
A lot of people cried for you.
It was a good funeral, a big crowd - you should have been there.
Well, right now I'm better off dead.
Where's Yasim?
I saw her a couple of days before the funeral,
after that, nothing.
Before the funeral?
So, she wasn't at my funeral?
No.
Why wouldn't she be there?
Nadir?
She wasn't there either.
I went to her apartment, the place was trashed.
Neighbours said they hadn't seen anybody for a couple of weeks.
What about my brother? - He was there.
Did you speak to him?
He showed up late.
When you saw Yasim before the funeral, how was she?
She was a widow.
She was in pain, sick with the grief.
I did it to protect her.
You faked your own death?
Not exactly.
I need you to break into this.
It's a copy of my brother's notebook.
I came in with some people, we need IDs.
They're good people.
Good, bad, we all need IDs.
Question is, do we have cash?
Absolutely.
Then they get the best.
Desktop stuff gets better all the time, perfect biometrics.
I need one in this name...
Anthony Cohen?
So, you're a Jew now?
I need to break inside a drugs company,
find out about a vaccine,
find out why somebody tried to kill me.
Maybe they got to Yasim.
Hopefully this might tell me.
Why not just ask your brother?
- You have brothers? - Enough for a football team.
- You trust them? - Yeah.
Except in goal.
Steve is the least political person that I've ever known,
suddenly he's fronting a government campaign
to get us all numbered and filed.
He's got encrypted data
on a scientist that I was coming over to see,
as well as data on Yasim, Nadir.
The scientist is dead, Yasim and Nadir are missing.
I need to know what he's up to.
I never really thought about my brother that much before.
I really have no idea who he is.
DRIPPING
DOORBELL RINGS
What are you dressed like that for?
Old clothes. I've been cleaning.
You never wear different clothes. Ever.
I'm so fucking angry with them!
Er, with who?
- Can I get a drink, please? - There's only water.
I get drunk on anything.
The part of TIA you're involved in is only the first step.
There's going to be a policy announcement in the next phase.
I can't tell you about it but I'm being eased out.
Not because of anything I've done,
it's all to do with a favour being done for somebody else.
My portfolio's been handed over to them.
You know, when I first saw the Cabinet table,
I thought if I ever I get to sit at it
I might actually have the power to change things.
Being a junior minister,
you soon realise why it's a coffin-shaped table.
What's wrong?
Nothing.
How long has he been like this?
- Who are you? - How long?
About eight hours.
If this man is sick, he's now mine, do you understand?
We need to get him moved.
Are you a doctor?
He needs to be in isolation.
It was the way it was dealt with, like, everyone knew except me.
What is that thing?
You're transmitting. BUZZING
You're wired, bugged.
I'm not wired, I'm not bugged, and I'm certainly not transmitting.
BUZZING
Do you want to search me?
BLEEP
LOW BUZZING
Well?
You're still transmitting.
Do you want to investigate further?
POWERS DOWN
I'm sorry.
Stephen...
..how can we get you to relax? Hmm?
- Ever since Michael's funeral... - I know. I know.
No, you don't know.
Michael's death could be related to deaths of refugees,
the deaths of scientists, biochemists, a lot of them,
including Moreton. - Stop.
Stephen, stop.
Look, creating the best,
most complicated conspiracy theory in the world
is not going to keep Michael alive.
Someone broke in to this place last night,
they looked through my files and then they...
And they what?
They ate some food, they made a mess, they took a shower.
And how did they break in?
The door wasn't forced, the windows were locked.
We call that having a key.
This is Michael.
Didn't he used to have this open house policy,
he'd hand out house keys to practical strangers.
It used to drive you crazy, remember?
Look, it was probably someone passing by.
They might not even know Michael's dead.
They looked through my notebooks.
So, they were nosey.
Well, it looks like I'm not going to get
my few moments of madness, am I?
There's something I need to tell you... about TIA.
There's a potential glitch - it could be serious.
Data protection.
There's a weakness when large companies
stream employee records onto the system,
and I need to take a look and test some parameters,
and we might have to turn off the alarm just for my entry,
and I'd need ministerial clearance.
- Is that really necessary? - Yeah.
We don't want to flag up any doubts.
Well, that's why I want to be able
to dip in and out of the system without anyone knowing.
All right.
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
- How long's Amir been like this? - This morning.
It might be something, nothing.
We'll get a doctor to him.
First ID, no ID, no doctor.
Don't worry, I'll have you fixed up in a couple of hours.
Yasim.
She's not in the camps, she's not with any of her family.
Everyone who can look, we've got looking.
OK, good.
You're certain you're not in the system?
I use an American passport, I was born there.
What about...
..Anthony Cohen?
Anthony Cohen. Irish.
Six weeks R&R in Kashmir.
Being him will get me into the drugs company.
Be sure this is who you want to be - an Irish Jew.
One swipe and the system gets you forever.
MOBILE RINGS
It's not Yasim.
Keep trying.
Your brother's notebook, no way they can pass the encryptions.
They keep trying, but they are like nothing they've ever seen before.
COUGHING
What's wrong with him?
WHEEZING
Is it contagious?
Anything?
No... nothing.
Don't keep tapping the keys.
'Patrick Nye.'
'Employment - British Intelligence.'
British Intelligence!
'Senior Officer.'
Patrick Nye. British Intelligence!
You said you didn't know who was involved.
I don't know the extent of the involvement.
A senior officer, possible connections to the Cabinet Office!
You sent Stephen in there without warning him!
What would have happened if I had? Ad what if he had bumped into Nye?
He wouldn't have known whether to shit himself or go blind.
He would have picked up on that in a heartbeat.
I was protecting him.
You are using him and you don't trust him.
Yeah, that's right on both counts. I know what I want, OK?
And I know what I'm prepared to do to get it.
You want justice, you're not going to get it,
but you're going to keep after it because that's how you're made.
O course I don't trust Stephen.
What happens when the big first jump comes along, eh?
And he decides you're just not worth it?
No, we're both using him, baby.
How is Nye involved? How?!
God, you're really beginning to annoy me now, you know that?
I'll tell you about Nye. He was at the camps.
He was making sure that the remains of all the dead
who died from the virus, or whatever it is, were burnt.
That's probably the same thing that's happened to Nadir.
- To destroy evidence. - Or to stop a plague.
Or both. Or neither.
Well, that did it.
'Kellerman-Deloit...'
Kellerman-Deloit, this is where they manufacture the Hep B vaccine.
Stephen can break into the database, the employee records,
see if he can find someone who worked on the vaccine,
a sympathetic ear, someone who might want to talk.
The company has enough data on their employees
to profile that accurately?
The clues are there if you know where to look.
In TIA you can dig even deeper.
What they buy, what they read,
what they watch, what they look at on-line,
their circles of acquaintance, subscriptions to organisations.
For what we need, he'll be looking for someone
who subscribes to something like Amnesty, Liberty, Save The Children.
Do they vote?
Are they politically active?
The dots are all there,
he has to join them up, make a picture.
'Approved match.
'Caroline Scott. KD employee.'
I have an appointment with Susan Ross.
Kellerman-Deloit, Anthony Cohen. BLEEPING
Thank you, Mr Cohen.
Thank you.
BLEEP
'Stephan Ezard accessing Kellerman-Deloit employee file.
'Level 3 security breach.'
It's very good of you to spare me your time.
What exactly is it you wanted to know?
Those four have yet to be checked.
Yeah, that's her car.
She'll come out in the next ten minutes
and take a left out the car park.
So, have you worked for him for long?
It's not just my concern.
There are a lot of us who think there might be
a link between the Hep B vaccine and the virus.
Now, every time we've tried to get records of batch numbers
to match to the spread of the virus we've met with brick walls.
We've bombarded the charity running the programme with questions
and got absolutely nowhere.
There's a fear, a silence.
Why me?
I saw your name on a memo you'd sent to the charity,
some boring information about a shipping date.
It's the only link I have.
This should have been handled better.
A lot better.
We also questioned it,
the spectre of a bad batch of vaccine,
the damage it could do to the company.
We found nothing,
and we took it to two independent bodies to make sure.
They came to the same conclusion.
Over 400,000 have had the jab.
About 1,000 had the jab from the same batch as the two dozen
or so refugees that have got sick and died.
The vaccine isn't the cause of the virus
or whatever it is that's causing the illness.
There isn't a link.
No-one in the camps were aware of any investigation.
It was thought to be too sensitive.
The fear was that a scare story
would stop the refugees taking the jab
which would cost hundreds, even thousands of lives.
And that's something you need to think about.
I've been very candid with you, Mr Cohen.
Now, you can walk out of here and repeat this conversation,
it would probably cost me my job.
But worse than that, it could start a scare story you couldn't control,
and do a lot of harm to people who need the protection of that vaccine.
If there was a conspiracy of silence,
it was entirely for the good.
My own guess is the illness is a virus and from the data I've seen...
..it doesn't have legs.
Oh, come on.
Wait! Wait! Wait!
- We'll lose her. - Wait!
She's getting away.
Go, go, go.
You all right?
Fine.
'Stephan Ezard's co-ordinates and position. Static.'
TELEPHONE RINGS
'I think you should get down here as soon as you can.'
It's Caroline, isn't it? Caroline Scott.
I'm Stephen, Stephen Ezard.
I represent a group of doctors who work in refugee camps.
They've been using the same Hep B vaccine you've been helping to make.
How do you know my name?
I looked through the Kellerman-Deloit employee files
for someone who was smart, honest, and cared about the world.
Stephen who?
Stephen Ezard. Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not dangerous.
We're surrounded by people, and security cameras and...
it's safe. I just want to ask you
a couple of questions about the vaccine.
I just work the line.
Look, I know this sounds odd but, erm...
These are some of the children we've been inoculating. ..
For their sake, just a couple of questions
about the production process.
Look, you've got me wrong, I'm not a scientist or a technician.
What you are is smart and decent and I need your help.
- I've got to get back to work. - Please.
I don't understand what you're doing looking through confidential files.
Just five minutes. I'll help you bag your shopping.
Leave me alone!
I'm sure we can progress this further.
The Prime Minister will need any policy differences ironed out,
then all you'd have to do is stand united against the common enemy -
Her Majesty's Treasury.
BLEEPING
Thank you.
I went ahead and saved you some time.
I got you some bread, biscuits, detergents, toiletries, beer, wine.
And there was a special offer on dog food, so I got two large ones.
You got beef and rabbit last time, so I got chicken and the veg.
I also got onto a government database.
That last eco-protest you went on with your daughter Isabel,
the East Midlands Airport, is listed.
Oh, and the library book you got out, the Philip K Dick novel, um...
Humpty Dumpty In Oakland.
Great read, but you're two weeks overdue.
Those children are dying.
Is everything all right, madam?
Since you've worked the line,
has the production of Hep B ever changed?
No.
Is it possible that there could be a defective batch?
It would be picked up.
There's constant sampling,
everything's heavily monitored, checked, regulated.
No bumps, no hiccups in the last three years, nothing at all?
No.
Except when the line broke down.
When was that?
About a year, year and a half ago.
What went wrong?
Something with the electrics, it stopped production.
How long for?
A couple of weeks, maybe three.
Yeah, three.
And what happened to you?
We got put on other lines.
Close to where you were before?
The other side of the plant.
Did you ever go back to the line
to see what was going on in those three weeks?
No, the area was cordoned off, sealed.
And they have to for hygiene - contamination risk.
But they were technicians working there?
Fixing the line.
They wouldn't have been producing vaccine.
- Can you remember the date? - My birthday.
I got sent home on full pay.
Now I want to know everything that's in my file.
Barbara, what are you doing here?
Having a think.
And you?
Looking for Stephen Ezard.
He's in there.
Minister, would it be possible
for you to come to the Prime Minister's office.
8:15, this evening? - Yes.
Stephen Ezard should know that I found his hiding place.
Third drawer down.
15th of July for three weeks.
If something went wrong, the date fits.
Caroline Scott said they weren't producing vaccine,
the line was down.
What if she's wrong?
That's the only access road in and out of Kellerman-Deloit.
And that's me.
Now if I access the automatic number plate recognition database
for those cameras. How long do they hold the data for?
A couple of years, in practice, forever.
You can store a billion numbers on a pin head, why throw it away?
We used to argue how many angels could dance on a pin head,
now it's car numbers.
So I've asked a simple question -
What vehicles only passed those cameras
from the 15th of July for next three weeks?
Anything before the 15th July or after those three weeks is excluded.
'Analysing matches.'
'Analysing results.'
- Four vehicles. - Yeah.
And every day for three weeks - they arrive early and leave late.
- Engineers fixing the line. - No, they have in-house engineers.
These vehicles are bringing people in from the outside.
We don't know why,
we only know that they were very busy for those three weeks.
All four of the cars are rental vehicles,
so let's ID the drivers.
KNOCK AT DOOR
The bloody driver dumped me out the front, in front of the cameras.
I must have looked like some teenager sneaking in.
George!
Good evening, Minister.
We need to talk through a number of concerns.
One of them being Stephen Ezard.
Israeli female, US female, two British males.
Well, one things for certain,
they weren't engineers fixing a broken line.
Those 15 micro-biologists, all dead in the last three years,
you've got four of them sitting right there.
Every one of them disappeared
one year after visiting Kellerman-Deloit.
So we've got something.
We need more.
The connections between them before that three-week period.
'Cross-referencing data.'
All four of them attended a seminar held by Professor Lawrence Cooper.
He's our man.
It passed the encryption? Thank you.
Bepa, I've found her!
There was one file not encrypted.
My own brother. He was stalking her.
He's got CCI footage of her meeting with Moreton
and we know exactly what happened to him.
Whatever you need.
It does explain Stephen's rather eccentric and paranoid behaviour.
Minister, I wish we had the luxury of time
for you to consider your options,
but we must act on this tonight.
You haven't presented me with a choice.
There's an absolute moral imperative here.
And I take full responsibility for Stephen Ezard.
Come on, Einstein! Let's move it!
Let's go, let's go!
I saw Michael, earlier today at the factory.
It looked just like him.
At first, I kept seeing him everywhere.
And there are times when the thought of never seeing him again
is overwhelming.
I'll never stop missing him.
You're so different.
If Michael were in your place, he wouldn't. ..
he wouldn't think of "us" as a problem,
He wouldn't be looking over his shoulder.
I'm not.
And as lovers, you're so different.
Not better or worse.
Just different.
Well, as in everything.
The only thing Michael and I could ever agree on
was that we must have had different fathers.
BANG ON DOOR Come on, let's go!
Be careful with Cooper.
He was willing to help before.
Tell me again.
I get Cooper, find out about the four dead microbiologists
and stay off the grid. OK?
COUGHING
COUGHING CONTINUES
GRUNTING
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