Previously on this season of The Mallorca Files...
[gunshot]
- [Max] I really think we're a great team. - [Miranda] Having a nice time in there?
- Out! - [Max] The perfect match.
Thanks, Max.
[yells]
I was talking to the car.
So this is the famous Miranda.
Kept asking if you were my girlfriend.
[Miranda] Maybe talk to her?
It's just about communication.
I got a new job. It's in Madrid.
[Miranda] Carmen needs to know that you will follow her anywhere.
Which you totally could have told me to say yesterday.
- Okay. - [Carmen] Six months.
After that we're together forever or forever apart.
Detective Benito Mancuso, Barcelona Police.
- But you can call me Benny. - [Miranda] This is a British citizen.
- On our island. - Never heard you call it that before.
- [tyres screeching] - What the hell are you doing?
Thanks so much for fighting our corner, Inés.
Wow. There's so much I could say about this.
It wasn't anything serious. Just a bit of harmless fun.
Barcelona have decided to start again, but this time without us.
Because this is the second time in a matter of months
that we've been shut out by the mainland.
Which is clearly meant as a punishment.
[Inés] This is a small island.
We can't be chasing high-profile criminals every day, can we?
[Max] She really needs this holiday. Miranda!
I just need to love myself a little more.
What about other people?
We'll see, won't we?
[suspenseful music playing]
- Guard down. Guard down. - [gunshot]
- [screaming] - [Miranda over coms] Shots fired,
requesting backup.
[gunshots]
[guests clamouring]
[gunshots continue]
[Miranda] Max!
Max! [gasping]
♪ When the moonlight shines ♪
♪ Down on the sea ♪
♪ And you think that you've got A shot at me ♪
♪ Better set me free ♪
♪ You gotta set me free ♪
♪ I surrender ♪
♪ Surrender ♪
Going to show me your pot?
It's a bowl.
I think the colours might be a bit much.
I mean, I'll probably take it back.
Maybe don’t overthink it so much.
Have you met me, Max?
Hey. You saw something you liked, and you went for it.
That's a win.
This is it.
[man] When she didn’t come to the restaurant I called her.
The door was open...
I saw the room and called the police.
You're Empar's boyfriend?
Yes.
Er-- Okay, Mateo,
you said Empar's a journalist,
but I don't see a computer or laptop anywhere.
Her laptop stays with her
but she uses pen and paper here.
Too easy to hack the WiFi.
She was an investigative reporter in Madrid.
Now she writes for Viva Mallorca!
Oh, your type of magazine.
- [chuckles] - [scoffs]
Upset them how?
She's passionate. She won’t be quiet if she knows something's right.
I found this here two days ago.
[Max] "Drop the story."
She made me promise I would not go to the police.
What's she working on?
An interview with Alexander Sundberg.
Alexander Sundberg. The Eco guy.
The one hosting that environmental event.
Yep.
Mateo, erm, we're going to need a recent photo of Empar.
Yeah, sure.
I think she's in real danger.
Don't worry, we'll find her.
[upbeat music playing]
Wow!
Quite the place to hold an exclusive summit.
What, an industrialist, living in a palace,
banging the drum for the environment with his billionaire mates?
More like an eco garden party.
[Max] Miranda Blake,
always seeing the good in people.
So, Mr Sundberg...
that's her.
Ah, yeah. She annoyed me.
She came here under the pretense of an interview on climate change
and started asking questions about my family.
Asking what?
Questions about my son.
I’m trying to get 30 industrialists to see the light,
and this woman asks me about my son’s sports cars.
He has one sports car which is soon going to be sold off for charity.
I have transformed our lives and my businesses,
but she, she still came looking for dirt.
So, the, the last time you saw her was--
the interview. Which ended abruptly.
When was it? Er, Tuesday this week.
You know I have to go out. What is this meet and greet?
We were just discussing you.
This is my son, Ellis.
Someone for whom the world's most expensive education
didn't include social graces.
Meet your friends earlier if you must,
you're meeting Lila Beck at 2.
It shouldn't be too difficult.
Whoa. Movie star Lila Beck?
Yeah. You know her? She's our ambassador.
- Wow. - [Alexander] Mm-hm.
So, Ellis, is that acceptable?
Yes, Father. Just a little notice would be nice.
The detectives are here to ask about, er...
- What's her name? - Empar Rodrigues.
Oh, yeah, Empar Rodrigues.
Here. That's her.
Yeah,
she was here to, er, interview my father. I didn't meet her.
So, I think we've answered all your questions.
Yep.
Did you know this about Sundberg?
Why he's now all Mr Eco?
What I know is, he made a billion euros,
and now he's trying to spend it all on saving the planet.
Well, he had a factory in Brazil,
and all the runoff pipes got contaminated with industrial waste,
killing everything around it for miles.
Even kids from the local village.
Wow.
Yeah, he handed over millions in compensation,
then he closed every factory down.
That's intense.
You know Lila Beck doesn’t fly anymore?
- Really? - Yep.
And all her film sets are, like, carbon neutral.
Tell you one thing that wasn't neutral back there, though.
His son’s face when you showed him Empar’s picture.
Yeah, and there he goes.
Well, at least he’s made it easy to follow him.
[Miranda] Let's see who his friends are.
[dramatic music playing]
[maid] Housekeeping.
Good morning, sir. Would you like the turndown service?
[Miranda] They seem nervous.
Do you think they're waiting for someone?
- [camera shutter clicks] - All right. I'll send them over.
See if we can get a match.
[Miranda] Look behind you.
Hat and glasses on the stairs.
We're not the only ones watching Ellis.
Maybe that's our third man.
Or woman.
I'm going to take a closer look.
Keep and eye on the cafe.
[suspenseful music playing]
Palma Police. Stop. Stop!
- [speaking Spanish] - Okay, okay.
- Stop struggling. - Get away from me!
Stand still!
Thought so. Empar Rodrigues.
We've been looking for you. Come.
[Max sighs] You know this man?
With Ellis Sundberg?
Maybe his boyfriend.
Well, your boyfriend reported you missing when he found your apartment torn up.
So we're here in the middle of our day to ask you
why you disappeared and didn't think to report it.
Look, I'm just trying to do my job.
Well, your job is going to directly affect our job.
Not my problem.
Well, we have no problem with arresting you for hindering an investigation.
So let's try again.
Do you know this man with Ellis Sundberg?
Of course.
I’ve been following him for two days.
Yago Cabrera.
Following him why?
He's a suspected eco-terrorist.
And Ellis Sundberg made contact?
Is this what you mentioned to his dad that killed your interview?
No, I was a little more subtle.
I asked about his associations.
What contacts Ellis is making,
now daddy is trying to save the world.
He kicked me out.
Okay.
So, Sundberg’s security team trashed your apartment
and you go on the run?
What's going on, Empar?
Okay.
Okay, Detective Winter, you formally arrest Empar
for hindering an investigation,
I’ll go get us some coffees and doughnuts, shall I?
There's an assassin on Mallorca.
To kill someone at the summit tomorrow.
I-- I don't know the target,
but the assassin, they call him El Juez.
The Judge.
They think he killed two industrialists last year.
One in Bilbao, one in London.
It has become his specialty.
And Ellis Sundberg’s in the middle?
Ellis asked Yago Cabrera to act as a go-between.
Last week I followed Yago to a meeting with the Judge.
On the mainland.
The photographs are not that clear.
I was waiting for another chance later today,
but you brought me here instead.
Stay here.
[Inés] So, this "Judge" is on my island?
You don’t think this journalist is just trying to save her career?
I think she believes this is really happening.
Then it’s good we’re getting help from the mainland.
Okay, but I'd like a chance to investigate
before we run to big brother and look like idiots.
[man on video call] I don’t remember ever thinking of you as an idiot, Miranda.
Erm, I was on hold.
Miranda Blake.
Robbie!
Erm, Detective Inspector Turner.
INTERPOL. This is Detective Winter.
Hola!
Erm, you know each other?
Detective Inspector?
We trained together at Hendon.
They may not have covered this in training,
but when you request access to an INTERPOL file,
it tends to spark a little curiosity the other end.
And what do INTERPOL think?
Er, we have our doubts the Judge is anywhere near your little resort,
but ignoring the evidence so far would be foolhardy,
so I would like you to liaise with us from now on
and keep us up on your investigations.
Of course.
And if your mystery man turns out to be something a little less dramatic
than an international assassin,
we can close the case.
That's a good plan.
[DI Turner] Excellent.
Really very nice to see you again, Miranda. We should...
We should catch up.
What?
He’s a very competitive, very arrogant man.
I mean, I haven’t seen him in 15 years but now he’s a DI of INTERPOL.
So, erm--
This journalist, this Empar,
she's going to be our guest for a while, right?
Well, reluctantly. She’s, er, very headstrong.
Then I think you should be trusted to convince her.
Good.
Stay here and do what?
This story is my chance to make a difference.
I have to tell it.
Okay, but if what you're saying is true, your life is possibly in danger.
So you will stay here, won't you?
Then I need my phone back.
Ellis!
Ellis, get here.
- What's he supposed to have done? - Well, we--
What?
I’m Olivia Levant, Mr Sundberg’s family lawyer.
You were speaking with this man earlier today, Yago Cabrera?
Yago's an eco-extremist
- with terrorist links. - [Olivia] Ellis,
- you don't have to respond. - A terrorist?
How can you be so foolish?
He’s an activist, a campaigner. Am I under surveillance?
[Alexander] With what I am trying to do here?
The guests for the summit are arriving right now
and this is what they're going to see.
Fine, Ellis!
I was trying to get him to be on our side,
so I set up a meeting with him so he’d talk to his people.
Well, you should have talked to me first.
Okay, I'm sorry, this is all a stupid mistake, are we done?
No, we need to speak to Yago Cabrera.
So where can we reach him?
[Olivia] I think my client has told you everything he knows.
You're making fools of yourselves.
[upbeat music playing]
[Miranda] Ellis is lying.
But he’s never gonna do anything in public now he knows that we're watching him.
- Let's go find Cabrera, see what he knows. - [phone ringing]
Ah, Inés. Hello.
Empar's gone.
I assume you would like uniform to check her phone location?
Yes, please.
Congratulations. As you expected.
You’re sure it’s the right idea though?
It's not too risky?
I know she’d never let us get in the way of her doing her job.
And, you know, if she's back using her phone, then...
[Max] The ping gives us the location.
I do have some rough idea how this works.
And you'd make a terrifying journalist by the way.
According to her phone ping, Empar has been in the same location for an hour.
And call log says she’s rang this same number eight times since Monday.
It's registered to Yago Cabrera.
Yago’s the go-between. He's her source.
He's how she knew where the Judge was gonna be.
I think he's here.
It's just how do we track him?
There are a thousand places to land by boat without being seen, so...
Okay, if we can match up the time of Empar’s calls to Yago,
with arrivals at any hotel in the island in the last 24 hours,
get up the CCTV. The Judge could be on it.
Okay, but first, go and ask Empar about this Yago.
I need to talk to them both. Oh--
Si? Hey, hey, Detective Blake.
It's Empar's boyfriend, Mateo. He's on the phone asking for an update.
- You didn't tell him we found her? - Well, I thought she would do that.
Just tell him-- Tell him we're on our way to talk to her now.
Oh, I'm really enjoying my new job as your assistant.
[Miranda] We know Yago is your source.
We have access to your phone records.
Look, we believe you, Empar, okay, but you’re making yourself a target.
Help us with our investigation.
I can’t help if I’m locked in a room.
Okay, but if we figured it out, then so will they.
Okay, with the police involved, we can really turn up the pressure on them.
Tell us where we can find Yago.
I don’t know where he is. He phones me, we meet.
That's when I know.
You know I must finish what I started.
Enough. For your own safety, you're under arrest.
No, wait...
[sighs]
There's something else I haven't told you.
They talk about killing El Santo.
Their code name for the target.
"The Saint." That has to be Sundberg.
So Ellis Sundberg wants his own father dead? He's arranged it?
Wouldn't be the first rich boy to have a problem with daddy.
But maybe it's someone else.
That’s what I’m trying to find out, so let me, okay?
There's not much time before the summit begins.
Okay.
[whispers] What are you doing?
Just...
Max.
- You're kidding me. - Yago Cabrera?
Stop! Palma Police!
Empar! Empar, stop! Stop!
[car alarms wailing]
Empar...
No! No!
Get back!
I mean, Empar knew.
The Judge is on the island, I was looking right at him.
There is something to discuss.
We're gonna get Ellis Sundberg.
His middleman is dead, so he's gonna be scared.
- Detective! - And if Yago set up the link
then the Judge is going to be clearing up all the loose ends.
I think Ellis is way out of his depth.
- Miranda! - [knocking on door]
Inspector Villegas.
DI Turner.
Detectives.
You're here to run our investigation now?
Our priority is catching the assassin.
The summit launch is this evening. We have a little over five hours
before the Sundberg compound is filled with potential targets.
Okay... Where do you want us?
Thank you for your case notes, detective.
But this isn’t a collaboration, it’s a handover.
Well, the case notes aren’t everything.
- We won’t need anything else. - So no local intelligence?
[Max] Miranda...
Okay.
I don’t want there to be a problem between us, Miranda.
Okay, look, just answer me something honestly.
You didn’t have to take over. You could've worked with us.
That's not what we do.
Okay, and I suppose this has nothing to do with me turning you down?
You really think I meant that?
[scoffs] Okay. My mistake.
Also, that was a long time ago.
I'd like to think about the now, you know?
Like, what about you, here? [disparagingly] Mallorca.
I genuinely thought you’d be, like, top tier.
I don't get it.
Well, maybe I wasn’t as good at crawling up that career ladder.
Or, maybe they created the phrase
"cop out", just for you.
Mateo...
Very sorry for your loss.
We tried-- We tried to tell her.
She wanted to do her job.
You just had to protect her.
They're taking me to identify her body.
Maybe if you had done your job,
she wouldn't be dead.
[sombre music playing]
I think you're mad if you don't like this bowl.
But yeah,
why don’t we knock off work for a bit if you want to look for another one?
Hey, sorry about Mateo.
What he said wasn't... wasn't fair.
Yes, it was.
You know, Max,
you were very quiet back there when Turner was trying to take our case away from us.
- I-- what? - Mm.
[scoffs] This isn't Mancuso coming from Barcelona,
this is INTERPOL.
What do they care about the local pen pushers?
Yeah, that’s how they see us. It’s like in that Al Capone movie.
Where the guy says, "You’re bringing a knife to a gunfight?"
They've got, I don't know, satellites.
We've got phone records. And us.
It's not enough.
And so, what? We just go back to keeping Mallorca safe,
while a guy I trained with investigates an assassination.
Of someone we were supposed to be protecting.
I'm sorry about Empar,
but this here, I just don't know what to say.
So Mancuso goes back to Barcelona to head up the next big case.
This jerk, what's his name, Turner,
take our case away, so what?
It doesn’t mean your life here isn’t enough.
You see, you would say that, though.
You would say that because you always look for the easy life.
You just come to Mallorca, you spend half your day cruising around
in your BMW soft top and the rest of the time, you're in a bar.
Wow. Yeah, that's me exactly.
My whole life. Spooky.
All I'm saying, Max, is ambition is not a dirty word.
I'm sorry I'm not more like Mancuso.
- Don't be so ridiculous. - Well, you win the prize for that.
[scoffs]
The ex-pat Brit, afloat in the Mediterranean.
Too delicate for the savage locals to understand,
but too important to join in with their culture,
but always, always judging them--
Yeah, well at least people take me seriously.
You even managed to screw things up with Carmen!
She knew that if she stuck around,
that you two would still be drifting along 20 years from now.
How's that going by the way? The break.
Have you even spoken to her since she left?
[poignant music playing]
You know what?
You had the chance to go back to your old life
and you turned it down.
That was your choice.
You know what the difference is between you and me?
I want to be here more than I want to be anywhere else.
You don't know what the hell you want.
The Judge's past victims include industrialist, Eric Drayton,
killed with a high-powered sniper rifle.
The Judge's MO is high-profile victims in public places.
Like the London and Bilbao incidents.
El Santo is the code name for the new potential target.
And we only have three hours until the summit launch.
Close the door, please, would you?
Yeah.
Let's find out who's next on the Judge's list.
[phone chimes]
[sentimental music playing]
CCTV at the San Philip Hotel picked up this
within two hours of an encrypted call to Yago Cabrera’s cell phone.
A male figure enters room 706 at 11:15 am.
A chambermaid visits at 11:30,
leaving shortly afterwards.
And then, at 12:15,
a second male figure exits the room.
No CCTV picks him up entering the hotel before this point.
This is the same man that checked into room 706,
and he's changed his appearance.
Facial profiling suggests a match for the Judge.
I’m going to brief the assault team. Good work people. Let's go!
So our case file was useful?
I think we would've got there on our own, detective.
Oh, we do have something for the Mallorcan police to do,
as DS Blake was so keen to be involved.
Inés sent me.
They found the Judge.
And they're sending a team in to get him, so...
we've got a job to do.
What, Turner wants us at the takedown?
Not exactly.
- Gracias. - [man] Bye.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
I didn’t do my firearms training to be a damn security guard.
We don't have evidence on Ellis.
And I may not be a real police officer like you,
but I know what's going to stick in court and we don't have it.
I never said you weren't
- a real police officer, Ma-- - [Max] Okay, sure.
What are you doing?
They’re about to arrest the guy who’d be doing all the shooting.
Fine.
[Max sighs]
[camera shutters clicking]
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
[Turner] Until the Judge is in custody,
you must remain hyper-vigilant.
Security checks will detect anything unusual,
but stay on high alert, the duration of the event.
[sirens wailing]
[camera shutters clicking]
[photographers clamouring]
Go, go, go.
[dramatic music continues]
You're wearing an amazing dress, where's it from?
Don't ask me about the dress.
[Turner] Assault team separate and proceed with caution.
We're doing terrible damage to the planet. Write about that.
[Turner] The Judge must be stopped before he can leave the hotel.
Do what she says. Write about it.
Lila, how are you doing?
[Turner] If the Judge infiltrates the grounds, it's over.
[dramatic music playing]
[Turner] Remember, target is armed and highly dangerous.
[shouting in Spanish]
- Secure him. - [groans]
[police officers speaking Spanish]
[sighs]
[indistinct chatter]
The Judge is in custody.
Where are you going?
Hey.
The assault team have arrested the assassin.
That's good. Fantastic. My father would like to know that.
Two people are dead and you wanted to kill more.
Something to tell us?
We’ve been doing this for a long time.
You don't walk away from having people killed.
I had nothing to do with that.
I guess we should just be grateful that Empar didn’t have any children.
I don't know about Yago.
- Did you know him well enough to ask-- - No!
No.
You didn't plan that did you?
I would never have people killed.
You didn't know, so...
So who organised it? Who else is involved in this?
Maybe there was an idea for a publicity stunt.
Someone got hired, someone very good at their job
to take a shot at a VIP.
So it would bring attention to the cause.
- So you arranged a publicity stunt. - It was arranged.
You mean a fake assassination of your father planned by you and him?
Maybe, but the original plan got hijacked,
- so it would be an actual death. - Who hijacked it?
Well, it doesn't matter.
Does it? I mean it's over.
If that woman's in custody, it's over, right?
If what? What did you just say?
What woman?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ellis] A woman was hired to take the shot.
That's all I know.
[Miranda] What about the Judge?
[Ellis] It was his job to provide the gun and get it inside.
Who's the target?
- Your father? - I, I don't know.
People that you're working with had access to your contacts
and they're using them against you.
If you're not in control of this, someone else is, so who can stop it?
[Miranda] Ellis.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ellis] I want my lawyer.
Can we get someone on the roof?
There's already someone up there, it's more than enough.
The Judge wasn't working alone, Inés.
He has a female accomplice, she's here somewhere
and we don't know what she looks like,
so we need to use the rooftop as high ground.
Okay. Okay.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Max] Don't be a martyr, okay?
[scoffs] Why would I be a martyr?
I haven't found anything that I'd die for.
At least Empar died for her cause.
Hang on, El Santo.
She said the target was called El Santo. Saint.
Well, saints are martyrs, right?
He wanted a martyr for his cause from the very beginning.
Sundberg.
He wanted a real death to put his cause on the news
all over the world.
But who's his target?
One of his billionaire friends?
Or a movie star.
[Max] Someone the world would miss.
Lila Beck. She’s the only target that makes sense, Max.
So what do we do?
I’ll check out the high ground. You stay here.
- Guess that's the only thing we can do. - Hey!
You promise me, nothing heroic.
We do our jobs, we go back to hating each other.
Yeah?
Okay.
[suspenseful music playing]
Guard down. Guard down.
Police, drop your weapon!
- [gunshots] - [guests screaming]
[Miranda] Shots fired, requesting backup.
No, no, don't panic, we'll go this way.
- [gunshot] - [gasps]
- I told you. - Get off me!
[gunshots continue]
[dramatic music playing]
[gunshot]
[Miranda] Max!
Max!
[Miranda gasping]
You always look for the easy life.
At least people take me seriously.
I never said you weren't a real police officer.
[breathing heavily]
Stand still! Stand still or I'll shoot you!
You are under arrest.
Come on, come with me, come with me.
[grunts]
[gunshot]
[gasping]
Ma--
[panting]
I thought you were dead.
Seemed like the better idea.
[exhales]
Nothing's ever enough for you.
Looks like we're gonna have to try and save the world without you.
Well, good luck with that detective.
You and the hand-wringers driving hybrids.
That will stop global warming.
So, we sorted out that mess for you DI Turner.
Well done, detective.
Don't worry, Robbie.
Back to being a cop-out tomorrow again, I'm sure.
So this is where you tell me you’re happy I’m not dead?
I'm not, not happy.
I, erm...
I said some pretty mean things.
- You made me a little mad, so-- - Apology accepted.
I'm sorry.
Oh, you have some dust here.
So you're just sitting here
thinking about how I nearly died.
Yeah.
Actually, no, I was, erm...
I was wondering how it felt.
My life didn’t play like a mini-movie.
But if you're asking,
did I realise what was important to me,
I think so.
[voice breaking] I think I did too.
[sobbing and laughing] I mean,
imagine the hell of trying to get used to a new partner.
- Yeah. - Oof.
Life is too short for that.
Yeah.
I honestly don't think you could do it.
Finding someone to put up with your weird little ways.
My weird little ways?
Do you want the list alphabetical, or...
I broke my Mallorcan bowl.
Oh, erm... we'll get you another one.
The place is full of them.
♪ We got time on our side ♪
♪ It's never too late ♪
♪ If you can want me now ♪
♪ It's gonna have to wait ♪