Missing Persons by David Hopkins

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Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 2nd Aug 1986, 19:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM  Missing Persons by David Hopkins.  When Michael Brennan returns to England things seem to have changed. He feels he is being watched - then people go missing and the grip of fear tightens. Directed by Peter King.  Michael Brennan: Shaun Prendergast Sgt Major Baker: Gordon Reid Major Morgan: Garard Green Skilton: Francis Middleditch John Gallagher: George Parsons Clive Johnson: Tim Reynolds Peter Brennan: Jonathan Tafler Maureen Brennan: Avril Clark Rosamund Morgan: Pauline Letts Bryan Geer: Peter Howell Smithson: Richard Durden Abby: Alex Marshall Arthur Benson: Edward de Souza Police sergeant: Manning Wilson TV announcer: Deborah Makepeace  Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

Transcript

00:00:00Saturday Night Theatre

00:00:07Sean Prendergast stars in Missing Persons by David Hopkins

00:00:13Nearly there

00:00:16Sorry, what's that?

00:00:18Just saying, nearly there

00:00:20Oh

00:00:21Uh, yeah

00:00:23London, look, through the clouds

00:00:27I didn't notice

00:00:29I was reading

00:00:30Yes

00:00:32You've been away long?

00:00:35Can you tell?

00:00:36Yeah

00:00:36My, uh, appreciation at seeing the outskirts of London

00:00:41A little bit more telling than you'd expect

00:00:43Yes, I've been away for quite a while

00:00:46Nice to be back

00:00:47Yeah

00:00:49Yes, I think so

00:00:51You've got to say, some differences

00:00:52So I've been told

00:00:54For the better, believe me, for the better

00:00:56So

00:00:58What have you been doing?

00:01:00Oh

00:01:01Yeah, there

00:01:03Everywhere

00:01:04You?

00:01:06Me

00:01:06Business trip

00:01:08Do a lot

00:01:12Yeah

00:01:12Spend my life in planes

00:01:14Know what I mean

00:01:15Steady to living

00:01:17Gets me away from the wife, eh?

00:01:19What's your line?

00:01:22Now, uh, that's problematic

00:01:23Must put something on your passport

00:01:26Journalist

00:01:27Yeah

00:01:28Now that does sound interesting

00:01:30Sure

00:01:31Better than getting foreigners excited about pencil sharpeners

00:01:35Maybe, but you can, uh, get very fed up with it all, you know

00:01:38The media world

00:01:39A lot of people give their right teeth

00:01:41Sure

00:01:42You know

00:01:43Dispatches from abroad, eh?

00:01:46It's a living

00:01:47Not too bad a one at that, I bet

00:01:49And now you're back

00:01:51Now I'm back

00:01:53Well, like I said

00:01:55It's a better place down there than it was years ago

00:01:58Ladies and gentlemen

00:02:00This is Captain Edmonds

00:02:01We shall be starting our descent to Heathrow Airport in three minutes' time

00:02:05The weather in London is overcast and cloudy

00:02:09Some things never change

00:02:10No

00:02:11And the temperature is 50 degrees centigrade

00:02:14We shall be arriving on time

00:02:17Please extinguish your cigarettes and fasten your seatbelts

00:02:21We thank you for travelling with us

00:02:23And trust that you had an enjoyable flight

00:02:26Some people don't like it, mind

00:02:28Oh, pardon?

00:02:31The change is

00:02:32That's all, you know

00:02:33The left is

00:02:35The agitators

00:02:36Well, you know what you can do with those, don't you?

00:02:40Up, two, three, four

00:02:41Up, two, three, four

00:02:43Up, two, three, four

00:02:44Keep those knees up

00:02:45And what are you looking so unhappy about, O'Brien?

00:02:48You haven't even started yet

00:02:49Right, Hopper?

00:02:50Sarge?

00:02:51Haven't even started yet, right?

00:02:53Sarge?

00:02:54See, O'Brien?

00:02:55You think you're knackered now?

00:02:56You just wait

00:02:57Right, O'Brien?

00:02:58Sarge?

00:02:59Up, two, three, four

00:03:00About time

00:03:02Up, two, three, four

00:03:04To that wall over there and back

00:03:05No, O'Brien

00:03:07Don't look so hopeful

00:03:08I'm in the far wall

00:03:09Night in

00:03:10See it?

00:03:11Sarge?

00:03:12Last five back

00:03:12Continue doubling on the spot

00:03:14For another five minutes

00:03:15Off you go, lads

00:03:16Let's see a bit of oxygen debt

00:03:18Sir, Major

00:03:19Sir

00:03:20Everything all right?

00:03:22So far, sir

00:03:23I want that new man

00:03:24To be part of the unit

00:03:25Within two weeks

00:03:25He will be, sir

00:03:26So that you can't see the joins

00:03:28Sir

00:03:28They know what they're doing

00:03:30When they sign on for my army

00:03:31Sir

00:03:32Right, carry on, Sir Major

00:03:33Sir, there's one small problem

00:03:36Yes?

00:03:37A couple of hikers

00:03:37Well?

00:03:38Well, they were camping over on the ridge

00:03:40Well, you expect the odd hiker or two

00:03:41This time of the year

00:03:42Even in a place as remote as this

00:03:44Very popular Scotland

00:03:44Trouble is, sir

00:03:45They wouldn't take no for an answer

00:03:47Wouldn't leave well alone

00:03:49They kept on asking questions

00:03:50Ah, those thoughts

00:03:51Sir?

00:03:52You know the drill

00:03:53Can't take any kind of risk

00:03:54Well, that's what I thought, sir

00:03:56We took them into custody

00:03:57They're on their way to the detention centre now

00:03:59Good

00:04:00Anything else?

00:04:01No, sir

00:04:01Right then

00:04:02Ah, the men are on their way back

00:04:04Only just start this, sir

00:04:06That's what I like to hear, Sergeant Major

00:04:09Good afternoon, monsieur

00:04:12Good afternoon

00:04:13My name is Sellers

00:04:14Edward Sellers

00:04:15I'm here for...

00:04:16Of course, sir

00:04:17The executive lift to the fourth floor

00:04:19Thank you

00:04:20Refreshments will be served in a few moments

00:04:22Thank you

00:04:22Anything you need

00:04:24Anything at all

00:04:24I will let you know

00:04:26Any more, sir?

00:04:29The British and the Danes

00:04:30Any problems?

00:04:32None at all

00:04:32Good, we would like them all to come back

00:04:34Yes, sir

00:04:35Any hotel, even one like this

00:04:37Welcomes this sort of high-paying customer

00:04:38I do not want any of the staff to forget that

00:04:42No, sir

00:04:42Ah

00:04:45You the manager?

00:04:46Yes, sir

00:04:47Welcome to...

00:04:48Name's Gallagher

00:04:48Yes

00:04:49I believe you know who we are

00:04:51Of course, sir

00:04:51And you will be Mr. Benson

00:04:53Arthur Benson, yes

00:04:55Good afternoon, sir

00:04:55We have been asked to suggest that you go straight to the conference suite

00:04:59Your luggage will be taken direct to your rooms

00:05:01If that's his executive lift to the fourth floor, sir

00:05:05I'd like a scotch whiskey as soon as possible

00:05:06My colleague here will ensure that that is done

00:05:09Anything you require will be at hand in the conference suite

00:05:12Another drink, sir?

00:05:14Same, please

00:05:15And you, sir?

00:05:16Not for me

00:05:17There's a limit to how much mineral water you can take

00:05:19Mineral water?

00:05:20I'll leave my boozing for later

00:05:22When I can afford to get drunk

00:05:24Gentlemen

00:05:25If you'll, er, please be seated

00:05:30I think we might make a start

00:05:31I don't believe any of this

00:05:33Any of it at all

00:05:34We were camping out on Bailey Ridge

00:05:37Bleeding cold, it was, too

00:05:39Mining our own business

00:05:40I mean, if we want to go hiking through northern Scotland

00:05:43Nobody else's business

00:05:45We've done it many times before

00:05:47We're not exactly there, of course

00:05:48But we've been many places

00:05:49Many places

00:05:50We do it every year

00:05:51Cheap holiday

00:05:52Great

00:05:53We both like the countryside

00:05:55So what happened?

00:05:56You might well ask

00:05:57We were woken up

00:05:59Yeah, pretty early it was

00:06:00By all this rushing around

00:06:02And shouting and stamping

00:06:04And...

00:06:04God knows what

00:06:05Anyway, we got out of the tent

00:06:07And looked over the top of the ridge

00:06:09And there they were

00:06:09Who were?

00:06:11Were these fellas

00:06:11Soldiers

00:06:13Anyway, that's what we thought

00:06:14I mean, they were running around in formation

00:06:16Rifles over their heads

00:06:17Some sort of manoeuvres, you mean?

00:06:19Well, that's what we thought

00:06:20Oh, at first, yeah

00:06:21But...

00:06:23Two things

00:06:24One

00:06:25They weren't on manoeuvres

00:06:27No

00:06:27They were drilling

00:06:29Doing exercises

00:06:30Toughening up

00:06:31Say that again

00:06:32And two

00:06:32They weren't soldiers

00:06:34Weren't soldiers?

00:06:35No, not real ones

00:06:36No, we thought so first

00:06:37Yeah, I mean

00:06:37When I say they weren't soldiers

00:06:39I mean, they weren't our lot

00:06:40I mean, they weren't wearing British uniforms

00:06:42They were sort of made-up uniforms

00:06:44That's right

00:06:45So

00:06:46Well, what we did

00:06:47What we did was

00:06:48Go and start asking this sergeant fellow

00:06:50What was going on

00:06:51I mean, what else?

00:06:53Anyway, to cut a long story short

00:06:54He got very shirted

00:06:55Say that again

00:06:56Wasn't going to answer questions, you know

00:06:58Said it was all top secret

00:07:00Well

00:07:01Yeah

00:07:01Can't start that sort of caper with us

00:07:04No

00:07:04Right

00:07:05So we told them

00:07:06We started asking questions

00:07:07When we got back, you know

00:07:08To London?

00:07:08Yeah

00:07:08How did he take to that?

00:07:11Got very stiff

00:07:11Your prerogative, sir

00:07:13That sort of thing

00:07:14And?

00:07:16Well

00:07:16Next thing we know

00:07:17After we got back to the tent

00:07:19Yeah, as we were eating our breakfast

00:07:21Yeah

00:07:21All hell broke loose

00:07:23Bang, bloody wallop

00:07:24They're running over the ridge

00:07:25The soldiers

00:07:25Towards our tent

00:07:26And they're shouting at us

00:07:27Grabbing us

00:07:28Blindfolding us

00:07:29Yeah, would you believe that?

00:07:30And into a lorry

00:07:31Or a van or something

00:07:32And we finish up here

00:07:33Welcome

00:07:35Join the club

00:07:37Well, what happened to you?

00:07:40The same sort of thing

00:07:41Only I was in my flat in London

00:07:42Bloody hell

00:07:44What's going on?

00:07:47Don't ask me

00:07:48I mean, this is England

00:07:48They can't shut people up like this in England

00:07:51Yes

00:07:52Right

00:07:53That's what I thought

00:07:55What did you do?

00:07:57I think I was asking too many questions

00:07:59I think that's what it was

00:08:03Michael!

00:08:06Hello, Maureen

00:08:06Good heavens

00:08:08What are you doing here?

00:08:10It's my country, lady

00:08:11Well, yes

00:08:12But I had no idea that you

00:08:14Can I come in?

00:08:15Of course, of course

00:08:16You must

00:08:17Thank you

00:08:18Come in

00:08:22Hasn't changed

00:08:25What did you expect?

00:08:27Oh

00:08:28That I'd rip everything out

00:08:29Destroy all the evidence of him

00:08:31Not for a second

00:08:32Oh, look

00:08:33Do dump your bag

00:08:34Oh, right

00:08:34Wow

00:08:37Uh, yes

00:08:39What a surprise

00:08:40I should have written, perhaps

00:08:41But

00:08:42Oh, no matter

00:08:42I mean, I just had no idea that you

00:08:44No?

00:08:46Well, it has been a while

00:08:47Yes

00:08:48True

00:08:49And you

00:08:50Me

00:08:51Bearing up

00:08:52Bearing what?

00:08:54I mean

00:08:55Well, I'm not going to crumple into a pathetic little tear-stained ball

00:09:00No, not you

00:09:01Not happy

00:09:03Nice person

00:09:04There

00:09:04I'm bearing up

00:09:05Can I get you a cup of tea?

00:09:07I thought you'd never ask

00:09:08It's just that I don't know

00:09:12I've

00:09:12Look, I've only been away for, what?

00:09:15Eight, nine years

00:09:16But

00:09:16You enjoyed yourself?

00:09:18Hmm?

00:09:18On your travels?

00:09:19Yes, Greg

00:09:20Did a lot of the usual things, you know

00:09:23India, kibbutz

00:09:24Oh

00:09:24All of that

00:09:25Yes, all of that

00:09:27But

00:09:28The call of the quill

00:09:29The call of the what?

00:09:31I started writing again

00:09:32Sending stuff back home, really

00:09:34I've never stopped being a journalist

00:09:36But you've been all over

00:09:37Yes

00:09:38I only came back because

00:09:40What I was going to say was

00:09:43That

00:09:43There's been changes

00:09:45Bound to be

00:09:46I don't mean more traffic

00:09:47Or shorter skirts

00:09:48Or more programs on the box

00:09:50Have any?

00:09:51I don't know

00:09:51I'm just saying that I don't mean the sort of things you'd expect

00:09:54I mean

00:09:54Well

00:09:56For a start, everyone looks a lot better off

00:09:58Everyone is

00:09:59I mean

00:10:00Obviously, I knew that unemployment had fallen drastically

00:10:03People are more prosperous

00:10:04I mean, you read about these things abroad

00:10:05I knew all that

00:10:06But

00:10:08What you don't know about is the difference in atmosphere

00:10:11For the good, then

00:10:12Yeah, sure

00:10:14The streets are cleaner

00:10:15No doubt about that

00:10:17And

00:10:18It took me a long time to suss out no graffiti

00:10:20Anything wrong with that?

00:10:22I'm not saying there's anything wrong

00:10:23Well

00:10:24Well, perhaps you haven't noticed living here

00:10:26But, well

00:10:26Things are tighter, aren't they?

00:10:29Like what?

00:10:30I don't know

00:10:31It's difficult to put your finger on it

00:10:32But at the airport

00:10:34I mean, things were stronger

00:10:35Tougher

00:10:35The police

00:10:36The officials

00:10:37And I noticed this all the way along

00:10:39People were ordered about more

00:10:41People were doing what they were told more

00:10:42Okay

00:10:43It's no big deal

00:10:44But it's different

00:10:44You're imagining it?

00:10:47You reckon?

00:10:47Well, no one here has noticed any differences

00:10:49You reckon?

00:10:50Yes, I reckon

00:10:51Okay

00:10:52Perhaps you're right

00:10:54I know I'm right

00:10:55I mean, you're talking as if you come back to a country

00:10:57Covered in barbed wire

00:10:58And army vans patrolling the streets

00:11:00With machine guns on top

00:11:01I'll tell you what I did see

00:11:03On the way here in the taxi

00:11:05Some police shoving a couple of kids into a van

00:11:08What have they been doing?

00:11:09I don't know

00:11:10But these kids have been giving a pretty hard time

00:11:12I mean, the police weren't feeling collars and saying

00:11:14Could I ask you to step down to the station for a minute, sir?

00:11:17Oh, well, say that to some of these villains

00:11:19And they'd laugh in your face

00:11:20Yes, but these kids were being, well, manhandled

00:11:23The police have got to

00:11:24I mean, look, Michael

00:11:27The days when they just stood there

00:11:29And let people throw bricks at them

00:11:30Are over

00:11:31I can see that

00:11:34All the checks and balances are still in place

00:11:36Promised

00:11:36And I am the last person to condone unnecessary violence

00:11:39But look, you saw one incident

00:11:41But when you add it to the others

00:11:43You're overreacting

00:11:44I mean, I walk around London all day

00:11:47And I've never seen one arrest in my life

00:11:48You get back to England

00:11:50Only ten minutes you see one

00:11:51It's like street accidents

00:11:53I mean

00:11:54Yeah, all right

00:11:55Take your point

00:11:55But things are different

00:12:00Of course they are

00:12:01You've been away

00:12:02Morty

00:12:04Thank you

00:12:05I'll tell you something

00:12:07That's one thing that hasn't changed

00:12:09So think not

00:12:10No, woman, no

00:12:13Oh, but I thought you said

00:12:15The trick, my dear

00:12:16Is to stop thinking

00:12:17And just do it

00:12:17Yes, dear

00:12:18If you remember

00:12:19When we set the battle up yesterday

00:12:21Napoleon's forces were attacking

00:12:22From the right flank

00:12:23Yes, dear, but

00:12:24You can't change history to that extent

00:12:26But you made Wellington's cavalry

00:12:28Come over the hill

00:12:30When in fact

00:12:30That was in response

00:12:32To a changing situation

00:12:33Yes, dear

00:12:34In any case

00:12:35You can change strategy

00:12:36When you feel that

00:12:37If you'd been the general

00:12:38You'd have attacked the problem better

00:12:39Now, I as an ex-serving officer

00:12:42Have ways and means

00:12:43Of ascertaining such things

00:12:44Whereas you

00:12:45With all your admirable qualities

00:12:47Have not

00:12:48Well, I'm not suggesting that, dear

00:12:50But after playing

00:12:52Taking part in

00:12:53But taking part

00:12:55In so many war games

00:12:56Reconstructions

00:12:58With you over the years

00:12:59I've learnt a lot

00:13:01But not enough

00:13:02To allow you to make your army

00:13:03Or part of your army

00:13:05Attack in such a way

00:13:06That would render

00:13:07Your whole strategy useless

00:13:08Oh, but it wouldn't, dear

00:13:09Wouldn't what?

00:13:10Render my whole strategy useless

00:13:12If you commit your infantry

00:13:14To that wing

00:13:15You leave the whole

00:13:16Of your right flank

00:13:17Totally undefended

00:13:18To a counter-thrust

00:13:19No, dear

00:13:20What?

00:13:21You couldn't do that

00:13:23As I'm sure you really know

00:13:25Why?

00:13:26Because

00:13:27By engaging your forces

00:13:29There

00:13:30I would release

00:13:32My 3rd Battalion

00:13:33To defend that position

00:13:34Oh

00:13:36Well done, dear

00:13:38You saw it

00:13:39I thought I was right

00:13:41Well done

00:13:41You're learning

00:13:42At last

00:13:43Right

00:13:45So I'll now

00:13:46Withdraw from that position

00:13:48Now that I've made you realise

00:13:50The strength of that particular ploy

00:13:51And

00:13:51While I'm regrouping

00:13:53Perhaps some sandwiches and coffee

00:13:54Oh, of course, dear

00:13:56Come in

00:13:57Ah, Sergeant Major

00:14:00Afternoon

00:14:00Afternoon, sir

00:14:01Right, dear

00:14:02The sandwiches and coffee

00:14:03Yes, dear

00:14:04Problem, Sergeant Major?

00:14:06Not at all, sir

00:14:07You wanted to see the new man

00:14:09O'Brien

00:14:09Ah, of course

00:14:10Of course I did

00:14:11Thank you for reminding me

00:14:12How's he shaping up?

00:14:13He's a bit slow in the uptake, sir

00:14:14That's what I thought

00:14:16But otherwise?

00:14:17Oh, he'll be fine, sir

00:14:18Not a bullshit here on him

00:14:19Good

00:14:20Right, I'll see him in the study

00:14:21Sir

00:14:22All right, O'Brien

00:14:24Stand at ease

00:14:24How are you getting on?

00:14:27Very well, sir

00:14:28Heard good reports

00:14:29Finding it tough?

00:14:31Yes, sir

00:14:31But that's not a problem

00:14:32Not at all, sir

00:14:33Tough of the better

00:14:34Good

00:14:34If we're to fulfil our purpose

00:14:37We have to be as tough

00:14:38As strong

00:14:39And as dedicated

00:14:40As any in the world

00:14:41Yes, sir

00:14:41And as committed

00:14:42Any doubts

00:14:44Any little niggling reservations

00:14:45And the whole unit cracks

00:14:46Yes, sir

00:14:47Some people would call that

00:14:49Blind obedience

00:14:49Me?

00:14:51I call it

00:14:52Instinctive loyalty to an ideal

00:14:54To your comrades

00:14:55And what is even more important

00:14:56To your country

00:14:57Right?

00:14:58Yes, sir

00:14:58What we've set ourselves to do

00:15:00And what we're actually doing

00:15:02Is as important a job

00:15:04As it would be possible to find

00:15:05You understand that?

00:15:06Yes, sir

00:15:07Good

00:15:08Why didn't you write and tell me?

00:15:11Oh

00:15:12A lot of reasons

00:15:13Didn't know where you were

00:15:15What you were

00:15:16You could have found out, surely

00:15:18I don't know why

00:15:19My own brother

00:15:20He disappears

00:15:20And you don't bother

00:15:21To try to work out

00:15:22How to tell me

00:15:23Didn't think it was

00:15:24Important

00:15:25I've come all the way home

00:15:26Because of it

00:15:27What do you mean

00:15:27Not important?

00:15:28I wasn't going to say that

00:15:29A casual remark

00:15:30From an acquaintance

00:15:31In a bar in Jaffa

00:15:32I know, I know

00:15:33I should have said

00:15:34Tried harder

00:15:35All right

00:15:35But look, Michael

00:15:38Peter's my husband

00:15:39I was pretty upset

00:15:41Yes, I know, I know

00:15:42I can understand that

00:15:44Anyway, it doesn't do

00:15:46As much good arguing the toss

00:15:47Just tell me

00:15:49Tell you?

00:15:50What happened?

00:15:52Not a lot to tell

00:15:53Maury

00:15:54There isn't, really

00:15:55Just tell me

00:15:56I've come home

00:15:57I've come home

00:15:57To find out what happened

00:15:58Tell me

00:16:00Okay

00:16:02All right

00:16:04If you insist

00:16:06The fact is that

00:16:09Well

00:16:10It was a bit rocky

00:16:12To tell you the truth

00:16:13What was?

00:16:14The marriage

00:16:14What do you think?

00:16:17Peter and I

00:16:17We weren't exactly seeing eye to eye

00:16:20You don't look surprised

00:16:23Maureen

00:16:24You must have known

00:16:25That I never really thought

00:16:26Yeah, it's all right, all right

00:16:27Nothing against you

00:16:28Nothing against Peter

00:16:29But

00:16:30Yeah

00:16:30Maybe

00:16:31Perhaps we should never

00:16:33All right

00:16:35But we did

00:16:36Anyway

00:16:38At the time he

00:16:40Disappeared

00:16:42It was worse than usual

00:16:44That do you?

00:16:44What you might call

00:16:46A sticky patch

00:16:47In our case

00:16:48A glutinous patch

00:16:49Not exactly a lot of talking

00:16:51Going on

00:16:52Conversation carried out

00:16:53In grunts

00:16:53Anyway

00:16:54One morning he went out

00:16:56And never came back

00:16:58Just like that?

00:17:00Just like that

00:17:01Well

00:17:03You chase things up

00:17:05You know

00:17:05Ask questions

00:17:07Go to the police

00:17:10Of course

00:17:11Usual things are put into motion

00:17:13Usual channels

00:17:14But well

00:17:16The facts are that Peter

00:17:17Decided to walk out

00:17:18It's happened before

00:17:19It'll happen again

00:17:20I mean, you know

00:17:21To other people

00:17:22Husbands

00:17:22Wives

00:17:23Have enough

00:17:24Walk out

00:17:25Do you know how many do it?

00:17:26Every year

00:17:27Something like 20,000

00:17:28Yes, maybe

00:17:29But Peter's not the sort

00:17:30He's not the sort

00:17:31To just walk out

00:17:32He'd sit down

00:17:34Tell you

00:17:34Make a proper break

00:17:35You never know

00:17:36Peter's not the sort

00:17:38What do you think, sir?

00:17:40He'll do

00:17:40I think he'll do

00:17:42So do I, sir

00:17:43He's keen and dedicated

00:17:44Yeah, that's what I thought

00:17:46Just the type

00:17:47Sound

00:17:48Oh, back to the

00:17:50Who's winning, sir?

00:17:51It's not a game

00:17:52No, sir

00:17:53A re-evaluation

00:17:55Looking at things

00:17:56From a different perspective

00:17:58Yes, sir

00:17:58You can't understand

00:18:01The frustration

00:18:02Of never being asked to

00:18:03Only I'd been

00:18:06A few years older

00:18:07I'd have been

00:18:08Still, you

00:18:10You're proving yourself

00:18:11Now, sir

00:18:11Ah, that I am

00:18:13That I am

00:18:15Right

00:18:16Oh, sorry, sir

00:18:17There's one more thing

00:18:19There's been a dispatch

00:18:20Oh, yeah?

00:18:21About those two hikers

00:18:22Oh?

00:18:23I think you'd better read it, sir

00:18:25Good Lord

00:18:28They want us to release them

00:18:29Yes, sir

00:18:30Good God

00:18:31It is usual, sir

00:18:33I do realize that, sir

00:18:35Yes, sir

00:18:35Sorry, sir

00:18:36But these two

00:18:37Sometimes I wonder

00:18:40If our masters

00:18:41Know what they're doing

00:18:42Sir

00:18:43Have they any idea

00:18:45How much they've seen?

00:18:46They were informed, sir

00:18:47And they still want them

00:18:48Oh, well

00:18:51Orders are orders

00:18:52And it is in black and white

00:18:53After all

00:18:54See to it, sir, Major

00:18:55Shut up

00:18:56Never again

00:18:57No

00:18:58That's it

00:18:59Never again

00:19:00Will I go hiking up here

00:19:01From now on

00:19:02I'm never going to leave sight

00:19:04Or smell a civilization

00:19:05Say that again

00:19:06I thought

00:19:07When that soldier

00:19:08Or whatever he was

00:19:09Came to get us

00:19:10No doubt, no

00:19:10Oh, well

00:19:11I can't tell you what I thought

00:19:12Yeah, I had my doubts, too

00:19:13I must admit

00:19:13How much further?

00:19:21Well, uh

00:19:22We should be there

00:19:23In about two hours

00:19:24Oh, it can't be quick enough for me

00:19:25Nor me

00:19:26Nearest police station

00:19:27Nearest phone box

00:19:29I'm going to create

00:19:31The biggest stink

00:19:32And me

00:19:32Hey, you know what I think?

00:19:36What do you think?

00:19:37A newspaper

00:19:37I think we should contact

00:19:39A newspaper

00:19:39Oh, yeah, yeah

00:19:40Once it's in print

00:19:40Look, a car

00:19:41Where?

00:19:42Oh, yeah

00:19:43Wave it down

00:19:43We'll get there quicker

00:19:44Get them to take us

00:19:45To the nearest biggest town

00:19:46Yeah

00:19:47Now, where?

00:19:48Where's that, eh?

00:19:48Um

00:19:49It's going that way

00:19:50So that's probably

00:19:50At Locker, I think

00:19:51Oh, who cares

00:19:52As long as they get us there

00:19:52That's big enough

00:19:53Can we help you?

00:19:59A lift, please

00:20:00To anywhere

00:20:01I think that can be arranged

00:20:02Somewhere with a police station

00:20:04Or a phone box

00:20:05Oh, my God

00:20:06What?

00:20:08Oh, no

00:20:08Turn around

00:20:10Who?

00:20:11Who are you?

00:20:13Now

00:20:13That's, uh, very nice of you

00:20:19Thank you

00:20:20Oh, no sweat

00:20:21I've got plenty of room here

00:20:22Seems stupid to pay

00:20:23For an hotel or something

00:20:24It'll be a lot more comfortable

00:20:25Than a hotel, too

00:20:26I mean

00:20:28This is Sam Pad

00:20:29Thank you

00:20:31Who would have thought

00:20:32That Maureen Jessup

00:20:33With her radical ideas

00:20:34And her independence

00:20:35Would finish up

00:20:36In a trendy cottage

00:20:37In Fulham

00:20:37With all mod cons

00:20:38Why not?

00:20:39Why not indeed

00:20:40He must have been doing

00:20:41Very well for himself

00:20:42Who?

00:20:43Well, Peter

00:20:44To have got all this

00:20:45I've done very well for myself

00:20:46To have got all this

00:20:48Oh, I see

00:20:49No, you don't

00:20:50Only don't make assumptions

00:20:52Sorry

00:20:52But the lady I knew years ago

00:20:55The lady who demonstrated

00:20:57And debated

00:20:58And sat cross-legged

00:20:59And argued into the night

00:21:00Would have sneered at this lifestyle

00:21:01And that's not an assumption

00:21:03If you've changed, fine

00:21:05Only don't blame me

00:21:06For thinking Peter

00:21:07Had something to do with it

00:21:08I wouldn't dream

00:21:09Of blaming you for anything

00:21:10Right

00:21:11So

00:21:13What do you do now?

00:21:14Company secretary

00:21:15To?

00:21:17To the managing director

00:21:17Of LPCS

00:21:18So

00:21:20You have done well for yourself

00:21:23Heard of them?

00:21:25Heard of one of the few

00:21:26Multinationals originating in England

00:21:27Yes

00:21:28Well, well

00:21:30What?

00:21:32As I said

00:21:33If I had told you

00:21:34When you and Peter

00:21:34Used to come to dinner

00:21:35That one day

00:21:36You'd out-achieve us all

00:21:37In the competitive

00:21:38Capitalistic world

00:21:39You'd have said

00:21:40We all change

00:21:42You should know that

00:21:43Politically as well

00:21:46Eh?

00:21:47Never ask a person

00:21:50About their religion

00:21:50Or their politics

00:21:52Right?

00:21:53Right

00:21:53Or their sex life

00:21:54Mm-hmm

00:21:55Anyway, thanks for the offer

00:21:57Of board and lodging

00:21:58Sped and breakfast

00:21:58It'll only be till I find out

00:22:00What's happened to Peter

00:22:01Nothing's happened to Peter

00:22:02He decided he'd had enough

00:22:04And walked out

00:22:05I'm sorry

00:22:05But I just don't believe that

00:22:07It's not the way he'd do things

00:22:09You don't know him

00:22:10Of course I know him

00:22:12As well as I do

00:22:13Yes, sure

00:22:14But all the same

00:22:15He just reckoned

00:22:16One day

00:22:17That he'd had enough

00:22:17Packed his bags

00:22:18Got into a bus

00:22:19Or whatever

00:22:19And disappeared

00:22:20Yes?

00:22:22Okay, maybe

00:22:23Yes, but all the same

00:22:24All the same

00:22:25Nothing

00:22:26Yes

00:22:26Sorry, but yes

00:22:28I want to know

00:22:30What?

00:22:33I

00:22:33I want to know

00:22:35There's organisations

00:22:36The police

00:22:36Salvation Army

00:22:37Don't you think

00:22:38That I've already

00:22:39I know

00:22:39But I need to do it

00:22:41For myself

00:22:42We have more important

00:22:43Things to do

00:22:44Mr Brenham

00:22:44Than worry about

00:22:45Your little problems

00:22:46I beg your pardon

00:22:48You heard

00:22:48Now just a second

00:22:49The police are supposed

00:22:50You don't have to tell me

00:22:51What the police

00:22:52Are supposed to do

00:22:53Sir

00:22:53Keeping law and order

00:22:55Right?

00:22:56That's what we are formed

00:22:58Trained and mobilised

00:22:59To do

00:23:00Sir

00:23:00And your brother

00:23:01Deciding that he's had

00:23:02Enough of hearth and home

00:23:03Is not top of our priority

00:23:05I'd like to speak

00:23:07To your superior

00:23:07Sorry, sir

00:23:08Sorry?

00:23:09Not on

00:23:09What do you mean

00:23:10Not on?

00:23:11Not on, sir

00:23:12An expression which means

00:23:14That I don't intend

00:23:15Don't try to be funny

00:23:16With me

00:23:16No, sir

00:23:17I'm telling you

00:23:17That I demand

00:23:18To speak to your

00:23:19Chief Constable

00:23:20And that's exactly

00:23:21Who I'll speak to

00:23:22Problem, Constable?

00:23:24Nothing that I can't

00:23:25Handle, Sarge

00:23:25Oh, there's a problem

00:23:26All right

00:23:26One of them being

00:23:27This man's attitude

00:23:28Matthews?

00:23:29This gentleman

00:23:30Mr Brennan

00:23:31Wants us to drop

00:23:33Everything and go

00:23:33In search of his brother

00:23:34Who has

00:23:35Disappeared, apparently

00:23:36And?

00:23:38Gentleman seems to think

00:23:39That there's more to it

00:23:40Than meets the eye

00:23:41My brother wouldn't

00:23:42Just

00:23:42Thank you, sir

00:23:43And?

00:23:44As I pointed out

00:23:45His name's been on

00:23:46The missing persons list

00:23:47Since his disappearance

00:23:48Was reported by his wife

00:23:49And that's it

00:23:50Thank you, Constable

00:23:51Right, sir

00:23:53So what's the problem?

00:23:55About what I came in here for

00:23:56Or what's happened

00:23:57Since I've been here

00:23:58I don't believe

00:24:00My brother disappeared

00:24:01What do you believe, sir?

00:24:03I don't know

00:24:03That's what you're paid

00:24:04To find out

00:24:05I want more effort

00:24:06To be shown

00:24:07More interest

00:24:07In the fact that

00:24:08My brother's disappeared

00:24:09Without trace

00:24:10Just one of

00:24:1120,000 others

00:24:12I know

00:24:13So?

00:24:15If we spent our time

00:24:17Trying to find people

00:24:17Who decide to leave

00:24:18Their families

00:24:19Sir

00:24:20We'd have no time

00:24:21For anything else

00:24:22I'd like to speak

00:24:24To the Chief Constable

00:24:25Would you, sir?

00:24:27Or whoever's in charge

00:24:28Of this station

00:24:28Now

00:24:30On your bike

00:24:31I beg your pardon

00:24:33You heard, sir

00:24:34On your bike

00:24:36Ah, Corbel

00:24:37Come in

00:24:38The boys, sir

00:24:39Do you want to see me?

00:24:40Yes

00:24:41Take a few

00:24:42Smoke?

00:24:43Oh, it's up

00:24:44Have a look at this

00:24:46What?

00:24:47This

00:24:48Came down from the publisher

00:24:49This morning

00:24:50Well?

00:24:54So?

00:24:55That's all you've got to say

00:24:56A warning from the publisher

00:24:58And all you can say is so

00:24:59Well, not a lot to say

00:25:01I've had people

00:25:02Trying to warm me off before

00:25:03Our publisher tells me

00:25:04That these little nudges

00:25:05Are coming from further up still

00:25:07So?

00:25:08From the very top

00:25:09And don't say so again

00:25:11I have on my staff

00:25:14A reporter

00:25:15Whose activities

00:25:16Are getting the establishment

00:25:17The authorities

00:25:18The government

00:25:19In a bit of a stew

00:25:20Well, my job

00:25:21I'd have said

00:25:21Yes, maybe

00:25:22But these inferences

00:25:25You've been making

00:25:26No, they're not inferences

00:25:26Oh, yes, they are

00:25:27Where's your proof?

00:25:28I'll get it

00:25:29Something is happening

00:25:31Has happened

00:25:32Behind the bright facade

00:25:34Of government and propaganda

00:25:35And what?

00:25:37Well, I don't know

00:25:38But something

00:25:39Particularly behind the financial

00:25:41And economic scenes

00:25:43Not complaining about them, are you?

00:25:45No, not as such

00:25:46What I want to know

00:25:48Is what's behind this upturned fortune

00:25:50Over the last six years

00:25:51Good government

00:25:52Good husbandry

00:25:53Maybe, maybe

00:25:56But I don't think so

00:25:57I think there's something else

00:25:59Something more

00:26:01What?

00:26:04Okay, I'll use it

00:26:05I'll use the word

00:26:05Sinister

00:26:06That's what I think

00:26:07If the IMF

00:26:08Or something like it

00:26:09Has bailed the country out

00:26:10And imposed restrictions

00:26:11On us or something

00:26:12Or whatever

00:26:13All right

00:26:13Sure

00:26:14Could be anything

00:26:15Then I want to know

00:26:17And I want to tell

00:26:19The country about it

00:26:20In spite of all these

00:26:22Little notes

00:26:22Telling you not to

00:26:23Yes, in spite of

00:26:24Whose side are you on?

00:26:27Do you have to ask that?

00:26:30Seems like it

00:26:31I'm on the side

00:26:34Of my reporters

00:26:35Provided

00:26:37Make that a double straight

00:26:43Of course

00:26:45The country's pleased

00:26:46At the new prosperity

00:26:47Of course

00:26:48The country's pleased

00:26:49At the lack of

00:26:50Violent disturbances

00:26:51And hooliganism

00:26:52Of course

00:26:54The country's pleased

00:26:55At the calm

00:26:55The cleanliness

00:26:57The sense of things

00:26:58Following an ordered course

00:26:59But at what price

00:27:01New power

00:27:13At the risk of boring

00:27:15My readers

00:27:16I must repeat

00:27:17Yet again

00:27:18The unanswered questions

00:27:20Are we being too blinkered

00:27:22About the extra power

00:27:23Given to the police

00:27:24The relaxing of the rules

00:27:26Of habeas corpus

00:27:27The

00:27:28Stay

00:27:31What?

00:27:33Not on my sword

00:27:34What the hell?

00:27:36Quiet!

00:27:37Corbel

00:27:37What?

00:27:39You Martin

00:27:40Corbel

00:27:40So what?

00:27:43That's him all right

00:27:44It says here in this photo

00:27:45Right

00:27:46Now you

00:27:47Do as you're told

00:27:48Why on earth should I?

00:27:49Do as you're told

00:27:50These aren't toys

00:27:52Against that wall

00:27:53Now

00:27:54Not a movement

00:27:54Not a word

00:27:55What now?

00:27:58Everything written

00:27:58Cleared out

00:27:59Files

00:28:00Articles

00:28:01Letters

00:28:01Everything

00:28:02Second or burnt?

00:28:03Burnt

00:28:03You can't

00:28:04Quiet

00:28:04We're not playing games

00:28:07Mr. Corbel

00:28:08Believe me

00:28:10In

00:28:12Don't bloody push me

00:28:13In

00:28:14Good afternoon

00:28:22What?

00:28:24Oh

00:28:24Hello

00:28:24Where the hell am I?

00:28:27Britain

00:28:27Old Fruit

00:28:28Great Britain

00:28:30The land of the free

00:28:31Where else?

00:28:33Bloody hell

00:28:34I knew something was going on

00:28:35But

00:28:35Where did they pick you up?

00:28:37My flat

00:28:38Late last night

00:28:39It was like an S.A.S. operation

00:28:42Four men

00:28:43Soldiers

00:28:44And balaclavas

00:28:44Through the window

00:28:46Door bursting open

00:28:47I've never seen

00:28:49Such efficiency

00:28:49Such speed

00:28:51Such ruthlessness

00:28:52Such

00:28:53Who are you?

00:28:58My name's Brennan

00:28:58Peter Brennan

00:29:00Not a lot of joy now

00:29:03Told you

00:29:04More potatoes

00:29:06Ah, thank you

00:29:07Well, apart from there being

00:29:09Thousands of missing people

00:29:10As I said

00:29:11As you said, yes

00:29:12But I'd done it already

00:29:13You can't expect them to pull out

00:29:15All the stops

00:29:16For the second person

00:29:17Maybe not

00:29:17But what I do expect

00:29:18What?

00:29:21No, you'll just accuse me

00:29:22Of exaggeration again

00:29:23All right

00:29:25Let's for the sake of argument

00:29:27Say you're right

00:29:28What are you going to do?

00:29:30Find out

00:29:31Keep asking until I find out

00:29:33And the first person

00:29:35I'm going to ask

00:29:36Is Brian Gale

00:29:36Brian?

00:29:38That's right

00:29:38Crusading

00:29:39Fighting Brian Gale

00:29:40Ah, yes

00:29:41Those were the days

00:29:42Weren't they

00:29:43When we were young

00:29:43And idealistic

00:29:44Idealistic, Brian

00:29:45You were going to take on the world

00:29:47Yes

00:29:47Community activities

00:29:48Law centres

00:29:49Squatter's rights

00:29:50That's right

00:29:51Any whiff of injustice

00:29:52And there you were

00:29:53Briefcase at the ready

00:29:54Threats fly

00:29:55Yeah

00:29:55But different now

00:29:56Not really

00:29:58Oh, suite of offices

00:29:59Partners

00:30:00Leather armchairs

00:30:01Word protesters

00:30:01Still fighting for people's rights, mate

00:30:03But from a different perspective

00:30:05Well, we have to move on

00:30:06And up

00:30:07That too, perhaps

00:30:09Now, come on, Michael

00:30:11Then start waving your flag of superiority at me

00:30:13You're not the local campaign journalist either anymore

00:30:16I still care, though

00:30:17Still worry, though

00:30:18So do I

00:30:19Anyway, it's great to see you again

00:30:23And you, drink?

00:30:24Oh, what are you offering?

00:30:25Scotch

00:30:25Vodka

00:30:26I've got a beer

00:30:26Candleware

00:30:28Oh, for us plebs, what else?

00:30:31Yes, sir?

00:30:32A beer, please, Jenny

00:30:33And a peri water

00:30:34Yes, sir

00:30:35Trying to cut down my vices

00:30:36Not too assiduously

00:30:38By the look of you

00:30:38No

00:30:39So what have you been doing

00:30:40Over the years?

00:30:42Ah, bumming about

00:30:43Oh, yeah?

00:30:44Well, it started this out

00:30:46As you know

00:30:47Got fed up with the media world over here

00:30:50I mean

00:30:51It was either working for an organisation

00:30:53That shoved out a couple of

00:30:54Deeply sincere

00:30:55Invective-filled sheets a week

00:30:57Or for a mass circulation paper

00:30:59With all that that implies

00:31:00With all that that implies

00:31:01So I slapped in my notice

00:31:03And took off to find

00:31:04Remember the term?

00:31:06Alternative lifestyle?

00:31:07I remember the term

00:31:08Sounds pretty naive now, eh?

00:31:10Depends what you found

00:31:11Ah, usual

00:31:12Train ride to India

00:31:14Six months in the kibbutz

00:31:15Greek island or two

00:31:16Sounds great

00:31:17Yes, it was

00:31:18But

00:31:19But

00:31:21But

00:31:21Once a journey

00:31:23Yes, I know what you mean

00:31:23Started writing things

00:31:25Sending them home

00:31:26Checks started coming back

00:31:28So, well

00:31:29If you're going to bum around

00:31:31Might as well do it in style

00:31:32Right

00:31:33Your drinks, Mr. Gale

00:31:35Oh, thank you

00:31:36Just put them on the desk

00:31:37Yes, sir

00:31:37Every mod call

00:31:48Yes

00:31:48Cheers

00:31:49Cheers

00:31:50So, what brought you back?

00:31:53Because

00:31:53One day

00:31:54Out of the blue

00:31:56Totally unexpected

00:31:57When I at least thought that

00:31:59Yeah

00:32:00A casual acquaintance

00:32:03Asked me what I felt

00:32:04About Peter's disappearance

00:32:05Must have been a shock

00:32:06It was

00:32:07Especially if I wasn't

00:32:08Exactly incommunicado

00:32:09So I came back

00:32:11To find out

00:32:12To find out

00:32:13Peter's not the sort of fellow

00:32:16To take up and leave like that

00:32:17No

00:32:17He's a tenacious sod

00:32:19Like you

00:32:19Like me

00:32:20The downfall of many

00:32:22A contented man

00:32:23Maybe

00:32:23And?

00:32:26And, well

00:32:27Not a lot

00:32:28He just disappeared

00:32:30No one seems to want to know

00:32:32Want to care

00:32:33Want to ask questions

00:32:34Just another missing person

00:32:37A lot of them about

00:32:38Ah, so I've been told

00:32:39But maybe all the others

00:32:40Were the sort to do that

00:32:41Peter wasn't

00:32:42So what can I do about it?

00:32:45Not a lot

00:32:45About that

00:32:46Anyway

00:32:48I don't think so

00:32:49No, I've come to talk about

00:32:51Something else

00:32:51Connected, yes

00:32:52But

00:32:52What is it?

00:32:56Look, mate

00:32:57All joking aside

00:32:58All this

00:32:58The wood

00:32:59And leather

00:32:59And glass

00:33:00And soft-spoken secretaries

00:33:01All the success

00:33:02I can't really believe

00:33:04You've changed all that much

00:33:05Not a lot, no

00:33:06Just got to like

00:33:07The good life

00:33:08That's all

00:33:09Yeah, okay

00:33:09So what's going on?

00:33:12With what?

00:33:13With the country

00:33:14For heaven's sake

00:33:15Oh

00:33:16Yes, oh

00:33:18Tell me

00:33:19It's

00:33:20Cleaner

00:33:21Safer

00:33:22Safer

00:33:22Happier

00:33:23More

00:33:23Prosperous

00:33:24I've noticed

00:33:24Nothing wrong with any of that

00:33:26There's nothing wrong with any of that, no

00:33:27So?

00:33:31And the restrictions?

00:33:33What's restrictions?

00:33:34Oh, come on

00:33:36There's a toughness about them

00:33:38A ruthlessness

00:33:39Who?

00:33:40The police

00:33:41The authorities

00:33:42The bureaucrats

00:33:43The M

00:33:43A toughness

00:33:44Did you know?

00:33:45Tell me

00:33:49What's been going on?

00:33:51Nothing's been going on

00:33:52There's been, what

00:33:53Two, three elections

00:33:54Since you left

00:33:55Each time consolidating

00:33:56The incumbent

00:33:57Prime Minister's position

00:33:58Each time

00:33:59They've got in

00:33:59On a platform

00:34:00Of curbing unemployment

00:34:01Strikes

00:34:02Vandalism

00:34:02Now, come on

00:34:03Don't tell me

00:34:03You've forgotten

00:34:04The state of the country

00:34:05Was in when you left

00:34:06No

00:34:06I mean, how many

00:34:07Were they out at work?

00:34:08Eh?

00:34:09Riots

00:34:09Strikes

00:34:10Talk of revolution

00:34:11Not to mention

00:34:12Dirty streets

00:34:13The filthiest country

00:34:14In Europe, remember?

00:34:15People afraid

00:34:15To open their front doors

00:34:17In case they

00:34:17Oh, come on, Michael

00:34:19Don't say

00:34:19I haven't forgotten

00:34:20But

00:34:20And now

00:34:22I'll tell you something

00:34:24It's different

00:34:26Sure

00:34:27Sir?

00:34:29Sure

00:34:29Look

00:34:30Do people

00:34:31Look any different?

00:34:34The people you meet

00:34:34In the streets

00:34:35The people

00:34:35Oh, that's what

00:34:36Maureen keeps saying

00:34:37Maureen?

00:34:38Er, Peter's wife

00:34:39He met her before

00:34:40They married

00:34:40Ah, yes

00:34:42Yes

00:34:43Idealistic

00:34:44Fighter

00:34:44That's right

00:34:45How is she?

00:34:46Fine

00:34:47Fine

00:34:48Doing well

00:34:49Like you

00:34:50You haven't answered

00:34:52My question

00:34:53Do people

00:34:55Look any different?

00:34:58No

00:34:58No, they don't

00:35:02The shops are the same

00:35:03The telly's the same

00:35:03The pubs are the same

00:35:04The football

00:35:05There you are

00:35:06No

00:35:07It's

00:35:08It's not quite

00:35:10The same

00:35:10I knew there was something

00:35:13I couldn't put my finger on it

00:35:14What?

00:35:14I was watching some football

00:35:16In the box

00:35:16The other evening

00:35:17Oh, yes

00:35:18Arsenal, Manchester United

00:35:19It was a good match

00:35:20Sure, but that's not the point

00:35:21The point is

00:35:21It was like watching

00:35:22A football match

00:35:23Of the 50s

00:35:24There was no trouble

00:35:25No hooliganism

00:35:25None of that obscene challenge

00:35:27Are you complaining?

00:35:28No, of course not

00:35:29Yes, and what about television?

00:35:30There's a change there too, isn't there?

00:35:32Much less sex

00:35:33Much less violence

00:35:33Oh, come on

00:35:34Right?

00:35:34Well, yes, right

00:35:35But

00:35:35Okay, again, I'm not complaining

00:35:37But it's all part of a pattern

00:35:38Some things happened to bring this about

00:35:41Sure, people have had enough of what was going on

00:35:44That's what happened to bring this about

00:35:46It's more than that

00:35:47It's got to do with the more uncompromising attitude of the authorities

00:35:51The police

00:35:52It's to do with the missing persons, at least

00:35:54Oh, that's rubbish

00:35:55When I went to the police to ask about Peter's disappearance

00:35:58They didn't want to know

00:35:58Michael, do you know how many people

00:36:00Yes, yes, I know

00:36:01Well

00:36:02When I was there at the police station

00:36:04When I was in the waiting room

00:36:05There were posters hanging on the wall

00:36:06One on top of the other

00:36:07You know, as if when there was a new one

00:36:09It was pinned over the others

00:36:10And these posters were covered in people's photos

00:36:13The missing persons list

00:36:14Yes, I know about them

00:36:15Missing persons

00:36:16They were like wanted posters

00:36:18Only each one had a hundred pictures on it

00:36:21When I flipped through them

00:36:23I found two other things

00:36:24One

00:36:25And a lot of the faces had large black X's on them

00:36:28As if

00:36:29Well, as if they'd ceased to be missing

00:36:31Well, maybe that's precisely what they have

00:36:33Maybe

00:36:33The other thing I found about seven posters down

00:36:37Was a photo of Peter

00:36:39He's a missing person

00:36:40Oh, sure

00:36:41But if that's all he was

00:36:42What was he doing on a poster in a police station?

00:36:45Michael, we live in a free society

00:36:48People can do as they like

00:36:50Yes

00:36:52Yeah, well, thanks for the chat, Brian

00:36:57Glad to see you're doing so well

00:36:59Advice

00:37:01What?

00:37:02One word of advice

00:37:03Don't chase after Peter too hard

00:37:05People decide to disappear

00:37:08They do it for a reason

00:37:11The difficulty is to get people to listen

00:37:13To take you seriously

00:37:15That's right

00:37:15I'm certain that something has happened

00:37:18Right

00:37:18Something of fundamental importance

00:37:21Well, it actually is, I don't know

00:37:22But it's sinister, I'm sure of that

00:37:25Us finishing up here proves that

00:37:27Exactly

00:37:28But how to convince people

00:37:30And even if they were convinced

00:37:32Yes

00:37:32Would they want to do anything about it?

00:37:35After all, this country is in much better shape

00:37:38Than it was six, seven years ago

00:37:40No argument

00:37:41Obviously

00:37:42So even if we were able to find out

00:37:44What's happened

00:37:45Even if we were able to prove it

00:37:47The chances are that people would say

00:37:49So what?

00:37:50Yes

00:37:50So, so what?

00:37:53You don't really believe that

00:37:54No, I don't

00:37:56I wouldn't do the job I do

00:37:57If I thought like that

00:37:58Once people's right to know

00:38:01To determine the course of their life

00:38:04Is violated

00:38:04Then the slippery slope is right in front of us

00:38:08In front of us?

00:38:09When people feel they have the right

00:38:11To take other people

00:38:12Detain them

00:38:12Just for asking questions

00:38:13Then we're there already

00:38:14Okay

00:38:17Okay what?

00:38:19You're free

00:38:19On your way

00:38:20Oh, just like that?

00:38:21Just like that

00:38:22Me too

00:38:23You too

00:38:24But I've been here for

00:38:25Don't ask questions, matey

00:38:27Just go

00:38:28You imprison us

00:38:29For no reason whatsoever

00:38:30And then just say on your way

00:38:32How?

00:38:32You can tell your bosses

00:38:33Your lords and masters

00:38:35Whoever they are

00:38:36That this isn't the last

00:38:37They've heard of this

00:38:38So what do we do?

00:38:41I know what I do

00:38:42I get to the nearest town

00:38:44As soon as possible

00:38:45Get on the first train to London

00:38:47And spend as long as it takes

00:38:49Persuading people

00:38:49About what's happened to this country

00:38:51I'll knock on as many doors

00:38:53Bash as many ears

00:38:54Bang as many heads together

00:38:56As it takes

00:38:56With me?

00:38:58I'm with you

00:38:59Lovely party, Maureen

00:39:13Thank you

00:39:14Always just the right amount of people

00:39:16The right amount of food

00:39:18The right amount of drink

00:39:19Takes a lot of organisation

00:39:21Believe me

00:39:21And it all looks so spontaneous

00:39:24Part of the trick

00:39:25What I'm saying, Jason

00:39:28Is what if

00:39:29Ah, Michael

00:39:30The old what if

00:39:31What if

00:39:32These changes

00:39:33The ones for the good

00:39:34The ones for the bad

00:39:35They've all been for the good

00:39:36That's the point

00:39:37How do we know?

00:39:38I've been working in TV current affairs

00:39:40For many years

00:39:41I'm pretty well up on what's going on

00:39:43So

00:39:43All right

00:39:43Let's get back to my what if

00:39:45What if

00:39:45This tightening up

00:39:46This tougher

00:39:47What do they call it?

00:39:48Police presence

00:39:48Is the outward show

00:39:50Of something much stronger

00:39:51Behind the scenes

00:39:52What should we do about it?

00:39:55What if?

00:39:56Yes

00:39:56What if?

00:39:58Lay back and think of England, Michael

00:39:59That's what we should do about it

00:40:01Life's good

00:40:02All right, Michael

00:40:16All right

00:40:17What if?

00:40:19What if?

00:40:19Let me give you

00:40:22A what if

00:40:23Okay

00:40:23What if

00:40:25I said

00:40:26Michael

00:40:27I think you're right

00:40:28I mean, what then?

00:40:30Yes

00:40:30What then?

00:40:32I'll tell you something

00:40:33And I think you'll find

00:40:34Everyone in this room

00:40:35Agrees with me

00:40:36Whatever it is

00:40:38And it can't be that bad

00:40:39I mean

00:40:41Look at the country

00:40:42Well

00:40:43I mean

00:40:44It's a price worth paying

00:40:45Abby

00:40:46Would you excuse Michael?

00:40:48Of course

00:40:48There's someone I want him to meet

00:40:50Nice to see you back

00:40:51And you

00:40:51Learn to enjoy life

00:40:53I'll try

00:40:54Michael

00:40:56I'd like you to meet my boss

00:40:57Oh, of course

00:40:58I'll be delighted

00:40:59Mr. Gallagher

00:41:00My brother-in-law

00:41:01Good evening, Mr. Brennan

00:41:02Now I know you

00:41:03I should think you do

00:41:04Boss of the LPCS

00:41:05One of the most important men in the country

00:41:07Oh, hardly

00:41:08Just a cog in the wheel

00:41:10Not from what I've heard

00:41:11I should think so

00:41:12I don't work for cogs in wheels

00:41:13All highly exaggerated

00:41:15Actually, Mr. Brennan

00:41:16A mutual admiration, maybe

00:41:18But your sister-in-law

00:41:19Is one of the best company secretaries

00:41:21In the country

00:41:21Oh

00:41:21A lot of attempted headhunting

00:41:23Goes on as far as she's concerned

00:41:25All resisted

00:41:26All resisted

00:41:27Which makes me feel very smug

00:41:28Excuse me, Mrs. Brennan

00:41:31Yes?

00:41:32There's a man outside to see you

00:41:34Oh

00:41:35A police officer

00:41:37Thank you, Mrs. Brennan

00:41:39Is there anything else?

00:41:42Not for the time being

00:41:43If we need anything else

00:41:45We know where to contact you

00:41:46Would you

00:41:47Like me to arrange?

00:41:49No

00:41:50Thank you

00:41:51Well, fine

00:41:51Thank you

00:41:52Right then

00:41:53Good evening

00:41:54Now what do you think?

00:41:59Not a lot to think

00:42:00At the moment

00:42:01It just proves everything

00:42:04Doesn't prove anything

00:42:06Fall out of a train

00:42:07Just as it's going over

00:42:09One of the highest viaducts

00:42:10In Britain

00:42:11I mean, is it likely?

00:42:12A lot of things aren't likely

00:42:13I'm not going to just leave it

00:42:17Yes, all right, Michael

00:42:18All right

00:42:18I'm sorry

00:42:21But what was he doing before you?

00:42:24Disappeared?

00:42:25Yes

00:42:25Working?

00:42:28As always

00:42:29I mean, what do you think

00:42:30He was doing?

00:42:31Must have been a shock

00:42:32In the sense that

00:42:34My brother's been found dead

00:42:35Yes, of course

00:42:36But in the sense that

00:42:38I was beginning to fear

00:42:39That something had happened to him

00:42:40No

00:42:41Not that much of a shock

00:42:43You think that someone

00:42:45Wanted to kill him?

00:42:46I wouldn't go as far

00:42:47As to say that

00:42:48But I've said all along

00:42:48That I didn't think

00:42:49He was the sort of man

00:42:50To walk out

00:42:51Just to disappear

00:42:52Yes, well, I'm sorry

00:42:55His name's been struck

00:42:57Off all those missing

00:42:58Personalists already

00:42:59Don't waste much time, eh?

00:43:04A black cross to his face

00:43:05And that's it

00:43:06Missing no longer

00:43:08Now, this St. James's Park

00:43:12Doesn't change

00:43:13Should it?

00:43:14The same trees

00:43:15The same pelicans

00:43:16The same strolling people

00:43:18Well then

00:43:18Oh, well then

00:43:19Nothing

00:43:19Sometimes I've got the feeling

00:43:23That I'm in a different country

00:43:24That I've come back

00:43:25To another place

00:43:26Not England

00:43:27Look around you

00:43:28You've just said

00:43:29Oh, on the face of it

00:43:30Yes, everything's the same

00:43:31But it's not the same place

00:43:33It's as if

00:43:36I'm a foreign correspondent

00:43:37And I haven't got the feel

00:43:38Of the place yet

00:43:39The nuances

00:43:40He hadn't been dead for long

00:43:44Peter?

00:43:45He's been missing for months

00:43:46And been dead for a few days

00:43:48What does that suggest to you?

00:43:51Accident

00:43:51Yes

00:43:52At the bottom of a gorge

00:43:53Under a railway track

00:43:55A ticket in his pocket

00:43:56Fell out

00:43:58Seems like it, eh?

00:44:00Yes, seems like it

00:44:01But Peter?

00:44:04A grown man

00:44:05Do you know that another name

00:44:09Was crossed off the missing persons list?

00:44:11No

00:44:11Same time

00:44:12Well, and to be a few coinciding

00:44:14So many people missing

00:44:16Precisely

00:44:17You know how you sound

00:44:20No?

00:44:21Sorry, but you know how you sound

00:44:22Defensive

00:44:23Do I?

00:44:24As if you're on the defensive

00:44:26I'm sorry

00:44:27I just think you're getting things

00:44:28Out of proportion

00:44:29How do you reckon?

00:44:30I

00:44:30I can remember when I lived in Spain

00:44:33For six months when I was a lad

00:44:34When I came back

00:44:35There were government warnings

00:44:37On cigarette packets

00:44:38And lorries had long load

00:44:40And orange and red stripes on them

00:44:42Better than when you

00:44:43I was

00:44:45What's the expression?

00:44:47Taken aback

00:44:48Did you see anything of Peter

00:44:52Before he disappeared?

00:44:54Not a lot

00:44:54But a bit, yes

00:44:55What was he doing?

00:44:56Asking too many questions

00:44:58Doing what?

00:44:59What?

00:45:00Oh, sorry

00:45:01It's a joke

00:45:02I didn't quite mean that

00:45:03He

00:45:03But you said it

00:45:03It's a joke

00:45:05Let's face it, Michael

00:45:06You knew Peter as well as I did

00:45:08Better, of course

00:45:10The thing is

00:45:11So was Corbel

00:45:12Who?

00:45:13Martin Corbel

00:45:14The journalist

00:45:15Surely

00:45:15Ah, yes

00:45:16Yes, of course

00:45:17Did you know he was on the missing persons list?

00:45:19No, I didn't

00:45:20Only for a few days

00:45:21Not as long as

00:45:23But he was asking questions, wasn't he?

00:45:26Well, journalists always do

00:45:27Don't tell me that you didn't ask

00:45:28Sure

00:45:28Investigative journalists always ask questions

00:45:31Delve their job

00:45:32Well, then

00:45:32But they don't all disappear

00:45:34Disappear?

00:45:35A few days

00:45:35Just like my brother

00:45:36And then turn up dead

00:45:38Just like my brother

00:45:40On the same day

00:45:41Oh?

00:45:43Body floated ashore

00:45:44On one of the legs

00:45:44Oh, come on

00:45:46You're not linking the

00:45:47You think not?

00:45:48Michael, you're really going

00:45:49Over the top

00:45:50Well, aren't you?

00:45:51I mean, people disappear all the time

00:45:53You know that

00:45:53People are killed all the time

00:45:55You know that

00:45:56I mean

00:45:57Do you know what you're doing?

00:46:00Tell me

00:46:00You've got some sort of proposition

00:46:02Some sort of theory

00:46:04Tucked away in your mind

00:46:05And you are making everything

00:46:07Fit into that theory

00:46:08You reckon?

00:46:09Well

00:46:09Aren't you?

00:46:11Let me tell you something else

00:46:12Martin Corbel was the other face

00:46:15Crossed off the missing persons list

00:46:17Well, of course it was

00:46:18He's not missing anymore

00:46:20Come on

00:46:22I'll buy you a drink

00:46:23Here you are

00:46:27At least the beer hasn't changed

00:46:29Thank God

00:46:29It's one of the things you miss most

00:46:31When you're abroad, isn't it?

00:46:32Cheers

00:46:33I mean, look around this pub

00:46:36Yes, I know

00:46:37I know

00:46:38It's places like pubs

00:46:39Like everything

00:46:40Make me think that perhaps

00:46:41Look

00:46:43I'll tell you something about Peter

00:46:46Something that perhaps you don't know

00:46:49Now listen, I've got no truck

00:46:51With any of your theories, right?

00:46:53Right

00:46:53But he wasn't the little lad

00:46:55That you kept behind, you know

00:46:56He became what we used to call

00:46:59Politically active, right?

00:47:01Peter

00:47:01In the sense that he got involved

00:47:03With community politics, you know

00:47:04Law centers

00:47:06The sort of thing that

00:47:06The sort of thing that I used to be involved with, yes

00:47:08But I was not every day political, was I?

00:47:10I was more concerned with the right or wrong of situations

00:47:14Not whether the injustice was right or left-inspired

00:47:16And now?

00:47:18Well, there are young men's concerns

00:47:20I've done my bit

00:47:21Now you go for the loot

00:47:22And why not?

00:47:23Now you are being defensive

00:47:24Am I?

00:47:26All right, so perhaps I am

00:47:27But I get a bit fed up with the kids calling people like me

00:47:31Complacent fat cats

00:47:32Not knowing or caring about what I did for people when I was their age

00:47:35I take your point

00:47:35I still do my bit if people are hard out

00:47:38I believe you

00:47:39If they're rich, I sting them

00:47:40Now come on, I like the good life

00:47:43All right, all right

00:47:44I agree with all you're saying

00:47:45No one can deny what you did when you were younger

00:47:47Least of all me, seriously

00:47:49Okay

00:47:49Another drink?

00:47:52My shout, but first of all

00:47:53You were saying

00:47:54Ah, yes

00:47:56About Pisa

00:47:58Well

00:48:00He started

00:48:01Demonstrating, you know

00:48:03You're a joke

00:48:04No

00:48:04Marching

00:48:05Whenever there was trouble, there was your brother

00:48:07I mean, I'm not suggesting anything criminal or riotous or anything I get

00:48:12I'm just saying that he didn't exactly keep a low profile

00:48:14I mean, I admired a lot of what he was doing

00:48:17In fact, when he was picked up occasionally

00:48:19By the police?

00:48:20Oh, nothing serious

00:48:21Just, you know, obstruction, abusive behavior, that's all

00:48:23Anyway, I was the one who was down there at the police station

00:48:27It's amazing how quickly these people who haven't a good word for fat cats like me

00:48:32Are on the blower demanding my presence when things go wrong

00:48:35Yes

00:48:36Look, don't get me wrong, I liked your brother

00:48:38I agreed with some of the things he was on about

00:48:40Some of it

00:48:41I mean, there's always things wrong with society

00:48:43It's just that

00:48:45He was adopting a high profile

00:48:46Yes, he was

00:48:47There's no reason for him to be

00:48:48What?

00:48:51Say it

00:48:52There's no reason for him to be abducted

00:48:54Michael

00:48:55And killed

00:48:55Well, that's nonsense, I'm telling you

00:48:57That's what they used to say in Germany about the Jews

00:48:59You're not suggesting that

00:49:01No, I'm not

00:49:01I'm just saying

00:49:04This is England, for heaven's sake

00:49:07What are you talking about?

00:49:09This is

00:49:09People are free to do as they wish within the law

00:49:12That is the way it always has been

00:49:14That is the way it always will be

00:49:15Peter

00:49:16Just took off, that's all

00:49:18Like thousands of other people do

00:49:20Yes

00:49:23Uh, look, do you want that other drink?

00:49:28Are you hungry?

00:49:29Yeah, sort of

00:49:30May do a good lunch here, upstairs

00:49:32Let's have another drink up there

00:49:34Try it for me, please

00:49:38Thank you

00:49:39Yes, sir

00:49:39I think you'll find the food here's pretty good

00:49:42Anyway, as far as pub grub goes

00:49:44That's something you must agree has changed

00:49:46What?

00:49:47Well, that it's now possible, possible

00:49:49To get reasonably decent food in a pub

00:49:51If you look hard

00:49:52Sure, but it's a lunge in the right direction

00:49:54Your drink, sir

00:49:55Oh, thanks

00:49:55Thanks, but, uh, as for the rest

00:49:58Okay

00:50:00I'll say to you the same sort of thing I used to say to your brother

00:50:03You talked to him

00:50:05Only on the odd occasion when I had to go to the local Nick to Bailey Mudd

00:50:07As bad as that

00:50:09I'm serious, but he always demanded one of the fraternity to be there

00:50:12Anyway, we'd have a drink afterwards and he'd go on

00:50:15And on about the country and what's happening and

00:50:18Well, you know, that sort of thing

00:50:20So?

00:50:23Yes

00:50:24All right, Michael, cards on the table

00:50:27Something did happen a few years back

00:50:31Don't ask him what he was, but at the time

00:50:34Well, you must have read about it wherever you were

00:50:37Things were getting pretty bad here

00:50:40I mean, a continuation of what it was when I was here

00:50:43Just more of the same thing

00:50:44That's right

00:50:44Slide into decay

00:50:47Unemployment was getting worse and worse

00:50:50Inner city decay was getting worse and worse

00:50:53My reputation for being the dirtiest country in Europe was getting worse and worse

00:50:58Violence, rioting

00:51:02Well, it was all getting worse and worse

00:51:05Yes?

00:51:06Yes, okay

00:51:07Talk of revolution, have you?

00:51:09I mean, good God

00:51:09So, all right

00:51:12Something happened

00:51:14I don't know what it was

00:51:17There was a big injection of cash, maybe

00:51:20I don't know

00:51:21Ooh, the IMF, foreign banks

00:51:25Don't ask me, I'm not a financial expert

00:51:27But yes, okay

00:51:28I keep my ears to the ground

00:51:30I've got my contacts, my friends

00:51:32Something happened

00:51:34And whatever it was, it was all pretty quiet

00:51:38Pretty secret

00:51:39Oh, exactly

00:51:39There's nothing sinister about that

00:51:41No

00:51:42No, of course not

00:51:42I'm not suggesting that for a second

00:51:44I leave that to people like you

00:51:45All I'm saying is that something happened

00:51:48And from then on, things improved

00:51:54Improved

00:51:54Oh, come on

00:51:55Unemployment down, building programs up

00:51:59You've said it yourself

00:52:00Cleaner cities, more prosperity

00:52:03I mean, not just a little

00:52:05I mean, not just a little

00:52:05But a hell of a lot

00:52:07I'm not denying that

00:52:08Everything

00:52:10All the politicians have been saying must happen for years

00:52:14Everything all the agitators have been saying must happen for years

00:52:18Everything all the journalists have been saying must happen for years

00:52:24Yes, right

00:52:25But

00:52:25So, all right

00:52:29Restrictions are a bit tighter

00:52:32Oh, not just a bit

00:52:33Yes, a bit

00:52:34Look, you haven't noticed it because you live here

00:52:37Because it's been gradual

00:52:39But when the police at airports, customs officials, authorities behave like

00:52:44Well, it's becoming more and more like a totalitarian country

00:52:48Crap

00:52:49Sorry, Michael, but you're talking rubbish

00:52:50When people who agitate start disappearing, turn up dead

00:52:55People have always disappeared

00:52:57How many more times have I got

00:52:58Yes, okay

00:53:01In one way you're right

00:53:03Government and society do seem to be sitting harder on demonstrators

00:53:07Dissidents

00:53:07Yes, sure

00:53:08And why not?

00:53:10Nobody's being prevented from demonstrating

00:53:11As long as it's peaceful and ineffective

00:53:13Ask anyone out there

00:53:17Anyone in the street what they think

00:53:18Ask them

00:53:19I mean, you've seen the opinion both

00:53:22More and more people are contented with life

00:53:26With what is happening

00:53:28With the government

00:53:29Not people like you don't seem to be able to understand it

00:53:33But most people like order and calm and lawful behaviour

00:53:38That's right

00:53:39So do I

00:53:41Look, mate

00:53:43Life's better

00:53:44For everyone

00:53:46Don't knock it

00:53:48I enjoyed that meal

00:53:51And me

00:53:52Yeah

00:53:53Nice to see you again

00:53:54In spite of

00:53:55Of course

00:53:56Taxi

00:53:57Anyway, mate, I'll get back

00:53:59Yeah, that's right

00:54:00Michael

00:54:00Yeah

00:54:01Why are you doing all this?

00:54:05Life's good

00:54:06Really

00:54:06Just

00:54:08Live it

00:54:10Gentlemen

00:54:17Gentlemen

00:54:17Thank you

00:54:20I'd like to call the 7th Annual General Meeting

00:54:24To order

00:54:25Thank you, gentlemen

00:54:27I'd now like to ask that the minutes be accepted

00:54:31For

00:54:31Second

00:54:32For

00:54:33Against

00:54:36Unanimous

00:54:38Thank you, gentlemen

00:54:39I will now call on our honorary secretary to give a brief account of trading during the last year

00:54:45Thank you

00:54:46As you know, gentlemen, our position has grown from strength to strength

00:54:50And I can safely predict

00:54:52That the position will continue

00:54:53The report bears out what we all felt

00:54:57And that's that the fall in lawlessness and the rise in productivity are linked

00:55:03You will all find the report in your orange folder

00:55:06Thank you, gentlemen

00:55:07Thank you, Mr Gallagher

00:55:09The Standing Committee on Presentation has made an interim recommendation

00:55:14That we should allow the Prime Minister to up the number of TV chat shows to once every four weeks

00:55:20Provided, of course, that the

00:55:22The vetting procedures are strictly adhered to

00:55:25Precisely

00:55:26Right

00:55:27Now, has any member

00:55:28Uh, please

00:55:29Sir William

00:55:30I must say that the conciliatory reassuring new note in the Prime Ministerial pronouncements

00:55:35Have been very well received by all concerned

00:55:37I just wonder, though

00:55:39Yes

00:55:41Whether changing the balance might be counterproductive

00:55:45Well, we certainly don't have to come to any definite agreement about that yet

00:55:49Mr Chairman

00:55:49Yes, Mr Gallagher

00:55:50As a founder member of the consortium, I must make it clear where I stand

00:55:55We have worked hard and diligently

00:55:58Uh, uh, all of us

00:55:59To create a nationwide atmosphere where we, and the people, can function efficiently

00:56:05And without fear

00:56:06Yes

00:56:07It is important that this state of affairs be kept

00:56:10Vitally important

00:56:12We must think long and hard before we take any new steps

00:56:15If the level of Prime Ministerial broadcasts is working well as it is

00:56:20Then

00:56:20I must say

00:56:22There doesn't seem too much point in, uh, altering the balance

00:56:26I agree

00:56:26Yes

00:56:27Does that satisfy you, Sir William?

00:56:29Uh, yes, it does

00:56:30Thank you

00:56:31Well, perhaps we should think about it and come to a more definite conclusion at the next meeting

00:56:34And now, gentlemen, the proposed factory complex for the Highlands

00:56:37What the heck?

00:56:41Yes

00:56:42Yes

00:56:53Would you just get out of the car, please, Sir?

00:56:56What for?

00:56:56Just do it, Sir

00:56:57Uh, well, not unless you

00:56:59Out

00:56:59Then make no mistake, I'm quite prepared to use this

00:57:01Ah, I see

00:57:04Out

00:57:05Yes

00:57:06Yes, of course

00:57:07I'm getting out

00:57:08Right, Mr Brennan, in you go

00:57:10I'm going

00:57:11In

00:57:11Look, I demand to know

00:57:13No point in demanding anything you hear, mate

00:57:21No point at all

00:57:22What?

00:57:24Oh, who are you?

00:57:25Johnson

00:57:26Clive Johnson

00:57:28You?

00:57:30Michael Brennan

00:57:31What have you been doing?

00:57:33Not a lot

00:57:34Nor me

00:57:34But here we are, in Britain

00:57:37Whipped away by a pal of military force

00:57:39Ah, that's right

00:57:40Very efficient, too

00:57:42Say that again

00:57:43Incarcerated without trial

00:57:45I mean, surprising, isn't it?

00:57:48No

00:57:49Not so surprising

00:57:50I was expecting something like this

00:57:53Asking too many questions?

00:57:54Ah, so I'd say

00:57:55Join the club

00:57:55You?

00:57:56Yeah

00:57:56It was my job, after all

00:57:58And mine, so I thought

00:57:59I'm a journalist

00:58:00Yeah

00:58:01You haven't heard of me?

00:58:03No, mind you

00:58:04I've been out of the country for a while

00:58:05I'm an MP

00:58:06Member of Parliament

00:58:07Defender of our freedoms

00:58:09A very small cog in the wheel, mind you

00:58:11Elected on a by-election

00:58:13Backbencher

00:58:14I thought all MPs ask questions

00:58:16I thought

00:58:16In the house

00:58:17It seems all right

00:58:18It seems all right

00:58:18Because you get the reassuring answers back

00:58:21The promise of ministerial investigations

00:58:24A little word from the whip

00:58:26But

00:58:26But asking questions outside the house

00:58:29Well, that's where they're not too happy

00:58:31Or so it seems

00:58:32At least it proves

00:58:33What?

00:58:34That I'm right

00:58:34At least it proves that something's happened

00:58:36Oh, something's happened, all right

00:58:38But

00:58:38What?

00:58:40Precisely

00:58:40Trouble is

00:58:42Most people in the street

00:58:43Well

00:58:44They don't want to know, do they?

00:58:46I mean, why should they?

00:58:47My life's better

00:58:47My life's happier

00:58:48Well, nonetheless

00:58:49Here we are in Britain

00:58:50And if you ask questions

00:58:52You finish up here

00:58:53What?

00:58:55On the wall

00:58:57There

00:58:57Those initials

00:58:59Yeah

00:59:00Notice those

00:59:01Like the Tower of London

00:59:04Haven't added mine yet

00:59:06Ah

00:59:06P.L.B.

00:59:08Peter Leonard Brennan

00:59:11Yeah

00:59:11Oh

00:59:13Brennan

00:59:14Hmm

00:59:15My brother

00:59:16He was here

00:59:18So it seems

00:59:18He was also asking a lot of questions

00:59:22I've been told

00:59:23Oh?

00:59:24Out of the country, remember

00:59:25So?

00:59:26He was found

00:59:27Dead

00:59:28There before yesterday

00:59:29Bloody hell

00:59:32That's what I was afraid of

00:59:34Hmm

00:59:34It wouldn't surprise me

00:59:36If you found the initials MC

00:59:37He either

00:59:38Who's he?

00:59:39Martin Corbel

00:59:40He was a journalist

00:59:42Asked a lot of questions as well

00:59:43Disappeared

00:59:45He too was found dead the other day

00:59:47Ah

00:59:49Hmm

00:59:51No, it's impossible

00:59:55What?

00:59:57It's me, dear

00:59:58What do you want?

01:00:01If you have a moment

01:00:02I've made it quite plain

01:00:03Many times

01:00:04That I don't wish to be disturbed

01:00:05When I'm in the middle of a campaign

01:00:06But it's Sergeant Major Baker

01:00:08Is it?

01:00:10Sir, the men are ready

01:00:11What for?

01:00:12Well, it's Tuesday, sir

01:00:13A weekly statement

01:00:14Good Lord

01:00:15Already?

01:00:16Yes, sir

01:00:17Ah

01:00:18Right then, Sergeant Major

01:00:19I'll be with you in five minutes

01:00:20Sir

01:00:21Squad

01:00:22Hits in

01:00:25Sound

01:00:25Thank you, Sergeant Major

01:00:28Stand them in easy

01:00:28Squad

01:00:28Now I want to congratulate you

01:00:37On a week of high endeavour

01:00:38Small in number we might be

01:00:41But I wouldn't hesitate in saying

01:00:44That we are perhaps

01:00:45The best trained force in the land

01:00:47And I'm proud of that

01:00:49Because, and make no mistake about it

01:00:53This country has need of dedicated patriots now

01:00:57More than it has ever in the past

01:00:59Now I've been put at liberty to say

01:01:02That the government

01:01:03At the highest level

01:01:04Has been in touch with me

01:01:06First of all

01:01:08We have been commended

01:01:10For our high level of operational success

01:01:12And also

01:01:13For our dedication to our duties

01:01:16And to our country

01:01:17I was then informed

01:01:20That perpetual vigilance

01:01:21Against terrorists

01:01:22Is more

01:01:23Not less

01:01:24Necessary

01:01:25As the weeks and months go by

01:01:26The threat

01:01:28Against the stability

01:01:29And prosperity of our land

01:01:30Is more severe now

01:01:32Than it has ever been before

01:01:35Good God

01:01:36Does he believe all that?

01:01:38So it seems

01:01:39We must never flinch

01:01:41In our dedicated determination

01:01:43To defend the realm

01:01:44And the priorities

01:01:46We hold to be true and sacred

01:01:47Do that

01:01:49And we'll all be able

01:01:52To hold our heads high

01:01:53Definition of a fanatic

01:01:55Said a mouthful there

01:01:57And it's that little bunch of men

01:01:58Who are responsible

01:01:59For all these disappearances

01:02:00I know as much as you, Mr. Brennan

01:02:03No more

01:02:04No less

01:02:05I'll tell you something

01:02:06I don't feel like a terrorist

01:02:09Or a subversive

01:02:10No

01:02:11So what happens now?

01:02:15The firing squad

01:02:16Smithson?

01:02:18That's right

01:02:18Drink?

01:02:19Not for the moment, thank you

01:02:20After business, eh?

01:02:22Usually better

01:02:22Right

01:02:23We have need of your professional services again

01:02:27I haven't seen you before

01:02:29That's right, you haven't

01:02:30Was it always a...

01:02:30And if you want the contract

01:02:31Don't ask questions

01:02:32Sorry, squad

01:02:33Just an observation

01:02:34Usual deal, of course

01:02:36Half up front

01:02:37Half on proof

01:02:37Of successful hit

01:02:38Right

01:02:39The man's name is Brennan

01:02:41Michael Brennan

01:02:42You'll be leaving the detention centre

01:02:44At 1900 hours tomorrow night

01:02:46Right, out

01:02:50What?

01:02:51You out

01:02:52Why?

01:02:53Don't ask

01:02:53Do

01:02:54Right, Mr. Brennan

01:02:56You're free to go

01:02:57Oh, am I?

01:02:59In that case, a question

01:03:00No question

01:03:00Why have I been held?

01:03:02Just go

01:03:03This isn't the last you'll be hearing about this

01:03:05I'm sure it isn't

01:03:06Two and a half hours' walk that way

01:03:08Is the nearest mainline station

01:03:09Good day

01:03:09Just like that

01:03:11Just like that

01:03:13Pre-seat in here

01:03:16Oh, plenty of them

01:03:17Right

01:03:17All on your own

01:03:19So far

01:03:20Good

01:03:21In that case, stand up

01:03:23Do what?

01:03:24Stand up

01:03:25Oh, I see

01:03:27Now

01:03:28Everything distanced from everything else

01:03:31Clever

01:03:32Don't know about that, squire

01:03:33I'm a professional

01:03:35Paid to do a job, that's all

01:03:36Hope you won't take it personally

01:03:37I try not, sir

01:03:39Open that door behind you

01:03:40Do what?

01:03:41Come on

01:03:41Who's paying you to do this?

01:03:43I don't ask questions or answer them

01:03:45That way I make a living

01:03:46And how about living with yourself?

01:03:49Don't give me that moonshine, mate

01:03:50Right, mate

01:03:51Come on

01:03:52Open the door

01:03:53Right

01:03:56You lucky sod

01:04:00Pardon my charm

01:04:00I can't lose for even the train drivers on my side, can I?

01:04:04So what are you going to do?

01:04:05Your turn

01:04:06Open the door

01:04:06You wouldn't

01:04:07One a bit

01:04:08Amateurs haven't got a bottle

01:04:09I don't get paid for being ruthless

01:04:11But when my life's on the line

01:04:12You won't go through with it

01:04:13Won't be the first time

01:04:14Now listen, squire

01:04:17If you don't open that door and jump

01:04:19I'll kill you now

01:04:20Oh, it's down a chance

01:04:21The speed of trains going

01:04:22A better one than if I shoot you

01:04:23Right

01:04:24Now

01:04:25Michael

01:04:34Hello

01:04:34Where have you been?

01:04:37Oh, here and there

01:04:38Spot of travelling

01:04:38Can I come in?

01:04:40Yes

01:04:41Yes, of course

01:04:42That's better

01:04:44Oh, I needed that

01:04:47Now that you've eaten

01:04:49Are you going to tell me...

01:04:50Not now

01:04:51Later

01:04:51I've got things to do

01:04:53Where are you going?

01:04:55I told you, things to do

01:04:56Incidentally

01:04:57Why didn't you tell me about Peter's political activities?

01:05:00Political?

01:05:02They weren't political

01:05:03He was marching around

01:05:04Demonstrating

01:05:05Behaving like an adolescent

01:05:06That's what you thought

01:05:07Great man

01:05:08You didn't approve

01:05:09How did you find out about that?

01:05:11Oh, just, you know

01:05:12Talking to people

01:05:14Did you tell Maureen?

01:05:15About the imprisonment

01:05:16And Major Morgan's army

01:05:18Ensconced in the highlands

01:05:19Training to lift people efficiently

01:05:21Off the streets

01:05:21And the hitmen

01:05:23No

01:05:23Everyone thinks I'm exaggerating already

01:05:27Don't want them to think

01:05:29I've gone right round the twist

01:05:30And have you?

01:05:30Gone round the twist

01:05:31Not too sure, mate

01:05:32Tell you

01:05:32When you think of it, I mean

01:05:34You're absolutely sure

01:05:36That everything you've just told me

01:05:37Did happen?

01:05:37Brian

01:05:38Yes, sir

01:05:39Okay

01:05:39In that case, yes

01:05:40This time you must go to the police

01:05:42We can't have nutters like that

01:05:44Behaving like that

01:05:45The thing is, this Major Morgan

01:05:46Talked as if he was functioning

01:05:47At the government's behest

01:05:48Yes, perhaps he does believe that

01:05:50But he

01:05:51Yes, take your point

01:05:51Do you want me to come with you

01:05:53To the police?

01:05:54Legal representation?

01:05:55No, thanks, Brian

01:05:56I can manage

01:05:58I have to tell the subcommittee

01:06:00Of the escape of Michael Brennan

01:06:02It is the first time

01:06:04That a subversive is escape

01:06:06Retribution, but

01:06:07Dangerous?

01:06:09Potentially, Arthur, yes

01:06:10But don't worry

01:06:11Everything's under control

01:06:13Luckily

01:06:14What's wrong with this country?

01:06:18Like what?

01:06:18What's happened?

01:06:20When?

01:06:20I've just been to the police

01:06:21They didn't want to listen

01:06:23About what?

01:06:26Michael?

01:06:26First of all, they patronised me

01:06:28Then they told me if I had

01:06:29Any specific accusations

01:06:30Michael?

01:06:32What happened?

01:06:34I was abducted by a secret army

01:06:36Held captive in a centre

01:06:38Somewhere in the Highlands

01:06:39And there had a man

01:06:40A professional hitman

01:06:41Tried to kill me on the way back

01:06:43You know?

01:06:43You what?

01:06:44The same pattern

01:06:45Happened to Peter

01:06:46Exactly the same

01:06:47Only he wasn't so lucky

01:06:48Neither was Martin Corbel

01:06:50Neither, I presume,

01:06:52Have been tens

01:06:53Hundreds of other people

01:06:55What are you talking about?

01:06:56What I've been talking about

01:06:57Ever since I came back

01:06:59Something happened

01:07:00In this country

01:07:01Anyone who dares to question

01:07:03Tries to find out

01:07:04Is dealt with

01:07:05And by dealt with

01:07:06I mean wiped out

01:07:07Stamped on

01:07:08That's what I'm talking about

01:07:10Nonsense

01:07:12Maureen

01:07:12I'm not a fool

01:07:13Or an hysteric

01:07:15Or a troublemaker

01:07:16What happened to me

01:07:18Happened

01:07:19All right

01:07:21All right what?

01:07:23Say that something

01:07:24Has happened

01:07:25What?

01:07:27I don't know

01:07:28But say that something

01:07:30Has

01:07:30Whatever it was

01:07:32Transformed this country

01:07:33From a strike

01:07:34Torn

01:07:35Unhappy place

01:07:36Wracked with unemployment

01:07:37And uncertainty

01:07:37And riots

01:07:38Into what it is now

01:07:39For heaven's sake

01:07:41Whatever it was

01:07:42That happened

01:07:42If anything did

01:07:43Then I

01:07:44And 99%

01:07:45Of the people

01:07:45In this country

01:07:46More

01:07:46Are delighted

01:07:48That it did

01:07:49Not if they knew

01:07:50What lengths

01:07:50They

01:07:51Whoever they are

01:07:51Have to go to

01:07:52To preserve that

01:07:53Peace and quiet

01:07:54And prosperity

01:07:54Even then

01:07:55Even if they did know

01:07:57Ah

01:07:58So you don't deny anymore

01:08:01That there is an army

01:08:02Abducting people

01:08:03That the missing persons

01:08:04I don't know

01:08:05Can't you believe that?

01:08:08Accept that?

01:08:11No I can't

01:08:12Where are you going?

01:08:14I'm not going to rest

01:08:15Until I find out

01:08:16What's happened

01:08:16Sooner or later

01:08:18Someone will get

01:08:19To the bottom of it

01:08:19So

01:08:20You're not going anywhere

01:08:21Oh don't

01:08:21Good God

01:08:25Where did you get that?

01:08:29I've had it for a long time

01:08:30What the hell?

01:08:32Why couldn't you just

01:08:34Yes

01:08:34Accept

01:08:36Just like me?

01:08:38Peter

01:08:38Do you mean to say

01:08:40That

01:08:40Yes

01:08:41That's exactly

01:08:41What I mean to say

01:08:42Your own husband

01:08:43What's happening

01:08:45What's going to happen

01:08:46In the future

01:08:47Is too important

01:08:49Too big

01:08:50For us to worry

01:08:51About personal considerations

01:08:52And that includes

01:08:53Oh

01:08:53Yes of course

01:08:55If you can shop

01:08:55Your own husband

01:08:56You'll shop me

01:08:57But what about you?

01:08:59What if they decide

01:09:00That you've got to be

01:09:01Sacrificed to the great design?

01:09:03Then so be it

01:09:04Bloody hell

01:09:05You really do believe

01:09:07Don't you?

01:09:08Yes

01:09:09Now Michael

01:09:11Back to that wall

01:09:12While I make a phone call

01:09:13I must promise you

01:09:15That one single movement

01:09:16And I'll shoot

01:09:17Promise you

01:09:18Can you use that?

01:09:20Oh yes

01:09:21And believe me

01:09:23I would use it

01:09:24I believe you

01:09:25Maureen Brennan

01:09:28Is here

01:09:29Yes right

01:09:32I'll do that

01:09:33Okay

01:09:36So tell me

01:09:38Tell me what's going on

01:09:40Yes I will

01:09:41I wouldn't like you

01:09:42To think that what I'm doing

01:09:43Is

01:09:43What murder?

01:09:44Oh good heavens

01:09:44Heaven for them

01:09:45Some years ago

01:09:47Some far sighted men

01:09:49Got together

01:09:49To talk things over

01:09:50The consortium

01:09:52They call themselves

01:09:53They meet regularly

01:09:54Sometimes every few weeks

01:09:56Secretly

01:09:56At different venues

01:09:58Around the world

01:09:58Who are they?

01:09:59Representatives of

01:10:01International conglomerates

01:10:02Organizations that are

01:10:03So big

01:10:04That their individual

01:10:05Budgets could totally

01:10:06Finance some countries

01:10:07Together

01:10:08Their joint assets

01:10:10Could buy out

01:10:10Most governments

01:10:11Fat cats

01:10:12The fattest

01:10:13But with consciences

01:10:14As you shall see

01:10:15Oh yes

01:10:16Oh yes

01:10:17And uh

01:10:18What did they discuss

01:10:19At these meetings?

01:10:21Oh there was always

01:10:21One item on the agenda

01:10:22Just the one

01:10:23How various political

01:10:25Situations around the world

01:10:26Were affecting their interests

01:10:28And what to do about them

01:10:29Wow

01:10:31Yes

01:10:32Wow

01:10:33Now I don't have to tell you

01:10:36About the state

01:10:36This country was getting into

01:10:38A few years ago

01:10:38No I've heard about that

01:10:39And our friends

01:10:40They decided

01:10:41Unanimously

01:10:42That something had to be done

01:10:44About it

01:10:45Now they could have decided

01:10:46To pull out of this country

01:10:47Entirely

01:10:48Which would have been

01:10:49Bad news for all concerned

01:10:50Because in spite of everything

01:10:52In spite of our declining power

01:10:54That this country

01:10:54Is still economically important

01:10:56So what they decided to do

01:10:58Was change the way

01:10:59This country was going

01:11:00Did they indeed?

01:11:01Yes

01:11:02Wow

01:11:03Precisely

01:11:05They approached the government

01:11:07With a package

01:11:08A package?

01:11:10A deal

01:11:10A proposition

01:11:11They would bail the country out

01:11:13They would what?

01:11:15Bail the country out

01:11:16Don't

01:11:16What?

01:11:18Don't even think of trying it

01:11:20I'm not some little fool

01:11:21Whose concentration is going to waver

01:11:22So if your hand goes one inch closer

01:11:24To that paperweight

01:11:25I didn't even enter that

01:11:26Don't let it

01:11:27Right

01:11:28So

01:11:30They offered to

01:11:32Bail this country out

01:11:33That's right

01:11:35Oh don't forget

01:11:37That I'm talking about

01:11:38People who are able

01:11:38To lay their hands

01:11:39On more assets

01:11:40In real terms

01:11:41Than

01:11:42Well then this country

01:11:44Spent on the whole

01:11:44Of the second world war

01:11:45Much more

01:11:46We've got to stop thinking

01:11:48In terms of just

01:11:48Big companies

01:11:49Of multi-million pound

01:11:51Amalgamations

01:11:51We've got to think of

01:11:53Multi-multi-million pound

01:11:55Conglomerations

01:11:56Able to wield

01:11:57Awesome power

01:11:58And so they approached

01:12:00Our government

01:12:01That's right

01:12:01They would put

01:12:02Vast resources

01:12:03In their hands

01:12:04As if they were

01:12:05Just another company

01:12:06To get themselves

01:12:07Out of the mess

01:12:08Provided certain things

01:12:10Were done

01:12:10Like what?

01:12:13The laws had to be passed

01:12:14Regarding strikes

01:12:15Demonstrations

01:12:16Wage claims

01:12:16I see

01:12:17And that government

01:12:18Agreed

01:12:19Yes

01:12:20After lots of

01:12:22Secret meetings

01:12:23Of course

01:12:23Lots of wringing of hands

01:12:24Lots of bleeding hearts

01:12:26But yes

01:12:27They agreed

01:12:29So our government

01:12:30Is in fact

01:12:31A front

01:12:33Yes

01:12:34Why not say the words

01:12:36A front

01:12:37For the conglomeration

01:12:38And all this

01:12:39Toughening of attitudes

01:12:40This lack of care

01:12:41It's a price

01:12:42The country had to pay

01:12:43And it paid it

01:12:45Willingly

01:12:45But what if the government

01:12:47Changes

01:12:47Oh but it won't

01:12:49Pardon?

01:12:50Oh yes

01:12:52The people still vote

01:12:52As they did before

01:12:53But the conglomeration

01:12:54Decides what the result

01:12:56Will be

01:12:56No more elections

01:12:57No more counting of votes

01:12:58No more results

01:12:59Announced on TV

01:13:00Oh yes

01:13:01Everything happens

01:13:02Exactly as it did before

01:13:03The only difference

01:13:05Is everything is

01:13:06Rehearsed beforehand

01:13:07The ballot slips

01:13:08That are counted

01:13:09Are not the ones

01:13:09That were filled in

01:13:10That's unbelievable

01:13:11It requires organisation

01:13:13Certainly

01:13:14So everyone's

01:13:15Been disenfranchised

01:13:16It depends

01:13:17What you mean

01:13:18By disenfranchised

01:13:19Doesn't it

01:13:19And I have to tell you

01:13:21Yet again

01:13:22That if they were told

01:13:22What I've just told you

01:13:23The great majority

01:13:24Of people

01:13:25Would be happy

01:13:26To go along with it

01:13:27And the minority

01:13:28The tiny minority

01:13:30Depends again

01:13:33Of course

01:13:34Missing persons

01:13:35All countries

01:13:37Have to protect themselves

01:13:39One way

01:13:40Or the other

01:13:41What the consortium did

01:13:43In the country's interest

01:13:45Was approach

01:13:46Major Morgan

01:13:47I've met him

01:13:48Major Morgan

01:13:48Is a patriot

01:13:49For years

01:13:51He'd been advocating

01:13:51Setting up a private army

01:13:53To fight terrorists

01:13:54Dissidents

01:13:54Potential revolution

01:13:55A right wing nutter

01:13:57We all look at things

01:13:59From our own standpoint

01:14:00Michael

01:14:01Read your stand out

01:14:03The consortium

01:14:05Funded him

01:14:05Swore him to secrecy

01:14:07Told him that he

01:14:08And the dozen or so

01:14:08Like men that he would recruit

01:14:10Were needed to fight

01:14:11Terrorism

01:14:11He agreed

01:14:12With alacrity

01:14:14What they do

01:14:15Major Morgan's army

01:14:16Is pick up anybody

01:14:18Using the most precise

01:14:19Military precision

01:14:20And expertise

01:14:20Yes I've seen it

01:14:21Whoever they are told to

01:14:23And then

01:14:24Execute

01:14:26Oh no

01:14:27We have nothing to do with that

01:14:28They pick people up

01:14:30And hold them in detention

01:14:31Somewhere later

01:14:33They are released

01:14:33As far as Major Morgan

01:14:35Is concerned

01:14:35That is it

01:14:36Doesn't he get puzzled

01:14:37By that

01:14:38Maybe

01:14:39But he's been paid

01:14:40To do what he's dreamt

01:14:41Of doing all his life

01:14:42So he doesn't argue

01:14:43So what happens

01:14:44To these dissidents

01:14:45Professional hitmen

01:14:47I had

01:14:47Paid a great deal

01:14:48Of money

01:14:48And I told what

01:14:50Nothing

01:14:50Just that a certain person

01:14:52Is to be eliminated

01:14:53Yes

01:14:54I've met one of them

01:14:55Too

01:14:56And meanwhile

01:14:59And meanwhile

01:15:02The country grows stronger

01:15:04And stronger

01:15:06No wonder little insects

01:15:07Like me

01:15:08Have to be trodden on

01:15:09For the good of the whole

01:15:11Michael

01:15:11It's a philosophy

01:15:12I did try to tell you

01:15:14Oh that you did

01:15:15You

01:15:18You do know of course

01:15:20That all this consortium

01:15:21Is interested in

01:15:22Is making vast profits

01:15:23Don't you

01:15:24The whole movement

01:15:25Is interested in

01:15:26Making this country

01:15:27Great again

01:15:28That's what you believe

01:15:29That's what I know

01:15:33Yes

01:15:34I see

01:15:35So how did you get involved

01:15:38I applied for a job

01:15:40And got it

01:15:41Secretary to John Gallagher

01:15:43One of the founder members

01:15:44Of the consortium

01:15:45Who turned you

01:15:46From a radical

01:15:46I was that way already

01:15:48Protests

01:15:49Demonstrations

01:15:50You grow out

01:15:52Of that sort of thing

01:15:52Do you

01:15:53Must be pretty persuasive

01:15:55Gallagher

01:15:57He has a very strong personality

01:16:01Must have

01:16:02So now what

01:16:05I've told you

01:16:07We go on

01:16:09And on

01:16:10To bigger

01:16:11And better things

01:16:13Yes

01:16:13I was talking about me

01:16:14The

01:16:15Authorities

01:16:17Will be here soon

01:16:18You've been posted

01:16:20As a suspected terrorist

01:16:21Oh good heavens

01:16:22Fame at last

01:16:23And if I turn

01:16:26And walk out

01:16:26Through that door

01:16:27I'll shoot you

01:16:28Will you

01:16:29Don't rely on my

01:16:30Not being able

01:16:31To go through with it

01:16:31Don't rely on my

01:16:33Friendship with you

01:16:34Don't rely on my

01:16:36Natural feminine

01:16:37Compassion

01:16:37No

01:16:38Tell me though

01:16:41As a matter of interest

01:16:42What would happen

01:16:42If what

01:16:43If I did get away

01:16:44If I was free

01:16:45In this land of the free

01:16:46With the knowledge

01:16:47That I now have

01:16:47You'd soon be picked up

01:16:49First of all

01:16:50There'd be a lot of publicity

01:16:51About a terrorist

01:16:52On the run

01:16:53So that the general public

01:16:54Would know about it

01:16:55And be warned

01:16:56How dangerous you were

01:16:57If you went to the police

01:16:58And complain about

01:16:59What had happened to me

01:17:00They wouldn't believe you

01:17:01They've been warned

01:17:02That this is a stock defence

01:17:04By terrorists

01:17:04Oh clever

01:17:05What about protesting

01:17:07To the media

01:17:07Oh

01:17:08They might publish

01:17:09Your protests

01:17:10Certainly the more

01:17:11Radical papers would

01:17:12Oh so they're still

01:17:13Allowed to function

01:17:14Of course

01:17:15Why not

01:17:16It's a safety valve

01:17:18In the same way

01:17:19As agitators

01:17:20Are allowed to agitate

01:17:21Protest

01:17:22Demonstrate

01:17:23Like Peter

01:17:23Precisely

01:17:24Like Peter

01:17:26As long as they're watched

01:17:28So that they don't get

01:17:29Too close to the real truth

01:17:31Exactly

01:17:32Anyway

01:17:34Even if your story

01:17:35Was printed

01:17:35In one of these rags

01:17:36Not many of the public

01:17:37Would believe

01:17:37The rantings

01:17:38Of a known

01:17:38Dangerous terrorist

01:17:39Published in a known

01:17:41Looney publication

01:17:42Got it all tied up

01:17:44Nothing is going to

01:17:45Prevent the greatness

01:17:46That this country

01:17:48Is beginning to attain

01:17:49From growing

01:17:50And me

01:17:52Hmm

01:17:53What would happen to me

01:17:55You wouldn't last for long

01:17:57It wouldn't just be

01:17:58Major Morgan

01:17:59And his elite squad

01:18:00After you now

01:18:01It would be the police

01:18:02The mass of the armed forces

01:18:04Everyone

01:18:04No need to keep it a secret

01:18:06Anymore you see

01:18:07You wouldn't stand a chance

01:18:08I think though

01:18:10I'd rather take my chance

01:18:11Out there

01:18:11Don't move

01:18:12You won't shoot me more

01:18:14I told you

01:18:15Don't move

01:18:17They're going to have to get me

01:18:18I'm warning you

01:18:19Next time it'll be you

01:18:22Bye

01:18:23One day perhaps

01:18:25You'll come to your senses

01:18:25All of you

01:18:27Bye

01:18:28Damn

01:18:32Damn

01:18:35The warning goes on

01:18:42To say that Brennan

01:18:43Is dangerous

01:18:44And must not be approached

01:18:46This photo of Michael Brennan

01:18:48Was taken only a few weeks ago

01:18:50And is a very good likeness

01:18:52Again

01:18:53We must emphasize

01:18:54That this man

01:18:55Must not be approached

01:18:57Yeah

01:18:58Yeah

01:18:58Front page

01:18:59Certainly

01:19:00After all

01:19:01Our competitors

01:19:02Will be doing it

01:19:04Lonely dear

01:19:22What

01:19:23My flat's just round the corner

01:19:25How much

01:19:26Depends on what you want

01:19:28It doesn't matter

01:19:28I'll pay whatever

01:19:29Come on then darling

01:19:30Warmer in there than out here

01:19:32Here you are dear

01:19:34Not much

01:19:34But it's home

01:19:35You've got a table

01:19:36Of course I've got a table

01:19:37Look

01:19:39Anything kinky is extra

01:19:40No I'm not going to touch you

01:19:42I just want somewhere to write

01:19:43Oh and a cup of tea

01:19:45Of course you can

01:19:45Oh my god

01:19:48I know you

01:19:49You're

01:19:49I won't touch you

01:19:50In any way

01:19:51You've been on the telly

01:19:52The papers

01:19:52You're quite safe

01:19:53You've got nothing

01:19:54To be frightened of

01:19:55Here

01:19:56All I need is to sit

01:19:58At your table

01:19:58And write a letter

01:19:59Yeah

01:20:00Well

01:20:01Don't do anything

01:20:02Or leave the room

01:20:02Just sit there

01:20:04While I write

01:20:04Okay

01:20:05All right

01:20:08Yes

01:20:09That must be

01:20:10The longest letter

01:20:11Ever written

01:20:11Had a lot to say

01:20:12Where's the nearest letterbox

01:20:14Round the corner

01:20:15Then first left

01:20:16That's a main road dear

01:20:18Doesn't matter

01:20:19They're going to get me

01:20:20Soon enough anyway

01:20:21Might as well be

01:20:22Now as tomorrow

01:20:23Or the day after

01:20:24What have you done dear

01:20:26Try to bring down the state

01:20:27Oh

01:20:28Right

01:20:29I'm on my way

01:20:30Sure there's nothing else

01:20:31I can do for you

01:20:32It's tempting

01:20:34The last time

01:20:35It would be a good way to go

01:20:38Eh

01:20:39Hey you

01:20:40Stop

01:20:41Okay I'm coming

01:20:43Stay still

01:20:43I am

01:20:44I told you not to move

01:20:46As he tried to escape

01:20:52Down a side street

01:20:53He was shot

01:20:54By a police marksman

01:20:56A spokesman said that

01:20:57Of course

01:20:58There would be

01:20:58A full inquiry

01:20:59The last thing

01:21:01That was wanted

01:21:01Was that the streets

01:21:02Of Britain

01:21:02Should be turned

01:21:03Into a battlefield

01:21:04However

01:21:05There was no suggestion

01:21:06That the police officer

01:21:07Was in any way

01:21:08Culpable

01:21:09More sherry, Brian

01:21:11Hmm

01:21:12Oh not for me

01:21:14Thank you

01:21:14Yeah

01:21:14I don't want to ruin

01:21:15What I'm sure will be

01:21:16A lovely dinner

01:21:17What are you reading

01:21:19Oh just a letter

01:21:22A letter

01:21:23Looks like

01:21:24Gibbon's decline and fall

01:21:26Well I had a lot

01:21:27To say for himself

01:21:28Must have done

01:21:29Anyway

01:21:30Dinner's nearly ready

01:21:31Fine

01:21:32I read enough

01:21:34I didn't realise

01:21:34How far he'd gone

01:21:35I've read such a load

01:21:38Of imaginative nonsense

01:21:39What is it?

01:21:42Tell you about it

01:21:42Over dinner

01:21:43Might keep your guests

01:21:44Amused for an hour or two

01:21:45Meanwhile

01:21:47The fire's the best place

01:21:49For that

01:21:49In Missing Persons

01:22:02By David Hopkins

01:22:02Michael Brennan

01:22:04Was played by

01:22:04Sean Prendergast

01:22:05Maureen Brennan

01:22:07Avril Clark

01:22:08Major Morgan

01:22:09Garrard Green

01:22:10Rosamund Morgan

01:22:12Pauline Letts

01:22:13Peter Brennan

01:22:14Jonathan Taffler

01:22:15John Gallagher

01:22:17George Parsons

01:22:18Arthur Benson

01:22:19Edward de Souza

01:22:20Skilton

01:22:22Francis Middleditch

01:22:23Martin Korbel

01:22:24Gordon Reed

01:22:25Clive Johnson

01:22:27Tim Rendles

01:22:28Brian Gere

01:22:29Peter Howell

01:22:31Smithson

01:22:31Richard Durden

01:22:32Abby

01:22:33Alex Marshall

01:22:35Police Sergeant

01:22:36Manning Wilson

01:22:37Radio announcer

01:22:39Deborah Matepiece

01:22:40Missing Persons

01:22:43Was written by

01:22:43David Hopkins

01:22:44And directed by

01:22:45Peter King

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