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First broadcast 5th December 1999.

Bosnian criminals are smuggling gold into Britain in F1 racing cars; CI5 must race against time to stop them.

Edward Woodward - Harry Malone
Kal Weber - Chris Keel
Colin Wells - Sam Curtis
Lexa Doig - Tina Backus
Adrian Irvine - Spencer
David Threlfall - Radovan Pradic
Benedick Blythe - Bluckner
Ingeborga Dapkunaite - Elkie
Peter Hudson - Vance
Steven O'Shea - Paul
Maya Dokic - Tania
Adam Bareham - Van Meer
Robert Jezek - Dimitri
Aidan Harrington - Commissioner Hoff

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00:07You
00:519-6, 9-6 to HQ, do you read me?
00:559-6, 9-6 to HQ, do you read me?
00:58Stand by, 9-6.
01:03No.
01:04No, Secretary of State, it will not interfere with the work of the CIA.
01:09You have my word on that.
01:11Sir.
01:13Yes, indeed, sir. I look forward to that, too.
01:17Goodbye.
01:19What is it, Miss Bax?
01:20There's activity in Bosnia, sir.
01:22Oh.
01:319-6, you're on a secure line to Sunray.
01:33Go ahead, Miss Slovich.
01:35A truck.
01:35A big truck is leaving a factory.
01:37It must have been inside all night.
01:39Oh, that would account of the sound you heard earlier.
01:40Give me a picture, please.
01:45Right.
01:46Follow them.
01:47Keep it a safe distance.
01:49Don't let them see.
01:49You understood?
01:50Yes, sir.
02:15Oh, my God.
02:22You are recording this?
02:24Yes, sir.
02:49Roll back the tape and freeze it.
02:54That man is one of the most wanted war criminals in the world, Radovan Pradich.
03:26That man is one of the most wanted war criminals in the world.
03:31And that man is one of the most wanted war criminals in the world.
03:45And...
03:49Hey, we'll be right back...
03:50Don't let them be long...
03:50...
04:00Don't let them be long.
04:01Sorry.
04:01I'll also have all of them either.
04:01Over here.
04:06They were working here?
04:08They were using some kind of furnace, but we have no idea what they were doing.
04:13We've already done a detailed search ourselves, including one for radioactivity.
04:18And our Geiger counters recorded nothing.
04:21Unless your equipment is more sensitive than ours, I don't think you're likely to find anything.
04:29Same as outside, sir. No reading.
04:31Nothing.
04:32All right, Mr. Keel, sweep the whole area.
04:34Sir.
04:44The young woman who was captured, she was working for CI5?
04:48No, no. Local police. It was a special arrangement.
04:52Arrangement?
04:53Building something, perhaps?
04:56Mr. Malone, whatever the newspapers say, this is still a war zone.
05:01And I'm responsible for security here. 50 square miles.
05:04And I take that responsibility very seriously.
05:07If outsiders start making special arrangements...
05:11How seriously do you take Radovan Pradic?
05:13Pradic?
05:14This picture arrived by satellite link yesterday. From here, right outside that door.
05:25Useable?
05:27Definitely.
05:30So what were they doing here?
05:33Loading something into crates?
05:36Let's take another look at their furnace.
05:40Mr. Malone, if you have any information which can help the UN to track down Radovan Pradic...
05:46My dear Colonel, if CI5 had that information, we'd bring him in ourselves.
05:51Alive if possible, dead if necessary.
05:54Shall we go?
06:02Mr. Malone?
06:03Thank you very much for your help.
06:04Good luck.
06:05Good luck.
06:17Then.
06:209662HQ, do you read me?
06:229662HQ, do you read me?
06:25Lisa knew it worked?
06:25There's activity in Bosnia, sir.
06:27A truck, big truck is leaving the factory.
06:30Patrolist.
06:31Batman.
06:31One of the most wanted war criminals in the world.
06:34Who's the foil?
06:35werd dead if so?
06:35Oh, my God.
06:38Radovan Trabic.
06:45Commander, I'm Inspector Stanislavich.
06:48And this must be Captain Keel and Captain Curtis?
06:51No, we don't use rank and CI5.
06:54I'm Harry Malone.
06:55Sam Curtis.
06:57Chris Keel.
06:59Then you must call me Dimitri.
07:02Miss Slovich.
07:04Tanya.
07:05But a terrible tragedy.
07:08Yes, indeed.
07:15I have seen all the files, of course.
07:17You have been monitoring Pradice's Swiss bank account.
07:20Oh, yes, yes, indeed, yes.
07:22He's been receiving regular payments over the past few months.
07:25About a quarter of a million a time.
07:28From Bosnia?
07:29Well, it's not impossible, is it?
07:31After all, I understand that during the period of ethnic cleansing,
07:34men like Pradice had access to certain commodities.
07:39Drugs, yes.
07:41Yes.
07:41And Russian plutonium?
07:45You think plutonium?
07:48According to our information, the former Soviet government had been stockpiling the stuff.
07:54Now, of course, it's getting out onto the black market.
07:58Your information is superior to mine, but then the Goradice police is not CI5.
08:05Hmm.
08:09You have no idea where they would be keeping Miss Slovich?
08:14As I told you, no one can predict what this monster Pradice will do, or where he will go.
08:21It's like trying to catch smoke.
08:26Yes, yes, I see.
08:29Well, thank you very much, Inspector, for your time.
08:32It's my pleasure.
08:34Have a pleasant flight home.
08:37Harry.
08:40Yes.
08:59How was your chat?
09:01He knows where she is.
09:03I feel it.
09:05Probably helped put her there.
09:07Well, let's find out.
09:21Well, let's find out.
09:22Let's go.
09:23Let's go.
09:46Let's go.
09:58Do you have any help?
10:00Yes, a little.
10:02What do you have to do?
10:25What do you have to do?
10:44She knew nothing.
10:46Nothing about my plans, nothing about the operation.
10:50There was nothing to worry about.
11:15Go ahead. There is someone in the building.
11:37There is no sign of Pratich, sir.
11:45Damn it!
11:48Mr. Keele.
11:50Sir, first rule, never get emotionally involved.
11:58Sometimes the most difficult one of all, isn't it?
12:10Spencer, what do you think of this?
12:14What is it?
12:15Something big?
12:16Mm-hmm.
12:17Only I'm not getting a very good enhancement.
12:19This area here.
12:20Let me try.
12:40You all right, sir?
12:42Yes, yes, thank you, Mr. Keele-Fan.
12:49You know, some years ago, I lost a man in Berlin.
12:54The war was still up in those days.
12:57And we had a tunnel to bring people out.
13:03And one day, the tunnel was deliberately flooded.
13:08Twelve people drowned, I remember.
13:12About a week later, they found my chap on a piece of wasteland.
13:17He'd been tortured before he died.
13:21Certainly learned a lot that day.
13:24They broke him.
13:26Oh, yes, yes.
13:28Mind you, we all have our breaking point, Mr. Keele.
13:32Which is why we never tell our stringers in the field more than they need to know.
13:38Like Tanya, you mean?
13:41Yes, like Tanya.
13:44It's not much comfort, I know, but at least her death didn't endanger others.
13:52And I suppose that is the most you can expect when you're dealing with a man like Pradich.
14:053-7-4-5, come in, please.
14:104-5.
14:11Chris, set up your computer and take my signal on 8-9-2.
14:14I've got something for you.
14:15You better pull over, sir.
14:17Sad pic's coming through.
14:19What you are.
14:22What is it, Ms. Backers? What have you got for us?
14:24Pictures from the military satellite, sir.
14:26They finally found the truck.
14:28Excellent. Where?
14:30Hungary.
14:31It ended up at a racetrack outside of Budapest.
14:33Chris, are you getting this?
14:35The signal's clear.
14:36They found the truck outside the Hungarian border, and then they lost it as a satellite went over the horizon.
14:40These are the final images.
14:46Ms. Backers, can you get me closer to the vehicle next to the truck?
14:50Yes, sir.
14:55Oh, I don't know. It's not very clear, but...
14:59I would say that we're transferring something, wouldn't you?
15:02Right from the small truck to the bigger truck.
15:04Yeah.
15:04They could be moving something away.
15:06What's that logo?
15:07What logo?
15:08On the side of the bigger truck.
15:10BR.
15:10That chequered flag.
15:12BR, that's Bluckner Racing.
15:15Bluckner.
15:16It's a GT outfit, sir.
15:18Quite well known.
15:19They won the 24-hour race at Le Mans last year.
15:21Oh, yes, yes, I know, Mr. Curtis.
15:23Only too well.
15:25Bluckner is yet another name from my past.
15:39Well, you know the rest.
15:41When Dad got sick, I took over running the team.
15:43But he built it by just carrying on the tradition.
15:46We both owe a great deal to your father.
15:50Did you know he saved my life once?
15:52No, I didn't know that.
15:53Hmm, before your time.
15:57Algeria, 1962.
15:59Dad didn't talk a lot about his past.
16:02No, no.
16:04Men like your father never do.
16:08You know, he once told me that motor racing, he said, was a little bit like the Secret Service.
16:14Got teams of people spying on each other every minute of the day.
16:20Well, it's getting worse.
16:21We now do all our development in Hungary, away from our competitors.
16:26Jerry, tell me, how well do you know your team?
16:29How well, I grew up with a mess of them.
16:31Yes, but you must take on new people every now and then.
16:34Well, PR changes.
16:36Caterers come and go.
16:37Same as the transport teams.
16:38But most of our people have been with us for years.
16:41Transport?
16:42We race all over the world.
16:44We've got two brutes like that.
16:46And eight smaller ones.
16:47It's quite a circus.
16:49And where's the other brute now?
16:51Not halfway through the Channel Tunnel, I hope.
16:53On his way back from Hungary.
16:55Is it?
17:07What's all this about?
17:08The Majesty's Customs and Excise, spot check.
17:11Would you get down from the cab, please?
17:16And you.
17:17He enjoys this, doesn't he?
17:20Does he think Malone's a sadist?
17:23Icy stairs and rubber gloves.
17:25No, I mean keeping us away from the fun.
17:27What, two sniffer dogs and a Geiger counter is fun?
17:30No, I mean the wonderful world of motor racing.
17:33Fast cars.
17:35Glamour.
17:36Girls.
17:37Especially the girls.
17:41Go on, go on.
17:43Go on, over there.
17:47Find it, find it.
17:49Go on.
17:49Over there.
17:53All right.
17:54What's in these?
17:55Engine spares, gearbox.
17:57Look.
17:58A lot of this gear is assembled in a clean air environment.
18:01Don't go walking all over with your size 12 boots, okay?
18:03Don't be a cheeky young man.
18:05Just open it up.
18:07What happened to your singer, Monique?
18:11The usual.
18:12The job.
18:13The hours.
18:14I know it's a scary thought, but you think we'll end up like Malone?
18:19All work.
18:20No play.
18:27Nothing, sir.
18:32I must ask you to submit to a body search.
18:35Oh, for God's sake.
18:36What the hell are you people looking for?
18:38Won't take you long.
18:39Please.
18:43Chris, if things get that bad, there's always the lonely halves.
18:48All right, you're free to go.
19:08No drugs, no currency, no radioactivity.
19:14Maybe they're clean.
19:15There is a link to Radovan Pradesh.
19:17How clean is that?
19:21Mr. Keele, you flew jet fighters?
19:24Yes, sir.
19:25Well, 200 miles an hour should seem quite tame to you, then.
19:29Sir?
19:42On the right-hand side, payments into a Swiss account owned by Mr. Pradesh.
19:47On the left-hand side, movements of your transporters across Europe.
19:51You will note that each time one of your transporters comes home, a payment is made in.
19:57All our dates, places, routes.
20:00How exactly do you know all this?
20:02Let's just say we have certain areas of expertise, Gerry, and leave it at that.
20:10Check the load, Paul.
20:14I think before we check the load, we should make a report.
20:16Where the hell have you been? You are two hours late.
20:19We got stopped. Customs spot check.
20:22Customs checks take ten minutes.
20:24Not this one.
20:25They practically took the truck apart.
20:26That's just about the lamest excuse.
20:28No, it's true, Elky. They went through it with a fine-toothed cut.
20:31Sniffer dogs, Geiger counters, even a strip search.
20:36We've got to make up the time.
20:37That car's got to be tested by 4.30.
20:43Sir, what do you think about my request?
20:45I don't want to be difficult, but strangers in a racing team stand out like a sore thumb.
20:50Putting one of your people on the inside.
20:53I'm sorry, Harry, but it just wouldn't work.
20:57I can't understand.
20:58Anyway, if you change your mind, let me know.
21:01No, no, no. See myself out.
21:02Thank you, Gerry.
21:27Elky, can I have a word with you?
21:28What about?
21:29Well, those customs guys really did a number on this.
21:31Yeah, you said all this.
21:32Yeah, but you don't seem to be listening.
21:34What's your point, Paul?
21:35I don't want to play this game anymore.
21:37That's my point.
21:38What game?
21:39What are you talking about?
21:41I'm talking about the game where I don't get to see any paperwork anymore.
21:44The game where Vance takes two days off every time we go to Hungary.
21:48The game where we carry extra spares and nobody knows why.
21:51I've been with Bluntners five years.
21:53All this has happened in the last six months since you came.
21:56I want to know what's going on.
21:58Hold it.
21:58Just hold it.
21:59You are junior engineer.
22:01I'm the transport manager on this team.
22:03And I decide how you work.
22:06If I want you to see him manifest, I'll show you.
22:09If I want Vance to take a day off, he takes a day off.
22:12And if I want you to drive all night, you drive all night.
22:15And if you have a problem with that, you can leave.
22:37I'm not the same for myself.
22:55All right, let's go.
23:24What are you doing here?
23:26No!
23:37That was no accident.
23:38No way Paul would make a mistake like that.
23:41How soon can your people get here?
23:43Give me an hour.
23:46Get me Mr. Keele or Mr. Curtis.
24:12Chris Keele?
24:14I'm Chris.
24:14Hi.
24:15Jerry Bronkner.
24:16How you doing?
24:17This is my mechanic, Sam Curtis.
24:19Hi.
24:19How are you?
24:20Come meet the team.
24:21Sure.
24:22Sam, go park the car, will you?
24:25Elky.
24:26Vans.
24:26Transport.
24:27Chris Keele.
24:27How you doing?
24:28Hi.
24:29Chris will be doing some test driving for us for a couple of weeks.
24:32Michael.
24:33Chief Engineer.
24:37You ever heard of him?
24:38No.
24:40But from what I hear, his dad is paying a small fortune for the privilege.
24:47And this is Tina.
24:50Tina's in PR.
24:51Meet Chris Keele.
24:53Hi.
24:53We should plan a campaign together.
24:56Why don't we go upstairs to my office?
25:03Let me get you a drink.
25:07Listen, I don't know if I can keep this up.
25:10Don't worry about it.
25:11Just let Chris and I go about our work.
25:13Talking of work, you'll be driving one of my McLarens.
25:16You do know how much one of those costs.
25:18Yeah, about a hundredth of a jet fighter in the US Navy trusted me with several of those.
25:25Yeah.
25:30Do you think we're wrong to trust Blatner?
25:32I don't know.
25:35Possibly.
25:37Do you know what bugs me?
25:39We still don't know what it is we're looking for.
25:42Something coming out of Bosnia.
25:44Somehow connected to Blatner Racing and involving Radovan Pradec.
25:48They test their cars in Hungary, which is only a two day drive from Bosnia.
25:51And they travel all over the world, so they've certainly got the opportunity.
25:54To do what?
25:56They ship all their stuff in sealed containers.
25:58They got paperwork by the ton.
25:59They got customs poking around at every corner.
26:01So what the hell are they moving?
26:04If it was currency, customs would have got it by now.
26:06If it was drugs, the sniffer dogs would have found it.
26:09Yeah.
26:09We already know it's not uranium or plutonium.
26:15Yeah?
26:17The man who had that accident out at the track.
26:20The pathologist found this in his hand.
26:22Must have been holding it when he died.
26:24Appears to be just an ordinary screw bolt.
26:27Oh, no.
26:28Well, thank you very much, Mr. Spencer.
26:34So what else is there?
26:36Diamonds in the brake fluid?
26:37Share certificates in the tires?
26:39Well, maybe it's something so obvious it's right under our noses.
26:44Let's go sniff around.
26:45Good.
26:55Important screw bolt.
27:16How did you describe the world of motorsport?
27:19Fast cars
27:20Glamour
27:24Girls
27:25Yeah
27:27Well, this isn't my idea of poking around in the dark
27:34What is it?
27:36NATO Sat-5, sir
27:37Colonel Van Mier
27:38Ah, Colonel
27:39Adam Malone here
27:40Mr Malone, can you hear me?
27:42Loud and clear
27:43I requested time on the military satellite
27:46Because there's something I want you to see firsthand
27:50This man survived two of Paradis' death camps
27:54As you know, there were many such places here in Bosnia
27:57Only too well
27:59He has spent the last five years tracking down witnesses, survivors like himself
28:04He has just handed me over 100 sworn statements
28:08All of them
28:09Naming Radovan Pradic as a mass murderer and a war criminal
28:13The evidence is overwhelming
28:15There are even photographs showing Pradic executing prisoners in person
28:21When do I get copies, Colonel?
28:23These are the copies
28:24The originals are on their way to you
28:27By the Greek Embassy
28:30Thank you very much
28:42Listen, I don't want to sound negative
28:45But there's nothing here from war-torn Bosnia
28:49Then let's get out of here
28:50I don't want to sound negative
29:23All teams practice that is five minutes
29:27Practice that is five minutes
29:30Five minutes crazy
29:36Heal of Ryan
29:37Heal of Ryan
29:38Heal of Ryan
29:40Heal of Ryan
29:44Don't push until tight
29:46Heal of Ryan
29:46Heal of Ryan
29:47Heal of Ryan
29:47Heal of Ryan
29:58Heal of Ryan
29:58Heal of Ryan
29:59Heal of Ryan
29:59The bottom line is, sir
30:00If Pradic is using Bluckner to get money out of Bosnia
30:02We can't figure out how
30:04Miss Backus
30:05This is not a fruitless exercise
30:08Believe me
30:09There are too many pointers
30:10Sir
30:11There's a link with Hungary
30:13There's a link with Hungary
30:13The satellite pictures
30:15The Swiss account
30:18Even the death of the engineer
30:19Please do not give up
30:22We won't, sir
30:23Good work
30:32Only five minutes
30:37Five minutes
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32:40Yeah.
32:41What happened?
32:42My brakes failed.
32:44That's what happened.
32:53You fool.
32:54You could have ruined everything.
32:56Have I given them something to work by their minds?
32:58I don't think so.
32:58You could have killed him.
33:02Brake lines do come addressed.
33:04It's possible.
33:06On a car?
33:07Just checked?
33:09Oh, come on.
33:09This has got to be sabotage.
33:12And if the car has been sabotaged, that means our cover's blown.
33:15Oh, come on.
33:16Any half-good driver could have dealt with that.
33:18It was just a maneuver.
33:20A diversion.
33:21Military tactic.
33:22Radovan uses that.
33:23Don't you compare yourself to Radovan.
33:25He's a patriot fighting for a cause.
33:27You are just a mercenary who fights for money.
33:31Bought and paid for.
33:32We both kill people to get what we want.
33:34I don't see the difference.
33:35You wouldn't.
33:36Well, you won't have to suffer me much longer.
33:39This job's nearly done.
33:40And when it is, you're going wherever you're going.
33:42Now I'm going to Brazil.
33:44I'll know my future.
33:45And no one on this earth is going to take it away from me.
33:47You got that?
33:50So, if anything's going to happen,
33:53it's going to happen soon.
34:04Elky Foreman.
34:06What's going to happen?
34:09What is it?
34:11What's going to happen?
34:12I will take it away.
34:59Spencer!
35:01Spencer!
35:11So, you see, there are several metals not affected by magnetic fields, titanium, magnesium,
35:16aluminium and the one that I overlooked, the obvious one, gold.
35:20Gold?
35:21From Bosnia?
35:23Every country has its reserves of gold, even poor shattered Bosnia.
35:29This is a security announcement.
35:32All personnel entering the pits area must wear valid IT tags.
35:37Also, those who find us, if you can't bear me tomorrow, must not take separate tags from the circuit office.
35:44Tags will be issued and authorized events early, and must be left by 10 am.
35:50No order regulation will be made or after that time.
35:54Operation is appreciated.
35:58I know that face.
35:59This is what?
36:07Prodijic was once in the government, even he can't run away carrying a ton of stolen gold.
36:12So, he melts it down.
36:14And uses Vlopner's trucks to carry it through Europe.
36:16Yes.
36:16And sells it to a Swiss bank.
36:18You better tell Mr. Kiel and Mr. Curtis I'm on my way.
36:27I hate to break up the reunion, but we don't have a lot of time.
36:42Back up. Back up, it's Spencer. It's gold.
36:47Spencer, I can't hear you, it's too noisy!
36:50I'll pull you back!
37:00This is the last ship. We have enough.
37:04Once I'm in Switzerland, I will transfer the rest of your money.
37:07You better.
37:11We've all taken enough risk and the authorities are getting close.
37:17Closer than you think.
37:25Hey, what do you think the mileage is like with a solid gold engine?
37:37You take this guy. I'll get them. Go!
37:40No!
37:42No!
37:47No!
37:53No!
37:57No!
37:58No!
38:01No!
38:02No!
38:06No!
38:15No!
38:17No!
38:19No!
38:21Oh, my God.
38:53Oh, my God.
39:28I'm at Brandon Airport.
39:30He's making a run for it.
40:19He's making a run for it.
40:43He's making a run for it.
41:13He's making a run for it.
41:44He's making a run for it.
41:44He's making a run for it.
42:11He's making a run for it.
42:14What is the meaning of this?
42:15What is the meaning of this?
42:15The account is closed.
42:17That is impossible.
42:19There is some mistake.
42:21No mistake, Mr. Pradich.
42:24What's going on?
42:27My name is Harry Malone, CI5.
42:31And this is Commissioner Hoffman, the Zurich police, who has a warrant for your arrest.
42:46You can't do this.
42:47You can't do this.
42:48You can't touch me.
42:48This is Switzerland.
42:51This is Switzerland.
42:51This is Switzerland.
42:51Neutral territory.
42:53Wrong.
42:53The Swiss government has a copy of this report.
42:57Positive proof that you murdered dozens of innocent people and gave the order for the death of thousands more.
43:06No.
43:07No.
43:08It was war.
43:08I had no choice.
43:10No choice.
43:11It's amazing, isn't it?
43:14Do you know, for generations, we've been listening to the same lie from men like you.
43:19Tribal warlords, Soviet commissars, Hitler's nasty little men of Nuremberg.
43:25And you're all responsible for the final solution, the killing fields, ethnic cleansing.
43:33Mr. Pradich, you are a travesty of a human being.
43:41And I really do hope you rot in hell.
43:50I'll take him away.
44:04So what will happen to him?
44:06War crimes tribunal at The Hague.
44:08With any luck, they'll throw away the key.
44:09And the gold?
44:10Well, that goes back to Bosnia.
44:12When they need it.
44:14No, no.
44:14Fair is fair.
44:15All right.
44:17Let's flip a coin.
44:18No.
44:18You've both got to drive it already.
44:20She's right, Chris.
44:21It's her turn.
44:23What the hell is all this?
44:24It's about returning the car, sir.
44:26It has to go back this afternoon.
44:28Oh, yes, of course.
44:29Jerry, thank you very much for everything.
44:31I'll be in touch.
44:40Debriefing.
44:423.15.
44:43Don't.
44:44Be late.
44:45You're four.
45:00You've got to go back this afternoon.
45:02You're running.
45:04You're multiple.
45:06Okay.
45:08Look.
45:09Oh, my gosh.
45:10Okay, let's go.
45:10And we think that?
45:11Oh, yeah, that's the boat.
45:11Yeah.
45:11Yeah, we're on the boat.
45:14Yeah, man.
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