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00:28You
00:43What is happening here?
00:45What are you doing?
00:47What are you doing?
00:48Your little Lenka was spying on us.
00:52And now she's going to tell me all her secrets.
00:56Go back to bed.
00:58I'm for boss now.
01:00He said he left.
01:28He wanted to see me.
01:33I'm assuming the original intel for this Maltese op came from Cyclops?
01:39Yes.
01:40He told me about Igor's annual trips to Valletta.
01:43So that information was a plant.
01:45Everything else is two.
01:47It wasn't.
01:47His explanation was entirely credible.
01:50So you're sure of the intelligence.
01:52What about him?
01:53It's all in the file.
01:54I've known him since I was a student in St. Petersburg.
01:56And 18 years later, he shows up in London working undercover at the Russian Embassy,
02:02a senior Moscow intelligence officer, apparently looking to switch lanes.
02:06He was already disillusioned.
02:07Ukraine was the final straw.
02:09You obviously kept in touch.
02:10We stayed friends.
02:13Were you ever lovers?
02:14No.
02:16Did you want to be?
02:18Not relevant.
02:19Did he?
02:24Briefly, perhaps.
02:29Ah, I see.
02:34So it's what he might have done, but didn't, that makes you so sure of his loyalty.
02:39A moment of weakness, perhaps, that he chose not to take advantage of?
02:47Isn't that worthy of trust?
02:49We can all lie to someone we love.
02:52Not had you done as an incurable romantic.
02:56This job rather beats that out of you, I'm afraid.
03:00You're one of our best agent runners, Kate, but a great desk head requires many qualities.
03:05Certainty isn't one of them.
03:07So you're backing Zack?
03:08You need to find out if your friend Cyclops has been playing you, inadvertently or not,
03:13or you won't just be the youngest head of the Russia desk.
03:16You'll be the shortest serving tomb.
03:20Will you run for the leadership, Foreign Secretary?
03:22Right now my thoughts are just very much with Anthony and Jane.
03:25Foreign Secretary, you've got five days until the election.
03:28Don't be so coy.
03:29You need to get a move on.
03:31I think in a situation like this, it's very important to maintain our composure as a party.
03:35Hmm.
03:37What did C have to offer?
03:39Strategic ambiguity.
03:42Speciality.
03:43Meaning we have to prove that we were right or we're fucked.
03:46Oh.
03:46And Echo might be too.
03:49I'm going to set up a meeting with Cyclops tomorrow morning at the London Safe House.
03:54You need to shut that down.
03:55Zack's in the building.
03:56Yeah, of course, but it's a shame we can't show them this.
04:00Come on.
04:02That's Mr. Ryan Walker leaving the NATO conference last night after the PM's announcement by the back door.
04:09No official car, no PPOs and no special advisor, Melissa Morris.
04:14No, nothing.
04:15So I talked to our Portuguese friends, did a little triangulation.
04:18And this was the drop off point.
04:21Little villa in the hills.
04:23Guess who owns it?
04:24Uh, Putin's secret mistress?
04:27Close.
04:28Try Dmitry Krimzov's brother-in-law.
04:31Are you serious?
04:32Oh, yeah.
04:33So Mr. Walker's response to the resignation of our Prime Minister is to go AWOL with the Russian Foreign Minister.
04:40Are you certain that Krimzov was at the villa?
04:44Well, he got there half an hour before Ryan.
04:49Now, there was another arrival in a taxi from the Lisbon Royale.
04:52I haven't ID'd him yet, but are you ready for the piece de resistance?
04:57Yeah.
04:58The man in the murk is Lev Amatov, our cuddly British oligarch.
05:04So, Ryan meets the Russian Foreign Minister off-grid in a-
05:09Oh, yeah.
05:11Off-grid.
05:12In a get-together brokered by a billionaire with historic ties to the Kremlin.
05:17Now, I would call that politically suspect.
05:21Otherwise known as murky as fuck.
05:28Stuart had a night out with Melissa at the last party conference.
05:31He said she seemed disillusioned by working with Ryan.
05:34I should talk to her.
05:36We need to talk more about this, but not here.
05:38Sure.
05:38Do you fancy a couple?
05:40Yeah.
05:45If this leaks, Ryan's finished.
05:48Why take the risk of going in person?
05:50Enough that you're gonna refuse.
05:52Or, maybe, Ryan is the one with the arts.
05:55On which subject?
05:57Why would Imogen accept a 200 grand donation from a man like Lev Amatov?
06:03Oh, on paper, you could argue that he's legit, right?
06:06I mean, Eaton, Cambridge, he's the chairman of Goldscope Media, man's a tech tycoon.
06:11Plus, he's on the board of the British Museum and the Courtauld Institute, along with Ryan's wife.
06:17Imogen went to this conference in Portanovi two years ago.
06:21Stuart went.
06:22I'm pretty sure he said that Lev Amatov was there.
06:26Well, there's plenty of dirty money in Montenegro, you know.
06:29It's a shame we can't investigate.
06:32Assuming we follow our orders.
06:36If Zack finds out they're working off the books...
06:38No, he won't, okay? Not if we get out of his eye line.
06:42As long as you're working on his debrief, he's not gonna give two shits where I am.
06:48Anywhere in mind?
06:51Yeah, come on.
06:53It's just round here.
06:58You have a safe place.
07:00Yeah, well, at least I can wake up whenever I want to.
07:04Come on.
07:06Come on.
07:11Well, it's friends to HQ and it's off Zack's radar, so we'll take it.
07:16Right.
07:17Here's a spare key.
07:18It's my partner Sandy's, but he's never around, so now it's yours.
07:24My money is on Ryan declaring first.
07:27Well, if Imogen goes up against him, Stuart thinks most of the others will back her.
07:32Alright, so let's start with the two of them then.
07:35And if anyone else joins the race, I'll go digging. Cool?
07:38Yeah.
07:40Five days.
07:41Better get around with them.
07:46It's gonna be a long night.
07:47It's gonna be a long night.
07:49And the last night is gone.
08:03It's gonna be a long night.
08:08I feel I can't know you.
08:10How did you get this?
08:12What?
08:14You're not a bitch?
08:15I'm not a bitch.
08:18I'm not a bitch.
08:19I'm not a bitch.
08:20I'm not a bitch.
08:21I'm not a bitch.
08:49I'm not a bitch.
08:55I don't know.
09:20I don't know.
09:50I don't know.
10:15I don't know.
10:22Did you put an agent in the villa?
10:23I don't know.
10:54Not for me.
10:58Kate, you're going to have to trust my judgment in this.
11:02Unless you think I lied to you.
11:03Of course I don't.
11:07Try to find out what you can about the red flag on Walter.
11:10It's important.
11:11Okay.
11:13I'll be in touch in the usual way.
11:28Good morning.
11:29When did you last hear from Echo?
11:30Last night.
11:31Message saying she hadn't managed to change the battery and the mic.
11:34It's possible Moscow knows we're watching Igor.
11:37Fuck.
11:37How?
11:38I don't know yet, but they've just put Malta on the alert list.
11:41There was a big police bust on Gozo last night.
11:43It was on the news.
11:44Could be over that.
11:45What happened?
11:46Some fintech company breaching Russian sanctions.
11:49Enough to get Moscow's back up.
11:50You know how they like to think this island is theirs.
11:52Maybe.
11:54But first we need to make sure Echo's safe.
11:56How close can you get to the villa?
11:58Not that close.
12:00But there's a view from the top of the cliff.
12:01Go there.
12:02I'll speak to Rose about this Gozo bust thing.
12:05Don't send Echo any more messages until we've had eyes on her.
12:09Yeah.
12:09Okay.
12:11I know even talking about immigration offends your metropolitan sensibility.
12:16I'd appreciate it if you didn't make an assumption like that.
12:19But my point is, it's not a left or a right issue.
12:22I'm a passionate believer in our multicultural society.
12:27But it's got to be protected.
12:29Protected from what?
12:30From being swamped by uncontrolled, poorly managed, illegal migrations.
12:34Only last week the Home Secretary said we need migrants to do the jobs that other people don't want to
12:39do.
12:39Well, even so, we've been letting in hundreds of thousands of people a year for more than a decade
12:43without building the homes, the hospitals or anything else we need to accommodate them.
12:47And does that strike you two as sane?
12:49It's going to be hard to keep the economy moving with zero immigration and a higher rate tax of 70%,
12:56which is what you're proposing.
12:57Yeah, on salaries of a quarter of a million pounds.
13:02So obviously it'd be a great shame to lose you both.
13:04Sinn Féin this morning are calling for a referendum on whether Northern Ireland should leave the United Kingdom.
13:10If you become Prime Minister, would you agree to that demand?
13:17Perhaps it's time we ask the English.
13:21They pay for the Union, after all.
13:23The UK, in or out.
13:26Foreign Secretary.
13:27Is that really how you are launching your campaign?
13:30By playing the dog whistle of English nationalism?
13:35What the hell was all that about?
13:37The right-wing press are going to lose their shit.
13:39Good.
13:40Shaking things up.
13:41Step away from the middle, maybe catch a wave.
13:42Or you drown, brain.
13:44We've only got four days.
13:45You want to start a campaign with a bang?
13:46Well, this was it.
13:47The bang was supposed to be a tough case on pulling back on immigration, not throwing petrol on a nationalist
13:51bonfire.
13:51An election race, Melissa.
13:52I have to offer change.
13:53Well, our MPs are going to hate it.
13:55Yeah, some will, but the party rank and file will agree with me.
13:57More than they'd want to admit.
13:59I get it, of course I do, but the next time you are going to disappear all night, if you
14:04could just send me a text, that would be great.
14:06Sorry, something came up.
14:08Well, I hope it was worse here.
14:10Absolute chaos here, I don't know if you saw that lunatic on GMB this morning, talking about a referendum for
14:16the English to leave the UK.
14:18It's just the populist playbook.
14:20He can't leave it, can he?
14:22Well, who knows?
14:24They just put a rocket up Imogen, so I asked now he's declared.
14:26I mean, she's still on the fence.
14:28Do you think anyone else will run?
14:30No, not if she stops dragging her bloody heels, no.
14:33Oh, babe, before I forget, you know that conference in Montenegro when he didn't want to go to?
14:38That was a tourist industry junket thing, isn't it?
14:42Yeah, for hotels.
14:43Yeah, we were pitching for investment.
14:45Why?
14:46Do you remember who set it up?
14:47It's just the foreign office, though, on my back about reviewing minister's security abroad.
14:53I can need the extra bloody admin.
14:54Yes, I do remember who set it up.
14:56It was the master of slime himself, Lev Amatov.
14:59He invited us and random backbenchers.
15:04I mean, me and Josh told him she shouldn't bother, but she was adamant for some reason.
15:08Did you get the investment?
15:09No.
15:10Of course, we didn't.
15:11Anything I got was food poisoning.
15:12Do you remember the food poisoning I got?
15:13Oh, yeah.
15:14The famous squid.
15:15The squid, yes.
15:16Disgusting.
15:17Ugh!
15:17Please.
15:18Gotta go.
15:19Oh, listen, don't forget.
15:20Tonight is Fiona's parent-teacher thing.
15:22We are under strict instructions to not wear anything embarrassing, okay?
15:26As far as she's concerned, that's impossible.
15:28Love you.
15:29All right, love.
15:31You too.
15:34I spoke to GCHQ and Langley.
15:37They haven't heard any chatter coming out of Malta other than the Gozo bus, so it probably
15:42is the reason Moscow flagged it.
15:44Probably isn't enough.
15:45We'll regroup as soon as Julie's got a closer look at Echo.
15:49What's the news on her brother?
15:50We've moved him to a hostel in St. Petersburg.
15:53As soon as you pull her out, we'll have him on his way to the border.
16:27That's a nice brochure.
16:31Look at the date.
16:34Look at who was there.
16:36It was two weeks before Lev made his first donation to Harry Comrade's charity.
16:40Well, that's not a very subtle quid pro quo, is it?
16:42Exactly.
16:44So why not declare it?
16:45To stop the press from finding out she's got ties to an oligarch.
16:49It's not a very good look for the Home Office.
16:51So, you're going to ask her about it?
16:53I think I'll start with Angela White.
16:57It's Julie.
16:59What's the news?
17:01I can't see her.
17:02I've only got a limited fee on the terrace,
17:04but Matty is giving Sandra his breakfast.
17:08Stay where you are,
17:09and call me the second you see anything different.
17:23Well, if it is what you say it is, it could be a game changer, couldn't I?
17:27No, I think we should wait.
17:28Timing's not right at the moment.
17:31Okay, okay, yeah, thanks.
17:32Okay, I'll call you then.
17:35All right.
17:36A video involving a certain female politician has just been brought to my attention.
17:41Okay, what kind of video?
17:43We'll just have to use our imaginations.
17:45What, a sex video of Imogen Conrad?
17:47It sounds implausible, but I have a good authority.
17:51Well, how do you know it's going to leak?
17:52I don't.
17:52I've just been tipped off on it, not it.
17:54By who?
17:54A journalist.
17:55I don't know.
17:56It doesn't matter who, does it?
17:57We just need a strategy in case it does.
18:00Of course, I sincerely hope it doesn't.
18:01It has nothing to do with us, will it, Ryan?
18:11You wanted to see me.
18:13Mrs. White, I'm not sure if you remember me.
18:15Of course I do.
18:16You gave no quarter to the committee, which strikes me as a good quality in your line of work.
18:21Let me sign you in.
18:22I think it's better if we take a walk.
18:23Is that okay?
18:27I was at the Montenegro conference because Lev asked me to be, and I made no secret of that.
18:31So if you're the trouble, here's a donor to my local party.
18:34It seemed like a reasonable ask.
18:35Did the Home Secretary discuss her goals for the trip?
18:38I barely saw her.
18:39I assumed she was there as a favourite to Lev like me, but she didn't seem to be taking any
18:43of it very seriously.
18:44What do you mean by that?
18:46She wasn't at any of the talks.
18:47She seemed, let's put it this way, otherwise occupied.
18:51With what?
18:53She spent an awful lot of time horsing around with her aide.
18:57There were two of them, I think.
18:58One of them was laid up with a tummy bug.
19:00It was the other one, John.
19:01Josh.
19:02Josh, you were along?
19:03Good looking chap.
19:04Maybe there was nothing going on.
19:06But I can't say that I'd ever entirely trusted her.
19:10Look, you're putting words in my mouth.
19:12I didn't say I was ruling her out, but that doesn't mean that you can rule her in.
19:17Of course she isn't behind Ryan Walker's referendum bollocks.
19:19No, it's X.
19:21Come on.
19:22The only thing that X is a guide to is Elon Musk's artificially infected testosterone.
19:26See ya.
19:27Can I have that for my manifesto?
19:29We can't hold out for much longer.
19:30We need to get out there ahead of Ryan.
19:32Okay?
19:33I need more coffee.
19:36What do you think I should do, love?
19:38I always said Ryan's smarter than he looks.
19:41He's a wrecking ball.
19:42He hasn't even started on us yet.
19:45Then you need to stop him.
19:49Simon.
19:50Hello.
19:52Is the Foreign Secretary taking mind-altering drugs?
19:55Yes, exactly.
19:56He is a full-blown crack addict now.
19:58Simon.
20:05Melissa.
20:06It's Kate.
20:07I used to work with my husband, Stuart, the Guardian.
20:09We met at the Christmas party.
20:11Oh, you're the civil servant.
20:13Home office or was it with MOT?
20:15I actually work for SIS.
20:17We're investigating an issue with the Foreign Secretary's security.
20:21What was that?
20:22Yesterday.
20:23We were running a routine off in Lisbon and we noticed he left the summit venue without his protection officers.
20:28I wasn't aware.
20:29No?
20:30So there's no cause for concern over his security detail?
20:34Not so far as I know, no.
20:36He went to meet Lev Amatov, is that right?
20:38A reception at a private villa.
20:41Oddly enough, we can't seem to find a record of the event in the official schedule.
20:44Well, Lev's a personal friend of the Foreign Secretary.
20:46That's no secret.
20:47What about the fact that Dmitry Krimzov was there too?
20:53That's a massive allegation.
20:56You'll have to speak to the Foreign Secretary about it.
20:59I'm sure he'd be keen to avoid a diplomatic scandal, given the fact he's just announced his leadership bid.
21:05What do you expect me to do about it?
21:07Talk to me, Melissa.
21:10Does Ryan often go AWOL?
21:11Does he shut you out of things?
21:14He might be running the country soon.
21:17Can Stuart tell you to come to me?
21:18Of course not.
21:20This is between us.
21:23You've got to go.
21:24If you want to talk more.
21:28In confidence, of course.
21:44Thank you, Mark.
22:00I have eyes on her.
22:02She's playing part with Sondra and she just sent a text saying she's fine.
22:05It all looks normal.
22:06I told you not to send her any more messages.
22:08I didn't.
22:09Then why is she answering a question you didn't ask?
22:13Can you send me the pictures?
22:14I'll go on back now and take a look at them.
22:16I don't know.
22:18Bill.
22:19Stuart.
22:20Yes, by the end of the day.
22:22You all right?
22:23Did you tell your wife he forgot to mention works for SIS?
22:26What we discussed in Manchester in confidence.
22:28No, I may have mentioned something to her about you being unhappy.
22:31Okay, what happens at conference days at conference in at the Golden Rule, mate?
22:34Nothing that anyone couldn't have guessed, is it?
22:36Huh?
22:36I'm sorry, though.
22:37Really, I am.
22:38So what?
22:39Did Kate say something to you?
22:41I don't want things to turn dirty, Stuart.
22:44That's not why I got into politics.
22:46Then why are you working with Ryan Walker, then?
22:49Huh?
22:50Does that make sense?
22:53It's no business being anywhere near Downing Street, and you know that, and I know that you
22:57know.
22:57Listen to me.
22:58Listen.
22:59There is always room for someone like you in our office.
23:03I know that to be true.
23:05I know the image will snap you off.
23:07I know it.
23:09Just think about it.
23:13Just have a think.
23:22Stop.
23:23Go back one.
23:25You see that on the edge of the frame?
23:27They're playing cards.
23:28Why would they need security?
23:35I just got another text.
23:36She's requesting a meet?
23:39I hope your mom is okay.
23:40We'd be good to see her soon.
23:43We can see a security guard in one of your shots.
23:46So?
23:46I think she's been blown.
23:48She's answering questions we didn't ask her.
23:50She's being chaperoned, and now all of a sudden she wants a meet.
23:56Okay.
23:58What next?
23:59I'll talk to Zach.
24:02But I think I'm going to have to go back.
24:09You think her meet request is a setup?
24:11I don't know, but something feels off.
24:14And now we know Malta's on the alert list as of last night.
24:17Can you authorize a team to extract her?
24:23It's too risky, Kate.
24:26Best case we'd get you there in two days.
24:28But we need the Foreign Secretary to sign off putting weapons through the diplomatic pad.
24:32I don't have two days.
24:34I'd have to go unarmed.
24:36I can't advise that, Azure SO.
24:40Equal security will be armed to the teeth, and there might be more on the way.
24:44I'm sorry, but the answer's no.
24:48We've got no idea how it's going to go down out there, which is exactly what Moscow always wants.
24:55We're just going to have to hope you're wrong, and...
24:59Echo hasn't been blamed.
25:00Okay.
25:01Okay.
25:11I'm not leaving her there.
25:13You made the right call.
25:14There are too many unloans.
25:15I made a promise to her, and to Lexae.
25:18I know how much your agents matter to you.
25:20It's why you got this job.
25:21But you have to know when an op goes beyond your control.
25:24I'm not leaving her there, Rose.
25:27Suppose that's right.
25:28You walk into a trap.
25:29I can handle it.
25:31Surely your priority has to be...
25:35Has to be protecting the Russia desk.
25:38If any of you were compromised out there, it would take weeks to get a new team up to speed.
25:43By which time, Moscow's asset would be in Downing Street.
25:46It's a chance I'll have to take.
25:50You take a break.
25:52Okay.
25:53Go home.
25:54See your kids.
25:56Shit, Fiona.
26:10Yes, she is.
26:11Told you she'd be here.
26:13Nice of you to show off.
26:14Sorry I'm late, Domin.
26:16What have I missed?
26:17It's the same old story.
26:18She's got a fantastic brain.
26:20When she's focused, but she is too easily distracted.
26:23Wow.
26:23Okay.
26:24That's Imogen.
26:25She's in.
26:27Okay.
26:27Right, so I'm going to shoot off.
26:29So we have done everything apart from history and politics, and this is the cue for the A-level choices.
26:33Stu, I'm going to have to work late tonight as well.
26:34Love you, darling.
26:35Bye-bye.
26:39Next.
26:40Mom.
26:43Do I have £8,000?
26:49£8,000, thank you.
26:50£8,50, £9,000, £9,000, £10,000.
26:54So I have £10,000 for this gorgeous Matisse lithograph.
26:59Do I have...
26:59£11,000, thank you, sir.
27:02£12,000.
27:03Do I have £13,000?
27:05£14,000?
27:06£14,000.
27:07Shall we round it up, Mr Amitolf?
27:09£15,000 for such a great cause.
27:16£15,000 for the kind gentleman here.
27:21I'm so sorry, James, he's been held up.
27:23Can we push it back for 20 minutes, please?
27:27Well, right now he's the only candidate, so of course he's going to win.
27:30Melissa thinks that the player's an act of toxic masculinity.
27:34Melissa's a millennial Puritan.
27:36Trust me, anyone with ovaries will just be bitching about Imogen's figure.
27:40Either way, it'll force her to pull out, if she's got the balls to stand again to you.
27:43Yeah, but still, it's a hefty price for her to have to pay.
27:45I don't know how bad this type actually is.
27:46If you want to win, you've got to play everything in your hand.
27:48Art measures aren't going to get you anyway.
27:50So sorry to interrupt.
27:51I'll have to drag him away for the Times interview.
27:53You can do it in the car.
27:54Oh, OK.
27:55All right, I'll see you later.
27:57After you.
28:09Please tell me the tip-off about the tape didn't happen at the Lisbon party.
28:12No, of course not.
28:14Does it exist?
28:16Was it filmed by the Russians?
28:18Yes, it exists.
28:19I've told you, I've got no idea if filmed the bloody thing or who's in it with it.
28:22OK, if it's real and there's any hint that you were behind the leak, you know that it would sink
28:26us.
28:26Let's sink her first, surely.
28:27Not necessarily.
28:28A personal smear like this could make a heroine of her, especially if the Kremlin are behind it.
28:32There's no evidence of that.
28:33Does it matter?
28:34The right-wing press will have a field day.
28:36They'll say you're like one of Moscow's fellow travellers, like the old left.
28:39What's Lev Amatov at the Lisbon party?
28:43He's Amanda's friend, not mine.
28:45He's also got a Russian passport, family ties to Putin.
28:47Yes, he's also a British citizen who earned his money here fair and square.
28:51Do you know, we're happy enough to use his money to proper public spending.
28:53He just dropped 50 grand in there on student scholarships.
28:57Is there anyone else out there that you know about?
29:00You are making a mountain out of a molehill with this.
29:03OK, you took a huge risk.
29:04I'm sure people already know that you went off without your PPO's.
29:06I want people!
29:07There were 50 of you ministers staying at the same hotel, Ryan.
29:10Look, could we just leave the cross-question to the journalists, please?
29:13I've really got to take this.
29:16John, hi, sorry, I'm up to my ears.
29:19Now, you're landing on something now.
29:22I'm a public figure, in case you haven't noticed.
29:24Jeez.
29:26John, John, no, no, no, no, no, no.
29:29Construction was meant to be your expertise.
29:32Offering finance was mine.
29:33Do not get in this car until I tell you.
29:36My lark goes under now.
29:37I am seriously...
29:38Listen to me, John.
29:40You get fired, we'll better kill your fucking mouse.
29:42Shut up.
29:50You can stop all you like.
29:52You're not spending your weekend at J's.
29:54Not after what your teachers said tonight.
29:56Why could I see my boyfriend when I'm not at school?
29:58If you make a mistake, Fiona...
30:00I'm not stupid.
30:01You've known this guy for five minutes.
30:04Have this conversation with Dad, see what he says.
30:06That's not the paranoid workaholic.
30:09I know I've been away a lot recently.
30:11I think you like getting away from us.
30:13It's bad timing, but I have to go away again tomorrow.
30:18Oh, for God's sake.
30:19I'll get the boss home.
30:39Robot Pesta?
30:41Are you alone?
30:42Yeah, I am.
30:44Well, this is strictly off the record.
30:50Here he is, Monsieur Laurent Sauvert.
30:53He's a Swiss national.
30:54I was able to track him from Crimson's Lisbon Villa back to his hotel.
30:58Who is he?
30:59I have no idea yet, but man doesn't show up on our radar or anywhere else for that matter.
31:04Well, that tells us something.
31:05Mm-hmm.
31:09So, um, do you have any more thoughts about Malta?
31:13A few.
31:14Yeah?
31:15We deliberately made the approach to the church long.
31:18So, even if this meet is a setup, the Russians might want her to deviate from our plan.
31:24Which will stretch them.
31:25And that's my chance.
31:27Well, you intercept her en route.
31:29I've got some ideas about that, too.
31:32Oh, fuck.
31:33Uh, yeah, I'm going to need to drink.
31:37I think this is still good.
31:40Yeah.
31:42Do you want one?
31:43No, thanks.
31:44Oh, are you going to tell Julie that we're all thinking of going rogue?
31:50There's every chance they'll fire me, Rav.
31:52I can't do that to either of you.
31:53And forget about the suits.
31:56Like, you can't do this on your own.
32:00You should go and make friends with your bed.
32:03Get some rest and then decide whether you want to throw your entire career away.
32:08If you stop drinking that shit now...
32:11I'll let you know in the morning, yeah?
32:21Our understanding is that with four days to go,
32:24the Home Secretary, Imogen Conrad, will join the leadership contest tonight.
32:29We're expecting her announcement within...
32:30Are you ready?
32:31Who's out there?
32:32Everyone.
32:33Hurry.
32:37You've got this, you're more.
32:41Wish me luck.
32:46Good luck.
32:52It is my great and timely pleasure to announce my campaign
32:59to be the next leader of our party
33:01and of our great country.
33:16To join the waiting press corps.
33:19And we need to cut away from that now for some pretty sensational news about the other leadership candidates.
33:25In the last few minutes, our political editor, Robert Peston, has broken a bombshell of a story,
33:31to put it mildly, concerning the Foreign Secretary, Ryan Walker.
33:34The allegation that Mr. Walker slipped away from his personal protection team at the NATO summit in Lisbon this week
33:42and went to a party with the Russian Foreign Minister, Dmitry Krimsov,
33:46hosted by frequent donor to numerous British political parties, Lev Amatop.
33:53This is an absolutely extraordinary story.
33:54Our Foreign Secretary, Ryan Walker, having a private meeting with his Russian...
33:58Okay, we've got an hour to calm the storm or this race is over.
34:01Yeah, I think you should stay quiet.
34:02No, no, no, you shouldn't stay quiet. They'll crucify you.
34:04Look, we just set it with some freelance diplomacy.
34:06Free Ukraine, that might have worked.
34:08But now...
34:09Well, have you got any better ideas?
34:10I'm just saying, in this current climate, it looks shady as hell.
34:12Yeah, well, maybe I have no choice but to go to that fucking party.
34:14Yeah, well, I hope you hang whoever leaked it.
34:16Oh, don't worry. I'm on it.
34:18Okay.
34:19News at 10 are asking for you.
34:20If you come clean now, perhaps we can salvage this.
34:23Okay, well, just call Bloody Pest and tell them to get here immediately.
34:25Too late. We won't make the end of the show.
34:27Well, then tell them to extend it.
34:31Okay.
34:37Well, as we said, we've extended the program tonight after we were told the Foreign Secretary wanted to give us
34:42some context for our explosive revelations earlier.
34:46And I'm pleased to say Robert is with him right now. Robert.
34:49Thanks, John.
34:50Uh, Foreign Secretary, you had a private meeting at a Lisbon party, of all things, with the Foreign Minister of
35:00Russia, a hostile state.
35:01You were not accompanied by any officials. There are no notes of the meeting.
35:05There was a clear breach of protocol. National security has been put at risk.
35:10Your colleagues say to me that you should resign and give up all ambitions to be leader of their party.
35:16I won't be resigning any time soon, Robert.
35:18Why on earth not?
35:20In the business of diplomacy, it's sometimes worth taking a risk, even a personal one.
35:24What on earth were you thinking of?
35:26Look, it was a social gathering, right, hosted by a very well-known British party donor where Dmitry Krimsov was
35:32again.
35:32Did you expect Krimsov to be there?
35:35I did expect Krimsov to be there.
35:36So why didn't you take your officials?
35:38Well, it's not a widely publicized fact that Dmitry Krimsov lost his only son last year.
35:43And it's fairly well-known that my wife and I...
35:52Sorry.
35:58We lost our only child, also a boy, three years ago.
36:11And I wanted to express my private sympathy, Tim, in the hope that we might find some common ground, man
36:19-to-man, if I'm allowed to say that these days.
36:21I imagine I speak for everybody watching that, you know, obviously, I feel for you enormous compassion given the tragedy
36:31that you suffered, thank you.
36:33But what do you think you actually achieved?
36:36How many people do you know would be bold enough to walk in that door and sit down with Dmitry
36:39Krimsov?
36:40How many people do you know would try to better that diplomatic relationship between Europe and Russia?
36:45I'd like you to name someone in the Cabinet that you would have that confidence in.
36:49Thank you, Robert. Robert Peston there with the Foreign Secretary.
36:51And that was quite some interview.
36:54This leadership race is certainly hotting up.
36:57Let's move on to some of the days of the news now.
36:59And having promised repeatedly that...
37:14Kate.
37:18Sorry to have summoned you so late, Mrs. Henderson.
37:20I've been on national television fighting for my political life.
37:23I saw.
37:24I'm sorry.
37:26So you won't mind if I ask you a few simple questions?
37:30Of course.
37:30Did you know about my meeting with Dmitry Krimsov?
37:34Yes.
37:35How?
37:35Some basic detective work.
37:39I'm the Foreign Focking Secretary.
37:41Your boss.
37:42I don't need any covert surveillance.
37:44I understand, Kate.
37:46I have concerns about your personal security.
37:51Did you leave my meeting to the press?
37:53No.
37:54You sure about that?
37:55Absolutely.
37:56Do you think I don't know who your husband works for?
37:59If you have a problem with my husband, I suggest you take it up with him, Foreign Secretary, or Imogen
38:03herself.
38:05Well, you'll admit, you don't like my politics, do you?
38:08I'm a civil servant.
38:09Your politics are none of my business.
38:13Is there anything else you'd like to tell him, Kate?
38:18No.
38:19Unless Mr. Walker would.
38:21Do you think I would take the trouble to come here if I'd done anything on the hand?
38:26It's not my job to say, sir.
38:28My job is to help keep you safe.
38:30If we fail to do that here at SIS, then I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say it
38:35is deeply regrettable.
38:39Well, if you've no more questions, Foreign Secretary,
38:46take this as an official warning.
38:51Do not meddle with the democratic process.
39:12Hiya.
39:13Hi.
39:14Did you see it?
39:15What a fucking night.
39:17Front row seat.
39:18I mean, Meg's already asked for his resignation.
39:20He's cooked.
39:20He's done.
39:21Well, I think it's going to take more than this to kill him off.
39:23I mean, maybe, but it now means that Imogen is officially in the fucking race.
39:29Can I ask you something?
39:31Yeah?
39:32Do you think Imogen's ever been unfaithful?
39:35Well, to Harry?
39:37I mean, no, not that I know of why.
39:42Forget it.
39:44Katie, if you've heard something about that, I could really do with knowing, you know,
39:47especially given she's now declared.
39:48No, forget about it.
39:50I just wanted your opinion.
39:51All right.
39:53Are you okay?
39:53You had a rough night?
39:55I've had better.
39:59Anything you can talk about, or...?
40:03I was accused of passing intel about the Krimzoff meeting to you.
40:08To me?
40:10Well, who's accused you?
40:12Zach?
40:13Man of the moment.
40:15Ryan Walker.
40:16I mean, honestly, do they think we'd be that fucking stupid?
40:18Apparently so.
40:24Did you know that?
40:27About Ryan meeting Krimzoff?
40:28I mean, is that what that trip was about?
40:29I can't talk about it.
40:30You can't talk about it, but given the fact that you are investigating...
40:32We're not.
40:33And that's it, Stuart.
40:33I can't talk about it.
40:35All right.
40:37Sorry.
40:41Well.
40:43Bloody hell.
40:45Well, we better win then, eh?
40:47I'm a civil servant.
40:48I can't comment.
40:49Yes.
40:49Your neutrality is noted as ever.
40:52I'm not joking, Stuart.
40:53I'm not joking.
40:59I'm really sorry, but I have to go away again tomorrow.
41:02I'll be gone before you're up, though.
41:04Okay.
41:06What?
41:06Oh.
41:08What is it?
41:08Is it something serious?
41:09Or?
41:11It's a potentially hostile environment.
41:42Everything is in place.
41:44Now you're going to find out what Anderson knows.
41:50Malta is not the best place to die.
41:54Only stupid.
41:58Confirm the meeting in the church this morning.
42:03Now.
42:14You're going to find out what you're going to find out.
42:15You're going to find out what you're going to find out.
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