- 12 hours ago
First broadcast 31st May 1986.
Maggie, assigned to smoke out a KGB gigolo who is compromising Whitehall spinsters, finds herself captured and held to ransom.
Jill Gascoine - Maggie Forbes
Brian Hawksley - Sir Frederick
Mark Wingett - Rider
Leslie Ash - Fred
Tracy-Louise Ward - Tessa
David Sumner - Yuri
Robert Cartland - Muirhead
Tomasz Borkowy - Slav (as Tomas Bork)
Ron Emslie - Barman
Patrick Wright - Desk Sergeant
Geraldine Newman - Janet Sitwell
Aimée Delamain - Mrs. Sitwell (as Aimee Delamain)
Daniel Davies - Russian Man
Don Warrington - Nigel
Alan Downer - Zhukov
Helen Bourne - Miss Fortescue
John Cording - Pond
Peter Penry-Jones - Sir Philip
Peter Brande - Constable
Bill Moody - Jack Pearson
Trevor Cooper - Truckie
Christopher Douglas - Captor
Nicholas Day - Burgas
Maggie, assigned to smoke out a KGB gigolo who is compromising Whitehall spinsters, finds herself captured and held to ransom.
Jill Gascoine - Maggie Forbes
Brian Hawksley - Sir Frederick
Mark Wingett - Rider
Leslie Ash - Fred
Tracy-Louise Ward - Tessa
David Sumner - Yuri
Robert Cartland - Muirhead
Tomasz Borkowy - Slav (as Tomas Bork)
Ron Emslie - Barman
Patrick Wright - Desk Sergeant
Geraldine Newman - Janet Sitwell
Aimée Delamain - Mrs. Sitwell (as Aimee Delamain)
Daniel Davies - Russian Man
Don Warrington - Nigel
Alan Downer - Zhukov
Helen Bourne - Miss Fortescue
John Cording - Pond
Peter Penry-Jones - Sir Philip
Peter Brande - Constable
Bill Moody - Jack Pearson
Trevor Cooper - Truckie
Christopher Douglas - Captor
Nicholas Day - Burgas
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TVTranscript
00:06To be continued...
00:39To be continued...
01:17Good morning, Miss Andrews.
01:18Good morning, Sir Frederick.
01:20Has our master been baying for me?
01:22Not yet, sir.
01:25Good morning.
01:27Good morning.
01:31Same numbers?
01:32Well, they said it hadn't changed.
01:38I've always wanted to ask, but what does a little red star on the door mean?
01:42What should I ask?
01:44It means the lady in here makes the tea, so the tea lady knows not to knock.
01:51I'm serious.
02:15I don't know.
02:17I don't know.
02:17I don't know.
02:19I don't know.
02:22What's this?
02:24What's it look like?
02:25It's a Danish pastry.
02:26I wanted a donut.
02:28You don't get donuts unless you've got a little red star on your door.
02:31What am I doing then?
02:46Sir Frederick Leafy's office.
02:49Lunchtime?
02:50The usual place?
02:53Yes.
03:01Lunchtime.
03:02Usual place.
03:03Okay.
03:07I'll be back at three.
03:09Don't forget you have an appointment with the minister at 3.15, Sir Frederick.
03:12Yes, Miss Andrews, I hadn't forgotten.
03:43Hi.
03:46Hi.
03:47I missed you.
03:49Me too.
03:52All the time I was in Moscow, I was just thinking of you.
03:58I wish I could believe that.
04:06Maggie, be happy for me.
04:09I've had a big promotion.
04:11I am now head of London Bureau of Moscow Television.
04:15Oh, I am so pleased.
04:18That means you're going to be here for a long time.
04:21Yes.
04:24Funny, I thought I'd grown out of all this.
04:29I really did miss you.
04:32Good.
04:34As you should.
04:36Did you meet anyone in Moscow?
04:39No.
04:40No.
04:41Oh, it was very dull.
04:43Oh, yes.
04:46Oh, true.
04:48I should have stayed longer, but I slipped away.
04:51I'm glad.
04:53I was hoping you would be.
04:56Are you free tonight?
04:58Yes.
05:00I'll palpate with cook.
05:03Yes.
05:05I've brought a little present for you.
05:08What?
05:08What is it?
05:09No, no.
05:10Wait until tonight.
05:12You have perhaps a little gift for me too.
05:17Tonight.
05:20I really must go.
05:22Not here.
05:25Until tonight.
05:27I'll palpate with you.
05:45I'll palpate with you.
06:03One day, I will show you Leningrad.
06:06The colored buildings.
06:08It's like a toy shop.
06:11It's very beautiful.
06:13I like that.
06:16Be happy.
06:18Sometimes I see sadness there.
06:22When I think of what I'm doing to my country.
06:26I've got no right to be happy.
06:29Still.
06:31Seeing you like this makes up for everything.
06:34Our two countries already help each other.
06:36Trade and in medicine.
06:38No, no, no.
06:38The little English girl who came to Moscow for an eye operation.
06:47All you are doing is...
06:49I know what I'm doing, Yuri.
06:51Don't make me out of hypocrite as well.
06:53I cannot bear you to feel like this.
06:56Perhaps you would rather that we stop seeing each other.
06:59Oh, no.
07:00No, I...
07:01Look.
07:03I started all this.
07:04I'm sorry.
07:06Let's just drop it.
07:07Whatever pleases you.
07:11You, uh...
07:12You have something for me?
07:21It's the entry commands for the MI5 completed for the next month.
07:25This is what you call having a night out, is it?
07:27This is all the going to see my mother.
07:29Got a headache?
07:30Washing my hair's been all about.
07:32Will you cut it?
07:47Come on.
07:49Yeah, please.
08:27It's such a nice, quiet little puppet.
08:34You have let everyone else go.
08:38Why not my friend?
08:40I'm sorry, sir.
08:41I'm not at liberty to give out any information regarding prisoners.
08:44But why?
08:46Sorry, Yuri.
08:48Looks like you're going to be out of commission for quite some time.
08:51But you know, I'd still like to know who else you've laid your little trip on.
08:55Find out.
08:56Oh, we will.
08:58But like I said, seeing you like this makes up for everything.
09:03It wasn't exactly a holiday for me, either.
09:05That isn't what you used to say.
09:08I demand to call my embassy.
09:10Whitehall sources regard the arrest as a considerable coup for the security services.
09:15Yevgenev has had several postings in the West, including head of bureau in Paris and Bonn.
09:21Journalist colleagues found him likable and sometimes blatantly pro-Western in his views.
09:25Moscow have so far remained silent about the incident.
09:29The strike by Spanish air traffic controllers...
09:32You're going to be late again.
09:34It's gone eight o'clock.
09:36I wonder if the buses are anything like the way, Mr. K.
09:40Oh, darling, do turn that down.
09:42I have to put up with it all day long while you're at work.
09:46Aren't you having an egg?
09:48I haven't time.
09:49You haven't time to be reading the papers.
09:52And you were up again very late last night.
09:55I was reading.
09:57You look dreadful.
10:00Thanks.
10:01Not getting enough sleep.
10:04I said not getting enough sleep.
10:07I heard you the first time, mummy.
10:09There's no need to keep on repeating yourself.
10:10Why don't you answer?
10:12Oh, you never talk to me anymore.
10:16Were you angry, woman?
10:18No.
10:19Oh, you look very nice in that.
10:22Not anymore.
10:24You're Rose.
10:25Oh, for God's sake, mummy.
10:26Stop rabbiting first thing in the morning.
10:28I don't know.
10:29I'm sure.
10:30What's the matter with you?
10:31You've changed.
10:32You never used to be like this.
10:33Never used to be like a lot of things.
10:35I'm sorry, but you'll just have to put up with it.
10:37Eat your egg.
10:57Bye, mummy.
10:59Make sure you have something for lunch.
11:05Lunch.
11:20Good morning, Miss Sitwell.
11:22Oh, good morning.
11:24I can offer you a lift, perhaps.
11:28Yes.
11:44My principal, the Soviet ambassador, demands the immediate release of...
11:49Mr. Zukov, if I were in your position, I'd try it on, too.
11:53Your man was caught with the material on him.
11:56The woman was an agent provocateur.
11:58Of course, she was.
12:00How else were we to set our honey trap?
12:03Furthermore, additionally, and or alternatively, the material was planted on him without his knowledge.
12:11Vasily, if I hadn't already known you trained as a lawyer, that would have told you.
12:28I want to see the boss for his personal commendation.
12:32I'd probably make you a dame.
12:34I just wish Sir Philip lived in some nice built-up area somewhere.
12:37All this fresh air plays havoc with my lungs.
12:41I'd imagine my lips, past the lips, so, will you look?
12:44It's at the top.
12:46It's that flu you had.
12:47Lots of wiggle, get drier lips afterwards.
12:49Do you see what I see?
12:50Yeah, I'm watching it.
12:52What do you see?
12:54Let's find out.
13:14Ouch.
13:15No, I'm not going to need you to get in touch.
13:17Come on, someone's got to get back and tell them.
13:50Let's go.
13:55What the hell do you think you're doing?
14:28Let's go.
14:32Let's go.
14:38Let's go.
15:06Let's go.
15:41Let's go.
16:12Let's go.
16:23Let's go.
17:09Let's go.
17:37Let's go.
17:41Let's go.
17:47Let's go.
17:50Let's go.
17:53Let's go.
18:01Let's go.
18:18Let's go.
18:47Let's go.
18:54Let's go.
19:18Let's go.
19:19Let's go.
19:24Let's go.
19:31Let's go.
19:43Let's go.
19:53Let's go.
19:58Let's go.
19:59Let's go.
20:31Let's go.
20:35Let's go.
20:43Let's go.
20:47Let's go.
21:01Let's go.
21:02Let's go.
21:04Let's go.
21:14Let's go.
21:18Let's go.
21:23Let's go.
21:26Let's go.
21:28Let's go.
21:40Let's go.
21:42Let's go.
21:45Let's go.
21:57Let's go.
22:00Let's go.
22:01Let's go.
22:02Let's go.
22:05Let's go.
22:11Let's go.
22:14Let's go.
22:16Let's go.
22:18Let's go.
22:18Let's go.
22:19Let's go.
22:20Let's go.
22:22Let's go.
22:26Let's go.
22:26His nymphs wants you.
22:27Thank you, Miss Smith.
22:29Was there any news?
22:32No.
22:34I know Mrs. Forbes.
22:36She's a fine woman.
22:38She is.
22:40You know what you've done, don't you?
22:42You've made me look the kind of fool that can't control his own section.
22:45Nigel.
22:45Get out of my sight.
22:47And do what?
22:48You're so good at cutting corners.
22:51So cut them and find Maggie.
22:55Do forgive me.
22:59I did overhear a conversation this morning which indicated that the whereabouts of a certain truck driver might help you
23:05find Mrs. Forbes.
23:07Yeah, but...
23:10Hello.
23:12Sir Anthony's private secretary, please.
23:16Charlotte.
23:17Caroline here.
23:18...
23:35Sister Slater returned to outpatients immediately.
23:48Hello, Jack. How are things?
23:50A bit rough, as it happens.
23:53Who are you?
23:54How come do you know my name?
23:56We're working on the kidnapping.
23:58Come on, the police, you.
24:00It's true. Tell us what happened.
24:02I've already told you, old Bill.
24:03Well, tell us.
24:06So they stopped me, right?
24:07They pulled me out of the can, and then they clobbered me.
24:11Mind you, I still saw them push that woman into another car.
24:13And what'd they do with her car?
24:15They put it in the back of the second truck.
24:17Hang about. There was a second truck?
24:19That's right. Big American rig.
24:21Came out of nowhere, it did.
24:22To get rid of Maggie's car.
24:24That's what the rabbs were for.
24:26It wasn't easy, though. She damn near rammed them.
24:29All the tyres were shot.
24:30The second truck, what did it look like?
24:32Black. Big silver smokestacks.
24:35Had a pair of them fancy horns.
24:37It'd be 16 litres at least.
24:40Geared up, it'll do over the tonne.
24:42Maybe 120.
25:09Sounds like an American white.
25:11No, it was black.
25:13No, no, no. The white motor company of Ohio.
25:15It was a lovely rig.
25:17It's a prime mover.
25:18Don't get many of those over here.
25:20Same on the Middle Eastern route.
25:22When you say there aren't many about, how many?
25:25Doesn't it, the most.
25:26Great.
25:27Computer will pick them up in a second.
25:28Oh, yeah, I know all about your naffing computer.
25:31Well, you're a good boy now.
25:33Clean sheet, well, slightly soiled.
25:35Listen, there was one of them, Nick, a while back.
25:38My firm in Sheffield.
25:40Had a load of electronics, export band stuff.
25:43That'll be the one.
25:45Thank you, Bert.
25:47Your mother can see you now.
25:49You don't.
25:49She still thinks I'm inside.
26:01We've got a tear.
26:10Let's lose it.
26:12Got it.
26:33What the hell did he get onto us so quickly, whoever he was?
26:51You'd make a great nurse.
26:53Always jokes.
26:54You think death is funny.
26:56Depends.
26:57I expect I could crack a smile if I saw one of you lot fall off a high building.
27:04But it's not our death we're talking about.
27:07It's yours.
27:10Unless you can plead with your superiors to let Yuri go so that you may live.
27:16No chance.
27:18You're a fool.
27:20I'm a fool.
27:22Who's eating and who's serving?
27:39Oh, my God.
27:42Oh, my God.
27:50Oh, my God.
28:11Uh-oh, looks like we just found the American way before it found us.
28:35What's he using, rockets?
28:37He's down here, he's waiting in advance.
28:55Shout left now!
29:19What do you do?
29:21Reporting an accident.
29:27Make it easy for yourself.
29:29Where would they take Mrs Forbes?
29:33How would I know?
29:34I wasn't here.
29:36You would know the kind of place.
29:40I have no evidence that Mrs Forbes was taken.
29:43Or this could be simply a way of getting information from me.
29:48If Mrs Forbes dies, you'll begin to wish you did the same.
30:11I don't know what they did.
30:22Hey, you're right!
30:23I see you didn't make it then it's about where we started yep wait a minute where
30:34we started Maggie's appointment to see Sir Philip who knew about it well Mags
30:39didn't know until the night before. Sir Philip's secretary rang her at home.
30:48hello Miss Sitwell. oh hello I don't think I'll get anything hot we've nearly
30:53finished serving. don't worry. not much action going on here is there? action? mmm these white
31:00tall wallows aren't a great deal of fun as a rule. up to town on the 915 back on the
31:05543. you live
31:07in town don't you Miss Sitwell? yes. mummy and I have a flat in Bayswater. your papa was in the
31:12army
31:13wasn't he? yes. he's been dead some years now. and you stayed on with your dear old mum. bit of
31:20a tie isn't it?
31:21one does one's duty. can't be much fun though. you were engaged at one time. how on earth did you
31:30know that?
31:30what happened? why did you break it off? I didn't. he did. he went out to Singapore. I couldn't abandon
31:40mummy
31:40and she and Edward didn't get on. how did you know I was engaged? I'm afraid we've been looking
31:48you up. how dare you? we dare Miss Sitwell. Sir Philip will be outraged. Janet you've been working
31:57with the CS so long everyone seems to have overlooked you. there's another man in your life isn't there?
32:04what do you mean? you were one of Yuri's conquests. Yuri?
32:14the one they want to exchange for Mrs. Forbes? I know you're concerned about Mrs. Forbes but I think...
32:23pretty boy's been having a rough time. he's been naming names Janet. he wouldn't... he would never...
32:32oh we dare Janet. and we cheat. Nigel Beaumont is on his way to see your mummy with a search
32:40party.
32:42oh my god. it will kill her. we could divert him if you'd rather save for the pain.
32:54they were waiting for me outside the flat the morning after his arrest. they didn't want me.
33:01they wanted a bigger fish. they said they had photographs. tapes. everything.
33:18okay. we're going to leave now. we're going to get up and go normally. sir Philip is going to be
33:30told you're indisposed.
33:33and you Janet are going to help us find Maggie.
33:41your life is getting shorter every minute. whose isn't?
33:46here is a message we want you to record. stick it on your fridge.
33:54next time it won't be me. it will be Borges.
33:59he's very um... delicate.
34:03if you still refuse to be sensible he will start to kill you.
34:08but not too quickly.
34:12if we can't have Yuri back we must get as much as we can out of you.
34:28an hourglass? i thought you'd lock me into high tech.
34:32that is the point. it's not an hourglass. sand does not run out in an hour.
34:38when does it run out then?
34:40that's for me to know and you to worry about. 90 minutes, two hours, two and a half.
34:46all you have to know is when sand runs out, Borges will come.
34:53shout if you have anything to say before then. i will hear you.
35:08i will hear you.
35:12i will hear you.
35:17i will hear you.
35:26i will hear you.
35:27so the chickens come home to roast.
35:32some chicken.
35:33some egg, Yuri.
35:36and it's all over you, comrade.
35:38but i thought...
35:47sit down, Janet.
35:52you realize the charges against you are bound to be of a very serious nature.
35:56yes.
35:57complicity in a murder would be even more serious.
36:01where is she?
36:02where have they taken mrs forbes?
36:03i don't know. i don't know.
36:04why did you give her away?
36:06they threatened me with the pictures and the tapes i told the girls.
36:10and then they said...
36:12they said Yuri had asked that i help him.
36:16your affair with Yuri was very well concealed.
36:19where did you meet him?
36:21in greece.
36:23mummy and i were on a tour.
36:25i didn't know he was russian.
36:29and then he followed you back here?
36:32later, yes.
36:35how do you think it was that you were not discovered?
36:38perhaps it was as a young lady there suggested.
36:42i've been around for so long i was...
36:45overlooked.
36:46do you believe now that Yuri asked for your help?
36:53no.
36:59your meetings in london.
37:02where did they take place?
37:03they weren't in london.
37:06where then?
37:07it was always at weekends.
37:10i told mummy i was on a course.
37:12it was very cloak and dagger.
37:15i got a train to seven oaks.
37:17and then i was met.
37:18not Yuri.
37:20then i was taken by car.
37:22but a few minutes before arriving i was made to crouch down with a coat over my head.
37:28it was for my own protection.
37:30it was for my own protection.
37:31Yuri said.
37:34what kind of car was it?
37:36it varied.
37:37sometimes it was a big black car.
37:40sometimes it was a sports car i think.
37:44was a sports car a silver gray color?
37:47i think so.
37:49yes.
37:50and when you got there.
37:51your destination.
37:52what did you see of the place?
37:55it was quite large.
37:58georgian i think.
38:00in its own grounds.
38:02it was rather lovely.
38:04but spartan inside.
38:06there were usually some men there.
38:08bulgarians.
38:09but they kept apart from us.
38:12and in the car.
38:14before they made you duck down.
38:17can you remember in which direction you were going?
38:20either towards london or away?
38:23towards.
38:24i think.
38:26yes. definitely.
38:28i think you're to get started girls.
38:31i'll see what else miss sitwell can tell us.
38:53right.
38:54it's on the screen now.
38:54are you putting out more cars?
38:56yes.
38:57it's all in hand.
38:58but i don't want to flood the area until we can pinpoint it.
39:01is fred online?
39:02here's now.
39:04we've shown sitwell a whole range of houses.
39:06it would seem that the house you're looking for is a large georgian mansion.
39:10their love nest was on the first floor on the south side.
39:14and there's a pair of iron gates and a long straight road up to the house.
39:35we're on to the land registry and the district surveyor.
39:38two possibilities.
39:40the lee and the hook.
39:42you should have the hook on there now.
39:45got it.
39:47fred, take the b-27-6 about a mile ahead.
39:52right. let me know when you're in the area.
39:55will do.
39:56sir, it's for you.
39:57urgent.
40:01yes.
40:03i see.
40:06beaumont here.
40:07you're running out of time, mr beaumont.
40:09it's gone to the highest possible level.
40:12we're doing our best to arrange a deal.
40:14but i must have more time.
40:18no, mr beaumont.
40:20there will be one more call.
40:22and then we begin surgery.
40:39how far is it away from the river?
40:41about a mile.
40:42and then it bends all over the place.
40:48see that?
40:51what?
40:52behind us.
40:55let's do a number on him.
40:57is there anywhere we can double back?
41:00yeah.
41:01half.
41:02three-quarters of a mile.
41:04now get ready.
41:06safe landings.
41:07this is getting to be a habit.
41:11half.
41:22half.
41:24half.
41:27Sophocore.
41:29this is getting married.
41:34here.
41:35here.
41:39this is getting married.
41:41Drop the gun.
41:44Great stop.
41:45I nearly lost it.
41:46No.
41:47No ID.
41:49So what's new?
41:50How is he?
41:51He'll live, won't you, Boris?
42:38Good afternoon.
42:43The sands of time.
42:45An old trick, but effective sometimes.
42:51But not for you, I see.
42:53No, not for me.
42:55I am Burgas.
42:58I'll be with you shortly.
43:02I must just get a little something to eat.
43:06I can't function with nothing inside me.
43:09A weak stomach.
43:13I suppose you're right.
43:15If I could just feel your pulse.
43:24That's good.
43:26A good, strong rhythm.
43:28At least your heart is not going to let us down.
43:31I'm so glad.
43:32I should hate to disappoint you.
43:34I'll try to do the same for you.
43:37I'll be back on the dot.
44:02Out.
44:02Out.
44:05Out.
44:12We'll be back, Boris.
44:17Come in.
44:18Tessa, Fred.
44:18Repeat.
44:19Urgent.
44:20Hello?
44:21There you are.
44:22Thought you had a pileup.
44:23No, we were just stirring the bulger.
44:25Good.
44:26Now, the rager was the jackpot.
44:28According to the grid,
44:29you're about two miles away
44:30on the same heading.
44:52I would like to wash.
45:00Well?
45:04No.
45:05Too modern.
45:06I don't know.
45:20See you.
45:21See you.
45:21See you.
45:22Go for it.
45:24Go for it.
45:28Go for it.
45:36Well, now.
46:03It's up here.
46:55Don't move.
46:57Up.
47:00You lot.
47:01Hands.
47:06Move.
47:18Turn around.
47:19Put your hands on the door.
47:32Put your hands on the door.
47:33Put your hands on the door.
47:35Put your hands on the door.
47:44Put your hands on the door.
48:14Put your hands on the door.
48:21Take it quick.
48:23Get in.
48:34Dad!
48:36What?
48:37I forgot my lip salve.
48:39Oh.
49:20I forgot my lip salve.
49:53I forgot my lip salve.
49:53I forgot my lip salve.
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