The Interceptor

The shipment's on the move. Two stops before it gets to us.

Somebody has to stop them.

I am not putting me or them kids through this any more.

- You never tried it? - My husband... I mean, he...

Well, is he here?

Little bird told me you had a big load coming in.

I want the guy at the top.

- I didn't tell you his name. - Xav says there was three of them.

Some other crew.

- My name is Casby. - What,

- and I'm supposed to just trust you? - No.

That's something I'll have to earn.

Who is he? Connected with another crew.

That's what I need. Someone who'll step up.

You've wormed your way in this far. We'll see who's standing at the end.

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

Hey, Tommy, you all right?

Don't tell Ash, yeah?

Find us someone bigger. The biggest.

Good morning, R&G Scaffolding. How can I help you?

Hello, can I speak to Mr Roach, please?

I'm sorry, sir, Mr Roach has just stepped out of his office.

Can I take a message?

INDISTINCT

R&G Scaffolding. How can I help you?

- Where's Ash? - I dunno.

You spoken to him... about Lorna?

Nah.

He's married to someone else right now.

You're worried Ashton's losing sight of the line?

I'm worried about him forgetting there's a line altogether.

So, what are we saying? We're scared of him?

Too big to take down?

You just need to be realistic.

Look, his front is gold-plated. It's a proper, successful business.

We've had his landline tapped for days.

What else?

Oh, he's a pillar of the community.

He's big in this thing called the Society of Patrons.

And he's got his own charity.

The Eunice Roach Memorial Foundation --

named after his mother --

For Underprivileged Children.

So, what are we doing about it?

You knew exactly what our strategy was when you joined the UNIT.

Patience. We chip away at their action.

Maybe we need to change our strategy.

Like how?

Get to that shipment.

Do we have any firm evidence of any shipment?

"Special Package" turned out to be

- a name of the horse. - I'm not talking about that, Tom.

I'm talking about the shipment I heard Xavier mention,

when Casby turned him over.

Everything this crew's been doing --

the money laundering, pills, armed robbery --

it's been leading up to this.

This! This is big.

All right? This is big.

It's real and it's happening any time now. It's happening this month.

Look, you lot know as well as I do, a shipment like this,

we... we could be chipping away for three years,

we wouldn't scratch the surface of his profit.

Now we've got every street dealer

in the six zones ready to sell his stuff.

All the lives that touches.

All that misery. You've got to remember who are you doing this for?

Who are you doing this for?

Because if he makes that importation,

and he puts it out on them streets,

then he wins and we lose.

Then, we need proof.

So, if the phones aren't working for us...

Then we need to get in closer.

Electronic cigarettes?

Did you have to get so many?

He wanted me to get a new front.

Got to make it look proper.

The dry-cleaner's looked proper, didn't it? Well, before...

So...

this guy from the other crew that Casby had in the boot of his motor.

He definitely the one that turned you over?

What you saying? You saying I'd get something like that wrong?

All right.

So, this other crew... and Casby rock up at the same time.

You don't think it's a coincidence?

I don't know.

It was the bloke from the other crew

and the boss wanted him done to send a message.

- What more do you want? - It's just, you know,

boss finds out you said it to get yourself off the hook...

.. or somebody else off the hook....

- I ain't the one. - Ain't the one, what?

You're the one who got seen.

I told you.

That was sorted. He's dead.

You said anything to anyone?

No.

How big's the back?

It's all right.

It's a mess at the minute.

So, I'll come round sometime.

- Maybe bring Chinese. - Yeah. Sounds good.

So, everything I said was true.

Being suspended, the money, being kicked out.

Doesn't change the fact you gave away our intel.

Yeah.

Yeah, I did do that.

I let him use me.

For all the good it's done.

Your disciplinary?

Yeah, they told me they weren't going to prosecute.

And I told them I was resigning.

What?

Got a nasty feeling I'm more use to Stannard

if he keeps stringing me along.

Whatever it's about, he wants this UNIT of yours shut down.

You did your bit on that score.

I'm really sorry for what I did, Kim.

But maybe you were using me, too.

So, I'm just going to get on the bike and head off.

See what happens.

Do you want to come?

SHE SCOFFS

Well, whoever he is...

.. he's certainly got to you.

BELL JANGLES

Well, he had the interview last week.

They asked him to start straight away.

So, he... turned it down?

Double the money, treble the holidays,

but he said he wanted to finish what he'd started.

Interpret that as you wish.

Stop it.

It's just when I thought he was talking to another...

You know, it made me realise that...

Look, I'm going to fix it with him, all right?

Ah, we're on.

They've clocked the security guys at Roach's yard.

There's a ten-minute window every hour

when they can get in and plant the bug.

And that's long enough?

Yep. Long as he doesn't piss about.

All he has to do is find somewhere to hide it facing the room.

- Hey. - Hey. What's going on?

Ash and Tommy are in position.

- You sent Tommy? - Yeah. Why?

No reason...

You spoken to Lorna?

Yeah, I wanted to. I've just been busy, so...

Once we've...

I keep thinking about the first time we met.

- Me and Lorna. - Oh.

Park Place High School.

- You know they've closed that place down? - Yeah, you said.

Opened some academy down the road or something.

First day...

Year assembly, they... they split us up -- boy, girl, boy, girl...

So, I'm sitting next to her and I'm thinking to myself,

"I'm sitting next to the hottest girl in school right now."

Chances like that don't come along.

So, I start chatting her up, whatever.

She just stops me, stops me cold, just like that.

Pure Lorna!

And she... she starts telling me about Ralph

and how he's, er, he's been teaching her about...

.. criminal profiling

and different personality types

and if you've got the right type of training, you can pick 'em out.

And so, you know, I'm just trying to make conversation, so I say to her, so...

- "What type...?" - "What type am I?" - "What type are you?" - Right.

And she looked right at me... with that smile.

This little thing she does with the corner of her mouth.

Still kills me.

You know what she said?

What?

She said...

"Borderline."

BOTH CHUCKLE

This is the one, Tommy. This is the one I've always been talking about.

And if we can just absolutely nail him...

Right... You know the score.

No chance of getting him with his own drugs.

And even if you could...

he'd have to straight up admit, with witnesses...

.. that they were his property.

But he'd have to be stupid.

Or you'd have to trick him.

Right, you get in and you get out, yeah?

HE GRUNTS

Testing, testing, testing.

OK, it's working.

Right, get out of there.

Ah, he's here.

You've been ages.

- ENGINE STARTS - Where'd you put the bug?

KNOCK ON DOOR

Someone's coming in.

You all right?

It's Casby.