Atomic

The following programme contains strong language and violent scenes.

Who are you? Make peace with your God.

You're English? No, no, no, please no! Please!

Drive! Where to?Just drive!

He's evil. No loyalty to anyone. He's a snake.

It's not just drugs I smuggle. No?I smuggle antiquities too.

What antiquities? Statues.

You get the statues. The payment...

is the shipment.

What's her name, your girl? Laetitia.You're punching.

Where were you taking your cargo? Beirut. This isn't the usual trip.

They are ready.

The shipment's gone. They burnt all of it. I was gonna use that...

to pay for the statues my boss bought in Beirut.

Lose a shipment, the cartel hunt you down.

Very simple job. Very quick. In and out.

We heard you hit some trouble? I lost my phone.

How was I meant to talk to you?

How are you gonna pay for the statues without the shipment?

And who is this?

We're taking your statues.

You can run, but you can't hide. They have uranium.

Nuclear fuel... enough to blow up the whole city.

All right, moving on.

The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan

saw a large-scale release of radioactive material.

Isotopes of iodine and caesium...

were detected in air, water, milk and food samples

collected across the entire Northern Hemisphere.

With a half-life of eight days,

the iodine released from the reactors...

disappeared after about three months.

However...

the caesium radio-

Excuse me.

(CLEARS THROAT)

However, the caesium radionuclides...

Dr Cassandra Bryce?

Yes. My name is Khaled Awad.

I'm with the Drug Enforcement Agency here in Beirut.

I called you earlier.

Uh... Mystery solved.

Or perhaps not. The DEA? How can I help you guys?

Er... I have some intelligence...

that needs your particular nuclear expertise.

This might be an emergency.

# TSHEGUE: Survivor

In here!

Fuck.

They're all locked. Here.

Keep up.

We have to keep the statues apart.

What? That guy down in the dungeon.

He said it to me when I took the statues.

Why do we have to keep them apart? I dunno.

But it sounded serious.

Oh! Go, go, go! Come on!

Stay there!

# I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor

# I'm a survivor...

PANTING) Jump.

What?! Fuck off.

Fucking jump.

# I'm a survivor...

Catch!

Ooh! Fucking twat!

Fucking hurry up! Ooh. Fuck.

Come on!

Careful!

Yargh!

JJ. Stop calling me fucking JJ!

Tell me your fucking name, then! No!

I fucking hate pigeons. Fucking hate pigeons!

Stairs!

# I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor #

Stop, stop, stop.

Hey!Come on!I'm fucking knackered. We have to keep going.

These are too heavy. How the fuck are these so heavy?

I don't know, cos they're fucking statues, maybe! (MAN YELLS)

Oh, fuck sake.

Fuck off.

# RADIOHEAD: Bodysnatchers

# I do not

# Understand

# What it is

# I've done wrong

# Full of holes

# Check for pulse

# It is the 21st century

# It is the 21st century

# All the lines Wrapped around my face

# All the lines Wrapped around my face

# And for anyone else to see

# And for anyone else to see

# I'm a lie #

Uranium? What type of uranium? Weapons-grade?

I don't know. All my source knows is it's uranium...

coming to Beirut to be paid for by a shipment of cocaine

from a Venezuelan drugs cartel.

I passed it up the chain, they told me to get in touch with you.

And waste my time.

The fact is, there is very little uranium,

or any nuclear material, out there

that is actually of the correct grade to make a nuclear device.

It's much more likely to be something low-grade -

in terms of purity -

that someone's trying to pass off as weapons-grade.

Scammers, trying to make a bit of money. Idiots selling to idiots.

My source said that it was 50kg of uranium.

50kg? Yeah.

That could make a bomb. Like a dirty bomb?

A Hiroshima-sized bomb.

Excuse me.

OK. (SPEAKS ARABIC)

The source of the intelligence. Something's gone wrong.

I have to go. I think I should come with you.

I mean, in case there is any nuclear material.

And in case they're not idiots.

I can't do this much longer.

They don't fucking give up, do they?

They're from a drugs cartel. They hunt you down. I told you that.

You told me it was gonna be a quick job.(SCOFFS)

Pick up the statues, take 'em to Morocco. In and fucking out.

You lied to me.

We need to go.

In here.

Where now?

In here.

What? You threw your gun at him.

I told you. I don't kill people.

You really don't, do ya? Hey.

You didn't kill anyone. That's a first for you.

It's a church.

You OK being in a church?

I'm Muslim, not a fucking vampire.

Oh.

I took it from your boss.

# JOAQUIN FLORES: Ya Lo Se Que Tu Te Vas

(MUSIC CONTINUES FAINTLY IN BACKGROUND)

Say they can have the statues back, but we wanna get paid.You do it.

I don't speak Spanish. They all speak English.

Hello?

(ON PHONE) Danny?No, mate. Danny's not here at the moment.

Who is this? Never mind who this is. Who are you?

My name...

is Antonio Alam.

Says his name's Antonio Alam. That's the boss of the cartel.

OK, Antonio. If you want your statues back, you're gonna have to pay.

So you have a think about what they're worth to you, and you give us a call back. Ta-ra.

You don't know what you've just done.

This is how we get paid, Max. No, mate. This is how we get killed.

Follow me.

Have the statues left Beirut?

On their way.

Everything is proceeding to plan.

Clear!

Whose place is this?Belongs to a man named Rifaat Atallah.

He's your source? Mm-hm.

He didn't say where the uranium might have originated from?No.

What is that? Measures radioactivity.

Enriched uranium doesn't have much of a signature.

None of this protective equipment would be necessary.Boss?

It's from the road outside.

They're both carrying something.

They're keeping apart.

If there was two pieces of uranium, you would have to keep them apart

to stop them reacting to each other.

If they react, depending on the weight...

it could get interesting.

Interesting? A chain reaction.

A release of radiation.

And if you were very unlucky, they might explode.

I need you to take me home.

Why would he say, 'Keep them apart'?

What sort of statues can't you keep close together?

This is Baal.

He's a god.

An old god.

Before Islam and Christianity.