Canaries

Ah shit.

Lieutenant Randall. Yes damn it.

Wilson sir, RAF. Hey do you mind?

Sorry sir.

Which way?

You know why I joined the US Air Force Wilson?

No sir.

To see my beautiful country, and to be in the air.

Instead I'm walking through a freezing English forest

because one of your guys said he saw a light.

You're commanding officer felt somebody

from both countries should investigate sir.

My commanding officer is a dick.

Shine it over here.

Resin, trees been exposed to heat.

Camp fires? No sign of one.

Shine up.

Branch is broken up in the tree-line.

Something came down, your man might have seen something.

Okay, let's move off this,

shit what the hell is that?

We have a body sir, looks Vietnamese what's left of him.

I think I stepped on some of him.

We're close, I think, that's what the map says.

That's where the lady is.

Why you want to talk to this lady?

Plenty of nice girls in Hanoi.

No, no, no thanks, ah this lady

witnessed an abduction, her friend was taken.

So we go to police?

Oh I don't think so, she said a craft appeared

as big as three of those mountains up there.

Craft? A UFO.

UFO right, sightings in Vietnam are actually quite common.

Urgh, oh God, I think I got a fly in my mouth.

That's disgusting.

This is her.

Hello, don't be afraid.

Where was her friend standing?

And where was the UFO?

Yes, I can confirm that, that's a definite, yes ma'am.

Several, at least 10, they're all in separate containers.

Well some are mac and cheese and some are sandwiches.

Because she likes them Patrice,

there's fruit in there too okay.

Look, I got to go, yeah, yeah

I'll be home late tonight okay, bye.

Agent Kendrick.

I don't really have a title, just call me Kendrick.

Yes sir.

Where? Up island.

Scene secure.

Private beach, owners don't come til August.

Not much to secure really.

Oh let me get this.

Estimated TOD.

Uh hi, who are you?

This is agent, this is Mr. Kendrick.

I'm estimating time of death is when he hit the ground,

six o'clock this morning, in front of two 15 year olds.

One of them my stepdaughter who's now grounded.

Small community.

They claim they saw flashes of light

and then Ben Murphy and his crew

disappear from his boat a little ways off shore.

A local fishing crew.

The boat?

Pulled it in this morning, no sign of the crew,

nothing suspicious on the boat.

The girls had ingested several office cleaning products.

The wounds indicate?

He fell from pretty high up, as in from a plane.

ID?

Found this in his pocket.

Kurt Nesbo.

Says he's from Oslo, also found this in the wallet.

Ticket to a gala show or something, Oslo opera house.

But it's dated April 30th 2013,

that's almost a year from now, he must have really

want to see that show.

This ticket's been torn, he saw the show.

He, sorry he what?

ID was confirmed, Kurt Nesbo of Oslo Norway.

Cause of death, injuries from a fall.

All flights that evening were grounded due to the storm,

over one year later we track reports of a Kurt Nesbo,

same ID, disappearing from a gala at the opera house at Oslo

during intermission.

Sorry, DC Metro sucks, why are we in a hotel?

We own it.

ID, Stanley.

Gillman.

DOD owns a hotel.

Sit down.

The same time the body dropped that image was sent to us.

Sent? Sent in the mail,

on a phone that hadn't been invented yet.

Well, they don't know how to spell happy.

We got IDs on any of these guys?

One of them's MOD.

Ministry of Defense UK.

Yes, thank you I know what it means.

Do we have a map?

You show up late to an eyes only briefing

and you, you would like a map.

Like a really big map that we can put pins in.

Do you see a pattern?

Let me save you some energy,

we know where it's gonna happen next.

Okay how?

They told us.

They told you? They?

What did they say?

They have a proposal and they want us

to see it happen again.

Where?

Lower cumtrch, lower coom,

lower cum, lower cumtwa,

how do you even say that?

Huw Richards has called in, saying there's

a New Years Eve party in Lower Cwmtwrch.

Not to be confused with Upper Cwmtwrch of course,

where the special DJ host, sponsored by

Selwyn Reese, the fishmonger.

Nothing fishy, just delishy.

Might want to think about hiring a new marketing

team Selwyn, just kidding, or am I?

Welsh language radio is coming up in a mo,

but first here's the new classic.

Hi there, you're through to Steve Dennis,

the Microphone Menace, do you know what to do,

oh I think you do.

Oh Steve where the fuck are you?

You told me to meet you here, it's your party in it,

give me a ring back alright, it's Huw bye.

They're mine.

You're fit but you're not that fit.

Yeah right.

So is this where you give me the speech.

What speech?

It was fun, but you're a famous DJ,

need to get back to London, don't have time

for anything remotely serious, blah, blah, blah.

No I, I wasn't gonna say that.

Okay.

No what I was gonna say was,

if I'm honest I'm not a good person

and that nice guy veneer from the radio

is easy to sustain on the airwaves

but let's face it, we were both just in this for ourselves,

you know, for personal gain.

So I think it's best if I just leave.

But although we only had a few hours,

we had the passion of a lifetime.

That's from a film, that last thing you just said,

that's from The Terminator.

You couldn't even be bothered to watch a Rom com

and steal something from that.

You decided to quote a film about a killer cyborg

who travels through time.

It is romantic to be fair, no it is, at the end...

Fuck off Steve. Thanks.

Okay good, I never liked you okay.

Thank you for that Steve.

Good, well thanks for everything.

Thank you.

Take care. You too.

I'll get dressed downstairs so don't worry about...

Bye Steve, thank you.

Bye then.

Bye. Good.

Hi, sorry I missed your call, I was in a meeting.

Yeah, yeah, you told me to meet you here at eight,

it's your party mate.

Yeah, how many takers?

A few, not many.

Just a few.

There's a big New Years Eve thing at Cinders,

a lot of people going to that.

Look I've got an investor coming from London,

I need more people there, please Huw,

just get me some more fucking people.

Thanks.

Miles, Sunita, whenever you don't call me

for this long I know something's going on.

So I am moderately concerned, call me back, bye.

There's something about this guy you keep calling.

Who says it's a guy?

Because your voice goes funny.

It's work thank you.

Yeah, well you're always on the phone.

Am I, do you wanna try and take it back.

Go on, do you wanna try...

This is a holiday alright, so we need to stay

away from technology.

That's bloody Steve.

Hello Steve.

Why did I come back to Wales?

You tell me.

Someone's nicked my fucking car.