Atomic

Dr Cassandra Bryce?

I have some intelligence that needs your particular nuclear expertise.

You told me it was gonna be a quick job. In and out.

Alam: The metal in the boxes...

Is uranium.

What do you want to return it to me? I want a million pounds.

I want you to find me someone

They're both carrying something. Cassie: They're keeping apart.

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

to stop them reacting to each other - they might explode.

Go to a location I will send you.

There will be consequences if you don't deliver.

Max. Do what they say. No!

We're gonna make her suffer. Chop her into pieces.

(Body thuds)

Get to Syria, Max.

I will arrange transport to Marrakesh.

Your girlfriend will be here when you arrive.

We're going to Syria.

O Lions of the Caliphate,

remember that jihad is the honor of Islam.

Islam has heights reached only by true believers.

We possess what matters most. The battlefield awaits you.

Either victory or martyrdom for Allah.

(Clears throat)

"Are you lost?"

Aha. That. You can put it here.

Come on, I won't bite you.

What's your name?

Janat.

And you. What's your name?

You're not saying much.

I'm driving. Usually can't shut you up.

I thought you wouldn't wanna talk. You're on a comedown.

I feel fine. (Phone beeps)

Alam.

He wants us to go to an airfield to catch a plane to Morocco.

To deliver the uranium.

We're here because of baal. That's why we came here.

But... after we go to the plane.

We have to take the uranium to them.

You killed one of them last night.

So what?! Alam doesn't know that.

All he knows is that people showed up and we had to run.

Ok, ok. Calm down.

That's him.

Mohamed Aziz... Destroyer of worlds.

And he quoted the gita?

Misquoted. Oppenheimer was paraphrasing.

Did he strike you as the literary type?

No. But he seems like a textbook case.

Hardcore jihadi. He went to Syria after his release from jail.

And according to the brits, he hasn't been seen for seven years.

There was something about him, Mark.

I saw something.

He's dangerous. We still don't know if they have real uranium.

Khaled's source said they do. Fifty kilos. In two pieces.

I struggle to see how a Venezuelan drug cartel fits into this

when we have a known jihadist involved.

Well, the cartels control highway 10 -

the smuggling route between the mediterranean and west Africa.

They can move the uranium through the desert for the jihadis.

Ok. But where to?

So it could be going to Mali.

I mean, the insurgents there have practically taken over the country.

Although, with this...

Aziz guy involved, I think it's much more likely a group in this area.

We think we've identified a car they're in,

which has crossed the border into Syria.

Max: Who are they?

They're soldiers. The new government... or militia.

We have to be careful.

We need to turn off. We need petrol.

Yeah, anything that's available, I'm standing by.

I need to get on the ground. We need to get on the ground.

I don't wanna jeopardise your cover in Beirut. You're doing vital work.

No, there is nothing more vital than trying to prevent a terrorist group

getting their hands on a nuclear bomb, Mark.

That's the whole reason I'm here. Whoever this Mohamed Aziz is...

However dangerous he may be, he's not gonna be assembling a bomb.

Not even when he quoted the gita to you?

There has to be somebody building the bomb.

Ok? Someone that knows how to do it.

I got a name for you. Sayed ah man. He's a physicist.

He went missing a couple of years ago. I actually reported him.

Um... he disappeared a little bit after that.

I'm sure it was followed up.

Well, maybe I should check into that.

Yeah? You weren't expecting him, were you? Talk to me.

You know him well? Where? I know him.

Yeah, I'm on my way.

I got us a plane but we need to leave right now.

I thought you didn't want me to come? You told me I need you.

But if you wanna come catch this jihadi, we need to leave right now.

It was great to meet you. Yeah. Um... hey.

Take care of yourself.

Let me know where they're headed.

And no-one interferes with their journey until I am on the ground.

That is imperative.

They're on the move again going further north.

And the brits are sending someone to liaise with us about Mohamed Aziz.

Oh, so he must mean something to them.

We'll find out.

Did you mention the uranium? No, I did not.

If they're gonna hold out on me, I'm gonna hold out on them.

You're not holding out on me here, right, Mark?

What do you mean? You're telling me everything I need to know?

Of course. You think not?

No. I just wondered why you're here in Beirut at this moment in time.

It's... it's a... it's a happy coincidence.

Hello. Bonjour.

English? Francais?

English. You need petrol, sir?

Yes. Please.

Journalist? Where are you from?

Where are you going, sir?

Why do you want to know?

I’m sorry, sir. I’m just curious, I’m being honest.

Be careful who you help before you lose that hand.

My friend.

Do you have a map?

A map?

I can't even read that.

That's where alam wants us to go.

That's here. We're down here. That's palmyra.

So, we go there, then we go to the airbase.

We have to go back there to get back to Marrakesh.

It's the only way... it's the only way we get paid.

I don't know.

Was that where you were when you were here before?

No. Caliphate was in the east.

Fine. No problem.

Everything's all right.

Get in the car. Slow.

Don't rush.

Start the engine.

That was close.

I told you - those soldiers were government soldiers.

We have to avoid 'em.

Heading to palmyra takes us out of their territory.

Listen to what I'm telling ya. I was here.

Ok. I hear ya.

That bloke back there at the petrol place -

he only had one hand.

Do you reckon he got that chopped off by your lot?

In the caliphate?

That only happened if you were a thief...

Or dishonest to people.

Did you ever do it? You know, like, chop...

Chop people?

Or were you a suicide bomber?

A shit one, obviously.

Whatever you lot did, the cartel are worse.

That's why we have to deliver the uranium to them.

And to get paid.

Of course.

This it?

Why are we here? This is baal's temple.

It was blown up when I was here.

There've been people living here for thousands of years.

Phoenicians, Greeks...

Romans, muslims.

Baths, temples, libraries.

Thousands of years, and everyone built something.

And we destroyed it.

What, and you think bringing that statue back here makes up for it?

Nothing makes up for it.

But I'm trying to be honest.

We can be honest with each other, can't we?

Yeah.

Of course.

(Music fades)

I have to take this.

Alam: (On phone) Where are you, Max?

Palmyra. We're on our way north.

So, you're making progress? En route.

Make sure you don't miss your plane, Max.

Your girlfriend will be here too.

And I look forward to showing her my hospitality.

Is laetitia ok? (Phone beeps)

Hello?

You don't want to mess this up, Max.

Hm?

Hello?

Hello?

We gotta go!