Spooks

PHONE RINGS

Dickson Murray Estate Agents.

'I need to speak to Chris Patterson.' Can I take a message? 'Tell him Osprey needs to view the house.' OK.

Zone One Flash from Osprey, page N5 with a Zone One Flash.

Matthew!

A very good morning to you.

So I see.

BLEEPING

Matthew... Mm? What is that?

You knew what it was last night.

No, Benny Hill. What's that?

KNOCK ON DOOR Zoe? You awake?

It's your sexy landlord here.

Maisie, what are you doing up?

Nothing. Hello, Matthew. Hello, Maisie.

What computer goes wrong at this time? Almost all of them.

I just got my boss out of bed for this. Start reassuring me.

Explosives and detonators arrived in Liverpool from Ireland at 2.30am. But it's nothing to do with us.

At least, no-one's said anything.

How many devices? ..How many?

20.

20?! And where are they now? I don't know.

She wants to go with you.

Sarah, you have to go with Daddy.

I'm sorry, sweetheart.

- Exhaust looks a bit rusty. - I'll drop it into Kwik-Fit.

Bye, Mummy!

Goodbye, darling.

EXPLOSION

You're journalists. You know that, officially, we're the security service, unofficially, it's MI5 or 5.

Our main function - to protect Britain's national security.

If you'd follow me this way.

Hi, George. Morning, Tom. Early start? Afraid so.

Global terrorism, Islamic extremists,

all phone-tap resources plus Echelon pointed at the Middle East,

and now the old enemy is rearing its ugly head, and it's a beautiful morning. Who sent the flash message?

Jed. Danny's with Osprey in a safe house now. Ellie Simm.

We met her in a restaurant a few months ago. She's a chef.

Handy if you're hungry. You mention her under a pretext? Yeah. What one?

Matthew Archer.

I was trying to bump into a recruit on the shore project.

We knew that he went to a restaurant in Brixton, so I went there three times a week till he turned up.

She thought I was this lonely IT guy called Matthew.

We got talking... And when the project was over? I kept going as Matthew. You like her? Very much.

Well, assuming she passes the vetting, when will you tell her that you are Tom Quinn and a spy?

When did you tell your wife you're a spook? When you met? Married?

Just after we'd signed the register. I like to have things on paper.

Morning, Zoe.

It's started. THEY ALL BLEEP

LIFT BLEEPS

MI5's major focus now is counter-terrorism.

Our brief also includes serious crime, illegal arms...

How much has your remit changed since September last year?

Our workload's exploded, our intake's tripled and we're talking to our sister agencies across the world.

We try to be as open as we can.

What's down there?

That's the coffee room.

OK. Let's move on. If we could all keep together, please.

So what do we know?

We're looking at a major device, 16 minutes ago in suburban Liverpool.

Two serious casualties - a woman - Dr Lynott, and her daughter.

I heard pipe bomb. Remote detonation. Cell phone or radio?

Cos it's just that I heard there were these new Tetra radio frequencies...

Green Gauge Catering. ..She's out the office at the moment.

Danny. 20 devices. Loyalist source, smuggled to Liverpool and then sold on. To whom, we don't know.

Is that verified? Osprey told me face to face this morning. She saw the bombs come in then lost them.

All high-grade, some pipe bombs, some with remote detonation. Is ther any more light you can shed on this?

Talk to Hassan, make sure there's no Islamic connection. Who's the R girl in Merseyside Special Branch?

Lisa Burford. She's next to useless.

So we have no-one with Osprey's penetration? No-one close.

No code was issued. No warning. Right, Danny, are we sure? Is this the link?

Did it come from Liverpool and is it one of the 20?

Special Branch said the blast area had "Derry" written all over it. Good enough for me.

Device confirmed Liverpool, yes or no? This could be the start of a major terror campaign.

Home Office want a wet flannel to avoid a public panic. We don't know how big this is. I want you there.

Army bomb disposal teams confirmed this was an unexploded WWII bomb.

This was not a terrorist incident. Make sure that's the only message getting out.

Satisfied?

No, not really.

How's Dr Lynott? Which one? There's more than one?

Husband's a doctor too. She died half an hour ago.

It was no German bomb. I know what's going on here.

Then you'll know how important your information is to us. We'd been getting hate mail.

Why hate mail?

We're both family planning doctors. We perform abortions.

Threats are an occupational hazard.

When was the last letter?

This morning.

I'm really sorry.

It'd be nice to know a little more, Tom.

I don't know what it's like in London, but here we like to think we're on the same side.

Right now, it's need to know.

I just want to get these bastards, all right?

20 bombs arrived in Liverpool last night.

This was one of them.

Explosives on this scale means money, organisation and a network ready to receive them.

Obvious connection here would be Pro-Life. Hate mail. Targeted. Let's work on the Pro-Life network.

- A major Pro-Life terror network. - They don't exist. - Yet.

Who do we know in UK Pro-Life extremities? We're looking at New Life Scotland, the Unborn Alliance,

the Innocents Protection League.

If it is a Pro-Life campaign, it's someone we're missing in Liverpool.

So step up surveillance on Merseyside contacts, follow Osprey.

You'll need someone in Liverpool to see if Osprey's giving us the full picture. I will. Zoe?

A letting company phoned you. £200 a week in zone two.

Your landlord still giving you hassle? Danny, this Liverpool surveillance,

I'm thinking of switching ABC to box set at Osprey. You don't have to. What? Toss me a bone.

What? I know why I got this job - put it that way.

My God, you're serious!

Keep going - it's all very amusing.

Danny, I'm as scared as you are, all right? Why do you think I've been here since the crack of dawn?

He may be Boy Wonder, but when I last did surveillance on this scale,

it was in training five years ago with a pencil.

ABC gets better coverage on a grid system.

Let's hope so.

'OK. Osprey in sight. Sighted with a new face.

'Confirm? Confirmed.

'All officers, new face is live.

'Will identify as Falco.

'Leave Osprey. Follow Falco. Pick up Falco.

'Alpha picking up.

'Alpha still on Falco.

'Keep your distance.

'Falco snagged.

'Beta?

'Beta picking up. Got him.

'Leave him, Beta. Charlie, pick up. He's crossing the road.

'Pick up Falco.

'Picking up. Falco is getting into car.

'Alpha in position.

'Alpha, can you get a shot?

'Yeah. Continue following.'

Lots of folks. Lots of folks.

Lots of men. It's always men.

Have you ever made anyone pregnant?

What's that got to do with you?

I didn't think so.

Hey. Hello.

Any chance of a few copies, please?

Mmm. Her.

I thought we shared information. Do the words "Ports Warning List" mean anything to you?

She came in over six weeks ago.

False passport from France. Her name wasn't Mary Kane, it was Denise Marston. I'm not Mystic Meg.

No, Tessa, you're something else.

Hey! Welcome to my modest abode.

Hey! How are you doin'? I've had a power-related disaster, I'm afraid.

I'll eat anything. Worked up a bit of an appetite myself, Rob.

Yeah. Me too. I hope so.

Oh, hazelnut flavour! A little bird told me you were a big fan.

They don't like scarin' you folks. "British beef is safe to eat."

Always with their public-relations angle. So...what happens now?

I mean...who's doing what?

You and Rob carry on as normal. I'll keep Mary out of sight till phase 2.

Fine. Good.

Honey, you scared?

I understand.

No, it's just...

that poor girl.

Having a mamma like that, it's hard to know good from bad.

It's a big step, Mary...

for all of us.

I was terrified...in the beginning.

And then I met my husband, and Paul sat me down and asked me to imagine something.

Imagine a man with a gun.

You'd be scared.

So would I.

But if you saw him walk into a playground and point that gun at a child,

how scared would you be then?

And what if you saw him pull the trigger and shoot one child and then another?

Would you still be scared?

Or would you stop thinking about yourself

and just try, with every fibre of your being, to stop him before he killed the whole school?

Of course you would.

I know your fear, Rachel.

But always remember WHO we're fighting for

and who we're trying to stop.

Now, drink up. We have a lot of work to do, sweetheart.

And after all, these bastards are everywhere.

How was your day?

Fine.

Where were you...? EXPLOSION

'Florida-based group Defenders Of The Innocents attacked several abortion clinics across the South...

'One of the main voices of a pro-life organisation,

'Mary Kane, a leading member of Defenders Of The Innocents,

'was today convicted in absentia for the Absalom Clinic bombing...

'The news comes as Mary Kane's husband, Paul Kane,

'awaits execution in the electric chair this month

'for the shooting of a doctor outside his home in Sarasota in Florida.'

Mary Kane - candidate number 1. Why kill Karen Lynott and try and kill a seven-year-old girl?

All their targets to date have come from their Name And Shame website.

There's all kinds of stuff there - message boards, home addresses, office numbers, kids' schools.

When a target dies, their name gets crossed out. Yeah.

So if there's a UK list, Karen Lynott will be on it. We'll find it. She's on the run from the FBI.

She slipped from the US into the UK - big cock-up.

She's hiding out... At a terrorist cottage in the Wirral. Why come here

Invitation. Train up extreme UK pro-life groups to use explosives.

Age 15, Mary Kane was admitted to hospital for appendicitis

and came out with terminated pregnancy. That doctor was her first target 25 years later.

She's into anniversaries. Her husband's going to the chair on Saturday - maybe something then?

She's here to carry on where Paul left off. One bomb to provoke the issue, second in his loving memory.

Then a permanent memorial of a living network of terror.