The Code

- (WATCH BEEPS) - (DIALS NUMBER)

I need you to slow down, Jesse.

Take a deep breath and start again.

I want Hani's father released now.

Not just a promise of help.

I want to see him walking out of there.

I don't think you took that breath.

I'm assuming the fact that you're delivering

such strident demands can only mean

that you have the Kaspion program?

I've got it.

But I'm not delivering until Nasim is released.

Things have moved on since we spoke.

Right now, the only thing I might be in a position to do

is stop someone putting a bullet in your head.

Don't misunderstand me.

I very much want to work this out with you, Jesse.

I have put a lot of effort

into trying to work this out with you. But Nasim, that horse has bolted.

And what's left? What's left is your life.

Roth: Jesse.

Jesse!

I'm here.

I thought we'd lost you. Hey?

Did you get it?

No.

Theo: Jan! We have to go!

Roth: Jesse.

Join them up, Papa.

Um, I'm sorry, I... I was a bit overwhelmed.

I didn't realise you were here.

- Jesse. - No, no.

Jesse.

When I was growing up,

my best friend was this Aboriginal kid.

He used to show me the burial trees behind where we lived.

I'm not a believer, but...

somehow it seems right.

Something living... marks that they were here.

What was his name? Your son?

Roth: Carlo.

Pneumonia.

It happened fast.

Fever and this, uh... horrible sound.

Couldn't breathe, so...

we drive him to the clinic.

I mean, the place is haemorrhaging money.

No doctors, no medicine.

Antibiotics.

One of those half-used packets

that sits in every bathroom across Australia...

that's all we need.

Do you want a hug?

No.

But I appreciate the offer.

Sweetie, I've got to, uh...

I have to go away for work for a couple of days.

- I want to come with you. - Nah. Nah, it'll be boring.

I want a pinkie promise you're coming back.

I, Jan Roth, do solemnly pinkie promise

that not even demons will keep me

from coming to back to Tahila Gangi-Roth

when my work is done.

- (VACUUM CLEANER HUMS) - (SHOE SQUEAKS)

Marina: Hello?

Ned: Marina, we need to start getting this out.

What happened on the mine road, to Remsey,

Lara's involvement, the whole thing.

Yeah, um...

There's... (CLEARS THROAT)

there's a lot going on with the forum coming up.

- Uh, everyone's watching me... - No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no. This is going out.

This is what we're publishing. You can help or not, that's your call,

but you should know I'm gonna name you.

Yeah, you can deny it, but I'm not gonna skirt around it.

I've let you make me your moral hostage, Ned Banks.

I stepped towards you when I could've stepped away.

Someday I'm gonna feel good about that.

I'm sorry.

We can get out, but we have to go now.

All right. Okay. I'm gonna try and get a message to Ben.

See if he can hold some space to get something out today,

then we just have to start pumping it out.

Jess, we have to go.

Roth: Clark Kent to the rescue, is it?

If we can prove that Marcus was innocent,

then there's no crime for Remsey to take the blame for.

Right, so you just whip up some expose

and they all come running out with their hands in the air?

- Right? - Yep.

That's what I got.

Don't trip over your cape.

Jess.

I'm not going.

Ned: Course you are.

No, I was not asking your permission, Ned,

I'm telling you.

Jesus, Jesse, we can't stand around here for three hours

workshopping it, we have to go.

You have to go.

It's time to cut the cord, Ned.

I'm cutting the cord.

I know you think you're looking out for me,

protecting me.

But I'm suffocating

and I need some air that doesn't have your ideas in it.

I'm sorry.

It's... (CHUCKLES)

it's not you, it's me.

Meg: Ned, do you want me to see

if maybe there's someone else you can come with tomorrow?

Jesse: No, he's going today like he planned.

There you go, me making arbitrary decisions for you for once.

Look after yourself.

You too.

There's something I need to tell you.

I was going to try and trade the program for Hani's dad,

but I've actually failed spectacularly to do that

and in the process I have just confirmed

everything they already thought about me in the first place,

don't fit in the box.

Will never fit in the box.

Fuck the box. The box is for morons.

You know Lara called off the surveillance?

That's how I got back here.

She wants to keep the Kaspion program for herself.

Roth: What do you want?

- I don't know. - Yes, you do.

Some things have been done that must be put right.

Ned might rattle his newspaper, turn a few heads, but you...

you have to put things right in your own way.

But first you have to decide what kind of dog you are.

What kind are you?

I'm the dogs of war.

- (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - (ALARM BLARES)

Man over P.A.: Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate.

Exit the building and proceed immediately

to your designated emergency assembly area.

Will: This morning, during the handover with night shift,

an evacuation was triggered.

Once everyone was out and the gates were locked,

system by system the operation was shut down.

Then this arrived 20 minutes ago.

Morning, all.

By now you'll be aware

that the wheels of production at Helmston

have ground to a halt.

Mechanical protest against the horror perpetrated in its name.

29 people arrested at Friday's protest need to be released.

Remsey Gangi needs to be released.

Nasim Parande returned.

The mine stays shut until the terms of operation

are renegotiated to reflect a somewhat fairer share of the spoils.

And, of course, the extradition for Jesse and Ned Banks.

So that's part one.

Just something to get us started.

Well, I guess it's safe to say

we now know the Kaspion program works,

sniffed out an A-list target on its first outing.

Alert levels need to be raised

both in Indonesia and here as well.

Critical infrastructure protocols put into place.

"Do not travel" alerts need to go out today.

But if we get this wrong

we'll have full-blown panic on our hands,

so keep the language tight.

This won't get a public release,

we just proceed with this morning's signing regardless.

You've gotta be kidding.

The company has an obligation to report any adverse events

likely to impact on its value to the ASX.

And they will. But the lease signing goes ahead.

You pull the plug on it now,

you're telling the world that terrorism works.

Business as usual until the situation resolves itself.

Is anyone confused about what that looks like?

I want to stop in at home before the meeting.

We don't have time.

It wasn't a request.

Alyse: I thought you left two hours ago.

I did. I did.

And I have to go again now, sweetheart.

Listen, I don't know for sure,

but it's possible that I'm going to go

to the economic forum today

and decide not to sign a lease worth a truckload of money

to some very powerful people

and I don't know what's going to happen when I decide to do that.

But what I do know is, that scholarship...

it was offered to you for the wrong reasons, as a way to get to me.

Go on, then.