Spooks

Unidentified government agents talk of a new world order.

Are you implying we may both have some bad apples in our cart?

I've got a full list of mobile phones active in the same cell around the time of his death.

And? Sarah was no more than five metres away when he fell.

Walker's death...

it threw me.

I understand.

Do you?

It can't have been easy for you.

No.

Being close to someone, finding out they're not who you thought they were. It's painful.

Sarah was at the meeting in Basel.

She was there.

Are you sure? Walker was on his way to finding that out, he's dead.

I'm finished.

Home Secretary... Sir Harry. I think Nightingale drove his predecessor from office.

You think Lawrence could be theirs? I don't like being messed about.

I'll decide on the payback.

You're with them.

Nightingale. They'll kill me, Lucas, it's you or me.

Who are they?

You have no idea how big they are.

They are taking over.

Nightingale's been stirring things up. What is their game?

Attacks in the UK, six billion transferred to

an unknown destination in Pakistan, Home Secretary forced from office?

And we're still missing pieces. That's what worries me. What's next?

A series of global terror attacks...

There have been simultaneous attacks in the US and Holland.

His replacement, General Azim Ali...

Nightingale's man is running the Pakistani army.

They're forcing India and Pakistan into open conflict. Or worse.

Nuclear war.

Reports are correct. Indian sub fished up

by the Pakistani navy, forced into Karachi harbour where the TV cameras were already whirring.

So what happens now? General Ali's been on Pakistani TV crowing about it.

Meanwhile the Indians have issued a deadline of a week for the return of the sub, otherwise all bets are off.

Oh. Deadlines are bad. Somebody will have to blink.

That's Russell Price, CIA Head of Operations in Europe.

They're really nervous if he's here.

Good to see you, Russell.

We're gonna have to bring everybody round a table, Harry, get in some pizzas.

The Indians are incandescent.

Oh, yeah. They're getting pretty Finding Nemo about the whole thing.

Our satellites show a build-up of troops in Kashmir.

You know that General Azim Ali is on record as having said that he

finds the Indians more of a threat than the Taliban.

Still not an uncommon view in those parts.

My Secretary of State is on standby, we're cracking lots of heads behind the scenes.

Pakistani President Mudasser is a guy we can work with.

Except he's not calling the shots any more.

General Ali has used the military to sideline his own president.

Then we need to get Mudasser's back and isolate the hardliners on both sides.

Once we get the talks started we'll kick some ass.

Well, he seems confident they can stop it.

65 years we've had a nuclear deterrent, and not since

the Cuban Missile Crisis has it seemed so likely to be used.

The submarine was a calculated pretext. Somebody's pushing this right to the edge.

Home Secretary. Ah.

Sorry, Twitter update.

They like us to seem "with it",

a phrase that probably won't earn me the Freedom of Shoreditch anytime soon, so...

Please. Come in.

The Prime Minister has asked us to step in to stop this potential conflict.

Apart from the millions who will perish if this

goes nuclear, the impact on the rest of the world will be enormous.

It could easily escalate. The situation is... It's unthinkable.

The PM got on the blower to the American President this morning.

We're inviting the Indian and Pakistani leaders to London for emergency talks.

The Americans will send their Secretary of State.

OK.

Do you think the Pakistanis will play ball? Well, clearly the situation in Pakistan is complicated.

I think we need to support the civilian president

and try and bolster him up against the hardliners within the military.

Easier said than done with General Ali in the driving seat. I agree.

So we give President Mudasser all our support.

Now, I actually know him.

I was at Cambridge with him. I will use all my powers to persuade him to release the submarine.

I don't think we should underestimate the personal touch. When are the talks happening?

The main players arrive in the next few hours.

The PM will be in Chequers with the American Secretary of State and they will intervene as and when.

I'm confident you can deal with all the security issues this will inevitably throw up, Sir Harry.

The PM's relying on us.

Which annoyed you more? Twitter or the fact that he went to Cambridge?

Actually, when he said the PM "got on the blower" to the President of the United States. Of course.

'The UN Secretary General has appealed to all sides to step back

'from the brink of confrontation over the submarine crisis.

'Meanwhile, the Indian government has suggested that it will renounce its "no first strike" policy

'in favour of a more aggressive approach to recent events.'

PHONE RINGS

Yeah, this is Janie Harding.

Send him up.

How was India? Hot. Well, it's gonna get hotter.

How far down the road are we?

They're flying in the Indians and Pakistanis for talks.

So it's all going according to plan.

Both sides under one roof?

You get what we need? The Indian signature?

Straight out of a factory in Pune. Hotter than a curry,

only used by the Indian military.

You got any doubts? No.

You got any doubts about me?

I don't,

some do. You're still a tax and spend, pro-choice, godless liberal, right?

If we don't do this, one day in the next decade the Taliban are

gonna take control of a nuclear state and that'll be the end.

Know what your problem is?

You're way too smart to fit into just one camp.

Yeah. It takes a little bit more than flattery to get me into bed, Russell.

Are you forgetting who I am?

I could destroy you, remember?

Not this godless liberal.

What's an MI5 pretty boy got that I don't?

You just answered your own question.

I want you to kill him.

Why? Because we need to know there's no lingering emotional tie that might prove difficult.

There isn't. Then there shouldn't be a problem.

Lucas North is good, right?

So better out of the way.

Do it soon and I'll be able to stop fielding questions about your commitment to the cause.

Submarine update? Unchanged. Emergency meeting of the UN security council this afternoon.

OK. Well, our focus has to be on the group who seem to be manufacturing this crisis.

General Azim Ali, chief of military command in Pakistan and

probable benefactor of Nightingale's largesse to the tune of 6 billion.

More powerful than the President in many ways.

Close links to the Chinese and he's behind the submarine crisis.

Hans Lindemann, millionaire fixer.

Now, we suspect he's behind the Basel meeting but as of yet we can't confirm his presence there.

Nicholas Blake, forced out of the Home Office by Nightingale for reasons unknown.

His successor, Andrew Lawrence.

He has no proven connection to Nightingale

but they clearly had an agenda for getting Nicholas Blake out. Was it to get Andrew Lawrence in?

Sarah Caulfield.

We now have evidence she left the UK two weeks ago.

She took a flight to Frankfurt, using an alias.

Now off our radar.

Showing just how much of a new broom she is by helping organise the terror attacks before she left.

Why would she betray her principles and her government? Money? It won't be money.

You know her.

At present we have more questions than answers but we do know all of these people are in some way

linked to a conspiracy to provoke a war between India and Pakistan.

A potential nuclear war.

We can't ignore China in this, what's their position?

Biggest player in the region.

There is no way Pakistan would have moved on the submarine without their backing.

So how are they involved and why?

India's set a deadline of a week for the return of the sub, so that's our timeframe.

Harry!

You were right about another person being at the Nightingale meeting in Basel.

Hans Lindemann. And?

He came in on a private jet to a secret landing strip.

Shortly after returning from Basel, Lindemann spent several days secluded in his Tuscan retreat.

he had only one guest for the whole of that time. And that was? Andrew Lawrence, the Home Secretary.

That doesn't look good for Lawrence. We need to get surveillance into Lindemann's office.

You have to admit, if there was a war between India and Pakistan, it might sort out a few issues.

I can't think why Nightingale haven't tried to recruit you. It's been gnawing away at me.

I bet it has. Let's see what Lindemann has to do with all this.

You going in there?

Come on, then, Ros. Small talk me a little.

OK, erm...

my perfume is made from the anal glands of cats.

I read that in the paper this morning.

It's actually the perineal gland of the civet, and not any more because they synthesise it.

How do you know that?

I'm a polymath. What the hell's a civet?

A civet is a kind of cross between a cat and a mongoose.

And in Vietnam, they drink a coffee from the half-digested beans harvested from its faeces.

Versatile little creature. Mmm-hmm.

OK, liking the frequency, Kenneth.

OK, I'll do the meeting room and then we're good to go.

GUN COCKS

Hey, Lucas. You look surprised to see me.

Yeah, I am.

It's been a while.

Why have you come here?

To kill you.

Get out of town, Lucas, while you still have the chance.

You can't stop what's going to happen. Get out of town? Didn't realise we were in Dodge City.

Contact me when you're safe.

Barbados, Bolivia, you choose. I'll meet you there.

What are you talking about?

Red zones where people die, green zones where they live.

Head for the green zone while you still have the chance.

This is the last one you'll get.

You're not going anywhere.

Ros Myers.

The feeling's mutual.

Sarah!

Take the shot, Lucas!

Why didn't you shoot her? I wasn't sure I could just wing her and she's no use to us dead.

You still like her, Lucas? Back off, Ros.

Our only real link to Nightingale, and you just let her get away!

No. I made sure we still had a chance of getting her alive.

Barbados or Bolivia. You choose.

I said back off. I'll find her.

Tariq. Can you check out the most expensive hotels, any guests with the surnames of American Presidents?

She likes to use them as pseudonyms. She's a little show-off.

Patterns are always bad. Jackson. Johnson. Adams.

There are 44 US Presidents. Lots of guests. Best get started then.

Ros. I didn't shoot her because I couldn't guarantee I wouldn't kill her.