The Fixer

Leave now. Understand?

Don't call out. Don't look back.

SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE

FAINT BEEPING

They call him Supari.

Travels the world. Kills for money - always within our community.

He arrives in London tomorrow morning

after killing an innocent young man in Paris.

I am offering him to you.

OK. That'll buy you five minutes of my precious retirement.

OK. That'll buy you five minutes of my precious retirement.

Two cousins.

The first, Amit... A good man and a friend to me.

Works hard. Makes plenty money.

Cheap fashions for cheaper teenage girls.

The other, Vijay...

A bad man. Mid-ranking drug dealer. Brutal.

Amit marries. A beautiful girl from back home.

Has a son. Amit, the father, works too hard.

Heart attack. All his wealth, put in trust for his son.

But if anything should happen to the boy before he comes of age,

all the money goes to the next male with the family name.

So Vijay hires a hit man to kill the child so he can get his hands on the money.

Ten million sterling.

And all you care about is helping the poor child?

Come on, Chavan. Don't play a player.

Very well.

If Vijay gets the cash, he will move into the money business.

In direct competition with you?

I'm not interested.

Have I not helped you put away bad men?

If Vijay challenges me, there will be a war.

Then take this Supari out yourself.

I cannot. Why?

Supari, the hit man...

..is my brother.

And blessed are the fruits of Thy womb. The Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

It's just words. This is impossible, Calum.

There is no baby.

Hang on, you think it's the baby thing why I want us to be a proper husband and wife?

Why else would you want this? Because I love you, babe, hey?

Then you must be a proper Catholic.

PHONE CAMERA BEEPS AND CLICKS

Come here.

So what do you think? Me and you...

..giving it a proper go? The real deal.

You said "no pressure", Calum. No. And no more secrets. Never.

Ever. Cross my heart.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Oh, sorry. A minute? Just Calum.

What?

You OK? Yeah. You?

And you're over the whole Symmonds thing, right?

Symmonds crossed a line. I pointed that out. End of.

Yeah - by putting a gun to his head. It wasn't loaded.

He's a member of Her Majesty's Security Services, not some gangland boss.

And Lenny wants...? To know that you're...

what? Back on a leash?

You want to be doing them exercises in the morning, mate.

Your little muscles are at their most responsive. What would you know about mornings (?) Boys!

Contract killer - guy on the left - arrives at Saint Pancras 8:30 tomorrow morning.

What do we do with him? What you do best. Take him out.

Name? Supari. It's Hindi slang for "hit man", apparently.

Who's his target? A baby boy.

I'll be watching over him and the mother.

BIRDSONG

Hi, the usual nanny couldn't make it, but I'm from the same agency.

No! No, no, no, no, no. This just won't do.

I asked for an Indian girl. How hard is that to understand?

So you're from India, originally?

Oh, I loved it when I worked there. Yeah. Fascinating (!)

The couple I worked for they were so rich! What was their name? Erm...

Sanjay and Kiran... Kiran?

Varma? Sanjay and Kiran Varma?

What, you don't know them?! I went to Bombay Scottish with Kiran.

What are the chances? Who's this?

The usual nanny's sick. They sent this one over.

I was just calling to tell them - Get rid of her.

Vijay... Look after your own kid for one day.

Out. Stay!

Stay. You're just perfect.

As my late husband's cousin, Vijay, I cannot turn you away,

but this is MY house.

Come.

(Yeah, I'm at the house. The kid'll be here.

There's a nanny and a bodyguard.)

It's beautiful.

It's what life's about.

Two people...being in love.

Love is more complicated than bad art. Don't knock what you don't understand, John.

Love is more complicated than bad art. Don't knock what you don't understand, John.

Do you understand the plan, Calum?

Find Subbuteo.

Psychological technique: dehumanise the enemy by giving them a crappy nickname.

Americans used to do it in Vietnam and Iraq. With devastating effect.

The plan, Calum.

Follow him till he's away from all these people, then pop him.

"Pop him"?

Stay in contact with hands-free, all right?

His name's Shakespeare.

You don't like it? Oh, no, it's lovely.

It's er...it's very historical.

It was either that or Marlowe, and he was so violent...and homosexual.

Not at all appropriate.

John, I've spotted him.

He's wearing a green jacket, carrying a brown hold-all.

I see him. I see him.

He's going for the upper stairs.

Yeah, heading towards... Champagne bar.

Keep your head down.

INDISTINCT TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT

'He's just picked up a bag. Looks like a pre-arranged drop.'

'Weapons.'

Shit!

He's seen me.

Calum, he's in the lift. Get down to the lower level.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

He's there, he's there! Where?

He was just there.

He came for me, a cold-blooded hit man!

You share a flat with one, Calum.

'Hello?' Yeah, we lost him.

'Well, you better get to the child before he does.'

Right...

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Lenny. What is it?

Madulika... Huh?

There's a man coming here to kill your son. What are you talking about?

Vijay hired him. We have to leave. What...?

We have to go right now, or your son's going to die.

Come on.

Back up the stairs.

TYRES SCREECH

John...

DRAMATIC MUSIC

Shh... Shh...

Put the baby down.

Never.

Your mum gave up her life to protect you, matey.

Always remember that.

Some mums, they just run off and abandon their kids.

What's his name?

Shakespeare. You're joking!

We have to get out of here. What about his mum?

Nothing we can do for her. Come on.

Babe...

Do you know how I told you about how we protect people?

You said no more lies, Calum. No, straight up.

This little man is one of them people.

(His mum got killed by a very bad man.)

And now we have to look after him for a little while.

Swear this, Calum.

On your music. Babe, I swear on my entire White Label collection.

Go on, then. Hello, hello!

You'd make a good mum.

We're not done with Supari. He's gone. I know how these guys work.

They keep moving, never look back.

No, not this guy. He's never once missed a hit.

Chances are, when he works out the baby's still alive, he'll come back. It's pop psychology.

It works well enough on you! He'll put two and two together

and he'll work out his brother Chavan is behind saving the boy.

Chavan hired us to take out his brother? Don't ask.

All to do with the mother. Very Greek, if you ask me.

Either way, Supari will come after Chavan, assuming he knows where the baby is.

I won't let you do it. Do what, Calum?

You're not using baby Shakespeare as some kind of worm on a hook.

Chavan's the worm on...the bait.

Anyway, the baby's safe - he's staying here, right?

And who's gonna look after him?

Ha! Good old Uncle Lenny?

Baby needs love and warmth, John,

not basic skills in manipulation!

Basic?

What's she doing here? She's...well...

I've got a name.

Good with babies? Manuela's not getting involved.

No way! I won't let it happen.

I'll do it. I need you.

I can look after the baby. I won't have it.

You won't have it? I'm your husband.

Y eso lo hace mi jefe entonces? Ahora que, usted esta en control de mi vida? Que se cree!

Babe, look... (SIGHS) Sorted.

MOBILE PHONE BUZZES

Mr Symmonds... 'Is it done?'

Not yet. Installing this kind of audio-visual equipment takes time.

Time in which all four of them have to be out the flat.

'I can help with that. Wait for my call.'

Where have you been? I don't want Lenny having anything to do with Manuela.

She's just baby-sitting. There's no way the guy could know the kid's at ours.

She knows stuff about us, John. She's seen the guns in the flat.

He'd kill her, if he found out. Lenny's all bark and no bite, mate.

That's what they said about Ivan the Terrible. What would you know about Ivan the Terrible?

He was terrible, wasn't he? Everybody knows that!

SHOP BELL RINGS

Hey!

I'll wait here.

I wouldn't - not if I were you. Who are you?

A colleague of Lenny's.

The child? He's safe...for now.