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Sent to him from an address known to

be used by Seif Omar.

It reads, "The bed linen will be

ready for delivery in five weeks."

Linen is, I believe,

their code word for ricin.

Ricin?

Yes.

Do you have intelligence on that?

He's been on our radar for a few

years now, there's been

nothing beyond the usual until

I picked up an e-mail four weeks ago.

And it details a method of making

ricin by freeze drying

and reusing domestic aerosol cans

with nitrous oxide propellant.

You misunderstand me -

intelligence that this is code?

Well, erm, I'm working

off circumstantial evidence

and, to some extent,

character profile.

It's great for umbrella tips on

escalators and putting on someone's

wilted spinach, but ricin plots

usually end in a puff of nothing.

500 micrograms

is enough to kill you -

and you can put that on a pinhead -

so I'd say it's a pretty good

weapon of terror.

Is there any intelligence of a plot?

He's telling people that he's

travelling to Yemen

this coming Thursday for

a cousin's wedding in Zabid.

I know this to be a lie -

he is travelling to Zabid,

but not for a wedding.

I also know that Seif Omar

is, at this moment, in Zabid.

But... but it's not intelligence

of an actual plot underway, is it?

It's supposition, not intelligence.

I know Waleed Ahmed inside out.

I've analysed his speeches,

I know how he thinks.

He's trained as a pharmacist.

I know Seif Omar's intentions

and I can see no other reason

why these two would be meeting.

What is it exactly

that you're asking of us?

Well, he's travelling to

Yemen on Thursday, so we do have

the option of arresting him at

the airport. However, as we do not

have enough intelligence to detain

him or charge him, we are asking

that you keep a 24-hour

watch on him once he lands in Yemen.

So your instinct is telling you

that a plot is now underway?

I believe there's a compelling case

that a plot is now underway, yes.

OK. Let's do it.

Thank you.

Gareth, will you speak

to your people in Yemen?

Yeah.

Well done.

Thanks.

We'll see what he gets up to

once he's out there.

And then this kid takes the ticket

straight out of my hand,

and when I try to grab it back,

he starts shouting,

"This man's trying to kidnap me,"

so everyone stops.

I panic and I let him go

and he's gone...

Hi.

Hi.

Thomas?

'They've lost him.

'He was in Zabid. They trailed

him to Al Hudaydah

'and then they lost him.'

Al Hudaydah?

'It's on the Red Sea.

Across from Eritea. A dead end.'

What was he doing there?

'Staying with a cousin who is

saying that Waleed left in the

'morning to visit someone else,

but he didn't know who.'

Did they lose him

or did he lose them?

'No idea. They're not going to

tell us that they

'fell asleep watching the house.

And the cousin isn't going to

'tell the PSO where he was going,

even if he was just going shopping.

'Anyway, the sum of it is that he's

gone and we don't know where.'

Hold on, hold on.

My guess is that he has taken

a boat across the Red Sea

and then travelled by land to Cairo.

There's a connection

between castor oil production,

ricin and a man called

Ismail Yassin.

'Who?'

Ismail Yassin. He lives in Cairo.

There's a connection between Yassin,

Seif Omar and Seif Omar and Waleed.

Find Yassin and I bet

we'll find Waleed.

Morning.

Good morning, Edward.

I hear you're going to Cairo.

Yeah. They've picked him up out

there. Arrested with three others

on suspicion of manufacturing ricin

at a farm on the outskirts.

Well done.

Thank you.

It's a good opportunity for you.

'Please mind the doors.'

'Doors closing.'

Tony Coveney.

Edward Ekubru. Nice to meet you.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to come

and greet you.

That's all right.

We've got a lot on. Coffee

or are you ready to see him now?

- Let's see him now.

- I'll brief you inside.

All right.

Shukran...

OK, this is the situation -

we've two farmers in custody

who have confessed to giving

castor bean waste to a third man,

Ismail Yassin, he's also in custody

and he's confessed handing

the stuff to your guy, Waleed.

But we have a problem... all we

have are confessions.

They're coming from

their interrogations

by the State Security Service.

Right?

Since those interrogations,

all three have

retracted their statements.

It doesn't mean to say

the confessions weren't true,

they're just not reliable

as the truth.

But the ricin's been found?

No.

I mean, the evidence of it.

They've been to the farm where

it's supposed to have been produced.

There's nothing.

There's very good

intelligence on this, you know.

I'm just relaying

the situation as we have it...

I mean, it also lines up with what

those three men have admitted to.

Yes, that kind of corroboration

is easily obtained

by leading questions.

All we have are a couple of

farmers and a Cairo shopkeeper

who'll say anything to stop having

their nails pulled, so to speak.

Excuse me.

Sorry.

How long have you

been in the Service?

14 years.

Really? Before 9/11?

Yeah.

From university?

Yeah.

Which one?

Warwick. How about you?

I...joined after Oxford.

OK, let's go.

Waleed Ahmed?

Are you from the Embassy?

Yes.

Why has it taken you this

long to see me?

All last night and all day today,

I've been telling them,

"I'm British. I want to speak to my

Embassy." I am British.

Well, we're here now.

This is wrong. This is degrading.

I'm being kept here like a rat.

A British citizen

treated like a rat.

My name's Tom...

Why?

My name is Tom and this is Daniel.

So you got second names, then?

We do.

You can't be from the Embassy,

you don't speak Arabic.

We work in the British

Nationals Department.

Right, so you'd better start

dealing with my case then.

And your case is?

My case is simple.

Right, I'm with my friends

in their home,

they invite me for dinner,

right, we're eating and talking

and then all these security

guys bust in.

They got guns, batons, they force us

into a van and bring us here.

That's illegal detention.

When we get here,

we're put into cells

and just left there for the night,

20 people shitting

in a bucket, no water, nothing,

then I'm taken out of my cell and

I'm questioned, but I don't

know what they are going on about,

I don't have any answers for them

because I don't understand the

questions. So what have I done?

I want to know

because I haven't done anything.

I was just sitting

and chatting with my mates.

What have I done?

You are being detained

because you are suspected

of being a co-conspirator.

Of what?

On suspicion of conspiring

to commit acts of terror

in the United Kingdom.

You got to be joking me.

You have to be.

So, the men who did this to me

last night, yeah?

They were acting for you then,

were they?

What are you going to do about it?

How are you saying that happened?

You live here and you don't know

they torture people?

Are you making an allegation?

So you're saying you

don't believe me?

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