Spooks: The Greater Good

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Air traffic control to police 2-5-1.

Divert to new coordinates, 5-1-7-7-7-9-4.

Roger that, ATC.

I spy with my little eye

something beginning with R.

If you can't get it, you do a forfeit.

Rain?

Can I get you a pillow?

London Control, the package

was supposed to be

in CIA custody 19 minutes ago.

Our aircraft is waiting.

Understood. Waiting for an update

from Traffic Control.

Good job our guest's not in a hurry.

Traffic tower says

they'll be moving within eight minutes.

The Home Office cupboards are bare.

We're going to have to be a little bit

more imaginative with our funding.

- Perhaps we can put on a telethon.

- Claws away.

Where the bloody hell is Oliver?

Where's the air cover feed?

The helicopter's been requisitioned.

A police emergency.

You can overrule, but you'll need to issue

an executive countermand.

Do it. How soon before we get it back?

Under 10 minutes.

Something's got to be done.

At the moment it's just not viable,

and the Americans know it, too.

- Director General.

- Harry.

I know you don't like hearing this

from a politician, but reform is coming.

You do know

that lift is for emergencies only?

If I come in the front,

people want to talk to me.

I call that an emergency.

Escort Two, what's your status?

You got ants in your pants,

Juney?

You know, you would be a lot less uptight

if you'd just let yourself be

my London girlfriend.

The position's not gonna be open

much longer.

I spy with my little eye

something beginning with...

Bikes, travelling at speed.

Put them up.

Transport team, we have

multiple motorbikes approaching.

Threat unconfirmed.

Calum, nearest police units?

They're two miles out.

The traffic units are unarmed.

Control, Lead Two.

Pillion passengers on both.

No visible weapon.

Scramble everything we've got, now.

- Code One! Code One!

- Jesus, they're everywhere.

Attack in progress!

Oh, my good God.

June, for Christ's sake, don't.

Get out, now!

Ops Command to Transport.

This is Harry Pearce.

Convoy is under attack.

Lethal force is authorised.

Don't move! Don't say a word!

Open the van or everyone dies.

- I can't. I don't even...

- I'm not talking to you.

Open the van now!

- Pearce.

- Now!

There are civilians everywhere.

If they start shooting...

He's a Tier One CIA target.

We cannot let him go.

- Pearce.

- The Americans will crucify us.

Your operation, Harry.

Transport team. Belay last order.

Surrender the prisoner.

- Say again, Control?

- Harry.

Lay down your weapons

and release Qasim. That's an order.

What the bloody hell are you doing, Harry?

There's a significant threat to

civilian life. I have no choice.

Open the gates! Open the gates!

Go, go, go!

Control, prisoner escaped!

Heading north!

- No, no, no! June, no.

- Rob, let me go.

Keaton!

Control, Lead Two

pursuing on foot.

Any more feeds? Follow her.

Nearest armed unit's eight minutes away.

Helicopter's 20 miles out.

- Roadblocks?

- In place.

Other side of that tunnel

and the last junction.

There's nowhere for them to go.

SCO19 is seven minutes away.

Go.

Lead Two, report.

Lead Two?

Respond.

Ed, wait.

Lead Two, report.

Lansbury's down, sir.

I repeat, the CIA Liaison Officer

has been shot.

Lead Two, do you have eyes on Qasim?

Control, I hear a vehicle.

He's gone, sir.

Anything on CCTV?

They've knocked everything out.

We're blind.

There's no air cover, nothing.

It's over.

The BBC can confirm that

the American terrorist leader Adem Qasim

has escaped from MI5 custody

in one of the most serious failures

in the organisation's history.

It's understood that

the secure convoy transporting Qasim

came under armed attack

en route to RAF Northolt.

You say it's not war but murder

because it happens on Western streets.

Because you didn't ask for it

in New York, in Washington, in London.

But the children of Pakistan,

they didn't ask for it either.

When they're bombed by drones,

they call it murder, too.

Qasim presents

a new kind of threat.

He's articulate, charismatic, persuasive.

And in the Middle East,

he learns how to kill.

So far, he hasn't targeted civilians.

Our models show a 90%

chance of attack within 48 hours.

The more pressure he's put under,

the smaller that window becomes.

Why the hell is

he even here? Why us?

That's classified.

I can't tell you while the tape's...

The Secretary of State

flies in tomorrow.

If we lose CIA support, we're finished.

GCHQ, MI5, MI6. Everything.

We serve the British people,

not Washington.

If that's no longer true,

then we're already finished.

The Americans feel

we're no longer fit for purpose.

We need a scalp.

It's over. I'm out.

They're letting you take the fall?

I had command, Erin.

I'm to be decommissioned in the morning.

You heard nothing about Qasim's escape?

Nothing. They recently closed ranks.

Are you blown?

I don't think so.

Harry, if you're out, what happens to me?

You get out, too.

No one else knows

you're inside Qasim's network.

Just walk away.

But what if I can find him?

It's too dangerous.

Suddenly now it's too dangerous?

Why?

Because I won't be able to protect you.

Will Holloway? Get in.

Go.

So, how is life after MI5?

You're not from the Moscow section.

You're needed back in London.

What for? To pay my respects?

No, I don't work for you any more.

I don't owe you anything. Drop me here.

Anyone you need to say goodbye to?

Thank you.

Okay. They're ready for us.

We know about Harry's connection

to your family,

so we understand

this may not be easy for you.

It'd be fine, even if he was dead.

It'd be an admission of failure. Harry's

too bloody arrogant to kill himself.

He was certainly acting

like someone who was about to.

He went to visit this woman's grave.

Ruth Evershed.

MI5 analyst killed in action 2011.

How would you describe their relationship?

Love of his life.

Harry's team has noticed changes

in his behaviour since her death.

He's become emotionally distant, cold,

been drinking heavily.

- Changes?

- So, what? He swam?

The water would have been

below nine degrees.

He'd have developed hypothermia

before reaching the bank.

This is a picture before

he walked into shot,

and this is a picture

after you say that he jumped.

Top left corner. Identical bird.

Different time stamp, same image.

CCTV's been tampered with.

As you already know.

So let's stop wasting time.

This is about Harry losing Qasim, isn't it?

Before he disappeared,

Harry made three encrypted phone calls.

The first two we can't trace.

The third was to you.

Your ex-service emergency voicemail.

I haven't checked that in months.

You must know that.

- Why call you?

- I have no idea.

Last time I spoke to him

was the night he decommissioned me

from MI5 three years ago.

Well, he wants to chat now.

That makes you useful.

Will you help us find him?

No, thanks.

You and Harry ever talk much about Berlin?

The night your father died?

Yeah, he told me what happened.

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