The Listening Dead Page #4

what we're doing.

Their computers at Menwith

must file this away as an error.

And I wished

I remembered something else.

How long did you listen to me for?

All day.

Why do Americans

have to spy on everyone?

Makes the world safer.

I'm not safe,And I cant say

this in exactly the same way.

Sure you can.

No, I won't go into details!

All right, I came 4 times.

The great total amount of this year!

I mean "this year"!

Well done! Where're you going?

Inside!

What is it?

It didn't work, did it?

The satellite that sees the base

Is below the horizon.

- How much?

- 3 degrees.

I should have checked this.

We can't see that bird

from anywhere north of,Sudan.

- Are there any other satellites?

- Not that I have the codes for.

And not with the right

relay band capability..

That's okay.

- I only did the link for Antarctica because...

- It's okay, It's okay, Gianni.

They'll be more than happy to know

that they're...impenetrable.

- At least from Italy.

- James...

There you are.

So, how did it go?

It didn't work.

- Was it me?

- No.

So he was my best bet.

If he can't do it, we can't do it.

- Then, how do we expose Tumbleweed?

- We don't, We don't.

- Are we leaving?

- Yeah.

- Home?

- No, no,South America or...

Australia.

How?

By boat.

- Bye bye.

- It has been a pleasure.

Thank you for everything.

- Where is he?

- Doing Hara-Kiri, I imagine.

Upstairs.

- Gianni!

- James, can I hire a guy?

- No.

- Can I hire one guy?

- No. - Just one! I can vouch for him!

Worked with him before!

They won the game, Gianni.

Bullshit! We can win

this exercise! We can show them.

Bird is 3 degrees below the horizon

We can go below the horizon.

We're not going to the Sudan,Gianni.

And we're not going to Antarctica.

We don't need to.

Just the one guy.

And 4 or 5 days. We'd have

to spend some of the money...

But look,this is all

the gear we'd need...

Including the survival gear.

Survival?

Yeah, and check out

the coffee rings.

They really throw off OCR

We could fax it to Baghdad.

And it wouldn't get

picked up by Echelon.

- How covert is that, hey?

- What is all this?

Let me hire this guy and he'll have

all that gear on the vehicle...

What vehicle?- By the day

after tomorrow at the latest.

You ready?

What can I tell him?

That's Gianni's man, Francesca.

Nothing.

You tell him nothing.

I can do it myself.

Thank you.

You'd better be right about this!

3 full degrees over the horizon!

How high are we here actually?

3.2km And we're heading for 3.6km

There's truly

shortage of air here.

- And a lot of water

- Thank you.

- Mr Wagley.

- Is that it?

Go, Guglia!

Did it the right way around this time.

Baia Terranova, the South Pole.

Miserable place.

Why does Italy

have a base in Antarctica?

Our people there are supposed

to study penguins and moss.

How do you know all these things?

- I thought we were

on a no-Questions basis. - We are.

- Because if it's open season,

I'd really like to know. - We are.

Sorry.

No, I won't go into details!

All right, I...

Came 4 times,The total

amount of this year.

I mean this year.

- Does this do what it says it does?

- You bet.

Yeah, but,What do you mean

the same conversation?

Look,this is our very

comprehensive directory.

I must say you and your friends

are very nosy people, James.

So who do you want to listen to?

- Is that him?

- That would be the PM of France.

Shall we start with him?

Or perhaps the Pope?

Go French.

Hi, guys.

Francesca Savelli keeps calling from a

hidden location to talk about sex to nobody at all.

What?

It sounded just like him.

I have a list.

- There must be 150 names.

I know, simulation's ramified.

Some simulation, James!

Tape them,Tape all of them.

We're willing to knock off 7%..

But I want a list

of Wagley's contacts in Italy.

And I wanna talk to the guys

who intercepted the girl's calls.

See you around.

Take me to them, Phil.

So who are

the last names on the list?

Those are lawyers and reporters.

If we taped them,sent them the recordings

and then told them how we did it,

They would not be very happy.

No. And Tumbleweed would

be blown within hours.

And this was your mission?

Wow, well done,Nice plan!

Thank you.

How do you, people,

listen to this stuff?

The NSA is the largest employer

of linguists in the world

We do all the dialects of all languages

including a couple of dead ones.

You guys are great

Gianni, What's that?

That's just the copy traffic.

- What do you mean by copy traffic.

- I have to copy everything down to the mainframe in Antarctica.

Before I upload it back here.

You mean Copies remain in Antarctica?

Yes. We can erase the copies

from here when we're finished.

- No, Gianni.

- Relax, James!

We'll delete them when we're done.

It's only

a bloody simulation, anyway.

Place was cleared

less than a week ago.

I'm sure, Mr Ashe.

If I may...

If we guaranteed their safety.

Wagley's and the girl's, sir,

they might stop making trouble for us.

I understand, Mr Ashe.

Yes, sir.

I'm gonna get some snow, for water.

I'll come with you

- Francesca!

- I'm gonna help Guglia with the water.

I need your help here, now.

it only be a minute.

I know,but I think

you should stay here.

The first call was from her

workphone in Rome to this other phone

And she actually spoke to someone.

That was on Wagley's report.

But the other two had only her voice,

no-One else at the other end...

And they were both unpure Dest.

- Slow the f*** down, please?

- Easy, Mr Ashe.

It means their origin and destination

were shielded. Unknowable.

Now when you say unknowable.

It would take a Triton 5 and

a few days to crack the encryption.

That's out of the question.

What's a Triton 5?

- And there's another thing.

- Yeah.

The 3 conversations

of Francesca Savelli is part of them.

They were all almost

identical,word-For-Word.

- So? - So if there hadn't been

a hiccup in the last performance.

- Echelon wouldn't have picked it up.

- Exactly.

Dictionary would have

filed it away as an error.

Dictionary?

Computer system

that runs Echelon.

It picks words out of e-Mails

and phone calls.

Right.

So let me get this straight

What you're saying.

What im saying whatever

reason the call was made...

It was made in such a way as to enter

the system without being detected.

Wagley.

When I was your age

or rather when I was-

Guglia Grafs age.

What are you on about?

There are two worlds...

There's a normal world,

where you live and your friends live

And the girl that I used to know.

And there's a secret world,

where I live...

Where Gianni used

to live,and Guglia...

And Guglia,and you have to

trust me on this...

You're making a huge deal

about nothing.

The two worlds don't match.

So what do you call this?

The normal world?

You see that.

- Is that a satellite?

- No, it's Mercury.

The days on Mercury

are longer than the years.

Jim..

Why are you so mad at them?

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