Turks & Caicos Page #3

Only rumours.

Does it bother you? For a start, we

own a large chunk of the island.

We have the best beaches on

Turks and Caicos.

Who are "we"?

I'm talking about our investors.

Ah, yes. My friend wanted me

to ask who those investors were.

Well, it's a very good question.

You don't know who owns the hotel?

I know who owned it yesterday,

but I don't know who owns it today.

How come? Because that's

the way of things now.

Mr Eliot, I used to be able to open

the bonnet, take out a wrench

and fix my car.

Now I'd need a degree

in electronics.

Even easy things are difficult now.

Perhaps you'll

stay for a Bellini on the house?

I have to get going,

the police are going to release

Mr Parsons' room.

Do you have someone staying

there tonight?

It may sound heartless,

but that's the hotel business.

I'm only as good

as my occupancy rate.

In the door and out?

You're going to get me sacked.

I won't get you sacked,

I'll get you promoted.

Follow me at a distance,

like you don't know me,

but you'd like to.

This guy Pelissier gives

nothing away.

I've been cleaning his room three

days, you wouldn't know he was here.

Huh. Girlfriend? Celibate?

Celibate, sure.

If celibate's a kind of fish.

If I were a detective, I'd say

the way there's nothing suspicious

is very suspicious.

You should leave.

I don't want you caught.

"Curtis Pelissier" indeed!

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Yes.

'Good morning,

it's your old friend Rollo.'

Rollo, I don't believe it.

You got my messages.

'I couldn't miss them. I can smell

panic at 3,000 miles.'

It's not panic, it's opportunity.

OK, it looks like I have been

identified by an American colleague.

That's not an opportunity.

That's a disaster.

'It could be a disaster, yes,

but I'm planning to play him along.'

To do that you would need to be

cleverer than he is.

Do you think that's possible?

We're going to find out, aren't we?

Can't you just make a run for it?

'If I were you, I'd run for it.

In a few days, there's this thing

called the Island Colloquium,

run by a man called Stirling

Rogers. You must have heard of him.

Everyone's heard of him. Private

equity. Buying up most of England.

Not just England.

Turns out he's a business associate

of the men we're interested in.

The men from New Jersey? 'Yes.'

'What do you want me to do?'

Margot.

'I'm sorry?'

Margot works for Rogers.

After she left Millbank.

Sh*t smart, too clever to be a spy.

That's where she went.

Johnny, is this a good idea?

Rollo... Shouldn't I decide that?

Look, if you stay where you

are, the CIA are going to be

bringing you home...in a cage.

That's a chance I'm going

to have to take.

I need you to find Margot.

I want everything she can tell us

about Stirling Rogers.

TANNOY:
'The next station is London

Bridge.

'Change for the Northern Line

and National Rail services.'

Well, I thought it was you.

I was worried you might remember me.

Of course I remember you.

And I spotted you way back.

I spotted you at Aldgate East.

You did not... When I got on?

Yeah. You did that backward thing.

Did no-one ever teach you?

It's much more effective to tail

someone by going ahead.

Margot, I taught the f***ing course!

Always go in front!

I know, I just never believed it.

It's counter-intuitive.

Well, now you're paying the price.

You don't look good.

That's because I've been clubbing

till an hour ago.

It's almost nine o'clock.

Yeah.

Unfortunately there's a new bylaw.

Men under 25 not permitted to

f*** older men

until six o'clock in the morning.

What do you do, take a book?

A book and a pillow, yeah.

So, how is Johnny?

It's a long story. As it happens,

we're both discredited

and we're both disgraced.

What do you do now?

I work for the Financial Times.

But anyway, the point is this -

Johnny asked me to get in touch.

By the way, he said to say

sorry for how long it's been.

Four years. Really?

Four years, three months

and four days.

You're not counting?

And if it's so important,

why didn't he come himself?

He couldn't come.

Couldn't? Why not?

Because he had to leave the country.

Had to?

I'm surprised.

Johnny was a good man.

And much the cleverest

in the building.

He's still a good man.

It's the building that's changed.

Rollo, I really have left

that world.

I don't want anything to do with it.

I quite understand.

I work for Stirling Rogers.

But you probably knew that already.

That's what Johnny needed to

talk to you about. Go on.

Everyone reckons Stirling Rogers

is completely legitimate.

He certainly is. He plays squash

with the Prime Minister.

People question his methods. Sure.

He has a reputation.

He's tough. He has to be.

He's private equity.

He buys a failing business,

he makes it work.

The chariot goes at a certain speed.

Peasants fall under the wheels.

That happens. I'm sure it does.

Johnny thought you might be able to

give him the inside track.

On what? On his links.

On his links to some people who might

not smell as savoury as he does.

You're shocked.

I'm not shocked, I'm just unwilling.

I'm not in the business

of betraying my boss.

It's the international side

that interests us.

In particular?

The American side.

I saw a flicker in there.

No. You saw no flicker.

Margot, I cannot tell you how

serious this is.

It may be a life-saving thing.

Saving Johnny's life, you mean?

What happens to mine?

Remember, I have a good job.

Security. Incredible salary.

Family?

Normally, when a man asks you to

risk everything,

he does it in person.

Did he ever give you

the talk about trust?

What talk's that?

Oh, Johnny used to always say

that life was about trust.

Trust isn't always rewarded,

but on the other hand,

if you make decisions based

on trust,

then they'll have

a sort of rightness to them.

Does that mean you're in?

MUZAK PLAYS IN LIF Morning. Good morning. Morning.

Morning.

You all right?

Yes, I'm fine. Good morning.

Anything you need to talk to me

about?

Nothing urgent.

Well, there is something

I wanted to ask. Ask.

What exactly is happening

with the Bridge?

So perhaps you'll tell me

what you're doing here.

You went into my room,

I thought I'd go into yours.

Next stop,

the Credit Bank of Panama.

I don't know what you're

talking about. Don't you?

If your things are no longer

in that safe,

the only place

they can be is the bank.

Unless you got that little boy

to bury them in the sand.

What little boy is that?

Didn't I see you the other day -

you were eating lobster.

What's that line of Eliot's?

Remind me. I don't know.

"I should have been

a pair of ragged claws,

"scuttling across the floors

of silent seas..."

Sounds to me more like a crab,

not like a lobster.

So that's why you took Eliot's name.

Because you like his poetry?

I didn't take the name,

I was given it. Were you?

My parents never read

a line of poetry in their lives.

What were their names?

Oh. Jean Eliot. Clifford. Why?

Do you need a glass of water?

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