1 00:00:02,586 --> 00:00:05,881 -[rain pattering] -[thunder rumbling] 2 00:00:37,037 --> 00:00:38,330 [grunts] 3 00:00:43,752 --> 00:00:45,796 [speaking indistinctly] 4 00:01:17,244 --> 00:01:18,829 [grunting] 5 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:20,706 Go! Get in! 6 00:01:25,669 --> 00:01:27,004 [speaking indistinctly] 7 00:02:12,007 --> 00:02:13,008 [pants] 8 00:02:20,516 --> 00:02:21,517 [laughs] 9 00:02:32,736 --> 00:02:36,031 [announcer speaks indistinctly through PA] 10 00:03:10,524 --> 00:03:11,525 [person grunts] 11 00:03:11,608 --> 00:03:14,194 [announcer] Apologies once more, but due to equipment failure, 12 00:03:14,278 --> 00:03:16,822 this train will terminate at High Wycombe. 13 00:03:16,905 --> 00:03:19,241 The bus replacement service will take you to Oxford Pathway, 14 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:21,493 where you can proceed to your journey. 15 00:03:21,577 --> 00:03:22,578 Thank you. 16 00:03:42,848 --> 00:03:45,017 [gurgling, sputtering] 17 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:06,163 [announcer] Remaining passengers arriving from Marylebone, 18 00:04:06,246 --> 00:04:10,209 the bus replacement service offers a pathway available from the car park. 19 00:04:10,292 --> 00:04:13,253 It's just this way. The bus replacement service. 20 00:05:23,824 --> 00:05:25,659 [inhales sharply] 21 00:05:37,963 --> 00:05:40,424 -[passenger 1] Whoo! -[passenger 2] Run with your head down! 22 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:50,559 Hey, we're here. 23 00:05:51,935 --> 00:05:54,188 [sighs] Christ's sake. 24 00:05:59,276 --> 00:06:02,112 Come on, mate. Wake up for God's sake! 25 00:06:24,885 --> 00:06:27,888 ["Strange Game" playing] 26 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:31,243 [announcer] Welcome to High Wycombe. 27 00:07:31,326 --> 00:07:34,872 The train currently standing at platform two… 28 00:07:34,955 --> 00:07:40,085 [speaks indistinctly] …Bicester Village, Oxford Parkway, and Oxford. 29 00:07:51,346 --> 00:07:53,307 Yeah, mate, I'm not working that day. 30 00:07:53,390 --> 00:07:55,350 They're-- They're expecting 100,000 people. 31 00:07:55,434 --> 00:07:57,102 The toilets are gonna be like a barn. 32 00:07:57,186 --> 00:07:59,980 [sighs] Mate, there is no way I'm working that day. 33 00:08:00,063 --> 00:08:01,315 Hang-- Hang on. 34 00:08:03,192 --> 00:08:04,860 -Can I help? -Yes. [stammers] 35 00:08:04,943 --> 00:08:08,739 I'm wondering if you could tell me where I might find the replacement buses. 36 00:08:08,822 --> 00:08:11,408 We don't have any today. Everything's running. [chuckles] 37 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:13,577 So, listen, you tell Head Office, yeah, um-- 38 00:08:14,745 --> 00:08:17,748 [stammers] I need the bus because, um, uh-- 39 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:20,709 Well, the other night my brother passed. 40 00:08:20,792 --> 00:08:22,586 I don't know whether you heard. 41 00:08:22,669 --> 00:08:24,213 [attendant] Uh. Yeah, um, uh-- 42 00:08:24,296 --> 00:08:26,507 Hey, mate, I'm-- I'm gonna call you back, yeah? 43 00:08:27,174 --> 00:08:30,093 Uh, yes, I did. My condolences. 44 00:08:30,177 --> 00:08:32,554 Uh, the buses are run by a separate company. 45 00:08:32,638 --> 00:08:35,599 Uh, well, perhaps you could give me the name of the company. 46 00:08:36,517 --> 00:08:38,727 Well, we use different ones. I'm not sure-- 47 00:08:38,809 --> 00:08:44,399 Please. I-- I would very much like to see the place from where he left this earth. 48 00:08:46,777 --> 00:08:48,195 All right, uh-- 49 00:08:49,613 --> 00:08:52,866 Let me make a few phone calls, and I'll-- I'll see if I can sort you out. 50 00:08:53,825 --> 00:08:54,826 [mouthing] Okay. 51 00:08:56,036 --> 00:08:58,121 ["Strange Game" playing] 52 00:09:26,608 --> 00:09:28,277 [grunts] 53 00:09:51,049 --> 00:09:52,259 [Roddy] Standish. 54 00:09:53,844 --> 00:09:54,845 [sighs] 55 00:09:56,555 --> 00:09:57,848 This isn't working. 56 00:09:58,515 --> 00:09:59,933 Can you be more specific? 57 00:10:00,017 --> 00:10:02,561 [Roddy] Seniority dictates I should have my own office. 58 00:10:02,644 --> 00:10:05,564 Oh, I wouldn't take length of service in this shithole as a status symbol. 59 00:10:05,647 --> 00:10:06,815 Prisoners have hierarchies. 60 00:10:06,899 --> 00:10:08,901 Humans organize themselves according to power. 61 00:10:08,984 --> 00:10:11,111 I'll be down shortly with today's work. 62 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:14,740 Hurry up. If you don't give me something to do, I'm gonna kill him. 63 00:10:14,823 --> 00:10:16,450 Or at least maim him. 64 00:10:25,876 --> 00:10:27,002 Morning. 65 00:10:46,522 --> 00:10:48,357 Has anyone seen Lamb? 66 00:10:51,318 --> 00:10:53,779 [bus driver] Ambulance driver said it was a heart attack. 67 00:10:53,862 --> 00:10:55,822 [Jackson grunts] Ah, mercifully quick. 68 00:10:56,657 --> 00:10:59,868 Here one moment, the next, with the angels. 69 00:11:01,161 --> 00:11:03,956 [bus driver] Found him down there, second from the back. 70 00:11:04,998 --> 00:11:06,500 And I thought he was sleeping. 71 00:11:06,583 --> 00:11:10,295 [stammers] Well, he was, wasn't he? 72 00:11:11,672 --> 00:11:12,714 [groans] 73 00:11:13,674 --> 00:11:18,136 [stammers] Was there anything out of the ordinary? 74 00:11:18,220 --> 00:11:20,597 [stammers] Apart from him. 75 00:11:21,265 --> 00:11:23,725 Uh. A-anything near him? 76 00:11:24,226 --> 00:11:26,687 Something he, uh, might've left? 77 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:28,897 There was a hat. Seat next to him. 78 00:11:28,981 --> 00:11:30,691 Oh, well, that could well have been his. 79 00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:34,278 Could I take a look at it? Be lovely to have a keepsake. 80 00:11:34,361 --> 00:11:36,029 [bus driver] Sure, it'd be in lost property. 81 00:11:36,113 --> 00:11:40,033 Huh, I'll-- I'll go by when I'm done here. 82 00:11:40,617 --> 00:11:41,994 [Jackson sighs] 83 00:11:42,077 --> 00:11:44,413 He looked quite calm-like. Your brother. 84 00:11:45,789 --> 00:11:48,292 Well, that's how he would've wanted to go. 85 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:49,626 [breathes deeply] 86 00:11:50,544 --> 00:11:52,129 He liked buses. 87 00:11:54,381 --> 00:11:59,011 It's-- It's not that I believe in a life-force, precisely. 88 00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:03,974 But I'm-- I'm not positive I-- I don't believe in one. 89 00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:07,269 [stutters] If you take my meaning. 90 00:12:09,229 --> 00:12:11,523 I'll, uh-- I'll give you a moment. 91 00:12:49,353 --> 00:12:50,646 [grunts] 92 00:12:50,729 --> 00:12:53,649 -Sorry to bother, but-- -Oh, yes. 93 00:12:53,732 --> 00:12:55,025 [bus driver] Will you be much longer? 94 00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:57,027 [Jackson grunting] 95 00:12:57,861 --> 00:13:00,656 I've, uh-- [sniffs, grunts] 96 00:13:00,739 --> 00:13:04,034 I-- I've said my-- my final good-byes. 97 00:13:04,117 --> 00:13:07,371 Only we've just had a call. Gonna need to use the bus. 98 00:13:07,454 --> 00:13:09,623 [stammers] Of course. 99 00:13:23,971 --> 00:13:24,972 Fuck. 100 00:13:41,154 --> 00:13:43,740 Um, has anyone seen River? 101 00:13:44,783 --> 00:13:48,036 Yeah, I'm just really excited to take what I've learned in government intelligence 102 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,956 and apply it a bit more to more concentrated, commercial-- 103 00:13:51,456 --> 00:13:53,166 Taking what I've learned in government intelligence 104 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:56,962 and applying it to more commercial, targeted goals. It's something that I've… 105 00:13:57,045 --> 00:13:58,797 They are ready for you now, Mr. Cartwright. 106 00:14:02,676 --> 00:14:03,677 [sniffs, clears throat] 107 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,015 And actually, now, at a time of real geopolitical uncertainty, 108 00:14:08,098 --> 00:14:12,519 private intelligence can fill the gaps left by the national agencies. 109 00:14:12,603 --> 00:14:13,729 You know? 110 00:14:13,812 --> 00:14:15,063 -[interviewer] Absolutely. -Mmm. 111 00:14:15,147 --> 00:14:18,442 And it-- it feels to me, actually, that those are the really interesting, 112 00:14:18,525 --> 00:14:22,905 and often unorthodox areas of fieldwork to which I'm probably best suited. 113 00:14:22,988 --> 00:14:24,114 Now, on your CV, 114 00:14:24,198 --> 00:14:27,701 it says that you're currently seconded to a unit near Aldersgate. 115 00:14:28,493 --> 00:14:30,454 Yes, I am. Yes. Um-- 116 00:14:30,537 --> 00:14:32,664 [clears throat] It's a bespoke unit. 117 00:14:32,748 --> 00:14:36,418 Deals more in analog methods of intelligence gathering 118 00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:39,880 that's actually given me a-a-a real grounding in more database-- 119 00:14:39,963 --> 00:14:44,885 Yeah, and-- That's great. Uh, so you work at Slough House? 120 00:14:46,261 --> 00:14:47,262 Yes. 121 00:14:48,055 --> 00:14:51,433 I understand that it's not everyone's first choice of assignment, I do. 122 00:14:51,517 --> 00:14:54,520 But actually, I've found it invaluable. 123 00:14:54,603 --> 00:14:56,104 So you work with Jackson Lamb? 124 00:14:57,981 --> 00:14:59,191 Yeah. 125 00:14:59,274 --> 00:15:00,484 What's he like? 126 00:15:07,241 --> 00:15:10,077 [sighs] Where is everyone? 127 00:15:16,458 --> 00:15:18,377 Oh, Min, please can you sit down? 128 00:15:19,461 --> 00:15:21,922 [Min] Sorry, it's just that I'm trying to get my steps in. 129 00:15:22,005 --> 00:15:24,383 [chuckles] I should never have given you that thing. 130 00:15:27,094 --> 00:15:29,680 [sighs] Well, Lamb's gonna kill us. 131 00:15:29,763 --> 00:15:31,890 No, it's fine. He wasn't even in this morning. 132 00:15:31,974 --> 00:15:34,643 Yeah. He's probably off wanking in a morgue somewhere. 133 00:15:34,726 --> 00:15:35,978 [chuckles] 134 00:15:36,603 --> 00:15:37,855 Okay. What about this one? 135 00:15:42,818 --> 00:15:44,027 300. 136 00:15:44,111 --> 00:15:45,821 -300? -Mm-hmm. 137 00:15:45,904 --> 00:15:46,905 Min, it's got a garden. 138 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:48,156 Okay, 310 then. 139 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,410 I mean it's-- What, it's a "garden flat in Leytonstone." 140 00:15:51,493 --> 00:15:52,619 It can't be that much. 141 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:54,872 -520. -[Min] Oh, my god. 142 00:15:54,955 --> 00:15:56,123 I mean, that's a lot. 143 00:15:56,206 --> 00:15:57,583 -[Louisa] It's not. -He's here. 144 00:15:59,209 --> 00:16:00,711 [Louisa sighs, clears throat] 145 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:05,299 [sighs] Here we go. 146 00:16:06,049 --> 00:16:07,092 It's gonna be fun. 147 00:16:11,763 --> 00:16:13,640 All right. Let's make this quick. 148 00:16:14,433 --> 00:16:15,809 I'm seconding you. 149 00:16:16,810 --> 00:16:18,228 Not for long, week or so. 150 00:16:19,021 --> 00:16:20,480 So you'll be reporting to me. 151 00:16:21,190 --> 00:16:22,441 On what sort of job? 152 00:16:22,983 --> 00:16:24,318 Security. 153 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:25,777 For an off-the-books meeting. 154 00:16:26,278 --> 00:16:28,614 Oh, okay. So that's why we're meeting here and not the Park. 155 00:16:29,114 --> 00:16:31,783 Yeah. And because you're not allowed in the building. 156 00:16:32,284 --> 00:16:33,577 Who's the meeting between? 157 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,078 Myself and Arkady Pashkin. 158 00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:37,164 Representative of Ilya Nevsky. 159 00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:38,832 The oligarch? 160 00:16:38,916 --> 00:16:40,375 Nah, the kid's puppeteer. 161 00:16:40,876 --> 00:16:42,711 Yeah, the oligarch. [scoffs] 162 00:16:42,794 --> 00:16:45,088 But I thought we were supposed to stay away from him. 163 00:16:45,172 --> 00:16:47,925 [sighs] You're supposed to stay away from everyone, Min. 164 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:50,928 I meant "we" as in MI5. He's a dissident. 165 00:16:51,011 --> 00:16:53,722 He opposes a regime in Moscow, and we're not supposed to take sides. 166 00:16:53,805 --> 00:16:57,518 [Webb] Well, Her Majesty's Government are prepared to be pragmatic in this matter. 167 00:16:58,018 --> 00:17:01,772 Nevsky made his money in oil and gas. We're worried about energy security. 168 00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:06,484 So, Nevsky's right-hand guy, Pashkin, Taverner's right-hand guy, moi, 169 00:17:07,027 --> 00:17:09,570 are gonna sherpa a little meeting between the two of them. 170 00:17:10,321 --> 00:17:14,742 Any face-to-face meetings are to be held at a pre-agreed secure location 171 00:17:14,826 --> 00:17:16,578 which I need you to assess, sweep, 172 00:17:17,454 --> 00:17:19,122 take out the bins. Usual routine. 173 00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:21,040 Well, who made the approach? 174 00:17:21,124 --> 00:17:24,962 Pashkin. Via an intermediary. Freelancer named Krimov. 175 00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:26,797 And does Krimov check out? 176 00:17:28,173 --> 00:17:30,843 I did the background. It's all in here. 177 00:17:32,928 --> 00:17:34,429 [Louisa sighs] 178 00:17:34,513 --> 00:17:37,391 So, the meeting's this Saturday in the Glasshouse. 179 00:17:37,474 --> 00:17:39,434 Same day as the Anti-Capitalist March. 180 00:17:39,518 --> 00:17:43,355 Is that a problem? Are you thinking of making a placard and going along? 181 00:17:43,438 --> 00:17:45,357 No, no. Just getting up to speed. 182 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,277 Good. Well, I hope it's not too tall an order. 183 00:17:49,361 --> 00:17:50,821 But if you think you're too rusty 184 00:17:50,904 --> 00:17:53,866 or you're happy with the stale scraps Lamb throws you, just say the word… 185 00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:56,451 and piss off back to Slough House. 186 00:17:57,369 --> 00:18:00,414 -[Min] Should we take the job? -[Louisa] Uh, I think we just did. 187 00:18:00,497 --> 00:18:04,042 Well, yeah, I know. But Lamb's gonna cough up a bollock when he finds out. 188 00:18:04,126 --> 00:18:07,087 -Well, we don't really have a choice. -Well, we do. We can just not do it. 189 00:18:07,171 --> 00:18:09,339 [chuckles] Thing is, you're scared of Lamb. 190 00:18:10,382 --> 00:18:11,675 [Min] I'm not scared of Lamb. 191 00:18:13,343 --> 00:18:15,554 I mean, yeah, I am scared of Lamb. Yeah. 192 00:18:18,307 --> 00:18:21,935 [Roddy] You're looking at it. I did what you asked without being asked. 193 00:18:22,019 --> 00:18:24,313 [Jackson] Be great if you could do that without making me want to hit you. 194 00:18:24,396 --> 00:18:25,397 [footsteps approaching] 195 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,858 -[Louisa] Just don't say anything. -[Min] Yes, okay. 196 00:18:29,067 --> 00:18:32,154 -[Jackson] What am I looking at? -[Roddy] Soho street cam footage. 197 00:18:32,237 --> 00:18:34,239 [Jackson] This is Soho? 198 00:18:34,323 --> 00:18:37,242 But where's all the prostitutes and the junkies? 199 00:18:37,326 --> 00:18:38,994 -Soho's changed. -Shut up, Mike. 200 00:18:39,077 --> 00:18:40,329 Marcus. 201 00:18:40,412 --> 00:18:42,539 Yeah, it'll take me six months to get your name right, 202 00:18:42,623 --> 00:18:45,083 and if I've done my job, you'll be long gone by then. 203 00:18:45,167 --> 00:18:49,004 [stammers] It looks like he's heading for, uh, Marylebone. Can you pick him up there? 204 00:18:57,971 --> 00:18:59,306 [inhales sharply] 205 00:19:04,561 --> 00:19:06,146 [Jackson stammers] Where's he gone? We lost him. 206 00:19:06,230 --> 00:19:08,440 We just need to switch to another camera. 207 00:19:09,191 --> 00:19:11,443 -Cause of death? -What's going on? 208 00:19:11,527 --> 00:19:14,154 Ex-service agent found dead on a bus in Oxford Parkway. 209 00:19:14,238 --> 00:19:15,739 Just got the coroner's report. 210 00:19:15,822 --> 00:19:16,907 Guy! 211 00:19:17,699 --> 00:19:18,700 Heart failure. 212 00:19:19,535 --> 00:19:20,702 That's bollocks. 213 00:19:20,786 --> 00:19:24,081 [Louisa] Well, he was in his 60s, smoked, drank. Was probably on the cards. 214 00:19:24,164 --> 00:19:28,043 But I do all that and look at me, eh. I'm in my prime. 215 00:19:28,794 --> 00:19:30,379 Why would someone wanna kill this guy? 216 00:19:30,462 --> 00:19:33,465 Uh, maybe he went for a job interview without telling his boss. 217 00:19:33,549 --> 00:19:35,175 That's grounds for murder. 218 00:19:36,593 --> 00:19:37,845 Are you sure it's murder? 219 00:19:37,928 --> 00:19:40,639 He left a note on his phone that tells me it was. 220 00:19:40,722 --> 00:19:42,975 [sighs] And you gonna tell us what it says? 221 00:19:43,058 --> 00:19:46,186 Yeah, well, I would if I thought you could offer up any insights. 222 00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:48,522 Here's an angle by the ticket barriers. 223 00:19:53,819 --> 00:19:55,904 Dickie goes through the barrier without buying a ticket. 224 00:19:55,988 --> 00:19:58,907 -So it's not a planned journey. -Yeah, uh, rewind. 225 00:19:58,991 --> 00:20:01,076 -Dickie? -His real name was Richard Bough. 226 00:20:01,159 --> 00:20:04,413 He was an occasional in Berlin. Kicked out just before the wall came down. 227 00:20:05,664 --> 00:20:07,749 He's following someone. 228 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:11,753 I w-- I wanna see them getting on the buses at High Wycombe station. 229 00:20:14,047 --> 00:20:17,301 Well, hang on. That-- That bus is closer, but he walks over to that one. 230 00:20:17,384 --> 00:20:19,052 I think he's following the man in the hat. 231 00:20:19,136 --> 00:20:22,139 Well, this hat was found near where Dickie snuffed it in the luggage rack. 232 00:20:22,222 --> 00:20:26,476 Ladies and gentlemen, the death bus is now pulling into Oxford Parkway station. 233 00:20:29,354 --> 00:20:30,898 Well, there's no one in a hat. 234 00:20:30,981 --> 00:20:34,359 [scoffs] That's because the hat was left on the fucking bus, you pillock. 235 00:20:34,443 --> 00:20:35,819 I'm holding it. 236 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,698 Just show me the footage from both platforms. 237 00:20:41,325 --> 00:20:42,784 [Catherine] It's the bald man. 238 00:20:42,868 --> 00:20:43,869 [Louisa] Which bald man? 239 00:20:43,952 --> 00:20:45,996 Center of screen, on the northbound platform. 240 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:48,415 He's got his back to the camera. He doesn't want to be seen. 241 00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:53,837 Where did your bald man go? 242 00:20:53,921 --> 00:20:54,922 Must've got on the train. 243 00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:58,509 No, he's still on the platform. Fast-forward to the next train, Roddy. 244 00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:11,230 [Jackson] Right. I want footage from inside that Oxford Parkway train, 245 00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,899 so we can see where baldy gets off, okay? 246 00:21:13,982 --> 00:21:17,277 I wanna know who this fucker is and where he fucking went. 247 00:21:17,361 --> 00:21:19,488 [Roddy] Footage from inside the trains is stored on hard drives 248 00:21:19,571 --> 00:21:22,533 that are physically swapped out once a week and are taken to a data center. 249 00:21:22,616 --> 00:21:24,910 [sighs] I just fell asleep with my eyes open. 250 00:21:24,993 --> 00:21:27,996 Where they're copied and wiped, then put back on the trains. 251 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,331 It's legwork. 252 00:21:29,414 --> 00:21:31,667 You need a donkey for that, and I'm a thoroughbred. 253 00:21:31,750 --> 00:21:34,962 You, Ho, are a massive horse's cock. 254 00:21:35,045 --> 00:21:38,215 But you're right. I need a donkey to fetch those hard drives. 255 00:21:38,298 --> 00:21:39,299 Harper. 256 00:21:40,509 --> 00:21:42,719 Whoa. You see that? 257 00:21:42,803 --> 00:21:43,971 -[Roddy] See what? -[stammers] No. 258 00:21:44,054 --> 00:21:47,057 Harper just shared a little look with-- with his girlfriend. 259 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:48,517 I wonder what that means. 260 00:21:49,518 --> 00:21:51,186 We've been seconded. 261 00:21:51,270 --> 00:21:53,981 -Who by? Twats "R" Us? -[Roddy laughs] 262 00:21:54,064 --> 00:21:55,691 -Webb. -[River] What-- Webb? 263 00:21:55,774 --> 00:21:57,860 You're gonna work for that dick after he fucked me over? 264 00:21:57,943 --> 00:22:00,404 I don't know. I-I-I think it shows excellent taste. 265 00:22:00,487 --> 00:22:04,783 What's the assignment, and please tell me you can't give me any details? 266 00:22:05,659 --> 00:22:07,995 Security on a Russian back channel meet. 267 00:22:08,078 --> 00:22:09,079 Jesus Christ, Min. 268 00:22:09,162 --> 00:22:12,165 [stammers] You were what, 549th on the list? 269 00:22:12,249 --> 00:22:16,712 You know, if it was anyone else I'd go nuclear bananas, but I hate Webb, 270 00:22:16,795 --> 00:22:20,132 and you will doubtless fuck it up, so I consider that a result. 271 00:22:20,215 --> 00:22:23,760 I'll get the hard drives then. They're too busy working for the enemy. 272 00:22:23,844 --> 00:22:26,180 Fuck off. You're planning to jump ship for Elessar. 273 00:22:26,263 --> 00:22:28,682 Don't grandstand when you're chasing the private pound. 274 00:22:28,765 --> 00:22:30,184 Where the fuck are you going? 275 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:33,478 I turned them down. I didn't want to do it. 276 00:22:33,562 --> 00:22:35,981 Aw. Well, we just sorted out your farewell present. 277 00:22:36,064 --> 00:22:37,065 Here. 278 00:22:37,983 --> 00:22:39,902 What am I supposed to do with this now? 279 00:22:39,985 --> 00:22:41,153 [Marcus laughs] 280 00:22:41,236 --> 00:22:42,988 I'm not giving you any juicy action. 281 00:22:43,071 --> 00:22:46,575 I'm still laboring under the illusion that, uh, that Shelby… 282 00:22:46,658 --> 00:22:47,659 Shirley. 283 00:22:47,743 --> 00:22:50,162 …is only half shit and not full shit like everyone else. 284 00:22:50,245 --> 00:22:51,246 So she's going. 285 00:22:51,330 --> 00:22:53,999 But why risk her when you know I could do the job? [stammers] 286 00:22:54,666 --> 00:22:57,169 Sorry, it's just this is in my wheelhouse. I don't know what we're-- 287 00:22:57,252 --> 00:22:59,254 -You have a wheelhouse? -Yes, I do have a wheelhouse. 288 00:22:59,338 --> 00:23:03,175 Do you know why she's at Slough House? 289 00:23:03,258 --> 00:23:04,426 No. 290 00:23:04,510 --> 00:23:06,970 Well, consider yourself lucky you stopped when you did. 291 00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:09,598 Wait, so what do I do then? 292 00:23:09,681 --> 00:23:12,684 Fuck off to the job center for all I care. 293 00:23:24,029 --> 00:23:25,030 [sighs] 294 00:23:34,623 --> 00:23:36,583 I mean, you can think about getting a gardener. 295 00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:38,585 Too much for you? 296 00:23:38,669 --> 00:23:40,087 No, I'm just saying, you know. 297 00:23:41,255 --> 00:23:43,340 Maybe someone to do stuff around the house too. 298 00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:46,176 [scoffs] If this is leading towards, 299 00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:47,761 "You'd be better off in a home," 300 00:23:47,845 --> 00:23:51,306 I think I should warn you I once killed a man with a pair of shears. 301 00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:53,100 [laughs] 302 00:23:54,685 --> 00:23:55,769 Wait, really? 303 00:23:55,853 --> 00:23:58,230 No, but it's never too late. 304 00:24:00,899 --> 00:24:02,442 How did the interview go? 305 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:04,903 Jesus Christ. 306 00:24:06,071 --> 00:24:09,074 God, spooks never do retire, do they? How did you know that? 307 00:24:09,783 --> 00:24:11,743 The director got in touch with me. 308 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:16,582 I said you'd prefer to be judged on your own merits. [chuckles] 309 00:24:17,332 --> 00:24:20,002 Well, I was and I didn't get it. So that's nice to know. 310 00:24:20,085 --> 00:24:23,213 I think they just got me in to hear stories about Lamb anyway. 311 00:24:23,297 --> 00:24:25,841 I can't see you in private intelligence. 312 00:24:25,924 --> 00:24:28,218 Well, luckily neither can the people in private intelligence 313 00:24:28,302 --> 00:24:29,720 because to them I'm still the dickhead 314 00:24:29,803 --> 00:24:32,014 who crashed Stansted on a training exercise. 315 00:24:33,348 --> 00:24:36,351 [sighs] I thought saving Hassan would wipe the slate clean, 316 00:24:36,435 --> 00:24:39,146 but I'm still sat around like a spare part. 317 00:24:40,105 --> 00:24:41,940 [David] Well, something will turn up. 318 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:45,194 Already has, but Lamb's shut me out of that one too. 319 00:24:45,777 --> 00:24:47,613 Tracking an FSB wet squad. 320 00:24:47,696 --> 00:24:48,697 Who is the hit? 321 00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:50,199 Richard Bough. 322 00:24:50,908 --> 00:24:52,326 Christ. 323 00:24:53,076 --> 00:24:54,244 What? 324 00:24:55,579 --> 00:24:56,955 Oh, nothing. I'm just-- 325 00:24:58,498 --> 00:25:00,876 I'm amazed he was still alive, is all. 326 00:25:02,127 --> 00:25:03,462 How did he die? 327 00:25:04,087 --> 00:25:06,798 Uh, heart attack. On paper. 328 00:25:06,882 --> 00:25:09,384 Well, maybe it was just a heart attack. 329 00:25:09,927 --> 00:25:13,388 I mean, I don't see anyone wanting to have Dickie Bough killed. 330 00:25:15,057 --> 00:25:16,391 Wait, so you knew him? 331 00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:18,477 Yeah, of him. Yeah. 332 00:25:19,686 --> 00:25:20,687 God. 333 00:25:23,065 --> 00:25:26,193 Ah. Come on. I need a drink for all this. 334 00:26:22,958 --> 00:26:24,001 [Shirley] Shit. Sorry. 335 00:26:24,084 --> 00:26:25,252 No worries. 336 00:26:38,265 --> 00:26:40,559 -Someone dropped this. -[cashier] Ah, thank you. 337 00:26:46,607 --> 00:26:50,027 -[cell phone buzzes] -Yeah? 338 00:26:50,110 --> 00:26:53,030 I need you to cut the power to the Datalok building at nine o'clock. 339 00:26:53,530 --> 00:26:56,408 -I've got a date in 30 minutes. -No, you haven't. 340 00:26:56,491 --> 00:26:59,703 I just lifted a security guy's card, and I need to get in there before he notices. 341 00:27:00,204 --> 00:27:02,497 Why do you need me to cut the power if you've already got his card? 342 00:27:02,581 --> 00:27:04,041 It only gets me through the outer gate. 343 00:27:04,124 --> 00:27:06,418 It's facial recognition on the door to the building. 344 00:27:07,419 --> 00:27:08,420 What's in it for me? 345 00:27:09,296 --> 00:27:10,797 A quick death. 346 00:27:22,017 --> 00:27:23,227 [David] Cicadas. 347 00:27:24,019 --> 00:27:27,439 Uh, sleeper agents embedded in British society. 348 00:27:27,523 --> 00:27:30,984 So named because cicadas spend years underground before hatching. 349 00:27:31,068 --> 00:27:34,404 And do you remember how we concluded they were a hoax? 350 00:27:34,488 --> 00:27:36,573 Uh, yes. Because the spy master controlling them 351 00:27:36,657 --> 00:27:37,950 turned out to be a bogeyman, yeah. 352 00:27:38,033 --> 00:27:42,037 Alexander Popov. My fearsome opposite number. 353 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,790 Invented by the Russians to keep us chasing our tails. 354 00:27:44,873 --> 00:27:46,166 Yeah, well. [breathes deeply] 355 00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:50,420 Dickie's big moment came when he went AWOL before the wall came down. 356 00:27:50,504 --> 00:27:53,298 We thought he'd defected, and… [chuckles] 357 00:27:53,382 --> 00:27:56,134 …to be frank, the Germans were welcome to him. 358 00:27:57,135 --> 00:28:00,556 And then he came staggering back, blind drunk, 359 00:28:00,639 --> 00:28:04,142 claiming that Popov and a thug had abducted him 360 00:28:04,226 --> 00:28:07,688 and interrogated him and poured brandy down his throat. 361 00:28:08,355 --> 00:28:11,316 I mean, obviously he'd been on an enormous bender. 362 00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:15,571 [chuckles] And he came up with the worst possible excuse imaginable. 363 00:28:16,154 --> 00:28:17,406 So we threw him out. 364 00:28:19,324 --> 00:28:22,536 Right, so there's no chance that Dickie was actually telling the truth then? 365 00:28:23,203 --> 00:28:25,539 None. I mean, Popov was a ghost. 366 00:28:25,622 --> 00:28:27,791 We never found a single cicada. 367 00:28:27,875 --> 00:28:30,085 Well, it's definitely getting Lamb worked up. 368 00:28:30,169 --> 00:28:33,589 Well, he's probably doing due diligence on an old joe, but… 369 00:28:33,672 --> 00:28:34,673 [inhales deeply] 370 00:28:34,756 --> 00:28:37,968 …you know, Dickie's death was nothing out of the ordinary. 371 00:28:38,051 --> 00:28:39,052 [sighs] 372 00:28:39,845 --> 00:28:41,680 He was following someone when he died. 373 00:28:42,306 --> 00:28:43,891 Maybe he saw someone that he shouldn't have. 374 00:28:43,974 --> 00:28:45,392 -[scoffs] -No, in Berlin. 375 00:28:45,475 --> 00:28:47,144 And then now again in London. 376 00:28:47,227 --> 00:28:48,854 Look, I know you had a knock-back today 377 00:28:48,937 --> 00:28:50,689 and you're desperate for something to happen. 378 00:28:50,772 --> 00:28:53,150 But believe me, this doesn't sound like anything. 379 00:28:53,233 --> 00:28:54,234 Why not? 380 00:28:54,318 --> 00:28:57,196 Well, heart failure isn't the FSB's style, is it? 381 00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:00,449 I mean, all their recent hits have left a clear signature. 382 00:29:00,532 --> 00:29:02,284 Usually radioactive. 383 00:29:03,202 --> 00:29:05,412 No, they want us to see what they've done 384 00:29:06,538 --> 00:29:10,000 and dare us to come up with a response that will never happen. 385 00:29:10,501 --> 00:29:12,669 -But what if this isn't the FSB? -What? 386 00:29:13,212 --> 00:29:15,130 -What if it's KGB? -Oh. No, no, no. No. 387 00:29:16,006 --> 00:29:17,841 Now you're chasing after your own tail. 388 00:29:17,925 --> 00:29:20,469 Yeah, but-- I mean, those guys, they left no trace. 389 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:23,680 You wouldn't see them coming. Brush past, a tap from an umbrella… 390 00:29:23,764 --> 00:29:26,558 No, no, no, no. Dickie wasn't bothering anyone. 391 00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:30,479 Yeah. Maybe not. 392 00:29:34,107 --> 00:29:35,234 Right, I better go. 393 00:29:35,317 --> 00:29:38,278 Can I not offer you dinner? 394 00:29:38,362 --> 00:29:40,572 No, no. It's fine. I had something before. 395 00:29:40,656 --> 00:29:42,616 Um, I'll clean all that up. 396 00:29:42,699 --> 00:29:46,161 No, no, no. Leave it. I'll do it later. I enjoy the night air. 397 00:29:46,245 --> 00:29:47,120 [chuckles] 398 00:29:47,913 --> 00:29:49,081 Be careful, River. 399 00:29:52,251 --> 00:29:54,211 -What made you say that? -Hmm? 400 00:29:55,295 --> 00:29:57,714 There's a streetlight out at the end of the lane. 401 00:29:58,549 --> 00:30:01,635 There's a dark stretch between there and the high street. 402 00:30:03,262 --> 00:30:07,266 -Right. Um. Don't drink too much. -[chuckles] 403 00:30:36,461 --> 00:30:40,048 [Louisa] Right. This is the Glasshouse where Webb has agreed to meet Pashkin. 404 00:30:40,132 --> 00:30:42,801 The entrance to the underground car park is on the street behind. 405 00:30:44,344 --> 00:30:46,305 And then, for the meeting, we take a lift 406 00:30:46,388 --> 00:30:49,016 up to the boardroom and disable the cameras. 407 00:30:49,099 --> 00:30:51,727 So we need to do a bug sweep the night before. 408 00:30:51,810 --> 00:30:53,812 We could check it out now. I bet the view's amazing. 409 00:30:53,896 --> 00:30:56,106 No. We can't get access until Webb gives us passes. 410 00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:57,608 Or we just use the building opposite. 411 00:30:57,691 --> 00:30:59,943 Have a roofnic. Scope it out from there. 412 00:31:00,027 --> 00:31:01,612 -Roofnic? -Yeah. 413 00:31:02,571 --> 00:31:05,532 How come Lamb knew about River's interview? 414 00:31:05,616 --> 00:31:08,660 Uh, Catherine said that they called in for a reference. 415 00:31:09,161 --> 00:31:11,246 Fuck. Brutal. 416 00:31:11,747 --> 00:31:13,957 So what, did he just fart down the phone? [chuckles] 417 00:31:14,041 --> 00:31:16,043 No. Apparently, it was actually pretty good. 418 00:31:16,126 --> 00:31:17,794 -Really? -Yeah. 419 00:31:20,547 --> 00:31:22,382 Pashkin is gonna meet Webb in the boardroom 420 00:31:22,466 --> 00:31:25,552 above Nevsky's office which is on the 42nd floor. 421 00:31:26,053 --> 00:31:28,055 [Min] Um, does that say… Almaz Trust? 422 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,015 [Louisa] Nevsky's company. 423 00:31:30,891 --> 00:31:34,770 It's Russian for diamonds. Made his first million as a gem trader. 424 00:31:37,731 --> 00:31:41,485 So, 42nd floor would be one, two, three, 425 00:31:41,568 --> 00:31:45,113 four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12-- 426 00:31:45,197 --> 00:31:47,115 Min, just count down from the top. 427 00:31:47,199 --> 00:31:49,868 It's 50 floors, boardroom's 47th floor, Nevsky's five down from that-- 428 00:31:49,952 --> 00:31:52,329 All right. Okay. Yeah. I can do the maths, yeah. 429 00:31:53,205 --> 00:31:55,999 Well, that's why he wants to have the meeting in this building then? 430 00:31:56,083 --> 00:31:58,043 Yeah. Once we establish the boardroom's secure, 431 00:31:58,126 --> 00:32:00,629 you can just sneak upstairs and no one will ever know. 432 00:32:00,712 --> 00:32:03,590 Yeah. And it's not like anyone's going to be looking through the windows, is it? 433 00:32:04,091 --> 00:32:05,551 What's above and below? 434 00:32:05,634 --> 00:32:07,636 Um, nothing above. 435 00:32:08,637 --> 00:32:11,348 Below, apart from Nevsky's, there are private banks, 436 00:32:11,431 --> 00:32:15,644 investment companies, and then 20 floors of luxury hotel. 437 00:32:15,727 --> 00:32:19,398 Ooh. Well, maybe we should insist on staying in the hotel as part of the op. 438 00:32:19,481 --> 00:32:20,691 Should we make that a deal breaker? 439 00:32:20,774 --> 00:32:22,234 -Shall we? -Yeah. 440 00:32:44,506 --> 00:32:46,216 [typing] 441 00:32:52,222 --> 00:32:53,974 [Shirley grunts, sighs] 442 00:33:09,698 --> 00:33:10,741 [sighs] 443 00:33:11,825 --> 00:33:14,953 [whistles] 444 00:33:16,330 --> 00:33:18,040 [knocking] 445 00:33:27,508 --> 00:33:29,801 You are a fucking dead man, Ho. 446 00:33:30,344 --> 00:33:31,595 I said nine o'clock! 447 00:33:31,678 --> 00:33:33,430 [guard whistles] 448 00:33:43,398 --> 00:33:44,900 [whistling] 449 00:33:46,693 --> 00:33:47,945 Fuck. 450 00:33:57,454 --> 00:33:58,830 [whistling continues] 451 00:34:13,178 --> 00:34:14,179 [Shirley grunts] 452 00:34:29,319 --> 00:34:33,031 I only realized when I got home. She lifted my wallet and handed it in. 453 00:34:33,114 --> 00:34:36,201 The card was gone. Fucking crazy. 454 00:34:39,621 --> 00:34:40,664 [thud] 455 00:35:21,163 --> 00:35:22,164 [creaking] 456 00:35:40,015 --> 00:35:41,099 [Shirley breathing shakily] 457 00:35:42,684 --> 00:35:43,894 [guard] You go that way. 458 00:36:23,267 --> 00:36:25,185 [panting] 459 00:36:51,461 --> 00:36:53,255 -So did you get it? -[Shirley] Yep. 460 00:36:55,632 --> 00:36:56,633 Good job. 461 00:36:57,885 --> 00:36:59,720 Guess I'm not full shit then? 462 00:36:59,803 --> 00:37:01,805 Oh, no. Definitely not full shit. 463 00:37:01,889 --> 00:37:04,057 Yeah. Full shit be crashing Stansted. 464 00:37:05,392 --> 00:37:08,353 Well, actually that was a setup, so it-- Ah, forget it. 465 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:12,733 So you're here for-- Is it punching your case officer? 466 00:37:13,525 --> 00:37:14,693 Technically, no. 467 00:37:15,444 --> 00:37:17,529 I mean, I did punch him after he made a pass at me, 468 00:37:17,613 --> 00:37:20,407 but I could've escaped that with a reprimand and a note in my file. 469 00:37:21,033 --> 00:37:24,494 It was the second punch that did it, after he said I hit like a girl. 470 00:37:25,162 --> 00:37:26,413 Didn't get up after that. 471 00:37:28,540 --> 00:37:29,833 Fair enough. 472 00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:36,507 He took a train from Oxford Parkway to Stroud, Cotswolds. 473 00:37:39,176 --> 00:37:40,511 I checked the station CCTV. 474 00:37:40,594 --> 00:37:43,013 Our guy walks off camera towards the taxi booth. 475 00:37:43,805 --> 00:37:45,974 Right. So we don't know where he went after that? 476 00:37:47,601 --> 00:37:51,063 It's gonna sound strange, but did anyone come near Dickie with an umbrella? 477 00:37:51,146 --> 00:37:52,439 Yeah. Loads of people. 478 00:37:52,523 --> 00:37:54,566 -It was raining earlier. -Yeah, no. I meant-- 479 00:37:54,650 --> 00:37:56,735 You meant like in the Markov assassination. 480 00:37:56,818 --> 00:37:57,819 Yeah. 481 00:37:57,903 --> 00:38:00,989 Got a big wide-on for old-school hits, but no one jabbed him with an umbrella. 482 00:38:03,742 --> 00:38:04,952 What about the bald man? 483 00:38:05,452 --> 00:38:07,871 [Shirley] Told you, we lose him at the taxi booths. 484 00:38:08,580 --> 00:38:10,666 Yeah, but how close did he get to Dickie? 485 00:38:11,416 --> 00:38:13,043 [slurping, chewing] 486 00:38:13,710 --> 00:38:14,753 [door opens] 487 00:38:19,299 --> 00:38:21,510 [restaurant worker speaking Mandarin] 488 00:38:27,349 --> 00:38:28,767 [clears throat] 489 00:38:29,518 --> 00:38:30,727 That seat's taken. 490 00:38:30,811 --> 00:38:32,521 Oh, yeah? By who? 491 00:38:32,604 --> 00:38:34,481 Gillian Anderson's in the lav. 492 00:38:35,107 --> 00:38:37,860 Well, I imagine she'll be a while throwing up after watching you eat. 493 00:38:42,447 --> 00:38:47,244 Do you know how much it hurt me to write you an even half-decent reference? 494 00:38:48,287 --> 00:38:51,039 And all for nothing. I mean, you're still here. 495 00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:55,502 What you do, take a shit in the wastepaper bin halfway through the interview? 496 00:38:55,586 --> 00:38:58,714 Actually, what went wrong was not having anything interesting to say about you. 497 00:38:58,797 --> 00:39:01,216 Should've just told them that you eat like a dying horse. 498 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:05,387 Aw. It's my fault no one wants to hire you? 499 00:39:08,974 --> 00:39:10,517 Dickie was murdered. 500 00:39:10,601 --> 00:39:11,977 I know that, you twat. 501 00:39:12,060 --> 00:39:13,520 Yes, but you don't know how. 502 00:39:15,022 --> 00:39:16,023 If you… 503 00:39:18,567 --> 00:39:19,943 Can I sit there or I'm gonna-- 504 00:39:20,027 --> 00:39:21,904 I can't. [clears throat] 505 00:39:25,908 --> 00:39:28,744 Shirley got that footage that you asked for from inside the train. 506 00:39:29,536 --> 00:39:31,121 [inhales deeply] So, look. 507 00:39:33,665 --> 00:39:35,209 Dickie's nearest the door, right? 508 00:39:35,292 --> 00:39:38,504 Meaning that he has to get off first if he doesn't want to draw attention to himself. 509 00:39:38,587 --> 00:39:41,507 But what that means is that it puts the man that he's following behind him 510 00:39:41,590 --> 00:39:43,008 when they get off at High Wycombe. 511 00:39:43,091 --> 00:39:45,677 But look. He's touching Dickie on the arm. 512 00:39:46,220 --> 00:39:49,473 And then, if you go to the footage from inside the station… 513 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:53,477 Dickie's rubbing his arm. 514 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,938 Our man must have dosed him with something untraceable 515 00:39:56,021 --> 00:39:57,481 that shows up as a heart attack. 516 00:39:58,607 --> 00:40:00,025 Unless you want to run a bunch of 517 00:40:00,108 --> 00:40:02,486 complicated and obscure tests, which I imagine the Park 518 00:40:02,569 --> 00:40:04,863 wouldn't want to bother with even if they thought it necessary. 519 00:40:04,947 --> 00:40:06,198 Now… 520 00:40:08,575 --> 00:40:12,496 I bet you 50 quid that I know the message on Dickie's phone. 521 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,081 Just one word. 522 00:40:15,123 --> 00:40:16,166 Cicada. 523 00:40:25,634 --> 00:40:26,635 [sniffs] 524 00:40:28,178 --> 00:40:30,472 [grunting] 525 00:40:33,976 --> 00:40:35,435 [Jackson sniffs, clears throat] 526 00:40:35,519 --> 00:40:36,770 [scoffs] 527 00:40:40,566 --> 00:40:41,567 Not bad. 528 00:40:42,943 --> 00:40:44,653 What, my pitch or your noodles? 529 00:40:46,113 --> 00:40:47,364 Yeah. Keep the change. 530 00:40:47,447 --> 00:40:48,866 [server] Thank you, Mr. Lamb. 531 00:40:50,325 --> 00:40:52,578 You know, the fact that I'm right means you give me 50 quid. 532 00:40:52,661 --> 00:40:54,663 I mean, that's how bets work, generally. 533 00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:58,250 Well, I'll take it as a fee for writing your reference. 534 00:41:00,502 --> 00:41:04,047 Okay, clever bollocks, what's it all mean? 535 00:41:05,424 --> 00:41:08,468 What it means is that Dickie wasn't lying all those years ago. 536 00:41:09,303 --> 00:41:11,388 It means he was grabbed, force-fed a ton of booze 537 00:41:11,471 --> 00:41:14,558 and then questioned by someone wanting to spread the myth of Popov. 538 00:41:17,477 --> 00:41:18,937 It's still a myth. 539 00:41:19,021 --> 00:41:21,899 Yes, Popov didn't exist, but maybe the cicadas did. 540 00:41:21,982 --> 00:41:25,235 Do. Maybe they hid the truth in a lie. 541 00:41:26,486 --> 00:41:28,780 And Dickie has seen someone, he's tailed them, 542 00:41:28,864 --> 00:41:30,908 they've not liked it so they've killed him. 543 00:41:30,991 --> 00:41:34,703 Because maybe they've been reactivated and maybe more people are gonna die. 544 00:41:51,261 --> 00:41:53,597 -[River sighs] -Where are you off to? 545 00:41:55,098 --> 00:41:56,517 Cotswolds. 546 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,560 ["Strange Game" playing] 547 00:41:58,644 --> 00:41:59,645 Good. 548 00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:02,481 Find out what the bald man did there, 549 00:42:03,190 --> 00:42:05,943 who he spoke to, and if he's still there. 550 00:42:07,819 --> 00:42:08,820 Yeah. 551 00:42:18,163 --> 00:42:19,331 Cheers, Mr. Lao. 552 00:42:21,166 --> 00:42:24,086 Can I get a couple of those prawn buns to go? 553 00:42:37,933 --> 00:42:39,852 [song continues]