(Acorn TV fanfare music)
- I have a client, he's on a murder charge.
- [Man] You're a lawyer?
Why do you need me to find Joe Collins?
- [Client] He's got something that can get me out of here.
- Tell me or I'm out of here.
What? - A laptop.
If you don't find Joe for me, I am dead.
- [Newsreader] Today's violence has put further pressure
on the Prime Minister after today's allegations
about his financial affairs.
- Dead man walking.
- [Man] I've read Elspeth's file.
- What do we want to achieve with this information?
- The end of Brian Worsley.
- Tomorrow Alex Wentworth will be appearing
at a press conference.
My understanding is that he's going to make new allegations
against Worsley which he won't survive.
In front of the world's media,
it'll be the perfect launching pad.
- You are in danger.
There is someone I know.
I'd like to talk to him and get his advice.
(tense music)
- [Woman] Harry, I've just seen Jason Styles.
- [Woman] Michael's been arrested.
- While you're in here keep your head down.
You stand your ground.
- Where is she?
(suspenseful music)
- [Man] Who's Teddy Cockburn?
- [Man] There were photographs of this fella Cockburn
in the doctor's office.
Now you got your email, you got your photographs,
you got your bottle, all Cockburn.
"We'll raise a glass of Cockburn's on the 10th of July."
(rifle clicks)
(suspenseful music)
- Don't you want to know the truth
about what happened to your brother?
- [Man] Well, they say the truth sets you free.
The truth is going to send me to prison.
- You want to talk about the night your brother
and his friend came to visit?
(gun fires)
- Somebody paid Paul Hillman and my brother
to pull that trigger.
(gun blasts)
- Okay, no harm done, yeah?
- [Man] That's where you're wrong, H.
(dramatic music)
- Get a towel, something!
(men groaning)
(mobile dialing)
- No! No.
No, H, no ambulance.
- Frank, you've just been bloody shot.
- Gunshot wound.
The cops will be right behind them.
With my record, that's jail.
Life. - Frank, this is bad.
You don't have a choice, mate.
(Frank moans)
- Ow. Bastard.
Just get me out of the house.
- Okay.
This is going to hurt, mate.
(Frank groans)
Come on.
(Frank groaning)
(tense music)
- Do you know what happened in this house 20 years ago?
- Same night your uncle was shot, my parents were murdered.
I think my parents were killed for the same reason
your uncle was killed.
- Which is what?
- That's what I'm trying to find out.
Why do you think your uncle was killed?
- It was a robbery.
- Did they take anything?
- They bungled it.
They panicked when the police showed up.
- Did they look panicked when they shot your uncle?
(doorbell ringing)
(tense music)
(gun fires)
Did they look panicked when they shot you?
(guns firing)
There's a reason why your uncle was killed.
Did your uncle say anything unusual?
Was there anything out of place?
Please think!
- The night before he was killed he had a visit.
- Who from?
(tires screeching)
(car horn honks)
(tires screech)
- What were you doing in there?
We need to get him to hospital.
How are you doing back there?
- Working on me story.
- [Harry] Did you get anything out of him?
- All he said was Braddick received an unexpected visit
the night before he was killed.
From James Morpeth.
- What was James Morpeth doing there?
- Morpeth was with another man, someone called Cockburn.
- [Harry] Teddy Cockburn?
- Yes.
Do you know him?
- (quietly) Yeah.
"We'll raise a glass of Cockburn's on the 10th of July."
- What?
- It's an email Frank found.
- spitfire2@morpethal.com.
Morpeth.
(tense music)
(mobile rings)
- Yes?
- Harry Venn and Gina Hawkes broke into the Braddick house
20 minutes ago.
- Braddick?
What did they want?
What are they looking for?
- That's not yet clear.
I am on my way there now.
- You do realize it's less than 20 hours to the main event?
- They're fumbling in the dark.
- Well, people sometimes fumble their way to the light.
You take care of this problem, Mr. Styles,
before that happens.
(sirens blaring nearby)
(Frank groans)
(car door bangs shut)
- Hey Frank,
how's your story coming along?
(Frank groans)
Do you want to run it by me, as your solicitor?
- [Frank] Harry, listen.
- What?
- I really hope you and the girl make it.
If you do,
the next time I see you,
you won't be my solicitor.
You'll be sitting beside me in the dock.
- Good luck.
(suspenseful music)
(people chattering)
Excuse me!
This man's been badly hurt.
He needs to see a doctor straight away.
(quietly) See you later.
(suspenseful music)
- [Man] Good evening, General.
Mr. Morpeth is expecting you.
(tense music)
- Here, have a look at this.
It's a photograph of Morpeth and Cockburn together.
- It's a Spitfire.
It's a bloody Spitfire.
Spitfire2, that's the email address.
(tense music)
See how he responds to this.
- Main event 1600.
Units here by 16:20.
Units here by 16:35.
Hopefully with nothing else to do but sit on their hands.
- Hmm.
(mobile bleeps)
(tense music)
- Problem?
- Just give me a moment.
(mobile rings)
- [Henry] Hello?
- You sent me an email just now.
- Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the party.
- [Morpeth] I'm afraid you've lost me.
- You know, the party where we're going to be
drinking lots of port.
Cockburn's port.
My favorite.
- Sorry, I didn't catch your name.
- [Henry] What's your name?
Spitfire2?
- [Morpeth] I think you've got the wrong number.
- No, you called me.
(mobile beeps off)
(tense music)
Okay, let's have a listen to this.
(tense music)
- Yes, the cost in North America is quite competitive.
You can find cheaper places but you need to...
- Same voice.
- Morpeth visits Braddick shortly before he's murdered.
That's no coincidence, he's involved.
(tense music)
(mobile rings)
- I have just been talking to Harry Venn.
I'm forwarding the contact number.
Track down that telephone, Mr. Styles.
- Understood.
(cars rumbling)
(mobile rings)
- Yeah?
- [Joe] Harry?
- Yeah?
- It's Joe Collins.
- Joe Collins?
I've been looking for you, Joe.
Where are you?
- [Joe] I'm at a hotel near Heathrow.
(airplane roaring)
- [Woman] (on television) You were the chief leader writer
of the main RDO Media paper.
Now, your big boss, Elspeth Verney,
not only is a very good friend of Alex Wentworth's,
she's also a key supporter.
So, what can you tell us of what he's going to
reveal tomorrow?
- It's going to be damning.
It's going to be very damning.
I think we're going to hear things about Brian Worsley
that will shock and dismay even his most ardent supporters.
(tense music)
(knocking at door)
- [TV Journalist] Alexander Wentworth's
an extremely divisive figure--
(TV mutes)
(locks clinking)
- Harry. Thank God.
(stammers) I need money and I need a passport. Now.
Can you help me, pal? Can you?
I wouldn't ask, but I'm in real big trouble here.
- Joe wait.
Joe wait a minute, just slow down.
This is Gina Hawkes, she's uh,
well, she was Stevie's solicitor.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Harry] What's this all about?
- Did anyone follow you here?
- No.
- What did Stevie tell you?
What happened?
- Joe don't worry about that, just talk to me.
- About a week ago, I got a call on my phone.
This fella, called himself Styles.
Asked to meet, said there was money in it.
Me and Stevie, we met him at the Embankment.
We talked for a couple of minutes,
then we got in his car and drove around for a bit more
and he offered us a job.
20 grand.
- What was the job, what did he want you to do?
- Kill someone.
- Me.
You mean, me.
- Yeah.
He wanted it...
A sex crime.
- What?
He wanted it to look like a sex crime?
- No, he wanted us to go through with it.
- So why is she alive?
- We needed the money, bad,
but the more this fella talked,
the less me and Stevie liked.
When we got out of the car, I took something with us.
- His laptop?
- Worst decision I ever made.
He sent someone after us.
You know who?
You'll think I'm mad, but I'm not.
Paul Hillman.
It was him, Harry, back from the dead.
I'm not making this up, believe me!
- Joe, I believe you, all right?
I believe you.
- Can you help me out here, Harry? Can you?
- Joe, Joe.
Where's the laptop?
(computer beeps)
- "One more attempt until data wipe."
- Let's get out of here.
- [Joe] Stevie thought we could bargain with them.
Give it back, they'd leave us alone.
But these people, they're not interested in doing any deal.
(tense music)
- [Harry] Here.
Here you go.
Here.
- Look at this.
- [Joe] Thanks.
- [Newsreader] Wentworth's backers now include
Sir Nigel Fountain, who apparently has been working
behind the scenes for weeks
with billionaire industrialist, James Morpeth.
The presence of such a senior legal figure...
- Nigel Fountain and James Morpeth?
- [Newsreader] Throwing their collective weight
behind the Wentworth campaign is highly significant...
- [Harry] Look after yourself, Joe.
- [Newsreader] Given the constitutional crisis
the government is facing,
particularly given the job Wentworth...
- I know a bloke who should be able
to hack into this computer.
- Well, let's go there now.
- We can't, it's a shop.
It's not open till the morning.
(mobile rings)
Yeah?
- [Man] (distorted) They're onto you, Harry.
Get rid of the girl's phone.
- Mark.
- Who was that?
- Give me your phone.
Give me your phone!
- Yes.
What-- - Come on.
(tense music)
Grab hold of the laptop.
(tense music)
- [Man] (on mobile) You are within 100 meters of the device.
Acquiring satellites, please hold.
(tense music)
- Harry, Styles!
- [Man] (on mobile) Satellites acquired.
Triangulating now.
- Oh, shit.
(suspenseful music)
Can't find the bloody ticket.
- [Man] (on mobile) The device is static
and within 25 meters of your current location.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Go!
(suspenseful music)
- What's the status now?
- [Man] (on mobile) The device remains static.
We can now track to within ten meters.
(airplane roaring nearby)
- [Harry] Ring Collins.
Warn him about Styles.
Now!
(suspenseful music)
(knocking at door)
(mobile ringing)
(knocking at door)
(mobile ringing)
(Joe breathing heavily)
(lock clicks)
(silenced gun fires)
(mobile ringing)
- [Joe] (on voicemail) This is Joe, leave me a message.
- [Gina] Straight to voicemail.
- Shit!
- Where's Harry Venn?
- Who?
- He was with you tonight when you got shot
at the Braddick house.
- Nah, not me.
I was out walking my dog, minding my own business,
when bang, someone shoots me from a passing car.
- Where's your dog?
- Well, she ran off, didn't she?
Would you blame her?
- What did Harry want with Ben Lander?
Why did he go back to the house?
- Did you just start speaking Chinese?
Because I didn't understand a word you just said.
- Do you like Harry Venn?
- He's my solicitor.
- Do you like him?
Would you call him a friend?
- Yeah, he's a good guy, Harry.
- Then do your friend a favor.
He's in serious trouble.
Someone's trying to kill him.
- Like you give a shit!
- What about you?
Do you give a shit?
Because if you do, help me.
I'm his only chance.
Where's Harry?
- There you go again talking Chinese.
- [Doctor] Right.
Let's get you up to theater.
(car rumbling)
(doorbell rings)
- Sorry, um...
I'm in a lot of trouble
and you're the only person I can trust.
- Come in.
- (quietly) Thanks.
(door thuds shut)
This is Gina.
- I'm Gina Hawkes.
- Give us five minutes.
- Harry, what's going on? Who is she?
- Mark's alive.
- Harry, look at you, you're shaking.
What have you taken?
- He's alive, Lauren.
- Harry.
- I saw Paul Hillman.
I saw him.
- Oh, my God, is that blood?
- Listen.
I need to take a shower, a change of clothes.
Just give me 10 minutes.
- Okay.
(shower running)
(tense music)
- In Britain, we rightly defend
freedom of the press tenaciously.
But that freedom comes with responsibility.
It is not a license for abuse of power.
The allegations against me are another example
of an over-weaning media corporation
cynically manipulating the truth
in pursuit of a dangerous political agenda.
- That was the Prime Minister earlier today.
Meanwhile, key Wentworth supporters,
who include billionaire industrialist James Morpeth,
have called on the public to brace themselves
for a body blow, not just to Brian Worsley,
but to the entire political establishment.
Prime Minister Brian Worsley, still no nearer to...
- Where's the punch?
- It's tricky, Elspeth.
We don't know what Wentworth is going to say
at the press conference.
If we over-hype this and he doesn't deliver,
we end up looking really silly.
- I want you out of this building, now.
Tomorrow, Alexander Wentworth will give
the most sensational disclosures ever made
about a serving British Prime Minister.
That's what we need to see on this page.
James Morpeth will be with him.
We need his picture too, plus a profile.
The full works.
He's going to be a major figure post-Worsley.
(tense music)
(tea pouring)
(tense music)
- Okay, we need to go.
- Morpeth is going to be at the
Wentworth press conference today.
Today is the 10th of July.
The date in Morpeth's email.
- "We'll raise a glass of Cockburn's on the 10th of July."
(car horn honks)
- I called a taxi.
- Why did you call a taxi?
- I have to talk to Nigel.
- I'm coming with you.
Gina, what's to stop him calling Styles again?
Look, don't go to see him, right?
Call him.
Talk to him on the phone.
- Whatever it is he has to say,
I need him to look me in the eye and say it.
- Fine, but I'm coming with you.
- Harry, this is between Nigel and me.
I'll buy a new phone and call you.
Write down your number again.
I'm glad Stevie Quirke sent me to you.
Mr. Venn.
(taxi rumbling)
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Have you talked to Michael?
- Yeah, he said you went to see him.
- Didn't go too well.
- That's not what he said.
He said you said some things to him
that really made him think.
What was it?
What did you say?
- I was quite hard on him.
- Well, whatever you said, he didn't take it that way.
It meant a lot to him.
- Will you tell him I'm sorry for everything?
- Harry, what do you mean by that?
(dramatic music)
What's that? A gun?
- Lauren.
I love you.
(dramatic music)
(door bangs shut)
(tires screeching)
- [Radio Announcer] Area forecasts for the next 24 hours:
Viking, north of zero, south of zero, forecast acuity.
Westerly or south-westerly, six or seven.
Occasionally gale eight at first, except in the south.
Decreasing four or five.
Rain, then squally showers, moderate or poor, becoming good.
West or south west, five or six, decreasing, three or four.
Then back in the south, four or five later.
Rain, then fair, moderate or good,
occasionally poor at first.
Fisher, German Bight.
Southwest, five or six, veering west.
Becoming variable, three or four later.
Rain variable, moderate or good, occasionally good.
(Harry sighs)
- [Man] I'll tell Mr. Wentworth he has your backing.
- [Man] Thank you.
- [Man] Yes.
- [Man] Glad to have you on board.
- [Man] Thank you. Thank you for your support.
- Alexander needs to know
if you're going to line up with him on this.
- This is difficult, Alex.
You're asking me to sign up for something
without telling me what it is.
- Ian, you know what this country is up against.
We are this close to collapse.
That's why I'm asking you for your trust and support.
- Oh, blind trust.
Unconditional support.
- For now.
- (laughs) Only you could say that
with a straight face, Alex.
- And not for long.
After the press conference,
I'll go outside and address the rally.
Then I'm going to lead my supporters
on a walk to Parliament.
I'd like you to be beside me on that walk.
- My God.
Mussolini's March on Rome, eh?
- Except I'm not leading a march of
black-shirt reactionaries.
I'm walking with people who won't sit by
while their country falls to pieces around their ears.
Some of those people happen to be Conservative,
some are Liberal, some are on the left.
Most aren't interested in ideology
and neither, frankly, am I.
I'm certainly not interested in the tried and tested
British way of staggering along
and hoping something will come up.
In these circumstances, that is not a viable option.
Have a think.
Your vote would mean a great deal.
(tense music)
(car horn honking nearby)
(car radio beeping)
- [Radio Host] Welcome to the show.
This morning, the nation waits with baited breath.
The talk of the last 24 hours here at Westminster
has been what exactly will Alexander Wentworth
reveal to us all at his press conference later today.
I'm joined now by the political editors
of three of our national newspapers
to fill us in on their take on what has got to be
one of the most controversial periods...
(car door bangs shut)
(mobile ringing)
- Hello?
- Nigel?
- Yes?
- [Gina] I need to see you.
- Where?
Kew Gardens.
(tense music)
- Do you think you can get into it?
(keyboard clacking)
I am in sort of a hurry here, Malcolm.
(tense music)
(children chattering excitedly)
(tense music)
(door creaks open)
(door bangs shut)
- Gina.
- Was it a shock, finding I was still alive?
- They promised me nothing would happen to you.
I still have their word.
- They?
Morpeth? Styles?
You're part of them.
Aren't you?
Who are they?
Why did they murder my parents?
Why do they want to kill me?
- Gina, you have to believe me,
I've only ever wanted to protect you.
Remember the first day I brought you to my house?
You were so lost, so sad.
It was an awful time.
But it was that day my life really began, with you.
- Yeah. - I still remember
the first time you put your hand in mine.
- Yes.
You made me feel safe.
You made me feel loved
until you sent a killer after me.
You've known all along why my parents were killed.
When were you going to tell me?
- I had no part in it.
Your parents were my friends.
I had no idea they were going to be killed.
- Why?
Why were they murdered?
(computer beeping rapidly)
- Malcolm, how long is this going to take?
- Doesn't normally take this long.
(keyboard clacking)
(beads clacking)
(tense music)
- [Harry] Shit.
(tense music)
- They were asked to help and they wouldn't cooperate.
- Asked to help?
What do you mean would not cooperate?
- There are rules.
- [Gina] Rules?
- Yes, rules that have to be observed.
- Who asked my parents for help?
What kind of help?
- Gina, you don't want to know this.
- You have seen me drive myself insane for 20 years
trying to find out the truth.
So tell me.
Nigel, I have to know.
I have to.
(brakes screech)
(tense music)
- [Harry] Running out of time, Malcolm.
- [Malcolm] That's his password.
- Great.
- [Malcolm] And that is his file directory.
(suspenseful music)
- Your parents were still young,
but they were a formidable legal team.
Well, you know that.
And they were approached to do some legal work
by a man called Teddy Cockburn.
- What did Cockburn want my parents to do?
- Gina, please, listen to me.
In everybody's interests, particularly yours,
you must stop asking these questions.
Your parents are dead, I'm sorry.
Now, you have to believe me on this if on nothing else,
I am truly sorry.
- What did Cockburn want my parents to do?
(tense music)
Gina...
(glass shatters)
(Nigel grunts)
(dramatic music)
(suspenseful music)
(mobile dialing)
(line ringing)
- [Help Desk] This is the help desk.
May I have your client ID?
- Er--
- [Help Desk] Client ID, please.
- G-H 19-60-09-02.
- [Help Desk] For verification,
can I have values one, three and eight of your protocol?
I repeat, values one, three, eight.
- Oh, all right.
(paper rustles)
- F, F, three.
- [Help Desk] Job number, please?
(tense music)
- 71-09-CJB9.
- [Help Desk] Please hold whilst I acquire.
How can I help?
- [Harry] Status.
- [Help Desk] One moment.
The engineers are due on site at 15:55.
Access and egress have been secured.
Are you set up to receive
on the device you are calling from?
- Yes.
- [Help Desk] Sending now.
- Thank you.
(mobile bleeps)
(tense music)
Wentworth?
(tense music)
No.
No, that's not possible.
(tense music)
(siren blaring in distance)
(tense music)
(police radio chattering)
(door bangs open)
(mobile rings)
- (quietly) Oh, come on.
(mobile ringing)
- Yeah?
- [Gina] Harry?
- Where are you?
- Sloane Square.
- Mark's gonna be at the press conference.
He's going after Wentworth.
I have to stop him.
- Nigel's dead.
They killed him.
- Listen to me, Gina,
you should get out of London as fast as you can.
You go back to Paris, go and stay with Nadine, a friend,
somewhere you can be safe.
Are you okay?
- I'm okay.
Be careful, Harry.
- Okay, I'll call...
I'll call you later.
Bye, Gina.
- Goodbye, Harry.
(people chattering)
- James Morpeth is here.
- Right.
James, how are you?
Good to see you.
- Feeling nervous?
- Not remotely.
Listen, they're just making me look
beautiful for the cameras, so give us a couple of minutes,
will you?
- Good idea, yes.
I'll leave you to it.
(mobile ringing)
Jason.
- The girl got away again.
- How is that possible?
- Fountain.
He intervened.
He's dead.
- You need to get to the site.
- Girls.
Daddy's off to work now.
I'll see you tonight.
Be good.
(tense music)
(reporters clamoring)
- Mr. Morpeth,
is Wentworth going to be the next Prime Minister?
- [Reporter] Do you have any political aspirations yourself?
- [Reporter] Is this about his optional funds?
- [Reporter] Prime Minister?
- [Reporter] Mr. Morpeth!
(reporters clamoring)
- [Reporter] Mr. Wentworth! Mr. Wentworth!
(suspenseful music)
- [Reporter] Mr. Wentworth, what have you got on Worsley?
- I think that's a question the whole country
deserves an answer to and I'm very much looking forward
to giving the answer later today.
(reporters clamoring)
- [Reporter] Mr. Wentworth,
do you think you'll be Prime Minister tonight?
- Erm, well, that's not for me to decide.
(mobile rings)
- [Reporter] Mr. Wentworth, is this about his...
- Elspeth.
- Our boy certainly looks the part.
- Uh, thank you very much...
- [Morpeth] He looks exactly what he is.
Another plausible, ambitious PR man
with a trust fund and a pretty wife.
- [Elspeth] Yes.
Poor thing has no idea what's coming.
- Hmm.
(reporters clamoring)
- [Reporter] Mr. Wentworth!
(tense music)
(suspenseful music)
(scanners beeping)
- Hi, excuse me.
I need to ask a really big favor.
I've lost my press card.
Um, my mistake,
but I do need to get into the press conference.
- I'll just check the list.
What's your name?
- [Harry] Paul Brodie.
Thanks.
- I'm afraid you're not on the list.
- Sir.
Is there a problem?
- Yeah, there is a problem.
I'm not on that list
and I need to get into this press conference.
- Well, if your name's not on the list,
you're not coming in.
- This isn't my mistake, this is your mistake.
My name should be on that list.
- If it's not on the list, you're not coming in.
(tense music)
(mobile dialing)
(mobile ringing)
- [Man] Yes?
- It's Harry.
- [Man] Put the phone down.
- I'm at the Wentworth press conference.
I suggest you get here now! - Put the phone down!
- All right, all right!
- [Guard] Gun.
- [Guard] Checking.
Clear.
- Get him down!
Security breach.
- We've just had a communication from
the head of security at the venue.
We're going in the back way.
Nothing to worry about.
- [TV Reporter] There's growing speculation and excitement
about what Alexander Wentworth is going to say
when he gets here.
He's invited the world's media
and the world's media have turned out.
- I don't know who and I don't know why,
but I know it's going to happen.
- [Man] Get him out of here now.
- Did you just hear what I said?
Russell, somebody's trying to kill Wentworth.
That's what this is about.
- [Man] Shut up!
- [Russell] Are you in charge?
- I am.
Found him in a secure environment with a firearm.
Do you know him?
- Yeah, I know him.
Harry, sit down.
What were you doing with a gun?
- Fuck the gun!
Somebody's going to kill Wentworth!
- Yeah?
Who's going to kill him?
- How many times?
I don't know!
- Why does this person want to kill Wentworth?
- Look, you can keep dicking around with these questions
or you can do something about it,
but you're going to have to do it quick
because Alexander Wentworth is going to be dead
in less than 20 minutes.
- Have you seen the amount of security out there?
- They can get to him.
Wake up, Russell, you're a detective.
This is all connected.
The Braddick hit, Stevie Quirke,
it all leads to here.
- Take him away.
- Okay, okay.
I know what he looks like.
I don't know his name, but I know what he looks like.
I can point him out to you.
- [Guard] Raise your arms.
- [Russell] Right, who are we looking for?
- Mid-30s, medium build, he's over six foot.
Dark hair.
- If you even think of trying anything,
I'm going to let these guys shoot you.
(cars rumbling)
(tense music)
- Thank you.
(tense music)
- I have your badge.
- Oh, good.
- For you.
There you are.
Thank you.
(crowd chattering)
(police radio crackles)
(suspenseful music)
- Wentworth's in the building.
- Do you see him?
- No.
(tense music)
(crowd chattering)
(suspenseful music)
- One moment, please.
We're just waiting for security clearance.
- Still not nervous?
- Honestly?
I feel the hand of history on my shoulder.
(tense music)
- Well?
Do you see him?
- No.
- Russell.
This is a waste of time.
It's compromising security.
(suspenseful music)
- Here.
That's him.
There.
- Which one?
- Striped tie, the gray suit, there, there!
- Come on, he's over there!
(tense music)
- Let's go, sir.
(reporters clamoring)
(cameras snapping)
- [Harry] Mark!
Mark!
(reporters clamoring)
(suspenseful music)
(gun fires)
(cameras snapping)
(people screaming)
(tense music)
(people clamoring)
Mark.
(banging door)
(suspenseful music)
Mark!
(woman sobbing)
Who are you working for?
- [Russell] On your feet, Venn!
- [Newsreader] Sensational revelations are still coming in
thick and fast following the assassination
of the billionaire industrialist James Morpeth,
shot down in front of the world's media.
- [Reporter] It's being said that the intended target was,
in fact, Alexander Wentworth and rumors are also
gaining ground that the assassination and ensuing chaos
will be used to justify some kind of coup.
- [Reporter] Sources are suggesting that the assassination
may be linked to the death of Sir Nigel Fountain,
who was shot dead in Kew Gardens earlier the same day.
(record button clicks)
- So you deny you were involved in
the Morpeth assassination?
- We've been doing this for three days.
You catch on fast, Russell.
- What about the Braddick murder?
You still denying that?
- Yes.
- Why did you go to the house?
- You know what, I've got nothing more to say.
(door thuds shut)
(stop button clicks)
- Right.
It's just you and me, Harry.
Off the record, okay?
- Okay.
- This is what I think.
I think you found out that something was
going down at the press conference.
You weren't exactly clear what,
but you thought you might be able to stop it.
- Exactly.
- And you had the gun because someone had
already tried to kill you.
- There you go, bang on the money.
- This is what else I think.
20 years ago,
your brother Mark came to you
and he asked you to do a bit of driving for him.
You couldn't say no to Mark.
He had balls, charisma.
You looked up to him, admired him.
I don't think you knew there was going to be a hit.
Listen, H,
I don't blame you for going along with him.
The one I blame is Mark.
He was your big brother.
He took advantage of you, Harry.
I think you've been carrying a lot of guilt
for a lot of years.
And that's too much for any man to carry.
This is a chance to get it off your chest.
A chance to start again.
Eh?
(both chuckle)
- That's very good.
Tell me, did they make you retrain
in interrogation techniques
because they wouldn't let you beat up prisoners anymore?
'Cause I'm impressed, you know?
Just goes to show, you can teach an old dog.
But just so as we're clear, Fenton.
Do you mind if I call you Fenton?
Mark never asked me to drive.
And I wasn't at the Braddick house.
You think you've got a case?
Fine, charge me.
(Russell scoffs)
(record button clicks)
- Harold George Venn,
I hereby charge you with conspiracy to murder
Geoffrey Philip Braddick on April the eighth 1989.
(dramatic music)
(lock clicks)
- Clothes.
Your solicitor's here.
(cell door bangs shut)
(dramatic music)
- Gina.
Always said I'd get in trouble
just to have you as my lawyer.
- I have to warn you.
The coffee's terrible.
- I've drunk worse.
- You're a brave man.
Really.
I got you a newspaper.
There's a government, at last.
- So...
They were going to use Wentworth's assassination
as an excuse for a coup?
- That's the most popular theory, yes.
- Why did Mark kill Morpeth and not Wentworth?
- Harry, Morpeth wanted you dead.
Mark wasn't going to let that happen.
He's your brother.
We're not going to make a bail application today.
We don't have the package in place.
You'll be remanded in custody.
Sorry.
- Don't worry about me.
What about you?
- I'm fine.
- Did you get what you needed from Nigel?
- I got some answers.
- Well, I wasn't thinking that.
I know how much he meant to you.
- He knew everything.
He lied.
But he was trying to protect me.
- Do you have anyone?
I mean...
Do you have anyone to go to?
- Let's face the music.
(dramatic music)
Sir, I appear for Mr. Venn.
He will be vigorously contesting the charges against him.
- [Judge] Mr. Venn is remanded in custody
until the 28th of this month.
(dramatic music)
(cellblock door creaks)
- Go up the courtyard and wait.
- What's going on?
Oi!
What's going on?
(tense music)
(door slams)
(tense music)
Hello?
(door buzzes)
(tense music)
Oi!
What's going on?
- Hello, Harry.
(dramatic music)
- What are you doing here?
- You think I'm going to sit there
and watch them bang you up?
What's a big brother for, eh?
- Lot of good it's done me.
- Saved your arse once or twice.
- You got me into this.
- That's right.
And now I'm getting you out.
- And that's supposed to make it all right between us?
Is it?
- I don't have all day.
- No, of course you don't.
You've waited 20 years, but you don't have another day.
- We need to go.
I need a yes or no from you, Harry, and I need it quick.
Do you want me to get you out of here?
- No.
I've got myself a good lawyer.
(dramatic music)
(door clangs)
(dramatic music)