01x04 - Episode 4

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Hi. Matthew Nolan.
Shen Zhao.

I'm sorry.
Oh...

SCREAMING

WOMAN: So you crashed the car
without Shen Zhao in it.

And then, when the police arrive,
there she is. So they say.

MAN: Did anybody give you
anything to bring back?

It was...
No, nobody gave me anything.

HANA: Who is Sir George?

NOLAN: Sir George Chapman,
he owns World Pacific Medicine.

WOMAN: I went to World Pacific
Medicine offices. Hey!

Men with g*ns
are looking for me.

Hana, what's happening?
Amber Hurst is dead.

It was made to look like
she overdosed.

Dr Ward, I'm placing you
in custody

for the suspected m*rder
of Amber and Steven Hurst.

MAN: Minister Tang, you're aware
there have now been three deaths

on board 357.
Can you explain that?

Sounds more like accusation
than a question.

Try not to get blindsided.

Where is she?

Zhang, where did she go?

JESS: Are you Sir George Chapman?
I'm a friend of Dr Nolan.

He said to look you up.
She isn't in the luggage hold.

We've searched everywhere else,
unless you think she just vanished.

Captain, please move,
I'm going to go in.

SHOUTING: Zhao, where are you?

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

You have a beautiful home.

It's a little much
for one person.

That's my late wife, Eleanor.

Ah, where are my manners?
Please, let me take your coat.

Now, keep both hands where I can
see them and turn around.

JESS GASPING

What are you doing?
Well...

Matthew...

...has never been here.

THEME MUSIC PLAYS

JET ENGINE HUMS

Zhang!

SHOUTING: Zhang, where are you?

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

CLATTERING

BARKING

HANA GASPING

Nice doggie.
BARKING CONTINUES

SIGHS

Jesus! God!

What are you doing down here?

Looking for you!
I've been shouting.

No Dr Ward?
No.

Let's go back upstairs.

Are you sure
she's not down here?

I thought I heard somebody.
No, probably just me. Come on!

JET ENGINE WHIRRING

INDISTINCT WHISPERING

GRUNTING

Who do you work for?
The London Echo, I'm a reporter.

No, who do you really work for?

Please, I shouldn't have come, I'll
just leave. This was a big mistake.

The mistake was sending
a child to do a woman's job. I'm 26.

Empty your bag.

On that table.

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

ITEMS JANGLING

Now, if you are a reporter...

...where are your press credentials?

I don't have them yet.

I just wanted
to get some background,

a quote from you about
the deaths on flight 357. Mm-hmm.

There's a media blackout.

How do you know about them?
My sister.

She's a detective
escorting Matthew Nolan.

And she told you
about the murders?

So they were m*rder*d?

Do you know the name
of the third victim

CHUCKLING

Oh, you really are
a reporter, aren't you?

CLICKING

There you are.
What are you doing in here?

There's blood on your shirt.

Yeah, I had to
redress the wound.

Any luck?
No.

We need to search
nose to tail all over again.

Where do you want me to start?

Downstairs.

OK.
And, Nolan...

Thank you.

I want to find her
as much as you do.

MAN SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

Is there a problem here?

There's no problem.

Are you OK?

We're having some trouble
with the drinks elevator.

It's stuck between floors.

Was it working earlier?
Yes.

May I?

BEEPING AND WHIRRING

CLICKING

I think something's jamming it.

Fetch DC Li.
Have her meet me downstairs.

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

BEEPING AND WHIRRING

GRUNTING SOFTLY

Nolan.
Did you find something?

Is that... blood?
Yeah.

Why won't it open?
It's jammed. Step back?

Oh, f*ck!

Ah...

SOFTLY: Kate.

f*ck! f*cking sh*t!

Nolan, breathe, just breathe.
OK.

She didn't deserve this.

None of them did.

Well, that's it.

She was the last.

Except for me.

No.

If MI5's theory is correct, then...

...they now have what
they're looking for.

What do you mean, MI5?

Isn't that who
you've been talking to?

Yeah. They're convinced that Shen
Zhao gave one of you something

to smuggle out of China.

Christ.

That's why they were tortured.

Still think she's your k*ller?

No.

He thinks it's me.

JESS: All I need
to know is why you think

somebody might be targeting your
doctors and destroying their files.

CHAPMAN: Whoa, whoa, what are you
talking about, destroying files?

I was at your office, I filmed them
doing it. No, nonsense.

If that had happened,
I would have been inf...

Show me.

sh**t: Target has company.

Female, Asian.

Somebody's cleaning house.

What does that mean?
It means you need to leave.

PHONE BUZZING

Well, then.
JESS: Who is it?

The dead man.

Hello.
Sir George, it's Matthew.

Oh, Matthew, thank God.
You OK?

No, I am not OK.

Why didn't you help me
at Heathrow?

Where the bloody hell were you?

I'm sorry, I wanted to,
but there was no way.

'I thought you had connections.'

You always said,
if ever there was any trouble,

that you'd take care of it.

I'll do whatever I can.

People are getting k*lled
up here.

Did you know that?

'Four deaths.'

And I'm probably next.
Four deaths?

You mean they got Kate?

We just found her.

sh**t: Target is on the phone
with persons unknown.

RADIO BEEPS

'Wait until he's off.
Keep this contained.'

Understood.

Where's Nolan?

I didn't leave Shen Zhao
to die in that car.

I'm being framed.

I believe you.
And now there's talk

of one of us trying
to smuggle something out of China.

Listen, I'm going
to need a lawyer,

and someone from the British embassy

to meet me at the airport
in Beijing. I'll do my best.

No, sod your best,
I need you to promise me!

I promise. But now, look,
I need to ask something.

Do you still have
what she gave you?

Like I told everybody else,
she didn't give me anything.

'She did, Matthew!'

She has to have done.

Don't you think I would know?

IN DISTANCE: It would have been
found by now.

What do you mean,
"is this a secure line?"

Nolan.
ZHANG: Who are you talking to?

GROANING

Matthew? Matthew, are you OK?
What's happening?

ZHANG SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

Hello?

CHAPMAN SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

PHONE DISCONNECTS
Blast.

Come on, come on.
PHONE RINGING THROUGH

RECORDED MESSAGE:
'You've reached the voicemail

'of Dr Steven Hurst...'

Who was it?

Phone d*ed before
they said anything.

BREATHING HEAVILY

Where'd you get the mobile?
It was Steven's.

Who'd you call?

Sir George.
Why? Because I'm desperate!

And he has contacts
in Beijing, he can...

He can get me a lawyer,
speak to an ambassador. Don't lie.

Why would the head of a non-profit
need a secure line?

That's just what
I was going to ask.

Arms up.

What? No, no,
I'm not doing this.

Do it.

SIGHS DEEPLY

GRUNTS

Are you playing me, Nolan?

Playing you?
Cut the crap!

Don't you think it's weird
Thames House has been all over this

and agents are removing files
from World Pacific Medicine?

What are you asking me?

Are you a spy?
Excuse me?

Is that what you're
not telling me? A spy.

Would he say if he was?

I'm not.

Then why did you say it should
have been found by now?

He knows who's doing this
and what they're looking for.

I don't, and I said "would have" not
"should have". What does that mean?

Sir George is convinced
that Shen Zhao did it

to give me something in Beijing,
but she didn't!

I don't believe him.

What about you?

Strip. I've been searched.
What are you doing?

His colleagues are all dead,
so I think he's responsible,

or has what they're looking for.
Put the g*n away, Zhang.

I said, strip!

Officer Zhang.

Captain Chen asked me to...
Nolan, go back to your seat.

Don't you ever point
a g*n at me again.

You said you knew Shen Zhao
gave something to Dr Nolan.

Is that why people
have been k*lled?

You need to stop asking questions.

What's that?

g*nsh*t, GLASS SHATTERS
Get down!

g*nf*re

Are you hit?
No. But you are.

WINCING

Who's sh**ting at us?
I don't know. Give me your phone.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

INDISTINCT VOICE ON PHONE

Police.

There is somebody sh**ting
at my house.

Number 7, Old Peppermill Lane,
Richmond.

Please hurry.

No, leave it! You might as well be
carrying a tracking device.

How are you so calm?

Are you a spy or something?

Oh, my God, you are.

CLICKING

Dinosaur.

CHAPMAN: You stay low.

But when I say "go,"
you don't hesitate.

Putting his night vision on
will buy us a few seconds.

Are you ready?
No!

I'm going to switch on the light
and you need to follow me. Go!

WINCING

g*nshots

DRAMATIC MUSIC,
JESS PANTING

Now what do we do?

CHAPMAN: Stay calm.

Right. We're going to need
to take my car.

You're going to have to drive.

I know a safe house.
We'll call MI6 from there.

Stay close, Jess.
There may be more.

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

JESS, WHISPERING: Is he there?

CHAPMAN: Breathe, Jess, breathe.
Don't freeze up.

Come on, come on.

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

CHAPMAN: Now's our chance.

CLICK
WHISPERING: Back! Back, back, back.

The car's just across
the courtyard.

CLATTERING, DOOR OPENS

He's inside.

Off the record,

do you know why
any of this is happening?

Only that it could jeopardise
the Anglo-China nuclear deal.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

You go out the French windows.
I'll cover you.

What about you?
Don't worry about me, just run,

and keep running.

Now, go!
g*nf*re, CHAPMAN WINCING

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

WAILING SIRENS APPROACHING

Hold on, the police are here.

CHAPMAN: Don't trust them.
Trust no-one.

And tell Matthew...

he must have it.

Now, run.

I'm scared.
Use it.

WAILING SIRENS APPROACHING

WAILING SIRENS STOP

TRAFFIC PASSING

PHONE VIBRATING
Hana's calling.

Put her on speaker.

Hana, what's the update?

'Kate Ward is dead.'

How?
Sloppy, rushed.

No attempt to make it look
like an accident.

He stabbed her and shoved her body
into a dumb waiter.

Who found her?

'Nolan.'
How is he?

Everyone he knows in his life's been
m*rder*d - how do you think he is?

Look, things are getting pretty bad
for us up here, ma'am,

what are you doing to help us?

We're doing
everything we can, Hana.

'But the Chinese won't turn
the plane around.'

Send me a full report
on Kate Ward.

If it's as undeniable
as you say,

then maybe it'll
move the needle.

Hey.
Hey.

What are those?
Ibuprofen.

My wound's throbbing.

I need you back downstairs, Nolan,
and not out of my sight.

I'll save you the trouble.

Her fingers were broken
and she was m*rder*d.

This is different.

Death is death, DC Li.

Hana.

And from what I can tell,
she was stabbed.

I need to know if you can figure out
with what.

Why?

Because if I know
what I'm looking for,

then maybe I can find it,
and identify the k*ller

before he...
Before he kills me.

Yeah.

So are you going
to hide in a bottle...

...or help me catch this bastard?
I'm not hiding.

Self-medicating.

Her fingers are fractured.

The ligaments are torn,
just like Steven and Amber.

The s*ab wounds.
Um...

They're not wide or flat enough
to be a Kn*fe s*ab.

More like punctures.

Something that...
Can you get me some water?

It's shaped like a star.

What kind of w*apon is that?

I'll tell you when I find it.

Hey.
Hey, hey...

SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

WOMAN SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

What's going on?

Captain Chen wants to see us.

Passengers know
about the deaths.

They're scared.

OK.

Songyun, please stay here
with Dr Nolan

and anything else you could tell me
will help.

Thanks.

URGENT OVERLAPPING
CONVERSATIONS

INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
CONTINUE

SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

KNOCKING ON DOOR

You have control?
I have control.

PASSENGER: What the hell
is going on!

ALL SHOUTING

Everyone, please,
return to your seats!

SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

Roll seat belts.

Ladies and gentlemen...

Tell me!

Where is the woman
who is missing?

RECORDING CONTINUES
ON PA IN MANDARIN

Is she dead?

Sir, please,
can you just calm down?

You're upsetting the passengers.
Don't quiet me, woman.

Yes.
Do you know who I am?

My father is a member
of the Politburo.

Well, Daddy's not here,
and you're drunk,

so go back to your seat.

Now!

ZHANG: OK, everyone,
back to your seats.

Please return to your seats.

We're losing them.
Yeah, they're scared.

Captain, I need
to search everyone on board.

Every passenger,
every piece of hand luggage.

Why?

Nolan described what he thinks is
the w*apon that k*lled Kate Ward,

so if I can find it...
I see.

WHISPERING: Captain, it's only
going to distress the passengers out

more than they already are.

TRAFFIC AND TRAIN PASSING

'Her Majesty's Services,
which service do you require?'

CHAPMAN, RECORDED: Police.
Somebody's sh**ting at my house.

Number 7,
Old Peppermill Lane, Richmond.

Please hurry.

So that's Sir George.

The police are still trying
to ascertain what happened,

but first impressions
are it was a single sh**t

from the field out back

hit Sir George through
the living room window,

then came inside
to finish the job.

Or the girl decided
to silence him

when her buddy missed the mark.
What girl?

This is from his doorbell.

You got that fast.

Something you're not telling me?

There isn't enough time in the day
for all the things I don't tell you.

This is the same Asian girl from
the World Pacific Medicine break-in.

"Asian" being the operative word.

You think she's a Chinese asset?

We can't rule it out.

INDISTINCT WHISPERING

Ladies and gentlemen.

My name is DC Hana Li,

I am a Detective Constable
for the London Police.

I understand that many
of you have questions

about this flight and are scared.

Whilst I can confirm that

there have been
four deaths on board,

I assure you that none
of you are in any danger.

Captain, this is reckless.

The reason I tell you this

is, in order to find the person
or persons responsible,

I need to conduct
a cabin search.

That means searching everybody
and their hand luggage.

Think about it.

The only person on this plane
with motive is Dr Nolan.

The rest of this is
smoke and mirrors.

I cannot disclose
what I'm looking for,

but I assure you,
with your cooperation,

I will find
the responsible party.

Please translate, Officer Zhang.

SPEAKING IN MANDARIN

MOBILE PHONE RINGING
AND BUZZING

What are you wearing?

A distressed frown.
'Is that all?'

Anything I can do?

'Listen...'

I sent you a couple of photos.

Could your boys at Langley
run an ID for me?

I've got my team working
on them, as well,

but I just want to be sure
I don't miss anything. 'Yeah, sure.'

You got a name?

Not yet, but I need to know

if she's a player
or a distraction.

I've had enough surprises
for one night.

'Say no more, give me 30.'

Thanks, Mike.

TRAFFIC PASSING

TRAIN PASSING OVERHEAD

SOBBING

Who is she?
Jess Li, 26.

Masters in journalism.

No criminal records,
no political affiliations.

Interned at The London Echo
for six months

before they let her go. Contact
there said she's working freelance

on a story about Nolan.
Any flags? Two.

Her father emigrated
from Hong Kong,

so she has potential ties there.

And the second?
She's Hana Li's sister.

And, according to her phone records,

she's spoken to Hana multiple times
during the flight.

Do we have the recordings?

Pulling them now.

How was Hana selected?

She was born in Hong Kong.

No shoe-ins from
the Home Office or MI6?

No, ma'am.

In fact, she was almost
rejected for the task

due to excessive insubordination,

but her superintendent
pushed for her.

Insubordination.
I knew I liked her.

There's something else, ma'am.
Er, can we talk privately?

Mm.

CLEARS THROAT

What's going on?

I didn't want to talk with
Tennant listening. OK.

I was doing more digging
on World Pacific Medicine.

How it got started,
who funds it, and...

I found this.

"Blindside".

What is this?

It's an op that's been used
in World Pacific Medicine

as a cover for covert activities.

What? Why have I never
heard of this?

It's an MI6 op.

We don't have clearance
for this.

There's a signature you should see

on some of Sir George Chapman's
intel reports.

"Don't get blindsided."

Ma'am?

It's something
Minister Tang said to me.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

Operation Blindside.
Start talking.

How do you know that name?

You shouldn't have this.
Oh, but I do. What is it?

That's need to know,
need to hold.

The minute this started involving
British civilians on British soil,

I needed to know.

So cut the crap, John,
or I'll go full Snowden on this.

OK, calm down.

What do you want to know?
What, why, where.

It's a delivery service.
Delivering what?

Flowers, what do you think?

Things that are too sensitive
for the Royal Mail.

So you've known all along that Nolan
and those other doctors on 357

were MI6 couriers.

For want of a better term.
Well, what would you call them?

Unwitting accomplices
of democracy.

And what's that
supposed to mean?

It means they're the best kind
of courier

because they have
no idea they're doing it.

You've been using
unwitting civilians

for spy craft on foreign soil.

Do know how reckless
and dangerous that is?!

See, this is the problem
with baby boomers,

you can't think outside the box.

This works, Madeline,
it's been a huge success.

People are dying because
you kept this from me!

Hey! You weren't
ever supposed to be

involved with this
in the first place.

This isn't domestic.

You inserted yourself,
remember that.

Nolan's life is in danger.

Four people are dead.

Well, that was a mistake.
It wasn't meant to be him.

So who was it meant to be?

I'll just say that one of the party
is a hip pocket asset

of Sir George, it was
supposed to be him.

Chris Peale. He's the only one
that didn't go back.

But something spooked Shen Zhao.

She bailed.

Probably the Chinese secret service
were tailing her.

She improvised
and gave it to Nolan,

or so we thought.

But you didn't
find it on him at Heathrow. No.

And so we assumed Shen Zhao
failed to deliver

and the secret service had recovered
whatever it was from her

back in China.
She was a Chinese operative.

Why would she be passing secrets
about her own country to us?

All we know is it pertains
to this nuclear power plant deal,

and for a woman like her
to betray her own country,

it must be bad.

Does the PM know?

The people who need to know
know what they need to.

And you have no idea what
was supposed to be couriered?

If you could've just come out
and told us, Madeline,

we wouldn't exactly need
"Blindside," now, would we?

SWEARS UNDER BREATH

DOOR SLAMS

Thank you.

Madam, please.

Arms.

Thanks.

Are these things
really necessary?

Captain's orders.

And listen, about taking
that phone off you...

you have to understand
why we did it. I do.

But you have to understand
why I had to call Sir George.

Did he say he could help?

He said he would try.

Try Sir George again.

Just in case.

HANA: Zhang.

Ma'am, we found the abandoned car

the assassin used
to k*ll Sir George.

Forensics are processing it.
Hmm.

There'll be no prints,
that was a pro hit.

What about Jess Li?

We're still scrubbing CCTV footage,
but nothing yet.

I'll be back in a minute,
can you get the door?

DOOR SHUTS

Mike, I guess you heard.

Did your people grab
the girl yet?

No, she's in the wind.

I did the checks you asked for.
She's clean.

So does Langley
have any ideas who has the balls

to g*n down an MI6 officer
in his own home?

It looks like that
could take a while,

but with everything else going on
tonight, I'd look east.

Yeah, that's the theory
Tennant's pushing.

You don't buy it?

'No, I don't.'

The Chinese are too methodical.
This feels...

too desperate, too hasty.

Murders on a plane,
Sir George in his home.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking that
this feels more like

a last-ditch attempt to fix an op
that's gone wrong.

Maybe it is.

'We both know field ops
don't always go smoothly.'

INDISTINCT CONVERSATION

So, the question is,
whose op got screwed up.

TENNANT:
Well, I'm going to have to.

TRAIN PASSING OVERHEAD

Hello?
'Oh, hi, um...'

I'm looking for Sir George,
I must have the wrong number.

No, no, no, you don't.

Can I speak to him?

Who is this?

His friend, Matt.

Matthew Nolan?

That's right. Who's this?

It's Jess, Hana's sister.

Jess?

Can I speak to him?

He's dead.
What?

'They k*lled him.'
Who did?

A man, he sh*t him.

It's Jess, they sh*t Sir George.

Jess?
It's me, are you all right?

What's happened?
'Hana.'

Oh, God, Hana.

They k*lled him,
he was right next to me.

Are you hurt?
'No, but I'm scared.'

What's going on?

Tell me exactly what happened.

'I went to see him to get
a comment for my article.

'And somebody sh*t up his house.

'He tried to get me out of it,
but...

'they sh*t him.'

Right in front of me.

The blood...

Um, Jess, you need to make sure
that you're not hit.

With adrenalin, it can take
a while for you to feel it.

I'm fine.

Hana, what do I do?

But, where are you?

I'm wandering the streets,
I'm not sure where I am.

'Right, go to Dad's.'

I'll call Simon,
he'll take care of you.

Sir George said something
to me before he d*ed.

He told me that
Nolan has something.

He told me the same thing,
but I don't.

'He said he must have it.'

Did he say what it was?
'No.'

I've never seen
anyone die before.

Jess, it's going to be
all right, OK?

Just stay strong,
can you do that for me?

I'll try.

And I'm sorry about the fights.

'The things I've said.'

Jess, none of that matters,
all right? I love you.

Please just go to Dad's, and I'm
going to call Simon right away.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

CAMERAS CLICKING

MAN: Chris Peale, ma'am.

CAMERAS CLICKING

Have the police inform his wife.