01x03 - The Asset

[bunniefuu]

MARCUS: Darling Violet.
It's time to say goodbye

to the land of Illyria.

[MAN SPEAKING FRENCH]

DEMIR: They closed the
Galata Bridge today.

They're looking for someone.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

- Where is she?
- Here.

The target claims to be
Adilah El Idrissi from Paris.

She left behind a daughter.

So guess what? At 8:15 this
morning, a 10-year-old girl

was intercepted on her way to school.

Strands of her hair were taken,

all I need you to do is analyse them.

IMOGEN: We're here to see Mr Demir.

This lady needs to get to Paris.

$2,000 now, $8,000 when you
give us the passport and papers.

"The Book of Surprises"
from the fourteenth century.

It's about Djinn and
devils and shapeshifters.

IMOGEN: There's seven Djinn Kings.

One for each day of the week.

They can change into anything.

Using DNA evidence, the Americans

have proven that the woman you are with

really is Adilah El Idrissi.

The woman I am with is the !sis
commander we are looking for.

The woman I am with
is the Djinn al Raqqah.

And I will prove it.

GUY: Black Aces and
eights. Dead man's hand.

- MAN: I'm not having any luck!
- [ALL CHATTERING]

[ALL PROTESTING]

WOMAN: Shut the door, man.

GUY: Shut the door, mate.
What are you doing?

There's some guy out there
I've never seen before.

Yeah. All right. I'm out.

- WOMAN: Yeah. Of course.
- [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[COUNTING TO SELF IN ARABIC]

[GRUNTS]

[PANTING, GRUNTING]

GUY: Hello, salaam...
[CONTINUES IN ARABIC]

It is customary for all
visitors to this camp

to report to the UNHCR.

So could I see some identification

right now, please?

Hey, mate. [CLAPPING]

Identify yourself.

HASAD: My name?

My name is...

- [g*nshots]
- [BOTH GRUNT]

[MOBILE PHONE BEEPS]

[HASAD ON PHONE] I have her cell phone.

So...

It can begin.

And, so it can begin.

SAMHURES: I got the call.

It's time.

[ANNOUNCER ON PA SYSTEM IN BULGARIAN]

[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

You can't move into check.

And yet I so often do.

Gosh, you know what I've
missed most living in the camps?

The smell of a Western pharmacy,

when you walk in.

The soap, the perfume,
the... the cleanliness,

it's just... [SIGHS LOUDLY]

It's the finest
achievement of civilization.

Why would you regularly help people

cross international borders?

I didn't say I did it regularly.

I did it once before.

It was a woman and her baby.

I went to Istanbul, got them passports

and crossed the border with them.

Because you are an angel.

Yes, I am an angel of the pharmacy,

The Church of St Boots.

You and I've been together
for far, far too long.

We've actually only been
alone together for 77 hours.

Can we help you?

MAN: I love chess.

I am obsessed.

[CLICKS TONGUE]

Mmm-mmm.

That's cheating.

He might be bad at chess.

He might be a grandmaster.

I am somewhere in between,
but closer to grandmaster.

Your King is now where he should be.

All will now fall into place.

[BORDER OFFICER IN FRENCH]

[BORDER OFFICER IN FRENCH]

Hi.

[SIGHS, EXHALES]

IMOGEN: Adilah, don't
leave the apartment

I've arranged for you.

Just stick to the plan.

We'll speak tomorrow.

[ON PA SYSTEM] Welcome
to Charles De Gaulle...

Yasmina!

- Yasmina!
- YASMINA: Mama!

[CRYING]

[CONTINUES CRYING, SNIFFLING]

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[NOOR IN FRENCH]

[IN FRENCH]

Bonjour.

Bonjour.

[IN FRENCH]

[FRENCH SONG PLAYING]

[IN ENGLISH] You look terrible.

- Why are you still in Paris?
- [CLEARS THROAT]

I thought your DNA
miracle closed the case.

Oh, the investigation into
Adilah El Idrissi was closed.

And then...

Two NGO workers were ex*cuted

next to the tent where she was detained.

Is it true that the
French intelligence systems

close at 5:00 and open at


What has happened?

Okay, I am...

declaring this intelligence
briefing official

at, let's see...



as the rep of the Paris Station of CIA.

- No.
- I am opening

a briefing session with...

with... Okay. He doesn't
want to give us his name.

With a representative of the DGSE

to officially inform him

of pertinent developments

in an anti-terrorism investigation

that took place early this morning,

and as the sole source
of this intelligence,

CIA Paris Station hereby claims primacy

in the consequent investigation

into the anti-terrorism investigation

referred to previously as
"Operation Genie of Raqqah."

I now ask my French colleague
to respond to my request

to share fresh and relevant
intelligence with him.

- f*ck you.
- Okay.

Copy that.

WAITER: Monsieur.

[WAITER CONTINUES IN FRENCH]

I'm sorry, I don't
know... parlez-anglais?

[IN ENGLISH] Your friend, he
did not pay for his coffee.

You're kidding me.

Of course, he didn't.
I am so sorry, my man.

- How much was it?
- 4.60.



I'll tell you what? You keep that.

All right? Keep the change.

America always picks up the tab, baby.

[g*nsh*t]

When you're dead,

no one will be able to touch your bodies

because of contamination.

These are your death shrouds.

Put them on now so you're
wearing them when you die.

So you will be appropriately dressed

when you reach heaven.

Remember, once you've exposed

the cores of the radiology machines,

you will have three minutes to
get them out of their casings

and into the water inside
the lead containers.

Within one minute of
exposure to the cores,

you'll be very sick.

After two minutes, you may be blind.

After three minutes...

you will be dead.

So the task must be completed
within three minutes.

We need both cores.

You've practised the movements
and seen diagrams many times.

In the three minutes
you have before death,

think only of the final consequence.

[CONTINUES IN ARABIC]

[SNIFFLES, CRIES]

- [IN ARABIC]
- [PATS]

[IN ARABIC]

[GRUNTS]

[GROANING, COUGHING]

[GRUNTS]

[GAGS, COUGHS]

[COUGHING]

[GROANS, GASPS]

[PANTING]

[GASPING]

[COUGHING]

[SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

[MALIK CLEARS THROAT]

It must be nice to be yourself again.

I need two things, Malik.

I need a shower...

and I need to be left
alone to pursue this.

Imogen, I was shown

a photograph of two
dead bodies in the snow

by an American who is
always 12 hours ahead of me.

Early this morning, the
director of the refugee camp

was sh*t dead, along with
his head of communications.

And we believe that it was no accident

that their bodies were
found next to the tent

where Adilah El Idrissi
was kept in isolation.

The body of a low grade !sis volunteer

known to the MIT was found dead.

It was a single g*nsh*t to the head,



Ultimate intelligence hygiene.

In the manner of the Russian FSB.

WAITER: Voila.

- Sante.
- Merci.

As of course, you must understand,

the murders at the camp
have changed things.

The case has been reopened.

It's not reopened

because it was never closed for me.

I knew it was her, and not Sabaine.

You were right, okay? You were right.

- Say it again in French.
- [CHUCKLES]

Tu avais raison.

Tu avais raison. Tu avais
raison. Tu avais raison.

[IN ENGLISH] But, you
can't keep going rogue.

We are now on French soil.

The DGSE will not allow
a lone British agent

to handle a high-value target
without French supervision.

It simply cannot happen.

Also, the DRSD, the BRGE and the DCPJ

will need to be involved,

and also the Americans.

[MALIK INHALES]

They believe that inside the head

of whatever the f*ck she is to you,

there is a plan to k*ll a
massive amount of people.

And you're still sure
she's capable of that?

Everyone is capable of everything.

Adilah El Idrissi's apartment

has already been wired with devices

and her phone is tapped.

She isn't going back to her apartment.

- Why not?
- Because I warned her not to.

I told her she'd be under surveillance.

MALIK: f*ck.

I mean, know where she's going.

So where is she going?

Imogen, the President
of the United States

is briefed on the progress
of this investigation

every f*cking day.

Then tell the President
of the United States

that no one else can
achieve what I can achieve.

And what is it that you can achieve?

[IMOGEN CLEARS THROAT]

[WAITER SPEAKING FRENCH]

[CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE POPS]

[IN AMERICAN ACCENT]
Ladies and gentlemen,

may I please have your attention?

My wonderful boyfriend,
just asked me to marry him!

[ALL CHEER]

And I said, yes!

[CHEERING, APPLAUDING]

To true, true love!

- ALL: To true love!
- [ALL APPLAUDING]

[IN USUAL ACCENT] Adilah El Idrissi

is a shape-shifter, and so am I.

You can tell the President
of the United States

I know what the f*ck I'm doing.

[SHOWER RUNNING]

My Violet.

Can you remember her face?

Emir.

[ADILAH ON PHONE] I'm not
sure who she really is.

I need to find out if she
knows anything about our plan.

So...

what is this woman like?

There's something...

intangible about her that I can't name.

Sounds like someone I know.

Even though we're lying to each other,

I feel like I've been
more honest with her

than most people.

You and I are the same.

We're all the same in this thing we do.

But you... You always go too far.

You disappear.

Even to yourself.

Even to me.

I'm here now.

When you were in Istanbul,

I was worried that...

it would bring back too many memories.

[MOBILE PHONE VIBRATING]

My calls are being intercepted.

Of course they are.

Don't take the call.

- Please don't...
- Hello?

ADILAH: Hi, it's me. How are you?

I'm drinking champagne and scotch.

What about you?

I imagine it's a little bit
overwhelming being back home.

ADILAH: [SIGHS] It's everything.

I just had the longest
bath with Yasmina.

She's sleeping now.

So, let's meet.

IMOGEN: I know the perfect place.

It's a restaurant called Guy Savoy.

It's on the Quai de Conti.

ADILAH: Okay.

IMOGEN: Okay, let's say 7:30.

- ADILAH: Yes.
- IMOGEN: Perfect.

I'll see you then.

If you know you're being surveilled,

why did you make a rendezvous?

To help your department
maintain control.

- How very kind of you.
- You're welcome.

We arranged the real
rendezvous on the plane

because I knew my phone would be bugged.

Now that I've done
that on a tapped line,

you can send your people
there tonight at 7:30.

Find out who else is
listening to my calls.

I do these things purely in the interest

of Anglo-French relations.

So, in the interest of
Anglo-French relations,

you now tell me where
you're really meeting her.

I will debrief you tomorrow morning.

Fine. No problem.

I'll have you followed.

Ooh! Good luck with that.

[CHUCKLES]

[MOBILE PHONE RINGING]

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[MAGRITTE SPEAKING FRENCH]

ADILAH: Boo!

Salut.

Salut.

Why did you choose here?

You're a big Morrison fan?

No, it's on all the maps.

It's easy to find.

I'm taking you to a
grave that's more obscure.

Come.

[SNIFFS]

The grave of my grandfather.

I often used to come
here to talk to him.

The grandfather who
was in the revolution.

A hero of the revolution.

What does the line in Arabic say?

You already know what the
line in Arabic says, Imogen.

If Imogen is even your real name.

Still here.

The revolver he used to
fight the French colonisers.

Instead of burying it with him,

I put it in a place
where I could reach it.

When I was young and f*cked up,

I thought someday I might do this...

Or when people made me really angry,

when people lied to me,

I thought I might do this.

Now, I would love for
you to explain to me

why you're helping me.

I want you to explain in the
presence of my grandfather.

He was always able to
tell the truth from lies.

If your grandfather decides I'm lying?

Then one of the b*ll*ts he put
into the chamber 70 years ago

will serve its original purpose.

Can I sit down?

Annihilation of the self...

has always fascinated me.

When I was younger, my
father was assassinated

and I became very familiar with death.

He was a British diplomat.

I grew up all over the world.

When I was 16, we were in Istanbul,

and he was blown to
pieces in a diplomatic car.

They said there was...

absolutely nothing
left of him. [CHUCKLES]

He was just made of... dust.

You see, I think, being a diplomat

was just my father's cover.

So, who assassinated him then?

IMOGEN: The TDKP.

The Revolutionary
Communist Party of Turkiye,

which, the rumour is,
was controlled by the CIA.

The thing that stuck
with me, really struck me,

was that there was nothing
left of him for anyone to bury.

So, I couldn't understand
what they put in the coffin.

[CHUCKLING]

One day the person is there

and then the next, they're just not.

Strangest thing...

That was not an answer to my question.

Erm...

When I grew up, I followed
in my father's footsteps.

Er, I worked in embassies
around the world,

and then I was recruited

as an operative for
British intelligence...

MI6.

You are a British agent?

IMOGEN: Yes.

I was sent to the camp
to make contact with you.

The French and the Americans thought

you were someone very important.

Then, apparently some DNA test

proved that you weren't
important at all.

And so, it's all over.

[CHUCKLING]

I'm just a mid-level British agent

whose assignment has been terminated

and you're a woman who made
a terrible decision long ago.

On the other hand, maybe
not entirely innocent.

So, why are you still helping me?

Obsession with annihilation,

and those who seek it.

I do want you to hold
your daughter again

Without being under
constant surveillance.

And I like you.

Never really liked anyone.

The inscription says, "One day
the common people will prevail."

What's your grandfather's verdict?

Am I telling the truth,

or am I lying?

Grandfather says...

"the woman is telling the truth."

[SPEAKING BULGARIAN]

[MOBILE PHONE VIBRATING]

Is it done?

DAVID: Michal and Farroukh
sacrificed their lives

removing the cores and
putting them in the container.

We will be with you
within 24 hours. Inshallah.

[TRUCK STARTING]

[ENGINE WHIRRING]

[LOCKER KEY PAD BEEPS]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION, LAUGHTER]

[EXHALES] Hi. I'll
have a whiskey, double.

[IMOGEN SPEAKING FRENCH]

It is so interesting

that they thought you could
be the Djinn Al Raqqah.

So, who is this Djinn?

She's brilliant.

Smarter than any of the male commanders.

She may have designed the entire plot.

Very impressive.

But I need the truth about
you as soon as I saw you.

What is the truth about me?

You're just a mother
who loves her daughter.

You could never be the kind of woman

who would plan a plot to
k*ll thousands of people.

Adilah, the Americans,

they are never gonna
let you just walk away.

Even if they don't
think you're the Djinn.

If they know you're ISIL,
they will capture you,

and interrogate you,

and probably t*rture you.

So will you help me and
my daughter get to safety?

I need a cigarette.
I'll be back in a second.

[BOTH IN FRENCH]

[IN ENGLISH] Do you ever
wonder how we'd do this job

if we didn't drink?

No. Don't be ridiculous.

I think she's playing a double game.

She's still working for them
and she knows everything,

but she's also trying to
escape with her daughter.

I need her to believe
I'm helping her with that,

and she'll stay close to me.

And I know she's going to
tell us what we need to know.

Oh, yeah, I forgot, you can
just feel these things, right?

The deal you and I have is that
I do what the f*ck I need to do

and you report what I
find out back to Langley.

I will report...

that you're in a good
place with the target

and you're reporting directly
to the CIA Paris station.

And keep the French
Intelligence at a distance

till you have something to share

that we think they can be trusted with.

You know your task, you know?

You can move to phase
two with my permission.

I'm officially moving to phase f*ck you!

The only reason I'm working with you

is because in order to operate,
I need to know everything,

and I've calculated that
the Americans know the most

because they have the most money,

and superior equipment.

Copy that.

Have you thought about the fact
that the camp assassinations

was done in the style
of the Russian FSB?

Of course, coincidence.

Hmm, never trust those, myself.

By the way...

I do need you to do something for me.

I want confirmation that the TDKP

was a cover for the CIA,

and they assassinated Marcus Seabright.

And I want to know why.

That's a mighty big ask for you
to work out some daddy issues.

You've done your research.

MAX: That's highly classified.

Why would I do that for you?

IMOGEN: Because I've
done my research as well.

Morocco, 2013.

When do you want it?



The martinis are the best in Paris.

From one who knows.

And here I just thought you liked me

for my winning personality.

Some guy came and sat next to me.

I paid the bill.

I can help you, but I need some time,

and I need you to stay with me.

I can protect you from the Americans

but the deal is Yasmina
has to go back to Noor

until we know exactly what we're doing.

She's not safe with us.

I need you to believe me.

Everything depends on her safety.

So, what's your real name?

The best lies are mostly true.

[EMIR IN BULGARIAN]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[THIS, MY PORCELAIN LIFE
BY RASPUTINA PLAYING]

♪ I exist here on an acre of nature ♪

♪ In the diminutive ♪

♪ But I'll be thinking
of you, I would wager ♪

♪ My favorite hypocrite ♪

♪ You are a master ♪

♪ Of the commerce of friendship ♪

♪ So I put all of my feathers on ♪

♪ I wrote you this letter, I send it ♪

♪ And this foul weather is gone ♪

♪ Of your last words
to me I am thinking ♪

♪ And of the depth of your eyes ♪

♪ But you can't halt
the profound shrinking ♪

♪ Of this, my porcelain life ♪

♪ My porcelain life ♪

♪ My porcelain life ♪

♪ My porcelain life ♪