04x06 - The Line

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We're closing. When?

About six weeks.

I'm sorry, Stevie.

Sandra, that is
my mother's signature.

I can't be involved in this!

And it was my husband, Jen.
It was Gerry.

We go to the Police
Ombudsman, it'll snowball.

Hello, Geraldine?
I have some documents

I think you need to see.

Look at it!
Court case collapsed like that.

The McIntyres!

It stinks.

He needs to talk to you!

I don't need to talk to him!

How significant is the threat
on my mate,

Constable Annie Conlon?

You need to be somewhere safe!

I need to be somewhere I know!
You have no idea.

Well, actually, Amira, she does.

You have stayed away
from your family so far.

If you ever try to change that,
I will come for you.

Every Ginley in Dublin,
coming north,

looking for your head.

This is a cartel, Helen.

Mexico, Trinidad, Ireland, UK -

you know that,
and you know who's behind it.

Yeah, we know
and we can't prove, Colly,

same as it's always been.

Same as it always will be.

This guy's a soldier.

Served with Lee Thompson.

Ah!

They're the ones that
attacked the migrant centre.

And they're the ones
that sent that letter.

Why?
To blind us.

Well done, lads.

Well, a deal's a deal.

I'll give Constable Conlon
a proper threat assessment.

Thanks, sir.

Any callsigns.
Contact, contact.

expl*sive device reported.


assistance. Officer down.

All callsigns.

Any callsigns.
Contact, contact.

expl*sive device reported.


assistance. Officer down.

All callsigns.


What's your status...?

Who is it? Who's down?
I don't know.

Come on!

Is it Annie?
I don't know, Shane!

f*ck!


Give us a sitrep!

Sergeant McCloskey, Blue 3.

We are one minute out!
One minute out!

Annie?

Annie?

Annie, sweetheart...

Annie, can you hear me?
Are you OK?

Annie...

Annie... Annie, are you OK?
You're OK...

Annie, are you OK? You OK?

Check for secondaries!

Have you broken anything? No...

All right, sweetheart.
Grace, check her.

You're OK. Annie, are you hurt? No.

Arms good.

Katie...
Katie, can you hear me?

Legs good. Let's get this off.

She's alive!
Katie, can you hear me?

Are you OK?
I'm good, I'm good.

Oh, no...

No, she's bleeding, um...

She's bleeding quite badly.

Check for an ambulance.

Can we get an ETA
on an ambulance?

We've got a young girl in her


Ambulance... Grace?

Grace, are you OK?

Stevie, where is the ambulance?

Seven minutes out.
Seven minutes.

Go to the kitchen
and get me a bin bag

and some tape. What?

A plastic bag, some tape -
Sellotape, masking tape, whatever.

Yeah. Annie, can you walk?
Yeah, yeah.

Then get out. Yeah.

Annie, are you OK?
Annie!

Annie?

Annie, you OK?

Yeah?

Yeah...

The flakker... The flakker
took... took the blast...

Cut me six-inch strips.
Yeah.

Sarge?
Cordon! Cordon the street!

OK.

Shane!

We need to set up a cordon!

Go!

It's OK, Katie...
Come on. OK, more.

What about that side?
No.

Uniform, Uniform,

can we get a sitrep
on that ambulance, please?

Roger, 7-6.

ETA, five minutes.

Too long.

Let's go!

At least something
works around here.

Any updates from the hospital?

It was a ball bearing, um...

It punctured her ribcage,
but she's out of surgery.

She's in ICU.

Er, Skipper...

that procedure that you did,
what was it?

It was a sucking chest wound.

Her lung was about to collapse.

I'm going to be late.

For what?

Teaching a Zumba class.

Teaching a what...?

A Zumba class.

What?

Zumba.

You know
it's all going to kick off again

after what happened
to Katie Close.

Tell me this...

Was it easy...

leaving social work?

No.

No, just had a stupid dream.

Of this? Yeah.

Weirdo.

No, everything was
changing around me anyway

and I thought it wass probably
the best time

for me to change myself.

Why do you ask?

I was just wondering.

You should be resting. Hmm.

I can't believe
you're doing this.

Yeah, me neither.

You can get in trouble.

Wouldn't be the first time.

So you lost everything too,

and now you're trying to make
sure I hang on to something.

You think she'd ever meet me?

Who?

The girl who was attacked today.

Katie.

Why...?

I don't know.

Goodnight.

Yeah, night.

Thank you, Annie.

Thank you.

Yeah, no sweat.

Excuse me, can I help
you? Just a moment, please!

How did you get in here?
Special circumstances.

In breaking news,

the Office of
the Police Ombudsman

has announced
a major investigation

into state collusion,
allegedly involving

a high-level republican
informant.

The informant is alleged
to have worked for

both the police and MI5...

Well, here we go.
Over a 30-year period,

and is believed to be
awaiting trial...

From now on, everything changes.

For a number of offences,
including drug trafficking.

The Ombudsman has called
for a freeze on all files

relating to the alleged
informant...

Where did you get this,
Geraldine?

We recruited an agent
during the Troubles.

He saved lives.

We handed him over to MI5
when the time came.

If you'd like to tell me
what's ill*gal about that

then I'm all ears.
He was an agent of chaos.

He built a criminal empire.

Not on my watch!

We'll deal with all that
in the investigation.

You don't have a clue, do you?

Not a f*cking clue.

Enlighten me.

Who were we supposed
to recruit? Choirboys?

Some of our agents
did bad things -

that's why they were credible.

Arguably you crossed the line.

"The line"?

You weren't even born then.

Do you know, the reason
you can go into town today

without worrying about
being blown to pieces

is because people like me
stood on that line.

And we made decisions
on that line.

Life on one side,

death on the other.

And we did that day after day,

night after night.

And sometimes
that line shifted under us.

Other times, it faded
so we couldn't even see it,

but we still stood there,
every day.

So don't talk to me
about the f*cking line!

News of this Police Ombudsman
investigation

is going to cause a lot of unrest
in some communities.

Tina McIntyre,

Mo McIntyre,

they could become targets
because they're associated with

the alleged state agent
known as Farset.

And that's James McIntyre?

We can't officially say that.

So everybody else can say it
except for us?

Look, just...

stay on your toes, OK?

There's something else.

I'm going to say this as simply
as I can.

This station is going to close.

The reason we've
been chasing statistics

is because I was trying to save
this place, and I failed.

You'll all be relocated.

The moratorium on transfers
and promotions has been lifted.

You can apply for any
position elsewhere, but this...

station, Blackthorn Station...

it's closing.

I'm sorry.

We're both going to be named.

Headquarters will want
to be seen to do something.

You and I will both be removed
from duty until the process is over.

Yeah.

So we're finished?

More or less.

The day's not over.

Mrs McIntyre.

I'm Constable Byrne.
I'm here to share some news

that might affect your safety
and the safety of your son.

We are talking
about only one story today,

and it is extraordinary.

Allegations of a state informant

known by the code name Farset,

working for both the police
and later the security service,

who built a criminal empire
over three decades.

Drugs, kneecappings...
..a public inquiry

which will have to look at the
extent to which the state's

security apparatus was willing
to tolerate criminal behaviour

in one of its informants...

He was telling the truth!
John...

It's all true.

John?

They betrayed us all!

The McIntyres!

All those years.

The whole time.

John, please!

John, please...!

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry, Roisin.

John, stop!

John, where are you going?!

The number you
have dialled is not in service.

f*ck!

Ma, what's going on?

What is it?
Pack your bags. Now.

What?

Pack your f*cking bags.
We're leaving.

Come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on...

Hello, stranger.

I need to talk to you, and I
think you need to talk to me.

Can you meet? No.

I can help. Yeah, how's that?

The spooks have moved your
husband to an English prison.

They're going to protect him,
but not you and Mo.

I can do that.

And, er, what do you want
from me?

Dana Morgan.
You give her up today -

not tomorrow, today -

and I can make sure that you
and the young fella go away

somewhere they'll never find you.

Are you still there?

Don't ever contact me again.

Mrs McIntyre.

We need to talk.

Come here.

Wise up.
Peelers had that place bugged.

Because I allowed it to happen.

Trust me.

This is currently
the safest place in Belfast.

Uniform from 7-4.

Still all quiet
at the McIntyres'.

Roger, 7-4.

Roisin O'Boyle
came to see me yesterday.

Ciaran's mammy.

What did she want?

She wanted help.

She said...

John O'Boyle's
in a bad way. He's...

beside himself with grief.

Drinking. Depressed.

She wanted me to talk to him. Why?

She thought
I could get through to him.

I don't know. I said no.

Well, you did the right thing.

So why do I feel like I didn't?

Uniform from 7-4.

Tina McIntyre's mobile
from this location.

Wait out, 7-4,
remain at the premises. Over.

Roger.

It's going to be difficult
for me to continue... here.

Right. So what's your plan?

Leave.

You're breaking our deal.

Everything is on those phones.

All the arrangements,
going back months.

Now, peelers
phoned me earlier...

C3...

and offered me a deal.

Give you up,
get witness protection.

I could have just
handed those over.

I didn't.

Where will you go?

I want... away from all this.

I grew up in Trinidad.

Poor.

The kind of poverty that
stays on you like a tattoo.

My father was a gardener.

But my uncle...

was a gangster.

When I was 14,
he sent me to Liverpool.

I did my A-Levels there,

then a law degree.

The agreement was that,

in time, I would work for him.

He needed someone
on this side of the Atlantic.

Someone he could trust.

Family.

That was a long time ago.

I had hoped that by now
I could retire.

Go home.

Enjoy life.

But here I am...

in Belfast.

You see, I want away
from all of this, too.

But in truth...

maybe home no longer exists.

Maybe it's better in my memory.

We're done here.

Um...

what about Lee?

Loyal to the last.

We'll collect the product
he still has,

and then we'll set him free.

Thank you.

You were caught
with 5kg of cocaine.

Who owned it?

No comment.

Look, I'm sure you
want to get out of here as well.

So do I.
Penny for your thoughts?

- He won't say a word.
- Give us a name.

Means we're still a long way
from arresting Lee Thompson.

- No comment.
- This was part

of a much bigger shipment,
wasn't it?

But Lee must have been working

for Morgan and McIntyre.
They're the only people

in this town that move
that amount of product.

Maybe we can use this.

Use it? Aye.

How? Response.

Rab McKendry.

Grace Ellis, right...

Constable Ellis,
can I have a word, please?

Er, sir, the email
you sent me last night,

do you mind me asking
why you sent it?

It was a wee favour

I owed a mate of yours,
er, Bradley.

Can you come with me?

But, sir...
Come, please.

You were involved
with the Thompson case

a couple of years ago?
Yes, sir.

I done a search the other day

and seen that you met up with
Rab McKendry, the uncle. Why?

Well, we were just trying to

get a handle
on this migrant issue.

And does he trust you?

Trust me? Aye.

I don't know, sir.

I'm going to pitch the nephew,
and you're going to help me.

Get your civvies on,
you're coming with me.

Well, I'm on shift...
I've already cleared it.

Go on, away you go.
Get changed.

I'll brief you on the way.

All right?

You played poker with C3

to get me
this threat assessment?

No, I...

No, I know all about it.

Was it because I was upset

about the whole
Amira Saeed thing?

You're a wee dark horse.

I'd say I'm more of
a wee fluffy unicorn.

No?

Grace is off-rota.
Can you two take 7-6?

Yeah, no sweat, er...
Yeah, we were...

That's what we were
talking about. Yeah.

OK. All right, well, go on, then.

Aye. Yeah, yeah.

Tony?

Take the van.

Arrange with Lee Thompson

to collect the product
he's still holding.

Count it.
Make sure it's all there.

He no longer works for us,

so you can give him
his exit package.

And what about her?

We'll find her,
wherever she goes.

I can't protect you any more.

I have to get out.

He told me.

Mo.

He told me that you were a tout.

Ah, but not on you, Lee,
never on you.

Yeah?

I know you're all about
loyalty, Lee,

but that word means different
things to different people.

So, you going to get out?
You going to look after yourself?

I'll be all right.
No, you won't!

Is that what she said?
She said you'd be OK.

That's how I knew she was lying.

I tried to run away once before.

Didn't like it.

I'd rather die on my feet...

in my country.

f*ck's sake, Lee!

Aye, you want to stop all this
for God and Ulster shite?!

What, would you prefer I said...

Tiocfaidh ar la?!

You see, in the end...

you only need one thing
to be loyal to.

You just got to decide
what it is.

Good luck, Lee.

Good luck, Tina.

What do you want to see Lee for?

Because we think
he might be in trouble.

Trouble? And who are you?

A friend.
Special Branch, then.

He must be in trouble.

Nah, leave me out of it.

Get out. Get out of here.

Rab... Rab...

Look, please, will you just listen
to what we've got to say?

Your nephew is trafficking drugs

for some serious criminals,
and now he's in a lot of danger.

Ma'am.

You've heard the news?

It's funny.

They ask you to do a job,
and then 30 years later

they want to hang you
for doing it.

You've sent someone to inform
Tina McIntyre

that she may be in danger?

Good. Keep me informed.

I'm the one who gave the
information to the Ombudsman.

Where did you get it?

I can't say.

You wanted to tell the truth.

I once told you, Helen,
secrets are a burden.

You're about to find out

the truth is the heaviest
burden of all.

Good luck, Helen.

It's been a pleasure
to serve with you.

Lee won't do a deal
with you! No way!

There's nothing you
can offer him!

No, but there's something
that you can.

What are you on about?

Lee just wants to see his
family. That's all he wants.

Well, he can't!
I won't let him!

What if he goes to prison
and does his time?

Would you let him then?

To take down this cartel,
I need a shipment of drugs.

If he can give me that,
I'll keep him alive.

Rab, it's the only way.

Call him.

John!

What's her address?

Who?

What's her f*cking address?!

Please, please, please, please!

Uniform from 7-4.

That's Tina McIntyre
back at our location.

Roger that, 7-4.

Reports of a sh**ting

at McAllister & Co Solicitors.

Suspect has fled the scene.



Aodhan McAllister?

Someone's going
after the McIntyre g*ng.

Dissidents?

Hello? Roisin?

Yes... It's Aisling Byrne.
Where's John?

I don't... I don't know...

Roisin, where is he?

He left. He was watching
the news and he just left.

Where is he? I can't get him.
He's not answering!

Right, OK.

Aisling, what's going on?

We need to warn them.

Oh, sh*t...

Get back inside.

He's going after her...
Going after who?

Tina... Tina McIntyre!

He's... He's going to her house.

Uniform from 7-6,
Op Gulliver nominal

John O'Boyle is en route to
Tina McIntyre's home address.

He's armed.
I repeat, he's armed.

Back in the house.
I'm not playing

your f*cking games, wee girl.
There's an active threat!

Aye, we're leaving!
Get back in the house!

There's our cab.


is en route to your location.

He's armed, 7-4.

Tommy?

OK, back inside the house!

Get your f*cking hands off me!

That's not it.

That's not our cab!

You f*cking traitor b*stards!
Police, put the g*n down!

You betrayed us all!
John! Listen!

Listen, it's me, Aisling!

No, John, it's Aisling.

John... John, remember,
I was with Ciaran.

I was with your Ciaran when he died.

Remember, John?

John, I was at your house!

Aisling! Tommy, no!

John! John, listen to me!

John, listen to me...

Think of Ciaran.

John, please, think of Ciaran.

Remember the last thing he said.

Please, listen to me, John.

John, John...
John, listen to me, listen.

He said to me, "Tell my mammy
and daddy I love them."

John, please...

Armed police!
Put the g*n down!

Stand down!

Don't sh**t!

Let me talk to him!
Please, don't sh**t!

Put your g*n down!

Please... Please, John.
Please remember that.

That must mean there
was something to love, right?

John, Ciaran loved you.

John, please...

John, come on...

John...

he loved you.

- John...
- Drop the weapon!

He loved you
and he still loves you.

Please, John...

Put your hands up!
Hands up!

Hands up!

Show me your hands!

Is everybody in this town
a tout?

You haven't heard the offer yet.

I'll take my chances. Lee!

Can I have a minute?

You take this on the chin.

Go down for it.

They say you'll get four.

Maybe five.

It's what you deserve.

You'll serve it
on the loyalist wing.

You'll be safe there.

After what I did to Dixie?

Dixie was an arsehole!
I'll make some calls.

You'll be safe.

You're a dead man walking out here.

Take the deal.

Nah. Lee...

I haven't finished.

You'll be visited, once a week,

by me and by him.

Maybe even your sister.

And then after,

when you have done your time...

you can come back...

to us.

Son...

you can come home.

Uncle Lee!

You wanted to see me?

I've just been sent
an appendix of your evidence.

Yes?

There are two
witness statements.

One from
a serving police officer,

clearly Inspector Johnston.

Well, you know I can't...
The other one...

The other one describes
my role in Special Branch...

very specifically.

Who gave that statement?

I can't disclose that
at this time.

You're missing one.

That's the one
that the peelers took.

Yeah, about that.

Sorry, fella.

Armed police! Stand down!

Move, move, move, move!

Down on the ground.

You in front, get down.
Do it now.

Target secure.

Cordon established.

TSGs on North and South.

This is a bit public, is it not?

Yeah, it's my last day
at school today.

And yours, too,
by the looks of things.

That was your own
who came after you today, Tina.

That's your future
if you stay in Belfast.

The Ginleys
tried to put a b*llet

in Lee Thompson's head today.

That's your future if you run.

It's decision time, Tina.

Mate...

who the f*ck are you?

I'm a friend.

You go and sit back down.

Maybe he deserves
to know the truth.

Maybe you both do.

I was the one that recruited
your da back in the day.

My partner at the time said,
"Don't do it. It's a mistake."

His name was Gerry Cliff.

If I'd have listened to Gerry...

our lives would be
a lot different today, huh?

But I didn't.

See, when I think back to all
those years ago on this job...

I realised...

there's people
that are just bad,

and there's people
that are just good.

And then there's that...

bit in between,

something that,
for the life of me...

I couldn't figure out
what it is.

You know what it is.

It's choices.

It's where we get to choose.

Ma...

do it.

Can we, er...?

Can we go somewhere nice?

Yeah, course.

I left my ringtone on.

You what?

On my work phone,

where we did all the business,
I left my ringtone on.

You got a pen?

Armed Police!
Armed Police!

Show us your hands!

Hands where I can see them. Up!

Well, Op Harvest was about us
working with Response.

Might as well be a Response
officer that makes the arrest.

Me, sir?
I don't see why not.

Might as well get a big one
on the books.

You know,
you might have a future in C3.

No, thank you, sir.

Why not?

I just think I've got
more important things to do.

Well, I've got an important thing
for you to do.

Get in there,
and I'll make the phone call.

Premises secure,
we have control.

Stand by for updates.

Dana Morgan, I'm arresting you

on suspicion of conspiracy
to import drugs

under Section 3
of the Misuse of Drugs Act.

You do not have to say anything,

but I must caution you
that if you do not mention

when questioned something which you
later rely on in court,

it may harm your defence.

Do you understand the caution?

Yeah.

Suspect apprehended, sir.

Why'd you do it?

Do what?

When you saw the b*mb,

you could have turned
and ran away.

Saved yourself.

It's my job.

You know, I'm going to...

I'm going to tell you something.

This wasn't the migrants
or a local group.

What?!

It was a criminal g*ng,
running drugs.

Wise up! Well, no.

No, that's where
all the evidence leads.

Right. So why would they attack me?

Because they want to
provoke a response.

They want to whip up
the communities on both sides

so that they can run the drugs,

and then
we can just focus on that.

Nah.

Nah, I don't believe you.

Well, you might not believe me...

but that's the truth.

Mm-mm.

You're just trying to say
it's all bullshit.

Everything I've been saying...

No.

No, that's not
what I'm trying to do.

But you have to admit...

Amira Saeed's house
was attacked because you...

I didn't do anything!

Oh! Come on!

Now, I know and you know
you're smarter than that.

You know, you should meet her.

Amira Saeed.

Why would I meet her?

Because yous both know
how it feels

when something really bad
comes to your front door.

I know that feeling, too.

Maybe that's why I did it.

Thanks for coming.

You know?

You want to know why I did it?

Because we can't have a future

if we're not honest
about the past.

Lovely words.

Bye, Mum.

Jen!

Please...

You know,
Gerry said something to me...

the day I sent him back
to Response.

I've never forgotten it.
Sometimes I wish I could.

He said, "They won't put
your rank on your gravestone."

I'm sorry.

Will we go to Jimmy's,
get some ice cream?

Mum, that's been closed for years!

Has it? Yes!

Well, we'll find somewhere new.

Yeah, OK.

You're about to start
your final shift

at Blackthorn Station.

And I'm told that, after that,

you're going to get drunk
in the car park...?

I'm drunk already.

Oh. Delighted to hear it,
Lawrence.

Er, just one last thing.

In life, change is inevitable.

But there's the kind we endure,

and there's the kind we make.

And I like to think that...

between these walls, we made...

more than we endured.

And wherever you go, and
whatever you do in policing...

I hope you take that with you.

Sharp eyes save lives.

Sorry.

Sorry.

What's this?

It's a case file.

Am I going to have to teach you
everything, Detective?

Whoo!

See you later. See ya.

See you later, cheeky.

Cake A Beat?!

Wow...

Oh, my God.

Stevie, you legend.

Mm! Mm.

So, this is the end.

The end here.

Did you give these
out to everyone?

I did.

Can I have one now?

You can.

Stevie...

- what's this?
- 7-0 from Uniform,

do you fancy the first call
of the last shift?

New beginnings?


Do you read me? Over.

Loud and clear, Barney.

Yes?

Yeah.