01x03 - The End Of Days

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The following programme contains
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Dr Cassandra Bryce?

I have some intelligence that needs
your particular nuclear expertise.

You told me it was gonna
be a quick job. In and out.

ALAM: The metal in the boxes...

is uranium.

What do you want to return it
to me? I want a million pounds.

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

They're both carrying something.
CASSIE: They're keeping apart.

If there was two pieces of uranium,
you'd have to keep them apart

to stop them reacting to each
other - they might explode.

[ON PHONE] Go to a
location I will send you.

There will be consequences
if you don't deliver.

Max. Do what they say. No!

We're gonna make her suffer.
Chop her into pieces.

[g*nsh*t] [BODY THUDS]

Get to Syria, Max.

I will arrange
transport to Marrakesh.

Your girlfriend will be
here when you arrive.

We're going to Syria.

[MAN SPEAKS ARABIC]

[CONTINUES SPEAKING]

[CONVERSATION IN ARABIC]

[CUTLERY CLATTERING]
[CLEARS THROAT]

[SPEAKS FRENCH]

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

What's your name?

Janat.

[SPEAKS FRENCH]

♪ RADIOHEAD: Bodysnatchers

♪ I do not

♪ Understand

♪ What it is

♪ I've done wrong

♪ Full of holes

♪ Check for pulse

♪ It is the 21st century

♪ It is the 21st century

♪ All the lines
Wrapped around my face

♪ All the lines
Wrapped around my face

♪ And for anyone else to see

♪ And for anyone else to see

♪ I'm a lie ♪

You're not saying much.

I'm driving. Usually
can't shut you up.

I thought you wouldn't wanna
talk. You're on a comedown.

I feel fine. [PHONE BEEPS]

Alam.

He wants us to go to an airfield
to catch a plane to Morocco.

To deliver the uranium.

We're here because of Baal.
That's why we came here.

But... after we go to the plane.

We have to take the
uranium to them.

You k*lled one of
them last night.

So what?! Alam
doesn't know that.

All he knows is that people
showed up and we had to run.

OK, OK. Calm down.

That's him.

Mohamed Aziz...
destroyer of worlds.

And he quoted the Gita?

Misquoted. Oppenheimer
was paraphrasing.

Did he strike you as
the literary type?

No. But he seems
like a textbook case.

Hardcore jihadi. He went to Syria
after his release from jail.

And according to the Brits, he
hasn't been seen for seven years.

There was something
about him, Mark.

I saw something.

He's dangerous. We still don't
know if they have real uranium.

Khaled's source said they do.
Fifty kilos. In two pieces.

I struggle to see how a Venezuelan
drug cartel fits into this

when we have a known
jihadist involved.

Well, the cartels
control Highway 10 -

the smuggling route between the
Mediterranean and West Africa.

They can move the uranium through
the desert for the jihadis.

OK. But where to?

So it could be going to Mali.

I mean, the insurgents there have
practically taken over the country.

[PHONE VIBRATES]
Although, with this...

Aziz guy involved, I think it's much
more likely a group in this area.

We think we've identified
a car they're in,

which has crossed the
border into Syria.

MAX: Who are they?

They're soldiers. The new
government... or militia.

We have to be careful.

We need to turn
off. We need petrol.

Yeah, anything that's
available, I'm standing by.

I need to get on the ground.
WE need to get on the ground.

I don't wanna jeopardise your cover
in Beirut. You're doing vital work.

No, there is nothing more vital than
trying to prevent a t*rror1st group

getting their hands on
a nuclear b*mb, Mark.

That's the whole reason I'm here.
Whoever this Mohamed Aziz is...

however dangerous he may be, he's
not gonna be assembling a b*mb.

Not even when he
quoted the Gita to you?

There has to be somebody
building the b*mb.

OK? Someone that
knows how to do it.

I got a name for you. Sayed
Ahman. He's a physicist.

He went missing a couple of years
ago. I actually reported him.

Um... He disappeared a
little bit after that.

I'm sure it was followed up.

Well, maybe I should
check into that.

[PHONE VIBRATES]

Yeah? You weren't expecting
him, were you? Talk to me.

You know him well?
Where? I know him.

Yeah, I'm on my way.

I got us a plane but we
need to leave right now.

I thought you didn't want me to
come? You told me I need you.

But if you wanna come catch this
jihadi, we need to leave right now.

It was great to meet
you. Yeah. Um... Hey.

[DOOR CLOSES] Take
care of yourself.

Let me know where
they're headed.

And no-one interferes with their
journey until I am on the ground.

That is imperative.

They're on the move again
- going further north.

And the Brits are sending someone to
liaise with us about Mohamed Aziz.

Oh, so he must mean
something to them.

We'll find out.

Did you mention the
uranium? No, I did not.

If they're gonna hold out on
me, I'm gonna hold out on them.

You're not holding out
on me here, right, Mark?

What do you mean? You're telling
me everything I need to know?

Of course. You think not?

No. I just wondered why you're here
in Beirut at this moment in time.

It's... It's a... It's
a happy coincidence.

[EXOTIC AMBIENT MUSIC]

[MUSIC FADES]

Hello. Bonjour.

English? Francais?

English. You need petrol, sir?

Yes. Please.

[PUMP CLATTERING]

Journalist? Where are you from?

Where are you going, sir?

[SCOFFS]

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

My friend.

Do you have a map?

A map?

I can't even read that.

That's where Alam
wants us to go.

That's here. We're down
here. That's Palmyra.

So, we go there, then
we go to the airbase.

We have to go back there
to get back to Marrakesh.

It's the only way... It's
the only way we get paid.

I don't know.

Was that where you were
when you were here before?

No. Caliphate was in the east.

Fine. No problem.

Everything's all right.
[VEHICLE APPROACHES]

[TENSE MUSIC]

Get in the car. Slow.

Don't rush.

[EXHALES]

[FAINT CHATTER]

Start the engine.

[ENGINE SPLUTTERS, STARTS]

[MUSIC BUILDS]

[MUSIC FADES] That was close.

I told you - those soldiers
were government soldiers.

We have to avoid 'em.

Heading to Palmyra takes
us out of their territory.

Listen to what I'm
telling ya. I was here.

OK. I hear ya.

That bloke back there
at the petrol place -

he only had one hand.

Do you reckon he got that
chopped off by your lot?

In the caliphate?

That only happened if
you were a thief...

or dishonest to people.

Did you ever do it?
You know, like, chop...

chop people?

Or were you a suicide b*mber?

A sh*t one, obviously.

Whatever you lot did,
the cartel are worse.

That's why we have to
deliver the uranium to them.

And to get paid.

Of course.

[SIGHS]

[EXOTIC AMBIENT MUSIC]

This it?

Why are we here? This
is Baal's temple.

It was blown up when I was here.

There've been people living
here for thousands of years.

Phoenicians, Greeks...

Romans, Muslims.

Baths, temples, libraries.

Thousands of years, and
everyone built something.

And we destroyed it.

[EXHALES]

What, and you think bringing that
statue back here makes up for it?

Nothing makes up for it.

But I'm trying to be honest.

We can be honest with
each other, can't we?

Yeah.

Of course.

[PHONE RINGS] [MUSIC FADES]

I have to take this.

ALAM: [ON PHONE]
Where are you, Max?

Palmyra. We're on our way north.

So, you're making
progress? En route.

Make sure you don't
miss your plane, Max.

Your girlfriend
will be here too.

And I look forward to
showing her my hospitality.

Is Laetitia OK? [PHONE BEEPS]

Hello?

You don't want to
mess this up, Max.

Hm?

Hello?

Hello?

We gotta go!

JJ, we gotta go. Come on!

Max, I need to
tell you something.

[SOFT CLICK] I have to...

What?

Don't move.

Why? I stepped on
something. [TENSE MUSIC]

I think it's a mine. WEBVTT
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[MUSIC STOPS] I stepped on
something metal. There was a click.

If it's a mine,
there might be more.

Come back here. You'll
need to see what it is.

Ineed to see?! Yeah.

I can't. If I shift my weight
too much, it might explode.

What if I stand on one?

Follow my footprints.

Follow my footprints.

[SOFTLY] There's one.

Hurry up! I'm hurrying, mate.

[MUTTERS]

OK.

Now, have a feel under my foot.

See what's there.

What if it goes off? Well,
if it's big, we'll both die.

If it's small, you'll
lose your hand.

Or your face. My face?

Depends on the blast.

If it goes up in front of you,
could be your face gets it.

I don't see anything, mate.

Have a feel under my
foot. Just be careful.

I am.

This is f*cking insane.

[GRUNTS]

Come on. Come on.

I don't feel anything.

[INSECT BUZZES] f*ck off.

Max. Stop.

Get right back.

I'm gonna lift my foot.

No, you can't. I
know what this is.

Allah used Baal to
bring me back here.

To die. He didn't
bring you here. I did!

This was meant to
happen. It's written.

I knew it the moment I saw
him in Beirut. Bollocks!

We're here in Syria so we
can get to the airbase,

so we can get the
flight to Marrakesh...

so we can get the
money he promised us.

Get back.

[YELLING] Get back!

[SOFTLY] f*ck.

Further!

[SPEAKS ARABIC]

[EXHALES]

What is it?!

It's the top of a can!

Can we go now, please? You
didn't come here to die!

[EXHALES]

Yeah, you're right.

Not here.

[DOG BARKS]

[DOORS RATTLE]

CASSIE: This is who I was
talking about earlier.

The Turkish scientist
who went missing.

Sayed Ahman - the one
I filed the report on.

You think he was radicalised? I
thought he was a person of interest.

He'd been at the university a
few times. We met on conferences.

I just couldn't figure out
who he might be working for.

Even though I'm sure he knew who I
really was, he never made a move.

And why do you think
that was? [INHALES]

I would hope it was
because he liked me.

But I'm not that naive.

I liked him, though.

Then he was definitely an agent.

People in your line of work
only ever connect with people

who do the same thing.

I don't know how you
undercovers do it.

[CLOSES LAPTOP] [LAPTOP CHIMES]

[SNIFFLES]

Satellite latest is they're heading for the Deir
ez-Zor province. That's where the caliphate was.

Our jihadi is going home.

[GENTLE MUSIC]

[CHILDREN CHATTER]

We are going the right way?

Yeah.

The airbase, you said
it was in the north.

Yes. So why is
the sun behind us?

If we were going north, the
sun would be to the side.

I drive for a living. I know
where the sun is in the sky.

We have to stay out of government
territory for as long as possible.

[CHILDREN CHATTER]

Really f*cking hope
we're en route.

Turn left.

You better not be lying
to me. Stop there.

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

Where are you going?

This is where I'm
supposed to be.

Go on with your journey, Max.

This is where mine ends. No.

You have to take
me to the airbase.

JJ, you can't just
leave me here!

My name's not JJ.

[SIGHS] Where the
f*ck did he point to?

[MEN SPEAKING
ARABIC IN DISTANCE]

[CHILDREN CHATTER]

[GENTLE MUSIC]

[SIGHS]

[MUSIC BUILDS] [BABY BABBLES]

This is for Kamal.

[BABBLES] Mwah.

[DISTANT EXPLOSIONS] [CRIES]

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

I can get us out of here.

[CONTINUES CRYING] How?

How?!

[CONTINUES CRYING]
[PLANE ENGINES ROAR]

[ALARM WAILS NEARBY]

[m*ssile WHOOSHES] [YELLS]

[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]

[FAINT SIREN]

[GASPS]

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[HIGH-PITCHED TONE CONTINUES]

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]

[INAUDIBLE] [MELANCHOLY
MUSIC CONTINUES]

[FAINT SIREN]

[MUSIC BUILDS]

[MUSIC FADES] [DEVICE BEEPS]

[SOLDIERS CHATTER IN ARABIC]

[TENSE MUSIC]

[EXHALES]

[MUSIC BUILDS]

What the f*ck are you
doing? [MUSIC FADES]

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

This is where I was supposed
to die - always was.

This is what God
wants. It was written.

This is Janat's grave.

That's not my
boy's. Where is it?

We have to go to the airbase.

I'm running out of time.
It must be here somewhere.

I have to find Kamal's grave.
No! JJ, please. I'm begging you.

They've got my girl.

I lied to you.

The cartel have Laetitia.

They kidnapped her.

They're going to k*ll her if I
don't take the uranium to them.

What? I've got no choice.

I have to go. You
have to come with me.

Why didn't you tell me? I
didn't think you'd help me.

Why would you help me?

[YELLS IN ARABIC]

You should have told me.

[SPEAKS ARABIC] Just
put it down, mate.

I knew you were lying.
Just put it down!

[HELICOPTER WHIRRS] You
should have told me the truth.

US SOLDIER: Drop your
weapons! Drop your weapons!

[YELLING IN ARABIC]

Put your g*ns down!

Get the f*ck away from them! WEBVTT
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I'd like to go and see the
scientific side of our project.

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

You don't trust me.

I'm just very hands-on.

As my father wishes.

I'd like to go now.

[DEPARTING FOOTSTEPS]

Dr Ahman. AHMAN:
Please, call me Sayed.

Oksana Shirokova.

What do you think? It's
exactly to my specifications.

All it needs now is the
uranium. When will it arrive?

[DEVICE CHIRPS]

It's the real deal.

Khaled's source was right.

I'm almost certain it comes from the
Miazov processing facility in Russia.

Stolen? I don't see how it
could be stolen. Not now.

Not with the security measures
the Russians have in place.

It's impossible. You
think they released it?

I don't see any other
way to explain it.

It's all ready to be
put into the casing too.

Which means whoever is doing this is
at an advanced state of readiness.

[TENSE MUSIC]

Where did the uranium come from?

Was it Russia?

Is that why it was in Syria?

Came from one of their
bases there, right?

If you don't co-operate,
we'll take you to Jordan...

and they'll put a diaper
on you and go to work.

You'll break very quickly.

Mohamed. Look at me.

[MUSIC BUILDS]

You're gonna speak
to me, as*h*le.

You're gonna do exactly
what I tell you to do.

[MUSIC STOPS]I'll do whatever you
want.Max. Do what they say. No!

Anything, but I have to get
in touch with the cartel.

If I don't speak
to Alam, she dies.

She's my girlfriend, you know?
I - Slow down! Slow down.

Now, just... just
tell us what you know.

Where did it come
from? All right.

We know you picked it up from
Rifaat Atallah in Beirut.[SCOFFS]

Who did he get it
from? I don't know.

I need to get in touch with him.

I need to get in touch with them
and tell them I'm on my way.

First off, you need to tell
us about your friend Mohamed.

I'm not a Muslim, mate.
I ain't religious.

He's not talking
about the prophet.

He's talking about
your friend. Mohamed.

Your partner? The jihadi?

JJ? You don't know his name?

You know who he
is, though, right?

I call him JJ. [SCOFFS]

Like Jihadi John.

Because he was a jihadi.

And you can have a different
life if you help us.

That's what I want.

A new life.

A new identity.

We can do that.

Then you have to help
me save Laetitia.

Of course.

What would you say
if I told you...

that I want to let them
continue with their mission?

I'd say that's madness.

If we stop this now, we
miss out on vital intel

about who is really behind this.

We get the two assholes we've
got in there. That's it.

No Russians, no
Islamists. Nothing.

This is an opportunity to roll up
the whole of this conspiracy...

...from the source of the HEU,

to the jihadist group
who are buying the b*mb.

We'll be on top of them
every step of the way.

The moment the HEU reaches the
buyer, we intervene. It's over.

They need to realise it's in
their interest to help us.

And we need to move fast.

[DOOR OPENS]We need to
get this guy to cooperate.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Still no word from
the Brits? No.

We're running out of time.

I wanna speak to him alone.

Mohamed Aziz.
Destroyer of worlds.

Is that what you wanna do?

You wanna destroy the world?

To you, I'm just a bad guy.

I'm a nuclear physicist.

I don't see anyone as a bad guy.

You're a CIA agent. Why
else would you be here?

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

You must have a family...

...back in England?

What if this b*mb ended
up where they are?

Do you ever think about that?

And the people who are
gonna use this uranium,

they're gonna send it somewhere.

What if it ended up
k*lling someone you love?

[DOOR OPENS]

[WHISPERS] The Brits
have sent their guy.

[DOOR CLANGS]

RAB: Al-Bukamal, 2018.

One of the last holdouts
of Islamic State.

A Mk80, laser-guided, 200lb.

f*ck knows how he survived.

You used a 200lb b*mb when you knew
there were women and children there?

Are you f*cking kidding me? The Yanks
worried about collateral damage?

The apple doesn't fall far from
the tree, so you might as well

take care of the next generation
while you have the chance, eh?

Hey, you can look at me
like that all you want, hen,

but he's on the list
- k*ll or capture.

But you don't wanna capture
him, you wanna k*ll him.

Capture bit's just for the human
rights people. You know that.

Well, it's a
miracle he survived.

Do you think he's still
a jihadi? Definitely.

He's a piece of sh*t,
this one. He's evil.

There's no reforming him.

You don't think people have
the capacity to change?

Do you? Of course.

He'll never change. A lead
sleeping tablet's what he needs.

Listen, I'm 100%
with you on that.

But in this case, we
need him for something.

For what?

Well, I can't say
that, but if...

you could find a way to
help us make him co-operate,

we would be very grateful.

He'll no help you with nothing.
That's a double negative.

You know what I mean.
Well, I think I do.

But if I'm being honest, I'm having a
little bit of trouble with your accent.

That's cos yo use Americans
don't hear folk like me

on your tellies, do yo use?

You think it's all Pride
And Prejudice in Britain.

Paddington Bear and Hugh
f*cking Grant. But it's not.

It's c**ts like me, and
it's c**ts like him.

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] I get him
when you're done with him?

He's all yours.

Here we go. [CHILDREN
CHATTERING ON PHONE VIDEO]

What is this? It's his son.

Oh, and I've got
something else for ya.

[CHILDREN CHATTER AND PLAY]

If you help us...
if you carry on -

let this plan play out - we will
find a way for you to see him.

He's in Italy, in
a refugee camp.

He's being looked
after. He's safe.

No, that's a fake. That
could be anyone's kid.

It's your boy. It's Kamal.
I had it checked out.

You made it out of there
alive. That's a miracle.

Why shouldn't he
have done the same?

He was found in the rubble a
few hours after. Where were you?

[HELICOPTER WHIRRS] [SIREN
WAILS] [PEOPLE CLAMOURING]

[WHIMPERS]

He's alive.

[SOFTLY] That's a fake.

That's fake. It's f*cking
fake! [BANGS TABLE]

[SOBS]

Great work.

This isn't what I do.

No, but you do it very well.

I need to be in Marrakesh.

I have to see this through. I
wanna know who's behind this.

I have done everything you've
asked of me, Mark. You owe me this.

[LINE RINGS]

[RINGS]

ALAM: [ON PHONE]
Max. Where are you?

We hit trouble. Car broke down,
and the phone ran out of battery.

It was a f*ck up.

You have the uranium?
Yeah. We got it.

And I think I've found
a way to get back.

♪ CHASE & STATUS AND
STORMZY: Backbone

[HELICOPTER WHIRRS]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

♪ You ain't got no backbone
I get it out the trap

♪ I ain't got a trap
phone I got P's...

JJ: What did they promise
you? A new identity?

You and Laetitia riding off into
the sunset? Something like that.

CASSIE: We are gonna at
least try to get them out?

We're talking about a drug trafficker
and a jihadi here. Who's gonna miss them?

'I have to go there.'Max!
'They've got Laetitia.'Tell them!

Not doing it. I know how the betrayal
happens - happened to me before.

This is about your chance to do
the right thing. This is for you.

And the other one?
I'll take you to it.

He's supposed to be here.
I'm not going to the riad.

You have to. f*ck.
He's on the move.

[PHONE CLATTERS]
Don't follow me.

Americans? Perhaps this might
be a good time to leave?

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

Sayed. Thought it might be you.

I hoped it wouldn't.

Where are they taking us now?

I don't know.

♪ You ain't go no backbone
This is drum and bass

♪ This ain't All that
f*cking house sh*t

♪ I score a goal, and I do
my dance I Peter Crouch it

♪ Heard them brothers wanna Do
me somethin', but I doubt it

♪ Do me somethin', then Do
me somethin' if you're bad

♪ My mother calls me Mike
But I think I'm Jack-the-lad

♪ Tell us what you're workin'
with Don't tell us what you had

♪ I need to start my sentences
with 'Sorry, may I add'

♪ Woo, you ain't got no backbone

♪ Do me somethin', then Do
me somethin' if you're lit

♪ My mother calls me Mike
But I think I'm the sh*t

♪ Don't tell us how it used
to be Just tell us what it is

♪ They never gave me nothin' So
it's fair I take the piss, p*ssy ♪