MI-5 (2002–2011): Season 9, Episode 8 - Episode #9.8 - full transcript

My name isn't Lucas North.

My name's John Bateman.

Damn you!

God knows I've had my share of betrayal.
But not you.

There are things you need to know.

What things, Michael?

You really don't have any
questions about what we did?

Is there any way back from this, Harry?

- Your only hope is Vaughn.
- I can find him, Harry.

You're asking me to trust you?

Ruth, our personal history does not mean you
can question everything I ask you to do.



But it doesn't mean
you can freeze me out either.

You conducted unauthorised surveillance
on a fellow officer.

What I did was unethical.
But it doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Maybe you feel I'm protecting him
in a way I failed to protect you.

Everything I've ever learned in this wretched
business is telling me not to do this.

Betrayal is a cancer.
Let it eat your soul, not mine.

You're a killer, John.

And the killer is awake.

You were foolish,
but you're invaluable to me.

- I'm sorry, Harry.
- Don't do this, Lucas.

Lucas North

is dead.

I regret to have to inform you
that, as of this moment,

our former Section Chief, Lucas North,
is to be regarded as a rogue officer.



He is believed to be in pursuit of information,
which, if it fell into the wrong hands,

would pose an unprecedented threat
to national security.

I don't need to remind you that he is a
skilled, resourceful and dangerous operative.

Our main priority is to find him
and bring him in, whatever the cost.

The man we know as Lucas North.

What does he think? What does he feel?
What's driving him?

We must find something that will tell us
what's going on inside his head

before it's too late.

Look at everything.
Personal belongings, case histories.

Where did he spend his time?
Where are his weak points?

He's on the edge.
We have to discover what's taken him there.

He's highly trained. Fragile and desperate.

We cannot allow him to
find the Albany file.

By seeking it, he has
made himself a traitor.

This man was our colleague and friend.
But have no illusions, he is now our enemy.

We didn't find anything at Lucas's flat.
It's like a show home.

I mean, everything you'd expect
but anybody could have lived there.

No mementos, no photos, no letters.
It's just blank.

Only thing remotely personal was this.
Found it by the sofa.

Old edition of William Blake.
Well-thumbed, but nothing hidden in it.

What if we're too late?

He could be
on the other side of the world by now.

Harry, we need to know what Albany is.

If we're going to find him,
we have to know what he's chasing.

Albany is a blueprint for a genetic weapon.

A nerve agent tailored to attack
specific racial or ethnic groups.

Isolate the genes, modify the sequence,
deploy it in a region

and it will attack only that ethnicity,
leaving everyone else alive.

Saddam on the Kurds, Rwanda, Yugoslavia...

Can you imagine the damage
if they had something like this?

It is imperative Lucas
does not obtain Albany.

We have to stop him.

Where's Vaughn?

Vaughn's dead.

I want two new identities for myself
and a woman.

I want safe passage to a country
with no extradition treaty with the UK.

I want 20 million dollars.

If you give me that,
I will deliver Albany to you.

Small price to pay to change the world.

You don't know what Albany is, do you?

I don't want to know.

How the hell
could we have let this happen?

I don't understand how he could
take the place of an Ml5 officer?

The vetting for the real Lucas North
had been done.

And in his place, Bateman was a natural.

Sailed through the interviews.
Buying himself time, filling in the gaps.

- Making the legend watertight.
- Why's he after Albany?

The story he gave
is that he was being blackmailed

by a man named Vaughn Edwards.

A freelance fixer type
with very dirty hands.

- Who's pulling his strings?
- We can't be certain.

But several of his phone calls
have been routed through a satellite

hovering some 800 miles
above Guangdong province.

The Chinese aren't the first
to come after Albany.

And they won't be the last,
not for something so precious, so awful.

North, with their backing,
should we be concerned?

Lucas was one of my most capable officers.

And right now, he's confused,
desperate and thus more dangerous.

We don't really know who
we're dealing with.

So, I've decided to call in a specialist.

It's your boyfriend, get in the other room.

- Alec White?
- Yeah.

You know who I am?

If I knew you were coming
I'd have hoovered round.

They still talk about you as one of
the best people Internal Affairs ever had.

We have a developing situation
with one of our own.

And I'd like you to consult.

You're having a laugh?

I wish I was.

I'm not interested in the facts
surrounding your dismissal.

Or your... How can I put this delicately?

Abject personal
and professional failure since.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

You blame us for everything.
I've read your file.

And whilst the reasons
for your decommissioning may seem unfair,

there's little disagreement about the fact
that you were difficult to work with.

Arrogant, aggressive, lazy.

Five shafted me, Pearce.
My face didn't fit.

So they burned me.

Your borderline alcoholism
played no part at all?

It's very kind of you to say borderline.

I'll give you three months' pay
at your old rate.

- Six months' pay.
- No. Three should do it.

I've looked at your bank balance.
Car's outside. When you're ready.

I can't stop thinking about Michael.

His name was Vaughn.

Hello, Lucas.

And he manipulated me, too.
It's what he does.

Oh, please, let's just go.

Yeah. In a couple of hours, we'll be gone.

You will never have to think about this
ever again.

There's just something I have to do first.

Meeting room. Update.

Speak freely.

Lucas is running interference.

He's booking flights
to every major international hub.

He's cloned cards, he's bouncing
fake phone calls all over the world.

In short, we have nothing.

If Albany is so well-hidden,
how is Lucas even gonna get near it?

You all need to stop calling him Lucas.

He's not Lucas.
And he's not John Bateman either.

Not any more.

You're not gonna find him if you insist
on chasing a man who doesn't exist.

This is Alec White, former I.
A. investigator.

He's brought in a lot of rogue officers.
He'll help us bring in this one.

So, last week he was our boss.
Now, he's a rogue agent.

Well, you should forget last week.

Got something. I've been
cross-checking Lucas's last calls.

One address sticks out.
I'm thinking it's Vaughn.

Get over there, take Alec with you.

I'll try my best not to get shot,
if that's what you're worried about.

Oh, don't worry, it's not.

This is nasty. Knife been twisted.
Must have bled to death.

Tariq, get forensics down here.

Bateman did this.

Question is, if he isn't being blackmailed
any more, and we must assume he isn't,

what the hell is he doing?

Lucas, Lucas.

Right, Vaughn was blackmailing
Lucas to obtain Albany.

Vaughn is dead. Killed by Lucas.
Why hasn't he simply fled?

We know he's still in London
because of the smokescreen he's running.

He's gone into business for himself.

He's still after Albany.

- It's Lucas.
- Speaker.

Lucas.

Harry, I'm sorry.
I never meant...

Look, I don't know what I'm doing here.
I need help. I want to come in today.

We'll pick you up. Where are you?

Greenwich. Thorndon Road.
I'll call again in 30 minutes.

I'm sorry, Harry.

Okay. Go, but make no assumptions.
Remember, Albany's too valuable.

Lucas, too unpredictable.
Be ready for anything.

Alphas, check comms.

- Alpha One, check.
- Alpha Two, check.

Alpha Three, check.

Lema One standing by
on the roof.

Tango One in position.

Tango Two in position.

So where is he?

I've got something. He lied to you.
I've been listening to the recordings.

When he told you the truth,

about Vaughn killing the real Lucas North,
the bombings,

that was bullshit.

You see, I know liars, Harry.

Good ones can construct entire lives,
on the spot, out of thin air.

He mixes in enough truth,
details that reflect badly on himself.

But the narrative was too perfect.

The thing is,

you know liars, too.

There were times during that interrogation
when you could have pushed him.

You should have pushed him...

What are you insinuating?

No one likes to believe these things
about the people who are close to them.

Lucas or Albany, Harry?
You might not be able to save them both.

This is it.

Lucas, it's Ruth.

Ruth, I need someone
to come and meet me. Someone I know.

I'm in the cafe at the end of the road.

I'll go.

Dimitri's coming.

You can talk. And when you're ready,
he can bring you out.

Alphas, report. What's going on?

He's cornered. We've got him.

Wait. I can't do this.
This is the rest of my life...

- Lucas, calm down.
- No, I can't. I can't do this.

Lucas, Lucas, wait.
Lucas, just sit tight. Lucas!

Target is running.
Go, units go! Stop, Lucas!

Please, Lucas! Come on! Stop!

Lucas! Stop!

Stop, Lucas!

Stop, Lucas! Stop!

Get an ambulance,
Lucas is down! He's down!

It's not him. It's not Lucas.

Ruth... Get to Ruth! Get to her now!

Lucas! No! No!

- You all right?
- Yeah.

Harry, he's taken Ruth.
I repeat, Ruth's gone.

Yes?

Simple and clean, Harry.
A straight swap. Albany for Ruth.

Today. Or you'll never find the body.

Don't you dare hurt her.

You've got 90 minutes. We both know
that's not enough time to find me.

Harry, police found a delivery van.
He switched vehicles.

We're waiting on satellite, but it looks like
his back-up car was parked in a multi-storey,

- so, we've lost him.
- How does this get him closer to Albany?

Lucas has identified one of the people
who know where the file is.

Me.

Ruth's his leverage over you.

And now he wants to trade.
Ruth's life for Albany.

Of course, given the nature of the file,
there's no prospect of making that deal.

And there are other people
who know the location of Albany.

We cannot allow him
to compromise them in the same way.

I'll have to move it. Make it safe.

Harry, is that wise? He's got Ruth.

You said it yourself, you're compromised.

You're suggesting
I would consider making the deal?

Well, come with me.

What was that man's life worth?
How much did you pay him?

They didn't need to kill him.

I've killed people.

And I've saved people.

I'm still in credit.

So, it's just a balance sheet?
That's not you talking.

Why, Lucas? What is this all for?

Ruth, there was one time in your life
when everything made sense.

What wouldn't you do to go back?

With lies you can go ahead in the world,
but you can never go back.

Don't quote Russian proverbs at me.

Harry won't give you Albany.

I really hope that he does.

You'd really kill me, would you?

How? How would you do it, Lucas?

Bullet to the back of the head.

Hmm.

Let's say you do get Albany.
You sell it to the Chinese.

What happens when someone uses it?

- You think you can live with that?
- I don't care.

You do know what it is, don't you?

For God's sake, Lucas,
if you knew what it did...

- Ruth, please.
- It's a genetic weapon.

- Be quiet.
- Okay, it can be engineered...

- Ruth!
- Listen. Listen to me, listen to me.

- Whatever it is you've done...
- You don't know what I've done.

Do you? Do you know
what you've done, Lucas? Do you know...

I've spent half my life hiding.

I've been so careful.

There's only been one person
that I worried would find out.

That's you.

Harry, I found the missing element.

Dr Maya Lahan.

The girlfriend of Michael O'Brien,
Vaughn's most recent UK alias.

I found that in his wallet, had a hunch,
so I ran it through the system.

And?

She also went to Leeds University
at the same time as a John Bateman.

She hasn't been to work for three days.

Harry, Vaughn's murder
wasn't a professional execution,

it was a crime of passion.

- This woman's at the centre of it all.
- Find her.

She might not even be in a hotel.

Well, if she's an innocent,

he won't risk inviting questions
by stashing her in a dingy safe house.

- Relax.
- Relax?

I just crashed
an entire French mobile network

to spam every hotel switchboard in London.

- Hello?
Hello, Miss Lahan. It's Reception.

We have an urgent message for you
to call John on 07700-900-785.

Thank you.

- Someone's ringing back. Must be her.
- Mmm-mmm.

Gotcha!

- Albany's under here.
- How do you know?

I put it there.

If Lucas finds this place,
I want him to think he has it.

This one's fitted with a tracker.
Make it look like we were never here.

I'll hold on to this if you like.

That's very helpful of you.

I'll meet you upstairs.
I have to brief the Home Secretary.

Can you smell that?

It's fentanyl, stun gas.

Harry asked me to marry him.

I said no.

Why?

You love him, don't you?

Everything that's happened between us,
it's too much.

I couldn't begin to unpick it all.

For God's sake, Ruth. Be brave.

Be selfish for once.
You're like me, you've done enough. Say yes.

- Did you find the woman?
- Tariq found her. Hotel in east London.

- Is that it?
- Yes.

Harry, I realise you hired me

because I have neither the right nor the
inclination to ask tricky questions.

But if you're about to do
what I think you're about to do...

You realise what it'll mean?
There'll be no way back.

Dimitri and Beth are in the vault.

Wait 10 minutes for the gas to subside,
check they're all right.

Then all of you go to the hotel
and prepare to take Lucas.

Do not spook the woman.

Be prepared for anything.
He will come for her.

By the way, you're entirely wrong
about the reasons for hiring you.

The main attraction was
that you have absolutely nothing to lose.

Time's up.

I have it. Where do you want me?

- What's the angle?
- The angle is you've won.

All right, we'll let
this play out, shall we?

Go to Shenbourne Street, Fitzrovia.
You've got five minutes.

There's a green door. Do you see it?

The key's inside the tyre. Let yourself in.

Okay. Stand on the cross.

Hang up. Strip your phone, battery and SIM.

One on the table, I'm calling it.
It only connects to this number.

And now you're gonna strip.

Put all your clothes into the bin,
pass the scanner over you.

And then get dressed in the clothes
that I've left for you.

Good, you're up.

Harry sends his apologies.

Harry? Why did he...

He's protecting you.

Making sure you can't be implicated
in what he's doing.

He doesn't have the same concern for me,
it would seem.

What is he doing?

He's taken Albany. He's gonna make a deal.

Okay, Harry, you're leaving
through the big doors out the back.

There's a car outside.

I've taken out CCTV.

Get in the car.

SatNav is pre-programmed with a destination.
Drive fast. I'm watching.

This isn't you.

This isn't the man I know.

I want to speak to Lucas North.

I want to speak to Lucas.

Lie.

Where is he?

Too many lies, John.

Where is he?

Ruth...

Five miles outside Dakar,

there's an estuary.

The east bank is covered
with mangrove trees.

Soft ground.

That's where Lucas North is.

Harry's never going to give you Albany.

- You always underestimated yourself, Ruth.
- Lucas...

No, no! Please! Lu...

- Don't struggle. Ruth, don't struggle!
- No!

Lucas!

No! No!

What have you done?

Don't fight it. Come on, don't fight it.
Relax, relax.

It's okay, just relax. Ruth...

What have you done?

Just relax, relax. Just relax.

That's it. Come on, lie down. There we go.

It's all right, it's all right.
Just go to sleep.

Go to sleep.

I'm here.

Okay, Harry, there's a bin in front of you.

Place Albany in it, and then walk down
the white gantry towards the river.

Once I've checked it, I'll
tell you where she is.

Don't let me down on this, Lucas.

Keep walking. Steady pace, don't stop.

Don't look back, don't hang up.

I'll know if this isn't real Harry.

The Chinese gave me their encryption codes.

So it better be, for Ruth's sake.

This is it.

Harry Pearce giving up a state secret.

Committing treason for just one life?

Not just any life. Where is she?

You're playing me.

Can't you see you've won? You've beaten me!
Now tell me where she is!

Good to see you, Lucas.

Hello, Harry. Harry, Harry.

- No.
- The deal was...

I know what the deal was.

You've found Maya, haven't you?

What, people at the hotel waiting for me?

Come on, Harry, we both know
you wouldn't give this to me

unless you knew you could get it back.

Okay, here's what's gonna happen.

I'm gonna go to the hotel
and I'm gonna take Maya,

and your team are not gonna touch me.

Alternatively, I throw Maya in a cell,

issue a kill order on you,
and find Ruth myself.

Ruth's sedated on an anaesthetic drip.
In three hours she'll overdose.

Her heart will stop.
Think you can find her by then?

I really don't want to hurt her, Harry.
Please don't make me.

You leave Maya alone.
You stand your team down.

I walk right past them.

They don't follow me,
they don't even talk to me. Is that clear?

Yes.

Once Maya and I are in the air,
I'll tell you where Ruth is.

Emergency outside line. Harry's codes.

Patch it through.

Harry?

Lucas will be at the
hotel within 15 minutes.

You stand down, let him through.
Do not touch him.

What?

We can take him later.
If we do it now, Ruth dies.

Harry. We can make him
tell us where she is.

There's no way we'd break him
in the time we have.

Harry, recovering Albany
has to take priority over Ruth.

If the Chinese get their hands on it...

You have your orders, you will follow them!
If you do not I will decommission you.

Do you understand?
Tariq, patch me through to Alec.

Alec, I need you to do something for me.

Maya, we need to go.

Maya?

Hey, come on, we're nearly there.

We're gonna get on a plane.

We're gonna go anywhere you want
and do anything.

It's just you and me.

But we have to leave now.

Okay.

You should know
what your boyfriend's doing, Miss Lahan.

He's poisoned a woman.
His colleague, a friend.

Just so you can get away. She's dying.

He said you poisoned someone,
what's he talking about?

I didn't poison anyone, it's what I told them.
I had to take her, it's our only way out.

- John, you have to let her go.
- Please, get in the car.

Look, I will tell them where she is.
But not until we're safe.

Harry, it's done.

Home Secretary.
- Tell me good things, Harry. Is Albany safe?

No. Lucas has it.

- How the hell did he...
- I gave it to him.

What are you doing?

We're changing cars for the last few miles
to the airfield.

So we're almost there?

Then, you can make that call.
You can't let her die, John.

- 15 Walmsley Road.
- Thank you.

It's not me you have to thank.

Walmsley Road. Now! Call paramedics.
Tell them to meet us there.

What's the matter?

The guy who spoke to us at the hotel,
his name's Alec.

He works for a guy called Harry Pearce.

How do you know that?

Just before you arrived, John.
He came to my room. Asked for my help.

What did he tell you?

He told me everything.

Well, I never hurt.

You're a liar, John. You're a liar!

How are you doing all of this?

This thing that you're selling to the Chinese.
Do you even know what it does?

- He lied.
- No, you lied!

That's all you've ever done, is lie!

John, you're a murderer!

He told me
how you killed those people in Africa,

how you killed Michael,
and how you would've killed that woman!

That man works for Harry Pearce.

And Harry Pearce is the same as Vaughn,
he uses people, he controls them.

No!

After he finished telling me everything,
do you know how I knew it was true?

Because for the very first time,
you made sense.

Maya,

we love each other.

No.

Look at you, John.

Listen to yourself.
You almost believe it, don't you?

You're a liar.

Who are you?

They gave you a tracker.

Maya, get down!

- Lucas, there's no way out of this!
- Lucas, let us take you in!

Just give yourself up.

It's all right. Everything's gonna be fine.
I'm gonna fix things.

Tariq, how long till backup?

CO1911 minutes away.
Air support just behind them.

Lucas, don't do this!
- Get in the car.

No.
- Get in the car!

Lucas, don't make us open fire!

We've got a signal.

Maya, we did it.

We got away. Maya?

Maya? Shit! Maya, look at me.

Keep your hand there.

Press down hard.

Oh shit. Maya, stay with me. Look at me.

There's gonna be people at the airfield
that can help us, okay?

You're gonna be fine. Maya? Maya!

Maya. Maya.
Come on, come on, we're nearly there.

We're so close.

Maya.

Please don't leave me.

Betrayal is a cancer. Let it eat your soul.

I love you, Maya.
Betrayal is a cancer.

Too many lies, John.
You're a liar, John. You're a liar!

Eight years in a Russian prison.

Betrayal is a cancer.
Let it eat your soul.

No!

Ruth!

She's alive.

Okay, tracker's got a lock,
she's here.

Harry, we found the tracker.
Maya Lahan's dead.

And Lucas?

He's gone. We've lost Albany.

Mr North, where's your friend?

She's not coming.

What's happening?

- Where's Lucas?
- We don't know.

Thanks for coming for me.

Hope you didn't pay too high a price.

I've got something from Air Traffic.

Unidentified helicopter flew out
of a private airfield in Essex last night.

Probably for another airfield in the
Channel Islands to change to a plane.

Had to have been it.

Right. Well, he's gone, isn't he?

- Can't believe you just gave Albany to Lucas.
- He was going to kill you.

But to trade away something like Albany
just to save me,

that's not the Harry I know.

And the Lucas you and I both know

wouldn't have kidnapped you
or threatened to kill you, but he did.

But all the others who have given up
their lives, been sacrificed,

I'm not worth more than them.

It was my turn, Harry.

And that moment,
when you decided to make that deal,

it was unfair of you to love me.

We're getting a live video stream.
Lucas's access codes.

Oh, no.

I'm at London Bridge Station.
So a lot of people will die.

You would never do that.

Well, I've done it before, remember.

- What do you want?
- I want you, Harry.

Come and meet me.

Just the two of us.

Top of the Enver Tower, Farringdon.
Twenty minutes.

Oh, yeah. And before you send the cavalry,

you should know
that this bomb is on a looped countdown.

I have to send a code
every three minutes to reset it.

So, if I see anything I don't like,

if you try to shoot me,
if you try to evacuate the station,

the bomb detonates by default.

Where's Albany?

Oh it's long gone, Harry.
I gave it to the Chinese.

How do you think I got the explosives?

This is about Maya. He blames you, Harry.

- He'll kill you.
- I rather think so, too.

- You can't go.
- We have 20 minutes. I'm going.

- Don't follow me.
- There has to be another way.

Find the bomb. Make it safe.
That's the other way.

Harry!

It's my turn.

We can shadow him. We'll stay low.
Lucas won't see us.

No.

You heard him. He's on his own.

Okay, we can't evac the station,
but we can find and defuse the bomb.

Tariq, find out which room it's in.

Hi, this is Catherine.
Leave a message and I'll get back to you.

Hi Catherine, it's dad.
I suppose you're at work.

I just wanted to say that...

Well, I'm just checking in, really,
and it would be nice to have dinner soon.

You and your brother.

Unfortunately, I don't have a
number for him at the moment.

But you could say hello for me, and...

Well, I know you look out for him.

So...

Well, I hope to see you soon. Okay, bye.

The bomb's in a storage room
on the west side of London Bridge,

next to exit seven.

Inform the bomb squad,
tell them not to raise the alarm.

We'll meet them there.

Why here?

Someone I used to know lived here, Harry.
Long time ago.

Lucas North.

And besides, I wanted us
to be alone for this.

"This" being my death?

Maya didn't need to die.
You could have stopped it.

Yes, I could have.

- So, why didn't you?
- Regnum defende, Lucas. Whatever the cost.

I'm sorry she died.
But I'd do the same again.

I loved her.

All this was for her.

Some of the worst things are done
in the name of love.

I understand that, too, don't forget.

It's been almost three minutes.
No one else need die except me.

The bomb's not real, Harry.

But, hey, did its job. It brought you here.

Now, we're the same.

You gave me Albany, I
gave it to the Chinese.

Now, you're a traitor, too.

You didn't give them anything.
Albany doesn't work. It never did.

What?

The project never got past
the primary research stage.

The Russians got wind of it.
They realised its potential.

They were scared.

It worked as a deterrent,
but it was never real, Lucas.

So it was for nothing.

She... She died for nothing.

What happened in Dakar? The bomb?

If you knew what you were doing,
how could you do it?

Vaughn gave me the chance to be someone.

To do something!

Wish you'd met me first.

- So do I.
- I can still help you, Lucas.

Whatever you've done, the service owes you.

I can't go back to prison, Harry.

I'll die there, you know I will.

And you'll sit in your office and drink
whisky and feel sorry for yourself.

And you'll tell people,
like you told me once,

that this job that we do is a machine.

Good people go in, they get chewed up,
they get spat out.

That's how you make sense of it.

The service didn't do this to me.

I was bad before I went in.

Turn around, please.

- Lucas.
- Don't call me that! Turn around!

Well, what should I call you? Who are you?

Are you John, the murderer?

Or are you Lucas, the man who gave up
so many years to help so many people,

saved so many lives?

Who are you?

I'm nothing.

If you're going to shoot me, shoot me now.

Shoot me now.

Home Secretary,
have you spoken to the Chinese?

Well, it took them about half a day
to realise the file was worthless.

But that makes them look rather stupid.

So, we proposed a partnership.

They're going to leak to the world that
they took it from us and that it works.

Bit of a blow to one's ego

to realise one's been kept in the dark
about Albany being a fake.

But I think we stage-managed
the fall-out fairly well.

Look, Harry, I have some bad news.

I'm sorry to heap it on, especially after
this business with your Section Chief,

but the buzzards are circling.

Fake or not, Albany was a state secret
and you gave it away.

There's going to be a full enquiry,
and not just into this sorry affair.

Into you, Harry, your whole career.

You're the spy they want to kick back
out into the cold, I'm afraid.

Now, I'll be in there batting for you,
but I can't see this ending well.

I'd start preparing for life after Ml5.

I'm truly sorry.

Goodnight.