Strike Back (2010–2018): Season 3, Episode 9 - Vengeance, Part 9 - full transcript

KNOX:
Good drive?

LUCAS:
Long drive.

KNOX:
Hmm.

LUCAS:
But I understand.

You need to keep a low profile.

I'm here because I want to be.

- Untouched, real.
- Hmm.

So how are things in Johannesburg?

[CHUCKLES]

It's good to visit you.

Mm-hm.



My man has already picked up the first crate
for the Nigerians.

LUCAS: They will broadcast the demands we
agreed, a week after receiving your weapon.

The U.S. and the Chinese corporations
will have no choice...

...but to move out of southern Nigeria.

Then all that oil wealth
will go back to the people who live there.

You're a visionary, Mr. Knox.

Zimbabwe would never have worked.

- But the people you represent--
- Are your kindred spirits.

They share your commitment and desire
to force change throughout the continent.

And...

...the other matter.

Any of my associates
will gladly offer you sanctuary.

WINSTON: Fill it up.
MAN 1: Okay.

WINSTON: Toilet?
- Toilet. Toilet.



[WHISTLES]

[MAN 1 SPEAKING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

WINSTON:
Hey.

[SHOUTS]

[GASPS]

[MUTTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[PHONE LINE RINGING]

We got something.

We've been poring over everything
that was left of the mercenary camp.

There was a truck customized
to carry warheads...

...and the license plate was from a batch
of four vehicles bought in Port Elizabeth.

One of the other plates
was just called in after a double murder...

...at a petrol station in Mogoto.
That's 100 miles north of here.

We managed to piggyback three separate
satellites to get the truck's movements.

In the time lapse between images, the only
cover he could have got was in Masobe.

The van is hot. He's probably holed up,
waiting for another vehicle.

- Tell me you have a bead on it.
- On it.

All right. Scott, Stonebridge, you are up.

M1 North. You'll be briefed en route.

If I understand Conrad Knox at all...

...as long as he believes there's something
to fight for, that's what he'll do...

...right to the end.

- Come on, speed up. Take it to warp factor 8.
- Yeah.

Never had you down as a closet Trekkie.

Gotta love a show that kept asking Mr. Scott
for more thrust.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

RICHMOND [OVER RADIO]: Last coordinates
put the truck 50 feet north of your location.

Ma'am, police are on their way.

The police spook the driver,
God knows what he'll do.

We'll have to get to the truck first.

SCOTT:
Bingo.

Mike, it's in there. Let's go.

Okay, wait. Count down
from three. We go in at the same time.

- On "one." Go.
- Wait.

You're not going on "one."
Three, two, one, zero.

- Go in after that.
- You fucking serious?

STONEBRIDGE: Yeah, I'm dead fucking serious.
Everybody knows that.

Three, two, one, zero.
That's when you go in.

I'll lend you my Lethal Weapon box set.

- That's one, two, three, go.
- That's not-- Fuck!

Move! That's the same fucking crate.

BAXTER:
Target vehicle traveling south.

STONEBRIDGE: Fuck. Where'd he go?
He's driving parallel. Parallel.

He's there. Zero, positive ID.
It must be a nuke.

Zero, we're in pursuit.

[MAN YELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

The roads converge in 500 meters.
Get in front of the van and slow it down.

[CAR HORN HONKING]

Move away. Move. Move!
Get out of the way.

[MAN YELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

STONEBRIDGE: Shut the fuck up.
SCOTT: Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

- Shit.
BAXTER: Major, police are setting up roadblocks.

DALTON: Jesus, they've got no idea
there's a warhead on board.

[COP SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
OVER PA]

Zero, the guy's not stopping.
Tell them to open the roadblock.

STONEBRIDGE: Tell them not to open fire.
They mustn't open fire.

SCOTT:
Fuck.

Shit.

Dear God.

RICHMOND: An explosion that big
with a nuclear warhead...

...there'll be uranium oxide
showering over that whole town.

Okay, meteorological updates,
wind speed, directions. Now.

- Quarantine that whole area. Fuck.
BAXTER: Yes, ma'am.

[CHATTERING]

SCOTT:
Come on. Come on.

Come on.

- Come on.
STONEBRIDGE: Let's find your parents.

SCOTT: Come on.
- All right, here we go.

- Look at these nurses.
SCOTT: Hey.

STONEBRIDGE: Nurse, come here.
SCOTT: Is he yours?

STONEBRIDGE: That's the last one.
- Everyone accounted for? You know how many?

- As far as we can possibly tell.
SCOTT: Good.

Have you guys been tested?

MAN:
Right there.

WOMAN:
Water.

Whoever received water, please sign...

There's no evidence
of elevated radiation levels.

But we have to conduct another check
for any signs of lymphocytes.

WOMAN 1 [ON TV]: We understand a neighboring
town has been completely evacuated.

South African government sources
are talking about a gas leak...

...being the cause of this explosion...

...but until we receive an official statement,
that's all just speculation.

Certainly the people of this town have never
experienced anything like this before...

WOMAN 2:
Christian? ls everything all right?

WOMAN 1: They've been taken from their homes
and bussed to a medical facility nearby.

But nobody's telling them
why they're being monitored...

WOMAN 2:
Something to eat, darling?

WOMAN 1: Stay tuned for more from Masobe--
WOMAN 2: Okay, baby.

[TV TURNS OFF]

[PHONE RINGING]

KNOX [OVER PHONE]:
It's a fucking disaster.

LUCAS:
It was unfortunate.

The plan is still intact,
the principle unchanged.

Well, my people will move them
from now on.

Agreed.

And what about the Nigerians?

Leave the Nigerians to me.

I'll be in touch.

[LINE RINGING]

CAROL: Christian Lucas' office. Hello?
- Carol.

Yes, sir.

- Those flights I asked you to book--
- We 're still waiting for confirmation.

I want his address.

Have you told Knox it was 20?

MATLOCK:
We don't know it was 20.

I flogged all my medals after my brother--

What's that for?

Congo, '97.

You ever do peacekeeping?

Mostly between my mum and dad.

What happened in the Congo wasn't a war.

It was a race to the deepest pit of hell...

...cheered on by politicians
and foreign businessmen.

I couldn't tell either side apart...

...but all they could see was the difference
in each other.

The banality of evil.

Something had to change.

- Someone had to do something.
- Hmm.

Found a cause, have we?

What are you still here for?

I got nothing else.

[CHATTERING]

DALTON: Stonebridge.
STONEBRIDGE: Ma'am.

DALTON: You all right?
- You believe this?

DALTON: The hell?
- The nurse gave us the all clear.

She gave us potassium iodide tablets
for any residual radiation.

Stonebridge, what's going on?

On the way here,
after I thought we'd been exposed...

...all I was thinking about was Hanson.

I can't get him out of my head.

And you have to know, there's always a chance
that I'll make a mistake because of that.

Let me tell you a secret.

When I first allowed you back into this unit...

...I didn't actually read your psych report

I still haven't.

But every time your name was mentioned,
I saw the reaction amongst the team...

...and they told me without saying a word
that you make all of them...

...you make all of us, better soldiers.

And I haven't seen anything
to make me doubt my decision.

You will have your moment with Hanson.

You and Scott get cleaned up.

- Need you back in the crib in two hours.
- Yes, ma'am.

- Major Rachel Dalton.
- Captain Marcus Radebe. Special task force.

We are grateful to your men
for their help in the evacuation.

However, you could have informed us
that you were tracking the vehicle...

...and what it contained.

You'll understand my hesitancy
to share intelligence...

...since it was an official of your government
who murdered my most valued officer.

From now on, you have our full support.

Do you have any idea what Knox
is planning to do with the weapons?

Not as yet.

But if he has purpose...

...a man like Conrad Knox
won't leave any cards unplayed.

Bad news for us is he has two left.

The police found the dead driver's wallet
in a shack in Masobe.

He's been identified as Winston Nyendeni.

What do we know about him?

BAXTER: Small-time crook
with a history of violence.

Dodged attempted murder
two months ago.

But mobile phone records show
that he exchanged five calls...

...with the same number in the period
after the shooting. We're running it.

Oh, and major...

...we have a visitor.

DALTON:
To what do we owe this pleasure?

Langley instructed me to make contact...

...offer up any assistance
following that little accident up the road.

How very thoughtful of them.

I suppose you must have time on your hands
now you're not dabbling in hostile takeovers.

I'm not making any apologies for backing
an attempt to oust the Mugabe regime.

We would have had our foot in Zimbabwe...

...Knox would have been put out to pasture...

...and the nukes turned over to the U.N.
in a couple of years.

Huh. Wishful thinking must be a symptom
of advancing years.

What I saw was you
fostering a web of anarchy across Africa...

- ...with a zealot like Conrad Knox at its heart.
- A zealot you put on the run.

He's the most wanted man in the world,
with two nukes up for sale.

He's not selling.

Not his character.

So now you're gonna shrink him?

Face it, Rachel. You went balls out on Knox
and it backfired, big-time.

I ask myself how we're in this mess...

...when you've got a man like Damien Scott
on your team.

Someone who will take an order,
see it through...

...even if it means laying down his life.

It seems to me
he's getting the wrong orders.

Well, I suppose if I was to adopt your methods,
I'd be barking them on all fours.

If you're quite done, Mother Teresa,
tell Langley we decline their generous offer.

- Lads, get her out of here.
MAN: Ma'am.

- Did you tag her car?
- Damn right.

Nice work.

- I still don't get it.
- Get what?

That countdown bullshit.

You count down, you go on "one."
Three, two, one.

That's bollocks. What about the space shuttle?
Three, two, one, zero. Blast off.

- Move on "zero."
- Zero's not even a number, dude.

Excuse me.

- Captain, welcome.
- Hey, how are you?

STONEBRIDGE:
Good. Good...

CHRISTY: Hey.
- What the fuck are you doing here?

You should be nicer to your old friends.
You might need them.

20's days are numbered
after this little screw-up.

Still thinking about coming home, soldier?

SCOTT:
What was she doing here?

Making a heartrending attempt
to build bridges.

- We put a tracker on her car.
- Christy doesn't build bridges.

She's playing some sort of angle.
She's smart.

Interesting. She actually spoke
very fondly of you too.

Meaning what, exactly?

Look, I don't care what hold
that woman has over you.

She can mind-fuck us
and fuck you all she likes.

But all I care about right now
is finding those warheads.

Yeah, I know.

And happily sacrifice this unit
just to do that.

You might fool them, lady,
but you don't fool me.

DALTON:
I need an update.

So the team have been looking
into the dead driver's phone records.

The number he was in contact with
belongs to this man.

Christian Lucas.

A controversial figure.

Young hotshot lawyer.

A grandstander.

He's risen fast,
making police work impossible...

...and representing killers and bombers...

...who have murdered
hundreds of innocent people.

He's been making a name for himself
in west and central Africa.

Mm, defending terrorists.

Not really the kind of people
who can afford to buy a nuke.

And no links to Knox that we know of.

I want him brought in.

OZZY:
We need payback now, Mr. Lucas.

You need to give me time.
You can't just come to my house like this.

I told you we will figure this out.

- May I help you?
SCOTT: You can.

STONEBRIDGE: We'd like to talk to your husband.
- Who are you?

Sorry. He's a Yank.

OZZY: We lost our bomb.
We want our money back.

WOMAN: Christian.
OZZY: Who's this?

Don"[ get Up-

Came to find out
if you'd welcomed Jesus into your life.

How about you? In need of salvation?

LUCAS: You need to leave.
STONEBRIDGE: Why don't you come with us.

Christian, what's going on?

What are you doing here?

SCOTT: You wanna take him outside?
WOMAN: I thought I told you to stay upstairs.

[TOILET FLUSHES]

What the fuck?

SCOTT:
Get down.

Fuck.

Fuck.

Shoot them.

SCOTT: Move.
STONEBRIDGE: Moving.

Shit.

Lucas.

Hallelujah, brother. Youse been saved.

You're coming with us.

Members of the Movement...

...for the Emancipation...

...of the Niger Delta.

MEND.

They kidnap, kill, and terrorize in the name
of liberating southern Nigeria from big oil.

And as I understand it...

...many of them receive
the benefits of your eloquence in court.

So why, I ask myself...

...did they come after you?

Well, you can tell us nothing...

...and we'll send your family home
where the Nigerians can try again.

Is that what you want?

The warhead that went up
was supposed to go to MEND.

- To terrorists.
- Freedom fighters.

People who are trying to stop a steamroller
with sticks and stones.

People who take innocent lives
to further their cause.

Does Knox understand
who these people are?

Knox is a romantic.

- You're using him.
- He believes in change.

By giving gangsters a portable apocalypse?

- Yes. And by forcing out the foreign parasites.
- Delusional bullshit.

Now, I will ask you once again...

...why did they come after you?

I took some money in payment
from the Nigerians...

...and now it's gone. I have debts.

They saw their bomb was lost,
and they wanted paying back.

So why not just give them
one of the other weapons?

Because they're already spoken for,
aren't they?

BY Whom?

Contacts in Sudan, Somalia.

- Have they received them yet?
- Not yet.

But I am the only conduit to these people.
Knox was in charge of the transport.

Once they were all in Jo'burg, I'd be told.

Good.

So here's what you're gonna do.
You're gonna play along with Knox.

Contact him,
arrange a meeting for tomorrow morning...

- ...and we will track you there.
- And if I refuse?

Are you going to kill me?
I'll become a martyr to what I believe in.

And what about your wife and your child?

Are they willing to be martyrs too?

Please.

Do not make threats
that you will not see through.

There's a reason
this is a deniable unit, Mr. Lucas.

To stop nuclear warheads
falling into the hands of radicalized killers...

...do you really think
that I wouldn't give that order?

You disgust me.

BAXTER: Any intelligence agency
can monitor e-mails...

...that have been sent and received,
so if you want to avoid detection...

...leave it in the draft box for anyone else
with access to read.

Al Qaeda used the same system,
but he'd know that.

BAXTER:
Yeah.

Whatever happens when you follow him...

...this tracker ensures
there's nowhere in Jo'burg he can hide.

Lucas“.

...you're set.

My old man used to say, "Never trust
a soldier who can't look himself in the eye."

He was full of shit. What a surprise.

[CHUCKLES]

You're still clinging on to it, aren't you?

Medals, honor, the code.

What do you know about a code?

Well, I know when you let it go,
it's a weight off your shoulders.

Anyway, haven't we got
an appointment to keep?

DALTON: Right. As we know,
whoever is meeting Lucas will lead us to Knox.

We are here to make sure that Lucas
goes through with it...

...but we must ensure
absolutely no visibility.

DALTON:
Do not get made.

Zero, we're here, one block north
of the RV point. All right, I'm out.

See you guys in there.

I am only doing this for my son
and for my wife.

And does your wife know
what type of people you do business with?

She understands that in the places
where I fight cases--

Lagos, Kinshasa, Niamey.

--There are compromises.

There are compromises
in the fight for freedom.

How about you?

How does your wife feel about you
coming to foreign countries to kill people?

She knew what it meant to marry a soldier,
if that's what you mean.

She knew the cost.

Captain, make sure your men
do not move in until we give the word.

STONEBRIDGE:
Just act natural. Nice and easy.

- Hey, Scott.
SCOTT: Go ahead.

STONEBRIDGE [OVER RADIO]:
Just something Lucas said.

He said about working in Niamey.

That's where Christy Bryant
was stationed, right?

Zero, do you 0013)'?

Scan any recent CIA transmissions
for any reference to Christy Bryant.

[IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

DALTON:
Stay calm.

Stay calm.

[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Target's entering rendezvous building.

That's one of Jo'burg's
biggest brokerage firms.

BAXTER: Maintaining visual on Lucas.
Trading bell is imminent.

RICHMOND: Any minute now,
that lobby is gonna be packed.

[BEEP]

Tracker is up and running.

DALTON:
Scott, take the rear of the building.

Copy that.

[BELL RINGING]

SCOTT:
Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Shit.

Shit. Where'd he go?

I don't know.

- Zero, where is he?
- Bravo, he's still there.

- He must be on the floor below you.
- What's underneath them?

- Parking lot.
- Come on. He's leaving.

- Come on.
- Move. Mike, go.

BAXTER: Bravo, we've got him again.
Tracker puts him at south exit.

- Target is moving, and fast.
STONEBRIDGE: Fuck.

Zero, Matlock's got Lucas.

BAXTER: Target traveling westbound.
Bravo, return to your vehicle.

Fuck.

RICHMOND: Bravo, the tracker puts Lucas
entering a building 10 blocks north.

SCOTT:
Should be here.

Zero, you got eyes on him?

Bravo, target is ascending.

He's in the lift.

You check down there.
I'm gonna look for another entrance. Go.

BAXTER: Bravo, be advised,
target is stationary, sixth floor.

Zero, this is Bravo 1 in position.
Elevator, underground level.

I got eyes on Matlock's vehicle.

KNOX: Mr. Lucas.
- I need to explain.

Oh, please don't.

Did you do well at school?
Of course you did.

I didn't. Got kicked out when I was about 15.

Got a job in an old printing works.

They put me in the accounts department.

Heh, heh. Filling in those big ledgers.

BAXTER:
Bravo, target is still on the sixth floor.

Activating thermal imaging
to confirm other occupants.

This is Radebe. All personnel to move.

- Target is at Spencer Mansions.
- What the hell?

I'm sending in my men.

[SIRENS WAILING]

- This is my mission.
- And this is my city, major.

Knox could have an army up there.

[SIRENS WAILING]

COP:
Move out.

Move. Move.

RADEBE:
I am leading this operation.

COP:
Go, go, go.

Zero, I got a tactical unit coming toward me.
What the fuck is going on?

Zero, advise.

Bravo, op will be led by tactical unit.

- That is an order.
- Are you fucking kidding me?

Just get Knox.

Filling in those ledgers
was tedious and mundane work...

...but there was a kind of beautiful logic
about those columns.

Good credit, bad debt.

Cause and effect.

Dear God. Christy Bryant.

CIA disavowed her four days ago,
and she knows we 're on to Lucas.

Action and consequence.

Goddamn it.

Scott, Bryant knows we turned Lucas.
Knox has to know too.

- Get them out of there.
- Copy that.

SCOTT:
Who's the commanding officer?

And I'm looking
at one of those ledgers right now.

And you are on the bad side of the page,
Mr. Christian Lucas.

Who's the commanding officer? You?

Hey. My name is Scott.
I'm with British Military Intelligence.

- Stop your guys going in.
- I can't. I have orders.

Well, I've got orders too,
so get your men back.

Shit. Bravo 1, I'm at the back.

There's no way in.
I'm gonna have to find another way.

- Bravo, be advised target is on the move again.
- Which way?

BAXTER: He's descending.
- Red team, move in.

COP: Move in, team. Move in.
SCOTT: Hey!

BAXTER: Bravo, thermal gives us
a second occupant leaving the building.

East stairwell.

Shit.

KNOX: You see, I know that you betrayed me
to Section 20.

BAXTER: Be advised, sixth floor is vacant.
No occupants.

Bravo 1, get out of there. It's a trap.
Abort. Abort.

- Get your men out.
COP: No.

SCOTT:
We're in the wrong fucking building.

Get them out of there!
We're in the wrong fucking building!

- Get your men out!
STONEBRIDGE: Get them the fuck out!

You don't understand what I'm hearing!
Get the fuck out!

[BOMB BEEPING]

Get back here now!

Fuck!

- Holy shit.
- Bravo, come in. Report status.

RADEBE:
Red team, come in.

- Come in, red team.
SCOTT: Fuck, man.

RICHMOND: Bravo, come in.
SCOTT: Roll.

- Stay down.
- Aah!

DALTON:
Bravo, come in.

Jesus Christ.

- This is on Bryant.
BAXTER: Activating the tracker now.

Fuck.

[BEEPING]

BAXTER:
Tracker up.

We have Bryant's coordinates.

SCOTT:
What the fuck?

Gotcha, Christy.

LUCAS: They threatened my family.
- Well, of course they did.

Scott, come in. Bravo 1, come in.

I wanted the Nigerians to have the power
your weapon would have given them.

You thought that you could treat them
like your puppets.

Shit! Bravo 1, come in.

I have eyes on Hanson.

- Hanson!
- Sit down.

Sit down!

[ALL SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[ALL CONTINUE SINGING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

HANSON:
Excuse me. Out of the way.

STONEBRIDGE:
Move. Move.

Hanson!

Don't you fucking move.

I'm not going anywhere, Michael.

BAXTER:
Shit. Eyes on Stonebridge.

DALTON:
Dear God.

Do it.

[GUNSHOT]

Do it!

You know you want to, Michael.

COP [OVER PA]:
Drop your weapon.

Drop your weapon.

Those are regular police.
They don't know who he is.

- They will shoot.
- Do it!

COP:
Put the gun down or we will shoot.

[SIRENS WAILING]

COP:
You are surrounded by the police.

Drop your weapon. You are under arrest.
You are surrounded.

Yes?

You should have shot me, Michael.

You had your chance.

[GRUNTS]

You know, don't kid yourself
you're any different than me.

You're just a killer
with a get-out-of-jail-free card.

COP:
Okay, roineck, you can go.

See what I mean?

COP:
Come on. This way.

Hmm.

COP:
Here.

[GUN COCKS]

Michael.

Promise you'll never forgive me.

KNOX:
You are right about something.

These weapons will be lied and cheated over
until the day they...

If it's only money they want,
these Nigerians could still be of use.

But I'm afraid nothing will really change...

...until I let these bombs go off.

[WHIMPERING]

[GUNSHOT]