The Last Enemy (2008): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript

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Any sign of him?

No.

Not yet, and so far no terrorist group
has claimed responsibility.

If Michael Ezard has survived that,
we should go in and get him.

Only if he's dead.

If he's alive we need to let him run.

We can't afford to lose him.

Let this play out as planned.



What's wrong?

Are you hurt?

He's sick.

He had the jab, EZ759...

the same time as Nadir.

There!

Got him!

And he's OK.

He said, 'sick'.

He's sick.

Come on.

Everything turns on this.

Maybe he was hurt in the blast or sick
ofthe carnage?

Yes, but if it is the virus, he could be
dead in a few days.



I'll get the section filtered.

I grew up in a community terrorised by
men of hate,

and I will not allow the children of
today to suffer the same obscene
barbarity.

Because they find it harder and harder
to bomb our transport systems,

they attack so called soft targets, to
carry out their mass murder.

Their aim as always is to divide us as a
nation

because they loath the very idea of a
tolerant, democratic society.

The criminals who organised this
atrocity want to divide us by fear.

They will not succeed.

Sorry to hear about what you've been
through.

Anything else, just ask, anything.

Thanks.

It feels like flu.

You've got a fever.

Is this how it started with Nadir?

I don't know how it started with Nadir.

But we know how it ended.

So I've got what...

two, three days?

You need to get to a hospital.

With what?

What name?

What ID?

We have to try and find Cooper, get a
blood sample to him, maybe he can
analyse it.

But he's disappeared.

There's no cure.

We don't know that.

We only know that no-one's been allowed
to analyse blood or tissue.

We don't know what it's hiding.

How do we get hold of Cooper?

He's sick.

He had the jab, EZ759,the same time as
Nadir.

It must have just started.

So the next 48 hours should tell us.

Sleep well...

it may be your last for a while.

Charlotte!

Charlotte!

Here, drink this.

Tell me about my funeral.

Come on.

It must have been a good one...

I was quite amazed, if truth be told.

The crowd...

I suppose I must have been imagining my
own,

but, er, yours was standing room only.

Came from all over.

And they loved you.

I mean, they really, really loved you.

What about you?

You know, we were never really blood
brothers.

I tried to think of one happy memory
with you in it.

We hated each other.

We still do.

I don't hate you.

You slept with my wife though.

You did do that.

You see, that was something that was
bothering me when I.

when I came back.

You...

You weren't the same.

You'd changed.

There had to be a reason why you were...

why you were desperate to find her.

Why you wanted to get involved.

It wasn't moral outrage, or anger at an
injustice...

She wasn't your wife.

She was your widow.

When?

After the funeral.

0n the same day?

0n the day of my burial!

Yes.

What do you think's going to happen this
time?

You think...

You think you're going to get lucky
again?

Get off me.

Stephen...

Stephen here, wasjust telling me...

about how he got laid...

on the night of my funeral.

Is there anything particular you'd like
to throw in?

It happened.

It's something the three of us are going
to have to.

Have to what?

Live with ?

Oh, no, no, not me.

I'm not going to have to do that.

Stay away from me!

What the fuck have I got inside me?

Where's Yasim?

I don't know.

I woke up and she was gone.

Get away from me.

Sit up.

I'm all y0u've got.

I'm not going to let you die a second
time.

What can you do?

First thing tomorrow I'll go and find
Cooper.

I don't know how.

But I will.

Black coffee please, toast and jam.

How did you find me?

Remember the clothes I gave you...

Nadir's clothes.

They're tagged.

All this time y0u've known where I was?

Yeah, pretty much.

Do you think you could maybe burn this
for me a wee bit more, darling?

Sure, no problem.

You know, I'm all for the big melting
pot, but it's definitely been the death
of irony.

So how are the brothers?

Bonding, are they?

Michael is sick.

Same as Nadir.

Well, that must be, erm...

Well, being so close, it must be hard
being the doctor.

I came here to try and think like one,
to remember some basic training.

Walk away from the patient, drink
coffee, reflect on how useless you are.

Look, I didn't get the chance to thank
you properly for what you did for Nadir.

I appreciate it, looking after her.

What do you want?

You still looking for Professor Cooper?

You have reached your destination.

You have reached your destination.

You have reached your destination.

You have reached.

Michael.

That night...

I was so alone.

Stephen was there.

He was...

kind.

And I wanted him.

Automatic tracking.

' OK, this was an hour ago.

He's worse than yesterday, but with help
he can still walk.

Now.

We're getting somewhere.

They then clock up 15 traffic violations
in under four minutes.

They're driving like there's no-one
watching them.

Then...

the system loses them.

Same pattern as Russell.

He's in with them, got to be.

And you're certain he wouldn't have seen
anything of any significance at your
house?

Certain.

This might tell us what's inside your
brother.

The files are marked 'Operation Tag-Me'.

I tried to break in, but I'm no genius.

Operation Tag
- Me?

Yeah, you know it?

No, but if it's a tag experiment hooked
up to a Hep Bjab, Tag-Me makes a lot of
sense.

Yeah, but why the Middle East?

Maybe it's nothing to do with the
location.

Maybe it's because they're refugees, a
small contained population,

easy to access, easy to monitor through
follow-up health checks.

Mass human experiment to see if and how
the group disperses.

Whether the tag works.

A deal, you said.

If Stephen tried to access the data,
you'd help us find Cooper.

Yeah.

I was concerned about the number of
fatal accidents in Professor Cooper's
line of work.

So for his own good...

I said I wouldnae kill him if he kept
his mouth shut.

Will somebody tell this maniac I had
nothing to do with his daughter's death?

Nothing!

You see what the eminent professor fails
to understand is he's an endangered
species, and I...

am his new best pal.

Now get to work.

Michael, how are you feeling?

Any pain spasms?

Any disorientation, hallucinations?

No.

What do you know about it?

You give me 50 mills of Michael's blood
and I'll be able to stop guessing

and start looking, back at my lab.

But what would speed things up, maybe
even give us a fighting chance,

would be blood samples from other
infected bodies.

Three or four would be ideal.

And then I'd be able to get a clearer
picture of what we were dealing with.

The refugees Michael came in with, they
all had the jab.

One of them was getting sick.

Maybe more of them are by now.

But they were all arrested.

If they're sick, they'll be held at
Brampton.

I've worked there, it's not an easy
place to get in and out of.

Fingerprint access on every door,
internal and external.

Could we get finger prints of somebody
who works at the holding centre?

Yeah, sure, why?

In China, the university had finger
print security.

The students used to play tricks on each
other, and the system, all the time.

Fingerprints aren't that difficult to
forge.

Now that I've made the master, I can
make as many sets of prints as I want.

And the beauty of this is that you just
suck the finger and eat the evidence.

Stephen, are you sure...

No, ofcourse I'm not.

I can't think of anyone less equipped to
break in there, let alone take blood
samples.

What if I hit an artery?

You won't, they're deep seated.

If you stay at the surface, you can't go
wrong.

And you won't go wrong.

Tighter.

just under the skin.

Don't go through the vein, just into it.

Oh, God.

Come on, come on, please.

Can I help you?

I'm Dr Wallis.

Doctor Keane asked me to take a look at
Mr Haman Aljamal and his family.

She did?

jesus.

Doctors, the same the world over.

You're all fists.

Perhaps you could take samples from the
children.

Access denied.

The other refugees that came in with
this family, two single men, what
happened to them?

They died.

Access denied.

Nobody likes you, jack, nobody.

Not even the system.

You can't get in because you're already
in.

Did you finger out?

How else could I have got out?

It's got you coming back in four minutes
after you left.

Excuse me, doctor.

Yes?

Has Dr Keane come in yet?

She's still at lunch.

0h, no, wait, here she is.

Dr Keane?

Can you pick up, please?

OK.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Come on.

Access denied.

just kill the bloody system, till we get
there!

This is fantastic, well done, Stephen,
well done.

Do you know he slept for about 90
minutes last night?

Another obsessive compulsive.

Have you found anything that might help
Michael?

Small steps, so far.

But now...

How are you getting on with Operation
Tag-Me?

Yasim?

Yasim?

Michael?

Michael?

I beat it.

Thank God.

All gone.

He's through it!

Stephen, what happened?

I got the samples to Cooper.

You were gone such a long time.

How are the others?

Haman's dead.

The other men, too.

Nura and the children won't make it.

But it's not about tagging Haman and
Nura.

It's not about the refugees.

When I was driving around, it became so
obvious, it's about us.

An experiment done on them, for our
benefit.

It's not a big step from where we are
now.

You can fake an ID, you can steal a
fingerprint,

but it's almost impossible to fake an
internal tag,

a tag that you can't dig out when you
ARE the tag.

Do you remember when we talked about
blowing whistles?

If Cooper finds any evidence in the
samples, we can do that, we could blow
this out of the water.

These images were recorded a half an
hour ago.

Remarkable.

A full recovery.

To come this far at such a cost.

We could learn so much more if he were
allowed to live.

You took a risk with me.

Given the importance of that young man
in the defence of the realm,

I think it was a risk worth taking.

You once told me that the general rule
was if the Prime Minister said it was
OK,

and the Attorney General said it was OK,
then it was OK.

No disrespect to them, but I think full
disclosure on Michael Ezard

is something neither of them could live
with.

It would break both of them, and this
government.

I think you're underestimating the
strength of cabinet colleagues.

It has to be shut down, with immediate
effect.

And if it wasn't?

Question - what did you know?

And when did you know it?

For goodness sake, Barbara.

We're on the same side.

Minister.

Amazing.

And terrifying.

Patrick.

This isn't a reflection of the trust and
admiration I have for you, which is
immense.

But there's something you should know.

I used ????

I needed absolute surveillance.

We've been looking at this from the
wrong way round.

Operation Tag-Me was one experiment, but
there was another one going on at the
same time.

EZ759.

How many jabs?

Every batch has 1,000.

Why?

I can't get past the encryption, but I
do know how many sets of data we're
dealing with.

Operation Tag-Me was huge, over 12,000
sets of data.

And within that, another 1,000 sets of
data, with additional information.

I think that's EZ759.

Now, EZ759 was a tag, probably the same
one as Operation Tag-Me

but with something else, something
fatal.

But not to Michael.

No, but to Nadir, Haman, his family, and
the other refugees who had it.

But not to him?

Because he's not an Arab.

EZ759, it's notjust a tag, it's the
ultimate sanction.

Hello, Lawrence.

Thank God.

I'd almost given up on you.

Take a look.

The difference in cell structure, it's
so defined.

How's Michael doing?

Walking and talking.

?a?????u?ĻuOo11?i?!

This lays down a platform, the science
is sharp enough now to differentiate
between races.

Even a jew and an Arab, though they
share the same Semitic origin.

Taking bloozd samples from the refugees
was a huge risk, and against everything
that we agreed.

I had to know.

And you let me get this far because you
had to know.

Barbara, I need more time with this.

This is insane!

We know that potential enemies have the
knowledge to develop an ethnic bomb

and deliver it, a virus, water
contamination, an aerosol...

Our research was cancelled.

You never agreed with that.

No I didn't, sometimes the timid have
the loudest voices and they won.

But I didn't agree to you and your team
piggy-backing into sanctioned
experiments.

The test we carried out was not armed,
no harm was intended, you know that, you
know who I am!

One mistake turned it into a lethal
pathogen, one mistake, we've learnt so
much from that.

With the best intentions, a doctor makes
a mistake, a patient dies.

How often does that happen in a medical
career, once?

Twice?

A lot more?

The wrong social policy can kill
hundreds, the wrong foreign policy,
hundreds of thousands.

Lawrence, you don't have to convince me.

Can we at least monitor Michael Ezard?

just monitor him for the next five, ten
years, some good could come out of this.

If we'd known from the start that
Michael Ezard had injected himself,

if we'd known his value, we could have
been more strategic.

I know you've tried to square an
impossible circle and I appreciate that,
I really do.

Lawrence, I'm very sorry it ended this
way, we need to destroy all evidence.

You heard her, she'll destroy
everything!

Everything!

Barbara!

Wait!

Please!

You never had a step-daughter.

No.

Do you want to help me out with this?

Take a walk with me.

No.

You're going to have to look me in the
eye...

Your daughter, lovely wee girl.

By the way, that data you left lying
around, lucky for you it was encrypted.

Don't worry.

It's sorted.

Authorisation failed, encryption bypass
failed.

Deleting files, deleting all user data.

I just lost Operation Tag-Me, the files
ate each other.

The blood samples and Michael are the
only evidence we have now.

Michael's vulnerable, he's not on any
database that includes the living,

if something were to happen to him, it
would be to prove anything.

We need to get him to somewhere safe,
out of this country.

He won't go without you.

His ID is a risk, he might still have
the tag in him.

So enter the transport system away from
a major hub,

that way there's less chance of there
being a reader.

We know what they're willing to do to
destroy evidence, you can't hide in this
country any more.

We have to protect him.

I'll get my ID reinstated, I'll follow,
I will find you.

ID please, sir.

I don't have any.

Put your right index finger on here,
please?

I don't want to do that.

Then we can iris scan you.

I haven't broken any law.

I know who I am.

And I don't have to prove that to any
one.

Mr Stephen Ezard.

UNAS.

UNAS?

What does UNAS mean?

How did you know my name?

There was some data on me...

'UNAS'.

What does that mean?

What do you think?

The desk facing the window or the wall?

It's quite a mess, I thought I'd give
you a hand straightening it up.

Operation Tag-Me.

I know about it.

A trial of a harmless tag that ceases to
function after two years,

the body then flushes it out, no side
effects whatsoever.

But the guineas pigs weren't told.

These trials go on all the time,
Stephen, all over the world.

It killed 1,000 people and you burnt the
bodies, destroyed the evidence.

Because the real truth, that it was the
criminal actions of a few rogue
scientists,

would never have been heard.

Could you imagine the consequences?

The hate for generations, the fuel it
would have given terrorists.

Perhaps even the destruction of
sympathetic regimes,

hundreds of thousands could have died if
we hadn't acted.

0f course we covered it up.

It would have been a criminal act not to
have done.

That's what happens when you view a
human as less than sacred,

when you treat someone as a piece of
data, a bar code, when you violate them
with internal tags,

they become less than human,

and you start to imagine the impossible
and then you find yourself doing it.

This is a good government.

What happens when it isn't?

I don't feel violated or less human.

Smaller than a grain of rice.

That's where mine went in.

It's an ID that can't be lost or forged
or stolen.

Its content and function can be adapted
to suit my needs.

It can be my...

my credit card, it can be my door key,
my car key, so I'll never lose them
again.

Eventually it'll become universal,
starting at school age.

A tag for life.

It'll be easy to up-date.

You won't have to keep renewing it.

It won't cost a fortune to enforce.

And it'll give back to the honest
ordinary citizen freedom of movement.

I thought it would be a price worth
paying.

I had to persuade others
you were worth it...

that you belong on our side.

You're the last person we want
as an enemy.

When?

Your ID has been reinstated.

So has access to your bank
and all your utilities.

You're free to...

UNAS.

What does it mean?

It's an unaffiliated subversive.

It means access to certain public
buildings is denied.

So are certain forms of transport and
communication.

You won't be able to leave the country and
your movement and contacts will be monitored.

But Stephen, you can go back to doing
what you do best...

being a brilliant mathematician.

Go back to your old life.

You won't even notice the difference.

And in a few years, your data can be
upgraded.

What have you done to Michael?

Yasim?

Stephen, you really must try and move
on.

Michael died weeks ago in a landmine
accident.

And I assume his wife went back home.

She'd find it very difficult to come
back here.

We are tightening up on UK entry.

Home Secretary, I'm sorry to interrupt,
but we have to leave.

0f course.

Barbara, you know Stephen Ezard,
don't you?

Yes.

We'll always be grateful for your work
on TIA.

A life without distraction...

it's all you ever wanted.

Take it.

You need feeding up.

I'll get us something.

Don't look too surprised,
just shake my hand.

Are we being watched?

I hope not.

Take a walk with me.