DELANEY: What have you found? HANA: 'It's a nano-SIM card.'
I'm sorry. 'Nolan had it the whole time.'
Why are you bringing up Shen Zhao?
Cos she's dead. She died in your car.
It's stopped uploading. In English, please.
The wi-fi's down. The file is called CAE -
China Atomic Energy. Who else could this be?
I am a British citizen
being held against my will on British soil!
You're not on British soil.
What about those victims on the flight,
the unwitting couriers for MI6?
Did they know the risks?
She died in Hong Kong in custody, and they never told us how.
GUNSHOT You won't leave Beijing alive.
There was a bag with my name on it, full of cash and fake passports.
Enough to convince anyone that I'm a spy.
Put down the gun. What are you doing?
What does it look like I'm doing, Captain?
I'm taking over, and you're gonna turn this plane back to London.
You're not safe until you hand it to us.
Stay alert, and I'll meet you at the airport.
GUNSHOTS, SIR GEORGE GROANS
Tennant's done what you said.
He's taken over Thames House operations.
I'll do anything to help you.
You know that.
♪ Cos you're still on my mind... ♪ DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
♪ You're still on my mind
♪ All of the time, all of the time Still on my... ♪
WOMAN ON RADIO: 'Jones, the boss is here.
'Anything to report?
'You know if the Brits get this thing, we're screwed.'
JONES: 'Nolan's still on the dance floor.
'She hasn't passed him anything.'
What's the status?
Jones is inside. We have his bodycam feed.
What are they saying?
We've just got a line of sight,
but we can't get close enough for audio.
What's happening? PEOPLE SHOUTING
We can't see Nolan.
Can you get closer?
'He's picked a fight with the bouncers.'
Argh!
I can't see shit.
'I keep losing visual, but he looks hurt.'
This is FUBAR. Should I engage?
'No.'
Let it play out. We'll snatch him outside.
HE GROANS
He's running.
Did she make the drop?
Did she give it to him?
HE MOANS
'I don't see how.'
Where's Shen Zhao?
Sir, there she is.
Follow Nolan.
TYRES SCREECHING
Shen Zhao!
All I want is what the programmer gave you.
You're CIA.
Does it matter?
Give it to me.
She told me what you tried to do.
She won't be telling anybody else.
If you know what it is,
why haven't you turned it in to your own people?
Because if my government finds out what you did,
it will be seen as an act of war.
Oh, it won't come to that.
You're a fool!
Why give it to MI6?
Because they need to know that it was you and not us.
Does Sir George know what you're sending him?
Answer me!
You sound scared.
Good.
How much does he know?
OK. Let's do it the hard way.
Argh!
Search her.
'Where's Nolan?'
He crashed his car about six blocks from the club.
'He bailed, I'm guessing on foot.' How bad is the car?
Looks totalled, and there's blood, so...
he's hurt.
Check nearby hospitals and send me the address of where he's staying.
She doesn't have it.
Then kill her.
Nolan must have it.
RINGING TONE
'Yes, hi, I'm a guest of Dr Nolan in 326.
'I've just woken up, and he's not here.
'Do you know, has he checked out, or is he still around?'
I see.
Did he say what time flight he was catching?
Thank you.
Nolan's gone.
Reception said he took a car to the airport
to catch a 6am to London,
which means he's already through security.
If he makes it on the flight, I want him stopped at Heathrow.
He does not to pass through immigration till we have it.
Will you ask someone to detain him?
'Did you put Shen Zhao in his car?'
All done.
Cohen's paying off a cop as we speak.
'Good. Then I don't have to ask for his detention.'
If Nolan's accused of killing the daughter of a party member,
the Chinese will ask for us.
'Have Cohen prep the jet for London.'
Right.
Jet for London.
WOMAN ON RADIO: North China Air 357, this is Dunsfold Tower.
We have you on our screens.
You are cleared for approach on Runway Zero One.
Roger that, Dunsfold Tower.
Commencing approach for Runway Zero One.
Hey. We're here.
How long was I out? A few hours.
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are beginning our descent to Dunsfold Airbase.
And we'll be landing in about ten minutes.
On behalf of North China Air, myself and our staff,
we apologise for the ordeal you have all had to endure.
I can assure you, we are all safe and it will be over soon.
HE SPEAKS IN MANDARIN
Here it comes.
Selecting speed. Flap one.
Speed check, flap one.
North China Air 357, this is Dunsfold Tower.
Go ahead, tower.
There's been a change of runway. Alter course to Runway Zero Seven.
Roger that, altering course to Runway Zero Seven.
What's happening? We're changing runways.
Why? Relax.
It happens.
ENGINES WHIRRING
It's turning.
Get the tower on the phone, find out what the hell is going on.
Gear down.
Runway Zero Seven.
Well, where's that? The other side of the airbase.
Shit.
CO-PILOT: Refer to screen.
Ground spoilers, deceleration.
Start the APU.
Engine shutdown.
ENGINES POWERING DOWN
We're back.
Where is everybody?
Vehicle approaching, Captain.
Just one?
I thought MI5 was meeting us.
That doesn't seem right. What doesn't?
Who is it?
I don't know.
Stay in here and lock the door.
Identify yourself!
It's me! Open the bloody door!
Jess?
Can you open the door, please? That's my sister.
TYRES SCREECH
Why is the door already open?
They're gone.
Fuck!
You can all get up now. We're clear of the airbase.
I'm glad you're both OK.
And Dr Nolan, I'm sorry I didn't protect you.
I had no idea you were being used like this.
It's been a nightmare.
People shouldn't be allowed to play with our lives like that. I agree.
And believe me, it wasn't my people.
Where are we going? MI5?
No, things have changed since you went silent.
I don't know who I can trust there right now,
so we're going to the US Embassy.
Why there?
Well, you'll be safe there,
and I can have my friend in the CIA, Mike Maxwell,
tell me what's on that SIM.
You can relax now.
Ruth, you got the images, where are we on IDs?
Both ghosts so far, Sir.
Well, widen the net. Rope in Langley if you need to.
What about Nolan and Li? No facial hits on either of them
on the Dunsfold exit cams.
Well, unless they're still hiding in the airbase,
somebody helped them escape.
Scan again.
But Sir... This time for Delaney.
Got her.
Whose car is that?
Mine, Sir.
Check ANPR cameras countrywide for Ruth's VRN.
ELEVATOR DINGS
This way.
You made it.
Hana, this is Mike Maxwell, Chief of Station.
You can call me Mike. Thank you for helping us. Of course.
And this is her sister, Jess.
Hi. You must be Dr Nolan.
You've had quite an ordeal over these last few days.
Maybe I should call you the cat with nine lives.
If I am, I only have one left.
Come, let's get you all settled.
We have a comfortable lounge for you to relax in,
and showers if you want to clean up and change.
'Yes, Ma'am.'
We've tracked her car to the US embassy.
I'm about to put a call in to their Chief of Station.
I just wanted to keep you in the loop.
'Thank you, John.'
Of course, I'll call you with any updates.
We've ID'd the assassins on the plane.
Good work. Who are they? Chinese secret service?
No, Sir.
One of them's American.
Both are ex-military special forces.
The one posing as Zhang is Jia Yung,
former Master Sergeant in Oriental Sword,
a PLA Ground Force unit.
Born in Shanghai, emigrated four years ago.
Has bounced around private military firms since.
The second man, ex-Delta Force Sergeant Troy Hanks,
been working in the private sector since 2020.
So, we have two dead freelancers with no political affiliations.
The question is, who's paying their tab?
Both men are currently on the payroll of a company
called Alpha Tech Armory, out of the Cayman Islands.
That's a shell company for CIA black money.
Yeah, thank you, Ruth, I know what it is.
Do we have any idea who at the CIA contracted them?
Not yet. Well, keep digging.
Before I go accusing our closest ally,
I need a name to give to the Prime Minister.
BEEP
This is the lounge.
Make yourself comfortable.
Thank you.
Maddie, can we talk? Yeah, of course.
Come here.
I was so scared I lost you last night.
HE SIGHS
Are you OK?
I've had better nights.
This... has all gone insane.
Tennant taking over? Li hijacking a plane?
Washington is pissed at the PM's handling of this.
I think there's plenty of blame to go around.
Thanks for helping me. I know it's sticking your neck out.
Listen... what do you say, when all this craziness is over,
we go away for the weekend?
Paris hotel, you and me,
good food, great wine.
I'd say... it's a date.
Good.
So, do you have the nano-SIM? Huh?
The SIM? I'll have Cohen set it up in a secure room for you.
Er, no. Hana has it.
I thought it'd make her feel more comfortable
if she kept hold of it for now.
Understood.
I got a couple of things I need to take care of,
so why don't you relax, fix a drink?
I'll only be a few minutes. Thanks.
Chief thought you might need some coffee.
Oh, yes, thank you.
I'll take one.
Jess, she's obviously not a tea lady.
I don't mind. Milk and sugar?
Black.
What? She said she doesn't mind.
Have we met before?
I don't think so, Dr Nolan.
Oh.
What would you like, Matt?
HE SCOFFS Gin and tonic.
Give your liver a break.
Do you need anything else?
When is Director General Delaney coming back?
I'll check. Thanks.
I do know that woman.
Do you know her?
From Beijing.
She was... posing as a waitress at the conference party.
You sure?
What are you two whispering about?
I wouldn't drink that.
You think she did something to the coffee?
You want to risk it?
Why would Delaney bring us here if we can't trust them?
I don't know.
We still don't know what the bloody hell this is.
But I don't feel safe here.
Not now. OK, you guys are freaking me out.
Will one of you tell me what's going on?
Matt recognises that officer from Beijing.
There's no way out unless we break a window.
Those things would stop a missile.
DOOR BEEPS
Let's... think about this logically, can we?
I know you guys have been through a lot.
But they know we have the SIM. Why wouldn't they just take it?
And how would they explain that?
Look what they've already done to throw blame on China, or me.
So why would they poison us with coffee?
They wouldn't.
But they would drug us.
DOOR BEEPS
Hey, guys, just want to let you know
that Director General Delaney is ready to...
Search them.
Get the gun!
GRUNTING
Argh!
Are you OK? I was beginning to think you'd set us up.
I told you, you could trust me.
What is this, poison?
It's a sedative. Night-night, then.
Maddie, sorry to keep you waiting.
OK, let me take that.
MAXWELL ON RADIO: 'Cohen, have you found it?
'Cohen? Delaney's AWOL, and I can't raise Jones.'
DOOR BEEPS 'Cohen!'
OK, I'm gonna go first to draw attention
in case Mike's watching.
You follow, but get out any way you can.
Maddie. I've been looking for you.
What are you doing?
Er, I'm... leaving. Why?
Well, I realised that I've incriminated you enough
just by asking you to shelter us.
And... I can't decode the SIM here.
There's a chain of evidence to consider,
and the last thing I'd want is for the Chinese
to be able to say that the US has tampered with what's on it, so...
I'm confused.
You said you suspected a cover-up by Tennant
because of his own assignment, Blindside.
Now you think it's the Chinese?
What's really going on?
Who told you about Blindside?
Tennant.
Oh.
And is he also how you learned
that Sir George had something coming in from Shen Zhao?
Something that you needed to stop reaching MI6 at all costs?
No, Maddie, why would I...?
MIRTHLESS CHUCKLE
You never told me it was a SIM card they found.
No. Not even Sir George knew that.
The only way you could is if it came from your men on the plane.
They're not moving. We'll have to just go.
Stay close to me.
I'm sorry you had to find out.
That's what you're sorry for? Not what you've done?
It doesn't have to change anything between us.
Are you fucking kidding me?
You've had innocent people executed to save your own neck.
OUR necks. You don't want Chinese power plants in England
any more than I do.
I just had the balls to do something about it.
So, that's what this is about.
You three stay right there.
Keep walking, Hana. I said stop.
We're leaving, keep walking.
I can't let you do that.
He's bluffing, Hana.
Maddie, you have no authority here.
Yeah, and you have no room to negotiate.
I'm pretty sure that what you've done
wasn't sanctioned by Washington.
I do what I have to do.
Me too. Keep walking, Hana.
I will shoot them, Maddie.
In the lobby of your billion-dollar embassy?
I don't think so.
If he draws...
you stay behind me.
No, stop. The SIM.
I don't care what's on it, not any more.
Jess, don't. Give it to me.
I'm certainly not dying for it. No.
There. Now nobody has it. End of story.
Jess, what have you done?
She just saved your lives. Go.
TYRES SCREECH
What the hell happened?
Sorry. We got the SIM.
Check if it's been copied and destroy it.
Er... "Er," what?
I don't think the Chinese would've used a Vodafone SIM card.
It's been swapped.
TYRES SCREECH
Nice work, Jess. Yeah, you deserve a BAFTA for that.
What are we doing?
We're getting the data on that SIM somewhere safe.
Can I have it?
It feels weird just handing it over, after everything that's happened.
You've done your country a great service, both of you.
I'm just sorry you had to go through all that.
You shouldn't have had to.
Are we safe here? For now.
It won't take Mike long to narrow down
which streets don't have CCTV.
TENNANT: Come on, people!
She can't have just vanished!
Sir, incoming data files.
From whom? Director Delaney.
They appear the files Hana was trying to send from Flight 357.
She has the nano-SIM.
Clear the ops centre!
You heard me, everybody out!
Everybody but you and you.
I'm giving you STRAP-3A clearance for this.
Scan for viruses.
Data's clean. Throw it up on the screens.
What is that?
PHONE VIBRATING
It's Director Delaney, Sir. Trace the call.
Madeline, where are you?
CIA will already be scanning the cell towers,
so let's not waste time, shall we?
What are we looking at?
It's hacker code, Ma'am. Remote access program.
The one called "original" was developed by an MIT grad in 2022.
How do you know that?
Coders have egos. They like to sign their work.
What does the code do?
It's designed to hide dormant in an operating system,
then allow a third party to take over complete control.
Right, so, what about the other one, the one labelled CAE?
Well, it looks identical.
Its instructions, fundamentally, are...
The differences are twofold.
Firstly, it's been altered to hide seamlessly
inside the control system of a CAE nuclear reactor.
You're telling me, with this hack,
someone could remotely take over operations of a reactor
and cause a catastrophic meltdown?
Yes, Ma'am. From anywhere in the world.
Good God.
OK, so, what's the second change?
The digital signature.
It's been changed to make it appear that the Chinese military wrote it.
Mike was setting the Chinese up.
You don't seriously believe the CIA would melt down a reactor
on British soil, just to blame China?
No, I have to believe that his intention
was for us to find the code and end our Anglo-China partnership.
That's why Shen Zhao gave us both files -
so we could see what the Americans were planning.
MAXWELL: Talk to me, Cohen. Where are they?
ON RADIO: 'Sir, we pulled these from a tower in Soho.'
RECORDING OF TENNANT: 'We've traced your location.
'Zed Park, 3 Old Burlington Street.
'I'm sending Jenkins to bring you in safely.'
ENGINE ROARS
So, what happens now? To Maxwell, I mean.
Well, he'll be PNG'd.
What's that? Declared persona non grata.
He'll lose his diplomatic status, he'll be sent home,
and then it will be up to Washington and Downing Street to...
Sent home?
It'll be the end of his career.
His career?
He killed Shen Zhao.
He... had Sir George shot,
and he ordered the murder of my friends.
And all that's gonna happen to him is he'll lose his fucking job?
If he had his way, we'd all be dead. I understand how you feel, but...
No, clearly you don't.
You don't have the foggiest idea of what I've been...
what we've been through.
You only thought that I was guilty, and you had me sent back to China.
You know this guy is guilty.
You're right.
There, ah...
There might be a way.
So do it.
OK.
This is Director General Delaney.
Minister Tang will want to take this call.
Talk to me, Cohen!
'They're on the move, heading east on Weymouth Street,
'two minutes from you.
'Sir, if things go south, what's plan B?'
This is off the books, Cohen. We have no plan B.
TYRES SCREECH
There's still time to back out.
NOLAN: No, let's just do it.
'They're splitting up.
'Delaney's dropped Hana and Nolan two streets from you.'
Forget Delaney. The car is bait.
'We've lost CCTV on the others. They ran into an alley.
'You're close. There's a passageway to your left.'
NOLAN: Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.
HANA SCOFFS Too late now.
Stop!
Keep your hands where I can see 'em!
You still armed, DC Li?
Yes. Lose it!
Two fingers!
Slowly!
Now give me the real SIM.
Delaney has it.
I've run enough decoy ops, Dr Nolan.
Hand it over.
If we had it, why would Delaney drop us here?
She knew you were tracking us. This is a bloody dead end.
Huh.
Oh, well played.
What happens now? You kill us?
Like you killed Shen Zhao
and my friends on the plane?
I take no pleasure in it.
Why didn't you just shoot me in Beijing?
Because you got away.
I wasn't kidding when I called you a cat with nine lives.
Steven, Amber and Kate,
they didn't need to die.
I couldn't take the chance of the SIM
falling back into the hands of the Chinese.
The fallout from that would've been far worse
than those few lives on a plane, trust me.
Put the gun down, Mike.
Hana! Mike, no!
GUNSHOT Argh!
No, Matt!
He needs an ambulance!
No! This is Delaney.
Send an ambulance to my location right away.
I said no ambulance! It's over, Mike.
Surrender. MI5 have the data. We know what you did.
All I did was stop the Chinese
from building nuclear weapons in your back yard!
Put the gun down.
You're under arrest.
DC will never let me be arrested on British soil.
You're not on British soil.
SOLDIERS CHATTER
You're in the gardens of the Chinese embassy.
SOLDIERS SHOUT IN MANDARIN
Minister Tang, you wanted the person responsible
for Shen Zhao's death.
There he is.
You set me up. TANG: Restrain him.
Stay with me. It's OK.
I guess it's the game we choose, Maddie.
I was never playing, Mike.
Is your government prepared to share with us what was on the SIM?
I'm afraid it was destroyed back at the US embassy.
Most unfortunate.
For us, too.
SIRENS APPROACHING
Do you hear that, Matt? Help's on its way.
I didn't run.
No, you didn't.
And you wouldn't have left Shen Zhao.
I wouldn't... would I?
No, you wouldn't.
Matt?
Matt.
Matt!
Matt! Stay with me!
Matt!
SIREN WAILING DISTANTLY
Listen, I'll call you back.
INAUDIBLE
JESS: What did he say?
Surgery went well.
Erm... He lost a lot of blood,
but the bullet missed his organs.
He's gonna pull through.
That's a relief.
He said I could go see him in recovery, so... Go.
Thank you, Ma'am, for everything.
I think you can call me Madeline.
Jess, can I, um...
Can I talk to you about what you saw and heard?
Classified information.
I mean, obviously, you'll be signing the Official Secrets Act.
You're gonna silence me?
What about my story? This is crazy.
I'm never gonna get a break. Jess...
I'm gonna give you a story,
just not one that might lead to a war between the US and China.
What was on that nano-SIM isn't what's important.
But an operation by MI6,
with full knowledge of the Home Office,
using innocent civilians as unwitting couriers
and getting them killed?
That's a story.
That's the thing that needs to be exposed
because it can never, ever be allowed to happen again.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
You're awake.
How you feeling?
Like somebody shot me.
Somebody did.
You know, at Heathrow...
I'd have put money on that person being be you.
SHE CHUCKLES
A lot's happened since.
Yeah.
I was wondering,
when I get out of here...
...do you think, maybe...
...you'd like to go for...
Ah.
I let the PM know how well you did under pressure.
Good job.
I wish I could say the same.
HE CHUCKLES
What do you think will happen to him?
The prick will probably get a bloody promotion.
What's wrong?
Is it Mike?
He's not the man I thought he was.
Then he doesn't deserve you.
Stop the press.
I have copies for each of you.
Feel free to have them framed.
HANA CHUCKLES
I read it online already.
It's great, Jess.
Thank you.
"Blindsided."
Page one.
There's your name.
Congratulations, honey. We're proud of you.
What about you?
Have you given it to him yet?
Give who what?
Baba, this is a gift from Director General Delaney.
Matthew told her that we never knew what happened to Mama.
Is that your mother's file?
I don't want to see that.
It's important, Dad.
All the things they probably did to her.
My mind has imagined it often enough.
I would rather remember her the way she was.
Baba...
isn't it better to stop imagining and know the truth?
SOBS SOFTLY
You remind me of her in so many ways.
She was strong, like you.
You never talk about her.
I have so many stories I could tell you.
SHE CHUCKLES
Please.
I'd really like that.
I want to know everything.
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