Ep8 | Resolute

This series contains strong language and violence, it is fiction, resemblance to reality is coincidental, this is bare hunt. Previously on bare hunt. Can I ask what brings you here? It's something, a lurch of the heart. I'll take your fucking ship to China, but I want proper, serious, whole work done, yeah? Sarah Nichols. In the hell? She was looking for a story about the war on the woke, she's come up with more questions than answers. Any questions about what? Corruption. Keep Nichols. Right, you're telling me her husband will go for the coup if there's something here. Right, good luck, Sean. Yes. Good luck to you too, Charlie. Blackbird, yeah? I'm Sean Wade. I'm gonna do you the good grace of assuming you're not a total fucking dumbass. These scars. The dead Ramdani. Is that going to affect our extraction, Mr. Special Forces? If you fuck this, they lock me up. Forever. I've got eyes. I've got eyes. Do not run. You understand? What do they want? Throw the fuck down right now. Nothing. There. You see him? Oh shit. Don't do it. Cunt! Don't do it, nothing! Nothing. The Hongmen. Thanks, Stephen. I know what is at all, Mr. Muddy. Robo, okay. Well, he's here. Our one month long break in the Far East is coming to an end. I won't miss it. I'll miss the price of the beers. What about the food? Hey! Food was fine for me. The only repulsive part was listening to you shake yourself every night. There we go. Global team. What's this then? Wonder if they find another act of war zone to send us through. Are you okay? Yeah. Hold on a sec. They bring in loaders to our booth. Fucking. I'll sort it. No. What? No. They've given us a pick up and depart. We're further east. Changjin. You're joking. Solvents. Fucking solvents. I'll need four sex, usually. Master Vena. Get her and ship. Drag some port lads in if you need it on. I'm called Yara. Yeah. Yeah. Mel, can I have a word? You can. Caligula. Yeah. Expense sheet for today just came through. That's early. Not for the reason we want, sadly. Surloin steak. They made an unsuccessful attempt. Yeah. Shit. Which means, Duffy was at least spotted, but they had a capture. Which means he's no longer on his majesty's service. He's a fucking mercenary. Not necessarily. Yes, necessarily, Keith. You're saying he saw agents trying to close him down. He fled the scene. That's willful. That's a willful act to avoid having the mission taken away from him. And let's not forget his jackpot 20 million quid house, right? It's in his nature to conceal himself as best he can. Blackbird is of Chinese descent. Wade is full of beard and air and disheveled and he's coming in his direction. It's plausible that Duffy just did not want conversation or engagement with anyone. The protocol is to approach lightly and casually. Well, yeah. The comms for the trigger word. Surloin? Yeah, as it says on the tin. Extraction attempt failure. To be precise is an extraction attempt failure in the area of interest. Chang'an Road. That's right. Okay. Okay, so he's at the site. Exactly. I think this is encouraging, you know. I really, truly do. Sean Wade won't fail again, highly unlikely. So, Duffy is there. And we've got 33 days to stop this thing. And we will, Mel. We fucking will. You think he knows? Knows. Well, about Caligula. Yeah, that the UK government is out to get him. Look, Mel. He got greenlit for this thing in the fucking what? Our long haul in our non-existent constitution. He knew before it started that this was in a gray area. So, yeah. And he's got. He might have the feeling that someone's out there. After him. Yeah. Hmm. Or he's been tipped off. Mel. He's unreachable. Hello. Hello. On force today? Yes. No, holiday? For you? A little. Ha, a little. Right. Well, enjoy. Yes. Okay. Keep on, uh, shut up. Just seeing who you are and not. Uh, you must be looking. All right, doofy. Rubberware, mate. Okay. All right. Doofy. Rubberware, mate. Okay. Okay. All right. Doofy. Rubberware, mate. What are you seeing, man? Long time no speak. Listen, I don't know where you are in the world these days. No way flipping it in all of your surprise, surprise. So, I'm having to resort to this. I mean, fuck you. You know what? We're teenagers. Look at this. This weekend. It's Rumdani's stack, mate. What the fuck? It's Rumdani's fucking stack. It's so Rumdani right off we're calling it. South Korea, mate. This weekend. Late show, I know. But, I don't know if you can swing out there. 24, 40 hours, something like that. Whatever. We all, mate. Don't worry about it. It'll blow his mind to sea as well, aren't we? I'll probably be fucking tough to sea as well, mate. To be honest. Listen, we're going to be basing the victory hostel. Victory hostel. Lock it up. We'll start both days this weekend in there. At the bar. So, fucking get there. You hat. All right, mate. See you later. [music playing] Can I get a taxi please? Beijing Airport. [music playing] Oh, say can't you see by the dawn's early light? What so proudly we hear had the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight? Or the bad ones we watched were so gallantly beaten? [music playing] That's right. Thank you so much. Ah, the woman of the hour. Mr. President. Welcome to the oval office. Wonderful, marvelous. You've not been here before, right? Yes, I have. In February, we came out. Oh, of course, of course. But yes. - Yes, and adjust here? - Oh, take a seat, sure, sure. We can get a picture behind the Resolute Desk at the end. They love that, the people love that, eat it up. It's, hey, it's the most famous desk in the world, right? - It is. And made in England. - You're kidding. - Not at all. There's a twin desk and wins a castle. - Are you serious? - Completely. - I love that, love that. You're a history teacher, right? - Well. - It was. - It was, huh, yes. So this word is all from HMS Resolute? The desk was made from her when she was decommissioned and scrapped in Kent. - Oh, wow. - A gift from us, but it was the Americans that salvaged HMS Resolute, brought her back across the Atlantic as a peace offering, I believe. - We could have kept it. - Absolutely. But, returned it to us. - Well, we always do the right thing. - Yes, yep. - You know, I've noticed you guys, you love your history. You ever noticed that? - Britain. - Yeah, yeah, always, always. Alan was the same way. - Alex. - Alex, yeah, that's right, Alex. But what is it, do you think, that focus on history? - Pride, maybe. - Hmm, yeah. Longing too, maybe, right? For the power of those days, maybe, I don't know. You tell me. - Maybe. So a core nation summit was a big success. And I see it has spurred another summit. Peace in Ukraine. - Peace. - Peace. - Yeah, that's right. Global peace. So the Russians and I, well, well, my team, rather, we're gonna sit with them in Abu Dhabi or Qatar, they'll know. We're gonna talk about what we can make happen this summer for peace. - This is a bilateral? - It's a bilateral. Of course, strictly bilateral. - No Ukrainians. - No Ukrainians. - No Brits. - Oh, oh, I think an observer or two would be possible if you guys thought that was appropriate. - Only I am. - You're struggling. - No, no. Struggling wouldn't be the word. I'm attempting to present Russia in the most favorable terms to the British people. - Oh, of course, and you're doing a wonderful job. Truly, truly great job. - But it is having somewhat of an attenuation on our government, our message, and that of yours, Mr. President. And of course, that of our core nation project. - Why is that? - Hmm? - Why is that? You say it's attenuating? - Attenuation. It's weakening, wearing down a momentum. - Right, right. But why? - Well, I suppose the British people-- - Don't want billions of dollars of benefits? Or excuse me, pounds, billions of pounds? They're saying it could be measured at a trillion. The Russians are very rich, very wealthy rich countries. - Yes, no, and that's very exciting. - Then you've got to bring that excitement out in the people. Look, we know how the core nation system works, right? You're a stakeholder, I'm a stakeholder. Russia is, well, new nations join. They gotta pay. Where does that money go? To us, to the stakeholders. You can't, look, you can't measure the success of this thing now. - You just can't. - And I agree, I totally agree only pharmaceuticals and defense are not areas where the British people perhaps admire or even trust the Russians. No matter the fine actual upsides. - And this is a problem? - Yes, to put it bluntly, it is. - You know, Mark said to me, actually. He said the great thing about getting Mariam, getting a female, female prime minister of the UK, is you've got no ego, no swinging dick at the table. And it's disappointing, 'cause I see a swinging dick, swinging dick in all of us, I guess. - It's this pointing, Mariam, no truly, it is. It's, you know, it could be the most, it could be this position you wanna take. This could be the most murderous and consequential position any UK prime minister has ever taken. That might be how some people see it. - Mr. President, just so I can make something. - When there's no peace, people die. By the day, thousands and thousands of these, these little, these boys, they're just boys dying on the ground and the cold like dogs. And they've shown me the pictures. Have you seen the pictures? - I have, yes. - Horrifying. - Yes. - Horrifying, truly terrible. And, but when we have an opportunity to put a stop to that, we really should be taking it. We really should, don't you think, Mariam? Everything and I ran it, it, well it would be easier if you worked with us. - People wouldn't be dying if you worked with us. - Don't misunderstand me, we, I get it. Okay, I just want to make that as clear as I can. I understand, I get it. He has to be given a road to a victorious peace. - Of course. - But, two, put Britain on the table as a, ancillary benefit. - What are you saying, Mariam? - It 'em, we're not a sweetener in a deal. - Mr. President. - You know what I want you to do. I want you to speak to our guys, our business guys. They're actually working on some really exciting stuff on the use of crypto, crypto coins, as a trading infrastructure between the core nations. Upward in a word. And I think sitting down with them and getting an understanding of how that could benefit you, how you could see, how you could partake in some of those deals, those financial deals. I think that could be really interesting for you, Mariam. I want to thank you so much for coming here. Our teams are going to talk and I think it's, it's a photo time, isn't it? It's definitely photo time. Let's see that big smile. Big British smile. - Smile. - Yep. - Draining my fucking cell post in this Charlieic shit. You have literally no idea. - I'm pretty sure I do right now, you know. - You are aware of my cover? Soul draining doesn't even come close. - You could have been somewhere else. - Oh, could I? Thanks, cool. - Yeah, cool. - Don't do it. - I'm surveying again. - No, it was a joke. - A suicide joke. Cool. - Zhang, Zhang, stop with the fucking binoculars. Fuck sake, why not just hold up a fucking sign saying MI6? - Shut up. - Oh, what? I'm drawing attention. - Fucking Jesus Christ. - Chinese people use binoculars, especially domestic chores. - Domals. - They better? - Here. - What am I looking for? A fucking prison cell for a month? - Hotel rooftop, down there. See? - Oh, yeah. - Well, how about that? Tourists with binoculars. It's a thing, thank you. - Point fucking made, I guess. - Tourist, don't I? In fucking character. - Yeah, well, Mr. Tourist, we've got three key elevations that could be an option for the shot. You may have a point. - On what exactly? - Hotel Noir. - But B. - What's facing? - Check. - And you think he can do well over a mile? - No, you're having a joke, yeah. I've seen him do over 2,000 meters. Three options. Hotel Noir, Beijing Henderson Center, and the new Capitol Museum. - Actually, pick a location. - Shot itself, Beijing Henderson Center, square onto the target, just under 800 meters, no occlusions. For security, both entrance and exit strategy, as well as potentially blending in, I'd go for Hotel Noir. For something batshit crazy that just might work, the museum. - You said he does, we're shut. - True. But if any marksman could make the hotel work, they'd do the hotel. - As a guest. - Totally. - Like, with a room. - Given the job at hand, that's what you do. The likelihood of him having that kind of flexibility to come and go from a PLA facility to a hotel every day and night though. Doubtful. - You're wrong. - I'm wrong, am I? Helpful. - And it's back to the same point I have to keep making. - What I don't fucking get is, I tell you what I know, what I surmise, and you get all fucking British intel about it. We get it, Zhang, you're an expert too. Like what? - No. - Honestly. - Listen, you don't, but we, they, the Chinese, don't understand you either. Okay. - I'm not that complex. - You know, I'm talking about Westerners, right? Here, for us, we take the order from a superior. But why do we do it? because it came from the superior. That's the beauty of China Shan. You want to build a super power in the decade? That's how you do it. Americans, Europeans, you are told why your task is important. That's what Voxel does to me, right? Personal fucking investment in the task. They make you, they make me want to do that shit. You do it because you want to, not because you have to. Because that go the dogma route, Terry sprinting at machine guns. Three ways to make a soldier, the western way, the doctrine way, or the Chinese way. Did you understand the Taliban? Not a fucking bit. Didn't want to. Exactly. Duffy has more freedom than you think. The idea, the frickin' batshit notion of some low-rank guy. The zone, taking initiative, not checking in with a boss or an overlord after every fucking step. That is alien to China. Alien. You understand? I'll have a pint of that, please. Thank you. Cheers. A stag do for a dead man. Yeah, you're still turned up, not. Too fucking interesting, not to, right? Got your attention. Thank fuck. Come here, daft cunt. Ah, you good, yeah? Oh, get it on you! Look at this. I'll have to look at one of my young rangers. I can't do something. Sat in your arse driving a boat. Ice-buck sheet, mate. And the network in is great. I love a bit of network in a bit. So, how's China? Yeah, he fucking goes. How is it? Grown on me. How's your PM? Grown on you? Not quite. We went from too soft to too hard. People voted Viagra. Hence, soul, is it? Check you out, trick shot. Of course, man. What do you know? All sorts. Like what exactly? Had to squirtle out of a tight spot yesterday afternoon for one. What happened? Closed down by a couple of shifty ones, didn't get a decent look. We didn't have to. All right. Why'd that? Because I made to tell you exactly who it was. It was Sean Wade. Well, fuck. Thought I felt shivers down my fucking spine. There was a girl with him. Yeah, some age in the guttled there. Blackbird. Rubble. I need to hear everything. So they went on this hunt for your details. Malmory got the most of it. All from Vauxhall. No Americans. They can't tell the Russians. They can't tell the Chinese. She hatches this plan. Collegula. It's like an extraction operation. So now you've got this cat and mouse chase and the heart. The fucking surveillance cap up the other world. And the fucking finish line is the fucking president of Russia. Get in his fucking head split apart and live television to the whole fucking world. You telling me that doesn't make you proud to be British Rob's, eh? I didn't know he'd given him the slip. Fuck. No part of it, Rubble. No, it's just. It's complex now. If it weren't enough before, shit. Enlighten me. Your deniability. It's gone doth. 'Cause of you, eh? 'Cause of me? 'Cause of what you saw yesterday? You now know for a fact they won it called off. And now they know you evaded capture by British intelligence. I'm serious. You can't go claim King and Country now. You'll just be seen as some mercenary, won't you? Oh, he did it for the cash. He knew the British government wide it canned and he ignored him. Look, you might be focused on the task in there. You might not give a fuck right now. But Duffy, I assure you, you will absolutely give a fuck in the future. I met you in 2010, didn't I? Everything back then was about the ROE. While I'm telling you, the ROE for this, deniability was everything. Following orders was everything and now it's gone. Now you really are what they think you are. A rogue. A rogue assassin. That's gonna cause world war free. What happened to NCA, Robo? NCA. You told me when did I see you last? Well, last year. Not 18 months back. You told me you were going national crime agency. Yeah. So that was goodbye to King and Country, was it now? What's gonna be? Something clearly changed pal. Mary and Bran, that fucking compel, innit she? BA236. Thought as much. I'm gonna say this, because I was gonna ask you anyway I was gonna go fucking ask how things were back there in old blighty. But I tell you something, Robo. I don't need to. I don't need to ask a fucking swear in your eyes that second I came in here. The second I came in, they're practically on fire pal. I can see it. They have never failed in any task. Isn't that right man? I've been given a job and I'm gonna do it. I can see you every time it comes up. The job. I can see you in there. Fucking go on, duffy man. Fucking do it. You laughing because you know I'm right. You know it. You know. 32 ball grave square. I don't give a fuck about the money. And you know it. If I were born a hundred years ago I'd be there in 1933. And I'd pop that cunt's head like a fucking Luftballoon. I wasn't alive then. I'm alive now. So you tell me. Does your new boss show any signs of stopping him? No, duff. No. Last I heard, the leader of the free world didn't either. It's a fuck off land war in Europe, Robo. We said this wasn't gonna happen, but fucking look. He's a better old man with unfulfilled ideas. And that makes him more and more dangerous by the fucking day. Did we start the age of regime decapitation? No. He and the rest of his kind need to learn there are consequences. Even at the top. I'm getting over the hill, right? I know, okay? Your mind, your heart, it looks for something. And I know what he's after. What are you after then? I'm looking, seeking something, meaning faith. I don't know. I don't know. Some, some Hail Mary to absolve it all. Fix it all, maybe. I've done a lot, Robo, man. If heaven's real, you know, you've seen. Don't let me. Yeah. We all love me. Exactly. Exactly. I've got to get the other side of those pearly gates. You know? And I've got to see him, Paul. I've got to see him, you know? I get this done. Maybe it'll pass it to books out. Oh, fucking no. So, how are you going to give way to sleep? A prep for somebody, Robo. Of course I did. There's only one place that shop would come from. I made sure they knew it was there. Hotel Nual. Hello, hello. Is that a new course? Yeah, okay. I'm good. I'm terrified for both of us that we might get spotted together. I don't know who'd get fired first. Well, at least I have to go through the voting process. You're good? Yeah, good thanks. Been reading your book. Oh, yeah. Probably makes you physically sick, does it? What a shame. Of gags a few times, yeah. I think it was the British workers rising up against fascism that the nauseating effect. Well, my heartfelt apologies to the fascist community out there. Glad you said it out there. You could do this all day. So. So. Something is a foot. Adi has a keyway. It's got the shits about it too. So you've been sniffing around a bit too loud. Yeah, that's right. I don't know what Kate said. Well, let me kind of. I'll put to you what I know and then you can tell me what you know and then, yeah. We'll go from there. Exactly. Colonel, we get booted. Brand gets in. Brand out. reorganises the frozen Russian assets. I'm being brief there. Sure. Most of it is money, yes? With a crude interest. Yes, so it goes back to Russia. But you believe we have a what, something that didn't go. It's dead. It looks like a kickback in a sense. Right, a kickback. Which in this instance is the property of a late oligarch who tripped and fell out of a window. So Alexey Prutschev on 32 Belgrave Square. This asset was not transferred back to Russia. Yeah, everything else was. Correct. And then I saw in Shine Magazine of all places on the hottest men in politics. Oh, don't you make me work. Yeah, no. Adiazakiwe. Bruns Chief of Staff was in there at number one. Are we for Adi? And they had a couple of shots from, I don't know, like, conventions. And I think that one is election night. Won't come net at number 10 there, bit candid. And then this one, button right. See that. Yep, this is him on the phone outside that house. Very candid. Spoke to the photographer. We went to the same uni. Paparazzi College alumni, lovely. He took that. And then went up to Adi. I studied for a few photos. Adi said no. Did I like content pro, you know, all this kind of thing. And then Adi asked my friend to move back because he was on the phone with the Prime Minister. State business. And that's how we know. That's how we know. Confirmed the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff was outside the property that appears to be ringfenced as a kickback. And he's on the phone to Miriam Brann at that point. Great. Well, I know it gives me the shits. Sure. At what point were you surgically removed from her asshole? Oh, Jamie, for fuck's sake. Or are you still, you know, are you still firmly up there? And you're just chewing me off on some non-story. It's not a non-story and I'm not, never was a parasol. I was doing a story on defence and DEI and woatness erode in our forces. The lords work. I found a few case studies, one of which was an individual chuk-tote of UK special forces because of, well, essentially it was a very sketchy, badly detailed sexual assault claim that didn't even have a trial yet they just kicked him out anyway. Right. His name is Tom McDough and this is where I've got a bit stuck. We have a mole in a number 10 comms WhatsApp group. I asked them if the name Tom McDough had ever appeared and it had Brann's PA messages on April 11th 1646. Adi, you wanted him for regarding 32 Belgrave and McDough. Okay. To which Adi replies, delete from chat please. Christ, you're more screen-charted, yeah? That's right. Sure, something links 32 Belgrave square, the kick back, and Tom McDough, the dismissed soldier. And one final, bizarre addition. A dead man, so Pilgrim Moore, the last registered owner of the house via a corporation. You know, Adi told me not to speak to you to stay away from all this. Well, he would, wouldn't I? Yeah, but, no, he was trying to suggest it would be my problem, like he was doing a favor. It would bury my party. So you think both parties involved? Look, if they are, it's the Kunaway centrist, right? McDough was dismissed under his government, so could be potentially. So you're telling me we could bring down Brann's government and my party's neoliberal moderates from one fucking story. It won't be a story. What? Your party will bring it to her and to the media. I see now, I fucking see, course, your husband. Sure, Miriam gets toppled and then Pete Nichols. Hmm, becomes leader of the party in Prime Minister. Yeah. So you can't release the story, like, at all. That's right. No one on my side can. It has to be you. Good. No, I like it. What's your twisted tabloid heart telling you, Sarah? I think McDough got close to something. Now he's disappeared and Pilgrim Moore is dead. You think McDough could be dead too? Prutssevice, Moorice. Show me that McDough is alive and maybe I'll believe you. But I'm guessing you can't. Show it. That's right. Finished. Off the face of the Earth. Oh, good. Hmm. It's crazy to think. We were at war with Napoleon, most of Africa, basically China and India, and we still were able to burn this place to the ground. Washington, do you say? Hmm. Still giving history lessons then, huh? Their president ran away. The president of the United States ran away, hid in the house of a quaker. Look at us now. Look at them now. That was never on the syllabus. No British child would believe it if it was. The world changes. Hmm. The current president offered us a place in an observing role at the peace summit. That's good, Prime Minister. That's historical. Yeah. We are at the table. Although I fear you may well be on it too. I get what you're saying. But we could be dealing with a different rush after pace. Totally different. True. A less desperate rush up. Right now they're flading about, right? And we're getting hit. That's the nature of it. Not personal. Americans aren't though. The Turks don't seem to be making many concessions either. Because America is America. There is no peace still, if they ain't a hundred percent happy. And fucking, what's he going to brag to the Russian people about with fucking Turkey? So we're bragging rights. Why do I feel alone? Why when I talk to the president, to the Europeans, do I feel totally and utterly alone? Because we're charting our own cause. We are sailing into the Black Sea, Addy. Alone. Prime Minister. You've got a vision. You've got a plan. You can't look back. Just because there's rough seas ahead. We've got to stay focused. Yeah. Mills at the hotel. Cool. Want me to join. No. No thanks. Working hard, I see. Yeah, sorry, two seconds. No, don't worry. You used to, my husband's the type to bring his laptop to a restaurant. Right, putting that away. Well, not if it's important. Don't worry at all. A speech changes and re-rides to a speech. The president has invited me to attend a peace summit in the Middle East. So, I'd have a schedule shake up and all that. With Ukraine? Ukraine's not scheduled for these particular talks. No. But it's always moving. Aggressing further, new discussions. Open up new options and such. So, how are your meetings? Fruitful. The ones that Langley were better than the ones in the White House. Bit of that way. A few differing ideas as to what constitutes cooperation. Hmm. It would seem we get very little in terms of intelligence. And that's not considered a lack of cooperation yet when we do it. They expect full. Yeah, full disclosure, integration, everything. Anyway, yeah. The update for Caligula. An extraction attempt was made. made, but was unsuccessful. When, the window was approximately 24 to 32 hours ago. Both agents spotted the target and executed the protocol as best they could. But he got away. For now, yes, but this falls under one of the most likely scenarios in our pre-analysis of outcomes, an initial observation and attempt followed by successful extraction. We now know he's there, and crucially he knows we're there too. That might be enough for him to come forward, submit himself to us. He could have thought they would Chinese operatives. If the Chinese wanted him, they would have gotten by now. He's possibly housed with their army or special police units anyway, so they wouldn't have far to go. He knows that. Right. Of course. Yeah. And you still feel that this information is best kept to ourselves. As in, consult with our allies. Consult with the key individual involved in Duffy's operation. I'm sorry, I don't follow. At these talks, peace talks in Doha, I could make an approach to our Tiberius. No, no, no, no. It will stop this mess. It will completely reshape our relationship. It may get us out of this farmer and tech deal. That's not something he'd do. Ever. Have a one-on-one with me. Negotiate our framework deal. No, no. He wouldn't attend a peace summit. I mean. I think you're underestimating the scale of it, Mel, the United States, Russia, at the table in Doha. But no, Ukraine. There will be a time. But it is gradual. I can even press him for time, face to face. He. That's just. He'd never do that. Sorry. There's no suggestion or anything observed on our side of things that suggest he would. If we have success at the peace talks, I think it's important that I open this dialogue with him, even if it means a trip to Moscow myself. This is in the event of peace, or at least a formalized deal. That way I could speak with him. Then onwards to Kiev. The Prime Minister. Sorry, sorry. There's not going to be a peace deal. We're focusing on positive outcomes here. There's. It is simply not in his interests to have peace. It's not in his interests. Economically, it absolutely is. Milaterally, it really is. No, it frames everything through the lens of power. Or is needed for power, Prime Minister? A foreign enemy is needed for power. After a peace deal, he would pivot back to the West. Are you. There's not going to be a peace deal, Mariam. There is not going to be one. These are fluff events for the U.S. and Russia. They are nothing else. They are to generate headlines, to project power and demands, and to ultimately demoralize the Ukrainian population. There is not. Okay. I know how the world is now. All right. It's not 2022 anymore. I am not asking you to go to war with Russia. I'm not asking you to freeze them out. Your mandate was for diplomacy. I get that. I get that. But it has to be conducted in reality. It has to be. I didn't mean to raise my voice. I just. What we are conducting in Beijing can never be known ever, regardless of the outcome. You seem to like such a little shrew when I first came into this role. And the second this tiberius operation emerged is like you have something over me. It's not that at all. No, it is exactly that. This is what you do. This is what all of you do, pipe down all the expert is here. Oh! There's an expert in the room. Now let the expert talk. The expert advise in the strongest possible terms and all this. You are right. I have the mandate. I have the top job. This is a mess of your establishments making. All devised to happen on my watch. All devised for the weight of this to fall on me and me alone. It is my plan. My mission. Yes, well, you complete your mission, Mel. And I'll complete mine. How about that? Shit. Hi, Keith. You're right, look what I'm sending you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Skyline of Beijing. This is Rachali Higgs post from his apartment balcony. Now, we gave instructions to weigh it around images posted at this time of day, which is his mission-com signal window that significant structures and observations fill the left third of the image, then alternate, right third of the area of interest, then left and so on, changing per image. Mm-hmm. This, on the left, is what we assume is our observation of a likely fiery point. Hotel Nuo, a lot big. That has a clear shot. From that Western face, yeah. Now, what I can do is contingency set a process on September 3rd that will be from a black phone, calling a bomb threat to that building. Yeah. Good idea. That way, we get fully evacuation. Duffy gets exposed. If he's in there. Yeah, he's in there. But there's no army doing that even if he isn't. Yeah. Cool. Authorised. Great. Great. How is it out there? More good. Mm. Oh, shit. Yeah. Grapplery, we're big. Know it all. American blocks, Alia. It's the know-it-all British women I'm struggling with, actually. [MUSIC PLAYING] Situation, command's intent. Effectoration change in the Russian Federation using at reach. Denyval kinetic operations in foreign states. [MUSIC PLAYING] Grapp, not China, but the Yangtzean Airport Rival. Beijing has Destination. The Yangtzean Airport Rival. Yangtzean Airport Rival. Oh, fucking hell. Another game. Sure. Safe to say, though. We've lost your red star. I'm killing you, man. You haven't won in four games. Talking about your up. I had a head start, did I know? Of course, man. Didn't feel like it in fucking Zambia Robo. Or when they pinged me off to Changbae Mountains. Nah. Sean Wade. He's got the resources of State and one of the best connected intelligence agencies in the world. I had an old guy and a book. And as of now, I'm down a fucking old guy. You were a fucking PM. I, that wanted no accountability. Yeah, I knew, got you the job, by the way. I get a coat of this else, do I? It was you that suggested me. What a finder's fee. Huh? Fuck off. So how'd you missigate it then? Come on, you David, then go lie if what now? SIS or in contact with him? I mean, a bit limited, but he's still got state resources, aren't he? So he's in the best position, is what you're saying? Well, you tell me. Nah. I think you're probably right. If he's not in the best position, then fucking Mr. Tiberius certainly is. Eternally paranoid levels of security in the second best vehicle available, visiting the surveillance capital of the world. But, and I know I've said it to you before, if you can't be best, be thirst. You know how you're going to do it? I've always known. That's why I needed a wee chase with him on the Chang'an road. Why? Be. For what? Every time I put down a book about, say, politics, war, conflict, the loser is always poisoned by the same toxin. You know what that is? Confirmation bias. I mean, they'll call it loads of different shite, hubris, ego, overreach. It's fucking confirmation bias. Fucking killer. Hang on a minute. I get out to soul. Risk a fucking great deal, by the way, to tell you they're on your case, and you fucking you! I didn't know it was Sean Wade, so that was handy, Robo. I appreciate you. Oh, sick. What are you cooking, Doth? Seriously? Oh, seriously now, is it? You know, Robo, I meant to say earlier, a trick shot only really works if you call the shot you're gonna take before you take it. Otherwise, it just looks like pure luck. Pride may be a sin, but I'm a professional, and I don't want that. I've worked on this thing for nearly half a year, so. Oh, and you're gonna do that, are you? Sure. He's got a trick shot. Well, let's hear it. [Music] (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]