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00:00At dawn today, armed special forces raided a warehouse in King's Cross.
00:18Information had been received anonymously that a terrorist group was using the warehouse
00:21as a bomb factory.
00:23Armed forces secured the building and found it to be unoccupied.
00:26There was, however, evidence of an attack being planned.
00:28There were detailed maps of the Whitehall government buildings with CCTV camera positions
00:32marked and dead spots calculated.
00:34The group's political orientation is unknown, labelled with threat flagged as blue, AA.
00:42There have been reports from local people of firing herd on an abandoned British army
00:47range in a remote area of the Brecon Beacons.
00:50Surveillance revealed basic military training to be in progress.
00:53Those involved have been identified as being members of a militant animal rights group.
00:57Electronic surveillance has revealed their intended target to be a medical research laboratory
01:00in Bristol.
01:01Level of threat blue, AB.
01:08A van holding several drums has been parked in an East End car park for the last 24 hours.
01:13It belongs to a group called Patmos.
01:15Their ideology is survivalist, awaiting intel on precise destination of van.
01:20Level of threat blue, BB.
01:31A suspect connected to the sale of sensitive nuclear information has been under close surveillance
01:35for three weeks.
01:36The interrogation of Christopher Jennings by MI5's special information unit is ongoing.
01:41You are Christopher John Jennings.
01:44You work as a maintenance engineer at Sefton B nuclear power station.
01:49You recently received a transfer in your bank account of £100,000.
01:54We believe you sold information about the nuclear plant of use to terrorists operating
01:58out of North Africa.
01:59Oh God.
02:00Level of threat from Jennings' activities, red, A.
02:09Total number of listed threats, 27.
02:11This concludes the weekly report.
02:14Good morning world.
02:19Good morning world.
02:49Egypt.
03:15The hotels on an island in the middle of the Nile, near Thebes and the Valley of the
03:20Kings.
03:21We can drive out into the desert and spend the night under the stars, shagging ourselves
03:26stupid.
03:27No way can I go to Egypt.
03:30You've got some leave?
03:32Cannot.
03:33Can't.
03:34Can't or won't?
03:37They'd never give me clearance.
03:38Oh, the mysterious they, your spooky bosses.
03:44Take the tickets back.
03:46If they're difficult, I'll go halves with you.
03:50If you don't come to Egypt with me, I'll break this window.
03:56Oh, Vicky, don't be ridiculous.
04:06You're going to dump me, aren't you?
04:11Look, let's go and have lunch, talk about it, OK?
04:16The clock tower.
04:18Yes?
04:19Expensive.
04:20Definitely a dumping lunch.
04:23One o'clock.
04:26Right then.
04:28Windows are safe until one o'clock.
04:42OK, Tom, I saw that Jude Law film last night.
04:57And how was that for you?
04:58That was terrible.
05:02Hi.
05:03Hi.
05:04Have you ever been on a barge?
05:05A what?
05:06Well, me and some mates are going up to East Anglia this weekend on the canals.
05:09Some great pubs.
05:10You'll all fall in and get that rat's disease.
05:12You don't want to come then?
05:13Nah.
05:15What are you up to this weekend, Tom?
05:16Red flag, classified.
05:18How do you say nearly?
05:20Yeah, he's got some people with him from St Albans.
05:22The water cooler's half empty.
05:24What was that?
05:25What was what?
05:26That sound.
05:27That'll be the registry lift. The door gets stuck and then bangs.
05:29Maintenance in this building is not what it was, like half-empty water coolers.
05:32Have you got that weekly threat assessment from Downing Street?
05:34Yeah.
05:35They like it nice and dumbed down in pictures.
05:37Bike's waiting for it.
05:38Good, good.
05:39Zoe!
05:40Zoe, the employee at Sefton B.
05:42Can you run through the latest interrogation transcripts for me?
05:43I just got in, all right?
05:44OK, fine.
05:45Did Danny come in with you?
05:46Well, obviously not.
05:51Tom, this is Bridget Sands and Mark Woolley,
05:53quizzers from St Albans.
05:54Bridget, Tom Quinn.
05:55Tom.
05:56Mark.
05:57Mark and Bridget are here to update us on the interrogation of the Sefton B suspect.
06:00How are things at St Albans?
06:01Oh, a bit fraught.
06:03There's pressure on us to break what terrorist suspects we've got our hands on.
06:06Break?
06:07Yes.
06:10Zoe, are you all right?
06:14I suppose everybody heard what happened.
06:17Me and the love of my life caught on camera.
06:20Did you see the tapes?
06:22Tom told Colin to destroy them.
06:24Not before everybody had a good lunch.
06:26No.
06:30Do you know what really gets me?
06:32It's the feeling that all my...
06:35Oh, shit!
06:40Can we all just pay attention?
06:42The major incident alarm has sounded.
06:51As I was saying, the major incident alarm has sounded.
06:54Wait a minute.
06:55The book states, when the alarm sounds, no one shall leave or enter the grid.
06:58Yeah, but this is just a glorified fire drill.
07:00More than that, terrorist attack.
07:02How prepared are we?
07:03Bali, Kenya, the Moscow Theatre.
07:05At any minute, it will happen here.
07:06All the more reason to have Danny on board.
07:08We were MX officers.
07:09OK, Malcolm, can we open this thing?
07:10There's a manual override.
07:12Harry, do we have to be here?
07:14Sorry, Mark, the rules state all personnel in situ must stay quiet.
07:17But we've got to brief the Home Secretary in an hour.
07:19Can't help, I'm afraid.
07:20Everyone, we all knew that an ERIE exercise would be sprung upon us at some time this month.
07:25And ERIE is?
07:26Extreme Emergency Response Exercise.
07:28Good man.
07:29The first rule of ERIE is that all officers will respond to any situation thrown at them professionally.
07:34We treat this as real.
07:36What fun.
07:38You're late.
07:39Tom is MX officer.
07:41Will somebody close that bloody thing?
07:43What was that all about?
07:44It's a drill.
07:45Big one?
07:46Don't know.
07:47Listen, do you fancy coming up to the canals tomorrow and something?
07:49I mean, your bird trips.
07:50Booze badge.
07:51Yeah, not fair.
07:52Oh.
07:53What?
07:54Well, how can I come after all? I mean, it's the countryside, isn't it?
07:55Yeah, more the merrier. Makes it cheaper.
07:57Can we get this thing moving?
07:58Tom is MX.
07:59That's Emergency Executive Officer.
08:01He will coordinate all our efforts.
08:03This is how it works.
08:04Someone in the building, an ERIE team, will feed us information about an emergency.
08:07As it unfolds, they will assess our response.
08:09And what about the work that we're doing already?
08:11We put aside everything until the exercise is over.
08:13Folks, we take this seriously.
08:15As far as we're concerned, there is a major incident in progress.
08:18Now, remember what this service does.
08:19We gather, identify and destroy.
08:21Thank you, Colin.
08:22We gather what information we can about threats to national security,
08:25we identify enemies of the state,
08:26and then we send in the appropriate forces, police, special forces, and close them down.
08:30And that is exactly what we do in a national emergency of this kind.
08:33Now, Colin, Malcolm, you are the technical team.
08:35Techies of the day.
08:36Zoe, monitor all radio broadcasts.
08:38Try and build a picture of what's happening, yes?
08:40Yes.
08:41Sam, Ruth, research team.
08:43Goodie.
08:44Now, Danny, I want you as a liaison officer for all the groups in my second-in-command.
08:47The rest of you, including our unwilling guests,
08:50sorry, Mark, Bridget, muckiness required.
08:52Nothing wrong.
08:53Right, let's talk to the duty room.
08:55I suppose we go along with this.
08:57Yes, but if it is a real emergency, then we can't be stuck here.
09:01Patching her through... now.
09:05There's been an explosion in Parliament Square.
09:07Do we know what kind of explosion?
09:09Not yet.
09:10I'm the duty room officer in charge of security,
09:12and the drill is to seal all the floors in Thames House.
09:14In case.
09:15In case of what?
09:16Well, if it had been a nuclear device, we wouldn't be here,
09:18but it could be a dirty bomb with radioactive material blown out over the city.
09:21People will get radiation poisoning in range of, ooh, a mile,
09:24and then for years, cancers, deformed children.
09:27And we're to believe that this has gone off in Parliament Square,
09:29half a mile away?
09:30Oh, yes.
09:31Latest intelligence is that there are at least ten dirty bombs
09:33under construction somewhere in London.
09:35It was in my briefing two weeks ago.
09:37Dot, what are the emergency services doing?
09:39I don't know. There's a lot of confusion here.
09:42Oh, God.
09:43What?
09:44C-section the registry.
09:46I can't lock them down.
09:47Why not?
09:48The system's not working.
09:49Sins of maintenance.
09:50Why is it that nothing in this country works?
09:52I can't get a signal.
09:53They don't seem to be working.
09:55I can't get a signal.
09:56The damper cage must have gone down.
09:58What does that mean?
09:59That means our phones and mobiles won't work.
10:02They're totally cut off.
10:03But I've got to get through to the hospital. My daughter's...
10:05Dot, what about the other floors, immigration, section A and D?
10:08I'm sorry.
10:09The locking switch is not working.
10:11Are you saying that the grid and the control room are the only areas locked down?
10:15At the moment.
10:16It's on radio four.
10:17OK, put it on the speakers now.
10:18Dot, you must lock down the whole of the building.
10:20We know more as this incident unfolds.
10:23To repeat, a bomb has exploded in Parliament Square.
10:26Reports are sketchy, but police are asking traffic to avoid Parliament Square,
10:30the area around the House of Commons and Westminster Abbey, and the embankment.
10:34We have our reporter, Ed Hadley, on the scene in central London.
10:38Ed, what can you tell us?
10:40I'm standing near the senator.
10:42Police are asking drivers to evacuate the area, and that's happening.
10:46People are abandoning their cars and running past me up Whitehall.
10:49And this is because?
10:51Well, at this kind of incident, there is the ever-present fear of another explosion.
10:55Explosion of what?
10:57It's a Downing Street scrambler.
10:59Zoe, keep monitoring the radios. Mary, stay with Dot.
11:15Is this five?
11:16Yeah, who's this?
11:17Paul Dunbarton on the Downing Street MX. Who am I speaking to?
11:19Tom Quinn, MX Thames House. Where are you?
11:22Defending 10.
11:23What's the cabinet office bunker?
11:25Tom, you need to know the Prime Minister and the cabinet are on their way to Turnstile.
11:28Downing Street's been evacuated?
11:30It's the new post-9-11 procedure.
11:32Helicopters landed on horse guards.
11:34The PM and members of the cabinet who were in Number 10 should be at Turnstile in 50 minutes.
11:37We need to know what this is and who's behind it.
11:40Have you any intel on this?
11:42Could be one of ten or more groups. We'll get back to you. What about the Royal Family?
11:46They're being lifted by helicopters to Windsor Castle, the new nuclear bunker there.
11:49Keep this line open.
11:50Sam.
11:51Yeah?
11:52In the contingency's filing cabinet, there are copies of something called
11:54the London Emergency Services Liaison Major Incident Procedure Manual.
11:58Can you distribute copies, please?
11:59Right. What's Turnstile?
12:01Let's all slide along the learning curve.
12:03Turnstile is an alternative seat of government.
12:06It's under the Cotswold Hills, in between Bath and Corsham.
12:09In an attack on the country, the cabinet and 250 officials and scientists would be moved there.
12:13Would you two go?
12:14Only the Director General's name's on the list. The rest of us all have to make do.
12:17What if the rest of us die and they've got no country to run?
12:19I don't know. Running a country with no people sounds like a politician's dream.
12:22Danny, get the big map set up.
12:28Zoe, something else I want you to do. Keep a log of events and our responses. Right?
12:33If I must.
12:34Colin, break out the EPCUs.
12:35The EP. Emergency Protective Clothing Units.
12:39In the lockers at the back of the forgery suite.
12:41Oh, sorry.
12:44Oh, sorry.
13:15Get in your protective gear, Sam.
13:17It's on this and it smells.
13:18Put it on.
13:21You too, Zoe.
13:22These suits are totally inadequate.
13:24Take it off. Take it off.
13:26These suits are, of course, totally inadequate.
13:28They seem to be low-level anti-radiation, with iodine filters in the masks.
13:31For dust, if there were a chemical, let alone biological threat, they'd be completely useless.
13:35I mean, we should have integrally sealed barrier suits with breathing apparatus.
13:38Malcolm!
13:39Sorry.
13:40If we're going to take this seriously...
13:50All right. Forget it. Take them off.
13:52Take them off.
13:54Danny, come here.
13:55Is your boss on top of this, technically?
13:56Absolutely.
14:00Radio 4's just gone off air.
14:02Submarine warning.
14:03What did he say, Rupert?
14:04He said it was a submarine warning.
14:06Radio 4's just gone off air.
14:08Submarine warning.
14:09What did he say, Rupert?
14:10It's the thing GCHQ set up for nuclear submarines at sea.
14:13If the country's under serious threat of attack, the Today programme will go off air.
14:16I don't think it's that.
14:18Tom, the woman in the duty room.
14:20She's pulling the comm circuits.
14:24Dot, listen to me.
14:25Everything goes through that room. She could cut herself completely.
14:28Don't worry. I'm sorting it out.
14:30Dot, what is happening on the other floor, section C?
14:34Now, listen, we need to be connected to the Metropolitan Police Central Control Room.
14:37Can you put us through, please?
14:43Dot?
14:45Dot, I'm losing you.
14:47Dot?
14:49Don't do that.
14:50Dot, don't touch anything. We have to keep the channels open.
14:53Do not touch anything. Stop.
14:59I don't want to, but...
15:01What if this isn't a drill?
15:08The telly.
15:26What's happening out there? What's doing this?
15:29It's got to be technical.
15:31I'll check the circuit breakers.
15:33Thank you.
15:34What the hell is going on?
15:52I've got it. I've got it.
15:54I've got it.
15:57I've got it. I've got it.
16:13Anything?
16:14No.
16:18No.
16:19I've got it.
16:20It's over.
16:24Tom, we've got something.
16:26Is it on the cable link?
16:27Somehow, yes.
16:28Right, everyone in here.
16:29Get Harry for me, will you?
16:34Can we talk to him? Can we talk to him?
16:37I don't know if he's got a mic in his suit.
16:38Where do you think he is?
16:39Looks like a vehicle.
16:40How do we communicate with him?
16:43Looks like a sort of van.
16:44Could be a mobile incident control room.
16:46Yeah. Zoe, what do we know about that?
16:48Well, it's always sent to the site of a major incident.
16:51There's a small lab for on-site analysis, radios,
16:54something called computer-aided dispatch.
16:56That's how they're reaching us.
16:57By satellite into the government cable network.
17:00P.
17:01Palm Square.
17:04VX.
17:06Not the gas.
17:09Lost it.
17:10Get it back!
17:22Yes.
17:27VX.
17:32Sorry.
17:33It's all right, Ruth.
17:34Silly me, I was just...
17:35Sam, you've been working with Ruth on this.
17:37Let's be absolutely clear about what this stuff does.
17:42Well, it's one of the deadliest nerve agents ever developed,
17:45and this is its formula.
17:47Look at the chlorine bonding in that.
17:49Chlorine bonding in that makes it almost indestructible.
17:52VX was first developed by us at Portendown, Wiltshire, in 1952,
17:56where it was first tested.
17:57It was found to be a grade AA effective weapon.
18:00That means devastating.
18:01The British traded the VX technology with the United States
18:04for information on the H-bomb.
18:06Oh, dear, oh, dear.
18:07It is odourless, its molecules are also adhesive.
18:10It's virtually impossible to remove them
18:12from the surfaces that they stick to.
18:14In its liquid state, it's a green, viscous slime.
18:17It stops nerve endings communicating with each other.
18:20VX is absorbed through the skin or the eyes.
18:23It acts almost immediately on the victim.
18:25It takes between one and two hours to result in death.
18:28The LD... LD? Lethal dose?
18:30Yes, the lethal dose is as little as ten milligrams for humans.
18:35The only known countries to possess VX
18:37are United States, France, Russia and Iraq,
18:40according to the Coalition.
18:42Britain, after inventing it,
18:44stocks in favour of thermonuclear weapons.
18:46Is there an antidote?
18:48Yes, atropine. It is itself highly toxic.
18:51For it to have an effect, it has to be injected directly into the heart.
18:54One sweet weapon.
18:59I was thinking technically.
19:01Right, so now we know it's VX gas,
19:02what we need to try and do is seal the grid as best we can.
19:04The air conditioning's down.
19:05The air may get bad, but it's all ours.
19:07What about the water in the loos?
19:09Well, the water's in tanks on the roof, exposed to the air.
19:12The stuff could get in up there, if we're going to get picky.
19:15OK, so we shut the loos down, open emergency toilets in the stationary room.
19:18Well, no, I didn't mean...
19:19Patch me back to Parliament Square.
19:26I must talk to him. Come on.
19:28Put the satellite signal through the backup router.
19:30Yeah, I tried that, but...
19:32Whoa.
19:35Can you hear me?
19:37OK, what exploded?
19:39A car.
19:40A car?
19:41It's bigger than a car.
19:43Er, a van.
19:45We really need to find out more about this van.
19:47Can you go outside and look at the wreckage?
19:50What's he mean? What's he mean?
19:51He's linked to an air supply in the vehicle.
19:53His cylinder must be empty.
19:54What's going on?
19:56We must find out more about who was behind this attack.
19:59And we need to know more about the vehicles they used.
20:01Now, do you understand?
20:11You've asked her to breathe the air?
20:13Certainly quite. What's your name?
20:14Stephanie Mills, Steph.
20:16The air cylinder on my suit was only half full.
20:18I've been on the fixed supply.
20:19But it's like a farce.
20:20The tube doesn't reach the driving seat,
20:22so I haven't been able to...
20:24I mean, it's like the end of the world for me.
20:26But it bloody well works.
20:27Absolutely.
20:28What's your job?
20:29I'm a firefighter.
20:31And your major incident training's up to speed?
20:33Of course it bloody is.
20:34Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, the van.
20:36You're thinking if the cab's still intact,
20:38what's in it?
20:39Yeah.
20:40Anything that can help us find out who did this.
20:42Well, it's part of my job, isn't it?
20:44Investigate the causes of the incident.
20:46You're the only one who can.
20:51Who are you, anyway?
20:52I'm the emergency executive officer at Thames House.
20:54NY5. James Bond behind a desk.
20:57Getting others to do the day work.
20:59That's me.
21:00See you then.
21:31You've just asked someone to go to their death.
21:33Yeah.
21:35Let me know when she gets back.
21:42Can the database help us at all with this gas?
21:44Not really. It's available all over the place.
21:46There are a lot of old Soviet stocks on the market.
21:51What's going on?
21:52Everything's right. Don't panic.
21:55There are more hand labs.
22:01She's back!
22:12Stephanie.
22:14They're dead. They're lying about dead.
22:18Did you see the vehicle that exploded?
22:21It was white, I think.
22:23The top on one side was blown out,
22:25but it had a sign on the side, planets.
22:27And it said Pluto removals.
22:29Oh, heaven.
22:32Thank you, Stephanie.
22:33Put the rest of your suit back on now, please.
22:35I don't think there's any point, is there?
22:37Yes, of course there is.
22:40House of Commons is just outside.
22:42If they're all dead, I can just wander in and have a drink.
22:44They're all drunks in House of Commons.
22:46There's lots of bars, aren't there?
22:48Put your mask back on now, Stephanie.
22:53What's your name?
22:55What's your name?
22:57Tom.
22:58Want to come and have a drink with me, Tom?
23:01No.
23:02Scary place, the House of Commons, do you think?
23:04Yeah, I think it is today, Stephanie.
23:06And listen, you protect yourself as best you can.
23:08Be professional.
23:09Are you, you mean?
23:10Sending me out to breathe VX?
23:19Do your best for people.
23:21We will.
23:25I'm off for that drink.
23:29I'll raise a glass to say good luck to you, Tom.
23:37It was in the loony file.
23:39And it showed up on the weekly Level A
23:42routine special branch trawl of websites.
23:44We mentioned it in the weekly report,
23:46just to keep the numbers up.
23:49But then it struck me.
23:51Do you see?
23:52Do I see what?
23:54The group signed itself Patmos,
23:56the Greek island where St John wrote Revelation,
23:59the book of the end of the world.
24:00What threat did the group make?
24:02To bomb ten British cities.
24:06London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leeds,
24:09Nottingham, Birmingham, Bath,
24:12Coventry, Manchester, Newcastle.
24:16It's the usual survivalist fantasy,
24:19destroy the cities,
24:21the pure in heart will survive in the hills.
24:23Did they mention gas?
24:24Oh yes.
24:25Here's the text.
24:30The British whore's last breath.
24:36It's real, isn't it?
24:39After all the warnings and attack on Britain,
24:41it's happened.
24:43We knew it was coming,
24:44the government knew it was coming.
24:45Smallpox injections,
24:46regional disaster centres being set up.
24:48All too bloody late.
24:51The moment it happened, I didn't believe it.
24:56I bypassed the system,
24:57got into the London transport cameras.
25:00It's a bit unstable.
25:03The link could go at any time.
25:07That's the embankment.
25:08Had a cup of coffee there, four hours ago.
25:10The signal's coming and going.
25:11We could know people out there.
25:12Yeah, that's right.
25:13We must do all we can to contact our families.
25:15Listen, I haven't said before,
25:17but it's my little girl.
25:18She's in Guy's hospital.
25:19I mean, let's just try and see
25:20if the hospital's been affected.
25:21No.
25:22Don't you understand?
25:23Her daughter's out there.
25:25But my dad lives in Battersea, isn't he?
25:26I can't just sit here and...
25:27Let us at least try and reach our families.
25:29Maybe it doesn't matter.
25:30We may as well just walk out.
25:32Get home somehow before the VX affects us.
25:34I mean, we should be with our loved ones.
25:37Even if we've only got a cat.
25:39No, we don't discuss this again.
25:43It's a normal Friday morning,
25:44then suddenly it wasn't at all.
25:46Donny!
25:47What about your family?
25:48My mum's away singing in Edinburgh.
25:50I didn't know your mum was a singer.
25:52Gospel choir.
25:53Your folks in Scotland?
25:54Yeah.
25:55My name's Saeed.
25:56I was born in Edinburgh.
25:57Donny!
25:58Now!
26:00Right, everyone, focus.
26:02Comments.
26:03Root.
26:04Well, we know the security risks to the country
26:06and it couldn't be worse.
26:07And we know who did it.
26:08Yeah, but how do we get them?
26:09Yeah, we're just circular imagining.
26:10So, we need communications.
26:11Malcolm, Colin, what's our status?
26:12When Dot freaked out in the control room,
26:14something she pulled, something she turned on.
26:16Like?
26:17All internal and external phone lines are out.
26:19The satellite link is gone.
26:20So, we can't...
26:21Can't talk to anyone in or out of the building,
26:23can't contact anyone via email or the net.
26:25I could go down to the control room.
26:26It'll be locked down.
26:27And anyway, no-one leaves the grid.
26:32What is the matter with Harry?
26:33What do you mean?
26:34He's so distant.
26:35OK, Malcolm, what comms do we have left?
26:37The cable link's still working, but it's dodgy.
26:39Keep working at it.
26:40We need to move to a new location,
26:42to an ops room that works.
26:44And how will we do that?
26:45Wait another hour.
26:47Take a chance that the gas is dispersed.
26:49Bruce?
26:50That would be too dangerous.
26:51Right.
26:53So, we keep working.
26:55First thing, brief Paul Dumbarton.
27:03So, this is real.
27:05What do you mean, of course it's real?
27:06I'm sorry, I, um...
27:08Quinn, Quinn, what's the matter with you?
27:10I thought this was an eerie exercise.
27:13If you think that, you'd better step down.
27:14Make someone else MX officer.
27:15Nail on the head.
27:18There is a serious threat to cities throughout the country.
27:21The group responsible are called Patmos,
27:23and their weapon is a nerve agent, VX gas.
27:25We need to contact Turnstar.
27:27Tom, Tom, listen.
27:29The Prime Minister's party didn't make it to Turnstar.
27:33We got reports of three helicopters
27:35crashing near Chipping Norton.
27:37This nerve, whatever it is, must have got to them.
27:39What about the Royal Family?
27:40We think they may be lost, too.
27:43Their helicopter took off from London
27:44to pick them up and take them to Windsor.
27:46The pilot must have been infected.
27:48The country's like a body with no head.
27:51Tell me, did the government declare a state of emergency?
27:54That was going to happen when the Prime Minister got to Turnstar.
27:57So one hasn't been declared?
27:59I'm sorry, I...
28:01Paul, Paul, what's the matter?
28:04Paul!
28:05I think I'll take a walk in St James's.
28:06No, don't do that.
28:08He's infected and he knows it.
28:10Paul, other cities are in danger.
28:12We need a decision about whether a state of emergency has been...
28:15Bye.
28:16Paul!
28:24So what the hell do we do now?
28:33We must contact the other cities.
28:35Markham?
28:36The cable link runs to the capital cities, Cardiff, Edinburgh.
28:39OK, do what you can.
28:41It's pathetic.
28:42You too.
28:43Get hold of any food you can, anything at all.
28:45Chocolate bars, the lot, divide it up into rations.
28:47I don't think lunch is our immediate problem, do you?
28:49I'd have thought that the Prime Minister being presumed dead
28:52and this Secret Service being absolutely incapable of doing anything about it
28:55is what matters.
28:56Just collect what we have to eat.
28:59Just do it, Mark.
29:02I used to bring in a salad, but I didn't have time to make it this morning.
29:05Healthy girl.
29:08Newt reading's negative.
29:09I don't understand if he's...
29:11Right.
29:12So...
29:14we are half a mile from the point of explosion.
29:16Round zero.
29:18Has this gas been used before?
29:20No, except for the sarin on the Tokyo subway,
29:22but sarin's a much, much weaker member of the same family.
29:24And if it has reached us here, what's the point?
29:26I don't know.
29:27I don't know.
29:28Sarin's a much, much weaker member of the same family.
29:30And if it has reached us here at Thames House, how wide is it spreading?
29:33Well, the footprint would...
29:38We are here, so if we project at least another...
29:4220 miles beyond us...
29:43The wind's from the northwest today. I always listen to the forecast.
29:46The garden.
29:47So, at a conservative estimate,
29:51the affected area would be at least...
29:55Oh, hell.
29:56It could be much bigger.
29:58A VX canister of, say, 10 kilograms in a liquid state under pressure,
30:02exploded properly so it converts into a gas state...
30:06would be as effective as the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
30:08Killing how many?
30:10Oh, I'd have thought during this first hour...
30:13nigh on a million have been infected.
30:15A million?
30:16How far could the wind blow it?
30:18By the end of the day...
30:21three quarters of the southeast of England.
30:29Are things unravelling?
30:30The Prime Minister and the Cabinet died before they reached Turnstile.
30:33We think the royal family could be lost, too.
30:35Heroic times.
30:38Harry.
30:39Now that the disaster we've anticipated for so long is with us, what's your strategy?
30:42If the alternative seat of government isn't there,
30:44until we head to the country, we'll have to be the command centre.
30:47In effect, you'll be taking over the government.
30:50How very Oliver Cromwell of you, Tom.
30:53You may need this.
30:55Is anyone out there feeling unwell?
31:00No.
31:02I went to the loo before you closed it.
31:09I won't ask who else did.
31:12Morale may not take it.
31:14Right.
31:25Nice place.
31:28Ruth, Danny, Zoe, speed-read this.
31:30I want to know change of command when Turnstile fails.
31:39Malcolm.
31:40Sorry, Tom, we can't get anything.
31:42We have got to talk to the other cities.
31:45We have to ration the water in the cooler. It's going down fast.
31:47Then do it. Do it.
31:51She'll be somewhere safe.
31:53I mean, whoever it is, will be.
31:59Are you all right?
32:01It's weird.
32:02You never hear the traffic from in here, but...
32:04but now you really can't hear the traffic.
32:06It's a bit strange, isn't it?
32:07It's a bit strange.
32:08It's a bit strange.
32:09It's a bit strange.
32:10It's a bit strange.
32:11It's a bit strange.
32:12It's a bit strange.
32:13It's weird.
32:14Now you really can't hear it.
32:15Yeah.
32:18I said I'd come on the barge with you and Colin,
32:20but the canals all have VX in them now.
32:22According to Ruth's database, it could be for years.
32:26I only said I'd go on the barge because of you.
32:30Is that OK?
32:32Yeah.
32:34Yeah, it's very OK.
32:38I'd better...
32:39Yeah.
32:43So, who, at this moment, is running the country?
32:46No-one. They're meant to be regional government disaster centres.
32:50If Turnstile's not working, there doesn't seem to be any chain of command.
32:54This is just a chaos of diagrams.
32:56There's even one for moving the PM's car, but if Turnstile isn't working...
32:59It's the headless chicken scenario. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have always feared it.
33:03We've found out how to declare martial law.
33:05Oh, in here!
33:07In here!
33:12We've just got this Edinburgh section.
33:15Who am I speaking to?
33:16John McLeish, MX Officer. And you are?
33:18Tom Quinn, MX Thames House.
33:20We're unable to contact Downing Street or Turnstile
33:23or any of the London emergency services.
33:25BBC Radio has gone off the air.
33:28There's panic here. What can you tell us?
33:30There is a major threat, repeat, major threat to Edinburgh and other cities.
33:33You must immediately evacuate the city centre.
33:35And how am I to expedite that?
33:37You've set up a major incident control room
33:40coordinating the emergency services and the army.
33:42The police, with troops if needed,
33:43can arrest anyone they suspect of belonging to a group called Patmos.
33:46On what authority?
33:47Under the 2001 Anti-Terrorism and Crime Act,
33:50Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights is suspended.
33:53The police can arrest anyone they suspect of terrorist involvement.
33:56The declaration of a state of emergency
33:58can only be done by the government of the day.
34:00They're a criminal.
34:02The government of the day no longer exists.
34:03We must wait for instructions from some authority
34:07or else we'll be descending into anarchy.
34:10We'll get back to you.
34:13We don't have long. Edinburgh could be attacked at any moment.
34:15But I need you all to agree on this.
34:17The choice between anarchy or death, I'll choose anarchy.
34:19The Secret Service declaring a state of emergency, that's treason.
34:23If the royal family's dead, who's the treason against?
34:25My mum's in Edinburgh. Do it.
34:27I thought we weren't allowed to let personal life influence decisions.
34:30What matters is that people believe us on the streets when the orders are given.
34:33Yes, Sam, spot on.
34:34So, are we for this?
34:35Absolutely not.
34:36You're fiddling while Roan burns.
34:38Yeah, the Emperor Nero.
34:40Your MX is in the grip of some kind of power fantasy.
34:42I don't think so.
34:43Dumb, stupid loyalty is not what is needed here, Danny.
34:46Loyalty is what'll get us through this.
34:47No, it's clear thinking.
34:49Trying to take over the government ain't clear thought.
34:54Well, what do you say?
34:55I say fiddle on.
35:00What else is there to do?
35:04So, we have a state of emergency.
35:10Yes.
35:24No way.
35:25I outrank you.
35:26I very much beg your pardon?
35:28I am MX London. You are MX Edinburgh.
35:30London outranked.
35:31I don't accept that.
35:32Listen to me, you stone-headed bastard.
35:34Declare the emergency. Evacuate the city.
35:38On your head, Pete.
35:41Thank God.
35:47I don't believe it.
35:50That's it, I'm afraid.
35:54Mary, Phil, how's it looking?
35:55About two cups each.
35:57Is that all?
35:58Very thin.
35:59OK, I want you to move it.
36:00Very thin.
36:01OK, I want you to monitor what people drink.
36:02A quarter of a cup each, no more.
36:03Right.
36:04This is saving the world.
36:05Every little bit.
36:06Here.
36:08Tom.
36:15Things are true, whatsoever things are honest.
36:18Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
36:21whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report.
36:30Go back to your station and stay there.
36:33Go.
36:38I didn't think it was the real thing.
36:44Forgive me.
36:48It's all right, Harry.
36:51Look, there is an antidote.
36:52If there's a way of getting it, I will.
36:54It's not possible.
36:56You know it.
36:58I'm so sorry I'm going to have to quarantine your office.
37:03I can't even shake your hand.
37:05You'll need the keys.
37:14To lock me in.
37:27To lock me in.
37:56So it's in here?
37:57Yeah.
37:59Should we tell?
38:01No.
38:03You mean we just leave, Harry?
38:04What else can we do?
38:05It's a terrible decision, Mr Top Queen.
38:06Is it, Ruth?
38:09I can't tell anymore.
38:13They look at you
38:15and their eyes are either full of dumb hate or dumb trust.
38:20What am I going to do, Ruth?
38:21What are you saying? I'm the head of the King.
38:23Let all the sorrows lie.
38:24I'm meant to be MX officer and I don't know what to do.
38:28I don't.
38:29No, no, no.
38:30You go all moody and sensitive.
38:32That's for us. We're the troops. You're the leader.
38:34Leaders don't have feelings, as you well know.
38:40You're trying to cover me. It's a strange way of doing it.
38:42Tom!
38:50There's been an explosion in the Morningside area of the city.
38:53Oh, no!
38:54You must isolate yourselves at once.
38:55Get to the Disaster Centre bunker.
38:58We haven't finished building it.
39:00Haven't you heard?
39:02Start quarantining the city. Just do it.
39:04And how am I supposed to do...
39:06McLeish!
39:08The cable link's dead.
39:20Eight hours since we heard anything at all.
39:24Saturday morning.
39:26I should be shopping.
39:29What about Harry?
39:30We'll leave him alone.
39:32I mean, shouldn't we give him some water or something?
39:34We don't break his quarantine.
39:38No.
39:49What do you think?
39:51How you doing?
39:52Nothing's live.
39:53Look, do something.
39:54What do you mean?
39:55Invent something.
39:56To talk to the outside world, doesn't matter what.
39:58You mean for Mirage?
39:59Shh! Do it now.
40:01Right.
40:07What do you think they're up to?
40:11Oh, we'll know now.
40:13We demand to talk to Harry.
40:15We've got to leave.
40:16Maybe your superior will take control of this situation.
40:19Harry's sick.
40:21He has the VX symptoms.
40:26You mean...
40:27You mean he's in the now...
40:29dying?
40:31Oh, no.
40:32Oh, can't we help him? Can't we do something?
40:34How contagious is it?
40:35Oh, if you really want to know, it takes a few molecules.
40:37Straight through the skin.
40:38Look, I saw Harry go to the loo.
40:41Uh, yeah, it may not be that.
40:44The, uh, breach...
40:46could be Tom's fault.
40:47Tom's fault?
40:49Could be Tom's fault.
40:50And how do you work that out?
40:51He let Danny in through the pods.
40:53He could be contaminated.
40:55You what?
40:56Yeah, Tom and Malcolm forced the pod open after the alarm had sounded.
40:59Cos you were so bloody typically late.
41:02Now we're all gonna get it because big-shot high-flyer Danny
41:05couldn't get to work on time.
41:06You all right, little man?
41:07Yeah, have some, then.
41:08No!
41:09No! No!
41:18No!
41:23Apologise.
41:25I said apologise!
41:36OK.
41:38You're killing us all.
41:40What's gonna happen when someone else falls sick?
41:42They join Harry.
41:43Yeah, but what if...
41:44One by one, we quarantine each other.
41:46Yeah, one by one, until there's none of us left.
41:48What else do you suggest?
41:49That we make a run for it.
41:50Get a vehicle, get out of the London area, regroup.
41:53Like where?
41:54The Ashford safe house.
41:55We must do this!
41:56We can't die in here!
41:58Ashford's not just a safe house, it's a command centre in itself.
42:02All the links.
42:03Ashford's south.
42:04With a westerly wind, there is no way it will escape the gas footprint.
42:06Yes, we stay here as a control centre.
42:08But that's madness!
42:09We've got no link to the outside world!
42:11Then we'll get one.
42:12There may be a line running through the ceiling that still works.
42:15We've got half the ceiling off already!
42:17Then we'll get the rest of it down! All of us!
42:24Anyway, Malcolm's got an idea. Haven't you?
42:27Yeah. Colin and I, we're working on a communications device.
42:30What kind of device?
42:32It's a...
42:34It's a robot.
42:36To contact the satellite network from the outside.
42:45Zoe.
42:49What?
42:51Your weapon's qualified.
42:52So?
42:53There are firearms kept at the back of the forgery suite.
42:55These are people we work with. We can't point guns at them.
42:58No-one must leave the grid.
43:00Tom, only the security unit can use arms.
43:03It is absolutely forbidden to distribute weapons to any other personnel.
43:06Right now, we're the only ones who can decide what is and what is not forbidden.
43:09We're already in a solitary little fascist state!
43:11Ike! I am not going to let this group of people
43:14fall apart.
43:15But you'll shoot them before they do.
43:17You've had advanced weapons training. That gives you some seniority.
43:20Just give me the authority to break out the weapons.
43:26OK.
43:44Hide it.
44:15Very good.
44:18Very good indeed.
44:21So...
44:25How is this thing supposed to work?
44:27The dish can send and receive a satellite signal. It's just copper wire.
44:30We've cannibalised the WAC chips from three mobile phones
44:32and the wheels are from drives off a VHS machine.
44:34There's a two-way radio out of the television set
44:36and a speaker to attract attention as it moves about.
44:38We've got to find out what's going on.
44:40There's a two-way radio out of the television set
44:42and a speaker to attract attention as it moves about.
44:44It's powered by the batteries from our laptop.
44:46When it moves about where?
44:47Outside.
44:48We'll communicate with it by 13-amp wire taken out of the wall.
44:50Yeah?
44:52So we're going to get it outside?
44:55Well...
44:56That's an executive decision.
45:03Absolute rubbish.
45:11Hey, Ruth.
45:12It's pointless. I'm an analyst, but there's nothing to analyse.
45:15Just scissors to stab in the wall.
45:17When the power comes back on, you'll be the most important person in this room.
45:20No, I don't realise. I'm just my job.
45:22Nothing else. Without it, I go completely to pieces.
45:24No, no, Ruth. You're much more important than that.
45:27No, no. I'm happy with that.
45:31We can't do much more here, Tom.
45:32We've hit just about every possible power source there is.
45:35OK.
45:36We've got to find out what's going on.
45:38How's the food situation?
45:39A packet of cream crackers and half a banana that's going off.
45:42Water?
45:43Half a litre left.
45:44OK. Don't let people know it's so low.
45:46Yeah.
45:52Hey, shouldn't we try and see how Harry is?
45:54Can't. I'll have to keep him isolated.
45:56But that's cruel.
45:57Yes.
45:58Look, Tom, I really think we should just...
46:00Sam!
46:09What are you doing?
46:10I'm going to the Ashford station.
46:11We all should.
46:12Those suits are useless.
46:13Maybe they'll give us an edge out there.
46:15At least Ashford's got a full communications array.
46:17We can get a grip on the situation from there.
46:19They have a point.
46:21We're going to Ashford.
46:22I don't think you are.
46:23Stay where you are.
46:24Kent! Clean air!
46:26Listen to me. The traffic out there is going to be backed up for miles.
46:28How are you going to reach Ashford? On foot?
46:31Walking on the ground, breathing the air that's contaminated?
46:33But the contamination is in here!
46:35Your boss is almost certainly dead by now, behind that door.
46:37As long as we have healthy officers in here, we stay.
46:39Malcolm and Colin are building a communications...
46:41Oh, that's Mickey Mouse morale building, and you know it!
46:43Have we got to die in here?
46:45Yes, if that is our fate.
46:46Fate?
46:47You're losing it, my friend.
46:49Zoe, Danny, your boss here is losing it.
46:53Let's vote on it!
46:54No vote.
46:55Hitler!
46:56Tom.
46:57I'm giving you an order.
47:01Which means...
47:02Don't touch that!
47:06That's my end.
47:07Go in.
47:08We're good.
47:09That's it, let's move in. Come on.
47:13I'm ordering you to do your duty.
47:32What are you going to do, Tom?
47:34You're going to shoot a fellow officer in Thames House?
47:37If need be, yes.
47:38I don't believe you.
47:41Zoe.
47:52Down on the floor! Both of you, down on the floor!
47:55Down on the floor!
47:58Both of you, down on the floor now!
48:02Down on the floor!
48:32You bastard.
48:35Congratulations, Tom.
48:37A superb display of leadership.
49:02Thank you.
49:26Thanks, Harry. Thank you. How was your night?
49:29Thoroughly satisfactory.
49:31Zoe?
49:40Bull marks.
49:51Tom. Tom.
49:53Do you think I was convincing you?
49:55Oh, utterly.
49:56Really?
49:57Utterly, yeah.
50:01Come on.
50:19Hey.
50:21Daddy.
50:22Zoe.
50:23Are you all right?
50:28Very well done, Quinn.
50:31So you guess we put dummy ammunition in the firearms locker?
50:34No.
50:35No, not really.
50:36So you were prepared to shoot me?
50:38Yes.
50:41Is that going to be good marks or bad?
50:44Well, I don't know.
50:46We'll have to assess that.
50:48I'll bet you that.
50:49Sam, Sam, Sam.
50:50Another bottle of champagne in my office between now.
50:52Sam McCartney.
50:57Order.
50:59Oh!
51:01Lovely.
51:04And where the hell were you yesterday?
51:05I was held up.
51:07Couldn't you have phoned?
51:09Uh, not from where I was.
51:12I sat in that restaurant and they looked.
51:15People looked at me. I had a big sign over my head, jilted.
51:18Yeah, I had a big sign over my head, too.
51:20And what was that?
51:22End of the world, end of the world, end of the world.
51:26Tom?
51:28Tom, are you there?
51:29What do you have?
51:31What?
51:32For lunch, what did you have?
51:35A salmon mousse.
51:37Salmon mousse.
51:39Oh, salmon mousse.
51:41What's the matter with you?
51:42Why have you spoiled everything?
51:43I mean, what about me, you selfish bastard?
51:46What about you, Vicky?
51:47You're sitting in a plush French restaurant in the middle of the Western world
51:50thinking, this is the worst thing that can happen to me.
51:51Me, me, me.
51:55Why are we all so self-obsessed?
51:57Hmm?
51:59What are you talking about?
52:03I can't go on seeing you.
52:05And it's not working. I want to finish it.
52:12Vicky?
52:29OK, so let's down these and head off to the George for a liquid lunch.
52:32Cheers.
52:34Cheers.
52:58Come on, let's go.