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First broadcast 10th May 1986.

A British criminal serving a prison sentence for bank robbery in South Africa is released, terminally ill, and flown back to Britain.

Jill Gascoine - Maggie Forbes
David Cardy - Customs Man
Don Warrington - Nigel
Jessica Carney - Press Woman
Rolf Saxon - Pop Star
Andrew Readman - Press Man (as Andy Readman)
John McEnery - Hutchins
Ian McNeice - Kerber
Leslie Ash - Fred
Tracy-Louise Ward - Tessa
Alex Leppard - Guard
John Forgeham - Landlord
Kevin Lloyd - Simpson
Peter Burton - Doctor
John Rutland - Porter
David Trevena - Undertaker
Stefan Kalipha - Jonas
Stefan Gryff - Sparky
Ken Sharrock - Police Inspector
Richard Butler - Vicar
Forbes Collins - Lorry Driver

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00:29I'll see you next time
00:53IC 432, you're cleared for takeoff runway 3.
01:18I'm sorry, miss.
01:21Misses.
01:27Misses.
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05:50Miss.
06:14Tell airport security I don't want Hutchins injured.
06:17The man is sick.
06:21I'll stalk him, wear him down. You better hear me. Tie him off.
06:24Another building. Another man.
07:00AHHHHHHHHH! What the hell are you doing here?
07:58Stay on the way!
08:45Stay on the way!
08:48Stay on the way!
09:13Stay on the way!
09:14Stay on the way!
09:15Stay on the way!
09:23Stay on the way!
10:19Stay on the way!
10:38Stay on the way!
10:51What?
10:52That's sick bay cars here at Brixton?
10:54No.
10:54A private clinic.
10:56Very private.
10:56Now go to hell!
11:23Go to hell!
11:26Go to hell!
11:41Go to hell!
11:44No.
12:04You know what?
12:04Go to hell!
12:05Stay on the way!
12:08Let's have a real drink this time.
12:11Overtime?
12:12What's overtime?
12:15So take time off in Lou.
12:23You can always burn the midnight oil.
12:30I'll be there in 20 minutes.
12:32Bye.
12:39They're not happy about our man.
12:42I don't suppose that run did him much good.
12:44They're not convinced he's as sick as the South Africans say he is.
12:48No big C.
12:50You mean the South Africans got it wrong?
12:51Who knows?
12:52They didn't send his records with him.
12:54That's a bit odd.
12:56Hmm.
12:58Decidedly odd.
13:01Nigel.
13:03There's something a bit odd about that cop Kerber.
13:07Oh I'm glad you told me.
13:09I was beginning to think I was prejudiced.
13:11If I hadn't got there in time he'd have killed Hutchins.
13:14And enjoyed doing it.
13:17Well.
13:18They're callous bastards.
13:21I'm going over to have ballistics check his gun.
13:23Now whose prejudice is showing?
13:29Maggie.
13:31Stay in touch.
13:47One more drink and he's legless than it's.
13:50Bye bye.
13:56Hey.
13:57He's trouble.
14:02He knows how to pick up.
14:07Oh God.
14:08Get down.
14:09Shit.
14:14Come on now.
14:17Come on.
14:18Come on.
14:18Come on.
14:18He's with us.
14:19Good riddance.
14:20Sorry.
14:21Oh.
14:23It's all I ever get in here.
14:24It's people with problems.
14:26Oh man.
14:27I was just starting to enjoy myself.
14:29Where till now?
14:30Fun city.
14:31Here we go.
14:32Of course you sumber up quickly.
14:33You weren't expecting me to stand up and let him hit me again were you?
14:37Nice one.
14:39One more call and that's it.
14:40Yeah but you've got to promise to behave yourself this time okay?
14:43Oh.
14:43Cross my heart and hope to die.
14:45I wouldn't tempt fate if I were you.
14:51Hello there.
14:55Sorry about the overtime Alex.
14:56That's all right.
14:57I'm just amusing myself with this chap.
14:58Oh impressive.
15:00Yeah well proven.
15:01Rugged.
15:01Cost effective.
15:02And most important reliable.
15:03If you've got a chick you can have it.
15:05It wouldn't fit in my handbag.
15:07I'm more interested in this.
15:09And I suppose it's urgent.
15:11Like yesterday.
15:28Like yesterday.
15:32Excuse me.
15:36Hey you.
15:38There's no way to treat a lady.
15:41And that's for thinking about it.
15:44Well.
15:45All I said was not a bad singer.
15:47For the bloody gift I did.
15:51Oi.
15:51Wakey wakey.
15:52Shhh.
15:53Why?
15:54Don't wake him up.
15:56Why?
15:59Come on.
15:59Come on.
16:13If we wake him up.
16:14We'll have to find him somewhere to sleep.
16:16Well he's not sleeping in my bed.
16:18That's for sure.
16:19No.
16:20What about a hotel?
16:22We're in his state.
16:26Sir.
16:27Sir.
16:51We'll take him to mum's place.
16:53Well your mum's not gonna like it.
16:56Mum won't know about it.
16:58Mum's not gonna be there.
17:11We were told he had a few weeks to live.
17:13Oh.
17:14That's nonsense.
17:15There's a gallstone that needs attention.
17:17He's been in some pain.
17:18But that's another matter.
17:19He isn't a particularly healthy specimen.
17:21But he's certainly not terminal.
17:23A mix up of records.
17:25What records?
17:27Miss Robinson isn't he?
17:29Yes.
17:30Do me a favor.
17:31Don't tell mummy.
17:35There's a chemical substance in the blood which my colleague thinks has induced a temporary
17:40change in the skin pigmentation.
17:43Sallow?
17:43Grey?
17:44Sick looking?
17:45Yes.
17:45And vomiting.
17:46So the treatment they were giving him simply affected the outward appearance of the illness?
17:50Yes.
17:51It put the fear of God in him.
17:53It put the fear of God in you too.
17:57Oh.
17:57Why?
17:59Oh, come on.
18:01Not another bloody cat.
18:03Get off.
18:05Get off.
18:07The body.
18:08Steak.
18:09Oh.
18:11Oh, come on.
18:12A nice bit juicy steak.
18:14Oh, not then.
18:16No, no, no.
18:16Come on, come on.
18:17Please.
18:18That's it.
18:19Oh.
18:20Oops.
18:21Okay.
18:25Ready.
18:29He's not exactly a candidate for Swan Lake, is he?
18:33Wait.
18:34Yours?
18:35You.
18:36Huh.
18:39Oh.
18:39What?
19:01very nice
19:07maybe he's got a daughter
19:09old help, any daughter's got him
19:14get back to sweet prince
19:15oi
19:17oi
19:22so what's it to be this time?
19:24thumb screws?
19:25Chinese water torture
19:34well well, it's you again
19:38a jig with more front than brighton
19:55well, I see your reprieve has put some fun back into it
20:00if it's true
20:03yeah
20:03it is
20:05how long were you in the sickbay?
20:07couple of weeks
20:10I've been having terrible pains
20:13and they said at first it was gallstones and that I might have to have this operation
20:17what happened?
20:18well, I've done all these tests and that
20:21and the next thing I know
20:23it's the big C
20:24when?
20:26when did they tell you?
20:30the weekend
20:31the governor came around and told me
20:34I wasn't surprised
20:36I'd been feeling terrible
20:39cramps
20:40nausea
20:41terrible
20:42you were getting worse
20:44the last few days have been
20:46chronic
20:47what kind of treatment were they giving you?
20:49injections
20:51pills
20:53everything
20:53and they made you worse?
20:55yeah
20:57by the time I got into the plane I was sick as a pig
21:01oh
21:01no offence mate
21:05your escort
21:07had you seen him before?
21:09no
21:11he took over at the airport
21:15flush bastard
21:17turned up late
21:19nice big car
21:23but he's a traffic cop
21:24oh yeah
21:26you wouldn't believe that
21:28no, he's got more weight than that
21:32all right Hutchins
21:33you better get some sleep
21:35hey, wait a minute
21:36wait a minute
21:36what's going to happen to me anyway?
21:39no big C
21:40no compassionate grounds
21:42you've still got charges to face
21:44ah
21:44unless of course
21:45you tell us what happened to Dawson
21:47after you sprung him from prison
21:48hmm
21:49do you want to do a deal?
21:51tell me about Dawson
21:52there's nothing until
21:54hmm
21:55well
21:58there
21:58there is
22:04poor sod it had been better off where he was
22:07hmm
22:08they got the car outside for him like they said
22:12but they just blew him away
22:14in front of me
22:15in front of me
22:16his own people
22:19I just ran for him
22:21all the way to South Africa
22:23all the way to South Africa
22:24hmm
22:30make him comfortable
22:32I
22:33uh
22:35is there any chance of some fish and chips
22:37salt
22:38and vinegar
22:40get him some fish and chips
22:43salt
22:44and vinegar
22:47couple of pickled onions
22:52another nail gone
22:54few herbs
22:58yes
22:59hurrah
23:03these photographs were taken under a comparison microscope
23:08the top bullet was removed from the body of Boka Asara in Singapore earlier this year
23:13the black African opposition leader
23:14right
23:15he was assassinated while taking the night air on a hotel balcony
23:19the second bullet was taken from the body of Kiki Puri another ANC leader
23:23born
23:24last September
23:25on his way to deliver a lecture at the Mannheim Institute on African studies
23:29a single shot
23:30no one knew where it came from
23:32both bullets were fired from the same gun
23:34the markings are identical
23:36yes
23:37this is a photograph of the bullet I fired
23:40from Kerber's gun earlier this evening
23:44it matches
23:47well done Maggie
23:49do you want the pièce de resistance
23:52the man suspected of both killings is Mark Furland
23:55ex-Angola mercenary
23:57born in Brussels
23:59lived most of his life in various parts of Africa
24:01freelance assassin
24:03used mainly by BOSS
24:06for unlawful operations beyond their borders
24:09do we have a photograph?
24:11it's coming through now
24:23Fred and Tessa
24:25get hold of them
24:35Maggie?
24:36mmm
24:37there's a bunch of french fries
24:43yes
24:54trust your mother to have a flat on the ground floor
24:57yes
25:01yes
25:02yes
25:02yes
25:03yes
25:03yes
25:04yes
25:04yes
25:11yes
25:12yes
25:12yes
25:23yes
25:27yes
25:27yes
25:29yes
25:30yes
25:30yes
25:32yes
25:33yes
25:33yes
25:34yes
25:34yes
25:34yes
25:34yes
25:35yes
25:35yes
25:35yes
25:36yes
25:36yes
25:36yes
25:36yes
25:46Good night, Miss Robinson.
25:48Night, Zigbee.
25:57You've no idea how much I miss this.
26:00A check on the movements of all diplomats, embassy staff, etc.
26:04I am not interested in questions of manpower.
26:07Also, I want all intelligence reports from Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Squad
26:12on all potential targets.
26:16If all else fails, try the obvious.
26:19The court's circular.
26:26Don't say sorry.
26:28Oh, it's a bit slippery.
26:30We were suckered.
26:32The question is, what is Kerber doing that needs such elaborate cover?
26:44Mark Furland, alias Kerber.
26:47Possible British connections.
26:50Mercenaries serving in Angola around about the same time.
26:52Most of them are still POWs out there.
26:54It'll all be on file.
26:55A doll's hospital.
26:57That's Sparky Davis, small-time arms dealer.
26:59The doll's hospital is just a front.
27:01Kerber had a small plastic doll on his keyring.
27:08Give it a try.
27:09Well, this report implies he's all right, weirder.
27:12I think I probably wrote that in there.
27:13Maggie, are you receiving me?
27:15Go ahead.
27:16For your information, we now have four possible targets.
27:18ANC leaders over here to attend the funeral of an exiled comrade.
27:21The funeral's tomorrow morning.
27:23Over.
27:24Four.
27:25What a hit.
27:45Is Mrs. Bigway here?
27:47Is she and the close relatives and friends are paying their last respects?
27:51I see.
27:56Mark, I'm in.
27:57Surely the poor man is to be buried in peace.
28:00That is why I'm here.
28:03You'd better come in.
28:15Tragic loss.
28:16Excuse me.
28:25Listen to me, Whitey.
28:28We will be there.
28:31If you've got boss goons loose in this country
28:34and you expect us to back down, you are wrong.
28:38Adelino gave his life for the cause
28:40and we will be there to honor the man.
28:43I'm simply asking you to accept our protection.
28:45Protection?
28:47You come here with this white man's bullshit
28:49and expect us to keep our heads down?
28:52Well, I am telling you, man, we will not back down.
28:55This cause is too great.
28:58I and my colleagues are too far down the road.
29:00I am not asking you to back off.
29:03No.
29:04You want us to shuffle along with our heads down,
29:07surrounded by your famous bobbies.
29:10Aren't your policemen wonderful?
29:13Well, prove it, brother.
29:14Get the boss man or we'll suffer the consequences
29:17and your government will stand before the world
29:20for what they really are.
29:22Fellow travellers, man,
29:24with the men who would suppress our people
29:25and deny us our rights.
29:28Long ago,
29:29I and my colleagues did time with Adelino
29:32on the island
29:33while you were stumbling around
29:36on the playing fields of Eton,
29:38the token black,
29:39and your playmates were still dreaming
29:42of white supremacy.
29:45I respect your position,
29:47but not your assumptions.
29:49You and your colleagues will receive
29:50all the protection that is humanly possible
29:52and at whatever the risks that may entail.
29:56I think you will eventually concede
30:00that some of our policemen
30:02are wonderful.
30:10So when these pigs come to take me away,
30:13they got me outside,
30:14their car had been taken off
30:16to the police barn.
30:18Hey!
30:21A few more questions.
30:22I want to throw a few names at you.
30:25Oh, all right.
30:28Weird.
30:29Strange job for a booby trap expert.
30:31Tread carefully when you get inside.
30:40Come on, Sparky.
30:41Open up.
30:50Yes?
30:51Maggie Forbes.
30:52Remember me?
30:59You, uh...
31:00You got me out of bed.
31:01You know that, don't you?
31:02I'm sorry to spoil your beauty sleep, Sparky.
31:04We need to talk.
31:06It's been a long time.
31:07Any chance of some light?
31:08Just don't touch anything.
31:18That wasn't great for the body.
31:20When I say don't touch anything,
31:22don't touch anything.
31:24You could have hurt someone, Sparky.
31:30Just salt.
31:31Let's get straight to the point.
31:33Have you fixed anybody up with anything recently?
31:36Are we talking about dolls?
31:39It's been slow.
31:41Something to take out.
31:42Let's say about four black African targets.
31:45My gun-dealing days are over.
31:48All four would be quite a coup, wouldn't it?
31:50At one go, I mean.
31:52It'd be a feather in someone's cap.
31:53Pump action?
31:55It'd have to be awfully hot to take out all four with a pump action.
31:58I'm out of all this.
32:00That was a long time ago.
32:03You know what I think it could be?
32:06A bomb.
32:07Eh, Sparky?
32:09Somebody made contact?
32:10Somebody must have made an approach.
32:12An old comrade?
32:14Nobody would bother.
32:16I'm out of the business, I told you.
32:19There is too much bloodshed in the world today.
32:23Look around you.
32:25I find peace of mind with my dolls.
32:29Let's not play a game, Sparky.
32:31It'll be murder if these people die.
32:35I could get an army of special branch officers up here within an hour.
32:38We could search this place from top to bottom.
32:39You couldn't stand that sort of a turnover, could you, Sparky?
32:43They're bound to find something.
32:45They'd find nothing.
32:46We could arrange for them to find something.
32:50Nothing.
32:51Do you believe him?
32:52What do you find?
32:53Well, Sparky's name isn't Horace Morris, so he hired a Sierra yesterday on a bent driving
32:58license.
32:58Kerber?
32:59Where is it?
33:01There's thousands of them.
33:02Yes.
33:03Hiring him a car is one thing, but what I want to know is what else has he supplied Kerber
33:07with?
33:18You can come up now.
33:21They've gone.
33:26They know too much.
33:29They're guessing.
33:31And you know too much.
33:50Is this really necessary, officer?
33:54I'm afraid so, sir, yes.
33:59Unless you want to get yourself blown up.
34:08Nothing?
34:09Not a sausage.
34:10If it was in the church or the surrounding area, the dogs would have found it.
34:14Well, I hope so, inspector.
34:16Yes, ma'am.
34:17Well, it'll be your funeral.
34:20Yes, ma'am.
34:24Mick.
34:24Anything you're in?
34:26No.
34:39Oh, the curtain's up now.
35:01Oh, the curtain's up now.
35:06Fred, where are you?
35:08In the haystack, looking for the needle.
35:11Cut out the jokes.
35:14Your side of the cemetery.
35:15All right.
35:35Oh, the curtain's up now.
35:38Are you looking for the cemetery?
35:40No, it's not.
35:40I'm looking for the cemetery.
35:40Thanks, sir.
36:03Tess, where are you?
36:05The Dole Track.
36:09I'm getting giddy going around in circles.
36:13Try going around the other way.
36:15Clever clogs.
36:16Jesus said, I am the resurrection, and I am the life.
36:22He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
36:27And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
36:31We brought nothing into the world, and we take nothing out.
36:36The Lord gave, and the Lord takes away.
36:40Blessed be the name of the Lord.
36:43He probably left his car and legged it in to avoid security.
36:47He'd need a getaway car.
36:48No.
36:49He's got to be close.
36:50All right.
36:52Okay.
36:52We go over there again.
36:53You never know.
36:59Jesus said to his disciples, do not let your hearts be troubled.
37:06Trust in God, and still trust in me.
37:13There are many rooms in my father's house.
37:16If they were not, I should have told you.
37:21I am going now to prepare a place for you.
37:25And after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me.
37:35So that where I am now, you may be too.
37:43You know the way to the place where I am going.
37:48Thomas said, Lord, we do not know where you are going.
37:54So how can we know the way?
37:58And Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
38:06No one can come to the Father except through me.
38:10No.
38:12No.
38:27Me.
38:28No.
38:36Anything?
38:37Nothing.
38:39My palms are sweating.
39:10Three or four minutes off, Mick.
39:12We're here.
39:47Three or four.
40:00Oh, what's the matter?
40:01Just some idiot.
40:06Thanks very much, mate.
40:08I have to wait, won't you?
40:09You want to argue?
40:11All right, leave it out.
40:15Here, have one on the house.
40:17Cheers.
40:26What's happening now?
40:28Had to sort someone out, that's all.
41:09What's happening now?
41:35Oh, what's happening now?
41:36Nigel, they're carrying the coffin.
41:40It's madness, they're making it easy for him.
41:43Nigel?
41:49Nigel, where are you? Come online.
41:52Nigel?
41:54Nigel?
41:58Nigel.
42:00Nigel.
42:00Nigel.
42:07Nigel.
42:18I don't know.
43:04I don't know.
43:09I don't know.
43:38I don't know.
43:50Maggie!
43:51Maggie!
43:56Nigel, I've been trying to...
43:58Maggie, listen to me.
43:59You broke into the chapel of rest last night.
44:05Oh, my God.
44:06It's a bomb!
44:12The coffin!
44:14Get away from it!
44:17It's a bomb!
44:22Get away from it!
44:24It is!
44:27It's a bomb!
44:35Go!
44:43Attention all cars.
44:44Attention all cars.
44:46Attention all cars.
44:46Bomb explosion inside the cemetery.
44:48Attend immediately.
44:49Ambulance on its way.
44:50Are you all right?
44:53Oh, my God.
44:56Are you okay?
44:57Are you okay?
45:04Are you okay?
45:05Are you okay?
45:07Are you okay?
45:07No one's hurt.
45:09Are you okay?
45:09It's all right.
45:33It's all right.
45:50Does it?
45:51Would any visitors in the main corridor please clear the way as an emergency case...
45:57Decent?
45:59Yeah. Decent as I'll ever be.
46:02I'm still not right, you know.
46:04I've only just taken the stitches out.
46:05They took them out days ago.
46:07Yeah, but they rushed it, didn't they?
46:08Still sore. Come on, get your shoes on.
46:10Very sore.
46:13Where's that black geyser, anyway?
46:16I was hoping to do a deal.
46:18Deal? Who do you think you are?
46:20England. Merry bloody England.
46:27You're going to have to help me into that chair.
46:31I'm still not right.
46:36You're still going to have to push me.
46:38Anyway.
46:53What's all this thing?
46:54What's it look like?
46:57Can you manage?
46:59Do you want to have to get the lads?
47:01No, no, no, no, no.
47:03I'll have a go.
47:09I've had 23 stitches.
47:12I was under for over an hour, you know.
47:17I mean gallstones, big as a ping pong ball.
47:20They give it me.
47:21Do you want to see it?
47:22No.
47:22I don't want to see your stitches either.
47:31I've got to get some flowers, Mr. Beaumont.
47:34What, the chocky, Vicky?
47:35What's he, a panty or something?
47:37No, he's got flu.
47:41Hope I can trust you.
47:42Oh.
47:44In my condition.
47:46Right.
47:47Yeah, I wonder what...
48:19He's on his way, Max. I hope he doesn't bust a gut.
49:17I hope he doesn't bust a gut.
49:17I hope he doesn't bust a gut.
50:05I hope he doesn't bust a gut.
50:07I hope he doesn't bust a gut.
50:08I hope he doesn't bust a gut.
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