AGENT_HARLAND ALICE ANDREW AUTOMATED_VOICE BARRISTER BRIDGET FREEGARD IAN JENNY JENNYS_FATHER JEREMY LIGHTHOUSE_ATTENDANT MADELEINE MAE MAN_IN_BAR MUSICIAN NEWSREADER NIALL OFFICER PAUL PHIL PRISON_OFFICER RICHARD SONNY SOPHIE SOPHIES_MOTHER STUDENT_2 THE_SWAN_INN_OWNER TICKET_SELLER NEWSREADER ...police investigation continues NEWSREADER at Trent Hamilton Agricultural College in Shropshire NEWSREADER after one of its students was arrested for membership of the IRA. NEWSREADER The authorities are concerned that Kevin Barry, 22, from County Tyrone, NEWSREADER may have been part of a wider IRAcell operating in the area. OFFICER Go on through, sir. ALICE There's a trick that spies use. ALICE He told me that they learn it on their first day of training. ALICE If you want to make an instant connection with someone, ALICE look into their eyes. ALICE Just long enough to register their eye colour. FREEGARD Hi. THE SWAN INN OWNER Hi. FREEGARD I'm here about the job. THE SWAN INN OWNER Yeah. Come in. FREEGARD Thanks. ALICE He said it works every time. ALICE He learned how to hide in plain sight. ALICE How to read people. MUSICIAN Thank you. IAN You sure I can't buy you a drink? FREEGARD I don't drink. ALICE He learned how to recruit the right people. FREEGARD Listen, Ian. FREEGARD There is something I've been meaning to talk to you about. IAN Yeah? FREEGARD Yeah. You and your friends. FREEGARD Not here though. ALICE How to persuade them. SOPHIE You're a spy? FREEGARD I'm an officer in the British Security Services. FREEGARD The IRAcell have been installed here at Trent Hamilton for over a year. FREEGARD They are posing as students, stealing fertilizer to create bombs. FREEGARD As you know, one of them was recently caught back in Ireland FREEGARD for trying to blow up a police station. FREEGARD And the others are still here on active service. IAN Bloody hell. MAE I can't believe this is happening. SOPHIE But Sorry, what can we do about it? FREEGARD Plenty. FREEGARD Get close to them in ways that I can't, FREEGARD find out things that can really help our investigation. SOPHIE No. SOPHIE I'm sorry, no. FREEGARD Sophie. FREEGARD Sit down. FREEGARD Sit. FREEGARD If you help me do my job, it will save lives. FREEGARD I promise you that. FREEGARD Men. FREEGARD Women. FREEGARD Children. STUDENT 2 Hey. How's it going? SOPHIE Hey. NIALL Hey. SOPHIE How you doing? STUDENT 2 Yeah, not too bad. You? NIALL Yeah. Good. ALICE He said that espionage is storytelling. STUDENT 2 Okay. Slainte. SOPHIE Slainte. ALICE And everyone has a story they want to be told. NIALL No, don't worry about it. FREEGARD Tonight is the night. FREEGARD Tonight, we put into practice FREEGARD everything that I have taught you over the last three months. FREEGARD And remember, this is not a test. FREEGARD There is no room for failure. Okay? FREEGARD Sophie, Mae. FREEGARD What's your role? SOPHIE To clear the house. Get everyone out. ALICE But there's a moment when you have to act. SOPHIE Right, listen, on that note... ALICE And that is the moment of maximum risk. SOPHIE So I think we should all go across the road to The Swan, SOPHIE where I'll buy everyone a round. MAE Yes! MAE And that's an offer we can't refuse! Let's go! SOPHIE Let's go! SOPHIE Come on. ALICE In that world, duplicity is a necessity. IAN Niall, I'm just gonna use your toilet, mate. NIALL Just go in the pub. IAN Mate, I'm bursting here. I'll follow you over in a sec, yeah? NIALL Fine, it's just upstairs. SOPHIE Cool. Ready? MAE Are we ready? Are we going? NIALL What are you gonna buy me? SOPHIE Whatever you want. SOPHIE Unless you want a surprise, and then I can surprise you. NIALL Surprise me? No, I'm not taking that risk. NIALL You'll get me a pint of water or something. ALICE But the greater the ruse, the bigger the risk. NIALL Shit. I forgot my wallet. SOPHIE It doesn't matter 'cause I'm buying. NIALL It's grand. I'll just be a minute. MAE Forget it. You can just get it later. NIALL It's fine. Honestly. STUDENT 2 Come on. NIALL I'll see you. NIALL You didn't take a shit, did you? IAN Yeah, no. There was nothing there. MAE Hey. SOPHIE Well, cheers, everyone. NIALL Cheers. ALICE His world was thrilling and mysterious. ALICE But it came at a cost. FREEGARD Sophie. FREEGARD Sophie. FREEGARD Sophie, get up. Get up. SOPHIE What? FREEGARD We've been compromised. FREEGARD We're extracting. You need to get up. SOPHIE What? FREEGARD They know about us. About you, okay? They know. Sophie SOPHIE No! FREEGARD Sophie, you do not have a choice. FREEGARD They could be here any second. Now get up. Come on. ALICE A cost to him. ALICE And to others. SOPHIE What happens now? FREEGARD I don't know. IAN You don't know? FREEGARD I don't know. FREEGARD I've never had an agent compromised before. FREEGARD But I promise you, I will protect you. FREEGARD I will keep you safe. ALICE Anyone who entered that world left behind the lives they had before. ALICE People they once were. ALICE That was the price they had to pay. ALICE So, you have it? ALICE And what does it say? ALICE Perfect. ALICE Yeah. Usual place. FREEGARD Yeah, she's a beautiful car. FREEGARD Beautiful. She won't let you down. She's simple, elegant. FREEGARD You've made the right decision. FREEGARD Believe me. It's a whole new world. ALICE Thank you. JEREMY So, Andrew, where is she? ANDREW You know what the trains are like. JEREMY She travels by train? ANDREW Alice. Welcome. JEREMY Nice of you to join us. ALICE There's been a development. ALICE An email chain between senior managers at the bank ALICE proving that they did indeed verbally agree with you ALICE to waive the security of the assets. ALICE An agreement that they not only failed to disclose, ALICE but it now seems have actively tried to cover up, ALICE which is potentially criminal on their part. ALICE Certainly, it blows their case out of the water. ANDREW How did we... JEREMY I rather feel a celebration is in order. JEREMY I must say, Alice, I'm most impressed. ALICE Thank you. JEREMY And you're also not a bad lawyer. JEREMY I'm joking. I'm joking. JEREMY Sam, more drinks. JEREMY Come on, another bottle of Bollinger. ANDREW Are you okay? FREEGARD Hi there. FREEGARD I saw you walking past this morning. FREEGARD In fact, I see you most mornings. ALICE Oh, fuck off, mate. ALICE Oh, God. ALICE Hi. FREEGARD Hi. ALICE Look, I wanted to apologise for last night. ALICE I was rude. FREEGARD No, no. It was my fault. FREEGARD You must get completely fed up with men coming up and talking to you all the time. FREEGARD I apologise. It won't happen again. ALICE Okay. ALICE Well... ALICE good. FREEGARD On a scale of one to ten, how hung-over are you? ALICE Fourteen. FREEGARD What, and you're gonna get the Tube on a hot summer's day like today? FREEGARD Hey, I'll give you a lift. ALICE What? FREEGARD Yeah. I'll tell the manager that you want a test drive. ALICE No. No, no, no. I really don't think that FREEGARD I'll put the roof down. FREEGARD If you wanna puke, you can just do it over the side. FREEGARD Preferably on a cyclist. FREEGARD I'll take the Bmw. ALICE Thanks. FREEGARD My card. FREEGARD In case you wanna buy a car. Or have dinner. ALICE Robert Hansen. ALICE Look, I'm not trying to be an arsehole here, ALICE but I should put my cards on the table. ALICE I don't usually FREEGARD You don't usually date guys who sell cars for a living. FREEGARD Have you had bad experiences with car salesmen before? ALICE Okay. ALICE Well, top marks for persistence. ALICE Tomorrow night works for me. FREEGARD I'll pick you up at 8:00? ALICE You don't know where I live. FREEGARD A couple of doors down from the showroom. FREEGARD You own a blue Mercedes. FREEGARD It's not a bad car, that. FREEGARD See you tomorrow, Alice. ALICE Prick. ANDREW It's really a question of loan-to-value ratio ANDREW and whether we can roll the wider assets into the case. In my view, because the holding company is named in the contract, we can. ANDREW And if anybody disagrees, I'm all ears. ANDREW Alice? ANDREW We good? ALICE Yeah. ANDREW All right. You know what to do. ALICE Don't think so, mate. Fucking idiot. ALICE Yeah? FREEGARD I'm so sorry about last night. ALICE Okay. Well, you don't get a second chance, I'm afraid. ALICE Don't contact me again. FREEGARD My dad was taken to hospital. ALICE Your dad? FREEGARD That's why I couldn't call. FREEGARD I was by his bedside all night, and they don't allow mobile phones. FREEGARD I'm so sorry. I really am. ALICE Is he okay? FREEGARD Yeah, yeah. I think so. FREEGARD It was a bit of a difficult evening, to be honest. ALICE Okay. FREEGARD Listen, I'm outside. ALICE You're outside? FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD Can I come in? ALICE No, you can't come in. I don't even know you. FREEGARD Oh, yeah. Of course. FREEGARD Well, look. Can I leave this by the doorstep? FREEGARD It's a present I got you to say sorry about last night. ALICE Bollocks. Okay. FREEGARD It's delicious. Thank you. ALICE No, I There was only really enough for one. FREEGARD No, it's great. FREEGARD Really great. ALICE Are you sure you won't have FREEGARD No, I don't drink. ALICE Did you stop or... FREEGARD I just never really started. FREEGARD So, do you like it? ALICE It's... ALICE It's unique, isn't it? FREEGARD I like its eyes. ALICE So, where are you from originally? FREEGARD Well, the north of England, and then... FREEGARD Catterick, Aldershot, then Belfast. FREEGARD Everywhere and nowhere really. FREEGARD My dad was in the military, so we moved around every two or three years. ALICE That must've been difficult. FREEGARD Yeah, you sort of get used to it, I guess. ALICE And you weren't tempted by the military life yourself? FREEGARD No. God, no. FREEGARD No, at the end of the day, put on a uniform, FREEGARD you've got to be prepared to pull the trigger and end someone's life. FREEGARD I just don't think I could do that. ALICE Really? FREEGARD Yeah. ALICE So, you sell cars instead? FREEGARD I sell luxury cars. ALICE Right, there's a difference, is there? FREEGARD A huge difference. FREEGARD If someone comes into the showroom and they want a luxury car, FREEGARD they're looking for an idea of themselves. FREEGARD They're searching for a dream. FREEGARD If you think about it, it's actually quite moving. ALICE Well, I've met plenty of bar-room philosophers, ALICE but you're the first showroom philosopher. FREEGARD What about you? Do you like what you do? ALICE "Like" is a pretty strong word. FREEGARD So, why do you do it? ALICE Well... ALICE I mean... ALICE It's my job, you know? FREEGARD Well, thank you for dinner. That was really, really lovely. ALICE Yeah, yeah, well... FREEGARD And sorry again. Sorry again about last night. ALICE No, it's fine. Honestly. ALICE I hope your dad recovers quickly. FREEGARD Yeah. Thank you. ALICE I'll Yeah. FREEGARD Take care, Alice. ALICE What the fuck? ANDREW The file on the latest Jeremy Ascot litigation. ALICE Sorry. ALICE Hello? FREEGARD What are you doing now? ALICE What? Now, now? I'm working. FREEGARD I'd like to show you something. ALICE What? FREEGARD It's a surprise. ALICE Where are we going? Is this it? FREEGARD Be patient. FREEGARD So full of questions. Just trust me. Trust me. FREEGARD Two, please. TICKET SELLER All right. Ten pounds. FREEGARD Thank you very much. ALICE What is this? FREEGARD Come on. FREEGARD Come on. ALICE Thank you. FREEGARD Pleasure. ALICE What is it? FREEGARD It's called "Longplayer". FREEGARD These are Tibetan music bowls. FREEGARD They're playing a composition that lasts for a thousand years FREEGARD without ever repeating itself. FREEGARD It's controlled by a computer, and it never, ever stops. FREEGARD The plan is... FREEGARD to just let it keep playing without stopping. FREEGARD Maybe, hopefully, for a thousand years. ALICE You are so fucking random. FREEGARD Do you not like it? ALICE I do like it. ALICE I've never seen anything like it. FREEGARD Listen to that. FREEGARD Hey, come with me. ALICE Okay. FREEGARD Trust me. FREEGARD Seriously. Come with me. ALICE All right. FREEGARD I love lighthouses. ALICE Wow. FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD This lighthouse was here way before any of those skyscrapers were. FREEGARD And it'll probably be here long after they're gone. ALICE You think so? FREEGARD Yeah, I hope so. ALICE "Sophie"? FREEGARD Okay... FREEGARD Right, I'm really sorry. I've got to go. FREEGARD It's my dad. FREEGARD I'll call you tomorrow. Okay? ALICE Great. FREEGARD Great. PHIL Just the standard check? Credit histories, mortgages and spouses? ALICE Thank you. PHIL I'll be in touch. FREEGARD Hello, Sophie. SOPHIE Rob. FREEGARD Supply run. FREEGARD How's it going? SOPHIE Well... SOPHIE I have the guest logs for the last two weeks. SOPHIE I can't find a pattern. SOPHIE There's nothing standing out to me. FREEGARD I'll get the analyst to take a look. FREEGARD Well done. FREEGARD I got you some proper grub. FREEGARD Spaghetti. FREEGARD And... FREEGARD Bolognese. SOPHIE Thank you. ALICE No credit history at all? PHIL Nothing. And no marriage certificate. PHIL In terms of public records, Robert Hansen is a ghost. ALICE And what does that tell you? PHIL Nothing good. ALICE Okay. Thank you. FREEGARD I think this is us. Great. ALICE How was work? I didn't see you when I passed this morning. ALICE Thank you. FREEGARD Thanks. FREEGARD Work. Yeah. I guess I was on a test drive. ALICE Sell many cars? FREEGARD Two. FREEGARD Not a bad day at the office. FREEGARD How about you? ALICE The usual. ALICE How's your dad? FREEGARD He's better, thank you, yeah. FREEGARD He came home which is great, such a relief. FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD Everything all right? ALICE Everything's great. ALICE Give me a chip. FREEGARD One. No more. FREEGARD You're not sure about me. ALICE What? FREEGARD You have reservations. Questions. ALICE I had you checked out. FREEGARD You did what? ALICE You know I'm a litigation solicitor. ALICE We have people who do client checks for us. ALICE Credit history, that sort of thing. FREEGARD Sorry, you put a private investigator on to me? ALICE Yes. I did. And as far as he can see, you don't exist. FREEGARD Right. ALICE Yeah. FREEGARD Impressive. ALICE Yeah, isn't it? FREEGARD Well... FREEGARD technically, that's right. FREEGARD I don't exist. FREEGARD Or rather, the name that you have been searching for doesn't exist. FREEGARD Alice, Robert Hansen is an alias. FREEGARD My real name is Robert Freegard. FREEGARD Alice, wait. ALICE Get the fuck off me. FREEGARD Alice, wait. Jesus. FREEGARD Give me a second, will you? ALICE You're married, aren't you? FREEGARD No, I'm not married. FREEGARD Alice, please. FREEGARD I am an officer in the British Security Services. FREEGARD Mi5. ALICE You work in a car showroom. FREEGARD That's my cover right now. I can't tell you any more than that. ALICE What? Come on. ALICE No, I'm sorry, no. Bullshit. FREEGARD It's the truth. ALICE Well, then who's Sophie? FREEGARD How do you know about her? ALICE She rang your phone when you were in the shower. FREEGARD She works with me. FREEGARD I supervise her on a job. FREEGARD She's under-cover as well. Like me, okay? We're on the same investigation. FREEGARD Alice, listen, I know this is a shock, but it's the truth. ALICE I just ALICE A spy? ALICE No, you told me You said that you could never kill anyone. FREEGARD I don't think I could. FREEGARD I never have either. ALICE Do you have a gun? FREEGARD No, it's not like the movies. FREEGARD Listen, and now that I've told you all this, FREEGARD I'm gonna have to let my superiors know, okay? FREEGARD It means you're gonna be vetted. ALICE Vetted? FREEGARD It just means they're gonna do some basic enquiries into your life. FREEGARD To be honest, it's a pain in the arse, but it won't take long. FREEGARD All long-term partners have to be vetted. ALICE Where did you get this? FREEGARD Just borrowed it from the showroom. FREEGARD They lease it to men who are trying to impress beautiful women. ALICE Oh, my God. FREEGARD It's true. ALICE What are you doing? FREEGARD Right... FREEGARD Your turn. ALICE What? No. FREEGARD -What, you can't drive? ALICE Oh, no. ALICE I can drive. FREEGARD Well, then. ALICE Really? FREEGARD Really. FREEGARD Come on. ALICE All right. Fine. ALICE Shit. ALICE Oh, my God. ALICE This is insane. ALICE What am I doing? ALICE You have to teach me. FREEGARD I'll teach you. FREEGARD How does it feel? ALICE Good. FREEGARD You nervous? ALICE Yes. FREEGARD You can go a bit faster. ALICE We're already at 70. FREEGARD Yeah, exactly. Put your foot down. FREEGARD Go on. Put your foot down. ALICE Okay. FREEGARD Go on. ALICE Oh, shit, shit. FREEGARD Go on! ALICE Fuck! ALICE Oh, my God. FREEGARD Yeah! The car's made to go fast, Alice. ALICE Oh, my God! Fucking hell! FREEGARD Don't slow down! FREEGARD Widen your hands. Nine and three. ALICE Okay. FREEGARD Nine and three, that's it. Don't slow down. FREEGARD Don't slow down! Go on. Go on. ALICE Okay. Oh, my God! ALICE Oh, my God. ALICE Look at this place! FREEGARD It's ours for the weekend. Not bad, eh? ALICE I love it! It's amazing. FREEGARD You're amazing. ALICE Wow. ALICE I can see everything. ALICE You're so distracting. FREEGARD How can you possibly be working? Look at this place. ALICE I'm starting to fall behind ALICE because someone won't stop texting me in the office. ALICE Stop it. FREEGARD Have you thought about doing anything else? ALICE What do you mean? FREEGARD I mean if you weren't a lawyer, what would you be? ALICE Don't know. ALICE My own boss, ideally. FREEGARD Like an entrepreneur? ALICE It's silly. FREEGARD No, it's not. FREEGARD What about kids? ALICE Kids? FREEGARD Do you want to have kids? ALICE Do you? FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD Five years' time, I wanna be running my own business, with a kid. FREEGARD Maybe two. ALICE So you'd leave the Service? FREEGARD Not straightaway. FREEGARD But I think I've done my bit. FREEGARD It's time for a change. ALICE What kind of business? FREEGARD Car leasing. ALICE Really? FREEGARD Yeah. ALICE Car leasing? FREEGARD Yeah, the rich don't buy cars anymore. FREEGARD They do it on short-term rentals. FREEGARD That way when they get bored, they can just move on. FREEGARD I promise you there is a fortune to be made leasing cars. ALICE Look at you and all your plans. FREEGARD Hey, man has got to have a plan. ALICE Man does. Man does. FREEGARD Man does. FREEGARD God, you're so beautiful. ALICE Oh, piss off. FREEGARD Do you know what? Goodbye! ALICE No! No! RICHARD So, Robert, you're a brave man RICHARD if you're willing to do battle with our Alice on a daily basis. ALICE Oh, hilarious. FREEGARD I think I've got the measure of her. RICHARD So, how is the motor business these days? FREEGARD You know, it couldn't be better. RICHARD It'll all end in tears. You mark my words. Too much debt around. FREEGARD I don't know about that. FREEGARD "Make hay while the sun shines", as they say. MADELEINE And what are your plans, Robert, for the future? ALICE Mum. RICHARD We're not asking him RICHARD to bloody marry you, Al. We're just asking the lad what his plans are. ALICE Dad. FREEGARD It's okay. FREEGARD Well, Madeleine, my plans are... FREEGARD My plans are to make the most of things. RICHARD Right. FREEGARD Actually, Alice and I are thinking about starting a little business together. FREEGARD Leasing cars. RICHARD What? No, no. Alice is a lawyer. She's a bloody good one. ALICE I'm not leaving my job, Dad. It's just a side project. MADELEINE Side project? FREEGARD You're an entrepreneur, aren't you, Richard? FREEGARD You can't blame us for trying. RICHARD Everyone always wants more than what's in front of them, don't they? FREEGARD Do you know, I don't think it is about wanting more. FREEGARD At least, not materially. RICHARD What is it about, then? FREEGARD It's about... FREEGARD Well, it's about freedom. FREEGARD Oh, my God. They hated me. ALICE No, my mum liked you. ALICE But, yeah, Dad hated you. FREEGARD Yeah. I talk too much. ALICE So does he. ALICE Two bloody stags in a clearing. FREEGARD Yeah. My antlers are bigger than his antlers though. FREEGARD Maybe he's right about the business. FREEGARD Maybe we should just stay in our lane. ALICE No. We should do it. ALICE We should. FREEGARD Yeah? ALICE Yeah. FREEGARD Okay, we're doing it. ALICE Yeah. Don't listen to my dad. FREEGARD It's time to move on. SOPHIE Now? FREEGARD Now. SOPHIE What about my stuff? FREEGARD Leave it. SOPHIE Have we been compromised? I was so careful. FREEGARD No. FREEGARD No, you... FREEGARD You got the place. FREEGARD On the field officer training programme. SOPHIE What? FREEGARD You've been selected. SOPHIE Oh, my God. FREEGARD Your days of being a freelancer are over. FREEGARD Now, listen. It doesn't start for a little while. FREEGARD I'm gonna find you somewhere to stay until then, but... FREEGARD it is happening. FREEGARD Hey. Come on. SOPHIE Sorry. FREEGARD Congratulations, Sophie. Nobody deserves this more than you. SOPHIE Oh, my God. FREEGARD Come on. Let's go. PHIL I didn't want to talk over the phone. ALICE Okay. PHIL This guy you asked me to check out. The ghost. ALICE Oh, yeah. No, that's all been resolved. PHIL Well, I managed to do a little bit more digging. ALICE Go on. PHIL So, we know Robert Hansen doesn't exist. Not officially. PHIL But I did find in the court records PHIL a couple of minor judgements against a Robert Hansen-Freegard. PHIL Nothing serious, mind you. But, well, I like to do a thorough job, PHIL so I ran all the iterations. PHIL Robert Hansen, Robert Hansen-Freegard and Robert Freegard. ALICE Court documents? PHIL Sealed court documents, no less. PHIL They're relating to someone called Robert Freegard. PHIL Date of birth May 21st, 1967. PHIL 1991, he had a brush with the court. PHIL Up in front of a judge on the receiving end of a non-molestation order. PHIL A few years later, he successfully had that set aside. PHIL Or somebody did. ALICE What was it about? PHIL The allegation was for stalking and harassment of a young woman, PHIL Julie Harper. PHIL Wouldn't leave her alone. Made her life hell, it seems. PHIL I couldn't find the girl in question, PHIL but I did manage to get a phone number for a Bridget Harper, PHIL who I'm pretty sure is her mother. PHIL Anything else? ALICE No. ALICE No, thank you. FREEGARD How was work? ALICE Good. Good. FREEGARD Is everything okay? ALICE Great. FREEGARD Have you heard from my employers yet? ALICE Your employers? FREEGARD Yeah. They haven't tried to shit-test you, have they? ALICE Shit-test? FREEGARD Throw some crap at you, something unexpected. See if it sticks. FREEGARD It helps them draw up a psych profile of you. ALICE What do you mean "throw some crap"? FREEGARD I don't know. They can be pretty creative. FREEGARD They don't always do it. So, forget I said anything. ALICE No, I mean, what kind of crap? FREEGARD I don't know. Some bullshit about me. FREEGARD Something to throw you off guard, test your loyalty to me. FREEGARD Honestly, they probably won't do it. FREEGARD And even if they did, I know that you would handle it perfectly. FREEGARD So, forget I said it. FREEGARD Ready. Here we go. FREEGARD Try this. FREEGARD I've thought actually of one more thing I wanted to say to you. ALICE Yeah? FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD I love you. FREEGARD Right, let's eat. FREEGARD This is the best Bolognese you have ever eaten. FREEGARD I promise you that. ALICE No. ALICE Okay then. Shit-test me. BRIDGET Hello? ALICE Hello. Mrs Harper? BRIDGET That's right. How can I help you? ALICE Hi. My name's Alice Archer. I'm sorry to bother you. ALICE I need to talk to you about someone your daughter used to know. ALICE His name is Robert Freegard. ALICE Mrs Harper? FREEGARD Hey, babe. FREEGARD You look incredible. FREEGARD This is nice. ALICE I was speaking to someone that used to know you today. ALICE She told me the most extraordinary story. ALICE Bridget Harper. Mother of Julie Harper. ALICE She told me that years ago, you and Julie had a whirlwind romance. ALICE She borrowed 20 grand off her parents to get married, but it never happened. FREEGARD I did tell you this was gonna happen. ALICE Oh, fuck off. ALICE There was a court case. You harassed her. ALICE Are you telling me this is all made-up? FREEGARD Not all of it, no. FREEGARD Julie was my first girlfriend. FREEGARD I thought I loved her. Maybe I did. I don't know. FREEGARD She drank a lot. FREEGARD First, I excused it, thought it was normal. But it wasn't. FREEGARD She was an alcoholic. It was... FREEGARD It was horrible. She's actually the reason I gave up drinking. FREEGARD Eventually I persuaded her to go into rehab. FREEGARD We found a place. It was private, expensive. FREEGARD She borrowed the money off her parents to pay for it, FREEGARD but she never told them the truth about why she needed it. FREEGARD And then the night before she was meant to go, she just disappeared. FREEGARD I guess she really didn't want to give up drinking. FREEGARD I tried to find her. Of course I did. FREEGARD And, yeah. FREEGARD Yeah, she complained to the police to keep me away. FREEGARD I went to court. Judge threw it out in about five minutes flat. FREEGARD This all came out in my clearance interviews when I applied for the Service. FREEGARD That's why it's coming up now. FREEGARD They always use this first when they're doing this kind of thing. ALICE But the woman I spoke to FREEGARD Is Bridget. And, yes, she's real. FREEGARD And this is what she really thinks. I can't change her mind. No one will. FREEGARD Oh, and, by the way, the person who gave you all this information, FREEGARD they're working for us. FREEGARD I imagine as a freelancer. ALICE But why? ALICE I mean, why? FREEGARD To see if you'll trust me in a crisis, Alice. ALICE Where are you going? FREEGARD I'm gonna work out if I wanna spend the rest of my life FREEGARD with someone whose job has turned them into a cynical, entitled bitch. ALICE Hello? PAUL Hello. Is this Alice Archer? ALICE Yes. PAUL I'm sorry to bother you, PAUL but I was given your number earlier today by Bridget Harper. PAUL I'm calling in relation to Robert Freegard. ALICE Who is this? PAUL My name is Paul Jones. PAUL Robert Freegard has PAUL Well, he has kidnapped my daughter Sophie. ALICE I'm sorry, but you need to stop this now. ALICE This is an infringement of my privacy and that of my partner. ALICE This is obscene. PAUL That was just before she went to college. PAUL Before it all happened. ALICE And So, she just disappeared? PAUL Her, another girl and a young man called Ian Preston. PAUL His people are from Birley Vale. PAUL He came home. Eventually. PAUL Sophie didn't. PAUL Obviously, we involved the police. PAUL After a few days, she called. PAUL She said that she was safe, PAUL that they were doing something important, PAUL and that they would be gone for some time. PAUL The police lost interest after that. ALICE So, why do you say she was kidnapped? ALICE Do you think she was making the call under duress? PAUL Not duress exactly. More like ALICE More like what? SOPHIES MOTHER He brainwashed her. SOPHIE Where are we? FREEGARD One last mission. SOPHIE But I thought that w FREEGARD Hey. FREEGARD No questions. PAUL Of course, I tried to find them. PAUL I traced her credit card withdrawals all over the country, PAUL but I was always two steps behind. PAUL I thought if only I could see her face-to-face, PAUL I could jolt her out of this madness. PAUL But I never could. PAUL It was a phone call here, a letter there. PAUL Never asking how we were. Never saying she missed us. PAUL Just only ever asking for money. ALICE Money? PAUL That's all she ever wanted. PAUL In the end, she asked for her share of the inheritance. PAUL She wanted it now, before we died. ALICE And did you give her the money? PAUL Yes. I realise now it was the wrong thing to do. ALICE How much did you end up giving her? PAUL About £300,000. PAUL If there's any way you could get him to lead you to her. PAUL Any way at all. ALICE I mean, I don't really How? PAUL You're still close to him. PAUL If you could keep it that way a little while longer, PAUL maybe he could tell you where she is. PAUL Find something out. Anything. ALICE I can't promise anything. ALICE I've got so much to think about. ALICE Thank you. ALICE And... I'm sorry. SOPHIES MOTHER Do you believe in God, Miss Archer? SOPHIES MOTHER And the Devil? ALICE I don't really think about it. SOPHIES MOTHER Oh, I do. SOPHIES MOTHER I believe that some people have been put on this earth SOPHIES MOTHER to be the agents of one or the other. SOPHIES MOTHER Robert Freegard is such an agent, SOPHIES MOTHER and he's not the Lord's. FREEGARD Alice Archer. SOPHIE Alice Archer. FREEGARD Hey. ALICE Hi. FREEGARD I called your work today. They said you were out. ALICE I was. FREEGARD Where were you? ALICE I was at a meeting. ALICE We need to talk. ALICE I'm sorry. FREEGARD What for? ALICE I'm sorry I doubted you. ALICE I had a choice. ALICE To believe you, to put my faith in you, or to let you down. ALICE And I let you down. ALICE It won't happen again. ALICE I love you. ALICE I'm here for you. ALICE Always. SOPHIE Why are we doing this? FREEGARD It's need to know. SOPHIE Oh, God, I really don't think I can. FREEGARD You do not question me in the middle of a mission. JEREMY Can't decide whether to buy them or sue them. JEREMY What do you think? A takeover? JEREMY Or do we go to war with them, just crush them in litigation? ANDREW Alice? What course of action? ALICE Sorry. JEREMY I pay a lot of money for your advice. JEREMY The very least I expect is your attention. ALICE Of course. ALICE You bastard. You fucking bastard. JEREMY Alice! SONNY Miss Archer? Dc Sonny Chandra, Greater London Police. ALICE Oh, yeah. Come in. SONNY We checked with our colleagues in the Security Services. SONNY He's not one of theirs, never has been. ALICE No, of course not. SONNY In terms of the money he's withdrawn ALICE Stolen. SONNY Yeah, well, on that point, SONNY because he was a joint signatory on the business account, SONNY it makes it a little bit more complicated. ALICE What do you mean? SONNY I'm gonna need to hear his side of the story SONNY to establish if a crime's been committed or not. ALICE You're not serious? SONNY I'm sorry. SONNY Look, try not to feel too bad, Miss Archer, okay? SONNY This kind of thing happens all the time. More often than you think. ALICE He knew I knew, then he moved first. ALICE I'm a fucking idiot. ALICE You don't have to agree. SONNY No. No. I was SONNY Sorry. I was just... SONNY Mr. Freegard? FREEGARD Yes? SONNY This is DC Sonny Chandra with the Greater London Police. SONNY I'd like to speak with you about an alleged fraud SONNY that appears to have been perpetrated against the bank accounts SONNY of a Miss Alice Archer. FREEGARD Is that what she told you? FREEGARD Look, we've had a couple of disagreements about how to proceed with our business. FREEGARD I've withdrawn a sum of money, which I'm legally entitled to do, FREEGARD in order to purchase a fleet of cars. FREEGARD But I can assure you there is no fraud. SONNY Would you be willing to attend a police station to discuss it? FREEGARD Yeah, of course. FREEGARD I'm back in London on Wednesday. Say 4:00 p.m.? SONNY Okay, yep. Fine. SONNY It's Notting Hill station, just ask for me at the front desk. Chandra. FREEGARD Great, I'll see you then. FREEGARD And I'm looking forward to straightening this out. FREEGARD What have I been training you for all these years? SOPHIE To be a field officer. FREEGARD And what is the role of a field officer? SOPHIE To blend in and survive over a long period of time in any environment. FREEGARD Inconspicuous, self-reliant, tough. FREEGARD Stay in this postcode. FREEGARD Someone will find you here and take you to the programme. SOPHIE When? FREEGARD Would you ask that question in the field? FREEGARD Well, consider yourself in the field. FREEGARD This is in case I need to contact you. FREEGARD There's no credit on it, incoming calls only. FREEGARD If you put credit on it, if you try to make a call, you have failed. FREEGARD Do you understand? SOPHIE Yeah. AUTOMATED VOICE Please leave a message after the tone. ALICE You'll probably never hear this message. ALICE But I want you to know that you haven't broken me. ALICE It's important that you know that you haven't broken me. ANDREW How are you? ALICE Good. Fine. ANDREW You look tired. ALICE You know, you should never say that to a woman. ANDREW I'm saying it to an employee. ALICE What are you getting at, Andrew? ANDREW I mean, look at yourself. You're a mess. ANDREW Okay, look. ANDREW We think you should take some time off. Couple of weeks. ALICE "We"? ANDREW The partners. ALICE Really? ANDREW Really. ALICE Andrew, tell me straight. Should I be looking for another job? ANDREW If you think you'd be happier somewhere else, yes, sure. FREEGARD Alice? FREEGARD I'm sorry. ALICE You're sorry? FREEGARD Yeah, I'm truly sorry. FREEGARD For everything. For the lies, for taking the money. FREEGARD Listen, I know you think it was all one big lie, but it wasn't. FREEGARD I love you. FREEGARD I think you are the only person I've ever really loved in my whole life. FREEGARD Only you. FREEGARD I just FREEGARD I just want you to know that. FREEGARD Goodbye, Alice. AUTOMATED VOICE The number you have dialled has not been recognised. MAN IN BAR Can I buy you a drink? ALICE Sorry, I'm not MAN IN BAR Hear me out. One minute of your time, not a second more. MAN IN BAR So, I was just thinking... ALICE You were just thinking... ALICE You were just thinking... ALICE "She's hot." MAN IN BAR Yeah. ALICE "Definitely hot. ALICE She looks to be at least 30 though. ALICE Which means she's probably one of those working women ALICE that's starting to get just a teensy bit desperate." MAN IN BAR No, I was ALICE "And she's just been sitting here, drinking alone. ALICE Which means she's probably upset. ALICE Maybe about a man. ALICE Which means she might be in the market for an anger fuck. ALICE Or a revenge fuck. ALICE Or maybe just a plain old sad fuck." MAN IN BAR Listen, I wasn't gonna ALICE "But if I do get lucky and fuck her, ALICE well, I better make sure not to leave any contact details. ALICE Because this is the last kind of girl I want tracking me down in the morning. ALICE That would be an absolute train wreck." ALICE Is that what you were "just thinking"? ALICE Fucking... ALICE Fucking bastard. ALICE Fucking bastard! ALICE Fucking bastard. ALICE I need you to help me find him. PHIL Alice, I don't think that's a good idea. ALICE I need you to help me, Phil. PHIL Going after this guy is not the answer. PHIL The money's long gone. ALICE It's not about the money anymore. PHIL Well, then, what is it about? PHIL Revenge? I mean, that's not gonna happen, Alice. ALICE He's still in here. In my head. ALICE And he won't get out until I look him in the eye one last time. PHIL Okay. Listen, I was a copper for 18 years, okay? PHIL And when you're doing that job, PHIL you deal with three different types of people: PHIL mad, sad and bad. PHIL Mad are people with your everyday mental health problems. PHIL Sometimes they just get into trouble without wanting to. PHIL Sad are people who have had shit lives. It's obvious why they end up as criminals. PHIL Those two are your vast majority of perpetrators. PHIL But bad is a different story. PHIL Sociopaths, psychopaths, fantasists, manipulators. PHIL They spend their entire lives destroying other people. PHIL They're smart. They're always one step ahead, PHIL and they all have one particular thing in common. ALICE What's that? PHIL They can't change. PHIL They do what they do again, and again, and again, and they never, ever stop. PHIL The only thing you can do PHIL is try your best to stay as far away from them as possible. PHIL The last thing you wanna do is ever see him again. PHIL Try to find a way to just put things back together, you know. PHIL There must be loads of firms looking for someone like you. ALICE No, that's all over now. I'm done. ALICE Phil. PHIL Alice. ALICE Would it surprise you if I don't take your advice? PHIL Of course it bloody wouldn't. PHIL But for God's sake, be careful. FREEGARD Honestly, you're not gonna get better for the nine grand. FREEGARD Daniel will attest to it. FREEGARD I'll leave you here. FREEGARD Hi. JENNY Hello. FREEGARD Do you have any idea what you're looking for? ALICE Ian Preston? IAN Yes? ALICE Hi, I'm Alice Archer. ALICE I need to talk to you about Robert Freegard. IAN And for two years we lived on the run from the Ira. IAN We used fake names, always moving from one place to the next. IAN He told us the Ira wanted to kill us to make an example of us. IAN He said if we ever went home to our families, that we'd put them in danger. IAN And then as time went on, he told us we were candidates for a special programme. ALICE A programme? IAN Yeah, a recruitment programme to join MI5, to make us officers like him. IAN But to qualify we'd have to pass these tests. ALICE What kind of tests? IAN Spy stuff. IAN Delivering an envelope somewhere, following someone in the street. IAN To prove you were good enough. ALICE And how long did all this go on for? IAN For me, it was four years. IAN I know it sounds ridiculous, IAN but he just has this way of making you believe, you know, anything. ALICE It doesn't sound ridiculous to me. IAN He told me something once. IAN It was a throwaway thing, but I never forgot it. IAN He said, "Everybody's got a story that they want to be told." ALICE What was your story? IAN Well, look around you. IAN I'm a farm boy. Simple life. Boring, mostly. IAN He gave me the opposite of boring. IAN What was the story you wanted to hear? ALICE That I could be free. ALICE Ian, can I ask you... ALICE how did you get away? IAN Well, I didn't. IAN Yeah, one day I woke up and they were just gone. IAN Yeah, I didn't leave Freegard. IAN He left me. IAN Him and Sophie and Mae were just gone. ALICE Mae? IAN Yeah, Mae Hansen. Yeah, she was with us for years. ALICE Hansen? SONNY Kidnapping? Come on. He hasn't kidnapped anyone. ALICE In 1993, he takes three students from Trent Hamilton University. ALICE Two of them, both young women, haven't been seen since. SONNY Not seen, no. But they've both been in touch with their families. ALICE To ask for money. Sonny, for fuck's sake. ALICE Okay, look. ALICE All right. This is the legal definition of kidnapping. ALICE Read it. Come on. Read it. SONNY I know what the legal definition of kidnapping is. This is ridiculous. ALICE "Kidnapping is the taking of one person or another by force or fraud." ALICE And fraud is what he's doing here. This is a common law indictable offence. ALICE We can make this stick. SONNY We? What, you're a Cps lawyer now? ALICE No, but I'm more of a lawyer than you are. ALICE I'm sorry. ALICE Sometimes I get a little bit carried away. SONNY Oh, you don't say, yeah? SONNY All right, so he's been using Mae Hansen's name? ALICE Sometimes he uses Robert Hansen. Sometimes Robert Hansen-Freegard. ALICE Sometimes just Robert Freegard. SONNY Why would he do that? SONNY Use her name in particular? SONNY Okay, look. I'm gonna run "Mae Hansen" through the Pnc. SONNY If she's ever come into contact with the emergency services in any way, SONNY there'll be an address. It's not much, but it's worth a try. SONNY But I'm warning you, the chances of this going anywhere are SONNY Well... ALICE Thank you. JENNY Have you always lived here alone? FREEGARD I still haven't been down the aisle, if that's what you mean. FREEGARD You? JENNY Yes. Unfortunately. JENNY It wasn't pretty. JENNY Sorry. FREEGARD What did you do in America? JENNY I was an academic in psychology. FREEGARD Psychology? JENNY Yeah. JENNY So you better be careful. I can read you from a mile off. FREEGARD Oh, I will. JENNY So go on, then. What's your secret? FREEGARD My secret? JENNY Yeah. JENNY Guy like you, lives all alone, doesn't talk much about his past, JENNY makes a mean spaghetti Bolognese. JENNY What are you hiding? FREEGARD Wow, you are good. JENNY I am. FREEGARD Well, Jenny, FREEGARD I have been meaning to tell you something. FREEGARD It's about my job. FREEGARD I'm not really a car salesman. JENNY I love this place. FREEGARD Yeah, me too. FREEGARD Have you ever considered doing something completely different? JENNY What do you mean? FREEGARD I mean, like, a new career. JENNY Like what? FREEGARD Well, like This is gonna sound completely crazy. JENNY Go on. FREEGARD Well, there's a recruitment round coming up at work FREEGARD for intelligence analysts. JENNY What? JENNY Oh, my God. What, you think I should become a spy? FREEGARD No, you wouldn't be a field officer. You'd be an analyst. FREEGARD You have a background in psychology. FREEGARD You can read people. You can work out their motivations. FREEGARD I think you'd be really, really good at it. JENNY But I'm American. FREEGARD We recruit Nato allies all the time. JENNY Wait, I gotta tell you something. JENNY Oh, God. Okay. Here goes. JENNY I am actually on a pretty intense cocktail of anti-depressants. JENNY Since my divorce. JENNY So... FREEGARD So? FREEGARD I don't see why that would be a problem. FREEGARD What did you think of the mushy peas? JENNY Gross. FREEGARD Really? JENNY Yeah. FREEGARD Listen, Jenny, if you are going to take this job, FREEGARD there are a couple of things we need to discuss. FREEGARD You mentioned that you had quite a lot of student debt? JENNY Yeah? FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD It might turn out to be a bit of a problem. JENNY Really? FREEGARD Yeah. JENNY I mean, everybody who goes to college in the States is in debt. FREEGARD Yeah, I know. In this country, FREEGARD the Security Services see large debts owed by members of staff FREEGARD as a potential liability. FREEGARD Yeah, like a blackmail risk. JENNY Really? FREEGARD Yeah. JENNY Are you kidding me? FREEGARD No. FREEGARD I know. It's ridiculous. FREEGARD They're just so set in their ways. It's absurd. FREEGARD How much is it? Your student debt. JENNY Shit. I mean, last time I checked, about $80,000. FREEGARD Yeah, wow. JENNY Yeah. It's America. FREEGARD And do you have You have no way of paying it back? JENNY I mean, let me check my pockets. No. JENNY Shit. JENNY Well, listen. If it really is a problem, my JENNY I guess I could ask my folks. I mean, maybe I could ask them. ALICE Do you really think this could be her? SONNY Date of birth matches. ALICE Thank you for bringing me along. SONNY You just let me take the lead, okay? SONNY Mae Hansen? MAE Yes? ALICE Did you attend Trent Hamilton University with Ian Preston and Sophie Jones? MAE Yes. SONNY I'm Detective Constable Sonny Chandra. SONNY We're here about Mr Robert Freegard, SONNY or Hansen-Freegard, as he's sometimes known. MAE He's not here at the moment. SONNY May we come in? ALICE Thank you. ALICE Who are these children? MAE They're our girls. Mine and Rob's. SONNY How often do you see him? MAE He comes and goes. MAE His work is very important. ALICE But he looks after you? ALICE You and the children? SONNY Look, Mae. Are you okay? SONNY Can we help you? SONNY If you ask for help, I can help you. MAE He said this would happen. ALICE What? MAE He said you would come and try to test me to see if I was loyal. ALICE No, Mae. This isn't a test. MAE Unless you have something else to say, I think you should go. ALICE He's in danger. MAE What? ALICE Rob may be in danger because of the important work that he does. ALICE And we need to find him because we need to warn him. ALICE That's all I can say. You understand? It's national security. ALICE Now, do you know of anything that can help us find him? ALICE An address. A phone number. Anything. SONNY Listen, I think you should ALICE Mae, we need to find him. ALICE We need to warn him. Please. MAE There's a notebook. MAE In his sock drawer. It has phone numbers in it. SONNY I can't believe you did that, Alice. I could be fired. ALICE It's just mobile phone numbers. Line after line of them. ALICE It must be hundreds. SONNY It doesn't prove anything. ALICE Doesn't prove anything? Are you serious? This could be how we track him down. SONNY And then what? ALICE Come on. SONNY I'm serious. Where's the crime? Go on, you're the lawyer. Where is it? SONNY And even if by some miracle we did get orders to court, SONNY what do you think a jury's gonna make of Mae Hansen? SONNY She's the mother of his children. ALICE Don't you see? He never, ever stops. ALICE He goes on and on destroying people's lives until somebody stops him. SONNY Look. I'm sorry, all right? SONNY That must have been hard seeing the kids and that. SONNY But it's not enough. SONNY None of this is enough. AUTOMATED VOICE The number you have dialled has not been recognised. AUTOMATED VOICE Please check and dial ag FREEGARD It is a bit strange they still haven't called. JENNY It's a lot of money, Robert. It takes time. JENNY Look, I don't have to apply for this job this time round. JENNY I can wait. JENNY I mean, to be honest, I'm not even really sure that I should apply. FREEGARD I don't think you realise, Jenny, that there won't be a next time. JENNY Robert, what are you doing? JENNY What are you doing? JENNY What the fuck are you doing? FREEGARD Hey, you don't need those things. JENNY Those are my meds. I need my meds. FREEGARD No. No, you don't. We're gonna get you off them. Starting today. JENNY Those aren't drugs that you can just quit cold turkey. I can't do that. FREEGARD Yes, you can. You can. Yes, you can. I'm right here, okay? I'm right here. FREEGARD I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to you. I promise you, Jenny. FREEGARD This is a good thing. Okay? FREEGARD It's a good thing. It's a good thing. FREEGARD Hey. SONNY Out all night again? ALICE Piss off. SONNY You were right. ALICE What? SONNY He never stops. SONNY Can you come with me? ALICE Where are we going? SONNY To the American embassy. ALICE Give me ten minutes. SONNY Five. AGENT HARLAND Thank you for coming, Miss Archer. AGENT HARLAND Special Agent Harland. Please, follow me. AGENT HARLAND Have a seat. AGENT HARLAND So, I understand that you have some experience of this guy. ALICE What's all this about? AGENT HARLAND The FBI is concerned about the whereabouts of an American citizen, AGENT HARLAND Jenny Jackson. AGENT HARLAND She's been here in the UK for three months. AGENT HARLAND Usually, she calls her parents several times a week. AGENT HARLAND But about three weeks ago, she darn near fell off the face of the Earth. AGENT HARLAND Then a couple of days ago, AGENT HARLAND she called her parents in Connecticut and asked them for $80,000. AGENT HARLAND She said she needed to clear her student debt in preparation for a job AGENT HARLAND that her boyfriend was providing for her. AGENT HARLAND The boyfriend goes by the name of Robert Freegard. AGENT HARLAND Did you ever get comms surveillance up on him? SONNY We never got that far. ALICE I have a notebook. ALICE It's just numbers. All his burner phones. ALICE I've called about half of them, but so far they've all disconnected. AGENT HARLAND Can you show it to me? AGENT HARLAND What? ALICE Agent Harland. ALICE I don't want your people calling those numbers. AGENT HARLAND Excuse me? ALICE If we get through to Robert or Jenny or any of his victims, ALICE they could really screw this up. ALICE We have just one shot at this. Just one. AGENT HARLAND My agents are trained investigators. Negotiators. ALICE But they don't know Robert Freegard like I do. ALICE Let me make the calls. AGENT HARLAND I can get a court order. ALICE Actually, you'd need an evidential retrieval order. ALICE That's usually a High Court matter. AGENT HARLAND I see what you mean. AGENT HARLAND You make the calls. I listen in. AGENT HARLAND We work together. ALICE Deal. AUTOMATED VOICE The number you have dialled has not been recognised. AUTOMATED VOICE Please check and dial again. AUTOMATED VOICE The number you have dialled has not been recognised. AUTOMATED VOICE Please check and dial again. AGENT HARLAND Hey. Yeah, give me purchase points on every handset on this list. AGENT HARLAND Put 'em all on a map, plot 'em out. Get 'em right to me. Thanks. AGENT HARLAND Are they going through on your end? SONNY All good. AGENT HARLAND Perfect. SOPHIE Hello? SOPHIE Rob, hello? ALICE Sophie? AGENT HARLAND Let me call you back. SOPHIE Who's this? ALICE Sophie, ALICE my name's Alice. I'm a colleague of Rob's. I work with him. SOPHIE Where is Rob? ALICE I can't discuss that on the phone, Sophie. ALICE Listen, we're ready to bring you in. SOPHIE Have I passed? ALICE That's right, Sophie. You have. ALICE You've passed. SOPHIE Rob said it would be him that brought me in. ALICE He's on a mission. You'll see him very soon. SOPHIE Okay. ALICE Sophie, where are you? ALICE What's your location? JENNY Mum, if you could send the money, it will really help with this new opportunity. JENNY This means a lot to me, JENNY and everything will go smoothly once the debt has been cleared. JENNY Mom, I really need you to send this money, okay? Please. JENNY I'm really not feeling very well, Robert. JENNY Can you help me? ALICE Okay, listen, this is important. ALICE When we get to her, we can't tell her the truth. SONNY Wait, what? ALICE If we want to find Jenny, we can't tell Sophie Jones the truth. Not yet. SONNY Why not? AGENT HARLAND Because it would destroy her. JENNY Robert. JENNY I need my meds. ALICE Hello, Sophie. ALICE I'm Alice. ALICE Those are my colleagues. ALICE Are you ready to go? ALICE Sophie. ALICE You've done so well. ALICE It's okay. ALICE It's okay. FREEGARD There you are. FREEGARD You can puke there all you want. ALICE As part of your training with Rob, you stayed in a lot of safe houses, yes? SOPHIE Yeah, dozens. ALICE And did any of them stand out to you? SOPHIE What do you mean? SONNY Do any of them feel different? SONNY Like, maybe somewhere that felt more like home? SOPHIE Well, there was one place I had to wear a blindfold on the way. ALICE Yeah, yeah, exactly like that. ALICE And do you remember, even roughly, where it was? SOPHIE Well... SOPHIE Rob taught me that if you're deprived of one of your senses, SOPHIE you can learn what you need to know from the others, so... SOPHIE We came south out of Cambridge. SOPHIE And then when we came off the M11, that's when I put the blindfold on. SOPHIE So, we went straight for about ten minutes. SOPHIE I counted the seconds. SOPHIE And then we turned left up into the hills for about 30 minutes. AGENT HARLAND It fits. AGENT HARLAND There's a cluster of handsets that were purchased right by Saffron Walden. ALICE Well done, Sophie. ALICE Well done. SOPHIE I'm really sorry. SOPHIE I just I can't remember exactly where ALICE It's fine. Really. You're doing great. JENNYS FATHER Hello? Jenny, honey, is that you? JENNYS FATHER Rob? Is this Rob? FREEGARD Yes. JENNYS FATHER Can I speak to Jenny, please? FREEGARD No, not right now. She's taking a bath. JENNYS FATHER Okay, look, we've transferred the money. It's all there. FREEGARD Right. JENNYS FATHER Can you tell her that, please? FREEGARD I'll let her know. Thank you. JENNYS FATHER Rob, please. Tell me, is she okay? FREEGARD Yeah, she's fine. JENNYS FATHER Okay FREEGARD Talk soon, okay? SONNY It's getting dark. We should come back tomorrow. ALICE No. AGENT HARLAND Let's keep going. SONNY Okay. FREEGARD Jenny. FREEGARD Jenny, I've got some good news. FREEGARD Your folks have sent the money. FREEGARD How great is that? FREEGARD Hey, listen, FREEGARD I think there might be some of your medicine in the car. FREEGARD I'll go and check, shall I? FREEGARD Jenny. FREEGARD Jenny, everything's gonna be okay now. FREEGARD Alice. ALICE You have to stop at some point, Robert. This can't go on forever. FREEGARD You're not alone. FREEGARD Come with me. ALICE What? FREEGARD You didn't come here 'cause you wanted to catch me. FREEGARD You came here 'cause you wanted to see if what I said on the phone was true, FREEGARD if you're the only person I've ever really loved. FREEGARD Well, Alice, it is true. You know it's true. FREEGARD You're the only one. FREEGARD Alice, look at me. FREEGARD Look at me, Alice. FREEGARD I think you're my last chance, Alice. FREEGARD I can change. I can. FREEGARD Come on. There's a life for us beyond this one. FREEGARD Me and you. Let's get out of here. FREEGARD Just fuck it. FREEGARD Let's get in the car. The keys are there. FREEGARD Come on. ALICE You run, they'll catch you. FREEGARD No, they won't. FREEGARD They won't. FREEGARD Come on. Let's go. FREEGARD Alice, this is it, okay? It's now or never. FREEGARD Alice, please. SONNY Alice? FREEGARD For fuck's sake. AGENT HARLAND Alice. ALICE Sophie. AGENT HARLAND She's gonna be okay. AGENT HARLAND Physically, anyway. SOPHIES MOTHER Sophie, you're safe. PAUL Thank you. SOPHIES MOTHER Thank you. ALICE Anyone entering that world left behind the lives they had before, ALICE the people they once were. ALICE That was the price they had to pay. ALICE And many of us in this room have paid dearly. ALICE He promised us freedom, but actually he took it away. ALICE But we're standing here as proof that there is a way out. ALICE From now on, we get to tell our own stories. ALICE That's real freedom. BARRISTER Thank you, Miss Archer. BARRISTER And I also understand you're no longer a practising lawyer. BARRISTER Is that correct? ALICE I'm a company director. ALICE My company leases luxury cars to corporate clients. LIGHTHOUSE ATTENDANT We're closing in ten minutes. ALICE That's okay. LIGHTHOUSE ATTENDANT Thanks. ALICE Thank you. PRISON OFFICER Sorry, I've got to ask. PRISON OFFICER Some of the screws are saying that you're not really a lag. PRISON OFFICER They're saying you're Mi5 or something. PRISON OFFICER You're investigating the Bailey gang down on the ones. FREEGARD I can't talk about that, and neither should you. FREEGARD That kind of talk could get me killed. PRISON OFFICER Yeah, of course. PRISON OFFICER Well, your secret's safe with me. PRISON OFFICER Now, if there's anything you need, you just ask. FREEGARD Yeah. FREEGARD Yeah. LIGHTHOUSE ATTENDANT Are you all right? LIGHTHOUSE ATTENDANT You know it goes on forever? It never stops. ALICE We'll see.