- [last lines]
- Christine Dale: What do you know that I don't?
- Tom Quinn: [leaning in] Lots of things.
- [Christine pulls him down onto the sofa for a snog]
- Tony Blair: [on television with President George W. Bush] Yet another example of the strength of the relationship between our two countries. It is a very strong relationship, a very special one.
- Tom Quinn: MI-5 oversees protection of the PM, Queen, and visiting dignitaries.
- Christine Dale: Not this one.
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: Diplomatic protocol states quite clearly that the host government provides 95 percent of protection for presidential visits.
- Christine Dale: Not this President, not this visit. Václav Havel let us do it our way in Prague and we're doing it our way now. That means a complete adherence to US Secret Service close-protection protocol. Every rumour is to be treated as fact until neutralised. Every target is a potential assassin until dealt with. We'd like paranoia to be the norm here until our Commander in Chief is safely back in the skies. I'm sure you can understand that in the current climate. After he's gone, any residual distrust of others will, of course, be your own problem.
- Ruth Evershed: They're sending it here.
- Harry Pearce: What?
- Ruth Evershed: You said, tell Customs to open a crate. So I did, and now they've told me they've had a look and there's a problem and they're sending it here.
- Harry Pearce: A Libyan problem?
- Ruth Evershed: They're not saying, which scares me.
- Ruth Evershed: There are two issues here. One, we're getting a lot of chatter at the Libyan embassy.
- Harry Pearce: What kind of chatter?
- Ruth Evershed: Lot of euphemisms for America being bandied around, several vehicles trying very hard to lose their tails. There's not been anything on this scale since '84.
- Harry Pearce: Any indication of concrete plans?
- Ruth Evershed: It's all disguised as everyday diplomatic traffic, Harry, but I don't like it one bit, which brings us to two. A deal memo, in the rough, of course, between the US and Libya.
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: They accept responsibility for Lockerbie, and pay seven billion dollars in reparations. The Americans end unilateral sanctions and help to remove them from the Axis of Evil, amongst other things.
- Harry Pearce: No mention of reparation for UK victims?
- Ruth Evershed: None at all.
- [first lines]
- George W. Bush: [on television, giving his 2002 graduation speech at West Point] We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants who solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties and then systematically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
- Sam Buxton: And the water cooler's too hot, and the pod doors open too slow. I'm not sure there's a lot of usefulness in the way the Grid's designed, either, I have to say. If you're at the photocopy island and you need to scan in for a quick-mail, you've got to go...
- Miranda: Can you just slow down a second?
- [chuckles and resumes taking notes]
- Sam Buxton: [reading Miranda's notes] Quick-mail.
- Miranda: Right.
- Tom Quinn: If the pilot's aiming straight for the roof of Chequers then...
- Harry Pearce: We can't shoot it down.
- Tom Quinn: --then we have to.
- Ruth Evershed: Not if it's carrying nuclear material.
- Tom Quinn: Who, whoever said anything about nuclear material?
- Harry Pearce: We have nothing credible on that score, however...
- Christine Dale: What goddamn nuclear material? Put the speaker on.
- Ruth Evershed: We cannot discount it completely. A known hitman sourcing raw material for a dirty bomb.
- Zoe Reynolds: No, we're putting two and two together to get 13. It is absolutely ludicrous.
- Ruth Evershed: No more ludicrous than crashing a plane into a building. Ask anyone how ludicrous that sounded on September the 10th, 2001.