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In Tenerife, John Palmer has an unwelcome visitor as the pressure continues to build.
The British police join forces with the DEA to take down the international money laundering operation. In Tenerife, John Palmer has an unwelcome visitor as the pressure builds.
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Episode 4
Season 2 Episode 4 | 53m 5sVideo has Audio Description
The British police join forces with the DEA to take down the international money laundering operation. In Tenerife, John Palmer has an unwelcome visitor as the pressure builds.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ ♪ LUNEZ: Two bodies have been found off Fort Lauderdale.
I need a man called Scott Errico.
♪ ♪ CAMPBELL: Are you part of this insanity, Douglas?
The returns are hard to ignore, Logan.
NICKI: Baxter's running.
So is his mate.
Nick them.
(grunts, crowd gasps) IVAN: We are partners now with your business.
50-50.
KENNETH (on phone): Hello, John.
I need a bit of help.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (insects buzzing, animals calling) ♪ ♪ (men talking in background, Tina panting) ♪ ♪ What do you want?
Your first interview with a Western journalist.
(chuckles) Western journalists call me drug dealer.
You are a drug dealer.
No drugs, no guns.
No guns, no freedom.
I have seen many men like you.
At the beginning, it's simple.
You want freedom, or justice, or independence.
But along the way, you get fame, money, power.
Eventually, you get enough of those things to forget what you wanted at the beginning.
We need international recognition.
That means I need to send envoys to the West.
If you want to speak to me, then I want visas.
I'm a journalist.
I'm not a diplomat.
(smacks lips) Then you have come all this way for nothing.
I won't leave without an interview.
(exhales) Then you won't leave.
♪ ♪ Six men break into a warehouse at Heathrow to steal three tons of gold, and all these years... (door closes) ...and all this money later, you go to Heathrow and shut down the airport.
Some might call that irony-- I prefer gross incompetence.
Forget the six men and forget the gold.
The Brink's-Mat investigation is now about the largest criminal fortune in British history, and about us taking it from them.
We seized £500,000 at Heathrow.
Once it's gone through the courts, that money is yours, sir.
Do spend it wisely.
How?
The new Drug Trafficking Offenses Act.
Any criminal proceeds with a provable link to drugs can be seized by the investigatory body.
Now, one of Miller's network is wanted on drugs charges, so when I find Miller's money, I can seize it on that basis.
Along with him.
Equally, when we bring down Palmer, if I find one penny of drugs money within John Palmer's money-laundering operation, I can take everything he has.
That's tens of millions of pounds-- every penny that's been spent on the Brink's-Mat investigation and more.
The biggest financial seizure in British policing history.
And the press?
I'll handle the press.
I believe you're looking to film a documentary on John Palmer.
Being stonewalled by the Yard is one thing.
You applying personal pressure is quite another.
I know this is unusual, Mr.
Jarrett, but I'll help you get him.
Why?
Because you'll help us get him.
My concern is, you haven't got to him yet.
He's careful.
He's careful, and he's clever, but he's not without weakness.
So, how might we get to him?
Use a woman.
And make it big.
(birds chirping) (talking indistinctly) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ For you.
(exhales) ♪ ♪ I need a phone.
Come home, Tina.
England needs you.
It's not a great time, Henry.
HENRY: Yes, sorry to interrupt your little sojourn, but we have an in on John Palmer.
Undercover documentary, prime time.
TINA: Palmer?
He was Brink's-Mat, wasn't he?
HENRY: He was.
But he's a lot more interesting now.
♪ ♪ (engine stops, brake engages) ♪ ♪ (door closes) So what's happened, Kenny, eh?
You've not been out long.
You can't have got yourself into bother this fast, surely?
This is nice, John.
Your house.
Your plane.
Your life.
Oh, I've got my crosses to bear.
(inhales) Don't you worry about that.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure you do, yeah.
Could have been a lot worse, though, couldn't it?
For you, anyway.
I, uh, I did my time.
So where you headed, Kenny?
My plane can get you halfway round the world.
I think I'm gonna stay here.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
I thought it, um, might be fun.
To spend a bit of time with a mate.
(exhales) 'Cause we're mates, aren't we?
(softly): Course we are.
Yeah.
More than that, really.
Partners.
(breathes softly) I got to get to work, Kenny.
Well, you're an important man, John.
Yeah, I'll drop you in town.
Plenty of decent boozers.
No, I'm fine here.
♪ ♪ Right.
(clears throat) Okay.
(stammers): I mean, do you want me to stick around for a bit?
No, no.
Best you go and look after your millions.
Best for both of us.
♪ ♪ BOYCE: You're in a conspiracy with dangerous people, who will be concerned that you'll reveal that conspiracy.
They'll do you in, mate, is what he's saying.
Unless we offer you protection.
But protection must be earned.
I appreciate the clarity, gentlemen, so let me offer a little of my own.
You have no evidence against me, and in 11 hours' time, you have to let me go, at which point, I'll demand a written apology and safe passage to the Isle of Man.
Safe passage?
From what?
Pirates?
(chuckles) You know, the Isle of Man doesn't offer much.
Uh, I once ordered a martini in a pub over there, and the landlord came at me with a poker, but the Isle of Man does offer something to people like me, doing the kind of things you perhaps imagine I do.
I don't need your protection.
I have all the protection I require.
Where's Miller's money?
LUNDY: And where is he?
Who's Miller?
You registered front companies for him to launder proceeds from the Brink's-Mat robbery.
Ah, Brink's-Mat-- how are you doing with that?
Better now you're here.
Oh, I disagree.
I think in reaching me, you have reached the very limits of your power.
He's a belter, this one.
DOUGLAS: Your jurisdiction ends at borders, but money doesn't respect borders.
If you take on money of this nature, you are doomed to be forever stuck behind a fence, watching it slip away over the horizon.
We have one thing on our side.
What's that?
11 hours.
(door opens) (door closes) (insects buzzing) ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (phone ringing) (phone continues) (button beeps, ringing stops) MARNIE (on phone): Hello?
Hello?
Is that you, John?
John?
(button beeps) (dial tone buzzing) (button beeps, tone stops) (breath trembles) (sighs) You know it won't be in there?
Money laundering is about movement.
If Miller's money was here, then it's not here anymore.
All we can look for is a, a suggestion as to where it's gone.
When did you become the expert?
I'm interested in this stuff.
And I've learnt enough to know that whatever Baxter gives up, we're only at the start of something.
And I reckon... ...this might be where it goes next.
DOUGLAS: I wonder what Isle of Man police would say about illegal entry.
BOYCE: Isle of Man police are being very helpful, which is good news for you.
LUNDY: They'll agree to reduced charges, open prison, and no company director ban.
If you tell us where Miller's money is.
Which I suspect means telling us about this.
And the people behind it.
I can't.
(scoffs) I hope this isn't loyalty, Douglas.
The world you're in, this world, is not a place for loyalty.
They'd give you up in a bloody heartbeat, mate.
BOYCE: We're going to charge you, which means we can choose to give you police bail or to put you on remand, and right now... It's remand.
I'm sorry, I couldn't take the suspense-- it's remand.
In the Scrubs.
Last time I enjoyed the hospitality of Her Majesty, I worked in the library, which was heavy on Erle Stanley Gardner, but had a certain charm.
BOYCE: This would be different.
Errico's in custody.
And he needs a cellmate.
(inhales) There's only one person behind this.
And he'd only speak to me.
Then you'd best go speak to him.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Where is everyone?
They're not back from the beaches.
But you have a visitor.
Can I help you?
I thought you could.
Now I'm not so sure.
Sorry?
I was told you could clean money.
Who told you that?
I was told you could clean a lot of money, Mr.
Palmer.
Then I arrive on Tenerife and discover you are a humble hotelier.
They're timeshares-- who told you that?
People in my world.
What world's that, then?
The Old Bill?
(chuckles) Quite the opposite.
I help people who have a lot of money and are willing to have a little less money in order to keep that money.
It is a small community, and in that community, people talk.
About a man.
In Tenerife.
(chuckles) Building a reputation.
(chuckles) I don't know what you're talking about.
But if you fancy a timeshare, do take a brochure.
I know you're working for the Russians.
I imagine it can't be without its challenges.
I'm just a kid from Solihull, love.
I don't know no Russians.
This is simpler.
One transaction.
I've got a busy day.
$100 million.
♪ ♪ From where?
Burma.
I could tell you some bollocks about tax evasion or the looting of a regime, but I won't.
The money is the proceeds of the heroin trade.
It will be wired to you through a Singaporean bank, you clean it, you send $80 million to Switzerland.
$20 million commission and not a Russian in sight.
This is Han-So.
He's one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world.
And in two days' time, he will be at the Ritz in London.
I'm afraid I can't help you.
That's not your answer.
(phone ringing in background) If you don't come to the Ritz to meet him, that's your answer, and we'll give the 20 million to someone else.
(crowd cheering, announcers speaking on TV) All right, Kenny?
It's Dave.
Mate of Barry's?
You know, we played golf at West Kingsdown?
Yeah, you sold me a couple of watches, which, well, to be fair, Kenny, barely lasted the journey home.
(laughs) Yeah, you all right, Dave?
Yeah, you see it all, mate.
You see it all.
Yeah, well, uh, have a good one, yeah?
Yeah, you on holiday, then, eh?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, well, fair enough, eh?
You deserve one, don't you, after a stretch like that?
(chuckles) Here, do you want a beer?
No.
Yeah, uh, all right, mate, well, yeah, I'll tell, tell Barry you were asking for him, yeah?
(coins jangling) No, you won't.
You won't tell Barry nothing.
You won't tell no one nothing.
Because if I find out that you told Barry, or your missus, or your (muted) dog that you saw me here, then that ain't gonna work out well for you, Dave.
That ain't gonna work out well at all.
Okay?
Yeah, no, no, I ain't seen you, Kenny.
Ain't seen you.
No.
No, you ain't.
Yeah.
(exhales) I need a bit of time off from this.
The island's quiet, my team are struggling.
They're not bringing in punters, so there's no money in the system to hide yours.
You clean our money, you send it on.
If you can't clean our money, you send your own money on.
Whatever happens, you send us money.
Every week, forever.
If you have problems, give them to me.
I make them go away.
I'll bear that in mind.
The end is coming, Señor Palmer.
(exhales) Got myself out of worse than this.
You need money for the Russians.
But you have no money coming in.
There are some tourists asking where their apartments are and some are asking for their money back.
I've got the money for all of them.
This time, but then they will all come back, again and again.
I could sell up.
(scoffs) Who will buy a development that has been sold twice over?
The Russians.
If the Russians want it, they will take it.
They are not your way out!
There is no way out.
There might be.
There's someone else.
They want me to clean $100 million.
One-off.
We take 20 million and get the (muted) off this island.
Could you do it?
I would be creating a mirage that would last a few days, no more.
Yeah, you can get a long way from here in a few days.
$5 million.
You what?
For me.
Christ, kid, what would you do with $5 million?
(door opens) Wait outside.
VIKTOR: I wait here now.
(sighs) (whispers): Okay.
Mm.
(insects buzzing) (sighs) What's going on, Kenny?
Do you remember when I came to you with that first bar of gold?
Course I do.
I thought... ...it was gonna change our lives, that.
Change who we were, change who we could be.
But you knew that was bollocks, didn't you?
Yeah, you looked at that gold, and you didn't see none of that.
You just saw money.
And you were right.
Yeah, well.
Money brings its own problems.
Wish I had problems like that.
What's going on?
(inhales) I'm on the run, John.
From what?
Don't matter what I'm running from.
What matters is staying ahead of it.
And that ain't happening here.
The amount of English on this island, I may as well be in bloody Kent.
(chuckles) Yeah, that's true.
I need to go somewhere quiet.
I can help with that.
♪ ♪ And I need enough dough to stay there.
'Cause you don't want me coming back here, do you?
Every time I need a little bit more of what you got from the gold?
Look, what I've got here didn't come from the gold.
Everything comes from the gold, John.
Always will.
And you'd do well to remember that.
'Cause, you see, this, this life, it's too big.
(scoffs) It's too flash.
They'll be coming for you, John.
♪ ♪ Maybe.
But right now, it sounds like they're coming for you.
♪ ♪ (sighs) BOYCE: Keep your jackets on.
You're going to the British Virgin Islands.
NICKI: Where?
You'll coordinate with the D.E.A.
and use Baxter to get to a Logan Campbell, who has control of Miller's money.
Lundy will explain the rest on the plane.
No, I won't be with them, sir, I've got to find Miller.
You'll get to Miller through the money.
Come on, guv.
The quicker you find the money, the quicker you'll find Miller.
Take a wire and keep a close eye on Baxter.
He's about as weak as a cooperating witness gets.
And I don't think he's fully decided whose side he's on.
(exhales) ♪ ♪ There you go, Kenny.
(engine idling) Viktor will get you to the plane.
♪ ♪ Good luck, mate.
(inhales) You know the difference between us, John?
We're both on the run, but only I know it.
♪ ♪ (piano playing, thunder rumbling in distance) Well, you know, if we can't get you home, we can sure get you drunk.
(chuckles) MAN: Yeah!
WALTER: There you go.
♪ I knew a man ♪ ♪ Bojangles ♪ ♪ And he danced for you ♪ ♪ In worn-out shoes ♪ ♪ Silver hair and ragged shirt ♪ ♪ And baggy pants ♪ ♪ He would do the old soft shoe ♪ WAITRESS: From the guy at the bar.
Thank you, sir.
♪ He could jump so high, jump so high ♪ ♪ Then lightly ♪ ♪ Touch down ♪ What's your most expensive vodka?
♪ Mr.
Bojangles ♪ ROSA: This, I guess.
Jesus.
ROSA: Well, we've got a whole lot of tequila.
I bet-- large vodka, no ice.
♪ Mr.
Bojangles ♪ I'll get that.
No, you won't.
♪ Mr.
Bojangles ♪ (chuckling): Why not?
Because I'm trapped in Arizona airport and there's not many things that could make that worse, but being hit on by a guy in a sweater like that might just do it.
WALTER: ♪ I met him in a cell ♪ Well, it's cashmere.
Sure, it is, honey.
WALTER: ♪ I was down and out ♪ ♪ Looked to me to be ♪ (tape ripping) This is demeaning.
Imagine what it's like for us.
LUNDY: The problem when people wear a wire is that all they think about is that they're wearing a wire.
You need to put it out of your mind.
(chuckling): And how might one do that?
Act normal.
Take your time.
Don't try and get him to confess right off the bat.
What if it makes a noise?
It's a microphone, mate.
It's not going to start playing Radio Two.
Right, then.
I'll go and see the Americans.
You should have contacted me before you left London.
I have an active operation.
With all respect, we've nicked Errico for you, and we're here with an informant to take out Campbell.
What have you got?
Jurisdiction!
We'll get to the paperwork later.
You don't have to.
I can authorize this as a joint D.E.A.
operation.
You just need to take me along for the ride.
Fine.
This Campbell.
You haven't got to anyone around him?
I'm working on that.
Today?
CAMPBELL: Today.
Why the rush?
Why the delay?
We'll go to the town hall, pick up a marriage certificate, I have it witnessed, and then the admin is done.
We can plan the party.
The guy in your office.
Who was he?
He told me that he was the finance director of a construction company, but... ...I've recently discovered that he is a drug trafficker, which was a somewhat disappointing revelation.
You launder money for drug traffickers?
No.
You do.
Your government's policies attract two types of people, tax dodgers and criminals.
And then you ask people like me to tell them apart.
And sometimes, the crooks slip through the nets.
How much?
How much of this, how much of you, is built on drug money?
Take that school that I'm building for you.
Maybe one in ten bricks?
Which is a lot.
Take them away and everything collapses.
Same for your government, same for this island.
I would rather it collapse than be supported like that.
You're naive to think this island can afford such morality.
Maybe it can't.
But I can.
I need that certificate.
(door opens) We need it!
(door slams) (piano playing) (thunder rumbling in distance) If I was you, place like this, I wouldn't have thought it was cashmere, either.
(sighs) I can deliver the message more politely, but the message doesn't change.
I thought the old accent might get me a bit more interest, you know.
Just for the novelty.
I live in New York.
There are a lot of accents.
(sighs) (piano and thunder continue) My name's Charlie.
Isn't it... (in accent): "Charles"?
(normally): Like your prince?
Yeah.
Why not?
Who's waiting for you in New York?
No, that's not what this is.
This is me, exceptionally bored, willing to talk to you for as long as you temporarily ease that exceptional boredom.
Deal.
(breathes deeply) Then I'm Alyssa.
And you can buy me one drink.
(snaps) BOYCE (loudly): "A senior police source confirmed "the Brink's-Mat Task Force is active "in the Caribbean island of Tortola, following inquiries in the Isle of Man"?
I was protecting you, Boyce.
Showing your progress.
You were protecting yourself!
Avoiding criticism of your leadership by endangering my team and a cooperating witness!
Without my intervention, that story would have been, "As Britain "shivers its way through a recession, "the Brink's-Mat Task Force have blown another few million of your..." This is bloody disgrace... Boyce!
(breath trembling) It's page 23, next to the obituaries, Boyce.
I don't think it'll make it to the colonies.
Let's hope not, sir.
For both our sakes.
♪ ♪ Hey.
Oh, hi.
Sorry, I need to get to work.
I've got through the financial advisers on this island.
There aren't many-- a chosen few.
And one more chosen than the others.
Which is why I saw you leave Logan Campbell's house this morning.
(people talking in background) We're engaged.
Congratulations-- does he clean drugs money?
You should be speaking to me with the governor.
And yet, I've chosen to talk to you when you're not at work and you're not with her.
What does that mean?
That's what I'm trying to find out.
And you should do the same.
Well, this is an unwelcome surprise.
We've both had our share of them.
What happened with the American?
I met Errico, gave him half-a-million pounds, and haven't heard a peep since.
And Christ only knows where Miller is.
Unless you can enlighten me.
Come a long way to tell me that.
I didn't feel this conversation was well suited to a phone call.
What do you want, Douglas?
How are you cleaning the money from Errico and Miller's drug deals?
LUNDY: Oh, (muted) hell.
Pretty smooth.
CAMPBELL (on speaker): What's going on?
DOUGLAS: What's going on is that I'm (muted) myself, mate.
(chuckles) Errico, Miller, the drugs, uh-- I'm in over my head.
You might recall that I tried to dissuade you from getting involved with them.
We're both involved.
And we shouldn't be.
They're not our kind of people, Logan.
They're not in our (muted) league.
So tell me how you cleaned it and I'll tell you how we make sure, if this goes down, it's those two bloody reprobates, and them alone, who go down with it.
(speaker hissing) (fax machine beeps and whirs) Perpetual motion.
(fax machine whirs on speaker, Campbell speaking indistinctly) NICKI: What is that?
(sighs) It's a fax machine.
In the Venn diagram of nations offering reduced banking rates, no extradition, bribable local officials, political stability, there are nine countries.
(fax machine whirring, Campbell speaking indistinctly) The money moves between those nine countries in perpetual, invisible motion.
Through which accounts?
One account, controlled by me, which transfers money to temporary holding accounts in the foreign banks, takes it back, and, and sends it on.
And on.
(fax machine beeps, whirring stops) And on.
And, and where's that account?
I owe you an apology, Douglas.
An old friend comes all this way, twice.
Don't even show him my home.
(stammers): Oh, don't be daft-- we're talking shop here, Logan.
Let's go back to mine.
I'll give you what you need.
(scoffs) Why not?
This feels bad.
You two, stay here.
See what you can find in Campbell's office.
(door opens) We'll follow them.
(sighs) (piano playing) (exhales) So, what do you do?
I work for a hedge fund on Wall Street.
Do any of those words mean anything to you?
They mean money.
"They mean money."
(chuckles) I'm in business myself.
Is that right?
So, with a hedge fund, where's the money... Is this interesting?
It doesn't feel interesting.
Though not much does tonight.
I'm interested in how money works.
Uh, we locate investment.
What does that mean?
Means I'm on my way back from Kansas and I should have taken the (muted) bus.
(both chuckle) (exhales) What's in Kansas?
(thunder claps loudly, people gasping) It's getting closer.
What's in Kansas?
What are you drinking?
Well, she called it a beer, but I'm starting to think she was having me on.
(laughs) (piano continues) Logan thought Errico was legit.
When he found out he wasn't, he cut him loose.
I just don't know how much damage was done before that.
Well, I'm sure that Logan will be more careful in future.
That's it?
What do you want me to do, Kadene?
Hand your fiancé to the D.E.A.?
You told me not to meet him.
The first time Logan asked me for dinner, you told me not to meet him.
I know how men like that see women on this island.
Those men don't propose.
And you should marry him.
Why?
Because you went for dinner, Kadene.
You wanted that life.
Now you have to do what you have to do to keep it.
Bull(muted).
This is about him and about you.
Me?
What have you done, Lauretta?
You know what I've done?
I've cut poverty, raised literacy levels, extended life expectancy, and I have looked after you the way I promised your mother I would.
♪ ♪ These are the things you tell yourself.
This is what you choose to know.
We're both going to have to decide what we choose to know.
♪ ♪ You're hot.
(chuckles) I'm not built for this kind of thing.
Let's cool off in the pool.
Um, no thanks.
We should really tie up our discussion.
We can talk in the pool.
Don't have any trunks.
I'm sure I can lend you some trunks, Dougie.
Is there somewhere I can change?
(chuckles) I was never as confident as you with matters of the flesh.
The wire's dead.
Could be the battery.
Or your man's ditched it.
No chance.
He knows what he's doing.
Looks like it.
DOUGLAS: For Christ's sake.
(muted) hell.
It's exciting.
(chuckles) Being here.
It's different to England.
There aren't the same barriers.
Well, this is America.
You have money, you got a shot.
Mm, the storm's gone.
Gonna pay whatever I need to pay to get out of here.
(exhales) This was, uh, better than I hoped.
Let's be honest, expectations were kind of low.
What's in Kansas?
Uh... It's a, it's a petroleum company.
It's found a lot of oil, and, uh, doesn't have the money to get it out of the ground.
So I'm gonna fly to New York, raise the finance, and then fly back to Kansas and close the deal.
Raise the finance from who?
Financial institutions, pension funds... How much each?
Uh, it was really nice to meet you.
How much?
(chuckles) I don't know, uh, two million apiece?
(sighs) I'll have it sent to you tomorrow.
(laughs) Uh, no.
This is America, I have money, so give me my shot.
(piano playing in background) All right, I... I think you're full of (muted).
But, um... (chuckles) If $2 million clears in this account tomorrow, then I will be flying back through here the day after that on this flight.
I'll meet you here.
Sure you will.
You know, I could have got out, before the storm.
But I didn't.
I sat in here, looking at all those flights, all those places, all those lives I could have.
And I couldn't decide.
So I stayed.
♪ ♪ Now I'm glad I did.
Now I know where I'm going.
(exhales) ♪ ♪ (piano playing) (talking indistinctly) (piano continues) (sighs) It's all in code.
We're not gonna get anything out of this without Campbell's help.
Which means that we need a confession.
Which means we need Baxter to get that out of Campbell before Campbell realizes that Baxter's flipped.
♪ ♪ Too late.
♪ ♪ Is there something you'd like to tell me now that we're alone?
Don't know what you mean, Logan.
This island is, um... It's a magnet for the world's detritus.
They come here with their dirty money and their (muted) stories and one eye over their shoulders to check for pursuers, and I pity them, Douglas.
I sit behind my desk and I pity them, because you'd be surprised how easy it is to tell myself that I am above the fray.
With my office and my brochures and my bank accounts, it's easy to feel safe.
Clean.
Look, Logan... But I'm not.
I'm right there, in the gutter, with the detritus.
With their casual disregard for the truth.
And loyalty.
And friendship.
I don't think you want to bring loyalty and friendship into this.
Laundering drugs money is a federal crime.
I'd get 20 years-- did they tell you that?
Did you weigh them up, those two decades?
Did you hold 20 years of my life in your grubby little hands before saying yes?
There was an opportunity here for both of us.
You didn't think to mention this was (muted) Brink's-Mat?
I didn't want to incriminate you.
I wouldn't have touched Brink's-Mat with a barge pole!
You (muted) imbecile!
I know what you did!
Know what?!
I know about Sarah!
Sarah?!
About you and Sarah!
Oh, no, oh, no, oh, Jesus (muted), that's it?!
That's why you flipped?
That's why I get 20 years?!
It ruined me, Logan.
It was bloody meaningless!
You are talking about me, about my life!
It's a (muted) irrelevance.
I am not an irrelevance!
(scoffs) I am not an irrelevance!
I am not an irrelevance!
(screaming): I am not an irrelevance!
♪ ♪ Oh, Dougie.
(gasping) What have you done?
(gasping) ♪ ♪ (softly): Campbell knows we're here for Brink's-Mat.
It was the fax.
(muted) it, let's go in.
(whispers): I'm not authorized for that.
Well, then, you'd best stay here.
Do... ♪ ♪ (muted).
Oh, Christ, my bloody ticker!
LUNDY: Did you tell Campbell we're on him?
DOUGLAS: He already knew.
Where is he?
I have absolutely no idea.
Well, I've done my part.
Now you do yours.
(classical music playing in background) (music continues) Mr.
Palmer-- it's lovely to see you again.
(on speaker): Let me introduce you to Han-So.
JOHN: All right, mate?
HAN-SO: Hello.
Get you a drink?
Oh, uh, yeah.
Um, water's fine, thanks.
Right.
(clears throat) May we have a mineral water, please?
Ice?
Lemon?
Um... Yeah, sure, why not?
Yeah.
Thanks.
You know it won't stand up in court.
It's good TV, but legally, it doesn't give you much.
No, it doesn't have to.
He just needs to allude to criminal activity in Spain, then I take the tapes to Spain and get warrants to find what I need for court.
HENRY: He's nervous.
BOYCE: He grew up next to a dump and he's in the Ritz Hotel.
He's allowed to be nervous.
(engine idling) Thought I'd pick you up.
TINA: Your reputation precedes you, Mr.
Palmer, but, for our peace of mind, can you outline how you would go about laundering the money?
How was your flight, mate?
Must have been a long one.
It was fine, thank you.
JOHN: I've got my own plane, see?
Makes it easier getting about.
(chuckles) When you clean the Russians' money, do you use shell companies or is it a case of... Sorry.
Can you just give me a minute?
Of course.
(music continues, people talking in background) Where's he off to, then?
He's suspicious.
We just need to hope that he's desperate enough to ignore it.
Where would we go?
South America, then Europe.
Maybe Switzerland-- we could ski.
When?
Now.
Which I know feels kind of abrupt.
This is your chance to tell me what the (muted) is going on.
There's a lot I could tell you, and I will.
But for now, what you need to know is that I've... (engine slowing) ...laundered large amounts of drugs money.
(brake engages) And the D.E.A.
and the British police are here to arrest me.
(gear shifts, engine stops) But instead, we're leaving.
Was any of it real?
You are real.
What we have is real.
And I'll build our new life around that.
A life that's clean.
And honest.
(exhales) Just not here.
I live here.
♪ ♪ Well, then, I guess it's time to choose, Kadene.
Between me and Tortola.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (inhales) (sniffs) (sighs) (sniffs) (sighs) (exhales) (playing softly) ♪ I knew a man, Bojangles ♪ ♪ And he danced for you ♪ (people talking in background) ♪ In worn-out shoes ♪ ♪ Silver hair and ragged shirt ♪ (people laughing) (sighs) (exhales) Why do you always play that song?
(chuckles) Because of the story.
New Orleans, 1965.
Jerry Jeff Walker gets thrown in jail for being drunk.
In that cell is an old man called Bojangles, who says, "Well, we can stare at the floor or we can talk."
And Bojangles started to talk about life, about love, about good times, bad times.
About what Bojangles called "the whole fiasco."
(chuckles) They talked all night.
And the next day, Jerry Jeff Walker said, "Where's Bojangles?"
And he's told, "He's gone.
And his name sure as hell wasn't Bojangles."
(exhales) Another?
No.
♪ ♪ Can I use your phone?
(people talking in background) (classical music playing) 25 million.
TINA (on speaker): Sorry?
I'll clean it for 25 million.
TINA: For $25 million, you will launder $100 million?
(chuckling): Yeah, go on, then.
I mean, I'm not cheap, but I'm good.
(chuckling) This money comes from heroin trafficking, Mr.
Palmer.
And from powerful, violent men.
We can't afford a last-minute wobble.
(chuckles) Listen, love, in Tenerife, I'm doing a boatload of cash every week for the Russians, and they ain't no choirboys.
There won't be no wobble.
Hook, line, and bloody sinker.
(chuckling) Well, we should drink to that.
Champagne, mate.
The most expensive you've got.
WAITER: Certainly, sir.
All right.
(phone ringing out) AUTOMATED RECORDING: The number you have dialed is not in service.
The number you have dialed is not in service.
The number you have dialed is not... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I chose Tortola.
♪ ♪ (police radios running) We won't keep you any longer, Mr.
Palmer.
I'll be in touch to finalize the arrangements.
(inhales) You ain't saying much, mate.
(exhales) I just offered to clean $100 million for you.
You look like someone's nicked your lunch money.
We are finished?
You have what you need?
(classical music playing) What's he mean, "What you need"?
It's his dough, innit?
It's just his English.
Uh, may we have the bill, please?
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (quietly): No.
♪ ♪ I'll see you soon, John.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JOHN: If you come for me, it won't end well for either of us.
We're only interested in the Brink's-Mat money.
MARNIE: Hello?
Who's this?
BOYCE: We welcome the chase, Palmer.
JOHN: That's lucky.
'Cause I ain't done running.
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