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BURR (CONT’D)

British and American arms. Seven

new deals in the last month.

They’re selling to a no-go customer

in the Middle East and Roper’s the

middle man. He is about to meet the

buyer somewhere in Turkey at a

place called the Haven. I need more

money, I need personnel on the

ground, I need sigint, and I need

someone to tell me where the bloody

hell my agent is.

MAYHEW:

Listen I need to talk to you.

Privately.

Something in his tone. They move aside. Beat.

MAYHEW (CONT’D)

The Permanent Secretary has

requested I no longer manage

Enforcement Agencies. I have

accepted her recommendation. As of

the end of this week I will be

reassigned. I thought I should tell

you in person.

BURR speaks quietly, entirely aware of the danger of what she

is saying.

BURR:

The Permanent Secretary leaked my

intelligence to Dromgoole. She’s

part of it.

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Deadly quiet. BURR would like to hit him hard across the

face. She doesn’t.

MAYHEW:

Angela we have no friends on this.

BURR:

And you need friends. Don’t you

Rex.

He is staring at photographs of APOSTOL. Dead, neck sliced

open.

MAYHEW:

None of us want to end up like him.

He walks out. BURR gets up and walks to her team. She looks

pale with rage. GRACE looks across.

GRACE:

You all right?

BURR:

Spare me the pity. Just find me our

boy.

12 INT. HILL FORT. PINE’S ROOM. DAY. 12

Military room in the Hill Fort camp. PINE lies on his bed,

reading the file Roper gave him. His eyes focus, as he reads

arms spec after arms spec. Taking it in.

13 EXT. HILL FORT. DAY. 13

ROPER, now in fatigues and mountain jacket, leads PINE and

LANGBOURNE across the compound. FRISKY and TABBY walk with

them. Generators hum, naked bulbs illuminate washhouses,

cinder-block dormitories, there’s a target range, and an

assault course visible against the mountain. It’s an army

training camp in all but name.

ROPER:

When a continent enters into chaos,

that’s when opportunities open up.

The British knew that in China, the

Americans in South America. Now I’m

doing it here. Took me five years

to get this up and running. We can

train armies to fight in

mountainous terrain, teach them

anti-guerrilla tactics, how to deal

with political insurgency. All

stuff no one knew when we started

in Afghanistan and Iraq.

(MORE)

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ROPER (CONT'D)

And when the going gets tough we

can even provide small teams of our

own to go in and deal with specific

targets. Assassinations. Fake

terror plots, even the odd coup.

Can’t we Jasper?

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