Closed Circuit Page #3

Synopsis: A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): John Crowley
Production: Focus Features
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
R
Year:
2013
96 min
$9,655,979
Website
184 Views


or which might, in any way,

embarrass the Lord Chancellor?

No, My Lord.

Miss Simmons-Howe,

do you know of any reason

related to yourself or your

personal circumstances

which would prejudice your

ability to carry out this case,

or which might in anyway

embarrass

the Lord Chancellor?

Miss Simmons-Howe?

No, My Lord,

I know of no reason.

MARTIN:

There's no need to sulk.

I have an aversion

to wasted journeys.

Is that right?

You don't even know

what you're looking for.

Inspiration, Mr. Devlin.

DEVLIN:

I told you.

Nothing to see.

Nothing to look at,

which is different.

So, November 30th, 10:43.

Bright, sunny day.

Innocent people.

Truck approaches

from the west entrance.

(TRUCK BEEPING)

MARTIN:

Shouldn't be parked there.

Someone must

have noticed it,

but there's no time,

is there?

No time to do

anything about it.

10:
44.

10:
45, and then...

(EXPLOSION)

Later that day, an anonymous

phone call tips off the police.

"Suspicious behavior" by men at a

lock-up garage in West London.

The lock-up

rented to our client.

Our client knows nothing.

Yeah, because

he sublets the place

for cash to

a certain Mr. Asif, who,

sadly, is no longer with us since he

blew himself up at the wheel of a truck.

Erdogan had no idea

what was being stored there.

Simon's line of defense.

As dictated

by the defendant.

So why does Erdogan

make 27 phone calls

to Asif in the 12 days

before the explosion?

Chasing rent on the lock-up.

Very weak.

I want to see every

document in this case.

DEVLIN:
Everything is

exactly as Simon left it.

And I've written

an inventory.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

Ah.

Claudia Simmons-Howe.

Nazrul Sharma.

Home Office.

Cali me Nazi

I brought you your safe

and your laptop.

(CLEARS THROAT)

This safe will be

securely installed here.

It is to be the sole

designated location

in which you are

permitted to store

the secret materials in the case of

The Crown v. Erdogan,

which will be delivered to

you prior to the hearing.

Um, this laptop must be used

for the creation and storage

of all documents

relating to the case.

No copies to be made. Return to

us upon delivery of a verdict.

There's also this

code for the safe.

I'm supposed to get you to memorize

it and then we burn it together,

but I think I can

trust you to do that.

You've done this

all before, haven't you?

You broke into my chambers.

It was open. After you

unlocked it, I'm sure it was.

I think you're mistaken.

(CHUCKLES) You're not from Home Office.

You're from Secret Service.

Secret Service?

One of the new intake, I'd say.

Post-July 2005.

Careers in MI5.

"What can you do for your country?"

The vetting seems to go on

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Steven Knight

Steven Knight was born in 1959 in Marlborough, England. He is a writer and producer, known for Eastern Promises (2007), Peaky Blinders (2013) and Locke (2013). more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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