Salting the Battlefield Page #3

I wanted to see you

because I'm deeply concerned.

Have you seen this?

Tell me about it.

I know security's

no longer your remit...

I still get to see a lot of

high-grade intelligence.

It passes across my desk.

Yes, that's at my insistence.

Is it really? Yes.

I didn't know that. Well, it is.

I believe it's important in government

that the most sensitive material

is always seen

by more than one pair of eyes.

You'll have to explain.

The Prime Minister's judgment

has always been faultless.

It certainly has.

Don't get me wrong.

He's a man who's called

every major issue

of the last ten years correctly.

And you're close to him. I am. I'm

very close. I owe him a great deal.

He made you acting head of the service.

More than that, he protected you. Yes.

When you most needed protecting.

I'm in his debt. But?

But it's also healthy for government

if there's a little air,

a little... ventilation

around important decisions.

That way things don't get... cramped.

I don't know if you heard

about a murder in the Caribbean,

a few months ago.

Yes, I think I heard something.

A man with a strawberry mark?

That's him. Yes, I saw a picture.

But, to be honest,

it hasn't been my priority.

I'm sure.

I've had problems of my own.

My errant husband.

Well, of course we may be able to

help you there. Sorry? Help me?

I mean, we may be able to give you

information you may not have.

About your husband.

Stuff you don't know.

What sort of stuff?

Go on. What you were

saying about the murder.

Have you heard of the Bridge?

The Prime Minister's plan to continue statesmanship

beyond his formal period of elected office?

Yes. I've heard of it.

Well, it was one of the donors

to that project that was killed.

Do we know who by? And we've had some questions

recently about the project's financing.

It's financing?

Yes. How it's financed?

Forgive me, but... I'm going to ask

a question, because time is short.

Oh, by all means. It's this -

what's the subject of this meeting?

What's the subject?

Yes. Give me a headline.

Say, I'm going home, this evening

in the car, or in the bath,

and I think, "I met Jill Tankard

today and we talked about..."

What? What did we talk about?

What was the subject?

I've come in to open up a channel.

What sort of channel?

A channel of communication.

To flag up potential trouble.

It seems to me any trouble you're talking of

isn't for me, it's for Alec. I think it may be.

Frankly, Jill, what you're saying

doesn't add up to much.

Doesn't it? I don't think so.

Why not?

Because what's the beef here?

In his eagerness for a life

beyond Downing Street,

the Prime Minister may have accidentally

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