[0:00]I've started without you. I hope you don't mind. You British, what is it with your obsession with chips? We don't obsess over chips. Only the weather.
[0:13]Now to business. I understand you're interested in a certain Russian by the name of Petrov. What do you know about him? He's been passing sensitive information to MI5 for 10 years. So he's an asset? No. The information turned out to be false. We believe that he's working for someone else and passing information from MI5 over to them. The Russians. No. The Russians imprisoned him after a plot that he was involved in to steal a nuclear weapon was foiled. He went to jail? No. A doppelganger was put in his place and he fled to Oslo. It was there where he met his wife, Linda Percel, a multimillionaire big in diamonds. Now, our satellite detected a detonation in Siberia three weeks ago. The following day, Petrov and Percel flew directly to that site. On the way there, the plane crashed. Accident? It was hit by a missile. Ah. We salvaged fragments of the missile and traced them back to a weapons company in Germany called Smertels Forger. Never heard of them. That's because they don't exist. At least, not yet. What do you mean? Two days before the detonation in Siberia, we intercepted a phone call between Petrov and a man called Darian Burkhard to start a weapons company in Germany called Smertels Forger. Darian Burkhard, the scientist? I thought he was dead. He is dead. Or rather, he isn't. What does that mean? He's dead, but he won't be. Yeah, I still don't... Have you ever heard of Cecil's theorem of quantum mechanics and the possibility of ripples in the spacetime continuum? Of course, but it still been proven. We believe that it has. In Siberia, three weeks ago. What about the plane crash? The plane crash didn't happen. Or rather it will, but it won't yet. And even if it does, there's no evidence to suggest that the people on board died or are yet to die. What does this have to do with Smertels Forger? That's what we want you to find out. We believe that the answer may lie in a painting at the National Gallery. I what? 23 years ago, the fighting Temeraire by Turner was removed to be professionally cleaned. When it was returned, it was fitted with a microchip from the future which hadn't been invented yet. That microchip can be traced back, or rather forward in this case, to Smertels Forger. Wait a minute, uh... We're currently interrogating the man who put it there. Sir Lawrence Lips. Sir Lawrence Lips? I mean, that just sounds made up. It is made up. We don't know his real name. But we searched his apartment this morning and we found a ring with an inscription in it that just says, Linda. Linda? Linda Percel, the wife of Petrov? No, a different Linda. Oh for fuck sake. Linda Shaw, a CIA operative who's been working undercover for six months in Vietnam to expose an international drug network. What has she got to do with it? Her information so far has been false. We believe that she's been compromised by an agent working for the network called Benjamin Slippers. Benjamin Slippers? Oh, come on! He is.
[2:48]He is what? I'm sorry, I thought you were going to say Benjamin Slippers, I thought he was dead. No. Oh, well, anyway, he is, or rather, he isn't. What does that got to do with Petrov? Petrov and Slippers met in Vienna 10 years ago to hatch a plan to steal an elephant from London Zoo. An ele What? But this wasn't just an ordinary elephant. Okay. This was an elephant that had the nuclear codes carved into its tusks. Yeah, I'm done. I'll see you later. I don't I just don't have the... Turned out they kidnapped the wrong elephant!
