MI-5 (TV Series)

Smoke and Mirrors (2003)

Megan Dodds: Christine Dale

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• Harry Pearce : What have you done? Have you destroyed one of my best men?

  Christine Dale : No!

  Harry Pearce : What are you? Some kind of old-style honeytrap?

  Christine Dale : I swear!

• Tom Quinn : [quoting telex]  Translation reads: First voice, Shark arriving London Heathrow, what news of money?

  Christine Dale : Kaharias is Greek for shark.

  Tom Quinn : Second voice, The four million is on the mountains.

  Christine Dale : Switzerland.

  Tom Quinn : First voice, Please advise the movement of the British Eminence next 48 hours. Greetings from Algallah. Second voice, God is great. Record of satellite reception ends.

  Christine Dale : Algallah's a small village on the outskirts of Baghdad.

  Tom Quinn : Location of first caller, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Location of second caller, Wimbledon, London, UK. Action decided, extreme weather. Do not advise mice. Message ends. So, someone with Iraqi connection is hiring American hit man to come to London to kill an eminent man. We haven't had a sniff of this, Christine.

  Christine Dale : Of course not.

  Tom Quinn : What does extreme weather mean?

  Christine Dale : It's code for a CIA clandestine operation to desensitise an individual on foreign soil.

  Tom Quinn : Meaning kill.

  Christine Dale : Yeah.

  Tom Quinn : Okay, and who are the mice who are not to be told about this?

  Christine Dale : MI-5. It... Company joke, sorry.

  Tom Quinn : No, feel free.