[train engine chugging]
[line ringing]
-[Zara] Hello? -Hey, it's Donny. Where are you?
[Zara] I'm in the loo.
-I've got a nosebleed. -[Donny] Oh?
-Are you hungover? -What?
You told me you get nosebleeds when you're hungover.
[scoffs] What do you want, Donny?
I'm in reception with, er, Myrtle Clarke.
[mutters] Fuck.
Okay.
[indistinct conversations]
-Myrtle. -[Myrtle] Oh.
-I'm so sorry. -[Myrtle] It's fine.
Er, are you okay? You've got--
Oh, yeah, I just, erm, I just had a nosebleed this morning.
Erm, okay, let me show you around,
and then we'll get you set up at your desk.
You've met Donny. He's our receptionist/concierge/mother superior.
Er, let me show you the nice bits first.
Well, we're a fiduciary pension fund manager,
which means organisations give us their pension money to invest.
So like, private companies, government departments, unions too,
for lower income workers.
We take that money, and we invest it, and, erm...
Well, that's pretty much all you need to know.
So, this is the client-prepping meeting area.
Which means that's where all the good biscuits are.
It's literally the only reason why I brought you here.
Oh, wow!
I know, right.
But don't let them catch you in here. It's a sacking offence.
And this is us.
Oh, that is the Investment Committee.
They're the team that get paid the mega-bucks
to decide what we invest in.
I, er, really like sugar.
And plus, it's free.
Free sugar, you know what I mean? [chuckles]
Myrtle, this is Luke. He works with us on the trade processing.
Nice to meet you, Myrtle.
So, this is it. Trade processing.
Jewel in the crown of the operations team.
[Luke and Zara chuckle]
On my first day on the job, the person who showed me around,
told me that every day you spend in operations
is a day of your career you've wasted.
-[Myrtle chuckles] -And also your life.
Yeah, that... that was me.
Yeah, I thought I'd pass it on.
[Myrtle] Erm, thanks?
No worries. The trick of the job is--
Not to die of boredom.
[suspenseful music playing]
[doors squeaking]
[indistinct conversation]
[guns cocking]
-[Scots] Phone jammers on. -[jammers buzzing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[automated voice] Level 27, doors opening.
[suspenseful music playing]
Hi.
[guns cocking]
Disconnect the call now.
[telephone clicks]
[whimpering]
[beeping]
[Junior] Security's been taken out.
[Donny whimpering]
-[groaning] -[Luke speaking indistinctly]
Er, let me get a geek to set up your computer.
[Luke] Yeah?
Hello?
[London] Everybody listen to me right fucking now!
[people clamouring]
-[Scots] Get away from the computer! -[London] On your feet!
-[thuds] -[Sniper] Hands in the air!
Hands in the air!
-[Tall] Stand up! -Move away from the fucking desk!
-[Scots] Hands in the air! -[all screaming]
Hands in the fucking air now!
Faster! Go! Go!
-Toilets clear. -[Sniper] Hey!
Up! You! Hands!
Ladies and gentlemen, if you do exactly what I say
when I say it, you won't get hurt.
If you don't do what I say when I say it, you will be shot.
If you have any communication devices on you,
phones, tablets, I want you to take them out,
I want you to hold them high in the air above your head. Do it now.
Once you have your phones in the air above your head,
I want you to move slowly towards the conference room, this way.
[Junior] When you get to the conference room...
[London] Move. Move.
...I need you to put your devices in this grey bin one by one.
-[London] Move. -[Sniper] Move! In the air!
-[London] Above you head. -[Junior] One by one.
[Scots] If you have phones, put them in the air.
[London] Above your head. Move!
Move. Above your head.
[Tall] Keep moving.
[London] Phones above your heads.
[Sniper] Move!
That's a SIG Sauer MPX-K.
You fire that off in here
and everyone will hear it from the fifth floor to the tenth.
And the people in the buildings opposite.
Security will lock us down and you will be trapped here
before you can even get to the lifts.
You're not stupid enough to shoot that in here.
I doubt you even bothered loading it.
We don't have to fire our guns to kill you with them.
-[grunting] -[people screaming]
[London] Get him secure.
-Keep moving. -[Sniper] Move!
[London] Just move! Move!
[Sniper] Move!
[London] Don't look at him, just move!
-Keep moving. -[Sniper] Move!
-Move now. -[London] Get up, follow them.
[Sniper] Come on, get on with it.
Move it!
Hands! Hands!
[Junior] Right, everybody on the floor.
Keep your hands above your heads where I can see them.
Slowly.
-[earpiece beeps] -Conference room's secure.
[London] Antenna up on the satellite phone.
[earpiece beeps]
[device turns on]
-[London] Location secure. -[earpiece beeps]
Anyone in the trade processing team, stand up.
Why'd you tell her to sit down?
It... it's her first day. She's an intern. She... she...
She's what?
You've got access to the trading system?
What about the rest of you?
Who's the most senior?
Erm, that's me.
You two, come here.
Take me to your desks, now. Everyone else, stay down.
Take a seat.
This has got the details of six trades on it.
Source accounts, destination accounts, sizes.
I want you to load them all up into the trading system.
Er, no, that won't... that won't work. I--
Just load up the trades.
All right, yeah.
[computer chimes]
This is over £4 billion.
Look, these are people's pensions. This is social workers,
-police, doctors-- -Enter the trades.
Right.
Erm...
Shit.
[beeps]
[Luke] I'm so sorry.
[keyboard clacking]
[computer beeps]
Erm, sorry.
[beeps]
Shit, sorry, erm...
[London] You can do this.
-[Milo] They're caught in traffic, too? -No, Thameslink.
Three cancelled trains and the next trains were so packed, I couldn't get on.
Yeah, I got stuck in a cab for 40 minutes.
I don't think that's gonna do anything, Milo.
Why the fuck did they get rid of the buttons?
I'm late for the bloody Investment Committee.
[automated voice] Level 27, doors opening.
Doors closing.
Incoming.
Where's Donny?
[Glasses] I'm not sure. Temp agency sent me.
[Chioma gasps]
[gun cocks]
[Junior] Phones! Now!
[Sniper] Get on your knees.
[keyboard clacking]
Okay. Erm...
that's all done. It's loading.
[London] Commit the trades.
-I can't, I-- -[London] Commit them.
[Luke sighs]
-[computer chimes] -[London] USB.
-[sighs] -[London] Trades have gone through.
[earpiece beeps]
[London] Get them signed off by the committee.
[earpiece beeps]
Everyone with authorisation to sign off trades, raise your hands.
The system needs three people to sign off a trade?
You, go and get your laptop from the sideboard.
Six new trades have just been entered into your trading system.
I want you to approve them all...
and send them along.
You're clearing out our cash accounts?
Hang on a second! That's people's pensions--
What's your name?
George Cartwright.
[Scots] George Cartwright.
Now, tell me, George Cartwright,
would you say it's an intelligent man who argues with an intruder
holding a semi-automatic assault weapon?
[Cartwright] No.
No.
Approve the trades.
[keyboard clacking]
[laptop chimes]
You're next.
You'll never get away with this.
It's not us who holds the money, it's our custodian bank.
-And as soon as they-- -[Scots] Just sign them off.
[iPad chimes]
[Scots] Right. We need one more of you.
How about the afternoon shift?
[keyboard clacking]
[chimes]
[Scots] All done here.
Trades should be pinging back to you now.
-Received. -[earpiece beeps]
Trades have been approved.
[Luke] I... I can't...
They need to be checked by a second member of the... of the team.
I... I can't do anything.
Good job we brought you along then.
[faintly] Erm...
[chimes]
Okay, that... that's it. All done.
The trades have been sent to the custodian bank.
Yeah, but they'll know that we've never sent money to those accounts before,
so they're gonna call and ask what's going on.
[London] And you'll be here to tell them.
So we wait.
[automated voice] Doors opening.
[Peterson] Where's Donny?
[Glasses] Oh, I don't know.
I just got sent by the temp agency.
[Peterson] Here's your morning's post
and parcels and, er, assorted bollocks. [chuckles]
You got a name, then?
Claire.
[Peterson] Oh, lovely! My... my daughter's a Claire.
-Proper English name. -It's French.
You got kids?
Yeah, two.
Boy and a girl.
Lovely.
All right, erm...
See you later. [chuckles]
Wait!
Forgot one.
[slight chuckle]
[automated voice] Doors closing.
[sniffles]
[line rings]
Hello, Lochmill Capital. Claire speaking. How can I help?
You ready?
This is it. Custodian bank.
Received. Keep 'em on hold.
[sighs]
[London] The custodian bank's on the line.
When that rings, I want you to answer and put it on speaker.
I want you to assure them that all the trades are legit.
No heroics, no secret messages, understand?
Mmm-hmm.
[London] Once you've assured them,
I want you to ask them to transfer the money immediately.
Understand?
Yes.
[Glasses] Are you ready?
[London] Put them through.
[Glasses] Putting them through now.
[line rings]
It's gonna, it's gonna go to voicemail.
Hello...
erm, Lochmill Capital. How can I help?
[Warren] Hello?
Sorry, er, Zara?
All right, Warren. Er...
Luke has...
just nipped to the loo.
You all right?
[Warren] Yeah. Er, you all right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just erm...
just really hungover.
I... I went out with erm, Luke and Chee to The Gladstone last night.
[Warren] Oh yeah? Late one?
[Zara] Chee blew us off for a Tinder. It's just getting old, you know,
it's fucking hangovers...
[Warren] Tell me about it.
Erm, I just got the trades you guys sent through.
I've never seen these accounts before.
BVI, right? What are they?
[Zara] Er, it's just,
erm, er, er, some new hedge funds we're getting into.
[Warren] Pretty big amounts for new hedge fund investments.
Four billion.
Yep.
Yeah, yeah, well it's just a, a bunch of funds from a manager
we're already invested with.
Erm, I mean,
you know what Cartwright's like,
price, cut-price management fees for seed capital,
he's, he's all over it...
[Warren] Yeah. That's Cartwright.
You got all the AML in order?
[Zara] Yeah,
erm listen, I, I was supposed to...
send these over yesterday but we sort of,
left early for the pub.
But if they don't go through ASAP I'm gonna be in some...
serious shit. So, if you could please just
put them through as soon as you put the phone down, please?
[Warren] Yeah, yeah... I just need to check something.
[Warren] Zara?
-[Zara] Yeah? -[Warren] We're all good.
[Warren] I'll put them through today.
Brilliant. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.
[Warren] No worries. Take care.
-[Zara] Okay. Bye. -[line disconnects]
Okay, that's it. He's sending them over.
You can er,
go? Now?
We're not leaving till we see the money arrive in our account.
Well erm, that could take hours.
Fifteen to thirty minutes if your pal at the bank puts the trades through now.
We wait.
[softly] Hey.
Hey...
we can signal.
Why not?
[softly] Just let them take the money and leave.
But how do we know they're going to leave?
How do we know they're not gonna kill us all before they go?
Why would they do that?
Because we're witnesses.
At least if the police turn up we, we've got a chance.
[people exclaiming]
[grunts, screams]
[gasps]
[London] Nobody move!
[Donny gasps]
[Yorkshire] Out the way!
[woman screaming]
[indistinct chattering]
[muffled speech]
[gun cocking]
[Yorkshire] Did anyone in the other building see you?
[Donny whimpers]
If someone saw you, tell me now.
You'll be safer that way.
But if you say no,
the police turn up,
then we're in a hostage situation,
and I will kill you.
[Donny cries]
[Yorkshire] Understand?
[Donny whimpers]
So...
did someone see you?
[Donny's heartbeat thudding]
[door opens]
-[Yorkshire] He said no one saw. -You believe him?
No. He was lying.
Two minutes since I caught him at it.
If I'm right we need to leave now.
[Junior] Well, we abort and the trade might not go through.
We need to make a decision.
What's going on?
-We might have to abort. -[Scots] Abort?
Are you fucking nuts?
What if they call back?
-[Yorkshire] What if they don't? -[Scots] We planned for this!
[Yorkshire] The plan was, if a message gets out, we abort.
[Scots] We walk out of here, first thing they do is cancel the trades.
We don't know if a message got out.
Wait! Burly, run a check on the building opposite for activity.
[door closes]
[Burly] Twenty-sixth floor of the Leadenhall.
Three people were at the window.
-They're watching us. They spotted me. -[sighs]
We need to abort.
-It's already four minutes since they saw. -[Tall] Wait.
Money's been transferred.
Lock and leave. Now!
[Tall] Get up!
[Junior] Now! Into the conference room.
-[Tall] Quick! -[Junior] Move!
[sirens wailing]
[dispatcher on radio] Control. Foxtrot. Sierra One. Receive.
[officer 1 on radio] Foxtrot. Sierra One. Control...
[dispatcher on radio] Control. Foxtrot. Sierra One. Receive.
[officers] Armed Police! Armed Police!
[officer 2 on radio] Foxtrot. Sierra Three. Control...
[radio chatter continues indistinctly]
[dispatcher on radio] Control. Foxtrot. Sierra Three. Copy that.
[sighs]
[sirens wailing]
[female reporter 1] News coming into us now
-of an incident in London's Square Mile... -[male reporter] ...a few of the streets
around the city skyscraper have been closed off
-and evacuated... -[female reporter 2] We saw a number of
casualties being loaded into ambulances...
[female reporter 1] Lochmill Capital has many billions
of pension fund assets under management.
[officer] Single file, single file.
Keep it moving. Keep it moving. Keep it moving.
Stay calm. Just keep it moving.
What do you think they're talking about?
Probably how much shit the company's in.
Whether they'll need us all to sign NDAs.
NDAs? Why?
Think about it.
Miss Dunne?
I'm DCI Rhys Covaci. I'm the senior investigating officer.
I thought I'd come over and say hello.
Hi.
Shall we pop next door?
-[Zara] Yeah, okay. -Okay.
-[Rhys] Can I have the room please, guys? -Sure.
Ta.
How are you feeling?
[Zara] Erm...
just a bit... dazed. I don't know.
All feels like a bit of a dream.
You're in shock. Don't worry, it'll pass.
And it's totally normal.
It's not every day you go through something like this, right?
[Zara sniffles]
[Rhys] You been checked over by the medic?
It was all okay?
-[Zara] Mmm-hmm. -All right.
That's good to hear.
First up,
sorry for keeping you all here,
it was the nearest place my colleagues could find for triage.
No, no, it's fine.
I er, I always wondered what the other floors in here looked like.
It turns out they look exactly like ours
except maybe someone stole all the furniture.
Kind of ironic considering the circumstances.
We're working on getting you all out of here as soon as we can.
We've arranged to have you taken over to Bishopsgate for your interviews.
You and your colleagues here have been ID-ed as potential significant witnesses.
-It's why we're keeping you separate. -Okay.
It just means you interacted with the thieves more than everybody else,
so whatever you can tell us will be invaluable.
-Okay? -Yeah, sure.
[Rhys] All right.
Is there anything else you want while I'm here? Anything you need?
Erm, my, my co-workers, the ones who were injured,
-do you know... -They're fine.
I've spoken to the paramedics.
Broken bones, bruises, but nothing life changing.
Okay.
They're already at the Royal London. They'll be back home today, tomorrow.
Nothing to worry about.
[sighs]
I heard what you did.
Taking the phone call from the bank?
It's brave.
Smart.
And I think maybe you saved a few lives.
If their plan had gone wrong, you know...
You did the right thing.
You...
you having a nosebleed?
Oh, God. Erm,
I had... oh,
I had one this morning. I thought it had erm...
Do you mind if I go to the toilet to...
-Yeah. Sure, of course. -[Zara] ...my nose.
[Zara] Thanks.
PC Hussain will accompany you.
Okay, thanks.
-[Chioma] What do you mean? -[Dahlia] The whole of legal.
Marianne. Judith. Those other two.
They were all going nuts. You didn't see them.
[Chioma] Hi.
[Dahlia] Ow!
Oh, it's just a nosebleed. I'm just... gonna...
[Chioma] So, what happened?
[Dahlia] Just what I said.
They were all on their phones till they...
...when Marianne went and spoke to the head cop or whoever
and then she rushed off.
They let her out of the building.
He must have given her the nod.
She's getting all the company's ducks in a row.
Confidentiality clauses, maybe.
Damage limitation mode's already kicked in.
[Chioma] Yeah, I ain't surprised.
Clients are gonna be heading for the hills.
[Dahlia] Yeah, I don't think it's the clients that they're worried about.
-[Chioma] So, what then? -[Dahlia] Isn't it obvious?
They're worried it was an inside job.
[Chioma] Inside job?
[Dahlia] Come on, Chee. They knew everything about our operation.
Our protocols, how our trade management system works,
investment committee sign off, custodian bank, all of it.
I mean, someone must have told them.
So you think it's one of us?
It makes sense, right? How else could they do it?
Well, if one of us was involved, that's horrible.
One of us would put the whole office through that?
Yeah, but for four billion though. Split, what eight, nine ways?
That's half a billion each. Wouldn't you?
Still, it should make it easy to figure out who the inside man was.
Yeah, whoever turns up tomorrow in a Ferrari.
Or doesn't turn up at all.
[reporter] Police confirmed earlier today that the amount stolen from the pensions
was in excess of £4 billion,
making it the largest armed robbery in British history.
If I was planning this and wanted an inside man,
I'd go for someone on the trade processing team.
[Ellie] Find the money, find the thieves...
The level they're operating at,
ex-army, maybe state actors.
There's thousands of people losing their pensions.
These are cold-blooded people.
Stay where you are, I'm gonna come over.
[knocking at door]
You gonna tell me how you're involved?
Are you in danger, Zara?
The jaded office worker stumbling through life.
The people that I am dealing with,
want me dead!
[Rhys] It wasn't the thieves trying to pick you up back there.
It was MI5.
There are more important things going on here than you're aware of.
My investigation's being set up to fail.
There's another bloody layer.
You're in the big league now.
[Hepworth] It's about the end game.
And the million different ways you might not survive it.