♪ ♪ IVAN: The reason you are still alive is because you are still with us.

♪ ♪ Your share could be $60 million.

You just got to catch Miller.

(knock at door) BIDDISS: Whatever Noye was back at Brink's-Mat, he's different now.

I've beaten you once.

Then come back to England and try to beat me again.

We'll get the lot of you.

(man shouts) BOYCE: We welcome the chase.

JOHN: Get the plane ready.

(gun fires) (yelping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Legacy.

That's what I've been thinking of lately.

How brutal legacy can be.

How cruelly dismissive.

How it takes one's life in full.

With all its glory and failure.

All its love and hate.

The thrill and mundanity.

The years... ...enjoyed and endured.

Everything that goes into making a life.

Legacy takes all that and reduces and reduces and reduces... ...and spits out its spiteful conclusion.

Which, in my case, is Brink's-Mat.

Not one second of my life counts but for the seconds I spent within the orbit of Brink's-Mat.

You will not grant me my freedom today.

I will serve my full sentence.

There'll be no clemency, no mercy.

And that is because it does not matter who I was before, it... ♪ ♪ ...does not matter who I am in here.

It matters only that I am tainted by Brink's-Mat.

♪ ♪ I wish I didn't sit in that cell, thinking of everything I had and how I lost it.

Sending my mind to ever darker places.

That is why you cannot grant me my freedom, because there is no freedom to grant.

And in that, I find a solitary solace.

♪ ♪ That it is not just me.

There are many men and women, some in places like this.

Many not.

Some are criminal.

Some not.

An unlikely alliance, brought together by a cold morning at Heathrow... ...and three tons of gold.

(inhales) We are a union... ...of ruined souls.

All with our lives cruelly distilled.

♪ ♪ All trapped.

All tainted.

All nothing but one thing.

We are Brink's-Mat.

That is our past.

That is our future.

That... ...is our legacy.

♪ ♪ (keys jangling) (door opens) You must be sick of seeing me.

Crossed that bridge a while back.

(door closes, lock turns) Plead guilty to the financial charges, tell me where your money is, and you won't see me again.

Or what?

Or we'll charge you with the robbery.

(scoffs) What robbery?

You were poor.

Along came the gold.

And then you were rich.

It won't be hard to join the dots.

The thing is, mate... (exhales) ...I don't think you've got any dots to join.

I've looked after you.

Got you home.

Now look after yourself, cop to the money, we'll forget the robbery.

Some people say you're bent.

Some people are misinformed.

A copper being called bent is like a villain being called a grass.

Doesn't matter if it's true or not.

Being called it leaves you vulnerable.

When you're kipping in your cell tonight and I'm kipping in my house, have a think about who's vulnerable.

You're right.

You've done okay by me.

I might even work my way to missing you.

When you're gone.

Where would I be going?

All I know is, we're not so different.

You'll do everything you can to send me down and I'll do everything I can to stop you.

Don't do it.

I have to.

Plead guilty.

Have a life beyond this.

(smacks lips, sighs) I've gotta fight, Mr.

Boyce.

The fight is all I got left.

No lawyer in London will look at your case then stand at the Old Bailey and argue your innocence.

That's correct.

I gave them 300 grand and they couldn't come up with a defense.

So... (inhales) ...I'll be defending myself.

(sighs) You can't read, you can't write, it is a highly complex fraud trial, and you shall defend yourself?

Can't say I'm not ambitious.

Where's Noye?

(sighs) You know what people get wrong about me and Noye?

(sniffs) They think we were thick as thieves.

Bonnie and (muted) Clyde.

(sniffs) Yeah.

I met Kenny Noye along the way, but I never really knew the man.

And I don't think anyone really did, no matter how hard they looked.

(chuckles) And I'll tell you one thing about Kenny Noye.

♪ ♪ There's always someone looking for him.

♪ ♪ (waiter and diners speaking indistinctly) Hola, Señor Green.

Hello, mate.

What can I get you?

(sniffs) What have you got?

We have the fish stew.

Thought you might.

Every day is the same.

Yeah, you're right there.

(phone ringing in background) DAILLY: When they running it?

NIXON: Sunday, front page.

The, uh, "News of The World" have got it, sir, that we're looking for Noye.

Then call a press conference.

Sorry, sir?

What do we know?

Well, Noye's in Spain.

And he knows we're after him.

Yeah, we know nothing because we have seen nothing.

We have heard things.

I don't care if it's a punter, an informer, the Met, Regional Crime Squad, or God knows who else.

All we've done is hear things, then have local police steam in and come up empty.

We need someone to see Noye, then we need to see Noye, then our witness needs to see Noye.

Now, we'd rather do that without the press, but if they know, then we embrace it.

And if Noye's on one front page, he should be on them all.

Yes?

So call a press conference.

All right-- you do telly, I'll do print.

We will go to trial in England against Palmer and we are assisting the Americans to place RICO charges against Miller in Florida, where they can apply far higher penalties than we can.

One-half of the Brink's-Mat gold and you're prosecuting two men?

With the first half of the gold, we were successful in securing multiple convictions, but unsuccessful in recovering the robbery's proceeds.

This time, Palmer and Miller give us access to more money than the Brink's-Mat gold was ever worth.

Those two convictions could lead to the greatest financial recovery in the history of British policing and would take a, a criminal fortune out of circulation and stop all the damage that money like that can do.

Now, that is as significant a victory as could be achieved at this point in the investigation.

But if they're not convicted, then you don't recover a penny, and the last few years of this investigation, and indeed your career, were wasted.

I am aware of the stakes, sir.

And you won't be here to guide it, Boyce.

You're out of time.

I know the date of my retirement is imminent.

However, I would ask that you consider special dispensation... You know we can't do that, Boyce.

30 years' service then you're out.

But you're not quite finished yet.

You'll charge Miller with the robbery before you go.

No, that was a, a bluff at our end.

We, we don't have enough evidence to prove he was on the robbery.

The nation knows you caught a Brink's-Mat robber, Boyce.

It was on the television.

Therefore, he will be charged with the Brink's-Mat robbery.

With respect, sir, this is a time to focus.

(chuckles) I am attempting to close one of the most complicated cases in the Met's history.

Brink's-Mat will not close while four robbers walk free and Kenneth Noye is on the run.

You are seeking a simplicity that Brink's-Mat does not offer.

And Kenneth Noye is one problem that does not belong to me.

(bottles clinking) (people talking in background) ♪ ♪ (receipt printing, men talking softly) ♪ ♪ Don't you (muted) dare.

♪ ♪ (phone ringing, rain falling) (swallows, sighs) (phone continues) Hello.

(sighs) Go to a payphone and call me back on this number.

(chuckling): It's raining.

Just get a (muted) pen, Brian.

♪ ♪ (phone ringing) I've been seen.

READER: Where?

(inhales) Gibraltar.

What are you doing down there?

Getting something to eat that hasn't come out of the bloody sea.

You didn't tell me about the papers.

READER: How could I?

If you gave me a number, it would help.

It's time to speak to our friends.

See what they can do on the charges.

What about the sighting?

NOYE: It's not a problem.

As long as it's not the only one.

In one day last week, Noye was playing golf in Cyprus, eating lunch in Portugal, and getting a nose job in Brazil.

DAILLY: Then he flew in on a private plane to Biggin Hill and went for a Chinese in West Kingsdown.

Over 100 sightings in 13 countries called in over the last 24 hours.

We're being swamped.

Which means one of them is true, which means he's still got some friends left.

So, let's go through his file again and find his friends.

(phones ringing in background) Where do we start?

BIDDISS: It's Kenneth Noye.

Start with the gold.

MCLEAN: They know about the historical accusations against Lundy, and there are a couple of new allegations in there for good measure.

May I ask your thoughts, gentlemen, on this latest humiliation for the once-great Metropolitan Police?

LUNDY: My thoughts are, Miller's smarter than I thought he was.

I expected a brick through my window, not this.

You think this is Miller's work?

LUNDY: I don't know, ma'am.

I'd check my enemies list, but I'd have to take a week off.

That's your response?

My response is, once again, I have never been involved in corrupt practices.

I've also never been afraid to nick anyone who needed nicking, including those that do the same handshakes as some of the people in this building.

What are you suggesting, Lundy?

That I'm the best thief taker at Scotland Yard, I'm also the most investigated copper at Scotland Yard, and I don't think that's a coincidence.

Sir.

Boyce, what are your findings on Lundy's record?

My conclusion is that Lundy sails close to the wind and gets too close to informants, but I've never personally seen any evidence of wrongdoing.

He's also integral to the Miller case.

If we are to go through with this charade at the Old Bailey, trying to prosecute Miller for the Brink's-Mat robbery, then having Lundy on board gives us a minute possibility of success.

In that case, Lundy is suspended pending investigation from the moment the Old Bailey proceedings conclude.

...understand.

How close are the Americans to bringing charges against Miller?

Well, they'll be in place by the time the verdict comes in on the robbery trial.

He can go from our custody to theirs.

You're assuming there will be a verdict.

What happens if the charges are thrown out?

Well, then, he walks.

And if the Americans aren't ready, then we never see him again.

(door closes in distance) Then all I need you to do is to stop that from happening.

Thank you, sir.

♪ ♪ It's him.

♪ ♪ (car door opens) ♪ ♪ (muted) HUNTER: Your Honor, Mr.

Charles Miller has been charged with armed robbery for his involvement in the theft of three tons of gold bullion from the Brink's-Mat warehouse in Heathrow in 1983.

As you will have read from our filing, we have a plethora of evidence.

Before the robbery, Mr.

Miller held little financial reserves and lived in a humble South London home.

In the months after the robbery, he relocated to Spain and his life was transformed into one of great wealth.

(snickering) We can prove links between Mr.

Miller and convicted Brink's-Mat criminals and that he set up businesses in the Isle Of Man which we believe were used to launder money.

Thank you, Your Honor.

(people whispering in background) That's it?

For now.

Well, in that case, I find that there is insufficient evidence to proceed, and Mr.

Miller is discharged with immediate effect.

(sighs) (people murmuring) ♪ ♪ LUNDY: Guv.

(calling): Come on, I've been here before.

It don't take this long.

(keys jangling) (lock turns, door opens) Ah!

Hello, lads!

Call us a taxi, will you?

I've got a pint in Rotherhithe with my name on it.

Charles Miller... Oh, here we go.

...you're to be extradited with immediate effect to the State of Florida to answer charges that you did help to steal or launder proceeds of the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery.

Safe journey, Miller.

Fine.

I'll beat them like I beat you.

And you two, you should be (muted) embarrassed.

The world and his wife knows I was on the Brink's-Mat job and I'll never serve a day for it.

There were six men there that day.

You got McAvoy and Robinson.

That leaves four.

Where are they, then?

I know exactly where they are.

They're not here, though, are they?

This isn't about the robbery, Miller.

It hasn't been about the robbery for a long time.

It is about money.

Dirty, dangerous money.

And it is about us taking that money from people like you.

So I hope that you enjoyed it, as you drove back to South London with three tons of gold.

I hope that is a memory that has value for you.

Because it is all that you will have left.

All that gold, all that money, and all you will have is a memory that will fade until, one day, it's gone, too.

And you'll sit with that pint in Rotherhithe and wonder if any of this ever happened at all.

♪ ♪ (door closes, lock turns) (muted) Well done, Lundy.

Nice way to finish.

Don't do it.

You know, sir, back when the first complaint was made against me, I started running.

I needed to get the anger out.

So I ran, a few miles, to clear my head.

And I kept it up.

So when they call me in to rake me over the coals, I run.

These days, I run marathons.

That's how much they've come for me.

That's how much I've run.

And you know, I can't run forever.

So, I've quit, sir.

I've thrown in the towel.

Thank you for having me.

You're the last of a kind, Lundy.

Some will say that's a good thing.

Not me.

Well, then, maybe we're not so different, sir.

Who were they?

Kent Police.

(chuckles) They didn't even make it out of Kent.

Right, what about the other thing?

It's not gonna happen.

We won't know that until I've had the conversation.

Aye, that's what I'm trying to say.

The conversation's not happening.

How d'you figure that, then?

Your friends at the Yard were asked to have a conversation about manslaughter, and well, they all said no.

Why?

Well, because the Kent coppers are all as straight as a die.

And because you're Kenny Noye.

There's a system between us and them.

And it's been around for a very long time.

All them meetings I've been to, all that money that I've given them, all them handshakes, and where is it, Brian?

Where's the (muted) system?

What I don't understand is, you were out.

You were out and then what you went and done... You get nicked, you make a call, you have a conversation.

That's how it works-- that's how it's always worked.

And, yeah, you do some bird, but not all of it, you don't do (muted) all of it!

If you can't handle the bird, then you shouldn't have done what you did.

It's not the bird I can't handle, Brian, it's this!

I can't (muted) live like this forever!

Yeah, well, you and me both.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means you need to find a way out of this.

There's a few ways out of this, Brian.

And none of them are good.

Brightwell, Lundy's moved on.

Oh, shame.

Great detective.

Coordinate with the Americans.

When the time comes, take Baxter over there and make sure he testifies against Miller.

Okay, sir.

Where are we on Palmer?

Well, it's gonna be one of the biggest fraud cases in British history, so it's about as fun as it sounds.

We're working with Roy Ramm and Tony Curtis at Flying Squad and speaking to Bob McCunn, the solicitor for the Brink's-Mat insurers, build the case from the ground up.

A case like this, sir, is gonna take time.

It will.

And I'm afraid that is time I don't have.

TONY: We were, um... (clears throat) ...wondering how close you were, sir.

To your 30.

Well, if you won't tell them, I will.

It's today.

It's now.

30 years of service to the day.

Well, I'm guessing you don't want a party, sir.

(chuckles) I couldn't think of anything worse.

(Tony and Boyce chuckling) We're not ready for you to go, sir.

(scoffs) Careers like mine, cases like this, don't end neatly.

You achieve what you can and you seek the best ending available.

And with Brink's-Mat, we have an ending... You have an ending within your grasp: Palmer, Miller, and the money.

That is success.

That is victory.

But it won't be easy.

And I am sorry that I won't be here to help.

And it is hard.

It is hard to leave with the job half-done.

♪ ♪ It is hard to leave when I think of all that we've gone through.

(voice trembles): It is hard to leave when I think of... (voice steadies): ...John Fordham.

♪ ♪ But this is what we do.

We give the work the years we can, then we leave and the work continues.

So I ask that you see my departure as the irrelevance it is.

I ask you to see it through.

And I ask you to get back to work.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

And good luck.

♪ ♪ (door closes) (phone ringing) Task force.

♪ ♪ Yeah, go on.

(sighs) ♪ ♪ I'm going to tell you a story.

It is the story of a long-running racket.

Innocent tourists were tricked into handing over large sums of money they could ill afford.

17,000 victims paid over £30 million to companies that all led to one man, John Palmer.

In the treacherous waters of the Canary Islands, this man was the biggest shark.

He was Aladdin's wicked uncle... (chuckles) ...traveling the streets calling, "New lamps for old," only to leave his victims shivering in the dark.

British timeshare customers... (softly): If this is his plan, we're in trouble.

Fraud cases are complicated.

They need to be explained carefully.

A jury trial is about the jury, and the jury are bored out of their minds.

WILLIAMS: Now, the fraud itself I shall call the "buy-sell."

So picture, if you will, two distinct entities: an existing timeshare... JOHN: This isn't about me, this isn't about sharks, and it certainly isn't about bloody Aladdin.

(chuckling) JOHN: No, this is about money-- your money and how they're spending it.

They reckon that this could be the most expensive trial in British history.

And for what?

For some bloke from Solihull whose company flogged a few timeshares.

But I'm not just some bloke from Solihull, am I?

This started with that... (exhales) ...Mat's-Brink business, and that's how it's ending.

Ever since I got found innocent of that stuff, right here, in the Old Bailey, the coppers, they've had a vendetta against me.

Well... (sighs) ...if I have to beat them again, that's what I'll do.

I'm just, I'm sorry that you lot were dragged into it.

But, look, I'll do my best to put on a bit of a show.

(chuckling) All right?

(chuckles): Okay.

Well, they're not bored now.

No.

(phone ringing) (clears throat) Hello.

Where?

♪ ♪ Cadiz.

Where's that?

Southwest Spain, very quiet.

Very hidden.

(drawer opens) I bought these tickets with my own money.

Don't tell your families where you're going.

Where's this come from, sir?

It would appear that Noye's living in the Cadiz area, and this is an address where we might find him.

I'm sorry I can't come with you, but seeing as the press saw fit to print my photo next to Noye's, it's, uh, probably not a good idea.

Do we have backup, sir?

No.

And we know, maybe more than anyone, who we're dealing with.

Noye isn't some old-school villain who's done a bit of nicking.

He's a vicious, murderous cancer on society who's killed two human beings.

To voluntarily go into that without backup, well, if you don't want to go, I'll understand and send in the Spanish.

(inhales deeply) But an innocent young man was murdered and left to die in the gutter on the streets of Kent, and I feel very strongly that it is Kent Police who should deal with that.

So do we, sir.

Then go and get him.

Good morning, everyone.

Mr.

Baxter, this is a suit brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as the RICO Act, which accuses the named parties of helping to steal or launder proceeds from a robbery at the Brink's-Mat warehouse in Heathrow, England.

You are here to answer the claim that you were part of that criminal conspiracy.

Do you admit or deny liability in this case?

To my eternal shame and with a heavy heart, I admit liability.

My decision on the criminal damages against you will be determined alongside any co-conspirators, but I can advise that it will be in the region of $8 to $10 million.

(muttering): You'd be lucky.

I gather we will also be hearing witness testimony from you.

♪ ♪ That's very much the plan.

I look forward to it.

Likewise.

COOK: Mr.

Miller.

This is a suit brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as the RICO Act... (softly): Maybe he'll cop to the lot.

Maybe.

Then we could all go home.

Not on the same plane, though.

That would be horrendous.

COOK: You are here to answer the claim that you were part of that criminal conspiracy.

Do you admit or deny liability in this case?

MILLER: With all respect, Your Honor, I would like to wholeheartedly deny liability in this case.

Okay, Mr.

Miller.

Please take a seat.

(sighs) We will continue... Looks like we're staying.

COOK: ...after a short recess.

So you're the money expert, are you?

I'm a senior investigation officer for Her Majesty's Customs and Excise.

Yeah.

We all heard your testimony.

Anyone who managed to stay awake, anyway.

(people chuckling) Now, what I heard was that some people got ripped off, but not by me, and that I'm rich, and that annoys you.

What I have just testified to, at some length, is widespread fraud.

That's a matter of opinion.

So what I think we're seeing here is a conspiracy between you, the coppers, and the gold's insurers to take me down.

If it's a conspiracy, why did you pay the Brink's-Mat insurers £3 million?

To get them off my back.

And, let's be honest, for me, £3 million doesn't touch the sides.

Really?

I believe you're in somewhat reduced circumstances.

(laughing): Oh, yeah?

Do a lot of blokes in reduced circumstances have a private plane?

They could have sued me for 50 million, not three.

It's an interesting tactic in a fraud trial, to boast about significant hidden wealth.

(people chuckle) Yeah, but that's just it.

I'm not hiding anything.

I'm a very rich man.

You might have read about that in the "Sunday Times."

The idea that I'm going about nicking five grand here and ten grand there off some poor bloke on his holiday, it just doesn't add up.

17,000 people on their holidays.

Did I ever personally sell anyone a timeshare?

That's not the point.

Did I ever personally receive the money for a timeshare?

There was a network of companies... So I never sold a timeshare and I never took the money.

(stammers, scoffs) (smacks lips) Your witness, mate.

I've already examined her.

GOODWIN: Mr.

Palmer, please allow me to direct the court.

Yeah, absolutely, you're the boss.

(people murmuring and chuckling) We've got a lead, sir.

There was an English bloke going by the name of Green renting a place in the village, eating in the restaurant, keeping himself to himself.

What do you mean, "was"?

DAILLY: He hasn't been seen for a while.

But it makes sense if it's him.

This place's in the arse end of nowhere.

Then keep your heads down and your eyes open.

DAILLY: There's one other thing, sir.

Apparently, we're not the first people to come asking questions.

Yeah, well, that would make sense, too.

♪ ♪ It's a bit (muted) much, Brian.

Yeah, well, that's the thing.

That wasn't one of ours.

Everyone's getting looked at, pulled in.

If it ain't the coppers, it's the press.

People are sick of it.

And maybe that story... I don't know, Kenny.

Maybe it's a message.

These people that are sick of it, Brian, does that include you?

I didn't say that.

You don't need this, do you?

You done well out of the gold.

Now you're free as a bird.

No.

Yeah.

No, I ain't.

My solicitors got a letter off the Brink's-Mat insurer.

They're looking for dough off everyone connected to the gold or they file civil cases and take us all to the cleaners.

Apparently, they hit Palmer for three million quid.

Good.

And apparently, they want three million off you.

(chuckling) Never ends, does it?

(axe hitting) It never (muted) ends.

You know, Brian, I used to love going to the woods.

I'd poach rabbits.

Then I'd go back to my big house, my family, my life.

Now I don't go back to nothing.

Now I'm just a bloke in the woods.

And no matter how much I try to work it out, I don't know how I got here.

(scoffs) I mean, from what I had and where I was, how the (muted) did I end up here?

You put yourself here, Kenny.

With what's inside you.

Here's my message, Brian, to anybody who needs to hear it.

I ain't giving myself up.

And I'm gonna get out of here, one way or another, because it is doing my (muted) head in.

(clangs) (sighs) (talking in background) Do you need me to help finesse your strategy?

Well, I'm gonna give my testimony, then I'm gonna try and wind him up.

Let the jury see another side of him.

That's my entire strategy.

Right, well, high stakes, then.

(chuckling): It's the Old Bailey, mate.

They only do high stakes.

COOK: Mr.

Miller, have you reviewed the case against you?

(chuckles) I've done what I can with it.

With all respect, it's a little long-winded.

I agree it's comprehensive, which makes your denial of liability all the more surprising.

Here's what happened, um... I met a gentleman, who's relaxing over there, who told me about another gentleman who could oversee the investment of some money I had been lucky enough to make through a business venture.

Now, it is possible that I will have to sit down with the taxman when this is over, and I accept that, but not only did my money not come from that robbery, I have been cleared of any involvement in that robbery back in London.

Mr.

Miller, this hearing is not about the robbery.

It is about the proceeds of that robbery, and we have witnesses who testify that you were the originator of those proceeds.

Oh, yeah?

Well... Where are they, then?

We will hear testimony shortly.

And there is submitted testimony from a co-conspirator who's in federal witness protection.

I don't blame him.

Telling lies that could ruin a man's life, that's a dangerous game.

Can't be many people daft enough to do that in public.

(voice trembling): I can't do it.

You can and you will.

You heard what he said!

If that was a veiled threat, then it wasn't much of a bloody veil!

You've been cooperating for a long time.

If something was gonna happen to you, it would have happened by now.

So you're gonna go in there and say you acted in conspiracy with Miller.

If you don't, then between me and the Americans, the rest of your life's gonna be a lot, lot harder.

(scoffs) (exhales) (bell ringing in distance) (bell continues) Nixon, Nixon-- Nixon!

That's him, innit?

How sure are you?

NIXON: It's him, sir.

He ate alone at a restaurant, then we tailed him to some woods outside the village.

I'm sending out the witness.

I don't need to tell you what that means and the danger involved.

NIXON: No, sir.

You don't.

You resent me, don't you?

For the, uh, embarrassment that I caused you over the gold.

Well, we believe that criminals should be punished for the crimes they commit.

But that's sort of our job, though, isn't it?

How's that going, by the way, with the gold?

Have you, uh, have you found it yet?

(sniffs) We found the money, which is worth a lot more than the gold.

And we're taking it back, starting with you.

What I have I earned through honest graft.

As I testified, we believe that what you have was earned through criminal fraud on a grand scale.

Tell me, Detective, all that dough that the insurers are clawing out of people, where is it going?

No idea.

Maybe we should have a little look in your bank account.

Long as you pay off my overdraft while you're there.

(chuckles) GOODWIN: What's your intention here, Mr.

Palmer?

I just think that the jury should know that I am a legitimate businessman who's being unfairly targeted by a corrupt witch hunt.

NICKI: You're not a businessman.

You're a serious organized criminal.

♪ ♪ Name me one serious crime I've committed.

Well, you were on the telly offering to launder 60 million quid.

That was a stitch-up.

Oh, yeah, could have happened to anyone.

Accidentally heading up the Ritz to tell some bloke from Burma you'll clean his dough.

(shouting): You listen to me!

No, you listen to me.

GOODWIN: Mr.

Palmer.

(normally): I'm the one on trial.

I'm aware of that.

Once this is over, I am gonna sue you for everything you've got.

GOODWIN: Mr.

Palmer.

Did you not hear that bit about my overdraft?

You're corrupt.

(people gasping, murmuring) You're all corrupt!

GOODWIN (scoffs): No, no, no.

You can't say that, Mr.

Palmer!

(people murmuring) ♪ ♪ Good afternoon, Mr.

Baxter.

Good day to you, madam.

This is not your first time in a courtroom.

No.

You have several convictions in the United Kingdom for financial crimes and for taking Class A drugs in a fast-food establishment.

It was a restaurant, and I have accepted any mistakes I have made with genuine humility.

And now you have the opportunity to do so again.

Do you see any of your co-conspirators in the room today?

Mr.

Baxter?

I believe it was Robert Browning who said, "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

(softly): Oh, for (muted) sake.

DOUGLAS: I stand before you today not as a criminal conspirator, but as a ruined romantic.

Now, if you are accusing me of attempting to wring a little glitter from the rags of life, then I hold my hands high in surrender.

You stand before us accused of money laundering, Mr.

Baxter.

Now please, answer the question.

I am answering the question by proposing one of my own.

When one's head is full of fizz and sparkle, then does one truly take notice of those who join one on the journey?

Are these companions even companions at all?

I mean, that's an interesting concept.

Mr.

Baxter, for the final time, do you see any of your co-conspirators in this courtroom today?

♪ ♪ No, Your Honor.

♪ ♪ I'm afraid I do not.

♪ ♪ I understand your disappointment.

I don't think you do.

I think you're going to be surprised by the extent of my disappointment.

Campbell's evidence is comprehensive.

Miller will be convicted without me.

You'd better hope so.

There have been killings, have there not?

From Brink's-Mat?

Some of which have been reported and some of which have not.

The problem you and your colleagues have is that the threat you hold is less than the threat they hold.

(people talking in background) Hola, Señor Green.

(inhales): Just bring me what you got.

Mm, very good.

♪ ♪ He's here, sir.

How is she?

(talking indistinctly) ♪ ♪ She's bloody brave is what she is.

(chuckles) What's the plan?

The Spanish police cause a diversion, the three of us go in quick and come out quicker.

If he sees her, then I don't know what happens next.

He won't.

BIDDISS: Good.

(phone button beeps) DANIELLE: Thank you.

DAILLY: Any questions?

No.

Yeah?

Okay, ready?

Let's go.

Well, Mr.

Palmer, it's been quite a ride.

You don't know the half of it.

Oh, I think we know enough.

The police and your victims have detailed your criminal activity, financial experts have testified to your fraud, and now we reach you.

Saved the best till last.

(jury chuckles) WILLIAMS: The final piece in a jigsaw in a case such as this is character, and, quite simply, Mr.

Palmer, you are of criminal character.

(scoffs) Rubbish.

Why did you come home to the U.K.?

Uh, I missed England.

You weren't under threat from criminal associates?

I don't have any criminal associates.

You are said to spend more than a million pounds a year on bodyguards.

Yeah, I like the company.

(chuckling) WILLIAMS: We've heard testimony of you personally threatening people.

I've not threatened anyone.

Look, I'm no angel, but I'm no gangster.

Then why do so many people think that you are?

No idea.

But what I do know is this.

I built a bloody empire.

And even your witnesses admit that.

And I think that's what this is all about: John Palmer building an empire and you lot... ...not being able to live with that.

(people murmuring) Empires fall, Mr.

Palmer.

Yeah, well, we'll see about that.

(people talking in background) MAN: ¿Vas a empezar otra vez con lo mismo?

WOMAN: ¿Qué?

MAN: Que no ha pasado nada ni está pasando nada.

¿Por qué...?

Tú me has visto cara de tonta a mí, ¿o algo, o qué?

Que no hay nada.

Sabes que me tomas por tonta.

No te estoy tomando por tonta.

Pero si me cuentan... No está pasando nada.

Yo no sé qué tengo que hacer para que confíes en... WOMAN: Con Marta tampoco, ¿no?

MAN: Marta es una compañera.

¡Que no hay nada con Marta!

WOMAN: Tío, lo de lo otra vez tal, ¿pero ahora?

MAN: Mira, yo no, yo no voy... ♪ ♪ Okey.

A ver, te lo he repetido mil veces.

Eres un sin vergüenza.

Es que, es que en mi cara.

En mi cara... Positive I.D.

BIDDISS (on phone): Get her home and keep eyes on Noye.

I need to see the CPS and get a warrant.

MAN: Es cosa tuya.

(woman responds indistinctly) MAN: No, mira.

Yo no voy a volver a pasar por lo mismo otra vez.

Te lo he dicho un millón de veces.

Pero no quieres escuchar.

WOMAN: La culpa es mía.

Que la culpa es mía.

MAN: Claro que es tuya.

WOMAN: Pero que... MAN: Yo no estoy haciendo nada malo.

(woman responds indistinctly) MAN: Sí, ¿vas a empezar otra ves con lo mismo?

¿Otra vez?

¿Vas a empezar con lo mismo?

¿Otra vez vas a empezar con lo mismo?

Marta es mi compañera.

♪ ♪ Señor Green?

You are finished?

(woman speaking indistinctly) MAN: No voy a empezar con lo mismo otra vez.

Estoy cansado.

Come here.

WOMAN: Me lo avisaron que tuviera cuidado contigo.

De verdad, es que... MAN: Que no hay nada.

Who were they?

Who?

Those people.

(conversation continues) What people?

The people.

The people that (muted) walked right past me.

There was... (breathing deeply) There was, there was, there was a woman.

I think there was a woman.

I, I don't understand, what woman?

Now, shut up, shut up, shut up, just let me think.

♪ ♪ KENNETH: I'm going.

READER (on phone): Going where?

I don't know, I don't know.

I'm (muted) losing it here.

I'll skip the border in the Pyrenees and then head to Amsterdam.

I know people there from the gold.

You keep your head down, Brian.

They can't watch you forever.

(chuckles) Oh, they've given up on me.

KENNETH: What?

What do you mean?

READER: They left a few days back.

I must have bored them.

KENNETH: Well, if they're not watching you, then who are they watching?

READER: I don't know, Kenny-- it's the Old Bill.

They'll always be watching someone.

♪ ♪ (button beeps) ♪ ♪ (door opens and closes) SECRETARY: The magistrate's here.

He knows you're waiting.

(cell phone ringing) Well, I'm glad to hear it.

(ringing continues) (exhales, ringing stops) Yeah.

(softly): Noye's packing up, sir.

I think he's getting ready to go-- can we stop him?

BIDDISS: Not yet you can't-- give me five minutes.

I don't think we've got that long, sir.

(sighs, button beeps) I need a warrant signed.

Then you shall wait, Mr.

Biddiss.

I have a hearing to attend.

I just stopped a train to get the CPS to sign off on the arrest.

I've got the Foreign Office preparing an extradition, a military plane on standby, and the Home Office, Interpol, and the Spanish police waiting for this warrant.

Kenneth Noye?

Don't file it until Monday.

♪ ♪ (woman talking in background) (entering number) (phone ringing out) (door closes) DAILLY (on phone): Sir.

Go!

(whispers): Go.

♪ ♪ I have now reached a judgment in the case of Mr.

Charles Miller.

Please stand, Mr.

Miller.

♪ ♪ (exhales) ♪ ♪ GOODWIN: Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

♪ ♪ (birds chirping) (officers breathing softly) ♪ ♪ (twig snaps) ♪ ♪ NIXON: He's running!

Go, go, go!

(officers calling) COOK: I find the defendant... ...guilty.

(softly): No.

Guilty.

(people murmuring) ♪ ♪ COOK: Taking into account the amount stolen from Brink's-Mat and the appreciation of those assets through criminal endeavors, I award damages against you of $151 million, to be seized from any assets and all bank accounts held or controlled by Mr.

Miller.

(laughs) GOODWIN: Mr.

Palmer, this was clearly a fraud on a substantial scale, and therefore merits a substantial judgment.

I hereby sentence you to eight years of imprisonment and place a confiscation order against you of £33,243,812... ...and 46 pence.

(people murmuring) (exhales) (panting) ♪ ♪ (both grunting) (Kenneth grunting, officers exclaiming) (officers murmuring, handcuffs clicking) Who are you, then?

Kent Police.

You're going home, Noye.

♪ ♪ (phone ringing) Hello.

NIXON: We got him, sir.

♪ ♪ Thank you.

(hangs up) ♪ ♪ (door opens) (grunts) Are you lost, sir?

(door closes) BOYCE: I was in the area and thought I'd test your security.

Which is appalling.

(chuckles) And I wanted to offer congratulations and appreciation.

Well, you told us to keep working, sir.

I've been keeping a tally from the newspapers.

Between the Palmer trial, the Fort Lauderdale proceedings, the confiscation orders against Campbell, and the insurers' settlements, the financial penalties linked to the Brink's-Mat robbery are approaching £200 million.

Sounds about right.

Which means the legacy of the biggest robbery in British history is the biggest financial result in the history of British policing.

TONY: And do you know what they said to us upstairs, sir, for the 200 million?

"Clear out the office and don't take the piss with your expenses."

(both chuckling) We didn't get them all, sir.

No, and that is hard, because you don't remember the ones you caught, you remember the ones you didn't.

You know who they are and what they did, but you can't touch them.

You can't name them.

And one day, you run out of time and you've got to let them go.

This was one of the toughest cases this country's ever seen.

And one day, this country will know the job we did.

So, thank you.

And good luck.

Is it over, sir?

It's Brink's-Mat.

It's never over.

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