"The Sandbaggers'' © 1978 and 1980 by Yorkshire Television.
8. At All Costs 9. Enough Of Ghosts 10.Decision By Committee 11.A Question Of Loyalty 12.It Couldn't Happen Here 13.Operation Kingmaker
CAST Neil Burnside Roy Marsden Willie Caine Ray Lonnen Sir Geoffrey Wellingham Alan MacNaughtan Matthew Peele Jerome Willis Jeff Ross Bob Sherman "C" (Sir James Greenley) Richard Vernon Mike Wallace Michael Cashman Diane Lawler Elizabeth Bennett Brian Milton Barkley Johnson Ted Prescott Richard Shaw Stan Barclay Michael O'Hagan Sam Lawes Brian Osborne Bruce Paul Haley Edward Tyler Peter Laird
8.
"At All Costs"
Written by Ian Mackintosh
Produced by Michael Ferguson
Directed by Michael Ferguson
First Broadcast Date (UK): January 29, 1980
One year to the day after the death of
Laura Dickens in Berlin, the Special Section is back to its full-strength complement of
three with the addition of Sandbaggers Tom Elliott and Mike Wallace. The morning traffic
brings a signal from Sofia station marked "flash precedence" - which usually
means trouble. It seems that the head of the Bulgarian intelligence service, one Vladimir
Gelabov, has contacted SIS offering a list of his agents operating around the world
together with "other items of similar classification and sensitivity." The
catch-he wants Sandbagger Two-Tom Elliott-to make the pickup in Sofia tonight at
11:15 PM in a small street off the town square. The operation is christened "Golden
Eagle", and Burnside doesn't like it at all-he thinks it could be a trap.
While voicing his objections to "C", he is told that budget cuts will not permit SIS to replace the first Sandbagger to leave the section, reducing the complement to two. "C" points out that even though it could be a trap, the operation should go forward to convince the nay-sayers in Whitehall that the Special Section is justified-
"I need ammunition to convince them that the Sandbaggers are necessary, and if you're going to preserve them in cotton-wool I won't get it."
While Elliott is being briefed and prepared for "Golden Eagle", Burnside asks Jeff Ross for a CIA assessment of Gelabov. The SIS D-INT, Edward Tyler, thinks Gelabov could be genuine and that the skids may be under Gelabov for his hard-line tactics. Burnside, still harboring doubts, sets up a "bolt-hole" apartment - a safe-house for Tom to hide out in if he is uncomfortable about returning to the hotel. He also arranges a secret abort procedure with Elliott-a phone call to Tom's hotel room at any time up to 11:00 PM will abort the mission. After Elliott leaves, Burnside tells Peele about his intention to abort the mission if the CIA assessment contradicts Tyler. Peele tells Burnside that he is very close to getting the sack, to which Neil responds, "I'm not sure I care, sir".
Jeff Ross advises Neil that Tyler seems to be right on the money, and Neil decides to let Tom run. Elliott goes to the rendezvous, but a sudden blaze of light proclaims the fact that Gelabov is blown - his masters were giving him just enough rope to let him hang himself. While escaping over a wall with Gelabov's envelope, a police bullet hits Tom in the back.
When word gets back to the Ops Room, Burnside orders travel documents for Sofia to be prepared - for Willie AND himself. He also asks Jeff Ross to go to Sofia as backup, and to draw arms from the CIA's Sofia station so they will not risk exposure by contacting the SIS station. When Wellingham protests, Neil says he intends to go whether he goes as D-Ops or the former D-Ops. Wellingham orders Neil to get Elliott out quietly - at all costs.
Neil and Willie rendezvous with Ross in Sofia, and obtain their weapons. They go to the bolt-hole, and Willie goes up first to find Tom on the bed, lying in his own waste, completely paralyzed except for his head and right arm. The bullet has exposed Tom's spinal cord, and the slightest wrong move could kill him. Willie takes the envelope, and Tom begs for Willie's gun so he can finish himself off. Willie tells Tom to hang in there while he goes outside to speak to Burnside.
Willie gives Neil the bad news. The only way Tom can be helped is if they go to the Bulgarian authorities, violating Wellingham's order to avoid a diplomatic incident. Burnside orders Willie to get the envelope to Ross to carry back to England, and to hand over his gun. Willie says, "what are you going to do?" to which Neil responds wearily, "end it for him". It proves to be unnecessary. When Burnside enters the apartment Tom is quite dead, having dragged himself off the bed. Burnside strips him of his watch, wallet and passport and leaves. Neil and Willie head home.
David Beames as Tom Elliott
Gwyn Gray as Lady Greenley
Joan Peters as Embassy Guest
9. "Enough Of Ghosts"
Written by Ian Mackintosh
Produced by Michael Ferguson
Directed by Peter Cregeen
First Broadcast Date (UK): February 4, 1980
Permanent Under-Secretary of State Sir
Geoffrey Wellingham heads off to attend a NATO conference in Brussels. On his second
morning there, he is abducted by three men while getting into his official car outside his
hotel.
Willie, depressed after having visited Tom Elliott's parents, tells Neil he's thinking about transferring to Mission Planning.
When word of the abduction hits, Neil is extremely concerned-and not just because Sir Geoffrey is his ex-father in law! As a gesture of goodwill, he had lent Wellingham a top-secret paper detailing SIS cooperation (explicitly banned by the anti-apartheid policies of Her Majesty's Government) with South African intelligence. If this paper came to light it would result in the firing of "C", the Deputy Chief, Neil, and D-INT Edward Tyler.
Neil has both Willie and Mike Wallace briefed and ready to go to Brussels when Peele tells him to send one Sandbagger only-an order Neil does not intend to obey. Even though everyone believes that Sir Geoffrey will be found dead in the boot of a car, Neil wants to go all out to find him because he's had "enough of ghosts".
Meanwhile, Wellingham is bearing up well in captivity, even joking with his captors about whether they'll take American Express for his lodging. While Willie and Mike prowl the farm country southeast of Brussels where Wellingham is being held, they are tailed until they break off the search for the day and return to town. SIS has received information that the Boulin terrorist group is in somewhere in Brussels, but the Belgian police are not going after them as they have committed no crimes on Belgian soil. Then a demand is issued - Wellingham is to be killed, followed by a representative of each NATO nation, unless aid to Israel is cut off.
Horst Lincke, a member of the crack German antiterrorist squad GSG9, contacts Willie offering assistance. Shortly afterward, the ransom demand is denied by the Boulin group, who claim not to be holding Wellingham. Upon hearing this, Burnside decides to go to Brussels himself. Lincke reveals to Willie that Boulin is holed up in town, and the Belgian authorities have finally agreed to make the arrests. The group is taken at an apartment in the center of town, but no Wellingham.
Back at Willie's hotel room, Burnside arrives just in time to confront Lincke with the explanation he arrived at on the plane. Wellingham was actually kidnapped by GSG9 agents masquerading as members of the Boulin group to put multinational pressure on the Belgian authorities, who were refusing to cooperate in the pursuit of Boulin. Lincke confirms that Wellingham is on his way back to his hotel, and gives Neil a going-away present-lists of Iraqi terrorists operating in London and New York.
The operation now safely over, Willie lightens up and tells Neil that he will stay in the Special Section a while longer. Neil, pleased, says Willie can now explain his accommodations at the Hilton to their penny-pinching Deputy Chief!
Anthony Higgins as Dehousse
Wolf Kahler as Lincke
Edith Macarthur as Lady Wellingham
Donald Pelmear as Nigel Elliott
Barbara Lott as Martha Elliott
Back in London, Neil reports to the Deputy-Chief on the conclusion of the Sri Lanka conference, and Peele takes the opportunity to discuss Burnside's annual performance review. What Neil sees as exercise of initiative as D-OPS is viewed by Peele as a dangerous tendency to freelance. He tells Neil that "decision by committee" is the rule nowadays, and his review has been marked for "promotion in ordinary course", a kiss of death that will put Neil firmly behind D-INT Edward Tyler (and some others with "earlies") on the eventual shortlist to succeed Peele as second in command at SIS. Neil views the "decision by committee" mantra with contempt, and he's about to be proven right.
Later that night-more accurately, 2:20 the next morning-Neil is sitting at home brooding over his future.Then the call comes from Sam Lawes in the Ops Room. A Malaysian World Airlines flight has been hijacked by Iraqi terrorists between scheduled stops in Bahrain and Athens, and diverted to Istanbul. Willie is on board, and so, Jeff Ross reveals, is Karen Milner. If this is reprisal, there must be a VIP on board. As it turns out, there are two: the British Chief of the General Staff and Chief of the Defence Staff. The threat-to shoot CGS at 1800hrs, CDS at 2000, and blow up the plane at midnight unless the jailed Iraqis in London and New York are released.
The unwritten law in the Special Section is that if a Sandbagger gets in a jam, someone will go to his aid. Burnside feels he must do this because if the Sandbaggers stop believing it, they'll hold back in the crunch. But Neil's hands are bureaucratically tied by the Government's stance toward terrorism. A flurry of meetings in Whitehall and Downing Street produce no action or decisions.
Unable to mobilize SAS without official sanction, Burnside proposes to send his Special Projects Team, a sabotage and subversion unit, and Sandbagger Two, Mike Wallace (who's ex-SAS), to brief and lead them. But the SPT leader, Col. Gaines, rightly goes to the Deputy Chief. Meanwhile, Wellingham tells Neil that the Government believes a failed rescue could be more politically disastrous than total inaction, and so the SAS will most likely not be sent to Istanbul.
The terrorists prepare to execute CGS on schedule. Unable to hold back any longer, Willie and Karen leap into action, killing all the terrorists save Ahmed, who reaches for his duffel bag, threatening to set off a bomb. Willie quickly takes out Ahmed with a "double-tap", and discovers that the bag contained nothing more sinister than some loose wires and a folded blanket. One innocent passenger, an old man sitting next to Willie, was killed in the gunfight.
Back at HQ, Burnside is telling Peele that events made "decision by committee" look stupid, since the Cabinet-the most powerful committee in England-was incapable of acting to save the plane and its passengers. Two junior officers, taking the initiative, got the job done. As Peele leaves, Willie comes in and inquires as to the rescue plan. When Neil and Willie are alone, Burnside has to -and does- lie through his teeth, telling Willie that if CGS had been killed, SAS would have been in the air two minutes later.
Andrew Lodge as Col. Gaines
David Beale as C.G.S.
David Freedman as Kadhim
Kim Fortune as Ahmed
11. "A Question Of Loyalty"
Written by Ian Mackintosh
Produced by Michael Ferguson
Directed by Michael Ferguson
First Broadcast Date (UK): February 18, 1980
Mike Wallace is in Warsaw to "lift" a
defector named Motika, a Polish expert in particle beam technology. But Motika doesn't
make the rendezvous. Mike draws a weapon and ammunition, over the objections of Station
Chief Wheatley, prepared to "bust out" Motika if necessary. Motika's flat is
empty; while superficially neat, it shows signs of Motika's violent abduction. The mission
blown, Wallace is handed an airline ticket back to London by a Polish officer.
In conversation with Wheatley, Mike ascertains that the station No. 2, Shearburn, had checked in with Motika the night before-a violation of procedures for handling defectors. He threatens to report Shearburn upon his return to London. Wheatley and Shearburn concoct a signal to Peele that skews the facts just enough to make it look like Wallace, not the station, is at fault. An investigation must be carried out, and the results could cost Mike his job. Peele and "C" want to suspend Wallace until the investigation is concluded, but Burnside threatens to resign, insisting on "normal working". "C" reluctantly agrees, but tells Neil that if Wallace is found guilty, he will be ousted as well. Then he informs Neil that Peele, who has already said he's inclined to believe Wheatley, will go to Warsaw to investigate! When Burnside protests, "C" says, "Don't push your luck, Neil. You haven't much left."
Shortly thereafter, a signal to "C" reveals that Harry Maddison, head of Stockholm station, is afraid his No. 2, Pat Bishop, could be doubling. As a point of principle, Burnside assigns Wallace the job. When Wallace gets to Stockholm, he finds out that Bishop has been making contact with a man who has known KGB associations. Feeling a bit overwhelmed, Wallace phones Burnside, and in "open code" asks for help. Since Bishop is acquainted with Caine, Neil decides to ask Jeff Ross to provide Karen Milner as backup. Jeff Ross, who's been trying to fix Neil up with Karen, cordially insists he brief her over dinner. He does, but bluntly tells Karen he didn't want to. She asks him, "Are you drinking Coke-or vinegar?"
When CIA Langley refuses, Burnside assumes it was actually Karen who refused. He sends Willie to Stockholm. Bishop misses a rendezvous with his contact, whom Willie was tailing. It appears he suddenly wants to lie low. Karen tails Neil on his afternoon walk, apologizing for Langley's refusal. When Neil lies to Karen saying he does not intend to send Willie to Stockholm, Karen recites Willie's flight number and departure time, and the fact that she's telling him without Jeff's knowledge or consent. Shortly afterward, Neil realizes that the CIA would not have noted Willie's departure to Stockholm unless they had an interest in the situation. This and the refusal of backup (even though CIA owes SIS several favors) point to one explanation-Bishop, who has been brilliant from Day One, is a CIA man assigned to penetrate SIS.
"C" and Neil realize that an outright accusation of CIA would destroy the Special Relationship, so Neil decides to accuse Bishop, who is Canadian by birth, of being a Canadian agent and asking for his resignation. When he tells Jeff Ross of this, the scene is so well played by Marsden and Sherman that it's obvious each character knows full well what the other is thinking, but they will both remain cordial and put the whole affair down to experience.
Upon his return from Warsaw, Peele reports that he has no doubt that Wheatley and Shearburn-both of whom kissed up to him the whole time he was there-were covering up, and rules in favor of Wallace in the Motika investigation.
Despite the oblique "tip-off" on Bishop, Neil curses Karen for a "stupid bitch" because she put personal considerations ahead of professional ones in giving Neil the information. Willie asks him how much of his soul was killed in Berlin along with Laura Dickens, and why he resents Karen so. Neil's tight-lipped answer: "Because she's alive".
Patrick Godfrey as Walter Wheatley
Charles Hodgson as Harry Maddison
Philip Blaine as Gary Shearburn
Igor Gridneff as Polish Police Officer
12. "It Couldn't Happen Here"
Written by Ian Mackintosh
Produced by Michael Ferguson
Directed by Peter Cregeen
First Broadcast Date (UK): February 25, 1980
In the U.S.A. Franklin Herron, a liberal
Senator from West Virginia, is cut down by a sniper as his horrified wife watches in front
of their own house. Discussing the assassination, Jeff Ross bitterly postulates that
extreme right-wing elements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were behind it as well
as the JFK and Martin Luther King murders. Herron was chairman of a "watchdog"
committee that was about to come down hard on the FBI for illegal wiretaps and
investigations of civil rights leaders. Ironically foreshadowing events, Neil says, "well,
thank God it couldn't happen here".
In Germany, an Englishman loses control of his rented car on a snowy road and goes off the road into a tree. He survives unscathed, but his girlfriend is killed when her head goes through the windshield. His grief is short-lived, as he quickly wipes his fingerprints from the car, bundles her body into the drivers' seat, grabs his luggage and flees on foot.
After pondering Jeff's theory, Neil poses this question to Willie:
"At what stage and on what evidence do you think an agency, acting alone, is justified in changing the course of history?"
The question will be central to the plot of this episode, but their debate is cut short by the bad news that Joan Wyatt of SIS' Russian desk was the girl killed in Germany. As Bonn station's Bob Clements liases with the German police he discovers that Joan could not have been driving the car-the seat was positioned too far back for her to reach the pedals. Neil asks Diane and Mike Wallace to find out if she was vacationing with a man, "or a woman with extremely long legs"-and who it was. Since Joan was on the Russian desk she would see a lot of highly sensitive material.
Sir Geoffrey Wellingham, who as it turns out shares Jeff Ross' suspicions after having read the Warren Commission report, summons Neil to the FCO to tell him that the American Secret Service has asked for both Willie and Mike as backup security at Herron's funeral - and have specifically asked that neither FBI nor CIA are informed. In the interest of preserving the Special Relationship, Neil tells Jeff on the sly anyway as Wellingham winks a blind eye.
Before leaving for America, Mike returns with the news that Joan's "mystery boyfriend" was almost certainly a high Cabinet Minister (and potential future Prime Minister), the Right Honourable George Stratford-Baker. This is confirmed when Stratford-Baker's picture is found among Joan's effects. When Neil talks to "C" he says he wouldn't mind having something on one of them and proposes to talk to Wellingham , to which "C" says cryptically, "don't get in over your head, Neil - I may not be here to protect you."
In America, Willie is assigned to close-guard Senator Donald O'Shea, to which he says, "I think I'd rather guard the President". O'Shea is Herron's successor on the Committee and a prime assassination target, and is known to be difficult with bodyguards. At Herron's funeral, O'Shea keeps ignoring Willie's advice and sidestepping him to acknowledge well-wishers and, sure enough, is himself assassinated leaving the church.
Wellingham reveals to Neil that he considers Stratford-Baker may be a security risk, but is the P.M.'s "golden boy" and thus practically sacrosanct. Peele warns Neil off the investigation, and even "C" - who hints that he may be leaving soon - gently suggests that he drop it for his own good. From Jeff Ross, a CIA computer check has revealed that Stratford-Baker had many known KGB affiliations and Communist leanings as a young man, only doing an about face just before he went into politics. A covert burglary of his flat carried out by Karen Milner uncovers Minox cameras, microdot equipment, and a number of top-secret papers he should not have access to. Obviously, this potential future P.M. is a deep-cover KGB mole, confirming long-standing SIS and MI5 suspicions. "C" and Wellingham agree that the P.M. will do nothing on the available evidence.
Neil confronts Stratford-Baker in St. James' Park the next morning to try and warn him off, taping the conversation. He boldly tells Neil that "If you had the means to take me to court you wouldn't be here", and virtually defies him to prove the allegations before walking off. He plays the tape to Wellingham, who says that he doesn't want "C" burdened with this problem, as he has angina and will be leaving shortly due to his ill health. About Stratford-Baker he says:
WELLINGHAM: I hope he doesn't live to be Prime
Minister of this country.
BURNSIDE: He's healthy enough.
WELLINGHAM: If we were the FBI...
BURNSIDE: I told Ross it couldn't happen here.
WELLINGHAM: Pity.
BURNSIDE: Yes, it is.
Neil reports to Peele, who again orders him to drop it, saying, "he isn't worth your career", and Neil responds, "if I move against Stratford-Baker you'll never prove it was me". Willie, who was disconsolate on his return despite high praise from the Americans, offers to assassinate Stratford-Baker, saying "I know you're planning it". Neil dismisses the suggestion, and a suggestion from Ross about framing him with overwhelming planted evidence. "C" reveals to Neil that he is stepping down in a month, and asks to be allowed to retire in peace, assured that Neil won't pursue the matter. Neil says he won't, because his hands are tied by the system. Later, on a walk around Westminster, Wellingham and Neil discuss the morality of the central issue:
BURNSIDE: It's not that it couldn't happen here,
but I don't think we should let it happen here.
WELLINGHAM: Why not?
BURNSIDE: Well, it must have started like this in America. One operation to knock over one
politician, but the door was opened and no one's managed to close it since.
WELLINGHAM: Shoot Stratford-Baker in the park today, tomorrow...
BURNSIDE: Exactly.
WELLINGHAM: Buckingham Palace.
and later:
BURNSIDE: Maybe that's the price we have to pay.
WELLINGHAM: Well,if you do discover a way of doing it...
BURNSIDE: You want to be the last to know.
WELLINGHAM: Precisely.
And, of course, it won't "happen here". Wellingham and Neil part company, and Neil meets Willie on a nearby bench. Willie has discovered that the traitor is due to attend a trade conference in Singapore in a couple of months. Neil says that Willie should visit some of their contacts in Singapore. Willie says that there are some good operatives there who will make it "look right". Neil says that there's only one thing it can be:
"A car accident. You've got no sense of occasion, Willie."
Daphne Anderson as Mary Herron
Norman Ettlinger as Senator Herron
Weston Gavin as Senator O'Shea
Tony Church as Stratford-Baker
13.
"Operation Kingmaker"
Written by Ian Mackintosh
Produced by Michael Ferguson
Directed by Alan Grint
First Broadcast Date (UK): March 3, 1980
The search for a new "C"
gains impetus when the incumbent, Sir James Greenley, who had reported his angina several
weeks previously, suffers a heart attack and will not be able to return. Deputy-Chief
Peele, who rightly believes himself on the "short-list", begins writing
memoranda on every operational subject he can think of and distributing them to everyone
who might have input on the new selection. He's also bought some new threads to enhance
his image, and Willie sees him "thundering along the sixth floor corridor like a man
wearing a Rolex watch".
Willie believes the most likely candidate would be John Tower Gibbs, a career SIS man who has served as head of station in Washington and Bonn and is currently serving on the Joint Intelligence Committee. While Willie thinks he'd make a very good "C", Burnside is horrified at the prospect. As a Sandbagger, Burnside clashed with Gibbs in Bonn, and Gibbs still bears a grudge. The prospect of a career diplomat as "C" could be a major disaster - they'd never be so lucky as to find another of Greenley's calibre. Therefore, Neil decides there's only one thing to do - back Peele for the job, and somehow discredit Gibbs enough to scuttle his prospects. But Wellingham's input will be key to the appointment, and he doesn't like Peele.
On top of this news, Neil's secretary, Diane, announces that she's leaving at short notice to get married.
While en route to midmorning coffee with Wellingham, Neil encounters Gibbs in the street and they exchange mild unpleasantries. Wellingham tells Neil over coffee that Gibbs has written a paper that roundly condemns the sloppiness of the CIA and recommends termination of the "Special Relationship" which both Burnside and Wellingham feel is very much to SIS' advantage. But the paper is gaining acceptance in Whitehall. Gibbs also feels that the Ops Directorate is becoming an area of potential embarrassment to the Government. Neil tells Sir Geoffrey that Peele has recently improved a great deal, but Sir Geoffrey is skeptical, knowing there is no love lost between Neil and Gibbs.
Peele, being unusually nice, offers Neil lunch at the club to bury the hatchet. Deciding to test Peele's ambition, he suggests that Wellingham join them - something Peele wouldn't want if he were sincere about having a tete-a-tete. Peele jumps at the prospect. After he leaves, Neil summons both Sandbaggers and briefs them on his new special op - "Operation Kingmaker". Willie is sent to the FCO to find out about any pet notions of Wellingham's so Neil can set Peele up to share the same views at lunch. Mike is ordered to start digging for dirt on Gibbs.
Willie reports that Wellingham is concerned about Libyan influence in Malta. To discredit the Gibbs paper, Neil persuades D-INT to hand some good news from the Scandinavian desk to CIA for forwarding to Downing Street. Tyler reluctantly agrees. En route to lunch, Neil tries to brief Peele on Malta, but he is completely uninterested and obtuse until he hears of Wellingham's concerns.
A CIA check on Gibbs reveals nothing, but on a tip from D-INT, the Sandbaggers discover that something is buried in Archives/Personal Records. Diane finds a potential new secretary, Marianne Straker, in the Security Section. Neil interviews her and decides she has potential. Willie and Mike report back that Gibbs seemed to have been sent home after less than three months from his career's first posting in Copenhagen; but the reason is not explained, and is most likely buried in an HQ Security file. Neil calls Marianne - who has clearance - and asks her to find out what it is. She reluctantly agrees, and reports back that Gibbs was sent home for having an affair with wife of a a Danish politician who has gone on to become a Minister.
Neil drops in on Wellingham, who says he was impressed with Peele at lunch. For good measure, Neil drops the story of Gibbs' early indiscretion. Neil thinks he's pulled it off and starts congratulating himself - until Diane shows him a paper Peele has written advocating the amalgamation of SIS and the rival MI5! Neil angrily tells Peele to withdraw the paper:
"It would lose us seventy years of expertise! It would cause divisions within a single department instead of rivalry between two! It would create such confusion that the KGB would make you a Hero Of The Soviet Union!"
Neil hurries to Wellingham and tells him that we was wrong about Peele, and confesses to his chicanery, admitting that Gibbs would be the better "C". Wellingham tells him that Gibbs was appointed as "C" at noon, and that he was suspicious of Neil from the start. Wellingham tested Peele's backbone by suggesting he draft the amalgamation paper - the absolute last thing any SIS officer in his right mind would endorse, and which Wellingham himself opposes - and to send copies only to Wellingham, Neil, and D-INT. "Mine is in the wastepaper basket. I suggest you accord a similar fate to yours". Neil offers to resign, to which his ex-father-in-law says: "And save you from suffering under Gibbs? Certainly not." He then reminds Neil that he's been playing this game a lot longer than Neil has, and the next time he pulls such a stunt it will be his last act as an SIS officer.
Dennis Burgess as John Tower Gibbs
Sue Holderness as Marianne Straker
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