TRANSCRIPT ONE

S (quizzically): Alex, what are you doing here?
A (angrily): Nice welcome ... and what sort of day did you have? Hi Alex ... what a lovely surprise ...
S: You know you're not supposed to come here ... don't be so ... so hard nosed ... so reckless ... so flippant ...
A (firmly): I know well what I am supposed to do and what I am supposed not to do ... better, most likely, than you ... (sighs...) let us not argue ... I am here ... that is important ... do you not want to know why?
S: ... but what if we are being watched?
A: not if but by whom ... that is a more useful question ... of course we are being watched ... but it makes little difference ... now ... it is too late to worry now
S: ... not worry? How can I not worry? why too late? what has happened? what drags you down out of North London? from your little cave? your little haven? what winkled you out?
A: (big sigh) Alex rang ... Anna is dead ... it is all coming unravelled ... we have to regroup ... Alex says we must act ...
S: Anna dead? how can that be? who? where? how? was she poisoned? or shot?
A (very curtly): a bullet in the back of the head in a lift ... poison is out of favour after the Beslan attempt ...
S: ... the gun was left behind? it was in Moscow? ... and what does Alex think we should do? who is going to be blamed for this? does Alex think we are safe? ... does he? ... well?
A: ... for now he thinks we are OK but ... for how long ... he cannot say ... or will not ... they will pin it on the Russians ... this one will stick ... it is what people want to believe ... we may yet be OK ... it depends who really killed her ... Alex would not say ...
S (her voice catches): what if it was Bruno? it sounds like Bruno's way ... I thought Bruno was ...
A: maybe he is ... and maybe he isn't ... after the business with Kozlov who can tell? who was he working for then?

2 minutes of silence - there may be crying in the background track - A sighs deeply several times -

A: Sonia stop (inaudible) ... Alex will be here soon ... we have to go and meet him ... he will not come here ... Sonia, pull yourself together ... Alex will know what to do ... let us at least hope so because I don't ...

5 minutes later a toilet flushes and the pair leave the house arm in arm. They turn left.


(TBC)