MI-5 (TV Series)

Without Incident (2003)

Hugh Simon: Malcolm Wynn-Jones

Quotes 

• Tom Quinn : MI-5 oversees protection of the PM, Queen, and visiting dignitaries.

  Christine Dale : Not this one.

  Malcolm Wynn-Jones : Diplomatic protocol states quite clearly that the host government provides 95 percent of protection for presidential visits.

  Christine Dale : Not this President, not this visit. Václav Havel let us do it our way in Prague and we're doing it our way now. That means a complete adherence to US Secret Service close-protection protocol. Every rumour is to be treated as fact until neutralised. Every target is a potential assassin until dealt with. We'd like paranoia to be the norm here until our Commander in Chief is safely back in the skies. I'm sure you can understand that in the current climate. After he's gone, any residual distrust of others will, of course, be your own problem.

• Ruth Evershed : There are two issues here. One, we're getting a lot of chatter at the Libyan embassy.

  Harry Pearce : What kind of chatter?

  Ruth Evershed : Lot of euphemisms for America being bandied around, several vehicles trying very hard to lose their tails. There's not been anything on this scale since '84.

  Harry Pearce : Any indication of concrete plans?

  Ruth Evershed : It's all disguised as everyday diplomatic traffic, Harry, but I don't like it one bit, which brings us to two. A deal memo, in the rough, of course, between the US and Libya.

  Malcolm Wynn-Jones : They accept responsibility for Lockerbie, and pay seven billion dollars in reparations. The Americans end unilateral sanctions and help to remove them from the Axis of Evil, amongst other things.

  Harry Pearce : No mention of reparation for UK victims?

  Ruth Evershed : None at all.