- Crawley: Good evening, Alex.
- Alex Rider: I know Krav Maga
- Crawley: Well. I know shooting people in the head. Why don't we calm down and have a cup of tea and a chat?
- Martin Wilby: We're not expecting any trouble, are we?
- Ian Rider: No. But unexpected trouble's always the worst kind.
- Mrs. Jones: Point Blanc. It's a school for troubled teenagers.
- Alan Blunt: How did you make that connection?
- Mrs. Jones: I didn't. Alex Rider did.
- Alex Rider: Wait. Wait! Wait! Wait. Just wait, a moment, please
- [Walks over to his phone, takes out Mrs Jones' card but instead lifts his phone to his ear without dialling]
- Alex Rider: . I don't even need to dial, do I? You're listening right now. I was already gunna come in, I was already going to. All you've done is show me what kind of people you are. But I'll do it alright. I'll do it. Call off the dogs.
- Immigration Officer Powell: [Phones rings] Go ahead.
- [pause]
- Immigration Officer Powell: Understood.
- [Immigration and Social Services leave]
- Jack Starbright: What the hell, what was that?
- Alex Rider: Jack, I have to go out.
- Jack Starbright: No Alex, tell me what's happening
- Alex Rider: I can't, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll be right back. I promise, okay?
- Jack Starbright: Alex
- Alex Rider: You saw what they can do, they can deport you. They can take you away. I'll be right back, I promise.
- [Alex leaves]
- Ian Rider: Well, you know Alex, he's, he's, he's bright and he's determined and he questions everything but he can be impulsive and he can be irresponsible and I need you to help set him clear boundaries
- Jack Starbright: He's not a kid anymore. He doesn't need me to tie his shoelaces and pack his lunch and run his life. He can do that all himself.
- Ian Rider: You hold this place together Jack, remember that.
- Jack Starbright: Alex?
- Alex Rider: He shouldn't have died
- Jack Starbright: I know
- Alex Rider: He shouldn't. They shouldn't have let him.
- Jack Starbright: Sweetie, it was an accident. No one can stop that
- Alex Rider: No, it wasn't. Someone did this. Someone did this to us.
- [Doorbell rings]
- Tom Harris: The X-Men, that's got real grit. That's real, you know? I mean the whole thing is like a metaphor for the LGBTQ community. I mean, just swap superpowers for socially permissible sex. I mean, the X-gene even kicks in during puberty. And it's like their version of coming out, you know.
- Steph: You're kinda hot.
- Tom Harris: And that's what's so great about the X-Men Movies
- Steph: Well, I always thought it was just mutants with superpowers.
- Tom Harris: Well, I mean, yeah, but the thing with X-Men is they're hidden in plain sight. You know, they walk among us, they keep themselves to themselves. Until they don't and people realise and people react with fear and confrontation and paranoia.
- Tom Harris: Come on man, we all have our own particular set of skills. This is definitely a more your skills kinda thing.
- Alex Rider: You got it confiscated, you get it back
- Tom Harris: The lights are low. You're next to Ayisha, the magic starts to happen... Or a horror movie marathon and a long cold shower. It's your call.
- Alex Rider: Point Blanc
- Mrs. Jones: Sorry?
- Alex Rider: It's the last thing he said to me before he went out. He wrote it on his desk. Where was he going?
- Mrs. Jones: I don't know. But we'll find out.
- Tom Harris: Alex.
- Alex Rider: Not doing it.
- Tom Harris: Dude, come on, like two minutes.
- Alex Rider: No, No
- Tom Harris: Just two minutes' worth of filming that's all I need
- Alex Rider: I think we've got a lesson, so I'm just gunna...
- Tom Harris: We can get it on the walk, we can get it on the walk
- Alex Rider: The thing I most remember about Tom at school was his creative determination, you know, his drive. Because that's what really set him apart. Just talking about it now, it's almost as if I can still see him. Like, er, right in front of me.
- Tom Harris: Right well if you don't take it seriously it's going to look stupid
- Alex Rider: It is stupid. How can you do a Making Of documentary, you haven't actually made any movies
- Tom Harris: It's called shooting out of sequence mate
- Alex Rider: It's called 'get someone else to do it'
- Tom Harris: Oh, very witty, very smart, looks good on you that. Well, it was Jahid's idea
- Alex Rider: Well, get Jahid to do it then
- Tom Harris: Jahid actually had another idea, actually, he said, 'oh that's a really good idea Tom, maybe we should er get some footage tonight at the party that Ayiesha's going to?'
- Alex Rider: What?
- Tom Harris: Oh, that perked you up a little bit. I knew that name would work on you.
- Alex Rider: Which party?
- Tom Harris: Typical, so predictable. You won't do anything for your friends, but the ladies...
- Alex Rider: Tom, can you do something for me?
- Tom Harris: What?
- Alex Rider: Go home. Tell Jack I'll be back later.
- Tom Harris: What?
- Alex Rider: Just do it!
- Tom Harris: Well. Well, call me!
- [Alex Cycles off]
- Tom Harris: I don't have a... I don't have a phone
- Alan Blunt: Well, this is very embarrassing, isn't it? He sees straight through our cover, traces his uncle car to the scene of his death with remarkable ingenuity. Gives one of our agents a broken nose for trying to apprehend him and then follows you all the way across London and finds his way here. I find it very impressive.
- Crawley: He's a walking security breach. An emotionally unstable teenager who knows who we are and who assaulted one of our people.
- Alan Blunt: And isn't that exactly what we need? An Emotionally unstable teenager?
- Crawley: Alright. Let's wrap this up. I want this area swept and clear by 1900. Let's get the car printed and moved on. If anyone asks it's the usual cover story.
- Ian Rider: Something doesn't feel right, Martin.
- Martin Wilby: I agree.
- [Both pull their guns]
- Yassen Gregorovitch: Ian.
- Ian Rider: Yassen.
- Yassen Gregorovitch: Small world, no?
- Ian Rider: How was New York?
- Yassen Gregorovitch: I didn't see much of it. Mainly the inside of an elevator shaft.
- Ian Rider: And Serenkov?
- Yassen Gregorovitch: Serenkov? Wasn't me. Someone else.
- Ian Rider: Where do we go from here Yassen?
- Yassen Gregorovitch: Well, I'm afraid, you're not going anywhere.
- [Martin moves his gun to now point at Ian instead of Yassen]
- Martin Wilby: [to Ian] Drop the gun.
- Ian Rider: Martin, you have no idea who you're working for.
- Martin Wilby: I know what I'm being paid.
- Ian Rider: You really think you're gonna be around long enough to enjoy it, do you?
- Martin Wilby: Drop the gun.
- [Ian drops his gun]
- Alex Rider: I can't find where they took him. There's no hospital record, there's no mortuary transfer. There's nothing.
- Tom Harris: Mate, this really doesn't matter.
- Alex Rider: No hospital in London has any record of him being brought in.
- Tom Harris: I don't know Maybe they've spelt his name wrong. They're always doing stuff like that.
- Alex Rider: Yeah or maybe it didn't happen!
- Tom Harris: What?
- Alex Rider: He never went over the speed limit. Never.
- Tom Harris: Mate, I can't imagine how hard this is for you, but...
- Alex Rider: But what if it's bollocks? All of it? What if it's bullshit? What if they're lying?
- Tom Harris: Who?
- Alex Rider: Have you got, have you got find my phone switched on?
- Tom Harris: What?
- Alex Rider: On your phone, have you got find my phone switched on?
- Tom Harris: Yeah. But the batteries probably dead now
- Alex Rider: It doesn't matter. It'll save the last location.
- Tom Harris: How's this going to help?
- Alex Rider: If we can find your phone, we can find the car, maybe we can find out what really happened.
- Alan Blunt: So, he didn't work in a Bank, obviously. He worked for us.
- Alex Rider: And who are you?
- Alan Blunt: Who do you think we are?
- Alex Rider: Security services. MI6 or something.
- Alan Blunt: Or something is about right. My name is Alan Blunt. I'm in charge of this department. We are a specialized subdivision of the British Secret Intelligence Service. MI6 gather information, we apply it. We take care of the bigger picture, and we use any means necessary. And your uncle was one of our very best field agents.
- Alex Rider: He lied to me. My whole life. Who he was, what he did. Everything.
- Alan Blunt: Secrecy is an occupational necessity in our line of work. Your uncle was shot and killed doing his job, there was no car crash, obviously. But you know that already, because you are very much your uncle's nephew.
- Alex Rider: and why does that matter anymore?
- Alan Blunt: because there's something we'd like you to do for us.
- Alex Rider: what?
- Alan Blunt: A job.
- Alex Rider: You want me to help you? He died in some scummy warehouse, because of you. You can piss off. All of you can piss off.
- [Alex get's up and walks towards the door]
- Alan Blunt: Just pick up the phone in the morning Alex, if you change your mind.
- [Alex leaves]
- Mrs. Jones: This is just wrong.
- Alan Blunt: The world is changing Mrs Jones. If we play by the old rules, we're going to lose the new battles.