In the underground car park under Templar's home, Fred the garage man whose job includes looking after the residents vehicles, enters his office at the far end of the car park, switches the kettle on to start another shift, when suddenly a car horn blares out, non stop, Fred rushes out and runs over to Templar's car, Simon is slumped over the wheel asleep, resting on the horn button.
F " mr Templar sir, are you alright "
T ( awakes) " what the hell....what's going on"
F " easy does it Mr Templar "
Templar staggers out of the car,
T " god I feel odd.....maybe that lobster I had last night "
In Fred' s office Simon sips tea.
T " I had this dream Fred, a nightmare "
F " never known a nightmare that could stand up to a cup of my tea"
T " hope you're right, there was this maniac"
Simon notices a card sticking out of his jacket top pocket, it reads,
' tell your friends in high places I wasn't bluffing. I get what I want or London blows up"
At New Scotland Yard
Commander Denning, head police officer of London is in his office with Simon.
D " our card came this morning first thing, you know what I usually think of you and Special Branch business, but I need every man I can get, you're in"
T " there was no way to keep me out"
D " I've seen some sick messages from terrorists but this is the sickest"
T" what does he want?"
A police officer pops his head into Denning's office,
"There's no one in the office at Harwell sir, too early "
D " well dig them out at home"
Templar and Denning go into the main operations room. Denning shows Simon a photo.
D " he wants that girl executed! He wants it done publically in Hyde Park, he wants it on tv and radio, and if it isn't done he'll explode the bomb remotely "
T " I'll say he's sick, we can always put blanks in the guns"
D " he's thought of that, that's how he wants it done"
Denning shows Simon a drawing the bomber has done ....of a guillotine
D " try faking that. This lot landed on the Prime Minister's desk at 7 this morning. The bomber has given us until 3 this afternoon to set up the execution. Until we broadcast his demands on tv and radio he'll set off various explosive devices around the city on the hour every hour. What's more each one will be bigger than the last. It's so sick it could just be a hoax"
T " it's no hoax, that bomb was real"
D " why should he show you?"
T " perhaps he knows all about me, knows I have a physics degree, and more importantly I have a lot of influential friends "
The phone rings Denning picks it up and listens, and puts phone down.
D " small explosion on Admiralty Arch, nobody hurt"
The clock reads 9 am,
T " right on the button "
Another phone rings, a police officer picks it up, listens and places receiver in speakerphone device, the bomber's voice is heard. The bomber, identity unknown is holding a telephone receiver up to his tape recorder, a precorded message again in the phoney German accent.
Bomber " that's the first, you've got six hours left"
Donald Houston is Cmmdr Denning;