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Okay, Matt, this is the last part of the Lithvinyanko affair and this story has been

crazy

up until now. It's been incredible and I'm slightly nervous about what comes next. Well, you should be very nervous because things are about to get even stranger

because we're off to Moscow.

Monday, December 4, 2006, detective inspector Brian Tarpe steps off the plane at Moscow-Domadeva Airport. The sky is dark grey and it's freezing.

Following behind him, there is team of eight other Scotland Yard officers.

Tarpe hurries them on. He wants to get his team to the hotel fast. He wants to check through any last-minute details.

He's got a meeting with a Russian prosecutor general in just a few hours.

Plus the most important thing he needs to check at the hotel, of course. What time is breakfast served?

What time do you finish serving breakfast and is that a proper breakfast or is it continental style?

You don't like it? You don't like a mini-class on mini-paste tree?

Come on, man, I'm flying from London, give some sausages and bacon, mate.

Tarpe's been a detective since the 80s. He's now four years from retirement and he's seen a lot.

Just last year he was a lead investigator in the 777 London underground bombings.

But he's never seen a case like this. He knows he'll get one shot at getting the truth in Moscow.

If he doesn't get the proof he needs on this trip, the whole case against Luga Boyan Covton fails.

He follows the crowd of passengers into bag of tree claim. Before they left London,

Tarpe and his team were briefed by MI6 on counter surveillance.

He rehearses the list in his mind. How to tell if their rooms have been searched. How to tell if they've

been bugged. How to avoid honey traps.

Just to be clear on what we mean by honey traps. Don't order any special films on

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