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Just a warning before we begin this episode, it does contain strong language, Alice.

I might not have heard some of these words before.

I think I've heard you use all of them.

Okay, Alice, it's a new series and it's my turn to choose.

Yes, for good behaviour, you get the authority. Okay, you've gone for a big one.

I have indeed arguably won the biggest stories we're going to cover and it involves so many things.

It's the security intelligence services, British foreign policy, war and as its heart, a search for the truth.

Basically all the makings of an incredible story.

Yep, and the story starts now.

It's 9.15am on the 18th of July 2003.

We're in the Oxfordshire countryside on a peaceful summer's morning.

The early sun warms a golden green patchwork of fields.

I know enough about this show already, Matt, to know this isn't going to stay as becolic as this.

We just enjoy that feeling. Okay, I'll just enjoy it.

For now, birds chatter in overgrown hedge rows. A red darts out.

Then a flurried flock scatter. They sent a predator.

Louise Holmes calls the dog over.

Come on, Brock. Holmes checks her watch. She knows they're up against the clock.

The dog bans her head, nose in the air. His tail starts to wag. He's sent in towards the woods.

His wet nose drops to the floor and he heads into the trees. Holmes follows close behind.

I'm really distracted by the fact that she's called Holmes and this feels like a mystery.

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