With Viscount Rupert Fitzcharles held prisoner the World Revolutionary Army Council send a ransom note to the Times asking for £1 million for Amnesty International and themselves.
Police and SIS begin uneasy alliance after German anarchist Irene Kohl and her Irish boyfriend Danny Connors are now named as the two major players. The kidnappers are angered that their ransom demand are ignored.
A blocked drain forces Connors to break cover but he attracts suspicion, at newsagents, after buying lollipops for the child. Police receive second ransom note but tighten the noose.
With the terrorists unaware they are surrounded, the Police give details of the ransom money, on TV, unaware that the SIS have instructed the SAS to shoot to kill.