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Angela Burr confronts Rex Mayhew about top-secret files regarding Richard Roper's illegal arms deals in Cairo. She faces bureaucratic resistance as Mayhew explains the political complexities and the government's preference for maintaining status quo over direct intervention.
BURR: What more do you need?
MAYHEW: Angela...
BURR: You sent me these papers? There isn’t some other RM in the foreign office sending me top secret files by private courier?
MAYHEW: I sent them to you for information. As I did to everyone involved in arms intelligence and enforcement.
BURR: Rex why
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