Ep4 | 32 Belgrave Square

Bear Hunt

Set in 2026, the episode follows Prime Minister Miriam Brann's first 100 days in office as she navigates a high-stakes geopolitical landscape. Chief

Key takeaways

• PM Miriam Brann is implementing the CORE (Council for Order, Resilience and Enterprise) initiative to redefine global trade partnerships.
• Addie Azikiwe is utilizing AI-driven 'sentinels' to audit government databases and eliminate wasteful expenditures.

Main topics

• Geopolitical asset seizure
• The CORE initiative

Notable quotes

The world will be a better place on completion of your task.

Conclusion

The episode highlights the intersection of high-level diplomacy, techn

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) This series contains strong language and violence. It is fiction. Resemblance to reality is coincidental. This is Bear Hunt. Speaker 1 (0:18) Previously on Bear Hunt. Speaker 6 (0:19) You're my soldier, are you? Sergeant Tom McDuff! Duffy! We're heading to Belgravia! Speaker 3 (0:27) That would be number 30, Belgrave Square. This one? Number 32. Owner, Mr. Prutsev. The British government seized this house. Ready to go on the market. Cut wall now? 19.5. Right now it is owned and operated by Alma, a company of mine. I'll get you to sign something drafted in the Cayman Islands and just like that, number 32, Belgrave Square, to you. For me? For nothing? I didn't say for nothing. Speaker 3 (0:57) First phase, we get you out of the UK to a seeding nation for the task. Second phase, you get into China, ideally Beijing. Third phase, execute and exfil. You'll be unreachable. Speaker 3 (1:14) You don't have any dependents, do you? Not anymore. Your first husband? Speaker 6 (1:18) Now Speaker 3 (1:19) I liked him. How Speaker 6 (1:20) old's this one now? Eleven Speaker 3 (1:21) months. Speaker 1 (1:22) Same as...Fenny was. Speaker 3 (1:24) Zap of radiology. Did you Speaker 1 (1:26) ever speak with the Pullman Clinic? No. The country is a few days away from throwing me out. Speaker 2 (1:32) When I go to the Kremlin... Speaker 1 (1:34) You'd go to the Kremlin? Speaker 2 (1:36) Absolutely I would. Speaker 1 (1:37) Britain goes Speaker 2 (1:39) to the polls. Speaker 1 (1:42) No, no, this isn't just a bad night for Alex Kernaway. All the Kernaways in this world... We are Speaker 2 (1:48) seeing Kernaway heartlands are being stripped away as the evening goes on. And that being the path to victory for Miriam Brand. Speaker 1 (1:56) I wish you peace in your private life. Enjoy the silence. Speaker 6 (2:00) Unlucky about tonight, eh? Speaker 3 (2:03) Duffy here has had a job offer of his own. Speaker 6 (2:06) Firearms training. Osaka. Zambian Special Forces Speaker 1 (2:10) Unit. Good luck, Sergeant. This country owes you an enormous debt. The world will be a better place on completion of your task. I promise you that. I promise. Speaker 6 (3:06) ADF. ADF. Congo militia. ADF are here. Speaker 1 (3:10) In the barracks. How many? Maybe six or seven. They're in this compound. What happens when... Can Speaker 3 (3:28) you come? Speaker 6 (3:55) No, no, no, no. Mulenga. Mulenga. Come here. Get your men corral together into this building here like we practised. Drag them in if you have to, otherwise we're going to get turned over. Tell them not to fire anywhere right of that building. I'm going to go out to clear the compound from right to left, so don't fucking shoot me. Yes. No. Okay, okay, okay. Get on the radio. Give them our location. There are unknown numbers. Possibly platoon size ADF reading the compound. Yeah? We're holding the main building and looking at clearing the remaining buildings out. Tell them we have two times friendly KIA and require the QRF here ASAP. Get the fuck up. Use that. Yes. Look, say all that into the fucking radio. I'm clearing everything this way. You lot are going to clear everything down that way. Get to the building and hold it for me, yeah? Yes. Yes. Radio, now! Yes, radio. Good boy. Speaker 2 (6:37) daring Speaker 4 (6:37) operation in the pre-dawn hours at 2 a.m. local in Caracas, 1 a.m. East Coast time. U.S. Special Operations Forces flew in from off the coast of Venezuela to snatch Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro Speaker 5 (6:52) and... Speaker 4 (7:17) Breaking news that has just come in. Right now, the Iranian state media is telling the people of Iran that the Ayatollah has been killed. Again, Iran's state-run media is now confirming that the Ayatollah has been killed. The Speaker 7 (7:33) latest reaction after the confirmation from Iranian state media that the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Saturday. Iran has declared 40 days of mourning... Speaker 8 (8:10) 100 days since you walked through the door of number 10 Downing Street. 100 days since the rupture in British politics that was your election victory. I think you could ask just about any person on the street how you've fared in this new role and each person will give you a totally different answer. But how do you think you've fared, Prime Minister? Well, Speaker 2 (8:34) wish you started with that question, Sarah. Speaker 8 (8:37) Maybe we'll put it at the start in the edit. Speaker 2 (8:39) Wow, a hundred days. Well, it's been the honour of my life, that's for certain. Working for this country, working alongside a brilliant cabinet, your husband, Pete Nicholls, of course, being one of those brilliant people. Speaker 8 (8:52) Yeah, he's OK. Speaker 2 (8:53) He's OK, yeah. Speaker 2 (8:57) So on this, on that question, first hundred days, Addy said to me, this morning actually. Addy Ezekiewe, you chief of staff. That's right. Careful what you say, he's behind you. He gets fed up of being mistaken for security. You can see why though, can't you? Is it the expression? Moody, and that stance, like a bloody bouncer. Speaker 8 (9:17) The build, Addy, it's the build. Speaker 2 (9:20) I'll take that as a compliment. Yes, so he said to me, we've got the property. We've knocked down the old rotten house, full of asbestos and rats and all this. We've taken all that rubble and rubbish away. Now it starts. Speaker 8 (9:35) Yeah. Speaker 2 (9:36) Everything we've talked about. Everything we and the British people have been fermenting over the years. Dreaming of doing when we finally get the keys. Now we can do it. Because they don't knock it down for you, Sarah. No. They don't knock it down for you. They don't clean it up for you. They don't... It's a cesspit. How so? I mean, a lot is external. A lot is the relationships we have. But the thing that I think is fundamentally damaging, or has been so fundamentally damaging, is the civil service. Speaker 8 (10:09) Yeah, and so your AI, your government audit AI, I can see Addy smiling, did that make these discoveries? Speaker 2 (10:19) Yes and no. Yes, we knew it was there, but the Hive project, that yes, Addy and his team are putting together, the bots, the sentinels, we call them, They can go right into these databases and immediately wipe out these ridiculous expenditures that have crippled us. If you don't get that under control, that may as well be toxic waste in your foundations. So, a fresh patch of grass. Fresh patch of grass, some very exciting blueprints, and the best construction team in the world, the British people. So, what's first? Setting up CORE with our global partners. And Speaker 8 (11:03) CORE, that's the Council for Order... The Council for Speaker 2 (11:05) Order, Resilience and Enterprise. It's for the nations that still believe in the fundamentals. Order means no tolerance for terrorism, riots, looting or disruption. Resilience means defending our values and traditions against mass illegal migration. Enterprise means trading and building without ideological taxes and blockers. This is about control, growth and getting serious again. Speaker 5 (11:31) Sarah, time. Speaker 8 (11:33) Sorry, Addy. Can I just, on the core countries, just for the Herald Online, please? For Speaker 5 (11:38) the Herald, she says. She's playing favourites. Speaker 2 (11:42) We can do more on that, can't we? Because that's going to be for this week, Addy. That's obviously a lot of our focus, messaging-wise. Speaker 5 (11:49) Right. Just on core and then... Speaker 2 (11:53) Then done, yeah. Speaker 8 (11:56) Core is sort of seen as a middle ground between G7 and Bricks. It's a brainchild of yours. How do you see its implementation? Speaker 2 (12:04) I'd say bridge, not middle ground. But for many decades now, we've been part of a club. And at first, the club offered us good rates, cooperation, intelligence, defence and all this. And we believed it was because we had shared values. But we were wrong on that. Or more accurately, we were deceived. the goalposts shifted. It was simply there to make sure our money went into the club and not anywhere else. Not into our own communities, but also it kept us away from the countries that the club was particularly snobbish about. Core is a collection of nations that are deliberately broadening their horizons outside their usual trading partners. Look, I was a history teacher. What do I do when things get stale? When kids misbehave? You sit there, you sit next to him, you go and work in a different group. It's good for us. It's important. Jamie Arons called it redrawing the world map. Which he wants to do with the global socialist movement, by the way. It's not redrawing the world map. It's respecting and understanding the world map. Britain used to own a quarter of that world. For the last 20 odd years, we can barely trade with a quarter of that world. So? Argentina, United States, Speaker 8 (13:22) Russia. Speaker 2 (13:23) Turkey, Hungary, Indonesia. Britain. Britain. All Speaker 5 (13:30) good, Miss Nicholls? All good. Before the 3pm, the US Secretary of Commerce. Speaker 2 (13:36) In the office? Speaker 5 (13:38) In here. Speaker 1 (13:48) Mr. Speaker 2 (13:49) Romero, how are you? Speaker 1 (13:50) Prime Minister, I'm doing great. And yourself? Speaker 2 (13:53) You can't be that great. Isn't it about 4 a.m. there? Speaker 1 (13:57) Ha, no, I'm in New York. Speaker 2 (13:59) At the U.N., I expect. Speaker 1 (14:01) Not on your life. Not on your life. Prime Minister, I won't take up too much of your time. I want to talk straight from Ramus this week. Not right now. But for the moment, first phase, framework sign-off, Istanbul. Speaker 1 (14:22) Right. Speaker 1 (14:33) umlaut. T-U-R-K-I-Y-E. Speaker 2 (14:38) Okay. Yeah, fine. Speaker 1 (14:40) And we just got off talks, super productive talks, by the way, with the Russians who are unlocking trillions in capital for this. They're looking actually at some of the second tier sanctions from 2022. Speaker 1 (15:01) and they would like those removed. Speaker 1 (15:07) Because ultimately, right, Prime Minister, they can't unlock what is theirs for the core initiative without having what is theirs. Speaker 2 (15:17) Just a second, Mr Secretary. Speaker 5 (15:19) Russian sanctions? Speaker 2 (15:21) Yes, Tier 2 from 2022. Speaker 5 (15:24) Seized assets? Speaker 2 (15:26) Is that going to be a problem? Speaker 5 (15:28) Unilateral ones. Easy. It won't be timely, but it can be done. Speaker 2 (15:33) Better? Something better than that? Speaker 5 (15:35) Say... The ball is rolling. Have our word sort of thing. Yeah. Speaker 2 (15:41) Absolutely, Mr. Secretary. We'll be removing those obstacles. The ball is rolling on that as we speak. Speaker 1 (15:47) That is great. Speaker 2 (15:48) The process could be a little protracted or, you know, how those things can be. Speaker 1 (15:53) Sure. Speaker 2 (15:54) So, can Moscow take our word? Speaker 1 (15:56) Your word, Prime Minister, means a lot to them. I know that for a fact. So, I'm sure that'll be fine. Speaker 2 (16:02) Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Speaker 1 (16:04) Yeah, thank you. Okay, bye now. Speaker 2 (16:07) You can work that out? Yeah? Of course. Speaker 7 (16:11) Quick one. Not now. Speaker 2 (16:12) I've got a 3pm. Speaker 7 (16:13) Yes, no, just came to say, so do you, Addy. Transport Secretary, Cabinet Secretary and Rebecca Harp. Speaker 5 (16:20) Who's Rebecca Harp? Speaker 7 (16:21) From Air Accidents Investigation Branch. Speaker 5 (16:24) Shit. Speaker 8 (16:27) And