- published: 23 May 2016
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Hidden Agenda (1990), directed by Ken Loach, is a political thriller about British state terrorism during the Northern Irish Troubles that depicts the fictional assassination of an American civil rights lawyer.
The film unfolds with an Orange walk on The Twelfth, and a tape being handed to an American human rights activist, which becomes his death warrant. It begins with a quote from Margaret Thatcher insisting that Northern Ireland is part of Britain. It ends with one from a former British intelligence agent, stating, "There are two laws running this country: one for the security forces and the other for the rest of us."
Investigator Peter Kerrigan (Cox), assisted by Ingrid Jessner (McDormand), investigates the killing of Paul Sullivan (Dourif), an American civil rights lawyer and political activist in Northern Ireland, whilst he was accompanied by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sympathiser. The investigation reveals that the two men were shot without warning. A mysterious tape recording surfaces, made by a Captain Harris, an ex-army intelligence officer, now in hiding, of senior military leaders and Conservative Party politicians discussing how they arranged the rise to power of Margaret Thatcher. Eventually, Harris gives a copy of the tape to Jessner, but British security forces kill Harris, and blame his death on the IRA. Kerrigan is blackmailed into silence about the conspiracy. Jessner still has the tape, but without Harris to authenticate it, the recording can be dismissed as a forgery.
Hidden Agenda is about a legendary Miami, Florida Detective named Matthews (played by Hans Hernke) who gained his reputation by solving cases from his office, but when an aggressive serial killer threatens his city, he is forced to leave the confines of his precinct to find "The Room" and a helpless kidnapped victim. His world begins to unravel and crumble around him in this crime/thriller story that tests the very limits of the human psyche.
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Come on baby, doo doo doo doo doo
Ooh, yeah, come on
Now baby he keeps on saying that
He tells you you’re the only one
But everybody knows he’s out there having fun
Behind your back and that’s a fact and it ain’t right
‘Cos he’s a fly guy acting alike a gentleman
But back in the day I can still remember when
He’d just turn around, wouldn’t look twice at you
And I’m just being straight with you
‘Cos he takes you for a fool
So you should be on your guard
When he thinks you don’t have a clue
And I think if the truth be known
That you’ll end up all alone when
He gets everything he wants
So girl open up your eyes and see with me
What you see is what you get
Ain’t no hidden agenda
So girlfriend when he’s playing around you’d do well to remember
Now lady when he tells you
That he loves you and won’t give you up
Take your car and it’s your money that be filling it up
Look at what he’s got, think he’s hit the jackpot and it ain’t right
‘Cos your connections keep him sweet and that’s so typical
He’s only in it for himself and that’s so cynical
He’d be out of sight girl if you lost it all
So I feel so bad inside when he’s cruising in your ride
‘Cos I know baby late at night
There’s some other girl by his side
And I wanna let you know that he really ought to go
And you should belive in me
‘Cos I care baby can’t you see with me
Now baby girl when he does you wrong
I’ll make sure you’re alright, yeah
I just wanna be your friend
‘Cos there’s no reason to pretend