The kidnapper discovers the ploy (due to someone recognising Senseless and posting a picture on Twitter), and sends Princess Susannah's finger to a UK news station as a response. When the British government first receives the video, the Home Secretary, Alex Cairns ( Lindsay Duncan) secretly attempts to manufacture fake footage to broadcast (via using highly sophisticated technology to superimpose the PM's head onto porn star Rod Senseless, who would perform in his stead). However at the same Twitter wags jokingly discuss the story, mocking Callow and his wife Jane (Anna Wilson-Jones). The public's response is initially one of sympathy towards Callow, and the majority do not expect him to go through with the demand. After this, the UK media follow suit, and although they sanitise certain details everyone already knows the bizarre ransom demand. Although the UK's media initially agrees via a D-Notice not to report the story, it soon reaches foreign news networks, which immediately report. Callow also demands the news not reach the public, at which point he is told the final crucial detail the ransom video came from YouTube and, despite having only been up for nine minutes, has already been viewed, downloaded and copied by many thousand members of the British public. Callow adamantly opposes fulfilling the demand, and orders everything possible to catch the kidnapper before the deadline. The kidnappers leaves no details nor any channel for communication, making negotiation impossible. The demand itself is a shocking one he must have live sexual intercourse with a pig broadcast on national television at 4pm that afternoon on every network, with a list of technical specifications designed to make it impossible to fake. A video of Susannah is shown to the Prime Minister where she states that she will be killed if Callow does not follow through with the ransom demand. Prime Minister Michael Callow ( Rory Kinnear) is woken up one morning to be told that Princess Susannah, Duchess of Beaumont ( Lydia Wilson), a much-loved member of the Royal Family, has been kidnapped.
It was written by Charlie Brooker and originally aired on 4 December 2011. The National Anthem is the first episode of Black Mirror.
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