he was a law enforcement officer. he worked for the equivalent of the fbi. yeah, i mean what he was most interested in. in anti-corruption. anti-corruption is what really he was most interested in. his name was alexander litvinenko, sasha to his friends. but his interest in fighting corruption had made him a lot of enemies, including in his own agency, the kgb, which was renamed the fsb. litvinenko was forced to flee russia with his wife and son and seek asylum in london where he quickly caught the attention of agents of the british intelligence service mi-6. glenmore trenear harvey was a retired and very charming mi-6 analyst who was asked to befriend litvinenko. the british wanted to find out what he knew about his former colleagues in the russian secret services. was he credible? oh, yes, he was. reporter: credible enough
all of a sudden, i hear a shot. and that just flipped me out. i knew it was a gunshot. i knew it was a gunshot and i knew it was close. she opened the door and saw her husband. he s wearing a raincoat, a suit, a hat, and he s doubled over, and you can see that he s in pain, and he looks at me and says, i ve been shot. the assailants had fled. elizabeth got joyal inside and called 911.h as soon as that 911 call was done, asked my son to lift my legs up because i wanted to make sure that most of, you know, the blood was ne stays in the body. stays in the body. so you don t lose consciousness. elizabeth is a registered nurse. her training kicked in. there was no sign of external bleeding at that point, so that kind of freaked me out too. as a nurse, i know if it s not bleeding on the outside, it s bleeding on the inside.di [ siren ] an ambulance arrived and rushed joyal to the hospital.ve the 9 millimeter bullet had torn
people out in the general public say, oh, that s in russia. it s never going to happen here. but i know that it could happen here, too. i know that it can happen here because it happened to my husband. reporter: there s no proof the joyals are right, but paul s assailants have never been caught. and elizabeth joyal admits at first she was angry when he agreed to be interviewed again for this program. i said, what are you thinking? why do you want to bring notice once again? but then when the man in russia was shot, i had a kind of an epiphany. wait a minute. someone needs to talk about this. someone needs to say this is not right. reporter: can i ask you an obvious question? why are you still doing this? why are you talking to me now, against against the advice and counsel of my family? well, it may be foolish, but i think it s the right thing to do.
through his bladder and intesti intestines.ad they had to place him in a drug-induced coma to save his life. he was unconscious for a month. local law enforcement initially assumed the shooting was a on botched robbery, but elizabeth joyal believed otherwise.tc i didn t want to seem like this crazy conspiracy theory woman, but i knew that it was not a carjacking. there s just no way that it was just some random guy. it had to have been a planned attack. because nothing was stolen and the assailants had clearly been lying in wait, which is why when joyal came stumbling into the house with a bullet wound, he told his wife to call his business partner, a former russian spy master. and warn him i was shot. so if you re warning your
conference room where he and litvinenko had met two weeks before the pine bar encounter. was anything spilled on the table? translator: richard, you are asking questions. i remember some things. i don t remember other things. i cannot answer these questions because these can be used against me in the court, which is done frequently. as for his last meeting with litvinenko at the pine bar, lugovoi says there s no way he brought polonium on that trip because his wife and children were with him. translator: a person s weakest spot is his family. and i m a rational man. even if i had taken part in an operation, even if i had known what was in the container, would i take my family along? i m a rational man. i couldn t do it. not only did he continue to maintain his innocence, he offered his own theory about who poisoned the tea. could someone had put something