55 Degrees North (2004) s02e01 Episode Script
Season 2, Episode 1
Three calls tonight, all saying the same thing.
"You will be punished.
" It's possible that it's just a random caller and because he got a reaction he's just kept calling.
How long ago did you think you saw a prowler? Well, I don't know exactly.
Half-hour.
I was standing there.
I glanced at the window - Sorry.
- It's okay, Mrs Priestly.
It's the night detective.
Try not to worry.
I've had a good look around.
There's no sign of anyone.
- I'm sorry.
I must have imagined it.
- No, don't be sorry.
- We'd prefer you called.
- Thank you.
Everything looks fine.
Try not to worry.
Uniform 5 to Control.
Are you all right, Mrs Priestly? Thanks to BlackAmber/Sub Nicky, are you all right? Try not to worry.
Welcome back, Claire.
Thank you.
They're, um, they're beautiful.
Nobody saw you bring these in, I hope.
No.
I put them under my jacket.
Oh.
Look how pretty she is.
- Just like her mother.
- Aren't you the charmer? - I can see it's working.
- Maybe you should try snakes.
Snakes, lawyers, what's the difference? - Ah, nearly got you.
- Not even close.
I thought I was gonna be able to slowly ease into things, I mean, look at this.
This? This is a briefing note from Yates.
You've got an awful lot of open cases running.
Crime doesn't sleep, although justice seems to nod off from time to time.
- But not on your shift.
- No.
Absolutely not.
I put on my cape and Gotham City's mine.
Well, I hate to tell you this, but you're gonna have to work harder.
- What's this Priestly thing? - Harassed woman.
I know how she feels.
- What, your car get blown up as well? - No.
Just my life.
Well, I'm nowhere with it and Yates is getting edgy.
- Not to mention Mrs Priestly.
- Yeah.
- Spot the lie.
- How'd you know? - That kind of girl doesn't exist.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
I got my mother.
Well, if you're around later maybe I could add to your caseload? I'm working really hard here.
- I hadn't noticed.
- How am I doing? Nicky Nicky, you've been a great friend - Am I dead? - No.
No, but you know what I mean.
I can't be compromised at work.
How about in your flat? - You're not making this easy.
- Good.
We have got to be professional.
There's nothing about you that's amateur.
I think it'd be better for both of us.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Are we talking discreet or non-contact? Let's just see how strong we are.
Yeah, I was like 12, the whole class was there, looking at Hadrian's Wall and that's when it hit me.
What? Bit of the Wall? That I was probably a Roman soldier in a past life.
I was always good at Latin.
Why should I be good at Latin? - Mystery, considering how daft you are.
- Exactly.
And I think that's why I wanted to be a police constable.
Uniforms.
They wore them, we wear them.
See what I mean? You worry me, Clarky.
Hey, come on, lad.
Party's over, time to get home.
- Come on.
- Sorry, mate.
Yeah.
Get yourself off.
Ever since then, I go back and walk along the wall and try to remember what it was like being a Roman soldier.
That's what I'm doing this weekend.
What are you doing? Getting drunk, eating crisps, watching telly.
- All at the same time? - It's a talent.
Do you ever wonder about what you were in a past life? No, Clarky.
I just worry about how many lies I'm gonna have to tell in my next life about what I did in this one.
You wanna move him on? You know, that's a pretty negative approach to things if you don't mind me saying.
Come on.
Rick, quick! Have you got a name for me? He was unconscious when we found him.
They think he's broke his neck.
Any ID? No wallet, no money.
Just car keys.
It's hard to tell if he fell or was hit in some kind of altercation.
A mugging gone wrong.
They hit him.
He falls.
They take his wallet and money.
Yeah, or someone found him lying there and nicked his wallet.
Thought he was passed out drunk or something and took advantage.
- Why do you over-complicate things, Clark? - That's not over-complicated.
Well, maybe he was hit by a flying saucer, then a Roman soldier took his wallet.
- You just talk such rubbish, man.
- You're the one talking rubbish.
As much as I'm enjoying this, let's speculate after we hear from the hospital and forensics finish their prelims.
A Roman soldier would not have stolen from a wounded man.
This his car, Nicky? What did you find? Run the number plate, we'll need it for when Yates gets here.
You're not gonna call him? He's Acting DI.
He wants to be across all serious crimes.
- It's 2:00 in the morning.
- Why do you think I wanna call him? It's good for him to know what the night shift is like.
Get Clarky to stay here for continuity.
I'll let SOCO know you found the car.
Get me a name and address, Rick, yeah? Do you know what time it is? I'm not a clock-watcher, Paddy.
Final interview for the DI job? Yeah.
Yeah, sorry to wake you, mate.
I bet you wanted to be fresh.
- I'll be fine.
- No doubt.
A few cups of coffee and you'll be sharp as a tack.
Not too many.
I get jittery on too many.
Hands shake, get a bit fuzzy in the brain.
But that won't happen to you.
No, sir.
Your interview will go fine.
Nobody deserves the job more, if you don't mind me saying.
Please, please, tell me I didn't come down here for small talk.
Sorry to rabbit on.
That's the coffee.
Raymond Ballard.
Found him off the Bigg Market, 2:00 this morning.
Is he dead? No, coma.
Broken neck.
You got me down here at 3:00 in the morning because a drunk slips over and breaks his neck? No trace of alcohol or drugs in his bloods.
You wanted to be across all serious incidents.
I thought this was serious.
- But he's not dead? - To be honest, I wasn't sure we should call you.
But he's nearly dead if that makes you feel better.
He might not last the night.
Then it would be murder, and we can all agree that would be serious, yeah? Or manslaughter.
Robbery.
- That's what I thought.
- It's possible.
Possible? No money, ID or wallet on the body.
A man in his 20s doesn't have money or ID because it was nicked.
I'm with you, boss.
That's a reasonable conclusion, or am I missing something? He still had his car keys on him.
I found the car, that's how we ID'd him.
Why didn't his assailant steal the car? Well, maybe his assailant wasn't as clever as you.
- Or he couldn't drive.
- Maybe.
- He hasn't been able to tell you anything? - No.
If he survives, the doctors can't predict when we'll be able to speak to him.
- What about forensics? - No.
Maybe something tomorrow.
Ballard had a head wound, it's hard to know if it's consequence or cause.
- There's no weapon found? - No.
Like I said, we might know more tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'll get started on a thick non-driver.
Should narrow the field.
You'd better hope it was a robbery, Cole, 'cause I'm not gonna feel too good about getting up at this hour for a bloke who tripped and banged his head.
Why don't you concentrate on Priestly? The Chief asked me about it yesterday.
He doesn't like the idea of cars blowing up.
I think after a week he expected you to make some progress.
- I'll look after this one.
- Okay.
- Oh, yeah, and good luck.
- Yeah.
Good luck.
Cole, we both know you don't mean that.
- I meant with Ballard.
- I was talking about the job.
You got a bit of brown on your nose there, mate.
I'll be right there, sweetheart.
I'm coming! Did you sleep well, Mum? Oh, I'd kill for a cup of tea.
- Baby's crying.
- Yeah, I know.
Where did I leave the ashtray? Mum, I don't want you smoking in front of the baby.
The baby is in the other room.
Mum, can you make sure the bottle doesn't get too hot? You know where the tea bags are and I'm really sorry, but I forgot to get milk.
- You're not gonna make me a cup of tea? - No, Mum.
I've got to go and get ready.
When the bottle's warm could you feed Emmy? - There's no milk.
- Yeah, Mum, I know.
Today is the Holy Day of Obligation, you know.
Really? Well, thank you for reminding me.
- Mum, the bottle? - Oh, sorry.
Mum.
Look, it's too hot.
I said I was sorry.
An hour in church might do you good.
Well, look, you know what? If I had an hour, I'm sure it would.
- Are you going to help me? - That's what I'm here for.
There you go.
I'll wait outside.
No change? No.
Still unconscious.
Needs a machine to breathe.
Maybe one day he'll tell us what happened.
That would be handy 'cause I haven't got much.
Blunt instrument? No, don't think so.
The head wound had debris in it, which suggests it occurred when he fell.
You don't think he was assaulted? Not based on the head wound and that's all I've had to look at.
Oh, I've got a set of photographs for you.
Head wound.
Position of the body.
- That doesn't mean he wasn't pushed.
- It's possible.
What about these marks on his arm and body? Don't you bruise when you fall? That fish was as tall as I was.
Yeah, loop it over like that.
Took me about three hours to bring him in.
My arms were aching, weighed about 30 pounds.
He weighed 20 pounds last time I heard that story.
Yeah, well, your memory's never been good.
- We're going fishing off the jetty.
- A little half-term treat.
I took Nicky fishing when he was a boy on Clapham Common.
Never caught a thing.
Couldn't sit still.
Scared the fish off.
He loves to blame somebody else.
Errol's going to cook what we catch for lunch.
There's a fishmonger's in the village.
Your uncle misses the point, Matty.
- What point is that? - It's not in the catching.
It's in the doing.
I'm gonna put that up on the wall at work.
Should go down really well.
Gives you time to sit in the quiet and think about things.
I'm ready, boys! Here she is, the neighbour from hell.
Georgina, we going fishing off the pier.
Aye, I know, and I brought a radio so we don't get bored just sitting there.
- You're all tarted up.
- Am I? I didn't think you were going for the DI job.
- I changed my mind.
- Why's that? I, erm changed my mind.
I'm just thinking that if you were in the frame, the Chief would have asked you to be Acting DI.
Actually, it was the Chief that asked me to apply.
Good luck.
Yeah, right.
You've had a problem with me ever since they bumped me up to Acting DI.
Whatever, Paddy.
Get me background on Raymond Ballard.
The file's on your desk.
We've had three other assaults and a robbery in the Bigg Market in the past 10 days.
I don't think they're connected but we can't rule it out, and I want it this morning.
Would all parties for the trial to commence in court number 3 report to the court immediately? All parties for court 3 go straight to court.
I can't talk, I'm waiting for Harbinson.
Good morning, Claire.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Morning.
Harbinson's trial was adjourned until today.
He asked me to cover for him.
Okay.
Well, I'll I'll walk you through it.
- How's the baby? - She's fine.
How's your wife? Market trader who refuses to sell his fruit and veg by grams and kilograms.
Trading Standards brought the allegations after repeated warnings.
- She must be getting big.
- Yeah.
Growing everyday.
Trading Standard officers are here to testify.
They made numerous visits, have photographs, etcetera, etcetera.
The accused won't deny it.
It's the principle of it all.
He's making a stand.
- How long have you been back at work? - Not long.
So, a serial seller of courgettes by the pound.
We should lock him up and throw away the key.
- You have a picture of her? - She looks like you.
If you squint.
Can we concentrate on this danger to society? Can I see her sometime? You're not on the birth certificate.
That's not what I asked.
- Look, this is really awkward, James.
- It doesn't need to be.
I'd just like to see my daughter, that's all.
Is there something wrong with that? I'll think about it.
Okay.
Let's go and see justice done.
Errol, didn't you hear the smoke alarm? Yeah, I was gonna get it in a second.
I had my hands full here.
Spray some water on it.
Knock the flames down.
- You want to do this? - No, thanks.
- All right.
- Is the haddock ready yet? - Just about.
- Spray some water on it.
You'll burn it.
- Don't make me get vexed, woman! - Errol, are you sure you know what you're doing? Make yourself useful.
Turn it off.
Errol! Flip it over, son, flip it over.
- Phone's ringing.
- Errol! - Shall I get it? - All right, all right.
Hello? Yeah.
Just one second.
I'll get him.
It's for Matty.
Matty? It's for you.
Hello? Ah, you see? All it needed was some water.
- Who was on the phone? - Oh, it's for Matty.
Someone called Adam.
Errol, what's wrong? No.
Where are the letters my dad sent me? There aren't any letters.
We'll talk about it later, Matty, okay? I gotta get some sleep.
Your food's getting cold.
Check upstairs, will you? Who's gonna pay for the lock? Detective Sergeant Maguire.
- Do you live here, sir? - No.
I'm the landlord.
- Was Raymond Ballard your tenant? - Yes.
Been there three weeks.
Lives alone.
Landlord met him once when he paid the first month in cash up front.
Arranged to pay direct debit after that.
I got his bank details from the landlord.
- Did you speak to the bank? - Yeah.
Got credit card details and they've put a watch on it.
Found this.
He was a cleaner at the Stansfield Research Institute.
It gets us nowhere.
Look a number of employees at the Stansfield Institute have had threats made against them.
They're working on that embryo, stem cell, human cloning project.
The administrator, a Mrs Priestly, had her car set on fire a week ago - I know the one.
Cole's looking after it.
- It may be related.
He may have been the victim of the threats.
- Hang on, why would they target a cleaner? - Yeah, it's a stretch.
- But it's also an unhappy coincidence.
- You're muddying the waters, man.
Let's not get sidetracked.
I know it's not as sexy but this has all the hallmarks of an assault and robbery.
Yeah, maybe.
Look, I've got an appointment.
Don't let me hold you up.
Oh, and Frank, I appreciate the work you're doing so just keep me across anything you come up with so I can tell the Chief.
My client believes this is just another example of rules made in Brussels being used to damage British customs and values.
How can selling produce in ounces and pounds be a crime? Thank you.
Well done.
A victory's a victory.
Good for the Home Office league tables.
I don't even wanna think about how much money was wasted on this.
- You look good, Claire.
I meant to tell you.
- Thanks.
- You still seeing that black fellow? - I was never seeing "that black fellow".
And he's a bastard! - Well, he knows you well.
- Apparently.
Claire - I'd like to see my daughter.
- Yeah, I hear you.
And I'd like to see you.
Well, you should probably check with your wife before we put anything in the diary.
Combinations, combinations.
Combinations.
Combinations.
Ah, man, you lose the rhythm.
You got it now.
You got it, you got it.
- I'm out of shape.
- I know you are.
Matty, come on, you have a go.
Get your feet moving first.
It's all in the feet.
You cannot hop around the ring like a rabbit.
You got to shifting your weight, left, right.
Left, right, left, left, right.
Left, left, come on, come on.
- Right, left, left, come on.
- I can't do it.
Course you can.
That Bolton boy, think of him.
His name is Amir Khan not Amir Can't.
That's lame, Errol.
Come, keep trying.
Takes practice.
Little Nicky was just like you.
Took him a while before he got it.
Why do you always talk about Uncle Nicky and never about my dad? He was there, too, wasn't he? Yeah.
He was there.
No, he wasn't.
Don't lie to him.
Adam was a lost soul.
Plenty of gifts God gave him.
- He never appreciated it.
- How'd he get lost? - I'll talk to you about it later, Matty, okay? - When? I let Mr Ballard go last week.
- How long had he worked for you? - Two days.
Two days? I did a routine check of his references.
They'd never heard of him.
He'd obviously lied so I had to let him go.
This won't be in the newspapers, will it? We don't want the attention.
Everyone here's anxious.
I thought you'd come by because of what happened to my car last week.
That was bad enough.
Now this.
- Thanks a lot.
I'll be in touch.
- Right.
Mrs Priestly? When did that happen? Last night.
Bill, one of our lab assistants, was working late.
He saw someone defacing the building when he came out and chased him off.
Thanks.
Detective? I don't have a lot of time, Miss Maxwell.
I'm on my way to a meeting.
Well, I won't take long.
That market trader was convicted this morning.
- I'm sure the CPS will be celebrating.
- Yeah.
Champagne and balloons.
The court has ordered them to desist.
We expect them to defy the court.
We're prepared to prosecute if they do.
We need you to follow up on it.
Yates.
What time? Was the person present when they used the credit card? Right.
Thank you, bye.
Look, we've got a lot on.
I'm short-handed and that's just a waste of time.
I don't think that's your call.
It's not the CPS's job to tell me how to allocate my resources.
Well, I'll write a note to the Chief Constable if that would make you feel more comfortable.
- I'll see if I've got someone available.
- Cheers.
We have to explain things to him.
It's not knowing that's making him crazy.
No.
He'll be fine.
He'll forget.
- We're not handling this right.
- Don't make me get vexed, boy.
He'll be fine.
Don't worry.
Thank you, Detective.
Yeah.
Pleasure, sir.
Thank you again.
Detective Sergeant Yates? Good to see you again, sir.
How's the wife? She's very well.
Thanks for asking.
- Hi, Frank.
- Hi.
You interviewed for it? Yeah.
- Go well? - Yeah, yeah.
Fine.
- All right, Frank? - Hello.
I don't think it went well.
He had an interview? Kept that quiet.
You go up for it? Oh, yeah, they begged me to take the job.
But, you know, regular hours, more money.
Just didn't suit me.
- You didn't take the exam, did you? - No.
Pointless.
Yates has got it, hasn't he? They're gonna make him.
Acting DI then appoint me, or Frank, for that matter? I don't think so.
Hey, I'm an equal opportunities kind of guy and if you want to get changed in here, it's fine by me.
I like less light when I walk around naked.
- I never would have thought that.
- Well, now you can think about it.
Sergeant Brookes, that is sexual harassment.
You want harassment, see me later.
This is the victim, Ballard, pushing through some girls in the Bigg Market.
When he speaks to them, I wanna know what he said.
He's in a hurry.
But is he chasing someone or being chased? And I wanna know who those women are.
They'd know if he was chasing someone.
Someone who robbed him.
I think he was and that person's our suspect.
- You're confident it was a robbery? - Someone used his credit card at 1:20 today.
- Any other cameras pick him up further along? - Not him.
But Fifteen minutes later, we pick up the women near Central Station trying to find taxis.
Find me some witnesses and get me a suspect.
Cole? One more thing.
Market traders suspected of selling by the pound.
Something that serious you really ought to handle.
Claire Maxwell specifically wanted you to look after it.
- Did she? - It's important to her.
The victim's name is Raymond Ballard.
We're looking for anyone that might have seen the assault.
Anyone with any information that might shed some light on what happened.
Right, that's the camera.
- Ready? - Yep.
Go.
Not too fast.
The girls were drunk and if they were wearing high heels, see, it would be more like this - You got some experience at this? - Nah.
Never done it before.
Let's ask them.
No, no.
Not without danger money.
Excuse me, can we ask you some questions, please? - Should I call for backup? - Shut up, Clark.
Right, can I just ask you Have you by any chance seen this man a couple of days ago? - Nah.
- You're not even looking at the picture! Right.
This is where we found Ballard.
- Time? - Four minutes.
Are you sure you haven't seen this man? You know that's a really big hat.
They said they didn't.
Howay, let's go.
- Are you two strippers? - He is.
Oh, look, he's got a right big hat! Don't touch the hat .
Just get off, get off.
Look, give us the hat back! Don't make them angry, Rick.
Get them off! Get them off! Get them off! Get them off! Howay, come on, come on.
- I want my hat back! - Don't worry about the hat, it's not worth it! Don't let the cute one get away! - That's it, I'm out of here.
- She wasn't talking about you.
She certainly wasn't talking about you! Oh.
What are you doing? Ah, look at that.
Hey, come on.
Hey, hey! Pack it in.
Just pack it in, will you? Get off! Jeez! Get away.
Now pack it in! Pack it in! Come here! Get off! You look after her.
Pack it in now, will you? - What are you two fighting about? - She took my hat! It's not your hat, it's my hat! Ooh! Go on, get yourselves off.
Go on, get away.
Go on.
Eight minutes.
Eight? Yates makes it 15 from when they disappear to when they arrive in the station.
They could have gone a different way.
Well, you weren't much of a Roman soldier tonight, were you, Clarky? You had to provoke them, didn't you? Only a fool would provoke those kind of girls when they're hunting in packs.
- Anything? - Only a near-death experience.
- Nothing.
- Rick nearly got us killed.
You're the one who said I was a stripper.
I was trying to diffuse the situation.
I thought they'd know I was joking.
- I mean, look at you.
- You? A stripper? November 7 come in Anyone with half a brain would know it was a joke.
Yeah, on my way.
I'll see you guys back at the nick.
Frank? It's where Ballard worked.
I found his security badge in his flat.
- Stansfield Priestly? - Yeah.
Ballard was working on the human cloning project? No, no, no.
He was a cleaner, for two days last week.
Somebody doesn't like what they're doing here.
You made any progress on Priestly? Simple incendiary device.
Other than that, nothing.
You don't suppose 'cause he worked here No.
It's just a robbery, isn't it? According to Yates.
- Someone got interrupted.
- Yeah.
A lab assistant chased them off.
The graffiti went up the night Ballard was attacked.
Is it a coincidence? Let's say it isn't .
What's the connection? I don't know.
Am I wasting my time here, Nicky, or what? Is it just a robbery? Yates likes things simple.
We all like things simple.
Come on, love, come on.
Sixty pence a pound chestnuts.
- Cheers, pet.
All right.
- Bye.
I'd like some apples, please.
One pound of apples, 90 pence, please.
Detective Sergeant Cole.
I have reason to believe you're in contravention of the Trading Standards directive requiring you to sell these apples in grams and kilograms.
You sure this is a good idea? Don't worry.
They're not going to hit a girl, are they? I'm not taking bets.
What are you gonna do about it? Just thought you should know.
Thanks for the apples.
Definitely the better part of valour.
- What you doing when we get off? - Trying to get some sleep.
Wild, unbridled, messy, guiltless sex helps me sleep.
Yeah, me, too.
But with who? - Thought I'd bring you breakfast.
- You're not meant to be here.
I know.
Your market traders are breaking the law again.
- Yates asked me to look after it.
- Thought he might.
But you didn't think I'd come by? Well, no, just checking the temperature.
You're a bit of a tease.
Oh, please.
Don't hurt my feelings.
Did you have a busy night? I spent most of it dodging marauding party girls in the Bigg Market.
Sounds like fun.
When I was their age, only guys behaved like that.
What happened? Equality.
I don't think it's what the suffragettes had in mind.
What do you know about human cloning? Only what I read in the papers.
Turns out my assault victim, Ballard, with the broken neck, he used to work at the Stansfield Research Institute.
- Yeah? - A lot of people don't approve of it.
Yeah.
Luddites.
Religious nuts.
I don't know if they're nuts.
I mean, it's a fairly tricky moral maze, isn't it? They create stem cells and they cure diabetes.
How tricky is that? And where do they draw the line? Some scientists have a bad habit of not knowing when to stop.
Why do we want them to stop? They should cure whatever they can, God bless them.
Don't you think there are some things we should leave to God? When Ballard wakes up and realises his neck is broken, he isn't going to want God, he's going to want stem cells.
Maybe.
You don't think Ballard was attacked because he worked there? Well, the administrator had her car set on fire.
And that wouldn't make the attacker a nut? - Do you like arguing just for the sake of it? - No.
I argue to win.
My little ball of fun.
Me, or the baby? How about I make you late for work? I don't suppose you're the milkman? Mum, this is my friend Nicky.
Hmm.
Early for a friend to drop by.
- So you're not responsible for this, I take it? - No! Mum.
I didn't know we had company.
I'd better dress.
- Ah, well, can you feed Emmy? - Mmm-hmm.
When I'm dressed.
Yeah, I just I've got to go and get ready for work.
Far be it for me to keep you late for work.
Could you hold her? Yeah.
Come here.
Mummy's so messy.
Mummy's so messy.
Look at her shoe.
Can little Nicky give Mummy back the shoe please? Sorry.
Mum, I'm going to go and get ready.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Tough shift? - How's Matty? Matty doesn't like it when you're late home.
He worries about you.
- Where is he? - Sleeping.
Worrying in his sleep, is he? You stop in at that woman's house again? The woman got a baby and no man.
I know exactly what's on her mind.
You know, some of the things you say, Errol, it's like you're frozen in time.
Did you speak to Matty about his dad? No, and I'm not going to.
There's nothing to be said.
Don't let me sleep past one.
I gotta go in early.
He's forgotten about it, Nicky.
Hey, what are you up to? Errol made me do my holiday homework.
"Describe three things you love.
" I put you, Errol and Fulham.
Cool.
You know, if you want to put Fulham first, I won't be upset.
I don't get why you hate my dad so much.
He's your brother.
- I don't hate him.
- You don't like him.
What did he do to you and Errol? I'm old enough to know.
Look, nobody hates anybody, all right? Now, I need to go to work.
Errol won't tell me and now you won't.
Right, okay.
Come here, sit down.
When I was growing up, there were some kids that thought doing well in school or treating people with any kind of respect was selling out.
Yeah? They didn't want to play that game, they didn't want to do what was expected of them.
Well, Adam, your dad, was like that.
There's kids just like that today.
You've seen them.
They pull their hoods up.
They think they're cool, they think they're hard.
But they're not.
Your Gran believed that life is God's gift.
Well, my brother has done nothing with that gift.
Your Gran would always ask me when she tucked me into bed, "What have you done today that makes you proud?" And I'd have to think about that.
I love you, yeah? And because you think you're old enough, I'm going to tell you this.
Your dad is in prison for selling drugs and hurting people.
He's got nothing to be proud of.
And I thank God we're not like him.
Yates thinks he's got a suspect.
Someone's been spending our victim's hard-earned money.
Ballard's credit card has been used again.
The suspect's still in the MetroCentre.
Let's move.
Angel's Clothing.
Upper Level.
Excuse me, sir.
He's just used our victim's credit card again! Take your positions, but be careful, I don't want to spook him.
The two of yous go down that way, yeah? Suspect's a white male, mid-forties, dark hair.
He should be considered dangerous.
Approach with caution.
- Where's he gone? - He went that way.
Suspect, Metroland amusement park.
Out of the way.
I've got him, he's at the carousel.
Hey, what you doing? Hey, get off! Get your hands off me! - You are under arrest, sir.
- What are you talking about? We have reason to suspect you of theft relating to the fraudulent use of a credit card.
I don't understand.
What's going on? - What's your name, sir? - I'm Raymond Ballard.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thanks.
It checks out.
He's Raymond Ballard.
Lives in Sunderland.
Runs a goods distribution company.
He was taking his daughter out for half-term.
If he's Ballard, who's our man in the hospital with a broken neck? I'll let one of you two apologise to Mr Ballard.
Make it a good one, yeah? See if we can avoid a complaint.
Flip you for it? - You religious, Frank? - Depends on the day.
- Like the day you're gonna die? - Yeah.
Yeah, I like that one.
You know what that fish symbol means? That outline one.
Means you're a fisher of men.
Our man in the hospital had it on his key ring.
He's a religious man.
I've fingerprinted a few in my time but I've never done anyone on life support before.
Done dead people.
Even did just an arm once.
Well, I didn't do the arm, I did the finger attached to the hand which was on the arm.
Car accident.
Very messy.
Mr Humby? May not be appropriate.
Why? You think he can hear us? Not likely.
- Hello? - Nick.
It's Frank.
- Hey, Frank.
- Did I wake you? - No, no, I'm good.
- Sure? - Yeah, who needs sleep? - Look.
Something's come up.
All right, on my way.
We got a match on the prints.
Lucas Calley.
He's been bound over to keep the peace twice.
What for? Pro-life demonstrations.
His details and a photograph are being sent over.
This is not a simple robbery.
I knew it.
Yates is wrong.
- Do you know him? - Yeah.
St Luke.
Luke Calley.
He put the computer systems in me warehouse.
I wanted to make him permanent but he wasn't interested.
- St Luke? - Yeah, he was a very religious bloke.
We always used to wind him up about it.
But he would just smile.
Always had a smile on his face.
Right, thank you, Mr Ballard.
What did he do? "God equals life".
He thinks what they're doing is immoral.
Against nature.
He needs a clean criminal record to get a job at the research group.
He borrows Ballard's.
Invents a CV and references.
Gets confidential information from their computers, then begins to harass and threaten everyone that works there.
So how does he break his neck? He fell.
It may have been an accident.
What was the name of that lab assistant? The one who chased him off when he was doing the graffiti? Bill Simpson.
Bill disturbs St Luke.
Luke runs.
He knows Bill can identify him so he's got to get away.
He's on his way to his car when he runs into the girls.
They slow him down.
Bill catches Luke.
- Had Bill received threats? - Yes.
- Did he report them? - He reported them to me.
I noticed there's a CCTV camera outside.
Can we have a look at the tape? There is, but there's been a problem with the software.
It hasn't been working properly.
I've had two firms in to look at it.
It's all we need in the light of everything.
- When? When did it malfunction? - Last week.
Have you had a lot of trouble with computer viruses corrupting information? - How did you know? - It began last week.
About the time you hired the man you thought was Raymond Ballard as a cleaner.
That's why you checked his references? I should have done it before.
He was just a cleaner.
It was an oversight.
Please, this doesn't need to be made public.
Can you get Bill for us? Luke Calley gives a false name, gets a job here as a cleaner.
According to Raymond Ballard he was a computer expert.
He was trying to destroy their research.
Yeah, she fires him before he can get the job done.
Yeah.
All he had left were threats.
He's a terrorist.
A computer terrorist.
- Bill Simpson? - Yes.
Would you mind coming along to help us with our enquiries? I had to re-enter masses of data that had been wiped so I stayed late.
I saw the guy when I came out and I shouted.
He ran.
I went to me girlfriend's.
That's it.
These people are mad.
Do you think I'm gonna chase them? Interview terminated at 16:36.
What do you think? Well, we could check the girlfriend, see if that holds up.
If he chased him, he'd be on the CCTV.
Yeah, I'll take another look.
And if he caught him, what would he have done? I don't know.
- Have you arrested him? - No, not yet.
Get on with it.
I told the Chief we'd made an arrest.
Make one.
We're not ready to.
You want to, you do it.
You're not listening to me.
I told the Chief we arrested a suspect.
William Simpson? You're under arrest in connection with the assault of Lucas Calley.
Give him the caution and take him to the custody officer.
Bill Simpson's solicitor's here.
Let's interview him again.
I'll run it this time.
He's not on the CCTV.
If he chased him and caught him, he'd be on it.
So he went a different way.
When I get a confession, it won't matter.
Are you coming? - Cole, you come with me.
- He didn't do it.
What? I'll be right back.
Cole! I'm in a meeting.
Sorry.
It's important.
Excuse me.
Can I borrow your shoe? - My shoe? - Just the one.
- Should I ask why? - Do you want the long or the short reason? - Short.
- Because.
That's convinced me.
Thank you.
The girls are drunk, yeah? Calley's on his toes.
He pushes through them.
They get angry.
They chase him, he falls, breaks his neck.
They give him a good kicking anyway.
The marks on his body.
Seven minutes before they reach Central Station.
If you go for Bill, Paddy, you'll look silly.
Luke Calley's a gold-plated suspect.
For Priestly and for the threats to the Stansfield Institute.
Why don't you go and collect points for that? You think it was the girls? Then find them.
You all right, boy? You didn't need to know about your dad just yet.
I did.
Sleep well.
Good night.
I hope you did something you were proud of today, Matty.
No, not really.
Did you? You look shattered.
You done with my shoe? Oh.
Yates says your assault victim was some sort of religious fanatic.
I don't see how it helps to put a label on him.
Oh, a computer terrorist? A case like that's very high-profile.
- You'll give me the file when you're ready? - Yeah.
It's hard to square it with God when you're lying there paralysed.
But if Calley is paralysed, I'm pretty sure he'll ask for God first, then the stem cells.
This guy was assaulted between 11:00 and 2:00am.
We're looking for a group of girls.
We think there were about six of them.
Six.
Six girls.
Nothing.
It's hopeless.
All right, let's go home.
Rick? Back to the station.
They've blocked access to the station! We can't get in.
Some kind of protest by those market traders? That'd be a good guess.
- This look serious to you? - Very serious.
- Extremely serious, wouldn't you say? - Very serious indeed.
Better call Yates.
You called me for this? - Seemed serious.
- The market traders? The Chief's going to be furious.
I know you and the Chief are close so I thought you'd want to run things.
Must be 1,000 pounds of turnips there.
It's probably best if we describe it in kilos.
You know, considering.
Police! We have reason to believe you are in contravention of My clients are all prepared to be arrested and will come with you voluntarily.
Start taking some names, yeah? Start taking some names, yeah? Great.
Who's doing the paperwork on this? We're off duty.
Yates.
Quick, let's go before he gives us something to do.
Detective Sergeant Cole, someone to see you.
At this time? - See you later.
- Yeah.
Sleep well.
I'm Detective Sergeant Cole.
I've got some information about the assault.
Take a seat.
Okay, boy? Soul intact? Yeah.
You? Couldn't think of anything I did yesterday that I was proud of.
It happens.
But, hey, there's always tomorrow.
That's what you said yesterday.
Thanks to BlackAmber/Sub
"You will be punished.
" It's possible that it's just a random caller and because he got a reaction he's just kept calling.
How long ago did you think you saw a prowler? Well, I don't know exactly.
Half-hour.
I was standing there.
I glanced at the window - Sorry.
- It's okay, Mrs Priestly.
It's the night detective.
Try not to worry.
I've had a good look around.
There's no sign of anyone.
- I'm sorry.
I must have imagined it.
- No, don't be sorry.
- We'd prefer you called.
- Thank you.
Everything looks fine.
Try not to worry.
Uniform 5 to Control.
Are you all right, Mrs Priestly? Thanks to BlackAmber/Sub Nicky, are you all right? Try not to worry.
Welcome back, Claire.
Thank you.
They're, um, they're beautiful.
Nobody saw you bring these in, I hope.
No.
I put them under my jacket.
Oh.
Look how pretty she is.
- Just like her mother.
- Aren't you the charmer? - I can see it's working.
- Maybe you should try snakes.
Snakes, lawyers, what's the difference? - Ah, nearly got you.
- Not even close.
I thought I was gonna be able to slowly ease into things, I mean, look at this.
This? This is a briefing note from Yates.
You've got an awful lot of open cases running.
Crime doesn't sleep, although justice seems to nod off from time to time.
- But not on your shift.
- No.
Absolutely not.
I put on my cape and Gotham City's mine.
Well, I hate to tell you this, but you're gonna have to work harder.
- What's this Priestly thing? - Harassed woman.
I know how she feels.
- What, your car get blown up as well? - No.
Just my life.
Well, I'm nowhere with it and Yates is getting edgy.
- Not to mention Mrs Priestly.
- Yeah.
- Spot the lie.
- How'd you know? - That kind of girl doesn't exist.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
I got my mother.
Well, if you're around later maybe I could add to your caseload? I'm working really hard here.
- I hadn't noticed.
- How am I doing? Nicky Nicky, you've been a great friend - Am I dead? - No.
No, but you know what I mean.
I can't be compromised at work.
How about in your flat? - You're not making this easy.
- Good.
We have got to be professional.
There's nothing about you that's amateur.
I think it'd be better for both of us.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Are we talking discreet or non-contact? Let's just see how strong we are.
Yeah, I was like 12, the whole class was there, looking at Hadrian's Wall and that's when it hit me.
What? Bit of the Wall? That I was probably a Roman soldier in a past life.
I was always good at Latin.
Why should I be good at Latin? - Mystery, considering how daft you are.
- Exactly.
And I think that's why I wanted to be a police constable.
Uniforms.
They wore them, we wear them.
See what I mean? You worry me, Clarky.
Hey, come on, lad.
Party's over, time to get home.
- Come on.
- Sorry, mate.
Yeah.
Get yourself off.
Ever since then, I go back and walk along the wall and try to remember what it was like being a Roman soldier.
That's what I'm doing this weekend.
What are you doing? Getting drunk, eating crisps, watching telly.
- All at the same time? - It's a talent.
Do you ever wonder about what you were in a past life? No, Clarky.
I just worry about how many lies I'm gonna have to tell in my next life about what I did in this one.
You wanna move him on? You know, that's a pretty negative approach to things if you don't mind me saying.
Come on.
Rick, quick! Have you got a name for me? He was unconscious when we found him.
They think he's broke his neck.
Any ID? No wallet, no money.
Just car keys.
It's hard to tell if he fell or was hit in some kind of altercation.
A mugging gone wrong.
They hit him.
He falls.
They take his wallet and money.
Yeah, or someone found him lying there and nicked his wallet.
Thought he was passed out drunk or something and took advantage.
- Why do you over-complicate things, Clark? - That's not over-complicated.
Well, maybe he was hit by a flying saucer, then a Roman soldier took his wallet.
- You just talk such rubbish, man.
- You're the one talking rubbish.
As much as I'm enjoying this, let's speculate after we hear from the hospital and forensics finish their prelims.
A Roman soldier would not have stolen from a wounded man.
This his car, Nicky? What did you find? Run the number plate, we'll need it for when Yates gets here.
You're not gonna call him? He's Acting DI.
He wants to be across all serious crimes.
- It's 2:00 in the morning.
- Why do you think I wanna call him? It's good for him to know what the night shift is like.
Get Clarky to stay here for continuity.
I'll let SOCO know you found the car.
Get me a name and address, Rick, yeah? Do you know what time it is? I'm not a clock-watcher, Paddy.
Final interview for the DI job? Yeah.
Yeah, sorry to wake you, mate.
I bet you wanted to be fresh.
- I'll be fine.
- No doubt.
A few cups of coffee and you'll be sharp as a tack.
Not too many.
I get jittery on too many.
Hands shake, get a bit fuzzy in the brain.
But that won't happen to you.
No, sir.
Your interview will go fine.
Nobody deserves the job more, if you don't mind me saying.
Please, please, tell me I didn't come down here for small talk.
Sorry to rabbit on.
That's the coffee.
Raymond Ballard.
Found him off the Bigg Market, 2:00 this morning.
Is he dead? No, coma.
Broken neck.
You got me down here at 3:00 in the morning because a drunk slips over and breaks his neck? No trace of alcohol or drugs in his bloods.
You wanted to be across all serious incidents.
I thought this was serious.
- But he's not dead? - To be honest, I wasn't sure we should call you.
But he's nearly dead if that makes you feel better.
He might not last the night.
Then it would be murder, and we can all agree that would be serious, yeah? Or manslaughter.
Robbery.
- That's what I thought.
- It's possible.
Possible? No money, ID or wallet on the body.
A man in his 20s doesn't have money or ID because it was nicked.
I'm with you, boss.
That's a reasonable conclusion, or am I missing something? He still had his car keys on him.
I found the car, that's how we ID'd him.
Why didn't his assailant steal the car? Well, maybe his assailant wasn't as clever as you.
- Or he couldn't drive.
- Maybe.
- He hasn't been able to tell you anything? - No.
If he survives, the doctors can't predict when we'll be able to speak to him.
- What about forensics? - No.
Maybe something tomorrow.
Ballard had a head wound, it's hard to know if it's consequence or cause.
- There's no weapon found? - No.
Like I said, we might know more tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'll get started on a thick non-driver.
Should narrow the field.
You'd better hope it was a robbery, Cole, 'cause I'm not gonna feel too good about getting up at this hour for a bloke who tripped and banged his head.
Why don't you concentrate on Priestly? The Chief asked me about it yesterday.
He doesn't like the idea of cars blowing up.
I think after a week he expected you to make some progress.
- I'll look after this one.
- Okay.
- Oh, yeah, and good luck.
- Yeah.
Good luck.
Cole, we both know you don't mean that.
- I meant with Ballard.
- I was talking about the job.
You got a bit of brown on your nose there, mate.
I'll be right there, sweetheart.
I'm coming! Did you sleep well, Mum? Oh, I'd kill for a cup of tea.
- Baby's crying.
- Yeah, I know.
Where did I leave the ashtray? Mum, I don't want you smoking in front of the baby.
The baby is in the other room.
Mum, can you make sure the bottle doesn't get too hot? You know where the tea bags are and I'm really sorry, but I forgot to get milk.
- You're not gonna make me a cup of tea? - No, Mum.
I've got to go and get ready.
When the bottle's warm could you feed Emmy? - There's no milk.
- Yeah, Mum, I know.
Today is the Holy Day of Obligation, you know.
Really? Well, thank you for reminding me.
- Mum, the bottle? - Oh, sorry.
Mum.
Look, it's too hot.
I said I was sorry.
An hour in church might do you good.
Well, look, you know what? If I had an hour, I'm sure it would.
- Are you going to help me? - That's what I'm here for.
There you go.
I'll wait outside.
No change? No.
Still unconscious.
Needs a machine to breathe.
Maybe one day he'll tell us what happened.
That would be handy 'cause I haven't got much.
Blunt instrument? No, don't think so.
The head wound had debris in it, which suggests it occurred when he fell.
You don't think he was assaulted? Not based on the head wound and that's all I've had to look at.
Oh, I've got a set of photographs for you.
Head wound.
Position of the body.
- That doesn't mean he wasn't pushed.
- It's possible.
What about these marks on his arm and body? Don't you bruise when you fall? That fish was as tall as I was.
Yeah, loop it over like that.
Took me about three hours to bring him in.
My arms were aching, weighed about 30 pounds.
He weighed 20 pounds last time I heard that story.
Yeah, well, your memory's never been good.
- We're going fishing off the jetty.
- A little half-term treat.
I took Nicky fishing when he was a boy on Clapham Common.
Never caught a thing.
Couldn't sit still.
Scared the fish off.
He loves to blame somebody else.
Errol's going to cook what we catch for lunch.
There's a fishmonger's in the village.
Your uncle misses the point, Matty.
- What point is that? - It's not in the catching.
It's in the doing.
I'm gonna put that up on the wall at work.
Should go down really well.
Gives you time to sit in the quiet and think about things.
I'm ready, boys! Here she is, the neighbour from hell.
Georgina, we going fishing off the pier.
Aye, I know, and I brought a radio so we don't get bored just sitting there.
- You're all tarted up.
- Am I? I didn't think you were going for the DI job.
- I changed my mind.
- Why's that? I, erm changed my mind.
I'm just thinking that if you were in the frame, the Chief would have asked you to be Acting DI.
Actually, it was the Chief that asked me to apply.
Good luck.
Yeah, right.
You've had a problem with me ever since they bumped me up to Acting DI.
Whatever, Paddy.
Get me background on Raymond Ballard.
The file's on your desk.
We've had three other assaults and a robbery in the Bigg Market in the past 10 days.
I don't think they're connected but we can't rule it out, and I want it this morning.
Would all parties for the trial to commence in court number 3 report to the court immediately? All parties for court 3 go straight to court.
I can't talk, I'm waiting for Harbinson.
Good morning, Claire.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Morning.
Harbinson's trial was adjourned until today.
He asked me to cover for him.
Okay.
Well, I'll I'll walk you through it.
- How's the baby? - She's fine.
How's your wife? Market trader who refuses to sell his fruit and veg by grams and kilograms.
Trading Standards brought the allegations after repeated warnings.
- She must be getting big.
- Yeah.
Growing everyday.
Trading Standard officers are here to testify.
They made numerous visits, have photographs, etcetera, etcetera.
The accused won't deny it.
It's the principle of it all.
He's making a stand.
- How long have you been back at work? - Not long.
So, a serial seller of courgettes by the pound.
We should lock him up and throw away the key.
- You have a picture of her? - She looks like you.
If you squint.
Can we concentrate on this danger to society? Can I see her sometime? You're not on the birth certificate.
That's not what I asked.
- Look, this is really awkward, James.
- It doesn't need to be.
I'd just like to see my daughter, that's all.
Is there something wrong with that? I'll think about it.
Okay.
Let's go and see justice done.
Errol, didn't you hear the smoke alarm? Yeah, I was gonna get it in a second.
I had my hands full here.
Spray some water on it.
Knock the flames down.
- You want to do this? - No, thanks.
- All right.
- Is the haddock ready yet? - Just about.
- Spray some water on it.
You'll burn it.
- Don't make me get vexed, woman! - Errol, are you sure you know what you're doing? Make yourself useful.
Turn it off.
Errol! Flip it over, son, flip it over.
- Phone's ringing.
- Errol! - Shall I get it? - All right, all right.
Hello? Yeah.
Just one second.
I'll get him.
It's for Matty.
Matty? It's for you.
Hello? Ah, you see? All it needed was some water.
- Who was on the phone? - Oh, it's for Matty.
Someone called Adam.
Errol, what's wrong? No.
Where are the letters my dad sent me? There aren't any letters.
We'll talk about it later, Matty, okay? I gotta get some sleep.
Your food's getting cold.
Check upstairs, will you? Who's gonna pay for the lock? Detective Sergeant Maguire.
- Do you live here, sir? - No.
I'm the landlord.
- Was Raymond Ballard your tenant? - Yes.
Been there three weeks.
Lives alone.
Landlord met him once when he paid the first month in cash up front.
Arranged to pay direct debit after that.
I got his bank details from the landlord.
- Did you speak to the bank? - Yeah.
Got credit card details and they've put a watch on it.
Found this.
He was a cleaner at the Stansfield Research Institute.
It gets us nowhere.
Look a number of employees at the Stansfield Institute have had threats made against them.
They're working on that embryo, stem cell, human cloning project.
The administrator, a Mrs Priestly, had her car set on fire a week ago - I know the one.
Cole's looking after it.
- It may be related.
He may have been the victim of the threats.
- Hang on, why would they target a cleaner? - Yeah, it's a stretch.
- But it's also an unhappy coincidence.
- You're muddying the waters, man.
Let's not get sidetracked.
I know it's not as sexy but this has all the hallmarks of an assault and robbery.
Yeah, maybe.
Look, I've got an appointment.
Don't let me hold you up.
Oh, and Frank, I appreciate the work you're doing so just keep me across anything you come up with so I can tell the Chief.
My client believes this is just another example of rules made in Brussels being used to damage British customs and values.
How can selling produce in ounces and pounds be a crime? Thank you.
Well done.
A victory's a victory.
Good for the Home Office league tables.
I don't even wanna think about how much money was wasted on this.
- You look good, Claire.
I meant to tell you.
- Thanks.
- You still seeing that black fellow? - I was never seeing "that black fellow".
And he's a bastard! - Well, he knows you well.
- Apparently.
Claire - I'd like to see my daughter.
- Yeah, I hear you.
And I'd like to see you.
Well, you should probably check with your wife before we put anything in the diary.
Combinations, combinations.
Combinations.
Combinations.
Ah, man, you lose the rhythm.
You got it now.
You got it, you got it.
- I'm out of shape.
- I know you are.
Matty, come on, you have a go.
Get your feet moving first.
It's all in the feet.
You cannot hop around the ring like a rabbit.
You got to shifting your weight, left, right.
Left, right, left, left, right.
Left, left, come on, come on.
- Right, left, left, come on.
- I can't do it.
Course you can.
That Bolton boy, think of him.
His name is Amir Khan not Amir Can't.
That's lame, Errol.
Come, keep trying.
Takes practice.
Little Nicky was just like you.
Took him a while before he got it.
Why do you always talk about Uncle Nicky and never about my dad? He was there, too, wasn't he? Yeah.
He was there.
No, he wasn't.
Don't lie to him.
Adam was a lost soul.
Plenty of gifts God gave him.
- He never appreciated it.
- How'd he get lost? - I'll talk to you about it later, Matty, okay? - When? I let Mr Ballard go last week.
- How long had he worked for you? - Two days.
Two days? I did a routine check of his references.
They'd never heard of him.
He'd obviously lied so I had to let him go.
This won't be in the newspapers, will it? We don't want the attention.
Everyone here's anxious.
I thought you'd come by because of what happened to my car last week.
That was bad enough.
Now this.
- Thanks a lot.
I'll be in touch.
- Right.
Mrs Priestly? When did that happen? Last night.
Bill, one of our lab assistants, was working late.
He saw someone defacing the building when he came out and chased him off.
Thanks.
Detective? I don't have a lot of time, Miss Maxwell.
I'm on my way to a meeting.
Well, I won't take long.
That market trader was convicted this morning.
- I'm sure the CPS will be celebrating.
- Yeah.
Champagne and balloons.
The court has ordered them to desist.
We expect them to defy the court.
We're prepared to prosecute if they do.
We need you to follow up on it.
Yates.
What time? Was the person present when they used the credit card? Right.
Thank you, bye.
Look, we've got a lot on.
I'm short-handed and that's just a waste of time.
I don't think that's your call.
It's not the CPS's job to tell me how to allocate my resources.
Well, I'll write a note to the Chief Constable if that would make you feel more comfortable.
- I'll see if I've got someone available.
- Cheers.
We have to explain things to him.
It's not knowing that's making him crazy.
No.
He'll be fine.
He'll forget.
- We're not handling this right.
- Don't make me get vexed, boy.
He'll be fine.
Don't worry.
Thank you, Detective.
Yeah.
Pleasure, sir.
Thank you again.
Detective Sergeant Yates? Good to see you again, sir.
How's the wife? She's very well.
Thanks for asking.
- Hi, Frank.
- Hi.
You interviewed for it? Yeah.
- Go well? - Yeah, yeah.
Fine.
- All right, Frank? - Hello.
I don't think it went well.
He had an interview? Kept that quiet.
You go up for it? Oh, yeah, they begged me to take the job.
But, you know, regular hours, more money.
Just didn't suit me.
- You didn't take the exam, did you? - No.
Pointless.
Yates has got it, hasn't he? They're gonna make him.
Acting DI then appoint me, or Frank, for that matter? I don't think so.
Hey, I'm an equal opportunities kind of guy and if you want to get changed in here, it's fine by me.
I like less light when I walk around naked.
- I never would have thought that.
- Well, now you can think about it.
Sergeant Brookes, that is sexual harassment.
You want harassment, see me later.
This is the victim, Ballard, pushing through some girls in the Bigg Market.
When he speaks to them, I wanna know what he said.
He's in a hurry.
But is he chasing someone or being chased? And I wanna know who those women are.
They'd know if he was chasing someone.
Someone who robbed him.
I think he was and that person's our suspect.
- You're confident it was a robbery? - Someone used his credit card at 1:20 today.
- Any other cameras pick him up further along? - Not him.
But Fifteen minutes later, we pick up the women near Central Station trying to find taxis.
Find me some witnesses and get me a suspect.
Cole? One more thing.
Market traders suspected of selling by the pound.
Something that serious you really ought to handle.
Claire Maxwell specifically wanted you to look after it.
- Did she? - It's important to her.
The victim's name is Raymond Ballard.
We're looking for anyone that might have seen the assault.
Anyone with any information that might shed some light on what happened.
Right, that's the camera.
- Ready? - Yep.
Go.
Not too fast.
The girls were drunk and if they were wearing high heels, see, it would be more like this - You got some experience at this? - Nah.
Never done it before.
Let's ask them.
No, no.
Not without danger money.
Excuse me, can we ask you some questions, please? - Should I call for backup? - Shut up, Clark.
Right, can I just ask you Have you by any chance seen this man a couple of days ago? - Nah.
- You're not even looking at the picture! Right.
This is where we found Ballard.
- Time? - Four minutes.
Are you sure you haven't seen this man? You know that's a really big hat.
They said they didn't.
Howay, let's go.
- Are you two strippers? - He is.
Oh, look, he's got a right big hat! Don't touch the hat .
Just get off, get off.
Look, give us the hat back! Don't make them angry, Rick.
Get them off! Get them off! Get them off! Get them off! Howay, come on, come on.
- I want my hat back! - Don't worry about the hat, it's not worth it! Don't let the cute one get away! - That's it, I'm out of here.
- She wasn't talking about you.
She certainly wasn't talking about you! Oh.
What are you doing? Ah, look at that.
Hey, come on.
Hey, hey! Pack it in.
Just pack it in, will you? Get off! Jeez! Get away.
Now pack it in! Pack it in! Come here! Get off! You look after her.
Pack it in now, will you? - What are you two fighting about? - She took my hat! It's not your hat, it's my hat! Ooh! Go on, get yourselves off.
Go on, get away.
Go on.
Eight minutes.
Eight? Yates makes it 15 from when they disappear to when they arrive in the station.
They could have gone a different way.
Well, you weren't much of a Roman soldier tonight, were you, Clarky? You had to provoke them, didn't you? Only a fool would provoke those kind of girls when they're hunting in packs.
- Anything? - Only a near-death experience.
- Nothing.
- Rick nearly got us killed.
You're the one who said I was a stripper.
I was trying to diffuse the situation.
I thought they'd know I was joking.
- I mean, look at you.
- You? A stripper? November 7 come in Anyone with half a brain would know it was a joke.
Yeah, on my way.
I'll see you guys back at the nick.
Frank? It's where Ballard worked.
I found his security badge in his flat.
- Stansfield Priestly? - Yeah.
Ballard was working on the human cloning project? No, no, no.
He was a cleaner, for two days last week.
Somebody doesn't like what they're doing here.
You made any progress on Priestly? Simple incendiary device.
Other than that, nothing.
You don't suppose 'cause he worked here No.
It's just a robbery, isn't it? According to Yates.
- Someone got interrupted.
- Yeah.
A lab assistant chased them off.
The graffiti went up the night Ballard was attacked.
Is it a coincidence? Let's say it isn't .
What's the connection? I don't know.
Am I wasting my time here, Nicky, or what? Is it just a robbery? Yates likes things simple.
We all like things simple.
Come on, love, come on.
Sixty pence a pound chestnuts.
- Cheers, pet.
All right.
- Bye.
I'd like some apples, please.
One pound of apples, 90 pence, please.
Detective Sergeant Cole.
I have reason to believe you're in contravention of the Trading Standards directive requiring you to sell these apples in grams and kilograms.
You sure this is a good idea? Don't worry.
They're not going to hit a girl, are they? I'm not taking bets.
What are you gonna do about it? Just thought you should know.
Thanks for the apples.
Definitely the better part of valour.
- What you doing when we get off? - Trying to get some sleep.
Wild, unbridled, messy, guiltless sex helps me sleep.
Yeah, me, too.
But with who? - Thought I'd bring you breakfast.
- You're not meant to be here.
I know.
Your market traders are breaking the law again.
- Yates asked me to look after it.
- Thought he might.
But you didn't think I'd come by? Well, no, just checking the temperature.
You're a bit of a tease.
Oh, please.
Don't hurt my feelings.
Did you have a busy night? I spent most of it dodging marauding party girls in the Bigg Market.
Sounds like fun.
When I was their age, only guys behaved like that.
What happened? Equality.
I don't think it's what the suffragettes had in mind.
What do you know about human cloning? Only what I read in the papers.
Turns out my assault victim, Ballard, with the broken neck, he used to work at the Stansfield Research Institute.
- Yeah? - A lot of people don't approve of it.
Yeah.
Luddites.
Religious nuts.
I don't know if they're nuts.
I mean, it's a fairly tricky moral maze, isn't it? They create stem cells and they cure diabetes.
How tricky is that? And where do they draw the line? Some scientists have a bad habit of not knowing when to stop.
Why do we want them to stop? They should cure whatever they can, God bless them.
Don't you think there are some things we should leave to God? When Ballard wakes up and realises his neck is broken, he isn't going to want God, he's going to want stem cells.
Maybe.
You don't think Ballard was attacked because he worked there? Well, the administrator had her car set on fire.
And that wouldn't make the attacker a nut? - Do you like arguing just for the sake of it? - No.
I argue to win.
My little ball of fun.
Me, or the baby? How about I make you late for work? I don't suppose you're the milkman? Mum, this is my friend Nicky.
Hmm.
Early for a friend to drop by.
- So you're not responsible for this, I take it? - No! Mum.
I didn't know we had company.
I'd better dress.
- Ah, well, can you feed Emmy? - Mmm-hmm.
When I'm dressed.
Yeah, I just I've got to go and get ready for work.
Far be it for me to keep you late for work.
Could you hold her? Yeah.
Come here.
Mummy's so messy.
Mummy's so messy.
Look at her shoe.
Can little Nicky give Mummy back the shoe please? Sorry.
Mum, I'm going to go and get ready.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Tough shift? - How's Matty? Matty doesn't like it when you're late home.
He worries about you.
- Where is he? - Sleeping.
Worrying in his sleep, is he? You stop in at that woman's house again? The woman got a baby and no man.
I know exactly what's on her mind.
You know, some of the things you say, Errol, it's like you're frozen in time.
Did you speak to Matty about his dad? No, and I'm not going to.
There's nothing to be said.
Don't let me sleep past one.
I gotta go in early.
He's forgotten about it, Nicky.
Hey, what are you up to? Errol made me do my holiday homework.
"Describe three things you love.
" I put you, Errol and Fulham.
Cool.
You know, if you want to put Fulham first, I won't be upset.
I don't get why you hate my dad so much.
He's your brother.
- I don't hate him.
- You don't like him.
What did he do to you and Errol? I'm old enough to know.
Look, nobody hates anybody, all right? Now, I need to go to work.
Errol won't tell me and now you won't.
Right, okay.
Come here, sit down.
When I was growing up, there were some kids that thought doing well in school or treating people with any kind of respect was selling out.
Yeah? They didn't want to play that game, they didn't want to do what was expected of them.
Well, Adam, your dad, was like that.
There's kids just like that today.
You've seen them.
They pull their hoods up.
They think they're cool, they think they're hard.
But they're not.
Your Gran believed that life is God's gift.
Well, my brother has done nothing with that gift.
Your Gran would always ask me when she tucked me into bed, "What have you done today that makes you proud?" And I'd have to think about that.
I love you, yeah? And because you think you're old enough, I'm going to tell you this.
Your dad is in prison for selling drugs and hurting people.
He's got nothing to be proud of.
And I thank God we're not like him.
Yates thinks he's got a suspect.
Someone's been spending our victim's hard-earned money.
Ballard's credit card has been used again.
The suspect's still in the MetroCentre.
Let's move.
Angel's Clothing.
Upper Level.
Excuse me, sir.
He's just used our victim's credit card again! Take your positions, but be careful, I don't want to spook him.
The two of yous go down that way, yeah? Suspect's a white male, mid-forties, dark hair.
He should be considered dangerous.
Approach with caution.
- Where's he gone? - He went that way.
Suspect, Metroland amusement park.
Out of the way.
I've got him, he's at the carousel.
Hey, what you doing? Hey, get off! Get your hands off me! - You are under arrest, sir.
- What are you talking about? We have reason to suspect you of theft relating to the fraudulent use of a credit card.
I don't understand.
What's going on? - What's your name, sir? - I'm Raymond Ballard.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thanks.
It checks out.
He's Raymond Ballard.
Lives in Sunderland.
Runs a goods distribution company.
He was taking his daughter out for half-term.
If he's Ballard, who's our man in the hospital with a broken neck? I'll let one of you two apologise to Mr Ballard.
Make it a good one, yeah? See if we can avoid a complaint.
Flip you for it? - You religious, Frank? - Depends on the day.
- Like the day you're gonna die? - Yeah.
Yeah, I like that one.
You know what that fish symbol means? That outline one.
Means you're a fisher of men.
Our man in the hospital had it on his key ring.
He's a religious man.
I've fingerprinted a few in my time but I've never done anyone on life support before.
Done dead people.
Even did just an arm once.
Well, I didn't do the arm, I did the finger attached to the hand which was on the arm.
Car accident.
Very messy.
Mr Humby? May not be appropriate.
Why? You think he can hear us? Not likely.
- Hello? - Nick.
It's Frank.
- Hey, Frank.
- Did I wake you? - No, no, I'm good.
- Sure? - Yeah, who needs sleep? - Look.
Something's come up.
All right, on my way.
We got a match on the prints.
Lucas Calley.
He's been bound over to keep the peace twice.
What for? Pro-life demonstrations.
His details and a photograph are being sent over.
This is not a simple robbery.
I knew it.
Yates is wrong.
- Do you know him? - Yeah.
St Luke.
Luke Calley.
He put the computer systems in me warehouse.
I wanted to make him permanent but he wasn't interested.
- St Luke? - Yeah, he was a very religious bloke.
We always used to wind him up about it.
But he would just smile.
Always had a smile on his face.
Right, thank you, Mr Ballard.
What did he do? "God equals life".
He thinks what they're doing is immoral.
Against nature.
He needs a clean criminal record to get a job at the research group.
He borrows Ballard's.
Invents a CV and references.
Gets confidential information from their computers, then begins to harass and threaten everyone that works there.
So how does he break his neck? He fell.
It may have been an accident.
What was the name of that lab assistant? The one who chased him off when he was doing the graffiti? Bill Simpson.
Bill disturbs St Luke.
Luke runs.
He knows Bill can identify him so he's got to get away.
He's on his way to his car when he runs into the girls.
They slow him down.
Bill catches Luke.
- Had Bill received threats? - Yes.
- Did he report them? - He reported them to me.
I noticed there's a CCTV camera outside.
Can we have a look at the tape? There is, but there's been a problem with the software.
It hasn't been working properly.
I've had two firms in to look at it.
It's all we need in the light of everything.
- When? When did it malfunction? - Last week.
Have you had a lot of trouble with computer viruses corrupting information? - How did you know? - It began last week.
About the time you hired the man you thought was Raymond Ballard as a cleaner.
That's why you checked his references? I should have done it before.
He was just a cleaner.
It was an oversight.
Please, this doesn't need to be made public.
Can you get Bill for us? Luke Calley gives a false name, gets a job here as a cleaner.
According to Raymond Ballard he was a computer expert.
He was trying to destroy their research.
Yeah, she fires him before he can get the job done.
Yeah.
All he had left were threats.
He's a terrorist.
A computer terrorist.
- Bill Simpson? - Yes.
Would you mind coming along to help us with our enquiries? I had to re-enter masses of data that had been wiped so I stayed late.
I saw the guy when I came out and I shouted.
He ran.
I went to me girlfriend's.
That's it.
These people are mad.
Do you think I'm gonna chase them? Interview terminated at 16:36.
What do you think? Well, we could check the girlfriend, see if that holds up.
If he chased him, he'd be on the CCTV.
Yeah, I'll take another look.
And if he caught him, what would he have done? I don't know.
- Have you arrested him? - No, not yet.
Get on with it.
I told the Chief we'd made an arrest.
Make one.
We're not ready to.
You want to, you do it.
You're not listening to me.
I told the Chief we arrested a suspect.
William Simpson? You're under arrest in connection with the assault of Lucas Calley.
Give him the caution and take him to the custody officer.
Bill Simpson's solicitor's here.
Let's interview him again.
I'll run it this time.
He's not on the CCTV.
If he chased him and caught him, he'd be on it.
So he went a different way.
When I get a confession, it won't matter.
Are you coming? - Cole, you come with me.
- He didn't do it.
What? I'll be right back.
Cole! I'm in a meeting.
Sorry.
It's important.
Excuse me.
Can I borrow your shoe? - My shoe? - Just the one.
- Should I ask why? - Do you want the long or the short reason? - Short.
- Because.
That's convinced me.
Thank you.
The girls are drunk, yeah? Calley's on his toes.
He pushes through them.
They get angry.
They chase him, he falls, breaks his neck.
They give him a good kicking anyway.
The marks on his body.
Seven minutes before they reach Central Station.
If you go for Bill, Paddy, you'll look silly.
Luke Calley's a gold-plated suspect.
For Priestly and for the threats to the Stansfield Institute.
Why don't you go and collect points for that? You think it was the girls? Then find them.
You all right, boy? You didn't need to know about your dad just yet.
I did.
Sleep well.
Good night.
I hope you did something you were proud of today, Matty.
No, not really.
Did you? You look shattered.
You done with my shoe? Oh.
Yates says your assault victim was some sort of religious fanatic.
I don't see how it helps to put a label on him.
Oh, a computer terrorist? A case like that's very high-profile.
- You'll give me the file when you're ready? - Yeah.
It's hard to square it with God when you're lying there paralysed.
But if Calley is paralysed, I'm pretty sure he'll ask for God first, then the stem cells.
This guy was assaulted between 11:00 and 2:00am.
We're looking for a group of girls.
We think there were about six of them.
Six.
Six girls.
Nothing.
It's hopeless.
All right, let's go home.
Rick? Back to the station.
They've blocked access to the station! We can't get in.
Some kind of protest by those market traders? That'd be a good guess.
- This look serious to you? - Very serious.
- Extremely serious, wouldn't you say? - Very serious indeed.
Better call Yates.
You called me for this? - Seemed serious.
- The market traders? The Chief's going to be furious.
I know you and the Chief are close so I thought you'd want to run things.
Must be 1,000 pounds of turnips there.
It's probably best if we describe it in kilos.
You know, considering.
Police! We have reason to believe you are in contravention of My clients are all prepared to be arrested and will come with you voluntarily.
Start taking some names, yeah? Start taking some names, yeah? Great.
Who's doing the paperwork on this? We're off duty.
Yates.
Quick, let's go before he gives us something to do.
Detective Sergeant Cole, someone to see you.
At this time? - See you later.
- Yeah.
Sleep well.
I'm Detective Sergeant Cole.
I've got some information about the assault.
Take a seat.
Okay, boy? Soul intact? Yeah.
You? Couldn't think of anything I did yesterday that I was proud of.
It happens.
But, hey, there's always tomorrow.
That's what you said yesterday.
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