Bloodlands (2021) s01e03 Episode Script

TOM: In '98, a handful of us were made aware
of a possible assassin.
We called him Goliath.
NIAMH:
Boss? We're still on the island.
We've found something.
How many bodies altogether?
Three.
But none of them are your mum.
- Tom.
- Tori.
They found him. Dad.
NIAMH: The Keenan case has been orchestrated
by someone who wants us to find Goliath.
Whoever it is, they're still out there, sir.
We think they hold the key
to unlocking the truth about the past.
The harbourmaster, he says he was asked
about Goliath four months ago.
Someone phoned him,
said their name was Frank MacFeale.
How did you know it was me
pretending to be MacFeale?
I know you've been meeting with a person
who's trying to unmask Goliath.
Who is it?
I've brought you here. Now tell me.
No.
Jackie blocked this investigation
22 years ago.
Now he's doing it again.
Why would you, of all people, cover for him?
Or is it you?
Are you Goliath?
GUNSHO
BIRDS CHIRP
HE GRUNTS
HE GRUNTS
NIAMH:
Mr Corry?
Mr Corry?
Your sister called. She's worried about you.
Mr Corry?
MUFFLED SOUND
HE PANTS
MUFFLED VOICE:
Mr Corry?
He might have fallen or something.
He might be in trouble.
Mr Corry?
Mr Corry?
Anything?
Someone else has been here.
He can't go anywhere on his own.
Check with the hospitals.
Make sure he hasn't been brought in.
If not,
this is a missing persons investigation.
We need to move out of here.
Treat this as a crime scene.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
Sir?
This is Linda Corry, sir, Mr Corry's sister.
Who are they?
What's happened to Adam?
This is a missing persons investigation.
Oh, God.
SHE SNIFFLES
Oh
No
- There are people looking for him.
- LINDA: No, but he's not a well man.
Does Adam get many visitors?
No.
And how often do you visit?
Once a week.
I do his messages for him, his prescription
I make sure he has everything he needs.
You haven't seen anyone else
coming or going in all that time?
Has Adam spoken about anyone?
Someone that might have visited him?
No, no. I want to see inside the house
Not yet Not yet.
Get your hands off me.
I'm sorry, you can't go in there.
It's a crime scene.
I will be making a complaint.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
NIAMH:
Sir?
Sir.
TOM:
Adam's notebook.
I handled that.
Remember, when we were
in the other room with him?
NIAMH:
I'll make sure to pass that on.
He was saying that
Adam made notes inside about who visited.
Times, dates, what was talked about
but that there are some pages missing.
The most recent ones, especially.
TWOMEY:
Tom!
You're wanted.
Just had an update from the CSIs
at Adam Corry's.
A fingerprint they lifted from one
of the teacups does not belong to his sister
nor does it belong to anyone else
in the database.
They're working on the DNA.
What's going on?
She was brought in an hour ago.
She'd been dumped out the back
of a van outside the hospital.
Looks like the woman in Keenan's car.
But listen.
WOMAN: I was coming out
of the hospital.
They just came up behind me.
SHE SIGHS
Put me in a van.
Showed me to someone
on their phone.
DETECTIVE:
When you say "someone"?
A man.
I just heard his voice.
He said
"That's not her."
Keenan's looking for the woman
involved in his kidnap.
Her hair is the same
as the woman in his car
er, the woman outside the sandwich shop.
This one's over from London.
She wasn't even here
when Keenan was kidnapped.
Can we bring him in?
No.
Well, you heard yourself, he wasn't there.
The best we can do
is put him under surveillance.
He's going over where he went
on the day he was kidnapped.
He must think someone at the hospital
was involved.
- You think he's onto something?
- TOM: Yes.
We need to redouble our efforts
in the search for the woman in his car.
I believe she's the Goliath hunter.
SIREN WAILS
INDISTINCT CHATTER
I was here on the 16th, talking to one
of your ophthalmologists about a patient.
I was just wondering
We're looking for a woman,
likely to be in her 30s, 40s
average height.
This is all we have, I'm afraid.
Does she look familiar?
No.
No, I'm sorry. We see so many people.
Oh, well.
No bother. Thanks anyway.
COMPUTER CHIMES
RECEPTIONIST:
Sir? Excuse me, sir.
Sorry, you said the 16th?
Uh-huh.
Sorry, I should've looked.
Does this have something to do with questions
you wanted to ask about a patient?
Mr PJ Keenan?
That's right.
Only you're in the wrong place
to speak to Ms Matthews.
Sorry?
Tori Matthews.
She's a surgeon.
There's a note attached to the diary.
She wanted to be alerted when the police
followed up on Mr Keenan's appointment.
HE GRUNTS
Thanks.
PHONE RINGS
Hello?
TWOMEY:
Tom.
We've got the DNA back
from the teacup at Corry's house.
It matches the DNA found
in Keenan's car.
- Uh-huh.
- So it's confirmed.
The woman involved in Keenan's kidnapping
was in Corry's house.
- WOMAN: Sir.
- TWOMEY: I've got to go.
PHONE DIALS
VOICEMAIL: Hi, this is Tori Matthews.
Please leave a message.
TOM:
Sorry for the short notice, but, er
I'm pleased
you agreed to dinner.
Are you?
Aye.
So, uh
- were you married before?
- There's the police officer I was expecting.
Sorry. Old habits.
No, never married.
Well, too young.
Ah, course.
No, I I moved about a lot.
How come?
Well, I finished my schooling here
university in England.
And after my training,
I just wanted some excitement.
Where did that take you to?
Well, I helped set up
a trauma stabilisation unit in Syria.
TOM:
Wow.
If I think about Izzy doing that
I'd be standing right behind her
with a Kalashnikov and a packet of plasters.
Still your little girl.
Always.
Well, I raised her, you know?
Um
Did all the jigsaw puzzles, the stories
taxi rides to the nightclubs,
from the nightclubs.
- You thought Syria was tough.
- SHE LAUGHS
No. You know,
I come from a single-parent family myself.
I gave my mother her fair share of grief.
Then you know what it's like.
Course, if it was my old man, he'd have
thrown me in a cell overnight to cool down.
- He didn't?
- He did.
So was he in the police, too?
Yeah, his whole career.
Wow.
And now you.
Thirty years and counting.
Yeah.
It's been a long time.
So what is it mostly?
Drugs?
Gangsters?
- Homicides?
- Well, we like to mix it up.
You know, usually, where I work
you get some pretty dodgy pensioners.
SHE LAUGHS
Today, we had a missing persons case.
Elderly gentleman. Um, not very mobile.
Needs oxygen therapy to breathe.
Lives on his own on the Comber Road.
- Shit.
- You OK?
Aye.
Um I'll just be a moment. I'm sorry.
No, of course.
DOG BARKS
This is me.
Right.
How do you know Adam Corry?
Your reaction at dinner.
How do you know him?
I don't know what you're talking about.
You asked to be alerted when the police
came looking for Pat Keenan's doctor.
- No, I
- You had access to Keenan's medical records.
You knew when he'd be at the hospital.
You followed him from there.
Disguised yourself. A black wig.
Tom
They found a woman's DNA
in Pat Keenan's car.
They found the same DNA
on a cup at Adam Corry's house.
If we asked you for a sample,
would you be confident it wasn't a match?
You're not making any sense
You manoeuvred yourself to teach
on my daughter's course.
You knew that my district was small enough
that I'd be the SIO.
You wanted the inside track
on the investigation.
- Let me go!
- You abused my trust
- and you used my daughter to do it!
- I would never harm Izzy.
Tori Matthews
I am arresting you on suspicion
of kidnapping Pat Keenan
- and the abduction of Adam Corry.
- Stop!
You do not have to say anything
but it may harm your def
- Stop!
- do not mention when questioned
something you later rely on in court.
I'm Simon Quinlan's daughter!
I'm Simon Quinlan's daughter.
But he was a priest.
Aye.
He kept me and my mum secret.
We lived out in the Mournes.
Do you know where Adam is?
He was helping me find my dad's killer.
I met him when he came
to ask my mum some questions.
He couldn't get any sense
out of her, but
he had time to show me what he found.
Jesus.
Tom
I'm just doing what you're doing.
I'm trying to find the man
who killed a member of my family.
He'd heard the name Goliath.
From where?
Some peeler in the Dunfolan Arms
full of drink.
- Did he say who?
- No.
I mean, Adam didn't know
what to do with the information.
If he took it to the police
they'd only brush it under the carpet again,
wouldn't they?
So I suggested something he didn't like.
Kidnapping Keenan?
It was a while before I landed on Keenan
as an ideal candidate.
Someone who would link
into the Goliath story
who would force you to reopen the case,
go looking for the bodies.
Someone who was an easy target.
- Easy how?
- His promiscuity.
Plus
he's not exactly a good man.
Adam said I was playing with fire.
I'd agree with him.
But it worked.
Didn't it?
So you and Corry
the families of former enemies, you what?
You just become friends?
The families of victims, aye.
- And that includes you.
- We are not the same.
Your wife was taken from you.
From your daughter.
Someone deprived you and Izzy
of a normal family life
just like they did me.
- And the least you could do
- I've tried everything.
Have you ever been closer than you are now?
Adam and I were on to something,
and you know it.
And you have to find him.
- You need to stop.
- No.
We need justice.
You can mess around with this all you want,
but I can, I will arrest you.
So why don't you?
I understand your desire for justice.
Believe me, I do.
But you're going about it in the wrong way.
I also know what Keenan's people will do
to you in prison when they find out.
I've seen the type: prison officers paid off,
a stabbing in the shower
an overdose that makes it look like suicide.
It happens in the way you imagine it would.
I will not be scared into submission.
And I will not lose a good person
to a stupid bloody move.
I'm asking you to think about it.
Your whole life up in smoke.
Maybe cut short entirely.
And why?
So you can manipulate a police investigation
which may or may not give you
the result you want?
But he was my daddy.
Leave it alone.
It's my final offer.
BEE BUZZES
- BIRDS CHIRP
"I took our wee girl
for a cycle out along Head Road.
We stopped by the long dry-stone wall.
I told her the wall stretches
over 15 mountains.
She laughed and told me
I'd been at the Communion wine."
THEY CHUCKLE
"I enjoy this stolen company more and more
now that she is older.
A young woman.
She is her mother's daughter
and for that, I am eternally grateful."
You remember that?
I worried about him on a bike.
His limbs were like spaghetti.
- Read another one, please
- I'm sorry, Mum.
What for?
I can't.
I'm not able to.
We will never have justice.
But I thought you said
I know what I said.
But things have changed
and I can't continue.
What things?
Somebody murdered your father.
They had no right.
- You remember that.
- I do.
So you will never give up looking for him.
Mummy, I have to.
I have to stop.
MAN ON RADIO: Uniform from Tango,
Sierra, three, five, one
on task with two boats.
We are commencing our initial sweep
of sectors one and three.
Uniform, please confirm the POLS
Object in the water,
about 50 metres to port.
BIRDS CHIRP
Uniform from Charlie Foxtrot
five, nine, zero.
One male,
approximately 70 years old.
White beard.
No signs of life.
Visible wound to the head,
potentially gunshot.
Looks like he's been washed ashore.
We'll set up a cordon here
and hold the scene.
WOMAN ON RADIO:
Nine, zero, understood.
Detectives, CSIs and a body recovery team
dispatching now.
ETA about three zero minutes.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
TWOMEY:
Tom.
NIAMH:
There has to be a witness.
He couldn't have got out here alone.
The last words he spoke to us
were about finding his brother's killer.
Looks like he found him.
You think this is Goliath?
Gunshot to the head.
What more do we need?
The nature of this manhunt changes.
Notify the Intelligence Hubs
we're now looking for a murderer.
NIAMH:
Sir.
TWOMEY: We thought we had it bad
with Keenan's bunch.
We're in the middle of this now,
about to get it from all sides.
And I've no doubt that this is directly
related to the two of you
using Corry for your investigations.
So much for keeping the peace.
Hope you're happy.
TOM:
We look for witnesses.
Keep up the hunt for the woman
that matches that DNA.
Let's check out any CCTV
that we find in the area.
Niamh, you take charge at Adam's house.
Birdy.
Make sure the CSIs know that
the nature of the investigation has changed.
BIRDY:
Sir.
Let's box up the work he was doing
on finding his brother's killer.
Bring it to the station.
Let's see what he knew.
You think he has something
that identifies Goliath?
NIAMH: Looks like Linda Corry's
brought all the Protestants, sir.
You can smell the doilies
and the abstinence from here.
TWOMEY SIGHS
I would say that you,
Detective Chief Superintendent Twomey
seem to have little interest in finding
the person who killed my brother.
Well, with respect, I think
And the fact that you displaced
a perfectly good Protestant officer
to become head of this district
smacks of appeasement to your own community.
DOOR OPENS
I think he might have preferred
the petrol bombs.
TOM:
Shit
Didn't know you were gonna be here.
I'm having to be everywhere.
DOOR OPENS
- Let's get on with it.
DOOR SHUTS
DINGER: Gunshot wound to the head
was made from a distance of about ten yards
with a 9mm.
The round entered above his left eye,
went through his brain
and came out the back of his head
on the right-hand side.
- That sort of angle.
- Don't do that.
Please.
DINGER: The shooter was
of an approximate similar height.
The lungs are dry which confirms that
he was dead before he went into the lough.
Was he dumped in deep water
or did he wash out?
We found ligature marks around the ankles
which indicates a weighted rope.
So whoever it was
tried to sink him in deep water
but then the weight dislocated the ankle,
and the rope slipped loose.
Now it's just a matter of forensic evidence.
In a perfect world, we'd find the boat
and there'd be blood on that, for sure.
Anything turned up at the crime scene?
Nothing further.
We're gonna do everything we can
to get Adam Corry's killer.
We're gonna catch them.
We're gonna parade them
through the streets like a fucking pariah.
No one gets away with this.
BIRDY:
Aye, just drop them over there.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
NIAMH: It was Adam Corry
who used Frank MacFeale as an alias.
We flagged the name shortly before
Adam Corry went missing.
It has to be an active officer
who connected it with Corry.
The timing's too coincidental, otherwise.
Combined with the nature of the execution
it is further proof, if proof were needed
that we are looking for Goliath himself.
NIAMH SIGHS
The name went to Districts,
Int Hubs and the Garda.
By now, maybe 500 officers
will have the Frank MacFeale name.
One of whom made the connection.
You as good as killed Adam Corry.
You didn't think.
You just put it out there.
But, sir
- we ran checks on the name.
- No. You're a fucking idiot.
I mean, for goodness sake.
Officers all over the country will have been
notified about the name Frank MacFeale
but they won't know we're looking
for Goliath.
We've kept that quiet.
Shite.
That means Goliath
could be someone from this district.
Jesus, do I have to do
all the police work around here?
Birdy!
Make a list of all the officers
from this district
who could fit the Goliath profile
those who are still serving
who were in uniform in '98.
Sir
At least then we can see
if they're connected to the investigation.
Put a request in to HR for serving officers'
records with permissions.
Get what you can.
Sir.
Well, get on it!
SHIP HORN BLARES
- Thanks, love.
- No bother.
So
how was dinner with my favourite consultant?
I'm not the right kind of person for her.
What?
If we'd continued, she'd have seen that.
- You're talking shite, Daddy.
- I'm not.
They don't come much better than you.
I'm not a good man.
I'm not what you think.
What's gotten into you?
HE GRUNTS
ADAM (VO):
Dear Tori
We started this journey
on different sides.
You've taught me that grief
knows no division.
Sadly, time is against
our friendship
which is why I've sent you this.
Jackie Twomey's back
the man who stopped me last time.
This has to be more than coincidence.
There's going to be another cover-up.
I can feel the noose tightening.
If they come for me,
I want you to have my collection of leads.
The necklace was given
to my brother by his lover.
I've never been able
to find out who she was.
If you can get someone to look at it,
perhaps there's DNA.
Why would Jackie Twomey
need to cover this up?
I can see only one reason.
He knows who Goliath is.
BIRDY:
Er, HR have said they'll send the files
of the relevant people over
as soon as possible.
Er, but just so you know
there are only, um
three
individuals currently serving
in this district
that are still active since 1998.
Er, Dinger
um, you, sir
and
You. Y-you, sir.
Others that would have been eligible
have either moved out of the district
or have seconded elsewhere and
Well, they wouldn't have any knowledge
of our current investigations.
Well, it's not me.
Sir?
If the idea is our potential Goliath
fits this profile, and he's one of three
I'm saying it's not me
so now it's one of two.
Um, does that mean I don't need his
his files anymore?
Keep going, Birdy.
DOOR SHUTS
What was that about?
I'm just making things easier.
Leaving me and Dinger in the lurch?
Have you anything to be left
in the lurch for?
Besides
I don't believe either me or Dinger
ever met Adam Corry.
Only you.
That'll be all.
PHONE DIALS
PHONE RINGS
TOM:
What do you want?
TORI:
Are you OK to speak?
Aye.
Adam managed to get a parcel to me
before he died.
He says it's a collection
of all the leads he has to Goliath.
I can't get away now
but I'll come and see you tonight.
This man was meticulous.
He could have done with going electronic.
HR files have arrived, sir.
- Have you looked at them already?
- Aye.
Is the DCS in?
No.
BIRDY SIGHS
Both you and Dinger are pretty
routine-looking
you'll be pleased to know.
Oh, nearly your birthday, I see, sir.
Focus, Birdy.
Um
but the DCS's file, well
What?
When I compare your records
from 1998, this is you.
This is Dinger
and this is DCS Twomey.
Huh.
It's been redacted.
Why would it have been redacted?
I don't know.
Who would have done that?
Special Branch?
Intelligence?
Some monkey further up the tree.
Can we talk to the Intelligence Services?
We can try.
Leave it with me.
Sir!
Details of an allegation
that a police officer
unofficially ran Joe Harkin
as an IRA source.
He has a number here
but doesn't seem to know what it is.
2-4-2-1?
Later on, he says that
the same officer is suspected
of passing highly sensitive information
using insecure means.
2-4-2-1?
2-4-2-1.
2-4-2-1.
You alright, sir?
TOM:
We each had a post office box in town.
It was useful if we had to store things
while in the field.
BIRDY:
Like what?
TOM:
Evidence, information
things you might want to keep safe
if you're on the move.
2-4-2-1 was Jackie's box.
Go with DS McGovern. Dig up
what you can,
which places DCS Twomey
everywhere he's been for the last 24 hours.
A-are you sure, sir?
Well, you heard him. He was quick
to exonerate himself from all of this.
Now, look.
- We're talking about the DCS, sir.
- Aye.
Shite.
What's the problem?
Well, I think that should be obvious.
We have suspected from the outset
of this investigation
that there might be an insider among us
someone prepared to use
their position to commit murder.
Now at some point we're gonna have
to face up to who that person might be.
Do it!
SHE STUTTERS
TORI:
Come in.
Have you touched any of it?
The documents?
Aye.
- And the jewellery?
- No.
Don't.
I'll take it away as evidence.
All of it.
I was still a teenager
when my dad went missing.
Nineteen, just.
But young.
Naive, like.
Every day since then
has just chipped away at that.
All I know is
I won't just be another victim.
I need to find the man who killed my father.
The man who was meant to be upholding
the law and protecting people.
The man who killed your wife.
Have you read Adam's journal?
I have, aye.
So you have an idea who Goliath is?
I've suspected him for a while.
He is one of us.
Someone I've known for
years.
A friend.
- Jackie Twomey.
- Yes.
Adam mentions Jackie in the documents.
Thinks he concealed Goliath's identity.
That's right.
Jackie headed the investigation
into the disappearances in 1998.
He was ultimately responsible
for shutting the case down.
The mistake I made was showing him
your Goliath postcard this time round.
Before I knew it,
he'd come down from Belfast
installed himself as the SIO at Dunfolan
all so he could suppress
a full police investigation.
- Again.
- That's what Adam said.
I don't think they'll let it come out.
It would destroy the service.
It could
it could go far beyond that, too.
You're a police officer.
- This is your job.
- He's my boss.
I won't be able to gather evidence
against him effectively
- not without him being across all of it.
- You have to.
I can't, not on my own.
Well, then I'll help you.
Look, I'm an outsider.
- I can move freer than you.
- I don't want to endanger you.
You have to let me try.
I mean, Christ, if it's him
we can't let him get away with it.
Tom
justice at all costs.
I mean, leave peace to the politicians
and let's give them evidence
they can't ignore.
NIAMH: Adam Corry went missing from his home
some time on the 21st.
Where were you that day?
I was here. We had an inspection.
And in the evening?
I made a lovely wee lasagne
and then I watched a wildlife programme
which was very distressing,
and was in bed by ten o'clock.
Can anyone verify that?
Probably my next-door neighbour.
She's always complaining about
the thinness of the walls.
Probably heard me crying
about the wee gazelle.
SHE CHUCKLES
Would you say you're in a good position
to manipulate evidence?
No, not at all.
My findings are double
in fact, triple-checked.
Could the DNA at Adam Corry's house
be Siobhan Harkin?
No.
We have her on the system.
SHE SIGHS
So we still have no idea who the woman was.
Apart from the fact
she's at the centre of your investigations.
We're going after Jackie.
Jackie's a good fit.
You know, there's police officers
and there's politicians in the police.
I never really trusted the latter.
- Birdy.
- Sir.
Have you seen DCI Brannick?
I'm out here searching high and low.
No, sir.
Any idea where he's at?
No, sir.
Walk with me.
What's the current focus
of the investigation?
Sir?
Are you deaf?
No, sir.
Then answer the question.
- Er
- "Er"
I
Are we communicating in vowels,
Birdy?
I asked you a simple question.
Now answer me
or I'll have you out on your hole.
A police officer in this district
unofficially, and and allegedly
ran
Joe Harkin as an IRA source.
Do we know who it is?
Well
th-they used a post office box
to communicate, sir.
Mm-hmm.
The box h-had a number.
Go on.
2-4-2-1.
What?
2-4-2-1, sir.
HE CLEARS THROA
And you know whose it is?
Aye.
I m-mean, y-yes, sir.
HE MUTTERS
It's you, sir.
It's It's yours.
DOOR OPENS
Niamh.
Sir.
I don't suppose you've seen
DCI Brannick, either?
No, sir.
Man should join the fucking Magic Circle.
BIRDY SIGHS
PHONE RINGS
Hello?
TORI: I'm at the caravan.
There's no sign of Jackie.
OK.
You know what to do.
PHONE DIALS
CROWS CAW
TWOMEY:
Siobhan.
You need to get out of here.
Find somewhere safe.
What are you talking about?
You're in danger.
I can handle Pat Keenan.
No. My officers are looking into me.
Somehow they found out
that I was running Joe.
- Oh, God.
- And they'll find out you helped me.
When that gets out,
all hell will break loose with your people.
- You'll be hunted.
- God
SHIP HORN BLARES
It's done.
Are you sure it'll lead to other things?
I believe it will.
And we have the right man?
We do.
Look, I understand
this must be difficult for you.
You know,
I'm in no doubt as to who my father was.
I know he deprived many others
of a loving family.
You're not him.
CAR ENGINE STARTS
KNOCK ON DOOR
- Yeah.
Dinger's alibi is solid.
He was at work and his neighbour
vouches for him
being at home in the evening.
Birdy, tell DCI Brannick to get in here now.
What the f
Sir?
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TOM:
Sir.
What's going on?
This has just arrived.
It's
the caravan. It's my caravan.
The other side.
What's on the other side, sir?
HE CLEARS THROA
Show us the other side.
Niamh.
Get hold of some CSIs.
We need to mark this as evidence.
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So
the DNA on the caravan photo
matches the DNA found in Pat Keenan's car
and at Adam Corry's house.
It authenticates it as belonging
to the individual who we suspect
of being the Goliath hunter.
But I'm not Goliath.
No, no.
No, no, no.
This is ridiculous.
I've nothing to do with this!
- Sir
- No, this-this is schoolboy stuff.
- Jackie?
- No, I'll not have this.
I'll not I'll not allow this.
I will not
allow this kind of shite to happen
on my watch!
We're gonna put an end to this right now!
Whatever it takes.
Search my caravan!
Search my office, my vehicle.
Whatever you have to do.
But I will not stand idly by
while somebody points a finger at me!
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OFFICER:
Sir.
How do you account for this?
I can't.
Of course I can't.
They found a fingerprint on the postcard.
The print belonged to Adam Corry.
Right.
TOM:
Jackie Twomey
I'm arresting you on suspicion
of the murder of Adam Corry.
You do not have to say anything
but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention when questioned
something that you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say
may be given in evidence.
What a waste of everyone's fucking time.
Don't make a scene.