The Gold (2023) s01e06 Episode Script
I'll Be Remembered
1
(reporter) Robbers have carried out
an armed raid
on the Brink's-Mat
security storage depot.
Did you know the gold
was Brink's-Mat?
- Course not.
- If we issue a warrant for Cooper,
Cooper will know about it
before the ink's dry.
Boyce has issued arrest warrants
for yourself and Gordon Parry.
There's always been two systems,
and ours is the stronger.
(laughter)
(Sienna) You need to go back
to where you're from.
The police are outside.
Kenneth Noye, I'm arresting you for
conspiracy to handle stolen goods.
You've found no gold,
you've found no money.
Conspiracy's the hardest
charge in the book.
I'll give it a go.
It's time to do something
about Boyce.
Better late than never.
(commentator) And it looks like the
shock of the round here at The Den,
where second division Millwall
lead Arsenal 1-0 in the third round
of the FA Cup,
with seconds remaining.
Arsenal launch it forward
in desperation,
but it all looks too late.
(Miller) Blow the bloody whistle.
(commentator)
famous night in South London.
The ball carries over
the Millwall defence.
Smith slips in behind.
He's coming through on goal
for Arsenal.
- Oh!
- (commentator) Oh, that's a lovely
tackle by McKinnon.
And the referee's given a penalty
to Arsenal.
- Well, that looked very soft to me
- Oh, here we fucking go!
(commentator) The Millwall players
protest furiously.
- But the referee waves them away.
- Oh, I bet he does.
(commentator)
Smith puts the ball on the spot.
A short run up.
And scores!
If you want to know about England,
that's England right there.
Arsenal, the establishment club,
Millwall, my lot,
coming up from South London
to put 'em out the cup.
But they can't have that.
Because what would that
say about the establishment?
What does that say about England?
So a little wink, a funny handshake,
and the referee puts us
back in our box.
That's England.
(sighs)
And that's why I'm here.
And that's why I am never going back.
Qué?
Move your arse, Palmer.
Are you ready, Mr Cooper?
(door slams)
(man) There he is. Goldfinger.
Where's the gold, Palmer?
(sirens wailing)
(tense music playing)
Oh, I'm so sorry about that,
Mr Cooper.
I couldn't find the keys.
Bit much.
You're a flight risk.
A lot of blokes fly out
the Scrubs, do they?
Oh, it'll help you in here.
Makes you look important.
Which will offer some protection.
You can stick me in chains, Mr Boyce.
But I still won't have
nothing to say.
We know you smelted the gold.
You found some, then?
At my house?
You sold it back into the system
and ran the proceeds
through your business.
We have the paperwork.
When I was at school, and, um
I weren't there long
I could never make
the letters make sense,
and they hit me for it.
But the more they hit me,
the less sense the letters made.
So I'm wondering
if there's a piece of paper,
just one piece of paper,
with my name on it where
the letters make sense.
The jury will decide if
it's feasible you disposed
of £13 million worth of gold without
asking where it came from.
I'd like to thank you, Mr Boyce,
for the kindness that you
showed my wife at the airport.
Because the more I hear about what
they're saying in the newspapers,
the more I realise
how big this thing was
and all the places that it reached.
And the more luck
I think you'll need.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(Edwyn)
I appreciate the accommodation.
I require you to remain alive.
Police custody north of the river
gives you a shot.
And therein lies the problem.
If I cooperate, I risk my life.
In return, you're offering me
my own toilet.
I know you think that there are
higher powers waiting to assist you,
and if this had been tax or fraud
or embezzlement,
an establishment crime,
then I'm sure the establishment
could help you.
But you've entered a world that
doesn't respect the establishment.
A world where handshakes offer
little protection against bullets.
They know you're here.
They know where you sleep.
It's a matter of time.
(Edwyn) What do you require?
You'll be brought here every day
and tell us everything you know.
Then, maybe,
I can offer more than a toilet.
Sir, you are to report to
the yard, immediately.
Higher powers.
Complaints have been
lodged against you by Noye's lawyer.
Perverting the course of justice.
Oh.
That's what I would've done
if I was them.
It's serious, Boyce. The allegations
must be investigated.
Of course. And if they can spin it
out until I'm on the stand,
then they can ask me in front of
the jury if I'm under investigation.
I'm leading the investigation
and I'll be as quick as I can.
Make it thorough, please, ma'am.
You're not surprised?
I'm going up against
more than the robbers, sir.
I'm going up against systems.
That of South London
and that of elsewhere.
Those systems are powerful
and they are dangerous.
And in both cases there are those
who want to show
that those systems remain intact.
This is only the start.
Always thought you were bent, sir.
It's an attempt to distract.
Don't let it work.
Give the investigation
anything they ask for.
We need it out of the way
before the governor takes the stand
in the Noye trial.
(Boyce) Of course, there'd be no harm
in sending a bit of pressure
in the other direction.
Charge Noye's missus with
handling stolen goods.
It won't stick,
but puts pressure on him.
Freeze his assets.
I'll speak to
the Brink's-Mat insurers,
have them apply for an order.
(Jennings) They found some
nicked porcelain in his house.
Charge him with that, too.
Embarrass him.
- They're out of control, these three.
- Like a pack of wolves, sir.
Every word Cooper says
comes only to me.
There are lots of people out there
who want to know
what he's saying,
and some of them wear uniforms.
Where are they, Ken?
Those men with the funny handshakes?
The ones you bought
all the drinks for.
Where are they now?
Things are happening.
And in the meantime, I get charged.
I mean, I'd have done the same thing
if I was him.
Geez.
They'll drop your charges.
They're just trying to send me
a message.
That's not the only one
they're sending.
Our bank accounts are being
frozen by court order.
- Yeah, well, there's other money.
- And apparently our china's nicked.
Cheap birthday that was, then.
(sniggers)
Look, love, this thing I'm in
it's a war.
And in a war,
everyone has their part to play.
£13 million was sent through
British banks to our Swiss account
and into front companies
of which there are about 30.
I'd bounce the money between them
a bit before buying up properties.
We'd spruce them up and sell them on.
Send the proceeds to other fronts
to our account in Liechtenstein
in which there is about
£28 million
or thereabouts
awaiting its next move.
That's a million quid more than
the gold was worth.
And it'll be worth more tomorrow.
The Brink's-Mat gold is the seed
money for what could be
the greatest criminal fortune
in history, if you're not quick.
What's the name of the account
in Liechtenstein?
I don't, uh I don't want to be
the one to tell you that.
I thought you said
we had to be quick.
(Jennings) Looks proper up there,
don't it? Professional?
'Cause up there you don't see
what that money did.
You don't see the blood.
I just handled the money.
You only had money to handle
because our mate's dead.
My associate named the account.
He called it Moyet.
Like the champagne?
Yes.
That's what he was aiming for.
John Edward Palmer,
you are charged with entering into
a conspiracy to handle stolen bullion
and to evade the payment of VAT to
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
How do you plead?
Uh
not guilty, Your Honour.
(phone rings)
Task Force.
Yeah. Sir, Jim Clark on the phone
for you.
Stay on the phone, take notes,
sign and file them today.
- Who is he?
- Cooper's solicitor.
Boyce.
Mr Boyce, may I buy you a drink
at the Carlton Club this evening?
No, thanks.
Listen, Boyce, I know that
Mr Cooper's refusing to cooperate.
But he suggested I meet you
in a less formal setting to
well, to thrash things out.
No, thanks.
(Clark) Oh, come, now, Boyce,
I read the newspapers.
You need a result.
I can give you one.
I see.
Now I would ask that you come alone.
It's a little public.
(Clark) Well, by design, Mr Boyce.
I wouldn't want you to consider
formalising our discussion.
Well, bring your wife
if you're worried about perception.
A convivial social event.
You're out for dinner.
We bump into each other at the bar.
You kindly ask me
to join you for an aperitif.
Okay.
But she's not my wife,
and I'd appreciate it
if my wife was not a topic
for discussion, if you follow.
Well, now.
Maybe your reputation's
all wrong, Mr Boyce.
Maybe.
Any plans this evening, Jennings?
Nope.
Piss off.
I might have plans.
- Do you?
- Well, no, but that's not the point.
Meet me at the Carlton Club at 7:00.
You taking me for dinner, sir?
Yes.
That felt unnecessary.
(Kenneth) Well, I just wanted
to reassure you, John,
you might be out of sight,
but you ain't out of mind.
That's kind of you.
She said your missus looked pretty.
Pretty fucking angry,
from where I was sitting.
What, ain't she visiting?
No. No, I won't let her.
Because I'm not staying.
Oh, no?
(John) Nope.
They got nothing on me.
And I'm not scared enough
to help them change that.
Glad to hear it.
You get off early doors,
and by the time they get round to me,
the wheels might have come off
the whole thing.
(John) How you looking?
Nah, they got nothing.
And I reckon they'll end up
with even less.
What does that mean?
I don't know nothing, John.
All I heard is it's going to
be a busy night.
(dialling tone)
Evening, sir.
Good evening, Jennings.
You will pick up what is happening
while it's happening,
which will make you
a believable presence.
It will appear that I'm
drinking alcohol.
I won't be.
You won't be either.
This is the only way I could get
another officer in with me.
And you should assume that you will
be testifying about this evening.
Sounds like a fun night, sir.
Brian.
You should call me Brian.
That's the one bit
I'll struggle with, sir.
And rightly so.
How was your fish, dear?
Lovely, thanks. I do like it
when he takes me uptown.
I'd imagine in a dress like that
he'd take you anywhere you want.
(Boyce) So?
Yes.
Our mutual friend, I'm sorry he's
not been able to assist you.
His loyalties lie elsewhere.
Perhaps, uh, you could, uh,
outline what you have on him.
That would help me persuade him
to be more helpful.
That's not information
I could share with you.
I could share it quietly with
a colleague at the yard.
If you had someone in mind
who would be suitably discreet.
Of course, he'd want to be bailed.
Well, he's not concerned
about his safety?
Safety?
(laughs)
He's a lawyer, for Christ's sake.
A civilian.
There would, of course, be a lot of,
uh, gratitude towards you,
Mr Boyce, if you could assist myself
and my associates.
It's DCI Boyce.
You're not here on behalf
of Edwyn Cooper.
You're here on behalf of the system,
on behalf of this.
I wonder what you and your associates
would be willing to sacrifice
to keep that system in place.
Or who.
Everything I have said is
within legal remit.
Do you think I can't be careful?
Hmm?
Do you think I'm fooled by this?
Some little tart from secretarial.
Good luck writing this up, love.
I'm a detective
and I'm glad I met you.
Always known the type of people
I wanted to nick.
Just never had a name until now.
I'll see you again one day, Mr Clark.
At least my lot are honest.
You know where you are with
a brown envelope.
The higher you go,
the better they hide.
But they're villains all the same
and they're scared.
There ain't many things more
dangerous than a scared villain.
Have they approached your father?
- No.
- They will.
The day my old man affects the way
I do the job,
you'll be the first to know, sir.
Thanks for your help, Jennings.
The thing is, sir, that was them
trying to stop Cooper talking to us.
Yes.
Yeah. And it didn't work.
I can't think of many more ways
they can stop him from talking.
(indistinct talking on TV)
Hello, sir.
What the hell are you doing?
We're watching the game, sir.
He's a prisoner, Constable. And more
to the point, where is everyone?
Oh, we had reports of a mass
disturbance on the Alexandra Estate.
Reports from who?
Locals. Loads of them.
They all called up at once.
Lock that door.
And get a jacket on.
Yes, sir.
- One of them.
- Yeah.
Who's coming, sir?
In the army, sentry duty
was my biggest fear.
Standing alone, exposed, while
the enemy came and went in the dark.
Then I realised the power of it.
It's not about the sentry,
it's what he represents.
Protection, defence.
Order amidst anarchy.
Don't look.
Let them come and go in the darkness.
And we will hunt them in the light.
(whistling tune)
How much did Carter offer you?
£50,000 to go easy
on Cooper and Parry.
(Jennings)
What would you do with £50,000?
Panic.
Did you drink it?
The beer he bought you.
Well, it would've been
a terrible waste, sir.
How much was it?
Ah, 80p?
Oh, f
Only you could be offered 50 grand
and end up down.
Yep.
There are many ways
that these things end,
but they always start with
taking a drink.
Now you didn't take a drink.
I'll put this in
the Widows and Orphans fund.
Alright, yeah.
Happy to help.
They're getting desperate, sir.
We're attempting to
send down Palmer, Noye,
and half of South London.
They'll do everything they can.
(Parry) Hello?
Uh, uh, I'm a friend of Mr Cooper's.
He's not here.
(Parry) I-I know he's not.
I know where he is.
Do you want money?
No, Sienna, no.
No, thanks, no.
(chuckles)
No.
No, money's not the problem.
No, talking about money,
that's a problem.
Well, talking in general, to be fair.
Could you tell Mr Cooper
that my friends and I
we really appreciate his loyalty.
Oh, please tell him that I've really
enjoyed meeting you also.
Ooh.
(chuckles)
It's hot.
I'm not scared of you.
No, why would you be?
It's empty.
The Liechtenstein account.
It was cleared out two days ago.
Well, there isn't much
I can do about that.
Wasn't my money.
I'd finished my work.
It was no longer in my control.
How long do you think
it'll take, Tone?
If we go and tell the governor that
he's given us an empty bank account?
How long till he's in the Scrubs?
Oh, his feet wouldn't touch
the ground, Nic.
I'm giving you more than that.
I've marked the properties
that haven't sold yet.
If you're quick,
you can recover the money.
This is Docklands.
This was you lot.
You'll be surprised where
that money's left its mark.
Jennings, you got a call.
It's your old man.
Can you give me the deeds for these?
I can tell you where to find them.
You bought the wing of a school.
It's a long story.
Yeah, alright.
See you then.
I said not to come.
I could've stayed at home
and been worried sick
or I could come here
and be terrified.
Not much of a choice, is it, John?
You've seen the papers.
They come to the house.
They asked to take a photo of me
looking sad in a skirt.
They call me Goldfinger.
They come to the house.
It would help.
The photo.
It's my whole defence.
Family man. Honest man.
Tricked into this.
You like it, don't you?
Being famous, being Goldfinger.
Of course I don't.
I had it sent in.
Didn't feel right without one.
Fancier than the old one.
Yeah, well, it's got to go with
the reputation, I suppose.
What do you think?
I preferred how things
were before, John.
I'm innocent.
I believe you.
And believing you
is all I've got left.
I'm sorry.
I won't be bullied by men like that.
Please tell me you won't be either.
You asked me once where I'm from.
I'm from London.
Old London.
Not what it's become. Not what
Not what people like me have made it.
I know those people.
I remember those people.
If I don't do what they want
I know how this ends.
So I'll seek a different
ending for both of us.
You'll get longer.
But you'll be safe.
And I'll have a chance of coming out.
I won't be here when you do.
I want you to know that.
Let's at least end this with honesty.
I got closer to you
than I ever have
to something
approaching happiness.
(sniffles)
I don't think happiness
is where you belong, Edwyn.
No.
I don't think it is.
(sniffles)
(exhales deeply)
# These are the things
I can do without.
# Come on.
# I'm talking to you.
# Come on.
# In violent times. #
Vegetables.
What you trying to do? Kill me?
What's going on next door?
Oh, one of their boys
just got out of the Scrubs.
Don't think I haven't seen
you cutting down on my fags.
It's barely a packet a day.
Is that why you shifted
me from this morning?
'Cause you knew if I come now,
it'd be busy out there? Safe.
I've had visitors.
They asked asked me
to give you a message.
- Don't say another w
- I said no.
I said, I'm Billy Jennings, and
I used to be someone round here.
I told them they could
do what they wanted to me,
and it'd be a blessing,
but if they used your name again,
I'd come for each and every one of
them in turn in the fucking night.
- I could nick the lot of them.
- No, you can't!
(wheezes)
Shit.
Ugh.
(coughing)
You can't come here no more.
I can't take it.
The worry.
You know, you're the one thing
I've got.
And anyway, I'll be
somewhere else soon enough.
Dad.
I meant the hospital!
St Stephen's.
All those pretty nurses, eh?
(chuckles)
You know, Dad, when I was young
lying in bed, I couldn't sleep
till I heard the sirens.
I'd hear one every night,
sometimes right outside
sometimes near enough.
Made me feel like there were
other people in this world
other grown-ups that
would keep me safe.
Now I could sleep.
I do this job so that
kids like me feel safe.
And I do this job so I can come
and see my dad whenever I want.
I'm proud of you.
Your mum would be proud of you.
And you don't need to show me
what you've got inside of you
because I've seen it
since the day you were born.
I'm just asking a favour,
as an old man
not to have that fear
to go with all the others.
Not to have that regret
to go with all the others.
I'll see you in the other place.
("Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat
playing)
# Mother will never understand.
# Why you had to leave.
# But the answers you seek
will never be found at home.
# The love that you need
will never be found at home.
# Run away, turn away, run away,
turn away, run away. #
(sniffles)
(engine starts)
(siren wailing)
(indistinct shouting)
(woman) Get out of here, you filth!
Married?
I just thought
the divorce is done,
and it helps you get my dough
if anything happens to me in here.
And, well, I've got
plenty of time on my hands.
Well, this isn't much of a proposal.
Okay. Yeah, and the other stuff too.
You know
love and whatnot.
Never thought I'd
get married in a nick.
I could swing us some time together.
I could show you my cactus.
(chuckles)
- I'm sorry.
- The thing about not cooperating
is you really want to do it
before you've cooperated.
I'll plead not guilty and claim the
statements were made under duress.
Really going out with
dignity here, mate.
If I plead not guilty,
they won't know what I told you.
They'll know.
The only difference is
you won't be protected.
I'm sorry.
You've not had any visitors.
You wouldn't allow them.
I would have allowed your mother
if she'd asked.
Tough mothering down South London.
You won't get to me
like that, Mr Boyce.
I've spent my whole life not
letting people get to me like that.
Goodman, take Mr Cooper
to the station.
Give him one box for possessions
and drive him to Wormwood Scrubs,
where he'll be
placed on an open wing.
Open wing?
(chuckles) No.
No, I'll speak to the governor.
A murder would be unhelpful.
Don't put him in the Scrubs yet.
Stick Cooper in the system
as a cooperating witness,
give him one last night
in the station.
With his phone.
Now, the thing about gold
is that, um
that it's not yours, you know?
Not really.
You're just looking after it.
And then you die and it, um
it passes on.
Gold is the one thing
I've ever understood.
It's the one thing I-I-I've
ever had a talent for.
But i-it's never
really mine, you know?
I, uh
I just do what I need to do with it
and and and I pass it on.
So, yeah, I know gold.
And, yeah, maybe,
uh, not knowing it
I, uh I smelted
that Mat's-Brink gold.
But I'm not some criminal mastermind.
I'm a kid from Solihull.
I grew up in a council flat
next to the dump.
Seven kids to a single mum.
Kicked out of school at 12.
I'm unable to read and write.
I'm no armed robber.
I'm no, uh money launderer.
I'm just a bloke who knows gold
(exhales sharply)
who's been taken
advantage of something terrible.
(Boyce)
The jury found Palmer not guilty.
Not guilty?
He was careful.
Others weren't.
You need results.
And I'll get them.
(McLean) Palmer's an embarrassment.
Noye would be a disaster.
He's beaten us once.
He can't do it again.
(Boyce) He won't.
I've cleared you of
the allegations, Boyce.
I didn't realise
quite how dull you are.
Hmm!
Well, if you care to redirect
your investigatory zeal, ma'am
start with Carter.
Pull the thread, and you'll
be surprised who emerges.
There are too many men in this
building who serve two masters.
This place doesn't
like change, Boyce.
But it can't go on forever.
Their time will come.
But not yet.
Let's keep them out in the open
where I can see them.
They'll throw the kitchen sink
at you in court.
That's their job.
Do you have enough on Noye?
I believe so,
and then there's what he has.
What's that?
Hubris.
(phone ringing)
Cooper.
(Parry) Don't use my name, please.
I heard about your visit
and reacted accordingly.
And I'm calling as a friend
to tip you off that some people
have heard that you're being helpful,
and they're a little
concerned about that.
I've withdrawn cooperation.
I'm pleading not guilty.
Tomorrow, I'll be relocated to
less salubrious surroundings.
I'm sure your friends have
the means to confirm all of that.
How you bearing up?
As well as I can.
(Parry) Glad to hear it.
You keep your head down, Edwyn.
You'll be fine.
Edwyn?
Well, you feel like a bit
of an Edwyn to me now.
It's going to be hot.
Wherever Parry is,
I bet it's bloody hot.
Oh, come on, Tone,
he might have gone to ground
in Rotherhithe for all we know.
(Bowman) Control to Unit Two.
Unit Two.
(Bowman) I've got the phone trace
from Cooper's phone.
Go on, then.
(Bowman) You don't like the heat,
do you, Brightwell?
- (sighs)
- (chuckling)
For fuck's sake.
(indistinct shouting)
Give us a smile, Marnie!
- Johnny! Johnny!
- Big smile, Marnie.
- Where is it, John?
- Over here, John.
Where's the rest of the gold?
(shouting continues)
(McHugh) This started with gold
and this ends with gold.
Three tonnes of it, Mr Boyce,
stolen from the Brink's-Mat depot
on the Heathrow Trading Estate
on the 26th of November 1983.
You were tasked with
finding that gold.
I was.
(McHugh)
And over these past few years,
with your well-manned Task Force
and your extravagant budget,
have you found any gold that
can definitively be described
as part of the stolen
Brink's-Mat gold?
No.
We don't have the gold because
Mr Noye and his associates
have smelted half of it,
and Mr Noye won't tell us
where the rest of it is.
However, I believe there
is conclusive evidence
as to the smelting operation
and conclusive evidence
that it concerned
the Brink's-Mat gold.
Mr Noye does not deny the handling
of a significant amount
of uncustomed gold
and related money over that period.
He will explain that to the jury.
We are here to talk about you.
I wasn't aware that I was on trial.
Are you currently under
disciplinary investigation?
No.
Um, have you ever been investigated
for your conduct in Mr Noye's case?
Investigated and cleared.
- But investigated.
- And cleared.
Move along, Mr McHugh.
The reality is that you
are obsessed with Mr Noye
due to the tragic death of
your colleague DC Fordham.
DC Fordham did not die.
He was killed.
And I bear no obsession with Mr Noye.
Mr Noye is a petty criminal
who got lucky.
Well, the fact is
I'm a very wealthy man.
And, yes, truth be told, some of my
earnings don't trouble the taxman.
I, um I save him the paperwork.
You know what I mean?
(Corkery) And these vast sums of
money, they were generated from
the smelting and reselling
of the Brink's-Mat gold?
You're going to have to
do better than that.
Enlighten me, Mr Noye.
Well, if you knew your history,
then you'd know that London
was built on smuggling.
You see, your lot try
to tax my lot to death.
So what did we do?
We went down the smugglers'
lanes to the coast
and we bought what
we needed off the boats.
I like to think that I did my bit
to keep that tradition alive.
(Corkery) And what was
your specific contribution
to that great British tradition?
Well, I met these blokes
in Florida who were like me,
had an eye for an opportunity,
and we put together
a gold smuggling route.
We started in Brazil, because
there's plenty of gold there.
Plenty of people to
look the other way.
And then we sent it to Kuwait, 'cause
the Arabs, well, they zero-rate it.
And then we brought it in
via the Netherlands,
and we sold it in Belgium
to the Orthodox Jews.
We've put about £50 million
worth of gold through it.
So
it has been worth a go.
(Corkery) If I can return you
to less exotic shores,
at your house in Kent,
police found 11 unmarked gold bars,
instructions for a smelter.
Most of that was planted.
It was planted.
The rest of it means nothing.
(Corkery) But why you, Mr Noye?
If you believe that you've
been unfairly targeted,
that the police have fabricated
the evidence against you,
why would they land on you?
Because they don't like
men like me getting rich.
There's a certain type of copper who
really gets put out by it, you know?
Jealous of me having that
kind of money, that kind of life.
I don't know what the average
copper earns in a year,
but I imagine I earn that in a day.
So
I moved a lot of gold,
and a lot of money came out of that,
and, yes, the taxman, I suspect,
will want to have a quick word
with me after this, and that's fine.
But I'm not Brink's-Mat.
I ain't.
(laughs)
I don't know nothing
about that robbery,
other than what was
already in the papers.
That some blokes from
South London nicked it.
And he ain't found it.
(Mateo) It's working, Señor Palmer.
We have sold a quarter
of the properties
and have 50 builders
working on the rest.
Where's the money?
(Mateo) They say in El Dorado,
there was a king who left piles
of gold all around the city
to show the people he was not
afraid of them stealing it.
The money is safe, Señor Palmer,
but there's a lot of it.
And this is a small island.
El Dorado needs its king.
(door opens)
(chuckles)
I ain't got it.
We know.
We know you went to Panama.
I don't think you knowing I went to
Panama gets you very far, does it?
You'll get 10 years.
I'll do five.
Then, to be fair, I reckon, life
won't look too bad when I get out.
When the messenger came,
I thought it might be flowers.
You used to send me flowers when
we had something to celebrate.
- I needed a new one.
- Why?
They tried to nick you over there.
Yeah. I can sort that.
So you're a gangster now, are you?
(John)
We're going to fix things, love.
I promise.
But it's going to take time,
and it's going to take money.
We had to send Scadlynn bankrupt,
and since then, there ain't a bank
in England would lend me a penny.
So I'm going to have to
earn some crust over there.
Take the pressure off a bit.
Then we can start getting
back to the way we were.
There's no getting back to that.
No.
Well, be back in a week,
two at the most.
- You know, John.
- Yeah?
All those things your dad did. Yeah?
All those things
that you carry with you,
you'd have forgiven every single
one of them if he hadn't have left.
I'm not leaving.
(door opens)
(door closes)
What's this?
My cactus.
Well
it's nice to see you've been busy.
A couple of lads came in last week.
Friends of friends.
And they told me
what happened to my share.
I believed in a code.
I believed in South London.
Others didn't.
What you going to do?
Nothing.
With good behaviour,
I could be out in 10.
We can handle 10, can't we?
Yeah.
I'll wait for you, Micky.
How you doing?
Well, I'd rather be sitting
that side of the table.
You will be.
And from what I've heard, they've
got less on you than they had on me.
You're a clever boy, John.
Yeah.
Kept yourself very clean.
Hidden.
Can I do anything for you?
Nah, you're alright.
Am I alright?
Of course you are.
You're just a poor kid from Solihull
who got taken advantage of
something terrible.
No, no-one's coming
looking for you, John.
You enjoy the sunshine.
Might even come visit you.
Well, let's get you off, hey?
And then it's done.
I don't know, John.
It's Brink's-Mat.
The size of it,
all the people involved.
I don't think it'll ever be done.
(bell rings)
Do you, Michael McAvoy,
take Kathleen Meacock
to be your lawful wedded wife?
To have and to hold
in sickness and in health,
for richer, for poorer, to love and
to cherish until parted by death?
I do.
(priest)
And do you, Kathleen Meacock,
take Michael McAvoy to
be your lawful wedded husband?
To love and to hold,
in sickness and in health,
for richer and for poorer,
to love and to cherish
until parted by death?
I do.
(priest) I now pronounce you
man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
(gunfire)
If we took on every crime
that comes out of Brink's-Mat,
we'd be here for 20 years.
And they want their building back.
You know, sir, I look at it all
and I don't know who won.
Oh, we'll know who's won
when the juries come back.
But that doesn't change
what you lot achieved.
This is some of the finest
pieces of policing I've known.
Because outside this room, this,
the whole picture, never existed.
That was the genius of it.
This was a story about
individuals united only by greed.
None of them knew that
all the others existed.
None of them could
see the whole picture.
They just knew their own jobs
their own greed.
But we tracked them down
and built cases that
have never been built before.
We made alliances that
haven't been made before.
We all know what
we lost along the way.
But we took on more here
than anyone will ever know.
And what came out of it
was this lot in the dock.
What happens next
is out of our hands.
So pack up, seal the files,
and I thank you for your service.
Can we have a word, sir?
I'm putting you two
up for a promotion,
which is a fairly
terrifying prospect.
(Brightwell chuckles)
Thank you, sir.
We only have the money
because of you.
You were right to chase it.
(Jennings) I mean,
we got a few buildings, sir.
Parry slipped the rest away.
We need to get ourselves to Panama.
(laughs)
It's over, Jennings.
Well, that's what we want
to talk to you about, sir.
We'd like to go with you,
your next job.
(Jennings) We can't go back
to Flying Squad after this.
This felt important,
like we were changing things.
We want to do something else
that feels like that.
You two will have fine careers.
I have no doubt that you will
change things wherever you go.
But there is no next job.
When Brink's-Mat is done, I'm done.
- (knock on door)
- Jury's back at the Old Bailey, sir.
What are you going to do, sir?
Travel.
I'd like to go to Cyprus
to lay a wreath.
("Atmosphere" by Joy Division
playing)
# Walk.
# In silence.
# Don't walk away.
# In silence.
# See the danger.
# Always danger.
# Endless talking.
# Life rebuilding.
# Don't walk away. #
Has the jury reached a verdict?
Yes, Your Honour.
Kenneth James Noye
is charged with conspiracy
to dishonestly handle gold stolen
from the Brink's-Mat warehouse
on the 26th of November 1983.
He is, in addition, charged
with fraudulently conspiring
to evade VAT payments
on the stolen gold.
How do you find the defendant?
Guilty.
(cheering)
On all charges.
(Judge Instrell) Defendant will be
sentenced this afternoon.
- I hope you all die of cancer.
- (crowd gasps)
(Judge Instrell) Take him down!
He said he'd finished.
Who?
Cooper.
He said he'd finished
cleaning the money.
We thought we'd stopped him.
We thought we'd stopped all of them.
There was more to come,
more gold, more money.
But he said he'd finished.
What does that number mean to you?
We've dropped the charges
against your wife.
You're looking at 14 years,
by my reckoning.
A lot of life in 14 years.
You have one card, Noye.
Where's the other half of the gold?
I'll be remembered for
what I did, Mr Boyce.
In my world, at least.
'Cause no-one's ever done anything
like that before, have they?
One and a half tonne of gold just
vanished into thin air.
And having you lot
run about like clowns.
All that chasing, all that digging
for something
that was never there.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll be remembered for that.
(door slams)
(door opens)
They only ever had half of it, sir.
The gold must have been split
right at the beginning.
I know.
("A Forest" by The Cure playing)
(engine starts)
(laughing)
Where do we start?
At the beginning.
Six blokes in a van.
# Come closer and see.
# See into the trees.
# Find the girl.
# While you can.
# Come closer and see.
# See into the dark.
# Just follow your eyes.
# Just follow your eyes.
# I hear her voice.
# Calling my name.
# The sound is deep. #
(reporter) Robbers have carried out
an armed raid
on the Brink's-Mat
security storage depot.
Did you know the gold
was Brink's-Mat?
- Course not.
- If we issue a warrant for Cooper,
Cooper will know about it
before the ink's dry.
Boyce has issued arrest warrants
for yourself and Gordon Parry.
There's always been two systems,
and ours is the stronger.
(laughter)
(Sienna) You need to go back
to where you're from.
The police are outside.
Kenneth Noye, I'm arresting you for
conspiracy to handle stolen goods.
You've found no gold,
you've found no money.
Conspiracy's the hardest
charge in the book.
I'll give it a go.
It's time to do something
about Boyce.
Better late than never.
(commentator) And it looks like the
shock of the round here at The Den,
where second division Millwall
lead Arsenal 1-0 in the third round
of the FA Cup,
with seconds remaining.
Arsenal launch it forward
in desperation,
but it all looks too late.
(Miller) Blow the bloody whistle.
(commentator)
famous night in South London.
The ball carries over
the Millwall defence.
Smith slips in behind.
He's coming through on goal
for Arsenal.
- Oh!
- (commentator) Oh, that's a lovely
tackle by McKinnon.
And the referee's given a penalty
to Arsenal.
- Well, that looked very soft to me
- Oh, here we fucking go!
(commentator) The Millwall players
protest furiously.
- But the referee waves them away.
- Oh, I bet he does.
(commentator)
Smith puts the ball on the spot.
A short run up.
And scores!
If you want to know about England,
that's England right there.
Arsenal, the establishment club,
Millwall, my lot,
coming up from South London
to put 'em out the cup.
But they can't have that.
Because what would that
say about the establishment?
What does that say about England?
So a little wink, a funny handshake,
and the referee puts us
back in our box.
That's England.
(sighs)
And that's why I'm here.
And that's why I am never going back.
Qué?
Move your arse, Palmer.
Are you ready, Mr Cooper?
(door slams)
(man) There he is. Goldfinger.
Where's the gold, Palmer?
(sirens wailing)
(tense music playing)
Oh, I'm so sorry about that,
Mr Cooper.
I couldn't find the keys.
Bit much.
You're a flight risk.
A lot of blokes fly out
the Scrubs, do they?
Oh, it'll help you in here.
Makes you look important.
Which will offer some protection.
You can stick me in chains, Mr Boyce.
But I still won't have
nothing to say.
We know you smelted the gold.
You found some, then?
At my house?
You sold it back into the system
and ran the proceeds
through your business.
We have the paperwork.
When I was at school, and, um
I weren't there long
I could never make
the letters make sense,
and they hit me for it.
But the more they hit me,
the less sense the letters made.
So I'm wondering
if there's a piece of paper,
just one piece of paper,
with my name on it where
the letters make sense.
The jury will decide if
it's feasible you disposed
of £13 million worth of gold without
asking where it came from.
I'd like to thank you, Mr Boyce,
for the kindness that you
showed my wife at the airport.
Because the more I hear about what
they're saying in the newspapers,
the more I realise
how big this thing was
and all the places that it reached.
And the more luck
I think you'll need.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(Edwyn)
I appreciate the accommodation.
I require you to remain alive.
Police custody north of the river
gives you a shot.
And therein lies the problem.
If I cooperate, I risk my life.
In return, you're offering me
my own toilet.
I know you think that there are
higher powers waiting to assist you,
and if this had been tax or fraud
or embezzlement,
an establishment crime,
then I'm sure the establishment
could help you.
But you've entered a world that
doesn't respect the establishment.
A world where handshakes offer
little protection against bullets.
They know you're here.
They know where you sleep.
It's a matter of time.
(Edwyn) What do you require?
You'll be brought here every day
and tell us everything you know.
Then, maybe,
I can offer more than a toilet.
Sir, you are to report to
the yard, immediately.
Higher powers.
Complaints have been
lodged against you by Noye's lawyer.
Perverting the course of justice.
Oh.
That's what I would've done
if I was them.
It's serious, Boyce. The allegations
must be investigated.
Of course. And if they can spin it
out until I'm on the stand,
then they can ask me in front of
the jury if I'm under investigation.
I'm leading the investigation
and I'll be as quick as I can.
Make it thorough, please, ma'am.
You're not surprised?
I'm going up against
more than the robbers, sir.
I'm going up against systems.
That of South London
and that of elsewhere.
Those systems are powerful
and they are dangerous.
And in both cases there are those
who want to show
that those systems remain intact.
This is only the start.
Always thought you were bent, sir.
It's an attempt to distract.
Don't let it work.
Give the investigation
anything they ask for.
We need it out of the way
before the governor takes the stand
in the Noye trial.
(Boyce) Of course, there'd be no harm
in sending a bit of pressure
in the other direction.
Charge Noye's missus with
handling stolen goods.
It won't stick,
but puts pressure on him.
Freeze his assets.
I'll speak to
the Brink's-Mat insurers,
have them apply for an order.
(Jennings) They found some
nicked porcelain in his house.
Charge him with that, too.
Embarrass him.
- They're out of control, these three.
- Like a pack of wolves, sir.
Every word Cooper says
comes only to me.
There are lots of people out there
who want to know
what he's saying,
and some of them wear uniforms.
Where are they, Ken?
Those men with the funny handshakes?
The ones you bought
all the drinks for.
Where are they now?
Things are happening.
And in the meantime, I get charged.
I mean, I'd have done the same thing
if I was him.
Geez.
They'll drop your charges.
They're just trying to send me
a message.
That's not the only one
they're sending.
Our bank accounts are being
frozen by court order.
- Yeah, well, there's other money.
- And apparently our china's nicked.
Cheap birthday that was, then.
(sniggers)
Look, love, this thing I'm in
it's a war.
And in a war,
everyone has their part to play.
£13 million was sent through
British banks to our Swiss account
and into front companies
of which there are about 30.
I'd bounce the money between them
a bit before buying up properties.
We'd spruce them up and sell them on.
Send the proceeds to other fronts
to our account in Liechtenstein
in which there is about
£28 million
or thereabouts
awaiting its next move.
That's a million quid more than
the gold was worth.
And it'll be worth more tomorrow.
The Brink's-Mat gold is the seed
money for what could be
the greatest criminal fortune
in history, if you're not quick.
What's the name of the account
in Liechtenstein?
I don't, uh I don't want to be
the one to tell you that.
I thought you said
we had to be quick.
(Jennings) Looks proper up there,
don't it? Professional?
'Cause up there you don't see
what that money did.
You don't see the blood.
I just handled the money.
You only had money to handle
because our mate's dead.
My associate named the account.
He called it Moyet.
Like the champagne?
Yes.
That's what he was aiming for.
John Edward Palmer,
you are charged with entering into
a conspiracy to handle stolen bullion
and to evade the payment of VAT to
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
How do you plead?
Uh
not guilty, Your Honour.
(phone rings)
Task Force.
Yeah. Sir, Jim Clark on the phone
for you.
Stay on the phone, take notes,
sign and file them today.
- Who is he?
- Cooper's solicitor.
Boyce.
Mr Boyce, may I buy you a drink
at the Carlton Club this evening?
No, thanks.
Listen, Boyce, I know that
Mr Cooper's refusing to cooperate.
But he suggested I meet you
in a less formal setting to
well, to thrash things out.
No, thanks.
(Clark) Oh, come, now, Boyce,
I read the newspapers.
You need a result.
I can give you one.
I see.
Now I would ask that you come alone.
It's a little public.
(Clark) Well, by design, Mr Boyce.
I wouldn't want you to consider
formalising our discussion.
Well, bring your wife
if you're worried about perception.
A convivial social event.
You're out for dinner.
We bump into each other at the bar.
You kindly ask me
to join you for an aperitif.
Okay.
But she's not my wife,
and I'd appreciate it
if my wife was not a topic
for discussion, if you follow.
Well, now.
Maybe your reputation's
all wrong, Mr Boyce.
Maybe.
Any plans this evening, Jennings?
Nope.
Piss off.
I might have plans.
- Do you?
- Well, no, but that's not the point.
Meet me at the Carlton Club at 7:00.
You taking me for dinner, sir?
Yes.
That felt unnecessary.
(Kenneth) Well, I just wanted
to reassure you, John,
you might be out of sight,
but you ain't out of mind.
That's kind of you.
She said your missus looked pretty.
Pretty fucking angry,
from where I was sitting.
What, ain't she visiting?
No. No, I won't let her.
Because I'm not staying.
Oh, no?
(John) Nope.
They got nothing on me.
And I'm not scared enough
to help them change that.
Glad to hear it.
You get off early doors,
and by the time they get round to me,
the wheels might have come off
the whole thing.
(John) How you looking?
Nah, they got nothing.
And I reckon they'll end up
with even less.
What does that mean?
I don't know nothing, John.
All I heard is it's going to
be a busy night.
(dialling tone)
Evening, sir.
Good evening, Jennings.
You will pick up what is happening
while it's happening,
which will make you
a believable presence.
It will appear that I'm
drinking alcohol.
I won't be.
You won't be either.
This is the only way I could get
another officer in with me.
And you should assume that you will
be testifying about this evening.
Sounds like a fun night, sir.
Brian.
You should call me Brian.
That's the one bit
I'll struggle with, sir.
And rightly so.
How was your fish, dear?
Lovely, thanks. I do like it
when he takes me uptown.
I'd imagine in a dress like that
he'd take you anywhere you want.
(Boyce) So?
Yes.
Our mutual friend, I'm sorry he's
not been able to assist you.
His loyalties lie elsewhere.
Perhaps, uh, you could, uh,
outline what you have on him.
That would help me persuade him
to be more helpful.
That's not information
I could share with you.
I could share it quietly with
a colleague at the yard.
If you had someone in mind
who would be suitably discreet.
Of course, he'd want to be bailed.
Well, he's not concerned
about his safety?
Safety?
(laughs)
He's a lawyer, for Christ's sake.
A civilian.
There would, of course, be a lot of,
uh, gratitude towards you,
Mr Boyce, if you could assist myself
and my associates.
It's DCI Boyce.
You're not here on behalf
of Edwyn Cooper.
You're here on behalf of the system,
on behalf of this.
I wonder what you and your associates
would be willing to sacrifice
to keep that system in place.
Or who.
Everything I have said is
within legal remit.
Do you think I can't be careful?
Hmm?
Do you think I'm fooled by this?
Some little tart from secretarial.
Good luck writing this up, love.
I'm a detective
and I'm glad I met you.
Always known the type of people
I wanted to nick.
Just never had a name until now.
I'll see you again one day, Mr Clark.
At least my lot are honest.
You know where you are with
a brown envelope.
The higher you go,
the better they hide.
But they're villains all the same
and they're scared.
There ain't many things more
dangerous than a scared villain.
Have they approached your father?
- No.
- They will.
The day my old man affects the way
I do the job,
you'll be the first to know, sir.
Thanks for your help, Jennings.
The thing is, sir, that was them
trying to stop Cooper talking to us.
Yes.
Yeah. And it didn't work.
I can't think of many more ways
they can stop him from talking.
(indistinct talking on TV)
Hello, sir.
What the hell are you doing?
We're watching the game, sir.
He's a prisoner, Constable. And more
to the point, where is everyone?
Oh, we had reports of a mass
disturbance on the Alexandra Estate.
Reports from who?
Locals. Loads of them.
They all called up at once.
Lock that door.
And get a jacket on.
Yes, sir.
- One of them.
- Yeah.
Who's coming, sir?
In the army, sentry duty
was my biggest fear.
Standing alone, exposed, while
the enemy came and went in the dark.
Then I realised the power of it.
It's not about the sentry,
it's what he represents.
Protection, defence.
Order amidst anarchy.
Don't look.
Let them come and go in the darkness.
And we will hunt them in the light.
(whistling tune)
How much did Carter offer you?
£50,000 to go easy
on Cooper and Parry.
(Jennings)
What would you do with £50,000?
Panic.
Did you drink it?
The beer he bought you.
Well, it would've been
a terrible waste, sir.
How much was it?
Ah, 80p?
Oh, f
Only you could be offered 50 grand
and end up down.
Yep.
There are many ways
that these things end,
but they always start with
taking a drink.
Now you didn't take a drink.
I'll put this in
the Widows and Orphans fund.
Alright, yeah.
Happy to help.
They're getting desperate, sir.
We're attempting to
send down Palmer, Noye,
and half of South London.
They'll do everything they can.
(Parry) Hello?
Uh, uh, I'm a friend of Mr Cooper's.
He's not here.
(Parry) I-I know he's not.
I know where he is.
Do you want money?
No, Sienna, no.
No, thanks, no.
(chuckles)
No.
No, money's not the problem.
No, talking about money,
that's a problem.
Well, talking in general, to be fair.
Could you tell Mr Cooper
that my friends and I
we really appreciate his loyalty.
Oh, please tell him that I've really
enjoyed meeting you also.
Ooh.
(chuckles)
It's hot.
I'm not scared of you.
No, why would you be?
It's empty.
The Liechtenstein account.
It was cleared out two days ago.
Well, there isn't much
I can do about that.
Wasn't my money.
I'd finished my work.
It was no longer in my control.
How long do you think
it'll take, Tone?
If we go and tell the governor that
he's given us an empty bank account?
How long till he's in the Scrubs?
Oh, his feet wouldn't touch
the ground, Nic.
I'm giving you more than that.
I've marked the properties
that haven't sold yet.
If you're quick,
you can recover the money.
This is Docklands.
This was you lot.
You'll be surprised where
that money's left its mark.
Jennings, you got a call.
It's your old man.
Can you give me the deeds for these?
I can tell you where to find them.
You bought the wing of a school.
It's a long story.
Yeah, alright.
See you then.
I said not to come.
I could've stayed at home
and been worried sick
or I could come here
and be terrified.
Not much of a choice, is it, John?
You've seen the papers.
They come to the house.
They asked to take a photo of me
looking sad in a skirt.
They call me Goldfinger.
They come to the house.
It would help.
The photo.
It's my whole defence.
Family man. Honest man.
Tricked into this.
You like it, don't you?
Being famous, being Goldfinger.
Of course I don't.
I had it sent in.
Didn't feel right without one.
Fancier than the old one.
Yeah, well, it's got to go with
the reputation, I suppose.
What do you think?
I preferred how things
were before, John.
I'm innocent.
I believe you.
And believing you
is all I've got left.
I'm sorry.
I won't be bullied by men like that.
Please tell me you won't be either.
You asked me once where I'm from.
I'm from London.
Old London.
Not what it's become. Not what
Not what people like me have made it.
I know those people.
I remember those people.
If I don't do what they want
I know how this ends.
So I'll seek a different
ending for both of us.
You'll get longer.
But you'll be safe.
And I'll have a chance of coming out.
I won't be here when you do.
I want you to know that.
Let's at least end this with honesty.
I got closer to you
than I ever have
to something
approaching happiness.
(sniffles)
I don't think happiness
is where you belong, Edwyn.
No.
I don't think it is.
(sniffles)
(exhales deeply)
# These are the things
I can do without.
# Come on.
# I'm talking to you.
# Come on.
# In violent times. #
Vegetables.
What you trying to do? Kill me?
What's going on next door?
Oh, one of their boys
just got out of the Scrubs.
Don't think I haven't seen
you cutting down on my fags.
It's barely a packet a day.
Is that why you shifted
me from this morning?
'Cause you knew if I come now,
it'd be busy out there? Safe.
I've had visitors.
They asked asked me
to give you a message.
- Don't say another w
- I said no.
I said, I'm Billy Jennings, and
I used to be someone round here.
I told them they could
do what they wanted to me,
and it'd be a blessing,
but if they used your name again,
I'd come for each and every one of
them in turn in the fucking night.
- I could nick the lot of them.
- No, you can't!
(wheezes)
Shit.
Ugh.
(coughing)
You can't come here no more.
I can't take it.
The worry.
You know, you're the one thing
I've got.
And anyway, I'll be
somewhere else soon enough.
Dad.
I meant the hospital!
St Stephen's.
All those pretty nurses, eh?
(chuckles)
You know, Dad, when I was young
lying in bed, I couldn't sleep
till I heard the sirens.
I'd hear one every night,
sometimes right outside
sometimes near enough.
Made me feel like there were
other people in this world
other grown-ups that
would keep me safe.
Now I could sleep.
I do this job so that
kids like me feel safe.
And I do this job so I can come
and see my dad whenever I want.
I'm proud of you.
Your mum would be proud of you.
And you don't need to show me
what you've got inside of you
because I've seen it
since the day you were born.
I'm just asking a favour,
as an old man
not to have that fear
to go with all the others.
Not to have that regret
to go with all the others.
I'll see you in the other place.
("Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat
playing)
# Mother will never understand.
# Why you had to leave.
# But the answers you seek
will never be found at home.
# The love that you need
will never be found at home.
# Run away, turn away, run away,
turn away, run away. #
(sniffles)
(engine starts)
(siren wailing)
(indistinct shouting)
(woman) Get out of here, you filth!
Married?
I just thought
the divorce is done,
and it helps you get my dough
if anything happens to me in here.
And, well, I've got
plenty of time on my hands.
Well, this isn't much of a proposal.
Okay. Yeah, and the other stuff too.
You know
love and whatnot.
Never thought I'd
get married in a nick.
I could swing us some time together.
I could show you my cactus.
(chuckles)
- I'm sorry.
- The thing about not cooperating
is you really want to do it
before you've cooperated.
I'll plead not guilty and claim the
statements were made under duress.
Really going out with
dignity here, mate.
If I plead not guilty,
they won't know what I told you.
They'll know.
The only difference is
you won't be protected.
I'm sorry.
You've not had any visitors.
You wouldn't allow them.
I would have allowed your mother
if she'd asked.
Tough mothering down South London.
You won't get to me
like that, Mr Boyce.
I've spent my whole life not
letting people get to me like that.
Goodman, take Mr Cooper
to the station.
Give him one box for possessions
and drive him to Wormwood Scrubs,
where he'll be
placed on an open wing.
Open wing?
(chuckles) No.
No, I'll speak to the governor.
A murder would be unhelpful.
Don't put him in the Scrubs yet.
Stick Cooper in the system
as a cooperating witness,
give him one last night
in the station.
With his phone.
Now, the thing about gold
is that, um
that it's not yours, you know?
Not really.
You're just looking after it.
And then you die and it, um
it passes on.
Gold is the one thing
I've ever understood.
It's the one thing I-I-I've
ever had a talent for.
But i-it's never
really mine, you know?
I, uh
I just do what I need to do with it
and and and I pass it on.
So, yeah, I know gold.
And, yeah, maybe,
uh, not knowing it
I, uh I smelted
that Mat's-Brink gold.
But I'm not some criminal mastermind.
I'm a kid from Solihull.
I grew up in a council flat
next to the dump.
Seven kids to a single mum.
Kicked out of school at 12.
I'm unable to read and write.
I'm no armed robber.
I'm no, uh money launderer.
I'm just a bloke who knows gold
(exhales sharply)
who's been taken
advantage of something terrible.
(Boyce)
The jury found Palmer not guilty.
Not guilty?
He was careful.
Others weren't.
You need results.
And I'll get them.
(McLean) Palmer's an embarrassment.
Noye would be a disaster.
He's beaten us once.
He can't do it again.
(Boyce) He won't.
I've cleared you of
the allegations, Boyce.
I didn't realise
quite how dull you are.
Hmm!
Well, if you care to redirect
your investigatory zeal, ma'am
start with Carter.
Pull the thread, and you'll
be surprised who emerges.
There are too many men in this
building who serve two masters.
This place doesn't
like change, Boyce.
But it can't go on forever.
Their time will come.
But not yet.
Let's keep them out in the open
where I can see them.
They'll throw the kitchen sink
at you in court.
That's their job.
Do you have enough on Noye?
I believe so,
and then there's what he has.
What's that?
Hubris.
(phone ringing)
Cooper.
(Parry) Don't use my name, please.
I heard about your visit
and reacted accordingly.
And I'm calling as a friend
to tip you off that some people
have heard that you're being helpful,
and they're a little
concerned about that.
I've withdrawn cooperation.
I'm pleading not guilty.
Tomorrow, I'll be relocated to
less salubrious surroundings.
I'm sure your friends have
the means to confirm all of that.
How you bearing up?
As well as I can.
(Parry) Glad to hear it.
You keep your head down, Edwyn.
You'll be fine.
Edwyn?
Well, you feel like a bit
of an Edwyn to me now.
It's going to be hot.
Wherever Parry is,
I bet it's bloody hot.
Oh, come on, Tone,
he might have gone to ground
in Rotherhithe for all we know.
(Bowman) Control to Unit Two.
Unit Two.
(Bowman) I've got the phone trace
from Cooper's phone.
Go on, then.
(Bowman) You don't like the heat,
do you, Brightwell?
- (sighs)
- (chuckling)
For fuck's sake.
(indistinct shouting)
Give us a smile, Marnie!
- Johnny! Johnny!
- Big smile, Marnie.
- Where is it, John?
- Over here, John.
Where's the rest of the gold?
(shouting continues)
(McHugh) This started with gold
and this ends with gold.
Three tonnes of it, Mr Boyce,
stolen from the Brink's-Mat depot
on the Heathrow Trading Estate
on the 26th of November 1983.
You were tasked with
finding that gold.
I was.
(McHugh)
And over these past few years,
with your well-manned Task Force
and your extravagant budget,
have you found any gold that
can definitively be described
as part of the stolen
Brink's-Mat gold?
No.
We don't have the gold because
Mr Noye and his associates
have smelted half of it,
and Mr Noye won't tell us
where the rest of it is.
However, I believe there
is conclusive evidence
as to the smelting operation
and conclusive evidence
that it concerned
the Brink's-Mat gold.
Mr Noye does not deny the handling
of a significant amount
of uncustomed gold
and related money over that period.
He will explain that to the jury.
We are here to talk about you.
I wasn't aware that I was on trial.
Are you currently under
disciplinary investigation?
No.
Um, have you ever been investigated
for your conduct in Mr Noye's case?
Investigated and cleared.
- But investigated.
- And cleared.
Move along, Mr McHugh.
The reality is that you
are obsessed with Mr Noye
due to the tragic death of
your colleague DC Fordham.
DC Fordham did not die.
He was killed.
And I bear no obsession with Mr Noye.
Mr Noye is a petty criminal
who got lucky.
Well, the fact is
I'm a very wealthy man.
And, yes, truth be told, some of my
earnings don't trouble the taxman.
I, um I save him the paperwork.
You know what I mean?
(Corkery) And these vast sums of
money, they were generated from
the smelting and reselling
of the Brink's-Mat gold?
You're going to have to
do better than that.
Enlighten me, Mr Noye.
Well, if you knew your history,
then you'd know that London
was built on smuggling.
You see, your lot try
to tax my lot to death.
So what did we do?
We went down the smugglers'
lanes to the coast
and we bought what
we needed off the boats.
I like to think that I did my bit
to keep that tradition alive.
(Corkery) And what was
your specific contribution
to that great British tradition?
Well, I met these blokes
in Florida who were like me,
had an eye for an opportunity,
and we put together
a gold smuggling route.
We started in Brazil, because
there's plenty of gold there.
Plenty of people to
look the other way.
And then we sent it to Kuwait, 'cause
the Arabs, well, they zero-rate it.
And then we brought it in
via the Netherlands,
and we sold it in Belgium
to the Orthodox Jews.
We've put about £50 million
worth of gold through it.
So
it has been worth a go.
(Corkery) If I can return you
to less exotic shores,
at your house in Kent,
police found 11 unmarked gold bars,
instructions for a smelter.
Most of that was planted.
It was planted.
The rest of it means nothing.
(Corkery) But why you, Mr Noye?
If you believe that you've
been unfairly targeted,
that the police have fabricated
the evidence against you,
why would they land on you?
Because they don't like
men like me getting rich.
There's a certain type of copper who
really gets put out by it, you know?
Jealous of me having that
kind of money, that kind of life.
I don't know what the average
copper earns in a year,
but I imagine I earn that in a day.
So
I moved a lot of gold,
and a lot of money came out of that,
and, yes, the taxman, I suspect,
will want to have a quick word
with me after this, and that's fine.
But I'm not Brink's-Mat.
I ain't.
(laughs)
I don't know nothing
about that robbery,
other than what was
already in the papers.
That some blokes from
South London nicked it.
And he ain't found it.
(Mateo) It's working, Señor Palmer.
We have sold a quarter
of the properties
and have 50 builders
working on the rest.
Where's the money?
(Mateo) They say in El Dorado,
there was a king who left piles
of gold all around the city
to show the people he was not
afraid of them stealing it.
The money is safe, Señor Palmer,
but there's a lot of it.
And this is a small island.
El Dorado needs its king.
(door opens)
(chuckles)
I ain't got it.
We know.
We know you went to Panama.
I don't think you knowing I went to
Panama gets you very far, does it?
You'll get 10 years.
I'll do five.
Then, to be fair, I reckon, life
won't look too bad when I get out.
When the messenger came,
I thought it might be flowers.
You used to send me flowers when
we had something to celebrate.
- I needed a new one.
- Why?
They tried to nick you over there.
Yeah. I can sort that.
So you're a gangster now, are you?
(John)
We're going to fix things, love.
I promise.
But it's going to take time,
and it's going to take money.
We had to send Scadlynn bankrupt,
and since then, there ain't a bank
in England would lend me a penny.
So I'm going to have to
earn some crust over there.
Take the pressure off a bit.
Then we can start getting
back to the way we were.
There's no getting back to that.
No.
Well, be back in a week,
two at the most.
- You know, John.
- Yeah?
All those things your dad did. Yeah?
All those things
that you carry with you,
you'd have forgiven every single
one of them if he hadn't have left.
I'm not leaving.
(door opens)
(door closes)
What's this?
My cactus.
Well
it's nice to see you've been busy.
A couple of lads came in last week.
Friends of friends.
And they told me
what happened to my share.
I believed in a code.
I believed in South London.
Others didn't.
What you going to do?
Nothing.
With good behaviour,
I could be out in 10.
We can handle 10, can't we?
Yeah.
I'll wait for you, Micky.
How you doing?
Well, I'd rather be sitting
that side of the table.
You will be.
And from what I've heard, they've
got less on you than they had on me.
You're a clever boy, John.
Yeah.
Kept yourself very clean.
Hidden.
Can I do anything for you?
Nah, you're alright.
Am I alright?
Of course you are.
You're just a poor kid from Solihull
who got taken advantage of
something terrible.
No, no-one's coming
looking for you, John.
You enjoy the sunshine.
Might even come visit you.
Well, let's get you off, hey?
And then it's done.
I don't know, John.
It's Brink's-Mat.
The size of it,
all the people involved.
I don't think it'll ever be done.
(bell rings)
Do you, Michael McAvoy,
take Kathleen Meacock
to be your lawful wedded wife?
To have and to hold
in sickness and in health,
for richer, for poorer, to love and
to cherish until parted by death?
I do.
(priest)
And do you, Kathleen Meacock,
take Michael McAvoy to
be your lawful wedded husband?
To love and to hold,
in sickness and in health,
for richer and for poorer,
to love and to cherish
until parted by death?
I do.
(priest) I now pronounce you
man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
(gunfire)
If we took on every crime
that comes out of Brink's-Mat,
we'd be here for 20 years.
And they want their building back.
You know, sir, I look at it all
and I don't know who won.
Oh, we'll know who's won
when the juries come back.
But that doesn't change
what you lot achieved.
This is some of the finest
pieces of policing I've known.
Because outside this room, this,
the whole picture, never existed.
That was the genius of it.
This was a story about
individuals united only by greed.
None of them knew that
all the others existed.
None of them could
see the whole picture.
They just knew their own jobs
their own greed.
But we tracked them down
and built cases that
have never been built before.
We made alliances that
haven't been made before.
We all know what
we lost along the way.
But we took on more here
than anyone will ever know.
And what came out of it
was this lot in the dock.
What happens next
is out of our hands.
So pack up, seal the files,
and I thank you for your service.
Can we have a word, sir?
I'm putting you two
up for a promotion,
which is a fairly
terrifying prospect.
(Brightwell chuckles)
Thank you, sir.
We only have the money
because of you.
You were right to chase it.
(Jennings) I mean,
we got a few buildings, sir.
Parry slipped the rest away.
We need to get ourselves to Panama.
(laughs)
It's over, Jennings.
Well, that's what we want
to talk to you about, sir.
We'd like to go with you,
your next job.
(Jennings) We can't go back
to Flying Squad after this.
This felt important,
like we were changing things.
We want to do something else
that feels like that.
You two will have fine careers.
I have no doubt that you will
change things wherever you go.
But there is no next job.
When Brink's-Mat is done, I'm done.
- (knock on door)
- Jury's back at the Old Bailey, sir.
What are you going to do, sir?
Travel.
I'd like to go to Cyprus
to lay a wreath.
("Atmosphere" by Joy Division
playing)
# Walk.
# In silence.
# Don't walk away.
# In silence.
# See the danger.
# Always danger.
# Endless talking.
# Life rebuilding.
# Don't walk away. #
Has the jury reached a verdict?
Yes, Your Honour.
Kenneth James Noye
is charged with conspiracy
to dishonestly handle gold stolen
from the Brink's-Mat warehouse
on the 26th of November 1983.
He is, in addition, charged
with fraudulently conspiring
to evade VAT payments
on the stolen gold.
How do you find the defendant?
Guilty.
(cheering)
On all charges.
(Judge Instrell) Defendant will be
sentenced this afternoon.
- I hope you all die of cancer.
- (crowd gasps)
(Judge Instrell) Take him down!
He said he'd finished.
Who?
Cooper.
He said he'd finished
cleaning the money.
We thought we'd stopped him.
We thought we'd stopped all of them.
There was more to come,
more gold, more money.
But he said he'd finished.
What does that number mean to you?
We've dropped the charges
against your wife.
You're looking at 14 years,
by my reckoning.
A lot of life in 14 years.
You have one card, Noye.
Where's the other half of the gold?
I'll be remembered for
what I did, Mr Boyce.
In my world, at least.
'Cause no-one's ever done anything
like that before, have they?
One and a half tonne of gold just
vanished into thin air.
And having you lot
run about like clowns.
All that chasing, all that digging
for something
that was never there.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll be remembered for that.
(door slams)
(door opens)
They only ever had half of it, sir.
The gold must have been split
right at the beginning.
I know.
("A Forest" by The Cure playing)
(engine starts)
(laughing)
Where do we start?
At the beginning.
Six blokes in a van.
# Come closer and see.
# See into the trees.
# Find the girl.
# While you can.
# Come closer and see.
# See into the dark.
# Just follow your eyes.
# Just follow your eyes.
# I hear her voice.
# Calling my name.
# The sound is deep. #