Rose and Maloney (2002) s02e05 Episode Script

1
["Rose and Maloney Theme"]
- Could you just not hit a
pothole
for about three seconds?
Two, three.
Brilliant.
- What's the point?
Where's Rose?
- Rose?
She
- Nevermind.
- What's this?
We don't have time for any new
cases.
- It's a formality.
Read the first few pages, you'll
see.
- Not the front of door.
Go round the back.
Here, this is good, thank you.
- [Man] Okay, we're ready now.
- Okay, everybody, they
need this place clear now.
They can't check the phones for
the bugs
if you're all making calls.
Apparently it speeds things up
if we all move outside for 10
minutes.
Digital watches, mobile
phones, pacemakers,
take them all with you.
[beeping]
[whizzing]
- Yeah, that's Rose's desk.
She's not turned up.
Well, she's out on a case.
Shall I
- Keep the change.
- [Cab Driver] Thanks, love.
[people laughing]
[whistling]
- Why couldn't you tell me?
- Why couldn't you get to work
on time?
- Well, what is it?
Fire drill?
- They're sweeping the
office for listening devices.
It's routine, apparently.
- Excuse me.
Excuse me.
What happened to my desk?
- I did that.
Had a sort of fungus growing all
over it.
- So, what's this then?
- Share it out.
Don't spend a lot of time on it.
- We don't have any time for
another case.
- Low priority.
- Oh, it's low priority.
It's fine.
George Parris.
So, what did George Parris do
that's so fascinating for
everybody?
Joyce?
- He killed a fellow
prisoner called Turner.
Armed only with a toothbrush,
apparently.
- I didn't know you could do
that.
- You can't.
That's why it's murder.
- Where are you?
- Page eight.
Prison officer Weaver.
- Hey, Parris!
George, do you fancy a game?
- [Rose] George Parris tended
to avoid the other prisoners,
especially the white prisoners.
Alan Turner, the man he killed,
was a popular kind of man
newly-arrived on the wing,
but quick to make friends.
- Turner, ain't it?
- Alan.
Oh, great, I get stuck
with a world beater.
Hey, George, give us a song
before you go.
- [Rose] On the night of
the 10th of January, 2001
I was doing the check
of the wing's latrines
when I came upon Alan Turner.
[gasping]
- Parris.
- What happened at the appeal?
- Parris said his confession was
coerced.
- By whom?
- Found himself unable to
say for fear of retribution.
Appeal chucked out.
Surprise, surprise.
- What do they expect us to do?
- Actually, it's not him
that's asked for a review.
It's his 19 year old son,
Vincent.
He won't have seen much of
his old man over the years.
- [Rose] Why not?
- Because George Parris
was convicted 16 years ago
for a firearms offence.
Went on a hunger strike,
took hostages twice,
which is why he's still there.
Then, the murder.
Be an old man by the time he
comes out.
- Well, there's no harm meeting
the guy.
Which prison is he in?
- [Maloney] I'm not sure.
- We'll call them.
- No, I'll call them.
You have a ciggy in
the car while you wait.
Hello?
Yes, it's Mr. Maloney.
We spoke yes-
Yes.
Well, I just wonder whether you
have
that information for me?
Good.
And does that include airport
tax?
Is that a double bed?
Oh, king size, terrific.
- [Recording] Hello?
Yes, it's Mr. Maloney.
We spoke-
- Hello?
- [Recording] Yes, yes.
- Hello?
- [Recording] Well, I just
wonder whether
you have that information.
Is that a double bed?
Oh, king size, terrific.
Is that a double bed?
- Is there somebody on this
line?
[beeps]
[phone disconnects]
Am I interrupting something?
- What? No.
What's the matter?
- This debugging thing.
Blokes with Geiger counters
swarming all over the place.
We've got to wait in the bloody
car park.
- Yeah.
- I go to make a call just now
and I get cut off, right.
- To the prison.
- Well, no, actually, but
- [Rose] Well, who to then?
- Well, it doesn't matter.
I pick the phone up to redial
the number,
and I hear my whole
conversation played back to me.
- Well, prison's record their
calls, machines go wrong.
- It wasn't the prison.
- Well, who was it then?
- Travel agent.
- Where you going?
- Nowhere.
Look, forget I mentioned it.
It's just a coincidence, okay?
Well, try this for size.
- What you ringing a travel
agent for
if you're not going anywhere?
- I, then, ring the prison
service
and George Parris has gone
missing.
- Oh, you mean he's escaped.
- No, he hasn't escaped.
He's been transferred
and they can't give us
his new location yet.
Obviously, it's just another
coincidence.
But now I'm officially stuck
as to how to make a start.
- Yes, but you see Maloney,
you see this is why they've
given you
somebody clever to work with.
You're right we can't
go and ask George Parris
if he murdered Alan
Turner with a toothbrush,
but we can start finding
out who the son is
and who the victim was.
Turner's address before he
entered prison
for what turned out to be the
last time.
And you can drop me on the way
because we have to pass
Vincent Parris's address,
which is a totally spooky
coincidence.
It's just a case review,
Maloney.
Paranoia really doesn't suit
you.
[knocking]
- Are you the catalogue, man?
- No, no, I'm sorry to bother
you.
I'm looking for number 27.
- Oh, there's no 27 here, mate.
- Well, according to this there
is.
- Look, it'd be in the middle
of the gasholder, wouldn't it?
There is no 27 and there never
has been.
- A family called Turner?
- Oh yeah.
Yeah, Turner.
Yeah, 27 in the middle of the
gasholder.
Look, I'm trying to watch the
golf, mate.
[knocking]
- Yes?
- [Rose] Hello, I'm
looking for Vincent Parris.
- Not here.
You from the police?
- I'm Rose Linden from the
Criminal Justice Review Agency.
Are you related to Vincent?
- What is it about?
- [Rose] I need to talk to him
about George Parris, his father.
- Is he dead?
- No, no, he's not dead.
We've been asked to consider
if there's been a miscarriage of
justice.
- What's it to do with Vincent?
- Well, he's the one who's asked
us to review his father's case.
- You make a mistake.
- No, I haven't actually.
[beads clacking]
Would this be Vincent and his
dad?
- Shortly before he went into
prison.
- Thank you.
- How is George?
- I haven't met him yet.
I'm sorry, would you mind
telling me-
- Gina Parris.
George is my son.
Vincent, my grandson.
- And Vincent lives here?
- He comes and goes.
[door slams]
- You looking for me?
- If you're Vincent Parris,
I'm Rose Linden from the CJRA.
- I don't have to talk to
anybody.
I don't really know the man.
So, I mean, somebody should just
look
at all the facts is what I'm
saying.
The guy's not a murderer.
He's a choir boy.
- Well, we will be looking at
the facts
but it would be useful-
- Do I have to talk to you?
- No, you don't have to do
anything.
It would just help if you told
me why
you've asked for the review.
Why now?
- Do I have to give you reasons?
- No.
- Good.
See you later, grandma.
I got rehearsal.
- Rehearsal?
- He makes music.
Like his dad.
He had a lovely voice.
So, it's the murder you're
looking into?
- Well, yes.
Can I ask, do you think he's a
murderer?
- I don't know.
I don't know my son anymore.
The last time I saw him
there was a lot of anger in him.
I have to go to work now.
- What about Vincent's mother?
- She died when he was two.
I can't help you, Miss Linden.
I know nothing about a murder.
I have to go.
- Can I just, when was the
last time you saw your son?
- Three years since I saw my
son.
[men talking]
- That's better.
- Which is kind of odd, really,
because there was a lot of
blood.
- Okay, so I
- Yeah, sure, sure.
Well, she wants to help.
She's just keen.
- She's keen, right?
[phone ringing]
- Maloney.
Oh, good.
They've found him.
So, where is he?
Yes, thanks, we will.
- [Rose] Is it George Parris?
- We can see them today.
How'd you do?
- George Parris had a
lovely singing voice.
If he looks anything like his
son,
then he's a beautiful man or
was.
And neither his son or his
mother wants to talk to me.
How about you?
- Well, the address they gave
us for Turner doesn't exist.
- Are you sure you went
to the right place?
Maybe MI5 turned up first
and hit the house before you got
there.
- Coming before George
Parris disappears again?
[men yelling]
- [Prison Officer] All
right, this is Miss Linden.
- Yes, we can introduce
ourselves, thank you.
You know who we are and
why we're here, Mr. Parris.
Do you mind if we called you
George?
- I did not request this
meeting.
- Your son believes you've been
the victim
of a miscarriage of justice.
- Do you think he could be
right?
- No.
- Let's smoke in here.
Would you like one, George?
You know, Vincent, he looks very
like you.
- I want everybody know
this is not me asking
for this to happen, eh?
I want everybody know that!
- Everybody like who?
- I want to go back to my cell!
- What's going on George?
We're trying to help you.
Your son's trying to help you.
- You give my son a message.
You tell him to leave well
alone.
- We've been trying to find out
what we can about Turner,
the man you were convicted of
killing.
- What, you deaf?
You didn't hear me?
I said leave it alone!
You see what you make happen.
- [Prison Officer] Get them out
of here!
- You people will stay
away from me, right?!
- [Officer] Calm down!
- Look, I'm calm, I'm calm.
Let go.
- Calm down!
- You people stay away from me,
right?!
You don't come back!
[yelling]
- These case notes have
been out of my sight
and in your possession for 37
minutes.
- Well, we were rather busy,
ma'am.
You may have noticed.
And was you that left them in
there.
- Has anybody read them?
- Listen, ma'am.
- Yeah, and stop calling me,
ma'am.
I'm not the Princess Royal.
- Yeah, well I don't thing I'm
confused
about that, Miss Linden.
And as for you notes,
believe me, there's nothing any
of you
can tell any of us about George
Parris.
Look, this is a man who has
twice taken officers hostage.
Not to mention cut
another prisoner's throat.
Now, oddly, we don't like that.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Good afternoon.
- You see George's face
when you mentioned his son.
- Yeah, but the only balmy when
you mention investigating
the dead man, Turner.
- Look, it's his life.
I can understand his son
wanting to clear his dad's name,
but-
- No, no.
You know something's not right
here.
George Parris came into
prison 16 years ago
having pleaded guilty to
possessing a replica handgun
during an alleged raid on a
bank.
He got six years.
16 years on, after hostage
taking and hunger strikes,
he's still here.
And his mother obviously thought
we were
investigating the original case.
And anyway, does he look like
a bank robber to you, Maloney?
- Well, yeah, I suppose.
- No, he doesn't.
- Well, it's irrelevant anyway.
We're not investigating that
case.
- Well, why not?
Why not start at the
beginning with this guy?
- No, the murder case was low
priority.
This is off the map.
- Okay, you do what you want to
do.
I'll do what I want to do.
- Brilliant. Teamwork.
So, I do all the work
relevant to the actual case
while you waste public money
on stuff from years ago.
Why not spend your whole life
digging around in the archives?
Did King Alfred really burned
the cakes or was he fitted up?
- [Rose] No idea, Maloney.
- And another thing,
all this business with the
notes,
you made us look stupid.
I mean, I'm paranoid?
- No, that was different.
You are being paranoid about
your phone,
whereas I wasn't.
- Right.
- You see the difference?
- Not at first, but I do now.
You want to lift?
- No, I'll get the tube.
- You don't fancy a drink then?
Oh shit.
- Okay, if I join you for a
minute?
- Well, actually I was, I
Look, I don't know what
sort of pub this is,
but I'm not a regular,
if you get my drift.
- The man you've been
seeking by the name of Turner
never existed.
- What?
- What happened to him
shouldn't happen to a dog.
A lot of us are pretty
pissed off about it.
- Lot of who?
Who are you?
- Everybody you talk to about
this
will blow smoke up your ass.
Good luck.
- No, no, hang on a minute.
Ah, Jesus Christ!
- You met an interesting bloke
in a pub.
You must tell me how it's done.
- Well, he followed me in, I
think.
- What sort of a pub was this,
Maloney?
- Possibly a gay pub.
Have a look.
Local paper, death notice.
- It's the same bloke.
- [Maloney] Only in the death
notice he's not called Turner,
he's called McCaffrey.
And the dates match.
- Worked in the security
business, yeah right.
Dead in an accident.
Yes, an accident involving a
toothbrush.
Wife, Jean, six months pregnant
with the couple's first child.
Well, that was tough.
Okay, well that's your
day sorted, Maloney.
Wonder if the wife knew.
- [Maloney] I'll go and ask her.
- Who was this guy in the pub?
Was he a cop?
- No idea.
Could have been.
- Why didn't he just post it to
you?
- [Maloney] He wanted
to tell me something.
- What?
- He said, everyone you talk to
about this
will blow smoke up your ass.
- Do you go in this pub a lot,
Maloney?
- You coming or are you
still on ancient history?
- Maloney, just be careful.
You know, I've spoken to George
and the only time any
life came into his face
is when I mentioned you Vincent.
I need to be told what happened
to him
starting at the beginning
with the bank robbery.
- All right, you want
to know about George.
Come with me.
- That's right.
Now I would like book
that weekend for two.
Brilliant.
Now, could I arrange
with you for champagne
and flowers in the room?
[knocking]
- Are you looking for me?
- [Maloney] Yes.
- Okay, what do you want?
- It's about the murder of your
husband.
I'd like to start by asking
you who told you I'd be coming?
Did they tell you why?
- Yeah, you're trying to get
that bastard, Parris, off.
Well, good luck to you.
But you tell them from me,
he won't live 10 minutes
if he ever gets out onto the
streets.
- Well, you have a right to be
angry.
- Pauline never saw our father.
George Parris killed him
before she got the chance.
Yeah, I'm angry.
- Mrs. McCaffrey, this is
difficult,
but I have to ask you about your
husband.
- Every day I think I'm going
to wake from this nightmare
and find him walking through
that door.
Even now.
I don't think this is quite
what you wanted to hear, is it?
You want to ask about did he
hate blacks,
and poor old George Parris
got provoked by him.
- Did he hate black people?
- Alan?
Alan never hated any living
creature.
He was one of the finest
men you could meet.
- When did you see him last?
- Prison visit about a week
before he was murdered.
- And did everything seem
normal?
- Well, what was normal
about any part of it?
What was he doing in there?
I'm not even allowed to know
that.
- Are you saying you
think he was innocent?
- Innocent of what?
- Grievous bodily harm, wasn't
it?
- Jesus Christ, this country
sickens me!
Surely, they've had to tell you!
- [Maloney] Tell me what?
- My husband was a police
officer.
- A police officer?
Are you saying he was inside
for corruption or something,
and not GBH?
- Have you not got the brains
you were born with, man?
He wasn't a prisoner.
He was working undercover
for the special unit.
Somebody grassed him up,
and that bastard, Parris,
cut my husband's throat.
If you want to see justice
triumph,
find the man who grassed my
husband.
Do that, will you?!
- It was 1988.
The bank was there.
George and his friend
Benjamin walked through
the precinct towards the bank.
They had no idea what
was waiting for them.
- [Police Officer] Okay, this is
it.
Two black males approaching now.
- [Gina] Forget the man you met,
try to imagine the man he was.
A young man with his life ahead
of him
and a little boy he loved
more than his own life.
- I've heard this story so many
times.
- Will you tell it to me,
please?
- You still got that thing,
grandma?
My old man, the criminal.
Public enemy number one.
Went to rob a bank with
a dry cleaning ticket.
The dry cleaner was next door to
the bank.
[dramatic music]
- [Police Officer] We've
got two young black males.
Okay, boys, let's go, let's go!
- Armed police, don't move!
Armed police, don't move!
Drop your weapon!
- Hands up, nigger!
- Stay where you are!
[officers yelling]
- He ran into this park.
There were thick bushes at this
end.
That's where they eventually
caught him.
We never claimed his suit.
[officers yelling]
- Get down!
Drop your weapon!
Drop your weapon and come out of
there!
[gun firing]
- In you go, boys!
- They fired on an unarmed man
with women and children around?
- Yeah, and even they know
they're not allowed to do that.
So, they get themselves a toy
gun.
And guess what, turns out
his fingerprints are on it.
- Sorry, but why not
plant a real gun on him?
- Because it had to be found
in front of the same people
who'd seen the arrest to
justify them opening fire.
And there it is a nigger with a
gun,
and a cop who's a hero.
- Found it, governor.
- You don't believe him?
- Yeah, yes, I do.
I think I'm beginning to
understand.
- You might sympathise.
You won't ever understand.
- Right, I've made the
inquiries you asked me to make
neither the Metropolitan Police
nor the Home Office have any
record
of an Alan McCaffrey.
- Did you ask about the
use of undercover policemen
and British jails?
- [Wendy] Flat denial.
- Special unit?
- Doesn't exist.
The two officers involved
in the original offence,
Inspector Bennett is retired,
Sergeant Chatham went to New
South Wales many years ago.
- So, what about McCaffrey's
wife?
- I am informed that Mrs.
Turner has suffered a breakdown
since her husband was murdered.
It seems she never knew
until his conviction
that he was a career criminal.
- You were informed by whom?
It seems to who?
And the fact that Turner
and McCaffrey are identical
and died on the same day.
What's that an amazing
coincidence?
- Can I ask, who gave you her
new address?
- Well, bloke in a pub?
- A bloke in a pub, I see.
What did he say?
- He said
Nothing.
- And you're spending far too
much time
on irrelevant events.
Parris's conviction for
carrying a replica firearm
has never been seriously
questioned,
but can I remind you both that
you are supposed to be working
as a team
on the murder, in prison, of
Alan Turner.
- Who doesn't exist.
- No, he doesn't, Maloney,
because he's dead.
Now, will you please both put
some effort
into finding out if
George Parris killed him?
- Was he Turner or McCaffrey?
- McCaffrey, definitely.
- Was McCaffrey a villain or a
cop?
- Cop.
- [Rose] Absolutely sure?
- Positive.
- Right.
An undercover cop is murdered
by a fellow prisoner.
That is nightmare PR for the Met
so no wonder they want
to deny it happened.
But why doesn't George Parris
want it out in the open?
And if George didn't
kill him, then who did?
- I think George could tell us
that.
- So do I, but I don't
think he's going to, do you?
And I think that has to
do with what happened
the day he went to the dry
cleaners
and ended up in prison
for the rest of his life.
- Well, according to his mother
and son.
Sorry to remind you, Rose,
but George did plead guilty
to the firearms charge.
- Yeah, I keep forgetting that.
But why?
What makes an innocent man plead
guilty?
No suggestion of it
being beaten out of him,
so why?
- When the floor's full
just use the ashtray.
- He looks like his mother.
- No, I don't.
I look like him.
- What's he do?
Him have a job?
- He make music.
- He sings?
- He's not really singing.
Talk to him, Vincent.
Talk to your father.
- Sounds like a jungle drum and
bass.
Thought you had radios in here.
- I lose my radio.
- Well, I can't live without my
music.
- You know, it's funny what you
can learn to live without.
Look, your music, whatever you
call it,
I glad for you.
But if you think you come
here to get some easy money,
like compensation money,
because your father out
and it's all due to you,
forget it.
I'm not going anywhere.
So, you tell your little white
friend them
to stop doing what they're
doing.
- I wasn't-
- Hey!
You understand?
Good, now go home.
- Is that why you ask him to
come here?
So you can insult him?
- Just do what I ask.
Go home, get the review
stopped, all right?
I want to go back to my
cell, that's all right.
Go home.
And don't come back here.
- Hello, Alison Francis.
- Rose Linden.
- Maloney.
- Sorry for the fancy dress.
I'm in and out of Chancery
probably
be called back any minute
So
- George Parris.
- Wow, I'm glad you're looking
into that.
I still have nightmares about
that case.
I don't know whether you know
it was my first case as a
barrister.
- No, we didn't.
- Practically in my last
as a criminal lawyer.
I soon specialised in commercial
law.
What happened to him after he
got out?
- He's still in prison.
- He never accepted his
sentence.
Hostages, hunger strikes.
- Jesus wept.
- But it's not the original
case we're looking at.
This is a murder he was
convicted of three years ago.
- Murder?
Absolutely not.
- The firearm charge,
the alleged bank robbery,
was George guilty?
- God, no.
- [Rose] So, why did you plead
guilty?
- Look, you have to understand
five white policemen
all swearing he had a gun.
One black defendant saying, no I
didn't.
One red-faced judge going
crazy about gun crime.
I mean, we all knew what
had actually happened.
Bennett had fired on George.
His barrister was going to put
George
in the box and let him the jury
the truth.
I mean, high risk strategy-
- I'm sorry.
I thought you were his
barrister.
- I was given the job as
a last-minute stand in.
- Where was his real barrister?
- Double-booked by his clerk.
Still on a case in Aylesbury.
It happens quite a lot.
To be honest, I didn't even have
time
to read all the evidence.
The thing I still have bad
dreams about
is that George Parris
came to court that morning
believing that he would get
justice.
And then I turn up.
- What's going on?
Mr. Manchester, he won't be
coming today?
- Stuck with me, I'm afraid.
- Only he really thinks
we can get a result.
- Well, we will.
We'll do our best.
I just had time this morning to
speed
through most of the evidence.
- They want to talk.
George, everything's cool.
We're in good hands.
We're doing fine.
Hey George, bringing them here.
That wasn't a good idea, man.
- But man, I'm going home,
right?
They're going to see me declared
innocent.
- Okay, they want a deal.
They'll elbow the bank robbery
charge.
- Okay, now we're talking.
- If you'll plead guilty
to possessing the gun.
- No, no, you see Mr. Manchester
he wants me to go into that
box and told the whole story.
I didn't do anything.
- You can do that if you want
to,
but it's your word against
theirs.
No witnesses have come forward
for you.
- Yeah, 'cause they're all
white.
- And I have to give you
the best advice I can.
They promise it'll play
well with this judge
if you plead.
Possibly, possibly even
a suspended sentence.
You could still be going home
to your wife and little boy.
- My wife's dead.
- Sorry, I'm not helping here,
am I.
- They're gonna let me
go if I plead guilty?
- It's up to the judge,
so possibly, probably.
I don't know, George.
It's up to you.
- [Bailiff] Would all parties in
the case
of Crown versus Parris
please make their way to the-
- That's us George.
You've got to decide now, man.
They're going in.
Last chance.
- Tell my mom, you tell
her to take Vincent home.
I don't want them in court
to see me plead guilty.
- It was all bullshit.
He got six years.
[phone ringing]
Sorry.
I'm just
I'm very sorry.
- What a bloody mess they made
of it.
[phone ringing]
- Hello, Maloney.
Yes, okay.
Vincent Parris wants to see us.
He's been to see George.
- Well, no prizes for guessing
what he wants to say to us.
- [Maloney] So, do we drop the
case,
if that's what they want?
- [Rose] Probably.
But let's put up a fight, yeah?
- Can I just say you've
been right about this?
What happened to George Parris
all those years ago does matter.
I don't see how it helps
us, but it does matter.
- We could try for a pardon
on the firearms charge
but what good does that do
him sitting in a prison cell
for the rest of his life?
We've got nothing to have
him beat the murder charge.
Say we prove Turner was a cop
that just gives George a better
motive.
He's got every right to
pathologically hate cops.
- He's got a right to hate
a lot of us, actually.
[dramatic music]
- [Gina] I'll put the kettle on.
- A lot of her stuff is gone.
- I usually manage to keep
Vincent away from things
when he has a relapse.
- A relapse?
He's a heroin addict, Miss
Linden.
[dramatic music]
- [Rose] You asked to see us.
This is Mr. Maloney.
- Yeah, I changed my mind.
I want you to stop it, now.
- I'm sorry, but it
doesn't work like that.
We decide that not you.
- I asked for it.
I can call it off.
- Not necessarily.
Why Vincent?
Why the change?
- George was hard on him.
George wants you to stop.
- No, I want you to stop.
And you have to do what I tell
you.
- Your father's not thinking
straight
and nor are you.
- My decision, final.
[men breaking in the door]
- [Man 1] You get down!
- [Man 2] Sit down!
- [Man 3] This is what happens
to people
that don't realise who
they're dealing with!
- [Man 1] Say goodbye!
- [Man 3] Hold hands!
[Man 1] On three!
One!
- [Rose] Goodbye, Maloney.
- [Man 1] Two!
- Goodbye, Rose.
- [Man 3] Three!
["Rose and Maloney Theme"]