Rose and Maloney (2002) s03e02 Episode Script

- Can I help you?
Aren't you, aren't you
Annie Sorensen Johnson?
I've seen you on telly.
I'm sure it's her.
- Get it in.
That's it.
- Spoilt cow.
- Child killer.
- Right, no touching any of the
obstacles
or it's back to the beginning.
And listen for your partner's
voice,
and work as a team.
- This is humiliating.
- It's only a game, Rose.
- No cheating you two.
- Did you actually send
Joyce on a three-day course
to learn these skills Wallace?
- Right, guides to the far end
please.
- I think I'm gonna be sick.
- Absolute silence until I give
the word.
We all fail unless we all get
there so,
focus, go.
- Forward.
- Forward.
- Left.
- Forward.
- Forward.
- Left, left.
- Left left.
- Right, right.
- Rose?
- Right, right.
- Forward, forward.
- Forward, forward forward.
- Forward.
- Right, right right.
- Rose?
Rose!
I can't hear you.
Rose?
Rose?
- Have a fag.
- Against the law isn't it?
- Break the law.
- How would you define yourself
Rose?
- Why do I have to Joyce?
- You don't.
But if you did.
- Single woman, 39 years old,
multiple failed relationships.
No man, no savings, no
place of her own to live.
Good at her job.
Correction, very good at her
job.
- Are you a success?
- What is success Rose?
- Well, it's what we have in
this country
is a criminal justice system
funnelling an amazing number
of people into incredibly
overcrowded prisons
where they just sit and rot
until they can get their hands
on enough drugs to make it
bearable.
Now, an alarming number
of these people turn out
to be scarily innocent
of the charges they face.
So success, success is getting
as many of them back out
of prison as I possibly can.
- And doesn't that success
finally depend Rose,
on how well we work together as
a team?
- No Joyce, it doesn't.
I shouldn't be doing this job.
I should be stuffing soft
toys in North Hamptonshire.
See you.
- Rose?
- Yeah.
- But we live in the
same house at the moment.
- So?
- So wouldn't it be
a thought to travel home
together?
- Yeah, we could wear
blindfolds,
guide each other on and off the
toilet
using only verbal commands.
- Or in total silence as the
case may be.
Look, I know it's a nuisance
but without you to drive it, my
car is--
- Don't wait up, Maloney.
- Brilliant, teamwork.
- Talk to me about Rose.
- I can't.
- Why not?
- Too complicated.
You're living together
at the moment aren't you?
- Oh, well, no no, it's just
platonic.
- No, no, no I know of course
that, but all right.
Shall I tell you what I think
about Rose?
I think every office
should have one, but please
can you just make her see
that she's got to work closely
together with somebody?
Just show her this.
Now, I want you to work on it
together
'cause she's going to
need you on this one.
And it needs to be done quick.
- What is it?
- Well, she's doing 15 years
for gassing a woman and her
daughter.
Prosecution said she had an
infatuation
with the woman's husband,
but the defence said they were
lovers.
- So either way she had a
motive.
- Well, that's exactly right.
That's what the jury thought.
But there is no forensics
to link her to the crime.
- why does Rose need me on this?
- Well, you'll find that
out when she reads the file.
- And why does it have to be
quick?
- 'cause she's completely
falling apart in prison.
She's on suicide watch.
- Child killer.
Didn't your boyfriend
want you no more Annie?
Is that the problem?
Is that why you did it?
- I didn't do anything.
Somebody else did it.
- What, somebody else could
just wack the little girl?
- Got a present for you Annie.
- Feel free to use it.
- Pack it in you two.
Get back to your cells.
Open this.
You need to get permission
to come in here.
- Sorry.
- You remind me of a horse I
once backed.
- Say what?
- It came in so late it had
to tiptoe into the stables.
- Sorry, did you back horses?
- No it was a joke.
- Oh.
- Been somewhere nice?
- The Pizza Express.
- What for three hours?
- I don't like crowding your
space.
- No Rose, what you don't like
is me crowding your space.
I've invited you to share.
Be like a teenager, share it.
- I'm not very good at sharing.
- Well tough, 'cause Wallace
wants us to do this together.
I think it's your good news by
the way.
- Did he say that?
- I'm not supposed to tell you,
I think.
- Maloney, of course
you're supposed to tell me.
That's why he told you.
He wants Mrs. Maverick.
It makes him feel enlightened,
the brilliant motivator
with a light touch.
He's a game player.
Have you got anything to drink?
- Yeah.
I'd be interested to see what
you think.
You might recognise her.
- No, not the celebrity bunny
boiler,
not Annie Sorensen Johnson.
This woman was nailed on guilty.
- There's nothing like an open
mind.
- Wallace, wants me to do this?
Oh I see, wants me to empathise
with a fellow obsessive female.
God the man's a genius.
- You don't like her much do
you?
- Oh, it's the sit-ins and
the rock star boyfriends,
and the endless self promotions
and,
oh above all it's that face.
I mean, why are we wasting
our time on this stupid cow
when there are real
people who need our help?
- Well, she is a real person
Rose.
- She is a media creation.
- Oh well, to hell with her.
I'll tell Wallace you were too
busy.
I'll do it myself.
Or maybe I'll tell him
you've finally disappeared
so far up your own arse you're
working in total darkness.
Goodnight.
- Have you finished with the
bathroom?
- Did you hear funny noises last
night?
- Why what were you doing?
- From next door.
- Oh yeah, yeah I did.
- Well, she's just lost her
husband.
He was play squash about six
weeks ago,
found a lump under his arm,
bush, gone, just like that.
Passive smoking I expect.
- Two witnesses placed you
at the scene of the crime
within minutes of the time
when somebody turned on the gas
and disconnected the feed
to the living room fire.
You were standing at the
gate, staring at the house.
- Why shouldn't I be there?
- Why should you?
- David and I were lovers.
- Yes, but the court rejected
that idea.
Let's just stick to the facts.
- It is a fact.
And if you won't believe
it, you can't help me.
I love him.
He loves me.
- Even though you were convicted
for killing his wife and child?
- David knows in his
heart that I'm innocent.
- That's not what he says.
- I know what he says.
And I know what's in his heart.
- He also says he only met you
twice.
Why does he say that?
What makes you think David
Terry still loves you?
Does he send you a valentine?
- I've had no contact with David
since
just before the deaths, three
years ago.
- And what was that?
- He wrote a letter
saying we couldn't go on.
He needed to end it for their
sake,
for his wife and daughter.
- Well, how come you
couldn't produce this letter
to back up your story?
- Have you ever had an
adulterous affair, Mr. Maloney?
- Actually we're not here
to answer your questions.
- Yes, I have, as a matter of
fact.
- Did you keep her letters?
- I did actually.
- Well, we didn't.
Does that make me a killer?
- And nobody knew, nobody
ever saw you together?
- Have you spoken to him?
- Not yet, but we will.
- Will you tell him something?
Tell him I said, thank
you, thank you for the ride
to my heart and soul
that told me I was alive.
Thank him for the laughter and
the joy
and the precious gift of
intimacy.
Because when I was in his arms I
felt
that I had at last after a long
journey,
finally come home.
And ask him if he still
has any love for me,
could he please help me.
He knows the truth.
Could he please help me.
- Did you hear those
noises again last night?
I won't be a minute.
- That was my last fag.
- Oh hi it's Maggie isn't it?
- Yeah.
- I'm from next door.
- Oh yeah.
- We've passed each other
in the street a few times
and I saw you in the supermarket
once
and I had a few words
with , with Graham.
- What'd you want?
- Nothing.
Well you know, just to say how
sorry I am
and if there's anything I can
do.
- Like what?
- I don't know, whatever.
I mean, you're on your
own aren't you so --
- You make me vomit.
- It's nice of you to fit us in.
David Terry still live here?
- No he's trying to sell it
but it won't shift
though 'cause of bodies.
- And you led the initial
investigation?
- That's correct.
Sorry, only chance I'll get
today.
Cooker turned on in there.
- Gas taps on in here.
Connector uncoupled in there.
Two bodies found in here, in
sleep positions, cuddled up.
Didn't know anything about it.
- And you arrested Annie
Sorensen Johnson two weeks
later.
- Not personally, but yeah.
- Why exactly?
- Because of the couple who
identified her standing there.
- Aren't you, aren't you
Annie Sorensen Johnson?
- And what Dr. Terry said.
- Which was what?
Exact words.
- I said, I've got two
neighbours downstairs
who think they saw Annie
Sorensen Johnson by your gate
shortly before the bodies were
discovered.
Does that mean anything to you?
- Long pause, and he said,
- Oh Christ no.
- Could she be looking for you?
- Looking for me?
- Yeah.
- Why would she be doing that?
- Though he seemed surprised
to hear she'd been seen
at the gates?
- No, more dismayed I thought.
- Which way was she looking,
towards the house or towards the
road?
- both at different times.
Look, are we done here?
- Yeah yeah I think so.
- No hang on.
Was there anybody else in the
frame
before you arrested Annie?
- Oh yeah, when we found the
gas taps had been tampered with
we had a red hot favourite
for about 10 minutes.
- Who's that?
- Nutter called Duke Rothermere.
It's not his real name.
He's had it changed by deed
pole so we stuck with it,
but he'd done this sort of thing
before.
Once at his foster parents house
when he was a kid and once
to some bloke he thought had
cheated him out of his
inheritance.
He's a complete maniac.
But, to be fair to the noble
lunatic,
the houses were empty both
times.
He's no murderer.
- Did you find him?
- Oh, that was easy.
He was in the Scrubs, doing five
years
for attacking a block he said
had insulted
his ancient mother.
- All right, thanks.
- Yeah cheers.
We aren't going to need
a whole week Maloney.
- Oh, there's no evidence to
place her
inside the house though,
and she was looking
at the road as well as the
house.
She was waiting for him, like
she said.
- She was waiting for a
car to open the gates.
- Bloody hell, Ronnie
Johnson.
- Richest tippy in all the land.
Wants to talk to us about
his daughter's case.
Mr. Johnson hi, I'm Rose
Linden, Mr. Maloney.
We're the caseworkers in your--
Sorry, may I?
- I shot this in our
garden when Annie was five.
I just want you to, there.
Ronnie Johnson, hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I want you to look at this
face
and forget everything you think
you know about my daughter.
I mean really, look at this
face.
She is not what they say she is.
This girl was and is full of
love
for the world and every creature
in it.
- Well, except police horses.
Well, she has a criminal
record for public disturbance.
- You see, this is it.
This is exactly my point.
She was defending her right to
protest
against the leader of
a military dictatorship
being fated in our own country.
- At what point, sorry--
- And ended up using violence
when she wasn't listened to.
It seems to be a pattern here.
- Says who?
- Oh, the judge
in his summing up.
- Sorry, at what point?
- You see, she has spent her
life getting their own way.
And when she finally comes
across something that she can't
have,
married man called David Terry,
she reacts by stalking him
and turning the gas on in his
house.
- Two points.
One, there's no evidence of
stalking.
- She followed him, she said so.
- That's not stalking.
You're joining up the dots
the same way the jury did.
Your colleague needs to check
her facts.
Secondly, she did have him.
She did have him.
They were lovers.
- She says they were, he
said he barely knew her,
but he did find her to be
delusional, spoilt and needy.
- And that opinion, that
completely biassed opinion,
was fed to the court as if it
were a fact
by the forensic
psychiatrist whose evidence
in later cases was discredited.
- Yeah, which is why this agency
will look
at the evidence again.
But I have to say from
what I've read so far,
I don't think that the
conviction relied
that heavily on the shrinks.
- Talk to Annie.
An open mind is all I ask.
- Okay.
- Her only crime was to
love someone too much.
- Well there's no wonder
she's off her trolley.
- What was his point?
- That Annie Sorensen
Johnson was really convicted
of being rich, spoiled and
irritating,
not of double manslaughter.
- That was an embarrassment.
we're supposed to be public
servants
and you as good as told him
you'd already made your mind up.
- I will not be bullied into
treating
this woman any differently
from anybody else.
- You already are.
What do we really know
about Dr. David Terry?
- Must've thought he had
everything,
beautiful brainy wife,
lovely daughter, lovely home.
And it's all gone.
Works for a charity in the East
End now.
- Now what does that say to you?
- Well like what?
- Guilty conscience.
- Do you believe they were
lovers?
The riot in my heart and soul.
Mills and Boon could do
better than that Maloney.
- Why do I have to revisit this?
- We have to make sure there's
been
no miscarriage of justice.
- You have no doubts then.
- She was there.
She had the motive, her
obsession with me.
- How well did you know her?
- I didn't.
I met her.
I used to socialise a lot in
those days.
We were probably at the
same party together.
- Well, were you or weren't you?
- Yes, I met her at a party.
? For you, for you, for you
- Excuse me.
- Can I introduced myself.
- I don't think there's any need
for that.
- Your wife wasn't with
you then?
- No, Helen wasn't a party
animal.
She was a homemaker.
- She didn't like these showbiz
parties?
- Don't misunderstand
the life I used to lead.
Yes I had a lot of celebrities
on my list
but I still did pro bono work
even then.
There were homeless people for
instance,
even in Chelsea.
And I worked as a locum in
a number of London prisons.
- She says, you were lovers.
- Did you ever write to her?
- Why would I write to her?
- Men seem to find her
attractive.
- My wife was a beautiful
woman, Ms. Linden.
And in time so would
my daughter have been.
- I'm sorry.
It must be awful for you.
- Yeah well, you have your job
to do.
- She says that the love you
gave her was
like a riot in her heart and
soul.
And she asked for your help.
- Mr. Maloney, she is
a damaged human being
facing a very bleak future.
And I pity her.
But she killed my family.
Do you understand, she killed my
family.
And the thought that this was
done
out of love is pretty much
unendurable.
Have we finished please?
- Yes, but just for the record,
Annie Sorensen Johnson
has never said in court
nor to us that she did it or
that she did it out of love.
She's quite certain in her
own mind she didn't do it.
And that you were her devoted
lover.
- And you believe her.
- There's not a scrap of
evidence
to place her in the house.
- Nothing, except the phone
call ruled inadmissible
by the judge.
- What's the phone call?
- The one my wife made the night
she died,
asking me to come and remove
Annie Sorensen Johnson
from our home.
My phone was switched off.
The jury never heard this.
It was the last call my wife
made to me.
- He remind you of anybody?
- I knew you'd say that.
- Women fall in love with older
men
who remind them of their
fathers.
- No, that's just what
middle-aged men
like to think Maloney.
Is that what happened to you
in your adulteress affair then?
- She was older than me thanks.
- Did she remind you of your
mother?
- Rose please stop it.
Now is there any chance
you're going my way in my car?
- No, but I can drop you off.
- Marvellous.
- Oh, sorry I'm not interrupting
anything private am I?
- Mr. Johnson's daughter tried
to kill herself this afternoon.
So why don't you come
in and sit down Rose.
- I'm , I'm sorry to hear
that.
- Are you?
Do you have any idea how
despised she is in that place?
How lonely, publicly denied
by the man she loves.
Annie told me you didn't believe
her.
She felt her last chance had
gone.
- We didn't say that.
- You didn't need to.
Well, she's not gonna
sit around that place
for another 13 years,
that I can promise you.
If you can't get the
truth out of him, I will.
- Mr. Johnson, maybe you should
help her
face the reality of her life.
She's still young.
13 years is possible.
People endure things--
- She means it.
Her mother died by her own
hand when Annie was seven.
- Mummy, mummy, mummy.
[brakes squealing]
- Annie was there.
- I didn't know that, I'm sorry.
- No, nobody knows.
It was kept quiet.
Annie never talks about it.
- Must have drawn you and
Annie very close together.
- I was never there Ms. Linden.
I had an international
business to head up.
I was hardly aware of Anna's
existence 'til she was 20.
If I should lose her again
- What'd she do?
- Slashed her wrists.
Well done, you were right not to
react.
Not our job to clean up the mess
people make of each other's
lives.
Do you , do you want a drink?
- Yeah, yeah, drink.
- The whole world
is made of love.
It's how humanity survives.
The world is about
reaching out to each other.
No matter how often people leave
you,
no matter how often you got
the door slammed in your face,
it takes courage to reach out
again.
But we do.
And that makes us human.
- I think you rather
misunderstood me this morning.
- What do you want?
- I want you to start telling
the truth.
Did they tell you she cut her
wrists?
- Get out of my car.
- I'm not going to let
you get away with this.
- I'm calling the police.
- Tell the truth.
I want my daughter back.
- What about my daughter,
what about my wife?
Who will give me them back?
- Your life was a pack of lies.
- Your daughter's deranged,
she's insane.
She should be locked away
forever for what she did.
- It so takes you by
surprise.
I mean, these are Graham's
mates.
Blokes who work with him
and played squash with him.
His pallbearers even.
And five of them.
Five of them.
And you know, poor bloke's
hardly been
in the ground three weeks
and they're round here
or phoning and sending little
text messages to his widow.
Was well, basically they'd quite
like to, you know shag her.
- Anyway look , thanks
very much for the wine.
- Would, would you?
- Would I what?
- You know, like to shag me?
- No, no, of course not.
God, no.
- Because, I mean I don't know
you.
- Quite.
I mean, obviously you you're,
you're a very , but --
- But I'm, I'm so lonely.
[crying]
- Hey, come on.
- So how you doing?
- This official?
- No, no no, just,
how's life?
- Haven't got one Wallace,
I thought I told you.
- Maloney?
- What about him?
- Well, gone home has he?
- Oh yeah yeah.
He'll be sorting out
his stamp album by now.
- Please, we can do it in here.
We'll do it in here.
- No, no.
- Well in the, in the,
you go in the bedroom,
we'll go in the bedroom.
- No, this is wrong.
This is not right.
You're not thinking straight.
This is not the right thing for
you to do.
- Talk.
Just talk then.
- Yeah.
Okay.
- So, no man then?
- Hmm, oh yeah.
Well that is no.
- How come?
- You, got a man?
- No, no I have a
wife.
- Well done.
- No we're , semi-detached.
We , we we're , how can I
put this?
We were very young when we
married.
- So she doesn't understand you.
- No, unfortunately she
understands me perfectly.
- Are you hitting on me,
Wallace?
- Pardon?
- I said,
are you hitting on me?
- Absolutely not Rose.
- I'm sorry.
You better go.
Please forgive me.
- Pleasant evening?
- Not especially.
You?
- Early night.
Oh, stuff off the net about
stalkers.
All the experts say the same.
When it turns violent
it almost always means
there was a sexual
relationship of some kind.
- But he says there wasn't any
sex.
- Well, does it never occurred
to you he could be lying?
Could've given her one, one
night.
- Speaking of which. did you
here
the merry widow last night?
- What?
- Her next door.
Sounded like a blocked drain
getting sorted by Dyno-Rod.
- No no, I didn't hear that, no.
- I thought she was
supposed to be in mourning.
- She is.
Have some respect for God's
sake.
- Yes, all right, keep your hair
on.
- And don't leave half-eaten
pizzas around the place.
It stinks.
- I don't like living with you.
- I don't like living with you.
And if you don't like it,
be my guest, piss off.
Now, I'm going to work.
I'll leave this with you.
You might learn something
about human nature.
- And what will you be doing
whilst I'm completing my
education?
- Doing my best to find
out about Dr. Terry's life.
The prosecution had a free ride
attacking Annie's reputation.
Nothing was said about him or
his wife.
I mean, was she the saintly
stay-at-home
he says she was?
- Well, I've heard of clutching
at straws.
- You've just never been
interested in anything
but Annie being guilty, have
you?
- Maloney, your week's half
gone.
I don't buy any of
this, it's time to stop.
- Well, why don't you go and
talk to her about the call
and I'll get the transcript.
Look I'm--
- Sorry,
I'm sorry about the pizza.
You're right, I'm slut to live
with.
- No, no, no.
- So in fact, I'll be
gone when you get home.
- Last night.
I don't know what it was.
- Don't you?
- No.
So I'm, I better get to work.
- Yeah, you better.
- Bye then.
- Yeah, bye.
- Hello?
- Joyce, it's Maloney.
- Hi Maloney.
- I need a favour.
- Sure, what's the problem?
- Can you track me
down a telephone transcript?
- I don't want
to be parted from you,
if that's all right.
- Did you speak to David?
He still denies it?
- Very convincingly.
- He really believes
that I did it doesn't he?
- How'd you meet?
- I met him at a party.
- Excuse me.
May I introduce myself.
- You really don't need to Dr.
Terry.
- You knew him?
- Knew of him.
I'd seen him at other functions.
We slept together two nights
later.
We were just blown away by each
other.
- Really?
- Ah, someone's been reading
the literature on stalkers.
You think I've imagined
a sexual relationship.
You absolutely despise me.
Okay, so maybe I was stalking
him.
Hey, maybe I stalked
him without knowing it.
- I think most stalkers don't
know they're stalkers Annie.
That's the kind of nature of it.
We've all loved from afar.
- I didn't love from afar.
I loved him full on, up close.
And I tell you when he was
inside me,
it was the best sex I've
ever had in my life.
And I've had a lot, so I
don't need to invent any.
- David remind you of
anybody when you met him?
- Like who?
- Why didn't you tell us
you were inside the house?
- Inside the house?
- Yeah inside the house.
- There's no evidence to
say I was inside the house.
- Except the phone call.
- He shouldn't have told you
that.
- Well, all's fair in love and
war, Annie.
- The judge agreed it wasn't
evidence.
- No, but it sounds
interesting, though, doesn't it?
It's true then?
You knocked on the door,
even though you knew he wasn't
there
because his car was gone.
Why?
- To tell her it was over.
To tell her she had her husband
back.
- Can I take
your picture please?
- Of course yes.
It was fine at first.
Daniella and I just got on
like mates straight away
'cause she'd seen some kids
programmes I'd made for the
telly.
- can I have your
autograph as well?
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Do you want something
special?
- I don't mind really.
- How long have
you known David?
- Two years.
- Odd, he's never mentioned you.
- Two years, mom, two years,
duh.
- No well, he wouldn't would he?
He's such an amazing guy your
dad.
- Thank you.
- The best.
- Why wouldn't?
I think it might be
better if you left Annie.
And David might not be
coming home tonight.
He often doesn't tell Mondays.
- I know.
- I think you should leave now.
- Could you just call him
and get him to ring me.
Now listen, let's write
something else.
A heart, all right.
- Thank you.
- Leave a message
here for Dr. Terry.
- David, you get yourself back
here.
I want this person out of here.
I want this thing out of my
house, now.
- Mummy.
- It was you outside the house?
It was you inside the house.
But you didn't come back
and turn the gas on.
You didn't hate them for
having what you wanted.
- I've never hated anybody in my
life.
- Are you sure about that?
Annie, I don't want to say
anything else hurtful to you.
But I do want to say this.
I can only see one clear
thing in this whole mess,
and it took Maloney to point it
out to me.
You have developed an obsessive
and deluded belief that you
have an intense physical
and emotional relationship
with a man who reminds you of
your father.
The father you hardly saw after
your mother killed herself
when you were seven.
And a man incidentally
who is haunting my office
because he feels so guilty about
you.
- Somebody I'd like you to meet.
- Mr. Johnson.
- I'll leave you alone
after this, I'm gone.
Off, promise.
- What happened to your car?
- A freak accident.
Trace has been here four years.
Before that she was
nanny to Daniella Terry.
- Living in?
- Yeah, two years.
- So why did you leave?
- Well, it wasn't the bairn.
Daniella was lovely little kid.
- It's all right, you won't
get into trouble, promise.
- Couldn't stand them, either of
them.
And her, she was wrong in the
head.
All she cared about was
the way things looked.
- The house you mean?
- Not the house.
The house was spotless anyway.
She had three bloody
cleaners, the lazy sod.
And Daniella might as well
not have existed, poor lamb.
- I'm sorry, only cared
about the way what looked?
- The marriage.
They passed themselves off
as this perfect couple,
and the truth was they
couldn't abide each other.
He wouldn't have pissed
on her if she caught fire.
Most nights he never even come
home.
And that suited her just fine
'cause the only rowed
if there were both in.
Here, dear me, the language.
- Were they violent rows?
- He used to hit her.
Used to call her a whore.
He used to say he's
take the bairn off her.
- Are you all right Rose?
- Why, don't I look all right?
- Where's Maloney?
He phoned in and asked me
to find this transcript
and now he's not answering his
phone.
- You mean he hasn't, sorry.
You mean he hasn't
turned in because he's--
Oh my god.
- Maggie?
- This isn't allowed.
- Sing it to me.
I'll burn in hell.
- No I mean, this doesn't
happen in my life.
- Well, get a new life then.
- Yeah, good point.
- I'm gonna make us a sandwich.
And then, I want you to
make love to me again,
exactly the same as last time.
- Yeah, okay.
Thanks.
Good afternoon Rose.
- Maloney, hi.
I bet you're hard at work
tracking down that transcript.
- Yes, all right.
- Listen pal,
you better get your knickers on
because--
- Maloney, Wallace.
We're waiting for you.
Plenary session on the Johnson
case, quick as possible.
- Oh shit.
- Joyce got
everyone gathered round.
I want to get started.
- Shit.
- I'm so sorry.
Excuse me, can I please get,
sorry.
Sorry.
If I could just--
Are you all right?
Sorry Wallace.
- Okay?
- Yeah.
- Okay, let's move on.
So, Annie Sorensen Johnson.
So, you've had nearly a week
now working together as a team.
So what's the current thinking?
- Well--
- Maloney.
- well.
- Sorry, is there something
you want to say to him?
- No.
No.
Just mind out for the bucket.
- Here's the document you asked
for.
- Ah, thanks.
- Sorry look, did she do it?
Yes or no?
- No, this document proves
conclusively
that David Terry was lying to
us.
He told us that Annie was in the
house
and his wife called him in a
panic.
And this is a transcript of the
call.
Now, what she actually said was
"Get this person out of here.
"I don't want this thing in my
home."
Nowhere does it say the name
Annie?
- Right, good.
So you starting to change your
mind?
- Not really.
You see, the thing is Maloney
I saw Annie this morning
and she admitted that
she was in the house.
Oh, this is my fault Wallace.
I just, forgot to tell him.
- You forgot.
I see sorry, where
have you been Maloney?
- Oh, I was following up a
lead about David Terry's wife.
- Promising?
- Ish.
- Yeah we, we found out
that the marriage wasn't
all it was cracked up to be.
- Really?
Sorry can , have you
actually been working together?
- Oh yes, yes yes.
- Yeah.
We saw the nanny didn't we?
- What?
- Okay so what did she have to
say?
- Ah well , she said
he was violent towards her.
- Towards the daughter?
- No, no the mother.
He hit her.
- Really?
So, well why wasn't this brought
to court?
- Well, the , the
defence thought it would be
counter productive to attack the
marriage.
And, can I just say, if
this had been left to me,
we'd have sent these
papers back on day one.
The fact that we're actually
starting to get somewhere
for Annie Sorensen
Johnson is Maloney, 100%,
so also well done you Wallace.
- Yep.
- Teamwork then.
- Yeah teamwork Joyce.
Thanks.
- Except for the bit that
you forgot to tell him.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
I'll be working on those areas
where I've let my partner down.
- Sorry, Mr. Maloney, you have a
visitor.
- Hi.
- Ah.
- I thought you'd be pleased to
see me.
- Well I am Maggie, it's just,
you know.
This is my place of work.
- But you said you didn't
want to be parted from me.
- Yes.
But you know what if I was just
to turn
up at your school one afternoon?
- That'd be great.
- Well it wouldn't really would
it?
I mean
Oh no Maggie.
Rose?
Look, thanks for
- look , truth is,
I didn't really have anywhere
else to go right now.
So could I?
- Yes, course you can,
course you can.
- Hmm.
- What the hell have they done
to you?
- Largactil, the chemical
course,
to keep me safe daddy.
Funny old world, isn't it?
- Annie, I think it's
time you face some facts
about David Terry.
- No, you don't know him.
He's an amazing man, full of
love.
- Sweetheart, he hated his wife.
- Don't you dare come
telling me these lies.
What are you know about
marriage,
daughters or telling the truth?
Where were you all my life?
Where were you when my mother
died?
- I let you down.
I know that.
- So did she.
She didn't even say goodbye.
- No, she didn't.
- When I was a little girl,
I wanted you to explain it to
me.
But you never did.
I screwed her life up, didn't I?
- What?
- She never really wanted me.
- Annie, sweetheart.
- You never really knew her.
And you never really knew me
either.
That's what you're so
worried about isn't it?
Little girl loses her mother.
Busy father never there.
He buys her love with gifts.
She buys his attention
with publicity stunts.
Look at me daddy, I'm on
the front pages again.
Finds an older man who rejects
her
just like her father did.
You've never quite believed
I didn't kill them.
- Did you?
- Sometimes I think about
those peaceful deaths.
I think of the little girl
and her mother dying together.
And I wonder, would that
have been better for me?
- You didn't do it, Annie.
Tell me, you didn't.
- A secret engagement.
[shutters clicking]
Are the rumours true?
- We're not here to talk about
us.
We're here to talk about
keeping our rivers clean.
- Annie, Annie, is
it true
that you've recently found god?
- No comment really.
- Annie, has you remained
clean since you've been up here?
- Yes, I have, yes.
- She's spent half
her life on TV.
- Yep.
Now she's in "I'm a celebrity
prisoner, get me out of here."
- Annie over here.
[shutters whirring]
- Can I say something?
- Not if it's about our next
door.
- She will use you.
And when she's feeling
better, she will dump you.
- Well thank you very much, Dr.
Linden,
how much do I owe you?
- Well, let's talk about work
then,
because frankly finding out
that David Terry is a shit
and a liar doesn't really
change things for me.
- But it ought to make you
question the whole case.
- Well okay, let's for
the sake of argument
accept that they were lovers,
but she didn't kill them
and neither did he
because his alibis' 100%.
So what are we thinking?
Was it some random passerby.
I mean--
What is this, morse code for
"I'm feeling frisky again."
- Rose!
She's distraught and confused.
- Oh, do yourself a favour,
Maloney, ignore her.
- No, she needs support, I'm
sorry.
- This is madness.
This is manipulation.
- Madness.
That's what you see isn't
it, when you see pain,
when you see humanity in
distress,
you push it away and stick a
label on it.
Maybe that's why you're pushing
40th
and still on your own Rose.
- Thanks.
Well I'll see you tomorrow then.
And where exactly will we be
starting?
- With the two questions
that are so obvious
nobody's bothered to ask them.
- Oh.
- Was the convict
who had a penchant for
turning on the gas--
- Duke Rothermere yes, he
was in prison, Maloney.
- All the same, let's ask the
question.
Did he ever meet Dr. Terry in
prison?
- And if he did so what?
- And what happened to him
after he served his sentence
for whacking someone with a
crowbar?
- Wild goose chase in other
words.
- Well have you got any better
ideas?
- Catastrophe, fell down the
stairs.
- Ronnie Johnson didn't push you
did he?
- Why would he do that?
- Well, he's a pretty angry man.
- Why do you think she
chose you to obsess over?
- I've wondered about this.
Child who saw her mother die.
Father, never there.
Perhaps she saw my
family as I, I don't know
perfect ideal of what she never
had.
- Oh really?
The perfect couple.
So she wasn't stalking you,
she was stalking your marriage.
Stalking the perfect family.
- You said you worked as a
doctor in London prisons,
was that including Wormwood
Scrubs?
- Yes, I standing in for
when they were short,
you know mainly fitting
inmates for the governor.
- What's fitting?
- Pronouncing them fit
for the governor and the
visitors board.
- Does the name Duke Rothermere
mean
anything to you Dr. Terry?
- Permission to sit down sir.
My legs feel like
they're going to give out
what with worrying about my mum.
- Just hang on a minute your
highness.
- Request you use my
legal name Mr. Hawkins.
- Just calm down and shut up.
What's the matter with your mum
anyway?
- There's no one looking after
her, sir.
I can't sleep with worry.
I can't breathe.
- Dr. Terry's on the way.
- Who, I want Dr. Alexander.
- Just cool it, Dr. Terry's
standing in.
Alexander's on holiday.
- But I don't know Dr. Terry.
- Well you do now.
- Oh, morning George, sorry I'm
late.
- Stand up straight Collins.
Sorry, Rothermere.
- So, Rothermere, how
are we feeling today?
- I'm not well, doctor.
- Oh dear.
- I feel like
I might be ill if I have to
stand
in front of the board today.
Request you don't fit me.
- Hmm, what are the symptoms?
- Well I had diarrhoea all
night.
Plus it's on account of my
asthma in the air all around me.
I feel very frightened.
- There's nothing the
matter with him doctor.
He does it every time.
- Also, this man has stolen
money that I was saving
to send my mother for urgent
medical
assistance in Switzerland.
- Well, you'll have to
talk to the governor
about anything like that.
Well yes, all right, he's fit.
- Thank you doctor.
- Permission to register
a complaint against Dr. Terry.
- Shut up now, all right.
- How would you like to suffer
hey?
How would you like something
just
to mess up your whole life?
- Rothermere, do you want me to
put him
on a charge doctor?
- Oh no no, it's fine, thank
you.
- When was this?
- Three or four years ago, why?
- And what was he in for?
- I'm really, oh, excuse
me, this bloody thing.
- Oh god.
I really, assaulting someone
with an iron bar I think.
Why?
- Well it's probably nothing,
but --
- Duke Rothermere was locked
away as a boy
for turning on the gas taps in
his foster parents' bungalow.
He did it again later to
somebody else.
But this is a coincidence, isn't
it?
This must be a coincidence.
He was in Wormwood Scrubs
when your wife and daughter were
killed.
- Anything unusual happen
in his board of visitors?
- Well, I I don't know.
My job ended at the door.
- Who would know?
- And one and two and three and
four.
Very good, very good.
Now let's see if you can do it.
One, two, oh.
Yes, I mean, Rothermere
threatened everybody,
all of the time.
I was quite fond of him
actually.
We'd all stolen his money
or I spat in his food.
He was just one of these
total pains in the arse.
- Anything unusual happen in the
hearing?
- Not that I can remember.
- What was he being charged
with?
- Oh, oh yeah.
Absconding I think.
Yeah, absconding.
- First of all, madam,
sirs, I'd like to retract my
complaint
against Mr. Hawkins stealing my
money.
It was a case of a mistaken
identity.
As it was Dr. Terry that stole
it.
He's got a vendetta against me,
being the person that
intercepts my letters
that my mum writes to me.
- We'll deal with that later.
I'm going to read out
the charge against you
and then you can state your case
to the board and the assistant
governor.
You were out on a home visit
and you did not return on the
due date three days later.
Is that true?
- Yes sir.
- And how long were you
out for Mr. Rothermere?
- 111 days madam.
I was staying with my
mum who's very poorly.
- I don't understand.
You mean you stayed quite
openly with your mother
for 111 days when you should
have been
completing your sentence.
- It happens quite often ma'am.
We tell the police but
that's all we can do.
- And didn't the police
go looking for you?
- Well not very hard madam.
In fact, not at all as far as I
know.
- Were you working?
- Oh yes I, I don't know what
to be a drain on society, sir.
I was working in the markets,
cash in hand obviously.
- And how did you get back in
eventually?
- Unfortunately I had a fight
with an Indian takeaway
gentleman
which I can explain madam, sir.
- Prisoners are recorded
as being in prison
but they might in fact be
out roaming the streets.
- You won't get the home
office to admit to it,
but yes it happens a lot.
- Jesus Christ.
- Mr. Rothermere?
Mr. Rothermere hello.
- What, he might not
have been in the prison?
- No hang on, if he'd absconded
from home leave before
surely that would have ruled him
out
being given it again.
- Normally, but his mother was
dying.
- Christ.
Maloney, if you find
Rothermere be very careful
and call me before you talk to
him.
Thank you very much.
We need to go.
- Hello?
My name is Maloney from
a thing called the CJRA.
Your door was open.
Can I ask you about a man
called Dr. David Terry?
Is that your mother?
When did she die?
It's a bit of a coincidence
isn't it?
Just a few days before Dr.
Terry's wife and daughter died.
Why don't we sit down.
We could have a talk.
- I, I thought it was empty.
I just wanted someone to listen
to me.
I asked him for his help.
I just wanted to get out
so I could look after her.
I asked him to show a
bit of love in his heart,
but he didn't have any.
There's no love anywhere in this
world.
- Annie?
- I left a message
on her father's phone.
He'll call her.
- What have I done?
- That's for you to say.
- I lied, about her, about us.
- I know.
- Oh yes.
Since when?
- This morning.
When I heard you talk
about Annie being there
when her mother laid
down on a railway track,
'cause according to her
father she never spoke
about it to anyone.
Certainly not to somebody that
she'd only ever met twice.
But she would of course
share it with the one man
she loved more than anything in
the world.
- I made a terrible mistake.
I am a vain, middle-aged man,
Ms. Linden.
An extraordinarily attractive
young woman
impressed me at a party.
She rang me two days
later to ask me to dinner.
She was charming, vivacious,
celebrated.
I didn't think it would do any
harm.
- Even though you had such a
happy
and successful marriage.
- You know
my marriage was a sham.
- So you fell in love with
Annie.
- No, I slept with her for two
years.
She imagined we was soul mates.
She knew no more about me really
than she knew about herself.
Eventually I got bored
with, bored with her
endless emotional crises.
Refused to see her again,
said I would no longer do
anything
to jeopardise my marriage or my
family.
Three days later they were dead.
- Did you ever tell
Annie that you loved her?
- Yes.
- And did you
ever really love her?
- No.
- Is that what you told
her in the last letter?
The letter that she could never
bring
herself to show anyone.
Not even to prove her story in
court.
- I think I'd like to be alone
for awhile.
- I'm going to stay with
my folks for awhile.
Gonna sell the house.
I'm going back to work on Monday
morning.
I used you, I'm sorry.
- Will I see you again?
- Sooner or later you have
to give up the fantasy,
let the real world back in.
Taxi.
- Do you want a hand?
- No.
- She --
- Yeah, as predicted.
- I'm so sorry Maloney.
Do you mind if--
- Oh no no no, you go ahead.
- I'll take you home.
- You forget how big the sky is.