Trigger Point (2022) s03e04 Episode Script

1
Isn't your re-licensing coming up?
And your psych test?
You've got to go through
the return-to-work protocols.
Suppose if we all told the truth,
none of us would be working, eh?
I did a terrible thing. Help!
DCI BATRA: We are dealing with
a serial killer who uses bombs.
DS MORGAN: I've actually been
researching a possible connection
between Agnes Raffner
and Declan O'Kelly.
Well, I seen him send
a text message before he died.
So, he sent that message
to a man called Ewan Knox.
I've found Ewan Knox.
Ah! Phil!
I showed you my badge, and you tried
to shut the front door in my face.
I have no visa.
I want to be a detective.
Ah! Don't move.
Yeah, yeah. Go, go, go.
WYLES: Stop getting in my way.
SIREN WAILS, HORN HONKS
I'm suspended from driving.
Well, so far,
he's given us chemical weapons,
drowning, and now this.
The way these people
are being murdered,
nobody deserves to die like that.
WEAKLY: Yes, they do.
Why do they?
So, Ewan Knox told me he's got
something called mesothelioma.
It's a type of cancer
caused by exposure to asbestos.
'Former employees
of DBN Construction,
'particularly those who worked on
'what the company knew as
the Coldmarsh contract.'
What's going on?
Michael Adeyemi?
We're looking for your wife, Jo.
DS MORGAN: So, how can you prove
that a company wilfully
and knowingly
sent people to their deaths?
You get them to confess.
He's not asking
for a confession this time.
It's a public execution.
HIGH-PITCHED RINGING
BREATHING HEAVILY
SIREN WAILS
HASS: How you doing, mate?
SIGHS
It just doesn't make sense.
I know.
He must have had
a collapsing circuit in the scales.
No, it wasn't. It wasn't.
We don't know that.
Wash, you said it yourself,
the bomber doesn't want
any collateral damage.
And why would he complicate
just one of the devices?
Rich cut the wrong wire,
made a mistake.
It's as simple as that.
I need to file
an after-action report.
Wash, just take a moment,
please, mate.
I'm all right. No, you're not.
I'm not.
He had two little girls.
Oh, don't, don't.
SIGHS
Sit down, Jeff. Sit down, Jeff.
So, what's happening now with work?
Erm They're gonna bring
my psych test forward,
make sure I'm OK.
And are you?
It's the job, innit?
Well, I don't know that it is.
It's the way it's always been.
You lose someone, you keep going.
Yeah
till there's no-one there
to keep going.
Jesus, Dad.
I'm just saying,
you're not at war now, Lana.
What you need to do
is look after yourself.
You can't lock these things away.
They'll catch up with you
in the end.
I'm dealing with it.
Right. How?
I did like him.
I was always glad you had him
with you in Afghanistan and that.
He was so solid, wasn't he?
Had that way about him.
Dependable. Yeah.
Yeah, he was an idiot. Hm.
SIGHS Them poor kids.
Oh, love.
We've been here too many times,
haven't we?
ANYA: It's lovely to sit with you.
Well, listen,
thank you for having me for so long.
You know you can stay
as long as you like.
How's the new job?
Erm It's good. It's good, thanks.
Mum. Mum.
Turn this up, will you?
'There is as yet no motive
for the attack.
'There are reports, though,
'that the word "murderers"
was painted on the floor.
'Police are not commenting on that,
nor indeed'
God, how awful. Yeah.
'..On claims of a link
to the recent deaths
'of Declan O'Kelly
and Agnes Raffner,
'both former employees of
the now defunct DBN Construction.'
I-I can't listen to this.
'..At the scene in Greenwich.
'The explosion has left people
in this part of the capital
'clearly shocked and afraid,
it is said, for their own security.'
Did you know them?
I don't think so. You?
No, no. We never crossed paths.
'We are just getting reports
from the police
'that one of the victims'
This is bloody awful, though.
'..Of their own unit.'
What kind of a bastard does
a thing like this?
'Distressing reports to the police
teams investigating'
Maybe he thought it was
the only way to get justice.
'The man has been named as
explosives officer Richard Manning.
'A statement just released says
he was married,
'with two young children.
'Detectives are saying nothing
about the measures they'
I've got to go back to work.
'..This part of the capital
clearly shocked and afraid,
'it is said, for their own security.
'..Putting in place
to find any suspects,
'although police activity
in the area,
'and indeed around the city,
has increased significantly
'as the manhunt intensifies.'
CHATTER
What we're looking at
is cyclochloride residue.
The bomber had refined it
into a powdered form
and placed a lethal dose
on the inside of the respirators.
We can see it here around the mouth
of the victims and under the nose.
All three of them started showing
symptoms of cyclochloride poisoning
in the ambulance.
By the time they got
to the hospital, it was too late.
You can see, here and here, the
Wash.
CLEARS THROAT Er, Lana,
look, you're not meant to be in.
Well, the job's not finished.
We've still got a missing hostage.
Yes, well, I-I know, but
Yeah, well, I've dealt
with all four devices so far.
If you bring in a new team,
they're gonna come in cold,
they don't know
how the bomber's working,
and you will lose more operators.
I wish that wasn't the case.
I don't wanna be your only chance
at stopping him,
but it's just the way it is,
and I'll be fucked if I'm gonna
sit at home staring at the walls
while my team's in danger.
So it's up to you - we bypass your
fucking psych test, or I'm done.
Could you carry on, please, Sonya?
OK. The hostages
didn't make it through, Wash.
He put cyclochloride powder
on the inside of the resis,
they inhaled it.
He was making sure
that no-one would survive.
Mm. Just like Declan O'Kelly.
Yeah.
But because it wasn't
in its gas form,
the severity of the symptoms
and the time to death
would have taken longer.
And, er
you've had no side effects?
Well, the delivery system
was designed
to be completely inhaled
by the victims.
The EXPOs were at minimal risk.
And the device that Rich
was working on, was that a trap?
Is that why it detonated?
We don't think so, no.
It was a sophisticated device.
He was unlucky.
It could have been any one of us.
Listen, guys, I
I really am very sorry
for your loss.
Appreciate that, sir. Thank you.
We've got to assume
he's planning something else.
Our number one priority is to find
the fourth hostage, Jo Adeyemi.
Since we found out she wasn't
with the other three,
our officers have been working
around the clock. And?
Well, nothing, but the fact
that she's still missing
gives us hope she's still alive.
Right, well, we need to speak
to Ewan Knox.
The oxygen cylinders
in the devices were his.
Well, we can't do that.
They were destroyed in the blast,
so we can't confirm it.
Well, I'm confirming it for you
right now.
We definitely can't question
Ewan Knox.
Well, he's the best lead we have.
His condition has deteriorated.
He's been moved to palliative care.
We're not gonna get
anything from him.
Well, what about this nurse
that was caring for him?
She must know something.
Yeah, I could go back to her.
OK, do it. OK.
Chief delegator.
I'm glad you're back, mate.
Make sure it's for the right reason.
SHAKILY: 'My name is Jo Adeyemi.
'I worked as legal counsel for
DBN Construction for over a decade.'
Sir, there's something
you need to see.
'You've seen the execution.
Now this is why.'
Jesus Christ.
This is our confession.
STIFLES SOBS
JO WHIMPERING ON VIDEO
WYLES: 'Look at these. All of them.'
He's there.
He's in the room with her.
'Letters from people who worked
the Coldmarsh contract.'
All of them victims
of asbestos poisoning.
The government hearing in 2023,
they were looking into how companies
handled asbestos exposure,
seeing what liabilities
there might be.
And you stood in front of them,
didn't you?
I said
I said we had
an asbestos survey carried out
on the Coldmarsh contract
and-and that it was all clear.
But you lied, didn't you?
The buildings were riddled with it.
EMOTIONAL SIGH
Charlie Marsh died last year,
aged 53 - mesothelioma.
Olly Quinn, aged 56 -
mesothelioma.
Sally Collins, Mohammed Khan,
Tony Cox, Jan Novak.
Mesothelioma, mesothelioma.
SHE SOBS SOFTLY
Meso-fucking-thelioma.
How is this being broadcast?
It's streaming live across
multiple social media channels.
Can we find out where
it's coming from? Already on it.
You need to get this taken down.
Yeah. People keep re-posting it.
There's literally hundreds
of letters.
You buried the real report,
didn't you?
The one that said that the site
was literally riddled with asbestos,
because you knew that would
delay the job by years,
and the company didn't have years,
and you needed the money.
So you lied to save time.
Yes.
'The six people who ran the
Coldmarsh contract lied for money.'
'Yes.'
'Knowing full well that people
would die as a result.'
Oh, my God. Bastards.
WHIMPERS: 'Yes.'
And in doing that, you took time
from people's lives, didn't you?
Yeah.
Well, we call that
corporate manslaughter.
'Although I think murder
is a better word.
'And so the plaintiffs,
those hard-working men and women,
'now discovering they have
an incurable illness,
'they would run out of time and die
'before they could achieve
any justice.'
'That That wasn't '
We should have just left him to it.
We don't choose who we save.
'And now
I'm gonna take time from you.'
'No, please!'
OK, that's a small charge.
With a CW element.
'You will die in one hour.'
'Please. Please!'
'And everyone will see
justice being done.'
I've got an IP address.
ISP records are for
an umbrella business account
operating in this area.
Umbrella for what? Where is it?
A business park 11 miles away.
It's not being re-routed?
It doesn't appear to be.
It's not a VNM server.
I'll keep digging, see if I can get
anything more specific.
We've only got an hour.
Let's go.
SHE WHIMPERS
HASS: Moving out in two minutes!
I thought you were done with those?
They're not mine.
They haven't cleared his locker yet.
Well, why was he taking them?
I don't know, why do any of us?
Who's stupid enough to do this job?
Did you mean what you said to Batra
about packing it in?
Yeah, I did.
Wash Don't ask me if I'm OK.
Well, I'm not stupid, am I?
No, but you just looked at me like
I was gonna nail the packet then.
Look, that isn't
a long-term solution, Lana.
You need to find
a better way to cope.
It's working for now.
Look, it doesn't just affect you.
Will you let me get on with my job?
What, like Rich did?
Hmm?
Fuck off.
I can't let you end up like him.
ENGINE STARTS
LANA: Today, Hass, yeah?
SIREN WAILS
The oxygen cylinders used
had a recognisable courier label.
We found a partial consignment
number that seems to match
with the cylinders used by Mr Knox.
I didn't supply anything to anyone.
You have to believe me.
This is a very serious crime, Elena.
And we still have a woman missing.
We have a team putting their lives
in danger to find her as we speak.
I told you, someone must have
Taken the cylinders, yeah, yeah.
I heard. I heard.
Just like someone stole the package
delivered to Mr Knox's house
on the 18th?
But the thing is
the PIRs that were delivered
to Mr Knox's house
they were used
as part of two devices
that led to the deaths
of two people.
The oxygen tanks, they were used
in a device to torture three people,
three people that are now dead
alongside one of my colleagues.
And now
another woman
is going to be executed,
with the world watching.
I don't I don't know
You don't know?
You know we have enough evidence
to convict you, Elena.
We'll get confirmation that
the oxygen tanks were Mr Knox's,
but he's too sick to take the fall
for this, you know that.
So it's not gonna be him in jail.
It'll be you.
Please.
Please,
I didn't think people would die.
OK, so what did you think?
I I I
Listen, I am willing to believe you,
I am, but no-one else will,
not if you don't help us find
this woman.
Tell me what you know.
SIREN WAILS
The IP address
behind the Jo Adeyemi broadcast
has been narrowed down
to this building.
Right. Who normally worked here?
Well, it was a testing facility
for construction materials,
but it's been empty for a while.
Right.
You don't sound convinced.
It's too easy.
The bomber's been ahead of us
every step of the way.
He's gonna know
we can track the live stream.
Hass, we're up.
I can be the one to go in, you know.
It doesn't have to be you.
Have you been talking to Sonya?
I just want you to know, yeah
you say the word,
and I'll be right behind you, OK?
SIGHS
PHIL: We're coming up on
the location of the IP address.
Breaching. Three, two, one!
Armed police! Armed police!
CTSFO: Armed police!
Armed police! Armed police!
PHIL: Wash, we've got a router.
LANA: I've got it.
It doesn't look like
it's been tampered with.
DCI BATRA: 'Then the signal isn't
being manually diverted, either.
'The stream is coming from
inside that building.
'EXPO 1, she's running out of time.'
Wash, what do you wanna do?
Let's keep moving.
CTSFO: Armed police! Armed police!
Armed police!
HEAVY BREATHING
DS Morgan, any news?
Well, Lana was right.
Ewan Knox's nurse said
he's had regular contact
with a former colleague
over the past six months.
Do we have an ID?
'No. She said she never saw
his face, they made sure of that.'
But she did overhear them talking
on several occasions.
She said she heard
the word Coldmarsh
and that Ewan Knox told her
to take the PIR delivery
and to leave out the oxygen tanks.
'Do we think she's involved?'
I don't, sir, no.
So the one person who can answer
our questions is too sick to talk.
'Great (!)'
She also said she heard them talking
about a job at Raglan Yard.
'What's that?'
It's a storage facility
just outside the city.
'Storage facility for what?'
Well, I'm off to find that out.
CTSFO: Armed police!
Armed police! Armed police!
PHIL: Continuing search
of ground floor.
What the hell is that?
Wash, what is that?
LANA: Apricot stones.
What?
EXPO 8, EXPO 1.
HASS: 'Go ahead, EXPO 1.'
The gas that the bomber used,
cyclochloride,
Sonya said that was refined
from fruit stones, yeah?
'That's correct. Why?'
This isn't just
where he's keeping her.
This is his workshop.
EXPLOSION
HIGH-PITCHED RINGING
HEAVY BREATHING
DISTANT DISTORTED VOICES
ECHOING: Can't breathe in this
Can't breathe
in this fucking thing.
CTSFO: We need a medic here now.
What happened? Talk to me.
What did you step on?
I-I don't know. Fuck.
HE GROANS
Missed your valuables, mate.
You're good. Stay calm.
Just try to
PHIL: Wash, let him do his thing.
DCI BATRA:
'EXPO 1, what's going on?'
'Yeah, he's rigged the place.
He knew we were coming.'
We keep moving. Stay vigilant.
Take it slowly. You heard Wash.
No-one does anything
without her say so.
'Bronze Command, can you connect
Ewan Knox to this location?'
'We're checking the list of tenants
right now.'
CTSFO: Closed door front.
HASS: Knox was a tenant.
He had a unit in the main warehouse.
Step back. I'll take a look.
Clear!
CTSFO: Armed police!
Armed police! Armed police!
Stop! Stop! Come back. Come back.
EXPO 8, EXPO 1.
We've got a tripwire.
Charge disabled.
Received, EXPO 1.
'Upper level. South-west corner.'
Put your resi on, Wash.
I'll do it when I need to.
ON RADIO: 'Office located.'
Can't see. No visual.
Yeah. This must be the one.
Shall we breach?
Erm Let me check first.
Push everyone back.
OK, after you.
Bronze Command, Trojan 1.
EXPO 1 is checking a suspect.
Moved to the second level.
Clear!
CTSFO: Armed police!
Armed police!
EXPO 1, bomber's workshop confirmed.
No sign of Jo Adeyemi yet.
Phil, pull your lot back.
It's got to be here somewhere.
SPORADIC BEEPING
FAST-PACED BEEPING
Bronze Command, EXPO 1.
Victim-operated device identified.
VOD neutralised.
Come on, Wash.
Come on, mate. Come on.
'EXPO 1,
you have two minutes remaining.'
LANA: Jo?
Bronze Command, EXPO 1.
I've found her.
No sign of the suspect.
Phil, get in here!
Right, help me get this down.
DCI BATRA: 'She's conscious.
She should be able to hear you.'
Cheers. Get back. Get back.
Jo? Jo?
Oh, fuck.
'EXPO 1, this is Bronze Command.
What's going on?'
The video's not live.
'What do you mean?'
I mean the video's not fucking live.
It's on a time delay. She's dead.
Looks like the device triggered
a while ago.
The gas has dissipated.
I told you he was wasting our time.
RADIO CLATTERS, HEAVY BREATHING
HASS: He's been distracting us.
Fucker.
What's he been doing instead?
CAR DOOR SHUTS
Oh, finally.
I was wondering
when head office would send someone.
Come on.
I know the guy on the phone
said not to worry,
but it's quite a lot of stuff
to go missing.
The other guy put it down
as a discrepancy,
but it feels like a theft to me.
And what theft would that be?
Right. Yeah.
I don't know what he's gonna do
with all that.
And you're saying
head office had this?
They know about the theft?
Went all the way up to the CEO.
The CEO?
EWAN: Who is it?
Hey. Hm?
It's me.
Stevie Uh?
It's done.
All of those that were paid to lie,
they're gone.
It's nearly over.
Everything's in place.
EWAN GRUNTS
It doesn't
It doesn't have to end
the way you think.
Huh? Ewan
I You can't blame yourself.
She She wouldn't.
I do.
I do blame myself.
But it's all right.
Everyone knows now.
We got the truth out there.
You got the truth out there.
So let me take the blame.
No. You could run.
It's too late.
It's too late for both of us.
Yeah?
EWAN CHUCKLES, COUGHS
HE CHOKES
OK?
More? Oh
Oh
EWAN GROANS, GRUNTS
It's no way to go.
No. It's no way to go.
I'm sorry you had to suffer so long.
I'm glad I hung on
to know
we got them.
We got them. Uh-huh.
OK.
Make it quick.
RINGING TONE Come on, pick up.
PHONE BUZZES
Helen, what have you got?
'There's been a theft
at the Akermark storage facility.'
A theft of what?
ON RADIO: 'EXPO 1.
'EXPO 1, please respond.'
Trojan 1,
have you got eyes on EXPO 1?
PHIL: 'No. She told us
to wait outside.'
HASS: I'm going in.
It's not safe! Exactly.
'EXPO 1, I have critical
information. Please respond.
'EXPO 1.'
MUFFLED: Wash! I'm coming in.
I need to talk to you.
We've got new information.
Get forensics in.
Let 'em do their thing.
No. No, they can't.
They just found out that
the bomber stole 80 kilos of slurry.
We could be standing
on a massive bomb.
CTSFOs have started
clearing the building.
Have you cleared this room?
No, cos I was looking for Jo.
Well, I can do it. You can leave.
Well, I'll do this room,
you do that room.
All right.
All right.
SHE SNIFFS
Tell me about the room
that you're in, Wash.
Erm
There's a body, a laptop
camera, cupboards.
Clear the body first.
I need my bag, Hass.
It's just by the doorway.
OK, seen it.
BEEP
BEEP
Passing it through now.
Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
BEEP
Photo-sensitive switch
behind the body,
and we've got a PIR movement sensor
above the door.
Don't pass anything through.
How have I missed that?
He's gonna blow this place up.
Destroy the evidence and us.
Bronze Command, EXPO 1.
Er, device armed.
We need to clear the building, clear
the surrounding areas immediately.
'If it's 80 kilos,
the blast area will be huge.'
ECHOING: Wash,
how many pills did you take?
Too many. Are you OK?
Wash, talk to me, mate. Are you OK?
Just shut up a minute.
I'm trying to think.
I need you to focus, mate, OK?
Search for anything that might
be housing the explosives.
Yeah, yeah, which could be anywhere.
Stay focused, Wash.
Do you see anything?
Back! Move back, everyone!
Move back. Move back now, please.
Yeah, I've got something.
It doesn't look like slurry, though.
So what does it look like?
Like some sort of
some kind of home-made explosive.
OK, what else?
Keep talking, Wash.
SHE MUTTERS, BEEPING
DISTORTED: Stay focused!
Yeah, it's, erm it's everywhere.
It's all over the room.
What's wrong, Wash?
Are you feeling sick?
Hang on in there.
I'm right here, mate.
I can smell burning.
RAPID BEEPING
HEAVY BREATHING
What is it?
The light-sensitive switch
must have triggered the fuse,
and it's burnt the wires.
It's armed the device.
OK, so connect the wires
and bridge the circuit.
Yeah, well, that might not work.
It's all we've got, Wash.
UNDER BREATH: OK.
Just do it, mate. I'm trying!
No, it won't reach. Pull harder!
Oh It won't reach!