Prime Suspect (1991) s05e02 Episode Script
Prime Suspect 5 Errors of Judgement (2)
Two, he feeds your mother drugs.
Three, chances are he´s also shagging her.
Now, there´s where you´d be wrong.
You see, his interest in your mum is in her habit, not in her minge.
And the funy thing is the thing that Michael doesn´t want anybody to know is that he loves your sister.
He really, really loves her.
Now, isn´t that sweet? And it explains everything.
You see frankly, I was puzzled.
Michael baby-sat a piece of hardware for me at your house and you helped yourself to a nice, shiny gun.
Cheeky, but I understand the temptation.
You then have a pop at Michael and wind up killing Nazir, my best boy.
Not the plan! Michael knows bloody well it was you.
He was looking at your zitty little face the moment you pulled the trigger.
But he won´t say so.
He won´t give you up.
Now why´s that? Because he´s scared of what I might do to punish you.
That I might hit you so hard I´d disfigure your whole family.
That I might disfigure Janice.
He were calling you things.
Calling you a slag and that.
Campbell, you are so sad.
I thought you´d be pleased.
Oh, yeah! Yeah, I was delighted you blew my main man away.
Yeah, that was top! You have made things very difficuit.
Service revolver.
One I use in church.
No.
No.
No! No, man.
I can´t do this! Well, can I be candid with you, Michael? I don´t think you have much choice.
No.
No.
No.
Please, no! No! Michael, please! No! No! No! Michael, please, I´m scared! No! Michael, please.
No! No! No! Michael, please! I´m scared! No! Please don´t, Michael! Michael, I´m scared! No! Please! Don´t, Michael! I´m scared! Please! Please! Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God! Janice.
Janice, we need you to identify him.
Is this your brother? That´s Cam.
- Thank you.
All right, Noreen.
- Get away from me! I just wanted to say What do you want to say? That you´re sorry? That my son´s lying here bastard dead, because you didn´t like what he told you? Because you just sent him away to get himself murdered? You useless bitch! Janice, if you have any idea why Campbell should have tried to kill Nazir He didn´t.
Janice! Janice, why did you say that? Has Michael said anything? - Michael did not do that! - I didn´t say that he did.
Janice, come away from her! - Janice, why did you say that Campbell - Not now.
I don´t know.
Janice, What do you say that ? I need to Not now! You´re not getting my bloody daughter killed an´ all! - Look, I didn´t mean - Stop the car.
OK, drive on.
Get in.
- I´m sorry, man.
If I´d known it was you - Don´t matter.
Take it.
Cheers.
It´s yours.
Hey, Cecil! Yeah, a-right, man.
So, where´s Tony? Tony´s not doing as much work as he used to.
No.
He´s got a sore throat.
That´s the bad news.
The good news is, you can deal direct with me.
Is that a problem for you, Cecil? - No problem, man.
- Good.
Cos I find problems very boring.
We´ll do business, yeah? Right.
Let´s talk about Campbell´s death.
The body was found in a public lavatory inside of a locked cubicle.
However, this was not where he was killed.
The amount of blood he´d lost, the place would´ve been awash with it.
So he was probably executed one to two hours earlier somewhere else.
Prelim forensics can´t be any more specific than that.
So, let´s assume it was one hour earlier.
This red line represents approximately an hour´s drive from the centre of Manchester where the body was dumped.
So, somewhere inside this circle there is a place that is swiming in the boy´s blood.
Boss, what if Forensic say it´s two hours? We´d better pray they don´t, because if they do, it could be Birmingham or Carlisle or Leeds.
Or it could be round the corner.
Anyway, we have uniform looking under every bush, every shed, every derelict property.
So sooner or later we´re going to find the place or someone else is going to find it for us.
The trouble is, I want to find it now.
Because the Ionger it takes to find this place, the easier it is for the killer to distance himself.
And I do not wish to make it easy for that bastard! What about suspects? Well, we have two suspects.
There´s Michael Johns, the man that Campbell wounded in his attempt to kill Nazir.
And the man who has a professional interest in avenging Nazir´s death Mr Norton.
However, we have absolutely no evidence, so that is why I´m going on Crimenight tonight.
Yes, sir? When you´ve got a moment I just wanted to say I know that you´re perfectly capable of doing this thing by yourself.
But if for any reason you felt that maybe What? That maybe you should do it? - I´m just saying.
- I know what you´re saying.
You´re saying maybe you should do it, because I´m emotionally compromised.
Look, this is strictly a professional consideration.
Is it? How many TV appearances have you made? Don´t be silly.
I´m not being silly.
How many? I´ve done seven.
Yeah, well, I´ve made nine, so I win.
Anything more to discuss? Are you, Jane? Emotionally compromised? I´m upset, yes.
What do you want me to say? You weren´t to blame.
I am aware of that.
I wonder if you are.
Well, I will bear that in mind.
Listen, Martin, I want to go on televisión tonight.
People are scared shitless.
Ordinary people.
I want to try and persuade people that it´s all right to name names.
That we will stand by them.
I´m sure the people of this city will be heartened.
Michael, did you do it? What? Did you shoot Cam? How can you ask me that? I mean, rah! How can you? How do you think that makes me feel, eh? What, you think I took a gun and shot your little brother? So what you chatting this shit into my head for? Say it! Just say you didn´t do it.
Yo! Just chill, cos you´re really doing my ´ead in.
Please, Michael.
I don´t need this, Janice! Just say it to me! Oh, God.
He liked the usual things 15-year-old boys like.
Discos and so forth.
But he wasn´t the sort of boy he wasn´t a hellraiser.
So, a likeable lad? Yes, he was.
He was immensely likeable.
He was the sort of boy who didn´t say very much, but he thought a great deal.
He looked after his mother and his sister in pretty difficult circumstances.
I felt he had something to offer the worid.
Very professional.
Him or her? Her, you nana! We are talking about somebody who killed someone with a machine gun, right? A quiet sort of boy.
Is this strictly true? We are talking here about a young man who actually shot somebody.
Campbell committed a very serious offence.
Don´t get me wrong.
I´m not here to wring my hands about the terrible hardship he suffered in his life.
That´s no excuse.
There are a whole lot of kids who have it just as hard as he did and don´t go out and shoot someone.
But there are a whole other lot of kids who get sucked into this violent worid of street crime.
And suddenly they are not allowed to be kids any more They are expected to behave as violently as the adults who are controlling them.
So, what you´re saying is give the children back their childhood? No, I´m saying give them justice.
Give them law and order.
Campbell committed a serious crime.
He deserved to be tried for that.
But he did not deserve to be kidnapped and hideously murdered.
So how can viewers help the police in this case? Anyone who knows anything at all that might help us catch Campbell´s killers should just pick up the phone and call.
I just want to assure people that they have nothing to fear about this anything you say to us is in the strictest of confidence.
Please have the courage to call.
No matter who you are.
If you don´t call people will continue to live in fear.
Good evening.
I´d like to leave a message for Superintendent Tennison, please.
Yeah.
Just to say beige just isn´t you.
She´ll know who I am.
Right, Crimenight.
What have we got? We´ve had 41 calls since broadcast.
18 of these are granies who spooked themselves watching the programe.
13 are regular fruitcakes who call in every week to confess to whatever´s on offer.
And seven of those called more than once, which leaves us with just three.
We have one "Bring back hanging".
One "I heard gunfire".
We´ve got her statement, but we´re checking it.
And a daft one.
"A message for the superintendent.
Beige just isn´t you.
" That was from a mobile, so we can´t trace the caller.
We don´t need to, I know who that was.
Well, people are scared, aren´t they? And I thought this was a free country.
OK.
Well, if he´s gona play footsie with me, he can do it right here under my table! Henry.
- Boss? - Pull him.
Pull The Street! Listen, Clare, if you have something to say, it´s all right, you can say it straight to my face.
- We need more evidence before we bring - We don´t have any evidence.
The guy´s not stupid.
If we talk to him now, he´ll get more from us than we will from him.
We´ll see about that, won´t we? The minute he walked into Michael´s flat, you thought, "You cheeky bastard.
I´m gona have you.
" No.
That´s not true.
I think your reasons for pulling him are personal and I think it will backfire on us.
Listen, Clare, I only know one way to work.
That´s through instinct, instinct and slog.
If you don´t work that way, that´s fine.
You´re very welcome to transfer off this case.
No hard feelings.
I don´t want you to, you´re a good cop and we need good cops on this.
Just think about it, all right? And while we´re about it, let´s pull Michael as well.
Henry, in my office.
Plod.
All over the gym.
Stop.
Willem.
Take a stroll round the block with this.
Don´t go spending it, now.
That wouldn´t be wise.
Right.
Let´s go and meet ´em.
Lovely morning.
Morning, Henry.
Up with the lark.
We´re taking your car to pieces, Clive.
You just pray it´s clean.
You know what, I think it´s about time I had another word with Jane.
How are you, Michael? Don´t answer that.
My brief´s worried about parking his Rolls.
- Shut it.
- Give my special love to Janice! If you see her before I do.
- Just popped in to wish you luck.
- Oh, thanks.
And to ask what your approach is gona be? My approach? Norton´s gearing up with his grand-an-hour brief.
Are you up to speed? Has Devaney been talking to you? No.
Should she have been? There is a basic difference of opinion.
The Street seems to think he´s the Messiah, and some people around here seem to share that opinion.
However, I´m absolutely sure that he´s not telling us everything he knows.
And I just have this hunch that if I can crack The Street, I can nail Campbell´s killer.
Maybe I can nail The Street for something as well.
That would be a bonus.
You like to win, don´t you? There´s no point in coming second.
Right.
Thanks for the good luck.
I need it.
- Clive.
- Norman.
I trust your hand is resting on my client´s arm for a purpose? It´s all right.
He´s just being affectionate.
Which interview room are we in, Henry? - Three.
- Oh, my favourite.
Henry.
You´re doing Michael.
OK? - Says who? - Me.
Just do it.
Get what you can.
Tennison needs her hand holding, all right? Mm.
The Queen of Mean or what? Glad you took my tip about the beige, Jane, it sort of flattened you.
Made you look older.
Where were you between the hours of seven and ten on the evening of Wednesday 11 th of this month? For the tape, Mr Norton declines to answer the question.
Was the victim, Campbell Lafferty, known to you personally? For the tape, Mr Norton declines to answer the question.
My client has already furnished this information.
Do you possess any unlicensed firearms? For the tape, Mr Norton declines to answer the question.
For the tape, The Street declines to answer any of these poxy questions, because they are so bloody boring.
Fine.
Let´s just have a chat, then, shall we? A chat? Well, I´ll try anything once.
Except margarine.
It´s unatural.
My mum warned me against it.
Tell me about your mum.
Is she still alive? She might´ve been pretending when I spoke to her last night, but yeah, I think so.
What sort of relationship do you have with her? I´m her son.
Oh, this is much better! Superintendent, this parlour psychology is childish and is demeaning to my client.
It is also very expensive of his time.
Well, I´m just trying to get to know you a little better, Clive.
Because, you know, I´ve got your record here, and well, there´s just not very much to go on.
Oh, I see, you´re accusing me of not having a big enough criminal record, is that it? Well, there was something rather nasty in a chip shop a few years ago, but, oh, you tap-danced away from that one, didn´t you? - You didn´t let that cramp your style.
- We´re leaving.
Who killed Campbell? Was it you? It´s all right.
It´s fine.
We´re just, you know, chatting here.
Sit down, Norman, this is getting interesting.
It wasn´t me, no.
Do you know who did? Clive You just sit quietly, watch your meter ticking over.
Come on, Clive, come on, you said you´d work with me.
Keep me posted, remember? Who killed Campbell? Clive, look at me, I´m dibble, I´m thick as pig shit, so come on, you do my thinking for me.
Top of the Pops for me, Jane, is our third man.
Michael Johns.
Well, if I walked into my house and some kid shot a gun at me, I think I´d want to discuss it with him afterwards, yeah? Hm.
Oh, very good! You see, Norman, this is what the police call an "Alan Whicker".
They say absolutely nothing, see? The idea is to intimidate me into saying something I shouldn´t.
Well, frankly, Jane, I think I´ve said enough.
But you´re trying so hard, it´d be rude not to think of something.
I know.
When I was a kid, right, my dad used to take me fishing on this big pond.
And all the time, he´d ask me questions, like, you know, "What´s the capital of Poland?" And every time I got one wrong, he´d make me eat a mouthful of frogspawn.
For the tape, Superintendent Tennison is leaving the room.
New balls, please.
Bye.
What´s going on? He´s playing games.
Well, if we let him play and we let him think he´s wining, then he´s going to make mistakes, and then we´ll have him.
And when will that be? Go back in there and tell him we´re going to keep him for 24 hours.
Tell him I´ll be back but you don´t know when, and if he wants coffee, the machine´s broken.
Jesus wept! And when you´ve done that, do the same thing for Michael.
If anything comes in, anything at all, forensic, you just find me and let me know, because I I need a lever.
- Where will you be? - With him.
Superintendent, can I just say one thing? I´ve wanted that lowlife put away for a very long time.
But I´ve never been able to make a case.
Now, if he´s involved in this and he just Teflons away, because we haven´t done our job right cos we haven´t got the frigging evidence, it´ll be on your conscience.
Thank you, Clare.
On the day in question did you speak to, or hear from, or in any way communicate with the victim? The victim, in case we´ve forgotten, is Campbell Lafferty.
OK, Michael, let me be frank with you.
I´m bored.
I´m bored of being stuck here in this room with you not talking to me.
Your brief´s gone into a coma.
This is a very dull experience for us all and it would be a real thrill if you answered just one of my questions.
My client has no obligation to answer any question Yeah, yeah, yeah, for God´s sake! Michael.
Wake up! Who needs to be told that you´re here? It´s not a trick question, it´s a service.
If my boss decides to keep you here, I´ll have to inform a member of your family.
Family is generally taken to mean Dad, Mum, Auntie, Grany.
Is there anybody you want me to call? And she´s right, of course.
Our Clive thinks he´s invincible and I´m not showing him otherwise.
God, I hate white bread.
Sorry, yes, I´m listening.
OK.
I checked the record number in The Street´s file.
The documentation goes back to ´77.
He was ten when he started thieving.
He´s been a habitual criminal for 19 years.
You might reasonably expect his file to be one fat bastard.
It´s that thin.
Either the mice have been at it, or it´s been pruned.
Get in touch with Criminal Records.
Use my name if you have to.
Just tell them we need the files immediately.
I have done.
They´re on their way.
I might take a rummage in Intelligence and see what they´ve got.
Oh, shit! I know.
Who is it, Gerry, who is playing on the wrong team? Well, I´ve investigated me, and I think I´m clean.
I made some phone calls about you.
When I went to meet Tony, who knew about that? Who knew the exact time and place of the meet? Rachel, Henry, Old Growsey, any of that lot? Did you tell anybody? Well, I tried to phone Ballinger, but I couldn´t get through.
Gerry, is there anything I should know about any of our team? I mean, off the record, something personal.
Is there anything relevant? It´s not your friend Clare, is it? Look, Gerry, this is very important.
It´s getting dangerous out there.
Someone could get hurt.
You have got to tell me! What? Tell you what? Clare´s a good friend of mine.
She´s a good cop.
There´s a bit of family shit.
She´s had a lot to deal with.
Yeah, like what? Family stuff, you know.
No, no, I don´t know.
What? Her father is a serious criminal.
I mean, everybody knows.
He´s like Premier League.
He puts The Street somewhere in the lower half of the Fourth División.
He´s been in and out of jail half his life.
The other half he´s been keeping us busy.
He was never there for her.
Even when he was, he wasn´t.
You know? Where is he now, in or out? He´s out.
He´s not out of circulation, but he´s out.
She´s straight, boss.
I know she´s straight.
Did she know, Gerry, did she know about the meet? I told her there was a meet.
I didn´t say where, I didn´t say when.
Come.
Have you got a moment, boss? Yeah.
Take a seat.
I won´t be a tick.
What a mess! Oh, the stench in here! Look upstairs! Watch where you´re standing! Echo 64 to control, over.
Brilliant.
Where is she? - Where´s Tennison? - Taking the air with Lover Boy.
I couldn´t do it.
I couldn´t.
Could you? A woman like Tennison.
As fast as you could throw her under me.
You´d go for a rip in a fur coat, you would.
Boss.
They´ve found it! They´ve found the murder scene! Oh, Clare.
You stay here.
If there´s any postmortem, ring it through, would you? Mr Burleton? Hi.
It´s better than it looks.
How d´you reckon that? Well, somebody´s tried to wash the place down in a pretty half-cocked way.
Or given up halfway through.
Or that.
It´s also possible that, don´t hold me to this, that the victim was runing about from place to place, painting the walls himself.
Couldn´t get out, see? Bang.
Just there.
Bang.
Over there.
Bang in the corner.
Six goes in all.
This must be nice for you lot.
Wonderful stuff.
Blood.
Bullets.
The works.
Above all, something very tasty in the drains over here.
Look.
Bits of clothes.
Hair.
Congealed blood and matter, a bit of tooth or something.
Wonderful stuff.
So, when can we have what you´ve got? - Tomorrow afternoon? - Tomorrow morning.
Sold.
OK, let´s get out of here.
Clue city or what? Yeah.
Can you imagine what happened in there, Gerry? Not very easily, no.
That kid flailing around trying to escape.
Devaney, boss.
Postmortem´s ready.
You know, if I don´t get the bastard who did this, I shall give up! Bet you always say that.
- Salt and vinegar? - No choice, man.
If I was The Street, I´d kill your scrawny arse for getting me salt and vinegar.
Yeah, you probably would.
It´s getting to that time, boy, I can tell you.
For what? For we to be thinking about moving on.
This shit´s getting outta hand.
It ain´t tidy no more.
You know what I mean? Are we leaving now? Hang on.
No, it´s OK, Clare.
Rankine and I can deal with this.
Why don´t you take an early night? Right.
Principal features of interest.
Bullet wounds.
Six in all.
Fired from a handgun at intervals.
In the chest, twice.
Once in the right temple.
It´s the exit wound, here, which removed the tissue and indeed a good deal of the brain.
One in his hand, one in his leg, and one in the back.
The story this body tells is particularly unpleasant.
I knew it would be the moment I undressed him.
What do you mean? His T-shirt.
The bullet holes were lower down than the entry wounds.
In surrender, possibly.
More likely begging for mercy.
- Why do you say that? - The bruising.
He fell, several times.
Look at his knees.
The nails on both hands are broken, and what´s underneath them is grouting, probably from the walls of the pool.
He just couldn´t get out.
So he fell to his knees, and pleaded for his life.
And they kept on shooting at him.
Be nice if you catch this one, I have to say.
Oi! Oi! What? I know you, don´t I? We were at school together.
Give it a rest, will you? Didn´t I save your life once? We weren´t at school together.
Oh.
Must´ve been somebody else.
I know what it was! You had this girlfriend.
She got her face all smashed up.
What was her name? Shut it, Norton! Janice.
Yeah, that was it.
Terrible business.
I said shut it! You must´ve been heartbroken.
That was awful, that.
They mashed her face up to a pulp.
She looked like a pizza.
Unrecognisable.
Yeah.
They burnt her hair, stuff like that.
Burnt her eyelashes.
Terrible.
God, I hate mortuaries.
I thought you´d gone home.
Janice Lafferty called.
She wants to meet you at the place she works, the wine bar.
Great.
Can I have the address? Can I drive you there? No, that´s all right.
Just give me the address.
You wear my colours, Gerry, you´re going to lose your friends.
I have some things to do, yeah? Yeah, sure, fine, go ahead.
Clare! What´s going on, Gerry? You tell me.
What are you after, some kind of fast-track promotion? That´s not her style.
And you think that´s mine? I´m doing my job, Clare, it´s what I get paid for.
OK, I´m caught up in this one.
I´m sorry, but she´s setting the pace, yeah? I can´t hack it forever.
Normal, sloppy service will be resumed as soon as possible.
I´m sorry.
Come and buy me a drink.
I can´t.
I´ve got shit to do.
What I said, I don´t know why I said that, right? Said what? That about Michael, it was stupid.
I don´t know why I said it.
I must´ve been I don´t know.
Are you saying that Michael did not kill your brother? No.
Camy told me he was scared.
I said, "What of? " He said, "I duno.
" And I told him to grow up then.
And there I was too scared to even look at him.
My little brother, all shot up.
I couldn´t hardly breathe.
Come on.
Sit down.
Shh.
It´s all right.
It´s all right.
You´re allowed to be upset.
It´s a terrible thing.
You know, I´m really upset, too.
I just want to find whoever did it.
Well, it weren´t Michael.
OK.
So are you going to let him go, then, or what? Well I´ll see what we can do.
You don´t even know him.
No, I don´t.
He was such a sweet guy.
Was? Was? What do you mean by that, Janice? Janice! Hello, darling.
I once stopped at a hotel in Shanon, and this is true, where the handyman, he fitted the peep-holes the wrong way round.
You couldn´t see out, but he could see in.
He used to creep around at night watching people get undressed.
What are those for? We in the police call this anticipatory retaliation.
I haven´t actually been attacked, but I know it´s gona happen.
I thought I´d get my reprisal in first.
Come in and be attacked, then.
This is business, sort of.
Why didn´t you do this when you were booked? Just take me to the phone, sweet pea.
Hiya, Michael! Get some kip! Nice one! So, what do you want? I´ll have anything.
- Whisky? - Yeah, whisky would be fine.
And why am I going to attack you? Devaney says you´ve been shutting her out.
Yes, that´s correct.
And why´s that? Well, um I think she´s taken a perspective on this case that makes it very difficuit for her to work with the team.
That´s more or less what she says about you.
Martin, can I talk to you off the record? Yeah, of course you can.
I mean very, very off the record.
Mm-hm.
I´m pretty certain we´ve got a leak at the station.
All of our information is getting to the bad guys.
They are one step ahead of us all the time.
And you think it might be Devaney? Well, it´s possible.
Martin, she was the only person who knew about my meet with Tony Rice, the only one apart from Rankine.
The Street found out somehow or other.
Do you know about her background? Yes, yes, I do.
It makes absolutely no difference to her work.
She plays everything by the book.
She´s dead straight.
I should know, I promoted her.
I didn´t know that.
Yes, I did.
I know she´s very young to be a DI, and there was a lot of opposition, but she´s never let me down.
Have you got any proof? No, no, nothing specific.
I´ve got a hunch.
What can I say? I just hope you´re wrong, that´s all.
I´m so sorry, Martin.
I didn´t realise she was your protégée.
Well, it just shows you, doesn´t it? We all make errors of judgement.
Yes, we do, don´t we.
I´m going to make one right now.
Oh, that´s very civilised.
I´m not used to being spoilt.
Yeah.
I didn´t mean to wake you.
You leaving already? Yeah.
I´m sorry to creep off like this, but I´ve got to face the bloody press.
They´re bastards, all of ´em.
Is that how you feel about your work? That´s the way it is, Jane.
In this job anyway.
Oh, is it tough at the top, sir? Look, if you were me, you´d be doing exactly the same.
No, no, I wouldn´t.
I wouldn´t be trying to put both my feet into one leg of my trousers.
No.
Post.
It´s the Criminal Records Office.
Tell me what´s going on, Gerry.
You´re early.
Where´s Rankine? He´s reading the documents you requested.
We´ve got forensic back on the pool.
Oh, good.
Excellent.
That was quick.
What do they say? That´s Campbell´s blood down there, all right.
But there´s nothing to link Michael or The Street to the scene of the crime.
Oh, shit! Nothing meaning there´s no evidence the CPS will accept as submissible.
Oh, God, this has got to be a wind-up! I mean, you saw that place.
No, I didn´t.
Fingerprints require 16 points of comparison.
So far they´ve only got seven.
What about that drain? That was clogged with Yeah, yeah.
And this is the interesting bit.
The drain filter contains fragments of human bone, splinters of two xiphoid processes.
- What´s that when it´s in English? - This is the xiphoid process.
It´s a piece of cartilage.
And the human body only contains one.
There are pieces of at least two other people down there.
Oh, my God! They found a flap of skin.
It´s white.
This has got to be a favoured place of execution, maybe for a gang, maybe for an individual.
All right, let´s get Pardy to organise a search for missing persons.
- Locally? - Yeah, to start off with.
Boss.
I know we´ve not seen eye to eye on procedure, and I apologise, but I´m asking you now, will you let me back in on the case? Will you work with me, Clare? I´ve got a hunch it´s The Street.
And I want to get that bastard! Yeah.
OK.
Good.
The boy was brought here specifically to be murdered.
He was shot by a Iong-barrelled revolver, possibly a Magnum.
He was shot six times.
All six shots were fired from the single position poolside.
He ran around the pool probably trying to escape.
He fell to his knees at least on one occasión, because he was shot three times from that position.
It was the sixth shot that killed him, blowing away a part of his skull.
However, Forensics have found the partial remains of at least two other victims.
But they´ve found absolutely no evidence that links our suspect to the crimes.
So we have no alternative but to let Clive Norton go.
Can´t we get an extensión to keep him? On what basis? On the basis that we reckon he´s up to his tits in all this and we need more time to nail him.
No.
We´re going to let him go.
Look, you know that I believe he´s fully implicated in this.
But in the absence of forensic evidence, we have nothing to nail him.
The only way to catch him is to catch him out.
And the only way to do that is to make him think he´s got away with it just one more time.
What´s the difference between him thinking that he´s got away with it - and him getting away with it? - Us! Us.
We´re the difference.
I´ll do this.
You run me an index number.
- You´re looking well, Jane.
- Come on.
I´m going to have a crack at him myself, Henry.
Yeah? You´ll find yourself dozing off.
Why, is he not talking at all? Some of his periods of total silence are more interesting than others.
Yesterday, I asked him who he wanted me to call about him being in custody.
That was a particularly good silence.
In the end I had to get the duty solicitor.
What, there isn´t anybody or he doesn´t want anyone to know? There isn´t anybody.
I don´t think there ever really has been.
Except Janice.
The silences about Janice are the best of all.
No, he´s not an happy lad.
He´s very, very lonely.
Well, let´s go and keep him company, then, shall we? Who´s the duty Ah, Pocklington, good.
- Thanks, Henry.
- You´re welcome.
- See you.
- See you.
The time is 1019 I´m Detective Supenrintendent Jane Tennison.
Also present in interview room five are Detective Inspector Devaney and Duty Solicitor Gary Pocklington.
Can I have your full name and date of birth please? Good giris.
Where did we get this? Out of town.
So, you may question the wisdom, Willem, of parking a stolen car outside a police station.
But it´s interesting.
You see, this area is a sort of psychological dead zone for the dibble.
Can´t see the wood for the trees, if you know what I mean.
Got my little briefcase, yeah? - It´s all here.
- Of course it is.
God´s in his heaven.
All´s right with the worid.
Tidy.
Time spent arsing with the dibble might be fun, but in business terms it´s time wasted and we can´t be doing with it.
Drive on, Radio, mate, don´t spare the horses.
Well, in a couple of hours, Michael, we´re gona have to let you go.
An officer will escort you to the front door, and you´ll be free to leave.
Just like Campbell Lafferty.
And um Look what happened to him.
Are you threatening my client? You see that Tom, dark stuff there? That´s his brain, Michael.
It´s amazing the amount of blood a body will pump out in a matter of seconds with a wound to the head like that.
That must have been terrible.
Why don´t you tell me about it, Michael? - Superintendent, come on, please.
- Just ease off my case, will you! Well, right now, Michael, you are the case! Oh, yeah? So what? Me have de complexion fe de conection? I think Michael´s had enough, all right? Why don´t you tell me about it? Was it like in the movies? Did he die in slow motion? Did he fall to his knees, beg for mercy? We knew he fell to his knees because his knees were bruised.
- Come on, for God´s sake.
- I think Michael would appreciate a break.
Yeah? Yes.
Yes, fine.
Superintendent Tennison is leaving the room.
All right, Michael.
OK? Good.
Incident Room.
Yes.
Yeah, so? It´s not human? What is it, extra-terrestrial? What type of dog? Happy? Yeah.
I´d just like to talk about you, Michael.
If that´s all right with your legal representative.
You´re all alone in the worid really, aren´t you? Your mum´s living in Germany with a soldier.
No brothers or sisters.
Your dad died in a car crash when you were six years old.
Hm.
That must´ve been tough.
Just a little boy and suddenly your dad doesn´t come home.
No brothers or sisters.
The only person you´ve got in the worid is Janice really.
And I don´t think you´ve got her any more.
Her heart´s broken, you know, Michael.
She really loved her little brother.
I think you did, too.
Well, he was such a sweet boy, Camy.
He was so inocent.
And you know what´s destroying her, Michael, is how he died.
His head being shot open.
She´ll know who did it, you know.
She´ll see it written on your face, as clearly as we can.
DI Devaney is restraining Michael Johns, who´s attempted to knock himself unconscious.
- I didn´t want to do it, man! - But you had to, didn´t you? He made me.
- He made you kill Campbell? - I had no choice! - Who? Who made you kill Campbell? - He said I had no choice, he was gona kill me.
Stop, Jane! What´s going on here? Chief Superintendent I´m ordering you to end this interview now! All you have to do is tell me who made you shoot Campbell.
I said stop! The suspect has injured himself.
He´s bleeding from the head! He needs medical attention! What the bloody hell is the matter with you? Get the custody officer to fetch a doctor now! Are you completely out of your mind? - I was so close! You come barging in - Will you just shut up for a minute? He was about to give up The Street.
If he made Michael kill Campbell, then he´s the one who´s guilty of murder.
A black suspect beats himself up in police custody? - Oh, that is pathetic.
- You play the tape to a jury, see what happens.
- Who´s to say we didn´t smack him around? - His solicitor for a start.
For Christ´s sake, what is going on here? Look, just listen, Jane.
The lad was trying to knock his brains out in there.
Any evidence that comes out of him in this state has got to have "inadmissible" right the way through it.
Now, look, if he doesn´t need stitches, if the doc says he´s basically OK, we may still be in business.
We´ll fix him up with a nice plaster and a cup of tea and I will suggest to his brief that it may be in everybody´s interest to try and continue.
On the condition that Michael is happy to do so.
OK? So, why don´t you just go for a walk for ten minutes? And we´ll all calm down, and then we´ll see where we are.
Yeah? You were watching me.
Yes, I was.
Don´t.
Don´t do that! - Henry.
- Sir.
Do you want to speak to me? If it concerns the Lafferty case, you can speak to me.
Forensics called about a bit of tooth they found in the filter.
Oh, yes? It´s from a dog.
What kind of dog? We´ll say, "It´s a big bastard.
" That´s interesting, but quite how it relates to this investigation is beyond me.
But I´m sure you´re using your time wisely.
I´ll do my best to stop the wheels falling off, Jane.
But just you stay out of that interview room till I give you the word.
Yes? I got the dog unit sitting out there with the engine runing.
There´s a guy onboard who can do all the doggy dentistry.
You say go and The Street´s best friends are under arrest.
You go.
I started last night in 1977.
By about one o´clock this morning, I´d got to 1992 and I was well bored.
There was absolutely nothing in the records that shouldn´t have been there.
Then I came across a "no further action" and I thought, "You never know.
" I had a look at it.
It´s just a report, absolutely kosher.
A bit of blind-alley surveillance on a woman called Vanda Dysart.
That a name to you? The Street´s auntie.
There was a notion that she was fencing for him, but it turns out she was clean.
But index number of a car that was sitting outside her house one night, G485 GMC.
- Means nothing to me.
- Nor me.
So I checked it out.
The registered owner is one Louise Hanson.
Of this parish.
That´s her maiden name.
Her professional name You meet her at the Christmas party as Mrs DCS Ballinger.
OK.
So, two possibilities.
One, Mrs Ballinger is somehow mixed up with The Street.
And two, her husband was borrowing her car.
I keep an open mind.
Then this arrives from the Criminal Records.
Go on.
I take a look at what they´ve sent me.
It´s the charge sheet for the GBH.
The deep fat fryer, the guy´s hands.
The thing The Street never did time for.
Guess who? The investigating officer was Martin Ballinger.
Yeah? Yes.
Not enough, though, is it? To get him? Well, we´ll just have to get the man who can.
The doctor´s been and gone.
Michael´s got a bit of sticking plaster and an aspirin.
He´s OK.
DCS Ballinger talked to Pocklington and they´ve agreed to carry on.
So, ready when you are.
By the way, DCS Ballinger is sitting in.
Is that OK? Yes.
Yes, that´s fine.
How are you feeling, Michael? OK? Yeah.
Good.
Now, listen, Michael, this is very important, if at any time during this interview, you feel dizzy or ill in any way, you just say so and this interview will be suspended.
Do you understand? For the tape, please.
Yeah.
Good.
All right, so What I´d like to do, Michael, is share with you some confidential information about police affairs.
Can I trust you with this information? Yeah.
Good.
It´s about The Street.
You see, for some time now, The Street has had um a deal with a senior police officer from this station.
There´s no reason to think that you knew anything about this.
In fact, until this morning, only two people knew about this arrangement, The Street and the officer concerned.
Is this relevant? Yes, sir.
I think so, sir.
You see, what happened was, this officer arrested The Street for a particularly nasty crime some years ago.
And in the process of interviewing him, he thought to himself, hey, you know, this young man is really rather clever.
Here is a man I could use.
Are you with me? So he said to The Street, here´s the deal.
I will let you off this charge, and I will let you continue your business as usual, dealing drugs and so forth, on one condition.
That you let me know what´s going on down among the bad guys.
So I can nick them.
You see? Because the more I nick, the safer the worid will be.
And the better for my statistics.
So, a working partnership.
I´ll keep you in power, because one bad guy at the top that I can talk to is better than ten bad guys all fighting each other and injuring the inocent.
And the wonderful thing about this whole arrangement is that from a certain angle, it could be almost legal.
And then Campbell kills Nazir, and the whole thing goes pear-shaped.
The Street didn´t know what was going on.
Someone had wasted his right-hand man.
He didn´t know who.
He looks like a fool.
People think he´s losing his grip.
So as soon as he found out who had killed Nazir, he had to show who was boss.
Michael, you said you killed Campbell, but he made you do it, didn´t he? Say it for the tape, please.
Yeah.
- Louder.
- Yeah.
For the benefit of the tape, Superintendent, for the sake of any legal proceedings arising from this discovery you have made, will you please name the officer you are accusing? I made it up, sir.
To induce the suspect to confess.
Then this whole conversation is inadmissible.
Oh, yes.
Yes, it is.
But now we know who the guilty man is, don´t we? What is it, Michael? He´ll kill her! Kill who? He´ll know I´ve grassed him up.
He´ll kill her! Who, Michael? Janice! Michael, it´s all right.
It´s all right.
Don´t worry.
He can´t hurt her.
He can´t.
She´s safe.
He doesn´t know that you´ve told us.
How long does it take to get to Janice´s house? - Ten minutes.
- Have everyone there in five! Get me on my mobile! Mum! I just shot my dogs.
And do you know whose fauit that was? - Your boyfriend.
- Mum! Oh, Mum! Call Henry.
Tell him I´ll be there in three minutes.
The first person who gets to Noreen´s should call me immediately.
Mrs Lafferty? Janice? Janice? Janice! Mrs Lafferty? Are they there? Noreen´s here, but she´s out of it.
Where´s Janice? I don´t know.
- So, has he got her? - It looks like it All the doors are open There was an argument with somebody in a four-wheel drive Stick with it, Gerry.
Get what you can.
OK The Street´s not here.
- He took off in a - Four-wheel drive.
So, who have we got? Radio, Toots, and some kid.
Either arrest me or stop the hassle.
You can´t hold us here! I just want some information.
All I want to know is the whereabouts of Clive Norton.
- We don´t know where he is! - I don´t believe you.
Come on, lads, this is important! Talk to my brief.
Shut up! Shut up! Now, that´s crack.
So bust ´em all.
He´s a minor.
So you can think of the time you´re gona do and double it.
I just told your boyfriend here I don´t know where The Street is.
You think you´re protected, don´t you? You think you´re protected.
Well, you´re not.
Not any more.
That´s all over.
- You see, your boss - The Street ain´t my boss, woman.
He ain´t my boss.
Toots and me, we provide security for the top man in the town.
Street ain´t the top man no more.
If you´d have come ten minutes later, we´d have been outta here.
Does he know this? He´s finished, man.
- Yeah, but does he know he´s finished? - He´s finished up here.
He´s got Janice Lafferty and it is very probable that he´s going to kill her.
So where´s he taken her? We know about the pool, so he hasn´t taken her there.
It is very much to your advantage to tell me.
You, what´s your name? Willem.
There´s no use trying to look invisible, Willem.
Cos I can see you and you´re in this up to your neck.
Oh, yes.
If The Street kills Janice, because I couldn´t get to her, and you could´ve helped me do that, that makes you an accessory to murder.
That´s murder, Willem.
Not nicking cars, not stealing drugs.
It´s a whole different ball game.
Get him out of here.
I said get him out of here! Out! Go on, out, you! All right, Officer.
Now, can you tell me where The Street´s gone? No.
There´s this big place, like, full of junk.
Where? I duno.
He drove me there.
Well, if I drive, will you be able to show me? You reckon? I don´t know.
Do this.
Try not to cry, Janice.
If you cry, your nose will get blocked up, you won´t be able to breathe, and then you´ll suffocate.
Don´t flatter yourself.
Turn round! Michael loves you, doesn´t he? He´s that possessive of you, he´s that jealous, he could kill the air for touching you.
You see a woman is just a woman, Janice.
But a gun a lovely gun is a blast.
Last time this piece was used? Let me see now.
Oh, must´ve been when Michael popped your little brother.
That was it.
Let´s call it a day, shall we? Well? I´m just going to keep going until you tell me otherwise, OK? OK.
So, when did you go to this place with The Street? Night before last.
Why? What were you doing there? Stuff.
Anything? Recognise anything? I remember that.
OK.
Which way, left or right? Left or right, Willem? Which way? I don´t know.
Take your shoes off.
Do you know where you are? You´re at the top of a very very tall building.
Can´t you feel that lovely breeze? Feel that with your toes.
Can you feel it? I had a good thing, Janice.
I had a real good thing.
And you know, don´t you? This has to happen.
It´s nothing personal.
It´s just a matter of self-respect.
Off you go, then.
You know it makes sense.
See? That wasn´t too bad, was it? Henry? Henry, where´s Tennison? She took off.
Hasn´t she called in? No, no, no, she hasn´t.
What, do you recognise something? Willem! Willem! Clare? Clare, can you hear me? Gerry? Gerry, can you hear me? Clare.
- Boss - Yeah.
I´m in Clare? Boss? Boss, can you hear me? Boss, it´s Clare.
Yes.
Clare Clare! Am I getting through to you? Yeah.
Hi.
Where are you? Can you get this line any clearer? I can´t hear you.
You´re breaking up.
Christ Almighty! Henry, yeah, I´ve lost her.
Where is she? Quickly.
It´s standard operational procedure for officers in pursuit to give a runing comentary When we find the superintendent, tell her.
Come on, she´s in a black spot! There are three black spots within the central area.
Where? Precisely.
Gerry! Armley Heath.
Move! Hello, Tony.
Jesus, Gerry! Janice! It´s Superintendent Tennison.
We´re gona get you out of there in just one minute.
He´s not gona hurt you any more.
My back-up will be here in a minute.
What? He´s behind you.
You know, all of a sudden, Jane, I find you very boring.
Poisoning my pleasure.
Scaring off my friends.
You know, I´ll probably have to shoot both of you now and that will be your fauit.
An excellent day´s police work.
- We can do a deal.
- I don´t think so.
Yes.
I mean it.
No, you don´t.
You see, Marty told me.
You want to nick the bad guys.
Full stop.
All in all, Jane, I don´t think you´re in a position to do business with me.
My back-up´s outside.
Yeah, yeah.
They´ll be here in just one minute.
A lot can happen in a minute.
Hello, Clive.
Hello, Marty.
Left now, Gerry.
Here! Are you´ve come to let him off the hook again, have you, Martin? What´s going on here, Clive? She came looking for Janice.
You see, Marty, at this stage in the game, we both have to bring something a little bit special to the table.
I brought her.
What did you bring? Myself.
Well, Marty.
I´m a little bit pissed off with you.
I do not like being rung up and told, "It is over.
" It is not over, OK? You do not tell me anything is over.
I mean, excuse me.
Which of us is in charge of this situation? What is the matter with you? Everything works except when she´s around.
She´s the problem! We rule, Marty! And we´re letting her piss all over us! We had an agreement.
- We still do.
- No, you don´t.
No, Clive, you´re finished.
Listen to me.
The best thing you could do for your health is just just put down that gun and come with me.
We speak the same language, Marty.
Think.
Without you and me, it´d be chaos.
All we have to do is remove that.
- Meaning what? - Meaning let´s waste the bitch.
Everything´s sweet except for her.
We take her out.
It´s just like it used to be.
Peaches and cream.
He´s making you his accomplice, isn´t he? Is this what you meant by "containing crime"? Is this what you bought into? I don´t think I can take a whole lot more of you! You see, he needs you to tell him to shoot me.
He needs to think he´s got that kind of power over a cop.
Say the word, Marty.
Just say the word! So, what are you gona say, Martin? Oh, for Christ´s bloody sake! Will you just say something? Nothing.
He does nothing.
It´s people like thee and me, Jane.
We´re the ones who get things done around here.
Janice.
You´re gona be all right.
You´re gona get to the hospital, get a nice hot bath, and go to bed.
Forget all about this.
Promise me? OK.
Take her to hospital.
Give me the keys to your car, would you? Thanks.
You bastard! I just saved your life or did you fail to notice that? But you thought twice about it, didn´t you? I am a police officer, Jane.
There is no way I would´ve let him kill another police officer.
Except if you got there too late, you might have let him get away with it.
My God! You compromise and you deal, and you bargain until there´s no law, there is no order, there is no justice.
There´s just some kind of messed-up secret society that you think you can control! Maybe, but we get resuits and Clive gave us some great resuits.
He was a psychopathic murderer.
Yes.
And he gave us some top-quality information.
There is no point in asking a school teacher to report about crime.
It´s a dirty old worid, Jane, but I´m afraid it´s the real one.
And in the real worid you don´t get caught, do you, Martin? No, I don´t.
Well, I think that´s a shame.
Three, chances are he´s also shagging her.
Now, there´s where you´d be wrong.
You see, his interest in your mum is in her habit, not in her minge.
And the funy thing is the thing that Michael doesn´t want anybody to know is that he loves your sister.
He really, really loves her.
Now, isn´t that sweet? And it explains everything.
You see frankly, I was puzzled.
Michael baby-sat a piece of hardware for me at your house and you helped yourself to a nice, shiny gun.
Cheeky, but I understand the temptation.
You then have a pop at Michael and wind up killing Nazir, my best boy.
Not the plan! Michael knows bloody well it was you.
He was looking at your zitty little face the moment you pulled the trigger.
But he won´t say so.
He won´t give you up.
Now why´s that? Because he´s scared of what I might do to punish you.
That I might hit you so hard I´d disfigure your whole family.
That I might disfigure Janice.
He were calling you things.
Calling you a slag and that.
Campbell, you are so sad.
I thought you´d be pleased.
Oh, yeah! Yeah, I was delighted you blew my main man away.
Yeah, that was top! You have made things very difficuit.
Service revolver.
One I use in church.
No.
No.
No! No, man.
I can´t do this! Well, can I be candid with you, Michael? I don´t think you have much choice.
No.
No.
No.
Please, no! No! Michael, please! No! No! No! Michael, please, I´m scared! No! Michael, please.
No! No! No! Michael, please! I´m scared! No! Please don´t, Michael! Michael, I´m scared! No! Please! Don´t, Michael! I´m scared! Please! Please! Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God! Janice.
Janice, we need you to identify him.
Is this your brother? That´s Cam.
- Thank you.
All right, Noreen.
- Get away from me! I just wanted to say What do you want to say? That you´re sorry? That my son´s lying here bastard dead, because you didn´t like what he told you? Because you just sent him away to get himself murdered? You useless bitch! Janice, if you have any idea why Campbell should have tried to kill Nazir He didn´t.
Janice! Janice, why did you say that? Has Michael said anything? - Michael did not do that! - I didn´t say that he did.
Janice, come away from her! - Janice, why did you say that Campbell - Not now.
I don´t know.
Janice, What do you say that ? I need to Not now! You´re not getting my bloody daughter killed an´ all! - Look, I didn´t mean - Stop the car.
OK, drive on.
Get in.
- I´m sorry, man.
If I´d known it was you - Don´t matter.
Take it.
Cheers.
It´s yours.
Hey, Cecil! Yeah, a-right, man.
So, where´s Tony? Tony´s not doing as much work as he used to.
No.
He´s got a sore throat.
That´s the bad news.
The good news is, you can deal direct with me.
Is that a problem for you, Cecil? - No problem, man.
- Good.
Cos I find problems very boring.
We´ll do business, yeah? Right.
Let´s talk about Campbell´s death.
The body was found in a public lavatory inside of a locked cubicle.
However, this was not where he was killed.
The amount of blood he´d lost, the place would´ve been awash with it.
So he was probably executed one to two hours earlier somewhere else.
Prelim forensics can´t be any more specific than that.
So, let´s assume it was one hour earlier.
This red line represents approximately an hour´s drive from the centre of Manchester where the body was dumped.
So, somewhere inside this circle there is a place that is swiming in the boy´s blood.
Boss, what if Forensic say it´s two hours? We´d better pray they don´t, because if they do, it could be Birmingham or Carlisle or Leeds.
Or it could be round the corner.
Anyway, we have uniform looking under every bush, every shed, every derelict property.
So sooner or later we´re going to find the place or someone else is going to find it for us.
The trouble is, I want to find it now.
Because the Ionger it takes to find this place, the easier it is for the killer to distance himself.
And I do not wish to make it easy for that bastard! What about suspects? Well, we have two suspects.
There´s Michael Johns, the man that Campbell wounded in his attempt to kill Nazir.
And the man who has a professional interest in avenging Nazir´s death Mr Norton.
However, we have absolutely no evidence, so that is why I´m going on Crimenight tonight.
Yes, sir? When you´ve got a moment I just wanted to say I know that you´re perfectly capable of doing this thing by yourself.
But if for any reason you felt that maybe What? That maybe you should do it? - I´m just saying.
- I know what you´re saying.
You´re saying maybe you should do it, because I´m emotionally compromised.
Look, this is strictly a professional consideration.
Is it? How many TV appearances have you made? Don´t be silly.
I´m not being silly.
How many? I´ve done seven.
Yeah, well, I´ve made nine, so I win.
Anything more to discuss? Are you, Jane? Emotionally compromised? I´m upset, yes.
What do you want me to say? You weren´t to blame.
I am aware of that.
I wonder if you are.
Well, I will bear that in mind.
Listen, Martin, I want to go on televisión tonight.
People are scared shitless.
Ordinary people.
I want to try and persuade people that it´s all right to name names.
That we will stand by them.
I´m sure the people of this city will be heartened.
Michael, did you do it? What? Did you shoot Cam? How can you ask me that? I mean, rah! How can you? How do you think that makes me feel, eh? What, you think I took a gun and shot your little brother? So what you chatting this shit into my head for? Say it! Just say you didn´t do it.
Yo! Just chill, cos you´re really doing my ´ead in.
Please, Michael.
I don´t need this, Janice! Just say it to me! Oh, God.
He liked the usual things 15-year-old boys like.
Discos and so forth.
But he wasn´t the sort of boy he wasn´t a hellraiser.
So, a likeable lad? Yes, he was.
He was immensely likeable.
He was the sort of boy who didn´t say very much, but he thought a great deal.
He looked after his mother and his sister in pretty difficult circumstances.
I felt he had something to offer the worid.
Very professional.
Him or her? Her, you nana! We are talking about somebody who killed someone with a machine gun, right? A quiet sort of boy.
Is this strictly true? We are talking here about a young man who actually shot somebody.
Campbell committed a very serious offence.
Don´t get me wrong.
I´m not here to wring my hands about the terrible hardship he suffered in his life.
That´s no excuse.
There are a whole lot of kids who have it just as hard as he did and don´t go out and shoot someone.
But there are a whole other lot of kids who get sucked into this violent worid of street crime.
And suddenly they are not allowed to be kids any more They are expected to behave as violently as the adults who are controlling them.
So, what you´re saying is give the children back their childhood? No, I´m saying give them justice.
Give them law and order.
Campbell committed a serious crime.
He deserved to be tried for that.
But he did not deserve to be kidnapped and hideously murdered.
So how can viewers help the police in this case? Anyone who knows anything at all that might help us catch Campbell´s killers should just pick up the phone and call.
I just want to assure people that they have nothing to fear about this anything you say to us is in the strictest of confidence.
Please have the courage to call.
No matter who you are.
If you don´t call people will continue to live in fear.
Good evening.
I´d like to leave a message for Superintendent Tennison, please.
Yeah.
Just to say beige just isn´t you.
She´ll know who I am.
Right, Crimenight.
What have we got? We´ve had 41 calls since broadcast.
18 of these are granies who spooked themselves watching the programe.
13 are regular fruitcakes who call in every week to confess to whatever´s on offer.
And seven of those called more than once, which leaves us with just three.
We have one "Bring back hanging".
One "I heard gunfire".
We´ve got her statement, but we´re checking it.
And a daft one.
"A message for the superintendent.
Beige just isn´t you.
" That was from a mobile, so we can´t trace the caller.
We don´t need to, I know who that was.
Well, people are scared, aren´t they? And I thought this was a free country.
OK.
Well, if he´s gona play footsie with me, he can do it right here under my table! Henry.
- Boss? - Pull him.
Pull The Street! Listen, Clare, if you have something to say, it´s all right, you can say it straight to my face.
- We need more evidence before we bring - We don´t have any evidence.
The guy´s not stupid.
If we talk to him now, he´ll get more from us than we will from him.
We´ll see about that, won´t we? The minute he walked into Michael´s flat, you thought, "You cheeky bastard.
I´m gona have you.
" No.
That´s not true.
I think your reasons for pulling him are personal and I think it will backfire on us.
Listen, Clare, I only know one way to work.
That´s through instinct, instinct and slog.
If you don´t work that way, that´s fine.
You´re very welcome to transfer off this case.
No hard feelings.
I don´t want you to, you´re a good cop and we need good cops on this.
Just think about it, all right? And while we´re about it, let´s pull Michael as well.
Henry, in my office.
Plod.
All over the gym.
Stop.
Willem.
Take a stroll round the block with this.
Don´t go spending it, now.
That wouldn´t be wise.
Right.
Let´s go and meet ´em.
Lovely morning.
Morning, Henry.
Up with the lark.
We´re taking your car to pieces, Clive.
You just pray it´s clean.
You know what, I think it´s about time I had another word with Jane.
How are you, Michael? Don´t answer that.
My brief´s worried about parking his Rolls.
- Shut it.
- Give my special love to Janice! If you see her before I do.
- Just popped in to wish you luck.
- Oh, thanks.
And to ask what your approach is gona be? My approach? Norton´s gearing up with his grand-an-hour brief.
Are you up to speed? Has Devaney been talking to you? No.
Should she have been? There is a basic difference of opinion.
The Street seems to think he´s the Messiah, and some people around here seem to share that opinion.
However, I´m absolutely sure that he´s not telling us everything he knows.
And I just have this hunch that if I can crack The Street, I can nail Campbell´s killer.
Maybe I can nail The Street for something as well.
That would be a bonus.
You like to win, don´t you? There´s no point in coming second.
Right.
Thanks for the good luck.
I need it.
- Clive.
- Norman.
I trust your hand is resting on my client´s arm for a purpose? It´s all right.
He´s just being affectionate.
Which interview room are we in, Henry? - Three.
- Oh, my favourite.
Henry.
You´re doing Michael.
OK? - Says who? - Me.
Just do it.
Get what you can.
Tennison needs her hand holding, all right? Mm.
The Queen of Mean or what? Glad you took my tip about the beige, Jane, it sort of flattened you.
Made you look older.
Where were you between the hours of seven and ten on the evening of Wednesday 11 th of this month? For the tape, Mr Norton declines to answer the question.
Was the victim, Campbell Lafferty, known to you personally? For the tape, Mr Norton declines to answer the question.
My client has already furnished this information.
Do you possess any unlicensed firearms? For the tape, Mr Norton declines to answer the question.
For the tape, The Street declines to answer any of these poxy questions, because they are so bloody boring.
Fine.
Let´s just have a chat, then, shall we? A chat? Well, I´ll try anything once.
Except margarine.
It´s unatural.
My mum warned me against it.
Tell me about your mum.
Is she still alive? She might´ve been pretending when I spoke to her last night, but yeah, I think so.
What sort of relationship do you have with her? I´m her son.
Oh, this is much better! Superintendent, this parlour psychology is childish and is demeaning to my client.
It is also very expensive of his time.
Well, I´m just trying to get to know you a little better, Clive.
Because, you know, I´ve got your record here, and well, there´s just not very much to go on.
Oh, I see, you´re accusing me of not having a big enough criminal record, is that it? Well, there was something rather nasty in a chip shop a few years ago, but, oh, you tap-danced away from that one, didn´t you? - You didn´t let that cramp your style.
- We´re leaving.
Who killed Campbell? Was it you? It´s all right.
It´s fine.
We´re just, you know, chatting here.
Sit down, Norman, this is getting interesting.
It wasn´t me, no.
Do you know who did? Clive You just sit quietly, watch your meter ticking over.
Come on, Clive, come on, you said you´d work with me.
Keep me posted, remember? Who killed Campbell? Clive, look at me, I´m dibble, I´m thick as pig shit, so come on, you do my thinking for me.
Top of the Pops for me, Jane, is our third man.
Michael Johns.
Well, if I walked into my house and some kid shot a gun at me, I think I´d want to discuss it with him afterwards, yeah? Hm.
Oh, very good! You see, Norman, this is what the police call an "Alan Whicker".
They say absolutely nothing, see? The idea is to intimidate me into saying something I shouldn´t.
Well, frankly, Jane, I think I´ve said enough.
But you´re trying so hard, it´d be rude not to think of something.
I know.
When I was a kid, right, my dad used to take me fishing on this big pond.
And all the time, he´d ask me questions, like, you know, "What´s the capital of Poland?" And every time I got one wrong, he´d make me eat a mouthful of frogspawn.
For the tape, Superintendent Tennison is leaving the room.
New balls, please.
Bye.
What´s going on? He´s playing games.
Well, if we let him play and we let him think he´s wining, then he´s going to make mistakes, and then we´ll have him.
And when will that be? Go back in there and tell him we´re going to keep him for 24 hours.
Tell him I´ll be back but you don´t know when, and if he wants coffee, the machine´s broken.
Jesus wept! And when you´ve done that, do the same thing for Michael.
If anything comes in, anything at all, forensic, you just find me and let me know, because I I need a lever.
- Where will you be? - With him.
Superintendent, can I just say one thing? I´ve wanted that lowlife put away for a very long time.
But I´ve never been able to make a case.
Now, if he´s involved in this and he just Teflons away, because we haven´t done our job right cos we haven´t got the frigging evidence, it´ll be on your conscience.
Thank you, Clare.
On the day in question did you speak to, or hear from, or in any way communicate with the victim? The victim, in case we´ve forgotten, is Campbell Lafferty.
OK, Michael, let me be frank with you.
I´m bored.
I´m bored of being stuck here in this room with you not talking to me.
Your brief´s gone into a coma.
This is a very dull experience for us all and it would be a real thrill if you answered just one of my questions.
My client has no obligation to answer any question Yeah, yeah, yeah, for God´s sake! Michael.
Wake up! Who needs to be told that you´re here? It´s not a trick question, it´s a service.
If my boss decides to keep you here, I´ll have to inform a member of your family.
Family is generally taken to mean Dad, Mum, Auntie, Grany.
Is there anybody you want me to call? And she´s right, of course.
Our Clive thinks he´s invincible and I´m not showing him otherwise.
God, I hate white bread.
Sorry, yes, I´m listening.
OK.
I checked the record number in The Street´s file.
The documentation goes back to ´77.
He was ten when he started thieving.
He´s been a habitual criminal for 19 years.
You might reasonably expect his file to be one fat bastard.
It´s that thin.
Either the mice have been at it, or it´s been pruned.
Get in touch with Criminal Records.
Use my name if you have to.
Just tell them we need the files immediately.
I have done.
They´re on their way.
I might take a rummage in Intelligence and see what they´ve got.
Oh, shit! I know.
Who is it, Gerry, who is playing on the wrong team? Well, I´ve investigated me, and I think I´m clean.
I made some phone calls about you.
When I went to meet Tony, who knew about that? Who knew the exact time and place of the meet? Rachel, Henry, Old Growsey, any of that lot? Did you tell anybody? Well, I tried to phone Ballinger, but I couldn´t get through.
Gerry, is there anything I should know about any of our team? I mean, off the record, something personal.
Is there anything relevant? It´s not your friend Clare, is it? Look, Gerry, this is very important.
It´s getting dangerous out there.
Someone could get hurt.
You have got to tell me! What? Tell you what? Clare´s a good friend of mine.
She´s a good cop.
There´s a bit of family shit.
She´s had a lot to deal with.
Yeah, like what? Family stuff, you know.
No, no, I don´t know.
What? Her father is a serious criminal.
I mean, everybody knows.
He´s like Premier League.
He puts The Street somewhere in the lower half of the Fourth División.
He´s been in and out of jail half his life.
The other half he´s been keeping us busy.
He was never there for her.
Even when he was, he wasn´t.
You know? Where is he now, in or out? He´s out.
He´s not out of circulation, but he´s out.
She´s straight, boss.
I know she´s straight.
Did she know, Gerry, did she know about the meet? I told her there was a meet.
I didn´t say where, I didn´t say when.
Come.
Have you got a moment, boss? Yeah.
Take a seat.
I won´t be a tick.
What a mess! Oh, the stench in here! Look upstairs! Watch where you´re standing! Echo 64 to control, over.
Brilliant.
Where is she? - Where´s Tennison? - Taking the air with Lover Boy.
I couldn´t do it.
I couldn´t.
Could you? A woman like Tennison.
As fast as you could throw her under me.
You´d go for a rip in a fur coat, you would.
Boss.
They´ve found it! They´ve found the murder scene! Oh, Clare.
You stay here.
If there´s any postmortem, ring it through, would you? Mr Burleton? Hi.
It´s better than it looks.
How d´you reckon that? Well, somebody´s tried to wash the place down in a pretty half-cocked way.
Or given up halfway through.
Or that.
It´s also possible that, don´t hold me to this, that the victim was runing about from place to place, painting the walls himself.
Couldn´t get out, see? Bang.
Just there.
Bang.
Over there.
Bang in the corner.
Six goes in all.
This must be nice for you lot.
Wonderful stuff.
Blood.
Bullets.
The works.
Above all, something very tasty in the drains over here.
Look.
Bits of clothes.
Hair.
Congealed blood and matter, a bit of tooth or something.
Wonderful stuff.
So, when can we have what you´ve got? - Tomorrow afternoon? - Tomorrow morning.
Sold.
OK, let´s get out of here.
Clue city or what? Yeah.
Can you imagine what happened in there, Gerry? Not very easily, no.
That kid flailing around trying to escape.
Devaney, boss.
Postmortem´s ready.
You know, if I don´t get the bastard who did this, I shall give up! Bet you always say that.
- Salt and vinegar? - No choice, man.
If I was The Street, I´d kill your scrawny arse for getting me salt and vinegar.
Yeah, you probably would.
It´s getting to that time, boy, I can tell you.
For what? For we to be thinking about moving on.
This shit´s getting outta hand.
It ain´t tidy no more.
You know what I mean? Are we leaving now? Hang on.
No, it´s OK, Clare.
Rankine and I can deal with this.
Why don´t you take an early night? Right.
Principal features of interest.
Bullet wounds.
Six in all.
Fired from a handgun at intervals.
In the chest, twice.
Once in the right temple.
It´s the exit wound, here, which removed the tissue and indeed a good deal of the brain.
One in his hand, one in his leg, and one in the back.
The story this body tells is particularly unpleasant.
I knew it would be the moment I undressed him.
What do you mean? His T-shirt.
The bullet holes were lower down than the entry wounds.
In surrender, possibly.
More likely begging for mercy.
- Why do you say that? - The bruising.
He fell, several times.
Look at his knees.
The nails on both hands are broken, and what´s underneath them is grouting, probably from the walls of the pool.
He just couldn´t get out.
So he fell to his knees, and pleaded for his life.
And they kept on shooting at him.
Be nice if you catch this one, I have to say.
Oi! Oi! What? I know you, don´t I? We were at school together.
Give it a rest, will you? Didn´t I save your life once? We weren´t at school together.
Oh.
Must´ve been somebody else.
I know what it was! You had this girlfriend.
She got her face all smashed up.
What was her name? Shut it, Norton! Janice.
Yeah, that was it.
Terrible business.
I said shut it! You must´ve been heartbroken.
That was awful, that.
They mashed her face up to a pulp.
She looked like a pizza.
Unrecognisable.
Yeah.
They burnt her hair, stuff like that.
Burnt her eyelashes.
Terrible.
God, I hate mortuaries.
I thought you´d gone home.
Janice Lafferty called.
She wants to meet you at the place she works, the wine bar.
Great.
Can I have the address? Can I drive you there? No, that´s all right.
Just give me the address.
You wear my colours, Gerry, you´re going to lose your friends.
I have some things to do, yeah? Yeah, sure, fine, go ahead.
Clare! What´s going on, Gerry? You tell me.
What are you after, some kind of fast-track promotion? That´s not her style.
And you think that´s mine? I´m doing my job, Clare, it´s what I get paid for.
OK, I´m caught up in this one.
I´m sorry, but she´s setting the pace, yeah? I can´t hack it forever.
Normal, sloppy service will be resumed as soon as possible.
I´m sorry.
Come and buy me a drink.
I can´t.
I´ve got shit to do.
What I said, I don´t know why I said that, right? Said what? That about Michael, it was stupid.
I don´t know why I said it.
I must´ve been I don´t know.
Are you saying that Michael did not kill your brother? No.
Camy told me he was scared.
I said, "What of? " He said, "I duno.
" And I told him to grow up then.
And there I was too scared to even look at him.
My little brother, all shot up.
I couldn´t hardly breathe.
Come on.
Sit down.
Shh.
It´s all right.
It´s all right.
You´re allowed to be upset.
It´s a terrible thing.
You know, I´m really upset, too.
I just want to find whoever did it.
Well, it weren´t Michael.
OK.
So are you going to let him go, then, or what? Well I´ll see what we can do.
You don´t even know him.
No, I don´t.
He was such a sweet guy.
Was? Was? What do you mean by that, Janice? Janice! Hello, darling.
I once stopped at a hotel in Shanon, and this is true, where the handyman, he fitted the peep-holes the wrong way round.
You couldn´t see out, but he could see in.
He used to creep around at night watching people get undressed.
What are those for? We in the police call this anticipatory retaliation.
I haven´t actually been attacked, but I know it´s gona happen.
I thought I´d get my reprisal in first.
Come in and be attacked, then.
This is business, sort of.
Why didn´t you do this when you were booked? Just take me to the phone, sweet pea.
Hiya, Michael! Get some kip! Nice one! So, what do you want? I´ll have anything.
- Whisky? - Yeah, whisky would be fine.
And why am I going to attack you? Devaney says you´ve been shutting her out.
Yes, that´s correct.
And why´s that? Well, um I think she´s taken a perspective on this case that makes it very difficuit for her to work with the team.
That´s more or less what she says about you.
Martin, can I talk to you off the record? Yeah, of course you can.
I mean very, very off the record.
Mm-hm.
I´m pretty certain we´ve got a leak at the station.
All of our information is getting to the bad guys.
They are one step ahead of us all the time.
And you think it might be Devaney? Well, it´s possible.
Martin, she was the only person who knew about my meet with Tony Rice, the only one apart from Rankine.
The Street found out somehow or other.
Do you know about her background? Yes, yes, I do.
It makes absolutely no difference to her work.
She plays everything by the book.
She´s dead straight.
I should know, I promoted her.
I didn´t know that.
Yes, I did.
I know she´s very young to be a DI, and there was a lot of opposition, but she´s never let me down.
Have you got any proof? No, no, nothing specific.
I´ve got a hunch.
What can I say? I just hope you´re wrong, that´s all.
I´m so sorry, Martin.
I didn´t realise she was your protégée.
Well, it just shows you, doesn´t it? We all make errors of judgement.
Yes, we do, don´t we.
I´m going to make one right now.
Oh, that´s very civilised.
I´m not used to being spoilt.
Yeah.
I didn´t mean to wake you.
You leaving already? Yeah.
I´m sorry to creep off like this, but I´ve got to face the bloody press.
They´re bastards, all of ´em.
Is that how you feel about your work? That´s the way it is, Jane.
In this job anyway.
Oh, is it tough at the top, sir? Look, if you were me, you´d be doing exactly the same.
No, no, I wouldn´t.
I wouldn´t be trying to put both my feet into one leg of my trousers.
No.
Post.
It´s the Criminal Records Office.
Tell me what´s going on, Gerry.
You´re early.
Where´s Rankine? He´s reading the documents you requested.
We´ve got forensic back on the pool.
Oh, good.
Excellent.
That was quick.
What do they say? That´s Campbell´s blood down there, all right.
But there´s nothing to link Michael or The Street to the scene of the crime.
Oh, shit! Nothing meaning there´s no evidence the CPS will accept as submissible.
Oh, God, this has got to be a wind-up! I mean, you saw that place.
No, I didn´t.
Fingerprints require 16 points of comparison.
So far they´ve only got seven.
What about that drain? That was clogged with Yeah, yeah.
And this is the interesting bit.
The drain filter contains fragments of human bone, splinters of two xiphoid processes.
- What´s that when it´s in English? - This is the xiphoid process.
It´s a piece of cartilage.
And the human body only contains one.
There are pieces of at least two other people down there.
Oh, my God! They found a flap of skin.
It´s white.
This has got to be a favoured place of execution, maybe for a gang, maybe for an individual.
All right, let´s get Pardy to organise a search for missing persons.
- Locally? - Yeah, to start off with.
Boss.
I know we´ve not seen eye to eye on procedure, and I apologise, but I´m asking you now, will you let me back in on the case? Will you work with me, Clare? I´ve got a hunch it´s The Street.
And I want to get that bastard! Yeah.
OK.
Good.
The boy was brought here specifically to be murdered.
He was shot by a Iong-barrelled revolver, possibly a Magnum.
He was shot six times.
All six shots were fired from the single position poolside.
He ran around the pool probably trying to escape.
He fell to his knees at least on one occasión, because he was shot three times from that position.
It was the sixth shot that killed him, blowing away a part of his skull.
However, Forensics have found the partial remains of at least two other victims.
But they´ve found absolutely no evidence that links our suspect to the crimes.
So we have no alternative but to let Clive Norton go.
Can´t we get an extensión to keep him? On what basis? On the basis that we reckon he´s up to his tits in all this and we need more time to nail him.
No.
We´re going to let him go.
Look, you know that I believe he´s fully implicated in this.
But in the absence of forensic evidence, we have nothing to nail him.
The only way to catch him is to catch him out.
And the only way to do that is to make him think he´s got away with it just one more time.
What´s the difference between him thinking that he´s got away with it - and him getting away with it? - Us! Us.
We´re the difference.
I´ll do this.
You run me an index number.
- You´re looking well, Jane.
- Come on.
I´m going to have a crack at him myself, Henry.
Yeah? You´ll find yourself dozing off.
Why, is he not talking at all? Some of his periods of total silence are more interesting than others.
Yesterday, I asked him who he wanted me to call about him being in custody.
That was a particularly good silence.
In the end I had to get the duty solicitor.
What, there isn´t anybody or he doesn´t want anyone to know? There isn´t anybody.
I don´t think there ever really has been.
Except Janice.
The silences about Janice are the best of all.
No, he´s not an happy lad.
He´s very, very lonely.
Well, let´s go and keep him company, then, shall we? Who´s the duty Ah, Pocklington, good.
- Thanks, Henry.
- You´re welcome.
- See you.
- See you.
The time is 1019 I´m Detective Supenrintendent Jane Tennison.
Also present in interview room five are Detective Inspector Devaney and Duty Solicitor Gary Pocklington.
Can I have your full name and date of birth please? Good giris.
Where did we get this? Out of town.
So, you may question the wisdom, Willem, of parking a stolen car outside a police station.
But it´s interesting.
You see, this area is a sort of psychological dead zone for the dibble.
Can´t see the wood for the trees, if you know what I mean.
Got my little briefcase, yeah? - It´s all here.
- Of course it is.
God´s in his heaven.
All´s right with the worid.
Tidy.
Time spent arsing with the dibble might be fun, but in business terms it´s time wasted and we can´t be doing with it.
Drive on, Radio, mate, don´t spare the horses.
Well, in a couple of hours, Michael, we´re gona have to let you go.
An officer will escort you to the front door, and you´ll be free to leave.
Just like Campbell Lafferty.
And um Look what happened to him.
Are you threatening my client? You see that Tom, dark stuff there? That´s his brain, Michael.
It´s amazing the amount of blood a body will pump out in a matter of seconds with a wound to the head like that.
That must have been terrible.
Why don´t you tell me about it, Michael? - Superintendent, come on, please.
- Just ease off my case, will you! Well, right now, Michael, you are the case! Oh, yeah? So what? Me have de complexion fe de conection? I think Michael´s had enough, all right? Why don´t you tell me about it? Was it like in the movies? Did he die in slow motion? Did he fall to his knees, beg for mercy? We knew he fell to his knees because his knees were bruised.
- Come on, for God´s sake.
- I think Michael would appreciate a break.
Yeah? Yes.
Yes, fine.
Superintendent Tennison is leaving the room.
All right, Michael.
OK? Good.
Incident Room.
Yes.
Yeah, so? It´s not human? What is it, extra-terrestrial? What type of dog? Happy? Yeah.
I´d just like to talk about you, Michael.
If that´s all right with your legal representative.
You´re all alone in the worid really, aren´t you? Your mum´s living in Germany with a soldier.
No brothers or sisters.
Your dad died in a car crash when you were six years old.
Hm.
That must´ve been tough.
Just a little boy and suddenly your dad doesn´t come home.
No brothers or sisters.
The only person you´ve got in the worid is Janice really.
And I don´t think you´ve got her any more.
Her heart´s broken, you know, Michael.
She really loved her little brother.
I think you did, too.
Well, he was such a sweet boy, Camy.
He was so inocent.
And you know what´s destroying her, Michael, is how he died.
His head being shot open.
She´ll know who did it, you know.
She´ll see it written on your face, as clearly as we can.
DI Devaney is restraining Michael Johns, who´s attempted to knock himself unconscious.
- I didn´t want to do it, man! - But you had to, didn´t you? He made me.
- He made you kill Campbell? - I had no choice! - Who? Who made you kill Campbell? - He said I had no choice, he was gona kill me.
Stop, Jane! What´s going on here? Chief Superintendent I´m ordering you to end this interview now! All you have to do is tell me who made you shoot Campbell.
I said stop! The suspect has injured himself.
He´s bleeding from the head! He needs medical attention! What the bloody hell is the matter with you? Get the custody officer to fetch a doctor now! Are you completely out of your mind? - I was so close! You come barging in - Will you just shut up for a minute? He was about to give up The Street.
If he made Michael kill Campbell, then he´s the one who´s guilty of murder.
A black suspect beats himself up in police custody? - Oh, that is pathetic.
- You play the tape to a jury, see what happens.
- Who´s to say we didn´t smack him around? - His solicitor for a start.
For Christ´s sake, what is going on here? Look, just listen, Jane.
The lad was trying to knock his brains out in there.
Any evidence that comes out of him in this state has got to have "inadmissible" right the way through it.
Now, look, if he doesn´t need stitches, if the doc says he´s basically OK, we may still be in business.
We´ll fix him up with a nice plaster and a cup of tea and I will suggest to his brief that it may be in everybody´s interest to try and continue.
On the condition that Michael is happy to do so.
OK? So, why don´t you just go for a walk for ten minutes? And we´ll all calm down, and then we´ll see where we are.
Yeah? You were watching me.
Yes, I was.
Don´t.
Don´t do that! - Henry.
- Sir.
Do you want to speak to me? If it concerns the Lafferty case, you can speak to me.
Forensics called about a bit of tooth they found in the filter.
Oh, yes? It´s from a dog.
What kind of dog? We´ll say, "It´s a big bastard.
" That´s interesting, but quite how it relates to this investigation is beyond me.
But I´m sure you´re using your time wisely.
I´ll do my best to stop the wheels falling off, Jane.
But just you stay out of that interview room till I give you the word.
Yes? I got the dog unit sitting out there with the engine runing.
There´s a guy onboard who can do all the doggy dentistry.
You say go and The Street´s best friends are under arrest.
You go.
I started last night in 1977.
By about one o´clock this morning, I´d got to 1992 and I was well bored.
There was absolutely nothing in the records that shouldn´t have been there.
Then I came across a "no further action" and I thought, "You never know.
" I had a look at it.
It´s just a report, absolutely kosher.
A bit of blind-alley surveillance on a woman called Vanda Dysart.
That a name to you? The Street´s auntie.
There was a notion that she was fencing for him, but it turns out she was clean.
But index number of a car that was sitting outside her house one night, G485 GMC.
- Means nothing to me.
- Nor me.
So I checked it out.
The registered owner is one Louise Hanson.
Of this parish.
That´s her maiden name.
Her professional name You meet her at the Christmas party as Mrs DCS Ballinger.
OK.
So, two possibilities.
One, Mrs Ballinger is somehow mixed up with The Street.
And two, her husband was borrowing her car.
I keep an open mind.
Then this arrives from the Criminal Records.
Go on.
I take a look at what they´ve sent me.
It´s the charge sheet for the GBH.
The deep fat fryer, the guy´s hands.
The thing The Street never did time for.
Guess who? The investigating officer was Martin Ballinger.
Yeah? Yes.
Not enough, though, is it? To get him? Well, we´ll just have to get the man who can.
The doctor´s been and gone.
Michael´s got a bit of sticking plaster and an aspirin.
He´s OK.
DCS Ballinger talked to Pocklington and they´ve agreed to carry on.
So, ready when you are.
By the way, DCS Ballinger is sitting in.
Is that OK? Yes.
Yes, that´s fine.
How are you feeling, Michael? OK? Yeah.
Good.
Now, listen, Michael, this is very important, if at any time during this interview, you feel dizzy or ill in any way, you just say so and this interview will be suspended.
Do you understand? For the tape, please.
Yeah.
Good.
All right, so What I´d like to do, Michael, is share with you some confidential information about police affairs.
Can I trust you with this information? Yeah.
Good.
It´s about The Street.
You see, for some time now, The Street has had um a deal with a senior police officer from this station.
There´s no reason to think that you knew anything about this.
In fact, until this morning, only two people knew about this arrangement, The Street and the officer concerned.
Is this relevant? Yes, sir.
I think so, sir.
You see, what happened was, this officer arrested The Street for a particularly nasty crime some years ago.
And in the process of interviewing him, he thought to himself, hey, you know, this young man is really rather clever.
Here is a man I could use.
Are you with me? So he said to The Street, here´s the deal.
I will let you off this charge, and I will let you continue your business as usual, dealing drugs and so forth, on one condition.
That you let me know what´s going on down among the bad guys.
So I can nick them.
You see? Because the more I nick, the safer the worid will be.
And the better for my statistics.
So, a working partnership.
I´ll keep you in power, because one bad guy at the top that I can talk to is better than ten bad guys all fighting each other and injuring the inocent.
And the wonderful thing about this whole arrangement is that from a certain angle, it could be almost legal.
And then Campbell kills Nazir, and the whole thing goes pear-shaped.
The Street didn´t know what was going on.
Someone had wasted his right-hand man.
He didn´t know who.
He looks like a fool.
People think he´s losing his grip.
So as soon as he found out who had killed Nazir, he had to show who was boss.
Michael, you said you killed Campbell, but he made you do it, didn´t he? Say it for the tape, please.
Yeah.
- Louder.
- Yeah.
For the benefit of the tape, Superintendent, for the sake of any legal proceedings arising from this discovery you have made, will you please name the officer you are accusing? I made it up, sir.
To induce the suspect to confess.
Then this whole conversation is inadmissible.
Oh, yes.
Yes, it is.
But now we know who the guilty man is, don´t we? What is it, Michael? He´ll kill her! Kill who? He´ll know I´ve grassed him up.
He´ll kill her! Who, Michael? Janice! Michael, it´s all right.
It´s all right.
Don´t worry.
He can´t hurt her.
He can´t.
She´s safe.
He doesn´t know that you´ve told us.
How long does it take to get to Janice´s house? - Ten minutes.
- Have everyone there in five! Get me on my mobile! Mum! I just shot my dogs.
And do you know whose fauit that was? - Your boyfriend.
- Mum! Oh, Mum! Call Henry.
Tell him I´ll be there in three minutes.
The first person who gets to Noreen´s should call me immediately.
Mrs Lafferty? Janice? Janice? Janice! Mrs Lafferty? Are they there? Noreen´s here, but she´s out of it.
Where´s Janice? I don´t know.
- So, has he got her? - It looks like it All the doors are open There was an argument with somebody in a four-wheel drive Stick with it, Gerry.
Get what you can.
OK The Street´s not here.
- He took off in a - Four-wheel drive.
So, who have we got? Radio, Toots, and some kid.
Either arrest me or stop the hassle.
You can´t hold us here! I just want some information.
All I want to know is the whereabouts of Clive Norton.
- We don´t know where he is! - I don´t believe you.
Come on, lads, this is important! Talk to my brief.
Shut up! Shut up! Now, that´s crack.
So bust ´em all.
He´s a minor.
So you can think of the time you´re gona do and double it.
I just told your boyfriend here I don´t know where The Street is.
You think you´re protected, don´t you? You think you´re protected.
Well, you´re not.
Not any more.
That´s all over.
- You see, your boss - The Street ain´t my boss, woman.
He ain´t my boss.
Toots and me, we provide security for the top man in the town.
Street ain´t the top man no more.
If you´d have come ten minutes later, we´d have been outta here.
Does he know this? He´s finished, man.
- Yeah, but does he know he´s finished? - He´s finished up here.
He´s got Janice Lafferty and it is very probable that he´s going to kill her.
So where´s he taken her? We know about the pool, so he hasn´t taken her there.
It is very much to your advantage to tell me.
You, what´s your name? Willem.
There´s no use trying to look invisible, Willem.
Cos I can see you and you´re in this up to your neck.
Oh, yes.
If The Street kills Janice, because I couldn´t get to her, and you could´ve helped me do that, that makes you an accessory to murder.
That´s murder, Willem.
Not nicking cars, not stealing drugs.
It´s a whole different ball game.
Get him out of here.
I said get him out of here! Out! Go on, out, you! All right, Officer.
Now, can you tell me where The Street´s gone? No.
There´s this big place, like, full of junk.
Where? I duno.
He drove me there.
Well, if I drive, will you be able to show me? You reckon? I don´t know.
Do this.
Try not to cry, Janice.
If you cry, your nose will get blocked up, you won´t be able to breathe, and then you´ll suffocate.
Don´t flatter yourself.
Turn round! Michael loves you, doesn´t he? He´s that possessive of you, he´s that jealous, he could kill the air for touching you.
You see a woman is just a woman, Janice.
But a gun a lovely gun is a blast.
Last time this piece was used? Let me see now.
Oh, must´ve been when Michael popped your little brother.
That was it.
Let´s call it a day, shall we? Well? I´m just going to keep going until you tell me otherwise, OK? OK.
So, when did you go to this place with The Street? Night before last.
Why? What were you doing there? Stuff.
Anything? Recognise anything? I remember that.
OK.
Which way, left or right? Left or right, Willem? Which way? I don´t know.
Take your shoes off.
Do you know where you are? You´re at the top of a very very tall building.
Can´t you feel that lovely breeze? Feel that with your toes.
Can you feel it? I had a good thing, Janice.
I had a real good thing.
And you know, don´t you? This has to happen.
It´s nothing personal.
It´s just a matter of self-respect.
Off you go, then.
You know it makes sense.
See? That wasn´t too bad, was it? Henry? Henry, where´s Tennison? She took off.
Hasn´t she called in? No, no, no, she hasn´t.
What, do you recognise something? Willem! Willem! Clare? Clare, can you hear me? Gerry? Gerry, can you hear me? Clare.
- Boss - Yeah.
I´m in Clare? Boss? Boss, can you hear me? Boss, it´s Clare.
Yes.
Clare Clare! Am I getting through to you? Yeah.
Hi.
Where are you? Can you get this line any clearer? I can´t hear you.
You´re breaking up.
Christ Almighty! Henry, yeah, I´ve lost her.
Where is she? Quickly.
It´s standard operational procedure for officers in pursuit to give a runing comentary When we find the superintendent, tell her.
Come on, she´s in a black spot! There are three black spots within the central area.
Where? Precisely.
Gerry! Armley Heath.
Move! Hello, Tony.
Jesus, Gerry! Janice! It´s Superintendent Tennison.
We´re gona get you out of there in just one minute.
He´s not gona hurt you any more.
My back-up will be here in a minute.
What? He´s behind you.
You know, all of a sudden, Jane, I find you very boring.
Poisoning my pleasure.
Scaring off my friends.
You know, I´ll probably have to shoot both of you now and that will be your fauit.
An excellent day´s police work.
- We can do a deal.
- I don´t think so.
Yes.
I mean it.
No, you don´t.
You see, Marty told me.
You want to nick the bad guys.
Full stop.
All in all, Jane, I don´t think you´re in a position to do business with me.
My back-up´s outside.
Yeah, yeah.
They´ll be here in just one minute.
A lot can happen in a minute.
Hello, Clive.
Hello, Marty.
Left now, Gerry.
Here! Are you´ve come to let him off the hook again, have you, Martin? What´s going on here, Clive? She came looking for Janice.
You see, Marty, at this stage in the game, we both have to bring something a little bit special to the table.
I brought her.
What did you bring? Myself.
Well, Marty.
I´m a little bit pissed off with you.
I do not like being rung up and told, "It is over.
" It is not over, OK? You do not tell me anything is over.
I mean, excuse me.
Which of us is in charge of this situation? What is the matter with you? Everything works except when she´s around.
She´s the problem! We rule, Marty! And we´re letting her piss all over us! We had an agreement.
- We still do.
- No, you don´t.
No, Clive, you´re finished.
Listen to me.
The best thing you could do for your health is just just put down that gun and come with me.
We speak the same language, Marty.
Think.
Without you and me, it´d be chaos.
All we have to do is remove that.
- Meaning what? - Meaning let´s waste the bitch.
Everything´s sweet except for her.
We take her out.
It´s just like it used to be.
Peaches and cream.
He´s making you his accomplice, isn´t he? Is this what you meant by "containing crime"? Is this what you bought into? I don´t think I can take a whole lot more of you! You see, he needs you to tell him to shoot me.
He needs to think he´s got that kind of power over a cop.
Say the word, Marty.
Just say the word! So, what are you gona say, Martin? Oh, for Christ´s bloody sake! Will you just say something? Nothing.
He does nothing.
It´s people like thee and me, Jane.
We´re the ones who get things done around here.
Janice.
You´re gona be all right.
You´re gona get to the hospital, get a nice hot bath, and go to bed.
Forget all about this.
Promise me? OK.
Take her to hospital.
Give me the keys to your car, would you? Thanks.
You bastard! I just saved your life or did you fail to notice that? But you thought twice about it, didn´t you? I am a police officer, Jane.
There is no way I would´ve let him kill another police officer.
Except if you got there too late, you might have let him get away with it.
My God! You compromise and you deal, and you bargain until there´s no law, there is no order, there is no justice.
There´s just some kind of messed-up secret society that you think you can control! Maybe, but we get resuits and Clive gave us some great resuits.
He was a psychopathic murderer.
Yes.
And he gave us some top-quality information.
There is no point in asking a school teacher to report about crime.
It´s a dirty old worid, Jane, but I´m afraid it´s the real one.
And in the real worid you don´t get caught, do you, Martin? No, I don´t.
Well, I think that´s a shame.