Silent Witness (1996) s29e05 Episode Script

RADIO: Delays on the M5 northbound
at M6 Junction 8
all the way through to Junction 10.
Now on to the trains. There are no
services from Cheltenham Spa
towards Birmingham New Street
due to a freight train
derailment at Bromsgrove.
There's due service on
HORN TOOTS
HORN TOOTS
TYRES SCREECH
HORN TOOTS
HORNS TOO
Shit.
ENGINE REVS
TYRES SCREECH
Come on!
TYRES SCREECH
HORN TOOTS
TYRES SCREECH
HE BREATHES QUICKLY
No, no, no, no.
TYRES SCREECH
Come on, come on.
JACKHAMMER DRILLING
Move, move!
HE BREATHES DEEPLY
HE SIGHS
PHONE LINE RINGS
- Emergency services.
- Police, please.
- Is it an emergency?
- My car's been stolen.
Is the crime in process?
Is it being stolen now?
No, no. I don't know when it was stolen.
Yesterday. Maybe sometime last week.
You can report the crime by calling
101 or by visiting our website.
I'm reporting it now.
Yeah, as advised, please call 101
or visit the website.
Goodbye.
CALL DISCONNECTS
DOOR ENTRY BEEPS DOOR CLICKS
- Good morning.
- Morning, Julia.
Morning, Nikki.
- Hi, Philippa.
- Morning, Nikki.
- There you go.
- I could do with one of those.
- Have a good day.
- Thanks.
DOOR ENTRY BEEPS
Morning. You're the early bird.
Catching worms!
Where's Jack?
Making friends.
MUSIC BLASTS OVER SPEAKERS
Big man. Spot you?
Yeah. Do you mind?
- You're new here?
- Yeah.
You know, this is a good gym, a real one,
not like those foufou gyms, huh?
It's not a foufou gym? Damn.
How'd I get that so wrong?
HE LAUGHS
Come on. Breathe. Three more.
Come on.
One more. One more. You have it.
Push, push, push! Push, push.
Oh! You smashed it, man.
- Thanks.
- No worries.
I'm Jack.
Zolly. Welcome.
- Zolly. Nice to meet you.
- Nice meeting you, man.
- You box?
- Yeah.
I saw you before on the bag. Bap-bap-bap.
Ai, ai, ai!
You know, I'm going to
introduce you to the guys.
OK. Cool.
One more set. Come on.
I'll do the next one.
What exactly is a foufou gym?
I don't know. One of those
with the air freshener.
OK.
Some of the boys.
Gary. Chris. Steve.
- All right?
- We lift, we spar together.
Steve is a bit shit at it.
We let him tag along.
- Hey, hey.
- Too fast for you, mate.
Hey, hey. In your dreams, huh?
Nice to meet yous.
- Good to know you. Yeah.
- Cheers.
We're known to down a tot or three.
What, you buying tonight, Chris, or what?
- No.
- Tight bastard.
He never buys. Exactly, mate.
Er, give me your details,
I'll put you on the group chat.
Oh, yeah. All right. Thanks.
I'm terrible with names.
Oh, that's a lovely picture. Say cheese.
- Smile.
- CAMERA CLICKS
Thank you.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
Good morning. Bowman Centre.
I'm lost.
How can you be lost?
- Who's lost?
- Harriet.
- How can she be lost?
- I just asked. Thank you.
I don't have time
for existential questions.
What?
She says she doesn't have time
for existential questions.
We should all make time for those.
Right. Do you know where you are?
If I knew that,
I wouldn't be lost, would I?
Er, let me just look on the map.
SHE HUMS
Oh, OK. You're not far.
Let me just figure this out.
How did you do that?
This is like the fourth time
it's happened,
so I put her on Friend Seeker.
Sounds like a dating app.
Who told you I was dating?
Kit? Kit, are you still there?
- Kit?
- Yes.
Yes, I'm still here.
Um
Right.
Taxi's dropped you on
the wrong side of the tracks.
No, literally, not a metaphor.
Same road, wrong side of the tracks.
This is what we need to do.
INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO
DISTANT SIRENS
Reports of an altercation. A man running.
There's blood.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Hello.
Did you play nicely with the other kids?
Yeah. Good bunch. Feels like a find.
Have a look at these, see what you think.
What's that? More estate agents?
You made it.
- Big garden.
- Get a big dog.
I am a big dog.
- I like cats.
- Nobody likes cats.
- I like cats.
- Don't tell me that.
Surely you two discussed this
before the wedding.
PHONE RINGS
Good morning. Bowman Centre.
Bowman Centre?
- The shiny new excellent one?
- Yep. That's us.
Bold to put "excellence" in the name.
It raises expectations, doesn't it?
Or maybe we're what it says on the tin.
Detective Inspector Kayla Baran.
- Dr Nikki Alexander.
- Jack Hodgson.
DC Jonno Magath.
Can you ask CSI
to put some stepping plates
over that blood trail
before it washes away?
Frenzied.
Unusual. Do you know who the victim is?
We think his name is Alex Nelson.
- No wallet? ID?
- Not on the body.
We don't think it's a robbery.
His photo was on social media,
along with an incitement to do him harm.
VIDEO: This man, this Alex Nelson,
is a racist pig.
This pig disrespects us,
disrespects our people,
disrespects our religion.
The pig doesn't realise that
the end of white domination,
the end of white people, is coming.
This is a reckoning.
Justice will be done.
If you see him,
you know what to do, innit?
Charming.
Yeah.
Building bridges.
Have we found
the implement used to stab him?
Operational Support Unit are
about to start a fingertip search.
Found blood on
the road about 75 metres away.
We followed the trail here to the gate.
He's initially stabbed in the road.
First one didn't kill him.
Tried to escape.
Was he stabbed in the back?
Yes. I can see at least four wounds
in the region of the trapezius,
rhomboid major,
deltoid,
latissimus dorsi.
Stabbed as he tried to get away.
- Possibly.
- Stalked like an animal.
When he collapses at the gates,
he's stabbed repeatedly in the torso.
Overcontrolled hostility.
Rage. Fear. Revenge.
Madness.
Madness.
VOICES NEARBY
RAISED VOICES NEARBY
Two?
Hmm.
RAISED VOICES NEARBY
SIRENS WAIL
RAISED VOICES
What is it?
How'd they know?
News travels fast.
ANGRY SHOUTING
CAMERA CLICKS
- Hand.
- Yeah.
JONNO: Driver abandoned
the car and fled on foot.
- KAYLA: Stolen?
- Not reported.
Drunk?
Alex Nelson IS the registered keeper.
He fled.
What was he fleeing from?
Death.
Can you read it?
Thea?
T-H-E
There's an S or an 8 on the end.
Could be an S.
Hmm.
Alex Nelson's address,
disused shop east of the Gay Village.
Alex Nelson abandoned his car
there by the Bullring.
The road was blocked - HS2 works.
Only one way anyone can Kit?
Sorry.
Only one way anyone
can get down the road.
There. There's a camera.
I'll get the feed.
Was there a report of the car
hitting the roadworks?
16:45.
Roll back ten minutes.
That's the car.
That's our suspect.
- Got the vehicle reg?
- Yeah.
All right.
Wound four: Left pectoralis major,
12cm from sternal head,
9cm from clavicular head,
5cm long.
Appears to be 14cm deep.
144cm above the left heel.
Serrated blade?
Yes.
Ready.
Wound five:
10cm from sternal head,
8cm from clavicular head,
5cm long.
Appears to be 11cm deep.
Wound 12.
Wound 15.
Wound 17.
Wound 19.
Wound 20.
Wound 22.
Wound 23.
Long head of the tricep.
Mm. Put his arm up
in a defensive gesture?
Wound 24.
SHE EXHALES
Are we certain his name is Alex Nelson?
Well, that obviously means
we aren't certain.
No fingerprint hit.
There's loads of reasons
that someone's prints
- aren't on the database.
- Yeah
- Yeah, you are right.
- Of course I'm right.
- You're the big dog.
- Yes, I am.
I did a driver's licence check.
I imagine there's a fair few
Alex Nelsons.
Yeah. None of them match his photo.
Who was it that posted his name
on social media?
Why should we trust that?
Wait, wait. Are you saying
Are you saying that we
shouldn't trust social media?
I can't find Alex Nelson.
Missing Persons?
Nothing.
You want me to have doubts
about this, don't you?
Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't mind.
Armed police!
Armed police!
Television. Can you hear it?
Yep.
Can I help you?
CAMERA CLICKS
NIKKI: There's something embedded
in the manubriosternal angle.
Small piece of metal.
Mm-hm.
The tip of the knife that was used?
The knife penetrated the right
pulmonary artery here.
Rapid exsanguination. Mm-hm.
Mm-hm.
Same make, same model, same colour.
- KAYLA: Cloned the plate?
- That's what it looks like.
- Make?
- Lexus.
There'll be hundreds
of the same model in the UK.
- You had several 999 calls?
- Yes.
Have we used them
to build the route they took
- to the crime scene?
- Not yet.
Build the route. Working back
from the crime scene,
try to pick the car up on other cameras.
Mm-hm.
It's likely to be travelling more slowly.
- See if you can identify the occupants.
- Mm-hm.
Look for distinguishing
features on the car,
scratches, dents,
er, residents' parking permit.
- Parking permit would be gold dust.
- On it.
Let's get them.
NIKKI: 37.
HARRIET: Here in the teres minor.
3cm long, 7cm deep.
37 wounds.
We think that the fatal wound
was delivered in the back
and penetrated the pulmonary artery.
HARRIET: Entry point was
in the rhomboid major here.
Alex Nelson's heart began to bleed out
as he ran trying to escape his killer.
He died of pericardial tamponade.
Murder weapon?
We're looking for a large knife.
I would expect the blade to be
5cm at the base
and 19cm or 20cm long.
Serrated blade.
The wound morphology
of six of the wounds
Thank you.
..is different,
reflecting the broken tip of the knife.
JACK: Could the
assailant have injured himself
when the knife hit bone?
Possible. Yeah.
We'll sample blood on the clothing,
see if we can pick up a second type.
The assailant is likely
to have had a significant
amount of blood on them
from the repeated stab wounds
to the torso.
Transfer would be almost
impossible to avoid.
If he got back in the car,
it's likely there's blood in it.
We're running DNA samples
taken from the body
- clothing, fingernails.
- PHONE BUZZES
May I ask a question?
VIDEO: Go on, bro,
throw it. Fucking hell.
Throw it, bro.
Fuck off home!
Yeah.
We need to make an arrest.
Things are getting too hot.
We have to go.
HARRIET: Er, you had a question.
KIT: Have you found
Alex Nelson's next of kin?
No.
His picture's all over social media.
People are reacting to his death.
Has anyone come forward that knows him?
JACK: Isn't that unusual?
No-one's come forward?
No friends, no family?
The man was viciously murdered
and no-one has contacted you?
Is it possible Alex Nelson
is not his name?
Of course it's possible.
If it's not Alex Nelson, do what you do.
Find out who it is.
Oh
Is that what we're meant to do?
I didn't realise!
If you need anything, you see
a chink of light, you call me.
- Yeah?
- Mm, yeah.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
ESTATE AGENT:
105,000 people live in Edgbaston.
50.6% female.
65% over the age of 45 years old
and 30% born overseas.
That's a lot of numbers.
I was told you were scientists.
I thought you liked numbers.
Oh, I think we were more like
..I don't know
..what's it feel like, the community?
Oh, right. The community.
This is a lovely area.
Universities, cricket
- Do you like cricket?
- Not particularly.
I thought you loved cricket.
- I'm negotiating.
- Oh, is that what it is?
Love's a bit strong,
but it does help me sleep.
DOOR OPENS
What's the garden like?
- Big.
- Big?
You have numbers?
Lucinda Conway, please.
Digital Operations.
Hiya, Lucinda, it's Kit.
Long time, no speak.
Kit Brooks?
It's great to speak to you too.
I need some help.
I want to trace a social media post.
A murder investigation.
Ah, I know. I know how hard it is.
Big tech's got us by the throat.
As soon as possible, really.
I can't thank you enough. Cheers.
Hey! Nice surprise.
What are you doing here?
Missing you.
- Good day?
- Ah, not too bad.
Little monsters are full-on,
but I survived.
You?
Er Bad and good.
You heard about the stabbing victim
they found this morning?
Oh, the racist white guy.
That was you?
- You found him?
- Mm.
I'm sorry.
Social media is so dangerous.
Sounds like he had it coming.
You can't say that.
OK, I won't say it, but
..I can think it, yeah?
There's an ugly vibration
in the air. You can feel it.
Maybe it's hormones.
You said bad then good.
So what's the good?
BOTH LAUGH
What? Er
- No.
- Oh
No, no. Absolutely not.
No!
No! Stop! People are looking.
Oh, let them look!
- Are you happy?
- I love you so much.
Detective Constable Magath,
it's Kit from the Bowman Centre,
tracking the movement of the car.
Yeah, yeah, I'm still here.
Grafting!
Rust never sleeps!
I need a bit more information from you.
Location of the last report you received.
I want to see if we've picked
it up on other CCTV cameras.
Yeah?
I expect I'll be here a while, yeah.
So
..I'm cutting the Sunday roast
and the mother-in-law,
she starts she starts
clutching her pearls.
She's clutching her chest. She's in pain.
The missus says, "Phone the GP."
- The GP?
- Yeah.
- Hopeless, mate.
- So I can't get through, right
so I've got to take her to A&E.
A&E? Bloody hell.
What, did they treat you
in a care corridor?
ZOLLY: How long you had to wait?
No, it wasn't like that. We got
a great doctor straight away.
They weren't 12 years old.
And she just said to me, she said,
"She's just full of wind, mate."
I'm like, "I could've
I could've told you that."
See, that's the problem.
Can't get a GP appointment.
There's no places in any of the schools,
and they're taking up all the flats.
Not on, mate.
Piss-take, mate. Birmingham's skint.
Why are we paying for this shit?
HE GRUNTS
What happened to the roast?
- A fucking triumph, mate.
- Well, that's a positive.
Yeah, well, silver linings, innit?
I mean, there's nothing wrong with
wanting illegal migrants out.
- They're illegal.
- In't they?
I mean, you don't agree with people
breaking the law, do you, Jack?
You're law enforcement.
- No, I don't agree with that.
- No.
Two tier.
It's all wrong. It's all on its head.
You know, it's not about the colour.
It's about them.
Yeah, I don't like them Polish people.
Or the Russians. Bloody Russians.
Yeah. Nobody likes a Russian, huh?
And the Greeks?
What are you talking about?
Duke of Edinburgh was Greek, weren't he?
Yeah. That makes the King
half Greek, innit?
This country is run by
fake people in north London
with soft donnies.
Did you hear about that
white guy who got stabbed?
What's that all about?
You got that guy online
goading people to do him
- just because he's white?
- Yeah.
Yeah. What, we're supposed to just wait
until it happens to us? Be victims?
While we lose our country?
And if you say anything -
naughty boy, you're the racist.
Yeah. All wrong, boys, All wrong.
GRUNTING
JACK: I just let them talk.
Didn't say anything.
Was I afraid?
Embarrassed?
Or did I agree with them?
Maybe you didn't want to pick a fight.
Maybe it was as simple as that.
I normally like picking fights.
You normally like picking the good fight.
Wasn't this the good fight?
I just didn't want them
to think I had soft donnies.
- Donnies?
- Hands.
You do have soft hands.
Normally, I'd take that as an invitation,
but I'm having a moment of introspection.
OK, well, let me know when you're done.
Mm-hm.
Don't leave it too late.
OK.
BOTH LAUGH
SHE EXHALES EXCITEDLY
SHE LAUGHS
SHE HUMS
Crazy In Love. Beyonce.
What you're dancing to.
I am dancing to the beat
of my own forensic genius.
- Don't know it.
- Could you hum a few bars?
HE LAUGHS
Ha-ha-ha
I'm here all week.
Security let me in.
Brought you a pizza.
Knew you'd be working late.
- Pepperoni.
- I don't eat meat.
Oh, well, guess I'll just take them off.
Is it gluten free? I'm gluten free.
- HE SIGHS
- I'm winding you up.
Bring that bad boy over here.
SHE LAUGHS
Thank you.
What have you found?
I have narrowed it to four possible
registered keepers for the car.
How did you do that? There's going to
be hundreds that match the description.
- Cos I'm a genius.
- OK.
Cos it wasn't a Lexus. It was a Toyota.
What?
Didn't have a good image
of the bonnet and badge.
We relied on the number plate.
I grabbed this from
one of the other cameras.
A Toyota Crown is virtually
identical to the Lexus LS.
Same company.
You might even think it's the same car
with a different badge.
The grille is slightly
different, and the badge.
They cloned the number plate
of the wrong make.
Looked the same. Was not the same.
Four possibles?
Mm-hm.
Pizza's really good.
- You're a genius.
- I know.
I made a mistake. Sorry.
Um, I misread.
Pizza's really good, though. Thanks.
Yeah. Not too bad. It's, um
- ..it's local.
- Hmm.
I, um
I'd better go.
Well done.
Thanks.
SHE EXHALES
Jack. Chink of light. Four possibles.
Are you all right?
You sound out of breath.
- Bowman Centre?
- Yes.
You go a different way than I'm used to.
HE LAUGHS
Thank you.
TAXI PULLS AWAY
PHONE RINGS
Morning. Bowman Centre.
Do you know there's also
a Boman Business Centre?
Ah.
KIT: I've got distinctive
identifying features.
An old pay-and-display parking ticket
wedged between the dashboard
and the windscreen.
- Hi.
- JONNO: Hi.
SHE CHUCKLES
Broken offside rear light.
Jack? Look at this.
VIDEO: We must combat Islamophobia
wherever we find it.
Confront it and eradicate it.
Eradicate it wherever it lives.
JACK: - He looks intense.
- That's his car.
- Who is he?
Campaigner and community activist.
DOOR SQUEAKS
Armed police! Open the door!
- Hamza Ahmed?
- Yeah.
May we speak with you?
Well, that's not really
a question, is it?
- Why don't we talk inside?
- No, that's not going to happen.
If I let you in, I'm giving you
consent to search my flat.
If you want to speak,
we can speak out here.
Or you can arrest me
without any probable cause
and see what happens.
Are you the registered keeper
of this car?
Yeah. This is about my car?
Yes.
- It was involved in an incident.
- Was it?
Must have been quite a big one.
It was quite serious, yeah.
My car was stolen.
Was it? When was it stolen?
I don't know exactly.
I used it Tuesday of last week.
- Did you make a report?
- Yeah.
- When?
- Yesterday morning.
Why do you think it was stolen?
I went out, hoping to help deliver food
and welcome refugees to our city,
and it wasn't there, wasn't on
the street where I parked it.
Which one of you is in charge?
She your boss?
HE SCOFFS
That must be quite difficult.
Why? Cos she's a woman?
Because she's Iraqi.
You're Iraqi? Yes?
I'm British.
My family are from Kurdistan.
See if you can find his crime report.
I dialled 999. They told me
it wasn't an emergency.
Obviously, it was.
HE SIGHS
Who do I complain to?
If it was stolen,
why is it parked on the street
in front of the estate?
That's impossible.
Did you make a report?
Course I did. 101. It wasn't there.
See if you can find that report.
It was st-
What's this about?
We're investigating a murder.
What, you think I had
something to do with it?
Did you?
Mr Ahmed?
The right answer to a fool is silence.
Mr Ahmed, it would help us
if we can take a DNA sample
from you, search your flat and your car.
And what if I don't agree?
JACK WHISPERS
We believe we have
reasonable grounds to suspect
that you've committed
an arrestable offence.
Oh, you mean he believes it?
You can tell the Islamophobic policeman
that I haven't done anything.
Then there's nothing to worry about.
You don't know anything, do you?
I never stop worrying.
Neither should you.
Please, be my guest.
OFFICERS: Clear!
- Clear!
- Bedroom clear!
- Front room clear!
- Clear!
JACK: Start searching the
front and the back of the building.
We need his car keys. Mm.
Kit, make a start in the car?
CAMERA CLICKS
LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS
I've found blood!
I'll tell the DI.
You didn't misread.
SHE CHUCKLES
Good?
Hmm.
Have them seal it.
Thank you.
JONNO: Jack! Over here.
KAYLA: Hamza Ahmed, I'm arresting
you on suspicion of murder.
HAMZA SCOFFS: Murder?!
You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence
I didn't do anything!
..if you do not mention when questioned
something which
you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say
may be given in evidence.
HE SCOFFS
Looks like it was wiped.
Could it be the murder weapon?
It could have caused the injuries, yes.
Length and width both possible.
Tip of the knife's been broken.
Match.
VIDEO:
The end of white people is coming.
This is a reckoning.
Justice will be done.
If you see him,
you know what to do, innit?
We must combat Islamophobia
wherever we find it.
Confront it and eradicate it.
Eradicate it wherever it lives.
It's the same person.
Well done.
Jonno? It's him.
Vocal patterns of the two clips match.
Same brand.
DNA will put him at the scene.
VIDEO: This man, this
Alex Nelson, is a racist pig.
This pig disrespects us,
disrespects our people,
disrespects our religion.
The pig doesn't realise that the end
of white domination,
the end of white people, is coming.
This is a reckoning.
Justice will be done.
If you see him, you know
what to do, innit?
That's That's not me. I
I didn't I didn't say that.
I didn't say these things.
Have you got anything on tonight?
Well, I thought I might light
the candle in my window
and wait for my lover to come.
KIT LAUGHS
Does that work for everyone?
- PHONE ALER
- I hope so.
You must rape their women,
invade their homes and make them yours.
It's your sacred duty.
My God
It's from Alhaqiqat Almuharib,
Truth Soldier.
PHONE BUZZES
You must rape their women,
invade their homes and make them yours.
It's your sacred duty.
- Did you see it?
- Yeah, I saw it.
How can someone think this?
How can they say it?
Careful. You're in danger of
not respecting other cultures.
It's not a culture. It's one
man's attitude towards women.
It's more than one man's attitude.
You can't take that misogynistic insanity
and call it a culture.
I can believe in cultural plurality
and be tolerant of
others' cultures and beliefs
without tolerating rape.
Yeah.
When you hear people
shout "death to the infidel",
cultural plurality
doesn't spring to mind.
It's a cry of terrorism.
Maybe sometimes it's OK
not to be tolerant.
What Hamza said in that video,
I won't tolerate it.
I won't either.
But it's one person.
Hmm
What if it's more than one person?
Our belief in fairness,
equality, justice,
those things should be
celebrated, protected.
I think they're progress.
Yes, progress.
But ask yourself this:
Would extremists tolerate you?
BELL
And time.
- You ready?
- Aye, all set.
I've been thinking about
the future of this country, yeah?
- Go again.
- And I'm scared.
All this migration
tell you what,
they're trying to replace us.
Do you know the birth rate's
less than two in this country?
And THEY keep having baby after baby.
- Steady, now, Gary.
- Steady? Ha!
What the fuck's that
supposed to mean? Steady?
Babies that they can't afford,
and we're the ones
that have got to pay for 'em.
JACK CHUCKLES
What? What you shaking your head for?
No-one seems to be doing shit about it.
- We're losing who we are.
- You serious?
Tell you what,
and they try to breed our women.
- What year am I living in?
- The whole world, yeah,
it got so woke that we didn't
even see it happening.
- Yeah.
- They're laughing at us.
I tell you what, that's how
they're going to replace us.
You're talking shit, mate.
What, you think it's shit?
- Oh!
- Hey.
- Yes.
- Oi.
- He thinks it's shit.
- Are you going to wear that?
- Come on, mate.
- Malaka.
Go on.
OTHERS EXCLAIM
Come on now, up, Gaz. One.
- Come on, get up.
- Two.
- Come on.
- Three.
Up you get.
Whoa, whoa. Jack!
Hey, hey!
Out you come. Out you come.
DOOR CLANGS
I'm innocent! I'm innocent!
- Come on.
- I'm innocent!
I'm innocent! I'm innocent!
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