Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (2025) s01e01 Episode Script

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[reporter] Details are still very sketchy,
but there does seem to have been
some sort of security incident
that has affected large parts of the tube.
[man 1] when there was a loud bang
and everything went dark.
[man 2] I've seen people
distressed by
[woman] We need to get ambulances
to Edgware Road tube station now!
[reporter] Some people
are saying the train
has just broken down in the tunnel.
There's people coming out covered in blood
and all the smoke and dust
[safety officer] How much further?
[Todd] Maybe half a mile.
The train was between the two stations
when the bomb went off.
[safety officer] Maybe we should
wait a bit.
For the heat and the dust to die down.
[Todd] No, I've got to get to that train.
- [rail screeching in distance]
- Can you hear that?
I thought you said the power was off?
Is this track live?
[safety officer]
Must be running under its own power.
Quick, in here.
[Todd] I haven't got time for this.
Everybody's waiting for answers up there.
[news report]
There are reports that officers
have entered tube tunnels
to help passengers to safety.
He said he was on his way to work,
entered the station,
and then there was a massive explosion.
Passengers resorted to breaking windows
to escape from the train and get back
the key piece of information
this morning is that the police and the
[Fedorico] We're gonna have to put out
some sort of statement.
- [Ian] Agreed.
- The Home Office were very specific, sir.
They asked you not to speak to the media
until the picture becomes clearer.
How much clearer do they want?
Six explosions. Dead and wounded.
The transport system paralyzed.
I should be putting myself out there,
taking control of things.
[newsreader] has been ripped apart
by a violent explosion in Tavistock Square
in central London.
[reporter] I managed to speak to a woman
who recorded footage on her mobile phone
of the bus exploding.
- Ian, I would urge caution.
- I completely bloody disagree.
You do know we're not sure about six yet?
it is one of utter devastation.
Let me handle the media. Just for now.
Keep you out of the firing line.
- You know I have the experience?
- I'm sure you have, Brian,
but this is the most significant attack
on the capital since the second world war,
and I'm doing it.
Well, he's putting himself personally
in the firing line when information
about what's happening is still sketchy?
Yeah, if he gets some detail wrong,
it won't be the Met making a cock up.
It'll be him.
What did he say to you?
Well, he just brushed me aside, Alf,
like an annoying insect.
He likes to be at the centre of things.
[Paddick] He should at least wait until
we hear back from the guys underground.
[safety officer]
It's just around the bend.
[Todd] Listen to me.
You don't have to come in here.
[safety officer] Nah, I will. It's okay.
[Todd] Okay, entering the train.
Clearly, there's been
a very powerful explosion.
Obvious and significant loss of life.
Personal effects in the tray please, sir.
But our initial analysis is that
there appears to be no intelligence
which might have predicted today's events.
[Clarke] Thank you.
Andy, what can you tell us?
Well, as yet, no organization
has claimed responsibility,
and I'm afraid there's still
a lot of confusion.
[Clarke] What are we talking about?
Suicide bombers? Remote devices?
[Hayman] We don't know yet.
We have teams at the trains,
but the conditions underground
are so difficult
that we can't even be 100% certain
how many fatalities there are.
- Why not, can I ask?
- The heat was extreme.
It's over 40 degrees down there,
that's causing all sorts of issues.
And at any given scene,
the nature of the explosions
in such a confined space
means that we're dealing
with, quite literally,
thousands of body parts
and pieces of body tissue.
I see.
Do we have any idea
how many explosions there have been?
- Confirmed? Four.
- I'm sorry, Home Secretary,
but I don't think
that's an accurate picture.
Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross,
and the bus at Tavistock Square.
- I've had information about six scenes.
- No, I think there are only four.
This is exactly why we need clarity.
- [whispers] Home Secretary.
- What?
Scotland Yard are holding
a press conference.
I can tell you that these incidents
- I thought he'd been told not to do this!
- are extremely serious
and there will be significant
loss of life,
but above all, my message to you
is to stay calm.
Stay where you are for the time being
and do not attempt to use tube network.
[female reporter]
How many bombs have gone off?
Well, this is clearly
a coordinated terrorist attack.
But we think there are
about six explosions so far
but it's still a very confusing scene
and the most important point
is that we will gradually,
but as quickly as we can,
assume complete order over the process.
Well, not even your own boss
agrees with you.
Whether it's four, six, seven, eight,
bloody ten,
the point is, are these fuckers
still out there?
[Todd] The bomb appears to have been
detonated at low level.
Most of the injuries seem to be
from the waist down.
Christ.
I'm now at the seat of the blast.
[shudders]
[grunts]
Oh, God.
Cliff. Cliff, what do we know?
I'd say, erm
several kilograms of high explosive
detonated at, or just above, floor level.
The centre of the blast
located in carriage one,
second set of doors from the front.
Yeah?
Most of the dead had severe trauma
and amputations to their lower limbs
and trunk except for one.
When I turned him over,
he alone had trauma to the head.
In fact he almost had no face left.
So meaning what?
Meaning he was almost certainly
crouching down next to the bomb
when it exploded.
Probably because he'd triggered it.
My guess is this is the work
of a suicide bomber.
Yeah, all the usual caveats.
More time needed for analysis,
further gathering of residue samples
etcetera, etcetera.
But the initial forensic assessment
of the scenes seems pretty conclusive.
I think all of them died with their bombs.
Good news, Andy. Good news.
What a bloody relief.
Let's put that out there
and calm things down.
[reporter over TV]
bringing stretchers and trolleys
I just saw that girl
across the landing again.
She smiled at me.
[Ibrahim] You better not smile back.
[Omar] No.
[reporter] It's an area
of the capitals transport zone one.
This was the place and the time
of maximum, bloodiest impact.
One point two million use buses.
And this morning
This is mad.
Roof ripped off, seats hurled
into the road or missing.
[phone ringing]
Come on, we're behind.
the sheer numbers of casualties
at University College Hospital.
This is very that have been
affected mainly
King's Cross and also
Tavistock Square and Russell
Why did they do the bus Muktar?
I don't know.
But the bombs on the trains
were all underground.
Nobody could see what really happened.
The bomb on the bus, you can't hide it.
[Ibrahim] Maybe we should do the same.
This stuff stinks.
[Tony Blair on TV] This is a statement
on behalf of the G8 leaders,
but also the leaders of the five countries
that have joined us at this summit.
It's reasonably clear that there have been
a series of terrorist attacks
in London.
There are obviously
casualties.
Both people that have died
and people seriously injured.
And our thoughts and prayers of course
are with the victims and their families.
It's also reasonably clear
that it is designed and aimed
to coincide with the opening of the G8.
It's important, however,
that those engaged in terrorism realize
that our determination
to defend our values and our way of life
is greater
than their determination to cause
death and destruction to innocent people
in a desire to impose extremism
on the world.
Whatever they do, it is our determination
that they will never succeed
in destroying what we hold dear
in this country.
Today's bombings
will not weaken in any way
our resolve to uphold the most
deeply held principles of our societies.
We shall prevail
and they shall not.
[speaking Portuguese]
Yeah.
[Hayman in English] MI5 had intelligence
on Mohammad Sidique Khan
who we think detonated the device
at Edgware Road tube station.
- What kind of intelligence?
- His name cropped up
during an investigation
into an al-Qaeda plan
to detonate a fertilizer truck bomb
at Bluewater Shopping Centre last year.
- [Ian Blair] Operation?
- Crevice.
That's it.
[Ian] They arrested everybody
before they could do anything.
Well, apart from Mohammad Sidique Khan,
it seems.
He was tracked traveling several times
to Pakistan.
[Hayman] So clearly,
we can't question him now,
but it's believed on these visits,
he attended al-Qaeda training camps.
So do we know if any other UK nationals
attended these camps?
No, we don't.
Yet.
My sister asked what happened to my hair.
Has anyone else noticed their hair
changing colour 'cause of the peroxide?
I said I had started going swimming
and it must be the chlorine.
Okay, you feed these through your clothes
into your pockets.
All you have to do when the time comes
is touch the two wires together.
Let's see now if this works.
Is that the stuff we made
with the acetone?
[Ibrahim] Yeah.
They told us to use this
for the detonator.
On the day, we use more of it.
Okay.
We put this in our backpacks
with the main explosives,
like the brothers
who did the bombs yesterday.
And then
[gasping]
[speaking in Arabic]
[in English] It works.
It works. It works.
Calm down. Calm down.
Calm down. Shh!
- [whistle blows]
- [players clamouring]
- [player speaks indistinctly]
- [whistle blows]
Are you scared?
I've resigned myself.
This is the only thing
they take notice of Smiler.
It's our duty as good Muslims.
Devote all ability and efforts,
fight the infidels, and defend ourselves.
[Mohammed] We call it jihad.
They call it foreign policy.
Have faith, brother.
Come. Let's go.
[reporter] Transport for London
have reported
that the London Underground
is now largely up and running again
after days of disruption
following the terrorist explosions
which ripped through the capital
just three days ago.
[woman over speaker] This is Brixton.
This is a Victoria Line train
to Walthamstow Central.
Please stand clear of the closing doors.
If you see something
that doesn't look right,
speak to a member of staff.
What are you doing?
[Hanif Mohammed]
The community are afraid.
We're already experiencing
reprisal attacks,
violence, and intimidation.
Muslim school children are being spat at.
By adults, Mr. Paddick.
[Mousa Hamza] It is only a matter of time
before these attacks escalate
into physical assaults on worshippers,
firebombing of mosques
I understand your concern,
and you have our upmost sympathies.
But from the Commissioner down
we have been very careful
to make it clear
that we are hunting criminals,
- and not Muslims.
- That's not enough.
Every time the media
mentions Islam or Muslims
in the context of these tragedies,
the threat to our community increases.
I'm repeatedly being asked,
"What are the police going to do?"
We're gonna carry on doing
exactly what we are doing,
and that is attempting to identify
the suicide bombers
and the people that have assisted them.
[news reader] There have been
some key developments
in the hunt for the 7th of July bombers.
An operation began in the Leeds area
early this morning.
- Armed police!
- Armed police!
- Clear!
- Clear!
Clear!
Room clear!
All clear!
[officer over radio] 19 seconds.
Everybody out.
Let's get the explosive team
in here pronto!
- Is he in?
- Yes, go in.
So what were the bombs made of?
We don't know.
But I thought the place
was full of the stuff they were using?
It was. But the bomb disposal team,
they've ruled it too dangerous for us
to get in there,
analyse what it is
until they've made it safe.
[Ian] Well,
how long's that going to take?
I'm not sure yet, but whatever it is,
the explosives people,
they've never seen anything
like it before.
So, we don't know if we're dealing
with chemical agents or something worse.
Daddy Daddy has the ball.
Referee! Do you really want the ball?
Say please.
- Please!
- Please!
Okay, you can play.
At home, my CDs, the articles,
19 Martyrs video,
you must dispose of everything.
I don't want you being linked
with this afterwards
when the police come.
You don't have to worry.
I will take care of them.
[MOD official] The issue for us at the MOD
is the gas masks
present at the Leeds flat
which suggests they were working
on some sort of chemical
or biological device.
And until that's ruled out
it's not safe to enter the premises.
But we need to know what explosive
they were using.
I'm sorry but that's the MOD's position.
Cliff, what do you think?
Well, in my opinion
it's long past the time
when we should have gone into that flat.
[North] Well, what about the potential
chemical or biological issues?
There were no signs
of any chemical residues
found at any of the bomb scenes
or evidence of biological weapons.
And the testing at Porton Down
on the one small sample
that was retrieved from the flat
has so far failed to identify
any chemical or biological agents.
[MOD official]
It doesn't mean there aren't any?
Doesn't mean there are, either.
And on that basis,
I'm prepared to enter the flat
and begin proper analysis
of the substance in those tubs.
When?
Today.
I'm on channel one.
Evidence of bomb making detritus.
They've been boiling down peroxide
as I guessed.
Evidence of organic matter.
Weighing scales.
This is what I'm after.
Mixture looks relatively stable in here.
But I need to test the pH.
Unstable outside.
[Hayman] We're starting to get
a clearer picture
of what happened on July the 7th.
The detonator was a home-made
high explosive in powder form,
probably ignited
by a bare electric filament.
Then the main explosive was, we think,
hydrogen peroxide used as an oxidizer,
and the fuel, ground pepper.
- Ground pepper?
- [Hayman] Well, yeah.
In this instance it was pepper.
The tricky part, I'm reliably informed,
is to boil down the peroxide
and then combine it with the pepper
in precisely the right proportion.
Almost any organic material
would have worked. Wheat,
rice, flour
Stop engaging with people!
What?
[Ibrahim] I saw you smile at her.
Come on, they're waiting.
Once the peroxide is concentrated enough,
we mix it with the flour
and put it in a plastic container.
Okay, guys, this is Ramzi's flat.
Omar don't make eye contact with anyone.
[Omar] Shut up. I don't do that.
Yeah, this is good.
We couldn't risk being disturbed
at the last place.
[Ibrahim] Okay.
is everybody clear on their stations,
I chose ones away from where you live
in case somebody might see you.
Ramzi?
- We know already.
- [Ibrahim] Just do it.
Oval station.
- [Ibrahim] Omar?
- Warren Street.
- [Ibrahim] Smiler?
- Kensington.
- And you, Hussain.
- Shepherd's Bush.
Good.
Here.
Pack these around the explosives.
Put some personal stuff in there, too.
ID cards, something like that.
Like the other martyrs.
So that afterwards,
everybody will know who did this.
[Omar] What about you?
What station are you going to?
Are you going on the bus?
I don't think that's a good idea.
I don't care what you think.
I'll do it on the bus
near the Bank of England.
They won't forget that.
[Maria speaking Portuguese over phone]
[Jean speaking]
[Maria speaking]
[Maria speaking]
Oh, sh
[reporter in English] From Luton,
the men behind the 7th of July bombings
travelled together to King's Cross station
in London.
Police have named Shehzad Tanweer
as the man responsible
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English]
bombing of the Piccadilly line train
to King's Cross station.
Mohammad Sidique Khan, aged 30,
for the attack at Edgware Road
tube station and Hasib Hussain
[Alessandro speaking Portuguese]
[Mohammed in English] First of all,
I beg Allah to accept this action from me.
And that he admits me
to the highest station in paradise.
Secondly, my family, don't cry for me,
but instead rejoice in happiness.
My children, be good Muslims
and obey your mother.
Pray your prayers and read the Qur'an.
My son, look after your little brother
and we shall meet again in paradise.
[in Arabic]
[Ian] Okay, and so now we move
to item number four.
The first item for the last two weeks
that does not involve terrorists or bombs.
I am delighted to invite your observations
on the latest set of crime figures
for London
and if, where, and how
we have been achieving our targets.
I can't remember ever being
quite so delighted to be judged.
Ah, shit. I forgot my travel card.
I have to go back and get it.
- Seriously?
- Good luck, Hussain.
[female reporter on TV] temperatures.
And in the southeast, we could have
one of the warmest days of the year.
[reporter] Sir Ian,
can we have a word please?
How do you think London
has reacted to these attacks?
I am in awe.
A little story I heard.
The driver of the bus at Tavistock Square
has insisted on going back to work
because he refuses
to let the terrorists win.
How about that?
I recently received a letter
of congratulations and support
from a Londoner who happens to live
in Buckingham Palace.
And I am delighted to report
that the Queen has said
she has nothing but pride and admiration
for the work being done
by the men and women of the Met Police.
[over radio] And my message today to
the millions of Londoners out there
is that it's business as usual.
[woman over speaker]
Change here for the Northern Line.
This is a Victoria Line train
to Walthamstow Central.
[tense music playing]
[speaking Arabic]