Waking the Dead (2000) s07e12 Episode Script
Pieta: Part 2
I volunteered to help with the excavation of mass graves in Bosnia.
I recovered good DNA from the victims and I established that they were mother and son.
What we've got here is two people dead in a grave, connected to this man by his DNA, so we're looking at a potential war criminal.
Who is this man? Are you serious? A Serb.
Are you spying on me? I took her bag off her and got chased by a couple of fugees.
What was inside it was heroin.
So the raw opium you found in the handbag, that's the source for this, synthesised? I'm between a rock and a hard place with regards to Boyd and I don't want the responsibility.
What responsibility? Luke's death.
-Luke's dead? He won't claim him.
The lab.
The police are here looking for you.
In there.
Max! Police.
You're under arrest.
Oh! OK.
I'd like you to take this and put this into your mouth.
That's it, underneath for the saliva.
Yeah, and then round to the other side.
That's it.
Thank you.
We're done.
Right, let's go.
She's a very beautiful child.
Please let her sleep.
Where is he? You said my boy was here.
I told you, he's safe.
Don't worry.
Then why isn't he here? Jasni Sir.
As you were.
You're hurt.
Oh, no, it's fine.
You OK? Yes.
And Anna? She's fine too.
Where is Pera? He's safe.
I had a message that you found him.
Yes.
I left him with Josif.
I was told to go and find her.
Sit down.
I'll get him on the radio.
What's happened? Josif! Stevan! Try and get in touch with the rest of them.
Yes, sir.
We need medical supplies.
On their way.
I need drip, I need fluids, please, Jovan.
Yeah, it's all coming.
I just heard.
I'll be fine.
Spence'll be fine.
I don't mean about Spencer.
I mean about Luke! I am so sorry.
I'm so sorry you couldn't talk to me about it.
You know you're going to have to claim the body, don't you? Well, when the time comes and when you need help .
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promise not to exclude me.
I promise.
Wait there.
Hey.
Don't let them die.
Don't worry.
I won't let these two die.
Not until I learn what they've done with my boy.
Rado.
Take some men, go look for him.
No, it is best for me to go alone, sir.
OK.
Do you want me to go with him, Jovan? He will be fine.
Oh, no.
He's stopped breathing.
Hello? She's synthesizing the raw opium in the hospital? Yeah.
I found positive traces of both opium and heroin in her lab at the hospital.
Unbelievable.
My God, she was taking a hell of a risk.
I have both hospital personnel files.
This is his, and this one is Veronica's whose actual name is Anna Vaspovic.
Vaspovic? Vaspovic.
She's a bio-chemistry intern at the hospital.
Wait, if she's Eastern European and they're both Eastern European Why are they calling her Veronica? And why is this guy risking his neck to save her? There's a lot of money involved.
I'll get onto the Home Office.
Let's not forget why we're here.
Yes.
The reason we're here is because Veronica, Anna Vaspovic, is connected to these two guys, and their blood was found on a shawl that was at this grave, and that's our cold case.
So it's the past, present and these guys are in the middle, OK.
Max Fowler.
Max Fowler.
This is your personnel file.
Max Fowler, born Liverpool 1947.
So you're a Scouser, are you, Max? Yeah? Good clean work record.
Let's see what this one says.
This is the Central Records Department.
This tells us who's born in the UK, and who dies in the UK.
It appears that you died five years ago.
What a coincidence.
You died in the hospital that you work in.
The reason you're in this room, Max, is I want you to help us find the woman you may know as Anna Vaspovic.
Listen, I have the sample.
Best ever seen.
Let's do the deal.
Look, let's do it as quick as we can, yes? You send Stevan to collect me.
OK.
We're on.
What kept you? Get in.
What? Get in! Ah! We have to get them to the hospital.
I have a Medevac helicopter on the way.
Good.
Let me see that.
No, no, it's fine.
Please, it can get infected.
Not too bad.
When the helicopter comes, I want you and Anna to go out on it.
I'm not leaving without my boy.
We'll find him.
It's important that you two go to safety.
Last crate of evidence from Anna's lab.
Great, Spence, leave it there.
Yeah, it's stuff from her locker.
Anything on the computer yet? It won't be long now.
This is interesting.
This was the Post-It block from her lab.
Here.
Stella.
Yeah.
Got a mobile number I need you to trace.
Hi.
Hello.
Can I have a mineral water, please? Still.
We don't have mineral water.
We have soft drinks, alcohol.
Anything soft.
Orange, Coke Thanks.
OK.
Hello? Hi.
Hi.
Who is this? It's me.
You don't have to clean your teeth with it.
Come on.
What is this for? It's complicated.
I'm not even going to begin to tell you.
Just give it to Eve.
So, Radovan.
Yes.
Radovan.
Yes.
That's an interesting name.
What's the rest of it? Thank you.
Sredinic.
Radovan Sredinic? Sredinic.
Radovan Sredinic.
Sredinic.
Yes.
Where's that name from? I'm Bosnian, my friend.
Ah, right.
And when did you get here? Oh, I come here .
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'97 now.
Wow, so you're a kind of super-fugee.
What? I You left an economic shit hole as a refugee and ten years later, you own a cafe in London.
I think that's pretty good going.
I work very hard.
I prosper.
You're confusing us with the American Dream.
This is the UK - you work hard here, you don't prosper.
Well, I've always been lucky me, mate, you know.
Always been a complete lying bastard as well, eh? Yes, I'm telling you the truth.
Check my papers, eh? I will.
OK.
Good.
Do you know these men? No.
No? Do you know this girl? I'm sorry.
No.
I really wanted to like you, Radovan.
Yes.
I really did, but now I know that you are just a lying piece of shit.
Come on, man.
No, because, if you'd helped me with my enquiries, you could've walked out of here, but now I'll have to put you in a cell.
I can get these people in other ways, then I'll take all of you down, and you, for withholding information.
All right, thank you.
Look, wait.
My friend, wait, please.
Sit down.
No, it's Sit down! OK, come on, man.
If If I help you, I can go, yes? Oh, you're making the terms now.
If you help me, you can go? Please.
Yes, OK.
Help me.
I see the men sometimes, yes? I see the men sometimes? You've got to give me a bit more than that, you know.
They come into my cafe.
And the girl? Yes.
Sometimes she is with them, you know, but They drink coffee, that is all.
No, no No? .
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no, no, no, no.
That's not all.
Why does she have your phone number? The other week, this lady's bag was stolen, yes, outside my cafe.
I see girl who take it, yes? I know girl who take it.
I give lady my phone number so we can stay in touch.
You know, in case, it turn up.
Yes? You're crap.
I'm not crap, man.
You are really a crap liar! I'm only lying to stay out of it.
I really want to help you, yes, but I don't need trouble in my life.
You want to help? OK, why do you give these men coffee? Why not? They're Serbs! Ah.
No, this madness is finished.
These people tried to exterminate you, but now this madness is finished? We must forgive, yes? So we can move on, as people.
Boyd, can you come into the lab, please? Yeah, in a minute.
So I can go now, yes? No, no, no, you can't go.
Not yet.
I know for a fact that you cannot keep me here like this.
Radovan.
Snedovic.
I suspect that you are connected to a deal to supply the Taliban with money in return for drugs.
That makes you a suspected terrorist.
I can keep you for 28 days.
That is the equivalent of the entire month of February.
So make yourself comfortable.
What do you want? I opened her computer.
They're not friends.
How do you know they're not friends? Because she had to write his number down on a pad.
Do you know all your friends' numbers? No.
There you go.
Witness testimonies from The Hague Tribunal, May '93 to the present day.
What's her interest in that? I don't know.
Is there anything else on the computer? I don't know yet.
So, has she lost someone? I've got information on Anna Vaspovic.
She came here from Serbia in 1996 with her father.
Oh, so she'd have been just a child.
That's right, so she's looking.
Right? What's the address for the father? And now? We wait.
Wait? The police are looking for us.
They're at her flat.
They're at the hospital.
They have the heroin.
And now they have Radovan! I am getting sick of your crying.
It's bringing bad luck on us.
Right, it's my fault! You know what I'm saying! Josif! We must get out of here! No! We do the deal, we get the money.
Then we disappear.
How long do we have to wait, then? What if they charge him with something, and keep him in there? Charge him with what? Something from the past.
Maybe there's another option.
What option? We try to make contact with his contact ourselves.
We do the deal for the heroin without him.
His contact? Abdullah Akhmadev.
Don't move.
How do you know that name? I I heard it.
Where? Erm Radovan said it.
You are a liar.
Who the hell are you? Is my daughter OK? Please, sit down, Dr Vaspovic.
Do you know these men? No.
Who are they? We believe they're former members of the Scorpion regiment and are connected to certain war crimes.
Why do you ask me? Because your daughter is involved with these men.
Now she was researching events that took place in Vinocari in July, 1995.
Do you know why? Yes.
It's all my fault, I stopped.
Stopped? Trying to find out what happened to her mother and brother.
Jasni, my wife when the war broke out, she was in Sarajevo.
The airport was bombed so she set off by car to try to get back to Belgrade.
as far as Vinocari.
She stopped there to get her mother and she called me.
You have to get out of there now.
I'm collecting mum.
We're leaving now.
Jasni? That was the last I heard of her.
She wasn't travelling alone? No.
My son, Pera, who was twelve, and Anna, who was seven at the time, were with her.
Anna was saved.
But you never found your wife and son? No.
Your wife's mother? She was killed.
An ambush on the truck she was travelling in.
I'm nearly sure that Jasni was on it at the time with Anna.
One of the women who survived said that she remembered her, but that Jasni went her own way into the woods to find Pera.
So she split up and she left the other survivors? Yes.
I tried for years to find them.
But there are so many unidentified.
One day I had to accept that I never would find them.
Why did you have to accept? It took over our lives.
It's all we talked about.
At first, I hoped they would turn up alive, then I prayed they would just turn up dead or alive so it would be over.
It was the not knowing.
I understand that.
But I suppose you can't really lay the dead to rest without a body.
Can you? No.
Talk.
Or I kill you right now.
My name is Anna Vaspovic.
Vaspovic.
I remember that name.
Vaspovic.
My mother came into contact with your unit in Vinocari.
The one Petropecic wanted us to look for.
Yeah.
You are the kid? Yeah.
Do you remember me?! I don't know.
Sometimes I think I do.
You think? In In my dreams I think I see you sometimes.
I don't get it.
What the hell are you up to? Abdullah Akhmadev What?! He killed my mother and my brother.
He killed them in Vinocari in 1995.
You were there.
You're both Scorpions, you know about him.
What the hell are you talking about? I tracked Radovan down through Immigration.
He gave a statement to The Hague.
Radovan? Yes.
He said he was captured and tortured by Akhmadev, but he's a liar.
I think he was one of his jihadi.
So you tracked down Radovan to his cafe and start hanging around? Yes.
Because you think Radovan will lead you to Akhmadev? Yes.
But he wouldn't pay any attention to me until I met you two.
And you are with me only as a way to get to Akhmadev? I didn't plan it.
I really liked you.
But when you found out I worked at the lab, you asked me! Remember?! Stupid I'm sorry.
After you find Akhmadev .
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what are you going to do? Kill him.
This is a joke.
It's not a joke.
It is.
What do you mean? I mean, there is no Akhmadev.
But he is named by witnesses who said he was hunting down Serbs in Bosnia and killing them.
Witnesses who heard of him, never saw him.
Because Akhmadev is just a codename.
A codename that became a myth.
Kill her! No.
No.
No.
No! I have a better idea.
So Anna didn't stop looking? I thought she did, but she has obviously kept trying to find them.
You said that she was saved.
Yes.
How was she saved? A friend who was there in the army.
I had contacted him to look out for them.
What was his name? Jovan Petropecic.
He was an officer then.
In the Scorpion regiment? Yes.
But a good man.
These men, you say they are former Scorpions also? Yes.
There is someone who might be able to help.
Max.
Yes, how did you know? We have him in custody.
He's living under an assumed identity.
Yes.
And he was, is, Petropecic? I helped him.
He couldn't live in Serbia.
He is wanted for desertion.
But he deserted in order to save Anna, to get her out of the war zone and bring her to me.
How did he manage to save Anna .
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and he didn't manage to save your wife and son? He told me he had found Jasni and Anna.
They were both safe in the church.
Pera was still missing.
Jasni left the church to look for him.
Petropecic believed that she was found and killed by a group of jihadi, led by a man called Abdullah Akhmadev.
And Anna knows all that? Yes.
Akhmadev was notorious, but of course, like so many others like him, he has disappeared into thin air.
Dr Vaspovic Max Fowler, a homeless man who came in DOA, no relatives.
No harm was caused to anyone by it.
It was the least I could do in return for my daughter's life.
I think he might know these men you are looking for.
Dr Vaspovic We ran tests against the DNA samples that you provided us with and they're a match.
Both? Both.
Together in the same grave.
Your wife was holding your son in her arms.
Thank you.
Thank you.
They're calling you on Radovan's phone.
Hello? Sir, it's on hold.
Boyd.
If you want the girl alive, you'll swap her for Radovan.
I'll phone you to tell you where and when to do the swap.
Do you agree? -Yeah, erm, when Hello? OK, I want you and Spencer armed, ready to go in five minutes.
Jovan Petropecic.
I have Dr Vaspovic next door.
I know he's your friend and his daughter, Anna, is being held .
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by these two men.
I don't have much time here, Jovan, I need to know, can you help me? Yes.
Yeah? Do you know who they are? Yes.
This is Stevan Steznovic, former corporal of mine, this is Josif Gorvodic, former sergeant.
In the Scorpion regiment? Yes.
Now if they don't get what they want, would they kill Anna? Definitely.
What do they want in return? Him.
You know him? Yes.
My advice to you would be to give him to them.
I can't I can't do that.
Perhaps When I was a younger man, I was intelligence officer in Soviet army.
There might be something I could do.
I'm listening.
And if you have got what you want .
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perhaps I could go back to being Max? About bloody time.
Visitor for you.
Who's he, yeah? Who are you? Argh! Oh! You understand what he's saying.
Come on, listen to him, man.
I don't know! What? Sit down.
You've got a poison in you and it'll accelerate round your body quicker if you don't take it easy.
No, you can't do this, eh? We've done it, all right? Yeah, yeah.
We can give you the antidote within the hour and you'll be all right.
Will you help us? Yes.
Look, I want to help you.
That's good, that's good.
So just take it easy then, you'll be all right, OK? If you don't take it easy, you'll die.
We're going to be at your cafe in one hour.
Your job is to keep them there.
Do you understand? Where is she? You think I bring her here? When I leave with Radovan and know I am not followed, I'll make a call and let her free.
Make sure they release her.
Just remember what you've got pumping through your veins.
Papa.
Anna! Rado! Rado, idiot, Rado! I'll cut your throat, Rado! Police! Drop the gun! Drop it now! Drop the weapon! Back up! Back up! I do your bloody job for you, man! Stupid policeman! Shut up! Come on, lady, I'm fucking dying here! Shut up! Come on Boyd.
Eh? You say you give me antidote.
On your feet.
Hey, hey, hey! Back up! Agh! HE LAUGHS Get up.
I know you play game with me, man.
Get out.
You think I am bloody stupid.
Saline solution never killed anybody.
Sit down, StevanStaznovic? Steznovic.
Steznovic.
Yes.
I want to put the drug-dealing, kidnapping, and whatever else you've been up to one side, OK? OK.
Good.
Because I'm in this room for one reason and one reason only, right, that's to close my case.
Do you understand me? Good.
Do you recognise these two people? Mr, how can anyone recognise anybody from this? This is Jasni Vaspovic and the boy in her arms is her son, Pera.
That's my case.
This is my deal, right.
You help me close my case and I'll send you back to The Hague for a fair trial if you explain what part you played in their deaths.
Or what? I'll charge you right here and now for kidnapping, manufacturing, supplying and trafficking of drugs, then, when you've done your 15 years here, I'll ship you back to the Bosnian Government.
When I enter Bosnia I am a dead man.
So what seems sensible to me is that you play fair with me, all right, Right, did you kill Jasni? No.
Did you kill her son, Pera? No.
Your blood was found on her clothing.
She saved my life.
I was shot, bleeding, she is a doctor.
Who shot you? The boy.
The boy shot you? Pera shot you? Yes.
We were in the woods looking for other ones.
And you must understand we did not want to kill them.
We just want information.
Dig faster.
You see the scum that they are? They don't even care that they are going to die.
You're going to kill them? You care? How would you like to go in the ground with them? You're crying?! In front of this scum that will cut your throat?! Josif, he's a city boy.
He's a Serb! Give him your gun.
Do it! Pera.
Shoot them.
No.
What did you say? No.
Let them go.
No, Pera.
Easy.
Give me that! Run! Run! You bastard! How could he do that?! How could he?! All this time, hehe killed my brother, and I've I've Oh.
No, don't touch me! So Stevan says that you shot the boy, Pera.
It had to be done.
He went crazy like Rambo.
And then? Then I black out.
Next thing I remember I was in a hospital a few weeks later, back in Serbia.
So who got you there, who saved your life? Not Petropecic? Not Petropecic Petropecic turns deserter, ran away.
Max? Anna, you have suppressed memories.
You know that, don't you? Well, what you need to consider is, why that is.
The mind chooses not to remember in order to protect us.
You need to think about that.
I want to remember.
Anna I don't want to be protected from the truth.
I want to stay.
OK.
OK? Yes, OK.
We're ready.
Explain to me again the details of when you last saw Jasnialive.
Well, Josif and Stevan were OK and Jasni was looking at my shoulder Radovan came to the door, let me know the boy was dead.
With a look only.
I thought she didn't see.
What have you done? It will keep you out for ten minutes only.
I have to go and find Pera.
No.
If I don't come back, please take Anna home.
Please.
Anna, Mummy's going to get Pera.
And then when I come back, we'll sit all together back home to Daddy.
Is that a good plan? Yeah? I love you.
No, what did Mummy just say? You promised.
Please.
Go sit there and wait for me.
She left me.
So you went to look for Jasni then? Oh, no, no.
It was getting busy, a lot of fighting.
I took the child and we left on a Medevac chopper.
We got to a field hospital and I deserted.
I took Anna to her father in Belgrade.
To save the child? No, to be honest.
I'd had enough.
Saving the child No.
I knew she was my ticket out of Serbia.
Vaspovic had money.
OK.
He's lying.
Max? Yeah, he's lying.
What about? He left me in the church.
So he went back into the woods to look for your mother? Yeah.
I went too.
Anna, no, no, no.
No, Anna.
Mama! Mama! No, no, no, no.
Come on.
Come on.
Sir.
Yes? You need to see this now.
Soviet military files.
OK.
So, Radovan, you lied, Radovan, about your nationality.
I lied? You told me you were Bosnian.
You are, in fact, Serbian.
So what? Well, just that I know now why you lied.
It's all here, in files from the former Yugoslavia.
I hope you enjoy.
Enjoy is the wrong word.
So, in '95 you left Serbia and travelled to Bosnia, passing yourself off as a jihadi fighter, so that you could lure these innocent Muslims into the clutches of your old war buddy here, Petropecic.
It's all in this report, what you two got up to.
You executions and you crossing the border to Serb villages, I think it's called 'blooding', isn't it? Upping the game? The game? What is in here, is the codename that was used by both of you for radio contact.
The codename was Abdullah Akhmadev.
No comment.
Well, this is the cover that you used while you carried out your own personal genocide, but that's not why you're here.
I'm interested in the murder of one particular civilian.
A mother.
A mother who was murdered while holding the body of her dead son in her arms, an act of cowardice and a war crime.
If you say so.
I do.
I know what happened, I know you lied, I know you went into the woods to find her.
You both found her.
Jasni Vaspovic, she found her murdered son, right? But before she found him, she'd also found all the others.
So that, by the time she found her son, she knew what was going on in the woods, she knew the truth.
I'm sorry.
Mummy's sorry.
You won't get away with this.
You won't get away with this! No? One day the world will thank us for this.
You beast! What are you? Whatever I must be.
That woman was killed because of what she saw and to protect your cover, so no-one would know that Abdullah Akhmadev was not to be trusted? This is pure speculation until proven, yes? Proven, proven, OK.
You ask yourself how I know, you idiots.
How do you think I know? of what happened so accurate?! Yeah? It is not speculation.
I have a witness statement, right? It's one of three witness statements that tell EXACTLY the same story.
I told them they could do this from behind that glass, but they wanted to do it to your face.
Stand up.
Tell me, do you think I'm going to kill you? No! Look what they've done to my boy.
She has to die.
I know.
But not by you.
I'm sorry.
Look away, please.
You coward.
Please.
All this time you knew.
All these years you watched us in our hell.
I'm sorry.
Quiet.
It's all lies.
Not prove anything.
No, they are not lies.
And I can prove that they were there.
He is linked to the murder scene with his blood.
I'll see you both in The Hague.
Look at me.
Look at me! OK? Hang on there.
I'll pull him for you.
There you go.
Do you know him? He's my son.
I recovered good DNA from the victims and I established that they were mother and son.
What we've got here is two people dead in a grave, connected to this man by his DNA, so we're looking at a potential war criminal.
Who is this man? Are you serious? A Serb.
Are you spying on me? I took her bag off her and got chased by a couple of fugees.
What was inside it was heroin.
So the raw opium you found in the handbag, that's the source for this, synthesised? I'm between a rock and a hard place with regards to Boyd and I don't want the responsibility.
What responsibility? Luke's death.
-Luke's dead? He won't claim him.
The lab.
The police are here looking for you.
In there.
Max! Police.
You're under arrest.
Oh! OK.
I'd like you to take this and put this into your mouth.
That's it, underneath for the saliva.
Yeah, and then round to the other side.
That's it.
Thank you.
We're done.
Right, let's go.
She's a very beautiful child.
Please let her sleep.
Where is he? You said my boy was here.
I told you, he's safe.
Don't worry.
Then why isn't he here? Jasni Sir.
As you were.
You're hurt.
Oh, no, it's fine.
You OK? Yes.
And Anna? She's fine too.
Where is Pera? He's safe.
I had a message that you found him.
Yes.
I left him with Josif.
I was told to go and find her.
Sit down.
I'll get him on the radio.
What's happened? Josif! Stevan! Try and get in touch with the rest of them.
Yes, sir.
We need medical supplies.
On their way.
I need drip, I need fluids, please, Jovan.
Yeah, it's all coming.
I just heard.
I'll be fine.
Spence'll be fine.
I don't mean about Spencer.
I mean about Luke! I am so sorry.
I'm so sorry you couldn't talk to me about it.
You know you're going to have to claim the body, don't you? Well, when the time comes and when you need help .
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promise not to exclude me.
I promise.
Wait there.
Hey.
Don't let them die.
Don't worry.
I won't let these two die.
Not until I learn what they've done with my boy.
Rado.
Take some men, go look for him.
No, it is best for me to go alone, sir.
OK.
Do you want me to go with him, Jovan? He will be fine.
Oh, no.
He's stopped breathing.
Hello? She's synthesizing the raw opium in the hospital? Yeah.
I found positive traces of both opium and heroin in her lab at the hospital.
Unbelievable.
My God, she was taking a hell of a risk.
I have both hospital personnel files.
This is his, and this one is Veronica's whose actual name is Anna Vaspovic.
Vaspovic? Vaspovic.
She's a bio-chemistry intern at the hospital.
Wait, if she's Eastern European and they're both Eastern European Why are they calling her Veronica? And why is this guy risking his neck to save her? There's a lot of money involved.
I'll get onto the Home Office.
Let's not forget why we're here.
Yes.
The reason we're here is because Veronica, Anna Vaspovic, is connected to these two guys, and their blood was found on a shawl that was at this grave, and that's our cold case.
So it's the past, present and these guys are in the middle, OK.
Max Fowler.
Max Fowler.
This is your personnel file.
Max Fowler, born Liverpool 1947.
So you're a Scouser, are you, Max? Yeah? Good clean work record.
Let's see what this one says.
This is the Central Records Department.
This tells us who's born in the UK, and who dies in the UK.
It appears that you died five years ago.
What a coincidence.
You died in the hospital that you work in.
The reason you're in this room, Max, is I want you to help us find the woman you may know as Anna Vaspovic.
Listen, I have the sample.
Best ever seen.
Let's do the deal.
Look, let's do it as quick as we can, yes? You send Stevan to collect me.
OK.
We're on.
What kept you? Get in.
What? Get in! Ah! We have to get them to the hospital.
I have a Medevac helicopter on the way.
Good.
Let me see that.
No, no, it's fine.
Please, it can get infected.
Not too bad.
When the helicopter comes, I want you and Anna to go out on it.
I'm not leaving without my boy.
We'll find him.
It's important that you two go to safety.
Last crate of evidence from Anna's lab.
Great, Spence, leave it there.
Yeah, it's stuff from her locker.
Anything on the computer yet? It won't be long now.
This is interesting.
This was the Post-It block from her lab.
Here.
Stella.
Yeah.
Got a mobile number I need you to trace.
Hi.
Hello.
Can I have a mineral water, please? Still.
We don't have mineral water.
We have soft drinks, alcohol.
Anything soft.
Orange, Coke Thanks.
OK.
Hello? Hi.
Hi.
Who is this? It's me.
You don't have to clean your teeth with it.
Come on.
What is this for? It's complicated.
I'm not even going to begin to tell you.
Just give it to Eve.
So, Radovan.
Yes.
Radovan.
Yes.
That's an interesting name.
What's the rest of it? Thank you.
Sredinic.
Radovan Sredinic? Sredinic.
Radovan Sredinic.
Sredinic.
Yes.
Where's that name from? I'm Bosnian, my friend.
Ah, right.
And when did you get here? Oh, I come here .
.
'97 now.
Wow, so you're a kind of super-fugee.
What? I You left an economic shit hole as a refugee and ten years later, you own a cafe in London.
I think that's pretty good going.
I work very hard.
I prosper.
You're confusing us with the American Dream.
This is the UK - you work hard here, you don't prosper.
Well, I've always been lucky me, mate, you know.
Always been a complete lying bastard as well, eh? Yes, I'm telling you the truth.
Check my papers, eh? I will.
OK.
Good.
Do you know these men? No.
No? Do you know this girl? I'm sorry.
No.
I really wanted to like you, Radovan.
Yes.
I really did, but now I know that you are just a lying piece of shit.
Come on, man.
No, because, if you'd helped me with my enquiries, you could've walked out of here, but now I'll have to put you in a cell.
I can get these people in other ways, then I'll take all of you down, and you, for withholding information.
All right, thank you.
Look, wait.
My friend, wait, please.
Sit down.
No, it's Sit down! OK, come on, man.
If If I help you, I can go, yes? Oh, you're making the terms now.
If you help me, you can go? Please.
Yes, OK.
Help me.
I see the men sometimes, yes? I see the men sometimes? You've got to give me a bit more than that, you know.
They come into my cafe.
And the girl? Yes.
Sometimes she is with them, you know, but They drink coffee, that is all.
No, no No? .
.
no, no, no, no.
That's not all.
Why does she have your phone number? The other week, this lady's bag was stolen, yes, outside my cafe.
I see girl who take it, yes? I know girl who take it.
I give lady my phone number so we can stay in touch.
You know, in case, it turn up.
Yes? You're crap.
I'm not crap, man.
You are really a crap liar! I'm only lying to stay out of it.
I really want to help you, yes, but I don't need trouble in my life.
You want to help? OK, why do you give these men coffee? Why not? They're Serbs! Ah.
No, this madness is finished.
These people tried to exterminate you, but now this madness is finished? We must forgive, yes? So we can move on, as people.
Boyd, can you come into the lab, please? Yeah, in a minute.
So I can go now, yes? No, no, no, you can't go.
Not yet.
I know for a fact that you cannot keep me here like this.
Radovan.
Snedovic.
I suspect that you are connected to a deal to supply the Taliban with money in return for drugs.
That makes you a suspected terrorist.
I can keep you for 28 days.
That is the equivalent of the entire month of February.
So make yourself comfortable.
What do you want? I opened her computer.
They're not friends.
How do you know they're not friends? Because she had to write his number down on a pad.
Do you know all your friends' numbers? No.
There you go.
Witness testimonies from The Hague Tribunal, May '93 to the present day.
What's her interest in that? I don't know.
Is there anything else on the computer? I don't know yet.
So, has she lost someone? I've got information on Anna Vaspovic.
She came here from Serbia in 1996 with her father.
Oh, so she'd have been just a child.
That's right, so she's looking.
Right? What's the address for the father? And now? We wait.
Wait? The police are looking for us.
They're at her flat.
They're at the hospital.
They have the heroin.
And now they have Radovan! I am getting sick of your crying.
It's bringing bad luck on us.
Right, it's my fault! You know what I'm saying! Josif! We must get out of here! No! We do the deal, we get the money.
Then we disappear.
How long do we have to wait, then? What if they charge him with something, and keep him in there? Charge him with what? Something from the past.
Maybe there's another option.
What option? We try to make contact with his contact ourselves.
We do the deal for the heroin without him.
His contact? Abdullah Akhmadev.
Don't move.
How do you know that name? I I heard it.
Where? Erm Radovan said it.
You are a liar.
Who the hell are you? Is my daughter OK? Please, sit down, Dr Vaspovic.
Do you know these men? No.
Who are they? We believe they're former members of the Scorpion regiment and are connected to certain war crimes.
Why do you ask me? Because your daughter is involved with these men.
Now she was researching events that took place in Vinocari in July, 1995.
Do you know why? Yes.
It's all my fault, I stopped.
Stopped? Trying to find out what happened to her mother and brother.
Jasni, my wife when the war broke out, she was in Sarajevo.
The airport was bombed so she set off by car to try to get back to Belgrade.
as far as Vinocari.
She stopped there to get her mother and she called me.
You have to get out of there now.
I'm collecting mum.
We're leaving now.
Jasni? That was the last I heard of her.
She wasn't travelling alone? No.
My son, Pera, who was twelve, and Anna, who was seven at the time, were with her.
Anna was saved.
But you never found your wife and son? No.
Your wife's mother? She was killed.
An ambush on the truck she was travelling in.
I'm nearly sure that Jasni was on it at the time with Anna.
One of the women who survived said that she remembered her, but that Jasni went her own way into the woods to find Pera.
So she split up and she left the other survivors? Yes.
I tried for years to find them.
But there are so many unidentified.
One day I had to accept that I never would find them.
Why did you have to accept? It took over our lives.
It's all we talked about.
At first, I hoped they would turn up alive, then I prayed they would just turn up dead or alive so it would be over.
It was the not knowing.
I understand that.
But I suppose you can't really lay the dead to rest without a body.
Can you? No.
Talk.
Or I kill you right now.
My name is Anna Vaspovic.
Vaspovic.
I remember that name.
Vaspovic.
My mother came into contact with your unit in Vinocari.
The one Petropecic wanted us to look for.
Yeah.
You are the kid? Yeah.
Do you remember me?! I don't know.
Sometimes I think I do.
You think? In In my dreams I think I see you sometimes.
I don't get it.
What the hell are you up to? Abdullah Akhmadev What?! He killed my mother and my brother.
He killed them in Vinocari in 1995.
You were there.
You're both Scorpions, you know about him.
What the hell are you talking about? I tracked Radovan down through Immigration.
He gave a statement to The Hague.
Radovan? Yes.
He said he was captured and tortured by Akhmadev, but he's a liar.
I think he was one of his jihadi.
So you tracked down Radovan to his cafe and start hanging around? Yes.
Because you think Radovan will lead you to Akhmadev? Yes.
But he wouldn't pay any attention to me until I met you two.
And you are with me only as a way to get to Akhmadev? I didn't plan it.
I really liked you.
But when you found out I worked at the lab, you asked me! Remember?! Stupid I'm sorry.
After you find Akhmadev .
.
what are you going to do? Kill him.
This is a joke.
It's not a joke.
It is.
What do you mean? I mean, there is no Akhmadev.
But he is named by witnesses who said he was hunting down Serbs in Bosnia and killing them.
Witnesses who heard of him, never saw him.
Because Akhmadev is just a codename.
A codename that became a myth.
Kill her! No.
No.
No.
No! I have a better idea.
So Anna didn't stop looking? I thought she did, but she has obviously kept trying to find them.
You said that she was saved.
Yes.
How was she saved? A friend who was there in the army.
I had contacted him to look out for them.
What was his name? Jovan Petropecic.
He was an officer then.
In the Scorpion regiment? Yes.
But a good man.
These men, you say they are former Scorpions also? Yes.
There is someone who might be able to help.
Max.
Yes, how did you know? We have him in custody.
He's living under an assumed identity.
Yes.
And he was, is, Petropecic? I helped him.
He couldn't live in Serbia.
He is wanted for desertion.
But he deserted in order to save Anna, to get her out of the war zone and bring her to me.
How did he manage to save Anna .
.
and he didn't manage to save your wife and son? He told me he had found Jasni and Anna.
They were both safe in the church.
Pera was still missing.
Jasni left the church to look for him.
Petropecic believed that she was found and killed by a group of jihadi, led by a man called Abdullah Akhmadev.
And Anna knows all that? Yes.
Akhmadev was notorious, but of course, like so many others like him, he has disappeared into thin air.
Dr Vaspovic Max Fowler, a homeless man who came in DOA, no relatives.
No harm was caused to anyone by it.
It was the least I could do in return for my daughter's life.
I think he might know these men you are looking for.
Dr Vaspovic We ran tests against the DNA samples that you provided us with and they're a match.
Both? Both.
Together in the same grave.
Your wife was holding your son in her arms.
Thank you.
Thank you.
They're calling you on Radovan's phone.
Hello? Sir, it's on hold.
Boyd.
If you want the girl alive, you'll swap her for Radovan.
I'll phone you to tell you where and when to do the swap.
Do you agree? -Yeah, erm, when Hello? OK, I want you and Spencer armed, ready to go in five minutes.
Jovan Petropecic.
I have Dr Vaspovic next door.
I know he's your friend and his daughter, Anna, is being held .
.
by these two men.
I don't have much time here, Jovan, I need to know, can you help me? Yes.
Yeah? Do you know who they are? Yes.
This is Stevan Steznovic, former corporal of mine, this is Josif Gorvodic, former sergeant.
In the Scorpion regiment? Yes.
Now if they don't get what they want, would they kill Anna? Definitely.
What do they want in return? Him.
You know him? Yes.
My advice to you would be to give him to them.
I can't I can't do that.
Perhaps When I was a younger man, I was intelligence officer in Soviet army.
There might be something I could do.
I'm listening.
And if you have got what you want .
.
perhaps I could go back to being Max? About bloody time.
Visitor for you.
Who's he, yeah? Who are you? Argh! Oh! You understand what he's saying.
Come on, listen to him, man.
I don't know! What? Sit down.
You've got a poison in you and it'll accelerate round your body quicker if you don't take it easy.
No, you can't do this, eh? We've done it, all right? Yeah, yeah.
We can give you the antidote within the hour and you'll be all right.
Will you help us? Yes.
Look, I want to help you.
That's good, that's good.
So just take it easy then, you'll be all right, OK? If you don't take it easy, you'll die.
We're going to be at your cafe in one hour.
Your job is to keep them there.
Do you understand? Where is she? You think I bring her here? When I leave with Radovan and know I am not followed, I'll make a call and let her free.
Make sure they release her.
Just remember what you've got pumping through your veins.
Papa.
Anna! Rado! Rado, idiot, Rado! I'll cut your throat, Rado! Police! Drop the gun! Drop it now! Drop the weapon! Back up! Back up! I do your bloody job for you, man! Stupid policeman! Shut up! Come on, lady, I'm fucking dying here! Shut up! Come on Boyd.
Eh? You say you give me antidote.
On your feet.
Hey, hey, hey! Back up! Agh! HE LAUGHS Get up.
I know you play game with me, man.
Get out.
You think I am bloody stupid.
Saline solution never killed anybody.
Sit down, StevanStaznovic? Steznovic.
Steznovic.
Yes.
I want to put the drug-dealing, kidnapping, and whatever else you've been up to one side, OK? OK.
Good.
Because I'm in this room for one reason and one reason only, right, that's to close my case.
Do you understand me? Good.
Do you recognise these two people? Mr, how can anyone recognise anybody from this? This is Jasni Vaspovic and the boy in her arms is her son, Pera.
That's my case.
This is my deal, right.
You help me close my case and I'll send you back to The Hague for a fair trial if you explain what part you played in their deaths.
Or what? I'll charge you right here and now for kidnapping, manufacturing, supplying and trafficking of drugs, then, when you've done your 15 years here, I'll ship you back to the Bosnian Government.
When I enter Bosnia I am a dead man.
So what seems sensible to me is that you play fair with me, all right, Right, did you kill Jasni? No.
Did you kill her son, Pera? No.
Your blood was found on her clothing.
She saved my life.
I was shot, bleeding, she is a doctor.
Who shot you? The boy.
The boy shot you? Pera shot you? Yes.
We were in the woods looking for other ones.
And you must understand we did not want to kill them.
We just want information.
Dig faster.
You see the scum that they are? They don't even care that they are going to die.
You're going to kill them? You care? How would you like to go in the ground with them? You're crying?! In front of this scum that will cut your throat?! Josif, he's a city boy.
He's a Serb! Give him your gun.
Do it! Pera.
Shoot them.
No.
What did you say? No.
Let them go.
No, Pera.
Easy.
Give me that! Run! Run! You bastard! How could he do that?! How could he?! All this time, hehe killed my brother, and I've I've Oh.
No, don't touch me! So Stevan says that you shot the boy, Pera.
It had to be done.
He went crazy like Rambo.
And then? Then I black out.
Next thing I remember I was in a hospital a few weeks later, back in Serbia.
So who got you there, who saved your life? Not Petropecic? Not Petropecic Petropecic turns deserter, ran away.
Max? Anna, you have suppressed memories.
You know that, don't you? Well, what you need to consider is, why that is.
The mind chooses not to remember in order to protect us.
You need to think about that.
I want to remember.
Anna I don't want to be protected from the truth.
I want to stay.
OK.
OK? Yes, OK.
We're ready.
Explain to me again the details of when you last saw Jasnialive.
Well, Josif and Stevan were OK and Jasni was looking at my shoulder Radovan came to the door, let me know the boy was dead.
With a look only.
I thought she didn't see.
What have you done? It will keep you out for ten minutes only.
I have to go and find Pera.
No.
If I don't come back, please take Anna home.
Please.
Anna, Mummy's going to get Pera.
And then when I come back, we'll sit all together back home to Daddy.
Is that a good plan? Yeah? I love you.
No, what did Mummy just say? You promised.
Please.
Go sit there and wait for me.
She left me.
So you went to look for Jasni then? Oh, no, no.
It was getting busy, a lot of fighting.
I took the child and we left on a Medevac chopper.
We got to a field hospital and I deserted.
I took Anna to her father in Belgrade.
To save the child? No, to be honest.
I'd had enough.
Saving the child No.
I knew she was my ticket out of Serbia.
Vaspovic had money.
OK.
He's lying.
Max? Yeah, he's lying.
What about? He left me in the church.
So he went back into the woods to look for your mother? Yeah.
I went too.
Anna, no, no, no.
No, Anna.
Mama! Mama! No, no, no, no.
Come on.
Come on.
Sir.
Yes? You need to see this now.
Soviet military files.
OK.
So, Radovan, you lied, Radovan, about your nationality.
I lied? You told me you were Bosnian.
You are, in fact, Serbian.
So what? Well, just that I know now why you lied.
It's all here, in files from the former Yugoslavia.
I hope you enjoy.
Enjoy is the wrong word.
So, in '95 you left Serbia and travelled to Bosnia, passing yourself off as a jihadi fighter, so that you could lure these innocent Muslims into the clutches of your old war buddy here, Petropecic.
It's all in this report, what you two got up to.
You executions and you crossing the border to Serb villages, I think it's called 'blooding', isn't it? Upping the game? The game? What is in here, is the codename that was used by both of you for radio contact.
The codename was Abdullah Akhmadev.
No comment.
Well, this is the cover that you used while you carried out your own personal genocide, but that's not why you're here.
I'm interested in the murder of one particular civilian.
A mother.
A mother who was murdered while holding the body of her dead son in her arms, an act of cowardice and a war crime.
If you say so.
I do.
I know what happened, I know you lied, I know you went into the woods to find her.
You both found her.
Jasni Vaspovic, she found her murdered son, right? But before she found him, she'd also found all the others.
So that, by the time she found her son, she knew what was going on in the woods, she knew the truth.
I'm sorry.
Mummy's sorry.
You won't get away with this.
You won't get away with this! No? One day the world will thank us for this.
You beast! What are you? Whatever I must be.
That woman was killed because of what she saw and to protect your cover, so no-one would know that Abdullah Akhmadev was not to be trusted? This is pure speculation until proven, yes? Proven, proven, OK.
You ask yourself how I know, you idiots.
How do you think I know? of what happened so accurate?! Yeah? It is not speculation.
I have a witness statement, right? It's one of three witness statements that tell EXACTLY the same story.
I told them they could do this from behind that glass, but they wanted to do it to your face.
Stand up.
Tell me, do you think I'm going to kill you? No! Look what they've done to my boy.
She has to die.
I know.
But not by you.
I'm sorry.
Look away, please.
You coward.
Please.
All this time you knew.
All these years you watched us in our hell.
I'm sorry.
Quiet.
It's all lies.
Not prove anything.
No, they are not lies.
And I can prove that they were there.
He is linked to the murder scene with his blood.
I'll see you both in The Hague.
Look at me.
Look at me! OK? Hang on there.
I'll pull him for you.
There you go.
Do you know him? He's my son.