16x21 - One Small Step

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I have rung during the day.

Several times in fact.

All we want is someone from Division to come and pick up the equipment.

Well, of course it's safe.

It should really be safe at Division, not here.

INDISTINCT SHOUTING

I'm sorry, I've got to go.

Let us go or you'll be dead by morning.

Threatening behaviour is a criminal offence.

Our boss will not let this rest.

- Geoff, get the door. - MILLER: Cells!

- BELLAMY: In! - Now!

Don't say I never warned you.

Right, this way.

So, how's that then?

A bit to your left, Oscar.

Think of your days as a traffic policeman.

- OSCAR: How's that? - It's almost time.

OSCAR: OK?

Oh, hang on. The aerial has come out.

CHEERING

Wahey! That's it.

DISTORTED VOICES ON TV

Men on the moon?

I don't know what that's got to do with the price of fish.

They haven't got fish on the moon.

Have they?

'Definition is pretty good on our monitor here.'

Where did you find them?

Well, a lucky break really.

Coming back from Mrs Drury's place. Took a short cut, you know?

We saw two cars parked up.

One of them had a tail light out and there were four blokes in a huddle.

Anyway, it all looked a bit dodgy.

Sarge decided to investigate.

One of the cars did get away, but we managed to catch those two.

They were exchanging this for cash.

'Now heading down range.'

'Engines beginning throttling down now.'

'The Eagle has landed.'

Nine, .

A moment in history.

I never thought I'd live to see it.

Honestly, you boys and your spaceships.

You're all the flipping same.

People will remember where they were tonight for the rest of their lives.

In the pub.

As per usual.

- Mr Scripps. - Isn't this wonderful?

I want to tell my sister when I'll be arriving.

Are you sure the car will be ready tomorrow?

I'll have the parts by eight, you'll be on the road by eleven.

Can I use your phone?

Course you can, it's just in there.

- What time do you serve breakfast? - GINA: Any time after eight.

Aren't you stopping up to watch?

No.

It's not really my thing.

Night.

Good night.

Heroin.

MILLER: Go and lock it up in my office.

And let's have the quiet one in the interview room, shall we?

'The Eagle has landed,

came the historic statement shortly after ..'

'The moon walk is planned for shortly after two am...'

That's another four hours.

We've got to wait for four hours.

Plenty of drinking time, Aunt Peggy.

Thank you, David. Mine's a whisky.

OSCAR: I remember the first story I read about the moon.

It was in the Boy's Own Paper.

They found a lost civilisation under its crust.

Oh, my old man gave me a book, HG Wells.

I read it under a blanket by the light of a torch.

The First Men In The Moon.

Oh, I saw that film. Lionel Jeffries?

No, I'm talking about a book.

DAVID: Oh, that was a great film. The Martians all got a cold and d*ed.

That were another one.

And there was this really tall foot woman,

wearing a really tight dress.

Trust you to remember that.

No, I didn't mean...

I didn't mean...

Were there lots of man-eating plants?

They'll come for us before midnight!

Count on it!

Aidensfield it's called.

I found a B&B, Marjie, it's fine.

The car will be mended tomorrow.

What?

When did he ring?

What did you say?

Marjie, I told you not to tell him anything.

He mustn't find me, Marjie. I couldn't bear it.

Look, I have to go.

If he phones again, don't say anything.

Promise me.

OK.

Are you gonna say anything?

Lock him up again, Bellamy.

And bring the other one to my office.

I'll phone Division.

'This is the view from inside the Eagle.'

'You can see the shadow of the craft.'

Does look just like the films though, doesn't it?

There's one big difference, David.

In films, it's just a model.

This is the real thing.

Do you know, I cannot believe how gullible grown men can be.

A model is what that is.

It's all a con.

- Here we go. - OSCAR: You know all about cons.

- There's no need to be nasty. - There's no need to talk rubbish.

PEGGY: Oscar, it's not real.

It's been filmed before,

in the desert or Yellowstone Park.

Where Yogi Bear lives?

BOTH LAUGH

It's like the Yanks say, it's all baloney.

Yes, sir, I'm pretty certain it's heroin.

Look, it's half past ten now.

How long before you can get someone over here?

OSCAR: Just tell me this. Why on earth would they fake a moon landing?

Oh. I thought you'd gone to bed.

Nobody's phoned here for me have they?

No. No, they haven't.

Well, if anyone does, I'm not here. All right?

If you say so.

Could I have a large brandy, please?

Course you can.

Didn't think you'd still be serving. Hasn't it gone closing?

Well, we're having a lock-in.

They've beaten the Russkies to it, haven't they, or so they're saying.

They're lying through their teeth.

- I don't think so, Peggy. - Don't you read the papers?

Not the ones you read, obviously.

I've been talking to Sandy McQueen down the market.

Now, he knows all about conspiracies and he showed me a pamphlet...

Right, that's enough.

I can say what I like. It's a free country.

Not in my pub and not tonight.

You can't believe Americans.

I've had experience in the w*r.

Yeah, I'm sure you have.

What happened in the w*r, Peggy?

Never trust a Yank.

PHONE RINGS

I'll have another, please.

Just hang on a sec.

- Aidensfield Arms. - Gina.

- 'Where are you, Phil?' - I'm still at the station.

Something has come up. I'm not sure when I'll get back.

What's happened?

It's police stuff. You know I can't tell you.

Just hang on a sec. I'll put you on to Rob.

Hello.

So, you're confirming that the packages contain heroin?

I'm confirming that our boss will come and get us.

You're out of your depth, Plod.

Seriously, you're a nice bunch of country coppers.

No match for us.

Us being...?

Look, I'm not kidding. Get someone senior.

These guys don't muck about.

Do you need help?

- I can be there in half an hour. - No. We're all right.

Look, if I miss the moon walk though, I want a full report, all right?

Hey, Rob. How's Gina taking it? Is she really angry?

No, you're off the hook, mate.

- Right, well, I'll see you later. - 'See you.'

PHONE RINGS

Ashfordly Police.

You really ought to listen to me.

PHONE RINGS What?

Oh, yeah, that'll be them.

Put him through.

Now, you listen to me.

I don't respond very well to threats.

See?

Lock him up, Younger.

YOUNGER: Come on.

Bellamy? What's up with the phone? The line's dead.

- Come here! - Over here!

g*nsh*t

Here they come.

They're both secure. Any luck?

It's no good, Sarge. The valves are smashed.

- No spares? - Only one, but that's not enough.

I've tried all the phones. Nothing.

Doesn't even look like the moon.

It's a terrible picture.

It's coming from thousands of miles away, Peggy.

PEGGY: So they say.

Anyone could take a photo

and say it's come from outer space.

OSCAR: I've had enough of this.

You're talking rubbish and spoiling it for everyone else.

That's real and it's important.

Unless, of course, you can prove otherwise.

I can. I've got proof.

Yeah? Well, go on then, show me.

Well, it's not on me, obviously.

Obviously! You come up with proof, I'll give you a fiver.

Done. Come on, David.

DAVID: But, I...

Have you got your garage keys with you?

What for?

MAN OUTSIDE: Oi, you ready to talk yet?

What are we gonna do?

My duty is to keep these prisoners locked up.

Now, whatever happens, no heroics, and that's an order.

What do you want?

That first sh*t was just a warning.

Release my friends and nobody will get hurt.

You're wasting your time.

They wouldn't try to get in, would they?

I mean, they wouldn't dare.

CRIES

YOUNGER: They're coming for us, Phil.

SILENCED g*nsh*t

Interview room, now!

Barricade the door, Sarge?

No good. It opens inwards.

SILENCED g*nsh*t

- They'll k*ll us. - Do as I say!

Come on!

- Will this hold, Sarge? - It's the best we can do.

I said no heroics.

You did well, lad.

'Here, on this historic night,

we have some of the most celebrated

scientists, journalists and commentators in the studio.'

'While we wait for the moon walk, we'll be considering

not only the scientific breakthrough that is taking place tonight,

but the psychological and philosophical consequences for us all

now that this great barrier has been breached.'

'None of us will ever think of the moon in the same way again.'

Yes!

Ha-ha! I knew Bernie had one of these polarised cameras.

I only hope there's plenty of film left in it.

What are we doing, Aunt Peggy?

Sandy McQueen has never led me wrong.

If he says it's a conspiracy, it's a conspiracy.

It's just that sometimes

the truth needs a little help to come out, you know?

Aha!

Here.

And these will do.

For your breathing tubes.

- Breathing tubes? - Yes.

Just the ticket. And you'd better bring that doodah along and all.

- Doodah? - The doodah!

You know, the air pressure thingy.

Aye, if only we had a fish bowl.

Look.

This will do nicely.

I'm gonna wipe that smile off Oscar Blaketon's face

if it's the last thing I do.

Hey, it's a country cop shop.

They won't have g*ns.

Just find the rucksack.

- Just going back to the pub. - I'll give you a pound.

BLOWS LIPS

bob!

We'll be all right. Division are on their way.

You said they'd be here at midnight.

It's past that. It might be hours yet.

What do you suggest, then?

We're under siege from armed men, we've got no radio, no phone.

There are bars on the windows, we can't get out.

But they can't get in either.

'The Apollo Program was originally conceived early in .'

What's taking so long?

If Peggy's right and they have filmed all this beforehand,

they'd have made it a bit more action-packed, wouldn't they?

Peggy Armstrong is talking out of her armpit.

VENTRESS: People who see conspiracies everywhere,

they usually get involved in them.

I hope you've got an extension, Gina.

Oh, it's a private party.

I'm only joking.

I could m*rder a vodka, assuming I'm invited.

- Of course you are. - Hi, Rob.

- Carol. - What are you doing here?

Don't ask. I'm having a pig of a night,

and I knew you were having a lock-in.

Can I steal a crisp?

Thanks.

Champion.

Lovely.

If we could just bend these bars.

Only a child could get through a gap that tight.

Well, I'm thin.

Thanks, lad, but you've done enough for one night.

Now, listen, nobody is going anywhere.

They want their friends in the cells, right?

The only way they can get to them is through that door.

Or the door in the duty room to the corridor. And that is locked.

And reinforced.

It'll take them hours to break in.

There are three of us, and two of them.

If they do get in, we've got a chance of overpowering them.

Meanwhile, we wait.

What's up?

Work. What else?

Don't ask. You know I can't tell you.

Oh, come on, it's me.

All right.

Nine months detailed planning went down the swanny tonight.

Bad luck.

Not luck. We set up a sting.

A drop for a drug-smuggling ring we've been tracking.

Waited four hours and nobody turned up.

Must have been onto us.

Hiya. Do you mind if I join you?

Er, actually it's police business, Carol.

Right, sure.

Go and talk to her, it's fine.

No. No.

Look, there's something you should know.

LAUGHS

Got it.

We'll never get through that other door.

We'll have to negotiate.

Or we could just sh**t 'em.

Phil told me about it.

It's unlikely there's two lots of drug dealers

in the same area on the same night, is it?

Thanks, Rob.

Gina, can I use your phone?

Yeah, course you can.

Here we go.

Let 'em go or coppers will start to die.

Give me five minutes.

All right. Five minutes. Then we come in sh**ting.

Hold the fort, Bellamy. I won't be long.

- ROB: Problem? - I don't know.

Why don't we go over to the police house? We can radio from there.

Let us out. You know you're gonna have to.

If you have any influence with those two outside, use it.

They don't trust me anymore.

It's not coppers they want to k*ll.

It's me.

He's the boss.

His name is Ronnie Welles.

He's up from the smoke.

He's got some very nasty connections.

He's a wild man, psycho.

He'll do anything.

You're very quick to betray your associates.

My name is Michael Dent.

I've been undercover with this lot for nine months.

I'm a police officer.

And I think my cover has been blown.

Prove it.

I'm not actually carrying my CID card, Miller.

That smack is worth grand on the street.

The drop tonight was supposed to be in Malton.

The venue got changed at the last minute.

I had no idea.

If they've rumbled me, Miller, I'm dead.

My life is in your hands.

CHURCH BELLS RING

Still, it's quite exciting, isn't it?

Don't be stupid.

No, I only meant...

Years I've waited to be with Gina.

On again, off again.

Well, it's not ending here.

Not like this.

You'd be better off in bed, love.

I can't go to bed.

I can hear the TV through the floor.

My head is splitting.

Can I get you an aspirin or something?

Can you just make it stop?

Please.

A London dealer has been running heroin into Leeds.

That's all I can say. Procedure, you know.

But a mutual friend is in it up to his neck.

Michael Dent, from our training days.

Mad Mickey.

There's a blast from the past. Mad Mickey Dent.

He's been working undercover for the last five years.

London mostly, but he transferred up here last spring

with the regional crime squad. I'm his liaison officer.

Lucky you. Has he changed much?

Not so as you'd notice.

Mixing with the scum of the earth is something he took a liking to.

Yeah, he would.

Miller!

Please! It's important!

Something's not right. I'm going down there.

I'll come with you.

All right, but, Rob, this lot have k*lled before.

They'll have no compunction about doing it again.

Confidential, right?

Just between us.

I'm gonna let you know who I am.

Go ahead, Mr Welles.

I'm not Ronnie Welles. He is next door.

The man next door, Mr Welles, is an undercover police officer

who has blown your operation wide open.

- Anything else? - That's why this thing went wrong.

Someone's blown my cover.

Look, I'm Michael Dent.

I'm the copper, not him.

And if Welles knows that,

there's got to be a grass at Division.

How else could he have known?

Some bent copper has sold me out.

I'm gonna need a bit more than that.

I can't! You know that, it's procedure.

In the circumstances, we should waive procedure.

Give me your number at least. Your superior officer.

Look, call Division.

Ask about Michael Dent.

The phone lines have been cut.

If you're a police officer, why did you smash the radio?

After the drop was changed, I was scared.

I was scared that they knew I was a plant.

So, I had to do something to make them realise I was on their side.

I was trying to conceal my identity.

You put fellow officers in danger.

I thought they were gonna k*ll me.

Look, Miller, if you mess this up,

we are all stuffed.

'World events don't get much more exciting than this.'

Here we are, then.

I've been all the way home for these.

Men on the moon. Look.

Where did you get these then?

Oh, confidential sources.

Them Yanks I told you about during the w*r,

one of them works for NASA now.

And of course there is also the family connection.

What do you mean, "family connection"?

Neil Armstrong.

Peggy Armstrong.

Now, you were a policeman, Mr Blaketon.

You work it out.

It's not exactly rocket science.

LAUGHS

Rocket science!

Hey, that's good.

No, see. Genuine fakes.

All the way from America.

Now pay up.

I think you owe her a fiver, Oscar.

Time's up!

BELLAMY: All right. Two minutes!

We're nearly ready!

You'd better get Miller.

Give me something to help me believe you.

YOUNGER: Sergeant Miller.

Just let me out, Miller.

I can help you.

- YOUNGER: Sergeant Miller! - You need all the help you can get.

Thank you.

I do like a man that pays his debts.

You like anyone that gives you money.

And I think a whisky is in order, Mr Blaketon,

by way of an apology.

Don't push your luck.

Can I have a pint, please, Gina.

- Made me thirsty, all that. - David.

What's happened to your face, David? It's all pink.

- GINA: Carol, have a look. - What on earth have you been doing?

Rosie's crash helmet is really tight.

- My crash helmet? - I think we'd better go now.

You still owe me bob.

I reckon this is a photo of Rosie's crash helmet,

and as for this so-called spacecraft...

My car ramp is that.

David, you great nana!

If you've been using my Polaroid,

Mrs Armstrong, I shall be wanting money for the film.

If you've damaged my new helmet...

You've got to give her credit for trying, Oscar.

ALL LAUGH

Stop all this noise! Stop.

I can't stand it.

MAN: Time's up!

All right, all right.

I'll release one prisoner.

Just one.

Then you go.

It's my final offer.

We need them both.

Look, plod might think it's his final offer,

but that don't mean a thing, does it?

All right, deal.

One of the men we've got locked up is an undercover police officer.

If we let him out, it'll be four against two.

Which one is it?

Either of you know a Michael Dent?

Mickey Dent?

You know him?

Well, Rob's mentioned his name but I've never met him.

Did Walker describe him?

Him and Rob trained together though.

MAN: What are you waiting for?

g*nshots MILLER: Hold on!

I'm just gonna get him!

This will work if they still trust Dent.

And if you pick the right man.

One question.

And I want the truth.

Where did you train?

I can't tell you that.

You trained with one of my men.

Where?

All right.

But if you tell Milton I told you, I'll deny it.

Number two district Police Training Centre,

Newby Wiske Hall.

Go away.

You're too young to understand.

Go and get Gina.

He was mad about the moon.

Anything to do with space.

Mad about it.

I expect you think I'm mad, don't you?

Well, I haven't been myself since I lost him.

Your husband?

No, he's alive and well.

He's trying to find out where I am.

Poor fool.

He thinks this is a night we should be together.

I had to get away.

My Clive.

My son.

He used to make those plastic models, kits.

Spaceships hanging from his ceiling.

Posters all over.

Anything to do with the moon.

He's passed away, has he?

March the rd.

Leukaemia.

He was determined to see the Apollo mission.

"I want to see a man on the moon, Mum."

I can go happy then.

He was only .

I'm so sorry.

I couldn't stay at home tonight.

My husband wouldn't stop talking about it.

That's why I was going to my sister's.

She doesn't have a television.

If it wasn't for my damn car.

You and me will take the first one who comes through the door.

My men will take care of the other one. All right?

Stand back. I'm opening the door.

All right, Kirk.

In the corner.

Give us a sh**t, Tony.

- What? - Just kidding, Kirk.

Wrong choice, mate.

I'm Ronnie Welles.

Give me the keys.

YOUNGER: Don't hurt him.

Oh, that is touching.

Such loyalty you inspire, Miller.

Considering what a fool you've proved yourself.

No, I'll go.

Walker.

Keys.

We're gonna lock you in the cells, Miller.

You can have a ringside seat while I deal with the grass.

GROANS

Stupid.

Tony, get the rucksack.

I'll take that.

Are you firearms trained?

- No, but... - Then I'll keep it.

- Are you? - No.

But I outrank you.

It's a funny thing, bereavement.

It never takes two people the same.

I've never had a child so I can't say I know what you're going through.

But I did have a very close friend once who d*ed.

No, it's not the same.

No, no, no, I daresay, no.

Norman he was called, Norman Wilkinson.

We grew up together. Then the w*r came.

The pair of us went up to Leeds on the bus to volunteer.

I was a mechanical engineer and that's a reserved occupation,

but Norm was a farm hand.

So, he joined up and I didn't.

Once, when we were lads, we went to Blackpool,

and stood on top of the tower drinking dandelion and burdock.

Norm swore blind that one day he'd be in Paris

on top of the Eiffel Tower drinking champagne.

I think chorus girls and slippers came into it somewhere.

He didn't make it past Dunkirk.

His dad got a telegram and all that.

And I missed him. Then.

And now.

Any road up, , I had the opportunity to go to France.

They'd reopened the Eiffel Tower to visitors by then.

Well, I bought half a bottle of champagne

and one evening I went up by myself, popped the cork and drank it.

And said I was sorry I couldn't run to a chorus girl,

but I wished him God speed. And it were better after that.

Like, he couldn't do what he wanted, but I'd done it for him.

I can't help wondering, Mrs Garnett,

maybe if you came in the bar and watched the moon landing,

would your Clive not like that?

Will you be all right now,

if I leave you?

I don't want to miss the moon walk.

You ready for this, grass? You wanna know what we're gonna do to you?

Don't lock that door.

Odds are, love, at least one copper is gonna die tonight.

'At the foot of the ladder,

the landing foot beds are only depressed in the surface

about one or two inches.'

'Although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained...'

I know my fakes are fake fakes,

but that doesn't mean that the moon landing's real.

COUGHING

'I'm going to step off the ladder now.'

'That's one small step for man...'

'...one giant leap for mankind.'

Oh, dear. COUGHS

Didn't know that tear gas felt like this.

- I can hardly see anything. - Oh, dear.

- DAWSON: It will wear off. - YOUNGER: When?

DAWSON: I don't know.

Go outside, get some air. That'll help.

I'm not that bad. I missed the worst of it.

Good idea. Come on, lad.

You should go too, Sarge.

I'm all right. If I have to listen to any more of Younger's moaning,

I might be tempted to commit a crime myself.

How are you doing, Mickey?

I'm fine. Just another quiet night in the job.

Go phone for an ambulance, will you, Rob?

Sarge?

Do as the nice officer tells you, Rob. Rache would like that.

You did well.

Better than you expected?

Mickey.

A bit of support wouldn't have gone amiss.

I supported you.

The whole team did.

Yeah, while some bent copper at Division grassed me up

and a dim country sergeant hung me out to dry.

I could have d*ed tonight.

We'll find the grass.

We'll deal with him.

Oh, yeah?

You're all talk, Rachel. Always were.

'The heavens have become a part of man's world.'

'And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity,

it inspires us to redouble our efforts

to bring peace and tranquillity to Earth.'

'For one priceless moment in the whole history of man,

all the people on this Earth are truly one.'

'One in their pride in what you have done.'

'And one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.'

Ruddy marvellous.

That was quick, mate.

- What are you doing, Mickey? - I'm off, Rob. Let me pass.

- Not with that rucksack, you're not. - Mickey.

Leave it. Let me pass, Rob.

This is a seriously bad idea, Mickey.

MICKEY: I'm famous for them, aren't I?

You're gonna throw it all away?

What exactly am I throwing away, Rob?

Lorraine's left me. I never see the kids.

I'm up to my ears in debt. There's nothing to throw away.

You'll get caught. You don't want to be an ex-copper in jail.

I'll disappear, Rob. It's my job. I'm an expert.

I haven't been Mickey Dent for as long as I can remember.

Now move, will you, please?

I'd rather not sh**t you.

The next one won't miss.

- Good lad. - Why am I not surprised, Mickey?

You've been a failure all your life.

Shut your mouth, Rachel.

You failed your wife. You failed your kids.

You failed as a copper till they put you with the lowlifes.

And now you've failed as a detective.

I won't fail as a criminal. I'm qualified.

You'll make a lousy criminal.

Just like you made a lousy boyfriend.

You cow.

You know, I used to admire you.

Admire this. SPITS

'You do have to be rather careful

to keep track of where your centre of mass is.'

'Sometimes it takes maybe four easy paces

to bring you to a fairly smooth stop.'

'Like a football player, you just have to put out to the side

and cut a little bit.'

You saved my life tonight.

LAUGHS

I suppose.

- You know, in China... - China?

If you save somebody's life,

then you are responsible for them forever.

We're not in China, Rob.

When was he your boyfriend?

You said he was a lousy boyfriend.

When we were training.

Before us?

After us?

In China.

Gina.

Where have you been?

Thank you. You're a nice man.

Oh, your head gasket will be here first thing in the morning.

You'll be off before you know it.

GINA: I missed you.

- Oh, right. - That's Neil Armstrong.

I don't know about men on the moon. Those two are from another planet.

- Night. - Night.

I hope Mrs Ventress catches this.

- OSCAR: Yeah, I hope so. - 'One small step for man...'

'...one giant leap for mankind.'