01x05 - Episode 5

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Whatever mess you're in,

whoever you're working for,

you keep Harry out of it.

I want what you've got.

You start work for me here,

tomorrow.

DCI Virdee.

Tell them what you did.

Pawa. Bradford's most violent

kingpin.

Alastair.

I am going to get you out of here.

Now our game begins.

DISTANT SHOUTING

CLANKING

DISTANT SCREAMING

CLANKING

CLANKING CONTINUES

BUZZING

IN PUNJABI:

Hmm?

I have a different deal for you,

Officer Sharma.

Do you want to be boss

of this prison?

Or the most powerful man

in the whole Punjab?

Help me escape.

And get back to England.

This isn't about power.

OFFICER SHARMA CHUCKLES

GROANING

BUZZING

HE SHOUTS

LABOURED BREATHING

Harry Virdee, 39, GCS 10,

multiple wasp stings to torso

and neck. Anaphylactic response.

Start IV adrenaline

and prep the chlorphenamine.

Someone page the anaesthetist

in case we need an airway.

Let me help.

Saima, you need to leave, please.

No, let me help. You know you can't.

Step out. I'm not leaving him.

Harry, Harry, it's me,

it's Saima.

You're going to be OK. I'm not

going anywhere, all right?

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

SOCO will sweep this place

when they've finished

with Henford's house.

Looks like he hasn't

been in there for months.

The extermination team

has just left.

Apparently it's safe to go in.

Let's go.

Any news on DCI Virdee?

No.

He's covered in leeches.

It's Matthew Henford,

the owner of this place.

Pawa's former accountant.

He testified at his trial.

CONWAY: We found him

collapsed on the street

outside a suspect's house.

We're lucky we got to him in time.

How did you not know where he was?

He didn't have his radio.

Why not?

SHE SIGHS

Why didn't he have his radio?

The decision was made to suspend him

from duty.

What? Why? I can't say.

It's for Harry to tell you.

Oh. I just can't say.

Mm. Right.

Saima?

Dad.

How are you? Are you OK?

Dr Azhar called me.

She told me what happened.

How's he doing?

He's stable.

It looks very serious.

Does his family know?

I can't deal with them right now.

Especially not his dad.

Not after the way he's treated us.

Come on. You need a break.

Let's step outside,

and get some fresh air, huh?

Yeah, all right.

WHISPERS: Bye.

PHONE BUZZES

I'm worried Vasil's

going to retaliate.

Maybe you should lay low

for a while. Work from home.

Work from home?

Nothing's going to happen to me.

What's wrong?

Got a lot going on.

Big shipment coming in,

new kids starting, that's all.

It's been a while

since I've seen you like this.

Harry?

The past, Soph, it never goes away.

Every decision we make

has to be answered for.

Why are you doing this?

Did you k*ll him, the detective?

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Who is this?

Boardman, I have your son.

What do you want?

I intend to surrender

at City Park tonight

with Alastair unharmed.

On one non-negotiable condition.

DCI Harry Virdee.

Not exactly

who I wanted to wake up to.

Pretty sure you've woken up

to worse faces than mine.

Drove your car here,

parked it outside.

How bad was I?

sh*t-ton of stings.

Anaphylactic shock.

We found Henford.

Been dead a while.

Covered in parasitic leeches.

What about Alastair?

Gone.

Any ID on the suspect?

I mean, he hit me over the head

with a g*n and stuck it in my mouth

before I passed out.

I can't be certain,

but it looked like Jai Pawa.

I thought we got confirmation

that he was still

in a Punjab central prison.

We did.

Unless it was fake.

Get on that, yeah?

Something's not adding up.

I was just leaving.

Harry wasn't certain, but he said

the guy who attacked him

looked like Pawa.

Contact the British Consulate

in Punjab.

I need them to interview

whoever took this video.

What are you thinking?

That there's a wider conspiracy

at play here.

VASIL: Find out what happened

at my tearoom yesterday.

Boss.

Someone is going to pay for this.

Yes, boss. Ateeq!

Tell me.

Look, I got into contact

with Bradford West.

And the whole abduction thing

made them trust me.

The boss is called Riaz Hyatt.

And he'll be at this location today.

Hey.

Our plan, it worked.

My tearoom was hit yesterday.

I'm thinking it was Bradford West.

You know anything about this?

If I knew anything, you'd know.

Listen, I've done what you asked.

HE SCOFFS

Jepja.

Ten grand.

For you.

OK? You go now.

You are a real soldier for Vasil.

Take out this Riaz Hyatt.

And the kid?

You know what to do with him.

CONWAY: City Park is being

shut down, businesses closed

and an evacuation order is in place.

British Consulate have confirmed

Jai Pawa escaped from prison

and those videos were faked.

I think Jai Pawa's here

and he's got Alastair.

Get a team. Find Sophie Brodenham,

and any other members of Pawa's crew

who co-operated with the prosecution

and then disappeared

into witness protection.

We're running out of time.

We need to go and see Harry.

Tell him about the call.

Sir, our job isn't

to give criminals what they want.

We can't just

shut down the city for one man.

Our job is to save my son!

PRAYING

How are you feeling?

Like I've had the sh*t

kicked out of me.

Conway said you were suspended?

Well, it's just

He needs to rest.

Whoever's done this to you

has contacted me directly.

He's ready to surrender

and release Alastair.

But he's got conditions.

He claims he'll surrender tonight

in City Park

and release Alastair, but

..only to you, Harry.

Now, he says he won't be armed.

No, not a chance.

You can't seriously

be considering this.

I thought he was suspended.

Well, that's been rescinded.

The suspension

was a misunderstanding.

You're really going to walk back

into the hands of the man

who put you in here

in the first place?

You'd have full tactical support.

Please! My son's life is at risk.

Excuse me.

Saima.

DOOR SLAMS

Sai! Saima, wait, man.

Why did they suspend you?

Our suspect forced me

to confess I'd m*rder*d someone.

Right?

Conway had no choice

while they investigated.

Why would he get you to do that?

What are you asking me?

Whoever's doing this

has got a grudge against me,

my family. That's all I know.

Has it got anything to do with this?

I've already given Riaz his back.

I have been going over and over

this, trying to rationalise

why you'd be talking to Riaz

using a burner phone.

What the f*ck is going on, Harry?

That's something

you need to ask Riaz.

I have asked him.

And now I'm asking you.

You deserve the truth, Saima

..but right now Alastair's life

is in danger, so I just..

I need you to trust me.

Please.

We both know you're going to do this

regardless of what I say.

PHONE RINGS

Riaz, where you at?

I need a one-to-one.

RIAZ: About Saima?

She knows.

Meet me at the warehouse.

Hello, boss.

Ta-ra, boss.

I told you,

I don't do minimum wage sh*t.

Nothing wrong

with minimum wage sh*t.

Is that how you started, yeah?

Nah.

I grafted for free

in me dad's corner shop.

Everyone does that.

Maxed out in some dead-end job.

That ain't living.

What do you know about living?

Choices and that, innit.

What sort of choices?

Ones that give you options.

A good education does that.

I've got a juvie record.

That door's closed.

I were hitting good grades, though.

New crowd. New vibe.

sh*t happens.

Yeah, sh*t happens.

Why'd you say Vasil lifted you?

I wanted to switch to you lot,

Bradford West.

I was sick of not

climbing the ladder in Vasil's crew.

But you know the game.

No switching.

I was making moves

to bring some others with me.

And Vasil wanted to send a message.

I were like you once.

I had prospects. Got taken.

Want to know why I got in this game?

Money.

Power. Nah.

People. Family. Ethics.

Right, kids should be kids,

not runners.

You've seen how Vasil does things,

I do it different.

I create real jobs from all of this.

You'll see.

I entered this world to change it.

You understand?

You're a good kid, Ateeq.

Now, crack on.

It's not minimum wage.

It's me trusting you.

Riaz!

g*nshots

Riaz!

Is he still breathing?

TARA: Thanks for meeting me.

SAIMA: It's all right.

It sounded important on the phone.

I wanted to ask you about something.

Mm-hm?

Who were Paul King?

Where did you hear that name?

Well, I wanted to see if the 420

on my neck was something to do

with your old shop,

so I went there yesterday.

Tara, don't you think

you should be taking it easy?

Look

..when I arrived, Uncle Harry

and your Riaz were there.

I heard them talking

about something. They were angry.

And something about this

Paul King.

He were a thug who robbed our shop

in 2001,

when the riots were happening.

Nearly k*lled me mum,

but Riaz

m*rder*d him.

Well, it was self-defence.

Look

..do you not think

all this is connected?

Eh

What do you mean?

I don't think Harry and Riaz

are the men we think they are.

Saima's father.

This morning, when I was getting

ready to come here,

I was wearing my shalwar kameez.

Then I changed into these.

You know why?

30 years ago,

I bought a shop on Lammington Lane.

Very difficult in those days.

Very difficult, fully white area.

I thought, if I dress

like the white man,

then maybe they'll see me

just like them.

Maybe they'll be nicer to me.

This morning

when I was coming here to see you

..it felt like those times again.

If I wore my shalwar kameez,

you would see only a Muslim man

and not Ubaid.

Ah.

I've cleared the whole floor,

let's get you in the office.

Easy. There you go, sit down there.

That's it.

We should blue light him!

And say what?

He got shot in a f*ck' drive-by?

What do you reckon

that does to us all?

What do you reckon

that does to this place, eh?

It's stuck in your arm.

Riaz, let me call this in.

No. I'm going to have to take it

out, stop the bleeding.

You good? Do it.

Pin him.

This is going to hurt.

sh*t.

Come on. Almost there

Got it!

Get me a pen!

I'll make a tourniquet.

Easy, easy.

What you want from me?

I want you to let go

what Harry and Saima did.

Look Look where we are.

How long have we got left, hmm?

We are the generation whose hearts

were back in our homeland,

but our minds were trying

to figure a way out,

on how to lead a new life.

We may not have got

everything we wanted

but we moved here for more choices.

Then to deny our children

the most important choice?

My late wife used to say,

if we don't embrace change

then we will always lose.

The greatest gift Aaron has?

He will never know any of this pain.

He won't drown in history.

He'll have his own identity.

English? Indian? Pakistani?

Who knows?

Who cares?

What did you say to Saima?

Do you know what it is, yeah.

I told her exactly the same

as I'm telling you now.

Stay away from me.

Stay out of my business.

I'm dropping every f*cking body

Vasil's got.

You make that move,

everything changes.

I told you before, Harry

..there can only be one king

in this city.

Riaz

Look at me.

You do this

..you'll never be the same again.

Trust me.

It's time for you to leave.

I've done what you asked.

Put the word out

that Vasil's got his man.

As of now, you're dead.

I'm going to look into

who gave away our location.

Vasil will drop his guard.

That's when we take him out.

Get the team ready.

Timeframe?

Within 48 hours.

What about a medic? En route.

Send everyone home.

We need to lay low.

Meet me back at the house.

Done!

PHONE BUZZES

Is it done?

Yeah.

You got him.

He's dead.

What are you doing?

Please let me go.

What are you going to do with that?

Some deaths need to be slow.

Some deaths are worth savouring.

Please, just let me go.

MUFFLED SPEECH

ARUs will be surrounding

the perimeter.

A final recap

before you're all dismissed.

sn*pers will be positioned

here and here.

ARUs will be surrounding

the perimeter.

We have locked down the perimeter

around City Park

and have roadblocks set up on all

routes which our suspect could use.

Our suspect claims

he will not be armed

but we will abort

if we are not satisfied.

Let's get to it.

Dismissed.

Is me firearm ready, yet?

We're arming Virdee?

Yes. As a precaution.

We can't take any risks

dealing with this m*rder*r.

Let's bring Alastair home.

Riaz?

CHLOE: Yeah, let me grab it

from the office.

sh*t!

Who are you?

I'm Saima, Riaz's sister.

I'm just waiting for him.

Riaz is busy,

can't see you right now.

I'll tell him

you came round, all right?

Right.

Doctor's done a good job,

considering.

I pay him enough.

Enzo just told me

there's a big police operation

in City Park tonight.

Whole area's on lockdown.

I need to go.

Where?

We take Vasil tonight

while the police are distracted.

I'm going with them.

Look at the state of you.

Are you crazy?

It's time me and Vasil

came face-to-face.

It's time I got my hands dirty.

PHONE BUZZES

How did it go?

OK.

They've got Vasil,

they'll be here in ten minutes.

We also know who the snitch is.

Want them here?

HELICOPTER ROTOR WHIRS

INDISTINCT SHOUTS

I'm running the operation tonight,

Harry.

I won't have UKCA all over this,

not with one of mine on the line.

If you feel any threat,

you do not hesitate.

You use your weapon.

He won't get the better of me again.

Come on, move. Come on.

Put them in the loading bay.

f*ck you!

Vasil is not afraid to die!

You wanted to play gangster, yeah?

g*n CLICKS

Then play.

Well, go on.

What are you waiting for?

sh**t him.

Take his life.

What's wrong, hmm?

I told you before,

kids don't belong in this world.

The f*ck do you know

about being a kid in this city?

I never had a choice in all this!

Well, you wanted

the leader of Bradford West.

You've got him.

VASIL LAUGHS

This is only the beginning for you.

When my death comes

GUNSHO

PHONE RINGS

PHONE CONTINUES RINGING

RINGING STOPS

CONWAY: Everyone in position?

OFFICER: Alpha team, standing by.

How you feeling, Harry? Over.

Solid.

Aerial unit have a visual, Harry.

He's in a Ford Transit van

on Manchester Road. Over.

Van approaching.

He's pulling into the square.

Received. Over.

Remember what I said, Harry.

Any threat, use your weapon.

Copy that.

Confirm visual on the suspect.

Negative.

Windows blacked out. Over.

Standby, everyone.

All units standing by.

Door's opening.

I see it.

I've got eyes on Alastair.

Move.

Confirming,

suspect appears to be Jai Pawa.

Over.

There's some sort of device

on Alastair's neck. Over.

Any sudden moves,

and his head comes off, Harry.

Alpha team, there's no clear

visual on the device.

We do have a clear shot.

Please advise, over.

Negative. We need more detail

on the device. Over.

We still have the shot.

Clear line of sight on suspect.

Does anyone have a visual

on the device? Over.

I have.

The device is around Alastair's neck

with a wire

connected to Pawa's hand.

Might be a dead man's switch.

Do not take the shot on Pawa.

I repeat, do not take the shot.

All teams acknowledge, over.

Acknowledged. Over.

Jai Pawa, stop there.

STOP THERE!

Lift up your shirt.

Show me you're not wired.

No wires.

No expl*sive vest. Over.

DCI Virdee, we meet again.

Let Alastair go.

You got what you asked for.

Exactly as I imagined.

Take your earpiece out

and throw it away.

Why? I want to talk to you.

Just us.

Do it.

Or I let go of this button

..and Alastair dies.

If you remove it,

we will have no comms, Harry.

There. Now let him go.

Don't let go.

Good luck.

Alastair, walk slowly. Don't look

back, you're doing really well.

Go! On your knees! Now!

Hands behind your head!

Get Alastair out of there!

Here they come.

On your f*cking knees!

Hostage appears unharmed.

Where did you get this?!

It's Saima's.

You didn't really think

this was over, did you?

I have Saima in my possession

and if you tell anyone I have her,

she dies.

You're lying!

You have the necklace, Harry.

Now, Harry, we'll see just how far

you'll go to save her life.

What do you want?

Vengeance.

Pawa's got Saima.

He's going to k*ll her.

We do this,

put everything on the line,

you work for us.

Bring Sophie to me.

She will die at my hands. Or

..Saima dies.