01x01 - Episode 1

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DOOR OPENS

HE CLEARS THROAT

WOMAN: They're ready for you now.

OK.

There's no rush.
Just... take a moment.

I'm fine. I'm...

CLEARS THROAT
I'm fine.

HE EXHALES

Do you want to come through?

CHRIS INHALES SHARPLY

What I'm gonna do is take you
through to the viewing room.

There's no hurry,
so please take your time.

From here on,
it'll only be the three of us.

Now, do you need me to explain
what's going to happen?

Yeah, yeah, we know what happens.
We're police officers.

Well, I am.
I was.

SHE CLEARS THROAT

Can you follow me, please?

WHISPERS: Come on.

SHE INHALES SHARPLY

MUFFLED SOBS

SHE BREATHES SHAKILY

That's not her.

I knew.

I knew it wasn't her. I knew.

She wouldn't have stayed
in Edinburgh.

It's too close to us.
It's too small.

I wonder who her parents are.

HE SCOFFS
Did they know she was missing?

Are they even looking for her?

HE SNIFFS

HE SIGHS

HE EXHALES

BELLS TOLL
Come on. Let's go home.

Hey...

Come on.

I've got to go to London.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you mean?

What do you mean,
you're going to London?

You said you'd never go back there.

Michelle.

Michelle!
You can't go to London.

It's dangerous for you. Stop.
I am going.

Let's go home.
I am not going home.

You need to stay
in case Olivia comes back.

Let go!

Is everything OK?
Yeah, erm...

Sure? Yeah, it's just...
It's all a bit... difficult.

You need to try and stay calm.

Er, thank you for all your help. OK?

BAGPIPES PLAY

What?

What?!

BREATHES HEAVILY

Michelle!

Sorry, excuse me.

TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Thank you.

BREATHES HEAVILY

DIAL TONE

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

TANNOY: 'Platform 7 is the 09:00
service to London King's Cross,

'calling at Alnmouth...'

WHISTLE BLOWS

Michelle!

TRAIN DOORS BEEP

PANTING

MUSIC: 'The Devil g*n'
by Frankie Miller

# I don't mind you
Laughing in my face

# I don't mind
The way you take me down

# Where in the world would you run?

# Raised by the seven daughter

# Born of the devil g*n... #

HE SIGHS

HE SIGHS

PHONE VIBRATES

DIAL TONE

GIRL: 'Hi, I'm not available
right now.

'Leave a message,
and I may get back to you.'

BEEP

I just wanted to hear your voice,
love.

HE EXHALES

INDISTINCT

MICHELLE: 'Hi, I'm afraid
I can't take your call right now.

'But if this is you, Olivia,
damn it, please leave a message.

'Mum and Dad, we...
we love you very much.'

BEEP

Michelle, you need to phone me.

I need to know you're OK and...

Anyway, just... phone me, OK?
Please.

Bye.

Morning. Cheers.
Aye, no problem.

All right?
Morning, sir.

Hi, Chris.
Morning, Chris.

All right?
All right?

BACKGROUND PHONE CHATTER

Chris...

Yeah?
How are you doing?

Mm...

Fine, boss, I'm fine.

HE EXHALES

It wasn't Olivia.

Oh, Chris. Thank goodness, eh?

SIGHING: Aye.

Just some other poor wee lass
that nobody cares about.

Well, we care.

And you know I'm here
if you need to talk.

I need somebody to go to
an armed robbery on a delivery van.

Shouldn't that be an MIT shirt?
No.

There's no money.
It's a supermarket delivery van.

HE EXHALES
OK.

CHRIS: 'Michelle,
you need to phone me.

'I need to know you're OK and...

'Anyway, just... phone me, OK?
Please.'

DIAL TONE

Tony!

It's Sarah. Jones.

SHE GIGGLES

Yeah, that Sarah Jones.

I'm in London. I need to meet up.

LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

MUSIC: 'Hurdy Gurdy Man'
by Donovan

# Thrown like a star
In my vast sleep

# I opened my eyes to take a peek

# To find that I was by the sea

# Gazing with tranquillity

# 'Twas then
When the hurdy gurdy man

# Came singing songs of love

# Then when the hurdy gurdy man

# Came singing songs of love... #

They even took the vegetables.

Aye. If you can get
some footage for me.

Aye, no bother.
Mm-hm.

The driver's there.
Uh-huh.

I need to go to hospital.

Absolutely, we'll be
taking you there in one minute.

Look at my nose, man.
Aye, looks really sore (!)

So, he didn't actually
see the knife.

He said that the woman said that

he'd be getting stabbed
if he resisted,

so he ran off and he hid
until they were finished.

So there's no weapon?
Doesn't seem like it.

So, I've got some CCTV in the area,
I'll start trawling through it.

DISTANT CHATTER

Oh, sh*t. Forgot they were in.

Sorry to interrupt, guys,

we're just showing
the Justice Minister around.

This is Detective Sergeant Rahman.

Robert Wallace.
How do you do?

Nice to meet you.
This is a local team of detectives.

They work on cases
that are less serious

than those the Major Investigations
Teams would do.

And, erm, what are you investigating
at the moment?

Well, it is a number of things,
usually. Erm...

Car theft, serious as*ault.

We had an armed robbery
come in this morning.

Chris can tell you more about that.

Chris?
Hey? Oh, sorry.

Er, sorry.
The robbery on the Asda van?

Why would anybody rob
a supermarket delivery van?

For food.

You know, people need to eat.

This is Chris O'Neill,
he's a detective here.

Hello.
All right?

Full disclosure,
Chris is actually my brother.

Oh, really? And you're a...

Detective constable.
Right. Great.

You've been in this job a while.
Mm-hm. Yes, I have.

I mean, not here all the time,
you know, but...

I'm sure you make
a valuable contribution.

Right, well, we'll, er...
we'll let you get on.

Yes, good luck with the Tesco van.

Asda.
Asda.

Ah, yes, of course, Asda.
Why did I say Tesco?

Must be thinking of my shopping.
LAUGHTER

Well, that was excruciating.

Yeah, for me, mostly.
Come on, Chris.

You'd hate to be stuck
doing that sort of stuff.

Bill Martin.
Who?

Bill Martin, he used to be up here.

Serious Crimes, then he moved on
to Counter Terror, Special Branch.

I thought he was down in London.

He is best avoided.

Noted.

PHONE RINGS

Michelle?

'Chris, it's Sam Wishart.
Please don't hang up.

'Chris?'
Yeah, it's me.

'I know you've been
dodging my calls,

'but I really need to see you.
Today.'

Hiya.

HE CLEARS THROAT

Did you want a coffee or anything?

No, no, I'm fine. I can't...
I can't stay long.

Listen, I'm sorry
I've not been in touch.

And why would you have been
in touch?

I was a mistake,
you said it yourself.

That's not what I meant.

Look, Chris,
just don't worry about it.

Yeah.

So, you wanted to talk to me
about something?

Yeah, well, erm...

It's about an old case.

An investigation
into a missing girl.

Her name was Julie Mackie.

Sam, I don't have the authority
to talk to you off the record.

And I won't tell anyone
that we spoke, Chris.

I just wanted to know
what you knew about it.

HE SIGHS
Erm, well...

It was a long time ago.
16 years. Mm-hm.

But it was all over the papers
at the time.

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

But I didn't have
anything to do with it, so...

Yeah, but Philip worked on it.

Did he ever talk about it to you?

No, not really.

Just that, you know, it wasn't good

because they never got
to the bottom of it.

They never found the girl
and she's still missing.

What is this, Sam?
You writing a story about this?

16 years is a long time
for someone to be missing.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know how
anybody can cope with that.

Jim Mackie, Julie's dad...

he said she was kidnapped.

I didn't know that.

Did the police think
it might have been him?

I don't know, Sam.

Statistically, you normally end up
back at the family, you know.

The people that you know
are the ones that hurt you.

Can you ask your brother
about this for me?

No.
Please.

Just ask him what he thought
of Jim Mackie,

if he was a credible person,
if he was sane.

I will not be asking my brother
about any of this,

and I shouldn't even really be here.

But you are here.

Yeah. And if you're feeling bad
about what happened between us,

then just answer my questions.

Aye. OK.

I have information
that a phone call was made

to the Mackie house by a kidnapper

and the police covered it up.

Your brother was part of it.

That's nonsense.
It's true.

There's a recording of the call
to the house that night.

Sam, if you are doing
a story about this

and you need more information,
the best thing you can do

is contact the Scottish
Police Service News Desk Manager.

But I think
you already know that, eh?

Yeah.

Jesus, it is you.

Sarah Jones.

Back from the dead.

BEEPING

BACKGROUND CHATTER,
LAUGHTER

MAN: All right, see you, fella.

MAN 2: Get a game of golf in
next week, eh?

Get thrashed again, eh?

Chris.
Oh, you're still here?

Aye, meetings. Yeah, meetings.

I'm sorry about earlier,

I didn't mean to embarrass you
or anything,

saying I was your brother.
You are my brother.

I am, aye.

So, was that Bill Martin up here
now? He works for a security company

that provides the protection
officers for the government.

Oh, right, that's how he was in.

I never liked him.
He's a bully and a bigot.

Aye. He's an acquired taste.

Listen, I-I'm sorry
I've not been in touch.

You're a busy man.
No, no, no.

Chris, there's no excuse.
Not with what's going on with you.

Any news?

CHRIS SIGHS
Well, we were in...

We were in Edinburgh,
an ID, this morning.

Young girl pulled out of the Forth.

PHILIP EXHALES SHARPLY

It wasn't Olivia.

Listen, Olivia will come back.
It's been three weeks.

That's not long.
It's not long at all.

There's kids go missing
for a long time.

CHRIS SCOFFS
OK, that's not what I mean.

What I mean is,
she's you and Michelle's daughter,

she's my niece, you know,
she's part of us.

Whatever was wrong,
whatever happened...

Nothing happened.
Nothing happened.

I don't know why she left,
she just left.

No, I'm not saying
anything happened, Chris,

I'm just saying...

I'm just saying,
if there's anything I can do,

you just have to ask.

You know that, don't you?

Aye.
OK.

Listen, I have to get back
to Gartcosh.

Yeah, yeah, I should go in, too.

Listen, you should come round
to the new house.

You and Michelle.

And Gemma would love
to see you both. Mm.

And Esme.
Yeah. Aye.

I'll be in touch.
Yeah.

Hey, Philip!

Listen...

Do you remember a girl
called Julie Mackie?

Aye, the family said
it was a kidnapping,

but it was a disappearance.

No, I mean, there was no evidence
to the contrary. Right.

So what do you think happened?

I don't know.

Dad was a crank, I remember that.

What's wrong?
I don't know, just...

That's what people are gonna say
about me

if Olivia doesn't come back.

No, they're not.
Yeah, you just said it yourself.

Dad was a crank, everybody always
thinks it's the family.

Chris, come on, I didn't mean that.

What are you doing
thinking about Julie Mackie?

You'll t*rture yourself with that.

Anyway...

Journalist asked me about it today,
so...

Journalist? What journalist?

Samantha Wishart,
she's a freelance.

You shouldn't be
meeting journalists.

It's a notifiable association.
I know, I know. I just...

It wasn't about work, I just...

I bumped into her
and she asked me about it.

OK, see, if she comes back to you
about this, you let me know. OK?

All right, yeah, sure.
OK.

Late.
Yeah.

MUSIC: 'Put It Where You Want It'
by The Crusaders

MUFFLED MUSIC CONTINUES

MUSIC STOPS,
BEEPING

Piers?

I need to get in touch with him.

Are you mad?
After what you did to him?

It's important.

You can't get back in touch
with Piers, trust me on this.

You put him in jail for ten years.

You think he's just going to have
a cup of tea and a chat?

You're gonna reminisce
over the good old days?

He will k*ll you.

What did you do, Sarah?

Please, Tony.

You got a new life now.

If you know what's good for you,
you will go home.

I'm not going home.

Do what you want,
nothing to do with me.

How many months is she?

I would say seven, at least.

You think they're a family?
Don't recognise any of them.

No, me neither.

But we don't know all the messed-up
families in the world, hey?

PHONE RINGS

CHRIS SIGHS DEEPLY

HE CLEARS THROAT

KNOCKING

RINGS DOORBELL

BANGING

BANGING
Mr Mackie!

Mr Mackie! I know you're in there.

Mr Mackie!

DOOR UNLOCKS

Who are you?
I just need to talk to you.

I don't wanna speak to you.

Please, Mr Mackie, I just need to
ask you about your daughter.

Get your foot out the door!

DOOR SLAMS AND LOCKS

BANGING
Mr Mackie, please!

I need to talk to you.

My daughter's missing as well!

DOOR UNLOCKS

Oh, thank you.

Sit down.

Are you...
CLEARS THROAT

..still working?

No.

I haven't worked in a long time.

Everything changed after Julie...

disappeared.

So, when did
your daughter go missing?

Well, it was a few weeks ago.

She went to Central Station,
she took a train to Edinburgh,

we saw it on the CCTV,
and then she just...

She disappeared.

She didn't have her bank card on her
or her phone.

We went through
and we took... flyers, you know?

Went to all the shelters,
the hospitals.

No sign of her.
Nothing since?

Haven't heard from her
in three weeks.

Three weeks.
Yeah.

Not even a phone call.

JIM SIGHS
Hm.

My wife used to dream of...
Julie phoning.

She was obsessed.

Answerphone always had to be on
just in case...

..she phoned. But...

..I think people were...

People were listening to us.

Listening to you?
Mm.

Listening to us.

Is your wife, is she here, or...?

No, she's dead.

Oh. Oh, I'm... I'm sorry.

She never got over it.

She was the only one
that heard the kidnapper's voice.

First time he phoned,
before the police came,

she answered it.

All she ever wanted
was her wee girl back.

That's all your wife will want, too.

Yeah. Yeah.

What did the police say
about your daughter?

Well, there's not much they can do,
eh?

There was no sign of foul play,
she's almost 18,

past the age where she can make her
own decisions.

Ah, no use to me, either.

Police are corrupt.

We're not all like that.

Sorry?

I mean, the police.
COUGHS

The police,
they're not all like that.

No, you said "we".

Who's "we"?

Who are you?

Jim...

I'm a policeman.

OK, I'm sorry I didn't tell you,
I just really needed to talk to you.

You're a policeman?
Yes.

But my daughter IS missing.

I just thought
you might understand...

Get out!
GRUNTS

My daughter was kidnapped
by the security services.

And she was m*rder*d
because I knew about Six Four.

Mr Mackie! Mr Mackie! I'm sorry!

GRUNTS

Mr Mackie?

Mr Mackie!
DOOR LOCKS

Mr Mackie!

What do you mean
you knew about Six Four?

What is Six Four?

Mr Mackie!

BELL TOLLS

And this follows on from the fact
that the variance of a sum

of independent random variables
is the sum of the variances.

Yes? Could you apply this formula
for any sort of probability?

You could apply this
to medical research,

social sciences...

What about gambling?

Binomial distribution
can be applied to gambling, yes.

However, I'm think I'm contractually
obliged to tell you

that gambling is not something
we encourage here at Strathalmond.

You're so boring.
House always wins, Miss Wallace.

BELL RINGS
House always wins.

KEYS JANGLING

DOOR CREAKS

SIGHS

SIGHS

All right, mate!

What you doin'?

Oh, f...

For God's sake, what are you doing?!

CAR REVS

SHE CRIES OUT

Ah!

sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!

TYRES SCREECHING

What?

'This is not the time to
try and make an accommodation

'with a far right,
English, nationalist government.

'This is the time
to restore Scotland's place

'as a progressive country,
back at the heart of Europe.'

INTERVIEWER: 'An action that
could see the leaders of your party,

'of your government
hauled through the courts.'

'Then so be it.'

'The leadership of your party

'has committed to only holding
a legal referendum.'

'And I think that's a mistake.'

'How could the question of legality
be a mistake?'

'We have a government in Westminster
that breaks the law

'and rides roughshod over the
constitution of the United Kingdom,

'a government who is implacably
opposed to Scottish independence

'and who will never,
under any circumstances,

'grant Scotland the right
to choose its own destiny.

'Therefore, we have no choice
but to take the unilateral steps

'of holding another referendum
on independence.'

'So, no advisory referendum,

'straight to
an ill*gal wildcat vote?'

'If the leadership of my party
and our government

'do not understand
that this is absolutely the time

'for the people of Scotland
to decide their future,

'then I'm willing to challenge for
that leadership myself.'

PHONE RINGS

'You began your career
at Westminster,

'then you went back
to the Scottish Parliament...'

Hello?

'Hello?'
Chris.

CHRIS SIGHS
'Michelle.'

Erm... I'm sorry.

About today.

'OK, why didn't you call me
earlier?'

Why didn't you let me know
that you were OK?

I've been worried.

'I know, I know, I know.
I should have called.'

You shouldn't be down there.

'You need to be here.
What can I do up here on my own?'

I'm not coming back, Chris.
Not at the moment.

Why not?
'I told you, I just... I...'

I need to do something,

I need to feel
like I'm doing something.

'Can you at least tell me
what you're trying to do?'

EXHALES

OK.

OK, listen...

If this is anything to do
with the affair, I am so sorry,

but I told you...

I'm not getting into this
at the moment, Chris.

DOORBELL RINGS
SAM: Chris!

We need to concentrate
on finding Olivia.

BANGING
Chris, open the door!

Chris, who's that?

BANGING

Tell your brother
I won't be intimidated!

Sam. Sam!

I met you this afternoon,

and then after work,
a car follows me home

and tries to run me off the road
on the Erskine Bridge.

A police car did that?
No.

No, not a police car, a black SUV.

Who would that be?
I dunno, you tell me.

What did you do?

Run off and tell 'em
right after you met me?

Run off and tell who?
Philip!

Did you run and tell him
what we talked about?

No. No, I haven't told anyone.
You're lying.

You probably ran straight to him.
Why would I do that, Sam?

Because I told you your brother
tried to cover up the kidnap

of Julie Mackie.

Sam, come on, come on...
Just tell them to back off, Chris!

ENGINE STARTS

Michelle? Michelle!

Did you order food, mate?

Aye. Yeah.

DIAL TONE

'Tony? No, no, no, no, no.

'Please, please
don't put the phone down.

'Please don't put the phone down.'

I'll tell you why.

I need to talk to Piers.

It's...

..about my daughter.

MINISTER ON TV: 'Honesty about these
things is a far better strategy

'than perhaps the fudges
around these issues...'

DIAL TONE

MICHELLE: 'Hi, I'm afraid
I can't take your call right now.

'But if this is you, Olivia,
darling...'

PHONE CLICKS OFF

'I've always tried to adhere
to Alastair Gray's maxim -

'you should work as if you live in
the early days of a better nation.'

'OK. Good luck with that, minister.
Thank you very much.'

DISTANT RADIO

SONG: 'Long Cool Woman
In A Black Dress'

Boo!

Come on. Stop this, it's cold.

SCREAMS

Stop! What are you doing?!

Let me go! Let go!

# Saturday night, I was downtown

# Working for the FBI

# Sittin' in a nest of bad men

# Whiskey bottles piling high

# Had it all

# Had it all

# Had it all

# Had it all. #