02x02 - The Gambler

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Stop climate genocide!

SLURRED: I know who did it.
It was a police officer.

I told the officer at the scene.
Nicky Taylor.

We'll also need your phone,
PC Taylor.

So you need a solicitor now.
Marcus Calderwood

identified me before he died
as the driver in the hit-and-run.

I'm Officer X.

The disappearance of the bike
and the suspect's vehicle means

we don't have meaningful forensics
yet.

Is Sandra Vodanovic still driving
the vehicle?

Yes. So she drove your car to
Serbia?

Yeah. Why?

Well, she wants a dog. And it had
nothing to do with removing evidence

from a vehicle that had
just been in a collision?

Sandy clipped the car in the gym,
when she was pulling out

on Saturday. So she'll probably get
it fixed on the way.

POLSA just found a bike pedal
half-submerged in the ditch.

Testing's going to take a little
while, but we have a record

of the make, colour, and year of
Justin's vehicle,

which we'll test against any paint
found on the pedal.

We know D4's the name of
your group chat.

Have you wiped it already?

Who's that? Marcus's neighbour.

I think Marcus mentioned him.

Who's behind this blog?

It's anonymous
and almost certainly encrypted.

What are they saying about
a vendetta?

That Marcus had made complaints
about Mitchell

that had been ignored.

They're obviously getting
their information from somewhere.

Why did you have such animosity
towards him?

I attended a crash.
Car T-boned, went under a lorry.

Please, please, where's the
ambulance? Stay with me, Daniella.

I kept on telling her
she was all right.

But she wasn't. She was only
on that road because of them.

They closed the M23.

You wouldn't want to cause another
fatal accident, would you?

I haven't caused any fatal
accidents.

I'd hate for a car to just smash
into you one day,

leave you slowly dying
by the side of the road.

MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY

SAM SIGHS

HE SIGHS

HE TUTS

I'm outside the Magistrates' Court,
where the police have just

been granted an extension to the
period under which they can question

the suspect - leaving them
a further 36 hours

to decide
whether to bring a charge.

Oh... Ah! ..commiserations.

Yeah. Yeah. No medals for warm ups.

I'd be looking
at an early guilty plea.

Followed by the swish
of the guillotine.

Beats impunity. Metaphorically
speaking. Yeah, of course.

Well, I've got, er, circumstantial
evidence to demolish,

no doubt you've got a few pens
to push...

SHE WHISTLES
Well, until Crown Court, then!

Yeah. Hopefully you'll have
improved your disclosure procedures,

if it ever comes to that.
Yeah. Well, don't worry, Sam.

I'm going to bury you
in witness statements.

Yeah.

They've done your car, sir.

Yeah, I can see that.

What a shame.

It's a lovely car.

Arsehole.

You can't go anywhere in that.

If you need a lift,
just let me know.

Thanks. I might take you up
on that. Is it, er...?

PC Hollis. Becky.

Why did I think you were Sally?
No, that's just a stupid nickname.

I'm Becky.

It was them, wasn't it?

Because we've suspended PC Taylor.

Oh, I don't know, sir.

Er, maybe the CCTV will show
something.

It was them.

So, thanks to that headcam footage,
they've got the extension.

We have until 9pm tomorrow.

Personally, I think
we have enough for a charge already.

I'd like more information
about the vehicle and the pedal.

Well, they've found microscopic
paint flecks which they're checking.

Then there's Sandra Vodanovic, of
course. She won't come back.

The neighbour dispute
that Justin was called out to -

has that all been checked out?
I'll ask Southgate.

Given the profile of this case,
I want us to be watertight.

Of course. One stubborn f*ck
on the jury, and it's game over.

JUSTIN: Have they caught up
with Sandra yet?

SAM: Not to the
best of my knowledge.

You'll like her. Honestly.

So she's coming back, then?

Course she's coming back.
WITH the car?

Well, bit far to walk.

Are you married?

They'll test it against the pedal.

I've told you, I can't say anything
about the pedal.

That kind of forensics is
a minefield in hit-and-runs anyway.

Yeah. Yeah. I forgot you know
a thing or two about it, Justin.

Why don't you want to tell me
if you're married?

Because it's none of your business.
Right.

All right...

All right, What about D4?

D4. Fantastic bit of kit, Sam.

If you get one of them bad boys
in your hand for an hour or so,

you'll sleep like a baby.

When it comes to pressure-washers,
accept no substitute.

Right, so you named your group chat
after a pressure washer?

Mm-hm. It's a homage.

Just a bunch of mates who chat about
DIY

and organise the odd day at the
races.

Is PC Taylor part of the group?
Nicky? Yeah, he drifts in and out.

Did he warn you? Nope.

But they'll find this out,
so I'd better tell you.

He called somebody who did.

And that's actually a massive
pain in the arse,

because it makes me look
more suspicious.

Well, like you say, Justin -
they're sure to find that out.

But it'll probably go worse
for those idiots than for me.

I said it had nothing to do with me.

And if I did it - and I didn't -
I wouldn't have needed to be told.

Do you get nervous doing press
conferences?

Er, oh, no, no. No, I enjoy them.

Hi, Leila. Hey, Becky. PC Hollis and
I were on a particularly nasty

domestic abuse case together.

Oh, yeah, he played cymbals
with her ears.

She still can't walk straight
or hear properly.

He only got two years. Pathetic.
You did your best, though. Thanks.

Quick word?

OK. Bad news or not-so-bad news?

Bad news.

Paint flecks on the pedal don't
match the sample. sh*t!

Not-so-bad news?

Because of a mix-up with
the manufacturer

over the colour that was sent over -

it was Midnight Ash,
not Midnight Storm, apparently.

Anyway, they're retesting,

but they're also warning the pedal
condition might be problematic.

Argh! All right, the neighbour issue
Justin attended - Patrick Norris?

Yeah, annoyingly, BOTH officers
had bodycam switched off.

But it sounds like it was mostly
bog-standard disputes

over access and noise.

No such thing as a bog-standard
neighbour dispute.

I've done a manslaughter case before
that was caused by a dropped kerb.

Yeah, true, I suppose.
My boss is a bit concerned

about other options the defence
might latch on to.

Look, I'm dropping in on Norris
later to get his account.

Good afternoon. I'm, er, joined
today by DI Southgate

from Hampshire and the New Forest,
who's leading the investigation.

I'll let him bring you up to speed.

Thank you.
Good afternoon, everybody.

Er, this morning we were granted
a custody extension

for the individual arrested

in connection with the death of
Marcus Calderwood.

Er, I can now confirm the identity
of the police officer in question

as PC Justin Mitchell.

Er, we are also investigating
allegations that he was given

prior warning of his imminent
arrest by other colleagues

and was aided in the disposal
of evidence by Ms Sandra Vodanovic,

who has a warrant for her arrest.

Er, I can also confirm an officer
who attended the scene

has been suspended.

Now, we know that much of this
information has already appeared

in various anonymous online sources,
many of them inaccurate.

Yeah. And just jumping in there,
Miles, if I may.

Erm, irresponsible online
speculation also kills

an efficient investigation,

and prejudicial comment
kills a fair trial,

to which any suspect or accused
has a right.

Mm. I can further confirm
that the deceased and PC Mitchell

had come into contact

and that a complaint had been made
about PC Mitchell by the deceased.

That's about all I can say on the
matter really, but I will take...

Are PC Mitchell and PC Taylor
members of a group of officers

calling itself D4? And what can
you tell us about that group?

That is something that's currently
under investigation,

but, er, I have very little
information that I can share.

Marcus Calderwood later
submitted headcam footage

of harassment by PC Mitchell.

What action was taken
in response to that?

Er, it was investigated,

and was not deemed sufficient for
any further action at that time.

So a long history of harassment,

and the upshot is you can tell us
nothing.

It's not just a bad apple, is it?
The basket itself is rotten.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Felix.
Er, yes?

Boss?

We've got something.

That's one part of this
c*ck-and-bull story that checks out.

That's annoying.

Right, we need to talk to the
other driver and find out

their version of this incident,
as well as any insurance claims.

Yeah. There's gym CCTV footage,

and there's definitely a bump in the
car park.

Ah, Leila. Er, Felix, this is
Leila Hassoun-Kenny from the CPS.

Ah. Hi, Felix,
thanks for staying behind.

I've interviewed your mother!

Oh. Well, good.

Right,
well, I'll leave you guys to it.

You're more than welcome to join us.

Oh, no, no, it's fine.
I need to find out

what Detectives TikTok and Armchair
are saying on social media! Yeah.

So, um...

..I asked Helen to arrange a chat,

just to review your blog -
Indifference Kills.

MY blog?

Nobody's even been charged

so reporting restrictions don't yet
come into play.

OK. But in the meantime,

my job is to evaluate
evidence and decide

if a prosecution is in the public
interest and, most importantly,

if we have a hope of winning it.

I am asking you not to make that
job more difficult.

I'm sure you don't want to do
anything

that would jeopardise justice
for Marcus.

In the end it could lead to nobody
being held to account.

Well, as I said, the fact that
somebody chose to use

a line I used for their blog is not
something I can control.

Oh, I...

I forgot to ask Dame Harriet to sign
my copy of Discourses Of Deviance.

Perhaps if I pop it over,
YOU could get her to do so?

SIREN BLARES

So you're OK
being my driver for the day?

I need to get out
and pay Marcus's neighbour a visit.

Sure.

The officer speaking to me
out there -

that was Kyle Jones, right?

Right.

What's he like?

Yeah, you know - spicy dish.

Yeah, both Taylor and Jones were
part of a group chat called D4.

Guess you heard about that, right?

Justin was also a big part
of the group, I believe.

The top dog and all that.

Can you believe that Chelsea sacked
another manager?

I don't really like football.

No? What sport do you like, then?

You know, I don't like any
sport much.

Sometimes watch
a bit of the Olympics.

So what do you talk about
in the pub?

Don't really like pubs that much.

I don't drink.

Well, hardly ever.

No sport, no booze, you're
definitely in the right job.

So what DO you like?

Ah, lots of things.

Bonsai is my main hobby, though.

Right.

Don't martial arts count
as a sport, then?

Oh, no, it's, um, it's not...
It's not that.

It's like...little trees.

You train miniature
versions of normal ones.

Why?

I find it very relaxing.

Takes my mind off work.

Well, anything that does that...

Yeah, and in the end,
out of this tiny cutting,

you might get a perfect
cherry blossom or a pine.

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

One thing that we need to look at

is all the people
who wished to harm Marcus.

Oh, take a look online and book
a million interview rooms. Yeah.

Yeah, but I'm thinking specifically
about the neighbour dispute

you were first called out to,
where you first met Marcus.

Patrick Norris.
Or Patch to his mates.

The geezer owns the vineyard
next door.

They're always rowing. Calderwood
kept calling us out.

Cos that's what
cop-haters always do.

"Defund the police unless
I want them to catch my mugger."

All right. All right.

Erm, what were the disputes about?

Erm, I wasn't involved again,

but I believe they had
a massive fight over a tree.

A tree? Yeah, yeah. A tree.

So Calderwood reported Patch to the
local authority

for violating
a Tree Protection Order.

He chopped down a big old ash tree
to build a lap pool.

Well, I'm Team Marcus.
That's disgraceful.

Personally I'd
rather have a lap pool.

Anyway, he got a hefty fine.

I notice you call him Patch.

You just stayed in touch?

Yeah. It's not a crime.

Nah. He likes a glass of wine.

A hand of poker.
So, yeah, I know him.

And her.

VERY nice!

DOOR OPENS

Who are you? I'm Detective Inspector
Southgate,

this is my colleague,
PC Becky Hollis.

Oh, yes. I saw you on TV.

Yeah, I'd like to speak
to Mr Patrick Norris, if I may.

My husband's working at the moment.

Working. Or AT work?

He is on the vineyard.

Do you have any means
of communicating with him?

It's...it's quite important.

SHE SCOFFS

Hola. Soy yo, quien mas?

Acaba de llegar la policia.

No tengo ni idea. Quieren hablar
contigo, es importante.

Yo no puedo hacer esto porque no
tengo tiempo. Puedes venir?

Bueno.

Wait here.

QUIETLY: That'd be lovely, thanks.
Milk, no sugar!

SHE CHUCKLES

Oh, his and hers, right?

Right.

We're not the Met, you know.

Of course I know that -
I only work next door.

D4 sounds bad but really it was
just a bunch of mates.

Yeah, who wiped the group chat
from their phones.

Yeah, well, you know why that is.

Anyone can say something that's
meant to be a bit shocking

and, you know, that's why it's
funny. And you look at it later

and...it seems horrible,
but that's not how it was meant.

Yes. Sure, I get that.

It does seem a shame
if Nicky Taylor took the whole rap.

Who do you think SHOULD take
the rap?

VEHICLE APPROACHES

What's this about
and do I need my lawyer?

Marcus Calderwood alleged that the
police were biased and hostile

when they attended his complaint
against you. PC Mitchell dealt

with the matter with complete
neutrality, in my opinion.

And you continued to have disputes
with Marcus Calderwood?

Yeah, well, he cost me a grand
in fines for the tree removal.

Mm. You were pretty angry about
that.

I-I hope you're not suggesting
that...

I was nowhere near the crash site,
as my phone

and several witnesses will show.

Where were you?
You know, just so we...

I was at my g*n club, Danver House,
doing a bit of target practice.

Clay pigeons - not climate
activists - are my usual target.

OK, great. Well, er, I won't take up
any more of your time.

Oh, which vehicle did you drive
to your g*n club, by the way?

The Jag. Right.

OK, well, er, I'll be in touch
if anything else crops up.

Like what?

Oh, just any clarifications
on what you've told me.

I read somewhere that, um,

UK wine production is likely to be
a beneficiary of climate change?

Yeah! We'll be able to toast
Bangladesh disappearing

under the ocean
with some fine British champagne.

It's a joke.

And it won't come to that.

The Calderwoods of this world are
making a living out of selling fear.

We'll solve it all with technology.

VIDEO PLAYS, SHE CHUCKLES

What was he like?

Disagreeable. Oh.

Is that Southgate for total w*nk*r?

Here. Have a look at this.

What's this? So, the geezer in the
baseball cap

is hassling the young girl at the
bus stop. Mm.

These dudes clock it, right,
get off the bus and...

THUD
Oh, my days! Oh!

Have that, sex pest! Is he dead?
I hope so.

SHE CHUCKLES

"Marcus Calderwood was a false flag
operation to divert attention

"from the privatisation
of the NHS..."

Yeah, "Carried out by Mossad."

"Er, why are the biased communist
media not checking out

"the BLM paramedic...?"
"Who k*lled Marcus with her

"special vaccine pen."

SHE CHUCKLES

HE GROANS
Do you understand Tor browsers?

Er, they get you onto the dark web.
Or VPNs?

I mean, I know what they do roughly.
Why do you need the dark web?

Oh, extreme p*rn*graphy.

Maybe a g*n.

I mean, what's life
without a bit of danger?

Says the person who needs
a beta-blocker to cross the road!

You wouldn't be so dismissive
if you'd only had two hours' sleep

rather than necking negronis
in some swanky gallery.

What? What?

Nothing.

Necking negronis in some
swanky...what?

Nothing. It was just an example of
something you might do,

what with being a girl about town,
an' all. Yeah, I guess I might.

All right, full disclosure -
I looked at your profile.

Right. It's a public account, so...

Sure. Just...you're not one of my,
er...

Plus, you always say how much
you hate social media so...

I just need an activity to distract
myself when I can't sleep.

Oh, God! No, no, I don't mean...!

Oh, just... Although repetitive
behaviour is all part of my...

I'm sorry, Sam, this is all actually
getting a bit inappropriate.

God.

Oh, look, here she is!
it's Driving Miss Southgate!

You told him they're not real?
Although...

..doesn't strike me as that
interested in the female anatomy,

if you get my drift. Yeah.
Three weeks.

Sorry, if you died among the empties
in that bedsit you had to rent

when Katrina found them photos
on your phone,

I reckon it'd be three weeks
before anyone noticed

or the neighbours called to
complain about the flies.

LAUGHTER
Ooh!

I'm clearly no match
for that filthy mouth!

Especially as I know a few places
it's been. Yeah.

Back off, Kyle, I can smell you.
KYLE BLOWS KISS

JEERING AND LAUGHING

I think you'll find that's eau
de toilette!

SIREN BLARES

WATER RUNS

Oh, hey, Becky. Oh, hi, Leila.

You went to the Norris property
today?

DI Southgate got a bit cross,
by his standard.

What do you make of him? Southgate?
I think he's good.

Mm. Don't like football or drinking.

Well, I only like one of those
things - guess which.

Do you know what
I find quite refreshing about him?

He don't make everything a joke.

Yeah, he's...serious about what
he does.

Mm. It's nice. It's less effort.

Straight answers. Never swears.
No silly nicknames.

Do you know what I mean?

I do.

He, um, he keeps pestering me
about this D4 thing.

Do you know something about it?

Well...
Some of 'em are all right, you know.

They do some brave sh*t you don't
read about on social media,

strangely enough. Of course.

If you did know something
that could help, though...

But you don't understand.

Nick Taylor don't deserve
all the blame.

He called another officer
and said, "What should I do?"

Who did he call?

I can't.

But I might be looking at someone
who's close to Justin,

who'd turn his bodycam off
during a visit.

..no place in Europe for winning
the expected goals league, though,

is there, you Brighton w*nk*r?
Shut up, Jonesy.

Piss off back to south London.
Croydon Ultras, don't make me laugh!

Shut up, you seaside twat.
What about your lot, eh?

Surprised your boyfriend's let you
out at the weekend to...

Low-hanging fruit, man.

Cranberries and pornstar martinis
all round, is it?

You were stalking Claudia?! I was
not stalking her, all right?!

Relax, she should have had her
account private.

Oh, God, no, it's not... Please.

She used the word "inappropriate."

Oh, God, no. OK, that's never good.
Oh... Never good.

GLASS BOTTLE CLINKS

Do you fancy her?
No, I don't fancy her.

She has a balanced life -
I wish I WAS her.

I like you the way you are,
actually.

Do you look at anybody else's?

Mm, Helena's sometimes,

but that's mainly to sneer at her
running off to Spain

with her tromba marina teacher.

Helena was nice.
Er, it's good she came out.

Yeah, she, er...
I've got nothing against her.

She was kind to us after Mum...

Yeah, she was nice. Is nice.

Speaking of social media,
I got a little message today.

"Hey, Emanuel, heard your dad's
defending the cop

"that k*lled Marcus." Who was it?

So from the emojis and the bio,

I think that was, er, my philosophy
tutor.

What?! I'm kidding! Just about.

There was a bit more, like, random
anti-Semitic nonsense.

That's strange - they picked up
on your mum being Jewish.

I don't care. I'm proud of every
part of Emanuel Malik-Cohen,

I don't try and hide it.

Yeah. Why should you? Bloody stupid
universities - they're a disgrace.

Right, don't give yourself an
aneurysm over it.

It's not really the issue.

Well, what's the issue?

Is there anybody
you wouldn't defend?

Yeah.

People who use their phones
on buses without headphones,

people who crack their knuckles,

people who say the word "methinks"
and "inspirational."

Look, if this ever happens again...
Hey, hey, hey -

if this ever happens again,
then you tell me, all right?

You got it, Atticus.
No, I'm not joking now.

This is serious.

Yes? OK?

OK.

GLASS CLINKS

Tamara?

Hey!

I've left something for you
with Alex.

I don't understand, what...?

Never come near me, my house,
or my children again.

DOOR CREAKS AND CLOSES

What's going on?

She left this.

KEYS CLATTER ON TABLE

I got this for Tamara,
for her birthday.

I bought this for Frida
when she was born.

This is like anything
that connects us.

Apparently your sister's decided
to eliminate

all negative forces from her life,
and you're top of the list.

She'll have blocked you.

You're also blocked from all
their social media accounts.

Because I wouldn't bloody housesit
for her?

HE SIGHS DEEPLY

HE SIGHS

BACKGROUND CHATTER

What's going on, Len? They've got
Nicky Taylor in again.

Mm.

The weakest link in every sense.

We've discovered from your phone
records

that after the paramedic told you
who hit Marcus Calderwood,

you made a phone call.

To PC Kyle Jones, who was off duty.

So? So, I don't know, mate.

You're at a crime scene, someone
just told you

it was one of your mates what done
it and you think,

"Oh, I better not call Juzzer direct
cos that'd be too obvious.

"I'll call another mate and tell him
to give the heads-up."

You, er, got a recording of
that conversation?

Look there's...there's no polite
way of putting this, Nicky,

but you are as thick as sh*t.

Having said that,
brains aren't everything

and also you're a good copper
by all accounts.

Brave. Go beyond the call etc.

Also I'm not a grass.

Look, let me tell you something.

People often call me
and DI Southgate Good Cop/Bad Cop.

But they always get it the wrong way
round.

I'm the nice one.

See, I like to give an idiot
a break.

He's more like...

Well...well, he's a bit special is
our Miles.

You really don't want to rub him up
the wrong way.

TRAIN PASSES, TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT

An olive tree. Thought you might...

Aw... How much?

Ah, no...

Ordinary olive trees are quite easy.

Can I be honest with you? Of course.

I find it a bit weird doing that
to trees

cos they're meant to be big,
you know?

OK.

But it's pretty, though.
And my mum will love it.

Thanks for picking me up.

No worries.

SHE SIGHS

I always keep receipts.

Anything I delete from my phone
or computer, I keep a copy of it.

We call it
keeping receipts just in case.

"We"?

Well, I told you D4 was
just a group chat mainly.

Well, I thought it was strictly
a lads' thing.

No. You just have to behave like
one of the lads

and, believe me,
that got boring sometimes.

You still have the receipts?

Yeah. You can get them for me?

I didn't take part that much.

I'm on there as SS.

No, not like the Nazis or anything.

They called me Silicone Sally, so...

Right, OK, and that's
why I thought you were...

Yeah, I just played along with that.

There's nothing on there
that can get me fired

but, um, I don't want you
to think worse of me.

I won't, Becky, I promise.

How soon do you think you can...?

It's a fair exchange
for a titchy olive tree.

I owe you a cherry blossom.

DOOR CLOSES, FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Hi, Sam. Hey. Hi.

I'm just, um...

Just picking up some, you know...

Listen...

Listen, um... It's really...fine.
You said the word "inappropriate."

I do think you, at home,

looking at my life
outside of the office, it's just...

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm truly sorry if it made you feel
uncomfortable.

But you're right, it's public.

WAS public.

And I am not going to report you
to the Law Society for it, right?

I mean, it really was nothing more
than a way

for me to slow my brain down. Cos...

..you have a much more interesting
life than I do.

Showing off about your rich social
life is

just a different form of anxiety.

This insomnia's driving me
a bit nuts.

I don't want to ask the therapist
for more seds.

Right. Yeah, is that why you wanted
the Tor browser?

Don't do it.

Or if you're going to,

at least make it worth the risk
and get yourself a g*n and...

..I don't know,
take out your hate list!

Yeah!
First he came for the c*ck,

and I said nothing
cos I'm not a c*ck.

Yeah, you are a bit.

Go and see your dodgy copper.

Thanks.

HE GROANS
Right. Good, good.

Thank you. Cheers.

Want a chip? Er...no, thanks.

You should.
It's pure ultra-processed filth.

I can feel my arteries clogging up
with every mouthful.

Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure
that isn't standard custody fare.

OK. If you promise not to call the
anti-corruption hotline,

Dawn gets them for me.

Who's D...?

Never mind. Er...

Justin,

have you heard anything from Sandra?

How am I going to hear from her
in here? Oh, I don't know.

Dawneroo?
Mm, nah, she's strictly grub.

Ever need a naked cleaner, though,
Sandy's your girl.

What?!

A naked cleaner.

Does the dusting completely in
the buff.

Oh, my God! Apart from a headscarf
and a pair of flip-flops.

Select client base to
filter out the beasts,

but I'll give you a reference.
Justin...

..I, um...

I don't even have a clothed cleaner.

Well, the offer's there.

You wiped your phone before
coming to my office.

Mm, course I did. All your D4
buddies wiped theirs too.

Was there anything incriminating
on it?

Hmm, well, is your phone so clean
you'd want us all over it?

Hmm?

Look...

..most of the chat was no more toxic
than hi-fis and horses.

Obviously somebody might make an
edgy joke about...

..don't know...women...

..or gays or whatnot...

As you do. As you do.

And in the cold light of day,
the morality police are going

to turn it into some far-right
conspiracy

and say we're "systemic this,"
and "institutional that,"

and "adultifying the other."

So we call a mermaid. Mermaid?

Mm. Lives in the sea,
half woman, half....

Yeah, all right,
I know what a mermaid is, just...

Well, a mermaid emoji
on the group chat means

stop f*cking about singing sailors
to a watery grave

and take a deep dive.
And Taylor called that?

Yeah, course he did, cos he knew
they'd look at his phone.

D4 will be your Achilles heel.

Hmm...

Manifest a good outcome, Sam,

and I'll invite you to a movie night
at Casa Mitchell when it's all over.

Hopefully, Sandy'll bring
a couple of bottles of plum brandy

back from Serbia
and we'll take it from there.

HE BELCHES

Got the little prick!

PC Kyle Jones on door-cam,
six doors down from Justin,

exactly 20 minutes
after Nick Taylor phoned him.

Taylor's possibly
the least culpable here.

Yeah, for sure.
But I'm pretty certain

he would have asked Jones
for advice. Yeah, OK, then.

Thing is, Justin didn't need warning
to get rid of the evidence, did he?

Yeah. Might have speeded things up,
though.

Either way,
Jones is in a spot of bother now.

A spot of bother?!

HE CHUCKLES

Never change, Miles.

Never change.

What's that, then?
It's a bonsai tree.

You'd know all about miniature
things, right, Kyle?

Unlike those massive hooters,
though,

mine ain't going to end up polluting
the ocean one day, is it?

Kenny wants a word. Kenny might have
to wait, I'm afraid.

Hi, Kyle. Do you mind just coming
with us for a bit?

I'm just starting duty.

Er, no, this is more important,
actually.

Ooh. Do I need my federation
representative?

CHUCKLING

f*ck are YOU sniggering at?!

You're lucky it wasn't MY car
got covered in paint

or you'd be out there on your hands
and knees licking it off.

I think representation's a good idea
under the circumstances.

And we'll need your phone.

Thanks.

Er, we'll also be talking to you
later, PC Hyndley.

And you, PC Hollis.

What the f*ck? That's the thanks
I get for Driving Miss Daisy?

So, Kyle, I think it's fair to say

you'd go the extra mile for
Justin Mitchell?

I'd go the extra mile for any
of my colleagues. Oh, I do hope not,

if that means assisting an offender
to avoid justice.

Turning your bodycam off for a mate
is one thing...

But you received a call
from PC Taylor

saying Justin had been named as the
driver who struck Marcus Calderwood,

and you went straight round
to warn him.

Yeah, we picked you up
on a home security camera.

Game's up, my son.

It's time to start thinking
about damage limitation.

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Relax.

Nobody will see us,
and even if they did,

we could come up with something
plausible.

So have you read
these D4 transcripts?

They're being understandably cagey
about access.

The impression I get is
they are BAD.

How surprising,
in a police chat group.

And nothing conclusive
from the pedal - still?

These things take time.

What about Patrick Norris?
Are they testing HIS vehicle?

I don't know but he has
a rock-solid alibi, I believe.

Look, I've found out a bit more
on him.

His wife Elena is from
a Colombian family

with members connected
to right-wing paramilitaries.

He ran a private security company
providing services

to oil companies over there.

A dodgy CV doesn't mean
you're guilty of anything,

and they've got absolutely
nothing on him

except a bit of argy-bargy
over access and a tree removal.

I think Marcus may have been
m*rder*d to prevent him

healing the wounds in SCG.

The working theory is a vendetta
based on Mitchell's anger

over a traffic accident he attended.

And you think they'll charge him?
Leila wants to.

She has to convince those above her.

They won't want to go back
to the magistrate again.

We'll know by tonight, I reckon.

All right.

What's happening?

Apart from those D4 transcripts.

Yeah, appalling, I agree.

But what Becky told you was correct.

We've nailed Jones.

He's admitted he warned Mitchell?
Mm-hm.

I mean, that's more than
a breach of standards.

Yeah. He's standing by Justin,
though.

Why do they call him Kenny in the
group chat?

Guess we'll find out.

Did you read the bits I highlighted?
I did.

What does Jones say about the visit?

Says that Justin said
he couldn't understand

why Marcus would've named him.

Tell him
we're going to charge his arse.

We don't know Justin DIDN'T
say that, of course.

Mind if I give you a suggestion?

Strictly from an outsider's
perspective. I'm not questioning...

No, no, please, go ahead.

So I reviewed the tapes
of the first interview.

Yeah, he walked all over us.

Well, me.

He likes to think he's controlling
things. And he's a show-off.

Those two things aren't always
compatible.

Might overreach himself.

He's got a lot of pride.

Talk down to him
in a mildly patronising manner.

Be "understanding."

I suspect he'd far rather be hated
than pitied.

They're ready. Let's see "Kenny" try
and come the clever c**t this time.

SIREN BLARES

CHANTING: Justice for Marcus!
Justice for Marcus!

Justice for Marcus!
Justice for Marcus!

I'm outside the police station,

where, all day, the investigation
into the death of author

and climate activist Marcus
Calderwood has been continuing.

But time is running out for the
detention period of PC Mitchell,

so we are expecting
an imminent decision.

What do you think? Oh, I don't know.

They've got an hour.

Well, how did the interview with
Justin go? Oh, not like the first.

They laid traps I might have spotted
if I'd been on top of my game.

Oh, even the middle of your game is
higher than most.

Leila still needs to convince her
bosses,

which might not be easy without
forensics still...

Forensics? OK, so a bit of a delay
because of an admin mix-up

over colours, and also the fact

that it was submerged in muddy water
for so long.

But they're still confident.

So talk me through it.

I'll be looking for gaps and holes.
There's always gaps and holes.

It's only been a few days.
we don't know everything yet.

We need to get it a good way over
the likely conviction threshold.

Let's hear it, then.
Back to the future.

HORN BEEPS REPEATEDLY

LEILA: The evidence was removed
from the site

and forensics now believe the body
must've been moved to the ditch.

He said it was a cop called
Justin Mitchell.

But the defence will say it
was very noisy,

Marcus was confused by the pain
and the meds.

It was Justin Mitchell.

Taylor decides
not to secure an immediate arrest

and calls PC Jones from the site.
We have that from the phone.

That doesn't prove much.

Jones is off-duty,

they've picked him up on a door-cam
outside Justin's house


there. That's better.

Jones is a snidey,
second-rate little bigot.

His comments on D4 were
easily the worst.

And why does Jones say
he went to Justin's house?

He admits he warned him
about the allegation,

which means the end of his career
and probable prosecution.

How did Justin respond?

He said, "Thanks for the heads-up
but I didn't do it,

"although I'm glad somebody did."

Did you believe his denial?

Doesn't matter what
I believe, does it?

It's what he said.

But Justin will argue...

If I did it - and I didn't -
I wouldn't have needed to be told.

A warning speeds things up
and it's dodgy as hell.

Taylor to Jones to Justin,
and the next thing we know...

Going on holiday?
Oh, hi, Mrs Gibson.

I'm going to get a dog.

Oh, lovely, what breed?

So Sandra heads to Portsmouth.

The disappearance of the main piece
of evidence in a hit-and-run

is definitely something that will
perturb the jury.

WHat have you done to your car?

Oh, Justin's so cross with me
about that.

Taking it to my uncle to fix it.

Mrs Gibson recalls a significant
dent and scratching.

So I imagine the defence will be
pushing the gym collision hard.

The other party didn't seem to
think there was a lot of damage

to Sandra's car - it was mainly his.

OK. So on the plus side -
previous harassment,

positive ID, plausible case that he
was warned by his colleagues,

leading to a subsequent concealment
of evidence.

On the negative... No mobile or
dash-cam footage placing him nearby,

the confused evidence of a dying man
in a chaotic scene,

no forensics.

Yet.

OK, so tell me
about the interview.

So, Justin, where were you in the
hours before you handed yourself in?

I went to my sister's
in High Wycombe.

And how did you get there?
On the choo-choo train.

SAM SNIGGERS QUIETLY

And why did you go there?
To visit my sister.

Justin starts in the normal c*ck
facetious style. But then...

They blindsided us last minute
with the D4 material

and didn't give us a chance
to examine the content.

That's naughty but understandable.

Half an hour.

My money is still on police bail
until the full pedal results are in.

But the transcripts were bad?

That's not all.

We may have underestimated
DI Southgate.

Why were you called Kenny?
It's a nickname.

Justin's a big gambler, apparently.
It's from the Kenny Rogers song.

You don't know The Gambler?

Who's Kenny Rogers?

Islands In The Stream?

Well, you've got to know when to
hold 'em and know when to fold 'em.

And do you?

Oh, I mostly break even.

An addictive personality is
a risky thing.

Yeah.

Better than no personality.

That's when I felt this unease.
What unease?

How can you defend someone
who's enjoying it all?

Sees it as the ultimate flutter?
You really think that?

I think there's a lot more going on
behind the nonchalance,

and I think the death
that he witnessed affected him

more than he admits.

You like him.

Wrong word. He interests you, then.

More, say, than the usual fare.

He's got something. For sure.

But that's when things started to
get serious,

as Southgate took control.

So we found the bike pedal, Justin.

You overlooked that in the rush?

Well, come back when you've found
the stabilisers and the bell.

You're quite popular, aren't you,
in your group?

You're a big fish, small pond.

And how big's YOUR pond, then?

Right, look, hey, hey...

This isn't getting us anywhere,
so just...

Let's see.

What does a giraffe emoji mean?

Er, it means a giraffe.

Yeah. Like a mermaid means
a mermaid?

We read on the transcripts
that on the day of the hit-and-run,

you had a longstanding arrangement
to go to the last day

of the flat races at Ascot. It had
been discussed

with a lot of anticipation.

There'd have been booze,
there'd have been bantz,

there probably would've be birds.

I'm not going to lie, mate,

I was getting kind of jealous
of your golden ticket.

I'm struggling to see either
a question

or the relevance to this, lads,
so...

You didn't go. You pulled out.
Didn't fancy it.

A man known as Kenny
for his gambling habits?

Right.

No phone, because you conveniently
left that at home.

It wasn't convenient, actually.
We've got your car on ANPR that day.

Some quite interesting activity.

Almost suggests an attempt to mask
or muddle your movements.

Yeah, or having a more interesting
life than yours.

Yeah, well, I'm sitting opposite
a suspected m*rder*r,

so you know what, Kenny?
I'll take dull right now.

In the transcripts, PC Kyle Jones
remonstrates with you.

He is incredulous at your decision.

He's incredulous when his rubbish
football team loses. So what?

"No way! What are you doing that's
more important

"than a day out
with the D4 crew?"

To which you respond with...

So what does a giraffe signify,
Justin?

That you were abandoning long-held
commitments with your mates

to go hunting a giraffe?

A giraffe?

You often used Marcus's height
as an insult, didn't you?

Yeah, "Lanky streak of piss..."

He was no m*dget, that's for sure.

What if I had a witness, Justin,

who would swear under oath that
they had heard you several times

refer to Marcus Calderwood as
"that f*cking giraffe"?

What witness?

You heard perfectly well what the
paramedic said, and you told Jones.

Admit that, and give a little
background

on Mitchell's issues
with Calderwood,

and I think there is a world
where DI Southgate doesn't shrink

your silly arse and stick you
in one of his plant pots.

He's just cooperating to beat
a charge.

They're scapegoating Jones
to protect Taylor

as a prosecution witness.

But that wasn't the worst part...

Why did you hate Marcus so much,
Justin?

Was it the Daniella Fielding
incident? Here we go.

You had to go into a wrecked car
and try to help a dying woman.

I can understand how shattering
that must have been.

I don't need your understanding,
thank you.

It's not a crime to admit
your pain... Oh, f*ck off!

We haven't always been great at
recognising trauma

and giving officers the support...
No trauma. I don't need
your support.

You have a serious gambling
addiction,

you've transferred all the blame
for an awful incident

to an innocent man, you've harassed
him,

and in the end you've k*lled him.

You've even involved your girlfriend
to try and hide the car...

Whoever was driving that car
deserves a f*cking medal.

I hope Daniella Fielding's
laughing from heaven.

Either hurry up and charge me
or let me go home,

you annoying little
management ponce.

"I hope Daniella Fielding is
laughing in heaven."

We're running out of time. In 20
minutes, they have to let him go,

and he will definitely try
and interfere with witnesses.

I'm sorry, Leila. Oh, come on!

I agree it looks very bad for him,

but right now there's too much
circumstantial and speculation

and not enough hard evidence.

Especially when several on that jury
are going to come in

with a whole bunch of prejudices and
preconceptions

against SCG and their tactics.

It's worth the risk.
There's no cushion. We'll build one!

Welcome to your new home, Pancho.

I already love you more than
anything in the whole wide world,

and Daddy's going to love you too!

Now, you be a good doggie for Mummy

while these silly men check
her passport. No barking!

Are you Sandra Vodanovic?

Yes. Step out of the car, please.

PHONE VIBRATES

Southgate.

Mm-hm.

Yeah.

PHONE ALERT

Sandra Vodanovic is back
with the vehicle.

They've detained her at Ramsgate.

We have to stop him getting to her
and the other witnesses.

We have to charge him. It's all
there, Adrian! And we'll get more.

PHONE RINGS

Hello, Sam Malik.

OK. Thank you.

They're charging him with m*rder.

Come with me, mate.

So, then...

Game on.

Oh, here they are!
Just come out of the hot tub, lads?

Hope I can see the funny side when
I'm about to be charged with m*rder

and sent to a place that doesn't
particularly like police officers.

Yeah. Come with us please, Justin,
and we can deal with formalities.

Hmm, yeah.

Looking at your smug face
when the jury says "not guilty"

is the thing I'm looking forward to
most in all this.

We'll see.