01x03 - Episode 3

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DSI caught up

with Lizzie Adama last night.

- She refused to come in, she ran.

- She's scared.

PC Adama.

I had my phone on in my pocket.

I recorded everything

your friend said.

"Little Miss Jihadi",

"Mohammad Bin Laden".

You think I'm a r*cist?

She wrote two statements

about the visit to Mehenni's house.

I did it.

It's done.

Lizzie Adama's second statement.

What made her write it?

Stay away from her.

They said that the Mehenni complaint

hurt the case.

That Kovacs might get away with it.

He's going down for life.

The big policeman took her phone.

- I'm turning myself in.

- No, wait, do not do that.

We need a warrant for Shaw-

his homes, his vehicles, everything.

You've got your warrant.

But you better find that phone.

Go on. Go.

You said you wanted to talk to me

before I hand myself in.

That's Farah's.

Hadley called me

on the way to the tower.

Said it was in his locker.

So she was telling the truth

about that, too.

He took it from her.

- He did it to protect you.

- To protect me?

- Here.

- Are you kidding?

What are you doing in my house?

'All right, calm down,

little Miss Jihadi.

Just looking for your dad,

that's all.

- Why? He hasn't done anything.

- Yeah.

Well, you tell him

What's his name, Mohammed?

Mohammed, is it? Mohammed Bin Laden.

You tell him we're looking for him.

All right?

He says "Bin Laden" on the tape.

He told me he didn't.

He lied to my face.

It's hardly a r*cist tirade, though,

is it?

It's still r*cist.

Enough to get him

kicked out of the police.

Why, you think that's right?

27 years of service and Hadley's

dismissed for what?

For what, calling Farah's dad

Bin Laden? Really?

Come on, you know he wasn't r*cist.

He was from the street,

he talked like the street.

He didn't mean anything.

It was a joke.

It wasn't to Farah.

Do you know what happened next?

Her dad came home

and she was freaked out,

because the big policeman

had just called her dad Bin Laden,

so she shouted at him to run,

you know why?

She'd been in this country

less than a year

and she had no idea

what we were gonna do,

were we going to sh**t him

like Bin Laden?

Hadley did that to her.

My friend, Hadley.

And worse is what I did.

I covered for him.

And I got that poor girl to trust me,

I knew what I was doing,

I was saying,

"Look at me, trust me, I'm like you."

- And then I took her trust and I

- I'm sorry

but the girl was mad.

She wasn't. All she knew was

that the police threatened her,

then lied about it and then

took her phone by force.

And don't say Hadley did it

to protect me,

he did it to protect himself.

Well, I've had enough.

I saw on TV how this is playing,

the crazy girl, t-the hero cop.

I'm gonna tell the truth and

I don't care what happens to me.

Well, that's your call, Lizzie.

But just so you're clear

what will happen to you,

you're the one

who committed a crime here,

you're the one

who lied in a statement,

and you are the one

who will go to prison.

You know

what they do to cops in prison?

They put sh*t in your food.

Hadley knew that.

He took that phone to protect you.

I'm sorry, but that girl was mad.

She took a kid up a tower,

for God's sake.

She k*lled Hadley.

She didn't k*ll him.

What happened up there?

- On the roof, what happened?

- She didn't k*ll him.

You saved a child.

You did good.

Real good.

But you have to allow yourself

to survive. You have to.

Please.

- You're doing it again.

- What?

- Handling me.

- Oh, come on.

That first night we slept together

..that was the night

Mehenni made his complaint.

Was that why you did it?

- To keep me on side?

- Is that what you think?

- I don't know what to think.

- The Mehenni complaint was nothing.

Every cop gets complaints.

It comes with the territory.

And why did I sleep with you?

Because I couldn't get you

out of my head, Lizzie.

Because I'd just walk around Farlow

just hoping I'd see you. That's why.

That's why I'm here right now,

because I don't want you

to get into trouble.

- I'm already in trouble.

- No, you're not. No, you're not.

Without the phone,

DSI have nothing. Nothing.

So, please,

don't land yourself in it. Please.

Or land you in it.

I'm sorry, what?

You're my inspector.

Your actions don't look so great,

do they?

I searched for this for you.

I could go to jail for you.

Mrs Shaw?

I'm DS Sarah Collins.

Is your husband in?

He's taken the dog for a walk.

What's going on?

We have a search warrant

for the house.

Well, you can't come in,

not till Kieran gets back.

Have you called him?

I've tried. His phone's switched off.

- He said he'd buy me a milkshake.

- Yeah, he'll be back soon.

Like I said, wait till he gets back.

You have to decide, Lizzie,

are you gonna let this ruin you,

or are you going to put it behind you

and just learn to be a good cop?

A good cop?

- What is that?

- Really?

For all his faults,

Hadley was a good cop.

I'm a good cop.

And those bleeding hearts

with their politically-correct words,

when the sh*t hits the fan

and their loved ones are in trouble,

who do they want? Not you,

not someone

who's gonna doubt and hesitate,

and they certainly

don't want DS Collins either.

They want someone with ba*ls.

They want a Hadley.

- They want me.

- What? A liar.

A bully. Why should I aspire to that?

Like I said, Lizzie,

you do what you have to do.

I'm gonna dispose of this

on the way home.

When you're interviewed by DSI,

we never met.

I cared for you, Lizzie. I loved you.

I still love you.

But if you're gonna

sacrifice yourself,

do not think for one moment

that you can drag me down with you,

because you can't. You just can't.

sh*t.

What are you doing here?

We have a warrant

to search your house,

your vehicles, and you, Sir.

My colleague, DC Bradshaw,

is searching your London flat

and your office at Farlow.

We waited for you

before starting here.

That's very kind of you.

You should've called, though.

I could have ordered for everyone.

Your phone was switched off.

- What are you looking for, anyway?

- I interviewed Younes Mehenni.

- He told me some disturbing things.

- Really?!

Did he tell you

why he started it all?

Why he made his neighbour's life hell,

why he keyed her car,

why he ran from the police,

he ignored every attempt to defuse

the situation. Did he tell you that?

And now you bring his unique brand

of bullshit to my home, really?!

I apologise

for disturbing your family, Sir.

- It was unavoidable.

- Unavoidable.

Hey, sweetie. There you go.

Sorry about the circus.

- Are they allowed to do this?

- They are.

Detective Sergeant Collins,

my wife, Mary. My daughter, Anya.

- Will you need to search them, too?

- No.

We'll try to minimise the disturbance,

Mrs Shaw.

Ah, sorry, I forgot to tell them

to leave room for milk.

Buddy! Come on, boy!

This is my colleague, DC Vine.

He'll be searching you.

Is there somewhere private?

- Would you like me to undress?

- That won't be necessary, Sir.

Here she is.

- Hungry?

- Yeah.

OK.

Didn't I tell you that Lizzie Adama

was a target

in an organised crime case?

Laszlo Kovacs, a wanted m*rder*r?

Didn't I tell you that?

If anything happens to her,

it's on you,

you understand that, right?

It's on her.

She had every chance

to turn herself in, she refused.

You are cold.

You have special feelings for Lizzie?

Special feelings?

What is that, like, code?

Do you?

Well done.

No, seriously, well done.

I bet you that makes you feel like

a real detective, sniffing around,

- digging up gossip.

- So it's true?

- You're having an affair?

- It's none of your business.

If it influenced her decisions,

it will be my business.

You wanna know

my feelings for Lizzie? OK.

I think she's amazing.

I think she's an amazing

police officer.

Will she still

want to be a police officer

after you've finished with her.

I doubt it.

- What's your name?

- Farah.

Farah.

All right, calm down,

little Miss Jihadi.

Well, you tell him.

What's his name, Mohammed?

Mohammed, is it? Mohammed Bin Laden?

We're done, sir.

- Did you find anything?

- No.

So you invaded my home,

embarrassed me in front

of my wife and child for nothing.

Are you surprised?

What surprises me is how untouchable

some people think they are.

- I didn't find the phone.

- Me neither.

He probably dumped it

as soon as he got it

- from Hadley Matthews' locker.

- Yeah.

- So what next?

- Hadley Matthews' postmortem.

I asked them to hold off

till I got back.

Steve Bradshaw.

I

Erm

Lizzie?

Is that you?

Hello?

Lizzie?

- She say anything?

- Just hung up.

- I'll get a trace going.

- Find her.

Before she does something

really daft.

I need to re-examine the girl's body.

See the scratches, the bruising?

I thought they were probably caused

in the fall,

or when her body was lifted

at the scene.

But under his nails,

there are skin and flesh fragments.

Obviously,

we'll have to do DNA, but

Lizzie.

Don't do this.

Lizzie.

Why should you be the one who pays?

- I got Lizzie.

- Oh, thank God. Where?

- Portland Tower.

- That figures.

I think I know why she ran.

Book her in.

She's to be held incommunicado.

No contact.

Not family, not colleagues, no-one.

- OK.

- Great work, Steve.

I want to know what you're gonna do.

Well, I had two options.

The first, you took away.

The second is

..say what happened.

Just tell the truth.

- Which is the right thing to do.

- I don't care if I go to jail.

I've been police for 15 years.

I've got friends, good friends,

who haven't said a word to me

since the day I joined.

I had crossed a line

they couldn't understand,

or couldn't forgive.

Bet you've had the same

..or similar.

Don't you want that to end?

You have a third option, Lizzie.

It's the hardest one.

You're gonna have to lie.

Where've you been?

Don't worry about the phone,

I did what you should've done.

I've smashed it with a hammer,

I've thrown the pieces in the river.

- Darling.

- Mm.

- Is that the end of it?

- Nearly.

Not quite.

Because of her?

Lizzie Adama?

- The top of the tower.

- Mm.

- On the edge. I thought she might jump.

- Christ.

Did she say anything,

where she's been, who she's seen?

No. Just said she wanted space.

I hear you're the man

who caught our fugitive, Steve.

Bloody well done.

Thank you, Sir. I got lucky.

Let's walk.

- You didn't find the girl's phone.

- No, Sir.

So threatening me

with a public scandal achieved what?

It achieved nothing.

Instead of searching

for phantom phones,

why haven't you interviewed

Carrie Stoddard?

Her son was on the roof.

He's a witness.

Mrs Stoddard has consistently refused

to let us speak to Ben, Sir.

She doesn't want him

reliving the trauma.

So tell me, Sarah, what do you have,

after three days of investigation?

And I don't mean speculation about

r*cist language and searched lockers

and missing phones. I mean actual,

chargeable offences.

I was at PC Matthews' postmortem

last night.

Under his fingernails,

skin and flesh scrapings.

On Farah's wrist,

deep bruises, gouges.

You're saying he attacked her?

I'm not saying it, the evidence is.

She was gonna cost him his job,

his pension after 27 years,

his reputation.

Can you prove it?

If the boy won't talk,

what've you got? Lizzie Adama.

- She saw it happen.

- Will she turn on her dead partner?

Do you have any leverage?

It's why she ran and kept on running.

She saw him do it.

That's leverage.

Set up the interview room.

You ready, Lizzie?

Do you want a pee, cup of tea,

shot of vodka?

No, thanks.

This interview is taking place

at Victoria House

on the 24th of April at 3:35 PM.

- Present are DC Steve Bradshaw.

- DS Sarah Collins.

PC Lizzie Adama.

Lizzie, can I remind you

that you're still under caution? Yes.

Thanks, can you confirm that you

have declined legal representation.

I have. I confirm.

Let's talk about the beginning.

You went to Farah's home

to make arrest inquiries.

A complaint resulted

against PC Matthews.

Farah claimed

Hadley said r*cist things to her.

- Did he?

- No.

He had a way of saying things

that could be misunderstood.

In your statement, you say,

"I heard the whole conversation

"between Farah Mehenni

and PC Matthews.

"He never said anything

of a r*cist nature."

If he never said anything

of a r*cist nature,

how can he have been misunderstood?

- I don't know.

- So what did he say?

He said that we needed

to speak to her dad,

that we'd keep coming back.

- So Farah lied?

- No.

Someone's lying here

and if it wasn't you,

it has to be Farah.

Is that a question?

PC Matthews' statement

responding to the complaint.

He denies it. He says

you will corroborate his account.

Why did it take you so long?

I'd already made a statement.

About the arrest inquiries, yeah.

I have it here.

It's precise, detailed.

Exemplary, in fact.

But the second statement,

only ten lines and six days later.

What took you so long?

I just didn't get around to it.

Top of your class in training school,

one commendation already,

you're not the sort of officer who

"doesn't get round" to things.

I was busy. We're always busy.

"A mentor",

"Took you under his wing",

that's what everyone said about

Hadley Matthews and you,

but you took six days

to write a statement supporting him,

why, because you were lazy? Selfish?

- No.

- Then why?

If the complaint had been upheld,

PC Matthews would've been dismissed

from the service,

he would've lost his pension.

So he pressured you, didn't he?

No.

- Did DI Shaw pressure you?

- What? No.

Even though

you were in a relationship with him?

You were in a relationship with him,

weren't you?

Yes.

I was in a relationship with him.

No, he didn't pressure me.

You find it hard to lie, don't you?

- I don't know what that means.

- The reason you took so long to write

the statement is that

you couldn't bring yourself to lie,

but you also couldn't bring yourself

to tell the truth.

You hadn't heard what Hadley said,

because you weren't there.

I was.

So when PC Matthews

came to you for support,

- you quite rightly refused.

- No.

But after six days of pressure,

you cracked.

You wrote a ten-line statement

backing Hadley.

- You lied.

- No.

I believe that, more than anyone,

a police officer has to obey the law.

Not just some of the time,

or most of the time,

or even 99% of the time,

all the time.

Do you believe that?

Yes.

I interviewed

Farah's father yesterday.

This is what he said.

PC Adama said

she heard everything that

the big policeman said,

but how could she?

She was in the back yard,

that's what my daughter said.

But it doesn't matter, does it?

Because my daughter had her phone

and she recorded everything,

she proved that they were lying.

- PC Adama, she knew this. Why?

- Stop.

Because my daughter had called her

and told her that she had

everything on the phone.

Stop!

'But she lied. To a girl

who trusted her, looked up to her.

- She said, "PC Adama is good."

- Please, stop.

"She will tell the truth."

But she didn't.

Sarah.

- Just lies.

- Please, stop!

She's close.

One more push, yeah?

Steve?

Yeah, she's close.

You're doing great, Sarah.

I'm just going for a pee.

Let's talk about the roof.

You got there very quickly,

didn't you?

I heard a call come in

that a five-year-old boy was missing.

It had to be Ben.

- Because of the bear suit.

- Yeah.

Then, I heard there were people

on top of Portland Tower, I just knew.

How did you know?

Farah had called me

the day before. She was upset.

She thought

I'd promised her father a caution.

She said this to you on the phone?

She said there was a place

she liked to go, Portland Tower.

She wanted to meet there.

She was scared

they were gonna lose their home.

What else did she say?

Nothing else.

Aren't you missing something?

Younes Mehenni said Farah

recorded what PC Matthews said

Younes saying it

doesn't mean she did.

And if she did, where's the phone?

We'll get to the phone.

Did you tell PC Matthews

about Farah's call?

About the place

where she wanted to meet?

No.

Then why did he go to the tower?

How did he even know about the tower?

He heard the same radio calls I did,

he must've come

to the same conclusion.

He was driving to the tower

before it was mentioned on any call.

- How did he know?

- I don't know.

So you get to the tower,

you go to the roof

and PC Matthews is already there.

Farah?!

Yes.

And Farah and Ben.

- How would you describe Farah?

- She's upset.

She thinks

the police have let her down,

I've let her down.

I'm so sorry. I didn't know

You did!

You told him about the phone.

You took it! You stole it!

That's not the only reason

she's upset though, is it?

She's angry because PC Matthews

has taken her phone.

I don't know anything about that.

PC Matthews took the phone

from Farah at Portland Tower,

that special place

she told you about,

the tower she walked past

on the way to school every day.

I don't know anything about that.

I learned things about Farah,

how she had a clear sense of justice,

of fair play.

Why do you think she took the boy?

Cos she was mad?

- No.

- No.

She took Ben because

something was taken from her,

which proved she wasn't a liar.

You didn't want to call her a liar

before, why are you doing it now?

- Lizzie, tell me why Farah was upset.

- I told you, she was angry.

I thought you weren't like him.

He mocked me!

She kidnapped a child,

because PC Matthews took her phone

- She didn't mention a phone.

- Lizzie, how did Hadley Matthews

know to go to the tower? Because

that's where he took the phone.

Why did DI Shaw,

in the middle of a major incident,

go and search Hadley's locker?

To find the phone.

How else do you explain

Farah and Hadley's behaviour?

I don't know, I can't speak for them.

- Because they're dead!

- I know they're dead.

I was trying to save their lives!

He shouldn't have done that.

I'm so ashamed.

Please, Farah,

come back from the edge,

- we'll tell the truth.

- You won't!

I'll never trust you again!

What happened up there, Lizzie?

How did they fall?

I had to get Ben back from the edge.

This is my fault.

You want me, not Ben.

Please, Farah

he's innocent.

- I am innocent, too!

- Yes.

You are innocent, too.

Tell them. Tell them I let you go.

Come on, Ben. Come on.

So you didn't see them fall.

They were there

Then, they weren't.

Farah's father gave me this.

Like a gesture of trust,

that I would find the truth.

Are you telling the truth?

- I'm telling the truth.

- So Farah's a liar, is that true?

And Hadley Matthews

was the type of cop

who gives the rest of us a bad name.

It's why you say

you didn't see the end.

Because, for Hadley,

there was only one end,

only one way he gets his life back,

the girl goes off the tower.

This is the forensic evidence

which proves he went for her

once the boy was safe.

He went for her, he gouged her arm.

But the ledge was too narrow

and he was too big and he fell.

That's what happened

at the end and you did see it.

You're right. I did see it.

- He k*lled her.

- No. No.

No.

I did.

She was so close.

I tried I tried to grab her and

No.

No!

But she moved.

And, erm

..and Hadley

Hadley who was safe, he was safe

You don't know Hadley at all.

He died trying to save her life.

If you want to charge me

with anything,

charge me with that.

I k*lled her.

Trying to save a life

isn't a chargeable offence.

Interview suspended at 16:25.

You're free to go.

Our report will go to the CPS,

they'll decide

if there's a case to prosecute.

In the meantime, I'll walk you out.

That's the end of it.

Do you understand me?

- Farah's dead. Hadley's dead.

- I know.

But they found each other

and neither would back down.

The service is better with you in it.

That's why I stuck my neck out

for you, why I betrayed my friend.

You've made your mistake.

Learn from it and move on.

Be a good cop.

- Good night.

- Good night, Steve.

I'm off, wondered if you'd like a

She called you at 8:35pm last night?

About then, yeah.

But you didn't book her

into custody until 10:20.

Even allowing for getting

to the tower, getting her down

..that's a long time.

What did you say to her?

Where are you going with this, Sarah?

When we paused the interview No.

When YOU paused the interview,

she was about to break.

Then, someone took her a cup of tea.

When she came back,

she was different,

her story was solid,

I couldn't shift it

I checked the cell log.

Why did you take her a cup of tea,

Steve?

So you could help her

through the difficult part?

- Don't be ridiculous.

- Ridiculous?

You were with her just now.

I saw you.

The interview was everything we had.

And you showed her how to beat it.

Even if I did what you say, so what?

Really?

So what?

She's a girl in her 20s.

She's a police officer!

She perverted the course of justice!

She made a stupid mistake,

she backed a colleague!

If you want to punish someone,

punish Shaw.

He's the one that should be

in that interview room, not Lizzie.

I tried to get Shaw, you know I did,

he was too f*cking slippery.

- So you take it out on her?

- She would have given us Shaw!

She'd have gone to jail.

Is that what you joined to do,

send an inexperienced cop to prison

for a mistake?

If her inexperience is mitigation,

it's for the court to decide, not us.

I said,

is that what you joined to do?

Yeah, it is.

To do my job, to apply the law.

Why, what did you join for?

- To put away bad guys, not

- A teenage girl is dead.

And I'm sorry for Farah.

But destroying Lizzie

won't bring her back.

God.

You're a good detective, Sarah

..but, man,

do you waste your talents.

If you've got a complaint about me,

put it on paper.

Hey.

I've tried phoning.

Dozens of times.

I didn't want to talk to you.

I heard you didn't give DSI anything.

I'm glad.

I didn't do it for you,

if that's what you think.

Not for Hadley either.

I'm glad for you.

You're here for a reason. What is it?

Artemis arrested Laszlo Kovacs

last night.

They need an ID.

Without one,

they can't hold him. So

Do you want to put away the b*stard

who k*lled Cosmina Baicu?

You'll have to go to the Viper Suite

at Farlow.

You'll be shown images of eight men.

You'll be asked if you recognise

the man who threatened you

with a handgun.

You'll be asked if you're confident

in your identification.

Number six.

He's number six.

Liz.

- They got Kovacs, did you hear?

- Erm, yeah.

I I, erm I just did the ID.

Arif, erm

..can you forgive me?

Because you backed Hadley

and not the girl?

I asked myself

what I would have done

..and I couldn't answer.

So, yeah

course I f*cking forgive you.

I just hope one day it stops,

you know?

Come back.

We miss you.

Come here.

- You've seen this of course.

- Yes, sir.

"CPS declines to prosecute."

You're not happy.

Should I be?

PC Matthews used r*cist language

to a teenage girl,

PC Adama lied to cover for him,

PC Matthews took by force

the phone which proved

the r*cist language and the lie

..and DI Shaw

covered the whole thing up.

Could you prove it?

Any one bit of it?

You got incredibly close,

Sarah, but

In my opinion, the CPS is sending

a bad message to the public

and the police.

In my opinion, Lizzie Adama

should not remain in the police.

Oh, come on, look what she just did.

ID'd a k*ller,

a known organised crime figure,

despite the risk to herself.

We need young officers like her.

She's committed, she's brave.

We have to move on.

Northumbria Police

have asked for your help.

- It's a tricky one, a high-speed chase.

- No.

Homicide command

had a vacancy for a DS.

I applied. I was accepted.

I start in two weeks.

I'd like to thank you

for everything, Sir.

I've learned a lot from you.

Let us have a few moments of silence.

Thank you very much.

See you back at the car.

Hadley would have wanted me to say

something funny.

I'm sorry, I can't for the life of me

think of anything.

It's just too damn sad.

I'm going to miss him.

Bye, Hadley.

Bye, Hadley.

- You weren't at Hadley's funeral.

- No.

You're wrong about me.

I'm as good a cop as you are.

I will prove it.

OK, then.