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- This is a judge you're gunning for Louise,

not some lollipop lady.

- This is war, this.

Coburn sent Ellis down to wind me up.

The thing is, he's gonna regret it,

'cause it's working.

- I made a promise to this town, I'm gonna deliver.

- If your own daughter couldn't be steered away from drugs

how are you gonna convince anyone else?

- Tough love.

Is that what you're planning for your granddaughter?

Have you you seen her?

Tasty looking girl.

- You can't stop me seeing Jake.

- Oh I think you'll find I can.

- Have you seen this?

- Excuse me.

Do you know Sharna Mulhearne?

- Yeah.

- Is she here?

- She's over there.

- Hello, Sarah.

Father.

- I heard about the funding, what are you gonna do?

- Pray!

- I'll pray too.

My two favourite girls.

How are you?

- Oh she's doing well, Father, she's doing well.

When the music's playing when we're together,

all's right with the world, for an hour or so.

- I'm always here if you want me, Angie.

- Excuse me are you Sharna?

You're Sharna?

I'm a friend of Judge Coburn's, he doesn't know I'm here,

and I'd like to talk to you.

Look at him now, Sharna and he might seem worlds apart,

but back then he was the same as you.

Oxford was his way out, his only way out, he had to go.

I couldn't let him stay, I wouldn't let him stay.

- What do you want me to do?

Hey what do you want me to say?

- He's your granddad.

- No he isn't.

I woulda liked one once when I was little.

But I'm not little anymore.

- Give him a chance Sharna.

Please?

Sharna?

- What?

- I've come for ya.

- The girl's having a nice night out with her friend,

why don't you just leave her be?

- I didn't mean to upset ya, Kaz.

Hey.

You know that, you know me.

Come on.

- Jake.

I think I should give you these back.

Give you care back, your car.

It's outside.

- Nah mate.

I know it means a lot to ya.

You dreamed of a car like that, didn't ya?

Keep it, it's yours.

- Jake Little was arrested last night for arson.

He torched the car he gave to Darren Green

outside the Sketch, he's been charged,

he's gonna be in here first thing Monday morning.

- We'll have to pass it on to Liverpool Crown Court.

- What?

This is everything we've been waiting for.

We can do it what they haven't!

- Joe things are different now.

If a case against Jake Little collapsed here,

it will destroy everything we've done.

We'd never have any credibility again.

- So we won't let it!

- We've sent down Childs, we've already shown our teeth.

- Never had you down for a coward, Sir.

- Oh, is it an act of courage

to risk everything we've achieved?

We had nothing to lose before!

- If he goes down, everything changes!

We send him down for a few months,

we do everything we can to keep him here!

The moment he's locked up, people'll come forward,

we won't need to be scared anymore.

- Oh they'll come forward then?

What about now?

Three trials, Joe!

And each time the witness pulled at the last minute.

My own granddaughter!

May not keep you awake, but it does me.

Why should it be any different now?

- Because we're different!

- Yeah?

Is that why you're leaving?

Look I want Little sent away, you know I do.

But there's no one round here

who will stand up against him in court.

- Oh there is, Sir.

There is.

- Jim do you have any idea of the pressure

this could put you under?

- When I'm sitting down, I'm not an old man,

but the moment I stand up and start doing things,

I'll tell you the truth

I am!

So it doesn't matter whether it's you warning me

or Jake Little, I'm past warnings.

There's only one judge I'm concerned about now.

- If I pass it on to the Crown Court,

it's beyond our control.

We'll have no power over, I understand that,

but if I hold on to it, if we handle it,

and if we fail here.

- Faith, Paddy, no faith.

Everything you've achieved, and none?

- I've got faith in you.

In God, you mean.

You take that away, and there's nothing left in any of us.

Come on, Paddy, for old time's sake.

- Old times have gone, Jim.

No one's as strong as they'd like to think they are.

- Well that's where you're wrong, Patrick.

No one is as weak.

- See?

We don't need to go out.

Why would you do that?

- My fault, isn't it, his car?

Soon as someone comes near me, it costs 'em.

He needs to stay well clear.

- When will Coburn ever learn, eh?

Meaning?

- That you can't keep a secret in this town.

- My client is a key figure in this community.

A successful, public-spirited entrepreneur,

who's chosen to remain in the area of his birth

when others might have left

at the first available opportunity.

Regrettably, his success does appear to have engendered

a certain amount of jealousy,

and he has been the victim of a number of slurs in the past,

none of which have stood up to any examination whatsoever.

In view of this fact, and the risible nature

of the latest allegations, which suggest that my client

set light to a vehicle which we have proven to be his own,

I urge you to avoid any repeat of the mistakes

made by others and dismiss this case.

- Mr. Ellison, that is not going to happen.

Stand up, Mr. Little, please.

In crimes of this nature where there's a real risk of danger

the law is quite clear.

In the event of you being found guilty,

a custodial sentence would be

the only option available to me.

In such circumstances it is imperative that this case

be handled by a Crown Court.

But as we possess those power here

in the Public Justice Centre,

I see no grounds for a transfer.

This centre has a responsibility not to wash its hands

of anything or anyone.

I warn you that in the event of any threats or intimidation

against any individual or institution involved in this case

the consequences will be severe.

- The first few hours were the hardest.

Days, then.

I think I thought I'd made it but,

it's getting tough again.

I don't want to let anyone down.

Not after what me nan's been through because of me?

- Angie.

I'm proud of ya.

- Judge, there's been a complaint.

- About?

- You, smoking outside the centre.

People don't think it gives the right impression.

- Are you seriously telling me that

I can't smoke inside the building nor even around it now?

Where am I meant to go?

- So you're leaving?

- What?

- You've given notice on your apartment.

- Nobody's business but mine.

- The day Jake Little's due back in court,

don't you think the community deserves to know?

- That's nothing to do with it.

- When I first walked in here, there were three of you.

First Marie leaves, then Joe Gateacre says he's going,

and now you.

I mean what exactly'll be left?

Ever since you came you've been asking people

to believe in what you're trying to do,

to put their trust in you.

Then when things get difficult,

you plan a midnight flit, again?

- You won't print this.

- And why wouldn't we?

- Because I'm asking you not to.

Not yet.

- I was just locking up.

- I don't want any trouble, Father.

I'm not the man most people around here think I am.

I want to help, for the church.

- It's not my truth you should fear, Jacob.

It's your own.

Forgive those who trespass against us.

- Haley, have we a ladder anywhere?

- What?

- Look at the state of this motor!

You never heard of soap and water?

What's the matter?

- Where's Coburn?

Haley?

Sir?

- Is there no where I can get some peace?

- You've gotta come down, Sir.

- In a minute!

- It's Father Jim Kelly, he's at the hospital.

They found him at the church this morning.

- If Little's harmed...

- He hasn't, Sir.

He's had a heart attack.

Jim Kelly's as tough as they come, he'll be all right!

- You think we can put him in the dark now?

Do you think I'd put him through that?

- He'll wanna do it, he will!

- He isn't, not anymore.

- He has to, there's no one else.

- Come on, Joe. - What!

- Outside the Sketch Lane Community Centre

on a Friday night, there must be loads of others.

- No one who'll talk to the police,

no one who'll talk against him!

- Well you have to find someone!

- Me?

I can't!

- So who do we leave it to?

The same people that've been responsible

for three no-trials?

You wanted it!

You wanted it, we took this case on,

and this place stands or falls by it,

so don't tell me you don't know what to do!

Get out there and find us a witness!

Jake Little does not walk free from here!

All I'm asking for is the truth.

Just one person, all we need.

They won't have to face him.

We could use the witness room.

They can testify into camera.

We'd look after them, and we'd get them, we get him.

But we can't rely on anyone else.

- I'll help.

- After everything you've done, you expect me to trust you?

- We haven't printed it, have we?

Printed what?

- You asked me not to, and we haven't.

- Why does no one tell me anything?

- Look, Jake Little's the story I want.

This is my home number, home address.

You can call me, come around, whatever.

I'm on your side, I promise.

- Find me someone,

I don't want Jim Kelly anywhere near this.

Not now.

- I've told police everything.

- You haven't told them anything.

You know Jim Kelly's in hospital?

Well he said there was a crowd outside that night.

Were you in it?

Oh come on Sarah, we need ya!

If Jake Little doesn't go down for this,

the PJC does, it's one or the other out.

- Would you hang that up in the foyer in the centre?

It's everything we've got coming up.

- Hang on this is planning for the next 12 months,

I thought your funding had gone?

You don't even know whether you're gonna be open next week,

why are you planning for the next year?

- We live in hope.

- Oh really?

Have any private donations recently?

Well go on, tell me.

- I think you should leave.

- If he stays on the streets, you'll have kept him there.

- I'll have kept the Sketch going.

You want me to save the PJC?

What have you ever done for here?

I have prayed for money to rain down from Heaven

onto here and then one morning I open up,

and it has, it's there.

- Oh come on Sarah, that money didn't come from Heaven,

nothing's more certain than that!

- If I had half the funding you do,

I'd have twice the principles.

You think I'm compromised?

You, from a place that only exists because of a man

who ran away from his responsibilities!

Well I'm sure he had his reasons.

And if you'd ever spent more than one night in here

in your entire life then you'd know I've got mine!

Darren, it was your car.

- It was Jake's.

- Yeah that he'd given to you.

- Look, I didn't see anything, I swear!

- What happened?

- Kid can't help you.

- Look I never saw him, but I knew.

As soon as I heard the bang.

- Darren!

He's keeping his head down, staying out of trouble.

Now isn't the time to walk back

into a world he's left behind.

- Judge Coburn's leaving, straight after the trial.

Nobody's meant to know.

So there won't be another chance like this!

Well at least tell me who else was there?

I thought you were meant to be setting an example?

- Car got burnt, I'm glad.

No one got injured, it's over.

- And Jake Little remains in charge.

- Darren can't help ya.

I won't let him.

- What about you?

Were you there?

- Kid depends on me.

- Angie?

- Darren?

- Come on Paddy, for old time's sake?

- Old times have gone, Jim.

No one's as strong as they'd like to think there.

- Well that's where you're wrong, Patrick.

No one is as weak.

- With his keks on his ankles

while the national anthem's playing!

Do you think that's funny?

Yeah.

- Well laugh, then!

I thought there was a strict door policy in here?

- If there was, the place'd be empty.

- Father Jim Kelly's dead.

- What's that got to do with me?

- I need some stuff.

On tic.

- Ah, you've come to the right place.

You didn't see nothing here.

- Where would he go?

- You don't think?

- What?

- He's gone back to London?

- And why would he do that?

- The man who saved him is dead,

and his granddaughter won't have anything to do with him.

- He's got the centre.

- He's given notice on his apartment.

That's what we didn't print.

I know for a fact the estate agent wanted to show him

round the best of the rest but he wasn't interested.

- What are you doing?

Same again, he's paying.

- You remind me of him, you know.

- Who? - My father.

I was scared then, I'm not scared anymore.

- No no, it's all right, it's all right.

Oh if it's therapy you're wanting mate,

I'll have to charge you by the hour.

Like your daughter used to.

- When you set fire to that car, you blew it.

You shoulda got someone else do it, but no.

Had to do it your way, eh?

Big man, eh?

- You know what I could do anything to you right now!

And none of these people'd see.

They'd never see anything.

Go back to your penthouse, old man.

And don't ever come back here again

unless you've got the guts to do things my way.

- You want to do things your way?

Okay!

Well let's do it!

Well come on!

Just one person.

One person in that court, and you're finished!

- Well your one has just gone.

- Get in! - No!

- Hey when we're sat opposite each other in court,

and it's all awkward and that 'cause the witness

just hasn't appeared, you be sure to smile back at me, eh?

- Get in!

No thanks needed, by the way.

- Thanks for what?

- Us saving you!

- You didn't save me, you saved him!

The great and mighty Oz.

People need to see the man behind the curtain.

- I know you're leaving, and I know when.

And I know you don't care what you do anymore,

but I'm staying, Sir.

Yeah, I'm staying.

So you're gonna sort yourself out.

'Cause we know who was there at the Sketch that night,

and there's someone you gotta see.

- He doesn't think anyone'll do anything about it,

but I will.

I'll stand up and say in front of anyone.

He's already hurt Kaz.

There's nothing else he can do.

The Priest went to the Sketch to talk to me.

He said,

about how you left.

That it was him.

That he wanted you to go.

That you had to.

That's what he said.

- She saw it?

And can testify?

- Yes, but she isn't going to.

- What?

- The judge's granddaughter, Joe.

They could've had her in the dock at the Crown Court,

but I can't.

- You've got to!

- Not happening.

- Judge!

- Alice?

My name's Louise.

- From the paper.

- Yeah.

I know you were at the Sketch,

the night someone set fire to the car outside.

I know everyone who was.

But no one's prepared to speak about it in court.

- Have you got a pen?

- Yeah.

- You've crossed your granddaughter out but you haven't...

- Oh, I've got a message for you.

That reporter Louise rang.

She said you'd know what it meant.

- Haley?

- Yeah?

- If a man were to turn up at your house

unannounced one evening, wine, flowers perhaps,

what would you do?

- Praise the lord.

- Haley.

- Well, depends on the man, really.

- And what if that man were me?

- I think it'd be good.

Where are you going?

- To get ready.

- Hello, Louise, it's Patrick, Patrick Coburn.

I've just called to say thank you.

Hello?

- Judge?

- Oh, I just called to say thank you on behalf of the centre

but if you've already done it obviously, good, good, good.

- Judge?

I don't suppose I could have that bottle of wine, could I?

- Nan, what're you doing?

- Is he still there?

Knew he'd come.

- I'm sorry.

- It's not you fault.

- It is.

I just wanted to leave everything behind.

- What're you talking about?

I'm gonna speak at the PJC against Jake Little.

- You can't!

- Why?

- I owe him some money.

- For what?

- Not now!

- You can't just be good when things go your way.

Anyone can do that.

Test is when things go against ya,

that's what it's all about.

Life is hard, Ang.

Bad things do happen, sad things, awful things,

but you can't just give up.

You've gotta fight, fight.

Fight!

I've got no more money to give ya.

- I'll get it.

- How?

- I'll get it.

- You will not!

You will not!

- Joe, let's not talk about it, please.

- Listen you're never gonna believe

who's in court this morning.

- I'll have to send you back to prison.

- I don't know why you shoplift, Alice.

- You do.

- But you're rubbish at it.

- Angie owes money again?

- To Jake Little.

- You're not going to do it, are you?

You're not going to testify.

- Please be seated.

- Father Jim Kelly was like a dad to me.

Took me in, taught me,

never expected anything in return.

Even in his last days,

he was trying to take my sins upon his shoulders.

When I left here, as I'm sure most of you know,

I left a girl behind, and she was carrying my child.

But I went away, and I went in the night.

My choice, me.

And no one in the world could've stopped me.

All around us, the idea is that success in life

is some sort of strange combination of

geography and economics.

The further you go, the more you make.

Well I went far, and I made plenty.

Father Jim Kelly never moved an inch in 40 years,

and doesn't leave a penny behind, but he is the mark.

He is the mark.

He carried his weight, he listened to others' troubles,

their problems, and he never ran.

He knew.

I can't undo what I've done,

but I'm trying to take things on now, and I need you.

I can't achieve a single thing without you.

Now there must be one!

One of you who won't do what I have done.

That'll do what Father Jim Kelly did every single day!

Hello?

- I'll do it.

Leave us alone!

Don't you know

it's against the law to intimidate a witness?

- Prepare the witness.

- Right, so just sit over there, Kaz.

- This isn't right, I'm not doing this.

- Kaz?

Kaz!

Kaz!

- Judge?

- Hello?

- Can we move on?

- I don't want to sit in there!

I'm not hiding away, I want to do it in here!

- Mrs. Newton, please.

- Oh this is a joke!

- Mr. Little, sit down!

- Well come on then, let's get this over with.

Start the appeal as soon as he's finished.

- Mr. Little, do you wish to change your plea?

- You don't have to stay with me.

I'm big enough to look after myself.

- Nah, I'm all right.

- Darren.

- Can I sit there?

- Free country, isn't it?

So he did it then, your granddad.

- Jake'll be out in nine months.

- Yeah but he still did it.

Is that him off now?

- Off where?

- I thought he was going after the trial.

- Sharna?

- I think I owe you a drink.

- Took you long enough.

- Was that it, then?

Just like last time?

Nothing?

When Jake Little gets out, he's gonna be worse than ever.

Think your job's done, it's just begun.

- Get in.

- What?

- Something I'd like to show you.

Come on.

- Grew up in this street.

That house.

- I don't think anyone lives there now.

Doesn't look like it.

- No.

But they're about to.

It's mine.

I'm here to stay Sharna.

I am here!