All language subtitles for Roadkill.2020.S01E03.720p.iP.WEBRip.AAC2.0.x264-BTN

He gave advice on how to get
American practices into the

British health care system. Can you
confirm he was paid for this advice?

Half a million dollars.

A prisoner comes forward
to say he has a daughter,

the next day he's made
Minister of Justice.

I'm asking whether she knew.
Course she knew, I told her.

You think you're too popular
to be sacked.

I shall be happy to prove you wrong.

The newspaper, they've got photos.
How could you have been so stupid?

I came down here to say sorry
to you, but why should I?

Do you know
that Dad has a girlfriend,

or do you simply not ask?

The DNA test was positive.

Peter, you have a daughter.

TYRES SCREECH, CRASH

SHE SIGHS

DOOR OPENS

Steff?

Steff?

Steff!

Bryony!

Bryony!

Quick!

What's going on?
Go get the defibrillator.

I'm not supposed to leave her. Go!

Bravo 3 to SP,
calling code blue to Block 4.

BUTTONS BEEP

RADIO: All personnel,
closing Block 4. Code blue.

ALARMS BLARE

Steff.

Steff?

LOUD BANGING ON DOORS

MACHINE VOICE: Remove pads
from package in back of unit.

What are you doing?
I've never used it.

You're supposed to be trained!

LOUD BANGING ON DOORS

Remove pads from package
in back of unit.

I'd just like to say a word
of thanks to everyone

who's been so kind and so skilful
in these last few days.

Sadly, for personal reasons,
this is a hospital I already know.

But you are the people
who give health care a good name.

And I promise you that
when I get back to Westminster,

I will be telling everyone
who'll listen

where the beating heart of
this country is to be found.

It's in the NHS.

Thank you very much, all of you.

APPLAUSE
Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.
All right, thank you. Goodbye.

Thank you, thank you.

SIRENS WAIL IN DISTANCE

You all right? Yeah, fine.

They're just making me
wear this today.

Lily's making something special.

She's cooking? Yes.

That doesn't happen very often.

You don't kill a deer very often,
do you?

ENGINE TURNS OVER

ROCK MUSIC BLARES

MUSIC STOPS

Just so you know,
we're expecting Susan.

Susan?

You didn't tell me. You didn't ask.
When are we expecting her?

Have you known where
she was all this time?

Yeah, of course, she's my sister.
And you didn't tell us?

She didn't want me to.
Where's she coming from?

Where's she been? Didn't know
there was to be a family reunion.

It's not a family reunion.

It's a family conference.

If I have it my way,
it'll be a family trial.

Eh? What are the charges?
You know perfectly well.

Lily, your father needs
a day or two to recuperate.

What are you cooking for us, Lil?

I'm roasting a chicken, and if
either of you start telling me

how to do it...
That's not going to happen.

I'm doing it my way
and I don't care.

Lil, I don't know what you're up to,
but whatever it is,

you have my loving support.

Yeah, maybe you should
have thought about that

before you got a fucking mistress.

What did you say?

That's what we're here to discuss,
if you really want to know.

I don't like this. Mm? What is it?

You know when you see a squall
the size of your hand

and it's a long way away
but it's heading towards you?

Isn't it your job to spot those?
It's Yemen. Mm-hm?

Three NGOs have been killed
working for a charity.

I didn't see.
No, it hasn't been announced.

The Saudis are refusing to say
what weapons they used in the raid,

but we think it may have been
the Normandy rocket,

manufactured
by the British Defence Group.

So what have we got? British charity
workers killed by British weapons.

The Saudis are trying to hush it up.
Nobody knows yet they're dead

and nobody knows how,
but it'll just take one journalist.

Keep an eye on it.

Julia, you do tell me
everything, don't you?

Everything that's useful, yes.

DOOR BUZZES

So you know what happened?

I certainly do,
I saw it with my own eyes.

I hope you burn in hell for it.

I've put in a formal complaint.

I've got your complaint,
it's not going forward.

You need to slow down. Why?

This is a tragedy,
we all need a period to draw breath.

And what do we need to do that for?

Proper timely assessment.

Apart from anything,
Steff had siblings.

We hate the thought of alarming them
unnecessarily.

Yeah, I bet you do.

Rose, for once, think of it
from their point of view.

Why upset them? My cellmate died
because you're too cheap to train

your officers properly.

At this moment,
we're not admitting liability.

There's no medical proof that she
could have been saved. In your view.

In the view of the prison doctor.
Which one?

The alcoholic or the drug addict?

Talk to Bryony, she's in pieces.

She knows she failed,
and it's killing her.

I've looked at your complaint
and I don't accept it.

You can blame Parallax if you like,
but I blame you.

Because any system,
however crappy, works decently

when it's administered
by decent people.

You're a convicted fraud, Rose,

please don't talk to us
about decency.

I'm in touch
with the Justice Minister

and I'm going to put this case
in front of him.

Rose, if you think you can use
a friend's death to pursue

some sort of vendetta against the
prison and the people who run it...

No, what we're talking about
is power. You have it, I don't.

You forfeited power
when you committed a crime.

And does that mean you can just
leave us all dead on the floor?

Steff was a known troublemaker

who burned down the prison canteen.

She did violence
to a prison officer.

Right, and so she deserves a lesser
standard of justice, does she?

And thanks for expressing
your condolences.

Just came in from Gatwick

so I haven't got the slightest idea
of where I am or what time it is.

You're home
and it's just before lunch.

Did Mum see me? Not yet.

How is she? Shaky.

She's got her concert tonight,

and Lily up in the pulpit
is the last thing she needs.

That's your view, is it?

Where have you come in from?
Came from the Arctic.

Ha! That is perfect.

When the history of the 21st century
comes to be written,

who do you think it's going to be
with any credit?

Greenpeace and a few feminists,
and that's about it.

I wish you'd told us where you were.

And I wish you ever told us
anything at all.

OK, I can see Lily's spoken
to you. At length.

I always believed in my daughters.

So your absence never bothered me,

but it's different for your mother,
she's scared of you.

She thinks she's failed
and it's all her fault.

Gave her a nervous breakdown.

Oh, like you put that down
to my absence, do you?

You don't think there were
any other factors involved?

Come on, Susan... Love the idea
of you being Prisons Minister now.

Thank you.

Fine line, don't you think, between
running prisons and being in them?

Actually, no, I don't think that.

Don't topple over.

You know I was in an accident?
Yeah, Lily said.

Driving down.

In case you're worried, it wasn't
as bad as I thought. I'm fine. Good.

Right side hurts like hell,

but I don't suppose
that bothers you too much.

It's not top of my list, no.

It's freezing out here, why don't
you come inside, say hello?

I'll finish my cigarette.

Have you just come in especially
from...? Greenland. No.

Just passing through. We've got
strategy meetings in Amsterdam

and decide which unprincipled
rapist of the Earth to hit next.

See the cold weather hasn't
affected your sense of humour.

Laugh a minute in the Arctic Circle.

Who is this girlfriend, anyway?

Does she mean something to you,
or is she just someone convenient?

Silence here
suggesting convenience.

I don't presume to know
everything about your life.

Why do you think
you can guess about mine?

Because I grew up with you,
remember?

Only, I grew up and you didn't.

Susan's outside.

I was just living my life.

I'd found some small corner,
some crevice

so I can get on with my life,
and then three days ago,

any peace I had,
any dignity was taken from me.

If you wanted to leave me,
why didn't you say so?

I don't want to leave you.

We...

We've been together
since we were kids.

You're only with me because
you think I can't cope on my own.

I... No, I have never thought
any such thing.

I don't want to be someone
you feel you have to take care of,

that's not who I want to be.

I can explain... Please, don't.

Lily wants you to explain
in front of the whole family.

Helen, I'm an open book, I'll talk
about anything, you know me.

But do you really think
it's a good idea for us

to discuss our relationship
in front of the girls?

Do we have any choice?

HE SIGHS

Fuck!

Ooh, you look terrible.

Yeah.

It's because I've had bad news.

Charmian Pepper's dead.

She's dead? Yeah.

How did it happen?
She was hit by a vehicle.

Wow. At night. Where's the driver?

Gone.

It was an accident? Hit and run?
That's what the police are saying.

And do you have
any evidence to the contrary?

No. But you don't believe them.

They didn't see it. So?
Nobody saw it.

You're not going to start
suggesting a conspiracy?

You're a lawyer for God's sake,

you're meant to examine
the evidence.

Ten minutes before she died,
I was on the phone to Charmian. And?

And she had just met a woman
who was finally willing to confirm

Peter Laurence's stay in Washington.

And did she, by any chance,
mention this woman's name?

Exactly. There you are,
no actual name. She was about to.

Sure, so tell me, had Charmian been
drinking when you spoke to her?

What makes you ask that? How was
she on the phone? Her manner?

No, really, tell me.

OK, she was a touch slurred.
A touch slurred.

All right, fine, if you
want to know everything... I do.

The police are saying
she was jaywalking.

When they found the body,
a bottle had smashed in her bag.

She was soused in vodka.

The alcohol level in her body
was five times

over the legal limit for drivers.

Looks to me like she had no idea
where she was or what she was doing.

So tell me this,
why did the driver not stop?

What? We just let them kill her, do
we, because she fell off the wagon?

You're going to have to tell me
what you meant by "bumped into".

Sorry? When you called me
in Birmingham,

you said you'd bumped
into Charmian Pepper.

Mm-hm. So I did. Where?

I saw her at a meeting. A meeting.

So does that mean you're an addict?

You got off with her, didn't you?

You know what?
I don't like this spooky thing

where you always know
what people did.

So I'll tell you what it
looks like to me.

You've had some sort of passionate
liaison with a fellow alcoholic

and now you don't want to believe
she got so pissed she managed
to get herself run over.

That's not what happened? No?

And how do you know?

DOOR OPENS

If it's any consolation,
I'm feeling just as guilty as you.

Shouldn't have let her go,
she was in no fit state.

Reputation had just been trashed
in court,

she was in no condition
to handle a major investigation.

What do we do? Nothing we can do.

Got family? Her parents.

Send them some flowers from us.

DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS

This... This is inedible.

I knew you'd find fault.

I'm not finding fault,
I'm just pointing out,

if we eat this, we're all going
to die of salmonella.

This is actively dangerous.
I don't eat chicken, anyway.

Hastings is a long way to come
for food poisoning.

I don't want to know
what's wrong with my cooking,

I want to know how you can treat
our mother so badly.

First of all, explain to me why you
were in that state to begin with.

Because, like my sister, I have
a weakness for recreational drugs.

Not any more, I'm clean. That's
good, darling, I'm happy about that.

And I'm coming out of a miserable
relationship with a man

who confused sex with violence.

Do we have to hear about this?

Look, I'm sorry,
but it's my concert today.

For me, it's the biggest day
of the year.

I'll discuss anything
you want at any time,

but can we please leave it
till later?

Do you mean that your boyfriend
was hitting you?

I'm saying he diminished me
in every way he could, and I was

looking for an escape and I didn't
see why I shouldn't have it.

It didn't occur to you that
your father was Minister of Justice?

You weren't Minister of Justice,
you were minister of something else.

Sorry I wasn't following
your career that closely,

I was minding my own business,
when suddenly

there was a photographer,
and I felt what Susan feels

and what my mother feels,
and what the whole family feels.

Will I ever escape? Will I ever be
able to live my own life?

You are exaggerating.
Everything is about you.

We're all stuck in this broken-down
lift called Peter Laurence.

Why do you think Susan ran away?
I don't see it that way.

I hope you're not going
to light that thing in here.

I wasn't running away from anything,
Lily, I was running towards.

I've said to both of you
right from the start, you're free,

you can do what you want.

I don't judge you,
I don't control you.

Except when I want a cigarette.

And you're free to sleep
with whoever you want.

It works both ways.

If freedom means anything,
it means freedom for all of us.

Dad, you are one member
of the family.

You talk about our freedom as
if it's yours to give. Lily...

Dad behaves all the time as if this
family were his personal property.

He behaves as if
he can make the rules,

and in the process he has royally
screwed up both his daughters.

Speak for yourself, Lily,
I'm not screwed up.

Stuck away on some boat
in the Arctic, that's chance, is it?

I hate to say it, but I think it's
about trying to save the planet.

MOBILE VIBRATES
Not that I expect anyone else here

to care about that. And after all,
Dad, your government

is so determined to have
fewer people on the island,

so I thought I'd do my patriotic
duty and leave the country

so I could leave a little more
space for all of those lovely

white people
who are feeling a bit cramped.

I'm pro-immigration, which you would
know if you bothered to find out.

Is your girlfriend a foreigner?

Why do you ask that?
I googled her. She's Danish.

She had a German husband.

And how did you two meet?

Do you really want to go into this?
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do.

Right.

When I was at
the Department of Culture.

Oh! In the line of work.

So I suppose the question
I'm really asking,

were you going out with her
when Mum had cancer?

I mean,
it's a simple enough question.

Lily, I was ill for a long time.

It was hard for all of us,
we went through a lot.

When Mum had breast cancer,
were you going out with Madeleine?

You were fucking a librarian
while Mum was having her breast off?

God, you disgust me.

And, er, what exactly is her appeal?

Come on, Lily.

No, really, what does
Madeleine Halle have

that we all don't?

Don't look at me, Dad,
you got yourself into this mess,

you're going to have to get
yourself out of it.

You really want to know? I do.

She lost a child.

So?

So...she was very raw
when I met her.

I like to think that I helped
put Madeleine back together.

Intimacy can come from grief.

You had a family of your own.

Of course. Don't we count?

Don't we need help?

If you tell me that
when I see a person who's suffering

I can't help them,
that's your outlook.

Person here meaning woman.
In this case.

And are you sure this relationship
was as noble as you make it sound,

or was it just good
old-fashioned lust?

You just have to take my word
for it.

I think that's where
we're all hitting a problem.

How you've never been very good
at telling the truth.

MOBILE PHONE VIBRATES

You want the truth?

Well, it's this.

It appears from recent evidence
that I do not have two daughters.

I have three.

Evidence from where?

Shephill Prison. She's a prisoner?
Appears that way, I'm not sure yet.

Then how do you...? DNA.

Who is she? Who's her mother?

Some woman I had an affair with.

How old is she?
How long have you known?

Since I drove down.
Only the one, is it, Dad?

And do we come into this at all,

or is this another one of
your famous freedom things?

I mean, cos if there are others,
then now would be the time to say.

You know, just lay them all out
on the table. Why not?

The more the merrier. It's only one.

I'm sorry, I don't understand,

am I the only one that cares
about this family?

I called us together because,
apart from anything,

I saw my father come out of
that court room, and I know him,

I know him inside out, and I only
had to look at him and I could see,

I knew he was a cheat and a liar.

You don't know that.
I know that, and so do you!

And it panics me because it's not
something I want to inherit.

Well, I'm sure
this has all been very useful.

What do you call it, Lily?
Truth telling?

I have to rehearse
the Messiah this afternoon.

I have to make a phone call.

By the way, whatever I am,
I'm not a broken-down lift.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Are you OK?

I'm fine. Family meeting.

What are you doing here?

I have news from Shephill.

SHE KNOCKS DOOR
Come!

Trevor Quinn is outside,
you've kept him waiting.

Oh. Send him upstairs.

We'll give him the full treatment,
like he's seeing into mysteries.

That's not going to placate him.

Ah, Trevor.

I'm sorry, I do apologise.

Quite all right.

Amazing. You look younger than ever.

Well, thank you,
that's nice to believe.

So, I'm here for the board
of the British Defence Group.

I have a substantial personal
interest. Yes, I understand.

Won't you sit down? No.

It's about Yemen.

Yes.

Well, I thought it might be.

Well, it is simple enough, we give
you end use certificates, you

speed through export licences, it's
always worked perfectly smoothly.

Oh, and it will continue to do so,

once we're through this brief
period of bad publicity.

You suspended licences.

Well, temporarily.

Trevor, Trevor, Trevor.

How far do we go back?

Now, I'm a politician,

my duty is to represent
the citizens of the country.

Three Britons have been killed.

I've a moral obligation
towards them.

Dawn, do you know what
your beloved country now is?

It's arms manufacturing
and pharmaceuticals.

Objectively, that's what it is.

Presently, that is all Britain does.

Financial services?

All right, I grant you,
those three things.

The Defence Group employs
nearly 80,000 people,

200,000 rely on it
directly for their jobs.

Now, you've had three years
of bad luck with the economy,

your poll numbers are in the toilet

and for once you've done something
the British public actually want

and a burst of unexpected popularity
has turned your head.

Well, that's not how I see it.
I'm sure.

There's manufacturing on one side,
there's public opinion on the other.

British weapons
killed three British NGOs.

The country's in an uproar,
I can't appear to be indifferent.

But the measures you've taken
are excessive.

You have lost your judgment.

Well, I don't think so, and I think
if you make that case in public,

you won't have the electorate
flock to support you.

I don't give a damn
about the electorate,

I'm arguing it to you - in private.

If you undermine
the British Defence Group,

you attack
this country's principle business.

And that is a political choice.

You have to trust me.

I have to respond to public anxiety,
that's what I do.

That's democracy.

But at the end of it all,

I will be on your side.

I hope so, Dawn.

We thought you'd come
straight back to ministry

when you got out of hospital.
So did I.

I reckoned without
my moonbat daughter.

I've just been arraigned
for crimes against humanity.

Any crime in particular?

Multitude.

Seems disapproval
skips a generation.

My mother disliked me,
and now it's my kids.

Does that mean Susan was there?

Susan, Lily,
the whole family turned up.

Not quite the whole family.

That's what
I need to talk to you about.

Hello there. How are you?

Good to see you.
Are you well? Good, good.

Hello, Peter. George, how are you?
Nice to see you all in one piece.

Well, nice for you, even nicer
for me. All right if we go here?

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Somebody sent out a deer to kill
you? They never hated you that much?

George, I have just had
the worst lunch in my life.

I need some decent food.
Cod and chips? Perfect.

I'll bring you some tea.

So, what's the urgency?

What's the bad news?

I called the director at Shephill.

She confirmed to me that Steff Frost
has died from a drug overdose.

That's the woman I talked to. Yes.

And do we think
that she was my daughter?

Obviously, we believe she's not,

we think that she talked to you
on behalf of your daughter.

Now she's dead.

DOOR BELL CHIMES

Hello. Hello.

Duncan, I'm still
a little bit confused.

I'm sure you are.
Can I ask you something? Go ahead.

Are you on a personal mission
to destroy me?

HE CHUCKLES

Peter.

Don't be ridiculous.
Why's that ridiculous?

Three days in hospital gives you
plenty of time to think.

Now, if you remember
the sequence of events,

no sooner had I won
in the High Court,

than you whisked me away

to see a woman that
I don't need to meet... Peter...

..on a mission that
I do not need to pursue... Again...

..and when I tell you
to leave the thing alone,

you carry on investigating.

What was I meant to do?
She sent me her comb.

It was registered in ministry mail.

I didn't think I had a choice.

So you took an executive decision?

As a matter of fact, I did, yeah.

You didn't think
to check with me first?

You've always allowed me
a degree of latitude, Peter.

You've taken it, Duncan. Whether I
allowed it is a different question.

English breakfast, hot and sloppy.
Thank you, George, that's perfect.

Be careful mind. OK.

DOOR BELL CHIMES

Peter...

..I think I have reasonable
political instincts,

and from the very first moment,
I believed the story was true.

Now the science bears it out.

You keep telling us
you're a rule-breaking politician,

just go and charm her to bits

and you won't need to worry
about her ever again.

Look her in the eye,
acknowledge her.

Otherwise...

..it's never going to go away.

"It?"

Presumably, you mean "she"?

Maybe I would have more confidence
in your advice, Duncan,

if the Prime Minister hadn't
found out about my daughter

almost as soon as I did.

You don't have any proof of that.

Don't I?

You are sleeping with that
control freak, Julia Blythe,

and don't even think
about denying it.

I've got some pretty good instincts
of my own, Duncan Knock.

Maybe not so inferior to yours.
Dawn has a back channel

into everything I do and everything
I think, and that back channel

runs through your bedroom.

And may I remind you that I only
found myself in court fighting

a long and expensive case because
someone in my office was leaking.

Have you thought about that? Often.

Maybe if you spent less time
running DNA tests

and more time worrying
about who was betraying us,

you might earn
the title Special Advisor.

How special are you?

Cod and chips.

Cod back on the menu, George,
that is great news. Thank you.

You working tomorrow?
No. On standby.

Pete's still off sick.

Have you heard from her lawyer?
Not a word.

What was she like?

You know, driven, a professional.

She probably has a sense of humour,

but you'd need teams of divers
to find it.

Has she got a partner?
I'd be very surprised.

She's one of those women
who'll always choose loneliness

over disappointment. Fuck her.

Well, she better come through.

I don't want to work
for that bastard one day longer.

CHORAL SINGING

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen. #

APPLAUSE

Darling.

Stunning.

Well done, Helen.

Best yet. Thank you.

Sorry, I'm from the
Hastings Observer, if we can just...

Er, just a moment.

DOOR OPENS

That was a beautiful concert.

I never know
if you're being sincere.

I'm sincere.

You're a superb musician.

I don't really know why
you're still with amateur choirs.

I think amateurs put more into it.

Wonderful. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.

I think people really did like it.

They loved it.

You can tell the difference.

A response like that
has to be genuine.

Of course, we've created
an impossible problem for ourselves.

What problem in that?
MOBILE PHONE VIBRATES

Next year, that's the problem
with a triumph, how do you cap it?

MOBILE PHONE VIBRATES

Er, look, I've got to take this.

I'll see you back home, all right?

Well done.

Yes, Duncan?

More bad news, I'm afraid.

Charmian Pepper has been killed
in a hit and run in Washington.

What?

I...I don't believe it.

I didn't even know
she was in Washington.

She must have been
pursuing the case.

There's nothing suspicious, Peter,
the police say it was an accident.

I'm sure.

FOOTSTEPS CRUNCH

DOOR CREAKS

And have you identified the mother?

Sorry?

This new daughter of yours,
how many candidates are there?

You're anything but meticulous,
so I doubt you kept a record.

You're always ready to move on.

Except from you, Helen.

Never moved on from you.

Never had to, have you?

Nothing you'd done had hurt me.

Until today. Because I had
my own life and it was respectable.

Now people will look at me...
I know. ..and pity me... I know.

..as I walk down the street.
It's not what I want.

I'd rather be ignored that pitied.

Helen, I'm aware of
how loyal you've been.

Especially what you did
during the trial,

I know how much you must
have hated that. Do you?

Thing is, something has happened
that's going to make life

pretty tricky.

And I need to be sure
that you can stick to the story.

Stand by what you said in court.

It's important.

I want you out of here right now.

I don't want to sleep
anywhere near you.

Go anywhere, I don't care where,
and that means not in this house.

Do I have any value to you
except as a liar?

Sydney, I'm going to need you
to come and pick me up.

Yeah, there's a change of plan.

Right, thanks.

SHE SIGHS

What's the verdict? Sorry?

Family court. Did they reach
a verdict? Am I guilty?

Where's Lily? She's gone down
the Old Town to get stoned.

She's satisfied with her day's work?

Nothing's ever going
to satisfy Lily.

She's a Jacobin
and you're an aristocrat.

She's online shopping
for a guillotine. And you're not?

You know me, Dad,
I never like to blame anyone.

I just knew I had to do
something worthwhile

or I couldn't live with myself.

It would help if you would speak
to your mother occasionally.

I've tried to. She hates me
because I see through her.

I've come to think that vagueness
is a kind of crime.

I mean, don't you think finally
being otherworldly is really

just a kind of cowardice?
Now who's the Jacobin?

You should try some time in a boat.

Why would I do that? Because
you get to know yourself. Really?

It's simple, isn't it?
We are what we do.

Everything else is just guff.

Does that mean you're making plans
with this Madeleine person? No.

As a matter of fact, I'm not.
Thank God for that.

Actually, I've got a problem
with Madeleine too. What's that?

She's just turned down a job
in Texas so she can stay close.

Stay close to you?

Oh! You really do have the problems
piling up, don't you?

What are you going to do?

You reach a point
where the only thing you can do

is just keep moving forwards.
That's all there is.

I've always been so terrified of
the past, being dragged down by it.

Anyone with half a brain can see
how easy that is just to get lost.

I remember what happened
when you'd just been born.

We were in heaven.

What happened then? Man came
into the shop and he offered

a suspiciously large sum of money
for the premises.

He was going to build
an office block,

and I thought, "Fuck it,
I'll build an office block."

I have a one-year-old daughter,
I have to keep moving. Poor Dad.

Everyone wants commitment from you.

It's why you were
always my favourite,

because you never wanted anything.

Didn't I?

Maybe I wanted the...same as all the
others, I was just too proud to ask.

Is that what you're doing
in the Arctic?

24 hours back in England, I'm not
exactly desperate to come back.

Still, we miss you.

LOUD CHATTERING

Get a room!

MUSIC: Gacked on Anger
by Amyl and the Sniffers

# Gacked on anger

# Gacked on anger

# Gacked on anger

# Gacked on it. #

Sydney?

Yes, sir? I was wondering
if you'd followed the trial at all.

Followed it, sir?

In the sense of paying attention.

No, I didn't.

I didn't think it was my place.

What are you doing here?

Am I not welcome?

You didn't ring.

Do I have to phone every time?

Where were you?

Where was I tonight?

Yeah.

I had to go and see family.

How was your family?

You don't want to know.
Well, maybe I do.

Maybe that's exactly
the problem between us.

SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

Are you sure you should...?
Am I sure what?

Would you like one?
Maybe a small one.

In a way, I think Lily
was angrier with me than Helen.

That's not surprising. Why not?

Lily believes in you,
your wife doesn't. Oh.

Don't get me wrong,
Helen was angry too.

Really? What about?
Oh, all kinds of stuff.

That's really helpful.

Are you sure
you're not giving too much away?

I'd hate you to feel
you were betraying confidences.

Here.

This...trial stuff.

Ah, yes, the famous trial.

Family stuff.

In particular? Or are you saying
I don't need to know?

You don't need to know.

Why not?

Madeleine,
that's not why I come here.

You've made that very clear.

I come here because
we're actually good for each other.

Certainly, I'm good for you.

Because I'm not real,
I'm not real life.

I have one great advantage
over your family.

The advantage is,
I don't really exist.

Jesus! Madeleine!
I'm a fucking blow-up doll

with a degree in art history,

and a dead child
so you can believe you saved me.

"She was in despair,
and I saved her,"

as if you were Jesus Christ!

Madeleine, Madeleine,
come on, stop it.

You have no idea what it's like
being the girlfriend.

It's what you wanted!
You told me that.

And you chose to believe me
because it suited you.

It suited you and your life.

But it never occurred to you
to ask me properly.

Madeleine, don't.
Stop it, stop throwing things.

Come on, Madeleine...
Oh, these are my things.

I'll do with them what I want.

They're mine.

Can you grasp that idea?
All right, all right, all right.

Oh, Maddie. Maddie, Maddie, Maddie.

I'm so... I'm...

Come here.

I don't know why you didn't call me.

I was worried sick,
you could have been burnt alive.

Mum, there's 500 women in here,

some of them
for being drunk in a pub.

They're not suffering cruelty,
they're suffering neglect.

And my best friend's
just been killed.

I'm sorry to hear that.

This prison killed her.

ROSE SIGHS

Mum, I've got something to tell you
and you're not going to like it.

Remember when we talked about me
getting in contact with my dad?

Rose, I made a decision
before you were born.

Yeah, that's the whole point,
you made the decision not me.

I did it for you.
I don't believe that.

And even if you did, it didn't work.

I'm old enough
to make my own decisions.

For 20 years,
I didn't even know his name.

And you don't think
there's a reason for that?

Mum, I want a life when I get out.

I want a father.

Rose, I've told you before,
Peter Laurence, he's fun,

he's charm itself,
but he always has priorities.

And other people aren't among them.

Mum, I want
my father to know I exist.

Thanks.

Miss?

There's something
I need to report to you.

How was it?
Exactly as you predicted.

Now, you're chairman
of the Conservative Party.

This may be the moment
for you to do your duty.

Her colleagues can't be seen
to move against her

on the issue of arms sales.

Self-evidently.
I've made a diversion. Good.

Hello.

Nice to see you.

Good to see you. Hello.

Hi. Well, this is
an unlooked-for pleasure.

I wasn't expecting you.
Well, I can't think why not.

Because your boss seems
to be avoiding me these days.

I don't think that's true.
She'll see you any time you want.

I think she's foolish to ignore
a groundswell of dissatisfaction

on her own side.

Don't you know how close I am
to Dawn? I'll report that remark

back to her. Will you, Julia? Why?
Because I'm loyal and hard-working.

You can't put a cigarette paper
between her and me. I just did.

Is this all about the export
licences and your friend Trevor?

As far as the public
is concerned, no.

As far as you and I are concerned,
yes. Don't implicate me.

I'm not involved in anything.

The stand the Prime Minister's
taking on the deaths in Yemen

is extremely popular
with the public.

Remember, prime ministers don't fall
because they're incompetent,

they fall when they're caught out
in outright lies.

You are the obvious person
to provide the world

with evidence of a lie.
And why would I do that?

Because people in your line of work
generally like

to jump from raft to raft.

SHE LAUGHS

I don't think you're being serious.
Deadly.

And the obvious question...

..who would be
the incoming prime minister?

Oh, we have someone in mind.

Excuse me.

I hear you had
a bit of a close encounter.

What was it, was it a moose?
No, it was not a moose, Mick.

I was in Sussex, not Saskatchewan.
It was a deer.

Oh, dear. Who came off worse?

Sorry to say that Bambi is dead,
and I am still Minister of Justice.

Right now, we're looking
at an economy that is tanking.

Some banks have crashed,
and the rumour mill says

that the ex-Foreign Secretary
Joleon Bishop

is about to make a run
against the Prime Minister.

I had not heard that.

You got a reputation
for telling it how it is, Peter,

so how secure
do you think Dawn Ellison is?

Dawn does a great job, Mick.
You know that, I know that.

Let's just leave it there.

You know this bloody chaos
we've got going on at Defence,

do you ever remember
anything quite like this?

Look, there are no villains here,
Mick.

I know the people who run
British Defence Group,

and they are people
of the highest integrity.

And the British, thank God, have
the world's most rigorous process

for making sure that weapons
don't wind up in the wrong hands.

We like to know
who we're arming and why.

In my experience,
we're pretty good at it.

Cottage cheese and beetroot?

Spinach and feta?

Scotch egg with chilli jam?

Well, this is not
something I'd planned.

How did you find me?

You have to stop pissing me around.

You know full well
that type of diary's

not enough on its own. I need more.

I need to know why you're involved
and I need to know what you want.

A journalist has died, so you have
got to be straight with me.

All right.

My mother lived in a flat, OK?
In Gospel Oak.

She died when her boiler leaked gas.
When was this?

Ten years ago.

She reported it three times
to the agency.

She wasn't alone. There were others.

Didn't you try to sue?

The landlord said he couldn't be
responsible for the state

of the boilers
in all his properties.

As far as he was concerned,
it was an accident.

And he would fight us
every inch of the way.

My mother died at 53,
and it was an accident.

I don't have to ask
who that landlord was.

He had an awful lot of flats.

And are you going to tell me
how a cocktail waitress

has access
to that man's private diary?

My girlfriend works on his staff.

What does she do? She drives him.

You've got to be careful.

Please.

She can lose her job.

Yeah...

..so could I.

Did you leave this for me?

Actually, yeah. Am I going crazy?

It seems to be a photocopy
of Peter Laurence's diary.

That's what it is.

How the hell did you get it?
Ministers have two diaries.

One on computer, kept in
Laurence's case by Joy Pelling,

who testified in court that he was
in New York on January 13th, 2015.

And another diary, a written one,

also kept by the self-same Joy,

which she said she'd lost
and now it's...reappeared.

So how did you get hold of it?

From a sort of whistle-blower,
I suppose.

Why did they bring it to you?

Well, obviously because they want me
to take it to a newspaper.

They want a firewall between

the diary and their identity.
Yeah, but why you?

A photocopy doesn't clinch anything.

I mean, we know Peter Laurence
went to Washington

and we know he pretended not to.
Call it perjury, sure.

But we still can't prove
what he actually did there.

Look, I'm sorry about this,

but I did make a phone call
to the paper.

Do they know who you are?

No, I just said
I was a friend of Charmian's,

that we'd talked and she was very
excited about her latest contact

and maybe there was something
on that last tape.

What did they say?
They said they didn't have it.

The tape was sent back with the rest
of Charmian's possessions.

Well, went back where?
To Charmian's parents.

You've got one piece of the jigsaw.
I need to get a hold of the other.

Yeah, well, I don't think you can
do that. Why not?

For the obvious reason, of course.
And what is that reason?

We are his legal team,
for God's sake. We got him off.

And now you're claiming that's
where you'd like to leave it? Yes!

I don't know. I'm not sure.

HE SIGHS

If you wait here,

I'll get what you want.

Have you opened it?

No. I'm afraid I couldn't.

You do what you need to.

If you don't mind,
I'll leave you to it.

SHE EXHALES

I... I made you tea.

Oh, very kind of you.

Do you mind if I borrow this?

She was a brilliant little girl.

We were always worried for her.

Why? Because she was always
top of the class.

Her father told her
it's safer in the middle.

All she wanted
was to get away from here.

We begged her
not to be a journalist.

You don't want to mess
with powerful people.

They don't care
about anyone but themselves.

PHONE RINGS

Landline.

Yes? Is that Duncan?

Yeah. Hi, it's Rose Dietl.

Look, I've been really stupid.
I know that.

I sent my friend to meet my father
cos I was nervous.

Yeah, I was really scared and...

But now all I want
is justice for Steff.

I don't think we can do
any special favours.

That would be unacceptable.

But I just feel
if I could at least meet him.

I'm ready.

I want to meet my father.

Do you think he'll agree?

Let me have a word with him.
I'll see what I can do.

Please. I'd be really grateful.

I know.

Are you all right?

Why would I not be? OK.

It's just...

..she's finally stepped forward.

Your daughter.

Her name is Rose Dietl.

I've done some research.

She is a white-collar criminal
who defrauded a high street bank

of a hell of a lot of money.

Her name was all over the papers.

When did this happen?

A couple of years ago.

She's saying this time...

..she'd like to meet you.

Are you going to see her?

Duncan, I think this time
I'll make the decision myself.

Thank you, Duncan.

So, what went wrong? I'd seen
Laurence once or twice before.

Actually...

He said what Britain needed was what
he called discreet privatisation.

He gave advice on how to get
American practices

and drugs into the British
health care system.

Nadia, you're saying he was present.

Can you confirm
he was paid for this advice?

It depends on what you call paid.

Officially, he was paid
to give a speech.

How much? Half a million dollars.

That's a hell of a price
for giving a speech.

Lots of expensive speeches
at British-American...

You're doing well at justice.

Thank you.

Gives us a chance
to resume our weekly game.

I love your turbulence.
It makes people think.

I wish you'd do
some fundraising for the party.

We'd make so much more.

Is Dawn not good at it?

HE SCOFFS
People sense she's a stopgap.

A stopgap?

I don't think Dawn thinks
of herself as a stopgap.

All prime ministers are stopgaps.

Just so few of them know.

That the first law of politics? No.

The first law is that
every politician expects to be

prime minister....

..without exception.

Check.

Well?

Going to have to think
about that one.