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'I saw it happen.' No!

'I saw him kill her.

'You have to get someone there right away.'

He's gone into an alleyway, it's a blind spot.

None of the cameras cover it.

It's the same man, and I bet he had a dagger tattoo on his wrist.

Louisa Bradfield's office. I need to speak to her.

Is it about Ruby again?

MAN ON PHONE: 'Delete the recording of me from last week.

'The whole evening.'

I just want you to leave me alone.

SHE GASPS What have you done?

WHISPERING: This is not Max.

'I got Max's number, told him to meet me here.'

I told you, I said he killed her. It isn't a woman.

It's Max Carlton.

The CPS has decided not to press charges over the death of Mr Dove.

They accept that you acted in self defence.

Finally, some common sense.

But they are still considering whether to prosecute you

over your involvement in the murder of Max Carlton.

What involvement?

There was CCTV footage of him

approaching the location where his body was found.

He was in the company of an unidentified woman

believed to be his killer.

You destroyed that evidence. You have got to be shitting me.

The system at the CCTV centre clearly shows

it was your login that was used to delete the recording.

Do you deny this? I was forced to do that.

Who by?

Max phoned and threatened to hurt my friends if I didn't delete it.

But Max was already dead at this point.

And yet was seen running from the blind spot.

Yeah.

So who made this alleged call?

Don't do this, don't make it look like it's all my fault.

Who was the woman on the CCTV, and where did she go?

I don't know.

Look, we know that Carlton worked with various women on the estates.

Do you know any of their names? Why would I?

Because you seem to be his biggest fan.

When he killed Zoe, you all looked the other way.

Why do you suddenly care now the bastard's dead? He deserved it!

What are you doing here?

Making sure you get home without causing any more chaos.

I don't need baby-sitting. Yeah, really looks like it.

Hannah, I don't want things to be like this.

Bullshit. You're trying to bully me into helping you.

You're up to your old tricks.

Using me like you used that poor sod

you sent to his death in London.

I just want to get to the truth.

Then do your bloody job. Stop piling all this bullshit onto me.

Meet me halfway, then.

If you want me to believe that you weren't involved in any of this,

then give me something to go on.

Bastard. Let's get out of here.

Look...

Someone might have mentioned a Ruby. Who is she?

Another woman who worked with Max. Do you know anything else about her?

No. Just heard her name somewhere.

But you're the one who claims to be a detective.

I can't believe I'm actually picking you up from the police station.

What are you like? You need to talk to your mum.

She knows something about Zoe.

What? It's best you hear it from her.

KNOCK ON DOOR

No, get lost before somebody sees you.

Call her off.

That nasty little viper who works for you.

What's her name? Geri?

How dare she threaten to have my dog taken away.

You told Hannah what we did.

You may as well have gone to the bloody newspapers.

She won't blab if it hurts you. She will tell Amber.

I will never forgive you for making me seem weak

in front of my daughter.

I hope Geri burns your pathetic life to the ground.

Remember this day, dear.

Why?

It's when your whole life started to fall apart.

MAN'S VOICE ECHOES: 'Delete the recording of me from last week.

'The whole evening.'

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

Hello, love.

Hannah said you had something to tell me about Zoe.

Amber...

Sometimes we do things we regret.

AMBER GIGGLES I'm not ten.

There was a witness.

When Zoe was killed, someone saw it happen.

Who? Dolly Fletcher.

She never went to the police.

How do you know about it?

An officer I'm friendly with at the station.

She tipped me off.

Why didn't Dolly make a statement?

Because I...

..I paid her not to.

Why would you do that?

Max Carlton, he came down to my office, bold as brass,

and told me about all the things that would come out about you

if he went to court.

He was making it up. Was he?

It was just some stuff from a few posh houses.

People who could afford it. Yeah, we both know that's bullshit.

I moved us out here

so you wouldn't have to be involved in a life like that.

Don't you get it? You would have gone to prison.

And even after you got out, it wouldn't end.

Everything you did would be plastered over the internet.

Preventing that wasn't worth letting Zoe's killer get away.

You would never have escaped it.

Every job interview, every new friend you made,

they'd be able to find out what you did with a click.

That's my problem. No, no, it's mine, too!

The scandal would have ended my political career.

You're only the leader of the bloody council.

It's not like you've got the nuclear codes.

It is important to me.

Look, I know you meant well.

But I didn't ask you to stick your nose in.

Yeah, well...

Someone had to save you from yourself.

Because you sure as shit weren't making a great job of it.

KEYS JANGLE

You don't know what you've done.

DOOR SLAMS

No. No, Roy.

On the house today. How come?

I might be able to put some cash your way if you're interested.

Need someone with your skills to do me a little favour, dear.

I'm listening.

DOOR CLOSES Thanks for coming.

You're still talking to me, then?

SHE SIGHS

I know you only told the police where I was cos you care.

You wanted to get me help, and I appreciate and respect that.

LAUGHING: You want something, don't you?

SHE EXHALES

Yeah.

Look at this, "Judas".

Could they really have a back-up of the CCTV?

Give them five grand, and you'll find out.

I don't have that kind of money. Forget about it, then.

I can't! The police are gonna charge me with destroying evidence,

but if I had a copy of the CCTV to give them... It's a scam!

Oh, let it go. Obsessing over all this

is giving you nothing but misery.

I can't. It's who I am.

Well, not to me.

SHE EXHALES Can you find who sent the email?

Depends if they knew what they were doing.

Then, try. Please.

SHAKILY: I'm in big trouble.

DOOR CLOSES

Sarge. Chris.

I got some bad news, I'm afraid.

Before Jim Dove died, he gave up your entire operation -

names, numbers, the full nine yards.

Yeah, I don't believe you, mate.

Well, let's talk about it down the station.

All right, sure, whatever.

I said, "Let's talk about it down the station."

Well, if this was a proper arrest,

you wouldn't have come here on your own, would you?

So, go on, just tell me what you really want.

Information about Max Carlton's girls.

What's it worth?

Come on, man. You know how this works.

You scratch my back, I scratch yours.

All right, you help me,

and I'll give you an hour to put your affairs in order

before I bring you in. Deal?

Yeah, fine. All right, just get off me.

So, talk.

Look, I don't much about these tarts of Carlton's, yeah?

They just came and went.

Do you remember one called Ruby?

No, I don't remember any of their names.

I didn't bother learning their names cos once they was with him,

that was it, they were off limits. You'll have to do better than that.

HE EXHALES

Look, there was this little cafe, yeah, down on Rose Lane.

That was where they used to go and look for marks.

That's it. That's all I know.

All right.

So, an hour, yeah?

HE SCOFFS Nice one. Yeah.

No wonder you're a joke down at the station.

Don't even know how to play the game, mate.

Arrest and charge him.

Yeah, it's fine! I know where I'm going.

Get off me. I know where I'm going!

There you go.

If I ever teased you about computer club after school,

I take it all back.

You made endless jokes about it.

Well, a normal teenage boy would spend that time

learning how to unfasten a bra,

but I am glad you never got the opportunity.

Er, the email was sent

from the IP address linked to this address.

Do you know it?

It's Louisa and Geri's office.

Won't your mum miss the keys?

She doesn't usually come in at the weekend.

Still, be quick.

It has to be Geri's doing.

I can't believe your mum would mess me around like this.

I'll get Mum to crucify her for this.

Do you think the footage is on here? What if she's got it with her?

Then we'll kill her and loot her corpse (!)

Oh, don't worry. It's just plan B.

DOOR HANDLE CLATTERING

What the hell?

Shit! Hide.

How?! Go!

BANGING

You get under there. I'll...

Come on, you as well. You're kidding!

Who is that?

No! Wait!

DOOR OPENS

MAN: Come out.

Who are you?

What do you want?!

I've called the police.

We have to go. What about the files?

You can't be here.

Someone's bound to see the door broken in,

and then the police will come.

Hannah, now! I'm going!

HE SIGHS

You finished scraping that boy off my rug yet?

I've come about something else -

Max Carlton's girls.

I don't get mixed up in Max's business.

Yeah, well, we found Carlton's body yesterday.

I've been told that he used to meet his women in here.

Free country, in't it?

Did any of them know Hannah?

What's that girl gone and got herself involved in now?

She's covering the tracks

of the woman we believe killed Carlton.

I need to know why.

Does the name Ruby mean anything to you?

She was Max's favourite,

but I've not seen them together for a while.

Why? You'll have to ask her.

Well, do you know where I can find her?

Try asking Louisa Bradfield.

Thank you, Mrs Fletcher.

DOOR OPENS, BELL RINGS

DOOR CLOSES

Who the hell was he?

Why was he smashing up Mum's office? Unhappy voter?

Do you really think the back-up copy exists?

I don't know.

And why would Geri blackmail me? She knows I ain't got any money.

She also knows you're desperate.

Let's have another.

I know Councillor Bradfield.

I'll call her, let her know what happened.

I told you. I have never seen it before.

That coat looks a lot like the one

that Max Carlton was wearing the night he died.

It's got blood on it.

When it comes back from the lab, I'd lay odds on it being his.

If I'd killed him, why would I keep his coat?

Think, for God's sake!

Why would somebody turn your office over?

Well, how should I know?

You have a reputation for being Councillor Bradfield's fixer.

Are you aware of any link between her and Max Carlton?

No.

There was CCTV footage of Max Carlton

approaching the location where his body was later found.

There was a woman with him. So...?

She matches your height and your build.

Well, have you got a copy of this video?

Right, so you've no actual evidence?

Have you ever used the name Ruby? No.

We believe a Ruby was involved in Max Carlton's crimes.

Now, I've been told that she's someone

that Councillor Bradfield might know.

Well, that's not me. It's...

SHE LAUGHS

What's so amusing?

Can you access the electoral register from here

or do I have to spell it out for you?

Another drink?

No, I better keep a clear head.

I guess.

Shit!

I'm supposed to be getting my nails done at four.

HANNAH GROANS

Expensive life being a fashion victim.

I'm off home.

You all right?

SOFTLY: Yeah.

SHE CHUCKLES

I don't think this slogan's gonna stick.

THEY CHUCKLE

No.

Speak soon.

Love you.

What now? Is Amber here?

I've tried her house. No.

I've had enough of your lies.

What are you talking about? She is Ruby!

And I'll bet she's the woman on the CCTV,

and you lied under caution.

I... I didn't know. You must be wrong.

I'm sick of the pair of you giving me the run-around.

I need to bring her in for questioning.

Look, let me talk to her first.

I'm sure she can explain all this.

HE SCOFFS Absolutely not.

If you shove her in an interrogation room,

she'll clam up.

With me, she'll be honest.

No, you were right.

The last time I used someone, put them at risk,

they died, and I'm not prepared to do the same with you.

Let me try.

No! Where is she?

And no more lies.

She said she was going to college.

There was a book she needed to pick up.

All right.

But you and I are not done.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

Amber.

Warden's after you.

You need to ditch your phone. We need to meet.

What the hell is going on?

Why did you want to meet me here?

Warden's hardly gonna look for you on the swings.

I needed to talk to you before he does.

Why?

I need you to tell me I'm wrong.

I need you to tell me that you didn't kill Max.

Of course I didn't.

Are you recording this?

Oh, for fuck's sake.

You're my oldest friend,

the person I love the most in the world.

I wish to God I hadn't seen this.

That, that top...

That's the same one the woman on the CCTV was wearing

the night Max was killed.

Loads of people must have that one.

It's off the rack.

Then let's go to yours.

Show me you've still got it.

Please. I gave it to a charity shop.

I spoke to Jules from school.

You said you went to her birthday piss-up in Leeds

the night Max was killed.

So...?

Jules said you didn't arrive till well after midnight,

and when you spoke with me earlier that night,

you said you were already there.

I decided to go to the hotel bar and hang out for a bit.

No, no.

You were somewhere near here, getting cleaned up before he left.

You would've got away with it if I hadn't seen Max on the CCTV.

You knew I was afraid to go out at night,

so you thought I wouldn't be at work,

didn't realise I'd swapped shifts with Simon.

The cameras were your mum's big scheme

so you knew she'd done them on the cheap.

You knew they were no good at night.

No-one was gonna recognise your face on that crappy night vision.

Even me.

Somehow, you convinced Max to recreate the same scam

he tried to pull with Zoe.

MAX: Yeah, this looks good.

Just like old times, eh?

You had him alone, off-camera.

No-one was gonna miss him.

I reckon we're gonna make a killing tonight...

HE YELLS OUT

For Zoe, you prick.

But your top got torn in the struggle.

HE GROANS, GRUNTS

Your top was torn.

You took Max's coat to cover you up.

You used to live in a neighbouring block of flats.

You knew what was under the bins.

You threw away your ruined top and scarf,

knowing the bins would be emptied the next morning.

He deserved to go in that sewer...

..like the rat he was.

That's why you did it there -

to humiliate him in death.

I thought I saw Max leaving.

I saw what I wanted to see.

Have you heard yourself?

You've not been well.

Do not start that shit with me!

"Ruby."

When you heard me tell Warden that name, you panicked,

tried to set up Geri.

So, you must've gone to your mum's office earlier that day,

planted the coat, sent the email...

Hannah, please. Stop.

The one thing I couldn't resist was a copy of the CCTV footage.

You knew that.

So, you pretended she had one.

I suppose you were gonna discover the coat in her desk.

But we were interrupted.

Lucky for you, Warden still recognised it,

and she was arrested.

Well, this better be good.

Hannah's just sent me on a wild-goose chase

to some beauty college, and Amber's ditched her phone.

Look.

COMPUTER MOUSE CLICKS

What the hell are they doing?

Tell me I'm wrong.

Please.

You were my friend, practically my sister,

and you sent your boyfriend to hurt me.

Who does that?!

You kept questioning what had happened.

Getting too close to the truth.

Jim was only supposed to scare you off.

Why were you with him in the first place?

I found out Max had killed Zoe...

..and I knew no-one was gonna do a damn thing about it.

Max was laying low.

So I started hanging out with Jim.

Cos I knew we'd cross paths sooner or later.

How did you persuade Max to go to the blind spot with you?

I told him I wanted to get back at my mum.

Finally given a damn about her bloody career.

Said I wanted to show how stupid her security cameras were.

Like pulling a con right under their noses.

And he went with that?

He was a cocky bastard.

But this was my way of showing

I'd learnt my lesson for getting clean.

Now what?

It's up to you. Bullshit!

You're never gonna let this go. You'll go to the police.

Once you know the truth, you can't ever look away.

It's always been your problem.

Well, then, don't make me do it.

I'm giving you the chance to do the right thing.

The right thing?

I did the right thing when I killed that bastard.

"I did the right thing when I killed the bastard."

It's all over, isn't it?

Will you come with me to the police station?

I can't do this alone.

Whatever you need.

The last time I saw them was when they left the playground.

It's no good. I've lost them.

There's some we don't have cameras. Shit.

Why couldn't the silly girl

just have stayed out of it like I told her?

That's kind of her thing.

I'm not losing somebody else.

HE EXHALES

Yeah, look, this is Detective Sergeant Warden.

Do we still have an active trace on the phone of a Hannah Quinn?

Please...

Please find her.

Suspects were last seen travelling out of town in a white...

DOOR CLOSES

But the police station's that way. I need time to think.

Amber!

You're making a huge mistake.

You can't prove anything.

I've got your confession.

The CCTV.

It doesn't record sound.

Simon can lip-read.

Warden was with him at the CCTV.

You set me up.

I'm sorry.

SIREN WAILS

I need back-up.

I am in pursuit of a suspect heading south on Atkins Road.

Heading towards Aylesbury Quarry.

Vehicle is a black Audi A3. Over.

Amber! Where the fuck are we going?

Stop the car!

Shit!

Slow down! Shut up!

Amber! I'm not going to prison.

Slow down!

HIGH-PITCHED RINGING

Amber? AMBER STRAINS

Agh!

Amber? Agh!

Amber!

Amber.

Amber, help me.

Amber, don't leave me!

AMBER GRUNTS Amber, come back.

Amber!

SHE GRUNTS

Amber!

SHE SOBS

THEY PANT

SIREN APPROACHES

Get away from the car!

Amber! I'm all right.

No!

No! No!

Stop it, let me go!

Let me go! It's too late.

SOBS

INDISTINCT

INDISTINCT WAILING

Nice service.

It was horrible. Yeah.

I'm sorry I misled you.

I just needed to hear her say the words myself.

You tried to give her a chance. I get it.

I was a selfish cow.

If we'd have done things properly, we wouldn't be here.

You arrested Lou. Hasn't she suffered enough?

Well, you're the one that told me what she'd done.

What did you expect? But you let me off the hook?

No. That was the CPS.

I don't make the rules around here.

That's news to me.

I guess you get to retire in peace,

skulk off to some allotment or somewhere.

I'm staying in the force.

You really must need the money. It's not about the money.

What, then?

Maybe to make amends for all the times I screwed up.

How noble.

Truth is, I'm a cop.

I don't know how to do anything else, so...

I may as well try to be a good one.

Well, good luck.

You too.

Oh, and don't take this the wrong way, but, er...

I hope I never see you again.

Feeling's mutual.

See you tomorrow, Ro.

DOORBELL JINGLES, WOLF BARKS

What do you want? Are the council still going ahead?

Yep.

Either I leave my house or they take him away.

How can they do that?

This estate isn't my home.

But Wolf's my family.

Give him to me.

What?

Let me look after him.

You can see him whenever you want.

I thought you were moving away.

It's not far.

And I promise we'll visit.

Will you miss it round here?

Maybe. Never lived anywhere else.

At least you'll have a friendly landlord.

If you put the rent up after the first month,

you'll have hell to pay. Noted.

And I won't stand for any funny business,

or I'll do you for sexual harassment.

No, no, of course not.

Unless I'm in the mood for funny business...

and then I'll let you know.

OK. How?

You'll know.

God, modern life is so confusing. HANNAH LAUGHS

I didn't know you were bringing a dog.

Well, he's well-behaved. Kind of.

Well, I am allergic. Oh.

Just try and keep him in your room.

Yeah, that's really gonna happen (!)

You better not be one of those blokes who leaves the loo seat up.

Oh, no, don't worry. I often sit down anyway, it's way comfier.

No, no. Complete turnoff. What?

HANNAH CHUCKLES

Whatever. Oh, and you're doing the bins.

Oh, no. We can make a rota. Make it fair when we switch over...

CONVERSATION CONTINUES AND FADES