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It's 90 degrees in Baton Rouge,

and 92 in New Orleans.

A hot day for an execution.

He's been cheating justice for over 20 years,

but we think it's the end of the line for Rudy Jones.

Humidity up at 98% in downtown Lafayette

and a record high of 99% in West Monroe.

Now, the only thing about the death penalty is that dumbass lawyers

say that you can keep on appealing, right down to the wire.

Seatbelt unfastened.

Seatbelt unfastened.

Seatbelt unfastened.

Yes, I'm here. I'm here. How long?

Seatbelt unfastened.

Two hours.

- Ready? - Yeah.

- Are you sure? - Um...

- Dad? - Yeah, Okay. Okay, but slowly.

Ow! Oh, ow!

No!

- No, no, no! -Dad, help me!

Dan, come on! Calm down.

She didn't hurt me. She didn't hurt me.

- Breathe. Breathe, Dan. - Come on.

It's me, it's your sister. Look at me, look at me.

Are you okay?

- It's okay. - Okay, breathe.

I'm all right, I'm all right. I'm all right.

- You all right? - I want Mummy.

♪ We shall overcome

Not before 6:00. Did you get that?

- Answer my question. - ♪ We shall overcome

Does the Governor know there's a two-hour stay?

- Okay, thanks. - ♪ We shall overcome someday

♪ Oh, deep in my heart

Yeah.

- ♪ I do believe - We've got two hours, all right?

♪ We shall overcome... ♪

Maya Cobbina.

Thank you, ma'am.

- It didn't hurt. - But then why did you scream?

- I was pretending. - Why?

To make it funny.

See, taking the hair off reduces resistance, so you go a bit faster.

See?

Why don't we do another practise?

I could really use your help.

- Okay. - Okay. Come on.

I'm gonna go and look at the blog.

Can you do it with me?

Rudy's lawyer just went inside.

She's told us there's two hours for the Supreme Court to signal.

♪ We shall overcome... ♪

Do we have a decision?

- Rudy? - Oh, I've got a first name.

Rudy.

Now that you're about to kill me.

Fried chicken is a popular choice.

You may kill me, but you can't make me eat

just so the media has something to talk about.

- I'd like a cigarette. - We can't do that.

- Why not? - Health regulations.

So.

Two hours means they're reading what we filed.

Still stacked 5-4.

And all nine are pissed because I'm in their family time.

They are Supreme Court judges.

They do 100 like this a year.

Galbraith is the one. She will come our way.

You like my haircut?

Well...

Rudy's lawyer's in there with him now.

They're waiting on the call... - Don't tell Dan, all right?

It'll be okay. Mum's with him.

- Let's go. - Where?

Someplace else. Anywhere.

Okay.

Clem had big hair when she was little.

Now the execution is supposed to be in...

Can you set our clock to the time over there?

- Ella... - Please.

...and there is still no word.

Dad. Goggles.

Yeah.

We were in hospital for two weeks after she was born.

Why?

Well, I lost a lot of blood and she, um...

Well, they said there was something wrong with her heart.

And that the only way they could know for sure was to open her up.

- Mmm. - Open her up, they said, like she was...

Anyway, it was very late when they finished,

and I was going mad not knowing,

and they brought her back to me on the ward in the middle of the night

and my fear was that they were bringing her back to say goodbye.

And, um,

it must have been the way she was lying,

but I looked at her,

big tubes in her little body,

and she... she moved her head a little...

- Yes? - And there it was.

Looked like a little curl, stuck to the side of her head.

And then I just knew that everything was gonna be fine.

Deep inside.

We have a clerk of the Supreme Court for Ms Cobbina.

All right.

Phone call.

It'll be fine. Galbraith will come through.

Yes. This is Maya.

Yes.

Is her hair still natural?

No, she relaxed it.

Um...

She used

flat irons for a while and, uh,

then she had a, um, a...

A treatment, um...

What's it called? I can't remember.

- Doesn't matter. - I'll remember tomorrow.

And then she went back to being big and wild and natural and frizzy

and completely uncombable.

- That's good. - Yeah, I think so.

How long has it been, you and me? - Twenty years Sunday.

I'll miss our anniversary.

- Where will you be? - Um...

The cottage, have I ever told you this? - No.

It's, uh, St Just.

It is the westernmost town in England,

and it is about as close to here as we could be.

- What is it like, Maya? - It's... It's honest.

And it's tough. And the air is fresh and clean and it's...

It's so wonderful.

- Will you all be there? - All of us.

- I don't want you in there. - We've, we've always said...

I won't let them dignify what they're doing with my good behaviour.

- Rudy... - I'm not going quietly.

And I don't want you seeing me lose again.

First words you ever said to me

was, "I am your lawyer.

"And I will do everything in my power to help you.

"But all the choices will be yours.

"I'm instructed by you."

You can't imagine what that's meant to me.

I don't want you being in there on your own.

The responsibility I'm about to give you

goes a long way past

witnessing my death.

-Rudy. - Come close.

Real close.

You can't win trying to save people like me.

You have to go big.

Walk away from me now.

Stay brave.

Be strong.

Hold your dignity.

-Rudy. - Go big.

It's time.

You hear me? You hear me, Maya?

Hear me, Maya!

Hear me, Maya!

Transport to the chamber?

So listen. It's one-way in there.

The glass. Your man, he...

He can't see you.

My advice is save yourself the nightmares.

- Walk away. - He doesn't want me watching.

♪ Amazing Grace

♪ How sweet the sound

♪ That saved a wretch like me

♪ I once was lost ♪

Um...

I know nearly all of you.

And together we have held hands,

sung songs, lit candles, prayed. We have done

everything in our power to help save our friend.

But it hasn't worked.

I...

I want to be dignified now,

and I want to offer myself and you some solace in speech, some love and hope.

I don't have it.

All I have is anger.

And, uh,

I'm sorry I can't give you better.

But I swear to you.

On the lives of my children and as you are my witness, this, this,

this anger that I feel here

will go to work.

It will not soften.

It will not be softened.

Until they stop killing brothers and sisters

and calling it justice.

That's it. That's it.

Sorry, sorry.

He said no to a last meal. He said no to prayer.

So a Godless life will have a Godless end.

And a hungry one, too.

He's been speaking with his lawyer instead of the Lord. Course he has.

We do know they talked about one thing.

Minutes from death, and the topic of conversation...

Hair products.

Uh, Dan, will you do the hose for me

and that stuff there. I'll just take a quick shower, yeah?

- Okay. - All right, thanks.

We're minutes away now, folks.

The execution procedure will be by lethal injection.

A humane and painless death.

Which is more than can be said for the agony he inflicted

on the esteemed public servant he so brutally murdered.

We're gonna play the song we always play right before the condemned man

heads down to Hell.

♪ Fire, I'll take you to burn

♪ Fire, I'll take you to burn ♪

Let no man say I don't have perfect timing.

That was Arthur Brown and this is the countdown.

Join with me.

Ten, nine,

eight, seven, six,

five, four, three, two, one.

Hello, this is Maya Cobbina. Please leave a message.

It's me. It's us.

We're with you, we all love you.

Maya?

Oh, sweetheart, hold on.

Get home.

Ms Cobbina! Ms Cobbina!

- Hey! - I don't want to know.

I don't want to know, I don't want to know.

No, you don't understand what they're doing there!

- He's not dead? - I'll take you.

Oh, God! Oh, God!

Hello? Hello, Judge Kramer?

Okay, okay, um, I am filing a motion on behalf of Rudy Jones

for an emergency stay of execution.

- Are you the right person? -I'm the right person.

- On what grounds? -On the grounds that, that

he's breathing and there's, there's moaning

and there's movement and it's been, it's been...

- Over an hour. - It's been over an hour. It's botched.

He's alive. He's in terrible pain.

We need the State.

Gonna have to put you on hold. Once I have him, I'll be back.

Then we'll be on conference call.

Stand up! Stand up, people, he's alive, he's not dead!

Stand up! Please, get out of the way!

Please give us space, he's alive!

Why is the blind down? Open it. Open it!

Jesus, what are you doing? MAYA: My God.

-Close that blind now! -Close it now.

How do I get in there? How do I get in...

You do not get in... Close that blind! - I'm his lawyer, you can't...

- Oh, my God. -Close it now!

Close the blind.

How do I get in there?

You do not get into the execution chamber, do you...

That is not an execution chamber.

That is a torture chamber, they don't...

-Hello? - Yes, yes, I'm here.

I have the Assistant Attorney General on the call.

You can make the application.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

If that's not cruel and unusual, I don't know what is.

I have information from the chamber. - Who?

The doctor. He says his heartbeat is 40 and falling.

He is breathing.

Well, we don't think his breathing is actual breathing.

It's a kind of snorting.

And that's what the body does when it is short on oxygen.

- The doctor says... - You call a man

supervising the killing of a human being a doctor?

That is not medicine!

There is blood everywhere. They don't know what they're doing in there.

Shit!

My battery's low.

I don't think we can take what counsel says as medically expert

- in any kind of way. -There is a drill in there!

What have they got a drill for?

They're putting a line into the bone.

The execution team are quite happy. - MAYA: Enough!

The default position must be stop, then argue this.

Stop first, please, then we can be lawyers.

The State contends suspending the execution now

may do more harm than good.

His condition is deteriorating.

Oh! Now you're trying to kill him?

You fought for his right to die?

I mean, what kind of warped argument is that?

What does the protocol say?

I can have my office find a copy in five minutes.

We don't have five minutes, I know it back to front!

I don't think we can take that as any kind of a...

"There will be an emergency defibrillator on-site."

Expressly stated. That is what it's there for.

Why have it in the protocol if not to use it?

My battery's low.

I am informed from inside the chamber that the heartbeat is down to 30.

Call it, Judge.

Call it now.

I have a decision.

BP currently 75 over 45.

- Rudy? -Step back, please.

- Oh, don't be ridiculous. - Step back from the prisoner.

Take your hand off me.

How we doing here, guys? - What's happening?

We need to move him. The prison can't look after him.

I need to know what's going on. - I am a doctor, ma'am.

My job is keeping people alive. I can't do that here.

They don't have the facilities.

You're his lawyer, right?

I'll bring him back. Now, go home.

We'll call you when there's news. All right, guys, let's go.

Come on!

Mummy's home. Hey! Mummy's home!

I love you. I love you.

Mummy! We missed you so much.

Daddy.

- There it is. -Amazing.

Pasta a la fromage.

How many times did you have pasta since I was away?

- Nineteen. - Oh!

No, you're not...

- Ah! Ow! Ow, ow! - What, what, what?

Oh, God, God. God. It's a cramp. It's a cramp.

- Ow, God. It's not funny! -Dad?

Oh, that hurt. Oh, my God, Maya. - DAN: Dad, what's wrong?

- Give me the pillow! - Come in!

- At least give me the... - Daddy?

All right, it's all right.

- It's, um, nothing. - Oh, my God, Dad! What's wrong with you!

- Go back to bed! -Disgusting!

Please, take Dan, and go back to bed.

Black rights, our rights!

Black rights, our rights!

Go home! Go home!

Michael! Michael!

Excuse me. I'm looking for a Michael Antwi.

All right.

Okay. Hang on.

Here we go. Here we go.

Sorry.

Don't mention it.

- I used to change you. - Hmm.

I was way ahead of my time.

A man changing a baby's nappies. -

There we are.

♪ Hush little baby don't say a word

♪ Papa's going to buy you a mockingbird

♪ And if that mockingbird don't sing

♪ Papa's going to buy you a diamond ring

♪ And if that diamond ring

♪ Turns to brass

♪ Papa's going to buy you a looking glass ♪

Most of the nurses are after me, obviously.

Well, yeah, obviously.

When they're not treating me like a three-year-old.

"I may be dying, but I'm not deaf," I tell them.

Dad, I'm...

- You all right? - Yeah.

Have I been a good father?

Yeah.

Yeah.

- Thank you. Thank you. - Come on.

Here we go.

No girlfriend?

Uh, no Dad. You know, haven't found the right woman.

Rocco!

Rocco?

Rocco!

Rocco!

Oh, thank God. Hey! Where have you been?

Where have you been?

Daddy!

He was stuck in the pond at the edge of the cricket pitch, so I hauled him out.

- And how did you... - Rang the vet. They knew Rocco.

Um, sorry. Tea?

Would you like to stay for some tea?

He doesn't mean it.

He says he wants you to stay for a cup of tea, but he doesn't really.

- Dan. - You taught me that, Dad.

Where were you when you lost him?

- Uh, near the boating lake. - So he'd run a long way.

- Yeah, he's a bolter. - You were distracted?

Yeah.

Something on your mind?

Uh, how old is he?

They reckon about two and a half.

- Rescue? - Yeah.

- Do you know his story? - He ate his owner.

What?

86-year-old man died alone in his flat.

Nobody knew for three weeks.

Django was stuck in there, nothing to eat.

He didn't have a choice.

- And how's he been with you? - Loyal.

Faithful.

Yeah, I wake up in the morning sometimes,

he's sitting next to my bed, looking up at me.

We should meet for a coffee.

Cafe on Brennan Street, in one hour.

You can thank me properly.

Come on.

People say you're mad, you know?

Twenty years and you're still on it.

People can say what the hell they like.

I booked you a flight back to the US.

And I moved your Southwark fixture. - Thank you.

- I'm a gem. - You're a gem? What do you want, Jimmy?

I had another call from the Attorney General's office.

They're not taking no for an answer.

- They want you to interview. - I defend people.

I spent my entire career taking on the state when it behaves badly.

Why do you think, in a million years,

I'd want to be Director of Public Prosecutions?

Michael Antwi.

- There's a new witness. - What?

Scared and careful, which is a good thing

because it means whatever they've got to say, it must be important.

But whether new evidence helps Michael's case depends on who's looking at it.

The DPP makes the choices.

That could be you.

- Jimmy, who the hell is this? - I don't know.

Well, who did they go to?

The approach was a text from a phone that doesn't exist.

You could go big.

What did you just say?

Rudy wrote to me.

He said he knew I was like a father to you.

And he wanted me to show you the way when he's gone.

- He's not dead. - So he's watching you.

We all are.

I'm not doing this.

You wouldn't be here if that were true.

- It's been 20 years. - There's a perfect storm coming.

Your wife is being head-hunted.

The first black Director of Public Prosecutions is a real possibility.

- She wouldn't do it. - She might.

Why?

We have shared history.

All of us.

Michael Antwi.

There's a new witness. We don't know who.

If she is the new DPP...

Like I said, a perfect storm.

She still has no idea why you met.

Or who you were.

Get out of our lives. And stay out.

If you, if you hurt my brother,

all of my brothers are coming for you!

No more!

- No more! -No more!

-No more! -No more!

If you don't leave, I'll have you removed.

I'm looking for a Michael Antwi.

Michael! You all right?

- Yeah? Michael! - I'm fine.

How can Rudy be a vegetable?

- They shouldn't say that. - It says he's a cabbage.

- Dan. - This man says he's a guinea pig.

- No, he's not a guinea pig. - He says that he's a guinea pig

because they tried new drugs in him and now he's a cabbage.

Shut up, Dan!

Hello?

Nick? It's me. Um, I don't know where you are.

It's Rudy.

Can you come get me, please?

Nick? It's me. Um, I don't know where you are.

It's Rudy.

Can you come get me, please?

Hello?

Uh, hello. This is Dr Elliot at the hospital.

Uh, yes?

It's your father. I think perhaps you should be here.

- Maya. - Oh.

- I love you so much. - I love you, too.

When did he die?

He's not dead.

He's pulling through.

And is that why you wanted me?

It's my birthday.

And you've forgotten! - Um...

I'll make it up to you. I'll make it up to you.

Hello?

Surprise!

Happy birthday, darling!

-Did you suspect? -No!

Happy birthday to us.

-Happy birthday! -Happy birthday, Mummy!

I'm so much younger than you.

- Thank you. - What are best friends for, darling?

Wrestling with. And racing against. That kind of thing.

What are you talking about?

Maybe we could do a bit of wrestling later?

It would go against everything you've done for your entire career.

What, wrestling?

Yeah, that too. No, I just mean being the DPP, prosecuting people.

First black DPP, that would be really something, wouldn't it?

Yeah, but Maya doesn't have some kind of duty to all black people...

Stop and search, that'd be a good place to start.

Or maybe the paper you work for could talk about that, Julia.

Daddy let Rocco run away.

And then a man brought him back and then we decided not to tell you.

What man?

Nick?

You know, it was practically a kidnapping, all right?

Rocco was out of my sight for 30 seconds.

Well, we should give him some chocolates or something, did you get his name?

- No. - Ugh, Dads are useless at Mum stuff.

Your father's a wonderful man. - He is.

Mum, Ella's gonna be sick.

- Dan. - Dan, Dan, I'm not gonna be sick!

- Dad, get a bucket! - I'm not gonna be sick!

Calm down.

He said...

When we were first together,

I used to go to the women's ponds really early in the morning

before anyone else was there, and I'd swim out as far as I could

and I would just, I'd just shout.

As loud as I could. Well, it wasn't that loud 'cause it was really cold.

Then one day I got there a bit earlier than usual

and the lifeguard was just arriving and she heard me shouting...

- Oh, don't tell me. - She rescued me.

She lifeguarded the hell out of me.

And I couldn't say, "Look, stop! Don't worry, don't worry. It's just love."

So I let myself be saved.

Hey. You know this, um, this DPP thing?

Mmm-hmm.

Is there something you're not telling me?

- Yes. - Well... Well, what?

I'm not telling you.

Oh, come on, you always tell me everything.

Night, Nick.

Hey, hold on.

What's up?

What?

Do you know what?

Why don't we just go now?

- It's the middle of the night? - Yeah, yeah, I know, but it...

It'd be like the good old days, when the kids were little.

Come on. Yes!

- Are you tired? Shall I drive? - No, no, no, I'm fine.

Come on, boy.

All right, all right.

All right.

Hello?

It's, uh, Dr Elliot. I'm afraid I've got bad news.

When?

He died a few moments ago.

- You okay? - Yeah.

- He did do a wee, didn't he? - Yeah.

- Who called you? - Oxfam.

Dad. Let's do our song.

- Yeah! - Dad?

♪ Hush little baby don't say a word

♪ Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird

♪ And if that mockingbird don't sing

♪ Daddy's gonna buy you a diamond ring

♪ And if that diamond ring turns brass... ♪

Oh, yes, finally, come on!

Wait, Dan. Wait, wait!

Do you think you're faster than me?

Rocco!

Dan, can you wait for me! DAN: Rocco!

I told Rudy we'd be here.

Keratin.

- What? - The word.

- The word I couldn't remember. - Oh.

- Come on! - I'll get it, I'll get it.

Thank you.

For what?

You know I do the work I do because you make it possible.

Stop running!

From now on, no wasting time,

no wasted words, no friends I don't like.

And you better watch out, Nicholas Johnson,

because I am gonna love you very bloody hard.

Oh-oh!

Oh, go on.

It's all right!

It's going to be all right.

You can't have me back.

You can't. I love my family too much, and Maya is...

She matters more than anything in the world.

I know that. And that's fine.

We just want you to share with us what she's thinking.

You know the beauty of this?

Twenty years of normal life makes for very deep cover.

Beauty? Beauty?

It's 20 years since you left us. For love.

Now, I would call what you've made in those years

something pretty close to happiness.

We would hate to destroy that.

We really would.

I don't... I don't have to do this. - No.

No, no, I could just tell her.

Sure.

After 20 years of lying,

you think any of you would survive that?

'Cause that's the only question, isn't it?

Maya.

Clem, Ella.

And what would it do to Dan?

You mean everything to that boy.

I'm sorry.

Come, come, come.

All right, you get the box.

Is that heavy? Is it too heavy?

No, it's not, it's light.

Use your muckles, right, muckles? -

Don't leave your bags in the hallway!

Hello?

Right. Okay, well, just give me five minutes, Jimmy.

Bye.

Nick. They want to interview me.

And they need an answer.

- Right. - I'm not gonna do it unless you agree.

We have to decide this together.

Do it.

You remember Carter?

Welcome back, Detective Sergeant.