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(bright chiming)

(tense tones)

(woman laughing)

- [Man] Yes.

(man breathing heavily)

(cans rattling)

(man yelling)

(man laughing)

(siren wailing)

- [Man] Hello mate.

- I know nothing seems to be on the horizon job-wise,

but on the upside, Mr. Stiles gave you

a tremendous reference, and the fact that you're willing

to work part-time is definitely gonna work in your favor.

- What about the other thing?

- What other thing?

- That you believe me.

- Yes, I do.

But what do you think that changes, Eddie?

I'm still your probation officer,

you still have to report to me,

and my senior is five yards away

on the other side of that window.

- [Eddie] So nothing changes?

- Look, I'm gonna try and make life easier for you.

I'm gonna ask about your risk level being downgraded.

- Right.

- What d'you mean right?

I'm trying to help you here!

- [Eddie] I'm innocent, Paula!

That's the sort of help I need!

- Will you keep your voice down.

- Oh, man, I was buzzing that you believed me,

but I can't just leave it at that.

I suppose you have to.

I suppose that's all you can do.

But me and Kelly, we've got to take it further, you know?

'Cause if someone like you believes me, then the law will.

- You make life hard for yourself, don't you?

- [Eddie] At least you know you've had one.

- Marion?

- [Marion] Yes.

- We talked about the possibility

of having Eddie Mottram reassessed as medium-risk.

- You talked about it.

- Yeah.

- Has he acknowledged his guilt yet?

- No.

But if we gave him more freedom,

he'd have something else to concentrate on.

At the minute, it's him against the world.

- [Marion] If we gave him more freedom,

he might do something we'd all regret.

- Prove he's innocent?

- Yeah!

That'd be you out of a job, wouldn't it?

Look, Paula, it's him that has to change.

You've just got to make him see he's got no choice.

- Keep up the good work!

- It's what you had to come back and prove, isn't it?

That you could.

He stays high-risk.

(sighs)

- [Eddie] She believes me?

- She believes you,

but she ain't gonna do anything about it?

- It's not her job, is it?

It's our job.

- Yeah.

Where do we start?

(pensive music) (muttering)

- I'm only looking.

- It's not your problem.

- Well, I just want to be able to give him some advice.

- [Will] So long as you're not

committing yourself to anything.

- No, I'll leave it up to him.

- [Will] Come and eat, come on.

- I'm only trying to help, okay?

- [Man] So what did happen?

- The police were called to a disturbance,

he was arrested but released.

No charges pressed.

- Are you sending him back to prison?

- [Paula] This time, we feel a warning is sufficient.

- Is he losing it?

- I've come to be transparent with you about him,

but I can't answer questions.

- Is he still saying he's innocent?

(pensive music)

- Yeah. Yes.

- Do you believe him?

- I haven't behaved like someone who believes him.

- But do you?

- No.

- Right.

The bastard can lie as much as he likes.

Nobody's gonna believe him.

- [Kathy] I'm going upstairs.

- You got a headache?

- [Kathy] Yeah, I do.

- Thanks for not pressing charges.

- [Man] A way of making amends, I guess.

- Did the police ever question you?

- I slept with her, Eddie.

I didn't kill her.

Look, Eddie, I've got my surgery.

- Course you do.

When you went home last night, to your wife and kids,

did you explain how you got those marks on your face?

- I told her a patient attacked me.

A patient I'd been treating for mental health issues.

- Nice.

I wish I'd learned to blame stuff on other people.

- Right. - Right, so postcode.

- [Woman] Yep, yep.

- Quickly. - Why quickly?

- Right, so scroll down. - Do what?

- Scroll, look.

Times.

- There's loads of 'em.

- Start writing them down, Mom.

- Yeah.

Yeah, all right, you call 'em out and I'll write 'em down.

- Kelly ain't getting anywhere.

She's written loads of letters to different solicitors.

They either don't want to know

or don't even bother replying.

- What's she saying to them?

- [Eddie] Here.

- It's handwritten.

- [Eddie] All of them have been handwritten.

- No, it's got to say more than this.

It's got to say more about the facts

of actually what happened that night.

There's not enough to go on, to get them interested in.

- I could tell 'em if they'd let me get me foot in the door.

- I'll come to the hostel.

- [Eddie] Why?

- So I can help you write it up properly.

- Thank you.

- [Colin] I understand you having to visit him

during the first few weeks,

but why are you still coming, Paula?

- I'm supervising a high-risk offender, that's why.

- But in this hostel, he's my offender,

he's under my scrutiny.

So why are you still going out of your way?

- I didn't realize you felt so possessively about him.

- I'm asking you why you are.

Don't expect you'll need long, will you?

- We were parked up at the back of the football fields.

All of a sudden, she's like, "Use a condom."

I said, "What you talking about?"

We'd been going out six months.

She was on the pill.

I couldn't understand it.

I didn't even bloody have one!

- But she did?

- Yeah, she'd bought them.

I refused.

The sex was crap.

She was quiet.

Scared.

And then I tumbled it.

She'd been going with someone else.

You know, she was worried that she might give me a dose.

Look, I'm sorry if this is-

- What?

- Sordid.

- [Paula] It's the truth.

- I went ape-shit anyway.

- Did you hit her?

- I lunged across to her.

Pulled her hair.

We were screaming at each other.

She got out of the car, then I got out of the car after her.

Then she turned round on me and scratched me face.

I called her a bitch.

Then she went to run off, the heel of her shoe broke off.

I started laughing.

I was like, "Serves you right, you fucking skank bitch!"

And then I drove off.

Left her there.

Drove around.

- While Georgia?

- I don't know, do I?

Someone else came along, didn't they?

I should have driven back, shouldn't I?

- [Paula] Because you wanted to forgive her?

- No!

- 'Cause you loved her? - No, don't!

- Don't what? - Now don't try

and put words in my mouth, Paula!

I never wanted to see that whore again, okay?

She'd cheated on me.

- [Paula] And you never did see her again, did you?

The whore.

- That's how the Old Bill spoke to me!

You wanted the truth, didn't you?

Yeah, I'm giving it to you!

- Why do you wish you'd gone back to her?

- It doesn't matter.

I just do, that's all.

- [Paula] I'm supposed to be helping you.

- Look, I don't like the way you're looking at me.

Like you're changing your mind about me.

'Cause I couldn't handle that, Paula.

I'd be nowhere.

- I wouldn't change my mind twice.

But now you don't want to give me the truth anymore.

- You might not like me anymore!

- This isn't a date.

Just tell me how you felt.

- I wished that I'd gone back to her,

because then I would have saved myself, wouldn't I?

I didn't wish her dead, but when I was arrested,

I thought I was the tragedy, you know?

- You were a selfish, narcissistic, nasty piece of work.

- [Eddie] Like still being in the same room as me?

- You were a boy.

(thoughtful music)

- Please think I'm different now.

Please.

I lunged across to her.

Pulled her hair.

We were screaming at each other.

She got out of the car, then I got out of the car after her.

Then she turned round on me and scratched me face.

I called her a bitch.

Then she went to run off, the heel of her shoe.

- Leaving it up to him again?

- What?

- Leaving it up to him again, are you?

- He hasn't got a computer.

He can't type anyway

and they need to get a solicitor interested.

- Let's hope they do.

- [Eddie] Serves you right, you fucking skank bitch!

And then I drove off.

Left her there.

- I get a lot of letters.

You learn to separate the wheat from the chaff.

This was interesting.

Compelling.

Having said that, it is a lot of time and manpower,

which wouldn't necessarily be a problem

if there was proper funding for a case like this.

- A case like this?

- It's easier to defend a case the first time round.

You just have to knock down the prosecution's case.

Here, we would have to prove that if there had been X or Y,

then the outcome would have been Zed.

And... - And what?

- You did confess.

- [Paula] Yes, but you wouldn't have agreed to see us

if you didn't think there was something in it.

- Get the case papers from Brotherton.

- And you'll look through 'em?

- No, you're gonna have to do that.

But hopefully then you can bring me back

something I can go on.

- Right, and how will they know what to find?

- Anything that wasn't done properly,

anything that wasn't done at all.

Anything that can get you a defense, Eddie.

- [Paula] This is great, Eddie.

- [Eddie] Yes.

(light music)

- All right.

(chuckles)

Big kid.

- I can't feel me neck.

- Shh.

Hang on.

Right, come on.

- [Eddie] Is it clear?

- [Paula] It's clear!

- These two have got me on Facebook.

What's my status?

- Desperate.

- Never!

(all laughing)

- [Kelly] Here you go, Paula.

- Oh, thank you.

- So, how are we gonna make sense of this lot, then?

- Well, we should start by putting it in date order.

May take a while.

- Look on the bright side.

Won't take 10 years, will it?

My freedom might be in there somewhere.

- Eddie, you know this might not work out, don't you?

I mean, we could be doing all this for nothing.

You've got to be ready for that.

- I am.

I've signed up for a part-time course

out of that booklet you gave me.

Horticulture.

Got to have a plan B, yeah?

If I can't get justice, I'll try and get an NVQ instead.

Right, come on you two!

Let's get these in order.

- Right.

- [Paula] Trevor?

- Oh, Trevor now am I?

- Have you got a minute?

- Not really.

Got an assault.

- I'd email you but it's tricky.

You may not even want to help me 'cause it's confidential.

- What's confidential?

- If Eddie Mottram is active in his appeal,

then that's a breach of his license, isn't it?

- His sister's asked for the papers,

but he's not active through me.

- Okay.

- Pushing his luck, isn't he?

- Exactly.

Did you ever look into a defense yourself?

- I had a paralegal look into it but nothing.

- And the paralegal never found anything

that would stand up?

- Against DNA, motive,

and the last person to be seen with her?

No, nothing at all.

But I got him leniency, didn't I?

10 years instead of 25.

- [Paula] Cheeky buggers are never satisfied, are they?

Thanks.

(people chattering)

(brakes squealing)

(tense tones)

(police radio chattering)

- Remember me?

- Yeah, you was the one that nicked me.

- I led the investigation.

I sat in Georgia's front room with her mom and dad,

watching them fall apart holding a photo frame between them.

Now you're going around saying you didn't do it?

I did my job properly.

- I pleaded, I did your job for you.

- You pleaded.

You can't come back from that.

What do you want to torment her mom and dad for?

- I don't.

- You've learned nothing.

(light music)

- Will, listen to this.

You do not need any qualifications

at all to become a paralegal.

It is an unregulated profession.

So to become a paralegal, you get a job as a paralegal!

- Don't read things out, I'm trying to concentrate.

- You know where that's from?

That's from their own institute!

- [Will] Great.

- You want to know the best bit?

I did a search for Brotherton's firm.

There's a story in the Legal Record.

A paralegal made a complaint about Brotherton,

alleging a lack of supervision.

- I couldn't give a shit, all right?

Tell me about your day,

and I'll tell you about mine, and that's all fine.

- Of course it's fine.

- This isn't your job, Paula.

And he's not- - He's not what?

Hang on, he's not what?

- [Will] Look at the way he's distracting you!

- This isn't about him.

This is about what happened to him.

- Is it?

- Oh, come on, how am I supposed to have an affair

with someone who goes to bed at nine o'clock?

- I never accused you of that, all right?

It's just don't you think you got enough excitement

when you got suspended?

- You think I latched on to this for the excitement?

Will, for the first time in ages, I feel good about myself.

- Glad I could help!

- But you did.

- I stopped you feeling bad.

I never made you feel good.

- Look at this.

Article from the Legal Record.

A paralegal made a formal complaint

about a lack of supervision by Brotherton.

The complaint itself is current,

but it originates from a few years back.

- The paralegal on my case?

- That doesn't matter.

It shows he was using paralegals to do the donkey work.

More than the donkey work.

To research the defense.

Which is what they do,

but if they're inexperienced or not competent-

- And missed statements that might have helped.

- Yeah or didn't check statements

on used material, who'd know?

Not Brotherton.

- Because he wasn't supervising them properly.

Oh, Paula, I love you!

- That is just a possibility.

(Eddie laughs) It's a glimmer.

Don't you get carried away.

- If I did get me conviction quashed, you know,

if I wasn't an offender any more,

we wouldn't have to skulk around like spies, would we?

- You'd be free.

- Free to what?

- To stand on the steps of the Appeal Court

with a big smile on your face.

- All right. - Goodbye, Will.

- Sorry. - It's all right.

Shall I get you anything for tonight?

- No point, I've got a home visit.

Eddie?

- [Eddie] Yeah?

- [Paula] There's statements here

from the occupants overlooking

the back of the football fields except one.

- Why? It's missing?

- No, it was never taken in the first place.

There's a note here, they've been meant to revisit,

but they obviously didn't.

- They might not have been in that night anyway.

- [Paula] That's not the point!

- Yeah or we discover they were in but didn't see nothing.

- That's not the point,

there's something missing in the investigation!

And if Brotherton's already in trouble

for not keeping an eye on things-

- Then we might find more.

- You missed something as well, Paula.

Sightings of a silver Astra

in the area driven away at speed.

I didn't have an Astra!

Do you think they followed that up?

- Let me look.

- [Paula] Right you should walk from here.

- Still playing spies, ain't we?

- Well, we have to.

Otherwise, it'll all come to an end.

You've breached, and I've actually helped you breach.

They'll have it in for both of us.

Come on, it's almost curfew time.

- What you doing?

Now?

- [Paula] I'm going home.

- We should have code words.

You know, like, Eagle Three, meet you in Zone Nine.

(Paula laughs)

Or different SIM cards for our phones!

- Then I'd be in even more trouble.

- Who with, your boyfriend?

What's he think?

- You mustn't- - What?

- That's none of your business.

- Just asking what your boyfriend thinks

of all this extracurricular stuff you're doing.

- He knows that's all it is. - Do you?

- Yes.

Do you?

(gentle music)

(Eddie muttering to self)

(door rattling)

Hey.

- [Will] Hey.

- [Paula] How was football?

- Yeah.

Yeah, it was a laugh.

- [Paula] Good, I'm glad.

- Yeah.

- Dawn Clough's gonna apply for leave to appeal for me.

- That's fantastic!

Well, fingers crossed.

- Pity you weren't there.

- Well, that's probably for the best.

It's her case now.

- Nice knowing you.

- What do you mean?

- Whether I succeed or fail,

I won't be seeing you any more, will I?

- Don't be silly, of course you'll be seeing me.

- Officially, yeah.

As an offender.

Not as a, you know, like collaborator, like we were.

- I'll still be- - My probation officer.

- Think about how well we've got to know each other.

That can only be for the best.

- [Eddie] The best?

Bollocks!

- Don't talk to me like that.

- What secrets will we have now, eh?

Do you know what would be for the best, Paula?

- That you fuck me?

That we have an affair?

Grow up, will you?

Just because I believe you

does not mean that I'm in love with you.

And if had you any idea

what would happen to me if I even went there?

- [Eddie] You've already risked your job for me.

- Not for a love story!

- You're a liar.

I've seen the way you look at me.

I bet you don't look at your boyfriend like that anymore.

I bet you don't get the same buzz

out of being with him as you do with me.

I bet when you're fucking him, you're thinking of me!

- This interview is over.

- Interview?

I'm trying to get through to you!

I've coughed up most of my soul to you since I came out.

And you sit there and you tell me this interview is over.

Yeah!

Okay!

(door buzzing)

- [Paula] Eddie!

- Paula?

- It's okay.

Wait for me downstairs.

(somber music)

Swap you?

(door buzzing)

- Eddie Mottram's new solicitor

has applied for leave to appeal.

- I've tried to have a word with him,

for the sake of the parents, make him see some sense.

- What if that appeal's granted?

How does that make me look?

- He made a confession.

He signed a form that you gave him saying,

"I've decided to plead guilty of my own volition."

You didn't put a foot wrong.

- Not legally, no.

- I asked her.

Thanks for coming.

- [Lawyer] Hi.

- Come through.

- [Kelly] Come on now.

- Take a seat.

- Is it bad news?

It's got to be bad news, the way you're doing this.

- I'm really sorry, Eddie.

They have refused it.

They didn't think the out of time application was justified.

Not a reasonable chance of success.

The judge will give us his full decision in writing.

- I'm sorry, Dawn, he's not listening.

- It's okay.

There are other avenues.

Full court appeal, Criminal Cases Review Commission.

- What do you think?

Well why say it, then?

I was getting hopeful, you know?

I was getting my hopes up.

Started seeing myself having a life,

having a different sort of reputation.

- Eddie.

- Now look, I don't think I've got enough to carry on.

- Listen to me, this was never gonna be easy.

That's why we came up with a plan B, remember?

That's why you needed a plan B.

What did you say to me?

Come on, tell me.

- [Eddie] If I can't get justice, I'll try and get an NVQ.

- Exactly!

Because there's more.

There's always more.

- [Eddie] Yeah, even if it is only horticulture.

- Even if.

- And I still get to see you twice a week, don't I?

- [Paula] Yes.

Twice a week.

- He's in meetings all morning

and then in court this afternoon.

- Right.

- [Secretary] Excuse me!

Excuse me!

- Can I help you? - Sorry.

- What are you doing here?

- You didn't give Eddie a chance, did you?

You used cheap labor that was too inexperienced

to do its job properly!

You didn't work for Eddie,

and the paralegals didn't know how to!

You were too greedy for the money they saved your firm!

- Are you the one that put him up to appealing?

Well, listen, I advised him to plead guilty

because of the evidence.

- [Paula] You advised him that

because of your business model!

- His leave to appeal didn't come to anything, did it?

That's why you're here, ranting and raving.

- Do you think it's just gonna end there?

- Probably.

- There's still the full court appeal and the CCRC!

You did believe he was innocent, didn't you?

- It didn't matter what I thought.

- Obviously not.

- The probation officer was the one doing the stirring.

She's already had a reputation

for not doing her job properly.

Got suspended previously.

What?

- Some people never learn, do they?

- What do you mean?

- They had Eddie Mottram in the cells a couple of weeks ago.

Some fracas outside a friend's house.

Anyway, complaint was withdrawn, he went home.

- What's that got to do with her?

- Lads at the station had some fun the day after.

(chuckles)

- So tell me why you think you're suitable

to enroll on this horticultural course?

- Well, I'd like to think I'm conscientious, keen to learn,

acquire new skills, and I'm sick of wanking in the hostel!

(Paula laughs)

- Going to ask me to shake your hand!

(Eddie laughing)

(door buzzing)

- Hi, sorry.

Sorry for the interruption.

We've met before.

Marion, Paula's senior.

Hiya, do you mind if I sit in?

- No, no, of course not.

- [Marion] Thank you.

- We were just doing a mock interview.

Eddie's thinking of enrolling in an FE course.

- Oh, good, good.

That sounds like progress.

Are you still insisting on your innocence?

- We're trying to move Eddie's focus to other things.

- To more constructive things?

- [Eddie] Yeah.

- And is Paula helping you

with the whole thing of acceptance?

- Acceptance?

- [Marion] Well, that trying to

clear your name is pointless.

- Seems like it.

- You have to live with what you've done in the past.

Stop denying it.

It's very important that Paula gets that across to you.

Isn't it?

- I'm doing my best.

(tense music)

- Okay, okay.

Good. Thank you.

(door buzzing)

- She knows.

(Eddie grunts)

- Hit me back.

You're man enough to take Paula.

Aren't you man enough to hit me back?

Step up to me!

Hit me back!

- I can't!

I won't!

- Think you can come into my life and ruin it?

Hit me back!

Come on!

I haven't got a mark on me!

- No, I won't give you one.

I won't get done for assault.

- Hit me back, and they'll send you back!

Hit me back, 'cause I want her back!

(Eddie groans)

(phone buzzes)

- [Eddie] What you doing here?

- He texted me to tell me what he'd done.

My God.

- [Eddie] Paula, go!

You'll get in trouble.

- [Paula] I'll take you to the...

I'll take you to the hostel.

- No, I can't go back there!

They'll say it's a fight I got meself into

and say it's a breach of my parole.

Same reason why I can't go to hospital.

It becomes official.

- I know, I know.

Let me clean you up.

- You shouldn't be here.

Just go!

Please, I'll be okay.

- No!

You listen to me!

I'm gonna take you to the hostel.

I won't come in.

And you tell Colin that you were attacked on the street.

Someone who recognized you from the paper.

- [Eddie] I'm sorry.

- I did this, not you.

I did this to you.

- Why did he text you?

- To see who I'd go to.

- Me.

(gentle music)

- [Paula] I don't think I can lift you up.

- [Eddie] Yes, you can.

- Mr. Whiteley?

- If I tell the police- - I know.

- How could you try to appeal?

- After what I've been saying, it's only natural.

Haven't got anywhere, though.

- What are you doing here?

- I've come to tell you.

- No. - It wasn't me!

- [Mr. Whiteley] No!

- She was alive when I left her.

She was doing her nut at me.

She was holding one shoe.

- You can't change your story now.

- It wasn't really my story.

It was typed up for me, and I signed at the bottom.

- You said so from your own free will.

- I said so, that's all!

Look, I don't expect you're gonna forgive me,

but you're her dad, and if you know, if you can accept

what I'm saying to you, it'd mean the world to me.

It really would.

- Accept it wasn't you?

- [Eddie] I'm begging you.

- Then what would I do?

Think about somebody else it might have been?

- I did at the beginning.

But then I had to stop, because it was doing my head in.

And then I realized I just had to get through prison,

forget about who!

- Are you trying to give me advice?

- You'd still be able to come here,

Mr. Whiteley, wouldn't ya?

- I'm sorry.

- Eh?

- I'm sorry, son.

I can't help you.

I have to believe it was you.

I have to.

(crowd chattering)

- [Paula] Oh, my God!

(upbeat music)

(knocking on door)

- No, it wasn't, that's not what happened.

It was innocent!

- Yeah?

Even if it was, she's guilty.

- What you talking about?

- She's out.

She's over.

- But I never, now we never!

- Don't worry!

You don't go back to prison for this.

But any more ideas you had about appealing, no chance now.

No one's gonna take you seriously now.

- Why?

None of it, what they're saying,

what they're doing to us, it's not right!

I'll go and see her.

I'll go and see her boss and explain!

I'll tell the newspaper what really happened!

- Eddie!

- Just leave me!

- Eddie! - Just!

(bones crunching) Leave me!

(Colin groaning)

- [Colin] Eddie!

(tense music)

(door buzzing)

(door buzzing)

- [Marion] Eddie Mottram's been recalled to prison

for assaulting Colin Bolt.

As for you, there'll be an investigation,

then a disciplinary hearing,

which will result in your sacking.

- What'll happen to you?

- I'll be okay.

This isn't a public protection issue.

No-one's been harmed because of what you've done.

Well, except you, except Will,

except the friends we were supposed to be.

- I had to go behind your back.

- [Marion] You didn't have to do anything except your job!

- Don't you have trouble doing your job sometimes?

- Yeah, but I don't betray it, Paula!

You knew I was trying to reach you and what do you do?

Lie to me.

- [Paula] Because you'd have stopped me!

- No, we don't campaign for offenders, we manage them.

And we certainly don't screw 'em.

- I didn't!

- Oh, it doesn't matter!

I fought for you to get a second chance.

- Marion, I'm sorry!

- [Marion] No, no no, no.

- Look, I know you feel let down, Marion,

but I don't feel like I let myself down.

You did give me a second chance,

but he gave me a chance I didn't even know about.

The chance to do something right and I took it.

- No one cares

that you thought you were fighting an injustice.

All you're gonna be remembered for

is the fact that you got too close to an offender

and got caught on CCTV showing everybody.

That's what you've done to yourself.

(pensive music)

(prisoners chattering)

(banging on door)

- Thank you.

- [Mr. Whiteley] What?

- Some journalist on the phone.

About Eddie Mottram.

- What about him?

- [Kathy] He's going back to prison.

- We've got rid of him, then.

Our life can carry on.

- What, just like it has been?

So that's all right, then.

- [Mr. Whiteley] Well, what else would you like?

- [Kelly] Say cheese!

You stupid bitch.

I'd like to pull your hair out.

- I've already started.

- I warned him not to get involved with you.

He promised me it wasn't gonna go any further.

But even then I thought you'd know better.

Because you're the professional, innit ya?

- We never slept together.

- So what?

His whole case is dead in the water!

Oi!

- What did I really do, Kelly?

- He could have committed a breach trying to prove his case.

He could have gone back to prison for a good reason.

But he's gonna do another 15 years now,

for what? For you!

For nothing!

- Don't you blame me for the way he feels about me!

And don't think you're the only one

who's allowed to care about him!

- That's it, is it?

Oi!

(somber music)

(Paula sobs)

- There's no defense, is there, really,

there's nothing I can say.

How could I let it get that far?

You're gonna give me the sack anyway,

so is it okay if I say something?

We used to turn offenders into good members of society.

Now they're just an offense waiting to happen.

That's the message we give them.

Risk not trust.

So we end up recreating them as criminals all over again.

Except with this one, I couldn't.

I just wanted to eat biscuits with him.

(children chattering in the distance)

(door handle rattling)

- Are you okay?

- I just want to be on my own for a bit.

- That's it.

Think about the life lived.

Not the end of it.

- I said I wanted to be on my own for a bit!

(sobbing)

(thoughtful music)

(Mr. Whiteley coughing)

(Mr. Whiteley sobbing)

- There she was with one shoe in her hand, her tights torn.

Not upset, mind you, not contrite.

But bloody brazen.

Like a tart walking back to her beat.

How dare she behave like that?

"Get in the car," I said to her.

"Get in the car now."

She'd had a row, but she wasn't upset.

I could have felt sorry for her if she's crying about it.

Comforted her.

But she didn't need anything like that.

She wasn't my little Georgie any more.

She was a law unto herself now.

Or so she thought.

I was just trying to get her into the car.

I never dreamt I could go that far.

That wasn't me.

That was never me.

More like something Eddie Mottram'd do, eh?

(tense music)

(light music)

(footsteps pounding)

- Come on.

- Paula.

- Look, I haven't yet

got Ken Whiteley's signed confession on my desk.

And it wouldn't mean Eddie's automatic release

even if I did.

But I can apply for bail.

- Is he gonna get his conviction quashed?

- Is he gonna be able to stand on the steps

of the Appeal Court with a big smile on his face?

- I am quite sure that he will.

But he may have to wait for a bit.

Do you think he'll settle for that?

- I think he might.

Come here.

(both laughing)

- What will I do with myself?

- [Paula] You'll figure something out.

- We will.

We both will.

- I know.

(kids chattering)

(light hopeful music)

(both chuckling)

- [Eddie] Wow.

- Yeah.

- [Eddie] How was it getting here?

- [Paula] How was it?

- The train and that.

(both laughing)

- [Paula] It was all right.

- Come here.

(gentle orchestral music)