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This programme contains some violent scenes

and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting from the start and very strong language

Mrs Jackson?

Is your husband Gary Jackson? Yes!

Gary!

IAN: Gary were NUM. This was a UDM village.

DAPHNE: Your family have always been painted different.

A striker in a town full of scabs.

WOMAN SCREAMS

COUNCILLOR: Someone's targeting striking miners.

I mean who's next? Am I next?

BRAKES SQUEAL

IAN: Scott Rowley.

SOBS: Julie...

SARAH: You want to know where I get my politics from?

My belief in the right of the individual to choose.

ECHOING: Dad!

KEVIN: Gary Jackson reckoned there was an undercover cop

in the village - came under a false name and stayed.

I'm your wife! And you thought

I could have been this spy?!

DAPHNE: It's Daphne. Keep this between us.

HELICOPTER WHIRS

Drop your weapon!

FRED: I should have talked to him more.

40 years of this. Spending it hating.

Aren't you all tired?

I am.

NEWSREADER: The winding wheels at Shirebrook Colliery

have dominated the local landscape for almost 100 years.

People in no doubt the closure will devastate the local economy

and destroy a community.

MAN: It was our greatest fear when the pit shut

that areas of deprivation would set in

and all our worst fears have been realised.

The pit's gone. I mean what's left? Nothing.

WOMAN: Community spirit will get us all together.

There'll always be a future.

Please do not forget us.

NEWSREADER: In the East Midlands region

alone last year 25000 jobs were lost.

I suppose we'd have to adapt to something else.

NEWSREADERS: ..Gulf between rich and poor grows daily...

Locals speak of short-term tenants

who spend their rent money on drugs and empty homes being looted...

Uncontrolled violence linked inextricably to the drugs trade

continues to blight life in Nottingham...

What happened here struck right at the heart of a community...

Most people are too afraid to speak openly.

INTERVIEWEE: Billions of pounds are being pumped into levelling up...

BORIS JOHNSON: The levelling-up agenda

is the right thing for our country.

People need more long-term help. YELLING

They don't care about people like us. They're not bothered.

NEWSREADER: There's been years of local wrangling over plans

to build on this land and open the UK's first deep mine in 30 years.

INTERVIEWEE: It's a race against time to stop

carbon emissions not increase them with a new mine. It's madness.

MAN: Coal mining goes back many many years.

I think it would be a great morale boost for local people.

I'd like to see the youth in the town have a chance

to get their respect back.

LEAVES RUSTLE

DOG BARKS

Hey. Hey! Come on come on.

TAPPING ON LAPTOP KEYS

MOBILE RINGS

Hiya Cathy.

Julie? It's Cathy.

Yeah I know. I said "Hiya Cathy."

Oh sorry. I'm...I'm out walking the dogs.

It's windy.

If I start cracking up...

It's too late for that.

SHE CHUCKLES Did you do it?! The house? Yeah.

Yeah I got a-a valuation so it's just...

Right.

And there's a for-sale board outside so...

It's just...psychological

that's all for me. You know?

Just to see how it feels if I get any interest.

What like a psychological for-sale board?

Yeah. Do you want to piss off or what?

CATHY LAUGHS

Are you going to that consultation thing tomorrow

on the new pit?

How do you know about that? You bloody well moved.

No no I'm still on the street WhatsApp.

I think people expect you to be there -

wondering what you have to say.

"Expect"? Why?

Wh-Why is my view more important than anyone else's?

Well...

Look I've got to get off.

Um... SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

Don't get blown off a hill.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

DOG BARKS CHILD SHOUTS

Special delivery.

Oh where do I sign?

Oh anywhere duck!

ALL LAUGH

Sorry we're late.

Um me and Stephie lost track of time rabbiting on.

Say bye to Sandy Stephie. We've got to get going.

Where's your... Where's your bag? Oh it's in the car.

Oh go on go and get it.

And I am sorry - the delay getting some daytime support.

We're just so stretched at the moment.

Oh we understand.

STEPHIE: Ryan!

Yo Stephie! How's it going mate?

Yeah good. Where have you been? Out with Sandy. Yeah?

Who's that when she's at home?

We can hang out can't we? Yeah sure!

Be all reet just me and you. Yeah.

It's what big brothers are for innit? Yeah.

Best not Ryan eh?

HE SCOFFS

Stephie? Come inside duck.

I love you mate.

Love you mate. Yeah?

Yeah. See yer.

You should let me look after her.

Hmm?

I can look after her now and again.

You can't Ryan.

Look...

Where are you living?

Someone said they saw you in Meadows.

Do you want anything? Do you need anything?

We still go to meetings on Tuesdays.

If you're ever...

Ryan.

MICKEY: Right the revised route 4.0.

I reckon this is it. This is the one!

We head to Scarborough first

then across to t'west coast

see Eric Morecambe's statue.

# Bring me sunshine

# All the while

# Make me happy... #

And oi this in't just a chance for you pair to go wild

throw parties while we're away. It's thinking time.

Have you got visions for the future

now that we've divested our stock

in local hallucinogenics? Prove it then.

All right Dad I will.

And hey now Jenson Button's passed his test

I need you to help me with a few pick-ups

this afternoon in town. I can't. I'm out.

Ronan pull your fucking weight.

I said I can't.

I do have my own life you know.

Oi! Who do you think you are?

I know who he thinks he is -

Mr Fucking Special Bollocks.

IAN: They made you do that job.

You should never have been put in that position.

We were kids young coppers both of us

in the middle of that madness.

Sure we fucked up but we didn't cause

that mess - that weren't down to us.

QUIET CHATTER

Sorry about that. WOMAN: That's OK.

There's no wrong way to feel.

Trauma caused by crime by violence

it affects everyone differently.

Pam would you like to...?

Uh... Only that...

..I'm just still ever so grateful

to be a part of these meetings me and my brother who...

Right Denis? Oh yeah. Yeah.

Just...just listening to your stories and...

When my husband passed

I was left on my own with our kids

which were his from his first marriage.

I did struggle.

I did.

And obviously I do blame myself...

..for Ryan.

Him going off the rails and...

Course I do. I just do.

I think I thought that...

..as a mum of someone caught up in...

..in the drugs and the gangs

instead of a victim of it like...

The families of offenders are as much a victim of crime

as everyone else.

We serve their sentences with them.

Right?

COUNCILLOR: Look if they can guarantee

things like safety and so on

a modern mine rather than you know

the dark satanic mills of old then yeah

I support the planning order for this new pit.

Why not? ALL: Hear hear.

WOMAN: At the risk of being

the you know villain on this proposal

as district councillor for the area in question

some of the feedback I'm getting is in a nutshell

"Do they think we're bloody idiots?"

MURMURING IN AGREEMENT After years

of deindustrialisation and its social and economic fallout

this is to say what exactly?

"Oh hey sorry for all that trauma

"but there's an energy crisis now.

"Do you want your mines back?"

MURMURING IN AGREEMENT

jobs in tech science so can we not invest in that instead?

KNOCKING ON TABLES

WOMAN: Hear hear. Well said.

SANDY: Madam Chair sorry. Councillor Waters.

Um well given that she'll definitely not draw

any attention to it herself um maybe we could just take a moment

to congratulate Lisa on her appointment.

The county's new Sheriff of Nottingham!

MAN: Hear hear.

Yeah it's fine. I only need to show my face.

Shit. And I have to be up early

to finish this OU research paper.

Do you ever think that we do too much as new mums?

Do I think we do too much? Mm.

Ian St Clair in civilian clothes!

Like Superman becoming Clark Kent or something!

Well what about you eh Madam Sheriff?

Do I curtsy now or what?

Oh God. Can everyone just piss off about this?

It's just cutting ribbons

and going to endless school fucking plays.

Which is an honour of course. Of course. Can't wait.

Hey you were uh... You were punchy in there.

Yeah well. What about you?

As an Ashfield resident this new pit -

speak up and be counted. No no no

that's all a bit long and complicated

for me and my family. So I'm sure you'll understand if

in my new public-facing role

I stay annoyingly neutral all right?

Not on everything though eh?

Punchy. I didn't slam the force!

I'm not mucking about either.

Hey no complaints here.

I'm laying down a gauntlet.

Policing needs to change.

I've known that for well far too long.

And I couldn't do it from the inside

so maybe I can do it from the outside eh?

Right.

Number-one priority -

I thought we could look at this uh

rebuilding of this youth rehabilitation scheme eh?

MAN: I know you've other bids on the table

for this contract

but we are confident people here will come round.

It's just all that history - people get very emotional

which I understand but we think

this is the perfect site for the new mine.

ECHOING: 265 hectares

all due to be decommissioned this year

waiting for a new role in an old world.

But then again aren't we all?

We believe that our investment group can fulfil

the government contract for a new coalmine

decades after the last one closed

bringing - or I should say returning -

tens of thousands of jobs to the red wall as promised.

This was always one of the richest coalfields -

one of the reasons very painfully for those that remember

the miners here took a very different path

from their comrades.

But...the pits closed anyway

and the coal is still here

untapped

ready.

RIFLE CLICKS

WOMAN ON FILM: We held him there till t'police came.

But then Arthur Seaton went on at him all the time

telling him to run away.

WOMAN TWO: You know he never was any good that one.

WOMAN 1: Oh he went off as soon as t'police showed up.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

RIFLE CLICKS

Don't worry he'll get checked one of these days.

GUNSHOT

THUMPING MUSIC

Er Rachel?

BRIGHTLY: Hi!

Er I mean er hi yeah.

Mid-afternoon. I wasn't sure if the vibe was

like tea or soft drink or beer or what

so I got beer.

Ta.

Good to uh meet...in person.

Didn't know if you'd come or not.

I didn't know whether I would come or not either

but I guess I was curious.

THUMPING MUSIC

Oh look at this guy.

What?

RYAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY

So listen yeah? Do us a favour.

You're going to go round...

How did you know my like name to find me?

Well I just...

I went looking around my house one day

after...I heard something my mum said to someone.

She doesn't know I...

She had this box of stuff and...

..this was in that.

It's your...birth certificate.

That's how I found out I had a sister.

QUIET BEEPING

BEEPING AND WHIRRING

BOY: What's the most you've ever found?

DENIS: I wouldn't look at it like that.

He's about to tell you it's the promise of the find

not the find itself.

I were going to tell you that actually!

So you've never found owt then?

Uh...

She got a couple of 18th-century coins.

But yeah. Yeah.

Not in a museum?

She's not Indiana Jones!

CHUCKLING

It were only a bit of old shrapnel.

And it's true you think? Scott Rowley's treasure?

Folk reckon it's really out here?

That's what he told police. Apparently.

15 grand...

..somewhere.

BOY: I'm going to find it.

STEPHIE: In your dreams mate.

DENIS CHUCKLES

Back at Nottingham Castle!

The Sheriff of Nottingham isn't it?

Well well! Boo! Hiss!

Right. Yeah. Uh don't judge.

Had to give up the real thing when my little girl came along so...

Hey I...don't judge anyone anything.

I've um...

Well my...my family foundation was the one that helped fund

the reopening of all...

And you're here with...?

New wife and newer daughter.

Oh. Cool.

Very modern.

Um I meant the um...

..young mum as a sheriff not the um...

The lesbian thing.

Uh the lesbian thing exactly.

HE CHUCKLES

Er I saw you speak today at the council.

You seem to be uh everywhere

you and your...your wife.

You're both so...

..don't know...municipal.

Yeah well...

Well...

There she is on our horizon.

Just within our grasp.

One moment. Forgive me.

Excuse me sir.

Er I didn't quite see... your name on the guest list.

Mm. Maybe not.

But it's above the door.

Well yeah it's technically my name too so...

Yeah well I got an earlier flight

so I thought I'd show my face - you know hearts and minds -

if we're to get this contract through.

The visit went well Dad I think we're good.

All right? Right well um they're expecting a few words.

Really? I'll do it. This way.

HE SIGHS

"Mother Daphne."

But the father's blank.

There's my dad. He's Mickey Sparrow.

I guess if yours is blank that means he's not your dad

maybe. Then there's me mum.

Older brother Rory.

We um run a taxi firm.

Are you those Sparrows?

You know those Sparrows Ronan?

They're good people. I know they are.

I don't quite know where I fit in in...

A crime family. No a family...

..who just....

THUMPING MUSIC

Suck your mum you bitch.

MURMURING

Nah.

MURMURING

APPLAUSE

Right thank you.

And you really don't have to -

just because I bought the wine honestly.

GENTLE LAUGHTER

You know when this opportunity came along

to support the castle it was a no-brainer

because I just loved the idea of a rebellion gallery.

You know that's what we do around here -

you know we carve our own paths.

Look at Robin Hood huh? Outlaws!

And then centuries later

when Parliament failed to pass the Reform Act in 1831

you know votes for working men

yeah we were the first to protest in the country here.

We torched this castle.

We burnt it down.

And then we...rebuilt.

Because that's what life is all about -

enterprise right?

Thank you. So enjoy yourselves and enjoy the wine.

All right?

MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY

It was your council who couldn't afford

the public money to keep this place.

Hence mine.

Well maybe if the rich

and corporations paid their taxes...

Yeah well maybe if we had more growth and not stifled by taxes.

When you're ready.

Listen... Look. This new mine will do a lot of good

around here. You know I mean hundreds of jobs - come on.

I hear not every councillor is a fan.

Mm but then I guess you're too young to remember.

I'm from those villages Mr Warner

and I know how devastating it was to lose those jobs

that way of life.

But I don't know a single ex-miner

who wants his grandson back in the earth.

Listen let me give you the opportunity to...

Whoa! What...?

Stop taking money from fossil fuels!

Hey hey! Oi!

This lot exploited our past...

Get your fucking... Stop it! They're stealing our future!

Get them out! Think this is bad?

Yeah... You wait!

Come on come on.

Go! Now!

Yeah yeah my mum and dad they told me everything.

Wanted me to choose when the time was right.

And then UDM landed and...

Yeah.

Look I'm sorry...

I don't know what I was expecting

but I can tell that um you're in a place

where you're clearly needing something right now

and I'm not...I'm not sure it's anything that I can give

at the moment.

I'm glad you messaged but I think I need to...crack on

with who I am now.

Yeah but if you ever find yourself...

..really ever needing something then uh...

..then this is my number OK?

You all reet?

Oh shit. Sorry. Sorry

was I like interrupting on your little romantic date.

Yeah? I'm her brother.

Brother? Oh cool. Yeah yeah yeah.

Hey I'm a brother an' all yeah?

Got a little baby sister. Look.

What's he fucking playing at?

We'll see.

You want to look at her then?

Right... OK right I got it.

OK now you're hoity-toity aren't you duck?

Listen look I'm here to sort you out here

so if you need anything yeah?

A little.... a little bit of spice like.

Yeah? Do you a deal? Why not?

That's not very smart is it?

Eh?

You're too loud pal. You shouldn't be in here with that...

..with your cheap cut-up-to-shit powder.

Nah I ain't got nothing.

And who are you anyway when you're at home -

what fucking police are yer?

No mate. I'm Nicky Branson. Ooh.

You've just been caught slippin' haven't you? Have I? Yeah.

So if you're going to cross the tracks

I suggest you don't make quite so much noise.

Oh... I'm shaking mate. Can you see it? Yeah?

You're a little tough Branson man are you? Yeah.

Are you? Yeah. Really?

Fuck you want?! Get the fuck off!

Fucking get off me you cunt!

Or what eh? What?! Give it back!

Give what back? I thought you hadn't got owt.

RYAN YELLS NICKY LAUGHS

You're fucking dead mate you are.

Yeah? Old fucking Nicky Branson?

You're a fucking tough man?

This is going to be big mate this.

Yeah? You fucking wait.

Yeah.

Fucking arsehole man.

Fuck the lot of yer.

QUIET CHATTER

HE SCOFFS

All right OK I-I'm going I can't...

Hey look I wouldn't.

I've clocked that mental case before.

He always hangs about for round two. No I'm not...

Let me... Let me walk you out t'back instead.

OK? I know... My family knows the people here.

Yeah? Come on.

Come on through.

Not seen you here before. Do you live far away?

All right mate?

How are you getting home?

I could drop you at a bus stop or...?

Er yeah nice try. Honest.

I'm heading off anyway.

Just thought I could get you out of the danger zone like.

He's one right trippy bastard that one I'm telling you.

OK well why don't you drop him off at his bus stop

and I'll order a cab? RONAN: I'm all right.

I wouldn't argue with women mate.

My car's just out here. Just get in and buckle up.

You all reet?

Go. Go go!

GUNSHOT NICKY CRIES OUT

SHE SQUEALS

HE GROANS

Wait wait wait wait!

Wait wait wait wait wait!

SOUND DISTORTS AND ECHOES

HE GASPS

SHE WHIMPERS

Please. Please...

RACHEL'S VOICE DISTORTS AND ECHOES

HE BREATHING HEAVILY

WOMAN: He knows what he's talking about.

We only have to be here

cos of cuts elsewhere don't we?

Picking up the pieces.

I want us to be in partnership with you.

And I know I have to gain your trust.

Not our trust - theirs.

And you know I don't know what it's like

to be them do I? So...

WOMAN: I don't know what it's like.

I just know it's a mad system.

But instead of investing early on

you spend 20 times that... locking 'em up later.

But it's not the same world we live in is it?

Where are your main areas of concern?

You know where are the cracks that these lads fall down?

I mean cos it's got to be different

from when you were out there Marco.

It's very different. I mean a lot of them turf wars may have settled

but remnants of the gangs still remain.

You know they're on the prowl for young vulnerable lads.

Here you are some water for you.

Don't chuck 'em! Hand 'em out!

You know I used to play a bit of cricket. Go on give us a go.

Oh...! Oh look at that! You never lose it!

Mwah! Oooh!

Oh my God you did not just dab.

Is that not a thing?!

Sorry sorry.

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

Here you go sir.

Oh shit.

How are you doing?

I'm DCS Harry Summers and you're...?

Ronan.

Ronan Sparrow.

And you were with that young man when it happened

just you two? I don't know him yeah.

I met him in here. He offered a lift so...

Did you see who shot him?

HE SIGHS HEAVILY

I'm going to have to ask you to come into the station

if that's OK. Is there anyone we can call or...?

No.

I'll let them know mesen.

SHE HUMS

CAR APPROACHES

Oh shit.

SHE GASPS

Ronan...

Oh my God Ronan.

HARRY: So you can imagine the alarm bells that went off.

Branson and a Sparrow during a fatal shooting.

Those gangland wars of old are something I don't want to return to.

MICKEY: That's all in the past.

HARRY: But it could spark a retaliation or...

Nicky Branson - is he really dead?

Yeah.

I mean what were you even doing there? Who were you with?

Oh come on Ronan we don't keep secrets in this family.

Don't we? Who were you w...?

What? Secrets.

If an arrest can be made quickly

we obviously would like Ronan to identify the suspect

in a line-up. You say you know who we are.

Then you'll know that we never have

and never will help the pigs.

A bit of history there.

You got other witnesses in the bar.

Good.

Leave our boy out of it.

If this does end up

having something to do with the old families

and you decide you'd like some support or protection...

We're fine me duck. You potter off now.

DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

CAR APPROACHES

RORY: So that's shit innit?

Watching someone get done in?

You're allowed to...

..you know.

It's normal.

Normal?

Fucking normal? None of this is normal.

Think stuff like this happens to normal people?

I know you'd never talk to the pigs Ronan.

It'll be just us one day remember?

Just me and you.

Should probably start trusting each other a bit more eh?

SIREN BLARES

IAN: Look I'm grateful that you took this meeting.

It gives me a chance to talk through how we link the work

of the Violence Intervention Team with the police.

The VIT is its own entity. Separate funding.

And frankly as I see it

an experiment that I don't for now intend to...

Um I was...I was actually...

Well I was hoping for some off-the-record advice Ian

about this Branson killing.

You were around back in the day when...

..during the tough times. No. I've left the force Jen.

Harry Summers is a perfectly capable replacement.

And he were around as a young detective

towards the end of all that so he remembers.

More vividly than most.

So what it were gang-related then Nicky Branson?

Well we don't know.

But uh it could clearly reignite

some of those turf wars regardless.

We're throwing officers into the old trouble spots but um...

Well there's concerns about revenge attacks.

I'm sure that DCS Summers wouldn't mind

any thoughts you had Ian.

Yeah of course I'm sure. I just um...

..don't want to step on anyone's toes.

Bye. Bye.

Bye.

ENGINE REVS

TYRES SQUEAL

TYRES SQUEAL

"..would be grateful if you'd consider restocking..."

KEYS TAP

"..in the following branches."

Send.

Ta for letting me borrow the uh...

It's all right.

Right crumpets then I'll have to get back to mine - stuff to do.

Heads Radio 3.

Tails Radio 4.

Heads it is.

TYRES SQUEAL OUTSIDE

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

Ooh my back.

GUNSHOTS

SCREAMS

Stephie! Stephie!

STEPHIE: Mum!

Denis! Get back Pam!

STEPHIE: Mum! Stay down Stephie!

Stay down Stephie! STEPHIE: Mum!

Stephie stay where you are!

Stay where you are!

GUNSHOTS CONTINUE

VAN DOORS CLOSE

VOICEMAIL: Rachel? It's Ronan.

Again.

Don't ignore this.

The police need one of us to talk to them and I can't do it.

I just can't be doing all this.

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

SIREN BLARES

Oh Jesus.

INDISTINCT

My God what the fuck?

KNOCK AT DOOR

DOOR OPENS

Pam and Denis Bottomley?

You were at the last support group weren't you?

But...you're police.

That was for a...

..personal um private capacity.

Your son is Ryan Bottomley Pam?

Your nephew Denis? Yeah.

You adopted him and Stephanie or...?

He is my son.

My late husband's biological. And I became their...

She's my daughter and he's my son.

Or he was.

He's not the son I remember now.

He's not the boy he was.

Um...

People witnessed an altercation between your Ryan

and Nicky Branson at the rink.

You know we can only assume that's the reason

why there was an attack on your house.

Which...

Which doesn't mean your son did shoot Nicky Branson...

..only that folk clearly think it was him

and that he was at home with...you.

Well he wasn't.

I don't know where he is or was.

We are good people.

We're respectable people.

I know.

I can tell.

HE SIGHS

Ian.

Oh! Hey! Long time.

Harry.

I was... I was really pleased when I heard it were you.

It's been a long time coming.

Ah well you know. Thanks.

Oh...

So I hear the fallout from this shooting

it's escalating fast.

Yeah we have a "do not approach" notice on Bottomley.

No have-a-go heroes.

And I mean Jesus

we really don't have the resources or manpower

to go back to that level of violence or...

You can um... You can feel the jitters in there.

A lot of them...remember.

A lot of them you know lost people so er...

Well um none more so than you.

So I read your thing in the paper by the way.

Ah yeah it's ruffled a few feathers.

It's a provocation you know to talk about a new approach

new ideas.

OK so take this thing here now - landed on my desk.

What would the new you be doing differently...better?

No no it's not about better.

My job now is to make sure

that less incidents like this do land on your desk.

You know stopping vulnerable kids from getting involved

in crime in the first place

rather than mopping it up afterwards like we always do.

It's madness.

And look I get the irony I do.

You know I spent my life putting offenders away

and I don't regret it.

Mostly.

But teams like mine in other places they're working.

So if I can link up community groups

with mental health services

prisons schools then I can build real programmes

that can interrupt the cycle of crime.

Excuse me.

Yeah I think you've got my sister.

Drop it! Now!

ALARM BLARES

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

Everybody back!

HARRY: Jesus Christ!

OFFICER: Stay down.

HARRY: Get him up. OFFICER TWO: Got him.

WHISPERS: Here we go.

RYAN CHUCKLES

HE BLOWS KISS

Boo!

Fucking hell.

Harry.

You need to bag this up.

If you just want to take a seat.

DOOR CLOSES

PAM: He just walked in?

With a gun?

Yeah.

Where's Stephie? Is she...?

She's with our family liaison.

Look he had no bullets or... He just...

What happens now?

Can we go home? No.

We have to move you all of you

somewhere off-grid I'm afraid.

Off-grid? Yeah.

Come off it! We have...

And Stephie - she needs structure routine.

And you've got him - Ryan.

These people they've got their justice.

Justice isn't always seen in the same way

as you and I might see it by certain people.

Ryan will be charged.

For you three I suggest we get some officers to collect

some things from your house Pam your place Denis

and then we all need to go.

Now.

Four.

OK.

BACKGROUND CHATTER

PAM: Come on.

DENIS: You're all right.

This way mate.

BIRDS CALL

DOOR BANGS

KEYS JANGLE

MAGISTRATE: Ryan Bottomley

you are charged with murder

and by virtue of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009

will be remanded in custody.

A date will be set for your plea

and trial preparation hearing at the Crown Court

where you will appear in person or by video link.

Now owing to the serious nature of this case is there anything

the defendant's representatives wish to present to the court?

What? What are you looking at huh?

What are you going to do?

Think the world's yours don't you duck? Huh?

Think you can get anyone to do anything for you yeah?

Well fuck you! Mr Bottomley enough! Fuck you as well.

Yeah? Enough.

I will not tolerate verbal outbursts in my court.

And I should also take this opportunity

to say to the victim's family and to the community at large

the court is aware of some of the history here

but to remind those impacted by this case

to trust in the processes of the law

in delivering the justice they seek.

Take the defendant to the holding cells.

Next case please.

A couple of folk here to see you.

MICKEY: Daphne.

Yeah. Um...

Course. Um have a...have a seat.

SHE SIGHS

We're really sorry...about Nicky.

We really do feel bad don't we? Turning up unannounced.

We just realised we don't have your number.

And why would we?

Hey look.

There's no hard feelings.

I know we've got history.

It's tragedies like this puts all that into perspective.

HE CLEARS THROAT

Your youngest were there we hear.

Ronan. Yeah.

He didn't see anything like. Didn't see anything?

He was stood right in fucking front of him.

What are you going to put with that Daphne? Veg-wise?

Don't know. Some greens? Parsnips?

He has an allotment.

How do you know that Ronan was...?

Mm parsnips! Lovely.

How will you do them? Roast?

Wi' a bit of honey?

I've had to start steaming our veg for him.

Doctor's orders.

Cholesterol and blood pressure.

Does my head in. No more roasting frying salt.

So that's what we do now - steam everything.

And it tastes of absolutely fucking nothing.

ALL CHUCKLE

Might have heard -

the family of the cunt what killed our son

their place got shot up.

We wouldn't do that.

Raining bullets into a house like that. Indiscriminate.

But we do understand why some of those what l-loved...

...why those that loved Nick why they have this urge to act.

So that's them OK but this is us.

OK?

This Bottomley lad he's behind bars now.

MICKEY: Right? Good. Good?!

What three meals a day TV PlayStation?

Won't even have to think about what he did. No.

We're of the view that we'll have to do summat oursens.

What get to him in there?

Is your boy in?

Ronan?

What do you want with him?

Would he mind coming down?

It's... Oh...

He... He's been through quite a lot

and I-I know that...

..you've been through more obviously. Is he in his room?

I'll go up.

No I'd really rather you...

It's OK.

I am a mother.

WAS...a mother.

I only want a little word.

Right.

Let's get her plucked shall we?

TV: ..believe that the last thing

these communities need now

is the return of controversial and divisive issues

once again around the dominance of clean coal in the region.

Activists warn that while frustrated

levelling up meant resurrecting old industries

rather than imagining and investing in a new generation...

SHE SIGHS

Gary....would have choked on his chips...

..that it's the bloody Tories opening a mine

but...

Oh...

I don't know.

Whatever you all think.

LAPTOP CHIMES

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Hello?

It's OK.

I'm an old friend of your mum and dad's.

Ann Branson.

Nicky's mum.

Yeah...

I'm sorry.

SHE SIGHS

That must have been ever so upsetting to watch him die.

His family Bottomleys they've gone

scuttled off in shame

and no-one really knows much about them

at least in our circles.

They don't even have a Facebook page. Can you imagine that?

You saw 'em...

..didn't you?

They were at the police station yesterday. Did you?

Oh don't worry. We just know a few people that's all.

Keeping us up to speed with what's happening.

I wonder...

..would you be able to point 'em out if you saw 'em?

You're very young.

I know.

But you're also part of a...

This'll sound ever so grand. But...

..a tradition.

A sort of code. And it's really important

because without it we're nothing.

And you were there with Nicky

so that obligates you

in a way

to be in it wi' us now.

I know you'll be smart and helpful Ronan OK?

Smart for your family.

Thank you.

What did he talk about?

What were he thinking about? His last words?

I don't know. I think he just...

I think he said "Buckle up."

Buckle up?

Seat belts.

For safety.

Buckle up.

SHE CHUCKLES

That were Nicky.

HE SIGHS

HE CLICKS PEN REPEATEDLY