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We're going to have to ask you to erm record them

making a confession.

Wear a wire?

One of us?

You're a liar. There's a difference between a secret and a lie.

You've never told Mickey though have you?

Listen it's no good sat there in the soil is it?

Sherwood Forest ain't givin' out interest rates.

Going to take this treasure going to make it grow all right?

The last drink I had was with Denis Bottomley.

We're still good on that right?

Yeah.

She has Government documents

alleging that you went about Nottinghamshire in the '80s

under a code name doing the Government's bidding.

Just run this by Ian St Clair please.

We are basically the same you and me.

Sort of tethered together now.

I go down you do down.

LOCK CLICKS

SIGHS

Well I never.

That's seen better days.

Are you talking about me or the gun?

You were always in my ear

to "get that bloody thing out of this house".

What's changed?

The Bransons are what's changed.

They know summat's up.

Don't trust us no more.

I'm not taking any chances.

BREATHES SHAKILY

God I hate these things. Here.

Might not even fire. Rusty as shit.

You talking about me or the gun?

GUNSHOT

DOG BARKS IN BACKGROUND

VENTILATOR WHIRS

I need a couple of officers on rotation

at the Royal Kings Hospital.

No I-I understand we're pushed for numbers.

There's been a suspected attempted murder

on a politician

so...so I need this treated at the highest threat level.

We're pulling the CCTV from reception

for anyone who came and went last 48 hours.

Right. Oh good.

You don't think it's something

just to say it that she could have...taken herself?

Drugs. Pills. You know addiction. We've both seen it.

No. No I can't er... I can't see it.

No I were working with her

on my new job you know my other job and er...

Well she's my friend so...

Oh.

Oh sorry.

Yeah.

TRAFFIC RUMBLES

EXHALES

Are you er...all right or...?

Yeah.

Just starting to wonder

what fucking good I'm doing back here though.

JACKET CLANGS ON BAR

I mean look what's happened.

Jesus.

Lisa was the one most opposed to this new pit

her and Sandy and she'd been getting threats

and someone had graffitied on her door.

And you think someone would kill her for that?

They haven't killed her. Maybe they didn't mean to.

Maybe you know it were just a warning.

You think that as opposed to

something to do with Ryan Bottomley drugs

well the Bransons even?

Well whatever... All coming at the same time?

...there's going to be a media circus descending on this place.

"Sheriff of Nottingham poisoned" -

they'll love a story like that won't they? Myths and legends.

It'll be just like last time

and all that "Shottingham" crap remember?

The comms team need a clear strategy.

Well you handled that got ahead of the erm whatsit...

..narrative then turned things around so...

No no. I can't do it mate.

No I've left the force.

Now if I'm going to go back to the community

after this is over

and... You know I can't be the face of it.

All right? You've got this.

BIRDS CHIRP

RUSTLING

WOLF-WHISTLES

Who's your boyfriend?

Fuck off.

Police paying to protect you now yeah?

Ann's idea.

Yeah I heard...

Look about your Nicky... I er...

You know.

But is it true about your Kyre?

Doing that brother and sister in on the coast?

Because if it is

that's fucking cold man.

And it's not going down too well on the streets.

Yeah well someone done our Kyre in return didn't they?

So it's all just a horrible fucking game.

Pass the bloody parcel in't it?

What's t'word out there?

Uh. "Tense" would be a word.

"Jittery" is a word.

People getting tooled up guns in getting fucking ready.

Yeah and I got all our lot hunkered down at ours

out of action.

Meanwhile I'm hearing things. Troubling things.

Different folk seeing an opportunity to muscle in

take advantage. I'm not happy.

Right. We done OK over t'years

us and your lot yeah? Mm-hm.

Here and there

helped each other out. Yeah.

I need a couple of things. In this order.

Number one find out who's moving in on our patch

put 'em down.

From here on in we can split it down t'middle 50-50.

Huh?

Yeah.

"Huh?"

Number two it would matter ever so much to me

to find out which cunt killed our Kyre.

I don't know fuck-all about that.

Lastly and to me this is a long-term project

not a priority but if Ann ever asks

I put this at one not three - the Sparrows.

What about the Sparrows? Can you help?

What do you mean by "help"?

Nah you've got to be fucking joking me.

Why?

Cos I asked.

You know it's like what your Kyre did. Bottomleys.

Things have got to be done in a certain way haven't they?

And the Sparrows right...

..never had a fucking problem with 'em.

They've always shown me respect.

Fuck off! Bollocks!

They fucking grassed.

To these scum.

You don't think I don't wish

we lived in some age of honour and the like?

Yeah that'd be lovely that.

I'd really like that. I always have.

But we don't. We live here now.

That's all dead. Everything it's all fucking dead.

Ta for coming out.

Give my regards to...

Oh you know who-the-fuck-ever.

BRAKES SQUEAK

BELL TINKLES

What you sayin'? You all right? Yeah.

Nice one bro. Cheers.

Lisa's hurt.

It's on the news.

Yeah I saw. Mad.

We only saw her yesterday.

Mm. And she was fine then so...

I want to call Ryan.

We don't call Ryan. All right Steph?

Ryan calls us. It's just the way it is.

He has a phone. I want to call.

What did I just fucking say?!

RINGING TONE

Shit.

Mornin'.

Nothing's come through. You said these people of yours

would start sending money through.

Well I just checked... I know.

Yeah I know. It takes time don't it? Um...

I've not heard either.

You must er...

..must think I'm a right clown eh?

Listen honest mate you can trust 'em.

How am I going to get away with it

if the money don't come in? Hmm?

Can't exactly... Can't exactly be hiding anywhere in here

can I?

I want to speak to 'em mesen.

All right. Yeah I'll set that up.

All right.

Dad the sheriff... Yeah I know.

Fuck!

We should tell the police we met with her.

Let's just see how this pans out.

They're going to find out anyway.

What happened to the file she's got about me?

You should have told me. Do I know everything

about everything you've ever done?

And that's not an invitation to tell me -

I don't want to know.

You worked undercover for the Government?

Yeah a million years ago.

CHUCKLES

Think of it as National Service.

It affects me.

The ground I stand on come from I don't know...

The things I'm building with you

that we're building together if that's all based on some...

Oh enough! Come on!

We had a helping hand now and again

you know some friendly...

..access first-in-the-queue sort of thing.

You know I got used to the other lies

that came out of the woodwork time and time again

the half-brothers and -sisters from various women turning up

demanding answers help.

Me taking that on alone sometimes

embarrassed not even telling you.

The hand-outs the pay-outs

the slicing off another piece of my pie in the company

of my own inheritance.

But what am I inheriting?

What do I really know about any of this?

That you're my son.

My eldest.

My...heir.

Am I?

CHATTER

PEOPLE SHOUT QUESTIONS

VOICES FADE

INAUDIBLE

..that there is no danger to the public at large.

This seems to be an isolated incident

involving yes a prominent figure locally

but Mrs Waters is in a stable condition

and receiving the best care.

DCS Summers though will brief you on the details

of the investigation as it stands.

Er good morning. Er...

Erm...

If you could all just excuse me for one moment please.

PEOPLE MURMUR

BREATHES QUICKLY

BREATHES HEAVILY

Harry hey come on it's your first time.

It's big stuff this.

All right? You all right?

Yeah. Yeah. Good. Come on.

I'm not.

What?

I'm not OK. Sorry.

Y'know all this has erm... got in my head and er...

Course. Course it has.

DOOR OPENS

It's just er we're just going through everything you know

just getting the messaging right.

The right message is for the SIO not to walk

out of the bloody briefing! Ma'am just give us

a minute will you? You know they're not going anywhere.

Harry? Jen...

..please.

JEN SIGHS

Hey.

I wake with these like

er terrors...

..like er screaming

in the night. You ever heard of that?

Yeah.

And erm... Harry look

you lost someone close to you so remember that.

I messed up.

I went to the Bottomley safe house the night before they were killed.

I drank there...

..passed out slept overnight. I er...

I keep thinking did I lead the Bransons to them?

I mean how did they find the house?

How?

But I'm going to be OK Ian I am.

I know.

But this...

..it's too important to get wrong.

SIGHS

Please Ian.

CHATTER

EXHALES

There is currently no evidence

to connect what happened to Lisa Waters

with the ongoing investigation into gang-related killings...

..except erm...

..well except to say that nothing happens in a vacuum.

There is such a thing as a mood or a culture

that is hard to see...

..hard to define...

..but it can grip a place.

I saw it the last time

many of you graced us with your presence.

The Ashfield murders a few years back.

And there was at that time

a clamour to find the "why" of it all

you know a connection when there wasn't any.

All there was was a story.

And that took root and gained traction

and was shared online endlessly

and was reported by many of you.

And that caused...

..panic and mistrust. And that's what I'm trying...

Well that's what we're trying to avoid today.

But with those Ashfield killings

you had to bring outside help in you had to bring in the Met.

People are you know understandably

invoking comparisons with the past -

outbreaks of violence and murder the Shottingham days.

So...isn't that the real question?

What's your question? Go on ask it.

Have you lost control?

No we are in control. The situation is under control.

Thank you.

We're not going back.

We're not going back to that.

There's a lot of hard work and sacrifice made by many people -

yeah the police of course

but also campaigners and community leaders

and just normal people - to turn this around

and say "No. No more."

And it worked.

It stopped...

..because we had faith in one another

and we worked together.

But that fear is back now.

I can see it and I can feel it

and I would ask people not to give in to it.

We need people to step forward now.

And this...whatever you know culture

or code of not grassing we are way beyond that now.

And I know people have lost faith in...in institutions

and leaders and in the police in particular. I know that

because I've lost faith in them an' all.

They're going to have to work hard to get that faith back.

But DCS St Clair you're... I'm not a DCS.

I'm no longer on this force.

I am talking to you as someone who lives in this community.

And we have to all start taking responsibility...

..to say no to this fear that's dividing us

and making us lock our doors

and bury our heads and say nothing.

Now we were brave last time and we need to be brave again

so I am appealing to anyone who has information

to come forward.

Help us.

Ta.

Thank you.

MURMURING

What the hell? What? What did I say?

How is that going to instil confidence...

What part of what I said was untrue?

..if we're not united on the message

on the strategy Ian?!

You know he was right in there that guy.

And you you didn't tell the truth.

About what?! We have lost control.

And you know if we don't admit that we will never get it back.

Right now we are not in control of this situation.

No. That was reckless and stupid

and actually fucking selfish.

Selfish? Yes.

Virtue signalling on a pulpit

making this about you and your shit

when actually what people needed was calm.

I am here on a voluntary basis.

Now if you don't want my experience or expertise

then fine. But there's one thing I won't do any more

and that is bullshit people.

HUSHED: You'll watch your tone DCS St Clair.

Ian!

BREATHES HEAVILY

Christ what's this now?

Corporate business travel to go along with the taxis.

This new pit when it goes through

the conveyor belt of suits coming in and out

we can get in on the action

secure a private contract with the developers.

Oh aye? Energy magnates move in your lowly circles now

do they?

Got a meeting today as it goes.

How much did it set you back? Cos they ripped you off

whatever you paid.

You never stop having a go do you?

Suddenly flush with cash are you?

I've got a bit put aside.

Uh-huh. So what happened to

running everything by us as a family?

Yeah what happened Dad?

What happened to that?

You going off... I can't even get me head round it still.

Working with the fucking fuzz squealing.

Did anyone listen to me about that?

No. And that worked out great didn't it?

So maybe people should listen to me.

Maybe... Maybe people should trust me a bit more.

Maybe I do know what's best for all of us.

Your mum don't want you or Ronan going off anywhere.

Stay here. It's not safe at the minute.

All right thanks.

Hey. That CCTV footage from the City Hall

can you pull it up?

Harry?

Franklin Warner. He's been pushing hard

for this new pit. Do you think that could be him?

Erm...

Yeah maybe.

But given Lisa's position

I mean that's not an unusual meeting

for her to have is it? No but...

I've got to go and see someone.

Are you taking that evidence? Yeah.

I'm going to make copies though. All right?

I mean hey you do you.

Thanks. I'll bring it back.

Shall we bring Warner in? No no I wouldn't

not yet. It's just erm...

I need to get more information.

From a...source.

Yeah sure. Thanks.

Oi! Trespassing!

Not a bad spot for your solar panels eh?

Er yeah. Yeah.

I see what you mean. Good sun coverage.

Quite the available land you've got here.

Might be available depending on the terms.

You used to farm cattle here?

Previous lot did way back when.

My family we er diversified.

So I'm led to believe.

Well the other farms that have leased

who are renewable developers

each get about a grand per acreage of rent.

I know. That's the bare minimum.

That's the maximum going rate for a plot of land like this.

I don't have to hand over diddly-squat.

My family's land to some trust fund wanker

for minimum rent per year?

I want in on the PPA.

PPA? Wow!

Someone's been googling.

Yeah. That's the price you'll sell the energy from here

to the utilities company

which if I'm not mistaken...

..is also you.

And your family would agree?

Your father?

Yeah. I'll get him to see the light.

Pardon the pun.

Yeah summat else I want to talk to you about

at a later date.

Ooh! A card!

You must be important.

Hmm! Corporate travel.

Building up a fleet of minibuses.

I don't get you.

You want to be the big cheese in the dodgy underworld

and you want to turn legit? Which is it?

What do you know about the underworld?

I know who the Sparrows are.

Why not both? How's that any different from you?

Except you do it in a suit.

Bending the rules cos you know you can get away with it

using all your influence and power.

That isn't me.

I refuse to let all that be me.

We're all born to fucking people and places aren't we?

And this'd be a smart use of what you've been born to.

My father he has this thing -

geography and destiny.

I think "Make your own destiny."

We ain't tied to nothing.

Certainly not the luck of the draw you're born with.

All this?

It's going to help me get out of all the other stuff.

And then...

..world and oysters then eh?

Energy.

Rarrr!

Let there be light!

The fuck's that? School project?

Someone sent this to Lisa Waters in an unmarked envelope.

Was it you?

No. Don't know the girl. What is it?

What the hell do you want?

You know him.

Why won't you stop?

Stop tormenting me.

All this? No. Not here Ian.

So where is everyone?

Mickey's out in the yard Rory's off in a field somewhere

and Ronan's right upstairs.

Yeah well he already knows about your past

doesn't he? So...

Come on Daphne.

Look...

Is this true? Huh?

Franklin Warner - he were here back then

like you under a pseudonym

working directly for the Government?

Did he lead your team? No he didn't lead anything.

We had our own chain of command.

But he was around.

Yeah we were the police. He was...

..something else. He had money got things done.

Some of the information I...got on people

he found some of that useful.

The militant miners and the ones keen to break away.

And you've had no contact with him since?

Not for decades. And the last contact was not a happy one.

So you're telling me this isn't you?

I mean you're the only one round here who knew who he was.

No.

Why would I? Why?

You know there's three sets of prints on this file.

Now one's obviously Lisa's

but the other two we can't identify.

We don't have them on the system so...

Well you'll have my prints on file.

Actually you're the one Sparrow that we don't.

Not Daphne Sparrow.

Jane Jones as a Met Police officer.

You'll have 'em so fucking check 'em.

SIGHS

Why...why would I want to open all this up?

All right. I'm sorry I just...

I just... Do you think he could be stupid enough to do this?

You know to harm someone try and kill them

just to keep this hidden?

I mean how well did you know him?

What was your relationship?

No. No no. No no. Enough. No.

I've... I've got to talk to someone else first.

You can't be the first to know all this.

My family they... Look I need to know.

I'm going to bring him in for questioning aren't I?

SCOFFS

You said it'd be over.

Last time you sat there

you promised all of this'd stop.

SIGHS

RAGGED BREATHING

Here.

Last number called.

That's them. They'll like whatever

confirm your money's safe.

Used some to buy some new stock

but the rest they've started to transfer over.

Yeah?

All right. I'll keep a watchout.

RINGING TONE

I'm sorry the person you've called is not available.

Please leave a message...

Fucking dickhead!

That's your second strike mate.

Fucking 'ell! You fucking bastard!

Get 'ere you fucking prick! Come on I'll have yer!

Get off me! Fucking get off me. This in't fair!

In't fucking fair!

I'll fucking kill you prick!

Fuck off! What you looking at?

JEERING AND WHISTLING

What now?

Get charged. Another couple of years on his sentence.

For now they'll just transfer him to another wing.

So er

you wanting to make this an official arrangement then?

Intel pays you know.

We have it.

Lisa's toxicology report.

Go on.

Synthetic cannabinoids or spice.

Liquid spice. You soak something in it

inhale or smoke it.

And she took this herself the spice?

Or are we thinking it was slipped into her drink her food?

Her vape pen. Well the reusable cartridge.

The normal over-the-counter liquid

was replaced with the cut-up substances

that caused Lisa to collapse.

And you think Franklin Warner can get his hands

on this kind of stuff? Street drugs?

Maybe he knows someone who could.

Or the son does.

Either way we should bring Warner in for questioning.

In the meantime we're pulling our intel

from our respective cases. Every gang or group

who has access to or specialises in K2.

We're pulling in all of our undercovers

informants everyone.

If it's a gang that's on our radar we'll find them.

Soz...

..about earlier.

I know it's hard not having him about.

Ryan.

I er...

..miss my brother an' all.

So...

He got banged up too.

So I know.

Is he still there?

No.

SNIFFS

Look...

..Ryan's in charge. Right?

Well he's not here so...I'm in charge.

So just...do as you're told.

OK?

All right.

Hiya. Hi.

Still not back at work?

No I just um couldn't...

They're very good on that at the station -

mental health days and all that.

Mm. More like mental health week.

Yeah well...

Er... So erm...

It didn't work with the police? The Bransons are still...

They're saying my statement's not enough.

I am not apparently a paragon of fuckin' virtue.

Well erm it's good you're here cos I erm...

When you're ready...

When I came round to your home I just...

..I got this real urge to spend some more time

round there where you and...

You know with you

if possible. It's just...

I don't think that's out of order

given the way that we've been

thrown together. It's not the normal mother-daugh...

This is not the normal way to meet your family.

You started asking me a couple of days ago about your...

..your dad.

And I think some...

..some stuff's going to come out so I thought I'd better...

Franklin Warner - do you know who that is?

What?

No... Oh that...? What the business family?

Him?!

How did that...?

It's a long story.

Do you mind?

Well yeah.

Yeah I mean I do a bit. Jamie would.

But go.

This is my...

..previous life.

My previous everything.

Erm...

And this is why...

SIGHS ..I really struggled to keep you.

This living breathing reminder of...

I didn't... I...

In my head knowing where you'd come from...

..from him...

..Warner...

The very worst of all that.

All them.

I hope you don't mind me bringing

some of my representatives with me.

One solicitor only please.

Ah!

Is this political?

Er what...what happened to Mrs Waters?

I don't know. You tell me.

No no is THIS political?

Here. Now.

Mr Warner we've been given information

about your past associations

you know with the Government and Secret Service.

Unofficial.

Very casual ad hoc you know.

And you're aware that Lisa Waters was also privy to this information?

Lisa Waters? No.

Sorry no?

You had a meeting with her yesterday.

We have CCTV of you waiting in the lobby at City Hall.

You head up come back six minutes later.

It was an aborted meeting.

We tried to speak with her but she was busy

doing something else so we sat outside.

We waited a while and then we left.

Very rude actually if you ask me.

So there was no conversation?

She didn't reveal to you that she knew about your past?

No.

Right because if she had I mean that...

..could constitute erm...

..motive.

LAUGHS

Oh my God! Behold the finest minds of the public sector!

Oh come on! What you honestly think that I would think

that I'd get away with this?

That it wouldn't come back to me?

She's been getting email threats

because of her stance against your project.

Ah. Oh dear how awful for her.

But then passions are high I get it.

The cigarette.

Roy...had her blood on his fingers.

The fucking cigarette.

PHONE RINGS

Daphne?

Find!

So what's this? You caught whoever killed Kyre?

Or have you all been distracted by a pretty blonde girl

having a stomach-ache?

Roy Branson Ann Branson...

..I'm arresting you for the murders

of Denis Bottomley and Pam Bottomley.

You do not have to say anything but it may

harm your def...

Lawyer.

Now. Of course.

Let me finish my bit first though because

I've been waiting a very long time to say it to you.

SCOFFS

It may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned

something you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say... may be given in evidence.

Very very nicely done.

Thank you.

All right let's go. Come on.

It's this way.

Confident we'll make that one stick?

When it comes to the Bransons...

So...we can breathe then.

All OK?

It was Rachel. She erm... She remembered the...

I went to see her today.

So that's like a thing is it?

You want that to be a thing? Her?

I've got something to tell you.

EXHALES

I'm not...

When I first came here...

..I wasn't me.

I had a different name...

..was a different person not who I am now.

Daphne...

..was a name that was given to me by...

..my work...

..bosses...

..horrible people that did horrible things and...

SIGHS

Do you understand what I'm saying?

And I wasn't proud of what I was doing but...

..when I met you Mickey...

...I wanted that to be my life.

You know the person I was...

..when I was with you.

Because it wasn't an act any more. It was real.

You know even though the name was...

Those feelings...

Fuck me I've never known anything more real.

I swear.

I'm sorry.

I am so sorry.

I'm sorry that I've kept this from you.

I'm sorry.

Do you think I'm fucking stupid?

When I first saw you I saw a girl who I knew -

I knew had a whole fucking universe of a past...

..of problems that she was trying to get away from.

I knew that right?

Because I had that.

I wanted to be someone else be something.

Right?

That's all we're talking about in't it?

Well no. I mean this...this...

And you remember... Listen

you remember when you told me that you was expecting

and I said to you and I meant it that I'd step up.

Right? You remember?

And when that...beautiful girl was born and...

..I could see your struggle...

..I never questioned for a second

what you asked for what you wanted

because I knew... not the details

but that you needed to be free of something...

..so big.

So don't you tell me that I don't know right?

Because I know who you are who I married.

I've always known.

OK?

But...

I'm...the...

..police.

I reckon we'll leave it there for now.

And tomorrow we'll go back to planning our trip.

There's more to unravel...

..like why it's taken so long for you to...

But that's for the road.

The long road.

Right?

SOBS

BIRDS CHIRP

Stephie?

Coat's gone.

You what?

Coat. It's gone.

# Ding-dong the shits are dead! #

LAUGHS

Mwah! Bloody hell!

I never thought this day'd come.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

This is good though innit? Like a good day.

What this is is a day of half a dozen bookings.

That wedding at Newstead Abbey. Right? So come on crack on.

And Ronan I still want you nearby. Join your brother.

See you in a bit. Yeah.

Hey. Hiya.

Thanks for coming.

It's OK.

I um... I heard about the arrest.

I was...kind of hoping that would be it.

No I'm afraid that well in the fullness of time

I think we're going to have to get you to make a statement

yourself you know in addition to well to...to Daphne.

Me? I thought you had enough with the cigarette.

Well that's Roy bang to rights. But Ann you know

we're going to have to get you to say that you saw her

that you were down at the coast

and that she was part of a conspiracy to murder.

OK.

Thanks.

Oh sorry.

Harry?

Ian. Sorry I thought I should let you know. Bad news.

Their smarmy lawyer and the CPS.

The Warners. No. The Bransons.

The charge will stick with Roy.

We have his DNA and the Bottomleys' blood.

But he's saying he acted alone.

We have no evidence Ann was there Ian.

No no look look I'm with Rachel now

and she says she's willing to make a statement so we've got her.

I'm sorry mate. I did what I could.

She's...been released.

What? When? Where is she?

No idea. We've had to drop the protection officers.

Yeah all right. Look I'll get back to you.

PHONE VIBRATES

Oh...

What now? Never ends does it? I'm on a pick-up.

Daphne they've had to release Ann Branson.

They haven't got enough evidence to keep her.

SIGHS

We er...

We don't know.

We need to go.

PHONE VIBRATES

Mickey Ann's been released.

We need to get out. I'm on my way back yeah?

Mickey?

TYRES SCREECH

EXHALES

WHISTLES A TUNE

GUNSHOT

GROANS

I wasn't sure it would actually work.

CRIES OUT

FALLS TO THE FLOOR

GROANS

GROANS

STRAINS

GROANS

What are you thinking about?

I've always wanted to know what goes through people's heads.

Just me.

No others.

Just me.

You...

..fucking...

Just me.

Meant to be t'worst t'stomach. I think I read that once.

Slow but like...

..inevitable.

I only hope that wasn't the case with our Nicky.

That is my dearest hope.

Mickey GROANS

GROANS

Mickey?!

Oh no. No...

Mickey?

Oh no. No no no no!

SOBS

Oh no...

They're coming. You're all right.

They're coming. People are coming.

SIREN WAILS