Triangle Doctors

CAR HORN BEEPS

-Nice croissants.

-Mmm.

It's that new bakery.

Always nice to get the day off to a good start.

So, that set of figures I was talking about...

OK, aren't they?

Well, they're certainly in order. They're just not

the work of a professional.

You're saying Mrs Tembe isn't professional?

-No...

-She was great as a practice manager and receptionist.

That's the point, isn't it?

She was a great receptionist, who stood in as practice manager.

And no doubt she did her best.

But she wasn't recruited to the role and, by "professional",

I mean she's had no formal financial training.

Look, when I arrived here, I found an organisation...

A medical practice.

A medical practice... that was functioning

but nowhere near fulfilling its potential.

OK, so what's its potential?

I think I've begun to demonstrate that since I came in.

Patient numbers are up. Practice income is up.

And that's down to efficiencies and initiatives that I've introduced.

Well, we can't dispute that.

So, just imagine if I had even more input.

What do you mean by "more input"?

I mean, what if I became a partner?

I just need to see if you have any injuries.

It's very important that I know you're not hurt.

HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE

OK...

Do you recognise any of these languages?

What do you think, medically?

Could be shock.

Mental health issues?

It's possible.

But until we know what he's saying, we're just guessing.

Yeah, I think I'll call the interpretation service.

And ask for which language?

Good point. How about Aasima?

Well, if anyone's going to know what he's saying, she will.

Not that he's saying much...

I'm not looking for a partnership.

You just said...

I was thinking long-term.

At first, I'd like to be considered for full voting rights.

That's still quite a big ask.

You've not been here that long.

But you both agree that I've already made a significant impact.

I think granting me

full voting rights is a forward-looking decision.

Erm, we get your point about forward-looking,

but maybe it's a bit more forward than we're looking right now.

What about Zara?

I'll certainly run it past her.

But I think she will be of the same mind.

Hmm.

OK. I understand your position.

Right...

Great...

Just thought I'd float it. Finger in the wind, sort of thing.

So, shall we crack on with the day?

SHE SPEAKS URDU

Qadir.

His name is Qadir and I'll be speaking to him in Urdu.

Great. OK, Qadir, can you tell me what happened?

Can I examine him first?

No, no, that's right. The doctor needs to see he's not hurt.

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

He says he's not very comfortable being examined by a woman.

I'm a doctor, for heaven's sake, I need to see that he's not injured.

SHE TRANSLATES IN URDU

Qadir, have you fallen, or did you have a blow to the head, at all?

SHE TRANSLATES

Good.

Can you remove your shirt, please, so I can examine you properly?

SHE TRANSLATES

OK, I'm going to warn you now. It's the most boring report, ever.

So, are we splitting Heston?

I beg your pardon?

His appointments. He's called in sick.

That's unlike him.

I know, hope he's OK. So, will you take half?

Yeah...I suppose so.

I mean, Heston's patients are basically

a plethora of lavender-perfumed ladies, aren't they?

They're going to be so disappointed they don't get to spend time

with the un-ironic bow ties.

Are you jealous of Heston's patients?

So, so jealous.

I tell you what,

I'll tell them that he's run off to join the circus and you...

He's joined a nudist biker gang.

-COMPUTER BEEPS

-Biker gang!

Oh, I've got an e-mail from Valerie.

You want to see a video of some dancing cats?

If they're in tutus, yes!

What?

Malpractice? Valerie is accusing me of malpractice.

But that's ridiculous.

I knew she was going to do something

and she has - litigation!

No physical wounds or abrasions.

Thank you.

Where's the blood come from?

Yes, there is a line of questioning on that,

which we will pursue in due course.

-Can Qadir go with this officer, please?

-Of course.

SHE TRANSLATES

No, no, no.

We need the clothes for testing. Forensic tests.

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I haven't done anything wrong."

We haven't said that he has.

But we need to find out what's happened.

SHE TRANSLATES

Here... These will protect your modesty.

HE SPEAKS URDU

Qadir wants to know how long he will be here for.

That all depends on what he has to say.

Interview Room 1, please.

Can we strike a bargain today, Dr Reid?

You do your job...and I'll do mine.

I'm just trying to help.

He's covered in blood and we don't even know where it's from.

Yes, but you're jumping to conclusions.

We haven't even taken any statements yet or uncovered any evidence.

OK?

Where we go from now is depending on what he says

and our professional judgment.

My daughter...she has gone missing.

Qadir, where did the blood come from?

SHE TRANSLATES

Was it a fight?

SHE TRANSLATES

Was it an accident?

SHE TRANSLATES

An accident where somebody got hurt?

SHE TRANSLATES

Qadir, we need to know whose blood that is.

And how it came to be on you.

SHE TRANSLATES

Qadir?!

LOUD KNOCK ON DOOR

OK, hang on. Hang on.

Hi.

Ruhma, I wasn't expecting...

Niamh said that you were off sick.

Ah, yes.

So, what's wrong?

Oh, I'm just a bit under the weather.

If it's because you've been trying to avoid me...

No, no...

Obviously, I'm disappointed by what happened the other day.

Yeah, it's...

It's not how I envisioned things with us.

-No.

-But I...

I shouldn't have been so hard on you for being affectionate.

Here.

A spa?

Erm, and country hotel. And spa.

Would you like to go?

So, you haven't heard from Yasmin for 24 hours?

She always rings...or texts.

When I hadn't heard from her, I went to her house.

There was no-one there.

Who else lives in the house?

Her husband.

And what's his name?

Qadir.

OK, erm, I'm going to need to ask you a few more questions.

Do you know something?

It's OK. Let him through, please...

Heston, we really need to get going!

I'll be with you in a tick.

OK...

PHONE RINGS

Hello? Yes, this is she...

There you go, your appointment is next Wednesday at 10 o'clock

with Dr Haskey.

Karen, I've been trying to see Valerie, but got tied up with a rep.

-Could you ask her to pop in?

-PHONE RINGS

Yeah, no probs. Good morning, Mill Health Centre, how can I help?

You have arrested Qadir?

No. He's being questioned as a potential witness.

Witness? To what?

We're not sure yet.

Mr Mir, do you mind if I ask you where you've been

for the past 24 hours?

Are you accusing me of something?

No, I'm asking you where you've been.

I was at home with my wife, Zafsa.

We just went out once, shopping.

And you said you went to Yasmin's house?

It was on the way.

How did you get in, if there was nobody there?

I have a key.

Any particular reason why?

I'm her father, surely that is not unusual?

I never said it was.

KNOCK ON DOOR Come in.

I was told that you might need me.

Really? No, I think I'm OK. Mr Mir speaks very good English.

This is Aasima, one of our interpreters helping us with Qadir.

THEY SPEAK URDU

Mr Mir is asking...

Sorry. I was asking if you were looking for Yasmin.

We're all aware of the situation.

I'll just leave you to it.

Actually, could you stay, please, in case I need anything explaining?

Is that OK, Mr Mir?

Right, thank you.

Right, I would like to know some more about Yasmin and Qadir...

HE MUTTERS

-KNOCK ON DOOR

-Hello?

Everything go OK this morning?

With what?

Surgery?

Is surgery the thing where all these people come in to complain at me?

Yes.

Yeah, it was... It was all right.

What do you think of this?

Bunch of ambulance-chasing money-grabbers.

Valerie printed it off.

Valerie is accusing me... of negligence.

In what way?

That I failed to see her cancer symptoms.

Do you think you missed them?

Hodgkin's lymphoma is really difficult to spot.

When she came to see me, she'd just broken up with some boyfriend

so she was really emotional. She's a bit of a hypochondriac.

She blathered on about one thing and the other.

I remember really clearly saying to her that

she should keep an eye on her glands

and she should go and see her own GP.

But...

But, what?

There may have been indications that I missed.

But you said they were hard to spot.

This is retrospective, isn't it? She's been diagnosed now.

So they're actually only clear in hindsight?

Clearer.

But you still feel responsible?

It wasn't a consultation, no-one wanted to talk to her.

I was dragooned into it...

As far as I was concerned, I was just talking to a friend,

-a colleague.

-You know that's where you left yourself open?

Where?

Going beyond professional boundaries.

I thought I was just doing her a...

Favour?

Any action would be against you,

but your defence would be paid for by our indemnity insurance.

Is that supposed to reassure me?

This could destroy the practice if we lose.

I'm not talking about costs, I'm talking about publicity, reputation.

You can't run a practice without patients.

But...I might be able to manage the situation.

How?

Well, I'm not making any promises.

But let's see if we can't defuse things.

I would really appreciate that, Anthony.

So, Yasmin and Qadir have been married for six months?

Qadir comes from an excellent family, in Clifton.

Clifton, Bristol?

Karachi.

I'm from Karachi.

Baldia Town.

They must be a very successful family if they live in Clifton.

Businesspeople, yes.

Are you in business, Mr Mir?

I am a mechanic. Foreman mechanic.

Is their marriage a good one?

A good marriage, yes.

Good for the families, or good for them as a couple?

I think they like each other.

You think?

They do.

No rows, no arguments?

No.

Yasmin has been in trouble with the police before, hasn't she?

I don't see what that's...

I've arrested her myself, on several occasions.

I think the first time she would have been about 15,

possession of cannabis.

Is Yasmin involved in something we should know about?

Yasmin is married now, those things are behind her.

Good.

But I am sensing there's something in the marriage

that's not quite right.

I'm recording the interview,

as we believe you may be a material witness.

SHE TRANSLATES

Do you understand?

SHE TRANSLATES

Qadir, where is Yasmin?

SHE TRANSLATES

Yasmin is missing and I think you know what has happened to her.

SHE TRANSLATES

Where is she?

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"She is dead."

Did you kill her?

SHE TRANSLATES

I am going to suspend the interview

and then I'm going to arrest him on suspicion of...

HE SPEAKS URDU

"She's at the flat."

Whose flat?

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"His flat."

Jonty Clarkwell.

Get all units sent to Clarkwell's flat, Bremerton Terrace...

Will do, Sarge.

The knife has been sent to be tested forensically.

Will we find your fingerprints on it?

SHE TRANSLATES

Did you kill Yasmin?

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"She brought shame on me."

She was my little girl, my only child.

And now...

he has taken her away. Oh, God!

HE SPEAKS URDU

"My father thought that she was from a good family,

"a respectful family..."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"But she was not like that.

"She already had a relationship, with this man, this Jonty."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"She was with him at the flat, all night."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I had the key.

"I had taken it from Yasmin and had a copy made.

"I let myself in.

"He was there, going through the drawers, shouting,

"'Where's my money?!'

"Yasmin was lying there, over the sofa...dead.

"Then he turned and saw me.

"I knew, if he got the knife, he would kill me..."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I picked it up first."

What happened to Jonty?

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I don't know."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"The next thing I remember is I was walking down the street."

Why didn't you say that you hadn't killed Yasmin, when I asked you?

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I don't know, I went on an online forum."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I asked the forum what I should do about my wife."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"Some people said I should kill her."

HE SPEAKS URDU

"But I did not want to do that."

What DID you want to do?

What were your intentions, when you went round to the flat?

SHE TRANSLATES

HE SPEAKS URDU

"I went there to ask Yasmin to come home."

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a doctor to spot

cancer symptoms.

They say that Hodgkin's lymphoma can be hard to spot.

Another doctor spotted it. Hopefully not too late.

You know, my mum had cancer.

Yeah, you said.

I'm not saying that you'll...

I'm just saying that, I know how vulnerable she was.

And I'm concerned for you.

Thank you.

The cases I've seen...

Like what?

Well, they can go on for months. Years.

Really?

These firms, they make it sound easy, but, usually, it's far from.

And the resources they take up put added strain on GPs

and their practices.

-I suppose.

-Obviously, that impacts on patients.

Hadn't thought about it like that.

And at the risk of sounding selfish, a case against us would...

Well, it would throw us into turmoil.

I haven't been here that long and I know Dr Haskey has his...

quirks,

but he is a good doctor and he and the rest of them...

they're some of the best people I've worked with.

I don't want to go ahead.

You don't?

I don't want to bring a case.

Not if it's going to do all that.

I wasn't trying to dissuade you.

No, I know, it...

But thinking about it... I love The Mill

and all my colleagues.

Friends.

And they...we...reciprocate that.

And we will support you.

I know.

I think you've made the right decision.

Honey-glazed ham... Oh, maybe not.

Smoked salmon with dill and pickled cucumber...

Erm, anchovy toast...

walnut butter cake...

Buttered scones with Devon cream...

I didn't bring you here to have cream tea.

I know.

Shall we close the shutters?

Maybe we should turn off the light, as well.

I haven't done this for a long time.

Me too.

Jonty Clarkwell has been admitted to St Phil's.

He was found unconscious in an alleyway.

What's his condition now?

Serious, but stable. We've taken a statement.

In his version, Qadir came in with the knife, it was a frenzied attack.

Didn't you say this Jonty was a known criminal?

Yeah, he's a nasty piece of work.

We did warn Yasmin to stay clear of him.

I feel sorry for her father. Poor man.

Yeah. I'm sure he partly blames himself.

Well, it's your only child. You want the best for them.

You want them to be happy.

I will call you.

-Thank you for today, by the way.

-No worries. See you.

Look, I, erm... I owe you an apology.

No, you don't. Yesterday was a tough day, I hear.

So sad.

I still remember my first. I remember all of them.

Anyway, what about Qadir?

As you know, it's now down to the CPS and the courts.

-Do you believe him?

-I don't know.

You get used to people pulling the wool over your eyes.

And do you think he is?

I would buy his version over Clarkwell's.

I never thought there would be anyone...again.

Me too.

Why not?

Oh, you know, people come and go and you think...

..maybe I'm meant to be on my own.

I'm not here because I'm afraid of being alone.

That's not what I meant...

I am here because of you. Only because of you.

I'm glad it's you.

How did you persuade her?

Valerie can be pretty stubborn.

Highlighted the negative effects a case would have.

On her, on the practice.

Just about countering her anger with reassurance.

Hmm. Well, thank you. Difficult circumstances.

We appreciate it.

And, in the meantime, we've had a chat.

About...?

Erm, well, we've decided to grant you full voting rights.

Wow. That's, erm...

It's still a long way from a partnership.

No, but...that's fine.

Welcome to the club.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

You ain't locking me in here with these sick people.

Look, there is a gunman roaming the Campus.

I need to get a tattoo removed.

Why don't you show me the tattoo?

That nutter out there's got SS tattoos on his neck!

It's gotta be him!

I'm sorting drinks for everyone. Tea?

Coffee?

Caffeine? He's got chest pains!