0:00:12 > 0:00:15BARKING
0:00:38 > 0:00:42BARKING
0:00:52 > 0:00:53Grub!
0:00:55 > 0:00:59- Is there any booze?- Shut up, John, man. Course there's no booze.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02It's a spastics' home. Spaccas don't drink.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06What do you want?
0:01:06 > 0:01:11- Bacon sandwich?- Chips?- Nah, I cannot do chips, man.- I want chips.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Sherry!
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Mmmm. Mm-hm.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Mm.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29# ..Hammer me mammy gave me
0:01:29 > 0:01:30# But when I grow up I can hammer me mammy
0:01:30 > 0:01:33# And serves her right for hammering me. #
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Who done these, do you think? The spastics? Crap, aren't they?
0:01:39 > 0:01:45- What do they give them gold stars for, man? They're pathetic. Dave... - HE MOANS
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Here, John. Give us some of that.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55Hmm.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00RADIO PLAYS
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Oh... Mmmm.
0:02:17 > 0:02:23- Who's this other one? - It's the Prime Minster, man.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Are you a spastic or summat?
0:02:30 > 0:02:33No, but he looks like one. Aren't you?
0:02:33 > 0:02:38I hate backwards kids and spastics. They should be strangled at birth.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Especially ones that don't even look at you. How! Spacca!
0:02:43 > 0:02:44Look at us when I'm talking to you!
0:02:49 > 0:02:51What shall we do to him?
0:02:51 > 0:02:55WHOOPING AND SHOUTING
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Faster, John. John, faster...
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Hold on tight, spacca.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Ma'am.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41You're looking at me favourite building, Mr Gently, sir.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Do you know, I think it's mine now.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49- I'm sorry. I don't know your name, Sergeant.- Thompson.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I know you from afar, Chief Inspector.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55You're the famous George Gently, scourge of the London villains.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01- Well, I think they survived. - Well, you're ours now, though.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06- You'll never leave this place, you know.- You work in this building?
0:04:07 > 0:04:15- Sort of. I'm the Chief Constable's new driver.- Ah. Enjoy it?- I love it.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17I get to go everywhere he goes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21I never knew Durham had so many golf courses.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Nice meeting you at last, Chief Inspector.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Nice meeting you too, Sergeant.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Sir.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Morning, sir.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Hello, sir.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Could you pop down to the cells, Sarge? There seems to be a problem.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54- You look ridiculous with that tash on.- Thank you, Sarge.- Taylor.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- The Chief Constable got a new driver?- Don't he, Guv?- What?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Looks ridiculous with that tash. Doomed to failure with women.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Women don't like tashes.- Mine does.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- What.- Sorry, sir, the new... What were you saying?- A new driver.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09- You don't have a woman! - As a matter of fact I have.- Oh, aye?
0:05:09 > 0:05:15Been hanging round the Blind School again have you? Taylor, she's coming.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Yep. I can hear her stick tapping along the floor.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23- Will you shut up, Sergeant?- Shall I tell them you're going down, sir?
0:05:23 > 0:05:27- What?- The cells.- Is it urgent? - Don't know.- That means "no".
0:05:27 > 0:05:31- I'll be there in a minute.- What would you like me to do, sir?- About what?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- The Chief Constable's new driver. - Nothing.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Taylor, aren't you forgetting something?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44Where's our elevenses, man? Hmmm? Two cups of tea, plate of biscuits.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46The future's arrived.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52If this is the future I don't like it.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Look at this. Tea, milk, no sugar. Tea, sugar, no milk.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Tea, no milk, no sugar...
0:06:01 > 0:06:03No cup.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23What's it taste like?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Warm water, cold milk, no tea.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33That machine's supposed to free up police time,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35save highly-trained officers like myself.
0:06:35 > 0:06:40- Taylor.- Sir?- Shut up and go away. - Sir.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43Highly trained(!) So why are you here?
0:06:43 > 0:06:47- Are you going down to the cells or shall I tell them ten minutes? - Yes!! Yes, I'm going.
0:07:04 > 0:07:10- Is he drunk?- Cannot smell nowt on him, Sarge.- Why's he here? - Sleeping on a park bench.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Couple of milk bottles on the grass.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15We think he nicked them off somebody's doorstep.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18What's your name? Huh? What's your name? MAN WHIMPERS
0:07:21 > 0:07:23This was in his pocket.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26"David Blackburn." Have you been drinking, David?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Apart from milk, I mean?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Right. Where are you from?
0:07:33 > 0:07:36"Higher Sutton Farm, Wellaby on Tees?" Is this your address, David?
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Hmm? Ah, we've got lift off. Right.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Well, listen, David. Why don't you go home to Wellaby
0:07:43 > 0:07:46and be a nuisance there, OK?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Instead of Durham. David?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Do you want me to give you a clip around the head, David?
0:07:52 > 0:07:53DAVID WHIMPERS
0:07:55 > 0:08:00- I never even touched him.- Our John... - Huh?- Our John.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03- What?- Our John.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Our John? Who's our John? Is that your brother, is it?
0:08:11 > 0:08:12What about him?
0:08:16 > 0:08:18What's your problem, David?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Let him sober up and get him on a bus home.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25And don't waste any more of my time today, OK?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Ten minutes of my life. Gone forever.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Guv? Summat wrong?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49China's dead.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Oh...
0:08:58 > 0:09:04"Dear Mr Gently, I write to tell you of the death of my brother-in-law Robert Mates
0:09:04 > 0:09:08"that you knew from when he was a detective with you in London..."
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Detective(?)
0:09:11 > 0:09:15He sometimes used to say that he'd been a detective.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19It made him feel a bit more important than being a paid informer.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24"He often talked about his friendship and..."
0:09:28 > 0:09:34"..his friendship and admiration for you. He will be much missed by..."
0:09:34 > 0:09:38Hmm. Yeah. "Yours faithfully, Mrs Eleanor Mates".
0:09:39 > 0:09:43- When did you last see him? - About three months ago.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47'He called me at the office. Asked me to meet him.'
0:09:56 > 0:10:04- Here he is now. Mr Gently!- China.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10I said he'd come. Didn't I say he'd come? Have a seat.
0:10:10 > 0:10:17- I haven't got much time, China. - Kenny. Norma. Mr George Gently.
0:10:17 > 0:10:23- So you're the man he's always telling us about?- Hello. China.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27- Get the man a drink, man, Kenny.- No, thanks.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- We've got things to talk about. - Ah wait, George, let your hair down.
0:10:31 > 0:10:36This is your old mate. We're old mates. Me and Mr Gently.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- We go back a long way. - China, you said this was urgent.
0:10:39 > 0:10:46- You said you'd got information for me.- It is, it is...- What is it?
0:10:46 > 0:10:51Oh... What was it? There was something.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55- Get your hands off me beer. - I never touched your beer...
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Come with me.
0:10:59 > 0:11:06- I'm sorry, Mr Gently. I'm sorry. - There was no information, was there?
0:11:07 > 0:11:13- Go on.- No, no, that wasn't... - Wasn't it?
0:11:13 > 0:11:18- I'll pay you back when I get on my feet.- You're an embarrassment, China.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Do you know that? To yourself and to me. This has got to stop.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- I'm sorry, Mr Gently. - I don't want you to be sorry.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26I want you to do something about it.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I'm working on some new leads for you.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32It'll be like the old days, you and me cracking cases side by side.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37No. I don't want you to work on any leads for me. Ever. It's finished.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41As a snout you've been information-free for a long time.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45- And do you know why? Cos you're drunk all the time.- What do you want?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48I want you to go back to London. Or preferably Dublin.
0:11:48 > 0:11:53I want you to lead a different kind of life cos this one's going to kill you.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Here.
0:11:58 > 0:12:03This is to give you a new start in life. Go on.
0:12:03 > 0:12:10You never think... I never thought I'd turn out like this. I'll write to you.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13I'll write to you when I'm back on me feet.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17It would be better if you didn't. You can't use me as a crutch forever.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20I don't want to hear from you again. OK?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- Goodbye then, Mr Gently.- Yeah.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Here he comes.
0:12:50 > 0:12:56- 'What happened to him?'- 'He died alone. They found him in some old building near a dog track'
0:12:56 > 0:12:59- where he was living as a vagrant. He had a fall.- Oh.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03And I meant to give him a push in the right direction.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05Maybe I pushed him too far.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Can I see the back of his head, please?
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Thank you.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50- You all right, Guv?- Yeah.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- Find anything? - No.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54His nose was broken.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Well, he fell over, Guv.
0:14:58 > 0:14:58Maybe.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02The Coroner's report doesn't mention a broken nose.
0:15:02 > 0:15:07He drank himself senseless every night of his life. He was an accident waiting to happen.
0:15:07 > 0:15:07Maybe.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18Good afternoon, I'm James Lafferty, the Coroner's Officer.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- Mr Lafferty.- And you are Chief Inspector George Gently.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23It's an honour to meet you.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Your reputation travels before you.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Really?
0:15:28 > 0:15:29So, Mr Gently,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33what are you doing in our little town?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I told you in my letter.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38You wrote the report on the death of Robert Mates for the Coroner,
0:15:38 > 0:15:43on the basis of which a verdict of accidental death was recorded.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Your letter didn't say where your interest lay.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Mr Mates was a personal friend.
0:15:49 > 0:15:50Oh, I see.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54You described him as a vagrant.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55On what basis?
0:15:55 > 0:15:59His condition, his clothes, the place he was found,
0:15:59 > 0:16:02there was no evidence of any fixed abode.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Nobody reported him missing.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06When did you last see your friend?
0:16:06 > 0:16:08- Three months ago. - How was he?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Drunk.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12But he wasn't living rough.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Perhaps something happened in the meantime.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20Men of his age can sometimes lose their grip on life when misfortune occurs.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23The death of a wife or losing their job.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25What was his occupation?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27He worked for me. Unofficially.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31Sometimes. He didn't have anything else.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34I knew him as "China".
0:16:34 > 0:16:36How can you be sure his death was accidental?
0:16:36 > 0:16:41Ah well, an ambulance was called to a dilapidated building,
0:16:41 > 0:16:44known to be used by vagrants, where your friend "China"
0:16:44 > 0:16:48had suffered a fall while under the influence of alcohol.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50How do you know he had a fall?
0:16:50 > 0:16:54That was the judgement of the ambulance men. Based on his injuries.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58There were no post-mortem photographs attached
0:16:58 > 0:17:00to the report I received.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- Weren't there? - No, there weren't. - I asked for them to be sent.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07No matter. I've had a look for myself.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12- Who called the ambulance? - Er...
0:17:13 > 0:17:16..It was anonymous. It's all there in the full report...
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Full report? I've had longer Christmas cards.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Then what happened?
0:17:22 > 0:17:25He was taken to St Mary's where he died that night of a subdural haemorrhage.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30He fell heavily against an old filing cabinet
0:17:30 > 0:17:33and gashed his head severely, the report says.
0:17:33 > 0:17:34I've just been for a look.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37There wasn't any blood.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40It's been cleared up. As you'd expect.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44And that's all I know.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48You were in the service yourself?
0:17:48 > 0:17:4925 year.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Then I got myself what I believe is known as "a cushy little number"
0:17:53 > 0:17:55- as the Coroner's Officer. - Here?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- I beg your pardon? - You served here?
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Yes. Here, in Wellaby.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Well, thank you very much, Mr Lafferty.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14- Wasn't there a bit of a problem in this force a while back?- Huh?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17A whole nightshift dismissed for thieving?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Oh, yeah.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23Breaking and entering, and fencing stolen goods and that? There was a joke, wasn't there?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27Two coppers out on the beat in Wellaby, one says to the other,
0:18:27 > 0:18:30"Lend us a packet of fags till the shops close".
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Can I say something, Guv? - Yeah, if you like.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Isn't this a waste of police time, asking nurses and that?
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Look, I understand your problem. Right?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Sorry, what's my problem?
0:18:43 > 0:18:44China.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47You know, he hero-worshipped you.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51You brought him up north and then you fired him, because he was useless.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- Then he drifted off to Wellaby and drank himself to death, but you know what?- What?
0:18:55 > 0:19:00He would've drunk himself to death anyway, it's not your fault. That's all I'm saying.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Right? It's not your fault.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Are we done with the cod psychology?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Yes. Next fish, please.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Good. Well, I don't need you on this one. You can go home.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13- Ah, Guv! Why are you being... - John, John, go home.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18OK.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Right. I won't be a minute.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33- I don't have much time, mister? - Gently.- Right. We're short-staffed this week.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34So. It's about a friend?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Yes, you nursed him apparently.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41He died here three weeks ago, he had a head injury,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44a fall, apparently? Robert Mates?
0:19:44 > 0:19:48Oh, yes. It was sad. He never regained consciousness, poor man.
0:19:48 > 0:19:53Well, that's my first question answered, thank you.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59I was hoping to try and find out how he spent the last months of his life.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00You were close?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02No. Well, dunno.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Yes, in a way.
0:20:04 > 0:20:09My wife was unaccountably fond of him and he worshipped her.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13But he went on one bender too many, he had a fall and hit his head,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16so, er... well, thank you for your time.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18And thank you for seeing him off.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22Mr Gently, your friend wasn't drunk. I would've smelled it on him.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25I was told he was.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27I spend half me life dealing with drunks
0:20:27 > 0:20:30- and there was no alcohol on his breath.- What about his clothes?
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Well, not exactly Savile Row, but...
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Not dirty, not torn?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38No, no, no. They were clean. Well cared for.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40He even darned the holes in his socks.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43- HE LAUGHS - Really?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45So you didn't think he was a vagrant, then?
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Vagrants don't darn their socks.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51So he must have been living somewhere? He had an address?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- He must have, but I never found out where.- What about his pockets, nothing at all?
0:20:54 > 0:21:00Well, I don't know, I suppose the police took his stuff before they brought him here.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Hmmm.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06His nose was broken. Have you any idea how?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09He had a fall.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13He fell and injured the back of his head and the front of his face at the same time?
0:21:13 > 0:21:17It does happen, yeah. Who did you say you were again, exactly?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19I'm sorry about...
0:21:22 > 0:21:25China wasn't living rough and he wasn't drunk.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26What?
0:21:26 > 0:21:30This is Nurse Molloy, she was with him at the time.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- This is my Sergeant, Mr Bacchus. - Right.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Sergeant, you're a policeman? You never said you were a policeman.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Yes, I'm sorry. I should have said.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41I'm Detective Chief Inspector George Gently.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45If you should remember anything about the day he died,
0:21:45 > 0:21:47would you give me a call on this number?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Yes, course.
0:21:49 > 0:21:54And Nurse, if you could you please treat this conversation as confidential?
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Yes. Bye.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56And thank you.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59BREATHES IN HEAVILY
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Nice.- Huh?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03What have I done now?
0:22:03 > 0:22:07You're really, you're just a one-track-mind premier cretin, aren't you?
0:22:07 > 0:22:08What?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- MIMICS HIM - "Nice".
0:22:11 > 0:22:15She was wearing a wedding ring. Did you notice or don't you care? "Nice".
0:22:15 > 0:22:20- Unbelievable.- She was nice, I like looking at women, should have a look at one yourself sometime.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- She said "police". - Huh?
0:22:22 > 0:22:27- She said China was brought to the hospital by the police. - So?
0:22:27 > 0:22:30The Coroner's Officer said it was an ambulance.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Well, maybe she was confused.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36No, no, no, she was absolutely clear.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Right, so you're a policeman delivering a critically ill man to the hospital,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43why would you spend time emptying his pockets?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45To find out who he was.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50OK, John. You like looking at women.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56A change came over Nurse Molloy. When I introduced you, she seemed nervous, why's that?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59I just have this effect on women, Guv.
0:22:59 > 0:23:04It was because until that moment she didn't realise she'd been talking to a policeman.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Oh, man. What are we doing now?
0:23:15 > 0:23:17I've just been talking to Nurse Molloy?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Lucky you.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23- I need to talk to her again. - Well, you can't. She's gone home.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- What's she gone home for? - Migraine.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28That was a bit sudden, weren't it?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Well, that's what migraines are like!
0:23:31 > 0:23:33We're going to look a pair of clowns
0:23:33 > 0:23:37if she's in a darkened room with a bag of frozen peas on her head.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38That's it.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00I don't think she was saying "Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache". Do you?
0:24:02 > 0:24:04- What time's he home? - He's on the backshift.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09DOOR BUZZER
0:24:11 > 0:24:12I'll get it.
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Afternoon.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25I'm Detective Chief Inspector Gently, this is Sergeant Bacchus.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28May we speak to Mrs Molloy, please?
0:24:28 > 0:24:30I'm, er, I'm afraid she's not in.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35- Well, she is, pal, cos we've just seen her letting you in. - Who are you, please?
0:24:35 > 0:24:39She's my um, brother. I'm her brother.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42But she's got a migraine, she's not very well so...
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Are we going to clart about all day or shall we get this over with?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Are you positive
0:24:59 > 0:25:03that my friend was brought into hospital by the police, Mrs Molloy?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Erm, did I say that? - Yes, you did.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08I think maybe I was confused. It was an ambulance.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10So who emptied his pockets?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11I don't know.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Do you have a husband, Mrs Molloy?
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Yes.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Where is he?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18At work.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- What does he do? - He's a policeman.- Oh.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Was he by any chance the policeman who brought Mr Mates to hospital?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27I told you, it was ambulance men.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29What does your brother do?
0:25:29 > 0:25:30I haven't got a brother.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32GEORGE LAUGHS
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Mr Collison here?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I, er, I work in a school.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37Oh, right.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43You're absolutely rubbish at this, aren't you? The pair of you.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46At what exactly?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Adultery.
0:25:48 > 0:25:54- You can't just barge in here, into my house and make ridiculous allegations.- Can't I?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56What's your husband's name?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Molloy. Surprisingly.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01You're in absolutely no position to get cocky with me, pet.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Does he work at the local nick?
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- Why? - I might just give him a call. - No, please. Don't.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11I see you wear a wedding ring, Mr Collison.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14I have a wife and three children.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15How about you?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17No. No children.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Does your husband know about this?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I... I don't think so.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Well, what a mess.
0:26:24 > 0:26:25I have told you all I can.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27But not all you know.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Now why is that, Mrs Molloy?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33What is it about the death of Robert Mates that you don't want me to know?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Nothing. I don't know anything.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36All right.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41What were the names of these ambulance men?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43I will find out sooner or later, Mrs Molloy.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46It wasn't an ambulance. A police car brought him in.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Yeah, I see.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51And who was driving this police car?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- My husband.- Yeah.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57There's a criminal offence called wasting police time.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02- I think we should charge her, Guv. - Don't you threaten her. - What are you going to do about it?
0:27:02 > 0:27:06My husband is a very kind man. He stayed at the hospital all night.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10He stayed until Robert Mates was pronounced dead, you mean.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11- Yes.- Yes.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14He was clearly very concerned.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17DOOR OPENS AND A MAN WHISTLES
0:27:20 > 0:27:21Well, well!
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Full house, huh?
0:27:25 > 0:27:30Paul, you rascal. I thought I recognized the car.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33You'll have the neighbours talking, huh?
0:27:33 > 0:27:36How are you, love? Bad migraine?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38How did you know?
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Because I phoned the hospital to let you know I'd be coming home early.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Well?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Who are your friends?
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Chief Inspector Gently.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53- Sergeant..?- Bacchus.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Ah, Mr Gently.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57A pleasure to meet you, sir.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Sergeant.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Can you shed any light on the death of Robert Mates?
0:28:04 > 0:28:08- Who? - The old man. The one that fell, that you brought to the hospital.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Oh, him.
0:28:10 > 0:28:11No.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14What, nothing at all?
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Such as how he broke his nose perhaps?
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Or what happened to his belongings?
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Have you got permission from my guvnor to question me now, Chief Inspector?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27No, but I will have.
0:28:29 > 0:28:30HE LAUGHS
0:28:34 > 0:28:35HE WHISTLES
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Can you stop that?
0:28:37 > 0:28:39What's that?
0:28:44 > 0:28:47- He knows about those two. - Oh, yes. 100%.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50Tomorrow I'd like to find out what else he knows.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53You do some digging about the other fella.
0:28:53 > 0:28:58And make some discreet enquiries, off the record, about the local nick here.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01- Such as what? - Allegations of police brutality.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05Any history of unexplained deaths in police custody.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23I thought you might fancy a proper cuppa.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25I hate that machine.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27I can't even work it.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33- Sugar?- No.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38You're working late, Sergeant.
0:29:38 > 0:29:40Yes, he's got a golf club dinner.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42No, no, no. You mustn't tell me that.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45- Why not? - Because that's not official business.
0:29:45 > 0:29:50He should be getting a taxi home and paying for it himself, not charging the ratepayer.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53- It's true what they say about you, isn't it?- What's that?
0:29:53 > 0:29:55Unbending. Rules is the rules.
0:29:55 > 0:29:58Well, they are, aren't they?
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Well, I've broke one. I shouldn't be in here.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03And why are you in here, Sergeant?
0:30:03 > 0:30:06Call us "Liz" and I'll tell you.
0:30:06 > 0:30:09Why are you here, Sergeant?
0:30:11 > 0:30:15My God, you don't make life easy, do you, Chief Inspector?
0:30:15 > 0:30:20For others, or yourself. I'm sorry I disturbed you.
0:30:20 > 0:30:21Honestly.
0:30:25 > 0:30:26Liz?
0:30:30 > 0:30:32I'm sorry.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37I have a son. Ten-year-old. By my ex-husband.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39He's training to be a hooligan.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43I want someone to show him how to fish.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45Somebody told me you'd know all about it.
0:30:47 > 0:30:48I see.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55- Sarge.- Busy.- David Blackburn, that kid you saw in the cells.- Who?
0:30:55 > 0:30:59David Blackburn. He was reported missing a couple of weeks ago by his employer.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01He works in a motor workshop.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05So what? Not our problem any more. Tell Wellaby police that we sent him home.
0:31:05 > 0:31:09- What? Is that the Paul Collison stuff?- Aye.
0:31:09 > 0:31:10It just swallows your money!
0:31:10 > 0:31:13Who is this Blackburn lad?
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Just another idiot that needs a good hiding.
0:31:15 > 0:31:19We've gone completely soft in this country. Kids just bloody laugh at you.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21Why was he laughing at you?
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Well, he wasn't actually, he was crying.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27OK, Paul Collison, 33, married, three kids, we knew that already.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30He's got a degree in sociology and education.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33Just what the country needs, that, ain't it?
0:31:33 > 0:31:36Works in an Approved School. That'll be the education.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40And shags Nurse Molloy in his spare time. That'll be the sociology.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42Hey?! I think he's irrelevant, Guv.
0:31:45 > 0:31:46Will you behave yourself?
0:31:46 > 0:31:47Sorry.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50See you Sunday, George.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57Mind your own business.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59My lips are sealed. Unlike hers.
0:32:13 > 0:32:14DOORBELL RINGS
0:32:16 > 0:32:19George Gently, as I live and breathe.
0:32:19 > 0:32:21Alan.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Your guvnor and I knew each other in London.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26- Didn't he tell you? - No. No, he didn't.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28He was my first boss in CID.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30And now you outrank me, Superintendent.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33That'll be the day. Welcome, John.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37- Sir.- No, I'm Alan. Come through. Lunch in the garden.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46Business first, eh?
0:32:46 > 0:32:49I spoke to Tommy Molloy this morning.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53Tommy is a lovely man, honest as the day is long. Cheers.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55Cheers.
0:32:55 > 0:32:59It was Tommy who took the call about your friend being in a bad way.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02He picked him up and took him to the hospital rather than
0:33:02 > 0:33:03wait for an ambulance
0:33:03 > 0:33:05because he could see he was very poorly.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08He only wishes he could have got there quicker.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13I also spoke to that idiot Lafferty at the Coroner's Office.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16I fired him from the force my second week in command.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19He shouldn't have been given the job he's got, but there you are.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22There was no evidence to support what he told the coroner
0:33:22 > 0:33:26about your friend being a drunk and a vagrant. Pure prejudice,
0:33:26 > 0:33:29stupid assumptions. Laziness, actually.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31I've made my views known to the coroner
0:33:31 > 0:33:34and I don't expect Lafferty to be long in that job either.
0:33:34 > 0:33:35I see.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39The verdict of accidental death still stands, though.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42- You're not happy with the verdict, then?- Course I'm not.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45I'll be honest with you, George.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47We've got a problem in this town.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50Young lads who think they can get away with going around doing
0:33:50 > 0:33:51whatever they like.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55Such as picking on defenceless old men. Giving them a hiding,
0:33:55 > 0:33:58just for the fun of it. Wouldn't be the first time.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Any young lads in particular?
0:34:00 > 0:34:05I've got my suspicions. There's a pair called the Blackburn brothers.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10Can you tell me where to find them?
0:34:10 > 0:34:13George. You're on my patch. I'll take care of it.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17They haven't been seen since the night your friend met his death.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19That makes me suspicious.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Will you leave it to me, George?
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Course, Alan.
0:34:24 > 0:34:25Good.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29And there is nothing to be gained from you talking to Tommy Molloy.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Well, That's good enough for me.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Ah! My infinitely better half.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39- Pat.- Pat.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43George, lovely to meet you. I'm going to embarrass you both now.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47- You're the nearest thing my husband's got to a hero. - Well, yes, that is embarrassing!
0:34:47 > 0:34:50- John.- Pat.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52- Where's Danny? - Oh, he's coming. Danny?
0:34:55 > 0:34:58Manners, young man. Look, visitors.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02- Hello, Danny.- Hello.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11He has no speech, really.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14But he can understand what you say.
0:35:14 > 0:35:15When he wants to.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20I'll go and get the rest of the lunch.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22I had no idea, Alan.
0:35:22 > 0:35:23He's a great lad.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25Looks like a full-time job.
0:35:25 > 0:35:29Well, he's a handful, but aren't all growing lads?
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Pat does get worn out.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33No respite care available anywhere?
0:35:33 > 0:35:38He goes to the local kids' home every other weekend. They're very good with him.
0:35:38 > 0:35:42- Is that why you're still here? After ten years? - As opposed to being where?
0:35:42 > 0:35:46Almost anywhere. The Met? I thought you'd be an Assistant Commissioner by now.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50He's happy here, George. He's really happy.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54I don't think London's the right place for Danny.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07- Here you are, Danny.- Mm.
0:36:10 > 0:36:11What you got there, Danny?
0:36:11 > 0:36:12He loves his aeroplanes.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16He's not going to touch them, Danny, are you, George?
0:36:16 > 0:36:18No, no, no, no. Aeroplanes.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21- Mad about his aeroplanes, aren't you, Danny?- Hmmm.
0:36:21 > 0:36:23The thing is, George,
0:36:23 > 0:36:25his whole world needs to be in order all the time.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27Everything in order, or it throws him.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29You've got some gaps here, Danny.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Yeah. We're trying to get him the complete set,
0:36:36 > 0:36:38but they stopped printing them years ago.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41It's good to see you again, George.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Good to see you too, Alan.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52- How you doing, Danny?- Hmmm.
0:37:05 > 0:37:06What?
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Blackburn.
0:37:09 > 0:37:10I heard.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12It's the lad we had in the cells.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13Yes.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16Well, why didn't you let me say something?
0:37:17 > 0:37:22Did you believe all that stuff about the accidental death verdict being Lafferty's fault?
0:37:22 > 0:37:23No. It was bullshit.
0:37:23 > 0:37:24Yeah, correct.
0:37:24 > 0:37:28The Coroner's Officer always takes his cue from the police,
0:37:28 > 0:37:31especially if he's a former police officer himself.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34- He was bullshitting you about Molloy. - Yeah, only about 100%.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37So what's going on, huh? You knew Shepherd in London.
0:37:37 > 0:37:38What, is he bent?
0:37:38 > 0:37:41No. no. He's straight as an arrow.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45So for Alan Shepherd to be sitting there blowing smoke in my face,
0:37:45 > 0:37:49there's got to be a good reason. He's protecting somebody.
0:37:49 > 0:37:50- Molloy?- It's a fair bet.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53Can you remember the Blackburn lad's address?
0:37:53 > 0:37:56Yeah, it's a farm up in the hills.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Let's go.
0:38:21 > 0:38:22Yeah?
0:38:22 > 0:38:27I'm Sergeant Bacchus, this is Chief Inspector Gently.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Not from round here, are you?
0:38:29 > 0:38:30No, we're from Durham.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Mr Blackburn, isn't it?
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Aye, what's wrong?
0:38:34 > 0:38:36You have a son.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39Take your pick. I've got two.
0:38:41 > 0:38:42John and David.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44All right, yes. Is David here?
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Why?
0:38:46 > 0:38:50Well, he's been sleeping rough. He's got himself into trouble for thieving.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53Oh, aye? Well, he's not here.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55- He was reported missing a while ago. - Not by me.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58- No. By his employers. - Probably hiding from the police.
0:38:58 > 0:39:02- Why?- Pair of them got drunk and smashed up the spastics place.
0:39:02 > 0:39:03The what, sorry?
0:39:03 > 0:39:05Where they put the spastic kids.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08- Oh!- The coppers come knocking on the door the next day.
0:39:08 > 0:39:13- Your sons make a habit out of being hooligans, do they? - They're animals, the pair of them.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17- Were they charged?- I've no idea. Mebbies. They haven't come back here, that's all I know.
0:39:17 > 0:39:22Hang on a minute. So...you haven't seen them since the arrest?
0:39:22 > 0:39:25- How long ago was that, you say? - Few weeks.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28You don't seem very bothered, man. They're off the rails.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31- Don't you feel like doing something about it?- They're not normal.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35When they were bairns, if the game was the Japs and the English, wanted to be Japs.
0:39:35 > 0:39:39Cowboys and Indians, they want to be the Indians.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41I bought one of them a puppy for his birthday,
0:39:41 > 0:39:45- the other one drowns him in the sink.- Does it occur to you to give them a good hiding?
0:39:45 > 0:39:49I've had the skin off their back many a time. Didn't make any difference.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52No wife, Mr Blackburn?
0:39:52 > 0:39:55She went when they were six. Wish I'd gone with her.
0:39:55 > 0:39:59I'd like to take a look in David's room, if you wouldn't mind.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10People don't know how to control their kids these days.
0:40:10 > 0:40:13Bit young for nostalgia, aren't you?
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Discipline... that's what I'm talking about.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18What more do you want him to do? Chop their hands off?
0:40:18 > 0:40:22- Nah, he doesn't give a monkeys, man. - You didn't see the pain in his eyes?
0:40:27 > 0:40:29What you looking for, anyway?
0:40:29 > 0:40:31Nothing special.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39What's that about, huh?
0:40:39 > 0:40:44"Ha, ha, you're a pansy, you cried like a bairn, I win."
0:40:44 > 0:40:47- That's charming, that, ain't it? - No idea.
0:40:47 > 0:40:48Thank you, Mr Blackburn.
0:41:04 > 0:41:06How old is your other son, Mr Blackburn?
0:41:06 > 0:41:0816, just gone.
0:41:08 > 0:41:10Does he like aeroplanes?
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Aeroplanes? No. Why?
0:41:12 > 0:41:16Just wondered. Would you like us to find him for you?
0:41:17 > 0:41:18Not on my account.
0:41:19 > 0:41:23- Can you remember which day they were arrested?- 20th of March.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25You seem very sure.
0:41:25 > 0:41:26Wife's birthday.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30- And do you know who the arresting officers were?- Aye. Tommy Molloy.
0:41:30 > 0:41:31Sergeant Molloy?
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Aye.
0:41:33 > 0:41:37- Do you know him well? - He's up here that often he should have a season ticket.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41Well, if either of your lads turn up,
0:41:41 > 0:41:45would you call me at my office on this number, please?
0:42:01 > 0:42:06So. On the 19th of March, China dies
0:42:06 > 0:42:08of head injuries, delivered to...
0:42:08 > 0:42:10- Are you listening? - Yes.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Delivered to hospital by Sergeant Molloy.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18The very next day, Sergeant Molloy arrests the Blackburn lads
0:42:18 > 0:42:20and their father hasn't seen them since.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22So what next?
0:42:22 > 0:42:24I want to know what happened
0:42:24 > 0:42:27when Danny Shepherd met the Blackburn lads.
0:42:27 > 0:42:28What makes you think that?
0:42:28 > 0:42:31Because the other half of Danny's aeroplane cards
0:42:31 > 0:42:33were in a drawer in that room.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36So what else is there? Get a search warrant.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38We need to find those Blackburn brothers
0:42:38 > 0:42:42and get a sight of their police files.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45And if Molloy has got a season ticket to that pig farm,
0:42:45 > 0:42:47there's got to be a file an inch thick.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49See if you can get hold of that.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53I'll go over Alan Shepherd's head, get formal permission to question Molloy.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Do you want to have a go?
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Come on, have a go.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19Come on, get up. There you are.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21You can do it.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24You see that. Hold onto that.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27Put your hand up there. Yeah. See.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Go!
0:43:30 > 0:43:34OK. Good try. You've got to let go.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Let's tighten this up. OK.
0:43:40 > 0:43:44Hold onto that. Push that back.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47OK, let it go. Whooosh! Good one.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50Good cast. Put the brake on.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54Good lad. He's got it.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04It's all about relaxing.
0:44:17 > 0:44:22There's no record of the Blackburn boys being arrested on 20th March.
0:44:22 > 0:44:26And here's another thing. There's no record of their being questioned, cautioned,
0:44:26 > 0:44:28or anything else in the last three years.
0:44:28 > 0:44:32- There's no police file on them at all.- That can't be right.
0:44:32 > 0:44:35How come Molloy's got a season ticket at the pig farm?
0:44:35 > 0:44:40I've got Taylor going through all the court and magistrates' records. They might tell a different story.
0:44:40 > 0:44:44- But you better get up to that pig farm.- Can't. I can't get a search warrant.
0:44:44 > 0:44:49I tried three magistrates and they all say it's just a fishing trip, we have no evidence of any wrongdoing.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Do you want me to break in, Guv?
0:44:58 > 0:45:03- Do you want to ask a different question, John?- Can I have the afternoon off, Guv?- Absolutely.
0:45:03 > 0:45:04John.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06Don't get caught.
0:45:09 > 0:45:11A small thank you from Raymond. And from me.
0:45:11 > 0:45:16Oh... There was no need. Thank you.
0:45:16 > 0:45:17Go on, open it.
0:45:19 > 0:45:20I'll wait till I get home.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23All right.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Don't forget dinner tonight.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43HE WHISTLES
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Who are these men?
0:45:48 > 0:45:49My solicitor.
0:45:49 > 0:45:50Why do you need a solicitor?
0:45:50 > 0:45:52- Why not?- Why not what?
0:45:52 > 0:45:55- Why not have a solicitor? - Why not have a solicitor what?
0:45:57 > 0:45:58Sir.
0:45:58 > 0:45:59Thank you.
0:45:59 > 0:46:04You have no right to a solicitor, you are not charged with anything. Please leave.
0:46:04 > 0:46:05Now.
0:46:10 > 0:46:11This one?
0:46:11 > 0:46:13Police Federation.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17This isn't a union matter, nor a disciplinary hearing. Get out, please.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20- But I've got a right... - You haven't got a right to anything.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23This is a police investigation into a suspicious death. Get out.
0:46:28 > 0:46:33Why did you take everything from Mr Mates' pockets before getting him medical treatment?
0:46:33 > 0:46:35- Who told you that?- Your wife.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39So?
0:46:39 > 0:46:41I was looking for clues to his identity.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43And you thought that was more important
0:46:43 > 0:46:47- than getting him seen by a doctor, did you?- Well, I just...
0:46:47 > 0:46:50There are two hospitals in your town. The Sanderson and St Mary's.
0:46:50 > 0:46:54The Sanderson is closer, but you drove him to St Mary's, why?
0:46:54 > 0:46:56I wanted him to be in the best hands.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58Best hands for him or for you?
0:46:58 > 0:47:00I don't understand, sir.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03Your wife was on duty at St Mary's that night
0:47:03 > 0:47:06and she took charge of his care. That a coincidence?
0:47:06 > 0:47:07Completely.
0:47:07 > 0:47:12All right. Well, your wife also told me that Mr Mates was dressed well
0:47:12 > 0:47:13and did not smell of drink.
0:47:13 > 0:47:16Why did you tell the Coroner he was a vagrant?
0:47:16 > 0:47:20Because he was living rough in the old offices where I found him.
0:47:20 > 0:47:24The Coroner's officer, now fearing that he was about to be drummed out
0:47:24 > 0:47:27of the Brownies for the second time in his miserable life,
0:47:27 > 0:47:32has very kindly supplied me with the contents of China's pockets.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35Or at least as much as you decided to hand over.
0:47:37 > 0:47:42A wallet containing two pounds, ten shillings.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45A letter from his brother in Ireland, years old,
0:47:45 > 0:47:48which is how he got his next of kin,
0:47:48 > 0:47:49and some keys.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54Now, why would a homeless man have keys?
0:47:54 > 0:48:00You knew he wasn't a vagrant, didn't you? So why the lies? What happened?
0:48:00 > 0:48:04- Did you break his nose, Sergeant? - Course not.- I think you did.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06Did something happen between you and China?
0:48:06 > 0:48:10Had he done something to get himself in police custody?
0:48:10 > 0:48:12No. He was never in custody, I've told you.
0:48:12 > 0:48:13You're lying to me.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17HE WHISTLES
0:48:17 > 0:48:20- Stop whistling.- Was I whistling?
0:48:20 > 0:48:23Don't mess me about, sonny boy, or I'll come over that desk
0:48:23 > 0:48:24and smack your face.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31Now, the very next day, you went to Higher Sutton Farm
0:48:31 > 0:48:35and arrested John and David Blackburn, correct?
0:48:35 > 0:48:39- What's that got to do with anything? - Correct?- Yes, sir.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14There'd been an incident at a care home. Somebody wrecked the kitchen.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17The Blackburns had been causing trouble earlier on in the town.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20So it seemed logical to question them first.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23And they have a record as long as my arm as vandals
0:49:23 > 0:49:26and all round public nuisances. Correct?
0:49:26 > 0:49:29- Yes, sir.- No. Not correct.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32There are no records of any inquiries into any offences
0:49:32 > 0:49:34in the last three years by either of these boys.
0:49:34 > 0:49:38So, once again, why are you lying?
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Why are you interested in the Blackburns?
0:49:40 > 0:49:42Here's how it works, Sergeant,
0:49:42 > 0:49:45I ask the questions, you give the answers.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47I don't know what you're talking about, sir.
0:49:47 > 0:49:52- Why didn't you charge them with the wrecking of the kitchen? - Because we had no witnesses.
0:49:52 > 0:49:56All we could do was lock them up for a day, try and scare them a bit,
0:49:56 > 0:49:58put the frighteners on them.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01The frighteners? What's that mean?
0:50:01 > 0:50:03They were beyond the law, the pair of them.
0:50:03 > 0:50:07It was as if there was nothing you could do to stop them.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10Sir?
0:50:10 > 0:50:12- Are we done now?- No, we're not.
0:50:17 > 0:50:21# Baby, I feel good
0:50:21 > 0:50:24# From the moment I rise
0:50:24 > 0:50:28# Feel good from morning
0:50:28 > 0:50:29# Till the end of the day
0:50:31 > 0:50:32# Till the end of the day
0:50:35 > 0:50:37# You and me
0:50:38 > 0:50:40# We live this life
0:50:42 > 0:50:44# From when we get up
0:50:44 > 0:50:49# Till we go sleep at night
0:50:49 > 0:50:52# You and me, we're free
0:50:52 > 0:50:55# We do as we please, yeah
0:50:55 > 0:50:58# From morning
0:50:58 > 0:51:00# Till the end of the day
0:51:02 > 0:51:04# Till the end of the day
0:51:04 > 0:51:06# Yeah, I get up
0:51:08 > 0:51:10# And I see the sun up... #
0:51:10 > 0:51:13PIGS GRUNT
0:51:13 > 0:51:15# ..And I feel good, yeah
0:51:15 > 0:51:19# Cos my life has begun
0:51:19 > 0:51:23# You and me, we're free
0:51:23 > 0:51:26# We do as we please, yeah
0:51:26 > 0:51:27# From morning... #
0:51:27 > 0:51:32Whoa! Whoa! Go and eat your swill or something.
0:51:32 > 0:51:33# ..Till the end of the day
0:51:36 > 0:51:39# Till the end of the day
0:51:39 > 0:51:41# Till the end of the day... #
0:52:12 > 0:52:15- Something interesting?- Very.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21Superintendent Shepherd has a son, Danny, do you know him?
0:52:21 > 0:52:26Yeah. I think I've met him, yes. Yes, I have met him.
0:52:27 > 0:52:28How?
0:52:28 > 0:52:33Just...socially, I dunno, really.
0:52:33 > 0:52:37What, you and your wife are friends of the Shepherds?
0:52:37 > 0:52:43My wife and me...don't have a social life together these days.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47We don't have any kind of life together.
0:52:49 > 0:52:53You still love your wife, don't you, Sergeant?
0:52:53 > 0:52:55The sun rises and sets cos of her.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Always will.
0:53:03 > 0:53:07Danny sometimes sleeps over at that care home, doesn't he? At weekends?
0:53:09 > 0:53:13Was he sleeping there the night the Blackburns wrecked the kitchen?
0:53:13 > 0:53:15No.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18KNOCKING
0:53:18 > 0:53:20- Sir.- Thank you.
0:53:26 > 0:53:32This is a running total of the court appearances by juveniles
0:53:32 > 0:53:36in THIS authority over the last three years.
0:53:36 > 0:53:38Would you like to guess the number?
0:53:38 > 0:53:41Not really. No. I've never been any good at guessing.
0:53:41 > 0:53:432,403.
0:53:45 > 0:53:50THIS is the corresponding information from your authority,
0:53:50 > 0:53:52which has roughly half the population.
0:53:52 > 0:53:54So you'd expect, what, about a thousand?
0:53:56 > 0:53:58I've never been good at arithmetic either.
0:53:59 > 0:54:0188.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03Hmm.
0:54:04 > 0:54:09So, are the kids in your town particularly well-behaved, Sergeant?
0:54:11 > 0:54:12Yeah. They are.
0:54:26 > 0:54:30MOTORBIKE ARRIVES
0:54:50 > 0:54:52PIGS GRUNT
0:54:57 > 0:55:02# Ahh, ahh, ahh
0:55:06 > 0:55:11# Ahh, ahh, ahh
0:55:14 > 0:55:17# I don't hear you knock upon my door
0:55:18 > 0:55:23# I don't have your lovin' any more
0:55:23 > 0:55:25# Since you been gone I'm a-hurtin' inside
0:55:27 > 0:55:31# Well, I want you, baby by my side, yeah
0:55:31 > 0:55:34# I'm cryin', I'm cryin'...
0:55:38 > 0:55:42# Ahh, ahh, ahh
0:55:46 > 0:55:51# Ahh, ahh, ahh... #
0:55:56 > 0:55:59We meet again, David.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02Bike is stolen, needless to say.
0:56:02 > 0:56:07Er... He saw us inside the house, Guv.
0:56:11 > 0:56:12Sorry.
0:56:18 > 0:56:19OK, David.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22HE MUTTERS TO HIMSELF
0:56:22 > 0:56:24Now, tell us, where have you been
0:56:24 > 0:56:28since Sergeant Molloy arrested you for smashing up that kitchen?
0:56:28 > 0:56:30Apart from here, nicking milk bottles, that is.
0:56:30 > 0:56:32Hmmm?
0:56:37 > 0:56:41Has your brother, John, turned up yet?
0:56:41 > 0:56:42Our John?
0:56:42 > 0:56:47Aye. Your John. Have you any idea where he is?
0:56:47 > 0:56:49HE MUTTERS
0:56:49 > 0:56:53There are numbers totted up on the wall beside your bed, David.
0:56:53 > 0:56:566, 12, 18, 24. What do they mean?
0:57:00 > 0:57:04Six what, David?
0:57:04 > 0:57:08Who cried like a bairn, David? Was it you?
0:57:09 > 0:57:11Was it John?
0:57:19 > 0:57:22It's all right. All right.
0:57:22 > 0:57:23Get two officers in here.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30Pick him up.
0:57:35 > 0:57:36Hold him down.
0:57:39 > 0:57:42Ahh, ahh!
0:57:42 > 0:57:43All right. That's enough. Stop!
0:57:46 > 0:57:47Oh.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51All right, you can go.
0:57:53 > 0:57:54Now!
0:57:56 > 0:57:58I don't want to be hit any more.
0:57:59 > 0:58:02Nobody's going to hit you any more, David. Sit down, son.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04Go on. You're all right.
0:58:07 > 0:58:08Who did this to you, David?
0:58:11 > 0:58:12Could you tell me?
0:58:13 > 0:58:17Where did it happen? Can you tell me that?
0:58:17 > 0:58:19Was it a police station?
0:58:21 > 0:58:22The approved school.
0:58:25 > 0:58:28- Get this lad to a hospital. - Come on, David.
0:58:55 > 0:58:58CHILDREN SHOUT
0:59:21 > 0:59:23WHISTLE BLOWS
0:59:36 > 0:59:38PE for psychopaths, is it?
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Murderball. It builds character.
0:59:40 > 0:59:42Apparently.
0:59:42 > 0:59:46A lad named David Blackburn has been severely beaten.
0:59:46 > 0:59:48He says it happened here.
0:59:48 > 0:59:49We don't do beatings here.
0:59:49 > 0:59:51He isn't one of your inmates.
0:59:51 > 0:59:53So what's it got to do with me?
0:59:55 > 0:59:57- Your wife seems nice.- What?
0:59:57 > 1:00:01- Yeah. We had a little chat with her earlier.- You didn't...?
1:00:01 > 1:00:04What? Mention your affair with Nurse Molloy? No. No.
1:00:05 > 1:00:07But I will.
1:00:09 > 1:00:11What you want to see is down here.
1:00:24 > 1:00:28We call it the confinement block, but actually it's what was the punishment block.
1:00:28 > 1:00:31It's not used these days, thank God. Well, not by us anyway.
1:00:31 > 1:00:33But by somebody else?
1:00:34 > 1:00:36Look, I just want you to know
1:00:36 > 1:00:39that I think using violence against kids is barbaric.
1:00:39 > 1:00:41My dad belted me when I was a kid.
1:00:41 > 1:00:43Didn't do me any harm.
1:00:43 > 1:00:45That's a matter of opinion.
1:00:46 > 1:00:50Your wife says you're upping sticks and moving south. Why's that?
1:00:50 > 1:00:54Because I came into this to set children free.
1:00:54 > 1:00:58And instead I lock them up and teach them how to play murderball.
1:00:58 > 1:01:02- I've applied for a post with the Probation Service. - Told Mrs Molloy yet?
1:01:02 > 1:01:03Yes.
1:01:03 > 1:01:06Abandoning ship, are you?
1:01:06 > 1:01:08- Why don't you shut your face, Sergeant?- Oi.
1:01:10 > 1:01:12So, tell me.
1:01:12 > 1:01:14Blackburn brothers.
1:01:14 > 1:01:16- They were kept here.- How long?
1:01:17 > 1:01:20- Two weeks.- Two weeks?!- Who by?
1:01:21 > 1:01:24HE WHISTLES
1:01:24 > 1:01:27Why?
1:01:27 > 1:01:29They were being taught a lesson.
1:01:29 > 1:01:35You see, there's a feeling abroad, a mood of anger,
1:01:35 > 1:01:37a growing belief that the new methods,
1:01:37 > 1:01:41you know, ponces like me with my first class honours degree
1:01:41 > 1:01:46telling them to look at the child as a whole, that those ideas have failed.
1:01:46 > 1:01:50That only one thing works, only one thing ever did work,
1:01:50 > 1:01:53and it's time to bring it back.
1:01:56 > 1:01:57And you know what?
1:01:57 > 1:02:01Wellaby's probably the quietist, safest little town in England.
1:02:01 > 1:02:04So where does that leave me and my sociology degree?
1:02:04 > 1:02:08- And you're telling me that there was nothing you could do to stop this? - Like what?
1:02:08 > 1:02:11Write to the Manchester Guardian? Go to the police?!
1:02:11 > 1:02:16Nah, you had something to lose, didn't you?
1:02:16 > 1:02:19Your bit on the side. What was it he said to you?
1:02:19 > 1:02:23That he'd tell your wife that you were shagging his wife?
1:02:23 > 1:02:25That's exactly what he said, as a matter of fact.
1:02:25 > 1:02:29He wanted his own key. Said he couldn't use the local nick like he normally did
1:02:29 > 1:02:32and these rooms are separate from the rest of the school,
1:02:32 > 1:02:35so he could come and go as he wanted, nobody would know what was going on.
1:02:35 > 1:02:41What had they done that was so terrible that they had to be locked up for two weeks and flogged?
1:02:41 > 1:02:43- I don't know. I didn't ask. - Didn't care, you mean.
1:02:45 > 1:02:49- So they were taught a lesson, then what?- Last week, the key was given back to me.
1:02:49 > 1:02:51What happened to the brothers?
1:02:51 > 1:02:54Sent home, I suppose. To be better human beings.
1:02:54 > 1:02:57Well, David Blackburn isn't a better human being, he's a gibbering wreck.
1:02:57 > 1:03:03- And his brother's vanished off the face of the earth.- I'm sorry about that, but that's not my problem.
1:03:03 > 1:03:04You think not?
1:03:04 > 1:03:06Guv. Guv.
1:03:08 > 1:03:11Calm down.
1:03:11 > 1:03:15You should have done a degree in common sense, mate.
1:03:15 > 1:03:20You've aided and abetted. And when we find John Blackburn, you'll be charged.
1:03:20 > 1:03:22But...
1:03:22 > 1:03:23But, but, but, but what?
1:03:23 > 1:03:26It's my career.
1:03:29 > 1:03:33Ta-da! Sorry, better late than never, though, eh!
1:03:33 > 1:03:34Oh, no, fine.
1:03:36 > 1:03:40Yes? No? Maybes?
1:03:40 > 1:03:43Yeah, yeah.
1:03:43 > 1:03:46You say the nicest things, George.
1:03:47 > 1:03:50So, good day?
1:03:50 > 1:03:54Mmm, no.
1:03:55 > 1:03:56Bad day.
1:03:56 > 1:03:58Yeah.
1:04:00 > 1:04:01Do I get a drink?
1:04:01 > 1:04:04Sorry.
1:04:04 > 1:04:05I don't like wine.
1:04:11 > 1:04:13Beer?
1:04:13 > 1:04:14Bacardi and coke?
1:04:14 > 1:04:16Uh-huh.
1:04:20 > 1:04:23Well. I had a bad day, as well. I got the sack.
1:04:23 > 1:04:26Oh, sorry.
1:04:26 > 1:04:30Back on traffic duties for me. Look out, A1, here I come!
1:04:34 > 1:04:37Well, don't smother us with sympathy, George.
1:04:37 > 1:04:39Why'd you get the sack?
1:04:40 > 1:04:43Because, apparently, I talk too much.
1:04:48 > 1:04:51- I'm getting this all wrong, aren't I?- No, no.
1:04:51 > 1:04:55I do. I do it. It's what happens.
1:04:55 > 1:04:57I try a bit too hard.
1:04:58 > 1:05:02It's not as if people haven't told us over the years.
1:05:02 > 1:05:04I try and do the right thing,
1:05:04 > 1:05:07I even think I'm doing the right thing,
1:05:07 > 1:05:11but somehow, I always seem to end up doing the wrong thing.
1:05:11 > 1:05:13How does that happen, George?
1:05:15 > 1:05:20My son hates me because I left his father.
1:05:20 > 1:05:23- For another man? - Who left after three months.
1:05:26 > 1:05:28I have made a complete mess of everything.
1:05:31 > 1:05:32Liz.
1:05:36 > 1:05:38Shall you and I try and have a nice supper,
1:05:38 > 1:05:41and to hell with the world for one night, eh?
1:05:41 > 1:05:43I'd like that.
1:05:43 > 1:05:44Yeah. Me too.
1:05:47 > 1:05:50But I have to tell you, I am not a father for your son.
1:05:53 > 1:05:57- I'm not a father for anybody. - Well, I think that's a shame,
1:05:57 > 1:06:01because I reckon you'd make a great dad.
1:06:01 > 1:06:04The sort of dad who'd do anything for his kids.
1:06:06 > 1:06:11Sir. I've got all the neighbouring forces on the lookout for John Blackburn,
1:06:11 > 1:06:16but there's no joy yet. He's probably hiding somewhere, scared stiff, just like his brother.
1:06:17 > 1:06:19You all right?
1:06:19 > 1:06:22The lad's been missing a long time.
1:06:22 > 1:06:25Easy... Easy...
1:06:35 > 1:06:38You don't have to be here for this.
1:06:39 > 1:06:42Paul's applied for a job in Surrey.
1:06:44 > 1:06:46Are you going with him?
1:06:46 > 1:06:49No.
1:06:51 > 1:06:55- Did he ask you to?- No.
1:06:55 > 1:06:57Would you have gone?
1:07:03 > 1:07:06You deserve better than this, Tommy. I'm sorry.
1:07:08 > 1:07:13The world would be a painful place if we all got what we deserved, huh?
1:07:17 > 1:07:18I love you, Terry.
1:07:20 > 1:07:22- Why?- I just do.
1:07:23 > 1:07:26I've been shagging another man for a year.
1:07:26 > 1:07:29Not only have I been shagging another man for a year,
1:07:29 > 1:07:32I've barely even bothered to hide it.
1:07:32 > 1:07:35We all make mistakes.
1:07:41 > 1:07:47You're the... You're the softest, daftest man I've ever met.
1:07:47 > 1:07:50HE LAUGHS
1:07:50 > 1:07:54What on earth have you got to laugh about, eh, Tommy?
1:07:54 > 1:07:56I dunno.
1:08:00 > 1:08:01What is it, Tommy?
1:08:08 > 1:08:14I've made a bad mistake, Terry. A bad one.
1:08:15 > 1:08:18You're a disgrace to your uniform. You know that?
1:08:18 > 1:08:19My husband is a good man.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22"Good man? Good..." No. I don't want to hear about it, pet.
1:08:22 > 1:08:26Yeah. Well, you're going to. My husband is a good man.
1:08:26 > 1:08:28This country is going to the dogs.
1:08:28 > 1:08:31It's turning into a horrible, frightening place for old people.
1:08:31 > 1:08:36- I've heard it all before, love. - ..for vulnerable people. What are you doing about it? Eh? Or you?
1:08:36 > 1:08:40Well, at least my husband, he has the guts to do something.
1:08:40 > 1:08:44You know about his unusual methods for controlling crime, do you?
1:08:44 > 1:08:48The whole town knows, Chief Inspector. They just don't know what it is they know.
1:08:48 > 1:08:50You'll be late for work, love.
1:08:50 > 1:08:52I'm not going to work. I'm staying here.
1:08:56 > 1:09:01- Where's John Blackburn?- Tell them, Tommy. It's time to start living in the light. Both of us.
1:09:05 > 1:09:08All I wanted was to hear them say the word "sorry".
1:09:09 > 1:09:13I wanted them to say sorry for what they did.
1:09:13 > 1:09:15And to mean it.
1:09:17 > 1:09:20I wanted them to understand what they did was despicable.
1:09:20 > 1:09:23I thought it was the last chance they'd ever have to become
1:09:23 > 1:09:25decent human beings.
1:09:25 > 1:09:29# When I was a laddie I lived with me mammy and many's a hammer me mammy gave me
1:09:29 > 1:09:33# But when I grow up I can hammer me mammy and serves her right for hammering me
1:09:33 > 1:09:37# When I was a laddie, I lived with me mammy and many's a hammer me mammy gave me... #
1:09:37 > 1:09:40I was trying to do the right thing for my town.
1:09:40 > 1:09:42Trying to...
1:09:45 > 1:09:47I went too far, didn't I?
1:09:48 > 1:09:53What happened, Sergeant? Why can't we find John Blackburn?
1:09:54 > 1:09:57You're late for school. The school of hard knocks,
1:09:57 > 1:10:00where you will eventually learn discipline. And respect.
1:10:00 > 1:10:02Out yous get.
1:10:18 > 1:10:20Where's the body?
1:10:20 > 1:10:22- I buried it.- Tommy...
1:10:22 > 1:10:23- Where?- Up on the moors.
1:10:23 > 1:10:25Get your coat.
1:10:25 > 1:10:27I'd never find it. It was pitch black.
1:10:27 > 1:10:29I see. Who helped you bury it?
1:10:29 > 1:10:31Nobody.
1:10:31 > 1:10:32Did it by yourself?
1:10:32 > 1:10:34Yes, sir.
1:10:36 > 1:10:39You don't believe me, do you?
1:10:39 > 1:10:41You have to bury a body pretty deep.
1:10:41 > 1:10:44Shallow graves always open up. The weather. Foxes.
1:10:44 > 1:10:48A lot of digging for one man.
1:10:48 > 1:10:53- How about the beatings? That all your own work as well? - Yeah.
1:10:54 > 1:11:00One more question. If you had to describe Alan Shepherd...
1:11:02 > 1:11:05..what would you say?
1:11:05 > 1:11:07I'd say he was the finest man I ever met.
1:11:15 > 1:11:19We have got GBH, false imprisonment, illegally disposing of a body,
1:11:19 > 1:11:22- perverting the course of justice... - You didn't believe all that stuff
1:11:22 > 1:11:25about burying a body on the moors, did you?
1:11:25 > 1:11:28- Where is he then?- Get in.
1:11:28 > 1:11:30Ah, God.
1:11:34 > 1:11:38Lafferty and Molloy served in this force together.
1:11:38 > 1:11:40He knew Lafferty well enough to ask him
1:11:40 > 1:11:42to cover up the facts of China's death.
1:11:42 > 1:11:46I think that he asked the coroner's officer for another favour.
1:11:55 > 1:11:58Excuse me. Have you got an appointment?
1:11:58 > 1:12:00Don't need one.
1:12:00 > 1:12:03A lad named John Blackburn is unaccounted for.
1:12:03 > 1:12:07Have you got any unidentified bodies in your care?
1:12:09 > 1:12:10Just one.
1:12:18 > 1:12:20Is this your son John?
1:12:20 > 1:12:22Yeah.
1:12:24 > 1:12:28I'm sorry. It seems he took his own life.
1:12:30 > 1:12:34He tried the same thing twice after his mum left.
1:12:34 > 1:12:38Never known a lad hate the world so much. Specially other kids.
1:12:40 > 1:12:44Did you give your permission for what happened to your sons?
1:12:46 > 1:12:48I couldn't cope with them any more.
1:12:48 > 1:12:50I see.
1:12:52 > 1:12:56Well, perhaps you'd better take a good look at what was done to him.
1:13:20 > 1:13:22Body arrive in an ambulance?
1:13:22 > 1:13:24I believe it was a police vehicle.
1:13:24 > 1:13:27Oh, you do surprise me. Driven by whom?
1:13:27 > 1:13:30Was it your old pal Sergeant Molloy?
1:13:31 > 1:13:33No.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35No, it wasn't Tommy Molloy.
1:13:51 > 1:13:53You really like this bloke, don't you?
1:13:55 > 1:13:58He's an outstanding man. Outstanding public servant.
1:14:01 > 1:14:03Do you want my advice?
1:14:03 > 1:14:04No.
1:14:06 > 1:14:08Let me have those cards, will you?
1:14:20 > 1:14:24He's upstairs giving Danny a bath. He'll be down in a minute.
1:14:29 > 1:14:31He often talks about you, you know.
1:14:31 > 1:14:35"If only there were a few more like George Gently."
1:14:47 > 1:14:53George. Sergeant. Say "hello" to Mr Gently and Mr Bacchus, Danny.
1:14:53 > 1:14:54Mmmm...
1:14:54 > 1:14:57Hello, Danny. I've brought something for you.
1:14:57 > 1:15:00Oh, look, Danny!
1:15:00 > 1:15:03Can you thank Mr Gently for me, Danny?
1:15:03 > 1:15:04Mmmm...
1:15:04 > 1:15:08No, no. Careful, Danny, you'll squeeze the life out of him.
1:15:08 > 1:15:10Shall we put them in order on the table?
1:15:10 > 1:15:11Mmmm.
1:15:25 > 1:15:27Why don't you do that upstairs?
1:15:28 > 1:15:34Yes. Come on, Danny. Say good night to Mr Gently and Mr Bacchus.
1:15:34 > 1:15:40Danny, come on. Say good night...to Mr Gently and Mr Bacchus.
1:15:43 > 1:15:45I'll be up to read you a story, Dan.
1:16:08 > 1:16:10Where did you find them?
1:16:10 > 1:16:15In a drawer in the Blackburn lads' bedroom.
1:16:15 > 1:16:17Should've looked.
1:16:17 > 1:16:22Yes. You should have. Did they hurt Danny, Alan?
1:16:22 > 1:16:23Badly.
1:16:23 > 1:16:27Why didn't you just charge them? Let the courts deal with it?
1:16:27 > 1:16:31With Danny as the only witness? What chance was there?
1:16:31 > 1:16:33So you decided on a different course of action?
1:16:35 > 1:16:38I thought, "There'll be a spark of human decency in them.
1:16:38 > 1:16:40"There's bound to be. Is in all of us."
1:16:40 > 1:16:44I put them together with Danny in a room.
1:16:44 > 1:16:49Let them see how much they'd hurt him. They laughed.
1:16:49 > 1:16:54The younger one - who was the more vicious of the two - said...
1:16:56 > 1:16:59Said - and I quote -
1:16:59 > 1:17:03"You think a judge is going to take any notice of a window-licker like him?"
1:17:03 > 1:17:06"Window licker"?
1:17:06 > 1:17:09The kids from the care home, when they're taken out for a day,
1:17:09 > 1:17:11they travel through town in a bus.
1:17:11 > 1:17:14They often press their faces against the glass...
1:17:14 > 1:17:16Some of the locals find it funny.
1:17:18 > 1:17:21Did you authorise the beatings, Alan?
1:17:21 > 1:17:25I not only authorised them, I carried them out.
1:17:25 > 1:17:31Whatever Tommy Molloy has told you, it wasn't him. It was me.
1:17:31 > 1:17:35Tommy's...too loyal for his own good. In all sorts of ways.
1:17:35 > 1:17:38Why? What did you hope to achieve?
1:17:38 > 1:17:41Corporal punishment was banned 20 years ago,
1:17:41 > 1:17:44and for one very good reason - it doesn't work.
1:17:44 > 1:17:46I'm surprised you thought otherwise.
1:17:46 > 1:17:50But it does work, George. I hate to admit it but it does work.
1:17:50 > 1:17:54- It's been going on for years here, hasn't it?- Yes.
1:17:55 > 1:17:58Have you never given a thick ear to some young lout
1:17:58 > 1:18:02you've come across giving a mouthful of abuse to an old lady?
1:18:02 > 1:18:03Yes. I have.
1:18:03 > 1:18:06Have you never wished a magistrate could still order
1:18:06 > 1:18:10six strokes of the birch on some little thug and thought,
1:18:10 > 1:18:13"Yes, that is exactly what that kid needs at this stage in his life -
1:18:13 > 1:18:15"something to pull him up short, make him think twice
1:18:15 > 1:18:19- "before he does it again"? - Yes, sometimes I have wished that.
1:18:19 > 1:18:21Do you ever look at the world and think to yourself,
1:18:21 > 1:18:27- "is society a better place because we no longer use violence on young thugs?"- No.
1:18:27 > 1:18:32I look at the world and I ask myself, "What does the law say?"
1:18:32 > 1:18:35Never break the law, George? For the greater good?
1:18:38 > 1:18:39Sometimes.
1:18:39 > 1:18:43- Why?- To try and get things right. To try and do the right thing.
1:18:43 > 1:18:47And what is the right thing? How do we get it right?
1:18:48 > 1:18:52I ask myself those questions every day. I don't know the answers.
1:18:53 > 1:18:57- You've got a decision to make, George.- Yes.
1:18:57 > 1:19:01John Blackburn hanged himself because of what you did to him.
1:19:01 > 1:19:03I had to break those lads, George. I had to,
1:19:03 > 1:19:07- because of what they might say about Danny.- Which was what?
1:19:07 > 1:19:11Is this where China comes into it?
1:19:11 > 1:19:13China got into this story the same way Pontius Pilate
1:19:13 > 1:19:15got into The Creed.
1:19:15 > 1:19:19Wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1:19:19 > 1:19:22LAUGHTER AND JEERING
1:19:30 > 1:19:32Oi, spacca, dance!
1:19:33 > 1:19:36Check his pockets. In his pockets, man!
1:19:39 > 1:19:40It's aeroplanes.
1:19:40 > 1:19:42You've made the spacca cry!
1:19:42 > 1:19:44You've got some cards!
1:19:44 > 1:19:46LAUGHTER
1:19:46 > 1:19:51Hey, hey, what's going on? Leave the lad alone.
1:19:51 > 1:19:54Here, son.
1:19:54 > 1:19:58Here's the rest of them. Look, here!
1:19:58 > 1:20:02You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Gimme those.
1:20:02 > 1:20:04LAUGHTER
1:20:04 > 1:20:08This way! The old cacker thinks he's the Lone Ranger!
1:20:08 > 1:20:11Over here!
1:20:11 > 1:20:12He's up!
1:20:16 > 1:20:19Give him his cards back!
1:20:20 > 1:20:24We haven't got them, man! He's got them!
1:20:24 > 1:20:26Danny!
1:20:26 > 1:20:28No, son.
1:20:31 > 1:20:37- He's killed the Lone Ranger! - Hang him, hang him!
1:20:37 > 1:20:39Hang the spacca!
1:20:40 > 1:20:42Cops... Haway!
1:20:42 > 1:20:44Danny!
1:20:51 > 1:20:54Danny doesn't know his own strength.
1:20:54 > 1:20:58He's a gentle lad, but he can lose his temper.
1:20:58 > 1:21:00And a court might not understand him.
1:21:00 > 1:21:04He needs proper care, not to be drugged
1:21:04 > 1:21:07and straitjacketed in some vile Victorian asylum.
1:21:07 > 1:21:09I couldn't let that happen.
1:21:09 > 1:21:13I had to try to break them so they would never tell.
1:21:13 > 1:21:16Oh, you broke them all right, Alan.
1:21:16 > 1:21:19I'll carry that with me to my grave.
1:21:21 > 1:21:26But I won't say I'm sorry. It was my boy or them.
1:21:27 > 1:21:28No contest.
1:21:29 > 1:21:32It's up to you what happens next, George.
1:21:32 > 1:21:35But let me say this and then I'll be silent.
1:21:36 > 1:21:41Without me, Pat will not be able to cope with Danny.
1:21:41 > 1:21:45He will go into an institution and he will never come out again.
1:21:46 > 1:21:50I just want you to understand that. That's all.
1:21:52 > 1:21:54Guv.
1:21:59 > 1:22:02Guv. Let's go home.
1:22:09 > 1:22:10Stand up, please.
1:22:17 > 1:22:19Alan Shepherd.
1:22:19 > 1:22:22I'm arresting you on charges of grievous bodily harm,
1:22:22 > 1:22:26false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.
1:22:26 > 1:22:28You do not have to say anything,
1:22:28 > 1:22:31but anything you do say may be used in evidence.
1:22:33 > 1:22:34Do you understand?
1:22:34 > 1:22:39Yes, George. I do understand.
1:22:42 > 1:22:43I really do.
1:22:56 > 1:22:58What do you think he'll get?
1:22:58 > 1:23:02Dishonourable discharge. Probably a prison sentence.
1:23:02 > 1:23:05Molloy the same. Takes more than one man to hold a lad down and birch him.
1:23:05 > 1:23:07- You happy with that, are you, sir? - No. I'm not.
1:23:09 > 1:23:13It's not up to me or you or Alan Shepherd to decide who is
1:23:13 > 1:23:15under the law and who's above it.
1:23:15 > 1:23:17You see...
1:23:17 > 1:23:19What?
1:23:19 > 1:23:22It was a cold night. China wasn't wearing a coat.
1:23:22 > 1:23:23Ah, sir...
1:23:23 > 1:23:26So he wasn't out for a walk, was he?
1:23:26 > 1:23:30He had to have heard something. Gone to help Danny.
1:23:38 > 1:23:41You wait in the car.
1:23:56 > 1:23:59Evening. I'm sorry to trouble you. I'm a police officer.
1:23:59 > 1:24:01We're carrying out an investigation.
1:24:01 > 1:24:04It's nothing serious, but I wonder if I might come in for a moment.
1:24:05 > 1:24:07Excuse me. Thank you.
1:24:13 > 1:24:15Who lives here, do you know?
1:24:15 > 1:24:17I've only just come here. An old man, I think.
1:24:17 > 1:24:19- Ever seen him?- No.
1:24:23 > 1:24:24Hello?
1:25:48 > 1:25:51VOICES AND LAUGHTER
1:26:01 > 1:26:03- Faster!- Hold on tight, spacca!
1:26:43 > 1:26:46"Dear Mr Gently.
1:26:47 > 1:26:52"I have turned over a new leaf now, just as you told me to.
1:26:52 > 1:26:56"You were cruel to be kind, and I thank you for it..."
1:26:56 > 1:26:57Hey! Leave the lad alone.
1:26:57 > 1:27:02"..Because I think I figured out how to do things right.
1:27:02 > 1:27:04"I think you will be proud of me now.
1:27:04 > 1:27:07"No more booze.
1:27:07 > 1:27:11"I have a nice little place here, and will make friends I'm sure.
1:27:14 > 1:27:18"Hope you are well and giving them villains a hard time as ever.
1:27:18 > 1:27:24"Take care of yourself. No reply needed, you are busy, I know.
1:27:24 > 1:27:27"Your old friend, China."
1:27:41 > 1:27:42Goodbye, China.
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