0:00:02 > 0:00:08This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:08 > 0:00:12I have a client on death row called Rudy Jones. He's not dead. There is a drill in there! Call it, Judge.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15I know it's not easy being a black UC.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Crack is everything to me. I'm terrified the
0:00:18 > 0:00:20top floor's going to find out.
0:00:20 > 0:00:21Who is it?
0:00:21 > 0:00:22Don't tell her it was me.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Go and build yourself a new life.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26Full name?
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Nicholas Johnson. I'm Nick Johnson.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33If you hurt my brother, all of my brothers are coming for you!
0:00:33 > 0:00:34CHEERING
0:00:34 > 0:00:36I've been working on a good route in.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Maya Cobbina. Oh, this is my boyfriend.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40What do you want?
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Hold it. It's not safe in there. We wait for shields and helmets.
0:00:47 > 0:00:52There's a new witness. Scared and careful, which is a good thing.
0:00:52 > 0:00:5620 years of normal life makes for very deep cover.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59- We have shared history. - Michael Antwi.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02We just want you to share with us what she's thinking.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08The first black Director of Public Prosecutions is a real possibility.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10They want to interview me.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11Do it.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14She cannot get this job.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18I put all my being into articulating exactly what I think.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Which is always my best shot at the truth.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25You better not have any skeletons in your cupboard.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Ambulance here.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Joe.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Come on! Come on!
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Joe... Joe!
0:03:14 > 0:03:17INDISTINCT SHOUTING
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45What happened?
0:03:45 > 0:03:46He's dead!
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Shut up.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Oh, God.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- SOBBING: He's dead. - Shut up!
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- He's dead! Oh, God...- Shut up!
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Good boy.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Give us a fag, would you?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- How long have you been in the job? - 29 years.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14And you're finishing when?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Seven weeks.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19So who's going to blame you for a small mistake
0:04:19 > 0:04:21made right at the death, huh?
0:04:21 > 0:04:22What mistake?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25It was mayhem in there and you took responsibility.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Like all the best custody sergeants.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29What mistake?
0:04:29 > 0:04:31The wrong men in a cell together.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- Who are you?- I mean, I may be senior in rank to you,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37but 29 years of service, that's the real rank.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- I think you better start speaking English, Sir.- Take the hit.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Or?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47I don't like Customs and Excise.
0:04:47 > 0:04:53So when I see them sniffing around a good copper of 29 years' service,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55I'm inclined to fight them tooth and nail.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Who are you?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01All you need to know is I wasn't here.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Not then and not now.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59So what are we saying?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05The white geezer in the cell with him, Peter Mackie,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07he's a member of a neo-Nazi group.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10- Form?- Yeah.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Right.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18OK.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Mackie had him in a choke-hold.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Yeah?
0:06:23 > 0:06:24We were too late going in.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30He'd stopped breathing by the time we could pull them apart. All right?
0:06:30 > 0:06:31Eh?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37The only issue is why they were in that cell together.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45That's down to me.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Need to know.- Yes. - Not a word more.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Home Secretary gets from me what I get from you
0:07:17 > 0:07:20so please don't give me anything I don't need.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Custody Sergeant under huge pressure got it wrong with one cell.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- There by the grace of God... - One of the officers wouldn't stop.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- Hmm?- Trying to resuscitate Michael.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33- Say the other officers? - Say the ambulance crew.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Michael's good.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Put it out that everyone calls him Michael from now on.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43It's a tragic death, we're all very upset, so first name only.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46What about the doubling up? The Custody Sergeant?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- What's his name?- Trimble. Five children. Old school.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Customs and Excise are looking at something dodgy he was doing with a car.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I've made it very clear we're right behind him.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Yep. Yep. Absolutely. Walk with me.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03What about Michael's family?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Erm, we're in close contact with them.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09We'll know how they're doing and what they're saying.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- That's good. - Oh, one thing.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17There's a lawyer asking hard questions.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Well, that saddens me.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21God knows it's difficult enough as it is for the family.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23You know what really irks me?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25It's never the lawyer in the spotlight, is it?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- What's his name?- He's a she.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Maya Cobbina.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45- Mark Neame.- Oh, hello, Mark.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48- Very pleased to meet you.- Yes. - This way.- Thank you.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55A confession - I'm the new DPP...
0:08:56 > 0:08:58..and your boss...
0:08:58 > 0:09:03and I have never prosecuted a case in my life.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I don't know what I'm doing.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12But I'm going to be as straight with you about you as I am about myself.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15If we're going to go after the people that I want to go after
0:09:15 > 0:09:19I need moral strength and proper bollocks from all of you.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22I'm going to make us proud to prosecute.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29I'm going to start by getting all our collective energy together...
0:09:31 > 0:09:34..into looking at one case I do know about.
0:09:36 > 0:09:4120 years ago a man died in police custody
0:09:41 > 0:09:44and we have been prevented from getting to the truth
0:09:44 > 0:09:46of how that man died.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51The name of the dead man is Michael Antwi.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57And this is his mother.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- Hi, darling.- Hi.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29I had to come. For him and for you.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- For more than that, I hope.- Hmm?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Do the story, Julia.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46See you in a minute.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06I have no words.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11I can't speak.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15He was my son.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18I used to sing to him.
0:11:20 > 0:11:28# Amazing grace
0:11:29 > 0:11:35# How sweet the sound
0:11:40 > 0:11:47# That saved a wretch...
0:11:48 > 0:11:52- # I once... - OTHERS JOIN IN
0:11:52 > 0:11:56# ..was lost
0:11:56 > 0:12:01# But now I'm found
0:12:03 > 0:12:07# Was blind
0:12:07 > 0:12:14# But now I see. #
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Thank you so much for everything today.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- I'll see you later.- Mrs A.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Look, it's not going to be easy.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Civil actions against the police never are,
0:12:43 > 0:12:45so you might want to think about whether it's worth it.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- What's the matter with you?- Sorry? - Civil actions?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52This was a crime. You are a criminal lawyer.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56- Peter Mackie is standing trial.- No, no, no. I don't want Peter Mackie.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58All he did was kill my son.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01I can forgive him his idiot rage.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- But I can't forgive the rest. - What's that?
0:13:05 > 0:13:09I want the man who caused Michael's death put on trial and sent to jail.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Someone put them in that cell together. I want to know who.
0:13:14 > 0:13:20You understand me, child? You get my son proper big justice.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42It's a big statement. But it's what Michael would have done.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Remember what he said?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47"If you hurt my brother, all my brothers are coming for you."
0:13:49 > 0:13:52We do what you're saying, the whole thing could go up.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Yeah, it's a big call. But don't we all have Michael's anger to live by now?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15She's mine.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34But I love her.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55The loneliness of leadership.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19So, what's our move, man?
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Police station.
0:15:26 > 0:15:31Firebomb it, make us some bacon out of the pigs inside.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Then they'll know we're the real deal. See me?
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Yeah. Yeah. I hear that.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45OK, brilliant. See you then.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Alex Brady. The man who isn't here.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Very funny, Jakey. Now get back to doing what you couldn't do without me.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- What's that about? - Oh, he's paid like he's staff but he doesn't have a staff contract.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04- Why?- So that he can behave badly and if anyone comes back at us
0:16:04 > 0:16:08- the paper can say that we don't employ him.- Oh, right.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12- Oh. I forgot. He wants to see you. - Who?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14HE CLICKS HIS TONGUE
0:16:14 > 0:16:16With the death in custody story so far.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21- You're joking! Jake, why didn't you call me?- I just..
0:16:21 > 0:16:24OK, when? When does he want to see me?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26In five minutes. Two minutes and 30 seconds ago.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29And it takes 60 seconds to get from here to him.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Leaving you a minute and a half's writing time.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- Are you a good journalist, Jules? - Thanks, Jake(!)
0:16:53 > 0:16:55This is very good.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- How many deaths in custody? - 244 in the last five years.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- Successful prosecutions?- None. - You see?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06No, sorry.
0:17:06 > 0:17:11If we're going to get angry and want our readers to share our pain,
0:17:11 > 0:17:13the face needs to fit.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Your man had better be squeaky clean.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- This is a big story. - PHONE RINGS
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- I know.- Really?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Absolutely.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Great.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Corrigan here. Yeah.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33ON TAPE: 'What's our move, man?'
0:17:33 > 0:17:36'Police station. Firebomb it.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39'Make us some bacon out of the pigs inside.'
0:17:40 > 0:17:42My God.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53We need something to hurt Michael Antwi too.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58OK.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Is there something else?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01HE SIGHS
0:18:03 > 0:18:05All right, the lawyer.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09- We're...- Two things.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Don't fall in love...
0:18:13 > 0:18:15..and wear a condom.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- Good sex?- Julia! - OK, sorry. Is he handsome?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Yeah. He's, erm...
0:18:36 > 0:18:38He's very funny. He makes me laugh.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- Good sex?- Amazingly good.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46- Yes! What does he do? - Hits the spot every time.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- THEY LAUGH - He's a writer.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Oh, God. There had to be a downside.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- What kind of writer?- Crime. - So he's only after one thing.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59- What?- Your stories. - Is this a warning?
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Every writer has a chip of ice in their heart or they're not for real.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Watch out for the ice.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10- I'm meeting some friends for dinner. - And have his babies.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Oh, hello. This is... This is Julia.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17- Oh, hello.- Hello.- Hi, Nick. - Nice to meet you.- And you.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20- Yeah, I've been hearing all about you.- Nothing bad I hope.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25No, no, all good. She says you're handsome and funny, apparently.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- And what was the other thing? - I said handsome and funny.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- No, there was something else. - No. That was all I said.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- Yeah, no, there was something else. - No, there wasn't.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36- Shut up.- There was one other thing she really liked about you.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40There's a story of a reporter in a refugee camp during the civil war in the Congo in the 1960s.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43He's in a room full of terrified women and what does he say?
0:19:43 > 0:19:47- "Anyone here been raped and speaks English?"- That's terrible.- Christ!
0:19:47 > 0:19:49That's not funny. You wouldn't do that, would you?
0:19:49 > 0:19:53- No, no. Of course not.- Why not? - Well, because I can make it up.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55I'm not stuck with the truth. Or a reporter's version of it.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- You're free to use your imagination. - Yeah.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00But, like everyone, all you've got is your own experience.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Let's hope you had a really unhappy childhood.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- Unhappy in what way? - My parents loved me.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14It's, you know... It's just they loved crack cocaine more.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- How did they meet?- (Julia.)
0:20:18 > 0:20:22No, no. It's fine. It's fine. In the Hawley Arms in Camden Town.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Erm, he offered to buy her a drink, and she said yes
0:20:27 > 0:20:30and then her life was over.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32He was 41. She was 17.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- So young.- Yeah.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36But what chance has 17 years of good parenting
0:20:36 > 0:20:38got against a look in a bar from the wrong man?
0:20:38 > 0:20:41So, what happened?
0:20:41 > 0:20:45Erm, well, you know, eventually I was taken into care.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47- How old were you?- I was four.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- Shall we get another bottle?- Yeah.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- So he's a real writer. - Why do you...? Why do you say that?
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Because he talks about his parents first meeting like he was there.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Yeah, well, maybe... Oh, thank you very much.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Maybe... Maybe they told him about it.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23He was four years old when they left his life.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Face it, Maya. He's a writer.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28He makes things up so that you can love him.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36# You can dance Every dance with the guy
0:21:36 > 0:21:38# Who gives you the eye
0:21:38 > 0:21:40# Let him hold you tight
0:21:41 > 0:21:45# You can smile Every smile for the man
0:21:45 > 0:21:49# Who held your hand 'neath the pale moonlight
0:21:49 > 0:21:52# But don't forget who's taking you home
0:21:52 > 0:21:54# And in whose arms you're gonna be... #
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- Doc Pomus.- Sorry?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Did this song.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01He was, erm, a Jewish boy from Brooklyn.
0:22:01 > 0:22:08Doc had polio from childhood and on his wedding night
0:22:08 > 0:22:12he watched his blonde wife dance with every single one of his guests,
0:22:12 > 0:22:14but not him, and then he wrote this song.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19And they lived happily ever after.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Gambling addiction. Divorce. Wheelchair.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Early death from lung cancer.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28HE LAUGHS
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Erm, I have to go.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- Oh.- Sorry.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Erm...
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Do you mind if I ask where? - No.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55I do a shift at a homeless shelter twice a week.
0:22:58 > 0:23:03- Phew! - But, you know, I've got ten minutes.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07So...
0:23:07 > 0:23:10..we could... THEY GIGGLE
0:23:10 > 0:23:15We could listen to two more songs out of The Brill Building or I...
0:23:18 > 0:23:22I could tell you how it feels to be falling hopelessly in love with you.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Both, please.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35THEY GIGGLE
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Where are you?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08- I'm helping homeless people.- Nice.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- How's the writing?- I'm blocked.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17And I'm much too sensitive to talk about it.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Anything on the Antwis?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- He was a remarkable speaker. - Dangerous men often are.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35No. He's charismatic, he's exciting, real sense of history.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39I wish I could have heard him.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43You still can.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Oh, gosh.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Why are you sitting there?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Because you've got the best tits in the building.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- Thank you very much. - And we're working together.- Are we?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Woodward and Bernstein, eat your hearts out!
0:25:21 > 0:25:24You've got nothing on Brady and Redhead.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- I've got quite a lot of work to do, so...- No, not really.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Iconic is an overused word. But this...
0:25:34 > 0:25:38- ON TAPE:- 'I've been in Louisiana, USA. I've met a man called Rudy Jones.'
0:25:38 > 0:25:40- How did you get this? - 'He's in prison...'
0:25:40 > 0:25:42It fell into my lap.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Now, this man, Rudy Jones, is a cold blooded murderer,
0:25:46 > 0:25:50and this man, Michael Antwi, is on his side.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54So, you see, doesn't always follow that the truth is what you want it to be.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Because he didn't do it. It wasn't him.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00- Well, he's been convicted by a jury of his peers.- Who gave this to you?
0:26:00 > 0:26:04SHOUTING: We would have been dead, you dozy cow! What were you thinking?
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- I... This isn't... - Don't you dare open your mouth!
0:26:07 > 0:26:11What kind of a journalist are you? You didn't fucking check!
0:26:11 > 0:26:14How would it have looked if we'd got behind a vicious killer's best chum?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- Can I just have...? - Take her picture.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- Take her picture!- What? - And you smile or you're dead.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21What? Why? What is this? What are you doing?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Positive discrimination, girlie.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Smile. SMILE!
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- I didn't write it. - Your name's on it.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39- In print, under your photograph. - I told you I didn't write it.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42- Any of it?- The tiny bit about the duty officer.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44- Oh, my God. - They stitched me up, Maya.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- JULIA!- They set me up. - So you're leaving the paper?
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Is your resignation in, Julia?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54I'm a black woman journalist on a tabloid paper.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57You were at his funeral!
0:26:57 > 0:26:59There's no recordings of Michael Antwi speeches.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01The police were at the funeral, weren't they?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04It's not that surprising they've got a tape of a speech.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Wasn't your name enough? What did they do? Take your picture against your will?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11The name alone doesn't tell the reader that the reporter is black.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Your black face gives this story its legitimacy.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Black on black. So it must be true.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19I honestly believe that this can give me the foothold I need.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22- Wake up. Wake up!- 20 years from now I will be writing positive stories
0:27:22 > 0:27:26about black men and women because I put my name to this one first.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54"Please - just you. Please - tell no-one."
0:29:09 > 0:29:12I know every man and woman that was in that police station when Michael died.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14I'd know if it was one of them.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16Well, maybe...
0:29:16 > 0:29:19Maybe it was somebody who wasn't in the police station.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23- Say that again.- Somebody who wasn't in the police station.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29- The police! They infiltrated demos, didn't they?- Yeah.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35- They put undercover coppers into the march.- Of course.
0:29:35 > 0:29:40So there would have been undercover officers working out of the station.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45- Do they sign in?- Of course not. They're invisible.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48No such thing as invisible. Is there, Dad?
0:30:04 > 0:30:06ALERT SOUNDS
0:30:08 > 0:30:10You all right?
0:30:12 > 0:30:14"Be in Central London at noon."
0:30:16 > 0:30:19- And?- "Wait for a text."
0:30:41 > 0:30:43Why don't we know who it is?
0:30:43 > 0:30:46- It's someone who wasn't in the police station.- So...what?
0:30:46 > 0:30:49Someone who's seen and heard how we've controlled things
0:30:49 > 0:30:51- since Antwi died?- That's possible.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54Only if one of you two has been careless because I sure as hell haven't.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57You're sounding capable of carelessness right now.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59Who the hell do you think you are?
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Someone who's keeping his head while all around him others lose theirs.
0:31:02 > 0:31:07- To misquote Kipling. - I am a member of the Government, not some bloody ghost copper like you.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09I exist. And I've got an awful lot to lose.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12The witness could be on the inside.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15What do you mean?
0:31:15 > 0:31:18It could be him, for instance.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20He's right. It could be.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24- Paranoia won't help us.- No.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28But finding the damn witness will. You, sort this out.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40- MOBILE PHONE RINGS - Nick!- Yeah. Yeah.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44I've just had a call from Louisiana. It's Rudy.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47They want to lift the stay. I've got to get there.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50- Now?- Yes.- But what about meeting your new witness?
0:31:54 > 0:31:56What should I do? I don't... I don't know what to do?
0:31:56 > 0:31:59Erm...
0:31:59 > 0:32:03Leave me your phone. I'll be you, I'll meet the witness and explain
0:32:03 > 0:32:05that it was life or death, you had to go to and see Rudy.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07They said no-one. The e-mail said don't tell anybody.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10OK, then which one?
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Rudy.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25OK.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30OK. "Out of the country.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32"Life or death."
0:32:35 > 0:32:37ALERT SOUNDS
0:32:47 > 0:32:49ALERT SOUNDS
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Phew.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05Huh. OK.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09- He said OK.- Good. Good. Well, go.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Go pack, come on.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38First time I've done this with someone who survived.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45If you can't get a line into a vein then drilling a needle
0:33:45 > 0:33:48through bone into the marrow works just as well.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50How would that feel, for Rudy?
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Nine, on a scale of ten, with ten the highest level of pain
0:33:54 > 0:33:57- that I've ever seen.- Christ.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01If I'd been there, I could have done something.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03He asked you not to be. He's the client.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06- He gave you his instructions. - MACHINE BEEPS
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- What's happening? What's happening? - Nurse.- What's going on?- Nurse!
0:34:11 > 0:34:13- It's OK.- Stand back, please.
0:34:13 > 0:34:18It's a seizure. It doesn't make anything any worse.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20It's OK.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31OK. OK. Patient stable.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36I will not let them hurt you any more. I promise.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- So what are they giving him for the fits?- They're not.
0:34:51 > 0:34:55Anti-seizure medication dulls the mind and it can lower IQ.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58- Competence.- Rudy needs to understand that they're killing him
0:34:58 > 0:35:01for them to kill him and if his IQ is too low, then...
0:35:01 > 0:35:04This is an application to lift the temporary stay
0:35:04 > 0:35:06and set a new execution date.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08- When would that be? - Two weeks from now.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Your Honour. I've just come from the hospital.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13I have just left him in the middle of a seizure and it is...
0:35:13 > 0:35:15- It isn't ripe.- Your Honour?
0:35:15 > 0:35:18I'm going to decide about competence at an appropriate time,
0:35:18 > 0:35:21which is as close as possible to an execution date.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26I think you'll find I'm fully supported by the Supreme Court authority on this.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29- What else do you have for me? - Double jeopardy.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31You can't keep a man on death row for 20 years
0:35:31 > 0:35:33and then get two goes at killing him.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35You're a plain speaker, Miss Cobbina.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37It's one of the things I like about you.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41So let me be plain here with what I think your problem might be.
0:35:41 > 0:35:46Your client was sentenced to die - he ain't dead.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48He wasn't sentenced to suffer in great agony for a prolonged period
0:35:48 > 0:35:52and then for everyone to take a break before putting him to death two weeks later.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54The prisoner kicked up a hell of a fuss.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56His failure to co-operate was the biggest factor in all this.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Wait, he wouldn't cooperate with his own execution?
0:35:59 > 0:36:03The paralytic they use has been banned in animal euthanasia.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07It is illegal for vets to kill dogs with this drug.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09But for the uppity negro? Fine(!)
0:36:09 > 0:36:11200 years of doing what he's told and for some reason
0:36:11 > 0:36:14best known to himself he kicks up about being put down.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16- And please don't make a fuss(!) - It wasn't anticipated that...
0:36:16 > 0:36:19I would have thought it to be anticipated that an innocent man
0:36:19 > 0:36:21might struggle against an incompetent
0:36:21 > 0:36:23and agonizingly painful attempt to end his life.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26Sometimes I think the defence bring all their problems on themselves
0:36:26 > 0:36:29so they can complain about them and keep their man alive.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31- If he had of cooperated... - He'd be dead.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38If he'd co-operated he'd be dead.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42Other times I lose track of whose side the lady is on, Your Honour.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44I don't know about you.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Maybe it's how emotional she gets is what confuses a man?
0:36:47 > 0:36:49Never get emotional. Never get personal in court.
0:36:49 > 0:36:54- Miss Cobbina. This is not about you. - It's about my client, who cannot speak for himself.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57I am lifting the stay and setting a new execution date.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59Thursday week.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03Miss Cobbina, I'm granting you leave to come back before me Wednesday
0:37:03 > 0:37:07morning to argue about whether or not your client is competent to die.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11Let's see how he's doing now and 24 hours before the new date.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14- Court is adjourned. - HE BANGS GAVEL
0:37:14 > 0:37:16All rise.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27- Do you think he can hear us? - It's hard to say.
0:37:27 > 0:37:31- Hypoxic brain damage is... - Yeah, but what do you think? Do you think he can?
0:37:31 > 0:37:33It's possible.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Rudy. Squeeze if you can hear me.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Right, so we lost on double jeopardy...
0:37:55 > 0:37:58..and cruel and unusual is very, very tough.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01There is one issue - competence.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04It's not easy but it's our best shot.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07So here's the choice.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11They don't want to medicate you for your seizures but I can insist they do it.
0:38:12 > 0:38:17So, take the medication, lower your understanding of everything
0:38:17 > 0:38:22but increase the chances of you being deemed incompetent to die.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28Or don't take the medication, don't dull your mind...
0:38:30 > 0:38:33..but reduce our chances of keeping you alive.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41Squeeze my hand if you want to take the drugs.
0:38:52 > 0:38:57Squeeze my hand if you don't want to take the drugs.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03Did he understand? I don't think that he gets that...
0:39:07 > 0:39:09We have our instructions.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28Dan.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35Mum says to concentrate on something happy when I feel like I might be sad.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37- The crispies.- I love them.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41I love them so much.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Look after Rocco.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47- Now?- While I'm away. At university.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51- How long are you going for? - Eight weeks.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54So 56 days. 55 sleeps.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58You can come and see me in Oxford. It's lovely.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12Dan.
0:41:44 > 0:41:45This isn't easy, is it?
0:41:47 > 0:41:48No.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53Will you stay and help sort my room with me?
0:41:53 > 0:41:56- Did your mum tell you to say that? - Yes.
0:41:56 > 0:41:57Yeah.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Are you Clem?
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Yes. How do you...?
0:42:04 > 0:42:06There are two of us now - I'm your college mum.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Usually it's a mum and a dad, but if you don't mind a single parent...
0:42:09 > 0:42:11- No, brilliant. - Nice to meet you.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13- Hello.- This is my dad.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Oh, hello, Dad. Um, I can help you with this.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17- What...? Um, yes?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19- OK?- Probably.
0:42:19 > 0:42:21- Ta.- Thanks very much.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23- We...?- So we may as...?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:42:23 > 0:42:24THEY LAUGH
0:42:29 > 0:42:31Now, don't tell your mum I didn't stay.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34- SHE LAUGHS And...- Yeah.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36- Erm...I'll text you, or something. - Yeah, yeah.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38- SINGSONGY:- Welcome to Oxford.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40- CLEM GASPS - How you feeling?
0:42:40 > 0:42:42- So nervous. - It's going to be amazing.
0:42:48 > 0:42:49CAR LOCK WHIRS
0:42:59 > 0:43:00Hello, Nick.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Mum, give us the bag.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27Mum? Bag, please?
0:43:29 > 0:43:30Cheers.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33- Institutional racism brought you to the top, remember?- Right.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36Our most convincing drug dealer? Shall we use our black UC?
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Who shall we use for our most believable pimp?
0:43:40 > 0:43:42- Oh, let's use our black UC. - Well, yeah.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45Course, they wouldn't have called me a black UC then, would they?
0:43:45 > 0:43:46- No.- No.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49HE SIGHS
0:43:52 > 0:43:54So how long have you, um...?
0:43:54 > 0:43:58Been clean for three months and two days...after 20 years.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00Wow. Well, you look good.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04I look terrible.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Did they look after you?
0:44:06 > 0:44:08They gave me a small lump sum...
0:44:08 > 0:44:12which I spent in three days on my best and only friend.
0:44:12 > 0:44:14I even had a name for him.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17- Him?- Ships are feminine, cars are girls,
0:44:17 > 0:44:19crack is a boy.
0:44:19 > 0:44:20So what name did you...?
0:44:20 > 0:44:22Jesus.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25- Jesus?- Safe in the arms of Jesus.
0:44:28 > 0:44:29CHURCH BELLS RING
0:44:29 > 0:44:32So, um, what do you want, Abi?
0:44:34 > 0:44:36What...? What...? What is this?
0:44:43 > 0:44:45Tell Maya.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49Tell Maya.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53- SIGHS: I can't do that. - You have to, Nick.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55No, no, think of the children - it would kill them.
0:44:55 > 0:44:58- They have the right to know. - And the... And her career -
0:44:58 > 0:45:00she's a DPP, for God's sake. It...
0:45:00 > 0:45:02There's too many people that need her.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04The consequences aren't the point, Nick.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08There's a basic truth we have to hold on to.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30Can I have a hug? Or are you wired up?
0:45:30 > 0:45:31THEY EXHALE
0:45:31 > 0:45:32(No.)
0:45:38 > 0:45:40See you, Mum.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53I kissed you once. Do you remember?
0:45:54 > 0:45:56It was set up,
0:45:56 > 0:45:58so my Dad could see, and think that I had a girlfriend.
0:46:04 > 0:46:06You were a part of my legend.
0:46:07 > 0:46:10Your family seem really happy, Nick.
0:46:10 > 0:46:11You've been watching me?
0:46:11 > 0:46:14Look, 20 years and three kids - it might be enough.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17Redemption could take you the rest of your life...
0:46:19 > 0:46:20..but I think you might make it.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28It's you, isn't it?
0:46:29 > 0:46:31You're the witness?
0:46:58 > 0:47:00TENSE MUSIC
0:47:28 > 0:47:31NICK: I can give you the name of the witness...
0:47:31 > 0:47:33but in exchange for you letting me go.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35I want out, that's the deal.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38I'll have to refer this up.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41Too late - the witness is giving a statement in 45 minutes.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43To the police?
0:47:43 > 0:47:44Of course not.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47Think about it.
0:47:50 > 0:47:54- Who's the witness? - The deal - yes or no?
0:47:56 > 0:47:57Yes.
0:47:59 > 0:48:00HE SIGHS
0:48:04 > 0:48:05Abigail Strickland.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10She was there that night. She saw it all.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12Maya's on her way to meet her, right now.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30HE SIGHS
0:48:34 > 0:48:35HE SIGHS
0:49:15 > 0:49:17CARRIAGE RATTLES
0:50:22 > 0:50:24TENSE MUSIC
0:50:32 > 0:50:33FOOTSTEPS FALL
0:50:37 > 0:50:38SHE YELPS
0:50:43 > 0:50:45SHE WAILS AND GRUNTS
0:50:49 > 0:50:50SHE SCREAMS
0:50:50 > 0:50:51MUFFLED CRIES
0:50:53 > 0:50:54MUFFLED SCREAMING
0:50:57 > 0:50:58MUFFLED WAILING
0:51:00 > 0:51:02MUFFLED WAILING
0:51:04 > 0:51:06SHE GASPS
0:51:06 > 0:51:07LABOURED BREATHING
0:51:09 > 0:51:11SHE MOANS
0:51:15 > 0:51:17TRAIN RUMBLES IN DISTANCE
0:51:22 > 0:51:26- ON TANNOY:- 'Platform 8 for the 1200
0:51:26 > 0:51:29'Virgin Trains service to Inverness.'
0:51:44 > 0:51:46DISTANT CHATTER AND TANNOY
0:52:03 > 0:52:05WATER GURGLES
0:52:14 > 0:52:16What did you expect?
0:52:16 > 0:52:18What do you think this is?
0:52:18 > 0:52:19You promised me.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23- You killed her. - No, no... No, I didn't. I...
0:52:23 > 0:52:25You gave her up.
0:52:25 > 0:52:26HE PANTS
0:52:28 > 0:52:30The truth.
0:52:32 > 0:52:33HE BREATHES RAGGEDLY
0:52:37 > 0:52:39HE MOANS
0:52:39 > 0:52:40HE SNIFFS
0:52:40 > 0:52:42It's over. We are done.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44I'm telling her EVERYTHING.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:53:30 > 0:53:32So in this goes.
0:53:37 > 0:53:38I love you.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44- Good! Julia's here.- Hi.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46- Hey, how you doing?- Good.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49So...Ella won't come downstairs.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51- Then I'll go and talk to her.- Yup.
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Ella, would you get some more?
0:53:58 > 0:53:59- Why do you have to ask me?- Because.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02- Get some more - we're going to drink it, that's why.- Can't you ask Dan?
0:54:02 > 0:54:04And you can go, and you've got legs.
0:54:04 > 0:54:05You OK?
0:54:06 > 0:54:08There was a new witness.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10- After 20 years.- Shit.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13Yep. I don't know who they were, or what they were going to tell me,
0:54:13 > 0:54:15but...it would have been important - I know it would.
0:54:15 > 0:54:17- Where's the witness? - They didn't show up.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19Well, they'll get back in touch, surely?
0:54:19 > 0:54:22You know, for the first time, I-I feel...
0:54:22 > 0:54:24I feel little frightened.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28You know what? Clem has got a new mum.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Did you meet her?
0:54:30 > 0:54:32- Yeah.- Brutal, huh?
0:54:32 > 0:54:34First day away from home, you get a new mum?
0:54:34 > 0:54:35MAYA SIGHS
0:54:35 > 0:54:38Julia? Dad says one day he's
0:54:38 > 0:54:40going to ask about your conscience.
0:54:40 > 0:54:41What's a conscience?
0:54:46 > 0:54:47Nick?
0:54:47 > 0:54:49NICK CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:54:49 > 0:54:52- Look, 20 years on a right-wing paper...?- Nick?
0:54:52 > 0:54:53- No, no - "The Two Faces of Hate"? - Nick?
0:54:53 > 0:54:55It's fine, it's fine. Old friends should ask
0:54:55 > 0:54:58hard questions of each other. What else is friendship for?
0:55:00 > 0:55:03What's happened? Why don't you like each other any more?
0:55:03 > 0:55:04No, no, we do, we do.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06I have a special place on the paper.
0:55:06 > 0:55:07Yeah, cos of the colour of your skin.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10Yes, actually. They're very careful around me,
0:55:10 > 0:55:14which is good, because being careful can lead to just being.
0:55:14 > 0:55:16That's the best excuse for selling out I've ever heard.
0:55:18 > 0:55:21I think...we should get a dog walker.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24I'm walking Rocco.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26- How long's that going to last, darling?- 55 days.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28CLEM LAUGHS
0:55:29 > 0:55:30How was it for you, Nick?
0:55:30 > 0:55:32Sorry, what?
0:55:32 > 0:55:34Saying goodbye to Clem?
0:55:34 > 0:55:35Did you stay and do her room?
0:55:35 > 0:55:38HE SIGHS No, sorry.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40So you didn't linger?
0:55:40 > 0:55:41Straight back on the M40.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48I CANNOT drink in the daytime.
0:55:48 > 0:55:50No, I love it.
0:55:50 > 0:55:53- LAUGHS:- A drink in the daytime? - Thanks for lunch, my darling girl.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00We'll always be friends, won't we?
0:56:00 > 0:56:03Of course. It's only eight weeks, darling.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06That's not it.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09I have to tell you something.
0:56:12 > 0:56:15- Where is she? - Women always do better goodbyes.
0:56:21 > 0:56:22- Here she comes.- Oh?
0:56:24 > 0:56:25Oh, bye, Julia.
0:56:28 > 0:56:29- See you later.- Cheers, mate.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49- ROCCO BARKS DAN:- Good boy!
0:56:51 > 0:56:52HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:56:52 > 0:56:55Maya, there's, erm...
0:56:55 > 0:56:58There's something I have to tell you.
0:56:58 > 0:56:59HE EXHALES
0:56:59 > 0:57:01Um...babe?
0:57:03 > 0:57:06It's the hardest thing I've ever had to say.
0:57:07 > 0:57:09Maya?
0:57:09 > 0:57:11Maya, what...?
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Maya?
0:57:13 > 0:57:15Maya? Maya?
0:57:16 > 0:57:18M-Maya?
0:57:18 > 0:57:19Maya?
0:57:19 > 0:57:20SHE BREATHES RAGGEDLY
0:57:20 > 0:57:22OK, OK.
0:57:22 > 0:57:24Maya?
0:57:24 > 0:57:25- DAN:- Dad?!
0:57:25 > 0:57:27It's all right. It's OK, Dan, it's OK.
0:57:27 > 0:57:29DAN GRUNTS Dan, it's OK. Take Rocco,
0:57:29 > 0:57:32go into the garden, stay there till I call you.
0:57:32 > 0:57:34- Daddy?- Maya? Maya? Go, Dan, now! Go on.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36All right. All right, Maya.
0:57:36 > 0:57:38Hey, easy, easy.
0:57:38 > 0:57:39(Easy.)
0:57:39 > 0:57:40SHE BREATHES RAGGEDLY
0:57:40 > 0:57:42Hey. OK.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44OK, OK, OK.
0:57:44 > 0:57:47It's all right. All right. Maya? Maya?
0:57:47 > 0:57:49Maya, it's OK. It's OK.