04x04 - A Kind of Justice 2

[bunniefuu]

MAN: If the body's recent,

I'm going to start
a m*rder inquiry.

If it's not, that lot want
it out before it rots.

Mike Georghiou?

Yes.

Somebody's going
to be fitted up for this.

It's all pointing
your way, Brian.

I didn't k*ll Mike Georghiou.

MAN: Who was the victim?

Possibly a sacrifice,

offered to the gods in return
for the wellbeing of the people.

I can see no reason for
using this elaborate garrot

unless it gave the k*ller
some sort of satisfaction.

I'm going to tell Tony Georghiou

I recognized one of
the men who k*lled Mike.

To secure their place
in their local community,

the Georghious have
built up an empire

based on dr*gs,
v*olence, loan sharking,

and more recently, g*n running.

Their use of v*olence
is uninhibited.

Mike Georghiou was
particularly vicious,

while Tony's also known
as a skilled organizer.

Using revenue running to
many millions of pounds,

they've compromised an
unknown number of offices.

It's Brian McNally.

He's dead.

[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[CAMERA CLICKING]

Why is Dr. Williams here?

DI Lightfoot decided not to involve
you professionally in this case.

Where is Superintendent
Kempster?

He's unavailable.

Oh really?

If I hadn't pressed for Brian's
release, he'd still be alive.

Don't upset yourself.

He even thanked
me for getting him off.

There's only one person responsible
for what's happened to Brian McNally,

and that's Brian McNally.

What are you doing here?

He phoned me from the
pub, couple of hours ago.

He got cut off mid-sentence.

And that brought
you rushing out here?

He was so worried
during the siege.

And during the phone call?

No, he sounded fine.

And then the phone went dead.

When I got to the pub,
Tony Georghiou was there.

Tony Georghiou was in a pub?

About an hour ago.

Why didn't you say?

Where's Lightfoot?

Up there.

Get someone to see
Professor Ryan home.

The coroner's agreed
for the rest of the bog body

to be brought here.

Already?

Yes, Skellern arranged it.

Dr. Podmore's
down there with him,

stripping away
the peat with gusto.

Shouldn't be long before
they're down to the remains.

Good.

You don't sound terribly excited,
if you don't mind my saying.

The McNally case
blew up in my face.

The pop g*n kid.

He's dead, Jack.

Was found at the
foot of a block of flats.

Who's taking on the postmortem?

Williams.

Well, don't chastise yourself

until you know what happened.

Oh, I do know what happened.

I got him released and he d*ed.

With due respect,
don't be miserable

until Williams gives you
something to be miserable about.

Okay?

Yeah, I'll try.

Can you try a bit harder?

That's better.

[SIGHS] He takes
his time, doesn't he?

He's very thorough.

Professor Ryan!

You'd better come and see.

Looks like we're dealing
with the remains of two bodies.

Here.

This bone feels much denser

than the samples
we took from the arm.

Yep, two arms.

So the severed arm belonged
to someone entirely different.

Any clothing?

Not so far.

You taken any
X-ray pictures yet?

No.

Clear this area for me.

[PHONE RINGING]

I'll get it.

Mortuary.

He's still at it, Professor.

I will.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello?

We're ready for you.

Great.

You got a torch here?

Can you shine it
in there, please?

Modern teeth nearly
all have metal fillings.

What about these?

They have none.

Good dental hygiene perhaps?

Premodern molars are
characteristically worn flat

from the roughage
and grit in their diet.

Do these have that pattern?

They're extensively
demineralized,

but they do.

He's old.

How old?

Beyond living memory.

Bugger.

Who's gonna tell her
the postmortem is up?

There a phone I could use?

Yes, there's one just
straight through there.

Thanks.

So how are we doing?

It's from the Dark Age.

The Dark Age?

Well, I wouldn't like to date it,
but it's beyond living memory.

How are you doing?

I'm fine.

Professor Ryan.

Are you Professor Ryan?

Yes, I am.

I'm Helen McNally,
Brian McNally's daughter.

They're saying
he k*lled himself.

There's no way that
my dad k*lled himself.

I don't know what to do.

Come through to my office.

Dr. Williams is a very
experienced pathologist.

He's passed it.

And what do the police say?

They're following his line.

Which is?

Dad was so terrified
of Tony Georghiou

that he filled himself
up with drink and dr*gs

and jumped off the roof.

But he'd never k*ll himself!

When he was 17, he was
married to Mum, I was on the way.

He was working
at a transport caf.

Eight years later,

he could afford to send
me to a private school.

Does that sound like a
man who can't cope with life?

No.

I told the police he
deals with knockbacks,

but they're only
listening to Williams.

I can perform an independent
postmortem if that's what you want.

But I have to warn you

that if the police are
treating the death as su1c1de,

then Williams' conclusions
must point very definitely

in that direction.

I don't believe
he k*lled himself.

KEMPSTER: Was that Miss McNally?

Yeah.

The postmortem reports
on the Hooper garrotings

have gone missing
from our case files.

They've gone missing?

They've been misfiled.

Do you want to
look at our copies?

We do.

Surprised they've gone missing.

Too much paperwork.

Is it on disc?

No, it's BC.

Huh?

Before computerization.

Here we are.

Kenneth and Nadine Hooper.

Thank you.

Can I have a word?

Sure.

STUART: What did
Miss McNally want?

She requested an independent
autopsy on her father.

What did you say?

I said yes.

Do you doubt our
pathologist's credibility?

I hardly know him.

Would you agree that
you can't kidnap someone,

drag him to the
top of a tall building,

and push him off
without a struggle?

That'd be difficult.

And that the struggle inevitably
causes bruises and abrasions.

Usually, yes.

Dr. Williams found no
new bruises or abrasions

on McNally's body,

except those he sustained
when he hit the ground.

So there was no struggle?

After being released
from custody,

McNally drank heavily.

Traces of ketamine were
also found in his body.

Now, ketamine induces
profound disorientation

and hallucination.

Our pathologist says that
McNally jumped to his death

under the influence of
fear, booze, and ketamine.

If the conclusion
is so clear-cut,

my examination
can only confirm it.

See, we want to focus
our limited resources

on a serious gangland m*rder.

We can't waste
them on a su1c1de.

However well certain circumstances
may fit someone's conspiracy theory.

If it is su1c1de.

You're going into this
postmortem with preconceptions?

No.

Are you?

If you are going ahead,
I'd like to be there.

And I'd like photographs and
charts of the scene of McNally's death.

Where's Superintendent Kempster?

He's probably taken
your report for copying.

But they're not to be
removed from this room.

You'll get them back.

I want them now.

I'll make sure
you get them back.

Professor?

SAM: How are you?

HELEN: I feel numb.

Thanks.

Cheers.

When Dad sent me to school,

what he really did was to
educate me away from my family.

I can't talk to them.

And now I'm a lawyer,

and I can't talk to my friends
about what my dad does.

Yeah, I know what that's like.

My dad was in the RUC.

Oh.

He was k*lled by a car
b*mb when I was a kid.

I'm only telling you this
because if I offer you advice,

I want you to know that
it comes from experience.

It's true what they say.

Find someone to talk to,
as much as you need to.

I didn't and... it hasn't
been so good for me.

Your father telephoned
me just before he d*ed.

What did he say?

He wanted to thank me for
working so hard to get him released.

Did he sound like he
was about to k*ll himself?

No.

Sounded a bit drunk, I suppose.

Do you still want me to
conduct a second postmortem?

Why shouldn't I?

Well, by getting
him out of custody,

I feel I'm partly
responsible for his death.

I think you may be
overestimating your own influence.

I'm a solicitor in a
criminal practice.

If I thought you could
get people out of custody,

then I'd be b*ating
a path to your door

and I wouldn't be the only one.

I liked your dad.

Thank you.

So did I.

[CHILDREN SHOUTING AND LAUGHING]

Again, there is a lot of
bleeding into the tissues

on the right shoulder,

indicating that McNally was
alive when he hit the concrete

and was so for
sometime afterwards.

WILLIAMS: There you have it.

No new bruises or abrasions
other than those sustained in the fall.

And a toxicology report

revealing high levels
of alcohol and ketamine.

su1c1de.

Or misadventure.

Look at the arms.

Look at the legs.

What do you see?

Nothing, you?

Your own report on
McNally's injuries?

Exactly.

If he'd been conscious
when he left the roof,

his natural instinct would have
been to put out an arm or a leg

to protect himself.

We'd expect to see fracturing.

We don't.

He was under the
influence of dr*gs,

which inhibited his reflexes.

So he was conscious
enough to find the building,

conscious enough to get
to the very edge of the roof

and launch himself off,

but not conscious enough
to put out an arm or a leg

to protect his fall?

Yes.

Otherwise he'd have
to be taken to the edge.

And there are no defense
injuries, no signs of a struggle.

SAM: Look at the scene.

When you jump off a building,
you launch yourself outwards,

simply because you want
to clear the wall, right?

McNally didn't.

He was found right here,
in a position consistent with

being dropped over the
edge like a sack of potatoes.

Could he have jumped
and landed here?

Maybe he bounced?

There's no evidence
to support him bouncing!

No blood spatters,
no scraps of clothing...

Bodies often bounce.

There's no conclusive
evidence that he didn't.

Say you've had a few drinks.

Two men drive up,

you get into their car
under thr*at of v*olence.

They offer you a drug.

You want to pacify
them, so you take it.

You're disorientated.

You don't know what
you're doing anymore.

With help, you
stumble out of the car.

On the way up to the roof,
you're given more of the drug.

You pass out.

At the very top,
you're carried gently

to the very edge of the
roof and dumped over.

[LAUGHS] This
is pure conjecture.

SAM: It fits the facts.

Just because there's
no evidence of a struggle

doesn't mean you
can rule out m*rder.

You can't k*ll someone like
that and not leave a mark on him!

Why not?

Because I have never seen it.

I find it incredible

and I will have to
stand by my judgment.

And I'll have to stand by mine.

There's a possibility
that another person

caused your father
to fall from that roof.

So was he pushed or wasn't he?

The evidence is inconclusive.

What do you think?

Personally, I think someone else is
responsible for your father's death.

Poor Dad.

I think we should present
my findings to Kempster.

And I think we
should do that now.

Get some?

Keep going.

[KNOCKING]

Professor Ryan
doesn't rule out m*rder.

So what's new?

Cashman's been in
touch with drug squad.

The Georghious have been
warehousing various new dr*gs,

including ketamine.

Cashman.

What kind of name is that?

Whatever Williams says,
we have to take a serious look

at how McNally's and Georghiou's
deaths might be connected.

And how Tony Georghiou
might be involved.

You reek of alcohol.

I don't, do I?

How much did you have?

Tot.

It's more than that.

A couple of tots.

When you were on the sick,

did you see anyone
about what happened?

Some bimbo.

She's there to help.

Kills his own dog.

First thing he does,

he gets the sword out
and [MIMICS SLASHING].

She says "I'm here to help
you make sense of it all."

Make sense of it?

It doesn't make sense.

Why's he k*ll his dog?

What for?

It's okay.

It's not okay, it
doesn't make sense!

[PHONE RINGING]

Superintendent
Kempster's office.

Yes.

The McNally woman's on her way.

She's got Professor
Ryan with her.

[SIGHS]

[SHOUTING]

Hey!

Stop that!

- What?
- You're making a mess.

Can't you find
something better to do?

Yeah, like what?

Something constructive?

Listen, does anyone know
the man who took a nosedive

from the flat the other night?

Did anyone see him?

Did anyone see anything unusual?

Does anyone know
anyone who knows anything?

Does anyone care?

Because one day it might
be your mum, your dad.

Or your little brother.

You know what, I hope it is.

Go on, sod off.

Because when you
want to know why,

when you want to
know what happened,

no one will tell you.

And then you'll begin to realize just
what that man's family is going through,

not knowing what happened to
him in his final moments on Earth.

STUART: Superintendent
Kempster's been taken ill.

Ill?

He's gone off home.

Who's setting up the
new m*rder inquiry?

We don't know that Brian
McNally was m*rder*d.

You heard what Professor
Ryan said at the postmortem.

And I heard Dr. Williams
say the opposite.

So when will you
decide between us?

A team of officers is out
gathering evidence right now.

How many?

I can't tell you that.

For operational reasons.

Miss McNally, I'm assigning Maggie
Rolands as your family liaison officer.

Her job will be to explain
anything you want to know.

I want to know why the
senior investigating officer

wasn't available until


I want to know why it's
taking you so long to admit

that my dad might
have been m*rder*d.

I want to know whether your
chief suspect is Tony Georghiou

or another man my dad said
he saw k*ll Mike Georghiou.

And I want to know why
the conduct of this case

has been such a shambles!

I'll send Maggie down.

I don't want Maggie,
I want answers!

I'm sure you'll get
them, Miss McNally.

And in the meantime,
I'll get Maggie.

Well, she'd better have some!

What about my files?

Superintendent Kempster
took them home with him.

I'll get them back for you.

This team of officers
out gathering information,

where is it?

It looks so...

Sordid?

Ordinary.

[ROCKS CLATTERING]

Oi, what are you doing?

Stop that, you little sods!

Right, I'm coming up!

Helen.

[SHOUTING] Helen.

Who threw that one?

[LAUGHING]

Someone d*ed down there!

It's like their grave.

You treat it with respect!

It's stupid to throw things!

Who you calling stupid?

Whoever threw those stones.

Well, I threw them.

And me.

Are we stupid?

It was her father who
d*ed here last night.

No, you don't understand,

she just called
me stupid though.

Pack it in, Todd, she's alright.

What do you mean?

She just called me stupid, Dan.

You are stupid, Todd.

[LAUGHING]

Look, it was out of order
what happened last night

and I'm sorry.

What you apologizing
for? It ain't our fault.

I used to clean her old man's
car. He was a good bloke.

Are we going to have more
stones thrown at us or what?

That won't happen.

So will you see us
down safely please?

Oh, you're in there, Danny.

[SHOUTING]

[SKIDDING]

You'd tell her if you knew
anything, wouldn't you?

Yeah, course.

So?

I don't know much.

Last night, me and Todd were
in the alcove where the bin's at.

And her dad walks past
with these two blokes.

They didn't know we were there.

Your dad was out of it,
they had to hold him up.

Who were these blokes?

DANNY: I dunno.

Well, what did they look like?

Didn't see.

Is that the alcove
downstairs by the entrance?

Yeah.

There's a security light
down there, isn't there?

It comes on when
you approach it.

You must have seen them.

They just looked normal.

Look, they drove
a... Vauxhall Omega.

Maroon, I think.

They went into the flats
and we went to Todd's.

Did you tell the police this?

No, I'm not a grass.

Someone d*ed, Danny!

Yeah, well, I'm
talking to you, ain't I?

SAM: Where are you going?

DANNY: Don't want people
getting the wrong idea.

We don't mind.

Well, I do.

They'll think I'm a grass.

You alright?

No, I'm seeing
two of everything.

[GASPING]

Mum!

HELEN: I thought it
was just a headache,

but they're fussing
about internal bleeding.

They're right to fuss.

Don't let's tell the police
about the two men Danny saw.

Why not?

No one talks to the
police on that estate.

We can find out
more than they can.

We'd contaminate
the police investigation.

That's the difference
between us.

You trust the police.

Come on, the first few
hours in any investigation

are always a mess.

Tony Georghiou is notorious
for knobbling police officers.

Not in the m*rder team.

There's no time to build
up a corrupt relationship.

Have any of this team worked on
a case involving Georghiou before?

Kempster.

And why do you think your
files have gone missing?

Their disappearance is to
Georghiou's advantage, that's why.

There are duplicates
in the coroner's archive.

How do you know
they aren't missing too?

Just takes one officer, Sam.

[KNOCKING]

Mr. Kempster.

Where are my files?

You've got them.

No, I haven't.

I gave them to you.

Wait a minute.

I put them into your hands!

Oh, I see.

So it's your word against mine.

What the hell are you up to?

Nothing.

I'm up to nothing.

What do you have
to gain from this?

Are you finished?

No, I can't leave it like this!

Oh, do what you like.

I don't give a toss.

We can put you at
Hole in the Wall, Tony,

we just want to know
what you were doing there.

No comment.

Did you see Brian McNally?

TONY: No comment.

Look at us, Tony.

People are saying you k*lled Brian
McNally in revenge for your brother.

No.

He doesn't care
about his brother.

They're a close family.

STUART: Were a
close family, Barry.

BARRY: They were a close family.

Till Mike got up Tony's
nose, being greedy and stupid.

I'd never hurt my brother.

Why not?

He's my brother.

Honor, kinship, respect.

They're things of the past.

It's the same for
you as anyone else.

You know that, Tony,

so don't give me this
crap about your brother.

I loved my brother.

You hated him, for
attracting attention.

What'll you do without Mike?

Who's gonna put the fear
of God into the next clown

who tries to rip you off?

It's over.

Destruction's
coming for you, Tony.

Any fool can pull a trigger,
doesn't take a hard man.

Talk to us, Tony, stay alive.

He'll have to be destroyed.

That's the beauty of justice.

Pay the price.

Don't see sunshine for 20 years.

But you come out
alive at the end.

Destruction's coming, Tony.

Mikey couldn't hear it,
Brian McNally couldn't hear it,

but you can, you can hear
it now, it's coming, listen.

[MIMICS WHOOSHING]

Get out of here,
you're full of crap.

You're a dead man, Tony.

Sam!

How's Miss McNally?

They're keeping her in.

Best place for her.

What are you playing at?

We went to put
some flowers down.

It's a rough estate.

Here, your files on
the Hooper case.

When did you get those?

This morning.

I found them in
Kempster's wardrobe.

His wardrobe?

He's had a complete
mental collapse, poor sod.

His wife's packed him
off to their holiday home,

so he's officially
sick, I'm in charge.

I'm opening a full m*rder
inquiry into Brian McNally's death.

STUART: The detailed postmortem
reports on the Hooper case

showed that Mike Georghiou's
k*lling is virtually a carbon copy.

Chief suspect on
the Hooper case?

- Tony Georghiou.
- Right.

He's still very much in the
frame for Mike's m*rder.

Where does that leave
us with Brian McNally?

We favor Tony
Georghiou for both crimes.

McNally said he could
identify one of Mike's K*llers.

This could have been either
Tony or one of his henchmen.

McNally's mistake was trying to use
that information against Georghiou.

I'm gonna bring Georghiou in.

We should have done
that a long time ago.

We're doing it now.

Jack.

Hm?

When will they finish?

Today.

You said that yesterday.

You know the report on
Kenneth Hooper you showed me?

Yeah.

Their page is altered.

Let's see.

Someone's Tipp-Exed out
right and replaced it with left.

Who's had access to these?

The police.

Why would they want to
alter a postmortem report?

That's what I've
got to find out.

Can you cover for me?

Yeah, sure.

You're a darling.

STUART: We're now investigating two
murders which we believe to be related.

Did you and your brother Mike
have a row the night before he d*ed?

No comment.

You might as well tell us, Tony.

We've got witnesses saw
you and Mike come to blows

outside the Hole in the Wall.

No comment.

[KNOCKING]

STUART: Professor Ryan.

You realize these have
been tampered with?

See where the words
have been changed here?

Isn't that the original
pathologist correcting his typing

when he wrote the thing?

No, I called at the coroner's
office on the way here.

Their copies haven't been
tampered with, these have.

What does that mean?

The alterations
lead you to believe

that whoever k*lled
Kenneth and Nadine Hooper

also k*lled Mike Georghiou.

Tony Georghiou
or one of his men.

Right.

But the unaltered reports
tell a different story.

The Hoopers' k*ller,
he was right handed.

Whoever k*lled Mike
Georghiou was left handed.

So whoever k*lled Mike Georghiou
wanted to incriminate his brother Tony.

But he didn't take into
account that he was left handed.

Why did Kempster
tamper with these reports?

Because he wanted to
incriminate Georghiou.

Or he wanted to
protect the real k*ller.

Something's gone
bad here, Stuart.

I think we should
contact the CIB.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

I'm not happy about it either,
but there's a case here to answer.

No without hearing
Kempster's side of it.

The man deserves that much.

Can't just let him cr*ck up
and then shop him to CIB

without giving him a say.

Come on.

STUART: We walk from here.

It's the best thief takers
that always get pulled down.

You never nick anyone, you
never get your hands dirty.

Harder you work, more
likely you are to drop a bollock.

Tampering with evidence is
more than just dropping a bollock.

Let's give him a
fair hearing, eh?

What's his first name?

STUART: Kempster,
he doesn't have one.

SAM: Superintendent!

STUART: I think it's Albert.

SAM: Albert?

SAM: Albert?

Oh.

What do you want?

STUART: Don't you want
to get some clothes on?

Huh?

Stuart recovered my files.

From your house.

Why did you alter them?

What did you say?

Why did you alter the
reports on the Hooper case?

What's she on about, Stuart?

Someone's tampered
with those reports, sir.

Hoping I'd just file the
originals and not notice.

And you think that was me?

Yes.

Do you think he's
getting dressed?

Sir?

I have never tampered with
evidence, Professor Ryan.

Not in more than


So I'm not going
to start now, am I?

So why did that evidence
turn up in your wardrobe?

I couldn't be arsed.

Not after I'd read them.

Why?

KEMPSTER: Okay.

Someone mimicked
the Hooper garrotings

in order to eliminate Mike
Georghiou and incriminate Tony.

Only they were left handed

and dyslexic
about left and right.

Go on.

But they did know precise
details of the Hooper killings.

Information that was never
released to the general public,

it was only known to the police.

And the Hoopers'
k*ller, of course.

But he was right handed!

So you're saying a police
officer k*lled Mike Georghiou?

Some of these boys,

they've been after the
Georghious for years.

And then another
investigation collapses.

What do you do?

Dig in for another decade?

Take the law into
your own hands, huh?

Exactly.

You didn't tamper
with the files?

Oh, by the way,
it's Alfred, not Albert.

What do you think?

He's off his chump.

Sort of makes sense.

So does line dancing.

Doesn't stop it being
a tragic waste of time.

What officer's gonna be
so audacious, so reckless,

so foolish as to think he can
get away with totaling someone?

An audacious, foolish,
and reckless one, I suppose.

STUART: He'll take posttraumatic
shock, leave the service.

Having CIB probing a
broken man about what,

tampering with files?

It's not gonna
help anyone, is it?

What's that?

I wrote my number
here for Brian.

He used it to phone
me, just before he d*ed.

Really?

Stuart,

you were the only
person to have those files

between Kempster and me.

And?

You're left handed.

We need to talk.

I don't think so.

Come on, let's not make
a big issue out of this.

It is a big issue!

Two men have d*ed.

When a man like Georghiou dies,

there's a kind of justice there.

k*lling isn't justice.

Sometimes it's the
closest you can get.

Get in.

No.

Get in.

Get your hands off me!

- Get in!
- Get off me!

Get off me! [SMACKS]

[GROANS]

[HORN HONKING]

That man bothering you?

- Yes.
- Get in.

Your boyfriend's not happy.

He's not my boyfriend.

I know what it's like.

I'm in a love triangle.

DS Cashman, please.

It's Professor Ryan.

Take a look at this for me?

What am I looking for?

Do you recognize one of the men
that was with McNally that night?

DANNY: Him.

Adair?

Are you sure?

DANNY: Yeah, that's
him, that's the one.

Anyone else?

DANNY: Him.

Thanks, Danny.

Alright, everyone.

Whatever's in
your hands, drop it.

Now, not tomorrow.

Who the hell are you?

The CIB investigation.

I want you to put
everything down.

Once you've put everything down,

I want you to file
out to the corridor

where my officers
will search you.

In silence, please.

Where's DI Lightfoot?

[SIRENS WAILING]

Detective Inspector
Stuart Lightfoot?

CIB, Stuart.

Stuart Lightfoot, I'm
arresting you for m*rder.

You don't have to say anything,

but it may harm your defense if you
fail to mention when questioned anything

you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say
will be given in evidence.

Happy?

Sorry, bad day.

Our remains have
been carbon dated.

And?

The results put the
arm at around 1550.

The rest of that fellow

is probably in someone's
potting compost.

And what about this fellow?

Oh, no, he's at
least 2,000 years old.

He was naked.

We found nothing with him.

Except this.

Looks like a garrot.

We think this was
a ritual execution.

He was sacrificed to
ensure the survival of the rest.

Things don't change
much, do they?

[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]