05x02 - The World Cruise 2

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05x02 - The World Cruise 2

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- Jake?

[muffled cry] [flies buzzing]

- [Man] They're brothers,
lived here over 30 years.

- [Ryan] The right wrist shows
signs of linear indentation,

possibly a rope.

- Are you saying
they were tied up?

- That's what it looks like.

Whether that
happened before or after

they were injected in
the chest, I don't know.

- And the Davies Brothers
were friends of yours?

- Yes

- [Cliff] Known
them a long time?

- Oh, a very long time.

- [Ryan] This is interesting,
there's a skin graft

on the left arm.

- [Ranjeet] Are they Jewish?

- [Ryan] They were
both circumcised.

- [Ranjeet] Good chance
the grafts are hiding

concentration camp tattoos.

- Mr. Martin, DC Armstrong,

we'd like to ask
you a few questions

if that's all right, sir.

[grunting]

- [Armstrong] We'd like
to know where you were

last Monday.

- Why?

- If you could just tell
me where you were?

- [Carl] No, not until
you tell me why first.

[yelling]

["Silencium" by John Harle]

- You're very prompt.

- Well, so are you.

- His name's Alexander Wein.

He was 79 years old and a doctor

until he retired 10 years ago.

- What sort of doctor?

- A GP, he lived by himself.

And according to
the Brussels police

he was a quiet
unassuming character

with no known enemies.

- [Dr. Sam Ryan] Account
they got a hold of you.

- The Belgium
police were checking

Mr. Wein's phone records and
came across a British number.

And guess who it belonged to,

Carl Martin.

- Wein was in touch with Martin?

- Someone found
Carl Martin's house

on Wein's phone
the night he d*ed.

Interpol contacted the
National Criminal Intelligent Unit

in London, and they
flagged the connection to us.

Didn't take us long
to realize that the MO

was similar to that of the
Davies brother's m*rder.

- They've done the autopsy?

- Yesterday, Alex
Wein was injected

in the heart with a needle

and d*ed as a
result of the injection.

- Well, if you know all
that, why do they want me?

- They don't.

I do.

I thought you'd
have a better chance

than anyone of seeing if
this was the same K*llers

as the Davies brothers.

- Was Wein Jewish?

- Could be.

[guard speaking in French]

- Nice place.
- Yeah

They're still trying to dig
up some history on him,

but it seems he
was a bit of a loner.

- Any forensic,
prints or anything?

- No prints, but there
may be some DNA.

There were two glasses.

The k*ller must
have been disturbed

or he just forgot about them.

They don't appear
to have been cleaned.

- Well, if it's the same
as the Davies brothers,

there'll be a chance of
temazepam in one of the glasses.

Okay.

I'd like to see the body now.

[dog barking]

- Carl Martin, I'm arresting you

for the m*rder of Alex Wein.

You're not obliged
to say anything,

but it may harm your
defense if you fail to mention

when questioned anything
which you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say
may be given in evidence.

Do you understand?

- Yeah, you want to speak
to the man who lives there.

- Go ahead and ring him.

[bag unzips]

- They're going to send
you all the toxicology reports

and what have you
when they get them.

- Okay.

- Not all of the camps tattooed?

- So you're still going with
the Jewish connection?

- Yes.

- But he's not circumcised.

[sighs]

[mysterious music]

It could be the same person
that k*lled the Davies brothers,

but why these three?

- It wasn't only
Jews that got it.

- True.

- What if he was a
communist or a gypsy?

Maybe even gay?

He's not married.

- Could I have copies of the
autopsy photographs, please?

- I've already asked for them,

and we've picked up Carl Martin.

They're searching
his house right now.

- I think you better
get Mr. Martin up here.

[ominous music]

- I think you'll find
they're all legitimate

political parties.

- Wear this to the
synagogue do ya, Mr. Martin?

[crowd chanting]

- [Crowd] Hands off our DNA!

- No one is advocating
we create a super race.

But I'm sure someone,
somewhere has considered it,

probably in Hollywood.

Human worth will
never be measured

against some perfect
physical or mental ideal,

but nobody wants these terrible,

potentially
preventable diseases.

To the demonstrators outside,

I would say, "We
are not playing God."

Germ Line could
eliminate genetic disorders

from entire families
with a single procedure.

Hemophilia, sickle-cell
anemia, cystic fibrosis

consigned to history.

Who wouldn't want that?

Thank you.

[applause]

- Professor Ryan,
have you got a minute?

I thought I'd take
you up on your advice.

- And?

- Scary.

If people like
you start believing

it's already to mess
around with the germ line

for health purposes,
then it's only going

to be a matter of time
before big business cashes in

and uses it for
tailor-made babies.

- You may well be right,

but at least now you'll know
what you're talking about.

- You fancy a drink?

- I've already got a supper
engagement, thank you.

- I'll take a rain check then.

- Is there anything
you'd like to tell us, Carl?

- Regarding the
violation of my civil rights?

Or were you thinking
of something else?

- Okay, let's start
with last Tuesday.

You see Naval is
leaving the room.

Where were you?

- On a sightseeing trip.

- Where was this trip to?

- Europe.

- Not Brussels by any chance?

- We could do the
interview at the hotel.

It's a boy.

No, he's only here
for a few more days.

He flies back early next week.

Hello?

Hello?

Oh, mobiles.

- Who was that?

- BMA News Review.

- I've already given
them an interview.

- Yes, I said that.

This is some follow-up article.

Now I was right in
saying the hotel, wasn't I?

You don't want to do
any more lunches, do you?

- No.

Not unless it's with the
likes of Professor Ryan.

- So do you think
it's been successful?

- I'm surprised at
the demonstrations.

I always thought
that the industry

would be far more pragmatic.

- They're also rather
suspicious of anyone

who doesn't have
an English accent.

- Which is maybe
why despite the fact

that they're a dot on the globe,

they remain a prominent force.

You know, I think there's a
lot to be said for nationalism.

- Sorry to interrupt.

I was at your lecture tonight.

Professor Ryan
suggested I should attend.

- Well, I hope you
found it worthwhile.

- It just reinforced
my thoughts.

Where does it end?

- I'm sorry, but
where does what end?

- What would your ideal be?

Blonde hair and blue eyes?

- Douglas.

- I just wondered if
Professor Newman

had any thoughts on it.

- Can you excuse us?

[quiet classical piano music]

- Is the analysis on those
drinking glasses in there?

- No, I'll let you have
it as soon as it arrives.

- Temazepam again.

And a modified glycol injection?

It's an identical death.

- We also know that Carl
Martin was in Brussels

on the night of the m*rder.

- What was he doing there?

- He said he was sightseeing.

- Why would Martin go all the
way to Brussels to k*ll a man?

- He might not have.

Maybe he's telling the truth.

Maybe he was
sightseeing and happened

to meet Wein and
took the opportunity.

- It's a bizarre way
to k*ll someone, glycol.

It's like something
you do with lab rats.

- A scientific experiment.

- Yeah.

Did you find a
connection yet between

the Davies brothers and Wein?

- Not yet.

Wein moved to Brussels in 1951.

Prior to that, he lived in
Warsaw, but before then...

I thought we'd see
if Dr. Horowitz knew.

You never know.

- He could, I suppose.

- I found him this
morning, arranged a visit.

He wondered if you might
be able to come along.

- Me?

- Yes, apparently
there's some connection,

your professor at the
college or something.

- Oh, yes.

- It could be useful.

He obviously has a
lot of respect for you.

- Well, I only met him once.

- If it's a problem, I
know he's a bit eccentric.

Then we can...

- No, I don't mind.

- If we could just find the
connection between the brothers

and Wein, I know
we'd be home and dry.

[doorbell ringing]

- Mrs. Horowitz, this
is Professor Ryan.

- Oh, yes, of course.

Please come in.

My husband's expecting you.

- Thank you.

- Let's go back a bit.

May 15th.

You and your wife say you
were together with the kids?

- That's right.

- Perjury is really not
very clever, you know?

- I'm not saying it is.

[footsteps on the stairs]

- Oh, I'm sorry.

He won't be a minute.

He's not feeling his best today.

- Would it better if we
came back some other time?

- No, no, no.

He wants to see you.

- He has quite a collection.

- Oh yes.

- Your son?

- He d*ed.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Yes, he hung himself.

Here.

Upstairs, in the
bedroom he grew up in.

- Do you know Jake
and Henry Davies?

- I could do.

- How about Alex Wein?

- No, never heard of him.

- Do you know anything
about their murders?

You were convicted
of actual bodily harm

on Jake Davies.

- So?

- C'mon, Carl.

- It was all a misunderstanding.

It just got out of hand.

I pleaded guilty, didn't I?

- And Alex Wein, you've never
met anybody by that name?

- No, should I?

- We just thought you might.

- Oh, right.

He was another Jew.

Is that why you're asking me?

Well?

- You don't have
to say anything.

- No, no, no. I don't mind.

I've done nothing.

You see, you people
have got me all wrong.

I don't care what
nationality anybody is.

I just believe in free speech.

Want it all for them?

Sign the law for us.

- Us and them?

- Yeah.

- That was taken just
two months before he d*ed.

- It must have been a shock.

- Oh yes.

We didn't realize how
troubled he'd become.

Not being able to do anything.

You suddenly learn your
father was in Auschwitz.

Daniel couldn't cope with it.

- He's not alone.

I'm not sure the
Holocaust ever ended.

- Let's get back to this
sightseeing trip to Belgium.

Where did you go?

- Here and there.

- What sites did you see?

[sharp inhale]

- When I got there,
I changed my mind,

so I went to a bar.

- Which bar?

- There were a few.

I can't remember
the names of them.

- Are there people
that can verify that?

- Probably.

- Who?

- People I talked to.

- Can you tell us their names?

- Look, I'd had a few drinks.

It clouds the memory, you know.

- Do you think one of them
may have been Alex Wein?

- It could have been.

I don't know.

- Carl, don't say any more

unless you're sure
about this person.

- Alright, no.

I didn't have a drink
with any Alex Wein.

- How can you be so sure?

- I'm very choosy
about who I drink with.

- What does that mean?

- Just that.

- Would you drink with me?

- [Carl] C'mon...
Just a question.

- No.

- [Naval] Why not?

- You're not my type.

- Carl, don't answer any more.

- Why? Is there a
law now telling me

who I can and can't drink with?

I don't think so.

This is a free country.

And as long as
there's people like me,

it will remain a free country.

- I told him what it was like.

I don't think I'd ever
done that before.

I had almost managed
to close it out for 50 years,

but he seemed to want to know.

- Daniel was brought
up in England.

How would he know these things?

- My brother and
I were teenagers.

We were good for work,
good for digging graves,

good for moving bodies,
good to keep alive.

My mother, sister,
they just disappeared.

And one day my father was ill,

but he went out on a role call.

It was five o'clock
in the morning.

It was quite bright with snow,

and we stood for three
hours in the freezing cold,

trying to hold him up,
stop him from falling.

But the guard saw us
and told us to let him go.

He collapsed on the ground,

and when we got back from work,

he wasn't there.

And then...

It was only weeks later,
I watched my brother die,

as near as you are to me now.

I watched him die.

I saw things no God intended.

I saw the dark soul of man.

- I'm proud of being English.

What's wrong with that?

What I'm not proud of is
letting a lot of sponging bastards

come over and live off us.

- Which sponging
bastards would those be?

- All of 'em.

All those immigrants that
try to clean your car windows

when you don't want em too.

- And the Davies brothers?

Did you object to them?

- I'm advising you
to keep quiet, Carl.

- All you're saying is to
keep quiet, say nothing.

They can say what they like,

but we can't.

It's our country.

- [Naval] Who's they?

- Use your imagination.

- Saul Edwards?

- What?

- Carl.

- Saul Edwards, a
harmless 60 year old man.

You were there when this
yarmulke was discovered

in your house.

- So?

- Was this a trophy, Carl?

You don't deny it was
found in your house.

We are very lucky here, Carl.

We have a top
notch forensic team

that works with us,
and uh, guess what?

They found three hairs,
gray hairs, just in the lining.

Now, we can wait
until the DNA tells me

they belong to Saul Edwards

or you can start talking.

[grunts]

- Yes, if you have time,

take a look at
this to explain it all.

- Is this your book?

Your story?

- A part of it.

- Uh...

- Ewa, it's okay.

And this videotape is
what I showed Daniel.

He scoured it to see if
he could see my face.

[coughing]

- It's okay, I'll get it.

- Okay.

What was it you
wanted to see me about?

- Well, I was wondering if
you knew this man, Alex Wein,

and if he had any connection
with the Davies brothers.

- Uh, no.

[coughing]

- Take it, take it.

[coughing]

[groaning]

- What's wrong with Josef?

- He has a squamous
cell carcinoma of the lung.

It's inoperable.

The morphine takes
the edge off the pain.

- Lung cancer.

- The irony is,
he doesn't smoke.

Never has.

Please.

- Interview commenced at 20:30.

Present are Carl Martin,
his solicitor, Mr. Rowe,

DCI Naval, myself, DS Moorhouse.

- Carl, I think it's
about time you told us

the real reason
you went to Belgium.

We're going to find
out sooner or later

so why not tell us now?

- I was invited there.

- Invited?

Who by?

- Some people.

- Which people?

- An organization.

- What sort of organization?

- A neo-n*zi organization.

I'm right.

Aren't I, Carl?

[somber classical music]

[music plays on television]

- I was had.

- C'mon, Carl.

Do us all a favor.

You got all the way to
Belgium without checking it out?

- It's true.

There were meant to be
people on the train and nothing.

And when I got to Brussels,
the address didn't even exist.

I was had!

- You must have got a letter
or something inviting you.

- Nothing.

Telephone calls,
that's all I got.

- Disappointed, were ya?

You couldn't goosestep
around in your n*zi salutes?

[somber classical music]

- Say what you like.

It's not over yet.

And you know that more
than most, don't you?

[ominous music]

[telephone ringing]

- Hello?

Oh, Professor Ryan.

Oh no, no, no, no trouble.

- Was that Carl Martin?

- Yes, we just charged
him with m*rder.

Saul Edwards, he copped to it.

Then he said he hadn't so
we've been most of the night

persuading him that he had.

In the end, he saw it our way.

- But that's as far as we got.

He didn't cop to either the
Davies brothers or Wein.

- I'm not surprised.

Wein may have been
in a concentration camp

but not as a prisoner.

- It's a tattoo.

A zero then a plus sign.

- It's O positive.

It's his blood group.

All the SS had their
blood groups tattooed

into their armpits.

Then if they were
injured in battle,

there was no panic about finding

the right blood for transfusion.

- Wein was in the SS?

- It would seem so.

- But if he was k*lled
by the same man,

which we have to assume he was,

why?

- Could we have got it
wrong about the Davies'?

- They weren't Jewish either?

- Maybe not.

- Okay.

Okay, Chris.

I want you to go through
the Davies' background

with a fine tooth comb.

- Could the tattoos on the
arms be an elaborate con?

- I don't know.

- If Wein's ex-SS, he
could be a w*r criminal.

- Which rules out Carl Martin.

I can't see him wanting
to m*rder a n*zi.

- No.

- Where do we go now?

- I owe you another apology.

- Is this some sort of
hobby, apologizing?

- Only to you.

- Why don't you just
refrain from insulting people?

- It's not intentional.

It's just the way it comes out.

- Douglas, you're a
very bright student.

Try thinking before
you open your mouth.

- Okay, look, deal.

I'm sorry if I
spoiled your supper

with Professor Newman.

- I know how you feel about him,

but he does make a very
interesting dinner companion.

- I mean, I can buy that
when he's just talking about.

- I don't have to
go along with it.

- Now there, I think
you're very wise.

- How kind of you to say so.

- There's always
a variety of people

who feel they have
to lie about their past.

- Sorry?

- I just meant you wonder
what else they're hiding.

- What are you talking about?

- Why don't you invite
me in for a coffee?

Promise not to apologize again.

- It's Davies, J and H.

They purchased the
house in the mid 50's.

We know they had a
mortgage on the property

until the mid 70's.

Can you give me any details
on that initial purchase please?

Yeah, no, of course not.

Okay, thank you.

- Newman emigrated to
Canada from Austria in 1964.

He moved to America
five years later,

but he's Austrian by birth.

- So?

- Before leaving for Montreal,

he worked as a medical
researcher in Vienna,

which is fine.

It's the first few
years of his career

which are not quite accurate.

- [Ryan] In what ways?

- During the w*r he
claimed he never left Austria.

He worked as a
doctor for a hospital

in a small village
called Bielefeld.

There was a
hospital in that village,

but it closed in 1939.

So where was Professor Newman?

- How do you know all this?

- It's no big secret.

Just going through
his university website,

and there's his CV.

I just checked it through
for accuracy and bingo.

His first job is a lie.

- Well, maybe he just wanted
to make things sound better.

- Or maybe he's trying
to hide something.

- You're turning this into
a witch hunt, aren't you?

- Someone told me never
to take things at face value.

- There's a difference
between that

and searching the
internet for a flaw

in someone's character.

- The man is lying.

- And you've never lied?

- I think it's more than that.

- You hope it's more than that.

You don't like his ideas,

so you att*ck him personally.

Drop it, Douglas.

You're doing yourself no favors.

- Yeah.

Yeah, you're probably right.

[ominous music]

[knocking]

- I don't know if this
is important, Gov,

but it seems that the
Davies' changed their name.

When they bought the shop,

they were Jacob and
Henryk Dawidowicz.

- Doesn't surprise me.

People can be prejudiced
against the name,

especially 40 years ago.

I've seriously considered
changing mine.

- Why don't you?

[telephone ringing]

- Hello?

- Sam, the analysis from those
glasses in Wein's apartment

has come through at last.

- Temazepam?

- Yes, in one of them,

but there's also traces
of morphine in the other.

- But there were no traces of
morphine found in Wein's body.

- No, we're back to
temazepam there.

- Unless they missed
it like the tattoo.

- The other bits of interesting
information that we have

is that the Davies'
changed their name.

When they arrived
here from Poland,

they were the Dawidowicz's.

- [Naval on Phone] Sam?

Are you there?

Sam?

[ominous classical music]

[doorbell ringing]

- Mrs. Horowitz?

- I'm afraid he's not here.

And I'm not sure
when he'll be back.

- You'll probably
be able to help me.

- Yes, come through.

[cars whizzing by]

- I wanted to return this book.

- Oh, you read it already?

- Yes.

I was wondering if you
also have a document

of the next section of his life,
when he was in Auschwitz?

- He did, but nobody
wanted to publish it.

- Why not?

- Oh, when Josef wrote it,

people were trying to forget,

and it's not exactly
bedtime reading.

- I didn't realize
Josef was a twin.

- I didn't know for a long time.

He would never talk about it.

- He was there when
he d*ed, wasn't he?

- And now, because he
knows it's near for him,

he can't get it out of his head.

- Has his doctor said
how long he's got?

- No, not really.

They won't say when.

You know what they're like.

He knows in himself though.

[clears throat]

He knows he hasn't got long.

- And he takes
morphine for the pain.

Traces of morphine
were found in a glass

in Alex Wein's
apartment, in Brussels.

Wein was an SS
officer during the w*r.

Josef knew him, didn't he?

- Wein was an SS
doctor in Auschwitz

working under Mangley.

When Josef and Aaron
arrived at Auschwitz,

Mangley was there,

looking for [chuckles]
suitable patients.

Now most people had no
idea that they were twins.

People just thought
they were brothers

who looked a bit alike.

Josef doesn't know why,

but instinct told him
to keep quiet about it.

So they were kept alive to work.

Mangley missed them.

Then one day, they were
both taken into the hospital.

These two brothers
who had been with them

in the lodge ghetto
had told the Nazis

that they were twins.

They did so to get
some more to eat,

an extra ration of food.

Josef and Aaron were
betrayed by their friends.

- Jake and Henry Davies?

- Yes.

Jacob and Henryk Dawidowicz.

In that moment, they
thought only of themselves.

In the camps, many of the ten
commandments were reversed.

Such desperation.

You see, the Nazis
deliberately created a situation

where in order to survive,

everyone was tempted
to betray each other.

- What happened to
Josef and his brother?

- They were assigned
two of Mangley's doctors.

Josef was the luckier.

They concentrated on Aaron.

He had blue eyes
which fascinated them.

[elevator dings]

They were live human guinea pigs

for those doctors to do
what they wanted with.

When Josef says he
saw his brother die,

he watched his brother
have his genitals removed

without anesthetic,

and then they stuck
a needle into his heart

and injected him with glycol.

I don't think Josef has ever
stopped hearing him scream.

- Was one of his doctors Wein?

- Yes.

How could he do that
to another human being?

- And the other?

Who is the other?

- Josef thought he was dead.

He'd heard nothing
about him after the w*r.

And not until he
saw his photograph.

[raps on the door]

Oh, he knew it was him.

He knew it straightaway.

- Professor Newman, I'm
from the BMA news review?

- [Professor Newman]
Right, come in.

- He wants the world to know

that these men walk
free, even today.

Antz Robert Newman
becomes Bobby Newman

and everything is forgotten.

Saul Edwards drowns
and nobody cares.

Nothing changes.

- They charged a man
with Saul Edward's m*rder.

- They have?

- Carl Martin.

Get me DCI Naval
and tell him it's urgent.

Do you know Martin?

- Yes, we know him.

Actually, Josef spoke
to him quite recently.

Invited him to Brussels.

- Then get me DS Moorhouse.

- Newman is a monster.

Why do you want to save him?

- Hi, it's Sam Ryan here.

[ominous music]

Josef?

- Oh, I'm glad you're here.

He didn't have the
right to die peacefully.

My world cruise.

- Your what?

- When somebody finds
out they're going to die,

they do something that
they've always wanted to.

See Jerusalem, hang
glide, go on a world cruise.

This is my world cruise.

He was lucky.

Look at the view.

That's the last thing he saw.

My brother's view
was not so beautiful.

- Did you hear about
the Davies' will?

- No.

- Left every penny to a
Jewish children's chapter.

- It doesn't surprise me.

- Talk about living
your life in guilt.

- For an act any of us
might have committed

under the same circumstances.

He was on treatment
for lung cancer.

Couldn't his doctor sign
the death certificate?

- He d*ed while in custody.

We need an autopsy.

You heard about the DNA
report on the Martin case?

- No.

- We've charged him
with Saul Edward's m*rder

and we'll get a conviction.

- Shame Josef
won't know about it.

- He told me he started
off by just wanting

to cause Martin some hassle

and to put us off Lomax.

I don't think he
could have dreamt

of it ending like this.

- He fooled us all.

- It was him that sent
Martin on a wild goose chase

to Brussels.

Him who phoned Martin's number.

He knew we'd pick up on it.

We're, gonna have to
bring in Ewa for questioning.

We think she may have
smuggled something into the jail,

something that
helped him on his way.

I'm just doing my job.

- Professor Ryan.

- His unpublished manuscript.

He wanted you to have it.

- Why me?

- He saw you speak at the
first lecture Newman gave.

- He was there?

- Yes.

He thought you had
no point to prove.

Maybe you could get
it into the right hands.

- I can try.

- He doesn't want it to go away.

In 1939,

there were over 200,000 Jews

living in the Loch ghetto.

You know how many
survived the w*r?

Josef was one of them.

Now he's gone.

He always said, "We
mustn't let it fade away."

That's why he did it.

The way he did it.

- I think you owe me an apology.

Newman.

- I think I owe you a drink.

["Silencium" by John Harle]
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