01x01 - Episode 1

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Right, yeah, well, I've got

the eggs, the bananas and the milk,

and, yeah, got that God-awful cheese

that Sophie likes so much.

Now, is there anything else?

'Crisps.

One of the multi-pack things.

'Oh, and a couple of bottles

of wine.'

Eh, you know, we're

we're drinking way too much,

you know?

We're becoming one of those

middle-aged alcoholics

they do news reports about.

'Oh, I'm not middle aged,

you might be.'

Oh, right, thanks for that.

I'll, er I'll see you in a bit.

GLASS BOTTLES CLINK

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Whay!

DISPUTE OCCURRING

Yeah? Do you want it?

Yeah? You stink!

Over his head.

Pass it, pass it. Go on.

Oh, sorry, mate,

you're too slow, aren't you?

DISPUTE CONTINUES,

MAN COUGHS

You stink. Do you want this back?

You stupid old man.

Yeah, pass it, pass it.

That's it. It's just there, mate.

Huh? What are you gonna do

about that?!

Hey!

What?

Shouldn't what?

You got something to say, big man?

In a bit, mate, bye!

Hi.

Hi there.

Hi, Daddy.

Please tell me you remembered wine.

I did. Long day, was it?

I miss when people used to clap

for the nurses.

So much more useful

than actual money.

CHATTER ON RADIO

Speaking of which

..this came from

the mortgage company.

You might want to have a drink

before you read it.

Oh, it's OK.

I'll call them tomorrow.

How was your day, anyway?

Anything happen?

No, nothing. All fine.

Now, remind me

is it red or white that goes with

fish fingers? I can never remember.

Can I have wine?

If you give me a chip,

I'll think about it.

I've thought about it. No.

THEY LAUGH

Morning, Harry.

Harry, er, bin day is tomorrow.

I know that.

I'm not a bloody idiot.

Morning.

Morning, Simon.

Er, just a minute, guys.

Am I late? I didn't think

we were meeting till ten.

We should, er

We should probably have a chat.

Don't understand, erm

I thought there weren't supposed

to be any more redundancies.

Well, things haven't picked up

as much as we'd hoped.

HR will go through

all the legal stuff,

but I just thought I owed you

a heads-up.

In terms of a payoff,

w-what we looking at?

Well, like I said,

you need to speak to HR.

I know I haven't had

the best of years,

but I'm not the only one

who's not hitting the targets, am I?

I can't really get into that. Erm

Let's call it a day, yeah?

Yeah, I don't wish to be difficult,

but, you know,

we're really struggling

with the mortgage

and it's it's triple

what it used to be,

and we're already a month behind.

It's not my call.

And if there

If it's discretion

Simon, don't put me in

that position.

We're done here. Yeah?

Yep.

Er, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I am sorry.

It's not your fault.

Well, it's certainly not yours.

And it's definite?

Yeah, it will be, erm

There's this sort of process to go

through, erm, but it is definite.

And we might have to think about

..looking to move

somewhere more affordable.

Well, I've been asking around

about extra shifts,

and maybe I could join an agency.

SHE SIGHS

Please, I want to,

and we need the money.

It's not the '70s.

You don't have to apologise

for not being the breadwinner.

We're in this together!

We're not like your parents.

Well, if you're trying

to make me feel better,

maybe don't mention my parents.

HE LAUGHS

Shall we open another bottle?

HE GRUNTS

Er, well, m-maybe I'd Yes.

We could get very drunk.

Offensively drunk.

THEY LAUGH

It doesn't mean we're having sex,

by the way. Ugh

But then again, it might!

CLATTERING

DOGS BARKING

What's that?

Think it's a bag

or something.

Grab it!

You see that?

THEY MUTTER

INDISTINCTLY

Oh, sh*t, go! What are you doing?

I know you.

I've seen you before by the shops.

Right, I'm calling the police.

Oh, all right, big man.

What, this you, is it? Number 32.

Hey, what's your name, 32?

I asked you a question.

What's your name?

I'll come back every night

until you tell me.

Daddy?

Oh, no, no, Soph.

No, no. Go back to bed.

Shhhh.

Just go away!

I'll see you tomorrow, yeah?

DULL THUDDING

BANGING

Sophie, what are you doing?

What What are you up to?

It's nothing to be

embarrassed about, pickle.

You know, these things happen.

Are you

Are you worried about something?

Well, is it school?

Erm, I've

It's not school, right, so

Is it about what happened

last night?

Well, look, that's just

some silly boy playing a joke,

and, you know,

it won't happen again, I promise.

All right? Now, more importantly

what would you like?

Toast or cereal?

Toast. With strawberry jam.

You know, is it OK if we

don't talk to Mum about this?

Erm, I wouldn't want her to worry.

Not that there's anything

to worry about.

It's, er I just think

it's better if we don't tell her,

if that's all right with you.

OK, good girl.

Right.

Hello. I would like to report

an incident, please.

At York Avenue.

My name is Henderson,

Simon Henderson,

and it was a young man

outside of my house,

very, very intimidating.

And I'd like to speak

to a human being, please,

and not a machine.

DRILLING,

GRUNTING AND GASPING

EXASPERATED SIGH

Connecting camera

Where's the Is this?

HE GROWLS

Daddy?

Why don't you just go

and watch the telly, love?

PHONE RINGING

Erm, er, yes?

'You OK?'

'I rang the agency. They offered me

a shift at a private clinic.

'There's no point coming home.

'I'll get a sandwich and head over

when I'm done here.'

You don't have to.

I've told them I'm doing it.

Please, let's not argue about this.

There's some lasagne in the fridge

for you and Soph.

'And don't just stick her in front

of the telly all night.' I know.

'I'll be back late,

so don't wait up. Love you!'

Yeah, I love you, too.

HE SIGHS

S-Soph, come on. Just get your coat.

Come on, let's, erm,

Yes! Go on.

GIGGLING

SCREAM

What's the matter?

What have you done, Soph?

Let me have a look.

Now, go on, show me.

Ow.

I cut it on the bottle.

LAUGHTER

Did you do that?!

"Did you do that?"

Shut up

If you want to ruin your lives

..go somewhere else and do it!

LAUGHTER CONTINUES

Come here, I'll carry you.

That's it. It's Come on.

SOPHIE CRIES

We're home now, don't worry.

What's up with her?

She cut her leg at the playground,

it's bloody kids.

Oh, right.

SOPHIE WHIMPERS

Thanks for the sympathy (!)

OK. There you go, love.

Well, right

Ow.

I won't tell Mummy.

What?

You can tell Mummy, if you want to,

course you can.

I only said that earlier because

well, there's a lot going on.

You just mustn't worry about it,

that's all.

All done.

Why don't you go and watch

the telly, eh?

HE SIGHS

DOORBELL RINGS

DOORBELL RINGS

How are you doing, 32?

What do you want?

You been shouting at my mates

in the park.

What?

That what you like, is it?

Being the big man

in front of some young boys.

What is it

that you think you're doing?

Are you a paedo 32?

Nah.

You're a paedo, innit?

See, I should be the one

calling the feds.

You paedo.

Tryna touch me, 32?

Is that what you like, is it?

Or what?

Am I too old for you?

Cos you like them young, don't you?

Just like your little girl.

GRUNTING

Get up! Go on, get up!

Get up.

I said get up!

PANTING

Er

OK.

One, two, three, four.

Come on, come on, come on.

MUMBLES TO HIMSELF,

SIREN BLARES

..15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

PANTING CONTINUES

Bravo 278

He's not breathing!

Unconscious male in York Avenue.

Can you get an ambulance rolling?

You seem to know what you're doing.

My wife's a nurse,

I've done a few courses.

How come you got here so quickly?

We had a call about some vandalism

in the park.

We're on our way there.

If you'd like to step aside,

my colleague's going to take over.

I think I know him.

That's Paul Franklin's kid, Jordan.

What have you been up to, Jordan?

Well done.

So, did you see what happened?

Er, no, I just found him, like this.

OFFICER PANTING

INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER

This is the guy,

he was giving CPR.

Thanks. Hello there.

Hi. I understand you're the one

who found the young lad.

Er, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Erm, how's he doing?

I don't know. I'm going

to the hospital after this.

From what I've heard,

you may well have saved his life.

Yeah, well, I was just, erm

at home,

and I heard a noise outside,

so I came out to investigate.

And this body was just lying

in the middle of the road there,

and I looked up, and I saw, er

..someone running away,

but I didn't get a good look at him.

First things first, how are you?

How am I?

I can imagine it's upsetting finding

someone in that state.

Are you OK?

Yeah, well, I'm fine, yeah,

thank you.

Good. Glad to hear it. I'm DS Evans.

But you can call me Kelly,

if you want.

And you are?

I'm Simon Henderson.

Simon.

You mentioned that you saw someone

running away.

Yeah, just a fleeting glance, erm

but I didn't get a good look at him.

Him? It's definitely a male?

Yeah, yeah, er, male, definitely.

Does that camera work?

No, I'm afraid not, no.

Erm I only got it this afternoon.

I haven't connected it up, I'm

..not great with technology.

No, I know what you mean.

Honestly, you need your degree

for some of these things, don't you?

OK. One of my colleagues

will take a statement from you,

and I'll probably want to follow up

myself in the next day or so.

DOOR SLAMS,

HE EXHALES DEEPLY

'Yeah.

Cos you like 'em young, don't you?

'Just like your little girl.'

GRUNTING

'Get up! Go on! Get up!'

Oh, hello there. Yes, erm

I just wanted to inquire

after a patient

who's been admitted into, er, A&E

probably about an hour ago.

His name's Jordan.

Actually, I can't remember

his surname, I'm afraid. Erm

No, no, I'm not a family member

but, erm, my wife,

she is a nurse in the hospital.

No, don't page her,

because she's not actually working

in the hospital tonight.

So I just wondered if you could

tell me how he

Yeah. Erm

No, never mind.

MONITOR BEEPS

Simon?

What are you doing here?

Oh, erm, my wife,

she does a shift downstairs.

She's a nurse.

I've come to pick her up. Er

Yeah, so I thought I'd check on,

erm

CLICKS FINGER

..Jordan, isn't it?

Yeah. They're not saying too much

for now.

He needs an operation.

He's got some kind of injury

to his brain.

It's looking like it's going to be

touch and go for a while, but

Oh Sorry.

Sorry, do you mind if I?

Oh, God, you b*stard.

Oh. Bloody neck.

Actually, they gave me

your statement.

The person that you saw

running off

you don't think you'd give me

a better description than, erm

.."Average height,

white trainers, hoodie"?

No, it just happened so fast

that's that's all

I could make out.

OK, well, if anything else occurs,

you let me know, yeah?

Got a card here somewhere.

Bit old-fashioned, innit, cards?

What will you do next

with the investigation?

We'll talk to your neighbours.

We'll go door-to-door.

We'll check CCTV.

I'll speak to some of Jordan's pals.

Not that they'll tell me anything.

Bit cynical, sorry,

but these gangs.

Oh, so you think it's, er,

g*ng-related?

Well, I try to keep open-minded,

but

..that kid in there

I've had mugshots of him

since he was nine years old. Oh.

It's the closest thing he's got

to a school photo.

Anyway, don't let me keep you.

Sorry?

Your wife, picking her up.

Right, yeah. Thank you.

Oh, God, that's all I need.

It's Jordan's parents.

Listen, you should probably go.

They can be difficult. Difficult?

You need to go.

What's going on?

They ain't told us nothin'

on the phone.

Jordan was found unconscious

in the street,

it's looking like he's been in

a fight.

A fight? Who with?

Let's find a doctor. They can

tell us more about what's going on.

Can we see him?

Let's see what the doctor says.

Well, have you nicked anyone?

We're making enquiries.

You're making

I swear to God

if I f*cking find them

before you do

What do you expect me

to say to that, Paul?

I know it's hard,

but let me do my job.

Who's this?

Thank you again.

You should get going.

Yeah, I am sorry. I

I hope everything's all right.

Come here. Come here.

Come on. Come on.

SHE SOBS

PANTING

MONITOR BEEPS

JORDAN COUGHS

He's waking up.

Jordan?

It's your dad. Can you hear me?

HE GROANS

Who did this?

INHALES SHARPLY

Simon?

Hey.

Janice said you called her

to babysit.

What time did you get back?

About half past two? Er

M-Maybe later than that.

Janice said that you'd found

some lad beaten up outside the house

and you went to the hospital.

Are you all right?

..lying there, not breathing.

HE SOBS

I had to go.

Hey, hey, hey. Come on.

It's OK.

It's all my fault.

What? How could it be your fault?

Because

I had to do this, erm

the CPR, and, erm,

I did what I could remember,

but what if I made it worse?

Listen, anything

is better than nothing.

If he wasn't breathing and you left,

he would have died for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Can I get you anything?

All right.

Well, I'm going to go

and get dressed for work.

Do you want me to see if I can see

how this lad is, let you know?

SOFTLY: Yeah, please. Yeah, please.

OK.

Oi!

You all right?

It's just, erm It's your house?

Er, yes, yeah, yes, it is, yes.

That camera work?

Er, no. Well, er, not yet, anyway.

I haven't connected it up yet.

Only, er, only got it yesterday.

Did I, erm

Did I see you last night

at the hospital?

I was talking to that, erm,

that Kelly, what's her face.

Are you the man that found my boy?

Yeah, yes, yes, I am.

Thank you, mate.

Do you mind if I come in?

Where you off?

Well, I'm going to work,

erm, I'm very late as it is.

Well, five minutes won't make any

difference, then, will it?

They keep saying they need

to do more tests, scans and that.

I keep on trying to get an answer,

but

they don't want to say.

The only thing that

they are sure of is that

you saved his life.

Well, I-I-I just did some basic CPR.

No, no.

You kept the oxygen going

to his brain,

you gave him a fighting chance.

And if you hadn't come along

when you did

So I just thought I would

do something useful, you know?

Come and have a look for myself,

see if the

..the police missed anything.

Because they can be lazy, you know?

They can

They can make assumptions.

They said that you saw someone

running off.

Er, it all happened so quickly.

Was he tall, small,

Black, white, fat, thin, what?

It all happened so quickly.

Well, you give a statement, right?

So what did you say?

Well, that's something that

I don't I don't mean to be rude,

but, erm

Isn't that something

that we should leave to the police?

You got kids, right?

Yeah, yes, I've got

..a daughter.

Well, then you'll know

what I'm going through.

Look, I'm sorry. Erm, I'm really

I'm really sorry, mate. I

I'm just a bit

I should be thanking you.

Oh, no. Erm, you

That It's quite all right.

I don't want to be rude, but I

..I should be getting into work.

No, you go, you go.

Absolutely, please. Erm

But, look, me and you,

we're going to go for a pint, yeah?

Because I owe you.

I owe you.

Hi, I'm looking

for Simon Henderson?

Simon Henderson.

Oh, there. I see.

Yeah, great. Thank you.

Simon Henderson?

My name is Juliet Grayson.

I wondered if you had a moment

to talk about last night?

Oh, are you working with DS Evans?

I'll, er You can Right, erm

Erm, you know, I'm

I'm not sure what else I can add.

I think I

I think I mentioned everything that

I could remember in my statement.

Sorry, I probably

should have been clearer.

I'm not actually with the police.

I work for the Haverbridge Green

Gazette.

You're a journalist?

That was quite something

that you did. No, I'm sorry.

I'm You know, I'm just

I'm just not

not comfortable

about talking about it.

Could you please just leave?

It will get written.

One way or another.

I just want to make sure

I don't get the facts wrong.

Well done, Si!

CHEERING

Well done.

Well done, mate!

Good on you, mate.

DISTORTED AUDIO

CAR HORN HONKS

You all right?

I was just driving by.

Thought I'd say hello.

It was in the paper, wasn't it?

How's Jordan doing?

Yeah, he's still the same.

No change.

Listen, I could do with a pint.

Do you fancy one?

I really have to get back,

but, um, another time

Come on, just one pint.

Well, I'm driving.

I'll take you. Drop you off.

Come on, get in.

I said

get in.

CAR ENGINE STARTS

TYRES SCREECH

Thank you. Cheers.

Now, then

I got us a Malbec.

Argentinian.

The good stuff.

Oh, well, thank you.

What, you thought I was going to

come back with some cooking lager?

Oh, no. No.

Yeah, you did.

No, I'm quite into wine, as it goes.

It started off

as just an investment.

I bought a crate

of that Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

And I got it for, like,

£500 or something a few years back.

Thing's worth over three grand now.

HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

Red wine just gives me

terrible hangovers.

Is that right?

You know why, don't you?

It's because you're drinking

the sh*t stuff. Yeah.

Too much acid in the grapes.

I've got a mate, yeah?

He owns a vineyard.

Over in Spain.

He can bore you for hours about it.

Tell you what,

I could put you in touch with him.

Double your money in a year.

Well, I don't have that

that kind of disposable income

at the moment.

Oh, yeah? Why's that?

Well, that's a long story.

Don't bother, then.

Ha-ha.

I

I'm being made redundant,

It's

..all happened all of a sudden,

really.

And I think

that we-we may have to move house,

but, you know, you don't want

to hear my life story, do you?

No, it's the same all over,

isn't it?

You know, I've had three

shite years back to back.

What is it you do?

Full-time gangster.

Your face. I run security.

I've got a security firm.

We do building sites, mostly, but we

also run a few doors in town, so

Yeah, that's me.

Gangster.

Anyway

Un brindis para amistades nuevas.

I do, yeah.

Don't look so surprised about it.

No, I wasn't surprised. I just

You think

I'm some sort of f*cking moron!

No, no. No, I don't.

I'm joking.

THEY LAUGH

Joking, mate. Come on.

Relax, it's fine, yeah?

Cheers. You are too easy to wind up.

Am I?

Hello there.

Hi.

Do you know

if Simon Henderson's about?

I'm afraid he's not, no. Can I help?

I'm DS Kelly Evans.

It is me, honestly, old photo.

Is this about the as*ault?

It is, yes.

Are you Simon's wife?

Yeah. Beth.

Hi, Beth. Hi.

Could you pass the message on?

Mm-hm.

Take it you've seen the local news?

I have, yes.

Can I ask that Simon speaks to me

before he gives another interview?

There's nothing wrong, per se.

It's just,

it can harm an investigation

if the wrong thing's written.

OK, I'll pass that on.

Do you work at Haverbridge

Infirmary? Is that right?

Yeah. How do you know that?

Simon mentioned it the other night

when he was waiting to pick you up.

Sorry, when was this?

This is the night of the as*ault.

Bumped into Simon at the hospital.

He said he was giving you a lift,

you were on a late shift.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

He's good like that.

You got him well trained.

Honestly, my fella,

can't even get him to run me a bath.

But anyway, it's good to meet you.

You, too.

You know, I mean,

I'm 56 now, aren't I?

And my um

my employment record

has not exactly been

I've had

a lot of time off with stress.

More than stress, if I'm honest.

You don't need to know that, sorry.

Look, Simon,

I've got mates who've topped

themselves, yeah? I get it.

Everyone's very kind, you know.

My wife, especially, she um

I should be going.

GLUGS

Are you all right, Daryl?

Is there somewhere

that I can get a cab?

The usual?

Simon. Simon, come here.

If I was to ask you something, you'd

tell me the truth, wouldn't you?

Oh, yes of course.

You know, that night

that Jordan was attacked, yeah?

You said

you saw someone running off.

Now, if you saw him again,

you think you'd recognise him?

Well, I don't know. Why?

Was it him?

There you go.

Thank you.

Because I've been doing

a bit of thinking, right?

And that f*ck there,

he used to work for me.

And we parted on less

than friendly terms, right?

Now he's doing his thing,

And I'm doing mine.

Needless to say,

there's a bit of bad blood.

So he might be trying to get to me

through my boy, do you understand?

Was it him?

Did you bring me here for this?

Simon.

Just look at him and tell me.

You don't THINK so?

It wasn't him.

All right, I'm sorry, mate.

Forget it.

I think I'll just go to the toilet,

and then I really should be going.

BREATHING HEAVILY

PANTING

WATER OFF

Ungh!

PUNCHING

Come here.

Come here!

Argh!

Hey, hey.

PUNCHING

Was it him?

Simon, look at him! Was it him?

Are you sure?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. No! Stop it!

Piece of sh*t.

PANTING

Harry.

You know, it might be nice if you

actually said something for once.

Like

"Hello, good evening. How are you?"

I mean, take your pick. It's just

just a courtesy after all.

I mean, go on, just have a go now.

Good evening.

PANTING

REGULAR BEEPING

ALARM

What's this? Paul!

What is it?

Paul, come on.

No!

Nurse! No. Jordan.

Jordan, come on. Jordan.

No, no, no, no! Jordan!

Help!

Nurse!

No, no, no, no!

Yeah, it's

it's about the attack on that lad.

I saw who did it.

Have I done something to upset you,

Simon?

'I'm just a little uncomfortable

about all this attention.'

Did you see any young lads outside

your property on that night?

I do not know who did this to my

son, but somebody out there does.

What's the matter with you, Simon?

Why are you making this

so difficult?