03x01 - The Wrong Man

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In the criminal justice system,
the people are represented

by two separate yet equally important
groups - the police, who investigate crime,

and the crown prosecutors,
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Taylor. Ricky Taylor.

That's who you should have brought
in. I didn't do nothing.

Hold still, will you?

Adrenaline.
And get a chest X-ray organised.

I need a doctor here!

Get the crash trolley.
I need a line in, quick.

Everything OK?
Check her blood pressure.

Charge to 150.
I was waiting for chest X-rays.

Back in a minute.

Go ahead, Control.
Listen to me. I just...

Sir, it doesn't matter
that you were here first.

Someone has a Kn*fe sticking out of
their head, they take priority.

So just take a seat and you'll be
called when they're ready.

I've been here 40 minutes.
I just need to know where she is.

I've told you! I have to check
with admissions!

What about my prescription?
Take a seat!

This is ridiculous. Sir! Sir,
you can't go through there.

Sir! Sir, you can't go through there!
Still no pulse. Adrenaline in.

I'm sorry, you can't be in here.
That's my daughter.

Sir, you really need to
wait outside. What's going on?

Her condition's deteriorated.
We're doing everything we can.

Is she going to be alright?

Dr Mills.

Time to call it.

Time of death is 23:17.

I'm very sorry.

What are you doing?

I'm afraid your daughter had a total
pulmonary collapse.

So do something! Do CPR,
use the paddles!

We already tried. It didn't work.

No. No, this is crazy!

All she had was a sore throat.

You don't die from a sore throat.

You don't die from a sore throat.

Suzy.

So this girl comes in with flu...

And four hours later she was dead.

Right.
People can die unexpectedly.

There can be underlying conditions
that aren't diagnosed properly.

I know all that.

But I've been doing this a long
time, and I'm telling you, Nat,

Suzanne Morton
should not have d*ed.

If you say something's wrong,
I believe you.

I'm not sure what I can -

This is the third unexplained death
on my ward in the past six months.

Each time the administration
fobbed the family off.

It all gets swept under the carpet.

This is the third one.

I mean one, maybe two a year with
no obvious cause of death,

that wouldn't be out
of the question, but this,

this isn't right.

Let me get this straight, Sinead.

You think someone on the ward
is k*lling patients.

Yes, I do.

I can tell you how much her liver
weighed and what she had for dinner.

Why she d*ed, who knows?
Not even a theory?

I don't do theories.

She d*ed because
she stopped breathing.

There was some congestion,
fluid on the lungs.

For cause of death,

you'll have to wait for the tox
screen and tissue samples.

Could you rush those? Standard
post-mortem, standard tests.

They take the standard time.

It's the NHS, not CSI.

There was me thinking
you were Gil Grissom.

We've tried the dead. Let's see if we
have any more luck with the living.

Who's the head honcho
at the emergency department?

Dr Edward Austen, senior consultant.

All right.

So, you weren't in the emergency
department when Suzanne Morton d*ed?

No, no, I wasn't.

When I'm on call I grab 40 winks
whenever the opportunity arises.

Saturday tends to be a long shift.

I thought consultants delegated that
kind of thing and played golf.

Ha! Sadly those days are long gone.

It's all accountability,
competition and choice,

or slash and burn,
depending on your point of view.

Your staff don't page you
with cardiac arrests?

I wouldn't expect it.

The crash team responds. Christine
Mills is a very experienced registrar.

Nothing I'd have done differently.

Except the girl still d*ed.

Yes, she did.

Which is obviously a tragedy
for the family.

But I'm not sure what you expect
to find here.

These things are regrettable,
but hardly a crime.

We understand
there have been problems

regarding other patients
at the hospital.

Who told you that?
A source.

I hate to tell you
how to do your job,

but unless your source makes these
claims publicly,

I'd hesitate to believe anything
else they said.

Do you know who admitted
Suzanne Morton?

It was a Dr Simonson.
The nurses can help you find him.

Yes, she was my last patient
before I went off duty.

Viral chest infection.

Dramatised her symptoms a little,
but they often do.

I ordered a chest X-ray
before I left. Why?

We're investigating her death.

Death? I guess she wasn't
dramatising after all.

She d*ed?
You look surprised.

She had a chest infection.
She wasn't that sick.

What? You think it was my fault?

You think I missed something?
We've been asked to look into it.

Who treated her after you left?
I'm not sure.

One of the registrars
would have taken her charts.

I'm only a first year.

They don't let me do anything
on my own.

You should talk to Dr Mills.

It was pneumonia.

The sputum examination and blood
cultures were indicative,

and the chest X-ray
showed fluid on the lungs.

So the first doctor who saw her
got it wrong? No.

Dr Simonson made
a provisional diagnosis

based on her symptoms
and ordered the X-ray to confirm it.

He did nothing wrong.
But pneumonia can be treated.

It doesn't k*ll people.

It can if complicated
by chemical pneumonitis.

Which is? The lungs become inflamed
by an irritant.

The patient was feverish
and lost consciousness.

She must have aspirated
some of her stomach contents.

And it can happen that quickly?
One minute OK, next minute dead?

If the registrar who was treating
her recognised it sooner,

we might have saved her,
but there's no way of knowing.

You were the one treating her.
No, you want to speak to Dr Grant.

And I think he's at lunch.

This is starting to feel like
pass the parcel.

If you see Mr Morton,
please extend my condolences.

You were treating Suzanne in the ER.

Er, the ED.

Only briefly. We were still waiting
for her X-rays to come back.

Sadly, by the time they did...

So just exactly how ill was she?

We were told it was a chest
infection, possibly pneumonia,

nothing immediately life-threatening.

No, she was extremely ill.

If we'd known what we were dealing
with she'd have been moved to ITU.

But sadly...

Yeah, it's all pretty sad.

If that's everything you need...
Yes.

Thanks for your help.

What help?

I was using the term loosely.

So she had mild bronchitis,
she had chemical pneumonitis,

she was dramatising her symptoms,
she should have been in ITU.

The only thing that everyone agrees
on is that no-one did anything wrong.

Is it any clearer in the notes?
Oh, yeah, as mud.

Basically we could be dealing
with another Dr Crippen

and I would not have a clue.

Judging from some of the handwriting,

I'd say half these doctors
were serial K*llers.

Give me a sh**ting in an alley.
At least I can spot a smoking g*n.

Look at this.

There's a word crossed out here
that looks like it says 'codename'.

What, in the notes?
No, on the chart.

Are you allowed to cross something
out on a chart?

Isn't it an official record?
I've no idea.

I think we ought to arrange
a rendezvous with Deep Throat.

Hm.
Not the p*rn film!

Any mistake
should be clearly initialled.

But if someone's in a rush,
they might forget.

Would you ever get staff going back
to amend the charts,

correct something
if they've got it wrong?

They'd be tampering
with hospital records,

which is definitely illegal.

Could that be what's happened?
It's possible.

Someone crossed 'codeine' out
and wrote 'paracetamol'.

Not 'codename'.
They're common painkillers.

The prescribing doctor
could have changed their mind.

So if Suzanne Morton was given
codeine rather than paracetamol

what difference would that have made?

There are situations where codeine's
contra-indicated.

Meaning? There's a good reason
why you shouldn't prescribe it.

But that would have been noted
on admission.

It should be at the beginning
of her notes. It's not there?

There's a report
by the triage nurse.

It stops halfway through.

There's a page missing.

Oh. Looks like we've just found
our smoking g*n.

Do we have any idea who could have
changed the name of the drug on this chart?

Any of the staff
could have had access, guv.

The handwriting looks
a lot like Dr Grant's.

He was the registrar treating
Suzanne Morton, so...

Why don't we bring him in
and push him a bit?

No. I want to know what was in
that missing patient history.

We've got to be sure this is
a cover-up, not a coincidence.

Is that Suzanne's dad?
Yeah.

He's been in every day.

Hi. Sorry to keep you waiting.

Go in and have a little chat?

Suzie was an anxious young woman

with a history
of serious depression.

Sadly, we finally found a way of
managing it effectively.

Was she on medication?

I referred her to an adolescent
psychiatrist in her early teens,

and over the past five years,
she'd been on every antidepressant

with very little success.

As a last resort we tried her
on phenelzine sulphate,

and that really helped.

And would this...
phenelzine sulphate...

Can you take that along with
other dr*gs?

Painkillers?
You have to be careful.

If you combine phenelzine
with an opiate-based analgesic,

then it would prove fatal.

Opiate-based? Morphine, codeine,
that type of thing.

OK, the tox screen shows
paracetamol, it shows aspirin

and an antihistamine.

What about phenelzine sulphate?
Not on this test.

But we know the girl was taking it.

She may have been, but it would not
show up on the standard test.

Brilliant.
Does that go for codeine?

Depends how long
she was taking it for.

Why don't you order another
tox screen

that shows up whether phenelzine or
codeine's in the girl's system, urgently?

These tests don't come cheap.

You may not have heard
we've had some budget cuts.

We'll have a whip round.

Fine. But it won't be
before tomorrow.

And you're wasting your time.

You'd have to be an idiot to take
codeine with phenelzine.

It could k*ll you.

Deep breaths, son.
Come on, let's go.

It was a busy night. I wrote codeine
but I gave her paracetamol.

Why didn't you put your initials
to the correction?

It was busy. I must have forgotten.

It was a simple mistake.

Did you know that some of Suzanne Morton's
patient history notes had gone missing?

Notes go missing in the emergency
department all the time.

Anyway, the girl d*ed of
pneumonia-related complications

that had nothing to do
with her history.

Not even the heavy duty
antidepressants she was on?

Sorry?

She'd been taking phenelzine
sulphate for the last six months.

Surely that was on the history.

Um, no. No, it wasn't.

That is odd, because the triage
nurse is pretty sure

that she included a full history,
including current medication.

Either way, I wrote the wrong drug
on the chart, that's all.

Haven't you ever made a mistake?

Yes, of course, Dr Grant.

Difference is, when you make one,
people end up dying.

This is crazy! I didn't cause
Suzanne Morton's death.

Fine. We'll see if the tox screen
agrees with you, shall we?

I thought they'd already done the
post-mortem. We decided to dig deeper.

I thought he was going to throw up.

Sounds like a guilty conscience.

Even if the dr*gs show up
on the tox screen,

no-one witnessed Grant give her
the injection.

It makes sense, though. He messed up, she
d*ed, he panicked, tried to cover it up.

Scratched out her name, tore a page
out and hoped for the best.

Not exactly a mastermind.

Still, if we hadn't have gone looking
no-one would have noticed.

Makes you wonder what else
he's got away with. Cheers.

Positive for phenelzine,
positive for codeine. OK.

This is not a coincidence.
Bring him in.

So it's Dr Grant. We'd just like
another chat with him.

I should have known.
What makes you say that?

The nurses know
when someone's out of their depth.

Half the time he called in Dr Austen
cos he hadn't a clue.

Maybe he's on his rounds in CDU.

Cathy. Yes. Do you have
Dr Grant with you?

OK.

He didn't turn up for his shift and
nobody's seen him since yesterday.

Checked his flat, no sign,
but his car is still outside.

Got uniformed trying the neighbours
but they're mostly at work.

We've stationed officers
at the hospital,

but no-one's seen him since
yesterday.

Spoken to the family?
Trying to track them down.

If we didn't think he was guilty
before, we do now.

We've got a hit on Grant's
credit card.

He's bought a ticket at St Pancras
International. Paris?

Bruges. The next train's
in 45 minutes. Come on.

Exits are covered,
but no platform announcement yet.

He could be anywhere. Fan out.

I wonder if you could help us.
Do you recognise this man?

Excuse me.

All units, got eyeballs
on the suspect.

He's halfway down the concourse
outside international arrivals

in a blue cagoule with a holdall.

Suspect is on the move. He's heading
back along the concourse towards me.

Suspect on the move.
Excuse me, ladies.

Dr Adrian Grant,
this is DS Matt Devlin.

I need you to open up.

Right.

Seriously, doc, either you come out
or I'm coming in, yeah?

Dr Adrian Grant,

I'm arresting you on suspicion of
the manslaughter of Suzanne Morton.

Hope you let him
wash his hands first.

I really don't think I want to say
anything at this stage.

I'd say trying to skip the country
speaks volumes, wouldn't you?

I panicked. I didn't know what else
to do. They'd been too clever.

Sorry - 'they'?
Who's 'they', Dr Grant?

Austen, Mills, the nurses,
the whole lot of them,

they're all in on it and they've
lied to make me take the fall.

So it's all one big conspiracy?
Yes, yes, it is.

And what, they put a g*n
to your head?

Made you give Suzanne Morton
the codeine?

I didn't give her anything.

It was Austen.
He gave the injection.

I just filled in the chart.

I didn't know it was wrong,
not till the girl had d*ed.

When you changed
'codeine' to 'paracetamol'.

You're not listening.
I didn't change anything.

That was Christine. Christine Mills.
I see.

They really are all in on it.
Yes. Yes, they are.

Hm.

Funny you never mentioned
that before.

Christine told me to keep quiet
and it'd be OK.

She said they'd tell the family
it was pneumonia.

You told Morton it was pneumonia.

Didn't you speak to him
the next day? Yes.

But only because I had to
go along with it.

They gave me no choice.
Let me get this straight.

Dr Edward Austen
just walks onto the ward

and randomly gives your patient,
Suzanne Morton,

an injection of codeine.

He's erratic sometimes.

Ask anyone. Everyone in the hospital
knows he's a drinker.

And Dr Mills, is she a drinker too?
No, of course not.

But she'll do anything
to protect Austen.

She's got a thing for him.
Has done for years.

You've no idea what it's like.
They all stick together.

A code of silence.

It's like dealing with the medical
Mafia. Cosa Nostra and the NHS.

I swear I'm telling the truth!

So basically Dr Grant
is going for the Shaggy defence.

It wasn't me.
Exactly.

What?

Young person's music, Matty.
My girls keep me with it.

You were doing really well
till you said 'with it'.

It still may not be enough
to charge him.

What? You are kidding, right?

The only real evidence is
his handwriting on the chart.

And the dr*gs in Suzanne
Morton's system.

And the one-way ticket to Belgium.

Come on, Alesha, if he's not guilty,
why does he run?

There's someone
I think you should meet.

Just flown in from Milan, wants to
know why we're looking for him.

And are we looking for him?
I believe we are, yes.

That's Dr Adrian Grant.

If that's Adrian Grant...
Then who the hell is he?

I was at an MSF conference in Italy

when I got this crazy phone call
from my mum

saying that the police
were looking for me.

And you've been working in Haiti
for the last year? Yeah.

And Burkina Faso before that.

I joined the Medecins
Sans Frontieres

when I finished
my foundation training.

I wanted to do my bit.

And you haven't worked in
this country since? No.

Try telling my mum. She's convinced
I've been lying the last two years.

Do you recognise this man?
Yeah.

Yeah, it's Ian. Ian Naylor.

And how do you know Dr Naylor?

We shared a flat together
for a couple of months

just before I went away.

But Ian's not a doctor,
he's a chiropodist.

Ian Naylor and Adrian Grant

were medical students together
at Durham

until Naylor failed his second-year
exams and dropped out.

They lost touch, but Grant was
looking for a place two years back

and Naylor had a room going.

Naylor trained as a chiropodist
but never practised.

Can't blame him. All those feet.

When Grant went to Africa he left
some stuff in storage with Naylor -

personal papers, medical
qualifications, birth certificate.

And Naylor just helped himself?
Yeah.

Borrowed the birth certificate,
applied for a new passport and licence,

then got a job at the Alderman
with Grant's qualifications.

Passing himself off as a doctor
at a major London teaching hospital.

Reassuring, isn't it?

White coat, stethoscope, people
believe anything you say.

Bit like a wig and a gown.

Too right. I've been getting away
with it for years.

The Prime Minister had his adenoids
removed at the Alderman.

He was very impressed by
the staff's professionalism.

That's come back to bite him.

Well and truly. A rogue chiropodist
stalking the wards.

The stuff of PR nightmares.

A lot of people would like this
to go away ASAP.

Have to wait for the medical
negligence inquiry.

So far we've got Naylor
on at least ten counts.

Fraud by false representation,
forgery,

false instruments, manslaughter.

We've had the call from the defence.
Robinson wants to meet.

I'm expecting a straight guilty plea
on the fraud.

Take it. We can prosecute
for the rest down the line.

So long as we do. Naylor wasn't just
playing doctor, he k*lled someone.

When we can, we will.
For now let's focus on the fraud.

It's not like Naylor's
got a foot to stand on.

Foot. Chiropodist. No?

My client will plead
to two main counts of fraud.

What about the other eight counts?

A guilty plea would eliminate
the need for a long, costly trial.

Very cost conscious.

And bearing in mind my clients
mental state -

What mental state is that?

Mr Naylor's seeing an expert
in delusional behaviour.

She's helped him understand
what triggered the events.

Really? Some kind of deep-seated
trauma, I presume.

I had some emotional problems
when I was a medical student.

I now see that I had
some kind of breakdown.

Mr Naylor, in this case,

your mental state can't be used
as a defence.

Can we agree to drop this groundless
manslaughter charge?

I'd hardly call it groundless.

My Naylor has identified
an alcoholic colleague

as responsible for
Suzanne Morton's death.

No-one supports his allegations,
leaving him holding the syringe.

No! You're not pinning that girl's
death on me.

It was Austen. I don't care what his
cronies have told you.

Talk to the junior doctors.

Simonson nearly lost a patient
because of him.

It was about six months ago.
This guy, 25, basically healthy,

walks in with the worst headache
of his life.

Slight soreness in the neck.
But it was ambiguous.

And Dr Austen treated him?
He prescribed morphine.

Probably the worst thing.

It masks the symptoms of meningitis,
which is what the guy had.

Dr Mills found it in time
and he was OK in the end, but -

It could have ended
very differently.

I don't want to get anyone
into trouble.

It's just one of those things.

Is that the only time Austen
made a mistake like that? Yes.

I mean, I don't know.

People make mistakes.

And Dr Austen is getting older.
He gets tired.

Especially since his accident.

Naylor's sticking to his story but no-one
will back him up about the drinking.

Even with one confirmed incident
of misdiagnosis,

the general attitude is
you win some, you lose some.

Yeah, well,

Dr Austen may well have been losing
a few more than his share.

What do you mean?
We looked into those deaths.

Naylor was attendant registrar
for both,

but the night Anna Jeffries d*ed,

he had an upset stomach
and went home.

Austen stepped in.

And Carl Hobbs -

his daughters reckon Naylor had
a word with their dad

and then handed over to 'some posh
old bloke with grey hair'. Austen.

So we got onto the Medical
Negligence Team,

who cross-reffed patients
that they'd flagged up

and it turns out that Austen's name
comes up on another five files.

So, what, Austen's been slowly losing
his marbles and nobody's noticed?

That is one explanation.
However, there is another.

Austen was done for drink driving
several times in the late '80s,

finally disqualified from driving
in 1990,

and his blood alcohol level
was off the charts.

The ward sister mentioned the car
crash. He's been teetotal since.

Could have fallen off the wagon.
This sister's sharp.

She'd notice someone
smelling of booze.

Although you'd be amazed
what a person can hide.

There was another crash. Austen came
off his bike three years ago.

Sister Logan said he was on
painkillers to work.

Simonson says Austen's never been
the same.

He was in pain,
having trouble coping with work.

Couple of Nurofen Plus taken in the
right or the wrong state of mind,

well, that's nearly as good as
a stiff whisky.

And a lot easier to hide.

Very straightforward.

Some hooligan in a van turned left
without indicating,

and Teddy took the brunt of it.

I understand he was prescribed
painkillers for his back injury.

Of course. The man was in agony.

Even with the codeine he was
bed-bound for nearly a month.

Do you prescribe codeine

for a patient with a history
of alcohol abuse?

History of what?

Dr Austen lost his licence after
a string of drink-driving offences.

That was years ago! Teddy sorted
himself out after that.

I wasn't going to withhold
pain relief

because he used to like
a few drinks.

Did Dr Austen ever ask for
a repeat prescription?

I can't discuss that.

Well, might he have continued
prescribing it for himself?

You'd have to ask him.

If he did, it would have been
perfectly legal.

The man's a doctor.

Well, that's all right then.

GMC guidelines say a doctor
should avoid self-prescribing,

but there aren't statutory
restrictions.

He can write as many as he likes.
He'd still need to get them filled.

The hospital pharmacy?

If he has a drug problem,
he's not getting them from there.

And the staff?
I got more of the same.

Austen's highly competent, sometimes
patients die, blah-blah.

Pushed about medical errors,
everyone clammed up. Not everyone.

So you now want to question

Mr Naylor as a potential witness?

It's one simple question.

My client would be happy to answer,

assuming you're dropping
the manslaughter charge.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Then perhaps we should discuss my
previous proposal about fraud.

You realise I was the only one who
saw Austen give the injection?

I'm not here to bargain with you,
Mr Naylor.

Of course not.

It's just easy to get confused
about things.

Especially with all these different
charges hanging over me.

At the moment, your entire defence
against k*lling Suzanne Morton

is based upon your accusation against
Dr Austen.

Withdraw that statement and you'll go
back to being the prime suspect.

But hey, it's up to you.

Who knows, you might enjoy
the extra time in prison.

You could have dropped
the manslaughter charge.

Wasn't that what we agreed?

Then we still thought Naylor was
guilty. But now we don't.

No. And now he's trying to
blackmail us.

Sometimes criminals
can be less then ethical.

Still, life's all about compromise.

There was no need to compromise.
Naylor was bluffing.

The only thing linking Austen to
Suzanne Morton's death

is Naylor's statement.

He won't go back on it.
He's got too much to lose.

Doesn't that worry you?

He could be pointing the finger
to save his own skin.

He could be telling the truth.
First time for everything.

Either way, could we lose
the manslaughter charge

before you end up in court
with no evidence?

Appalachian Mist. Autumn Sonata.
They're all quite...

Grey.
Mm.

Something you'd like to share?

Naylor's pleading guilty to all
counts relating to the fraud.

Three years, which means
he'll be out in 18 months.

The going rate for impersonating
a doctor? Apparently so.

With a good sob story.
This should cheer you up.

Dr Austen gets regular prescriptions
filled at 13 different places,

all for codeine,
all in his own name.

One hell of a backache.
He's got a nice little system going.

Keeps them on rotation
so no-one gets suspicious.

Picks up only a month's worth
from any one place at a time,

but it's ramped up -

in the last six months
he's popping them in like Smarties.

A wonder the man can stand up.

This is insane.
Edward Austen is not an addict!

We have records
from 13 different pharmacies

dating back over three years

which strongly suggest otherwise.

We've already got what we need to
prosecute Austen

for gross negligence manslaughter.

You need to start thinking
about yourself.

We know that Austen persuaded you
to lie for him.

At the least you're looking at a charge
for perverting the course of justice.

It wasn't like that.
Then tell us what happened.

I wasn't called
until the girl arrested.

When I looked through her notes I
saw that she'd been on phenelzine

and I confronted Dr Grant.

Naylor. He said that he'd asked
Dr Austen to take a look at her.

And that he'd been the one
to give her the codeine.

So what did you do?

Dr Austen was asleep
in the on-call room.

He was very groggy when I woke him.

He had no idea
he'd done anything wrong.

He admitted giving the injection?

I don't think he even noticed
the phenelzine in her history.

Any half-decent registrar would have
flagged that up immediately.

But he didn't have a half-decent
registrar. He had Ian Naylor.

I couldn't see him hung out to dry
for one mistake.

So I altered the chart
and I removed the notes.

So Austen told you to lie for him.
He didn't have to.

I wanted to help.

But if I'd known about
the addiction -

You'd have thought twice
about protecting a k*ller.

When they searched Austen's house
they found pills everywhere.

Jacket pockets, behind radiators.

He put a lot of them
in aspirin bottles.

His wife was oblivious.
Her and the rest of the world.

Medical degree from Oxford,
trained at UCLH.

One of the first registrars
in his year to be made consultant.

Alesha, I don't think you know
Philip Nevins, Dr Austen's defence.

Regular contributor to the Lancet
and British Medical Journal

on emergency medicine.

Given the Halliwell Award

for conspicuous services
to health care in 2003.

Does he walk on water too?

He's a good man, Jacob,
and a dedicated doctor.

Not like the trash you usually spend
your time prosecuting.

The guy's two years off retirement
and he's given his life to the NHS.

Why destroy that? A patient d*ed
having been given the wrong drug.

Manslaughter -
drug administered by a consultant

high on prescription medication
at the time.

Manslaughter, gross negligence.
I guess we know where we stand.

Guess so.

Suzanne Morton was still complaining

about muscle pains
when Dr Austen arrived.

He examined her briefly,
but he seemed tired and distracted.

He only glanced over
the patient history.

He then administered an injection
of codeine for the pain

and left me to fill in the chart.

Thank you. No further questions.

Mr Naylor. That is your correct
title, isn't it?

Not Dr Naylor.
'Mister' is fine.

Because you never qualified
as a medical doctor.

No.

You're currently serving
a three-year custodial sentence

for fraud by false representation,
are you not?

That's correct.

We're expected to believe
the word of a convicted conman

and professional fraudster.

Dr Austen gave that patient
the wrong medication.

You stood by and let it happen.
I didn't realise it was wrong.

Of course you didn't,
because you weren't a doctor.

Given your complete lack of
medical knowledge,

you must have been a liability
on the ward. That's not true.

Who knows how many wrong
prescriptions you made,

how many misdiagnoses.

My lord -
I knew what I was doing.

You thought you knew
what you were doing.

My lord, the witness is not
on trial.

I was as good as the other
registrars. That was so frustrating.

No further questions, my lord.

If I may, my lord.

My Naylor, you say it was
frustrating. In what way?

I knew I could treat the patients
just as well as they could.

But unlike them, I couldn't risk
making a mistake.

That's why I paged Austen.

That's why I only ever did
exactly what I was told,

and I never prescribed a drug
without checking with someone else.

That's how I got away with it
for so long.

If I'd have messed up,
I'd have lost everything.

I wasn't that stupid.

Dr Mills, you say Dr Austen admitted

to having given the codeine
injection.

Yes.

And what did he say
when you asked him

if he'd seen the reference to phenelzine
sulphate in the patient's notes?

I-I didn't ask him that question.

So is it possible that, having asked
for a second opinion,

Mr Naylor simply gave a verbal
summary of the patient history?

Yes, it's possible.

And is it also possible
that he failed to realise

the significance
of the phenelzine sulphate,

maybe even failed to mention it
by name?

I suppose so, yes.

And you have worked closely with
Dr Austen for the past eight years.

Have you had reason to believe

that he was suffering
from any form of addiction?

No.

And this self-prescribed medication

that m'learned friend has repeatedly
drawn our attention to,

these were painkillers for a genuine
and serious injury, were they not?

Yes. Yes, they were.

And finally, Dr Mills,
do you consider Dr Austen

to be a good doctor?

He's the best I've ever worked with.

He's an inspiration.

We were worried about
the wrong witness.

So what if Austen didn't read the
history? He was still negligent.

He prescribed without due care

because his judgment was impaired
by his addiction.

I'm not sure the jury believes
he has an addiction.

My Suzy was 18. 18, with her whole
life ahead of her. Security!

And you took that away.
Mr Morton -

You put that needle in her arm,
no-one else.

And you won't admit you messed up.

I'm truly sorry for what happened to
your daughter.

It wasn't my fault. There were
a number of contributing factors.

You have to understand.

Get off me!

You k*lled my Suzy, you m*rder*r!

You could see it when he talked to
the dad. He knows he's to blame.

He's hidden his addiction
for three years.

I'd say he's good at denial.

Maybe this time.
What about last time?

When I asked Austen's doctor
about the drink-driving,

he said
Teddy had sorted himself out.

Not many people can
give up drinking overnight.

Maybe he had help, went into rehab.

First step to recovery?
Admitting you have an addiction.

If Austen knew he was an addict
when he started taking codeine,

he knew the risks and what it could
mean for his patients.

In which case the crime happened
before he even stepped onto the ward.

Dr Austen, are you aware
of an establishment

called the Colson Clinic?

I, erm, I don't know.

You spent three months there
in 1990, isn't that right?

Yes, it is.

Can you tell the court
what kind of clinic it is?

It's a centre for drug and alcohol
rehabilitation.

A centre that specifically caters for
medical professionals

with addiction problems.

So you considered yourself to be
an alcoholic.

I considered myself
to have a drink problem.

Meaning that you couldn't control
your drinking

and needed professional help
in order to stop. I suppose.

I think that's what's meant by
the term 'alcoholic'.

Dr Austen, could you tell me the
advice on prescribing codeine

to patients with a history
of alcohol abuse?

It's generally avoided.

Why is that?

Actually, I have the information
here.

'Codeine is habit-forming

and should not be prescribed
to any patient

with a history
of drug or alcohol abuse

due to high risk of addiction.'

Does that sound about right?
Yes.

So, knowing you had a history
of addiction,

you chose to start taking
a habit-forming drug.

I hadn't had a drink for 17 years,
I was in a great deal of pain.

The benefits outweighed the risks.

Yet, three years on, you are still
taking that same drug.

And we're not talking about a couple
of headache pills here and there.

You've been on doses way above
the recommended guidelines.

A closer equivalent would be half
a bottle of vodka before work.

It's hardly the same.

Could you tell the court

the common side effects of prolonged
codeine use?

They vary. But a patient
may become distracted.

Their responses dulled.

They can experience fatigue
or nausea, isn't that right?

Mm-hm.

It could affect someone's
professional judgment.

It might, but as I explained -

They might read a document
and miss crucial information.

They might, but as I've explained -

What's the correct dosage for
diamorphine for a 50-year-old male?

What?

Er, yes.

100mg.

100? You're sure about that?

Yes.

No. Sorry.

I meant ten. 10mg.

Just like that, a 50-year-old male
dies of an overdose.

My lord -
The dosage for a woman in her 20s?

Or a ventilated newborn infant?
I'd have to check.

You can't think clearly
under pressure anymore, can you?

Which means that, because of your
dependence on codeine,

you are a danger,
not only to yourself,

but to every patient under your care.
No!

It was a mistake.
It could have happened to anyone.

Dr Austen, it happened because of
your addiction.

I am not an addict.

I-I haven't taken any medication
in-in months.

Then you won't mind emptying
your pockets. This is outrageous.

I'm offering Dr Austen the chance
to prove his point.

No addiction,
then no need for tablets.

Very well, I'll allow it.

Dr Austen, if you'd be so good as to
place the contents of your pockets

where we can see them.

Dr Austen, can you confirm
for the court

that those are prescription
codeine tablets?

Yes.

And can you tell the court how many
of those tablets you've taken today.

I'm not sure.
I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

I don't know how many
I've taken today.

Well, more than two, more than five?
More than 20?

I never meant to harm anyone.

A guilty verdict
after only 20 minutes?

You must have done something right.

They still only gave him
a two-year suspended.

Elderly judge nearing the end of
his career. Hardly surprising.

You could appeal the sentence.

I don't think so.

Not going soft in our old age,
are we?

No, just don't think I'd win.

What?

Thought I'd seen
a glimmer of humanity.

But no, my mistake.