After the Flood (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
Underwater
1
Thirty flood warnings
have been issued across the UK
'after days of unprecedented rain.'
'..has issued a warning
for flash flooding'
'..parts of Yorkshire are already
underwater after experiencing'
'Services are urging the public
to avoid unnecessary travel'
Where are the flood sirens?
They're not working.
What's our priority, Sarge?
Evacuating everyone safely.
Jo, you're in the back.
Trev's up front.
Four in one car? That's not allowed!
Get in, get in.
God, that's insane.
Bit scary, innit?
Do your top up.
Colliery Road, come on.
Sarge, what do we do if someone
doesn't want to be evacuated?
Pass them on to me.
Trev. Trev, if I can't see ahead,
neither can you.
Trev!
What you doing?
Jo! The river's burst its banks
by the underpass.
Right, Deepa, you with me.
Check for anyone who needs help.
Will do.
I'll send back-up. And be careful!
Please! Please! Yes, help!
Please help! My baby's in here!
It's OK, it's all right.
Don't move, stay where you are!
It's OK, it's OK.
No!
Stay there!
No!
No!
I've got it!
I've got it!
Oh, my God.
I've got the baby!
I've got her.
OK. I'm coming for you, hold on!
Shit!
To me! To me if you can!
Hold on!
Argh!
No!
Whiskey 4-6-3 to control.
We have the baby,
we have the baby.
Where's the mother?
The fire crew have got her.
What happened to the man?
The water took him off. He's gone.
Put a call out for units down river
to go and look for him.
Whiskey 4-6-3 to control.
All units to be on immediate lookout
for a man in the water
swept away down river.
Deepa.
Whiskey 4-6-3, repeat your last.
Repeat your last.
You've got her!
She's all right.
You've got her.
She's all right.
Give her to me! Give, give!
Oh, you got her!
You're all right. OK.
Go and get warm. Go.
Thank you!
I thought you'd gone.
Here, love.
Just cover them both up!
Jo, they're sending transport.
We're wanted in Colliery Road. OK.
And the man in the water
Yeah?
Can they have a description?
Er, yeah
Tall, 30s. I dunno.
I'm sorry, I dunno.
A hero
Drive a coach through flood water,
and you could make waves.
So, I'm just waiting on a call
to see where I can
and can't take you.
Still no sign of the man
who saved the baby, Jo. Sorry.
Cos I've never seen rain like this.
Ever!
Yeah, it was scary
Never ever. It's the worst ever!
The river burst its banks!
I know, yeah, we were down there.
They had a flash flood,
burst through the wall, it did.
I don't think he wants conversation.
Yeah, we saw the whole
2022, 2021, 2018.
They were nothing on this. Nothing.
It's global whatsit gone whatsit.
Crazy!
You were good with that baby.
Oh.
You were. You're a natural.
Yeah.
Hiya.
What the fuck are you playing at,
Jo?
What do you mean?
What do I mean?
Going into flash floods to rescue
babies when you're pregnant.
'You're pregnant, Jo!'
Well, I was there, I had to.
Right, well, don't do it again!
All right, OK, sorry.
'I mean it.
'Now, look, I've gotta go,
all right? I love you.'
Bye.
How does he know I was in the water?
Oh, Sarge called to see where
we were, so, yeah
Oh, Deepa!
I had to tell him.
I think it's nice
your husband's protective.
I mean, it was kind of dangerous.
Well, behind a desk
from Monday, so
So, are you, like,
Detective Marshall from day one?
No, I'm doing my training,
so I'm like Trainee Detective.
OK, I'm authorised to take you
as far as Friston Avenue.
Stay here, stay together.
We're being evacuated,
yeah, but evacuated to where?
You've asked us to wait,
but wait for what? What happens now?
We're just finding out, OK?
Sarge, we're in Friston Avenue.
'OK, start moving everyone
up to the school,
'then get down here
to Colliery Road.' OK.
Right, listen up, please, everyone!
Excuse me. Thank you.
To keep everyone safe,
we're gonna ferry you
up to Holness Primary School,
where there's food and shelter
for the night, OK?
So there will be more transport,
but if you want to make
an orderly start with Gregory.
I've forgot me medication.
Can we take our guinea pigs
and corn snakes?
I'll leave this with you, yeah?
Oh, great, thanks (!)
Yeah, we'll get to you
one at a time, OK?
Check this road and the next
for anyone still in their houses.
And we should check if anyone's
in danger or needs help.
And don't worry about the Allens
at number eight,
they've got flood gates
and what have you. They're staying.
And keep to the pavement.
We've got manholes popping up.
Don't want you disappearing
down one of them.
Sarge, what's the extent
of the flooding?
Everywhere from York Way
to Batts Road.
I know.
Let's do all we can to help.
'Pat Holman. Leave a message,
I'll call you back.'
Pat. Er, look, they're evacuating
your sister's road,
and I don't want them coming to us.
I know that's horrible,
but so are they, so
Listen, if Kelly calls,
just don't say she can come to us.
Cos if their street's
anything like this,
they're gonna be with us for months.
And you'd had enough
after 20 minutes last time, so
Let me know if you got this.
Mr Allen?
Just checking you're OK, yeah?
Hi, Mr Allen, it's Jo Marshall.
I am coming.
It's nothing to worry about.
Have to be careful
with the flood gates.
Hello, Jo.
Just seeing how you are.
Oh, good, thanks.
We've got the flood defences
front and back.
And look, we're dry as a bone.
OK, well, look, if you change your
mind, you just give us a call, yeah?
Oh, we won't, love, you see,
Mary has got a bad tummy.
And there's gonna be so many
folk down at the evacuation centre
and so few toilets, you know?
Yeah, I see. OK, well, look,
if you need anything,
you just give us a ring.
Will do, thank you.
And, oh, say hello to your mum.
Yeah, I will do.
Sarge, is there any news on the man
who saved the baby?
'No. You'll be the first to know
as soon as I hear anything.
'How you doing?'
I'm OK, yeah. I'm OK.
Keep going.
All right, we all good?
No-one fell off, did they?
Right, if you wanna get
all your bags together
- and get ready to get down.
- Get the kids off first.
Right, here we go. Who's next?
We're here for you,
OK?
This is your council,
and we're going to be here
until you can all return home,
all right?
Look at her. Look.
"Are you all right?
Is there anything you need?"
Yeah, flood sirens that work
and sand bags, you useless tw
Yes? We have cheese and onion.
Mm-mm.
Ham and pickle?
Mm-mm.
Tuna?
Mm-mm.
No? Not doing it for you?
Mm-mm.
Er how about sausage and crisp?
Yeah. Right, come round here,
you can do it yourself. OK.
Slice the sausage, then bread,
ketchup, sausage, crisp,
bread again, squash it down,
and don't chop your fingers off.
Right, there we go, one tuna bap.
Joanna.
Mrs Markham.
Oh.
You're still scared of her.
Yeah, course I am
cos every time I look at her,
I think, "You know
I cut the heads off those tulips."
Right, Andrew, make one for Jo.
This is my daughter. Yeah?
- What's it like out there?
- Excuse me. Excuse me.
Bad. Awful.
I'm talking to you.
Are you a councillor?
I am, yes.
I'm just saying Chair of Planning
isn't in charge of sandbags.
OK, but as a councillor,
where were they?
Good question.
I'll go and find out and come back.
Please do.
Surprised you're not in there,
giving it some.
Yeah, well, it's good to see others
worked up.
Oh, I meant to say,
Pat's sister's been looking for you,
erm, what's her face?
Kelly?
Yeah.
Jo. Jo.
What can I say? Yeah.
All flooded out. But thank you.
Oh, I can't tell you, when Pat said,
"We'll put you up,"
it was, like, massive weight lifted
off my shoulders, you know?
If you just give us keys,
we'll go there now.
Great. Thanks.
Yeah. Right.
Excuse me, what's to stop the
scumbags out robbing us tonight?
We'll have presence on the streets.
He's not talking three-piece suites,
it's jewellery and the like.
Streets will be policed.
Will we get the power back on
in Carrick Road tonight?
No, there's gonna be no power
until all the flood water's gone.
- So my tropical fish are gonna die?
- Jo?
I Mm.
Jack, are you and your tractor
still in action?
I'm still offering my services.
Where d'you want me next?
Orton Road.
OK.
Off home, go on. Next shift's here.
No, I don't mind staying.
You're soaked.
Go home, rest and return.
I need you tomorrow.
Good work, though.
Gonna miss you, Marshall.
Keith, can you get the door?
I am doing! Coming!
Jo! Oh, Jo! Jo.
How can we ever thank you, Jo?
How can we ever thank you?
Bam, bam, bow, bow, bow!
Keith!
Yeah?
Sophie! Tea's up!
Helped ourselves to towels.
Hope you don't mind.
Clothes are in t'wash.
Sophie! Tea!
Sophie! Sophie!
What?
Tea's up!
I'm running a bath! I told you!
Right. Let's just lay down
some house rules, shall we?
No, Keith, that's for my first drink
after the baby's born
Pat got me that!
Oh, you bunch of
Hello, my lovely lamb.
How's it going?
'It's not. I'm coming over
to stay at your place.'
Jo. Jo. Jo.
'I can't fucking stand them.'
You can't come to mine,
I've just had a call,
Easter Road's flooded.
'Mum, I'm coming. I don't care.'
No, Jo, you won't get through.
'Jo, just listen to me.
I-I'm sleeping at the school.
'You're gonna have to stay put.'
Oh, no, Mum, I can't, not
after what I've just called them.
Apologies.
She calls me that all the time.
Well, not a bunch, but hey,
have Sophie's lasagne.
She's in the bath. She'll be ages.
You're all right.
I just need to, erm
Come on. Into bed, baby saver.
Oh, hello, you.
Get under the duvet.
Oh, I can't.
Gotta put my uniform on to wash.
Right, it's done. In and on.
Aw, thank you.
Hey, your sister and Keith
ate our lasagne.
It could have fed,
like, eight people.
They just came in and took over
like I said they would.
That's why I told you
to stop 'em coming.
Oh, come on.
You know I can't say no to Kelly,
don't you?
Nobody can, you included.
Yeah, well, I am starving,
and there's pizza in the freezer,
so Mm.
What?
Sophie didn't fancy lasagne,
so there WAS a pizza.
No! But here we go,
got you something.
What a man!
God, what a day. Where were you?
Oh, I got called down to the docks.
Any flooding there?
No.
Ah, is there any news on your man
who saved the baby?
Mm.
God, he was right under
at one point.
All you could see were just
his hands holding this baby
up out of the water.
And then to get to me, the
..just the water was so fast.
And when he does, he's just
..just gone
..carried off
..swept away.
Which could've happened
to you and our baby.
Yeah.
And I'm sorry.
Still last day on the beat
tomorrow.
Yep. Good.
Hey, hey, Crispy McGee.
You want some?
No, I don't.
I don't want any crumbs on my side.
Oh, my God, sorry.
This side. It's a no-crisp zone.
What, like that?
Ah, brilliant.
It's weird.
Some of the streets
that flooded have cleared already.
Water's gone as fast as it came,
but other places are like this.
Deepa!
Deepa! Something's wrong!
Here.
Oh, the water got in.
Switch the generator off!
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, no. Please, no.
They've gone. They're long gone.
Come on. These fumes are dangerous.
We need to get out of here.
Damn it.
The water came in
through the basement.
'Whiskey 4-0-7,
urgent update, please.'
Whiskey 4-0-7 to control, er
Eight Colliery Road,
two deceased Don and Mary Allen.
Possible carbon monoxide poisoning
from a generator. Request CID.
Whiskey 4-6-3 remaining at scene,
and scene log commenced.
'Received. Over.'
You stay here.
They've found another body.
I've been called into town.
Gotta go.
Hello?
Down here.
Careful, it's muddy and slippy.
Water's just gone down.
Just you?
Others are on their way.
Ugh.
Sewage.
Body's in there.
Er, where, sorry?
In the lift.
Flood water came up to here,
you see?
So it's, like, the lift comes down
into the deep end
of a swimming pool,
fills with water, and he's trapped.
No way out.
It's a man? Well, I could only see
an arm, but think so.
Step back! Clear. Move!
Stay well back from the lift door.
OK. Open her up.
Let's see what we've got.
Carefully. Try and cause
as little damage as possible.
But quick as you can. We've got
calls coming in from all over.
That's it. Thank you. Step away.
Torch.
D'you recognise him?
No. Never seen him before.
OK.
Flash flood comes through here
around half five yesterday,
fills up down here super fast.
If he's coming down the lift
and the power goes,
he's trapped and drowns.
I use that lift all the time.
Could've been me.
You, see what ID he has on him.
What have we got?
Nothing, sir. No ID or anything.
Nothing at all?
No, sir.
Nothing on the floor?
OK.
You stay here till the SOCOs come.
Oh, and make sure
you put up a cordon.
Yes, sir.
Rest with me.
We've got a body blocking
a storm drain outside of town.
You OK?
Yeah, fine.
You look a bit pale.
Jo.
I'm fine.
I want you down A&E. Don't argue.
You've been in contaminated water,
and you're pregnant.
No. Do as you're told.
It's your last day on my team.
We lost your dad
because he wouldn't go to hospital.
Get yourself checked out.
All right, but can you just
not tell Pat this time?
He gets all het up, and I'm fine.
Sarge? Erm
Someone reported a body
blocking a storm drain.
Yeah. Was a sheep, not your hero.
Now, the circus has come to town.
That's all we need.
Government ministers flying in
to showboat.
I'm getting you a car now.
Meet it round the back.
Sorry.
Oh, not again. Not again. Please.
Oh, God.
Aw. She's gorgeous.
You go. You go. I'll see you again,
and if there's any news, I'll
Mum! What you doing here?
A&E said you'd gone
to critical care.
Yeah, to see the baby
from yesterday. Come here.
But why are you even here?
Because Pat called and said
you'd picked something up
from contaminated water.
Yeah, but I'm fine. I'm all right.
They monitored me for an hour
and said that I'm good to go,
no treatment needed, nothing.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
Mum.
Oh, God. Can we go?
This is where they brought your dad,
in't it?
Yeah, course. Come on.
Oh, God.
What you like?
Ugh!
Hey, what's going on?
A man was found drowned in a lift
this morning, middle of town.
Yeah, I was there.
Well, they're saying now
they think he died three days ago,
before the flood.
Pat? I was there at the car park
when the man was found.
I was first on the scene.
Yeah, just Mm-hm.
"Jo's been in a flash flood.
Jo's got carbon monoxide poisoning."
Yes. Look, I'm OK,
and that was my last patrol.
I'm a detective from Monday,
and Pat,
I was there
when the lift man was found,
and the caretaker said to me
that he uses that lift every day,
so how did the body end up in there?
Who put it there?
And And where was it before?
And why move it?
And if he didn't drown,
then how did he die?
I mean, it is a murder, right?
Jo, from Monday,
you're training to be a detective.
Yeah.
Training, learning. Right.
No, no, just listen to me, just for
a second, all right? Just listen.
I'm on the murder team now.
I'm covering for people, so, yes, it
is a murder inquiry. OK, thank you.
Just for me, please, don't go
in there talking about things
that you don't know anything about.
But I do.
A rookie cop tells you how
to do your job on their first day.
What's your response?
Yeah.
Right.
Just
Thank you for your time
and attention.
Babak.
Jo. One of us now.
Yeah.
I think, er, Pat's just popped out.
Yeah, no, I, erm
How's all this going?
Cos you know, I was there
when they found the body.
Yeah, er, it's a good one.
It's a puzzle.
So we've got a cause of death.
There we go.
Blunt force trauma to the head,
and there's also these bruises
to the body.
Superficial, but they're there.
For my money, given he had no ID
on him, and no-one came forward,
he could've been homeless
and just got into a fight.
Well,
what did the toxicology report say?
Clear, but not everyone
who's homeless is off their face,
and we drew a blank
at the National DNA Database.
No matches.
What about dental records?
Yeah, but they'll take months.
Well, can't we just feed his DNA
into one of those
genealogy databases, you know,
the trace-your-family things?
You can't do that.
No?
Fuck no. That's illegal.
It's not allowed.
You'd be breaching every
data protection law under the sun.
Hi.
OK, good news, baby's fine,
and your inflammatory markers
are normal, so no infection.
But she collapsed, she dropped.
Right, yeah.
She had a vasovagal episode.
What's that?
You fainted.
You're a touch anaemic, which is not
uncommon in the third trimester.
So don't worry,
if we keep you in for the night,
stick with the IV fluids
and iron supplements,
all being well,
you can go home tomorrow.
Oh, God, that's the best news ever.
Er, third trimester?
Months seven, eight and nine?
Mm-hm. The last three months.
Yeah, but Jo's only just six months.
I
..I'm seven months.
I just wanted
to start my training course
because then I could do
all that stuff online
when I'm with the baby.
No, Pat.
Don't.
Don't.
Look, lamb. Lamb, sweetheart,
you're not big enough.
She's not big enough
for seven months.
She's plenty big enough.
She has strong abs,
and babies put on most weight in
the last four weeks. It'll be fine.
Oh, Jo. Bloody hell.
What were you thinking? Eh?
Sorry.
You on maternity leave now, yeah?
Er, sick leave for a bit.
Jo?
Got your stuff.
Keep in touch, now, yeah?
I'm off sick for a few days.
What is with everyone?
Er
What?
Has Pat said something about me
being on maternity?
What? No. What d'you mean?
Babak, erm can I jump
on your computer for a sec?
My laptop's dead.
Er sure.
Any news on lift man?
No. Zilch.
But with a no-one,
that's no surprise, is it?
There you go.
Leave it up, yeah?
Yeah.
You're OK, sir.
You're all right.
It'll be that E. Coli shit.
Everybody's getting it.
Yeah, you keep your head down there.
We're fetching a doctor.
- Hi.
- Hiya.
Have you seen Pat?
Yep. I saw him at work,
and he saw me, but he ignored me.
Yeah, erm
Shouldn't you go over to him?
I mean, you know,
who owes who an explanation here?
I mean, I love having you stay.
I hate being on my own, but
No, he turned away when he saw me,
Mum, he just turned away.
And I'm sorry,
but he's gotta do better than that,
because everybody at work was going,
"Oh, bye.
Have a good maternity leave."
And why did they think that?
Cos that's what Pat's told them.
He just
He just wants me to stay at home
with the baby.
He doesn't want me
in the police any more,
let alone doing
my detective's course,
but I'm sorry, I am doing it.
I've started it,
and I'm going back on Monday.
OK. Good.
Mm.
Good.
And what are you doing till then?
Oh, it's just a bit of revision.
You have to take an exam so
But I'm not going up the allotment.
Oh, God, no. No.
No. No, I'm just fed up
of all this gumpf
cos none of this stops people
like your man who saved the baby
from drowning, does it?
Well, hang on,
we don't know that he's drowned.
Well, where is he, then?
Course he did.
Anyway, even without him,
you know, you've got
you've got the Allens
and people without insurance,
or who can't sell up
or can't get a council swap
because who wants to live in a town
that floods all the time?
How do I DO something that's gonna
make a difference to 'em?
Oh, I dunno, like what?
Like getting this council
to start throwing its weight around.
You know,
make that toady government minister
keep his promises,
because who said apply for grants?
"Oh, there's all this money
you can have for flood gates
"and moving your plug sockets
higher up the wall."
The government,
and people did apply 18 months ago.
And no-one's had a bean
because people,
like that Sarah bloody Mackie,
are only on the council
to big themselves up.
"Oh, I'm Chair of Planning.
"I brought the Uplands Eco Housing
to Waterside. Me, me, me."
I wanna nail fuckers like her.
I want 'em naked in a sandpit
with their hands on their heads.
Ah, she'd probably look all right,
to be fair.
What?
I'm talking.
I'm trying to say something here,
and you're on your laptop.
All right, sorry.
No, no, come on.
What's more important? Come on.
Show me what What are you doing?
All right. Morning after the flood,
I was in this underground car park
because the body of a man
had been found in a lift
that had been filled with water,
so presumed drowned.
Until the autopsy told us
that actually he died
two days earlier so Right.
Anyway, I'd been asked
to search the body for ID,
but he didn't have anything.
There was nothing on him.
What we do have is his DNA,
but there was no match
on the police DNA database,
and we're not allowed to put it
into one of those genealogy sites
everyone uses
to track their ancestors.
Why not?
Oh, it's data protection.
Well, you might get a match.
Yeah, I know.
Well, just do it.
No, you can't. It's illegal.
Well Well, who's gonna know?
No, no, you can't.
It's breaking the law.
I only told you cos you asked me
what I was looking at,
and you know,
this is why I wanna be a detective.
Plus, one of the guys on the team
was going,
"Oh, he's probably just some
homeless guy. What's the bother?"
I just thought I would bring it home
and have a look
and see if anything jumped out
at me.
God, you sound like your dad.
Hm. Well
So, you wanna get Waterside Council
off their backsides?
Yeah.
Oh, no. What you doing now?
OK.
What? Me, be a councillor? No.
Yeah.
No, no.
Come on, stop faffing about
with all this, and get stuck in.
Go on. Have a look,
see what you have to do.
I'll finish the brews.
I'd have to stand for election.
'It's a yes from me.'
'Emma?'
WOMAN: 'It's 100% yes from me.'
'Well done, girls.'
'You've got three yeses. Well done.'
'Wow.'
How many women come on their own
for these?
Most partners come to the first one,
but they trail off after that.
My husband hasn't come to any.
He's in the police,
so he does try to come.
It's not all his fault.
Mine's a surveyor.
He was working
on the Uplands Housing Project.
We're living there now.
Wow. What's that like?
Oh, it's great.
We've got solar panels,
a heat-exchange boiler, everything.
And we can see the old place
from our front window.
It was under 3ft of water
before the flood receded.
So, yeah, we love the new place,
and we're lucky very lucky.
OK. Do you wanna see baby?
Yeah.
Looking good. No problems at all.
You've done a grand job today.
Oh, no, you as well.
Aw, I appreciate it.
You did brilliant.
Ta, darling. Thank you. Lovely.
Molly, Molly, Molly.
Sarah.
The bunting on your soup kitchen
Yeah.
The flooding is not
the council's fault.
We're doing everything we can.
Sorry, sorry, sand bags,
the flood siren,
getting grants for people
who flooded 18 months ago.
All right.
No, you are not doing what you can!
OK, OK, Molly. Molly, listen.
On sandbags,
the siren and those grants
..I'll have words cos you're right.
Good. Great.
Oh, Andrew, our latest foster kid
you let him make a sandwich.
Yeah?
Well, he likes growing things,
so we wondered if he could plant
some stuff up at Bren's allotment.
Yes. Yes, please. Yes. Oh, yeah.
I mean, he can grow
whatever he likes.
Yeah, me and the allotment,
we struggle. Yes.
See? We can work together.
It's interesting you say that cos
I've decided to stand
in the next local election,
probably not on the same side,
though, eh?
Oh, shit.
Mum?
What is it?
I've got an email
from that Gene Tracker.
Eh? What? From who?
I put the lift man's DNA
into an ancestry site,
and they've got a match.
Oh, you said that's not allowed.
It isn't, it's not, but I just
So, what did you get?
What kind of a match did you get?
A sibling.
Oh, a sibling! A brother?
No, no, it's a sister.
What? The sister of the lift man?
Yeah, she's erm, living in
What's this? Gallargues-le-Mont
I don't know how you say it.
It's France, I think.
Her name's Tasha Eden, she's 24,
and we can message.
What? And say what?
I dunno.
What? Is that her?
Is that the sister?
I mean, it's a foreign code.
It's a lot of bloody numbers.
What are you gonna do?
Don't answer it.
No? No.
OK, yeah.
I mean, it might not have been her.
You know,
could've been somebody else.
Same number.
Hello? Hello?
'Can I speak to Joe Marshall,
please?'
Yeah, speaking. Is that Tasha?
Yeah, but sorry,
the Joe Marshall I need is a man.
'Right, yeah, erm'
I've had an email telling me
I am a sibling match to him.
'Yes, no, I-I'm Jo,
just without the E, I'
I put that on the end
because I know that the DNA
I was using is a man's. Erm
But I don't know what you're saying.
What are you saying?
Sorry, yeah. Look, the match
is with your brother.
'My brother?'
Yeah, erm look.
Oh, God, I'm
Are you are you alone?
Do you have somebody with you?
"Alone", yes. What is this?
I-I'm so sorry, I just
I'm afraid that your brother died
just under a week ago,
in Waterside, in Yorkshire.
What are you talking about?
We found a body, er
We'd had a flood here.
My brother died five years ago!
'I don't understand. Who are you?'
Look, I I'm sorry. I have to go.
I'm here to help.
Thirty flood warnings
have been issued across the UK
'after days of unprecedented rain.'
'..has issued a warning
for flash flooding'
'..parts of Yorkshire are already
underwater after experiencing'
'Services are urging the public
to avoid unnecessary travel'
Where are the flood sirens?
They're not working.
What's our priority, Sarge?
Evacuating everyone safely.
Jo, you're in the back.
Trev's up front.
Four in one car? That's not allowed!
Get in, get in.
God, that's insane.
Bit scary, innit?
Do your top up.
Colliery Road, come on.
Sarge, what do we do if someone
doesn't want to be evacuated?
Pass them on to me.
Trev. Trev, if I can't see ahead,
neither can you.
Trev!
What you doing?
Jo! The river's burst its banks
by the underpass.
Right, Deepa, you with me.
Check for anyone who needs help.
Will do.
I'll send back-up. And be careful!
Please! Please! Yes, help!
Please help! My baby's in here!
It's OK, it's all right.
Don't move, stay where you are!
It's OK, it's OK.
No!
Stay there!
No!
No!
I've got it!
I've got it!
Oh, my God.
I've got the baby!
I've got her.
OK. I'm coming for you, hold on!
Shit!
To me! To me if you can!
Hold on!
Argh!
No!
Whiskey 4-6-3 to control.
We have the baby,
we have the baby.
Where's the mother?
The fire crew have got her.
What happened to the man?
The water took him off. He's gone.
Put a call out for units down river
to go and look for him.
Whiskey 4-6-3 to control.
All units to be on immediate lookout
for a man in the water
swept away down river.
Deepa.
Whiskey 4-6-3, repeat your last.
Repeat your last.
You've got her!
She's all right.
You've got her.
She's all right.
Give her to me! Give, give!
Oh, you got her!
You're all right. OK.
Go and get warm. Go.
Thank you!
I thought you'd gone.
Here, love.
Just cover them both up!
Jo, they're sending transport.
We're wanted in Colliery Road. OK.
And the man in the water
Yeah?
Can they have a description?
Er, yeah
Tall, 30s. I dunno.
I'm sorry, I dunno.
A hero
Drive a coach through flood water,
and you could make waves.
So, I'm just waiting on a call
to see where I can
and can't take you.
Still no sign of the man
who saved the baby, Jo. Sorry.
Cos I've never seen rain like this.
Ever!
Yeah, it was scary
Never ever. It's the worst ever!
The river burst its banks!
I know, yeah, we were down there.
They had a flash flood,
burst through the wall, it did.
I don't think he wants conversation.
Yeah, we saw the whole
2022, 2021, 2018.
They were nothing on this. Nothing.
It's global whatsit gone whatsit.
Crazy!
You were good with that baby.
Oh.
You were. You're a natural.
Yeah.
Hiya.
What the fuck are you playing at,
Jo?
What do you mean?
What do I mean?
Going into flash floods to rescue
babies when you're pregnant.
'You're pregnant, Jo!'
Well, I was there, I had to.
Right, well, don't do it again!
All right, OK, sorry.
'I mean it.
'Now, look, I've gotta go,
all right? I love you.'
Bye.
How does he know I was in the water?
Oh, Sarge called to see where
we were, so, yeah
Oh, Deepa!
I had to tell him.
I think it's nice
your husband's protective.
I mean, it was kind of dangerous.
Well, behind a desk
from Monday, so
So, are you, like,
Detective Marshall from day one?
No, I'm doing my training,
so I'm like Trainee Detective.
OK, I'm authorised to take you
as far as Friston Avenue.
Stay here, stay together.
We're being evacuated,
yeah, but evacuated to where?
You've asked us to wait,
but wait for what? What happens now?
We're just finding out, OK?
Sarge, we're in Friston Avenue.
'OK, start moving everyone
up to the school,
'then get down here
to Colliery Road.' OK.
Right, listen up, please, everyone!
Excuse me. Thank you.
To keep everyone safe,
we're gonna ferry you
up to Holness Primary School,
where there's food and shelter
for the night, OK?
So there will be more transport,
but if you want to make
an orderly start with Gregory.
I've forgot me medication.
Can we take our guinea pigs
and corn snakes?
I'll leave this with you, yeah?
Oh, great, thanks (!)
Yeah, we'll get to you
one at a time, OK?
Check this road and the next
for anyone still in their houses.
And we should check if anyone's
in danger or needs help.
And don't worry about the Allens
at number eight,
they've got flood gates
and what have you. They're staying.
And keep to the pavement.
We've got manholes popping up.
Don't want you disappearing
down one of them.
Sarge, what's the extent
of the flooding?
Everywhere from York Way
to Batts Road.
I know.
Let's do all we can to help.
'Pat Holman. Leave a message,
I'll call you back.'
Pat. Er, look, they're evacuating
your sister's road,
and I don't want them coming to us.
I know that's horrible,
but so are they, so
Listen, if Kelly calls,
just don't say she can come to us.
Cos if their street's
anything like this,
they're gonna be with us for months.
And you'd had enough
after 20 minutes last time, so
Let me know if you got this.
Mr Allen?
Just checking you're OK, yeah?
Hi, Mr Allen, it's Jo Marshall.
I am coming.
It's nothing to worry about.
Have to be careful
with the flood gates.
Hello, Jo.
Just seeing how you are.
Oh, good, thanks.
We've got the flood defences
front and back.
And look, we're dry as a bone.
OK, well, look, if you change your
mind, you just give us a call, yeah?
Oh, we won't, love, you see,
Mary has got a bad tummy.
And there's gonna be so many
folk down at the evacuation centre
and so few toilets, you know?
Yeah, I see. OK, well, look,
if you need anything,
you just give us a ring.
Will do, thank you.
And, oh, say hello to your mum.
Yeah, I will do.
Sarge, is there any news on the man
who saved the baby?
'No. You'll be the first to know
as soon as I hear anything.
'How you doing?'
I'm OK, yeah. I'm OK.
Keep going.
All right, we all good?
No-one fell off, did they?
Right, if you wanna get
all your bags together
- and get ready to get down.
- Get the kids off first.
Right, here we go. Who's next?
We're here for you,
OK?
This is your council,
and we're going to be here
until you can all return home,
all right?
Look at her. Look.
"Are you all right?
Is there anything you need?"
Yeah, flood sirens that work
and sand bags, you useless tw
Yes? We have cheese and onion.
Mm-mm.
Ham and pickle?
Mm-mm.
Tuna?
Mm-mm.
No? Not doing it for you?
Mm-mm.
Er how about sausage and crisp?
Yeah. Right, come round here,
you can do it yourself. OK.
Slice the sausage, then bread,
ketchup, sausage, crisp,
bread again, squash it down,
and don't chop your fingers off.
Right, there we go, one tuna bap.
Joanna.
Mrs Markham.
Oh.
You're still scared of her.
Yeah, course I am
cos every time I look at her,
I think, "You know
I cut the heads off those tulips."
Right, Andrew, make one for Jo.
This is my daughter. Yeah?
- What's it like out there?
- Excuse me. Excuse me.
Bad. Awful.
I'm talking to you.
Are you a councillor?
I am, yes.
I'm just saying Chair of Planning
isn't in charge of sandbags.
OK, but as a councillor,
where were they?
Good question.
I'll go and find out and come back.
Please do.
Surprised you're not in there,
giving it some.
Yeah, well, it's good to see others
worked up.
Oh, I meant to say,
Pat's sister's been looking for you,
erm, what's her face?
Kelly?
Yeah.
Jo. Jo.
What can I say? Yeah.
All flooded out. But thank you.
Oh, I can't tell you, when Pat said,
"We'll put you up,"
it was, like, massive weight lifted
off my shoulders, you know?
If you just give us keys,
we'll go there now.
Great. Thanks.
Yeah. Right.
Excuse me, what's to stop the
scumbags out robbing us tonight?
We'll have presence on the streets.
He's not talking three-piece suites,
it's jewellery and the like.
Streets will be policed.
Will we get the power back on
in Carrick Road tonight?
No, there's gonna be no power
until all the flood water's gone.
- So my tropical fish are gonna die?
- Jo?
I Mm.
Jack, are you and your tractor
still in action?
I'm still offering my services.
Where d'you want me next?
Orton Road.
OK.
Off home, go on. Next shift's here.
No, I don't mind staying.
You're soaked.
Go home, rest and return.
I need you tomorrow.
Good work, though.
Gonna miss you, Marshall.
Keith, can you get the door?
I am doing! Coming!
Jo! Oh, Jo! Jo.
How can we ever thank you, Jo?
How can we ever thank you?
Bam, bam, bow, bow, bow!
Keith!
Yeah?
Sophie! Tea's up!
Helped ourselves to towels.
Hope you don't mind.
Clothes are in t'wash.
Sophie! Tea!
Sophie! Sophie!
What?
Tea's up!
I'm running a bath! I told you!
Right. Let's just lay down
some house rules, shall we?
No, Keith, that's for my first drink
after the baby's born
Pat got me that!
Oh, you bunch of
Hello, my lovely lamb.
How's it going?
'It's not. I'm coming over
to stay at your place.'
Jo. Jo. Jo.
'I can't fucking stand them.'
You can't come to mine,
I've just had a call,
Easter Road's flooded.
'Mum, I'm coming. I don't care.'
No, Jo, you won't get through.
'Jo, just listen to me.
I-I'm sleeping at the school.
'You're gonna have to stay put.'
Oh, no, Mum, I can't, not
after what I've just called them.
Apologies.
She calls me that all the time.
Well, not a bunch, but hey,
have Sophie's lasagne.
She's in the bath. She'll be ages.
You're all right.
I just need to, erm
Come on. Into bed, baby saver.
Oh, hello, you.
Get under the duvet.
Oh, I can't.
Gotta put my uniform on to wash.
Right, it's done. In and on.
Aw, thank you.
Hey, your sister and Keith
ate our lasagne.
It could have fed,
like, eight people.
They just came in and took over
like I said they would.
That's why I told you
to stop 'em coming.
Oh, come on.
You know I can't say no to Kelly,
don't you?
Nobody can, you included.
Yeah, well, I am starving,
and there's pizza in the freezer,
so Mm.
What?
Sophie didn't fancy lasagne,
so there WAS a pizza.
No! But here we go,
got you something.
What a man!
God, what a day. Where were you?
Oh, I got called down to the docks.
Any flooding there?
No.
Ah, is there any news on your man
who saved the baby?
Mm.
God, he was right under
at one point.
All you could see were just
his hands holding this baby
up out of the water.
And then to get to me, the
..just the water was so fast.
And when he does, he's just
..just gone
..carried off
..swept away.
Which could've happened
to you and our baby.
Yeah.
And I'm sorry.
Still last day on the beat
tomorrow.
Yep. Good.
Hey, hey, Crispy McGee.
You want some?
No, I don't.
I don't want any crumbs on my side.
Oh, my God, sorry.
This side. It's a no-crisp zone.
What, like that?
Ah, brilliant.
It's weird.
Some of the streets
that flooded have cleared already.
Water's gone as fast as it came,
but other places are like this.
Deepa!
Deepa! Something's wrong!
Here.
Oh, the water got in.
Switch the generator off!
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, no. Please, no.
They've gone. They're long gone.
Come on. These fumes are dangerous.
We need to get out of here.
Damn it.
The water came in
through the basement.
'Whiskey 4-0-7,
urgent update, please.'
Whiskey 4-0-7 to control, er
Eight Colliery Road,
two deceased Don and Mary Allen.
Possible carbon monoxide poisoning
from a generator. Request CID.
Whiskey 4-6-3 remaining at scene,
and scene log commenced.
'Received. Over.'
You stay here.
They've found another body.
I've been called into town.
Gotta go.
Hello?
Down here.
Careful, it's muddy and slippy.
Water's just gone down.
Just you?
Others are on their way.
Ugh.
Sewage.
Body's in there.
Er, where, sorry?
In the lift.
Flood water came up to here,
you see?
So it's, like, the lift comes down
into the deep end
of a swimming pool,
fills with water, and he's trapped.
No way out.
It's a man? Well, I could only see
an arm, but think so.
Step back! Clear. Move!
Stay well back from the lift door.
OK. Open her up.
Let's see what we've got.
Carefully. Try and cause
as little damage as possible.
But quick as you can. We've got
calls coming in from all over.
That's it. Thank you. Step away.
Torch.
D'you recognise him?
No. Never seen him before.
OK.
Flash flood comes through here
around half five yesterday,
fills up down here super fast.
If he's coming down the lift
and the power goes,
he's trapped and drowns.
I use that lift all the time.
Could've been me.
You, see what ID he has on him.
What have we got?
Nothing, sir. No ID or anything.
Nothing at all?
No, sir.
Nothing on the floor?
OK.
You stay here till the SOCOs come.
Oh, and make sure
you put up a cordon.
Yes, sir.
Rest with me.
We've got a body blocking
a storm drain outside of town.
You OK?
Yeah, fine.
You look a bit pale.
Jo.
I'm fine.
I want you down A&E. Don't argue.
You've been in contaminated water,
and you're pregnant.
No. Do as you're told.
It's your last day on my team.
We lost your dad
because he wouldn't go to hospital.
Get yourself checked out.
All right, but can you just
not tell Pat this time?
He gets all het up, and I'm fine.
Sarge? Erm
Someone reported a body
blocking a storm drain.
Yeah. Was a sheep, not your hero.
Now, the circus has come to town.
That's all we need.
Government ministers flying in
to showboat.
I'm getting you a car now.
Meet it round the back.
Sorry.
Oh, not again. Not again. Please.
Oh, God.
Aw. She's gorgeous.
You go. You go. I'll see you again,
and if there's any news, I'll
Mum! What you doing here?
A&E said you'd gone
to critical care.
Yeah, to see the baby
from yesterday. Come here.
But why are you even here?
Because Pat called and said
you'd picked something up
from contaminated water.
Yeah, but I'm fine. I'm all right.
They monitored me for an hour
and said that I'm good to go,
no treatment needed, nothing.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
Mum.
Oh, God. Can we go?
This is where they brought your dad,
in't it?
Yeah, course. Come on.
Oh, God.
What you like?
Ugh!
Hey, what's going on?
A man was found drowned in a lift
this morning, middle of town.
Yeah, I was there.
Well, they're saying now
they think he died three days ago,
before the flood.
Pat? I was there at the car park
when the man was found.
I was first on the scene.
Yeah, just Mm-hm.
"Jo's been in a flash flood.
Jo's got carbon monoxide poisoning."
Yes. Look, I'm OK,
and that was my last patrol.
I'm a detective from Monday,
and Pat,
I was there
when the lift man was found,
and the caretaker said to me
that he uses that lift every day,
so how did the body end up in there?
Who put it there?
And And where was it before?
And why move it?
And if he didn't drown,
then how did he die?
I mean, it is a murder, right?
Jo, from Monday,
you're training to be a detective.
Yeah.
Training, learning. Right.
No, no, just listen to me, just for
a second, all right? Just listen.
I'm on the murder team now.
I'm covering for people, so, yes, it
is a murder inquiry. OK, thank you.
Just for me, please, don't go
in there talking about things
that you don't know anything about.
But I do.
A rookie cop tells you how
to do your job on their first day.
What's your response?
Yeah.
Right.
Just
Thank you for your time
and attention.
Babak.
Jo. One of us now.
Yeah.
I think, er, Pat's just popped out.
Yeah, no, I, erm
How's all this going?
Cos you know, I was there
when they found the body.
Yeah, er, it's a good one.
It's a puzzle.
So we've got a cause of death.
There we go.
Blunt force trauma to the head,
and there's also these bruises
to the body.
Superficial, but they're there.
For my money, given he had no ID
on him, and no-one came forward,
he could've been homeless
and just got into a fight.
Well,
what did the toxicology report say?
Clear, but not everyone
who's homeless is off their face,
and we drew a blank
at the National DNA Database.
No matches.
What about dental records?
Yeah, but they'll take months.
Well, can't we just feed his DNA
into one of those
genealogy databases, you know,
the trace-your-family things?
You can't do that.
No?
Fuck no. That's illegal.
It's not allowed.
You'd be breaching every
data protection law under the sun.
Hi.
OK, good news, baby's fine,
and your inflammatory markers
are normal, so no infection.
But she collapsed, she dropped.
Right, yeah.
She had a vasovagal episode.
What's that?
You fainted.
You're a touch anaemic, which is not
uncommon in the third trimester.
So don't worry,
if we keep you in for the night,
stick with the IV fluids
and iron supplements,
all being well,
you can go home tomorrow.
Oh, God, that's the best news ever.
Er, third trimester?
Months seven, eight and nine?
Mm-hm. The last three months.
Yeah, but Jo's only just six months.
I
..I'm seven months.
I just wanted
to start my training course
because then I could do
all that stuff online
when I'm with the baby.
No, Pat.
Don't.
Don't.
Look, lamb. Lamb, sweetheart,
you're not big enough.
She's not big enough
for seven months.
She's plenty big enough.
She has strong abs,
and babies put on most weight in
the last four weeks. It'll be fine.
Oh, Jo. Bloody hell.
What were you thinking? Eh?
Sorry.
You on maternity leave now, yeah?
Er, sick leave for a bit.
Jo?
Got your stuff.
Keep in touch, now, yeah?
I'm off sick for a few days.
What is with everyone?
Er
What?
Has Pat said something about me
being on maternity?
What? No. What d'you mean?
Babak, erm can I jump
on your computer for a sec?
My laptop's dead.
Er sure.
Any news on lift man?
No. Zilch.
But with a no-one,
that's no surprise, is it?
There you go.
Leave it up, yeah?
Yeah.
You're OK, sir.
You're all right.
It'll be that E. Coli shit.
Everybody's getting it.
Yeah, you keep your head down there.
We're fetching a doctor.
- Hi.
- Hiya.
Have you seen Pat?
Yep. I saw him at work,
and he saw me, but he ignored me.
Yeah, erm
Shouldn't you go over to him?
I mean, you know,
who owes who an explanation here?
I mean, I love having you stay.
I hate being on my own, but
No, he turned away when he saw me,
Mum, he just turned away.
And I'm sorry,
but he's gotta do better than that,
because everybody at work was going,
"Oh, bye.
Have a good maternity leave."
And why did they think that?
Cos that's what Pat's told them.
He just
He just wants me to stay at home
with the baby.
He doesn't want me
in the police any more,
let alone doing
my detective's course,
but I'm sorry, I am doing it.
I've started it,
and I'm going back on Monday.
OK. Good.
Mm.
Good.
And what are you doing till then?
Oh, it's just a bit of revision.
You have to take an exam so
But I'm not going up the allotment.
Oh, God, no. No.
No. No, I'm just fed up
of all this gumpf
cos none of this stops people
like your man who saved the baby
from drowning, does it?
Well, hang on,
we don't know that he's drowned.
Well, where is he, then?
Course he did.
Anyway, even without him,
you know, you've got
you've got the Allens
and people without insurance,
or who can't sell up
or can't get a council swap
because who wants to live in a town
that floods all the time?
How do I DO something that's gonna
make a difference to 'em?
Oh, I dunno, like what?
Like getting this council
to start throwing its weight around.
You know,
make that toady government minister
keep his promises,
because who said apply for grants?
"Oh, there's all this money
you can have for flood gates
"and moving your plug sockets
higher up the wall."
The government,
and people did apply 18 months ago.
And no-one's had a bean
because people,
like that Sarah bloody Mackie,
are only on the council
to big themselves up.
"Oh, I'm Chair of Planning.
"I brought the Uplands Eco Housing
to Waterside. Me, me, me."
I wanna nail fuckers like her.
I want 'em naked in a sandpit
with their hands on their heads.
Ah, she'd probably look all right,
to be fair.
What?
I'm talking.
I'm trying to say something here,
and you're on your laptop.
All right, sorry.
No, no, come on.
What's more important? Come on.
Show me what What are you doing?
All right. Morning after the flood,
I was in this underground car park
because the body of a man
had been found in a lift
that had been filled with water,
so presumed drowned.
Until the autopsy told us
that actually he died
two days earlier so Right.
Anyway, I'd been asked
to search the body for ID,
but he didn't have anything.
There was nothing on him.
What we do have is his DNA,
but there was no match
on the police DNA database,
and we're not allowed to put it
into one of those genealogy sites
everyone uses
to track their ancestors.
Why not?
Oh, it's data protection.
Well, you might get a match.
Yeah, I know.
Well, just do it.
No, you can't. It's illegal.
Well Well, who's gonna know?
No, no, you can't.
It's breaking the law.
I only told you cos you asked me
what I was looking at,
and you know,
this is why I wanna be a detective.
Plus, one of the guys on the team
was going,
"Oh, he's probably just some
homeless guy. What's the bother?"
I just thought I would bring it home
and have a look
and see if anything jumped out
at me.
God, you sound like your dad.
Hm. Well
So, you wanna get Waterside Council
off their backsides?
Yeah.
Oh, no. What you doing now?
OK.
What? Me, be a councillor? No.
Yeah.
No, no.
Come on, stop faffing about
with all this, and get stuck in.
Go on. Have a look,
see what you have to do.
I'll finish the brews.
I'd have to stand for election.
'It's a yes from me.'
'Emma?'
WOMAN: 'It's 100% yes from me.'
'Well done, girls.'
'You've got three yeses. Well done.'
'Wow.'
How many women come on their own
for these?
Most partners come to the first one,
but they trail off after that.
My husband hasn't come to any.
He's in the police,
so he does try to come.
It's not all his fault.
Mine's a surveyor.
He was working
on the Uplands Housing Project.
We're living there now.
Wow. What's that like?
Oh, it's great.
We've got solar panels,
a heat-exchange boiler, everything.
And we can see the old place
from our front window.
It was under 3ft of water
before the flood receded.
So, yeah, we love the new place,
and we're lucky very lucky.
OK. Do you wanna see baby?
Yeah.
Looking good. No problems at all.
You've done a grand job today.
Oh, no, you as well.
Aw, I appreciate it.
You did brilliant.
Ta, darling. Thank you. Lovely.
Molly, Molly, Molly.
Sarah.
The bunting on your soup kitchen
Yeah.
The flooding is not
the council's fault.
We're doing everything we can.
Sorry, sorry, sand bags,
the flood siren,
getting grants for people
who flooded 18 months ago.
All right.
No, you are not doing what you can!
OK, OK, Molly. Molly, listen.
On sandbags,
the siren and those grants
..I'll have words cos you're right.
Good. Great.
Oh, Andrew, our latest foster kid
you let him make a sandwich.
Yeah?
Well, he likes growing things,
so we wondered if he could plant
some stuff up at Bren's allotment.
Yes. Yes, please. Yes. Oh, yeah.
I mean, he can grow
whatever he likes.
Yeah, me and the allotment,
we struggle. Yes.
See? We can work together.
It's interesting you say that cos
I've decided to stand
in the next local election,
probably not on the same side,
though, eh?
Oh, shit.
Mum?
What is it?
I've got an email
from that Gene Tracker.
Eh? What? From who?
I put the lift man's DNA
into an ancestry site,
and they've got a match.
Oh, you said that's not allowed.
It isn't, it's not, but I just
So, what did you get?
What kind of a match did you get?
A sibling.
Oh, a sibling! A brother?
No, no, it's a sister.
What? The sister of the lift man?
Yeah, she's erm, living in
What's this? Gallargues-le-Mont
I don't know how you say it.
It's France, I think.
Her name's Tasha Eden, she's 24,
and we can message.
What? And say what?
I dunno.
What? Is that her?
Is that the sister?
I mean, it's a foreign code.
It's a lot of bloody numbers.
What are you gonna do?
Don't answer it.
No? No.
OK, yeah.
I mean, it might not have been her.
You know,
could've been somebody else.
Same number.
Hello? Hello?
'Can I speak to Joe Marshall,
please?'
Yeah, speaking. Is that Tasha?
Yeah, but sorry,
the Joe Marshall I need is a man.
'Right, yeah, erm'
I've had an email telling me
I am a sibling match to him.
'Yes, no, I-I'm Jo,
just without the E, I'
I put that on the end
because I know that the DNA
I was using is a man's. Erm
But I don't know what you're saying.
What are you saying?
Sorry, yeah. Look, the match
is with your brother.
'My brother?'
Yeah, erm look.
Oh, God, I'm
Are you are you alone?
Do you have somebody with you?
"Alone", yes. What is this?
I-I'm so sorry, I just
I'm afraid that your brother died
just under a week ago,
in Waterside, in Yorkshire.
What are you talking about?
We found a body, er
We'd had a flood here.
My brother died five years ago!
'I don't understand. Who are you?'
Look, I I'm sorry. I have to go.
I'm here to help.