Wolfe (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

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MUSIC: "Clearly"
by Grace VanderWaal
There's a world outside my door ♪
I don't know it anymore ♪
I'm gonna stay here now ♪
I'm gonna stay here now ♪
Take a breath and say a prayer ♪
Find the strength in my despair ♪
It's not gonna take me down ♪
It's not gonna take me down ♪
I can see clearly now ♪
The rain has gone ♪
I accept all the things
that I cannot change ♪
It's gonna be a bright ♪
bright sunshiny day ♪
DOG BARKS
DOOR SHUTS
SHE SIGHS
PHONE VIBRATES
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!
FABRIC RIPS
- HE GRUNTS
HE PANTS
You promised not to just turn up.
Yeah, well, this is spur of the moment
because it's important.
I now want it in writing with a signature.
You are to give me good warning.
- Whoa, mister!
- I need your sewing basket.
Uh, it's stranded in the kitchen
where your daughter left it.
- Well, I need the toilet anyway.
- So use the downstairs.
- It's for guests.
- PHONE VIBRATES
Oh, you think I'm sewing your jeans?
SHE LAUGHS
No, but I don't own a kit
and I don't have the knack
when it's not human tissue.
You're not even
gonna offer me a glass?
- You don't drink white.
- There's a red on the trolley.
Well, that's the one
my mum got me for Christmas.
Yeah, Christmas before last,
when it was for both of us, you know?
Listen, Val
- I have not missed being called that.
- Valerie.
I did come for a word actually.
I've been meaning to say
for quite a while now
call it Siamese intuition or whatever
because we're peas in a pod, but
I've recently sensed
that you've started seeing other people.
- That is nothing I need to discuss with you.
- No, I know, I know, but
your attitude's changed,
your dress code's rejuvenated
and you've gone back
to wearing contact lenses.
I just want you to know,
from the heart
From the heart, you have my blessing.
I just want you to know I'm cool with it.
Truly?
We're both grown-ups.
And it became obvious
you needed to spread out a bit
if only to find out how good
you had it
in the first place.
HE CHUCKLES
- FLICK: It's me!
- DOOR SLAMS
- Are you two getting back together?
- No!
I was being witty.
This never happened when you were a pair.
- That's not wit, it's sarcasm.
- It's still funny.
Well, if you can't tell the difference
your educational costs need a serious debate
between me and your mother.
- Uh, I'm comprehensive.
- You're so not.
SHE CHUCKLES
I need to be at Rosalind's in half an hour.
I'm just gonna get changed.
You still OK to take me?
No.
He can.
- Actually
- Mm-hm?
I need to get, um,
her spare keys to the flat.
I left Uh, I broke mine in the lock.
Looking for this?
Things must have gotten
more interesting than normal
if you got as far as here.
PHONE VIBRATES
- I'll be down literally in two.
PHONE VIBRATES
HE SIGHS
You always look peckish to me.
Treat yourself to a can of worms.
Has the clutch gone again?
CAR STARTS
Your mum strikes me as edgy.
Is, uh, everything OK around here?
Mm, we're not doing this, Dad.
I'm not Mum's keeper.
- What, asking questions?
- Interrogating me about her boyfriends.
How many is she seeing?
Yeah, plural is fair warning
that I'll wind you up
every time you try pushing me.
But you've You've seen
this latest one, have you?
DEVICE BEEPS
- Right, you're connected.
- Watch what happens when I ring ya.
- PHONE VIBRATES.
Oh, don't answer that,
she'll be yakking for hours.
She just heard that.
Hiya, Maggy. I'm in the car with him.
- MAGGY: Hi, Flick.
- We're having a family conversation, Maggy.
No, we're not. That's over.
MAGGY: This is work.
We've had a call-out.
There's an industrial death that needs
looking at before the body's removed.
- Instead of "yakking on"
- SHE CHUCKLES
I'll fill you in on the rest
when you get here.
- Say hello to your mum for me, Flick.
- Yeah, I will do. Bye.
Right, you can just drop me off
at the white gates here.
No. I'll watch you go in
and see who lets you in.
What does Rosalind's dad do for a living?
I don't think she's ever met him,
but her mum's a stockbroker.
FEMALE ANNOUNCER:
Please leave by the nearest exit
and make your way
to the fire assembly point.
Please leave by the nearest exit
and make your way
to the fire assembly point.
Please leave by the nearest exit
and make your way
to the fire assembly point.
When I couldn't get hold of you,
I thought I'd have to do this on my own.
Well, yonks back, in the last century,
I were three weeks into me training with him
when we had to pick a farmer's wife
out the blades of a combine harvester.
- Yeah, we were there two days.
- Yeah, well, I was.
Uh, you were the mentor
that didn't need any of us, Dot.
Sorry, I wasn't trying
to make you sound older.
No, age has got nothing to do with it.
It's the past tense, mate.
- Is everyone OK with me covering photography?
- Ooh, sod off.
I'm senior, as I've been amply reminded.
You're picking bits out.
I got them to double cup
so they stand a chance of staying warm.
Thank you very much.
Who are you?
- Dominique Barnette.
- We met at the interview last month.
Ah. Begging your pardon.
Context schism. Welcome on board.
Dominique's contract
technically starts at midnight, but
I called her in for the experience.
ANNOUNCEMENT CONTINUES:
Please leave by the nearest exit
and make your way
to the fire assembly point.
- They're ready for us in there.
- Who's running the investigation?
DCI Chambers.
ALARM SOUNDS
- Wolfe.
- Betsy. What have we got?
This is a deboning machine,
and he was Ted Woyzeck.
Fifty-year-old engineer.
He went in to do repairs
and according to witnesses,
it reactivated itself.
HE SIGHS
Who was first on the scene?
A Daniel Colley.
A couple of mates ran to help
but he saw the worst of it
and shut the machine down.
The lights shouldn't have been affected.
A 50-year-old engineer's
presumably pretty experienced
so how come he didn't isolate
the main circuit before starting work?
Exactly. We need to rule out foul play.
CAMERA CLICKS
POLICEWOMAN:
Owners are in the building.
I'm not being insensitive
but shutting the plant down
is completely out of the question.
We can only just about manage
to meet promises with this section closed.
With respect, "meeting promises"
sounds a bit insensitive
given what's behind that screen
and what's not.
We supply three major supermarkets.
It would just take one breached delivery
for a European company to step in
- and obliterate 200 jobs.
- Aye.
So an event like this
could be in someone else's interest?
Yeah, but steady on.
I don't think anybody'd go to these lengths.
Again, with respect,
we'll presume to know nothing
until we've examined
the facts and evidence.
Can you put your hands on a blueprint
for the machine before we begin extraction?
I'm sure we've got
scans of the original design.
MAN:
This is impossible.
I can't tell
what's human and what's animal.
Well, this is definitely a human kidney.
But that? That's a bull's eye.
- Whoa!
- BOTH LAUGH
BETSY:
So, Daniel, who turned the machine off?
Before Ted went to work,
he isolated the system.
You saw him do this?
Well, not personally,
but he wouldn't not.
Sorry, Daniel,
I just need to get inside your mouth.
Can I ask what this is for?
It's a formality, Daniel.
We need to separate
people's contact from the power sockets.
Even ours.
When did you first know
something was wrong?
When we all did.
When he screamed.
How far away were you at the time?
Twenty
Thirty yards.
Am I allowed to interrupt?
MAGGY:
I'm all done here.
Danny, I'm so sorry it had to be you.
SHE GASPS
Oh, good God!
SHE SIGHS
POLICEWOMAN: I said you're gonna
have to stay back for me, please.
Get in there. Excuse me?
I got a phone call saying my husband's
been involved in an accident.
Who's in charge?
Uh, Steve, this lady's husband's
been involved in an accident.
Ted Woyzeck.
Do you know where he is?
Um, if you just go up there,
then someone'll see to you.
SHE PANTS
SHE SCREAMS
Careful with that. I don't want to lose
the stomach contents if we can avoid it.
Don't move anything yet.
The snake's hit an obstacle.
Just two secs.
OK, got a good shot of the chest cavity
what's left of it
and you're clear of the stomach there.
You can start the extraction.
MAGGY:
Betsy.
Daniel Colley said in his statement twice
that he was closest to the machine
when it happened.
But look.
Daniel, we're slightly concerned
that you lied
in your initial statement.
No, I didn't.
You claimed you were the closest operative
to the machine and the stop button.
But here, on camera two
we see you sending this kid
in the opposite direction.
What's being said here?
Him screaming,
I-I mean screaming, "I can't help"
and I'm yelling,
"Well, go get someone who can."
He were in total shock
at the sound coming from that machine.
Vomiting as he ran.
I let him go, but he came back anyway
with help, and he joined in.
MAGGY:
Are you right-handed or left, Ben?
Tell us what's happening here.
What's being said.
I can't.
HE SIGHS
I can remember one sound and that's it.
I threw up, that's it.
If Danny said anything,
I can't help ya.
You've a conviction that wasn't declared
on your employment record
which is in itself a violation.
I've never missed
a single probation appointment.
It's nearly spent.
Did you have
any grievances with Ted Woyzeck?
No.
We only saw him
when something went down.
He spent most of his time
inside the machines.
We never had
a beer with him or anything.
MAGGY:
Could you go behind that screen over there
remove your outer clothing
and take anything from the pockets, please.
HE SIGHS
They were sexually assaulting me girlfriend.
HE SIGHS
I-It was five to one.
I knocked one of 'em to the ground.
He got a brain bleed and died.
They were gonna rape her
in front of me.
We've sent for some overalls for ya.
He can wear this to go collect
his personal belongings and then go home.
I want them dry-cleaned
and returned within seven days.
And you're fired.
You were told at your interview, Ben.
You can tell me anything
as long as it's not a lie.
- That's instant dismissal.
- But, Mrs Belby
I missed it off cos it's nearly spent.
You ran in the opposite direction.
For everyone's information,
the body is now off the premises.
So can we start
sterilising the machine now?
No. We're declaring it a crime scene.
What are you thinking?
You can't mention this
to that kid's probation team.
From what we heard on the shop floor
he was honest with his workmates
and they trusted him back.
That's all I'm saying, Betsy.
WOLFE CLEARS HIS THROA
- Second one. Thank you.
- Sorry.
Thanks. I should be
getting you one after all that.
I never don't return a favour.
Team strapline.
You were very fluid tonight, Dominique.
Instinctive choreography gets noticed.
Cheers for that, but
I'm not at my best
when I'm feeling watched.
I just wanna say
Thanks, Professor,
for giving me a break.
No, no, no.
That was a panel decision.
- But hats off to you for shining.
- Thanks.
MAGGY: Authorised university staff only
allowed into the basement.
Students get day passes
if we're doing demonstrations.
By the way, you're expected to do
two lectures a month.
DOMINIQUE:
Contract says one.
Yeah, the other will be one Wolfe missed
and we all rotate as subs.
You don't need one of these.
I just don't like touching switches.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
CAR LOCK CLICKS
WOLFE:
Where are we at?
We're still waiting for DNA to come back,
but Dominique's ID'd most prints.
These are Ben Pulman's
and these are Ted Woyzeck's.
I took his print using saline
on the severed right hand
because it's the only one intact.
This is my fault,
but Daniel's prints didn't scan properly.
We've got blank blotches.
I'll ask him
to come in for a digital scan.
He starts the machine in the mornings
then Ted Woyzeck did the same
before entering the machine.
Before, as we see,
he did obviously hit the stop button.
Wow. Did you sleep here?
It didn't switch itself on though, did it?
Let's get a full cross-section
of CCTV footage to go at
but especially in that sector.
OK, I'm off to my lecture.
So we're not talking
about fingerprints biometrically.
In your future professional career
cleaning up society
if and when you qualify
this level of evidence
is only the beginning.
The biomolecular base of a fingerprint
contains untold information
if you have the right spectrometry.
So, before the summer break
we asked all second-year students
to submit fingerprint samples
from last thing at night.
You remember? OK.
Of the 40 submitted,
a tenth didn't use soap after urinating.
Eight showed traces of cocaethylene.
You know,
the booze and cocaine combo.
And literally one in four
showed psychological support medication.
HE CHUCKLES
Welcome to the club.
Ignorance is the biggest shame.
We were even able to determine
the condom you use
through PEG analysis.
Polyethylene glycol, right?
But here's the best bit.
Sixty-five percent of all the condom samples
were found on female prints.
Ladies, unless their assets
outweigh their excuses
if they can't be bothered to carry a condom,
do not give it up.
STUDENTS CHEER
It would be cruel to point out
that you weren't supposed to put
your names on the samples.
But everyone did.
HE CHUCKLES
Relax.
The names get separated
before the analysis
and the samples have been incinerated.
OK, so what's
the take-home T-shirt for today?
Hygiene! OK?
Moderation and tolerance.
Or "Hands, Knees and Bumpsadaisies."
OK, get out.
Leave!
- Leave me alone.
- STUDENTS CHATTER
OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
- Swap you a good chunk of pancreas
for, what's that,
the lower right lobe of the liver, I think.
Sorry we're late, Maxine,
but we come in pieces.
SHE GRUNTS
Blessing, if I'm honest.
I've had me mother on the phone from
literally the middle of another roundabout.
You've all this to come with yours.
How's living alone?
Took me bloody ages,
but I'm loving it now.
Nothing but guard dogs.
Fierce protection and they love me to death.
- It's all I've ever wanted.
- How do you know we're living separately?
How do you know this much
about everybody from in here?
I think I ran into your wife
on a court day
- looking, if I dare say, unburdened.
- SHE GIGGLES
Shall we get on?
I couldn't run the full post-mortem
because I didn't have all the organs
but we did run the tox screens.
He hasn't used
so much as an aspirin in three months.
No booze, no drugs,
no medications, no meds prescribed.
None of that excludes suicide,
so you've always gotta keep an open mind.
On y va!
TOOL WHIRS
As Maggy says,
suicide can't be ruled out
but as it stands we've got two suspects,
based only on their proximity to the death
and that's Daniel Colley and Ben Pulman.
I just went to the lab
and realised it's the post-mortem.
- I'll join you.
- Sorry, half the organs, half the time.
Uh, no offense, Ted.
Records have pulled up
a previous death
with a version of the same machine
at a different factory.
- The same company?
- No, but the same machine design.
In that incident
a guy called Vincent Frayn
got sent down for seven years
for murdering a colleague by pushing him
into moving parts after a grievance.
"Shepherd's Meats and Packing"?
There's the circle of life
right there in a tin.
OK, folks, Betsy's thrown
another option into the mix.
The machine's now also a suspect.
Now, Dot, you need to get
to Shepherd's Meats and Packing.
We need photography
of the innards of the sister machine.
So, is Sorry, is that gonna happen
without a warrant, or
Not without charm,
which is why I've asked you. OK?
- Just blag your way in.
- Right, I shall be needing Dominique.
Dominique, I need you to look official.
- That's never happened before.
- BOTH CHUCKLE
Um, get a full field
DNA screening kit together.
Betsy, can you get
two fast-tracked visitors' orders
to wherever Vincent Frayn's being held?
I'm gonna request DNA.
- Am I coming with?
- Not without me, you're not.
- Well, make it three, then.
- Meet me in the car park in half an hour.
I'm driving.
And I'm left doing what? The rest of it?
Have you cracked Ted Woyzeck's phone?
- No, it's triple encrypted.
- Well, there's your answer.
I, um I came to see
if you're alright, Wolfe.
I'm tickety-boo, thanks for asking.
SHE CLEARS HER THROA
- And by the way, what does that mean?
Oh, come on.
Why is your desk this tidy?
SHE STUTTERS:
And your, um
Your recent behaviour,
coming round to mine
It's not "not" erratic.
Please don't be defensive.
I tidy up my desk and ask you
a few questions about your social life
- and you're still calling 'em "manic phases".
- It's the way you asked.
And yes, it's the way you've tidied.
These are all relapse signatures
and I'm only bringing
your attention to them
It is not compulsive behaviour.
Clear Your Clutter, Clear Your Mind.
It's Chapter Five. I'm following orders.
Who knows, by Chapter Ten,
the walls might have to go.
It was explicitly my sex life, not
my social life that you were interrogating
which is way off and you know it.
- It'll only take ten minutes.
- I haven't got ten minutes.
Shift changes in fifteen.
Why can't I put the cameras in then?
Because that's when
the blades get flushed and steamed.
If you're suggesting
it's still a potential crime scene
I'm stopping nothing
without a warrant.
That at least gives me two days' notice.
Not if a health and safety exec demands it.
Can I speak to your line manager?
I weren't being shitty
not meeting you in the visitors' cave
but I wasn't expecting anybody.
Anyway, I cherish the sunshine.
We only get three days a week out here.
It's no problem. Real farm to table, huh?
You've got everything.
HE GRUNTS
All this gets sold to restaurants.
We get frozen.
I'm just sitting in, Vincent.
These gentlemen are from Forensic Sciences
with some technical enquiries
and we'd also like another DNA sample,
with your permission.
Yeah. What's it about?
Well, any questions we have relate to
your memory of logistics of the day.
We are not police,
we're not looking to cross-examine you
- or asking you to impart any new information.
- Unless you have it.
But other people
could potentially be in jeopardy
if we don't start getting some straight
answers to some simple questions soon.
That's an interesting bracelet.
Are they
What are they, blisters?
No. You don't seal your clothing,
the flies get over the gloves.
Botfly. You have to suffocate 'em
with blister plasters.
Main reason they keep me here?
The jury was told
that I had a grievance with my mate
- over two and a half grand.
- WOLFE: That's a lot of wages.
He's owed me a lot more before,
and always paid eventually.
But you were also convicted on the basis
of a palm print on the start button.
One on the start, two on the off.
Cos I were trying to
reboot the blade motors.
On and off in a split second.
He were dead by then anyway.
Half his head had gone.
I've a three-year-old grandchild
I've never held.
That's cos I won't plead guilty
to something I haven't done.
OK, well, our questions are
all about the machine, Vincent
which can only be
in your interest. Fair do's?
Right, this is how
I accessed the last one.
It's meant to be identical,
but it won't go through.
Can you see the torch?
DOT:
Yeah, now I can.
OK, I'll hold the line.
You can get in through here.
Can Can you not stand there?
Oh, relax. I'm gay.
But I can't speak for the other 12.
Fine. Cover me.
SHE GRUNTS
- DOT: Fuck off.
So when we get back
I need you going over the footage
against the blueprints. Could you just
What's that?
- Rufus's phone number. And a note.
- Saying what?
- "I'm not gay."
- SHE SIGHS
SHE CHUCKLES
- We were both bending over.
Why didn't I get
a fucking phone number? Dot, dot, dot
What
SHE SIGHS
- How do you get "Dot" from Marcy?
- How'd you think? "Dot, dot, dot."
I'm always the last
to be thought of among this rabble.
- It never ends.
- I bet you make sure you're not.
- Louder and longer.
- SHE LAUGHS
STEVE:
Oh, boss.
The DNA samples that you asked me to run.
I got a name. Do you want it?
Uh, Jeff Joyce.
Two-three, zero-three, seventy-seven.
Does that mean anything?
Maggy's got something to show us.
HE STUTTERS
- Maggy.
- Boss. I cracked dead Ted's phone.
You wouldn't know it now,
but he was a well-hung fella.
And most of his dick pics
went to, three guesses.
SHE STUTTERS
Prostitutes?
- BOTH: Ben Pulman?
- Delores Belby.
- Uh, yeah. They were having a thing.
- No way!
The later texts say she was
more or less shutting things down.
Another extenuator for suicide.
Good old Delores, banging the engineer.
Ding dong, Belby!
Delores and Darren Belby were both off
the premises at the time of death.
Says who? They're each other's alibi.
This would explain
her level of grief on the day.
Yes, I am still holding,
but my patience won't.
Gone again.
Look, I really need to speak
with some privacy.
I just want a simple legal opinion
about the loss adjustment numbers.
This was sent from Ted's phone.
Could you confirm that you received it?
Will his wife have to find out?
Is there any possibility your husband did?
He wants to know
if you found out about Ted.
Then be my guest, darling.
You must tell him.
PHONE BEEPS
Look, it's not a recent thing. Me and Darren
have always had an open marriage.
People come and go without damage,
and we remain devoted.
- Ted wasn't damage?
- Oh, he seemed relieved to be out of it.
I'm sure I wasn't his only excursion.
Plus, he'd just sold a patent,
so, all in all
- I think he was skipping, to be honest.
- A patent for what?
Another machine.
Ted designed the machines?
Most of them.
- This is just for elimination.
- What isn't?
She said she'd leave the file
in the back room.
- The keys are on the string.
- WOLFE: Seriously? Round here?
That's it. Let's go.
- Happy birthday! Surprise!
- HE GASPS
- Surprise!
- Wow. Thank you, thank you.
This is just to say thank you to you
for leadership, inspiration and guidance
and for the start of another year.
To the boss!
To the boss!
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well."
Voltaire.
HE CHUCKLES
My my thanks to all of you,
especially Dot for hosting us all, again.
Ah, well
And there's nothing wrong
with round here, by the way.
Alright, let's drink like billy goats
and wreck the joint.
SHE GIGGLES
- No need, Dot's started already.
- Hey.
- What?
Your mum's left you
drinking on your own?
- Wow!
- Mm. Serves you right.
Glad you live on your own,
you'll be farting for freedom.
Mum wasn't invited, but she sent a card.
- Just a card?
- How old are you?
- Wow.
- SHE CHUCKLES
Look at that.
Forty-four and 17, it is bang on.
I specifically asked for a two-finger
button-down and they sent me everything but.
This was three times lucky.
Thank you.
Betsy, you've had calls.
They said your phone's off.
- Because I'm off duty.
- I know.
HE CHUCKLES
- Ooh!
So are you sure you're not flogging
a dead horse there, darling?
We've never played poker,
have we, Dot?
- POLICEWOMAN: DCI Chambers?
- Yep?
Yeah, we've been trying
to get a hold of you.
Hold this. It's a Bluetooth
electro-dermal stress monitor.
I hope it does muzak,
because this is boring.
Except when I say something like,
"I'd have thought Val would've been here."
Why don't I keep the transmitter
and you keep the graphics?
Actually, that's not a bad idea.
PHONE BEEPS
HE GROANS
HE GROANS AND CHUCKLES
OK.
Oh, fuck off, you spoon-fed penguin!
OK. Come on.
Show me your colours.
Show me your colours.
Hi, Daniel. We're really sorry
for what you had to go through.
Um, we've got a few blind spots
on the prints we took at work.
- I'd like to scan it digitally, if that's OK?
- Sure.
Take a seat
while Dominique sets the equipment up.
Thanks. Just sit here.
Thank you.
WOLFE GROANS
Is there anything you haven't done,
you fucking catalogue?
KNOCK ON DOOR
- Hang on.
What do you think "hang on" means?
Come in
and read stuff over your shoulder?
I just needed to have
a quick word about
HE CHUCKLES
I'm guessing you're going through
the rebirth experience
that all promotions bring.
- Sorry?
- Well, if you're anything like me
you have the permanent post
that you always wanted
but you hadn't banked on
standing in a different pair of shoes.
It's like my mentor used to say
"It's like going to big school.
You have to swap attitude for intelligence.
All growth spurts are painful."
Plus, seeing how good
Dominique is, the last one in
that must be choking you.
Your mentor was from Dundee.
Why's he got a German accent?
- You know what I mean.
- Yeah, all too well
which is more than I can say for you.
My problem is
that intelligence keeps equalling attitude
because I can see
how gormless they are sometimes
and I just want to smack their faces,
especially Dot's.
Why Dot's?
She doesn't like taking orders
from someone this much younger.
Then stop making them sound like orders
and try not deliberately sounding
this much younger.
- I
- KNOCK ON DOOR
- Yes?
- STEVE: Boss
you need to come and see this.
These are like histamine bumps,
but Daniel can't remember getting them.
Do they hurt or itch?
No. At first I thought,
new rescue kitten, fleas, but
- me wife and son are clean as whistles.
- It's a botfly infestation.
Never heard of it.
Are you squeamish, Daniel?
Yeah.
It's better done than explained,
but these need to come out.
These what?
- Like stings?
- Something like that.
You're a botanist?
Yeah, got a first from Cambridge.
How long did it take to slide that in?
Should have set me clock.
MACHINE BUZZES
I can feel that inside.
Yep. And this is why.
Here we go.
Oh, my God.
Where did that come
- Oh, whoa, whoa, OK.
- STEVE: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Secure his airway,
nab the other buggers while he's out.
I need this DNA prepped for Y-STR analysis.
Could you do that for us?
Well, actually, Maggy,
I'm in the middle of something.
Well, it's an important job,
so I'd really respect your age on this.
Uh, s-sorry, what's age got to do
with a database enquiry?
I just want you to know
there's no difference whatsoever
between yours or mine.
DOMINIQUE:
This clutch here
is why we couldn't get the camera
into the machine
at Shepherd's Meats and Packing
but managed to at the Belby factory.
Right, OK. Well, that helps.
I was right.
- You could have waited for me to say that.
- Ooh, about what exactly?
This is the guy serving
seven years for murder
for shoving his mate
into a boning machine
at Shepherd's Meats and Packing
three years back.
STEVE:
Daniel Colley is Vincent Frayn's son.
How the hell
did you get to that conclusion?
BOTH:
Botfly.
Because me and Steve
went to see Vincent Frayn
at Belmont Prison, 76 miles away
Where they'd had an outbreak of botfly.
Frayn works in the prison gardens.
His wrists were covered in them.
The prison had an open day in the autumn
and Daniel was on the visitors' list.
No way!
- We're glad something cheers you up.
- SHE GASPS
We need to schedule
a briefing with Betsy's team.
We need guidance on how to proceed.
- WOLFE: You alright there?
- It's for Ted's family.
- And that's before night shift dips in.
- Sit down, Daniel.
Did you deliberately remove
the safety clutch on this machine
to prove a point
about your dad, Vincent Frayn?
The machine Ted built killed Ted.
That's Ted's fault.
Show me a clutch on the blueprint.
OK, bring the van round
to Loading Bay Three.
For Daniel's sake,
we should do this discreetly.
SHE SCREAMS
- HE GRUNTS
Three days old!
Three days old.
Daniel!
There's no escape, Daniel.
Daniel! They'll catch you anyway.
HE GRUNTS
Bastards!
- Fine! It'll have to be this.
- Fuck.
Oh, fuck.
No!
HE PANTS
- Fuck are you blaming me for?
- No one fucking move!
Don't need telling twice!
Come on, Daniel. You achieved
what you set out to do three years ago.
Your dad's release is imminent.
For three years,
I lost the man I love the most.
WOLFE:
Yeah, I can see why.
Vincent's a smashing bloke.
And depending on what happens at your trial
he might have to lose you
for a while, Daniel.
Face facts, everything that happened
is everything you wanted.
Just one more favour
and then we're clear.
Young Ben Pulman
did not deserve to lose his job.
I'm sorry, clear of what?
Any guilt at what our private lives involve?
And that needs favours?
Yeah, fuck off.
You've sadly misjudged us.
Any judgment you might have detected
only comes from one thing
the fact that one of you suggested it first
and the other one's just tagging along.
To the team.
And to the sales assistant of the year,
best ever newcomer
- Dominique!
- STEVE CHUCKLES
HE KNOCKS
Oh, hi, Val.
I thought you'd be out.
Anyway, I was just dropping something in.
- Just legal something, just dropping it in.
- Legal what?
Just stuff in case anything happens
to any of us in the meantime.
- I should have said "formal" not "legal."
- Which meantime?
I
But so's you know, everything goes to you,
you and Flick, if I die.
- Die of what?
- Who knows? Nits?
Uh
I would just leave your half
directly to Flick.
Why are we even discussing this now?
Cos I need you to know
that you are very, very special to me.
You're the least shareable person
I've ever met.
You will always be special to me,
Wolfe Kinteh, till the day I die.
So what are you doing
with somebody like "JJ"
- who's the diametrical opposite of me?
- JJ's got nothing to do with this.
So that is what he makes you call him.
He might smile more than I can
- but he looks like he went for a colonic
- Wolfe
- and nothing came out.
- turn around and keep walking.
So what does your law firm think about
the fraud charges around JJ's neck?
Uh, Fact-Check-Land,
all charges were dropped
when the CFO was found guilty on all counts.
Google Translate, money-mad scrubber
who throws his mate under a bus.
Again, why the total opposite of me
if I came even this close the first time?
You didn't get this from Facebook.
What have you been up to, Wolfe?
If you've been spending public money
trying to sabotage my private life
Are you even aware
of the criminal consequences?
I-I can't wait to see this in print.
No, please, please. Val, I'm begging you.
Do not say "divorce," please.
I meant the fucking headlines,
you twisted creep.
Never set foot in this house
without a written invitation
or I'll lodge this conversation
and your pension
won't be worth shit to Flick.
Lucky for her, mine's all she'll need.
- He came in bits, he left in pieces.
- SHE SIGHS
A, don't tempt me,
and B, since you obviously rehearsed that
you should have predicted
how this would end.
Fuck off!
MUSIC: "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"
by Sylvester
PEOPLE CHEER AND SHOU
You've been out there dancing
on the floor, darling ♪
And I feel like I need some more ♪
And I feel your body close to mine ♪
- And I know, my love, it's about that time ♪
- HE WHOOPS
- You make me feel ♪
- Fuck, yeah!
- Mighty real ♪
- HE HOWLS
You make me feel mighty real ♪
You make me feel ♪
Mighty real ♪
You make me feel ♪
Mighty real ♪
When we get home, darling ♪
- And it's nice and dark ♪
- MUSIC FADES