The Thaw (2022) s01e02 Episode Script

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Could she have been tortured?
The bruises and scratches
are from ice and branches.
She has a perineal tear,
probably caused by labor.
But I can't rule out rape yet.
And this? A rope?
- Yes. On both hands.
- Can you identify what kind?
Yes, although it'll take a while.
And here we have the cause of death.
Blunt trauma to the back of the head.
Detective?
- Yes?
- Prosecutor Strzelecki is here.
The father will be confirming
the body.
Go ahead.
She was nine months pregnant.
She should have been at home.
Any decent guy
would've been by her side.
I know.
And where were you?
I don't fucking know.
You'll rot in prison.
Like your father.
Motherfucker.
He has identified the body.
You don't have to.
But I want to see her.
Go ahead.
Fuck.
I can't do it.
Fuck, I can't.
Make me one more coffee, please.
- There you go.
- Thanks.
The confirmation didn't go too well.
I wanted to see his reaction to the
body, but Strzelecki fucked it up.
Thanks.
How was Kosinski on the way back?
Crying, all the way back to his cell.
Grief, guilt? I'm guessing it's both.
You really think he did it?
- You said it wasn't spousal homicide.
- He might be involved.
Strzelecki said his father
was an inmate. Follow that up.
- Please.
- "Please"? That's better.
- 911, what's your emergency?
- Help, I'm in labor in my car
- Where are you?
- I don't know, in the woods.
Someone was following me,
I made a turn
Please calm down.
Is there anyone with you?
No. My husband's not answering
I'm scared, please help me!
How far apart are the contractions?
- They didn't send anyone to her?
- She hung up or lost reception.
The victim is Magda Kosinska,
the District Prosecutor's daughter.
He needs no introductions.
Strzelecki may have a lot of enemies,
so every sentenced scumbag
in this city may be a suspect.
Radwan, get a list
of recently released inmates
- prosecuted by Strzelecki.
- Right.
Kosinska's husband has a shitty alibi
and remains our main suspect.
Married for seven years,
separated for the past two months.
Magda Kosinska moved in
with her friend, Anka Janas.
On the night of the murder, Kosinski
was seen making trouble at her door.
- Drunk.
- They grew up on the same street.
Anka and her brother
lived in the Strzeleckis' basement.
We're still looking for the victim's
car and the child's body.
Not "body". The child.
Zawieja, a can of formula found by
the placenta doesn't mean anything.
It means someone
wanted to feed that baby.
They'd have made contact
by now, right?
What? If they're feeding it,
then it's ransom or blackmail.
All right!
Let's get to work.
We need to find Kosinska's car to
locate the crime scene. It's crucial.
Radwan, you know what to do.
Kosinski's mother.
When Marc in was ten.
- His father went to jail for that?
- For that, plus assault, robbery.
He's been behind bars since then.
But I've got something better.
Marc in is registered as in debt.
Despite selling his company,
he still owes 100k.
Is that all or has he been borrowing
off the books?
Here, Kosinski's mother's
medical examination.
He took after his father
and battered the girl?
I'd say he owed money
to the wrong people.
And that's why they took his child?
It's definitely more profitable
than throwing it in the river.
Gonna talk to the prick? If he killed
the wife, he killed the kid too.
- Where are you?
- I don't know, in the woods.
Someone was following me,
I made a turn
Please calm down.
Is there anyone with you?
No. My husband's not answering
I'm scared, please help me!
How frequent are the contractions?
Why didn't you answer?
I didn't have my phone.
Your wife gave birth
and suffered a blow to the head.
Could this be about your debts?
Did they threaten you?
What did they say?
That they'll kill her?
Kill the baby, sell it?
Who do you owe money to?
- Do you want to find the child?
- I have to get out of here.
- List everyone you owe money to.
- I want to go.
Focus. Please.
The Dabrowski brothers.
Connected to the underworld.
They took over his company
and bought his debt,
but he still owes them big time.
This one was prosecuted
by Strzelecki.
Got a suspended sentence
two years ago.
Radwan, what do you think?
Would they hurt the daughter
to get at Strzelecki?
Organized crime? They don't get
their hands dirty for 100 grand.
It's a domestic homicide.
The guy's in debt, he's stressed out.
He got drunk, she yelled at him,
it was too much
he whacked her.
And the baby?
- In the river.
- He whacked her? And then what?
He tied her up, tortured her,
forced her into labor, and then?
He sold his kid to human traffickers
or drowned it in the river?
Listen, that guy didn't do it.
Okay. The brothers are doing business
at the docks. Bring them in.
- My cover's been blown in the docks.
- Does that go for your wife too?
Release the husband for now.
Take him home, keep a close eye.
He might lead us to the murder weapon
or the child's body.
- I think it's a waste of time.
- Why?
We have to start somewhere.
Then put out a child abduction alert.
Come on. The kid's dead.
Find the crime scene or Kosinska's
car, and we'll find the baby's body.
If you find the car, call me.
- This is awkward.
- It is.
The Dabrowski brothers,
they run a business here.
- I don't believe this.
- What?
- What about me? And the children?
- Don't start
We are dead to you,
unless you need something for work.
- Go ask around yourself!
- I'll visit the kids.
- Did you get the papers?
- What? What papers?
I sent you the divorce papers!
You were supposed to sign them
and send them back. Is that so hard?
Can you!
Help me find something
on these guys
and I'll think about
those fucking papers, okay?
You were, you are,
and you will always be an idiot.
I can do it!
Send me the picture and wait here.
What about that house?
My father-in-law's.
But he doesn't live here anymore.
- Tell me it's not true.
- Let's go inside.
- Mom, look what's going on here.
- Was she your wife?
- The Prosecutor's daughter?
- Get lost.
- Is that police's official stance?
- Yes.
No comment.
Get a life.
Marc in!
Thank you.
I'll get her meds.
- Hello.
- She's got cancer.
And now this tragedy
How long has the Strzeleckis' house
been vacant?
- Since his wife's death.
- Did you work there long?
I've told you everything,
what are you implying?
We were like family.
Do you think any of us
could've done this to Magda?
I don't think anything.
Could you all leave now?
Because you're fucking heartless.
Hello. This is the police.
Anyone home?
Hello?
Hello?
Do you mind?
You'd spend time here together?
We lived downstairs,
they lived upstairs.
Everything changed
when Mrs. Strzelecka died.
You still have the keys.
Magda and Marc in
didn't want to live upstairs?
Strzelecki wouldn't have it.
I mean, Magda could, but just her.
That's why she moved in with you?
Magda called you that night,
didn't she?
As I said, I couldn't hear anything.
- But you didn't hang up.
- I was searching for reception.
Did you know they were in debt?
You must've talked about it.
We found a lot of bloodstains
in your flat.
We know Marc in was there that night.
What was going on between them?
- Is this an interrogation?
- No. I just want to understand.
It wasn't about Marc in.
He wouldn't have hurt her. Magda
was afraid of something,
she made sure the door was locked.
She thought that someone
was following her.
Here's my card. If you remember
anything, give me a call.
But don't try and protect anyone.
Hello.
- Anything?
- Yeah.
The Dabrowskis have a company here.
Doing business.
What's interesting, some punk
torched their car five days ago.
Take a look.
They didn't report it to the police.
Weird, huh?
I made you a copy.
- Yes?
- Could you answer your mom's calls?
- She keeps calling me, she's worried.
- Okay.
How's Marc in Kosinski?
Sitting on his ass with his mother,
our guys are watching him.
And where are you?
Trying to work a murder case,
but Hanka's teacher
"really wants a chat, now."
Got it.
Get this, I met Anka Janas
at the Strzeleckis' old house.
- And?
- She's mourning Magda, obviously.
But I think she's hiding something.
I think she's protecting Marc in.
Let me know if something pops up.
I'll try to speed things up.
Hania is keeping to herself,
she doesn't want to play with others.
She makes things up.
We know what happened
and we want to help Hania,
but you also need to get involved.
Excuse me.
- Yes?
- Listen
Magda Kosinska's car has been found
in the Western Oder,
the Parnica Canal.
I'm texting you the GPS location.
30 minutes.
Kasia, do you ever talk
about your husband's death?
Does Hania know
what really happened?
What am I supposed to tell her?
That he got shot?
Or better, that he shot himself?
Hania.
Suggest anything like that to her
and I might lose it.
- Where are we going?
- To Grandpa's.
- I don't want to.
- I know.
- One last night, I promise.
- No.
Okay, hop in.
I'll take you with me to work.
But you must be a good girl, promise?
Alright. I'll play you a cartoon.
Watch it, I'll be back soon.
Just stay in the car.
I'm here. What's he doing here?
He lives nearby.
In his partner's house.
Was I supposed to tell him
he can't come?
- She might've been on her way to him.
- Not likely.
Why not?
He claims he was working
late at his office that night.
We need to confirm that.
- It's empty inside.
- Open the trunk.
There's a bag.
It looks like a hospital bag.
A bathrobe
a bra
a sock.
The rest of the baby stuff is
missing.
Someone must have taken it
before sinking the car.
Put out a child alert. It hasn't been
48 hours yet, we still have a chance.
Cichy!
So there's a chance
the child could be alive?
Yes. I think so.
I want to find the child,
but time is running out.
We're after your son-in-law's
creditors.
We know you put one of them in jail.
Maybe it's a ransom situation?
Every piece of shit I've put behind
bars knows I can't be blackmailed.
If this was about me,
they would've killed them both.
Could Magda have been
on her way to you?
I don't know.
Hania!
Why'd you get out of the car?
And without your jacket?
You scared the deer away.
- I'm sorry.
- What's over there?
The feeding rack.
Do you want to see it?
Come, I'll show you.
Was that deer alone?
No, deer live in herds.
But that one was hungry,
so it came here on its own.
Look, they have this nice hay here.
And here's salt. They lick it.
I'll take this rope.
All right. Let's go home.
Hi!
Detective Andrzej Radwan.
Tomasz Dabrowski?
- What's this about?
- I hear someone torched your car.
It was my car.
Are you investigating it?
No. You two are under arrest
for murder.
- What?
- What the fuck?
Eat shit.
Out of the fucking tub.
- Yes?
- I'm putting out a child alert.
- I'm starting to buy your theory.
- Thanks.
The techs tell me you found a rack
with game fodder and some ropes.
Her hands could have been bound
with them.
I think she gave birth there.
Radwan found Kosinski's creditors,
he's bringing them in.
Will you be there?
Sure.
What's your relationship
with Marc in Kosinski?
We bought his company.
- Was it a family business?
- How would I know?
I'm interested in numbers.
- Did it take long to get him to sell?
- What does it matter?
Ask him. For us, it was just enough.
I don't get it. He sold you
his company, but he still owes you?
Well, yes. That's how it turned out.
He torched your brother's car.
Why didn't you report it?
Because we don't trust the police.
- Even now, you've got the wrong guys.
- And we let murderers walk free.
What's is this?
A date or an interrogation?
He knows what he's doing.
Give him time.
Why doesn't he lean on them
about Strzelecki? They are suspects!
- Stop winding yourself up.
- He called you a few times last week.
Keep me posted.
There's a lot of talk
when you buy a guy's business
or threaten to kill his wife.
And an unborn baby?
Dead wives are not my department.
And I don't have time for dead kids.
- It's all I'll say without a lawyer.
- Great.
Because we're done.
Escort the man out. Thank you.
What the fuck was that?
- They don't have that kid.
- Not fucking that.
- Then what?
- Really? Are you that stupid?
Why didn't you ask about Strzelecki?
He prosecuted the guy.
Maybe this is revenge
or attempted blackmail?
It hasn't occurred to you, really?
It has.
We've got a dead woman,
a missing child,
and a prosecutor who wants
to avenge his daughter.
We'll help you, if you start talking.
Is that for me? Fuck!
I'll fuck you up so bad in the cell
you'll won't come out alive!
- Let go!
- Get the fuck out!
What the fuck?
Cool it.
You cool? Good.
Fuck.
I know, I'm sorry.
Radwan fucking pisses me off.
- Does he spite me or what?
- Okay, I get it.
I don't believe Kosinski killed her.
It doesn't stick
with the creditors either.
So, do we have something or not?
There was a CD in Kosinska's car,
maybe there's something on it?
- What? Why didn't you tell me?
- Because I just found out about it.
But did they find something on it?
I don't know yet, but I know
you don't have to yell at everyone!
And this beef with Radwan
is not helping anyone either.
Fuck.
Just go.
I'll let you know when the lab
gets through with the CD.
What? Have you found the baby?
- Yes or no?
- You don't give a shit anyway.
Another dead body.
What difference does it make?
Hey! Pour me another two.
Radwan, we need to talk.
See how this job
turns our brains to shit? All of us.
- Why don't you want to help me?
- I've already helped you.
This case has nothing to do
with organized crime.
They would have left the mother and
the baby on Kosinski's doorstep.
And he'd pay his debt.
Fuck, Radwan.
It's not what I'm asking about.
I know what you're asking about.
If someone wanted to fuck Wojtek up,
they wouldn't fake his suicide.
Look out for yourself.
- Go to bed, please.
- Okay.
I had a horrible dream
I don't remember details
- Good morning, sweetie.
- Who is that?
Come here. What were you doing?
I was looking for pictures of Dad.
I'll show you.
That's you with Daddy, and here too.
- And that's you when you were little.
- Will you take me to him?
You want to go to Daddy?
To the cemetery?
Alright.
These are the files from the CD
found in Kosinska's car.
- Got them.
- Eating an apple?
I'm impressed.
Creepy stuff. Hours, days
of surveillance. Endless.
From a car, from hiding,
even from a drone. For weeks.
A message: "We're following you."
The Dabrowskis would've sent it
to Marc in.
It's not spousal homicide,
but not child trafficking either.
It's the spring festival today,
preschool stuff,
- so I'll be in later.
- Okay, see you.
Oh, you look lovely!
- Well?
- Beautiful.
Grandpa did his best.
Hania
It went out!
Hold on, I have to take this.
- Hey.
- I've watched some more of it.
It seems someone would film her
every time she went out.
- It's some total stalker.
- We need to take the prints
from the envelope in Janas's flat
and check the sender's post office.
I gotta drop Hanka off.
Bye.
Hania!
Let's go.
Come on.
What's that?
- Where's this candy from?
- That man gave it to me.
What man?
Where?
You know you can't take candy
from strangers, right?
There's that man, Mom.
Over there, by the car.
- Mom, what's going on?
- Nothing, everything's fine.