Roadkill (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

DOOR CLANKS
Steff?
Steff?
Steff!
Bryony!
Bryony! Quick!
What's going on?
- Go get the defibrillator!
- I'm not supposed to leave her.
Go!
BRYONY:
Bravo 3 to SP.
Calling code blue to Block Four.
INDISTINCT VOICE ON RADIO
ALARM WAILS
Steff.
Steff?
DISTANT INMATES YELL
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Remove pads from package in the unit.
What are you doing?
I've never used it.
You're supposed to be trained!
INMATES BANG ON DOORS
Remove pads from package in the unit.
ALARM WAILS
I'd just like to say a word of thanks
to everyone who's been so kind
and so skilful in these last few days.
Sadly, for personal reasons,
this is a hospital I already know.
But you are the people
who give healthcare a good name.
And I promise you
that when I get back to Westminster
I will be telling everyone who'll listen
where the beating heart of this country
is to be found.
It's in the NHS.
Thank you very much, all of you.
- Thank you, thank you
- THEY APPLAUD
Alright, thank you, goodbye!
Thank you, thank you.
You alright?
Yeah, fine, they're just making me
wear this today.
Lily's making something special.
- She's cooking?
- Yes.
That doesn't happen very often.
You don't kill a deer very often,
do you?
ENGINE STARTS
PUNK MUSIC BLARES
LILY: Just so you know,
we're expecting Susan.
Susan?
You didn't tell me.
- You didn't ask.
- When are we expecting her?
Have you known where she was all this time?
- Yeah, of course. She's my sister.
- HELEN: And you didn't tell us?
She didn't want me to.
Where's she coming from? Where's she been?
Didn't know there was to be
a family reunion.
It's not a family reunion!
It's a family conference.
And if I have it my way,
it'll be a family trial.
Really? What are the charges?
You know perfectly well.
Lily, your father needs a day or two
to recuperate.
- What are you cooking for us, Lil?
- I'm roasting a chicken
and if either of you start telling me
how to do it
- That is not gonna happen.
- I'm doing it my way and I don't care.
Lil, I don't know what you're up to,
but whatever it is
you have my love and support.
Yeah, maybe you should've thought about that
before you got a fucking mistress.
What did you say?
That's what we're here to discuss,
if you really want to know.
I don't like this.
Hmm? What is it?
You know when you see a squall the size
of your hand and it's a long way away
- but it's heading towards you?
- Isn't it your job to spot those?
- It's Yemen.
- Mm-hm.
Three NGOs have been killed
working for a charity.
- I didn't see.
- No, it hasn't been announced.
The Saudis are refusing to say
what weapons they used in the raid
but we think it may have been
the Normandy rocket
manufactured by the British Defence Group.
So what have we got? British charity workers
killed by British weapons?
The Saudis are trying to hush it up.
Nobody yet knows they're dead
and nobody knows how,
but it'll just take one journalist.
Keep an eye on it.
Julia, you do tell me everything,
don't you?
Everything that's useful, yes.
LOCK BUZZES
DOOR OPENS
So, you know what happened.
I certainly do. I saw it with my own eyes.
I hope you burn in hell for it.
- I've put in a formal complaint.
- I've got your complaint.
It's not going forward.
- You need to slow down.
- Why?
This is a tragedy.
We all need a period to draw breath.
And what do we need to do that for?
Proper timely assessment.
Apart from anything, Steff had siblings.
We hate the thought
of alarming them unnecessarily.
Yeah, I bet you do.
Rose, for once,
think of it from their point of view.
Why upset them?
My cellmate died because you're too cheap
to train your officers properly.
At this moment,
we're not admitting liability.
There's no medical proof
that she could've been saved.
ROSE:
In your view.
- In the view of the prison doctor.
- Which one?
The alcoholic or the drug addict?
Talk to Bryony.
She's in pieces. She knows she failed,
and it's killing her.
I've looked at your complaint
and I don't accept it.
You can blame Parallax if you like,
but I blame you.
Because any system, however crappy,
works decently
- when it's administered by decent people.
- You're a convicted fraud, Rose. Please.
Don't talk to us about decency.
I'm in touch with the Justice Minister
and I'm gonna put this case in front of him.
Rose, if you think you can use a friend's
death to pursue some sort of vendetta
against the prison
and the people who run it
No, what we're talking about is power.
You have it. I don't.
You forfeited power
when you committed a crime.
Does that mean you can just
leave us all dead on the floor?
Steff was a known trouble-maker
who burned down the prison canteen.
She did violence to a prison officer.
Right, and so she deserves a lesser
standard of justice, does she?
And thanks for expressing your condolences.
Just came in from Gatwick so I haven't got
the slightest idea of where I am
or what time it is.
You're home, and it's just before lunch.
Did Mum see me?
Not yet.
How is she?
Shaky.
She's got her concert tonight
and Lily up at the pulpit
is the last thing she needs.
That's your view, is it?
- Where have you come in from?
- I came from the Arctic.
Ha. That is perfect.
When the history of the 21st century
comes to be written
who do you think it's gonna be
with any credit?
Greenpeace and a few feminists,
and that's about it.
I wish you'd told us where you were.
And I wish you ever told us anything at all.
OK. I can see Lily's spoken to you.
At length.
I always believed in my daughters.
So your absence never bothered me,
but it's different for your mother.
She's scared of you.
She thinks she's failed
and it's all her fault.
Gave her a nervous breakdown.
Oh, right, you put that down to my absence,
do you?
You don't think there were
any other factors involved?
Come on, Susan
Love the idea of you
being Prisons Minister now.
- Thank you.
- Fine line, don't you think?
Between running prisons and being in them.
Actually, no, I don't think that.
Don't topple over.
You know I was in an accident?
Yeah, Lily said.
Driving down.
In case you're worried,
wasn't as bad as I thought. I'm fine.
Good.
Right side hurts like hell but I don't
suppose that bothers you too much.
It's not top of my list, no.
It's freezing out here,
why don't you come inside and say hello?
When I've finished my cigarette.
Did you just come in especially from
Greenland? No.
I was passing through.
We've got strategy meetings in Amsterdam.
We decide which unprincipled
rapist of the Earth to hit next.
I can see the cold weather
hasn't affected your sense of humour.
Laugh a minute in the Arctic Circle.
Who is this girlfriend anyway?
Does she mean something to you
or is she just someone convenient?
SHE LAUGHS
Silence here suggesting convenience.
I don't presume to know everything
about your life.
Why do you think you can guess
about mine?
Uh, because I grew up with you, remember?
Only I grew up and you didn't.
PETER:
Susan's outside.
I was just living my life.
I'd found some small corner, some crevice,
so I could get on with my life
and then three days ago
any peace I had, any dignity,
was taken from me.
If you wanted to leave me,
why didn't you say so?
I don't want to leave you.
We
we've been together since we were kids.
You're only with me because you think
I can't cope on my own.
I No, I have never thought
any such thing.
I don't want to be someone
you feel you have to take care of.
That's not who I want to be.
- I can explain
- Please, don't.
Lily wants you to explain
in front of the whole family.
Helen
I'm an open book.
I'll talk about anything, you know me.
But do you really think it's a good idea
for us to discuss our relationship
in front of the girls?
Do we have any choice?
Fuck!
Oh, you look terrible.
Yeah.
It's cos I've had bad news.
Charmian Pepper's dead.
- She's dead?
- Yeah.
How did it happen?
She was hit by a vehicle.
- Wow.
- At night.
Where's the driver?
- Gone.
- It was an accident? Hit and run?
That's what the police are saying.
And do you have any evidence
to the contrary?
- No.
- But you don't believe them?
- They didn't see it.
- So?
Nobody saw it.
You're not going to start
suggesting a conspiracy.
You're a lawyer, for God's sake.
You're meant to examine the evidence.
Ten minutes before she died,
I was on the phone to Charmian.
- And?
- And
she had just met a woman
who was finally willing to confirm
Peter Laurence's stay in Washington.
And did she by any chance
mention this woman's name?
Exactly, there you are. No actual name.
- She was about to.
- Sure.
So tell me, had Charmian been drinking
when you spoke to her?
- What makes you ask that?
- How was she on the phone? Her manner?
No, really. Tell me.
- OK, she was a touch slurred.
- "A touch slurred".
- Alright, fine, if you wanna know everything.
- I do.
The police are saying she was jaywalking.
When they found the body,
a bottle had smashed in her bag.
She was soused in vodka.
The alcohol level in her body was five times
over the legal limit for drivers.
Looks to me like she had no idea
where she was or what she was doing.
So tell me this:
why did the driver not stop?
What, we just let them kill her, do we,
because she fell off the wagon?
You're gonna have to tell me
what you meant by "bumped into".
- Sorry?
- When you called me in Birmingham
you said you'd bumped into Charmian Pepper.
- Mm-hm. Yeah, so I did.
- Where?
- I saw her at a meeting.
- A meeting?
So does that mean you're an addict?
You got off with her, didn't you?
You know what, I don't like this spooky
thing where you always know what people did.
So, I tell you what it looks like to me.
You had some sort of passionate liaison
with a fellow alcoholic
and now you don't want to believe she got
so pissed, she managed to get run over.
- That's not what happened.
- No?
And how do you know?
INDISTINCT CHATTER
- DOOR SHUTS
If it's any consolation,
I'm feeling just as guilty as you.
We shouldn't have let her go.
She was in no fit state.
Her reputation had just been
trashed in court
she was in no condition
to handle a major investigation.
What do we do?
Nothing we can do.
- She got family?
- Her parents.
Send them some flowers from us.
DOOR SHUTS
This this is inedible.
I knew you'd find fault.
I'm not finding fault,
I'm just pointing out that if we eat this
we're all gonna die of salmonella.
This is actively dangerous.
I don't eat chicken anyway.
Hastings is a long way
to come for food poisoning.
I don't want to know what's wrong
with my cooking.
I want to know how you can treat
our mother so badly!
PETER:
First of all
explain to me why you were in that state
to begin with?
Because, like my sister, I have a weakness
for recreational drugs.
Not anymore. I'm clean.
That's good, darling. I'm happy about that.
And I'm coming out of a miserable
relationship with a man
who confused sex with violence.
Do we have to hear about this?
Look, I'm sorry, but it's my concert today.
For me, it's the biggest day of the year.
I'll discuss anything you want at any time
but can we please leave it till later?
Do you mean that your boyfriend
was hitting you?
I'm saying he diminished me in every way
he could and I was looking for an escape
and I didn't see why I shouldn't have it.
And it didn't occur to you
that your father was Minister of Justice?
You weren't Minister of Justice,
you were minister of something else.
Sorry, I wasn't following
your career that closely
I was minding my own business
when suddenly there was a photographer
and I felt what Susan feels
and what my mother feels
and what the whole family feels,
"Will I ever escape?
Will I ever be able to live my own life?"
You are exaggerating.
Everything is about you.
We're all stuck in this broken-down lift
called Peter Laurence.
Why do you think Susan ran away?
I don't see it that way.
I hope you're not gonna light
that thing in here.
I wasn't running away from anything, Lily.
I was running towards.
PETER: I've said to both of you,
right from the start
you're free, you can do what you want.
I don't judge you and I don't control you.
Except when I want a cigarette.
LILY: And you're free to sleep
with whoever you want?
It works both ways. If freedom means
anything, it means freedom for all of us.
LILY:
Dad, you are one member of the family!
You talk about our freedom
as if it's yours to give.
- Lily
- Dad behaves all the time
as if this family
were his personal property.
He behaves as if he can make the rules,
and in the process he has royally screwed up
- both his daughters.
- Speak for yourself, Lily.
- I'm not screwed up.
- Stuck away on some boat in the Arctic?
- That's chance, is it?
- I hate to say it, but I think it's about
- trying to save the planet.
- PHONE BUZZES
Not that I expect anyone else here
to care about that
and after all, Dad, your government's
so determined to have fewer people
on the island, so I thought I'd do
my patriotic duty and leave the country
so I could leave a little more space
for all those lovely white people
who are feeling a bit cramped.
I'm pro-immigration, which you would know
if you bothered to find out.
Is your girlfriend a foreigner?
- Why do you ask that?
- I googled her.
She's Danish. She had a German husband.
And how did you two meet?
- Do you really want to go into this?
- Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do.
Right.
When I was at the Department of Culture.
Oh!
In the line of work?
So I suppose the question I'm really asking
were you going out with her
when Mum had cancer?
I mean, it's a simple enough question.
Lily, I was ill for a long time
it was hard for all of us.
We went through a lot.
When Mum had breast cancer,
were you going out with Madeleine?
You were fucking a librarian
while Mum was having her breast off!
God, you disgust me.
And and what exactly is her appeal?
Come on, Lily.
No, really. What does Madeleine Halle
have that, that we all don't?
SUSAN SCOFFS
Don't look at me, Dad,
you got yourself into this mess.
You're gonna have to get yourself out of it.
- You really want to know?
- I do.
She had lost a child.
So?
So, she was very raw when I met her.
I like to think that I helped
put Madeleine back together.
Intimacy can come from grief.
You had a family of your own!
- Of course.
- Don't we count?
Don't we need help?
If you tell me that when
I see a person who's suffering
I can't help them, that's your outlook.
Person here meaning woman?
In this case.
And are you sure this relationship
was as noble as you make it sound
or was it just good old-fashioned lust?
PETER:
You just have to take my word for it.
LILY: I think that's where
we're all hitting a problem.
How you've never been very good
at telling the truth.
PHONE BUZZES
You want the truth?
Well, it's this.
It appears from recent evidence
that I do not have two daughters.
I have three.
Evidence, from where?
Shephill Prison.
She's a prisoner?
- It appears that way. I'm not sure yet.
- Then how do you
- DNA.
- Who is she? Who's her mother?
Some woman I had an affair with.
- How old is she?
- How long have you known?
- Since I drove down.
- Only the one, is it, Dad?
And do we come into this at all, or is this
another of your famous freedom things?
I mean, cos if there are others,
then now would be the time to say.
You know, lay them all out on the table.
Why not? The more the merrier.
It's only one.
LILY:
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
Am I the only one
that cares about this family?
I called us together because,
apart from anything
I saw my father come out of that courtroom
and I know him.
I know him inside out,
and I only had to look at him
and I could see,
I knew he was a cheat and a liar!
You don't know that.
I know that! And so do you!
And it panics me because it's not something
I want to inherit!
Well, I'm sure this has all been
very useful.
What did you call it, Lily, "truth-telling"?
But I have to rehearse the Messiah
this afternoon.
I have to make a phone call.
By the way, whatever I am
I am not a broken-down lift.
PHONE RINGS
Are you OK?
I'm fine. Family meeting.
What are you doing here?
I have news from Shephill.
SHE KNOCKS
- DAWN: Come!
Trevor Quinn is outside.
You've kept him waiting.
Oh, send him upstairs.
We'll give him the full treatment,
like he's seeing into the mysteries.
That's not going to placate him.
Ah, Trevor!
I'm sorry, I do apologise.
Quite alright.
Amazing!
- You look younger than ever!
- Well, thank you. That's nice to believe.
So, I'm here for the board
of the British Defence Group.
- I have a substantial personal interest.
- Yes, I understand. Won't you sit down?
No.
It's about Yemen.
Yes.
Well, I thought it might be.
Well, it is simple enough.
We give you end-use certificates,
you speed through export licences.
It's always worked perfectly smoothly.
Oh, and it will continue to do so.
Once we're through this brief period
of bad publicity.
But you've suspended licences.
Well, temporarily.
Trevor, Trevor, Trevor.
How far do we go back?
Now, I'm a politician. My duty
is to represent the citizens of the country.
Three Britons have been killed.
I have a moral obligation towards them
Dawn, do you know
what your beloved country now is?
It's arms manufacturing
and pharmaceuticals. Objectively.
That's what it is.
Presently, that is all Britain does.
Uh, financial services?
Alright, I grant you, those three things.
The Defence Group employs
nearly 80,000 people.
Two hundred thousand rely on it
directly for their jobs.
Now, you've had three years
of bad luck with the economy
your poll numbers are in the toilet
and for once you've done something
the British public actually want,
and a burst of unexpected popularity
has turned your head!
- Well, that's not how I see it.
- I'm sure.
There's manufacturing on one side,
there's public opinion on the other.
British weapons killed three British NGOs.
The country's in an uproar!
I can't appear to be indifferent.
But the measures you've taken are excessive.
You have lost your judgment!
Well, I don't think so.
And I think if you make that case in public,
you won't have the electorate flock
- to support you.
- I don't give a damn about the electorate.
I'm arguing it to you. In private!
If you undermine the British Defence Group
you attack this country's
principal business.
And that is a political choice.
You have to trust me.
I have to respond to public anxiety.
That's what I do. That's democracy.
But at the end of it all
I will be on your side.
I hope so, Dawn.
We thought you'd come straight back to
the ministry when you got out of hospital.
So did I.
I reckoned without my moonbat daughter.
I've just been arraigned
for crimes against humanity.
Any crime in particular?
A multitude.
It seems disapproval skips a generation.
My mother disliked me and now it's my kids.
Does that mean Susan was there?
Susan. Lily. The whole family turned out.
Not quite the whole family.
That's what I need to talk to you about.
PETER:
Hello there, how are you?
Good to see you. Are you well?
Good, good.
- Hello, Peter!
- George, how are you?
Nice to see you all in one piece.
Well, nice for you, even nicer for me.
- Alright if we go here?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
Somebody sent out a deer to kill you?
Didn't know they hated you that much.
George, I have just had
the worst lunch of my life.
I need some decent food.
- Cod and chips?
- Perfect.
I'll bring you some tea.
- GEORGE: Cod and chips.
- INDISTINCT CHATTER
So, what's the urgency? What's the bad news?
I called the director at Shephill.
HE WHISPERS:
She confirmed to me that Steff Frost
has died from a drug overdose.
- That's the woman I talked to?
- Yes.
And do we think that she was my daughter?
Obviously, we believe she's not.
We think that she talked to you
on behalf of your daughter.
And now she's dead?
DOOR BELL JINGLES
- Hello.
- Hello!
Duncan, I'm just a little bit confused.
I'm sure you are.
Can I ask you something?
Go ahead.
Are you on a personal mission to destroy me?
HE SNORTS
Peter don't be ridiculous.
Why is that ridiculous?
Three days in hospital
gives you plenty of time to think.
Now, if you remember the sequence of events
no sooner had I won in the High Court
than you whisk me away to see a woman
that I don't need to meet
- Peter
- On a mission that I don't need to pursue.
Again
And when I tell you to leave the thing alone,
you carry on investigating.
What was I meant to do?
She sent me her comb.
It was registered in ministry mail.
I didn't think I had a choice!
So you took an executive decision?
As a matter of fact, I did, yeah.
And you didn't think to check with me first?
You've always allowed me
a degree of latitude, Peter.
You've taken it, Duncan.
Whether I allowed it's a different question.
English breakfast, hot and sloppy.
Thank you, George. That's perfect.
Be careful, mind. Yeah?
DOOR BELL JINGLES
Peter
I think
I have reasonable political instincts
and from the very first moment,
I believed the story was true.
Now the science bears it out.
You keep telling us
you're a rule-breaking politician.
Just go and charm her to bits
and you won't need
to worry about her ever again.
Look her in the eye. Acknowledge her.
Otherwise
DUNCAN SIGHS
it's never gonna go away.
"It"?
Presumably you mean "she"?
Maybe I would have more confidence
in your advice, Duncan
if the Prime Minister hadn't found out
about my daughter almost as soon as I did.
You don't have any proof of that.
Don't I?
You are sleeping with that control-freak,
Julia Blythe.
Don't even think about denying it.
I've got some pretty good instincts
of my own, Duncan Knock.
Maybe not so inferior to yours.
Dawn has a back channel into
everything I do and everything I think
and that back channel
runs through your bedroom.
And may I remind you
that I only found myself in court,
fighting a long and expensive case
because someone in my office was leaking.
Have you thought about that?
Often.
Maybe if you spent less time
running DNA tests and more time
worrying about who was betraying us
you might earn the title Special Advisor.
How special are you?
GEORGE:
Cod and chips!
Cod back on the menu, George,
that is great news. Thank you!
You working tomorrow?
No, on stand-by.
He's still off sick.
Have you heard from the lawyer?
Not a word.
What was she like?
You know, driven. A professional.
She probably has a sense of humour,
but you'd need teams of divers to find it.
Has she got a partner?
I'd be very surprised.
She's one of those women who'll always
choose loneliness over disappointment.
Fuck her.
She'd better come through.
I don't wanna work for that bastard
one day longer.
CHOIR SINGS:
"Amen chorus" from "Messiah" by Handel
Amen ♪
Amen ♪
Amen ♪
Amen ♪
Amen ♪
Amen ♪
Amen ♪
CROWD APPLAUDS
Stunning.
Stunning.
Well done, Helen.
- Best yet.
- Thank you.
Sir, I'm from the Hastings Observer.
If we can just
Erm, just a moment.
DISTANT CHATTER
- DOOR OPENS
DOOR SHUTS
That was a beautiful concert.
I never know if you're being sincere.
I'm sincere.
You're a superb musician.
I don't really know why you're still
with amateur choirs.
I think amateurs put more into it.
CAMERA CLICKS
- Wonderful. Thank you very much.
- Thank you very much.
I think people really did like it.
They loved it!
You can tell the difference.
A response like that has to be genuine.
Of course, we've created
an impossible problem for ourselves.
- What problem is that?
- PHONE BUZZES
Next year. That's the problem with a triumph.
How do you cap it?
PHONE BUZZES
Er, look, I I've got to take this.
I'll see you back home, alright?
Well done.
Yes, Duncan?
DUNCAN:
More bad news, I'm afraid.
Charmian Pepper has been killed
in a hit-and-run in Washington.
What?
S I
I-I-I don't believe it.
I didn't even know she was in Washington.
She must have been pursuing the case.
There's nothing suspicious, Peter.
The police say it was an accident.
I'm sure.
And have you identified the mother?
Sorry?
This new daughter of yours,
how many candidates are there?
You're anything but meticulous,
so I doubt you kept a record.
You're always ready to move on.
Except from you, Helen.
Never moved on from you.
You've never had to, have you?
Nothing you'd done had hurt me
till today, because I had my own life
and it was respectable.
- Now, people will look at me.
- I know.
- And pity me
- I know.
As I walk down the street.
It's not what I want.
I'd rather be ignored than pitied!
Helen, I am aware of how loyal you've been.
Especially what you did during the trial,
I know much you must've hated that.
Do you?
The thing is, something has happened
that's going to make life very tricky
and I need to be sure
that you can stick to the story
and stand by what you said in court.
It's important.
I want you out of here, right now.
I don't want to sleep anywhere near you!
Go anywhere, I don't care where!
And that means not in this house!
Do I have any value to you except as a liar?
PETER: Sydney, gonna need you
to come and pick me up.
Yeah, change of plan.
Bye, thanks.
What's the verdict?
Sorry?
Family court.
Did you reach a verdict? Am I guilty?
HE SIGHS
Where's Lily?
She's gone down the Old Town to get stoned.
Was she satisfied with her day's work?
Nothing's ever gonna satisfy Lily.
She's a Jacobin
and you're an aristocrat.
She's online shopping
for a guillotine.
And you're not?
You know me, Dad.
I never like to blame anyone.
I just knew I had to do something worthwhile
or I couldn't live with myself.
It would help if you would
speak to your mother occasionally.
I've tried to!
She hates me because I see through her.
I've come to think that vagueness
is a kind of crime.
I mean, don't you think finally
being otherworldly
is really just a kind of cowardice?
Now who's the Jacobin?
You should try some time on a boat.
HE LAUGHS
Why would I do that?
Because you get to know yourself.
Really?
HE SIGHS
It's simple, isn't it? We are what we do.
Everything else is just guff.
Does that mean you're making plans
with this Madeleine person?
No. As a matter of fact, I'm not.
Thank God for that.
Actually, I've got a problem
with Madeleine too.
What's that?
She's just turned down a job in Texas
so she can stay close.
Stay close to you?
Oh! You really do have the problems
piling up, don't you?
What are you gonna do?
You reach a point
where the only thing you can do is just
keep moving forwards, that's all there is.
I've always been so terrified of the past,
being dragged down by it.
Anyone with half a brain can see
how easy that it is, to get lost.
I remember what happened,
when you'd just been born.
We were in heaven.
What happened then?
A man came into the shop
and he offered a suspiciously large sum
of money for the premises.
He was gonna build an office block
and I thought, fuck it.
I'll build an office block.
I have a one-year-old daughter.
I have to keep moving.
Poor Dad.
Everyone wants commitment from you.
That's why you were always my favourite.
Cos you never wanted anything.
Didn't I?
Maybe I wanted the same as all the others.
I was just too proud to ask.
- Is that what you're doing in the Arctic?
- 24 hours back in England
I'm not exactly desperate to come back.
Still. We miss you.
ROCK MUSIC BLARES
- CROWD CHATTERS
Oh, get a room!
PETER:
Sydney?
Yes, sir?
I was wondering
if you'd followed the trial at all?
Followed it, sir?
In the sense of paying attention?
No, I didn't.
I didn't think it was my place.
What are you doing here?
Am I not welcome?
You didn't ring.
Do I have to phone every time?
Where were you?
Where was I tonight?
Yeah.
I had to go and see family.
How was your family?
You don't wanna know.
Well, maybe I do.
Maybe that's exactly the problem between us.
DRINK POURS
Mmm!
- Are you sure you
- Am I sure what?
DRINK POURS
Would you like one?
Maybe a small one.
DRINK POURS
In a way, I think Lily was angrier
with me than Helen.
- That's not surprising.
- Why not?
Lily believes in you. Your wife doesn't.
Don't get me wrong. Helen was angry too.
Really? What about?
Oh all kinds of stuff.
That's really helpful.
Are you sure you're not giving
too much away?
I'd hate you to feel you were
betraying confidences.
- Here.
- GLASS THUDS
Trial stuff.
Ah, yes, the famous trial.
Family stuff.
In particular?
Or are you saying I don't need to know?
You don't need to know.
Why not?
Madeleine, that's not why I come here.
You've made that very clear.
I come here because we're actually
good for each other.
Certainly, I'm good for you.
Because I'm not real, I'm not real life.
I have one great advantage over your family.
The advantage is
I don't really exist!
Jesus, Madeleine!
I'm a fucking blow-up doll
with a degree in art history
and a dead child
so you can believe you "saved" me!
"She was in despair and I saved her!"
As if you were Jesus Christ!
Madeleine, Madeleine, come on, stop it.
You have no idea what it's like
being the girlfriend!
It's what you wanted! You told me that!
And you chose to believe me,
because it suited you!
It suited you and your life.
But it never occurred to you
to ask me properly.
Madeleine, don't, stop it.
Stop throwing things, come on
Oh, these are my things.
I'll do with them what I want.
They're mine.
Can you grasp that idea?
Alright, alright, alright
Oh, Maddy
Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, I'm so
I
Come here.
I don't know why you didn't call me.
I was worried sick.
You could've been burnt alive.
Mum, there's 500 women in here.
Some of them for being drunk in a pub.
They're not suffering cruelty,
they're suffering neglect.
And my best friend's just been killed.
I'm sorry to hear that.
This prison killed her.
Mum, I've got something to tell you
and you're not gonna like it.
Remember when we talked about me
getting in contact with my dad?
Rose, I made a decision
before you were born
Yeah, that's the whole point.
You made the decision, not me.
- I did it for you.
- I don't believe that.
And even if you did, it didn't work.
I'm old enough to make my own decisions.
For 20 years, I didn't even know his name.
And you don't think
there's a reason for that?
Mum, I want a life when I get out.
I want a father.
Rose, I've told you before.
Peter Laurence, he's fun, he's charm itself
but he always has priorities
and other people aren't among them.
Mum, I want my father to know I exist.
Thanks.
Miss.
There's something I need to report to you.
MAN:
How was it?
QUINN:
Exactly as you predicted.
Now, you're chairman
of the Conservative Party.
This may be the moment
for you to do your duty.
Her colleagues can't be seen to move
against her on the issue of arms sales.
Self-evidently.
We'll need a diversion.
Good.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
JULIA:
Hello.
Nice to see you.
Hello, John.
Good to see you.
JULIA:
Hello.
Well, this is an unlooked-for pleasure.
- I wasn't expecting you.
- I can't think why not.
Because your boss seems to be
avoiding me these days.
I don't think that's true.
She'll see you anytime you want.
I think she's foolish
to ignore a groundswell of dissatisfaction
on her own side.
Don't you know how close I am to Dawn?
I'll report that remark back to her.
Will you, Julia?
Why?
Because I'm loyal and hard-working
and you can't put a cigarette paper
between her and me.
I just did.
Is this all about the export licences
and your friend Trevor?
As far as the public is concerned, no.
As far as you and I are concerned, yes.
Don't implicate me,
I'm not involved in anything.
The stand the Prime Minister's taking
on the deaths in Yemen
is extremely popular with the public.
Remember, Prime Ministers don't fall
because they're incompetent.
They fall when they're caught out
in outright lies.
You are the obvious person
to provide the world with evidence of a lie.
And why would I do that?
Because people in your line of work
generally like to jump from raft to raft.
SHE LAUGHS
I didn't think you were being serious.
Deadly.
And the obvious question
who would be the incoming prime minister?
Oh, we have someone in mind.
Excuse me.
MICK: I hear you had a bit of
a close encounter, what was it?
- Was it a moose?
- No, it was not a moose, Mick.
I was in Sussex, not Saskatchewan.
It was a deer.
Oh, "dear". Who came off worse?
Sorry to say that Bambi is dead
and I am still Minister of Justice.
MICK: Right now,
we're looking at an economy that's tanking
some banks have crashed
and the rumour mill says that
ex-Foreign Secretary Jolyon Bishop
is about to make a run
against the Prime Minister?
PETER:
I had not heard that.
MICK: You've got a reputation
for telling it how it is, Peter, so
How secure do you think Dawn Ellison is?
Dawn does a great job, Mick.
You know that, I know that.
Let's just leave it there.
You know this bloody chaos
we've got going on at Defence?
Do you ever remember anything
quite like this?
Look, there are no villains here, Mick.
I know the people who run
British Defence Group
and they are
people of the highest integrity.
And the British, thank God,
have the world's most rigorous process
for making sure that weapons
don't wind up in the wrong hands.
We like to know who we're arming and why.
In my experience, we're pretty good at it.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
Goat's cheese and beetroot?
Spinach and feta?
Scotch egg with chilli jam?
Well, this is not something I planned.
How did you find me?
You have to stop pissing me around.
You know full well that tampered diary
isn't enough on its own. I need more.
I need to know why you're involved
and I need to know what you want.
A journalist has died,
so you have got to be straight with me.
Alright.
My mother lived in a flat,
OK, in Gospel Oak.
She died when her boiler leaked gas.
When was this?
Ten years ago.
She reported it three times to the agency.
- She wasn't alone, there were others.
- Didn't you try to sue?
The landlord said he couldn't be responsible
for the state of the boilers
in all his properties.
As far as he was concerned,
it was an accident.
And he would fight us every inch of the way.
My mother died at 53
and it was an accident.
I don't have to ask who that landlord was.
He had an awful lot of flats.
And are you going to tell me
how a cocktail waitress has access
to that man's private diary?
- My girlfriend works on his staff.
- What does she do?
She drives him.
You've got to be careful. Please.
She can lose her job.
Yeah.
So could I.
Did you leave this for me?
Actually, yeah.
Am I going crazy? It seems to be
a photocopy of Peter Laurence's diary.
- That's what it is.
- How the hell did you get it?
Ministers have two diaries, one on computer,
kept in Laurence's case by Joy Pelling
who testified in court that he was
in New York on January 13th 2015
and another diary, a written one,
also kept by the self-same Joy
which she said she'd lost
and now it's reappeared.
So how did you get hold of it?
From a sort of whistle-blower, I suppose.
Why did they bring it to you?
Well, obviously, because they want me
to take it to a newspaper
but they want a firewall between
- the diary and their identity.
- Yeah, but why you?
A photocopy doesn't clinch anything.
I mean, we know Peter Laurence went to
Washington and we know he pretended not to.
Call it perjury, sure, but we still
can't prove what he actually did there.
Look, I'm sorry about this, but
I did make a phone call to the paper.
Do they know who you are?
No, I just said
I was a friend of Charmian's.
That we'd talked and she was very excited
about her latest contact
and maybe there was something
on that last tape.
- What did they say?
- They said they didn't have it.
The tape was sent back
with the rest of Charmian's possessions.
- Went back where?
- To Charmian's parents.
You've got one piece of the jigsaw,
I need to get hold of the other.
- I don't think you can do that.
- Why not?
For the obvious reason, of course.
- What is that reason?
- We're his legal team, for God's sake.
- We got him off!
- And now you're claiming
- that's where you'd like to leave it?
- Yes! I don't know.
I'm not sure.
If you wait here, I'll get what you want.
Have you opened it?
No I'm afraid I couldn't.
You do what you need to.
If you don't mind, I'll leave you to it.
ZIP SLIDES
I, er I made I made you tea.
That's very kind of you.
Do you mind if I borrow this?
She was a brilliant little girl.
We were always worried for her.
- Why?
- Because she was always top of the class.
Her father told her it's safer
in the middle.
All she wanted was to get away from here.
We begged her not to be a journalist.
You don't want to mess with powerful people.
They don't care about anyone but themselves.
PHONE RINGS
Landline.
- Yes?
- WOMAN: Is that Duncan?
Yeah?
Hi, um, i-it's Rose Dietl. Uh
Look, I've been really stupid. I know that.
I sent my friend to meet my father
cos I was nervous.
Yeah, I was I was really scared and
but now all I want is justice for Steff.
I don't think we can do any special favours.
That would be unacceptable.
But I just feel
if I could at least meet him.
You know, I'm ready.
I want to meet my father.
Do you think he'll agree?
Let me have a word with him.
I'll see what I can do.
Please. I'd be really grateful.
I know.
Are you alright?
Why would I not be?
OK.
It's just
she's finally stepped forward.
Your daughter.
Her name is Rose Dietl.
I've done some research. She
is a white-collar criminal
who defrauded a high-street bank
of a hell of a lot of money.
Her name was all over the papers.
When did this happen?
A couple of years ago.
She's saying, this time
she'd like to meet you.
Are you going to see her?
Duncan, I think this time,
I'll make the decision myself.
Thank you, Duncan.
CHARMIAN ON TAPE:
So, what went wrong?
NADIA ON TAPE: I'd seen Laurence
once or twice before, actually
NADIA: He said what Britain needed
was what he called discreet privatisation.
He gave advice on how to get
American practises and drugs
into the British healthcare system.
CHARMIAN:
Nadia, you're saying he was present.
Can you confirm he was paid for this advice?
NADIA:
Depends on what you called paid.
Officially, he was paid to give a speech.
CHARMIAN:
How much?
NADIA:
Half a million dollars.
CHARMIAN: That's a hell of a price
for giving a speech.
NADIA: Lots of expensive speeches
at British-American. Go fig
You're doing well at Justice.
Thank you.
It gives us a chance
to resume our weekly game.
I love your turbulence.
It makes people think.
I wish you'd do some fundraising
for the party.
We'd make so much more.
Is Dawn not good at it?
People sense she's a stopgap.
A stopgap?
I don't think Dawn
thinks of herself as a stopgap.
All Prime Ministers are stopgaps.
- Just so few of them know.
- Is that the first law of politics?
No. The first law is that every politician
expects to be Prime Minister.
Without exception.
Check.
Well?
Gonna have to think about that one.