The Thaw (2022) s01e03 Episode Script

1
Today, at 9:30 AM, I was
pulling out of the Central Cemetery.
After a while I noticed
an old black Golf following me.
- Did you get the plates?
- Unfortunately not.
Great, so we know where to look.
The situation was evolving fast,
at one point the vehicle accelerated,
and hit my rear left wheel arch
at high speed.
As a result, I skidded off the road.
Luckily, I'm fine, besides
a small scratch on the forehead.
- How's life?
- I'm alive.
What about Hania?
Hey, pumpkin!
Mommy took you on a merry-go-round?
- Are you dizzy?
- She's fine, thank you.
And safe.
- I want to go to Grandpa.
- So I'll have to take you to him.
Come on.
Hold tight.
- Bye.
- Thanks.
Security cams?
City has none on that intersection,
but we're checking
private businesses.
I believe the driver
- did it deliberately.
- So the car following you
could be the guy
who stalked Magda Kosinska.
There's a new lead on the daughter
of Prosecutor Strzelecki. Cichy, go.
We have the contents of the CD
found in Magda Kosinska's car.
It's hours of footage of the victim.
She was being watched in parks,
streets, stores, everywhere.
Even at home, via a drone.
We're dealing with a typical stalker.
Since we know our victim
is Dr. Magda Kosinska
who worked in a psychiatric hospital,
maybe we should check out that lead?
Especially as Strzelecki's partner
was Magda's boss, right?
And then there are
the Dabrowski brothers. Adamski?
Kosinski's creditors
were released today,
they've got a solid alibi
Didn't I tell you? To watch yourself?
Start listening.
Excuse me.
I've checked those security cams.
No black Golf at the accident site
or the cemetery.
We don't have much time.
One day, maybe two.
How long can an infant survive
without proper care?
It stands no chance. And the plates?
You gave partials,
so far we've got 100 plus hits.
I'm sure I've seen that car before.
Radwan warned me to be careful.
What did he mean?
Maybe it's connected to Wojtek?
Someone's been following
Kosinska, too.
Not everything has to be
connected to Wojtek's case.
No one's following you
and you're also on this case.
But you're the only one
insisting the kid's alive.
Fucking Radwan. I don't get how
Wojtek could've worked with him.
He knows something,
but he won't say it.
Why does he tell me to watch myself?
You won't know until we find out
who followed Magda.
You're getting me worried, Zawieja.
Tell me
Are you eating at all?
- some patience
- Get a life.
- Marc in.
- Why did they let them go?
- Let's talk upstairs.
- They ought to be in jail.
Listen, it wasn't them.
We have no evidence
connecting them to Magda's death.
Then who did it to her?
Was Magda afraid of anyone?
Was she acting strangely?
Avoiding places? Anything?
She didn't want to return alone
from work.
So I'd drive her there and back.
Did she have a difficult relationship
with a patient?
Once I saw this guy
outside the clinic.
Lurking behind the corner,
fucking waiting for me or her.
So I got out and chased him away.
What did he look like?
Any distinguishing features?
I don't remember, it was dark.
Write down the date and time
of the incident.
Marc in?
You think my daughter is alive?
I do.
Why haven't there
been any ransom calls?
Why the fuck would anyone
take a newborn?
Leave the analyzing to us.
- Hello.
- Hello.
Let's go to my office.
This way.
The patients made this.
Even pregnant, she'd work overtime.
- Did you know her long?
- Since her residency here.
I met Michal thanks to her.
- There's Mr. Kosinski.
- Lately he'd been picking her up.
Show the gate cam view.
Rewind.
Could that be
one of Magda's patients?
Possibly.
Please check all the patients who
got released in the past 3 months.
If someone is dangerous,
displays erratic, strange behavior,
on what grounds
are such people released?
- How does it work?
- On grounds of psychological tests.
If people pass them,
I can't keep them here.
- Thank you, good bye.
- Good bye.
Okay, we're going back
to the crime scene.
My clients are in no way
connected to this case.
Besides the fact that the victim's
husband owed them money.
A lot of money. In this country,
two out of five women
are killed by their husbands.
- I'm sorry, the Prosecutor is out.
- I fucking saw his car.
Ma'am
I just wanted to ask the Prosecutor
if he knows anything
about my daughter.
I don't know anything about that,
I'm sorry.
So, we fished the car out
200 meters from here.
That road leads
to her father's house.
She's on her way to him
or coming from his house,
she sees someone following her.
She's afraid, she makes a turn
into the woods, wanting to hide.
She stops, upset,
and turns the lights off.
The contractions kick in.
She calls Anka and her husband,
but there's no reception
and she gives birth
by the feeding rack.
But why get out of the car?
I don't know.
Because there isn't enough space.
Or she sees him and she wants to run.
Those marks on her hands
She could've delivered it like this.
Anyway,
the killer reached this place
killed her, and took the child.
Only why didn't she report
that she was being followed?
And went to her father, instead?
Mr. Strzelecki is at the chapel,
he should be back soon.
I know, I just talked to him.
A package, to be delivered by hand.
It's a terrible tragedy.
The techs have secured
three different sets of tire marks.
There are Magda's.
Then there's probably the black Golf
that's been following me.
And the third one?
We're trying to identify them, but
a lot of people come here,
it's a popular fishing spot.
Why would anyone need
such a small baby?
What do they want to do with it?
Opening time.
Ready? Start recording.
Covered in blood. Looks like a fetus.
Step aside.
It is a fetus.
A pig's fetus.
Where's the child?
Child alert in the media?
Are you out of your fucking minds?
It's been three days
and you've got nothing.
He had to gut a pig.
Must be a psycho.
He's fucking toying with us.
Call me if you remember
anything else.
It's a pig's fetus, not the baby.
I see.
Excuse me, can I just put
these flowers in there?
Sure.
They keep coming. With condolences.
We had to set a room aside for them.
I left the car by your place.
Hania wants to talk to you.
Okay, put her on.
Hi, Hania.
Hi, sweetie.
Mommy has to work for a bit more,
I'll see you in the evening.
Sure, you can go with Grandpa.
Sweetie, I have to go. Love you.
Give my love to Grandpa. Bye.
Trepa.
- Same tulips as at Anka Janas's.
- Only there was no note there.
Maybe we missed it?
Or maybe the flowers were sent
by the stalker, not Marc in.
And the CD, too.
Magda realized she was being followed
and that it was about
her father's past.
That would explain why she drove
to his that night.
To get to the bottom of it.
But the guy was a step ahead.
He killed her, took the baby
and he sent Strzelecki a dead piglet
to piss him off completely.
Or the child alert pissed off some
other psycho who sent the pig.
- So it's my fault?
- It was a team decision, right?
We'll go through Kosinska's
patient records anyway, so
we'll learn more.
But reading them won't be fun.
I've got a guy, Magda's patient.
Charged with molesting
his two-year-old nephew.
And suspected of kidnapping
a two-year-old girl.
She was playing in the yard,
he lived in a nearby town.
They never found her body.
This guy has self-harmed in front
of kids, hasn't left home for years.
A certain Tomasz Wrobel,
served two years for rape,
released in January,
has a history of animal cruelty.
Thanks.
It says here Dr. Kosinska
had home visits with him.
He wasn't treated earlier.
Trepa, what do we have on the patient
in Dr. Kosinska's notes?
"Bipolar disorder,"
"manic-depressive psychosis,
periodically with no symptoms."
What do you think?
I think I need some air.
Put this on.
Something keeps bothering me
Even if one of them killed her,
they wouldn't have fed
and dressed the baby.
So, who has it?
What if Anka Janas didn't lose
reception and answered that call?
- And drove to her?
- I don't know if she drove there.
I feel she knows something.
That she's not telling us everything.
She didn't seem surprised
by the mysterious flowers,
she didn't ask any questions.
Even if she took the child
why wouldn't she give it back?
- She's scared.
- Of us?
Maybe of some psycho.
We need to check the stuff
secured at her place.
I'm not buying it.
I know this four-minute conversation
might stink,
but we've got a gallery of guys here
who raped and molested kids.
Not to mentions hours of footage
from the psycho who stalked her.
Listen to this.
"Magda, I wish you a happy labor."
"I'll be the world's best godmother."
"I've got enough love in me
for the two of you. Yours, Anka."
She loved Magda and the baby,
it wasn't her, no way.
We were wondering
about the blood at her place?
She slashed her wrists. So?
Why didn't she tell us?
If she wants to find Magda's killer,
why isn't she cooperating?
She needs to be interrogated again.
It won't hurt the case.
- Now?
- Yes.
As soon as possible.
Alright.
And she did it on her own?
Killed her BFF, delivered a baby,
and dumped the car in the river?
Give me a fucking break.
What if she got there
and took the child?
And who'd be taking care of the
child? I doubt she takes it to work.
Wacko's like her need to be pushed
hard. How about I talk to her?
We've selected three of
Kosinska's patients
with a history of child molesting,
abduction and killing.
Focus on that.
Is that clear?
She's wasting our fucking time.
I've asked you twice about the blood
in the flat. The lab is still on it.
But I found this.
Did Magda know?
She was the one who
found me that day.
She saved me.
The night Magda gave birth,
someone must have been there.
So which one is it,
did you two talk or didn't you?
Tell me the truth.
We talked.
What did she say?
That her water broke
and she was going to go into labor
in the woods,
- then we lost reception.
- Did she say she was being followed?
Did she ever mention
someone was following her?
It was tense
because of Marcin's debt.
I told you she was scared.
They were fighting non-stop.
Then he'd send her flowers
and it was okay.
So the flowers were from Marc in?
- Who delivered them?
- A courier.
- Do you remember what he looked like?
- He was normal looking.
Okay, I'm going to show you
three photos.
Was he one of them?
Look at the eyes, the nose.
Fuck.
Was he tall, short? Anything.
Artur, please leave.
- What are you doing?
- Give me a moment.
What are you doing?!
Take a look. This guy?
I'm asking you if that's the guy.
Or this one?
- Look at the pic!
- Get out!
I'm talking to you! Him or not?
We've been stuck here for 48 hours,
because this punk won't talk!
Get the fuck out.
I apologize for my colleague.
Things are tense,
we're looking
for your friend's child,
which might be alive,
so if you remember anything
it'd be great.
Do you have my number?
Call me if you remember anything.
Let's go.
Can I have the keys to my flat?
Trepa, get her keys.
Did you see that?
I'm trying to gain her trust
and that idiot fucked it all up.
- You must understand his frustration.
- No, I don't.
- We had a deal.
- Fuck, there's something about her!
She's hiding something, I know it!
Maybe she is, maybe she isn't.
But you're getting it all mixed up.
You were to ask her about those
three patients, not go soft on her.
I'm doing my job.
Radwan is the one with a problem.
He's all fucked up.
Maybe he knows something.
- Maybe it's about Wojtek's case.
- Sure. You two deserve each other.
Go on, blame him for Wojtek's death,
but this has got to stop.
Besides, you can relax,
Radwan's applied for a transfer.
- He can go wherever he likes.
- Only I'll lose a good cop.
Get your shit together,
or I'll take you off the case.
That black Golf guy
was outside my place.
- Fuck. Where are you?
- I went after him, but I lost him.
I'm in the city center.
Why is he fucking following me?
Fuck, Zawieja
you better come to the station.
- You'll be safer there.
- No, Trepa. I need answers.
Zawieja
Who is it?
Who is it?
Stop it!
- Stop it!
- An old black Golf is following me.
You're delusional.
I'm not leaving until you tell me
who is following me.
How do you do that?
You make up some bullshit,
like that Kosinska's kid
and you muddle along.
- Is this about Kosinska? Or Wojtek?
- I've known him half my life.
If I knew that someone
did it to him
I'd fucking kill them myself.
Than why did you drag him
into that shit?
Do you know what he looked like?
Like you. Fuck!
And he was strung out like you!
So, you should've helped him.
And what did you do?
You fucking kicked him out.
Do you think no one knows?
Who's following me?
I don't know.
I really don't.
But they have nothing to do
with the case I was on with Wojtek.
Those people are not following you.
We screwed up.
Who are you protecting?
You idiot.
- Fuck you.
- Looking for enemies?
Start with yourself.
You're the reason
he blew his brains out. You!
Wojtek, what's going on?
What is it? Tell me.
Wojtek
Quit that fucking job, you hear me?
I'm going to finish this, okay?
I can't take it, Hania can't either.
Quit this job.
Yes.
Then leave.
Leave, get yourself together,
and come back
when you decide what you want.
I had a horrible dream.
I don't remember the details,
or actually
it was terrifying and I woke up
in a cold sweat with this
sense of uneasiness.
I wanted you to cuddle me.
I hate sleeping without you.
I miss you.
The flowers are beautiful.
Too bad you couldn't bring them.
Stupid hormones.
Stupid hormones.
Trepa, check if any of Kosinska's
patients was a religious freak.
Talked about God, the Bible.
Okay.
Hi, it's Anka. Leave a message.
Hello, Katarzyna Zawieja.
Please call me back, I have
a few more questions. It's urgent.
- And?
- I've checked it out,
one of Kosinska's patients
is obsessed with religion.
His name is Wrobel. Why?
I think the same person sent flowers
to Magda and then to her father.
He may have the child.
- Track him down.
- Right.
Hania?
What are you doing here?
- I'm dropping off a letter for Dad.
- Okay.
Take your coat off. There's Grandpa.
Are you coming in or not? Coffee?
- Have you had breakfast?
- Yes.
Alright, lads. Wake up!
What've you got on Wrobel?
I've got this: He's on probation
for stalking, molesting and rape.
Found in possession of 32-hour-long
footage of a girl from Pomorzany.
- He raped her in 2017.
- Show me the file.
My bed! When will I sleep in it?
- Come again?
- When will I sleep in my bed?
Soon. When I finish work.
I promise I'll take you on a holiday.
Where would you like to go?
- To the sea.
- The sea?
- Does this hurt a lot?
- Not a lot.
- What is this?
- The man at the cemetery had it too.
- What's up?
- We caught a break.
Zawieja.
We know Wrobel raped
a 15-year-old in 2017.
He sent the flowers to Strzelecki
and Kosinska.
I was about to call you.
Any distinguishing marks on Wrobel?
A tattoo on his hand, a scar?
Wait, I'll check it.
Guess what.
He does have something.
Like a spider's web on his hand.
It was him Hania saw at the cemetery.
- What do you want to do with that?
- Give me a sec.
Thanks for calling me back.
I was on a train,
a hooded guy was following me.
- What should I do?
- Where are you?
- Near my flat.
- Go home, lock the door.
I'm on my way with backup, okay?
Alright.
Trepa, send backup to Anka's,
someone's following her.
I'm on my way. Right.
Mom, are you going somewhere?
No, I'm not going anywhere.
I've made you a sandwich.
Janek, sorry, can you sit with Hania?