Witness Number 3 (2022) s01e03 Episode Script

1
They know it's over now. You're
going to court. They can't stop you.
SHRIEKING
Enough, OK, I am out.
It's not as simple as that.
THUD
WHIMPER
You hear anything you don't like,
you press the button.
You're not hearing me.
These guys are gonna kill you.
We select a room in your flat,
most likely upstairs.
DRILL RATTLES
And we turn it into
what's called a strong room.
Last line of defence.
It'll have a reinforced steel door,
sealed, unbreakable windows,
and a phone.
If the light's flashing red,
you've got a problem.
You want solid green,
and then you're in business.
The nurse says I can stay the night
cos it's a private room
or something.
Only way anyone gets in here
is if someone lets 'em in.
MUSIC BOOMING: Clocked In
by Thomas Didier ft Merty Shango
All right, bro.
Good luck, Po, yeah.
Oi, mate.
You going now?
Yeah.
Dump it, yeah?
Don't be bringing it back here.
CLANG
Oh
Sorry, boss. Just slipped.
GROANS QUIETLY
Oi.
Sort yourself out, man.
That's a lot of money you owe me,
Joe, yeah?
You ready to become
a man now then, yeah?
Yeah.
Eh?
I said you ready or what?
Good man. Go on.
MUSIC STOPS
TENSE, DRIVING DRUMBEA
PANTING GENTLY
DEEP BREATH
THUMPING CHES
YELLING
MUFFLED THUMP
THUMPING
THUMPING
RATTLY THUMP
HEAVY RATTLE
QUIET SIGH
RAPID TRUNDLING
THUMP THUMP THUMP
MECHANISM WHIRRS
STOPS
TOY CLATTERS
GENTLE SIGH
SCRAPING, JUDDERY VIOLINS
CLICK
SIGHS
CLICKING SWITCH
QUIET GROAN
FOOTSTEPS ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLE
FILAMENT HUMS
OK
CLATTERING IN CUPBOARD
Oh Where are you?
CLUNK
Kyle?
Kyle is that you, love?
FOOTSTEPS RUSTLING
SIGHS
THUNKS
SIGHS
BUTTONS CLICK
MUSIC GROWS TENSE
LOCK SCRAPES SOFTLY
QUIET SCRAPE
THUNK
SLOW, HEAVY DRUMS
MUSIC PUMPING,
JARRING
Aah!
DOOR BANGING
GRUNTING
DOOR HAMMERING
BANGING
METAL THUMPING
HE YELLS
PANTING
PANTING
HEAVY BANGING
HAMMERING
You can't run from me!
BANGING
The door's made of steel.
You can't get through.
FUCK!
BANG
QUIETLY: Activate the alarm,
I've activated the alarm,
I've activated the alarm
Hey, can you hear me?
Shut up!
SOFTLY: Activated the alarm,
he can't
Can you hear me?
BANGS
Shut up!
I've activated a silent alarm.
QUIETLY: It doesn't matter
It's already gone through
to police.
WHISPERS: It doesn't matter
if you've cut the power.
No
BANG
It doesn't matter
if you've cut the power,
it can only be disabled
by the police. It
Police
HAMMERING
BANGING
Are you starting to get it, yeah?
No
No-one is gonna save you!
HELP!
HEEELP!
HELP!
HELP ME!
HELP
SILENCE
PLEASE!
WHIMPERS
PANTING
Come on. Come on
PHONE RINGING
LINE CUTS OU
Oh, fuck. Come on!
SLOW PANTS
Oh, God
SIGHS
PHONE VIBRATES
Po, you good?
I want to know when it's done, OK?
SIGHS
Please just leave.
Are you listening to me?
Do yourself a favour,
and go before anyone comes.
Just go!
Give up. It's over!
Hello?
DRAWER SHUTS
QUICK SPRITZES
APPRECIATIVE SNIFFS
Can you hear what I'm saying
to you?
It is over!
Ahh
JUST GO!
Just go
RELAXED EXHALE
What's going on? Eh?
Don't make me call you again.
Understand?
Fuck
SIGHS
SIGH
TEETH BEING BRUSHED
BRISTLES RUSTLING
Aaaaaaagh!
Aaaaaaagh!
TENSE BREATHS
DEEP EXHALE
What do you think?
It'll be his first little toy.
Put it in his cot
to keep him company.
Don't worry, right,
I've got time to train him up,
he won't bite.
So?
Yeah
Yeah, it's great.
I'm gonna do it this time, Jo.
All right?
Once the baby comes, it's just
Well, that's the focus
that I need, yeah?
I can feel it.
I'm going to stay clean.
Look, I promise.
Good.
Because you know, love,
there is nothing I want more.
SIGHS
Hello?
I know you're still there!
I'm talking to you. Can you hear me?
I am talking to you.
You can't come in here.
I'm not coming out.
It's over.
Do you understand me?
It's fucking over.
DOOR BANGING
Mum?
BANGING
Mum!
HAMMERING
Mum?
BANGING
Mum, please can you open the door?
KNOCKING
BANGING
Mum, are you awake?
Mum, please can you open the door?!
METALLIC RAPPING
Have I still lost, you reckon?
KNIFE SCRAPES
Please, don't hurt him.
I'll make him go.
LOCKS CLUNK
BANGING
Mum, please can you open
the door?
MUM!
BANGING
All right, love.
What's happening?
Why aren't you answering
your phone?
Oh, erm, I left it downstairs.
I was asleep.
Dave needs money for the cab.
I told him he didn't
need to walk me up.
No.
No, still, probably a good idea
though, eh.
Mum? The money?
Er
Yeah.
Yeah, one second.
Yeah?
There you go darling.
There you go.
Why you being so weird?
Yeah, erm
Listen, can you, erm
Would you mind going to the hospital
and staying with Nan tonight?
She's asleep.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I just
I'd just feel a lot better.
Would you mind?
I've got school tomorrow. I know.
I wouldn't ask
if it wasn't important.
I'm tired.
Kyle, please.
Can't I just go in?
Kyle.
Look
the thought of Nan alone.
After what happened, I just
Please.
Just go back to the hospital
with Dave.
Now.
Fine.
Good boy.
You're so weird, man.
I love you!
STRAINED WHIMPER
LOCKS CLUNKING
Get in there!
Got you right
where I want you now, don't I?
PANTING
No
Don't even talk, yeah?
Keep your fucking mouth shut.
Are you scared?
Yeah?
You should be.
You're fitter up close,
you know that?
We were joking about it, but
Troops is right,
you are quite fit, you know?
I mean, I was saying,
nah, man, she's miles past it.
But I didn't notice those nice legs.
These nice lips.
How old are you?
Did I say you could speak?!
You know what?
Sit down!
Sit down!
See the other guy, yeah
He just broke.
We burnt up his van,
climbed in his garden
The guy was terrified.
Practically knocked down
the police station door,
to get his name
taken off the witness list.
But you
We messed with your son!
We trashed your shop.
We put your mum
We put your mum in hospital.
You could've walked away,
and all this, yeah,
would've gone.
What's it even matter to you anyway?
Some guy you ain't even met killed
some junkie you ain't even met.
Just let it go, for fuck's sake!
Yeah?
And now
now you're gonna die for it.
It's dumb, man.
Where's your boy's dad?
Cos like I said
..you're quite fit.
You know, for an old woman.
OK
SOFT CHUCKLE
I mean not like old, old, you know,
just like, quite old.
Like a mum.
Yeah.
Yeah, like a mum.
How long have you had him
in your pocket?
Him?
The police?
What's it matter to you?
What was it?
Was it money?
It was fucking anything.
Police pay is shit.
Oh, don't take it personal.
All police are scum like that,
trust me.
You know, I know kids like you.
Yeah?
Yeah? What do you know?
What do you know about kids
like me?!
I know that you think
you've got no other choice.
I know that deep down,
you're just scared.
QUIET LAUGHTER
Scared?
Scared!
I've never been scared in my life.
I walk down the street
and I've got
I've got grown fucking men crossing
the road to get out of me way.
I go in a shop where I'm from,
yeah
..and they know me,
do you understand what I'm saying?
They're handing out freebies.
Scared.
Scared
People get scared
when they've got stuff to lose.
What have I got to be scared of?
Everyone has something.
You don't know.
You! You don't know.
I did it because of you. OK?
What?
You. What?
I did it because of you.
Your mates. Your boss.
I wanted to hurt
the people that hurt me.
You want to know
where my husband is? Well
..he died when my son was five.
He was an addict.
He was trying not to be.
But you guys just wouldn't let go.
Freebies, deals,
coming to his work
Coming to our house.
Every time he got clean,
you were just there again,
getting your fingers in him,
and dragging him back in.
The night he died,
he was trying to break into a house.
He fell off a garage roof, and
smashed his head on the pavement.
When they gave his phone
back to me
the last message was from you lot.
It said, "Two for one deals,
all weekend. While stocks last."
"While stocks last."
Like it's fucking B&Q or something.
What's this guy to you? What's it
matter if he goes to prison?
You still want to push drugs?
There's
plenty of other dickheads around
you can do it for.
Well
You see, Jodie
..I enjoy it.
Right.
Cos it seems to me
like you hate it.
You know you're gonna spend
the best part of your life
in a prison cell after this.
While other kids your age
are out having fun.
Oh, I'll be having fun, Jodie.
Don't you worry about me!
You're joking, right?
You'll be the first
up against the wall.
You mean nothing to them.
You know,
why didn't you leave, huh?
What? If you
If you hate us SO much,
why didn't you
just take your husband and leave,
yeah?
Cos you know what I see
when I see someone like him?
I see a cashpoint.
And I'm not being cold,
yeah, that's just the truth.
Why am I gonna let that go?
I am never gonna let that go.
So why didn't you just
take your husband and leave?
Yeah? You should have stood by him,
instead of letting us get to him!
You should have protected him!
You know, it's your fucking family,
isn't it?
You have no fucking idea!
I had a son
coming home from school seeing
his dad passed out on the sofa.
Riding in the back
of ambulances
like it was a normal thing
on a Tuesday night.
No, I was protecting my son.
Something your piece of shit mother
would know nothing about.
QUIET, SHAKY BREATH
WHISPERS: Fuck you.
Right.
Fuck you.
FUCK YOU!
You know nothing of my mother.
YOU KNOW NOTHING
OF MY FUCKING FAMILY!
Don't you ever
fucking bring up my mother again!
I could kill you right now,
right here. So easy it is!
PANTING
SHUT UP! SHUT! UP!
STRAINED PANTS
BREATHING SLOWS
LEAVES RUSTLE
BIRDS TWEE
TRAIN CLATTERS
IN DISTANCE
So, thanks for coming
to meet me, Phillip.
Your teacher, Mr Lookman,
we go all the way back.
He says you're quite smart
when you want to be.
Which most of the time
you don't.
Help yourself.
Thanks.
So listen.
Mr Lookman thought
you might be looking for a job.
Might help
with the situation at home,
bit of money in your pocket,
take it back to your mum
and whatnot.
Right.
It's just the two of you, yeah?
No, I've got a little brother, too,
buthe's young.
OK.
I got all these flyers for
the restaurant that need delivering.
Couple of hours at the weekend,
couple of hours after school.
Easy, right?
And, erm
how much do you pay?
Look, there's no minimum
for under 16s,
so bear in mind
I could pay a lot less than this.
But I pay minimum wage,
£4.62 an hour, fair's fair.
PHONE RINGING
£4.62?
Oi, Gabi, can you come here a sec?
Wait here.
Nah, but, for real
DOOR DINGS
..cook's where the money's at.
You guys aren't gonna play about.
MUTTERING
Yeah?
OK, so
You lot gonna get something, then?
OK
FORK RATTLES
Shit, who's that?
All right. Back in a minute, yeah?
You're Phil, right?
Scotty's mate?
Handing out flyers.
Slave labour, Phil.
Trust me.
All right.
You wanna make some real money,
just give me a call.
See you later, yeah?
Yeah.
OK, OK, I'm back, I'm back.
I'm telling you, Phillip,
this is the thing about business,
you're always on call.
Always.
So
What do you think,
Mr Dragons' Den?
You ready to jump on
the career ladder?
Think about it.
But remember, when I was your age,
if you see an opportunity
AIRY SYNTHS FADE IN
Where are you from?
Not round here, that's for sure.
Seems like
you're a long way from home.
From what?
You know, when I first had
..Kyle,
I was practically a teenager.
I couldn't do it.
I didn't know
what to do with myself, I
didn't know what to do with him.
I just
I just wanted to be out
with my mates, having fun.
What I didn't want was a kid.
I was too proud
to ask for help, and
..too selfish to look after him.
What I'm trying to say is
I could have gone
another way, you know?
Yeah, but it didn't.
Cos you're a fighter, innit?
Like me.
I
Well, I guess I just got lucky.
It was Kyle, you said, yeah?
Is he good to you, your son, yeah?
He is, yeah, s-sometimes.
You keep tabs on him, don't you?
Proper strict mum.
Jodie's son, Kyle.
Hm.
What's your name?
They call me Po.
Yeah, well, wha-
what's your real name?
Phil.
Phil.
Well, you were right, Phil.
About what?
I should've left.
I should've taken my husband,
and got him as far away from here
as possible.
I should've taken him
somewhere he could recover,
somewhere he could be safe,
but instead, the
SHE SIGHS
All right, the
the truth is I threw him out.
I threw him out,
and told him to cope by himself.
I mean what kind of wife does that,
huh?
What kind of person does that?
You know, they told me
..when he hit his head, it took him
four and a half hours to die.
Four and a half hours, just
..just lying there in the rain.
SHE SNIFFS
I
I can help you.
No.
I can help you.
It doesn't have to be like this.
You can walk away.
You have other choices now.
Phil
Phil, listen to me.
I can make things better.
Phil, look at me.
Phil.
It doesn't have to end
like this. OK?
I have friends
that I can take you to.
And they can get you
out of this gang.
How can your friends get me
out of this?
Look at me.
You
You don't know anything.
No, I do. No, you don't!
You can't fucking help me, Jodie!
Get up.
Get up! Get the fuck up!
Get up!
You can't fucking help me!
There's no escape for me now, Jodie!
There's no fucking escape!
FUCK!
FUUUUCK!
SHE SHRIEKS
THWACK
PANTING
SCREAMS
Me and Kyle, we need to
get somewhere safe.
What time did you leave here
last night?
And you didn't see
anything suspicious?
Patience. Nearly there now.