Code 404 (2020) s01e04 Episode Script

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Another lead gone cold.
Yeah, well I somehow feel
like we're getting closer.
Me too, mate, it's been lovely.
I meant, closer to cracking it.
Yes, totally.
And then there's
DIs Gilbert and Ryle.
Do you know what?
I think those two are involved.
In my shooting, Operation Blue Finch,
everything.
What makes you think that?
Is it because I've just put that
picture up of the two of them?
- To be honest, it is mainly,
- Think about it!
We find the jeep, and they turn up.
We find Kristof dead, and they pop up
before we've even called it in.
Yeah, and then they try and
blame it on us!
I say, we take this to Dennett.
Walk in there,
lay our balls on the table.
For one thing, the phrase is,
"cards on the table"
and for another, Dennett's told us
to drop this.
And we still don't
know who we can trust.
OK then, you really should be
keeping this door locked.
Parfit, how did you find us?
You guys need to realise,
I know everything about Major.
I know where he goes,
what he does
Have you put some kind of
tracking microchip in my head?
- A microchip? No.
- You're paranoid, mate.
- It's more of a nano-transmitter.
Who still says “microchip”?
See. I've got your location,
heart rate, metabolism.
This is bullshit!
I've definitely hit ten
thousand steps today.
That's unethical.
So is pursuing a secret murder case,
so,
if you'd like me to keep quiet,
perhaps you -
would like to do some
official work now? Let's go.
"Lay your balls on the table" is
a snooker expression.
It's not one I've ever heard, mate.
"Personal protection detail."
Who are we bodyguarding?
Former Police
Commissioner Chalmers
has had a number of
recent death threats.
She's head of the AI Ethics Committee.
She decides whether or
not Major gets switched off.
Exactly why she requested you both.
To watch you in action.
Genius! She'll see I'm shit-hot,
and I'll be saved.
She'll see how shit you are,
and pull the plug.
Well, I've updated his software,
so he shouldn't be shit.
Look, with all due respect,
your software updates
are part of the problem.
Well, this is all very reassuring,
I must say.
Shit!
Oh, I see!
You thought this was a picture.
Should've said.
Let's hope you demonstrate better
observation in the field, DI Carter.
Yes ma'am. Sorry ma'am.
DI Major's actually
really very good at his job.
We won't detain you any longer,
ma'am.
Was she always that arse-y
when you worked with her?
You only turned the picture off.
I can still hear you.
You're a pompous arsehole, ma'am.
No, she's gone. Right. Itinerary's
in the file, boys. Get to work.
- Guv.
- Oh, and Carver?
Your transfer's come through;
Edinburgh division.
You requested a transfer,
shortly after John came back?
- I assumed it'd been rejected, boss.
- Nope.
We'll be sorry to lose you, Roy,
but I understand your reasons.
I feel the time's come to
seek new challenges.
I assumed it was because you were
sleeping with Major’s wife.
- Eh?
- It's just something I noticed,
when I was going through your emails.
- What?
Must be difficult for you.
Major dies, you shack up with Kelly,
Major comes back.
You're in a bloody weird situation.
- Yeah, I am.
- How did John take the news?
- What? About Kelly?
- Oh God, no, no.
Nobody's going to mention that.
We're a tactful bunch. Aren't we,
Dr. Parfit?
I actually didn’t know about it.
Really? Where have you
been hiding?
No. I meant, how did John take
the news about your transfer?
I haven't exactly mentioned it.
- No problem. I'll tell him for you.
- No! You're all right, ma'am.
I'll take care of it.
Thanks, boss. Thanks.
What the hell were you thinking?
We were both grieving.
We turned to each other for comfort.
Not the wife thing!
Edinburgh!
You know you can't go, right?
Because if the AI
project gets closed
The "AI project" HAS got a name.
Oh yeah, I forgot! We're talking
about your best buddy.
That's the guy
you're abandoning.
That is the guy who
will be switched off,
without YOU to help him out.
I didn't know that when I applied!
OK, well now do you know.
So go back and tell Dennet
that you are staying.
Like you give a shit about John!
You only want him to feed your ego,
so you can use him for your TED Talk.
Well, at least I care about it!
Him.
Let's see how this
bodyguard thing works out,
and if he impresses Chalmers,
then
then he'll be safe.
And if he screws up with her?
Well then we can’t
save him either way.
And it's not a TED Talk!
It is a SERIES of podcasts!
Target secure. Commencing
security sweep.
You certainly know how to sweep a girl
off her feet!
'Morning ma'am.
I'm DI Carver. We've
been sent to escort
you to your meeting
Excuse me, ma'am!
John, John, tone it down a bit!
Just doing my job.
What are you talking
into your sleeve for?
- I don't know.
- Stop it!
[speaking into sleeve] Sorry.
Can you think of anyone who may
have a grudge against you, ma'am?
Shit!
I was a police officer
for three decades.
The jails are full of miscreants with
grudges against me.
You banged up some nasty characters
when I was on your team, ma'am..
So did you. We banged away hard
into the night, didn't we, John.
And what about the officers that
served under you?
Any grievances there?
I don't know.
Were you satisfied, John?
When you were under me?
Thoroughly satisfied, ma'am.
May I take a look at the
threatening emails, ma'am?
Oh, be my guest.
"You'll get what's coming to you,
you evil snake "
That's a bit harsh, Roy,
she's only doing her job.
- I was reading an email.
- Right you are.
You should definitely take some
sensible precautions, ma'am.
To be fair, that one's not a threat,
it's just good advice.
- Yeah, that was me talking that time.
- Got you.
"Vengeance is mine.
I will destroy you "
Jesus, Roy!
Oh, I get it.
Do you know what would be helpful?
When you're
reading out a threat,
do it in, like,
a bad-guy voice, like erm:
"You think your shit doesn't stink,
Chalmers?
Well let me tell you, it does.
It stinks as bad as your guts is
gonna stink, when I tears you to bits
and smears you all
over a pelican crossing.
Well, I see you've lost
none of your passion, John.
I feel safer already!
- What was that?
- Ray Winston.
Excuse me, ma'am.
Let me get the door for you.
Thank you.
- Go!
- Will you pack it in?
Look, John, listen mate,
I need to tell you something.
You're leaving the unit.
You applied for the transfer
just after I came back.
- I should have told you myself.
- Yeah, you should.
But it's okay. I get it.
I know why you wanna leave.
I'm not blind, mate.
- Because I'm over-shadowing you.
- What?
We've always been equals. And now,
here I am, back from the dead,
new and improved,
getting all the glory.
I'd feel the same if
you were the supercop,
and I was the inadequate, feeble,
ordinary one.
Yeah, that's it mate. Yeah,
you got it in one.
But that's no reason to leave me, Roy.
Uh, sorry to interrupt,
gentlemen.
You just drove past my
meeting two minutes ago.
I didn’t want to worry you, ma'am,
but we've got company.
Blue Renault. Hotel, November
What do you use for six?
- Just six!
- Six.
That's my secretary.
He doesn’t know where to go,
so he's following us.
Any chance he's
carrying a grudge?
He's carrying my lunch,
I know that much.
Don't you worry,
ma'am, I'll shake him off.
No. Don't need
to shake him off
Your safety is
my paramount concern.
Now. Let's see how fast
this puppy can go!
- Oh, Jesus!
- Hold onto your pants, ma'am.
Oh, fuck!
In your face!
Think I lost the "secutary".
You definitely lost us!
Sorry you missed your meeting, ma'am.
Who cares about meetings? I much
prefer riding around with you, John.
DI Major's normally
very professional, ma'am.
Let's acknowledge the
elephant in the car, shall we?
I'm the Chair of the committee
deciding on your future.
Let me assure you,
there is no cause for concern.
You're not switching me off?
I've been fighting your corner hard,
John.
You'd have to do something
pretty spectacularly awful
to be decommissioned now.
- Like what?
Let's not give any suggestions,
shall we, ma'am?
That's great news, that, mate.
Yeah. Now you can abandon me
with a clear conscience.
Don't be like that. This is the goal
we've been working towards.
ONE of the goals. We still don’t know
who shot me.
- We're making progress.
- I still can't stop thinking
about Kelly seeing that other man.
While you were dead!
And it's over! She told you.
Kelly and that other fella were just,
two damaged people,
clinging to each other
in the wreckage of their lives.
- She never said that!
- I'm paraphrasing!
Talk to her for me.
Find out how she feels about me.
- What? YOU talk to her!
- She won't be honest with me,
in case it hurts my feelings. I mean,
with you, feelings aren't a problem.
Fuckin' hell!
Kelly's got a soft spot for you,
Roy.
Please.
One last favour before you leave me.
Fine. Alright, whatever.
Good lad. Where to next, ma'am?
I don’t know, John, surprise me.
Who fancies
Chessington World of Adventures ?!
Where the hell have you been?
You guys took a forty-mile detour,
on a three-mile journey.
- Don’t worry about it.
- "Don't worry"?
No, he's right. It's weird as fuck,
but Chalmers seems really into him.
What do you mean "into him"?
I don't want to
think about the details.
- Oh, eugh
- Ah, DI Major.
- Your wife's here for you.
- Not for me, boss! For Roy.
Oh! I see!
So that's all out in the open now,
is it?
No, boss, no.
Is it one of those polyamory things,
because I once saw a
Louis Theroux documentary
No, no, it's just a friendly chat,
that's all.
Very mature of you all.
- What's "polyamory"?
- Don't know.
- Well, look it up on your phone
- No, I'd best go see Kelly.
- Judy?
- No, I'm just not
Any chance you could arrange a
card and a whip-round for DI Carver?
- Yeah, of course, but I have to
- 'Afternoon, Robocop.
Heard you're working for Chalmers now.
Is it, oh what's the word?
Personal Protection Officer.
Sat Nav. That's it.
- 'Cause you're a computer.
- Know what? Can I just
Not now, Judy.
What have you got on the murder?
- Kristoff, the body in the flat.
- You mean, the body covered
in your fingerprints?
That body?
We might want to talk to you,
DI Major. Don't go far from your desk.
"In twenty yards, the destination
is on your left. "
- Just like a Sat Nav would say.
- Dicks.
We're not really pinning that murder
on Major, are we?
- Why not?
- Because we know he didn't do it.
There's no harm in making him feel
nervous for a while, is there?
Anything that diverts suspicion
away from us.
- Yeah, I suppose, yeah.
- Yeah.
Every day, you come in here and
you ask me to do things,
Judy, do this, Judy, do that.
And every time you do it, I tell you
my name's not fucking Judy
and it doesn't make the slightest bit
of difference.
You'll come back
in the following day,
and you'll do exactly
the same thing
I mean, I know it's not the most
important thing in the world,
but I have got a name,
and it's not Judy
Fuck me! It all makes sense!
- Finally!
- See you later, Judy. Roy!
I'm gonna kill him.
So we've done a
really good job of
staying away from each other,
haven't we?
Yeah, John insisted.
What could I say?
I've missed you more than I
more than I thought I would.
Er, have you?
- Not really.
- Oh, okay.
I always knew how
much I'd miss you.
I'm sorry it's been so messy.
I made a vow to John,
" 'till death do us part"
which we then did, but
only temporarily.
- I'm moving to Scotland, Kel.
- What?
I think it's better.
We all want a fresh start.
But what about John?
- I'm not taking John.
- He's your partner.
John'll be fine.
Chalmers told
No no no no, he won't be
he won't be fineHe'll be lost.
Look, this isn't about John,
for once.
Yeah, I care about him, but,
you know, I'm leaving for me.
Because I can't bear to
watch him with you.
The time we spent together
was the best six months of my life.
Why didn't you say - why didn't
you say you felt so strongly?
Maybe I was about to, before your
husband came back from the dead.
- What are you gonna do, Roy?
- I told you, I'm leaving, Kel.
Are you?
- Roy!
- Eh?
Roy! I can lip read!
She - what Kelly and I were saying,
that
That there - What?
No, not you
Gilbert and Ryle.
- What?
- It must be an AI thing,
I can watch people, and tell
what they're saying.
You were right! They basically
admitted being bent.
What a day!
First, Chalmers tells me
that I'm safe,
then the lip reading thing,
All I need now is for you to tell me
you're not going to Scotland.
- I'm not going to Scotland.
- Yes!
Oh, mate,
Look, John,
I can't be your partner anymore.
I don't understand.
Move it, boys, you're needed!
Commissioner Chalmers has received
a new and credible threat.
Get over there. Now!
"The hour of reckoning is nigh."
Don't leave me, Roy.
Something about the way
this is written
What?
I can't do this without you.
Yeah you can.
You're a supercop, remember?
I'm the ordinary one.
Ah, my bodyguard.
Just what a woman wants
in a tight corner.
- I'm shit without you around.
- Let's talk about this later.
Let's face it. I'm
shit WITH you around.
Sorry, am I interrupting
something?
- No, ma'am.
- I was saying how crap I am, ma'am.
No he wasn't.
Since I got back I've
screwed up everything.
He's joking, ma'am.
I took illegal drugs,
- Take no notice of him, ma'am.
and I dropped DI Carver off a car park
- He doesn't know what he's saying.
- And that was my first day.
I've misappropriated police resources,
pursued unofficial cases,
I went to the morgue and
sawed a foot off a corpse,
I mean, how fucked up is that?!
Well.
I had no idea about any of this.
And do you know why not?
It's because Roy has stepped
in to save me every time.
Not EVERY time.
Ready when you are, ma'am.
Stay between us
if you would, ma'am.
The car's just up here
on your left.
I was only trying to show
how much you mean to me, Roy.
- You shouldn't have.
- Don't be like that.
- Focus on the present threat.
- There is no threat.
Killers don't say:
"The hour of reckoning is nigh."
- The guy sounds more like a
- What?
- What about the
morals? "This rampant scientism
will invite
a heavy reckoning"
"The hour is
- "Reckoning"
nigh something about
the way this is written"
Can you think of anyone who may
have any grudges against you, ma'am?
AI Ethics committee
I fought in your corner, hard, John
What?
Get down!
It's okay, ma'am!
Stay down.
- What are you doing?
- Sorry!
Cover Chalmers. Go!
Fuck a duck!
Oh!
It's all right, ma'am.
DI Major will get him.
Yeah, unless DI Major's
one of the targets.
Police! Drop your weapon,
you're under arrest!
DI Major.
Or should that be, "AI" Major?
Drop the weapon!
I missed my shot at Chalmers.
But the Good Lord
has delivered me
an even worthier target.
Aren't you forgetting something?
Genesis chapter ten, verse eight.
Cush became the father of Nimrod?
I don't know, mate.
I'm just stalling for time.
Thanks Roy.
I guess I was wrong.
Maybe you are a supercop
after all.
Is that a statement?
Give us a hand, will you?
Give us your cuffs.
Others will arise in my place!
You have not heard the last of me
Thought he'd never shut up.
My hero. My saviour.
My Major.
Not a bad team are we, ma'am?
Shame we won't be partners
for much longer.
Well, that mightn't be the case.
Are we staying together?
We can't split up now, can we?
Not while people
are trying to kill you.
Yeah!
That’s not why you
changed your mind.
- Because of Kelly.
- What?
She said something to
convince you, didn't she!
I knew she would. That's why
I asked you to talk to her.
I thought it was because you were
worried about the other fella?
No, I'm not worried about him!
She's got me back now, ain't she!
The poor bastard don't
stand a chance, does he?
Murder Maybe even double murder,
touch wood.
No, best not touch anything.
He stopped the head of the
committee from getting shot!
How can they switch him off?
That'd make me a damn fool.
Have you got any evidence for this?
That time you arrested a horse?
You can’t just nip home for a potato!
This is a nice potato.