Accused (2010) s01e05 Episode Script

This programme contains prolonged violent scenes and strong language.
Shirley Bassey?! I did not say Shirley Bassey.
I said Amy Winehouse.
He said Shirley Bassey.
And you said, "Yeah, I'm a fan.
" I said I liked her.
I didn't say I was a fan.
Is it the frocks? I just like anyone who can belt out a tune.
Judy Garland? Judy Garland can belt out a tune.
The gay mafia don't own these people.
What about Danny La Rue? Not Danny La Rue.
Daniel O'Donnell's a nice boy.
Not Daniel O'Donnell.
You know why I can say this and you can't? I can say it cos I'm secure in my sexuality.
Totally secure I'm not! You've never doubted me! I'm as straight as a gun barrel, me, mate.
I'd give Ronaldo one.
I bet you would! Hello? Where are you? Kenny? I'm coming now, wait there! Kenny! I told her not to go off on her own.
Hey, what's happened? Dad! Are you all right, darling? Daddy's here.
All right, all right.
Come on, let's go this way.
Where did he touch you, Chloe? Upstairs.
Can you point to where he touched you? Down there? Can you tell Mummy what was he wearing? You tell Mummy.
Blue shorts? OK.
What else? Black doggy? He had a black doggy? We've got to get this bastard.
Where are you going? Don't be so stupid.
Just call the police.
Kenny! Kenny! Blue shorts, black dog.
That's him.
There.
Good boy.
Oi, oi! Come here! Come here! Get on your feet! Get up! Hit him! Hit him! All right! All right! Hit him! Fucking hit him, Kenny! Fuck! Fuck! Come on, you pervert! You dirty bastard! You dirty pervert bastard! You dirty bastard! Fuck's sake, man! Hey, Gordon, get off him, man! Leave it! Leave it! She's phoned the police.
What's she done that for? Go past, keep going round.
Right, stop here.
You all right? No.
I think I broke something.
Tell them you've been for a pint.
All right, mate.
Would you like us to arrange for someone to come round and talk to you? Kenny? Kenny? Did you find him? The police are here.
Yeah, I saw, what the fuck are they doing here? Where've you been? This is my husband, Kenny.
PC Lawson.
Hi.
This is PC Ryan.
You're all right, stay where you are.
Your wife said you went to the park I went for a pint, to calm down.
Just as well.
Best leave it to us, eh? We'll get someone on it, keep an eye out over the next few There was no-one keeping an eye out today, was there? Kenny! Sorry.
OK.
Understandable.
Excuse me.
I'm sorry about that.
Worst nightmare, isn't it? I've got two girls, I'd be exactly the same.
In fact, I think he's rather restrained, under the circumstances.
Yeah.
They've been really good with the kids.
What's wrong? I've got coppers in the house, Donna, that's what.
So you've got everything you need then, yeah? Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
We can always come back.
I'm sorry about all this, Mr Armstrong.
Believe me, when we get the Take care.
OK, thanks, bye.
Bye.
What have you done to yourself? Came off my bike.
Have we got any peanut butter? You didn't go out on your bike.
Sort him out, will you? You stupid sod.
What did you involve them for? Because it was the sensible thing to do! What have you done, Kenny? What any man would have done.
What happened? What did you do to him? Actually, forget it.
I don't want to know.
Let me see.
It's all right.
Give me your hand.
I said, it's all right! CHLOE CRIES Hey, sweetheart.
Sweetheart, it's OK.
Leave it, Kenny.
Let me.
Hey, come here.
It's just a dream, Chloe.
That needs seeing to.
Go to the hospital.
I'll go in the morning.
It might be broken.
Go now, while it's quiet.
It'll be a nightmare first thing.
Hiya, love.
What's happened? He didn't come back from his run.
The dog did, but he didn't.
We were out looking for him, but some woman had found him and brought him in.
He'd been jumped.
What do you mean? Where? By who? In the park.
We're not sure.
Maybe a few of them, and maybe in the park.
He's confused, he's not making sense, is he, Tom? No, he's not.
So what have they said? Nothing much.
There's all sorts of doctors with him now.
Oh! There's two of them.
What's wrong? There's two of them.
I know why there's two of you, so don't dare come near me! Don't even think of it! Mrs Duggan! Mrs Duggan! No, he's not dead! I'm not going to let you tell me that he's dead! He's not dead! He's not dead! RECEPTIONIST: Kenneth Armstrong.
WOMAN: No! Gordon, it's me.
It's the crack of dawn, mate, I need to talk to you.
Give me a bell.
All right, bye bye.
Neil, it's Kenny.
Can you give me a call, mate, as soon as you get this? That is well sick, that, Dad! Is it broken? Eryeah.
Is it really broken? You're not going in, are you? I'll be fine.
Don't be soft.
You've had no sleep.
It's not as if I'm fine, love, honest.
What do you want, then? Nothing.
What? I don't want anything.
I can't eat.
Why not? I just can't.
You're not going on your bike, are you? Right, no food, no sleep and your arm in plaster.
If you think I'll let you ride that to work, you've got another thing coming.
What have you done? Fell off my bike.
MOBILE RINGS 'Hello?' Sue, hello, it's Kenny.
I'm trying to get hold of Neil or Gordon.
'I'm not sure about Gordon, but Neil's out with the kids.
' OK.
Probably no signal, then.
How long are they there for? 'Couple of hours? Not sure.
' That's OK, I'll give them a bell tonight.
Listen, if you speak to Neil, will you tell him I want a word? 'Course I will.
' All right.
Cheers, Sue.
Bye.
'Bye.
' They won't tell me what they want.
I'll sort the bike out, I'll be right in.
All right? Hello.
PC Richards.
Sorry, I fell off my bike.
Unlucky.
This is DI Warren.
Hiya.
Good to see you.
What can I do for you? There was a man attacked yesterday in Wesley Park.
Yeah? He died this morning in the hospital.
As a result of his injuries.
Right.
Were you in the park yesterday? No.
Oh! You told your wife you were going there.
I changed my mind and went for a pint.
I told this to PC Lawson.
PC Lawson, yeah.
He had blue shorts on.
What does that mean? The murder victim was wearing blue shorts, the man who molested your daughter.
Blue shorts, right.
So you're saying it might be him, the same bloke? No, no.
Not at all.
But if you had gone to the park, we were hoping you might remember seeing something out of the ordinary that might help.
No.
I've got to be honest with you, you know, my head was .
.
elsewhere.
I just went straight back to the Portway.
There's someone that can verify that, Mr Armstrong? Verify it? How do you mean? Just procedure.
BOY: Dad, it's Gordon.
Yeah, I'm coming! Can you just excuse me a second? Sure.
Hello, mate.
'You were after me?' Yeah, but I've got some people here now, I can't talk.
'All right.
I'll see you down the Portway.
' Yeah, OK.
Yeah, I'll be in there.
'All right.
' Sorry about that.
Where were we? I was asking you if there's anyone can vouch for you being in the pub yesterday.
Yeah, er, Gordon Gordon Richmond.
He's my mate.
He was in there.
And his brother, Neil Richmond.
We just had a couple of pints.
The Portway? Meaburn Road.
Great.
Right.
Thanks for the brew, Mrs Armstrong.
Appreciate it.
Thanks.
I'll see you out.
You knew.
You weren't surprised.
You knew.
Later.
Where are you going? Get my jacket.
No, wait.
Going to see the lads.
No.
I've got to talk to them.
You're not leaving me with this.
Let me get my jacket.
No.
No way.
No way.
You're not leaving me with this.
This is serious.
We didn't intend to, OK? I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You'll have to wait, Donna.
I'll be back soon, OK? 'You dirty fucker.
' 'Hit him!' 'Hit him! Hit him! Fuck!' How is she? Yeah, she's not bad, considering, mate.
She had nightmares last night, but I think she's going to be fine.
I see you got the bastard, then? Yeah, we got him.
Good.
Cheers, mate.
What would you have done to him? Strangled him.
We didn't strangle him.
But we did go a bit too far.
Yeah? He died in hospital, early hours of this morning.
Fuck.
I need to ask a really big favour, mate.
Oh, Kenny, no.
Please don't ask me to Got to, mate.
I've got to, mate.
It could've been your Paula.
You got the right man? Yeah.
Definitely the perv? Yeah.
OK.
I came back here yesterday.
After the girls had gone.
I had a few more pints with the lads.
Right.
Thanks.
What do you want? I'll have a lager.
You all right? What's up? He's dead.
Who is? The bloke in the park, he's dead.
Dead? How? I don't We killed him, that's how.
Are you sure? Yeah.
No That's impossible, that's off its head.
He got up.
He died in hospital this morning.
Jesus.
They've been round, asking questions.
Police? Yeah.
Round at yours? Yeah.
How did they know? Blue shorts.
Man in blue shorts assaults girl in park.
Man in blue shorts battered in park.
What did you say? What did you tell them? That I was in here, having a pint with you two.
Shit! Shit! Why did you say that?! You told me to.
I never said mention us! It just came out.
Bad mistake, that, Kenny.
Bad mistake.
When you tell a lie, you tell as much of the truth as possible.
They know.
Look, just give us a minute.
Stop panicking.
Of course I'm panicking! Just stop panicking.
What do you expect?! Calm down! Oi, you're on the camera.
Get over here.
I couldn't handle 18 months, so no way can I do 18 fucking years.
It won't come to that.
And you won't either.
It won't come to that, so shut up, will you?! What exactly did the coppers say? He died this morning, of his injuries.
You said you were in here, having a pint? Yeah.
We need to talk to Al.
I have done.
I have done.
He'll back us up.
Will he still when he finds out it's murder? He knows it's murder.
What?! He's OK.
It could've been his daughter, he's fine.
The coppers will put pressure on you.
If he's got a family, they'll go on about it.
He has.
It's designed to get you to weaken.
Remember, his family are better off without him, cos he's a nonce.
What is he? I know what he is.
What is he? He's a nonce.
We keep schtum.
We stick together.
We haven't killed a man, we've killed a perv.
Right? Right.
Right? Right.
We'd best wash everything we were wearing as well.
No drink at home, under any circumstances.
Don't even think about criticizing me.
Don't even go there.
We promised.
Promised? I find out you've killed a man and you waltz out of here and I have to come to terms with that while sorting out three kids? We didn't mean to do it.
We're not bad men.
And even if we meant to do it, he was a perv, he had his hands all over our little girl.
Right.
Has he got a family? Has he got a family? Got a wife.
And one son at least.
At least? They were at the hospital.
They were there when I was there.
What did you do to him? We killed him.
No, what did you do to him? What part did you play? I punched him, once.
No more.
It was Gordon, really.
He wouldn't stop hitting him.
I need to wash everything I was wearing.
I'll do that.
We're going round and round the park .
.
looking for the man in the blue shorts .
.
and all the time I'm thinking .
.
"I shouldn't be doing this.
"I should be home with Donna and Chloe.
" But the others, they want to carry on looking.
And I tell myself .
.
if I go back .
.
it means that .
.
they love their kids .
.
more than I love mine.
Best in the North West, honestly.
People working here are Kenny.
Kenny, can I introduce you? This is Mrs Duggan, and Pete and Tom Duggan.
Kenny works here.
Kerry lost her husband a few days ago.
I'm sorry about that.
You were at the hospital.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I was upset.
The last thing you want to see when you're upset is a kind face.
I've got to go.
Of course.
So if there is anything you are worried about or want to talk about 'Hit him! Hit him! 'Fucking hit him! Fuck! 'No!' What do these buggers want? We're interviewing a couple of people.
A few leads, just to eliminate all the guff, if you like.
So we can concentrate on the important stuff.
Yeah? Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Right.
Duggan's injuries indicate that he was attacked by more than one person.
Right.
It could've been you, couldn't it? It wasn't me.
No, no, I'm not saying it that way.
I'm just saying thank God you went for a pint instead of going to the park, otherwise we could be after you.
Right.
Who was in the pub first - you or your mates? Me.
The manager says they were.
What, you've talked to him? It's a murder inquiry.
No stone left unturned, I'm afraid.
Yeah but it's the murder of a child molester, isn't it? I mean if people round here Whoa! Who said he was a child molester? You did.
No, I didn't.
I have wondered about that.
But what you've just said is more than wondering about it.
You've just said the man who attacked your daughter is the man who died.
Yes? How can you be so sure? Shouldn't I have a solicitor or something? What? We're just having a wee chat.
So I'm free to go? Did you know that Neil's car was stolen the day after the killing? Am I free to go? We found it burnt out.
No use to us at all.
I'm free to go, yeah? They're brothers, aren't they your two mates? They will look after each other.
And they won't necessarily look after you.
You see what I'm saying? Gordon.
'Yeah.
' They're onto us, mate.
'Not on the phone, you prick.
' SIRENS WAIL Guess who got a commendation today in maths? Well done, mate.
Where's your bike? Left it at work.
Why? Don't do that.
BANGING ON DOOR Shall I get it? All right, Donna? Yeah.
Kenny in? She knows.
No, she doesn't.
There's coppers everywhere.
Yeah, I know.
Come on.
Gordon, wants us down the pub.
Being summoned, am I? What? They know I did it and they know you did it.
How do they know I did it? Cos your car got robbed.
What a coincidence, your car getting robbed.
Listen, it's still not too late.
The fact he did that to my Chloe It's murder, it's murder - nothing in between.
No extenuating circumstances.
Fine, they might know you did it, but knowing it and proving it are two different things, so that's why we got rid of the car, smart arse, cos it was evidence.
That car was full of that perv.
Right? Right.
Right? I think we could give ourselves up.
Explain to them.
What! He was a nonce.
He attacked my daughter.
You're my mates.
People will understand.
They'd go easy on us.
They can't go easy.
It's murder.
And murder gets you life.
End of.
Going down isn't an option.
We were only trying to warn him off.
That won't make any odds.
It's crap inside and we're not going.
I don't want to hear talk like that ever again.
Right? He's getting cremated in our place.
Don't go all weak on us, Kenny.
You even think about coughing, you talk to us first.
You owe us that, yeah? Yeah.
Donna One glass.
Lots of ice.
And loads of soda.
MUSIC ON TV All the single ladies All the single ladies All the single ladies All the single ladies All the single ladies All the single ladies Now get your hands up Up in the club We just broke up I'm doin' my own little thing Decided to dip And now you wanna to trip Cos another brother noticed me I'm up on him, he up on me Don't pay him any attention Go on, Chloe, you'll love it.
If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it Don't be mad once you see that he want it If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it Don't be mad once you see that he want it If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring PHONE RINGS TV: 'You have to say the visitors are in danger of going the same way.
' Hello? If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh MUSIC BECOMES MUFFLED SHE SCREAMS Hey, it's me.
It's Daddy.
Off now! Now! Off! Dad, why? I don't want to.
You spoil sport.
Why did you do that? She was having a great time.
I don't want her prancing like that.
Like what? She was only dancing.
She's eight years old.
So? It's only kid's stuff.
They're all at it.
They shouldn't be.
You've had enough.
So now we know what's wrong with his face.
You're hardly in a position to take the moral high-ground with me at the moment, but sod it, let's go.
We'll find Mummy.
Find Mummy.
Find Mummy.
Kenny.
Kenny.
OK, so we got the wrong man but before any of us do anything we have got to get together, right? You killed a totally innocent man and the only thing to do now is give yourself up.
You made a terrible mistake but it was a genuine mistake.
People will understand.
And they'll know you couldn't live with it, that you're too good a man, too moral, too decent, to live with something like that on your conscience.
They'll respect you for that.
And you'll have been the first to confess.
People will realise that the other two only confessed because they had no option but you confessed to put things right.
And they'll believe you.
They'll believe everything you say.
They'll believe you only hit him once.
They'll believe Gordon did most of it.
I can't do it to them.
To THEM? What about us? This only happened cos you wanted to protect your daughter, to do the right thing by your daughter - so do it now.
I can't.
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever.
Amen.
Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who's there Feeling unknown and you're all alone Flesh and bone by the telephone Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer Kenny? Open it? Take second best Put me to the test Things on your chest You need to confess I will deliver You know I'm a forgiver What are you playing at? Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone to care Feeling unknown and you're all alone Flesh and bone by the telephone Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer I will deliver You know I'm a forgiver Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith Reach out and touch faith.
All right.
Hiya.
I'm going to the police.
What for? To confess.
Come in.
No.
Kenny, you'll get me banged up for life.
Just give me five minutes, please.
Everyone out.
Sue? What? I want everyone to go now.
Sue! Where? Anywhere.
For a walk.
Just get out the house now.
Sue, I need you to go out for a bit.
I'm doing the dinner.
Leave it and go.
It's going to rain.
Take the car then but just go.
We haven't got the car.
It got robbed.
Will everyone just do what I say please? Neil! I'm sorry but it's important, this.
Crucial.
Where will we going? Anywhere.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, kids.
HE DIALS RINGING TONE It's me.
You've got to get round here now.
Kenny's here and he's thinking of taking a certain course of action, do you know what I'm saying? Right.
He's coming round now.
I don't want to gain any advantage by turning myself in so I'm going to give you that option too.
We could all walk in together.
You're mad.
I'm doing it, mate.
On my own or with you and Gordon but I'm doing it.
Why? Because we killed an innocent man.
Right.
Turning ourselves in, that's not going to bring him back, is it? That's not going to do anyone any good.
It is, mate.
Cos I can't live with it.
I can't stop thinking about it.
Can't stop thinking about it, yeah? Yeah.
Me too, mate.
And I'd love my peace of mind back.
I'd love to get it off my conscience.
But I wouldn't turn my mates in for it.
Only a selfish bastard would turn his mates in for his own peace of mind! I'll tell you what I just told Neil.
I don't want to gain any advantage by this.
If you want to walk in with me that's fine.
I'm not letting you do this.
I'm quite prepared to try sweet reason but get this straight - you're not doing it.
I've got to.
Why? I can't live with it.
You can't live with it now.
Let's talk long term, right? You're thinking of turning us in.
That's a life sentence each, right? So let's talk long term.
You can't live with it right now but next month will be easier.
Next year it will be even easier still.
In 10 years it won't be a problem.
A bit of time struggling with a guilty conscience.
It's better than doing life, Kenny.
Right? I can't, mate.
Do yourself in.
What? You can't live with it, do yourself in.
That way you only destroy your own family.
You don't destroy ours as well.
Do yourself in.
No.
We did it for you.
Did you? What's that mean? It means nothing.
You threw a punch that wouldn't have decked our gran and that was it.
If we hadn't been there, he'd have battered you.
Yeah, possibly.
But maybe that's it.
Maybe that's why you're talking like this.
Cos you only threw one punch.
We got stuck in.
We'll go down.
You'll walk.
That's what you're thinking, isn't it? I'm not thinking that.
I'm as guilty as you.
You won't be saying it once you've talked to a lawyer.
You'll be blaming us.
Get the door.
For fuck's sake! What you playing at, you pricks? You're the Dad as well.
The court'll understand you throwing a wobbler - it was your daughter that got done in.
They'll throw the book at us.
You've thought it all through.
You bastard! I haven't.
Tell me you won't do it, mate.
Tell me! I'm doing it.
Right, we're going to do you in and anything you say now you'll say cos you're scared of getting done in.
We can't trust a word that you say from now on so you're dead, mate.
And I'm not doing it for me, I'm doing it for my brother.
He's got no chance of coming that and coming out alive if he does 15 or 20 years.
Where's the family? I told them to go for a walk.
How long will they be? Don't know.
Half an hour? OK, we've got to kill him.
This is a joke right? A joke.
You agree, don't you? Yeah.
How do we do it? Forget the fact that we're mates.
How do you expect to get away Shut up! You're up to here as it is.
Shut up.
Can't make a mess.
I mean blood or anything.
We'll choke him.
Right, I'm going.
You're finished, mate.
I know why you got stuck in.
Yeah? Yeah.
I saw you looking at the girls dancing.
When you battered the perv, when you battered a man you thought was a perv, you weren't just battering a perv, you were battering what's in there.
Get a grip of this bastard.
Get a grip of him! For God's sake! Get your coats on, stop messing.
I know you are wet.
Come here.
Move your hands! Kenny? It's all right, Sue The meeting's over.
We drove round the park a couple of times and then we saw him.
We got out and he ran.
If he hadn't run, maybe none of this would have happened But he ran.
We caught him.
I punched him once and broke my wrist.
Then the others hit him a bit more.
Especially Gordon.
I'm not trying to deflect any blame, I'm trying to tell the truth.
We wanted to hurt him, but we didn't want to kill him.
You did 18 months before.
Your brother walked free.
Be funny if that happened again.
Only on a grander scale.
Your car got robbed, you see.
Not his.
You know what 18 months inside teaches you? Keep that shut.
A full confession - naming both you and your brother.
Luckily, we saw this coming and had a chat about it.
Kenny's confession damns Kenny, yeah, but to use it against us is very, very iffy and I'm sure the judge'll point that out.
Apart from that, officer no further comment.
Is it true my statement damns me but not them? Possibly.
Well, why didn't you say? Because you did it to ease your conscience, didn't you? Not to drop your mates in it? I wanted to do both.
Will the defendants please rise.
Members of the Jury, are you agreed on a verdict? We are.
Do you find Gordon Carl Richmond guilty or not guilty of murder? Not guilty.
Do you find Neil John Richmond guilty or not guilty of murder? Not guilty.
Do you find Kenneth Armstrong guilty or not guilty of murder? Guilty.
Mr Gordon Richmond and Mr Neil Richmond, you are free to leave.
Mrs Kay.
Your Honour, my client is a loving husband and father.
Perhaps that was his downfall - his love for his children, his rage when one of them was attacked.
I would remind you that my client walked into the police station of his own accord and made a full and frank confession.
This, Your Honour, is a deeply moral man, devastated by the consequences of his actions, totally prepared to accept his punishment but fully deserving of your leniency.
Mrs Duggan? My husband was a good man.
I knew that at his funeral.
People came for him.
And for me.
That's what funerals are - comfort for those left behind.
But when I think of my husband's funeral I get no comfort.
It's a source of further torment.
The last man to have anything to do with my husband, you see, to handle his coffin, to commit his body to the flames was a man who murdered him.
And there's something about that that is so obscene.
Mr Armstrong, you will go to prison for a minimum of 15 years.
Take him down.