Sherwood (2022) s02e06 Episode Script

1
And some violent scenes from the start.
That fear is back now, and I can
feel it, and I would ask people
SHO
..not to give in to it.
Very, very nicely done.
- Things can grow here.
- Always page 50, remember?
We're told they can't, but they can.
Do they think we're bloody idiots?
"Oh, hey, sorry for all that trauma,
"but there's an energy crisis now.
Do you want your mines back?"
Ryan! I might need you
to do something for me.
- Hello, Lisa.
- Julie?
Oh, my giddy aunt! What?
Do you want to go for a drink sometime?
I know who you are, who I married.
I've always known.
The Sparrows. Can you help?
What do you mean by "help"?
Maybe people should trust me
a bit more.
Maybe I do know what's
best for all of us.
Daphne,
they've had to release Sam Branston.
Mickey?!
SHE GASPS
I started all this, didn't I?
It's all my fault
what everyone'll think.
I don't care what anyone thinks.
I only care what we do
about Dad
what he would do.
He'd have fucking hated this
pigs turning over everything,
snouts everywhere.
Somewhere along the way, we just
we, like, lost ourselves.
Forgot ourselves.
Now look at us.
Look at what it's cost.
We had Ann Branson in custody,
and we let her go.
We'll use every contact, asset,
every informant
and undercover officer
to bring her in, ma'am.
By the way, we still have essentially
THE richest man in Notts in a cell
for Lisa Waters' poisoning, too.
Well, we're going to have to get the
magistrate to grant us an extension on Warner.
We need to devote
everything we can to catching Ann.
You don't seem shocked.
"Shocked" in't really
in my, like, repertoire.
The life I've lived.
And you think she's capable of doing
something like that on her own?
HE SCOFFS
Is that funny?
So, was that always the plan,
then? You confess
and then we let her out and she
goes and does something like this?
You think I'm in control of Ann?
Force unto hersen, pal.
So where would she go?
She were always partial to Portugal.
Not the beach, mind - bit
bright - up in t'hills.
We had a villa there once.
Could get you a number, if you like.
Bollocks. Now, we have a steel ring
around this county.
Oh.
Steel ring.
You caught anyone for our Kyre yet?
That not a priority?
Listen, you're not stupid.
You know how this goes, don't you?
Now, we've got armed officers
looking for her.
She makes one mistake
Now, you can help us.
And then she's safe. Alive.
Who were it?
You not know? Mr Branson
Who killed Kyre?
Who?!
Who killed him?!
Who?!
Who?
Who killed Kyre?
- Yeah, I was thinking the same thing
- Oi.
Take them books around the clubbie.
They're collecting them
for t'prison, all right?
And, oi.
Try not look so, er dodgy.
Where would you go
if you were, like, you know
her?
I dunno.
You reckon she'll grass?
No. She'd be grassin' on hersen,
then, wouldn't she?
So who do you think killed Kyre, eh?
You know all about your past
rivalries and who you'd pissed off,
so, er, why don't you tell us?
Maybe there's things you
don't know about Kyre.
Maybe he had a whole other life.
Secrets.
Maybe you've got secrets.
Maybe you've not been
the, like, held-together,
professional police officer, eh?
Getting pissed with witnesses with
your sad little cans of real ale.
You know about that, did you?
Either way, you want to be looking
into all that - malpractice,
compromised investigation, all that.
- Should get tossed out of court, all this.
- Kyre was a grass.
DCS Summers
He was going to be a police informant
back in the days.
We were talking
to him. He was coming in.
Yeah, about 12 years ago?
The night Chloe Hatby died.
You remember that.
Hmm? The night someone
drove by her accountant's office,
- opened fire.
- Not our style, ducky.
Chloe was there
because I asked her to be.
Oh
Because she was getting
your beloved nephew to squeal.
And he would have done -
on all of you -
if someone hadn't done what they did.
Small people.
What?
Such small people.
He weren't about to
turn, our Kyre. She were.
They were in love.
He talked about it. He told
me and Ann after she died.
He were a young, broken man. Like you.
She were being turned, me duck
to him.
So, anything? Make a breakthrough?
Sort of.
Oh?
I have a tip.
Someone I have. Just me.
Potential sighting.
Sighting of who?
- Ann Branson?
- Sh, fuck's sakes!
HARRY SIGHS
Some of the things Roy said to me
I dunno. I don't know how
he could have known some of that.
You mean, like?
Yeah, maybe.
It's about trust. Simple as that.
Trust and where you put it.
Just you and me.
Shouldn't we tell the boss? Not the
boss. You're the But St Clair?
No. No-one.
Like I say.
- We should have dealt with 'em.
- Rory
We should have dealt with 'em our way.
Not t'police.
Grassing.
Fucking wiretapping.
Your father thought it was the best way
to keep us safe.
He agreed.
Cos he loved yer, Mum.
He always just loved yer.
Hard fucker that he was.
So he just went along with yer.
What would he want us to do now?
He'd want blood for blood.
Rory Stop saying
my fucking name, Ronan!
There's only one name
I want to hear from anyone,
and it better be soon!
If folk round here have got
any sense about 'em.
Cos someone knows.
Someone knows.
Ann Branson. Here is Ann Branson.
He He said something
as he was
I think he was saying
"Don't."
Don't what?
Don't destroy your lives
for him.
Nah.
Nah.
All right, word for word, then.
- Oh, God. He was dying, Rory.
- I can't.
I can't do it. It's not right.
With 'im not here, it's
With you 'ere and 'im not here
It's not right.
I know what's right.
We all know what's right.
What if he does find her?
I want him to.
I want him to find her.
Where did they say?
You know she's got a gun. We're just
checking it out, that's all.
PHONE RINGS
Ah, right, come on. Where are yer?
I'm sorry, but the person
you've called is not available.
PHONE RINGS
- Have you got her?
- No, no, I just
I just wanted to check in,
you know, er
Only call me when you've got her.
Daphne, I just I just wanted
to say how sorry I was,
you know, about Mickey, so
He 'ated yer. All of you.
You're worse than the people
you put away.
You've officers here. I don't want it.
I want 'em gone.
Well, that's only going to happen if
you accept our offer of somewhere safer.
No. No way.
Then it's not happening.
Oh, God, she wouldn't come back here!
Daphne, she's capable
of anything, in't she?
Well, let's hope
someone gets to her first, then.
Hey, look, what do you mean by that?
LINE DISCONNECTS
HE SIGHS
Hey, look Come on.
Surely not, right?
Hiding out in Sherwood Forest
like some modern-day outlaw!
It's happened before.
Well, I don't see it.
What the fuck, man?
Wait! Wait! Wait, wait!
I have been waiting.
I've been waiting for years, testing,
trying out little things here and
there, you know, deliberate details,
little inconsistencies scattered
around with different people,
waiting for them to resurface.
- What are you chatting about, man?
- From a gangster's mouth, say.
- Things only I said.
- Listen, you're upset.
"Real ale." Yeah, that was one of them.
Now, I very rarely drink real ale,
me. Do you know why?
I mean, no disrespect to it,
but it takes, like,
what, four, five days to brew,
ferment, before it's ready,
whereas whisky
Now, that's a drink.
The drink I drank
with Denis Bottomley that night.
Not like what I told you and only you.
And not like what Roy Branson
told me today.
No! Whisky!
Phone.
No.
Everyone's right about you,
aren't they?
Y You're fucked up.
- And now you're fucking up.
- Yeah?
No way I'm not reporting this,
bringing me out here.
- It's over.
- Phone!
Here.
- Thank you.
- Fuck's sake.
And now the other one.
You snitches and moles -
there's always another one.
Harry! Harry!
I'd assumed me coming out here
to find Ann would require
- Harry!
- ..an urgent message
- Harry!
- ..from a two-faced
- Fuck off!
- ..coward!
You don't know
the first thing about me.
Maybe I know the last.
The last thing anyone will know
about you, Marcus Clarke
a fucking liar, man.
Up!
- You all right?
- Move.
Oi!
Yo, Jordan.
Yeah?
Rory!
I'm sorry about your dad, all right?
But, look, I've got stock
coming in tomorrow.
- Yeah? We need that for
- Couple of grand.
I'm leaving you enough.
Buy more. Keep going.
Stop fucking pussyfooting around
like limp dicks.
That's not yours. Al right?
That's not your money, pal.
You're not fucking leaving with
Don't fucking test me!
Move.
DOOR CLOSES
You did well at school,
got good grades.
You could have done anything.
I did do something.
Became a detective, didn't I?
- And I'm a good one.
- Excuse me?
I'm a good detective.
I'm good at my job.
You undermined our work
every step of the way.
On this, yeah. The Bransons, yeah.
They paid for my degree at uni.
Did you know that?
May as well know that.
They're why I'm here.
But I am good. I am.
I did something. What you did
was help the Bransons do
some incomprehensible,
unforgivable things.
That's on them, not me. I just
All just trying to survive
these people.
Against the odds.
The Warners of the world.
- Dodging laws and taxes.
- HARRY SIGHS
You lot don't care.
Chasing the little guys instead.
It's never the top.
It's always the bottom.
I'm proud to be with the little guys.
What, murderers?
- Bullies?
- You or them.
The top or the bottom.
So, do you
do you, like, know
who poisoned Lisa Waters?
Were it Franklin Warner?
All right, do you know
where Ann Branson is hiding?
You know, just tell us.
It could help you.
I can't promise, but it might.
Stephie?
Hey! Stephie! What are you doing here?
- Is this OK?
- Are you OK?
I've been thinking about you,
living with
You know, living with everything that's
been going on, and and I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
What do you mean, Stephie?
I thought they were looking out
for me, like Ryan said.
They think I don't see things,
what they're doing.
I'm really sorry, Sandy.
Who was it?
Stand still! Armed police!
Don't move! Armed police!
- Hands in the air!
- Fuck!
SHOUTING
- Shit!
- Stay where you are!
- Show me your hands!
- Armed police! Hands above your head!
- Don't move!
- On the ground!
RADIO CHATTER
Hello? Come on, you're not
helping yourself, kid. Get up.
Get up! Come on! Hello?
Hey! Come on, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
He's obviously taken
something, hasn't he?
Hey, I know you, don't I?
Hey? I've seen you at Marco's,
haven't I, at the gym?
Get an ambulance, now, will you?
Come on. What's your name?
NEWS REPORT:
Following reports of arrests
in the Lisa Waters
poisoning investigation,
we now understand the police
do not intend to pursue charges
against local businessman
Franklin Warner. The news comes
CLAMOURING
As expected, not only have
all the ridiculous accusations
come to nothing, but
I have received an apology
Hmph! ..from the Chief Constable.
It would be an understatement to say
that apology was not accepted.
It's a corruption, plain and simple,
from the heart of
our British institutions,
and there will be consequences.
You know, they say that people
can't feel numbers, right,
but the death of one person,
that's, you know, comprehensible.
But a million? That can't be felt.
Me, actually, I always have been
able to feel those margins
when it comes to numbers.
And the numbers my people and I
are going to lay before the IPCC
for the financial cost
of their mistake will be so huge
the police will not be able
to comprehend it.
But me? Oh, when it comes in,
I will feel every
penny.
CLAMOURING
REPORTER: But, Mr Warner,
what's the impact
on the planned local development
of the mine?
Do you intend to progress with that?
Things can grow here.
You know? We can grow things.
But we're hearing
that a lot of local councillors
have turned against the idea,
given the controversy,
in solidarity with Councillor Waters.
Yeah, well I don't, erm
I doubt that.
Yes, I have numbers -
that it's two to one against you
at the upcoming council vote. It
sounds like it's dead in the water.
HE LAUGHS
You fucking people.
SHOCKED MURMURING
You will not be saved, will you?
You simply will not be saved.
CLAMOURING
REPORTER: What do you mean,
we can't be saved?
You can't just say that and then
just go. Be saved? Mr Warner?
No, cos you said
CLAMOURING
Mr Warner!
BEEPING
Can someone help?
Stephie's given her statement.
She and this "cousin", Jordan,
were around at Lisa's at about 4:30
the day she collapsed.
Most likely they - well, he -
was the last to see her, and
I bet this toxic shit they've
been cooking up in the cuckoo
- matches the substance in Lisa's vape.
- But why? Why would he do that?
Well, why don't we just go and ask him?
Oi!
I thought I told you
to take him to hospital.
- Sir?
- I specifically said,
- "Take him to hospital.”
- He WAS in hospital.
They pumped him out.
- Consultant said he were fit to be detained.
- Detained?
I mean, look at him.
What is he? 12, 13?
- He wants help, not bloody nicking.
- This was on his person.
PC Brown made the arrest
at the hospital.
Oh, God's sake.
Look, he's obviously been
- groomed to do it and
- Ian?
- No, no. Come on, mate, this isn't happening.
- Oi, what you doing?
- No, no.
- DCS St Clair!
Look, you put him through there now
and it's over, all right?
- All right, on you go.
- No. Come on, Jen!
- Ian!
- What?
So we just
start the cycle again, do we?
Can you kindly step out, please?
In and out of youth court, secure unit.
That's brilliant
This here, now, right now,
this is where
we're meant to get involved.
We interrupt and we intervene.
- All right, thank you.
- Jen, please!
Agh!
SOFTLY: Fuck.
Ian?
No, I can't
I can't do this.
I won't do this.
Take it.
SAMUEL: The advice was
not to say anything to the press.
Yeah, well
advice, experts
You can't just ignore everyone else
all the time, lone wolf.
Things have to change.
I called the board together yesterday.
It was an emergency.
Something had to be done.
Go on, then. Go on.
What's to be done? Go on, tell me.
- Come on!
- The world's changing.
- Yeah, for the worst.
- I can be a part of that change.
FRANKLIN CHUCKLES
I want to do good round here,
do something, make something.
But why won't anyone believe me?
I know why they won't believe me.
Course I know. I've always known.
Truth to you is just
believing the most convenient
thing to get what you want
from any given person at any given
time including me. Yeah.
Change of plan. We're going to the
office. I've got some calls to make.
Call who?
- Hmm?
- It's over, Dad.
Yeah?
FRANKLIN SCOFFS
Ha! Oh, my Jesus Christ!
Drop my father at the house, please.
- And then take me on to the office.
- Yes, sir.
NEWS REPORT:
As part of their investigations
into recent murders
in the Ashfield area,
Nottinghamshire Police have released
an image of Ann Branson, 53,
and are appealing to the public for
any information on her whereabouts.
Members of the public are warned
not to approach her
but to contact the police
immediately. Ann Branson is wanted
in connection with the shooting
of a local man in his home,
and the police are concerned
she may attempt to flee the country.
HARRY: His name's Jordan Magashi.
I just wanted to hurt her.
I know it sounds stupid,
but I blamed her for what happened.
He had a brother serving
a life sentence in HMP Nottingham.
Apparently, this brother, he, like,
got a lot out of the programmes
and the workshops in the prison,
would talk about them on the phone,
letters, visits - you know,
the library, that kind of thing.
He had some quite severe
mental health stuff.
And then the funding cuts happened.
Lisa was a councillor back then, and
Jordan's brother, he just
You know, over time.
When you became Sheriff, more visible,
and he found out where you lived,
around the corner
I mean, it all seems
pretty opportunistic and
unthought through, to be honest.
What about the emails
and the death threats?
He didn't send any of them, he says.
So there's still more psychos
out there who did send them?
We're looking into that.
You're going to have to take it easy
next couple of weeks.
The, erm, consultant said
there'll be dizziness and vomiting.
And this thrashing headache?
Feels like I've been on a bender
without any of the fun.
PHONE RINGS
- Harry, look
- Ian, it's
Lisa Waters.
She's regained consciousness.
They think she'll be OK.
I just I just wanted
to let you know.
- Yeah. Cool. Yeah, thank you.
- No problem.
Hello, Ian.
What the hell's been happening
around here, then?
Oh!
SHE CLEARS HER THROA
It's nice.
Yeah.
- Thanks.
- Just temporary, you know.
I don't seem to be able to, erm
settle and
I'm sorry I just buggered off.
I shouldn't have. Not not like that.
Sorry. I wobbled.
I'm wobbling.
But that, erm, Lisa
who lives round there -
I mean, that's horrifying.
- And Mickey Sparrow!
- Yeah.
Have you seen her - Daphne?
Yeah, well, that is one thing
I do know about.
Fucking hell, do I know about that!
Can I have her number?
I-I know, I'm just
Just to text, you know?
I'm not I'm not going to
I mean, I've learned
what is and what is not
my, like, responsibility.
At least, I think I have.
It's It's not about
fixing things, is it?
Sometimes it's just about
being there, you know, if if
if you're wanted.
I'm not doing too good.
Oh, well, no shit. You'd never guess.
I just feel in-between, erm
I don't know whether to go forward
or back, whether to just
You cannot fix everything here.
But what you can do,
what I know you can do,
is encourage people to help themselves.
If you could only let go
of that bloody guilt
and all that shame when you've got
nothing to be ashamed of,
the choices you've made
And I say that as someone
who learned to hate the police
over 30-plus years, you know,
after everything that happened
round here, and Gary and
So is that why we, erm
why you and I, why we couldn't
- like, be a thing?
- Oh, Christ, it's been said out loud.
All things should be said out loud.
Shouldn't they?
If it's the truth.
It's just hard, Ian. It's It's
It's muddy.
Says she, going on about your guilt.
SHE SNIFFS
Hypocrite.
Yeah, I do have that inside me, I do.
And I don't know how to shift it.
But I have to, don't I?
Have to, like
live. Don't we?
Not with what we wish we had, but
with what we could have.
Yeah Yeah.
PHONE CHIMES
Sir.
It's my understanding that Jordan
is confessing as we speak.
He really tried to poison that bird?
Yeah? While he was looking after Steph?
Well, he weren't
looking after her, were he?
What were you thinking, Ryan?
Eh? Leaving her with them?
You thought you could control things
from in here, but you can't.
They found a dozen of these
in the donation centre.
So if they scan the other books
that were dropped off this week,
would they find the same as this one?
Page 50?
Listen, I never meant
to affect her, yeah?
I was doing all of this for her.
Well, they're going to
transfer you, mate.
So, it's it's over. Sorry.
How far away?
From Steph. How far?
Now, listen, I know
you're plugged in to the wing here.
I know it.
So someone must know summat
about where Ann Branson is hiding.
Now, if you can tell me,
then who knows?
How does it happen, Ryan?
Come on. You're smart.
Capable. Capable of caring, caring
for your sister all these years.
And then you, what,
you up and kill someone?
- I were off me nut, man.
- Don't play the fucking idiot.
That's not it.
I'm asking you why.
Don't get me wrong,
I'm not forgiving you.
I think you deserve to be here
for a long time.
I'm asking you to think about
how you got here.
And just just talk about it
to me. Then
you know, maybe
something comes out of this.
I hate the Bransons. I do.
I hate them and all of them
that are like them.
Yeah, I hate 'em.
Bullies.
No, I were talking to someone today.
They They paid for him
to go through college so that
he would always be in debt to them,
him and his family, always owing them.
And then what happened
to to Pam and Denis.
And the fear, the fear
that they instil in people.
Yeah, well, maybe that's why
I snapped that night, then, innit?
Someone had to stand up to him.
Except Nicky didn't deserve that,
did he?
What I'm asking you is how do you
break that hold, the
the hold that they have
on people? How?
Folks want what they're selling.
Cos there's nowt else, mate.
Well, there should be.
Well
you know where I am.
Oi.
Is that all you want, then?
Talking?
For now.
And Steph?
CHATTER
Three grand. For Ann Branson.
Let 'em all know, the lads
who come through here, we'll pay.
You think that's just what they're
waiting for? The right price?
- It's not the Antiques Roadshow, Rory.
- Oi. Careful.
I have spent the best years
of my life inside
and now
I spend the ones I've got left
convincing others not to do the same.
Rory, grow up.
And get that dirty shit
out of my office.
And, look, my condolences
to both of yer.
Oh, my God, Daphne.
I'm so sorry.
I got your message.
Do you Do you want Do you want
to come in? Does she want to?
- No, no, she's fine.
- Well, come in.
I just feel so numb.
Which is scaring the shit out of me,
cos I know what's coming.
Once it hits
the day-to-day of him not be
Oh, God, help me.
Help me.
Just tell me it gets easier.
No, it doesn't.
Sorry. It just doesn't.
I'm not going to bullshit you.
I mean, it it
It changes into summat else.
Yeah, your appetite comes back
a little, eventually.
And you start to sleep, here and there.
But then you wake up.
And, oh, my God, to this day,
the waking up
looking over
But, you know, maybe
in time, you know, with help
you can start to imagine
living with it.
That's all.
HE WHISTLES
Oi!
I'm, er, sorry to hear
about your old man.
The Bransons have gone too far.
Everyone round here agrees.
Look, we just kind of want this
to all end now, yeah?
She's been waiting for this. Ann has.
And a new car and a few other bits
from different people, but
Look, just give me your phone a minute.
You give her this from me, yeah?
Sound.
Shit.
So that's her? That's where she is?
We should tell Mum or someone.
The police, they can help us.
Get out.
- No, Rory. Listen, please
- Ronan, get out of the car.
What are you
doing?!
You're too good, Ronan.
Get out!
PHONE RINGS
Ronan?
What is it? What's happened?
- RORY: Mum?
- Where is she?
Just leave this with me, Mum.
I mean it.
Rory, you tell me.
- Rory?
- I mean it, Mum.
I don't give a fuck any more.
Rory, I swear to God!
Marshlands, by this reservoir near
the power station.
- Where are you?
- Just heading up from town.
- I'm closer.
- Mum!
Oh, God, no, please, please!
Mum? Let me, all right? Just let me
Mum? Shit!
- Mum, please, please.
- Shut up! Just shut up!
You can do a different thing,
you can We can be another thing.
We can! As a new
As a family. Please!
Please!
No. Mum
Ow! Fuckin' hell!
Who told you? Me, here.
- You killed him
- You killed mine, as good as,
put him away, you skanky fucking grass!
If you're going to do it,
just do it, you cunt.
Go on.
That way.
I'm not going to
roll you over there mesen.
You can carry your own corpse. Go on.
Go on.
Been useful to us over t'years.
Dumping Oh, you can imagine.
Weigh 'em down
..sink right to t'bottom.
God, the people down there.
You'll be our last body,
in fact, probably
now I I'm going
far, far away.
- Fitting.
- Hey!
Drop it!
Drop it! Drop it!
You broke my fucking arm!
I told him.
I said, "Roy, we shouldn't
get in with their lot. Trash!
- "All of 'em!"
- Fuck.
Now look!
DAPHNE GRUNTS
DAPHNE YELLS
Oh Just go.
Go on. Run!
Dead, I'd have to betray
what Mickey wanted.
And in prison, you'll be
the big fucking I, won't yer?
But out there
alone And you are alone.
Do you know that?
Do you know how alone you are?
DAPHNE LAUGHS
How do you think we found you?
He's not coming. They've abandoned you.
They're coming for you, Ann.
And I know what that feels like.
I know the torture.
Always looking over your shoulder.
Never at peace.
Mum!
ANN YELLS
ANN SPLUTTERS
RORY PANTS
What the fuck?
SIRENS WAIL
Where is she?
I heard you're moving up
in the world, duck,
got a new place to live.
Sandy's sorting it for me.
It's in Mansfield. And has a pool.
Pool? What, like, erm?
What, like a swimming pool?
SHE LAUGHS
- Pool table!
- Oh!
BOTH LAUGH
I have to go away.
Further away.
- No.
- Yeah.
But once I'm settled,
you know, we can
You're my sister. You're all I have.
And I love you.
That's real.
I love you, mate.
I love you, mate.
I heard something recently,
something someone said,
that things can grow here.
It were used by someone
who had their own, like
agenda.
There's always an agenda, in't there?
And maybe one day they'll mean it,
those people on the outside
fixated by us and on how to fix us.
One day. Maybe.
But if I've learnt anything,
it's that we have to start
believing in ourselves a lot more
planting our own seeds
to grow our own trees,
whose shade we may not sit in
because the idea remains true
despite what we've all
been told for so long
what we've told ourselves.
Things CAN grow here.
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