Waking the Dead (2000) s07e06 Episode Script

So what chopped off the head and the hands? I'd put my money on a sword.
ARGH! And a big one.
But you were a hero.
You saved some men's lives after they were hit by a roadside bomb.
Was Francis Duggan one of these men that you saved? Yes.
My son was killed whilst serving his country.
LOMAX! I've not seen Mark for a couple of years.
You've had no contact with him since? No.
This woman you saw with Mark, had you ever seen her before? You're swanning around with some slag! No, never.
I think she was foreign or something.
She looked Arab.
I can't find Mark and you're the only one I trust.
I can't help you.
I've got my own problems right now, Shahla.
Francis, I've got leukaemia.
You've no idea where he could be? I told you, I haven't seen him.
We are gonna find him before Shahla or the police do.
I took young soldiers out to Iraq and was then told to make them act as policemen.
The face of every young boy I lost is burnt into my memory, so no, no soldier's death is acceptable to me.
The dead body is Mark Bennet.
So we have our victim? Duggan went missing about the time Bennet disappeared.
So Duggan could be another victim.
Or the killer.
I don't want your money.
You need it.
The police are looking for you, everyone's shitting themselves.
Look, here.
Francis Duggan? Down, Boyd! Down! Yes, I was counting on your support, Brigadier.
Why should we subjected to endless que But John, I Of course.
So you were close at one time? We were really close as kids.
We lost touch when my dad kicked him out.
You've had no contact since? I didn't know where he was.
I didn't know how to find him.
He found me.
He just turned up out of the blue.
Why Fran? I'm sorry, we don't know yet.
Why were you looking for him? Did Francis talk to you at all about his time in Iraq? Two years ago, one of his close colleagues, Mark Bennet, he was murdered.
And at the same time, Francis went on the run.
Now we need to see if the two things are connected.
You think Fran killed him? We don't know yet.
But what we do need to know is any information you can give us about Fran's time in Iraq.
Francis was scared.
I tried to get him to tell me why, but he just said something terrible had happened and he had to go away because people were going to get hurt.
That's all he said.
OK.
It must've been quite a party - someone gets beheaded, then someone disappears and the day they come back, they get killed.
I didn't murder Bennet or Duggan.
So what the hell happened? You hit the port and the charades got out of hand? Don't be absurd! I'M absurd, the way you guys dress up?! Tradition.
History.
Looking like something out of The Nutcracker.
You know, Superintendent, someone like you will always struggle to understand what it is to serve without question, to be a part of something greater than oneself.
"Something greater than oneself".
What a wonderful abdication of personal responsibility.
There, you see? That's not what it means.
Well, you tell me what happened at that dinner.
In your own words.
Good.
Bennet shouldn't even have been there - he'd left the regiment months earlier.
Was this before or after you assumed command? A couple of weeks after.
Were these two events related? I had warned him about his drinking, but the decision to leave was his.
Was he drunk that night? Corporal Lomax? What's going on? Sir, I just had to see Bennet.
What the hell's he doing here? Get him off the base now.
Sir.
You stuck-up bastard! Get him out of here! He's a bloody disgrace! I told Corporal Lomax to escort him from the barracks.
So it's Lomax I should be speaking to.
I suppose so, yes.
A man you hate.
No, that's not true.
A man who saved a drunk and a wimp from the Land Rover and left your son to die.
Two losers who dropped out of the Army.
So when Bennet turns up drunk at your ceremonial dinner, that must've been too much to bear, the thought that your son had died so that this travesty of a soldier could live.
I've told you what happened.
Now charge me or let me go.
I make the decisions here, Colonel.
You do what I say.
All right? You need to look at all the possible danger points in the room.
Where could you get hit from? If you get hit, what's the route that you plan to evacuate the principal? Bang! Beautiful woman walks into the room, you get distracted, you just lost your man.
Remember, the principal is the money.
Never lose the money.
Take a five-minute break and then we'll run it again.
You couldn't have timed that better.
Wasn't that cheating? Maybe.
Tell you what, even I might've found myself distracted.
I'd be wondering who you were, and if you were single, what you were doing tonight.
Hypothetically.
Of course.
Detective Constable Goodman, single and probably working until midnight.
Now I'd like to ask you something.
Sure.
I'd like you to open your mouth.
Why? To take a DNA swab.
We need to eliminate you from our inquiry.
What inquiry? Francis Duggan was killed yesterday.
Fran Duggan's dead? Both Mark Bennet and Francis Duggan served with you in Iraq.
Can you think of anyone who might have wanted them dead? I don't know.
I mean, I haven't seen either of them since I left the regiment a couple of years ago.
So where were you yesterday afternoon? I was at Tilbury Container Terminal, taking possession of ten armoured Land Cruisers - the kind of stuff that we should've had in Iraq.
You know, those lads survived a bomb and all the insanity of Iraq.
Now Mark and Fran are dead? It's OK.
Sit down.
Sit.
All right.
So, Iraq.
You, Tyrrel, Duggan, Bennet, you were all part of a Land Rover unit.
What exactlydid you do? Basic stuff.
Running messages from base to the rest of the regiment, liaising with local community leaders.
Why were you following insurgents when you were ambushed? Lieutenant Malham saw a pick-up with a tarpaulin over the back, thought it was carrying guns.
But it was a set-up.
To lure us down the track where the bomb was hidden.
Which is what you suspected all along.
I voiced my concerns, yes.
So when the bomb exploded, it must've felt like the worst case of "I told you so" in history.
Did James Malham make a bad call? Yes, he did.
Did I blame him? No.
That's not how it works in the Guards, or any regiment.
You're looking at the best of the best.
The Hardcore Crew! Iraq, here we come! Did you know Francis Duggan was murdered? What? He was shot by a high-powered rifle from more than fifty yards.
He knew he was in danger when he went on the run two years ago, and yet he came back into the area.
Aren't you curious to know why he came back? Or perhaps you know already.
Why did he come back? Because he'd tracked down his sister, who's dying in a hospice.
Did you know about her? No.
Or you just didn't want to tell us, so we wouldn't find him before you did? Fran had nothing to fear from me.
Then who? I mean, who who was he so terrified of that he tells his dying sister that he'll never see her again? And why did Duggan go AWOL in the first place? Did he not fancy being beheaded, like Bennet? Right.
And who killed Bennet? Who or what is worth more than the lives of two soldiers? I'm sorry, I can't help you.
You might as well have left them to die in the Land Rover, mightn't you? Spence saw a lone driver, but the sniper could have been hiding in the back or even the boot.
Unless sniper and driver were one and the same.
It would make more sense if they were.
Why? Look, I'm a sniper and I want to take up as much room as I possibly can in the back of the car to line up my shot.
But if I'm also the getaway driver I'd want to take my shot .
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and then make my escape as soon as possible.
Precisely.
Now look at the windscreen.
Oh, yeah.
Look at this crack.
Now, two bullets were found at the scene consistent with 556 rifle rounds.
If a rifle were to eject casings .
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at high speed, to the right, they might cause cracks like that.
So where are the casings? I don't know.
HE HEARS GUNFIRE AND SCREAMS FOR HELP SCREAMS REVERBERATE IN HIS HEAD WOMAN SCREAMS Everyone's happy.
Not much attacks now.
People get petrol for their cars, medicine for their children.
It's a good job you are doing.
I've just scoured the last three months of tapes from the precinct camera and I can't find it.
OK, so broaden your search, then.
Or she might have found somewhere else to go shopping.
Start looking in the surrounding streets.
What about Andy Tyrrel? Oh, yes.
Where is it? The security gate at Tilbury Container Terminal confirms his car was there at the time of Duggan's murder.
Yeah, but that's Tyrrel's car, not Tyrrel.
Yeah.
And? So, check the CCTV.
Sir, I've been looking into Lomax's finances.
Last month, £3,000 was deposited into his account.
It's his loyalty payment for signing on for another ten years, right? Yeah, but what's interesting was he immediately transferred it to another account.
Nicola Bennet's.
Nicola Bennet's? Yeah.
Butshe told me she'd had no contact with any of these boys since Mark left the Army.
Have you checked Nicola's accounts for other payments? Yeah, there were regular transfers from Lomax dating back two years - virtually all his Army wages.
Thanks, Spence.
OK.
What? WHAT?! OK, II got it wrong.
And how! I'll bring her back in.
All right? Yeah.
KEYPAD BEEPS Feel like talking? No.
Still thinking? I don't blame you, it's not as if you haven't anything to think about.
Best friend's murdered, you say you haven't been in contact with his wife for years, then we find out you've been paying her every penny you earn.
And whichever way you look at it, that looks bad to me! Doesn't it to you? Go on, you keep going with this silent thing - it doesn't faze me one little bit.
Grace! It's a waste of time.
The one constant in that boy's life has been loyalty to others.
We were never going to breach it in one day.
Thanks, Grace(!) That's great, that's a real boon.
Don't you want to know what I infer from that? That we're screwed? No, if it was his crime he was covering up, he would've confessed by now.
Oh.
Let me talk to him.
That'll do it.
Yep, that'll do it.
Hello, Robert.
I just came to see how you were - if I could get you anything.
I don't need a shoulder to cry on.
I was thinking more on the lines of a friendly chat.
Or a confession.
Is that what you want? I'm right, aren't I? Well? My job here is to help the police, but I'm also a doctor, so I have a duty towards my patients.
Sometimes they clash, sometimes they overlap, and I can't always honour the small print in my police contract.
I have to decide what I believe is the right thing to do.
May I have some water, please? Yes.
Is that it? Nothing else? And I want to speak to Lieutenant Colonel John Garret.
The winner of this year's Churchill Cup for Best Turned Out Recruit goes to Trooper Lomax.
Well done, Lomax.
Right.
A glass of water and he wants to see Garret.
That's pretty good(!) More than you got.
What do you mean, "you can't always honour the small print in your police contract"? Don't walk away! What's it supposed to mean - "you can't always honour the small print"? Hey.
Hi.
Is she ready? Yeah.
Also I've looked at her mobile phone records.
She's been calling Lomax every day for the past two years.
Has she? The crafty little Nicola.
Why am I being kept here? I've got to pick up my son.
Calm down.
I know about the money from Rob Lomax and don't worry about your little boy Social Services will take care of him.
What? I know you've been having a thing with Rob Lomax.
What? Most of his money goes into your bank account.
You're having a relationship and neither of you mentioned this to us.
I can arrest you for perverting the course of justice.
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.
Stella! And then your little boy will be taken into protective care.
Sir? Tell Social Services we've got a kid needs looking after.
You can't.
Why not? We haven't done anything! Haven't done anything? This is your mobile phone account with calls to one number - his.
Child Protection.
.
.
9 minutes, We have a child that needs taking into care.
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11 minutes, 25 seconds What do you want? I want to know what happened between you, your husband and Rob Lomax.
Right.
All right.
All right! Wait outside and keep them on hold, would you? Go on.
Go on! I'd always known that he liked me.
And when your husband got on the drink and went a bit dark, he was there to step in, was he? Yeah.
Nice.
Nice girl thing(!) But it wasn't true? No.
No, not then.
I wanted to, but Rob wouldn't do that to Mark.
He's a bloody saint, this Rob, isn't he? Yeah.
Yeah, he is.
'You've done everything that your country's asked of you' and more.
My advice is that you co-operate fully with the police.
Hi.
Two of your friends are already dead.
I'm concerned for your safety.
He's got a gift.
Of what? OK? Good man.
"Good man"(!) Corporal Lomax has a great sense of loyalty.
Oh, good.
I'm pleased(!) So what do you think it is that he's hiding? He feels compelled to protect the regiment only.
Course he does.
We were preparing for the regimental dinner and I was called to the gate.
Mark was there.
Mark Bennet? Yes.
He was drunk, saying I'd slept with Nicola.
Must've been tricky.
Oh, yes, it was.
But I managed to convince him it wasn't true.
And you let him in to the barracks.
It's never gonna be all right.
Enough! Just leave it! Corporal Lomax.
What's going on? Sir, I just had to see Bennet! What the hell's he doing here? Get him off the base now.
Sir.
You stuck-up bastard! Get him out of here! I thought I'd stick him in my room to calm down.
The last time I saw Mark, he was heading out of the barracks.
And what about Colonel Malham? I didn't see him again that night.
But the next day, he asked me to keep quiet about it.
About Bennet getting his head chopped off? About the row.
In the best interests of the regiment, of course.
Well, I haven't had this much fun in a car since I was 16! There you go.
Thanks.
OK.
Hmm.
Right.
What happened? Well, he said that Bennet was giving Malham grief and people did see that.
Do you know John Garret? Hello.
Pleased to meet you.
Yes.
Dr Foley.
What's your opinion of Colonel Malham? Well, the decision to make Malham commander of ceremonial duties meant he was no longer an active soldier.
So he was promoted out of harm's way? Yeah, but the death of his son hit him very hard.
If he'd asked for a different posting, would he have been denied? No.
In fact, he was offered something else first.
So he chose to work with a man he despised, who left his son to die? Where are you going with this? Well, he's put himself in a position where he's feeding off his anger and his grief and it's interesting.
Thanks.
Thanks.
DAD! I appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Your son got himself killed trying to prove himself to you and nearly took us all with him! Lomax! PHONE RINGS KNOCK AT DOOR GUNSHOT REVERBERATES The gate log says Malham left the barracks at 2.
30.
He could've made it to the hospice in time to be our killer.
Even if he killed Mark Bennet, there is no way he killed Duggan.
Why not? I mean, what's his motive, for a start? Motive? Let's see.
Murder to conceal murder.
We've seen that often enough.
This is a man consumed by grief.
He's in agony.
If he wanted to kill someone, he'd just walk straight up to them and do it.
Maybe he was turning up the grief for our benefit.
No, he's not.
How do you know? I mean his son diedwhat? Two years ago? So he's over it by now? It doesn't work like that, Spence.
Anyway, Malham's assistant made reference to a call he took just before he killed himself.
I know who made that call.
Sir, the MoD are asking when a report on Col Malham's suicide I don't want to deal with that.
They want Next week! Great(!) Hi.
This is Malham's sword.
It was found in his personal locker.
Well, that could be innocent enough.
Yeah.
I did some chemical etching to look at the microstructure of the metal surface and It's not the murder weapon.
No.
You don't seem surprised or disappointed.
No, you're right.
I'm not.
I didn't want him to be guilty.
I'm not supposed to say that, am I? I called Malham to let him know that you were on your way.
It seemed the decent thing to do for a fellow officer.
If I thought for a moment That he was going to do the honourable thing? Seven men! That is disastrous! So much so that there was a question mark hanging over your command.
I was under pressure to stabilise the situation.
It would have been disastrous for you - a Guards Officer - if you were relieved of your command because you were inadequate.
It's on record that we did a fantastic job in reducing the number of attacks in the area.
Because you're the same man, the same commander.
Beginning, you were crap! Then the next six months of the tour, not one of your soldiers was killed! How did that happen? Well, it takes time to understand the local people.
If you're so successful, why do you resign? You're a hero, but you resign your commission.
You go into the world of mercenary soldiering when you could've been a hero in the Guards.
Honour, pride, the Guards.
I don't get it.
Garret has control over everybody.
He even gets Malham to blow his brains out, do the "honourable thing", cos he's gonna be arrested.
He doesn't blow his brains out because he's gonna be arrested But he's pushed to it Emotionally pushed.
Garret wouldn't get his hands dirty.
Talking of control, just let me show you something.
This is the CCTV footage of our mysterious woman before the wife enters the scene.
Now, just look at her body language.
She's remonstrating with him, he's listeningvery reluctantly.
And what is she saying to him that provokes him so much? He loses it, but not with her.
He smacks his wife.
Still out of control, he goes to the barracks and meets the Grim Reaper.
She's Middle Eastern, we've got Iraq, so there's a connection.
We assume that Garret is in control of all this.
Now you're telling me that this woman authorises Bennet's death? No, no, no, I'm not saying that.
But she certainly has a part to play in all this.
Hello.
Can I help? I would like to speak with Lieutenant Colonel John Garret.
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You make sure you bring that contract back to me.
Excuse me.
You are Mark Bennet's friend.
I remember you.
Oh, hi.
Yeah.
Can you give me a second, gents? How are you? What are you doing here? I came to see if Colonel Garret could help.
No-one would listen to me in Iraq.
But now I have the name of the man who took my son.
You were there.
You can speak out.
Of course.
Mark also promised to help me.
He didn't show up.
Nor did Francis.
Don't worry about anything.
I'll do all that I can, OK? Where are you staying? You give me your number and I will call you.
Look, I have to go.
Let's meet later.
Make sure you call me, yeah? Yes.
Yeah.
Sorry about that, gents.
Rob! Where have you been? I've been calling you.
I've been busy.
Get in.
I can't do this any more.
What are you talking about? I can't handle it.
It just keeps getting worse.
We were meant to look out for each other.
Francis Duggan? Why? If Shahla Ahmed comes to you, promise her anything she wants to hear, then phone me, OK? There's Nicola and that kiddie! The best thing that's ever happened to you, Rob.
Don't do anything stupid.
There they are.
Where are you going? We need to know what hold Garret and Tyrrel have over Lomax.
Just wait.
I won't be long.
Stella! Hi.
Hiya.
I was wondering if you were looking for bar staff.
Sorry, love, we don't need anyone.
Are you off your head, John? Give her a job.
Are you French? Yeah.
A student, yeah? Yeah.
You look like you could do with a drink.
What are you drinking? I need to try more pubs.
Just have one drink with us.
OK, I'll have an orange juice.
Right.
John! Orange juice for the lady, yeah? Come and sit down.
Are you all in the Army? The most famous regiment in the world.
The cavalry! The Hardcore Crew! Iraq, here we come! We're gonna do one tour of duty, then we're gonna make a fortune.
How? Private contracting.
I tell you, I'm working for them now.
The boss of APX Solutions will be at the regimental dinner.
I will introduce yous all.
We are gonna be minted.
We wanna be.
Why don't you come back to the barracks and I'll show you the horses? I need to go.
I have a friend to meet.
Hey, what do you mean? No, no, you don't need to go.
What's that you got there? PHONE RINGS Stella.
Spence.
Who's this? No, no, no.
'Don't worry about them.
' What? 'Look, take one photo with us.
' Hey, get your phone out, we'll just get one photo.
Give us one photo, then you can go! I need to go Let him go! Come on, let him go! Let him go! Come on, let him go! Come on.
Calm down.
Calm down.
I'm calm, I'm calm.
OK.
Good.
That's him.
We're taking him in.
Right.
Let's go.
Come on.
Mr Overton.
I didn't touch her.
She was coming on to me Stand up.
Cuff him, hands behind his back.
You were bragging about doing some work for John Garret.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You're gonna have to be thoroughly searched by my colleague.
Inside and out please, Stella.
Judging by your state in the bar, we need a blood sample for drug testing.
That's likely to come back positive for Heroin? Heroin's good, heroin is really good, yes.
That should get you kicked out of the Army and scupper your chance of security work outside of a supermarket.
All right.
Um Garret said I was guaranteed a job as soon as I'd seen action, and if I kept an eye on things for him.
Things? Corporal Lomax.
He said he was worried about him, that he wanted me to let him know what he was up to.
When did Garret first tell you to keep an eye on Lomax? A year ago.
You've been in the regiment how long? Three years.
Were you at the regimental dinner two years ago? Yeah.
Were you serving there? Yeah.
Yeah? Do you remember an incident between Lomax, Bennet and Malham? You stuck-up bastard! Get him out of here! He's a bloody disgrace! Your son got himself killed trying to prove himself to you, and he nearly took us all with him! They had an argument.
Did you witness it? Yeah.
Bennet was having a go at Malham about his son.
About his son.
Did it develop into something else? What happened? No.
No, Bennet started up again.
Yes? There was a lot of shouting.
Bennet was having a go at someone.
Who? I didn't see who it was.
I'm gonna help Shahla.
I'm gonna tell everyone what you did.
Shut up! What was he saying? Er it was something to do about telling everyone the truth.
Mm? Something about a girl What girl? I don't know.
I don't know.
So do you want to spend a little more time with us? That is all I know! What do you want me to say? Calm down.
It's time for your search.
But that's it! I don't owe these guys anything! All right? Why would I lie? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Gotcha! Right, cherchez la femme.
Found her! I don't believe it! Why that Tube station? It's near where she met Bennet two years ago.
Can I have the pen? Sure.
I'll get the Oyster card records and find her address.
OK.
This is? This is Shahla Ahmed.
Shahla Ahmed! Yes, the mystery woman.
She came over from Basra.
What's her involvement in all this? She came over two years ago to look for the Land Rover boys.
And? I haven't interviewed her yet.
Shouldn't you ask her? I thought you'd want to be in on the interview.
For God's sake! OK! Before the invasion, I was a pharmacist.
I had a husband, Hassan, and a little boy, Hadi.
Hassan was killed in the bombing of Baghdad, so I took Hadi to my parents to keep him safe.
Mark Bennet and the others often came through the town.
They made friends with my son.
All right? Arsenal FC? The best, yeah? No.
Chelsea's best.
Nah! Chelsea?! A right cheeky little bugger, eh? Sometimes.
Mostly he's a good boy.
Hey.
You speak good English.
Here, that's my son.
Two years old.
Gonna be a star.
We call him Robbie, after his godfather here.
He's a lovely boy.
See you around.
Then one day, they came with another man.
Here .
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and here.
This one.
It's OK.
Isma! OK, now What have you done?! Can you see him? No.
Down, Rob! Their men take from me, I take from them.
People need strong lessons.
We need to get out of here, man! Come on! Come on! Fran! Fran! Fran, move! When I woke up all the others were dead.
And your little boy, Hadi? He's the reason I'm here.
I came to find Bennet and the soldiers to make them tell people what happened that day.
Mark agreed to help me, but then he disappeared and the others were too scared.
My visa had run out and I had no evidence, nothing.
So finally I went home.
I tried to rebuild my life, I really tried.
Then one day Isaw HIM on TV.
The man who had your little boy murdered? Musrhat Badawi.
He's a big man now.
He has many friends in the coalition forces.
People who speak against him are made to disappear.
So then you came back here again? I thought I'd try one last time to make the soldiers see what a monster they'd helped create.
So this is how Garret stabilised the situation for himself.
Go home, Nicola.
Look after Robbie.
Tell me what's going on.
I'm sick of all this boys' club secrecy bollocks! I can't, not now.
Well, when?! Go.
Get away from here.
No.
Not until you tell me Mark? Yeah.
My husband.
Your friend.
The guy we cheated on.
It was all my fault.
I tried to contain it.
I tried to protect the troop.
What did you do to Mark? Nothing.
You're scaring me.
Everyone's gone.
It's just me now.
Was it guilt, Rob? We were soldiers doing our duty.
Is that why you took an interest in me? I'm tired of all this.
Oh, just talk to me.
You only came on to me when he started drinking.
Were you scared what he'd tell me? I've let them down, Nic.
I've let them all down.
I don't know what you're talking about.
That's why I can never leave.
Whatever it is, I can handle it.
I just need to know.
I'm sorry, Nic.
Rob.
Rob! Your DNA was found on a shell casing in the car we recovered.
You shot Francis Duggan.
No comment.
Your loyalty to your boss is understandable.
He commanded you in Iraq, gave you a plum job at APX Solutions.
But he's been exploiting you all along.
Whatever.
The question is, are you smart enough to see it.
Don't you worry about me, my friend.
Garret will betray you to protect himself.
This is how you crack bank robbers, innit? Tell them that the other guy's grassed.
He made me a job offer.
Maybe it was to replace you.
(No comment.
) One of my officers is in the next room with Andy Tyrrel.
Andy Tyrrel's DNA was found on the shell that killed Francis Duggan.
Andy Tyrrel works for you.
I don't expect you to say anything, don't worry.
Tell me about Badawi.
He was one of Saddam's torturers, wasn't he? I had nothing to do with him when I was with the regiment.
This is Mr Badawi.
He'll help us quell the violence in the area in exchange for aid and medicine.
You never met Badawi when you were in Iraq? No.
I worked with plenty of people like him.
We all did.
The price of peace.
You don't know the challenges of trying to police a war zone, let alone rebuild it.
You put Badawi back in power, though.
Who ran Germany after the war? The same men He gets to kill with impunity, you get to pretend you're still in charge? It was the same men who'd burnt down Jewish businesses! Drawing parallels with the Nazis says something, doesn't it? Peace is always a mess and nobody wants to stick around to police it.
Except you.
It was a job opportunity.
APX Solutions.
The public want our troops out of Iraq - I fill the vacuum.
Professional soldiers making money for you.
Have you never made a deal with a criminal to get a bigger fish and then felt queasy afterwards? Not with a mass murderer, no.
No, you swim in a slightly smaller pond, not to mention a safer one.
In Basra, I made more life or death decisions in a week than you will make in your entire career! You made one very bad decision.
You were losing soldiers every day.
So you made a pact with Badawi, and he gets to make sure no-one's around to testify about his past.
I don't have to listen to you! Isn't that what happened? Sit down! Sit down.
Well, that was a very interesting approach, Boyd - manhandling a man who spent his life learning how to kill.
What did that achieve? Now we get to hold him on an assault charge.
I sacrificed myself.
Well done.
I've just come from an interview with Nicola Bennet.
She was pretty incoherent.
She'd had a confrontation with Lomax.
I think he's suffering from survivor's guilt.
That will give him a propensity to suicide.
That's fantastic.
What? If he's unravelling because of some personal crisis, then maybe this regimental silence stuff will go out of the window.
Yeah? OK? Let's go.
No, you're not listening to me.
I said a propensity to suicide! Right, let's see.
Why doesn't he ever listen? I did! I know where I'm going now, thank you.
Thanks.
Boyd, have you any idea how irresponsible you are being? This man's a trained killer.
Don't destroy his world! Boyd! Lomax! Are you intending to use that again? Yes.
Well, you know what they say - when you've killed once I didn't kill anyone.
You killed those women in Iraq! I told you I didn't kill anyone.
As good as.
You stood by, witnessed it.
Done nothing about it since, have you? You didn't help Shahla Ahmed bring the killer to justice.
But you can't think for yourself, can you, Lomax? That's why you signed up for another ten years of this mindless crap.
You're scared shitless.
Tell me - when you guys join up .
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do you sign away your conscience? Is that it? Women have died, a child has died.
Your best friend, Bennet, he died.
And what do you do? What do you do? You end up shagging his wife and then you pay her for it.
I love Nicola.
Did John Garret tell you to do that? I love Nicola and the boy.
Then stand up and be counted.
That's just what I'll do.
Let him go, Spence.
He's a murdering piece of shit.
"A murdering piece of shit"? Is that how people see me? Well, if you die now, Robert, they just might.
Mark Bennet.
We need to know what happened.
He was your best friend.
How did he die? If all that "never leave a man behind" crap means anything, now is the time to prove it, because you certainly left Mark behind.
He was murdered, butchered, dumped in a shallow grave and all this happened to him when he was at home, when he should've been safe, just a mile from his barracks.
You succeeded where Saddam's finest failed.
Say something, for God's sake.
Why doesn't he say anything?! Why doesn't this man speak? Why are you so convinced he's guilty? He was there at the barracks He's in a state of trauma.
I don't care.
He knows what happened.
He needs a psychiatrist! So do I.
Just get him in here, will you? Get him in here and sit him down.
Yeah? Lomax.
I know you're involved in the murders of Mark Bennet and Francis Duggan.
I haven't seen either since I left the regiment.
Apart from the night that one was murdered and the other vanished.
You seem indifferent to the fact that these men are dead.
I also know that you made a deal with Badawi.
Ah, Lomax.
Sir.
Now HE CLEARS HIS THROAT .
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this is Mr.
Badawi.
He'll help quell the violence in the area in exchange for aid and medicine.
I want you to co-operate with him fully.
And I know that Badawi began to silence people who spoke out against him.
This is a complete fantasy.
Shahla Ahmed was one of them.
He didn't succeed, but she wasn't a threat to you then, she was just on Badawi's hit-list.
Iraq is full of atrocity victims looking for handouts from the West.
But she's here now and if she has British soldiers - your soldiers - testifying that their commanding officer had them working for Badawi I have some influence amongst the people.
I'm sure we will be able to work together.
Thank you, Colonel.
Thank you.
OK, boys, thank you.
Never heard of Badawi.
This was issued from Army intelligence to all officers serving in Iraq.
Group A - "Wanted War Criminal Badawi".
It also gives an instruction that officers should have no association with Badawi at all, but you make a deal with him! It was obvious he was going to exert his authority over you at some point - make you do his dirty work.
This is how atrocities happen! He had no authority over me! So it was your orders that rounded up the women and children? I'm not saying that.
Your men trusted you, completely and utterly, and you corrupted that trust.
This was a war zone something you know nothing about.
They had no idea that they were going to be agents to mass murder.
But they were no longer soldiers in the British Army.
They were in your private militia - the original, if you like, APX Solutions! Anything these boys are guilty of has nothing to do with me.
Would you care to elaborate on that for a second? I have your right-hand man, Andy Tyrrel, in my holding cell on a charge of killing Francis Duggan.
I have you sitting here with a perfect motive for killing Mark Bennet.
I take it that you've questioned Robert Lomax about the night of the regimental dinner.
This is really hard.
Did he mention Nicola Bennet? In relation to that night? Should he have? When Bennet turned up, he wasn't just drunk, he was looking for blood.
Anyone's in particular? Yeah, Robert Lomax.
They'd had a big fight in the afternoon and she'd told him that she was having an affair with Rob.
I knew there was someone, but Christ! I'll see you at home! No, you won't! Oldest motive in the world.
Face ityou want this to be bigger than it is.
You want to put Badawi, me and the regiment on trial.
But the truth is simpler, smaller.
You overheard this row, did you? I heard Bennet threaten to kill Nicola before Lomax could have her.
You! For God's sake, pull yourself together, man.
Why didn't you tell me this before? He was like a son to me.
And you've been protecting him all this time? At the end of the night, we had to hide Bennet's car keys so he couldn't drive home.
But he ran off, into the woods.
Who went after him? Lomax.
The last I saw of him he was heading towards the stables.
You're saying that Robert Lomax went after Mark Bennet into the woods.
What, he saddled a horse, did he? And then he went chasing Bennet on horseback? Is this what you're telling me? Come on, I know this is difficult for you.
I know you see Robert Lomax as a son, but I really need to know what happened that night.
You're my only witness.
I beg you.
Are you telling me that Lomax rode after Bennet on horseback into the woods? Is that what happened? I think so.
You THINK so? Yes.
He's lying.
That's not what happened.
He's a liar.
Shut it! We have to tell everyone what we did.
You! You lying bastard! Bennet.
sake, pull yourself together, man.
I'm gonna help Shahla.
I'm gonna tell everyone what you did.
Shut up! You knew what Badawi was and you let him drag us into his own private war! Lomax.
We all rode out that night, him included.
Me and the boys just thought we were bringing him back - shut him up, get him sober.
Charge! Going in.
Lomax.
Whatever they tell you, don't trust them.
Understood? Sir.
No! 'The winner of this year's Churchill Cup for Best Turned Out Recruit goes to Trooper Lomax.
' Well done, Lomax.
Thank you, sir.