Waking the Dead (2000) s08e05 Episode Script

Help! Help! Help me! Agh! Help me! Olena! Help me! Olena! Olena! # You think we look pretty good together # You think my shoes # Are made of leather But I'm a substitute for another guy # I look pretty tall but my heels are high # The simple things you see are all complicated # I look pretty young but I'm just backdated.
# You were great! - You like? - Yeah.
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Oh! Easy, easy.
I am the bass player.
What was it though? Someone stole your bass? Yeah, exactly.
And my mobile phone.
I left my room for two minutes.
- I am sorry, Georg.
I need someone I can rely on.
Not you.
You practised.
No, I didn't.
I'm a natural.
I fell off some scaffolding, helping to rebuild the hospital in Kabul.
You'll miss your plane.
I'll ring you.
Bye.
No way.
'The contract of give and take, donor and recipient, 'the very notion of aid, becomes more slippery when dealing with second-world countries.
' Even a country like Moldova, the poorest in Europe.
Put simply, Moldova has stuff we want and need.
Manpower, skills, low wages, cheap fuel, and that fundamentally changes the dynamic of the relationship.
I've discovered some evidence that provides a break in the Briony Havers case.
You remember Briony Havers was the aid worker who was sexually assaulted and beaten to death in her Clapham flat two years ago.
Yeah, we looked into that, didn't we, when it officially became a cold case? Because it was such a high-profile case? No.
Because a young woman was brutally murdered.
SOCOs discovered semen on her bloodstained sheets that yielded a DNA profile but no match.
- And now? Stefan Koscinski.
He's born in the Ukraine.
He moved to the UK about five years ago.
He's also an aid worker.
He's a fixer for one of the busiest disaster-relief agencies in Europe.
If there's a flood in Bengal or a famine in the Sudan, he'll tell you what to send and who to send it to.
Yeah, he's a do-gooder.
A do-gooder.
And it's his DNA on the sheets? Yes.
How do we know that? Because there was a positive match to another sample.
And where did that other sample come from? From me.
I collected it.
You collected it? Yeah.
From sweat residues on his skin.
Briony Havers was found dead by police officers on the morning of November 4th 2007 in the bedroom of her flat.
In this witness testimony, a neighbour recalls seeing a man leaving Briony's flat Look at the E-fit, Boyd.
Yeah, well, it does, it does It does look a little bit like him.
It looks a lot like him.
There's no need to be nice, thanks.
OK, you're 100% sure, are you, about this DNA? Yeah.
There's no way it could have been contaminated? I tested it more than once.
But having sex with someone doesn't mean that he killed them.
No, but the semen was deposited externally, on her skin, on her bloodstained skin.
Like he'd masturbated over Yeah, like he'd killed her and then ejaculated on her body.
How did you meet him? At a club.
A club? Mmm.
You don't have to tell us anything you don't feel comfortable with.
Your life outside this unit is entirely your own affair.
No, no, I want to tell you.
It's a It's a members' club, a private members' club.
We got talking, I liked him, he liked me and So what made you suspicious, then? He has thesebruises on his chest.
They're the kind of bruises you get when a bullet hits a ballistic vest.
Yeah, I know.
But that doesn't make him a criminal.
Does he know who you are? I mean, what you do? No, no.
I told him I worked in a lab, and he, I think, assumed I meant a drug company.
And is there anything else besides the bruising? Yes.
He has multiple passports.
Multiple identities.
I wanted to know which one I was sleeping with.
Now, I do.
Can I have a word? Yeah, sure.
A word with you.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Tell me we're not going to follow up on this.
Why shouldn't we? Because nothing she's told us will stand up in court.
She took the guy's DNA without him knowing.
Yeah, but we investigate without reference to Eve.
We just build our own case.
We cover up why we're taking this case? You have a problem with that?! It's a clear conflict of interest! I'll take it to another team.
No, wait a minute, think about what that would mean for you.
We bury the case, another team opens it up.
How's it going to reflect on you? You'll be suspended.
Our unit will be discredited and your career will be finished.
We get the Briony Havers files.
We look for any mention of Stefan Koscinski, and we treat it like any other case, yeah? I don't see the problem.
I really don't.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS Boyd, I've got Stefan on the phone.
I don't know what to say to him.
Do you want me to meet him? PHONE CONTINUES TO RING RINGING IS CUT OFF You're not part of this investigation.
Well, I thought that I might be able to find out things that nobody else could.
You're a forensic scientist.
Put simply, Moldova has stuff we want and need.
Manpower, skills, low wages, cheap fuel, and that fundamentally changes the dynamic of the relationship.
Briony Havers worked for Family of Five, a charity devoted to the five poorest former Communist countries.
Ukraine? Is one of them, yeah.
Armenia.
Er Albania.
Albania.
The smallest one, the poorest one Moldova.
Yeah, and the one I can't pronounce, Azer Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan.
Correct.
So, she was involved in that terrible ferry disaster? What, the Nordland Conveyor? How tragic she should've been murdered after she survived all that.
Briony died on November 4th 2007.
The report says there was no sign of forced entry, but the back door was unlocked.
The original investigation speculated that she let her killer in.
But the original investigation never found her killer, so what do they know? SOCOs identified fresh deposits of calcium oxide, or quicklime, in the carpet.
Tests showed it to be an agricultural blend used to improve acidic soils.
Quicklime? Doesn't that speed up the decomposition of human flesh? That's actually a common myth.
It helps to preserve flesh.
Is that her flat? Hell of a place for an aid worker, isn't it? It's lovely.
But then, she was lovely.
And according to research, she had over 100 sexual partners.
Phew! What? Are you saying she was asking for it? No, of course not, but from an investigative point of view, that is a nightmare.
I mean, I wouldn't be making any sexist comment, Kat, all right? Eve, could you save me, please? Yes.
Cause of death.
She was bludgeoned to death, she was struck 17 times from behind.
Any one of the blows would have been enough to kill her.
17 blows.
Grace? Overkill usually has two explanations.
The blitz attack of the disorganised individual who has the dread of retaliation/interaction, or it can be an expression of specific focused rage.
You mean she knows him? She could do, yes.
-Well, why didn't you say that? -I just did.
-Yeah, but you used very long words, and he doesn't understand them.
What? What? I just I've dropped you all in it, haven't I? Yes, you have.
I should have gone through official channels.
No, that's my decision.
You're a You're a colleague.
And you're a friend.
Thanks.
There's one question I have to ask you, though.
Are you in love with this man? No.
No, of course not, no.
Because if you are, that would complicate everything, you do know that? Yeah.
I You know, it's it's just arelationship.
Good.
Give it to Give it to Marquetta.
Turn that off, please.
Oh, I've got to go, mate, there's a copper wants to talk to me, he's looking a bit cross.
I'll tell him.
See ya.
-Now, Mr, er Devlin.
What's this about? Briony Havers.
Briony? Have you got the bastard? No, we're just having another look at the case.
I see.
I get it.
And you're having another look at me, are you? Sorry? I was a person of interest in the original investigation.
Or don't you lot talk to each other? We talk to each other.
Then you'll also know I had an alibi.
What are you so angry about? Some psycho raped and murdered my girlfriend and you lot couldn't find your arse with both hands.
Actually, the sex could have been consensual, and she was your ex-girlfriend.
Yeah, go on, rub it in.
OK, I'm sorry, I think we might have got off on the wrong foot here Mr Devlin.
Do you recognise this man? Please.
Is this him? Looks a bit Eastern European.
Yeah, they never worked the Russian Mafia angle enough J-ust answer the question, please.
-Sorry? -Answer the question.
I have never seen him before in my life.
How did you and Briony come to meet? You mean, what's a nice girl like her doing with a bloke like me? That's entirely your interpretation.
We kept bumping into each other on the plane to Kiev.
I was out there scouting the locals for cheap labour and she was out there trying to protect 'em from the likes of me.
We had a lot to talk about.
Opposites attract.
Yeah, if you like.
Yeah, like he said, we split up a few months before she was killed, but those six months, some of the happiest times of my life.
I knew I was punching above my weight, pretty college girl like her.
I knew it wasn't going to last.
'When was the last time you saw her?' How's his alibi? The original investigation checked it out, he was in a restaurant that night.
There's CCTV footage, fellow diners, waiters.
I mean, he's not a quiet guy, is he? He's a difficult one to miss.
'She seemed happy.
' Almost like he set it up that way.
Stret.
You got your hands on a bass guitar, Georg? Not yet.
Then? I want the number of that guy.
The guy you told me about.
No, you don't.
Look .
.
the only other way I am going to get a new guitar is I steal one.
That would be a much better idea.
I hear bad things about this guy.
Look, just Just give me the number.
Pozhalujsta.
Sorry to disturb you two, but I don't know how this got out.
Oh, my God! Stefan's going to see this.
This is going to send him right back where he came from, isn't it? We're going to have to get him in, shake him up a little bit and see what comes out.
You've got nothing official on him.
He's not going to say anything to you.
I don't expect him to.
I just want to put him through the wringer and then, maybe after that, when he leaves, he'll feel the need to confide in somebody.
A shoulder to cry on, you mean? Yeah.
That's me.
That's you.
I thought we weren't going down that road.
Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't, but this is hardly normal circumstances.
This is involving You wanted to do it before, didn't you? Are you prepared to do it now? Yes.
Thanks for coming in.
I didn't get the feeling I had much choice.
I'm sorry it felt like that.
Hello? Hello.
Are you going to tell me what this is about? Sure, yes.
It's about Briony Havers.
You know who she is, right? I mean, you know who she was? Yes, of course I do.
Ah, she was an aid worker, you're an aid worker, right? That's right, yes.
Did you know her personally? Not through work, but I met her socially a few times.
And? And what? Did you get on? I mean, did you click? Did you speak the same language? Yes, well, I admired her, sure.
I know it was a tragedy, what happened Tragedy? It is not the right word? It's a good word.
See Briony, she was the real thing, she was a crusader, a fighter.
Did you have sex with her? No, I did not.
Why would you even ask me that? Because I am an aid worker? Yeah That's one reason! BOYD LAUGHS Yeah, this is the other.
Yes, it looks a bit like me.
I think it looks a lot like you.
I mean, so much so that someone called up today and said that they could identify you from this E-fit alone.
Great, so now we're basing a whole case on lies.
You understand me? Yes, I understand you.
Yes? Good.
Now, we're communicating.
No, we're not.
I'm still very much in the dark.
I'll ask you one more time.
Did you have sexual relations with Briony Havers? You're having trouble understanding me.
-Did you ever have sexual relations with Briony Havers? No.
You did not? Did you ever visit her flat? No, I did not.
So this looks like a simple case, then, of mistaken identity.
Oh Hi.
Did you get a room? No.
I didn't think you'd have time.
'Hungry?' What's he saying? 'No, I'm fine.
' Are you hungry? No.
He said something about a room.
So you're going back out there again? Yes.
It's an ongoing problem with the water supply.
The infrastructure is all Soviet era.
And, basically, it's killing them.
Ironically, aid's only made things worse and the last thing anyone thinks about is keeping the water clean.
I'm boring you? No, no.
No, you're not.
No.
Something's the matter.
'What is it? We don't' really know anything about each other, do we? You know I snore.
Could we have a bottle of number 12, please? I think I know what the problem is.
Oh, yeah? Yes.
You, quite reasonably, want to know who you are sleeping with.
You found my alternative passports '.
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and you want to know what the hell that's all about?' Yeah.
All right, I do.
-You do? Well, you will be surprised to hear that the name Stefan Koscinski does not go down well in certain parts of the world.
Oh, come on.
Seriously, particularly with local officials I've caught running their own aid redistribution plan.
You know, sometimes, like last September in 'Indonesia, and last March in Zimbabwe.
Yes, I had to' get out quickly.
Or what? I get hurt.
Oh, you mean, likeyour bruises? Yes.
Why? I thought you fell off some scaffolding.
No, you didn't.
Eve? Why did you lie? I didn't want to scare you off.
Liars scare me off.
And what about you, Eve? Are you always so truthful? I try to be.
-Hmm Good.
'What else would you like to know? 'Nothing.
-Nothing? You make all this fuss and you want to know nothing?' Does he know? Does he know what? Well, is he on to her? 'This afternoon, I tried to call you' a number of times and your phone was switched off.
Yes.
And I was worried.
I I thought you'd gone off me.
Never.
Eve, I was with somebody.
A woman? No, not a woman.
'But, seeing as you can always tell when I'm lying,' I'd better be honest with you.
Yeah.
You had.
I was with a policeman.
A policeman? A very strange policeman '.
.
who thought I looked like a wanted man.
' Strange policeman.
Did you manage to persuade him he was wrong? I hope so.
Don't let them put words in your mouth.
When was the last time you were being interviewed by the police? No, I'm serious.
I've heard that they do that.
Yes? Yeah.
What had he done, this wanted man? Raped and murdered someone.
Oh, my God.
Yes, it was the aid worker, Briony Havers.
Yeah, I remember.
Why did they suspect you? I don't know.
They must have reissued the artist's impression and someone thought it looked like me and called the police.
Do you think it was someone you know? Presumably.
Well, you must be trying to figure out who it was? Not really.
I would be.
I have better things to do with my time.
It's too much, she's asking too many questions.
Is she? Yeah.
Shall we get her out? No, no, hold on Stefan? Stefan? I'm so sorry.
What's wrong with him? God! It's literally just some water.
Stefan? Stefan? What do you want me to do? Check out the case.
I don't know what SHE SCOFFS She's going after him.
Stefan! Stefan? Stefan, are you OK? You look terrible.
I don't like water getting on my skin.
I don't like it touching me.
'Is it a phobia?' 'Yes.
'It's worse when I get stressed.
' Have you always had it? No.
I was on the Nordland Conveyor.
'The ferry disaster?' Yeah, the ferry.
We were in the water for hours.
We? Another passenger, a woman, she was injured.
So you had to keep her afloat? Olena! What was she called? What was her name? What? Her name? Olena! Her name? Go on! Olena! Olena.
Olena.
Why are you asking me all these questions? I'm not.
I don't like talking about it.
No, of course.
I'm going to get her out of there.
DIALLING TONE She hasn't got her phone with her.
No, she's left it on the table.
Yes, and I did a good job! Yeah, but I just feel guilty for leaving you out there so long, although it didn't seem to be too difficult for you.
I didn't want to make him suspicious.
You should've looked in the bag! If you want to do this undercover work properly, you have to learn - you should've looked in the bag! You wanted me to probe him for information, which is what I did.
She did.
You did.
And we discover that Briony and Stefan were both on board the Nordland Conveyor, and that Stefan was a hero.
According to him.
Although it's difficult to believe when you see him in action with a glass of water.
Yes, but that's what's interesting - the magnitude of his phobic reaction.
I think there's more here than just post-traumatic stress.
His aquaphobia may be triggered by something darker, something more complex.
Survivor's guilt, this is the good man who saved everyone and now feels guilty? I don't know.
Do you think there's a chance that we that I might have got this wrong? Because I do.
She's in love with him.
I think it's more troubling than that.
She can't bear the thought that she's fallen for someone who might, fundamentally, be bad - it compromises her idea of herself.
Yeah, because she always needs to be right.
No, she needs him to be innocent.
You're going to love this.
Don't tell me, Stefan's a hero.
Even in the official report his bravery shines forth.
Mmm.
And what about the girl he saved? Olena Kuzmich, a Ukrainian national.
What are these? Injury photos from the hospital.
They treated her after they pulled her out of the water.
Broken jaw? Yeah, she had broken her jaw and was then sectioned after she tried to kill herself.
She tried to kill herself? Mm.
She received counselling from a Doctor Sarah Greenberg and there are the details.
We need to get hold of her.
She then absconded from hospital.
Not a total surprise seeing as she was an illegal.
It's understandable.
Anything about Briony in this report? She's listed as a survivor, but that's it.
So Briony, Stefan, Nordland.
What is the connection? 'I keep thinking about the others.
'What others? 'The others who died.
' What do you feel is the problem? That I'm alive.
Was that before or after the suicide attempt? Before.
She actually seemed to improve but she was just bottling it up.
Survivor's guilt.
The key is not to try to tackle the self-blame and depression head on but But to acknowledge first the existence of the guilt.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
So you haven't found Olena then? No.
You seem very worried about her, Doctor Greenberg.
Well, of course.
She was my patient.
And a nobody.
Not like Briony Havers.
Sorry.
I shouldn't have said that.
Is there something you want to tell me? All the Nordland survivors were treated at Folkestone District General.
One day I came to see Olena and she was arguing with another survivor.
Briony Havers? And I heard her telling Olena to "keep quiet".
Keep quiet? And she heeded the advice.
I couldn't get anything out of her about who Briony was or what she wanted, but I had a pretty good idea.
Do you think Briony Havers was helping smuggle Olena into the country? After Briony was murdered I contacted the police but they weren't very interested.
Ah, well they probably had a sex killer narrative and what you had to tell them wouldn't fit.
Exactly.
Anyway the next day, Olena went missing from the clinic.
And was that the last you heard of her? She phoned me a few weeks later to thank me.
Said she'd got a job as a cleaner in a church and she'd get in touch.
But she didn't? Her number came up on my phone and I tried it a few times.
Turned out it was a payphone.
Do you know where? It's a place called Scaynes Cross, near the M25.
There's nothing to see, except an old farm and some outbuildings.
You went there?! You must have been very worried to go to so much trouble.
But you didn't contact the police? Olena was an illegal.
I thought if anyone deserved a fresh start, she did.
He's coming back from Moldova - special flight, apparently.
What's so special about it? The Disaster Relief Agency is largely EU-funded and has an arrangement with Customs & Excise.
So he doesn't queue, just walks straight through Customs? Exactly.
So Grace says she thinks that Olena was on the ferry illegally with a load of other immigrants.
So, if Briony was up to no good, maybe she and Stefan were working together.
Maybe.
So he wasn't saving her life - he was protecting his merchandise.
Are you telling me what I want to hear, Kat? No.
Good.
So using cover of aid to smuggle in illegals.
Here he is.
Stefan! Stefan! What the hell is she doing here? Stefan, hi.
How are you? Do you have time to go for a drink? Yes.
I'll get a room.
No Stefan, I just want to talk.
Talk.
We've got to stop this.
We've got to stop what? This.
I don't I don't think we should see each other any more.
Why not? Well, I mean, we meet in hotel rooms, we have sex, but where's it going? Really? Do you want it to go somewhere? No, no, no, I don't.
No, Eve, listen.
Do you want it to go somewhere? No! Because I don't mind.
It's Eve, I don't mind.
Have you met someone? No, I haven't met someone.
Why does it always have to be about someone else? I just I don't think we're right for each other.
Is this some kind of complicated foreplay? No.
Am I meant to chase you round the bar or something? No.
Because you, Eve, you don't even believe what you are saying.
I'm just trying to be honest with you.
Eve! Eve! I don't think you should see me any more.
It's for your own good.
My own good? That's my advice.
Take it.
Eve? For God's sake, Eve, what is it? It was just a bit of sex, what's the big deal? Eve.
Why are you so angry with me? I'm not angry! Olena! Eve! Hold on.
Stefan! Stefan, it's all right, it's all right.
Have any of you got a mobile phone? Could you call the ambulance? It's OK.
It's OK.
I'm here, I'm here, it's OK.
It's OK, it's OK, it's OK.
I'm here.
I'm here.
It's OK.
I'm here, I'm here, I'm I was trying to end it with him! No, you were warning him! No! You were warning him off the investigation! No! I thought it'd be more convincing in person rather than e-mail or text.
So why didn't you tell me that? Because it's none of your business.
This side of things is personal! But that moment's gone.
They'll never do that again! He didn't even see you look in the bag! But you're going to tell him! No, I'm not! You expect me to believe that? Yes, I do! You want me to trust you now? I haven't lied to you, Boyd.
Oh, Grace.
You should have told us, Eve.
I made a fool of myself.
No, you didn't.
Eve, I want to tell you something.
But I'm afraid of your reaction.
The police have been back.
No, but they might be.
What makes you say that? I knew Briony Havers.
I had an affair with her.
And the night she died? She was fine when I left her.
You have to believe me.
Why didn't you go to the police? A nasty Eastern European and the English rose? God, Eve.
I didn't think I'd stand a chance.
Was I wrong? No.
No, you weren't wrong.
Yeah, hello? My name is Georg.
'And?' A friend told me about you.
'I want to meet for discussion.
' He said I would get maybe 10,000? Absolutely.
'So, the person who does it, 'he is good? Yes? He knows what he is doing?' He's the best.
Listen 'I don't like talking on the phone.
How about I buy you a drink?' I read somewhere that the police found DNA.
From semen.
Can't be mine.
Why not? Do you really want to get into this? We've started, we might as well finish.
I used a condom.
Right.
Thank you.
I ran tests, more tests on the semen found on Briony Havers' body.
Traces of silicone, a synthetic oil and Denoxinal 9, which, cumulatively, spell condom lubricant.
No condom was found at the scene of the crime and no semen was found internally.
So what are you saying? I'm not saying anything.
I'm just telling you the facts.
That someone staged the scene to look like a sexual assault when it could've been something else altogether? It's possible.
Briony is involved in some dubious activity and someone wanted to get rid of her.
Is that what you're suggesting? What do you think? I think bludgeoning someone 17 times doesn't scream cold, dispassionate hit.
I think Briony Havers, bad, doesn't equal Stefan Koscinski, good.
Stefan's lying.
This is a picture of someone called Joanna Kelso taken two hours and seventeen minutes before the ferry went down.
She and her husband both lost their lives.
Insurance companies salvaged every camera they can find.
Look at the background.
By the rail.
Stefan.
And who's with him? Briony.
I need a blow-up from that.
Olena! Hi.
Where did you meet Olena? In the middle of the North Sea.
You never met her before? -No.
-And afterwards? I saw her briefly at the hospital just to say hello.
She must have been very grateful to you, but you saved her life, she's an attractive woman, was there anyyou know? It wasn't like that.
Let's go back to the night of the wreck.
Why were you on the ferry? I was coming back from a relief expedition.
One of your errands of mercy? If you like.
You had cargo on the ferry, a container? Yes, there had been an outbreak of typhoid in Ukraine.
I had just delivered a shipment of medical supplies.
But that was on the way to the Ukraine.
Coming back, what was in the container? A vehicle.
That's what it says in the manifest here.
Unfortunately all of this is at the bottom of the sea, so I don't know if it contained anything other than the vehicle.
OK, I don't understand something at all.
Because this is pictures of you at the airport exchanging suitcases.
What I don't understand is what exactly you are exchanging.
What were you bringing in? Olena, you see, was on the survivors' list but she wasn't on the passenger list, so is it people that you're bringing in? How many people do you think are smuggling themselves into the UK? I've no idea.
She may well have been doing that, I don't know.
I just want to know what's happening here because, if it's not people you're bringing in, then what is it? Is it drugs? Medical supplies? It's a big business, isn't it? Or is it a financial transaction? I want a lawyer.
I'm not going to charge you with anything.
So you don't need a lawyer.
Can I talk to you about Briony Havers? You only met her two or three times at aid conferences.
You never saw her on the Nordland Conveyor on its final journey before it sank? No? Because I have a photograph of you here withBriony.
Now, after this she was dead, so did she find out what you were doing? Was she involved in what you were doing and where is Olena Kuzmich? I told you what I know.
Feel free to check the facts.
I did not harm Olena.
I helped her that night.
I do not know what happened to her afterwards.
May I go? I have a plane to catch.
Yeah, of course.
There's just a little formality we need to take care of first.
Eve? Could you do a quick DNA swab on Mr Koscinski for me, please? Eve? She knows nothing about this.
She does.
She works for me.
This is her lab.
Your lab? Just take a seat here.
It's a painless procedure.
You've been spying on me.
Open your mouth, please.
Open your mouth.
Is that it? Are we done?! Thanks.
Hello? 'Oh, this is Doctor Greenberg.
' 'I had a message for Doctor Foley.
' She's not here at the moment.
'It's more of a detail, really.
' 'I told her that Olena Kuzmich worked as a cleaner in a 'church and I just checked my notes and it was actually a hospital.
' And have you got the name? 'St Severin's.
' And where is that? 'Just off Ladbroke Grove.
' Thank you very much.
'OK.
Bye.
' We're dealing with the illegal organs trade.
There are corneas in there.
Human corneas.
Eve!