Silent Witness (1996) s26e04 Episode Script

1
DI Sarah Torres.
Welcome to The Garden of England.
You've heard about that lorry
they found down the M20, right?
- What happened here?
- Sex trafficking.
So who were these people?
Body one, the driver.
The fracture damaged his median nerve.
So he might not have been able to
drive a seven-and-a-half-ton lorry.
Natia Beridze. Georgian.
Maeve Tooney.
Appears to have a single stab wound.
After her brother, Robbie, disappeared,
he got sucked in to drugs.
- Any survivors?
- Two women.
One of them has an accent.
Possibly Eastern European.
One man, William Sturton, a drug dealer.
He befriended her, groomed her.
Maybe that's his role in all this.
The UK is the only place
the lorry's been recently.
They weren't being
trafficked in to the UK?
I think they were being trafficked out.
Your son has a good chance
of receiving a new heart.
She was admitted last week.
No parents around, apparently.
As a ward of court,
she'll go in to group one.
He's gone.
Will?
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Lyell Centre Forensics.
I'm working with DI Torres,
any sign of her?
We haven't found her yet.
We'll let you know when we do.
What about the male patient,
Will Sturton?
Neither of them.
Where's the search team?
- Down that way.
- Thank you.
Torres?
Torres?
Torres?
Torres.
Yeah, ambulance.
Royal Byfield Hospital.
Basement freezer room.
Quick as you can.
She suffered a heart arrythmia.
Maybe her experience on the lorry
triggered an underlying condition.
Thank God you found them.
- Is she alive?
- Thanks to you.
Has Will Sturton been found?
Not yet.
They better find him soon,
he's in danger of going
back into renal failure.
I thought it was Will in
the basement, but it was her.
If she's in the UK illegally,
then maybe she's afraid of authorities?
Can I get out of here now, please?
Obs are stable.
Even if they weren't,
something tells me we
wouldn't be able to stop you.
The genetic profile is back on Natia.
- She had Steinert's disease.
- What's that?
Steinert's is a
genetic multi-system disorder
associated with cardiac
conduction malfunction.
If Natia was involved in some
kind of altercation in the lorry,
it would have taken very
little to cause cardiac arrest.
So she had Steinert's disease
and Body One had oesophageal cancer.
That's a high proportion of passengers
with serious health problems.
Maybe Natia and Body One
were seeking treatment.
So let's say he came over for treatment.
Then he had to be
smuggled back out of the country?
If he was actually a passenger,
then it looks that way.
Is there any chance that he
could have driven the lorry?
I mean, we did find him in the cab.
Steinert's caused
Natia's cardiomyopathy.
But she had ACE inhibitors with her,
so she was managing her condition.
Why would she sneak across
borders for a condition
that was under control?
Steinert's is inherited.
If Natia had a child by C-section,
then there's a 50%
chance she passed it on.
Her condition might
have been under control,
but what if her child's wasn't?
Maybe Natia wasn't searching
for treatment for herself.
There's a nine-year-old
girl at the Children's Hospital.
She was abandoned at the
front entrance two weeks ago.
I've seen her on TV.
Yes, the media are
calling her a health tourist.
Does she have Steinert's?
I don't know.
But I know someone who will.
Let us know what you find.
Where are you going?
To see if I can drive
a seven-and-a-half-ton truck
with one arm.
She's doing well.
The doctors think it may have been a
transient disturbance
of the heart rhythm,
not a heart attack.
Can you tell me which room
William Sturton was in, please?
Sure.
Thank you for taking the time.
It's a delicate matter.
It's about the police case
I'm working on.
A pretty serious one, actually.
I've spoken to my colleagues.
There were some reservations
about disclosing the information.
But you were right about the girl.
- Steinert's?
- Mm-hm.
Does this have anything to do
with her parents?
Can you help us find her mother?
Jack.
Morning.
Keys in there?
- Yeah, they're in it.
- Yeah.
Super.
Don't use your left arm.
All right, let's give this a go.
Not easy. How the hell did he do this?
Here he comes.
I've done something bad.
OK
- The CCTV that the detective showed you
- Mm-hm.
- ..the car and the lorry
- Mm-hm.
- I downloaded it.
- What?
Oh
That could be considered
tampering with evidence, Velvy.
And I sent it to a friend.
A new friend, actually.
I met him at Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Oh, God.
He works at a digital effects house.
That's the name for it, he says.
And they work on digital stuff
for movies,
and they have this software.
It builds images out of
..well, other images.
There.
I checked the registration
against the DVLA database
and then against the
Local Authority Records.
The car is a taxi cab from Gravesend.
Velvy
Welcome to the A-team.
Why did Will call this place
from the hospital?
Wait here.
- If I'm not out in ten, call for backup.
- Mm-hm.
Jason around?
Kitchen.
Jason Corrigan?
You're Will Sturton's cousin.
You know I'm police, right?
I know that Will called you
from the hospital.
Look, I'm asking nicely,
which is very uncharacteristic for me.
Don't make me be my normal self.
He's not well.
You need to help him.
Tell me where he is
and I can get a medical team to him.
He's in the back. Through there.
Will!
Will! Let me help you!
Ugh!
Unit to Pelham Crescent.
Suspect abducted.
Black Cherokee Jeep.
Get him!
Sorry.
I got your message about the
girl at the Children's Hospital.
It's Steinert's.
It is.
Also, they let me have the CCTV footage
from when she was left at A&E.
You can't see who dropped her off.
Could that be Natia?
We've got authorisation
to do a DNA test to confirm
if Natia was the girl's mother.
So you know people
at Melfort Children's?
I've been doing some voluntary work
for the Paediatric Transplant Charity.
What made you volunteer for them?
Was it someone you knew?
No.
Nothing like that.
When we first met,
you said the last postmortem you did
was a few years ago.
Was it a child?
Dev Basu.
Eight years old.
He needed a liver transplant,
but the centre wouldn't submit
him to the transplant list
because they concluded his autism
made aftercare too painful and risky.
It made me angry.
It still makes me angry.
Hey, Nikki, we're in Gravesend.
Yeah, I just spoke to the taxi driver.
About a week ago he took
a cash fare from a guy
- who got him to follow a white lorry.
- Any idea who he was?
Taxi driver said the guy
had a gammy arm.
That's a direct quote for you.
We'll go and check the location
he dropped them off now. OK?
Why here?
Because it's nowhere.
Looks like whoever drove the
lorry switched the plates here.
You think this is where the
passengers joined the lorry?
Looks like it could be stolen.
Yep. Very stolen.
Maeve Tooney.
Maeve didn't come alone.
Will Sturton drove her here.
Nikki, the DNA is back.
Natia isn't the girl's mother.
Well, Steinert's is pretty rare.
It's inherited.
That can't be a coincidence, can it?
I've been doing a little more digging.
It's a charity in Georgia for people
affected by muscular dystrophy.
Natia's baby died from Steinert's
two years ago.
His name was Petre.
Her tattoo.
"P" for Petre.
After his death, she moved
to London, a new start.
Then I found this.
Ketevan.
The name in the good luck card.
She's still at the hospital.
She could be the mother
of the abandoned girl.
Gabriel.
The consultants asked me to
tell them if we can find a link
with the girl in our case.
Is that a good idea?
It's sensitive.
It's sparked some
pretty feverish headlines.
I'm just thinking of
the Lyell's impartiality.
If we can help them, why wouldn't we?
Ketevan Gvazava?
She's dying, Ketevan.
Your daughter.
This isn't bloody working.
I need to find a translator.
You're not her?
Then who is?
You're Ketevan Gvazava.
You gave the other woman your coat
with the card in it.
At least now I know the name
of the woman whose life I saved.
What are you afraid of?
I think the girl in
the news is your daughter.
She's dying, Ketevan.
She suffers from Steinert's,
just like you, like Natia.
It's why you had the sudden
cardiac arrhythmia.
I don't know the kid.
Then take a DNA test to prove it.
Why don't you want to be
with your daughter, Ketevan?
At least give us a name so the
doctors know what to call her.
Your daughter needs you, Ketevan.
The doctor is going to look after you.
We need to go, come on.
She's fine.
She's safe, she's safe.
You're not giving me much choice.
Ketevan Gvazava, I'm arresting you
on suspicion of child abandonment.
You'll be transferred to a holding cell
as soon as the doctors allow it.
He's been moved to HDU.
When's a heart coming? Hmm?
Tommy needs you to stay strong.
First, speak to the charity.
The counsellors are there to support
parents at moments like this.
What did the doctor say exactly?
Uh, that he's got ventricular thrombus.
He's out of time, isn't he?
Professor, thank you for coming.
Please excuse us, Sheila.
This is a very difficult situation.
I've seen the headlines.
The headlines are why we need
you to confirm the girl's status.
We can't afford to get this wrong.
Until we can get a concrete DNA
result, we won't know for certain.
The police and I need
more time to prove the link.
The heart is 50 minutes away.
Professor Folukoya, this is
our multidisciplinary team.
No doubt you've met some of them before.
Professor, you believe the girl
in our care is a citizen
of Georgia and that her
mother left her at the hospital
and then tried to flee the UK.
Is that correct?
Ketevan Gvazava and the girl share
the same rare genetic condition.
In addition, my colleague
found photographic evidence
of Ms Gvazava and the
girl together in Georgia.
I believe she's the girl's mother.
And therefore we can assume
that she tried to leave the UK
to give her child the strongest
case for being a ward of court
and therefore eligible to
be on the Group One waiting list.
If there wasn't
another suitable recipient,
then we would happily give this
heart to a nonresident
Group Two individual.
But there is a suitable
Group One recipient,
right here in our hospital.
Tommy Shaw.
Nico, I would argue the girl is
technically still in Group One
and in greater need
than the other recipient.
They're both equally
suitable candidates.
But she is still non-UK, non-EU,
which means she should have been
in Group Two.
We have a tissue match for two
patients, both in urgent need!
We listed her as Group One.
Are we really going to de-list her
45 minutes before the heart arrives?
I've come from the hospital.
Your daughter is very unwell.
You need to see her.
Listen to me.
She can't breathe by herself,
her organs are failing.
Please.
Is she on the list?
The transplant list?
Yes.
She'll get a new heart?
It's complicated.
They're debating it now.
Debate?
Why? Why debate?
Because they know she's yours.
What have you done?
There are rules.
Procedures that have to be followed.
They're debating if she gets a heart?
They're debating if she deserves it?
She deserves it.
She's in pain, all the time!
She's scared!
I hold her and I can't stop her pain.
Do you know what it's like
to hold your child
and not be able to stop their pain?
No.
Then tell them you're wrong!
Say I'm not her mother.
Say it!
Say I'm dead!
Ketevan!
She died in police custody.
I've referred it to the IOPC
for independent investigation.
Look, I don't want you finding
this out from someone else, but
Ketevan's daughter passed away
before a decision was reached.
She didn't suffer.
She wasn't alone.
But she's dead.
She might not be if I'd have
kept out of it.
Then the next kid on the list
would have died.
And the poor dote whose heart
it was in the first place,
what if they'd lived?
What if the little girl was British?
What if her mother was rich,
could buy her way into Britain
instead of
whatever she did to
get into this country?
The world is rigged.
It's unfair.
You tried.
You try more than most.
You can't save them all.
Believe me.
Anything on the number plate
we found, oh King of the DVLA?
Thanks, Jack. That means a lot.
The number plate is
registered to a company
- called Southern Valley Holdings.
- Uh-huh.
It's basically a shell company
with a PO Box address in London.
So not much use to us?
On the contrary.
Southern Valley Holdings
owns a company in Kent.
Medway Blossoms Nurseries.
They import flowers and plants
from Holland.
I've checked with the
ferry companies in Dover,
and Medway Blossoms booked a lorry
to travel to Calais on the 12th.
Nice work.
You might think of picking up a bouquet
for Nikki while you're there.
It's her birthday next week.
I know.
Irises for faith.
Carnations, fascination.
Chrysanthemums, grief.
What's your mood today?
Inquisitive. Thanks for asking, Lucy.
Oh, bollocks.
That's not me.
There you go.
Right, Bev.
DI Torres, Kent County Police.
Jack Hodgson, forensics.
- Are you the owner here?
- Co-owner.
Who's the other "co"?
Marcus. Marcus Tillman.
Your husband?
No.
Do you know this man?
Yeah. That's Marcus.
- When did you last see him?
- Oof
He sort of comes and goes.
Do you know, I'm sorry,
I've got to take my medication.
Ooh.
Not many flowers in today?
Yeah, well you know,
supply chain issues and all that.
Have you not read the papers?
So if that's all, I best get back to it.
I thought there was something
familiar about this place.
Yew Nurseries closed down because of
drug smuggling back in the '90s, right?
That was all lies.
It got thrown out of court.
The charges were dropped
because of witness intimidation.
I've kept my nose clean.
What about Marcus?
He hasn't been arrested for anything.
You're missing a lorry, aren't you, Bev?
We found its number plate.
It was stolen.
You didn't report it?
You've heard about that lorry
they found down the M20, right?
The "Truck of Horrors"?
It was booked on a Calais ferry
on the 12th.
Who made the booking? I don't know.
It's your business.
Marcus does the financials.
I just do the blooms.
What has that git been saying?
Marcus is dead.
Who did it? Who killed him?
That's what we'd like
to talk to you about.
Was it Sue?
- Who's Sue?
- His ex.
She left him about six weeks ago,
she took the kids.
Marcus went spare.
Why did she run off? Why do you think?
She couldn't stand the heat.
The heat?
How hot did Marcus get?
She was all airs and graces, that one.
She didn't understand her place.
Marcus Tillman's a known face
around Dartford.
Nasty bastard.
So you think he'd gone back
to his old ways,
using his former drugs route
to traffic people?
He brought the gun along
to keep them in line?
The place you found the number plate
was a big rave venue back in the '90s.
Marcus had a finger in that too.
He organised the music
then supplied the drugs.
That shithole was like
a second home to him.
Something happened there.
Yeah, something happened there
- the rendezvous.
Marcus got Will Sturton to bring Maeve
and the other girls
to the truck. Off they went.
With Will locked in the back?
Yeah, to keep order.
Without a phone?
Then they drove two miles to the quarry,
Marcus went to let them out,
but died before he could?
There's something about this
that doesn't add up.
We managed to unlock the laptop
you found in Will's room.
The only thing on there was a
SaveMyDocs file named Trebor.
Shared with one other user.
It has hundreds of photos,
voice recordings and videos.
Most of them are taken covertly
in what looks like
some sort of trap house.
Trebor? Isn't that Robert backwards?
Maeve's missing brother, Robbie.
That could make Maeve the other user
with access to the file.
Could Maeve and Will have been
working together to find Robbie?
What if we've got him all wrong.
I'm looking for my brother.
I can help you.
Would explain why the gang
abducted Will - to shut him up.
Maybe he was working against them.
Will was on dialysis at the hospital.
He's going to need treatment
again soon or his potassium levels
are going to go sky-high.
Whoa, wait. Pull that up.
Marcus Tillman.
I think we can assume he was back
in the drugs game.
Probably running the
whole county lines show.
Will and Maeve left their things
in the car at the lay-by.
I don't think they were planning
on getting on the truck.
I think they were trying to find
out what happened to her brother.
Hey, where's Robbie?!
I know you know where he is!
- Where is he?!
- Shut up!
Where's my brother?
So Maeve and Will interrupted
the trafficking operation.
That's when it all turned to shit.
Wrong place, wrong time.
That's Natia, isn't it?
Why are there photos of Natia in there?
Scroll through.
I've seen that door.
133 was Natia's address, right?
Almost.
I told you. I don't know
the woman you're looking for.
Strange, given that she had keys
to your flat.
She's dead, isn't she?
My Natia.
My Natia is dead.
We were neighbours for a while.
Until we were more.
She helped me one day.
She was always helping people.
Nat was on that lorry
they found, wasn't she?
Why do you say that, Maya?
I know Natia and Ketevan were friends
from the charity in Georgia.
Natia liked to help people, didn't she?
She helped bring Ketevan
and her daughter into the country.
But when the press started
speculating about it
..Ketevan had to get out.
So Natia helped her again.
Who arranged the truck, Maya?
Who did she contact to get
Ketevan onto the lorry?
I don't know.
Who are you scared of?
Is it this man?
Did Natia work at the flower shop?
Well, her boss was a dealer.
He made her collect packages
from his houses.
She hated it.
But he could be violent.
Do you think Marcus forced Natia
on to the truck?
I'm not saying anything
without my lawyer present.
There was a 19-year-old boy
with Natia on the truck.
He was trying to help a young woman
find her brother.
And now Marcus' boys have him,
he'll die of kidney failure
if we don't get to him soon.
There must be something you can tell me.
She did a drop for her boss
a few days before she left.
I don't know where.
But you can find out from her phone.
I unlocked it for you.
Thanks for agreeing to do
the postmortem, Nikki.
Ketevan's daughter had developed
a pulmonary embolism.
She would've died very rapidly.
Her transplant this morning
wouldn't have changed the outcome.
Right.
Are you all right?
I thought hard data
was the only way of deciding
who got a transplant and who didn't.
But now
..now I don't know what to think.
You presented the facts, the data,
about Ketevan and her daughter.
But what if I didn't?
What if I subconsciously amplified
what was, in reality, conjecture?
What if I didn't want her to get
the heart so someone else could?
You didn't make the decision.
The transplant team did.
The girl wouldn't have survived
the surgery.
And ultimately, a child is alive today.
I hate to break this to you,
but you're not God.
You had no control over this.
There are two locations Natia visited
in the 72 hours before she left.
Here and here.
This one's Medway Blossoms.
This one's Montagu Road.
DA2 8KB.
Can we geo-locate the video and
picture files from Will's laptop?
The trap house.
Natia was there as well.
Everything went through that place.
Maybe that's where they took Will.
Baz, get me two tactical units
and an ARV.
Meet me at Montagu Road, Dartford.
I'll be there in 30.
Door.
Armed police! Stay where you are!
- Stay still!
- Stay where you are, don't move!
On the ground!
You, hands on your head!
Do not move! Stay where you are!
Stay down.
Where's Will?
Fuck you.
Armed police, get down!
Put your hands on your head. Down!
What? What are you going to do?
Shoot a kid?
Go on, tell the wanker to shoot a kid.
Cuff him.
Hallway, clear!
Open up!
Armed police!
Get down to ground level, now!
Go, go, go, go!
Will Sturton is now the prime suspect.
He's in a silver Volvo
heading west down Alban Road.
Assumed armed and dangerous.
Shit!
Will's no victim. He's top dog here.
We got Will all wrong.
He was Marcus' number two.
The Volvo was abandoned
a mile away from the trap house.
We're looking for him, but
..no luck so far.
If Will was running the drugs lines,
why was he helping Maeve
search for her brother?
Maybe he was looking for Robbie himself?
If Robbie had escaped
and Will was hunting him down,
maybe he thought Maeve
would lead him there.
But then they ran in to Marcus Tillman,
and Marcus locked them all in the lorry.
But why?
His wife had disappeared on him,
taken their kids.
He couldn't let that go.
Maybe he thought that someone
in the lorry knew where they were.
Yes.
But who?
Lucy.
Lucy. Do you remember?
At the shop, the woman was
wearing the wrong name tag.
- It said "Lucy" on it.
- Yeah.
Someone made that ferry
booking from Medway Blossoms, right?
Medway Blossoms
They did a fund-raiser,
aid for Armed Forces.
Jesus. That's the woman
from the hospital.
The one we thought was Ketevan.
Was she behind all this?
Let's go find out.
Torres.
It's PC Kerning at the hospital, ma'am.
Lucy Stevens has gone from the ward.
We're searching the building now.
Gone? What do you mean, gone?
- That's Will Sturton's car!
- What?
All units, a male and female,
suspected to be in a black Jeep
headed away from the hospital.
Reg number Papa, Golf, Two,
Two, Victor, Charlie, Delta.
Follow quietly, no lights.
Car 496, do you have contact?
Car 496. We have visual on the black
Jeep heading down Romney Street.
Romney Street? I think I know
where they're heading.
Medway Blossoms,
just two miles down the road.
Just past Longfield. See?
Let's hope you're right.
Oi!
Jack.
Hey!
Ugh!
Robbie?
You're Robbie Tooney? Maeve's brother?
It's all right. I'm police.
Come on!
In there.
Lucy.
He wanted me to take him to Robbie.
He was dragging me and shouting at me,
and then he just collapsed.
Nikki.
There's no carotid pulse.
Why didn't you tell us
who you was at the hospital?
Three people have just died
because of me.
And now him.
Will was dying.
He needed to be in intensive care.
You drove Marcus Tillman's wife
out of the country, didn't you?
To get her away from him.
Sue had bruises all over.
Marcus would've killed her.
So you were going drive Ketevan?
Help her get out too?
Her friend Natia worked here on and off.
We got on, you know?
She knew that I'd helped Sue,
so she asked if I would do it again
for Ketevan.
Drive her out of the country.
But Marcus found out?
Yeah. He waited for me in a taxi,
followed me to the pick up.
Follow her.
He turned up at the meeting place.
He was raging.
It was a mess.
Where is she?!
Where is she?!
You little bitch!
Tell me where my wife is.
I'll kill you! I'll kill the lot of you!
All of you get in!
Get in!
No, wait! No!
Why did he drive you all to the quarry?
To scare us.
To get me to tell him where Sue was.
We felt the truck stop
and he started screaming
through the intercom.
I warned you, bitch!
I warned you, didn't I?
It sounded like he was choking.
And then we didn't hear him any more.
Tell me about Maeve.
What happened to her?
She just wanted to find her brother.
Natia had met him on one of the runs.
This scared little kid.
I found him and I brought him
to the nursery.
Marcus never came round here,
it was just a front for the drugs.
Did Robbie give you his St Christopher?
Yeah. A thank you, he said.
He went on and on about it,
so I wore it.
Where did you get that?
Maeve saw it in the truck, and
How the hell did you get it?
- Where did you get that?
- Stop! Wait, wait!
Ugh!
Later, when we were stuck in there,
I told her about Robbie.
How you'd helped him.
How did Maeve die?
It was a few days in, I think.
I don't know.
We lost track of the time in there.
We were so exhausted,
we were getting delirious.
I woke up and I heard
Will and Maeve arguing.
If you've done something to hurt Robbie,
I will kill you myself.
I think she'd realised about him.
That he wasn't there to help her,
he was after Robbie himself.
No, no, no! Wait, wait!
Agh!
He killed her.
Will just
He stabbed her and he killed her.
Why do you think Will
wanted to find Robbie so badly?
The halfway house, I think.
He'd been there with Will a few times.
Halfway house? You mean Legard House?
What about it?
There's a lot of money to be made.
You need to step up.
The guy in charge at Legard House
recruited them for Marcus.
Robbie told me about him.
The youth worker?
I just wanted to help.
You know the story of St Christopher?
One day he saw a child
trying to cross a river,
and he put him on his back
and started to carry him across.
But with each step,
the child grew heavier and heavier.
Yet, somehow, Christopher managed
to get him to the other side.
When he asked why the boy
had become so heavy,
the child replied that he was
the Christ Child,
and carried with him
the weight of the world.
Well, you helped carry that family
through the transplant process.
Did I?
God knows, I'm no saint.
So much falls between the cracks,
doesn't it?
Yep. It does.
I'm heading out. Fancy grabbing a drink?
I'm sorry, I've got three reports
to finish before I get out of here.
But next time, for sure.
Hey, Gabriel's going for a drink.
Oh, I can't.
I have a lecture on
selfish gene theory at SOAS.
The two of you, then?
Actually, I've got a squash game
at eight.
Well, I've got plans with Cara, so
Next time?
My place or a Satanic death cult? Huh?
Satanic death cults?
I read an article about them.
They are quite petty.
So life with Jack might be better.
Bye-bye, Velvy.
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