Bulletproof (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript

Michael Sharp, I"m arresting you
on suspicion of armed robbery.

It was my deposit box
that they stole.

What was in it
that was so valuable

they wanted to steal it?

Evidence. Valuable enough
to keep me alive.

TANNER: You had Sharp in
your custody and now he"s dead.

PIKE: The guy had his kid
dragged out of his arms, fam.

She had her kidneys taken out
while she was still breathing.

That"s him.

You"re a good man
who did his best for his family.

- Just here"s good.
- What?



Ali"s school just sent me
a text saying she"s absent.

- You did drop her off, right?
- Yeah, course I did.

What, at the gates?
You saw her go in?

I know your house, where your
children go to school.

They are safe...
as long as I"m safe.

Oi, Bish! No!

- What is wrong with you, man?
- We have to let him go!

- You don"t understand!
- He played you for a damn fool.

You had him in your house!
[Yells]

[Thunder rumbles]

[Rain pattering]

Right, so what do you wanna do?

I wanna keep my family safe.

OK.
Arrangements are being made.



As of now,
you"re temporarily excused.

A true officer would not let
a dangerous criminal go

when he has a chance
to catch him.

And a true father
would make sure

their daughter
gets to school safely.

- This is on you, Bish!
TANNER: I"m not having this.

You both made judgment calls.
Live with the consequences.

Bish?

Yeah, that"s right,
walk away, usual.

Hey!

[Pike sighs]

Look, there"s some truth
to what he"s saying.

But you did act like a father
and not a cop.

Your family is in danger
until we take Bakur down.

We"ll move you
to a safe house tonight.

PIKE: This won"t be for long,
I promise.

What about Pinky?

You"ve enough toys, sweetheart.

Pinky will keep your bed warm.
OK?

- OK.
- All right, let"s go.

[Music blaring]

Go! Go, go, go, go.

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Yeah. It"s cool.

Is Bakur really coming
to kill us?

ARJANA: Ronald?

Your daughter"s asking you
a question.

It"s OK. We're safe.

♪ Would you take a bullet?

♪ Would you bite the gun?

♪ I fall onto my knees

♪ And yes, the war"s already won

♪ Through dark nights

♪ We burn bright till the sunset

♪ Till the sunset

♪ Through dark nights

♪ When it all goes wrong

♪ When it all goes wrong

♪ I"ll take my time,
I"ll keep on holding on

♪ When it all goes wrong

♪ When it all goes wrong, oh-oh

♪ When it all goes wrong,
I"ll pull myself together

♪ Keep on holding on

BOSCOE: They"re part of
our detail.

PIKE: Are they?

I appreciate the strain
you"re under.

It"s my job to alleviate that.

It"s important that you stay
in the house at all times.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Sir?

You don"t know me very well,
do you?

But it"s my phone.
What about Snap?

You should have done this
last night.

Anyone could know
we"re here now.

- It"s abuse of my human rights!
- Ali, give him the phone.

Give him the phone, Ali.

We"ll do our best
to make you comfortable.

Not much fucking chance of that.

Sorry, girls.

This isn"t where we want to be,
right now, so...

[Mobile ringtone]

Well done.

Thanks for seeing me, sir.
I just wanted to...

I don"t have long, Bishop.
What is it?

Well, I just came here
to talk about your son, sir.

Well?

Well, I just er...

I think he needs er...

He is exactly where
he needs to be.

Safe, off the street.

Well, I was going to say
that he needs you, sir.

But you interrupted,
so I didn"t get a chance.

As a father
or a Director General?

A father.

What do you really want to say,
Bishop?

I just think that, right now...

it"s important that you are
there for him.

Know what I"ve always admired
about you?

Tell me.

You just say it as it is.

- I do. Yeah.
- Mm.

- You"re comfortable with that.
- Mm-hm.

And you are right where
you are supposed to be.

You"ve reached your summit.

You"ve touched your zenith.

And along the way,

you and my son have enjoyed
a successful partnership...

until now.

He has desires beyond today.

He has a lust for enhancement.

Some people
might call that ambition.

And nothing is forever, is it?

When he"s ready,
there are opportunities for him.

Anyway... I just came to tell you
that your son needs you.

I"m sorry if we got
any wires crossed.

Gonna take one of these,
in case I need to holler at you.

Hold tight, yeah?

[Door opens and closes]

[Panting]

- [Entry alert chimes]
- Hi.

[Traffic report on radio]

- Are you following me?
- Do what?

I said, are you
fucking following me?

No, mate,
I"m just getting some crisps.

Show me your ID.

- Bakur sent you, didn"t he?
- Oi!

Who do you work for?

I don"t even know
what I"ve done!

You"re working for Bakur!

Please! I"m just a lorry driver!

Bakur led us to you, Gazim.
Why are you protecting him?

You"re facing charges
of trafficking,

- attempted murder...
- He"s scared of Bakur.

But we need him to fucking talk.

You"re not helping yourself,
Gazim.

You tell us where Bakur is
and we can discuss a deal.

You think about it.

Everything you"ve learned
about ethical practice...

your internal moral compass,

your compassion
and understanding,

your humanity...

I want you to forget it all,
and do whatever you need.

Let"s help Pike and his family
sleep a little easier.

Do you think you can do that,
Officer Bishop?

Bishop.

Kev.

My man. Um...

CCTV in the compound.

Be great if it could
break down for an hour.

[Whistles] Gents.

I wonder if you guys
could help me with something?

[Music masks dialogue]

I told those men
what you do for a living.

How you make profit

at the expense
of innocent young lives.

And look er... the CCTV cameras
have stopped working.

Strange coincidence. Don"t know
what happened. So, listen.

I need you to tell me
where Bakur is.

OK, he"s all yours, boys.

OK, stop!

[Laughs]

Are you serious?

You think you can intimidate me
by using some random builders?

They haven"t got the balls!

OK, guys.

Guys, thanks, don"t worry about
it. I"m gonna deal with it.

Keep the money.
Can I borrow this? Cheers.

Thanks very much.
Don"t worry about it.

Thanks a lot, man.

[Train rumbles past]

Aargh! [Whimpers]

Now, I"m not gonna
ask you again.

OK, I talk!

You"re a wise man.

Come on.
Come on, Pike, pick up. Jesus!

VOICEMAIL: The person you are
calling is not available.

OK. Thanks to Gazim,

this is what we"ve found out
about Bakur.

He owns this restaurant.

We pulled this image from CCTV
from the off licence next door.

It"s grainy
but it"s definitely him.

He thinks he"s safe,
hiding in plain sight,

using this restaurant
as a front,

"while making a fortune
trafficking kids" body parts.

But remember what he does

and keep that image in your head
when we go in there.

Kamali, Munroe,
I need you in position A.

Nell, you"re gonna be with me.

What about me?

You"re gonna be on surveillance,
but back at base.

Any questions?

- I need a word.
- Shoot.

- Not with Jonesy around.
- Not after last time.

[Laughter]

- In private.
- Ha-ha-ha! Prep!

What"s up?

You want my ten cents" worth?
You"re gonna get it, anyway.

You think catching Bakur
will make you feel better, hm?

He harvests
children"s body parts, Nell.

Think Pike"ll forgive you
for fucking up

if you deliver
his head on a plate?

It wasn"t a fuck-up, all right?

Take the emotion out of it,
all right?

He"s a target,
not some form of absolution.

You"d still want his head
on a stick, wouldn"t you?

- Oh, yeah.
- Good.

I"m here.

- I"m trying to lay the table.
- No, I was here first.

Dad!

[Knock at door]

It"s OK. It's OK,
it"s just Auntie Charlotte.

Hi. Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming.

There you are, my darlings,
a little surprise.

Thank you.

- Ma"am.
- Oh, for God"s sake!

- They"re just gifts!
- Please, ma"am.

Did you manage to bring
anything with you?

No, we had to leave immediately.

No work?

Erm... of course I"ve had
other things on my plate. But...

I"ve just got people
breathing down my neck.

I suppose I can fend them off
for a bit.

Oh. Oh, he"s a barrel of laughs.

- Oi, Ronnie!
- Ssh!

Did you hear that?

[Rustling]

It"s probably just the wind.

- Ron, there"s no-one there.
- Everything OK, sir?

- Take the kids upstairs.
- Ron!

Upstairs, now! Go on!

I"m going outside.
There"s someone out there.

- Girls.
- Sir?

Get your fucking hands off me!

- Sir, let us deal with this.
- You do not have the skill.

All right?

Come on! Show yourself!

[Rustling]

[Police radio chatter]

Pull over.

Munroe, Kamali, go round the
back, make sure nobody gets out.

Let me know
when you"re in position.

[Exhales]

Yo, Bish, we"re in position.

Make it quick,
it stinks around here.

BISHOP: Copy.

[Music playing inside]

I want you to cover the door.
I"ll deal with him.

You need backup,
make sure you shout, yeah?

Hey, stay there!

Stay there. Where"s your boss?
Where"s Bakur?

Huh?

Motherfucker.

Police!

[Pounding on door]

Don"t run or I'll be forced
to shoot you.

[Grunts]

[Bakur calls out]

- Get him!
- [Chef yells]

[Groaning]

[Grunts]

Yaargh!

[Grunting]

KAMALI: Yo, Bish. You OK?

It"s gone all quiet in there.

Suspect down.

[Bakur groans softly]

I couldn"t save him.

Never fuck with a man"s family.

[Panting]

[Exhales]

[Ringing tone]

Dad. It"s me.

My boy.

How are you enjoying
your new living arrangements?

I can"t do this any more.

I"m out.

I want the job.

I need to get off the streets.

For Arjana and the kids.

You "ve made the right
decision. I" ll see you tomorrow.

Good night, son.

[Call disconnects]

[Muffled dialogue]

DONNA: Uncle Bishop"s here!

Come on, man, we can get back
to normal. He"s gone.

Bakur and his crew are finished,
man.

Bish...

I"m out, man.

I"m taking the job.

What do you mean,
you"re taking the job?

I"m handing in my resignation,
bro.

- What about me?
- What about me?

I can"t drive that car
on my own, no.

What about my family?

You can"t just leave me, man.
What about Sharp"s murder?

You don"t want to know
what happened?

My three girls.

I can"t put my family through
this shit any more, bro.

- It"s safe for you to go home.
- Bish!

Bish.

It"s done.

It"s too late.

Undo it, man!

No.

[Horn blares]

[Door squeaks open]

Munroe, man, I just wanna say
you"ve been doing great work.

- What work?
- Thank you so much.

Hug me back, man.

Yeah, good work.
I appreciate it, seriously.

All right, let go. Let go.

I"ll drop... I'll drop you...

Somehow I knew this wouldn"t
have a fairy-tale ending.

Everyone has a breaking point.

And I totally respect
your decision.

I"m really pissed off with you,
Pike.

Not because I don"t think
you"ve made the right call.

Not because I don"t understand

that you need
to protect your flock.

And not because
you"re not capable of

great things
in other departments.

But because I"ll
fucking miss you.

Because you"re a really,
really good copper.

But more than that, you"re...

You"re just a good man, Ron.

I need to take my family home.

[Door closes]

[Keyboard clacking]

Bish.

Fancy a hot date?

I"m not a quitter.

Just dinner.

Dinner where?

I thought I"d introduce you
to my family.

I don"t love Chinese food,
you know.

Fucking hell, you"re basic.

[Door closes]

You all right?

Another dumpling, Aaron?

- Oh, yes, thank you, please.
- I like a man who eats.

Especially an older one.

She usually goes for
young, good-looking guys.

Mum, let"s go
and sort out dessert, yeah?

You like my sister?

[Both laugh]

Ohh!

I"m only joking, bro.

- That was good. That was good.
- But do you?

Er... well, I mean...

You know. She"s...
[Clears throat]

Um... very...

You know, we work together,
so, you know...

She"s... Yeah, we're kind of...

Don"t you like her?

- That"s not what I said.
- Cos she"s Chinese?

No, I didn"t say that.
Just, you know...

- She"s kind of er...
- He"s only joking.

- You"re all right.
- [Chuckles]

Yeah. For a copper.

- Older copper.
- Mm.

Sharp was killed for a reason.

And we were taken off the case
for the same reason.

I mean...

And why was Sharp never charged?

I mean, he was arrested
but he was never charged.

He was arrested once
for drug trafficking.

Once I could figure out,
but twice? No.

If Pike thinks I can"t do this
on my own, then he"s wrong.

I"m gonna figure this out,
even if it"s the...

What? What?

There"s something quite fuckable
about you when you"re on one.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Mm.

- [Door closes]
NELL: No.

Yeah.

Do you actually live here,
or did you burgle it?

Well, I mean,
it"s a work in progress.

I couldn"t stay
at Pike"s forever.

That looks comfortable.

- It"s romantic.
- No, it"s homelessness.

Can you just not argue,
for one single solitary second?

- Can you just try that?
- Well, can"t you just shut up?

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

[Panting]

Bish?

[Phone buzzes]

[Phone continues buzzing]

[Ringing tone]

Graham Borlock?

Get off my fucking property.

What you gonna do,
spanner me to death?

I need to ask you
about Michael Sharp.

- Who?
- I think you heard me.

Name and rank?

- Who said I was on the Force?
- I said, name and rank?

Aaron Bishop. NCA.

Let"s talk about Michael Sharp.

You arrested him twice...
and both times he got off.

And you don"t strike me
as a type of person

that would let that go.

I"m retired. Leave me alone.

Never gonna happen.

Sense of morality got the better
of you, Aaron, eh?

A conscience can be
a dangerous thing, son.

Why, what happened?

Why was Sharp never charged?

Told you -
I retired for a peaceful life.

Good for you, mate.

But what about your conscience?

Why don"t you let your sense of
morality get the better of you

and give me a hand?

Off my property.

[Car door closes]

Chop-chop.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Good.

MAN: In some respects,
you could call us

the gatekeepers
of the gatekeepers,

whose job it is to keep
the whole show on the road.

Opportunity awaits, young man.

A chance to emulate
the success of your father...

[Dialogue fades out]

[Clears throat] You all right?

- Yeah, yeah.
- Er... parcel for you.

- Where is it?
- At the front desk.

If you want a secretary, yeah,
ask Munroe.

- Yo, Kev.
- All right, Bish?

Bishop.

Nell.

Are we cool?

Er... yeah. We"re cool.

As in everything between us
is all right, yeah?

Yeah. Why shouldn"t it be?

So... what happened last night,
you know, we"re...

we"re good with that, yeah?

Yeah, we"re good with that.

- Business as usual?
- Business as usual.

OK.

- Good?
- Mm-hm.

I"m going.

[Papers rustling]

Motherfucker.

ARJANA: The Masons?
That"s not us.

I"m working.

[Message alert]

Not sure I can live with you
if you take this job.

You can"t live with me
if I don"t.

[Message alert]

[Pike sighs]

For fuck"s sake.

There"s something
I"ve got to do.

I"m not here to argue with you,
Pike.

But you need to know the truth
before you sign your life away.

Sharp was never arrested
because he couldn"t be.

And there"s a reason
he was never arrested.

PIKE: That"s you and Sharp?

You wanted us off the Sharp case

cos you didn"t want us
to know the truth...

humiliated me because
we were getting too close.

[Pike Senior sighs]
I wanted to protect you.

No, you didn"t.

Everything I"ve done
is to protect you!

Yes, I knew Sharp
back in the "80s."

Yes, he"s always been bad news.

I wanted you off the case...

because nothing good
has ever come

from our attempts
to put him behind bars.

So why didn"t you just tell us
that you knew him, Dad?

Why didn"t you tell us
he was an ex-cop?

That was 30 years ago.

I told you we came across him,

that he"s slipped the net
a number of times.

And how did he manage that, Dad?

Huh?

You and Sharp
was in something together.

Now he"s dead...
and I wanna know why.

I have no idea why he"s dead

and I have no idea
who killed him.

He was a bent cop
and you protected him!

Look, for once,
just tell the truth!

For once in your life,
just tell the fucking truth!

- Careful, boy!
- What were you and Sharp doing?

You"re on thin ice!

Son, there... there are things
I-I want to tell you.

But you want things
to be simple -

good, bad, black, white.

- But this is complicated.
- Oh, Dad, whatever.

- Junior.
- Get off me!

All I"ve ever wanted
was the best for you.

You made me move jobs
to get me out of the way...

to protect yourself,
your image...

your legacy.

It"s always been about you,
Dad -

some wannabe middle-class
white-man"s puppet

with a fucking club tie...

and a secret handshake.

Fuck me.

I can"t believe...

Why should I ever
look up to you?

All I"ve ever wanted to do
was make you proud.

More fool me.

Do you know what?

I know who you are.

And I"m gonna find out
what you did.

Then I"m coming for you.

[Door slams]

We need to talk.

[Car engine starts]

- [Ringing tone]
- Come on, Bish.

- The number you are calling...
- For God"s sake.

[Phone buzzes]

Yo, what"s happening, Pike?

Yo, Munroe.
Oi, hand Bish your phone.

I need to talk to him,
real quick.

Er... he"s not at his desk, bruv.

Well, find him, Munroe!
It"s important, man! Come on!

[Mutters] Come on. Come on.

It"s Pike.
He needs to speak to you.

Only if he"s sorry.

He says: only if you"re sorry.

Just put him on the phone now,
please!

Mate.

Nah, man, I need to know
that he"s sorry.

All right. All right, look.
I"m sorry, yeah?

MUNROE: He says he"s sorry.

- He said that?
- Yeah.

Yo, man. I need to hear it
with my own ears.

Bish, I showed my dad
the photos.

He looked scared, man.

He was on his phone. He"s acting
funny. I"m tailing him now.

Looks like he"s involved
in some serious shit.

Get mobile and come
and meet me, yeah?

Get Kamali to track Pike"s
co-ordinates and meet us there.

KAMALI: I traced Pike"s phone
to Elizabeth Trading Estate,

Juno Way, SE14.

PIKE: Yo, Bish, are you mobile?

It looks like
we"re about to turn off.

Two minutes, man, two minutes.

This don"t look good, man.
What the fuck"s he doing?

He"s stopped. Looks like
he"s waiting for someone.

BISHOP: I"m nearly there, man.
30 seconds!

[Motorcycle approaching
at speed]

Shit.

No!

Oh, fuck!

Officer down! Elizabeth Trading
Estate, Juno way, SE14!

Dad, no!

Bishop in pursuit of shooter.

Fuck!

[Tyres screech]

PIKE: Get a fucking ambulance
here now!

[Tyres screech]

Armed Police. Get off the bike!

Get off the bike!

[Motorcycle engine revs]

[Engine revs]

[Grunting]

In another life...

we three could be... partners.

BISHOP: He said it himself.
He"s a hired gun.

That"s a job, it's not a reason.

What do you want me
to do with this?

- The right thing.
- You do know what that means?

It"s me.

I"ve found something out, it
stinks, it"s not right or fair.

That"s Arjana.
What"s she doing there?

[Yelling]