Departure (2019): Season 1, Episode 3 - Prime Suspect - full transcript

- Previously onDeparture.
- There's been an incident.

A nine-five-oh has disappeared
over the Atlantic.

- Wife in London, husband in
Dublin; kids with both. Makes me
suicidal just saying it.

- Aviation is the only industry
where a man with a box-cutter

can put a halt
on billions in revenue.

- Bartok.
- A douchebag that made millions

off of Flight 716 going down.
- Do you believe that?

- I don't know.

- You're Richard's
gay sex fling.

- I was Richard's husband. We
were together for over 12 years.

- When are you going to tell me
what really happened to my dad?



- Harold Rossi. Real name
is Hassan Esmaili.

- He had a lot of hours piloting
military and commercial jets.

- There it is.
- Depth is 1-3-2-0.

- Isn't that beyond threshold?
- Lieutenant, you're too deep.

- I think I can make it.

- No!
- The submersible's imploded.

Now there's no chance the black
boxes can be recovered now.

(cell phone buzzing)
- Dom?

- I sent you a video.
Take a look.

(woman whimpering)
- How is this possible?

- Yeah.

Nurse! I need a nurse!
- I should've stopped him!

- Stopped him? Stopped who?
Who's she talking about?

- She was delirious,
and the crash team showed up.



I couldn't get
an answer out of her.

- Yeah, but if she's confessing
to something she did

or she didn't do, she's still
in the suspect category.

(sirens)

Nadia, this isn't
gonna bring him back.

- You think I'm watching this
out of guilt?

You can see how the fuselage
has shifted.

It's closer to the edge.

- And if it falls, we're going
to lose the flight recorders.

How much time have we got?
- My guess is two,

maybe three days.
- Bollocks.

- Look, there's a company
laying cable in the area.
They have a sub.

Bartok International.
- No. Bad idea.

- Kendra, there's
nothing else in range.

- A.J.!
- Come on.

- I changed my mind; I don't
want to do this anymore.
- Come on!

- Bartok's really powerful.
They could arrest us, okay? They
could take my passport away.

- Start filming!

- Let's go. A.J., let's go!

- I thought you wanted to take
this bastard down, yes?
- No, I didn't mean this--

- Wait, one second.
- Screw this, okay? I'm...
I'm getting out of here.

I don't want trouble.
- Oy!

- A.J. A.J.!
- Go! Go!
- Let's go!

- Go, go, go, go! Go!

- The Secretary of State for
Transport has assured the publi

that there is no need to ground
the Windsor 950 fleet. Experts
warn that that may change

if there's another incident
involving the same type
of aircraft.

- Are we any closer to knowing
whom Madelyn Strong
wanted to stop?

- Not yet. Intelligence teams
have been at it all night,
Howard.

- Well, I need progress.
- Then maybe you should get us
another sub. If we retrieve

those flight recorders, our
chances of solving the crash,
well, it improves immeasurably.

But without them--
- Without them we have less
than 10% chance of success.

Well, fine, I'll go begging

for a sub.

Did this leak about the pilot
come from your team?

- Howard.

Look, we don't know
that it was a leak;

might just be the tabloid press
doing what they do.
- I'm not blaming you.

- You just did, Howard.
- The passengers are canceling
their flights.

The Saudis' big order
for 950 jets

will go down the shitter
if we don't clear this.

- Not my concern, Howard.
- Look, I don't like this
either.

But we must keep the Prime
Minister's confidence.

Be mindful,
that's all I say.

- Thanks, Betty.

- [Hey, Kendra. Sorry
you had to work all night.]

[I was up pretty late, too,
so I'm gonna go back to bed
for a bit. Talk later.]

- Hi, sweetheart.

Look, give me a call
when you wake up, okay?

I'll try and be back as soon
as I can tonight. Love you.

- I can come back.

- No, no. It's fine.
Come in. What have you got?

- Medical records
of Harold Rossi,

aka our friend,
Hassan Esmaili.

His blood type is O positive.

So it does match the
unidentified blood on the raft.

But we're not going to be able
to get a definitive match until
we get a sample of his DNA.

- Yeah. That spook from Mossad
promised that he'd get it
for me yesterday.

But leave it with me,
I'll get on the phone to him.

- Well, I can handle it.
You've got enough on your plate.

Dealt with Ari before.
- Okay. Thanks.

- Hm.

Rag and Bone.

Nice.

- [I should have...]
- What's your take
on this, Levi?

- Well, Madelyn Strong's trauma
is both physical and
psychological.

And she's on max doses
of pain meds.

- So, you think this could just
be drug-induced rambling?

- That, and survivor's guilt,
probably.

- Anything in her background to
suggest a link to a motive?
- No, not yet.

- You know, I think my time
would be best spent
concentrating on the pilot.

- You need to do both. Theo?
- Right.

Uh, based on the fact
that both the transponder

and the ACARS system failed,
we're looking at the possibility
of a fire.

- But you are concentrating
on the area below the cockpit?

- Why there?
- The avionics bay. Uh,

a short in the electronic system
would explain why the
transponder cut out immediately.

- Unless the pilot
turned it off.

- Kendra, it would help
if we could prioritize
a working theory.

- Look, we have to follow
every lead, vigorously
and without prejudice.

(cell phone buzzing)
It's Dom. Madelyn's waking up.

- Well, I agree with you, Levi.

I think we're floundering
without a working theory.

Where's the data, Ari?
- [I have the DNA file
that you want.]

But first I want an assurance
that the name 'Hassan Esmaili'

will stay secret.
- [We'll keep it quiet.]

That doesn't mean that we
believe that your so-called
retired agent wasn't involved.

- He was not involved.
- [What makes you so sure?]

- The fact that he supplied us
with valuable intel
for 20 years.

The fact that his brother
was murdered by the
Revolutionary Guard.

- Loyalties can shift
over time, Ari.

- [If it is revealed that Hassan
Esmaili was on the plane alive,]

Tehran will become suspicious.
They will go over
his entire life,

including everyone
he ever worked with.
- [Like I said,]

we'll keep it under wraps.
- [Good. What leads
do you have?]

- You first.
- Always the slippery one,
Ms. Freeh?

- If it turns out to be
terrorism, you'll be
the first to know, Ari.

(engine roaring)

- I like it.

Find out who did it,
just the same.

Lidia.

- [Doctor Brown, call 4-9-9.
Doctor Brown...]

- Can you talk, Madelyn?

We're not the police, Maddy.
We're just trying to figure out
what happened.

It's to help the families.

Do you remember saying that
you should've stopped him?

Who is it that
you should've stopped?

Maddy?

(passengers screaming)

- Moses.

It was Moses.

- Maddy?

Maddy?

Who's Moses?

Moses. We need to check
passenger lists, airport crew,

staff, BGA employees-- first
name, last name, nickname,

code name. Whoever this Moses
is, we have to find them.

- Harold Rossi's DNA's being
tested against the blood
on the raft.

- Okay, great. And where are we
with Donovan's psych assessment?
- Have you seen the news?

They've closed Heathrow.

- BGA Flight 8234, bound for
Warsaw, was forced to return

to London.
- Another incident with a 9-5-0.

- Civil Aviation Authority
has grounded all departures

until the crisis
is resolved.

- We must find some answers
to restore their confidence.

- We're on it, Howard.
Look: we just got a lead
from Madelyn Strong.

- Moses? We haven't established
if that's real, or just
the ramblings

of a brain-damaged survivor.
- That's a bit harsh,
isn't it, Janet?

- Oh, just make
some progress, please.

- Okay. What are we looking at?

- The entertainment system.
The geniuses who installed it

decided to bolt it to the only
available space left and--

- It's very close
to the ACARS system.
- That's right.

- And a fire in the
entertainment system

could've knocked them both out.
- Right. I mean,

in an older aircraft,
brittle wires could have
a short-circuit--

- Yeah, but it was
a new aircraft.
- Okay.

- Ah. You're thinking it's...

you're thinking it's dodgy
thermal lining?
- Watch this.

- Careful.

- I mean, this stuff was...

This stuff was banned five
minutes after it was introduced.

You have 250 people,
all watching movies.

The hard drive's going
to heat up and then... poof!

- A small fire turns
into a big problem.

- Yeah. Uh, the 950's
entertainment unit

is made by a company
called VS Systems.

- All right. Dom and I
will check it out.

- While this morning's incident
does not appear to be

mechanical in nature,
both Canada and Australia--

- The USA and Europe could be
next, unless the TSIB
investigation

into Flight 716 shows

that the problems with the
aircraft are not systemic.

- "We've got so much turbulence
I'm frightened."

- "The power went out
for a second.

Plane seems to be
having problems."
- "Something's really wrong

up here."

- I don't know how
you can read that.

- Well, that is my job.

- Anything on Moses?

- Well, Madelyn Strong once
liked an Instagram photo
of a Chihuahua named Moses.

- What about our pilot, Richard
Donovan? 'Cause he seems
like a right nutter.

- Definitely a sociopath,
judging by all the lies he told
to live his double life.

- Seems a hell of a lot more
likely than our girl
in the hospital.

Who gets the insurance?

- His wife and daughter
in London.

- So nothing for
the new baby in Dublin?

- I'll look into that.

- We can control the heart
arrhythmia. It's the trauma

close to her sixth and seventh
cervical vertebrae...
- She's a fighter.

- Stay positive, for sure,
but statistically injuries
of this sort...

- Any chance she'll walk,
she'll walk. Trust me, Doc.
- All right.

- What if she doesn't?
- She will.

- And her in a wheelchair
and you at a dance club.
How's that going to work?

- We're getting married, Derek.
And if you want to be the one
to walk her down the aisle,

you best shut your mouth.

- Can you call VS and tell them
I'm running late?

Okay, thanks.

- Spoke to Nadia. She's taking
the diver's death pretty hard.

- Who is that man?

- You want me to call it in?
- No, it's okay.

- The results have come back
on the DNA from Hassan Esmaili.

- And?
- [They don't match
the blood on the raft.]

(honking)

- How... how about a match

with any of the other
DNA samples we collected?

- Well, out of the 255 victims,
we've obtained 175 profiles,

[none of which match the DNA
on the raft. Sorry.]

- All right. Well, thanks
for letting us know.

It's like we're in a maze.

- Are you afraid of my driving
because of the crash
with your husband?

- Who said I was afraid?

- I'm Levi Holl.
How may I help you?
- Captain Stephen Littlefield.

I, uh, I met with Richard
Donovan in New York

the night before the
disappearance.
- Oh.

- God help me, I think he
crashed that plane on purpose.

- [Kendra has joined the call.]

- I, uh, first met
Captain Donovan

when we were both serving
in Afghanistan. Rick was, uh,

well, he was already halfway
to becoming a legend.

He dropped so much ordnance
the bastards didn't know whether
to shit or become postmen.

- Bit of a hotshot.
- Every man's a god
at 50,000 feet. Thank you.

- Well, that kind of combat duty
can have impact.

- Okay, I see where you're going
with that, and yes,

[some of the men did suffer
from PTSD, but not Rick.]

- Were you surprised that
Donovan left behind
a male partner?

- Yeah. What of it? Everybody
knew he was a bit bent;
it wasn't an issue.

- So, did you arrange to meet
Donovan in New York that night?
- [No, uh...]

we just... we bumped into
one another at Marley's.

That's a place-- a lot
of pilots drink there.

- And how much alcohol
did he consume?

- Well, he was well within
'bottle to the throttle' limits.

That's not my point.
- Which is?

- The Rick Donovan I knew...

he was unflappable.

Fellow I met that night was
falling apart at the seams.

- [Distressed? Anxious?]
- [Oh, yeah. Times ten.]

- And did he explicitly
talk about suicide?
- [Not in so many... He said...]

(sighing)

He said, "Maybe it would be
better for everyone

if I just disappeared."

- Disappeared like the plane?
- You know: better off dead.

- [I'm sorry, a fellow pilot
tells you that he's
better off dead]

[and you don't think
to report it?]

- I know the damn protocol.
What you don't understand

is what a call like that
can do to a person's life.

[Look, pilots can lead
complicated lives,]

[but we leave our shit
on the tarmac.]

- You compartmentalize.
- Exactly. And, quite frankly,

I'd had a little bit too much
to drink myself that night

[and I didn't want to do
anything rash. Well...]

I've got to live with that now.
- Well, thank you, uh,

Captain Littlefield.
Uh, Levi will take you

to sign your statement.
- Very good.

- [He's gone.]
- [We need to execute
those warrants]

to search both Donovan
properties as soon as we can.
- [Yeah.]

And let's get confirmation
on Littlefield's story.
- I'll contact the FBI

and make sure
he really was in New York.
- [Okay. Good. Oh, Howard?]

I want to be there when
the warrants get executed.

- Of course. Well, any...
any more questions?

[No?]
- No. I'm good. Thanks.

- Looks like pilot suicide
just became our number one
working theory.

- Yep.

So why the hell are we driving
all the way to Cambridge

to check out the world's
shittiest thermal lining?

- Because we need
to follow every lead,

vigorously and
without prejudice?
- Heard about that, did you?

- Come check this out
before I post it.

So what's with the suitcase?

- I'm, uh, I'm gonna
take off, A.J.

- Oh, come on!

I apologized for last night
already. I...

- Yeah, and obviously
you didn't mean it, so...

- What are you-- what are you so
mad about? I-I thought we were
in this together?

- I said Bartok was
a criminal. I never said

vandalize his plane.
What if we'd gotten caught,

A.J.?
- Well, we didn't.

- Don't touch my phone.
No, don't--
- You think I don't know

you're texting that guy
you met at the Tate?

- It's not your business.

- It is my business.
Where're you going?
- I came here to have fun,

A.J. I didn't expect you were
going to go all gangster on me!

- Anonymous just discovered that
Bartok's CFO was on that flight.

You know, Bartok might've killed
everybody on that plane

just to shut him up!
Don't you care?
- You know what? I don't think

that you give a damn what Bartok
did or didn't do. I really
don't. I think you're doing this

to get back at your stepmother,
to get her attention.
I don't know!

- What do you mean, "Get back at
her"? Get back at her for what?

What do I have to get
back at her for?

Tell me! What do I have
to get back at her for?

- It's not my problem anymore,
A.J.

- Oh, come on.

You're not leaving, are you?

Come on!

- I only ever wanted you
to have the best, sweetheart.

To be the best.

Did I push you too hard?

I'm sorry, Maddy.

I'm sorry for the things
I said about you and him.

He's all right, your man.

And he loves you, too.

Gotta go find the loo.

(cell phone buzzing)

- Sorry. He lives!
- [Hey, Kendra.]

- Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't
call you back sooner.
- [Oh, it's okay.]

[So, what have Sophia and you
got planned today?]

- Uh, well, I was thinking maybe
we could take Dad's old car,
just, ah...

There's a music festival
in Edinburgh

that I thought maybe
we could go to.
- [Edinburgh?]

Is that Sophia's idea?

- I just wanna have fun before
school starts, that's all.

- Well, what happened
to your gap year?

- Oxford said I could wait
'til next term, so...

- Oh, that's great, if that's
what you want.
- [Yeah.]

So, car?
- [Yeah. Have you got money?]
- Yeah. I'm good.

- Okay. Take care, okay?
- All right. I gotta go.
I'll phone you.

- Love you.

- Everything okay?
- Hope so.

- So this company makes
the entertainment system
for BGA's entire fleet?

- Yeah. Including
the faulty thermal lining.

- Thank you so much.
That's great work. Thanks. Ah.

- Howard, Littlefield
checks out.

- Good.
- There's more.
- Six months ago,

Donovan took out a second life
insurance policy, separate
from his union's,

and for twice as much.
- Well, a new policy
is usually invalidated

if suicide is the cause
of death.
- Exactly.

If there's a suicide note,
or any sign that that crash
was deliberate,

then the beneficiaries have
a huge incentive to destroy it.

We need to execute
those warrants now.

- Right. Make it happen.

- Thank you for coming.
I'm sorry about the other day.

- Is that Mykonos?
- I was working there
last summer.

- We've been there twice.

It's like Richard
was living the same life
in two different cities.

- They keep
asking me about him.

If we were fighting,
if I was pressuring him.

- Rick was selfish. He was
stupid. And he was a terrible
person to lie to us.

But I believe he loved us both.
That was the problem.

He didn't want to hurt
either one of us.

- [Hi, Theo.]
- Hey, how was Cambridge?
Did you find anything

on the faulty thermal lining?
- It's a dead end, Theo.
- [I mean, you saw]

how flammable that stuff was.
- [Yeah. And so did the
manufacturer. They replaced it]

in the entertainment systems.
The only reason

that our test plane was
available is because
it was grounded,

[waiting for a retrofit.]

- And Flight 716?
- [It was upgraded 6 weeks ago.]

But on a more positive note,
Dom has a list of all the people

that ever worked at VS Systems.
Although the CEO doesn't
recall any Moses.

[So how's everything
back at the shop?]
- You haven't heard?

- [Heard what?]
- Howard got the warrant
to search Donovan's house.

- What?
- Janet's executing it now.

- What happened?
- Drive, please.

- Who are you? You can't
just barge in.
- Mrs. Donovan,

this warrant allows these
officers unfettered access
to your house and grounds.

- What's going on?
- And to seize any articles
belonging to Captain Donovan.

Upstairs.

Mr. Kelehar, I'm authorised
to inform you

that the Dublin police are
currently searching your house.

- What for?
- It's in the warrant.

- We've been delayed in some
dodgy weather, Howard, but I
told you I wanted to be there

when the warrants were executed.

- Yes, but we were faced
with a time-sensitive decision.

- Oh, bollocks, Howard! You
never have a problem reaching me
when you need me.

- I know what your
feelings are, but...

- No!
(honking)

- Kendra?

Kendra? Kendra,
are you all right?

- Sorry about the scare.

You're never going to let me
drive again, are you?

Kendra, are you all right?
- Yeah.

Yeah, we were fine. We were...

in Toronto heading out
to the family cottage...

We had a row.

(no audio)

It just happened so quickly.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

- Come on. Let's
get out of here.

(Maddy moans softly.)

(gasping)

- I'm right here, baby.
I'm right here.

They took off the ring.

I'll get it fixed
before we get married.

(gasping)

- Gorgeous.

When's the big day?
- Thank you.

- This is the longest I've been
away from Amis, my husband.

- Stella? I like your backpack.
- Thank you.
- Very cute little girl.

- Congratulations.
- You know that's a myth, right?

That phone signals interfere
with aircraft equipment.

- Maddy, I'm here.

Here, you're safe.

You're safe.

- Is this necessary? Our lives
have already been shattered--
- There's reporters outside

talking to my neighbours,
making out like the crash
was Richard's fault.

- Ma'am.

- Well, can you explain this?
- I haven't the foggiest.

- Used to rent a lock-up.
Had a key just like that.

- Let's go.

- I don't know when
I'll be back in the office.

Well, he'll just have
to wait, won't he?

I have to be here
for my daughter.

For Christ's sakes, she fell out
of a bloody aeroplane.

Look, I'm-I'm-I'm sorry.

I just...

All right.

- It's right up here, right?
- Mm-hm.

- So, I spoke to Janet earlier
and apparently the key
that she found

is for a lock-up in Pimlico.

Donovan rented it
about three months ago,

his wife none the wiser.
She's going to get us a warrant.

- Oh, God knows what we're going
to find there. Thanks
for dropping me off.

- It's the least I could do.

- My front door's open.

Don't... Who the hell are you?

- D.I. Gibbons. I arrived just
now, found the front door ajar.

Are you Kendra Malley, mother
of Andrew Julian Malley?

- Yeah. What's happened to him?
- Gibbons.
- Bloody hell. Hayesie.

- Look, can you tell me
where my son is, please?

- I was hoping you could
tell me that.

This is where
he was last night.

Pavel Bartok's plane.
- Oh my God.

- What are the charges?

- Trespassing, vandalism.

You have any idea
where your son might be?

- Um, no, he said
he was going to Edinburgh;

some music festival. But I'm not
sure where he was staying.

- You just bring him down to the
station when he's home, yeah?
- Of course.

- And for you, Dom, I'll keep
an eye out for him.
- Thanks.

- I could use a drink. You?
- Absolutely.

- [He must have disabled
his phone's GPS.]

- Yep.

- [Pavel bloody Bartok? I mean,
he knows how much trouble]

[that man put me through.]
- [Maybe that's why he did it.]

- Do you think
I should be worried,

or is this just
normal teenage bullshit?

- Ah, God.
I'm no expert.

I found my kid
dealing weed and...

I tough-loved him all the way
down to the station.

- What happened?
- He hasn't spoken
to me in two years.

- Sorry.

- Hm.

- No, it's, um...

It wasn't an accident.

Wasn't about getting
lost. I was...

(sighing)
I was upset.

[I'd just found out Gavin
wasn't taking his meds.]

[He was diagnosed
schizophrenic.]

[Some of the doctors said
that it was all brought on
by the chemo.]

He-he had survived cancer.

- Jesus.

No god
but irony, huh?

- Should've never got
in the car that day.

I'll thank God A.J. didn't.

He was in a coma
for three weeks,

but he never woke up.

We buried
his ashes here.

- Does A.J. know?

- [I just told him
it was an accident.]

Maybe...

maybe part of me wanted to
believe that was the truth.

- He deserves to know.

- How do I tell him that
his father killed himself
and tried to kill me?

(soft music)

Hold on, wait, wait.

There's that man again.

- It's probably one
of the victim's family's.

Kendra, there's
a thousand more like him.

Can't take them all
on yourself.

- Yeah, I know.

Just... just a second.

Hi.
- Hi.

- Can I help you?

- Wendy. My wife.

- This is the longest I've been
away from Amis, my husband.

- She was on the flight?

- She was visiting
her sister in New York.

- Rather miss the old thing.

- I keep thinking
of all the things I said

and didn't say.

Oh,

if you could just see her smile.

- Bet it lit up the room, eh?
- Hm.

And she laughed
like a horse.

I can say that
because she said it.

50 years.

No time's ever enough.

- No, but, ah...

It's all we've got, isn't it?

- Yes.

- Would you like to come inside?

- Oh, that's kind.
Thank you.

- How did you both meet?
- It was a blind date,
actually. Ha!

- Really?
- Yeah. It was kind of a set-up.

(cell phone ringing)

- I've got
the warrant.

- Well, let's see what's
in that storage locker.

- Great work
finding that key.

- Heard from A.J.?
- Not yet.

Thanks.

(tense music)

(dramatic music)

(alarm signal)
- He planned the whole thing.

(tense music)

- What are you doing? That's not
where the nurse puts the needle.

(grunting)

(rapid beeping)

- Okay.

We're all right.
- Is she good?
- Doctor!

Move it around!
- Make some room!

Okay, he's in V-tach. Paddles!
- Calling the code.
- Excuse me!

- Okay, 120 Joules. Charge it.
- Charging.

- Clear! Shocking.

- Come on, Derek.
- Okay, 200 Joules.

Charge it!
- Charging.
- Clear!

Shocking.

- Again?
- Yes.
- Charging.

- Shocking.

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