Harrow (2018–…): Season 2, Episode 9 - Facilis Descensus - full transcript

Previously on Harrow...

Do you know why
Harrow was suspended?

Maxine doesn't do anything
without good reason.

He forged my signature.
No-one's digging up anything.

You wanted proof
that I wasn't dead, right?

Whose body was it?
It wasn't mine.

Despite your drunken friend,
Laurie Badcoe, signing that it was.

Why are you doing this?
You ruined my life.

Maxine and I found
a piece of evidence

that put Chester at every murder
he'd committed.

Sometimes, we have to trust



that the other is doing
the right thing.

Are you curious
how your daughter's doing?

Don't go to the Bettie.
It's not safe.

I think that could be him.

I'm gonna send you
a photo of him, OK?

Jesus Christ, Harrow.

What the hell has gone on here?

No.

No, no, no, no.
Th... This isn't right.

You'd better
explain yourself, Harrow.

I was inside that coffin.

He put me in there.

Who?
Francis Chester.

He injected me with something here,
into my arm.



And when I woke up,
I was in that grave.

He buried me alive, Bryan.
He wanted me dead.

So, Chester dug this hole.

No. No, I did that.

Jesus Christ.
I was right.

Chester's body's not in there
because he's not dead.

Harrow...
Just look inside.

You'll see...
everything I've told you is true.

No! No. No.

No-one's to touch that until
Scenes of Crime get here, alright?

Get... Harrow, get the hell
out of there.

Harrow...
I'm telling you, he's alive.

- Have you lost your mind?
- Get out of there.

Oh...
I'm gonna call for back-up.

This... coffin is empty!

Harrow, don't do this!

OK, lock it down.
I'm onto it.

You're coming with me.

He must have put the body back inside
after he dug me up.

Hang on. So, what,
now you're saying

there was a body in the coffin
before you were put inside?

I don't know.

He injected me before I had
a chance to find out.

Look, I need a blood test.

Do you have any idea
how much trouble you're in?

Interfering with a corpse
is a criminal offence.

You could do jail time for this.

What - that's what
you're worried about?

You're what I'm worried about!
I'm not making this up!

Look, I... I want to help you.

But look at it from my side, Harrow.

It just doesn't make any sense!

Why would Chester go to
all the trouble of digging you up

after burying you?

Because he didn't kill Fern.

What?

There was a phone with me
inside the coffin.

He showed me footage.

He tried to kill Fern on the Bettie.

He wanted me to watch her die.

Well, where's that phone now?
I don't know.

Look, Fern got away.

That's why he dug me back up.

He wants me to suffer.

He said he'd take away
everything that I hold dear,

and he meant it.

Bryan, please, you have to call her.

Well, I don't need to.

She's already at CIB.

Hey, this is Callan.

Leave a message
if you're good-looking.

Cal, it's me. Can you give me a call
as soon as you get this?

Thanks.

He's not answering.

Keep the pressure on his head.
We'll just get him in real quick.

Right. Here we go.

Dad!

Oh!
Thank God!

Thank God you're OK!
I'm so sorry this happened.

I should never have doubted myself.
Fern?

Why are you here?

Because Francis Chester
tried to kill me.

OK. I need to speak to Fern alone.

Sure. But I need that blood test.

Whatever Chester injected me with
is already being metabolised.

And we will get it organised,

but right now, I need to
speak to your daughter.

You wait here.
Dad...

She's telling the truth.
Come on.

What the hell?

You smell!

What's happened?

I dug up Chester's grave.
You what?

And... was it empty?

Look, I can't stay.
I need to get this blood test.

Look, I'll call you.

Don't let her out of your sight.

Dr Harrow? Detective Nichols
asked you to wait here.

Am I being charged with anything.

Then I'm leaving.

Try being married to him.

Were you injured?

No.

Did this man touch you?

No, but he had a syringe in
his hand. It was Francis Chester!

So, you got a good look at him?
Well, it was... it was dark.

But I'm pretty sure it was the same
guy I saw on my dad's laptop files.

But you didn't see those files until
after you got out of the Bettie.

Yes, that's right.

It was him! It was Francis Chester!

Fern, I really want to believe you.

But I... I don't have any proof.

Well, let's get to
my dad's boat, then.

I'll show you exactly what happened.

Well... hang on a tick.

I, um... I locked the door behind me

and then I got up,
out of the top hatch.

OK, this door's unlocked now.

Yes.

He was trying to open it
from the other side.

I saw it turning - the lock.

Is that your father's phone?

Yeah, it looks like it.

I thought you said
Chester had your father's phone.

Well, yeah, he did.
He texted me from it.

I'm not making this up.

I never said you were.

Then do your job.

Dust for fingerprints.
Call the Forensics team in.

He was right here!

Yes! Yes!

Look, I told you
Chester had a syringe.

But only one syringe, is that right?

Yes.

Then whose are those?

Well, they...

Chester must have left them there.

They're not Dad's.

Fern, I know how much
you care for your dad,

but if you're making this up,
it won't help him.

Chester was here
and he tried to kill me.

Well... Fern...

Fern?

What happened? What did he say?

He thinks Dad's on drugs.

What?!

Hello?

Is this Fern Harrow?
Yeah...

Who's this.
This is St Catherine's Hospital.

We have you listed as the emergency
contact for Callan Prowd.

There's been an accident.

I thought you were suspended.
I am.

That's not his usual look, right?

I've seen worse.

I need your help.

Francis Chester?

I thought he was...

Dead. No.

He tried to kill Fern too.

She OK?

Well, she's a little shaken, but...

...she seemed alright.

She's with the police.

And you?

I'm lucky to be alive.

But digging me back up
wasn't part of his plan.

I just hope whatever he injected me
with is still in my system.

So, what are we looking for?

Any type of fast-acting sedative -

midazolam, ketamine, chloral hydrate.

He knocked me out quickly
to get me inside that coffin.

And you've told the police?

Nichols.

Don't think he believes me.

That's it. All done.

Thank you.

Daniel...
I take it Bryan called you.

I needed to check
inside that coffin, Max.

Yes, and you were wrong.
But, Daniel...

I was wrong about it being empty.

Daniel...
That corpse isn't Chester's.

I've had a call from Roma Street.

There's been an accident.

Callan's in hospital.
They're not sure if he'll survive.

Go.

You took his bloods?

When the results come back,
I want to see them... immediately.

He's still in surgery.

Do they know how it happened?

The delivery rider
said he came out of nowhere,

just stepped onto the road.

He smacked his head on the pavement.

They did a scan, they say
there's a bleed to the brain.

Dad, is he gonna be OK?

I hope so.

Nichols found drugs on the Bettie.

Tell me what happened.

There was a used syringe

and... a whole stack of vials.

He thinks you're using.

Those are not my drugs.

Chester must have put them there.

Yeah, that... that's what I told him.

But you can't prove it.

You... you can't prove any of it.

I'm trying.

We just need to stay safe
until they I.D. that body.

Then they'll know that everything
we've told them is true.

OK?

So, where's the body now?

It's still in situ, at the cemetery.

We've cordoned off the area

to make sure no-one interferes
with the corpse.

A little late for that, isn't it?

Yeah.
Has he been charged?

He claims he didn't touch the body,

so I can't charge him with anything
more serious than vandalism

until we establish whether he did.

But either way, Harrow is adamant
it's not Chester's body.

Is there any reason to think
he may be right?

No! No. No valid reason.

And, yet, Dr Harrow forged
your signature

and dug up one of the state's
most notorious killers

because he thinks we buried
the wrong body.

Can you imagine the fallout
if the media gets wind of this?

If we can't even bury
the right person,

what else might we be getting wrong?

We didn't get it wrong.

We didn't.

Laurie Badcoe checked that body

against the prison dental records.

It's him.

Well, it's technically
a crime scene.

How do you want to handle it, Bryan?

Uh, well, I think
we should I.D. the remains -

to put this whole thing to rest
once and for all.

Fine. Bring it in here. Get it done.

But let's keep it quiet.

And if Harrow's right...

...and it's not Chester's body
in that coffin?

Then we'll all have
things to answer for.

Your Dr Harrow
came to ask my permission

to exhume Francis's body,

and I said no.

But he did it anyway?

I'm afraid so.

The, uh... remains will be
transported to the morgue,

where we'll be performing
another post-mortem.

Why?

We know that Francis died
in that fire.

Can't you just
fill his grave back in?

Well, there are some questions

regarding the identity
of the remains.

What are you saying?

That there's been a mistake?
That I buried the wrong body?

Well, that's what we're looking into

and we feel it's best for everyone
if we confirm it once and for all.

Best for who? For me?

I understand how distressing
this must be, Mrs Chester...

No. You don't understand.

My husband and I went through hell
when Francis was on trial.

We lost our jobs. We lost
our privacy. We lost our friends.

And all because the papers
needed someone to blame.

What if they find out about this?

We will do everything we can
to keep this quiet.

No, what they put us through...

...they killed my husband
and they nearly destroyed me

and I cannot go through that again.

I'm sorry
but it's already under way.

This was your decision, wasn't it?

Well, if that is my son,

and you have dug him up for nothing,

then I'll be the one
going to the media,

and this time, you'll all pay.

The impact resulted in
a subdural haematoma.

So, we've managed to stop
the bleeding, which wasn't easy,

and we're keeping him
in an induced coma.

Is he gonna be alright?

The next 48 hours will be critical.

Could I... could I see him?

Of course.

What happened to you, baby?

You should go back to our hotel
and get some sleep.

I hate hotels.

I don't want to leave Fern.

I'll be here.

He's not gonna try anything
with all these people around.

Go.

Call if you need me.

Max, do you think Harrow
could be self-medicating?

I found drugs on his boat.

Injectable ampoules
and a used syringe.

I've asked Scientific
to check it out.

I don't know.

Uh, let's just get this done.

Well, this coffin is in worse shape
than the last one.

You say Harrow did this?

Yep. He claims he was sedated,
put inside and buried alive.

How did he get inside the coffin if
there was already a body in there?

I don't know, Lyle,

but if Harrow touched this corpse,
I want to know about it.

Right, I'm sure you're all aware
of the sensitive nature of this,

regarding Dr Harrow and the illegal
exhumation of the deceased.

Bearing that in mind,
I'd like this taken care of

as quickly and quietly as possible.

The sooner we can confirm that
this is, in fact, Francis Chester,

the sooner we can put it
all behind us.

Unless Harrow is right.

Alright,
let's remove the body

and get it measured and scanned.

Gloves and masks, please.

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as night... ♪

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♪ At night

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How about I get us a coffee?

Multiple murderer?

Yes.

You know, I remember the case well.

Francis Chester was an anaesthetist

who'd immobilise his victims,

then strangle the females
while their boyfriends watched.

Doctors...

And Harrow found the evidence
to convict him?

Harrow and Pavich.

Maxine was on the case?
Oh, yes.

She was just as determined to put
Chester behind bars as Harrow.

Quite right too.

This man was a monster.

- But it almost didn't happen.
- Why's that?

Well, the key piece of evidence
in the prosecution's case

were the tiny traces of succinic acid

that Harrow found
in Chester's male victims.

He claimed that it proved

that Chester injected them
with succinylcholine.

But the defence argued that succinic
acid naturally occurs in the body

and, so, the evidence was dismissed.

So, Chester almost got off?

Almost. Until Harrow burned
the midnight oil,

conducted new tests

and found tiny traces of propofol
in the female victims.

Propofol. That's a sedative,
isn't it?

Mm. Fast-acting, very powerful.

But unlike succinic acid,
it is not naturally occurring.

Where did Harrow find it?

In the liver tissue
of the female victims.

It was the final day of the trial.

Everyone thought
that Chester was going to walk.

The propofol Harrow found
is what convicted him.

It was really a very clever find
on Harrow's part.

Quite brilliant, really.

Makes you wonder
how things... came to this.

You OK, sweetheart?

No.

How... how badly did the shooting
affect him, do you think?

Well, some blokes get shot and
they're back at work in a fortnight.

Some get shot
and they're ruined for life.

That's what I'm afraid of.

Rhonda?

I need to talk to you. Rhonnie?

That's our scan

and this is the one
Laurie Badcoe did

immediately after the prison fire
six months ago.

What are we looking for, exactly?

Well, anything to indicate
it's the same body.

Height's a match.

Rib count?

12 in both.

It says here that the deceased

fractured his collarbone
in a skateboarding accident

when he was eight years old.

Check the right clavicle.

There. I see it.

That's it.

Present in both scans. The CTs match.

You know, a lot of kids
fracture their collarbones.

Let's cross-check with the prison
dental records as well.

One-six removed.

Check.

One-five restored.

There's two amalgam fillings.

Occlusal and buccal.
Check.

One-four, ceramic crown.

Check.

Grace?

Is that all of them?

Yes.

Dental is a match as well.

Then it's conclusive.

This is the body of Francis Chester.

So, Dr Harrow got it wrong.

So it seems.

So, is it confirmed?

The body Harrow dug up
is Francis Chester?

It matched Badcoe's PM
and the prison dental records.

What will happen to Daniel?

I really don't think
there's any coming back from this.

I don't get it, Maxine.
Harrow loves his job.

Why would he lie to you...

...lie to the Deputy Coroner,

risk criminal charges and his career
to dig this guy up?

Could we be looking at
the wrong body?

Could there have been a mistake?

You really think
that Laurie Badcoe got it wrong?

That the prison got it wrong?

No.

Harrow's mistake
was forging my signature

and digging up a man
no-one wants to remember.

But he seems so convinced.

Grace, Bryan thinks that Harrow
is suffering from PTSD.

OK, so, you said he hasn't been
the same since he was shot.

Seeing Harrow throw away
his career like this,

I mean, that is not easy
for any of us.

Listen, I suggest that we just learn
from this and do our jobs.

Daniel?

Are you in there?

Oh... Sorry.

Are you OK?
Yeah. Yeah. Come on in.

Are my results back?
From my blood test?

Uh, not yet.

We've I.D.'d the corpse you dug up.

We compared
the prison dental records

with Badcoe's post-mortem C.T.

It's a match.

It's a match with a body
that's not Francis Chester's.

Those records have been altered.

That's impossible.

And, yet, a dead man buried me alive
and tried to kill my daughter.

Sorry.

Do you know how I felt...

...when I was locked inside
that coffin?

In the moments before I blacked out?

I thought I'd be scared.

But I wasn't.

At least not for myself.

But I was terrified for Fern.

What he was going to do to her.

And in that moment...

...all I wanted to do

was put my hands around his throat

and do to him
what he wanted to do to Fern.

What he did to all those
innocent people he murdered.

Simon...

I wanted to squeeze the last breath
from his body.

And watch him die.

Chester is alive.

And I will end this.

But you're still not sure.

No, I'm not doubting
that something happened to you...

But you are!

It's really quite simple.

Either I've lost my mind

and put everything I care about
in jeopardy

because of some insane delusion...

...or I'm right.

Badcoe.

It's Harrow.

You need to get yourself down here.

Now.

Sarge?

Forensics have taken a look
at Harrow's phone.

Only one set of prints was found.

Harrow's?

What about those ampoules
that were found on his boat?

Do we know what's inside?
Hopefully tomorrow.

Same with the syringe.

OK. Thanks, Joan.

Nichols.
Bryan, it's Grace.

Have you identified the body?

Apparently.

And?

And the records all matched.
They say it's Francis Chester.

What do YOU think?

I still have questions.

Is there, uh...

...anything else you can do

to prove that it might not
be Chester?

Maybe, but it's a long shot.

We can compare the DNA

with Chester's original arrest swab
from 15 years ago,

but it'll take time.

Do it.

- Hello?
- Fern, it's me. How's Callan?

Well, he's still not awake.

Where are you?

I'm... at the hospital.

Doesn't sound like it.

I'm just getting Mum a coffee.

Where are you?

Hotel.

Doesn't sound like it.

Just... don't stray too far, OK?

Yeah, well, you be careful too.

Fern?

I love you.
Love you too.

Hello?

Is anyone here?

Who are you?

Uh, I'm Fern Harrow.
Callan's girlfriend.

I'm Callan's boss. How's he doing?

We haven't heard anything.

That's actually why I'm here.

Um, I was wondering
if there was anyone

I could talk to about the accident.

Right.
Anyone who saw him get hit.

Well, I wasn't here last night.

OK, well, who was?
Our other kitchenhand.

Frank.
Great. Can I get Frank's number?

We don't give out employee numbers.

Please. I... I just want to know
what Callan was doing out there.

Was he going somewhere?
Did Frank see him leave?

We really like Callan. We do.

But what happened to him,
it's not our fault.

I didn't say it was.
Now, I think you should just leave.

OK, well, I'll give him
your regards.

Arsehole.

A body came into the morgue

six months ago.

John Doe - it was...

...a homeless guy, died in a fire.

As far as I knew, that body was sent
to the crematorium.

But after you called...

...I found a document signed by me

saying that the transfer
had been cancelled.

I don't remember
signing that document,

but on that very same day,
there was a prison fire.

The fire that killed Chester.

So, who was transporting the bodies?

Rhonda did most of the runs.

So, she somehow
brought that body into the prison

and left with Chester in the van.

You have to tell the police.

They can talk with Rhonda.

Rhonda's gone, Dan.

Packed up, shot through.
I don't know where she's gone.

There must be some other evidence -
paper trail, something.

She knew about my drinking.

I relied on her.

I signed everything
she put in front of.

She had my login I.D.
She had access to the archives.

There's nothing to prove
any of this.

But you have to tell the police
what you know.

They'll have no choice
but to look into it.

And if I... admit this, every single
one of my cases will be questioned.

Evidence will be re-examined.

Convictions will be overturned

and the victims and families

will have to go through
that pain again.

And your career will be ruined

and you'd lose your reputation,
your job, your pension.

My daughter was attacked.

Chester wants to hurt my family

and all you want to do
is protect yourself?

You're a coward.

Even if I did tell the cops,

all they'd have
is the word of a drunk.

Get off my boat.

I thought you weren't
rostered on today.

I'm not.

But I could use a hand.

Now I have the chance
to do more than kill you once.

Now I will take away
everything that you hold dear.

Everything you love.

Everything that makes your life
worth living.

So, is it true, what everybody's
saying about Dr Harrow?

What is everyone saying?

That he's lost it.

What do you think?

Well, I hardly know the guy

but it seems to me he's always
been a bit on the loopy side.

But I kind of like that about him.

Me too.

Dr Molyneux, what are you doing?

I'm collecting
another tissue sample.

What for?

To run a check against
the national DNA database.

No-one's done that yet.
Because no-one needed to.

The prison dental records matched.
Badcoe's CT scan matched.

What if Badcoe got it wrong?
Uh, I can't see how that's possible.

No DNA sample was taken from
Chester's body after the prison fire.

The only DNA sample there is on file

is the one taken from Chester
when he was arrested 15 years ago.

So, I want to compare this new sample
to that arrest swab

on the national database.

I need to be sure.
About Harrow?

Alright, Dr Molyneux...

Let's give it a shot.
I'll scrub up.

Steph?

Steph?

Sorry.
Where's Fern?

I don't know. She was just here.

I'll call her.

Uh...

She's at the hotel.

She shouldn't have left on her own.

It's OK. I'll go.

You stay here, with Callan.

I'm sorry.

I should have told you everything
from the start.

Yes. But we always
seem to end up here.

Karl.

Dr Molyneux?

These just came for you.

Harrow's blood test results?

They found high levels of propofol
in his system.

Maxine...

It's a sedative.
The same one Francis Chester used...

Yes, I know what propofol is.

Thank you, Dr Molyneux.

How's he doing?

Not great.

And you?

I've had better days.

Your, uh... your bloods came back.

What did Grace find?
Propofol.

Chester used propofol
to sedate his female victims.

Are you self-medicating?

No.

You know propofol
is highly addictive.

Yes, but I'm not using.

Bryan found drugs on your boat.

Syringes, ampoules.

They're not mine.
Chester put them there.

Chester's dead.
Grace positively I.D.'d his remains.

He's alive.

What?

This is my fault.

I let you go back to work
too early after the shootings. I...

I thought getting back on the job
would help.

Maxine, I don't have anxiety
or psychosis,

and I'm not abusing drugs.

Then why won't you let this go?

Because it's the truth.

And once upon a time, Daniel,
I would have believed you.

But not this time.
You have gone too far!

I'm scared.

You know, I'm... I'm scared.

I'm scared for Fern,
for you, for all of us.

You are too good a pathologist
to throw away a career like this.

You're too good a friend to lose.

You're breaking my heart.

Listen. I... I can get you
whatever help you need.

OK? But please, please,
tell me the truth.

I am.

The, um...

The Deputy Coroner is holding
an emergency tribunal tomorrow

to decide your future.

He's expecting you to be there.

As your boss, I advise you
to turn up and tell them the truth.

Or the career that you love
will be over.

Everything I hold dear.

Listen, you really shouldn't be here.
OK.

I've just got to ask you something.

Whatever it is,
you need to go through a solicitor.

Just one thing. Do you recognise
the guy in this photo?

Do you?

That's Frank. Our kitchenhand.

You've reached
Daniel Harrow.

Leave a message and I'll
return your call... at some point.

Dad, it's me.

I'm on the way to the hospital.
I need to talk to you.

Can you give me a call
the second you get this?

There has been an emergency

reported in the building.

Leave the building immediately

using marked stairways and exits.

Do not use elevators.

There has been an emergency

reported in the building.

Leave the building immediately
using marked stairways and exits.

Do not use elevators.

Oh...

What have you given him?
Succinylcholine.

It's a damn shame.
He would have made a great chef.

Bye, Daniel.

I'm not letting you leave.

Well, then, you have
a choice to make.

You can either try and stop me

or you can try and save the boy.

Did I mention
it was a very strong dose?

Come on, Callan! Come on!

Check out the lobby.

You guys head up into the lobby,
we'll break out the hoses,

get around the back
and we'll get it all set.

There has been an emergency...

You check the boards
in the lobby.

Leave the building
immediately

using marked stairways and exits.

- Do not use elevators.
- Come on, let's go!

Please... don't let him do this.

It's good to see you again.

Next on Harrow...

She's in danger.
Bryan, please, you've got to help!

You don't seriously think
I'm making this up?!

He's gone off the rails.

He is to be detained onsite

and transferred to the
mental health unit at South Side.

So, you agree Dr Harrow
is a problem?

- He's made his own bed.
- I don't think he did.

I think Chester is alive.

I honestly don't know where
to start looking for a dead man.

If you're not out here
in two minutes,

you will never know
what happened to Fern.

Dad, no!

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