Silent Witness (1996–…): Season 10, Episode 1 - Cargo: Part 1 - full transcript
When a boat carrying illegal passengers is found crashed in the Thames, the team investigate.
Morning, Nikki Alexander,
pathologist. Down there. Thanks.
Morning.
Morning.
Hi.
Some workers found her an hour ago
and fished her out of the water.
She looks Oriental, maybe Chinese.
Looks like she's wearing
what could be a wedding ring.
Bag the hands before she's
moved, would you? Will do.
No ID.
What's that?
A string of rosary beads, I think.
Second one in the river today.
Must be a full moon.
She was certainly malnourished.
There were signs of rickets
in the skeletal system
and she seems emaciated.
However, she ate
shortly before her death.
Some sort of wholegrain bread...
..and there's a smell of alcohol.
Let's get a tox screen done.
The uterus is bulky but there
were no external signs of pregnancy,
indicating she was in her
first trimester.
Only just though -
I'd estimate about 12 weeks.
What do you reckon - suicide?
I'm not so sure.
It looks like she was a Catholic.
She had rosary beads in her pocket.
She's had a rough life.
Cause of death...drowning.
Nikki, take a look at these.
Looped scarring.
Areas of depigmentation.
No symmetry
and they're not in groups.
They're deliberate, though.
Torture injuries.
Maybe using a loop of flex or wire or
belt possibly.
Quite distinctive, though.
What do you think? Gang related?
Who knows? But whoever did
this wouldn't think twice about
chucking him in the river.
Lungs are hyper-inflated
and they contain a substantial amount
of fluid.
That and the fact that the trachea
is full of froth would indicate that
the cause of death was from drowning.
Minimal digestion has taken place.
I'd say the last meal was eaten
shortly before death, consisting
of something with bread, wholegrain.
Alcohol. The same as my mine.
Guv...
Yep?
We'll be right over. ..OK.
They've found more bodies.
Your two bodies this morning -
one Oriental female,
one black male, right?
Yeah. Found in two separate
locations on the river.
PM indicated that they
had shared their last meal.
Well, these two here, I wouldn't
be surprised if their stomach
contents were exactly the same.
So you think they were
all on this boat? Yeah.
Wreckage was reported to
the river police at seven am.
Which means the boat must have
come in with no lights after the
last low tide, after midnight.
Human trafficking? Looks that way.
Where were the bodies found?
As they are.
We've got to work fast.
The tide's coming in.
I'm losing a foot of my
crime scene every minute.
I've got cuts on the
palms...and bruising
on the knuckles of the
right little and ring fingers.
Doesn't appear to be any ID.
A phrasebook.
Albanian/English by the look of it.
Multiple contusions on this one.
Consistent with being tangled up,
possibly under the boat, and
being dragged up the bank.
Manage to find the owner of the boat?
No, it was sold at
auction six weeks ago.
We're trying to trace the new
owners. Hang on, what's that?
Here you go.
It's a doll.
This means there could
have been a child.
How many others were on the boat?
Get yourself a ticket over there.
HE SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
I'm sorry. I don't understand you.
Sorry, I don't understand you.
Where would you like to go?
HE CONTINUES TO SPEAK
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
I'm sorry, sir, I've got
to deal with the queue.
Could you go, please?
Could you just go?
There appears to be
oil ingrained in his skin...
and under the fingernails.
Suggests he might have been
involved in construction or industry.
Can you tell anything from the cuts?
Typical pattern of defence wounds.
Looks to me as if someone
came at him with a knife.
Nikki, any defensive
wounds on yours?
Soft tissue changes indicate he
worked with his hands but nothing
to say he's been in a fight.
What's going on with his feet?
Lots of calluses.
Remains of some large blisters.
Certainly on his feet a lot.
Maybe he'd walked a long way.
Bruising and swelling
suggests march fractures.
Leo, what can you tell me about
ethnicity? Caucasian. That's
all I can give you, I'm afraid.
So he could be from Eastern Europe?
Er...could be.
Plenty of Albanians
run in human traffic.
I'm thinking he
could be our skipper.
OK, so we've got a people-
smuggling operation that appears
to have gone wrong. Yeah?
We have four bodies.
We think they ate together,
probably on the boat. But we don't
know how many there were altogether.
We don't know who was the cargo
and who were the smugglers.
First off, we'll help you
to identify the bodies.
We can start by getting the
lab onto DNA and fingerprints.
Missing Persons have
set up some TV spots
and a helpline for any relatives
who may be expecting arrivals.
I don't hold out a lot of hope.
Unless they plan to seek asylum,
most of them don't want to be found.
What about the boat?
How many could it have carried?
It's designed for eight,
but that doesn't mean anything.
Traffickers like to stuff
in as many as possible.
SOCO found three sets of
foot prints in the riverbank
walking away from the boat.
They don't match any of our bodies.
So there are at least three
survivors out there unaccounted for.
And possibly a small child.
Well, that's our search radius.
The coastguard reckon survivors
are unlikely beyond this point.
What do we know about
the smugglers themselves?
Plenty of candidates.
OK, thank you very much, Chantelle.
Who wants to be next? ALL: ME!
All right everybody. Calm down.
One at a time.
Lunch finished 45 minutes ago.
I suppose you have a good reason.
CHILDREN: Ugh!
So I'm going to need all the
information we have on Albanian
operations running out of the UK and
France over the last six months.
I'll check with Intelligence.
Yes, sir.
Ashar here. That's right, sir.
We've got four dead bodies -
all unidentified at the moment.
Possibility of at
least three survivors.
That's right, sir.
We've got three sets of footprints
leading away from the crash site.
Show me that last picture again. Mm.
That looks like a Snakehead tattoo.
What's that?
Chinese - people traffickers.
Off-shoot of the Triads. Yeah?
A kid brought a hand into
school and they did a search
where he found it and discovered
this bloody great arm as well.
Snakeheads are fond of dismembering
people to make a point. That does
seem to put them in the frame.
Radley, we're on the move.
Guv, come and look at this.
What?
Severed hand and arm with Snakehead
tatt discovered this morning.
Maybe it's not the Albanians.
We haven't any connection between
these and the boat crash.
No, we don't.
Bit of a leap, isn't it?
How old are these? 24 hours.
Severed while the victim was alive.
Nice. Right, Snakeheads
are known for two things -
people trafficking and dismemberment
as a form of execution.
We've got both in the same night.
Why not?
All right.
You set up a search team
and you start combing the
entire sewerage system.
Guv, there's like 400 or 500
miles of sewers under London.
Radley, you wanted the gig.
You've got it.
Find me the rest of that body.
Don't suppose you've got anything in
your fridge that's missing, um...?
No.
I wonder why she would do this?
Take such a risk? And just pregnant?
Maybe because she was pregnant.
But it's such a huge chance to take.
For her and her unborn baby.
What's so great
about England anyway?
Well, you moved here, didn't you?
That's true.
What are you looking for?
Well, the ink's mostly gone
but if it was a biro I might be able
to pick up abrasions on the skin.
It's numbers.
A series of numbers. How many?
11.
It's a mobile number.
Get me DSI Ashar on
the phone, will you?
Where are we now? This is the
main entrance to the grid.
And where did the kid find
the hand in relation to here?
Under a storm vent on the river
about 100 yards down the road.
So it must have been washed
down by the rain, yeah?
Yeah. Got to be careful if it rains.
Why? These pipes fill up in no time.
What on earth possesses
kids to play in storm drains?
Sense of adventure. Huh!
I can't believe he even
touched that hand, let alone kept
it to show people.
I don't know, I'd probably have done
the same at his age. You're joking?
No. I remember when I was young I
found a newly severed hen's foot.
And I discovered that when you
pulled the tendon the claw
contracted, so I went round trying to
pick things up with it.
And then there was a dead rat
which I tried to... No rats!
Not here, not anywhere. OK?
What's wrong with rats? Harry!
No rats?!
THEY SPEAK FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Yes. Do you? A little.
I'm Detective Superintendent
Ashar, and this is Dr Alexander.
We're looking for Jessica Sun.
Several bodies have been
recovered from the Thames today.
And we think they died
in an incident involving
illegal immigration.
One of the women had your
mobile number on her arm.
Mei...
We're very sorry.
What about Ying?
Is she all right?
You have found her, haven't you?
Ying? Who's Ying?
Her daughter, Ying.
Please tell me you've found her.
She's six years old.
She's six.
She's six years old.
You remember they found some
Chinese immigrants, suffocated in
the back of a container at Dover?
That was Snakeheads. Why Snakeheads?
Is it the tattoo thing? It's a fish.
Head of a pike and body of a
dogfish. Charming ensemble.
They are aggressive carnivores.
They can breathe out of water and
they migrate across land from
pond to pond destroying
everything in their way.
Well, we all have our faults.
Oi!
Over here!
What is it? Look.
Done? Yeah.
Looks like a match.
Eugh!
An assortment of other limbs.
Nice(!) All we need now
is the head and the torso.
Do you want a coffee?
Nikki, coffee?
Can I get three
coffees for over here?
Can you just take a seat there?
My mother and Mei's
mother are sisters.
They were born as peasants
in the Shandong region.
We're Catholics.
Mum and Dad emigrated
here before I was born.
We're about ten in that one.
Mei said I was her sister on
the other side of the world.
Wrote every month.
I've kept them all.
Did you know they were coming over?
As soon as she wrote she
was pregnant, I suppose it
was only a matter of time.
Do you know how passage was
arranged? Who brought her over?
Why did they want to come?
In Mei's province you're
allowed one child per family
and pregnancy tests are compulsory.
They'd be fined or harassed.
She might have been forced
to have a termination.
And being Catholic, an
abortion was out of the question.
She thought this was the only way.
Do you have a recent photograph?
I'm sorry, but this man here
was also one of the bodies we
recovered from the river.
Li.
Li Fong.
Mei's husband...and Ying?
There was a rag doll that
we found in the crash site.
But I don't suppose that's
any real evidence. A doll.
Yellow hair? Blue eyes?
I made it for her christening.
She'd never part with that doll.
Ying was on the boat.
Hey!
Subject sighted travelling east
onto Paddington Street.
Units on the corners of
Victoria Road and Smith Street,
identification confirmed.
Please notify DSI Ashar, over.
47, what is your status? Ready.
All units wait for the go.
ON TV: '..Here and neighbouring
Southall, the largest foreign-born
community is Indian,
'but Indians are leaving
the inner cities.'
All units go.
Go, go, go!
Do it.
Police!
Move!
Upstairs!
Nothing here, sir!
KETTLE WHISTLES
He's out the rear exit. Have they
got him? Tell me they've got him.
Subject slipped us, sir.
Melusi Chazika.
He's the President of the UCDI.
Unification Cote d'Ivoire.
A new opposition group
on the Ivory Coast. Special Branch
got wind of him this morning, and
we raided a known UCDI safe house.
Looks like we just missed him.
How do you know he was on the boat?
No legal means of entry,
and we've got mud on
his boots and his clothing which we
found at the safe house which we've
brought for you to have a look at.
Is it a confirmed ID?
Oh, yes, it's him.
SB also got a hit on the
fingerprints of our body number two.
His name is Manolo Chota.
They had his prints on file from a
previous visit when they pulled
him in and had him deported.
He's Chazika's second
in command in the UCDI.
Were they known to be travelling
together? The French had them under
surveillance in Paris a week ago.
Do the boots match the footprints?
PHONE RINGS
No, but the mud looks consistent
with silt from the river.
I'll come out.
At least four survivors.
Back in a minute.
Hi...
Jessica, what are you doing here?
I, I was just wondering if there's
something I could do to help. Help?
Well, look for Ying.
It's just I'm sitting at home just
worrying.
Look, I'm not involved
with the search itself.
But the police team is out there
and they know what they're doing.
Jessica, I know that it's hard
but the best thing that
you could do is to go home.
Everything that can be
done is being done, OK?
You promise?
Yes.
Harry, is that you? Yeah.
What have you got?
Blimey.
This place just keeps
on giving, doesn't it?
Yep,
tattoo looks like the one on the arm.
Any sign of the head? Just the torso.
Hello.
..Yeah. Yeah, OK, send him through.
Dr Preka. Professor Leo Dalton.
I understand you have an
enquiry about the case?
Yes. I was
wondering if I can see the bodies?
Well, do you think you
might have a patient in there?
No. It's my brother.
He told me he was coming.
He should have been here by now.
His name is Sasha. He's 28.
This is just wrong.
He shouldn't be here.
He should be at home where
the women can cry for him.
There you go.
Thank you.
I've had to tell the police you were
here. I'm sure they'll want to talk
to you. Yes. Of course they do.
Police are the same everywhere.
There in people's worst moments.
Like doctors.
Where do you work?
A&E at the Royal Eastern.
It's a bit different from where
I did my training back home.
It's easier than facing the
conflict, you know?
The slaughter.
I couldn't be part of that.
Sasha was just a boy then.
I don't think he ever
understood why I left him.
We just wanted to be together.
That's all.
What have you got for me? The wallet
the search team found and a photo.
Can't make much out, though.
It's not him, is it?
And this is a woman, a girl?
I can't make it out. There was
a piece of paper in there too.
Yeah. Illegible, though. Right?
It was. Until I ran it
through the ESDA machine.
You are a little genius.
TW3.
You want to come along? OK.
Can I help you?
Are you in charge here?
Stop! Where's your warrant?
I'm Detective Superintendent Ashar.
Now, I'm not here to make your
life a misery. So you bear with
me and you help me out. All right?
Good afternoon, people.
I'm with the police.
Can I ask you to stop what
you're doing for a moment and
give me your full attention.
I'm going to need to
ask you some questions.
Can someone turn the
radio off, please?
HE SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Everyone, please, it's OK. The police
officers just want to talk to us.
OK. Please listen to me.
We are investigating the death of
a number of illegal immigrants in
a boat crash yesterday morning.
There may be survivors.
Does anyone know
anything that can help us?
Many dead and we want to
find the people who did this.
We are not immigration.
Now does anyone have
relatives coming over?
Ashar!
Hold up.
Where do you think you're going?
What's your name?
You stay where you are.
Is this you?
Who's this?
Is this a boyfriend? A husband?
Are you expecting someone?
Why did you run away?
Are you here illegally?
Officer, please, nobody here
knows anything. What's her name?
She hasn't done anything wrong.
Leave her alone. What's her name?
It's a very simple question.
Would you like it in a
different language maybe? Ashar...
My name An. Please. An, it's
all right. Can you understand me?
She understands perfectly.
Do you have a friend,
a relative, coming here to England?
Is there anything
you can tell us...?
Now do you recognise this man?
Ashar, for Christ's sake!
This one? Maybe this one?
No. Why you do this? These may
be your friends. Look closer.
Ashar, stop it. Look closer!
Calm down!
Satisfied?
You see my problem is, An,
that I think you do know something.
I've got four people dead,
four people dead, An, in a boat
crash yesterday morning.
Four people came to this country
because they have people they love.
People they wanted to find.
Do you have someone you
loved on that boat, An?
A brother? A husband? A boyfriend?
I know nothing.
Do you smoke? No, thanks.
So why didn't you pull her in?
I don't want to arrest her or
have her deported back to some shit
life she's running away from. You
think I was hard on her in there?
I wish I could have bounced
her off a few walls to find
out what she knows. Guv...
You what? I don't mean that.
I want whoever organized
this run. I want to find them.
I want them in a court of law
and I want them done for murder.
..Yes.
How much are we
likely to learn from it?
I've taken DNA and prints
from the hand so if he's in
the database we'll find him.
If not, we might be able to
have a guess at how old he is.
Looks quite young so I'll check the
degree of fusion of the epiphyses.
At least we know
it's the same bloke.
He fits together like a jigsaw.
No fluid in the trachea
or in the lungs. He didn't drown.
What's that? Is it a stab wound?
Post mortem.
Rats probably. Eugh, rats.
What is your problem with rats?
Teeth, tails, claws. Weil's disease.
You only catch Weil's disease
from their urine, you know that?
Swimming in contaminated water
or letting them pee on your
bare skin. Are you going to let
them pee on your bare skin?
Highly unlikely when you're clad from
head to foot in protective clothing.
Stomach contents...rice, vegetables.
Something that looks like chicken.
We'll have to check that. That's
different from the other bodies.
Whoever he is, we have no
evidence he was on the boat.
Well, can the wounds help us?
He was alive when
the blows were struck.
That's a complete incision.
About 15 centimetres long.
I might be able to get an
approximation of the weapon.
No promises, but I'll give it a go.
Why did you think your brother
might be among the victims?
I knew he was coming.
He was refused entry
into the UK three times.
He was desperate.
What arrangements did he make?
He made his way across to
Calais to some meeting point.
He called me from there to say
he's met someone from there who
could get him on boat to London.
Did your brother
ever have any trouble with the law?
This is your brother, right?
Sasha Preka. Yes.
Does he have a criminal record?
What do you mean?
Well, no, he was a plumber.
He was never in trouble.
Does that pay well, being a plumber?
No, nothing pays well in Albania.
Well, that would
make a man desperate.
Possibly angry...
and possibly violent.
The body did show signs of
Sasha being in a fight.
- A knife fight.
- That's not possible. Knife?
Sasha hated violence,
that's why he wanted to leave.
You see, I think he could have found
a better way of making some money.
Maybe he was carrier and not cargo.
That's impossible. For a start,
smugglers were from London.
You know them.
Now that interests me.
I was going to tell you. Mm-hm.
Sasha gave me a contact
number for the gang,
in case anything went wrong.
Everything you know -
names, addresses, everything.
I want it all written down.
I don't know anything.
Honestly.
I don't even know this man's name.
But you don't believe me.
What?
I'm Albanian so I must be a criminal.
My brother too?
No, I just take a lot of convincing.
I would like to leave now.
That's fine.
Just advise you to stay in London.
Any trips you might have planned -
planes, trains, boat trips - cancel.
I will want to talk to you again.
DOOR OPENS
An, what the bloody hell is going on?
Mr Orhan, please.
This is my brother.
Stupid girl.
Is he the one they're after?
Please, he's hungry.
I don't want the police back here.
Both of you, get out and
don't come back. OK. OK.
CHUNG COUGHS
He's not well.
He should see a doctor.
We cannot. He is not allowed.
Because he's an illegal?
Please, you know a doctor who
ask no question? Can you pay?
I have a little.
Take him home.
Get him warm and make him rest.
Look after him.
Don't bring him back here.
Thank you.
This is the last one identified.
Body four. Sasha Preka.
Albanian plumber.
Passenger or crew? According to
his brother, he was a passenger.
I've got my doubts. That contact
number he said he was given is a
pay-as-you-go mobile - untraceable.
Are you holding the brother?
No, haven't got enough for that.
Anything from you and Radley?
Sorry, no, nothing to connect the
body in the sewer with the boat.
So you two still think this
is Snakehead related or not?
Well, the tattoo is
indicative, hardly definite.
OK, one last thing. The search
radius has been covered by POLSA.
Now we can keep them out there,
but it's been 36 hours now.
Realistically, in your opinion,
what are the chances of there being
anybody still alive out there?
Based on the temperature the other
night and the currents, I'd say
negligible. That's what I thought.
So from dawn tomorrow we're scaling
back the team, we'll be looking
for bodies now, and not survivors.
Jessica? Hi, it's Nikki Alexander.
ON TV: ...'Four years out of date.
All the same, this first official
'estimate of the unauthorised foreign
population of Britain puts it at
between 310,000 and 570,000...'
The search has been called off?
It's been scaled down.
How did they find out she was dead?
They haven't found
out for sure but...
But what?
Look, the chances of her being
alive now are so small that...
Have you no faith?
I have faith in the probability.
And what is
the probability that she's alive?
About one in 1,000.
I'm sorry.
Have you ever loved someone?
Of course. Really loved someone...
so that you'd die for them?
Yeah.
Imagine someone told
you they had died.
How you wish you had
some chance, any chance at all
to bring them back to life.
And then imagine someone told
you there was a one in
1,000 chance that you could.
What would you be willing to do?
What wouldn't you do?
Would you give up trying to bring
back the person that you'd die for?
You'd never give up.
Ying's parents wouldn't.
But they're dead.
I wouldn't.
But all I'm allowed
to do is to beg you.
Please don't give up.
'You have one new message.'
Hi, Nikki, it's Harry.
Tried you on your mobile, tried you
at home. If you're at
work don't stay too long.
Hey, Nikki. I'm sorry. I didn't
get your message till very late.
It's OK. You're not burning
the candle at both ends?
You've got something for me?
I do.
Seaweeds that grow on the bottom
of boats are called fouling species.
I found two on the
underside of our boat.
Blidingia minima is a saltwater
weed,
it's commonly found in the
Thames, downriver at about here.
The second species I found
is Cladophora glomerata,
a freshwater variety.
And it too lives in the Thames,
upriver to about here,
which leaves us with a stretch of
few miles between Richmond
and Putney.
I reckon that's where
your boat was kept.
It's a lead, isn't it?
Yes, it is. If we find that boat
we find a lot of answers...I hope.
So thank you.
And get some sleep, yeah?
Ashar? About the search teams?
What about them?
Well, we don't know she's dead, do
we? Nikki, I asked you about this.
You were the one who said that
their chances were next to nothing.
I know, but there is still a chance.
People survive for days
under rubble from earthquakes.
They lived for weeks in the jungle
after the tsunami. She could have
hidden and covered herself up.
Miracles, Nikki.
They don't happen all the time.
You need to be realistic.
We have to shift our resources.
You have to what?
Shift our resources.
Ashar, we are talking about a
six-year-old girl who was missing.
This makes me an unfeeling bastard,
right? No. I just thought that you
of all people might understand...
What? Because I'm an IC4,
I should be somehow different?
Yeah, well, I'm sorry,
darling, I was born in bloody
Basingstoke, not Bangalore.
Ashar, I didn't mean that, but
surely... Thanks for the lead.
Harry. Hi.
You didn't sleep here
last night, did you?
Please don't.
You've got a perfectly good bed
at home...or so everybody says.
Been to the supermarket?
Ah, Radley of the dump.
Nice way to greet a girl.
Especially one bearing gifts.
We found it caught on a grate
at a drop point in the main
drain coming south from W1.
Which includes Chinatown, yeah?
Yep, bit mucked about,
but definitely Oriental.
Which brings us back
to our Snakeheads.
Ashar's convinced it's the Albanians.
We still don't have any connection
between him and the boat.
HE SNIFFS
Ugh, you're the only person I've
met lately who smells worse than me.
Soon as I'm out of here I'm straight
into a bath full of aromatic oils.
PHONE RINGS
Guv? Dr Alexander's seaweed map
has given us the location where the
boat was moored.
We've an address on
the Thames in Richmond.
It's a Mr Jim Pearson. Now, you want
to join me on this or have you got
better things to do with your time?
Thanks, guv, I'll meet you there.
That's odd. What's wrong?
I'd hold that bath if I were you.
Why? There's too much neck.
Oh, don't mess me about, Harry.
I am not in the mood.
I'm not messing about. They've both
got the upper two cervical vertebrae.
This head doesn't fit that torso.
Don't be stupid, of course it fits.
It has to fit.
What the hell are you doing? Stop it.
Give me that.
But if it doesn't fit...
Then we have a head without a body
as well as a body without a head.
You're kidding me. I have spent
three days down that sewer.
Rats! There were rats everywhere.
I never knew there were so many
rats. It's like a rat convention.
And you're telling me
that you want me to go
back down there again with the rats.
Finished? Come and look at this.
Look. What is it?
Sand and silt, I'd say.
And maybe fragments of shell.
Meaning?
Meaning that although your torso
hasn't been in the river, there's
a good chance that this guy has.
So one of them could
have been on the boat.
And your Snakehead theory
is back on the board.
Yeah. Sorry, I just don't like rats.
Really?
Control from search
team leader...body found.
We have a female Caucasian,
aged about 20.
Her clothes are waterlogged.
No discoloration on the right
ileac fossa which indicates that
death would have occurred...
Generally well preserved
although there were early
signs of skin slippage...
There is free fluid in
the peritoneal cavity.
It is blood-tinged.
The liver is blotchy
and appears haemorrhagic.
Nigel, can you stand
over there, please?
SHE DIALS NUMBER
Leo?
Shit.
Harry...quick.
OK, Nikki, we're looking at it.
Tell us what you've got.
OK, there are needle track marks
in the antecubital fossa and
some contusions to the upper arms
which could be consistent with grip
marks, but I wasn't happy with that.
Small haemorrhages in the palate
and conjunctivae. Slow down.
Then I opened up the body. And there
were similar haemorrhages in
the pericardium. Blotchy red lungs.
What about the liver? Is there
a skin rash? No. What is it? A virus?
I'll have to ask an expert.
Sounds like some kind of
a viral haemorrhagic fever.
Nikki, stop the PM.
Don't touch anything.
What are you doing? I'm
double-gloved. We need some samples.
Nikki, get out of there. It could be
Ebola or Lassa Fever, for God's sake.
I'll be fine.
OK, Nikki, I'll take over here.
Harry, call Ashar and warn him.
And then get onto NDSR,
ask them to send a team over.
Leo, I might as well finish...
I want you and Nigel out now!
MOBILE RINGS
Shit.
Police! Open up!
Shall I call an ambulance?
You're a sick woman, Radley.
Just kidding.
Harry? Helen, are you in there?
Yeah, wait till you see...
You have to get out of there now.
What? Get out of there now!
Guv, we need to get out. GO!
What? We need to get out of here.
It's Harry. Why?
Just get out now! Why?
Harry, Harry, what is it? Yeah,
yeah, yeah we're out, we're out.
What is it? What's the rush?
Radley, what is going on?
Right.
Oh, great. Right. I've got another
body and another head for you.
Guv, OK, so the body that they took
of that young girl,
she's got some virus so if
Jim Pearson's been near her,
chances are he's got it too.
Harry, what kind of virus
are you talking about?
pathologist. Down there. Thanks.
Morning.
Morning.
Hi.
Some workers found her an hour ago
and fished her out of the water.
She looks Oriental, maybe Chinese.
Looks like she's wearing
what could be a wedding ring.
Bag the hands before she's
moved, would you? Will do.
No ID.
What's that?
A string of rosary beads, I think.
Second one in the river today.
Must be a full moon.
She was certainly malnourished.
There were signs of rickets
in the skeletal system
and she seems emaciated.
However, she ate
shortly before her death.
Some sort of wholegrain bread...
..and there's a smell of alcohol.
Let's get a tox screen done.
The uterus is bulky but there
were no external signs of pregnancy,
indicating she was in her
first trimester.
Only just though -
I'd estimate about 12 weeks.
What do you reckon - suicide?
I'm not so sure.
It looks like she was a Catholic.
She had rosary beads in her pocket.
She's had a rough life.
Cause of death...drowning.
Nikki, take a look at these.
Looped scarring.
Areas of depigmentation.
No symmetry
and they're not in groups.
They're deliberate, though.
Torture injuries.
Maybe using a loop of flex or wire or
belt possibly.
Quite distinctive, though.
What do you think? Gang related?
Who knows? But whoever did
this wouldn't think twice about
chucking him in the river.
Lungs are hyper-inflated
and they contain a substantial amount
of fluid.
That and the fact that the trachea
is full of froth would indicate that
the cause of death was from drowning.
Minimal digestion has taken place.
I'd say the last meal was eaten
shortly before death, consisting
of something with bread, wholegrain.
Alcohol. The same as my mine.
Guv...
Yep?
We'll be right over. ..OK.
They've found more bodies.
Your two bodies this morning -
one Oriental female,
one black male, right?
Yeah. Found in two separate
locations on the river.
PM indicated that they
had shared their last meal.
Well, these two here, I wouldn't
be surprised if their stomach
contents were exactly the same.
So you think they were
all on this boat? Yeah.
Wreckage was reported to
the river police at seven am.
Which means the boat must have
come in with no lights after the
last low tide, after midnight.
Human trafficking? Looks that way.
Where were the bodies found?
As they are.
We've got to work fast.
The tide's coming in.
I'm losing a foot of my
crime scene every minute.
I've got cuts on the
palms...and bruising
on the knuckles of the
right little and ring fingers.
Doesn't appear to be any ID.
A phrasebook.
Albanian/English by the look of it.
Multiple contusions on this one.
Consistent with being tangled up,
possibly under the boat, and
being dragged up the bank.
Manage to find the owner of the boat?
No, it was sold at
auction six weeks ago.
We're trying to trace the new
owners. Hang on, what's that?
Here you go.
It's a doll.
This means there could
have been a child.
How many others were on the boat?
Get yourself a ticket over there.
HE SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
I'm sorry. I don't understand you.
Sorry, I don't understand you.
Where would you like to go?
HE CONTINUES TO SPEAK
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
I'm sorry, sir, I've got
to deal with the queue.
Could you go, please?
Could you just go?
There appears to be
oil ingrained in his skin...
and under the fingernails.
Suggests he might have been
involved in construction or industry.
Can you tell anything from the cuts?
Typical pattern of defence wounds.
Looks to me as if someone
came at him with a knife.
Nikki, any defensive
wounds on yours?
Soft tissue changes indicate he
worked with his hands but nothing
to say he's been in a fight.
What's going on with his feet?
Lots of calluses.
Remains of some large blisters.
Certainly on his feet a lot.
Maybe he'd walked a long way.
Bruising and swelling
suggests march fractures.
Leo, what can you tell me about
ethnicity? Caucasian. That's
all I can give you, I'm afraid.
So he could be from Eastern Europe?
Er...could be.
Plenty of Albanians
run in human traffic.
I'm thinking he
could be our skipper.
OK, so we've got a people-
smuggling operation that appears
to have gone wrong. Yeah?
We have four bodies.
We think they ate together,
probably on the boat. But we don't
know how many there were altogether.
We don't know who was the cargo
and who were the smugglers.
First off, we'll help you
to identify the bodies.
We can start by getting the
lab onto DNA and fingerprints.
Missing Persons have
set up some TV spots
and a helpline for any relatives
who may be expecting arrivals.
I don't hold out a lot of hope.
Unless they plan to seek asylum,
most of them don't want to be found.
What about the boat?
How many could it have carried?
It's designed for eight,
but that doesn't mean anything.
Traffickers like to stuff
in as many as possible.
SOCO found three sets of
foot prints in the riverbank
walking away from the boat.
They don't match any of our bodies.
So there are at least three
survivors out there unaccounted for.
And possibly a small child.
Well, that's our search radius.
The coastguard reckon survivors
are unlikely beyond this point.
What do we know about
the smugglers themselves?
Plenty of candidates.
OK, thank you very much, Chantelle.
Who wants to be next? ALL: ME!
All right everybody. Calm down.
One at a time.
Lunch finished 45 minutes ago.
I suppose you have a good reason.
CHILDREN: Ugh!
So I'm going to need all the
information we have on Albanian
operations running out of the UK and
France over the last six months.
I'll check with Intelligence.
Yes, sir.
Ashar here. That's right, sir.
We've got four dead bodies -
all unidentified at the moment.
Possibility of at
least three survivors.
That's right, sir.
We've got three sets of footprints
leading away from the crash site.
Show me that last picture again. Mm.
That looks like a Snakehead tattoo.
What's that?
Chinese - people traffickers.
Off-shoot of the Triads. Yeah?
A kid brought a hand into
school and they did a search
where he found it and discovered
this bloody great arm as well.
Snakeheads are fond of dismembering
people to make a point. That does
seem to put them in the frame.
Radley, we're on the move.
Guv, come and look at this.
What?
Severed hand and arm with Snakehead
tatt discovered this morning.
Maybe it's not the Albanians.
We haven't any connection between
these and the boat crash.
No, we don't.
Bit of a leap, isn't it?
How old are these? 24 hours.
Severed while the victim was alive.
Nice. Right, Snakeheads
are known for two things -
people trafficking and dismemberment
as a form of execution.
We've got both in the same night.
Why not?
All right.
You set up a search team
and you start combing the
entire sewerage system.
Guv, there's like 400 or 500
miles of sewers under London.
Radley, you wanted the gig.
You've got it.
Find me the rest of that body.
Don't suppose you've got anything in
your fridge that's missing, um...?
No.
I wonder why she would do this?
Take such a risk? And just pregnant?
Maybe because she was pregnant.
But it's such a huge chance to take.
For her and her unborn baby.
What's so great
about England anyway?
Well, you moved here, didn't you?
That's true.
What are you looking for?
Well, the ink's mostly gone
but if it was a biro I might be able
to pick up abrasions on the skin.
It's numbers.
A series of numbers. How many?
11.
It's a mobile number.
Get me DSI Ashar on
the phone, will you?
Where are we now? This is the
main entrance to the grid.
And where did the kid find
the hand in relation to here?
Under a storm vent on the river
about 100 yards down the road.
So it must have been washed
down by the rain, yeah?
Yeah. Got to be careful if it rains.
Why? These pipes fill up in no time.
What on earth possesses
kids to play in storm drains?
Sense of adventure. Huh!
I can't believe he even
touched that hand, let alone kept
it to show people.
I don't know, I'd probably have done
the same at his age. You're joking?
No. I remember when I was young I
found a newly severed hen's foot.
And I discovered that when you
pulled the tendon the claw
contracted, so I went round trying to
pick things up with it.
And then there was a dead rat
which I tried to... No rats!
Not here, not anywhere. OK?
What's wrong with rats? Harry!
No rats?!
THEY SPEAK FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Yes. Do you? A little.
I'm Detective Superintendent
Ashar, and this is Dr Alexander.
We're looking for Jessica Sun.
Several bodies have been
recovered from the Thames today.
And we think they died
in an incident involving
illegal immigration.
One of the women had your
mobile number on her arm.
Mei...
We're very sorry.
What about Ying?
Is she all right?
You have found her, haven't you?
Ying? Who's Ying?
Her daughter, Ying.
Please tell me you've found her.
She's six years old.
She's six.
She's six years old.
You remember they found some
Chinese immigrants, suffocated in
the back of a container at Dover?
That was Snakeheads. Why Snakeheads?
Is it the tattoo thing? It's a fish.
Head of a pike and body of a
dogfish. Charming ensemble.
They are aggressive carnivores.
They can breathe out of water and
they migrate across land from
pond to pond destroying
everything in their way.
Well, we all have our faults.
Oi!
Over here!
What is it? Look.
Done? Yeah.
Looks like a match.
Eugh!
An assortment of other limbs.
Nice(!) All we need now
is the head and the torso.
Do you want a coffee?
Nikki, coffee?
Can I get three
coffees for over here?
Can you just take a seat there?
My mother and Mei's
mother are sisters.
They were born as peasants
in the Shandong region.
We're Catholics.
Mum and Dad emigrated
here before I was born.
We're about ten in that one.
Mei said I was her sister on
the other side of the world.
Wrote every month.
I've kept them all.
Did you know they were coming over?
As soon as she wrote she
was pregnant, I suppose it
was only a matter of time.
Do you know how passage was
arranged? Who brought her over?
Why did they want to come?
In Mei's province you're
allowed one child per family
and pregnancy tests are compulsory.
They'd be fined or harassed.
She might have been forced
to have a termination.
And being Catholic, an
abortion was out of the question.
She thought this was the only way.
Do you have a recent photograph?
I'm sorry, but this man here
was also one of the bodies we
recovered from the river.
Li.
Li Fong.
Mei's husband...and Ying?
There was a rag doll that
we found in the crash site.
But I don't suppose that's
any real evidence. A doll.
Yellow hair? Blue eyes?
I made it for her christening.
She'd never part with that doll.
Ying was on the boat.
Hey!
Subject sighted travelling east
onto Paddington Street.
Units on the corners of
Victoria Road and Smith Street,
identification confirmed.
Please notify DSI Ashar, over.
47, what is your status? Ready.
All units wait for the go.
ON TV: '..Here and neighbouring
Southall, the largest foreign-born
community is Indian,
'but Indians are leaving
the inner cities.'
All units go.
Go, go, go!
Do it.
Police!
Move!
Upstairs!
Nothing here, sir!
KETTLE WHISTLES
He's out the rear exit. Have they
got him? Tell me they've got him.
Subject slipped us, sir.
Melusi Chazika.
He's the President of the UCDI.
Unification Cote d'Ivoire.
A new opposition group
on the Ivory Coast. Special Branch
got wind of him this morning, and
we raided a known UCDI safe house.
Looks like we just missed him.
How do you know he was on the boat?
No legal means of entry,
and we've got mud on
his boots and his clothing which we
found at the safe house which we've
brought for you to have a look at.
Is it a confirmed ID?
Oh, yes, it's him.
SB also got a hit on the
fingerprints of our body number two.
His name is Manolo Chota.
They had his prints on file from a
previous visit when they pulled
him in and had him deported.
He's Chazika's second
in command in the UCDI.
Were they known to be travelling
together? The French had them under
surveillance in Paris a week ago.
Do the boots match the footprints?
PHONE RINGS
No, but the mud looks consistent
with silt from the river.
I'll come out.
At least four survivors.
Back in a minute.
Hi...
Jessica, what are you doing here?
I, I was just wondering if there's
something I could do to help. Help?
Well, look for Ying.
It's just I'm sitting at home just
worrying.
Look, I'm not involved
with the search itself.
But the police team is out there
and they know what they're doing.
Jessica, I know that it's hard
but the best thing that
you could do is to go home.
Everything that can be
done is being done, OK?
You promise?
Yes.
Harry, is that you? Yeah.
What have you got?
Blimey.
This place just keeps
on giving, doesn't it?
Yep,
tattoo looks like the one on the arm.
Any sign of the head? Just the torso.
Hello.
..Yeah. Yeah, OK, send him through.
Dr Preka. Professor Leo Dalton.
I understand you have an
enquiry about the case?
Yes. I was
wondering if I can see the bodies?
Well, do you think you
might have a patient in there?
No. It's my brother.
He told me he was coming.
He should have been here by now.
His name is Sasha. He's 28.
This is just wrong.
He shouldn't be here.
He should be at home where
the women can cry for him.
There you go.
Thank you.
I've had to tell the police you were
here. I'm sure they'll want to talk
to you. Yes. Of course they do.
Police are the same everywhere.
There in people's worst moments.
Like doctors.
Where do you work?
A&E at the Royal Eastern.
It's a bit different from where
I did my training back home.
It's easier than facing the
conflict, you know?
The slaughter.
I couldn't be part of that.
Sasha was just a boy then.
I don't think he ever
understood why I left him.
We just wanted to be together.
That's all.
What have you got for me? The wallet
the search team found and a photo.
Can't make much out, though.
It's not him, is it?
And this is a woman, a girl?
I can't make it out. There was
a piece of paper in there too.
Yeah. Illegible, though. Right?
It was. Until I ran it
through the ESDA machine.
You are a little genius.
TW3.
You want to come along? OK.
Can I help you?
Are you in charge here?
Stop! Where's your warrant?
I'm Detective Superintendent Ashar.
Now, I'm not here to make your
life a misery. So you bear with
me and you help me out. All right?
Good afternoon, people.
I'm with the police.
Can I ask you to stop what
you're doing for a moment and
give me your full attention.
I'm going to need to
ask you some questions.
Can someone turn the
radio off, please?
HE SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Everyone, please, it's OK. The police
officers just want to talk to us.
OK. Please listen to me.
We are investigating the death of
a number of illegal immigrants in
a boat crash yesterday morning.
There may be survivors.
Does anyone know
anything that can help us?
Many dead and we want to
find the people who did this.
We are not immigration.
Now does anyone have
relatives coming over?
Ashar!
Hold up.
Where do you think you're going?
What's your name?
You stay where you are.
Is this you?
Who's this?
Is this a boyfriend? A husband?
Are you expecting someone?
Why did you run away?
Are you here illegally?
Officer, please, nobody here
knows anything. What's her name?
She hasn't done anything wrong.
Leave her alone. What's her name?
It's a very simple question.
Would you like it in a
different language maybe? Ashar...
My name An. Please. An, it's
all right. Can you understand me?
She understands perfectly.
Do you have a friend,
a relative, coming here to England?
Is there anything
you can tell us...?
Now do you recognise this man?
Ashar, for Christ's sake!
This one? Maybe this one?
No. Why you do this? These may
be your friends. Look closer.
Ashar, stop it. Look closer!
Calm down!
Satisfied?
You see my problem is, An,
that I think you do know something.
I've got four people dead,
four people dead, An, in a boat
crash yesterday morning.
Four people came to this country
because they have people they love.
People they wanted to find.
Do you have someone you
loved on that boat, An?
A brother? A husband? A boyfriend?
I know nothing.
Do you smoke? No, thanks.
So why didn't you pull her in?
I don't want to arrest her or
have her deported back to some shit
life she's running away from. You
think I was hard on her in there?
I wish I could have bounced
her off a few walls to find
out what she knows. Guv...
You what? I don't mean that.
I want whoever organized
this run. I want to find them.
I want them in a court of law
and I want them done for murder.
..Yes.
How much are we
likely to learn from it?
I've taken DNA and prints
from the hand so if he's in
the database we'll find him.
If not, we might be able to
have a guess at how old he is.
Looks quite young so I'll check the
degree of fusion of the epiphyses.
At least we know
it's the same bloke.
He fits together like a jigsaw.
No fluid in the trachea
or in the lungs. He didn't drown.
What's that? Is it a stab wound?
Post mortem.
Rats probably. Eugh, rats.
What is your problem with rats?
Teeth, tails, claws. Weil's disease.
You only catch Weil's disease
from their urine, you know that?
Swimming in contaminated water
or letting them pee on your
bare skin. Are you going to let
them pee on your bare skin?
Highly unlikely when you're clad from
head to foot in protective clothing.
Stomach contents...rice, vegetables.
Something that looks like chicken.
We'll have to check that. That's
different from the other bodies.
Whoever he is, we have no
evidence he was on the boat.
Well, can the wounds help us?
He was alive when
the blows were struck.
That's a complete incision.
About 15 centimetres long.
I might be able to get an
approximation of the weapon.
No promises, but I'll give it a go.
Why did you think your brother
might be among the victims?
I knew he was coming.
He was refused entry
into the UK three times.
He was desperate.
What arrangements did he make?
He made his way across to
Calais to some meeting point.
He called me from there to say
he's met someone from there who
could get him on boat to London.
Did your brother
ever have any trouble with the law?
This is your brother, right?
Sasha Preka. Yes.
Does he have a criminal record?
What do you mean?
Well, no, he was a plumber.
He was never in trouble.
Does that pay well, being a plumber?
No, nothing pays well in Albania.
Well, that would
make a man desperate.
Possibly angry...
and possibly violent.
The body did show signs of
Sasha being in a fight.
- A knife fight.
- That's not possible. Knife?
Sasha hated violence,
that's why he wanted to leave.
You see, I think he could have found
a better way of making some money.
Maybe he was carrier and not cargo.
That's impossible. For a start,
smugglers were from London.
You know them.
Now that interests me.
I was going to tell you. Mm-hm.
Sasha gave me a contact
number for the gang,
in case anything went wrong.
Everything you know -
names, addresses, everything.
I want it all written down.
I don't know anything.
Honestly.
I don't even know this man's name.
But you don't believe me.
What?
I'm Albanian so I must be a criminal.
My brother too?
No, I just take a lot of convincing.
I would like to leave now.
That's fine.
Just advise you to stay in London.
Any trips you might have planned -
planes, trains, boat trips - cancel.
I will want to talk to you again.
DOOR OPENS
An, what the bloody hell is going on?
Mr Orhan, please.
This is my brother.
Stupid girl.
Is he the one they're after?
Please, he's hungry.
I don't want the police back here.
Both of you, get out and
don't come back. OK. OK.
CHUNG COUGHS
He's not well.
He should see a doctor.
We cannot. He is not allowed.
Because he's an illegal?
Please, you know a doctor who
ask no question? Can you pay?
I have a little.
Take him home.
Get him warm and make him rest.
Look after him.
Don't bring him back here.
Thank you.
This is the last one identified.
Body four. Sasha Preka.
Albanian plumber.
Passenger or crew? According to
his brother, he was a passenger.
I've got my doubts. That contact
number he said he was given is a
pay-as-you-go mobile - untraceable.
Are you holding the brother?
No, haven't got enough for that.
Anything from you and Radley?
Sorry, no, nothing to connect the
body in the sewer with the boat.
So you two still think this
is Snakehead related or not?
Well, the tattoo is
indicative, hardly definite.
OK, one last thing. The search
radius has been covered by POLSA.
Now we can keep them out there,
but it's been 36 hours now.
Realistically, in your opinion,
what are the chances of there being
anybody still alive out there?
Based on the temperature the other
night and the currents, I'd say
negligible. That's what I thought.
So from dawn tomorrow we're scaling
back the team, we'll be looking
for bodies now, and not survivors.
Jessica? Hi, it's Nikki Alexander.
ON TV: ...'Four years out of date.
All the same, this first official
'estimate of the unauthorised foreign
population of Britain puts it at
between 310,000 and 570,000...'
The search has been called off?
It's been scaled down.
How did they find out she was dead?
They haven't found
out for sure but...
But what?
Look, the chances of her being
alive now are so small that...
Have you no faith?
I have faith in the probability.
And what is
the probability that she's alive?
About one in 1,000.
I'm sorry.
Have you ever loved someone?
Of course. Really loved someone...
so that you'd die for them?
Yeah.
Imagine someone told
you they had died.
How you wish you had
some chance, any chance at all
to bring them back to life.
And then imagine someone told
you there was a one in
1,000 chance that you could.
What would you be willing to do?
What wouldn't you do?
Would you give up trying to bring
back the person that you'd die for?
You'd never give up.
Ying's parents wouldn't.
But they're dead.
I wouldn't.
But all I'm allowed
to do is to beg you.
Please don't give up.
'You have one new message.'
Hi, Nikki, it's Harry.
Tried you on your mobile, tried you
at home. If you're at
work don't stay too long.
Hey, Nikki. I'm sorry. I didn't
get your message till very late.
It's OK. You're not burning
the candle at both ends?
You've got something for me?
I do.
Seaweeds that grow on the bottom
of boats are called fouling species.
I found two on the
underside of our boat.
Blidingia minima is a saltwater
weed,
it's commonly found in the
Thames, downriver at about here.
The second species I found
is Cladophora glomerata,
a freshwater variety.
And it too lives in the Thames,
upriver to about here,
which leaves us with a stretch of
few miles between Richmond
and Putney.
I reckon that's where
your boat was kept.
It's a lead, isn't it?
Yes, it is. If we find that boat
we find a lot of answers...I hope.
So thank you.
And get some sleep, yeah?
Ashar? About the search teams?
What about them?
Well, we don't know she's dead, do
we? Nikki, I asked you about this.
You were the one who said that
their chances were next to nothing.
I know, but there is still a chance.
People survive for days
under rubble from earthquakes.
They lived for weeks in the jungle
after the tsunami. She could have
hidden and covered herself up.
Miracles, Nikki.
They don't happen all the time.
You need to be realistic.
We have to shift our resources.
You have to what?
Shift our resources.
Ashar, we are talking about a
six-year-old girl who was missing.
This makes me an unfeeling bastard,
right? No. I just thought that you
of all people might understand...
What? Because I'm an IC4,
I should be somehow different?
Yeah, well, I'm sorry,
darling, I was born in bloody
Basingstoke, not Bangalore.
Ashar, I didn't mean that, but
surely... Thanks for the lead.
Harry. Hi.
You didn't sleep here
last night, did you?
Please don't.
You've got a perfectly good bed
at home...or so everybody says.
Been to the supermarket?
Ah, Radley of the dump.
Nice way to greet a girl.
Especially one bearing gifts.
We found it caught on a grate
at a drop point in the main
drain coming south from W1.
Which includes Chinatown, yeah?
Yep, bit mucked about,
but definitely Oriental.
Which brings us back
to our Snakeheads.
Ashar's convinced it's the Albanians.
We still don't have any connection
between him and the boat.
HE SNIFFS
Ugh, you're the only person I've
met lately who smells worse than me.
Soon as I'm out of here I'm straight
into a bath full of aromatic oils.
PHONE RINGS
Guv? Dr Alexander's seaweed map
has given us the location where the
boat was moored.
We've an address on
the Thames in Richmond.
It's a Mr Jim Pearson. Now, you want
to join me on this or have you got
better things to do with your time?
Thanks, guv, I'll meet you there.
That's odd. What's wrong?
I'd hold that bath if I were you.
Why? There's too much neck.
Oh, don't mess me about, Harry.
I am not in the mood.
I'm not messing about. They've both
got the upper two cervical vertebrae.
This head doesn't fit that torso.
Don't be stupid, of course it fits.
It has to fit.
What the hell are you doing? Stop it.
Give me that.
But if it doesn't fit...
Then we have a head without a body
as well as a body without a head.
You're kidding me. I have spent
three days down that sewer.
Rats! There were rats everywhere.
I never knew there were so many
rats. It's like a rat convention.
And you're telling me
that you want me to go
back down there again with the rats.
Finished? Come and look at this.
Look. What is it?
Sand and silt, I'd say.
And maybe fragments of shell.
Meaning?
Meaning that although your torso
hasn't been in the river, there's
a good chance that this guy has.
So one of them could
have been on the boat.
And your Snakehead theory
is back on the board.
Yeah. Sorry, I just don't like rats.
Really?
Control from search
team leader...body found.
We have a female Caucasian,
aged about 20.
Her clothes are waterlogged.
No discoloration on the right
ileac fossa which indicates that
death would have occurred...
Generally well preserved
although there were early
signs of skin slippage...
There is free fluid in
the peritoneal cavity.
It is blood-tinged.
The liver is blotchy
and appears haemorrhagic.
Nigel, can you stand
over there, please?
SHE DIALS NUMBER
Leo?
Shit.
Harry...quick.
OK, Nikki, we're looking at it.
Tell us what you've got.
OK, there are needle track marks
in the antecubital fossa and
some contusions to the upper arms
which could be consistent with grip
marks, but I wasn't happy with that.
Small haemorrhages in the palate
and conjunctivae. Slow down.
Then I opened up the body. And there
were similar haemorrhages in
the pericardium. Blotchy red lungs.
What about the liver? Is there
a skin rash? No. What is it? A virus?
I'll have to ask an expert.
Sounds like some kind of
a viral haemorrhagic fever.
Nikki, stop the PM.
Don't touch anything.
What are you doing? I'm
double-gloved. We need some samples.
Nikki, get out of there. It could be
Ebola or Lassa Fever, for God's sake.
I'll be fine.
OK, Nikki, I'll take over here.
Harry, call Ashar and warn him.
And then get onto NDSR,
ask them to send a team over.
Leo, I might as well finish...
I want you and Nigel out now!
MOBILE RINGS
Shit.
Police! Open up!
Shall I call an ambulance?
You're a sick woman, Radley.
Just kidding.
Harry? Helen, are you in there?
Yeah, wait till you see...
You have to get out of there now.
What? Get out of there now!
Guv, we need to get out. GO!
What? We need to get out of here.
It's Harry. Why?
Just get out now! Why?
Harry, Harry, what is it? Yeah,
yeah, yeah we're out, we're out.
What is it? What's the rush?
Radley, what is going on?
Right.
Oh, great. Right. I've got another
body and another head for you.
Guv, OK, so the body that they took
of that young girl,
she's got some virus so if
Jim Pearson's been near her,
chances are he's got it too.
Harry, what kind of virus
are you talking about?