Silent Witness (1996–…): Season 10, Episode 10 - Schism: Part 2 - full transcript
Harry and the police desperately search for Nikki as they continue to find more bodies. The animal rights activists' target is a well known pharmaceutical firm that is undertaking research on behalf of the government. Leo finally decides on a course of action in testifying at the medical council hearing.
SIRENS WAIL
Keep down.
You're Adrian Burney, aren't you?
Adrian?
What were you doing
at Whittingdon? I told you.
I was investigating a body.
Who was it?
It was a young male. I don't
know anything else. Describe him!
He was in his twenties, blond,
pale complexion. That's Sam.
They're killing all of us.
MOBILE RINGS
Don't answer it.
What if it's my parents? I don't
care. I haven't spoken to them
in days.
I said, no more phone calls!
MOBILE RINGS
Don't do it.
Don't...don't do it, OK?
OK...
Come on, come on, come on...
Oh, please...
We'll take her with us, until we
can find a safer place to dump her.
SHE DIALS PHONE
Don't look at her and
don't look at me, you understand?
Fen? You remember the way?
SHE STARTS ENGINE
SHALLOW BREATHS
OK, Justine...
Ben, have you got those pictures?
Right.
This picture shows abdominal
injuries caused by the kind of
razor wire we saw being installed at
Whittingdon. They're not similar to
these injuries.
These injuries were caused by the
more old-fashioned barbed wire we
saw being replaced at Whittingdon.
These injuries ARE similar
to the injuries on this body.
And with these injuries
and the dog bites,
under the circumstances, it all
looks consistent with a break-in.
Over here!
Do you know where Robbie Sharpe is?
I...don't know.
Robbie Sharpe.
Where is he, Justine?
Where would he have gone?
Where would he have gone?
METAL TRAY RATTLES AND GLASS BREAKS
Come on, you're a pro.
We know all about it, Justine.
You went on the raid.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
You've had a back-up plan. Yeah?
A place you'd go if
something went wrong. Yeah?
Where did he go...
Justine?
Where...has...he...
SHE WHIMPERS
..gone?
You were the coroner who referred
Mr Brown's case to Professor Clune,
is that right? It is.
And what were your intentions?
My intentions were that he would
perform the minimum tests necessary
to ascertain cause of death.
So, in your opinion, was there any
justification for using the samples
passed on by you in his research?
He would have needed
to get additional consent
to use tissue for research purposes.
As far as I am aware, he didn't
approach my office about this,
and all samples should have
been returned at the end of the
postmortem, or disposed of.
And in your opinion, was there any
way that Lionel Clune could have
understood Amelia Brown's letter
as consent for him to do that?
The technical answer is no.
A consent form and a letter
are two different things,
however pleading the letter.
Thank you. No further questions.
Having said that,
I would like to stress my admiration
for Professor Clune
and the work he has done.
He is, without doubt, the most
committed neuropathologist I've had
the chance to work with as coroner,
and I don't believe for a second he
would have done anything
that wasn't
in the interests of the family.
Look, you know there was a WAE raid.
We need to get back in there and
work out what they did in response.
Wait until we've got a witness
to corroborate. Let's have a go at
Claire Ashern.
She isn't going to talk to the scum.
So there's no point in doing
anything! There's no point in doing
anything that wastes time.
Or that might upset your chums
up at Whittingdon? Please shut up.
Let's get Claire in here.
Come over here please, Claire.
You know her, don't you, Claire?
No, OK, come up here.
Claire!
How about him? Oh...Sam.
..Sam. Sam Priestley, WAE. Is this
the body of Sam Priestley, Claire?
Died from drowning, probably
after a whack over the head.
He was found lying face down
in a woodland stream.
Did you think he'd made it out?
Were they waiting for your friends?
Is that what happened?
Do you know her? Oh, Jesus...
How do YOU know her?
How does an animal rights activist
know the head of personnel
at Whittingdon?
Was Jackie feeding you information,
Claire? Was she Burney's mole?
I can't believe he killed her.
Who?
Who killed her?
Who killed Jackie, Claire?
Who do you mean? She means Hewitt.
Don't you? Do you, Claire? Do you
mean Hewitt?
If that's the case, can we go back to
Whittingdon,
so I can have another go at that
smug bastard? That won't work.
FENELLA: What shall I do?
Stop here.
Don't even think about it.
Look, look, he's coming towards us.
OK, go...
Slowly.
Don't look at him.
DOGS BARK IN DISTANCE
SHE COUGHS
Come on, Justine.
Just tell me where Robbie is. Hmm?
SHE CHOKES
Now he's taken something that
doesn't belong to him,
and you can't do that.
And now the owners want it back.
You do understand that, don't you?
Now we can stop this right now,
if you just tell me where he is.
Or, I can give you
a bit more of this.
But I've got to admit, Justine...
..it really isn't a fine art.
Now, you don't seriously want
to end up like Lisa, do you?
Hmm?
OK.
HE PANTS
Jackie Cooper was their
girl on the inside.
The WAE did carry out a raid
and Hewitt
is lying through his teeth.
If Traynor's theory about
activists killing each other off
is wrong, then who is it?
Who the hell is Smiley calling now?
It's a no, I'm afraid.
Oh, bloody hell.
Hewitt's got clout. We can bring him
in, but not without
rock solid evidence.
Get him to give us the evidence. If
you do that, you will end your
career in traffic control.
Sod my career. What matters is
finding Justine Finch and Nikki while
they're still alive!
You can't just blunder around
accusing people. Says the spook!
Hewitt's lying and you are as good as
protecting him...
I know as much as you do!
I'm assuming that you,
as a copper, know that you can't do
anything without physical evidence.
CAPSULE HISSES
Correct me if I'm wrong, but
whenever I've asked if prints could
be taken off a body,
I've always been
told it's practically impossible.
Do you have any better ideas?
What do I do?
What do I do?
Indicate and go round him.
I know you think I'm a bit crass, but
when I get up in the morning I know
I'm going
to do everything I can to catch
the people who do things like this.
It's as straightforward as that.
I wonder what Simon Traynor tells
himself when he wakes up? Exactly the
same thing, I should imagine.
Colin!
Fen, go forward. I can't...
They're blocking my road completely.
I can't...
Go forward.
I can't.
INAUDIBLE SPEECH
POLICE RADIO MESSAGES
That's her! Hey! Hey!
Drive, Fen, drive!
POLICE SIRENS
Drive, Fen. Fen, drive!
Go, go, go, Fen!
Into the trees, Fen!
PANICKED CRIES
So, in your opinion, what happened
when Professor Clune was given
these brain samples by the coroner?
In my opinion, Professor Clune did
what any other pathologist
in his position
ought to have done. Which is?
Everything he could to help this
family understand the disease that
killed their son
and find the breakthrough that would
stop other families
from suffering as they did.
Do you believe that Lionel Clune
breached his duty of care to Rufus's
remains and the rest of his family?
Well, in my opinion...
SYLVIA GASPS FOR BREATH
SHE MOUTHS
In my opinion, Amelia Brown's letter
amounted to consent,
because it was possible for
it to be read as consent.
Excuse me, but isn't that a little
cynical?
You know as well as I do that in
the past, consent was not an issue,
and the judgement of doctors
was trusted.
And who would want to ask
a bereaved relative
if they could take parts from
a dearly departed loved one?
We exercised discretion,
and our breakthroughs were
world-renowned and to me,
legality or illegality is not the
issue. Well, what is the issue?
Well, that we do not condemn
our most talented doctors to a
lifetime of impotence because of...
because of regulations,
when they are trying to push
medicine forward and...
and save lives.
That would be the real travesty.
Thanks.
It's a tox report on Lisa Finch.
Very high levels of
sodium thiopental.
Isn't that what the Americans
use in the lethal injection? Yes.
And supposedly used as a
truth serum by Al-Qaeda.
What?
A member of one of our search teams
believes he may have
spotted Nikki in a car.
Going where?
They don't know.
Our officers tried to make it stop.
They found it crashed in woodland.
No sign of Nikki or anyone else.
They are narrowing the area. It won't
be long before they find her, Harry.
Do you want me to get you a...? No.
It's just...
Just...
I had a conversation
with her this morning which I...
..which I didn't finish.
Whoever's print it is,
it's not Hewitt's.
Or anyone else on the
criminal database.
Sorry.
THUNDER CRACKS
Ah! Sorry.
All they want to do is work
out who killed Lisa and find
Justine while she's still alive.
Isn't that what you want?
And the best chance you have of
doing that is to work with them.
Adrian, don't listen to her.
Can you walk? No, she can't. Can you
take her arm? Not unless it's to
a hospital.
Bloody Robbie. He should have
listened to you. Ever since
everything's wrong. Quiet, Fen.
We need to move. Adrian, you
can't do this all by yourself.
If the police get to Robbie before
I do, he will clam up, and whatever
time Justine has left will be gone.
So take her arm and help me
to carry her, please!
She needs medical attention.
OK. Fine. You do that.
You'll have Justine's blood on
your hands. Do you want that?
I'm the one that can fix this.
Ah!
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
Hi. How are you doing?
Nikki is missing...
Yeah.
We think she may have been abducted.
She's going in. OK.
Leo, sorry, I have to go.
Do you want me to come over?
I can get an adjournment. No, no.
Let me try one more thing first.
I'll call you back.
Bye.
Well...we seem to be winning
the moral argument, anyway.
Wouldn't you say?
Will you all take your seats? This
hearing will resume in one minute!
Are you OK? Yes, yes. I'm fine.
Is Sylvia all right? Oh, she's great.
Feeling better now we
can see an end in sight. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure. Will you all
take your seats, please?
Leo...what's on your mind?
Hello, Claire.
I'm here to explain
something to you.
We now know that no-one
in your organisation is
responsible for these murders.
You're all on record and the print
we've got doesn't match.
So there we are.
Now, whoever is responsible...
..there is no way
that you are going to beat them,
because you are a bunch of kids.
And it looks like they intend
to take you out one by one.
ON SPEAKER: Ordinarily, I would
just say that's your business.
But today, one of my colleagues
has gone missing.
And I don't know whether she is with
your group or with someone else.
But all I do know is that
the only person who can help
me find that out right now...
is you.
I'm sorry.
Claire, I know how you feel
about the police, and I know
how you feel about your...war.
But the only lives that are at stake
right now are the lives of people.
People, Claire.
Now all I'm asking is that you put
aside your ideas long enough, that
we can make sure that...
people that you and I care about
don't end up on a slab, like Sam.
TAPPING ON GLASS
What is it? Nikki's phone's been
used. Did you get a location?
Nothing there.
If the phone gets used again
we'll know right away. Who's Nikki?
She's the girl I've been talking
to you about.
Is she...is she the pathologist
who came to talk to me this morning?
Yes, Claire, her. Nikki.
Nikki is missing.
If you don't tell me what you know,
I've no way of knowing
whether she's alive or dead
or whether I'm ever gonna see her
again.
So, please, Claire,
can you just help me?
Please?
Claire, you are hindering a police
investigation into THREE murders!
And if, as a result of that,
anything happens to Nikki,
I will make sure that you
never forget it. Do you understand?
Please!
Please...please...
Don't make the stupid conversation I
had with her this morning,
the last conversation
I ever had with her. Please.
I saw them at the house.
What?
Who, Claire? Who did you see?
Hewitt.
Where?
At Jackie's house.
I went there after the raid,
to find out if she'd betrayed us.
And when I got there, Hewitt
was coming out with another man.
Get her a brief and we'll take
her statement. We've got him!
Thank you. I've got the OK to
put pressure on Hewitt.
I should think so.
This is a cast-iron eyewitness. She's
a terrorist, he's a CEO.
Her word against his. Look, I'm
going to go up and see Hewitt.
Just me. Don't you...
I know you want to book him, but
there are powerful people up to
their necks over Whittingdon.
So what are you suggesting,
we let him off?
If there's a cover-up, then I've
got the access to deal with it.
Let me go there on my own,
and if he's guilty,
I'll bring you his head
on a silver platter.
Fine.
And that's the last
we shall see of him.
Keep hold of her one second.
Robbie?
Robbie?
Robbie!
Robbie!
Why, you idiot!
How many times did I tell him
what would happen if he went ahead?
Let's go in here.
But it doesn't matter, does it?
Because the point is not to
achieve anything, the point is to
become a bloody martyr! You idiot!
You idiot! You idiot!
Robbie!
Where are you?
What is this?
Can I use your phone? What?
Can I use your phone?
ROBBIE!
Please. I need to call my parents.
Please.
ROBBIE!
APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS
Come on. How does it feel now? It
hurts really bad. Can you stand?
I really don't advise that. Shut up!
Try again. Come on. Try.
Honestly, I can't.
OK. We'll rest. We'll rest for a
bit and then we'll set off again.
Can't you see,
she's not fit enough to go anywhere?
I really think you need to get her to
a hospital soon.
Not till we've found Robbie.
You keep saying that, why don't
you look for him?!
He's near here.
I just don't know where exactly.
She knows something.
What do you know?
The sooner you tell me,
the sooner Fen gets to a hospital.
This.
There was something like this under
Lisa's fingernails. And under Sam's.
This, or something like this?
I don't know.
I would if I saw it.
You're coming with me.
Will you be OK?
I'll be back to get you
as soon as we're done,
I promise.
See you later, then.
Right, let's go.
Come on!
It's all right.
Not long now.
Be out in a few hours.
Where is he? Where's Robbie? Where
can I find Robbie? Come on,
where is he?
MOBILE RINGS
Yeah?
Where have you been?
Say hello. I've been with him the
whole day.
There's been no way I could call.
So what's happening? Fen?
Where are you now?
Yeah, and where's that?
Yeah, I know...
OK. Dump the phone.
Did you hear that, Justine?
It's all...over.
Justine?
Screw you.
You know what...
..you really are a soldier.
There's one thing I don't get.
Why didn't you go on the raid?
Something didn't smell right.
We'd been under surveillance. Maybe
we were compromised, I don't know.
You don't seem the type to be
easily put off. It's more than that.
The WAE is all over. The days of
sleeping rough
and climbing over barbed-wire fences
have gone.
So what changed?
We can win this war, but only
if we see the bigger picture.
Strategy, organisation...
We're targeting the suppliers,
financiers, the support mechanisms
around these places.
With marketing and better PR we're
raising the profile.
We have to be more than mindless
vandals,
we have to engage with the
process to win hearts and minds.
And nobody needs to get hurt.
I'm going to law school. I've been
offered a place in Toronto.
They won't be able to write me off
as an extremist when I'm in a suit
facing them across a courtroom.
When I can look and sound like them,
and still shred them to pieces,
that's when I'll be
really dangerous.
What about Fenella?
She's coming with me.
You recognise it?
Yeah, that's it.
Then I know where we're going.
And after the letter, did you have
any other contact with Amelia Brown?
No.
So, she didn't have any anxieties
about what she'd written to you or
what might have happened?
No.
Why do you think you're here today,
Professor? I've no idea.
My entire life, my entire working
life,
has been in the service of
Amelia Brown and people like her.
All I've ever done is try
to understand a disease that...
takes children and parents
away from each other,
husbands and wives,
in the hope that one
day it might be stopped.
Do you believe that you breached
your duty of care to Rufus Brown,
or to any other of the samples
in your care during this time?
Each one of us has
their own moral boundary,
inside themselves.
But I wanted to go so much further.
I wanted to give the
mother of that boy, answers.
I wanted to tell her that
no-one else would suffer like her.
But I didn't.
I went as far as I believed I could.
I have no other questions.
THEY WHISPER
All right, when we reconvene,
I think the panel would like
to hear from Professor Leo Dalton.
You understand you're under caution?
All right then, Claire,
from the beginning.
We'd heard this rumour that
Whittingdon were using animals to
evolve their own HN51 virus,
to get ahead in the race for
a vaccine.
They have...furnaces at the back,
where they dispose of the animals.
We'd noticed they were going
24 hours a day.
Who had the idea for the raid,
Claire?
Jackie made contact.
She told us she'd been
waiting for a chance to help
and that she could get us in there.
She wasn't a member of the WAE? No.
But after she saw what happened
there, she started to sympathise.
As we started planning, we could
all see that Adrian was uneasy.
He and Robbie started fighting.
Eventually it got
so bad they called a meeting.
About whether or not to go in?
And Adrian stood up and he told us
that he'd been thinking about it
for a long time and he'd realised
that violence wasn't
getting us anywhere any more.
Robbie was so...committed.
And after the meeting he
said he was going in anyway.
He called Adrian a sellout,
and when he said that
anyone who
really cared about what Whittingdon
was doing had to come with him...
Nobody felt they could disagree.
I didn't want to betray Adrian.
I went along with Robbie but...
somehow I knew
something would go wrong.
That's why I called Adrian
when I found Lisa's body.
Hewitt! Sir! Just a moment, please.
It's OK.
Do you know the police have a
witness putting you at
Jackie Cooper's murder?
If you'd had the good sense to turn
up on your own, you could have
saved a lot of time.
I would have told you.
You would have realised that we
have nothing to hide from each other.
You do understand that
I'm not on your side.
I'm not here to help.
You have to realise we've
been working on probably the most
important health project
in the world right now.
Call the number. See if they
say you should bring me in.
Vulnerable people depend on our work.
Do you expect us not to
protect it against these idiots?
These terrorists?
In fact, isn't that your job?
Call the number.
The vaccines we're developing
could save millions of lives.
Oh, but this isn't about
saving millions of lives, is it?
It's about the share price.
Call the number.
Even the man they gave us.
He's one of yours.
Leo?
What is it?
Try to remember how it felt.
To have a cause, Leo.
To have a purpose.
Where is Robbie now? Claire!
Where's he been hiding
since the raid? I don't know.
I know he had a base he'd made.
In the woods.
He met Sam and Lisa there. I joined
them at the Whittingdon perimeter.
I promise you, I don't know.
Mumford!
Yes, I'm looking for the
results of a sample filed by
Dr Nikki Alexander this morning.
It was residue found under
the fingernails of a body.
No, THIS morning! This morning!
Sorry. Yep.
Yep. ..Got a pen?
Mm-hm.
Yep.
It's a lichen.
It's called Xanthoria wragiensis,
which is a form of hooded sunburst.
Apparently it's extremely
rare in the Southeast.
The labs are checking where.
This is Simon Traynor.
We know who you are. Hewitt will
show you where the agent is.
Get him out before the police get
near him and stop being such
a bloody fool.
What about the girl?
PHONE CLICKS
Where is he?
Robbie?
Robbie?
I didn't think it'd be you.
Who's that?
She's a friend.
Well, you did it. No, we did it.
They don't look like a million quid's
worth, but I think they're OK.
Well done, mate.
They were waiting for
us, but I got them.
I bloody got them.
None of the others showed up.
How bad is it?
Very bad.
Lisa's dead.
And Sam.
Claire and Justine?
Claire's with the police.
She's a good girl.
She won't tell them anything.
We've got to stop this, Robbie.
We have to sort out this mess.
Whittingdon have got Justine.
We can save her. How?
No way.
She's one of us, Robbie.
Yeah, and she always knew
there might be losses.
Can't you see, Robbie?
We can never beat them like this.
We will lose. It'll end up
looking like we're the savages.
Maybe we have to be savages to win.
If Justine dies, it will be to save
millions. Millions of animal lives.
This isn't about millions any more.
This is about her.
Can you look me in the eye
and say this is worth it?
Robbie, look at me.
It's easy for you, isn't it?
No, Robbie, it isn't easy.
But it's the only thing we can do.
RUSTLING
OK. We've got 17 possible locations
for hooded sunburst.
Anything near Robbie's caravan?
Yep. Four miles away.
Hi, it's Harry. Have you found
Justine? I'm going in now.
Justine?
I've found her.
But there's no-one else here.
Is she still alive?
Barely.
We know where they are.
We've got a map reference.
Tell me where. Because if I'm nearby
there's a chance I can get there
before you.
987638.
OK.
They made us do it.
They forced to act like this.
Ambulance, please? What are you
doing? You make sure that
girl gets to a hospital.
I do this, she lives.
Hello there.
Yeah, ambulance, please.
He is a very gifted pathologist,
who's utterly committed to his work
and to the benefits it brings.
So, for as long as you've known
Lionel Clune, his only motivation
has been to help people
through his research?
I would say so. Yes. Yes.
Thank you.
Professor Dalton, does that
justify his actions in this case?
Well, as a pathologist I
understand why he did what he did.
But Professor Dalton, do you think
that Lionel Clune breached
his duty of care
to Rufus Brown and his family?
I...
Well...
most of my work is on the
forensic side,
which means that I spend a lot of
time with
what I've heard referred to
all day here, as "the public".
The truth is that there's no such
thing as "the public".
Just individual men and women such
as Amelia Brown. Ordinary people
at the mercy of our decisions.
And that is why the law must
be upheld, because without it,
there's nothing to protect them from
what we happen to decide
may be right or wrong for them.
I ask again. Do you think Lionel
Clune breached his duty of care
to Rufus Brown and his family?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
THEY WHISPER
Thank you. No further questions.
WHISPERING CONTINUES
Adrian!
Fen?
Are those the animals?
Put the sack on the ground.
Fen, are you OK?
What's going on?
Go on, tell him.
Just give it to him,
Adrian, please.
They'll let you go, and Justine.
Just give him the animals.
Cos you see, the thing is...
If she'd gone to bed
with him instead of you,
we could have wrapped this whole
thing up the night they broke in.
Fen?
Why did you...? I didn't
know it would go this far.
Adrian, what are we doing?
Come on. Hand over the animals and
we can make like this
never happened.
No. Where's Justine?
Safe.
You can have her back.
We don't know if she's still alive.
She was when I left her.
She is. Adrian, believe me,
I spoke to her.
Adrian, she's lying.
Come on.
Open the bag.
Open the bag.
Open the bag!
Yeah. Good call.
SIRENS
And there's the police.
Right, you go and tell
them where we are...
Dr Alexander.
VOICES IN DISTANCE
No.
OK.
SIRENS GETTING LOUDER
Robbie.
Oh, no!
Adrian?
Nikki?
I did what I could.
Well, having heard the
evidence put before us,
the panel has reached its decision.
And this is
that in respect of the human remains
left in his responsibility
by the coroner in August 2003,
Lionel Clune
did breach his duty of care.
And in line with the penalties
that are attached to this offence,
Professor Clune is
suspended from all research,
for a period of five years.
Well done, Leo...
you've just put back the cause
of motor neurone disease research
by five years.
INAUDIBLE
It's a good job.
You should take it.
The reason I didn't tell
you about it is that I was
scared you'd say that.
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd
Keep down.
You're Adrian Burney, aren't you?
Adrian?
What were you doing
at Whittingdon? I told you.
I was investigating a body.
Who was it?
It was a young male. I don't
know anything else. Describe him!
He was in his twenties, blond,
pale complexion. That's Sam.
They're killing all of us.
MOBILE RINGS
Don't answer it.
What if it's my parents? I don't
care. I haven't spoken to them
in days.
I said, no more phone calls!
MOBILE RINGS
Don't do it.
Don't...don't do it, OK?
OK...
Come on, come on, come on...
Oh, please...
We'll take her with us, until we
can find a safer place to dump her.
SHE DIALS PHONE
Don't look at her and
don't look at me, you understand?
Fen? You remember the way?
SHE STARTS ENGINE
SHALLOW BREATHS
OK, Justine...
Ben, have you got those pictures?
Right.
This picture shows abdominal
injuries caused by the kind of
razor wire we saw being installed at
Whittingdon. They're not similar to
these injuries.
These injuries were caused by the
more old-fashioned barbed wire we
saw being replaced at Whittingdon.
These injuries ARE similar
to the injuries on this body.
And with these injuries
and the dog bites,
under the circumstances, it all
looks consistent with a break-in.
Over here!
Do you know where Robbie Sharpe is?
I...don't know.
Robbie Sharpe.
Where is he, Justine?
Where would he have gone?
Where would he have gone?
METAL TRAY RATTLES AND GLASS BREAKS
Come on, you're a pro.
We know all about it, Justine.
You went on the raid.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
You've had a back-up plan. Yeah?
A place you'd go if
something went wrong. Yeah?
Where did he go...
Justine?
Where...has...he...
SHE WHIMPERS
..gone?
You were the coroner who referred
Mr Brown's case to Professor Clune,
is that right? It is.
And what were your intentions?
My intentions were that he would
perform the minimum tests necessary
to ascertain cause of death.
So, in your opinion, was there any
justification for using the samples
passed on by you in his research?
He would have needed
to get additional consent
to use tissue for research purposes.
As far as I am aware, he didn't
approach my office about this,
and all samples should have
been returned at the end of the
postmortem, or disposed of.
And in your opinion, was there any
way that Lionel Clune could have
understood Amelia Brown's letter
as consent for him to do that?
The technical answer is no.
A consent form and a letter
are two different things,
however pleading the letter.
Thank you. No further questions.
Having said that,
I would like to stress my admiration
for Professor Clune
and the work he has done.
He is, without doubt, the most
committed neuropathologist I've had
the chance to work with as coroner,
and I don't believe for a second he
would have done anything
that wasn't
in the interests of the family.
Look, you know there was a WAE raid.
We need to get back in there and
work out what they did in response.
Wait until we've got a witness
to corroborate. Let's have a go at
Claire Ashern.
She isn't going to talk to the scum.
So there's no point in doing
anything! There's no point in doing
anything that wastes time.
Or that might upset your chums
up at Whittingdon? Please shut up.
Let's get Claire in here.
Come over here please, Claire.
You know her, don't you, Claire?
No, OK, come up here.
Claire!
How about him? Oh...Sam.
..Sam. Sam Priestley, WAE. Is this
the body of Sam Priestley, Claire?
Died from drowning, probably
after a whack over the head.
He was found lying face down
in a woodland stream.
Did you think he'd made it out?
Were they waiting for your friends?
Is that what happened?
Do you know her? Oh, Jesus...
How do YOU know her?
How does an animal rights activist
know the head of personnel
at Whittingdon?
Was Jackie feeding you information,
Claire? Was she Burney's mole?
I can't believe he killed her.
Who?
Who killed her?
Who killed Jackie, Claire?
Who do you mean? She means Hewitt.
Don't you? Do you, Claire? Do you
mean Hewitt?
If that's the case, can we go back to
Whittingdon,
so I can have another go at that
smug bastard? That won't work.
FENELLA: What shall I do?
Stop here.
Don't even think about it.
Look, look, he's coming towards us.
OK, go...
Slowly.
Don't look at him.
DOGS BARK IN DISTANCE
SHE COUGHS
Come on, Justine.
Just tell me where Robbie is. Hmm?
SHE CHOKES
Now he's taken something that
doesn't belong to him,
and you can't do that.
And now the owners want it back.
You do understand that, don't you?
Now we can stop this right now,
if you just tell me where he is.
Or, I can give you
a bit more of this.
But I've got to admit, Justine...
..it really isn't a fine art.
Now, you don't seriously want
to end up like Lisa, do you?
Hmm?
OK.
HE PANTS
Jackie Cooper was their
girl on the inside.
The WAE did carry out a raid
and Hewitt
is lying through his teeth.
If Traynor's theory about
activists killing each other off
is wrong, then who is it?
Who the hell is Smiley calling now?
It's a no, I'm afraid.
Oh, bloody hell.
Hewitt's got clout. We can bring him
in, but not without
rock solid evidence.
Get him to give us the evidence. If
you do that, you will end your
career in traffic control.
Sod my career. What matters is
finding Justine Finch and Nikki while
they're still alive!
You can't just blunder around
accusing people. Says the spook!
Hewitt's lying and you are as good as
protecting him...
I know as much as you do!
I'm assuming that you,
as a copper, know that you can't do
anything without physical evidence.
CAPSULE HISSES
Correct me if I'm wrong, but
whenever I've asked if prints could
be taken off a body,
I've always been
told it's practically impossible.
Do you have any better ideas?
What do I do?
What do I do?
Indicate and go round him.
I know you think I'm a bit crass, but
when I get up in the morning I know
I'm going
to do everything I can to catch
the people who do things like this.
It's as straightforward as that.
I wonder what Simon Traynor tells
himself when he wakes up? Exactly the
same thing, I should imagine.
Colin!
Fen, go forward. I can't...
They're blocking my road completely.
I can't...
Go forward.
I can't.
INAUDIBLE SPEECH
POLICE RADIO MESSAGES
That's her! Hey! Hey!
Drive, Fen, drive!
POLICE SIRENS
Drive, Fen. Fen, drive!
Go, go, go, Fen!
Into the trees, Fen!
PANICKED CRIES
So, in your opinion, what happened
when Professor Clune was given
these brain samples by the coroner?
In my opinion, Professor Clune did
what any other pathologist
in his position
ought to have done. Which is?
Everything he could to help this
family understand the disease that
killed their son
and find the breakthrough that would
stop other families
from suffering as they did.
Do you believe that Lionel Clune
breached his duty of care to Rufus's
remains and the rest of his family?
Well, in my opinion...
SYLVIA GASPS FOR BREATH
SHE MOUTHS
In my opinion, Amelia Brown's letter
amounted to consent,
because it was possible for
it to be read as consent.
Excuse me, but isn't that a little
cynical?
You know as well as I do that in
the past, consent was not an issue,
and the judgement of doctors
was trusted.
And who would want to ask
a bereaved relative
if they could take parts from
a dearly departed loved one?
We exercised discretion,
and our breakthroughs were
world-renowned and to me,
legality or illegality is not the
issue. Well, what is the issue?
Well, that we do not condemn
our most talented doctors to a
lifetime of impotence because of...
because of regulations,
when they are trying to push
medicine forward and...
and save lives.
That would be the real travesty.
Thanks.
It's a tox report on Lisa Finch.
Very high levels of
sodium thiopental.
Isn't that what the Americans
use in the lethal injection? Yes.
And supposedly used as a
truth serum by Al-Qaeda.
What?
A member of one of our search teams
believes he may have
spotted Nikki in a car.
Going where?
They don't know.
Our officers tried to make it stop.
They found it crashed in woodland.
No sign of Nikki or anyone else.
They are narrowing the area. It won't
be long before they find her, Harry.
Do you want me to get you a...? No.
It's just...
Just...
I had a conversation
with her this morning which I...
..which I didn't finish.
Whoever's print it is,
it's not Hewitt's.
Or anyone else on the
criminal database.
Sorry.
THUNDER CRACKS
Ah! Sorry.
All they want to do is work
out who killed Lisa and find
Justine while she's still alive.
Isn't that what you want?
And the best chance you have of
doing that is to work with them.
Adrian, don't listen to her.
Can you walk? No, she can't. Can you
take her arm? Not unless it's to
a hospital.
Bloody Robbie. He should have
listened to you. Ever since
everything's wrong. Quiet, Fen.
We need to move. Adrian, you
can't do this all by yourself.
If the police get to Robbie before
I do, he will clam up, and whatever
time Justine has left will be gone.
So take her arm and help me
to carry her, please!
She needs medical attention.
OK. Fine. You do that.
You'll have Justine's blood on
your hands. Do you want that?
I'm the one that can fix this.
Ah!
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
Hi. How are you doing?
Nikki is missing...
Yeah.
We think she may have been abducted.
She's going in. OK.
Leo, sorry, I have to go.
Do you want me to come over?
I can get an adjournment. No, no.
Let me try one more thing first.
I'll call you back.
Bye.
Well...we seem to be winning
the moral argument, anyway.
Wouldn't you say?
Will you all take your seats? This
hearing will resume in one minute!
Are you OK? Yes, yes. I'm fine.
Is Sylvia all right? Oh, she's great.
Feeling better now we
can see an end in sight. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure. Will you all
take your seats, please?
Leo...what's on your mind?
Hello, Claire.
I'm here to explain
something to you.
We now know that no-one
in your organisation is
responsible for these murders.
You're all on record and the print
we've got doesn't match.
So there we are.
Now, whoever is responsible...
..there is no way
that you are going to beat them,
because you are a bunch of kids.
And it looks like they intend
to take you out one by one.
ON SPEAKER: Ordinarily, I would
just say that's your business.
But today, one of my colleagues
has gone missing.
And I don't know whether she is with
your group or with someone else.
But all I do know is that
the only person who can help
me find that out right now...
is you.
I'm sorry.
Claire, I know how you feel
about the police, and I know
how you feel about your...war.
But the only lives that are at stake
right now are the lives of people.
People, Claire.
Now all I'm asking is that you put
aside your ideas long enough, that
we can make sure that...
people that you and I care about
don't end up on a slab, like Sam.
TAPPING ON GLASS
What is it? Nikki's phone's been
used. Did you get a location?
Nothing there.
If the phone gets used again
we'll know right away. Who's Nikki?
She's the girl I've been talking
to you about.
Is she...is she the pathologist
who came to talk to me this morning?
Yes, Claire, her. Nikki.
Nikki is missing.
If you don't tell me what you know,
I've no way of knowing
whether she's alive or dead
or whether I'm ever gonna see her
again.
So, please, Claire,
can you just help me?
Please?
Claire, you are hindering a police
investigation into THREE murders!
And if, as a result of that,
anything happens to Nikki,
I will make sure that you
never forget it. Do you understand?
Please!
Please...please...
Don't make the stupid conversation I
had with her this morning,
the last conversation
I ever had with her. Please.
I saw them at the house.
What?
Who, Claire? Who did you see?
Hewitt.
Where?
At Jackie's house.
I went there after the raid,
to find out if she'd betrayed us.
And when I got there, Hewitt
was coming out with another man.
Get her a brief and we'll take
her statement. We've got him!
Thank you. I've got the OK to
put pressure on Hewitt.
I should think so.
This is a cast-iron eyewitness. She's
a terrorist, he's a CEO.
Her word against his. Look, I'm
going to go up and see Hewitt.
Just me. Don't you...
I know you want to book him, but
there are powerful people up to
their necks over Whittingdon.
So what are you suggesting,
we let him off?
If there's a cover-up, then I've
got the access to deal with it.
Let me go there on my own,
and if he's guilty,
I'll bring you his head
on a silver platter.
Fine.
And that's the last
we shall see of him.
Keep hold of her one second.
Robbie?
Robbie?
Robbie!
Robbie!
Why, you idiot!
How many times did I tell him
what would happen if he went ahead?
Let's go in here.
But it doesn't matter, does it?
Because the point is not to
achieve anything, the point is to
become a bloody martyr! You idiot!
You idiot! You idiot!
Robbie!
Where are you?
What is this?
Can I use your phone? What?
Can I use your phone?
ROBBIE!
Please. I need to call my parents.
Please.
ROBBIE!
APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS
Come on. How does it feel now? It
hurts really bad. Can you stand?
I really don't advise that. Shut up!
Try again. Come on. Try.
Honestly, I can't.
OK. We'll rest. We'll rest for a
bit and then we'll set off again.
Can't you see,
she's not fit enough to go anywhere?
I really think you need to get her to
a hospital soon.
Not till we've found Robbie.
You keep saying that, why don't
you look for him?!
He's near here.
I just don't know where exactly.
She knows something.
What do you know?
The sooner you tell me,
the sooner Fen gets to a hospital.
This.
There was something like this under
Lisa's fingernails. And under Sam's.
This, or something like this?
I don't know.
I would if I saw it.
You're coming with me.
Will you be OK?
I'll be back to get you
as soon as we're done,
I promise.
See you later, then.
Right, let's go.
Come on!
It's all right.
Not long now.
Be out in a few hours.
Where is he? Where's Robbie? Where
can I find Robbie? Come on,
where is he?
MOBILE RINGS
Yeah?
Where have you been?
Say hello. I've been with him the
whole day.
There's been no way I could call.
So what's happening? Fen?
Where are you now?
Yeah, and where's that?
Yeah, I know...
OK. Dump the phone.
Did you hear that, Justine?
It's all...over.
Justine?
Screw you.
You know what...
..you really are a soldier.
There's one thing I don't get.
Why didn't you go on the raid?
Something didn't smell right.
We'd been under surveillance. Maybe
we were compromised, I don't know.
You don't seem the type to be
easily put off. It's more than that.
The WAE is all over. The days of
sleeping rough
and climbing over barbed-wire fences
have gone.
So what changed?
We can win this war, but only
if we see the bigger picture.
Strategy, organisation...
We're targeting the suppliers,
financiers, the support mechanisms
around these places.
With marketing and better PR we're
raising the profile.
We have to be more than mindless
vandals,
we have to engage with the
process to win hearts and minds.
And nobody needs to get hurt.
I'm going to law school. I've been
offered a place in Toronto.
They won't be able to write me off
as an extremist when I'm in a suit
facing them across a courtroom.
When I can look and sound like them,
and still shred them to pieces,
that's when I'll be
really dangerous.
What about Fenella?
She's coming with me.
You recognise it?
Yeah, that's it.
Then I know where we're going.
And after the letter, did you have
any other contact with Amelia Brown?
No.
So, she didn't have any anxieties
about what she'd written to you or
what might have happened?
No.
Why do you think you're here today,
Professor? I've no idea.
My entire life, my entire working
life,
has been in the service of
Amelia Brown and people like her.
All I've ever done is try
to understand a disease that...
takes children and parents
away from each other,
husbands and wives,
in the hope that one
day it might be stopped.
Do you believe that you breached
your duty of care to Rufus Brown,
or to any other of the samples
in your care during this time?
Each one of us has
their own moral boundary,
inside themselves.
But I wanted to go so much further.
I wanted to give the
mother of that boy, answers.
I wanted to tell her that
no-one else would suffer like her.
But I didn't.
I went as far as I believed I could.
I have no other questions.
THEY WHISPER
All right, when we reconvene,
I think the panel would like
to hear from Professor Leo Dalton.
You understand you're under caution?
All right then, Claire,
from the beginning.
We'd heard this rumour that
Whittingdon were using animals to
evolve their own HN51 virus,
to get ahead in the race for
a vaccine.
They have...furnaces at the back,
where they dispose of the animals.
We'd noticed they were going
24 hours a day.
Who had the idea for the raid,
Claire?
Jackie made contact.
She told us she'd been
waiting for a chance to help
and that she could get us in there.
She wasn't a member of the WAE? No.
But after she saw what happened
there, she started to sympathise.
As we started planning, we could
all see that Adrian was uneasy.
He and Robbie started fighting.
Eventually it got
so bad they called a meeting.
About whether or not to go in?
And Adrian stood up and he told us
that he'd been thinking about it
for a long time and he'd realised
that violence wasn't
getting us anywhere any more.
Robbie was so...committed.
And after the meeting he
said he was going in anyway.
He called Adrian a sellout,
and when he said that
anyone who
really cared about what Whittingdon
was doing had to come with him...
Nobody felt they could disagree.
I didn't want to betray Adrian.
I went along with Robbie but...
somehow I knew
something would go wrong.
That's why I called Adrian
when I found Lisa's body.
Hewitt! Sir! Just a moment, please.
It's OK.
Do you know the police have a
witness putting you at
Jackie Cooper's murder?
If you'd had the good sense to turn
up on your own, you could have
saved a lot of time.
I would have told you.
You would have realised that we
have nothing to hide from each other.
You do understand that
I'm not on your side.
I'm not here to help.
You have to realise we've
been working on probably the most
important health project
in the world right now.
Call the number. See if they
say you should bring me in.
Vulnerable people depend on our work.
Do you expect us not to
protect it against these idiots?
These terrorists?
In fact, isn't that your job?
Call the number.
The vaccines we're developing
could save millions of lives.
Oh, but this isn't about
saving millions of lives, is it?
It's about the share price.
Call the number.
Even the man they gave us.
He's one of yours.
Leo?
What is it?
Try to remember how it felt.
To have a cause, Leo.
To have a purpose.
Where is Robbie now? Claire!
Where's he been hiding
since the raid? I don't know.
I know he had a base he'd made.
In the woods.
He met Sam and Lisa there. I joined
them at the Whittingdon perimeter.
I promise you, I don't know.
Mumford!
Yes, I'm looking for the
results of a sample filed by
Dr Nikki Alexander this morning.
It was residue found under
the fingernails of a body.
No, THIS morning! This morning!
Sorry. Yep.
Yep. ..Got a pen?
Mm-hm.
Yep.
It's a lichen.
It's called Xanthoria wragiensis,
which is a form of hooded sunburst.
Apparently it's extremely
rare in the Southeast.
The labs are checking where.
This is Simon Traynor.
We know who you are. Hewitt will
show you where the agent is.
Get him out before the police get
near him and stop being such
a bloody fool.
What about the girl?
PHONE CLICKS
Where is he?
Robbie?
Robbie?
I didn't think it'd be you.
Who's that?
She's a friend.
Well, you did it. No, we did it.
They don't look like a million quid's
worth, but I think they're OK.
Well done, mate.
They were waiting for
us, but I got them.
I bloody got them.
None of the others showed up.
How bad is it?
Very bad.
Lisa's dead.
And Sam.
Claire and Justine?
Claire's with the police.
She's a good girl.
She won't tell them anything.
We've got to stop this, Robbie.
We have to sort out this mess.
Whittingdon have got Justine.
We can save her. How?
No way.
She's one of us, Robbie.
Yeah, and she always knew
there might be losses.
Can't you see, Robbie?
We can never beat them like this.
We will lose. It'll end up
looking like we're the savages.
Maybe we have to be savages to win.
If Justine dies, it will be to save
millions. Millions of animal lives.
This isn't about millions any more.
This is about her.
Can you look me in the eye
and say this is worth it?
Robbie, look at me.
It's easy for you, isn't it?
No, Robbie, it isn't easy.
But it's the only thing we can do.
RUSTLING
OK. We've got 17 possible locations
for hooded sunburst.
Anything near Robbie's caravan?
Yep. Four miles away.
Hi, it's Harry. Have you found
Justine? I'm going in now.
Justine?
I've found her.
But there's no-one else here.
Is she still alive?
Barely.
We know where they are.
We've got a map reference.
Tell me where. Because if I'm nearby
there's a chance I can get there
before you.
987638.
OK.
They made us do it.
They forced to act like this.
Ambulance, please? What are you
doing? You make sure that
girl gets to a hospital.
I do this, she lives.
Hello there.
Yeah, ambulance, please.
He is a very gifted pathologist,
who's utterly committed to his work
and to the benefits it brings.
So, for as long as you've known
Lionel Clune, his only motivation
has been to help people
through his research?
I would say so. Yes. Yes.
Thank you.
Professor Dalton, does that
justify his actions in this case?
Well, as a pathologist I
understand why he did what he did.
But Professor Dalton, do you think
that Lionel Clune breached
his duty of care
to Rufus Brown and his family?
I...
Well...
most of my work is on the
forensic side,
which means that I spend a lot of
time with
what I've heard referred to
all day here, as "the public".
The truth is that there's no such
thing as "the public".
Just individual men and women such
as Amelia Brown. Ordinary people
at the mercy of our decisions.
And that is why the law must
be upheld, because without it,
there's nothing to protect them from
what we happen to decide
may be right or wrong for them.
I ask again. Do you think Lionel
Clune breached his duty of care
to Rufus Brown and his family?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
THEY WHISPER
Thank you. No further questions.
WHISPERING CONTINUES
Adrian!
Fen?
Are those the animals?
Put the sack on the ground.
Fen, are you OK?
What's going on?
Go on, tell him.
Just give it to him,
Adrian, please.
They'll let you go, and Justine.
Just give him the animals.
Cos you see, the thing is...
If she'd gone to bed
with him instead of you,
we could have wrapped this whole
thing up the night they broke in.
Fen?
Why did you...? I didn't
know it would go this far.
Adrian, what are we doing?
Come on. Hand over the animals and
we can make like this
never happened.
No. Where's Justine?
Safe.
You can have her back.
We don't know if she's still alive.
She was when I left her.
She is. Adrian, believe me,
I spoke to her.
Adrian, she's lying.
Come on.
Open the bag.
Open the bag.
Open the bag!
Yeah. Good call.
SIRENS
And there's the police.
Right, you go and tell
them where we are...
Dr Alexander.
VOICES IN DISTANCE
No.
OK.
SIRENS GETTING LOUDER
Robbie.
Oh, no!
Adrian?
Nikki?
I did what I could.
Well, having heard the
evidence put before us,
the panel has reached its decision.
And this is
that in respect of the human remains
left in his responsibility
by the coroner in August 2003,
Lionel Clune
did breach his duty of care.
And in line with the penalties
that are attached to this offence,
Professor Clune is
suspended from all research,
for a period of five years.
Well done, Leo...
you've just put back the cause
of motor neurone disease research
by five years.
INAUDIBLE
It's a good job.
You should take it.
The reason I didn't tell
you about it is that I was
scared you'd say that.
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