Silent Witness (1996–…): Season 26, Episode 2 - The Penitent - Part 2 - full transcript
When a man is thrown from a high-rise building, the team are propelled into the criminal underworld of a notorious mafia group, the Ndrangheta. Aided by the National Crime Agency, Nikki and her team set about uncovering the truth....
You think this is murder? Do you
know what the 'Ndrangheta is?
They're Mafia? They're
hacking us, the 'Ndrangheta.
Could Christopher be in
there? You mean in them.
Christ, yes. Who's Stephen Ross?
His wife and his daughter
have gone missing.
Two men are dead,
all because of you.
Do you think it's important?
A dying man swallowed it.
You're Serena. Stephen
Ross is your father.
You want me to kill your father?
♪ Testator silens
♪ Costestes e spiritu
♪ Silencium
♪ Testator silens... ♪
The 'Ndrangheta aren't
like the Sicilians.
They don't truss you up
like a chicken and leave you
at the side of the
road for all to see.
If they want you gone,
you're never seen again.
What do they want?
They want us to
leave them alone.
Would that be so bad?
Hundreds of billions of
dirty money, right here.
If they get what they want,
they'd let that woman
and her daughter go?
Naomi and Serena?
We all decide what
we're willing to do,
what we'll risk to save others.
I've got a job to do.
And so have you.
PHONE PINGS
Nikki, we're ready for you.
Nikki.
SHE BREATHES ERRATICALLY
This accounts for barely 1% of
what we've seen on the SD card.
I need names for these numbers.
HE SHOUTS IN ITALIAN
I'm an intermediary. I
don't work with real names.
I get a first name
and a meeting point.
Don't piss me around, Stephen.
I take it from Pietro
and give it to Paolo. OK?
Keeps it all nice and safe.
Keeps me safe too. Where's
the real money, Stephen?
Where's my wife? Where's Serena?
Sua madre? Sua sorella?
Dove sono? Huh?
Organic material is
quickly dissolved.
12 hours for muscle
and cartilage,
about two days for bone.
Can you get DNA from this?
DNA is organic by its nature.
But there might still be
some larger bone fragments
with mitochondrial DNA,
depending how long the
remains have been in the acid.
Yep. Either way, he's
all there, right, Velvy?
Everything he was
is in that barrel.
In there.
Why do they do it?
I mean, like this?
To make our job harder.
Conceal the identity of the
victim and the perpetrator.
And maybe just because.
Old Testament, isn't it?
Wrath and vengeance.
Jack. A manifestation of might.
My rabbi taught that when
God closed the Red Sea
around the Egyptians, it
wasn't just to let us escape,
It was also to tell
them not to follow us.
A warning.
"Manifestation of Might".
Pigs, drones and
acid. What's next?
It's a coronary stent.
Calamari?
Looks like a gastric band.
So a once obese victim
with a dodgy heart?
Do you think we'll be able
to find a cause of death?
A loud noise would have done it.
Like you always say,
isn't it? Perfect murder.
Find out what's ailing
them and use that.
Sure you're OK?
Why wouldn't I be?
Oh, you know, you've just done a
postmortem on a liquified
human being. You seemed, uh...
Fine. I'm fine, Jack.
Bollocks. Sorry, got to go.
Salbutamol.
PHONE BUZZES
I'm begging you.
It's him or us.
I made you a cappuccino.
Thanks, Velvy.
There were six cardiac
stents in the acid.
Only 700 people in the
UK have more than five.
I've started cross-referencing
with gastric bands.
Thank you for
letting me do this.
Most of our placements
are students on rotation,
and most of them can't
wait to get out of here.
Clarissa found you, didn't she?
She said I was crazy
enough to work here.
Sounds a bit like Clarissa.
I think it was a compliment.
For sure.
It means you're a bit like her.
You left everything behind.
Jack calls it living the dream.
Don't you miss it? Your family?
I miss it all. I miss my life.
Not only that...
..I miss my God.
He was always there for me.
These people we're
investigating,
they'd die rather than turn
their backs on their community.
Or kill.
Do people really do that?
Kill to protect the
people they love?
Isn't that the only
motive that makes sense?
PHONE BUZZES
Your phone. Hmm?
Oh.
PHONE RINGS
Jack?
RINGING CONTINUES
Who are you?
Where's Jack?
Nikki.
You all right?
You weren't answering your
phone. I left my phone here.
There's some strange
guy in your house.
He's not strange. He's Eddie.
Eddie saved my life.
From the House of
Horrors to The Money Pit.
What is it?
Jesus Christ.
Who took that? I don't know.
We've got to tell
Laine. This is crazy.
They've been in your
house, your bedroom.
What do they want? I don't know.
To scare the shit out of us?!
It's working.
You should stay here.
For now at least.
Do you think so?
Yeah, your place isn't safe.
You could move in here.
I mean, I know it's a weird
time to ask that, but...
I think we should be together.
That girl, Chloe...
Did you hear what I said?
They said they'd kill her
and anyone close to her.
They'll do the same to us,
Jack. You do understand?
None of us are safe.
You're not safe.
PHONE RINGS
Unless...
Unless what?
PHONE RINGS What do
they want, Nikki?
Hi, Velvy.
Dr Alexander, uh,
I think I've...
Andrew Melville?
Six stents and a gastric band.
He didn't show up
for work on Monday.
He's an estate agent.
Commercial property
up in Peterborough,
specialised in distribution
centres, big box sites.
Construction, land deals,
they're all ways of
integrating layered money.
Bad money made good.
So why kill him? You said they
don't do that unless they have to.
Maybe Stephen Ross knows him. He
connects to the other dead men.
Stephen doesn't know anyone.
That's what keeps him alive.
Well, he must know something.
Why would they take
his wife and daughter?
I've met her. What?
His daughter, she was
pretending to be a student.
You didn't tell me about this.
I didn't know it then, but
she's Stephen Ross's daughter.
And you kept it quiet? Nikki...
She begged me!
She said they'd kill
her, kill her mother.
They threatened me. They've been
in my house, for God's sake!
Why didn't you tell me about
her? I could protect you.
Really? Like you
protected Christopher?
We're all on our own.
Every one of us.
Andrew Melville,
how sure are you?
His parents live in Harpenden.
We'll get a sample
from them tomorrow.
I'm assigning you protective
officers, here and at home.
You too. Don't want to.
No-one threatened me.
If Serena Ross comes near
you again, we'll take her in.
But they'll kill her mother.
I'll save the ones I can see.
Why aren't you on
your way to Harpenden?
Why would I go there?
The DNA sample, the
body in the barrel.
Oh, I decided not to go.
Why?
Uh, Andrew Melville's parents
are both blood group O.
But Andrew was AB.
Can't be. Group O parents
have Group O kids.
So he was adopted?
They're making me
take the tube to work,
break up my routines.
Where are you?
Checking something out.
Well, you shouldn't be going
anywhere without protection either.
I'll be fine. I'm
going to church.
I was looking for
Father Strangio.
He's not here.
He's not very well.
Father Michael will
be in later for mass.
I wanted to ask about an adoption
that the church organised.
I think the child lived
here in the group home.
The group home? That
was a long time ago.
Who are you? My
name's Jack Hodgson.
I'm a forensic scientist,
working with the police.
Were you here back then?
I was baptised here.
The boy's name was
Andrew Melville,
but his birth name
was Andrea Conti.
I don't remember
the name. Sorry. OK.
I don't suppose it
was anything good?
Those boys came
here on their own,
five, six years
old, babies almost.
Some of them didn't speak
a word for two years.
You knew them?
Orphans from Calabria.
They were sent
here after the war.
What war?
Not a war exactly, but
lots of killing back then.
His father, the man
who adopted him,
sent me this.
I remember.
Do you want to see?
PHONE RINGS
Hello? SERENA: Dr Alexander.
Where are you? Are you OK?
There's no more time.
You have to find him.
You have to do it.
Please.
Tell them you'll do it. I can't.
You'll do the postmortem.
They will come for everyone
you love, until you do it.
Nikki, help me! Help
me, Nikki! Help me!
She's over there!
Help her, please!
Nikki! Help me!
No!
Nikki. Serena?!
Do it now, Nikki.
Before they hurt
someone you love.
Everything from the group
home is still down here.
Andrea.
Andrea Conti.
Andrea didn't talk, but he ate.
Like it would keep
him safe somehow.
They were in a terrible state.
Some of them were found in the
mountains, living like animals.
Father Strangio insisted we
took them in, built them up.
This church is named
for Saint Gerolamo -
he protects orphans.
We tried to find them all homes.
The girls got adopted quickly,
but the boys...
I know him.
Stefano.
He's Stephen Ross now.
He was mischief.
Everybody loved him.
That's Andrea.
Was there an Anthony? Antonio?
The boy I'm looking for
was called Drinkwater.
SHE LAUGHS
What is it?
Bevilacqua. Drink-Water.
Antonio Bevilacqua.
HE EXHALES SHARPLY
They were all here.
All the boys.
Can I help?
I'm good at finding things.
All of it is new to me, you see.
It says that you need
gloves for those.
Thanks.
Actually, Velvy, could you get
me a file from the Montagu case.
It was an RTC back in May.
RTC - Road Traffic
Collision, right?
The Montagu case.
Oh, actually, Velvy, could you
leave it on my desk, please?
They were all at
the same group home.
Orphans from some Mafia war.
The Italian church took them
in, tried to find them families.
They all grew up together? Yeah.
What happened in that place?
Why does someone want
these kids dead, Nikki?
Are you OK?
Not really.
What did Serena want?
Why are they paying
you so much attention?
You mean what's so
special about me?
They want us to stop.
Drop the investigation.
We must be getting close. Close
to what? Ending up in a ditch?
There are 11 kids
in this picture.
One took his own
life in jail in '04,
four went back to Italy, one
died of a stroke years ago.
Two are in pieces in our cold
store and one's in your custody.
That leaves these two.
Frank was in and out of care,
but I can't trace him
beyond the age of 18.
And if Ludo was adopted, I
can't find any trace of him.
We need to speak
to Stephen Ross.
I'll talk to him.
I connected with
him at the farm,
and I've met his daughter.
I think he might talk to me.
Has Stephen told you much?
He's holding out on us.
Until you find Naomi and Serena.
They're gone.
The sooner he realises it and
you accept it, the better.
And if they get to
Stephen and his son?
They won't. That's
why this is necessary.
I don't want to go.
Can you take me back?
That claustrophobia
you're feeling,
we're in their world now.
Hold there.
Arms apart.
Pocket, please.
Oh, sorry.
She's good. She's
good. Let her through.
I hadn't seen Antonio
since we were kids,
but I'd never hurt him.
But he died trying
to get away from you.
He knew he was going to die.
I was sent to the
bank to collect him.
With a fake ID.
Guilty.
And the other victim, Conti.
I haven't seen Andrea
either, since the home.
What about the rest?
Listen,
I left the group home
when I was eight.
I finished school in Italy. OK?
I heard Bobby had a
stroke. He was just a kid.
His sister got a rich
family, left him behind.
This one?
I don't remember any Ludo.
The only one I saw was Franco,
when he needed something.
Where's Franco now?
Dead. An overdose.
An overdose?
Really?
That's three dead.
Why are they killing you all?
You're a goddamn
goldfish, Stephen.
You open your mouth,
and you say nothing!
Maybe he's a plant.
Him and the SD card,
just to screw with us.
Let's go and get
something to eat.
The boy's getting worse.
They said they'd help.
You said you'd help them.
Why don't you tell
them what you know?
And then what?
They are the real
power, the 'Ndrangheta.
They decide, not the
police, not any of you.
They have the money,
so they have the power.
And that makes what
they do all right?
Of course it does!
Enough money makes
everything all right.
You think you're seeing the
real world, clean streets,
shiny buildings.
What do you think
pays for it? Huh?
This is the most corrupt
country on Earth.
You don't make nothing here.
You don't build anything. You
just make money from money.
And most of that money is crime.
Tell me about your
crimes, Stephen.
I'm a middle-man. I
drive, I carry, I forget.
So your conscience is clear?
I'm not smart enough or rich
enough for a conscience.
I do what others tell me to do.
Whatever they tell you to do?
Drive, carry... kill?
Fuck you.
Is Laine right
about the SD card?
Is it worthless?
I don't think so.
I think it's real.
So tell her.
I'm begging you, Stephen.
Maybe they can finish this,
bring her home. Serena...
You gave Laine the money exchange
ring, and then you shut up shop.
Why give her that
and not the rest?
Unless...
Unless you really don't know.
You can't tell them what
the big numbers mean
because you don't know.
Just a middleman.
I'm an ignorant man,
and I thought my ignorance
would keep us alive.
I was wrong.
And now I'm a ghost.
An empty shell.
So why don't you do what
you came here to do?
What?
You're just a pathologist.
There's no good reason
for you to be here.
I'm here to talk to you.
Did they send Serena to you?
It's what they do.
I could tell you met her.
When you said her name, I knew.
I don't know what you're
talking about. It's OK.
It's OK.
I know why you're here.
Give it to me, whatever it is.
They threaten your
family? Your husband?
I don't have a family.
You have someone you care about.
Yes.
It will all be over.
They'll release my
family. Release you.
Will they?
It's business.
A transaction for them.
Give it to me.
I'll take it, whatever it is.
I can't.
It doesn't matter.
What do you mean?
They wouldn't rely only on you.
They just needed
you to come here.
What?
They've been watching
you, every step.
You should go right now,
before they get here.
Go.
Go.
Can you take my boy, please?
Stephen, I...
Laine!
FAINT CHATTER
ALARM RINGS
I think I was followed.
They know where we are.
Give me your jacket.
But you searched me, scanned me.
This is what they want from you.
Ma'am.
It's a sleeper.
It didn't register
when we scanned you.
Shit.
Dad? Luca!
Where's my dad?
In this one. No, no, no.
He's not coming with me.
Tutto bene, tutto bene.
It's OK, Luca.
Papa! Papa! In you get.
Papa!
What's happening? Why
aren't the gates opening?
The override's not working.
THEY SHOUT
Talk to me! What's happening?
Guys, get these gates open now!
All right, move it manually.
Manuel override! West
perimeter, clear!
What's happening?
Why have we stopped?
What's happening? SHOUTING
Alpha two, split left.
Alpha three, stay with me.
RADIO CHATTER
Is it true he'd have been
dead before he hit the bottom?
Anthony?
It's just something people say.
He was alive all the
way down, 50 floors.
I couldn't stop him.
He was... Afraid of you?
You're not an intermediary.
You're the grim bloody reaper.
Luca? Are you OK?
Parked car, left
verge, 200 metres.
Possible explosive device.
Alpha Two, move up.
Copy that, received.
Joe, hang back.
Swing out!
Anthony ran because he
knew he was going to die.
They were going to kill you too.
Anthony, Androu, Franco and you.
I told you, Franco
had an overdose.
Oh, come on, Stephen. Wake up!
What happened back then?
What the hell?
Oh, shit!
We need to get out
of here! Shut up.
Shh.
Help! Help!
DEVICE BEEPS
EXPLOSION
You can't go through yet.
Was she inside? Is she in there?
It could be wired!
Nikki! Get that
cordon back in place.
Nikki.
Where is she?!
What are you doing?
His gun's missing.
His number two's
not accounted for.
What happened?
Could someone have
walked away from this?
I don't know.
I don't know what happened!
We need to get
you to a hospital.
No, no. No, no.
Can't go to a hospital.
They'll check there.
They'll do everything
cops do, only better.
We're going to need help.
Ugh.
Ugh.
No!
No!
Off-grid.
Do you understand?
Do you want to stay alive?
Ugh!
You saved me.
I don't want anyone
else on my conscience.
You knew what to do.
How come?
Don't answer that.
E normale. Protect
yourself from the blast,
escape through
the hole it makes.
And that's normal?
Is that the policeman's gun?
We've got £70 and
three credit cards.
Are you crazy?! Huh?
I don't want anyone
to die, either.
How were you going to do it?
What?
Kill me.
I wasn't.
Liar.
You have asthma.
The Salbutamol in your inhaler
eases your lung passages.
Berricane does the opposite.
You want to know about
death, call a professional.
You would have flatlined,
but I'd have been there.
And once we'd got
you to hospital...
Your phone will have
connected to the network.
We need to keep moving.
I need to call my colleague.
I can use a payphone.
He can help.
No.
We're more than just colleagues.
No. Our only way is
to stay off grid.
To do what?
Stay away, stay alive.
While I'm still here,
it will keep Naomi
and Serena alive.
That's it? That's your plan?
Until a better plan gets here.
This thing,
it didn't start with
Anthony Drinkwater, did it?
Did Franco Cesarano
die before Anthony?
I told you Franco wasn't killed.
He was an addict. So
just a coincidence?
You know, we have a
saying in our business,
once is happenstance,
twice is a coincidence,
three times is a criminal act.
I saw him, Franco.
What? I helped them bury him.
Where?
Where did you bury him?
The trajectory, exit wound
and pattern of internal trauma
is inconsistent with a 15
degree external close shot.
Who's he? A professor.
He knows what he's doing.
Your officer, the driver, it was
a close shot from the left side.
You know what that means?
He was shot from inside
the cab by one of ours.
You knew, didn't you?
We keep this between us.
We keep everything between us
until I know who we can trust.
I swear to God, if...
It's Nikki's.
We found it in woods by the
road about a mile from the van.
We don't have the code.
She's alive.
She survived the blast.
Where the hell is she?
One thing at a time, Jack.
That's right. You only care
about the ones you can see.
STEPHEN: Last time I saw
Franco, he was doing better.
He kept saying he'd been
clean for nine months.
You didn't think it strange,
him falling off the wagon?
No. He'd been using on
and off for 20 years.
Sad, but not strange.
What is this? Stay there.
Don't worry. The
undertaker's a human being.
I mean, one of ours.
The chemical composition
from the blast site.
Sentilium micrate,
military grade.
Maybe they stole
it from the army?
They didn't need to.
The 'Ndrangheta run a
sideline in arms sales,
supplied both sides
in the Syrian war.
You're not used to not
knowing things, are you?
Is that... Nikki's.
I'm still waiting for the tyre
tracks from the extraction point.
What the hell's wrong with them?
Don't they want to find her?
She was sending you a text.
You were the first thing
that she thought about.
I'm her weakness.
It doesn't sound
like that to me.
It sounds like you
give her strength.
Give me a hand.
Why go to all this trouble
if it was an overdose?
The dead can still be useful
if no-one knows they're dead.
They can apply for
credit cards, mortgages,
they can be company directors.
Christ.
That's not why they
put Franco here.
That's blunt force trauma.
There's a severe
wound to the head.
Multiple bruises and
lacerations to the face.
Franco was beaten.
Tortured too.
When I got there, they had
already wrapped him up.
And they said he'd overdosed.
Franco never hurt anyone.
When did you last see him?
Franco called me last week.
He wanted to meet.
He said he'd been
speaking to Anthony.
What did Anthony tell him?
You don't get it,
Franco was like that.
Always showing up
looking for money.
We were all planted here.
Some grew high. Anthony got
to the top of the tower.
And others didn't grow so well.
Like Franco.
Like me.
So who dies next, Stephen?
It's someone from that photo.
Where are you going?
I need to piss.
Is that all right with you?
Oh, shit.
Stephen!
Leave me alone.
I can't. It's the only
thing I can give my family.
They will leave them alone.
And you too. Give
it to me, Stephen.
I'm not a good man.
I let down my family
and my friends.
I've hurt people. I've killed.
I don't want to hear this.
Franco wasn't like
me. He was good.
Remembered the kids' birthdays.
He was the only one who
kept up with Roberto.
Bobby? He was the one...
The one who had a stroke?
Bobby always had fits.
There was an operation,
his sister got it.
She was with a rich family.
Nobody wanted Bobby.
Did he have any other family?
I don't remember.
I was eight years old!
Do you know where he is now?
Why?!
He's no use to
you, he can't talk!
Can you take me to him?
No.
Can you stay
alive... until then?
Hello?
EDDIE: It's only me,
Jack. I'm upstairs.
This whole house is live.
I had to pull the
whole wiring loop out.
It's a death-trap. You work away,
I'm just grabbing something,
heading back to work.
You all right, boss?
WHISPERS: Fuck.
Velvy, did the tyre
track analysis come in?
Yeah, uh...
Pirelli P5s. Mm-hm.
Firestone Roadhawks.
Mm-hm. And Piak 4-2s.
I think I might have a lead
on the people who took Nikki.
I thought you said you was
going back to work, boss.
Oh, you were right,
I'm not feeling great.
Do you mind knocking
it on the head?
I just need to get some sleep.
Ah.
Feel better, boss.
BEEPING
This is private, expensive.
Someone's paying for him.
You won't tyre
Bobby out, will you?
He was quite upset
on the last visit.
Down the corridor. First
on the left. Thanks.
Christopher was here.
What, the undercover cop?
Why did he come here?
Bobby.
Roberto.
Sono io, Stefano.
Nikki. Very posh.
Only compared to you, Stephen.
IN ITALIAN:
My little boy.
IN ITALIAN:
It says he has moyamoya.
It's the disease that
caused his stroke.
I once saw a case of
moyamoya where all four kids
in the same family had it.
I remember Bobby's fits.
They used to tie
him down to the bed.
Terrible.
What if the reason they're targeting
the boys from the group home
isn't because of what you know?
It's who you know?
I need to speak to Laine.
Nikki. We can't do
this alone, Stephen.
We need help.
STEADY BEEPING
BEEPING GROWS FASTER
PHONE VIBRATES
Are you alone, Jack?
WHISPERS: Jesus,
Nikki. You're OK?
I'm safe, Jack. Have they
got you? Where are you?
I'm with Stephen, just us.
They left us for dead.
Jesus Christ. I've
been out of my mind.
I thought they'd taken
you like they took Serena.
I couldn't call you.
The police... Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I know, I know.
I don't know who we can trust.
I think I know what
this thing is about.
Anthony, the banker,
he knew someone at the top of the
'Ndrangheta's financial operation.
I think that's why the
'Ndrangetra are targeting
all the boys from back then.
They're trying to protect the
identity of their key asset.
Who is it? Who's the asset.
They could be listening, Jack.
Call Laine, only her.
Tell her I'm at the
Oak Hill nursing home.
Tell her I need her help.
I need her here.
OK. I've got to go. Nikki...
MUFFLED: She needs her insulin.
She's going to die
without it. Sit down.
Please.
STEADY BEEPING
IN ITALIAN:
IN ENGLISH: I got everything.
You got nothing.
I'm sorry.
They always said
you'd be my weakness.
That I'd have to lose you.
But I wouldn't listen.
I wouldn't let them hurt you...
Shh.
Shh.
LABOURED BREATHING
What do you want?
I'm doing it, aren't I?!
It's what you told me to do!
I'll get rid of all of them.
Anyone who knows who I am.
Bobby, Stefano,
that pathologist.
IN ITALIAN:
Police!
Put your hands over your head!
Don't touch him!
Don't touch my brother!
Hands are stable!
Thanks.
Area secured, over.
Your scar.
It's from moyamoya
disease, isn't it?
A wisp of smoke.
That's what the arteries
look like on my scan.
I got fixed.
Bobby didn't.
So the 'Ndrangeta chose
you from the group home.
Put you into the police.
We're not amateurs.
We grow our own.
All the way to the
top of the NCA.
You made sure that the police
never got to the real crimes,
kept them looking the other way.
You make it sound
so fucking easy.
Easy?
No.
You had to be two people.
A wisp of smoke.
Did Anthony recognise you?
He hadn't seen me since
I was five years old.
Ludo?
Ludovica? That was
enough to get him killed.
It is you, isn't it?
I think you've got
the wrong girl.
He told Franco.
We thought Ludo
was a boy's name.
Ludovica.
I didn't want them to get hurt.
They were my family.
Why me?
Why didn't you get rid
of Stephen yourself?
You see these hands?
Spotless.
The NCA's golden girl.
The 'Ndrangheta's golden asset.
I was a pretty good
cop. People died.
You helped them to kill.
They can be quite
persuasive, wouldn't you say?
FAINT: Look at her.
Thought you weren't
feeling too well, boss.
Ugh!
Put the gun down. All right. No.
Slowly.
Slow. Good.
You didn't even remember
me, did you, Stefano?
Ludovica. I was
just a little girl.
You let them kill
us all! Let them?!
You took my family! Like
any of us had a choice!
Call them. Now!
Call whoever you have to!
Tell them that
Stephen Ross is dead.
Tell them to let
Naomi and Serena go.
I have children and a husband.
Throw me in jail. I don't care.
Please! They'll do what you say.
No.
I won't talk.
I'm not like him.
I'm no penitent.
Ah!
GUNFIRE
Man down!
Get medics here, now!
It's OK.
NEWS: In a series of raids this
morning, City of London police
and the national crime
agency made several arrests
and seized financial records
at a number of city banks
and funds in connection with
international money laundering.
The Director General of the
National Crime Agency...
Announced they have
uncovered a major conspiracy
by the 'Ndrangheta,
an Italian Organised Crime
Group based in Calabria,
to launder billions of pounds from
the proceeds of criminal activity
through the City of London.
The evidence was
contained on a data card
recovered during an
undercover operation
that was believed to
have taken place...
I wanted to say goodbye.
I'm glad you did.
And I wanted to give you this.
They were going to kill us.
Your friend Jack too.
Then they just disappeared.
They got what they wanted.
My dad was dead.
How did they know?
They're everywhere, aren't they?
Are you safe now?
Are any of us?
They're not interested
in us any more, Nikki.
They've moved on.
Come on, Mum!
I used to hate my dad.
Then I walked in
his shoes for a bit.
I'm ashamed of what
I asked you to do.
But I was trying
to save my family.
So was he.
How much is a sofa like this?
I was thinking of
offering you a job,
but this sofa alone is a
month's budget at the Lyell.
Maybe you can get too
comfy on a sofa like that.
Then come and work
with us, Gabriel.
You mean for you?
No.
I mean, come and be our boss.
You should do that job.
You're by far the
most qualified.
Not me.
I know I can't do that stuff.
Budgets, funding rounds,
dealing with the politics?
Yeah. All that crap.
Do what you do here, but
this time for the angels.
I see.
You fancy a sofa
like this, do you?
I know you think it's indulgent,
but I need to be
free to do my work,
to put everything I am into it.
Hands on, right?
Elbow deep in viscera.
I saw the PM report you did on
the police driver that was shot.
You got straight off that
it was an inside job.
You're a good pathologist.
And I think I can
learn from you.
Even if I'll very
rarely listen to you.
That's quite the pitch.
Have a think about it.
What about your colleague?
Mr Hodgson.
What are you offering him?
I haven't worked
that one out yet.
know what the 'Ndrangheta is?
They're Mafia? They're
hacking us, the 'Ndrangheta.
Could Christopher be in
there? You mean in them.
Christ, yes. Who's Stephen Ross?
His wife and his daughter
have gone missing.
Two men are dead,
all because of you.
Do you think it's important?
A dying man swallowed it.
You're Serena. Stephen
Ross is your father.
You want me to kill your father?
♪ Testator silens
♪ Costestes e spiritu
♪ Silencium
♪ Testator silens... ♪
The 'Ndrangheta aren't
like the Sicilians.
They don't truss you up
like a chicken and leave you
at the side of the
road for all to see.
If they want you gone,
you're never seen again.
What do they want?
They want us to
leave them alone.
Would that be so bad?
Hundreds of billions of
dirty money, right here.
If they get what they want,
they'd let that woman
and her daughter go?
Naomi and Serena?
We all decide what
we're willing to do,
what we'll risk to save others.
I've got a job to do.
And so have you.
PHONE PINGS
Nikki, we're ready for you.
Nikki.
SHE BREATHES ERRATICALLY
This accounts for barely 1% of
what we've seen on the SD card.
I need names for these numbers.
HE SHOUTS IN ITALIAN
I'm an intermediary. I
don't work with real names.
I get a first name
and a meeting point.
Don't piss me around, Stephen.
I take it from Pietro
and give it to Paolo. OK?
Keeps it all nice and safe.
Keeps me safe too. Where's
the real money, Stephen?
Where's my wife? Where's Serena?
Sua madre? Sua sorella?
Dove sono? Huh?
Organic material is
quickly dissolved.
12 hours for muscle
and cartilage,
about two days for bone.
Can you get DNA from this?
DNA is organic by its nature.
But there might still be
some larger bone fragments
with mitochondrial DNA,
depending how long the
remains have been in the acid.
Yep. Either way, he's
all there, right, Velvy?
Everything he was
is in that barrel.
In there.
Why do they do it?
I mean, like this?
To make our job harder.
Conceal the identity of the
victim and the perpetrator.
And maybe just because.
Old Testament, isn't it?
Wrath and vengeance.
Jack. A manifestation of might.
My rabbi taught that when
God closed the Red Sea
around the Egyptians, it
wasn't just to let us escape,
It was also to tell
them not to follow us.
A warning.
"Manifestation of Might".
Pigs, drones and
acid. What's next?
It's a coronary stent.
Calamari?
Looks like a gastric band.
So a once obese victim
with a dodgy heart?
Do you think we'll be able
to find a cause of death?
A loud noise would have done it.
Like you always say,
isn't it? Perfect murder.
Find out what's ailing
them and use that.
Sure you're OK?
Why wouldn't I be?
Oh, you know, you've just done a
postmortem on a liquified
human being. You seemed, uh...
Fine. I'm fine, Jack.
Bollocks. Sorry, got to go.
Salbutamol.
PHONE BUZZES
I'm begging you.
It's him or us.
I made you a cappuccino.
Thanks, Velvy.
There were six cardiac
stents in the acid.
Only 700 people in the
UK have more than five.
I've started cross-referencing
with gastric bands.
Thank you for
letting me do this.
Most of our placements
are students on rotation,
and most of them can't
wait to get out of here.
Clarissa found you, didn't she?
She said I was crazy
enough to work here.
Sounds a bit like Clarissa.
I think it was a compliment.
For sure.
It means you're a bit like her.
You left everything behind.
Jack calls it living the dream.
Don't you miss it? Your family?
I miss it all. I miss my life.
Not only that...
..I miss my God.
He was always there for me.
These people we're
investigating,
they'd die rather than turn
their backs on their community.
Or kill.
Do people really do that?
Kill to protect the
people they love?
Isn't that the only
motive that makes sense?
PHONE BUZZES
Your phone. Hmm?
Oh.
PHONE RINGS
Jack?
RINGING CONTINUES
Who are you?
Where's Jack?
Nikki.
You all right?
You weren't answering your
phone. I left my phone here.
There's some strange
guy in your house.
He's not strange. He's Eddie.
Eddie saved my life.
From the House of
Horrors to The Money Pit.
What is it?
Jesus Christ.
Who took that? I don't know.
We've got to tell
Laine. This is crazy.
They've been in your
house, your bedroom.
What do they want? I don't know.
To scare the shit out of us?!
It's working.
You should stay here.
For now at least.
Do you think so?
Yeah, your place isn't safe.
You could move in here.
I mean, I know it's a weird
time to ask that, but...
I think we should be together.
That girl, Chloe...
Did you hear what I said?
They said they'd kill her
and anyone close to her.
They'll do the same to us,
Jack. You do understand?
None of us are safe.
You're not safe.
PHONE RINGS
Unless...
Unless what?
PHONE RINGS What do
they want, Nikki?
Hi, Velvy.
Dr Alexander, uh,
I think I've...
Andrew Melville?
Six stents and a gastric band.
He didn't show up
for work on Monday.
He's an estate agent.
Commercial property
up in Peterborough,
specialised in distribution
centres, big box sites.
Construction, land deals,
they're all ways of
integrating layered money.
Bad money made good.
So why kill him? You said they
don't do that unless they have to.
Maybe Stephen Ross knows him. He
connects to the other dead men.
Stephen doesn't know anyone.
That's what keeps him alive.
Well, he must know something.
Why would they take
his wife and daughter?
I've met her. What?
His daughter, she was
pretending to be a student.
You didn't tell me about this.
I didn't know it then, but
she's Stephen Ross's daughter.
And you kept it quiet? Nikki...
She begged me!
She said they'd kill
her, kill her mother.
They threatened me. They've been
in my house, for God's sake!
Why didn't you tell me about
her? I could protect you.
Really? Like you
protected Christopher?
We're all on our own.
Every one of us.
Andrew Melville,
how sure are you?
His parents live in Harpenden.
We'll get a sample
from them tomorrow.
I'm assigning you protective
officers, here and at home.
You too. Don't want to.
No-one threatened me.
If Serena Ross comes near
you again, we'll take her in.
But they'll kill her mother.
I'll save the ones I can see.
Why aren't you on
your way to Harpenden?
Why would I go there?
The DNA sample, the
body in the barrel.
Oh, I decided not to go.
Why?
Uh, Andrew Melville's parents
are both blood group O.
But Andrew was AB.
Can't be. Group O parents
have Group O kids.
So he was adopted?
They're making me
take the tube to work,
break up my routines.
Where are you?
Checking something out.
Well, you shouldn't be going
anywhere without protection either.
I'll be fine. I'm
going to church.
I was looking for
Father Strangio.
He's not here.
He's not very well.
Father Michael will
be in later for mass.
I wanted to ask about an adoption
that the church organised.
I think the child lived
here in the group home.
The group home? That
was a long time ago.
Who are you? My
name's Jack Hodgson.
I'm a forensic scientist,
working with the police.
Were you here back then?
I was baptised here.
The boy's name was
Andrew Melville,
but his birth name
was Andrea Conti.
I don't remember
the name. Sorry. OK.
I don't suppose it
was anything good?
Those boys came
here on their own,
five, six years
old, babies almost.
Some of them didn't speak
a word for two years.
You knew them?
Orphans from Calabria.
They were sent
here after the war.
What war?
Not a war exactly, but
lots of killing back then.
His father, the man
who adopted him,
sent me this.
I remember.
Do you want to see?
PHONE RINGS
Hello? SERENA: Dr Alexander.
Where are you? Are you OK?
There's no more time.
You have to find him.
You have to do it.
Please.
Tell them you'll do it. I can't.
You'll do the postmortem.
They will come for everyone
you love, until you do it.
Nikki, help me! Help
me, Nikki! Help me!
She's over there!
Help her, please!
Nikki! Help me!
No!
Nikki. Serena?!
Do it now, Nikki.
Before they hurt
someone you love.
Everything from the group
home is still down here.
Andrea.
Andrea Conti.
Andrea didn't talk, but he ate.
Like it would keep
him safe somehow.
They were in a terrible state.
Some of them were found in the
mountains, living like animals.
Father Strangio insisted we
took them in, built them up.
This church is named
for Saint Gerolamo -
he protects orphans.
We tried to find them all homes.
The girls got adopted quickly,
but the boys...
I know him.
Stefano.
He's Stephen Ross now.
He was mischief.
Everybody loved him.
That's Andrea.
Was there an Anthony? Antonio?
The boy I'm looking for
was called Drinkwater.
SHE LAUGHS
What is it?
Bevilacqua. Drink-Water.
Antonio Bevilacqua.
HE EXHALES SHARPLY
They were all here.
All the boys.
Can I help?
I'm good at finding things.
All of it is new to me, you see.
It says that you need
gloves for those.
Thanks.
Actually, Velvy, could you get
me a file from the Montagu case.
It was an RTC back in May.
RTC - Road Traffic
Collision, right?
The Montagu case.
Oh, actually, Velvy, could you
leave it on my desk, please?
They were all at
the same group home.
Orphans from some Mafia war.
The Italian church took them
in, tried to find them families.
They all grew up together? Yeah.
What happened in that place?
Why does someone want
these kids dead, Nikki?
Are you OK?
Not really.
What did Serena want?
Why are they paying
you so much attention?
You mean what's so
special about me?
They want us to stop.
Drop the investigation.
We must be getting close. Close
to what? Ending up in a ditch?
There are 11 kids
in this picture.
One took his own
life in jail in '04,
four went back to Italy, one
died of a stroke years ago.
Two are in pieces in our cold
store and one's in your custody.
That leaves these two.
Frank was in and out of care,
but I can't trace him
beyond the age of 18.
And if Ludo was adopted, I
can't find any trace of him.
We need to speak
to Stephen Ross.
I'll talk to him.
I connected with
him at the farm,
and I've met his daughter.
I think he might talk to me.
Has Stephen told you much?
He's holding out on us.
Until you find Naomi and Serena.
They're gone.
The sooner he realises it and
you accept it, the better.
And if they get to
Stephen and his son?
They won't. That's
why this is necessary.
I don't want to go.
Can you take me back?
That claustrophobia
you're feeling,
we're in their world now.
Hold there.
Arms apart.
Pocket, please.
Oh, sorry.
She's good. She's
good. Let her through.
I hadn't seen Antonio
since we were kids,
but I'd never hurt him.
But he died trying
to get away from you.
He knew he was going to die.
I was sent to the
bank to collect him.
With a fake ID.
Guilty.
And the other victim, Conti.
I haven't seen Andrea
either, since the home.
What about the rest?
Listen,
I left the group home
when I was eight.
I finished school in Italy. OK?
I heard Bobby had a
stroke. He was just a kid.
His sister got a rich
family, left him behind.
This one?
I don't remember any Ludo.
The only one I saw was Franco,
when he needed something.
Where's Franco now?
Dead. An overdose.
An overdose?
Really?
That's three dead.
Why are they killing you all?
You're a goddamn
goldfish, Stephen.
You open your mouth,
and you say nothing!
Maybe he's a plant.
Him and the SD card,
just to screw with us.
Let's go and get
something to eat.
The boy's getting worse.
They said they'd help.
You said you'd help them.
Why don't you tell
them what you know?
And then what?
They are the real
power, the 'Ndrangheta.
They decide, not the
police, not any of you.
They have the money,
so they have the power.
And that makes what
they do all right?
Of course it does!
Enough money makes
everything all right.
You think you're seeing the
real world, clean streets,
shiny buildings.
What do you think
pays for it? Huh?
This is the most corrupt
country on Earth.
You don't make nothing here.
You don't build anything. You
just make money from money.
And most of that money is crime.
Tell me about your
crimes, Stephen.
I'm a middle-man. I
drive, I carry, I forget.
So your conscience is clear?
I'm not smart enough or rich
enough for a conscience.
I do what others tell me to do.
Whatever they tell you to do?
Drive, carry... kill?
Fuck you.
Is Laine right
about the SD card?
Is it worthless?
I don't think so.
I think it's real.
So tell her.
I'm begging you, Stephen.
Maybe they can finish this,
bring her home. Serena...
You gave Laine the money exchange
ring, and then you shut up shop.
Why give her that
and not the rest?
Unless...
Unless you really don't know.
You can't tell them what
the big numbers mean
because you don't know.
Just a middleman.
I'm an ignorant man,
and I thought my ignorance
would keep us alive.
I was wrong.
And now I'm a ghost.
An empty shell.
So why don't you do what
you came here to do?
What?
You're just a pathologist.
There's no good reason
for you to be here.
I'm here to talk to you.
Did they send Serena to you?
It's what they do.
I could tell you met her.
When you said her name, I knew.
I don't know what you're
talking about. It's OK.
It's OK.
I know why you're here.
Give it to me, whatever it is.
They threaten your
family? Your husband?
I don't have a family.
You have someone you care about.
Yes.
It will all be over.
They'll release my
family. Release you.
Will they?
It's business.
A transaction for them.
Give it to me.
I'll take it, whatever it is.
I can't.
It doesn't matter.
What do you mean?
They wouldn't rely only on you.
They just needed
you to come here.
What?
They've been watching
you, every step.
You should go right now,
before they get here.
Go.
Go.
Can you take my boy, please?
Stephen, I...
Laine!
FAINT CHATTER
ALARM RINGS
I think I was followed.
They know where we are.
Give me your jacket.
But you searched me, scanned me.
This is what they want from you.
Ma'am.
It's a sleeper.
It didn't register
when we scanned you.
Shit.
Dad? Luca!
Where's my dad?
In this one. No, no, no.
He's not coming with me.
Tutto bene, tutto bene.
It's OK, Luca.
Papa! Papa! In you get.
Papa!
What's happening? Why
aren't the gates opening?
The override's not working.
THEY SHOUT
Talk to me! What's happening?
Guys, get these gates open now!
All right, move it manually.
Manuel override! West
perimeter, clear!
What's happening?
Why have we stopped?
What's happening? SHOUTING
Alpha two, split left.
Alpha three, stay with me.
RADIO CHATTER
Is it true he'd have been
dead before he hit the bottom?
Anthony?
It's just something people say.
He was alive all the
way down, 50 floors.
I couldn't stop him.
He was... Afraid of you?
You're not an intermediary.
You're the grim bloody reaper.
Luca? Are you OK?
Parked car, left
verge, 200 metres.
Possible explosive device.
Alpha Two, move up.
Copy that, received.
Joe, hang back.
Swing out!
Anthony ran because he
knew he was going to die.
They were going to kill you too.
Anthony, Androu, Franco and you.
I told you, Franco
had an overdose.
Oh, come on, Stephen. Wake up!
What happened back then?
What the hell?
Oh, shit!
We need to get out
of here! Shut up.
Shh.
Help! Help!
DEVICE BEEPS
EXPLOSION
You can't go through yet.
Was she inside? Is she in there?
It could be wired!
Nikki! Get that
cordon back in place.
Nikki.
Where is she?!
What are you doing?
His gun's missing.
His number two's
not accounted for.
What happened?
Could someone have
walked away from this?
I don't know.
I don't know what happened!
We need to get
you to a hospital.
No, no. No, no.
Can't go to a hospital.
They'll check there.
They'll do everything
cops do, only better.
We're going to need help.
Ugh.
Ugh.
No!
No!
Off-grid.
Do you understand?
Do you want to stay alive?
Ugh!
You saved me.
I don't want anyone
else on my conscience.
You knew what to do.
How come?
Don't answer that.
E normale. Protect
yourself from the blast,
escape through
the hole it makes.
And that's normal?
Is that the policeman's gun?
We've got £70 and
three credit cards.
Are you crazy?! Huh?
I don't want anyone
to die, either.
How were you going to do it?
What?
Kill me.
I wasn't.
Liar.
You have asthma.
The Salbutamol in your inhaler
eases your lung passages.
Berricane does the opposite.
You want to know about
death, call a professional.
You would have flatlined,
but I'd have been there.
And once we'd got
you to hospital...
Your phone will have
connected to the network.
We need to keep moving.
I need to call my colleague.
I can use a payphone.
He can help.
No.
We're more than just colleagues.
No. Our only way is
to stay off grid.
To do what?
Stay away, stay alive.
While I'm still here,
it will keep Naomi
and Serena alive.
That's it? That's your plan?
Until a better plan gets here.
This thing,
it didn't start with
Anthony Drinkwater, did it?
Did Franco Cesarano
die before Anthony?
I told you Franco wasn't killed.
He was an addict. So
just a coincidence?
You know, we have a
saying in our business,
once is happenstance,
twice is a coincidence,
three times is a criminal act.
I saw him, Franco.
What? I helped them bury him.
Where?
Where did you bury him?
The trajectory, exit wound
and pattern of internal trauma
is inconsistent with a 15
degree external close shot.
Who's he? A professor.
He knows what he's doing.
Your officer, the driver, it was
a close shot from the left side.
You know what that means?
He was shot from inside
the cab by one of ours.
You knew, didn't you?
We keep this between us.
We keep everything between us
until I know who we can trust.
I swear to God, if...
It's Nikki's.
We found it in woods by the
road about a mile from the van.
We don't have the code.
She's alive.
She survived the blast.
Where the hell is she?
One thing at a time, Jack.
That's right. You only care
about the ones you can see.
STEPHEN: Last time I saw
Franco, he was doing better.
He kept saying he'd been
clean for nine months.
You didn't think it strange,
him falling off the wagon?
No. He'd been using on
and off for 20 years.
Sad, but not strange.
What is this? Stay there.
Don't worry. The
undertaker's a human being.
I mean, one of ours.
The chemical composition
from the blast site.
Sentilium micrate,
military grade.
Maybe they stole
it from the army?
They didn't need to.
The 'Ndrangheta run a
sideline in arms sales,
supplied both sides
in the Syrian war.
You're not used to not
knowing things, are you?
Is that... Nikki's.
I'm still waiting for the tyre
tracks from the extraction point.
What the hell's wrong with them?
Don't they want to find her?
She was sending you a text.
You were the first thing
that she thought about.
I'm her weakness.
It doesn't sound
like that to me.
It sounds like you
give her strength.
Give me a hand.
Why go to all this trouble
if it was an overdose?
The dead can still be useful
if no-one knows they're dead.
They can apply for
credit cards, mortgages,
they can be company directors.
Christ.
That's not why they
put Franco here.
That's blunt force trauma.
There's a severe
wound to the head.
Multiple bruises and
lacerations to the face.
Franco was beaten.
Tortured too.
When I got there, they had
already wrapped him up.
And they said he'd overdosed.
Franco never hurt anyone.
When did you last see him?
Franco called me last week.
He wanted to meet.
He said he'd been
speaking to Anthony.
What did Anthony tell him?
You don't get it,
Franco was like that.
Always showing up
looking for money.
We were all planted here.
Some grew high. Anthony got
to the top of the tower.
And others didn't grow so well.
Like Franco.
Like me.
So who dies next, Stephen?
It's someone from that photo.
Where are you going?
I need to piss.
Is that all right with you?
Oh, shit.
Stephen!
Leave me alone.
I can't. It's the only
thing I can give my family.
They will leave them alone.
And you too. Give
it to me, Stephen.
I'm not a good man.
I let down my family
and my friends.
I've hurt people. I've killed.
I don't want to hear this.
Franco wasn't like
me. He was good.
Remembered the kids' birthdays.
He was the only one who
kept up with Roberto.
Bobby? He was the one...
The one who had a stroke?
Bobby always had fits.
There was an operation,
his sister got it.
She was with a rich family.
Nobody wanted Bobby.
Did he have any other family?
I don't remember.
I was eight years old!
Do you know where he is now?
Why?!
He's no use to
you, he can't talk!
Can you take me to him?
No.
Can you stay
alive... until then?
Hello?
EDDIE: It's only me,
Jack. I'm upstairs.
This whole house is live.
I had to pull the
whole wiring loop out.
It's a death-trap. You work away,
I'm just grabbing something,
heading back to work.
You all right, boss?
WHISPERS: Fuck.
Velvy, did the tyre
track analysis come in?
Yeah, uh...
Pirelli P5s. Mm-hm.
Firestone Roadhawks.
Mm-hm. And Piak 4-2s.
I think I might have a lead
on the people who took Nikki.
I thought you said you was
going back to work, boss.
Oh, you were right,
I'm not feeling great.
Do you mind knocking
it on the head?
I just need to get some sleep.
Ah.
Feel better, boss.
BEEPING
This is private, expensive.
Someone's paying for him.
You won't tyre
Bobby out, will you?
He was quite upset
on the last visit.
Down the corridor. First
on the left. Thanks.
Christopher was here.
What, the undercover cop?
Why did he come here?
Bobby.
Roberto.
Sono io, Stefano.
Nikki. Very posh.
Only compared to you, Stephen.
IN ITALIAN:
My little boy.
IN ITALIAN:
It says he has moyamoya.
It's the disease that
caused his stroke.
I once saw a case of
moyamoya where all four kids
in the same family had it.
I remember Bobby's fits.
They used to tie
him down to the bed.
Terrible.
What if the reason they're targeting
the boys from the group home
isn't because of what you know?
It's who you know?
I need to speak to Laine.
Nikki. We can't do
this alone, Stephen.
We need help.
STEADY BEEPING
BEEPING GROWS FASTER
PHONE VIBRATES
Are you alone, Jack?
WHISPERS: Jesus,
Nikki. You're OK?
I'm safe, Jack. Have they
got you? Where are you?
I'm with Stephen, just us.
They left us for dead.
Jesus Christ. I've
been out of my mind.
I thought they'd taken
you like they took Serena.
I couldn't call you.
The police... Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I know, I know.
I don't know who we can trust.
I think I know what
this thing is about.
Anthony, the banker,
he knew someone at the top of the
'Ndrangheta's financial operation.
I think that's why the
'Ndrangetra are targeting
all the boys from back then.
They're trying to protect the
identity of their key asset.
Who is it? Who's the asset.
They could be listening, Jack.
Call Laine, only her.
Tell her I'm at the
Oak Hill nursing home.
Tell her I need her help.
I need her here.
OK. I've got to go. Nikki...
MUFFLED: She needs her insulin.
She's going to die
without it. Sit down.
Please.
STEADY BEEPING
IN ITALIAN:
IN ENGLISH: I got everything.
You got nothing.
I'm sorry.
They always said
you'd be my weakness.
That I'd have to lose you.
But I wouldn't listen.
I wouldn't let them hurt you...
Shh.
Shh.
LABOURED BREATHING
What do you want?
I'm doing it, aren't I?!
It's what you told me to do!
I'll get rid of all of them.
Anyone who knows who I am.
Bobby, Stefano,
that pathologist.
IN ITALIAN:
Police!
Put your hands over your head!
Don't touch him!
Don't touch my brother!
Hands are stable!
Thanks.
Area secured, over.
Your scar.
It's from moyamoya
disease, isn't it?
A wisp of smoke.
That's what the arteries
look like on my scan.
I got fixed.
Bobby didn't.
So the 'Ndrangeta chose
you from the group home.
Put you into the police.
We're not amateurs.
We grow our own.
All the way to the
top of the NCA.
You made sure that the police
never got to the real crimes,
kept them looking the other way.
You make it sound
so fucking easy.
Easy?
No.
You had to be two people.
A wisp of smoke.
Did Anthony recognise you?
He hadn't seen me since
I was five years old.
Ludo?
Ludovica? That was
enough to get him killed.
It is you, isn't it?
I think you've got
the wrong girl.
He told Franco.
We thought Ludo
was a boy's name.
Ludovica.
I didn't want them to get hurt.
They were my family.
Why me?
Why didn't you get rid
of Stephen yourself?
You see these hands?
Spotless.
The NCA's golden girl.
The 'Ndrangheta's golden asset.
I was a pretty good
cop. People died.
You helped them to kill.
They can be quite
persuasive, wouldn't you say?
FAINT: Look at her.
Thought you weren't
feeling too well, boss.
Ugh!
Put the gun down. All right. No.
Slowly.
Slow. Good.
You didn't even remember
me, did you, Stefano?
Ludovica. I was
just a little girl.
You let them kill
us all! Let them?!
You took my family! Like
any of us had a choice!
Call them. Now!
Call whoever you have to!
Tell them that
Stephen Ross is dead.
Tell them to let
Naomi and Serena go.
I have children and a husband.
Throw me in jail. I don't care.
Please! They'll do what you say.
No.
I won't talk.
I'm not like him.
I'm no penitent.
Ah!
GUNFIRE
Man down!
Get medics here, now!
It's OK.
NEWS: In a series of raids this
morning, City of London police
and the national crime
agency made several arrests
and seized financial records
at a number of city banks
and funds in connection with
international money laundering.
The Director General of the
National Crime Agency...
Announced they have
uncovered a major conspiracy
by the 'Ndrangheta,
an Italian Organised Crime
Group based in Calabria,
to launder billions of pounds from
the proceeds of criminal activity
through the City of London.
The evidence was
contained on a data card
recovered during an
undercover operation
that was believed to
have taken place...
I wanted to say goodbye.
I'm glad you did.
And I wanted to give you this.
They were going to kill us.
Your friend Jack too.
Then they just disappeared.
They got what they wanted.
My dad was dead.
How did they know?
They're everywhere, aren't they?
Are you safe now?
Are any of us?
They're not interested
in us any more, Nikki.
They've moved on.
Come on, Mum!
I used to hate my dad.
Then I walked in
his shoes for a bit.
I'm ashamed of what
I asked you to do.
But I was trying
to save my family.
So was he.
How much is a sofa like this?
I was thinking of
offering you a job,
but this sofa alone is a
month's budget at the Lyell.
Maybe you can get too
comfy on a sofa like that.
Then come and work
with us, Gabriel.
You mean for you?
No.
I mean, come and be our boss.
You should do that job.
You're by far the
most qualified.
Not me.
I know I can't do that stuff.
Budgets, funding rounds,
dealing with the politics?
Yeah. All that crap.
Do what you do here, but
this time for the angels.
I see.
You fancy a sofa
like this, do you?
I know you think it's indulgent,
but I need to be
free to do my work,
to put everything I am into it.
Hands on, right?
Elbow deep in viscera.
I saw the PM report you did on
the police driver that was shot.
You got straight off that
it was an inside job.
You're a good pathologist.
And I think I can
learn from you.
Even if I'll very
rarely listen to you.
That's quite the pitch.
Have a think about it.
What about your colleague?
Mr Hodgson.
What are you offering him?
I haven't worked
that one out yet.