Silent Witness (1996–…): Season 26, Episode 4 - Familiar Faces - Part 2 - full transcript
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You've heard about that lorry they found down the
M20, right? What happened here? Sex trafficking.
So who were these people?
Body one, the driver.
The fracture damaged
his median nerve.
So he might not have been able to
drive a seven-and-a-half-ton lorry.
Natia Beridze. Georgian.
Maeve Tooney.
Appears to have a
single stab wound.
After her brother,
Robbie, disappeared,
he got sucked in to drugs.
Any survivors? Two women.
One of them has an accent.
Possibly Eastern European.
One man, William
Sturton, a drug dealer.
He befriended her, groomed her.
Maybe that's his
role in all this.
The UK is the only place
the lorry's been recently.
They weren't being
trafficked in to the UK?
I think they were
being trafficked out.
Your son has a good chance
of receiving a new heart.
She was admitted last week.
No parents around, apparently.
As a ward of court,
she'll go in to group one.
He's gone.
Will?
♪ Testator silens
♪ Costestes e spiritu
♪ Silencium
♪ Testator silens... ♪
FAINT CHATTER
Lyell Centre Forensics.
I'm working with DI
Torres, any sign of her?
We haven't found her yet.
We'll let you know when we do.
What about the male
patient, Will Sturton?
Neither of them.
Where's the search team?
Down that way. Thank you.
Torres?
Torres?
Torres?
Torres.
PHONE LINE RINGS
Yeah, ambulance.
Royal Byfield Hospital.
Basement freezer room.
Quick as you can.
She suffered a heart arrythmia.
Maybe her experience on the lorry
triggered an underlying condition.
Thank God you found them.
Is she alive? Thanks to you.
Has Will Sturton been found?
Not yet.
They better find him soon,
he's in danger of going
back into renal failure.
I thought it was Will in the
basement, but it was her.
If she's in the UK illegally,
then maybe she's
afraid of authorities?
Can I get out of
here now, please?
Obs are stable.
Even if they weren't,
something tells me we
wouldn't be able to stop you.
The genetic profile
is back on Natia.
She had Steinert's
disease. What's that?
Steinert's is a genetic
multi-system disorder
associated with cardiac
conduction malfunction.
If Natia was involved in some
kind of altercation in the lorry,
it would have taken very
little to cause cardiac arrest.
So she had Steinert's disease and
Body One had oesophageal cancer.
That's a high
proportion of passengers
with serious health problems.
Maybe Natia and Body One
were seeking treatment.
So let's say he came
over for treatment.
Then he had to be smuggled
back out of the country?
If he was actually a passenger,
then it looks that way.
Is there any chance that he
could have driven the lorry?
I mean, we did find
him in the cab.
Steinert's caused
Natia's cardiomyopathy.
But she had ACE inhibitors with her,
so she was managing her condition.
Why would she sneak across
borders for a condition
that was under control?
Steinert's is inherited.
If Natia had a
child by C-section,
then there's a 50%
chance she passed it on.
Her condition might
have been under control,
but what if her child's wasn't?
Maybe Natia wasn't searching
for treatment for herself.
There's a nine-year-old girl
at the Children's Hospital.
She was abandoned at the
front entrance two weeks ago.
I've seen her on TV.
Yes, the media are calling
her a health tourist.
Does she have Steinert's?
I don't know.
But I know someone who will.
Let us know what you find.
Where are you going?
To see if I can drive a
seven-and-a-half-ton truck
with one arm.
She's doing well.
The doctors think
it may have been a
transient disturbance
of the heart rhythm,
not a heart attack.
Can you tell me which room
William Sturton was in, please?
Sure.
Thank you for taking the time.
It's a delicate matter.
It's about the police
case I'm working on.
A pretty serious one, actually.
I've spoken to my colleagues.
There were some reservations
about disclosing the information.
But you were right
about the girl.
Steinert's? Mm-hm.
Does this have anything
to do with her parents?
Can you help us find her mother?
Jack.
Morning.
Keys in there?
Yeah, they're in it. Yeah.
Super.
Don't use your left arm.
ENGINE REVS
All right, let's give this a go.
Not easy. How the
hell did he do this?
Here he comes.
I've done something bad.
OK...
The CCTV that the detective
showed you... Mm-hm.
..the car and the
lorry... Mm-hm.
I downloaded it. What?
Oh... That could be considered
tampering with evidence, Velvy.
And I sent it to a friend.
A new friend, actually.
I met him at Brazilian
jiu-jitsu. Oh, God.
He works at a digital
effects house.
That's the name for it, he says.
And they work on digital
stuff for movies,
and they have this software.
It builds images out of...
..well, other images.
There.
I checked the registration
against the DVLA database
and then against the
Local Authority Records.
The car is a taxi
cab from Gravesend.
Velvy...
Welcome to the A-team.
VELVY CHUCKLES
Why did Will call this
place from the hospital?
Wait here.
If I'm not out in ten,
call for backup. Mm-hm.
Jason around?
Kitchen.
Jason Corrigan?
You're Will Sturton's cousin.
You know I'm police, right?
I know that Will called
you from the hospital.
Look, I'm asking nicely,
which is very
uncharacteristic for me.
Don't make me be my normal self.
He's not well.
You need to help him.
Tell me where he is and I can
get a medical team to him.
He's in the back. Through there.
DOOR SLAMS OPEN
Will!
Will! Let me help you!
Ugh!
Unit to Pelham Crescent.
Suspect abducted.
Black Cherokee Jeep.
Get him!
KNOCKING
Sorry.
I got your message about the
girl at the Children's Hospital.
It's Steinert's.
It is.
Also, they let me
have the CCTV footage
from when she was left at A&E.
You can't see who
dropped her off.
Could that be Natia?
We've got authorisation to
do a DNA test to confirm
if Natia was the girl's mother.
So you know people at
Melfort Children's?
I've been doing
some voluntary work
for the Paediatric
Transplant Charity.
What made you
volunteer for them?
Was it someone you knew?
No.
Nothing like that.
When we first met,
you said the last postmortem
you did was a few years ago.
Was it a child?
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
Dev Basu.
Eight years old.
He needed a liver transplant,
but the centre wouldn't submit
him to the transplant list
because they
concluded his autism
made aftercare too
painful and risky.
It made me angry.
It still makes me angry.
Hey, Nikki, we're in Gravesend.
Yeah, I just spoke
to the taxi driver.
About a week ago he took
a cash fare from a guy
who got him to follow a white
lorry. Any idea who he was?
Taxi driver said the
guy had a gammy arm.
That's a direct quote for you.
We'll go and check the location
he dropped them off now. OK?
Why here?
Because it's nowhere.
Looks like whoever drove the
lorry switched the plates here.
You think this is where the
passengers joined the lorry?
THEY SHOUT
Looks like it could be stolen.
Yep. Very stolen.
Maeve Tooney.
Maeve didn't come alone.
Will Sturton drove her here.
Nikki, the DNA is back.
Natia isn't the girl's mother.
Well, Steinert's is pretty
rare. It's inherited.
That can't be a
coincidence, can it?
I've been doing a
little more digging.
It's a charity in Georgia for people
affected by muscular dystrophy.
Natia's baby died from
Steinert's two years ago.
His name was Petre.
Her tattoo.
"P" for Petre.
After his death, she moved
to London, a new start.
Then... I found this.
Ketevan.
The name in the good luck card.
She's still at the hospital.
She could be the mother
of the abandoned girl.
Gabriel.
The consultants asked me to
tell them if we can find a link
with the girl in our case.
Is that a good idea?
It's sensitive.
It's sparked some pretty
feverish headlines.
I'm just thinking of the
Lyell's impartiality.
If we can help them,
why wouldn't we?
Ketevan Gvazava?
VOICE MESSAGE IN GEORGIAN PLAYS
IN ENGLISH: She's
dying, Ketevan.
Your daughter.
This isn't bloody working.
I need to find a translator.
You're not her?
Then who is?
You're Ketevan Gvazava.
You gave the other woman your
coat with the card in it.
At least now I know the name of
the woman whose life I saved.
What are you afraid of?
I think the girl in the
news is your daughter.
She's dying, Ketevan.
She suffers from Steinert's,
just like you, like Natia.
It's why you had the
sudden cardiac arrhythmia.
I don't know the kid.
Then take a DNA
test to prove it.
Why don't you want to be
with your daughter, Ketevan?
At least give us a name so the
doctors know what to call her.
Your daughter
needs you, Ketevan.
WHISPERS: The doctor is
going to look after you.
SHE SPEAKS GEORGIAN
We need to go, come on.
INAUDIBLE
SHE WEEPS
She's fine.
She's safe, she's safe.
You're not giving
me much choice.
Ketevan Gvazava, I'm arresting you
on suspicion of child abandonment.
You'll be transferred
to a holding cell
as soon as the doctors allow it.
He's been moved to HDU.
When's a heart coming? Hmm?
Tommy needs you to stay strong.
First, speak to the charity.
The counsellors are there to support
parents at moments like this.
What did the doctor say exactly?
Uh, that he's got
ventricular thrombus.
He's out of time, isn't he?
Professor, thank you for coming.
Please excuse us, Sheila.
This is a very
difficult situation.
I've seen the headlines.
The headlines are why we need
you to confirm the girl's status.
We can't afford
to get this wrong.
Until we can get a concrete DNA
result, we won't know for certain.
The police and I need more
time to prove the link.
The heart is 50 minutes away.
Professor Folukoya, this is
our multidisciplinary team.
No doubt you've met
some of them before.
Professor, you believe the
girl in our care is a citizen
of Georgia and that her mother
left her at the hospital
and then tried to flee the UK.
Is that correct?
Ketevan Gvazava and the girl share
the same rare genetic condition.
In addition, my colleague
found photographic evidence
of Ms Gvazava and the
girl together in Georgia.
I believe she's
the girl's mother.
And therefore we can assume
that she tried to leave the UK
to give her child the strongest
case for being a ward of court
and therefore eligible to be
on the Group One waiting list.
If there wasn't another
suitable recipient,
then we would happily give
this heart to a nonresident
Group Two individual.
But there is a suitable
Group One recipient,
right here in our hospital.
Tommy Shaw.
Nico, I would argue the girl is
technically still in Group One
and in greater need than
the other recipient.
They're both equally
suitable candidates.
But she is still non-UK, non-EU,
which means she should
have been in Group Two.
We have a tissue match for two
patients, both in urgent need!
We listed her as Group One.
Are we really going to de-list her
45 minutes before the heart arrives?
I've come from the hospital.
Your daughter is very unwell.
You need to see her.
Listen to me.
She can't breathe by herself,
her organs are failing.
Please.
Is she on the list?
The transplant list?
Yes.
She'll get a new heart?
It's complicated.
They're debating it now.
Debate?
Why? Why debate?
Because they know she's yours.
What have you done?
There are rules.
Procedures that
have to be followed.
They're debating if
she gets a heart?
They're debating
if she deserves it?
She deserves it.
She's in pain, all the time!
She's scared!
I hold her and I
can't stop her pain.
Do you know what it's
like to hold your child
and not be able to
stop their pain?
No.
Then tell them you're wrong!
Say I'm not her mother.
Say it!
Say I'm dead!
Ketevan!
She died in police custody.
I've referred it to the IOPC
for independent investigation.
Look, I don't want you finding
this out from someone else, but...
Ketevan's daughter passed away
before a decision was reached.
She didn't suffer.
She wasn't alone.
But she's dead.
She might not be if I'd
have kept out of it.
Then the next kid on the
list would have died.
And the poor dote whose heart
it was in the first place,
what if they'd lived?
What if the little
girl was British?
What if her mother was rich,
could buy her way into
Britain instead of
whatever she did to
get into this country?
The world is rigged.
It's unfair.
You tried.
You try more than most.
You can't save them all.
Believe me.
Anything on the number plate
we found, oh King of the DVLA?
Thanks, Jack. That means a lot.
The number plate is
registered to a company
called Southern Valley
Holdings. Uh-huh.
It's basically a shell company
with a PO Box address in London.
So not much use to us?
On the contrary.
Southern Valley Holdings
owns a company in Kent.
Medway Blossoms Nurseries.
They import flowers and
plants from Holland.
I've checked with the
ferry companies in Dover,
and Medway Blossoms booked a lorry
to travel to Calais on the 12th.
Nice work.
You might think of
picking up a bouquet
for Nikki while you're there.
It's her birthday next week.
I know.
Irises for faith.
Carnations, fascination.
Chrysanthemums, grief.
What's your mood today?
Inquisitive. Thanks
for asking, Lucy.
Oh, bollocks.
That's not me.
There you go.
Right, Bev.
DI Torres, Kent County Police.
Jack Hodgson, forensics.
Are you the owner
here? Co-owner.
Who's the other "co"?
Marcus. Marcus Tillman.
Your husband?
No.
Do you know this man?
Yeah. That's Marcus.
When did you last
see him? Oof...
He sort of comes and goes.
Do you know, I'm sorry, I've
got to take my medication.
Ooh.
Not many flowers in today?
Yeah, well you know, supply
chain issues and all that.
Have you not read the papers?
So if that's all, I
best get back to it.
FLIES BUZZ
I thought there was something
familiar about this place.
Yew Nurseries closed
down because of
drug smuggling back
in the '90s, right?
That was all lies. It
got thrown out of court.
The charges were dropped
because of witness intimidation.
I've kept my nose clean.
What about Marcus?
He hasn't been
arrested for anything.
You're missing a
lorry, aren't you, Bev?
We found its number
plate. It was stolen.
You didn't report it?
You've heard about that lorry
they found down the M20, right?
The "Truck of Horrors"?
It was booked on a
Calais ferry on the 12th.
Who made the booking?
I don't know.
It's your business.
Marcus does the financials.
I just do the blooms.
What has that git been saying?
Marcus is dead.
Who did it? Who killed him?
That's what we'd like
to talk to you about.
Was it Sue?
Who's Sue? His ex.
She left him about six weeks
ago, she took the kids.
Marcus went spare.
Why did she run off?
Why do you think?
She couldn't stand the heat.
The heat?
How hot did Marcus get?
She was all airs and
graces, that one.
She didn't understand her place.
Marcus Tillman's a known
face around Dartford.
Nasty bastard.
So you think he'd gone
back to his old ways,
using his former drugs
route to traffic people?
He brought the gun along
to keep them in line?
The place you found
the number plate
was a big rave venue
back in the '90s.
Marcus had a finger in that too.
He organised the music
then supplied the drugs.
That shithole was like
a second home to him.
Something happened there.
Yeah, something happened
there - the rendezvous.
Marcus got Will
Sturton to bring Maeve
and the other girls to
the truck. Off they went.
With Will locked in the back?
Yeah, to keep order.
Without a phone?
Then they drove two
miles to the quarry,
Marcus went to let them out,
but died before he could?
There's something about
this that doesn't add up.
We managed to unlock the laptop
you found in Will's room.
The only thing on there was a
SaveMyDocs file named Trebor.
Shared with one other user.
It has hundreds of photos,
voice recordings and videos.
Most of them are taken covertly
in what looks like some
sort of trap house.
Trebor? Isn't that
Robert backwards?
Maeve's missing brother, Robbie.
That could make Maeve the other
user with access to the file.
Could Maeve and Will have been
working together to find Robbie?
What if we've got him all wrong.
I'm looking for my brother.
I can help you.
Would explain why the gang
abducted Will - to shut him up.
Maybe he was working
against them.
Will was on dialysis
at the hospital.
He's going to need treatment
again soon or his potassium levels
are going to go sky-high.
Whoa, wait. Pull that up.
Marcus Tillman.
I think we can assume he
was back in the drugs game.
Probably running the
whole county lines show.
Will and Maeve left their
things in the car at the lay-by.
I don't think they were planning
on getting on the truck.
I think they were trying to find
out what happened to her brother.
Hey, where's Robbie?! I
know you know where he is!
Where is he?! Shut up!
Where's my brother?
So Maeve and Will interrupted
the trafficking operation.
That's when it all
turned to shit.
Wrong place, wrong time.
That's Natia, isn't it?
Why are there photos
of Natia in there?
Scroll through.
I've seen that door.
133 was Natia's address, right?
Almost.
I told you. I don't know the
woman you're looking for.
Strange, given that she
had keys to your flat.
She's dead, isn't she?
My Natia.
My Natia is dead.
We were neighbours for a while.
Until we were more.
She helped me one day.
She was always helping people.
Nat was on that lorry
they found, wasn't she?
Why do you say that, Maya?
I know Natia and
Ketevan were friends
from the charity in Georgia.
Natia liked to help
people, didn't she?
She helped bring Ketevan and
her daughter into the country.
But when the press started
speculating about it...
..Ketevan had to get out.
So Natia helped her again.
Who arranged the truck, Maya?
Who did she contact to get
Ketevan onto the lorry?
I don't know.
Who are you scared of?
Is it this man?
Did Natia work at
the flower shop?
Well, her boss was a dealer.
He made her collect
packages from his houses.
She hated it.
But he could be violent.
Do you think Marcus forced
Natia on to the truck?
I'm not saying anything
without my lawyer present.
There was a 19-year-old boy
with Natia on the truck.
He was trying to help a
young woman find her brother.
And now Marcus' boys have him,
he'll die of kidney failure
if we don't get to him soon.
There must be something
you can tell me.
She did a drop for her boss
a few days before she left.
I don't know where.
But you can find
out from her phone.
I unlocked it for you.
Thanks for agreeing to
do the postmortem, Nikki.
Ketevan's daughter had
developed a pulmonary embolism.
She would've died very rapidly.
Her transplant this morning
wouldn't have changed the outcome.
Right.
Are you all right?
I thought hard data was
the only way of deciding
who got a transplant
and who didn't.
But now...
..now I don't know
what to think.
You presented the facts, the data,
about Ketevan and her daughter.
But what if I didn't?
What if I subconsciously amplified
what was, in reality, conjecture?
What if I didn't want her to get
the heart so... someone else could?
You didn't make the decision.
The transplant team did.
The girl wouldn't have
survived the surgery.
And ultimately, a
child is alive today.
I hate to break this to you,
but you're not God.
You had no control over this.
There are two
locations Natia visited
in the 72 hours before she left.
Here and here.
This one's Medway Blossoms.
This one's Montagu Road.
DA2 8KB.
Can we geo-locate the video and
picture files from Will's laptop?
The trap house.
Natia was there as well.
Everything went
through that place.
Maybe that's where
they took Will.
Baz, get me two tactical
units and an ARV.
Meet me at Montagu Road,
Dartford. I'll be there in 30.
Door.
Armed police! Stay
where you are!
Stay still! Stay where
you are, don't move!
THEY SHOUT
On the ground!
You, hands on your head!
Do not move! Stay where you are!
SHOUTING CONTINUES
Stay down.
Where's Will?
Fuck you.
Armed police, get down!
Put your hands on
your head. Down!
What? What are you going
to do? Shoot a kid?
Go on, tell the
wanker to shoot a kid.
Cuff him.
Hallway, clear!
Open up!
Armed police!
Get down to ground level, now!
Go, go, go, go!
Will Sturton is now
the prime suspect.
He's in a silver Volvo
heading west down Alban Road.
Assumed armed and dangerous.
Shit!
Will's no victim.
He's top dog here.
We got Will all wrong.
He was Marcus' number two.
The Volvo was abandoned a
mile away from the trap house.
We're looking for him, but...
..no luck so far.
If Will was running
the drugs lines,
why was he helping Maeve
search for her brother?
Maybe he was looking
for Robbie himself?
If Robbie had escaped and
Will was hunting him down,
maybe he thought Maeve
would lead him there.
But then they ran in
to Marcus Tillman,
and Marcus locked
them all in the lorry.
But why?
His wife had disappeared
on him, taken their kids.
He couldn't let that go.
Maybe he thought that someone in
the lorry knew where they were.
Yes.
But who?
Lucy.
Lucy. Do you remember?
At the shop, the woman was
wearing the wrong name tag.
It said "Lucy" on it.
Yeah. Someone made that ferry
booking from Medway Blossoms, right?
Medway Blossoms...
They did a fund-raiser,
aid for Armed Forces.
Jesus. That's the woman
from the hospital.
The one we thought was Ketevan.
Was she behind all this?
Let's go find out.
Torres. It's PC Kerning
at the hospital, ma'am.
Lucy Stevens has gone from the ward.
We're searching the building now.
Gone? What do you mean, gone?
TYRES SQUEAL
That's Will Sturton's car! What?
All units, a male and female,
suspected to be in a black Jeep
headed away from the hospital.
Reg number Papa, Golf, Two,
Two, Victor, Charlie, Delta.
Follow quietly, no lights.
Car 496, do you have contact?
Car 496. We have visual on the black
Jeep heading down Romney Street.
Romney Street? I think I
know where they're heading.
Medway Blossoms, just
two miles down the road.
Just past Longfield. See?
Let's hope you're right.
GLASS SHATTERS Oi!
Jack.
Hey!
Ugh!
Robbie?
You're Robbie Tooney?
Maeve's brother?
It's all right. I'm police.
Come on!
In there.
Lucy.
He wanted me to
take him to Robbie.
He was dragging me
and shouting at me,
and then he just collapsed.
Nikki.
There's no carotid pulse.
Why didn't you tell us who
you was at the hospital?
Three people have just
died because of me.
And now him.
Will was dying.
He needed to be
in intensive care.
You drove Marcus Tillman's wife
out of the country, didn't you?
To get her away from him.
Sue had bruises all over.
Marcus would've killed her.
So you were going drive Ketevan?
Help her get out too?
Her friend Natia
worked here on and off.
We got on, you know?
She knew that I'd helped Sue,
so she asked if I would
do it again for Ketevan.
Drive her out of the country.
But Marcus found out?
Yeah. He waited for me in a
taxi, followed me to the pick up.
Follow her.
He turned up at
the meeting place.
He was raging.
It was a mess.
Where is she?!
Where is she?!
You little bitch!
Tell me where my wife is.
I'll kill you! I'll
kill the lot of you!
All of you get in!
Get in!
No, wait! No!
Why did he drive you
all to the quarry?
To scare us.
To get me to tell
him where Sue was.
We felt the truck stop
and he started screaming
through the intercom.
I warned you, bitch!
I warned you, didn't I?
HE COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS
It sounded like he was choking.
And then we didn't
hear him any more.
Tell me about Maeve.
What happened to her?
She just wanted to
find her brother.
Natia had met him
on one of the runs.
This scared little kid.
I found him and I brought
him to the nursery.
Marcus never came round here, it
was just a front for the drugs.
Did Robbie give you
his St Christopher?
Yeah. A thank you, he said.
He went on and on
about it, so I wore it.
Where did you get that?
Maeve saw it in
the truck, and...
How the hell did you get it?
Where did you get
that? Stop! Wait, wait!
THEY SHOUT
Ugh!
Later, when we were stuck in
there, I told her about Robbie.
How you'd helped him.
How did Maeve die?
It was a few days in,
I think. I don't know.
We lost track of
the time in there.
We were so exhausted, we
were getting delirious.
I woke up and I heard
Will and Maeve arguing.
If you've done something
to hurt Robbie,
I will kill you myself.
I think she'd
realised about him.
That he wasn't there to help
her, he was after Robbie himself.
No, no, no! Wait, wait!
Agh!
He killed her.
Will just... He stabbed
her and he killed her.
Why do you think Will wanted
to find Robbie so badly?
The halfway house, I think.
He'd been there with
Will a few times.
Halfway house? You
mean Legard House?
What about it?
FAINT: There's a lot
of money to be made.
You need to step up.
The guy in charge at Legard
House recruited them for Marcus.
Robbie told me about him.
The youth worker?
I just wanted to help.
FAINT SIRENS
INAUDIBLE
You know the story
of St Christopher?
One day he saw a child
trying to cross a river,
and he put him on his back and
started to carry him across.
But with each step, the child
grew heavier and heavier.
Yet, somehow, Christopher managed
to get him to the other side.
When he asked why the
boy had become so heavy,
the child replied that
he was the Christ Child,
and carried with him
the weight of the world.
Well, you helped carry that family
through the transplant process.
Did I?
God knows, I'm no saint.
So much falls between
the cracks, doesn't it?
Yep. It does.
I'm heading out. Fancy
grabbing a drink?
I'm sorry, I've got three reports
to finish before I get out of here.
But next time, for sure.
Hey, Gabriel's
going for a drink.
Oh, I can't.
I have a lecture on selfish
gene theory at SOAS.
The two of you, then?
Actually, I've got a
squash game at eight.
Well, I've got plans
with Cara, so...
Next time?
My place or a Satanic
death cult? Huh?
Satanic death cults?
I read an article about them.
They are quite petty.
So life with Jack
might be better.
Bye-bye, Velvy.
♪ Testator silens
♪ Costestes e spiritu
♪ Silencium. ♪
some strong language
and scenes which some
viewers may find upsetting
You've heard about that lorry they found down the
M20, right? What happened here? Sex trafficking.
So who were these people?
Body one, the driver.
The fracture damaged
his median nerve.
So he might not have been able to
drive a seven-and-a-half-ton lorry.
Natia Beridze. Georgian.
Maeve Tooney.
Appears to have a
single stab wound.
After her brother,
Robbie, disappeared,
he got sucked in to drugs.
Any survivors? Two women.
One of them has an accent.
Possibly Eastern European.
One man, William
Sturton, a drug dealer.
He befriended her, groomed her.
Maybe that's his
role in all this.
The UK is the only place
the lorry's been recently.
They weren't being
trafficked in to the UK?
I think they were
being trafficked out.
Your son has a good chance
of receiving a new heart.
She was admitted last week.
No parents around, apparently.
As a ward of court,
she'll go in to group one.
He's gone.
Will?
♪ Testator silens
♪ Costestes e spiritu
♪ Silencium
♪ Testator silens... ♪
FAINT CHATTER
Lyell Centre Forensics.
I'm working with DI
Torres, any sign of her?
We haven't found her yet.
We'll let you know when we do.
What about the male
patient, Will Sturton?
Neither of them.
Where's the search team?
Down that way. Thank you.
Torres?
Torres?
Torres?
Torres.
PHONE LINE RINGS
Yeah, ambulance.
Royal Byfield Hospital.
Basement freezer room.
Quick as you can.
She suffered a heart arrythmia.
Maybe her experience on the lorry
triggered an underlying condition.
Thank God you found them.
Is she alive? Thanks to you.
Has Will Sturton been found?
Not yet.
They better find him soon,
he's in danger of going
back into renal failure.
I thought it was Will in the
basement, but it was her.
If she's in the UK illegally,
then maybe she's
afraid of authorities?
Can I get out of
here now, please?
Obs are stable.
Even if they weren't,
something tells me we
wouldn't be able to stop you.
The genetic profile
is back on Natia.
She had Steinert's
disease. What's that?
Steinert's is a genetic
multi-system disorder
associated with cardiac
conduction malfunction.
If Natia was involved in some
kind of altercation in the lorry,
it would have taken very
little to cause cardiac arrest.
So she had Steinert's disease and
Body One had oesophageal cancer.
That's a high
proportion of passengers
with serious health problems.
Maybe Natia and Body One
were seeking treatment.
So let's say he came
over for treatment.
Then he had to be smuggled
back out of the country?
If he was actually a passenger,
then it looks that way.
Is there any chance that he
could have driven the lorry?
I mean, we did find
him in the cab.
Steinert's caused
Natia's cardiomyopathy.
But she had ACE inhibitors with her,
so she was managing her condition.
Why would she sneak across
borders for a condition
that was under control?
Steinert's is inherited.
If Natia had a
child by C-section,
then there's a 50%
chance she passed it on.
Her condition might
have been under control,
but what if her child's wasn't?
Maybe Natia wasn't searching
for treatment for herself.
There's a nine-year-old girl
at the Children's Hospital.
She was abandoned at the
front entrance two weeks ago.
I've seen her on TV.
Yes, the media are calling
her a health tourist.
Does she have Steinert's?
I don't know.
But I know someone who will.
Let us know what you find.
Where are you going?
To see if I can drive a
seven-and-a-half-ton truck
with one arm.
She's doing well.
The doctors think
it may have been a
transient disturbance
of the heart rhythm,
not a heart attack.
Can you tell me which room
William Sturton was in, please?
Sure.
Thank you for taking the time.
It's a delicate matter.
It's about the police
case I'm working on.
A pretty serious one, actually.
I've spoken to my colleagues.
There were some reservations
about disclosing the information.
But you were right
about the girl.
Steinert's? Mm-hm.
Does this have anything
to do with her parents?
Can you help us find her mother?
Jack.
Morning.
Keys in there?
Yeah, they're in it. Yeah.
Super.
Don't use your left arm.
ENGINE REVS
All right, let's give this a go.
Not easy. How the
hell did he do this?
Here he comes.
I've done something bad.
OK...
The CCTV that the detective
showed you... Mm-hm.
..the car and the
lorry... Mm-hm.
I downloaded it. What?
Oh... That could be considered
tampering with evidence, Velvy.
And I sent it to a friend.
A new friend, actually.
I met him at Brazilian
jiu-jitsu. Oh, God.
He works at a digital
effects house.
That's the name for it, he says.
And they work on digital
stuff for movies,
and they have this software.
It builds images out of...
..well, other images.
There.
I checked the registration
against the DVLA database
and then against the
Local Authority Records.
The car is a taxi
cab from Gravesend.
Velvy...
Welcome to the A-team.
VELVY CHUCKLES
Why did Will call this
place from the hospital?
Wait here.
If I'm not out in ten,
call for backup. Mm-hm.
Jason around?
Kitchen.
Jason Corrigan?
You're Will Sturton's cousin.
You know I'm police, right?
I know that Will called
you from the hospital.
Look, I'm asking nicely,
which is very
uncharacteristic for me.
Don't make me be my normal self.
He's not well.
You need to help him.
Tell me where he is and I can
get a medical team to him.
He's in the back. Through there.
DOOR SLAMS OPEN
Will!
Will! Let me help you!
Ugh!
Unit to Pelham Crescent.
Suspect abducted.
Black Cherokee Jeep.
Get him!
KNOCKING
Sorry.
I got your message about the
girl at the Children's Hospital.
It's Steinert's.
It is.
Also, they let me
have the CCTV footage
from when she was left at A&E.
You can't see who
dropped her off.
Could that be Natia?
We've got authorisation to
do a DNA test to confirm
if Natia was the girl's mother.
So you know people at
Melfort Children's?
I've been doing
some voluntary work
for the Paediatric
Transplant Charity.
What made you
volunteer for them?
Was it someone you knew?
No.
Nothing like that.
When we first met,
you said the last postmortem
you did was a few years ago.
Was it a child?
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
Dev Basu.
Eight years old.
He needed a liver transplant,
but the centre wouldn't submit
him to the transplant list
because they
concluded his autism
made aftercare too
painful and risky.
It made me angry.
It still makes me angry.
Hey, Nikki, we're in Gravesend.
Yeah, I just spoke
to the taxi driver.
About a week ago he took
a cash fare from a guy
who got him to follow a white
lorry. Any idea who he was?
Taxi driver said the
guy had a gammy arm.
That's a direct quote for you.
We'll go and check the location
he dropped them off now. OK?
Why here?
Because it's nowhere.
Looks like whoever drove the
lorry switched the plates here.
You think this is where the
passengers joined the lorry?
THEY SHOUT
Looks like it could be stolen.
Yep. Very stolen.
Maeve Tooney.
Maeve didn't come alone.
Will Sturton drove her here.
Nikki, the DNA is back.
Natia isn't the girl's mother.
Well, Steinert's is pretty
rare. It's inherited.
That can't be a
coincidence, can it?
I've been doing a
little more digging.
It's a charity in Georgia for people
affected by muscular dystrophy.
Natia's baby died from
Steinert's two years ago.
His name was Petre.
Her tattoo.
"P" for Petre.
After his death, she moved
to London, a new start.
Then... I found this.
Ketevan.
The name in the good luck card.
She's still at the hospital.
She could be the mother
of the abandoned girl.
Gabriel.
The consultants asked me to
tell them if we can find a link
with the girl in our case.
Is that a good idea?
It's sensitive.
It's sparked some pretty
feverish headlines.
I'm just thinking of the
Lyell's impartiality.
If we can help them,
why wouldn't we?
Ketevan Gvazava?
VOICE MESSAGE IN GEORGIAN PLAYS
IN ENGLISH: She's
dying, Ketevan.
Your daughter.
This isn't bloody working.
I need to find a translator.
You're not her?
Then who is?
You're Ketevan Gvazava.
You gave the other woman your
coat with the card in it.
At least now I know the name of
the woman whose life I saved.
What are you afraid of?
I think the girl in the
news is your daughter.
She's dying, Ketevan.
She suffers from Steinert's,
just like you, like Natia.
It's why you had the
sudden cardiac arrhythmia.
I don't know the kid.
Then take a DNA
test to prove it.
Why don't you want to be
with your daughter, Ketevan?
At least give us a name so the
doctors know what to call her.
Your daughter
needs you, Ketevan.
WHISPERS: The doctor is
going to look after you.
SHE SPEAKS GEORGIAN
We need to go, come on.
INAUDIBLE
SHE WEEPS
She's fine.
She's safe, she's safe.
You're not giving
me much choice.
Ketevan Gvazava, I'm arresting you
on suspicion of child abandonment.
You'll be transferred
to a holding cell
as soon as the doctors allow it.
He's been moved to HDU.
When's a heart coming? Hmm?
Tommy needs you to stay strong.
First, speak to the charity.
The counsellors are there to support
parents at moments like this.
What did the doctor say exactly?
Uh, that he's got
ventricular thrombus.
He's out of time, isn't he?
Professor, thank you for coming.
Please excuse us, Sheila.
This is a very
difficult situation.
I've seen the headlines.
The headlines are why we need
you to confirm the girl's status.
We can't afford
to get this wrong.
Until we can get a concrete DNA
result, we won't know for certain.
The police and I need more
time to prove the link.
The heart is 50 minutes away.
Professor Folukoya, this is
our multidisciplinary team.
No doubt you've met
some of them before.
Professor, you believe the
girl in our care is a citizen
of Georgia and that her mother
left her at the hospital
and then tried to flee the UK.
Is that correct?
Ketevan Gvazava and the girl share
the same rare genetic condition.
In addition, my colleague
found photographic evidence
of Ms Gvazava and the
girl together in Georgia.
I believe she's
the girl's mother.
And therefore we can assume
that she tried to leave the UK
to give her child the strongest
case for being a ward of court
and therefore eligible to be
on the Group One waiting list.
If there wasn't another
suitable recipient,
then we would happily give
this heart to a nonresident
Group Two individual.
But there is a suitable
Group One recipient,
right here in our hospital.
Tommy Shaw.
Nico, I would argue the girl is
technically still in Group One
and in greater need than
the other recipient.
They're both equally
suitable candidates.
But she is still non-UK, non-EU,
which means she should
have been in Group Two.
We have a tissue match for two
patients, both in urgent need!
We listed her as Group One.
Are we really going to de-list her
45 minutes before the heart arrives?
I've come from the hospital.
Your daughter is very unwell.
You need to see her.
Listen to me.
She can't breathe by herself,
her organs are failing.
Please.
Is she on the list?
The transplant list?
Yes.
She'll get a new heart?
It's complicated.
They're debating it now.
Debate?
Why? Why debate?
Because they know she's yours.
What have you done?
There are rules.
Procedures that
have to be followed.
They're debating if
she gets a heart?
They're debating
if she deserves it?
She deserves it.
She's in pain, all the time!
She's scared!
I hold her and I
can't stop her pain.
Do you know what it's
like to hold your child
and not be able to
stop their pain?
No.
Then tell them you're wrong!
Say I'm not her mother.
Say it!
Say I'm dead!
Ketevan!
She died in police custody.
I've referred it to the IOPC
for independent investigation.
Look, I don't want you finding
this out from someone else, but...
Ketevan's daughter passed away
before a decision was reached.
She didn't suffer.
She wasn't alone.
But she's dead.
She might not be if I'd
have kept out of it.
Then the next kid on the
list would have died.
And the poor dote whose heart
it was in the first place,
what if they'd lived?
What if the little
girl was British?
What if her mother was rich,
could buy her way into
Britain instead of
whatever she did to
get into this country?
The world is rigged.
It's unfair.
You tried.
You try more than most.
You can't save them all.
Believe me.
Anything on the number plate
we found, oh King of the DVLA?
Thanks, Jack. That means a lot.
The number plate is
registered to a company
called Southern Valley
Holdings. Uh-huh.
It's basically a shell company
with a PO Box address in London.
So not much use to us?
On the contrary.
Southern Valley Holdings
owns a company in Kent.
Medway Blossoms Nurseries.
They import flowers and
plants from Holland.
I've checked with the
ferry companies in Dover,
and Medway Blossoms booked a lorry
to travel to Calais on the 12th.
Nice work.
You might think of
picking up a bouquet
for Nikki while you're there.
It's her birthday next week.
I know.
Irises for faith.
Carnations, fascination.
Chrysanthemums, grief.
What's your mood today?
Inquisitive. Thanks
for asking, Lucy.
Oh, bollocks.
That's not me.
There you go.
Right, Bev.
DI Torres, Kent County Police.
Jack Hodgson, forensics.
Are you the owner
here? Co-owner.
Who's the other "co"?
Marcus. Marcus Tillman.
Your husband?
No.
Do you know this man?
Yeah. That's Marcus.
When did you last
see him? Oof...
He sort of comes and goes.
Do you know, I'm sorry, I've
got to take my medication.
Ooh.
Not many flowers in today?
Yeah, well you know, supply
chain issues and all that.
Have you not read the papers?
So if that's all, I
best get back to it.
FLIES BUZZ
I thought there was something
familiar about this place.
Yew Nurseries closed
down because of
drug smuggling back
in the '90s, right?
That was all lies. It
got thrown out of court.
The charges were dropped
because of witness intimidation.
I've kept my nose clean.
What about Marcus?
He hasn't been
arrested for anything.
You're missing a
lorry, aren't you, Bev?
We found its number
plate. It was stolen.
You didn't report it?
You've heard about that lorry
they found down the M20, right?
The "Truck of Horrors"?
It was booked on a
Calais ferry on the 12th.
Who made the booking?
I don't know.
It's your business.
Marcus does the financials.
I just do the blooms.
What has that git been saying?
Marcus is dead.
Who did it? Who killed him?
That's what we'd like
to talk to you about.
Was it Sue?
Who's Sue? His ex.
She left him about six weeks
ago, she took the kids.
Marcus went spare.
Why did she run off?
Why do you think?
She couldn't stand the heat.
The heat?
How hot did Marcus get?
She was all airs and
graces, that one.
She didn't understand her place.
Marcus Tillman's a known
face around Dartford.
Nasty bastard.
So you think he'd gone
back to his old ways,
using his former drugs
route to traffic people?
He brought the gun along
to keep them in line?
The place you found
the number plate
was a big rave venue
back in the '90s.
Marcus had a finger in that too.
He organised the music
then supplied the drugs.
That shithole was like
a second home to him.
Something happened there.
Yeah, something happened
there - the rendezvous.
Marcus got Will
Sturton to bring Maeve
and the other girls to
the truck. Off they went.
With Will locked in the back?
Yeah, to keep order.
Without a phone?
Then they drove two
miles to the quarry,
Marcus went to let them out,
but died before he could?
There's something about
this that doesn't add up.
We managed to unlock the laptop
you found in Will's room.
The only thing on there was a
SaveMyDocs file named Trebor.
Shared with one other user.
It has hundreds of photos,
voice recordings and videos.
Most of them are taken covertly
in what looks like some
sort of trap house.
Trebor? Isn't that
Robert backwards?
Maeve's missing brother, Robbie.
That could make Maeve the other
user with access to the file.
Could Maeve and Will have been
working together to find Robbie?
What if we've got him all wrong.
I'm looking for my brother.
I can help you.
Would explain why the gang
abducted Will - to shut him up.
Maybe he was working
against them.
Will was on dialysis
at the hospital.
He's going to need treatment
again soon or his potassium levels
are going to go sky-high.
Whoa, wait. Pull that up.
Marcus Tillman.
I think we can assume he
was back in the drugs game.
Probably running the
whole county lines show.
Will and Maeve left their
things in the car at the lay-by.
I don't think they were planning
on getting on the truck.
I think they were trying to find
out what happened to her brother.
Hey, where's Robbie?! I
know you know where he is!
Where is he?! Shut up!
Where's my brother?
So Maeve and Will interrupted
the trafficking operation.
That's when it all
turned to shit.
Wrong place, wrong time.
That's Natia, isn't it?
Why are there photos
of Natia in there?
Scroll through.
I've seen that door.
133 was Natia's address, right?
Almost.
I told you. I don't know the
woman you're looking for.
Strange, given that she
had keys to your flat.
She's dead, isn't she?
My Natia.
My Natia is dead.
We were neighbours for a while.
Until we were more.
She helped me one day.
She was always helping people.
Nat was on that lorry
they found, wasn't she?
Why do you say that, Maya?
I know Natia and
Ketevan were friends
from the charity in Georgia.
Natia liked to help
people, didn't she?
She helped bring Ketevan and
her daughter into the country.
But when the press started
speculating about it...
..Ketevan had to get out.
So Natia helped her again.
Who arranged the truck, Maya?
Who did she contact to get
Ketevan onto the lorry?
I don't know.
Who are you scared of?
Is it this man?
Did Natia work at
the flower shop?
Well, her boss was a dealer.
He made her collect
packages from his houses.
She hated it.
But he could be violent.
Do you think Marcus forced
Natia on to the truck?
I'm not saying anything
without my lawyer present.
There was a 19-year-old boy
with Natia on the truck.
He was trying to help a
young woman find her brother.
And now Marcus' boys have him,
he'll die of kidney failure
if we don't get to him soon.
There must be something
you can tell me.
She did a drop for her boss
a few days before she left.
I don't know where.
But you can find
out from her phone.
I unlocked it for you.
Thanks for agreeing to
do the postmortem, Nikki.
Ketevan's daughter had
developed a pulmonary embolism.
She would've died very rapidly.
Her transplant this morning
wouldn't have changed the outcome.
Right.
Are you all right?
I thought hard data was
the only way of deciding
who got a transplant
and who didn't.
But now...
..now I don't know
what to think.
You presented the facts, the data,
about Ketevan and her daughter.
But what if I didn't?
What if I subconsciously amplified
what was, in reality, conjecture?
What if I didn't want her to get
the heart so... someone else could?
You didn't make the decision.
The transplant team did.
The girl wouldn't have
survived the surgery.
And ultimately, a
child is alive today.
I hate to break this to you,
but you're not God.
You had no control over this.
There are two
locations Natia visited
in the 72 hours before she left.
Here and here.
This one's Medway Blossoms.
This one's Montagu Road.
DA2 8KB.
Can we geo-locate the video and
picture files from Will's laptop?
The trap house.
Natia was there as well.
Everything went
through that place.
Maybe that's where
they took Will.
Baz, get me two tactical
units and an ARV.
Meet me at Montagu Road,
Dartford. I'll be there in 30.
Door.
Armed police! Stay
where you are!
Stay still! Stay where
you are, don't move!
THEY SHOUT
On the ground!
You, hands on your head!
Do not move! Stay where you are!
SHOUTING CONTINUES
Stay down.
Where's Will?
Fuck you.
Armed police, get down!
Put your hands on
your head. Down!
What? What are you going
to do? Shoot a kid?
Go on, tell the
wanker to shoot a kid.
Cuff him.
Hallway, clear!
Open up!
Armed police!
Get down to ground level, now!
Go, go, go, go!
Will Sturton is now
the prime suspect.
He's in a silver Volvo
heading west down Alban Road.
Assumed armed and dangerous.
Shit!
Will's no victim.
He's top dog here.
We got Will all wrong.
He was Marcus' number two.
The Volvo was abandoned a
mile away from the trap house.
We're looking for him, but...
..no luck so far.
If Will was running
the drugs lines,
why was he helping Maeve
search for her brother?
Maybe he was looking
for Robbie himself?
If Robbie had escaped and
Will was hunting him down,
maybe he thought Maeve
would lead him there.
But then they ran in
to Marcus Tillman,
and Marcus locked
them all in the lorry.
But why?
His wife had disappeared
on him, taken their kids.
He couldn't let that go.
Maybe he thought that someone in
the lorry knew where they were.
Yes.
But who?
Lucy.
Lucy. Do you remember?
At the shop, the woman was
wearing the wrong name tag.
It said "Lucy" on it.
Yeah. Someone made that ferry
booking from Medway Blossoms, right?
Medway Blossoms...
They did a fund-raiser,
aid for Armed Forces.
Jesus. That's the woman
from the hospital.
The one we thought was Ketevan.
Was she behind all this?
Let's go find out.
Torres. It's PC Kerning
at the hospital, ma'am.
Lucy Stevens has gone from the ward.
We're searching the building now.
Gone? What do you mean, gone?
TYRES SQUEAL
That's Will Sturton's car! What?
All units, a male and female,
suspected to be in a black Jeep
headed away from the hospital.
Reg number Papa, Golf, Two,
Two, Victor, Charlie, Delta.
Follow quietly, no lights.
Car 496, do you have contact?
Car 496. We have visual on the black
Jeep heading down Romney Street.
Romney Street? I think I
know where they're heading.
Medway Blossoms, just
two miles down the road.
Just past Longfield. See?
Let's hope you're right.
GLASS SHATTERS Oi!
Jack.
Hey!
Ugh!
Robbie?
You're Robbie Tooney?
Maeve's brother?
It's all right. I'm police.
Come on!
In there.
Lucy.
He wanted me to
take him to Robbie.
He was dragging me
and shouting at me,
and then he just collapsed.
Nikki.
There's no carotid pulse.
Why didn't you tell us who
you was at the hospital?
Three people have just
died because of me.
And now him.
Will was dying.
He needed to be
in intensive care.
You drove Marcus Tillman's wife
out of the country, didn't you?
To get her away from him.
Sue had bruises all over.
Marcus would've killed her.
So you were going drive Ketevan?
Help her get out too?
Her friend Natia
worked here on and off.
We got on, you know?
She knew that I'd helped Sue,
so she asked if I would
do it again for Ketevan.
Drive her out of the country.
But Marcus found out?
Yeah. He waited for me in a
taxi, followed me to the pick up.
Follow her.
He turned up at
the meeting place.
He was raging.
It was a mess.
Where is she?!
Where is she?!
You little bitch!
Tell me where my wife is.
I'll kill you! I'll
kill the lot of you!
All of you get in!
Get in!
No, wait! No!
Why did he drive you
all to the quarry?
To scare us.
To get me to tell
him where Sue was.
We felt the truck stop
and he started screaming
through the intercom.
I warned you, bitch!
I warned you, didn't I?
HE COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS
It sounded like he was choking.
And then we didn't
hear him any more.
Tell me about Maeve.
What happened to her?
She just wanted to
find her brother.
Natia had met him
on one of the runs.
This scared little kid.
I found him and I brought
him to the nursery.
Marcus never came round here, it
was just a front for the drugs.
Did Robbie give you
his St Christopher?
Yeah. A thank you, he said.
He went on and on
about it, so I wore it.
Where did you get that?
Maeve saw it in
the truck, and...
How the hell did you get it?
Where did you get
that? Stop! Wait, wait!
THEY SHOUT
Ugh!
Later, when we were stuck in
there, I told her about Robbie.
How you'd helped him.
How did Maeve die?
It was a few days in,
I think. I don't know.
We lost track of
the time in there.
We were so exhausted, we
were getting delirious.
I woke up and I heard
Will and Maeve arguing.
If you've done something
to hurt Robbie,
I will kill you myself.
I think she'd
realised about him.
That he wasn't there to help
her, he was after Robbie himself.
No, no, no! Wait, wait!
Agh!
He killed her.
Will just... He stabbed
her and he killed her.
Why do you think Will wanted
to find Robbie so badly?
The halfway house, I think.
He'd been there with
Will a few times.
Halfway house? You
mean Legard House?
What about it?
FAINT: There's a lot
of money to be made.
You need to step up.
The guy in charge at Legard
House recruited them for Marcus.
Robbie told me about him.
The youth worker?
I just wanted to help.
FAINT SIRENS
INAUDIBLE
You know the story
of St Christopher?
One day he saw a child
trying to cross a river,
and he put him on his back and
started to carry him across.
But with each step, the child
grew heavier and heavier.
Yet, somehow, Christopher managed
to get him to the other side.
When he asked why the
boy had become so heavy,
the child replied that
he was the Christ Child,
and carried with him
the weight of the world.
Well, you helped carry that family
through the transplant process.
Did I?
God knows, I'm no saint.
So much falls between
the cracks, doesn't it?
Yep. It does.
I'm heading out. Fancy
grabbing a drink?
I'm sorry, I've got three reports
to finish before I get out of here.
But next time, for sure.
Hey, Gabriel's
going for a drink.
Oh, I can't.
I have a lecture on selfish
gene theory at SOAS.
The two of you, then?
Actually, I've got a
squash game at eight.
Well, I've got plans
with Cara, so...
Next time?
My place or a Satanic
death cult? Huh?
Satanic death cults?
I read an article about them.
They are quite petty.
So life with Jack
might be better.
Bye-bye, Velvy.
♪ Testator silens
♪ Costestes e spiritu
♪ Silencium. ♪