Touching Evil (1997–1999): Season 1, Episode 4 - Killing with Kindness: Part 2 - full transcript
Burgess confesses to the murders but it is only to protect Dr Walker,whom he believes is the real killer,and on release commits suicide. Creegan is convinced that all the victims were brought to the brink of death and then resuscitated to tell the perpetrator what life on the other side is like. Using his own near death experience he flushes out the murderer who threatens to kill more patients if Creegan fails to satisfy. He must prevent this from happening.
There's an ancient
Jewish sect, Sadducees.
If you cheat death and
you return to earth,
you're taking up space
that doesn't belong to you.
To them, it must look pretty
overcrowded around here.
I'm not Jewish.
So obviously, you're
safe enough with me.
[phone ringing]
ENWRIGHT (ON PHONE):
Taylor, Enwright.
You got Creegan with you?
Just dropped him off at home.
ENWRIGHT (ON PHONE):
I've tried blaming him.
Got nothing.
Listen, Eric Sander
from the Home Office
is supposed to write the papers.
He's coming around
on his way from work.
He wants to meet you.
I'm meant to be
doing some research.
No, you're not.
You're off on a date.
I won't spoil your fun.
Half an hour, please.
Get Creegan.
Fine.
I can't understand just
how you live with yourself.
Have you ever felt
that welcome before?
I know you haven't since.
I don't know what
keeps you here.
[phone ringing]
Taylor to Control.
CONTROL (ON RADIO): Control.
Go ahead.
Is Creegan static or moving?
CONTROL (ON RADIO):
No, he's at home.
Well, his warrant
card's at home.
[knocking]
TAYLOR: Creegan.
Might be good to
show your teeth.
Someone from the Home
Office wants to see us.
I know you're there.
What's-- Creegan!
Oh, shit.
Taylor to Control.
I need help at Creegan's flat.
[gunshot]
Oh, Creegan.
What the hell have you done?
Don't turn around.
If you move, I'll shoot you.
ENWRIGHT: How's it looking?
TAYLOR: Well, he's alive.
ENWRIGHT: You saw her?
No.
Listen, she got my gun.
Go with her.
Take two officers
to cover him, armed.
And get me every 15 minutes.
You understand?
ENWRIGHT: How did she
get into his home?
She told the caretakers
she was his wife.
They said she seemed distressed.
He let her in?
Has he still got his job?
All right.
Ready, steady, lift.
Can we get hold of Dr. Walker?
Dr. Elizabeth Walker
from St. Barnaby's.
Also, we've got a closed
circuit covering the notice
board in the main canteen.
It's a bad business now.
Get the tape.
Get it to Enwright.
FEMALE (ON TAPE): You died.
You went where you
belonged, and you came back
because you were forced to.
There hasn't been a
single day when you didn't
think that was a mistake.
CREEGAN (ON TAPE):
You feel that?
FEMALE (ON TAPE): You know I do.
CREEGAN (ON TAPE):
What do you want?
FEMALE (ON TAPE): Help.
I just need some help.
Did you know about
Creegan's experience?
Yeah.
I knew his wife blamed
that for the breakdown
of their marriage.
The equipment we
picked up from his flat
was fairly specialized.
She'd have to be pretty
senior to know how to use it.
She sounded scared.
Oh, thank you.
So where did Carl
Burgess come into this?
Burgess is out of the
frame now, isn't he?
Well, in and out.
He tried killing a
patient at St. Barnaby's.
MARION: Different pattern.
He literally tried to unplug
them in front of witnesses.
Out of his tree.
I think we'd be wasting our
time looking for a connection
between him and this person.
What's Burgess saying?
ENWRIGHT: Nothing.
He electrocuted himself.
Died two hours later.
Are we looking at this tape?
Kreitman.
Did you see anything?
Blink once for yes.
His eyes are open.
Patient regained
consciousness at 9:42 PM.
Check the [inaudible].
Creegan, it's Rivers.
Can you hear me?
Dr. Walker, St. Barnaby's.
I've been asked
to take the case.
OK.
He's now a private
patient of Dr. Walker,
and no drugs or treatment
without her spoken consent.
Thanks, Julie.
No offense.
I'll tell you about it
when I'm allowed to.
OK.
The card was never removed
from the notice board,
which is why nobody leapt out.
TAYLOR: Can we see her again?
Jonathan?
Let's pull back.
Sorry.
I'm tired.
TAYLOR: We're all tired.
There.
ELIZABETH: He's been
given atracurium.
We use it to paralyze
patients during surgery.
RIVERS: Paralyze?
ELIZABETH: It wears off.
But you see this?
This is adrenaline.
God, this is--
What's she done to him?
I think she stopped
his heart with digoxin,
then resuscitated him.
I'll need to keep a
check on the heart rate.
It's all right.
Dr. Walker, can I talk to you?
I'll need about
half an hour longer.
Do you know her?
Julie Carney.
She's an anesthetic registrar.
She was here tonight.
She was working on
him when I got here.
KREITMAN: She's cleared
out all these accounts.
She's wandering
around with about
two grand and your weapon.
But I don't understand.
Why would Julie Carney
want to do all this to me?
Swindon General, 1984.
You treated a 19-year-old
girl after a traffic accident.
Her heart failed.
You resuscitated her.
I was a casualty junior then.
I have no idea how
many people I--
Her name was Julie Farah.
In 1987, she married a
man called Stephen Carney.
Oh my god.
According to her
personnel record,
she's refused three permanent
jobs to remain in locum.
The possibility is
that she wanted to stay
in locum to stay around you.
When you moved house,
she's moved house.
She's followed you.
ENWRIGHT: Look,
she's never attempted
to damage you personally,
but we can't take any risks.
We'd like to move you and your
children into a safe house
until this is over.
She must have been in
the flat when I got home.
TAYLOR: Did she say anything?
She wants to know if
there's anything waiting
for her if she dies again.
And what are you going
to tell her, Creegan?
I came last night and they
wouldn't say what happened.
They still won't tell me.
I'm sorry.
The information we're carrying
has to stay classified.
I'm security
cleared, aren't I?
Uh, you are.
I'll get some coffees.
I thought she was
a single parent.
Well, she is a single parent.
Then I realized Dave was
coming out every second day,
at least, to see the kids.
And you stayed?
No.
I called it off.
Then he turns up at
my house one night.
Says he thinks I've
let his family down.
If I knew anything
about kids, I'd
know that they need continuity.
If I really cared, I'd move
in and be around for her.
Does that leave
you anywhere to go?
When I start feeling
like his best man on loan,
he stops coming
around for a bit.
He makes room for me.
Carl Burgess.
I heard.
He could have been the killer.
His form, his
profile, his mistakes.
Nobody's arguing, are they?
Did you log the
visit to his house?
It's in the computer.
Can you get it
out of the computer
without leaving a
bloody great hole?
Can we go?
Because, I mean, structurally,
you have a lovely face.
You could do a lot with that.
Good bones.
I wish I had bones like that.
Don't look so shy.
You'll go home tonight
and knock him for sex.
You will.
There.
How's that?
It's fine.
I hope your protection's
better than my home security.
RECORDING (ON ANSWERING
MACHINE): You have one message.
Message one.
How's your cooking?
TAYLOR: I don't cook.
[answering machine beeping]
JULIE (ON ANSWERING
MACHINE): David Creegan.
By the time you get this
message, I'll have moved on.
You died on the 16th
of June two years ago.
Nothing's worked
out for you since.
I hope you know what it took
for me to bring you back.
You looked so peaceful.
I wanted to leave you.
I envied you.
You left me that
message on the canteen
noticeboard thinking
you were being clever.
I know where you've been.
Well, I know where
you've been, David.
What I want to know is how you
condemn me for what I've done.
You believe, don't you?
You believe, don't you, David?
[sobbing]
Carney's left a message
on Creegan's machine.
She's using a mobile.
Find out what time that
was and get a location.
CREEGAN: Steve Carney?
DI Dave Creegan
from the Organized
and Serial Crimes Unit.
DI Susan Taylor.
Is this to do with Julie?
Well, I'm not in a hurry.
Maybe we can make a start.
Sh-- she went back to sleep
just 10 minutes after you rang.
But you could help me
fill in this questionnaire.
Do we need to
bother her at all
if it's just a questionnaire?
Well, not particularly.
I just need to check her
over, take a sample of blood.
Take two minutes.
TAYLOR: Any idea where
she might have gone?
I was in the middle of
papering that when I left.
And I haven't seen her since.
And I don't want to.
CREEGAN: Did she
hurt you, Stephen?
She came at me over and over
again about me being depressed.
What a dump the world
is, how small I was.
Weeks and weeks and
weeks and weeks.
She drove me around the bend.
Julie's completely--
look, I'm not--
I can't help you, all right?
Did you know each other
long before you got together?
What's she done?
She's a murder suspect.
I bet her at the Point
of Light Foundation.
It's a self-help
group for zombies.
She did research for them.
TAYLOR: Did she ever talk about
her near-death experience?
STEPHEN: Julie's
obsessed with death.
Don't know why.
And don't want to.
It's Creegan.
Can somebody find
me a number, please?
What I can't
figure out is why she
went to so much bother if all
she wanted to do was damage me.
KEITH (ON PHONE):
Sergeant Lingard.
Keith Lingard?
KEITH (ON PHONE): Am
and always will be.
What can I do for you?
DI Creegan here from
the OSC in London.
KEITH (ON PHONE): Oh?
I am honored.
Keith, you attended a
traffic accident in Swindon
when you were a constable.
It was back in '84.
You probably won't remember.
18-year-old girl.
Her name was Julie.
KEITH (ON PHONE): Julie Farah.
I remember that one.
I can only manage
the stairs twice a day.
So the bed had to
come down here.
(WHISPERING) This
isn't living, is it?
Handier, really.
The cooking, the washing,
and then put in as a shower
in the old pantry.
Who are you here for, Dorothy?
Money coming from the lottery.
I never bought a
ticket in my life.
That's what you call lucky.
Take a deep breath.
Do you smell that?
That's what the
world smells like.
You can't wait, can you?
You don't have to.
[moaning lightly]
Was that her?
Was that her?
She's not made a
peep in six months.
What did you do to her?
She's tired.
MAN: You can come again.
[cheering and applauding]
You do realize
you're officially
on file as a murder victim,
so I've eaten your biscuits.
This document is a
membership register
for the Point of
Light Foundation,
a self-help group for--
Existentialist electricians.
for people who've had
near-death experiences.
Julie Carney was paid
by the organization
to collect this register.
It gives names, addresses,
and clinical details
of all their membership.
We know she owns a copy of this.
But we can't find
it at the house,
so she must have it with her.
ENWRIGHT: Assume she's on the
offensive, not on the run.
I want everyone in this
register notified to contact us
if she gets in touch.
Marion.
She's requesting
help from Creegan,
who, according to
her own measure,
doesn't belong here, either.
She's treating him as if he's
special, but-- forgive me.
He's no more special than
the victims she's terminated.
Julie Carney's on the move.
She used her credit card
about four hours ago
in Clwyd, North Wales.
Prints match.
Signature matches.
But the store assistant swears
she's got dark brown hair.
ENWRIGHT: Right.
Issue a new description.
RIVERS: We've got two
people on the register
listed for North Wales--
Mold and Clwyd.
DC Rivers, OSC.
We've got an urgent request
for assistance on your patch.
Yep.
Peter John Crowler,
116 Castle Road, Clwyd.
49 years old.
We think he might be at risk
from a female, a Dr. Julie
Carney.
Dorothy Swan, 53
Cramner Road, Mold.
She's 72.
Now, we think she might be
a risk from a Julie Carney.
Carney.
That's C-A-R-N-- what?
Everybody on the register
under surveillance.
A 72-year-old
woman, Dorothy Swan,
died two hours ago in Mold.
Took a visit from a doctor
claiming she was doing
a survey of stroke victims.
Doctor took a blood sample.
Let's wait for them to
give us the tox screen
sooner rather than later.
Where's Enwright gone?
His office, isn't he?
What was that note
you slipped him?
I'm sorry.
I didn't want you thinking
it was on display.
Your medical records were
left in a caff in Euston.
She's drawing attention to
some sensitive elements.
Have you seen
any of this before?
In 1984, the van
that hit Julie Carney
was in the middle of
rush hour traffic.
The cop who was
first on the scene
said then, as he said now,
was a suicide attempt.
She wants to try again.
She thinks I do, too.
That's why I'm special.
I want to die.
We don't sell that.
Didn't want to
come back to this.
It's cheesy
cauliflower tonight.
Do you like cheesy cauliflower?
I know I'm not
the first to say it,
but if you're feeling
too exposed by this case,
I can easily put you
onto something else.
She won't try again unless
she definitely knows there's
something worth going back for.
- Fine.
Tell her there is.
Tell her you saw the fireworks.
Point in the direction
of the tallest building
we can find and tell her
where we can watch her.
Could you?
And what if she's so
scared she just wants a bit
of company on the journey?
[gate closing]
Mrs. Creegan, it's Dr. Farah.
1:45.
Community health screening.
You'd forgotten.
It's the second time
today that's happened.
There's a meningitis outbreak
at All Saint's Primary.
I don't know
anything about it.
Well, it's routine checks.
You were meant to find a letter.
Well, I can come again
tomorrow if it's easier.
No.
Please, come in.
This is Dr. Farah.
Say hello.
CREEGAN: Jonathan?
What went wrong
with Carl Burgess?
Nobody knows.
He just went apeshit,
tried killing a patient.
Botched it.
Yeah.
Yeah, and when he did, he
said directly to a cop,
"tell her to tell them I did it.
Tell them she's innocent."
She's Dr. Walker, obviously.
Who's them, do you think?
If there's a proper
question in there, ask it.
Was Burgess leaned
on after his release?
No.
You agreed with his release?
No.
At the time, I thought he was
hot for the hospital murders.
You know I did.
And you know I was wrong.
CREEGAN: OK.
No.
Apologize.
You wouldn't speak to
your plumber like that.
Jonathan, I apologize.
Unreservedly.
It was a question,
not an accusation.
It's just that we've
got two separate Burgess
files on the hard drive.
One's empty.
One's not.
[clacking]
[computer beeping]
Control-R for Reveal.
One's a backup.
The other's not.
We don't clear it till
after the postmortem.
Will you lift your
hair up for me, Ruby?
That's eczema around there.
She's just growing out of it.
Tell you what.
Have a listen.
See what your sister
had for lunch.
What symptoms should
we be looking for?
Can I get you a
coffee or something?
Do you know you're
the first to offer?
Thank you.
Only headaches, neck stiffness,
sensitivity to light,
get your GP out.
Did you want girls?
KERRY: Had do you take it?
Your coffee.
Oh.
No, I won't, thanks.
I'll just have water.
Sure.
Was he there for the birth?
KERRY: Five minutes
before the first,
three minutes after the second.
Shame.
Well, it was one
more than I expected.
Is he kept very busy?
KERRY: Do you have any?
Uh, no.
It's not that kind of job.
Too many nights.
As a community doctor?
[door opening]
Hey!
Barry, look what I got.
KERRY: Barry, this is Dr. Farah.
Hello.
Do you know what
we had for lunch?
What?
Fish fingers.
Thank you.
It's all right.
I'll file it.
OK.
ENWRIGHT (ON PHONE):
Creegan, she's
got your ex-wife's address.
I just hope I'm wrong about this
[phone ringing]
[sirens blaring]
Taylor to Unit 1.
How near are you?
UNIT 1 (ON RADIO):
We're down South
Morton towards the carriageway.
CREEGAN: There must
be somebody closer.
Get somebody closer.
All units, anyone closer?
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO):
Reporting for Unit 2.
We're two streets away.
We're on it.
CREEGAN: Where are they?
Where are you now, Unit 2?
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO): Coming
into Broom Road now.
It's number 61.
61.
Ask if the lights are on.
See any houselights?
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO):
Just a front bedroom.
It's the right bedroom.
They'd answer the door.
Ask them if anyone's inside.
Just break it.
Repeat, break it.
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO):
Are we authorized?
Yes!
You're authorized!
Do it!
Breaking the door.
Mrs. Creegan?
Hello, Mrs. Creegan?
Oh, shit.
[phone ringing]
Creegan.
JULIE (ON PHONE): I
only wanted to look.
You don't look.
JULIE (ON PHONE): Is that
what you're hanging on for?
Your family?
Julie, give yourself up.
JULIE (ON PHONE):
I don't know why.
They seem perfectly
happy without you.
CREEGAN: Look, we
checked your phone bills.
And you know what's
really weird?
Two phone calls in three months.
And both calls to work.
JULIE (ON PHONE): Have you
seen your girls with that man?
Barry?
You're going to need
a lot more friends
than that to stay on the run.
JULIE (ON PHONE): That
man being you, but better.
And right on time.
You don't fit in.
You don't fit anywhere
that's normal.
Do you think
you're normal, Julie?
Because see, I
don't pretend I am.
But I am a bloody
long way off you.
JULIE (ON PHONE): Not according
to your medical records.
Had you seen them before?
Did you want them
to shock me, do you?
Patients are always
shocked when they see notes.
I think it helps
sometimes to be reminded
about what you've got way down.
You do, Julie, do you?
Well, that's great.
So when do we start
reminding you?
Swindon, 9/94, when
you attempted suicide?
You're killing
people because you
believe that they
believe they're
better off somewhere else.
But you wanted to
die before that.
I've seen your records.
Black and white.
You haven't got the
guts to do it again,
which is just about
the only positive
thing that I know about you.
[phone disconnecting]
It's 10 to 4:00.
I'll never get back to sleep.
Do you fancy breakfast?
Did you work with Rivers
and Kreitman before this?
Rivers, once,
during his training.
Why?
No, no.
They're good.
And?
But?
If you were in an armed raid
and you had to choose someone
to cover you, who
would you choose?
Rivers.
His reactions are quicker.
Kreitman's more experienced.
True.
And if you needed
to get somebody
to tell the boss you're
going to the dentist
and really you're going
shopping, who would you choose?
What is this?
Go on.
Kreitman.
Why?
I'm going shopping tomorrow,
and I bet you'd be useless.
What's this?
Uh, it's, um--
it's a transcript
of a conversation between
the killer and Creegan,
3:50 AM today.
Was it masked?
The other bits are classified.
Even from us?
She got fairly
personal with Creegan.
And I was happy to lead
her with that stuff,
but I don't think he
wants it broadcasting.
Right.
I'd like to get started, please.
Where's Rivers?
He's checking a
lead on Julie Carney.
PRIEST: We have entrusted
our brother Carl Burgess
to God's merciful keeping.
And we now commit his
body to the ground,
in sure and certain hope of the
Resurrection to eternal life
through our Lord
Jesus Christ, who
died, was buried, and
rose again for us,
for Him be glory
forever and ever.
Amen.
[phone ringing]
DI Creegan.
JULIE (ON PHONE): I've
overdosed three people.
If you don't believe
me, all three
blood samples are in a red star
box delivered half an hour ago.
Test them, if you like.
But that might waste
time you haven't got.
They're not my patients.
It's not my hospital.
You send them to the office?
JULIE (ON PHONE): Look inside.
I'm not in the office.
Look, what are
you talking about?
What three people?
JULIE (ON PHONE): They've
got less than three hours
before the digoxin kills them.
I don't believe you.
You've never told us in advance.
JULIE (ON PHONE):
I've never needed to.
I want you to meet me.
If you help me,
I'll give you those
three names and absolutely
nobody gets hurt.
But you come on your own.
And you don't speak to a single
person or my mind goes blank.
Come where?
JULIE (ON PHONE): My house.
[phone ringing]
DI Taylor.
CREEGAN (ON PHONE): It's me.
Has a parcel arrived for me?
Aye?
Uh, yeah.
You all right?
[phone disconnecting]
[phone ringing]
CREEGAN: Yep.
JULIE (ON PHONE): The back.
CREEGAN: Where's the gun, Julie?
JULIE: I'm in here.
Where's the gun you
took off DI Taylor?
JULIE: It's in a bag
on the chair in there.
I said if you do as you're told,
everybody gets what they want.
Well, I did what you asked.
So you give me the names
of the people you've hurt.
You get the names
when you've done this.
CREEGAN: What's in it?
Two seconds to
reach the brain.
You can go away again.
No, you do it if
that's what you want.
I've tried.
I can't.
I get this far and--
We've got a
possible sighting of--
what happened?
TAYLOR: Ring the lab.
Get them tested.
[phone ringing]
Don't.
CREEGAN: I think we've got
a logistical problem here.
Where are the names, Julie?
You first.
They in your bag?
You'll get the names.
You written them down?
You'll get the names.
CREEGAN: You haven't, have you?
Because you've no intentions
of giving them to us.
I honor the deal, they're
dead within two seconds.
You'll find them.
CREEGAN: I don't believe you.
You don't think those
people want to live.
They'll go out
like the rest did.
They won't.
I promise.
If you were looking
for somebody to trust,
and you were looking at us
two, who would you go for?
I haven't killed anybody.
I haven't lied to you.
I've never broken a
promise in my life.
Trust me.
I know what it's
like to get that far.
I once had a gun this
far from my head.
Heard the bullet going
into the chamber.
And I squeezed it.
And squeezed it.
I couldn't.
If there's been
somebody like you there,
I'd have trusted them, Julie.
St. Bede's.
Sylvia Goldman, ward 17.
Frank-- Frank Whitaker,
high dependency 2.
St. Bede's.
Doreen Brown in
the breast unit.
St. Bede's.
Creegan to Control.
CONTROL (ON RADIO): Control.
Commander Enwright, urgent.
You bastard.
You bastard!
ENWRIGHT (ON RADIO): Enwright.
Take these details down.
They're all patients
at St. Bede's.
They've all been
OD'd by Julie Carney.
Sylvia Goldman, ward 17.
Frank Whitaker, high dependency.
Doreen Brown, breast unit.
ENWRIGHT (ON RADIO): OK.
We've traced you
to Carney's house.
Are you safe?
Send a van.
I'll bring her in.
No!
ENWRIGHT (ON RADIO):
Taylor's on her way.
She's got a team with her.
Julie.
I wasn't lying about the gun.
You know why I got
that far and couldn't?
The same reason you can't.
You can't want to die enough.
Come on.
No.
Julie.
Did you know your
ex-wife's pregnant?
What?
She told me.
I said I was a
community doctor and we
were screening for meningitis.
She wanted to know if there
was any risk to the baby.
So if you're hanging on for
your family, I wouldn't bother.
They don't think you
belong there, either.
Did you see anything
the second time?
TAYLOR (ON RADIO):
Creegan, where are you?
You can tell me
now, can't you?
TAYLOR (ON RADIO): Creegan,
tell me where you are.
Kitchen.
Yes.
[music playing]
[chatter]
Jewish sect, Sadducees.
If you cheat death and
you return to earth,
you're taking up space
that doesn't belong to you.
To them, it must look pretty
overcrowded around here.
I'm not Jewish.
So obviously, you're
safe enough with me.
[phone ringing]
ENWRIGHT (ON PHONE):
Taylor, Enwright.
You got Creegan with you?
Just dropped him off at home.
ENWRIGHT (ON PHONE):
I've tried blaming him.
Got nothing.
Listen, Eric Sander
from the Home Office
is supposed to write the papers.
He's coming around
on his way from work.
He wants to meet you.
I'm meant to be
doing some research.
No, you're not.
You're off on a date.
I won't spoil your fun.
Half an hour, please.
Get Creegan.
Fine.
I can't understand just
how you live with yourself.
Have you ever felt
that welcome before?
I know you haven't since.
I don't know what
keeps you here.
[phone ringing]
Taylor to Control.
CONTROL (ON RADIO): Control.
Go ahead.
Is Creegan static or moving?
CONTROL (ON RADIO):
No, he's at home.
Well, his warrant
card's at home.
[knocking]
TAYLOR: Creegan.
Might be good to
show your teeth.
Someone from the Home
Office wants to see us.
I know you're there.
What's-- Creegan!
Oh, shit.
Taylor to Control.
I need help at Creegan's flat.
[gunshot]
Oh, Creegan.
What the hell have you done?
Don't turn around.
If you move, I'll shoot you.
ENWRIGHT: How's it looking?
TAYLOR: Well, he's alive.
ENWRIGHT: You saw her?
No.
Listen, she got my gun.
Go with her.
Take two officers
to cover him, armed.
And get me every 15 minutes.
You understand?
ENWRIGHT: How did she
get into his home?
She told the caretakers
she was his wife.
They said she seemed distressed.
He let her in?
Has he still got his job?
All right.
Ready, steady, lift.
Can we get hold of Dr. Walker?
Dr. Elizabeth Walker
from St. Barnaby's.
Also, we've got a closed
circuit covering the notice
board in the main canteen.
It's a bad business now.
Get the tape.
Get it to Enwright.
FEMALE (ON TAPE): You died.
You went where you
belonged, and you came back
because you were forced to.
There hasn't been a
single day when you didn't
think that was a mistake.
CREEGAN (ON TAPE):
You feel that?
FEMALE (ON TAPE): You know I do.
CREEGAN (ON TAPE):
What do you want?
FEMALE (ON TAPE): Help.
I just need some help.
Did you know about
Creegan's experience?
Yeah.
I knew his wife blamed
that for the breakdown
of their marriage.
The equipment we
picked up from his flat
was fairly specialized.
She'd have to be pretty
senior to know how to use it.
She sounded scared.
Oh, thank you.
So where did Carl
Burgess come into this?
Burgess is out of the
frame now, isn't he?
Well, in and out.
He tried killing a
patient at St. Barnaby's.
MARION: Different pattern.
He literally tried to unplug
them in front of witnesses.
Out of his tree.
I think we'd be wasting our
time looking for a connection
between him and this person.
What's Burgess saying?
ENWRIGHT: Nothing.
He electrocuted himself.
Died two hours later.
Are we looking at this tape?
Kreitman.
Did you see anything?
Blink once for yes.
His eyes are open.
Patient regained
consciousness at 9:42 PM.
Check the [inaudible].
Creegan, it's Rivers.
Can you hear me?
Dr. Walker, St. Barnaby's.
I've been asked
to take the case.
OK.
He's now a private
patient of Dr. Walker,
and no drugs or treatment
without her spoken consent.
Thanks, Julie.
No offense.
I'll tell you about it
when I'm allowed to.
OK.
The card was never removed
from the notice board,
which is why nobody leapt out.
TAYLOR: Can we see her again?
Jonathan?
Let's pull back.
Sorry.
I'm tired.
TAYLOR: We're all tired.
There.
ELIZABETH: He's been
given atracurium.
We use it to paralyze
patients during surgery.
RIVERS: Paralyze?
ELIZABETH: It wears off.
But you see this?
This is adrenaline.
God, this is--
What's she done to him?
I think she stopped
his heart with digoxin,
then resuscitated him.
I'll need to keep a
check on the heart rate.
It's all right.
Dr. Walker, can I talk to you?
I'll need about
half an hour longer.
Do you know her?
Julie Carney.
She's an anesthetic registrar.
She was here tonight.
She was working on
him when I got here.
KREITMAN: She's cleared
out all these accounts.
She's wandering
around with about
two grand and your weapon.
But I don't understand.
Why would Julie Carney
want to do all this to me?
Swindon General, 1984.
You treated a 19-year-old
girl after a traffic accident.
Her heart failed.
You resuscitated her.
I was a casualty junior then.
I have no idea how
many people I--
Her name was Julie Farah.
In 1987, she married a
man called Stephen Carney.
Oh my god.
According to her
personnel record,
she's refused three permanent
jobs to remain in locum.
The possibility is
that she wanted to stay
in locum to stay around you.
When you moved house,
she's moved house.
She's followed you.
ENWRIGHT: Look,
she's never attempted
to damage you personally,
but we can't take any risks.
We'd like to move you and your
children into a safe house
until this is over.
She must have been in
the flat when I got home.
TAYLOR: Did she say anything?
She wants to know if
there's anything waiting
for her if she dies again.
And what are you going
to tell her, Creegan?
I came last night and they
wouldn't say what happened.
They still won't tell me.
I'm sorry.
The information we're carrying
has to stay classified.
I'm security
cleared, aren't I?
Uh, you are.
I'll get some coffees.
I thought she was
a single parent.
Well, she is a single parent.
Then I realized Dave was
coming out every second day,
at least, to see the kids.
And you stayed?
No.
I called it off.
Then he turns up at
my house one night.
Says he thinks I've
let his family down.
If I knew anything
about kids, I'd
know that they need continuity.
If I really cared, I'd move
in and be around for her.
Does that leave
you anywhere to go?
When I start feeling
like his best man on loan,
he stops coming
around for a bit.
He makes room for me.
Carl Burgess.
I heard.
He could have been the killer.
His form, his
profile, his mistakes.
Nobody's arguing, are they?
Did you log the
visit to his house?
It's in the computer.
Can you get it
out of the computer
without leaving a
bloody great hole?
Can we go?
Because, I mean, structurally,
you have a lovely face.
You could do a lot with that.
Good bones.
I wish I had bones like that.
Don't look so shy.
You'll go home tonight
and knock him for sex.
You will.
There.
How's that?
It's fine.
I hope your protection's
better than my home security.
RECORDING (ON ANSWERING
MACHINE): You have one message.
Message one.
How's your cooking?
TAYLOR: I don't cook.
[answering machine beeping]
JULIE (ON ANSWERING
MACHINE): David Creegan.
By the time you get this
message, I'll have moved on.
You died on the 16th
of June two years ago.
Nothing's worked
out for you since.
I hope you know what it took
for me to bring you back.
You looked so peaceful.
I wanted to leave you.
I envied you.
You left me that
message on the canteen
noticeboard thinking
you were being clever.
I know where you've been.
Well, I know where
you've been, David.
What I want to know is how you
condemn me for what I've done.
You believe, don't you?
You believe, don't you, David?
[sobbing]
Carney's left a message
on Creegan's machine.
She's using a mobile.
Find out what time that
was and get a location.
CREEGAN: Steve Carney?
DI Dave Creegan
from the Organized
and Serial Crimes Unit.
DI Susan Taylor.
Is this to do with Julie?
Well, I'm not in a hurry.
Maybe we can make a start.
Sh-- she went back to sleep
just 10 minutes after you rang.
But you could help me
fill in this questionnaire.
Do we need to
bother her at all
if it's just a questionnaire?
Well, not particularly.
I just need to check her
over, take a sample of blood.
Take two minutes.
TAYLOR: Any idea where
she might have gone?
I was in the middle of
papering that when I left.
And I haven't seen her since.
And I don't want to.
CREEGAN: Did she
hurt you, Stephen?
She came at me over and over
again about me being depressed.
What a dump the world
is, how small I was.
Weeks and weeks and
weeks and weeks.
She drove me around the bend.
Julie's completely--
look, I'm not--
I can't help you, all right?
Did you know each other
long before you got together?
What's she done?
She's a murder suspect.
I bet her at the Point
of Light Foundation.
It's a self-help
group for zombies.
She did research for them.
TAYLOR: Did she ever talk about
her near-death experience?
STEPHEN: Julie's
obsessed with death.
Don't know why.
And don't want to.
It's Creegan.
Can somebody find
me a number, please?
What I can't
figure out is why she
went to so much bother if all
she wanted to do was damage me.
KEITH (ON PHONE):
Sergeant Lingard.
Keith Lingard?
KEITH (ON PHONE): Am
and always will be.
What can I do for you?
DI Creegan here from
the OSC in London.
KEITH (ON PHONE): Oh?
I am honored.
Keith, you attended a
traffic accident in Swindon
when you were a constable.
It was back in '84.
You probably won't remember.
18-year-old girl.
Her name was Julie.
KEITH (ON PHONE): Julie Farah.
I remember that one.
I can only manage
the stairs twice a day.
So the bed had to
come down here.
(WHISPERING) This
isn't living, is it?
Handier, really.
The cooking, the washing,
and then put in as a shower
in the old pantry.
Who are you here for, Dorothy?
Money coming from the lottery.
I never bought a
ticket in my life.
That's what you call lucky.
Take a deep breath.
Do you smell that?
That's what the
world smells like.
You can't wait, can you?
You don't have to.
[moaning lightly]
Was that her?
Was that her?
She's not made a
peep in six months.
What did you do to her?
She's tired.
MAN: You can come again.
[cheering and applauding]
You do realize
you're officially
on file as a murder victim,
so I've eaten your biscuits.
This document is a
membership register
for the Point of
Light Foundation,
a self-help group for--
Existentialist electricians.
for people who've had
near-death experiences.
Julie Carney was paid
by the organization
to collect this register.
It gives names, addresses,
and clinical details
of all their membership.
We know she owns a copy of this.
But we can't find
it at the house,
so she must have it with her.
ENWRIGHT: Assume she's on the
offensive, not on the run.
I want everyone in this
register notified to contact us
if she gets in touch.
Marion.
She's requesting
help from Creegan,
who, according to
her own measure,
doesn't belong here, either.
She's treating him as if he's
special, but-- forgive me.
He's no more special than
the victims she's terminated.
Julie Carney's on the move.
She used her credit card
about four hours ago
in Clwyd, North Wales.
Prints match.
Signature matches.
But the store assistant swears
she's got dark brown hair.
ENWRIGHT: Right.
Issue a new description.
RIVERS: We've got two
people on the register
listed for North Wales--
Mold and Clwyd.
DC Rivers, OSC.
We've got an urgent request
for assistance on your patch.
Yep.
Peter John Crowler,
116 Castle Road, Clwyd.
49 years old.
We think he might be at risk
from a female, a Dr. Julie
Carney.
Dorothy Swan, 53
Cramner Road, Mold.
She's 72.
Now, we think she might be
a risk from a Julie Carney.
Carney.
That's C-A-R-N-- what?
Everybody on the register
under surveillance.
A 72-year-old
woman, Dorothy Swan,
died two hours ago in Mold.
Took a visit from a doctor
claiming she was doing
a survey of stroke victims.
Doctor took a blood sample.
Let's wait for them to
give us the tox screen
sooner rather than later.
Where's Enwright gone?
His office, isn't he?
What was that note
you slipped him?
I'm sorry.
I didn't want you thinking
it was on display.
Your medical records were
left in a caff in Euston.
She's drawing attention to
some sensitive elements.
Have you seen
any of this before?
In 1984, the van
that hit Julie Carney
was in the middle of
rush hour traffic.
The cop who was
first on the scene
said then, as he said now,
was a suicide attempt.
She wants to try again.
She thinks I do, too.
That's why I'm special.
I want to die.
We don't sell that.
Didn't want to
come back to this.
It's cheesy
cauliflower tonight.
Do you like cheesy cauliflower?
I know I'm not
the first to say it,
but if you're feeling
too exposed by this case,
I can easily put you
onto something else.
She won't try again unless
she definitely knows there's
something worth going back for.
- Fine.
Tell her there is.
Tell her you saw the fireworks.
Point in the direction
of the tallest building
we can find and tell her
where we can watch her.
Could you?
And what if she's so
scared she just wants a bit
of company on the journey?
[gate closing]
Mrs. Creegan, it's Dr. Farah.
1:45.
Community health screening.
You'd forgotten.
It's the second time
today that's happened.
There's a meningitis outbreak
at All Saint's Primary.
I don't know
anything about it.
Well, it's routine checks.
You were meant to find a letter.
Well, I can come again
tomorrow if it's easier.
No.
Please, come in.
This is Dr. Farah.
Say hello.
CREEGAN: Jonathan?
What went wrong
with Carl Burgess?
Nobody knows.
He just went apeshit,
tried killing a patient.
Botched it.
Yeah.
Yeah, and when he did, he
said directly to a cop,
"tell her to tell them I did it.
Tell them she's innocent."
She's Dr. Walker, obviously.
Who's them, do you think?
If there's a proper
question in there, ask it.
Was Burgess leaned
on after his release?
No.
You agreed with his release?
No.
At the time, I thought he was
hot for the hospital murders.
You know I did.
And you know I was wrong.
CREEGAN: OK.
No.
Apologize.
You wouldn't speak to
your plumber like that.
Jonathan, I apologize.
Unreservedly.
It was a question,
not an accusation.
It's just that we've
got two separate Burgess
files on the hard drive.
One's empty.
One's not.
[clacking]
[computer beeping]
Control-R for Reveal.
One's a backup.
The other's not.
We don't clear it till
after the postmortem.
Will you lift your
hair up for me, Ruby?
That's eczema around there.
She's just growing out of it.
Tell you what.
Have a listen.
See what your sister
had for lunch.
What symptoms should
we be looking for?
Can I get you a
coffee or something?
Do you know you're
the first to offer?
Thank you.
Only headaches, neck stiffness,
sensitivity to light,
get your GP out.
Did you want girls?
KERRY: Had do you take it?
Your coffee.
Oh.
No, I won't, thanks.
I'll just have water.
Sure.
Was he there for the birth?
KERRY: Five minutes
before the first,
three minutes after the second.
Shame.
Well, it was one
more than I expected.
Is he kept very busy?
KERRY: Do you have any?
Uh, no.
It's not that kind of job.
Too many nights.
As a community doctor?
[door opening]
Hey!
Barry, look what I got.
KERRY: Barry, this is Dr. Farah.
Hello.
Do you know what
we had for lunch?
What?
Fish fingers.
Thank you.
It's all right.
I'll file it.
OK.
ENWRIGHT (ON PHONE):
Creegan, she's
got your ex-wife's address.
I just hope I'm wrong about this
[phone ringing]
[sirens blaring]
Taylor to Unit 1.
How near are you?
UNIT 1 (ON RADIO):
We're down South
Morton towards the carriageway.
CREEGAN: There must
be somebody closer.
Get somebody closer.
All units, anyone closer?
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO):
Reporting for Unit 2.
We're two streets away.
We're on it.
CREEGAN: Where are they?
Where are you now, Unit 2?
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO): Coming
into Broom Road now.
It's number 61.
61.
Ask if the lights are on.
See any houselights?
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO):
Just a front bedroom.
It's the right bedroom.
They'd answer the door.
Ask them if anyone's inside.
Just break it.
Repeat, break it.
UNIT 2 (ON RADIO):
Are we authorized?
Yes!
You're authorized!
Do it!
Breaking the door.
Mrs. Creegan?
Hello, Mrs. Creegan?
Oh, shit.
[phone ringing]
Creegan.
JULIE (ON PHONE): I
only wanted to look.
You don't look.
JULIE (ON PHONE): Is that
what you're hanging on for?
Your family?
Julie, give yourself up.
JULIE (ON PHONE):
I don't know why.
They seem perfectly
happy without you.
CREEGAN: Look, we
checked your phone bills.
And you know what's
really weird?
Two phone calls in three months.
And both calls to work.
JULIE (ON PHONE): Have you
seen your girls with that man?
Barry?
You're going to need
a lot more friends
than that to stay on the run.
JULIE (ON PHONE): That
man being you, but better.
And right on time.
You don't fit in.
You don't fit anywhere
that's normal.
Do you think
you're normal, Julie?
Because see, I
don't pretend I am.
But I am a bloody
long way off you.
JULIE (ON PHONE): Not according
to your medical records.
Had you seen them before?
Did you want them
to shock me, do you?
Patients are always
shocked when they see notes.
I think it helps
sometimes to be reminded
about what you've got way down.
You do, Julie, do you?
Well, that's great.
So when do we start
reminding you?
Swindon, 9/94, when
you attempted suicide?
You're killing
people because you
believe that they
believe they're
better off somewhere else.
But you wanted to
die before that.
I've seen your records.
Black and white.
You haven't got the
guts to do it again,
which is just about
the only positive
thing that I know about you.
[phone disconnecting]
It's 10 to 4:00.
I'll never get back to sleep.
Do you fancy breakfast?
Did you work with Rivers
and Kreitman before this?
Rivers, once,
during his training.
Why?
No, no.
They're good.
And?
But?
If you were in an armed raid
and you had to choose someone
to cover you, who
would you choose?
Rivers.
His reactions are quicker.
Kreitman's more experienced.
True.
And if you needed
to get somebody
to tell the boss you're
going to the dentist
and really you're going
shopping, who would you choose?
What is this?
Go on.
Kreitman.
Why?
I'm going shopping tomorrow,
and I bet you'd be useless.
What's this?
Uh, it's, um--
it's a transcript
of a conversation between
the killer and Creegan,
3:50 AM today.
Was it masked?
The other bits are classified.
Even from us?
She got fairly
personal with Creegan.
And I was happy to lead
her with that stuff,
but I don't think he
wants it broadcasting.
Right.
I'd like to get started, please.
Where's Rivers?
He's checking a
lead on Julie Carney.
PRIEST: We have entrusted
our brother Carl Burgess
to God's merciful keeping.
And we now commit his
body to the ground,
in sure and certain hope of the
Resurrection to eternal life
through our Lord
Jesus Christ, who
died, was buried, and
rose again for us,
for Him be glory
forever and ever.
Amen.
[phone ringing]
DI Creegan.
JULIE (ON PHONE): I've
overdosed three people.
If you don't believe
me, all three
blood samples are in a red star
box delivered half an hour ago.
Test them, if you like.
But that might waste
time you haven't got.
They're not my patients.
It's not my hospital.
You send them to the office?
JULIE (ON PHONE): Look inside.
I'm not in the office.
Look, what are
you talking about?
What three people?
JULIE (ON PHONE): They've
got less than three hours
before the digoxin kills them.
I don't believe you.
You've never told us in advance.
JULIE (ON PHONE):
I've never needed to.
I want you to meet me.
If you help me,
I'll give you those
three names and absolutely
nobody gets hurt.
But you come on your own.
And you don't speak to a single
person or my mind goes blank.
Come where?
JULIE (ON PHONE): My house.
[phone ringing]
DI Taylor.
CREEGAN (ON PHONE): It's me.
Has a parcel arrived for me?
Aye?
Uh, yeah.
You all right?
[phone disconnecting]
[phone ringing]
CREEGAN: Yep.
JULIE (ON PHONE): The back.
CREEGAN: Where's the gun, Julie?
JULIE: I'm in here.
Where's the gun you
took off DI Taylor?
JULIE: It's in a bag
on the chair in there.
I said if you do as you're told,
everybody gets what they want.
Well, I did what you asked.
So you give me the names
of the people you've hurt.
You get the names
when you've done this.
CREEGAN: What's in it?
Two seconds to
reach the brain.
You can go away again.
No, you do it if
that's what you want.
I've tried.
I can't.
I get this far and--
We've got a
possible sighting of--
what happened?
TAYLOR: Ring the lab.
Get them tested.
[phone ringing]
Don't.
CREEGAN: I think we've got
a logistical problem here.
Where are the names, Julie?
You first.
They in your bag?
You'll get the names.
You written them down?
You'll get the names.
CREEGAN: You haven't, have you?
Because you've no intentions
of giving them to us.
I honor the deal, they're
dead within two seconds.
You'll find them.
CREEGAN: I don't believe you.
You don't think those
people want to live.
They'll go out
like the rest did.
They won't.
I promise.
If you were looking
for somebody to trust,
and you were looking at us
two, who would you go for?
I haven't killed anybody.
I haven't lied to you.
I've never broken a
promise in my life.
Trust me.
I know what it's
like to get that far.
I once had a gun this
far from my head.
Heard the bullet going
into the chamber.
And I squeezed it.
And squeezed it.
I couldn't.
If there's been
somebody like you there,
I'd have trusted them, Julie.
St. Bede's.
Sylvia Goldman, ward 17.
Frank-- Frank Whitaker,
high dependency 2.
St. Bede's.
Doreen Brown in
the breast unit.
St. Bede's.
Creegan to Control.
CONTROL (ON RADIO): Control.
Commander Enwright, urgent.
You bastard.
You bastard!
ENWRIGHT (ON RADIO): Enwright.
Take these details down.
They're all patients
at St. Bede's.
They've all been
OD'd by Julie Carney.
Sylvia Goldman, ward 17.
Frank Whitaker, high dependency.
Doreen Brown, breast unit.
ENWRIGHT (ON RADIO): OK.
We've traced you
to Carney's house.
Are you safe?
Send a van.
I'll bring her in.
No!
ENWRIGHT (ON RADIO):
Taylor's on her way.
She's got a team with her.
Julie.
I wasn't lying about the gun.
You know why I got
that far and couldn't?
The same reason you can't.
You can't want to die enough.
Come on.
No.
Julie.
Did you know your
ex-wife's pregnant?
What?
She told me.
I said I was a
community doctor and we
were screening for meningitis.
She wanted to know if there
was any risk to the baby.
So if you're hanging on for
your family, I wouldn't bother.
They don't think you
belong there, either.
Did you see anything
the second time?
TAYLOR (ON RADIO):
Creegan, where are you?
You can tell me
now, can't you?
TAYLOR (ON RADIO): Creegan,
tell me where you are.
Kitchen.
Yes.
[music playing]
[chatter]