Witness No. 3 (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript

Thanks again for coming forward.
Those appeals for information,

a lot of people just
keep their heads down.

Witness Number 3. Glamorous.

Was he killed? He is dead right?

Detective Whelan, she, um,
she mentioned other witnesses.

The other two witnesses are
out, can't use them any more.

Sorry to bother you, but
can I borrow your phone?

An eyewitness testimony
like yours, Jodie,

that's what's could
make or break this case.

And in the meantime?

I won't let you scare me off.



I'm signing the statement.

DRILLING AND HAMMERING

You'll need to acknowledge
that the items we're providing

are reasonable security, and not
an inducement to give testimony.

The contractors
will always carry ID

and you'll be notified in
advance if they're coming.

We've provided you with a
list of potential weak spots.

We've got window alert alarms
stuck to the inside of the windows.

We've got class B shatter-proof
film on all internal windows,

so the glass can't
be forced inwards.

And the front doors has being fitted
with a fire retardant letterbox

with an intumescent liner.

It's to protect
against the possibility

of petrol being poured in through
from the exterior of the property.



Right.

Thanks.

Is there anything else there
that we need to go through,

or anything that we've left off?

No. I mean it's a lot,
but... no, it's good.

Now remember, we've set up a
parallel case to investigate

the witness intimidation.

We're gonna follow up
on these mobile numbers,

see if they lead us anywhere.

Are you still
receiving messages?

Yeah.

In fact, he's, erm...

..he's started sending
pictures of himself.

He always, er...

..he puts a filter
on them or something,

so I can't see
his face properly.

Yeah, well, send
them over, please,

and my advice'd be don't open
any new messages that come in.

You're doing a
brave thing, Jodie.

And it will pay off.

We have the suspect charged
and remanded in custody.

Your house and
workplace are secure.

Trust me.

RAIN POURING

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Jodie?

THUMPING ON DOOR

Jodie? Have you
changed the locks?

THUMPING CONTINUES

SHE GASPS

Well, at least they seem
to be taking it seriously.

Yeah, you can say that again.

Living under lock and key,

letting them know where
I am at all times.

It's like being a
teenager all over again.

Well, I'm proud of you.

Nah.

Yes, I am.

I mean...

..it's good to stick together.
That's what I've always said.

Yeah.

DOORBELL RINGS

I'll get it.

No. No, you'll go upstairs
and not listen in, OK?

W... Go... upstairs.

Hurry up.

I'm going.

Look, at least it
was only the salon.

Maybe... You know, I'm not
saying this was a good thing,

of course I'm not,
but maybe this was...

..sort of what you
needed, in a way.

To see how serious it was.

I signed the statement.

What? I signed the witness
statement yesterday morning.

After this happened?

You signed the statement
anyway? After this happened?

We need to stand up for each
other. If I do, others will too.

Jesus.

I don't believe this.

I got tired of people
telling me what to do.

I just...

I don't know where this
has come from, that's all.

It's... it's like I'm
talking to a stranger.

I didn't call you yesterday,

cos I knew you would
try and change my mind.

I knew you wouldn't
get it. What's to get?

A week ago you couldn't
wait to leave this place,

now you're risking
your life for it?

Yeah, yeah, I should
probably crack on, OK?

What do you want from me, Jodie?

I want you to support me.

Can you do that?

Can I ask you something?

At the moment, my statement
is the key part of this case,

that's right, innit?

The team are still
looking for more evidence.

Hopefully by the time of the
trial, they'll have what they need.

Yeah, but... but now, as far
as the defendant is concerned,

if I'm gone, he walks?

That's the reason
for all this, right?

At the moment. But what
about the other witnesses?

Maybe if we told them that
I was, seeing it through.

That's not going to happen now.
Yeah, but maybe if they knew

I've signed my statement.

Like I said, that's a
dead-end, Jodie. I'm sorry.

DRILLING

So, this is a list of everything
that we've installed in your flat,

including the CCTV, that
we're putting in tomorrow.

We just need you to sign
it here to confirm...

LOUD DRILLING

Sorry. Just to confirm
that's all this...

DRILLING RESUMES

Sorry, mate, could you
just stop for minute?

You OK?

Yeah.

Look the thing is, these
gangs, they're not stupid.

They know that it's over
now, you're going to court,

and they can't stop
you doing that.

Look, nine times out of ten,

these things stop the moment
the witness signs the form.

And the tenth?

What happens the tenth time?

MUFFLED DRILLING

HE SCOFFS I think he's
trolling us, this guy.

Just give me a second.

MUFFLED CHATTER

Sorry.

All signed? No. I'll do it now.

WOMAN: Who is it? Er, I'm
looking for Tyler Osho.

I said who is it?

My name's Jodie Packer. I
live a few streets away.

I'm another witness.

How many times does
he have to say it?

He ain't gonna change his mind.

It's over.

It's not.

I think we can stop these guys.

What are you, deaf?

I said leave us alone.

They filmed the whole thing.

Sent me a video of
the whole thing.

See, you don't fight
these people. Tyler...

You run. The thing is, they want
us to think we're alone in this.

If you sign the statement that
makes it twice as hard for them.

Better still, if we could
get the second witness,

I mean, I don't know
who it is, but... Pat?

He died last week.

No, don't worry, it weren't
nothing to do with this.

Right...

Right, well, even if
it was just us two...

Listen. It ain't happening.

I ain't risking my life, my...
my family's safety, for this.

This'?

This'd be the whole area. Your
friends, your neighbours... So?

It's a shithole.

You know what the police
offered me after all this?

A new lock and a few alarms.

The kids on the video
they, they had knives,

and they had hammers.

Tyler, if we stick together I
promise you, if we work as a team...

You're not hearing me.

There is no team.
There is no together.

How long have you lived here?

Nearly ten years.

All right. Right, so you know.

When you first came here,
things were different.

This gang, they came in
and things got... nasty.

You can feel that, right?

This is our chance to fix it.

This Is our chance to
finally get rid of 'em.

These guys are gonna kill you.

I'm sorry to be
so cold, but look!

And you're telling me
you're seriously doing it

for some dodgy area? For this?

DOOR OPENS

I thought you hated
looking at old photos?

Why're you looking at
them? Oh, I don't know.

Do you remember
that day? Yeah.

Look at your face there.

Listen, why don't you go
up and start your homework

and I'll bring you
up a snack, yeah?

JAR SMASHES

You OK?

You see how close I am?

You see how close I am
to you now? Excuse me?

That's how easy it is.

What? We're already inside.

In your house.

I said we're already
inside and we have police.

Who are you and why are
you saying this to me?

We have the police.

Find out for yourself.

Look into the second witness
if you don't believe me.

Who asked you to say this?

Lloyd George.

We have the police.
52 Lloyd George.

52 Lloyd George.

I don't know who you are,

but you don't have to...
You don't have to say...

I can't. Where are you going?

I can't.

DRILLING

All right, love. Nearly done.

Er, was this scheduled?

Should've been.

Here.

Panic alarm.

You hear anything you don't
like, you press the button.

You see something you don't
like, you press the button.

Anywhere in the house.

Now, that sends a
signal down to this.

And this sends a distress
call to the police.

Now, if the lights flashing
red, you've got a problem.

You want solid green,
then you're in business.

All right?

Now, keep that close,

by your bed, wherever
you can reach it quickly.

Do you do many of these?

HE SCOFFS Yeah, yeah. Plenty.

And do they keep people safe?

Well... all this stuff
we've done for you,

only way anyone gets in here
is if someone lets 'em in.

You'll be all right, love.

Yeah, cheers.

And this woman just
sat beside you?

She's probably a customer
of theirs. An addict.

They take away her supply, or offer
her freebies, cancel her debt.

In exchange, she runs
them an errand. An errand?

Look, what I meant was
that it's not uncommon

for trade-offs like
that to be made.

She could be the parent
of a kid who's in trouble,

we see that a lot.

Then they start doing jobs just to
keep their son or daughter safe.

Jesus.

So you're basically saying
keep my eyes peeled,

because they could have pretty
much anyone in their pocket?

What is it?

She said they have the police.

They're trying to unsettle you.

That's all.

Just shows it's working,
though, that's the thing.

With social media you can
do that now, can't you?

Spread the truth.

You a journalist? Oh, no...

I've contacted a few.

Locals, nationals.

They're gonna call me back.
They're all interested.

I sent them the article already.

It's all written up and everything,
they don't even need to do anything.

The police aren't
interested, of course.

Why would they be?

Hurts them, don't it?

What does?

Investigating their own.

I lived with my
brother my whole life.

26 years he's been
diabetic like this.

Two injections a day for 26
years, you know how many that is?

No.

Over 18,500, I done the maths,
it's all in the article.

18,500 and never a mistake.

All of a sudden he's a
witness in this case and bang.

Injects himself twice.

Hypoglycaemic coma,
dies in the ambulance.

And here's the thing.

Cos they'll tell you
it was, it was...

..it was stress or whatever,
"a change to in routine."

Well, if it was stress...

..how come we ain't missing
a vial from the fridge?

Eh?

He's injected himself twice,

but we ain't missing a vial.

Someone's brought one in.

And I can tell you for a fact...

..that there's nobody been in here
apart from him, me, and the police.

Do you remember which
police officers were here?

Nah.

That's the problem,

probably eight or nine
coming and going that day.

But it was one of them.

Believe you me, it
was one of them.

APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS

WHISPERS: I see you. I see you.

OK. Masks on. You ready?

It's fucking now.

Put your masks on. It's now.
It's tonight. Yeah? Yeah?

RHYTHMIC GRUNTING

CHEERING

Here we are, this'll
be a good. WHOOPING

Do you want that?

Oi, not far now
boys. Not far now.

INDISTINCT JEERING

WHISPERED CHATTER

Sh.

WHISPERS: D'you recognise this?

Shit! Oh, God. Good morning!

Oh, Jesus! Jesus Christ!

SHE SCREAMS

THEY GIGGLE

SHE WHIMPERS

SHE SOBS

SHE SCREAMS

Enough. Enough, OK? I am out.

Thankfully, she's
gonna be all right.

Did you not hear me? I said I'm
out. It's not as simple as that.

Oh, yes it is.

It is.

I'll be a hostile witness.

I'll burn the whole thing. I'll say
I lied to you when I spoke to you.

Say I was... I
was drunk or high,

I don't know, but I will
say something. Jodie.

And it will be worse than if I
didn't even go to court. Jodie.

I will. Just try and stay
calm. Listen, I will!

Recanting your evidence as
you describe is an option.

But I know what my superior
officer's gonna say.

She'll make you come
to court anyway.

She'll bank on the fact
that you're a good person

and won't go through with it.

She'll also count on the fact
that, in cases like these,

the original statement will carry
enough weight with the jury.

Well, I'll say I can't remember.

But then she knows if the
judge thinks you're lying,

they'll hold you in
contempt of court.

I'll say something,
won't I? That's a charge

that carries a two-year
prison sentence, Jodie.

Look, we are your team.

Do you understand?

You can't change sides.

Look, as far as you're
safety is concerned,

I... I think we
have two choices.

First. we look at relocation,
just until the trial.

Relocation? Relocation?
This is my home.

This is the whole fucking point!

Or...

..we strengthen the hand
that we're already playing.

We select a room in your
flat, most likely upstairs...

..and we turn it into
what's called a strong room.

In the unlikely, and I mean
unlikely, event of them breaching

the measures that we've
already installed,

the strong room acts as a
sort of last line of defence.

It'll have a reinforced steel door,
supplies and a separate phone line.

Give it some thought.

CACKLING

You OK, Jo?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.

Jo? Jo?

Jesus. Thank God
she's gonna be OK.

How did you know we were here?

What?

Who told you we were here?

One of the policemen
at the house.

Should they not have?

Listen, enough messing about,

I don't care what stupid
argument we're having,

you and Kyle come to mine.
Get out of the estate.

Oh, oh. Oh, the estate's
the problem, is it?

Jesus, I'm trying to help.

Why don't you want me in my
own home? You're not serious.

Why is everyone trying to
control what I'm doing?

Jodie, I'm offering
you a way out.

Come with me, we can...

I can take you somewhere,
somewhere safe. No. No. No.

Enough people protecting me, OK?

Enough people.

Jo...

Oh, come here.

Are you OK? Mm. Yeah?

Are you OK? Yeah. Yeah,
I'm fine. Come here.

I got a headache. Yeah.
Yeah, I can imagine.

Listen, I've had a chance to
think a bit and I think, yeah.

Yeah, we should go
with the relocation.

Let's just do it. And... and then
I can come back after the trial.

I'm afraid that option's
off the table now.

What?

When I told you that
we'd set up a team

to investigate the
witness intimidation,

their main focus has been to
try to trace the phone numbers

that were used to contact you
and send you photos and videos.

Now, we know this is a technical
error, but unfortunately,

one of the contacts in the
message history hit a flag.

I don't understand.

Well, this is the SMS history

of the phone that has
been messaging you.

And in the last week, on
three separate occasions,

the phone was used to
send the same messages

to all of its contacts.

Included in those
contacts was this number.

It's a pay-as-you-go
phone registered to...

Yeah, I...

..I know whose number that is.

It belongs to your ex-husband.

Well, erm, Benji
died eight years ago.

They have his number because
they probably sold to him

and never deleted it. We know.

My mum was attacked.

This has nothing
to do with Benji.

We know. But what our
systems see, unfortunately,

is just the number of
a former associate.

A former associate?! Jodie,
she didn't mean it like.

Look, it's a connection
they have to rule out,

so as they can be sure this
is all just connected to

the witness intimidation.

Once that happens, they'll
release the funding

and we can get relocation
back on the table.

And in the meantime?

You tell me what
happens in the meantime.

Jodie...

..I can hear your hands shaking.

Sorry.

I'm good.

Honestly, don't worry about me,
I'm good, OK, Mum? I'm fine.

The nurse said I
could stay the night,

cos it's a private
room or something.

We can stay as long as we like.

OK. OK, but erm, get a cab
from Dave, all right, love?

Just tell him I'll pay
when you arrive, yeah?

OK.

We've deleted your late husband's
number from the registry

and we've made sure that the phone
company discontinues the connection.

The minute we have this
sorted with the CPS,

we can move forward with relocation,
if that's what we all still want.

It is all gonna be fine.

We're on your side, Jodie.

I just think with the
messages, the shop and my mum

you know, I have
been losing it a bit.

Some of the things
that have been said...

It's OK.

They've got in your head, that's
completely understandable.

It's gonna be all right.

But nothing is going to
happen to you, Jodie.

You're gonna take
this guy to trial

and get rid of
the gang for good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

OK, then.

I've checked everything
down here, it's all good.

I'll let PC Barkas
sign off upstairs.

Now, are you OK?

Yeah.

OK. Take care.

So, let me get this straight.

You've basically been
thinking that the police...

..me, her, all of us...

..we're the ones that are lying?

You wouldn't be human if
this wasn't getting to you.

You're doing amazing.

I should check those
serial numbers upstairs.

For the warranties.

Right.

BEEPING

Got him.

I could see him from the door.

Sorry! Er...

That was a bit dramatic. Yeah.

The window?

Eh? Upstairs?

You were... checking the
registration numbers or something.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah, all good.

Good.

Yeah.

Listen, erm... I should...

Yeah. I'm glad you stayed.

I really appreciate it.

It's my job.

Yeah.

I...

I really shouldn't.
No. No. Sorry.

You ready to become a man?

Dump it, yeah.

Don't be bringing
the knife back here.

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