AJAMU ALPHA ASSISTANT BOB CATHY CHRISTY CONNIE DAN_FEENEY DEERING DERRING DINAH DR_PEEP ELDERLY_FEMALE_SHOPKEEPER ELISABETH HANDYMAN IRISH_HOUSEWIFE JACKET_MAN JONAH JOY KEVIN MACLAREN MERCY MILLER NOEL NURSE OLIVIA OLIVIAS_DAD PATTY PEEP PHOTOGRAPHER RADIO SPIK SPIKE STUART TAZ TEGAN TEREAS_DAD TWINS TWIN_1 TWIN_2 TEREAS DAD She’s missing. MILLER She died that same way as the other girls. Sexually assaulted then drowned. OLIVIA She wanted a boyfriend. DERRING ‘That special someone, where barriers mean nothing.’ STUART I saw the photos my dad sent you. TEGAN Oh. CATHY I enjoyed it, knowing she wasn’t gonna fight back. BOB Is she leaving..? DINAH Yeah. DEERING We take control of Patty’s profile. MILLER Make him do a bit of work to keep him interested. And apparently he is. DEERING Don’t you still love that sound?! JOY We had two more strikes from Handyman overnight. DEERING I don’t believe this, I dreamt it. Yeah, well, I dreamt one. But two…wow, double fun. JONAH Tegan?! Disturbance on the Marsden Cross Estate. Come on! TEGAN I know for a fact it was that old smoothie I left out of the fridge. TEGAN I know for a fact it was an old smoothie I left out the fridge. TEGAN Lousy first impressions as a new involuntary partner! JONAH You sure you’re good to drive? TEGAN I’m good for anything now, pal. TEGAN What’s your name, mate? TEGAN sees staff photos broken on the floor that identify this guy’s smiling mugshot as ‘Noel Lucas’. TEGAN What’ve you done to wind these chimps up? JONAH Noel? NOEL They know where we live! They’ve gone after my wife! Bunch of women gone after Elisabeth. STUART Ah, Jee-zus! TEGAN Sit back down. He’s been slashed get the medics. TAZ Hey, hey listen to mate alright, you’ll be alright. STUART Where’s your wife mate? Noel? NOEL 13 Windrush Court. She’s eight months pregnant! DR PEEP Handyman’s trying to make contact with Miller. MILLER Yeah me being ‘Patty’. At three this morning, going: “What are you thinking about?” DEERING You didn’t engage? MILLER And again at three-thirty-seven: “What do you dream about?” I said nothing. JOY Why didn’t you reply? DR PEEP Well, he’s testing to see if her traffic’s being monitored. If he got instant reactions to emails in the dead of night, he’d be straight onto us. DEERING So, this is typical of a good bite, is it? DEERING Oh sir. MACLAREN The Chat Ops lads in my department tell me congrats are in order? MILLER Oh, at the very least, Sir. MACLAREN Only I thought we’d agreed to keep to typical daylight hours for chat-ops. DEERING Yes but this was Handyman unilaterally fishing. MILLER It implies growing interest. MILLER I was up half the night playing two- ends-against-the-middle with this nonce. I’ve been strategically pestering him with a few other sluttier specimens: Gobby Downs vs Princess Downs, his preference is obviously the more ‘Christian Souvenir-type’. I’ve er, I’ve another one ready to go through imminently. I’m, alone, up in my room, sneaking online while getting dressed for school’. When I mention long white sensible sox and t-bar sandles, he’ll be jizzing his mental tits off. DEERING As to why he’s so gifted at communicating like a total nonce I defer to Dr. Peep’s psychiatric talents. DR PEEP I haven’t time or the inclination. MACLAREN My God, I hadn’t realized it was that harsh. You okay? DR PEEP I’ve patients waiting. DEERING I am right, aren’t I? To be tingling about this? DR PEEP It’s typical of a very good bite. Send your full-length socks. MACLAREN Whatever setbacks you’ve had with Cathy - And for all my reservations about the girl living under your roof… We concentrate on the progress we’ve made and the trust you’ve both built, and we professionally exploit the shit out of it. DINAH Yeh, well we’re both certain it’s just made Cathy a lot more even stronger. It can be a sign of looming breakthroughs, can’t it? DR PEEP Send anything new as soon as it comes. I’ll respond between sections. DEERING What now?! DR PEEP Dinah, I’ve had much worse injuries, much more suddenly than Cathy dished out. DR PEEP And talking to you about it won’t move a single thing on, will it? Let’s save my breath for Cathy because she’ll need it all the more, if we ever see her again. STUART Elisabeth! Open up it’s the police! STUART Elizabeth, it’s the police! Elizabeth! Back off! STUART Whoa sit down. Sit down, Elisabeth yeah. STUART Are you hurt? ELISABETH No. STUART Is the baby’s okay? ELISABETH No! STUART Urgent medical assistance to 13 Windrush. ELISABETH Where is he? STUART Your husband’s safe. Don’t worry, we’ll get you out of here okay. Eight month pregnancy... ELISABETH He’s got no fucking right to be safe! Why wasn’t I told ey? STUART Wow, get off you mad bitch! ELISABETH Why wasn’t I told? Why wasn’t I told what he’d done? ELISABETH Why wasn’t I told what he’d done? He murdered the little girl. ELISABETH He beat her brains out with a fucking baseball bat and nobody ever told me!? TAZ What you’re doing we need this! ELDERLY FEMALE SHOPKEEPER Fuck off, I paid for these. They made me pay for these, no! Not for somebody like him, no! JONAH Oy! You in the parka. JONAH I want a word with you! Tegan! JONAH There he is go, go, go! TEGAN Shit! TEGAN You really know how to throw that shit about, don’t you... TEGAN Are you kidding me? That’s not real? Is that real? That is not real seriously. JONAH Another reason why I shouldn’t run. DEERING We both saw the look and heard the lie: ‘Looming breakthrough’ was the phrase I invented to pad the last report out. What is going on, Dinah? DINAH Me and Cathy had a fight. She doesn’t live with me anymore. She’s moved in with Alpha. JOY The Chief just specifically urged you to get her ready for trial, should our luck be changing, which it looks like it is. Just bring her home, Dinah. DINAH Ah, fuck off, Joy! She’s sixteen, he’s eighteen and they get more sex than you do. There’s nothing I can do or say that she wants to listen to. I’ve left dozens of messages and she won’t... I haven’t slept Viv. Cathy Calvert’s got my heart. DEERING If she’s got your heart, Dinah... And, actually, fuck off from me. I’m ‘The Chief’. He’s just ‘Sir’ or what his mother called him - Darren Maclaren. If she’s got your heart, Dinah, get her back onboard for the sake of mine, yeh? ‘Cos, if he finds out we’ve lost her, you’re the one breaking the bad news. NOEL Where is she? TAZ Take a breath, Noel, let the lady do her job. NOEL Elisabeth? TAZ She’s fine, we’ve got her. Just stay still. NOEL I need to speak to her. TAZ It coulda been your jugular and it coulda been your face. Count your blessings. NOEL It’s not my face. NOEL Your boss needs to know: I’m Christy Feeney. TAZ Fuck me! TAZ Echo 27745 Foxtrot to Control, urgent request for secure escort for unique cargo. SPIKE Come on! Can somebody... Connie! I need the boss’s attention right now. SPIKE If she’s left the building, tell her to turn back. CONNIE She’s in there looking at twisted shit I’d pay not to see. DEERING That’s brilliant, what about panties… SPIKE That’s your Vip on his way to St. Clare’s, Ma’am - Christy Feeney. SPIKE There’s been an attempt on his life and, if them genuine images are genuine on twitter, his new face’s going round a dose. DEERING Tell ‘em I want credible diversions of conspicuous police presence at Wythenshawe and North Manchester hospitals. DEERING Any names surfacing for who knifed him? SPIKE None so far but he shoulda gone to Specsavers and found a decent artery. DEERING Christy Feeney was a ten year old from a fucked-up family. The boy served his time. The man’s paid his debts. If you want to pretend to believe in reform, Spike, you belong in the church, not on my payroll. Understood? SPIKE Tegan and Jonah chased a well-built fella in a fishtail parka but that’s as much as we’ve got. NURSE They’re just prepping theatre.They’ll be here for you shortly, okay, Noel? DEERING I’m Detective Inspector Vivienne Deering, this is Detective Constable Spike Tanner. NOEL Where’s my wife? SPIKE She’s in protective custody. She’s unharmed. DEERING What do you want me to call you, Noel? NOEL Not Noel. DEERING Do you have you any idea how your new identity was breached, Christy? CHRISTY I told my wife last night. DEERING Why would you spend ten years growing into a new life with a new face, only to expose yourself? CHRISTY Secrets make you sick. DEERING Look where blabbing got you! What’s this, three million quid’s worth of care and rehabilitation. You silly lad. You could’ve had any life you wanted. CHRISTY After a car accident Elisabeth was told she’d never have kids. She told me that before we got face to face. Which was fine ‘cause I categorically never wanted to be a father. In a month, we’ll both be parents. I didn’t blurt it out. It took me 35 weeks. CHRISTY She didn’t say anything. Nothing. She just stood there in front of me and texted me ‘Get out’. I deliberately don’t have friends to talk to. There was nowhere else to go. I told her I was gonna stay at the shop. CHRISTY When I woke up, there were bricks coming through the window. SPIKE So who cut you? CHRISTY I didn’t see a face. SPIKE ‘Scuse me. DEERING I’ve had phone call from Mary Hagan from Witness Protection. She’s flying over from Belfast. Until she gets here, you’re in my protection. If you value whichever life you get next, Christy, you will do exactly as I say. You speak to no-one else. Understand? CHRISTY Okay. SPIKE Ma’am. DEERING What’s he to me? SPIK Christy Feeney’s uncle. DAN FEENEY He is not my nephew, he is not my sister’s child, he is not my mother’s grandchild. Christy Feeney is a curse on the family of young Siobhan King, who must be turning in her grave. And he’s still haunting my family. This is not justice. He should never have been released. DAN FEENEY Honestly I’ve dreamt so often he was dead somewhere. In the dream, I offered twenty grand in cash. DEERING Where are we? SPIKE He’s just out of theatre and in recovery. We got officers on every entrance, and no-one in or out of the ward except vital hospital staff. DEERING We move him as soon as he knows what day it is. SPIKE Have you any ideas how we’re gonna shift him in one piece, Ma’am, given that some of these head-the- balls think he’s a ten grand target? DEERING No, Spike, not yet. But if you have - and you obviously have - asking it that way round makes you look like a total knob for trying to make one of me. What have you got? ELISABETH Look at the messages. That’s what people think I am. DEERING I’m curious to know why you’d put you and your baby at risk by blowing it to the world this morning. ELISABETH It’s not my baby. ELISABETH They won’t let me abort now. I’ll have to go through with it. Only three or four weeks. Then anyone who wants it can have it. DEERING It’s a girl, isn’t it? DEERING What did you think would happen when you tweeted your husband’s real identity? ELISABETH I didn’t. DEERING Well somebody did, at 5am? DEERING Noel told me he told you. Who else did you tell? DEERING I can pull your phone records if I have to. This is an attempted murder investigation. DEERING Some kind soul tweeted this photo of your husband. ELISABETH I told my mum but - DEERING I want her full name, address and number. ELISABETH She’s in France. She... she can barely use a mobile, let alone put it on Twitter. ELISABETH I had a septic abortion when I was in Greece. I was told I couldn’t have children. ELISABETH Then Noel showed up, wanting absolutely nothing. I couldn’t believe my luck. DEERING Do you love your mother? ELISABETH Yes. DEERING Do you love your father? ELISABETH He couldn’t have done it, he’s dead. DEERING But bits of both of ‘em are what made parts of you and what you’re carrying. No? DEERING We’ve been contacted by your brother. Kevin? DEERING He was concerned for your safety once the news broken. He’s a busy man, he’s made the effort. DEERING Now I understand you haven’t spoken in a while, but take the olive branch, Elisabeth. CONNIE Yes that is the correct postcode. DINAH Are you sure? Seven, Echo, Lima... CONNIE Dinah, you can ask me seven different ways, the answer’s still yes, if you are looking at the warehouse then that’s where he lives. ALPHA Ha! If I hadn’t just done a deal for this, you’d have nowhere to sit. Come in. DINAH Where’s the fancy dress? ALPHA Might not pay like selling skunk, but... having no rent’s worth a few ounces a month. ALPHA This is hers. Alright she’s coming in. DINAH This looks fantastic. CATHY Thanks. DINAH Are you still getting the morning sickness? ALPHA Er, yeh, cos she’s still wolfing a tube of Pringles before the porridge and fruit. DINAH Ours has to be more comfortable? No disrespect. ALPHA None taken, it’s a shithole. CATHY Yeah well we’ll have us own place soon. CATHY You need to be somewhere? DINAH I need to be here. ALPHA Ha. If all we’re doing is swerving issues, where’s my cuddle? ALPHA No, fuck off, we’ve got family visiting. RADIO Copy that. DINAH Doctor Peep said to say ‘Clean slate’. Move on. She’s keen to see you. CATHY So that’s your rush? DINAH Ok...Cath But we are this close to - CATHY You’ve been ‘this close’ since we met. And every time I have to go through the shit again, it doesn’t just stay here... It all ends up somewhere down here... ...And I’m not having it, Dinah. DINAH You’ve got to help me change her mind, Alpha. ALPHA Look, I’ve seen what she means, and it’s got to be a no. You’re welcome anytime, but no. JOY Would you let me speak to Cathy? DINAH Why would that help? JOY Stop snarling, I’ve done nothing wrong. It would help because a) I’m not you, so b) I’m in a position to say things quicker and clearer. PEEP “I’m hiding again’. MILLER Isn’t ‘sneaking’ better? JOY I like sneaking. DR PEEP No. ‘Hiding’ carries more vulnerability. “I’m hiding again from gymclass,” spelt correctly but all one word. DR PEEP We need him to think Patty’s a clever girl and she’s from a nice family, whose onset of adolescence isn’t just frustrating her, its turning her against her family because she finds them ‘overprotective’. MILLER That covers my ex wife to a tee, and she covered it in three words on the divorce papers. I Deserve better. JOY Hello. Hi are you alright… oh yeah – DR PEEP I haven’t heard from Cathy yet. DINAH I’ve just come back from there and the living conditions aren’t safe. She needs a patrol car keeping an eye on her. DR PEEP What yer telling me for? DINAH I’m in no position to ask favours of anybody. If you make strenuous concerns about the welfare of your patient to Joy, she’ll have to cover her own back by covering Cathy’s. DEERING Wow! Haven’t I seen you on the telly?! Detective Inspector Deering Mr. Feeney. DAN FEENEY I’ve had the video checked by lawyers. I said nothing in it that I wouldn’t repeat the second I’m out of here. Which you’ll have to. And on the next one, I promise you now, it’s going up to fifty. DAN FEENEY Do you know what it cost me – DAN FEENEY to relocate me, my sister and my mother from Northern Ireland. They couldn’t sell their houses. We had to leave everything. DEERING You’re doing pretty well at the moment. Your turnover has, not only consistently survived the recession, it’s outperformed all independent competitors in the plant hire field... so the goes website, which needs spellchecking, by the way. In your position, is it wise to draw attention to your associations? DAN FEENEY We already tried the opposite before, and that didn’t work, did it!? DEERING So the bounty was just a business- protection scheme? DAN FEENEY We’ve only just got our names back. And that includes 13 kids between us, if you count my ma. We throw parties for everything, but even three years after he beat that girl’s brains out, the only family appear in the newspaper was Hallowe’en. Fucking right it was a business protection scheme. DEERING Strangulation. DAN FEENEY What? DEERING He never ‘Beat her Brains out with a baseball bat,’ it was death by strangulation. DAN FEENEY So fucking what? DEERING In a Home Office report, a forensic psychiatrist noted that “Christy’s understanding of asphyxiation was of a survivable sexual nature. DEERING It was learned behaviour from repeated assaults he endured at the hands of several adult, male members of his extended family”. DAN FEENEY That refers to his fucking mother’s side. That’s on file with social workers. DEERING That’s not what it says, though. And when people go around tweeting whatever little bits suit them, it becomes a very dangerous world. DAN FEENEY Are you threatening me? DEERING I think so. SPIKE I knew a social worker on this case. Told me all sorts that never went public that you wouldn’t wanna hear believe me ... DINAH So don’t tell me, Spike. SPIKE Cabin Crew, five minutes for take off. Doors to manual and crosscheck, please. Ok let’s go. STUART Going okay with your new partner? JONAH Alright I suppose. STUART She can get impatient. JONAH Tell me about it, she can be an absolute cow, if I’m honest. STUART ‘Toxic cow,’ if you’re more honest! JONAH But, then she sucks your dad off in a public toilet and that brittle exterior just gets wiped away. SPIKE Stuart, can I borrow you? JONAH It was a joke… JONAH Hands up who didn’t know Tegan’s banging Stuart’s dad’s brains out. JONAH Right, were swapping for that. You’ve got first dibs on the angry mob. DINAH You okay with that, Christy, you can breathe? SPIKE All sorted downstairs? TEGAN Right, we’re as set as we’ll ever be. SPIKE Okay let’s go. Right stay close together. CONNIE This is an Osman Warning. You’re aware violence has been threatened and you’re declining protection. Okay. KEVIN Hey. ELISABETH Kevin. KEVIN You okay, Yeah? KEVIN Inspector, thanks. DEERING And we’re sure your home’s safe enough, in the event of? KEVIN I breed guard dogs. DEERING Fair do’s! KEVIN Come on. SPIKE You’ll have to take that off, I can’t. SPIKE Well apparently you’ve had more antibiotics than a box of burgers, so you should be alright for a bit. SPIKE You’ll have to practice walking. Get up and move your legs around. Let’s walk up and down. SPIKE You alright? Christy nods. SPIKE Her yer are, stick this on. You ok? SPIKE Alright they’re with us. SPIKE So... SPIKE Who attacked you? DINAH You saw the guy? CHRISTY Twat made sure I did. SPIKE We could do with a name, mate. SPIKE This isn’t about you. If he’s done it before, he’ll do it again, and one of the next times will be a fatality, they always are. CHRISTY If Elisabeth decides to come with me, and I think now she’ll have to... CHRISTY ...I don’t want someone else’s vendetta chasing us to the ends of the earth. We’ll always be in enough trouble already. DEERING I could’ve been anybody. Watch the watchers. DEERING The front entrance is a bit overcrowded so I’ve parked at the back of here. We’ll take him through the kitchens when the cooks are busiest. SPIKE Can I ask you a question? Odds are that you’ve never been able to have a passport. SPIKE How the fuck did you end up working in a travel agents? Is that not like self-harming or summat? CHRISTY It was an obsession in prison. Not at first... I know I was ten but I still couldn’t read. Then once I’d learnt the basics, the only things left on the trollies were travel books. But that’s all I got for about 18 months. Then when I got my first Gcse, the staff bought me an atlas of the world that was literally nearly as big as me. I didn’t sprout up till I was 17. I wasn’t allowed plastic surgery till that had happened, so that’s the place I stayed in longest. CHRISTY They weren’t allowed to write any dedications in it, now I wish they would have, but if would have, I wouldn’t have been able to take it everywhere with me. Which I have. DEERING Come on, Serg, home time. DEERING I bet you ate better than this in solitary! DEERING Oh and if you want to walk like a 30 year old traffic cop, pretend you beat your wife up. DEERING Drive on the gears, not the brakes. SPIKE Yes Ma’am. CHRISTY She won’t talk to me, not straight away, but if you take Elisabeth a note and you tell her, you make sure you promise her, that this needs to be said for her benefit, not mine she’ll listen to you. She’ll hear me out. DEERING Elisabeth was released into the care of her brother a couple of hours ago. Like him or not, count your blessings she’s got someone to fall back on till she can get to France. MILLER We’ve got a date! He’s agreed to a date! DEERING Today? MILLER He won’t say where, but I’ve scored! DEERING Okay, okay warn Maclaren we’re gonna need warrants for surveillance. Tell him I’ll be right up as soon as I’ve delivered over the precious cargo... DINAH Even taken the cooker, the twats. He’s way too smart to come back here. SPIKE Unless he thought Elisabeth had. DINAH I thought you’d used up all your holidays? He curiously to her carries it out with them. CONNIE Ma’am. DEERING Di Deering calling all available officers. Number on the uniform of the collar we gave him was 22047 - TEGAN It’s negative on that, Ma’am. We’ve just found his epaulettes and service jumper in the centre of town. DEERING You sound like you’re on Cathay Pacific. TEGAN Go and wave your big fat cock in their grandma’s face. Pipe ‘em down. TEGAN We’re in an internet cafe. DEERING Did he use any equipment? TEGAN Well he did, but I’m not having any luck with the manager and data protection. DEERING Open your blouse and try again constable. TEGAN Actually, I’m not even asking. Just get his pages up his, now. TAZ So come on, mate. You, Tegan, shift swap... what’s that all about? TAZ Is it shagging? Or money? Shagging, yeh? TAZ Yep. Always shagging. ALPHA Milk? Sugar? STUART Cheers. TAZ Ta ALPHA Cathy made me promise I wouldn’t spit in it. PATTY ‘Be there this time promise’ - “If u don’t want to meat, can we Skype?” HANDYMAN “Benchill Bowl. 8pm?” DEERING Yes, and I am gonna jump right down your filthy neck and wring it from the inside, matey. No phone number yet, though? DR PEEP There’s been no advisable opening to push him on that. JOY Can’t we speed that up? DR PEEP Can we speed up an advisable opening? No. Have we used a numerical 2 yet? MILLER No we’ve been a fairly good speller so far. DR PEEP Use one now. Like she’s growing impatient. MILLER And excited? DR PEEP Impatient. “I can’t wait 2 see what you sound like.” MACLAREN Knock-knock. MACLAREN Seriously? Dressed as a police officer? DEERING Sir, that plan was good till the precious cargo decided, unfathomably, to flee the nest. MACLAREN From inside the station?! Where were you looking? DEERING We were under the impression he was grateful for the protection. MACLAREN You can’t even make an alert public! ‘Missing copper.’ Who’d gives a shit!? DEERING Fine, Darren. I’ll willingly accept a good pasting for this when I’ve time to look humble. Today’s not the day, I’m afraid. Handyman is on the move and so are we. MACLAREN Christy Feeney’s witness protection officer is on her way to Shannon Airport... have you ever spoken to her? DEERING She makes herself sound very high up. MACLAREN Yeah and I’m not going to give her the bad news. TEGAN ‘Scuse me... Right. Christy’s used the internet cafe in connection to ‘Find my iPhone’, Ma’am - Sir - presumably Elisabeth’s. DEERING Going where? TEGAN It just reopened on a search page. But her brother’s number plate has just shown up at the NCP next door to the Elis wholesale. DEERING Locate his vehicle and make sure it is going nowhere. Unless you see Christy Feeney, don’t enter the hotel, not till I get there! JONAH The suspect in the fishtail? I’d put the whole of next week’s donuts on that being him. It is, it is him, and we were this close... CONNIE Jonah’s convinced Elisabeth’s brother sliced Feeney’s throat. DEERING Well if they’ve got each other’s Gps, we’re in deep shit. CHRISTY Elisabeth. You don’t have to talk to me. Just listen. I just need five minutes for you to listen. Elisabeth! Elisabeth!! CHRISTY You don’t have to say anything. Just listen, please... DEERING Elisabeth, you need to see this, sweetheart! SPIKE Come and have a look what your brother’s good for. SPIKE Kevin Edmunson, I am arresting you for Actual Bodily Harm and one count of attempted murder. DEERING Your brother’s credit card was used to buy fuel at ten-past-seven this morning... 17 miles away from his home; a mile and a half from the travel agency. You told your mum, she told him? And he tweeted it to the world. PHOTOGRAPHER Just a quick shot. DEERING Ooh, so, press money is the only honest ingredient to reunite previously estranged siblings. Check their wallets for credentials and coke. I’ve got fifty on the ratty-looking snapper facing ‘possession’ at least. Kevin, you were determined to get this fella one way or the other, weren’t you? You missed the vital organs, so you sell your sister down the river? DEERING How much is he taking from this, Elisabeth? ELISABETH I didn’t know anything about it I swear. I swear. You animal. Animals! You deserve each other. That’s all you deserve. CHRISTY Listen! ELISABETH Listen to - what? There’s nothing to say worth having. CHRISTY Elizabeth! SPIKE Ni, no calm down, calm down. SPIKE Wait! CHRISTY Listen to me, you pumped up fucking closet. I’ll happy to turn for the pleasure of fucking you up the arse just before I slit your ugly destructive throat. You won’t even know it’s me. KEVIN I’ll recognise your cesspit eyes a mile off. CHRISTY Yeh? CHRISTY They weren’t this colour before, they won’t be again. Expect me. CHRISTY Wait, wait please! let me just go and see her. Two minutes? Please? CHRISTY Elizabeth, it’s just me. can I use your phone, just try please. Please just two minutes. CHRISTY Thank you. CHRISTY Please don’t hang up... You can’t hang up because I’m never gonna see you again, and this isn’t for you. CHRISTY I thought I hadn’t slept and then I remember waking up wishing I hadn’t told you. But I don’t now I couldn’t have brought up a kid. Cause they know when you’re lying and that petrified me. Elisabeth, you can’t sell your side to the papers because it’s not just your side. They’ll drown you. And whether you keep our baby or not, those clippings will haunt her for the rest of her life, trust me. I’ve told the solicitors to sign all my assets, the businesses, everything, over to you. Or you and whoever her parents gonna be. Oh God... SPIKE Ma’am, there’s er, we have to shift it. There’s traffic coming this way. People know we’re here. CHRISTY Elisabeth, just please. If you know where she’s going, just make sure I get some photos. I won’t make contact. I promise. They won’t let me. DEERING Tell her to send the materials to me and I’ll make sure they see their way. DEERING Right bring the vehicles down the front. Coming down now. HANDYMAN “Don’t be silly. I’ll pay for the cab when you get there.” JOY Fuck! If he’s hedging his bets all the way, we can’t nick him. DINAH Yes we can. Taxi arrives at the bowling alley. You wait for him to pay for the cab and dive straight in and taser the nonce! JOY Dinah, why would the man pay for an empty cab? DR PEEP The fact is, we need a lovely piece of Syndrome Bait. JOY And you understand what this entails, Olivia? CONNIE She means, you know what’s involved in doing this, Olivia. What they’re asking you to do? OLIVIA Obviously. We all want him caught. OLIVIA’S DAD She volunteered before I could ask her. JOY Olivia says she’s sure if we’re sure..? DEERING She doesn’t look scared, which worries me for starters. DINAH Also reckons she’ll do it with or without us. DEERING Do you know what I’m gonna do here? I’m gonna send you out, there’s still time, with a hundred pounds to buy whatever clothes you like. That make you feel, prettier... OLIVIAS DAD Plus, I’m having to pull the plug on this shift, and if I’m driving her about...? DEERING Spend a hundred pounds each. TWIN 1 Hi, Dad! TWIN 2 Hi, Daddy! What’s your password for Netflix? SPIKE I love you. TWINS I love you. SPIKE Say it separately. TWIN 1 I love you. TWIN 2 I love you. SPIKE Um, it’s gonna be a bit of a long one girls but I’ll kiss you both night-night when I get in. TWINS Okay. SPIKE Er listen, break that bad news to your mum and tell her I’ll ring in half an hour. TWINS Okay. SPIKE I love you both. TWINS Night, night. SPIKE Night, night. JOY We obviously don’t know what this guy looks like so Patrick Llewellyn’s description is all we’ve got to go on. This is the man we know singled out Lucy Cooke right before she died. MACLAREN Everyone has a copy? JOY There will be a standard quarter mile perimeter around the alley... JOY ..Officers will be positioned as customers and carpark attendants. Every inch covered by HD surveillance. We don’t know this man but we know he’s smart. So what’s the golden rule, people? JOY Who’s watching the watchers? JOY Olivia’s safety is paramount. She’ll be no more than ten feet away from an officer at any one time. JOY Handyman won’t get any closer to you than I am now. OLIVIA If he does, I’ll twat him. DEERING Well done you were nearly me in there. Now if you’d want to be a hundred percent you’d have wanted to ask were the rest of your soldiers are? Stuart, Taz?? MACLAREN Why am I still hearing were two officers down? DEERING Joy? JOY I stationed PC Ahmed and O’Connoll outside a furniture storage facility in Ancoats. DINAH Sir it was my request. To cover Cathy. She’s living there. MACLAREN Call them in now. JOY Yeah. MACLAREN You were told to tell me about any changes affecting this case, who’s decision was it not to? When every available officer is needed for this?! MACLAREN This better be good... TEGAN Right watch and learn JONAH Will do. DEERING Screen three. Solo male at the bar. TEGAN Yeah we’re on him, Ma’am.. JOY Olivia’s arrival in one. ASSISTANT You alright guys what sizes can I get you? TAZ A seven and ten please. ASSISTANT Yep sure. TAZ Well, sending her to fat camp backfired on you. They’re looking very teamwork to me. STUART Cheers. MACLAREN Here we go! JOY Solo man by the bar is on the move. JOY Everyone prepared... Stuart hold back... don’t spook him... SPIKE How you feeling? OLIVIA I’m ready. SPIKE Good. Okay. DEERING Stand on yer marks Solo man going outside repeat outside. JOY Nothing happens unless he approaches the taxi... JOY Sit tight... SPIKE Standby yeah he’s clocked her. SPIKE No it’s a false alarm stand down. JOY Relax... relax, everybody stand down. OLIVIAS DAD So that’s that then... MACLAREN What’s Dr Peep’s expert guidance on this now...? PEEP Well any number of reasons could have held him up... OLIVIA Why are we waiting out here? OLIVIA’S DAD If she’s going in, I’m taking her. JOY Right with all due respect, Mr Bacon, you got yourself too pissed on the shopping spree to help anybody out, so sit down and shut up. And give me your car keys. SPIKE No wait, wait no! SPIKE Shit. She’s mobile! JOY Well go after her. SPIKE I thought you said ‘minimum fuss?!’ Do you want a fuss or not. SPIKE cos my instinct’s forcing me to get the fuck out of here before I wreck everything... SPIKE Sarge. – SPIKE D’you want fuss or not! DINAH Shadow the man in the rainproof jacket. JACKET MAN ‘Scuse me, are you with anyone? OLIVIA This was 24 pounds on a sale. JACKET MAN Are you with anyone? IRISH HOUSEWIFE Do you know this man? Do you know this man? OLIVIA No. JACKET MAN Hey! I was only trying to ascertain... IRISH HOUSEWIFE Fuck off and ascertain that way. Could somebody take this gimp’s picture and stick it on the door? IRISH HOUSEWIFE Are the rest of yous right in the head? Why is this girl on her own? Don’t yous read the papers? No, that’s right, you’re too busy shelling out membership cards to nonces! Look at ‘em. Is it any wonder the car park’s always full! IRISH HOUSEWIFE You an’ all, fuck off! Don’t dive in once somebody else points it out. What is wrong with yous people? DEERING Ah, for fucksake. You wait forty years to witness public morality and it has to be this mad bitch! Abort! Abort! CATHY Alpha... CATHY It’s not funny Alpha... I’m not laughing... CATHY Alpha... IRISH HOUSEWIFE Nevermind me, where are that poor critter’s parents?! DINAH Cathy? CATHY We need an am... we need ambulances, Dinah! DINAH Are you hurt, Cathy? CATHY Yes! DINAH Is Alpha? CATHY Really badly. DINAH You’re where I left you? CATHY Dinah, he’s... DINAH No, no, no, no Cathy, answer me! Are you where I last saw you? Is Alpha with you? CATHY Dinah! Dinah!... CATHY He’s here. He’s here! DEERING We’ve been had. DEERING He’s on foot, I want a chopper, I want dogs and I want them now. STUART Shit! DEERING Intercept vehicle at junction of Mill Road and Albert Drive. CATHY Fucking cat. DINAH What cat? CATHY On his arm. DEERING We are that close. Calm, methodical Sunday fucking best. MERCY Here you are two of Manchester’s two finest. DEERING Just that I’ve wanted to put Mercy in my sticker book of bastards for years. AJAMU He looks after me. SPIKE He treats you like a dog. JOY Oh my God.