Law & Order UK Season 6 Episode 2 Immune
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00:00The Crown Prosecutors who prosecute the offenders, these are their stories.
00:10I can't get enough of that unique blend.
00:21What is it?
00:23Seven pieces.
00:25I pay for nine.
00:26It's a mistake, that's all, it doesn't matter.
00:28Bastard, break me off.
00:31That's not on.
00:33No one needs mine anyway, you brought up after five, scientific fact.
00:39Chris.
00:41Chris!
00:47Chris!
00:49Oh shit.
00:51Are you joking right now?
00:53What?
00:54Shut up!
00:56Shut up!
00:57Shut up!
00:58Get over there!
00:59Move!
01:01Give me the money!
01:02Hurry up!
01:03I said over there!
01:05You wanna die?
01:06Hey, what's up?
01:08That's right.
01:12What have you done, Buck?
01:13Give me the money!
01:14Come on!
01:16Chris!
01:17Hurry up!
01:18Get over there!
01:19Move your back!
01:20Move your back!
01:21Move your back!
01:22Move your back!
01:23Get down!
01:31Find them!
01:32Put them!
01:34Throw them!
01:35Kick them!
01:36Put your back!
01:37No!
01:38Back guys!
01:39Go!
01:40Come on, come on, come on!
01:47Get out of the way, please!
01:50Get out of the way!
01:52Get out of the way!
01:53Hurry!
01:54Get out of the way!
01:55Come on!
01:56Do it!
01:57Do it!
01:58He needs to put the gun down!
02:00What's going on?
02:01Come on, Ty!
02:03It's time to be on ya!
02:05Get in the car!
02:08Go, go!
02:09Go, go!
02:10Get to the car!
02:11He's being destroyed!
02:12Get in the car!
02:13Get in the car!
02:14You are driving!
02:15Are you okay?
02:16Go, go, go!
02:17Get to the car!
02:19Get to the car!
04:37What, his mate shot him?
04:40He was holding a gun like that, so zero control.
04:44And we should be grateful more people didn't get killed.
04:47Yeah, but one's enough.
04:48All right, Pete, what have you got?
04:53Gordon McKenzie, 44, Quincy Surveyor.
05:00And according to this, he's on his way to a job interview.
05:04Ended up trying to be a hero.
05:06I'm sure that'll be a big comfort.
05:14We traced the Astra to a Jeff Miller.
05:18Said it was Nick from outside his flat where he left it.
05:20Oh, yeah?
05:21Yeah, his alibi's watertight.
05:23Time of the robbery was doing a six or two shift at a petrol station near Henley's Corner.
05:28And he's got proof of that?
05:29Oh, yeah.
05:30Three colleagues, eight cameras, thank you.
05:33And about 250 motorists.
05:37What about the Omega driver?
05:39Any news?
05:40Not yet of the driver or the car.
05:43I was afraid of that.
05:44Missing persons have been alerted.
05:46And we're checking every listed cap firm, see if any of their drivers have gone on a walk.
05:50Maybe the driver's on his way home.
05:52See if there's a worried wife out there.
05:53Yeah, and the bullets we retrieved from the scene are from a nine millimetre handgun.
05:58So that is the murder weapon we're looking for.
06:00The gun wasn't on the scene, so chances are they've still got it on them.
06:03That's right.
06:06We found the Omega cab firm.
06:12Yeah, Mikey's one of my best drivers.
06:15Always on time, always courteous.
06:18Bunters love him.
06:19And he never got home this afternoon.
06:20Well, he had a pickup at Gatwick.
06:22It was a nightmare.
06:24The plane was delayed, so he'd been hanging around at the airport since the crack of dawn.
06:29So I just told him to drop the passenger off.
06:33And then go home and get some shut-eye.
06:37His wife's been calling him on his mobile and getting nothing.
06:40When she's not calling him, she's calling me.
06:42And what time was the drop-off?
06:44About two.
06:46Where was that?
06:51Falkland Road.
06:52It's around the corner from the chicken place.
06:55What chicken place?
06:58That's all that happened.
07:00Michael Coombs, white male, 43.
07:02Ex-army, three years in Afghanistan.
07:05It's the best mugshot we've got of him.
07:07It's from his taxi driver's license.
07:09We'll have a better one after we get it back from his wife.
07:12No need.
07:13This is Mrs. Coombs, DS Brooks, or DS Casey.
07:26I called his work.
07:26They said you'd been there.
07:28Have you found him?
07:30Well, we've got a lot of men looking, Mrs. Coombs.
07:33How could he just disappear like that?
07:35Someone must have seen something.
07:37And if they did, we will find them.
07:39Yeah.
07:40Take a seat, please.
07:42When was the last time you saw your husband?
07:46Uh, this morning.
07:49And anything out of the ordinary happen?
07:52No.
07:53When he left, it was still dark.
07:57He didn't want to put the light on and disturb me.
08:00Um, he kissed me.
08:03I went off to sleep.
08:05And it was later that I saw he'd forgotten his spare inhaler.
08:11All right.
08:13So he's asthmatic, yeah?
08:14Yeah.
08:15Just a minute.
08:18Yes.
08:20Please, carry on.
08:20Well, he's had a couple of bad attacks.
08:25Hospitals, ventilators, the whole...
08:28It came on just after he got back from Afghanistan.
08:34They say there isn't a connection, but he was fine before he left.
08:39Tash, would you mind taking Mrs. Coombs for a cup of tea?
08:43Thanks.
08:44We'll come and find you in a minute.
08:50Just brought a bloke in to Royal Caledonian A&E.
08:59They found him unconscious at King's Cross with 600 quid in his back pocket.
09:05So?
09:06He's been shot.
09:07They found him in the train toilet just before it pulled out.
09:14He'd lost a lot of blood.
09:16Here's what they found on him.
09:20Frank Donovan, who lives half and half of Jeff Millen and his blue Astra.
09:24And where is he, please?
09:25He's there.
09:27They're just about to take him into surgery.
09:30Frank Donovan?
09:30What happened to the driver you kidnapped, Frank?
09:33Not now.
09:35What'd you do with him, Frank?
09:36You'll have to wait.
09:37Look, where is he before it's too late?
09:39That's enough.
09:40I need to get this man in.
09:41Listen, the man who kidnapped such a mass man, he could be in danger.
09:45He could be hurt.
09:45We need him to tell us where he is.
09:47After surgery.
09:49And if he doesn't make it?
09:50Frank Donovan, he's got form.
10:04Got a lot of rent stuff.
10:05He did a stretch for ABH a couple of years ago.
10:08Nothing since then.
10:09All right.
10:09Well, he's certainly making up for lost time today, isn't he?
10:13Yeah.
10:14Well, you think if we ever find him, Michael Coombs will be needing that in hell again?
10:20I think this is a robbery that's gone badly out of control.
10:27I think we're dealing with desperate men with shooters, which is never a good combo.
10:32But I honestly think that until there is a body, Sam, there is hope.
10:43Here we go.
10:45How is he?
10:46He's been bleeding internally for hours.
10:51On the bullet?
10:53Is he awake?
10:54He's just out of surgery, detective.
10:56He's lost a lot of blood.
10:58What he needs is...
10:58Is he awake?
11:07Go easy on him.
11:11Nurse?
11:11Can you excuse us?
11:20Hello, Frank.
11:23Michael Coombs.
11:26Tell us where he is.
11:27You can get some more rest.
11:28Can you pass me a drink now?
11:52I don't know what you're talking about.
11:54You don't remember the robbery?
11:57Shooting?
11:57Man you kidnapped?
11:59See, this is all news to me.
12:01How do you explain getting shot, then?
12:04It must have been kids, you know?
12:11The best you can do is it, Frank.
12:15You think this is the first day of the job for us, do you?
12:18How do you explain the money, Frank?
12:21Hey?
12:22600 quid cash.
12:25I want it on the horses.
12:27What horse?
12:29What race?
12:35Ask my lawyer, Miriam Pascatore.
12:38She'll know.
12:39Come on.
12:48Can we avoid assaulting the beverage dispenser, Ron?
12:51Hello, Gov.
12:52I've got Audrey Coombs ringing me every ten minutes.
12:55I've got the local press who got the story.
12:57I was hoping you had something for me.
12:59He wants his lawyer.
13:02Hello, Gov.
13:02Sir, they retrieved the bullet?
13:04No, it was through and through.
13:06It might be in the Omega when we find it.
13:08Let's hope so.
13:09So far, we're looking a little flat-footed.
13:12Any traces from the Astra?
13:13Nothing yet.
13:14No prints, no DNA.
13:16Nothing to link Frank Donovan to the crime.
13:19Although, Mr. Donovan doesn't know that, does he?
13:25Sir, Michael Coombs, where is he?
13:27Or did you kill him, too?
13:28We've got traces of your DNA, Frank, all over that Astra.
13:32He's pushed with the scene of the crime.
13:34Where's my lawyer?
13:35Robbery and murder.
13:37That's right.
13:38Yeah, murder.
13:39The guy who got shot at the scene's dead.
13:41So now there's a mum trying to explain to her two kids
13:46why dad isn't ever coming home again.
13:50Doesn't matter who actually pulled the trigger.
13:53We can get you on joint enterprise.
13:56That means life.
13:57So don't make it any worse than it is, Frank.
14:00Where is he?
14:00You know, Michael Coombs is a war veteran.
14:05Do you know that?
14:07Time in Afghanistan.
14:11Doesn't deserve this, does he?
14:14No.
14:16Do one good thing today, eh?
14:20Help yourself, Frank.
14:22Tell us where you left Michael Coombs.
14:23There's only one person helping himself, detective.
14:26Interviewing my client without legal representation?
14:32Naughty.
14:33Well, now you're here.
14:36So where is he, Frank?
14:50We need to wait the CPS.
14:56We know what he's after.
15:00Don't give him a thing.
15:01Why don't we hear what he has to say first?
15:03Because he lies like other people breathe.
15:08We don't do, do you?
15:09Sure you do.
15:10Ever since the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005
15:15made provision for an immunity agreement.
15:18But that's...
15:19We want a piece of it.
15:20A piece?
15:22Do you know what I want a piece of?
15:23Sign this and he'll tell you the whereabouts of Michael Coombs.
15:28Dead or alive?
15:29My client swears the last time he saw Mr. Coombs, he was very much alive.
15:34He's seen our faces.
15:35And he said we tied him up, gives you a bit of time to go away.
15:38And how long were you planning on leaving him?
15:41He has bad asthma.
15:43Well, then it's in your interest to find him, innit?
15:45Before it's too late.
15:46Yours too.
15:47Also, the name of your accomplice, his address, everything you have on him
15:52and you'll turn Queen's evidence against him a try.
15:54We have no problem with that.
15:55Just sign and you get it all.
15:57We drop the contract.
15:58You don't.
16:00Contract?
16:00Fine.
16:01Word it how you like, but it has to include these conditions.
16:04And unless I'm happy with it...
16:05You're happy.
16:06This isn't a negotiation.
16:09In return for information relating to the whereabouts of Michael Coombs,
16:12I, Frank Donovan, will plead guilty to manslaughter
16:16for all crimes related to the holdup of Chick Chick Chicken.
16:20Manslaughter.
16:21For killing an innocent bystand.
16:23Wait, do you want to...
16:24Shut up.
16:24Shut your face.
16:25Seriously.
16:26Look, why are we even considering this?
16:28We charge them.
16:30Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
16:32Since when did some lying piece of shit get to decide?
16:35Tear it up, then.
16:39If you think it's such a waste of time, let's forget all about it.
16:46Bin's there.
16:56I don't like it.
16:58Nobody likes it.
16:59Then let's not do it.
17:00And if Michael Coombs dies?
17:03What makes you think you can trust?
17:05Frank Donovan.
17:06You've only got his word that Coombs was alive when he left him.
17:10Natalie.
17:12I say we give Donovan what he wants now,
17:14and if it doesn't work out, we throw the book at him.
17:16And set what sort of precedent?
17:18What does that say about us?
17:20We're not for sale.
17:21It's not as simple as that.
17:22It is for Mrs. Coombs.
17:24If this man dies and he comes out,
17:26we could have saved him.
17:27How does that make us look?
17:28Who cares how he looks?
17:30Watch his widow on the 10 o'clock news, then ask me that.
17:35When was Coombs taken?
17:37Around 2 p.m., 12 hours ago.
17:39So, make the deal and maybe save this man's life,
17:43and he may already be dead,
17:44and I will have granted his killer immunity.
17:47Or don't do the deal and pray that he doesn't die while we're out looking for him,
17:50assuming that we ever do find him, Alicia.
17:54We proceed as if he's alive.
17:57Hmm.
17:58Jake.
18:02I agree.
18:04Draw up the wording.
18:05I need to see it before we make the deal.
18:08You've got ten hours.
18:11We'll sign it now.
18:20Who lives in an armpit like this?
18:26Not Frank Donovan.
18:28At least not for a few days, anyway.
18:32Yuck.
18:33There's a cure for something wrong in there.
18:43Anything?
18:44No.
18:45Just junk.
18:46Flyers and stuff.
18:48Ten hours.
18:48Ten hours.
18:51What are we, miracle workers?
18:52On a daily basis, sir.
18:56Needles and haystacks.
18:58Rabbits and hats, son.
19:02Okay.
19:03Where next?
19:04Well, there's only one other address on Crimmint.
19:08Belongs to his mum.
19:18Samson, shut her up.
19:22Who is it?
19:23Is Maggie there, please?
19:24Who wants to know?
19:26The police.
19:27It's a bit early, isn't it?
19:28I wish I did.
19:36Whoa, whoa, whoa.
19:37Can you please shut that dog up?
19:40You need to warrant your trespassing.
19:42You see, everyone's a lawyer.
19:44Where's Maggie Donovan?
19:46Who wants to know?
19:48Police.
19:49Whereabouts is your cranky, Liv, Maggie?
19:51Don't tell him anything.
19:51Be quiet.
19:52There's no obligation to...
19:54He is dangerously out of control.
19:55That's a criminal offence.
19:57The dangerous dog jacks only covers public places.
20:01Samson ain't in a public place.
20:04Oi, oi.
20:05Oi, don't put him out of control.
20:11It's lonely.
20:15Samson!
20:18He is now.
20:21So.
20:24Frank.
20:24He's not staying at his own flat.
20:26So where else does he stay?
20:27What's he mean, Gerald?
20:29What's a criminal offence?
20:31Gerald.
20:32Where does Frankie stop?
20:34Maggie, please.
20:35I love him, Mum.
20:35Shot it, Gerald.
20:37Police intimidation.
20:38That's what this is.
20:39Really?
20:40Does Samson look like a banned breed to you?
20:42Well, he's certainly got the right characteristics.
20:44Absolutely.
20:45That's two years right there.
20:47Don't listen to him, Mum.
20:48So, Samson gets destroyed,
20:50and Gerald here does some real time.
20:52Unless, of course, Maggie,
20:53you want to tell us
20:54where Frankie is actually living.
20:56No.
20:57Come on, Maggie.
20:58Mum, don't say anything.
21:00He sometimes stays with his girlfriend
21:02in Whetstone.
21:04He's been straight for years.
21:14He promised me.
21:18God.
21:19He's got his life back.
21:21He's studying and everything.
21:23Studying?
21:24He's doing a part-time law degree at Birkbeck.
21:27It's all gone to waste now.
21:29Trust me, it hasn't.
21:31Did you see him at all yesterday?
21:33I wish I had.
21:34Then I could have...
21:35How could he have been so stupid?
21:41Well, did you speak to him then?
21:43He called me in the afternoon,
21:45said he needed my van.
21:46I work for the council,
21:48Parks and Gardens.
21:49Did he do that often?
21:52He borrowed it sometimes.
21:56I do private gardens too,
21:59cash in hand,
22:00and he helps me with that.
22:03He said he was dropping off
22:04some bedding plants,
22:05and he'd be back in half an hour.
22:07Well...
22:08He used the spare keys.
22:11And when were you going to report
22:12the van missing?
22:14Well, why would I?
22:16He brought it back, like he said.
22:25No, nothing.
22:26Too much to hope for, wasn't it?
22:27Where's my saplings?
22:29Sorry?
22:30No, there's half a dozen saplings in here
22:32and a tarpaulin.
22:34Right.
22:35Sam,
22:36there's blood here.
22:38Can you get forensics?
22:39Yeah, we'll do.
22:40I love it.
22:42But I've got to get up top,
22:43which come on,
22:44we're clearing the woods.
22:45No, not in that bank, no.
22:48What do you do?
22:49Just wake up one day
22:51and just decide...
22:52Look, Frank hadn't accomplished
22:54yesterday, he carried a gun.
22:55Do you know anyone like that?
22:56No.
22:57I don't think...
22:59So...
23:00Sure, think back.
23:01Maybe from the old times.
23:04Maybe you did a time in Nickwith
23:05or something.
23:08Jamie Harper.
23:10Him and Frank were cellmates.
23:12I met him a couple of times.
23:13He was a right thug.
23:15Frank said he pitied him,
23:16said Jamie was unlucky.
23:18Right.
23:19James Harper.
23:21Nasty piece of work.
23:22Four previous for assault and possession.
23:24Got the address.
23:26Just need a warrant.
23:29Two hours left
23:30till we agree the deal.
23:32I'll sign him.
23:33James Harper, Michael Coons.
23:54Clear!
23:55Clear!
23:57Clear!
23:58Go there.
23:59Clear!
23:59Right, lads, as quick as you can.
24:07Just check on the sofa for you, can you?
24:13We'll need anything that gives us a clue to Mike the Coombs' whereabouts.
24:28Bingo.
24:29Bingo.
24:36Mama Lamia.
24:38Looks like Harper's done a runner.
24:41We're pretty sure Frank used his girlfriend's van to move the hostage,
24:45but he was only gone half an hour, which means Coombs must be near.
24:48We need more time.
24:50Well, it's gone 11.
24:52Oh, Jake, we're so close. Give us to the end of the day.
24:57Leave it with me.
24:59This is Mrs. Coombs.
25:05Mrs. Coombs, would you like to...
25:07Is it true you could have rescued my husband by now, that you could have made a deal?
25:13Well, who told you that?
25:14I got a call from a Miriam Pescatori.
25:19She's representing one of the men we think are responsible for your husband's disappearance.
25:23And she had no business talking to you.
25:25Who cares?
25:27Michael could have been safe all this time.
25:30Who do you think you are?
25:31We don't make deals with criminals, Mrs. Coombs.
25:35That's not how we do things.
25:36Don't you dare talk to me about policy.
25:41This is real.
25:43It's my husband all alone out there, and no one is looking for him.
25:48There are a lot of people looking for him.
25:50But they don't know where he is, do they?
25:52And all this time, the answer's there, just waiting to be asked.
25:58Mrs. Coombs.
25:59So, ask.
26:11Where is he?
26:14Can I say?
26:15Now you can.
26:17It was Jamie's idea.
26:22What?
26:23Turning over the chicken place.
26:25Jamie.
26:27James Harper.
26:29Should have gone like clockwork.
26:32Where's Michael Coombs?
26:37Edmonton.
26:38Valentrode.
26:40In a lock-up.
26:47Okay, that's great.
26:53Thank you very much.
26:55The blood in the back of the van belongs to Frank Donovan.
26:58You know what?
26:59There's no way he could have got here and back to his girlfriend's gaff in half an hour.
27:03No.
27:03So, if he didn't use the van to dump Coombs, what did he use it for?
27:08How are you getting on, lads?
27:09Good evening.
27:09All right.
27:10Come on, then.
27:12Right, in he goes, please.
27:14Oh, Frank!
27:15Oh, Frank!
27:15Oh, Frank!
27:16Michael Cairns.
27:27Michael!
27:29Michael!
27:31Over here, sir!
27:33Is he alive?
27:35Paramedics are here, quick.
27:38There's no pulse, sir.
27:39There's no pulse, sir.
27:46Someone hit him.
28:00Hard.
28:02Say, that was the cause of death.
28:04And the fact that he was naked?
28:07This wasn't a sexual attack.
28:09My guess?
28:11They burned his clothes so there'd be no DNA.
28:14Like the Omega.
28:15They knew what they were doing.
28:17When did he die?
28:18Body's cold, maximum lividity, and I've got maggots hatching in the mouth and nose.
28:24For more than 24 hours?
28:25Easily.
28:30But that means...
28:31Yeah.
28:32Yeah.
28:40Frank Donovan knew Michael Coombs was already dead when he made the deal.
28:45We got played.
28:46So throw it out.
28:48It's worthless.
28:49Just like that?
28:50Of course, just like that.
28:52Wait, what happened to precedent?
28:54Worrying about how we'll look?
28:55That was before I knew Donovan had killed Coombs and left him naked on some filthy floor to rod.
29:01No dignity, nothing.
29:03So if the crime's bad enough, different rules apply?
29:05He stripped his victim just to cover his tracks.
29:09He only told us where Coombs was because he could see an angle.
29:12Damn right the crime's bad enough.
29:14Really?
29:14Because I don't remember anything about a sliding scale.
29:17Uh, not now.
29:17Now.
29:18If we break this agreement, no one will trust us.
29:22What happens next time?
29:24Well, that's when we'll worry about it.
29:26Right now, I'm more worried about being sucker punched by Frank Donovan.
29:30I want you to go into the plea in case management swinging.
29:34Hurt him.
29:39You are Frank Donovan?
29:41I am.
29:41You're charged on the indictment, which contains two counts of murder, one of robbery, and one of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
29:52What?
29:53I'm sorry, there's been some sort of mistake, my lady.
29:56We have a signed agreement with the CPS.
29:59The charge is manslaughter.
30:01Mr. Thorne?
30:02There's been no mistake, my lady.
30:05What?
30:06You signed it.
30:08The charges stand, my lady.
30:10But this agreement.
30:11It's meaningless.
30:12It's binding.
30:13It's a discussion for another time.
30:19They waltzed on the deal.
30:21Got Donovan for murder, robbery, the works.
30:24Ah.
30:25Who says the CPS doesn't have a backbone?
30:29You did about an hour ago.
30:31So, now we can do with some evidence.
30:33Well, we have got the confession.
30:35That's all we've got at the moment.
30:37Let's give ourselves a safety net.
30:39Start with the witnesses.
30:41See if we can't get someone to pick Frank out in an ID parade.
30:50Just tell us when you recognise any of these guys, please.
30:57Number two.
31:00No, number four.
31:04I mean, it might be two.
31:05I'm not sure.
31:05I just caught a glimpse through the window.
31:09Sorry, mate.
31:10It's all right.
31:17So, none of your witnesses can make a positive ID.
31:25It's been very informative.
31:33What about the kid behind the counter?
31:36Well, you never went outside.
31:38You could have got a glimpse through the window, too.
31:40You never know.
31:45An ID parade.
31:47But I never saw the other bloke.
31:50Well, it might have helped jog your memory.
31:52No, but I didn't go outside.
31:54Why would I?
31:54Guns fired.
31:55I'm not that stupid.
31:57Yeah, you are.
31:58Oh, give it a rest.
32:00First rule.
32:01At the end of the lunchtime rush,
32:03you empty the till and put the takings in the safe at the back.
32:06Yeah, yeah.
32:07How old is that?
32:09Which you didn't do.
32:11Didn't your sister a favor take on her?
32:13What's the space kid who can't hold down a job?
32:15This is how it pays me.
32:16I told you.
32:17I didn't have a chance.
32:18The place was busy nonstop.
32:20We'll see if you can't pick a man.
32:27Might surprise yourself.
32:37Yeah, car's just behind there, Billy.
32:40It won't take that long.
32:43Lying to us is very different from lying to your uncle, Billy.
32:47I'm not lying.
32:47All the witnesses said it wasn't busy.
32:50You said it wasn't busy.
32:52Well, why would I lie?
32:53Because you did put the money back in the safe like you were taught, yeah?
32:57Only after the robbery you helped yourself to it
32:59and claimed the robbers cleaned you out.
33:02No.
33:02It makes you part of the robbery.
33:07Now, you're kidding.
33:09An accessory after the fact, Billy.
33:12Accessorius post-factum, they call it in law.
33:15And unluckily for you, the fact in this particular case is murder.
33:20No, no, I didn't shoot anyone.
33:22You witnessed a crime, somebody dies.
33:25You, that's an opportunity.
33:27Do you know how warm that makes us feel?
33:30So,
33:31be completely honest with us,
33:35put the money back,
33:36and we'll keep what you did to ourselves.
33:39Okay?
33:43Okay.
33:44Now,
33:45how much did they really take?
33:50600 quid?
33:52Is that it?
33:53Yeah.
33:54Yeah.
33:55So, the 600 pounds we found on Donovan,
33:58weren't this share of the takings at all?
34:00No.
34:01Got all of it.
34:02Yeah.
34:03We know Donovan used his girlfriend's van.
34:07The blood in the back confirms that, right?
34:10We thought it was to move Michael Coombs's body, right?
34:13Yeah, until we found him miles away.
34:16Yeah, well, what if it wasn't Michael Coombs's body he was moving?
34:19You think Donovan murdered Harper?
34:21Can't see Harper handing Frank his share
34:24to invest wisely on his behalf, can you?
34:27No.
34:28All right, so,
34:30Donovan uses the van to move Harper where?
34:33He, um,
34:34knew his girlfriend was working up on Toteridge Common, right?
34:37Absolutely.
34:38See, no one would question seeing our van up there in the woods.
34:46Wouldn't take much.
34:48No?
34:48No.
34:49Follow the truck off the main moat.
34:52Just the council walking around here, nothing suspicious.
34:56Well, I suppose he'd drag the body in and out,
34:59maybe ten minutes.
35:01What, even though he'd been shot?
35:02Well, if he's bleeding slow enough and he's desperate enough.
35:05Over here!
35:06Here we go.
35:15Jamie Harper.
35:16Frank was right.
35:20Yeah, Frank was right.
35:20He wasn't very lucky, was he?
35:21This was a signed immunity agreement, my lady.
35:29Made invalid because Frank Donovan knew Michael Coombs was already dead.
35:33And you have proof of that?
35:34And you have proof of that?
35:35He should be prosecuted for the crime to which he has confessed.
35:38But the Crown only got that confession because of the agreement they made, my lady.
35:43If they are now reneging on the agreement, they cannot expect to benefit from anything gained as a result of that agreement.
35:51My lady, he lied to you.
35:52If they are allowed to withdraw the agreement, I respectfully submit that the confession should also be excluded.
36:00She has a point, Mr. Thorne.
36:02Frank Donovan confessed.
36:05Because he believed himself protected by the agreement.
36:11If you honour the agreement, you can keep the confession.
36:15Back out of it and you lose the confession as well.
36:20Choose which you want.
36:22You can't have it both ways.
36:23And since the entire case is built on this confession, it follows that should it be excluded, there is in fact no case to answer.
36:35My lady, may I request a moment to confer?
36:39Quickly, Mr. Thorne.
36:41We're agog.
36:48I need physical evidence.
36:50What have you found?
36:50Does Jamie Harper count?
36:52Will he give evidence?
36:53He's dead.
36:55We just found him.
36:57Don't tell me.
36:58What?
36:58I don't want to know.
37:01Okay.
37:10My lady, the Crown withdraws its objections to the immunity agreement.
37:15We agree to alter the indictment to reflect one count of manslaughter and accept the plea of guilty.
37:26The Crown offers no further evidence.
37:29Very well.
37:29Sentencing will be in two weeks.
37:39He kills three people, gets manslaughter.
37:42Well, I've got to say, guys, you prosecuted the hell out of that one.
37:49Three.
37:50I only know of two murders he was involved in.
37:53Gordon McKenzie at the scene and Michael Coombs.
37:56He killed James Harper as well.
37:58And you can prove that, can you?
38:01Got any witnesses who put them together the day Harper died?
38:05I have Frank Donovan himself.
38:12His confession.
38:14Where he admits to being with James Harper, an admission I wouldn't have if I hadn't also allowed the agreement, an admission I can use when we charge him with the murder of James Harper.
38:25So, Donovan gets away with the killing of the innocent bystander McKenzie, but then goes down for murdering James Harper.
38:37Justice is blind.
38:40Sometimes a little bit sneaky.
38:47Not in a million years.
38:49I've got his confession, remember?
38:51And I have the agreement.
38:52Which in a full world was never meant to cover a situation like this.
38:57I have no idea it was so selective.
38:59Terrorists, Miriam.
39:00It's there so we can make deals, prevent widespread carnage, and save lives.
39:05Not so the low-rent scum like Frank Donovan can get off.
39:09This is the system, and it doesn't discriminate.
39:12And it doesn't stop just because you don't like it.
39:15When at all costs, is that it?
39:16No.
39:17Just within the law.
39:19And you think that's what Frank Donovan deserves?
39:22I think it's what he's entitled to.
39:26You know this is irrelevant.
39:29Really?
39:33All crimes related to events at the chick, chick, chicken.
39:39This is unrelated.
39:42Crap.
39:43With respect.
39:44Two events, miles away, hours apart.
39:48Part of the same crime, and so caught by the agreement.
39:51One's a robbery, the other's murder.
39:53Where's the connection?
39:59Abuse of process.
40:00You can hear the connection in court.
40:11I needed the money.
40:13Why?
40:16I borrowed some from, um...
40:20Someone local.
40:23Pay off my gambling debts.
40:25He wanted it back.
40:27You mean a loan shark?
40:30He said he'd break my legs.
40:32So you decided to steal the money?
40:35It was Jamie's idea to do the chicken place.
40:38James Harper, your former cellmate.
40:41Yeah.
40:43He said it was ideal.
40:46There's a school just down the road, so he means it's always busy at lunchtime.
40:50Doddle.
40:51So what happened?
40:53Jamie blew it.
40:55He was wired.
40:57I could tell that moment I saw him.
41:00He went in, uh, panicked.
41:02He only got, like, 600 quid, then he's outside shooting the gun.
41:10We grabbed the driver.
41:12Got away.
41:14Jamie's all over the place.
41:16He's, uh, shouting and screaming.
41:18And after that?
41:20We dumped the driver.
41:22Um, torched the car.
41:25By now, I found out my share's only gonna be 300.
41:30Well, because, uh, I needed it all.
41:32I tried explaining it to him, but there's no way he was gonna give me his share.
41:40So what did you do?
41:46I killed him.
41:55Because you needed the money?
41:58Yeah.
41:59Which is why you robbed Chick Chick Chicken in the first place?
42:04Yeah.
42:05You killed James Harper as a direct result of what happened there.
42:11Yeah.
42:12I didn't have a choice.
42:20So let me get this straight.
42:22Donovan confessed to a murder to avoid being prosecuted for that murder.
42:27How the hell did we get here?
42:30The Lone Shark story pans out.
42:33Reckons Donovan owed him over a grand, denies the bit about breaking his knees, of course.
42:38Which makes it part of the same crime.
42:40So by backing down and allowing the immunity agreement to stand, you let Frank Donovan off the hook for James Harper's murder.
42:48That wasn't what I intended.
42:50Remind me again.
42:51This is the Crown Prosecution Service, right?
42:55For God's sake, I said hurt him, not give him a get-out-of-jail-free card.
43:00It isn't over yet.
43:02If I can prove that I didn't know James Harper had been murdered, I can argue I wasn't in possession of all the facts when I decided to let the agreement stand.
43:11Bet everyone saw you talk to the police before that.
43:14Didn't hear what they said, though.
43:16Tread with care.
43:18Miriam Pescatore thinks you can go about crying abuse of process.
43:24It's not me that needs to tread carefully.
43:30So you could avoid the Harper murder as well?
43:33Not if I can help it.
43:35It's because of that agreement.
43:36Because if you'd not made it like we'd said...
43:39I can still get Donovan for Harper's murder if I can show that I didn't know that it was murder.
43:44We told you.
43:45You told me what?
43:46Well, that's why you stopped us telling you anything in the court.
43:50You know it might come to this.
43:51It was a possibility.
43:53Hmm.
43:54Slippy.
43:55Legal bollocks.
43:56Which will put Donovan behind bars.
44:01We'll have to give evidence.
44:05Commit perjury, you mean.
44:07No one's asking you to do that.
44:09No?
44:11You're asking us to risk everything.
44:13So you don't feel so guilty about making the arrangement in the first place.
44:17You only need one of us to give evidence, right?
44:22Probably.
44:23Okay.
44:28Tell me where and when.
44:30I mean, doubling up would be a criminal waste of manpower, wouldn't it?
44:35I had the briefest of conversations with Detective Sergeants Brooks and Casey.
44:44And they told you what?
44:46That James Harper was dead.
44:49Nothing else?
44:50You'll remember, my lady.
44:52You were keen for me to keep it brief.
44:54And when you heard that, what was your reaction?
44:59I was disappointed.
45:01I was hoping we would apprehend Mr. Harper and use his evidence to secure a successful conviction against Mr. Donovan.
45:09With his death, any such hope disappeared.
45:13I accepted the immunity agreement as the best of a bad situation.
45:17Did you not think that Frank Donovan had killed James Harper?
45:22I didn't even know he'd been murdered.
45:25Merely that he was dead.
45:34Merely that he was dead.
45:37That's right.
45:38What do you think he died of?
45:41Old age?
45:43Broken heart?
45:44My lady.
45:46Reign in the sarcasm, Miss Pescatori.
45:49A violent man dies.
45:53Did you not make room for the possibility that he himself might have died violently?
46:00Hmm.
46:00I try to avoid assumptions.
46:03You never know when they're going to trip you up.
46:07You never said James Harper had been killed?
46:11No.
46:11Even though he'd been shot in the back of the head?
46:15That is correct.
46:17I'd say that was quite an important aspect of the case.
46:20Do you make a habit of burying the lead?
46:23My lady.
46:24Nothing further.
46:28Mr. Thorne?
46:30We have no further witnesses.
46:33Miss Pescatori?
46:34Well, as this one person we haven't heard from, yes.
46:38We call Detective Sergeant Casey.
46:53Detective Sergeant Sam Casey to crew number one.
46:57Detective Sergeant Sam Casey to crew number one.
47:02I swear by almighty God that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth.
47:24The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
47:26I swear by almighty God that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth.
47:27Detective Sergeant Casey, you discovered the body of James Harper in Woodland up in Totteridge Common.
47:44Is that right?
47:45Yes.
47:46And it was such a significant discovery that you came down here to the Old Bailey as a matter of some urgency.
47:54I suppose.
47:56So urgent, in fact, that you entered a hearing so that you could tell Mr. Thorne in person.
48:04Yes, I did.
48:06So I'm asking you, DS Casey, after dashing down here from North London, after entering a hearing in progress,
48:15did you tell Mr. Thorne that James Harper had been murdered?
48:23I remind you, you are under oath.
48:26No.
48:40No.
48:45No.
48:46No.
48:48I, uh, I don't believe we did.
48:50You find a man who has been murdered.
48:52You race down here to share that information, enter a proceeding to do so, and you neglect to use the word murdered?
49:05Hmm.
49:06I didn't think it was necessary.
49:09It was implied.
49:11You implied that James Harper had been murdered.
49:16Yes.
49:17But that's what we do.
49:21Just about every death we're involved in is murder.
49:25I thought Mr. Thorne would know what I meant.
49:28I was wrong.
49:31He's obviously not as smart as he lets on.
49:35So I suppose it's my mistake.
49:39It's habit.
49:41You just assume
49:42someone can tell what you're really saying without having to use the word.
49:47Really?
49:50I wonder if you can tell what I'm really saying right now.
49:59I've listened to the evidence given by both the Crown and the Defense.
50:04And on balance, I'm inclined to favor two serving police officers and an officer of the court over a convicted criminal.
50:13I can see no evidence that an abusive process occurred.
50:22I'm going to allow the prosecution of Frank Donovan for the murder of James Harper.
50:28Lord will rise.
50:38But it all sewn up neatly.
50:51Your client's a murderer, Miriam.
50:53You also deserved a fair trial.
50:55That's something you tried every trick in the book to avoid.
50:58You've sandbagged me.
51:01I'll live with that.
51:14Junk?
51:18I could have got fired because of what I did in there.
51:21Frank Donovan will get life because of what you did in there.
51:25Strictly speaking, it wasn't perjury.
51:29We both know what that was.
51:31You did the right thing.
51:32What the ends justify the means sometimes.
51:36Yeah, well, the trick is knowing when.
51:38Yeah, the trick is knowing when.
51:44Not as smart as I let on.
51:48Yeah.
51:49I quite enjoyed that.
51:55Next on Luthor.
52:16I need you to be functioning fully in the moment.
52:20I'm not here at all.
52:23You have ten seconds.
52:25If you do not answer, then Ripley will regret it.
52:29Do not pick up that phone.
52:32You don't know what you've done, do you?
52:37Come with me.
52:39You've done enough.
52:40I've done enough.
52:42Luther.
52:42Luther.