Sam Tyler was a friend of mine. Bloody irritating friend most of the time, it has to be said, [Pause] but I learnt more from him than from anybody else I have ever met. He was strong, decent, a brilliant copper.
What happened?
He’d been acting strange for a few weeks, and Sam Tyler strange was very bloody strange indeed.
But he was happy here? Everybody says so; he had a girlfriend, Annie. He had you?!
Yeah, I asked him what was wrong. He said he couldn’t tell me.
What did you do?
He said he wanted to leave. Then he asked me to help him fake his own death.
[Alex looks stunned and slightly shocked. Gene nods confirming what she just heard]
That's why we set fire to the car and pushed it into the river.
So Sam asked you to commit an illegal act and you went ahead with it?
I didn’t want to Bolls. I wanted him to stay. I needed him.
Well, what happened next?
I never saw him again.
Ha! What? Come on, he just vanished?
[Gene looks at Alex]
Look, Sam was like me...
He wasn’t as annoying as it happens.
... Whatever happened to him might happen to me Gene I have to know.
I asked him why. He said it would be better for me if I didn’t know. You see this is about respect, Alex. It’s about trust, about faith, something you haven’t learnt yet.
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