DS Ronnie BrooksYou called us here for these 2?
PPC
I heard on the radio male female..
DS Ronnie Brooks
I think we also said they were through puberty.
PPC
Look, I called you as soon as [the shop owner] called me. [The shop owner explains that the kids were stealing cigarettes]
DS Ronnie Brooks
You shouldn't even be smoking!
KKid
We don't! They're bad for you. We sell them at school to the year 10's.
DS Ronnie Brooks
You've got to stop watching The Apprentice!
DS Ronnie Brooks
How hard is it to fulminate mercury?
HNHaya Ngama
It's not. You just need to mix mercury with concentrated nitic acid and add the resulting aqueous mercury nitrate to ethanol. Yeah?
DS Ronnie Brooks
[befuddled] Yeah.
HNHaya Ngama
Except it's violently exothermic and gives off clouds of white smoke.
DS Ronnie Brooks
I used to be like that on Saturday night.
DS Ronnie Brooks
Oh what I would have given to spend three years studying knowledge for knowledge's sake, Sam. That's a wonderful thing.
What are you talking about? You know loads of stuff...
DS Ronnie Brooks
Yeah, that's because I'm an autodidact.
The doctors have got that under control though, right?
DS Ronnie Brooks
What you got?
PPete
Looks like he had company [holds up a bra]
DS Ronnie Brooks
Or a secret he only shared at weekends.
PPete
There's a blouse here too, a couple of the buttons ripped off.
Maybe he got a bit rough... she didn't like it.
DS Ronnie Brooks
What? Then she produced a gun?
PPete
It's too small for a pistol. Maybe an airgun?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Maybe, however a half naked woman running through London shouldn't take long to find.
You're not wrong...and in this weather... [briskly rubs his hands together] I hope he had warm hands.
The gift card was used to purchase a red lace chemise, size 10, whatever that is.
DS Ronnie Brooks
A chemise is a short nightie, my son.
Something you want to tell me, Ron?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Yep. You gotta brush up on your French. The first Mrs. Brooks wore a black lace chemise on our wedding night. She was a knockout as well.
Oh, pint down the Red Lion after shift?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Ah well-
[speaks over him] Hang on, hang on, er, double whiskey chaser, no ice and a packet of dry roasted. How's that for a memory? Lots to catch up on, sir. [walks off]
DS Ronnie Brooks
More than you know, Wes.
[stalks out of his interview] All those people dead and you are wasting our time on the man that killed them!
You walk out now and you are making a big mistake.
Do I look like I give a toss?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Sam, just calm down... tell the Guv what you know-
Guv? He's not my Guv! [To Wes] Do you think it's that easy? I held that boy in my arms! I haven't slept for months! Everytime I close my eyes I see his face. I see his dad's face when I had to tell him that his son was dead! So yes, I went down there to see Tyler. I went down there to make him feel that pain. But do you know what? I couldn't do it. [breaking down] Because being a police officer came first. [To Ronnie] I swear to God, Ron. I turned around and I walked away.
It was a very slow walk because you were off camera for 10 minutes. [Sam looks helplessly at Ronnie as Wes steps forward] DS Casey, I'm suspending you pending further investigation. You can leave your warrant card with me.
Good. [forces the card into Wes' hand] GOOD! [stalks outside as Ronnie follows him]
DS Ronnie Brooks
[tries to run after Sam] Sam, wait!
What? He thinks... [paces] he thinks I'm some sort of nutcase!
DS Ronnie Brooks
But he doesn't know you!
But you do! What do you think?
DS Ronnie Brooks
I think you've been through a lot-
DS Ronnie Brooks
Sam! [gets him to turn round] what were you doing for those 10 minutes? [Sam breaks down and starts to cry] Just take it easy. You've got a young lad that needs you!
DS Ronnie Brooks
I can help you, and I will help you, but you've got to be honest with me. What did you do for those 10 minutes? [Sam takes deep breaths, trying to calm down] Come on, Sam, come on!
I wanted to go in there! I've already said, I wanted to go in there and tell him what he'd done! How it felt to hold a dying child in my arms because of him! How it feels everytime I kiss my boy goodbye! All I can see is that kids face - dead - in that train!
DS Ronnie Brooks
[gently] What did you do?
You wanna know what I did for those 10 minutes?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Yes.
I just sat down by that cell door and I cried like a baby.
DS Ronnie Brooks
[takes a deep, relieved, breath and comforts Sam as he starts to cry again] Alright, look. Come on... come on [pats his shoulder] I've seem many an officer with that look in their eyes, don't you worry about that. You're strong enough, son. You'll come through this! You're a good copper, Sam.
DS Ronnie Brooks
You are. Just don't let all your good work end here. I need to know one thing. Did you see Tyler?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Ok.
I swear, Ronnie. I swear.
DS Ronnie Brooks
Well, noone went to his cell after you, except for his brief who found him. So Tyler must have already been dead when you went down there.
[sniffs] You believe me, don't you?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Yes [Pats his knee comfortingly] I believe you.
VSVictim's Boss
I begged her to get a restraining order, she was always too afraid of his reaction though.
Has he been here recently?
VSVictim's Boss
Last week? Charlotte had been trying to help him seek treatment as a condition of access to Holly. The cleaner he got, the more he could see her. Look, I hope I'm wrong but it really wouldn't surprise me if he had something to do with this. Especially since the arrest.
VSVictim's Boss
He was arrested for assault. Just a few weeks ago. Aren't you guys supposed to know stuff like this already?
DS Ronnie Brooks
Yes. We are.
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