Detective Sergeant Scott, Manchester Metropolitan Police.
I'm looking for Adam Armitage.
Well, he's not here. Can we come in?
Well, he's not here!
This is where he lives? Yeah, but he's not here.
Where is he? What are they doing?
This is a search warrant. You can read it if you like.
Are you his wife? Yeah.
Gill, he's not at the address. His wife's saying he's gone to work.
I'm thinking, he's shitting himself. The wife certainly is.
We need to do this softly, softly.
Is it all right if I send the others back
and me and Rachel go in and winkle him out?
He doesn't know he's killed him.
He thinks he's given him a hiding. Yeah.
Thanks. Ta da.
I did this thing... Sorry?
I did this thing.
OK.
But, I don't regret it.
Mitch, would you lot like to go back?
Me and Rachel are going to take a subtler approach to Mr Armitage
at his workplace.
OK, thanks. See you in a bit.
Ta da.
OK. Are you going to give me some clues?
I pulled this bloke last night in bar
and then we checked into a hotel room and I shagged him.
OK...
I'm saying I don't regret it when in fact I do but...
Only because it was crap.
If you're going to be unfaithful it might as well be spectacular anyway.
I left at just gone two.
I told him I was called Suzy and left him my pretend phone number.
He probably thinks it's the beginning of a relationship.
Sad twat's probably married.
Still, who cares, 'ey?
What's going on in there?
I married Sean for all the wrong reasons,
but you know that, don't you?
Well, no, I didn't think you had.
I thought at the time you married him for all the right reasons.
I married because I was terrified. Of what?
Of everything!
Stupid!
You stupid, stupid...
I did it for you!
For me? I couldn't stand to see you crying.
I didn't want, I didn't want you to worry any more.
He died!
He's dead!
Well... Good!
You're under arrest.
I'm arresting you...
on suspicion of murder.
You...
Idiot!
Go on. Keep running.
You can't hide forever but you can try, just run.
Met police.
Detective Constable Rachel Bailey.
MIT collar number 31-23-1.
I'm chasing a murder suspect. I'm off duty.
He's heading up Longacre towards Ancoats.
He's wearing a grey shirt, a black puffer jacket.
Twenty-eight years old carrying a black hold-all.
He told my sister what he'd done and then she told me.
She said he was at Piccadilly train station.
He was going to get on a train to London.
So, I went along there, I found him.
He ran off, I chased him.
I managed to catch up with him, I told him I was arresting him,
but he got away from me.
How? How did he get away from you?
I er, I couldn't pin him down. I didn't have my cuffs on me.
And look, I-I was upset. He's my brother.
Is there anything else to add? Yeah.
I've got the name and the number of the taxi driver that drove me home
at the time Nick Savage was attacked so I can prove I was nowhere near.
Boss, it's Rachel. Oh, hello.
It was my brother, Dominic, that attacked Nick Savage.
He's confessed. He's been arrested.
OK.
And I erm...
My boyfriend Sean found the taxi driver that drove me home that night
so I can prove I was nowhere near.
Good. Good, well, that's, that's...
So, I want to come back to work.
I need to talk to the SIO.
Why?
Because, Rachel, from an SIO's point of view
the fact your brother's in the frame does not exclude you.
Think about it, in fact... Yeah, but...
You know what I'm talking about.
Your Dominic on his own had no argument with Nick Savage
or do you know something I don't?
No.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
You think I'm the brains behind it.
You think I persuaded my feckless little twat of a brother...
I need to talk to the SIO to be clear where they are with everything.
Yes. Thank you, Ma'am.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
I'll phone you. Right.
Hi.
Why did he? Why the hell did he do...?
He never did think things through, did he?
Right from when he was tiny...
his brain just never worked the same as everybody else's.
He thought he was doing me a favour.
Now I'm up to my neck in it, taxi driver or no taxi driver.
It will all settle.
You know you haven't done anything wrong.
He's going to get banged up for 18 years minimum. More!
Shit!
Shh!
I really don't think that I can face going to meet my mother on Friday.
Rachel. Is it all right if we come in?
Why?
You don't want to do this on the doorstep.
We're here to arrest you on suspicion of murder.
How would you respond if I told you your brother Dominic
had told us you incited him to attack Nicholas Savage?
I didn't.
And you said you'd like to see him dead.
I didn't.
Can I take you back to the 14th of March?
You'd been out drinking
with your colleague Detective Constable Janet Scott.
You damaged your hand.
Can you remember that? Yeah.
Can you tell us what state you were in?
Drunk. How drunk?
What, on a scale of one to ten? If you like.
I don't know. I was...
Seven-eight, five point two drunk.
Do you remember Janet? She came into your flat with you.
She put you to bed. Right.
After she'd gone,
you had a conversation with Dominic, remember that?
Yeah.
Can you tell me about it?
I told him about Nick. He wanted to know why I was upset.
Can you talk me through the conversation?
I just explained to him what had happened between us
and I told him why I was upset.
And how did he respond?
He...
I don't know. He was quiet.
Did you suggest to him at any point,
you'd like to see Nicholas Savage dead?
No.
Did you suggest to him you'd be grateful if someone beat him up?
No.
Would it surprise you if I told you
we took a statement from your sister Alison this afternoon,
and she told us that when she told you
Dominic had confessed to her what he'd done you could remember nothing
about that conversation you'd had with Dominic on the 14th of March?
Because you were so drunk.
I didn't tell him to attack Nick.
You're now saying you can remember the conversation.
No, but I know what I said because Alison told me.
I didn't incite him to do anything stupid.
How do you know?
Did Alison say that he'd said I'd incited him?
Dominic's telling us you did. Right.
So, it sounds like it's his word against mine then.
Doesn't it? You have to do better than that!
Because, what you're saying is that you can't remember what you said...
so it isn't exactly your word against his, is it?
What's happened?
They're releasing me on police bail and erm...
What?!
They're seeking authority from the CPS to charge me with murder.
You said you wanted him dead!
That's what you said, you wanted him dead!
I think I might give up drinking. That's one option.
I'm not an alcoholic. I don't think you need to be.
I am frightened. Keep your nerve.
It just never ends.
You haven't done anything.
No, I know.
I've got to go.
What's Godzilla said?
Nothing. To me.
Is it today you're meeting your mum?
Yeah... Er, yeah. If I turn up.
Well, let me know how you get on.
Even if I do come through this all in one piece,
I don't think I can stand working for this bunch of twats any more.
I know. I know the feeling.
Oh, do you? Yeah.
Well, there's no loyalty when it comes down to it,
or if there is, it's all one way, upwards.
Pissed me off.
The trouble is, I don't know what the hell else I'll do.
I don't even think about the future at the moment anyway.
You could do anything, you.
Yeah, like what? Anything!
Anything you set your mind to.
Stand up comedy.
Stand up comedy?
Well, you make me laugh.
Sod them. I definitely think you should be making plans.
It's all bullshit. They're just flexing their muscles.
CPS aren't going to touch it.
Shall I come in?
No, get a pint somewhere else. I'll ring when I want picking up.
Yeah, I decided...
I will marry you.
I'm not... making excuses.
There are no excuses for leaving you kids.
It was tough.
Well, it was tough for all of us,
with your dad, drinking like he did.
Never any money, always handy with his fists, ha.
And I'm sorry.
I am... sorry.
Anyway, look erm...
The point is, if you'll accept it...
is that I'm a very different person now...
to what I was then.
I know it's too little, too late but...
I just couldn't cope, love.
And that's the top and bottom.
But, you thought that we would.
No. You could always look after yourself.
Could I?
Dom was eight.
Well, at least you had a roof over your heads where you were.
You went to live with a fellow in Wiggin.
I assume he had a roof.
Oh no!
You'd not have wanted to go there.
Huh!
You know Dom's in prison.
I thought Sean said he was out. No, he's back.
He broke the conditions of his licence.
He murdered someone.
What do you mean?!
He attacked someone and they're dead.
They'll throw the book at him, he'll get 18 years or more.
You see? Alison could have done more for him, I always...
Don't...
Don't dare criticise Alison, Alison did everything.
She didn't want me to come today. She's pissed off I'm seeing you.
Well...
She was born sensible you see. That's the difference. I wasn't.
I'm in it up to my neck as well.
How?
The police think I put Dom up to it.
How?
I'm a mess. I'm a total mess.
Sean says you're a high-flyer.
He says you work for like the top department of erm...
What is it?
Well, I've been suspended. What for?
It doesn't matter. I've said enough already.
Sorry. Oh...
Today, as it's turned out...
isn't really a great day for me to do this.
Well, it's all right, love. We can do it again.
Look...
I know that things, er, happen.
Things aren't always black and white... and you were 32,
my age with three kids, I can't imagine that.
Not when things were as bad as they were.
Hmm.
But...
I agreed to meet you because,
I do want things to be better.
I've just had a really shit week, that's all.
Yeah.
Er... Shall I buy a bottle?
No, not for me. I'm stopping drinking.
Oh, wow.
I think you're very wise.
We're getting married me and Sean. He asked me, I said yeah.
Oh!
Well, that's lovely that, isn't it?
Hey!
Oh, he's a good lad, Sean. You'll be all right there.
Oh er...
You inviting me to the wedding?
We haven't really discussed any of that.
You know? Yeah.
I didn't say anything that would incriminate you.
If they're implying I did, they're lying.
So...
When Dominic told you he'd done what he'd done
and told you about the night I was pissed,
there's nothing that I said then that could have given him the idea
I wanted Nick Savage dead?
I didn't say that.
I said, I didn't say anything to the police that would incriminate you.
He did say I'd said something. He...
Do they bug places?
No idea.
Do you want to go?
You did apparently say to Dom you'd like to see Nick Savage dead.
But, hell's bells, there's a stretch between saying that
and actually seriously inciting someone to do something.
You know it's...
It's our Dom we're talking about. Shit!
In his head, when he's telling them you put him up to it,
he obviously thinks you did.
Jesus! But, I didn't tell him anything.
Even when they asked me directly.
So...
Thank you.
So, what does it mean, seeking authority to charge?
Well, they're going to go to the CPS
with whatever flimsy circumstantial crap they've got
hoping to pin it on me as well as him.
It shouldn't wash but his dad's a liar, his mother's a liar.
His sister's a liar.
They'll just push and push and push and they know all the right buttons.
How did it go last night? Did you turn up?
Yeah. Yeah, I did.
The other big news is, me and Sean are getting married.
No! Yeah.
Ah! Really.
Assuming I don't get sent down for the next 300 years
for something I haven't done, but yeah!
Oh, Rachel.
Oh! Sorry.
Hey! It's good that you're making plans.
That's exactly what you should be doing, bugger them!
That's what... Yeah.
This is such good news, Rachel.
Oh! He thinks the world of you. He always did.
So, what's on the agenda? Oh well...
The big, white dress? No!
No, none of that. Just small, modest.
Bridesmaids?
You can be my best woman... thing.
Can I?
Wouldn't you rather ask Janet?
The thing is, Mum will probably come.
Look...
She regrets what happened.
She regrets not having any contact with us
and she regrets the fact that... we might have missed out on things.
Like you going to college.
Don't be taken in by her, Rachel.
She's a leech. She's a user.
She might have been in the past... She's after something.
No.
I don't think she is, Ali.
Shallow-minded, desperate bitches do not change their spots.
Maybe they do sometimes.
Oh, I don't know.
She's unhinged. You know that, don't you?
Something up there doesn't work.
It's "Me, me, me" first and last. I'm warning you!
Detective Sergeant Scott, Manchester Police.
I'm looking for Adam Armitage. Oh, well, he's not here.
He does work here? Yeah.
He's showing a client around a couple of properties.
What properties, where?
Well, I can give you a list. Thank you.
Shall I print them for you? Would you mind?
Did you get his mobile number? Do you want to give him a call?
Has something happened? Yes.
Mr Armitage, this is Detective Constable Rachel Bailey
from the Manchester Met Major Incident Team.
I need to talk to you regarding an incident
two nights ago in Withington in which a man was fatally injured.
If you can call me on this number as soon as you get this message.
Even if they get the bastard and do find him guilty,
you know what will happen.
Some judge will sentence him to five seconds behind bars, know why?
Don't wind yourself up assuming you know the out...
Because he is a posh tosser from a public school
and the bloke he murdered is a sad lowlife who never stood a chance.
That's why.
He would have gone through Bickershaw.
Come in.
Hi.
Sit down.
It's good news. We heard back from York this morning.
The CPS aren't going to be pushing charges against you.
The thing is though, you're not completely in the clear, not yet.
The Police Complaints Commission have picked it up.
That means they'll be making their own inquiry into what happened
and then there will be a hearing.
So, what's the worst that can happen?
You could lose your job.
Right.
How are things at home?
Fine.
I heard you're getting married. I was gonna invite you.
Thank you.
So, things are otherwise good is the point?
Yeah.
They'll put you through it,
but as long as you've got people around you at home and friends,
you're going to need them.
What are you...? Why?
In a discipline investigation like this
there's a lower burden of proof required.
In a criminal case we have to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
In discipline cases, the burden of proof is on balance of probabilities
or what a reasonable person would believe to be true.
Will they ask you about me?
Yes.
So, what will you say?
You don't need to worry about that.
Who erm...? Who will be there?
There will be someone from ACPO rank. It could be the Chief Con.
It could be the Assistant Chief Con.
It will be quick, there is that,
but you'll be on the floor and need to be ready for that.
And, if they do decide I've done something stupid what...?
What will happen?
You'll be sacked.
They could refer it back to the CPS to reconsider for prosecution.
In your favour, there's the fact there's still no real evidence.
But, like you say,
you don't know who Savage's clan is pissing in the same pot with.
Have you set a date for the wedding?
Next month. Saturday 22nd.
So, you're not going on honeymoon, he's moving into your flat.
You're spending two and six on the wedding
and want to get married in a dress like that?
Are you sure you're committed to this?
I don't want to look flashy. Not much danger of that, kiddo.
Can I have some grown-up feedback?
I think it's nice enough,
but I think that Alison's point is that perhaps for a wedding it's...
What?
You know a bit... What? What?
On the plain side.
It's classy. Well...
Maybe if you stood up straight. Piss off!
You're slouching! I'm not slouching!
If you'd said it, she'd have a ramrod up her back!
It's whatever you feel comfortable in.
Good. Thank you.
Is she OK?
Is she? She's terrified!
She can't eat. She can't sleep.
It sickens me.
It sickens me about Dom as well.
Sorry.
Do we know what's happening with Dom?
He's pleading guilty.
Is he still claiming she put him up to it?
No, he's starting to accept that, that never happened.
Did he think that it had?
Our Dom is a little mystery to himself, Janet.
His thought processes go so far and no further.
I can't second guess what's going on between his ears
more than anybody else can.
Have you been to see him?
Yeah.
Has she?
Oh, God, no.
Why are they doing this now?
Why don't they wait till it's over and then get married?
Well, I wondered that.
On the other hand, if she didn't have something to distract her,
I think she'd be climbing the walls and howling at the moon by now.
Could you tell us your name and rank?
Gill Murray. Detective Chief Inspector.
And your relationship with DC Bailey?
I'm her line manager at Syndicate 9.
How long have you known her? Two years, seven months.
In that time, what has been your impression of DC Bailey?
Rachel's hard-working, ambitious,
highly-trained, dedicated.
She's reliable.
She's incredibly well-liked and respected
by her colleagues and supervisors.
She's currently working as a Tier 3 interviewer.
In that role she's been interviewing and gaining convictions
of people involved in murder, rape and other violent crime.
In was through her meticulous attention to detail
that she was the officer, THE officer,
who identified Geoff Hastings as a serial killer.
If there was to be a punishment, which I don't believe there should,
because I don't think she's done anything wrong.
Frankly, I'm appalled on her behalf.
It's come this far on such slender circumstantial evidence.
I would ask any punishment does not stop her
doing the role she's now in at my syndicate,
in which she is highly effective in serving the people of Manchester
and the Manchester Metropolitan Police.
Hmm. What time is it? Time to get your skates on.
Janet and Ali will be here in 15 minutes.
What? Shit!
Right, I've got my suit, I've got to pick the boy up
and make sure he knows which way up his sporran goes.
Then we'll make our way to Kevin's.
I can't believe you're making him wear a kilt.
It was his idea!
I can't believe you asked Kevin to be your best man!
Oh, he's all right, is Kevin.
You don't even know him! You're not even Scottish.
Who cares?
Is Kevin wearing a kilt?
That's brilliant. Why didn't I...? I wonder if I've got time.
Oh God... Oh, that's...
They'll look like a pair of... Twats.
Now, how is he going to make a speech about you?
Well actually, I've written it for him.
Oh nice, so you've written your own speech about yourself.
I say written, I dictated a few notes to him
a couple of weeks ago down the phone after a few beers.
Whether he's written it down I couldn't say.
You are winding me up!
Ask one of your proper mates from the rugby club.
Got a nice day for it, pissing down as usual.
Have you got the ring?
Yeah. Somewhere.
Have you got the other ring?
Yeah. Somewhere!
All right then. Well, I guess I'll see you there.
I'll see you there.
Mwa!
All right, come on.
There's a fellow from an agency showing a client around a flat.
Second floor. I don't know which flat.
That's OK. I do.
So...
Going back to the other business. Oh...
You what, I think it was just bad timing.
How?
After the hearing,
if there had just been like maybe one more week before the wedding,
maybe it would have been clear, or clearer, but it wasn't.
I knew in my heart on the morning of the wedding,
but I just thought that was how you were supposed to feel.
I think I tried to tell you.
It's normal. It's natural.
It's a big thing. It's a huge thing.
Everybody gets cold feet.
I did. I did.
Yeah and look how you...
Yeah, all right!
It isn't perfect but you know...
Do you know what... actually?
Marriage isn't perfect and nobody should pretend it is.
It's bloody hard work sometimes, it's ups and downs but...
Are you and Adrian...? We're trying to make it work.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
The point is, you made a commitment and it's about acknowledging that
the good times are worth having and you've got this far.
There's a reason you've got this far and it's...
It's erm, it's because you're...
Er, you're right for each other.
And you know what? You've been through a lot lately.
You're bound to be a bit all over the place,
but if you let it get to you now,
it's like letting that bloody Nick Savage win all over again.
Exactly. Exactly.
I'm sorry, I just... It's not your fault, is it?
It's not anybody's fault.
It's my fault.
I don't think he's in there.
Shit! It's him!
How did he do that? There's only one lift.
Down the stairs, his friend at the shop tipped him off.
This is gonna take ages!
Ahh!
I'm so proud of you! Is everybody here?
There's a lot, I don't know if it's everybody.
Where's Sean? Oh, he's about. I've seen him.
Hello.
This is Janet. Janet, my mum.
Sharon, hello.
Me and Janet work together.
Oh? Making me nervous, all these coppers!
Who's giving you away?
Nobody's giving her away, she's a grown woman.
Here he is!
Oh, my God!
I've had more women looking at me in this than...
I bet you have!
I thought you weren't coming! As if!
Isn't he cute?
Why don't you go and sit down before you fall over?
I've had one little tiny...
A gin? I can smell it on you.
Don't bicker.
I'm not rising to it.
Hmm-hmm! Good luck, chicken!
Oh, is it bad luck to say "good luck"?
Well, break a leg anyway!
Oh! Sorry, love. Didn't see you there.
They're not even Scottish!
No, but they've got lovely knees.
Well, it's now or never.
I remember thinking...
just before I'd got hold of his arm,
"Well, we can always get divorced."
How bad is that?
OK. Good thing about a kilt is I haven't got any knickers on!
Neither have I!
I have!
We're going to lose him. We know where he's going.
Only if he goes where he's supposed to!
Oh, he will. How do you know?
Because, he's trying to avoid us
but he's passive, he's shitting himself.
In his heart, he wants us to catch him and get this over with.
Don't stop me now!
♪ If you wanna have a good time Just give me a call
♪ Don't stop me now ♪ I'm having a good time
♪ Don't stop me now ♪ Yes I'm having a good time
♪ I don't wanna stop at all
♪ I'm a rocket ship On my way to Mars
♪ On a collision course I am a satellite
♪ I'm out of control
♪ I am a sex machine ready to reload
♪ Like an atom bomb about to Oh oh oh oh oh...
You know...
I don't actually care.
Just shut up, then.
No one else has had a look in on that damn karaoke.
♪ I wanna make a supersonic man out of you...
Knock yourself out. I don't mean me!
I'm not making a fool of myself. All right, well...
Who can we pay to wrestle her to the floor for that microphone?
♪ Don't stop me don't stop me
Ohh, ahh!
I want you all to raise your glasses to my lovely daughter Rachel
on her wedding day to the lovely er...
Er, Sean, that's right!
You're a nice man! Get a bit of that!
♪ Oh
♪ I'm burning through the skies yeah
♪ Two hundred degrees that's why They call me Mister Fahrenheit
What's up?
It's just dumb.
Hey.
Twenty-eight years.
Twenty-eight bloody years.
He'll be...56.
I'll be dead.
No, you won't.
♪ Having a good time
♪ I'm having a good time I don't want to stop at all... ♪
Right, get off then now, you mad bitch!
She didn't just...? Yes, she did.
She did, I'm not just seeing...? Yes, she did.
You know what I just thought?
I spent the whole of my life trying to get out of that world,
scuzzy, beer-swilling, tit-flashing,
shabby, shameful, shit-faced squalid, little world.
And, I just bought my way back into it
because I was terrified and someone was nice to me.
You know he's not like that. You know he is nice.
Yeah.
But, that's not what I want. That's never what I wanted.
I knew that.
He's good for a laugh. He's good for a...
a shag.
And, I was grateful to him but...
I should never have married him.
I've been thinking, this might not be the right time but...
No, go on.
Why don't we call it a day?
Why don't we just admit that it hasn't worked?
Put the house up for sale, we can, live there as amicably as we can
for the girls' sake till it sells then...
Is that what you want?
Well, do you think it's working? I...
Have you met someone else?
No.
Well, it won't sell.
Well, no, I know, but it might eventually.
Well, if it's what you want...
Well no, it's if what both of us want, isn't it?
Do you want me to ring an estate agent or will you?
I'm off. Oh.
Right, thanks for coming. Thanks for asking me.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm just...
You've been on an emotional roller-coaster, haven't you?
Oh, I never did say thanks properly for what you said at the hearing.
Yes, you did. No, not properly.
Well, it was all true.
Listen, I hope you'll be very happy together.
You deserve something nice. Yeah, he's nice.
He's very nice, he's...
A bit of a bloke. Yeah.
See you Monday, first thing. Can't wait.
You ought to go on honeymoon!
Hurry up.
Come on.
Shit!
Are you aware this is a public place and you're committing a lewd act
contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 2003
and Public Order Act of 1986?
I hate coppers!
Has your wife gone home, Pete?
Who's your friend? Oh hello. It's Tina Turner.
Who's she?
Why don't you totter off back inside before I arrest you.
I'll see you in my office half past seven Monday morning,
and I hope for your sake you're not too pissed to remember.
And we'll sign the papers.
Mr Armitage, I'm Detective Sergeant Scott
Manchester Met Police Major Incident Team.
This is Detective Constable Bailey.
I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Duncan Whitefield.
You don't have to say anything but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
I didn't...
I just shoved him. I didn't...
He was badgering me! He was off his head!
Can I take that?
He wouldn't leave me alone.
I told him to back off but he kept on and on at me,
"Give me some change, give me some change!"
I didn't even shove him that hard.
If he hadn't been so pissed he wouldn't have fallen over.
Look... I-I-I wouldn't hurt a fly, me!
You can ask anyone!
I've never touched anyone never been in trouble for anything!
I've never even had a speeding fine!
I need your mobile phone and I need you to come to the station.
I've got my client to see to.
I'm afraid you're under arrest, Mr Armitage.
Your client is the least of your concerns.
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Yeah, well. Join the club, pal.
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