"FITZ:" "You're depressed?" "WOMAN:" "Yes." "FITZ:" "How depressed?" "WOMAN:" "Very." " Suicidal?" " Yes." " The shame of being caught?" " Yes." "Yeah." "The goods are laid out like that in order to tempt you." "You've been tempted beyond endurance, which is exactly what they want." "There's no shame in that whatsoever." " What supermarket was this?" "WOMAN:" "Valubuy's." " Did they call the police?" "WOMAN:" "Yes." " Do you mind me asking how old you are?" "WOMAN: 78." " It's not you, is it, Mum?" "WOMAN:" "No." "Are there any shoplifters listening?" "Here's a woman of 78 almost driven to suicide by Valubuy's supermarket." "Get down there." "All shoplifters." "Calling all shoplifters!" " Get down to Valubuy's and clean them out." "PRODUCER:" "Fhtz, that's enough." "And even if you're not a shoplifter, why not become one for just one day?" "Think about it." "(Radio in background)" "WOMAN:" "You'll get caught." "MAN:" "How?" "WOMAN:" "Someone'll tell on you." " I've been doing it for months, Mum." " Sooner or later, someone'll tell." " Why?" " Because that's the way people are." " It's only a few hours taxiing, that's all." " I'm trying to listen to this." "You can't work and claim social security." " So, I stop signing on, yeah?" " Yeah." " Don't be ridiculous." " It's got nothing to do with you." "If he doesn't claim the soshe, what happens to it?" "I'm trying to listen to this." "It stays down in London, that's what." "MAN:" "Is rhght, see." " It's stealing." " For God's sake, Mother, loads of people do it." " (Doorbell)" "WOMAN:" "Is that Trhsh?" " Yeah." "Good night." "We've been together three months, Floyd." "Yeah?" "So..." "So what?" " Come up." " We're OK here." "We're not." "Come up." "What's the problem?" "What's wrong?" "Floyd?" "You wouldn't like me naked." "Why not?" "You thhnk I'd laugh at you?" "Not laugh." "No." "(Music and chatter)" " Can you dance?" " Eh?" " Can you dance?" " Can I dance?" "I taught Saint Vitus." "Oh, my God." "Hello, Fitz." "I thought you were staying in tonight." "Thank you." "Fitz, this is Peter." "Can you do this?" "Just walk." " How old do you think I am?" " Late forties." "Bang goes your tip." "(Laughter)" "That's one bad joke." "I don't know why I'm laughing at it." "Have you heard this?" "This fella gets his nudger cut off by his wife." "So he goes to the hospital for a transplant and they offer him this 4" one." "And he goes, "No good to me, that, you know."" "All right, Floyd?" " Not much doing?" " No." "So they offer him a 6" one." "And he goes, "Havert you got any bigger than that?"" "So they show him the 12" ones." "And he goes er..." " What were you talking about?" " What d'you mean?" "I came up, you stopped talking." "Why?" "No reason in particular." "So he goes, "That's much better, but haven't you got any in white?"" "(Screams)" " Catherine, isn't it?" " Yes." "I'm not gonna hurt you, Catherine." "I know you're frightened, but honest, I'm not gonna hurt you." "If you don't struggle, Catherine, if you don't struggle, Catherine, you'll enjoy this." "Promise me, Catherine, that you won't struggle and I promise you that you'll enjoy this." " Is that a deal, Catherine?" " Yes." "Is that a deal?" "Put this on." "Put this on your head, Catherine." "Lie down." "Lie down!" "Are you OK, Catherine?" "Catherine..." "Is Tom good to you?" "What?" "Is he good to you?" "Is he the jealous type?" "If I was married to you, Catherine I wouldn't let you out of my sight." "(Sings) # When you're in love with a beautiful woman" "# You watch her eyes" "(Sobs)" "# When you're in love with a beautiful woman" "# You watch her eyes" "# Everybody wants her" "# Everybody loves her" "# Everybody wants to take your woman home" " It's good to get the sex out of the way, isn't it?" " Yes." "Sorry?" "I said yes." "Was it too fast for you, Catherine?" "Over too soon?" "No." "Is it Catherine or Cathy?" " Catherine." " Catherine, hm." "You know, when we lived in caves, Catherine, we were vulnerable during sex." "Take too long and there'd be a thger at your throat." "Do ht quhck, and you'd lhve to do ht agahn." "Have you ever thought of it like that?" "No." "Do you fancy a swim?" "(Screams)" "(Presses number into phone)" "Police." "(Doorbell)" "There's been another rape." "I brought you some mints." "You don't want to be smelling of whisky." "Right." "Thanks." "And when I get the chance, I'd like to explain." "There's nothing to explain." "Did the earth move?" "8.2 on the Richter scale, and those Krauts are accurate." "PENHALIGON:" "There's a posshbhlhty that thhs man has raped twhce before." "Dr Fhtzgerald's helphng us to catch hhm." "But hf you'd prefer ht, he'll waht outshde." "That's fine." "FITZ:" "Rhght." "Dhd he wear a mask?" "Dhd he put a hood over your head?" "Yes." "FITZ:" "Was there anythhng else?" "Somethmes when somebody's raped, thhngs happen." "Thhngs that are very dhffhcult to talk about." "Was there somethhng lhke that?" "CATHERINE:" "He combed my hahr." "Not here." "After he finished, he combed my hair." " Has he done that before?" " Yes." " We'd lhke you to take some tests." "Is that OK?" " What?" " It's just a precaution." " You mean Aids?" "There's no evhdence he's got ht." " Were the other two women clear?" " Yes." "After the fhrst tests." "Would you lhke to phone your husband?" "Um..." "Would you like to tell him in person?" "I can't." "The thhng hs, he'll need to brhng you some more clothes, because we have to examhne what you were wearhng." "Would you lhke me to phone hhm?" "He'll be at work." "Yes?" "Why, what's happened?" "I'll kill the bastard!" "OK, have you all got your lists?" "Bobby, just shut up a minute, will you?" "Right, have you all got your lists?" "OK, now we're inviting all these guys in, OK?" "Cos they're all perverts." "And they're perverts with previous." "So no-one's gonna complain if you lean on them." "Understand me?" "Aaagh!" "Get off me!" "If you've got a minute, sir, we'd like you to pop down to the station." "I've done nothing." "I'll come with you, but I've done nothing." "I've never been out of the frigging house." " Argh!" " Mind you don't bump your head." "Get in." " Mrs Malcolm?" "Is Floyd in?" " What?" "MRS MALCOLM:" "He's hn bed!" "He's done nothhng!" "He was hn all nght!" " Which room?" " Up there." " Why didn't you say so?" " He's done nothing wrong." "My sors done nothhng wrong!" "He's been hn there all nght!" "Floyd Malcolm?" "Floyd Malcolm?" " Yeah?" " Get dressed, lad." " Who are you?" " Michael Aspel." "Get your kit on." "WISE:" "Do you know why we brought you hn?" "You think I raped a woman in 1989." " Well, didn't you?" " No." "I was sent down for it." "But I've never raped no-one in me lifetime." " So can I go now, please?" " Where were you last night?" "Driving the cab." "I finished about eight." "I went home and I stayed home." "Me mum, me brother and me sister - three people, right?" "They'll back that up." "Can I go now?" "Please?" "(Clears throat)" "Look..." "I don't need to rape." "The old ones are always the best." "FLO YD:" "I drhve a cab." "I phck up women full of booze." "I get plenty of offers." "I don't need to rape." "Please let me go." "OK." "Go on, you can go." "White women get raped by white men." "Believe it or not, Jimmy, the big black guy lurking in the alleyway, it's a myth." " He's signing on." " Yeah, I know." "We should tell the soshe." "He drives a cab." "For Christ's sake, Jimmy, get real." "BECK:" "What do you get out of ht?" "I don't touch women." "It was a 12-year-old boy the last time." "I just like to look at them." "My mother will be worried about me." "MAN:" "I'm sorry, but I'll have to ask you a few questhons about what happened." "Dhd penetrathon take place?" "Yes." " Vaghnal?" " Yes." "Rectal?" "CATHERINE:" "No." "Oral?" "CATHERINE:" "No." " Dhd he use a condom?" "CATHERINE:" "What?" "MAN:" "Some do." "CATHERINE:" "No, he dhdrt." "Did he ejaculate?" "CATHERINE:" "Yes." "Thank you." "It's so much easier when the victim's educated." "I'm just going to take some blood now." "You owe it to yourself to help catch this man, Catherine." " That mars a threat to us all." " You know it all by heart, don't you?" "I do, yes." "I'm sorry." " Mr Can'ter?" " Yeah." "Dr Fitzgerald." "FITZ:" "So, he combed your hahr to get rhd of strands of hhs own." "He dragged you hnto the pool to destroy traces of hhs semen." "This guy knows police procedure inside out." "He's done it before and he's been caught." "He's learned the hard way to destroy all the evidence he can." "MR CARTER:" "He's done ht before?" "Twice before." "This is the third time." "What are you playing at, for God's sake, eh?" "He's raped three times." " Tom, they're only trying to help." " He's got a record and you can't catch him." "If it was your wife, you'd catch him, I'm bloody sure of that!" "Excuse me." "You say he used your name?" "Yeah." " Can I come in?" " What about Fidel?" "His name's Peter." " Oh, the Peter?" " Yes." "Please let me come in and explain." "OK." "What do you want me to say to hhm?" ""I've met a mhddle-aged, marrhed man, slept with him a couple of times while his wife was away, so I'm sorry, Peter, four years of friendship's down the Swanee"?" "Did you sleep with him?" "Ignore that." "Sorry, that came from down here." "Engage the brain." "It's your body to do with exactly as you wish." "What right have I got to ask a question like that?" "If Judith came back, I might well do exactly the same thing." "No, sorry, it's not working." "The green-eyed monster's growling." "Ignore the sodding brain." "Dhd you sleep whth that man?" "That's my business." "So you did sleep with him." "If that's what you want to think, fine." "Three straight A's, no doubt." "He's young, fit." "You've had four years' practice." "But for God's sake, Panandle, did it have to be somebody so bloody perfect?" "Couldrt he have had just a hint of a pot belly or something?" "He spoke to me." "He didn't utter one intelligible word, but he spoke to me." "He sahd, "You're a dhrty old man, Fhtz, the grave beckonng, trying to get your hands one last time on some firm young flesh."" "I know that's not true." "Can I stay?" "I'll get an E for effort, no doubt." "How is she?" "Er..." "So-so." " Thanks." " You're welcome." "FITZ:" "Where dhd you come?" "MAN:" "Sorry?" "FITZ:" "Oldest?" "Youngest?" "MAN:" "Smack bang hn the mhddle." "FITZ:" "Do you resent that?" "MAN:" "Yes." "FITZ:" "The mhddle chhld's neglected, yes?" "MAN:" "Yes." "FITZ:" "Your two older brothers bully you..." " James Molloy?" "MAN:" "Yes." "PENHALIGON:" "DS Beck, DC Harrhman." "BECK:" "You're a caretaker here, Mr Molloy?" "No, I'm a cleaner." "You've been convhcted of hndecent assault, and last night in this building, where you work, Mr Molloy, a woman was raped." " Now, is that just coincidence?" " Yes." " He didn't do it." " Would you like to come to the station?" "I'm not going anywhere." " Where were you last night?" " At home." "We knocked on your door and got no answer." "I was in all night, watching telly." "What did you watch?" " Do you have a girlfriend, James?" " Answer my questions, Mr Molloy." " What did you watch?" " EastEnders." "It wasrt on." "Have you ever had a girlfriend, James?" "No." "I meant Coronation Street." " And after that?" " I went out." " You said you stayed in all night." " Till about nine o'clock." " That's hardly all night." "Where did you go?" " The pub." " Which one?" " The Admiral." "The man we're looking for forms a relationship with his victims." " Is that your local?" " Yes." " You're well known there?" " Yes." " So, they'll back this up?" " Anybody home?" " So they'll back this up, Mr Molloy?" " I don't know." " James Molloy?" "WISE:" "Yeah." " The cleaner?" " That's rhght." "I thought it was someone younger." "Why?" "What?" "Why did you think he was younger?" "I just did." "What led you to him?" "He's just answering a few questions." "Yeah, but why is he answering a few questions?" "What led you to him?" " I can't tell you that." " He's done it before?" " I can't tell you that." " He has, hasn't he?" "WISE:" "Could ht have been Molloy?" "I don't know, he wore a mask." " But he spoke, didn't he?" " Yeah, but I didn't see him." "Could it have been his voice?" "Could it have been Molloy's voice?" "Yeah." "Yeah, could've been." "This guy talks to his victims incessantly." "He tries to form a relationship." "So he's had broken relationships in the past." "He lied." "Nobody saw him down the pub." "Innocent men don't lie." "You only lie if you've got something to hide." "Look, he's been hurt, right?" "The women he rapes are either women he's used to or the sort he aspires to, right?" "Whereas James - don't take this personally - aspires to nothing and nobody." "The mars a nonentity." "This man gets letters from Reader's Digest saying that he has not been included in their draw." "Besides, the man we're looking for can swim." "Whereas I'll bet you 20 quid the bugger drowns." " Get a lifeguard!" " Sorry, James." "A bit of medieval justice." "If you drown, you're hnnocent." "If you swhm, you're guhlty." " It's a bit catch-22, really, isn't it?" " Get him out!" " Come on, James, do something!" "Swim!" " If this guy drowns, it's down to you!" " I'm not carrying the can if this guy drowns!" " I've got 20 quid riding on this!" "Swim!" "Swim!" "Swim!" "Swim, man!" "Swim!" "We were wrong about Molloy." "I'm sorry." " You've let him go?" " Yeah." " Can I come in a minute?" " Yeah." "FITZ:" "You whll enjoy every moment, I assure you." "(Penaligon laughs)" "(Fitz cleans his teeth)" "Do you want me to tell Mum?" "About her." "No!" "But you're doing this to make Mum jealous, aren't you?" "She can't be jealous hf she doesn't know." "It's not about making your mother jealous." "Do you want Mum back?" " Most of the time, yeah." " Well, so do I." "But if she comes back and finds Boadicea here, she's gonna get off again, isn't she?" "CATHERINE:" "I mean, he trhed to be nce." "Just talked to me for ages." "He asked me about Tom." "Asked me if he was the jealous type." "Lhke he was talkhng to some frhend, you know." "Ushng my name all the thme." "Catherhne thhs and..." "He was um..." "He said he was good, and if I didn't struggle, I'd enjoy it." " We could leave it there for now." " No, I want to carry on." "You see I don't thhnk he thought he'd raped me at all." "In his mind it wasrt rape." "Have your circumstances changed since your last interview, Mr Malcolm?" "(Jamaican accent) My bowels have improved a little bit." "Have you done any work over the last two weeks?" "Yeah, man." "Understudied for Arnie Schwarzenegger." "Next week, I'm the Milky Bar Kid." " Where were you born, Mr Malcolm?" " I born ar raised in Liverpool." "You speak with a Jamaican accent." "Me family from Jamaica." " I'm afraid we'll need to see your passport." " Me don't have a passport." "And I'm going to have to terminate this interview until you've..." " Me don't have a passport!" "I need my money!" " Would you like to see a supervisor?" "I've seen them on Crimewatch." "I've always thought they don't do any good - just titillate the audience." "A reconstruction can jog someone's memory." " Can I be there?" " I don't want you there." " You're not up to it." " It was three months ago." "It's about thme I started dohng thhngs on my own." " That's OK?" " Whatever you want." "When?" "Tomorrow?" " Right." " Great." "WISE:" "So, lhsten." "She's about 80 and she walks hnto the polhce stathon." "Hey, are you listening?" "She's about 80-odd years of age and she walks into the station." "She had a few ghnger whhskers..." "She had a few ginger whiskers, and more mascara than Julian Clary." "And her lipstick looked as though she'd been drinking Ribena." "She said, "Excuse me, officer." "I've been raped."" "I said, "I'm sorry, madam." "When did this happen?"" "She sahd, "61 years ago."" "I sahd, "I can't charge anyone whth thhs hf ht was 61 years ago!"" "She said, "No, I don't want you to charge anyone, I just want to talk about it."" "(Raucous laughter)" "Can I ask you something?" "How come... how come he gets two drinks and we only get one?" "There's more of him." " No, I think it indicates something." "FITZ:" "It certahnly does." " You're soft for buying me them." "Scunthorpe!" "ALL:" "Scunthorpe!" "I think it indicates that you think you're something special." "WISE:" "Jhmmy, leave ht out, whll you?" "Virginia Bottomley." "There's something about that name." "It makes you want to put her over your knee and give her a good spanking." "You're twisted and you're a pervert, and you'll make a bloody good policeman." "BO Y:" "Do you think he's dead?" "(Siren approaches)" "WISE:" "Most rape vhcthms don't even bother reporthng ht." " Why do they let themselves be raped?" " Jimmy, they don't let themselves." " Bollocks." " No way." "It's violence or the threat of violence." "Bollocks." "You can't thread a moving needle." " What?" " You can't thread a moving needle." " They let themselves be raped." "Shall I say why?" " Yeah, please do." " Because subconsciously they want it." " Bollocks, Jimmy." "Do you fantasise about rape?" "If she does, it doesn't include violence." " Stay out of this." "Do you?" "FITZ:" "You're on my phtch here." "I couldn't give a shit." "Do you fantasise about rape?" "It has nothing to do with violence." "BECK:" "Do you fantashse about rape?" "Sometimes... yes, I do." "Excuse me." "Had a smell of the barmars apron, have we, Jim?" "I just wanted her to answer the question." "(Coin clatters in fruit machine)" "(Fruit machine bleeps)" "Are you all right?" " Do you think he should be on this case?" " Jimmy Beck?" "Couldrt we find someone more sensitive?" "Attila the Hun - someone like that." " You'd go off the case before Beck, love." " Thank you, sir." " Go back and have a drink with your mates." " I'm really not in the mood." "Them lads in there are your mates." "Forget the feminists and hairy-arsed lesbians." "Go and have a drink with your mates." "OK." "Molloy's in hospital, sir." "(Steady beeping)" "Poor, pathetic bastard." " Mr Can'ter?" " Yeah?" "If it was up to me, I'd give you a medal." "But it's not up to me." "So, would you mind coming to the station?" "RADIO:" "Anyone handy for Robhns, Flat 27, Belle Vale?" "Yeah. 43." "I'm five minutes away." "RADIO:" "Anyone else close to Belle Vale?" "I want this one, Mike." "I'll be there in two." "Right?" "RADIO:" "OK, 43." "The police station, Anson Road." "What are you gohng there for?" "A reconstruction." "Oh." "What of?" " I'd sooner not talk about it." " Right." " I'm Floyd." " Helen." "Are you OK, Helen?" "I'm sorry?" "Can you say that again, please?" "Are you OK, Helen?" "He's in intensive care." "He's lying there like a cabbage." "He can't be that bad if he's doing impressions." " Bad taste?" " I'd say so." " He's only a pervert." " Yes." "It didn't really matter." " He's been left for dead but it doesn't matter." " It doesn't." "No." "Why don't you confess?" " If it doesn't matter, why don't you confess?" " Because I didn't do it." "I know you did it and I know why you did it." "You asked yourself, "What would other men do?" "Kill the bastard."" "Something says you shouldn't do it." "But you had something to prove." "Not to your wife, not to yourself, but to other men." "Nothhng to do whth revenge." "You didn't wait for the guy who actually did it." "Hm?" "You went out and phcked on some hnnocent lhttle pervert." "And every punch you threw said, "I am a man."" ""I've been raped, my wife has been raped, but I am still a man!"" "PENHALIGON:" "Shr." "We're ready for you now." " Excuse me." "FITZ:" "Yes?" " I didn't do it." ""If it was up to me, I'd give you a medal." Did you say that?" " No, boss." " I don't believe you." "He is a criminal." "He took the law into his own hands." "No jury'll convict him." "He put a fellow human being in hospital!" "A pervert, sir, not a fellow human being." "A human being!" "Now, wait in my office!" "I'll talk to you there." "Wait in my office." "OK." "Jane's in charge of this reconstruction." " What's the girl's name?" " Helen Robins." "Helen Robins has been raped." "So a bit of sensitivity wouldn't do any harm, OK?" " Take over." " Right." "Keep your opinions to yourself." "You've already upset a fellow officer, so keep quiet." " Who have I upset?" " It doesn't matter who." "It does." " Someone's complained about me?" " Yeah." " Penaligon?" " No." " I don't belheve you." " Tough." "DCI Bilborough would never allow a copper to go behind her mate's back." " I'm not Bilborough." " No, sir." "Jhmmy, don't push your luck." "He always encouraged us to speak our minds." "Oh, piss off." " Piss off!" " Sir." "OFFICER:" "Were you hn thhs park three months ago, June 12th?" "Excuse me, sir." "Were you in this park three months ago, June 12th?" "FLO YD:" "Four or fhve weeks ago, maybe." "OFFICER:" "Rhght, thanks." "(Screams)" "Nobody's going to hurt you." "You're all right." "Everything's fine." "I'd sooner be the victim than the husband of the victim." "Her role's mapped out." "Her friends come round and offer condolences and say how sorry they are." "No-one says a blind thing to me." "I'm not the one who's been hurt." "Arert I?" "I am." " I have been hurt." " I know." "What's my role?" "What do I do?" "Do I..." "Do I take her in my arms and make love to her, show her that nothing's changed?" "No, I can't cos cos that's not making love any more." "That's doing just what that mars done." "Do I avohd ht?" "No, cos that's treating her like some kind of leper." "That's admitting that pervert's won." " "Won"?" " Yes." "FITZ:" "That's a strange chohce of word." " You think so?" " Yes." "Then you don't know what you're talking about." "I know what you're feeling." "It isn't nice, it's not very PC." "I know what I'm feeling." " Shall I come up with you?" " Please." " Is anyone coming round?" " My boyfriend is." "PENHALIGON:" "I could waht for hhm." " I'm fhne." "Are you sure?" "Every man I meet sounds like him." "I keep hearing his voice." "The cab driver today, a window cleaner yesterday." "They... they all sound like him." "Bye." "I can give you money." "I've got a disease." "Honestly." "I've got a really terrible disease." "You'll, you'll, you'll catch it." "FITZ:" "The person you love gets raped." "How does that make you feel?" "I'd say pretty guilty." "You should have been there to protect her, but you werert." " So you feel guilty." " Yes." "Somethhng else to make you feel guhlty." "The hdea that your property's been tampered whth, that some mars had hhs hands on what's yours, what's exclushvely yours." "It's not nice, it's not PC." "But the idea's there." "Something more to make you feel guilty." "Yes." "Well, that's OK." "That's wholesome, natural." "Now something less wholesome - you blame her." "I don't." "Why wasrt she more careful?" "A thought - maybe she wanted it." "She didn't scream." "Why not?" "Maybe she wanted it?" "Did she?" "Here's the killer." "What did he say to her?" ""I promise you you'll enjoy it."" "Dhd she, hm?" "This is rape." "We're talking about a man who just does it." "What about all the thmes we werert up to ht and she was whllhng, when she helped?" "And this man just comes along with his stick of rock and does it." "How do you measure to a man like that?" "How do you match a man like that?" "You can't." "So you beat somebody up." "Is that why you beat up Molloy?" "Is it?" "I understand." "A judge will understand." "A jury will understand." "Is that why you did it?" "Yes." "FITZ:" "He wears a mask." "There's nothhng unusual about that." "Lots of raphsts wear a mask." "But he trhes to form a relathonshhp whth hhs vhcthm." "That hs unusual." "A masked raphst would not normally do that." "The mask gets hn the way." "It's frhghtenng." "It's aggresshve." "Whhch suggests to me that there's somethhng about thhs mars face." "(Turns tape off)" "MALE CALLER:" "You know all thhs by talkhng to the vhcthms." "Do you realhse what you're sayhng, Dr Fhtzgerald?" "You tell me." "If you hadrt spoken to the vhcthms, you wouldn't know about the mask." "And you wouldn't know he's scarred or deformed, yeah?" "FITZ:" "Yes." "So hf I was thhs raphst, you'd advhse me to khll my vhcthms hn the future?" "PRODUCER:" "Fhtz, I'm takhng hhm off." "FITZ:" "I don't quhte understand the questhon." "Should the rapist kill his victims in the future?" "Forget morality, OK?" "Forget that." "If he lets them live, there's more chance he'll get caught." "So should the rapist kill his victims in the future?" "Is that what you advhse?" "PRODUCER:" "Our next caller hs Jane from Eccles." "WOMAN:" "No, not Jane from Eccles." "Jane Eccles from Salford." "I was wonderhng..." " Have you seen Penaligon?" " No." "(Engaged tone)" "FITZ:" "Show me a man, and I whll show you a potenthal khller, a potenthal raphst." "I am one, for goodness'sake." "I don't do anythhng about ht myself because I'm frhghtened of behng caught." "I'm educated." "I'm the product of thousands of years of so-called chvhlhsathon." "But he's sthll hn me - the khller, the raphst." "Buried deep, growling occasionally, just like the tomcat in the alley." "(Burst of music)" " Some music, I think." "(Rewinds tape)" "FLO YD:" "You'd advhse me to khll my vhcthms hn the future?" "(Doorbell)" "(Doorbell)" "(Knock at door)" "(Knocking)" "What are you dohng here?" "I needed a bath and a change of clothes, sir." "Who do you thhnk you are?" "You don't just walk off the job because you want a bath!" "I left you hn charge." "I um..." "I've been raped, sir." "(Hair dryer on)" "(Hair dryer off)" " Can I get you anything?" " Sorry?" " Can I get you a drink or something?" " I've got one, thanks." " You don't mind if I get one?" " No." "It was the man we're looking for." "A knife, a hood, the same kind of mask." "What are you gonna do about it?" "I don't know, actually." "I've got evidence under my nails." "You've had a bath." "I know you've protected your hand, but..." "you've had a bath." "I had to have a... bath." "I'm sorry, I know there's no logic to it." " But I just had to have a bath." " No, it's me, I'm sorry." "Stroke of luck, isn't it, sir?" " That's not what I mean." " Isn't it?" "We wanted hhm to rape agahn." "I wanted him to rape again but to slip up, to leave us something." "And now we've got exactly what we wanted." "It's no good to us unless you report it." "Are you going to report it?" "I've counselled... 14 victims." "So I've got to report it." "Havert I?" "Otherwise I've given 14 women a heap of... bullshit." "I don't think I can live with that." "(Starts car)" "Belle Vale." "(Engaged tone)" "(Hangs up and redials)" "(Engaged tone)" "I want them back." "Today." "That's impossible." "You know that." "I am not having a bunch of coppers going through my knickers." "I want them back today or I'll walk out rhght now." "I'll see what I can do." "Thank you." " This is just for..." " I know what it's for." "You're not burning that bra, are you?" "It's a bit sixties, isn't it?" "I'm hn favour of womers movements." "I hate it when they just lie there." "I think your phone's off the hook." " Hey." "Hey, hey, hey!" " Get off me." "Floyd." "Sorry?" "My name's Floyd." "Is it?" "(Pounding music)" " Shall I get a mouth organ?" "We could do a duet." " What?" "Your feet hum." "I'm afraid Fleming beat you to the penicillin." "God!" "How long have you been up?" " Why haven't you tidied up?" "Look at this!" " I was going to." " Oh, yeah?" "When?" " In a bit." "You know, you could be a member of the lost generation." "The crisis of capitalism has robbed you of work, ambition, motivation, self-esteem." "(Doorbell)" " Yes, that could well be the case." "Although personally, Mark, personally," "I think you're just a bone-idle git!" "(Thunder)" " Dr Fitzgerald?" " Yes." "He wore a mask just like you described it today." "Yeah?" "Anythhng else?" " You think I'm lying?" " No." "You think I'm lying." "Some kind of crank." "You want me to come up with something I didn't hear on the radio." "Something that fits." "Yeah." "He asked me my name." "I said Bernadette." "God knows where I got that from, but I said Bernadette." "He wanted to know who was the first person I'd screwed." "What it was like." "He never stopped talking." "And all the time he talked, he combed my hair." "Then he dragged me into a stream, washed me." " That fit?" " Yes." "Yes." "When was this?" "Two years ago, this December." "December 17th." " And you didn't report it?" " No." "Say it." "Say what?" "If I had, he might have been caught." "I'd have spared those women all this pain." "I wasrt thinking that." "For two years, I haven't read the paper." "I don't read it, I don't find out he's done it again in exactly the same way." "I don't feel all this guilt." "Then you come on the radio..." "Look, they'd have done nothing anyway." "That's what I keep telling myself." "I'm black." "He's black." "I report a rape, the coppers think I'm some prostitute who didn't get paid." "You've got absolutely nothing to feel guilty about." " You say he was black?" " Yeah." " He wore a mask?" " Yeah." "Well, how do you know?" "The way he spoke." " I'm telling you, he's white." " He is black." "Penaligon said he's white." "She should know." "Why?" "Why should Penaligon know?" " Havert you heard?" " What?" "He raped her." "I wish you'd told me." "I'm really sorry." "Jane!" "Jane!" "Jane." "We'll catch this man." "We will catch him!" "Are you OK?" "Yes." "PENHALIGON." "Then he put the knfe to my throat." " Then he went..." " (Knock on door)" "Do you mind if I...?" "Then he put the knfe to my throat." "Then he went like that." "Then he must have... pulled me, or spun me round." "I can't remember." "He started to back me up towards another wall." "Why didn't you scream?" "I hit the other wall." "Hurt the back of my head." "I offered him money, said I had a disease." "There were people living there." "Why didn't you just scream?" "Because I I was frhghtened." "(She cries)" "Do you mhnd hf I ask you somethhng?" "You told your boss he was white." " Did you see enough of him to know?" " Yes." "Look, we're gonna get this fella, love." "Honestly." "We're gonna get this guy." "Right?" "Right." "What did he say?" "Nothing." " He said absolutely nothing?" " Yeah." " It's not the same man." " What?" "The man we're looking for is black." " No." "You said he was but you were wrong." " He's black." "Did he use water..." "Dhd he use water?" "Dhd he make you wash?" "No." "FITZ:" "Dhfferent MO." "Dhfferent man." "You were raped by somebody else." "You know this man." "It's someone you know with a very distinctive voice." " That's why he sahd nothhng." " Bollocks." "Hey!" "Hey, that will do." "Take her home." "Go on, off you go." "That's an order." "Put your feet up." "I'll be in touch." "Can I come and see you?" "TANNO Y:" "Floyd Malcolm, cubhcle 2." "TANNO Y:" "Mhchael Kennedy, cubhcle 1." "Passports cost money." "Yeah?" "Do you understand?" "I can't get no money with no passport." "Passports cost money." "My birth certificate." "Liverpool, England." "I'll need to check if this is acceptable." "Will you wait in room two?" " Why?" " I'm sorry, Mr Malcolm?" "Why you put me in trap two, eh?" "We'd like to talk to you in private, Mr Malcolm." "Room two, please, Mr Malcolm." "I'm giving you the chance to withdraw your claim." "I'd advise you to take it." " Why?" " You drhve a mhncab." "Who told you that?" "Whoever told you that's a Ihar." " It was a police officer." " He lie, man." "I strongly advise you to withdraw your claim, Mr Malcolm." "I know where you live." "Is that a threat, Mr Malcolm?" "Mr Malcolm?" "(Knock at door)" "(Knocking)" " I want to be alone." "FITZ:" "Greta Garbo." "Before my time." "FITZ:" "Can I come hn?" "I'm so sorry." "May I?" "I want my dad." "I blame you." "I'm listening." " You think it's someone I know?" " Yeah." "Then he's seen me... with you." "Overwehght, skhnt." "Drunk, mhddle-aged." " If she'll go with him, she's anybody's?" " Yeah." "I could get you a white stick, for when we're out together in public." "It's displacement." "You're angry at the rapist, and he's not here, so you're venting your rage at the first man available." "I'd like you to go now." "Please." "Just go." "Clench your fists." " Why?" " Trust me." " Clench your fists." " No." "Please." "Just clench them." "Clench them." "Tightly." "Concentrate." "All your pain, all your anger is in those fists." "Clench them, tightly." "Don't think of anything else but those fists." "Tighter." "Tighter." "Tighter." "Andrew?" " Maddie?" " (Cat meows)" "(Creaking)" "(Cat meows)" " Maddie?" "(Cat meows)" "(Cat meows)" "(Screams)" "Just shut up!" "Just shut up!" "Just shut up!" "(Laboured breathing)" "I don't usually show my face." "But this time it won't make no difference." " Please let me go." " No." "No." "See, Deborah, this isn't down to you." "It's down to your husband." "The way he treats people down the soshe." "Black people." "People like me, in particular." "I've got to do it." "I've got to hurt your husband." "And I'm sorry, but there's only one way I know of doing that." "(Running tap water)" "I've got to do ht, Deborah!" "I've got to do ht!" "What are you thinking?" "I'm thinking about Helen." "You get to the bottom of the stairs." "Hand in a glove." "It's OK." "It's OK." "I won't let anyone harm you." "I promise." "I promise." "What sort of a glove?" "Does it have a smell?" "It's... it's leather." "It feels brand-new." "I hit the wall." "FITZ:" "A brand-new pahr of leather gloves." "FITZ:" "I'm gonna catch thhs man." "He does this." "He's close?" "FITZ:" "He hurt you, someone I care about." "PENHALIGON:" "Yes." "Breathing on you?" "PENHALIGON:" "Whhsky." "FITZ:" "Leather gloves, drhnks whhsky." " He's..." "FITZ:" "He's not short of money." "...pulling me..." "FITZ:" "Could have quhte a decent job." "...turning me pushhng me backwards." "I bang my head on the wall the back of my head, but he's sthll pushhng me." "He's very close?" "He smokes cigarettes." "Drinks whisky." "He smokes cigarettes." " Yeah." " What else?" "There's another smell." " (Sniffs)" " From hhs clothes?" "From hhm?" "It's from him." "Leather gloves, drhnks whhsky." "It's not a young man." "It's aftershave." "Aftershave?" " You'll remember thhs aftershave." " Yes." "You whll remember the exact smell you are smellhng now." "You whll remember thhs." "You will remember this till we find this man, and we will find him, believe me." "Oxford Road please, pal." "I've got a train to catch." "Will you get out of the car, please, sir?" "Floyd Malcolm?" "Yeah." "You've been seen phckhng up fares from the publhc hhghway." "That contravenes the Local Government Mhscellaneous Provhshons act, 1976." "I'd lhke you to come to the stathon, please, shr." "Two police cars!" "Three coppers!" "Havert they got anything better to do?" " You're an hypocrite." " I'm not." "Tell me what he's done wrong." "You go on about the coppers, but our house got screwed and who phoned them right away?" " You." "OK?" " That's different." "He only picked up fares." " Floyd, will you eat your food?" " You should do what I do." "Have nothing to do with them." "Nothing whatsoever." " Right?" "Right?" "If they can't be trusted..." " Wrong." "There's people getting raped." "That's the point." "People getting raped and murdered." "And what are the coppers doing?" "Arresting cab drivers for picking up on the street." "Floyd." "(Phone ringing)" "Fitz." " I took your advhce." " Who's speaking?" "Never mhnd who's speakhng." "You're the man from the radho?" "Yeah." "Go to 19 Stevenage Drhve." "You'll see a woman hn the bath." "Will she charge me for a peek?" "No." "She's dead." "I took your advhce, you see." " I didn't give you any advice." " You gave me advice, man!" "You gave me advice!" "So now she's dead, and it's down to you!" "Cos I took your advice!" " What do I get for raphng all these women?" " Life, hopefully." "And for khllhng them?" "Answer my question." "What do I get for killing them?" "FITZ:" "Lhfe." "Now they're dyhng." "They're dyhng and ht's down to you!" " It's down to you!" " You need help." "If you hadrt poked your nose in, I'd have just given them one and let them go!" " Dhd you rape a woman hn Belle Vale?" " You had to poke your nose in." " So now they're dyhng." " Did you rape yesterday in Belle Vale?" "No!" "Are you black?" "Deborah?" "You upstairs?" "(Water dripping)" "(Knock at door)" "(Knocking)" "Andrew Wiley?" "Can we come in, sir, please?" "Don't go in the bathroom, sir!" "Don't go in the bathroom, please!" "I'm sorry, sir." "I'm really sorry." "(Gasping)" "Turn them taps off." " This is down to you." "You know that, don't you?" " We're looking for a young black..." "Did you have to go on the radio? "Everyone, look how clever I am, what a smartarse I am."" "We're dealing with human beings." "One of them has been killed!" " It means nothing to you." " We're looking for a young black male." "Shut up!" "This means nothing to you." "This is just some sort of intellectual game, a chance to show off on the radio." " Are you finished?" " You are." "FITZ:" "We're lookhng for a young black male." "He's got hhs own transport." "He's scarred..." "WOMAN:" "Thhs hs a dream come true." " Yeah?" "I pass a ghrl on her own." "I talk the thme." "She might be dead five minutes later." "The whole case hanging on my evidence." "A speeding car, I clock the time." "Take the number." "Who knows?" "Was she murdered?" " Well, her death's suspicious." " Oh, a dream come true!" " What kind do you use?" " Oh, just your standard..." "I suppose it can't be too big if you've got to carry it round." "That's right, yeah." "10:46, a teenage girl delivers leaflets." "12:02, a white Vauxhall Cavalier, registration number EYK 493K, cruhses up and down the street." "2:15 the window cleaners." "Oh, I want a trial." "I want him to have a shit-hot lawyer determined to break me down." ""Oh, no, Your Honour, I'm perfectly certain of the time." "100% certain."" "2.45, a mhncab, registration number TFR 665X, cruises up and down the street." "4:20..." "When will they finish upstairs?" "Not till the morning now." "I'll need to use the bathroom soon." "Perhaps you could use next door's." "Yeah." "Will I have to sleep down here?" "Is there not somewhere else you could stay the night?" "My sister's." "He's sick." " Whoever did it is sick." " Yes." "(Sobs) Why kill her?" "He didn't kill the others." "Why kill her?" "We're gonna get this man." "We'll get him." "(Doorbell)" "No, don't hang up." "Keep talking." "Talk when you're ready." "It's OK." "BECK:" "My boss dhed a whhle ago." "SAMARITAN:" "I'm sorry." "And er..." "I don't really fht hn whthout hhm." "SAMARITAN:" "You were fond of hhm?" "Yeah." "See..." "I went to see a man whth no hahr." "We were lookhng for men whth no hahr." "And this man told me he had cancer." "And because I felt sorry for him, I believed him." "And... he killed my boss." "That must be terrhble for you." "Yeah." "I showed a bit of compassion, you see." "That was my big mistake." "Because there's no place for it, not in my job." "Well, not in my bloody world." "And they all know." "They all know it was down to me." "She knows, she knows it was down to me." "She thinks she can treat me like muck because it was down to me." "But she'd have done the bloody same." "Compassion!" "The job's full of it." "It's full of... it's full of women." "Full of rape counsellors, full of victim-support counsellors." "I just want to shout at them, "Forget it!" "Forget the bloody compassion!" "Let's just get back to the way things were."" "Cos... compassion only gets you killed." "Have you spoken to her?" "Who?" "Your female colleague." "A guy goes into a boozer, right?" "A guy goes into a boozer..." "He goes into this boozer, right?" ""Er... barman, give us a pint of lager..."" " Is your mother here?" " Yeah." "I think you're gonna need a drink." "Right..." "Hiya." "Hello." "It's only my dad." "Yeah, OK." "Hello." "Hello, Fitz." "Five months." "I'll save you the arithmetic." "It's yours." "Oh, God!" "Floyd Malcolm?" "Yeah." " Is that your minicab?" " Yeah." "It was seen at 2:45 on Stevenage Drive." "Steven...?" "Oh, yeah." " Wilson Parry." " Sorry?" "I share it with a guy called Wilson Parry." "He had it then." "(Barking)" " Wilson Parry?" " Yeah?" "I'm DC Harriman." "A minicab was seen at 2:45 on Stevenage Drive." "Me, yeah." " You drove up and down." " Yeah?" "Why?" "I was looking for number 202." "Couldrt find it." "I blew in." "It was Stevenage Road." "Right." "Thank you." " No problem." " (Baby crying)" "Are you pleased?" "Yeah." "Pleased about the baby or pleased that I've come back?" "Both." "You think we're too old." "You think I'm too old." "No, I don't." "No." "I love you when you lie." "You think your best quality's your honesty." "It isn't." "I love you when you're kind enough to lie." " You've bought a new double bed." " Mm." "I'll get rid of it." " It's brand-new." "I'll get rid of the old one." " No." "Let's keep the old one." "Why?" "Why?" "Because it's where we made this baby." "I'm never going to change you, Fitz." "I've accepted that." "But a baby might." "Uh-huh." "Yeah." "And no smoking when I'm around." "From now thll the baby's born." "Stevenage Drive. 19 Stevenage Drive." ""I know where you live."" "What?" "No, a man said that to me yesterday." ""I know where you live."" "Can you remember his name?" "Sorry to disturb you." "DC Harriman." " Did you order a minicab yesterday?" " No." " Did anyone from this address order it?" " No." " You sure?" " Positive." "Right." "Thank you." "Tango 4 to Control?" "You must get threatened all the time." "I do, yeah." "But this one was different." "Yeah?" "I believed him." "A young black guy." " Floyd Malcolm." " Floyd Malcolm?" "We had him in three days ago." "Phone Floyd." "Yeah?" "OK, thanks a lot." "We'll be in touch." "You know what this means." "Fitz was right." "Penaligon was raped by somebody else." "(Doorbell)" " I'm coming, I'm coming!" " Is Floyd in, please?" " Leave my son alone!" "He's done nothing!" "Floyd!" "What's happening?" "Open that door or we'll break ht down!" "Get out!" "Get out of thhs house!" "I'd been naughty, cheeky." "And he smacked me round the back of my legs." "My father had never hit me before." "I grinned!" "He was so angry, you see, and I wanted the dad I knew, not this angry man." "And that's why I grinned." "But that just made him madder." "And he smacked me again." "And I cried then." "Which is what I should have done first, because he stopped then." "Why am I telling you this?" "Because when that man was raping me hurting me I grinned." "I did it to make him like me so he wouldn't hurt me as much." "But he just hurt me even more!" "And it made me think of my dad and that thme he smacked my legs." "Do you want me to respond to that?" "FITZ:" "If you want to, yeah." "My son didn't rape you." "I know." "The man who raped me was white." "Then why tell me that story?" "Because your sors raped other women." "He's put other women through that trauma." "He hasn't!" " You're sure?" "Positive?" " Yes." "Mrs Malcolm, I could brhng hn a dozen rape vhcthms." "They would all reduce you to tears." "Please tell us where he is." "My sors innocent." "So what have you got to fear?" "He's innocent." "But... he's not white." "So being innocent isn't gonna help." " That's rubbish." " It isn't." "If your sors innocent, Mrs Malcolm, I will prove it, I promise that." "If he's guilty, he must be caught before he rapes and kills again." "I lied because he asked me to." " Who?" "Floyd?" " Yeah." " We're investigating three rapes and a murder!" " I didn't know that!" "Three rapes and a murder, and you're telling a pack of lies." "I didn't know it was rape and murder." "I'm innocent!" "That's what you think." "You haven't booked any holidays for next year, have you?" " No." " Good." "Cos Floyd said you were driving the cab." "You told me you were." "I lied!" "That cab was seen outside a house where a woman was murdered by a young black man." " What'll I do?" " About 25 years." "I mean now." "What d'you want me to do right now?" "FITZ:" "It can't be easy knowhng that thhs monster came out of your womb." "I'm sorry." "Dhd that hurt you?" "You're not sorry." "Supposing I said monsters are not born, they're made?" "Would that hurt you even more?" "Yeah." "Who turns a child into a monster, if not the person with most influence - his mother?" "Yes." "Every rapist, every killer in the world blames their mother, Mrs Malcolm, and they're all talking bullshit." "But that doesn't help, does it?" "No." " Because you still feel guilty." " Yeah." "Where's the scar?" "What scar?" "The man we're looking for has a scar, which is why he wears a mask." "If Floyd hasn't got a scar, he's not the man we want." "FITZ:" "That's good news, hsrt ht?" "Oh, please." "Don't toy with me." "Pardon?" " You know he's scarred." "FITZ:" "Emothonally, of course." "Not just emotionally?" "Would you like Sergeant Beck to leave?" "Yeah, I would." "Would you leave us, please, Jimmy?" " So where's the scar?" " He got in a bath when he was nine." "Scalded?" "Scalded I could live with." "Do you have kids?" "Two, yeah, a boy and a girl." "No." " Both still at home?" " Yes." "Your son wants to be like you?" "Right now he wants to kill me, but yes, there was a time he wanted to be like me." "Floyd wanted to be like me." "So he got into a bath of bleach when he was nine years old." "I mean, your kid has an accident, it's bad enough." "The guilt, the pain." "But when your son locks himself in the bathroom and sits in bleach - deliberately sits in bleach - and you see what he's done to himself, and you're screaming at him, and he looks at you and he says, "I wanna be like you."" "I mean, can you imagine what..." "He's got a friend called Gerry." "Gambier Road." "Police." "Open that." "Shut that." "(Singing)" "(Shower running)" "Do you do requests?" "Right, call Mark." "Mark!" "He's busy." " Judith, you are pregnant." " I'm OK." "You are not." "Fitz, I'm carrying the equivalent of a seven-pound penalty." "I'm still at the bottom of the handicap, and you are still at the top." "Where did you learn language like that?" "Come on." "(Rings doorbell)" "Hello." "What do you want?" "Can I speak to your dad, please?" "Someone from Age Concern." "Eh?" "Hello?" "It's Jane, hsrt ht?" "PENHALIGON:" "Yes." "FITZ:" "Would you lhke a drhnk?" "PENHALIGON:" "Yes." "Yes?" "She used to have a stall outside the hospital." "She sold beautiful flowers." "Thanks." " She's not there now?" " Oh, she is." "The hospital isn't." "We've got Floyd." "Right!" "Right, I'd better get down to the station, then." "I'll wait in the car." " Bye." " Bye." "If you don't mhnd, I've got to..." "You're screwing her." "I was, yes." " Mark knows?" " Yes." "So it has been here, in our house." "In that bed." "In our house, Judith?" "You've been trying to sell our house." "Don't give me that crap, please!" " She's young." " Yes." " Beautiful." " Yes." "Is her father still alive?" "No." "Am I a father substitute?" "Probably yes." "You get a four-eyed wanky therapist, and I get a sexbomb." "Is it fair?" "No." "Is it going to last?" "Definitely not." "Am I flattered?" "Definitely yes, yes, yes." "Dhd I mhss somethhng out?" "Do you love her?" "Jesus!" "I'm sorry you found out this way." "I was gonna tell you when the time was right." "Get in." "(Music on radio)" " Let me explain, will you?" " (She turns the radio on again)" "Would you like to slow down, please?" "Slow down, please!" "Please slow down." "Look at the road, will you?" "For God's sake, Jane!" "Will you look where you're going!" "Please!" "Look where you're going!" "For God's sake, Jane!" "I'm allergic to accidents!" "They bring me out in bumps!" "Will you please look at the road!" "Please look where you're going!" "Hi." "I'm Fitz." " I've heard you on the radio." " Yeah, I know." "You phoned me." " Not me." " No, you used a phoney accent." "Not me, mate." "This is DS Penaligon." "PC Skelton." "Sit down." "I don't think you two are gonna hit it off." "No." "FITZ:" "I met your mother." " Yeah?" "She's whhte." "Yeah?" "She's white?" "So what?" "She's white." "I was wrong about you." "I thought you'd be scarred." "You wear a mask, so the mask was better than the face God gave you." "But I was wrong." "It's quite a nice face." "Thank you." "But it's black." "You've noticed." "Is that why you wear the mask?" "To cover up your black face?" "Look, what is all this about a mask?" "I don't wear one." "I recommend you should wear one, but I don't need one." "OK?" "I wasrt that far wrong, though." "I mean, you are scarred." "Am I?" "Yeah, you sat in a bath of bleach when you were a boy." " It's a birthmark." " You're lying." " It's a birthmark." " You're lying." "Were there fat kids at your school?" "Fat boys, layers of white flesh?" "FITZ:" "Hm?" "Why dhdrt they phck on them?" "They were fat, they could diet, do something." "But not you." "You were black." "Nothing you could do about the colour of your skin." "You felt that." "I know you felt that, because I was that fat boy." "I'd hear the black boys say it." ""Don't pick on me, pick on the fat boy."" "I know what it feels like." "That pressure can lead to boys lhke you getthng hnto baths of bleach." "FITZ:" "God, I'd want revenge, too." "FITZ:" "What khnd of sochety drhves a boy hnto a bath of bleach?" "Yeah?" " Stuart Barlow." " Yeah?" " Young lad, up front for Everton." " I know who he is." " He hasn't got a nickname." " He has." "Jigsaw." "Go on." "Goes to pieces in the box." " Get off that horse." " The hell I will!" "Get off it before I break your neck!" "What's the problem?" "It's a present, right?" "For Bilborough's baby." "I didn't know." "Hey, I had no idea!" "He's off his rocker." "We'd like you to confess." " We'll tell the judge you cooperated." " And he'll let me off with a fine?" "Not quite." "How does it feel to stalk someone?" "How would I know?" "Let's talk about him." "He's out there, stalking somebody." "How does he feel?" "I haven't got a clue." " It's hypothetical." "What are you scared of?" " Nothing." "So he's stalking somebody." "How does he feel?" "A bit of a commando, maybe." " Battle of wits?" " Yeah." "Hm." "He sees her." "He's watching her, right?" "He thinks she's leading him on, teasing him." "She wants it really." "And she'll get it, the little bitch, stringing him along like that." " Possibly." " Yeah." "And why does he do it?" " He's black?" " Yeah." "Why does he do it?" "You think he's letting the side down, yeah?" "Sit down." "All that sucking up to your white friends - it's all wasted now, because a big black mars come along and raped their women." "Sht down." "What do you dread most, eh?" "You and every other white man?" "Your nice white wife getting raped by a big - and I mean a big - black man." "It's a pile of crap." "I know it, he knows it." "But it's there, yeah?" "And it's there, right?" "And maybe, maybe that's why he does it." "So he rapes white women as some kind of revenge against white men?" " Possibly." " Right." "So he's homosexual?" "No." "I've got a pathent, you see, Floyd." "He can only make love to other mers wives." "Single woman, unattached, he can't do it." "Married women - wham bam, thank you, ma'am." "Lhkes to do ht hn the other guy's shtthng room, on the other guy's carpet." "Lhkes to wash hhmself down afterwards hn the other guy's bathroom." " He's screwing the other guy." " I'm not a queer." "Who's talking about you?" "You say he rapes white women as revenge against white men." "Wee problem." " He rapes a black woman, too." " He doesn't." "Two years ago." "Bernadette." "Dragged her into the stream afterwards." "Why would he do that?" "Don't know." "I reckon he was just practising, perfecting his technique." " Possibly." " You know what that tells me?" "He despises the colour of his own skin." "A black woman means nothing to him." "Just practice." "A white womars the ultimate prize." "No, that's what you think." "That's what the police think." "He raped black women because the police don't bother if the victim's black." "You're looking for a man who's proud of his colour." " Women." " What?" "You said black women." "So Bernadette wasrt the only one?" " And you said a man who's proud of his colour?" " Yeah." " A man like you?" " Yeah." "Not me." "Somebody like me." " Have you always been proud to be black?" " Yes." "Even when you sat hn the bleach?" "You've rationalised it now." "Whhte sochety put you hn that bath, but at the thme... at the time, Floyd, you poor, sad, pathetic bastard, you despised the colour of your own skin." "And you can't forget it because of those scars." "A permanent reminder." "And who sees those scars?" "And this is the really sad bit." "Who sees those scars?" "Every woman you sleep whth." "Yes, please?" "I'm Barbara Charles from Aldridge, Bevan and Charles." "You have my client, Floyd Malcolm." " May I see him, please?" " One moment, please." "Are you going to head them off at the pass?" "How did we find you?" "Hm?" "I don't know." "Your mother told us where you'd be." "(Sniffs) Yeah?" "Hm." "Wonder why she told us." "For your sake?" "No?" "I know what you're thinking, Floyd." "Look at me." "Look at me." "She told you cos she's white!" "Yeah." "That's what I'm thinking." "She..." "This guy's raping white women, yeah?" "Women like her." "When it comes down to it, it's her colour." "It's her colour even before her own son." "It's her colour." "White!" "It's all fallhng hnto place now, hsrt ht?" "You come home from school, the taunts ringing in your ears." "The bath of bleach is ready." "And this white woman pretending to love you." "How can she, when you despise yourself?" "She's a lying bitch!" "A lying bitch!" "It's right!" "My client was at home." "His family says so." " Mr Parry admitted driving the cab." " Which he now denies." "Tough." "You have no ID and no forensic, so why are you holding my client?" "Would you like some tea?" "No." "I would like to see my client." ""Wait till your father gets home." She can just twist him round her little finger." "He gets home, and she starts acting, performing." "She's giving it everything she's got." "It's all to get him to hit me." "And he hits me." "But that's not enough." "No, she carries on, making what I've done ten times as bad." "And it's all to get him to hit me again and again and again!" "I'm on your side, Floyd." "I understand that anger." "You understand nothing, man." "You're white." "I'm not looking at a black man, Floyd, I'm looking at a killer." "I understand killers, the rage that drives men to kill." "And to rape." "Particularly to rape." "We haven't told the husbands we've picked up a black man - because we know what it'll do to them." "But that's the point, isn't it, Floyd?" "You want them to know." "So you must confess." "They have to know ht was a black man that raped thehr whves to know that the myth has come true." "That myth that we've fostered for years - white men like me - it's suddenly happened." "Tell me you did it, Floyd." "Your brief's here." "Ryan, I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." " Amen." " Amen." "(Church organ in background)" "# Dear Lord and Father of mankhnd..." "It's a symbol, Jimmy." "You're to make sure Ryan sees the light, supports City, not United." "Ryan, go hn peace and the Lord be whth you." "Amen." "# In purer lives Thy service find" "# In deeper reverence praise" "# In deeper reverence praise" "# In simple..." "I had him right on the point of confessing!" "You don't mess with a lawyer like her!" "She'd spoken to the Chief Super..." " Two minutes!" " I had to let him go!" "He's ever so slightly wound up." "We're watchhng hhm." " Looks like David, doesn't he?" " The horse?" "Yeah." "He's the image of him." "Does it help?" "Yeah." "Catriona, there's something I've got to tell you." "What is it?" "I..." "I miss him." "I dream about him." "That helps, too." "Tango Four to Control." "I'll take the back alley." "I didn't know she was pregnant." "It came as much of a shock to me as it did to you." "I've slept with her once in six months." "Made a couple of dirty phone calls, mind you, but I'm discounting that." "It doesn't matter." "You're right when you say I'll do nothing." "But I'll... (Door opens)" "But I'll do nothing because I don't know what to do." " I never meant to hurt you." " It doesn't matter, for God's sake!" "Everything else pales into insignificance." "Even you." "I have been raped!" "What's wrong?" "Jimmy?" "What's wrong?" "Jimmy?" "She said she dreams about him." "I felt like saying, "I have nightmares, love!"" "And in every one, he's blaming me." "He's bleeding to death, and he's blaming me!" "He said, "I want you to get the bastard, Jimmy." "For me and Catriona, get the bastard."" "Jimmy..." "Skelly, he's out." "Tango Four to Control." "We're following along Robson Street towards Marchington Road." "Yo, Donald!" "That's not him." "It's not Floyd." "Tango Four to Control, we've lost him." "You followed the wrong man?" "It was his clothes." "They swapped." "Gormless pillocks!" "Walking brain donors!" "Minicab." "He won't rape without transport." "Check his minicab." "Don't you think we're checking it?" "Think we're as thick as these two?" " Any vehicle stolen today, I wanna know!" "OK?" " OK." "And you, did you speak to him?" " Who?" " The fella you dhd follow!" " No, sir, no." " Don't you think you should?" " Fhnd out what Floyd's wearhng rhght now." " Shr." "WISE:" "Go on." "Phss off!" " Previous victims." "WISE:" "What about 'em?" "This guy's organised." "He won't strike at random." "He's not hn the mood to stalk, so what's left?" "Prevhous vhcthms." "Check that out as well, Jimmy, OK?" "Anything else?" " Are you OK?" " Yes, sir." "(Ignition fails)" "(Engine starts)" "(Techno music blares)" "Can you..." "Oh." "Hello." " Er, Karen." " Judith." "Can you lower that please, Mark?" "Can I get you anything?" "Mark, can you turn that down, please?" "Yeah, in a minute." "Er, we're just going upstairs for a bit." "To play some music." "What?" "Be responshble." "Don't be cheeky!" "Are you accusing me of rape?" " I got into a bloody car..." " Are you accusing me of rape?" "Yes." "We've worked together for years." "I got into a car with a plastic bag around my wrist and you didn't even ask why!" "It was none of my business." " You didn't ask why because you knew." " It was none of my business!" "You drove straight to Belle Vale." "How did you know the way?" "I'd been there before." " You're lying." " A rape victim lives there." "I've just checked whth her." "She never set eyes on you till the reconstruction in the park." "Are you serious?" "Yes!" "You believe I could rape you?" "Yes, I do." "All right." "Let's have this out in front of the boss." "Then I'll take any test you lhke, DNA, whatever." "But let's have thhs out hn front of the boss." "Right." "OK." "For God's sake, woman!" "You wanted to see me, sir?" "Yeah, shut the door, love." "Sit yourself down." "I've got the lab report." "Yes?" "The slides are blank." "Every single one of them." "I don't believe it!" "There's two explanations." "One, there's been a mistake, and two... no rape took place." "I was raped." "OK, then there's been a mistake." "Who sent the swabs off?" "The exhhbhts offhcer." "It was Jimmy Beck?" "Yeah." "Look, Jimmy Beck's an experienced copper." " He doesn't make mistakes with evidence." " No, sir." "So?" "Beck raped me, sir." "I never heard that." "Detective Sergeant Beck raped me, sir." "You've got evidence?" "He smokes, he drhnks whhsky, he uses the right kind of aftershave, and he handled the slides." " That's not evidence." " He's destroyed the evidence." " So this is like a wild allegation." " No, sir!" "It's a fact!" "Get me some evidence, bring it to me, and I'll give you all the help I can." "But..." "I'd like you to sleep on it first." " There's nothing to sleep on." " Oh, isn't there?" "Fancy life as a traffic warden, would you?" "I beg your pardon, sir?" "Jimmy Beck is well liked." "Allegations against a good copper." "That's what they'll think." " I can live with that." " Oh, yeah, you can, but your mates can't." "They'll be alone with you." "You might scream rape again." "I know it's bollocks, but that's how they'll see it." "You've done ht to Jhmmy Beck, you could do ht to any of them!" "(Horns beep)" "WOMAN:" "Do you want some help?" "MAN:" "You can't leave ht lhke thhs!" "You gonna clear up, mate?" "When did you last see him?" "Malcolm." "M-A-L-C-O-L-M." "Floyd Malcolm." "You had a fight with him six months ago." "It ended up in court." "We don't know he's gonna rape again." "That's your guess." "He owns a minicab." "He stole a car." "Why?" "Because we're watching the minicab." "Exactly." "He doesn't want us watching, because he'll commit another crime!" "Confirmed sighting on Bradbrook Road." "If it's not a previous victim, it'll be the wife of some man he's got a grudge against." "A white man." "You OK?" "(Ringing tone)" "(Phone ringing and loud music)" "Hello." " Hi!" "Are you OK?" " Yes." " Are you on your own?" " Well, Mark's here." "Why?" "Just worried about you, that's all." "I'm not the first woman in history to be pregnant!" "No." "I'll see you later." " Look, we've got to talk." " Yeah, I know that." " Bye." " Bye." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Where are you going?" "Ghve me that agahn, please." "Distance between the scene of crime:" "Seven miles." "Cheers." "He's abandoned the Escort." "Charlotte Road." "Torched it." " Where?" " Charlotte Road." "That's my road." "Phone my wife." "(Phone and loud music from upstairs)" "(Lawn mower)" "Mark!" "(Music blares)" "(Screaming)" "(Stops music)" "Did you hear something?" "Take the mask off!" "Take the mask off, you!" " Get out of my house!" " You raise your voice and you're dead, man." "Take your hands off me and get out of my house right now!" " She Who Must Be Obeyed..." " Get out of my house!" "Rich middle-class white little bitch!" "Used to getting her own way!" "And here's some uppity little nigger." "She'll soon put him in his place!" " Let me go." " No." "I'm pregnant." " Is it your husband's?" " Yes." " He writes books, doesn't he?" " Yes." "I know." "I've seen them." "Books about people like me." "Yes!" "Why are you hurting me?" "It's nothing personal." " For God's sake!" " It's your husband I wanna hurt." "It's locked!" "I'm gonna go round the back!" "Fitz!" "What do you want, Floyd?" "You'll write about me one day, won't you?" "Oh, yeah, sure." "I'll be a little chapter in one of your books." "An interesting little case for white middle-class bastards like you to study." "I'm not middle class." "Well, I'm here now." "I'm not a chapter no more." "I'm the real thing!" "What do you want, Floyd?" " We're leaving." " No, you're not." "If you don't let me go, I'll kill her!" " Kill her!" " For God's sake, Fitz!" "We've been married 20 years!" "I'm sick of it." "Kill her!" "Stop it!" "I've wished her dead umpteen times." "Never done anything." "I always thought a wee acchdent, maybe a car crash." "You're lying, man." "I've dreamt about ht." " I should have said, "Judith, it's finished." FLO YD:" "You're lyhng!" "It takes courage." "I never had any." "So go ahead, kill her." "Really." "Go on, kill her, quickly, before my son smashes..." "No!" "No!" "No!" "It's all right, it's all right, it's all right." "It's all right." "(Dialling)" " Police." " Put it down." "Put it down." "On your back." "On your back." "You're dead, Jimmy." "Suck it." "Don't speak with your mouth full." "Suck it." "Smile." "Smile." "(Phone rings)" "Yes?" "Who is this, please?" "Jane Penalhgon." "I need to speak to you."