"They sent you to do this and they haven't told you why?" "So what does that make you, then?" "Go on, shut me up." "Cos you are just their bitch." " Lenny's gonna go mad!" " Screw Lenny." " What if he finds out you're keeping him alive?" " He won't." "Put it right, John, or we both know where this is going." "There's Lenny, then there's you, then there's me." "Don't enjoy your new toy's company too much, Rose." "He seems calm, but inside it's pandemonium." "Why are you doing this, John?" "I don't actually care what you did or didn't do, Scott." " Then why am I here?" " Because actually..." "I'm not their bitch." "Don't worry, Burnley, you're safe now." "Calum's not gonna let anybody feed you to Bullet or Tyson." "And a word to the wise... don't take my flatmate the wrong way." "He's a bit grumpy at first but inside he's laughing." "Well, he wants to he just hasn't learned how to properly yet." "There's a lot to love about John Mercer." "Uh-oh." "Don't get upset, I'm gonna have to pretend you're a toaster." " Where you off?" " See a friend." "What?" "It's not your sister." "It's not Lenny obviously." "And it ain't me." " Now who else is there?" " It's a friend." "Yeah." "No offence, John, but you don't exactly get poked a lot on Facebook." "What's that?" "This... is a new toaster." "The old one's toast." "Say hello to Rose from me." "Nice work, Burnley." "I think we fooled him." "There was outrage in East London at another shooting in which five people, including two young girls, were murdered." "Fears are being expressed of a vigilante-style killer on the loose..." "The mother of one of the young girls called the police after her daughter did not return home." "".. the man described as black and wearing a camouflage jacket" ""walked calmly in to the flat and shot a local drugs baron," ""three of his men and two escort girls who were also there. "" "Total bloodbath." "You want to see the CCTV image?" " I know what you're going to say." " Everything about it says Patrick Finch." "No, no, not everything." "Drug barons have lots of enemies, Rose." "Not the kind of enemies who only take the weapons and leave the drugs." "Does Mercer know who Finch was?" "Of course not." "All right, John?" "Lenny." "What is it?" "Nothing, just came to see if everything was OK." "We're just discussing some business, actually." "Oh, right." "Anything that involves..." "No, not as far as I'm concerned." "Lenny?" "No." "Right..." "Hello?" "Hi, Rob..." "OK, slow down, I'm coming." "I'm coming." "Domestic problems." "His sister's depression is back." "Kids are scared, Jess." "About you not getting up." "They're lucky that's all they've got to be scared about." "I suppose being scared is always a bit relative to your experience." "Go away, John." "'Ey, I know things can be hard for you..." " I should pull myself together?" " Well..." "I hate seeing you this upset." "No, you hate not having somewhere to turn up and just laze about." "That's a bit unfair, isn't it?" ""Nothing to do?" "Oh, I'll go hang out with Jess, she's always in. "" "Ever thought I might not want you just turning up whenever you feel like it?" "I'll sort the kids out this afternoon." "Pick them up from school." "See?" "It's a game, Lenny." "It's good if you want to jump about a bit and relieve a bit of stress." "If I want to relieve stress, I could jump up and down on your head." "Yeah, you could do that, but why be so old school?" "I'm very well John, thanks for asking." "Yourself?" "My sister's not well." "Oh, well, you want to take care of that, John." "Family comes before work." "Anyway, I'm here to see Calum." "Calum?" "Got a little surveillance mission for him." "Someone who lives in the kind of place where he can use his chameleon-like skills to blend in." "Best get my dinner jacket then." " Who is it?" " An old acquaintance." "Check he is where I think he is, have a look at his interior security, his interior design." "Basic stuff." "Then you let me know." "Clear?" "Crystal, boss." "What is that noise?" " What noise?" " That noise." " I didn't hear anything." " Calum's new toaster." "He even managed to put airholes in the box before he brought it home." "You know, one of those new novelty toasters that's furry and smells like a cat." "No flies on you, John." "I had to take it off the kids, they were gonna feed it to a dog, riling it up before the fight." "Flat 61, Silverhill Tower." "Today, Calum." "Lots of guns lying about..." "Doesn't seem to be bothered about locks." "Just a Yale." "I've given Lenny my status report." "A brush with evil, John." "That place is well spooky." "Got guns on the ironing board." "Not for the faint-hearted." "It's probably why Lenny sent me to check it out." "Yeah, yeah, maybe he'll let you keep the cat as a reward, eh?" "You're just jealous cos Lenny didn't ask you to do it." "Come on, let's get the kids." "Tomorrow I'll probably come and get you from school again." " What with Calum?" " And Burnley?" "Well, hopefully neither but we'll have to wait and see, won't we?" " Do you both live in the same flat?" " That's right." "I'm the sensible one who makes sure your Uncle John's slippers are warm." "Uncle John hasn't got a girlfriend." "Mummy says it's because he's..." "All right, I don't think Calum wants to know what Mummy thinks." "It's fine." "I don't mind hearing." " Have you got a girlfriend?" " Yeah." "She's lovely actually." "She's got curly black hair, she's very cute and she speaks funny cos she's foreign and all that." "She's called Manuela." "Hey John, why don't you get her to help your sister out?" "She's got nannying experience and she could use the cash." "Mr Finch." "Mr Douglas." "Well." "I never thought I'd see this day." "Can I have a word?" "Always thought you had a touch of the homemaker about you." "Yeah, well, I don't need much." "Likewise." "Why are you here?" "That's what I'm doing here." "Oh..." "So arrest me." "I can ask for previous crimes to be taken into account." "Unless you're here to offer me a job?" " Those days are gone, Patrick." " You got somebody else now?" " Why are you doing this?" " Those people deserved to die." " One of those people was a 17-year-old girl..." " Crack whore!" "Plenty more candidates for that treatment round here." " Making ordinary people's lives a misery." " That's not your decision to make." "And you lost touch with "ordinary" a long time ago." "What are you worried about?" "You take care of your targets and I'll do my work as I see fit." "You can't just switch yourself on when you feel like it." "We had an agreement." "An agreement?" "You left me to dangle after Liverpool." "If I'd left you to dangle you'd be doing life." "I gave you a break." "You broke me all right." "Now get out of my flat before I put a bullet in your chest." "I'm not scared of you, Patrick." "I'm afraid of what you might do." "Don't make me come back here with another means of persuasion." "Look Lenny, your forgetting I can handle anything you throw at me." "I'll be waiting." " What the hell are you doing here?" " I only want justice for my daughter." "Patrick Finch is on a countdown to carnage." "Do not prod that snake." "I told you before, if you don't want to do it, I'll find somebody who will." "The driver who hit your daughter and your grandson was found guilty, sentenced and served his time." "End of story." " Two years!" "For destroying their lives..." " It's not our job..." "Oh, please." "Not the, not the strategic war on impunity speech." "Remodelling the landscape of crime." "You sign death warrants, I tidy up the paperwork." "I'm sorry you think that's all it is." "I've been with you from the start, remember." " I remember." " I know everything there is to know." "Listen, you need my support at the Ministry." "So I'm asking you again." "And I'm telling you again." "There's only one thing allows me to close my eyes at night." "And that's the thought of a man with a gun standing over the body of the man who destroyed my daughter's life." "But not Finch." "Rose, Berry's found Finch." "I know, just go talk to the daughter." "See if she can talk some sense into him before this thing blows up in all our faces." "Kites." "Can you see the pretty kites, Owen?" "It must be cold up there in the clouds, don't you think?" "That one's blue, that one there red..." "That's a fish, that one." "Red." "Caitlin Berry, right?" "Who are you?" "I'm Rose Chamberlain, I work in the same area as your father." "I just need to have a little chat with you about him." "We're worried about your dad." "The driver's been out of prison six months now and Hugh's still talking about taking revenge." "He never apologised." "If he just showed a single sign of realising what he'd done." "Wouldn't you want to kill the man that had hurt your kid like that?" "Yeah, of course I would." "But I'd also expect someone to stop me." "I'm not really talking to my dad any more anyway, so..." "Not much I can do for you." "Dad loved Owen and now because he's like this it's as if he doesn't love him any more, can't bear to see him, doesn't want to be reminded." "That just makes everything even worse cos he's my little boy." "He's still my little boy, wherever else..." "Wave your paws in the air like you just don't care, Burnley." "Manuela's at your sister's." "I told her you'd pick her up." " Still no word from Lenny?" " Nothing." "There's half a chicken pie here, mate." "Well, I say half, probably a bit less." "Burnley..." "Finch is out of control, Berry is losing the plot." "We'll have to get him and his daughter together." "See if you can get the driver to say sorry." "This is an unusually humanitarian approach for you, Lenny." "What, you think it was easy getting Mercer out of jail?" "We need Berry to do his job and I'm loathe to bring in new personnel." "And I feel sorry for him." "Ever thought of just doing what he asks for, then?" "You know sometimes I think the "we are not vigilantes" speeches just fall on deaf ears." "But you will send Mercer." "After Finch." "No choice now." "You should tell Mercer who he was, what he is." "Otherwise he's unprepared." "No, I messed up with Patrick." "Too much solitude, bad for the soul." "Is that why you gave Mercer a little playmate this time?" "I wouldn't be so hard on yourself, Rose." "How are things with John?" " Back off." " I was only asking..." "Back." "Off." "# Cuando tienen hambre # Cuando tienen hambre" "# Cuando tienen frio # Cuando tienen frio" "# La gallina busca # La gallina busca" "# El maíz y el trigo # El maíz y el trigo" "# Les da la comida # Les da la comida" "# Y les presta abrigo # Y les presta abrigo #" "My sister seems to be getting a bit better." "I don't think she's really depressed." "She is just sad and lonely." "Isn't that the same thing?" "Maybe." "So, how are things with you and Calum?" "I like him but, you know, it's not serious." "Is it not?" "I thought you two were getting quite close." "Sometimes laughing at everything is not enough." "So what do you want?" " In life, I mean." " That's a big question." "Maybe when life is not difficult it's just boring." "I don't want to be bored." "Then Business Studies is an excellent choice." "You go on." " Bye." " Bye-bye." " I got a target for you." " Who is it?" "Patrick Finch, the guy I sent Calum to check out for me." "What, and that's it?" "That's what?" "You just think you can turn up here and flick the switch and send the killing machine into action, do you?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were feeling marginalised." "Get up there and read the instructions I left you and do your job." "OK?" "Tonight." "Looking for me?" "What's your name?" " John." " John?" "John what?" "John Mercer." "Lenny's new boy." "Oh, typical Lenny." " He hasn't told you, has he?" " Told me what?" "I was John Mercer once." "Anything you wanna ask before I..." " No." " Oh, come on, you must have some questions." "You could buy yourself some time, maybe Lenny will come to your rescue." " Why did you and Lenny part company?" " Oh, that's a good question, well done." "Er, because he made me a scapegoat for an operation in Liverpool that went wrong." " And what happened?" " Collateral." "You mean innocent people?" "You can't train a hunting dog and then expect it to live like a poodle." "More humane to destroy the dog." "Yeah, I guess so." "I knew he'd come." "And as soon as he came here I knew he'd send you." " But I was too good for you, wasn't I?" " Lenny's been here?" "Oh, I'd have done the same." "Deep sleep, just before dawn." " Makes sense." " Lenny's been here and he didn't tell me?" "I don't know why you're going all Pavarotti about it." "That's typical Lenny isn't it?" "Keep us in the dark, feed us on bullshit." "I don't sleep much anyway." "I love it up here at the top of this tower." "You stare out at all the lights and you think..." "there's a story goes with every light." "Don't even..." "We were together years, Lenny and me." "We had some good times." "Glory days." "But underneath he's, he's, he's soft, he's weak." "Tried to push me away, pretend I didn't exist." "Then I realised sitting in here watching from the window, "Why wait for Lenny to give you orders?" ""Do it yourself. "" "That sounds like a recipe for total anarchy to me." "Yeah?" "Well you're on the wrong end of a shotgun, so I don't think your opinion is worth much." "It's time." "What are you smiling at?" "You." "Cos you're not John Mercer at all." "I'd have liked nothing more than for Lenny to push me away." "Sounds to me like you can't live without him." "You quite sure about that?" "You telling me you didn't enjoy the feeling of power and adrenaline as you came to the door in the night?" "Yeah..." "Lenny might be a bastard, John Mercer, but he didn't choose you without knowing one thing perfectly well." "You're a hunting dog and you'll never do anything else in this world." "Lenny still has to learn the consequences of that." "Pickle. "Much loved, sorely missed family pet. "" "Reward..." "What?" "Who are you?" "Don't waste time if you wanna see your friend alive." "All right, yeah all right, I'm sorry..." "Where's that?" "OK, I understand, all right." "John?" "John?" "Where are you, mate?" "Pass us your hand." "It was you!" "You didn't even tell me that you'd already been there!" " You messed up." " No I didn't mess up!" "Cos you put the guy on his guard!" "The guy knew I was coming, Lenny!" "I had to assess the situation." "Why couldn't you even tell me that I was there to kill my own predecessor?" "What is that creature still doing here?" "Sorry." "Door, Calum!" "Sorry." " You know why he let you go of course?" " Yeah, to make you look stupid." " To say "Is this all you've got?"" " And is it, is this all I've got?" " Oh, you want me to protect you now do you?" " This isn't about protecting me!" "In Liverpool he took out the target." "He also took out the wife, three kids and a health visitor." "So he's a monster you've created." "I showed him mercy." "Nah!" "You cut him loose to save your own arse." "And you left him isolated." "And now your genie's burst back out of his bottle and you want him dead." "Is that what's in store for me?" "I'm gonna have a shower." "The lights are quite pretty." "What's Calum up to?" "First he was smoking dope, then he was eating chocolate." "And now he's asleep." "Stoners are so boring." "Don't look at me like that." " Why not?" " You know why not." "What am I doing?" "What am I doing?" "What am I doing?" " Calum's in the next room." " He won't wake up, he never does." " Come to bed quickly." " No, we can't, we can't." "I can't." "I can't." "I like somebody else." "And you're just a kid." "And Calum's in the next room, for God's sake..." " Don't you want to?" " Of course I want to but..." "Just because you're pretty and you're available and I've got all this stuff flying around inside my head..." " Pretty and available?" " You know what I mean, I didn't..." "Hey, I'm sorry, I..." "You stupid, sorry, fucking idiot." "Patrick Finch?" "Who are you?" " I've got a job for you." " What job's that then?" "Trevor Bowyer." "He ran over my daughter and my grandson." "I've got money." "I can pay good money." "Do I look like a two-bob hit man?" "I don't do jobs." "Plenty of junkies round here, do it for half a gram." "I want it done properly." "A thousand pounds now, a thousand when it's done." "Why don't you man up and do it yourself?" "Ow!" " Who told you my name?" " You're hurting my hand." "Who told you my name?" "I work with Lenny Douglas." "He has no use for you now but I do." "You've broken my hand!" "Don't try and pay a man to kill somebody then snivel like a little baby." "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I troubled you." "I'm sorry." "Tell me where you meet up with Lenny Douglas or I'll kill you and then I'll go and finish the job on your daughter and grandson." " So you've met Patrick Finch then." " Yeah." "Lenny's communication skills made damn sure of that." "If it's any consolation I did tell him to warn you." "Well, looks like he's paying you the same attention as he has everybody." "John, look, look Lenny's not easy but you're not making it easy for yourself." "You just gotta work out the best way to deal with him." " Just like Finch did, you mean?" " You're nothing like Finch." " He made my flesh crawl." " Why?" "Oh, I dunno, there's just something about angry, woman-hating psychos that rubs me up the wrong way." "Now that's better." "Now stop worrying about Lenny and Finch and life will be a whole lot easier." "So how's Calum's cat?" "Taking over the flat." " And Calum?" " Oh, he's great." "We've set up a book group for the long winter evenings." "He's keen to tackle Wittgenstein." "I'm sorry." "What for?" "I don't know really, cos I haven't done anything wrong." "Oh, really?" "Well most people would consider knocking me back to be a catastrophic error." "You're lucky I'm not a sulker." "You won't get another chance." "Come on, I need your help with Trevor Bowyer." "Who?" "A hit-and-run driver." "I want a written apology for his victim." "He wasn't very welcoming earlier." " Me again." " What do you want now, blondie?" "I said he was charming, didn't I?" "Look, I've told you..." "I am deeply sorry for the pain I know I have caused to you and to your family." "And although I know you cannot forgive me," "I wish you to know that I will always live with pain and guilt in my heart for the suffering I have caused to you and to your child." "Golf." "Not really a sport, is it?" "Now print that off and write it up by hand." "What?" "Now this is getting..." "I really hate speeding drivers." "I really hate them." "If I had my way you'd be charged with attempted murder and forced to do unpaid care for your victims." "Sorry, did you say something?" "No." "Pickle?" "Burnley?" "You have to take the cat to its real home, Calum." "Think Littlelegs is right." "I'm gonna miss you too, mate." "If there's one thing life's taught me..." "there's always a comedown." "Pickle..." "Good afternoon, John." "So was he always this crazy?" "Not this crazy, no." "Why didn't you kill him after Liverpool?" "It's never my preferred option." "And do you honestly think what he did for you has made him like this?" "No, I don't." "I think he developed a regrettable enjoyment for his work, a hatred of authority and a belief that he should choose the targets." " Now he's living out his fantasy." " Why has he suddenly gone..." "Drop it cos you'll be dead and he'll still be alive." " Kill him, John." " Do it, John." "Do what your master orders." "Does he pat you on the back and give you little treats every time you do what he says?" "At least I'm free now." "If you were free you wouldn't be standing here." " I think I'll be seeing you again." " Might just be so." "You know where I am." "Be back for you, Lenny." "Oh, and er, don't recommend me to anybody else." "Next person who comes snivelling about a crippled grandson gets a bullet in their brain." "So why?" "Why did you let him go?" "Because he spared me once." "So I let him go." "Oh, I see, sorry, I completely forgot that you're both knights of the round table as opposed to..." "Lenny!" "So what now?" "If we leave Finch out there he'll go on the rampage." "I guarantee it." "I agree." "John, he can't do anything else now." "And everything suggests that it won't be just gangsters and drug lords he'll hit." "Next up's house wives and school kids." "What do you want, John?" "What can I do to make things better for you?" "I don't want to be lied to." "I don't need justification for each job but I want to know what it involves and why." "And I want to be treated like an equal." "All fine apart from the last sentence." "That is true, John." "There's no point in asking the impossible." "All right." "But you know what I mean." "OK." "Right, well we do still have the problem of Berry." " The daughter get the letter of apology?" " Yeah, and she has softened a bit." "She's asked her dad to meet her in the park tomorrow." "OK, good." "Perhaps a reconciliation with Caitlin might steady him a little bit." "He's a decent man at heart." "I'm trusting both of you with this." "Bring Berry back to normality." "Get rid of Finch." "Be careful." "Hello, Owen." " Who's she?" " Rose Chamberlain." "I work for Lenny Douglas." "Everybody's worried about you, Dad." "What's all this in aid of?" "This revenge business and the threats, they've got to stop, Hugh." "It's all just stupid fantasies, Dad." "It's got nothing to do with me or Owen any more." "This is about you and making up for the fact that you can't love him now." "I never said that." "I never once said that, he's my grandson." " Of course I love him." " But not like you did." "What sort of justice is it?" "What sort of justice?" "He wrote me a letter." "I'll never forgive him but I do believe he has finally realised what he's done to us." " It's not enough!" " What is killing him going to do for Owen?" "What that gonna change?" "I'm sorry I, I, I can't help it." "I want him punished properly." "Then you're as stupid and selfish as Trevor Bowyer and you don't care about either of us." "Look, Hugh..." "Shut up, you stupid bitch, it's got nothing to do with you." "You can tell Lenny..." "Your grandson is here." "So what?" "In case you hadn't noticed, he's practically a bloody vegetable." "I'm out of here." "Baw!" "Put it back in there..." "Baw..." "He wants the ball again Dad, give it to him." "Ball?" "Is he...?" "Is he trying to say ball?" "It's ball." "Ball." "That's right." "That's right, it's a..." "It's a ball." "You hold on tight." "Don't let go now." "Good boy." "You're a really good boy." "You have a choice now, Hugh." "You can help your daughter and your grandson like they need." "Or keep pushing the revenge thing." "It's up to you." "But whatever you choose, you won't see me again." "John Mercer!" "Let's make this more interesting, shall we?" "Come on, let's make this really interesting." "Finish it." "What?" "One day maybe you'll know how it feels to have nothing." "I know how it feels now." "Oh, no, no, no." "I can tell." "You've got a long way to go yet." "I can still see a little light behind your eyes, people to live for." "What a view!" "Get off the wall." "I've felt it again though, these last few days with you on my heels." "The old blood cells." "Every part of you crackling and humming like your skin's on fire, like you're alive again." "Get down." "There's only one way I'm going down." "Goodbye, John Mercer." "I'm glad you're here for this." "Please." "There's nothing left for me now." "It was over a long time ago." "You can see that." "Please..." "Will you read us a story, Mummy?" "Course I will, darling." "Is Manuela coming tomorrow to take us to school?" "Er, no, no, Mummy's feeling a bit better now, so I can take you on my own." "But she'll come and see you again." "Come on now, what story do you want?" "A Dog So Small." "Ooh!" "Can we have a dog like Chiquitito?" "Chiquitito?" "Chiquitito wasn't a real dog, darling." "He was just inside the little boy's head." "Why?" "Because he was lonely and he wanted a real one but he didn't get one." "Why?" "Because... life's just like that sometimes." "But he got a real dog in the end." "Come on now, upstairs." "Come on." "Qui?" " A... qui?" " Mm." " A qui..." " I'm going for a walk." "Need to clear my head." " Rose?" " No." "His secret love interest." "Don't be stupid, Calum." "El gato ya no vive aqui." " D'you know what that means?" " No." ""The cat don't live here any more. "" "Thinking about doing Spanish GCSE, John." "Get myself a qualification." "Imagine what Lenny would say." "Yes." "Night anyway, mate." "Night." "El gato ya no vive aqui." "A- kee." "A- kee." "Not A-quee." "El gato ya no vive aqui." "He was a broken man." "He was a head case." "He said he was me." "He's not you." "He was a Mercer prototype." "He went wrong." "You're the finished article." "If I wasn't working for Lenny I'd..." "You'd be wearing a lovely acrylic V-neck jumper and chasing kids out of HMV." "Well, exactly." "Somebody's got to do what we do, John." "Somebody has to patch up the sewers." "What's..." "Where's, what's Facebook?" "What?" "I don't know, Calum said something about it." "He made a joke about me and Facebook and getting poked?" " Getting poked?" " Yeah." "Well, something like that." "Didn't really know what he was talking about." "Isn't it some nerdy computer thing?" "I dunno, I never really got any of that YouSpace blogging stuff." "Read a book, you losers." "Evening, John." "Evening, Lenny." "Mind if I join you?" "No, no." "I was actually just leaving." "Thank you for the drink." "And everything." ""And everything"?" "Understandably, Finch disturbed him." "It should have disturbed you as well." "Keeping him in the loop might help." "That thing we discussed." "It's on." "You still OK with it?" "I said, didn't I?" "And do you want Mercer kept in the loop on that?" "No." "I thought not." "But I felt I should check." "Don't play games with him, Lenny." "Don't do anything to..." " To what?" " Nothing." "Just be careful with him." "Don't damage him." "Now why would I want to damage one of my favourite possessions?" " The files of Richard Blakeney." " Lenny wants him badly." "I have something I'd like to discuss with you." "My name is Richard Blakeney." "You and I have a mutual interest in removing Lenny Douglas." " I'm done." " You're done when I say you're done." "I want a complete shutdown on the unit." " Are my sister and her children in any danger?" " I'm not running away." " Where's Mercer?" " You have to stop this, John." "Turn on me, turn on all of us." "You have to make him go away." "Fix this." "And take everybody down with you." "You're a dead man." "I think this is the end, John." "Who will bring flowers to your funeral?" "# One day we will be free" "# From fighting, violence" "# People crying in the street" "# When the angels from above" "# Fall down and spread their wings like doves" "# And we'll walk hand in hand" "# Sisters, brothers, we'll make it to the Promised Land... #"