"(Gasps) Ripped By mstoll" "Hey, room service!" "Do you want the continental or the full English?" " Ah." " (Chuckles)" "Ros?" "Ros?" "Ros?" "Are you still the driver for a criminal?" "Are you still the driver for a criminal?" " Yes, I am." " Get out of my house." " Let me explain." " Get out of my house!" "It's my house too!" "How is he?" " He's in bed, he won't get out." " Can I go and see him?" "(TV playing in bedroom)" "Col?" "Hi." "How you doing?" "Can you er..." "Can you turn that down a bit?" "I'm watching it." "Six years I did for him." "Six years." "They knew I worked for him, but I kept his name out of it, I stayed loyal." "And what did I get in return?" "I've lost everything." "My life's over." "No, it isn't." "I've got nothing." "I should've just been ordinary, you know, like everyone else, like these two." "Like you." "Listen, Col, I want out of the gang." "I want to get out, I'm in over my head." "You can't." "Why not?" "What do you think they're gonna say?" ""Hello, there, Vince." "Ta-ra, thanks for coming and have a nice life"?" "You can't just resign." "Once you're in, you're in." "Till they don't want you no more." "Can I get you anything?" "How did he get out... of the hole, Paslowski?" "How did he escape?" "Must have got rescued." "By who?" "No one else knew he was in there." "At least he's alive, eh?" "You've not got murder on your conscience." "All right, mate?" "You're looking a bit better." "I couldn't go home last night." "It's a long story." "Fair enough." "Listen, cover for me, I've got to slope off for an hour." "A MILF in Harpurhey." " Have fun." " Always do." "I just hope I've got a job when I get back." "The filth are in there, talking to Amjad." "Probably linked him to a cell in Afghanistan, eh?" "We'll discover we've been funding the bleeding Taliban. (Laughs)" "Sorry for interrupting." "I saw you through the window." " Not at all." " Is this about me?" "No, it's about me..." "getting me knob out in Sainsbury's." "We're simply corroborating your story." "Why?" "Your boss has already confirmed you were attending a hotel pick-up." "And you told him about the incident straight after." "So all we need is to speak to the driver that you towed with the rope." " What's this?" " You've just missed him, Kev Mitchell." "I can call him back." "No, he's with his girlfriend." "You know, it's one of those ones he meets online." "Look, it's fine, we'll call back." "You just tell him we want to talk to him." "I'm just a bit confused why this is getting so much attention." "There's been no crime." "There's a gang problem in this city, a lot of people get drawn into it - drug runners, middle men." "People think it's easy money." "Till they get caught." "Oh, by the way, good news on the guy that you saved." "He's out of his coma." "We're hoping he'll be able to talk soon." "I didn't know Kev had had car trouble." "When drivers have maintenance issues, I usually get to hear about it." "We've all got maintenance issues - we're skint, cos some greedy bastard creams off the profits." "You are a lying bastard, Vince." "What?" "And if there is one thing I can't stand, it's lying bastards." "But there is one thing worse than being a lying bastard, and that's being a bad lying bastard." "And you, Vincent, my old china are a very bad lying bastard." "So are you gonna tell me what's going on or am I gonna order your P45?" "Just do what you like." "Kev, it's Vince." "As soon as you get your trousers back on, will you call me?" "It's urgent, all right?" "Kev, come on." "How long does it take, mate?" "Give me a call back, will you?" "(Phone rings)" "OK, you can come back." "Not to stay, to talk." "I need details." "I need to know everything that's happened, start to finish." "And no more lies, Vince, OK?" "Cos that's the only way we're gonna be able to deal with this." "(Phone rings)" "Oh, shit." "Kev, where are you?" "A burger joint, at t'back of t'station." "It sounds like you better join me." "Have you been back to work yet?" "No, not yet." "I always like a bit of nosebag after a leg-over." "Listen, just stay there, I'm on my way." "Don't go anywhere." " Hey." " All right?" "How was she?" "Enthusiastic, grateful." "I love married women." "They haven't been shagged properly in years." "Sometimes they cry from sheer relief." "I know." "You know?" "Really?" "Truth is, I've been a bit of a bad lad myself." " Tell me all." " I went on that website you told me about." " No Strings?" " Aye." "I met this married woman with a couple of kids..." "You dirty dog." "She's got enormous fun bags." "Why do you think I was in my car last night?" "What's her name?" "Maybe I've had her already." " Charlene." " Charlene?" "That doesn't ring any bells." "I had a Charlotte." "Look, I went round there a couple of mornings ago cos her husband was away" " and I thought, why not?" " Indeed." "Where were the kids?" "They were in their bedrooms." "You had her with the kids in the house?" "Respect due." "Yeah." "She'd had a bit of trouble with her car the night before, it had broken down." "I said, "Don't worry, I'll give you a tow."" "So I did, and it was fine, you know." "But I just threw the rope in the back of the car cos I was in a hurry, I had to get to work." "Then I was going away and there was this fella just lying there at the side of the road." "He was really badly injured." "So I took him to hospital and I thought that would be it." "It turns out he's like a really hardcore criminal." "You know those coppers that came to see Amjad?" "Well, they wanted to talk to me, you know." "Nothing bad, just to confirm my story, just procedure, that's all." "But I couldn't tell them about being with a married woman, could I?" "Oh, no, you don't want that getting back home." "So I told them I was with you, that I'd given you a tow." "They just want to talk to you." "So you're asking me to lie to the police?" "It's just a white lie." "You know, just to confirm a story, that's all." "That's it and that's the last you'll hear of it." "That's perjury, mate, that's perverting the course of justice or something." "Come on, Kev, this is my marriage." "What if there's CCTV?" "It's Bolton Street to your house, there's so many routes." "It's just your word against theirs." " No, Vince, no." "I'm not getting involved, mate." " Please, Kev, I'm begging you." "500 quid." " A monkey?" " Right now, in your hand, I can get it." "I need you to do this for me." "OK." "Thanks, mate." "What is it today, then?" "Vitamin soup." "Listen, Dad..." "I've got a friend coming over." "All right." "Ryan." "Is that all right?" "Yeah." "Listen... if you're happy, I'm happy, all right?" "Sorry to interrupt." "Can I have a word?" "I'm sorry." "Just continue in your groups and I'll be back in a jiffy." " Souper." " (Chuckles)" "What the hell happened?" "You said you were on your way." " Something came up, it was really..." " Important." "More important than talking to your wife?" " Ros, please." " I'm working, Vince." "You remember work - that thing normal people do to earn money?" "I went to see Tim." "When?" "Yesterday." "What happened?" "He wouldn't talk to me." "He locked himself in his room." "I spoke to him through the door." "I pleaded with him but he wouldn't open up." "Was she there... the girlfriend?" "So, what happened?" "You just left him there, came home again?" "I couldn't kidnap him, could I?" "I thought that's what criminals did." "I talked to him, I told him things." " Through a door." " He heard me." " I told him what this was doing to us." " And what good did it do?" "What impact did it make?" "Zero." "At least I tried!" "At least I did something!" "You failed Vince." "You fail at everything." "What did you do, eh?" "You're his mother." "Why don't you go down there?" "Why aren't you kicking the door in?" "I had to fight to get in." " Let go of me!" " Don't walk away from me, Ros." "Cos I want to talk about this." " There's people in there waiting for me." " I don't care." "Why'd you think this is happening?" " Why do you think I got involved with Col?" " I've got no idea." "Because I needed things to change." "We're falling apart and what do you do?" "You go running but you won't talk to me, will you?" "So you take up with a criminal?" "Yeah." "It made me feel good, it made me feel like I could do something." " It was a stupid mistake." " Why couldn't you just have an affair?" "It would've been better if he'd died." " (Doorbell rings)" " Wouldn't it?" "Hey, wouldn't it?" "It would have been better if he'd died." "Cos we could have held each other, we could have mourned our son, instead of you blaming me, cos that's what you've done." "You hated me and I felt that." "I've felt that every day since." "And that's not all right." "Is it?" "(Doorbell rings)" "Things just happen for no reason sometimes, don't they?" " (Hammering on door)" " I've got to get it." "OFFICER:" "Is your husband in?" "Vincent McKee, we are arresting you on suspicion of attempted murder." "You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention something you later rely on in court." "What's happening?" "Mum?" " It's OK, it's all right." " What has he done?" "What have you done?" "I need to speak to both of you at the station." "(Door slams)" "Vince?" "Follow me." "Your friend from the taxi rank, Kev Mitchell, called us." "It seems you didn't give him a tow on the morning in question." "It seems you were trying to use him as an alibi." "Which would have been strange enough, had he not seen you, a number of weeks ago, mysteriously driving a large black saloon." "How about we start at the beginning?" "I've got nothing to say." "You're going to prison for a long time." "Just with what we've already got, I can get you ten years." "Away from your wife, kids..." "How will they cope?" "Ten years, Vince." "What are you now - 44, 45?" "How do you fancy being banged up till your mid-50s?" "You can come out - no job, no home your wife shacked up with someone else." "And you?" "A criminal, done time." "Family destroyed." "We've seen it happen." "We can protect your family if you work with us." "Who are you scared of?" "Help me and I'll help you." "But if you don't..." "I'll have no choice." "DS Ryder leaving the room at 15:45." "(Buzzer sounds)" "The time is 17:01." "Recommencing interview with Vince McKee." "I'm a driver for a criminal gang and they're planning a job but I want out." "I thought I was just gonna be driving but I made a mistake." "You've gotta see this." "My name's Greg Tyler." "I work for the Force Intelligence Bureau." "We need to get you out of here." "You're now under tracker surveillance." "24-hour monitoring of your phones and your car, that's for your protection and our security." "Everything has to continue as normal." "Yeah." "Where are my family?" "They're with Liaison." "They're being taken to a secure location." "How am I gonna tell them?" "In my experience, bad news is best told quickly." "Ready?" "Yeah." "Thanks, guys." "Dad..." "I'm sorry." " (Sobs)" " Sorry." "I'm sorry I dragged you into all this." "You're not a bad man." "I told them that." "I told them that you're not bad." "I made a mistake." "Have you been charged?" "What are we doing here?" "Vince?" "I've um..." "I've made a deal." " Not a deal." " What kind of deal?" " It's not a deal." " It's um an arrangement." "Information, I give them information, and in return, they'II..." "They'II?" "I'll be prosecuted but I won't got to prison." "Meaning?" " We'll be protected." " Protected?" "How?" "Vince will continue as a member of the gang for a short period of time." "Your life, to the outside world, will look, feel, smell exactly as it always has." "And then, I'm afraid to say, things will change." "How?" "What will happen?" "They're planning a job, a robbery, and I'm gonna work for the police." "No..." "Katie, it's OK." "It's OK, come here." " Just breathe." " (Katie sobs)" "Come on, breathe." "Deep breaths." "I'm sorry." "Stop saying that!" "It's too late for that." "Why, Dad, why?" "Well, it's this or prison." "Katie, to get through this, we need to be together, all right?" "But they're gonna look after us, we'll be safe." "We'll be OK." "Protected, how?" "How does this work?" "Will they go down and you stay out?" "I mean, they'll kill you." "Or us." "They'll find you." "Vince, do you realise what you've agreed to?" "They won't find you." "They won't find us?" " What, you mean..." " You'll get a new life." "Somewhere different, new identity." "No." "No, I..." "I don't want to do that." " Katie..." " No, I don't want to do that." "This isn't real." " Where would we go?" " That's to be decided." "I don't want to do that!" " Katie!" " No, Dad!" "No, my life's here." "I don't want a new life." "I'm going to college, I've got a boyfriend." " Look, just listen." " No, you listen to me!" "Look." "Just look." "Look, look!" "Facebook." "There's 500 friends and they know me." "You can't just disappear!" " There's a programme..." " Fuck your programme!" "You don't have to agree... and it's not my job to convince you." "I need Vince." "And Vince is smart enough to realise I'm his only way out." "But I'm saying this to help you." "These are bad people and they'll want revenge." "And you're putting yourselves in extreme danger if you choose not to join in." "I'm assuming no one will be able to know where we are." "My mum and my sister." "I'll have to find a new job." "This is everything." "Vince, is this really the only way?" "Just think about it, eh?" "This could be positive." "It's like a new life, you know." "A fresh start somewhere brand new." "This could be good for us." "This is the end of our life!" "Are you serious?" "In two years, you'll be in uni." "You'll have a fresh start." "But your mum and me, we need this." "Tim, what... what about Tim?" "He's our son." "He's away." "We don't speak to him, we don't see him any more." "Do you know where he lives?" "We could contact him, explain." "But if he refused to go," "I'm afraid there's nothing we could do." "Then, no." "No deal." " Ros, please." " We can't do it." "We'd never see him again." " He doesn't want to be part..." " We'd never see him again." " He doesn't want us." " I'm not leaving my son." "He doesn't want to be with us any more." " You've got to accept that." " I can't ever accept that!" "What choice do we have?" "(Sniffs)" "We'll take you to retrieve your taxi." "In one hour's time, you'll get a call at work to attend a pick-up at Burton Road tram station." "That'll be myself and a member of our Organised Crime Unit." "You'll drive us to a location of our choosing and we'll discuss how this is gonna work." "Understand?" "Yeah." "(Pelican crossing bleeps)" "(Indicator clicks)" "(Phone rings)" "Drive." "We'll direct you as we go." "It's unlikely that the gang will know that you've been arrested." "But if for any reason they do, stick as close to the truth as possible." "You found a man, he was lying in the street, injured." "You took him to hospital and then you fled the scene." "The arrest was merely routine, OK?" "TYLER:" "And hope to God that they believe you." "We don't want to put you in any danger." "We very much want you alive." "But make no mistake here, Vince." "The stakes couldn't be higher." "We need you to remain an integral part of their team." "They can't get even the slightest hint that you're betraying them." "The job has to go ahead for a successful prosecution." "To bang these bastards up for life, we need to catch them in the act." "Now, this is a direct line." "Just put it into your phone as something insignificant." ""Window cleaner", "carpet guy"." "You only call when you know it's safe." "And when we answer, all we'll say is hello." "We won't say anything else until we know it's you." "I'm your best friend right now, Vince." "All right?" "I want to keep you alive." "I want to give you your freedom." "But you try to abscond or deviate in any way from what we've agreed here you're looking at life inside." "And believe me, Vince, everybody will know that you're a grass." "(Phone rings)" "Is that them?" "Hello?" "HORSE:" "Where the hell have you been?" "Sorry, me car broke down, so..." "Well, you need it!" "Pick me up in half an hour at the club." "Yeah." "I'm on the other side of town, so it'll take me a while." "As soon as you can." "He wants me now." "Then, you should go." "What was wrong with my lie just then?" "Always try and keep your story to the truth." "That way, it won't trip you up later." "(Laughter and music from club)" "Not tonight, chief." "No, I'm here to meet the Horse." "Are you the driver?" "Yeah." "I'll take you through." "Vince..." "Keep Thursday free." "It's Thursday." "It's gonna happen this Thursday." "(Music on car stereo)" "Apparently, hedgehogs are dying out." "I once sat on an hedgehog." "You sat on an hedgehog?" "Yeah, when I was a kid." "My brother put one on me chair when I weren't looking." "I sat down... 300 pins up me sphincter." "I went ballistic." "I don't suppose the hedgehog was too pleased, either." "No, it wasn't." "I drop kicked it into the pond behind our house." "Come on, you go." "Hey, what is this place?" "It's where we come to plan the jobs." "The Chinese cash-and-carry on Lowman Street is used by everyone." "Their biggest retail days are Wednesday and Thursday, as the restaurants prepare for the weekend." "(Muffled) They still use a very old-fashioned security system." "(Dialogue fades out)" "(Speech muted out)" "(Muffled) Remember... we only discuss this job... in this room." "(Dialogue fades out)" "Vince?" "I think you know enough, hm?" "You're just the driver." "So make yourself useful." "Yep?" "I need to see them." " Over my dead body." " Yeah, if necessary." "Just because you're playing at gangsters, doesn't mean you scare me." "I need to see them." " You're not coming in." " Don't be ridiculous." " You're not coming in." " Get away with you." "You can't stop me seeing my wife and kid, all right?" "Just move." "Thursday?" "Thursday?" "Five more days as myself." "Five more days of this life." "Yeah, I thought it would be longer, but at least this way..." " At least what?" " There's less time to be discovered." "Less time for things to go wrong." " Katie..." " Leave her." "You've made us targets." "Even if we go away, we're still at risk." "They find people, Vince - months, years later." "They'll give us security until the trial." "After that, they'll be in prison and they won't know where we are." "Tell him what I suggested." "Melinda's saying we can go to her caravan on Anglesey." "Me and Katie." "Just Ros and Katie." "Stay there as long as we need." "We'd have to get a divorce, I'd go back to my maiden name." "But that way, we wouldn't have to give up our whole lives." "It's not gonna work, is it?" "You'd just spend the rest of your life worrying." "We will, anyway." "If people know where you are, then you're in danger, and Katie's in danger." "Besides, I want us to be together." "Happy families?" "Look at us." "Do you remember those people?" "Because we're still them." "We never used to be like this." "We had fun, didn't we?" "We were full of things we wanted to do in our life." "And that is what I want us to be again." "Too much has happened." "So you're just gonna give up, throw it all away?" "I have been a good husband." "For 18 years." "And I want you to stay with me." "Don't listen to him." "We've lost enough already, haven't we?" "Come here." "Here." "You'll need to wear this." " What is it?" " A wire." "So that we can hear you." "You just clip it inside your coat." "It looks like a spare button or something." "We've got units positioned at three locations, some of them are armed." "If it goes wrong, shots will be fired." "So long as you stay in the driver's seat of the vehicle, no one will shoot you." "Hiya, Tim's phone." "Leave a message." "Tim, it's your dad." "It's Vince." "I miss you." "And whatever happens, I want you to know that I love you." "(Alarm beeps)" " You're late." " Yeah, it was the traffic." "I thought you was a getaway driver?" "I am." "Shame you've got to burn it." "(Starts engine)" "You're late." "Get in." "All right, mate?" "(Breathes heavily)" "(Banging at door)" "Vince?" " I'm on the piss." " You don't sound like you are." "Open the door." " I'm sitting down." " Open the door, Vince." " (Rap on door)" " Hang on." " Open the door, Vince." " All right!" "It's all yours." "Hey!" "I know it were you, Vince." "So don't even try and deny it." "I did my bit, I did my job." "I did exactly as I was told to." "And then, because you screwed it, I took the beating." "And the Horse thinks I'm a useless prick." "What?" "He brought you back in, didn't he?" "Out of desperation." "Yeah?" "As soon as he's had use of me, I'll be back out on my ear." "I'm not stupid, Vince, I know when I'm being used." "Well, I can't have that." "I need him to know the truth." "We're gonna go out there, you're gonna talk to the Horse and tell him the truth." "He'll kill me." "Tough shit!" "I'm sorry." "I never meant for any of this to happen." "I need the Horse to know the truth." "I need him to know I'm not a screw-up, cos everyone always thinks I'm a screw-up." "I can't do it, I can't do what you're asking." "I think you'll find I'm the one holding the gun." "We've got a job to do, eh?" "We can't trust you." " We're mates, Col." " Don't pull that "mates" shit with me." "I never should have trusted you." "I never should have brought you in." "Do you want to know the reason why?" "I didn't do it for you, Vince, I did it for me." "To get back in with them, to cosy myself up to the Horse." "Go." "I mean it, Vin." "I mean it." "I need to tell you something." "I need you to close the door." "Close the door." "Come here." "(Whispers) I'm under surveillance." "I'm working for the police." "What?" "Are you lying?" "Cos if this is lies to get out of that," "I'm gonna take your knees right now." "It's the truth." "Oh, for fuck's sake!" "For fuck's sake!" "They're going down, Col. This job, they're on to them and they're all going down." " You bastard." " I had no choice." " You rat bastard!" " I had no choice." "They caught me." "It was me or them." "Listen, I've kept your name out of it." "They know I know you." "But I've told them that you're out of the gang, that you're going straight." "They won't come looking for you, I swear to God." "You're in the clear." "You could just walk out of here." "How?" "I'm here." "Just make some excuse, I don't know." "Just walk away." "I should just..." "I'm sorry." "What the bloody hell am I gonna tell them?" "I tell them where I've gone?" "Col..." "listen to me and you can get out of this, you can just walk away." "(Knock at door)" "Are you two holding each other's dicks in there, or what?" "Yeah!" "You want to join us?" "We leave in ten minutes." "What if I just tell 'em?" "Then I die." "Is that what you want?" "(Sighs)" "There's money." "It's in my shed." "It's in Tim's art box, underneath the..." "Take it." "Take it all, take anything you want." "Go on, have it." "Go, just be ordinary." "(Breathes heavily)" "DARREN:" "I can't believe Col walked out." "I'm gonna kill him!" "Bottling bastard." "What was he saying?" "What were you two talking about in the bog?" "Nothing." " (Brakes squeal)" " Whoa!" "Sorry." "He just came from nowhere, didn't he?" "I've got a fear about this." "Something's wrong." "Just stay calm." "If everyone stays calm, everything'll be cool." "You wait." "Even if you hear sirens, you wait." "We all escape together or we go down together, right?" "If you get me sent down," "I'll make sure your daughter gets killed." "(Phone rings)" " Dad." " Tim?" "I've left them, I've come away." "Mum left a message saying..." "saying that I'd never see you again." "I don't want that, Dad." "Where are you?" "Burtonwood services, the first one out of town." "They don't know I've left but they will soon." "Can you come and get me, Dad?" "I want to come home." "I'm on my way." " Oi!" " (Yelling)" "Hey, stop!" "(Sirens blare)" "What are you doing, you idiot?" "(Yelling and shouting)" "You over there!" "Go on, look at me, look at me!" "Slow down, you grass!" "I knew it was you!" "I knew it was you!" "(Siren walls)" "Armed police!" "Stay down!" "Stay down!" "Armed police!" "(Horn blares)" "You rat bastard!" "I knew it!" "Armed police!" "Stand still!" " Stand still, don't move!" " Get down now!" "All right, no worries, all right!" "Right, right!" "Yes, we're doing it, we're doing it!" "Get down on the floor!" "(Tyres screech)" "(Horn blares)" "Dad?" "Come here." "(Sobs) I'm sorry." "I'm sorry!" "I thought I'd lost you." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Come on." "I'm parked over here." "We'll get you home, mate." "You're safe now." "(Phone rings)" "Vince?" "Where the hell are you?" "It's all right, I'm coming back." "No, I'm coming back now." "Don't worry." "I just had to do something, that's all." "(Ringing tone)" " Hello?" " Ros?" "I've got someone wants to talk to you." "Ripped By mstoll"