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All units, suspect spotted heading towards the dry dock.
DI Strandhed has been located in the vehicle.
SIREN WAILS
Agh!
My name's Michael.
I'm not armed, I'm just going to approach, OK?
It's her you care about!
EXPLOSION
Yeah, I do.
The scariest thing in that boot
was wondering what would happen to Morgan,
thinking she'd be alone.
Does she ever talk to her dad?
No.
Pork pie. Ha! Nice.
Take it to her. OK.
Hey! Happy birthday!
MORGAN GIGGLES
OK, one try.
CHEERING
Although she's talking to him now.
TENSE EXHALE
SHE EXHALES
There's a collection of old Scottish songs
called Child Ballads. Um, not because they're about children,
but because they were collected by someone called Mr Child.
There's hundreds of them.
But one is about a Norwegian woman
who sleeps with a man
who turns into a seal
whenever he's in water.
It's probably a metaphor. At least, you'd hope so,
because she has a baby with him.
Doesn't work out, of course. I mean, he's a...seal.
But when he finds out he has a child...
..he steals it from the mother
and goes away to sea,
where they both end up getting shot. DOOR CLOSES
I guess that one is about children...
..but it's also about fateful parenting,
which is very much my world.
The Silkie of Sule Skerry, it's called, and up until now,
whenever I sang it...
..the mother kept the child a secret.
# In Norway land
# There lived a maid... # Are you in pain? Uh...
No, no. Uh... Well, yeah, a little bit, maybe. Just...
Do you need me?
A phone has just been dropped at HQ
with a murder recorded on it. Oh, come on! I know.
You going to be OK?
I mean, that's a huge question.
I'll drop Morgan off. No, no, I'll do it. I...
Keys...
My wife can swing by and take her to school, if you like.
Great! Excellent.
# Throw a line
# Into the darkness
# Oh, we are shadows
# Blaze inside
# This light
# Will shine
# Unbroken
# Tonight... #
MAN GROANS IN PAIN
Anything else on the phone?
No, that's it.
It's a burner, not registered to anyone,
and was left by this person.
She ran off straight after.
Freaked out by what she'd seen?
Or by what she'd done.
ANNIKA ON PHONE: You two having any luck yet?
She's been in and out of street cameras since then.
Still looking. Geotagging was off, but the timestamp marks the death
at 11, two nights ago.
Hmm.
SPLASHING ON AUDIO
RINGING ON AUDIO
What's that I can hear? It's a buoy.
There's deep-water ones in Dunoon, Govan,
near the Erskine Bridge.
That's if it is, indeed, the Clyde.
Let's get a dive team out to all of them.
Annika? Can I put Blu Tack on these screens?
No.
Got you a car.
Agh...
We've got her. MICHAEL: I'll run the plates
when you get them. She's on a white moped,
headed north, towards George Square.
We can cut her off.
SIREN WAILS
Did you do your advanced driving?
Uh-huh.
Did you pass?
Whoa!
BRAKES SQUEAL
SIREN WAILS
HORN HONKS
PEDESTRIANS SCREAM
Circle round? She might be hurt.
It's a ballsy move, going into oncoming traffic.
Thanks. Yeah, I meant the kid.
So I think this is a bad idea.
Yeah, well, it's not a replica of
my...vintage... No, not the car. You working.
Oh, best thing.
For sure. Definitely.
You haven't slept. Nor have the others.
Yeah, and that's when a team takes too many risks.
Do the hot debrief, will you? The what?
It's like a regular debrief, only a bit...
Hotter? Quicker. Oh.
Be good to capture anything we learn from... My car exploding.
Yep.
Try to do it in person,
but you're on a case, so start it online.
You can follow up with a psychologist, if you want.
I think I'll be...fine.
OK, so all the pool cars are out, this is mine.
Only thing available at short notice.
Oh, God, no, you don't have to... It's voice-activated,
so maybe you can talk to the car, if you don't want the psychologist.
Uh, hi.
I... I'm Annika.
VEHICLE APPROACHES
Hi. I'm hoping you're Morgan.
What's the code word? What?
Oh, sorry, I didn't... Michael never said anything about that. Well,
cos you could have kidnapped all those others.
Ah...
Yep, fair point. OK, let me give him a call.
Well, I guess they seem happy enough.
Astrid, right, Michael's wife?
Yep. Sorry, I totally should have kicked off with that.
Oh, it's fine. My mum did a background check.
OK, then.
So, Aisha Dunn, 17,
had the moped six months. This is her mum's house.
So what's a "hot debrief", then? Should I wear my trunks?
If you like. I think it checks if we're in shock or not.
I don't think I'm in shock.
HE KNOCKS
Well, not yet.
What? Hmm?
SIGHING
I don't know where she is.
The phone has a pretty disturbing video on it.
Well, then, that's why she handed it in!
Why would she do that if she had something to do with it?
OK, but if she didn't, then we need
to know who she got that phone from.
I have just got in from a night shift.
Can't we do this later?
Got to say, I wanted a moped at her age.
Didn't get one. My dad thought
the Norwegian Sea, on a tiny skiff, was fine, apparently,
but none of the... She bought it with her own money.
I believe it.
You must trust her. What, her?
Yes!
But what I do know about mopeds
is you don't take a spill without getting a few scratches.
She's fine.
Glad to hear it.
That her bedroom? WINDOW OPENING, THUMPING
SHE SIGHS
Aisha?
I'm with the Marine Homicide Unit.
RINGING
SNAPPING
Hi.
You been here all night?
MOBILE PHONE VIBRATES
Do you want to call one of the others, Blair?
We got the body and a witness.
How soon can you get here?
THUDDING
Might need a minute.
Uh...
Oh...
SHE EXHALES SHARPLY
Uh...
I got vertigo in a cable car...
..on holiday with my daughter.
She got me this podcast,
didn't listen to it.
It was supposed to...
..address my fear of, uh...
..you know...
Phew!
..this.
Talking to young people? No. Heights.
Although thinking about it...
How old is she? Your age.
A bit younger. Don't think she could give two officers
the slip, so...respect for that.
SIREN WAILS
Is that all for me?
Yes, because we care about you.
Or you want to lock me up.
It's a bad look, Aisha,
having a phone with a dead person on it.
Especially if you filmed it.
I stole the phone.
Some guy in a suit was looking at it
and knocked into my moped. Kicked it.
Then when he walked on, I...buzzed past and took it.
Do you remember anything else about him, apart from the suit?
Asian, old.
English, I think.
He'd come from the station, so...
..I think he was on his way home from work.
Oh. How old is "old", like, 70?
Sort of your age.
OK.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
Is that the trip where they make you climb inside the body of a bear?
I think that's a film.
SHE SIGHS
OK, so you need to sit your mum down and explain to her
that signing you up to this kind of thing doesn't bull kids.
It turns them on each other.
It's Squid Game, basically.
So, do you want me to cross out your name as well?
Give me that pen.
Yeah, your mum will definitely love that!
RINGING
TYRONE: Dean Malone.
Right now, all we know is that he lived in Partick and that
he nearly completed his coffee loyalty card.
Well, there's a lesson. Have no regrets.
Pathologist thinks he was knocked out from behind,
before being dragged into the water.
And this cap may have come off in a struggle,
and if we're lucky, it's the attacker's.
Yeah, cos we've had so much of that recently!
Well, we're still here, aren't we?
BLAIR: She saw a man holding someone thrashing about under the water,
then he ran off towards Thornwood. Um...
Dark coat, shaven head.
Big, though. Solid.
Is that all she got?
Poor kid kept hidden.
Didn't want to be next, probably.
I'll get a statement and call Social.
Mm. Have we got any more about the phone?
Digital forensics are getting the SIM cloned,
but it was bought from a wee shack in Cessnock.
I don't suppose they remembered who bought it?
Just "someone".
There you go. Case closed.
Is it worth taking Aisha to the train station tomorrow,
try and point out who she took it from?
I mean, if he's a commuter...
OK. Good.
Are you OK?
Yes!
Sorry, we're dealing with another case so soon.
Did you do it?
Really didn't have time.
Then there's no need to apologise.
MICHAEL: The victim worked for Redline Cruises,
as an entertainment manager. Explains the cap.
He was sacked for gross misconduct three weeks ago.
How gross is "gross"?
Well, I don't know where they set
the bar on cruises. Ah, right.
They won't have been fed.
Poor wee mite.
So, listen, I don't know if telling you this is a good idea,
but I've been thinking that if something bad
was to happen to me... Is this still about Morgan?
Well, you were asking if she'd be OK on her own. No, no, I get it.
Astrid doesn't like us flying together
in case the plane goes down.
We haven't been on a mini-break for a decade.
Well, that's obviously its own tragedy, but there are two of you.
Ah, not your folks, then?
Um... They live on a glacier.
That, nurturing, and Morgan doesn't speak Norwegian,
and I'd rather she just stayed... HE SNIFFS
You OK?
I think I might have given the fish weed.
Right.
I'm sure it's fine.
Sorry, go on.
I might try this another time.
The block opposite has a doorbell cam.
Get that checked, will you? I'll... CAMERA CLICKS
..find a bowl.
Hmm.
Uh...
Ah!
Still got the old magic?
Well, it's got the old something.
Well, getting it was your idea. You wanted a carbon-neutral holiday.
It wasn't THAT carbon-neutral. It caught fire.
That's true, but that's because I haven't mastered bushcraft,
whereas you... Will be taking out my own appendix with a penknife.
OK, that wasn't on the list of activities.
Ah!
Cosy. Mm. Uh...
ANNIKA GROANS
Ah!
Huh.
ANNIKA SINGS LULLABY
You'll be off before me!
True.
Michael's daughters are nice.
Yeah, they...
..definitely are.
They were singing in the car. It was really sweet.
I might take up some baby-sitting for them.
Well, you know, it's a busy year.
You've got...exams and homework and...
..penknives to sterilise. Actually, the school trip
needs parent helpers and I signed you up.
You did... What?!
Well, who else am I going to ask? Oh...
What's this?
It's a guppy.
I said "puppy", how many times?!
I think it might be stoned.
Michael's probably going to ask why I waited 16 years
to tell him he's Morgan's father.
I mean, it's a fair question.
And it's possible he'll react the same way as the seal and...
..disappear to sea.
But this is also about backup for Morgan,
in case I get...blown up or...
..fall off scaffold or whatever.
And I'm not expecting him to jump straight into any actual parenting.
He doesn't have to...
..teach her the flute or take her to the rope museum or anything.
I just need him to keep Morgan safe...
..because she can't live on a glacier.
I might be flexible about the rope museum.
BLAIR: The reason you're here is because you fired Dean Malone,
and now he's dead.
Well, OK. Technically, I was the one who did the firing,
but I had nothing against him personally.
Hardly knew him. Why was he let go?
SHE SIGHS
He picked up recreational drugs at various ports,
supplied them to passengers.
He made an attempt to justify it, said,
"Look at the rebookings!"
Then he tried to wriggle out of it altogether,
implicated another staff member. Who was that?
The pool lifeguard, Richie McEvoy.
He had to go too.
Wasn't that happy about it.
You or him?
Well, both.
Richie thought he'd been stitched up, and I had a recruitment problem.
Still have.
Have you got an address for this lifeguard, Richie McEvoy?
Somewhere.
Hope I didn't shred it.
Wait here a second.
SHE SIGHS
So, here's my thing.
Uh-huh? I am a wee bit pregnant.
What? Well, you know, completely pregnant. How long?
A couple of months.
Well, wait, you...
You rescued me from the... I know.
You chased a motorbike! Well, I didn't know then.
And it was a moped. OK.
OK.
First... Firstly...
..I love you. All right?
It's, it's excellent.
So that's... It's...
You know? Secondly, I don't think you should use a Taser.
I think it it might... Zap the baby? Well, I don't know if that's
a thing. But, um, uh, thirdly,
it's possible that I'm still concussed, so...
..I'm going to be really emotional about this. Well, you're...
You're doing great so far.
Good luck at the train station.
I'll knit it something! Please don't knit it anything. Uh..
What if he sees me?
You're quite safe. There's lots of us here.
So, listen,
I'm going for Inspector. Yeah?
Because you know we've already got one? Yeah, of course.
I'll be looking for a transfer.
What do you think? It's what you want, mate.
Just think of it as a bit of a lottery.
You wouldn't want to find yourself somewhere where there's
nothing happening. Yeah.
Well, it might not happen, anyway. No-one gets it the first time.
She did.
Anything? Just a false alarm so far.
All OK, Aisha?
Well, our career paths have been sorted,
so that's a big relief!
Him! You sure?
Definitely. Over there, it's him!
Ugh! Agh!
Wait with her!
Police.
Sorry for the drama, but we think we've recovered your phone.
You're very welcome.
HANDCUFFS CLINK
MICHAEL: Rihan Harijan.
20 years, an insurance broker.
Lives in Shawlands, no nominal record.
Nothing stands out.
Except a phone with a murder on it. Except that.
Kind of fragile. Are you sure Aisha got the right person?
You don't believe her? Well, sometimes, kids lie.
It's not impossible. Mine do.
Especially when they're in trouble.
Well, mine doesn't, so let's just have that for balance.
I'm just saying that maybe you're putting a lot of faith in a teenager
because you've got one.
I mean, he leaves me a lot of open goals, right?
Something else come in?
You were right about the doorbell cam. We got this from
Dean's neighbour the day he was killed.
Dean leaves his flat at lunchtime...
..and we see this.
And if we zoom in on the cap...
..it's the same one from the crime scene.
Who is it? We think it's Richie McAvoy.
He's an ex-lifeguard with Redline Cruises,
who the victim got sacked.
He can't get work in cruises now, so he cleans pools for a living.
I'd say he's still ripped up about it.
So, he follows Dean from his house,
whacks him, and drags him into
the river. Why would he film it?
Onboard entertainment?
So is this from the woman in the tent?
It's the best she could do.
It doesn't look like the lifeguard.
Doesn't look like our insurance guy either.
All right, go and talk to him.
Drive carefully!
Mm.
Fine, none of the suspects look like the Photofit,
but my guy kicked a kid's moped, so...we're talking to him.
That wasn't the royal we.
LAWYER: It's unacceptable that
he's been exposed to this.
He's already seen it.
It was on a phone which was taken from him yesterday morning.
I haven't been mugged.
I'd have reported it.
I've still got my phone. It's got football videos on it.
Some people look away, at least.
It's a terrible thing to see,
especially if they know the person.
Oh, I don't know him.
And it's not my phone. Is my client's DNA on it?
We're waiting on the lab.
Then we'll look forward to that.
Because as far as I can tell,
it's just the word of some mugger.
Oh, she's a credible witness.
But...that guy was killed two nights ago, you said.
Well, I was at the cinema with my sister.
What film did you see?
Oh, it was in French. Um,
I think it had the word "Rose" in the title.
Or "Dog", maybe. Sounds great.
Yeah, it was. Yeah, and his sister will confirm.
I don't know why we're still here.
Because, um, he ran when he saw us.
I dodged my fare.
It was dumb. It was dumb. I'm sorry.
HE LAUGHS
I work in insurance.
It's not exactly thrilling!
And the barriers are mainly open, anyways.
It just gives me a bit of a kick.
I'll put my hands up to that, but not this.
Well, we've got your wallet, and we found train tickets in it.
Can they do that?
Yes.
So why don't you tell us why you really ran?
TYRONE: Wow!
Congratulations.
BLAIR: Thanks.
So do you want to stay in the car, then? Why?
Well, because we're about to go and interview a murder suspect.
Do YOU want to stay in the car?
Well, no, but then, I'm, you know...
No, what were you going to say?
I'm...happy for you,
and I wish you all possible joy in the world.
Well, I think it's too soon to release him.
He's got no connection to the victim and a decent alibi.
We've got nothing to hold him on.
Except he lied about the train ticket, he ran when he saw us,
and, you know, he couldn't remember the name of
the film he saw. Well, it's French.
That's not a crime.
SHE SIGHS
Let's at least check his alibi, OK?
Because let me tell you, there are hundreds of old ballads
about slippery creatures like that. Oh, yeah? Any of them
about insurance brokers with burner phones?
OK, but in the one I'm thinking of,
the mother clearly doesn't trust the seal,
because he's often just an ordinary man when it suits him, and...
..that's pretty slippery.
So much so, in fact, that even when he dies,
she demands some kind of proof.
Yeah, that's definitely me.
I was just catching him up before going out.
Where? A couple of bars on Bath Street.
I thought you hated him. Yeah...
Yeah, I did, for a bit.
But then he had all this regret, wanted to make it right,
made a real effort. Gets you in the end.
Yeah, I liked him.
Yeah, poor bugger.
We found this at the crime scene.
He borrowed it off me.
There's a bar where the Redline guys go,
you get a discount with a cap.
You didn't go too?
We started at lunchtime. I couldn't keep up.
I left him pished and mouthy at a taxi rank.
Which one? Gregor Street.
Yeah. Morgan asked for a code name... Mm. To be picked up?
..and now she's given all my kids one.
Wait, Morgan's at your house?
Yeah. They're all making aubergine parmigiana.
And that's definitely food, is it?
We'll save you some, if you like. Excellent. Delicious.
Sorry. Had to sort out Dwayne in the weights room.
He's torn a bicep.
You were asking about the cinema? Yeah, with your brother.
Yeah, it was the Regis. He called up last-minute.
This French thing.
He paid, actually, which was weird. Mm.
Perhaps he needed proof he was there.
I can't think why.
Uh, lasted hours. Dropped him home past midnight.
Did you stop on the way back? No, we took a taxi.
Oh, hang on...
Do you recognise this person?
Friend of your brother's, maybe?
He doesn't really have any friends.
To be honest, he doesn't like people that much.
I mean, they can be annoying, but for him, it's more like
they're the reason he hasn't progressed in his life
as much as he should.
He might have a point. All his managers are younger than him.
Eats him up.
Do you worry about him? Uh...
Here you go. That's the journey.
Who gives two stars? Well, Rihan.
It's how he gets his little retributions on the world.
Is he OK? What's he done?
He's being questioned about a murder.
So it would be good to know a bit more about
these little...retributions.
This is at 17:10.
There's our insurance guy at the cab.
And there's our victim, Dean, in the cab.
We have two cameras covering this area.
Hmm. OK.
Here's the second camera angle.
Pretty brutal queue-jumping!
Wow!
I mean, that'd have me raging.
Keep it running.
Run the driver's plates.
For the first time, we've got a good match.
Cab's registered to a Jaden Stanton.
Ex-military,
done time for assault.
Last-known address in Cessnock.
Where the burner's from.
Explains why our insurance guy's got a solid alibi. Huh!
His cabbie did the killing for him.
So it was a hit?
PHONE CHIMES
It's the cloned burner phone.
"Where's my payment?"
I hired a cleaner once.
Uh, even hired a tree surgeon.
But a...hit man?!
That's madness.
Well, we've got CCTV footage of you getting hit
by the murder victim, Dean Malone, and then we see you getting
into a cab driven by Jaden Stanton.
A violent man, who beats up people for money.
You give him a monologue about how the victim's
just like all those other young, got-to-be men,
doing better than you, shoving past you...
Humiliating you.
So you follow the victim to the bar,
where you're told to get yourself an alibi.
Meanwhile, your cabbie waits outside. He kills the victim
on his way home and films it on a burner phone as proof.
We've got ANPR of his car near your house at 11.
That's him dropping the phone off.
And then today, he sends you a text
by name, threatening to put you in a ditch if he isn't paid.
Does that sound like your tree surgeon?
I regretted it... It's all right.
I regretted it straight away.
What's going to happen to me?
Well, for starters,
you're going to help us catch him.
So the hit man still doesn't know we've got the phone?
No. So we'll have Michael and Tyrone on this spot.
Uh, I'm here with Blair,
Rihan on the bench..
..and armed support
on a RIB here and here.
Mm-hm. Think you'll keep it together?
Do you want me to do it another way? Uh...
You haven't done the hot debrief, Annika.
Haven't even opened the link. Well, you know,
your car's being really supportive.
OK, so I'm not going to force it on you if you don't want it,
but you're stressed about something and my car isn't
that qualified, hmm? This looks fine, by the way.
OK, so it turns out that my worries about telling Michael
that he does, indeed, have a teenager
look an awful lot to the outside world like...
..post-traumatic stress disorder.
Huh.
The one in your ear's for Rihan,
your regular radio for us.
Rihan? Can you hear me?
Whose money is this?
So, as soon as you see Jaden,
and he's seen you,
then put the bag in the bin to your left
and walk back where you came from, OK?
Yeah, you told me already.
Well, I'm telling you again. And try to be as normal as possible.
Out.
FEEDBACK
That's going to be the biggest challenge. Huh...
DS Clarke and McAndrews in position.
Yep, us too.
You know what? We should have arranged to meet him
at a restaurant, and then we could have done the joke about
a disappointing steakout. See...
..with gags like that, you'll
sail through the interview. Hmm.
TYRONE: I don't know how the boss feels about it.
She plays it close.
She'll be fine.
She's an open book. Wait, hold up.
Stand by. White male approaching.
Dark coat, blue scarf.
No-one move until I give the signal.
Rihan? Male approaching, on your left.
I don't know. It might be.
Oh, we're going to need clear yes or nos here, Rihan.
He's got too much of his face covered.
No. No, it's not him.
That's a negative.
TYRONE EXHALES SHARPLY
ANNIKA: Don't stand up like that, Rihan.
He's late. Think he's onto us?
Text him again. Ask where he is.
PHONE KEYBOARD CLACKS
SENT-MESSAGE TONE
TENSE SIGH
So, is the father happy?
I'm going to tell him tonight.
Uh-huh. Well, I hope that goes...
..as it should.
Will he be armed?
You'll be fine.
There are officers nearby.
Look, that jogger's one of ours.
Yeah, don't talk to him!
RADIO: Got a boat making an approach.
ANNIKA: OK, move in.
QUIET OUTBOARD MOTOR
Rihan, we think this is the one. He's behind you, to the right.
That's him. ANNIKA: OK, you know what to do.
Stay calm.
Bag in the bin,
and walk away, Rihan.
You're doing great.
Am I going to prison after this?
Let's just focus on what you're doing right now, OK?
STANTON: Is that my money?
ANNIKA: Bag first. Rihan?
FEEDBACK
Ri... Rihan?
He's ditched his phone.
ANNIKA: Go on the target!
OFFICERS: Armed police!
GUNSHOT
Oh!
OFFICERS: Armed police!
Armed police!
Stay down! Stay down!
HANDCUFFS CLINK
You OK? Who's armed with a flare gun?!
Well, I look forward to the next "hot debrief"!
Er, yep, he's having a go, too. Mm.
Oi!
Huh...
METALLIC CLANG
Oh! Got him.
Might need a medical team.
It's not even real money, Rihan!
OUTBOARD MOTOR RUMBLES
SIREN WAILS
MICHAEL: It's nice about Blair.
The first one's kind of special.
They are. Yeah.
OK...
..I'm going to tell you a thing about,
uh...a Norwegian woman and a seal,
and you're not going to know...
..where I'm going with it, but bear with me.
This is not the Silkie of Sule Skerry, is it? Because
that is one weird ballad. Well, there are weird elements to it,
but at the heart of it... Please don't tell me that
it helped you solve the case, because I'm pretty sure
we didn't arrest a seal.
Oh, please let me do this.
You going to sing it to me?
Whatever gets me through, frankly.
Come sing it inside.
The girls will get the recorders out.
ASTRID: Here you go, girls. Here we are.
Wow! Hey!
Look at that! Hi.
Mm!
KISSING
I'm lending it to Morgan for her bushcraft trip.
Oh, yeah, you don't need to do that.
No, no, it's fine. It's too small for us, anyway. It's pre-kids.
Well, you know, I was hoping the parent helpers
would be given a cabin, or a yurt, or something.
Oh, I crossed you off the list.
Thank God for that!
LAUGHING
You would have sung campfire songs.
She's going to sing right now, in fact.
Ha-ha-ha! Wow. Oh, great!
I am going to get you a drink. Oh, that's really kind,
but I think we should probably...
Sh... Um...
Thanks for the...lifts, Astrid,
and for the...Mediterranean food.
Um, sorry to run.
We've got, um...
..uh, stuff. But it was lovely to,
you know, meet the whole...
Um...
Oh.
Car, open the doors.
SHE PULLS HANDLE
Car, open doors, car.
SHE MUMBLES
SHE SIGHS
The Norwegian maid loses her child
to a seal and a bullet,
and that, that's tragic.
But she might also have lost her child to a seal
who has other daughters to play with
and a wife who makes delicious things out of aubergines.
Mum! You forgot the tent!
And that ballad, in my view, would be equally tragic.
Thanks for nothing.