Taggart. Local Hero.

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First broadcast 30th January 2010.

A body is found hanging from the swing frame in the playground on the recently rejuvenated Allerdykes Estate by a local 'Community Watch' member doing his early morning check.

Blythe Duff ... DS Jackie Reid
John Michie ... DI Robbie Ross
Alex Norton ... DCI Matt Burke
Colin McCredie ... DC Stuart Fraser
Katrina Bryan ... Pathologist Ellis Sinclair
Phil McKee ... Harry Wallace
Chris Young ... Tommy Bannerman
Katie McEwen ... Jennifer Cameron
James Ryland ... Martin Rourke
Heydn McCabe ... Frankie Hamilton
Leo Horsfield ... Rab Hamilton
Alicia Devine ... Elaine Harvey
Transcript
00:00How many people have been shot?
00:06What?
00:07Two.
00:08Me and Will.
00:09We've been everywhere.
00:10What?
00:11Come quick.
00:12It's on Clyde Street.
00:13Come quickly.
00:14Over here.
00:15I need you to let him go.
00:16Stay still.
00:17Don't move that.
00:18The going rate is for big news and they don't have to wait for Jack.
00:19What happened?
00:20Hi.
00:21So now you all know that life's the proof.
00:22Mr. Beattie.
00:23Mr. Beattie.
00:24Mr. Beattie.
00:25Mr. Beattie.
00:26Mr. Beattie.
00:27Mr. Beattie.
00:28Mr. Beattie.
00:30Mr. Beattie's allegations.
00:31I'm afraid I didn't hear them.
00:34Whoa.
00:35Yes, I know it's silly, but the world could already know me, too.
00:43Any place that I would be with, it's the only place I've ever seen this time of year.
00:55You should be out there, on Will Ramsey, instead of looking under my fingernails.
00:59The sooner we have any evidence, the better.
01:02Are you up to talking to us?
01:03Do you?
01:03If this helps find who did this to Will, eh?
01:05It was about the person who attacked you.
01:07Black clothes, yeah. I doubt it.
01:10He never spoke?
01:11No.
01:12Will and I were leaving the hall, and he was just standing there.
01:15He pointed the gun at me.
01:18I went for him.
01:20Not for me.
01:21No, just your defence contractor, Mr Burke.
01:23You don't think they know all the right people for someone like this?
01:26You think it'd be a mistake to dance?
01:27No.
01:28That's your job, isn't it?
01:29Which won't be helped by your little performance at the crime scene.
01:33I was nearly killed.
01:35I saw an opportunity to get the truth out there.
01:39He was short steered at the arm when I started.
01:41Good man.
01:42I recognise you from the funeral.
01:44Eh?
01:52I hate when they do this.
01:54Oh, I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning.
01:57Napalm.
01:57Between watching movies, did you manage to find time to do any actual work?
02:01Yes.
02:02Though rushing things is not conducive to good results.
02:05Inquiry.
02:06Interfering with your love life, is it?
02:08Ramsay died of two close group bullets to the heart.
02:10No powder burns or gunshot residue, so no.
02:13And that's locked to the more common handguns we saw.
02:15BT.
02:16Blood on his clothes and hands.
02:17Gunshot residue around the wound, but not much.
02:19Could he have fired the gun?
02:21The traces weren't strong enough to suggest he was ever that close.
02:23Duncan.
02:27Where were you, Michael?
02:30I was proud of him.
02:32I had any.
02:33But he rang yesterday.
02:35It's...
02:38He said we'd talk about it that night.
02:42We'll do everything we can to get him back.
02:47What's that?
02:49New motor.
02:50See the press is still sniffing about.
02:52Yeah, well, it can be free.
02:54Did you get promoted?
02:55The right horse came in.
02:56Folks.
02:58So, Robbie, let's go through it.
02:59Strike.
03:00Seaward Systems want foreign labour in the yard instead of rehiring the local biker,
03:05and they've been on strike for nine weeks.
03:07Aye, and fair play to them.
03:08Just leave it at home, Trotsky, alright?
03:11So, a mystery gunman turns up after the meeting last night.
03:14Kills Ramsay and wounds BT.
03:16Everything.
03:17BT's still alive.
03:18Well, BT said he went from the killer must've.
03:20Seaward Systems.
03:21A massive def-
03:22Of Cole's two-
03:23But his laptop wasn't at his flat.
03:26We need that.
03:27Whatever he had in Seaward Systems is more than likely to be on it.
03:30Do we really think I have a labour dispute?
03:32The strike is going to cost them millions.
03:34Well, let's find out what they've got to say.
03:35He was the first on the scene.
03:37And get me a list-
03:37A wee coneflap afterwards, and then I headed home.
03:40Two of them were still at it when I left.
03:43He'd be wanting the tape.
03:44Ross.
03:44And they call me a dinosaur.
03:47He's dead because he was sticking it to big business.
03:49This is all our fight, Mr. Ross.
03:51The rest of us just don't know it.
04:12Where's he going?
04:20Made you-
04:20Someone is trying to shut us up.
04:22Same clothes, black mask.
04:24What do you think?
04:27And you never saw him?
04:28I've said I didn't see anything.
04:30Oh, Rusty.
04:31Why don't you go downstairs, pet?
04:33So where was she?
04:34Just out.
04:36At a friend's place.
04:37Oh. What's your friend?
04:40Put that on the phone.
04:41My mother's.
04:43Are we done?
04:45What do you reckon?
04:47How many briefs is he going to walk in here?
04:48A few lawyers.
04:51DCI Burke, I take it?
04:54Yes.
04:55And you thought you'd put a stop to it?
04:57Or is it just coincidence that two of the leaders of that union have been attacked?
05:00Neither.
05:01DCI Burke, do you really believe we're in the business of publicity?
05:04These days, the pen is mightier than the sword.
05:07Tell that to William Ramsey.
05:08I did.
05:09Unlike BT.
05:11He was going to take it to the members, of course.
05:13And so were the union.
05:14How do you see it? Seaboard Systems have killed the only sane man in the world.
05:19All right, lads.
05:20Aye.
05:20It's by foreigners who live half our wages.
05:24Oh, we spoke to Seaboard Systems?
05:26They told us-
05:28No idea what you're to pay for work.
05:29Would you like to?
05:33No.
05:33Thought not.
05:34But now look who they've got doing their dirty work, eh?
05:39Mr. Carr.
05:42A word, in private.
05:47Thanks, fellas.
05:47About the offer you received from Seaboard Systems.
05:50E-mails that were sent.
05:52To you.
05:55Never seen any stick in that.
05:58Not a lot.
06:01We're a brotherhood, Mr. Ross.
06:03Do you think that'll be enough to get him shot?
06:05We know Ramsey wasn't black for working the lawyers.
06:08So will Ramsey?
06:09I checked with Lawrence Brown.
06:11There's something for us.
06:14A .45 caliber pistol used by the Argentinian military since the Second World War.
06:18It was smuggled back in 1982.
06:20Ship.
06:21Particularly anybody that saw action on the Falklands.
06:24We'll see what systems aren't lying in file.
06:26See if there's any kind of clique within the union.
06:28Right.
06:36And, eh, give me one of those single malts.
06:42Ramsey and Beattie.
06:44I'm going to have a chat with some of the strikers.
06:46Take your pick.
06:48First of all, to you.
06:52Yeah.
06:53Mind if I join in for a few?
06:58Matt.
06:59Ma.
07:01I'm very interested in your progress.
07:04You have a talent for understatement.
07:06A larval whiff of dragging our feet.
07:08I think I don't know that.
07:09All that local hero stuff isn't helping either.
07:14Don't cases like this make you wish for something a little ever, Matt.
07:16I understand.
07:17I'm sure you'll make the right choice.
07:20Keep me in touch with your progress in this.
07:22Boss.
07:23Our girl just got worse.
07:25Well, they're right.
07:26Chuck left her, but he was still one of us.
07:28So, is anyone in the union?
07:32Every Friday.
07:33There's no overtime coming in.
07:37Caledonians.
07:39They treat you almost as bad as seaweed bloody sisters.
07:42Is that your car out there?
07:43Yeah, it's yours.
07:43It'll be a skip by the morning.
07:45Jackie.
07:46I might have been busy tonight.
07:48Doing what?
07:53Paying for the overtime.
07:54And I paid your taxes.
07:56I should bloody well think so.
07:58Yeah, you did.
07:59Only way to get them to open up.
08:02Great.
08:03Thanks, BT.
08:03Serving the Falklands.
08:05Caledonian right.
08:06We'll get 17 other exes.
08:07Now, there's only three of them are Falklands veterans.
08:09And Patrick Carr was the first.
08:11Footage of the meeting.
08:12Ranch is on his lap.
08:13We never found it after.
08:15Ask.
08:32Recalculating.
08:49Recalculating.
08:54We had a week.
09:00Police had an evidence.
09:02Bloody hell.
09:03Okay.
09:05He was more of a father to him than he's used to.
09:06What happened to Will?
09:07We think the same man is responsible for both attacks.
09:11On Will and Cam Beattie.
09:12A timeline for the attacks.
09:14And Kirsty, that's all.
09:16It's Kirsty Yeager.
09:17Cam didn't want me to finish the job.
09:19Jamie.
09:20Who?
09:22Whoever shot him with that thing.
09:24So if you were banned from seeing Kirsty,
09:26how come Lorna brought her around that night?
09:28No.
09:37Is that why you got the gun?
09:39I've no idea what you're talking about.
09:42All right, let's talk about something you do know about.
09:45Why did you torch the offer put to the membership?
09:48Because they were getting nervous.
09:49What?
09:50So it was never mentioned at the meeting?
09:52No.
09:53So they wanted to reveal the offer.
09:55Giving an old trot like you a good no.
09:57He was betraying his comrades, wasn't he?
09:59I didn't kill him.
10:00Pistol.
10:01Bring any souvenirs back for the Falklands.
10:06So Lorna and Kirsty...
10:18What are you doing?
10:19Morning, Mr Beattie.
10:20I was looking for CCTV at the back.
10:23Hoping to get a wee look at your attacker.
10:25It must have been when Lorna was out, right?
10:29And Lorna found you when she got back?
10:33Car's alibi checks out.
10:34Attack on Beattie as well after the fire at the club.
10:37So where does that leave us?
10:39I mean, it makes no sense for Car to attack Beattie anyway.
10:42Well, if they were keeping things close to their chests about the deal,
10:46then somebody else could still have assumed that Beattie was in on it.
10:49Plenty of candidates.
10:49I mean, this guy fought home the night he was attacked.
10:52There's got to be some other connection here that we are missing.
10:54With Will Ramsey's nephew.
10:56Cam Beattie's not very happy about those.
10:58Now, at this point, according to the original...
11:00But then, Lorna goes out with the footage from the surrounding area.
11:05Be watched. Today. Long as it takes.
11:10He's looking at me.
11:11Ah, he's done.
11:13Oh, did I have to wait till my arse hit the sea?
11:15What is it? Orna?
11:18No.
11:19It's Jamie Curran.
11:22That's why I'm angry with you.
11:23Because I knew this would happen.
11:25I knew you'd think that...
11:28Think what?
11:30That Jamie had something to do with what happened to Cam.
11:34Where did you go that night, Jamie?
11:37Rubbish about homework.
11:40Cam Beattie.
11:42It used to be cool.
11:43Times of me and my Uncle Will, and then...
11:45When I start seeing Kirsty, it goes mental.
11:48Threatening me.
11:49Mrs Curran, right now, you're facing charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice,
11:53and God knows what's right around the time of the attack.
11:57Jamie, you know that.
11:58Now, if you've got anything to say to help yourself, now's the...
12:02I did it.
12:03No.
12:04But I...
12:05I wasn't gonna let him stop us seeing each other's...
12:07Anything.
12:08He's just a boy.
12:11All this, he's...
12:12He's just trying to protect her.
12:14Protect us all from him.
12:16Shut up!
12:16To be here.
12:18I did it.
12:19Don't you see?
12:22If you really want to protect her,
12:24you have to tell the truth to these policemen.
12:27Tell them, son.
12:31She was...
12:34I was so...
12:36I know what you mean.
12:39We love each other.
12:42Her father.
12:43He'd been doing it since we...
12:45Perfect.
12:49So what happened?
12:52When was this?
12:53A couple of days ago.
12:55He promised to sort it.
12:58So he can...
12:59That night they both got shot.
13:01Cam didn't see him when he got out of the hospital.
13:03And it was just like what he'd been doing.
13:07She just...
13:08Stop it if you saw that one coming.
13:10And the attack on Beatty?
13:11Aye, for Lorna.
13:13It would make sense if her movements and the fact that she lied about them.
13:16So Lorna phoned an ambulance to...
13:19Tells us it's the same mystery assailant that shot him at the club.
13:22Which makes sense because of the attack on Ramsey.
13:25But if it's...
13:26Now what if he did the same thing at the ship workers' club?
13:30To give us a ghost to chase?
13:32Maybe she gave it to someone she could trust.
13:37I did.
13:40This is our...
13:42What?
13:45We just...
13:46We just want...
13:48Good.
13:52We've talked to Jamie and Gina.
13:54I don't know what you're talking about.
13:59Refresh your memory.
14:01As we'll find your prints all over it.
14:02None.
14:03We know what Cam's been doing.
14:05We can put him away.
14:07No.
14:08I won't put her through any...
14:09Then go ahead.
14:11But I'll never say why and neither will you.
14:13I don't know what you're talking about.
14:15Thirsty.
14:19Robbie, look at this.
14:23It's a union logo on his shirt.
14:25So why did he change his shirt?
14:27What if Ramsey confronted Beatty about...
14:29And then he shoots Ramsey?
14:31Forensics.
14:32Yeah, but if he wore gloves?
14:34Overalls?
14:35We know he changed...
14:36Out at the club, supposedly chasing...
14:38And no doubt chucks the gun on the laptop into the...
14:40And only then...
14:41Until now.
14:43You think I think I killed it?
14:46You'd rather take on the little man.
14:48One of your father would never have killed a friend to protect his empire.
14:52And a stub little sod would have sold us down the river with that bloody deal.
14:56So, carry on.
14:58But I didn't kill him.
15:00I didn't need to do that.
15:02My men would work.
15:04They love me.
15:06So, did you find anything?
15:08You know we did.
15:10I've got no proof here.
15:13No.
15:13Are you telling me you never suspected?
15:16I didn't know anything.
15:19Oh, God.
15:23I wanted to put him away for the rest of his life.
15:30When Kirsty told me...
15:33It all clicked, you know?
15:38How could I not?
15:42He came in.
15:45I sat...
15:48Around him.
15:49Follow him.
15:51Listen to him.
15:53I so wanted to believe him.
15:54He was the only one you'd get in any trouble.
15:57If we get rid of the evidence...
16:00Blame it on whoever.
16:04I'm busy.
16:05So are C.
16:06What about him?
16:07A murderer.
16:08A liar.
16:09You're the only one accusing me of anything.
16:14I'm on your way.
16:15Now, I can't prove you're a murderer.
16:17A man who had sex with his nine-year-old daughter.
16:19Shut your mouth.
16:20Ramsey, yes.
16:21I haven't got enough evidence to convict you of killing.
16:23Testifying to the fact that you've been having sex with a girl for the last four months' time for that sort of a man.
16:28You're bluffing.
16:29Well, Ramsey would say that.
16:33I don't know if there's a union in the Ramsey's wing.
16:36Tends to be every man for himself on there, you know what I mean?
16:39One choice.
16:41What?
16:42Confess.
16:43I want to put you away for the longest possible time.
16:46And if it saves that wee lassie a quarter of a pence, please.
16:49You bastard.
16:50It's all in the negotiation camp.
16:53Wake up.
16:56Well, are you?
16:59Aye.
17:00Fine.
17:04You should make a speech.
17:05The cameras are right over there.
17:10Happy.
17:11Aye.
17:13He was going to destroy everything.
17:29Yeah.
17:39A nice one to finish on.
17:40Detective.
17:41This is what I do.
17:43I'm not ready for the.
17:52Which country did the pistol from tonight's episode come from?
17:55A, Spain?
17:56B, Argentina?
17:57C, China?
17:59Phone 0901 293 3433.
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18:04Calls from other networks may be higher.
18:06And from mobiles will be considerably more.
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18:13Details at stv.tv forward slash win.