5th September 2024
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00:00Like I said in court, I'm an alcoholic, checked with my GP, blackouts and this year the whole
00:21thing's got a whole lot worse.
00:24I, um, as far as I remember, I think it was early Boxing Day morning, after you'd had
00:35us all in.
00:37I think it was because the boarding in the doorway had moved.
00:43I mean that's when I must have seen him hiding out.
00:46I think I've followed Keanu into the caf, I mean it's most likely, isn't it?
00:52It's Cathy's caf.
00:57I remember Keanu being upset about his wedding to Sharon being called off.
01:06He didn't believe that you weren't Albie's biological dad.
01:11He was furious, aggressive.
01:15He turned violent, I mean he was violent.
01:19And I, I remember me, it was me.
01:26I picked up that, the meat thermometer, I picked it up and I, I, I stabbed him.
01:41You think all this or are you stating it as a fact?
01:47Keanu died in front of my eyes.
01:50I did it.
01:56Violent with who?
01:59You see Keanu was stabbed in the back.
02:07Mum's gone AWOL.
02:08Again?
02:09She ain't here.
02:10No, but all that stuff she said, all that guilty conscience stuff, Cathy, what if mum
02:14snapped?
02:15What if she's done something stupid?
02:21How did Keanu come to be wrapped in the Beals Hills tarpaulin?
02:25I did it.
02:26By yourself?
02:28Linda?
02:30All by yourself?
02:31Must have.
02:34Linda, I have to ask this.
02:37Are you under the influence of alcohol now?
02:39What?
02:40Because if you're trying to protect someone or you've been coerced into this confession,
02:42you do understand Dean Wicks is in custody.
02:44I have not been drinking.
02:45And if the moment of committing Keanu's murder is at the very least so vividly clear,
02:51I'm just trying to work out why it's taken you eight months to come forward.
02:54Because I'm a coward.
02:55And why none of the physical evidence corroborates your account.
03:02Actually, OK, all right.
03:07I suggest you go home, Linda, gather your thoughts,
03:10considering the events in court today,
03:12while it's understandable that you perhaps slightly overruled.
03:14What?
03:15Meanwhile, the investigation will continue.
03:20And I do need to make it clear,
03:22were what you told me proved to be true,
03:24alongside relevant charges,
03:26you'll also be facing a custodial sentence for perverting a course of justice,
03:30for giving a false statement against Dean Wicks.
03:32You may equally be charged with wasting police time.
03:35The judicial system is not a game, Mrs...
03:38I'm not playing.
03:39And we do not arrest people for something as serious as murder
03:42on the basis of uncorroborated accounts, hearsay, thoughts,
03:45partial memories or absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
03:48I've told you the truth!
03:50I have given you everything you need.
03:52And if you choose not to believe me, again,
03:56then that is your mistake, DCI Arthurs.
04:00Hang on, it weren't me who turned the screws, Johnny.
04:02Mum, it's just fragile, that's all.
04:04No, that was Dean.
04:05Throwing the murder trial, setting us all back to the start.
04:08No, I never did that.
04:10And I never said anything that Denise and Stacey weren't already thinking.
04:13Your mother ain't the only one back under the microscope, you know.
04:16And to be honest with you, Johnny, no-one, not even you,
04:19isn't going to go back under the microscope.
04:22I'm not going to go back under the microscope.
04:24I'm not going to go back under the microscope.
04:26I'm not going to go back under the microscope.
04:28No-one, not even you, is responsible for where she goes
04:31or how much Linda does or does not drink.
04:33I'm sorry, Kate, I just...
04:36What if it is not the booze?
04:39What if she has hurt herself?
04:41Just because she's trapped in this nightmare,
04:44it doesn't mean she's not still there.
04:46This whole thing is tearing her apart.
04:49Your mother is a decent woman who did one really bad thing,
04:54but for a very good reason.
04:56You know that.
04:57We just have to... have to have faith, OK?
05:01And trust that wherever Linda is, she knows what she's doing.
05:16Linda's gone rogue.
05:18I saw her leave, so I did a bit of digging.
05:21Word is, she's tried to hand herself in.
05:24What?
05:25Linda admitted to killing Keanu.
05:27Oh, God.
05:29God, what's she doing?
05:33Sounds like she tried to fawn on a sword and it's backfired,
05:36so we need to work out a new strategy,
05:38because if Linda's that desperate to offload...
05:43Right, um...
05:46You need to get me my phone, Richard.
05:48Oh, look, I shouldn't even be in here.
05:50OK, then you do it, please.
05:52There's people you need to call.
05:54You have to warn them.
05:56Now.
06:09Er, just up here.
06:10OK.
06:16Thanks, thanks.
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07:09You checking I ain't done myself in?
07:11Bernie, I...
07:12No-one has won today, Linda.
07:15No-one is further on.
07:16We're all just looking at mumps and mumps
07:18of more solicitors and the court.
07:22And I've got to make up my hours,
07:23so shut the door on the way out, yeah?
07:28No.
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07:53I know the relief when you finally hear it out loud.
07:59But I am...
08:02I'm doing this for myself as well.
08:06I'm desperate.
08:10I can't...
08:12I can't do this anymore.
08:16I can't go any lower.
08:22It's not something I can live with.
08:26You understand that?
08:32No.
08:34Yes, you do.
08:38You said it.
08:40I can't heat down in booze to block it out.
08:49I cannot drink myself to death, Bernie.
08:55Those kids, my little kids...
08:58I mean, they already don't have their dad and...
09:02And I should have done this months ago.
09:05You know, I wanted to do this right back on Christmas Day night.
09:08I...
09:12Tell me.
09:26Sharon...
09:29Didn't kill Keanu.
09:30Didn't kill Keanu.
09:39I did.
09:57Yeah?
09:58Belinda tried to turn herself in.
10:00What?
10:01Sharon thinks she's going to tell Bernie.
10:03No.
10:04No, no, no, Richard, you can't be serious.
10:07I am so sorry.
10:10I don't believe you.
10:12You...
10:13Bernie, Bernie, please.
10:15What person admits to killing someone
10:19unless it actually happened?
10:22I mean, in what world would I ever,
10:24ever pretend to do something that bad or that wrong?
10:31But I did, I did, I...
10:35Did he know he was...
10:40And did...
10:42Did he cry? Did he...
10:46Why?
10:48Why would you do that?
10:49Because I was trying to protect Sharon from your brother.
10:52No, Sharon is panicking. Mum could be anywhere.
10:54Belinda's not that stupid.
10:55Oh, she's been to the police, Sookie.
10:57Well, it's not stupid, is it?
10:58What Kathy said earlier was right, and you know that.
11:01I mean, even you surely have got a little bit of conscience in there somewhere.
11:04After everything we've made up.
11:07All right, listen, right, listen.
11:08If Linda does spill to anyone, we deny it.
11:11All of it, point blank, OK?
11:13We are in way, way too deep for the truth to come out now.
11:15Yes, I know that.
11:16I've got a house full of kids relying on me, Sookie.
11:18Amy.
11:19Chelsea, this is too much.
11:20All right, now, just stop, OK?
11:23Right.
11:24Johnny.
11:25You go over to the Vic, all right?
11:27There's a chance that Sharon's overreacting, all right?
11:29And there's a chance your mum might have gone straight home
11:31from the police station.
11:37Seriously.
11:39I can't do this.
11:40Look, you've got no choice, Denise.
11:42Cos if Sharon is right,
11:44you know, every minute you spend with her,
11:46cos if Sharon is right,
11:47you know, every minute you spend having yet another fit...
11:50Fit?
11:51Yes, another fit, Denise,
11:53is another minute closer to Linda potentially landing us in it.
11:57I'm going to the cafe.
11:58No, Sookie, wait.
12:01How are you going to explain barging over there
12:03at one o'clock in the morning?
12:06SHE GRUNTS
12:09SHE GASPS
12:10SHE GASPS
12:11SHE GASPS
12:12SHE GASPS
12:13SHE GASPS
12:14SHE GASPS
12:15SHE GASPS
12:16SHE GASPS
12:19SHE COUGHS
12:21You were coming with me.
12:23You were holding your hands up.
12:30And I just...
12:33All I can think is...
12:35Round and round my head,
12:37there are good men.
12:40There are good men.
12:44Sharon had stopped the wedding.
12:47She told him that he won't help his dad,
12:50Kian, who had every right to be upset.
12:56I mean, what if...
12:59What if I got it wrong?
13:03That split second?
13:08What if I hadn't reached out, grabbed it and stabbed him?
13:12SHE SOBS
13:13Oh, no.
13:16What if I'd let Kian carry on?
13:22Would he have really, I mean...
13:26Would he have really killed her?
13:29Or would he have calmed down?
13:33He might have done... He might have calmed down.
13:36Him and Sharon could have worked it out.
13:39Made up, maybe, maybe got back together
13:41like they had done 500 times before.
13:44You are admitting this to the old Bill.
13:46I tried.
13:48But they won't, they don't believe me.
13:50Well, why?
13:52Why?!
13:55Because Linda ain't a grass.
13:59Kathy.
14:07She...
14:09She weren't the only one there.
14:26Maybe if it had just been Kianu.
14:30All of you.
14:31But it weren't, Bernie.
14:33You already had Phil drag you off to their wedding.
14:36We'd already had Nish kick off in the Vic,
14:38giving it the bigger man, locking her in her own house,
14:41acting like he owned her.
14:43They had my back. I...
14:47I don't know how it would have gone.
14:49We were all just so...
14:52terrified.
14:54No, we were just...
14:55just so scared.
14:57Who was going to come at us next, you know?
15:02But I thought you were my friend.
15:04Yeah.
15:07And then...
15:09there he was.
15:11Kianu.
15:13You see, he...
15:14he came in on the back of all of this!
15:17Shatting his mouth off, throwing his weight around.
15:21You use words, Bernie.
15:23You use words, but they don't get through.
15:26What are you going to do?
15:28What do you do?
15:30Because we were all there, we saw him.
15:33He was choking the breath out of Sharon.
15:37What was we meant to do?
15:38Just...
15:39step back and...
15:41watch the life drain out of her face?
15:44No, we...
15:46Linda...
15:47Linda saved...
15:49Sharon's life.
15:51But...
15:52no-one meant for Kianu to die.
15:55You should have got the police.
15:58We should have, yeah.
16:00We should have.
16:01Who was going to believe us, eh?
16:04Hysterical women.
16:06We were all implicated, dragged into it,
16:09just... just from being in there.
16:12You know, once... once it happened,
16:14once that horrible, horrible thing had happened,
16:19every lie was just built on a lie, and then...
16:24What about our children?
16:25All our family's gone.
16:26All the people who need us, rely on us.
16:29All our children.
16:40You killed my brother.
16:44And you covered it up.
16:47You dumped him with other bits of rubbish in a hole.
16:52And you left him to rot.
16:54And all of you,
16:57you just stood back.
17:02You watched me
17:04when the only thing I had left
17:06was working in here.
17:09You just...
17:10You let me walk over my brother's dead body.
17:14I was just blaming myself.
17:18What was I?
17:20Like nothing?
17:21What was I?
17:23Like nothing?
17:25Like collateral damage?
17:28So you fight fire with fire and you say,
17:30and that's right.
17:32And then you watch my mum lose it.
17:35And what was left of mine, my family,
17:37my family, you fall apart.
17:40And I meant to...
17:45You seriously
17:48want me to feel sorry for you,
17:49for trying to keep hold of yours?
17:54It...
17:55It wasn't my fault, was it?
17:57None of this was my fault?
17:59No.
18:00No?
18:01No.
18:09So I'm meant to go to the police?
18:12Get the truth out and finally get justice
18:15for my brother?
18:16Yes.
18:17Yes.
18:18Yes, yeah, you are.
18:21If you call that justice?
18:23Yeah.
18:24If you've got the evidence?
18:26You ain't surely going to argue with her?
18:32Please, Bernie.
18:36So...
18:38Please, can you just...
18:40Just give us
18:41a little bit of time to say goodbye to the children?
18:48God.
19:19I'm so sorry.
19:21Bye.
19:47Conscience feel better now, does it?
19:50I'm sorry.
20:20Shh.
20:50It's all right.
20:51Yeah, it's all right.
20:52We'll just leave it.
21:20I'm sorry.
21:51Yeah.
22:06Hello?
22:09Yes.
22:12Now?
22:14OK.
22:15I'll...
22:16I'll come in.
22:20OK.
22:50I'm sorry.
23:07What the hell, Lind?
23:08Look, you've got ten minutes, Max.
23:10Prison van's in.
23:12Bernie.
23:13You told Bernie, have you fun?
23:15You lost it.
23:16I mean, you have made everything so much worse.
23:18She could be on the phone to the police any second.
23:21Well, then she is.
23:24I've done the right thing, Sharon.
23:28Do you want me to kill myself over this?
23:32I'm sorry.
23:34I know this is all my fault.
23:35I know you've just been trying to protect me.
23:37But...
23:38I had no choice.
23:41I have to find a way
23:43to live with myself.
23:46What about the rest of us?
23:48Please.
23:50You and I both know
23:51that if it hadn't come out this way,
23:53it would have come out somehow.
23:56Just ask Dean.
23:58The truth catches up with you.
24:03Yes.
24:19What I'm...
24:20What I'm trying to tell you is...
24:30I was in...
24:31I was in the cafe.
24:34Tonight.
24:43I was in the cafe.
24:49I can't...
24:51I can't do this anymore.
24:54It's just too complicated.
24:55I've had enough.
25:00It's just like...
25:02shock...
25:04after shock.
25:06And every one of them just...
25:08punches you in the stomach.
25:13I mean, I don't even know what justice looks like anymore.
25:16Nothing.
25:18And no one will bring Keanu back.
25:25I miss him, Mum.
25:37Yeah, OK.
25:39No, no, no.
25:41It's fine.
25:43No, it's...
25:44No, it's...
25:47It's late. I'm tired.
25:50It's fine.
25:52You don't have to worry about me.
25:55Yeah, no, I will.
25:57Yeah, no, I'm gonna call Keanu when I get home.
26:02Yeah.
26:03Yeah, a week away.
26:05A little holiday.
26:09I'm sure everything will...
26:12look better and all.
26:15Yeah.
26:18Yeah, I love you too.
26:21OK.
26:44OK.
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