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?
Come out - no job, no home...
..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.
The time is 17.01. Re-commencing 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 going to be driving but I made a mistake.
You've got to 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,
being taken to a secure location.
How am I going to tell them?
In my experience, bad news is best told quickly.
Ready?
Yeah.
Thanks, guys.
Dad.
I'm sorry.
- Dad. - It's all right.
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. OK.
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'll give them information and in return they'll...
They'll...?
I'll be prosecuted but I won't go 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, they're doing a robbery
and I'm going to work for the police. Okay?
- No. - It's all right.
Sh. Katie, it's okay.
- It's okay. Come here. Just breathe. - Katie.
Come on. Breathe. Deep breaths.
- I'm sorry. - Stop saying that. It's too...
It's too late for that.
- Why, Dad? Why? - It's this or prison.
Katie, to get through this we need to be together, all right.
They're going to look after us, you know. We'll be safe. We'll be okay.
Protected how? How does this work?
Will they go down and you stay out?
I mean, they'll kill you. They'll...
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 don't want to do that. - Katie.
No. I don't want to do that.
Oh, 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 to him. - No, you listen to me. Go on.
Just look. Look. Look!
See? 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 him.
I'm assuming no one will be able to know where we are.
No.
My mum, 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 about Tim? - He's our son. He's away.
We don't speak to him. We don't see him anymore.
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 can't... We'd never see him again.
Look, he doesn't want to be part of us any more.
- We'd never see him again. - Look, he doesn't want us.
I'm not leaving my son.
He doesn't want to be with us any more.
Look, you've just got to accept that.
I can't ever accept that.
What choice do we have?
We'll take you to retrieve your taxi.
In one hour's time you'll get a call
through your work to attend a pick-up at Burton Road tram station.
That will 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 going to work.
Understand?
Yeah.
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,
you just stick as close to the truth as possible.
You found a man who was lying in the street, injured,
you took him to hospital, and then you fled the scene.
The arrest was merely routine. Okay?
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, huh?
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 if 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.
Is that them?
- Hello? - Where the hell have you been?
Sorry, my car broke down, so...
You're needed. Pick me up in half an hour. At the club.
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.
Listen, 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.
Not tonight, chief.
I'm here to meet The Horse.
Are you the driver?
- Yeah. - I'll take you through.
Vince...
keep Thursday free.
It's Thursday.
Come round this Thursday.
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. No, he wasn't.
Dropkicked him into the pond behind our house.
Come on. In you go.
They've pissed in the lift.
What kind of a personal standard that you have to have piss in a lift?
I've pissed in a lift.
Something beat that. Mate of mine shat on a escalator.
-
My god.
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.
They still use old-fashioned security...
We only discuss this job in this room.
Oh, Vince?
I think you know enough, hmm?
You're just the driver.
So make yourself useful.
- Yeah? - I need to see them.
- Over my dead body. - Yeah, if necessary.
Just because you're playing at gangsters, Vince,
~ doesn't mean that you scare me. ~ I need to see them.
You're not coming in.
~ Don't be ridiculous. ~ You're not coming in.
~ Look, get out of my way, will you? ~ You're not coming in...
You can't stop me seeing my wife and kid.
- That is the end of it. - Just move.
Thursday?
Five more days as myself?
Five more days of this life?
I thought it would be longer. But at least this way we, um...
At least what?
Well, there's less time to be discovered,
less time for things to go wrong.
No.
- 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.
They've promised that, haven't they? 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.
That's not going to work, is it?
You'll 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.
Cos we never used to be like this.
We had fun, didn't we?
We were full of things that we wanted to do with our life.
And that is who I want us to be again.
Too much has happened.
So - what? You're just going to give up?
You're going to 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.
You allright, mate?
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.
As long as you stay in the driver's seat of the vehicle at all times,
no one will shoot you.
Hi, 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.
- You're late. - It was the traffic.
I thought you was a getaway driver.
I am.
Shame you've got to burn it.
You're late. Get in.
All right, mate.
Vince.
I'm having a piss.
You don't sound like you're pissing. Open the door.
- I'm sitting down. - Open the door, Vince.
Hang on.
- Open the door, Vince. - All right.
All yours...
I know it was 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, so here's what's going to happen,
we're going to go out there,
you're going to 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.
You'll find I'm the one holding the gun.
Come on, we've got a job to do, eh?
- We can't trust you. - We're mates, Col.
Don't pull that mate 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.
I'm under surveillance. I'm working for the police.
What...?
Are you lying?
Cos if this is lies to get out of this,
I'm going to take your knees right now.
It's the truth.
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, okay?
They know I know you,
but I told them that you were out of the gang,
that you were 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 going to tell them? Hm? What?
I tell them where I've gone? I mean, if I...
Col, listen to me. You can get out of this.
You can just walk away.
Are you two holding each other's others dicks in there or what?
Yeah,
you want to join us?
We leave in ten minutes.
What if I just tell them?
Then I die.
Is that what you want?
There's money.
It's in my shed.
It's in Tim's hard box underneath there... Take it.
Take it all. Take anything you want.
Go on, have it...
Go. Just be ordinary.
Big day, eh?
Big big day.
Oh! Hǎoyùn!
That's Chinese.
For good luck.
Hǎoyùn.
I can't believe Col walked out. I'm going to kill him.
Bottling bastard... What was he saying?
What were you two talking about in the bog?
Nothing.
Sorry. He just came from nowhere, didn't he?
I've got the fear about this. Something's wrong...
Just stay calm. Everyone stays calm, everything'll be cool.
You wait. Even if you hear sirens, you wait.
We all escape together or go down together. Right?
You get me sent down,
I'll make sure your daughter gets killed.
- Dad. - Tim.
I've left 'em. I've... I've come away...
Mum left a message saying...
soon that I'd never see you again...
I don't want that, Dad.
Where are you?
Burtonwood Services. First one out of town...
They don't know that I've left yet, but they will soon.
Can you come and get me, Dad? I want to come home...
I'm on my way.
Oi! Stop him!
Stop him! Oi... Stop!
What are you doing, you idiot? Stop!
Slow down, you grass. I knew it was you!
I knew it was you.
Armed police. Stay down! Stay down!
You bent bastard. I knew it.
Armed police. Stand still! Armed police. Stand still. Don't move.
Don't move. Get down on the floor! Get down on the floor NOW!
All right, all right, all right. Right, right, right.
Yes, we're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it.
Get down now! et down on the floor!
Dad.
Come here.
I'm sorry.
I thought I'd lost you.
It's all right.
Come on.
I'm parked over here. Get you home, eh?
- Yeah. - You're safe now.
Vince.
- Where the hell are you? - It's all right, I'm coming back.
Yeah, no. I'm coming back now.
Don't worry. I just had to do something, that's all.
Hello?
Ros,
I've got someone who wants to talk to you...
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