Incendiary Page #3

lover man, I think I know a man who can.

(Helicopter passes)

(Man) 'We are here today

'to honour the dead and to pray

for their families and friends.

(# Choir singing)

'An act of terrorism

is unpredictable, arbitrary.

'Its purpose is to kill indiscriminately.

'Whether mother or father,

'sister or brother,

'parent or child.

- Run that again for me will you, Gary?

- Is this the one I copied?

- That I'm not supposed to have seen?

- Yeah.

(# Choir singing)

(Chanting)

(Explosion)

This book is my life, my reason.

But today I lay it down.

For Muslims and Christians,

words have no meaning.

Today, the dead have more to say.

Here, rewind that bit.

Zoom in and rewind it slowly.

Yeah.

Sh*t.

So if this is one of the bombers

and the police must know that,

why aren't they telling us?

Did you go back to the trauma counsellor

at the hospital?

Yeah.

He told me to write a letter

to Osama Bin Laden.

Did you?

I don't know his address.

Well, if you find out,

perhaps you would let us know?

There was a Muslim nurse

at the hospital.

Her God wasn't a bombing God.

It's not their God that bothers me.

It's the buggers that sell them semtex.

People fool themselves that

they can understand the mindset here.

At the end of the day, this is a war

between two different species.

I'm not paid to understand the mindset.

I'm paid to prevent.

You didn't prevent May Day, did you?

No.

- I've got to go.

- I'll take you back.

No... Thank you.

'He looks like you, I think.

He's got a funny head.'

(Lenny) 'Look, he's dreaming.'

(Woman) 'Hello. Hello, bubblechops.

(Buzzer rings)

(Woman) 'Mr Rabbit's getting dizzy,

isn't he? Isn't he?

'Yes, he is.'

(Lenny) 'You can see it. There it is.

Wait. Go on a bit... a bit.

- 'Go on.'

- (Boy) 'Pigeon. Catch pigeon.'

(Lenny) 'Ah, you chased it away.'

(Woman) 'Wave to Mummy.

There's a good boy.'

(Door opens)

I'm sorry. I know... I know you said

to leave you alone.

I would've died that day

if I hadn't met you.

But I need to understand

why this happened.

There's a man in the footage

of the crowds...

and I think he's one of the bombers.

All the people in those seats are listed

as "missing, presumed dead".

So I don't know why the police

would withhold his identity.

His wife contacted the paper after

May Day to say that he was missing.

Her name's Ghorbani.

Then suddenly she stopped looking and

moved away. I traced her to St Albans.

I tried to talk to her.

She won't speak to me now.

She'll want to protect their child.

They had a son.

I'm sorry, we don't have them.

I can order them for tomorrow.

Thank you.

'Dear Osama,

'I wonder, did you celebrate

when you heard my boys got killed?

'Did you turn on the radio

and hear them say 1,003 dead?

'Did you put down your mat

over the rocks and kneel down to pray?

'I prayed.

'I prayed for the death toll

to go up to 1,004 and take me, too.

'They told me at the hospital

to write down my pain in a letter.

'I don't know if revenge

is what they had in mind.'

(Muffled voices)

'I've heard it said that grief

is like an animal, Osama.

'With a life of its own

and we are at its mercy.

'I don't know about that.

'Grief is the stillness of the world

the moment my boy left it.

'It's that quiet rain

that never stops falling.

'They say that grief transforms us.

'I know it's transforming me,

but into what?

(Bell rings)

(Tannoy rings)

'Owing to a power surge

at King's Cross,

'all overground and underground trains

have been cancelled until further notice.

'We apologise for any inconvenience

this may cause.

'Replacement bus services

are available outside the station.'

I think I've seen you

on the train from St Albans.

That's where I've got to get back to.

Do you want to see if we can find a bus?

I think it's where all these

other people are going, too.

So, where have you been today?

I've been to meet my Dad.

(Echoes) 'I've been to meet my Dad.'

- Jasper Black. I called earlier.

- Which department are you, again?

Victims' compensation.

This list should give me

a comprehensive run down

on everyone who was there that day,

names, seat numbers?

Not everybody. Some people

buy tickets, don't turn up.

Access to server seems to be denied.

Says here to refer

to the anti-terrorist unit.

Oh... OK.

- (Man) You're not having that.

- I've only got this much.

(Man) You can't have it, then.

You're 30p short.

I'll get it.

- No, it's fine.

- No, it's all right.

And something for him to drink, too.

- Do you work around here?

- Yeah.

Why have you got that rabbit?

It's my little boy's.

Let's see.

He could do with a wash.

Where is he?

Oh, erm...

He's er... he's gone away

with his dad for a bit.

When does he come back?

I don't know... soon.

How come you're always

skipping off school, then?

I don't like it.

I don't know anyone there.

And I have to meet my dad.

Where is he?

Where's your mum say he is?

He doesn't live with us.

She says he won't come back.

I know he will, cos he promised he'll

buy me a cricket bat for my birthday.

He told me to meet him

at the shop to get it.

That's where you go all the time,

to wait for him at the shop?

Yeah.

'It's funny what we choose

to believe in, Osama.

'They say you believe in paradise.

'My husband and my boy

didn't believe in paradise.

'They believed in Arsenal Football Club

and it took you to destroy it.

'To make me realise

that paradise was a grey day,

'on an English beach with my boy.'

I don't know why I didn't think

of looking for you here.

You're a very difficult woman

to track down.

I'd have thought you'd have

your hands full, fighting Islamic terror.

Well, even terrorists take

an occasional weekend off.

- So, where's that leave you?

- Well...

Actually, I was rather hoping

to enlist your help

in an ongoing project of mine.

You know what the best thing

about caravans is?

No.

Best thing about caravans is,

they're always exactly the same.

My dad used to say that.

"Wherever you tow them,

"when you close the door

at the end of the day, you're home."

Doesn't matter what day I've had,

if I imagine closing the caravan door,

I feel better.

Now that feeling's gone.

Ever since May Day, it's as if I can't

close the caravan door any more.

I can't leave the horrors outside.

That's what those bastards have done,

got inside my caravan.

If you don't mind my saying so,

Terrence,

you sound like a right nut job.

(Terrence chuckles)

You are a remarkable woman.

You know that, don't you?

You look nice in civvies, Terrence.

No one'd ever guess

you were an off-duty police officer.

- You're married, aren't you?

- Yeah, 15 years.

- You love her?

- Oh, what sort of a question is that?

Sort of question you ask a bloke

who tried to pick you up

at the Bomb Squad fancy dress disco,

dressed as a gladiator.

I was very drunk and er...

I hadn't realised you were the wife

of a colleague.

I was dressed as Pocahontas

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