Thorne: Scaredy Cat Page #4

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His name's Charlie.

He's a witness.

He's just staying here

for a few days, alright?

Just till we find him

somewhere safer.

His mum was murdered.

Someone tried to get him last night.

Oh... Oh, Jesus.

Your mate's still out there,

isn't he? Martin!

I'm your friend, Martin.

I'm gonna take care of you.

That's what friends do.

So what will you do for me?

Martin!

Hey!

DI Thorne has entered the room.

I killed Jana,

I killed the prostitute.

You tried to kill the boy,

yes, we know -

Last night you tried to kill Charlie.

So who's your mate going for?

Hm? Was it another witness?

Is that the way it works?

Charlie saw him, so who saw you?

Give us a name.

Oi, look at me!

Do you want to get us some coffees?

Why did you come to us, Martin?

Why give yourself up like that?

I told you.

I killed those two girls.

And I tried to kill that boy.

But it's not two girls, is it?

It's four. Four dead women.

OK, two, four.

Lock me away for four.

You'd do that?

Admit to murders you didn't commit?

What's he got on you?

Please just lock me away.

Why? You think you'd be safe inside?

Safe in your cell.

Maybe, until we catch him.

What if he's in the same nick as you,

eh?

On the same wing.

He stabbed Fiona Hutchinson 23 times.

He smashed Karal Turay's head in.

What's he going to do to you?

Do you think anyone's gonna come

running when they hear you?

I told you what I did.

You can't let him...

You help me get him and I promise

you, you will never see him again.

You didn't give yourself up to us

to confess. You wanted protection.

And I can't protect you unless I know

who I am protecting you from.

So will you give me his name, Martin?

What's his name?

I killed Jana Lovik,

I killed that prostitute

and I tried to kill the boy.

OK.

It's good news. We had a e-fit

in the paper yesterday

and a front-page photo of the

charged killer today. Double killer.

You know we didn't actually catch

this guy, don't you?

He gave himself up.

Don't split hairs, Tom.

He's only in here because being

locked up doesn't scare him.

His mate does.

He f***ed up last night,

but his mate didn't.

There's another body out there.

You don't know that.

Say we tell the press

that he didn't f*** up,

that he killed Charlie Turay

last night.

You're Palmer's mate, you read that

your mate was arrested, what d'you do?

Go to ground. Yeah, and we lose him.

Until he decides it's safe

and he starts it all over again.

But if you read that he did the job,

that he's still out there,

then the pattern continues.

But he'll know we've got Palmer as

soon as he starts looking for him.

Not if we release him.

For f***'s sake, Tom.

We release him and we stay on him. He

goes to work, goes home, as normal.

It's how we get his mate - when it's

safe and the pattern stays the same.

He'll do a runner. Where to?

Not to his mate. He's scared of him.

And if he does do a runner,

he'll run right back here.

Like he did last time.

Ruth, it's your call.

Come on, we've done it before.

What time does Palmer start work?

Come on, Ruth. Make a decision, huh?

Or let the clock do it for you.

Sir. Yeah? We may have another one.

Victor Perks, 58.

Vic, apparently. Lived alone.

Edale Road just up there.

Didn't mix much with the neighbours.

Seems he was a drinker.

Last seen alive 4pm yesterday.

It's an hour before Palmer tried

to kill Charlie. OK, bag it up.

Christ.

Strange. Powder marks in the wounds.

He fell over there.

Shot in the knee, crawled to here.

Then a man entered

a magazine into him.

So that's one victim each. Yeah?

Same day, within an hour.

The pattern - both male, both shot.

One nice, one nasty, one couldn't

do it, and one could, and did.

Yeah, but a five-year-old

and a 58-year-old man?

The rest of the victims were of

similar profiles, similar ages.

What's the connection? Palmer tried to

kill Charlie because he was a witness.

Yeah. So what did he see?

Sir, Vic Perks was a copper.

"Victor Perks

was a former detective CID."

"32 years' service

in East London and Borough."

Put "In 1992 he received the Queen's

Medal for distinguished service."

Got to get Ruth with us on this.

Cause of death was...

Multiple gunshot wounds.

Penetrating the heart, lungs,

spleen, tracheal artery.

Preliminary examination of the scene

suggests 17 entry wounds.

OK. Print it, take it.

Wait, Sarah, not you. Dave,

you take it. She's known you longer.

Hey, hey, nice and calm, yeah?

Sure you really want this? Yeah?

Palmer released?

I'm gonna get this f***er.

He killed one of us.

Come on, that's bollocks.

He's just another dead body to you.

Don't give me that police solidarity

thing. You didn't know Vic Perks.

Wanna know the reason?

I know you when you get like this.

You better be sure you're right.

If you're lucky, they'll say no.

Charge Palmer.

Charge Palmer, then bail him.

He's out.

You got what you wanted.

You said Palmer would be at work

by 9:
30.

Well?

Are you sure you can trust Palmer?

No, I'm not.

But he's not going anywhere.

For all he knows, his mate is watching

him right now, just like we are.

So this is the safest place

he can be.

You know how much this all costs?

I could do all this with a pair

of binoculars and a thermal vest.

Your shoes, sir. Marvellous.

They look good.

This had better f***in' work.

Palmer's here.

At least he won't have

to pay his phone bill.

So he calls Manchester.

That'll be his sister, right? Hm.

Oh, God, we've got ourselves

a hoarder.

Christ. Some bastard's

gonna have to log this.

He calls the same number

six times in the last week.

Five seconds, one second.

Two seconds, three seconds.

Sarah? Hm.

Vic Perks was calling Martin Palmer.

Palmer didn't just know about Vic,

he set him up.

Palmer told Psycho

where to find him.

Where is he now? Still at the hotel.

Why was he calling Palmer?

We pulled the voicemail.

If Vic left messages,

Palmer deleted them.

Why don't we ask Palmer?

I'm asking you.

We have a timeline. '96 to '98.

Perks was working CID Lewisham

while Martin Palmer was doing GCSEs

nearby at Lovelock Road School.

That's good work. Well done.

Palmer was, like, 14.

Do we think Psycho killed Perks

because of something that happened

at school?

He could have picked him up.

He didn't have a record. He's 14.

Anything would have been wiped off

the database by now.

Why don't we go and ask the f***er?

We'll ask him, Dave.

But right now we leave him

where he is. Do you understand?

I've got 60 coppers on this.

I don't want you or anybody else

screwing it up.

We need both these guys,

not just Palmer.

Yeah, well, just... Call me if

there's any movement, understand?

Yeah, I'm at the school now.

Alright.

Martin Palmer. Left us in '98.

Am I allowed to ask

what this is about.

No, sorry.

Thanks.

What does TS mean? Oh, TS.

This letter says "TS".

What does that mean?

It seems our young Master Palmer

got himself temporarily suspended.

Here it is. Just a week. No reason

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