Wasteland Page #8

The three friends of yours,

you need to give me their names.

- No, I can't do that.

- Why not?

They can't be very good friends if they were

gonna leave you there twisting in the wind.

They're not criminals.

I shouldn't have got them involved.

You're probably right

given the coincidence we were talking about.

Now, I'd assume a smart lad like you

wouldn't have announced your intentions

to rob Steven Roper all over town,

so I also assume the only people

who knew about this were you,

your three friends and your estranged other half.

Now, you've got to be asking yourself,

Harvey, you've got to be...

...which one sold you out?

- No one sold me out

- You really believe it was coincidence?

Yeah. It's easier than believing it wasn't.

Right, well, let's stick with that pretence,

but if I could speak to them,

they might be able to get you out of

at least some of the mess that you're in.

I'm not giving you their names.

You're gonna make life very difficult

for yourself if you don't, Harvey.

The Rise Club suffered a break-in tonight.

We're gonna have to charge you

with breaking and entering, theft, ABH

and possibly even worse.

You've spent the entire night incriminating yourself...

Incriminating myself as what? Eh?

I didn't steal anything.

Roper was at the club.

Instead of taking his money, disappearing into the night,

I got the sh*t kicked out of me,

got dragged down here and my mates ran away.

DI West, can I have a quick word?

Right, for the benefit of the tape,

Sergeant Kendon has just entered the room.

I am pausing the interview at 1:30 hours.

Excuse me.

So, what you got?

I took Albert Redford round the club

in order to take a full account

of any damages or missing effects.

So what's the verdict?

Tills on all the bars have been broken into

and emptied of a decent amount of cash,

but nothing else was taken,

not even a bottle of Grouse from the shelves.

What about the offices?

Anything taken from the offices?

No. Albert was keen to take a look,

but nothing doing.

Bolted shut like a bomb shelter.

A few quid from the tills.

Not exactly Brink's Mat, is it?

Right, well, I guess that's that, then.

Not quite.

You haven't heard the interesting part yet.

We found the money.

Is there anything else you'd like to tell me?

No. I've told you everything.

Now, you've noticed that the tape is switched off.

Off the record, just between the three of us,

anything else you'd like to say?

No, I've told you everything.

Are you gonna charge me or...?

- It appears it's your lucky night.

- My lucky night?

The Rise Club was broken into tonight,

as you already know.

Money within the region of 1,200

was stolen from the tills in the bar,

which you don't know.

Officers have recovered the money

from the premises of Steven Roper Securities.

What?

Steve Roper's fingerprints were found

on several of the notes,

and alongside the money officers found something else.

A cellophane package

containing a powder, brown in colour,

which our friends in the relevant department

tell me is heroin.

Five perfect fingerprints

have been recovered from that package,

also belonging to Steven Roper.

We've also heard from the hospital.

He's still unconscious,

his face is a mess, but he's stable.

Now, charges will follow for you, Harvey.

A decent prosecutor will have a lot of questions

about the force you used against Roper.

But for now I am content to state for the record

that I believe self-defence

is what your actions constituted.

Being that the evidence is painting

the picture that we're currently seeing,

I also believe it would not suit the interests of the CPS

to pursue any further charges against you

concerning the Rise Club break-in.

Where does that leave us?

Well, that leaves us with conspiracy to commit a crime.

- Conspiracy?

- Well, conspiracy's a funny thing.

Some might call it jailing people for thought crime.

And you?

I think prosecuting a young man for ballsing

up breaking into a working man's club

would be an embarrassment to the court's time.

So where does that leave us?

- Well, for now you're free to go.

- Right now?

Yes, yes, just gotta process a few forms

and you'll be on your way.

Is it two or four? Or five? I forget.

Sunday league quarter finals,

there was a lad who looked a lot like you

put two away against Everton in the second half.

- We lost that game, though.

- Yeah. It was a good effort, though.

A pity he was let down by his team.

All right, thank you. I'll follow you.

When Roper wakes up and we charge him,

his brief will push for bail.

They'll set it high, but he will have the money.

Understand?

Yeah.

Won't be long.

Right, then, Mr Miller, you are free to go.

PC Nixon will escort you to the desk sergeant

and get you signed out.

- It's been fun.

- It's been interesting.

Steve Roper sent me to prison,

destroyed my life and tried to murder

my friend, and he was gonna kill...

I didn't lie.

Well, maybe a little, but only by omission.

I had the...

I had the sh*t kicked out of me, got dragged

down here and my mates ran away.

DI West, can I have a quick word?

Right, for the benefit of the tape,

Sergeant Kendon has just entered the room.

I am pausing the interview at 1:30 hours.

Hello, DI West.

I take it you saw the tape were recording

and decided to investigate a little.

Now, you could go running down the corridor

screaming for a blue light,

bring me in so we can talk more

about charges and evidence,

but what's the point in doing that

when you can sit down, listen

and not have to break a sweat?

Go on, sit down.

Comfortable?

Good. Now, I feel

I short-changed you earlier.

You sat and listened patiently

to a detailed account of the last few weeks

and I built it up, but, well, I didn't deliver.

I didn't lie.

Well, maybe a little, but only by omission.

I had my reasons.

But now I'd like to try that last bit again,

and this time I'll be sure not to leave anything out.

At 10:
30 we left the flat

for our first positions.

One of us in the steel yard to the east of the club.

Another behind the wall to the west.

And me and the third on the wasteland at the back.

We each waited for our time to move.

- Night, Tom.

- Good night, girls. See you. See you later.

No one goes near the front of the club until it is time.

It'll be lit and visible by the flats and houses.

Dodd, you'll be here, on the east side.

Make your way from the compound

to the east wall of the club.

The exterior bus network box and telephone exchange

is at the top of the building.

- You'll have eight minutes starting at...?

- 11 . It'll be tight but I'll do it.

Charlie, I need you to do something for me.

What, now?

F***!

Dempsey, you'll be here on the southwest

wasteland. You leave at 11:08.

You've got a lot to do.

We need it done by 11:15.

Piece of piss.

For f***'s sake.

For f***'s sake, come on.

OK. OK. That's enough. Go, go.

Dempsey, you need to be on the way

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