Wasteland Page #9

out the lounge by 12 minutes past.

Dodd, that's when you cue Roper.

Four, three, two, one.

- That's the club.

- Do you want me to deal with it?

Your man's coming round to buy weight

any time now and I don't wanna deal with him.

If I don't call in 10 minutes, you know the drill.

Come on, Charlie, for f***'s sake.

Dodd, you rip out the wires at 11:14.

Rip from below the concrete so they can't

turn it off without shutting down the grid.

Yeah, I know, Harvey, I know.

Dempsey, you need to be finished with the

door by then. Then I want both of you gone.

- I don't like this bit, Harvey.

- Me neither.

- It's how it is or it all goes tits up.

- Don't know, mate.

It's how it is.

What the f***?

They didn't panic, they didn't make mistakes

and they certainly didn't sell me out.

They had done more than could have been asked of them.

The next part were mine.

Fancy meeting you here.

I'm gonna f***ing enjoy this.

Not too late, am I?

No, Steve. You're right on time.

I'm not gonna use this.

It'd be like wearing a condom

to f*** a girl you really like.

One step and you'll swallow this crow bar.

As if you had the balls.

Won't cost you to find out.

Go on, take a swing, see if it works out.

What are you waiting for? Come on. Have a go.

You've got two choices, Harvey.

You can either run away now and maybe

you'll get far enough I'll never find you,

or you take a swing.

But if you do, you'd better swing hard,

'cause if I get back up,

my face as I bury yours into the ground

will be the last thing you ever see.

You're out of your f***ing league!

I f***ed you, Harvey.

I f***ed you and I f***ed your little mate

and there's nothing you can do about it.

That's not exactly true, though, is it?

Well, what are you gonna do?

Rip off the club? It's not mine.

Threaten me with a crow bar?

You think I'm scared, Harvey?

You think I'm gonna apologise?

Beg for your forgiveness?

- I don't want your f***ing apology.

- Well, what do you want?

To watch you die.

You've not got it, to kill a man.

- Have I not?

- Go on, then.

If you've got the bollocks, have a go!

I'm gonna take you for everything you've got.

I'm gonna put you down and I'm gonna smile while I do it.

And I'm just gonna let you?

It's already done.

Oh, what a shame, a bus load of people.

Kind of takes the arse out your plans, doesn't it?

Not at all.

You're standing in front of a business

with a busted door holding a crow bar.

You're f***ed, Harvey.

Don't f*** yourself harder. Walk away now.

How can I? I haven't put you down yet.

And you won't. You might be a prick,

but you're not a stupid prick.

On the other hand,

I'm just a hero, acting in self-defence!

Call the f***ing police.

Then the police came and I were arrested.

Then I met you.

Steven Roper sent me to prison, destroyed

my life and tried to murder my friend,

and he was gonna kill me.

I hope you believe I were justified.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about the money.

After all, wasn't that the point?

As you said earlier, it's a shame it hadn't worked out,

and you were right, it hadn't worked out,

not yet, anyway, so here's the fun part.

How do you get into the room of a building

to break into a locked safe

when the building is teaming with police,

the room is in the basement,

the basement has no windows

and the door is as secure as a vault?

Like every good schoolboy knows,

you have to do your homework.

Charlie, get back to your first position

as quickly as possible

and get down there and wait.

It's f***ing awful down there.

You can give me a crash course in steelwork

if you think we've got the time.

Can someone shut that f***ing alarm off?

Cabling's knackered.

We're gonna have to power down the grid.

Just get it done.

- Everything in order?

- Yeah, looks to be fine.

As you know, Detective, everything

has a weakness. You just have to find it.

- So you're saying there's no chance, then?

- Not a sniff.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to take a piss.

Only went five minutes ago.

Must be the sound of running water.

Shame you wasted your time, though.

No...

For Christ's sake.

I had them cut the power.

Come on, let's get back up.

Funny that while I were chatting to you

and Roper was sinking further into the sh*t,

the safe in the Rise Club were being emptied

of all his ill-earned money.

There's a couple of reasons why I'm telling you this.

Being a smart arse is just one of them.

Another is that you seem genuinely concerned

for my wellbeing,

so I thought I'd put your mind at ease.

But mainly it's because I need you

to restore my faith in humanity.

You have a choice, DI West.

You could pretend you never heard this tape

and let a man you know deserves it go down

and let us walk away.

Or you could alert the police at the port

and have us brought in.

I suppose I won't know till we get there.

Ey up.

- F***ing hell!

- You all right?

- All right?

- F***ing hell. You took your time.

I thought you'd been taken to the big house.

F***ing drive before they change their mind.

Everyone all right?

- Better than all right, mate.

- We've only gone and done it.

It's soaking wet.

You would be if I dragged you 20 foot

through a flooded storm drain.

- How much is there?

- 75,000.

- Bang!

- F***ing hell!

That's a coffee shop and four grand each pocket money.

- It's all down to you, mate.

- Bollocks. It were all of us.

Well, that's true, but all the same...

Your maths is on its arse, by the way.

20 grand four ways is five grand each.

- I think Nicola deserves her cut, pal.

- What are you on about?

You think you just talked your way

out of police custody, no extra boost?

Was the money and heroin in Roper's office

the only thing tying him to the drugs and the robbery?

- His fingerprints were on 'em.

- And how did they get there?

- Steven.

- What?

Can I have a word? In private.

- What's that?

- I'm paying you to leave Harvey alone.

There's a grand there.

I'm giving it to you for Harvey's protection.

Don't want your money.

- Work out another line of credit, though.

- Please, Roper, just take that money.

No. And if I were you, I wouldn't give

a bucket of piss for Harvey's future.

I'll drive you home.

That's a lot of money

and it's a rough area, and I'm a gentleman.

I took the notes with Roper's prints, stamped

them at the club and added them to the rest.

I used the print-covered cellophane

to rewrap the gear we stole from Roper

before we planted it in his office.

Clever, eh?

You're not the only one with bright ideas.

You let Nicola go to see him?

Hold your horses. When I said other people

have bright ideas, I meant her.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- She wanted to keep you out ofjail.

But she didn't want you to think she'd

changed her mind about seeing you again.

Why are we portioning her some of the money, then?

Because I think she's full of sh*t.

I spoke to her for five minutes

when we went to pick up pizza last night.

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