Roadkill

SHE SIGHS

DOOR OPENS

Steff?

Steff?

Steff!

Bryony!

Bryony!

Quick!

What's going on? Go get the defibrillator.

I'm not supposed to leave her. Go!

Bravo 3 to SP, calling code blue to Block 4.

BUTTONS BEEP

All personnel, closing Block 4. Code blue.

ALARMS BLARE

Steff.

Steff?

LOUD BANGING ON DOORS

Remove pads from package in back of unit.

What are you doing? I've never used it.

You're supposed to be trained!

LOUD BANGING ON DOORS

Remove pads from package in back of unit.

I'd just like to say a word of thanks to everyone

who's been so kind and so skilful in these last few days.

Sadly, for personal reasons, this is a hospital I already know.

But you are the people who give health care a good name.

And I promise you that when I get back to Westminster,

I will be telling everyone who'll listen

where the beating heart of this country is to be found.

It's in the NHS.

Thank you very much, all of you.

APPLAUSE Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. All right, thank you. Goodbye.

Thank you, thank you.

SIRENS WAIL IN DISTANCE

You all right? Yeah, fine.

They're just making me wear this today.

Lily's making something special.

She's cooking? Yes.

That doesn't happen very often.

You don't kill a deer very often, do you?

ENGINE TURNS OVER

ROCK MUSIC BLARES

MUSIC STOPS

Just so you know, we're expecting Susan.

Susan?

You didn't tell me. You didn't ask. When are we expecting her?

Have you known where she was all this time?

Yeah, of course, she's my sister. And you didn't tell us?

She didn't want me to. Where's she coming from?

Where's she been? Didn't know there was to be a family reunion.

It's not a family reunion.

It's a family conference.

If I have it my way, it'll be a family trial.

Eh? What are the charges? You know perfectly well.

Lily, your father needs a day or two to recuperate.

What are you cooking for us, Lil?

I'm roasting a chicken, and if either of you start telling me

how to do it... That's not going to happen.

I'm doing it my way and I don't care.

Lil, I don't know what you're up to, but whatever it is,

you have my loving support.

Yeah, maybe you should have thought about that

before you got a fucking mistress.

What did you say?

That's what we're here to discuss, if you really want to know.

I don't like this. Mm? What is it?

You know when you see a squall the size of your hand

and it's a long way away but it's heading towards you?

Isn't it your job to spot those? It's Yemen. Mm-hm?

Three NGOs have been killed working for a charity.

I didn't see. No, it hasn't been announced.

The Saudis are refusing to say what weapons they used in the raid,

but we think it may have been the Normandy rocket,

manufactured by the British Defence Group.

So what have we got? British charity workers killed by British weapons.

The Saudis are trying to hush it up. Nobody knows yet they're dead

and nobody knows how, but it'll just take one journalist.

Keep an eye on it.

Julia, you do tell me everything, don't you?

Everything that's useful, yes.

DOOR BUZZES

So you know what happened?

I certainly do, I saw it with my own eyes.

I hope you burn in hell for it.

I've put in a formal complaint.

I've got your complaint, it's not going forward.

You need to slow down. Why?

This is a tragedy, we all need a period to draw breath.

And what do we need to do that for?

Proper timely assessment.

Apart from anything, Steff had siblings.

We hate the thought of alarming them unnecessarily.

Yeah, I bet you do.

Rose, for once, think of it from their point of view.

Why upset them? My cellmate died because you're too cheap to train

your officers properly.

At this moment, we're not admitting liability.

There's no medical proof that she could have been saved. In your view.

In the view of the prison doctor. Which one?

The alcoholic or the drug addict?

Talk to Bryony, she's in pieces.

She knows she failed, and it's killing her.

I've looked at your complaint and I don't accept it.

You can blame Parallax if you like, but I blame you.

Because any system, however crappy, works decently

when it's administered by decent people.

You're a convicted fraud, Rose,

please don't talk to us about decency.

I'm in touch with the Justice Minister

and I'm going to put this case in front of him.

Rose, if you think you can use a friend's death to pursue

some sort of vendetta against the prison and the people who run it...

No, what we're talking about is power. You have it, I don't.

You forfeited power when you committed a crime.

And does that mean you can just leave us all dead on the floor?

Steff was a known troublemaker

who burned down the prison canteen.

She did violence to a prison officer.

Right, and so she deserves a lesser standard of justice, does she?

And thanks for expressing your condolences.

Just came in from Gatwick

so I haven't got the slightest idea of where I am or what time it is.

You're home and it's just before lunch.

Did Mum see me? Not yet.

How is she? Shaky.

She's got her concert tonight,

and Lily up in the pulpit is the last thing she needs.

That's your view, is it?

Where have you come in from? Came from the Arctic.

Ha! That is perfect.

When the history of the 21st century comes to be written,

who do you think it's going to be with any credit?

Greenpeace and a few feminists, and that's about it.

I wish you'd told us where you were.

And I wish you ever told us anything at all.

OK, I can see Lily's spoken to you. At length.

I always believed in my daughters.

So your absence never bothered me,

but it's different for your mother, she's scared of you.

She thinks she's failed and it's all her fault.

Gave her a nervous breakdown.

Oh, like you put that down to my absence, do you?

You don't think there were any other factors involved?

Come on, Susan... Love the idea of you being Prisons Minister now.

Thank you.

Fine line, don't you think, between running prisons and being in them?

Actually, no, I don't think that.

Don't topple over.

You know I was in an accident? Yeah, Lily said.

Driving down.

In case you're worried, it wasn't as bad as I thought. I'm fine. Good.

Right side hurts like hell,

but I don't suppose that bothers you too much.

It's not top of my list, no.

It's freezing out here, why don't you come inside, say hello?

I'll finish my cigarette.

Have you just come in especially from...? Greenland. No.

Just passing through. We've got strategy meetings in Amsterdam

and decide which unprincipled rapist of the Earth to hit next.

See the cold weather hasn't affected your sense of humour.

Laugh a minute in the Arctic Circle.

Who is this girlfriend, anyway?

Does she mean something to you, or is she just someone convenient?

Silence here suggesting convenience.

I don't presume to know everything about your life.

Why do you think you can guess about mine?

Because I grew up with you, remember?

Only, I grew up and you didn't.

Susan's outside.

I was just living my life.

I'd found some small corner, some crevice

so I can get on with my life, and then three days ago,

any peace I had, any dignity was taken from me.

If you wanted to leave me, why didn't you say so?

I don't want to leave you.

We...

We've been together since we were kids.

You're only with me because you think I can't cope on my own.

I... No, I have never thought any such thing.

I don't want to be someone you feel you have to take care of,

that's not who I want to be.

I can explain... Please, don't.

Lily wants you to explain in front of the whole family.

Helen, I'm an open book, I'll talk about anything, you know me.

But do you really think it's a good idea for us

to discuss our relationship in front of the girls?

Do we have any choice?

HE SIGHS

Fuck!

Ooh, you look terrible.

Yeah.

It's because I've had bad news.

Charmian Pepper's dead.

She's dead? Yeah.

How did it happen? She was hit by a vehicle.

Wow. At night. Where's the driver?

Gone.

It was an accident? Hit and run? That's what the police are saying.

And do you have any evidence to the contrary?