The Victim

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This programme contains some strong language

Come on.

All rise.

Well done. Another day nearer retirement.

A few of us are off to the pub to celebrate.

Fancy it?

Not tonight. Not tonight.

You can't deal with the general public every day

and not drink. That's how fellas wind up going crazy

with automatic weapons in shopping centres.

I do drink.

Just not with your workmates?

Just not tonight.

I made a promise.

Is that me done? That's all the appointments.

Great, it's a big night tonight.

Except...

...he's been waiting about half an hour.

He'll only see you.

How many?

You'll live.

Why didn't you turn up to see the doctor yesterday?

I was ill.

William, act like a victim and you'll get treated like one.

What do you want me to do?

Come here.

Hello?

The water is what we use to make the tempura batter

so the air bubbles and it gives it a really crisp texture...

Rebecca?

Jess?

Rebecca?

Got you! Happy Halloween, you monsters!

Look! There's one, Daddy! Go on.

Are we having a drink later?

I can meet you last thing, maybe.

Princess wants to give out sweets at home.

Trick or treat? Happy Halloween!

Oh, this is a lovely costume, did you make it yourself?

Yes. Oh, that's nice.

All right, mate, I've got this.

Take some sweeties. How you doing, all right?

Hiya. Have you had some sweets?

Oh, yeah. She's got such a lovely costume.

Yeah, it's good, isn't it? Have you had many kids in, or...?

Have you got any yourself, or...?

All right, how's it going? All right? Look at that costume!

What do you think?

Not as scary as usual.

You know, I don't agree with Halloween.

Stop eating the kids' sweets, then!

What don't you agree with, Lenny?

It's all a bit American now, isn't it?

What's wrong with good old-fashioned tapping the door and running away?

Is that what you did at Halloween?

That's what we did most nights.

Vampire victims! Come on! You too, mask on!

OK. OK, OK, hold on, son! Right, let's go.

I'm meeting Nicki for a drink.

Come down later if you like.

I want to enjoy tonight with him.

Yeah.

So his mates want to know if he can go with them.

Can I, Mum?

I'm sorry, love, no.

Why not?

Because you're too young.

I mean, I'm in the same year as them!

Well, I'm not their mum.

Ally C's dad is going with them.

If you stay here, everyone comes to us.

That's what the pumpkin's for, remember?

Mum...

No, Ben, I'm sorry.

Mum, but... No!

Come on, pal.

We'll tell them that Danny wants to take you out later.

I'll see you later, OK? Have a nice night.

You didn't come trick or treating with my six-year-old in order to meet women, did you?

What? I volunteer because you can't interact with people,

and this is the thanks I get?

If you'd get your wife to throw me some leads off that website of hers.

It's not a website, it's a forum for local mothers.

Yeah? I need mothering.

You need monitoring.

Trick or treat?

Goodbye!

Let me just get my daughter.

Call the diet of Her Majesty's Advocate

against Anna Dean.

Come forward, please, Mrs Dean.

Are you Anna Dean?

I am.

Have a seat.

The indictment reads as follows.

On 31st October, 2017, at Kim's Cafe,

Lothian Road, Edinburgh, you did incite others, meantime unknown,

to murder Craig Andrew Myers, aged 28 years,

of Tomlin Road, Port Glasgow.

All done, boss.

Right, thanks.

Mrs Myers?

And who's this?

This is Jessica.

No, I meant this.

Oscar. Oscar?

I'm DI Grover, Steven.

I have to get to the hospital. We'll take you shortly.

It may be best if Jessica stays with someone tonight.

Do you or your husband have any relatives nearby?

No.

Um, friends... Friends from school that I can call.

Grover.

It's Rebecca Myers.

People are saying Craig's Eddie J Turner. Eddie J Turner?

They're saying Craig isn't Craig! They're saying he's a child killer.

It's got thousands of likes!

There's a photo of him, and our address,

and it's already been shared thousands of times. You have to do something!

Rebecca, Rebecca, I need you to stay calm, OK?

People keep texting me and phoning me.

I'm scared.

Don't answer the phone. Don't even look at the messages. Is Craig awake yet?

No, but he's waking up. What am I going to say to him?

Nothing until I get there. I'm on my way.

Do you know where you are?

Hospital. Mm-hm.

And do you know what your name is?

Craig.

Craig Myers.

Hey, you!

Jess?

She's fine. We're both fine.

Unlike you, Humpty Dumpty!

I love you.

I love you too. So much!

Why...? Who...?

I don't know.

It's OK, it's all right.

Sh-sh-sh-sh.

Thank you. OK.

Hi.

Hi, Craig, I'm DI Grover.

Did you mention anything?

Craig, do you recognise the name Liam Graham?

I don't know. Why?

He was murdered in Edinburgh in 2003.

He was nine years old.

I think I remember.

Turned out he was killed by a boy only four years older.

No motive, no explanation.

Caused quite a sensation when he was caught.

He pleaded guilty and the sentence was delivered in closed court.

His face was never made public, but his name was leaked by mistake.

Eddie J Turner?

He got a life sentence with a punishment part of seven years. He was released in 2010.

You must remember that.

Well, just cos there was a lot of publicity,

there was a campaign to keep him locked up.

Death threats were made and the court granted him

lifelong anonymity under Article 8. I don't...

Someone put your name and picture on the internet, saying you're Eddie J Turner.

But... why would they do that?

We're investigating that, alongside the attack.

Can you think of anyone that holds a grudge against you?

The attacker didn't say anything?

Not that I can...

Do people believe it?

Look.

Why have "DON'T LET EVIL LIVE" all in caps, and "near our kids" in lower case?

I heard Turner got moved to Wales.

Cos it's an instruction.

Get a body on the door of Craig Myers' hospital room.

And talk to Cybercrime.

Will I get uniform on the costume hire stuff?

Yeah, but the priority is getting that offline and finding out where it came from.

Sorry to get you in so early, boss.

Have you been to see this Myers?

Yeah, he's in a bad way. Pretty bewildered by the whole thing.

Right, but could it be him?

Well, he's the right age.

From a Protected Persons point of view, Port Glasgow fits.

Does it look like him?

There was only that one picture of Turner as a kid, and it was

so bad it could have been anyone.

The thing is, it doesn't really matter, does it?

No, no, no, no, you're right, I mean, we have got the Police Federation quiz to organise.

What I mean is,

a man has been seriously injured as a direct result of that message.

His past is only relevant in terms of investigating that, right?

They should never have let him out.

Did you work on the case?

No.

No, but I saw the photos of the wee boy's body, so...

We won't get anything out of the PPU. I need to make some calls.

You brief the comms team and then warn Liam Graham's family.

The media don't need an excuse as good as the Grim Reaper

delivering judgment door-to-door to run an Eddie J Turner story.

Come on, then!