The Reckoning

Scott Bradley? That's me, darling.

ã5,000,000!

'My bequest offers complete financial security for you and your family.

On only one condition.

That you kill a man.'

Did you know what was on this CD? Certainly not!

It was confidential.

You don't recognise the voice at all?

Thought any more about why you?

What do you think? No idea.

Only known you a year.

If we don't get that money...

your daughter's gonna die.

And a man who gets his kicks out of killing a young prostitute will live.

Oh, my God! It's got to stop.

No. The man I saw at the solicitor's is the same face

that I saw in the paper.

I think he's the guy that killed Victoria Sturridge.

And he's just been killed by Richard Bury.

I think it's a chain, Mark. And if we kill Richard Bury...

someone's gonna come and kill me.

'Hi, this is Mark. Leave your name and number after the beep.'

Mark! Call me as soon as you get there.

I need to speak to you. We have to stop this now!

Please call me.

Six rounds there.

Hollow point.

Take a bloke's head off with them.

ã500, yeah? Yeah.

I've met you before, haven't I?

No.

I don't think so.

Put it away, if I was you, mate.

Sharpish.

Hey, babe! Hello.

Grab us a beer, will you? OK.

Hey, darling. Come on, darling.

What's so funny?

Work stuff. I just made a killing. Well, good for you.

No, good for us.

I just watched him kill a man, Mark.

Right in front of me. Not a game. Not some hypothetical situation.

It was real. And it was indescribable, Mark.

I know now I can't have anything to do with that. It's just wrong.

I can't do it!

So you wanna call the police? I don't think we have any choice.

Because someone out there wants to kill me.

We've got no idea what they might do

even if we walk away from this.

You know what that means.

There'll be no going back.

If we do what you say, Sal...

..Amanda will die.

Mum? Hey.

Where have you been? Dirty stop outs!

What are you doing up I couldn't sleep. You OK?

Yeah. I'm fine. I'm having another brew.

Want a hot chocolate? Yeah. Come on, then.

Are you sure, Sal?

Are you absolutely sure?

I am.

And it kills me, too. Of course it does.

But I'm sure.

You wouldn't have to have anything to do with it. I must.

It was disgusting what I saw.

It's disgusting what you're suggesting.

It's not right.

And I don't understand why you can't see that.

The kiddie who threw this in my face,

he was out of the nick before I was out of hospital.

What's right about that?

We don't live in a moral world, Sal,

where wrong gets punished and right gets rewarded.

We have to make up our own rules.

I'll tell you what's right and good in my world.

It's a young girl.

Makes a little bit of space in the bathroom cabinet for me.

A young girl who had every reason to reject me and this, but didn't.

And that's right.

That's good in my world.

You want me to walk away from that?

Let what we've got together die?

For a man that kills women for kicks?

Could you live with yourself, bear to watch her grow up

knowing what we'd done to make that happen?

No, it's not fair.

And maybe it's not right.

But it's life, and we just have to accept it.

We have to, Mark. Please tell me you understand that.

No.

If that's what you want, I've got no choice.

I'll take her to school. I'll come back and get you.

We'll go to the police together.

Oh, my God! 'Why can't I have some more privacy?' says Katie Price

on a ten-page spread. There you go, love. Oh, great.

Thanks, Dad.

I mean Mark. Sorry.

It's OK. Sorry.

I didn't think - It's totally fine.

You have a good day, darling.

And you.

Bye.

Mark.

'Sal.' Where are you?'

You were supposed to be back here half an hour ago,

'Mark.'

Mark, say something.' You're scaring me.

Mark!'

I'm sorry, darling. 'Mark!'

Mark, Mark!

''Hi. This is Mark...' No.

Hello, Mrs Bury?

This is Alison. I'm a colleague of Richard's from work.

I'm really sorry for calling so early,

But I need to just quickly speak to him about a deal we're doing today.

He's not there by any chance, is he?

'You just missed him. He's gone to the gym.' Oh.

The gym. Right.

Askey's isn't it?

'FHL. The Hillingdon branch.'

FHL. Right. OK. Thank you. Bye.

Come on!

No. You don't lower the price. It's a good deal.

If they walk away, they walk away.

You're OK. Sorry?

I thought maybe...

Excuse me.

I know this gonna sound ridiculous, but your life's in danger.

Look, love, if it's money you're after,

I haven't got any.

You've got ã5,000,000.

Your name's Richard Bury.

Last night you killed a man for ã5,000,000.

In fact I saw you do it.

I'm not gonna tell anyone. That's not why I'm here.

I'm here to tell you that you might...

be in danger and...that it is a chain.

A chain? The man that you killed, he'd killed...

someone else.

I'm not sure how far the chain goes back, but...

I came here to warn you. Did you?

Well, thank you.

Let go of her.

OK. Please, no!

Sal, get out of the way now. Go home for Amanda.

She wouldn't want this. Amanda's why I'm here.

Now, get out of the way!

Please.

My God!

I did what I thought was right for Mandy.

You fucking dare!

You did this for you.

You've polluted her life.

And for what, Mark?

I mean, what about the chain? What about the chain, Mark?

I told you. There's ways of dealing with that. I'll find a way.

Really? What ways?

We need to get rid of the body.

I'm calling the police.

I'm gonna say it was self-defence.

The worst is done, Sal.

Except it's not, is it?

Because now someone's coming after me. We have to try and stop them!

Don't we?

Right now your daughter's got a chance of living.

Because of what I've done.

It's me who's gonna have to live with that.

You go ahead and do what you need to do. I'm gonna do the same.

Money's been released.

It's a shame that you're right

that it is a chain.

If I can find out what links you all

we can work out who's coming after you. Then I can stop them.

You mean kill them. Don't know how, but I will.

Bury was a bad man.

It's easy to see why someone thought he deserved to die.

The question is why someone thinks you do, Sal.

The truth this time.

What happened that night in the hospital?

I know about it.

At least what I read on the net.

But if we're gonna find this connection,

you're gonna have to tell me the rest.

I was working nights.

Pete had just been made redundant, so...

..we really needed the overtime.

It was about five in the morning. when they brought her in.

Multiple maxillo-facial fractures. Multiple genital contusions.

Suspected internal bleeding.

A prostitute.

She'd been cut inside with a bottle, and left for dead.

Her injuries were so severe.

They'd done what they could to help her, but...

..no-one actually thought she was gonna make it through the night.

Looks like she's a junkie. Got track marks all up her arms.

Anyone got an ID on her yet? No surname yet. First name Jay.

She came round briefly when I went in to check her morphine level.

All of it.

She had such a strong grip on her

for such a wee thing.