The Gold

Here you go, mate.

Here you go, Ralphie.

Don't want you complaining about the milk. Yeah, yeah.

Here you are.

Get on the fucking floor!

Get down!

Face to the ground!

Get your hands where I can see them!

Face to the floor! Freddie Hook!

32 Church Street, Tooting.

Ralph Turner, Flat 2, 98 Bromley High Street.

Gentlemen!

Come with me.

Keep moving, keep moving! Don't get tricky.

Keypads.

I can't remember.

Come on, Ralphie.

I can't remember.

We only use it for the drills. I can't remember.

We know every note in there.

We know the currency and we know you are trained to delay us.

Delay you? I get two quid an hour for this shit.

I'd carry the money to your bloody van.

I just can't remember.

Argh!

Try.

It's all right, it's all right.

He'll be fine. Just give him a minute.

Just relax, just relax!

He can't fucking remember!

Morning.

You won't like it.

Go on.

He's decided part of his legacy is

going to be a drop in armed robberies.

And he's going to do that in his last two weeks, is he?

No. We are.

He wants us to go through six months' worth of armed robberies

and make them a little less...armed.

You know, maybe it's the name, but I always thought

the Flying Squad would be a little more exciting.

Well, that was your first mistake.

Now...

..lose the crossbow from that.

Don't you be cutting them in the kitchen, Ken!

I don't want no blood on my marble.

What? It keeps it honest.

Oh! You know you don't have to go poaching no more, don't ya?

Yeah, but that's what makes it fun.

He's a duke that owns them woods.

That is how England works, love.

That lot have it and us lot nick it.

Flying Squad?

Control. Can you stick a detective on?

You're speaking to one. Oh, sorry, love.

Armed robbery - Brink's-Mat warehouse, Heathrow Trading Estate.

We're up.

Well, thank Christ for that!

Yes? Is this Kenny?

Yeah.

We hear you can handle gold.

Yeah.

Well, that's lucky, because we're outside your house.

What did they get?

Gold. This place had it for the night

and then it was supposed to fly to the Gulf today.

How much? Well, that's the thing.

That lot say it was a boatload.

But it wasn't in a vault, which doesn't make sense to me.

What are they saying about the robbers?

They're saying six men.

Seven.

Hold them in the control room.

Away from their lockers.

Tooting Rifle Club?

A lot of faces down there, I'd imagine.

Plenty. --Went to school with half of them.

Still friendly?

I know what you're looking for,

and you're right to look for it.

But...it isn't me.

You did your part with the code.

If your mate hadn't had his little meltdown,

they'd have got in the vault.

And not getting in the vault was the best thing

that ever happened to 'em. How's that then?

The gold wasn't in the vault because it was too much for the vault.

What do you mean, too much?

I've worked here a long time,

and I have never seen a load like it.

And I'll tell you something else - they didn't know it was here.

Now, I can't decide if that's a lot of luck or no luck at all.

How's the eye?

It's not working too well.

Where were you when they left?

I was over there in the corner, like a frightened rabbit, truth be told.

Whereabouts exactly?

Over here.

The thing is, mate, you'd have seen the van leave from here.

No, I was more sort of over here.

He's still seeing him from there, ain't he, Tone?

Clear as a bell, Nick.

No, I wasn't like this.

I was more like...sort of like this.

He wants you back.

Back to the Yard.

This won't be Flying Squad.

Well, if this ain't Flying Squad, I don't know what is.

Go through his statement again.

Every line.

You can come out now, mate.

We're not giving this up. It's ours.

Let's see about that.

We're wasting time, and they won't be.

What were you expecting?

Potatoes.

Yeah, that would've been easier.

So our friend says you can shift it.

I can shift it.

Bollocks, he can.

They say you're a builder who fences hooky watches.

No, they don't say that. I say that.

Cos who would bother watching a builder who fences hooky watches?

If you can handle a job like this, then I'd have heard of you.

You only hear about the people who get caught.

This is crazy, Micky.

It's our score. We can do it ourselves. How?

How would you do it?

Well, we're all villains.

We all know fences.

Oh, yeah?

Who do you know who could handle that?

A bloke in Basildon - he's got a pawn shop. He owes me a favour.

That's three ton of pure gold that you've taken out of the market

and brought to a lockup in South London.

And now you need to take it out of a lockup in South London

and get it back into the market

without anyone noticing.

There's two people in England who know how to do that.

And neither of us live in Basildon.

I'll be in touch.

Caesar's wife.

Sorry, sir?

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

You don't know your classics?

Not, like, off by heart.

Envy, temptation, greed.

Human nature is weak and that is why the law must be strong.

And that is why those who propagate the law must be strongest of all.

For a civilised society to operate,

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Oh, OK, right.

Yeah, I get it.

As a solicitor, I've represented 42 police officers

accused of corruption and I'm yet to lose.

And that is because I don't represent bent cops.

I represent those who have shown weakness and are ready to repent.

I keep good men on the beat.

Are you a good man?

Yes, I am, Mr Cooper.

You accepted a bribe.

I didn't take it. So we're in the grey.

You accepted it but never took it.

They will try and argue from the grey to the black.

I will argue from the grey to the white and I will win.

And I will get you back on the beat.

And when you are back on the beat, Constable, pounding the troubled

streets of this once great city, you will think of Caesar's wife.

Yes, sir.

What's he up to, then?

It's the size of it, Nick.

It's too big a job, so he's palming it off.

Why would he do that?

Because he wants to go out nice and neat, waving his greatest hits.

He wants people talking about him nicking the Krays,

not asking him where this gold is.

If he won't take it, then who will?

The Prime Minister wanted to pass on her personal thanks.

There was no need to have bothered her with it, sir.

Those prints helped catch the man who tried to kill her.

She took an interest.

I played a small part, Ma'am.

You're not getting the head of counter-terrorism, Boyce.

Can I ask why?

You've had many successes.

You've also caused several international incidents.

It's difficult to have successes in counter-terrorism without

causing international incidents. As number two, you got away with it.

But the head of counter-terrorism has to lead from the back.

Not much happens at the back, sir.

As you may have noticed.

We have a solution.

The Flying Squad. No, thank you. Hear us out.

I did 20 years in London, from the beat to criminal intelligence.

I've nicked every villain in this city once and the good ones twice.

That's why you're here.

I don't want to be wondering which of my team are masons,

which are on the take and which are both.

Which means I don't want Flying Squad and is why they won't want me.

They don't.