All language subtitles for Silent Witness S07E02 Answering Fire (2).en

ID. John Sumardi,
Brent University.

Same as Ayesha Khan.
So the guvnor was right.

Do terrorists go
on suicide missions

carrying their student cards?

Mr Bowman, why d'you think
the terrorists tried to get YOU? I
should've thought that was obvious.

Minister, when will you be back at
work? I am NOW. Next week I'll be
in the office. Will you get Health?

I'm going to get HEALTHY.
That'll be enough. What were you
doing at the hotel, sir?

Celebrating a friend's anniversary.
With a man who's got defence
contracts with bribes? Go away!

ALL SHOUT

..I lost my sister.
My sister DIED in this.

We were talking about your beliefs.

I'll tell you what I believe.
Let poor countries sell their goods

without being screwed
by global capitalism.

I imagine your friends
in the mosque approve of all that?

We have a dialogue. We're brothers.

And how far does this having
a dialogue extend? Co-operation?

Joint action?

Can I have something to drink?

Was Bowman getting backhanders,
d'you think?

The walls are scorched. Why
were there no burns on Ayesha Khan?
Could she have come from the lift?

Maybe. ..Can I have a photograph
here, please?

This was the minister's room.

What's all this about?

Looks like someone's tried
to kick it in.

Probably the firemen when they were
trying to save him. They had
a stab at it with a knife, as well.

Have we finished here?
Not yet.

How much do you know about your mate
Mary Carter?

Only what she told me?
Which probably wasn't very much.

Security Service background...
I guessed that.

The job description on her ID
has been rather hastily invented.

She's a Cabinet Office fixer
safeguarding the minister's privacy.

'We recovered a second body'

from the scene of the blast
yesterday. John Sumardi.

Ayesha and Sumardi
were at Brent University together.

Is there any evidence that
he was involved in terrorism? Or
my daughter? What was she studying?

Economics. She was a good student.
She got a first in her prelims.

Mr Khan, according to her tutor,
she only turned up for one lecture
the whole of this term.

I would like to see my son now.
I hope that's going to be possible.
No. It isn't.

Sorry I'm late.

HE KNOCKS

What's that? Results of the vaginal
swabs I took from Ayesha Khan.

She had chlamydia, gonorrhoea,
and there's evidence
of fresh semen deposits.

When are you doing the autopsy
on Sumardi?

What's wrong? It's been done.
Is that some kind of a joke, Leo?
If it is, it's a Tom Leith joke.

We've been stood down. He's got
Stewart Clovelly sent from Bristol.

Right. I tell you, there's
one helluva scandal brewing, Sam.

This says they're covering up
the minister taking a bribe.
How can they get away with that?!

Don't believe everything you read.

Sanctimonious or what?! Has Sam
spoken to you about what happened
to her? The...bruise on her face?

No. What?

I think she's having problems
with some bloke.
He's been hanging round her.

Not nice. Well, if he comes
round here, I'll take his head off.

You've seen my daughter's body.

Does she look like a terrorist
to you?

I'm sorry, Mr Khan, I'm busy today.

They said they found
these extremist leaflets on her...

but she used to LAUGH at all that.

Now they've arrested my son
Mohamed under the Terrorism Act.
I can't help your son.

Well, I'm going to clear
their names...

with your help or without it.

I'm a solicitor.

I do mostly conveyancing.

Hi.

Harry...told me.

Is there anything I can do?

The best thing is
not to talk about it. Who is he?

I appreciate you two are concerned
for my welfare, but I'd rather you
didn't talk about my private life.

She was a prostitute, wasn't she?

Ayesha Khan's clothing.
What about it?

I need a sample. But I don't want
them to know it's from me. Hang on.
I have to double-sign it out

and give a reason. I need to
match it with another sample. Why?

Oh, come on, Doug! You know there
are things not right about this.

I'm seriously putting myself
on the line if I do this.

So am I.

INTRO TO "Goldfinger"

♪ Goldfinger

♪ He's the man
The man with the Midas touch

♪ Touched in the crutch
LAUGHTER

♪ A spider's touch... ♪

I've had a look at our computers.
There's nothing on Colin Burwood.

Why not make a complaint to the
police? It'd put pressure on him.
I should've reported it right away.

Technically, he is stalking you.

One more teddy bear
and I might just change my mind.

He's the journalist who's been
flying the kite about bribery.

He wrote that story
about cash in the minister's room.

You didn't give him any
information, did you? D'you think
I'd do that? No, no, of course not.

To him, of all people(!)

And not Leo or Harry?
They wouldn't be so stupid
as to talk to the papers.

You seem so interested
in the minister's room.

I'm interested in a lot of things
at the moment.

Your job isn't quite
what you told me, is it?

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

I'm really glad I found you again.

And I don't want this to go wrong.

Mind my own business?

Oh...!

It's in the thing we sign.

We have to choose our friends
carefully.

Go to the police about what's
happened to you. Just report it.

You'll feel better.

Get off me!

No!

Oh-h!

No. NO!

I haven't said anything!

I haven't...

If it WASN'T a bomb,
why can't you help me?

There are real human beings
involved here.

We've lost our children.

Our whole family...

I know.

My wife is beginning to doubt
herself now. She...she thinks
they were BOTH involved.

And I want to restore her faith,

I want her to remember Ayesha
as she really was.

We moved to London
to be near my son.

This is where we're staying.

You know whose. Thank you.

I usually do this on DEAD bodies.

Oh, Mother! Keep still.

I am keeping still, I'm petrified.

So d'you want to see
what came out of your leg?

I couldn't feel anything!
I froze it.

OK. Stitched and sterile.

There you are.

Stay there a moment.
Can I show you something?

Know him?

What about now? No, I'm sorry.
I wish I could help you. Really.

I think Prof Ryan wanted you to
wait. Yeah, well, bye, now. Thanks.

Glad to see you back at your desk,
sir. Glad to be back.

I've been seconded from the
Home Office to the Cabinet Office.

The PM wants to put a tourniquet
on the flow of speculation
until we know a bit more.

That's good of him. I haven't
managed to speak to him since...

It was a TERRORIST attack?

There's a possibility that you were
seen at the hotel and something
spontaneous was put together.

I thought you'd come to talk to me
about these bribery allegations.

Oh. It's pathetic. I don't know
whether to react to them or not.

Well, WE understand Peter Croft's
company's order books are full,

no contracts pending or contemplated
with the British Government, so
there'd be no point in bribing you,

would there?
Do they care?

And Peter is dead, which makes it
even more despicable.

I'm interested in two phone calls
made to your mobile within a minute,

about half an hour
before the explosion.

D'you remember?

Ye-es. The phone did ring...and
when I answered, there was silence.

One of the calls lasted a minute.

It's all hazy. Why are you
interested? They may have picked up
your location from the mobile?

If they can do that,
it's pretty scary, isn't it?

So nothing, sir?
You don't know who it was?

Look, I know I've been stupid
about security.

I expect I shall be fighting
for my job.

It's hardly a hanging offence,
is it, sir?

Wanting to be normal. Giving your
minders the slip for a few hours.

Oh, I almost forgot...

We recovered your money.

Seven hundred.

I see you weren't able
to launder it.

No, it IS a bit the worse for wear,
isn't it?

YOUNG WOMAN: Hello? Who is this?

..Lee, shut up, I'm on the phone!
..Yeah, who is it?
Sorry, wrong number. What?

'..What are the chances of
DNA testing all the hotel guests?'

That's big. You'd have to tell me
why. Ayesha Khan was a prostitute,

not a terrorist. I'd like to know
who she slept with.

What's going on?

Stewart Clovelly is performing a
second autopsy. Tom Leith wants it.

Not here, he isn't!

(I can assure you,
it's in the national interest!)

Everybody suspects
you're under some sort of strain.

I happen to know what it's about.

Tom Leith thinks it's best
if your autopsy on Ayesha Khan
is...put aside.

Can't do that!
I've been completely professional.

Sam, if it comes out

that somebody tried to rape you
just before an important autopsy,
the lawyers will have field day.

I also suspect, though I can't
prove it, Leo talked to the press.

You might tell him a thousand is
a bit puny for a bribe. Hardly worth
risking a minister's career for.

If Leo did that, he's wrong, but...

this is about
what happened to Ayesha.

We found a match between the DNA
under her fingernails
and the semen found in her body.

Don't risk a splendid career,
darling. What does that mean?

Take three months' paid leave.

It's not your fault, but you've got
Ayesha Khan badly wrong.

I'm certain now I didn't.

Where's Leo? In the pub.
Sam, what is going on?
Is Clovelly joining us?

Sam. Someone is scared about
what we're gonna say at the inquest.
What Burwood is saying -

this is serious, really serious.

What's the matter?
Colin Burwood tried to rape me.

Sam?

Sam, I had no idea. You told him
about the money. What else?

I was angry. And he kept following
me... It's ME he's following.

You just compromised our whole
department! How can the police work
with us if we talk to the press?

The police don't even want us at the
inquest! That's not the way to deal
with it, is it?! We've a contract,

we've rights. Don't be so naive.

I know I've got a problem...

Yeah, you have. You're aggressive,
you're violent towards women
and you're a potential rapist.

Why don't you accept my apologies?
You need locking up. The help will
come later. Sam, listen! Get away!

I need to talk about the hotel.
Don't you know what's going on? Yes.

You're stalking me. That's why
you got involved in this story!
Bit arrogant, aren't you?

Is it safe to sue over
the bribery thing? I mean, couldn't
it all blow up in your face?

No-o!

So what about the money?

A game that Peter Croft and I
used to play.

Remember?

RINGING TONE

'Hello?'

Who am I speaking to?
The Queen of Sheba(!)

You won't tell the police?
Listen, I shouldn't be here either.

I'm talking about a tall,
Afro-Caribbean guy, about 50,

possibly a transvestite.

I think he has family.

I didn't want them to know about me.

I just hoped that... I just hoped
somebody else would identify him.

Who was he?Charlie Heckleton. He'd come
to London every month or two.

He'd catch the show, stay in
the hotel. He never talked about his
home or what he did for a living.

He was Welsh.

And he had a bit of a tremor.

He taught me how to play chess,
silly, black queen.

Tell me about Ayesha Khan.

I don't know her. Your number
was written on her hand.

This isn't part of the deal.
Why was it there?

I'm not saying anything.

This is important.
If I say anything, they'll do me.

Are they terrorists? Only to me.

Enough, already! There's going
to be an inquest... I'm sorry,
I'm out of it. Was she a prostitute?

Well, she wasn't selling ice creams,
was she(?)

Dr Leo Dalton.
I was at the hotel fire.

I gather you have some good news?

Yes, I-I've got some feeling back,
and I'm told there'll be more.

Another floor up
and I wouldn't have been so lucky.

Darling, would you wait outside
for me?

DOOR SHUTS
Can we talk about
your husband, Mrs Croft?

We're holding someone
extremely dangerous,

and if we have to let him go,
people might die. Is Mohamed really
a terrorist? His sister wasn't.

Any sane person would want us to do
what we're doing - including you, if
you think about it for five minutes!

Look.

I know the Clovelly business
was humiliating.

I'll do you a deal. We'll call
Clovelly off, and you'll not make a
noise and wave your contract at us,

and I'll forget
about the autopsy you did
when you were having a breakdown.

Your job's on the line, too.
I have support for this.

At the highest level.

If we get him in court, we don't
want some smart barrister calling
your autopsy deranged nonsense.

If YOU don't call me, others are
going to. Who do you think you are?
This is terrorism,

and all you think about
is professional pride!
Stay away from the Khans.

He was afraid of heights, he...

he always was.
He tried to conquer it.

But the fire was coming at us
so fast!

I begged him and he wouldn't budge!

And...

And I wanted to live.

I'm sorry.
The bloody newspapers won't even
leave him alone when he's dead.

Yeah, I'm not completely
up to speed with that. Something
to do with money...and a minister?

Oh, tosh! Peter and Bob Bowen
liked to bet each other.

It started
when they were at university.

Daft things like what X's alimony
might amount to or whether Y
would get kicked out of the Cabinet.

I can't even remember what it was.

The margin of victory at Twickenham
or something like that.

Anyway, Peter got slaughtered.

Well.

He always paid in cash.

He could never belong to Al Qaeda
and suchlike, even if he wanted to.
He doesn't take orders.

Can you at least tell us
what's in your report?

We did a swab test on Ayesha
as a matter of routine.

We found fresh semen.

We also found that she had
two sexually-transmitted diseases.

I think she was working
at the hotel as a prostitute.

How good are your lab people?
We did a second swab.

I don't think her death was
terrorism or an accident.

Please.

Are they friends of yours?!
Sam, don't do this.

If you're thinking about appearing
at the inquest with the Khan family,
you might as well clear your desk.

What IS your job, exactly? Are you
so above the law you can intimidate
witnesses? It's only advice.

A lot of dead, Mary, a lot
of families and lawyers wanting
answers. That's still what I am -

a witness.

Have you reported that assault yet?
Please go to the police.

THEY WHISPER: You knew she was
a whore?! And you never told me?!
How could I tell you, Dad?

What, does every student prostitute
themselves? Was it to buy drugs?

I told you. No-one can live
in London on nothing.
But I paid her fee!

Do you have any idea
how much that was?

I wanted her to stand
on her own two feet.

That's all she were doing.

When she left home, she went wild.

Every time I saw her, it were,
"At last I feel alive, Mohamed.

"You're so serious, Mohamed."
Why didn't you stop her?!

Why didn't you...kill her...?

She was me sister.

She wasn't very bright, Dad,

but she didn't deserve to die.

Why didn't you tell
the police this?

I didn't want you to know.

I thought by now they'd see
I'd nothing to do with this.

What have they got on you? Just
some friends of mine. I didn't know
everything they were into.

But they can say
it was a conspiracy
even if you went to the house!

The leaflet in her bag.
"To hell with Britain, to hell
with America," what was that stuff?

I've seen them at the uni. They
force 'em on you. She took 'em just
so she didn't have to talk to 'em!

I tried telling her, but...

she'd just say, "Lighten up, man!"

Help me, Dad.

I'm really sorry to trouble you
at home, but...you were right.

You MUST be right.

I'd like to call you
as an expert witness at the inquest
into my daughter's death.

I don't know if I can do this.
But...

You s...

You... I know, but...I don't think
we can do this, it's too difficult.

What happened to her?
You said it wasn't an accident.
What did you mean?

'..We're here to investigate
the deaths of John Sumardi,
Ayesha Jasmine Khan...

'Peter Michael Croft...'

'..Ali Nader,

'William Eric Mottram...

'..Riccardo Jangao...

'..and Charles Ethan Jones.'

Mr Clovelly, how were the injuries
to Ms Khan's hands and feet caused?

I believe some roofing material had
fallen on her. They were consistent
with trying to get out.

And did you see a mark across
the trunk? There was a contusion.

How was this caused? In my opinion,
it was a post-mortem artefact.

Meaning? Caused by
the body being moved after death.

Thank you.

Sam. Politicians have sex
with prostitutes - big deal(!)

It's not worth risking
a distinguished career for.

You're worth 50 Bob Bowmans. A
fifth-rate politician who's going to
destroy himself on his OWN, one day.

If it was just that, I'd take your
advice, but it isn't. You know it.

You are not going to enjoy what'll
happen in there. I don't expect
I will. Your career is over

as soon as you give evidence.
The Home Office will simply be told
you're unfit to practise.

Do what you will. I'm going in.

I've had this mad request from you
to DNA test everybody in the hotel!

I've tested the dead. Now I want
to test the survivors, all of them.
Know what you are?

A holy cow!

Neath! That sounds like my Charlie.

Oh-h!

Contacting a witness - you walk on
the wild side, you boys. Desperate
times. You can say that again.

We'll speak to the police about
protection. How does that sound?

Come on!

Who are these people? Why are they
so keen to keep you quiet?

Because they're responsible for
all those people dying, aren't they?

You get me some police protection,
I'll tell you what happened.

Mr Khan is representing his family.
..Go ahead, Mr Khan.

Did you stage a reconstruction
of what might have happened
to the deceased? Yes, I did.

And I concluded that,
immediately after the explosion,

Ayesha Khan could not have been in
the corridor where she was found.
There were no burns on her body.

What if she'd entered the corridor
afterward? She would've died within
minutes...from the toxic smoke.

Please continue, Mr Khan.

Um...

Apart from...cause of death
by smoke inhalation,

were there any other injuries
on Ayesha Khan? Yes, there were.

Three knuckles were broken.
Cuts and bruises to both hands.

Her right foot had two broken toes.

We've heard
that this might have been caused
by the deceased trying to escape

when a roof fell on her. She was
probably already dead when the roof
fell. The material was so flimsy,

she could easily have freed
herself. It is my opinion
that her injuries were caused

by kicking and banging
a hard object. Such as a door?

Yes.

Were there any other injuries?
Yes, there was
one more, very curious, injury.

It was a horizontal contusion
about an inch wide
running across her stomach.

And what could have caused such
an injury? A blunt metal object
of some sort, used with some force.

Ayesha Khan had splinters of wood
embedded in her knuckles.

The door near where she was found
was also damaged.

Tests were done.

The DNA and blood found on the door
matched that of Ayesha Khan.

And the door belonged to which room?
Room 206. The room occupied by the
Minister for Defence Procurement.

Were there knife marks on the door,
too? A knife in the deceased's hand?
Yes. What was she doing with one?

Peeling an orange, chopping...(?)
Mr Simcox! She was a prostitute
and she had it for self-defence!

Mr Khan, we're here
to investigate cause of death,
and cause of death only.

Mr Simcox, you will get your turn
to ask questions of the witness,

just as Mr Khan will get his chance
to question yours.
We will keep to the agreed order.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

I'll see you tomorrow. Yes.

That was brilliant!

Well, it's not over. I've got
to face Simcox again tomorrow.

Fancy a night out?

I saw your daughter at the bar.

She was new to the hotel, but...
I knew she was on the game.

'Did she say anything to you? That
a man in the bar had offered her
a lot of money for unprotected sex.

'I said, "You're mad!"
I told her she was too young,
too beautiful to be doing that.

'I told her it was dangerous.
All the psychos want that.

'But...she said she had a knife.
How much did she say he offered?

'ã300.'

Did she point him out?

He was drinking with two others,
a man and a woman.

Did you recognise him?

Did you recognise him?
Yes.

But I couldn't put a name to him.

'I can now.'

I'm not the Sally Army,
but I thought she needed a friend.

So I got her to write
my number down.

She walked out.

I hoped she'd left, but
she must have gone up to his room.

She never did ring me.

Then I went to see
the bloke on the desk

to see if he'd go and find out
if my friend Charlie was OK.

He asked me to leave.

He thought I was on the game.

As I went in the back,
through the car park...

There was a lot of trade going on
there. The boys in the car park
smuggled girls in the back way -

foreign students,
and girls who just wanted to meet
rich people and have a good time.

Pimps took advantage of that.

There was a store-room there
they'd turned into an office.

They had a portable gas fire which
they used to keep warm in winter
when they weren't moving cars,

and the girls went in there
to wait for the clients to call.

Next thing I knew...

..Thank you. You're very kind.
In fact, you're every kind.

I can't stay long tonight,
cos I'm in court tomorrow.
SYMPATHETIC GROANS

No, it's true, they've finally
COURT up with me. But...
MORE GROANS

I do have some medical friends here
tonight. They're plastic surgeons.
I'm gonna need it.

So just for you, doctors...
INTRO STARTS

♪ I would have given you
all of my heart

♪ But there's someone
who's torn it apart

♪ And he's taken
just all that I have

♪ But if you want
I'll try to love again

♪ Yes, babies

♪ I'll try to love again
but I know...

♪ The first cut is the deepest
Baby, I know

POLICE! You're under arrest!
# ..The first cut is the deepest

♪ Cos when it... ♪
YELLS AND GRUNTS

Watch me curtains!

SONG CONTINUES

You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence if
you do not mention, when questioned,

something which you later rely on
in court. Do you understand that?

Tell me about the injury
to the body? The door catch
is a metal oblong

which would make a mark
across the body at the same height.

We found a small piece of fibre
caught on the catch. Tests showed
it came from Ayesha Khan's jacket.

So how, in your opinion,
would the injury have been caused?

The door would have to be dragged
across the body
with considerable force.

That sounds a bit strange.

How? If you were trying to push me
out of the room,

and I was gradually being forced
out as the door closed...

Or you were trying to get in
and I was trying to keep you out!

- We've heard that if she was in the
corridor, she would already be dead.
- I must protest!

- It's an accusation of manslaughter!
- YOUR interpretation, Mr Simcox.

No firm connection has been made
with the occupant of room 206,
he is not here to defend himself!

..And the deceased was hammering
desperately on that door

because the corridor was filled
with toxic smoke, while the person
in the room apparently was safe?

Mr Khan, please. ..Members of
the jury will disregard that remark.

..All I can say is that those were
the injuries Ayesha Khan had when
she died within feet of that door

from smoke inhalation.

And the person BEHIND the door must
have known that was happening? Yes.

What else did you discover?

I took a sample from underneath
Ayesha Khan's fingernails. What did
the tests reveal? There was blood -

hers and someone else's.
And how would that get there?

Typically, by clawing
and scratching at someone.

And you tested for DNA?
Yes.

And, um...

what did that reveal?

A vaginal swab taken after death
revealed fresh semen.

The DNA of that semen matched
the DNA of the blood.

VOICE INAUDIBLE

Oh, Mother(!) What've I done NOW?

You described yourself
as a forensic pathologist?

Yes.

Do you accept that the job requires
skill, experience and great concentration?

Yes, it does. Can you tell us
what happened to you on the night
of the hotel explosion? Before...

you went to the scene of the crime.
That...
Were you having a dinner-party?

That was private. Did anything
happen at that dinner-party
that you reported to the police?

Yes.
What DID you report to the police?

A sexual assault. You went
to the scene of the hotel explosion
after an alleged sexual assault(?)

Yes. And there, had to perform
a series of appalling tasks

only a tiny handful of people
in this country
would be capable of doing -

immediately after somebody had
allegedly tried to rape you? Yes.

Surely you couldn't have done
your job?! Not surprising
that what you saw as wounds

were in fact post-mortem artefacts!
I was very angry. But my mind
was focused and very clear.

In fact, it helped concentrate it.

This bruise on her trunk was made
when she was still alive.

Any pathologist would have
been able to tell that just
by looking at these photographs.

If you have them exhibited, I'll
let you know why. I think Prof Ryan
has answered you very well.

Thank you.

I have had an application to
introduce Barry Elkins as a witness.

Is he here?

Is Mr Elkins here?

So where are you taking me?

Somewhere nice?

You wanted police protection.

He's going to get away with it.

Why did you send the driver home
from the hotel?

Can't remember. I just don't
understand why you took a room.
Jack always drives you home,

however late it is.

I just thought I'd have
a few drinks, crash out,
give Jack an early night.

It's quite exciting,
people not knowing where you are
for a few hours.

Come on.

YOU are a lucky sod.

Well.

This is the big one!

Yes.

And I'm the one who blew it.

No, you didn't.
KNOCK ON DOOR

You look pleased to see me go,
Harry. No, I'm just really sorry,
Sam. What can I say?

Well, there's no point in me being
here if I can't do my job properly.

The vice-chancellor was hoping
you might change your mind.

You'll be pleased to know
you're back on the Home Office list.
Congratulations. That's not funny.

We sent Danny La Rue to Barbados
for a month, but you still won.

Bowman's going to resign. A tabloid
challenged him to get his DNA tested
and the PM got cold feet.

Actually, I lost. Bowman left
that girl to die in that corridor.

And Mohamed Khan...?

Excuse me.

I thought you'd like to know...

Colin Burwood was wanted
for an assault on a woman in Dublin.

So I told the Gardai
where to find him.

Let me take you out for dinner and
apologise for being such a bully.

Good friends are hard to come by.

♪ Testator Sile-ens

♪ Costestes e Spiritu-um

♪ Si-ilentiu-um. ♪

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