All language subtitles for Little.Boy.Blue.S01E04.720p.WEB.H264-DiMEPiECE_track3_[eng]

(car rumbling)

-[Reporter] Please, any chance--

- Out the way, please.

Thank you.

Out the way.

-[Guard] Step back, let them through.

Pick a side.

Out of the way, let them through.

-[Reporter] Mel, please,
have you got any relief

from the start of this trial--

-[Dave] Just follow Mark, please.

(reporters chattering)

(somber music)

(barristers murmuring)

(crowd whispering)

- That's Mercer's mum and dad.

Separated now, but they're
putting on a united front

for their little treasure.

I'll have her when this is over

for lying to us about his bike.

That's Yates' mum and dad on the back.

We've got them on tape

trying to destroy the
chip from his mobile.

I'll have them as well.

That's Yates.

Olssen.

Quinn.

Dean Kelly.

And that's him.

-[Mel] I can't believe how young he is.

Such a baby face.

- He's just turned 18 now.

So the press can name him.

(laughing)

- Did you see that?

- Yeah.

(boys laughing)

(dramatic music)

- It is our contention that Sean Mercer

intended to shoot someone that day.

Tragically, it was Rhys Jones

who became the innocent victim

of a long-running feud between rival gangs

that were operating in and around the area

of the Fir Tree public house.

After he fired and missed,

Mercer fired again.

This time he hit Rhys,

who went down in front of his eyes.

Immediately after he killed Rhys,

Mercer set about distancing
himself from what he'd done.

Assisted by others,

he disposed of the gun.

His clothes were destroyed
and he was washed in petrol.

In this way, he was able to
evade justice for many months,

adding to the unimaginable grief

suffered by Rhys's mother and father,

Melanie and Steve, and brother, Owen.

- The victim was four
feet nine inches tall,

average height for his age,

and well nourished.

There were small grazes and
bruises around the knees

consistent with playing football.

Bullet wounds to the
right lower neck and back,

the latter quite large
in size and irregular.

The track passed through
soft tissue and muscle,

impacted left edge of lower neck,

fracture to small protruding bones

from sixth and seventh vertebrae
continuing across the neck,

largely destroying the windpipe.

Cause of death was the gunshot wound.

Contributing factors,

the rupture of important blood vessels

around the spinal column

and disruption to the breathing mechanism.

- All right?

-[Dr. Johnson] Initially, I formed a view

that the neck was the entry
and the back the exit wound.

Entry wounds are small and discrete,

and exit ones large and irregular.

I have been made aware
of certain ballistic--

-[Woman] Mel?

- That's my son he's
talking about in there,

the one whose windpipe was ruptured,

what was it, important
blood vessels destroyed.

That's my little boy.

-[Woman] I know.

- I can't.

-[Woman] Just take a moment.

Deep breaths.

- Yeah.

- I was watching Emmerdale that Wednesday

when Sean Mercer called to the house.

I answered the door.

Mercer went straight upstairs,

and then Dean went up after
he'd finished his tea.

And then a bit later,

I heard footsteps coming down the stairs,

and Dean and Sean went out.

- [Prosecution Barrister] What
time was this, Mrs. Kelly?

- Emmerdale was still on, so before 7:30.

- And after they went out,

when did you next see your son or Mercer?

- I went to bed about 12 o'clock

and Dean still hadn't come back by then.

- [Prosecution Barrister] Thank you.

- Mrs. Kelly, how was your
health in August of 2007?

- I had a drink problem at that time.

- [Defense Barrister]
What sort of problem?

-[Mrs. Kelly] I was drinking near enough

every night and day.

- [Defense Barrister] And had
you been drinking that night?

- Yes.

- [Defense Barrister] So can
you be sure that Sean Mercer

arrived after Emmerdale had started?

- Well, I thought I'd
watched the news before.

- It is my client Sean Mercer's contention

that he was at your house

between approximately 6:00
and 9:00 p.m. that evening.

So he could not have been
at the Fir Tree pub car park

at 7:30 when Rhys Jones was shot.

So can you be sure what time
you say he arrived and left?

- Not 100% sure.

(crowd murmuring)

(ominous music)

- I was looking at the jury.

Quite a few young people, weren't there?

-[Steve] I was thinking that.

Wondering if they'd sort of identify more

with Mercer and Yates and that lot.

- Yeah.

Didn't go very well today, did it?

- I suppose not, really.

Not as far as I could tell anyway.

- Oh well.

There's always tomorrow.

Come on.

- First, we have a
recording from the probe

at the Yates household a
week after the shooting.

It's an exchange between
Francis and Marie Yates.

-[Marie] I want to burn it.

It's the only thing out the phone.

Here you are.

(speech muffled by recording)

Oh, it stinks, that.

Turn it round.

-[Francis] It's the gold thing
on the chip you wanna burn.

-[Marie] I know, I'll turn it round.

-[Francis] Go underneath it.

-[Marie] That's the
thing burning, isn't it?

The fucking chip.

-[Francis] That's on it, yeah.

Finished.

Makes no difference whether
they find it or not now.

They'll never be able to trace it.

- [Professor French] And then an exchange

between James and Francis Yates.

-[James] There's one lad
on a bike who's the gunman.

So there's one lad gonna get the blame.

-[Francis] No comment.

-[James] Do you think Sean's
gonna sit there and say,

"James Yates gave me a," no.

End of story.

I bought that three years ago.

End of story.

What?

What can they prove?

Nothing.

Can they, Dad?

(crowd murmuring)

- [Prosecution Barrister]
Thank you, Professor French.

- "Do you think Sean's going to sit there

"and say, James Yates gave me a?"

Then the next word is inaudible.

Then he answers his own question.

"No.

"End of story.

"I bought that three years ago.

"End of story.

"What?

"What can they prove?"

- Thank you.

In the transcript for that inaudible word,

you inscribed three dots.

Why did you do that?

- Because I'm not confident enough

to include anything there.

So you can't state with certainty

what it is that James Yates
bought three years ago?

- I have considered the missing word.

It contains one syllable.

The first consonant is a hard G.

Following it is a vowel
and it is a back vowel.

And then I'm not certain
of the last consonant.

Gun with a Merseyside accent
would have a back vowel.

But I cannot say specifically that it is

because I cannot detect an N.

- So he might very well not be saying gun?

- I cannot exclude it being gun.

(ominous music)

- Mel.

We've just had a message
through from the judge.

He said if you feel you are
gonna be continually in tears,

he'd rather you didn't come
back into court any more.

- He what?

-[Jackie] He said it's
unfairly influencing the jury.

- She can't help it if she gets upset.

- I'm his mother.

And I have to listen to
the most horrible things

being said in there.

- What about Mercer and
the others messing about?

Why doesn't he have a word with them?

- I'm sorry.

But that is what the judge has said.

We have to respect it.

- There are two types of gunshot residue.

And on Rhys's clothing we found type two.

- So on Rhys's clothing, type two.

Now what type did you find
on the barrel of the weapon

which the police say was
used to kill Rhys Jones?

- Type two.

- So type two from the clothing

and the weapon labeled MAG1.

Now what type did you find
on the windows of the BMW

parked in the Fir Tree pub car park,

which the first bullet fired
that night went through?

- Type one.

- Type one?

A different type.

How can you explain this?

- I can't, really.

But when we test fired the weapon,

sometimes we retrieved type one residue

and sometimes we got type two.

- Could one explanation be

that the police have got the wrong weapon?

- It's a possibility.

(boys laughing)

-[Dave] Mel.

Steve, can I have a word?

Can you give us a minute?

- Yes.

- Right, look, I heard
what the judge said earlier

and I could tell you were still fuming.

- Wouldn't you be?

I'm not allowed to show any emotion.

And yet they show total
disrespect for everything.

For Rhys, for us, for the court.

-[Dave] I'm sure the
judge has got a reason.

- What reason can he
have for picking on Mel?

- Well, think about it.

If you and Mel are models
of decency and restraint,

and he's still really hard on you,

while they're behaving like a
load of chimpanzees in a zoo.

And he's letting the jury
see what they are doing.

- He's letting them show
themselves up for what they are.

- Exactly.

Yeah?

Now don't worry about it.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Big day.

- Yeah.

-[Dave] See you.

- What are they saying at school?

Are they talking about it?

- Not really.

- What does that mean, not really?

- It's just bullshit.

- Do you have to swear?

- What's bullshit?

(sighs)

- It was just some stuff.

On social media.

Me mate showed me.

Said Mercer's never gonna get convicted

'cause some of the
witnesses have been got at.

But it's nonsense.

I know it is.

- Yeah.

You were right the first time, Owen.

Bullshit.

Just bullshit.

(ominous music)

(clock ticking)

(crowd murmuring)

-[Man] Please take the
book in your right hand

and repeat out loud the
words written on the card.

- Now that's the mother of Jordan Olssen.

- The one who said sorry to us?

- Yeah, that's him.

He's refused to be in court today,

because he said if she gets upset,

he doesn't think he'll
be able to cope with it.

- Mrs. Olssen, by the summer of 2007,

Jordan had not been out of the family home

for quite some time, had he?

- Well, there was an incident

when a shotgun was fired in 2006.

He told the police who he was with

and he was called a grass

and he was badly beaten up.

And from then on,

he didn't leave the house for two years.

He stopped going to school.

- And during that time,

did Sean Mercer come to visit him?

- Sean knew that whatever
the weather was like,

hot sunshine, whatever,

Jordan would always be in.

But we hadn't seen Sean for
quite some time over a year,

before the day the little boy got shot.

- [Prosecution Barrister]
And do you remember Mercer

visiting that evening?

- I was in the bath and I
heard my mum open the door

and Sean say, "You all right, Jan?"

And then I heard him come upstairs.

- [Prosecution Barrister] At what time?

- Erm, just after half past seven.

20, 25 minutes later,

James Yates and Nathan Quinn turned up.

I was out the bath drying me hair by then

and I seen them come up the path.

Then about 20 minutes later,

they all left.

Except for Jordan.

And they got in a people
carrier parked outside me house

and they drove off.

- And you're certain that
we're talking about the evening

of Wednesday, 22nd of August of last year?

- Yeah.

I remember it because it was me day off

and there was an England
game in the evening.

- [Prosecution Barrister]
Thank you, Mrs. Olssen.

No further questions, my lord.

- Mrs. Olssen, you amended
your statement to the police

about the events at your
house that night, did you not?

- I did, yeah.

- And in that amended statement,

you make it clear that you can't be sure

whether these events took place

on Wednesday the 22nd or Tuesday the 21st.

Is that right?

- That's correct.

- And yet in court today under oath,

you're now saying that you're certain

they took place on Wednesday the 22nd?

- The reason I said I
might have my dates muddled

is 'cause I came under a lot of pressure

from certain people to
change me statement.

They were all saying,
just switch the dates.

Me son came under a lot of pressure too.

- So you deliberately
lied in your statement

when you said you were
unsure of the dates?

- Well, yeah, I did, but I'm not unsure.

I knew very well what day
those boys came to my house.

- Now I put it to you
that you are lying now,

that you make things up in order to suit

whatever situation you find yourself in.

- I haven't made anything up today.

And as of now, 'cause of what I've said,

certain people will call me a grass.

And I don't like that.

It makes my life harder where I live.

But at the end of the day,

all I have said is what happened.

What reason do I have to lie?

(crowd murmuring)

- What are we doing here, lad?

- He said what?

- Just stood there in the
toilet like we're all mates.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- 'Cause I knew how
much it would upset you.

- I don't know how you didn't batter him.

I would have done.

- And what would that have achieved?

- It would have made me feel better.

(turn signal clicking)

(dramatic orchestral music)

(machine beeping)

(elevator door rumbling)

(man murmuring)

- Ready?

- [Prosecution Barrister]
My lord, the next witness

appears via video link.

The Crown calls Boy X.

Can you hear me clearly?

- Yeah.

I can hear you.

- [Prosecution Barrister]
I want to take you back

to the evening of August
the 22nd of last year.

Were you surprised to receive a call

that night from Sean Mercer?

- It was out of the blue.

I sort of knew him from when we were kids

but I didn't recognize the number.

He asked me to come to Blackley Close.

- Why did you go?

- Just being contacted by him scared me.

If I'd refused,

I would have expected me and my family

would have come to serious harm.

- [Prosecution Barrister] What happened

when you got to Blackley Close?

- Jordan Olssen took me upstairs

and Sean Mercer gave me a
red-and-white-striped plastic bag

and told me to hide it.

I didn't have any choice.

- [Prosecution Barrister]
What was in that bag?

- I could feel that it was a gun.

When I got home, I looked inside the bag

and hid it in the dog kennel.

And later Dean Kelly come to the house,

took it from the dog kennel
and hid it in the loft.

- Thank you.

Please remain where you are.

- You're lying, here in the
witness stand, aren't you?

-[Kevin] No, sir.

- You've lied about your involvement

in the murder of Rhys Jones

to try and cover up the
part you actually played

and you are lying now
to save your own skin.

Are you not?

- No, sir, I'm not lying.

- [Defense Barrister] When you took a taxi

to Blackley Close that night,

why did you give the taxi company

a false address to pick you up from?

- I dunno.

I suppose I knew what Sean
wanted me for was something bad.

- And when the police raided
your house and searched it,

they found not only the revolver
but a bag of ammunition.

- I've no idea why there was

a bag of ammunition up there, sir.

I can only think Dean Kelly

put it up there without me knowing.

- Dean Kelly?

He seems to figure quite prominently

in your explanation for things.

I put it to you that
you're blaming Dean Kelly

in order to avoid admitting to the truth

about your own involvement in the events

that led to the murder of Rhys Jones.

- That's not true.

(people murmuring)

- What do you think of him?

This kid?

- There's holes in what he says,

but I suppose he's brave
for coming forward.

- I don't know.

All we're saying to the jury is

believe this one but don't
believe all the others.

To me, there's not much between them.

- [Defense Barrister] You said earlier

that you had no connection to any gangs?

- That's right.

- Well, the jury has in front of them

images printed off the hard
drive of your computer.

"Fuck the police".

"Do something good for the community,

"shoot a Nogga Dog."

"Kevo, fuck the law, smoke some draw."

And then Windows Messenger conversations

about getting rid of guns,

doing people, supplying weapons.

- Loads of other people
had access to me computer.

I've no knowledge of those conversations.

- [Defense Barrister] And the images?

- They're from my Piczo website.

You don't have to have a
password before making an entry.

- So it was somebody else

who downloaded the Nogga Dog image?

- I remember finding that one myself.

I clicked on it,

and when you click on it, you save it.

- So you downloaded it?

Why?

If you have no interest in gangs,

why would you want to
save an image like this?

- I don't know.

I suppose I just thought I
was being big or something.

Sorry.

- My client, Sean Mercer,

has not taken the witness stand,

as is his right.

He's made this decision
because he believes

there is no case to answer,

because the prosecution
has manifestly failed

to prove that he was the
gunman who killed Rhys Jones.

- James Yates stands
accused of supplying the gun

which killed Rhys Jones.

We suggest the armorer was
more likely to be Boy X,

who turned prosecution witness

and gained immunity from prosecution

simply to save his own skin.

Time and again when cross-examined

on why he had pictures and
slogans on his computer,

detailing, we suggest,

his interest in gang warfare and guns,

he could come up with
no satisfactory answer.

(somber music)

(car door slamming)

-[Kevin] It was horrible, Mum.

Nobody would believe me.

I'm so sorry.

- Come here.

It's over now.

I am proud of you, Kevin.

(people murmuring)

- They're coming back in.

- So this is it?

- Yeah.

Are you okay?

- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Come on.

Let's go.
- Just get me coat.

-[Steve] Yeah.

- Come on.

(crowd murmuring)

-[Clerk] Will the defendants please stand?

Will the foreman please stand?

Have you reached a verdict
upon which you are all agreed?

-[Foreman] We have.

-[Clerk] Do you find the
defendant Sean Mercer

guilty or not guilty of murder?

-[Foreman] Guilty.

(weeping)

-[Clerk] Do you find the
defendant James Yates

guilty or not guilty

of possession of a firearm?
- It's all right, Mel.

-[Foreman] Guilty.

- Dave, thank you.

- Jesus.

All this for some fucking kid.

- Oh, my.
- Shh.

It's all right, it's okay.

Take no notice of him, he's not worth it.

All right?

-[Clerk] Do you find the
defendant Dean Kelly--

- Stay strong.

Stay strong.

-[Clerk] Guilty or not guilty
of assisting an offender?

-[Foreman] Guilty.

-[Clerk] Do you find the
defendant Nathan Quinn

guilty or not guilty of
assisting an offender?

(weeping)

-[Foreman] Guilty.

(cameras clicking)

- Since the senseless
murder of Rhys Jones,

his family have suffered
untold grief and distress.

Nothing will bring Rhys back.

But we hope they will find some peace

in the fact that justice has been done.

It's fair to say that Sean Mercer

has shown no remorse whatsoever.

We only hope the verdict
will bring home to him

the enormity of what he has done

and the pain and suffering he has caused.

Thank you.

- Thank you.
- Yeah.

-[Dave] See you.

(somber music)

(TV crowd cheering and clapping)

- How alike.
- Big Ben.

-[TV Woman] A face untouched by time.

(TV murmuring)

- Hello!

(door slamming)

Hiya.

- Hiya.

- How you doing, love?

- Fine.
- Yeah?

- Just, just having a lie down.

(TV announcer murmuring)

- What day is it?

Come on, shower.

(packages rustling)

- I just feel like I've got nothing left

to live for any more.

-[Debra] You mustn't talk like that.

- It's the truth.

At least with the
investigation and the trial,

we had something to look forward to,

but now even that's gone.

Now there's just nothing.

His empty bedroom upstairs.

- And have you talked to
Steve again about moving?

- He won't even discuss it.

I think he thinks if we leave here,

it'll be like we're abandoning Rhys.

(birds cawing)

- I had a word at work
about you going back.

They said if you just
want to do an hour a day

or something just to
get back in the swing,

it's fine with them.

- Why?

Why go back to work?

- Because they thought it
might help you, you know.

Start to feel a bit more normal.

- I don't want to feel normal.

(birds chirping)

-[Pat] I can never remember, milk and?

-[Dave] No sugar.

- No sugar.

- I'm sweet enough.

- When are Jeanette Mercer

and the Yates parents due in court?

- Next month.

- It was right thing to do
to go after all of them.

It sends out a message.

- I just pray they all saw it.

- I am very grateful for the job you did,

the way you led this investigation.

- Thank you.

-[Pat] And so is the chief.

And now that the dust has settled,

I thought it would be a good time

to discuss what happens next.

- Okay.

- You've done a terrific job

acting up as Detective Superintendent,

which, as you know,

was initially to cover annual leave.

Well, now that the investigation is over,

I need to let you know that
after careful consideration

we won't be making the
promotion permanent.

I know this must be disappointing for you,

but as of next month,

you will resume your previous rank

of Detective Chief Inspector.

- Thanks for letting me know.

- But once again,

I would like to place on record

my thanks for the great job you did.

- Thank you.

(ominous bass music)

(birds chirping)

(door slamming)

(stairs thumping)

- What's wrong?

Steve.

Take your coat off.

- I'm moving out, Mel.

I've taken out a rental on a little flat.

I need some time on me own.

Sort me head out.

I can't handle it any more.

Sorry.

- Do what you like.

(stairs thumping)

(sighing)

(somber piano music)

(truck beeping)

(boys yelling)

(knocking)

- Dave.

-[Dave] All right, Mel?

- Come in, come in.

- What are you doing round here?

-[Dave] Erm, I was just passing.

- Owen's off at uni.

Did ever so well in his A levels, yeah.

Couldn't wish for a better son.

- You look well.

How have you been?

- Well, Steve,

(clears throat)

Steve left me.

Announced one day that he'd rented a flat

and needed some time by himself, you know.

I don't blame him.

I'm sure I'd become
impossible to live with.

- I'm sorry about that.

I didn't have a clue.

- Thanks, but we're sort of starting

to see each other again, you know.

He's round most weekends,

takes Owen to the footie.

Maybe he'll come back.

I hope so.

Anyway, you look well too.

- Retirement.

The missus has got me exercising.

Trying to keep me blood pressure down.

- Is it working?

- Don't know.

I was stressed when I was in the job

and now I'm stressed because I'm not.

- Oh, I read about that in the paper.

Really sorry about what happened.

- It's all right.

You know, the way I see it,

I had an important job to do and I did it.

And anything else doesn't really matter.

- Well, they've lost a
bloody good police officer

and more fool them.

- Thanks.

- It was after the
trial it all fell apart.

Everybody thought we'd get closure,

but it was entirely the opposite.

(sighs)

The thing is, Dave, I just,

I just,

I really miss him.

-[Dave] Hey.

- It sounds so stupid.

- No, it's not.

- Everybody else can move on, except us.

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm sorry.

- Hey, don't be stupid.

- I'm sorry.
- Come here.

Come on.

Give me a hug.

It's OK.

-[Mel] I just miss him.

- I know.

(crying)

It's okay.

(gasping)

- I'm good.

Oh, okay.

I'm better.

You go.

This is a box of tissues
and a bag of Revels job.

- Are you sure?

- Honestly, you go.

-[Dave] Okay.

You sure you'll be okay?

- Oh, fine.

And thanks for coming round.

- That's all right.

All right, keep in touch.

- I will.

You too, you too.

-[Dave] You take care.

Ta-ra.

- Bye.

(door slamming)

(car starting)

(people outside murmuring)

(peaceful string music)

(sniffs)

(exhaling shakily)

(sniffs)

- Hey, hey.

Oi, hey!

Hey!

There he is.

(laughing)

-[Man] You all right?

- Hello.
- Good to see you.

(people chatting)

(hopeful music)

(chime jingles)