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[Horn honking]

[Jolly piano music]

Here you go.

Dear, oh dear.

We walked all this way for this.

It's closing down, it's my last chance.

Can I borrow your glasses, Gerry.

Well go on, it won't bite.

You sure about that?

Jack, come on, you're a man of the world.

Doesn't look like this is of this world.

No thank you.

I don't eat food that wobbles.

Well you don't know what you're missing.

Mmm, the true taste of old London,

you know, the one being wiped out by Ken and his cronies.

I mean, hundreds of years of history and tradition-

oh for god's sake, shut up.

Look, I'm eating it.

[Brian grimacing]

[Sandra gagging]

I've come all this way and I still

haven't had anything to eat.

It's your own fault.

Well I'm having an ice cream, and Gerry's paying for it.

What a good idea.

What can I get you then?

I'll have a 99, I think.

Excuse me, don't bother with him.

You want a real ice cream, over here.

Shut it, gennaro, this is my pitch and you know it.

Do you wanna see my licence?

Shut your mouth, you stole that permit.

There's no need for a ruck, I'll get two off of him

and then two off of you and then everybody'll be happy.

Figlio di puttana.

What did you say?

Figlio di puttana.

[Loud punching]

[Crowd shouting]

Come on, come on!

Police!

[Shouting]

Right, unless you're thinking of getting me a 99,

I suggest you stay put.

♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, we're doing fine ♪

♪ it doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

Mr. Halford.

Oh, come in Jack.

This is Terence Hammond.

How do you do?

Special portfolio for tourism.

Terry and I go way back, take a seat.

Thank you.

I understand you were there yesterday,

when ds Pullman arrested Rocco gennaro and Andy Benton?

Yes, that's right.

Well it seems that there's some history behind that brawl.

Yeah, the gennaro family have been

serving ice cream in London since the fifties.

The Benton's came on the scene

in the early nineties and they became instant rivals.

What you saw yesterday was the tip of the iceberg.

Lucky we were there, it could have turned pretty nasty.

Oh, believe me, this is a dirty little feud.

With it's own police file.

Public nuisance, harassment, criminal damage.

It started in '93 with a few petty incidents,

slashed tyres, that kind of thing.

Throughout '95, there was an escalation.

Assault, abh, gbh.

Take a look at '96.

Armed robbery?

'96 was the summer of the ice cream bandit.

Ice cream vans were being held up all across London

and each family accused the other.

It looked as if it was going to go on forever,

until Andy Benton was shot.

Shot?

Stomach wound.

We had to wait for about three weeks

before we could get a statement from him.

The bullet nicked the bowel,

it was touch and go for a while.

Our concern is that yesterday's fight

signals a new round of hostilities,

and all in front of our precious tourists.

Not an image we wish to portray of London.

Yes, I can see that, but what's that got to do with me?

We want you to chair a meeting,

a summit between both families.

If you think it'll do any good.

We need a calming, authoritative,

neutral voice in the mix, and if what my friend, Bob

says about you is true, you're the man.

And you said yes?

They need me.

They value my experience and wisdom, my seniority.

You mean your advance in years.

This is serious, people's livelihoods are at stake.

If these two companies can't sort out their differences,

they could well go out of business.

You getting paid?

Told you, I'm doing this for the greater good.

They saw you coming mate, the mayor's office

are getting you to do their dirty work

and they're not even paying you?

It's not very wise is it?

I'd call it lumbered.

Not all of us do everything for personal gain.

It's typical of your...

You were gonna say my generation, weren't you?

Now that shows your age.

Piss off.

[Upbeat music]

Coffee?

Yes please.

That's Alzheimers.

[All laughing]

This is Matthew Benton.

- How do you do? - How do you do?

Andy, yes, we've already met.

Where's the gennaro contingent?

Oh, don't worry, they'll be here,

they never miss an opportunity for a slugging match.

I'm hoping it won't descend into that.

They've given him a gavel.

He'll like that.

Order, order!

[Silvio] They will have told them

their side of the story by now.

[Isabella] They won't start without us, they'll wait.

Look, here it is, through here.

I see you've started without us.

Not at all, we've been waiting for you.

Please, please sit down, Mr. Gennaro.

My name is halford, Jack halford,

and I shall be chairing this meeting, and let me assure you,

I intend to be completely neutral throughout.

Let's have no inflammatory language or wild accusations.

Why, what have they told you?

We haven't said anything,

we thought we'd leave the lies to you.

Please, now please, this is exactly

the sort of thing I'm talking about.

Please!

Now why don't we just let Mr. Gennaro speak

and then you can have your say?

Mr. Gennaro.

The bentons are scum, end of statement.

Well, that's not being very constructive.

It's all you're gonna get from him.

I've tried to talk sense to him.

You call threatening to drive me

out of business "talking sense"?

It's called competition.

It's called being a dirty, cheating bastard.

Please, anymore outbursts like that

and I shall close this meeting and leave you

to the mercies of these gentlemen.

Now, perhaps we should discuss

the current position of the family-

oh yes, just sweep away the past as if it never happened.

They're very good at that.

Look, I'm sure we can reach a happy solution

if we can only just-

sit down and talk?

[Jack] Exactly.

Yeah, it's not going to work though, is it?

It's obvious we're not meant to get along.

Not while you refuse to care

about anyone else but yourself.

I should've known you'd come with a closed mind.

I came here to find the best solution

to my business problem.

You robbed my vans at gunpoint!

I was the one who took a bloody bullet,

how is the trigger finger, Rocco, hey?

[Shouting in Italian]

[All shouting loudly]

Gentlemen, please!

[Upbeat musical sting]

This is getting us nowhere.

I couldn't agree more.

Perhaps we should break for...

For what, a fistfight, a shootout in the lobby?

I don't think so.

As of this very moment, both of your

licences to trade are being reviewed.

Now it is down to the appropriate local authority

to decide whether to renew or withdraw.

I believe it would be almost impossible

for either of you to trade without the licences.

Well now you're threatening to put them out of business.

However, I would point out that a call

from the mayor's office is usually taken very seriously.

Do you even know the meaning of the word negotiation?

I much prefer the word ultimatum.

That's constructive language.

Jenny?

The ice cream bandit pulled off

10 ice cream Van robberies throughout the summer of '96.

The ice cream bandit.

I like it, the cornetto kid.

The 99 gang.

[Chuckling]

The original investigation had nightmares

because at first they all seemed fairly random.

There was barely any physical evidence.

I mean, none of the witnesses even got

the number for the motorbike.

Oh, there were witnesses then?

Oh yes, Mr. and Mrs. Lao from Kyoto,

Mr. Alois valois brantner from Vienna,

miss Jolene klein from Memphis, they were all tourists.

I don't see the met funding a full re-interview.

Anyway, no one was able to give a description

beyond "he wore a helmet".

Except Andy Benton, who managed to produce this identikit.

It's an e-fit.

[Brian] I suppose you do remember people who shot at you.

Yeah, he was on his back for three weeks,

unconscious for most of it.

They did recover the bullet though,

I think there's a ballistics report in there, somewhere.

Any other suspects?

Rocco gennaro came under suspicion fairly quickly.

Doesn't look much like the e-fit, does he?

No, but the first few vans robbed

were all Benton's, plus he's a biker.

Yeah, and with his temper,

I'll bet he had plenty of previous.

Assault, threatening behaviour,

taking without owner's consent, he's a bad boy.

He was taken into questioning and whilst he was in custody,

another one took place, a gennaro Van.

In fact, all the vans that were hit that summer

were either Benton's or gennaro's.

Sounds like tit for tat, doesn't it?

Or at least an extension of their feud.

Even so, the original investigation cast their net wide.

There were 28 ice cream companies in London at the time,

they investigated them all,

but every inquiry led to a dead end.

Oh, got this for you, Jack, off the Internet.

What is it?

Application form.

Acas?

- Oh, very funny. - [Chuckling]

You know, that seems vaguely familiar.

In the past 10 years, Benton's have gone

from strength to strength.

We've invested in new equipment

and we employ over a hundred people.

It's not bad, considering in 1991,

we were a failing dog food factory.

You went from dog food to ice cream?

It's much the same concept.

So you had to carve a niche for the new product.

Does that include doing away with the competition?

Look, I don't deny that we went

into the market fast and strong.

But gennaro said it was sabotage.

I think you'll find that's their style.

The only weapon I use is sound business practise.

But what about Andy?

We were there when he was arrested.

Well, you can't blame him for having strong feelings.

I mean, he did get shot.

I can't say I've got neutral feelings about it either.

The last thing you expect to hear

is your brother's been shot.

It must've been hard.

Yeah, we nearly lost him.

It took him months to recover so you can

forgive him for having a hot head.

So is the hot head the reason

you're the managing director?

Andy's your older brother, isn't he?

Yeah, I graduated in business.

Andy had other plans and I guess,

at the end of the day, I wanted it more.

So he ends up with an ice cream Van

and you've got a nice big office.

Yeah, there's no problem between us.

He runs his own department, he enjoys his rounds,

clocks off at five and goes home to his girlfriend.

It's what he wants.

What about you?

I put everything into this place,

so if Hammond closes us down, it'll all be for nothing.

So what exactly is in this?

Eggs, sugar, cream, real vanilla.

You need nothing else.

This is why we did not make ice cream

in this country until the fifties.

Rationing.

Times were hard.

People like the bentons have no idea how lucky they are.

They think everything modern is right, is good,

that's why they thought they could just breeze in

and take the sights we have sold

ice cream from for over 40 years.

So you decided to teach them a good old fashioned lesson.

I was protecting my livelihood.

I admit that at times things got a little out of hand.

Such as the meeting yesterday.

And for that, I am truly sorry.

But this is all I have to pass to my grandchildren.

If Terence Hammond closes us down,

all that I have worked for all my life will be lost.

These are the stabilisers, guar gum,

locust bean gum, sweeteners, sugar, glucose.

Anything actually from a cow?

Yes, reconstituted skimmed milk and whey solids.

Yummy.

What do you use the rock salt for?

Oh, they put it in the machines, it's a freezing agent.

Did you lose much in the robberies?

Oh yeah, plenty,

there was over 3,000 pounds in one of those vans.

It was a good summer, especially with euro '96

and party in the park and other major events.

Yeah, and the year ended okay,

you didn't have any problem with your licence.

We'd done nothing wrong, the licence reflected that.

It was a travesty.

I had a stroke in '96, the stress,

the worry, it was all too much.

Sorry to hear that.

The bentons weren't, that's what they wanted,

me brought on my knees.

That's why they sent their bandit to do his worst.

The bandit was working for the gennaro's.

It was just their style, intimidation tactics,

but it backfired on them.

You sound pretty sure about that.

Look, silvio goes on about his years of experience

in the business, and they certainly showed

when he sent Rocco out to Rob us.

We were hit on the most profitable days of the year,

not just the hot days, but the bank holiday mondays,

after major sporting events, the big London days out.

Ah, a development lab.

You got some new flavours on the go then?

It's Andy's department, I don't know.

[Brian] It's a very impressive setup

you've got here, Mr. Benton.

Well, we're getting there slowly but surely.

No, it's fantastic.

Hello, what's going on out there?

[Isabella] You're making it worse.

How could it get any worse?

They're putting us out of business, bastardi.

No, no, no, you really don't want to do that, son.

Do you want another night in the Nick?

I can't believe this, you're helping them.

You're helping them put us out of business,

you don't know what they've done.

No, that's what we're here to find out.

Now we're your best bet,

but you're not doing yourself any favours.

He's right, Rocco.

Listen to your sister, she's got brains.

I don't think either of them have got their fair share.

That's enough, Andy.

I don't need you to defend me.

He was at the tower yesterday,

and today I find him at my pitch, outside Tate modern.

He's deliberately provoking me.

But now you're playing into his hands.

Just go somewhere and calm down.

I think that's a very good idea,

can we leave it there lads?

Just get them out of my sight.

Had enough of their silly games anyway.

[Loud slapping]

It's not a game!

Listen you, quit while you're ahead.

Just get out of here, will you?

You're very lucky, he could have pressed charges.

Yeah, with us as witnesses.

Can I have my bat back?

No, you can't, gobby little sod.

You know, no one knows a half

of what Andy Benton gets up to.

- He's a sly bastard. - [Menacing music]

You try taking a look at where his vans really go,

try taking a look.

Should have got the uniformed lads in, you know.

Nah, didn't do any damage,

and the other lot just want them off the premises.

Matthew Benton's life starts and ends with that factory.

No friends, no bird, all he's interested in is money.

Nothing wrong with that.

Well no, but that depends how far

you're prepared to go to get it.

Look, they started that business up from scratch,

which takes balls, big enough balls, maybe,

to wipe out who's ever in their way.

Well the gennaro's were certainly in the way,

especially when the trading licences were being handed out.

Maybe the bandit was a smear campaign

on behalf of the bentons.

No, Matthew Benton's a businessman, he's a rationalist.

He wouldn't risk everything to set up

the gennaros and then only cock it up.

As soon as Rocco was behind bars,

the bandit conveniently presented them

with an alibi by robbing a gennaro Van.

And Andy Benton was the one who got shot.

Well maybe the Benton robberies were done by a copycat.

The gennaro family were on the back foot,

the robberies were their chance of gaining the upper hand.

You remember what silvio said, Jack.

"The gennaros like doing things the old fashioned way".

Where'd he come from?

[Chuckling]

I'm sorry I'm a bit late.

That's all right, I'm used to it.

Do you want a glass of wine?

Yeah, that sounds nice.

So, why have you called this meeting?

Not that it's not lovely to see you, of course.

Cheers.

It's Caitlin, I want you to have a word.

About what?

About her addiction to her duvet.

[Chuckling]

I know we agreed on her taking a year out

before she went to university,

but the idea was for her to get a job.

She's probably considering her options.

Well, you know, she's going to have to

find somewhere else to consider them,

because I am sick of her being under my feet.

I've told her that unless she bucks up her ideas,

I'm sending her to live with you.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on, hang on.

Well, she is daddy's little girl.

Yeah, I'll talk to her.

Go on then.

What, now?

[Music playing]

Your mum wants me to have a word.

Hello?

Excuse me, your dad's talking.

Don't you get scared?

Of what?

Catching swine fever, it's like a bleeding pigsty in here.

[Sighing]

What do you want?

To talk about your future.

What about it?

Well at the moment, you haven't got one.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means you've had your year out,

now it's time to get off your ass and do some graft.

So I'm taking you in hand.

First thing is university.

I don't know how you've got the nerve,

telling me what to do.

You haven't got the first idea about my life,

the pressures I'm under.

Pressure?

Give me a break.

The decisions you're asking me to make

could affect me for the rest of my life.

That doesn't mean you can put them off indefinitely.

Look, I don't want you to make the same mistakes I made.

Neither do I, believe me.

What do you mean by that?

Nothing.

I did all right, got a good job, a bit of self respect.

Three failed marriages.

And three ex-wives who are now my friends,

a gorgeous grandson, two beautiful daughters

and an ungrateful little cow.

But let's forget about her for a minute.

So I don't need to go to university.

How'd you make that out?

Well like you said, you didn't go

and you've done all right.

Might as well put the money to better use.

Now what I really need is a car.

[Car horn blaring]

Morning.

[Jack] Morning.

[Brian] Morning, Sandra.

Work of art, very nice, Jack.

Thank you, I still have my uses.

What's it mean?

Well, it's the dates of the robberies,

the location of the Van and the amount taken.

Morning all.

Morning, look at what Jack's done, very pretty.

Oh yeah, smashing.

You sure you've got these dates right?

Well why wouldn't I?

3rd of July, wimbledon?

The bentons are lying.

3rd of July, wimbledon, the bandit stopped Andy on the way

back from wimbledon and grabbed nearly 2,000 pounds.

Rubbish, there is no way he could have sold

two grands worth of ice cream on that particular day.

Well, no, cause you eat strawberries and cream

at wimbledon.

No, not just that, on the 3rd of July, cliff Richard

entertained the centre court because it was pissing down.

The covers were up and down

like a whore's draws on Friday night,

while he murdered "living doll".

Are you sure?

Yeah, he's right, most of the top seeds went out that day.

I knew that.

Well, Sampras was knocked out by krajicek,

- who went on to win. - That's right.

Yeah, Sampras lost his concentration

because of that muppet, cliff.

Bachelor boy, my arse.

So what are you saying?

Well, we've caught the bentons in a lie.

Makes you wonder how many other fibs they're telling.

[Telephone ringing]

And most of Rocco's alibis check.

He must've been at home watching the television

on those previous dates, because Italy

was playing their euro '96 fixtures.

Well, no good Italian boy's gonna miss that.

Well, it's very good thinking, Gerry,

but but I'm not quite sure where it gets us.

Well, Rocco said we ought to take a butchers

at where the bentons' vans really go.

Sandra, fancy a trip out?

Ballistics have called about the gun.

Okay.

Ta-ra.

I knew that.

[Gentle funk music]

All these weapons have been recovered

from armed robberies.

May I?

Please.

While since I've seen one of those.

No need to be armed in the old team unit then, hey?

Well, we have our moments, don't we?

Certainly do.

Anyway, the ballistics report from our crime

determined that the gun used was a small calibre.

Yes, I took a look at the details you sent through.

From eyewitness descriptions, I think the bandit

was carrying a competition pistol,

something like this.

Not a usual choice of gun for an armed robber, is it?

No.

Do you want to try it?

Go on, spoil yourself.

[Gentle funk music]

Where the bloody hell do you think you're going?

[Mysterious music]

[Loud gunshots firing]

[Machine whirring]

[Brian] Not bad.

Nice gun.

You can keep your glocks and your walthers,

I'd always buy Italian.

Italian?

They're brilliant gunsmiths.

Beretta, perazzi, gennaro.

Gennaro?

[Funk music]

Who are you going to sell ice cream

to at this time time of day?

Now you're gonna get mugged.

The family business has never been a secret.

The gennaros made the finest guns in Europe,

accurate, light in the hand-

then you made ice cream.

Also the finest.

My father made guns for Mussolini.

Then the war went against him

and the gennaros were hunted like dogs.

This is why my mother brought me to england,

but even here we were regarded with suspicion.

It was made very clear to my mother that there was

no way we would be licenced to be gunsmiths again.

When rationing ended, we started the gelateria.

Did your interest in guns continue?

Of course, we brought some of my father's finest guns

with us to england, but they were not for shooting.

I own several sporting pistols.

So you shot competitively?

If you can call it that.

You British are not good shots.

I think that is the real reason

your nanny state banned guns.

Did you hand yours in?

Like a good little citizen?

Of course.

[Gentle music]

[Bell ringing]

Sorry folks, they're closed.

[Children whining]

More custom we've lost, thanks to the bentons.

Well, thank your grandad,

if he'd mentioned the guns earlier-

of course he didn't,

nona doesn't do anything to make anybody's life easier.

Here.

What's that?

The receipt from when we handed in the guns.

We?

Rocco and I saw to it.

They were the only things that nona's mother

brought with her from Italy, he was heartbroken.

Is that why you painted this,

remind them of the old country?

How did you know?

You've signed it "I.G".

Oh, it's a beautiful city, is venice.

You've got quite an eye for detail.

Thanks.

Any chance of a word with your brother?

No, he's working, school trip day

at the natural history museum.

Oh nice, do you never fancy a day on the Van?

I used to have my own pitch by tower bridge.

Bentons have got all the riverside spots now, have they?

Matthew Benton forced me off mine, personally.

Now, can you tell me how long they're

going to be keeping my grandfather?

He's not so good at the moment.

He gives as good as he gets.

Tell your men don't show weakness.

Nona wouldn't admit it, but it was the bandit

that caused his stroke.

It was already a hard summer,

the bentons had halved our profits,

then the robberies, then Rocco being arrested,

it was just all too much.

I came into the shop and found him on the floor.

He was in hospital for a month.

You've been looking after him ever since?

I'm his granddaughter.

Oh, Brian's got the gennaro receipt

for handing in the guns.

So why didn't he give it to me in the first place?

That bloody family specialise in

being a pain in the arse.

Sandra, have you ever had a result from an e-fit?

Yeah, a couple of times,

but I always take it with a pinch of salt,

they're usually rubbish.

I know what you mean.

Well that receipt won't make any difference.

The gennaros waited until the last day of the amnesty

before they handed their guns in, 16th of October,

and the last robbery was in August.

He was a member of a gun club, wasn't he?

Perhaps you should check that out

and see if it throws up anything interesting.

Yeah, you know, I can't believe I'm saying this,

but I think silvio has become our prime suspect.

No he hasn't.

He had the weapon, and the motive,

and access to his grandson's motorbike.

Yeah, right, hell's pensioners, born to be mild.

Come on, Jack, he can barely stand.

Because he's had a stroke,

and as soon as he went into hospital, the robberies stopped.

He's bloody-minded enough, and it was 10 years ago.

So he would have been...

Same age as I am now.

Like I said, just don't buy it.

[Funky music]

[Brian] I followed the recipe to the letter,

who writes these recipes anyway?

Well I'm telling you, they got this one wrong.

Hello, Jack caught you as well, has he?

Bloody freezing, what's it all about?

No idea.

[Tyres screeching]

Christ!

Oi, you mind that car!

It's a car park, not a race track.

Bloody hell, he's coming right for us.

Hold on, hold on, oi, what the bloody hell

do you think you're playing at, stupid sod?

You picked a really good place to burn rubber,

you pillock, this is a cop shop.

And we're cops.

And So am I.

You see, us oldies are capable

of doing more than just playing bingo.

Bit of a leap from two little ducks to armed robbery.

Not for the man like silvio.

He was doing what he had to do to save his family business,

and you totally disregarded him.

All I'm saying is don't consign a man to the scrapheap

just because he's getting on,

and Brian, how many times have I got to tell you,

don't play with your food.

Where are you going?

You can were conspicuous by your absence yesterday.

You know how it is.

No, I don't, enlighten me.

I'm pursuing certain lines of inquiry.

Oh yeah, what lines?

Ah, the usual ones, see ya.

Bloody sandwich is Clay cold now.

[Sandra] Clay cold?

[Brian] Cold as Clay, you know.

[Jack wincing]

[Gentle funky music]

[Teenagers shouting]

Oi, you can't park there, I'm sweeping.

Yeah all right, I'll move in a minute,

could you get out of the way?

Could you move please?

Thank you.

Bollocks!

Just been speaking to the secretary

of silvio's old gun club, he remembers him very well,

he's as a total pain in the arse.

How surprising.

Not really, but this is,

the gennaro's had a family membership.

So Rocco did have access to the guns.

So two generations with weapons,

motorbikes and with a killer motive.

And while Rocco was arrested,

silvio could have done the next robbery

to provide him with an alibi.

The gennaro boys have a lot of questions to answer.

I say we go back to the ice cream parlour.

Yep.

We've just had a call, silvio gennaro's just been

taken to hospital with a broken hip,

incurred whilst attacking Terence Hammond.

[Knocking]

Brian Lane, Jack halford, ucos.

What are you here for?

Mr. Gennaro's under arrest.

Well he's not going anywhere at the moment, is he?

Why don't you give us a couple minutes, hey?

Go on, go and get yourself a cup of tea.

Okay, sure.

You've been in the wars.

War is the right word for it.

Would you like to tell us what happened?

Mr. Hammond paid of one of his little visits.

He took great delight in telling me that

all my street vendor licences were being revoked.

I tried to make him see what he was doing to us,

to my family, but did he care?

Just wouldn't listen to anything we said.

So I made him listen.

He went berzerk, set about me with his walking stick.

Yeah, well I'd call that a serious assault.

Mr. Hammond's visit to the gennaro's this morning

arose out of serious allegations made by Matthew Benton.

Allegations regarding Rocco's

baseball bat assault on his brother,

as witnessed by two of your colleagues, I understand.

Now when were you going to mention that?

It was all going to be in my report, sir.

I've got a message that the boss required my presence,

should I be worried?

She knows about Rocco.

[Gerry] What about him?

His Joe DiMaggio act.

Oh, not now, not yet.

What's going on, where have you been all day?

Listen, you were on the drug squad, weren't you?

For my sins.

Well that story about dealing

out the back of ice cream vans-

urban myth, that started in Glasgow.

There were no convictions.

Right.

Why, what you thinking?

Well, it's nothing I can prove,

but I thought I saw something.

I think the bentons might be selling more than 99s.

The bentons?

That's interesting.

Is it?

Yeah, leave it with me, I'll see you in the morning.

If I were you, I'd make myself scarce.

If madam catches you...

Yeah, consider me gone.

Ta-ra.

Well, Mr. Benton must be running late.

It's all right, love, I'll just wait here for him.

[Energetic piano music]

Stock orders, stock orders.

Tidy computer needs a tidy mind, I like it.

We have the technology.

Let's see what we can do here.

[Secretary] I'm sorry, Mr. Benton,

there's a Brian Lane waiting in your office.

And what did he say that he wanted?

Sorry, I didn't realise that we had an appointment.

How can I help?

Peanut butter choc fudge swirl, fantastic.

Yeah, it's a big seller.

Is this one of Andy's creations?

[Matthew] No.

So which are his flavours?

None of them.

If you wanted free samples, I'm sure that I can-

you know, I was just wondering why you changed your mind.

About what?

About shopping Rocco gennaro.

Oh, well, when an opportunity lands in your lap,

-you've got to- -opportunity?

Yeah, Rocco and Isabella, handed themselves on a plate.

If the shoe had been on the other foot,

they'd have been the first round to Hammond's office.

I do have a business to defend.

And here's me thinking you spoke out

because you didn't want your brother

being threatened by a lunatic.

Oh, that's nice, tower bridge.

Look at the detail in that, did you do that?

No, I don't have the time or the Patience,

it was a present.

Was there anything else that you wanted?

No, no, that was all.

Peanut butter fudge choc swirl.

[Brian chuckling]

Brian, no, you're-

now, before you start, Esther, this is for work.

Brian, I don't want you-

I am not prepared to say anything else at this point.

-If you try to do- -leave me be.

Thank you, thank you, very sorry.

[Gentle music]

[Bottles clicking]

Esther, love?

Drugs?

If I'd had known that's what you wanted to talk to me about-

listen to me.

I know all the facts, just say no.

I promise I've never taken drugs,

not even a spliff, if that's what they call it.

Caitlin, I need you to score for me.

Yeah right, I'm gonna fall for that.

No, really.

What do you want me to score, Viagra?

Why would you think I need that?

It's not that big a leap.

It bloody well is.

Anyway, it's for a case.

Police work?

[Gerry] Yeah, investigating a drugs ring.

Cool.

Is it?

Don't get carried away,

your job's the only thing cool about you.

Oh please, Caitlin, if he can't say anything nice-

no, I can't, so when do we go undercover?

Who's the perp?

[Gerry chuckling]

[Rattling]

You are being careful out there, aren't you?

[Loud explosion booming]

Esther, love, need some help in here.

[Gentle funky music]

Who buys ice cream at this time of the morning?

So, this is where the sting is going down.

I should have worn something a bit more urban, blended in.

No, I don't want you blending in,

I want to be able to see you at all times.

Just do the deal and get straight back, all right.

Got you.

And if you feel at all worried, just wave at me.

If he even looks at you funny he'll have me to deal with.

But you'll blow my cover.

You haven't got a cover, just in and out, no heroics.

Well?

He's not just gonna give me a free sample,

I need some money, dad.

If I had a quid for every time I'd heard that,

I'd still be skint.

There you go.

I'll need more than that.

How do you know?

I thought little Princess Caitlin

didn't take so much as an aspirin?

I have friends, I hear things.

Any trouble, you wave to me, all right?

Yes, dad.

Good girl, be careful.

[Suspenseful music]

[Guitar music]

Come on, sweetheart.

[Car engine starting]

All right?

Drive, just drive.

[Dramatic music]

You okay?

That was brilliant, straight in, straight out.

Just how I like it.

So what'd you get?

Shouldn't we be somewhere a bit less exposed?

No, this is all right, come on, what did you get?

Caitlin, I asked you to score a couple of e's or whatever,

not become his east coast connection.

He asked me how much I wanted and I didn't know,

so I just handed over the cash.

It's a pound a pill, dad.

Blimey.

Hey, hey.

Gerry, I better-

where the hell have you been?

I've been trying to call you.

I've got Rocco gennaro in custody

for assault with a deadly weapon,

and I understand you're to be chief witness at his trial.

Look, I may have messed up a bit,

but I think all will be forgiven when I give you these.

What the hell's this?

I don't know, but my Caitlin just scored them

off of one of Benton's ice cream vans.

I beg your pardon?

Should have seen her, Jack, a real pro, a total natural.

You recruited your daughter to do

an illegal drugs trade for you?

Technically.

Technically I should place you under arrest,

but as I don't know what the hell these are-

it's a methamphetamine derivative

called ya ba, or crazy medicine.

It's very big on the club scene,

and amazingly volatile when you overheat it.

You've been making them?

Sort of, see, I was having a chat with Gerry.

Oi, I don't remember a conversation

about going into production, honest.

Oh no, that was down to me.

See, I've been going through the Benton stock list

and I came across some very strange items.

Just to recap, you recruited your daughter

to do a major drugs deal and you're running

a crystal meth lab out of your kitchen?

Not anymore, I don't actually have

a kitchen at this point in time.

I'm not even sure I've got a marital home.

Jack, go and get those tested.

You two are confined to barracks until further notice.

Don't move until I get back.

Why, where are you going?

To talk to your daughter.

[Gentle music]

I can't begin to tell you how angry I am.

Today's behaviour was completely inexcusable.

Before you start, the worst you can charge me with

is possession, and that will now be very hard to prove,

unless of course you arrest the ice cream man,

but he's going to be something of a hostile witness,

isn't he?

Unless you offer him a deal.

Actually, I was talking about your father's behaviour,

but how do you know all that?

I've read it, police training manuals.

Why would you be reading those?

I've been thinking about joining the force,

I want to do what you do.

We were already getting warnings about ya ba,

way back when I was in the drug squad.

The recipe was being passed around dealers in south Asia,

so it was a only question of time

before it hit the Internet.

One of the main ingredients is salt,

of which the bentons seem to use an inordinate amount.

Jane is gonna have my guts for garters for this.

And another thing, what kind of

research and development department works for 10 years

without coming up with a single new flavour?

Look, aren't you at all worried?

Nah, after the bollocking I got

from Esther last night, this is relatively soothing.

Sandra, it was all my fault.

I know, she told me everything.

Good girl.

Yes she is, must be Jane's influence.

Yeah.

By the way, she wants a word with you

when you've got a minute.

Oh shit.

Caitlin, you tosser.

Oh!

But that'll have to wait.

Now by rights, I should be escorting you

and Dr. Jekyll here out the building,

but lucky for you, you were right.

Methamphetamine.

We're raiding Benton's this afternoon.

Come on then.

[Dramatic synth music]

Cuff him, get that open.

[Loud clattering]

[Police team shouting]

On the floor, now.

Come on, must have one somewhere.

A-ha!

Ow!

Well done, it's a great job.

How on earth did you realise

that this place was a drugs lab?

Good policing, sir.

You also have the thanks of the mayor's office.

This is a triumph for us all.

At least it will be by the time

the press release is drafted.

So we can take it that these are

the guys behind the robbery?

Not really, no, that investigation continues.

Well, we got the result we wanted anyway,

both problems solved.

The gennaros, thanks to Rocco's thuggish behaviour,

and who'd have thought the bentons could have

put themselves out of the picture quite so spectacularly.

You jumped up little sod.

This place employed over a hundred people

who'll all be queuing up at the jobcentre tomorrow.

Silvio gennaro's in hospital, his business is wrecked

and you can't wait to run off to Ken with the glad news.

Well excuse me, some of us have got a real job to do.

[Gentle music]

[Phone chiming]

Meet,

me,

usual,

place,

a-s-a-p.

Send.

What are you doing?

Setting a trap, fancy a spot of sightseeing?

[Calm piano music]

Come on, Brian, what have you brought me here to see?

With any luck, the bandit.

What?

Where?

Over there.

Come on, let's have a look at you.

Oh, it's Isabella!

Did you know?

No, it's just a little theory I've been working on.

See, there's a bridge on Isabella's mural

in the ice cream parlour, only it's not Italian, it's...

I saw a picture of the same bridge in Matthew's office.

Then when Isabella said that Matthew

was personally responsible for turfing her off her patch,

well, all seemed to make sense.

Of course, there was nothing concrete to make an arrest.

I mean, she'd have just denied everything.

Yeah, well, look at her now, every inch the bandit.

She can't exactly deny that, can she?

I don't think she'd want to.

[Sombre music]

I think we've caught her

at a very vulnerable moment, poor kid.

I'll go.

Isabella?

I'm afraid Matthew isn't coming.

How did you?

Is he in on this?

No, no, he kept your secret.

You can tell whoever's in charge that I had no idea

what my idiot brother was up to, all right?

They already know, they're just sorting out the paperwork.

Can I talk to you about Isabella gennaro?

What about her?

You're still in love with her?

I didn't like him the first time I saw him, smarmy little.

Look, we'd always had the tower pitch

until they got their licence.

There was no way I was moving on.

So he started turning up, trying to scare me off.

Then I started looking forward to the arguments.

That's always a good sign.

I was shouting at him one day,

calling him every name under the sun,

and then he just kissed me, said it was to shut me up.

That was it, I was in love with a Benton.

We tried to keep on seeing each other,

but nona got suspicious.

Rocco started turning up at odd times,

nearly caught us once.

I had responsibilities to the business,

so we were lucky if we got a couple

of hours a week together, then the robberies started

and the feud escalated.

Yes, being the bandit must have been

very time consuming for her.

I didn't know it was Isabella until Andy got shot,

she turned up at my flat with a huge bag of money,

wanting us to run away together.

It had been her plan all along.

Thought she'd gone mad, I mean,

she'd just shot my brother for god's sake.

It was a mistake, Andy drove straight at me,

the gun just went off.

I wasn't trying to kill him, however much I wanted to.

I went over to see if he was all right,

he was well enough to push my visor up and get a good look.

He recognised me straight away.

But Matthew calmed down and he told me he'd sort it all out.

I sat by Andy's bed, being a devoted brother,

but the minute he woke up, I offered him

his own department and a huge salary hike

if he gave a false description.

So the e-fit was...

Well he described the first person

that came into his head.

Who?

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

After your brother gave a false and misleading statement,

what happened between you and Isabella?

Well I wasn't going to throw everything away

for a woman that thought rubbery was romantic.

So I decided to go away without him.

I just needed a bit more cash and I'd be free from them all.

And that's when silvio had his stroke?

I couldn't go then, could I?

I was the one that had caused it.

Rocco couldn't handle it.

The bills mounted up, so I kept dipping into my escape fund.

Nona doesn't know, but I've been keeping us afloat.

We'd have gone under years ago

if it hadn't been for that money.

Now nona's gonna have to manage without me, isn't he?

It's possible.

Isabella?

Arnold schwartzenegger, no wonder I was struggling.

You see, there's nothing wrong

with my memory, nothing at all.

So you keep saying.

Anyone for a drink?

[Gerry] Thought you'd never ask.

Aren't you taking Caitlin

to an illegal rave or something tonight?

Yeah, I know a good crack house you could visit.

Yeah, hilarious.

Actually, I think Caitlin's going to stay

on the right side of the law from now on.

Don't you worry, I can guarantee it.

No, no, no, I shouldn't be telling you this really,

but she's thinking of joining the force.

Hey, congratulations.

Where's Brian?

Well if I'd known this was what

it took to get the kitchen decorated,

I'd have bought you a chemistry set for your birthday.

♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, we're doing fine ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

♪ high tech, low tech, take your pick ♪

♪ cause you can't teach an old dog a brand new trick ♪

♪ I don't care what anybody says ♪

♪ at the end of the day ♪