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Skripal? Sergei was a high-level MI6 agent...

..and since you're the Director of Public Health for Wiltshire,

we're going to need you right at the heart of this.

Novichok. It's one of the deadliest synthetic substances on Earth. Nick!

In terms of protecting citizens, this is about as bad as it gets.

Thank God!

You don't know what I'm doing...and I'm not allowed to tell you.

It's more important than anything right now, OK?

I made a decision about Dawn a long time ago.

You don't have to save her, you just have to see her.

I got offered my own flat.

Gracie can come and visit you there.

There will be people out there who ask us, "Is it safe now

"to live our lives?" To answer that with any certainty,

we need to know exactly what happened here,

and I'm not sure that we ever will.

This programme contains some strong language

and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

It was highly likely that Russia

was responsible for this reckless and despicable act.

They have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent

in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance.

There will be no attendance by ministers, or indeed members

of the royal family, at this summer's World Cup in Russia.

There's no better endorsement

than the royal seal of approval,

and few places need it more than Salisbury after it was caught up

in the poisoning of a former Russian spy.

The playground is back in action,

the benches are again being used to rest tired feet.

This visit wasn't just about meeting stall holders.

It was a message that Salisbury is open and completely safe.

My God!

You know that Wiltshire Police will buy it from us?

Or... erm... We could move back in?

Start again? Nick!

Daddy!

No, no!

N...

Are you OK?

Such a lovely day...

and you can see, of course, some of our World Cup panel kids,

who are practising there...

I'm dropping the girls at Mum's and then I'll be back. OK.

You'd better get dressed.

Yeah.

OK. Bye, Dad! Bye, Dad. See you!

I was thinking...

..Mum needs some time off, Tobes.

Why don't we go away for a few weeks after you break up?

Disneyland?

Cornwall?

I tell you what,

if England win the World Cup,

we'll go to Disneyland. How's that?

That's NEVER going to happen.

Cold spoon!

Ugh. All right.

Come on.

Gracie's coming today.

You look nice.

Where did you get that?

It's a good 'un.

Go on, then. Try it.

Hey, hang on. We need scissors.

That's weird. It doesn't smell of anything.

Hmm.

Weird.

You don't have to worry.

You don't have to keep phoning me at the station. No, OK.

Yeah. All right, sir.

We'll make sure everything's all right. OK.

Thank you very much, Sarah. Thank you.

Arrest rates have gone through the floor since you've been off sick.

How're you doing, Nick? I'm doing very well, sir. Thank you. Yeah.

Good. You're making the most of your excuse to watch the football,

I hope.

Well, to be honest, sir,

I just want to...I want to get back to work.

OK. Well, I'm here to tell you not to rush it.

Don't come back until you're absolutely ready

and not a moment before, right? OK.

And, look, if you need a desk job for a month or two...

No. No, sir. I am...

..I'm ready for full duties.

Nick, you should listen to him...

Honestly. Honestly. Really. Sir, I'm good to go.

There's no way, Sarah. Not yet. I know.

But the thought of it, it's the only thing

that's keeping him going.

Well... if there's anything you need from us.

Anything.

You take care of yourself. Thanks, Paul. I appreciate it.

You're watching Good Morning Britain.

Our main news this morning... England's last 16 World Cup game

against Columbia on Tuesday will be their biggest in a decade,

according to manager Gareth Southgate.

Dawn?

Dawn?

Dawn?

Dawn.

Dawn!

Yeah, hi, Charlie. Yeah. Yeah. We're on our way.

Charlie?

Charlie, calm down. What is it?

Charlie, what's happened?

What is it?

Hey. Room two's set up.

I'm sure she's going to be OK, yeah?

You are MELTING in this heat.

Your eyes...

Your pupils are bloody tiny!

What have you been doing?

Nothing. Nothing.

You want to get some fresh air?

Yeah. Yeah.

Mate, are you all right?

You're OK. You're OK.

Right. I'm going to get some help, OK?

Well, what else did he say?

You know Charlie. Not much.

Just that she's taken unwell again

and they're admitting her to hospital.

I'll see you later, love.

OK, Gran.

Listening to him...

..sounds like they had a big night. Oh, for God's sake.

I'll text you later.

Hello, love. Filling the pool? Yeah.

It's just not possible.

Mrs Sturgess... Our Dawn wouldn't do that!

She wouldn't do that! Her partner does have a history of drug abuse.

But he's not using now.

Look, all I'm saying is we have to explore

the possibility that this is an overdose.

Explore all you like.

There's no way our Dawn took drugs.

I've sent her bloods for testing.

After that, we should know what it is and how to treat it.

And how long will that take?

If it's straight-forward, hours. If not, it could be a couple of days.

We'll work as fast as we can. Excuse me.

Where is he?

On the right.

Charlie, isn't it? Yeah.

Charlie, don't be alarmed. We're dressed like this

because there's already been a call from this address this morning.

We're taking extra precautions, OK?

Can you look at me at all? What if I turn your head?

Charlie, I'm just going to have a little look in your eyes, OK?

Can you tilt your head back for me a little bit?

That's it. We're going to get you to hospital, OK?

Moscow has been at the centre of this incredible World Cup party,

and now England have arrived in the Russian capital.

The fans are here in good number, the country is starting to

believe, the team is full of hope and opportunity really is....

Where are you going? To do something more interesting...

..like ironing.

I'm sorry, I don't get it.

The results have shown that Dawn and Charlie were contaminated.

What do you mean?

That they came into contact with something called an organophosphate.

It's similar to a pesticide.

Pesticide?

So... So Dawn didn't take anything herself?

It wasn't her fault? No. It wasn't her fault.

We're doing everything we can for her. And for Charlie.

Excuse me.

I'm sorry, Doctor. This just doesn't make sense.

Where would they come across a pesticide?

No!

Fuck...

All right, Dave?

I thought every man in England was screaming at a telly right now.

What?

When?

Oh... No.

No, I'll...I'll come and meet you.

Ted, I have to go. When will you be back? Later.

Later? Yeah, that's what I said. Later!

Dawn and Charlie have been poisoned with a nerve agent.

Not the same one as the...? Yeah, Novichok.

You can't see her for now.

You can't go near her.

I'm so sorry.

So, what do we know?

Not that much.

Where were they taken ill? A flat in Amesbury,

four days ago. Four days.

and we're only just finding out about it now?

The assumption was some kind of overdose.

One of them had been a user.

Who are they?

They are Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess.

Dawn was living at John Baker House, a sheltered accommodation.

She's been there for the last two years.

And Charlie Rowley had recently moved to Muggleton Road in Amesbury.

And that's where the ambulances picked them up on Saturday.

Amesbury is nine miles away from Salisbury.

It's nine miles away from the nearest hot site.

We're tracing all their movements.

Closing everything down like last time.

What did we miss? What the fuck did we miss?

Are they here? They're here.

Hello, Grandad.

Sh! We've got to keep our voices down,

because Gracie's asleep.

I don't know.

Mr Sturgess? Yeah?

We're family liaison officers from Wiltshire Police.

Can we come in? Er, yeah.

Hi, I'm...I'm Julie.

I'm Mrs Sturgess. Dawn's mother. This is her sister, Claire.

Hiya, Claire. And Karen.

And this is Dawn's boys.

Ewan. Ewan. Aidan. Aidan, nice to meet you.

I realise this is an incredibly difficult time.

But this information will get out, and it will get out very soon.

They can't make us leave Dawn.

Claire, I don't think you understand.

You and your family are now at the centre of an international incident.

By tomorrow morning, there will be dozens

of journalists on your doorstep.

And not just here, they'll turn up at your work.

They'll even stop you on the school run.

You can call the hospital whenever you need to,

but you need to find somewhere else Gracie can stay,

away from all of this.

And then you need to go, too.

Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, both in their 40s,

were found unconscious at a house in Amesbury, in Wiltshire, on Saturday.

They remain in a critical condition after being exposed to the

substance Novichok.

Now, Nick Dixon has this report.

Police have validated what many speculated.

Nick! Two more people have fallen victim

to the lethal nerve agent Novichok. Nick!

We can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed

to the nerve agent Novichok. It's...it's happened again.

What? It's happened again!

..the nerve agent that contaminated both Yulia and Sergei Skripal.

The couple, named locally as Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess...

What if it's my fault? What if they've come into contact

with something that I touched? No, Nick. That's not... That's ridiculous!

It could be a delayed reaction, couldn't it?

I mean, it takes 50 years to degrade... No, Dr Haslam...

Dr Haslam said that's not right... Right! I want you and the kids to

get tested again. NICK!

I can't have you like this.

I ju...I just can't.

Sorry. Sorry for shouting.

Are you OK?

Why don't you get ready for school, yeah?

Yeah?

This is a precautionary measure

at the sheltered housing where Dawn Sturgess lived.

It is unnerving speaking to people here in Salisbury today

who are worried about the impact, again, on this city.

Sorry to disturb you, but as you can see,

the police are here.

They've not come to arrest you, they have come to help you.

For safety reasons, you have to evacuate the building.

Questions are being asked

about how this could have happened just months after...

..four people now, if you are including the Skripals,

who are in a critical condition

after a military-grade nerve agent in a Wiltshire town.

That's it.

Sorry, sir. Restricted access.

Oh, Sarge!

Didn't realise you were...?

Are you...?

So, where are we with containment?

Charlie Rowley's flat has been sealed off, along with

everywhere else he went that day.

John Baker House, where Dawn lives, has been evacuated.

They were in Salisbury on Friday, the day before they became ill.

Where?

Queen Elizabeth Gardens. We are moving to close it now.

And we believe they then took a bus to Amesbury.

As soon as we identify it, we'll impound and test it.

Would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what's happened here?

Well, we always knew the attackers

would have a container for the poison.

We just assumed they left with it,

but what if they didn't? Maybe Dawn or Charlie found it, picked it up...

So, we're back to square one?

This isn't square one, Stephen. This is much, much worse.

First time around, we had something to work with.

This time, we have no idea what's happened or how.

Sergei Skripal was a Russian spy.

These are two ordinary people.

Home, sweet home.

Just as you left it.

The boss wants to see us in five, OK?

You know there's no way any of us could have foreseen this.

I'll be there in a minute.

I know, I'm just saying.

It's not your fault. It's not anybody's fault.

I said I'll be there in a minute, Dave, OK?

I was reading about Dawn this morning,

and I realised I've met her.

I ran an outreach seminar for people with alcohol problems.

She was having a hard time.

She was funny. She had a bit of life about her.

I liked her.

You'd like her, too.

I'll see you upstairs.

Yeah.

How long am I going to stay at Nana Diane's for?

Just a couple of days, love.

And I don't have to go to school? No.

You get an extra half-term break.

Slippers.

What's wrong with Mum?

She's a bit poorly, love.

But the doctors are going to make her better.

Yeah?

Yeah. Good girl.

Don't worry now. It's all right.

She's going to be fine, dear.

Oh, sweetheart.

Oh, there.

Come on.

Your brother's just through here. Thank you.

I haven't seen him for a while.

We had a bit of a falling out, like.

If you wouldn't mind putting these on...

Can I touch him, then...

..with these on?

Only his feet.

Jesus, Charlie, what have they done to you?

What have they done to you, eh?

I'll get that.

Our colleague Ben Brown has our top story.

He's live in Amesbury for us now.

Mum.

Dad!

..Simon, where a couple on Saturday fell ill.

..just here behind me, and a police cordoned there.

They're now critically ill in hospital in Salisbury

after being exposed to Novichok nerve agent.

While in the House of Commons, the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid,

has said he understands the concerns of the public.

I recognise that some local Wiltshire residents

will be feeling very anxious.

Let me reassure you that public safety

is of paramount importance.

We will bring you the very latest this afternoon.

I let her down, our Dawn.

I let her down. No, you didn't.

I was relieved, you know, when they told me she'd been poisoned. What?

I thought she'd done it to herself.

And I was relieved...

..because I wouldn't have to live with that for the rest of my life.

That I couldn't save her from herself.

I thought, all those months I kept her at arm's length,

she goes and does this to herself. How could I live with that?

So when they told me about the poison...

..I was happy.

I was bloody happy.

Have you ever heard anything more selfish than that?

You didn't let her down, Stan.

You were always there for her. She knew it.

She knew it.

How could this happen to our little girl?

Do you remember when she was 15 and she ran away to Cornwall

and you had to go and pick her up from the travellers' camp?

They were the ones who wanted rid of her.

And then when she was 17, she got knocked down by an ambulance.

They were treating her on the side of the road, and she looked up

and she said, "I don't know whether I'm really unlucky or really lucky."

Yeah, I remember.

When you think about it, Stan, this could only happen to our Dawn.

Wiltshire Police initially thought the couple

had taken contaminated crack cocaine or heroin.

..initially thought they'd fallen ill after using heroin

or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs,

but further tests are now needed.

Police say it's not yet clear if a crime has been committed.

..the couple may have touched a contaminated object

from the Skripal attack, like a discarded cigarette end

or a syringe containing Novichok.

The couple may also have found a container

in which the original substance was mixed.

The fact that the police still haven't found the container

with the lethal chemical weapon inside it is a cause for concern.

The public are repeatedly told that the risk to them is low,

but without the evidence, that is hard to justify.

Can everyone get off the vehicle, please?

A month ago, I stood in the middle of this city

and declared it safe and open for business.

We all thought it was.

What do we say to them now?

You said that this city was safe outside the cordons.

Now what do you say?

My son is ten. He won't go to school.

He's having panic attacks about this.

What am I supposed to tell him?! Who missed this?

How did you miss it?

How do we know it's not going to happen again

today or tomorrow or next week?!

If I may, erm... You're right, we didn't see this coming,

and we still don't know exactly how it happened.

Is that all you have to say?

Until we work out exactly what happened here,

yeah, I'm afraid it is, that's all we have to say.

We are testing every single object found at all six sites,

and we'll have answers soon.

What?

What the hell is this?

What are they saying about her? Stan, don't read it.

A homeless addict?!

That's not Dawn!

Any more teas or coffees?

We're fine.

I hardly slept all night.

Me too.

I don't know why we're here.

We should be with her. They told us.

We have to go back.

Whatever happens...

..we have to be with her.

Tim.

How's it going? Slowly.

Look...

This isn't out yet, but last night we tested a perfume bottle.

It was full of Novichok.

Dawn must have sprayed it on herself.

I mean, even now, what's left in the container

could kill thousands of people.

The contamination radius could be worse than the last time.

So we have no idea where they got hold of it and who gave it to them?

Professor!

Professor Atkins!

Just after 11 o'clock this morning,

we saw a large convoy of emergency vehicles.

More than a dozen in all...

One of them is Charlie Rowley, isn't it?

I thought you didn't want to know. I nicked him a couple of times.

I used to bump into him when I was on the beat.

That's why they call it Smallsbury.

Yeah.

He wasn't one of the worst, actually, Charlie.

He was all right.

He was all right.

Sarah.

Yeah?

I am ready to go back.

Nick, I just...

I am a police officer, OK?

It's who I am.

I have to...

I have to go back.

I have to.

They're coming.

Oh, my God, Stan.

Can I get a few questions, please?

Mrs Sturgess...!

Mum?

Please, can you just leave her alone, please?

We need to go into our house, please.

Please, can we just get into our house, please?

What the fuck was that?

Don't answer it. Oh, my God.

What's that?

"Mr and Mrs Sturgess."

"Mr and Mrs Sturgess."

Sir, just please come out and comment.

Come in.

You want to see me? I heard about the town hall, Tracy.

You were right to request more information,

so these are the chief suspects in the criminal investigation

being run by CT.

Their movements before and after their attack on the Skripals.

It does not leave this room.

OK.

They flew to Gatwick from Moscow on Friday, March 2nd,

then went to a hotel in East London where, according to other residents,

they spent the night with a prostitute and a bag of marijuana.

The next day, March 3rd, they caught a train to Salisbury for a recce

and left and went back again the day after. The day of the attack.

And does it look like they threw any kind of container away?

There's no evidence of them discarding anything, but they were

out of CCTV range for long periods, so they could well have done.

You've got ten minutes.

Thanks for this, Paul.

The Home Secretary has pointed the finger at Russia.

It is completely unacceptable for our people

to be either deliberate or accidental targets

or for our streets, our parks, our towns

to be dumping grounds for poison.

It's very sad because I think it's probably put Salisbury back again.

I hope not because we were just beginning to...

One disaster is bad enough, and now we thought we'd moved out of it

and it seems to be happening again...

Salisbury is always a quiet place. You know, it's nice to live in.

So it's a bit worrying what's going on...

I don't know why we're so bloody quiet. She hated that.

Can I talk to you all in the family room?

We should be able to declare the flat in Amesbury safe

in less than ten days. However, as you would expect,

this is the biggest concentration of Novichok we've ever encountered,

and yet we still haven't managed to find any in any of the other sites

that Dawn or Charlie visited.

Stephen.

Well, that's good news they haven't found it anywhere else.

It means this time it wasn't spread, so I suggest we reassure the public

by countering the conspiracy theories

and get the facts out there.

Huh!

I'm sorry, is there a problem? Facts?

I still know next to nothing about what really happened here, Stephen.

You want to tell the public this city's safe

when all they know for sure is that an innocent man and woman

are fighting for their lives in hospital,

and there still could be something else out there.

You saved the other ones. You saved them.

Why can you not save Dawn? Mum.

Dawn has a bleed on the brain. It's inoperable.

She can't recover from it.

I am so, so sorry.

Where am I?

You're all right, Charlie.

You're OK, mate.

I'm here.

It's your brother. It's Matthew. They sent for me.

Where's Dawn?

You're OK, mate.

Where's Dawn?

You're OK.

Dawnie?

Dawnie?

You are a good person.

You are...

..a good person.

You always were.

Come on, mate.

Hey.

You should get some sleep.

I'm just here for a shower and a change of clothes.

Can you take me to school? No, Tobes, not today, no.

You're never here. It's worse than last time. Toby, you know I have...

I'll talk to him.

See you later, yeah?

Hello, Dave.

Yeah.

No, I've just nipped home. Why?

Oh, no!

No!

I'm sorry...

I'm so sorry.

Hospital staff in Salisbury said they did

all they could to save the life of Dawn Sturgess,

a 44-year-old mother of three who came into contact

with the highly toxic Novichok nerve agent just over a week ago.

She died late last night after being on life support.

The death of Dawn Sturgess, a British citizen on British soil,

now changes the investigation to a murder inquiry,

with all the diplomatic and security ramifications that carries.

Charlie.

It's all right, Stan. I'll stay here.

And now Gracie Sturgess would like to say a few words.

I just want to say...

..I really loved my mum...

..and she really loved me.

We always liked doing things.

Going to the cathedral to light a candle.

Making friendship bracelets.

This is one she made for me.

And listening to music and dancing.

We liked to video ourselves doing that.

So I just want everybody to know...

..she was a really good mum.

She was the best.

That was wonderful. That was wonderful.

What are you doing here?

Have you read this?

Charlie Rowley gave an interview. He's saying the perfume

was wrapped in hard plastic. If he's right, then...

Tracy, we did a fingertip search of everywhere it could have been.

We did our job.

That first day you rang me, I thought, "This is it,

"this is it, Trace.

"This is the important thing you're supposed to do with your life.

"This is the reason you went through all..."

Through all?

I had three kids by the time I was 20.

My girls.

They're all grown-up, working...

..but when they were little, I was a single mum

with no money and no qualifications to speak of.

I had no idea. It sounds like such a cliche, but I thought,

"I'm going to be something for them."

So I studied nights and weekends...

..got my degree, got a job.

Eventually!

I ended up here.

I'd made it.

And now this has happened.

Right, listen to me.

How many fatalities since you got put on this job?

Eh?

I'll say it. One.

And that is deeply, incredibly sad.

But it could have been dozens.

It could have been hundreds.

And you're going to see this through.

And so am I, no matter what it takes.

Bye! Bye, Mum.

..have enough evidence, they think, to charge the men...

See you.

..Salisbury in March. Lucinda Adams has more.

We now know the faces of the two Russian men

accused of the Novichok poisonings.

It's understood British police may know their true identities,

but CCTV shows them arriving in the UK

under the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.

They're seen travelling to Salisbury,

where it's believe they used this fake perfume bottle

to deploy the Novichok nerve agent, which would later kill Dawn Sturgess

and contaminate her partner, Charlie Rowley.

Theresa May said months of investigation...

The Salisbury suspects say their weekend trip was for tourism

and not for an assassination attempt,

according to the channel's own translation.

Who are you?

We are those who were shown to you in the pictures,

Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov.

Are those your real names?

Yes, they are our real names.

Just two young men with an interest in the cathedral, they said,

and so they crossed the continent to see it.

Stan, what are you doing?

I want to know the truth.

It's the only thing I can do.

We deserve to know.

There's the famous Salisbury Cathedral,

famous not only in Europe but in the whole world.

It's famous for its 123-metre spire.

It's famous for its clock - one of the first...

Truth isn't for people like us.

They said they cut short their sightseeing trip

because of the bad weather in the town,

and it certainly was a cold weekend.

We were going there to see Stonehenge, Old Sarum

and the cathedral.

That's good. Come towards me a bit more. Come towards me. That's good.

Left shoulder in. Left shoulder in towards me. That's good.

Excellent. Big smile. Don't forget the smile.

All right, mate? Hey, the hero returns.

Dress blues and everything, eh. For the photograph, I think...

Come here.

It's good to have you back.

Welcome back, Nick.

Welcome back.

Good to have you back, Nick.

Good to see you back, Nick.

DI Mant, on my way.

Nick, are you up for this? Do you want to come?

They said that I should just take a few more months off.

I never wanted to be anything else but a copper.

All these people...

..you know, calling me a hero.

I'm not a hero, I just opened a door... Nick.

I know that I'm not the same man that you married.

I just wish I could go back.

I can't.

It's not right.

It's not. It's not right.

What am I supposed to do now?

It's too soon.

That's all. You...

You have to give it some time.

Hi, darling.

How was school? Good.

What did you get up to? We're reading a new book.

And what's the book? Goodnight Mister Tom.

That's a good book.

Cheers.

Tracy? Caroline.

Thank you. Thank you for this.

Thanks for coming.

You took a massive dose, Nick.

Your cholinesterase levels were almost non-existent.

Every single one of your major organs

was fighting an independent battle to stay functioning.

And normally in that situation, you lose consciousness,

so we waited for the crash.

But the thing was, you never lost consciousness.

I still don't know how you did it.

None of us do.

I've seen a lot of sick people, Nick...

..but I've never seen anyone fight as hard as you did.

Have you done your homework?

Yeah, I've done it.

Watch out. There.

Smells delicious.

Can I have ketchup? In stew?!

Mrs Montague was talking about you today.

Oh, no. What have I done now?

She said you were a hero. Oh, don't be daft.

She told my whole class that if it weren't for you,

lots of people might have got sick.

No. There were masses of people involved - hundreds of us.

I just helped. Yes, it's true.

That's cool.

Here.

Thank you.

Couscous, Tobes?

Here you are.

Salad?

I love...

..spag bol.

Well, is it an improvement?

"No, Mum. It's not." I'll say.