(dramatic music)
- I cannot believe he went to the police.
Why would he do such a thing?
- Like you, I'm trying to understand.
- VVho else is looking for me'?
VVho else has he talked to'?
- Look, you can trust me.
I assure you, I am no threat to you.
You can talk to me about him.
I can help.
(dramatic music)
- He was a client.
When he started to see me I thought he was nice.
He brings presents, this kind of thing.
Then he doubles his appointments, more and more.
And then he starts to get jealous of the others.
He asked how much he'd have to pay me
to have me all to himself.
He did not like my answer to this question.
This is when he broke my jaw.
Edward Stratton is the one you should be asking questions.
- Why would he lie to me'?
He must have known it could never hold up if you were found.
- So he does not care what anyone thinks.
He just wants to find me.
At any cost.
- But, still, to take such a risk involving the police
when he didn't have to'?
- Because he's not afraid of anyone.
- What?
Why do you say this'?
Listen, I work for the police, not for him.
So please tell me.
- You think it's different here than anywhere else'?
Just because the government say they support our rights
to sell ourselves.
Because they, they say they give us power and control,
you think it always makes it true'?
The Romanians traffic girls here.
I see it.
All the time.
Cob“
lvlyself included.
Keep my head down, keep out of their way.
Make my money.
- What does all this have to do with Edward Stratton'?
(dramatic music)
- He's with the Romanians, okay'?
He works with them.
- This is crazy, it cannot be.
- Why?
Just because he does not seem the type'?
Why do you think the Romanians find him so useful?
An English man, working for a trucking company,
the things he can move for them
without anyone asking questions.
(cellphone buzzing) (dramatic music)
- What now'?
- The detective knows where she is.
He rang his wife this morning.
He told her he was going to see Natalie.
- Where is she'?
- [Constantin] We hear only her side of the call.
- So we don't know'?
- If the detective has found Natalie,
what do you think she has told him'?
- About me'?
L]“it .
- [Constantin] The truth perhaps?
- Doubt it.
- You hope.
(people murrnuring)
I can talk with Mr. Baptiste. - No.
No, I'll do it.
(dramatic music)
(people murrnuring)
(dramatic music)
(snorts)
- I cannot believe this of him.
- I think you would not be the first to be fooled.
- But if Edward is so dangerous, why are you still here'?
Why don't you go somewhere else entirely?
- (30 where?
You think it is so easy'?
To pack up and find another life'?
I need time, I need money.
=- Ycssalrnv
Just go to the police for protection.
- Edward pays off half of them
to keep his operation running,
to keep the girls working.
L, I don't know who I can trust.
- I have a friend.
She's a commissioner in the police in Amsterdam.
You can we 90-- - No.
No.
All I want to do is to stay out of sight
until I am ready to leave.
- You told Edward you knew the truth about Dragomir.
Kim must have trusted you a great deal to tell you.
- She told me nothing.
I learned about her from VValter De Louw
when he was drunk one night.
- And you went to her with this so she would hide you'?
<( trim?)
Edward Stratton.
- Don't answer.
<( mm»
- VVell, I'm supposed to be meeting him right now.
I sent a text this morning telling him I had news.
What would you have me say now'?
- Nothing.
Have nothing to do with him.
I beg you, don't do anything.
And be careful around him.
If he finds out you know where I am,
that's something that cannot happen.
(dramatic music)
(sighs)
(traffic humming)
(cellphone buzzing)
- Julien.
- What kind of department are you running'?
- Excuse me'?
Amman.
She's no relation to Edward Stratton.
He is no more than a client, obsessed with her.
- [Martha] VVell, we don't actually investigate people
who report a crime, Julien.
- VVell, perhaps you should.
I suggest you get your officers to do their research.
(dramatic music)
(car engine humming)
(dramatic music)
(oar bleeps)
(traffic humming) (people murrnuring)
- lvlorning.
I was getting worried.
- Yeah'?
First, the traffic, then the parking behind this station...
If I find the car again it will be a miracle.
- It's okay.
(people murrnuring)
So did you have something you were gonna tell me'?
- I think, Mr. Stratton, uh...
I think I must be honest with you.
I should not have told you I could find your niece.
I do not think I, I can pursue this case.
- Oh.
That's disappointing.
A man with your experience.
- Yeah.
Wm.
- May I ask why'?
- I cannot go chasing a girl who doesn't wish to be found.
- But I told you she's important to me.
- Yes, but err...
It seems you are not important to her.
From what we've heard, she left Amsterdam
for Germany of her own free will.
She is in no danger.
- But she's not thinking straight.
She's upside down and turned around.
I need to find her, I need to see that she's okay.
- I'm afraid you will have to continue this journey
by yourself, my friend.
(snorts)
- You think I'm weak, don't you'?
It's okay, I'm used to it.
People take one look at rne and they think they know me.
But they don't.
No one does.
They don't know the shit I've had to wade through.
How can someone get run down into the ground,
get trampled on again and again,
still be weak when they're still standing?
You don't know me, Mr. Baptiste, but I'm a fucking survivor.
That's what I am.
All I need from you is to get out of my bloody way.
I can find her myself.
(door creeks)
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(people murrnuring) (dramatic music)
(female station announcer murmuring)
(dramatic music)
(KEEN bleepilwg
(female station announcer murmuring)
(dramatic music)
fines»
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- Julien'?
- The girl, she's in danger.
You should send cars now!
- Tell me where.
(car engine humming)
(car tires screeching)
(car engine humming)
(dramatic music)
fines»
(door creaking)
(dramatic music)
fines»
(wail cqrcssallaflrxgg)
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(wail cqrcssallaflrxgg)
(dramatic music)
fines»
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(wail cqrcssallaflrxgg)
fines»
(dramatic music)
(wail cqrcssallaflrxgg)
(metal clinking)
(water purling)
(dramatic music) (water purling)
(metal clinking)
(dramatic music)
- [Niels] Hi.
[Nltkaflg .
My mother told rne you would be here.
- A pleasure to meet you.
SQ'?
- No one was inside when vve got here.
And, uh, well, the door was unlocked,
but, aside from that, nothing unusual.
- May I'?
- Yeah, of course.
(agents murrnuring on radio)
(people murrnuring)
(phone ringing)
- [Edward] Hello'?
- I'll give you one guess where I stand right now.
- [Edward] I've never much liked playing games.
- Yeah, that surprises rne, for someone who is so vvell versed
in playing them.
It is time to be honest, don't you think'?
- [Edward] The truth can do a lot more
than just hurt, Mr. Baptiste.
- [Julien] Believe me, I know this more than anyone.
- You're at the houseboat?
- VVho are you, Edward'?
- I told you, I don't like playing games.
- [Julien] Then stop playing them.
- I thought you were done with this case.
- If you knew me, you would realize
that this is not an option.
I made a mistake when I trusted you.
- I thought you didn't make mistakes.
- The only way to find out
if you can trust someone is to trust them.
- Ernest Hemingway, right'?
- You are full of surprises, aren't you, Edward'?
- [Edward] Tip of the iceberg, sir.
- Where is she'?
VVhere is the girl'?
- She not with you'?
(dramatic music)
- You didn't find her'?!
You led them here and err...
You didn't find her'?!
(cellphone bleeps)
(people murrnuring)
(cellphone bleeps)
(dramatic music)
Officers!
Niels!
We need divers!
(dramatic music)
(baby babbling)
- [Celia] Okay.
- Let's go.
(baby babbles)
(Celia sighs)
- Julien, you can't blame yourself
for what happened to that girl.
- He found her using the navigation of my car.
Taking my keYs-
How can I not feel responsibility for what has followed?
- [Celia] Love.
- I know.
(sighs)
This man, Edward Stratton,
mils.”
- What is it'?
- It's just that I wish I didn't have this feeling,
a feeling that, uh...
That everything isn't quite as it seems.
(traffic humming)
(sirens blaring)
<( mm»
(people murrnuring)
- Okay, thank you.
(people murrnuring)
mm)
(dramatic music)
- [Edward] Do you remember me'?
- Mr. Stratton, right'?
- [Edward] Yeah.
- Can I help you'?
- When I was at school, there was this kid,
called Billy Lomax.
He was a fat, stupid waste of DNA.
And when I was about nine years old,
for some unknown reason,
he decided to make my life a misery.
Any way he could, you know'?
Started small, waiting in the lunch queue he'd stick bits
of food in to my pockets
that I wouldn't notice till much later,
which sounds kind of funny,
but not if you're the one stinking the classroom out
all afternoon and everybody's laughing at you?
And you don't know why.
And then he graduated to kicking the shit out
of me whenever he got the opportunity.
Kids can be real pricks, can't they'?
I was always trying to think of some way
of stopping him torturing me.
And then there was one thing that caught my eye,
because Billy had a pet mouse, Titus he was called.
And he was always talking about him,
and he brought pictures into class,
and one day he brought the actual mouse into class.
And at break, when everyone was outside enjoying the sun,
I went into that classroom and I took him out of his cage.
And I cut Titus in half.
Split him down the middle so that all his guts spilled out.
(chuckles)
I was nine.
(dramatic music)
Billy mg...
VVell, I had never seen him like that, you know'?
I had never seen him cry, big, ugly, snotty tears.
I thought that Billy Lomax was a monster who existed only
to torture me and there was nothing I could do about it.
And I realized at that moment
that everyone cares about something, don't they'?
Everyone's got something to lose.
(dramatic music)
What have you got to lose, Kim'?
- Are you threatening me'?
- Did Julien Baptiste come here this morning?
(cocks gun) Don't lie.
- We are closing now.
- He came to see you and then he went
to a houseboat on Keizersgracht.
- You should go now.
- You told him where Natalie was.
And now now she's gone again.
Where to'?
Where's she go'?
=-|]“it.
- She's tell you about me'?
She has, hasn't she'?
She's told you about everything.
- Get up and walk away now.
(knocks table) - Tell me!
(dramatic music)
=. MW,
- [Greg] Everything okay'?
- Yeah, it's great.
It's a lovely place you've got here.
(snorts)
Thanks for the water.
- Who was that'?
- No one.
- Bollocks.
The two of you looked about ready to kill eaoh other.
VVhafs going on, Kim'?
- It doesn't matter.
(dramatic music)
- lvlorning.
=. =.
Thanks for agreeing to meet here.
- [Julien] Yeah.
So what do you have for me'?
- Mr. Baptiste, we have looked into Edward Stratton.
I've talked to someone I know from Scotland Yard,
and they have put hirn through searches on every database
they can think of, but the man has no criminal record.
No associates.
His name does not appear in relation
to anything illegal at all.
Not even a parking ticket.
- So he is careful.
He is a man who covers his tracks.
- No, there is just no way that...
Look, for several years now Europol
have been running a taskforce focused
on the Brigada Serbilu, a Romanian gang headed
by the Serbilu brothers.
Hump .
They're coordinating forces here,
in Germany, in Hungry, in Poland.
I have worked in the Amsterdam division of the taskforce.
And our principal focus is on the BrigadaVs role
in sex trafficking.
We study their every dealing,
their financial transactions, their associates.
Magma Min:
if Edward Stratton had any links
to the Brigada Serbilu, we would know.
I would know.
- Unless his anonymity is his value to them.
- So vve are supposed to believe
that Edward Stratton is engaged with the Brigada Serbilu'?
And then, yet no one in the entire Europol investigation
would have any idea'?
- But he broke into my car, he found the address
and Natalie died.
We need to keep our eyes open.
- Mr. Baptiste, I have a huge respect
may
but you're retired now and in a different...
- You think I'm a dinosaur?
Is that what you are saying? - Okay, okay,
can vve please keep it civilized?
You're ruining my morning coffee.
Wm'?
He's just trying to explain to you what we have found.
- I understand all this.
But, in case you had forgotten, Edward Stratton came
to you asking for help finding his niece.
The girl that drowned in that canal
was someone else entirely.
He lied to us.
It's important to know why, don't you think'?
- Yeah, but she told you herself.
She was a sex worker and he became obsessed with her.
I mean, it wouldn't be the first time.
I've seen such a thing.
- So you do not believe he could be dangerous?
- I believe vve need more information before vve do anything.
And that this still is a police matter, no'?
You were asked to help find the girl.
You've done that now, so...
- I found her, yes.
I led them to her.
Now she's dead.
So, please, let me stay.
Let me learn if Edward Stratton has taken me for a fool.
(Martha sighs)
- Okay-
Niels, let's bring Mr. Stratton in.
Talk to him. - No, no, no, it's too early.
- If Julien wants to ask him some questions,
I have no objection.
Have him brought in.
- Okay-
- Julien, you shouldn't take offense at my son.
- Of course not.
He's young, he's passionate.
I think we were like that once, no'?
- Seems a long time ago.
Niels has not always been so short-tempered.
He's been sick.
For a long time.
Gamma]:
He has had an operation, chemotherapy and, uh,
it is gone, they say.
Finally.
But still it is hard to adjust back?
To any kind of a normal life.
Ma...
- Erm...
I asked that Edward Stratton be brought in
for voluntary questioning, except there was no need.
He just walked into the police station.
He wants to talk to me.
(traffic humming)
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(car engine humming)
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(people murrnuring)
(people murrnuring on TV)
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(car engine humming)
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(sobbing)
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- VVell, I saw the news.
Saw the news that she was dead.
- [Niels] Natalie, the girl you claimed was your niece, huh'?
- Yeah.
And, uh, obviously I shouldn't have lied.
I wasn't thinking straight.
It was just that I wanted to find her.
I wanted to find her so desperately that I didn't care.
- [Niels] But why would you lie'?
(dramatic music)
- Because I love her.
Loved her.
Funk.
And I was worried about her.
And she just disappeared and I thought
just some missing prostitute you wouldn't bother.
If you thought she was my niece,
I thought you would try harder.
I was just upset and I just wanted to know
that she was okay.
I know I was stupid,
falling for her like that, I just couldn't help it.
You don't always choose the people
you fall love with, do you'?
- [Niels] We appreciate you coming in, Edward,
but you do understand we need to know your movements
yesterday afternoon. - Yes, absolutely, yes.
- So we are thorough'? - Yes, yes.
After I saw Julien Baptiste I went to a cafe',
Cafe' Stellan, I believe, and had a coffee.
It was pretty busy.
Err...
I'm pretty sure there were some security cameras there,
don't know if they were working or not.
You get dummy ones, don't you'?
You get fakes.
Like speed cameras, it's impossible to tell
which ones are real or not.
(dramatic music)
(tires screeching)
(car engine humming)
(dramatic music)
(sighs)
(dramatic music)
(people murrnuring)
(dramatic music)
- Is that it'?
- Yeah.
- Okay-
This was, err-- - Just after he left me.
- [Martha] lvlrn-hm.
- Mm-hm.
=- ..
- He stays there until the police arrive from the houseboat.
- He's looking.
- [Martha] lvlrn-hm.
=- Subtlety is [rub
This is a performance.
- Maybe.
But we have nothing.
We have to let him go.
(bleepmg
- lvlost of my life I've looked for people
who have gone missing.
Perhaps trying to find their souls is a stretch too far.
(dramatic music)
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(dramatic music)
(typewriting)
(dramatic music)
ls everyone asleep?
- No, they're out.
(dramatic music)
SQ'?
_ Huh?
- Tell me.
- It's a hard thing to discern the measure of a man.
I missed something the first time, with this man.
Perhaps Martha's son is right, maybe I should walk away.
I was hired to...
To find the girl.
"WIPE
- Julien, for such a bright man your complete lack
of self-knowledge is astonishing.
You know, in all the years I've known you,
you have never walked away from anything you've started.
Not even those bloody bees.
(chuckling)
You won't let them go, despite numerous attempts to do so.
It's your rnost irritating trait.
Wit.
(dramatic music)
- I'll try to get a better idea of him.
I'll make some calls.
- [Celia] Good.
- We should get a dishwasher.
<( trim?)
Sorry. (cellphone rings)
I'm gonna get it.
Hello'?
- [Julien] Hello, Miss Evans'?
I'm Julien Baptiste.
- Sorry, who'?
- Julien Baptiste, I am a former detective.
Currently working for the police in Amsterdam.
= "2
Didn't you find that girl, Alice VVebster'?
- [Julien] I did.
Today I'm calling about your ex-husband.
- Is he in trouble?
- You sound as if he could be.
- He called.
The other day.
It's the first I'd heard of him in a long time.
He sounded...
He sounded strange.
I couldn't work out what he wanted.
What is it you needed to ask rne about him'?
- Err, I am trying to get a sense of what kind of man he is,
of how much he told me is true.
He said he moved to Antwerp 1 O years ago.
- [Clare] Yeah.
We both did .
- Oh, he didn't mentioned you.
- VVell, we'd both rather forget what happened after.
- What do you mean'?
- [Clare] He didn't tell you about Lucy'?
- Lucy'?
- Our daughter.
She died of an overdose when she was 19.
Edward just...
There was no coming back for him.
He couldn't even talk to rne because I reminded him of her.
By the time we realized she was an addict, it was too late.
She moved to Amsterdam, and we couldn't...
Nothing vve said made a difference.
- [Julien] Tell me, after this tragedy
did his lifestyle change?
- What do you mean'?
- His financial circumstances.
- Once it happened our lives went on different paths.
I moved back to England and...
(dramatic music)
What is it you think he's done'?
- I'm not sure.
I thank you for your time.
I am sorry to have bothered you.
Them}: .
(dog barking) (dramatic music)
= Anything'?
- VVell, if he's involved with the Brigada Serbilu
it would have happened after his wife left Antwerp,
when they split up.
(bleepmg
=- Hm.
There's an email for you.
- It's my contact in the UK.
- Jesus!
What is this, Julien'?
(dramatic music)
- I need to find Edward Stratton.
(dramatic music)
(car engine humming)
(dramatic music)
SGT.
Excuse me, sir.
I'm looking for Karveel street?
- Take the second road on the right,
and then it's a sharp left.
- Thank you.
(car engine humming)
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(knocking on door)
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(train announcer speaking in foreign language)
(dramatic music)
(door creaking)
(film )
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(car engine humming)
(dramatic music)
(handbrake creaks)
(film )
(sighs)
(film )
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- You shouldn't have come down here.
- I think you and I must talk.
(dramatic music)
- You think'?
<( I] mm)
(phone ringing)
<( I] mm)
- Hello'?
- I'm sorry, I don't speak Dutch.
- [Man] Gas meter.
- Okay, come on up.
(door buzzing) (door olioking open)
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