- VVish I had a garden like that.
I read something once,
about the smell of freshly cut grass.
That beautiful scent we all love.
It's a distress call, would you believe?
When it gets cut, it lets all these chemicals out,
trying to seal its wounds,
fills the air with shit.
Even turns into smog.
Poor bastarcfs screaming its head off in pain
and we're all drinking Pimms and doing cartwheels on it.
What are you thinking Lucas'?
U nderneath all this'?
Are you screaming?
Are you even there anymore?
If you can hear me,
if you are there, I'm so sorry.
I'm so so sorry.
(woman sobbing)
(footsteps approaching)
- [Nurse] It's time.
- Yeah.
<( mm)
(somber music) (people chattering)
- Are you going to come in'?
Just come in.
What'?
- You just look like someone, that's all.
- [Male] And this was the first time you saw her'?
- Yeah.
Months ago now.
It was like staring at a phantom.
Like someone was playing the cruelest trick on me.
My daughter Lucy
died
five years ago.
She worked in Amsterdam in the Red Light District.
She killed herself.
I didn't
deal with it.
Christ.
When I saw Natalie I thought it was Lucy.
Swear to God, my Lucy.
It was her.
My little girl.
As fucked up as that sounds.
So we just talked.
Sometimes we didn't.
Sometimes I'd pay her just to sit there
and let me look at her.
And sometimes I'd hold her and stroke her hair
and pretend she was back with me.
It's pathetic isn't it'?
- No.
It's human.
- Same thing.
After a few months I'd been there every night
and one night I was there as usual
and she told me overheard a Brigada Serbilu Talking.
- I hear the things they say to each other.
They do their business in one of the
Elm cm building
Thinking the women who are here
are too stupid to pay attention.
But I pay attention.
- She heard about some money.
Some money.
A million euros.
In cash.
And the Brigada were moving it
and Natalie knew when and where it would be.
- The two of you decided to take it for yourselves?
- Not for ourselves, I didn't want a penny nor did she.
Three months ago Natalie's sister Christina
came to visit her here.
She'd run away from home.
Natalie tried to tell her to go back to Krakow
because she didn't want her around
this world you know'?
One night Christina went out, didn't come back.
Nobody knew where she was.
- What ha ppened'?
- They took her sister.
They trafficked a 15-year-old girl.
- What am I going to do'?
She's my sister.
She's my little sister.
It is my job to look after her and--
- I know.
I know.
- You're the only one that does.
- She asked me for my help.
I was the only one she trusted.
(tense music)
She said the keys would be on the floor somewhere outside.
The only thing I had to do was turn up.
(mam)
Natalie wanted the money as leverage.
She was gonna tell the Brigada she'd only
give it back if they returned her sister.
All of the girls they take are sold so,
why not buy her back'?
- That is quite a thing to do.
To take this risk for somebody you don't know.
- VVell I did it for Lucy.
I know it doesn't make any sense but--
- You wanted to save Christina
the way you couldn't save your ovvn daughter.
- Maybe.
Anyway, I gave it all to Natalie.
A million euros, I didn't take a thing.
I don't care about money.
And it wasn't for me after all was it'?
And either that will be the end of it.
Nothing's that simple is it'?
What I-
(male grunting)
- I will talk, you will listen.
- Yeah.
" D9 You not enjoy your job'?
- I barely have one anymore.
- You see, I believe it is important
people enjoy their jobs.
Perhaps if you enjoyed your job more,
you wouldn't have done this.
You wouldn't have taken from me.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- There was a camera in the van.
- Listen, I don't have your money anymore.
I can get it back.
- This is not a negotiation you understand?
I need all of it back.
Every last cent.
This was taken this morning.
He was out collecting shells on the beach.
Every last coin
or I will remove your fathers head
from his body and send it to you.
Do you understand me Edward Stratton'?
- Yeah.
- And then your ex-vvife Clare
mail“
And you should know this,
I like my job.
- And things just seemed to get harder and harder
that my options seemed so narrow
that I couldn't move.
It doesn't matter who you are
or who you think you are,
they'll cut right through you.
They'll out through you and they'll find your aohilles heel.
And they won't just snap it,
they'll rip it to shreds with their fucking teeth
and then they'll find more.
And they'll find chinks in your armor
that you never even knew existed.
(Edward )
mm?»
They found me.
They know who I am, they know I took their money,
they want it back and they're not in the mood to negotiate.
- Then we have to leave right away.
- No Natalie, they're not just gonna
let us turn around and walk off into the sunset.
We made a mistake, we got caught, it's over.
- It can't be.
- They are threatening my father.
They have photographs of him.
We need to give it back.
- And what about my family?
What about Christina?
I need to find her.
- I tried to help you okay, and it didn't work!
I'm not gonna watch as the people I love die
because I screwed up!
Do you understand?
Give me the money!
- I cannot do that.
- VVhere did you put it'?
- [Natalie] What are you doing'?
- [Edward] VVhere did you put the money?
_ StOp-
Stop it, please stop it!
Stop!
- Is this it'?
(loud bat thudding) (Edward grunting)
mm»
24 hours later I walked into my house.
There it was.
My father's head on the kitchen fucking table.
And I just stared at it for the longest time.
And I thought about calling the police.
And then I thought about Clare
and the other people they might hurt.
I had to pick up my own fathers head
and put it in the basement so that
the neighbors wouldn't see.
Can you imagine that'?
- You said you, you were struck
from behind by a baseball bat'?
- Yes, a metal one with a bright yellow handle.
WW'?
- I could not place it, I'm sorry.
Story of my life these days it seerns.
Forgive me, go on.
- VVell I was running out of options
so I went to the police.
I thought if I could at least find her
I could tell her about my father
I could make her understand.
If I knew where Natalie was
then at least I'd have a chance of finding the money.
- But you must have known this pretense couldn't last.
- No, of course not.
I just needed it to last
as long as it took to find her.
- Natalie told rne none of this when I found her.
- She probably thought if you found out?
The truth you'd tell your friends in the police
and then someone would oonfisoate the money.
- Why didn't she just run'?
She said she had to prepare for a departure.
- [Edward] You don't believe her.
- If you must leave you leave don't you'?
=-|]“it.
All I do know is that you're not safe Julien.
<( mm)
Neither of us are.
- What do you mean'?
=- [mm cczsaflbcfl.
He said he met your wife.
He knows where your family are.
- Hello Celia.
This is Julien Baptiste, I need a car
to be sent to an address in Amsterdam.
<( mm)
(horns honking)
Julien Baptiste, daughters place.
- Okay-
(woman speaking foreign language)
- I'm Julien Baptiste.
I'm the one who made the all.
This is my daughters place.
- The place was empty when I arrived.
- How long ago'?
- [VVoman] lvlaybe 4O minutes.
(phone ringing)
- Excuse me.
Hello.
(car thudding)
- Shit.
(engine clanking)
(engine chugging)
Thank ya.
(door clanks) (woman gasps)
- What ha ppened'?
- VVell, I couldn't see his face on the entry phone,
but the moment I opened the door,
I recognized him.
I saw him at the supermarket the other day.
He was, he was friendly.
Too bloody friendly.
I knew though, something about him, I knew.
I just didn't see.
- Take your time.
- VVell I don't think really,
I just slammed the door.
Not enough time to keep him out
but enough time to run
and knocking over half of Sarah's flat as I went.
I just kept running.
You know, staying in areas that were
as public as I can find.
This was the first place I saw with CCTV.
VVith people.
- Did this man have an accent?
<( mm)
He's from the BrigadaVs Serbilu.
- God it's strange how it hits you.
I was reacting, you know'?
Now I'm here, now I think about what could have happened.
Wheat? Di? Salish...
- I never expected this investigation
would lead to such a place if I'd known.
We have to go to the police.
- Yeah.
- There is someone I must call.
(phone beeping)
- [Edward] Hello'?
- You need to come now
and meet with us at the station in Amsterdam.
- Mr. Baptiste, you wife's description
matches a gang member named Constantin Baraku.
- That is the man that has been
threatening Edward Stratton.
- The Brigada Serbilu have a long reach.
And they won't stop until they have their money.
You and your family need to go back to France Julien.
And to be sure, you should arrange extra security.
- My family have a life in this country.
I cannot just ask them to leave.
- VVell let rne find a safe house here then.
We can arrange protection.
- No thank you.
I would prefer to make such arrangements myself.
- But you need to realize that this
could be long-term.
(phone ringing)
- [Julien] Edward.
- [Edward] I'm outside.
- I'm sorry.
I got here and I couldn't.
I couldn't come in.
=- The mam [mm threatening v v
they can bring him in,
with my wife's evidence and yours,
they can make a case.
He cannot hurt anyone from prison.
- And you think they won't just send someone else'?
And then what's gonna happen?
They're gonna kill my ex like they killed my fucking dad.
And that will be on me.
I can't let anyone else die!
I cannot be responsible for anymore death!
- You just need to tell them what happened to your father.
Let forensics conduct an examination on his remains.
- VVell like Constantifls gonna be stupid enough
to leave some evidence?
- Everybody makes mistakes no'?
- No, tell him, tell him.
They can go to my house and they can do
all the tests they want.
The only thing that makes sense to me
is getting the money and giving it back
before they hurt anyone else.
Like your family.
- I'm taking steps to make sure they are safe.
- For how long'?
VVherever you take them you can't hide forever.
Not if you want to live your life.
- That man threatened my wife!
The idea of him walking around
is more than I can bare.
We must try everything,
we must work with the police if we can.
- You think if the police find that money first
they're just gonna hand it in'?
You do what you have to for your family.
I arn truly sorry that I dragged
you into any of this.
I am.
<( mm)
- Thank you.
So, where is he'?
- He wouldn't come in.
He left these.
Gave permission for you to search his house.
There you'll find the remains of his
father in the basement.
- Okay-
I'll organize a team.
<( mm)
- Where are we'?
[w Wm»
Stop sitting here feeling sorry for yourself.
Find that money and return it.
That's all they want from you right'?
- The police are involved.
I cannot interfere with what they are doing.
- I'm sure Martha's doing her best.
But do you really believe what she has in mind'?
Arresting Constantin.
Do you honestly believe that that's gonna
ensure that we're all safe'?
- No.
- Then find the fucking money Julien.
Fast.
(phone ringing)
- Hold on.
Hey Julien.
- I have an idea.
About where we might start to find the money.
- [Edward] Yeah, where?
- [Julien] Can you meet rne outside Line's room at eight am'?
- [Edward] Okay I'll be there.
<( mm)
- It's really you.
- Dragornir is dead.
- Careless Dragomir, careless.
That's unlike you.
And stupid.
Doing business with those two girls.
And trying to take our money, that's just--
- What fucking money?
- One million Euro, don't insult me Dragomir.
This kind of money, this is serious.
- I'm a different person now.
- Yes Dragornir my friend, you have changed.
I know what you are capable of,
yet there is one person
with the balls to take from the BrigadaVs Serbilu
and it is you.
- I didn't take your money.
- It's good to see you again.
<( mm)
'? The cake of light '?
'? ls in your life '?
'? At the light 7?
? And mix it up 7?
'MW?
"2 Don't you say T'?
? Reach your 7
- [VVoman] You sleep here again'?
- No, I got an alert.
There's been an arrest warrant put out
[mm [IEDKQHL
mm .
- VVho signed off'?
- Commissioner Martha Horchner.
- Void the warrant and get rne on the
phone with Commissioner Martha Horchner.
<( amines»
- [Julien] This is Julien Baptiste
and Edward Stratton, we wish to talk with you about Natalie.
We stand here all day if we must.
(box clanking)
What is it you're not telling us Lina'?
- What do you mean'?
- Mr. Stratton came to talk with Natalie about the money.
He wanted her to give it back.
You are struck with a metal baseball bat.
I remembered last night where
I'd seen such a baseball bat before.
When we came to question you
you had the bat out front.
- A lot of girls have them.
We have to protect ourselves.
=. , v Um.
I'm not angry with you.
I understand that you hit me
because you were trying to protect your friend.
I was out of my mind, I'm sorry.
Wm.
She said she was gonna use the money to help her sister.
Did she tell you anything about that'?
- Maybe.
- Natalie's dead now!
- [Julien] Edward stop--
- Stop trying to protect her,
just tell us what you know! - Stop stop.
- [Julien] Edward.
This is helping nothing.
Our families are in danger.
If we find the money and return it,
innocent lives will be spared.
- If I had any idea how to find
a bag with one million Euro,
you think I'd still be here'?
I'm being followed.
The Brigada Serbilu, they will follow me
everywhere I go now.
And everyone thinks I have an answer and I have nothing.
Natalie would always say "One day when you are far away."
And she believed it too.
That eventually our life could be better than this.
She was wrong.
- Is there nothing you can tell us
about Natalie that might help'?
Anything at all she may have said about the money?
- She tells me
if anything happens to her
at least she knew to go to Matty.
.=“@
- Her son.
- She had a son'?
- He lives with his father, full custody.
She hardly ever sees him.
A violent abuser and drug taker.
And still has custody because he could
afford a better lawyer.
- What's his name'?
- Thijs De Boer.
- Was her son Matty the reason
Natalie hadn't simply left Amsterdam?
- He was in hospital.
In operation on his spleen I think.
- How was he to receive the money?
- She did not say.
Only that she had made an arrangement.
And if she could not save her sister,
at least her son would have a better life
away from his father.
<( mm)
(thunder crackling)
- I had no idea about her son.
All that time I spent with her
I didn't know her at all.
- VVell, let's to the father, Thijs De Boer.
If Natalie wanted their son to have the money,
maybe, maybe he has it.
- The guy's an abusive drug addict.
Do you think Natalie would have trusted him'?
- We'll find out.
(phone ringing)
= Herehnel'
- Martha I need your help tracking down a man.
- [Martha] Listen, where's Edward Stratton'?
- Actually, Edward is beside me at this moment.
- I just have been on the phone with Europol.
You need to bring him into the station right now.
- Very well, we'll come now.
- Julien.
Mr. Stratton, thanks for coming in.
- Did you find anything in my house'?
- Nothing, no prints, no DNA, nothing.
- Like I said you wouldn't.
- Julien Baptiste, Edward Stratton,
this is Genevieve Taylor from Europol.
Leader of the Special Tactics tearn.
- Mr. Baptiste, I gather you've been helping Mr. Stratton.
- [Julien] As far as I am able.
- I'm with the joint investigation team
working to build a case against the Serbilu.
I'm coordinating with teams in Romania, Belgium,
Poland, and here in the Netherlands.
There's been a lot of money and a lot of time invested
in this so far and the last thing anybody needs right now
is anything we didn't plan for.
- You mean me'?
- [Genevieve] Afraid so.
- You didn't come here just to tell me that.
- I came because I saw a warrant issued
[mm [IEDKQHL
That's how I found out about Mr. Stratton here.
I'd like to speak with you.
Somewhere quiet.
- My office.
- Now'?
- Yeah.
Mr. Baptiste is no use to you now.
But we can help each other Mr. Stratton.
- You call me if you find anything.
- [Julien] Of course.
- [Martha] The end of the hall here.
- [Genevieve] Thanks.
- I understand this kind of investigation,
but they take time and time is something vve don't have.
- Come with me.
- I know that money is blood money.
Profits from the sale of women.
It sickens rne to return it to such people,
but Markham you are to understand the Bflgada Serbflu
“Runs.
What matters right now is protecting my family.
Mine and Mr. Strattons.
- Yes, but my hands are tied.
Yeah'?
My“
Unofficially they piss me off.
VValking in here like they own the place.
Really Julien, I agree with you.
You're better off finding that money yourself
and returning it.
(30 outside.
Trust me, go.
- Mr. Baptiste, what a surprise meeting you here.
Seems I have been given the day off.
- How fortunate huh'?
- [Male Officer] So, where are we going'?
- [Julien] VVeTe looking for a man called Thijs De Boer.
- [Genevieve] Mr. Stratton, the arrest warrant
(m [mm mm [mm mmnaflcszfl.
It's not really in the interest of our investigation.
- This whole intimidation, cold-blooded murder,
not enough for you'?
- The Brigada Serbilu are like most
Eastern European oriminal organizations.
Brutal, greedy, complicated.
Constantin Baraku is one link in a very long chain.
An important one, but just taking him
off the streets will accomplish nothing.
- Okay-
- If you testify against Baraku,
even if you and Baptiste's wife testify,
there's a long time before it comes to trial.
And in that time, when it comes to the Brigada Serbilu
witnesses tend to disappear.
Or change their mind.
- VVell this is all very encouraging.
What is it that you want with me'?
- What we need is something
incontrovertible against Baraku.
The kind of evidence that limits his options.
Ivlakes him realize it's prison or start cooperating.
Give up his friends, his colleagues, bosses.
- So what is it you want me to do'?
Do you want me to wear a wire'?
- We don't call it that.
- I don't give a shit what you call it,
is that what you want me to do'?
- Yes.
Constantin murdered your father.
He thinks he has you under his control.
If you record him talking about your father,
about what he did to him, then we'll have him for murder.
Mr. Stratton.
- [Edward] Piss off.
- [Male Officer] No answer form his phone either.
- Does he have a job'?
Ad?
- Thijs De Boer hasn't worked a day in his life.
I met him yesterday at the hospital with his son.
I didn't realize the boy was Natalie's.
He said they'd only been together for a few months,
so I didn't think to ask.
- [Julien] Let's try the hospital.
<( mm)
- It's here.
The boy was here yesterday.
He was due to have an operation.
- Excuse me.
There was a boy here. Matthew De Boer.
When was he discharged?
- VVho are you'?
(speaks too fast)
- [Nurse] This has no record of him leaving.
- You don't know who signed him out'?
- No, as I said, there's no record.
- [Julien] His father?
- Why just take the boy without signing anything?
- When was he due to be discharged?
- Tomorrow.
- He took him out early.
- [Nurse] I'm sorry.
- Perhaps he was in a rush.
The way you might be if you came into
possession of a million euros.
- We could find out.
<( mm)
- [Julien] This is the hallway of lvlatthevv De Boefis ward'?
- Yeah.
- Can you push forward'?
VVait, wait, go back.
Can I see another camera?
- It dropped out for about 1 O minutes or so.
Internet failure probably.
[HE
- 1 O minutes that same day the boy goes missing?
It would be the worlds biggest coincidence.
- Someone helped take his son out of the hospital early.
- We find that person we find Thijs De Boer.
If Thijs took Matty, maybe we find the money.
I'm looking for somebody who may have
taken the boy out of 925.
VVas there somebody going out
with the boy from 5:45 and six from room 925'?
VVere you here yesterday?
Am“
A four-yea r-old boy.
- The shifts change tomorrow.
Plenty
boy left who we have not yet spoken to.
I have to be in the office tomorrow,
but I can put an alert out on Thijs car.
Check his credit cards.
- [Julien] Good idea.
One for the road'?
- [Male Officer] Yes please.
It's a relief to get out of that place.
- I know the feeling.
I spent too long in hospitals.
- Yeah, my morn said you'd been ill.
- I had a tumor in my brain.
For the longest time I ran from it.
From the reality.
Easier to pretend, isn't it'?
- Yeah.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
I was the opposite you know'?
I didn't run from my operation,
I ran towards it.
I had this total faith that science, doctors,
it would fix me.
But then during my surgery there was a mistake
and I started to bleed
and they had to transfuse me
but they have any AB negative.
So I hernorrhaged for like half an hour
while they helicoptered over some blood that would work.
And when I woke up and they told me...
You suddenly realize it's all luck.
My life depends on whether my
surgeon had enough sleep the night before.
And if it's all chance,
you might as well enjoy it right'?
I swore the day I got diagnosed
that I would live each day to the fullest.
I got this done that night to remind me.
- It's a fine sentiment.
- Yeah.
VVell, sometimes I wish I'd gotten the dragon.
Dragon looks cool.
(men chuckling)
Let me know how you get on tomorrow
and if I hear from the father I'll call.
<( mm)
- [Male] Think there's enough'?
- [Daughter] Yeah.
=. MW,
(kg m)
So did you find anything?
- No.
Mm“
TI].
- I know you Julien Baptiste.
Is there something you're not telling me'?
- I'm just tired.
When were you last on the ward
where the boy was being treated?
- I think six o'clock maybe.
- Was the boy there'?
- No the bed was empty by the time I came.
I'm sorry, but I need to get back.
Mm“
- Oh, someone has not turned up'?
=- u
- Thank you.
(door knocking)
Mfg. Mhflka.
- What are you doing here'?
- Just had some questions.
New screen I see.
Very nice.
Like a cinema in your living room.
- I don't have to speak to you.
- Mrs. VValke I know too well when
people have something to hide.
Now tell me, you helped Thijs De Boer didn't you'?
You manipulated the CCTV.
- You have this all wrong.
He didn't take Matty.
- Who did'?
<( mm)
- Oh god.
(phone ringing)
- Hello.
- [Male On Phone] Mr. Baptiste.
- Speaking-
- I have your results.
- Thank you.
(doorbell buzzing)
(Julian mm?»
- Julien, what is it'?
- All this time and you lied to me!
Why didn't you tell me that Niers is my son!
- Hey Julien, it's me, I'm up and about.
Call me.
Let me know where we can meet.
VVhafs happening with Matty.
Call me.
Bye-
<( mm)
- [Male] Get in the car.
- Don't fight it Edward.
It will just make it harder won't it'?