TREATMENT
A teenage boy goes missing a few months after two other teenage boys went missing in Tottenham London. The bodies of the first two teenagers who disappeared have already been found – both a week after their disappearance in different dumpsters, stripped naked, wrapped in rogues, with their tongues removed and with their mouths sewed closed. As a result of a lack of care from higher-ranking police officers for crime in a rougher area, involving poorer people the case of investigating these disappearances is handed to young rookie policeman (Zachary).
After questioning parents, searching rooms and checking phone records and such of these boys, he has reason to believe that they were all dealing drugs (cocaine and marijuana specifically).
But during several stages of the investigation he gets tangled up emotionally with his memories and experiences of his brother and close friends getting involved with drug use and trade (when he was 15 his 18 year old brother got stabbed because of a drug deal disagreement).
A week after Zachary is given the case, the body of the latest missing teenager is recovered in a dumpster, also wrapped in a rogue, stripped naked, with his tongue removed and mouth sewed closed.
So, moving forward with his investigation, looking through CCTV footage over different parts of the area and phone records of the three teenagers, Zachary is able to narrow down suspects to a potential four people for questioning, believing that only one is responsible for all three teenagers deaths – as a result of all bodies being found in the same fashion. From this, he begins questioning suspects one by one knocking on their doors and interrogating them.
After interrogating and doing background research on two of the suspects, Zachary is able not to cancel out, but highly reduce suspicion of them, as they have viable alibies – even though admitting to marijuana use in the past, and testing positive in drug tests for marijuana but not any other drugs.
One of the remaining suspects (an average middle classed Caucasian who was an ex-police officer and partner of the present chief of police, and is now an antiques dealer) demonstrates a lack of empathy towards the teenager’s deaths in questioning. Although at the moment this suspect has only admitted to buying cocaine and marijuana off two of the teenagers for his drug habit, Zachary is very suspicious of him and has a deep underlying feel that he is the murderer, even though there is a lack of evidence to suggest so.
Zachary does some background research on this suspect, to find that he was severely physically abused by his parents, and then questions his old school councillor about his school life, only to find out that he was bullied and had no friends.
After finding CCTV footage and phone records of the other remaining suspect potentially selling drugs to all three of the teenagers and also finding drugs in his estate, Zachary begins to believe he was providing the teenagers with the drugs, and potentially killed them as a result of disagreement. From overwhelming evidence of drug dealing, that suspect is arrested (not for the murders though) along with four other men who are tied up in his small time drug circle.
As a result of higher suspicion of this drug dealer, the chief of police and higher ranking police officers urge Zachary to focus all attention of the investigation on to this drug dealing suspect, and avoid the other suspects entirely (but Zachary believes there is an element of racism and a want to tie up the case as quick as possible to cut costs involved in their opinions, as it would be way more straight forward to build a case against this suspect rather than the other weird one).
Although Zachary still thinks that the drug-dealing suspect may have been responsible for the murders, he secretly focuses more on the background of the stranger suspect, as a result of how the bodies were found in quite a sick way (with the tongues removed). So Zachary reveals to the chief of police that he truly believes that the stranger suspect is the one responsible for the murders (with evidence such as him buying the same bubble wrap used to wrap the children a month before the first teenager was murdered) but is immediately shut down and told to focus only on the drug dealing suspect, or else he will be taken off the case and probably loose his job (as it is his first case).
Despite his boss’ wishes Zachary continues to focus his attention and energy on developing a better case against the stranger suspect, breaking into his flat while he is out shopping. To his rage and disappointment, he finds no evidence to suggest he had anything to do with the murders, but sees a photo, which looks about 10-20 years old, of the suspect with his mother and father in front of an old looking house in a very rural area. Whilst in the apartment, the suspect arrives back from shopping, and Zachary is just able to escape through a window without his face being seen, but the suspect realizes that someone had broken into the flat
Previously Zachary had looked for all other estates in his name or his family’s name, and found none, but after seeing this photo, he searched deep into the roots of his family, and found out that there was still an abandoned estate, in the name of the suspect’s great uncle’s wife (from his mother’s side) under her maiden name, in Hemel Hempstead
The next time that Zachary goes into the police station though, he is brought into the chief’s office, and is taken off the case and fired – as the suspect had a hidden camera in his apartment, and showed the footage of Zachary breaking into his apartment to the chief of police.
Upset and desperate for justice, a now jobless Zachary goes out to Letchmore Heath to inspect this abandoned estate, and breaks into the house to find absolutely nothing, but sees a small shed far behind the backside of the house covered by a lot of greenery, but still in the estate. He then breaks into this shed and searches it, still finding nothing, but steps over a piece of the floor board in the corner of the shed that feels hollow underneath it. Desperately, he breaks of those pieces of floor board to find a bundle of folded clothes (clothes of the victims) and underneath these clothes he finds a chest. He opens the chest to see a bloody sewing kit with three little sphere shaped items wrapped in cloth next to it. Uncovering the cloths of the items, he comes to see that they are the three tongues of the victims. And as he is about to grab the chest and stand up, he hears a gun clicking behind his head about to fire. END
(TOP RIGHT: HAMP GS. TOP LEFT: MILL HILL. BOTTOM: WOODSIDE PARK)
