"We used to make a difference, every day, we saved lives," " we fought." " That was the war," " this is different." " Perhaps we could treat the killings like a code, keep at it till we break it?" "Gap in the pattern." " I missed one." " Susan, If this pattern was easy to find, you would've found it by now." "Yoy really think that... just by listening to the wireless you can tell the police where to look for a murder victim?" "The railways." "That's how he's finding them." "If the killer is a railguard or ticket inspector then his schedule is connected to her journey" " in somewhere." " He's invisible." "First things first, we need to find Mary Lawrence." "This girl you think we've missed..." " How do we find her?" " He's working to a timetable." "The other variable - location." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Gray, my men searched the area, there's nothing there." "Nothing at all." "If we get ahead of him, we can stop him before he kills again." "Oh, dear Christ." "God have mercy." "Anyone can make a mistake, Susan." "She's dead." "We were too late." "What did you think it would be like, Susan?" "'I didn't think it would be so...'" "A life so cruelly cut short." "We must try to let her live in our memories..." "Did you see the cigarette butts on the floor?" "What does it matter?" "It matter, because It means he took his time in there," "It matter, because he stops for a smoke, for God's sake!" "ITFC Subtitle Sync:" "Marocas62" "The Bletchley Circle Part 2" "More news on the oil price crisis later today..." "No arrest has yet been made in the case of Mary Lawrence whose death is linked to that of four other women." "Police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward." "and help in this inquire." "Deputy Commissioner Wainwright of Scotland Yard said early this morning that any information will be treated in strictest confidence." "Elsewhere in the city bacon rations..." " How was it?" " Grim." " Right, how are we getting on?" " It's down to seven suspects." "Did you check the engineering service?" "No, none, we do it right now." "They close the lines off in pairs." "Yes, so you get schedule changes fortnightly." " I see." " That takes these two out straightaway." "And Peter Lakes." "He was in the mainline service before." "They moved, didn't they?" "He was part of the crew that did alternative shifts in February." "Yes, so he comes off." "And this one, Oliver Cartwright." "He was part of the P19 shift." "I thought he was P6." " Only until..." " April 8th." "Good." "Right." "Three names and a week to go." " Running out of time." " We need to hand it over." "Mrs. Gray?" "The Deputy Commissioner can see you now." "Hello again, Mrs. Gray." "I believe you have some more information for us." "Yes, I've analysed the journeys the girls made and they connect in someway to the 6:15 slow train from St Pancras to Barking." "I think that the man you're looking for either is a ticket inspector or a guard on that service." "Why a guard?" "Why not a passenger?" "Because he'd have to lure them off the train without a struggle." "It'd have to be someone they trust, someone in authority." "Come in!" "Sir, Mr. Reynolds is here." "I'm sorry, you'll have to excuse me." "Do tell DCI Compton everything you can." "So you were saying... guard or a ticket inspector." "Because of the journeys the girls made when they were abducted." "We've..." "I've worked out the schedules for all 87 guards who work there, to narrow it down." "There were work at St Pancras at that time, engineering works, I mean." " Right." " Which means they were chopping and changing staff schedules." "So," "Guards were doing duties on other trains because their used service was cancelled." "How does that relate to the murdered girls?" "Well, before the fact of the engineering works," "We did have 38 possible solutions." "But adding in the altered rail services, it gave us a whole new set of variables, the number of suspects changed." "Why it's got do a trains, anyway?" "Only one girl was found under a railway arch." "No, it's not to do with where they were found, it's to do with how he targets them." "The journeys the girls made on the day they were abducted is the only significant link between them." "Perhaps if I could have five minutes with..." "Mrs. Gray, the Deputy Commissioner is very busy." "and I am sure you can appreciate that." " I'll pass your ideas onto him." " They're not just ideas." " You've got evidence?" " Yes, I've got evidence." "Yes, this is the evidence." "List of the three names," "Tommy Casterwell, Antony Cross, Gerald Wiggins - it's one of these three." "Don't waste your time." "You've only got three days left." "I promise we'll look into it." "Thanks again for your trouble." "Now, I really must get back to my men." " It was a disaster." " But they did take the names?" "They didn't take it seriously." "They shouldn't look for patterns date all day long." "It's not how they work." "They want evidence, not theory." "If we could just take them one name, not three..." "Susan, we have cross-correlated everything." "What if we did a factor analysis?" "How?" "Remember at Bletchley, when the Germans kept shifting their code sequence?" "We look for incremental changes, we tracked changes to the pattern on the pattern itselves." "Doing a vector analysis on a crime scene is going to take forever the day." "I know, so we'd better crack on." "There must be something." "No vector variation, they're identical." "That shows he's done the same thing every time." " We need understand." " There must be something," " even if it's small." " There's no changed." "No anomalies." "Not even in the first one?" "First time you baked a cake, what happened?" " I don't bake cakes." " Mine fell." "They often do first off, dear." "Everything comes with practice." "When making a cake the first time is a mess." "Look at the vectors the date are straight." "He's already good at this." "He's done it before." "We'd have heard about the murders." "What happend If they were years ago?" "Somewhere out in London?" "I'll try the British Library, they keep archived all regional newspapers." "Come on, Lucy, I need you and memory yours." "Good luck." "What are you doing?" "The police knock on doors, why shouldn't we?" "What?" "They won't be there, they've got their schedules." "Remember?" "We can go and talk to their wives, neighbours, get an idea of who these men are." "Come on." " How far have you got?" " Halfway through 1948 now but I'm only scanning the headlines." "You would've thought after the War people had had enough of killing each other." "I've got 19 murders here." " Any underground or strangled?" " Nothing like that." "Nothing that fits." "Me neither." " Life insurance?" " In case your husband has an accident at work instance, for instance." "The policy would compansate his salary ensure your family was provided for." "What is your husband's occupation?" "He work on the railways, Ticket inspector." "So if he got ill or injury..." "What kind of ill?" "He's already got asthma." "I'm sorry." "Does that affect his ability to work?" "I don't know how much longer he'll stick it, with the all smoke and fumes." " How serious is it?" " He can't lift, can't run." "Some days he can't pick the baby up, he's so puffed." "But that doesn't mean you can't insure him, does it?" "Thank you." "Jean, I think I've got something." "Hereford Times, 4th November 1949." "Strangled." "They found her in a storm drain near the gas works." "Oh, good Lord." "I think I've found one, too." "Oh, no, we haven't missed a match in 15 years." "Every Tuesday and Thursday." "I go with him, you see, for support." "You should write that down." "Regional darts champion for the south-east." "That's wonderful." "I think that's all we need." "Thank you." "Bye-bye." "Why are we leaving?" "Matches on Tuesdays and Thursdays." "Jane Hart went missing on 7th February, Patricia Harris - 28th." "Oh!" "Yes, both two on Thursday." "We have just an hour till the last one gets off shift." "We get it move on." "Another seven victims all over the country, strangled and hidden like the five in London." "How could the police miss that?" "Well, they didn't, didn't they?" "These cases were solved." "The murderers were either hanged or went to jail." "James Lowell, caught in Hereford in 1949." "He kept clothing from the girl he killed." "Marco Giamcomi, convicted in Birmingham, 1950." "Dropped his wrist watch at the scene of the second murder." "Terry Hudson's lighter was found under the seventh girl's body." "Maybe he's making it look like other people did it, placing false evidence at the crime scenes that point to someone else, like the wrist watch." "So one man has killed 12 girls." "all around the country, over and over, fooling the police, fooling everyone," " getting away with it." " You think it's impossible." "I don't know." "I mean, look at all these cases." "If this really was the work of one man, he'd have to plan three steps ahead of everyone else, every single detail with military precision," " as if he were..." " As if he were what?" "As if he were deceiving the enemy." "What did that paper say about..." "Terry Hudson and the ration coupons?" ""Upon searching Hudson's house in Derby Street" ""police also discovered forged ration coupons" ""they believe Hudson was selling on the black market."" " That does not seem odd?" " I don't know." "Not really." "Because they also say he was feeble-minded." " Yes." " They can't have it both ways." "Feeble-minded, impulsive enough to kill and running a racket forge coupon." "No, it doesn't fit." "Terry Hudson wasn't clever enough to be a forger." "Our killer is." "So... where would he have learnt to do that?" "I think there's someone we should talk to." "Jean McBrian." "My goodness." " Hasn't it been a long time?" " It certainly has." " This is Lucy Davies." " Would you like to come to my office?" "So what brings you to the Central Records Office anyway?" "I..." "I have a favour to ask." "Oh, yes?" "It's regarding our time during the War." "What kind of favour?" "Lucy was at Bletchley, she understands these things." "What kind of things exactly?" "Keeping things... secret." "Oh, of course." "Angela, when I was at Special Operations Executive, there were... rumours." "What kind of rumours?" "A special department within Electra House handling misinformation and deception and the rumour was you worked for them." "I'm afraid you've got that quite wrong." "No, I was general clerical." "Weren't we all, dear?" "I wouldn't ask, except it's important." "Well, Jean, I'd love to help you, you know that, but I was only at Electra briefly." "They sent me here just after you went to Bletchley." "My mistake." "This is it, Gerald Wiggins, flat 22, fifth floor." "Hello?" " What are you doing?" " There's no-one here." "Two clocks." "This isn't what we're supposed to be doing." " This is not normal." " Come on." "I..." "Who are you?" "What are you doing in Gerald's flat?" "I'm so, so sorry." "We were looking for Mr. Wiggins." "He's back from work in a minute." " How did you get in?" " The door was open." "That was me." "I came in to give Patrick his seeds, but I'd left them." "I feed him while Gerald's out." "I'm sorry if I was a bit brusque there, but you caught me by surprise." "What was it you wanted with Gerald?" "We're offering life insurance." "Gerald don't know what to do with that." "What do you mean?" "Well, he's not all there." "He got a head wound in the War." "Still got shrapnel in there." "So, well, he's a bit simple now." "I help him out on and off." "Things he can't manage." " But he still goes to work?" " Oh, yes, and the railways, timetables, dates, numbers, anything like that, you know me, he comes alive." "That's what he loves." "It's the rest of life he has trouble with." "We've always said he's working to a timetable." "Gerald loves timetables." "Yes, but she seem to know him so well." "Maybe he's not as harmless as she thinks." "We've got it all wrong." "Thank you." "Let's talk inside." " Seven other girls?" " All around the country." "He chooses a scapegoat, makes the evidence point to them." "He orchestrates the whole thing." "Then it can't be Gerald Wiggins." "Because he didn't feet." "He need the neighbor to set all." "He can hardly plan for himself." "This man plans everything." "Gerald Wiggins is the one who will hang for this." "He's the one they'll pin it on." "Mrs. Gray." "I'm pleased you're here." "I have good news." "We made an arrest this afternoon, and I have to say, it's thanks to you." " What?" " Those names you gave our DCI, it took a while to follow them up, but it's good job we did." "We found items from the girls hidden in a locker of a ticket inspector," " Gerald Wiggins." " Oh, no." " What's wrong?" " It's not him." " I beg your pardon?" " Well..." "I was wrong, it's not Gerald Wiggins." "Mrs. Gray, you've been an enormous help, but it's over now." "We've got him." "No, you don't haved." "I'm not making the arrest public until I have a full confession." "No, no, you have to make public." "If he hears it on the wireless, he won't take anyone else." "Susa, please." "Excuse me." "Thanks again." "What you did helped us immensely." "So he'll be on the 6:15 tonight?" "Yes, and now they've got Wiggins in the cell there'll be no-one to catch him." "There must be something we can do." "Well, we know he'll be on that train, and we know he's looking for someone, we know what kind of girl he's looking for, what she wears, she look like." " Yes?" " What if we... give him what he's looking for?" "What are you suggesting?" "She means be bait." "Put on the right clothes, right lipstick, make-up, get on the train, try to catch his eye." "No." "You'd be putting yourself in his path." "You're a bright girl, Susan, but that is downright idiotic." "You were... you were backroom girls." "Jean, we were backroom girls." "We never had to make this kind of choice." "What kind of choice is that?" "Whether to put yourself at risk to save someone else, even if you're not good at it, even if you're scared, but you know it's the right to do, because... because you know the only thing to do." "In the War, people did that every day." "This is extremely dangerous." "I'll be careful." "Millie, It won't work, you're tall and confident." "He's picking on younger girls." "It's me, isn't it?" "It has to be me." "Here, let me." "There." "Keep it, you might need to touch it up later." "I'll be in the next compartment." "I'll be watching, all right?" "Millie and Jean will be at Harringay Park and Blackhorse Road." "If nothing happens by then, we'll call it off." "Got it." "Where did you get this stuff?" "Ask me no questions." "There." "How is it?" "You look..." "Yes, you're going to be fine." "Wedding ring." "And..." " Oh, my God." " Oh, God, that smell, this smell it was in the cellar." "I recognised it when we were down there." "It's French." "Charme D'or." "You used to be able to get it in the War." "You most certainly did not." "You did if you knew who to ask." "Where did you get it?" "I know someone." "I recommend people to him, he gives me a cut of what he sells." "It helps pay the bills." "I thought it would add to the effect." "We don't all have Timothy's wonderfull career to support us, you know." "This is how he gets them off the trains." "We thought he was an authority figure a guard," "It doesn't go with the man they do, because wearing a uniform but he's not a guard." "You see." "They go with him because he has something they want." "Perfume, nylons, anything you can only get on the sly." "You think they went with him for a pair of stockings?" "I know you wouldn't, I wouldn't, but they've done it before." "That's how they got lipstick and mascara in first place, by taking a kind of risk." "It's that how he make." "That's who you're looking for." "We'll be right there, remember." "It's going to be fine." "One more thing..." "I haven't loaded it yet." "I don't think that's necessary." "I do." "When I was travelling alone, this was the best companion for single girl, believe me." "I don't know how." " It's easy, you just point and pull the trigger." "Remember, you need to get him off the train, so pretend you're interested." "The moment you're on the platform drop your bags such get up, try to slow him down." "I'll be behind you, Millie and Jean will be right in front." "Scream blue murder and get the guards in the meantime." " How do you feel?" " Fine." "Scared." "Thank you." "Ticket, sir?" "Thank you." "Hello." "You look nice." "Going out somewhere?" "Just to see my friend." "Boyfriend?" "None of your business, is it?" "I don't know." "Could be." "Girlfriend, actually." "So you don't have a boyfriend?" "Not right now." "That's a crying shame." "A pretty thing like you." "Fancy going for a little walk?" " What, with you?" " Yeah, with me." "I'll make it worth your while, if you like." "All right." "Come on, then." "No, not that way." "This way." " Move!" " For goodness sake, be careful!" " What's this?" " Freight van, and it's all ours." " She's not here." " Well, what do I do?" "!" "Call the police, now!" "Come on." " Do you like my perfume?" " I like your tits." "Do you know where I could get some more of it?" "Stop playing hard to get." "I'm sorry, I think there's been a mistake, I'm not interested." "Don't worry." "I'll soon have you interested." "Get off!" "Police, my friend's on a train and I think she's being attacked." "No!" " No!" " Shut up!" "In two minutes." "Lucy!" "Lucy!" "Shit!" "Shit!" "My nose!" "You've broken it, you silly bitch!" "My God!" "Lucy!" "What happened?" "!" " Are you all right, miss?" " I lost..." "It wasn't him." "It was just some clerk looking for a good time." "Make way, coming through." "It's OK." " What time do you call this?" " I'm sorry." "It's my fault, I really do apologise." "We lost track of time." "I'm sure you're in a hurry to get going." " We won't keep you." " Bye, darling." "Get to bed." "Sorry to keep you so late." "It will not happen again." " See you soon." " Good night." "If I asked you... what the hell was going on," "would you tell me the truth?" "You were on a train to Barking." "What's in Barking?" "Nothing." "I was..." " It's..." " I don't believe you." "For the first time," "I don't believe you." "So you lost track of time?" "What are you doing losing track of time?" " Nothing." " Who are you doing nothing with?" "With Millie." "It was your snooker night." "I think you wouldn't mind." "Liar." "Harry, please..." " Jean." " Angela." "I don't have time for "Hello" and "How are you?"" "I need to know right now who was in charge of your department at SOA.?" "I told you before, I was in clerical." "Dear, you'll have to take a deep breath and tell me what I need to know." "And if you don't, word might get out about that little side line you had going back in the War." "What on earth are you talking about?" "Trading ration coupons." "Did you think I didn't know about that?" " Jean, for heaven's sake." " It's funny how that still carries weight." "People still care." "If you fiddled rations during the War, what might you fiddle now, eh?" "Who did you work for at Electra House?" "Jean." "Before Bletchley, I was at SOA." "Francis Cavendish headed a team there there dealing with misinformation and deception." "It will be at Electra House." "He trained people to fool the German High Command and get away with it, just like our killer's fooling the police." "They did a lot of forgery there - bank notes, ration books - just like they found in the innocent men's houses." "Cavendish is retired now." "That's his address." "I don't know, Jean." "Should we carry on?" "Maybe we were foolish to put Lucy on that train." "But you saw her face, how terrified she was." "How can we let other girls go through something 1,000 times worse when we've a chance of stopping it?" " Mr. Cavendish?" " Yes." "My name's Susan Gray." "Could I talk to you one minute?" "I'm afraid my time simple isn't my own this morning, Mrs. Gray." "I was given your name by Angela Barker." "You worked together during the War." "I'm not at liberty to talk about anything relating to that period in the War." "Because you signed the Official Secrets Act." "So did I." "I was at Bletchley Park." "Then you should know better." "You've heard about these women that have been killed?" "The murders." "It would be hard to live in London and not hear about it." "Why?" "The murderer is placing evidence for the police to find." "It's a trail that leads to an innocent man." "That sounds very unusual." "I think the man responsible might have worked for you." "Mrs. Gray, what you're saying is both insulting and upsetting." "As you were one of Alan's girls," "I'll extend to you a professional courtesy," "I normally wouldn't." "That department doesn't exist any more." "But during the War it did." "None of my men would do what you suggest." " Kill five girls?" " 12." "What?" "He's done it before, he's killed 12 women." "The police think they have their man." "My friends and I only we believe, who know they are wrong." "12 girls, you say?" "How have you got this far?" "By doing what we did at Bletchley, treating the crimes like a code," "applied pattern analysis to all the facts we could gather." "That's very clever, but it won't give you the full picture." "You need to understand the psychology of the attacker , what drives him, what makes him tick, try and get inside his head." "That was my speciality, of course." "How do I do that?" "What do you know about him?" "Well, nothing now." "You know what he does to his victims." "Well, he lures them off trains with trust, gets them alone, kills them." "Lots of people kill." "What does he do specifically?" "He takes them somewhere dark." "Underground." "It's strange, actually, they're such pretty girls yet he wants them in the dark." " Go on." " He strangles them, waits till they're dead then rapes them." "What else does he do?" "Tell me." "They wear perfume." "He puts them in cellars, Anderson shelters, confined spaces." "The smell of it becomes almost unbearable." "You know who he is, don't you?" "What I'm going to tell you goes no further." "Do you understand?" "It's entirely confidential." "But if there have been 12 deaths, I think I must tell you." "There was a man, he worked for me." "Good at his job." "Very clever, very careful, and then... a bomb hit the building where he was working and everyone was killed." "We thought..." "But he wasn't dead." "He was buried in the rubble under a stairwell." "He survived, you see, for three days in the dark until they dug him out," "and... there was a girl in there, too." "But she was dead." "They were trapped." "For three days?" "We sent him to a psychiatrist, because he was... different afterwards." "Still good at his job, almost too good, but different." "I often feared what might have happened down there, but the psychiatrist said he was fit to work," " as needed him, so..." " Where is he now?" "There was a fire." "We found his body." "His signet ring, his keys." "No face, of course." "I chose not to pursue it, not to question it." "I was almost relieved when I heard." "I'll let you have all the paperwork I've got on him." "There's not much, I'm afraid." "There's been some sort of accident." "Hello." "Harry." "The doctor's seen her, nothing's broken, thank Gos, but the bruising's pretty bad." "She can stay here for now." "This is 1 o'clock." "This is Alvar Lidell." "Police have arrested a man and charged him with murdering five women in London area." "Gerald Wiggins, a railway ticket inspector, was apprehended at home yesterday." "Inspector Lawley of Scotland Yard said today that Wiggins appears to be mentally frail." "Police believe they've found evidence linking him to all five murdered women." "The petrol and fuel oil shortages at home may be worsening..." "That's it, isn't it?" "He's gone." "Lucy, I'm so sorry." "It's not your fault." "Did he take anyone from the train?" "Not that we know of." "No-one's been reported missing." "The police must have scared him off." " That's something." " That's a lot." "That's a life you saved." "I know, but he's still out there." "We still don't know who he is." "I do know who he is, actually." "He's Malcolm Crowley." "You got a name from Cavendish?" "Who's Cavendish?" "He headed up a classified department during the War." "He trained Crowley." "Jean found him." "So we have a name and whatever else is in there." "Bloody hell." " How's your friend?" " Recovering." "What happened to her?" "Harry beat her." "It's not the first time." "Good God." "Lucy's the..." "little one?" "Yes." " Her husband did that to her?" " It happens." "Does this have something to do with the other day?" "Yes." "But you don't want to talk to me about it?" "I can't." "All right." "I..." "I understand." " You do." " She's your friend." "Whatever you were trying to do for her, get her away from him, to Barking, whatever," "even if it didn't work that was a good thing for a friend to do." " Timothy..." " No, no, I understand." "I didn't before." "But..." "I do now." "Do you?" "I was hoping to go and see her in the end of day." "Yes, well, you must." " You will be back in time for..." " Yes, of course." "He was in the rubble for three days." " With her body, yes." " Jesus!" "Who was the psychiatrist they sent him to?" "Dr. Tremaine at Meredith Hospital." "We should see if he remembers Crowley, what happened to him." "Meredith's not far for me." "Why don't you go?" "Are you sure?" "Don't worry, I'll look after her." " Can I help you?" " I'm looking for a Dr. Tremaine." "I'm afraid Dr. Tremaine no longer works here." "The hospital's being shut down, I'm sorry." "Sorry, Mr..." "Croft." "Andrew Croft." "Mr. Croft, I'm Susan Gray." "I'm trying to trace one of his patients from the War." "Are there any records, addresses, anything?" " What name was it?" " Malcolm Crowley." "I think you'd better come inside, Mrs. Gray." "When we first started, it was strangers in the newspapers." "Every step we get closer to Crowley, he's closer to us." "Whatever is on your mind, you can tell me." "All you have is conjecture, imagination, theories that are disrupting proper police work." "I think he's very dangerous." "This has to stop, you know." "Whatever this is." "You're not working for anyone, are you?" "You did this all on your own." "What about your children?" ""Among the shades of the recent dead she came."" "Is something wrong?" "ITFC Subtitles Sync:" "Marocas62"