"Now what?" "I'd just like to run through it one more time, if I may." "Who is this?" "That's John." " John?" " Luther." "And who is John Luther?" "My friend." "How did you and John meet?" "When I was suspected of killing my parents." " And, after that, you became friends?" " We grew close." "And how exactly would you characterise this closeness?" "Well, we were... simpatico." "And I pitied him." "How so?" "He always seemed lost to me." "Paddling furiously, just to keep afloat." "I wanted to help him." "And what form did this help take?" "Well, John had any number of vexations, and I helped him in several ways." "Tell me about Ian Reed." "He was the friend who betrayed John and hurt him very badly." "So I killed him, two barrels of his own shotgun." "Boom, boom." "And did John?" "And this is very important, Alice..." "Did John ask you to do this?" "Good heavens, no." "He was absolutely livid." "We had quite a tiff." "Things were said." "You're not going to penalise John for my misdeeds..." " are you?" " No, Miss Morgan." "Is he still a police officer?" "Yes, he's one of ours." "Love is like a sin, my love" "For the ones that feel it the most" "Look at her with her eyes like a flame" "She will love you like a fly will never love you." "How are you sleeping?" "Better." "Mostly." "What about you?" "Ah, a bit better." "Mostly." "I'm going back to work." "You ready?" "Attempted burglary, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer." "What's your name?" " He tried to rob a house in this state?" " Not a house, a dojo." "He tried to rob a karate school?" "Right, let's get him interviewed." "We thank you for your custom." "We know other police stations are available." "The thing they don't tell you about the drugs is that it makes you smell like a dog's arse." "It's not very Keith Richards, is it?" "Not very rock 'n' roll." "Justin." "I've never seen you in your uniform." " Look like you're on work experience." " Yeah, my good uniform got vomited on." "It's all very soul-destroying, isn't it?" "Actual police work." " Burglars, junkies." " Well, I'm working off my sins, aren't I?" "Your major sin being that you, er, were loyal to me." "That'd be the one." "So, what, you're in here because you picked up a shoplifter?" "They set up a new unit." "Serious and Serial." "You not fancy staying in Cold Case?" "Revealing the identity of Jack The Ripper." "Let's just see if you're going to be as cheeky as that when you have to pick me up at 8.00 in the morning." "Cos at 8.00 in the morning, I am grizzly." "I was told I'd be in uniform for two years, minimum." "Tried to make you resign, didn't they?" "Humiliated you." "Bullied you." "You're a bit of an embarrassment." "But you didn't leave." "No..." "No, you didn't." "See you in the morning." "See you in the morning." "DS Ripley." "Morning." "Excuse me." "Martin." " Or is it Guv'nor?" " Whichever you prefer." "Sergeant Ripley." "My old comrade-in-arms." " Good to see you back where you belong." " Sir." "I fancy DCI Luther forgot to tell you I'm heading up this unit." "Er, he may have omitted that detail, sir, yes." "Blitz attack, last night." "The victim is Sadie Buckingham." "Schenk." "I'm listening." "She was strangled... and..." "Throat slashed." "From right to left, very sharp blade." "Do you think he's having a joke?" " What do you think?" " What kind of joke?" "Well... slaughtered like cattle, right next to a meat market." "Let's have a look at him." "Mr Punch." " Welcome on board, sir." " Cheers." "Good to see you, sir." " Hello." " Sir." " Sir." " Morning, all." "Morning, guv." "DS Gray." " Oh, er, DS Ripley." "Justin." " Nice to meet you." "Benny, can you play back those phone calls?" "The victim first managed to dial 999..." "All right." "After which, the killer made this call to the victim's mother." "He is the sunrise." "He loves everyone." "He then called several of her contacts, her sisters, her friends, her colleagues, her vet!" "He... is... the sunrise." "He..." "loves... everyone." "All right." "First thing we need to do, Justin, is run background on the victim's friends, acquaintances." "Make sure this isn't an ex-boyfriend that's gone nuts." "Erin..." "I'll source the sunrise chant, see if it ties in with a specific belief system." "Good place to start, but this..." "... this isn't a cult murder." "Guv?" "All of this is for effect." "Murder by theatre." "I bet the same goes for "I am the sun that shines"." " He's designed it to give him prestige." " People are already talking about him." "That's right, and if he's that desperate to be noticed, then this was opening night." "There'll be a lot more where this comes from." "I'll source the chant and the mask, check websites, collectors." " See who's is buying, who's selling." " All right." "How's this looking?" "It's early doors." "We'll get him." "Yeah." "I have a new job to do, and to do that properly, I need your trust ...and your candour." "No secrets." "No agendas." "And no Alice Morgan." "No secrets." "No agendas." "So, what was it like being bumped back to uniform?" "I was never ashamed to wear a uniform." "What about working for His Satanic Majesty?" " Sorry, who?" " Luther." "Is he really as dirty as they say?" "Who?" "They!" "All the people who've never worked with him?" "I'm just saying - you know the pitfalls, you can tell me what to look out for." "Where are we, Justin?" "Nothing of interest, so far." "She's got an ex-boyfriend, was done for affray, but that was back during the G7 riots." " No restraining orders." "Nothing, really." " What about the sunrise stuff?" "You were right." "No specific reference." "Sunrise imagery seems general to just about every religion or cult." "What about the mask?" "It looks antique, maybe theatrical." "If that's the case, there's a market for it, which is good." "Problem is the internet." "Collectables flow back and forth over international borders, barely leave a trace, so I'm hitting the talk-boards, see if anybody can ID it." "Well, stick with it, see what comes up." "Guv!" "DCI Luther." "Caroline." "Um, DS Ripley." "Caroline Jones." "Caroline, now's not a good time for me." "It's all right, boss." "We can give you a minute." "How long have you and DCI Luther known one another?" "Since my husband accidentally killed a prostitute." "How is she?" "She was self-mutilating at 14." "She cut herself with a razor." "Top of the arms, top of the thighs." "Places I couldn't see." "Before you know, she's stealing from me." "Lying." "Threatening me with a knife." "And she just runs away." " Gone." " Caroline..." "OK, listen, I'm gonna stop you here, cos what... what you're gonna tell me..." "I can't help." "She was selling herself at 17." "I might not like it, you might not like it, but..." "Well, Jenny's made her choices." "You ever hear of necro-porn?" "This is what they're going to do to Jenny." "This afternoon." "Explain to me how this isn't rape." "Men who do this aren't actors." "They pay for it." "Do you understand what that means?" "Men are paying to rape my daughter." "So many times I've tried to help people by doing things I shouldn't have done, and it's only made it worse." "You think?" "You didn't need to treat her dad the way you did." "Degrading him in public, humiliating him." "It was the only way I knew how to stop him." "Look what you did to me, to her dad... it messed her up." "So this is your fault." "As much as her dad's, this is your fault." " For what you did to us." " I'm a policeman." "What did you want me to do?" "And your wife?" "Is she proud?" "All right, I'll talk to her." "Can't promise I'll change her mind." "Got an address?" "No..." "This is all I've got." "All right." "No jokes, OK?" "There's no joking about this sort of thing." "Is that wee girl OK?" "She is now, apparently." "But, Benny, I need to find her today or that is gonna happen to her, or worse." "You've worked vice." "Any laws you have to break to help me do that?" "Well, people like this like to keep a low profile, for obvious reasons." "But if there's a revenue stream, there's a paper trail." "So I'll make a few phone calls, see what I can dig out for you." "All right." "Just let me know as soon as you know anything, all right?" "No problem." "Excuse me." "Are you an art student?" " Am I that obvious?" " No, no, no." " Where do you go?" " Um, Saint Martin's." "No?" "!" " Me too." "I went to Saint Martin's." " Really?" " Yeah." "It's a small world, or what?" " Um..." "What are you doing?" "Um..." "Fine art... or?" " No, textiles." " Oh!" "Yeah, we have to, um, design a print that somehow evokes London." "Oh, well... you came to the right place for that, eh?" "I mean this, this is... is..." "London." "It used to be a quiet little lane, lined with elm trees and so on, but they've been selling stuff here since 1608." "Then in the 17th century, the Huguenots arrived." "18th century, it becomes, like, a centre for cloth-making, and then in 1830, they tried to change the name." ""Petticoat" was considered too raunchy for the Victorians." "But it didn't work!" " Petticoat Lane endures." " Are you, like, a local historian?" "No, no, no, no." "I just..." "I love the place." "You can feel the time, like layers of time, strata of time, a big cake of time." "No, it's magic." "It's got magic to it." "Hey... do you wanna see something really cool?" "No." "Um, no, I'm fine, thanks." " The most London thing ever." " No." " Most London thing you'll ever see." " I'm fine!" "Thank you." "He is the sunrise." "He loves everyone." "He is the sunrise." "He loves everyone." "Smithfields." "Petticoat Lane." "He's a London boy, ain't he?" "We know he likes the attention, so, erm..." "Do me a favour, confiscate every one of those mobile phones." " On what grounds, legally?" " Find grounds." "We need to start collecting data on all the crowds that show up at the crime scenes." "Comparing faces, see if the same face doesn't show up more than once." "Sometimes serial offenders return to the scene, enjoy the chaos they've caused." " Makes them feel omnipotent." " I know, it's just..." "When he says "confiscate", he means appeal to the owners of the phones, OK?" "Fine, but that's not what he said, is it?" "I'd like you to speak to my detectives." "Anyone else, can you just give us a little room, please, er, so we can work." "All right." "You can go home, if you can, please." "Move back and make some space." " Can you move back, everyone, please." " No more photos." "Thank you." "Excuse me." "Message for DS Ripley." "Chasing suspect, Northbirch Estate, south side." "Thin, IC1, brown hair." "Hurry up." "Where?" "Aargh!" "Don't ruin it!" "Aaargh!" "Aaargh!" "Boss?" " Go, go, go." "Check it outside." " Through there." "What, what do you want?" "Evidence bag." "He must be coming your way." " Here." "In here." " Yeah, DNA." "Helicopters after him." "Uniform, dogs, the lot, but he got away." " Yeah." "He's fast." " He's more than fast." " Had a getaway route scouted out." " Bet he did." "DNA?" "It's been expedited, imminent danger to life and so on." "Can you even see anything?" "Cheers, mate." "Erm, listen, call me as soon as that DNA result comes in, all right?" "Where are you going?" "To hospital." "Permission to be here, sir?" "Thank you." "Alice." "What's this?" "Permanent solution to a temporary problem." " How many times have you tried it?" " Fewer than a hundred." "Sadly, each attempt ended in failure." "So they gave me no choice, but just to... phhh... keep on living." "And to keep you safe, they put you in here." "Well, it is a secure hospital, John." "As secure as a prison?" "One can only assume so." "You seeing anyone?" " None of your business." " Because I'm not." "Most of the people in here are women." "Not that I mind per se." "Needs must." "But they do tend to veer on the mentally ill." "Child abuse, spouse abuse, alcohol abuse." "It's all just breathtakingly unerotic." "What about you?" " What about me?" " Have you left yet?" " Left where?" " Police force." "No." "Will you?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'm leaving." " When?" " Soon." "Just got a couple of things to take care of." "Getting Ripley back on track." "And there's this girl..." "What girl?" "Just a girl." " I said I'd help." " Which is exactly the problem." "Yeah." "But then I'm done." "Good, because the people around you are vampires." "They'll suck your veins dry, crack open your bones and lick out the marrow." "You've done enough for them, so step away and find yourself a life worth living." "Well, that's the plan, anyway." " Where will you go?" " I don't know." " I always wanted to see somewhere hot." " Mm." "I've never seen the desert." "Perhaps see some sharks." "Oh, I'm a great fan of sharks." "Daddy took me snorkelling once for my birthday to see them in their natural habitat." "Did you see many?" "Enough to realise I prefer them in aquariums." "I've always wanted to see the Very Large Array in New Mexico." "It's not the biggest in the world, of course, or the most modern, but it is iconic, and I grew up wanting to see it." "It's quite spectacular." "Out there in the desert." "We could go together." "Want some?" "Uh-uh." "I've gotta go." "Madmen to catch." "Need any advice?" "No." "Pretty up to speed with my..." "lunatics." "Well... don't be a stranger." "Benny?" "The death porn is produced by a foreign registered offshoot of Hemina Films." "Can I help you?" "Yeah." "You can shut up." "Who are you?" "So what you're telling me, your mum has no right to be worried about you." "Hmm." "Listen, Officer Whoever," "I see stuff you wouldn't even believe, so best not patronise me, eh?" "Of course." "Of course." "I don't mean to." "Anyway, it's just sex." "Letting someone have sex with you while you're unconscious, that's not sex only, is it?" "I'm a sex worker." "So, yeah, I do some funny things, but at least I'm my own boss." "I don't have to believe a load of bullshit that people shove down each others' throats about love and marriage and monogamy, blah, blah, blah." "You married?" "I was." "Exactly - "was"." "How long?" "18 years." "And how many times did you do the dirty on her?" "Never." "Well, it's my life, and actually, I really like it." "Oh, yeah, so what about the drugs?" "The meth?" "I think you've got one... maybe two months before your teeth start falling out." "Come on, Jenny." "Eh?" "See, the thing is, I don't think you're doing this by choice." "Not really." "That's just a cuddly thought so you can sleep at night." "Nah." "Need the coinage, rent to pay." "What do you want?" "All right." "I can tell I'm not gonna change your mind, so I'm going to just call your mum, let her hear your voice." "It's not my voice she wants to hear." "She's no different from the freaks that get off on these films." "It's not who I actually am that matters." "It's who they wish I was." "Jen!" "Oi." "Tell her I'm fine." "All right, that's it, the show's over!" "Come on, show's over." "Oi, oi, oi." "Jenny Jones..." " Get off me!" " ..." "I'm arresting you on suspicion" " of possessing a controlled substance." " Get off me!" "You do not have to say anything, but if you do not mention..." "Agh!" "Help!" "What did I do?" "Didn't find any drugs!" "Search me, I don't take drugs." " I'm clean." " Can you do me a favour?" "Can you shut up for one second?" "Vi" " I'm clean!" "I'm clean!" "I'm clean!" " Justin." "Did you get a beat on that DNA?" "Er, yeah." "Cameron Pell, artist." "Well, failed artist." "A history of mental illness?" "No." "The man's got serious issues." "Five years back he was arrested for gate-crashing some modern art exhibition." "He's burst in wearing a clown mask, slashed a load of paintings with a flensing knife." "When they tried to throw him out he's gone completely tonto." "Cut up two doormen." "Lucky to escape an attempted murder charge." " Right." "Did you get an address?" " We'll send it to you now." "All right, erm..." " I'll see you there." " Yeah, see you there." " You off to arrest someone?" " Yeah." "You're screwed, I'll do you for false arrest." "I had reasonable and probable cause to think you were committing a crime." "One more peep out of you, yeah..." " and it's with intent to supply." " You're a liar." "And you're a junkie hooker." "I'm a copper." "Do that, would you?" "Stitch me up?" "In a millisecond, just to shut you up." "Do you even know what they'll do to me for this?" "Break my ankles, if I'm lucky." "Listen." "Look at me." "Nothing's going to happen to you, all right?" "Yeah, who says?" "You?" " Yeah, me." " They do know where I live, you know." "People like that, they always do." "Come on." "Mark, I wouldn't do this unless I absolutely had to." "Do what?" "John, who is this?" "How do you know him?" "Cos you're obviously not one of them, no offence whatever." "No offence taken." "Well, erm... it's a long story." "So give me the edited highlights." "OK." "OK, long story, short version." "I was going to marry his ex-wife." "Seriously?" "!" "What, and now you're mates, and everything?" "Well, mates is probably pushing it." "So where is she?" "His ex, your missus?" "She died." "Ouch!" "Sorry." "Mouth on me sometimes." "That's all right." "You weren't to know." " What about you?" "How do you know him?" " Don't." "Not really." "As far as I'm concerned, he's this random smurf popped up out of nowhere." "So why the?" "Long time ago... my dad killed this girl." "It was by accident and everything, but... he panicked." "Cut her up and whatnot." " Put all the bits in wheelie bins." " Jesus." "I'm sorry." "So this bloke, Luther, was one of the coppers that put him away." "And your dad?" "Killed himself in prison." "Jenny, listen, I know how hard..." "how hard it can be." "Losing someone that way." "No sign of Cameron." "Flat's completely empty." "Why the empty flat?" "It's almost like he's never been here before." "Hello, your call cannot be taken at the moment, so please leave me your message after the tone." "I know you're there." "Benny, it's Ripley, mate." "I need you to trace a call going to this number." "Hello, Cameron." "How's your arm?" "You think because you tasted my blood that you know what I am." "Well, to be fair, I am standing in your flat." "You don't know what I am." " And you don't know where I am." " Where are you?" "Everywhere!" "I can walk down any street." "I can peer..." "He's close, less than a mile." "I can knock on any door." "I am the shape at the window." "I am the hand under the bed." "So what's the play, Cameron?" "Cos that's what it is, isn't it?" "It's a play." "With Cameron Pell starring as Mr Punch." "Do you know anything about this city?" "Well, I know it smells a bit funny when it gets hot." "This, now, everything, this place, this time, this cretinised culture." " We are the richest, most decadent..." " Less than three minutes." "People that ever lived." "And still we're dissatisfied." "We have lost our history." "We have lost our myths." "You see kids in Whitechapel play video games in which they score points by killing prostitutes." "They're totally indifferent to the spectre that walks past their window." "This is a dead city." "It's an unreal city." "Do you know why?" " No, why don't you tell me why?" " We are so indifferent, we don't care." " It's like we're medicated." " How are you going to make us wake up?" "I'm going to remind people what it's like to be really scared." "Have you ever heard of Spring-Heeled Jack?" "Spring-Heeled Jack?" "I've heard of Spring-Heeled Jack." "Victorian bogeyman." "Mask, red eyes." "Are you cribbing your ideas from penny-dreadfuls?" "They called him the Terror of London, and do you know what made him terrifying?" "He could do whatever he liked to whomever he chose, wherever he chose, whenever he chose, and he was never caught." "He just disappeared, passed into folklore." "Oh, yeah?" " Is that what you want to do, eh?" " I've already done it." "You just don't know it yet." "Are you sure?" "Because the last time we spoke you were scared I was gonna ruin it." " Thanks, mate." " Yeah, I was, but not any more." "Why should I be scared?" "I can take anyone I choose." "You can watch." " Later tonight." " What do you mean?" "I hope you're excited, because I am." "Watch what, Cameron?" "Hey, Cameron, what are you going to show me tonight?" "Cameron!" " How long?" " Less than a minute?" "Too late." "He's gone." "Where is Cameron?" "I haven't seen Cameron for two years." "I don't know what you expect me to tell you." "No offence, but I think you do." "So, you were at art school together?" "Well..." "I was at art school." "He'd hang around the refectory." "Sort of, you know... talking art." "Did he ever talk about... this?" "Spring-Heeled Jack?" "Yeah." "About ten zillion times." "Yes, it was his childhood obsession." "Spring-Heeled Jack's in the cupboard." "Spring-Heeled Jack's waiting at the bottom of the garden in the bushes." "He had to see somebody about it." "A psychologist or a psychoanalyst." "Anyway, they teased him about it." "Made him feel like a freak." "I suppose he was a freak, really." "Still is." "A freaky little freak." "Did Cameron ever hurt you?" "No." "Why did you hesitate?" "Because sometimes..." "he'd get this look in his eyes." "What look?" "Like he wanted to." " Boss... sorry, this is urgent." " Yes." "It's him." "You're gonna wanna see this." " What is it, Benny?" " This has just come in." "Is this live?" "Yep, it's happening right now." "It's live." "Jesus, some sort of hand-held webcam, or something." "It's being sent to us directly." "He's taunting us." " Do we know the street?" " Can't tell." "I want everyone on this." "We need to find that street." " Partial plate." " Dig it up." "Give me an address." " Benny, can you send it over?" " It's with you now." "Gray, quick as you can." "Come on." "Erin!" "He's knocking on doors." " Gray, come on!" " It's coming!" "There's 80 vehicles with that partial." "Can you narrow down the model?" "It's a light-brown... gold BMW 5 series." " Please don't open that door." " Late '80s, early '90s." " No answer." " Thank God." " Got it!" "Registered to Grant Morrison..." " He's gone to the other house." " 37 Eastmead Street." " Wait, let me double-check." " What?" " He might be parked on the next street." "Could be outside his girlfriend's house, might have lent his car to a mate." "Eastmead Street runs alongside a canal." "Then where the hell is this?" "Come on, find it." "Check every street within half a mile north to southwest of Eastmead Street." "Don't open it." "No!" "No, no!" "Erm, it's Egmont Terrace, two streets southwest." "All right, call it in." "This is DS Gray, SSU requesting urgent armed response to Egmont Terrace, E1." "And send an ambulance." "Did something happen?" "DS Gray..." "DS Ripley, please escort Miss Calvert home." "This way, please." "Right, this way, please." "How are you feeling?" "I'm angry." "Too angry?" "Just angry enough." "I can't have the wheels coming off this thing, John." "They won't, Martin." "I fought tooth and nail to get you back into the fold." "I fought hard and I fought dirty." "Don't squander it now." " I was just wondering..." " Yeah?" "Would you mind just coming up with me?" "Just to check under the bed." " I just keep thinking..." " Of course, that's not silly at all." "All units, Sierra Oscar 52, IC 1, dark clothing, medium-length light-brown hair." "Suspect at large." "In the town centre, please." "I live just upstairs." "It's the shop." "Do you want a cup of tea?" "I'll just check upstairs." "Sorry, it's just a fuse." "Oh!" "All clear on the house." "I'm just going to make sure Miss Calvert's all right." "OK, copy that." "He fought." "Yeah, well." "He's tough, isn't he?" "John, our anger's got no place here." "I need you to be functioning fully in the moment, or not here at all." "We owe that to Ripley." "Making a body disappear is not that easy, especially in the city." "Cameron took a risk." "Was it worth it?" "Worth it how?" "This, all this... circus." "No, this is staged." "Justin's alive." "Cameron wants him, needs him." "If Justin knows how to read Cameron, then he'll know how to stay alive." "A huge police search for a missing officer is under way." "Significant resources are being employed to find 32-year-old Detective..." " Let's go over it again." " ... allegedly abducted last night..." "So what do we know?" "OK, Pell works long hours, minimum wage." "He cleans corporate offices in the City." "That makes sense, doesn't it?" "Big office, midnight." "He's got all of London to stare at and fantasise about." " Spending patterns." " Bit weird, lives very frugally." "Actually manages to save a bit every month, and then eight, nine months ago, he gets a huge cash injection, we're taking 65 grand." "Cash arrives in his account nine months after his mother dies." "Right, so it was mother's estate." "What did he do with the money?" "Withdraws it." " What, all of it?" " Every penny." "He wasn't saving up for a rainy day." "He was saving for something to do with this." "Talk to me about this artwork." "Ex-wife gives it to us." "We have..." "Answer To A Job," "The Integration Of The Personality," "Die Anima Als Schicksalsproblem Des Mannes, Aion." "So his room's not just empty." "It's in his work too." "An absence." "It's empty... rooms." "Ripley's gone, empty car." "Empty roads." "Spring Heeled Jack, disappeared into folklore because he was never caught." "Jack the Ripper, he was a myth too." "I think Cameron is gonna try and disappear and haunt us with his absence." "We need to stop trying to predict what he's gonna do next and work backwards instead." "It costs money to make a new identity." "So we follow the money, the missing 65 grand." "We follow that and we find him." "Start off with the contacts he made in prison." "Ah, the whore's mummy." "Paul Hoby's his name." "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "It's Ripley's phone." "Benny." "Hello." "I'm sorry you made me hurt your puppy." "He's a noisy little customer, isn't he?" "Guv." "Don't." "Don't answer that." "Don't answer that!" "He's trying to make contact." "He might be trying to reach out, to stop." " No, he's not gonna stop." " How do you know that?" "Listen, if you answer that phone, Cameron's got our attention." "He's thinks he's setting up a relationship with us." "As soon as he thinks that, he doesn't need Ripley." " This is..." " DS Gray, do not pick up that phone!" "That's it!" "I know you're there." "I know you're listening." "I don't know what you're trying to achieve." "I'm opening up a dialogue here." "Trying to find a way through this, trying to find a way you can get your friend back in one piece." "What happens to Ripley if you ignore me will be on your head." "And I'll send you pictures of every cut , every burn, every incision." "I will send you every second of him screaming." "How much more of this can you take?" "You have ten seconds to answer this phone." "If you do not answer, then Ripley here will regret it." "Nine seconds." "Eight." "Seven." "Six." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "One." "Pick up the phone!" "Pick up the phone!" "I am here!" "I am..." "No." "That man, that voice, those voices, that's the man we're gonna leave on the streets if we do not do our jobs properly." "This isn't about DS Ripley" "It's about Sadie." "It's about Abby." "It's about Jason." "It's about all the others that will be next if we mess this up." "Listen, DS Ripley knows that and he wouldn't have it any other way, so if you respect him at all... just get back to work." "What if Pell regards your silence as weakness rather than strength?" "He won't." "From DS Gray." "He cancelled his mobile phone contract a few days after his mother's death and then, ten days after the funeral, he was contacted on that number by an ex-cellmate, Paul Hoby." "Excellent." "Hi, erm..." " You have to come to mine now." " I can't." "You have to." "All right, I'll see what I can do." "Oh!" "Well, I know who you are." "Frank Hodge." "You were a copper." "Different life, John." "All right." " All right, John, you know how..." " What are you doing?" "No!" " Get on that chair!" " I said stop pointing!" " All right!" " Now!" " Now!" " All right." "Oi!" "No!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "No!" "Oi!" "No!" "Argh!" "Argh!" "I gather you're the policeman that stole my property." "Jenny's not your property." "You don't know what you've done, do you?" "Got my daughter back." "Jenny is... very..." "low on your food chain." "This time last night, you didn't even know she existed." "Let a man steal an egg, tomorrow he'll steal an ox." "Yeah, but you set me up, didn't you?" "You set me up to steal from you." "You talked to Caroline." "You knew she'd come to me." "You knew what I'd do." "No matter how much temptation I put in your path, the fact remains you stole from me as an act of free will." "This is Toby." "My grandson." "He has a friend." "Andrei Kolchak." "One of our licensees." "Arrested for people trafficking, he's currently in witness protection, finalising his deal." "And when that deal is completed, he intends to implicate Toby here in a number of unlawful acts and sundry violations." "I'd be grateful if that didn't happen." "I'm sorry." "All right." "But I can't do anything about that." "Well, then, Caroline here dies." "And the slut child dies." "I could step outside, make one phone call and have a thousand coppers abseiling through your windows." "I'd make my one phone call, have my one conversation and in eight hours, I'd be out." "The whore's mother would still be dead." "And the whore would still be dead." "Look, this sort of thing I can't do it overnight." "It needs time." "Nah, it has to be done today." "And if I do help?" "Slate's clear." "Streetwalker's all yours." "The mother's all yours." "Benny?" "Yeah, I need you to do something for me." "Yeah, it is one of them, yeah." "All right, yes, it is." "Erm, Andrei Kolchak." "Arrested in the last week or three." "Find the safe house where they're keeping him, cover up your tracks." "You don't want no one sniffing around you, all right." "Oh, God!" "Oh!" "As speculation mounts as to why the search for the missing officer has been so quickly scaled down, police sources are refusing to comment..." "They've stopped looking for you." "Why is that?" "If they target the manpower in certain areas, you'll know how close they are to finding you." "Do you think they're close to finding me?" "Do you?" "Do they know where it goes next?" "I don't know." "Do you know where it goes next?" " No!" " Any idea?" "Any inkling?" "No." "No." " Would you like to know?" " I'd love to know." "Why?" "Because you're one of a kind." "If this situation was turned on its head..." "I'd want your permission to write a book about you." "A thesis maybe." "I think you'd be of interest to a lot of people in my field." "Law enforcement psychology." "The first thing I'd ask..." "Why the mask?" "Why do you need a mask?" "Because wearing a mask makes it easy." "How you feeling?" "Like a freshly squeezed zit." "Do you want something?" "Water or painkillers or something?" " Got any temazepam?" " No." "Could do with some of that myself." "How many?" "I'll sort you out." "Call my mate, Fuzzy Rob." " I'm gonna ask you a question." " Don't ask me questions." "I hate questions." "Do you want out?" "Of what?" "Of this." "Dream on, dreamer." "These people cut off your ears for 50p." "Say I can make it happen?" "I'd have to do things that..." "I shouldn't don't do, but if I'm gonna do it, then I really, really need to know you want this to be different." "You lying?" "Cos if you're lying, I swear I'll throw up." "No, I'm not." "Is this some sort of rescue type thing?" "Don't ask questions." "I don't like questions." " You're just totally disco." " Yeah, he is totally disco." " So you're all right with this?" " Nobody gets hurt, right?" " No." "Not if we do it right." " You can't think of another way?" "Not in time." "So let's disco." "What was that?" "Oh, you're joking!" "Keep an eye on him." "Oi!" " Oi!" " Is it yours?" " Yeah, it's mine." " I'm really sorry." "How on earth have you managed this?" "I was doing a three-point turn..." "How fast were you going, for God's sake?" "!" "No speed at all." "A squirrel came out right in front of me." " What you talkin' about?" "A squirrel!" " Honestly, it wasn't my fault." "I'm really sorry, but it really wasn't my fault." " Look at the angle you're parked at." " How the hell is this parked at an angle?" "This is parallel parking!" "Andrei, get to a safe position." "Now!" "Hurry!" "You've been telling stories out of school, haven't you, Andrei?" "Please." "Take back whatever you said about your friend Toby." "Withdraw your statement." "I can't." " I don't want to swap details." "Take this." " Are you sure?" "Look at me." "Look at this face." "Do I look sure?" "I found you and it took me ten minutes." "I can find you again, just as easily." "Only it won't be me who pays you a visit." "It'll be your friends." "And I don't need to tell you what they'll do to you, do I?" "I think you know that." "Andrei, are you in there?" "Say yes." "Yes." " What are you doing?" " What do you think I'm doing?" "I need you to open the door." "I can't." "Why not?" "Because I don't like women to look at me when I'm on the lavatory!" "I need to come in." "Please don't!" "All right." "Right, just hurry up." "What are you - sick?" "You like to watch men do this?" " Where is he?" " Erm... on the toilet." "I wish to amend my statement." "How do I make that happen as soon as possible?" "Oh, shit!" "Bastards!" "There you go." "There." "All right." "Look, erm..." "I've gotta go." "Heavy day." "Can you just drive her around until I can confirm this has blown over?" " Yeah, sure." " Yeah?" "You OK?" "Yeah." " You?" " I..." "I'm OK, yeah." "What exactly did he do?" "I don't want to know." "Come on." "Ronald Bryson." "You sold forged documents to this man." "Cameron Pell." "Your full bespoke service, driving license, birth certificate, passport." "Education and employment records, fake referees." "Everything he needed to start life with a new identity." "How are we doing?" "Boss has got his game face on." "He's got a face on like Wayne Rooney's smacked arse." " You going in, taking over?" " No." "I've been on the other side of that desk with Schenk." " He knows what he's doing." " But this is different." "Policeman is missing." "Think he's still got the juice for this sort of thing?" "Yep." "I understand you like to play cards?" "Every so often." " Have much luck?" " My share." "Because I think I should tell you, your poker face needs some work." "There's a tell." "There." "Corner of your mouth." "Oops." "There it goes again." "Did you see that, DS Gray?" "I did, guv." "Couldn't miss it, really." "Intriguing, isn't it?" "How our faces betray us." "I'll show you later if you like, Ronald." "It's all up there... on Britain's Funniest Police Videos." "I know men like you, the way you know men like me." "And I know you wouldn't have done this if you believed there was the least chance of it coming back on you." "Well, guess what?" "It's come back on you like the hand of God!" "And the next words from your mouth will determine the weight and velocity of the staggering tonnage of shit that's about to plummet onto your head." "It weren't just bank accounts and driving licences he was after." "He wanted to buy a bus." "What are you planning, Cameron?" "It's too late for them to stop you now." "God knows I can't stop yous." "So, please, just tell me what it is." "Do you really want to know?" "Yeah." " Really?" " Yeah." "OK." "I'm dying to talk about it." "Panic and you suffocate." "Good work, boss." "How did the lead pan out?" "It didn't." "Right." "We followed the money." "Cameron's using a contact of Bryson as a kind of one-man front organisation and supplier." "We're talking one car, one Commer-style van, huge amounts of sodium hydroxide and a second-hand bus." "Go on." "He's making a bomb." "Quick paint job." "Stick a sign on the front that says, "Sorry, not in Service."" "Drive wherever you like." "Ka-boom." "No." "No?" "Seriously?" "You don't think it makes sense?" "We know he's planning his spectacular." "He's got a large vehicle, explosives..." "No, a bomb's..." "loud, it's about sound." "It's about fury." "Cameron is the opposite of a bomb." "He's about silence, emptiness and absence." "If he's not making a bomb, why does he need 3,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide?" "The opposite of an explosion is an implosion." "Black hole." "3,000 gallons is enough..." "A black hole consumes matter and crushes it beyond existence." "When I first heard that, I thought..." "that's evil at its most pure, isn't it?" "Something that drags you in and crushes you to nothing." "Maybe he wants to use that material to dispose... dispose of bodies." " Oh, my God." " Yeah." "What do we fear the most?" "The unknown." "The loss of a loved one." "Who do we love the most?" "Who do we protect?" "Who do we shield from all the evils of the world?" "Who do we..." "lie to, leave them terrified in the dark?" "Who do we tell that there is no such thing as the bogeyman?" "I think that..." "Cameron is going after the children." "Ah." "Ah." "Scheduled school bus to Owleigh High School was vandalised." "Tyres were slashed." " By the time the replacement bus..." " Map that." "How many did he take?" " We don't know till we double-check." " Guess." " 14?" " Benny, get that on the map." "Boss, if I was presumptuous, overstepped the mark, I'm really sorry." "Don't be." "You did good work." "We wouldn't be here without you." "Ah, ah." "This is where he picks them up." "The bus stop, so this is his territory." "How far can he get in what, half an hour?" "Argh!" "Excuse me." "I need every policeman, every armed response, every helicopter, PCSO in that area looking for that van." "Get on it!" " Hello." " Boss." " Justin." " I'm on the corner of Wise Avenue, near Chaffer's Dock." "Cameron's car's still here." "I'm on my way." "I'm on my way." "I told you." "I told you he could look after himself." "He was well taught." "Gray and I will track down the bus." " You get straight to Ripley." " All right." " DS Gray." " Yes, boss!" "Mate!" " You all right?" " Yeah." "Boss?" "We found the bus abandoned." "Eyewitness claims Cameron Pell transferred the children to a second vehicle." " What other vehicle?" "What?" " Green VW van." "D reg, possibly, although that's not been confirmed." "All right, I'll call you back." "Lost Pell and the kids." "Gotta find out where they are." "Car?" "It's this way." "Checking this sat nav will give us a record of his movements." "He's a bogeyman, isn't he?" "He's a... monster." "So he does what monsters do, and that's spirit children away in the middle of broad daylight." "But how do you make a bus full of kids disappear?" "Body disposal's not easy, is it?" "One body's hard enough." "But 10 or 12?" "He needs somewhere with a lot of space." "Privacy." "Come and go at will." "What's this?" "This vehicle's been to a Green Valley Industrial Park" " eight times in the last month." " That's it." "Come on, that's it." "Suspect location believed to be Green Valley Industrial Park." "It's on the old Stonewater Price dockside." "Come on, come on." "Move!" "Tim, don't go out there." "Help!" "Come on!" "No!" "Don't let him see you." "Here we go!" "Hey!" "Don't you move." "One more step and I'll spill his guts over the floor." " What's your name?" " What?" " What's your name?" " You know my name." "I'm not talking to you." "Eh, what's your name?" " Eh?" " Don't you speak to him." " My name's Tim." " Hey!" " Are you listening to me?" " Tim." " Is anybody listening to me?" "!" " That's my favourite name." " He's not going to hurt you, Tim." " Yes, he is." " I'm gonna slit his little throat." " Do you know why?" "Why?" "Because I've done it before." "If he does hurt you, I'm free to come over there and kill him." "Cos he's nothing, all right." "He's nothing." "He's just a weak little pathetic man." "No, he's not." " No, he's not." "No, he's not!" " Too weak to hurt anyone... without wearing this!" "Ain't that right, Cameron?" "I swear, I swear I'm going to do it." "Don't go near the van." "Don't you go near the van!" "Don't you go touch the van!" "Come on." "Look, I'm gonna do it!" "I'm gonna..." "There you go." "Come on." "There you go." " Let's get you out of here." " You know what I can do!" "You know what I can do!" "You know who I am!" "Cameron." "No-one's listening." "Uh!" "You?" "No, it's all you." "Cameron Pell, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder." "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court." "So... am I in trouble?" "For what?" "Saving schoolchildren?" "I hardly think so." "If I had my way, you'd be given a medal." "You did outstanding work." "So did you." "I like the thing about the micro-expression." "Corner of the mouth." "Was that a lie?" "Same lie I've been telling since 1986." "Never fails." "Er..." "Green Valley is registered at Company House, but it's a shell." "Pell leased it from a contact of Bryson." "Boss!" "One body per drum." "Four drums per pallet." "All to be shipped to India for disposal." "Paperwork's already done." "Those children would've been wiped off the face of the earth." " Have you got stuff?" " What?" "Like belongings?" "Yes, like belongings." "Clothes and things." "Not much, just this." "Er... have you got a minute?" "Yes, of course." "Come in." "I can't believe what you did!" "You're my daughter." "You wouldn't be where you were if it wasn't for him." " You don't understand." " I understand I got my daughter back." " Not staying here, after what you did!" " You'll do what you're told." "You can't make me!" "No?" "And where you gonna go?" "Back where you came from?" "You've got no money." "No friends." "No life." " So if not here, where?" "The gutter?" " Caroline..." "Listen." " You listening?" "I need you to hear this." " Go on." "These people don't want to hurt me." "They need me in one piece." "I've got nothing to leverage." "No kids." "No family." "No wife." "They know I'll do what I have to because I proved that to them today." "It's me, Mum." "If he doesn't keep on doing what they tell him, they'll hurt me." "Listen to your daughter, all right." "Cos you put her in this situation after you sold me out." "So listen to her." "So what are we supposed to do?" "Leave." "I've got a job." "A career." "A life." "Your safety is not my concern!" "But do the right thing." "Give Jenny some money." "Set her up in a new city." "She stays here with me." "You won't let them hurt her." "You'll do whatever they tell you to do." "You made that quite plain." " No." " What?" "!" "Caroline, I'm not on their hook," "I'm not gonna be a copper any more." "I'm leaving." "And when these people find out, they're gonna come back and hurt you both." " Do you understand that?" " You can stop them." " Arrest them." " No, I can't." " I'm over a barrel." "They sent me this." " Andrei Kolchak." "One of our licensees." "See that?" "I can't do it overnight." "It needs time." " You made sure of that, didn't you?" " It has to be done today." " And if I do help?" " The slate's clear." "Look, Jenny, you're safe here tonight." "But tomorrow, you gotta get away." "You've gotta get far away." "And do yourself a favour, stay away from this woman." " Where am I supposed to go?" " I don't know." " Go anywhere." " Please don't just leave me!" "John, I'm begging you!" "No, sorry." "I've done enough." "Good luck." "Hmm." "Busy day?" "Like you wouldn't believe." "You?" "You know what it's like." "Always on the go." "So I see you escaped." "Like a princess from her tower." "What's this?" "It's my dad's gun." "You don't like guns." " No, I don't." " And there's only one bullet." " What have you been playing at?" " Put it down." "That's just not funny." "Alice... you shouldn't have come here." " They'll find you." " Well, they can try." "But they're Wile E Coyote." "And I'm the Roadrunner." "Meep-meep." " Where will you go?" " I thought I'd start with Mexico." "Then there's Marrakech." "Monte Carlo." "Ah, and that's just some of the Ms." "There's an entire alphabet to work through." "Come with me." "I can't." "Why not?" "Because I am who I am." "And you are who you are." "Which is exactly why I'm asking." " We'd have so much fun." " That's what I'm scared of." "Come on." "Yin and Yang." "Bonnie and Clyde." "Bert and Ernie." "Alice." "You have to leave." "OK?" "You have to leave." "They'll come here, you know." "Why?" "Cos they're scared you'll try to kill me." "Which is the funny thing, because it's not me who'll end up killing you, is it?" "It's them." "You know that." "You've done enough." "Now give it up... and walk away." "Come with me." "I know you want to." "You've got a telltale heart." "We can swim with the sharks." "See the Nazca Lines." "Have you ever eaten fugu made from puffer fish?" "It's fatal if prepared incorrectly." "And... delicious, naturally." "I just can't." "Who is she?" " It's not like that." " I know." "If it were, I may be able to understand." "You do understand." "That's the thing about you." "Just because I understand, it doesn't mean I approve." " Works both ways, doesn't it?" " Doesn't it just?" "And didn't it always?" "Come on." "Come on." "John!" "All right, then." "Erm..." "Living room." "Kitchen, bathroom." "My room." "Your room." "Tomorrow I'll get you a bed, but tonight, you're on the sofa." "Erm, just make yourself at home, you know, you can put the kettle on." " Want one?" " Tea." "This kettle's minging." "It's got miningitus." "D'you get it from a market?" "You can get righteous kettles these days, all chrome and whatnot." "Where's he keep the mugs?" "Oh, my lover, won't you tell me now" "All the things that you fear..." "I am lover for the first time" "I am ready to hear" "I am ready to hear..."