"♪ It's all right, it's OK" "♪ Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey" "♪ It's all right, I say it's OK" "♪ Listen to what I say" "♪ It's all right, doing fine" "♪ Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine" "♪ It's all right, I say it's OK" "♪ We're getting to the end of the day. ♪" "Excuse us." "Thank you." "Good morning, what took you so long?" " SOCO suits." " Cheers." " Put them on." " Thank you." " Adam." "Could you bring a bag over?" " [A little bit closer.]" "Best not keep our forensic anthropologist waiting." " Morning, Fiona." " Morning." "What have you got?" "Well, the body's been partially mummified in these fertiliser bags." " Cause of death?" " It's very difficult to determine at the moment." "I can't get a proper look at the body." "I don't want to lose any of the soil or vegetation." " That's why Adam's here." " Adam?" "That'll be me." "Forensic botanist." "And you are?" "Sorry." "This is DCI Miller." "Sasha." "Good to meet you, Sasha." "So... why is this a Ucos case?" "Victim is believed to be Cheryl Sheekey, former owner of the house." "That would explain all the attention outside." " Sorry?" " She was a lottery winner." "Disappeared in... 1998. 17 October." "Everybody thought the husband had killed her for the cash." "Ah, hang on." "I think we've got something." "A lucky charm bracelet." "That worked well." "And that is Cheryl's." "Right, I'll confirm the dental records" " and give her a good going over at the lab." " Thanks, Fiona." "So how much did they win?" "£3,682,423." "Good recall." "And they say the memory is the first thing to go." "Actually, it's your eyesight." "It's written on the cheque." " JOURNALIST:" "So who's in charge?" " That would be me." "'I didn't believe him, I thought he was winding me up." "'I thought we'd won a tenner.'" "Cheryl Sheekey. 33 at the time." "Worked in a tile shop." "'The lottery syndicate was my idea." "But Craig started the Dream Team.'" "The Dream Team?" "The syndicate was a pub quiz team, run by this guy, Craig Bentham." "They used to play every week at the Duke Of Clifton in Twickenham." "They each won 900 grand." "'We are going to follow our dreams." "Grab life by the balls." "'Ain't we, guys?" "'" "That is Eleanor Challis." "She grew up in the same care home as Cheryl." "And who's our cheeky chappie?" "Terry Sheekey." "Terry and Cheryl married in 1993." "Cheryl was 28." "He was 23." "Now, the original murder investigation team strongly suspected he'd killed her." " He didn't have an alibi for the night she disappeared." " That's right." "He said he couldn't remember a thing because -- and I quote -- "I was off my head on drugs."" "But the murder investigation stalled through lack of evidence." "And then Cheryl's car was found abandoned in a supermarket car park in Dover five weeks later." "Now, there was no body and her passport was missing, so there was nothing to prove that she hadn't done a runner and left the country." " So Terry was off the hook?" " No, not exactly." "Have a look at these." "Didn't stop the media putting Terry on trial." "The local community, well, they'd taken Cheryl to their hearts." "Terry and Cheryl lived the high life for six months." "They bought cars, houses... they went to all those celeb parties." "And then their 15 minutes of fame were over and, well, it all went wrong." "The money started to run out and Terry picked up a string of drug convictions." "He was in and out of rehab." "And he did time for attacking a reporter." "Now we've got her body in the back of his garden." "What more do we need?" "You two, go and break the news to Terry." "See how he takes it." "We could clear this one up and still make Happy Hour." " Do you want me to go with them?" " No." "You're with me." "I've managed to track down the guy who was building the swimming pool for Terry and Cheryl." "You've never bought a lottery ticket?" "Why not?" "Be careful what you wish for, that's my motto." "Money does funny things to people." "I wouldn't mind having some funny things done to me." "Here we go." "God, did this guy really win the lottery?" " What?" " Terry Sheekey?" "This is Ted Case from the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad." "What do you want?" "We want to come in, please." "DOOR UNLOCKS" "Terry?" "Can we get you a glass of water or something?" "Have you any idea who might have done it?" "You told the original investigation you were" ""off your head on drugs" the night she disappeared." "Terry, now that Cheryl's been found, it's very important that you think back." "Anything you might want to get off your chest?" "I didn't kill her, if that's what you're asking." "Well, yes." "I suppose that is exactly what I am asking." "Mind if I take a look around?" "What was she like, Cheryl?" "Look at her." "She was a goddess." "That's what she was like." "Ted!" "See, I've not stopped looking for her." "I've been working with missing persons agencies in countries across Europe." "They put a photo on their website and people send in sightings." " See here..." "Dusseldorf." " KNOCK ON DOOR" "I'll get that." "You carry on." "Oh, hang on a minute." "They sent this." "It's not her." "Of course it's not her." "I came as soon as I heard." "It was on the local news." "They're outside now." "Like a committee of vultures." "A committee?" "Not a flock?" "No..." "Of course." "You're Eleanor Challis." " You were in the Dream Team, weren't you?" " Yes." "We'll need to talk to you too." "Both of you." "Yeah, well, he works for me." "That's where you'll find us." "KNOCK ON DOOR" "Gareth Clarke?" "Is there somewhere we can talk in private?" "Beth!" "Can you come and sort out the kids?" "Sorry." "I've been working nights this week." "Not still in the building trade?" "No, I gave that up years ago." "Not enough work." "I'm a security guard now." "Still overdrawn." "But I get to spend more time with the kids." "So, what can I do for you?" "We're reinvestigating the disappearance of Cheryl Sheekey." "We've found a body." "You OK?" "How well did you know her?" "She was a nice lady." "She used to bring me cups of tea." "That's all." "You were building a pool for her at the time of her disappearance, yes?" "No." "The job got called off a couple of weeks before." "I don't understand." "I don't remember the ins and outs." "I think the husband ordered it as a surprise." "She thought it was a waste of money." "They used to have these massive rows about it." "In the end, the job got cancelled." "To be honest, it was a relief to get away from that nutter of a husband." "Why all these questions about the pool?" "That's where we found the body." "There he is now." " It's all going to start again, isn't it?" " Just ignore them, Terry." "He's got no comment." "Is that because you killed Cheryl?" "Say that again and I'll bloody kill you!" "Easy, Terry." "You're not doing yourself any favours." "Come on." "We'll be waiting for you, mate." "So how come this swimming pool gets discovered now?" "Current owner decided to landscape the garden to boost the value of the property." "Well, that backfired, didn't it?" "OK." "Gareth said he'd finished the excavation but he hadn't put in grading, which is consistent with where she was found here." "So we need to find out from Terry when the pool was filled in." "And who filled it in." "It's got to be Terry." "It's hardly a bucket and spade job." "You'd need heavy gear." " How did Terry take the news?" " He's got a real temper on him." "Just tried to take a pop at another reporter." "He'd just found out that his wife was dead and they were asking if he killed her." "It's hardly a shock, is it?" "They were all saying that in 1998." "Yeah, but he's been trying to find Cheryl for the past 17 years." "Could be guilt?" "Denial?" " Or he's just lying through his teeth." " Well, if he was, he deserves an Oscar." "And he's got this weird relationship with Eleanor Challis." "He works for her and he's staying at her place at the moment, out at this animal sanctuary." "Well, are they together?" "I mean, could that have been a motive?" "Ted -- check in with Terry tomorrow." "Find out about the swimming pool." "I'll talk to Eleanor Challis." "You remember Craig Bentham, the leader of the pub quiz team?" "Well, he now runs a garden centre, and garden centres sell fertiliser bags." "Cheryl's body was found in one." "Well, he was in the syndicate, so it's definitely worth a visit." "Are you not coming to the pub?" "Fiona's going to be there." "Sorry, I've got a ton of coursework to do." "Enjoy yourselves." "Tut, tut, tut." "Oh, tut off, Danny." "Scratchcards are a mug's game." "The numbers are different each time." "You have to stay with the same numbers, like when you do the lottery." "I'll try that, then." "Well, that way your odds go from several million to one to... well, half several million to one." "So what if I buy several million tickets?" "You'd be contributing to a lot of good causes." "So, no Sasha?" "Head in a book again." "When did she last have some fun?" "A bit of old good old-fashioned, you know..." "What?" "So a woman's not supposed to have some nice, uncomplicated sex now and again?" "Yeah, of course they are." "But the only time sex is ever uncomplicated is when it's with the right man." "So who's the right man, then, Fiona?" "Most of the eligible bachelors we know are pushing their sell-by dates." "Actually, I think I might know someone." "Can you get her here tomorrow night?" "If Sasha gets wind of this, she'll have our guts for garters." "OK, forget it." "No, no, no, we'll work something out." "Won't we, guys?" "I feel a bad moon rising." "Eleanor." "This is DCI Miller." "How's Terry?" "He's in the house." "KNOCK ON DOOR" "Terry!" "It's Ted Case." "Terry." "So, you got any proper coffee here?" "Lapsang Souchong?" "Is that as exotic as it gets these days?" "I haven't touched drugs for years." "It's Eleanor's." "She thinks she's looking after me." "Are you two an item?" "No!" "Do we look like an item?" "They didn't really get our best sides, did they?" "They've all got it in for me, haven't they?" "Hey, Terry, all this self-pity and crap's not going to work." "You're going to finish up in prison while the bastard who killed Cheryl and left her to rot is running around today scot-free." "Just tell me, what went wrong between you and Cheryl?" "Those bloody numbers came up." "That's what." "So, Eleanor, do you have any idea who might have killed Cheryl?" "Well, they're all saying it was Terry, but I seriously doubt it." "But not impossible?" "Well, you never know with people, do you?" "You only have to see what they do to animals." "Is that what made you spend all your winnings on this place?" "First it was a couple of stray cats for company." "Then a donkey destined for the knacker's yard." "Then I couldn't turn the others away." "I mean, the lottery money didn't last long, but thank God I've got Terry, eh?" "What's your relationship with Terry?" "Are you two a couple?" "No!" "He was abandoned, so I took him in." "He's never gotten over Cheryl." "You and Cheryl grew up together, didn't you?" "Same care home." "What was she like?" "She was always organising parties even when she was seven years old." "She knew how to enjoy life." "But...?" "Well, when my mother died, I told myself I didn't need anybody." "But Cheryl, she was always searching for... a home." "She tried to get herself fostered." "And when a placement broke down, she'd be looking for the next one." "Then she set her sights on Terry." "He was younger then her -- quite a catch in his day." "But that didn't stop her." "What Cheryl wanted, she grabbed." "She had a way with men." "They fell at her feet." "She was like a sister to me." "Always telling me what to wear, how to do my hair." "And I owe all this to her." "If it wasn't for her I'd never have joined the Dream Team." "How did that come about?" "Cheryl squeezed Lizzie out to get me in." "Sorry..." "Lizzie?" "Craig Bentham's wife." "So, Cheryl wanted a family." "That's understandable." "We couldn't have kids." "Then we got turned down for IVF and adoption." "We thought the win was going to change all that." "We had money so we were looking at getting a baby from China." "We even got sent a photo." "Then what happened?" "I got done for cocaine possession." "The adoption agency called it off." "How did you get onto the drugs in the first place?" "The parties." "The attention." "Cheryl loved it all, but..." "I couldn't handle it." "All those people." "I felt like I was letting her down." "The drugs brought me out of myself." "Then it turned into a habit." "Then it all turned to shit." "What about the pool?" "Why did you decide to build that?" "Cheryl was a great swimmer when she was a kid." "Won medals and that." "I thought we could get clean and healthy." "We just ended up with a hole." "And who filled it in?" "I'm sorry." "I don't recall." "You did, Terry." "The estate agent said it was an eyesore and Terry would lose money if he didn't." "That's right." "I remember him saying that." "I needed to sell the place." "Discovered I was skint." "When was this?" "After the police closed the case." "OK." "That's it." "For now." "We're giving her a send-off." " A what?" " We've decided to organise a quiz night in Cheryl's memory." "She was very popular locally." "Is that a good idea?" "Cheryl wasn't the sort of girl to go quietly, and we've got nothing to hide." "A quiz?" "Well, that's interesting." "All right, thanks, Sasha." "We'll see you back at base." " 'See you back at the station.'" " Yeah, Bye." "I'm not sure I'd carry on working if I won the lottery." "It wouldn't take long to burn a hole in 900,000, you know." "Be fun trying, though." "CAR HORN HONKS" "ENGINE REVS" "He's in a hurry!" "That was Gareth Clarke." "Welcome, gentlemen." "What can we do for you today?" "Mr Bentham?" "Dan Griffin." "Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad." " Steve McAndrew." " We just passed Gareth Clarke on his way out." "What did he want?" "Who?" "He did some work for the Sheekeys." "No." "I don't know him." "He was probably picking something up from the yard." "This is about Cheryl, isn't it?" "We saw it on the news." "It's terrible." "We thought she was abroad." "Are you still messing around with that?" "I thought you were going to chase up the delphiniums order?" "It's on my list." "These gentlemen are from the police." "They're here about Cheryl." "This is my wife, Lizzie." "Terrible news." "Terrible." "Well, I'll leave you to it, then." "He loves delphiniums." "How long's your wife been working with you?" "Couple of years." "Since the kids left home." "It leaves me more time to concentrate on the shop." "And you worked with Cheryl, too?" "A long time ago, yes." "At the tile centre." "You weren't tempted to stop working when you won the lottery?" "No, no, I wouldn't have known what to do with myself." "As soon as we won, I convinced Lizzie to let me buy this place." "And Cheryl?" "The day her numbers came up, she told the boss what she thought of him and quit." "She liked to speak her mind, eh?" "He deserved it." "But, yes, she said things the rest of us wouldn't." "She did burn her fair share of bridges, though." "But not with you." "No." "But running this place took so much of my time," "I barely saw Cheryl after the lottery win." "I really don't see how I can help you." "Well, you knew Cheryl." "You were on her pub quiz team." "It wasn't her team." "It was my husband's." "We were told that Cheryl squeezed you out." "One week we lost by a point and Cheryl told Craig she had a friend who could do a better job." "But Craig set up the team." "Didn't he have a say?" "Yes, he did." "But they were all a little bit silly about winning and we had a young family, and I don't really like pubs anyway, so I quit." "And Craig stayed with the Dream Team." "Thank God!" "And the Dream Team won the lottery?" "Of course." " Craig took his share." " Yes." "You could have had your share and been a million pounds richer if they hadn't thrown you out." "Most people might be... rueful." "We are not most people." "We are ordinary people who had an extraordinary piece of luck." "We prefer to focus on what we've achieved." "What have you achieved?" "Look around you." "We didn't do the tedious things that most people expect." "What things?" "The drugs, the big house, the parties." "You're talking about the Sheekeys." "I really don't think I can help you any more." "So you and Terry haven't had any contact since Cheryl's disappearance?" "I've had my hands full here." "Did you fall out?" "No." "No, of course not." "And you'll be going to this quiz tonight?" "Lizzie doesn't think that's such a good idea." "But you were the leader of the team." "It would be strange if you weren't there, wouldn't it?" "How's it going?" "Well, Eleanor certainly likes her animals, doesn't she?" "And it appears that Terry's another stray she's taken in." "She claims that he filled in the pool." "But she's a dab hand at driving little tractors around her sanctuary." "So we got onto the plant hire firm she uses." "She had a mini-JCB delivered to Terry's address two days after the car was found in Dover." "We've had the results back from forensics." "No obvious cause of death and any toxic evidence is long gone." "What about Lizzie and Craig Bentham?" "Craig was keen to distance himself from Cheryl and Terry and Lizzie said she didn't mind missing out on a million quid." "Oh, and guess who we bumped into on the way in?" "Gareth Clarke, the man who built the pool." " What did he want?" " Don't know, but he was in a hurry to get out of there." "Craig claimed he didn't know Gareth at all." "But something had put the wind up him." "Look at them." "Happy as clams." "Craig got his garden centre, Eleanor got her animal sanctuary and Cheryl and Terry got their life of leisure." "And a year later, Cheryl's dead." "Listen to this." "Terry was in rehab in September 1998." "Cheryl was a very busy bee." "The original investigation tracked her movements through her credit card." "She was in Clifton, Bristol, on three separate occasions over a couple of weeks." "So let's find out what she was doing and see if we can tie her movements in with any of that lot." "That's surveillance, it's a bit more Dan's field." "Well, Dan's going to be busy with me at the memorial quiz night." "I thought you were meeting Fiona..." "Well I'll reschedule." "Well, you can't." "She's made a breakthrough." "What breakthrough?" "Well, she wants to tell you personally." "Ted and I will do the quiz." "We'll walk it." "You're not there to walk it." "You're there for low-profile surveillance." "See who turns up, check out the dynamic of the group and talk to Eleanor Challis about that JCB." "Nice T-shirt." "I got them printed today." "So, you here for the quiz?" "Yeah, sure." "OK." "That'll be £10." "OK." "You can give me a hand with this." " It needs to go on the stage." " OK." "APPLAUSE" "So much for low profile..." " Can you put it in the middle?" " Yeah, sure." "You told us Terry filled the pool in." " Yes." " But you ordered a JCB to Terry's address after the police investigation was closed." "Yeah, I did it on Terry's behalf." "The poor man was in bits." "I like to help people." "It may sound barmy to you, but that's what I do." "So, have you got a name for your team?" "Best name wins a bonus point." "Mentally Challenged?" "I wouldn't get your hopes up." "We'll sit over here, OK?" "Terry's not here." "Would you say a few words?" "I don't think that would be appropriate." "You were the team captain." "You don't mind saying a few words, do you, Craig?" "No, no." "Of course not." "Good." "And put your T-shirts on, too." "They don't seem to be getting into the spirit of the thing." "Hi, sorry." "We're late." "You remember Adam?" "Oh." "Nice to see you again." "And you." "So, what was so important?" "Can I get the drinks in first?" " OK, yeah." "I haven't got much time, though." " OK." "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." "As captain of the Dream Team I would like to welcome you to a very special quiz night in memory of my good friend Cheryl Sheekey." "Cheryl was a wonderful..." "Terry." "Long time no see, Craig." "Thought you'd moved to Mars or something." " Good to see you, mate." " You too." "You too." "Cheryl bought me this for our first wedding anniversary." "Haven't worn it for about 20 years." "Isn't she the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?" "Well, isn't she?" "I told you she'd never leave me." "Enjoy your evening." "Where you going?" "This was a mistake." "I'd never harm a hair on her head." "You know that, don't you?" "Sit down." "Sit down!" "I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to read the newspapers to keep up on current affairs." "Just as well, cos they're all full of stories about me." "Good to see you." "You all right for drinks?" "Yeah, we're fine, Terry." " He's taking the piss, isn't he?" " Shall I be the scribe?" "That's if nobody objects." "Actually, I think that's my job." "Evening, folks." "Question One." "What class of animal is Lepidoptera?" "That's a trick." "They want us to think it's a leopard, a big cat, it's not." "I'll know who'll know." "PHONE CHIMES" " Butterflies and moths." " What?" "You got me here for a berry?" "Yes." "It was preserved inside one of the fertiliser bags." "Might help with time of death." "They usually appear around late autumn." "We know the victim was alive in October." "Well, I mapped the flora of the garden." "No holly trees." "Couldn't it have been carried by an animal?" "Or maybe it was still in the sacks?" "Or... a holly tree nearby had died or got cut down?" "You're a tough crowd, Miller." "This type of holly is comparatively rare, runs a bit wild for your average back garden." "What I'm saying is, it increases the probability that the body was dumped." "One of your suspects runs a garden centre, doesn't he?" "Maybe you should check what species of holly he was selling in 1998?" "We could try." "Is that all?" "Well, there was also a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg, but I was going to tell you all about that over another drink, yeah?" "I'll get them." "You stay where you are." "Dan?" "What is he doing?" "So antisocial." "Darling, you said you were going to help me with Sasha and Adam." "They're getting on fine." "SHE GIGGLES" " In the lead is the Dream Team." " Yes!" "We're winning." "That's Gareth Clarke, isn't it?" "Well, if it isn't the lottery millionaires." "I just wondered if you'd had time to think about our conversation, Craig." "Do we have to do this here?" "It's all right, mate, we'll hold the fort." " You're not taking me very seriously." " Get off my back, you wanker!" "Wanker!" "Hey!" "Police!" "That's enough." "Terry, you stay where you are." "You're in enough trouble already." "Are you going to bring them in?" "'The cars have turned up." "We're heading for the station now.'" "OK, well, we'll talk to them tomorrow." "Don't worry, a night in the cells will soften them up." "'Yeah, well, that usually does the trick.'" "Got to go." "So, do you want to hear about these dinosaur eggs or not?" "Good morning." "You're late." "So, love is in the air." "What?" "We just meant that Craig Bentham bought a romantic meal for two on his credit card at the Pinot Noir restaurant in Bristol." "Just 500 yards from the Rialto Hotel where Cheryl had booked a double room that night, so love is in the air between Cheryl and Craig." "Good work." "How did it go last night?" "Good." "Dan, tell them about the holly berry." "Um, well, I was texting, so I, um..." "That's right." "We went to the pub to discuss vital forensic evidence and you spent the evening texting like a teenager." "Now, shall we all do some work?" "So, what were you doing at the quiz last night?" " I came to pay my respects." " Who to?" "Cheryl, of course." "You seem to have some unfinished business with Craig Bentham." "He owes me money." "What for?" "Some job, way back when." "TED:" "You told us at the garden centre that you didn't know Gareth Clarke." "I don't." "Not really." "And what did you two talk about?" "I can't remember." "The conversation ended, and I quote," ""Get off my back, you wanker!"" "Yeah, that's right." "He..." "He said I owed him money." "For what?" "So the day after Cheryl's body turns up, you decide to ask Craig for money for some job from way back when?" "Yeah." "What job?" "Maybe the money was for work done on Cheryl's pool." "Well, the Sheekeys would have paid for that." "Why else would he ask Craig for money?" "Well... builders see all sorts, don't they?" "Oh, I get what you're saying." "So Gareth might have seen something while he was building the pool?" "Cheryl's body turns up, decides to ask Craig for hush money." "It's a possibility." "I think it's a strong possibility." "What do you think he saw?" "Well, what do we know?" "Oh, yes, maybe Craig and Cheryl were having an affair." "That's, um...." "Feel free to join in whenever you're ready, Gareth." "We know about Bristol." "You and Cheryl..." " in Clifton together." " What?" "The lunch at the Pinot Noir restaurant, September 27th 1998." "That was a business lunch." "What makes you think Cheryl was there?" "Because she was booked into a hotel 500 yards away -- a popular destination for romantic weekends." "Do you always drink champagne with your business lunches?" " You've lied to us." "You were having an affair, weren't you?" " No!" "I want a lawyer." "You're overdrawn, you graft every hour of every day to make ends meet and Craig Bentham gets a huge pile of money just fall into his lap." "Cheryl's body turns up, you decide to blackmail him." "He won't play ball at the garden centre so you turn up at the quiz night, try to put the screws on him in front of his wife and friends." "This is a murder investigation, Gareth." "That nice lady that used to make you tea lost her life." "If you say the wrong thing in the next couple of minutes, it could destroy you very quickly." "Do you really want to risk that?" "Your family, your kids, everything?" "So, what happened?" "Craig turned up while you were building the pool, didn't he?" "No." "His wife did." "What?" "She accused Cheryl of having an affair with her husband." "She'd have killed her if I hadn't pulled them apart." "We'll be holding Craig for a while longer." "It was nothing." "It was a scuffle." "I'd like to talk to you about another scuffle, Lizzie." "One that took place in Cheryl Sheekey's back garden." "Oh." "Can we go somewhere more private?" "Away from the customers." "Sure." "I'm not big on trust." "When my first husband started seeing somebody else" "I was torn apart by it." "I thought I wasn't going to let that happen again." "So I thought it would just be me and the children after that." "And then I met Craig." "And it was if I'd won the lottery." "Well, and then we..." "Won the lottery for real?" "Yes." "But we thought, "We don't want anything to change,"" "so we put some money away for our old age, we invested in the children's education." "The only major outlay was the setting up of Craig's business." "Go on." "Then the letters started arriving, asking for cash, and the phone didn't stop ringing." "Friends, family even, started to treat us differently." "I felt that the only reason people liked me was because they knew I had money." "So I started to hide myself away." "I became so paranoid that I was put on anti-depressants." "And by this time Craig was working later and later and I felt it was because of me, because of how I'd been." "So I wanted to go and see him, to tell him that I'd got over that now." "So I thought I'd pop down to the centre one day and that's when I saw Cheryl in the back office with him." "She was always going to see Craig." "You think they were having an affair?" "So you went to see Cheryl?" "The angrier I got, the more she laughed." " It was almost as if she wanted me to..." " Attack her?" "So, did you tell Craig?" "Oh, yes." "But he denied it." "He said I was the most important thing in the world to him and I thought, "I'll give him one last chance and if he ever has any" ""more involvement with Cheryl, that would be it, I will leave him."" "So we decided to draw a line under it." "In fact, we thought we'd live a bit." "We went off on a six-week trip around Africa, until Craig got bilharzia and we had to return home." "When I heard that Cheryl was gone, I was happy." "But I had no idea that she was lying there all that time, I swear." "CRAIG:" "You've been talking to my wife?" "You have no right." "Well, you wouldn't talk to us, and she seems pretty sure you were having an affair." "There was no affair." "It was business." "All right, if you were in Bristol on business, what business might that have been?" "We were looking to expand the company." "We?" "Did Lizzie know about this expansion?" "Not the specifics, no." "Well, I've been looking at the specifics, and you transferred £250,000 from your business account into Guernsey between September and November 1998." "How did you find out about that?" "Well, the same way we found out that, two months later, you took out a loan for £150,000 at 17% APR." "That's a pretty high rate of interest, isn't it?" "Especially when you'd paid off your mortgage." "Why not use your house as collateral?" "Then you can borrow much more cheaply." "I'll tell you why." "Lizzie knew nothing about any of this, did she?" "As soon as Cheryl reappeared in your life, the money starts disappearing." "Six months after we won the lottery, Cheryl came to the centre." "She'd changed." "She was like a... film star." "She said she'd seen what I'd done with the centre, that winning the lottery had unlocked my potential." "She saw me as a risk-taker, an entrepreneur, and that I should be setting my sights on bigger things." "Bigger things?" "She wanted us to buy four or five outlets across the UK." "She had it all worked out." "We would open an account in Guernsey," "I would put my working capital into it and she would match it." "She showed me all this paperwork -- solicitor's letters, invoices." "But it was all fake?" "And then she disappeared and I couldn't access the account." "It was a massive error of judgment." "Why didn't you go to the police?" "It would have been the end of my marriage." "Perhaps you should have tried to be a bit more open with Lizzie." "Could have saved yourself a lot of heartache." "You don't know Lizzie." "But I didn't kill Cheryl." "I wouldn't." "I need to speak to my wife." "That's an understatement!" "I haven't been able to determine the cause of death yet, I'm afraid." "Well, we've found that Craig Bentham's garden centre didn't stock the species of holly that was found in the fertiliser bags." "Well, the fertiliser bags is the reason I'm here." "Look at the side of the bag... 30% off." "I love a good bargain, don't you?" " Going round the houses a bit, aren't we?" " Don't get sucked in." " What?" " This is what she does, just before she hits a home run." "So is there a home run, Fiona?" "Well, I just spoke to the manufacturer." "They introduced this offer on the 26th November 1998." "Why didn't we think of that?" " When did Craig and Lizzie go to Africa?" " November 19th." "So they couldn't have got hold of those bags before they went." "And the hole had been filled in by the time they came home." "So, unless one or both of them killed Cheryl and got somebody else to dump the body, they're no longer suspects." "And that, as my friend says, is a home run." "See you later." "Very impressive, Fiona." "I can't claim all the credit." "Adam helped." "Well, say thank you to him from me." " You've got a spring in your step." " Have I?" "Go on." "Spill..." "Last night?" "You and Adam?" "Yes." "And?" "It was great." "I'm so pleased." "Adam's a lovely man." "So... what happens next?" "Oh, nothing." "That's what made it so great." "I've got no room for anything more in my life right now." "You weren't trying to set us up by any chance, were you?" "No." "That would hardly be professional." "It was the boys." "They were worried." "All work and no play." "Please, do me a favour." "Don't say anything to them." "Not a word." "Ah, boss, I've had another look at Terry's bank statements." "Money was being siphoned out. 10,000 here, 8,000 here." "Pretty consistent over a number of months and adding up to about a quarter of a million." "Now, the original investigators thought he'd blown it all on having a good time -- drink and drugs, mostly -- but it was going into Guernsey." "Into the same account Cheryl used to rip off Craig." "What happened to it after that?" "Guernsey has only just signed an agreement with the UK tax authorities but there was no disclosure in 1998." "I can try and find out but it's going to take time." "What else do we need?" "We've got opportunity, we've got motive." "Cheryl's stealing money from Terry, he finds out and he kills her." "But Terry was besotted with Cheryl." "He didn't care about money." "I bet he cared if he wanted drugs." "Let's at least get a warrant, turn his flat over." "OK." "Yes!" "You OK, Steve?" "I am better than OK." "Just found this, under a pile of junk in the loft." "Terry knew she hadn't gone anywhere." "I loved Cheryl." "Why would I kill her?" "She'd stolen a quarter of a million pounds of your money." "What was mine belonged to her." "Will you change the record, Terry?" "I was out of it." "I've spent my life looking for her." "We found it in your flat, Terry." "It's Cheryl's." " Where?" " Where you left it." "In the loft, under a pile of junk." "That search for her was all smoke and mirrors because you knew we'd come knocking on your door one day." "I don't know how it got there." "I looked everywhere for her -- everywhere." "I can prove it." "Save it for the jury, Terry." "We've got enough to charge him." "But why go to all that trouble and keep her passport in his flat?" "Maybe he messed up, forgot it was there." "Sasha..." "There's something interesting." "This is the false invoice for the warehouse purchase in Bristol that Cheryl gave to Craig." "Now, there's one payment that didn't go through Guernsey." "Where did it go?" "Into a solicitor's account." "I chased it up and the funds were for a property purchase." " A warehouse?" " No." "An ex-local authority property in London." "Maybe your wife should take the kids for an ice cream?" "And you can tell us why Cheryl Sheekey bought you this house." "So you and Cheryl were having an affair and then she bought this place as a love nest?" " It wasn't really an affair." " What was it, then?" "A relationship." "Her marriage was dead." "I loved her." "When was the last time you saw Cheryl?" "She called me the night she disappeared." "What did she say?" "Something about having "one last nut to crack"." " What do you think she meant by that?" " I didn't care." "I thought we were going to run away and start a new life together." " To where?" " I'd have gone wherever she wanted." " And you believed her?" " When Cheryl disappeared, that was the worst time of my life." "I thought she'd gone off without me." "I dreamed that was she lying on a beach somewhere with some other bloke." "And then... you told me that she was dead." "I felt sick." "Not too sick for blackmail." "You've seen what my life is like." "It's a struggle." "This house was bought with stolen money." "You're going to have to find somewhere else for your family to live." " Jacqueline Steele." " Who?" "I was 17, she was 33." "I used to fetch coal for her." "I still think about her sometimes." "Do I really need to know about this?" " No, not really." " Good." "So, anyway, what do we think?" "Gareth found out Cheryl was planning on leaving and killed her?" "It's a possibility." "But why draw attention to himself trying to blackmail Craig?" "It's got to be Terry." "It's like Ted said." "Why set up a massive alibi, all those years of research, and then hide her passport in the same flat?" "It doesn't make sense." " Well..." " Before we charge Terry, I need to see this research for myself." "I started out with a big checklist." "It would have to be somewhere warm, near the sea." "We rally do need somewhere more specific than half of Europe." "Went to Greece once." "She was annoyed that people didn't speak English." "So she wouldn't want to learn a language?" "And pubs." "She liked pubs." "She'd need an audience, then, wouldn't she?" "So English speaking." "Bit of an expat community." "We're looking for Twickenham by the sea." "Did she ever talk about Cyprus or Spain?" "You know what?" "Somebody's pulled a pin out here." "Where?" "Malaga." "Spain." "That was early on." "Bum steer." "Turned out the sighting was before she disappeared." "What?" "Danny, any news?" "Well, I've been on to the British Embassy and the Guardia." "No bank account was ever registered to a Cheryl Sheekey in Spain." "So I checked the Spanish trade register and a certain Guernsey-based solicitor..." "Touch of the Costa del Crime." "Exactly." "Registered a business in Malaga in August 1998." "The only named director was one Cheryl Sheekey." "Now, Cheryl's business had a corporate account at Banco Puente Nacional, also in Malaga." " Has anyone called the bank?" " Oh, yes." "That same month, Cheryl transferred 717,000 into this account from Guernsey." "Now, we know what went into Guernsey -- 247,000 from Terry," "226,000 from Craig." "So either there was a massive cock-up with the exchange rate or..." "Or there's 244,000 unaccounted for, 318,000 if we include the house that she bought Gareth." "Are we sure Cheryl was broke?" "Absolutely." "When you take the house, the cars, the holidays... there's nothing left." "So where did it come from?" "Or rather who did it come from?" "That's the really interesting thing." "A flag was placed on Cheryl's account in 1999." "Why?" "Well, firstly, because someone tried to draw a cheque on the account in January." " Three months after Cheryl's death." " It's got to be Terry, hasn't it?" "Well, then, he had help." "Because in May, "Cheryl" turned up in person." " Check round the back." " OK." "GROANING" "Help!" "Eleanor!" "Are you OK?" "What happened?" "Can you sit up?" "It was Terry." "He came in and asked me for drugs." "SHE SOBS" "He said he'd had enough, that he couldn't live with the guilt any longer and that he was going to end it all." "I refused, then he hit me." "Is this what he was after?" "Ketamine." "I use it to tranquillise the animals." "It's lethal in sufficient quantities, especially mixed with alcohol." "Yeah, Terry hasn't stopped drinking since he came back from the flat." " What did he hit you with?" " He slammed my head against the wall." "Really?" "How?" "When?" "Why are you asking all these questions?" "I've told you!" "SHE SOBS" "Terry!" "Terry!" "He's there." "Terry." "Is he breathing?" "Just about." "INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER" " Is she good to go?" " She's fine." "Can I go with Terry?" "No, you're coming with us." "I'll go." "Eleanor, did Cheryl ever try to scam you for money?" "Yes, frequently." "But we grew up together, she couldn't manipulate me." "What is this about?" "I told you." "Terry confessed to me." "Banco Puente Nacional, Malaga, in 1998." "Anything look familiar?" "Cheryl." "Opening a bank account." "Same location." "May 1999." "Six months after Cheryl's death." "She's got her passport." "She's keeping the banker talking while she checks her photo." "All seems OK." "So tantalisingly close." " Oh, dear." " She's got her bank details, but it belongs to a corporate account and she doesn't know the company name." "Bankers love it when you get angry." "All that passive-aggression." "If that's Terry, he's a hell of a drag act." "Recognise her?" "You killed Cheryl, didn't you?" "Did you and Terry plan this together?" "Terry?" "He had nothing to do with it." "All Terry ever wanted was Cheryl." "Terry's going to be OK." "Found in one of the outbuildings at the sanctuary." "You'd look really good in that." "Oh, and Fiona called." "They found two of our holly bushes growing behind the stable block at Eleanor's sanctuary." "So Adam came through in the end?" "He even found traces of donkey faeces" " in one of the fertiliser bags." " Lovely." "I was going to put the sanctuary on the map." "I had architects, plans, budgets." "I wanted school parties to come, you know, to learn." "I was so excited." "Then she took it all away again." "You knew Cheryl very well, Eleanor." "How did you fall for it?" "She came round one night in a terrible state." "Kept talking about the mess she'd made of her life, how she was tired of all the parties." "She said I'd helped her see the light." "She wanted to do something worthwhile with her life." "She suggested we buy land, woodland." "We could protect it, leave something good behind." "She said she'd put in 50%, we could raise funds together." "She said it would make money, too -- land is finite." "We could put animals on it while it appreciated in value." "We couldn't lose." "When did you suspect something was wrong?" "That last night." "Cheryl told me she'd found three parcels of woodland." "She said I could decide and let her know in the morning." "That was not like Cheryl." "She never let me make a decision about anything." "It was freezing outside." "But she was wearing a new coat." "A summer coat." "I checked her bag -- found her ticket and passport." "And then what happened?" "She laughed about it, like I'd caught her out." "She babbled on about me going to Spain with her." "She'd make it special." "But she knew I couldn't go." " The animals." " I couldn't abandon them." "But she was abandoning me." "I suggested a drink for old times' sake." "There was no sign of violence on the body, so what did you use?" "Ketamine?" "I use it to put the animals to sleep, so they don't feel any pain." "It was terrible." "If I could have gone back then I would have." "I, um..." "I hid her body and her car in the outbuildings." "Later, when everyone was blaming Terry, I drove the car to Dover." "So people would think she'd gone abroad." "And then you buried her body in the pool." "That was the worst bit... .. putting her body into those bags." "But I wanted to get her away from my home." "I had to keep thinking of the good I could do once I..." "Got the money?" "But you didn't get the money." "And you were ready to kill Terry just to keep your secret." "How is he?" "I had to do it." "I didn't have a choice." "Yes." "Yes, you did have a choice." "That's what makes you different from your animals." "We've notified the Spanish authorities that Cheryl is now deceased." "The bank will release the funds to Cheryl's next of kin." "Of course, there'll be a few people who'll need to repaid but... there's over a million quid in there." "And half of that belongs to you." "Time to build a new life for yourself, Terry." "You look after yourself, pal." "You know the best part about the lottery?" "What's that?" "It's that time after you buy your ticket, when you can dream that anything's possible." "So, lottery tonight." "Rollover jackpot." " You got your tickets?" " No, don't like the odds." "Finally you're learning, Steve." "So, how did it go the other night with..." "Adam?" "That reminds me." "I've decided to ban coffee and doughnuts." "What?" "I don't think that guys of your age should be consuming all that sugar and caffeine and cholesterol." "Go without breakfast?" " If I want coffee and doughnuts, I will have coffee and doughnuts." " Oh, will you now?" "Wait a minute, this is about Adam, isn't it?" "You lot set me up, didn't you?" "We're just looking after your best interests." " Look..." " No, you look." "I appreciate it came from a good place, but I know what's best for me right now." "We promise we won't do it again, but can we keep the coffee and doughnuts?" "Yes, of course you can." "I might even buy you a drink." "Same again?" "So... how was the... you know.?" "How was the what, Steve?" " The..." " Oh, my God." "Never mind." "Actually, it was..." "It was good." "It was pretty amazing, actually." "OK, Ted, cough up." "That's 20 quid for me, 20 quid for Danny." " We don't have to do this now." " Do what now?" "Dan and I bet she'd had a bit of R and R and Ted bet she didn't." "Sorry, you bet on whether Sasha had sex?" "No, I was just interested from a mathematical perspective." "The algorithmic balance of probabilities meant that it was quite possible that..." "Fiona!" "Don't be so childish!" "Lovely." "♪ It's all right, it's OK" "♪ Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey" "♪ It's all right, I say it's OK" "♪ Listen to what I say" "♪ It's all right, doing fine" "♪ Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine" "♪ It's all right, I say it's OK" "♪ We're getting to the end of the day. ♪"