"PRIME SUSPECT Episode 4" " Part 1" "The Lost Child" "No, leave it." "I want to see you." "Sh." "Vicki, Vicki." "Sh." "What is it?" "Is it me?" "Can you not bear to look at me?" "Chris..." "Chris, please." "How am I supposed to uderstand if you won´t talk to me?" "Chris." "Shit." "...thousand and six, moving slowly east and filling 10:11... by 13:00 tomorrow." "Low moving steadily east, expected 150 miles west of Bailey... 1014 by the same time." " Your change." " Thanks." "Cheers." "Morning." "Jane Tenison." "One, two, three." "Good girl." "Come on." "There." "You go find Vicki." "That´s a good girl." "Yes." "Where´s she gone?" "Huh?" "Where´s she gone?" "Susan." "Vicki." "Come on, lads." "Let´s move on back behind the line." " Come on, now." " Can you give us the statement?" " Victoria Jane." " Everyone calls her Vicki." "And she´s 14 months old?" "On the 23rd." "Can you tell me how tall she is her weight." " Type?" " I´ll have a match by this afternoon." " How did they get in?" " Screwdriver." "Dave, sort these guys out, please." "Now." "My baby." "My baby." "All right." "Well, that´s fine." "Everything´s just as it should be." "If you experience any problems, don´t hesitate to contact Dr Gordon or myself." "Terminations performed this early don´t usually present any..." "When can I get back to work?" " Good morning, ma´am." " Is Superintendent Thorndike in?" "He lefl about an hour ago, ma´am." "I´ve put the case files on your desk." " Will there be anything else?" " No, that´s all, thanks." "Shall I draw the curtains?" "What´s the problem with the phones?" " When did Thorndike authorise this?" " Last night." "Through the press office." " The paper approached us with the idea." " It was a real rush job." "It´s a bloody disaster." "It worked wonders with the Kelly Parker kidnapping." "Kelly Parker was abducted from a hospital by a nurse." "There was no violence." "It describes Susan Covington´s condition as serious, for Christ´s sake." "You´re the abductor, you´re scared, now you might face a murder charge." "If they´re holding the baby, that could be a death warrant." " Is Susan conscious yet?" " Yeah, but she´s in shock." " She´s not responding to anyone." " She´s got to talk to us." " What does the psychiatrist say?" " He was dead cagey." "Even minor head wouds can be serious." "The chances are, she could be suffering from post-traumatic..." " Amnesia, yeah." " Amnesia." "Afler 24 hours, memory loss could be permanent." "Forensic foud a blood smear on the kitchen wall." " The abductor threw her against it." " Who´s the chaperone?" " Havers." " At least you did something right." " She´ll give us a shout." " We´ve gotta take the heat off." "So, Richard, arrange to have a camera team standing by to make an appeal." "If Susan can´t do it, I´ll make it." "Half an hour´s notice." "Right, boss." "No wonder Thorndike was in such a hurry." "I´ll make this short and to the point as possible." "I´ve got a lot of catching up to do, and so have the officers from AMIP." "That´s DS Westbrook and DC Aplin." "Now, I know how difficult it is to give 100º/º on upaid overtime." "But I´m sure we all want to find Vicki Warwick alive and well." "No-one would want to be five minutes too late." "Let´s make sure we´re not." "OK, Richard." "Warwick is the husband´s name." "He left the family home about 10 months ago." "He´s up north now, running a farm he inherited." "He says he was at the farm, at the time of the abduction, but he lives alone and no-one can confirm his story." " Did they search the place?" " Yeah, nothing." "And he blew a fuse." "He might have lefl the baby somewhere else." "Girlfriend?" "Not that we know of." "The bird he left his wife for is getting married next week." "The local CID are keeping an eye out." "OK." "Tony, Fernham Road?" "The back door was forced." "Forensics are a nightmare." "Fingerprints, hair, fibres galore." "Chances are most of them belong to the builders." " You tracking them down for examples ?" " Susan has to tell us who they were first." "Until we interview her, we´ve no way of knowing what time the intruder or intruders entered the building, but we know they didn´t leave till after 12:30." "The next-door neighbours got back about then and reversed into Susan´s car." " Drunk?" " New contact lenses." " Have you found the car?" " Not yet boss" "Well, obviously, that´s a priority." "Now, who´s our abductor?" "Well, they´re either local or at least spend time in the area." "They´d have had to watch the house." "We´ve ruled out kidnapping so far." "We haven´t received a ransom demand and you only have to look at the house to know there´s not enough dosh aroud" "So we proceed on the assumption that Vicki was abducted for nurture or abuse." " Who´s pounding the computers?" " DS McColl guv" "I´m compiling a list of paedophiles living within a 30-mile radius of London." " What database are you using?" " ENS YS." "There´s another one in Derby that keeps tabs on suspected as well as convicted." " I´ll get on it, guv." " Get hold of the local registrar." "See if anyone´s lost a baby recently, illness, cot death, miscarriage..." "That gets my vote." "I don´t see what a nonce could do with a kid that young." "Try the adoption agencies, see if anyone´s been refused an application." "Maybe they wouldn´t take no for an answer." " I´ll do that, guv." " Good." "Thanks." "Well, right, I think that´s it." " Come on, then." " No." "Wait a minute." "This is a long shot, but it might be worthwhile." "Call traffic." "See if their cameras caught the missing car on monday night." "If I´d just abducted a baby and bust the mother on the head," "I might be rattled enough to run a red light or break the speed limit." "All right." "That´s it." "Let´s find Vicki Warwick." "Theresa, I´ve got to go now." "A detective" "Yeah" "Yeah, she showed me her card, her ID." "Yeah, OK." "OK." "Sorry." "It´s Natalie´s mum." "She´s a bit anxious." " How long have you worked for Susan?" " Since Vicki was born." " Not easy working for two families." "Oh!" "It´s no problem as long if the kids don´t hate each other." "Susan and Theresa work for the same firm so it costs them less than two nannies and I make a bit extra." "So you got to Susan´s house at 7:30." "Was that normal time?" "Yeah." "I picked Natalie up at seven and went right over." "We do one week here and the next at Susan´s, you know alternate" " Is she gonna be all right?" " She´s conscious but she´s still in shock." "You used a mobile phone to call us?" "Susan gave it to me to carry in case of emergencies." "I moaned about it cos I already had enough to lug around." " Where did you get this?" " Susan brought it back from Florida." "Did you know you could be prosecuted for just carrying Mace?" "No." "She got me that about a month ago" "I was supposed to take a photo if anyone dodgy was hanging around when I took the kids to the park." "The film´s blank, except for the shots I took to try it out." " What of?" " Vicki." "I´ll borrow this." "I´ll return it tomorrow with the negatives." " They´re recent photos you see" " Go ahead." "Thank you for your help." "Woman who reported it was out walking her dogs." " Any of the kids in custody?" " One." "Malcolm Roberts." "Ten years old." "Spends more time in the local nick than he does at school." "Anyway, his gang found it about eleven this morning, keys still in the ignition." " But he doesn´t drive..." " No sign of Vicki?" " No, sorry, guv." " We´re only five minutes from Susan´s." "Why ditch it here?" "Maybe they had another car waiting." "Muddyman." "Kids like Malcolm have their eyes peeled." "Talk to him again." "See if he saw another car parked around here." "Guv." "She´d had a rotten day" "A rotten week, really." "She couldn´t eat and she wouldn´t settle." "I had to take her to the doctor when her first teeth came through." "I finally put..." "I finally got her to sleep at about half past one." "Then I went downstairs." "Not to bed?" "I had work to do." "I´m... craming for my exams." "I´m taking my taxation finals on Tuesday." "Today." "I started to read, then I fell asleep." " And how long were you asleep?" " Not long" "Something woke me" "I went into the hall..." "When I got near the kitchen," "I was grabbed - pulled from behind." "I tried to fight, I tried." "Then I was thrown against the wall." " I don´t remember falling or..." " Can you describe your attacker?" "Susan, anything." "The smallest detail´s absolutely crucial." "Did you get an impressión of their build or feel what clothes they were wearing?" " I´m sorry." " It´s all right." "It´s all right." "If you remember anything later on, just tell Maureen." "Susan I spoke to Carolyn today your nanny" "And she told me you´d given her a camera to carry around." "Do you remember that?" " It was about a month ago." " Yes." " Why did you do that?" " I don´t know." "Well, has someone been following you and Vicki?" "Have you noticed someone watching the house?" " Well, have you..." " There was someone." "In the park." "In Fernham Park." "He had two little girls with him." " He didn´t look dangerous, but..." " But what?" " He was clingy." " What do you mean, "clingy"?" "Difficult to get rid of." "He kept..." "putting his hands on Vicki´s pushchair and touching her." "Can you describe him for me?" "Right." "Hey, where´s Mumy?" "Where´s Mumy?" "Hello, Mumy!" "Hello!" ""I don´t want anything to happen to you or Vicki." "Revenge is the last thing..."" " How´s she doing?" " She´s not too happy about the make-up." "It´s important she looks healthy." "Did you explain that?" "Yeah, but it´s bound to feel odd, like tarting yourself up for a rapist." "No joy at the factory, boss." "We got clear impressions of the Renault tyres but nothing else." "Shit." "All right, well, just put anyone you can on a house-to-house search." "Maybe they were stupid enough to dump the car on their own doorstep" "Did you get the photos back from the lab?" "I´ve been polite, sarcastic and obnoxious." "They´ve got a backlog." "Would have been better off sending them to Boots." "You up to this?" "Good." "I hope I´m talking to the person who has Vicki." "I´d give anything to hold my little girl again." "I´m very frightened." "Perhaps you´re frightened too." "I don´t want anything to happen to you or to Vicki." "Revenge is the last thing I want." "I don´t want you to be puished" "You just need help" "Please help us all you me and Vicki by contacting the police" "The sooneryou call" "the sooner we can all stop being afraid" "Please bring Vicki back" "Please bring" "Bring" "I don´t know." "How reliable do you think this thing is?" "Run it by the nanny, see if it rings any bells." "From traffic, guv." "Boss." "Traffic came through." "Bugger my boots." " What´s this code?" " The camera location." "Falloden Way." "It´s a stretch of the A1 here, just below the M1." "Nowhere near where it was abandoned." "3:30, two hours afler Susan was attacked." "They couldn´t have spent that long in the house." " Where the hell were they going?" " To dump the corpse." " Or transfer the body somewhere else." " Shall I call off the house-to-house?" "No, perhaps they made the drop and didn´t fancy a long walk home." "We could get the shot enhanced for a silhouette." "We´ll die of old age before we get that back, but try first thing tomorrow." "So..." "Vicki Warwick could be anywhere north of London." "No." "It started to get light around 5:30." "They wouldn´t want to be seen ditching the car." "They were caught speeding at 3:30." "Two hours to get where they were going and come back." "Less five or ten minutes to drop the baby." "If we work out the farthest they could go and get back in 80 minutes, we´ve got our search radius." "But if the second vehicle theory holds good, he could be in Scotland by now." "I thought you were supposed to be working the nonce records, hm?" "Go on, then." "Prick." "Where are you?" " Kernan." " Mike, it´s Jane." "Hello Jane I saw the appeal You handled it very well" "I need more help." "The Service Level Agreement guarantees me more officers." "You´ve got all the bodies you´re entitled to under SLA." "If it turns into a murder investigation, I can get you another six men." "Are they supposed to be pallbearers?" "You know as well as I do, this kid is probably dead already." "No!" "No, I do not know that!" "I need more detectives, Mike, I need more uniforms." " Vicki needs them." " I´m sorry." "Jesus, Mike." "You can´t spare six officers to help save a child´s life... but you can spare them to find her killer." "Go home, get some sleep." "Give me an update in the morning." "You OK, guv?" "Yeah." "Where did you say that husband lived?" "Derbyshire." " M1?" " Yeah." "They searched the place once." "We´ll drive up tomorrow and do it ourselves." "Local plod are gonna love us." "Night." "Night." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Do you want to leave a message for Susan?" "Mr Warwick?" "Mr Warwick?" "Hello?" "Mr Warwick?" "Mr Warwick sir?" "There´s no-one upstairs, ma´am." "Perhaps he´s out with his stock." " Or perhaps he´s done a runner." " We´ve got two men watching the house." "Well, the house isn´t gonna run, is it?" "Mr Warwick?" "Mr Warwick?" "This is Detective Constable Hawker." "Mr Warwick?" "Mr Warwick?" "Mr Warwick!" " Mr Warwick!" " I´m Detective Superintendent Tennison." "What are you doing here?" "I want to ask you some questions about your daughter." "D´you recognise him?" "He might have had two little girls with him - one dark, one fair - about six or seven years old." " No." " You´re positive?" "Who is he?" "He was seen approaching your wife in Fernham Park last month." "I haven´t been in London for a year, let alone Fernham Park." " Why do you live up here?" " My father died about 11 months ago" "Somebody has to look afler the place." " And you live here alone?" " You know I do." "But you lefl your family because of an affair." "Yeah, two of them:" "Me and Margaret Lacey," "Susan and her career." "You don´t approve of women who take their careers seriously?" "Not if it makes them selfish." "I don´t approve of anyone who turns a career into a fetish." "I was an estate agent." "I made a pile at it." " But it wasn´t an obsessión" " Just as well, since you got fired." " The bottom fell out of the market." " And you lived on your wife´s income." "Yes, but there isn´t a mortgage." "She used the money from her father´s will, and I did the deal, a bloody good one." "And my money paid for the restorations" "I´m gonna fight her for custody." "Vicki´d have a better life here." "I mean, where would you rather grow up?" "I could look afler her just as well." "Better." "She wouldn´t have been kidnapped if I´d been with her." "Yeah, but you weren´t, were you?" "Do you think you´ll be awarded custody of Vicki?" "Your chances are rather slim." "You´re an unfaithful husband, you lefl the family home, you haven´t seen your daughter in..." " That´s only because of Susan." " She wouldn´t let you?" "No, but when you fall in love you think, "This is what it´s like?" "I never knew."" "The same thing goes for falling in hate." "I couldn´t stand to be near her." " You hate your wife?" " Deeply." " Enough to take Vicki?" " No." " Did you pay someone else to take her?" " No!" " Well, where is she?" " I don´t know!" "I wish to Christ I did!" " Didn´t your man turn up?" " This is ridiculous." "I was here all weekend." "I told you, I couldn´t possibly..." " Where did you..." "How dare you..." " Do you want to read the search warrant?" "This is a credit card receipt for petrol you bought at the services on the M1 2:30 on Sunday aflernoon." "You were not here all weekend You were in London Why did you lie?" "Were you planning on abducting Vicki?" "If you don´t talk to us, I´m taking you down to London." " Cuff him I´m arresting you on" " I was with Margaret." "I´m sorry?" "Margaret Lacey." "Mrs Margaret Harper as of next Friday." "She lives in Hendon." "We were together when..." "When Vicki was taken." "Oh." "Oh, I see." "You were sleeping with someone else´s fiancée when your daughter was abducted." "Is that what you´re trying to tell me?" "She´s dead, isn´t she?" "Bloody hell." "Sorry, mate." "Yeah, I´ll call you back." "Yeah." "Get on the phone and have them blow this up." "Quick." "They may be slow, but they´re not stupid." "Get copies run off for the boys out there and then blitz the neighbourhood." "Eliminate from our enquiries." "I don´t want his relatives or mates panicking him." " Right." " All right, go on." "Now, the chances are he visits this park on a regular basis." "The kids are eating ice creams." "Check out vans that work the area." "Someone must know who he is." "Christopher Edward Hughes." "Born 4th September 1956." "December ´85 sentenced to 14 years imprisonment afler the systematic abuse of his seven-year-old stepdaughter." "June ´92 six months residential Osborne Clinic, released on parole December ´92." "Touchstone Avenue." "Only half a bloody mile from Vicki Warwick´s house and a 20-minute walk from the factory where the Renault was dumped." "Gotcha." "Jane, Jane..." "Listen, nobody goes in without a warrant." "Have you got a warrant?" "Good." "Go ahead." "Go ahead." "Thanks for your cooperation, Mr Warwick." "We´ll verify his alibi." "If he needs to see his stock, cuff him to a cow." "Come on." "Come on." "Sod it." " Hey" " Jesus Christ." "Look at this." "Bye-bye, Annabelle." " Christopher Edward Hughes?" " Yeah." "Who are you?" "DI Muddyman, Southampton Row Police Station." " Cuff him." " What´s going on?" "I´m arresting you on suspición of the abduction of Vicki Warwick." "That´s bollocks." " Do you understand?" " I don´t know anything about the baby." " Do you understand?" "!" " Yes!" " They´re just pictures from magazines." " Pictures of young children." "There´s no law against collecting pictures of children." "Not ones like that, anyway." "And I haven´t had any of the other sort in years." "There´s no harm in them." "Plenty of harm in this, though, Christopher." "All these children missing, abused, murdered." "Why´d you take such an interest in them?" "Look, I was sick, I was screwed up, all right?" "I went to a clinic when I come out of prison." "That´s what they taught me." "When you´re sick, like say you´ve got cancer, and then they cure you, you´d still be interested in the disease, different cases, causes, new cures." "No cures in here, Christopher, just the disease." "You´ve worked at carfit for six months." "Yeah, bloke I went to school with owns it." "He believes in giving people a second chance." "But the money´s not up to much, though, is it?" "Sometimes I have to skip a few meals." "What´s that got to do with anything?" "Skip a few meals?" "2,000 quid here, Christopher." "Yeah, I play the horses." "An accumulator paid off." "Came to nearly three grand." "I spent about 900 buying a telly for Anne and some presents for the girls." "A mattress is a strange place for this amount." "Why not put it in a savings account?" "Sooner or later, some nosy bastard wants to know where it come from." "You used to be a member of the paedophile information exchange." "Not any more." "Supposing you were still in touch with your old mates, what would the going rate be for a 14-month-old child?" "2,000 quid?" " Where is she?" " Don´t know." " Why did you take the car?" " What car?" "Susan Covington´s." "Did your client need a lifl home?" "I didn´t take her." "I told you, I was with me girlfriend." "Why don´t you just ask her?" "!" "Do you recognise this woman?" "No, I´ve never seen her before." "Now do you recognise her?" "I´ve never met her." "Take as much time as you need." " Number four." " Yes!" "He´s the man from the park." "How did you find him so quickly?" " Has he taken a child before?" " I´m afraid we can´t tell you that." "We watched a film on the box then turned in We were together all night" "He couldn´t have left when you were asleep?" " No I´m a light sleeper" " What time did he leave the house?" " Well, at about 1:30, but..." " I´m sorry" "I thought you said you´d spent the night together." " We had a fight." " What about?" "Nothing, really." "Afler a couple of minutes, I went afler him and we spent the night at his place." " So you lefl the children unattended?" " No." "What is it with you people?" "You see a single mother and think we´re all screwed up, useless, disaster areas." " I´m sorry." " It´s half term." "Gayle and Alison were sleeping over at a friend´s house afler Chris had taken us all to the pictures." "Where did you catch up with Chris?" "Fernham Park." "It´s on his way home." "He was sitting there about to come back, but his place is closer." " What time did you leave him?" " Seven." " How long was he out of your sight?" " 15 minutes." "And you´re prepared to sign a statement to that effect?" "Look, what´s Chris supposed to have done?" "We´re questioning him in connection with the abduction of Vicki Warwick." "What, that baby that was taken?" "You´re crazy." "How long have you known him?" "Since last August, about six months." "He´s a decent bloke." "God knows, there aren´t many of them about." "How did you meet him?" "I don´t see that that´s any of your business." " An ad." " What kind of ad?" "In the local paper." "Attractive 30-something divorcee seeks sincere, caring man for friendship and possible romance." "Good sense of humour essential." "Must love children." "See if her neighbours saw or heard her leave the house." "Also, re-interview everyone in Hughes´s building." " See if anyone saw her arrive or leave." " Right." "We´ve got him till 12 o´clock tomorrow." "That´s... 19 hours to get something solid or we´re gonna have to let him walk." "Richard, how did he hold up?" "Had to ease off when his brief turned up." "What did he say when you told him he´d been identified?" "He couldn´t remember." "He talks to a lot of people in the park." " He´s a friendly bloke." " Especially with kids" "We´ve gotta break his alibi and we´ve got to find out who might´ve bought Vicki." "So keep the boys at it, all known associates." "Also check with Anne Sutherland´s relatives and friends" "See if anyone´s suddenly got an extra little girl." "Let´s wheel him up again, boss." "Let me take a crack at him." "No, you´re driving me to Bedford." " Bedford?" " Yeah." "The Osborne Clinic." "There´s a car coming!" "Superintendent!" "Bog off." "Bog off." "They really piss me off." "Sorry." "They had to be opened." "Makes you think, though." "Some people´s hearts are in the right place." "Fancy some tea?" "Dr Schofield´ll be with you shortly" "I saw the broadcast you made." "Was a psychiatrist consulted?" " There wasn´t time." " I´m assuming you wrote the appeal." " Mm-hm." " Did a very good job." " For an amateur?" " No, no, by any standards." "Please, sit." "So, how much evidence do you have against Hughes?" "He´s our prime suspect." "And you haven´t found the child as yet?" "No." "We think that Hughes may have been paid to take her." "What, by another paedophile?" "Yes, perhaps by someone he served time with." " Or met here" " I would say that was very unlikely." "Hughes didn´t form friendships here or in prison." "How can you know that?" "I am correct in assuming you´re here to benefit from my professional opinion?" "Please, sit down." "Most of our clients take to the theory and practice of group therapy with an ease that sometimes borders on enthusiasm." "But our Mr Hughes was disruptive." "That´s why he was referred to me." "You´re an independent consultant?" "I have a practice and some of my spare time is spent on research." "I´m doing some work for the Met." "Given the seriousness of our case, would you build a profile of our abductor?" "No." "But only because it´s so serious." "What I can tell you is that I would very much doubt whether Hughes is the person that you´re looking for." "Why?" "Because he would never abuse a child younger than five years old." "He´d consider it perverse." "He believes that children reach sexual maturity at five." "That´s the age he was when he was first abused." " That´s no bloody excuse, is it?" " No." "But it is the reason." "You have to understand that 98º/º of our clients are the products of abuse." "Not everyone who´s abused turns into a nonce." "That´s the most important aspect of the work that we do here" "Learning how to treat abused children so they don´t turn into monsters." "But you only get half the story." "That´s true, but unfortunately we have serious problems in gaining insights into mature survivors of abuse." " Hughes told us that you´d cured him." " Really?" "The client could spend the rest of his life in here and still not be healed." "The wounds are too old." "And I´m afraid that there are no cures." " Castration." " No cures that the law allows." "Why did you release him?" "It´s not my decisión." "It´s up to the parole board and the local authority paying for his treatment." "The best that we can do for these men is to get them to acknowledge their behaviour is deviant, examine the reasons and help them to achieve some measure of control over it." "Hughes is dating a divorcee, the mother of two little girls six and seven" "How much control did you give him?" "Can we see Hughes´s case notes?" "No." "Dr Schofield, a child´s life is at stake here." "It´s a question of ethics and, beside which, I would very much doubt whether you´re qualified to interpret the material correctly." "And you´re certain that he didn´t take her?" "Well, Dr Schofield, I dare say that you won´t care too much about professional ethics if Vicki Warwick is found dead." "You could have saved her." "Thank you." "Susan" "Superintendent Tennison´s here" "Can she come in for a few minutes?" "Hello, Susan." "I´m sorry." "There´s no news about Vicki yet." " Is Maureen looking afler you?" " She´s spoiling me." "I´m so used to living on my own." "I wanted to ask you a question about the man you identified, Christopher Hughes." "He´s got an alibi." "So did you ever see him with another man?" " Are you sure?" " Yes." "I only saw him once." "With the little girls" "I´m sorry." "It´s all right." "Thank you." "Will he be released?" "I don´t know." "I want her back." "Please bring her back." "Travellers made camp yesterday." "One of the kids spotted a bag stuck in the sluice." "Could have been dropped miles upstream." "The current´s a killer." "Without drainage to the lake, it might never have been found." " Where are the nearest houses?" " That way about half a mile." "My boys are asking but I doubt if anybody´s seen anything" "Where did the travellers phone in from?" "Payphone on the motorway services" "We got here as soon as we had the call" "Is this your girl?" "Yes." " How long´s she been in the water?" " Two or three days." "No rigor present." "If the water weren´t so cold, she´d have started to decay." "Was she molested?" "Hard to say yet." "We´ll need rectal and vaginal swabs, but she is naked." "What did she die of?" "Until I see her lungs, I can´t say for sure." "No, no cutting." "Not until she´s been formally identified." "And I want Oscar Bream to do the postmortem." "Thank you." "Is this Vicki?" "Did she suffer?" "No." "We´ll get whoever did this, I promise you." "I promise you" "There he is!" "Tony, forget it." "The 24 hours were up." "I want surveillance on Hughes and I want him to know it." "If Anne´s daughters are at risk, I want him to think twice." "Go back to the names from our offenders´ search and the disappointed adopters and bereaved parents." "I want them all interviewed, relatives, friends, neighbours, the lot!" " Wild-goose chase." " It is not a wild-goose chase!" "If you need an incentive go down to Oscar Bream´s and see what´s lying on his slab!" "Have you got anything from forensics, Richard?" "They´re still working." "But it looks like the river´s probably washed away any of the evidence." "But he did say that the mud from the river bank... matches the mud found in the Renault´s... where the..." " Foot well!" " Foot well." "Yeah, well, all right." "That´s not much, but it´s something." "All right, that´s it." "Except, uh..." "I know what hours you´ve been putting in." "No-one could be working any harder." "Thank you." "Put the new boys to work, Tony." "Right, guv." "Boss, there´s a Dr Schofield waiting in reception." "I heard about the little girl." "I´m very sorry." "We all are." "Look, I need to know, Vicki Warwick, were there any signs of abuse?" "We haven´t got the medical reports yet." "Are you still certain we´ve got the wrong man?" "Can I see him?" "Is that why you´re here?" "Your finger is on a trigger." "This kind of emotional stress could drive him back to established behaviour patterns." "As far as we know, he hasn´t abused the girls available to him, but if you keep this pressure up, then there´s every chance that he´ll fixate on them." "Can I see the file?" "What´s all the cloak and dagger about?" "You and me, video room, no guests." "Vanessa was five when I married Carol." "Five and three quarters." "I mean even a couple of months is a big deal at that age." "She was wondenful." "And like, um, you know when she started to trust me." "You." "There´s no trust like a child´s." "It´s like... it´s like perfect." "It´s a perfect thing, yeah?" "She´d look up at me with them big green eyes." "People can´t meet your eyes like that." "She didn´t uderstand what she felt." "And you helped her to uderstand?" "Yeah gently." "It was like a game." "The best game." "You know she´d get so excited." "She´d fill with such emotion and there´d be tears." "She loved me that much..." "It doesn´t occur to you she may have been frightened?" "No she loved me." "Men like you can sometimes frighten children" "No, no only the bastards." "Yeah." "The ones who are too pig ignorant to know how to help a child to uderstand." "And..." "There was this one bloke a bloke here one of those group sessions... and he bought his little girl two kittens, right?" " Yeah" " And..." "After she got attached... he killed one." "He strangled it in front of her... and said he´d do the same to the other one if she didn´t do what he wanted..." "Bastard." "I mean, imagine putting me someone like me... in the same room as a shit like that..." "Jesus!" "Hughes was sent to prison in 1985" "It was probably only then that he realised there was no chance... of seeing Vanessa again." "He was foud with his wrists slashed... and he was in a critical condition for some time..." "I really think I should see him." "We had to release him an hour ago." "Where are the girls?" "They´re playing roud at Angela´s." "I took ´em over before I came to meet you." " You didn´t tell ´em I´d been arrested?" " What do you think?" "Thanks for sticking up for me, making the statement and that." "Some people get scared, you know." "Just being around the police makes them feel guilty." "They must have guilty consciences, then, mustn´t they?" "You want to know why they picked me up?" "They´re picking up anyone local who´s got a record." "You didn´t tell me you had one." "No." "Sorry." "It was years ago." "Some burglaries." "I got 14 months in Wandsworth." "I should have told you." "What would burglary have to do with a kidnapping?" "The place was broken into." "Expert job, they reckoned." "Thought I might have done it." " Mind those filthy overalls." " They didn´t give me time to change." " I could always take ´em off." " No." "You need to eat before you go back to work and I´ve got to pick up the girls." "Sharon, get me DCI Turner of the Child Protection Team." "Yeah, that´s Ruth Turner." "Soon as possible." "Yes." "Ruth?" "Well, keep trying." "Thanks." " Danny, have you got Hughes´s file?" " Tony´s using it." "Jane Right well" "There was no physical trauma consistent with attempted or actual intromissión." "There was nothing on the internal swabs." "She didn´t drown." "There was hardly any water in the lungs, none in her tumy." " What was the cause of death?" " Asphyxiation" "The lungs stop working but the blood becomes depleted of oxygen." "This can cause a colour change in the victim´s skin, cyanosis." "Though she´s been in the water, you can see a blue tinge on the tips of the ears, lips and the nail beds, and there´s cyanotic congestion in all the major organs, especially the lungs." " And was she strangled?" " No, that would have lefl bruising." "Provided we get negative results from the toxicology and drug screens, my guess is she was suffocated." "It can take as little as 20 to 30 seconds." "She died quickly." "They can always tell when they´ve got a rival... especially if it´s their daughter." "No Carol was a pain in the neck." "It was touch and go whether I could put up with her till I met little Vanessa." " Did you make love with Carol?" " Yeah but not often." "Anyway I don´t think she minded that much." "I mean she had a rough time with her first husband" "I think all she really wanted was to be treated decent" "Anyway you put up with anything don´t you?" "To be near someone that you love." " Where is she?" " Seven." "He lefl her place at 1:30." "She didn´t see him again until the next morning." "Pick him up." " What time did he leave your house?" " Half past one, like I said." "I was telling the truth about the fight." "Well, who started it?" "Um, I don´t know." "Um..." "I suppose he did." "It was over, um..." "Well, he won´t make love unless the light is off, and I wanted to leave it on and we ended up shouting." "In your statement, you said you went afler him." "I was too upset, but the next morning I felt silly, so I went round to his bedsit and he said he was sorry, I said I was sorry, one thing led to another and..." "Aflerwards, he told me that he´d got drunk... because he thought he was gonna lose me and he´d got into a fight... and he thought that there might be some trouble." "So he asked me to say that we were together if anyone asked about him." "Now, why have you changed your mind, Anne?" "There was something about him today." "Afler he was released." "There was something different." "And I was scared." "And, um, then I... saw that little girl on the telly and..." "Get out of the bloody way!" "Get off!" "No!" "Jesus." "Get an ambulance." "Jesus Christ, Tony!" "Well, I was off balance." "It was his own fault!" " Do you want someone to stay with you?" " No." "We´ll be fine." " Guv." " Drive Miss Sutherland home." " Arrange for someone to pick up..." " Guv." "Would you just wait here for a moment?" " What?" " Cock-up." "Hughes is on his way to hospital." "No, he´s walking wounded." "Aplin." "OK, guv." "She wants us back at the station." "What will you tell her?" "Like you said, you were off balance." "Shit." "Have we hit someone?" " You all right?" " OK, you two." "Home, James." " Where the hell is he?" " We don´t know." "Find him." "Send him back." "Stake out the bedsit." "Get a car sent round to Fernham Road." "And tell Maureen Havers Hughes is running." " Hughes is on his way to hospital." " Aplin´s on his way to hospital." " Christ knows where Hughes is." " He could hardly walk." "And I want to hear about that." "Richard, get over to Anne Sutherland´s place." "Now!" "Fast!" "Ali!" "Gayle!" "Come on!" "Come on I´ve got your bubbles" " Hello?" " Come on you two!" "You can watch televisión later!" "Hold on a minute." "The roof has fallen down I´ll have to dig a tunel" "What´s making it collapse?" " Too much weight on" " Mm." "Ali, you nearly gave me a heart attack." "Police are on the phone." "Hello." "Gayle, come here, love." "What´d you tell ´em?" "Gayle, come on, darling." " What´d you tell ´em?" "!" " Gayle!" "Run!" "Run!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Shit!" "He almost dragged me into the bloody road." " It´s bollocks!" " Haskons´ll back me up." " You´d better hope the van driver does." " It all happened too fast." " Is that what you´ll say in court?" " Look!" "Hughes was dead set on doing a runner from the moment he saw us." "Not because he was scared shitless he´d get done over, by any chance?" "Yes!" "Hughes is at Anne Sutherland´s place." "Richard got there 30 seconds too late." "He got cut." " Is she in the house?" " She´s a hostage." "What about the kids?" "Mum?" "She´s fine." "You can see her in a minute." "Just try and pretend it´s a game." "Just try and pretend it´s..." "Can we clear the area?" "Let´s go." "Is it the one with the punched-out window in the front door?" "Danny into the corner." "Mind the cabling." "Guv." "On yourpositions." "Andrews." "Right." "Land line´s hooked up, guv." "DI Muddyman to the incident room." "Are the children safe?" "Chris, are you listening?" "Are Alison and Gayle safe?" "How can you ask that when we´re surrounded by snipers?" "They´re here to protect Anne and the children." "And I´m here to make sure no-one gets hurt, and that includes you." "Chris?" "I just wanted to talk to Anne." "I had to come and find her, that´s all." " I just need to talk" " Chris?" "Chris are you listening?" "Chris?" "I´ve been paging you for the past hour." "I´m sorry." "I didn´t hear." "Oh, no, no." "That´s not good enough, Inspector." "Well, I´m sorry, ma´am!" "All right?" "!" "How did you change Anne Sutherland´s mind?" "She was guilty about covering for him." "I just convinced her it was serious." " I touched a nerve." " And how did you do that?" "I just showed her Vicki Warwick´s photograph and asked her how she´d feel if one of her own children had been hurt." " Where are the therapy tapes?" " I don´t know anything about them." "I spoke to Schofield." "Did you steal the case file too?" "I didn´t do that, no." "You´re finished." "I mean, do you realise what you´ve done?" " She won´t say anything." " We´ll never get a conviction!" " We´ll get a conviction." "Come on!" " Do you have any idea what you´ve done?" "I had it all sorted." "I had it sorted." "That prick should have cuffed him." "He´s got the children!" "He won´t hurt them." "I did it to protect them." "Hughes..." "For Christ´s sake, you heard what Schofield said." "He´s got a knife at her throat, he´s got the children and you´re the one that put them there!" "Oh, God." "It happened to you, too, didn´t it?" "Tony how old were you?" "I´m disgusting." "I´m disgusting" "I love you" "Just tell me what happened." "Anne, please." " Talk to me." " I want to see Alison and Gayle." " I love you." " I know what you are." "I know, so don´t lie." "That I was in a clinic yeah?" "How they helped me." "I´m not like I was before." "You know, I..." "I was only like that cos, like, what happened to me when I was a kid, yeah?" "Because of what was done to me." "All me feelings and thoughts are all twisted, you know, all sort of shaken up, yeah?" "But I understand now." "I´ve never hurt Ali and Gayle." "They´re too special to us." "And you´re the only woman that..." "that I´ve ever felt anything for." " Give us a chance!" " You´re a liar!" "Who was here, then, eh?" "Eh?" "That big bastard, was it?" "What´d you say to him?" "Mummy?" "Mum" "Please, Chris." "Please." " Hello?" "Chris?" " I want to talk to Tennison." "We might be able to arrange that, but..." "I´ll only talk to Tennison now, no-one else." " Chris..." " Get her out front." "I want to see her." "Chris, I have to speak to Anne first." "Oh, shit." "The siege at Helliers Road in Islington began soon after five o´clock." "The identity of the man holding the family hostage is still uconfirmed... but reports suggest that the intruder may be a man... who escaped from police custody earlier today..." "The man had been detained in connection with the murder of Vicki Warwick." "Are you all right?" "I think I´ll just go upstairs and lie down for a while." "Is the man in the house the same man who escaped this aflernoon?" " DCI Birnam." "They briefed you?" " Is he on the line?" "This phone." "Hello." "Chris, can you hear me?" "Did you get that bastard to work me over, eh?" "Inspector Muddyman has been removed from the case and his conduct will be the subject of an official inquiry." "Now, nobody´s out to get you, Chris." "Did you talk to Schofield?" " Yes." " What´d he tell you?" "That you are unlikely to have taken Vicki." "Then why is all this happening?" "!" "Chris." "Chris, listen." "Why won´t anyone believe me?" "!" "Chris, I´m only interested in the truth." "OK?" "You have to convince me that I can trust you" "Chris?" "Chris?" " Superintendent." " Anne?" " Anne, are you all right?" " I lied." "I´m sorry." "What do you mean?" "What did you lie about?" "In my statement today." "Chris was with me that night." "I was just afraid he´d hurt my kids." "I wanted him locked away where he couldn´t hurt anybody." " This is all my fault." " Did you hear that?" "Yes." "D´you believe it?" "Yes, I think I do." "But we can´t talk properly until you release Anne and the children." " I can´t." " Yes, you can." "And you´ll get rid of the snipers?" "Tell him yes." "Yes, they´ll be withdrawn." " I don´t believe you." " I give you my word." " I need a doctor!" " We can´t send in a doctor." "But if you come out with Anne and the children, we´ll get you to hospital imediately." "Those bastards out there´ll do anything to get me." "They won´t, I promise you." "Now, do you hear me?" "I promise." "This is Stubbs." "The hostages will be leaving the house first... and crossing the street to the intelligence cell." "If the hostage taker does anything likely to endanger them, you´re authorised to fire at your own discretion." "I repeat you are authorised to fire at your own discretion" "Susan!" "Susan?" "Shit!" "Miss Covington." " I have to speak to him." " I´m afraid you can´t go in there." " What are you doing here?" " He mustn´t hurt those children." "This way Susan Susan" "It´s all right Chris." "You can trust me, I promise." " Chris..." " You bastard!" "Gayle!" "Gayle!" "No!" "I want my Gayle!" "No!" "Chris?" "Chris can you hear me?" " I´m sorry." " Chris?" " Chris can you hear me?" " I´m sorry." "Chris?" "I gave him my word those snipers would be withdrawn." "You lied to me." "It´s standard procedure for negotiators to be..." " Anne Sutherland was almost killed." " No." "My man pulled that shot as soon as she ran into his line of fire." "Hughes was scared of catching a bullet." "First thing he sees is one of your men." "We won´t know that till afler the tactical debriefing, will we?" "Oh, Jesus." "Where are you going?" "To the intelligence cell." "He´s still got a little girl." "No." " What do you mean, no?" " No." "You´re contaminated." "Hughes won´t trust you now." "Yeah, well, whose fault is that?" "DCI Birnam will handle the negotiations from now on." "Negotiations." "Boss." "I didn´t want him to hurt anyone." "I heard the shot." " No-one was hit." " The children" "He´s got the youngest." " Why did he do it?" " What, take the hostages?" " To prove his innocence" " Is he?" "Of taking Vicki?" "Yes." "Yes, I think so." "What do you think?" "It´s my fault, isn´t it?" "If I hadn´t remembered seeing him in the park." "No." "He made choices." "He did this to himself." "But he must have been frightened." "If he panicked." "It´s so easy to make a mistake, lose control." "You must have been frightened when they fired." "No." "More that sick feeling you get when something´s gone terribly wrong." "I´m frightened for Gayle" "Is that her name?" "Have you ever hurt anyone?" "Once." "I had a gun." "I shot back." "None of us know how we will cope in a crisis." "You see, I don´t think I could have done what you did." "You had a child you´re all alone" "I wouldn´t have done it if I´d realised." "The idea, the... image that´s shoved down your throat." "It´s a lie" "You struggle to get a good job and then you struggle to keep it." "You get a house and... fill it with all the things you´re supposed to fill it with... and you struggle to keep that, and you finish it off with a child." "People were always going on and on about... how wonderful and fulfilling." "One even said... you weren´t a real woman unless you had a baby." "So I..." "You did what you thought you should." "Like most women." "That was brave of you" "She..." "She took so much." "Everything." "And she would not be satisfied, would not let me sleep." "Sometimes, like Sunday, all day." "I couldn´t..." "She just wouldn´t..." "Nothing I did..." "The screaming just went on and on and on and on and on!" "Then she was quiet." "I fell asleep." "I dreamed she..." "Then shouting." "It was me." "I..." "Why should I suffer for what she did to me?" "I´m the victim!" "Suffocated since the beginning!" "Did you know where you were going to drive?" "I´d seen the river before." "I´d dreamed about it." "I put her blanket in a skip." "I can show you where." "She was just supposed to be quiet, but she wouldn´t wake up." "I walked back." "I thought I could hear her." "But the door was locked." "I had to break it." "I looked for her everywhere." "But I couldn´t find her." "I couldn´t find her." "I couldn´t find her." "I´m sorry!" "I´m sorry." " I´m sorry." " Sh." " I´m sorry." " Sh." " Sh." " I´m sorry." "I´m sorry." "I´m sorry." "PRIME SUSPECT Episode 4" " Part 2" "Inner Circles" "Is that the one we ordered?" "Oh, good, yes, thank you very much." "Darling?" " Paul." " James." " Can I offer you a glass of this?" " Not just at the moment, thanks." "Not again!" "Mum..." " Mum, come on!" " No!" "Please!" "I need to go to the toilet." "I have to go now, Mum." "Can´t wait to get away, can you?" "I´ve got an appointment." "I´ll sort things out, I promise." "You won´t." "Oh, go, go on, go!" "I don´t want you here, anyway." "Denis will be along in a minute." "Mother..." "I am Denis." " The police are on their way." " There are two of them." "I heard voices." "Let´s go roud the back." "Come on." "Right?" "These bastards aren´t going anywhere." "Alan, you go roud the front." "Norman, you stay here." "Shit!" " Micky..." " Shut up!" "Alan!" "He´s here!" "Alan, he´s coming out." "Bastards..." "Get your...." "hands off me!" " Norman, check inside the house." " Bastards!" " I´ll kill you!" " Listen, you!" "We don´t want your type aroud here." "Understand?" "Just so you remember..." "I´d put that away if I was you." "Denis?" "Are you there, Denis?" "Oh, my God..." "Everybody knows who´s doing it." "It´s those kids from the bloody estate." " Still no word from Raymond?" " Zilch." "Typical." " What are we gona do, then?" " Not a lot we can do." "Phone it in, I suppose." "What´s the betting we get lumbered with some berk from AMIP?" "Oh, come on, Mike." "I´m a copper, not a bloody accountant." "Look, I forecast the budget." "Don´t expect me to sell the bloody thing." "Yeah, all right." "All right, 9:00am tomorrow morning." "Thank you and good night." " Hello?" " Yeah, Tennison." "Oh, yes, ma´am." "Hadley Green have called for help." " There´s been a murder." " Where?" " 17 Moss Bank Drive" " Mmm-hmm." "That´s EN4." " Right." " Tearing you away from your desk?" "Believe me, it will be a pleasure." " See you." " Good night, ma´am." "Thank you." " Where´s Forensic?" " He´s on his way, ma´am." " What, SO3?" " He was out." "He´s picking his cameras and his stuff up now." "I see." "What do you think of that scarf?" "Fashion victim?" "I´m a member of the Neighbourhood Watch." " Denis Carradine lived here alone?" " Yeah." "His mum went into a nursing home about a year ago." "Carradine was the manager at the Hutingon Coutry Club." " How did you know that?" " The neighbours." "Very helpful." "Concerned about the state of his garden." "That sort of area." " Who´s your DCI?" " Peter Raymond." " Do you know him, ma´am?" " Yes, we´re acquainted." "All right, get the male suspect´s ID circulated." "Keep this area completely sealed off till Forensic gets here." "If ever!" "Oh, Detective." "Better get the mother informed." "Send someone over." "Not a complete plank." " I´ll do it myself." " See you back at the nick." "Where is the nick?" "Sergeant?" "Why wasn´t I told she could be uderage?" "Listen, if she doesn´t want to talk, how are you or I supposed to know?" "What´s that supposed to mean?" "All I´m saying is, she may or may not be uderage, therefore we may not need a parent or..." "I want the duty social worker down here immediately, please." "You do have an incident room available?" "Good, I want it up and runing by 9:00 tomorrow morning." "Get a hold of these two officers from AMIP." "That´s tonight, Sergeant." "Denis is..." "Denis is not coming back, Olive." "I..." "I don´t uderstand." "Why should anyone want to do that to my Denis?" " They were trying to rob him, Olive." " He´s dead?" "!" "Yeah." "Yeah, I´m afraid he is." "They didn´t hurt him, did they?" "It´s good to have you with us, Richard." " How are the twins?" " Certifiable." "Nothing´s changed, then." "Good morning." "Richard, this is DS Booth, DC Bakari." " Hiya." " All right." " You know Toby from AMIP." " Yeah." "Find it all right, Rich?" "Yeah, with the aid of a Sherpa." "Right, where´s DS Cromwell?" "I thought he was supposed to be here." "She is." "Morning, ma´am." "DS Christine Cromwell." "You´re late." "Someone took my parking place." "Probably me." "Looking forward to working with you, Christine." " Optimist, are you?" " Try my best." "Right..." "Denis Arthur Carradine." "Quiet, respectable, all the middle-class values." "Approximate time of death, between 8:00 and 9:15pm." "He was strug up with a piece of electrical flex." "Now, we have two suspects, one in custody, Sheila Bower." "She´s not talking." "We are treating it as a drug-related burglary." "However, the way he was strug up and his clothes suggest some sort of sexual dimensión." " What, with that filth?" " No, that´s not what I´m suggesting." "Hang on a minute, you´re saying he did it himself." "All I´m saying is that the scarf and the clothes suggest..." " It´s a possibility." " Oh, come on." "The girl was as high as a kite." "They had the poor bastard strung up." " They could´ve done anything to him." " Right!" "Let´s not jump to conclusions till we get Pathology." "Our first priority is to pick up the youth." "Uniform is at the Larchmont Estate." "The description is vague at best, so what can you do?" "Check with neighbours." "Also, let´s build up a profile of Denis Carradine." "Check with his workmates, friends at the club." "What is it?" " The Hutington Coutry Club." " Right, the Hutington Coutry Club." " Did you get anything from the mother?" " Not a lot" "The woman who runs the nursing home said he´d been made redundant." "He was behind with his mother´s fees." "Check into that." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Let´s get going." "I... understood DCI Raymond would be runing the investigation." "Not from me, you didn´t." "Oh, lan." "Lan." "Larchmont Estate." "Tell Uniform it´s door-to-door enquiries, not mob-handed, OK?" " Soflly, Soflly?" " Not The A Team." "Sheila Carol Bower." "Born 25/10/77, Highbury, London." "Catalogue of juvenile offences" "In care since ´89." "But you listen to me , we´re not talking about petty thieving here." "Forget about coning some old fart on a magistrates bench." "This is murder!" "That means prison." "For life." "Not probation on some nice little holiday camp somewhere." "We never done him." "What?" "You were out collecting for the elderly?" "We never even touched him." "So who pulled his pants down?" "You enjoy that, Sheila?" "Yeah, of course you did." "Old man like that." "Make him squirm." "Have some fun." " Micky." " Yes?" " Ask Micky." " Who´s Micky?" "Sheila... 8:42, DCI Raymond entering interview room." "This her, is it, Jane?" " Sheila..." " We never did him, all right?" "!" "Liar." " It´s the truth." " The truth?" "You wouldn´t know the truth if you fell on it." "Bang her up." "DC Raymond, could I have a word with you for a minute?" "8:43, Superintendent Tennison and DCI Raymond leaving interview room." "Another piece of shit from the Larchmont." "They´re scum, the lot of them." "Where were you last night?" "My pager was knackered." " I just handed it in." " Well..." "Well, if it was knackered, why didn´t you call?" "Because I didn´t know it was knackered until this morning." "Jane, you came here last night and did us a favour." "Thank you very much." "But I´m back on the case so we needn´t detain you, alright.." "You´re understaffed." "You asked for assistance." "I didn´t ask for anything." "This is a straightforward case." " Oh, I´m not of that opinion." " Bullshit!" "I´m also not of the opinion that this nick can handle this investigation." "Until I am, DCI Raymond, I shall be handling things." "And in future, when I am interviewing a suspect, you do not interrupt." "Soup spoons on the right." "Right." "Outside in." "Do them again." "Can I help you?" "I take it you are members." "Police, sir." "You in charge here?" "I´ll get Mr Greenlees." "Prat..." "Morning." "Lords and masters keeping you at it, are they?" "Did you see much of Mr Carradine?" "I thought you weren´t going to..." "p- press charges." " How do you mean?" " Isn´t that what you´re here for?" "Hamish!" "You can wait in Mr Greenlees´ office." "They held him on the chair, then hauled him up and tied him off." "The face of the door is scored and you can see the upper length of this flex is damaged." "It picked up traces of the paint." "I think we´ll find they match." "So you´re ruling out autostrangulation?" "For his own sexual gratification?" "No, no semen stains." " Pathology will tell us definitely." " Can I get down now?" "I thought you liked hanging around, Rich." "Yeah, she´s got it written all over her." "No life but the job." "Sounds familiar." "Mind you, nice legs for a superintendent." "Still..." "No job for a woman, is it?" "Originality is not your strong point, is it?" "Oh, hello." "Carradine." "Carradine." " Oh..." " Here, leave it out." "He´s dead." "He´s not gona complain, is he?" "Good morning." "How can I help you, officers?" "DS Cromwell." "DC Bakari, sir." "James Greenlees, managing director." "We´re all obviously totally shocked and angered by the news." "I understand you´ve already apprehended the culprits." " Who told you that?" " It´s close-knit commuity." "Bad news travels fast." "I also have friends in the force." "I understand these two creatures were found in the house with Denis´s body and that they´d... defiled it?" "I´m afraid I can´t comment on that, sir." "We´re merely gathering background information on Mr Carradine." "Um..." "How well did you know him?" "Oh, Denis was liked by everybody." " He was a fine man." " He wasn´t married, was he?" "Did he have any women friends?" "What are you suggesting?" "We´re just trying to build up a profile sir." " Mr Carradine retired?" " Oh, quite recently." "His mother was in a nursing home." "He´d been under stress." " He hadn´t been made redundant?" " On the contrary." "He was a great loss." "A great loss." "Oh." "We understood he was having difficulties paying his mother´s nursing bills." "Did he have any financial difficulties you were aware of?" "No." "But then one wouldn´t, of course, encourage that kind of familiarity." "We´d heard there´d been some sort of problem with his work." "Something about some charges being dropped." "We had a problem with our VAT return, Constable." "Can I ask you on whose authority you are making these enquiries?" " I´m sure DCI Raymond..." "DCI Raymond isn´t in charge of the case, Sir." " Well, who is?" " Superintendent Tennison sir" "She´s been seconded in." " Right, any prints?" " There´s prints all over the shop." "We´ll run them through the computer, but it´ll take time." "Oh..." "Did you get this?" "Do it, would you?" "Anything else?" "Well, it´s probably nothing, but we didn´t get any off the flex." "Must´ve wiped them." "Hmm, money problems?" "Didn´t leave him much, did they?" "What they can´t steal, they smash." "Christ, that´s sad." " What´s that?" " His favourite band was Status Quo." " Who´s that?" " Guv." "I think I´ve got a more detailed description." "So, have you got that, lan?" "Long hair, an earring" "Scar on his arm." "It´s not a lot to go on, Guv." "Yeah, right." "Right, I´ll tell them to take it easy." "See you later." "We´re making enquiries about somebody we believe to be in this area." " I don´t live here?" " What´s going on?" "Polly?" "Dope?" "Yeah?" "He´s up above." "Get up the stairs." "I´ll stay this end, cut him off." "Hold it!" "Stop!" "Police!" "Oi!" "Get somebody down below!" "Block off all the stairwells!" "Don´t let him get down!" "Shit!" "We´re gona lose him." "There´s too many exits." "Oi, stop!" " Stay back!" " Just take it easy!" "Come here!" "Come on, don´t just stand there!" "You asked for house-to-house enquired and that´s what you got." "I didn´t want them to go in mob-handed." "The Larchmont, in case you hadn´t realised, is a hostile environment." "I´m not sending my officers in without adequate protection." "You asked for Michael Thomas and you´ve got him." "In a coma, thank you very much." "Whatever happened to community policing?" "So where does that leave us with these kids?" "One half-dead, the other scared shitless." "You´re breaking my heart!" "They didn´t need to be in there!" "All right, all right!" "What else have we got?" "We have his correspondence." "Looks like he remortgaged his mother´s house." "I thought the old lady owned it." "More to the point, where´s the money gone?" "180,000 quid." "That´s a lot of money." "Yeah, and he certainly wasn´t using it to pay off his debt." "He had final demands all over the shop." "Check his bank statements, talk to his solicitor, find out exactly when Denis took possessión of his mother´s house." "A visitor, ma´am." "Superintendent´s Office." "A Mr Greenlees." "Of course, feel free to say anything you think necessary..." "Ah, Superintendent." "Mr Greenlees." "How do you do, Mr Greenlees?" "I´m Chairman of the Police Consultative Committee." "Well, I´ll leave you to it." "Nice to see you, Bob." "Peter." "Well, what can I do for you, Mr Greenlees?" "Well, you may not be aware, Superintendent, but there´s a lot of fear in this community." "Some would say justifiably so." "People here feel police are fighting a losing battle against crime." "Public confidence is very low." "Well, we do our best." "Do you?" "This morning, Superintendent, two of your officers," "DS Cromwell and a coloured chap, came to see me in my office." "I found them rifling through a pile of the club´s private correspondence." "Really?" "Did you confront the officers?" "I didn´t." "To be honest, I couldn´t believe what was happening." "It´s not the such of behaviour you expect from police officers." "Quite." "I appreciate that." "Well, I assure you, I´ll look into the matter and speak to the officers." "I do apologise." "Fine." "We´ll say no more about it, then." "We all want you to apprehend the murderers, Superintendent, but... we are not the criminals." "I see no reason why we should be treated as such." "Quite." "I wasn´t rifling his office." " I just picked it up." " So you don´t deny it, then?" "It wasn´t his property." "It was addressed to Carradine." "Do you really think he´d have given it to us?" " You didn´t give him a chance, did you ?" " He´s the Chairman of the PCC." " That doesn´t make him God." " Or make him a criminal either." "are you listen to me, you may behave like this with DCI Raymond but you do not with me." " Do you uderstand?" " Yes, Guv." "Lucky he didn´t make a complaint." "Go on, out, the pair of you." "If you´re looking for any favours, you´re looking in the wrong place." "Understand?" "One more, you´re out." "Basically, Denis was a very kind man." "He had his problems." "But then we all do." "Problems?" "Well, he was 46 years old and still living with his mother." "I think underneath he was quite a lonely person." "We were actually at school together." "My father was his parents´ solicitor." "It seemed like a natural progressión that I should take over." " It´s very sad." " It is." "Well, thanks for your help, Mrs Henry." " I won´t keep you any longer." " My pleasure." "Let me show you out." "Polly." "What are you doing?" "Borrowing a fiver." "You were busy, Mummy." "I´m not supposed to disturb you when you´re busy, remember?" " Children." "Who´d have them?" " Not me." " Bye-bye." " Bye-bye." "Yes, well, will you make sure the magistrate understands we need Sheila Bower in our custody." "Thank you, Constable." "Christ, whose side are they on?" "Definitely not ours." "I get the distinct impressión that we´re the bad guys." "Richard." "Do you fancy a drink?" "I´ve got to re-tile the bathroom." "Guv, are you all right?" "All right?" "What do you mean?" "Of course I´m all right." " See you tomorrow." " Yeah, see you tomorrow." "Micky Thomas, ma´am." "He´s dead." " Thank you, Sergeant." " Saves us the expense of a trial." "Oh, shit!" "Yes?" " A whiskey and soda, please." " Ice?" "No." "I hear young Micky´s turned terminal." "Looks like there´ll be an inquiry." "I´ll manage." "No thanks to wallies like you." "You won´t." "A word of advice." "Don´t think you can come down here and teach us how to do our jobs." "I´m gona have to go, Pete." "Bye." " It´s not what you think." " How´s your wife, by the way?" "She´s fine." "Still getting it regularly." "Which you´re obviously not." "Large Scotch, Scotch and soda and a gin and tonic." "Yes, all right, I´m coming." "Large Scotch, Scotch and soda and a gin and tonic." "There is a queue, you know." "Dad, please." "People are complaining." "Who?" "I own 30% of this club." "I greatly resent being told how to behave by my son in my own club." " Now, I´ll have my drinks, please." " Dad!" "P" " Please!" "paul´s under enormous stress." "You know, with this inquiry business." "You should stop him drinking." " I mean, you are his wife." " What difference does that make?" "I tell you, I´ve had four months of hell since he was suspended." "Our sex life is practically nonexistent." "Some nights, he doesn´t even bother to come home." "Come on, Hamish." "Get it right." "For Pete´s sake." "No, no." "Your money is no good around here, Paul." "These are on me." "Do the honours, Hamish." "The boys in blue taking a night off, are they, Pete?" "I´m sure that would make Denis Carradine very happy." " Oh, hello..." " This is Dr Patrick Schofield." "Could you please leave a message after the tone?" "Hello, Dr Patrick Schofield." "This is..." "Superintendent Jane Tennison calling." "Um..." "I just want..." "I was going to leave a message that..." "Er..." "I´ll call you back." "Bye." "You idiot." "I hope he´s not driving tonight." " We´ll get a cab." " Very wise." " Good-Iooking man." " He´s a wanker." "Paul, will you stop using such language?" " I can´t bear it." " Oh, dear!" "You can´t bear it?" "How infra-dig of me!" "If you´ll excuse me, Maria." "Sorry." " I´m sorry." " Don´t apologise to me." "I´m not your wife." "Do yourself a favour, Paul." "Stop drinking before you really blow it." " Now, listen." " I´m sorry." "It´s just that Denis being murdered like that..." "Paul, listen." "I´ve got to talk to you." "Er..." "Lyne gone?" "She had a headache." "Everyone´s upset about what happened to poor Denis." "I know, I know, it´s beyond belief." "Peter Raymond tells me one of the thugs jumped off a balcony at the Larchmont, trying to escape." " Did they catch him?" " Well, he died, ufortuately." "I suppose that´s some sort of justice." "There are two distinct lines of bruises on the neck." "One upper, one lower." "Note the particlary hemorraging flowering up from the lower contusions to cover the neck and face." "This is absolutely consistent with death by strangulation." "The pressure of blood in the vessels above the ligature is massively increased and they burst." "However, in this case, the flex was found around the upper area of bruising." "There should be no haemorrhaging below it." "Any significance to the scarf tied around the flex?" "Stops the skin burning." "It´s not ucommon in autostrangulation." "The person wants the sexual stimulation of the hypoxic state, but he also wants to control the pain." "I thought you said this wasn´t self-inflicted." "It wasn´t." "Whoever did this was trying to make it look as though it was." "Scratches and abrasions to the rear of the neck and bruising to the shins." "Looks as if he was garrotted from behind." "So the assailant is likely to have been a man?" "That´s a very sexist assumption, Superintendent." "Well, I´m so sorry." "86.7% likely to have been a man." "Hmm." "Ah, Jane, fancy a spot of breakfast?" " Do I have a choice?" " No." " Well, I hope you´re paying, Mike." " I am." "So, to what do I owe this honour?" "Michael Thomas..." "You realise there is going to have to be an inquiry." "Good." "Superintendent Mallory and his mates deserve all they get." " You were heading the investigation, Jane." " That wasn´t down to me." " That was down to the local plod." " Not what I hear from DCI Raymond." "DCI Raymond´s an arsehole." "Been transferred out of every nick he´s been in." "Hold on." "Your opinion of him is totally irrelevant." "He is the local DCI and you´ve overstayed your welcome." "Now, you´ve nicked the culprits, so let him get on with it." "I´m very sorry to tell you this, Mike, but Micky Thomas did not kill Denis Carradine." " What do you mean?" " Look" "He wasn´t tortured." "He was not sexually abused." " Can I help you?" " I´ll have the full breakfast, please." "And for me, please." "Whoever did this strangled him, then made it look like a sex game." "Why?" "Plus he´s remortgaged his mother´s house for 180 grand and he can´t pay his bills." "Where´s that money gone?" "Doesn´t add up." "All right..." "All right, but you´ve got two days, Jane." " And I want a favour in return." " What?" "The Police Consultative Committee meet tonight." "I told Mr Greenlees you would be their guest." "Greenlees?" "Has he spoken to you?" "Someone seems to have got up his nose." "So keep him sweet, all right?" "Politics, Jane." "It´s what this job´s all about." "Use your social skills." "If you´ve got any." " I know there´s gona be an inquiry." " You´re absolutely right there will." "Thomas died whilst you were arresting him." "So get your story straight." " The van just came out of nowhere." " Write it down." "Good morning." "Oh, contrary to rumour," "I am still on the case, so let´s go on with it." "Get off the phone, Christine." "The pathologist has confirmed murder." "He sets the time of death at approximately 8pm." "now, can we place Sheila Bower at the scene of the crime at that time?" "A woman was seen at the house earlier that day." "Well-dressed, 40ish." "So, no, we can´t." "And Micky Thomas does not have a scar on his arm or an earring." "So, if our witness is to be believed, it´s not him either." "I don´t buy it." "Thomas´s prints were all over the place." " Yeah, but not on the flex." " He probably wiped it." "And left the rest?" "No, my guess is they only just got there." "The pathologist has said he was strangled first and strung up after, to make it look like some sex game." "Can you imagine a pair of kids doing that?" "Might´ve bashed his head in, but not that, that´s too calculated." "Brilliant." "So where does that leave us?" "Looking for the real killer, lan." "Not just easy targets." "Novel idea, isn´t it?" "Micky Thomas is dead, Sheila." "I´m sorry." "You bastards!" "You bloody bastards!" "You bastards!" "You bastards!" "You bastards!" " Put her in the chair." "All right." " You bastards..." "She´s now sitting in the chair." "Let her go." "Let her go." "You couldn´t get him one way so you got him another." "It was an accident, Sheila, and that´s the truth." "You would say that." "And those bastards didn´t do this to my leg, did they?" " Do you want to make a complaint?" " So you can say I fell over a wall?" "Forget it, you ain´t stitching me up." "I didn´t see nothing and I didn´t do anything!" "What you looking at?" "Squatting with Micky, were you, Sheila?" "Samuel Johston House?" "Micky claiming the housing, was he?" "Yeah, up to your neck in shit and syringes." "And hawking your dole cards come Fridays." " Know it, do you?" " I grew up there!" "So stop pissing about with all this stitch-me-up bullshit." "You were there." "Micky was there." "His prints were all over the shop." "Bollocks!" "You don´t get it, do you?" "You think these bastards are stitching you up, all the time you´re doing it for them!" "They want you to be guilty, Sheila." "They all do, everyone." "You´re just another piece of shit from the Larchmont." "And they´re gona flush you away." "Where were you 8pm Sunday night?" "Doing a house in Turner St." "Micky got in through the kitchen but an alarm went off, so we legged it." "That´s why we tried the other place." "We were speeding." "We didn´t even know he was there." "You knew what you were talking about in there." "That´s always an advantage." "Turner Close." "Uniform confirmed a break-in at 8:10 on Sunday night." "The alarm was triggered." "I knew it." "Raymond didn´t." "Look, I slept with him, ma´am, but I´m not in his pocket." "So, do you really believe all that?" "To the Country Club lot, if you´re Larchmont, you´re guilty." "Yeah, but they´re not running the case." "I am." "And do you think you´re gona get thanked for this?" "I´m telling you, these people think they own the place, and us." "I mean, Greenlees complains about the letter, but is he coming clean?" " About what?" " There was no VAT investigation." "I checked." " Oh, really?" " Guv?" "Come on in, Rich, you´re one of the girls." "Sorry, but there´s something you should take a look at." "On 23rd June, 180 grand gets paid into Carradine´s bank account." "Right, and on the very same day, he writes a cheque for the same amount to an H Torres." "Hernandez Torres  Partners are the company that bought Burdett House." "I got the details from the Land Registry." "They´re based in the Bahamas." "Their contact number in this country is Pitt, Henry, James  Partners." "Maria Henry." "Denis´s solicitor." "See what she knows." "Get this VAT business sorted out, once and for all." "Not you, Chris." "Not with your sneaky little fingers." "Don´t want another complaint, do we?" "Thank you, Jane." "So, you can tell us nothing of Hernandez Torres  Partners, then?" "Other than they use this firm as a local office, no." "It´s quite a common practice." "Why would it be common practice for Panamanian lawyers to do that?" "I´m afraid I can´t answer that, Sergeant." "I´m bound by the Client Confidentiality Act." "You´d get me struck off." "Look, can I ask what all this is about?" "Mr Carradine seems to have paid a large sum of money to this company." " We´d like to know why." " I´m sorry." " As I say, I can´t comment on that." " I don´t follow, Mrs Henry." "You represented Denis and his mother." "You also represent the Torres Partners." "Denis pays Torres £180,000." "And yet you seem to be saying you knew nothing about it." "What I´m actually saying, Sergeant, is that for me to make any comment at all would be a breach of my client´s confidentiality and therefore unlawful." "Look, off the record, if, as I think you´re suggesting, Sergeant," "Denis chose to buy into an offshore company, then he probably did so to keep his investment private." "He´s quite within his rights." "It´s perfectly legal." "I wouldn´t have to know about it." "Well, thank you for being so frank, Mrs Henry." "Could you tell us anything about the sale of Burdett House?" "Not really." "Other than some minor conveyancing, the office had nothing to do with it." "Any idea how much they paid for it?" "Somewhere in the region of £300,000." "Jane I said no calls" "Look, I´m sorry to be blunt, and believe me, I´d like to help, but what´s all this got to do with Denis´s murder?" "That´s what we need to find out." "Hamish, either the police were called in or they weren´t." "Now, which one was it?" "Look, I´ve been told n- not to say anything, all right?" "No, it´s not all right." "If no-one is gona talk to us, how the hell are we expected to find who murdered Denis Carradine?" "I thought you already had." "Are you gona tell us?" "They treated him like shit." "You know, a bit like me, really." "They used to laugh and say we´d make a good team." "He showed them, though, he had his hand in the till for m-months." "They never even knew." "He used to fiddle the accounts to h-hide it." "So, when did they discover this?" "Last week." "They got Raymond in to sort it out." "DCI Raymond?" " Yeah..." " Hamish!" "Look, I´ve g-g..." " Got to go." " Yo, yo!" "These are firing, man!" " You can do this professional." " Yeah?" "Tell my old m-man." "He thinks working here is all I´m good for." "Well, he´s wrong." "Who is your dad?" "P" " Paul." " Paul Endicott." " Hey, I know her." "That´s..." "What´s her name?" "Polly." " The daughter of that solicitor." " Hamish!" "Maria Henry, yeah." "Yeah." "Nice woman." "Close friend of my father´s." "No, I´m just her daughter." "I´m not responsible for the telephone bill." "Look, I´m gona have to go, OK?" "Yeah, I´ll tell her." " Your mum not in?" " No." "She was." " She´s gone to work." " Good." "Hair´s nice." "You gona invite me in, then?" "Why wasn´t I told that Carradine... was caught embezzling funds from the club?" " What?" " You heard me." "You went there last week." "You interviewed him." "He was subsequently sacked." "Who told you that?" "They wanted it kept discreet." " I didn´t think it was relevant." " Bollocks!" "I´m the senior officer." "I´ll decide what´s relevant." "If you´re covering up for someone," "I swear, I´ll mark your card good." " I´ve got a tener." "What is it?" " Speed or something." "Who cares?" "A tener." "We´re not gona get very much with that, are we?" "Look, I don´t like him coming here, Poll." "Don´t be stupid." "These old farts will never know the difference." "My old man would." "Any old excuse and I´ll be out on my ear." "Yeah, well, he´s all talk." "One of these days, he´ll open his lying mouth and I´m gona put my fist in it." " Hello?" " Hello?" "Er..." "Yeah?" "Hello?" " She was being cagey." " Come off it, she´s a solicitor." "She has a responsibility to protect her clients´ interests." " Fancy her, do you?" " I´d show her the error of her ways." "Richard, Burdett House." "You heard anything from the Coucil?" "Ten minutes of Mantovani, then the line went dead." " Someone must know something." " If they do, they´re not saying." "H Torres, a partnership of Panamanian lawyers." "Totally legit and totally uninterested in answering questions." " Surprise" " What about this woman at Denis´s?" " Got a description?" " Not much." "I rechecked." "She could´ve had red hair." "Maria Henry has got red hair." "Denis had been phoning her all week." " We got a printout from BT." " Now, that´s interesting." "Richard, let´s pay her a social visit." "Anyone been to Burdett House yet?" "For God´s sake." "Come on, Richard." "Come on!" "They all lock the same and smell the same." "Know what the Russians call them?" " No what?" " Stack a prole" " What´s this one called again?" " Fort Larchmont." " Also known as the Larchmont Estate." " Larchmont Estate..." "Makes it sound pretty." "Like somewhere you might actually want to live." "300 grand for this lot." "Someone´s having us on." "I think it´s time to have a talk to Mrs Henry." "I understand that for legal reasons, you feel unable to comment on this case or grant us access to any of your files." "That´s correct." "I honestly feel I´ve been as frank as I dare be." "You´re divorced, aren´t you, Mrs Henry?" "I´m sorry, but what´s my private life got to do with this investigation?" "Well, we´re trying to build a profile of Denis Carradine and his friends." "Now, when was the last time you spoke to Mr Carradine?" "Well, I don´t really know." "Over a week ago." "It was at the club." "Oh..." "We have..." "We have a record of Denis Carradine´s phone calls... that show that he called you three times on the day he was murdered." "Really?" "Do they show I actually spoke to him?" "I do have a secretary, you know." "I do have an answerphone." "Messages are all logged in the diary." "Please be my guest." "This is just a formality and I´m sorry to have to ask you this, but could you tell me where you were on the night that Denis was murdered, that is, between about 7:00 and 9:00?" "Am I a suspect in this case?" "No." "I don´t think anyone is suggesting that." "Good." "Having diner with Paul Endicott and his wife at the club." "20 or 30 people can give us an alibi, if you really think it´s necessary." "You may find it quaint, Superintendent, but I have a reputation in this town." "And it´s very important to me." "In future, before you doubt my honesty, please check your facts first" "Now, if you´ll excuse me, I am rather busy." "Are we to understand that the girl you arrested... in conection with this murder has been released?" "Yes, we couldn´t hold her any longer." "She was charged with breaking-and-entering." "We all know what that means." "I understand your disappointment but burglary is not murder." "Now, Michael Thomas is already dead." "I´m sure you wouldn´t want us to charge Sheila with something she didn´t do, upon which we could get no conviction." "It´s easy to ridicule middle-class values." "But we have rights too." "We want to protect what we worked for." "Actually, we´ve been relatively lucky so far." "If we´d have had the Ranleigh Housing Association right on our doorstep, we´d have been in trouble" " Housing association?" " There was a dreadful fuss" "There´s been an investigation into the sale of Burdett House." "The Chief Planing Officer, Paul Endicott, was suspended." " Investigation?" " A witchhut, more like!" "Ask James Greenlees." "He´ll tell you." "He´s Chairman of the Housing Committee." "He had to head the damn thing." "It was absurd, do you remember?" "Burdett House." "OK, let´s assume Denis put his 180 grand into buying it." "Thanks." "It was 300,000." "Where did the other 120 come from?" " He must´ve had a partner." " Well done, Sherlock." " Right." "Anything else?" "Anyone?" " Maybe he offered Denis some deal?" " Maria did the conveyancing." " Run a financial check on her." "I want to see those office files." "Get a court order." "See how she reacts." "Tennison." "Greenlees is chairman of the Housing Committee." "He´s Endicott´s boss." " He´s got to be involved." " Chris, you´ve no proof of that." "I want Greenlees interviewed, here at the nick, not all comfy at home." "Christ, being a Tory coucillor is not a sin." " He lied about Denis getting sacked." " That don´t mean he killed him!" "Shut up, please!" "Sorry, not you." "What did you say?" "Well, thank you." "Denis Carradine´s car was found torched outside Maria Henry´s house last night." "I want that court order." "So why should someone steal Denis Carradine´s car, park it outside your house" "...and then set light to it?" "For God´s sake, I keep telling you!" "I´ve no idea!" "It´s probably those yobs on the estate that you let go." "It was all a coincidence, was it?" "You don´t really expect us to believe that, do you, Mrs Henry?" "Quite frankly, I don´t care what you believe." "It happens to be the truth." "Mrs Henry, I´m obliged to inform you that we´ve applied for a court order to search your premises, and impound any documents relevant to this case." " Thank you." " This is outrageous!" "Some joyrider leaves a car outside my house and you raid my office?" "You leave us no alternative." "I hope it doesn´t damage your reputation." " Hello." " Hello." "What´s going on?" "Where the hell were you last night?" "With friends." "I told you I was staying over..." "You liar!" "You were at the Larchmont Estate." "If you´re using drugs, I´ll kill you!" "Polly..." "I´m sorry..." "Please, darling..." "Sit down, please." "Well..." "This is absurd!" "Good God, can´t we leave the man some dignity?" "All right, all right." "Denis was homosexual." "He was seen at certain pubs and clubs." "That´s why he needed the money, to pay for their services." "Now you know why I would have preferred to keep this private." "Really?" "And who saw him at these clubs?" "The Chief Inspector would like a word in his office." "Yeah." "When we´re finished." "So?" "Who saw him, Mr Greenlees?" "Now, Inspector." "I´ll be back in five minutes." "I expect Mr Greenlees to be here when I get back." "Eight quid?" "You gotta be joking!" "It´s all I´ve g-got." "Please, Geoff." "Oh, go on, then." "Seeing as it´s you." "Santa´s arrived." "Do the honours, then, Hamish." "Chop, chop, couple of Bacardi and Cokes." " That all right for you, Poll?" " Yeah, great." "Well, come on, then, Hamish." "Chop, chop, on the double." "Polly." "S-She´s underage." "You wana get that s-seen to, mate." "Two B-Bacardi and C-Cokes, all right?" "N" " No, I c-can´t." "Right, well, I´ll s-serve myself, then." "Fast hands, boy." " Fast hands." " Put that b-back!" "M" " Make me." "Hamish, is your father here?" "Mum, this is Geoff." "I don´t believe it." "I mean, look at you two, you could be sisters." " Can I get you a drink, Mrs Henry?" " No thank you" "Polly and I are leaving" "Surely you could stop for a drink, Mrs Henry." "I´m buying." "Now, Polly." "Please, darling, come on." "Mrs Henry, I have the police on the phone." "Your secretary gave them the number." "It´s urgent." "Right I´d better be going See you later Mrs Henry" " Polly." " Wait, I´ll come with you, Geoff." "Polly, wait, please!" "Yes, three o´clock." "I´ll be there, OK." "Polly!" "Polly!" "So we´re just coming up behind the stolen car." "And moving alongside." "This is the frame we´ve got." "That´s it after enhacement." " Do you recognise him, Mrs Henry?" " No." "I´m sure I´ve never seen him before." "No." "I´m positive." "Lyne?" " Lyne?" " Hamish cut his hand." "Well, he´s dropped blood all over the carpet." " Hamish!" " Paul!" "He´s hurt his hand." " Hamish, why aren´t you at work?" " I..." " Oh, for God´s sake." "...w- was." "You weren´t." "I was just there." "I thought you weren´t going to the club, Paul." "I had to talk to Jimmy Greenlees about that Coucil meeting tonight." "Hamish!" "Mr Endicott?" "Superintendent Tennison." "This is Detective Sergeant Cromwell." "Well, we didn´t see him socially." "We might occasionally bump into him at the club." "That was all." " So you had no business conection?" " No why?" "You were involved in the sale of Burdett House" "Did you know that Denis was involved in the development company that bought it?" "No, I didn´t." "Was the sale of Burdett House your decisión?" "Mine?" "You obviously have no idea how local government works, do you?" "Perhaps you should go on a course, Sergeant." "Do you think people have courses on things like that?" "Or would you like me to lecture on one?" "I am tremendously available." "No, a vote was taken." "A democratic vote of the whole Planing Committee." "And who decided the selling price?" "Look, you and I both know that this has got bugger all to do with Denis." "This is an abuse of my privacy and I´m not gona have it." "Mr Carradine´s solicitor puts the selling price at around £300,000." "For 200 acres of prime land." "Would you not agree that that´s well below the market price?" "There´s a Coucil meeting tonight." "Why don´t you ask them?" "Now, if you will excuse me." "Denis Carradine´s solicitor, Maria Henry." "She´s... a friend of yours, isn´t she?" "My private life is my own affair." "It´s got sod all to do with you lot." "Lyne, these ladies are leaving." "Once again, Mr Chairman, we discover a favoured developer bidding less and still being awarded the contract" "And not because of the efficacy of its proposal, oh, no." "Because it suits the political aspirations of this Coucil." "Point of order!" "Point of order!" "Mr Mason, sit down." "It is exactly this climate of witchhunt and hysteria, whipped up by the opposition and the press, that has hampered this internal inquiry." "And..." "And caused the delay in the publication of our findings." "Yet again we are faced with the evidence of the corrupt and secretive way this Coucil conducts its business." "Withdraw that remark." "Why?" "It´s the truth." "Order!" "Point of order!" "Mr Mason, if you don´t sit down, I shall have to have you removed." " You should be removed." " Point of order!" "Stewards!" "Clear the chamber." "Out, out!" "This meeting is now formally adjourned." "Out, out, out!" "Just sit her down, please." "Police officer!" "She´s got a warrant, you pillock!" "This is typical of your conduct sice you arrived in this borough." "From your failure to control your officers to harrying inocent people." "I believe your entire agenda has been politically motivated." "Got any comment to make about that, Superintendent?" "Superintendent!" "You wanted to see me?" "What is this all about?" "Democracy in action?" " It didn´t happen like that." " A politically-motivated witchhunt?" " Greenlees wants us off the case." " He´s not the only one" "Cromwell´s suspended, you´re back here, now." " Raymond´s taking over." " Look!" "No, you look!" "You´ve got no bloody case." " Burdett House is a part of..." " Don´t give me that conspiracy crap." "I don´t want to hear it." "All right." "All right." "Well, let me put it this way." "Supposing some hairy leflwing journalist got hold of the story that the Met did nothing about a major Coucil fraud... associated with a murder?" "Conspiracy is exactly what they´d call it." "I don´t know, but the press do have a funy way of finding out about these things, don´t they?" "Are you threatening me?" "I want Cromwell back on the case." "Politics, Mike." "It´s what it´s all about." " Get a result, Jane." " Of course, sir." "Where´ve you been?" "You´ve had me worried sick." " Drink too much, did he?" " Don´t be so bloody facetious." " I asked you a question." " With Geoff, all right?" "I stayed with Geoff." "You´ve got your lover and I´ve got mine." "You stupid little slut." "Yeah, well, at least mine´s not cheating on his wife." "Polly!" "Polly, please!" " What are we gona do?" " For God´s sake, stop your snivelling!" "Christine." "I want to have a few words about personal security." "Yeah, you may well laugh, lads, but it´s better safe than sorry." "Look, about this damage-limitation stuff..." "Taken to wearing nappies, Josh?" "All right, out, the lot of you." "Sparing my feelings?" "Greenlees phoned Kernan, Kernan saw the newspaper." "So I´m off the case?" "Look, Chris, Greenlees has set himself up... as the unofficial spokesman of this community, and this community, for reasons best known to itself, accepts him as such." "Now, we serve this community, so regardless of our opinion of him, he is entitled to our courtesy." "Oh, you were there." "Bloody hell!" "His sort are so good at yelling for their courtesy, there´s sod all lefl for anyone else." " He´s scared you off." " You were out of line in his office." " You were out of line last night." " You finished?" "No, I have not, so shut up and sit down!" "I put my job on the line for you this morning." "Don´t know why." "You sure as hell haven´t earned it." "So start." " I´m not suspended?" " It´s on hold." "I want Denis Carradine´s killers." "Chris, I want them all." "I know you can help us get them." "Just don´t let your pride blow it for us, all right?" "Right." "Well, where´s Raymond?" "He´s not gona be pleased." "You bastards..." "Police!" "Open the door!" "Right, in you go." "Get off!" "Geoff?" "That is why they call them the filth!" "Right little slag, ain´t you?" "Geoff..." "All right." "How much?" "Come on, you don´t think I´m gona do it for nothing, do you?" "Can´t afford it, eh?" "You got your mummy´s problem." "Two slags in one family." "I should´ve known." "I don´t understand." "Why are you doing this to me?" "Aw..." "Does little Polly want to know why?" "Denis knew about the Coucil fraud." "We knew he was desperate for money." "We´re still no closer to the actual killers." "Maria and Endicott have both got alibis." "They could´ve paid someone." "Yeah, why pay someone to kill the blackmailer?" " Just pay the blackmailer." " They couldn´t anyway, Guv." "She´s skint." "We´ve checked her accounts." "And Endicott is in the middle of this inquiry." "He´d dare not." "Which puts us back to square one." "Pull Maria in, Guv." "What we got to lose?" "A lot." "She´s been to law school." "She´ll run legal rings around us." "Got a female downstairs, name of Henry." "Doesn´t look too good." " She´s brought herself in." " Diner on a plate." "The doctor´s on his way." " Who did this to you, Polly?" " A man." "Geoffrey Brenan." "I want him arrested." " Bastard." " All right, OK..." " Does your mother know you´re here?" " What does she care?" "She wanted this to happen." " What are you talking about?" " He got thrown out of the army." "She kept telling me not to go near him, acted like she hated him." "All right, now, look." "Just calm down." "Tell me what happened." "She saw us at the club yesterday." "She freaked." "I went back with him." "Stayed the night." "When she found out, she went mad." "Completely mad." "Called me a slut in front of Paul." "Paul?" "Who´s Paul?" "Her boyfriend." "Paul Endicott." "It´s all right for her, she can do whatever she likes, but when it´s me, she starts screaming and shouting." "Right..." "So you went back to Geoff?" "I thought he wanted me." "He called me a slag." "He kept laughing and sneering." "He said he´d only done it with me to get at my mother." "I wanted to kill him." "And where did this happen?" "A flat on the Larchmont Estate." "Dragonda House." "Polly, can you describe Geoff for me?" " Got him!" "Josh, get Maria Henry in." " What on?" "Nothing." "Tell her her daughter´s been beaten up but keep them apart." "Lan, you entertain her." "Rest of you come with me." "Where?" "To arrest Geoffrey Brenan for the murder of Denis Carradine." " Who the hell´s Geoffrey Brenan?" " Bound to be a Tory coucillor!" "Hey, Derek!" " What´s going on?" " DCI Raymond nicked Sheila Bower." " It´s not a great idea." " Who sanctioned this?" "Your chief superintendent felt the squatter and drug problem was getting out-of-hand." "Oi!" " Excuse me." " It´s all a bloody game, isn´t it?" "Guv." "Mr Brenan!" "Police." "Police!" "Anyone?" "Guv." "It´ll be half an hour soon." "Where the hell is he?" "Oh, it´s all right." "Here he is." "Two in a week." "Still, think of the overtime, eh?" "Ma´am, looks like we may have a witness." "Then there was this couple in this green Jeep-type thing." "Parked up in the middle of all the aggravation." "I thought to myself, "You leave it there, you´re asking for trouble. "" " Then this bloke gets out." " This Jeep, was it a Range Rover?" "Oh, I don´t know." "And when I came back up again, he was banging on matey boy´s door." "George, would you recognise this man again?" "Well, I was keeping my head down." " He was tall..." "Yeah, maybe." " What about the other person?" "No, I only saw her for a second." " Lovely red hair though" " Long?" "No!" "Only to about here." "If I´ve been dragged down here under false pretences," "I shall be making a complaint." "That is your prerogative." "Burdett House." "We know Denis Carradine bought it from the Coucil." "It cost somewhere in the region of £300,000." "Cheap for such a large property, wouldn´t you say?" "I wouldn´t really know." "We were only involved in the conveyancing." " It was a crumbling heap." " With planing permissión for luxury homes." "Inside information that you knew." "Paul Endicott told you." "The Coucil had to sell Burdett House as quickly as possible, to stop a housing cooperative from buying it." "Not the right kind of people." "The buyers stood to make a fortue." "You and Denis." "Were you his silent partner, Maria?" "No!" "That would be both illegal and unethical!" "Yes, exactly what the Coucil´s gerrymandering policy was." "When it blew up in their faces and they withheld planing permissión, you and Denis were left holding a property worth nothing" "That is pure speculation and you know it." "Um..." "How would you define your relationship with Paul Endicott?" "He´s a friend." "Our families meet socially." "So any suggestion that you are involved in a sexual relationship... would be quite utrue?" "His wife is a friend of mine, Superintendent." "I see." "And when did you last see Mr Endicott?" " I don´t know." "A few days ago." " Didn´t you see him this morning?" "Absolutely not!" "Who told you that?" "Your daughter Polly" "You see, she seems to think the two of you having been having an affair for months." "Mrs Henry?" "Have you interviewed her?" "Polly is 15, Superintendent." "She´s a minor." "It is unlawful to interview a minor without a parent or guardian present." " You are aware of that?" " Polly came to us with a complaint." "We investigated." "She wasn´t interviewed." "I hope not." "For your sake." " And Mr Endicott?" " Is a friend." "That´s all." "I see." "We´ve compiled an ID of a man seen earlier at Denis Carradine´s house on the night of the murder." "The description matches a man called Geoffrey Brenan." "Do you know him?" "No." "This is Geoffrey Brenan." "This is the man who stole Denis´s car and set fire to it outside your house." "The man we showed you on the video." "Do you still maintain you do not recognise him?" "Yes, I´ve already told you." "Did you know your daughter was sleeping with him?" "What are you talking about?" "She´s 15!" "She says you met them together yesterday." "Yesterday?" "Yes, at the Huntington Club." "Yes, I met someone there, but he didn´t look like that." "You´re going to have to do better than that, Maria." "The only way you could have obtained this so-called information, Superintendent, is illegally." "If so, you´ll be in a great deal of trouble." "Your daughter came here with her face in a mess and accused Brenan of attacking her." "We went to arrest him and found him dead." " It´s as simple as that." " I don´t believe that." "You believe what you like." "You see, we have a description of a man and a woman, seen at the time of Brenan´s murder, that matches you and Paul Endicott." "I think that you and your lover conspired to murder Denis Carradine and employed Geoffrey Brenan to do it." "And subsequently, when he threatened you the pair of you got rid of him." "If you really believed that, you´d charge me." "Right, so she´s not going to stick her hand up." "Maybe there´s something in her office." "No way, she´s too sure of herself." "Covered her tracks." " God, what a bitch." " So what now?" "Richard, any news from Brenan´s flat?" "Looks like he was attacked with a hammer." "We should get something off it." "Forensic reckon he was given a right whacking." "Let´s get Maria printed." "Get a court order." " Where´s Endicott?" " Interview room, Guv." " He´s got a solicitor with him." " Right, let´s have a crack at him." "Good luck, Guv." "Geoffrey Brenan was found murdered at his flat... on the Larchmont Estate at 1:15 today." "God..." "Well, it wasn´t me." "Maria Henry and you are good friends, aren´t you?" "Er..." "Yes, yes, we are." "Very... good friends." " She is a family friend." " That you sleep with." "Were the two of you involved in the fraudulent purchase of Burdett House?" "No, that´s not true." "Wasn´t it you who recommended the sale to the Planing Committee?" " I told you, it was a vote." " The whole scam was your idea." "We know there is a conection between the sale of Burdett House and Geoffrey Brenan´s murder." "Well, it wasn´t me." "I didn´t... kill him." "We have a witness who saw a tall man and a red-haired woman in a green four-wheel-drive at the time of the murder." " My client is under no obligation..." " Your friend Maria has red hair." "You drive a green Monterey." " Look, I wasn´t there!" " Where were you at 12:00?" "I went out for a walk." "Where?" "Did anyone see you?" "Um..." "No." "My client is under no obligation to answer these questions." "That´s right." "That´s a very good idea." "Say nothing, Paul." "Because I think you and Maria paid Brenan to murder Denis Carradine." "And whateveryou say that´s what I´ll charge you with" "We´d better get his prints done." " Um!" " I´ll get a court order" "Um..." "Look..." "I didn´t even know this Geoffrey Brenan even existed until today." "That´s the truth." "Um..." "Maria was frightened." "She said someone was threatening her and she asked me to stay over." "Anyway ...that was when she told me." "Maria..." "That she said she´d done it." "Done what?" "That she´d hired Brenan to kill Denis." "Why?" "Because he was going to expose the Burdett House deal." "He wanted her to bail him out, but she didn´t have the money." "If she didn´t have it, where did she find the cash to hire Brenan?" " You?" " No!" "No!" "I knew nothing about it!" "Maria said she was going to pay Brenan." "She promised him £2,000, was going to give him half of it up front." "She did that, but she didn´t have the rest." "He..." "Well, he threatened her." "He wouldn´t wait." "He was furious." "Brenan, he was just completely out of control and um..." "She said that I should pay him off or..." "Or we´d have to get rid of him too." "Is that what you did?" "No..." "All right." "Paul, if it wasn´t you driving your car with Maria Henry who do you think it was?" "I don´t know." "I really don´t." "Look..." "The..." "The Coucil inquiry is going to exonerate me." "So why would I risk all that?" "I think we´d better take a statement." "You´ve got to hand it to her." "We had the kids marked down for that." " You did." " Is there enough to make it stick?" " Forensic will sort it out." " If he ever gets his act together." "Greenlees is gona exonerate him?" "Guv, he´s got to be involved." "Chris, I know he´s an arrogant shit." "That doesn´t make him an accessory." "Forget him." "We haven´t got enough to prosecute these two yet." " About time!" " Right." " The good news or the bad news?" " The good news." "That hammer we found, the pathologist thinks it´s a reasonable bet." "The blood grouping looks good and it´s covered in prints." "Yes!" "The bad news is none of them match Paul Endicott´s." " Well..." "What about Maria Henry?" " Sorry." "So far, there´s no forensic evidence to put either of them near that flat." "Not finished yet." "This is Detective Sergeant Cromwell." "A continuation of the interview with Maria Henry." "The time is 18:32." "Entering the room, Superintendent Tennison." "Well, it´s not gona work, Maria." "Paul Endicott has made a statement." "He says the murders are all down to you." " Rubbish." " He´s signed it." ""Brenan strung Denis up and then pulled down his trousers and his underpants to make it look like some kind a sex game. "" "He was your oldest friend." "Was that your idea?" "You even went to see him earlier that day." "We´ve got an ID, Maria." "Why did you do that?" "The right to remain silent seems to be a concept you don´t fully understand." "Why remain silent if you have nothing to hide?" "Why lie?" "All right." "I admit I visited Denis." "Look, let´s try and clear this up once and for all." "Denis had been caught embezzling money from the Huntington Club." "Well." "That´s why all the phone calls." "I didn´t tell you because..." "Well, quite frankly, I was embarrassed." "I mean, I´ve got friends at the club and I didn´t want the police crawling all over my private affairs." "I offered to lend him some money." "Oh, and did Denis accept your kind offer of help?" "Of course he didn´t, because you didn´t make one, did you?" "You can´t, Maria." "You´re broke." "We know, we´ve checked." "Your money is tied up in the Burdett House scam." "You couldn´t even afford to pay Brenan." "That´s completely untrue." "I know nothing about that." "It´s all down here in black and white." "Paul Endicott is a drunk and a liar." "He´s also totally corrupt and I can prove it." "He was the one that approached Denis about Burdett House." "I had nothing to do with it!" "In Fact, if you check my files, I actually advised Denis against the purchase." "Endicott´s been taking kickbacks for years." "I absolutely deny everything he says and you can´t prove otherwise." "Now, I´d like to see my daughter, please." "It´s all circumstantial." "And Polly?" "We have to let her see her." " Not yet." "Not yet." " Oh, Superintendent." "Paul Endicott´s wife phoned me." "She was very upset." " She told me he´d been arrested." " Yes, yes, that´s correct." "There was a murder on the Larchmont..." "So I understand." "You´ve got the wrong man, Superintendent." "I can assure you, Paul wouldn´t be seen dead on the Larchmont Estate." "Thank you, we´ll bear that in mind." "I take it this is just an informal interview, then, and you´ll be releasing him shortly?" "Mr Greenlees, someone is dead." "He may not have been part of your iner circle of friends, but he still had rights and someone caved his head in." "I´m in charge of this case and I will decide who gets released and when!" "All right?" "I knew you´d blow it." "Yeah..." "He hums it, you sing it." " Dick." " Guv!" "Hamish Endicott." "I found him down by the canal behind the estate." "When I walked up to him, he turns around and says," ""I´ve killed someone." "You better lock me up. "" "Why did you want to kill him, Hamish?" "He´s a b-b-b-b..." "He´s a bastard!" "He d-didn´t deserve to live after what he d-did." " What did he do?" " You know, to P-P Polly." " What did he do to Polly?" " He ...r- raped her." "And I´d do it again." "Who told you that, Hamish?" "Who told you that Brenan raped Polly?" "Was it Maria?" "No." " She told me." " Cos that wasn´t true." "S" " Sh..." " She told me." " Hamish, she was lying." "N- n..." "N..." "I´m n-not saying any m-more." "Hamish, who was it in that car with you?" "The red-haired woman." "Who was that?" "Was that Polly?" " No!" " Was it Maria?" "I told you, it was m-me!" "I did it!" "On my own!" "Me!" " All right..." " It was me!" " Yeah, all right." "All right!" " It was me!" " I did it." " Superintendent Tennison, 7:22." "I´m suspending this interview." "Hamish, look, I´m turning the tape off." "Get him a tea." "Hot tea with lots of sugar." "Hamish." "Come and sit down." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on, it´s all right." "Come on." "Look." "Denis was a friend of yours, wasn´t he?" "Yeah." " He was all right." " Hmm." "He was a friend of Maria´s too." "Until she had him killed." "No." "She couldn´t." "Listen, you know that Maria and your father were lovers, don´t you?" "Well, she and your father were involved in a fraud." "And Denis was the front man." "We´ve got your father here." "Hamish, he´s... helping us with our enquiries." "I don´t b- believe you." "It´s the truth." "Maria had Denis killed to stop him from talking." "Here." "You see, she paid Brenan to kill him." "And then she got you get rid of him." "Oh, she used you, my love." "She used you, just like she used Denis, like she used your father." "For Christ´s sake, why are you trying to protect her?" "But she..." "All right!" "All right, play the martyr." "Let me tell you, if you don´t start talking soon," "Polly is gona go down as an accessory to murder." "And do you know what that means, Hamish?" "That means, Polly is gona go to prison." " Prison." " It wasn´t her, all right?" "Well, who was it?" "I want to see my daughter." "I keep telling you, that is not possible." "Where were you this afternoon?" "Superintendent Tennison entering the room at 7:42pm." "At 1:00 today, you were with Hamish Endicott on the Larchmont Estate." "I was not!" "You lied about your daughter being raped... and then you sent that boy out to do your dirty work for you." "He bungled it, Maria." "He dropped the hammer." "Then he got himself arrested." "He´s here." "He´s told us everything." "Are you saying Hamish murdered Geoffrey Brenan?" "Well, as if you didn´t know!" "Because you were with him." "You were seen." "We have a witness who saw a red-haired woman with him." "Did he say it was me?" "Did Hamish say it was me?" " Exactly." " Who else could it have been?" "I haven´t the faintest idea." "It could just as easily have been my daughter." "Oh, God, you´d do anything, wouldn´t you?" "I haven´t done anything, Sergeant." "You´ve manufactureda lot of hearsay evidence that you know won´t hold up in court and you´re panicking." "Polly!" "Can you come with us, please?" "You too." "Come on." "Geoffrey Brenan is dead Polly" "What?" "No." "No, he can´t be!" "He was murdered." "Hamish Endicott killed him." "We know that." "We also know that there was a red-haired female with him." "It wasn´t me!" "I didn´t do it!" "I didn´t!" "Darling, they´re just trying to frighten you." "Now, say nothing." "We want you to answer some questions." " Mummy!" "Help me!" " It´s all right!" "Mummy won´t let them hurt you, darling." "She´s underage." "You can´t touch her and you know it." "But I didn´t do it!" "I didn´t do it!" "Polly!" "Where were you at 1:00 today, Polly?" " I don´t know." " For God´s sake, stop this!" " Why aren´t you stopping this?" " Where were you?" "Why are you doing this to me?" "You´re under 16, Polly." "They can´t touch you." "Say nothing." "Did you tell Hamish that you´d been raped?" "What?" "Well, who told Hamish that Geoff had raped you?" "Who knew how much he loved you?" "Who went cut there with him in his father´s car, this red-haired woman?" "Who gave him a hammer and who told him to bash Geoff´s head in?" " It wasn´t me!" " For God´s sake, she´s just a child." "Mummy, I didn´t do it!" "What sort of a person would lie like that and let Hamish take the blame?" "Stop this." "Leave her alone!" "You know Hamish is going to go to prison, don´t you?" "You´re going with him." "Do you know why?" "Because the woman who was with him is going to let you." "That´s a lie!" "I never said it was her and you know it" "Oh, no..." "No, they´re lying." "Darling, I love you." "I wouldn´t let anything happen to you." "Someone must have made Hamish kill Geoff, Polly." "Oh, Polly, please!" " You slept with him." " I didn´t" " Polly, I love you." " Liar!" "Geoff told me, Mum." "All right, so if it wasn´t you, who was that red-haired woman?" "Oh, all right!" "All right..." "I´ll tell you." "Just stop this." "Please" "You did it." "She´s admitted everything." "Well done." "She used her daughter and we did the same." "What´s the difference?" "Another retirement due to ill health?" "Give Greenlees a month and it´ll be as if none of this ever happened." "Well, it´s not our job, is it?" " Should be." "He´s as guilty as..." " Politics is what it´s all about." "Politics!" " Give me a cigarette, would you?" " I didn´t know you smoked." "I don´t." "PRIME SUSPECT Episode 4" " Part 3" "The Scent Of Darkness" "George." "An officier at your station is time and again being overlooked." " Are you referring to WPC Parman?" " Yes." "She came through CID training with exceptional reports, so why has she been in uniform for the past 14 months?" " She can´t work in a team." " Who says?" "A consensus of opinion." "Sorry, if you´re trying to find a sexual bias, you´ll have to do better." "I have several reports of incidents in wich Sally Parnam..." " She can´t take a joke." " She won´t put up with bad attitudes." "And if you can´t take a joke, you shouldn´t work in teams." " Could you stick this in a box for me?" " Sure." " See you tomorrow." " Bye, George." "Gemma?" "Hello." "It´s Christine´s mum." "Is Christine there?" "Oh." "When did she leave?" "Er... did she say she was coming straight home?" "Is there anywhere else she might have gone to?" "Oh, yes, yes." "I´ll try Rosie." "If she does come back to you, could you telephone me as soon as possible?" "All right." "Thank you." "Bye." "Well, she left two hours ago." " He´s late." " He´s not coming." " He´d better." " He´s got to come, ain´t he?" "He won´t come." "He´s scared." "He´ll turn up." "He knows what´ll happen if he don´t, don´t he?" "Yeah, and he knows what´ll happen if he does." "She was supposed to come home three hours ago, from Gemma´s." "She didn´t mention anything?" "Yes, I´ve tried Chloe." "No, she´s not at the school." "I´ll try someone else." "Thank you." "Yes." "Thank you." "That´s everyone." "Oh, I´m sorry." "I´m sorry." "I´m sorry." "So, how was it?" "Was it good?" "Ah, yeah, yeah, it was..." "Oh, it was great." "It was the best show you´ll ever miss in your life." "Right." "Well, don´t worry, I´ll pay for the tickets." "No, that´s OK." "No, I insist." "Really." "No." "I just got here myself actually." "I missed it." "You´re joking." "What, did you get held up at work?" "Yeah, meeting." " 34 quid?" " Honest, that´s all I could get." " 60 quid, Webster." " I know." "I´ll get the rest later." "Honest." " Shopping?" "Cinema?" " No." "There´s no question of that." "There´s no problem with her being allowed to do things." "Could she have forgotten to tell you she was going somewhere?" "No, not on a school night." "Homework to do." "Right." "Yeah, justice." "Of course I believe in justice, but retribution as well." "It´s very important." "I had this case a couple of years ago." "There was this killer walked free, suspended sentence." "I mean, the guy definitely did it." "Jesus, I get angry about it still." "How do you think the families of the victim feel?" "They need retribution." "It helps them sleep at night." "After all, you´ve got to be able to believe in the system." "Yeah, Jane Tennison." "Where?" " Look at this, sarge." " Bill." " She´s down here." " Are you AMIP?" "No, and I do have a name." " Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison." " DCI Tom Mitchell." "All right, what have we got here, then, Tom?" "Well, she´s been dead no more than a few hours." "Violently assaulted, hands bound, brought to the site in a Camden Borough refuse sack." " Probably tossed from the embankment here." " What, not thrown from a train?" "No." "I´d say that was impossible, the way the bag landed." " Do you think the kids moved her?" " Not that we´re aware of." " Any idea who she is?" " Not yet." "There are a few boot and shoe prints, so we should be able to lift something." "OK." " Well, when are we going to see the body?" " Any time after nine." " Bill..." " What is it?" "The scent of perfume in her hair." "Patrick." "Oh, shit." " Hello?" " Richard?" "Richard, can you meet me at Dartmouth Park Morgue at nine o´clock this morning?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "I reckon she was dumped on the embankment around three o´clock in the morning." " Friday morning?" " Friday, yes." "She´d been there 18-19 hours." "Was she dead before she was put in the bag?" "Probably died around midnight." "One can´t be sure." " How old do you think she is?" " 50. 55." "These wounds to the torso were caused by a long, thin-bladed instrument, the order of an eighth of an inch wide, six inches long." "Clean entry wounds." "These marks here to both wrists would indicate she´d been tied up for some period of time." "Now, these weals to the upper arms..." "Arm clamps." "Well, yes, that´s possible." " Very good." " Strung up and clamped?" "Strung up." "I wouldn´t like to say." " Any evidence of her killer?" " No semen." "No trace of anything that might prove useful." "Might be something on the bag." "The hands are spotless." "Nothing under the fingernails." "Have they been scrubbed?" "Scrubbed is possible." "Yes." "It´s only the clamping of the arms." "Yeah." "I want the photos as soon as possible." "Don´t tell anyone about this." "No." "But, I mean, it is only the clamping that makes us think it´s a connection." "Maybe a little hobgoblin lets him out at night." "You did put away the right man." "There´s no question of that." "Marlow, Marlow, Marlow..." "Where is it?" "Ah-ha." " Mike, I want to stay on this case." " Really?" " I thought you liked doing budgets." " Oh, very funny." "Look, I want Haskons on it with me." " OK." "You´ll have Mitchell shadowing you." " Why?" "We´ve got him in mind to join AMIP as a DCI." "You´re all right, he´s a nice lad." " Fancy him, do you?" " Get out." "I´ll see if I can arrange a date." "Good morning." "Detective Superintendent Tennison." "I´m sure you all know that I´ll be working with you from now on." " Tom, have we got an identification yet?" " Marjorie Miller." " Is she local?" " Yeah." "Kentish Town." "Osborne Road." " Well, what do we know about her?" " Excuse me." "She was a widow, lived on her own, worked for Scott´s Mill Clothing Company, assistant managing a shop in the West End, she used to go out to the club on Tuesday evenings." "Club?" "What club?" " Our club." "Our area social." " Why?" "Her husband was duty officer here until he died six years ago." " What, at this station?" " Yeah." "She left the club about 10:30pm, went outside to catch a bus home..." "Colin, take that for us, will you?" "Cheers." "Same routine every week." "We know she didn´t make it that night." "And she left the club on her own?" "Yeah." "We´re trying to find out if anyone saw her after she left." "Any relationships?" "Any lovers?" "No." "Definitely not the type." "She was very devoted to her husband." "Some of the older guys here knew her." "She never looked at another man." "Anything else you want to know?" "No, thank you, but I want everyone in that club questioned." " It doesn´t matter who they are." " It´s being done." "She´s here at Marjorie Miller´s house." "The photos arrived." "Yeah, looking at them now." "Oh, shit!" "It´s got to be a copycat killing." "Someone wrote a book claiming Marlow was innocent." "I´m sure photos of his victims were in it." "What was it called?" "Yeah, I know the one you mean." " Why?" "Have you got it?" " Yeah." "It´s complete rubbish." "I worked on the case, so I..." "Can you let me have it?" "Sure." "This is the same knot that Marlow used to tie up Karen Howard and Della Mornay." "If anybody has... any idea where Christine might be, please... please contact the police." "Any information at all, however insignificant you might think it is, please call." "It´s OK, she´s here." " Anyone holding our daughter..." " She´ll be all right with George." " Hey, leave off." "He´s an innocent man." " He´s still a nonce." "The governor will tell you." "Hey." "Come on, George." "Why ask the governor?" "You had your hand down his trousers?" "Come on, now, lads, lay off him." "Where´s my trainers?" "Where´s my bloody trainers?" "You know, everything I saw in the mortuary this morning is detailed in this bloody book." "Everything." "What do you make of that?" "Well, it´s interesting." "I mean, what kind of a person would be doing that?" "What, you mean copy a killing in every detail?" " Yeah." " And out of a book?" "Yes." "No-one." "I mean, you might be influenced by what you read in a book, or you might get some ideas for what to do with your victim from a book, but you wouldn´t follow it line by line like you were using a recipe." "What do you think´s going on, then?" " I don´t know." "I´ve no idea." " Oh, come on, give me a theory." " Patrick!" " What?" "!" "I thought you were supposed to know about all this." "I need more information than you´re giving me." "All right, all right, look..." "Excuse me." "I was watching that." " Well, can´t we talk about this?" " No, we can´t talk about it." "I just want to sit here and relax." "I don´t want to talk about work." "You should try listening to what I have to listen to all day." "Seriously." "All right." "Sorry." "They don´t use guns." "They insert bullets manually." "Oi!" "Boom!" "I mean, it can´t just be a coincidence." "Please, let me just get this thought out, all right?" "Supposing that whoever´s doing this wants to prove this guy, Whitehouse´s, case." "He wants us to believe that Marlow is innocent." "Isn´t that more likely than just a coincidence?" " It´s possible." " Well, how possible?" "Personally, I wouldn´t spend a lot of time on it." " What am I left with, then?" " A problem." " Which photo?" " Della Mornay, hands tied behind her back." " She looks a bit rough." " What do you mean, she looks rough?" " She´s dead." " Right." " What have we got?" " The pathologist´s report." "Good." "Anything on the footprints?" "They´ve lifted 11 separate shoe and boot prints." "So far, we´ve eliminated five." "The place is mostly used by kids drinking and doing drugs, so we´re doing all the local schools, youth clubs, community centres and hostels." "Incidentally, none of those places have use of an Escort van." " Right." " Escort van?" "Yeah, a man was seen getting into an Escort van at 2:00am on Friday and then driving off." "It was parked at the dead-end road leading to the embankment." " And when did this come in?" " Yesterday." "Why wasn´t I informed?" "Must have been an oversight." "So, who´s the witness?" "20-year-old male." "Spent the evening drinking with his friends." "Says he wasn´t drunk, and there´s no reason to believe he´d be mistaken." " And what´s his description of the man?" " Medium height, 5´8"-5´11"." "Of stocky build and Mediterranean appearance." "He was wearing white trainers, dark trousers or jeans and a dark top." "Now, one of the footprints on the embankment is a Reebok, Size 8." " Jogging shoe." " He could be Greek." "Why do you say that?" " Mediterranean, ma´am." " He might have keys to a lockup?" "Don´t know about that, ma´am." "No, like hell you don´t." "Don´t call me ma´am." "All right, who else has read the book in DC Dyson´s hand?" "We found it on the table." "Ma´am." "Yeah, well, all of you who found it on the table... will be struck by the similarity between our murder and the murders committed by George Marlow in a lockup owned by the proprietor of a Greek café." "I can´t stop you reading that book, but I will tell you it´s trash." "I put Marlow away, so I should know." "There is no place on this team for anyone who clouds this investigation by questioning Marlow´s guilt." "Is that clear?" "Oh, and I don´t want any details of this killer´s methods known outside this room." "I can assure you... that my officers are a sight more professional than to allow a book to influence them." "Hmm." "Let´s not go in today." "Let´s stay in bed." "Let´s go for a walk on Parliament Hill." "I wish." "No, love." "No, I mean it." "I mean it." "OK." "God." "You know I can´t." "This is the first time in my life I´ve had the feeling that I don´t want to get up and go to work." "I don´t want to screw up another relationship." "This is the first time in my life I´ve ever felt like this." "Tell me it´s not going to happen." "It´s not going to happen." "Bill." "Mutilated, bagged up and dumped." "You´ve got another one." " Who found her?" " Jogger." "Or his dog." "How long do you think she´s been here for?" " No more than four or five hours." " Bill" "It´s the same perfume as the other one, only stronger." " What is it?" " I´m not surre." "It´s quite sweet and heady." "It´s definitely in her hair." "Christine Bramwell." "Age 16." "Same mutilation, same marks on the wrists, same weals on the upper arms, same method of disposal." "Now, Christine disappeared about 18 hours after Marjorie was found on the embankment." "The time of death indicates... that she was held for two days and then killed on the third." "That means that we´re looking for a killer... who can keep his victims out of sight and hearing." "Unfortunately, there were no footprints found on the site, and we won´t get anything off the body because her hands have been scrubbed." " He´s very thorough." " Or experienced." "There was a scent of perfume about Christine and a similar scent was found on Marjorie." "No scent of any kind was ever found on Marlow´s victims." "Forensic have not yet identified the brand." "Now, Christine went missing about five o´clock." "How?" "I mean, she was a bright girl." "She knew not to get into a stranger´s car." "We know the route she took home, so I want everyone on it questioned, and that means everyone, incluiding the neighbour´s cat." "Someone must have seen something." "Have we got anything on the van?" "All hire vehicles and London owners have been checked, and negative." " What about the club?" " Every officer and guest was interviewed." " Marjorie definitely left alone." " No-one saw her after she left?" " No" " What about the Mediterranean connection?" "Do you have a suggestion?" "Well, in the book on Marlow..." " Oh, I hope this is relevant." " I think so, ma´am." "In the book, Whitehouse says that the nephew of the owner of the lockup, a Greek guy, Andreas, had a conviction for an attack on a woman in Manchester in 1988." "The first four Marlow murders occurred in the north between ´84 and ´87." "We know all this." "Andreas was in prison in ´88 when the murders stopped, then moved down to London to work in his uncle´s café in ´89." "The fifth and sixth Marlow murders occurred in his uncle´s lockup in 1991." "And Andreas left the country a month after Marlow was arrested." "He returned here two and a half months ago." " How do you know this?" " We´ve checked it out." "Do you want me to check out his shoe size?" "No, I don´t." "I want to find out who murdered these two women." "Try this." "Yeah." "Well, it´s something like that." "Right..." "Now try this one." "Yeah, that´s it." "Yes, definitely." "That´s what I smelt too." "It´s gardenia." "Now, the first one I gave you was a mix, gardenia just being one of its perfumes, but this is a single-note gardenia." "And this is what you smelt on Marjorie´s body?" "Pretty certain." "Good." " No." " Are you sure?" "Yes." "Dr Bramwell?" "She never wore perfume." "Can you tell me if you´ve smelt this before?" "No." " Please, would you just smell it and?" " She didn´t wear perfume." " She´s just schoolgirl." " Just tell me if you recognise it." "No." "Thank you." "Marjorie only ever wore one kind of perfume, a Beauty Without Cruelty scent, Aurelia, with no trace of gardenia in it." "Good." "Well, at least we´ve got something." "Can I have a word?" "I´m not happy with the way this investigation is going." "Nor is my team." "I hope you´re going to put them straight." "When they´re barred from following... an important line of investigation, attitude, teamwork suffer." " All right, what are you trying to say?" " Why haven´t we checked Andreas out?" " You checked him out already." " We haven´t had him in for questioning." "You´ve wasted critical hours on a murder that I´ve already solved." "How much more time do you intend to waste?" "Now, you sort your lads out and get on with the job in hand, which is finding a copycat killer." "Don´t say anything." " I was told you wanted me." " Get in the car." "Where to?" "The lockup." "The café." "Andreas." "If it´s going to be checked out, I´m going to do it." "Did you take a look at the Whitehouse book?" "I had to see what everyone´s talking about." "Do you want it back?" "Is there a waiting list?" "No." "I just wondered if you had any idea why Marlow´s girlfriend changed her story." "She was dying." "Why would that make her say you forced a statement out of her?" "Look, Marlow´s all she´s got left." "She wanted to make things right for him." "This is it." "Yeah." "It was like walking into hell when we first found this place." "Let´s go." " Aren´t we going to the café?" " No." "I thought that´s why we were here." "I bollocked Mitchell for wasting his time on this." "I´m not going to make the same mistake." "Well, I might as well go in and have a cup of coffee." " Do what you like." " As I´m here." "Yeah." "Yes, sir, how can I help you?" "I´d like to speak to Mr Andreas Hulenkinis." "Oh, for Jesus Christ´s sake!" "Take him into the back." " What do you want?" " Same questions, different face." "When were you last questioned?" "Yesterday!" "Only yesterday!" "I have customers here!" "Don´t you know what your friends are doing?" "Mr Hulenkinis, I worked on the Marlow case four years ago." "Why are you talking to me?" "It´s my uncle´s lockup." "It´s nothing to do with me." "You were working here at the time." "So?" "Why did you go back to Cyprus in ´91?" "Well, it is my home." " Why did you come back here?" " For money." " Where are you living?" " In my uncle´s house." "Can you remember where you were at 2:00am last Friday morning?" "Well, asleep." "Where else?" " Where?" " In bed." " At home?" " No, man, in the garden." "And... 2:00am Monday morning?" "Look, I come here at 6:30 every morning." "I leave at 7:30 in the evening." "When I go home, I sleep." "Of course." "I don´t have a white van." "I don´t drive." "I don´t even have a licence." "Reeboks?" " Yeah." " What size shoe do you take?" " Nine." " Are those nines?" " Hello." " Hi" "Help yourself to a drink." "I´ll be out in a minute." "Do you want one?" "Yes Yes please" "Hi." " When do you want to eat?" " Sometime soon." "Er... do you want to pick something out?" "I haven´t had time." " I got really tied up with work." " Reading Whitehouse´s book?" "No." "I just dug that out this afternoon." "Well, when did you buy it?" "I don´t know." "Soon after it came out, I think." "Before we met?" " Yes." " Why didn´t you tell me that you´d read it?" " Why would I tell you?" "It was ages ago." " We were talking about it." "I got it out because we were talking about it." " I didn´t even know you when I bought it." " But you´re reading it now?" "Are you researching me?" "Researching you?" "What are you talking about?" "Before we met, you read a book, and in it, I´m caricatured as a cold person obsessed by her career and turned on by murder." "That description would turn any man off, except a therapist." "Is that why you´re interested in me?" "No." "I´m interested in you because you´re paranoid." "Now, get some food ordered, please." "I´d like to watch a movie." "You know, I have no doubt that we put away the right man." "I´m sure you did." " Morning." "Is the chief in?" " Yes." " He called in to say he wants to see you." " Good." "Morning." "What´s going on?" "Last night..." "I had see a member of your team in here... complaining that you are not conducting this investigation..." "I hope you showed Mitchell the door." "No, I didn´t." "Look, I´m investigating two murders, and he insists on investigating eight." "How can you expect us to work together under that premise?" "I agree." "It´s a very unsatisfactory situation, Jane, and one which results in this sort of thing, which we can all do without." "God, one of those bastards is leaking information!" "I specifically asked for no details to be published." "I´m taking you off the case." " What?" " I´m getting a lot of pressure." " Who from?" " It´s coming from the top." "You´re doffing your cap to the most outrageous?" "I don´t have the argument to keep you on it." "You´re vulnerable to accusations of not having an open mind." " I can´t ignore that." " You know Marlow is guilty." "They are not my rules, Jane." "Ah..." "Who´s taking my place?" " Mitchell." "He´ll be acting superintendent." " Mitchell is absolutely the wrong person." "You must know that." "He´s leading those lads down a false trail." "If you don´t bring me back on the case, there´ll be no-one left to bring them back on line." " I went back to the lockup yesterday." " Yes." "Haskons told me." "Haskons?" "Are you trying to humiliate me?" " Come on, Jane!" " You should be defending me." "I want you to look at these child protection budgets and give me a report on them by Friday." "I´ll sharpen my pencils." "Right, Jason, bring Andreas Hulenkinis in and put him straight in the interview room." " Colin, shoe prints." " We´ve eliminated all but two:" "A Size 8 Reebok trainer and a Size 10 man´s shoe with a flat heel." " Are we sure it´s an 8?" " No doubt about it." "Hulenkinis is a 9." "Check it out." "And check out the uncle too." "In fact, bring him in as well." " The van." "Andy?" " No joy at all." "Nobody in the vicinity owns or has hired a white van, or has noticed one in the area." "Maybe it was stolen." "There´s no other explanation why it was there." "None at all." "Any connection between Hulenkinis and the van?" " Not yet." " Right." " Catherine, perfume?" " Yeah." "Pearson´s sell 5,000 bottles of this gardenia stuff every year, but fortunately, none of the main retailers stock it, although they do have 415 outlets for their products throughout the country." "Now, 243 of them currently stock gardenia." " Right." " This is the printout." "It´s mostly small chemists, beads and bangles sort of shops." "We contacted all of them." "They´re going to keep a record of purchases." " I think we could be lucky." " Good." "Well done." "Richard..." "Christine´s abduction." "She set off from her friend Gemma´s house at five." "´Scuse me." "Walking along Greystone Road, here." "She would then have turned left down Church Street, right down Vincent Road, taking her to her home in Poplar Avenue here." "We´ve two possible sightings of her on Greystone Road, but nothing after that, so we´ve been trying to identify vehicles seen in the vicinity... around the time she set off home." "At 5:00pm, a 60-year-old woman was pulling out of a parking space, causing, what she says was a uniformed policeman in an unmarked car, to suddenly stop." "She thinks there was someone in the back seat, but she can´t give any description." "We haven´t been able to identify either the car - a silver saloon or hatchback - or the officer involved." "But it would explain why Christine might get into a car with a stranger, if that stranger was using his uniform to entice her in on some pretence." "Or we could be talking about a man impersonating a police officier." "Well, yeah." "It´s unlikely that Marjorie would get into a car if she didn´t know the driver." "Yeah, well this is a lead we´ll have to follow to its conclusión, so I want to extend the investigation to all officers entitled to use the club." "That´s the whole of the Metropolitan Police." "You want the owners of silver saloons and hatchbacks." "That will narrow the field." "Do we get a warrant to search Hulenkinis´s house?" "Yeah." "Andy, Jason, we´ll get that now." "With a serial killer undetected, a police officer removed from the investigation, and the allegation of a cockup on a major case," "you won´t be surprised to hear that the commissioner has had the Home Secretary on the phone, wanting to know what the hell is going on." " I was..." " In order to prepare... in the event of an appeal," "I´m asking you, David, to look at the allegations into the Marlow conviction on an informal basis" " and to report to me as soon as possible." " Yes, of course, sir." "You´ll have access to everything you require." "And, confidentiality will be assured." "I want a full and frank report." " Yes sir" " With respect, sir, this will be a complete waste of time." "I was Tennison´s super on that case, and I will tell you that we put away the right man." "I´m looking for an independent view, Mike." "If it´s the Home Secretary you want off your back, then David should be finding out who is leaking information to Whitehouse." "That´s the problem." "That´s been taken up by the super at Camden." "Is Superintendent Tennison to be informed of what I´ll be doing?" "No." "At this stage, I want everything off the record." "And if I was to find evidence that points to a miscarriage of justice?" "The commissioner will inform the Home Office." "Yeah, of course." "And if there´s been no miscarriage of justice, but there there has been unprofessional behaviour in Tennison?" "Then I will certainly want to know about it." " Cheers." " Cheers." "I´m afraid that I´ve got a confessión to make." "Well, if it´s bad news, I don´t want to hear it." "OK." "Well, what is it?" "Well." "When you went to sleep on the sofa last night..." " Oh, I´m sorry about that." " Oh, no." "I... picked up your papers on Marlow." " My file?" " I know, I know." "I apologise." "Just bear with me for a minute." "I think I may have found something very interesting." "Now..." "Now, in the pathologist´s report on Marlow´s last victim, Karen..." "Karen Howard." "Perfume was noted to be about her body." "I made a copy of the page." "Unfortunately, it doesn´t mention what kind of perfume." " How´s that supposed to help me?" " I know, I know." "Now, this is a copy of the inventory of everything that was found in the lockup." "There." ""One bottle, empty, Pearson´s Scents of Old England gardenia."" "Oh, my God..." "Why wasn´t I aware of that?" "For the simple reason that it was found in Della Mornay´s handbag, and you´d have presumed it was her perfume." "I then checked on the reports... on the four women who´d been killed up north." "I quote..." ""A sweet and heady perfume was described as being on Ellen Harding´s body. "" "Now, she was a prostitute, so that´s not altogether surprising, but once you start piecing it all together..." "I´m sure there was no mention of a perfume in Whitehouse´s book." "No, there wasn´t." "I checked." " So these can´t be copycat killings." " I always thought that was unlikely." "Whoever´s doing it must have inside information." "And who has access to that information other than you?" "Well, anyone who´s got access to the file, which means any officer." "Of course, they could be getting the information from Marlow himself... or from Whitehouse." " That´s very unlikely." " Why?" "Do you know him personally?" "No." "Well, obviously, I know who he is." "Is Marlow getting someone to kill on his behalf?" "Even if he is, you still haven´t proved the perfume connection as yet." "The more obvious conclusión is, wich is why I said it might be bad news, is that um you did get it wrong," "and that eight murders have been committed that have absolutely nothing to do with George Marlow." " No, I´m not going to believe that." " I know you don´t want to, but..." "I got the right man, and now, it seems I´ve got to prove it all over again, so, you tell me, why would Marlow have used the same perfume on his victims time and time again?" "Jane, I´ve just told you what I think, but you´re not listening to me." "Come on, Patrick, you´re the expert in all this." "Tell me, what am I looking for?" "I don´t know, some traumatic event, something from childhood." " Such as?" " I don´t know, something unpleasant." " It could be child abuse..." " Patrick, why are you being so difficult?" "No, I am not being difficult." "I just don´t want to see you wasting your time." "Well, let me worry about that, so just tell me." "All right." "It´ll either be something... he witnessed or something that was done to him." "Whatever it was, it´ll be..." "sexual in origin." "Thank you." "But you still think I´m wrong, don´t you?" "So it would appear that the police have made a major mistake?" "What it appears we are uncovering, Michael, is yet another miscarriage of justice, and I heard this evening that the officer in charge of the investigation, and who was also in charge of the Marlow investigation, has been taken off the case," "which indicates that the police are coming to terms with the fact... that they put away the wrong man." "Have you actually met George Marlow, Mr Whitehouse?" "Yes, I have." "Many times." " In prison, presumibly." " Yes." "He´s never given up hope that the truth... will one day come out and he´ll be released, and he will be." "Once the Home Secretary allows his appeal, the conviction will be quashed." "I´m sure of that." "Yes, I´ll make sure she gets the message." "OK." "Thank you." "Goodbye." " Are these the budgets?" " Yes." "What time is the chief´s first meeting?" "Um... 10:30." "Guv, DCI MitchelI´s just rung." "He wants the Marlow file urgently." "Apparently you´ve got it." "Oh, shit." "Well, it´s at home." " Oh, no, it´s not." " They need it this morning." "Hi." "This is Dr Patrick Schofield." "If you´d like to leave your name and number, I´ll get back to you as soon as I can." "Hi, Patrick." "This is Mark Whitehouse." "Can you meet me in the lounge bar of the Camden Lock Hotel this evening?" "I´ll be there from seven." "Thanks." "Hi, Patrick This is Mark Whitehouse." "Can you meet me in the lounge bar of the Camden Lock Hotel this evening?" "I´ll be there from seven." "Thanks." " Have you interviewed this..." "Andreas chap?" " Yeah, we´ve had him in." "And Takis, his uncle." "Their only alibi is each other." "Also, Andreas wears a Size 9 shoe." "There´s no evidence yet to link either or both of them, but er... give us time." "Can you find anything to link either of them with Marlow´s murders?" "I can´t comment on that yet, but I´ve listened to Whitehouse´s taped conversations with Marlow´s former girlfriend, Moyra Henson." "I wouldn´t like to give an opinion on her honesty, but what I can say... is that the more I open up Tennison´s investigation of Marlow, the more suspect it appears to be." "I think it´s time to consider, if not assume, that you´re now dealing with victims number seven and eight." "The four-year gap between the last two killings in ´91 and these two should certainly be investigated." "We should be asking ourselves why these murders have now started again." "Was the killer in jail from ´91, and has only just been released?" "Has he been assaulting but not murdering women during that period?" "Were there other victims but the bodies have not been found?" "If your investigation continues to ignore these possibilities, you could be making a very grave error." "Do you think we should open up the investigation?" "Yes, I do." "Tom?" "It´s always been my instinct to open it up, yeah." "Jane." " I´ll be with you in a minute." " Right." "Have we found out who´s been leaking information to Whitehouse?" "I´m taking these home." " Did you manage to get the file?" " It´s on my desk." "OK, listen up." "Chief Superintendent Kernan and I have decided to open this investigation up to include the possibility of Marjorie and Christine being victims seven and eight..." "Nice one!" "The first....." "six previously attributed to George Marlow." "This does not mean that Marlow is necessarily innocent of those six murders." "We have to look at everything, so I shall put a team onto finding out where our killer might have been... between ´91 and now." "I want all serious non-domestic assaults on women in the London area since ´91 checked, all serious sex offenders who have done time in that period... and have since been released checked." "That´s a hell of a lot of work for a long shot." "It´s a hell of a lot of work, and I want you to head it." "We´ve got enough to do, checking the Met." "Are you giving some more..." "There are no extra resources, so split your team in two." " OK?" "Let´s get on with it." " Nice one, guv." "Richard?" "Richard, thanks for coming." "I´ve got to pick the kids up in half an hour." "Yeah, I know." "I´m sorry." "Look, I need something from you." " Can I trust you?" " Of course you can." "You told Kernan about us going to that lockup together." "Yeah." "Yeah, I did." "I remember." "So, can I trust you?" "Yeah." "Give me a cigarette, would you?" "Look, I need to know what´s going on with this case." "Will you tell me?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "mitchell´s brought in Andreas and his uncle... for questioning, but there have been no charges," "and he´s opened up the investigation to include Marlow´s murders." "Well, I need to know who Marlow associated with in prison and what happened to those men since they´ve been released." "Can you get that information for me?" "Yeah, I can do that." " Anything else?" " No." "No, that´s all." " I´d better go." " OK" "Are you staying here?" " Yeah." " Are you driving?" "Yes." "Can I have a large whisky, please?" " I´ll buy that." " No, you won´t." "That´s £3.80, please." "Mark Whitehouse." "Thank you." "You´re expecting Patrick Schofield." "He´s not coming." "Ah." "I didn´t think this was a coincidence." "Well, shall we sit down?" "Sure." "Why did you write a book saying Marlow was innocent when you know he´s guilty?" "I believe he is innocent." "Finding a cause célébre is very fashionable." "I try not to be too cynical about police procedures and motives." "Some of you have exposed miscarriages of justice, but your book is the most poisonous piece of rubbish I´ve ever read." "Well, thank you." "Why do you want to free a murderer who´s killed six women and on the most distorted piece of evidence?" "I actually came upon the story by chance." "I was doing an article on life in a hospice." "One of the patients was Moyra." "We got talking and I became aware that here was a key witness in a murder trial, telling me the opposite of what she´d told the court." "She told me the statements she made to you the police were made under duress, and that the evidence against George had been fabricated." "What was I supposed to do with that information?" "Go away and forget it?" "So, I did some investigating, and where I could check her story, she was telling the truth." "Did you record your conversations with Moyra?" "Yes." "Do you still have the tapes?" " I have my own copy, yes." " Can I hear them?" "Of course not." "What is your connection with Patrick Schofield?" "Just that we share a mutual interest in miscarriages of justice." "Good night." "Piss off." "Look..." " Bloody hell!" " Get in." "Get in." "How did you know where to find me?" "How was your meeting?" " What meeting?" " You want to be more careful." "And how did you know that I?" "An informal investigation into Marlow´s murders has been requested." "I´m telling you this in absolute confidence, you understand." "Now, I know you got it right, and I want you to know you have my support, providing you are careful about what you do and who you see." "So, how did you know that I had a meeting with Whitehouse?" "I was talking about your meeting with Haskons." "Just be careful, Jane." "And I haven´t told you this." " Hello?" " Hi." "It´s me." "How are you?" " I´m at the Hotel." " OK." "I just wanted to give you a good night call." "Thanks." "So, were you asleep?" "Um... yeah, almost." "Oh, I´m sorry." " It´s lonely in Leeds without you." " It´s OK." "The lecture went very well today." "Good" "Did you see Kernan?" "Why?" "I just wondered if you´d told him about the perfume." " Why did you want to know that?" " There´s no reason." "I was just interested." "What´s the matter?" "Are you OK?" "I´m..." "I´m just tired, that´s all." "I´m sorry." "Listen, I´ll let you go back to sleep." "I´m going to be back about six tomorrow evening." "Do you want to meet up?" " I won´t be here." " Why?" "Where are you off to?" " I can´t tell you." " Why?" " I can´t talk about it." " Are you going to be away all night?" "I..." "I might be." "I don´t know." "Will you call me when you do know?" "jane, are you there?" "Why did you lie to me?" " Why did I do what?" " You know what I´m talking about." "Hello." "Why aren´t you at school?" "Have you seen my mum?" "Has she ever been late from the shops before?" "No." " Where does your dad work?" " I don´t know." " Yeah." "We´re in Blenheim Avenue." " He works at Pluto Plastics  based in Dunstable." " He doesn´t live here." " Do you sometimes see your dad?" " Yes." " Do you want us to contact him for you?" "Please contact Pluto Plastics." "Is your dad´s name Matthews as well?" " Yes." " What´s his first name?" " James." " Yeah, James Matthews." "Pluto Plastics in Dunstable." "Her name is Lynn Matthews." "Dressmaker." "Works from home." "Separated from her husband." "One daughter." "Kate aged 12" "We don´t know for certain that she´s been abducted, but no-one we have spoken to could give us any reason... as to why she would voluntarily have disappeared." "If this is our man, and he follows the pattern of the other murders," "then we have three days to find her alive." "Can I help you?" " I´ve come to see Doris Marlow." " They´re out for the afternoon." "Oh." "When will they be back?" "They´ve gone to a show on the front." "Who are you?" "My name´s Jane." "I´m a friend of the family." "You should have waited at reception." "Yes." "I know." "I´m sorry." "There was no-one around so I just popped up." "It´s all right." "I´ll..." "I´ll come back later." " Did you get anything?" " There´s nothing from the house-to-house." "What?" "Has nobody seen anything?" "We´re doing the houses again this evening." "Why don´t we put the daughter on the TV?" "Talk to her chaperone." "Get checkpoints organised in Denbury Road and Harrow Street tomorrow." "We should look at the prisoners Marlow´s been with since he´s been inside." " Why?" " Maybe Marlow´s orchestrating these murders." " This isn´t a priority." " Rather than waste my time..." "Just do as I bloody well say!" "See you later." "Got your programme?" " Doris Marlow?" " Yes." " Hello, Doris." " Who are you?" "I´m Jane." "I´m a friend of your son, George." "Oh, is it Moyra?" "No, Jane." "Oh, yes, Jane." "How nice!" "Come and give me a kiss." " Oh, cold cheeks." " How are you?" " Are you looking after him?" " George?" "Oh, yes." "I really should be getting her onto the coach." "He can´t visit me any more." "Yes, I know." "Do you mind if I have a few words with her?" "I´ve just come up from London and I´m only here for the day." "Um..." "I´ll tell you what." "I´ll finish getting the others in first." " Thanks." " I´ll be back in a minute." "I thought you were dead." "I bought you a present." "Oh, how kind!" "How nice!" " Is George coming?" " No." "No, I didn´t think he was." " No." "He isn´t able to visit." " I´m sure I know you." " Do you like this perfume?" " I do know you." "It´s gardenia." "Shall I open it for you?" " What´s it doing here?" " It´s a present." "Now I remember." "Do you like it?" " Have I had my tea?" " No." "Do you like it?" "Yes." "Frederick used to buy that for me." "Is Frederick your husband?" "Terribly naughty." " Why?" "Who´s Frederick?" " Every Friday, down on the pier." " More often than not." " Was Frederick your lover?" "Oh, yes." "Did I?" "Did I have an ice cream?" "No." "I don´t know." "So, was this your special perfume?" "I´m sorry, but I have to get her on the coach now." "Is it all right if I take her out for tea?" "She said she´d like that." "I´m not sure that would be allowed." "I´d have to check it out with the manager." "I mean, we don´t know who you are." "I know who this young lady is." "I saw you there." "She´s George´s girlfriend, a lovely girl." "You must have a lot of memories here." "Well, what do I know about that?" " With Frederick." " Not Frank." "Was it romantic with Frederick?" "Well, we had our way here a few times, I suppose." "Secret liaison?" "When are you taking me back?" " Did Frank know?" " Frank?" "Bonehead." "Did George know?" "What´s that to do with you?" "George is a very dear friend of mine." "He wanted me to bring you out this afternoon." " I don´t expect this place has changed much." " Not here!" " Why not here?" " Not here!" " Did George follow you here one night?" " Never marry." "Did George follow you here one night?" " Frank got him up." " His father sent him?" " Take me home!" " Yes." "All right, all right." "How old was he then?" "He was always asleep when I left." " Take me home!" " All right." "All right, we´re going." "Frank got him up." "A little boy, got him dressed and sent him here." " I want to go home." " All right." "All right, we´re going now." "Does he get his sweets?" " Come in." " Thanks." "Did you get my message?" "Yes, I did." "So, what´s the problem?" "Good evening, madam." "We´re enquiring into the disappearance of Mrs Lynn Matthews in this vicinity sometime after 8:15 this morning." "Hi" "What are you doing here?" " I was hoping you might want some company." " If I want company, I´ll call you." "So, why don´t you tell me what all this was about the other night?" "I think you should go." "What is this, Jane?" "How´s your friend Mark?" "Mark?" "Mark who?" " Mark Whitehouse." " I´ve no idea." "I´ve never met him." "Why couldn´t you tell me what you were doing?" " What am I doing?" " You tell me." " I just told you, I´ve never met him." " Don´t give me that." "I heard the message, Patrick." ""Hi, Patrick." "This is Mark. "" " If you must know, I´m writing a book." " Oh, about what?" "She may be a lousy detective, but she´s a good shag?" "You shouldn´t listen to my messages." "That isn´t how I feel." " Well, how do you feel?" " I´m telling you... if you´d just shut up and listen." "I was asked to write a book some time ago about why miscarriages of justice..." "Why am I in this book if it´s about errors of judgment?" " Why are you?" "You´re not in this book." " Why have you got a file on me?" " Research which I am no longer using." " Well, who is?" " Who´s what?" " Who´s using the research?" " No-one is using the research." " Oh, come on!" "Whitehouse is." "Whitehouse has never seen that file." "Let me explain something to you." "We both share the same publisher, and because of that, Whitehouse has found out about..." " Oh, Patrick, you think I´m going to believe?" " He wants to write an article round it." "That´s why he left the message on my machine." "I have never spoken to the man." "I´ve been away." "I haven´t even returned his call as yet." "You understand what I´m saying?" "How am I supposed to know if you´re telling the truth?" "Well... sometimes you have to trust people." "Trust people?" "You must be joking." "In my job, that´s an impossibility." "I´m telling you." "You are never going to sort out any of your relationships until you find some way of separating your private life from your work." "Oh, "Don´t take your job too seriously because you know you only want to get married"?" "Oh, don´t insult my intelligence." "You´ll never learn anything about yourself because you interpret everything anyone says about as a personal attack." "What is it with you?" "What is it?" "There´s some kind of machismo that´s driving you through everything that you do." "It´s patently obvious that you don´t enjoy it, but you seem to be incapable of resisting it." " Do not talk to me as if I´m one of your psychos!" " One of my what?" "!" "I´m very tired and I want you to go, and I´ve gone off this idea of having each other´s keys, so, here you are, there´s yours back and I´d like mine back, please." "OK." "And, by the way, that´s the file that you´ve been so bothered about." "I thought I´d bring it round." "Today, I proved all over again that Marlow did kill those six women." "Good, then you should be celebrating." " I am." " Hmm." "You´ve got a visitor." "What are you doing here?" "It can´t be business if you´re off the case." "It seems like it´s only you and me left who know for certain you killed six women." "No, thank you." "Filthy habit." "Did you come all the way up here to tell me that?" "Someone is copying your murders." "I need to know who." "How am I supposed to know?" "Who did you tell, George?" "How am I supposed to answer that?" "I know the women you killed were prostitutes, or you thought they were." "These women aren´t." "It´s a 53-year-old widow, a 16-year-old schoolgirl." "These aren´t women you meant to kill." "Is anyone going to convince you that I´m an innocent man?" "I know you´re being copied and I know you´re being copied by someone who has access to evidence that could only have come from yourself." "What evidence is that?" "The killer souses his victims with perfume." "Gardenia perfume." "And?" "So did you, George." "You must know that a third woman has gone missing." "She´s a loving, caring, faithful woman." "Tell me who´s committing these murders and stop him before she joins the list." "For God´s sake, will you just accept that you made a mistake?" "Give me the opportunity to go back to a court of law and prove it." "I went to see your mother yesterday." " What?" " I went up to Blackpool to visit her." "You what?" "She´s an old lady." "She´s a sick old lady." "What did you say to her?" "I had to see her because you won´t tell me the truth." " What did you say?" " Who´s killing them?" "What are you doing, seeing my mother?" "I took her for a walk on the seafront." " How dare you visit her?" " I took her to the pier." " You see, I know, George." " You bitch!" " Who´s killing them?" " If you´ve upset her..." " Tell me, George." " If you have upset her..." "Ask me what I know about Frederick." "What did you see when your dad sent you down to the pier, George?" "Hmm?" "Was she lying down?" "Was he on top of her, legs in the air?" "Or did he have her up against the railings?" "Did she see you standing there?" "Was he laughing?" "Did she try and pull her knickers up?" "Did she shout at you to go away?" " Let me out of here!" " Was your dad pleased when you got home?" " Let me out of here!" " Was he smiling?" "Three sales reported, none in the London area, all negative." "Right." "Richard, anything there?" " No." " We´ve got the van." "What size?" "Yeah." "Yeah, OK." "All right." "Thanks." "Shit." "It belongs to an art student in Falmouth." "She´d been to a party with her boyfriend and they´d stopped for a piss on the way home." "The boyfriend wears a Size 8 Reebok jogging trainer." "That just leaves us with a Size 10 shoe, a possible lift from the police club... and a possible sighting of a police officer in Greystone Road." " How are we getting on with that list?" " Still checking out the duty rosters." "Richard, um... you get your team back onto helping Colin." "You can return to that work as soon as you´ve cleared everyone." "Is anyone checking out the list of cons that Marlow´s been in contact with since he went inside?" "The police are certain that Lynn Matthews who disappeared from near her home in Willesden has been abducted." "At a news conference this morning..." " Hello?" " Superintendent Tennison?" " Speaking." " I have Commander Trayner for you." "Thank you." " Jane?" " Yes, sir?" "How long will it take you to get to my office?" "Come in." "Do sit down." "Can you confirm that you visited George Marlow in prison this morning?" " I discov..." " Can you please answer the question." " Yes, I did." " Marlow made a complaint to the governor that you interrogated him concerning an investigation from which you had been removed." " I think, under the circumstances..." " Is that true?" " Did you interrogate Marlow..." " Yes, I did." "...on a matter concerning an investigation from which you had been removed?" "This is not a discussión." "Answer the questions directly as I put them to you." "Did you inform Marlow that a certain perfume had been used on the bodies of Christine Bramwell and Marjorie Miller?" "Yes, sir." "Are you aware of the fact that the officer in charge of the investigation," "Acting Superintendent Mitchell, had asked for that information not to be divulged?" " No, that was my..." " Just answer the question!" "Yes, sir." "Marlow is now free to pass on that information to any journalist wishing to contact him." " I don´t think he´ll want to give that..." " Will you shut up and listen?" "!" "These are serious disciplinary matters." "Furthermore, Marlow is taking his complaint to his member of parliament, the last thing we all wanted." "And as for justifying your interference, may I remind you that you were taken off the case because your judgement has become clouded?" " Do you understand?" " Yes, sir." "I have absolutely no choice but to suspend you from all duties." "Please give me you warrant card." "I shall, of course, vindicate myself at the earliest opportunity." "Your suspensión starts as from now." "Hello?" "It´s Richard, guv." "I´m sorry to call you this early." "What´s it about?" "Can I see you?" "Not really, no." "It´s important." " Where are you?" " Opposite." "The phone booth opposite." "Oh, shit." " All right, I´ll put the coffee on." " Thanks." "Oh, bloody hell." "Well, you don´t look any better than I do." "Yeah, well, I´ve been working all night." "Right, what do you want?" "I´ve been working on that list of cons Marlow has been in company with since he´s been inside." "No.1 topped himself two years ago." "Two´s a grass, now out of the country." " Three Andrew..." " No, that was child offences." "Yeah." "All No.4´s offences were homosexual, all in the ´60s and he´s now 71 years old." "Five is our possible." "Raymond Harding..." "I remember that name." "He spent a year in the Scrubs on B Wing with Marlow." "His mother died a year ago." "Lives alone in a house in Cricklewood." " Have you told Mitchell about this?" " Yeah." "He told me not to investigate." "Well..." "So, you haven´t seen this man?" "No." " Well, you must." " I feel out on a limb on this." "This investigation´s a mess." "No-one´s got a focus on anything." "We´re trying to cover too much ground." "We don´t have enough officers." "We don´t have enough time." "We´re into the third day of this woman´s disappearance." "You don´t expect me to go with you, do you?" " Mr Raymond Harding?" " Yes." "Detective Inspector Haskons." "I´d like to ask you a few questions." " Can we come in?" " Yeah." "I´ll get him!" "Ow!" "Watch it!" "Get off!" "I was only holding it for a pal of mine." "What have you got?" "Every one of you who worked on that list has done a fantastic job." "It´s something none of us like to do, but you´ve done it with superb professionalism." "Now, we have five suspects." "One is a Superintendent, two are sergeants, and two are constables, one of whom is at this station." "I don´t need to remind you of the sensitivity that is required." "These officers are, if not your friends, your colleagues, and are, most probably, innocent." "However, I want a thorough search in every case." "Moyra." "Patrick!" " Patrick, I need to talk!" " What about?" " Can you get in the car?" " Why?" "What do you want to talk about?" " What the bloody hell are you doing?" " Oh, I´m sorry." " You can´t just stop in the middle of the street." " I said I´m sorry." " I´ve got your number, arsehole." " Oh, shut up." " You´re a witness to that." " I didn´t see anything." " Patrick, where does Whitehouse live?" " Oh, for..." "Oh, please, can you find out?" " No." " Don´t you share the same publisher?" " Yes we do, but they don´t give out private numbers." " If he can get your number, can´t you get his?" "Of course, I told you but I´m not interested." "Now, I´d like to get these things inside." "Patrick, I need your help." "Would Marlow have used the same perfume on Moyra?" " You mean like he used it on his victims?" " Yes" "In her statement to me, she said that he once tied her up and humiliated her." " Well, it´s possible." " If she knew about it, who could she have told?" " You got a phone in there?" " Yeah." " Morning." " Morning." "Are you getting rid of her today?" "This is the third day, isn´t it?" "It´s only me who knows, and what am I going to do?" "I can´t do it." " What can´t you do?" " I can´t go on with it." " Where is she now?" " Somewhere." " She still alive?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Why can´t you do it?" "I don´t... have any strength." "Yes, you do." "You do." "You´ve got to dispose of her now you´ve got this far." "You have to now." " I can´t go down there." " Where?" " Where she is." " Well, what else can you do?" "I don´t know." " I can´t think about it." " You´ve got to think about it." " Is she in the house?" " Yeah." "Well... you can´t just leave her there." " I´ll walk away." " You don´t have to go on with this any more." "But you´ve got to take care of this one." "Then you can stop." " What time do you clock off?" " I´m going home now." "Then do it now." "Go home and do it now." "It´s just another job that has to be done." "Then it´s over." "OK" "I´ll do it now." " Are you sure you want me to come in with you?" " Yes." "I´d be very careful in there if I were you or you´re going to find yourself out of a job." "I´m out of a job anyway." "I´m resigning." " I won´t be long, love." " Yes, all right." " I´ll draw something like that." " Are you going to draw some more?" " Come in." " Thank you." "So, what can I do for you?" "I´m sorry, this has nothing to do with me." "Jane wanted to ask you some questions, if that´s all right." "In your conversations with Moyra, did she ever confide in you that Marlow sprayed his victims with perfume?" "Of course not." "She always maintained he was innocent." "I wouldn´t have written the book otherwise." " But you knew about the perfume, didn´t you?" " Which perfume?" "The special perfume that Marlow sprayed his victims with." "I know about the gardenia found on the last two victims." "Are you trying to tell me Marlow used it as well?" "Yes, and we now know why he used it, so, did Moyra tell you about the perfume?" "If you think you´ve found another way of rubbishing my book..." " I don´t give a toss about that piece of crap." " That´s it." "I want you out." "Mark, Mark, Mark..." "Moyra must have told somebody about the perfume." " Please, it´s important." " I think you´ve now got me under suspición." " How can I take you seriously?" " If she didn´t tell you, who did she tell?" "Why don´t you listen?" "I would not have written the book." "This is the third day that Lynn Mattews has been missing." "We´re running out of time here." "So, who else did she confide in before she died?" " She won´t do that, cos she don´t listen." " She never do listen." " No." "Oh, I saw Darren last night at the club." " He´s a waste of space anyway." "Yeah, I know, but he´s not a prat." "Three ciders, right, wallop, wallop, wallop." "Where was Steve, then?" " Oh, he was there." " Oh, yeah?" "What did he say?" " Oh, he´s had his hair cut." " No!" "Oh, honestly, you´ve got to see it." "I mean, it´s just unbelievable." "5p change." "There you go." "Richard, let´s get working on that list of Marlow´s prison contacts." "Guv, it´s Detective Superintendent Tennison." "We´ve got him!" "Colin!" "Richard!" "Andy!" "Let´s go!" "That´s it." " Where is she?" "!" " Upstairs?" "No!" "Not in here!" " What´s this for?" " Outside and down the steps." "It´s all right." "We´re police." "We´ve got an ambulance coming." "There you go, love." "You´re all right." "Why did you start killing, Len?" "Hmm?" "Did Marlow persuade you?" " No." " Did he know it was you?" "Yes." "Couldn´t believe his luck." "Did things start going wrong three years ago when your wife left you?" "I don´t know." "I started... to see things different." " What things?" " Everything." "You mean, like some of the men you were guarding, like Marlow?" "Maybe." "Is that why you used perfume?" "Did Moyra tell you about the perfume?" " Yeah." " What did she tell you?" "She told me George used to s- spray it on... on their bodies." " Whose bodies?" " The women he killed." "Why did Moyra tell you that?" "She was lonely." "When she used to visit George, the journey was very long and tiring for her." "She was very ill." "I used to... put her up." "We became friends, and she told me then." "And then Moyra died." "Yes." "And then did you start thinking about what George did to the women?" "Yes." "I wanted... to know what it felt like." "And what did it feel like?" "Hell." "I felt like I´d fallen into hell." " So you did it again?" " Yes." " And again." " Yes." "And are you still in hell?" "Yes." "Your removal from the investigation by Chief Superintendent Kernan was correct in the circumstances known at that time." "Your behaviour subsequent to that action was, however, a serious breach of procedure and discipline," "and, Detective Superintendent, you should have known better." "The decisión to suspend you was, again, correct procedure, as you were and are well aware." "But, again, your behaviour subsequent to your suspensión" "was a serious breach of procedure an discipline." "Your standard of behaviour... is not the standard expected of a senior police officier." "However due to your actions resulting in the satisfactory rescue of Mrs Linda Matthews, the board have considered that your punishment will be taken no further than a reprimand." "Is there anything you wish to say?" "No, sir." "And?" "A perfectly-phrased bollocking." "What about your resignation?" "Oh, I forgot to mention that." " What?" " I knew you weren´t going to resign." " Oh, did you, smartarse?" " Of course I did." " Anyway, I didn´t want you to." " Yes, you do." "You keep saying I´ve got to make a space for a relationship." "I didn´t mean that kind of space." " Anyway, you´re not perfect." " I didn´t say anything." "You´re a know-it-all and you analyse everything." "We´re a perfect pair, aren´t we?" " How did you know I wasn´t going to resign?" " Because I´m very clever." "Besides, we need the money." "I sat there watching them decide on my future, and I thought, "I should be making those decisions. "" "I fought all the bloody battles." "Oh, if it means working with people like Trayner and Thorndike, then I´ll just have to do it, won´t I?" "That´s good." "We´ve got our AMIP anniversary tonight." " Will you come with me?" " No." "I´m busy." "# Soothing classical music" "Terrific lady." "You might just be in line for a very good apology." " Have a good night." " Cheers." "What was that about?" "Was he talking about a promotion?" "He´s drunk and he´s feeling guilty." "I never told you but I got a visit from Thorndike." " When?" " Just after you were taken off the case." "Why did he want to see you?" "He wanted me to keep an eye on you." "Inform on me?" "He said he was very concerned about your welfare and your workload." "That kind of thing." "What he wanted to know was whether or not you thought you´d made a mistake about Marlow and if you had, what were you going to do about it?" "The slimy little shit!" "Excuse me." "Good evening, gentlemen." "Having a nice time?" "David, do you fancy a dance?" "I´d be delighted." " Did you hear about the results of my tribunal?" " Yes." "Congratulations." "It´s reassuring to know you have the support and the confidence of one´s colleagues." "Know what makes you such an arsehole, David?" "You think that you have the right to go into my private life to discredit me." "I´ve taken a lot of crap over the years, but, really, this time, you´ve surpassed it all." "It didn´t work, did it?" "You see, I´m still here." "I´ve spoilt it for you." "You can´t get rid of me no matter how hard you try." "Jane, no-one has ever had any intention of getting rid of you." "How have things been treating you?" "Nice to see such a fulsome embrace into the fold, David." "No hard feelings." "Certainly not on my part anyway."