Manhunt (2019) s01e02 Episode Script

TRAFFIC DROWNS OUT THE CONVERSATION Hello? Oh, God! I'm going to go and get help, OK? I'm going to get help.
Colin.
Dave Cobb.
The Force asked me to call.
I've got a job for you.
A dead French girl on Twickenham Green.
Battered over the head.
In Surrey, this would be a promotion case.
In the Met, it's your boss who gets promoted.
The victim's name is Amelie Martin Josette Delagrange.
22 years old.
Born 2nd February 1982.
REPORTER: Can you tell us if you're pursuing a link with Milly Dowler? We have no reason to believe that these cases are linked at this time.
What about the Marsha McDonnell murder last year? We have a suspect for that case.
But you haven't charge them.
The chance of a link to an attack near the Green a few months ago.
Edel Harbison, 34, blonde.
Struck over the head.
We're not jumping to conclusions, are we, about a link? She walked back.
It looks like it, guv.
That's why she had to go across the Green.
We know that Amelie missed her stop.
We know her phone went off-line at 10:23 in Walton when it was dumped in the river.
So, we know he's in a vehicle.
We know that he went from the Green to Walton and we know when.
But we don't know his route.
Now, this white van appears sometime between 22:00 and 22:05.
And by 22:08, he's gone.
Is there any chance they can clean it up, get a reg number? A fighting chance, I'd say, guv.
He's not a witness.
Nice one.
Oh, well.
We haven't got him yet.
You know what car he drives, that's huge.
Hi, Dad.
Hello, love.
Cheers.
If I've been shutting you out, or it seemed like I was, it wasn't my intention.
The hotel called.
A free upgrade and we're overlooking the sea.
Spain.
My brother's wedding.
Yes, of course.
I can't wait.
Don't overdo it.
PHONE RINGS Our window for the attack on Amelie was ten minutes either side of 22:00 hours.
Ambrose.
But now we can do better than that.
Can't we, Jonesy? Yeah, we can, guv.
Thanks to the advent of external bus cameras, we know that this Ford Courier van was parked right by the Green between 22:00 and 22:05, and by 22:08 it was gone.
And we've got the same van on several streets nearby for half an hour before that.
As far as I'm concerned, this removes any doubt that our killer is in that van.
And we'll be checking through the murder of Marsha McDonnell to see if a Courier crops up and also the attack on Edel Harbison.
Have we got the reg? Not yet.
What do the experts say? Well, it's dark.
Minimal streetlights.
And, well, the image quality is not the best, as you can see.
Yeah, but what do the experts say? They're still examining the footage.
They have enlarged it on their bigger screen.
They can't make out the number? Only some of it.
Not enough to run a DVLA search.
I just showed the stills to Ford and they say it's a Courier made between '96 and 2000.
How many in circulation? 25,000.
Oh, Christ Are we sure we can't make out that reg number? The reg number is not the only way of identifying that van, Chris.
The front left wheel trim is missing.
There's a black disc on the roof and the cargo doors have no glass in them.
The problem is, none of that will show up on DVLA records.
Then, we prioritise Couriers registered in Twickenham and Walton and we crack through the list.
A long list.
Yes, it is a long list.
Maybe Maybe we need to think big picture.
I'm Monica.
I'm the projectionist.
DS Jo Brunt.
DCI Colin Sutton.
DC Neil Jones.
Thanks very much for making time for us, Monica.
Well, I've been doing this a wee while, but this is a first.
Yeah, us too.
Take a seat.
Thank you.
The experts say, if we can't see it on these three, we're stuffed.
Ah Monica, can we go back to the second one and go closer on that? Yes, we can.
Neil? Jonesy? Sorry, guv.
It's bigger, but it's not clearer.
HE SIGHS A bit less so, actually.
That 6 could still be a G.
No, maybe the experts do know a thing or two.
God, does he have the luck of the devil or what? How was the movie? What did you say? Oh, sorry.
I couldn't resist.
Well? Oh, er, no joy, sir.
My advice, don't pin everything on this van.
That van's our best lead, sir.
I hear you're off to Spain.
A wedding or something.
Er, no, I'm not going to Spain.
I think you should.
Come back refreshed, recharged.
Richard will hold the fort.
When you get back, we'll see where we are.
What does that mean? It means, we'll see where we are.
Can I have a word, sir? That van is our top priority.
I know that's how we'll get him.
I know it.
And if Richard doesn't get that, I'm not going anywhere.
Colin, if I wanted you out, you'd be out.
They'll stay on the van while I'm away? You're the SIO.
I want your word.
You have it.
Thank you, sir.
DOOR CLOSES Hey.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you? Yeah, good.
Will you come and see Colin? Sure.
Colin This is Steve.
Angus' best man.
Oh, good to meet you, Steve.
Likewise, mate.
Likewise.
How's the speech going? Oh, great.
I'd say I know where all the bodies are buried, but you might get the wrong idea.
THEY CHUCKLE So, er, what are you reading? Jesus, a bit of a busmen's holiday, isn't it? That's what I said.
Er, listen, a few of us are meeting up later to check out the harbour.
It'll be nothing too wild, if you fancy it.
Do you know what Erm, why not? Yes.
Yes, it'd be good to see the town.
PHONE RINGS Excuse me.
Two seconds.
Jo? A mobile ANPR camera's picked up a white Courier van going past the Twickenham Green two nights after Amelie was killed.
The same wheel trim, the same black disc on the roof.
Have you got an ID of the driver? Er, it's complicated.
What do you mean? The van is registered to the Met.
The Met? Yeah.
It turns out we own quite a few Courier vans, mostly used by SOCOs.
This one's based at the Photographic Branch in Southwark.
Well, so you can't tie it to a specific driver? Not without showing our hand.
All right, don't do anything.
Erm I'll be there in half an hour.
I'll call you back.
No, Colin.
You don't need PHONE GOES DEAD Colin? SHE SIGHS Erm, I'm sorry, I've got to go.
I'll catch the next flight out.
They're all booked.
My cousin tried to get a seat last night.
Tomorrow, then.
The wedding's tomorrow.
Look, we've had a break in the case.
One of the vehicles You said something once, something really interesting.
You said that, when you were hunting someone, you always asked the question, "What's important to them? "What matters to them deep down? "Because the answer tells you a lot.
" Louise This This was important to me.
You knew it was important to me.
What am I supposed to think? I'm sorry.
Sorry to be so cloak and dagger.
No, I get it.
I just can't believe it's the van you're looking for.
Well, that's what we need to establish.
Right, well, I've dug out the logbook.
OK, so, the van was in Twickenham on August 19th, right? The night of, just after 10.
OK.
Right.
Patricia Wilson had the van that night.
She was called out to photograph a break-in at a jeweller's in Ham.
Is Patricia here now? No.
It's her daughter's birthday.
And what about the van? Yeah.
If you'd like to follow me Right, so, here's the van.
That's not the van.
How do you know? It's got the aerial stub.
It's got the The stub's too small and it's too far forward on the roof The stub's too small and that's the wrong wheel trim.
I know my vehicles, Jo.
That's not our van.
Thank you.
Thanks.
And to think you'd be on your second San Miguel by now.
Not funny.
Plus, we've got an issue of previous owners Guv, I thought you were in Spain.
Long story.
Couldn't keep away.
How's it going with the van? Slowly.
Well, half the Courier vans we're stopping aren't registered to the area.
And vice versa.
When we trace vans logged locally, they're all over.
Yeah, I just tracked one down to Aberdeen, guv.
You know, what do you want us to do? I want you to not stop now.
I want you to keep going.
We're sticking to the Courier lead.
If we have to trace 25,000 vans, then we have to trace 25,000 vans.
Yes, guv.
What are you thinking? It's colder than a polar bear's cock.
That's not what I meant.
Standing on bridges, That's not what I meant.
clocking white vans.
Good old-fashioned shoe leather.
A bit desperate, though, isn't it? Yeah.
A bit.
The coldest October on record.
Is it? And here's the cream of West London CID playing spot the van.
I don't know, we might get lucky, guv.
Oh, come on.
If Sutton said, "Jump off this bridge," you'd do it.
If Sutton said, But even you must have your doubts.
He drives a white Courier and he's likely local.
It's a likely punt, I'd say.
Fair enough.
You two, drink the Kool-Aid.
I'll see if you're still standing in a month from now.
And what's Kool-Aid? Oh, it's a poison drink cult leader Jim Jones gave to his followers.
Oh, right.
What happened to them? They all died.
I picked this up in Barcelona.
Hm? It wasn't a dig.
No.
You're not going to want to hear this.
If you don't play, you can't lose.
What, you think I should quit? I think, if you go now, it's early days, people forget.
But hang on and you could go down with the ship.
The case will define you.
I said you wouldn't want to hear it.
Yeah, you did.
Is this you getting me back for Spain? I'm just trying to offer some perspective.
I won't get another job like this.
Maybe not.
I won't get another job like this.
But career cases go both ways.
And this feels like a poisoned chalice.
Why take the risk? And if you won't consider that, at least be humble enough to take advice.
Such as? The van.
The shotgun approach won't work.
But there are programs that will turn 25,000 into a manageable list.
Right, programs written by who? People like me, trained analysts.
I'm not entrusting this to a program.
No offence.
Sorry about Spain, but in the circumstances Oh, in the circumstances, any one of your team could have ruled out that suspect van.
You were looking for an excuse.
And loyal Jo was happy to help.
DOOR SLAMS If anyone gives you any hassle over those extra cars, just let me know.
Sure.
Colin Yeah? London's one thing.
But driving around the country to look for this van Jo, it's got to be done.
I'm just not sure how happy the team are, that's all.
Or convinced.
THEY TALK AMONGST THEMSELVES Excuse me, sir.
Yes? I was in the mobile station on the Green after Amelie was killed.
OK.
Well, this woman came in and gave a statement and I wondered if anything came of it.
Right, lads, see you later on.
Cheers.
Erm Before you all rush off I just want to say a few words about the Yorkshire Ripper.
All Leeds CID really had to go on was one tyre mark and a list of cars and lorries that could have left it.
The pool of potential vehicles was 53,000.
The elimination process was a nightmare.
All vehicle records were stored on long reels of listing paper and the officers had to roll them out along the floor striking off cars with marker pens on their hands and knees.
There were so many filing cabinets in the room, they had to move them all to the sides because the floor was bending and the building society downstairs was beginning to complain.
After 33,000 vehicles, they lost heart.
They gave up.
Peter Sutcliffe's Ford Corsair was in that last 20,000 waiting to be checked.
If they'd kept going, they would have got him and three lives would have been saved.
That's all.
Clive, Jo, will you come with me? Are you all right, guv? Yeah, another lesson from the Yorkshire Ripper case, Yeah, another lesson don't get tunnel vision.
We're on the basics, starting with the single statement file.
Or files.
Er, what prompted this? That WPC I was just talking to.
She was asking about a statement she took when we had that mobile unit on the Green.
What, she thought she had a contender? Well, she said it was worth a second look.
The statement was from a woman called Johanna Collings.
Collings.
C.
Right, that's you, guv.
Here we go.
"My ex, Levi Bellfield, is very familiar with the area "and hates women.
Especially blonde women.
"I once found a copy of Cosmopolitan "with all the blondes' faces scratched out.
"Levi used to keep a knife and a balaclava "in a hidden pocket in his coat.
" Mm, no psycho stereotype left unturned there, then.
I'm liking him so far.
"Levi likes to move around and has several children by different women.
"He's employed as a bouncer and a wheel clamper "and uses a white van for his clamping business.
"Levi is currently on bail for GBH "and the weapon used in the attack was a hammer.
" You're fucking kidding me? Wheel clamping, yeah? Yeah, why? One of our traces on a locally registered van One of our traces mentioned wheel clamping.
Use the stand-alone database.
Here we go.
P610 XCN.
Ford Courier van, registered to Epstone Motors in Isleworth.
It says here the garage sold it to a "gypsy named Levi".
Has the garage got an address for him? Yeah, Strawberry Hill Road.
I know Strawberry Hill Road.
Yeah, there.
That's where he lived with Johanna.
Just a stone's throw from the Amelie and Edel scenes.
Marsha McDonnell was killed right there.
Shall we bring him in? No.
No, we're window shopping until we're ready to buy.
There's his clamping truck.
That's the house.
It's definitely the last address he was registered at? Mm.
Cohabiting with a Laura Marsh.
Well, if he's still got that Courier, I don't see it.
Here we go.
HE CHATS ON THE PHONE I bet the neighbours love him.
What are you thinking? I'm thinking, if he hit you with a hammer, you wouldn't get up.
Happy in his work, isn't he? Delirious.
That's eight cars in 90 minutes.
Phew.
He must be making a few quid.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS Oh, God It must be break time.
CAR HORN TOOTS What?! CAR HORN TOOTS Go on! SHE SIGHS Oh, shit! We need a surveillance team.
Are you all right, Clive? Guv, I've been looking at a Sarah Knight.
She was a victim of a deliberate hit and run back in May.
It's a very different MO.
Yeah, but there's a couple of similarities with Amelie.
One, she'd just gotten off a bus.
Two, now, do you remember what Johanna Collings was saying about him hating blondes, scratching their faces out of magazines? How old? She's a brave girl.
The bastard ran her down and then reversed back over her.
She managed to fish her phone out of the gutter and dialled 999.
Well, if you think of a car as a weapon, then the MO's not that different.
Did she get a look at the driver? No, just the vehicle.
She said it was a white people carrier with blacked-out windows and a cracked driver's mirror.
Good recall.
Yeah.
When she was pushed on a make, she said a Ford Galaxy.
But people carriers look very much alike.
Bellfield drove a people carrier at that time, but it wasn't a Ford Galaxy.
He was stopped a month before Sarah's attack driving a white Toyota Previa with blacked-out windows.
Find out what happened to that Previa.
He might still have it.
Even if he's fixed the mirror, there can't be that many with blacked-out windows.
She broke every rib in her body.
Cut her liver in two.
It's a miracle the surgeons saved her.
Do you want us to do our own interview with her, guv? No.
I don't want to make her relive her ordeal for nothing.
She didn't see his face.
Like with Edel Harbison.
He attacks her from behind before she can clock him.
And if Marsha and Amelie saw him, they can't tell us.
Luck of the devil.
Well, luck runs out eventually.
Maybe we can link him to other victims.
On Marsha, they looked at possible links to three other violent crimes.
When we're done with Sarah, let's pull them.
It's weird, isn't it? Everything he steals, he discards.
At least, if there was some kind of sexual element, At least, if there was it would make sense, but What does he get out of it? It's like he funnels everything into one impact, one transaction.
And I'd be surprised if it didn't have everything to do with sex.
So, they sent me this, guv.
It's a recording of Sarah's 999 call.
WOMAN: Where does it hurt? SARAH: Everywhere.
He deliberately took me out, yeah.
He ran over me again.
He deliberately ran over you again? Yeah.
He ran over you twice? Yeah.
And it really hurts.
Jo, call the team back tonight.
Tonight? Yeah.
We need to put a case together that gets Bellfield off the street.
All hands on deck.
But we've made finding the van the priority.
Now we're making this the priority.
Plus, we're downgrading the van, not dismissing it.
It might sound like semantics if you're halfway to Selkirk.
PHONE RINGS Andy? Colin, we've got a surveillance team on Bellfield starting first thing.
Thank you.
Murphy's given us surveillance.
You are joking? All right.
Fine.
We'll be back by tonight.
Plenty of time, Mr Young.
We'll let you get on.
You won't fucking believe this.
He only wants us back in London by tonight.
You impressed on them that he commits blitz attacks, did you? Yes.
We'll give the off.
Stand by for first eye contact.
The weapon could be a hammer, a knife or a car.
This is what they do every day.
Yep.
TEXT MESSAGE ALER OK.
Levi Bellfield's car clamping activities gave him access to a number of vehicles, including a Toyota Previa.
Clive Sarah Knight was run over by a people carrier, May 28th.
One week later, Bellfield sold his Previa.
A guilty conscience.
Or a coincidence.
It's not a smoking gun.
Are we not convincing you, Chris? It feels like we've gone from having all our eggs in the van basket to staking everything on one bloke.
Well, one very strong suspect.
Still, it feels a bit all or nothing.
A bit desperate.
Well, you're right.
We don't have a smoking gun.
And until we do, we can't show our hand.
The bottom line is Levi Bellfield is a strong suspect for Amelie's murder and quite possibly for Marsha's, too.
As well as the assaults on Sarah Knight and Edel Harbison.
Except, we've played down any of these links to the media.
Will you forget about the media! Your job is to get him off the pavement before he hurts someone else.
Well, why don't we just nick him? No, he's got form.
He knows the drill.
We need fresh meat, something solid before we can go near him.
This is Levi Bellfield's intel file.
I want you to read it, study it and then get out there and find something we can bring him in on.
That's all.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, guv.
I've got an update from surveillance.
He went to B&Q and McDonald's and is now on the A40 westbound.
Standby, one.
"In March 2002, Bellfield and partner Laura Marsh "were living in Collingwood Place, Walton-on-Thames.
" And? Milly Dowler went missing in March 2002.
But you didn't work on Milly.
No, I did a stint at Surrey on another case.
You couldn't really avoid it.
Collingwood Place Oh, Jesus What? Milly went missing on Station Avenue.
That's literally one street away.
Bellfield lived here in March 2002.
Right.
So? I just wanted to see it with my own eyes.
I wonder where that goes? Have you got a stopwatch? Yeah.
Do you want to start it? A number of witnesses said they saw Milly leaving Walton Station.
And the last confirmed sighting was at that bus stop.
How are we doing? 55 seconds.
DOORBELL RINGS PHONE RINGS DOOR OPENS Hello, Brian.
I hear Surrey's getting more new buildings.
A fancy Italian architect.
It'll make New Scotland Yard look like Butlins.
That wouldn't be hard.
Well, the Met's got nothing to prove, does it? Well, the Met's got nothing Well, that's debatable.
Do you want to come in? Yeah.
Thank you.
Does the name Levi Bellfield mean anything to you? Should it? We're looking at him for Amelie.
Thank you.
He's got form for GBH and we've seen evidence he has an interest in underage girls.
In March 2002, he was living here in Walton-on-Thames.
Just one minute's walk from the bus stop where Milly was last seen.
Cheers.
When I've finished with him, he's all yours.
All right.
Thanks.
What? The last few months, I've been on the peripheral with Milly.
I'm not sure I'm your best advocate.
I just need you to share Bellfield's name with the team.
Fair warning.
Two years now, some people on Milly, well they've been a long way down the rabbit hole.
What, they won't look at any new suspects? They're drowning in suspects, Colin.
Not keen to add to the list? Not until they've cleared the backlog.
Oh.
Especially not with someone being pushed by the Met.
Not fair.
Or true.
Sorry.
Long day.
A minute's walk? 55 seconds.
What do you think? I think the hairs on my fucking neck are standing up.
Oh, shit! Cat? I texted you this morning.
You said you'd be home.
I know.
I know.
You forgot.
Love Oh, I'm sorry.
Happy birthday.
Oh, well, at least stay for a cuppa.
I promised mum I'd be back by 10.
I've got a mock tomorrow.
All right, I'll drop you home.
Ah! I did try calling.
Yes.
Cat! You are not cycling.
Come on.
Fine.
PHONE RINGS CAR STARTS The last thing I want to do is compromise you in any way, but there's a few things I really need to know.
Like did Bellfield's name ever come up in connection with Milly? No.
Not to my knowledge.
Are you sure? Thanks for telling me you were going to see Brian, by the way.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This This link to Milly's blindsided us.
I can't help you.
Why not? I had a call when you were dropping Cat home.
What? I was told, in no uncertain terms, not to talk to about Milly.
You're joking? Typical fucking carrots! Well, unless they've bugged our house, they're not going to know, are they? Colin, I'm not disobeying an order and I can't believe you'd ask me to.
What, you're going to listen to that lot over me? They're my superiors.
I have to listen to them.
And I'm your husband.
Oh, grow up! That's not fair.
Look, if there's a link to Milly, I need to know.
Sorry, no.
I gave my word.
Anyway, why would you want my help? I've never worked for the Met.
I'm the definition of a carrot.
Oh That's just a term of affection.
Bullshit.
You're like all the Met, looking down your nose at us provincials.
Not true.
"Second-rate, second best.
" That's what you think.
Where's all this coming from, Louise? You don't even know you're doing it.
The other day you said, "I don't want to mess up Amelie the way Surrey did Milly.
" Well, they have messed Milly up.
Where do you think I work, Colin? But you're the exception that proves the rule.
They are my colleagues! And if your suspect's so strong, why is he still walking around? You haven't even nicked him for Amelie and you're trying to tie him to Milly.
Oh, I'm going to bed.
Happy birthday.
DOOR SLAMS Eyeball on target.
He is on the move.
MAN: Swing to the right.
We'll meet you at the end of the roundabout.
Turning into Curson Road.
Copy that, Danny.
He's now heading west towards the roundabout.
We're following.
Eddie, get ahead of us.
Received, 142.
He's stopped.
The target has stopped.
Danny, pull in.
I've got eyeballs on the target.
The target's talking to two girls.
142 in position.
PHONE RINGS Colin Sutton.
Guv, you said to call direct if there's a situation.
What's he doing? Tell me exactly what he's doing.
Chatting up a couple of girls, about 15, 16.
They're at a bus stop.
How do they seem? OK.
GIRL: I don't know.
Sorry.
They're laughing.
They might leave soon.
Guv, do we move? Danny, stay put.
He's still talking to two girls.
Yeah, one of them's trying to move away now.
Now they both are.
421, standby.
He doesn't look happy.
Wait, he's approaching them again.
OK, move in.
Take him.
Danny, Mike, move in on the target.
Stand down! Stand down! BELLFIELD: Hello, mate.
Look after them, will you? Guv, the girls are on the bus.
They're safe.
All right, slags.
All right, girls.
Just follow me.
If you just want to take a seat over here GIRL: Are we in trouble? No.
No, not at all.
It'd be good to know where you were going.
The town centre in Uxbridge.
And when the man came up to you at the bus stop, what did he say? He was like, "You two look nice.
How old are you?" Did you tell him? And what did he say then? He said, "Oh, that's good.
"I bet you're both virgins.
You look like virgins.
I bet" Go on.
He said, "I bet you're both nice and tight.
" And he offered us a lift and that's when I walked off.
And then I followed her.
And the bus came.
Why are you asking about that man? Has he done something wrong? The encounter with these two girls lets us know exactly what kind of bloke Bellfield is.
He's still active and it lets us know that bus stops and bus routes are his hunting ground.
Amelie, Marsha and Sarah all got off buses right before they were attacked.
Maybe he sees them getting on and then follows the bus.
Quite possibly.
But what's certain is there will be more attacks unless we can find something to bring him in on.
You keep bringing up Marsha.
Are we looking at her officially now? Yes, we are.
And as you worked on Marsha, Richard, I'd say you were best placed to borrow the files and exhibits.
Borrow? Mm.
Yes, guv.
OK, Clive, you fill us in on Sarah Knight, please.
Right, DVLA records show Bellfield selling his Previa right after she's run over.
Have you paid the proud new owner a visit? Oh, yes.
Roger Fern, a known associate of Bellfield's.
He says Levi told him to register the car under a false name, lest it attract our attention.
Did Levi say why? No.
And Fern was too shit scared to ask.
Now, as for the Previa itself, we seized it and it has blacked-out windows and a broken driver's mirror.
Exactly how Sarah described the car that hit her.
Forensics? Er, a day, maybe two.
The broken mirror's a good place to start.
There is a couple of other hallmarks, too.
You've got a stain from a leaking petrol cap.
None of which is grounds to hold him on.
Blood or a DNA linked to Sarah Knight, on the other hand Yeah, I'll lean on Forensics.
OK.
Well, whatever happens, an arrest is imminent and we have to be ready.
Chris, what have you got on Bellfield locally? Lots.
From a logistics pot at point of view, he's a fucking nightmare.
What, has he got friends in low places? Closely associated with a suspected paedophile, Deepak Nadiri, his brother Gurav and an older bloke called Patrick Spalden with form for child abuse going back 20 years.
Well, it fits with him trying to pick up the girls.
So, what do we reckon? It strikes me Levi might lean on them to look after his property for him.
Or make it disappear.
And given their history, they might well oblige.
Yeah, and we lose evidence we'll never recover.
When we nick Bellfield, I want to hit their houses and their vehicles at the same time.
It's a lot of warrants.
Can you manage it, Chris? Give me a couple of days.
Three at most.
All right.
Thank you.
That's all.
Right, where is that pizza? Rob's got it.
Andy.
I need a word.
In your office.
Yeah.
The News Of The World just called the press office.
Don't ask me how, but they know we've got a suspect under surveillance and they know we're planning an arrest.
They're going to run the story on Sunday.
So we have to pick Bellfield up before then.
Well, we can't.
The warrants, the manpower, taking care of his associates, we're not ready.
Nowhere near.
Then we've got a problem.
This is Bob Cox, our Deputy Director of Communications.
Good to meet you, Bob.
Likewise, Colin.
Chris.
Bob.
So, those shysters from the News Of The World are making a proper nuisance of themselves.
Yeah, they can't run it.
Not this Sunday.
Yeah, I hear you, Colin.
But No, there is no but.
We're not ready to arrest him.
They can't run it.
Colin Bellfield will disappear.
He'll flee the country.
Let Bob finish.
Crete, Spain, Tenerife He's been in and out of the UK four times in the last six months.
Enough.
Yeah, I deal with the tabloids every day.
So, sad to say, I'm immune to the shock and indignation that you're now feeling.
Jaundiced, my wife calls it.
But I can tell you begging won't work.
Pleading won't work.
And neither will threats of contempt.
Unless, of course, we can back them up.
The lawyers aren't promising much.
Why not? Well, for one thing, the leak probably came from inside your team.
And for two, it's not an issue of national security.
Oh, tell that to Amelie's parents.
There is no guarantee we can stop them, Colin.
But we can do a deal.
What? We can do a deal.
Negotiate.
I already have a wee plan there.
When you nick Bellfield, on a day of your choosing take a journalist along for the ride.
Are you serious? Well, if they bite, they'll probably want a photographer, too.
You want is to take two untrained, unarmed people You want is to take two untrained, to arrest a violent psychopath? How do we move this forward, Bob? Well, you call them up.
Colin? Hello, Dave.
I, er I hear you're looking at Marsha McDonnell's murder.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
We had a very strong suspect there.
Yeah, I know.
But he never got charged.
He was sectioned before we got the chance.
Yeah.
We went over forensics with a toothcomb.
And when that was a wash-out, we got a psychologist in Oh, I don't doubt that you were thorough, Dave.
Not for one moment.
And I don't doubt that your bloke was in the neighbourhood the night Marsha got murdered.
But the link was only ever circumstantial, wasn't it? I've got to go.
OK.
Nicely done.
They went for it.
They're going to run the story next week, after the arrest.
Right.
They want a photographer and a reporter present.
Well, of course they do.
How many units does the News Of The World shift? About 4 million copies.
No pressure, then.
Now, we're striking ten locations simultaneously.
Go, go, go.
Police! Go left, go right! Where's Levi, Laura? I don't know.
We must have missed him, guv.
It's a cul-de-sac.
How can they have missed him? We are offering you a suspect who's not only a paedophile, but a killer and a rapist.
Suspected killer and rapist.
Guv, there's someone to see you.
I want to talk about Milly Dowler.