Waking the Dead (2000) s01e02 Episode Script

Day one.
Alice disappeared.
- Within 24 hours, we'd got the note.
- Same for Jodie.
Day three.
He phoned, then hung up.
- Following the same pattern.
- Why does he do that? He's retracing his steps.
He wants to get it right this time.
- So we have to break the pattern.
- No.
Showing us the squat was a mistake, but he had to get status.
What is the point of being brilliant if nobody knows? He'll be back in touch.
Still nothing about Jodie's job, but Acoustics have enhanced the background from his message.
They picked up planes, muffled.
- Could be another cellar.
- And seagulls.
Then it changes, so maybe he recorded the next bit at home.
Another regular noise - a steady hum.
Maybe a boiler or a computer.
This is his worid.
Right.
Alice's house.
Jodie's house.
Kelly's house.
The squat.
Jodie's music teacher's house.
The place where he dumped the body.
Maps just aren't about places.
They're about where he lives, where he works, his past.
Significant people in his life.
Headless chickens.
They were coming for me, weren't they? You said you'd go through with it! And so there must be a distinctive nick near the tip of the blade.
Wait a minute.
If we find our man in possessión of this particular knife, we can connect him to Alice's murder? Without Alice's DNA, even if we found blood in his car, we couldn't prove it was hers.
This knife would connect him to her.
The flaws in the metal are as individual as a fingerprint.
- Good work.
- Jodie's mum's rang.
She's found a load of Jodie's make-up.
It all has the Prima price label.
- Mrs Whitemore's never shopped there.
- I'll check it out.
He's gonna be sorry.
Who is he? - It's gonna be all his fault.
- Who? - I'm not taking any risks this time.
- But this is different.
I'm different.
No.
It's the same sentence for two as one.
Your cashier said you weren't in, Mr Harvey.
It's all cash in hand.
A few hours here and there.
Jodie Whitemore! Snatched off your doorstep by some local pervert! Or don't you get the papers, watch TV or read letters from the police? Oh, my God! You planned this, didn't you? - Come here.
- This is how it happened.
Alice didn't want it but you did it 'cause it's the only way you can get any.
That's not true.
Wait.
It's OK.
I'll let you.
Please.
- You'd say anything now.
- Take the cuffs off, please.
We don't need them.
Just like before.
Yeah, you'll see.
- I won't tell anyone.
- It's just the same.
You'll see.
You're just the same.
You're just the same.
It's gonna be all right.
You're just like her.
Come on! Come on! Come on! Look at me! Come on! Just like her.
Come on, look at me! Here, take this.
Come on.
That's it.
Take a deep breath.
That's it.
And another one.
That's it.
That's right.
That's right.
Thank you.
Jodie's mobile was used a couple of hours ago.
- Woolwich Ferry Service.
- He knows we'll find out.
Which makes this his next move.
So now I get to ring him.
Hello.
My name is Peter Boyd.
I'm very sorry if we caused any misunderstanding.
The money is yours.
The same police courier will go wherever you say.
I give you my word she'll be alone.
Please All I'm asking is that you give me another chance.
He was begging me.
So you can do the exchange now, can't you? - You promised me, Jodie.
- I won't go back on it.
You know what'll happen if you do.
Right.
Let's give Inspector Boyd what he wants.
Grace! He just walked in and dropped this off.
His delivery note.
- He's back on the game, taking risks.
- Is that good or bad? Tell my mum, please I'm all right.
- It's last night's "Standard".
- Please do exactly what he says.
He was there watching us.
OK.
You learnt your lesson, so we're on.
The Woolwich Ferry phone box, two this afternoon.
No second chances this time, Boyd.
Here he is.
- What's this? - That's where Jodie worked.
It's near where Alice's friend Kelly works - the hairdresser's.
- Why haven't we marked this? - We're building this guy's map.
We need every detail, whether you think it's important or not.
- Spence.
- Or how do we make connections? - Try her flat.
- OK.
Detective Sergeant Jordan.
- We were hoping to speak to Kelly.
- She's at work.
- Does she come back for lunch? - Sometimes.
- Phone her at the salon.
- We'll call in.
You her boyfriend? James Marshall.
- Is this about that kid Alice? - Has Kelly talked about Alice? Are you kidding? Your officer upset her.
That's why I'm framing that for her.
- Do you live here, James? - Yeah.
Um what's this all about? Is Kel in trouble? It's some information we need to check.
Sorry to bother you.
"SUNSHINE" BY GABRIELLE) Not in front of the clients, Boyd.
Why were you round my flat? I haven't seen her.
Where were you last Monday lunchtime? Jimmy picked me up.
We went to the Lloyd George.
You can check.
- We intend to.
- Alice meant a lot to you, didn't she? Why do I always feel that you're holding out on me? Why do I always feel like you let her down? - If a girl dies and you know something I don't! Well, I Look.
I was in shock.
I wasn't thinking straight.
- What did you see? - This is about Alice, not her! So tell me.
Alice did come to the party.
But when we got there, she bottled out.
I told her to piss off home.
- I'd had a few.
I didn't think that - Where was the party? Brixton.
What difference does it make now? You withheld an important lead! You saw her mum! She'd have blamed me! - I couldn't bring Alice back.
No one could.
Who was with you? - No one.
- What about her boyfriend? Jimmy? I didn't even know him then! He's got a PhD in trapping women, Mel.
He's already jerked us around once before.
Don't think a DC will be a match for him.
And he's got Jodie's life on the line.
And mine.
If I thought I wasn't up to it, I wouldn't be going.
He's 50 minutes late, Boyd.
He's blown us out.
Give him a bit longer.
- PC Silverman.
- Thought you'd have jacked it in.
- Of course not.
- You're alone? Completely.
And I've got your money.
This is what you have to do.
I've come off the dual carriageway.
Got a fork.
It's not signed.
What do you think? Come on.
This is taking far too long.
Take a left and keep going.
Stressed is how he wants you, Mel.
He'll find it and use it.
Just keep calm.
Hello.
Hello? You're making sure they can keep up.
- No.
- You think I can't see them? I'm all by myself, I swear.
I want you on your own for this last bit.
- Honestly, I've told you - Tell them nowl You're a copper.
You've got something.
I've got my mobile.
That's all.
Hello? Talk to me.
Are you still there? Please.
The road becomes a track that runs by the river.
There's a left turn down to a farm gate.
Stop, sit and wait.
Give me your number.
When it's time, I'll ring you.
Keep your distance, Spence.
We can't risk him seeing you.
Drive down to the gate.
Continue to the next gate and I'll call again.
You got that? Boyd, can you hear me? Mel? Mel? We've lost her.
Look.
These pylons must be draining the signal.
Boyd? Turn off the torch.
Start walking down toward the sheds.
So it's got to be these.
Well, it has.
Stay on your phone.
I'm the only one you're talking to.
- Shouldn't we go in? - I'll tell you when.
Leave the bag by the blue container.
- What about Jodie? - Just leave the bag.
No torchl Dump the bag and get out.
Jodie? - Jodie, are you there?! - Get the hell out, bitchl - Boyd? - Mel, get back to your car.
- Search in there! - Jodie! Jodie! - Jodie! - Jodie! Jodie! Jodie! Oh, God, no.
It's all right.
It's OK.
It's all right.
- Get the medics over here now! - Breathe.
We've got her, Mel.
She's alive.
You did it.
That's great.
What about him? Negative.
Come and join us.
- He's left the money.
- Why didn't he take it? - We disturbed him.
- This doesn't make any sense.
Spencer! Mel! - Mel! - Mel! - How soon can we interview her? - Police surgeon's with her.
- Does he know yet? - She wasn't raped.
I need to talk to her.
She's all over the place.
She says she was locked in the dark.
- I need a description.
- I know that.
Is he going to kill Mel? - I don't know.
- How long have we got? I don't know! I don't read tea leaves, I sift facts.
I don't actually know anything.
- You knew enough to get inside his mind.
So I should have realised.
We're right back to Alice.
- You sent a man and he said a WPC.
- I know, I know, I know.
He was taking you on.
He was filming you at the drop.
He was watching you.
When he was ranting at Mel, he was just checking that you were still there.
You need to go back over every case you've handled before Alice.
- He takes Mel to get at me.
- No, not Mel.
A WPC.
When we've cracked why, we'll know who we're looking for.
Right.
Is this starting to look like him at all, Jodie? - What about his hair? What sort of length? Does he have an accent? - You told me you wouldn't interrupt.
- She was holding out on us.
She's traumatised! Her memory's on shutdown.
If you pressurise her, she'll withdraw.
My only hope is a different way.
They're digging up every case you've ever worked on.
What Kelly said is kosher.
They were at the pub when she said.
When Alice was murdered, Marshall was tucked up in prison.
- Only one thing doesn't match.
- Yeah? Kelly told me Jimmy doesn't live with her.
But he told us he did.
No beer in the fridge, no clothes lying around.
Why would he be lying? Maybe he just overnights.
- At Kelly's flat he knew who I was.
- We introduced ourselves.
- I didn't.
- We showed ID.
- At Kelly's shop she knew it was me.
- She must have seen us come in.
- Unless he rang and warned her.
- Jimmy's alibi.
Places him yards away from where Jodie was last seen.
On the right street at the right time, picking up Kelly.
- He's her boyfriend.
- So? So - Where are you off to, Kelly? - This is harassment.
This is a murder investigation.
We're going through every detail.
- Your Jimmy where is he? - I don't know.
He was in your kitchen using your marge! Don't tell me you don't know! You never let me forget, did you? Years after Alice died, you kept coming back.
- What is your problem? - Boyd The killer gets off on getting in close.
That's what Jimmy's doing.
- Let's bring him in for questioning.
- We could blow finding Mel.
We can't risk it.
I want surveillance.
And get someone to babysit Kelly.
I don't want her warning him off.
He promised you he'd look after you but he didn't.
Because he lied.
He'd say anything to make himself look good.
Who are you talking about? Boyd! Jimmy's disappeared.
Oh, shit! Get details of every stretch he's done, when he came out.
Every address he's ever given.
Go back to his records, not just the computer.
- We are running out of time.
- I'll start again in three hours.
Push her! He's been stupid enough to give us a witness and we don't have a thing.
She's had to fight for her life.
Three days talking that bastard out of killing her.
- You can't imagine! - Mel's got time? - You think I'm not aware of that?! - So tell her he's got another girl.
See if that makes a difference.
- If it's Boyd you want - I've already got Boyd.
I had this tape over my mouth.
I couldn't breathe.
It was so dark.
Darkness.
He kept leaving me in the dark.
But you got him to talk to you, didn't you? So he must have liked you.
You had to get him to like you.
Didn't you, Jodie? - What the hell are you doing? - You want him to kill again? Jimmy's got nothing to do with this! - He's disappeared! Why? - Boyd! - This is what he liked? - What the hell's it got to do with you? This is what our man likes to do with his victims.
Boyd, come here.
Shh.
Listen.
The low hum.
This is where he recorded the message.
- You just don't understand.
- Oh, I do.
- I do.
I understand as if I'd been there.
How could you? Jodie, you knew you were going to die.
You could hear it in his voice.
The way he looked at you.
And you knew You knew he was going to rape you first.
You knew the only chance you had was not to be a girl he'd just picked up.
Not any girl, not Alice.
You had to find a way.
It can't have been Jimmy.
He picked me up, drove me to the pub, he took me home! What car was that, Kelly? - What car? - He sometimes drove a radio cab.
- Something else you haven't told me! - He's lost his licence! What else? What else haven't you told me?! Jodie Jodie, come on.
Take some deep breaths.
Take it easy.
Good girl.
Again.
OK? This happened with him, didn't it? He had to help you and you got through to him.
Something happened between you.
You had to promise him.
Oh, Jodie.
He's got another girl now - a young policewoman.
Jodie, you know what he's going to do to her.
I told him we should take a break.
- How did he take that? - He went crazy.
Stormed out.
And he turned up later on to take me out for lunch.
He seemed excited.
Different.
Hello? Listen, Boyd.
Jimmy Marshall wasn't in prison on the night Alice was murdered.
He was given a pass when his mum died, the weekend of Alice's abduction.
Three days later, he was out again for his mum's funeral.
Which is when he'd arranged the exchange.
Then he cleaned out the squat and got rid of her body.
And trotted back inside to finish off his sentence.
The prison database only showed official release dates.
There's something else.
Jimmy inherited his mother's house, Kelly.
I need that address.
Boyd.
Bingo.
- This is old blood.
It could be Alice's.
A souvenir? Yeah, but without her DNA profile, how can we prove it? They phoned Jimmy's taxi firm.
He's dropping a fare at City airport.
Marshall! Your big mistake You let us have Jodie back and she'll identify you.
Yeah.
So let's do it.
You'll go down for the murder of Alice Miller and the abduction of Jodie Whitemore.
Where the hell have you got my officer? I don't know what you're talking about.
Shit! - Shit! Shit! Shit! - What? Oh! One wisdom tooth, deeply impacted.
I thought I'd find tissue in the pulp chamber.
Shit! Shit Frankie Frankie.
It's OK.
Yeah? All right? Covered in Alice Miller's blood.
You knew it was dangerous to keep it, didn't you? It was my mum's.
She cut her hand.
I was in the nick when she died.
- It's to remind me.
- No need to say any more.
You trashed her photos.
You didn't give a damn about your mother.
But her dying got you a weekend pass.
So you went to the hospital.
How were you feeling? Angry? Confused? Glad she was gone? You thought, "Life's about me now" and helped yourself.
And when you'd finished with Alice you took something to remind you how good it was.
Boyd! Grace! Some kids were arrested ten years ago for breaking and entering.
It was at your nick.
James Marshall was one of them.
There was an incident involving a police officer - a WPC.
- And we found his cab by the river.
- Why didn't he leave it at the airport? - He always drove them there.
- Shit! - Is that where she is? - In the boot.
Get to the car.
Take Frankie.
I want Marshall in the interview room.
- He's on an official break.
- Wake him up.
Grace? Jodie's ready to talk to you now.
We pulled you in for breaking and entering, but that didn't seem to be enough for you.
You beat up one of my officers in the station.
A WPC.
You went down for grievous bodily harm.
Done your homework, have you guv? - Mel! - Mel? It's OK.
It's OK.
I've got them.
There you go.
OK.
This is the WPC who pulled you in for burglary which you denied.
Jodie looks a lot like her, don't you think? The WPC took away your clothes for forensics.
Put you in the white suit.
And then you made her look like this.
Who kept you in the dark, Jimmy? Who unscrewed the light bulb? Who locked the door? - It was your mother, wasn't it? - Shut up, you.
But that was the least of it, wasn't it? What else did she do to you? Er it's a bit late to be analysing me now.
She ruined everything for you, didn't she? You see Jodie broke her promise.
You still don't know.
Nobody knows.
So tell me, you little bastard.
Turn the light on.
Turn the light on.
Turn it on! Nobody Nobody can hear me.
She'd take the light bulb every time.
She'd take it like I was nothing and when I tried to talk to her, when I tried to make her see she just She just grabbed it off the cooker.
She just swung it round.
Boiling water.
- What did my officer say? - You left me with that bitch.
I was called away.
What did she say? She didn't have to say anything.
I knew from the way she looked at me.
It was her fault.
When it came to court you destroyed me.
I'm just another case you can't remember.
- All this because I left the room? - Three years.
You ruined my life.
You murdered Alice because I wouldn't do exactly what you wanted? - Inspector - Shut up! Why did you kill Alice Miller? She was dead before I sent you the letter.
I could not shut her up.
- Where have you got my officer? - I've already beaten you, Boyd.
What are you telling us? Have you killed her? All right.
Now you don't understand.
It's not her fault.
So, please where is she? You had me in your nick, you called me a piece of shit, you sent me down.
You're going to eat shit for the rest of your life.
You're going to get there just too late.
I'd love to see your face when you find her, Peter.
You're so close.
- We've got him.
- So why has he left it all for us? - He's taunting us.
- Sir? What's that? - A kit they use to get into locked cars.
He's put her in another car.
Another boot.
Ring Boyd.
- A search could take hours.
- We haven't got hours.
He's killed her already.
- No, it's a game.
He said we were close.
OK.
We've got something alkaline on the gloves.
Rotting vegetable matter.
Shit! Drop it! Drop it down! Stop! Stop! Turn it off! Turn it off! He said he'd make me eat shit.
- Mel! - Mel! Mel! Mel! Stop! Wait.
Wait, Spence.
Mel.
Mel? Mel Mel.
Oh, Mel.
OK.
It's all right.
You'll be all right.
It's all right.
It's all right.
It's all right.
You'll be all right.