Wire in the Blood s01e05 Episode Script

Wire in the Blood Season 1 - Episode 05 All units, stand by.
Suspect Paul Gregory approaching.
Justice Painted Blind Part 1 Hannah Kielty.
Eleven-year-old girl.
Just the sort you like.
Some evil pervert abducted her.
The bastard who took her did it in exactly the same way as he did Trudy Hibbert.
You remember her, now, don't you? - I was innocent.
- Yeah, of course you were.
We saw the pictures on the news.
We saw you walk free.
Strange how Bradfield Police never looked anywhere else for the murderer.
Don't you think? "THEY DID NOT LISTEN.
" Evil.
Sonia.
- Guv.
- Young female, teens, maybe early 20's.
- Any I.
D.
? - No, but fairly distinctive clothing.
- Found by a jogger.
- Have you got a statement? Not yet; they had to take him to hospital, suspected heart attack.
Number 2.
What the hell is this? "Can I trust you?" For any woman, that's the big question, Tony.
I can't answer that -- trust is for you to decide.
The less I tell, the more you see me, and we like that.
You do like seeing me, don't you, Tony? I wouldn't be here, Maggie, if it wasn't important.
That's a cruel answer to my question.
Try this, then and I'll know if you're lying.
Am I the only woman in your life? Am I? I guess you are.
How funny.
You really can only maintain relationships with patients, can't you? Can't you? Can't you? The car is registered to a Sonia Alice Brooks from Stinton.
One of the trolley boys found her shopping over there.
The purse was still in her bag; credit cards were in the same name.
Are we sure it's her? Same brand of tissues in the glove box as were found on her body.
The girl who rents the room over her reported Sonia missing last night.
She was twenty.
- Family? - We're onto it.
The till receipt was stamped at 20:35 last night.
She's come out of the lift.
We think the attack happened by the car -- keys were on the ground.
It's pretty quiet here that time of night.
Well, someone was waiting for her, and they had a car.
Robbery wasn't the motive.
Check the in-store security footage, see if anyone was following her.
And I want to know the names of everyone who paid by check or credit card in the store last night.
Why? Why abduct her, and why subject her to a death like that? - Dr.
Hill? - Mmm? Oh, no.
no.
We won't be calling you as a witness.
The defendant has changed his plea to guilty.
Right.
Carol.
- Spencer.
- Hi.
Pleasant surprise.
Yeah, didn't know you were in today.
No, I've just had to get a restraining order on an errant husband.
Families, eh? You tiptoed out early this morning.
Everything okay? Yeah, yeah.
I was needed.
It wasn't me, then? - Do you have time for coffee? - No, I've got to catch up with someone.
Yeah, of course.
Well, listen, I'll see you tonight.
Yeah, actually, Spencer, I'm not sure I'm going to be around.
This thing -- something's come up, so Sure.
I'll leave it to you.
Can you NOT do that? What? Sorry.
Creep up on people.
I was not -- I got your message you wanted to see me.
Who was that? Spencer.
He's a lawyer.
I know.
Place is full of them.
So, what is this, business, pleasure? What do you think? My guess is, she's been partially suffocated by the bag over her head and then strangled.
- Manually? - No, no, no--a rope.
- You can see the bruising.
- No rope found at the scene.
Tape around the hands and feet and a bag tied round her head.
How was the tape cut? Teeth? Neat cut, probably scissors.
There is an unusual staining around the mouth, a black smear.
I've taken some swabs, having them tested.
- Clothing? - Undisturbed.
Are you sure? Intact when we found her.
Sometimes what you find is not necessarily what happened.
There was no evidence of a sexual assault.
No scratches on the abdomen or genitals.
But she has had sex.
Absence of bruising suggests it was consensual.
I'm running a DNA profile from the semen.
So the sex act was separate from the death? This card on her body.
A number 2.
Very precise black felt pen.
It was pinned on her.
So no attempt made to conceal the body, no sticks, no leaves, no earth.
No unusual patterns left nearby.
Any jewelry taken? Hair cut off? Skin, toes, fingers removed? No.
Just left where she died.
She looks young for twenty.
That's when you should be most alive.
So, tell me about her.
Uh, normal girl, ordinary parents, left school at eighteen.
Worked in Bradfield Building Authority ever since.
- Usual dress sense? - Away from work, Oxfam chic.
She wasn't a short skirt and stiletto girl, if that's what you mean.
And she wasn't with anyone, so who did she have sex with? I didn't know you were so old-fashioned, Carol.
Do women have to be going out with someone to have sex these days? It helps.
Did she know her killer? I'd say her killer certainly knew her.
Whether she knew her killer is a different story.
Well, what would you do when you were twenty? Hmm? Annie, have you got the statements from the parents yet? Brandon wanted a quick look over them.
Brandon? Sir? Well, I need to know what's going on.
Well, you could always ask me.
I could do if we had time.
But since we have a press conference in fifteen minutes, which you'll be giving with me, I don't want my trousers round my ankles.
Fifteen minutes--well, that's very kind of you.
Been through the in-store tapes -- nothing.
We've seen this before.
It's Paul Gregory.
Three years ago, an 11-year-old girl from the Parfield Estates was abducted from the road outside her house.
She was found three weeks later in Drifton Woods.
Trudy Hibbert.
She'd been strangled.
Had a supermarket carrier bag over her head.
We never managed to secure a conviction against Paul Gregory for Trudy Hibbert's murder.
He's back in Bradfield and he's started killing again.
This was number 2.
Three years ago, September 22nd.
It was a Monday, late afternoon.
Young Trudy Hibbert was playing in the garden with a friend.
At approximately 3:15 tights.
Her own tights.
- And was she sexually assaulted? - No.
And we never found any DNA.
Two years ago, it came to trial.
- And was he the right man? - I know he was.
Paul Gregory should have gone down.
We had lots of circumstantial evidence-- enough, we thought, to convict him.
Walked away scot-free.
Couple of months back, he was the prime suspect for a girl's abduction up in Oldbridge.
And like here, he did it.
We just couldn't prove it.
We've all said it -- Sonia looked very young.
Forensics strangled by blue nylon tow rope.
Blue rope, blue tights.
I think we should pull Gregory in.
The person that killed Trudy Hibbert also killed Sonia Brooks.
Maybe, Don.
But if he was found not guilty, anything relating to that Trudy case or Paul Gregory is inadmissible.
I feel it in my gut -- we are looking for the same killer.
I think Gregory is taunting us because we couldn't nail him for killing Trudy.
I feel it here.
You see if I'm not right.
She was reported missing wearing a jumper -- where is it? We never found it.
Well, I need to give it more thought, but from what I've seen, no connection.
My gut against your head.
That sounds like a fair contest.
Oliver Hibbert? Geoff Taylor, Bradfield Echo.
I have nothing to say to you.
I just wondered if you'd heard about the murder of Sonia Brooks.
Do you know how similar the circumstances are to your daughter's death? Do you think the two cases could be linked? What do you think of Paul Gregory being free? It's too early to rule anything in or out at this stage.
What we're concentrating on today and what we're appealing for is help in finding the killer of Sonia Brooks.
So you're saying there could be a link to the Trudy Hibbert murder? Why couldn't they use the press conference, the direct appeal? Why do they have to prejudge some link and then make it bigger? Because the Trudy murder has never been solved.
They wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't draw attention to it.
I can feel it already, you know: the "is it" "isn't it" link is going to get in the way.
Well, if they are, then you're in the middle of something extremely political.
A killer the force couldn't capture is back, and everything that goes with it.
Do you have any ground coriander? Mnh-mnh.
I'm more of a heat-and-serve girl.
And if they aren't linked, then it's still a minefield, making sure you don't make the same mistakes they did and let history repeat itself.
Maybe you should think about comparing the cases.
At least that's what I'd do if it came to trial.
I've already asked Tony to have a look at it.
He's not sure they're linked.
Tony? Yeah.
A clinical psychologist.
What do you think? It's your case.
Well, no, I deal in evidence.
Something crops up, we look at it, examine it, and then make a decision on it.
Right now, all I have are opinions.
Anyway, why don't you buy curry sauce in a jar? It's much easier.
Carol Jordan.
Forensics have just come back with that staining around the mouth, and I thought you should know immediately.
What was it? Well, it's a weird one.
Sorry.
Dealing with evidence.
Don't worry.
They say it tastes nicer after it's got cold.
Warm it up when you get back.
Heat and serve.
You don't have to go.
Go on.
I'll let myself out.
Tights, neck, bag.
Tights, neck, bag.
Bag is after tights.
Tights and sex.
Tights are body.
Why so secret? But bag, tape, rope.
Bag is before tape, before rope.
Bag.
Is a hood.
A hood and rope.
A hood and rope.
Hood and rope.
I assume that means "come in.
" I was right.
There is no connection, completely distinct, completely separate.
The Trudy murder was a sexual murder of a little girl.
Are you certain? Well, although she wasn't sexually assaulted, the absence of DNA and the use of tights suggest a pedophile with other sexual dysfunctions who, at the moment of perceived rejection, has no option but to kill.
The tights were underneath the bag.
Death before the bag.
Covering her face after death equals guilt, acknowledges remorse.
The Sonia murder isn't like that.
So Sonia's murder is not sexual at all? No, no frenzy, no excitement.
These sexual predators choose their victims in the same way we would choose partners hair, teeth, neck, a smile, a walk.
And where we would see the possibility of sex, they see the arousal of death.
But what if she knew her killer? He could have been an ex-lover.
Oh, then he wouldn't kill like he did.
"You have rejected me.
"But you're rightfully mine; I want you.
"I have to show you how wrong you are.
"I have to reason with you.
"But you don't want me.
"I'm frustrated.
"If I can't have you, no one can" so I use what's to hand a rock, a brick, some wood, possibly strangulation, but it's manual, face-to-face.
But you don't bind my hands and feet Or put a hood over your head.
No, because that isn't a sexual crime, that is an execution.
Execution? Binding the hands, binding the feet, hood over the head, then the rope.
And the numbers are what, victims, targets? Didn't they used to put cards on deserters in the first world war? Don't know yet.
Why was she executed? That's not my department.
And why would she have newsprint all around her mouth? Newsprint? Mmm, that's what the staining was.
That's why I came over.
On her mouth? Have you eaten? No.
Oh, I'm sorry, Nells.
I'm sorry.
I know I said I was leaving, but I have a perfectly good excuse.
Which is I missed you.
Goodnight.
That's me, done.
See you tomorrow.
Oh, my God.
What do you want? TIME TO DIE BURN, BURN Time to die.
Time to die.
Time to die.
We've got an I.
D.
: Diana Nolan, 52 years old, grandmother.
Looks like the same man, I'm afraid.
Plastic bag, tape, same method of strangulation.
- Did she have a number? - Number 3.
Third victim? Are you sure Trudy Hibbert wasn't the first? Sure as I can be.
How was she found? In full view, so you couldn't miss her? Owner of the burger van arrived to open up for breakfast.
Nearly ran over her.
You're not stopping the passing traffic.
Well, we thought the chances of someone passing having seen something were pretty remote.
These people going to work wouldn't have been up in the middle of the night.
Not for witnesses, for the killer.
They want you to find the body.
They need to know that you have.
You question the traffic, you'll question the killer.
- Damn.
- You're right about the bodies.
We haven't found the first victim.
Executions? Right now, we're not sure why.
Tony doesn't believe these are random victims.
The manner of the deaths suggests not just a great deal of planning, but also deeply held resentment.
What do you think? I believe there's a link between these two women.
- Which two? - Diana Nolan and Sonia Brooks.
So, no connection with Trudi Hibbert.
Separate crime, different perpetrator.
Just outwardly similar.
You know, her father's already talking with the press, don't you? You've seen these? "Price incompetence".
"Evidential Failures".
"Procedural Nightmares".
"Our Life of Hell.
" I wasn't here then, sir.
No, I was.
We've just got all the checks and card transactions at the Newland High Food Market around the time of Sonia's abduction.
Nothing.
Well, then, go over them again.
Right.
I want every part of Diana Nolan's life turned upside down, every part of that woman's life looked into.
Go back over the statements we took after Sonia's murder.
Something connects these women.
I want a trace on the card and the tape who makes it, who stocks it, where do you buy it.
Kevin, tow rope.
Done that.
This type is sold in all the shops.
So have you been to them all? That rope was bought somewhere.
And have we chased up these bags? Before they became murder weapons, those bags had a previous life.
Where? There's a chain of evidence here that'll lead us to our man.
We just need the first link.
You should sleep more.
I was working.
It's important to let the mind rest.
That's rather difficult in here all sorts of ghosts come out at night to haunt you.
Do you see their faces? A mixture.
Voices come first.
Voices are always the worst.
Are they pleading with you? Asking for remorse? Oh, no.
Most of them are happy, happy for what I did to them.
And the ones that aren't I make them eat their words, and then they're happy.
You do what? I make them eat their words.
Yes.
Newspaper? The strangulation kept some of it in the gullet.
- Is it readable? - Some of the words.
There'll be some inside Sonia Brooks as well.
Why does he do this? Why does he make them eat newspaper? The answer will be in what they've eaten.
I'll run them up to Forensics, then they can let you have some photocopies.
Here, this is the edition from three years ago.
Trudy Hibbert.
They made Sonia eat this.
Can I ask what your interest is? Professional.
And that's from two months ago.
Inside Diana.
They made them eat these? Why did they make them eat these? You've been really helpful.
Don.
I owe you an apology.
It's not a whole one, it's just half of one, but it is an apology.
What the hell are you talking about? The link, the link between our victims, I know the link.
The newsprint around the mouths, you know why it didn't make sense? Because they had eaten it.
Sonia and Diana were forced to eat newspaper -- we found fragments in their throats.
- What's that got to do with me? - Because, Don, Don, this was inside Sonia, from three years ago.
"Trudy verdict -- not guilty.
" And this, from two months ago, was inside Diana - "Kidnapped Girl -- Trudy Link.
" Both of them were made to eat their words about Trudy -- the killer is literally making them eat - their words about her.
- What words? Their words, at the trial for Trudy's murder.
- What did they say? - They said "Not Guilty.
" They let Paul Gregory go free, and now they're being made to eat their words.
- Diana and Sonia were on the jury.
- Yes! If you're right, you know where this leaves us.
With ten more possible victims.
Mum wanted to come.
She's gone to see Dr.
Leach about her back.
She can't really travel.
Sends her love.
And Smoky's been poorly.
Did Dad tell you? The vet thinks it's furballs.
There.
How's that? Forgive your mother, love.
She's finding it hard at the moment.
We haven't forgotten next week.
Come on, then.
I need you to get me protection for the remaining jury members.
Twenty-four hours a day? Two-man teams? Yeah.
He's already killed two.
Tony thinks possibly three.
There's nothing to suggest he'll stop until he's killed all of them.
So what have you got? Okay, we know the killer was close to the trial.
The numbers we found on them aren't victim numbers.
- What are they? - Jury numbers.
To know that, he must have been in court.
The trigger for the killings was the abduction of an 11-year-old girl up in Oldbridge.
For which Paul Gregory was their prime suspect.
In the killer's mind, if the jury had convicted him of Trudy's murder, then the second girl would have been spared the ordeal.
The style of execution shows us that the killer believes they're delivering justice.
All right, Carol, if that's what you want, I'll get it for you.
I also want to question Oliver Hibbert.
It's the rational and proper thing to do.
Her parents have the strongest motive revenge.
Who would you blame if they let your daughter's killer go free? Okay, this is the jury list.
As you can see, all we have are names and post codes.
I want them found.
Some will have moved, emigrated.
I don't care we find them, we make sure they're all right, we sit on them.
Treat the remaining female jurors as priority.
This was a crime against a child.
Women are meant to protect children.
Right; let's get moving.
Glad you could join us.
Find anything out? No, guv.
Hello.
Who is this? Who is this? Mr.
Ashworth? Luke Ashworth? Yeah.
You've got the same security locks on your upstairs window? You still haven't told me what this is about.
Two years ago, you were on a jury, Mrs.
Lawson.
That's right.
Well, someone didn't like the verdict you came to.
Two of your colleagues have been found dead.
Get her a glass of water.
Jean? Are you all right? What's happened? Francis Jeremies.
- Francine.
- Francine, thanks.
Have a look, Lynn.
Mr.
Hibbert.
I'm Detective Inspector Carol Jordan, Bradfield Police.
I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions.
I've got nothing whatsoever to say to you.
- Who is it? - Someone new.
I'm so sorry, Mrs.
Hibbert.
I need to ask you a few questions.
I'm conducting a murder inquiry.
Really? How ironic.
I realize this must be very difficult for you both, but I'd really appreciate your cooperation.
We cooperated with Bradfield Police Department for over eighteen months.
- Legenda não traduzida - We put all our trust into them.
What makes you so different, Miss DI Jordan? This isn't about Trudy's case, Mr.
Hibbert.
What else could there possibly be that I'd want to talk to you about? Sonia Brooks.
Diana Nolan.
I've got nothing to say to you.
Boss.
Perhaps we should leave it for now.
Ms.
Jeremies.
Hello? Black victim.
Sexually motivated killings rarely cross racial lines.
Confirms our killer's motivation as justice and revenge.
No doubt she was the first victim we've been looking for.
Absolutely.
All women, all on the jury.
Just one left Jean Lawson.
I know exactly the type of person who's doing this.
Classic anal retentive.
They believe nobody has listened to them, and the murders are the only way they can make their point and to be listened to.
Go on.
Over the age of 35, average to above average intelligence, product of a disciplined but not abusive upbringing.
The father figure was someone in authority could have been a prison officer or a policeman.
- His dad was in the army.
- Who? Obsessively neat and tidy in everything they do house, car, job, clothes.
Convinced in their own view of right and wrong.
They believe they are the arbiters of justice.
Damn! I should have stuck to my guns with Hibbert.
No wonder he slammed the door in my face.
Married? Yes or no.
If they are, it'll be a traditional marriage with set tasks split between the partners.
They won't have many friends.
The only relationships they have will be at work.
But it'll be a mundane job where they have some sort of authority over others.
Well, Oliver Hibbert won't talk to us.
I've got no choice I'll have to arrest him.
Brandon will love that.
Get a warrant for his arrest.
What does he do? He works in purchasing for a chain of High Street chemists.
Works with numbers? Inside his house, excessively neat? From what I've seen, yeah.
Carry on.
I'm not here.
If you say so, sir.
Have you spoken to Oliver, Mrs.
Hibbert? Is there anything you'd like to say? I'm representing Mr.
and Mrs.
Hibbert.
I'd like immediate access to my client.
One moment, please.
As you'll remember, Mr.
Hibbert, I would have preferred to have had this interview in far more relaxed circumstances.
And away from the glare of publicity.
Don't apologize, Carol; you'll let him off the hook.
But we've left all that outside now, so we can do away with any pretense.
I hope she knows what she's doing.
What do you want? I'm investigating a triple murder, Mr.
Hibbert.
Oh.
Is that more important than a single murder? No.
We prosecuted the case.
The jury The case? The case was my daughter.
She was murdered, and you let the killer go.
No the jury let him go.
How did you feel when that happened, Mr.
Hibbert? - I couldn't imagine it.
- No, you're right there.
You couldn't imagine for one moment what it's like, Detective Inspector.
To lose your daughter.
And find the killer and be promised justice.
To watch a known pedophile, with previous convictions, just walk away.
Ask him what's his view of justice.
What would have been justice? Life.
Guilty, with a life sentence.
Did you kill Sonia Brooks? He wouldn't be out there now, walking the streets! - Or Diana Nolan? - Interfering with other kids, destroying their lives! Or Francine Jeremies? Protected by the law that failed my Trudy! We're the victims in this.
We got the life sentence, he got nothing! I will ask you again, Mr.
Hibbert.
Where was the night in question? - I have no idea.
- Detective Inspector, this line of inquiry is not getting you anywhere.
Do you have anything of substance to say to my client? Do you have any proof of these allegations? There he is! There he is now! Mr.
Hibbert! Mr.
Hibbert! My clients will be making a full statement later in the day.
Paul Gregory! Mr.
Gregory! Gregory! Gregory! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! - Let the man go! - Get your back on the wall there! Get off me! Get off me! Get off me! Little bastard! I'll kill him! I'd like to make a statement! I am I want to confess to murder.
Yes, oh, yes! I told you! I told you! Why were you free to kill this time? Sonia Brooks.
Diana Nolan and Francine Jeremies.
I killed them.
Why was he never a suspect? What's your reaction to this, Inspector? Why was he never a suspect? Three women are dead women who said he was not guilty.
I didn't kill Trudy Hibbert.
I'm sure you don't want us imprisoning the wrong man.
Don't let him make a fool of us, hmm? I'll need to go upstairs, Carol.
Upstairs, downstairs--what's the difference? Not in there! - What's going on here? - I'll tell you in a minute.
Just do as I ask.