Waking the Dead (2000) s02e06 Episode Script
Special Relationship: Part 2
Boyd.
Who is this? Have you got information that's relevant to an enq? No, wait! Wait a minute, wait! Last night, Frankie established that the semen found in Katherine Reed's body came from Sir James Beatty.
We review everything.
Sir James and Larry Karp say they left the flat at 9pm.
What were Beatty's movements after that? Lady Beatty said that she heard her husband come home around midnight.
Heard him, but didn't speak to him.
What, she was half-asleep? Possibly.
Why didn't Worrall go into it? Why would she? She didn't have a DNA match for the semen.
OK.
Suppose Beatty comes back to the flat after his dinner with Karp? Yeah, they have a row.
A fight.
No, a row.
There's no evidence of a fight.
Leading to her death.
OK, Spence, check the door-to-door files.
I'm going to talk to Lady Beatty.
Is that a good idea? Well, her husband's the prime suspect, isn't he? We're very vulnerable, Grace.
In what way? I illegally obtained a DNA sample from Sir James Beatty.
I'm being paranoid, aren't I? I don't know whether you're being paranoid.
I'm just concerned we don't go charging up ONE alley.
How many alleys do you want to go charging up? They had an affair! We're not talking this through the way we should! It's not a crime to have sexual intercourse as a consenting adult.
But withholding the nature of a relationship in a murder inquiry would be different.
But if no-one asked him? Did Jess Worrall ask him? This thing with you and Jess Worrall was over long ago, but I don't want us distracted by factors.
Factors? A big conspiracy solution would let Jess Worrall off the hook.
Give me a break! You think I'm doing this because of Jess Worrall?! I've got my own career to think of, I've got the Home Office on my back, I've got this Deep Throat who keeps calling Who calls you? I don't know! He doesn't leave his name! I'm sorry, Grace.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, Grace, you got me there.
I'm going to go and, um talk to Alice Beatty.
Why don't you let me and Mel talk to Alice Beatty? Here we go again.
Leave it to the ladies - is that what you mean? If that's the best way you can understand it, yes.
The mood you're in, we won't get what we need.
Come on, Boyd.
Let me do it my way just once! Don't let her think We're going because she knew Katherine Reed.
Excuse me.
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Mel, we're going out.
I thought I'd sit in for a while, if it's all right.
Yeah, no problem.
I won't get in the way.
No, you won't be in the way.
Oh, God! He's changed his mind.
I changed my mind.
I'll handle this, OK? Please.
Let me.
I'm so sorry.
There we are.
Thank you.
Alice Beatty.
Dr Grace Foley.
DC Silver.
Mel.
Alice Beatty.
Hello.
Now, you want to talk to me because I knew Katherine.
Exactly.
When we take over what we call a cold case, I like to start from scratch.
I understand.
Well, Katherineshe was not the sort to go unnoticed.
And, of course, we saw a lot of her.
In what circumstances? Dinner parties, political receptions, events Can you describe her? Describe her? What sort of? What impression did you make of her? I suppose I thought she was a certain sort of a woman.
You didn't like her very much? Very ambitious.
Hardly suited to the sort of job she was given.
Did you get on with her? She was more interested in getting on with men.
What do you mean by that? I should have thought it was clear enough.
By "men" you mean your husband? She flattered him.
You know how men like to be flattered.
Especially when someone puts up a reputation for being unapproachable, sexually I mean, and then How long have you been married? Both our children died.
One shortly after birth.
Our daughter died in a drowning accident.
She was 15.
I'm sorry.
Do you think you and I could talk alone in my office? Of course.
Katherine didn't like policemen very much.
I assume you know that.
I never knew her.
She thought there were too few university graduates in the police force.
That was typical Katherine.
Personally, I have the highest regard for police officers.
What is it you do? I'm in Who's Who.
I'm sorry, I Not at all.
I'm chairperson of a quango, in the health field.
I was a full-time GP till James got to run his first department.
I'm sorry about this.
I just wasn't comfortable with that girl present.
I understand that.
What is it you wanted to tell me? When Taft was acquitted, naturally, a lot of things went through my head.
You knew your husband was at her flat.
With that dreadful American.
When did he get back? I was asleep.
We have separate rooms.
Do you want to tell me something about your husband's relationship with Katherine Reed? They spent a lot of time together.
I'd had to accept that.
It wasn't the first time I'd had to be flexible about James'sfriendships.
She virtually admitted her husband was having an affair with Reed.
Why was it necessary to take you off into a room on your own? She obviously didn't want to talk in front of you two.
And you think that's normal? It's a man's world! They slept in different bedrooms so he doesn't have an alibi.
What do we know about the drowning accident? We spoke to the housekeeper.
While you were in the inner sanctum.
Harriet Beatty - she was swimming off a beach in Greece with her father.
Get me the coroner's report.
Oh, no! Your sergeant hasn't completed my survey satisfactorily.
My sergeant is busy on a murder inquiry.
I haven't had your form back either.
That is correct.
This investigation is confidential.
The audit thing is over.
You will not be admitted to this area again.
It's not for you If I think you are obstructing me, I'll arrest you.
I do not expect to see you again.
PHONE RINGS MUSIC PLAYS: "Blood Red River" by Beth Orton Took a friend I found Cross some blood red river Never did find my way home In time to forgive her Why must people always fall For what they can't have? Why must people always grab For what they'd never grasp? How did we get so far How did we move so fast away From the lilac lily glade? Where I'm sure we used to stay Is it only a dream away Sorry.
I was phoning.
Yeah, sorry.
There are two different hair types in Katherine Reed's brush.
Any idea whose? Not yet.
But I don't think we'll find after-shave.
Even if we did I know.
We don't need forensic evidence, we need Time-bracketed evidence.
Toxicology? She'd had less than 50mg of Benzodiazepine and the equivalent to a bottle of wine.
So she was pliable.
Well, she could have been anything.
I'm sorry.
I'm not TRYING to be unhelpful.
I was told I had to come and get her.
Of course.
Where is she? Why don't you leave it to us? I have to sign something.
Yeah.
Just here.
I want to see her.
OK.
If Beatty killed Katherine Reed, is it possible it wasn't his first time? What are you getting at? What sort of man are we dealing with? IF he killed Katherine Reed.
No excess of violence at the crime scene.
So it's a practical killing, done for a practical purpose.
A senior civil servant kills a lover to protect his career.
What sort of man does that? Not psychotic - it's too organised.
Violence as a practical solution to a problem, we call that instrumental violence.
There's a goal.
It's manipulative.
This man is surrounded by deaths.
Three deaths - two children, one lover.
Manipulative Wait.
Are you saying he had something to do with these deaths? I'm trying to find out if it fits.
Instrumental violence, you say.
What are you asking me for? A hypothesis? No, I want guidance, Grace.
Please! What is credible? That he murdered his daughters? No, Katherine Reed is murdered on her bed When a man kills a lover - IF that's what happened - in such a cold-blooded way Could he have killed his daughter? I think you're mad.
I just want to get our bearings.
"Could have" and "did" are different.
If you don't tell me what's credible, I'm gonna end up like Mel! I'm going to say, "I can't proceed because I believe Sir James Beatty is above this kind of suspicion.
" The killer of Katherine Reed is not above this kind of suspicion.
Great! Thanks, Grace.
However Spence, get your coat.
Detective Superintendent Boyd.
Miss Hardingham.
Sir James is in a meeting.
I want to speak to you.
Can I see Sir James's appointment diary for last year? I don't think that's possible.
You don't have the option to refuse, I'm afraid.
I am refusing.
This situation is covered by law.
The Home Office will explain it to you.
I don't need your sarcasm.
Detective Superintendent.
I was told you couldn't be interrupted until your meeting was over Quite right.
Can I ask you to make an appointment when you wish to speak to me? Sir.
Boyd, isn't it? Yes, sir.
Can I help? I'm working on the Reed enquiry Douglas, show Sir Kenneth down to lunch, will you? .
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Thanks for coming.
Sir James, may we go into your office? Sir James, what time did you return home after your dinner with Larry Karp? After midnight.
Did you speak to your wife? My wife was asleep.
So she neither saw you nor spoke to you? No.
How did you get home? You went to Katherine Reed's flat in Karp's car.
I'd given my driver the evening off.
After dinner at Larry Karp's flat I got a taxi on the street.
Why didn't Mr Karp offer you transport? Because I didn't ask him.
Did you return to Katherine Reed's flat the night she died? No, I did not.
Do you know anything about her death that you haven't told the police? Of course not! Any other questions? No.
No, that's all for now.
Thank you for your time, Sir James.
She didn't come back.
Holmes or Watson or whatever she was called.
Good.
You've been to see Sir James.
I have.
Why didn't you take me? He might have noticed if I'd taken a profiler along.
I could have said you were my aunty.
Oh, thanks! Well, you know what I mean.
I look like your aunty.
Thanks.
PHONE RINGS What have you got? Pages from Sir James's office diary.
There's a sequence of evenings marked off with a highlighter pen.
Nothing written.
Just highlighted.
Hi, I'd like to speak to Lady Beatty.
They'd been scuba diving.
He dragged her onto the beach.
She'd hit her head.
You tried to resuscitate her? Of course.
I'm sorry to have to ask you this, but have you ever suspected that your husband had anything to do with Harriet's accident? Why do you ask me that? We just have to follow up all possibilities.
It was a very difficult time.
I'd, um just found out my husband was having an affair.
Are you saying you think Harriet knew and? I tried not to think it.
You knew your husband was having an affair with Katherine Reed? Yes.
Did he know that you knew? Of course not.
Do you think Katherine threatened to tell you or demanded that he leave you? He'd never leave me.
You didn't see or hear your husband come home that night, did you? Lady Beatty, you can't be compelled to give evidence against your husband and I'm not making any notes.
There are no hidden tape recorders.
After Katherine was found, I spent a lot of time thinking about her death.
James wouldn't want to be exposed.
It would be too much for him.
PHONE RINGS Why didn't Mr Boyd come to see me? We work as a team.
Why does Boyd want this done again? He got the first specimen illegally and he needs to do this by the book.
Never bothered him before.
I know.
What's this? There were two different hair types found in Katherine's hairbrush, both female.
I never let anyone use MY hairbrush.
Do you ever think of looking for what's not there? Don't get deep with me, Spence.
Scientists can only find what they're looking for.
I mean, you don't find something if you don't test for it.
Toxicology said she'd taken a sleeping pill.
Yeah.
Where's the bottle? I mean, it's evidence, isn't it? Boyd, Spencer's just thought of something.
It looks like the sleeping pill was given to her.
There were no Benzodiazepines in her cupboard.
I see.
Something else.
Spencer's on a roll.
Go, Spence.
She was having an affair with Beatty.
We don't know that, but we believe it.
They had sex.
We know that.
He didn't use a condom.
We know that.
What did SHE use? Maybe she was trying to get pregnant.
I'm enquiring into whether a Katherine Reed has used your travel agency in previous years.
A regular customer? .
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Right.
OK.
When? The strange hair in the hairbrush - female.
And we both recognised the colour, didn't we? Thank you, you can fax it to me.
OK, cheers.
Lorna Gyles and Katherine Reed holidayed together every year for the last four years.
Mel, where were you? Lady Beatty.
She confirmed her husband WAS having an affair with Katherine Reed.
She also thinks he may have tried to drown their daughter because she found out about an earlier affair.
If you think this is true, you're going to have to arrest Beatty.
Before I put my head on the block, I need a little bit more.
Come on.
You want me to arrest him now? YOU were the one going on about charging up alleys.
Just give me some time.
I just need some more.
There is somethingmissing.
Let's just meet here tomorrow, first thing, with some fresh thoughts.
Why don't Mel and I go and see Lorna Gyles? Are you running your own cold case squad? We think it's her hair in the hairbrush.
She's under suspicion for borrowing a hairbrush? Lorna Gyles is a suspect? Is this what you're telling me? I'm telling you we don't know it's Sir James.
That's what you're always telling me.
That's what you never stop telling me.
I'm sure you'll go ON telling me! Hi.
I keep turning on the TV, waiting to see you with Beatty in handcuffs.
Would you laugh or cry? If you think he's guilty, arrest him and question him.
Everybody keeps telling me that.
What is this - a woman thing? My job's on the line here, you're supposed to help me.
Sorry.
I don't know how we've got along without each other for so long.
I'm not your latest cold case, you know.
I can't help you.
We wanted to ask you something, as you knew Katherine.
Did she tell you that she was having an affair with Sir James Beatty? No.
Do you think it was possible that she had an affair with him? Why don't youtalk to Ray? You see, I wonder if I know why Professor Levin was so angry when his relationship with Katherine broke up.
People usually come to terms.
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Thank you.
And I wondered if he was angry because he felt humiliated.
Humiliated by Katherine having an affair with her boss? No, because she was having an affair with you.
We went on holiday.
Your sexuality, Katherine's sexuality, even Sir James Beatty's sexuality are not criminal matters.
A holiday.
You stayed at her flat.
Your hair was found.
I didn't kill her! We're not suggesting you did.
We came here for help.
You were very close.
She must have talked to you.
I can't imagine two women not confiding in each other.
She knew she was bisexual when she married.
Ray didn't know that.
But she told me She told me she was faithful to me.
I see.
Did she ever talk to you about wanting children? She did want a child, yes.
Isn't that something you should talk to Ray about rather than me? When did you find out that Katherine was bisexual? When I came home early from a conference and found her in bed with a female colleague.
She couldn't help her sexuality.
She didn't HAVE to marry me.
You're saying she just did it for show? You didn't know Katherine.
She was unusual, to say the least.
You call her bisexual, that's being flexible.
Do you know whether she was ever involved with any other men? Men? Katherine? So what are you saying - that your marriage was completely phony? She must have had some interest in men.
She'd married you.
She may have made an effort, but it didn't work.
So, how long DID it last? We stayed together a year.
It took me that long to realise what she really wanted.
What was that? She'd been against the system all her life, suddenly she wanted to be part of it.
She said she would change everything.
That was Katherine.
No limit to her ambition.
She didn't marry you because she wanted a powerful job.
She married me because she wanted a child! When I realised there was no what, um .
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reality in our relationship .
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I confronted her.
She told me she wanted a marriage and a child, but she didn't want me.
I told her I didn't want a child on that basis.
So you refused? It takes two, doesn't it? Of course I refused.
After we broke up, she came back, went on about it again.
In what way? She wanted help with getting pregnant.
In a technical sense.
And what did you say? I told her to leave me out of it.
I told her to go and see someone, use her credit card.
I refused to be involved.
Have we done? I have a class of bushy-tailed teenagers waiting for me in the morning to show them how to make the world a better place.
Did I forget to tell you something? I loved her.
Do men kill the thing they love? Oh, yes, sometimes.
Leeds to Londonin a car, under three hours.
I don't think he killed her.
So we drew a blank? No.
She went somewhere for fertility treatment.
Ann.
What is it? Cancel everything in my diary today.
What shall I say? Don't say anything, just cancel.
PHONE RINGS Hello? It's Security.
Tell them I'm coming down.
Sir James, how would you characterise your relationship with Katherine Reed? It was a professional relationship.
Were you sleeping with her? No, I was not.
Where did you go after you left Larry Karp's house on the night of Katherine Reed's murder? There's no need to answer that.
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Sir James declines to answer that.
How can that be a security matter? I am entitled to put my questions.
Is it true that you went back to Katherine Reed's flat in Cheltenham Square? No, it isn't.
There is a colour code in your diary for that evening and for a number of evenings previous to that one in the year.
That code is for your rendezvous with Katherine Reed, isn't it? Sir James declines to answer that question.
I think you're lying about your relationship with Katherine Reed and about your movements that night.
This amounts at least to obstruction of a police investigation and you are liable to arrest.
Back off, Boyd.
Is there anything you want to tell me? Yes.
Arresting me will be a very big mistake.
Don't play into his hands.
James Beatty .
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I arrest you on suspicion of the murder of Katherine Reed.
You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned anything which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
DOOR OPENS I'll get my boss to speak to you.
Boyd, you're needed in interview room two.
We have a visitor.
Excuse me.
I'll be back.
What? She's just arrived, said it was urgent.
Take it easy.
Come with me, then.
You needed to speak to me.
On the night Katherine Reed was murdered, Sir James was at my flat till early morning.
We can't speak here.
I know, they're listening.
So they can hear this.
I did not kill Katherine Reed.
Why was Sir James at your flat? Why do you think? You were in a relationship with him.
That's a ridiculous way of putting it.
We arehaving an affair.
The colour code in the diary was our way of arranging a night.
Are there any witnesses to his presence at your flat that night? Do you think it was a threesome? No, I meant did anybody see him arriving? Of course not.
His driver would collect him from the other side of Kensington Gardens.
How long has this relationship been going on? Ten years.
Ten years.
That's a long time.
He can't leave his wife.
Why not? He says he can't.
And you accept that? I accept what I have to accept.
I'm with him all day.
We spend nights together.
Still, it must be hard for you.
Not when you love someone.
I need a statement from you, Miss Hardingham.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Well, you don't need me to tell you.
She's not lying.
You're free to leave.
For the present time, I've changed my mind.
PHONE RINGS OUTSIDE Boyd? Mm-hm? I don't blame you for trying.
I think I blew it.
The Commissioner's office called.
Can he see you in 30 minutes? I wish you'd listened to me.
Never mind.
Karp was certainly holding back in his impression of Katherine Reed.
She was a homosexual.
The reason Levin's so angry is he found out his marriage was an illusion.
She left him for a woman - Lorna Gyles.
She married Levin.
Yeah, but only because she wanted a child.
That doesn't stop her seducing her boss or her boss seducing her or Yes, but What does, "Yes, but" mean? We still don't have a motive.
I know that you don't think he did it.
No, I've never thought he did it.
It's not a crime of passion, it's a very cold-blooded murder.
You don't have any evidence.
I know there's something missing.
Do you need anything? I do, yes.
I need a statement from Ann Hardingham.
I'll do it.
Thank you.
PHONE RINGS Oh, God, here we go.
Boyd.
Sir.
No.
Sir No, sir, we haven't briefed the press or leaked anything.
No, I assure you, sir.
Yes, I will.
I have a short statement.
It has been reported that my husband has been questioned by the police in the case of Katherine Reed.
I completely stand by my husband, whose innocence is undoubtable.
Her office said she was coming home.
Ann? Ann! The lights are on.
I'll call for backup.
Ann! She's in here.
Can you hear me? Open your eyes.
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What's her name? Ann Hardingham.
Ann Hardingham.
Ann, can you hear me? Sir James Where is she? Saint Mary's.
This pill bottle has your name on it.
I gave them to her.
That's for me? Yes, it is.
It's her suicide note.
Why does she say she accepted right from the beginning that you were unable to have children together? I had a vasectomy.
When? After Harriet died, about 15 years ago.
Look at the mess you've created.
Frankie, I need to talk to you.
I don't have to explain the effect of a vasectomy on semen, do I? No little black things with tails.
This is Beatty's.
But it's got to be more than 15 years old.
So someone impregnated her with a very old specimen.
Supposing someone knew who'd done this all along? Reed and Beatty are representing the British Government in some deal with the Americans.
Turn that off.
The Americans are going through the Home Office.
They meet at Reed's flat You'd use something like this because it's permanently connected to the mains power.
And all transmitters need power, however small they are.
Gotcha.
Do you know where Boyd is? In the lab.
Thanks.
Boyd! The quango that Alice Beatty runs, do you know what it is? No, but you're going to tell me.
I am.
The Demeter Trust.
It's a medical trust for infertility solutions.
I went with a warrant and found out that one of their clients was Katherine Reed.
Her medical insurers had this letter on file.
It's from her GP referring her to a specialist for infertility counselling.
Who's the specialist? Alice Beatty.
Dr Beatty.
How's Miss Hardingham? She's comfortable.
I'll just go and see how she's feeling.
Yes.
How is she? I've had those reporters on the doorstep again.
What should I tell them about this? The media think that you were having an affair with Katherine.
I wasn't.
Nobody had any idea about her! No bloody idea at all.
Alice, isn't it time we faced up to what really happened? Let's discuss Alice Beatty's personality for a moment.
She's cold jealousmanipulative threatened whenever Mel and I asked her questions.
She wasn't happy until she'd taken you out of the room on her own.
To make sure that she was the centre of attention.
Yes.
In control.
Yes.
In the history of the marriage, Harriet Beatty was conceived quite late, after a cot death.
So we can presume that Alice Beatty had some trouble in conceiving and developed an interest in fertility medicine.
OK.
If Harriet was conceived by artificial insemination, Alice will have used the sperm provided by Sir James, her husband, which was kept frozen.
Katherine Reed wants a baby.
She saw Alice Beatty, privately.
Didn't discuss it with anyone.
Alice Beatty thinks her husband is having an affair with her.
Wrongly.
But if she thought Reed was having an affair with her husband, can you imagine her reaction when this woman goes to her to ask her for help to get pregnant? Right, well, if Alice has normal emotions, she'll go off the deep end and she'll confront her.
Alice doesn't have normal emotions.
She's egocentric and only experiences emotions and needs of her own.
Other people aren't real for her.
So she can kill them.
She's a psychopath? If we're right, she has to be.
She plans to murder Reed, knowing her husband will be arrested? CAN be arrested, any time she points the finger at his supposed relationship with Katherine Reed, when the forensic evidence is pulled out of the archives, the semen's identified.
Alice Beatty always has her finger on the trigger.
Lady Beatty! Lady Beatty! My husband's left now.
How are you, Miss Hardingham? You resting? I'm sorry you felt so badly about everything.
Getting involved with such a dangerous man must have been appalling for you.
But, of course, you'd no idea what he was like, had you? Grace, what's her next move? Ann Hardingham.
The hospital.
She's fine.
You were very discreet.
Absolutely what I would have expected.
Women should always try to be professional, even though it's not easy for them.
This will give you the rest you need.
Intensive Care? First floor! You'll be fine now.
We'll all be fine.
Dr Beatty? Yes? Are you Miss Hardingham's GP? Yes, I am.
First floor! Get a crash team NOW! Hurry! Ann? Ann! Are you looking for my husband? Yes, do you know where he is? I was looking for him myself.
I thought he was here.
Would you like to tell us what you've been doing? All in good time.
We'd better find my husband first.
Alice Beatty, I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Katherine Reed.
Don't touch me! I've put your wife under arrest for the murder of Katherine Reed.
I will charge her with the attempted murder of Ann Hardingham.
When did Larry Karp tell you what really happened to Katherine Reed? The miniature mic and transmitter we found in Katherine Reed's hi-fi.
It's made in America, I think.
Don't you? I don't see how they could have put it there without your consent.
Your knowledge.
Maybe they even bugged her in the first place at your suggestion.
You never really liked Katherine Reed, did you? Didn't trust her.
You don't like strong-minded women in your office.
It's a boy thing.
It's an old-boy thing.
Must have been difficult, though, when the Americans told you that you were married to a murderer.
Nothing that I've done to protect national security is illegal.
You've no business here.
I wasn't trying to protect my wife in this business.
Even if I were, I've done nothing incompatible with my position.
You will not be getting the satisfaction, Boyd, which you so evidently hunger for.
James Beatty, I'm arresting you on suspicion of conspiring to obstruct the course of justice.
You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned anything which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
I nearly got it totally wrong.
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And the story with the Americans? I don't know.
Maybe we're about to become the 52nd state! They stitched you up, you know.
Ahque sera.
Why don't you ask for your job back? Question is, do I want it? You're very good at it.
You say that just like you mean it! I DO mean it.
Is this when you say something like what a great team we were? Yeah.
Well, I have thought about it since this began, but We just go around the same course, end up in the same place.
What's wrong with where we've ended up, here? Now.
Right here.
Nothing's wrong with it.
There you go, then.
And we've ended up friends.
Yeah.
Who is this? Have you got information that's relevant to an enq? No, wait! Wait a minute, wait! Last night, Frankie established that the semen found in Katherine Reed's body came from Sir James Beatty.
We review everything.
Sir James and Larry Karp say they left the flat at 9pm.
What were Beatty's movements after that? Lady Beatty said that she heard her husband come home around midnight.
Heard him, but didn't speak to him.
What, she was half-asleep? Possibly.
Why didn't Worrall go into it? Why would she? She didn't have a DNA match for the semen.
OK.
Suppose Beatty comes back to the flat after his dinner with Karp? Yeah, they have a row.
A fight.
No, a row.
There's no evidence of a fight.
Leading to her death.
OK, Spence, check the door-to-door files.
I'm going to talk to Lady Beatty.
Is that a good idea? Well, her husband's the prime suspect, isn't he? We're very vulnerable, Grace.
In what way? I illegally obtained a DNA sample from Sir James Beatty.
I'm being paranoid, aren't I? I don't know whether you're being paranoid.
I'm just concerned we don't go charging up ONE alley.
How many alleys do you want to go charging up? They had an affair! We're not talking this through the way we should! It's not a crime to have sexual intercourse as a consenting adult.
But withholding the nature of a relationship in a murder inquiry would be different.
But if no-one asked him? Did Jess Worrall ask him? This thing with you and Jess Worrall was over long ago, but I don't want us distracted by factors.
Factors? A big conspiracy solution would let Jess Worrall off the hook.
Give me a break! You think I'm doing this because of Jess Worrall?! I've got my own career to think of, I've got the Home Office on my back, I've got this Deep Throat who keeps calling Who calls you? I don't know! He doesn't leave his name! I'm sorry, Grace.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, Grace, you got me there.
I'm going to go and, um talk to Alice Beatty.
Why don't you let me and Mel talk to Alice Beatty? Here we go again.
Leave it to the ladies - is that what you mean? If that's the best way you can understand it, yes.
The mood you're in, we won't get what we need.
Come on, Boyd.
Let me do it my way just once! Don't let her think We're going because she knew Katherine Reed.
Excuse me.
.
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Mel, we're going out.
I thought I'd sit in for a while, if it's all right.
Yeah, no problem.
I won't get in the way.
No, you won't be in the way.
Oh, God! He's changed his mind.
I changed my mind.
I'll handle this, OK? Please.
Let me.
I'm so sorry.
There we are.
Thank you.
Alice Beatty.
Dr Grace Foley.
DC Silver.
Mel.
Alice Beatty.
Hello.
Now, you want to talk to me because I knew Katherine.
Exactly.
When we take over what we call a cold case, I like to start from scratch.
I understand.
Well, Katherineshe was not the sort to go unnoticed.
And, of course, we saw a lot of her.
In what circumstances? Dinner parties, political receptions, events Can you describe her? Describe her? What sort of? What impression did you make of her? I suppose I thought she was a certain sort of a woman.
You didn't like her very much? Very ambitious.
Hardly suited to the sort of job she was given.
Did you get on with her? She was more interested in getting on with men.
What do you mean by that? I should have thought it was clear enough.
By "men" you mean your husband? She flattered him.
You know how men like to be flattered.
Especially when someone puts up a reputation for being unapproachable, sexually I mean, and then How long have you been married? Both our children died.
One shortly after birth.
Our daughter died in a drowning accident.
She was 15.
I'm sorry.
Do you think you and I could talk alone in my office? Of course.
Katherine didn't like policemen very much.
I assume you know that.
I never knew her.
She thought there were too few university graduates in the police force.
That was typical Katherine.
Personally, I have the highest regard for police officers.
What is it you do? I'm in Who's Who.
I'm sorry, I Not at all.
I'm chairperson of a quango, in the health field.
I was a full-time GP till James got to run his first department.
I'm sorry about this.
I just wasn't comfortable with that girl present.
I understand that.
What is it you wanted to tell me? When Taft was acquitted, naturally, a lot of things went through my head.
You knew your husband was at her flat.
With that dreadful American.
When did he get back? I was asleep.
We have separate rooms.
Do you want to tell me something about your husband's relationship with Katherine Reed? They spent a lot of time together.
I'd had to accept that.
It wasn't the first time I'd had to be flexible about James'sfriendships.
She virtually admitted her husband was having an affair with Reed.
Why was it necessary to take you off into a room on your own? She obviously didn't want to talk in front of you two.
And you think that's normal? It's a man's world! They slept in different bedrooms so he doesn't have an alibi.
What do we know about the drowning accident? We spoke to the housekeeper.
While you were in the inner sanctum.
Harriet Beatty - she was swimming off a beach in Greece with her father.
Get me the coroner's report.
Oh, no! Your sergeant hasn't completed my survey satisfactorily.
My sergeant is busy on a murder inquiry.
I haven't had your form back either.
That is correct.
This investigation is confidential.
The audit thing is over.
You will not be admitted to this area again.
It's not for you If I think you are obstructing me, I'll arrest you.
I do not expect to see you again.
PHONE RINGS MUSIC PLAYS: "Blood Red River" by Beth Orton Took a friend I found Cross some blood red river Never did find my way home In time to forgive her Why must people always fall For what they can't have? Why must people always grab For what they'd never grasp? How did we get so far How did we move so fast away From the lilac lily glade? Where I'm sure we used to stay Is it only a dream away Sorry.
I was phoning.
Yeah, sorry.
There are two different hair types in Katherine Reed's brush.
Any idea whose? Not yet.
But I don't think we'll find after-shave.
Even if we did I know.
We don't need forensic evidence, we need Time-bracketed evidence.
Toxicology? She'd had less than 50mg of Benzodiazepine and the equivalent to a bottle of wine.
So she was pliable.
Well, she could have been anything.
I'm sorry.
I'm not TRYING to be unhelpful.
I was told I had to come and get her.
Of course.
Where is she? Why don't you leave it to us? I have to sign something.
Yeah.
Just here.
I want to see her.
OK.
If Beatty killed Katherine Reed, is it possible it wasn't his first time? What are you getting at? What sort of man are we dealing with? IF he killed Katherine Reed.
No excess of violence at the crime scene.
So it's a practical killing, done for a practical purpose.
A senior civil servant kills a lover to protect his career.
What sort of man does that? Not psychotic - it's too organised.
Violence as a practical solution to a problem, we call that instrumental violence.
There's a goal.
It's manipulative.
This man is surrounded by deaths.
Three deaths - two children, one lover.
Manipulative Wait.
Are you saying he had something to do with these deaths? I'm trying to find out if it fits.
Instrumental violence, you say.
What are you asking me for? A hypothesis? No, I want guidance, Grace.
Please! What is credible? That he murdered his daughters? No, Katherine Reed is murdered on her bed When a man kills a lover - IF that's what happened - in such a cold-blooded way Could he have killed his daughter? I think you're mad.
I just want to get our bearings.
"Could have" and "did" are different.
If you don't tell me what's credible, I'm gonna end up like Mel! I'm going to say, "I can't proceed because I believe Sir James Beatty is above this kind of suspicion.
" The killer of Katherine Reed is not above this kind of suspicion.
Great! Thanks, Grace.
However Spence, get your coat.
Detective Superintendent Boyd.
Miss Hardingham.
Sir James is in a meeting.
I want to speak to you.
Can I see Sir James's appointment diary for last year? I don't think that's possible.
You don't have the option to refuse, I'm afraid.
I am refusing.
This situation is covered by law.
The Home Office will explain it to you.
I don't need your sarcasm.
Detective Superintendent.
I was told you couldn't be interrupted until your meeting was over Quite right.
Can I ask you to make an appointment when you wish to speak to me? Sir.
Boyd, isn't it? Yes, sir.
Can I help? I'm working on the Reed enquiry Douglas, show Sir Kenneth down to lunch, will you? .
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Thanks for coming.
Sir James, may we go into your office? Sir James, what time did you return home after your dinner with Larry Karp? After midnight.
Did you speak to your wife? My wife was asleep.
So she neither saw you nor spoke to you? No.
How did you get home? You went to Katherine Reed's flat in Karp's car.
I'd given my driver the evening off.
After dinner at Larry Karp's flat I got a taxi on the street.
Why didn't Mr Karp offer you transport? Because I didn't ask him.
Did you return to Katherine Reed's flat the night she died? No, I did not.
Do you know anything about her death that you haven't told the police? Of course not! Any other questions? No.
No, that's all for now.
Thank you for your time, Sir James.
She didn't come back.
Holmes or Watson or whatever she was called.
Good.
You've been to see Sir James.
I have.
Why didn't you take me? He might have noticed if I'd taken a profiler along.
I could have said you were my aunty.
Oh, thanks! Well, you know what I mean.
I look like your aunty.
Thanks.
PHONE RINGS What have you got? Pages from Sir James's office diary.
There's a sequence of evenings marked off with a highlighter pen.
Nothing written.
Just highlighted.
Hi, I'd like to speak to Lady Beatty.
They'd been scuba diving.
He dragged her onto the beach.
She'd hit her head.
You tried to resuscitate her? Of course.
I'm sorry to have to ask you this, but have you ever suspected that your husband had anything to do with Harriet's accident? Why do you ask me that? We just have to follow up all possibilities.
It was a very difficult time.
I'd, um just found out my husband was having an affair.
Are you saying you think Harriet knew and? I tried not to think it.
You knew your husband was having an affair with Katherine Reed? Yes.
Did he know that you knew? Of course not.
Do you think Katherine threatened to tell you or demanded that he leave you? He'd never leave me.
You didn't see or hear your husband come home that night, did you? Lady Beatty, you can't be compelled to give evidence against your husband and I'm not making any notes.
There are no hidden tape recorders.
After Katherine was found, I spent a lot of time thinking about her death.
James wouldn't want to be exposed.
It would be too much for him.
PHONE RINGS Why didn't Mr Boyd come to see me? We work as a team.
Why does Boyd want this done again? He got the first specimen illegally and he needs to do this by the book.
Never bothered him before.
I know.
What's this? There were two different hair types found in Katherine's hairbrush, both female.
I never let anyone use MY hairbrush.
Do you ever think of looking for what's not there? Don't get deep with me, Spence.
Scientists can only find what they're looking for.
I mean, you don't find something if you don't test for it.
Toxicology said she'd taken a sleeping pill.
Yeah.
Where's the bottle? I mean, it's evidence, isn't it? Boyd, Spencer's just thought of something.
It looks like the sleeping pill was given to her.
There were no Benzodiazepines in her cupboard.
I see.
Something else.
Spencer's on a roll.
Go, Spence.
She was having an affair with Beatty.
We don't know that, but we believe it.
They had sex.
We know that.
He didn't use a condom.
We know that.
What did SHE use? Maybe she was trying to get pregnant.
I'm enquiring into whether a Katherine Reed has used your travel agency in previous years.
A regular customer? .
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Right.
OK.
When? The strange hair in the hairbrush - female.
And we both recognised the colour, didn't we? Thank you, you can fax it to me.
OK, cheers.
Lorna Gyles and Katherine Reed holidayed together every year for the last four years.
Mel, where were you? Lady Beatty.
She confirmed her husband WAS having an affair with Katherine Reed.
She also thinks he may have tried to drown their daughter because she found out about an earlier affair.
If you think this is true, you're going to have to arrest Beatty.
Before I put my head on the block, I need a little bit more.
Come on.
You want me to arrest him now? YOU were the one going on about charging up alleys.
Just give me some time.
I just need some more.
There is somethingmissing.
Let's just meet here tomorrow, first thing, with some fresh thoughts.
Why don't Mel and I go and see Lorna Gyles? Are you running your own cold case squad? We think it's her hair in the hairbrush.
She's under suspicion for borrowing a hairbrush? Lorna Gyles is a suspect? Is this what you're telling me? I'm telling you we don't know it's Sir James.
That's what you're always telling me.
That's what you never stop telling me.
I'm sure you'll go ON telling me! Hi.
I keep turning on the TV, waiting to see you with Beatty in handcuffs.
Would you laugh or cry? If you think he's guilty, arrest him and question him.
Everybody keeps telling me that.
What is this - a woman thing? My job's on the line here, you're supposed to help me.
Sorry.
I don't know how we've got along without each other for so long.
I'm not your latest cold case, you know.
I can't help you.
We wanted to ask you something, as you knew Katherine.
Did she tell you that she was having an affair with Sir James Beatty? No.
Do you think it was possible that she had an affair with him? Why don't youtalk to Ray? You see, I wonder if I know why Professor Levin was so angry when his relationship with Katherine broke up.
People usually come to terms.
.
.
Thank you.
And I wondered if he was angry because he felt humiliated.
Humiliated by Katherine having an affair with her boss? No, because she was having an affair with you.
We went on holiday.
Your sexuality, Katherine's sexuality, even Sir James Beatty's sexuality are not criminal matters.
A holiday.
You stayed at her flat.
Your hair was found.
I didn't kill her! We're not suggesting you did.
We came here for help.
You were very close.
She must have talked to you.
I can't imagine two women not confiding in each other.
She knew she was bisexual when she married.
Ray didn't know that.
But she told me She told me she was faithful to me.
I see.
Did she ever talk to you about wanting children? She did want a child, yes.
Isn't that something you should talk to Ray about rather than me? When did you find out that Katherine was bisexual? When I came home early from a conference and found her in bed with a female colleague.
She couldn't help her sexuality.
She didn't HAVE to marry me.
You're saying she just did it for show? You didn't know Katherine.
She was unusual, to say the least.
You call her bisexual, that's being flexible.
Do you know whether she was ever involved with any other men? Men? Katherine? So what are you saying - that your marriage was completely phony? She must have had some interest in men.
She'd married you.
She may have made an effort, but it didn't work.
So, how long DID it last? We stayed together a year.
It took me that long to realise what she really wanted.
What was that? She'd been against the system all her life, suddenly she wanted to be part of it.
She said she would change everything.
That was Katherine.
No limit to her ambition.
She didn't marry you because she wanted a powerful job.
She married me because she wanted a child! When I realised there was no what, um .
.
reality in our relationship .
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I confronted her.
She told me she wanted a marriage and a child, but she didn't want me.
I told her I didn't want a child on that basis.
So you refused? It takes two, doesn't it? Of course I refused.
After we broke up, she came back, went on about it again.
In what way? She wanted help with getting pregnant.
In a technical sense.
And what did you say? I told her to leave me out of it.
I told her to go and see someone, use her credit card.
I refused to be involved.
Have we done? I have a class of bushy-tailed teenagers waiting for me in the morning to show them how to make the world a better place.
Did I forget to tell you something? I loved her.
Do men kill the thing they love? Oh, yes, sometimes.
Leeds to Londonin a car, under three hours.
I don't think he killed her.
So we drew a blank? No.
She went somewhere for fertility treatment.
Ann.
What is it? Cancel everything in my diary today.
What shall I say? Don't say anything, just cancel.
PHONE RINGS Hello? It's Security.
Tell them I'm coming down.
Sir James, how would you characterise your relationship with Katherine Reed? It was a professional relationship.
Were you sleeping with her? No, I was not.
Where did you go after you left Larry Karp's house on the night of Katherine Reed's murder? There's no need to answer that.
.
.
Sir James declines to answer that.
How can that be a security matter? I am entitled to put my questions.
Is it true that you went back to Katherine Reed's flat in Cheltenham Square? No, it isn't.
There is a colour code in your diary for that evening and for a number of evenings previous to that one in the year.
That code is for your rendezvous with Katherine Reed, isn't it? Sir James declines to answer that question.
I think you're lying about your relationship with Katherine Reed and about your movements that night.
This amounts at least to obstruction of a police investigation and you are liable to arrest.
Back off, Boyd.
Is there anything you want to tell me? Yes.
Arresting me will be a very big mistake.
Don't play into his hands.
James Beatty .
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I arrest you on suspicion of the murder of Katherine Reed.
You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned anything which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
DOOR OPENS I'll get my boss to speak to you.
Boyd, you're needed in interview room two.
We have a visitor.
Excuse me.
I'll be back.
What? She's just arrived, said it was urgent.
Take it easy.
Come with me, then.
You needed to speak to me.
On the night Katherine Reed was murdered, Sir James was at my flat till early morning.
We can't speak here.
I know, they're listening.
So they can hear this.
I did not kill Katherine Reed.
Why was Sir James at your flat? Why do you think? You were in a relationship with him.
That's a ridiculous way of putting it.
We arehaving an affair.
The colour code in the diary was our way of arranging a night.
Are there any witnesses to his presence at your flat that night? Do you think it was a threesome? No, I meant did anybody see him arriving? Of course not.
His driver would collect him from the other side of Kensington Gardens.
How long has this relationship been going on? Ten years.
Ten years.
That's a long time.
He can't leave his wife.
Why not? He says he can't.
And you accept that? I accept what I have to accept.
I'm with him all day.
We spend nights together.
Still, it must be hard for you.
Not when you love someone.
I need a statement from you, Miss Hardingham.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Well, you don't need me to tell you.
She's not lying.
You're free to leave.
For the present time, I've changed my mind.
PHONE RINGS OUTSIDE Boyd? Mm-hm? I don't blame you for trying.
I think I blew it.
The Commissioner's office called.
Can he see you in 30 minutes? I wish you'd listened to me.
Never mind.
Karp was certainly holding back in his impression of Katherine Reed.
She was a homosexual.
The reason Levin's so angry is he found out his marriage was an illusion.
She left him for a woman - Lorna Gyles.
She married Levin.
Yeah, but only because she wanted a child.
That doesn't stop her seducing her boss or her boss seducing her or Yes, but What does, "Yes, but" mean? We still don't have a motive.
I know that you don't think he did it.
No, I've never thought he did it.
It's not a crime of passion, it's a very cold-blooded murder.
You don't have any evidence.
I know there's something missing.
Do you need anything? I do, yes.
I need a statement from Ann Hardingham.
I'll do it.
Thank you.
PHONE RINGS Oh, God, here we go.
Boyd.
Sir.
No.
Sir No, sir, we haven't briefed the press or leaked anything.
No, I assure you, sir.
Yes, I will.
I have a short statement.
It has been reported that my husband has been questioned by the police in the case of Katherine Reed.
I completely stand by my husband, whose innocence is undoubtable.
Her office said she was coming home.
Ann? Ann! The lights are on.
I'll call for backup.
Ann! She's in here.
Can you hear me? Open your eyes.
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What's her name? Ann Hardingham.
Ann Hardingham.
Ann, can you hear me? Sir James Where is she? Saint Mary's.
This pill bottle has your name on it.
I gave them to her.
That's for me? Yes, it is.
It's her suicide note.
Why does she say she accepted right from the beginning that you were unable to have children together? I had a vasectomy.
When? After Harriet died, about 15 years ago.
Look at the mess you've created.
Frankie, I need to talk to you.
I don't have to explain the effect of a vasectomy on semen, do I? No little black things with tails.
This is Beatty's.
But it's got to be more than 15 years old.
So someone impregnated her with a very old specimen.
Supposing someone knew who'd done this all along? Reed and Beatty are representing the British Government in some deal with the Americans.
Turn that off.
The Americans are going through the Home Office.
They meet at Reed's flat You'd use something like this because it's permanently connected to the mains power.
And all transmitters need power, however small they are.
Gotcha.
Do you know where Boyd is? In the lab.
Thanks.
Boyd! The quango that Alice Beatty runs, do you know what it is? No, but you're going to tell me.
I am.
The Demeter Trust.
It's a medical trust for infertility solutions.
I went with a warrant and found out that one of their clients was Katherine Reed.
Her medical insurers had this letter on file.
It's from her GP referring her to a specialist for infertility counselling.
Who's the specialist? Alice Beatty.
Dr Beatty.
How's Miss Hardingham? She's comfortable.
I'll just go and see how she's feeling.
Yes.
How is she? I've had those reporters on the doorstep again.
What should I tell them about this? The media think that you were having an affair with Katherine.
I wasn't.
Nobody had any idea about her! No bloody idea at all.
Alice, isn't it time we faced up to what really happened? Let's discuss Alice Beatty's personality for a moment.
She's cold jealousmanipulative threatened whenever Mel and I asked her questions.
She wasn't happy until she'd taken you out of the room on her own.
To make sure that she was the centre of attention.
Yes.
In control.
Yes.
In the history of the marriage, Harriet Beatty was conceived quite late, after a cot death.
So we can presume that Alice Beatty had some trouble in conceiving and developed an interest in fertility medicine.
OK.
If Harriet was conceived by artificial insemination, Alice will have used the sperm provided by Sir James, her husband, which was kept frozen.
Katherine Reed wants a baby.
She saw Alice Beatty, privately.
Didn't discuss it with anyone.
Alice Beatty thinks her husband is having an affair with her.
Wrongly.
But if she thought Reed was having an affair with her husband, can you imagine her reaction when this woman goes to her to ask her for help to get pregnant? Right, well, if Alice has normal emotions, she'll go off the deep end and she'll confront her.
Alice doesn't have normal emotions.
She's egocentric and only experiences emotions and needs of her own.
Other people aren't real for her.
So she can kill them.
She's a psychopath? If we're right, she has to be.
She plans to murder Reed, knowing her husband will be arrested? CAN be arrested, any time she points the finger at his supposed relationship with Katherine Reed, when the forensic evidence is pulled out of the archives, the semen's identified.
Alice Beatty always has her finger on the trigger.
Lady Beatty! Lady Beatty! My husband's left now.
How are you, Miss Hardingham? You resting? I'm sorry you felt so badly about everything.
Getting involved with such a dangerous man must have been appalling for you.
But, of course, you'd no idea what he was like, had you? Grace, what's her next move? Ann Hardingham.
The hospital.
She's fine.
You were very discreet.
Absolutely what I would have expected.
Women should always try to be professional, even though it's not easy for them.
This will give you the rest you need.
Intensive Care? First floor! You'll be fine now.
We'll all be fine.
Dr Beatty? Yes? Are you Miss Hardingham's GP? Yes, I am.
First floor! Get a crash team NOW! Hurry! Ann? Ann! Are you looking for my husband? Yes, do you know where he is? I was looking for him myself.
I thought he was here.
Would you like to tell us what you've been doing? All in good time.
We'd better find my husband first.
Alice Beatty, I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Katherine Reed.
Don't touch me! I've put your wife under arrest for the murder of Katherine Reed.
I will charge her with the attempted murder of Ann Hardingham.
When did Larry Karp tell you what really happened to Katherine Reed? The miniature mic and transmitter we found in Katherine Reed's hi-fi.
It's made in America, I think.
Don't you? I don't see how they could have put it there without your consent.
Your knowledge.
Maybe they even bugged her in the first place at your suggestion.
You never really liked Katherine Reed, did you? Didn't trust her.
You don't like strong-minded women in your office.
It's a boy thing.
It's an old-boy thing.
Must have been difficult, though, when the Americans told you that you were married to a murderer.
Nothing that I've done to protect national security is illegal.
You've no business here.
I wasn't trying to protect my wife in this business.
Even if I were, I've done nothing incompatible with my position.
You will not be getting the satisfaction, Boyd, which you so evidently hunger for.
James Beatty, I'm arresting you on suspicion of conspiring to obstruct the course of justice.
You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned anything which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
I nearly got it totally wrong.
.
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And the story with the Americans? I don't know.
Maybe we're about to become the 52nd state! They stitched you up, you know.
Ahque sera.
Why don't you ask for your job back? Question is, do I want it? You're very good at it.
You say that just like you mean it! I DO mean it.
Is this when you say something like what a great team we were? Yeah.
Well, I have thought about it since this began, but We just go around the same course, end up in the same place.
What's wrong with where we've ended up, here? Now.
Right here.
Nothing's wrong with it.
There you go, then.
And we've ended up friends.
Yeah.