Waking the Dead (2000) s03e07 Episode Script
Final Cut: Part 1
Stop! Darkness and light! Out of the shadows! Show me! SHOW ME! Yes! That's fantastic! I can't believe it! Congratulations.
Thank you.
It's wonderful.
Thank you.
Morning.
Spence, Grace.
Let's go That's great.
So, that's so good, Mel.
You deserve it.
You deserve it.
Just be nice to Spence.
I can't believe it.
It was such a shock when the letter came.
I'd forgotten about it.
Thank you, Mr Peverell.
Why have we been called? I have an announcement to make.
What's going on? We're the only squad handling serious crime with only one sergeant.
We don't need anyone else.
Well, we have a new sergeant.
Do you have a problem with that, Grace? No.
It's none of my business.
Frankie, what about you? No.
I've got none.
It's fine.
OK.
Sergeant Mel Silver joins the team as of nine o'clock this morning.
No! Congratulations! It's so brilliant! Thank you.
Oh, that is amazing! Well done! Thank you.
I really panicked for a minute.
You are really cruel.
When did you find out? Spence, are you coming? How exciting! That's what all that was about.
Yes.
Well done! It's fantastic.
This manpower thing takes time.
I want a replacement sergeant for when my sergeant makes inspector.
I haven't heard anything.
You've done your exams, interviews.
I'm expecting the same results as Mel.
Yes, headmaster.
Is that how you see me, Spence? Well, I'm flattered.
I haven't felt like this since my A-levels.
With your brain and personality, what could go wrong? PHONE RINGS Yeah.
That's wonderful! Well done.
Do you get a car park space? In my dreams! AMIP have found a body in a restaurant bin.
It's one for the Cold Case.
On what grounds? And don't say rubbish.
It's mummified.
Ah.
So, Frankie, get ready.
Well done, Mel.
Thank you.
Answer me! REPORTERS ALL TALK AT ONCE AGHHHH! I have no comment.
SHE MUMBLES Tell them they can carry me out! What the hell's happening here? Me will cut me own throat before them take me out.
I've got business in here Get out! I'll be making a statement later.
Send the devil himself and it'll be the same result.
Look, what bit of that don't you understand? Looks like someone stole it out of a museum.
Perhaps we should get onto a few curators.
It's unlikely to be Egyptian.
I didn't think he was Ramses IV.
Dumping bodies is no big deal.
Medical students do it constantly.
I'm no detective but people don't dump cadavers unless they've got something to hide.
Where would we be without your suspicious mind? Thank you.
The dustmen pick up the restaurant's rubbish at the same time every day.
So, dumped in the last 24 hours.
Mummification has happened because it was sealed in a warm void.
OK.
How old is it? That's the beauty of mummification.
Mummification can make a 5,000-year-old body look like it's been buried 50 years.
I meant how old does the body have to be before it looks mummified? - What he's saying is - I know! I understand.
What is the minimum period for mummification effects? Fine, and I've no idea.
But he's got a snazzy suit.
Until we know otherwise, we treat this person as a victim.
Changing the subject - I think that drinks tonight Spencer, stick with us, will you? I am! PHONE RINGS Stick with us.
Frankie The cause of death is he's been shot in the temple.
Small calibre judging by the entrance wound.
And someone might've cut off his nose.
He didn't cut it off himself! No, but nose is cartilage, not bone.
It deteriorates with time.
What remains shows it might've been cleanly excised.
OK.
Lord Andrew.
Carnaby Street.
That's '60's.
An ex-boyfriend went there.
I'd keep that to myself, if I were you.
That chocolate, what does 6d stand for? Ahh! What.
Can you open this up? Yep.
Old money.
Oh, 6p Cigarette cases were out of fashion by the 60s, weren't they? - Ohrolled his own.
- Naughty.
What car has a turtle for it's emblem? A slow one.
Thank you, Frankie.
OK, Spence, do your stuff.
Someone cut off his nose to spite his face.
Or "Keep your nose out of this".
Could be.
Who knows? It's like an execution.
Who's a face What? It's '60s criminal gangster It's not domestic.
Not on the face of it Sorry.
Check out all murder inquiries - our time-frame in London where no bodies have turned up.
OK.
We're on it OK, good.
Thank you.
DOOR SLAMS You'll get it, Spence.
That's not what's worrying me.
What is? Will Boyd hug me when I get the letter? Well, he's never hugged me before.
He never hugs anyone below the rank of sergeant.
And you'd know.
Spence - I might not be your equal for long.
I might make inspector before you.
Meow! Cheeky! KNOCKING ON DOOR Camelia.
It's time to leave.
We're going to take you to your new home.
I don't know, Jerry.
It could be five minutes or an hour.
Yeah.
Oh, she's coming.
It's all right.
All right, ladies and gentleman, leave her alone.
She'll be safe.
She's in good hands.
It's all over.
Frankie! Hi, Spence.
Spence, did you ever smoke? What? Would you know the difference between red leb and gold dust? Gold dust would be my personal preference.
Well, I wasn't offering it around.
What are you saying? How much is enough for personal consumption? And how much makes you a dealer? Whoa! Yeah.
Where was that? Maybe they thought he'd need it in the afterlife.
If he was going to deal in the afterlife.
What have you got? Bonnet badges.
Oh, brilliant! Right.
There we go.
What the hell is a Gordon-Keeble? I don't know.
Some rare, flash car.
So a brick of red leb and a rare car.
And no nose.
What's that? It looks to me like he preferred to smoke grass.
Charming.
I'm inviting everyone for a curry.
Celebration.
Great.
Thanks.
I'm inviting everyone for a curry.
Great.
Thanks.
You're old enough to remember one of these? It's Gordon-Keeble.
I haven't seen one in years.
Turtle.
Yeah, produced between 1964 and There'll be an owner's club.
I'll get on to it.
PHONE RINGS Yes.
Hello? Mel? Yeah? Yeah.
I'm sorry, all right.
I'm sorry.
DIALLING TONE It's too late.
Got a lead on the corpse.
Spence, get Frankie.
OK.
Grace, are you going to join us? OK.
This is it.
They're not that anonymous if they knew a body was up in a chimney.
And mummified.
Yeah.
A forensically-trained builder.
We'd better split up.
Who's coming with me? I'll hold your hand.
Thank you.
Who'll hold mine? After you, Grace.
Go on, Frankie, be brave.
I'm right behind you.
Wow! Jamaican flag.
- These places always have the same smell.
- Drowning souls.
It's not that.
Boyd What? A cross.
Yeah, but it's pretty weird.
Boyd! I think you better get up here.
Coming! Where are you? You're in here.
Yeah.
Straight ahead.
Where have you gone? Open chimney breast - like our caller said.
I'll have to remove more brickwork before I can say anything.
You need builders for that.
Anyone got any gloves? I have a tissue.
Is it clean? Of course it's clean.
Thank you.
What have you got? Common rat.
Rattus rattus.
Nice.
Yeah, but it's mummified.
Do we believe in coincidence? No, we don't.
Watch your step.
All right, this is now a crime scene.
Tomorrow we interview all the people at Meerman Property to find the informant.
Frankie will see if she can find anything on the ground floor.
Want a lift? I do.
Are we too late for the restaurant? Sorry.
Oh, we are.
We'll get chips.
Just hold on Spence, are you OK? Yeah.
You're going to make inspector, you know.
No problems.
Grace, can you take this for me, please? Sure.
WALL RINGS HOLLOW Guys, let's get this wall down! REPORTERS SHOUT QUESTIONS Excuse me.
Take a photo of the skull and then I think we're finished.
Uh-huh.
Frankie? I'm in here.
Cheers.
OK.
It's bloody chaos Oh, my God! Yeah.
There's no mummification effects here.
There's a head injury, there may be more.
I need to get it to the lab.
That's Mr Meerman.
What is this place? It's like I never liked Notting Hill.
You get a nosebleed crossing the river.
Info on the developer.
Hm? Meerman.
Meerman.
OK.
Thank you.
ANGRY VOICES I thought this was all sorted! Justexcuse me And who in the name of Christ are you? Er I've got possession.
Can I have a word? You're holding up my men! Harry! Never mind Harry.
In here, please.
I shan't ask you again.
What's all this about? You've been knocking holes in the wall.
So? This house is listed Grade 2 star.
You need Listed Building consent.
They've sent a Detective Super because of building consent? This is serious.
Our built heritage needs protecting.
Sergeant Silver agrees with me, don't you? Yeah.
There were delays in vacant possession.
I'm on a schedule.
You've got a poor record for this.
My business is legitimate.
"Karl Meerman.
List of convictions - mortgage fraud, "threatening behaviour, GBH on tenants, resisting police arrest.
" I do property development.
And waste management? I don't know what you could be referring to.
We'll continue this at my office.
I don't believe this! Mr Meerman Would you like to follow me, sir? All right.
Thank you.
Can I have the electoral roll information from 1960 to 1980? It's the Ladbroke Grove area.
It's North Kensington.
Sorry.
Can you make that North Kensington? Sorry.
You have what I would call a colourful background, Mr Meerman.
I'm in property, always have been.
Bit of a face in the past - no? But property now? Tell me this - why bother fiddling VAT when the property market is working in your favour? Your builders went into Marlow House and started wrecking the top floors.
I've got a client waiting.
One of them said he'd found a body and you said, "Dump it".
That's bollocks.
No - it's an offence of obstructing the coroner and who knows how many breaches of Public Health legislation? Wellwho is the client, then? The new owner is Toni Dean.
The singer and She's been looking for a house in London through agents.
Toni Dean.
She wants the house ready by the time the album's done.
Just like that - house, album, get it done.
She's a star.
Note that - she's a star.
Look you really should be interviewing the people in the house before Toni Dean bought it.
It was an old, black church property.
They had it let as flats.
I don't see what any of this has got to do with me.
OK, I tell you what.
What? I'll make a statement about what I found and removed from Marlow House in exchange for you letting it go.
Dumping human remains in a rubbish bin? That and I don't want to hear any more about breach of Listed Buildings regs.
Or anything else.
Don't make deals with me.
You're witholding information pertinent to a murder inquiry.
I deny all knowledge of a body.
But I found this in the floorboards.
You find all sorts in old houses.
I hope it's of help to you.
Why do you think that this should be of interest, Mr Meerman? You didn't find this under the floorboards, did you? You found this in a cavity alongside the body.
He's a real charmer(!) I had a landlord like him once.
Probably was him.
Mel? Mm-hm? Wear it with love.
What's that? Silver, it'll have hallmarks.
Frankie can photograph it.
Have you found out about this ground floor tenant? Yes.
Camelia Baptiste.
She has been a resident there since 1967.
Right.
We arranged to see her yet? I'm working on that now.
Toni Dean.
Three number ones and four number twos.
All number twos to me.
Are we having a pop trivia quiz? What's she doing there? - She now owns Marlow House.
- I know that.
But those bodies have been there for 30 years.
What's the connection? It's a big board and nice to put stuff on it.
That's a good point, Grace.
Thank you.
- I'm sure Meerman knew about the bodies.
- Is that intuition? An architectural hunch.
Sorry? He knocked a hole in the chimney breast.
Why? You bring the soot and rubbish through.
I think he knew there was something and put the acro props halfway up the chimney breast.
If he was going remove the chimney breast he'd have put them up to the ceiling for support, but he didn't, so I think he knew there was something behind those bricks.
Well, it's interesting.
It's still a hunch.
Spence.
One picture.
Sir.
It's the Hole in the Wall Gang.
I thought it was 10 Rillington Place.
A sexual killer? Something stoved his head in.
I like "something".
Why do you like something? Something.
SOMEONE.
No - we can't say, "someone".
We can say, "something".
You bloody scientists! We can say he was middle-aged or more.
He wasn't a manual worker.
And someone murdered him.
No, Boyd! He walled himself up and beat his own brains out? Then there'd be vestigial brain material.
Thank you for coming in, Mrs Baptiste.
My name's Grace Foley and I'll be looking after you here.
Your carer's upstairs so if anytime you need her please don't hesitate to ask and we'll get her for you.
We're here.
Watch the step.
Through here.
This door on the right.
Thanks.
If you'd like to sit down here.
Hi! SHE MUTTERS - Mrs Baptiste, this is Detective Superintendent Boyd.
- Hello.
Moses? No.
Moses! Moses, come for Camelia! Grace! Moses come for Camelia! Grace! It's OK Oh, merciful blessings! Mrs Baptiste Him come! Him come! Him come! Yes, yes.
Merciful blessing! There you go.
Them come take me out of me house.
Them walk and them watch.
Camelia keeps it all proper so no bad things ever happen.
And then them take Camelia out of her home.
Who walks, Mrs Baptiste? Why didn't you do something when you see what they came to do? Why didn't you say something? Now, now you keep you mouth closed! What upset you in the house before they took you away.
What was it? Mrs Baptiste? JAMAICAN ACCENT: We found them.
We found the bones business.
You want to talk in here about bones? No, no, no - not Obi-man.
These are real bones like what you and me have in our bodies.
Me should have stayed where me belong, not tip out like rubbish! Mrs Baptiste, we need to ask you Ask me nothing! We never came to talk to Mrs Baptiste.
We come to talk with Oduda.
I come to talk to Oduda.
The police want her to help.
Oduda help police? Yes.
Look upon you.
You think I don't remember nothing? Here A charm you're going to need.
Charm against the bad tings that are going to happen.
Happen where? Happen everywhere.
No more talk about bones and Oduda.
I knew you'd be back one day.
Here, Spence Come on in here.
What's going on? She's an obi-man.
Whatwhat are you talking about? Some communities have one.
Out in the Caribbean they did some of the medicine, over here, they still have certain functions.
She was living in a flat with two dead bodies, what medicine is that? I mean, is she a voodoo woman? No, no, no, it's not voodoo, it's What? It's what? Well, you get back in there and sort it out.
Come on.
Who told you to stay watching them dead people? You KNOW who tell me! Oduda's been guarding that place? Nine days Oduda needed to guard that place and then done with it.
You know nothing! How can you talk? Did you put a curse on them people who throw you out? Aaaiiieee! SHE CONTINUES TO WAIL WAILING SUBSIDES It's all right.
Come on.
It's OK, it's OK.
Ssshh! How come she knows you? Mrs Baptiste knows everyone.
Knows everyone where? Where we lived.
Where did you live? We lived on the top floor.
When my father left, the council re-housed her in a new estate block.
Why didn't you say anything about any of this? I'm sorry.
I should've said something.
Yeah, you certainly should have.
Superintendent Boyd? BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS Boyd, is that you? Yeah.
Brilliant.
Come in here.
These two pieces of lead underneath the floorboards are not original.
They're here to seal something.
What they conceal, we'll find out soon enough.
How old were you when your father left? I was six.
Where did he go? Back to Jamaica.
Were you told why? I was told he was coming back.
But he never did? No.
But after you moved, you must have known what went on here.
I was a little kid.
But this is your community.
WAS my community.
I didn't win many friends joining the police.
You should take me off this case.
No, I won't.
I don't have any special access because I'm black.
You became a police officer.
You didn't say you had second thoughts.
I never had second thoughts.
Then do the job you swore on oath to do.
Boyd, we've now got TV crews outside.
All right? Talk to you later.
Can you tell us why you're here? What the hell is going on here? This is private property.
No comment.
Let me through.
Can I help you? Who are you? Just keep them out! .
.
Get out! Sorry, now? Quinn.
Patricia Quinn.
Toni Dean's manager.
And? Bodies were found.
Not the sort of publicity Toni's interested in.
Excuse me.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Why weren't we informed about this? Who leaked this to the press? You're not suggesting that I did? Miss Quinn, are you an American citizen? Yes.
My sergeant would like to take your details.
Right.
Well? My God! Yeah.
We're just about to get them out.
Why have they done that? Absolutely no idea.
Why would you wrap their heads in plastic? It beats me.
REPORTERS SHOUT OUTSIDE Please! Come on, come on! I'm gonna call the local Met for support.
Why don't they go? How long does it take to arrange a press conference? Going to talk to the press without clearance? We've got a celebrity angle and now this.
What? Hold this.
Four bodies.
Four! I'm going to make a short statement.
Are there bodies in the house? Let me make the statement, will you? The victim was a white male in his or his surname may have begun with the letter P cos he was probably wearing this chain around his neck.
His suit came from Carnaby Street.
In the pocket was a set of keys which belonged to a car like this - a Gordon-Keeble.
There were only 100 of these cars ever built.
You all got a good shot of that one? OK, if anybody can help us identify this individual, could they please come forward? I'll answer some questions.
How many victims? One white male.
Any other questions? Do you know how he was murdered? Not at this stage.
The forensics will sort that out.
Any murder weapons? No.
Where are you going now? I'm going to have a cup of tea if that's OK with you(!) Mrs Baptiste has gone? Gone where? What do you mean you don't know? Projection.
I love this film.
I've never seen these scenes before.
They were never in the film.
This is the director's first cut.
The studio got so freaked out, they took it off then they cut it.
Where did you find this footage? From someone close to the project.
This director had a real gift.
Great.
What number have we got? On that table, please.
Thanks.
Great.
Just pop it there.
Got major hackitis.
Ignore them.
The MET press office say you were indiscreet.
Call them back.
Saying what exactly? Use your imagination.
Pull rank.
You're a sergeant.
That'll work(!) - Would you like to hear my thoughts on Mrs Baptiste? - Is she gaga? There's been a disputed ethnic Is she a witch? That's anthropological, not psychological.
Well, this is psychological.
What killer does this? We found two more bodies.
My God.
A Christian grave.
It's not exactly a five-pointed star, is it? Boyd, this is for you.
(Hot-headed, incorrigible) .
.
Yes.
Thank you.
He gave a short statement to the media.
Music computer files? Could be a DVD.
He'll call you.
Shall we watch it? Hi.
Hi.
Convenient to find a murder weapon with the body, isn't it? Well, it suggests an element of panic in the clean-up.
Thank you, Detective.
'Seconds out, round six.
' I hate boxing.
This rings a bell.
Oh, I can't look.
Why would someone send us this? 'One, two, three, four, five, six, 'seven, eight, nine, out!' Anything? If it's too soon, too early, don't rush.
Well, I've got bone fragments and tissue, and if you look through there, there's blood on the shaft.
Oh, my God! That's Marlow House.
I think you'd better get Boyd.
I think he needs to see this.
Thanks, Mel.
It's a match? Let me just finish all of the forensic work first, before we can actually say that.
What about this one? I think he had a dislocated jaw and he's got damage to the front teeth.
It's a blow from underneath, is it? Possibly.
It isn't how you murder someone.
What do you mean? It's not exactly a weapon of choice.
It's unusual, but It's not easy to defend yourself, or if you were cornered, you might just sort of swing it around He's got a damaged vertebrae.
Which one? The T2.
Back there, isn't it? You should both come and see this.
Weighs a ton, too.
Right.
- Thought you ought to see this.
- What? Marlow House.
It's Projection, do you remember? No.
I'm going back a bit now.
I think it's '60s.
Lot of fuss at the time.
Big debate about violence and depravity on the screen.
We were just saying you'd never use a pickaxe to commit murder and this guy's got a spade here.
Do you think someone could have based the film on what really happened at Marlow House? Used it as a film location? Yeah.
You're saying it's not fiction? It's a docu-drama.
Docu-drama? Ugh! Bit violent.
Not nice.
Check when this was made, Mel, and get the names of the people involved.
OK.
"Projection" it's called? Yeah.
First saw it in the cinema.
Do you think we had the experience and missed the meaning? Sorry? "We had the experience, but missed the meaning.
" TS Eliot.
TS Eliot? Check him out as well.
Mr Wit(!) Get lost! Mum.
Spencer, come in.
Sorry it's been so long.
I'veI've been working.
Why aren't you at work now? I AM at work now.
'We think his Christian name or his surname may have begun with the letter P.
'He was probably wearing this chain around his neck.
'His suit was from Carnaby Street.
In the pocket was a set of keys that belonged to a car like this - 'a Gordon-Keeble.
'Only 100 of these cars were ever built.
' Oh, my God! 'If anyone can help us identify this individual, could they please come forward? 'I'm happy to answer any questions if I can.
How many victims? 'One white male.
Do you know how how he was murdered? 'Not at this stage.
' You know what's happened.
Mrs Baptiste has been evicted and now she's missing.
Do you know where she is? They took her in care.
She's gone from care.
She didn't come here if that's why you're asking.
It's not right, you coming this way.
It's better I come than someone else.
We've found bodies.
Mrs Baptiste must have known about them.
You're my son and you come here like a policeman.
I'm your son AND a policeman.
Mrs Baptiste lived in a flat with bodies buried in the wall and the floor.
Mum, I have a job to do.
You've known Mrs Baptiste all your life, surely she must have told you something? I don't know nothing.
BANGING OUTSIDE Leave it, Spencer.
'I can't take your call.
Leave a message and I'll get back to you.
' Spence, we need to interview Mrs Baptiste again.
Call me, yeah? Please! I can't get Spence.
What do you need? Mrs Baptiste.
OK.
Here's the credits from the film.
It was made in 1968, the writer was John Wright.
Trying to trace him.
You still miss him, don't you? I've missed him for 30 years.
You think I'm suddenly going to stop? I have a really bad feeling .
.
inside.
I can't do nothing for that, Spencer.
'Let me make a statement, then you can ask questions.
The victim was a white male' The gorgeous Frannie Henning's outside.
Yeah, I know.
.
.
OK? Yeah.
Miss Henning.
Miss Henning, it's a pleasure.
Detective Superintendent Boyd.
I saw you on TV.
Right.
You've found my father.
Please.
Who is this? Phillip Stein.
My father.
What did he do? He was in the music business.
PHONE RINGS Any other businesses? He disappeared when I was five.
When exactly? Your mother? She died in 1980.
She and my father had an unconventional marriage.
After he vanished, she married again.
My mother was a rock chick.
Did she tell you how he disappeared, who he was involved with, or? She didn't talk about him.
Why? Was she frightened? No.
Why, should she have been? Well, hehe dealt drugs.
I mean, did she know that? I suppose she must have.
I realise this might be difficult for you.
Why? Not all of us want this kind of thing revealed about our fathers.
You're being quaint.
There were drugs.
Someone had to supply them.
He was a cultural hero? My father was my father.
Maybe policemen feel obliged to be so judgemental.
Tell me about your father's friends.
My father was friendly with all sorts of people.
What, criminals? I suppose so, if he was a drug dealer.
Do you remember any names? This was 30-plus years ago.
I was a child.
You've found him.
I'm his only next of kin.
I don't want to be interviewed about his friends.
Your father was murdered, Ms Henning.
Does that surprise you? Look, I don't want to make this difficult for you, but you have to understand that we want to find out who killed your father.
Aren't you curious? Well, it's not my curiosity that matters, is it? It's yours, surely.
Your father wasn't the only body we found in the house.
Maybe this is an ancient curiosity, maybe we should let people be murdered and buried in the walls of houses "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
" Sorry? It's a quote.
TS Eliot? George Santayana.
Ah.
This quote, is it a quote that means you're going to help us? My mother always said that my father was murdered by gangsters.
I don't suppose she said who? No.
Where's his body? We'll release it for burial when we are ready.
Is it in this building? Yeah, but it's not in a condition I want to see him! He's my father.
You did tell her that the body was mummified, didn't you? Yeah, more or less.
Miss Henning, are you prepared, because it's? Yes.
OK.
OK, just put it back.
It would help if you would agree to a DNA test Yes, all right.
.
.
so we can formally identify the body.
The rat man.
The rat catcher.
Not my first rat today, Fraser.
But look at this "big" man.
You're just Chaka Chaka.
Who's Chaka? You saying I'm a piece of shit next to you, Fenky Boy? What do you want, Fraser? Get it said and move from me.
This is my manor and what I say goes, you hear me? See how Fraser feels about you? Don't be stupid, Fraser.
I ain't being stupid.
Look down there.
That's muscle I have to deal with.
I tell them it's my manor and I take care of anything, so play along, Rude Boy.
You're gonna need this piece.
Pay me respect, or don't set foot in this place! I'm a police officer.
We know who you are.
You like movies, do you, Jordan? Remember this one? Chinatown, isn't it? Give him a point.
Jordan's cut.
Look, blood! How many points do I get for this? Need a good corner man, do you, Jordan? Going to bleed to death like your old man? Leave him.
In the car.
This ain't finished, Jordan.
Thank you.
It's wonderful.
Thank you.
Morning.
Spence, Grace.
Let's go That's great.
So, that's so good, Mel.
You deserve it.
You deserve it.
Just be nice to Spence.
I can't believe it.
It was such a shock when the letter came.
I'd forgotten about it.
Thank you, Mr Peverell.
Why have we been called? I have an announcement to make.
What's going on? We're the only squad handling serious crime with only one sergeant.
We don't need anyone else.
Well, we have a new sergeant.
Do you have a problem with that, Grace? No.
It's none of my business.
Frankie, what about you? No.
I've got none.
It's fine.
OK.
Sergeant Mel Silver joins the team as of nine o'clock this morning.
No! Congratulations! It's so brilliant! Thank you.
Oh, that is amazing! Well done! Thank you.
I really panicked for a minute.
You are really cruel.
When did you find out? Spence, are you coming? How exciting! That's what all that was about.
Yes.
Well done! It's fantastic.
This manpower thing takes time.
I want a replacement sergeant for when my sergeant makes inspector.
I haven't heard anything.
You've done your exams, interviews.
I'm expecting the same results as Mel.
Yes, headmaster.
Is that how you see me, Spence? Well, I'm flattered.
I haven't felt like this since my A-levels.
With your brain and personality, what could go wrong? PHONE RINGS Yeah.
That's wonderful! Well done.
Do you get a car park space? In my dreams! AMIP have found a body in a restaurant bin.
It's one for the Cold Case.
On what grounds? And don't say rubbish.
It's mummified.
Ah.
So, Frankie, get ready.
Well done, Mel.
Thank you.
Answer me! REPORTERS ALL TALK AT ONCE AGHHHH! I have no comment.
SHE MUMBLES Tell them they can carry me out! What the hell's happening here? Me will cut me own throat before them take me out.
I've got business in here Get out! I'll be making a statement later.
Send the devil himself and it'll be the same result.
Look, what bit of that don't you understand? Looks like someone stole it out of a museum.
Perhaps we should get onto a few curators.
It's unlikely to be Egyptian.
I didn't think he was Ramses IV.
Dumping bodies is no big deal.
Medical students do it constantly.
I'm no detective but people don't dump cadavers unless they've got something to hide.
Where would we be without your suspicious mind? Thank you.
The dustmen pick up the restaurant's rubbish at the same time every day.
So, dumped in the last 24 hours.
Mummification has happened because it was sealed in a warm void.
OK.
How old is it? That's the beauty of mummification.
Mummification can make a 5,000-year-old body look like it's been buried 50 years.
I meant how old does the body have to be before it looks mummified? - What he's saying is - I know! I understand.
What is the minimum period for mummification effects? Fine, and I've no idea.
But he's got a snazzy suit.
Until we know otherwise, we treat this person as a victim.
Changing the subject - I think that drinks tonight Spencer, stick with us, will you? I am! PHONE RINGS Stick with us.
Frankie The cause of death is he's been shot in the temple.
Small calibre judging by the entrance wound.
And someone might've cut off his nose.
He didn't cut it off himself! No, but nose is cartilage, not bone.
It deteriorates with time.
What remains shows it might've been cleanly excised.
OK.
Lord Andrew.
Carnaby Street.
That's '60's.
An ex-boyfriend went there.
I'd keep that to myself, if I were you.
That chocolate, what does 6d stand for? Ahh! What.
Can you open this up? Yep.
Old money.
Oh, 6p Cigarette cases were out of fashion by the 60s, weren't they? - Ohrolled his own.
- Naughty.
What car has a turtle for it's emblem? A slow one.
Thank you, Frankie.
OK, Spence, do your stuff.
Someone cut off his nose to spite his face.
Or "Keep your nose out of this".
Could be.
Who knows? It's like an execution.
Who's a face What? It's '60s criminal gangster It's not domestic.
Not on the face of it Sorry.
Check out all murder inquiries - our time-frame in London where no bodies have turned up.
OK.
We're on it OK, good.
Thank you.
DOOR SLAMS You'll get it, Spence.
That's not what's worrying me.
What is? Will Boyd hug me when I get the letter? Well, he's never hugged me before.
He never hugs anyone below the rank of sergeant.
And you'd know.
Spence - I might not be your equal for long.
I might make inspector before you.
Meow! Cheeky! KNOCKING ON DOOR Camelia.
It's time to leave.
We're going to take you to your new home.
I don't know, Jerry.
It could be five minutes or an hour.
Yeah.
Oh, she's coming.
It's all right.
All right, ladies and gentleman, leave her alone.
She'll be safe.
She's in good hands.
It's all over.
Frankie! Hi, Spence.
Spence, did you ever smoke? What? Would you know the difference between red leb and gold dust? Gold dust would be my personal preference.
Well, I wasn't offering it around.
What are you saying? How much is enough for personal consumption? And how much makes you a dealer? Whoa! Yeah.
Where was that? Maybe they thought he'd need it in the afterlife.
If he was going to deal in the afterlife.
What have you got? Bonnet badges.
Oh, brilliant! Right.
There we go.
What the hell is a Gordon-Keeble? I don't know.
Some rare, flash car.
So a brick of red leb and a rare car.
And no nose.
What's that? It looks to me like he preferred to smoke grass.
Charming.
I'm inviting everyone for a curry.
Celebration.
Great.
Thanks.
I'm inviting everyone for a curry.
Great.
Thanks.
You're old enough to remember one of these? It's Gordon-Keeble.
I haven't seen one in years.
Turtle.
Yeah, produced between 1964 and There'll be an owner's club.
I'll get on to it.
PHONE RINGS Yes.
Hello? Mel? Yeah? Yeah.
I'm sorry, all right.
I'm sorry.
DIALLING TONE It's too late.
Got a lead on the corpse.
Spence, get Frankie.
OK.
Grace, are you going to join us? OK.
This is it.
They're not that anonymous if they knew a body was up in a chimney.
And mummified.
Yeah.
A forensically-trained builder.
We'd better split up.
Who's coming with me? I'll hold your hand.
Thank you.
Who'll hold mine? After you, Grace.
Go on, Frankie, be brave.
I'm right behind you.
Wow! Jamaican flag.
- These places always have the same smell.
- Drowning souls.
It's not that.
Boyd What? A cross.
Yeah, but it's pretty weird.
Boyd! I think you better get up here.
Coming! Where are you? You're in here.
Yeah.
Straight ahead.
Where have you gone? Open chimney breast - like our caller said.
I'll have to remove more brickwork before I can say anything.
You need builders for that.
Anyone got any gloves? I have a tissue.
Is it clean? Of course it's clean.
Thank you.
What have you got? Common rat.
Rattus rattus.
Nice.
Yeah, but it's mummified.
Do we believe in coincidence? No, we don't.
Watch your step.
All right, this is now a crime scene.
Tomorrow we interview all the people at Meerman Property to find the informant.
Frankie will see if she can find anything on the ground floor.
Want a lift? I do.
Are we too late for the restaurant? Sorry.
Oh, we are.
We'll get chips.
Just hold on Spence, are you OK? Yeah.
You're going to make inspector, you know.
No problems.
Grace, can you take this for me, please? Sure.
WALL RINGS HOLLOW Guys, let's get this wall down! REPORTERS SHOUT QUESTIONS Excuse me.
Take a photo of the skull and then I think we're finished.
Uh-huh.
Frankie? I'm in here.
Cheers.
OK.
It's bloody chaos Oh, my God! Yeah.
There's no mummification effects here.
There's a head injury, there may be more.
I need to get it to the lab.
That's Mr Meerman.
What is this place? It's like I never liked Notting Hill.
You get a nosebleed crossing the river.
Info on the developer.
Hm? Meerman.
Meerman.
OK.
Thank you.
ANGRY VOICES I thought this was all sorted! Justexcuse me And who in the name of Christ are you? Er I've got possession.
Can I have a word? You're holding up my men! Harry! Never mind Harry.
In here, please.
I shan't ask you again.
What's all this about? You've been knocking holes in the wall.
So? This house is listed Grade 2 star.
You need Listed Building consent.
They've sent a Detective Super because of building consent? This is serious.
Our built heritage needs protecting.
Sergeant Silver agrees with me, don't you? Yeah.
There were delays in vacant possession.
I'm on a schedule.
You've got a poor record for this.
My business is legitimate.
"Karl Meerman.
List of convictions - mortgage fraud, "threatening behaviour, GBH on tenants, resisting police arrest.
" I do property development.
And waste management? I don't know what you could be referring to.
We'll continue this at my office.
I don't believe this! Mr Meerman Would you like to follow me, sir? All right.
Thank you.
Can I have the electoral roll information from 1960 to 1980? It's the Ladbroke Grove area.
It's North Kensington.
Sorry.
Can you make that North Kensington? Sorry.
You have what I would call a colourful background, Mr Meerman.
I'm in property, always have been.
Bit of a face in the past - no? But property now? Tell me this - why bother fiddling VAT when the property market is working in your favour? Your builders went into Marlow House and started wrecking the top floors.
I've got a client waiting.
One of them said he'd found a body and you said, "Dump it".
That's bollocks.
No - it's an offence of obstructing the coroner and who knows how many breaches of Public Health legislation? Wellwho is the client, then? The new owner is Toni Dean.
The singer and She's been looking for a house in London through agents.
Toni Dean.
She wants the house ready by the time the album's done.
Just like that - house, album, get it done.
She's a star.
Note that - she's a star.
Look you really should be interviewing the people in the house before Toni Dean bought it.
It was an old, black church property.
They had it let as flats.
I don't see what any of this has got to do with me.
OK, I tell you what.
What? I'll make a statement about what I found and removed from Marlow House in exchange for you letting it go.
Dumping human remains in a rubbish bin? That and I don't want to hear any more about breach of Listed Buildings regs.
Or anything else.
Don't make deals with me.
You're witholding information pertinent to a murder inquiry.
I deny all knowledge of a body.
But I found this in the floorboards.
You find all sorts in old houses.
I hope it's of help to you.
Why do you think that this should be of interest, Mr Meerman? You didn't find this under the floorboards, did you? You found this in a cavity alongside the body.
He's a real charmer(!) I had a landlord like him once.
Probably was him.
Mel? Mm-hm? Wear it with love.
What's that? Silver, it'll have hallmarks.
Frankie can photograph it.
Have you found out about this ground floor tenant? Yes.
Camelia Baptiste.
She has been a resident there since 1967.
Right.
We arranged to see her yet? I'm working on that now.
Toni Dean.
Three number ones and four number twos.
All number twos to me.
Are we having a pop trivia quiz? What's she doing there? - She now owns Marlow House.
- I know that.
But those bodies have been there for 30 years.
What's the connection? It's a big board and nice to put stuff on it.
That's a good point, Grace.
Thank you.
- I'm sure Meerman knew about the bodies.
- Is that intuition? An architectural hunch.
Sorry? He knocked a hole in the chimney breast.
Why? You bring the soot and rubbish through.
I think he knew there was something and put the acro props halfway up the chimney breast.
If he was going remove the chimney breast he'd have put them up to the ceiling for support, but he didn't, so I think he knew there was something behind those bricks.
Well, it's interesting.
It's still a hunch.
Spence.
One picture.
Sir.
It's the Hole in the Wall Gang.
I thought it was 10 Rillington Place.
A sexual killer? Something stoved his head in.
I like "something".
Why do you like something? Something.
SOMEONE.
No - we can't say, "someone".
We can say, "something".
You bloody scientists! We can say he was middle-aged or more.
He wasn't a manual worker.
And someone murdered him.
No, Boyd! He walled himself up and beat his own brains out? Then there'd be vestigial brain material.
Thank you for coming in, Mrs Baptiste.
My name's Grace Foley and I'll be looking after you here.
Your carer's upstairs so if anytime you need her please don't hesitate to ask and we'll get her for you.
We're here.
Watch the step.
Through here.
This door on the right.
Thanks.
If you'd like to sit down here.
Hi! SHE MUTTERS - Mrs Baptiste, this is Detective Superintendent Boyd.
- Hello.
Moses? No.
Moses! Moses, come for Camelia! Grace! Moses come for Camelia! Grace! It's OK Oh, merciful blessings! Mrs Baptiste Him come! Him come! Him come! Yes, yes.
Merciful blessing! There you go.
Them come take me out of me house.
Them walk and them watch.
Camelia keeps it all proper so no bad things ever happen.
And then them take Camelia out of her home.
Who walks, Mrs Baptiste? Why didn't you do something when you see what they came to do? Why didn't you say something? Now, now you keep you mouth closed! What upset you in the house before they took you away.
What was it? Mrs Baptiste? JAMAICAN ACCENT: We found them.
We found the bones business.
You want to talk in here about bones? No, no, no - not Obi-man.
These are real bones like what you and me have in our bodies.
Me should have stayed where me belong, not tip out like rubbish! Mrs Baptiste, we need to ask you Ask me nothing! We never came to talk to Mrs Baptiste.
We come to talk with Oduda.
I come to talk to Oduda.
The police want her to help.
Oduda help police? Yes.
Look upon you.
You think I don't remember nothing? Here A charm you're going to need.
Charm against the bad tings that are going to happen.
Happen where? Happen everywhere.
No more talk about bones and Oduda.
I knew you'd be back one day.
Here, Spence Come on in here.
What's going on? She's an obi-man.
Whatwhat are you talking about? Some communities have one.
Out in the Caribbean they did some of the medicine, over here, they still have certain functions.
She was living in a flat with two dead bodies, what medicine is that? I mean, is she a voodoo woman? No, no, no, it's not voodoo, it's What? It's what? Well, you get back in there and sort it out.
Come on.
Who told you to stay watching them dead people? You KNOW who tell me! Oduda's been guarding that place? Nine days Oduda needed to guard that place and then done with it.
You know nothing! How can you talk? Did you put a curse on them people who throw you out? Aaaiiieee! SHE CONTINUES TO WAIL WAILING SUBSIDES It's all right.
Come on.
It's OK, it's OK.
Ssshh! How come she knows you? Mrs Baptiste knows everyone.
Knows everyone where? Where we lived.
Where did you live? We lived on the top floor.
When my father left, the council re-housed her in a new estate block.
Why didn't you say anything about any of this? I'm sorry.
I should've said something.
Yeah, you certainly should have.
Superintendent Boyd? BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS Boyd, is that you? Yeah.
Brilliant.
Come in here.
These two pieces of lead underneath the floorboards are not original.
They're here to seal something.
What they conceal, we'll find out soon enough.
How old were you when your father left? I was six.
Where did he go? Back to Jamaica.
Were you told why? I was told he was coming back.
But he never did? No.
But after you moved, you must have known what went on here.
I was a little kid.
But this is your community.
WAS my community.
I didn't win many friends joining the police.
You should take me off this case.
No, I won't.
I don't have any special access because I'm black.
You became a police officer.
You didn't say you had second thoughts.
I never had second thoughts.
Then do the job you swore on oath to do.
Boyd, we've now got TV crews outside.
All right? Talk to you later.
Can you tell us why you're here? What the hell is going on here? This is private property.
No comment.
Let me through.
Can I help you? Who are you? Just keep them out! .
.
Get out! Sorry, now? Quinn.
Patricia Quinn.
Toni Dean's manager.
And? Bodies were found.
Not the sort of publicity Toni's interested in.
Excuse me.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Why weren't we informed about this? Who leaked this to the press? You're not suggesting that I did? Miss Quinn, are you an American citizen? Yes.
My sergeant would like to take your details.
Right.
Well? My God! Yeah.
We're just about to get them out.
Why have they done that? Absolutely no idea.
Why would you wrap their heads in plastic? It beats me.
REPORTERS SHOUT OUTSIDE Please! Come on, come on! I'm gonna call the local Met for support.
Why don't they go? How long does it take to arrange a press conference? Going to talk to the press without clearance? We've got a celebrity angle and now this.
What? Hold this.
Four bodies.
Four! I'm going to make a short statement.
Are there bodies in the house? Let me make the statement, will you? The victim was a white male in his or his surname may have begun with the letter P cos he was probably wearing this chain around his neck.
His suit came from Carnaby Street.
In the pocket was a set of keys which belonged to a car like this - a Gordon-Keeble.
There were only 100 of these cars ever built.
You all got a good shot of that one? OK, if anybody can help us identify this individual, could they please come forward? I'll answer some questions.
How many victims? One white male.
Any other questions? Do you know how he was murdered? Not at this stage.
The forensics will sort that out.
Any murder weapons? No.
Where are you going now? I'm going to have a cup of tea if that's OK with you(!) Mrs Baptiste has gone? Gone where? What do you mean you don't know? Projection.
I love this film.
I've never seen these scenes before.
They were never in the film.
This is the director's first cut.
The studio got so freaked out, they took it off then they cut it.
Where did you find this footage? From someone close to the project.
This director had a real gift.
Great.
What number have we got? On that table, please.
Thanks.
Great.
Just pop it there.
Got major hackitis.
Ignore them.
The MET press office say you were indiscreet.
Call them back.
Saying what exactly? Use your imagination.
Pull rank.
You're a sergeant.
That'll work(!) - Would you like to hear my thoughts on Mrs Baptiste? - Is she gaga? There's been a disputed ethnic Is she a witch? That's anthropological, not psychological.
Well, this is psychological.
What killer does this? We found two more bodies.
My God.
A Christian grave.
It's not exactly a five-pointed star, is it? Boyd, this is for you.
(Hot-headed, incorrigible) .
.
Yes.
Thank you.
He gave a short statement to the media.
Music computer files? Could be a DVD.
He'll call you.
Shall we watch it? Hi.
Hi.
Convenient to find a murder weapon with the body, isn't it? Well, it suggests an element of panic in the clean-up.
Thank you, Detective.
'Seconds out, round six.
' I hate boxing.
This rings a bell.
Oh, I can't look.
Why would someone send us this? 'One, two, three, four, five, six, 'seven, eight, nine, out!' Anything? If it's too soon, too early, don't rush.
Well, I've got bone fragments and tissue, and if you look through there, there's blood on the shaft.
Oh, my God! That's Marlow House.
I think you'd better get Boyd.
I think he needs to see this.
Thanks, Mel.
It's a match? Let me just finish all of the forensic work first, before we can actually say that.
What about this one? I think he had a dislocated jaw and he's got damage to the front teeth.
It's a blow from underneath, is it? Possibly.
It isn't how you murder someone.
What do you mean? It's not exactly a weapon of choice.
It's unusual, but It's not easy to defend yourself, or if you were cornered, you might just sort of swing it around He's got a damaged vertebrae.
Which one? The T2.
Back there, isn't it? You should both come and see this.
Weighs a ton, too.
Right.
- Thought you ought to see this.
- What? Marlow House.
It's Projection, do you remember? No.
I'm going back a bit now.
I think it's '60s.
Lot of fuss at the time.
Big debate about violence and depravity on the screen.
We were just saying you'd never use a pickaxe to commit murder and this guy's got a spade here.
Do you think someone could have based the film on what really happened at Marlow House? Used it as a film location? Yeah.
You're saying it's not fiction? It's a docu-drama.
Docu-drama? Ugh! Bit violent.
Not nice.
Check when this was made, Mel, and get the names of the people involved.
OK.
"Projection" it's called? Yeah.
First saw it in the cinema.
Do you think we had the experience and missed the meaning? Sorry? "We had the experience, but missed the meaning.
" TS Eliot.
TS Eliot? Check him out as well.
Mr Wit(!) Get lost! Mum.
Spencer, come in.
Sorry it's been so long.
I'veI've been working.
Why aren't you at work now? I AM at work now.
'We think his Christian name or his surname may have begun with the letter P.
'He was probably wearing this chain around his neck.
'His suit was from Carnaby Street.
In the pocket was a set of keys that belonged to a car like this - 'a Gordon-Keeble.
'Only 100 of these cars were ever built.
' Oh, my God! 'If anyone can help us identify this individual, could they please come forward? 'I'm happy to answer any questions if I can.
How many victims? 'One white male.
Do you know how how he was murdered? 'Not at this stage.
' You know what's happened.
Mrs Baptiste has been evicted and now she's missing.
Do you know where she is? They took her in care.
She's gone from care.
She didn't come here if that's why you're asking.
It's not right, you coming this way.
It's better I come than someone else.
We've found bodies.
Mrs Baptiste must have known about them.
You're my son and you come here like a policeman.
I'm your son AND a policeman.
Mrs Baptiste lived in a flat with bodies buried in the wall and the floor.
Mum, I have a job to do.
You've known Mrs Baptiste all your life, surely she must have told you something? I don't know nothing.
BANGING OUTSIDE Leave it, Spencer.
'I can't take your call.
Leave a message and I'll get back to you.
' Spence, we need to interview Mrs Baptiste again.
Call me, yeah? Please! I can't get Spence.
What do you need? Mrs Baptiste.
OK.
Here's the credits from the film.
It was made in 1968, the writer was John Wright.
Trying to trace him.
You still miss him, don't you? I've missed him for 30 years.
You think I'm suddenly going to stop? I have a really bad feeling .
.
inside.
I can't do nothing for that, Spencer.
'Let me make a statement, then you can ask questions.
The victim was a white male' The gorgeous Frannie Henning's outside.
Yeah, I know.
.
.
OK? Yeah.
Miss Henning.
Miss Henning, it's a pleasure.
Detective Superintendent Boyd.
I saw you on TV.
Right.
You've found my father.
Please.
Who is this? Phillip Stein.
My father.
What did he do? He was in the music business.
PHONE RINGS Any other businesses? He disappeared when I was five.
When exactly? Your mother? She died in 1980.
She and my father had an unconventional marriage.
After he vanished, she married again.
My mother was a rock chick.
Did she tell you how he disappeared, who he was involved with, or? She didn't talk about him.
Why? Was she frightened? No.
Why, should she have been? Well, hehe dealt drugs.
I mean, did she know that? I suppose she must have.
I realise this might be difficult for you.
Why? Not all of us want this kind of thing revealed about our fathers.
You're being quaint.
There were drugs.
Someone had to supply them.
He was a cultural hero? My father was my father.
Maybe policemen feel obliged to be so judgemental.
Tell me about your father's friends.
My father was friendly with all sorts of people.
What, criminals? I suppose so, if he was a drug dealer.
Do you remember any names? This was 30-plus years ago.
I was a child.
You've found him.
I'm his only next of kin.
I don't want to be interviewed about his friends.
Your father was murdered, Ms Henning.
Does that surprise you? Look, I don't want to make this difficult for you, but you have to understand that we want to find out who killed your father.
Aren't you curious? Well, it's not my curiosity that matters, is it? It's yours, surely.
Your father wasn't the only body we found in the house.
Maybe this is an ancient curiosity, maybe we should let people be murdered and buried in the walls of houses "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
" Sorry? It's a quote.
TS Eliot? George Santayana.
Ah.
This quote, is it a quote that means you're going to help us? My mother always said that my father was murdered by gangsters.
I don't suppose she said who? No.
Where's his body? We'll release it for burial when we are ready.
Is it in this building? Yeah, but it's not in a condition I want to see him! He's my father.
You did tell her that the body was mummified, didn't you? Yeah, more or less.
Miss Henning, are you prepared, because it's? Yes.
OK.
OK, just put it back.
It would help if you would agree to a DNA test Yes, all right.
.
.
so we can formally identify the body.
The rat man.
The rat catcher.
Not my first rat today, Fraser.
But look at this "big" man.
You're just Chaka Chaka.
Who's Chaka? You saying I'm a piece of shit next to you, Fenky Boy? What do you want, Fraser? Get it said and move from me.
This is my manor and what I say goes, you hear me? See how Fraser feels about you? Don't be stupid, Fraser.
I ain't being stupid.
Look down there.
That's muscle I have to deal with.
I tell them it's my manor and I take care of anything, so play along, Rude Boy.
You're gonna need this piece.
Pay me respect, or don't set foot in this place! I'm a police officer.
We know who you are.
You like movies, do you, Jordan? Remember this one? Chinatown, isn't it? Give him a point.
Jordan's cut.
Look, blood! How many points do I get for this? Need a good corner man, do you, Jordan? Going to bleed to death like your old man? Leave him.
In the car.
This ain't finished, Jordan.