Messiah (2001) s04e02 Episode Script
The Harrowing (2)
I'd say they've been dead since this morning.
I'll check with Rachel, but I-I think they were alive when they were, er I've never seen anything like this.
And they've been joined in the thighs, in the groin.
Looks like they're kissing.
They've beenhooked through the throat to each other.
Meat hooks.
Well, the killers reversed the van back here onto the bridge.
Opened the doors.
Chain them to the railing, dump them over the side.
Then parked their van back down in the car park.
Their signature's in the van.
Paula Scott.
Tamsin Green.
Were they lovers? Is that why they're? What's that? It's got a gem missing.
But it's definitely a man's ring.
Why leave it here? Unless that leads to our next victim? The van was moved.
Did anyone see the driver? Put out an appeal.
Television, local radio.
Newspapers.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
You OK? Yeah, of course.
It's just You'll get used to it.
I'm not sure you're supposed to.
Stephanie Baker? Everyone calls me Steph.
I'm afraid we've got some bad news.
Stephanie Steph I'm afraid there's no easy way to say this.
Your partner, Paula Scott's been murdered.
Stephanie? How long have you lived with Paula? I'm sorry, but I haven't got time for this.
This is all - When was the last time you saw Paula? Four days ago.
Your partner's been missing for four days, and you never reported her missing? I didn't report her missing because she wasn't missing.
Paula's a travel rep.
They travel.
We can do this at the station.
She was supposed to be in Scotland.
She was supposed to be at a conference.
Am I supposed to presume she's a liar? Is that all? I've got work to do.
Yeah, don't let your partner being killed ruin your day.
There's no way to tell the exact time of death, due to the conditions the bodies were found in.
But the blood spurts in the van and round the wounds indicate they were alive when they were hooked together.
Different deaths.
Different backgrounds.
So the only thing they have in common is the signature, "Save me".
So we know it's the same killer.
And all the victims are women.
So far.
What about the ring? All they could tell us was that it might be foreign.
And we're going through missing persons files for the last month, looking for descriptions of personal items.
They were alive when they were hooked together.
Are Paula and Tamsin being punished because they were unfaithful? Is that what these murders are about? Is it punishment? Vickie, get on to forensics.
Get them to lay out everything bagged from Catherine McArdle's flat.
All of it? Yes! All of it! Too close to home? You knew Paula was having an affair.
Where were you last night, Steph? There was no conference in Scotland, was there? Steph.
There's no shame in admitting she was having an affair.
You found Paula with Tamsin, didn't you? I wish to God I had.
Maybe if I'd found them, I wouldn't have And what? You killed them? I wouldn't have lost her for good.
It'd be different if it was the first time Paula had Do you know what it's like to watch somebody disappear in front of your eyes? Seven years together and she Are you done here? Steph.
What? I bought them in a shop.
Does this look the sort of thing Catherine would wear? Hand-painted silk.
"New Life Designs".
Artist's workshop in the East End.
Expensive.
Smarter.
Angry woman in the expensive coat.
'Your credit card receipt was found amongst Your credit card receipt 'Mrs White, your credit card receipt' was found among some stolen credit cards.
Can you confirm a purchase with New Life designers? Eccleshall.
The Eccleshall receipt.
Where's the Eccleshall receipt? What was her first name? - Grace.
She wasn't in.
I'm trying to tell her.
- Grace.
Just hang on.
Grace Eccleshall.
We have a problem.
The scarf we found in Catherine's room belongs to a Grace Eccleshall.
How's that a problem? She's Richard Eccleshall's wife.
Richard Eccleshall was also Isabel Price's tutor.
What, you think he killed her? If he was Catherine's boyfriend, he could be the father of her baby.
So there may be a link between Catherine and Isabel.
But Isabel wasn't murdered.
But if Isabel's tutor IS the murderer, I don't want Rachel to hear about this.
Lose something? So you went around to Catherine's flat to what? Compare notes? I went around and told her that I knew.
Knew what? She wasn't his first and she needn't make plans to be his last.
So how often does this happen? Once a year.
Twice? That's our business.
Not when your scarf turns up in the flat of a murder victim.
He wasn't going to leave me for her.
So you admit that you threatened her? I asked her to back off.
She wouldn't listen, we argued and I left.
What did you argue about? About her hassling Richard.
Look, it was over in about fifteen minutes.
That was the last time I saw her.
Now I've told you everything I know.
Sit down, Grace.
You went in his place and did his dirty work for him.
How dare you?! Did you wait and follow Catherine after she left her room? She wanted to take him away from me.
You don't just give up on someone you love.
You fight for them.
Would you kill for them? Oh, for God's sake.
Did you wait and follow Catherine after she left her room? Did you call her? I went to work, I gave a lecture and then I spoke to Richard.
Did your husband call her? She was pestering him.
Why would he call her? Where did you go after Catherine's? I went to a lecture.
Then I came back here, collected some clothes and I went to stay with my sister.
You were angry with him? Yes.
You wanted to teach him a lesson.
I wanted some space.
Now I've told you everything I know.
When did you get back? This afternoon.
Your sister will confirm you've been staying with her for the past three days? I've told you everything I know.
Now I'd like you to leave, please.
Did Catherine tell you she was pregnant? There's no proof it was his.
Did you tell Richard? She didn't love him.
I do.
So the intellectual structure is in place by the third section.
And where Paradise offers us salvation and reward Salvation and .
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reward for those who believe.
What is, er What is going on? Richard Eccleshall, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
We know you were sleeping with Catherine McArdle.
We know Catherine wanted you to leave Grace for her.
Yes, but We know you wanted to get rid of Catherine but she wouldn't listen.
It was fine.
You call this "fine"? Did you and Grace kill her together? Was that part of the arrangement as well? We want to do a DNA test, Richard.
What for? You're the lecturer, work it out.
Catherine was pregnant.
-No.
No, she She couldn't have been.
The baby died when she died.
She would've told me.
You don't see women as people, do you? You just see them as objects to be picked up and tossed aside at the end of the year.
Where were you in the early hours of Monday morning? I was at home.
While Grace was at her sister's? I-I've never seen that woman before in my life.
Really?! She used to work at the college.
Your college.
Where were you on Tuesday night? I was at home.
While Grace was at her sister's? Where were you the night before last? At home.
While Grace was at her sister's? I've never seen them before.
Who does this belong to? I want my lawyer.
Who does the ring belong to, Richard? (I've traced the ring.
) I've matched the description of the ring to a recent missing person's report.
John Giardello.
46.
Italian restaurant owner, North London.
He's been missing for six days.
His wife Emma made the report.
Get a photo and description circulated.
We have to find him.
I think he's found you.
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Can we trace this? Do it.
Please help me.
Help me, please.
How long has he got? .
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He's in pain.
If he's got no water a few days.
Metal walls.
The van.
The hold of a ship.
What about Computer Forensics? In geek heaven.
They're going through the killer's message frame by frame.
Giardello drove to the bank with the restaurant takings.
The money was never lodged.
His car is missing.
Six days.
He could be dead already.
If so, why send an e-mail? This wasn't just left at the scene.
This was sent directly to me.
Your e-mail address is on the LMP web page.
It was sent via a chain of re-mailers - Thailand, Turkey, Russia.
Can it be traced? Re-mailers scrub the computer's IP address to ensure complete anonymity.
Where is he? Who? John Giardello.
I'm giving you one chance to help us save him.
I've never seen him before in my life.
This is your evidence?! Come on, we're going.
DCI Metcalfe! He's still alive.
And while he's alive, that counts in your favour.
Hang on.
You've just received these.
My client was in custody.
They were sent by a re-mailer.
They're given specific instructions where and when to send their e-mails.
And you've got evidence? Search his computer.
How long are you going to hold my client? As long as it takes.
There's a needle-puncture mark to the arm.
PHONE RINGS Hello? .
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Red.
Yeah, I'll get Rachel for you Oh.
Oh.
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OK.
In an hour.
What did he want? He didn't say.
I've tried to keep busy, but I'm so tired, always fearing the worst.
Well, sometimes it's, umit's hard not to fear the worst.
Your husband drove to the bank on Saturday? Mm-hm.
John does the night lodgement.
The week's takings were just over ã3,000.
Last time I saw him.
Put your heart and soul in a place.
Break your back night and day.
Non mangiare questo.
Non mangiare quello.
English, speak English.
Do you recognise this man, Mrs Giardello? A customer maybe? A friend of your husband's? No.
I don't think so.
I mean, if he's only eaten here once or twice Mum? Oh, it's OK, Franco.
They're looking for your father.
See, I told you.
It's going to be OK.
Everything's going to be OK.
I expect you do your accounts on computer.
We need to take them with us.
It's just routine.
Do you know your dad's password? Well, I set it up for him, didn't I? His computer's upstairs.
Giovanni is dead, isn't he? Isn't he? Stop talking like that.
She always sees the worst.
No, I know what I want to be true, but That's a nice photograph.
Who's he? That's my Uncle Rico.
- I give birth to Giovanni.
Black sheep of the family.
MRS GIARDELLO: His name is John.
Family's important at times like these.
Senora Giardello .
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non e d'aiuto alla sua famiglia.
Your dad never mentioned he was being followed? Never felt like he was being watched? Look.
He walked out on us, all right? That's what happened.
One minute he was here, the next he Look, you know what? Just good riddance.
When you reported your husband missing, you mentioned a ring.
Mmm.
Yeah.
I bought John a diamond-studded ring on our honeymoon.
He lost a gem on the right side last year.
I said to John, "We bought it when we were broke and we'll fix it when we're broke.
" Yes.
No.
You stay here.
You don't have to do this.
Best seat in the house.
We need you to confirm that this is your husband.
Anything.
Anything at all that you can see that can help us to find him.
MRS GIARDELLO: Oh, God.
Shall we get you a cup of tea, coffee? Come on, let's go in the family room.
Mamma! I'm sorry.
We've put a pipe in your system.
It lets us monitor everything coming and coming into your account.
You've no shameful surfing to hide, DCI Metcalfe, do you?! Anyway, the e-mail you received is a video file.
It's like any other computer file.
As soon as it's saved onto a hard drive, it stores information.
This one was created two days ago.
Anything else? Plenty.
It was filmed using a domestic digital camera.
Fairly standard resolution.
The video's been compressed using a Sorenson Codec.
Anything useful? The walls might be stainless steel.
Curved.
Police stations make me nervous.
I want you to do a DNA test on a suspect.
OK.
But why me and not Rachel? The suspect is known to Rachel.
He may be the father of Catherine McArdle's child.
Richard Eccleshall.
He was Isabel's tutor at college.
He spoke at her inquest.
You're asking me to lie to Rachel? Will this hurt? It's a painless procedure.
Sir.
You won't feel a thing.
Giardello's and Eccleshall's computers are clean.
And Eccleshall is being bailed.
Circumstantial evidence, hearsay, this is not a fascist state.
Blah, blah, blah.
The usual.
We can hang onto him for withholding evidence.
Let him go.
I can get him to talk by the end of the day.
We haven't got enough to charge him.
Put him under surveillance.
Discreetly.
Check his wife's computer as well.
McArdle, Fullerton, Greene, Scott.
The list ends here.
We find John and we save him.
You screwed up, didn't you? I was right.
Isabel WAS murdered.
That's why Richard Eccleshall was here.
For the last time, Jack Red thinks he killed Isabel and Catherine.
Doesn't he? Do you mind? Did you hear what I said? I did.
But I'm trying to pretend that I didn't.
I'm talking to you.
No, you're talking AT me, Jack.
Learn the difference.
You screwed up.
I was right.
Izzy's case is linked to Red's case.
Everything all right? Yeah.
It's fine.
You asleep?! Take them, take them.
DCI Metcalfe.
There's another one.
I wouldn't give him 12 hours.
The first file was 170 megs.
This one is double that.
Definitely three bleeds.
Can you filter it? It's a plane.
He's near an airport.
Ssh, quiet.
It's close.
Under a flight path.
It's a turbo prop.
An ATP.
STOL.
City Airport.
STOL? Short takeoff and landing.
Sounds like a train.
It's not a mainline, it's lighter.
A tube? No, it sounds DLR.
Docklands Light Railway.
It's near the City Airport.
That's a tube.
District line.
It runs above ground at Bromley by Bow and crosses the DLR.
Air traffic approach routes.
Train lines.
We need somewhere out the way.
Isolated.
An industrial estate.
No, too many people.
There's a bonded warehouse here.
Security and staff.
There's too many people in there.
What about the gasworks? No.
The only one in the area was demolished.
Disused brewery? Stainless steel walls.
Vats.
Hang on.
There's something else.
Red! .
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It's his car.
There's a hypo, and what looks like the money.
We've got I don't know.
We've got something.
Clear! John Giardello! John Giardello! John Giardello! Where was that? Who was that? There's no rigor.
It passes after 36 hours.
He was dead already.
I sat in that room, I watched him suffer and he was dead already.
Why? VICKIE: He was dead before the clips were even sent to you.
RACHEL: No-one blames you.
No-one has to.
Red? What is it? Per me si van e la citta dolente.
Ne la citta dolente.
I am the way to the city of weeping.
I am the way to eternal grief.
I am the way to the people lost.
Abandon every hope, all ye who enter.
Dante.
Catherine McArdle.
Stung by bees.
Claire Fullerton.
Released from limbo.
Tamsin Green and Paula Scott.
The lovers.
Lustful.
Gluttony.
We're in Dante's Inferno.
The killer is condemning his victims to hell.
Toxicology, I need blood and urine samples, please.
Can you get the viscera bag and bowls ready? Tim, do we have those 20ml syringes? The 50ml are going to be too big for this one.
I hear your voice every day.
I want him to be alive but I can't make him alive.
The lacerations match those in the other deaths.
The scabs and clotting on his wounds suggest they healed two, three days ago.
Apart from this obviously self-inflicted wound.
Thank you.
Thank you for breaking your lecture, Professor Robb.
I'm not sure my head of department classifies talking to a room full of mostly empty chairs as a lecture.
I'm also not quite sure what I can do.
Professor Robb, thank you for coming.
Dried flakes of blood in the mouth.
Minor healed lacerations in the throat and the oesophagus.
What's his stomach contents? Partial lumps of masticated flesh, vein, small chips of bone in the digestive tract.
I suppose could account for lacerations in the throat.
Larvae.
Mud? Oh, Christ.
Oh, that's excrement.
All right.
Let's send his bone chips off and find out if they match the radius.
I've heard that sometimes mountaineers can cut through their arm with a saw blade or penknife.
Perhaps he tried to gnaw his hand off.
How long would it take him to die? He was dying of dehydration when he The larvae in his stomach mean a forensic entomologist can give us an exact time of death.
Tim? I'll have the samples packed up as soon as we're done.
He was dead long before we got there.
He was dead.
We saw him suffering after he was dead.
He was in hell.
I can't do this.
You've got the wrong woman.
I'm sorry.
There is no-one else.
There must be.
I'm not the only Dante expert in London.
Please find somebody else.
But Professor Robb, if we I interrupted my lecture.
Would somebody tell me what the hell is going on? We've found something in his stomach.
Here we go again.
OK, attention please, everybody.
Thank you.
Professor Robb.
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Ah.
Not quite sure where to start.
Well, from the beginning.
Right, so, um Dante was an Italian, writing in the fourteenth century.
Um, he Well, the Inferno is the first part of the Divine Comedy.
Um, Dante conceived the Inferno as this enormous pit.
Ah.
Could you put it down there? Lovely.
Thank you very much.
Right.
See, he imagined it as this huge pit and he begins his journey outside the Inferno at the Vestibule, which is the entrance to hell.
The Inferno has nine circles spiralling down to the bottom and each circle that Dante travels through represents a different sin.
Like lust or violence.
And as he passes from the Vestibule down to the darkest, lowest pit of hell, inflicted on the souls in each circle.
The Vestibule.
The entrance to hell.
Punishment of the indecisive.
People who were indecisive in life were made to follow a blank banner in death.
For Dante they were, um They were "souls who lived a life with no blame and with no praise, "neither faithful nor unfaithful to their God.
" Please.
Catherine McArdle.
Dropped out of college.
Couldn't hold down a job.
The punishment? "Stung again and again by the hornets "and the wasps that circled them and made their faces run with blood.
"Their blood, mixed with their tears, dripped to their feet.
"And disgusting maggots collected in their pus".
The entrance to hell was supposed to be at Gehenna.
And Gehenna was this garbage dump outside Jerusalem.
Indecisive in life.
Stung into action in death.
Circle one.
The unbaptised, or Limbo.
Claire Fullerton.
Her life had been on hold since the death of her daughter.
Ten years later she was still visiting the spot every week.
"For this defect and no other guilt, we are lost.
"In this alone we suffer.
"Cut off from hope, we live on in desire.
" She was in Limbo.
The hospice was a metaphor for her life.
She suffered.
She was in grief.
Untormented grief.
Circle two.
Lust.
"I came to a place where no light shone.
"The infernal storm sweeps and drives the spirits in its blast "tossed and whirled by winds, lashing them with punishment.
" Now this circle is a perfect example of Dante's use of contrapasso.
Um, your punishment in hell mirrors - or is the opposite of - your sin.
What I was once in life, I now am dead.
The violent shed blood in life, their punishment is to lie in a river of blood in death.
The adulterous lovers, divided in life, now become the doomed souls eternally united in hell.
Your sin is used and turned against you.
I thought this was supposed to be a comedy.
Tamsin Greene, Paula Scott.
"If you use your body as an animal in life "I will treat you as an animal in death.
" John Giardello.
Circle three.
Gluttony.
The sinners in this circle are forced to gorge on mud and excrement, instead of the wine and the food they dined on in life.
The killer has taken us to circle three.
There are six circles to go.
Six murders, or sets of murders, to go.
What about the next circles? Circle four is the spendthrifts and hoarders.
Circle five, the violent lying in a river of blood.
Circle seven, violence against property, self and God.
Circle eight is, um, fraud.
And circle nine Circle nine is the lowest pit of hell.
The worst sin of all.
Treachery.
OK, OK.
Um Hoarders and spendthrifts? Well, um, the sinners that Dante witnessed being punished in this level of hell were mostly priests.
Roman Catholic priests.
It must be a priest.
Well, there must be something else in Dante to narrow this down.
Have you got some good news for me? I thought that was your job, Father.
How long is it this time? We have to head off early again, Father.
The lost souls were forced to ram enormous rocks into one another's chests.
I'm sorry, Dante thought that all priests were sinners.
Corrupt.
"Their undistinguished life that made them foul made it hard to distinguish them now.
" Do you know how many priests there are in London? I think we're about to.
We can't protect them all.
Red.
We can't protect them all.
We protect them all.
I'm in position.
What's been happening? He hasn't left the building all morning.
Grace went out about an hour ago.
Grace is back.
You killed my daughter.
Get off! He's killing him! He's killing him! Help him! Say it! Say it.
Or so help me, I will kill you.
He killed her! He killed her! Jack! Jack! Get up! Where's Eccleshall? You've got five minutes, Jack.
All right? Eccleshall killed Izzy, Rachel.
Jack.
Listen to me, Rachel.
He killed her.
He's her tutor Well, WAS her tutor.
It doesn't matter if you try and kill him, she isn't coming back.
She's dead.
So why's Red had him in as a suspect? Why's Red had a DNA test carried out on him? No.
No, Red wouldn't.
Hasn't he told you? No, I didn't think so.
His first victim was Izzy.
He started with her.
Then he moved on to McArdle, Fullerton.
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Red wouldn't keep it from you unless he thought there was something in it.
Thanks for coming in.
Charge me or release me.
Where's your husband, Grace? I said charge me or release me.
You must really love him.
I can't see any other reason why you would do all this.
Do all what? So long as Richard comes back, you'll put up with his affairs.
You'll wait for him.
Believe his lies when he comes back late from a tutorial.
Assuming that the till death us do part is is not a lie.
It's not.
And I do.
I do love him.
You can't choose the bits of a person to love and forget the rest.
You either love them or you don't.
And if you love them, you'll do anything for them.
Including believe his lies? Most couples I know measure their marriage by something.
Years together, income, their kids, what they have, what they haven't got.
A lie is as good a foundation as a truth.
And what about them? The girls.
The Catherine McArdles of this world .
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and all those lies? I'm still here.
Catherine isn't.
That sounds like a confession.
It's an observation.
The difference between them and me is that they try to change him.
I accept him for what he is.
And maybe some day he will change.
It won't be because I made him.
There are two kinds of lies, Grace.
The one that you get away with.
And the one you get caught in.
Which was Richard's last lie? The one that you caught him with? Or where he was when Catherine McArdle was murdered? Charge me, or release me.
Grace, my arse.
Have you ever met a more inappropriately named woman? I think we're looking at the wrong Eccleshall.
What are you going to do about Jack? Richard Eccleshall is the father of Catherine McArdle's child.
Glad I can be the bearer of such good news.
Rachel.
Um I know that Izzy killed herself.
I am not Jack.
Next time, do me the professional courtesy, and don't go behind my back.
I'm sorry.
So am I.
You're being bailed.
Under the terms of your bail, you're suspended from duty.
You are not to go anywhere near Richard Eccleshall.
Is that clear? Why? You're not the forgiving type, Red.
We all make mistakes.
Why is it so important to you to believe that Eccleshall did it? You wouldn't understand.
The last time you spoke to Izzy .
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what happened? Nothing.
Nothing special.
Can I help you? Sorry? The answer to Duncan's question.
There are 738 Catholic priests in London.
They've been warned and offered protection.
The rest are being tracked down or spoken to as we speak.
But? There was a priest who was still on the list.
He left the priesthood last year.
Decided it wasn't for him.
Defrocked priests? They're the real sinners, aren't they? I mean, we could narrow it down.
No, no.
No.
No, don't narrow it down.
Some of these priests were kicked out the Church, others seem to have left voluntarily.
Those are the details we have of everyone who's ever passed through our doors.
I'm not sure how reliable the addresses are now.
No, this is a big help, Father.
It's just Simon now.
Simon Emerson.
I suggest you restrict your movements.
Travel in pairs with someone you trust.
Anything unusual or suspicious, contact us, no matter how trivial it might seem.
I'm surprised you managed to get anything out of Monsignor Noonan.
He normally refuses to acknowledge we even exist.
The Church hopes by forgetting us, the rest of the world will forget we were ever part of the Church.
How did these men become .
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casualties? Various reasons.
They battle their own individual demons.
They pay for their sins in this life, and will continue to pay for them in the next.
Do any of your residents have trouble with money? Take a look around you.
Giving up a lifetime's vocation can be hard.
It's hard to keep these men from falling even further.
This refuge is all there is between them and the streets.
Some people think they're lost and not worth saving.
I disagree.
Doesn't it bother you being abandoned by the Church? Sometimes the Church doesn't have all the solutions.
You have to look elsewhere for the answer.
Duncan.
We need a car down at Farrick Road.
There are 20 ex-priests here all with a reason to be angry.
And can you pull the files on any of these names? Run a check on Simon Emerson.
Simon Emerson.
Thomas Brown.
Joseph Sweeney.
Patrick Murphy The souls that Dante witnessed being punished at this level of hell were mostly priests.
Roman Catholic priests.
Red.
When Emerson was a parish priest, he killed a teacher who'd been abusing a ten-year-old girl.
The teacher confessed the abuse to Emerson several times and refused to seek help.
So Emerson took matters into his own hands? He handed himself in to the police.
He confessed, pleaded guilty.
He even refused a solicitor at the trial.
The anger of a righteous man.
Where was he parish priest? Saint Peter's.
Oh, oh, oh.
His chest is Red? You OK? Dad? Dad? It's Izzy.
I need you to help me.
Please, Dad.
Answer me, Dad.
Please, Daddy? Daddy.
I'll check with Rachel, but I-I think they were alive when they were, er I've never seen anything like this.
And they've been joined in the thighs, in the groin.
Looks like they're kissing.
They've beenhooked through the throat to each other.
Meat hooks.
Well, the killers reversed the van back here onto the bridge.
Opened the doors.
Chain them to the railing, dump them over the side.
Then parked their van back down in the car park.
Their signature's in the van.
Paula Scott.
Tamsin Green.
Were they lovers? Is that why they're? What's that? It's got a gem missing.
But it's definitely a man's ring.
Why leave it here? Unless that leads to our next victim? The van was moved.
Did anyone see the driver? Put out an appeal.
Television, local radio.
Newspapers.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
You OK? Yeah, of course.
It's just You'll get used to it.
I'm not sure you're supposed to.
Stephanie Baker? Everyone calls me Steph.
I'm afraid we've got some bad news.
Stephanie Steph I'm afraid there's no easy way to say this.
Your partner, Paula Scott's been murdered.
Stephanie? How long have you lived with Paula? I'm sorry, but I haven't got time for this.
This is all - When was the last time you saw Paula? Four days ago.
Your partner's been missing for four days, and you never reported her missing? I didn't report her missing because she wasn't missing.
Paula's a travel rep.
They travel.
We can do this at the station.
She was supposed to be in Scotland.
She was supposed to be at a conference.
Am I supposed to presume she's a liar? Is that all? I've got work to do.
Yeah, don't let your partner being killed ruin your day.
There's no way to tell the exact time of death, due to the conditions the bodies were found in.
But the blood spurts in the van and round the wounds indicate they were alive when they were hooked together.
Different deaths.
Different backgrounds.
So the only thing they have in common is the signature, "Save me".
So we know it's the same killer.
And all the victims are women.
So far.
What about the ring? All they could tell us was that it might be foreign.
And we're going through missing persons files for the last month, looking for descriptions of personal items.
They were alive when they were hooked together.
Are Paula and Tamsin being punished because they were unfaithful? Is that what these murders are about? Is it punishment? Vickie, get on to forensics.
Get them to lay out everything bagged from Catherine McArdle's flat.
All of it? Yes! All of it! Too close to home? You knew Paula was having an affair.
Where were you last night, Steph? There was no conference in Scotland, was there? Steph.
There's no shame in admitting she was having an affair.
You found Paula with Tamsin, didn't you? I wish to God I had.
Maybe if I'd found them, I wouldn't have And what? You killed them? I wouldn't have lost her for good.
It'd be different if it was the first time Paula had Do you know what it's like to watch somebody disappear in front of your eyes? Seven years together and she Are you done here? Steph.
What? I bought them in a shop.
Does this look the sort of thing Catherine would wear? Hand-painted silk.
"New Life Designs".
Artist's workshop in the East End.
Expensive.
Smarter.
Angry woman in the expensive coat.
'Your credit card receipt was found amongst Your credit card receipt 'Mrs White, your credit card receipt' was found among some stolen credit cards.
Can you confirm a purchase with New Life designers? Eccleshall.
The Eccleshall receipt.
Where's the Eccleshall receipt? What was her first name? - Grace.
She wasn't in.
I'm trying to tell her.
- Grace.
Just hang on.
Grace Eccleshall.
We have a problem.
The scarf we found in Catherine's room belongs to a Grace Eccleshall.
How's that a problem? She's Richard Eccleshall's wife.
Richard Eccleshall was also Isabel Price's tutor.
What, you think he killed her? If he was Catherine's boyfriend, he could be the father of her baby.
So there may be a link between Catherine and Isabel.
But Isabel wasn't murdered.
But if Isabel's tutor IS the murderer, I don't want Rachel to hear about this.
Lose something? So you went around to Catherine's flat to what? Compare notes? I went around and told her that I knew.
Knew what? She wasn't his first and she needn't make plans to be his last.
So how often does this happen? Once a year.
Twice? That's our business.
Not when your scarf turns up in the flat of a murder victim.
He wasn't going to leave me for her.
So you admit that you threatened her? I asked her to back off.
She wouldn't listen, we argued and I left.
What did you argue about? About her hassling Richard.
Look, it was over in about fifteen minutes.
That was the last time I saw her.
Now I've told you everything I know.
Sit down, Grace.
You went in his place and did his dirty work for him.
How dare you?! Did you wait and follow Catherine after she left her room? She wanted to take him away from me.
You don't just give up on someone you love.
You fight for them.
Would you kill for them? Oh, for God's sake.
Did you wait and follow Catherine after she left her room? Did you call her? I went to work, I gave a lecture and then I spoke to Richard.
Did your husband call her? She was pestering him.
Why would he call her? Where did you go after Catherine's? I went to a lecture.
Then I came back here, collected some clothes and I went to stay with my sister.
You were angry with him? Yes.
You wanted to teach him a lesson.
I wanted some space.
Now I've told you everything I know.
When did you get back? This afternoon.
Your sister will confirm you've been staying with her for the past three days? I've told you everything I know.
Now I'd like you to leave, please.
Did Catherine tell you she was pregnant? There's no proof it was his.
Did you tell Richard? She didn't love him.
I do.
So the intellectual structure is in place by the third section.
And where Paradise offers us salvation and reward Salvation and .
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reward for those who believe.
What is, er What is going on? Richard Eccleshall, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
We know you were sleeping with Catherine McArdle.
We know Catherine wanted you to leave Grace for her.
Yes, but We know you wanted to get rid of Catherine but she wouldn't listen.
It was fine.
You call this "fine"? Did you and Grace kill her together? Was that part of the arrangement as well? We want to do a DNA test, Richard.
What for? You're the lecturer, work it out.
Catherine was pregnant.
-No.
No, she She couldn't have been.
The baby died when she died.
She would've told me.
You don't see women as people, do you? You just see them as objects to be picked up and tossed aside at the end of the year.
Where were you in the early hours of Monday morning? I was at home.
While Grace was at her sister's? I-I've never seen that woman before in my life.
Really?! She used to work at the college.
Your college.
Where were you on Tuesday night? I was at home.
While Grace was at her sister's? Where were you the night before last? At home.
While Grace was at her sister's? I've never seen them before.
Who does this belong to? I want my lawyer.
Who does the ring belong to, Richard? (I've traced the ring.
) I've matched the description of the ring to a recent missing person's report.
John Giardello.
46.
Italian restaurant owner, North London.
He's been missing for six days.
His wife Emma made the report.
Get a photo and description circulated.
We have to find him.
I think he's found you.
.
.
Can we trace this? Do it.
Please help me.
Help me, please.
How long has he got? .
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He's in pain.
If he's got no water a few days.
Metal walls.
The van.
The hold of a ship.
What about Computer Forensics? In geek heaven.
They're going through the killer's message frame by frame.
Giardello drove to the bank with the restaurant takings.
The money was never lodged.
His car is missing.
Six days.
He could be dead already.
If so, why send an e-mail? This wasn't just left at the scene.
This was sent directly to me.
Your e-mail address is on the LMP web page.
It was sent via a chain of re-mailers - Thailand, Turkey, Russia.
Can it be traced? Re-mailers scrub the computer's IP address to ensure complete anonymity.
Where is he? Who? John Giardello.
I'm giving you one chance to help us save him.
I've never seen him before in my life.
This is your evidence?! Come on, we're going.
DCI Metcalfe! He's still alive.
And while he's alive, that counts in your favour.
Hang on.
You've just received these.
My client was in custody.
They were sent by a re-mailer.
They're given specific instructions where and when to send their e-mails.
And you've got evidence? Search his computer.
How long are you going to hold my client? As long as it takes.
There's a needle-puncture mark to the arm.
PHONE RINGS Hello? .
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Red.
Yeah, I'll get Rachel for you Oh.
Oh.
.
.
OK.
In an hour.
What did he want? He didn't say.
I've tried to keep busy, but I'm so tired, always fearing the worst.
Well, sometimes it's, umit's hard not to fear the worst.
Your husband drove to the bank on Saturday? Mm-hm.
John does the night lodgement.
The week's takings were just over ã3,000.
Last time I saw him.
Put your heart and soul in a place.
Break your back night and day.
Non mangiare questo.
Non mangiare quello.
English, speak English.
Do you recognise this man, Mrs Giardello? A customer maybe? A friend of your husband's? No.
I don't think so.
I mean, if he's only eaten here once or twice Mum? Oh, it's OK, Franco.
They're looking for your father.
See, I told you.
It's going to be OK.
Everything's going to be OK.
I expect you do your accounts on computer.
We need to take them with us.
It's just routine.
Do you know your dad's password? Well, I set it up for him, didn't I? His computer's upstairs.
Giovanni is dead, isn't he? Isn't he? Stop talking like that.
She always sees the worst.
No, I know what I want to be true, but That's a nice photograph.
Who's he? That's my Uncle Rico.
- I give birth to Giovanni.
Black sheep of the family.
MRS GIARDELLO: His name is John.
Family's important at times like these.
Senora Giardello .
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non e d'aiuto alla sua famiglia.
Your dad never mentioned he was being followed? Never felt like he was being watched? Look.
He walked out on us, all right? That's what happened.
One minute he was here, the next he Look, you know what? Just good riddance.
When you reported your husband missing, you mentioned a ring.
Mmm.
Yeah.
I bought John a diamond-studded ring on our honeymoon.
He lost a gem on the right side last year.
I said to John, "We bought it when we were broke and we'll fix it when we're broke.
" Yes.
No.
You stay here.
You don't have to do this.
Best seat in the house.
We need you to confirm that this is your husband.
Anything.
Anything at all that you can see that can help us to find him.
MRS GIARDELLO: Oh, God.
Shall we get you a cup of tea, coffee? Come on, let's go in the family room.
Mamma! I'm sorry.
We've put a pipe in your system.
It lets us monitor everything coming and coming into your account.
You've no shameful surfing to hide, DCI Metcalfe, do you?! Anyway, the e-mail you received is a video file.
It's like any other computer file.
As soon as it's saved onto a hard drive, it stores information.
This one was created two days ago.
Anything else? Plenty.
It was filmed using a domestic digital camera.
Fairly standard resolution.
The video's been compressed using a Sorenson Codec.
Anything useful? The walls might be stainless steel.
Curved.
Police stations make me nervous.
I want you to do a DNA test on a suspect.
OK.
But why me and not Rachel? The suspect is known to Rachel.
He may be the father of Catherine McArdle's child.
Richard Eccleshall.
He was Isabel's tutor at college.
He spoke at her inquest.
You're asking me to lie to Rachel? Will this hurt? It's a painless procedure.
Sir.
You won't feel a thing.
Giardello's and Eccleshall's computers are clean.
And Eccleshall is being bailed.
Circumstantial evidence, hearsay, this is not a fascist state.
Blah, blah, blah.
The usual.
We can hang onto him for withholding evidence.
Let him go.
I can get him to talk by the end of the day.
We haven't got enough to charge him.
Put him under surveillance.
Discreetly.
Check his wife's computer as well.
McArdle, Fullerton, Greene, Scott.
The list ends here.
We find John and we save him.
You screwed up, didn't you? I was right.
Isabel WAS murdered.
That's why Richard Eccleshall was here.
For the last time, Jack Red thinks he killed Isabel and Catherine.
Doesn't he? Do you mind? Did you hear what I said? I did.
But I'm trying to pretend that I didn't.
I'm talking to you.
No, you're talking AT me, Jack.
Learn the difference.
You screwed up.
I was right.
Izzy's case is linked to Red's case.
Everything all right? Yeah.
It's fine.
You asleep?! Take them, take them.
DCI Metcalfe.
There's another one.
I wouldn't give him 12 hours.
The first file was 170 megs.
This one is double that.
Definitely three bleeds.
Can you filter it? It's a plane.
He's near an airport.
Ssh, quiet.
It's close.
Under a flight path.
It's a turbo prop.
An ATP.
STOL.
City Airport.
STOL? Short takeoff and landing.
Sounds like a train.
It's not a mainline, it's lighter.
A tube? No, it sounds DLR.
Docklands Light Railway.
It's near the City Airport.
That's a tube.
District line.
It runs above ground at Bromley by Bow and crosses the DLR.
Air traffic approach routes.
Train lines.
We need somewhere out the way.
Isolated.
An industrial estate.
No, too many people.
There's a bonded warehouse here.
Security and staff.
There's too many people in there.
What about the gasworks? No.
The only one in the area was demolished.
Disused brewery? Stainless steel walls.
Vats.
Hang on.
There's something else.
Red! .
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It's his car.
There's a hypo, and what looks like the money.
We've got I don't know.
We've got something.
Clear! John Giardello! John Giardello! John Giardello! Where was that? Who was that? There's no rigor.
It passes after 36 hours.
He was dead already.
I sat in that room, I watched him suffer and he was dead already.
Why? VICKIE: He was dead before the clips were even sent to you.
RACHEL: No-one blames you.
No-one has to.
Red? What is it? Per me si van e la citta dolente.
Ne la citta dolente.
I am the way to the city of weeping.
I am the way to eternal grief.
I am the way to the people lost.
Abandon every hope, all ye who enter.
Dante.
Catherine McArdle.
Stung by bees.
Claire Fullerton.
Released from limbo.
Tamsin Green and Paula Scott.
The lovers.
Lustful.
Gluttony.
We're in Dante's Inferno.
The killer is condemning his victims to hell.
Toxicology, I need blood and urine samples, please.
Can you get the viscera bag and bowls ready? Tim, do we have those 20ml syringes? The 50ml are going to be too big for this one.
I hear your voice every day.
I want him to be alive but I can't make him alive.
The lacerations match those in the other deaths.
The scabs and clotting on his wounds suggest they healed two, three days ago.
Apart from this obviously self-inflicted wound.
Thank you.
Thank you for breaking your lecture, Professor Robb.
I'm not sure my head of department classifies talking to a room full of mostly empty chairs as a lecture.
I'm also not quite sure what I can do.
Professor Robb, thank you for coming.
Dried flakes of blood in the mouth.
Minor healed lacerations in the throat and the oesophagus.
What's his stomach contents? Partial lumps of masticated flesh, vein, small chips of bone in the digestive tract.
I suppose could account for lacerations in the throat.
Larvae.
Mud? Oh, Christ.
Oh, that's excrement.
All right.
Let's send his bone chips off and find out if they match the radius.
I've heard that sometimes mountaineers can cut through their arm with a saw blade or penknife.
Perhaps he tried to gnaw his hand off.
How long would it take him to die? He was dying of dehydration when he The larvae in his stomach mean a forensic entomologist can give us an exact time of death.
Tim? I'll have the samples packed up as soon as we're done.
He was dead long before we got there.
He was dead.
We saw him suffering after he was dead.
He was in hell.
I can't do this.
You've got the wrong woman.
I'm sorry.
There is no-one else.
There must be.
I'm not the only Dante expert in London.
Please find somebody else.
But Professor Robb, if we I interrupted my lecture.
Would somebody tell me what the hell is going on? We've found something in his stomach.
Here we go again.
OK, attention please, everybody.
Thank you.
Professor Robb.
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Ah.
Not quite sure where to start.
Well, from the beginning.
Right, so, um Dante was an Italian, writing in the fourteenth century.
Um, he Well, the Inferno is the first part of the Divine Comedy.
Um, Dante conceived the Inferno as this enormous pit.
Ah.
Could you put it down there? Lovely.
Thank you very much.
Right.
See, he imagined it as this huge pit and he begins his journey outside the Inferno at the Vestibule, which is the entrance to hell.
The Inferno has nine circles spiralling down to the bottom and each circle that Dante travels through represents a different sin.
Like lust or violence.
And as he passes from the Vestibule down to the darkest, lowest pit of hell, inflicted on the souls in each circle.
The Vestibule.
The entrance to hell.
Punishment of the indecisive.
People who were indecisive in life were made to follow a blank banner in death.
For Dante they were, um They were "souls who lived a life with no blame and with no praise, "neither faithful nor unfaithful to their God.
" Please.
Catherine McArdle.
Dropped out of college.
Couldn't hold down a job.
The punishment? "Stung again and again by the hornets "and the wasps that circled them and made their faces run with blood.
"Their blood, mixed with their tears, dripped to their feet.
"And disgusting maggots collected in their pus".
The entrance to hell was supposed to be at Gehenna.
And Gehenna was this garbage dump outside Jerusalem.
Indecisive in life.
Stung into action in death.
Circle one.
The unbaptised, or Limbo.
Claire Fullerton.
Her life had been on hold since the death of her daughter.
Ten years later she was still visiting the spot every week.
"For this defect and no other guilt, we are lost.
"In this alone we suffer.
"Cut off from hope, we live on in desire.
" She was in Limbo.
The hospice was a metaphor for her life.
She suffered.
She was in grief.
Untormented grief.
Circle two.
Lust.
"I came to a place where no light shone.
"The infernal storm sweeps and drives the spirits in its blast "tossed and whirled by winds, lashing them with punishment.
" Now this circle is a perfect example of Dante's use of contrapasso.
Um, your punishment in hell mirrors - or is the opposite of - your sin.
What I was once in life, I now am dead.
The violent shed blood in life, their punishment is to lie in a river of blood in death.
The adulterous lovers, divided in life, now become the doomed souls eternally united in hell.
Your sin is used and turned against you.
I thought this was supposed to be a comedy.
Tamsin Greene, Paula Scott.
"If you use your body as an animal in life "I will treat you as an animal in death.
" John Giardello.
Circle three.
Gluttony.
The sinners in this circle are forced to gorge on mud and excrement, instead of the wine and the food they dined on in life.
The killer has taken us to circle three.
There are six circles to go.
Six murders, or sets of murders, to go.
What about the next circles? Circle four is the spendthrifts and hoarders.
Circle five, the violent lying in a river of blood.
Circle seven, violence against property, self and God.
Circle eight is, um, fraud.
And circle nine Circle nine is the lowest pit of hell.
The worst sin of all.
Treachery.
OK, OK.
Um Hoarders and spendthrifts? Well, um, the sinners that Dante witnessed being punished in this level of hell were mostly priests.
Roman Catholic priests.
It must be a priest.
Well, there must be something else in Dante to narrow this down.
Have you got some good news for me? I thought that was your job, Father.
How long is it this time? We have to head off early again, Father.
The lost souls were forced to ram enormous rocks into one another's chests.
I'm sorry, Dante thought that all priests were sinners.
Corrupt.
"Their undistinguished life that made them foul made it hard to distinguish them now.
" Do you know how many priests there are in London? I think we're about to.
We can't protect them all.
Red.
We can't protect them all.
We protect them all.
I'm in position.
What's been happening? He hasn't left the building all morning.
Grace went out about an hour ago.
Grace is back.
You killed my daughter.
Get off! He's killing him! He's killing him! Help him! Say it! Say it.
Or so help me, I will kill you.
He killed her! He killed her! Jack! Jack! Get up! Where's Eccleshall? You've got five minutes, Jack.
All right? Eccleshall killed Izzy, Rachel.
Jack.
Listen to me, Rachel.
He killed her.
He's her tutor Well, WAS her tutor.
It doesn't matter if you try and kill him, she isn't coming back.
She's dead.
So why's Red had him in as a suspect? Why's Red had a DNA test carried out on him? No.
No, Red wouldn't.
Hasn't he told you? No, I didn't think so.
His first victim was Izzy.
He started with her.
Then he moved on to McArdle, Fullerton.
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Red wouldn't keep it from you unless he thought there was something in it.
Thanks for coming in.
Charge me or release me.
Where's your husband, Grace? I said charge me or release me.
You must really love him.
I can't see any other reason why you would do all this.
Do all what? So long as Richard comes back, you'll put up with his affairs.
You'll wait for him.
Believe his lies when he comes back late from a tutorial.
Assuming that the till death us do part is is not a lie.
It's not.
And I do.
I do love him.
You can't choose the bits of a person to love and forget the rest.
You either love them or you don't.
And if you love them, you'll do anything for them.
Including believe his lies? Most couples I know measure their marriage by something.
Years together, income, their kids, what they have, what they haven't got.
A lie is as good a foundation as a truth.
And what about them? The girls.
The Catherine McArdles of this world .
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and all those lies? I'm still here.
Catherine isn't.
That sounds like a confession.
It's an observation.
The difference between them and me is that they try to change him.
I accept him for what he is.
And maybe some day he will change.
It won't be because I made him.
There are two kinds of lies, Grace.
The one that you get away with.
And the one you get caught in.
Which was Richard's last lie? The one that you caught him with? Or where he was when Catherine McArdle was murdered? Charge me, or release me.
Grace, my arse.
Have you ever met a more inappropriately named woman? I think we're looking at the wrong Eccleshall.
What are you going to do about Jack? Richard Eccleshall is the father of Catherine McArdle's child.
Glad I can be the bearer of such good news.
Rachel.
Um I know that Izzy killed herself.
I am not Jack.
Next time, do me the professional courtesy, and don't go behind my back.
I'm sorry.
So am I.
You're being bailed.
Under the terms of your bail, you're suspended from duty.
You are not to go anywhere near Richard Eccleshall.
Is that clear? Why? You're not the forgiving type, Red.
We all make mistakes.
Why is it so important to you to believe that Eccleshall did it? You wouldn't understand.
The last time you spoke to Izzy .
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what happened? Nothing.
Nothing special.
Can I help you? Sorry? The answer to Duncan's question.
There are 738 Catholic priests in London.
They've been warned and offered protection.
The rest are being tracked down or spoken to as we speak.
But? There was a priest who was still on the list.
He left the priesthood last year.
Decided it wasn't for him.
Defrocked priests? They're the real sinners, aren't they? I mean, we could narrow it down.
No, no.
No.
No, don't narrow it down.
Some of these priests were kicked out the Church, others seem to have left voluntarily.
Those are the details we have of everyone who's ever passed through our doors.
I'm not sure how reliable the addresses are now.
No, this is a big help, Father.
It's just Simon now.
Simon Emerson.
I suggest you restrict your movements.
Travel in pairs with someone you trust.
Anything unusual or suspicious, contact us, no matter how trivial it might seem.
I'm surprised you managed to get anything out of Monsignor Noonan.
He normally refuses to acknowledge we even exist.
The Church hopes by forgetting us, the rest of the world will forget we were ever part of the Church.
How did these men become .
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casualties? Various reasons.
They battle their own individual demons.
They pay for their sins in this life, and will continue to pay for them in the next.
Do any of your residents have trouble with money? Take a look around you.
Giving up a lifetime's vocation can be hard.
It's hard to keep these men from falling even further.
This refuge is all there is between them and the streets.
Some people think they're lost and not worth saving.
I disagree.
Doesn't it bother you being abandoned by the Church? Sometimes the Church doesn't have all the solutions.
You have to look elsewhere for the answer.
Duncan.
We need a car down at Farrick Road.
There are 20 ex-priests here all with a reason to be angry.
And can you pull the files on any of these names? Run a check on Simon Emerson.
Simon Emerson.
Thomas Brown.
Joseph Sweeney.
Patrick Murphy The souls that Dante witnessed being punished at this level of hell were mostly priests.
Roman Catholic priests.
Red.
When Emerson was a parish priest, he killed a teacher who'd been abusing a ten-year-old girl.
The teacher confessed the abuse to Emerson several times and refused to seek help.
So Emerson took matters into his own hands? He handed himself in to the police.
He confessed, pleaded guilty.
He even refused a solicitor at the trial.
The anger of a righteous man.
Where was he parish priest? Saint Peter's.
Oh, oh, oh.
His chest is Red? You OK? Dad? Dad? It's Izzy.
I need you to help me.
Please, Dad.
Answer me, Dad.
Please, Daddy? Daddy.