Wire in the Blood s04e03 Episode Script

I am commanded to receive you on this point, to teach you that as this is an instrument of torture to the flesh, recollect it in your mind and conscience should you ever reveal our secrets unlawfully.
Vouchsafe thine aid, father of the universe, to our present convention.
And grant that this apprentice may dedicate and devote his life to thy service and become a true and faithful member of our company.
So let it be.
Turn to the east.
Wire In The Blood You get to a stage in your life where you've nothing left to prove.
And you find you've got nothing left.
Staring into this void.
And trying not to look down? Spend all your time getting here.
And there's nothing there.
I put on this happy face.
So people will leave me alone.
Do you want me to leave you alone, Kurt? Aren't you supposed to be talking me out of this? Talk you out of this? How do I do that? You could tell me how young I am gifted and brilliant.
How much I have to live for.
And are you brilliant? Starred first in biochemistry.
My Ph.
D.
is in virus mutation.
And you found a cure for the common cold? Look at them.
Sacks of DNA -- absorbing, excreting, reproducing.
For what? Do you have any family? I had a friend.
- She moved away.
You? - Dad, two sisters.
You see, I've known people who've killed themselves.
Well, they, they feel nothing.
Their family and friends -- well, they feel pain; it's unbearable pain.
I can't help it.
I can't see any way out.
I don't know why I'm here.
Or what I'm supposed to be doing.
This isn't the way to find out, Kurt.
- Are you leaving me? - Ah, not doing this today.
I'll see how I feel tomorrow.
You coming? Whoa! Hold me! Hold me! It's okay.
Somebody help me.
That's it! I got you.
- Come on.
Come on.
- Take it easy.
I'm fine, he didn't touch me.
Take it easy.
Kurt? This is my mobile, hmm? I'll follow you down.
Twenty minutes.
Tell your arsehole friend to take pills next time.
That way two hundred children won't have to watch.
Oh, I wasn't aware anyone had to watch? The guy tried to top himself outside a primary school, Tony, for God's sake.
Well, he wasn't doing it to upset anyone.
What are you doing here anyway? - Mum! - Hey, pumpkin.
- Did he jump, that man? - No, silly.
He would've been all right.
His guardian angel would have caught him.
Wait in the car.
I'll be along in a minute.
- Bye.
- Bye.
He believes in angels.
What can you do? And you don't? I take him to church every Sunday.
It was the only way I could get him into that school.
Took a bottle up there.
Maybe you were his guardian angel.
Yeah.
Nearly got to fly as well.
Be strong.
We'll be together always.
God bless.
This way, gentlemen.
Good morning, Paul.
Thank you.
Paula? - The IPCC? - Sorry? I used to work with one of those blokes, then he got a job with the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Maybe Eden's been fiddling his expenses.
I don't think that's our place to speculate, do you? No.
Fielding.
Cardigan Street? We're on our way.
Fire was reported around 3 a.
m.
by the guy downstairs.
By then the whole place had gone up.
- Something helped it along.
- Unleaded.
Yep, that would do it.
Handcuffed.
Yeah, they're not a police issue.
They're a Chinese make.
Sort they sell in sex shops.
Apparently.
Mattress under the bed -- Yeah, that was to seed the fire.
Bit of petrol to get the barbie started and then And this one? Not tied up? No, it looks like he was cracked over the head before being dumped in the chair.
Never woke up.
Unlike that poor sod.
No, he didn't miss a thing.
Okay, this guy here is most likely Khan.
Ahmed Khan, a property developer.
Wife, no kids.
They're separated.
And this one? Well, there was a name tag on the briefcase.
Peter Durbridge.
He was Khan's accountant.
- They were talking business? - And got rudely interrupted.
Khan's PA says he was getting a divorce, and it wasn't exactly amicable.
Yeah, well, you'd have to be married to somebody to hate them this much.
I feel like such a failure.
I couldn't even go through with it.
Well, committing suicide isn't success.
Choosing life isn't failure.
There are no easy answers, Kurt.
That's hard to face.
It's time I made a move.
Thanks, Tony.
Yeah, I'll see you Thursday.
- Uh, keep my number handy.
- Yeah.
Kurt? I mean it.
Anytime.
Tony Hill.
She swore she'd make him suffer.
I didn't know what she meant.
Your prints were found all over the flat.
I didn't kill him.
He's been sleeping with the victim's wife.
Picked them both up at the airport heading for Hong Kong.
They'd already cleaned out the dead man's bank account.
It was all his idea.
Someone forged your husband's signature and moved two million quid to an account in Jersey.
It's my money! Ahmed was going to lose it all in business expenses.
And that accountant would have buried it.
Left me with nothing.
Max -- he's a thug.
She brought me there a few days ago to sleep in his bed to spite him.
She set me up.
We've been at this for bloody hours -- each one blaming the other.
- What does the evidence say? - That they both did it.
And you want me to what, psychoanalyze them both? Look, Durbridge's prints were on the cuffs.
So it looks like they got him to tie Khan to the bed before they set them both on fire.
Now, if that's the case, this wasn't a crime of passion.
This was pure sadism.
Can I see it -- Khan's flat? Sure, but I warn you -- Pictures don't do it justice.
Door was locked when the fire brigade turned up.
Now, these keys -- whose are those? Khan's, presumably.
His wife had a set when we picked her up.
So Durbridge's prints were on the cuffs.
Partial prints on the bed frame of the wife and lover.
And nothing on the petrol can.
Uh, this vase, this was here? Apart from the body, nothing's been moved.
That's a big briefcase.
Where's all the papers gone? Most of them went up in the fire.
And Durbridge, he was he was sat here.
What, like this? Well, this chair doesn't go here.
Goes in front of the screen, so this chair's been moved.
Why do you think the chair was moved? So, what do you think? That none of it adds up.
One of the victims is chained to the bed and the other one's just left sitting there? Alex, you asked me to look at the murder scene.
No, you asked to look at the murder scene.
I asked you to talk to Khan's wife and her lover.
Maybe they're telling the truth.
Yes, this goes beyond sadism.
This is, this is more human sacrifice.
And if the accountant was unconscious, why turn his chair around to face the bed? He was dead, Tony.
His skull was cracked open.
Was that before or after the fire started? Fine, let's find out.
I ran tests on Mr.
Khan's blood -- what was left of it -- and found trace of flunitrazepam.
Rohypnol.
Enough to make him dizzy and compliant, but not enough to keep him unconscious, unfortunately.
What about the man in the chair? This one hadn't been drugged.
He definitely received a blow to the head.
The skull was fractured, but that was post-mortem, from falling debris.
What about before the fire? It's possible he was knocked out before the fire was started, but the evidence is inconclusive.
Sorry.
We're holding Mrs.
Khan and her boyfriend for obtaining money by deception.
We need more evidence to nail them for the murders.
Paula, check out Khan's business dealings.
See who he might have pissed off.
Are we talking about other suspects? Apart from his wife and her boyfriend? No, we're not.
What have you got on those handcuffs, Kevin? Stocked by three retailers in Bradfield I'm checking out.
Can I speak to Mrs.
Durbridge? The accountant's widow? Fine, I'll come with you.
All right, guys, thanks.
Remember, briefing at 5:00.
All right, see you later, gov.
Why do you want to speak to her instead of the suspects? I don't need a chaperone.
She's newly widowed.
And I don't think tact's your strong point, do you? Alex, are you going to be pressing charges in the Khan case soon? - Hello, Dr.
Hill.
- Hmm.
We're still gathering evidence, sir.
The case is more complex than it first appeared.
Yeah, well, it normally is when Dr.
Hill is involved.
Very good.
Carry on.
Happy to help.
Mrs.
Durbridge -- Detective Inspector Fielding and this is Dr.
Tony Hill.
Hello.
- Please, do sit down.
- Thank you.
Sorry, I can't get up.
You've got a lovely home.
That's how Peter likes it -- neat and tidy.
We're very sorry about what happened to your husband.
I promise, we're going to do our very best to bring his killers to justice.
Would you like to sit down? Sorry? Sit down, Tony.
I've already spoken to your Sergeant Reynolds.
This won't take long, just a couple of questions about your late husband.
Did he mention there was any problems at work? - Not that I know of.
- Did he talk much about his work? Not really.
He always said he didn't want to bore me.
And was it boring -- his work? - How did he feel about it? - He was an accountant.
Did you talk about his feelings? We were married thirty years.
- So you didn't.
- So we didn't have to.
Sorry, can I ask how you MS.
I was diagnosed six months ago.
Peter was going to retire to look after me.
He never complained.
He was my rock.
And what about Peter's health? How was it generally? He was fine.
Was he sleeping okay? Was he irritable? Appetite change? You're talking about depression.
He wasn't depressed.
What about when you were diagnosed with MS? He took it in his stride.
We loved each other.
We're very sorry, Mrs.
Durbridge, to disturb you.
- I'd like to ask – - Goodbye, Mrs.
Durbridge, and thanks again for your time.
Dr.
Hill? I knew you could be insensitive, but why didn't you show her the photographs of his corpse? Oh, I didn't bring any.
What does it matter if he wasn't sleeping and what state his marriage was in? Murder's about the victim as much as the killer, Alex.
You think Khan's wife murdered him because his accountant was depressed? Well, maybe it wasn't Khan's wife or a business rival.
But it was someone fastidious and anal and methodical.
Eden was right -- I ask for your help on an open-and-shut murder case and I end up grilling a poor woman in a wheelchair as if she was a suspect.
I suppose you want a lift back to college? No, I'll walk.
Fine.
Thanks for your help, Tony.
My pleasure.
So you pick up a glass and he picks up a glass.
Before you torch the place, you turn the chair around.
Why did you want Durbridge to see? One of the victims is chained to the bed and the other one's just left sitting there.
You hit him.
No, you didn't hit him.
Because it was him who picked up the glass.
Likes things neat and tidy, does our Peter.
You weren't even there, were you? It was just him and Khan.
Khan was redeveloping the old King's Bridge Cinema as flats.
He was building a mall in the city center.
And he'd just bought a derelict church out at Pottersfield.
Apparently, he wanted to turn it into a nightclub.
Six pairs of those handcuffs were sold in the last month.
We're tracking down all the assistants, checking out footage from security cameras.
Find out if any buyers resemble Peter Durbridge.
What, one of the victims? If Durbridge bought the handcuffs, wouldn't that make him a suspect? Dr.
Hill, can I talk to you a moment? Chase up that video footage, Kevin.
Paula, check Khan's accounts for dodgy money, suspicious transfers.
I'll look into these business projects.
Go on then.
Let's hear it.
It wasn't Khan's wife or her lover.
Durbridge killed Khan, then he killed himself.
Tony? Look, people commit suicide for all sorts of reasons -- depression, guilt, a way to escape punishment, self-inflicted punishment -- Stop, look you're saying Durbridge chained Khan to the bed then sat and watched him burn? It's the only reading of that murder scene that makes sense.
How does that make sense? Look, his wife's in a wheelchair.
He's devoted his life to helping her.
Why would he be so selfish as to commit suicide? Middle-aged men have feelings.
Middle aged men -- they get depressed.
You've got no evidence that he was depressed.
And anyway, what force on earth can make a middle-aged man sit in an armchair while they burn to death, no matter how depressed he was? - I've no idea.
Got people to talk to.
Khan bought a disused church in Pottersfield a month ago.
Old St.
Xavier's, yes.
Did you have anything to do with that sale? As Bishop, I had to approve it.
If you want details, ask the estate people.
Did you know that Khan planned to turn it into a nightclub? Well, I did hear something.
There's not much we can do about it, I'm afraid.
Were there any rival bids or did anyone object to the sale? A couple of die-hards.
We're here to carry on the work of Christ, not preserve Victorian relics.
The sale will help to fund our outreach center.
Oh, that reminds me, I'm supposed to be doing my stint on the switchboard.
Switchboard? Well, if a Bishop can't spend an hour with the needy, he's not really much of a bishop.
Thank you, milord.
- Jeremy.
- Jeremy.
I don't hate myself anymore.
And I wish I could share it with you -- this feeling.
- So do I.
Well, you've either got it r you haven't.
God, this, it's Seems like euphoria.
I'm not on anything, if that's what's worrying you.
If you swing from depression to elation this quickly, you might end up swinging back.
- No, Tony.
This isn't a mood swing.
This is me.
This is who I am.
And I've made friends, you know.
Good people.
Yay, I'm glad to hear it.
- Where did you meet them? - The thing is I'm not really sure we need to meet up anymore.
Well, that's up to you, Kurt.
But I'm always happy to see you.
Well, I'll try and call in next week.
Say Tuesday at 5:00? When all men shall be afraid of that which is on high and fear shall possess them When the silver cord be loosed and the golden bowl be broken, then shall the dust return to the earth that it was and the spirit return to God, who gave it.
Who comes here? One who has passed the degree of fellow craft and now wishes to be raised to the sublime degree of master mason.
Brother, is this an act of your own free will and accord? It is.
Are you going to come to the play? I'll do my best, darling.
Let's have a look.
With the brolly.
That's perfect.
Right, you've got to be careful with it tomorrow.
That man on the roof -- would an angel really have saved him? I don't know.
But if someone wants to do something stupid or bad, God doesn't always stop them.
Why not? Because then I'd be out of a job.
Now, off to bed.
- Can I sleep in this? - No.
But if you ask God for strength to change, you'll find it.
I mean, you've already kicked the drug habit.
Sorry.
I feel help me.
Oh, Dr.
Hill -- - Uh, Tony.
- Professor Sutton, hi.
I saw you help that boy down off the roof the other day, uh, Kurtis Merrick? Oh, no, he helped himself.
Oh, I was impressed.
It's a risky business.
If they fall, they can take you with them, literally and figuratively.
Have you done some counseling? A little people don't realize how often it's the counselors who end up needing the counsel.
You're not a religious man? Oh, you heard? Well, it's just that if you don't believe in God, it's harder to give them a good reason to go on existing.
Well, if religion's the only reason to live, God help us all.
Khan's affairs are a real tangle.
His company's all over.
Accounts in the Caymans and the Isle of Man.
Don't we need to speak to an accountant? We need to speak to his accountant.
That's not likely to happen.
- What was Tony Hill's theory? - Nothing you need worry about.
- Kevin, nice of you to join us.
- Sorry, guv.
I just got this in.
It's a surveillance tape from a sex shop, where they sell those handcuffs.
- This is from last week.
- That's Durbridge.
Buying the handcuffs -- -- that he used to chain Khan to the bed.
So he killed Khan and then topped himself.
Tony-bloody-Hill.
I'll never hear the end of it.
CID? - Chief? - Hmm? - Jeremy Sacker, the bishop? - I'll take it in my office.
No, no, no.
He's dead.
Multiple stab wounds.
One to the upper chest, two to the stomach, one in the left thigh, one in the right calf, and one in the bicep of the left arm.
What appears to be a pair of geometrical compasses driven into the trachea.
Attacker right-handed, small in stature.
- Seven wounds.
- Six, plus this one here.
Mostly post-mortem.
There'd be a lot more blood otherwise.
Weapon used appears to be a long-bladed knife.
Rather than these.
Seven deadly sins? Could have a religious significance about it.
Oh, yeah, Tony.
He's a bishop.
And this is a church.
Why leave him like this? What? Eyelids have been pinned open.
Pins have been driven into each eye.
Again, post-mortem.
Guv, we've got a handprint! It's the only one, but it's a beauty.
No attempt to clean it off.
A teenager? And there's no one else in here? We haven't checked the belfry but only the chief bell-ringer and verger have keys.
Someone did complain about the bells ringing late last night, but apparently it stopped after ten minutes.
They said it sounded irregular.
Random clanging.
Yeah, hanging yourself isn't always that efficient.
Well, she left the handprint because it didn't matter.
She couldn't have done that by herself.
Not unless she drugged him.
Like Khan was, you mean? Durbridge did buy those handcuffs.
Looks like you were right about him.
I think that girl in the church knew Peter Durbridge.
- No.
- Mm-hmm.
Really? Two murders, two suicides.
That's not a coincidence, Alex.
That's a suicide pact.
One dominant partner persuades the other they can't be apart.
But they can be together in Neverland.
Usually it's between husband and wife, or lovers.
And you think the girl in the church and Durbridge were lovers? Thirty years of marriage, his wife didn't even know him.
Mary Jessica Knight, Prostitute with a serious drug habit.
No convictions in the last six months.
They found traces of benzodiapezine in the bishop's coffee.
It's a date rape drug.
Same class as rohypnol.
So he would have been conscious but -- Compliant and suggestible, like Khan, the last victim.
- Where would she get rohypnol? - The street.
- We seize a batch of it every other week.
- Who said romance is dead? It's possible that Durbridge was having a relationship with Mary Knight.
So we need to explore that.
She was a working girl and he was an accountant.
Maybe he did her books and she did him.
How does that arrangement come to include murder and suicide? So Sacker, agrees to the sale of the church.
Khan buys it.
So far that's the only link between the two murders.
That doesn't give us anything like a motive.
- It's not pins, it's needles.
- What? It's needles pushed into his eyes after death.
Christ, she must have been insane.
Well, even insane people have reasons.
Kevin, find out if Khan and the bishop knew one another socially and where and when they might have met.
Will you come with me to her flat? Maybe she left a suicide note.
Well, she did.
Trussed to a pillar and stabbed.
Neighbor said there was a lot of coming and going late at night.
Sounds like she was still in the game.
Is this what a tart's flat looks like? - "Rapture"? - Maybe she meant this.
Look at the hanged man's face.
He's almost smiling.
No papers or magazines.
There's no pictures, no photos.
No ornaments, almost monastic.
Lots of mugs.
Seven.
They found any fingerprints? No, just hers.
You know, maybe the link was religious.
Bishop sold the church, Khan bought it to convert into a nightclub.
Maybe Durbridge and the girl thought it was sacrilege.
What kind of evangelical hides their faith? What kind of evangelical butchers a bishop? There's a ritualistic element to these killings.
Looks more like Satanism rather than Christianity.
Two victims, two killers.
Not much left to investigate.
There's four victims.
The two who killed themselves.
They're victims as well.
How did it come to this, Alex? I mean, how did Mary end up in such a negative spiral? She obviously had friends, people to confide in.
Oh, damn, I'm supposed to be meeting Kurt.
Tony I'm sorry I didn't believe you about Durbridge.
Maybe we could have prevented this.
Can't always save people from themselves, Alex.
This is Kurt Merrick.
Leave a message.
And he just walked out? Did he leave a note? - Did he leave a forwarding address?! - What? Oh, hold on.
- Kurt, did he just walk out? - Yeah.
Gave me this.
He said "bye" and that was it.
- He gave you an iPod? - Well, he gave away loads of things.
Camera, his watch -- it was like Christmas.
- He was really happy.
- Uh, no, when someone starts to give away all their possessions, it's known as a suicide indicator.
Which means he was probably planning to kill himself.
- Was he? - Yeah.
- Oh, shit.
- Hmm.
Uh, Kurt's missing, Alex.
He said he would call in but he never showed.
Tony, I've got enough on my plate.
Plus, he's not been missing long enough.
Yeah, but I went to his room and he's cleared everything out.
I don't know, have you tried the Sally Army? Maybe he's sleeping rough.
Yep, uh, never mind, Alex.
Thanks.
Ma'am.
I was going through the bishop's correspondence with his secretary, and she said that she'd never seen this.
Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Requesting a meeting.
"To discuss the serious allegations you have raised.
" Doesn't say what the allegations were, though.
Sacker made an official complaint about a police officer.
And two weeks later, he was murdered.
That's got to be worth a look.
Yes, I, I know it.
You look tired.
I'm, uh helping the police with a case.
Who's helping you? Oh, here.
"The Martyrs Mirror.
" By Jan Luiken, 1698.
It's hideous.
Like today's tabloids, serving up rape and murder and calling it news.
How's your friend Kurt? I'm sorry I shouldn't ask.
Disappeared.
You know, I'm sure you did your best, Tony.
Yeah, I did.
And I failed.
In times like this, prayer can help.
We can't solve our problems by confiding in an invisible friend.
Don't knock it unless you've tried it.
- Thanks.
- Anytime.
We should reflect not on what Mary Knight did, but on what we failed to do.
As Christians, we should bear witness to the truth, even if that truth is painful to face.
Now, in God's time, we will know the truth about why Mary Knight did what she did.
But until then, we must live in hope that Christ will receive her, and that she will find peace and safety at last.
Oh, uh, was she a Christian -- Mary Knight? Sorry? I just wondered if you knew her.
No, it's just my turn to officiate today.
Uh, I'm Tony Hill, by the way.
Have we met? John Tallis.
Can I help you, Mr.
Hill? You said you hoped Christ would receive her.
I just wondered what she had to do to go to hell.
Well, God is her judge now, not me.
See, I deal with murders all the time.
I deal with rapists, necrophiles, I've even seen children -- I can always find a rationale, even in their madness.
Can't seem to get my head round this one.
Christ drove the money lenders from the temple with a whip for corrupting a place of worship.
So he felt the bishop was corrupt? What, because he sold the church? Many people believe the whole world is corrupt.
Our leaders tell us lies.
Our faith is mocked and belittled.
Maybe that's what Mary Knight felt.
But she killed herself.
I thought that was unforgivable.
Christ let himself die for our sins.
We don't condemn him.
I'm not trying to condemn anyone.
I'm just trying to understand.
Well, there's a limit to understanding, Mr.
Hill.
Sometimes you have to have faith.
Please, excuse me.
Just one more thing.
"Rapture.
" - What does "rapture" mean? - You'd know it if you felt it.
Well, apart from being at one with God? Well, Saint Paul suggests that Christ will rescue his chosen from the world before the apocalypse.
- The apocalypse? - War, famine, pestilence, and death.
The antichrist.
The second coming? No one actually believes in all that, do they? You're talking about the Bible, Mr.
Hill.
Please, excuse me.
Thanks.
And sorry.
I hear you had some visitors the other day from the Police Complaints Commission.
It was a routine inquiry.
Concerning? A complaint was made, it was investigated, no evidence was found and the matter was closed.
I take it this was the complaint made by Bishop Sacker? I wasn't told who made it.
We all have friends, brother.
Now that the bishop is dead, presumably the matter will be closed? And let's hope all our friends exercise more judgment and discretion in the future.
What exactly does that mean? As you said, brother, the matter's closed.
It's not pins, it's needles.
Needles in his eyes.
"Open your eyes to the world and look and behold the Lamb of God.
" "It's easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than -- " so it's eyes and needles.
It's biblical -- it's garbled, it's mangled.
There's an image here, Tony.
It's symmetry, geometry.
Multiple stab wounds.
One to the upper chest, two to the stomach, one in the left thigh, and one in the bicep of the left arm.
What appears to be a pair of geometrical compasses driven into the trachea.
I know that Bishop Sacker made allegations to the IPCC.
I need to know what they were.
The bishop was stabbed seven times.
We still haven't established a motive.
Fine.
I'll take this to my ACC.
Sacker made a complaint to the IPCC two weeks before he was killed.
No one will tell me what about.
- Freemasons.
- What? The symbols, the rituals.
Seven cups, seven knives.
Mary Knight stabbed Sacker seven times.
And the last time was with the compass.
They're a symbol of Freemasonry.
Tony, the Freemasons are a dinner club for middle-aged businessmen.
Who take solemn vows and secret rituals to protect each other and preserve their secrets on pain of torture and death.
So you're saying that the bishop was killed because he's a Mason? Or maybe because he wasn't.
It's worth asking the question, though.
If we can find anyone to answer it, that is.
I am master of the West Bradfield Lodge, yes.
I believe it says so on our website.
Was Bishop Sacker a member? I knew Jeremy.
What happened to him was absolutely appalling.
What about Ahmed Khan? You think their deaths were connected? We think they could have been targeted because of their business dealings, yes.
And what would that have to do with this lodge? Well, if Khan and the bishop were both Masons -- - Oh, I see.
The old Freemason conspiracy, hmm? - Were they both members, yes or no? - Inspector, we're a social club.
We have rituals and ceremonies, yes.
But they're just quaint traditions about a sinister as Morris dancing.
Some of our members do business, yes.
But, uh, that's not why we're here.
Can you give me a list of lodge members? I'll assist you in any way I can, but I'm afraid that's not one of them.
I could get a court order.
By all means, do.
They are fun, aren't they, secrets? All knowledge is power.
To share it is to lose it.
Well, I'm afraid you've lost me.
Well, most of my patients have secrets festering away inside them.
- I believe secrecy corrupts.
- And don't doctors have secrets? Those rituals, no, they're not just handshakes and haypence, are they? What about the one with the dagger? Where you threaten to torture initiates who betray the brotherhood.
- Are you a Freemason? - I'm not the club-able type.
Then you don't know what you're talking about, do you? Milord.
We're investigating two murders.
And you seem to be starting from the premise that the victims deserved it.
You're lucky this case won't come before me, Inspector.
Now, if that's all? Yes, milord.
Ahmed and the bishop -- did they betray you? - Would you get out, please? - Tony? For God's sakes, Tony, I brought you along to help.
Oh, why did you let him bluster you like that? Because he's a Freemason? Sod the Freemasons, Tony.
He's a judge.
You don't go accusing a judge of corruption and cult membership.
That's exactly what the Freemasons are, Alex! - Keep your voice down.
- No, they are a cult.
Meeting in secret, enforcing their loyalties through rituals and oaths and, and private language.
And they're led by one man, who is charismatic and manipulative.
I know, but you don't go accusing him to his face.
You rattle Hynes' cage, he'll have your arm off.
Paula, you still at the office? Good, see what we can dig up about Judge Stephen Hynes.
Rumors, gossip, allegations.
That's right, the judge.
Fine.
So do it discreetly.
All right, we're done here.
- Where are we going? - Ben's school play starts at 7:00.
I promised I'd be there.
Mm-hmm, well, uh I was planning on writing up some notes tonight, but, uh a play.
- What? I haven't seen a school play since I was in one.
You weren't asking me to come, were you? You were in a school play? - Back end of a donkey, yes.
- Typecasting, yeah? I've no idea what you mean.
Paul, I've just had your DI and that Dr.
Hill in my chambers, asking damned impertinent questions.
It's a waste of police resources and it's a waste of my time.
I very much hope it doesn't happen again.
If you'd like to take your seats, please.
The play is about to begin.
- Hello.
- Hello, Ben.
Are you Mum's date? Yes? No, no.
That's good.
Mum doesn't have many dates.
Shouldn't you be backstage? It's going to start soon.
- Hello? - Hi, Stephen, it's me.
Who's "me"? It's Danny.
I was in the neighborhood.
Man is too simple.
I am very disappointed.
I will wipe out the whole world in a huge flood and start again.
Only you and your family must be saved.
How are you getting on with your probation officer? Oh, he's an idiot; he forgets my name half the time.
If you keep your nose clean, a young man like you could do a lot for himself.
Stephen, could I, um, run myself a bath? I've been feeling a little bit dirty.
I'll get you a towel.
I know it's not "Chicago," but cheer up.
The flood has ended.
We are saved.
All I'm saying is, what sort of God would wipe us all out and then start again? That's the Old Testament for you -- zero tolerance.
Hey, you were great.
And you, Zach.
Mum, can I go to Zach's house.
His mum says it's all right.
Hold on.
Fielding.
Yeah, Kevin? Okay.
It's Hynes.
- It's John the Baptist.
- I'm sorry? John the Baptist had his head served up on a platter.
Yeah, well, Salome is in the bathroom.
One of the uniforms ID'd him.
Danny Ellis, petty thief, dealer.
There's no sign of a forced entry or a struggle.
Looks like Hynes invited him in.
Chief, last year, a burglar died in this flat from an overdose.
- Hynes found him when he got home.
- Burglar? Kid called Anthony Harris.
No previous convictions for burglary.
He did have form as a crackhead and rent boy.
How did he get in? He stole Hynes' keys.
That was the story, anyhow.
Well, this one wasn't a burglar.
No, he was invited.
I suspect the other boy was invited as well.
"Judge not, lest ye be judged.
" So he's John the Baptist.
Salome is in the bath.
Durbridge and Knight were lovers.
Where does Ellis fit in? Seven veils, seven wounds.
There's something missing.
Three-way suicide pact? Have you ever heard of one? Oh, my God.
Saint Sebastian, Saint Lawrence, John the Baptist.
All Christian martyrs.
"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord.
And I shall repay.
" They're avenging Christian martyrs.
Martyrs give their life for Jesus, go straight to heaven, achieve rapture.
Look at the face.
Yeah, you're right, Alex.
This is about religion, but not the happy-clappy sort.
An evangelical suicide cult.
A close sect whose disciples will do anything.
And will be led by one man.
He'll be obsessive, manipulative, secretive.
Which man? Now, look at the victims, see.
Bishop sold Khan a church.
Hynes sat in judgment on the rent boys.
Then invited them home.
Yeah, "the world is corrupt.
And the leaders tell us lies.
And our faith is mocked and belittled.
" Who said that? Tallis -- he was vicar at Mary Knight's funeral.
Oh, God.
We saw him at Durbridge's house.
Reverend Tallis, we have a warrant to search the premises.
Nothing, gov! What did the diver say? No one else down there.
It looks like he was the only victim.
How did he know we were coming for him? What's that passage from the Bible? Something like, "whoever corrupts my children, throw a noose around his neck and throw him into the sea.
" Something like that.
This was remorse.
Self-punishment.
We've already found prints for Durbridge, Knight, and Ellis.
They all met here.
Saint Florian.
The Patron Saint of Firefighters.
"And the kings of the earth and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains," "said to the mountains and the rocks, 'fall on us and hide us from the wrath of the lamb.
" Kings of the earth, great men, rich men.
Khan, Sacker, Hynes.
Tallis, he told me.
He said the world was corrupt.
Our leaders lie to us.
He wasn't guessing how Mary Knight felt -- he knew.
He knew because he felt it as well.
He was ill -- I didn't spot it.
He wasn't ill -- it's what he believes.
- You can't change that.
- Yeah, but I could have listened.
I could have saved Hynes.
I could have saved the kid who killed him.
Tony, this isn't your fault.
Like you said, you can't always save people from themselves.
Kurt! Tony.
Would you like something? I've been looking all over for you.
I've got lamb's stew.
It's only two days past its sell-by date.
I heard you'd given all your stuff away, so naturally I thought -- -- that I'd killed myself.
Sorry.
I did, sort of.
And here I am.
These people have real problems.
Kind of puts mine into perspective.
So you'll work for the Salvation Army.
Where's your uniform? Oh, they just let me help out.
I don't quite buy their take on the Bible, but they mean well.
So you happy? Yeah.
It was like I had a hole in my heart, that nothing could fill.
You feel it.
That's what makes you such a good therapist.
But getting people to feel better is not the same as curing them, is it? Is there a cure for life? Thanks for everything, Tony.
I hope things work out for you.
- Your phone was switched off.
- Mm-hmm, needed to think.
- I found Kurt Merrick.
- He isn't -- No, he's, uh he's out with the Salvation Army.
He's feeding the poor.
Good for him.
Faith gives people a meaning in life, doesn't it? Well, all I believe is life has no meaning.
You just get used to it.
See, I failed all these people because I didn't get religion.
What's wrong with me, Alex? You seek happiness, believe.
You seek the truth, inquire.
Friedrich Nietzsche? See, I do read more than the police gazette.
Faith's not part of my nature, either, Tony.
You just have to shoulder the burden of not knowing.
Tallis is dead.
This cult, sect -- whatever it is -- it's finished, yes? - Seven wounds.
Seven cups.
You think there's more? Durbridge, Ellis, Knight, and Tallis.
Leaves three.
Yeah, but the leader's dead.
Tallis can't be the leader.
The leader of a cult, he lives to control his followers.
Their submission gratifies him, reinforces his ego.
He would never leave them to manage for themselves, he'd take them with him like, uh Like Jim Jones in Guyana, when the authorities came for him.
He and nine hundred disciples died from drinking cyanide.
But Tallis hung a millstone around his neck.
That's about guilt, remorse, self-punishment.
I think that's what we're meant to think.
I think this leader made Tallis stage a suicide to mislead us.
This leader is paranoid, he's obsessed with betrayal.
Tallis sacrificed himself to prove his loyalty, his faith.
Who did Kevin say this was again? Saint Florian, the Patron Saint of Firefighters.
Saint Florian, Third Century Roman soldier.
Secret convert to Christianity.
Scourged, flayed, flung into a river with a millstone round his neck.
Another martyr.
Tallis, he was just following orders.
Killed himself in a way that signified grief and remorse.
He wanted to obey, but unconsciously, he resented it.
That's why he chose this medal to mark the passage in the Bible.
Sorry, Alex, this isn't over.
The Order of the Solar Temple, Jim Jones' commune in Guyana, so we're looking at a religious cult for whom suicide is martyrdom.
It's an express lift to heaven.
Led by one man who is obsessive, secretive, all controlling.
What about that vicar -- Tallis? John Tallis gave his life to protect the leader.
So it's someone with enough charisma and conviction to get his followers to commit acts of well, unbelievable brutality.
There were seven mugs, seven wounds, so We think there's six disciples, four of whom are already dead, -- they set out to punish the worldly and corrupt.
Kings of the earth.
Great men, rich men.
- It's insane.
- It's consensual validation, Kevin.
The urge to conform.
What seems insane to us is completely logical to the group.
Where does he find these nutters? That's just it, see? They're not nutters, Kevin! Not to begin with.
No, they're just, just ordinary people.
They're just like you and me.
But they're marginalized, they're alienated.
You know, we've all felt vulnerable at one time or another, eh? Lost my home, lost my job.
Lost my wife.
So I crave certainty.
And the cult, it gives me friends, it gives me family.
And all it asks from me is loyalty and obedience.
I'm happy to do that.
So I renounce my will.
No more doubt.
No more torment.
See, Peter Durbridge, he was so looking forward to his retirement, when he found out his wife, she was diagnosed with MS.
Which meant he would spend the rest of his life caring for her.
He despaired.
And so he sought help.
He found John Tallis, who led him to this man.
All the members so far have been white, and any group inspired by the Bible will have a male leader.
So we're looking for a white man.
Educated, authoritative.
He'll have steady employment in teaching, management.
And it's a job that gives him a lot of time for voluntary work on suicide help lines, because that is where he finds these disciples.
We should check out his recruiting grounds.
Prisons, remand centers, charity organizations.
How would he get in to a prison? Check the list of lay visitors.
Which nick? Wherever Mary Knight or Danny Ellis were banged up.
On to it, gov.
Thank you, Tony.
Alex, I was hoping you could fill me in on your progress.
We're about to check out Shelman's Prison.
It's possible that one of the killers was recruited there.
By that vicar, Tallis? Tallis is one of the members.
We think there's two more, plus a leader.
Religious fanatics? We believe Hynes and the others were corrupt, yes.
Clearly deluded, then.
Not in Hynes' case, at least.
He entertained male prostitutes, some of whom had appeared before him in court.
Alex, are you investigating the murderers or the victims? Last year, Hynes reported a burglar dead in his flat from an overdose.
He said that the kid had stolen his keys.
Now, I think that Hynes had invited him in and I think he was there when the kid died.
You can't libel the dead, Alex.
A little bit of discretion would be wise.
Someone in the force helped him cover it up.
Word got out, Bishop Sacker heard about it and reported his concerns to the IPCC.
What did they conclude? They found no evidence to support it.
So you can drop that line of inquiry.
- Judge Hynes was a Freemason.
- Is that relevant? Are you a Freemason, sir? Now you're investigating me? Tell me how you get on at Shelman Prison.
Yeah, any time in the last two years.
Yeah, thanks.
Kevin, do we still have access to Hynes' flat? Yeah.
Find his phone records.
I want to see who he called the night the rent boy died.
All visitors are vetted and have to produce references.
We also take photographs and fingerprints; it's all kept on file.
- Very thorough.
- Common sense.
Do we know which of these lay visitors might have spoken to Mary Knight while she was in here? Any of them could have -- the person you need to speak to is Kiley Brice -- we're fetching her.
Got any fags? Sorry.
Sorry, you don't, or sorry you're not going to give me any? Do you remember a prisoner called Mary Knight? You shared a cell with her two years ago? We all share.
Overcrowding.
She's dead.
She stabbed a man to death and then she hung herself.
- In a church.
- It's a shame.
We're trying to trace her movements.
Have you heard from her, had she been to visit you? We weren't that close.
How close were you? We were mates for a while, that's all.
What happened? She were released, went her own way.
And forgot about you? And left you here to rot? - I don't even know why -- - We think she met a man in here.
A lay visitor.
That's how she got God.
And we think he took advantage of her and he persuaded her she was sinful, that she needed saving, that life without religion, without him, had no purpose, had no meaning.
And that life with you well, that was something to be ashamed of.
That sodding Mann.
What man? We need a name.
That was his name -- Mann.
Martin Mann.
He called me "an agent of sin.
" And it was him.
He was the perv! She couldn't see that.
What did he do? He touched himself whilst they were talking about the Bible.
He'd have his hands down his trousers, and he talked about how people suffered and died for Jesus.
And the worse it was, the more he got off on it.
I tried to tell her what he were doing.
She never spoke to me again.
Is she really dead? I'm sorry.
They were always on their knees, praying.
And reading the Bible.
He liked them on their knees.
- Them? - Her and June Prince.
Another of his groupies.
Where is this June Prince now? She got out.
I hope she's dead.
Mann.
Mark -- we've got it.
Shit! The fingerprints on the forms match John Tallis.
Yes, but not the description.
- Short, stout, middle-aged.
- What about the details? All fake -- ID, references, the lot.
- What happened to the photo? - Chemically treated -- turned black over three weeks, but no one noticed because it was filed away.
June Prince, the other girl Mann converted in prison.
Formerly an industrial chemist.
Started making crystal meth at home and then began sampling her own wares.
Released on parole after four years.
No word of her since she got out.
Circulate this.
We've got to find her -- quick.
Gov, you asked me to check out Hynes' phone records for that night.
The time of death was around 11:30.
Hynes made a call to this number 11:47.
What's this? The night the rent boy died in Hynes' flat, he made a call for help, and I think it was someone on this force.
We need to find out who that is.
Or we could just call him.
Paul Eden.
- Sir -- - Who is this, please? It's Alex Fielding.
Alex, how did you get this number? If he helped Hynes, he'll be a target.
This is my private mobile.
- Hold on.
- No, don't answer that.
Sir, they know about you and Hynes.
Don't answer the door! Sir! Sir, why did Judge Hynes call you the night the kid died in his apartment? Sir.
He was panicking, wasn't he? He was worried about scandal.
You told investigators that the kid was a burglar, that he'd been somewhere else when the boy died.
He told me the same thing.
And of course later on I found out about his habits.
But it was too late.
I knew he'd lied, but I was compromised.
Why did you get involved? Because he was a Mason? Because he was a friend.
And then Bishop Sacker heard rumors.
- He told the IPCC? - You stop these people, Alex.
Christ knows who they're going to go after next.
None of us are innocent, are we? Why the change of MO? Why a bomb? Not many Christian martyrs went that way.
Prostitute seduced.
She was a chemist, so the leader, he gets his followers to use whatever talents God gave them -- a bomb.
Doesn't discriminate.
So who's the next target? They're great men, they were rich men, chief captains.
Doesn't that passage go on? - "Every bondsman, every " - "Every freed man.
" - So that's anyone.
- And everyone.
Like Eden said, Alex, none of us are innocent.
What if these are all just signs and wonders? Omens? I've read the profile, Tony.
An educated professional -- a manager, a teacher.
- Someone articulate, persuasive.
- That fits you, fits me.
He called himself Mann.
Maybe he used that alias somewhere else.
It's a joke, Alex.
He's a man -- he's every man, he's no man.
- With no name, no face.
- Come on, Tony.
Let me think.
It's a self-portrait with no self.
You love these images, these symbols.
Needles in the eyes, the girl, the knives.
The voyeurism and sadomasochism inspires you.
It arouses you.
And religion is a perfect vehicle for your ego, -- for your fantasies.
The mannerist style of devotional painting was crammed with iconography for the knowing to decipher.
Here the dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, but also symbolizing hope and faith.
Compare this with Caravaggio, who abandoned this clutter of symbolism, using instead graphic imagery, so intense that much of his work was rejected for being simply too brutal, too literal.
This was an artist who had actually witnessed suffering and death, and something like rapture etched in his faces, in each exquisite detail.
"Rapture"? Rapture.
Alex.
You need to get down here now.
You work with this guy? I mean, he doesn't look much like a rabble-rouser.
No, he doesn't.
We've been checking out your CV, Mr.
Sutton.
- Doctor Sutton.
- Mister Sutton.
Is that what this is all about, my qualifications? You have no qualifications.
So far, every entry's turned out to be false.
Not one of my students has ever failed.
Have you ever been known as "Mann.
" I am a man, certainly.
I'm not joking, Mr.
Sutton.
Inspector I'm a university lecturer dragged from his place of work without explanation or charge, on the word of a colleague who has been under severe emotional stress.
I haven't asked for a solicitor yet, because I'm trying to be reasonable.
But there is a limit to my patience.
Get onto religion, but don't let him preach to you.
- Are you religious, Mr.
Sutton? - I am a man of faith.
Do you like to share that faith with others? Vulnerable? In need of help? You worked for the Samaritans last year.
You were asked to leave.
Actually, I resigned.
I found their approach inhuman and oppressive.
It says that you were contacting clients personally to talk about your faith.
- In times of personal crisis, faith is the one thing that will see us through.
Yeah, set up his own help line.
That's when you set up in business for yourself as a counselor.
For the would-be suicides and the vulnerable.
Our Lord has instructed us to help the needy.
Did he instruct you to send them out to murder people, then to take their own lives? - Please, what am I accused of? Where are your witnesses? If you're taking this on faith, your faith is sadly misplaced.
You sure he's the one? What about the profile, fake CV? He's convincing because he believes.
He believes he's innocent.
He believes he's right.
There's at least one disciple still out there.
We've got no idea who he or she is, where or what they're planning to do.
We just don't have time to waste on the wrong man.
Ah, Tony.
Are you responsible for all this? I am.
And I was wrong.
So you can go.
Tony! You're really lost, aren't you? Yeah.
I tried to understand, but I can't.
I cannot understand how someone can be driven to murder and torture and suicide by one man and the words from an old book.
And I've always been able to see inside people's heads.
Maybe that's your mistake.
It's not what's in the head that matters.
- So, what do I do? - Do? To find peace.
To be saved.
Even if you meant it, it's too late.
Too late for me personally or mankind? Mankind doesn't want to be saved.
He doesn't deserve it.
It has heard the gospel and ignored it.
Rejected God's love, pursued wealth and power and fame and sex! I wouldn't be surprised if God decided to wipe us all out, start again.
- Doesn't that worry you? - I'm not afraid to face my maker.
Why can't I feel that? - Why can't I share your faith? - You're not capable of it.
You have a hole in your heart that only God can fill, and you have rejected him.
A 'hole in my heart'? Kurt said the same thing.
Kurt? Kurtis Merrick.
No wonder he stopped coming.
- You recruited him.
- I saw into his heart.
You couldn't.
The last disciple -- it's Kurtis Merrick.
The kid on the roof? We're gonna find him and he will bear witness against you.
You really believe that? Send out the mug shot that we took after the suicide attempt.
Find his last-known address.
He walked out of his last address, remember? Somewhere on Fraser Lane, working with the homeless.
Well, get a unit down there.
- It's an apocalyptic cult.
- They think the world's ending? Sutton's lot didn't wait for the prophecy to be fulfilled, they wanted to make it happen.
Like the Asahara cult in Tokyo.
They released sarin on the underground.
- Where would they get ahold of sarin? - It won't be sarin.
He's a biochemist.
He specializes in viruses.
Christ almighty.
We're looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ebola, Nile fever, anthrax? Kurt's got access to all of them.
We need to send out a code one.
Bioterrorist alert.
Have you seen this guy before? What about you? Kev, a man answering Kurt's description straight ahead of you.
Got him.
Shit! Lord, into your hands I commend my spirit.
He'll choose somewhere crowded, for maximum exposure.
Somewhere central.
Karen, go to Ben's school, pick him up, and take him home right now.
Just tell them it's an emergency.
Just do it, please.
Don't look at me like that.
The building near Ben's school, where Kurt tried to jump.
Kurt? I have a duty, Tony.
Please don't try and stop me.
- What are you doing? - The seed's been treated.
- Treated with what? - A modified strain of bubonic plague.
Transmissible between humans.
Look at them.
Shopping, screwing, stuffing their faces.
Dead to God as God is dead to them.
Kurt, use your intelligence.
This -- -- intelligence? What's intelligence ever done for mankind? Vanity makes us think that we know better than God.
His will is revealed to us in the Bible.
- "Love your brother as yourself"? - Don't blaspheme, Tony.
Martin warned me about you.
The devil can cite scripture to suit his purpose.
And Martin, he can cite scripture to suit his own purpose.
What I want to know is, Kurt, how do you know that this is God's purpose? - Because Martin explained it.
- All right, well, explain it to me.
I can't.
You need faith.
Kurt.
Can't you see the dead bodies? Can't you see the mass graves? - How can that be part of God's plan? - It's in the Bible.
Pestilence, death.
Humanity is diseased and this is the cure.
We have to end the world to save it.
Forget what Martin told you.
Martin, he lied to you.
He used you Kurt, and he's left you.
Think for yourself.
Just don't try and stop me.
I won't.
Because I believe you're a good person, Kurt.
You choose.
All this time I've been looking for purpose, for meaning.
And Martin showed it to me.
I can't fail him.
No one down here has the answers, Kurt.
Not me, not Mann.
So, what do I do? You carry on living.
It's all you can do.
Thanks, Tony.
Thanks for trying.
Kurt! Kurt, no! Thank you.
You don't have any witnesses.
How are you going to charge Sutton? Sutton won't be facing any charges.
He killed himself in his cell.
He choked himself on the pages of a Bible.
He was meant to be on suicide watch.
Not supposed to be allowed a Bible.
He should never have been allowed a Bible.
I'm sorry about Kurt.
You got through to him.
That's something.
I took away his hope and his faith.
Deep down, he didn't want to do it.
You showed him that.
You saved the rest of us, Tony.
So if you're ever wondering what the purpose of your existence is I should go home.
Listen if you ever need to talk hey, you.
You've had your story.
Need a drink.
- You're not going to say hello? - You look sad.
One of Tony's friends died today.
Was he sick? Yes.
He was very sick.
And he was very lonely.
God will look after him.
God looks after all of us.
And if we're good, he takes us up to heaven when we die.
Doesn't he? Yeah.
That's right.
Come here, you.
Go on.
Good night.