Scott and Bailey s04e08 Episode Script

Is this where he died? How did he get here? We're making enquiries about a man called Mike Greenholme.
Chris has got that sexy, knackered look ~ You're marrying a drug dealer.
~ He looks after me.
~ What's up with Gill? ~ She's drinking at work.
Janet, this is something I can't ignore.
Mr Pritchard.
I think he's dead.
Look, my mother's dead.
'We found three men locked in a shed at the Pritchard place.
Shaved heads.
Overalls.
Same as Mike Greenholme.
We're arresting you on suspicion of forced labour and false imprisonment.
' I'm very sorry to inform you that your husband is dead.
You've killed him! ~ Where's Dez? ~ Who's Dez? ~ Yeah, who the hell's Dez? ~ Are we looking for another body? I'm here to find out where you're up to so I can assess the best approach for this investigation.
I want to arrest Evie Pritchard.
~ On suspicion of? ~ I think she's keeping slaves.
We can't prove it yet.
We can prove false imprisonment.
Arrest her.
Are you sure you want to do that? Today? Her husband died today.
~ Separate thing.
~ We're under investigation for it.
The Pritchards had three men locked in a shed in appalling conditions.
They were living like animals.
If I was Evie I'd say none of that had anything to do with me.
I'd say my nasty husband, who's now conveniently dead, kept them in there.
We've got what Sandy said to us.
Could you tell us a bit more about Mike and Dez? ~ Are they in trouble? ~ No.
~ I'm not, am I? ~ Not at all, no.
~ I don't like being in trouble.
~ No.
Well well well, Mike and Dez live in the caravan.
We live in the shed.
Mike did.
Mike didn't mind the shed.
Dez come and he said I'm not living in this.
Went on and on till they put him in the caravan.
Mike said he should be in the caravan, he was the first.
So they both went in there.
Mike was the first? Been at Evie's longest.
~ How long? ~ Long time.
I've been living at Evie's a long time.
Mike was there before me.
~ Do you work at Evie's? ~ Work at Evie's, yeah.
~ Who burnt the caravan? ~ We don't know.
I smelt it last night.
Burning smell.
Tell me about the work that you do at Evie's.
All sorts.
What do you get paid? Never talk about money or politics.
You can tell us.
Well well well, £30 on a Friday.
Then I buy my drinks and smokes and that.
~ Where do you buy them? ~ Off of Evie.
Can he leave? Is he free to leave that farm? He says he doesn't want to.
She's like a mum to me is Evie.
Don't tell but I'm her favourite.
So why aren't you in the caravan then? Well well well, squeaky wheel gets the oil.
~ Dez.
~ Yeah.
You smelt the caravan burn.
You didn't see anything cos you were in the shed.
Did you hear anything? Bang.
You heard a bang.
Cal's got a gun.
I've seen it.
~ When have you seen it? ~ If he's annoyed at us he waves it about.
Says he'll bang it.
He's not a bad man, Cal, not bad.
How reliable do you think Sandy is? ~ I don't know.
~ Is he aware Mike's dead and Cal's dead? Our policy with getting his first account was not to tell him.
~ We will, obviously.
~ Have you found a gun? ~ No.
~ A gun didn't show up when you did a background? ~ No gun license, no.
What about the other two in the shed with Sandy? They also have learning difficulties.
They're less lucid, more vulnerable.
They're alcohol-dependent.
Social services are looking after them, want them to have more time.
~ Do we know who they are? ~ First names, according to Sandy.
Not confirmed.
~ How long they've been there? ~ Sandy's very hazy on dates.
It's possible Greenholme's been at the Pritchards since he left his family 15 years ago, half an hour up the road.
Is that possible? ~ What about Dez? ~ So far no idea.
Mm.
OK.
My assessment is it's two investigations.
Forced labour, which is what this looks like.
Five victims at least, by the sound of it.
Murder investigation into the death of Mike Greenholme.
Nothing conclusively links the two.
I disagree.
Sandy says Dez wasn't happy with the living arrangements, which is why he ended up in the caravan.
The living arrangements are tied up with the working conditions.
Forced labour.
Dez shared the caravan with Mike.
Mike is dead.
Murdered.
Dez is missing, possibly because he's dead.
Possibly cos he whacked Mike and legged it, which still links the two.
The caravan's been destroyed.
Cal Pritchard, who's in charge of the men, owns them or whatever, did a run for it when we turned up asking about Mike, ~ possibly to ditch a murder weapon.
~ Baseball bat's at the lab.
It's one investigation.
Let's get results on the bat before talking to Evie.
If we don't arrest her, she won't talk to us.
She'll walk out.
~ She's up to her eyes.
~ She's the only person who could've cleaned the blood off the ground at the farm.
The others were locked in the shed.
Why do that unless she thought it was incriminating? There's so much we don't know.
We don't even know Mike sustained his injury at the farm.
His body was on the moors.
We need background on Evie Pritchard, Cal Pritchard, the farm finances, these men.
~ If this is one investigation ~ It is.
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it's a massive one.
Sprawling.
Multi-agency.
We need to talk to Serious and Organised Crime, Human Trafficking Centre, social services.
Totally agree.
Bring it on ~ We need to gather ourselves.
~ We don't want Evie to gather herself.
She's a suspect.
I want to arrest her and talk to her now while it's hot.
OK, Mrs Pritchard, if you'd like to follow us.
Scrawny cow.
Look at you, you're a bag of bones.
Huh.
Are you not getting it? Is that why you're so miserable, hm? Bet you haven't had a jump in years.
Who'd want it? Be like shagging a ladder.
Who ate all the pies, eh? Fat, baldy, slaphead.
Eh? I bet you can't see your dick.
It's lost in all that flab, innit? Would you do her? Yeah? No.
You're not getting it either, are you? You want to be treated with respect? Yeah? So do I.
You told my colleagues you didn't know Mike Greenholme and you said the same to me.
I don't.
We've been told he not only worked but also lived at your farm by another man who says he works and lives at your farm.
~ Would you like to tell us anything about that? ~ No.
The man who told us that was one of the three men we found locked in a shed at your farm.
~ Do you know anything about that? ~ No.
Well, those three men all wore overalls and had shaved heads.
Same as Mike Greenholme.
Who's watching? ~ The senior investigating officer.
~ Likes to watch, does he? Hello.
Mike Greenholme's been found dead.
Would you like to tell us anything about that? You've been talking to Sandy, haven't you? Anything Sandy said is rubbish.
He's a fantasy man.
~ What's your relationship with Sandy? ~ Shit off.
Is he employed by you, Mrs Pritchard? Is he employed by you, Mrs Pritchard? Cheeky bitch.
The fire services were called to the farm last night because a caravan was on fire.
Could you tell me about last night? Last night I had a husband.
I have nothing else to say to these people.
No comment.
Evie says no.
If you charge her you won't be able to ask her those questions again.
Let's charge her with false imprisonment, stick her in a cell tonight, put her before the magistrates tomorrow, get a technical bail on the forced labour but get her remanded in custody for false imprisonment.
Otherwise she's out causing trouble.
Do you mean trouble to you and your team? That's not a sound reason - I mean I don't want to bail a woman who's possibly looking at a life sentence cos I think she'll abscond.
Forget that.
We've got enough to charge her so we charge her.
Pro facie.
Are you sure it's a good idea for you to be doing this? We are doing it.
We've begun.
Passing it on to another syndicate will delay things.
If you were me you'd do the same.
I'm not drinking at work.
It was a one-off.
I'm fine.
You'd better be.
Follow your nose.
Pursue it as one investigation.
Keep me in the loop.
Hm? She was shouting her head off in her cell and singing Bonnie Tyler.
Have you got to organise your mum's funeral? No, our Alison's doing it.
I'd said I'd clear her things out of her flat.
~ I'll come with you if you like.
~ Ta.
I thought you'd be asleep.
Every time I shut my eyes I'm trying to resuscitate him again.
Try putting the radio on almost a bit too quiet.
~ Good one.
Well, night-night.
~ 'Night.
Internal Affairs want to know when's a convenient time to interview me.
Of course.
They have to look at what we did.
Who told Janet and Chris to go to the farm? What checks had been made? The buck stops with us as supervisors.
Me in the end but you're in it as well.
That's what being sergeant means.
The sniffer dog handler's traced Mike from the farm to the moors.
~ Looks like he wandered off bleeding to where he died.
~ That's a leap forward.
~ Big leap.
Janet! ~ We can put Mike's murder at the farm even though he didn't die there.
~ Mitch said.
~ So Rachel's thinking ~ Let's see if the sniffer dogs can trace Dez.
If Dez also left the farm that night, where did he go? How will you get something with his scent? Presumably his stuff was in the caravan, burnt.
Don't know.
I'll talk to the CSM, get the search team on to it.
Listen, both of you are being looked at.
Rachel for failing to risk-assess the Pritchard Farm, you for this crash.
I don't want you anywhere near Evie, Janet, for obvious reasons ~ or anywhere near the evidence chain, so I'm putting you to work on background.
~ OK.
Slavery, forced labour - get clever about all that so you can produce a briefing paper.
Keep on at social services to get IDs on these men, timings, the lot.
~ Work with Chris.
~ Fine.
~ I'm happy for you to continue to work with Evie.
~ We need to go.
~ How long will these investigations into us take? Months.
This is what I want to say to you, both of you, don't dwell on it, just get on with the work.
How are you doing today? I am trying to decide to be OK.
~ You? ~ Fine.
~ Good.
Police college came up trumps.
Contact details for three independent experts on slavery and forced labour ~ and a phone number for the national expert.
Don't know how he got the prize.
~ Ask him.
~ Rache, how did you get on? ~ The magistrates bailed her.
~ What? ~ The solicitor said she's got no previous.
She's got surety.
She's staying with her cousin, he's putting up bail.
They said she needed time to grieve.
No justification for keeping her in custody.
~ She's not a threat to the community.
~ .
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to check she's done it.
~ If she hasn't send a car ~ Oi! ~ .
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to her cousin's and arrest her.
~ No respect! You think that you can lock me up, do you? ~ Calm down.
~ I'm the victim here! ~ Calm down.
Get your hands off my officer! What's going on? Total pain in the neck.
Mitch will watch Evie Pritchard like a hawk to make sure she complies with these reporting restrictions and doesn't do a bunk.
Update on the search of the farm.
It's a five-acre plot.
It's a massive task.
Concentrating for now on the house, the shed and this burnt-out caravan.
~ Lee.
~ We were hoping for evidence to put Mike and Dez at the caravan.
Nothing.
It's ash, basically.
They're saying we can rule out a body having been burnt in there cos they'd have found teeth.
There's a heap of wellies in the shed and a pair could be Dez's.
There's a D scratched on.
We've given that to the sniffer dogs.
If they can't get a scent off a welly, sack 'em.
If it's Dez's.
Given that we're nowhere close to even knowing who Dez is, I'm not laughing.
~ Carry on.
~ In the kitchen - ~ Is that the baseball bat results? ~ Yeah.
The blood and tissue on it is Greenholme's.
Looks like it is our murder weapon.
~ Brilliant.
~ Two sets of prints on it, in Mike's blood, Cal Pritchard's and another.
We checked the second set on the system.
Desmond McLynn.
Dez.
~ Possibly.
~ Desmond McLynn.
of previous.
GBH.
He glassed someone in a club.
So he won't be shy about braining someone with a baseball bat.
Anyway, the patterning's interesting.
Cal's prints are gripping the handle of the bat, like that.
Dez's are gripping the body of the bat, like that.
Either grip could do it.
You could swing to someone's head ~ or you could ram it.
~ You'd have a better grip holding it Cal's way.
Find out where McLynn's been, when he was last released from prison.
Where was he before he went to the Pritchards'? Has he gone back there? ~ Yeah.
~ Boss, the search team found a notebook at the back of a kitchen drawer.
A ledger.
Evie's scribbled down when the men buy things from her and what they owe her.
~ That's gold dust.
~ Yeah, it might tell us when Dez joined them.
~ We know from Sandy - ~ Even without that it's gold dust.
One of the key indicators of forced labour is the worker being dependent on one person for all of his needs.
Work, home, food, clothing, alcohol, whatever.
We've had Sandy say it.
This proves it.
It might even prove wage manipulation.
There's the underwork scam.
You recruit too many workers and give them enough work to meet their debt to you but no more.
The two other men who were in the shed are starting to open up to social services.
They are called Furquan and Zain, as Sandy said.
Furquan Badini and Zain Dasti.
Did either of them hear a gun? We need to be talking to them now.
Let's inform all three slaves that Cal is dead, that Mike is dead.
See what that does.
Chris and Janet to look over this ledger.
If it's that incriminating ~ I want to rearrest Evie on suspicion of forced labour today, see what she says.
~ Today? ~ Today.
I want to keep up the pressure on her.
~ Is that a no? ~ It is a no.
~ Why? ~ We're colleagues.
~ Colleagues can have dinner.
~ You're on the rebound.
~ Still need to eat.
~ You're being disingenuous.
Dinner is not just dinner.
You know that as well as I do.
And your timing is off, seriously off.
OK.
I need to show you something.
Sure.
Course it's mine.
I wrote it.
It's got the names of five men in there - Mike, Furquan, Zain, Sandy, Dez.
~ I can read, you know.
~ Five men you kept at your farm, working for next to no money.
I looked after them.
~ They weren't free to leave.
~ Course they were.
~ Three were locked in a shed.
~ They were living on the streets before.
Furquan said you picked him up at a soup kitchen eight years ago.
That's right.
Gave him a job.
That's trafficking.
He got in the car.
It's trafficking because you gained his consent through deception.
You told him he'd be earning £300 a week and living in a flat.
~ He got paid.
~ He told us he worked up to 50 hours a week for up to £30 from which you deducted everything he supposedly owed you.
He did owe me.
They all did.
I kept them in alcohol and tobacco.
~ They were housed, clothed, fed.
~ They had to shit in a bucket.
What do you do when you see a homeless person on the street? Walk by? I've done nothing wrong.
You've admitted, now we've put this notebook in front of you, that you do know Mike Greenholme.
Mrs Pritchard, we're conducting a murder enquiry into Mike's death.
We have proof that he received his fatal injury at your farm.
Is there anything you'd like to say? ~ I haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
~ Do you have any idea where Dez might be? ~ No.
~ We know he was at your farm two days ago - Friday - because you sold him six cigarettes and you wrote it down there.
~ Do you or your husband own a gun? ~ No.
OK.
We've got a problem.
~ What? ~ Not here.
My name's Evie Pritchard.
The way I've been treated by Manchester Metropolitan Police is absolutely disgusting.
I've been intimidated.
I've been treated with contempt.
I've got no criminal record and I've done nothing wrong.
And they've locked me up, arrested me.
On the day on the day they killed my husband in a car chase.
One of them did that.
The other one locked me in a police van.
And the woman in charge, the senior investigating officer, stinks of booze.
~ These are the people ~ Did she stink of booze? I didn't notice.
Has she seen this? Not yet.
The sniffer dog trail drew a blank.
Dez never left the farm.
He's not alive, we'd have found him, so where's the body? You'd stick it somewhere nasty people wouldn't look.
I don't want to let Evie Pritchard go.
Keep her talking after the meal break.
Let's ask her - What's wrong? .
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senior investigating officer, stinks of booze.
When's she done that? ~ Today, after the magistrates'.
~ Who's seen it? ~ A few people.
~ Has everyone seen it? ~ A few people - I want the ground to swallow me up.
~ Look, it's an over-the-top rant.
~ From a raging madwoman.
You were involved in a crash that killed Cal - not like she's telling it but you were.
Rachel did send her in a van to the hospital - for good reason but she did.
Why would anyone think what she says about me is the only lie in the bunch? Well, is it? I asked the clerk which magistrate was on.
He said Framington.
I thought Framington'll bail Evie, he bails everyone.
I felt nervous.
I took myself off to the loo.
I had a drink.
Stupid.
Stupid.
What if she makes a formal complaint? She won't.
She will.
She'll want the drama.
She'll want to punish.
Evie knows she won't walk free.
She'll do maximum damage as she goes down.
Yeah.
She's grieving but I met her before Cal died and she was screwy.
She's a manipulator.
She needs to dominate.
That's why she got a kick out of lording it over a band of misfits.
No, they did it for the money.
Cal was mean as sin.
Started with cattle, switched to chickens but wouldn't pay to improve his sheds.
EU thing two years ago.
If you didn't keep battery hens in bigger cages you got shut down.
They got shut down.
Then they started sending the men out to clear rubbish, felling trees.
Making money any old way.
Why did no-one think something was wrong and report it? Because they're tight too.
Wanted a job done cheap, no questions asked.
People are despicable, Janet.
You're not quite getting the hang of this.
No, I am.
The Pritchards recruited men who'd fallen through the cracks.
Who wouldn't run because they had nowhere to go.
They couldn't go back to where they were from because it had gone wrong.
Listen.
I've got a bit of a situation with Chris.
Go on.
He left a flapjack on my desk this morning.
~ Right.
~ And, well, I haven't said anything.
~ Why? ~ Well, I feel a bit I don't know.
I feel a bit embarrassed.
~ Are you sure it was him? ~ Who else there would know how to make a flapjack? ~ It was very nice.
~ So you've said nothing? Mm.
~ Neither has he.
~ You've really thrown me off here, Janet.
If a man put a flapjack on my desk I'd run a mile, obviously.
You're meant to be the well-adjusted one.
Thing is I was going to say something but then he asked me out.
~ Out out? ~ Yeah, and I just thought that - ~ Is there anything in the cupboard for indigestion? ~ Let's have a look.
I was ever so sorry to hear about your mum, Rachel.
~ So sad.
~ Oh, thanks.
~ Really sad.
~ Well, I don't feel anything really.
Ah.
Perhaps it's just delayed.
No, the thing is, Dorothy, I didn't like her.
In your own way you did.
You will have deep down.
You will.
Here, Mum, try these.
They're both good.
Janet.
~ Is Gill in? ~ I don't think she is in, no.
~ I take it you've seen Evie's rant? ~ Yes.
~ Has Gill seen it? ~ Yes.
She's not answering her phone.
If a drinking allegation against Gill turns up in the shape of a formal complaint from that woman, ~ I will be compelled to come clean about the concerns you expressed last week, OK? ~ OK.
We bloody well should have done something about it at the time.
~ Is this investigation falling apart or does it just feel like it? ~ I don't think so, no.
~ Tell Gill to ring me as soon as she can.
~ Will do.
Gill's phoned in sick.
Food poisoning.
~ Have you ever known her take a day off sick? ~ No.
No, I didn't share that with Dodson when she came prowling around saying she thinks the investigation's falling apart.
She's seen Evie's rant.
Everyone has.
~ The gossip machine's gone into overdrive.
~ I'll try and talk to Gill.
I'll be in in 40 minutes.
~ OK.
~ Bye.
Hiya, love.
How are you getting on? Nearly done.
Found anything nice for yourself? I wasn't expecting to.
She was my sunshine.
~ Right.
~ Would you mind if I asked you a favour, sweetheart? ~ I'm not giving you money.
~ It's only fair.
I looked after her.
She wasn't easy.
I looked after your mummy so you wouldn't have to.
No, what you did was you got her to the lowest point she ever got.
She shouldn't have ended up like this.
She could sing.
She could've sung.
What have you ever done? Hm? Inherited a house and drank in it.
Forget money cos I wouldn't give you the shit off my shoe.
That's for every woman you've ever put in hospital.
Useless scumbag.
Don't you dare show your face at the funeral.
I feel different.
I feel freed.
~ Did you break any bones? ~ I don't know.
Possibly.
You can take the Rachel out the Bailey but you can't take the Bailey out of the Rachel.
Who's seen Evie Pritchard's little film? I'm assuming everyone.
Some of you are probably going, 'I had no idea the boss had a drink problem' and some of you are probably going, 'I did spot some tell-tale signs, actually, in hindsight.
' Just forget that.
The reason we all wanted to work on this syndicate is because of Gill's reputation.
You don't get a reputation like that for nothing.
It's slogged for.
It's 30 years of being good at the job.
It's up to us to protect it because we know her.
So if anyone asks you about DCI Murray stinking of booze, don't play.
Just say, 'No, it's rubbish' and shut it down.
~ Do we know who's going to replace her when her 30 days are up? ~ No.
There's a rumour that a few candidates have applied from Cheshire but ~ So, has she got food poisoning? ~ If that's what she says, that's what she's got.
Right.
Evie Pritchard remains in custody.
We've got her till 3pm on the PACE clock.
We've got very little solid evidence and she's giving nothing away.
CSIs are scouring the Pritchard farm for the concealed body of Desmond McLynn.
I think that body is potentially our key to Evie.
Desmond McLynn, Dez, was released from Strangeways in November - DS Bailey's phone.
This is DC Janet Scott.
~ Yeah.
~ Dez started showing up at a homeless hostel in Oldham just before Christmas.
They never saw him after the 5th of January.
January 19th is when he crops up for the first time on Evie's ledger and he's in there regularly up until last Friday.
Evie manages to keep him in debt even though, as you can see, he buys less and less from her.
She always comes up with something he owes her for.
~ He never gets paid.
~ Let's bring Sandy back in.
~ Chris, you speak to him with Janet.
~ OK.
They've found a body at the farm.
They've got the body out of the septic tank.
I've just seen it.
It's a man.
Can't really see much else.
Boss, can you ring me? I need you.
The last time you came in you said Dez was a squeaky wheel, do you remember? Nothing's ever good enough for him.
I don't think things were good enough.
You were all treated very badly.
I think the way that you were treated is against the law.
If someone works for you, you have to pay them properly with a contract.
~ Evie looked after us.
~ Did you ever go to the dentist in all the time you lived at the Pritchards? Or a doctor? ~ Evie sorted it.
~ Well, Evie had to.
If she'd taken you to a doctor the doctor would have said 'Where does Sandy live?' and she couldn't tell anyone because you weren't living and working for her and Cal legally.
~ She keeps me out of trouble.
~ She was keeping herself out of trouble.
Is Evie in trouble now? She is.
Evie didn't kill Mike.
I did.
That's a very serious thing to admit to, Sandy.
Well well well, I admit to it.
~ Could you tell us a bit more? ~ I shot Mike with Evie's gun.
Bang.
Sandy, Mike wasn't shot.
Buckshot.
I don't see what else that could be.
~ Is it possible it's just one cartridge load of pellets? ~ Yep.
The patterning's wide so it can't have been at close range.
That's the one that did for poor old Dez.
Gill doesn't get ill.
Sandy was a bit crestfallen we wouldn't arrest him but he did let slip that it's Evie who owns and uses a shotgun, not Cal.
CSIs are prioritising the search for that gun.
We need to focus on exactly what happened the night of the murder.
~ What do we know? ~ The fire services arrived just after 1am.
The fire was burnt-out by then.
The Pritchards didn't call them, a motorist did.
~ They wouldn't have wanted anyone turning up.
~ Presumably it all kicked off before that.
I reckon it was a big boozy brawl.
The fire officers said Cal was intoxicated.
The postmortem on Mike Greenholme showed high levels of alcohol.
Let's see what the PM on Dez shows when it's complete.
What about the postmortem on Cal? ~ As in alcohol levels? ~ Yeah.
~ High.
Far too high to drive safely.
A baseball bat is something you keep to defend yourself with.
~ I reckon Cal ran out the house with the bat.
~ Why? ~ Dez and Mike were fighting? ~ Cal told the fire lads he dropped a fag in the caravan which started the fire but I reckon that's what Mike and Dez did.
I think the fire got Cal out of the house with his bat.
There was a scuffle between Cal and Dez with the bat.
~ One of them lamps Mike.
I would say Cal.
~ Mike stumbles off.
Someone - Evie or Cal - shoots Dez.
Mike could have shot Dez before he wandered off.
Did we take Evie's clothes when she first came in after the crash? Yes.
Need a word.
Evie Pritchard's made an official complaint against Gill.
Evie wants it resolving formally so Gill's off the case and you're going to head it up.
~ As SIO? ~ Yeah.
No-one else can do it.
I know it's huge which is why I suggested treating it as two separate investigations.
With hindsight, I possibly should've insisted but I didn't.
Anyway, you're the only one who knows it inside out.
I'll be the SIO in name, but you'll be running it.
I'll come to the briefings, look at the HOLMES.
I won't do the day-to-day stuff.
You're capable.
What's your take on Evie Pritchard? ~ I think we should let her go.
~ Why? She's extremely clever.
Very strong.
Every time we slip up, she gets stronger.
She thrives on it.
We suspect Evie murdered Dez.
She knows that but she doesn't know we found his body.
If we charge her without strong enough evidence, CPS'll say that we've fitted her up because we didn't want the anticlimax of having a dead person, Mike or Cal, responsible for Dez's murder.
~ What about the forced labour side of things? ~ Slow progress but progress.
I think we should hold out.
She's about to retire.
She's being investigated.
While she's subject to a complaint she needs permission to retire from the assistant chief constable and while the complaint looks like it may be substantiated .
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they might not let her.
It shouldn't take long to investigate me.
It's not sub judice.
~ Evie's offences aren't tied up with her complaint.
~ They are.
She committed offences so she's doing all she can to divert attention.
There's no legal correlation.
If it was sub judice, the complaint wouldn't be pursued till after her court case.
Why the hell did you send her home? We'll get a result.
We will.
Anyway, I'm owed some leave so I won't be coming in for a bit.
What are you going to say when they question you? If I lie that lie won't go away.
Evie'll get to court and the defence will ask about the complaint, had I been drinking.
And I'll lie in court.
And every time the question crops up, I'll lie.
It's not just my lie.
You know I had a drink in the toilets at the magistrates'.
I told you.
Both of you.
~ But we won't breathe a word about it.
~ That's three people lying.
That's you launching your brilliant career as a sergeant on a lie.
Say you don't lie.
Say you say, 'Hands up, I had a drink.
I was nervous.
I wasn't drunk by any stretch but I had a drink.
' Say you tell them you've been off kilter.
What's that supposed to mean? Off kilter? ~ Will you swear something to me? ~ Depends.
I'm asking you as friends.
~ Yeah.
~ Yeah.
~ When you're interviewed about me and this complaint, which you will be, swear to me you'll say exactly what you know.
~ You lied for me.
~ Completely different.
~ We want to help you.
~ It would be helping me.
I will not make a conspiracy, Rachel.
I'm not going out on a lie.
~ I stopped smoking overnight, remember? ~ Mm.
So don't worry about me ending up a lush.
I won't.
It'll stop when the job does.
I was fine when I first came back after Helen Bartlett.
~ I know you were.
~ I was fine for months and then I couldn't get it out of my head.
~ Flashbacks? ~ No.
If I'd locked my car when I took my trolley back, like any normal person with their head screwed on, none of it would've happened.
She wouldn't have died.
I wouldn't have nearly died.
Thousands of pounds of tax payers' money wouldn't have been squandered.
And if I could make such a basic mistake, how many other mistakes could I make? ~ I lost my nerve.
~ Is that when you decided to retire? Yeah, but I strung it out cos I was waiting for the right time ~ which is cretinous because ~ There is no right time.
~ Yeah.
~ There's just now.
~ Exactly.
That really is rich coming from you, that little pearl of wisdom.
Sorry? What are you waiting for, Janet? ~ In what way? ~ Every way.
~ We can get Evie right now with this lot.
~ Only partially and I don't think Rachel's in the mood for partially.
~ I do fancy you.
~ Oh.
OK, good.
It is good, actually, because the thing is generally I go for tall men.
~ I like redheads.
~ There you go.
~ Can't have it all.
~ No.
~ So is that a yes for dinner? ~ It is.
~ OK.
~ Why are we waiting? ~ I don't know.
What a shame they wouldn't let your brother come out for the day.
~ It is his fault, Dorothy, he assaulted a prison officer.
~ Oh, dear.
~ Gill coming? ~ She's got a work thing.
I see we offered you counselling after you were abducted.
~ I see you stopped going.
Is that right? ~ Yes.
~ Can you run through where you're up to in your welfare programme? ~ Um ~ I'm not.
~ Are you going to your GP? ~ No.
~ How are you coping? ~ I cope.
~ When you stopped going to counselling were you offered an alternative? ~ No.
Did someone from welfare get in touch? No.
We've questioned DS Dodson and a few of your colleagues to get some background.
Drinking on duty, as you know, is a sackable offence.
Hiya, love.
The one before us is still going off cos the door to the cremator got stuck.
You should get your money back.
They're meant to provide a dignified ceremony.
My mother was an attention-seeking car crash so this is perfect.
Hi, Mitch.
So pick her up.
Yes, now.
I'm on my way back.
So's Janet.
Bye.
We can arrest Evie Pritchard for murder.
Forensics are back.
~ Alison, we've got to go.
~ You're joking.
~ Will you be OK? ~ I'll get Dorothy home.
~ Thank you.
~ Sorry.
What I'd like to focus on today is the specific complaint made against you by Mrs Pritchard.
The specific complaint is that when you spoke to her at the magistrates' you were drunk.
Were you drunk? No, I was not drunk.
I don't think we've supported you enough.
I'd like to offer you more welfare.
I don't want welfare.
I want to be allowed to retire.
~ What time did you go to bed on the Friday night? ~ Ten o'clock.
~ What time did you wake up? ~ Eight o'clock.
~ Did you wake up during the night? ~ No.
A fire engine came to the farm at just after 1am.
~ I slept through.
~ Your bedroom is on the side of the house nearest the caravan.
Did you hear any noises from the caravan or nearby? Can you hear noises when you're asleep? I can't.
A witness reported hearing a gun being fired.
Did you hear a gun? I heard nothing and saw nothing until eight o'clock the following morning.
And what did you hear and see then? Cal, passed out on a chair.
~ What time did Cal wake up? ~ I don't remember.
When he woke up can you remember what you talked about? We didn't.
If I'd known he was going to be dead by lunchtime I'd have made the effort.
Have you got anything on me? Cos I'm sick of looking at your fucking face! And yours.
Challenge her, challenge her now.
We found the body of Desmond McLynn in your septic tank.
He was shot at a range of ten metres with 00 gauge buckshot from a shotgun.
~ We recovered that gun from the septic tank.
Lab results show your fingerprints are on it.
~ It's my gun.
~ Yes.
~ Now she's got a gun.
~ Your fingerprints are on the manhole cover to the septic tank.
We found a wheelbarrow with Dez's blood on it, presumably from when the body was pushed to the septic tank.
~ Your fingerprints are on that wheelbarrow.
~ It's my wheelbarrow.
Your prints were in his blood.
And traces of his blood were found on the trousers we took off you when we first questioned you.
Presumably from when you cleaned up his blood.
You can't get fingerprints off a gun that's covered in shit.
Fingerprints are grease.
Rinse off what's on top and there they are.
That gun is covered in prints and they're all yours.
Eve Pritchard, you are charged as follows: That you at Rochdale in the county of Greater Manchester on 19th September 2014 did murder Desmond McLynn contrary to common law.
That you at Rochdale in the county of Greater Manchester between 1st January 2007 and 19th September 2014 did falsely imprison Zain Dasti contrary to common law.
That you at Rochdale in the county of Greater Manchester between 1st January 2003 and 19th September 2014 did hold Sandy Thewliss in slavery or servitude or you did require Sandy to perform forced or compulsory labour and the circumstances are such that you knew or ought to have known that Sandy was being required to perform such labour, contrary to Section 71 Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! I first met Gill at Bruche in 1993.
She was dressed head to toe in leather with hair down to her bum.
~ Whoo! ~ I was not! ~ Oh, it must have been someone else.
Anyway, she was telling someone how they could do what they were doing much better if they'd only do it just like her.
And I thought 'Ooh, she's a bit scary.
' scared of Gill but I've cottoned on to the fact that that's how she likes it.
~ I am so proud of you.
~ We've all been Murrayed.
We've all had our eyebrows singed if we haven't managed to achieve her stratospherically high standards.
And now she's retired.
Let loose on the world with time on her hands.
God help any weeds in her garden.
God help anything young and male in a ~ Doesn't have to be young! ~ Doesn't have to be male! Whoa! That is totally unacceptable.
Julie Dodson, the stories I could tell about you! Oh, you look deep and meaningful.
~ Just thinking about change.
~ Ah.
Yeah, well, I applied for an interview development role today.
It's what I'm best at and I'm going take it as far as I can.
Yes.
Superb.
You should come back inside.
Dodson's doing shots, Gill's dancing.
I think that's what it is.
Oh, and Will Pemberton's just turned up and he's sort of casting about like he's looking for somebody.
~ Are you joking? ~ No.
I'll just finish this.