Messiah (2001) s05e01 Episode Script
The Rapture (1)
See you later.
Kalid.
-You can't smoke in here, Mr Iqbal.
-How much longer is this going to take? Alex, get up, we're going.
-That was illegal if it wasn't reasonable chastisement.
-We're still waiting on your defence disclosure.
-I've been collared already.
-This is a rape case.
-It'll be on your desk in the morning.
-9.
30 for 10 would be great.
Thank you.
-Where is he? -I have no idea.
I can't get hold of him.
I'll try the house again.
PHONE RINGS You must know something about him.
-I know as much about him as you do.
-You always know more than me.
-I don't know, maybe it just feels that way.
I give off an aura.
- Is that like a smell? No, it's definitely an aura.
-Is this him? -Yes, but it's not true, he can't walk on water.
-DS Palmer.
-Melanie or Mel? -Your file didn't say.
-It's Mel.
-OK.
DI Hedges? -Yeah.
DCI Joseph Walker.
Oh, jesus.
We've got multiple stab wounds.
The children to the chest, the adults to the chest and neck.
-His face is white.
-Yes, the carotid artery's been severed.
-He bled out.
They weren't killed here.
By the wall, then moved.
Why sit them at the table? Mother, father, son and daughter.
It's the whole family.
They look like they're praying.
Three reef knots, but this one's a butterfly knot.
-It's used in sailing, I think climbing.
Do you ever climb? -Stairs.
Ifl have to.
Get in close on the sand.
Two different knots probably means two different killers, right? Or one victim was made to tie up the other three.
The killer did the last one himself.
-Look at where he put them.
-At the table.
You know when I was a kid, in our kitchen, I used to sit there.
My brother there and my mum there.
-My dad always sat here.
-Why did he put the boy at the head ofthe table? We've been here for two weeks now, finishing off the patio and then we were going to start on a pool.
-What time did you get here? -We were later than usual, I had to pick up some supplies.
-Would it have made any difference? -No.
-When you went inside, did you touch anything? -No.
-Are you sure? Yes.
No, the phone.
I picked up the phone.
The knife in the father's neck is part of a set.
Put the phone back on the hook.
-Eh? - It was moved, put it back.
PHONE RINGS -Yeah? -What's this all about? -You'll have to ask the boss.
-What's he like? -Well, he's not Pete.
How's he doing? -Well, you know.
-Sarah Templar, CPS.
-Mark Moore.
-What's happened? Oh, shit! All of them? The whole family? Yeah.
Alex Iqbal was meant to be in court this morning, giving evidence.
-What's the case? -A father who raped his daughter.
-Alex was the girl's boyfriend and our witness.
-So what happens now? We keep going.
Nobody wants Michael Wallace to walk free.
It seems like a top-end system.
It doesn't look like it was turned on.
-Mark Moore from CPS, you know Sarah.
-Hi, Mel -Hi.
-Is Wallace in custody? -He's out on bail.
It's some kind of punishment, it has to be for that level of violence.
We've got a frenzied attack, anger, frustration.
Or a warning.
Look and learn, don't make the same mistake.
What mistake? -You saw the security system, he was obviously scared of something.
-What about the sand? -The what? -The sand on the floor.
What is it, where did it come from? Building work, it obviously came in with the builders.
-Where am I? - Excuse me? -Which one is mine? -Oh, you've got the office.
-OK.
Look at the sand.
Your lawyer wasn't necessary, Mr Wallace.
-It feels like it was.
-You sound defensive.
My client's on trial for something he didn't do.
Being defensive is one of the only rights he's got left.
PHONE RINGS -Take that out here if you want.
-I don't think so.
My daughter needs help, not more people indulging her, hanging on her every word.
-This isn't about your daughter.
-What is it about? Her boyfriend, Alex Iqbal.
He was killed last night.
Along with the rest ofthe family.
Shall we? I was out, OK, I was out.
At an AA meeting.
-At least ten people saw me put my hand up and say my name.
-What about after the meeting? -I got a cab and went home.
-You can see how it looks.
-A prosecution witness killed before he can testify.
-It's not how it looks at all.
How's that? My client's daughter, Leah, is a member of an organisation called the New Advent Church.
They practise a kind of personal exorcism or casting-out of demons.
Alex Iqbal knew all about it.
Which means what exactly? She thought she was being brainwashed, she was being forced into these allegations against her father.
Exactly.
He might have been listed as a prosecution witness, but in reality Alex Iqbal was going to give evidence for the defence.
If you need to speak to Mr Wallace again.
Stewart Dean.
I'll make sure you know.
You defended Rashid Ishmail.
Yes, I did.
-He tried to blow up the London Eye.
-Yes, I've heard it all before.
How can you do it, how can you switch off, how can you sleep at night? -That's not what I meant.
-I switch off and I sleep like a baby.
A British police officer, seconded to the Israelis.
That was a training assignment.
You had a relationship with a Palestinian woman and ended up driving a suicide bomber through the border.
He was her brother.
The police officer claimed he had no idea.
He didn't.
I'll have one if you're buying.
-Or if you're not.
-What are you doing here? You didn't answer my question.
About Peter.
-Two sugars.
-Ta.
I don't know how it works.
I mean do they literally pull the plug or is there a switch? I think there must be a switch.
Have they asked you? Food through a tube, only breathing because ofthe machine, he doesn't know where he is or who I am.
-It was always going to take time.
-It's not your time.
I was going through his things.
I think he was about to leave me.
What? No, he wasn't.
-He loved you, he loves you.
-He bought a silver cross on his credit card.
-He's not religious.
He knows I'm not.
-Maybe it was a present.
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Little diamonds on it, apparently.
We weren't even married the last time he bought me jewellery.
-Who is she? -I can't help you.
You could make it easier, even just a little bit.
No, Sarah, I'm sorry.
I can't.
I don't know.
Listen, I've got to go.
OK, I've got to go.
Peter.
Leah! I just want to talk to you.
Come on, I just want to talk to you.
-Stop telling these lies, Leah! -Leah.
It s OK.
-You know it's not true.
Please, love, please.
-Go away.
You're not welcome.
-I want to talk to my daughter.
-You're breaking your bail conditions.
Leah! Come here, luv.
Stop messing with her mind! Leah! -I want to talk to my daughter.
-You're breaking your bail conditions.
Leah! Come here, luv.
Stop messing with her mind! Leah! -Is it Father or Reverend? -just plain Mr Hughes.
We don't go in for that sort of formality here.
Guys, could you give us a few minutes? Leah, these people want a quick chat.
Leah's been staying with us for a while.
She needed a safe refuge.
-Any port in a storm, eh? -I'd like to think we offer more than that.
A church isn't just about four walls and a roof, you know.
What sort of formality? - Excuse me? -That you don't go in for.
-The New Advent Church is about its congregation, it's not about the trappings.
Everyone is equal before God.
Look, I'll leave you to it.
-No.
-Please can you stay? -Is that OK.
- I'd love you to stay.
Alex was a little older than me.
He was friends with my sister, Martha, first, that's how we met.
Was he in any kind of trouble? -I don't know.
-Drugs, gangs, guns, anything like that? No.
His dad wouldn't let him do anything.
-He was so strict.
-I can vouch for that.
He came here once, looking for Alex.
-He was supposed to be somewhere else and his father made sure he knew about it.
-What about you? -Sorry, I don't.
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-Did you get on? You and Alex, you and the father.
I mean, the Iqbals were Muslim.
We're all part ofthe same family, tracing our roots back to Abraham.
So it must have hurt.
-What must? -The fact that Alex was going to give evidence against you, against the Church.
-Claim that you were responsible for her allegations.
-That's not true.
He wouldn't.
He wouldn't do anything.
He won't do it now.
I've done some background on Fareed Iqbal.
The father.
The knife was left sticking out of his neck.
Making him the primary target.
No, you're not thinking.
The rest of the family? Why were they killed? They were caught in the crossfire.
Wrong time, wrong place.
It doesn't explain why he sat them around the table.
He killed them then he moved them.
He staged the scene.
Carefully, meticulously.
He took the time to do it.
-There has to be a reason for that.
And for the sand.
-Oh, come on! -The sand doesn't mean anything.
The sand could have come from anywhere.
-But it isn't from the house.
Or the building work outside.
It's been analysed, it doesn't match.
-That still doesn't.
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-They found some prints on the knife.
They're Alex Iqbal's.
It wasn't just about the father.
The whole family was targeted.
What had they done wrong? Let's have a drink.
It used to be spit and sawdust in here.
Now it's borscht and girls from Bratislava.
-Cheers.
-Cheers.
-I don't suppose they had beer where you were.
-Yeah, they had beer.
Of course they did.
It's red hot, you'd need it.
They had peanuts too.
Right.
Divorced, no kids and a one-bedroom flat.
But I'm good at my job.
I know.
I don't mean what's in my file, I mean what's up here.
-You don't have to tell me.
-It feels like I do.
It feels like I'm here, and you're over there somewhere.
And that's no good to me.
-What about your old boss? -Peter? -I know about his accident.
-Yeah.
Each other's weddings, each other's stag dos.
I'm the bloke on the floor in all the photos but that was a long time ago.
A few years apart and then we ended up working at the same station again.
Only this time he was my boss.
The truth is he was travelling quicker than I was.
And that's tough.
What happened to him I wouldn't wish -Look, what I'm trying to say is, a new start's good for me as well.
-OK.
Do you want another one? I should make a move.
Me too.
How much to Highbury? I said Highbury.
It was that way, you should have turned left.
Excuse me, you missed the turn.
Stop the car, let me get out.
I said stop it, stop the car! Stop the car and let me out now! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Sorry.
See you later.
I can't do this.
I can't do this.
Leave it.
Leave it.
Leave it, leave it, leave it, leave it.
Get off me! Get off! I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Isobel? Is? -Who is she? -Isobel Waite, 25 years old, staying with her sister.
She's hanging from a lighting flex.
There's sand on the floor.
-Not as much as last time.
-She's been dressed.
-A man's suit.
-There's no sign of forced entry, but there's an unlocked window in the kitchen.
-Who found her? -The sister.
Isobel wouldn't even put a pin in the meter when we were students.
You drill a hole then put a pin in.
It stops the meter from turning.
-I know.
-She wouldn't do it.
-She said it was theft.
-She was right.
I'm the one who's always in trouble.
She's the good one.
She's an accountant.
Are my parents here? just keep walking.
Come on, don't look.
Why's she wearing those clothes? Come on, come on.
Lucy! -Are you the person in charge? -Yes, I am.
Who did this? -I don't know.
-Lucy, are you OK? -I want to see Isobel.
- I'm sorry.
-No, I want to see my daughter! -I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please, please.
I'm sorry.
DS Palmers going to take you home.
She's watching TV, she doesn't hear him come in.
Why does he put her here? He wanted to shock.
Wanted her in full view of whoever came in that door.
The sand.
There's not much of it.
-Maybe he was disturbed by the sister coming home.
-No.
-What? A problem? -The last time he kills a whole family, this time he runs away from a twenty-something girl.
-Doesn't make sense.
You should try and lie down.
-I don't want to close my eyes.
-I can give you something, it'll knock you out.
-OK.
-What are you giving her? -just to help her sleep.
Where's this? Paris, the last holiday we had together.
She's asleep.
-Will you join me? -No, thanks.
-It'll make me feel better.
-All right, then.
-I won't tell anyone.
Stop doing that.
Helen I can't sit still, I have to keep doing something.
There are scuff marks on the sill, smudges but no prints on the glass.
-How big's the drop? Eight or ten feet? - At least.
The wall's starting to crack.
There are plenty of places to put your feet, to pull yourself up.
-What about going out? -He jumped.
-So how does he get back up to shut the window? -OK, so he came in this way and left by the front door.
-If he left by the front door, why didn't Lucy Waite see him? -Yeah.
How long's she been there? I can't say with any certainty.
Not until we do the post.
What's your best guess? Well, from the coloration on her neck, at least from what I can see, three to four hours.
Which makes it no later than 12.
Lucy Waite didn't come in until after one.
They both look the same.
He wasn't disturbed.
I know, it just doesn't feel like that yet.
I don't know how it feels.
Tell her to put her coat back on again.
It's not picking up.
Andy! Let's speak tomorrow, OK.
Bye BANGING ON DOOR Mel! I've been ringing you.
Where's Lucy? -She's upstairs, asleep, I gave her some pills to help her sleep.
-Which room? -She's in Isobel's.
- Lucy! - What's the matter? - Which room? - 0n the right.
What's happening? -Stay there.
He killed the wrong girl.
-Why does he take the time to do this, to lay this out? -It's a message.
-He's saying something.
-Who to? -Maybe to us.
This must have been there at the Iqbal house, the builder walked through it.
This is definitely an eye.
What are these? Letters? Words? -Where were you? -I was here, I was Where were you? It's being run against everything we can think of.
Gang tags, foreign languages.
That part, that's definitely an eye.
-He's watching them, he's been watching them, he's watching us.
-Or someone is watching him.
-Why did he dress them? -Maybe he's covering them up.
No, he dressed them as men, specifically as men.
In the same way he sat the Iqbals around the table.
-What about the sand? Where's it from? -It's still being analysed.
-Well, sit on them! Push them, get an answer.
Not you, you do it.
You go back and see the parents.
-Is there anything that connects these girls with the Iqbals? -OK.
-Terry.
-Yeah? -Which way was Lucy Waites' bedroom facing? -East, I think.
Why? Hi.
Mark, from the CPS.
-Are you waiting for someone? -Always.
I'm just over there.
Come and join us until he turns up.
-I'm fine here.
-Are you sure? -Yeah.
-OK.
I've seen this somewhere before.
-Y, H, W, H.
-Yahweh.
What is that? -It's ancient Hebrew for God.
-Go on.
The sunlight was on the sand.
-The eye was facing to the east.
-Why east? Muslims look to Mecca, jews to jerusalem.
The early Christians looked to the east as well.
-When they're praying? -When they're talking to God.
It's not a message for us.
He's talking to God.
We're all part of the same family.
Tracing our roots back to Abraham.
-Are you finished? - Are you running out of rooms? -It's getting that way.
-I'll be out of your way in a minute.
No rush.
This New Advent Church.
-How close did you get to it? -Close enough to know what they're all about.
A fundamentalist belief in the word of God.
-A strict interpretation of the Bible.
Right down to the full stops.
-Did you talk to anyone else? I can't tell you that.
All conversations are privileged.
I can't discuss it.
Look, I'm hanging here.
I need a way in.
Who's this? Not everybody stays.
Some people have got out.
It's as much as as I can do.
How do I find her? You'll find her.
What was the emergency? What emergency? -The reason he didn't turn up.
-Oh, no reason.
-Actually there is no he.
I made it up.
-Are you OK? -I'm fine.
I'm good.
Yeah, I'm really good.
-I'll get you a taxi, eh? Sorry, sorry.
-Where do you live? -I live ten minutes away, with vodka in the freezer.
I have got to get up early tomorrow.
-I've got an alarm clock.
-You'd hate me in the morning.
It doesn't take that long.
These talks with Leah Wallace, were they formal or informal? Are these questions really necessary? You're a witness, Mr Hughes, you'll have to get used to answering questions.
-What form did this counselling take? -She needed to talk, so I listened.
You have a lot of books .
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but not the most important one.
It's a law office.
-Do you ever read the Bible? -No.
-You should.
The first murder case I ever tried was a woman killed in a hotel room.
One of the exhibits was the Bible.
Pages torn out, what was left covered in blood.
It put me off religion.
-You don't have to be religious to pray for a miracle.
-I don't need a miracle.
Except maybe water into wine occasionally.
What about the man who picked up his bed and walked? I heard about your husband.
I'm sorry.
Sometimes a little faith can make life a lot easier.
Isobel called every couple of days, she liked to talk.
Lucy would be silent for weeks.
I'm the same with my mother.
She always said it was better her father didn't know.
They used to argue when she was still living here.
What did they argue about? Her skirt was really a belt, 11 didn't mean three in the morning.
Boyfriends had a home to goto.
-Was there any boyfriend in particular? -No, not that I know of.
Her father said that she went for quantity not quality.
-Never a good jewish boy.
-OK.
-Thank you.
-For what? -For making this a little easier.
-Hi.
-What are you doing here? GBH, third floor.
I don't normally go out drinking on my own.
I mean I don't stay in and drink on my own either.
-Usually.
-I believe you.
-I'm trying to thank you for turning me down.
-I didn't turn you down.
-I just didn't take advantage.
-It's the same thing.
It's really not.
I'd never have turned you down.
Her name's Alice Seaford.
She used to be a member of the New Advent Church.
Six months ago, Hughes locked her in a cellar.
Charges were filed as wrongful imprisonment.
-What happened? -Nothing.
Next day she withdrew the complaint.
This points to Hughes.
And you were right.
Paleo-Hebrew, 3,000 years old, definitely says God.
-I haven't done anything wrong.
-Nobody's saying that.
-I'm saying it, I'm saying I don't have to talk about what happened.
-But we know what happened.
The basics.
Daniel Hughes locked you in a cellar for three days.
No food, no light.
No idea when he'd let you out.
-If he'd let you out.
-I always knew he'd come.
-He came for you, other people might not have been so lucky.
-What other people? Alice, we need to know why.
Why did he do it? What had you done wrong? He sucks you in, gradually over time.
He tells you what you want to hear.
Especially someone like me.
I wanted to belong.
And to belong you have to believe.
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
It was, um.
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someone at work.
-You got pregnant.
-I sinned.
-He said I needed to repent.
-Thank you.
- Listen.
I don't understand why you dropped the complaint.
You left, you walked away.
You're not part of the church any more.
Hughes can't get you now.
-I'm not worried about Hughes.
-What are you worried about? -It'll sound silly.
-Not to me.
What if it's true, what if he's right? What if we're all being judged? Excuse me.
What's happened to her face? It's acid.
Acid was poured into her eyes.
She looks like she's been crying.
Her name's Catherine Tyce, she was at a hospice over the road.
-Did she work there? -No.
She was visiting.
Her daughter's dying of cancer.
Hello? -What's that around her neck? -A cross.
You were right, they've narrowed down the sand.
- The closet match is a place called the Valley of jezriel? -Where Is that? - Israel.
Yeah.
Thanks.
The Iqbals were Muslim.
What about the Waites? -I don't know -0h, yeah, I do, they're jewish.
Muslim, jew and Christian .
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the three Abrahamic religions.
-Boss? -It's what Daniel Hughes said.
The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
He doesn't want us to be afraid.
He wants us to be aware that no creature is hidden from his sight.
There's no place to hide, no road to run down unless it is the one that ends in glory.
Have you come to join us, gentlemen? Turn around, hands behind your back.
-What are you doing? -Get hold of him.
Daniel Hughes, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
You don't have to say anything but I must caution you that if you do not mention when questioned, something which you later rely on in court, it may harm your defence.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
-Out.
-It's OK, it's just a mistake.
Out! They came to Gethsemane with clubs and swords Our Lord merely scolded them with words.
This is a house of God! If you believe the world was made in seven days, six months must seem like a lifetime.
But make an effort.
-I don't remember her.
-You remember Alice.
-Everybody knows Alice.
Alice Seaford.
- I don't.
-I don't remember her.
- You locked her up, Daniel, locked her in.
- I didn't touch her.
- You locked her in a cellar for three days.
She wanted forgiveness.
She wanted to eat, she wanted to drink.
She wanted to see the sky.
She sinned and you punished her.
It wasn't punishment, it was atonement.
She sinned and she had to repent? -Yes.
-She broke a law and she had to atone for it? -That is right.
-The Iqbals didn't repent, the Iqbals didn't atone.
The Iqbal's were punished.
What law did they break? Look at the pictures.
What law did they break? I barely knew them.
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0nly the father and the son, but -I hardly even knew them.
-Isobel Waite.
That was wrong though, wasn't it? You wanted Lucy.
Lucy Waite.
There she is.
What has she done wrong, Daniel? Look at the pictures, Daniel.
I don't know, I've never seen her.
You remember Catherine Tyce, acid poured in her eyes, tears streaming down her face.
That was a few hours ago.
Why would I know? I don't know I don't even know 'God' written in ancient Hebrew.
What does the eye mean, Daniel? And the sand? Tell me about the sand.
-From Israel, the Valley of jezriel.
-The Holy Land, Daniel.
The place where everything you believe in started.
His face is white, the father's face.
They argued.
The son shall turn his father's face white.
The seven represent my eyes, the eyes ofthe Lord that see everything on Earth.
Tell me about the girl.
He's enjoying this.
-I need you to tell me about the girl.
-He's getting off on it, you sick bastard! - just tell me.
-Her name was Lucy.
-What was she like? I'll tell you what she was like.
She was young, she was pretty .
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she was very promiscuous.
- She's wearing a suit.
He dressed her.
The men shall dress as women and the women shall dress as men.
What is that? This one.
Was she unhappy? Her daughter's dying.
- A generation whose eyes shall fail through sorrow and grief.
- What does that mean? -It's right here in front of you.
The breakdown of family relations, hedonism and society in despair.
- What signs? There are seven common signs of the end, these are the first three.
-The end of what? -You, me, all of this.
Everything we know.
It's right here on your map.
Megiddo is another name for Armageddon.
Our killer thinks it's the end of the world.
Detective Chief Inspector Joseph Walker,please.
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Kalid.
-You can't smoke in here, Mr Iqbal.
-How much longer is this going to take? Alex, get up, we're going.
-That was illegal if it wasn't reasonable chastisement.
-We're still waiting on your defence disclosure.
-I've been collared already.
-This is a rape case.
-It'll be on your desk in the morning.
-9.
30 for 10 would be great.
Thank you.
-Where is he? -I have no idea.
I can't get hold of him.
I'll try the house again.
PHONE RINGS You must know something about him.
-I know as much about him as you do.
-You always know more than me.
-I don't know, maybe it just feels that way.
I give off an aura.
- Is that like a smell? No, it's definitely an aura.
-Is this him? -Yes, but it's not true, he can't walk on water.
-DS Palmer.
-Melanie or Mel? -Your file didn't say.
-It's Mel.
-OK.
DI Hedges? -Yeah.
DCI Joseph Walker.
Oh, jesus.
We've got multiple stab wounds.
The children to the chest, the adults to the chest and neck.
-His face is white.
-Yes, the carotid artery's been severed.
-He bled out.
They weren't killed here.
By the wall, then moved.
Why sit them at the table? Mother, father, son and daughter.
It's the whole family.
They look like they're praying.
Three reef knots, but this one's a butterfly knot.
-It's used in sailing, I think climbing.
Do you ever climb? -Stairs.
Ifl have to.
Get in close on the sand.
Two different knots probably means two different killers, right? Or one victim was made to tie up the other three.
The killer did the last one himself.
-Look at where he put them.
-At the table.
You know when I was a kid, in our kitchen, I used to sit there.
My brother there and my mum there.
-My dad always sat here.
-Why did he put the boy at the head ofthe table? We've been here for two weeks now, finishing off the patio and then we were going to start on a pool.
-What time did you get here? -We were later than usual, I had to pick up some supplies.
-Would it have made any difference? -No.
-When you went inside, did you touch anything? -No.
-Are you sure? Yes.
No, the phone.
I picked up the phone.
The knife in the father's neck is part of a set.
Put the phone back on the hook.
-Eh? - It was moved, put it back.
PHONE RINGS -Yeah? -What's this all about? -You'll have to ask the boss.
-What's he like? -Well, he's not Pete.
How's he doing? -Well, you know.
-Sarah Templar, CPS.
-Mark Moore.
-What's happened? Oh, shit! All of them? The whole family? Yeah.
Alex Iqbal was meant to be in court this morning, giving evidence.
-What's the case? -A father who raped his daughter.
-Alex was the girl's boyfriend and our witness.
-So what happens now? We keep going.
Nobody wants Michael Wallace to walk free.
It seems like a top-end system.
It doesn't look like it was turned on.
-Mark Moore from CPS, you know Sarah.
-Hi, Mel -Hi.
-Is Wallace in custody? -He's out on bail.
It's some kind of punishment, it has to be for that level of violence.
We've got a frenzied attack, anger, frustration.
Or a warning.
Look and learn, don't make the same mistake.
What mistake? -You saw the security system, he was obviously scared of something.
-What about the sand? -The what? -The sand on the floor.
What is it, where did it come from? Building work, it obviously came in with the builders.
-Where am I? - Excuse me? -Which one is mine? -Oh, you've got the office.
-OK.
Look at the sand.
Your lawyer wasn't necessary, Mr Wallace.
-It feels like it was.
-You sound defensive.
My client's on trial for something he didn't do.
Being defensive is one of the only rights he's got left.
PHONE RINGS -Take that out here if you want.
-I don't think so.
My daughter needs help, not more people indulging her, hanging on her every word.
-This isn't about your daughter.
-What is it about? Her boyfriend, Alex Iqbal.
He was killed last night.
Along with the rest ofthe family.
Shall we? I was out, OK, I was out.
At an AA meeting.
-At least ten people saw me put my hand up and say my name.
-What about after the meeting? -I got a cab and went home.
-You can see how it looks.
-A prosecution witness killed before he can testify.
-It's not how it looks at all.
How's that? My client's daughter, Leah, is a member of an organisation called the New Advent Church.
They practise a kind of personal exorcism or casting-out of demons.
Alex Iqbal knew all about it.
Which means what exactly? She thought she was being brainwashed, she was being forced into these allegations against her father.
Exactly.
He might have been listed as a prosecution witness, but in reality Alex Iqbal was going to give evidence for the defence.
If you need to speak to Mr Wallace again.
Stewart Dean.
I'll make sure you know.
You defended Rashid Ishmail.
Yes, I did.
-He tried to blow up the London Eye.
-Yes, I've heard it all before.
How can you do it, how can you switch off, how can you sleep at night? -That's not what I meant.
-I switch off and I sleep like a baby.
A British police officer, seconded to the Israelis.
That was a training assignment.
You had a relationship with a Palestinian woman and ended up driving a suicide bomber through the border.
He was her brother.
The police officer claimed he had no idea.
He didn't.
I'll have one if you're buying.
-Or if you're not.
-What are you doing here? You didn't answer my question.
About Peter.
-Two sugars.
-Ta.
I don't know how it works.
I mean do they literally pull the plug or is there a switch? I think there must be a switch.
Have they asked you? Food through a tube, only breathing because ofthe machine, he doesn't know where he is or who I am.
-It was always going to take time.
-It's not your time.
I was going through his things.
I think he was about to leave me.
What? No, he wasn't.
-He loved you, he loves you.
-He bought a silver cross on his credit card.
-He's not religious.
He knows I'm not.
-Maybe it was a present.
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Little diamonds on it, apparently.
We weren't even married the last time he bought me jewellery.
-Who is she? -I can't help you.
You could make it easier, even just a little bit.
No, Sarah, I'm sorry.
I can't.
I don't know.
Listen, I've got to go.
OK, I've got to go.
Peter.
Leah! I just want to talk to you.
Come on, I just want to talk to you.
-Stop telling these lies, Leah! -Leah.
It s OK.
-You know it's not true.
Please, love, please.
-Go away.
You're not welcome.
-I want to talk to my daughter.
-You're breaking your bail conditions.
Leah! Come here, luv.
Stop messing with her mind! Leah! -I want to talk to my daughter.
-You're breaking your bail conditions.
Leah! Come here, luv.
Stop messing with her mind! Leah! -Is it Father or Reverend? -just plain Mr Hughes.
We don't go in for that sort of formality here.
Guys, could you give us a few minutes? Leah, these people want a quick chat.
Leah's been staying with us for a while.
She needed a safe refuge.
-Any port in a storm, eh? -I'd like to think we offer more than that.
A church isn't just about four walls and a roof, you know.
What sort of formality? - Excuse me? -That you don't go in for.
-The New Advent Church is about its congregation, it's not about the trappings.
Everyone is equal before God.
Look, I'll leave you to it.
-No.
-Please can you stay? -Is that OK.
- I'd love you to stay.
Alex was a little older than me.
He was friends with my sister, Martha, first, that's how we met.
Was he in any kind of trouble? -I don't know.
-Drugs, gangs, guns, anything like that? No.
His dad wouldn't let him do anything.
-He was so strict.
-I can vouch for that.
He came here once, looking for Alex.
-He was supposed to be somewhere else and his father made sure he knew about it.
-What about you? -Sorry, I don't.
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-Did you get on? You and Alex, you and the father.
I mean, the Iqbals were Muslim.
We're all part ofthe same family, tracing our roots back to Abraham.
So it must have hurt.
-What must? -The fact that Alex was going to give evidence against you, against the Church.
-Claim that you were responsible for her allegations.
-That's not true.
He wouldn't.
He wouldn't do anything.
He won't do it now.
I've done some background on Fareed Iqbal.
The father.
The knife was left sticking out of his neck.
Making him the primary target.
No, you're not thinking.
The rest of the family? Why were they killed? They were caught in the crossfire.
Wrong time, wrong place.
It doesn't explain why he sat them around the table.
He killed them then he moved them.
He staged the scene.
Carefully, meticulously.
He took the time to do it.
-There has to be a reason for that.
And for the sand.
-Oh, come on! -The sand doesn't mean anything.
The sand could have come from anywhere.
-But it isn't from the house.
Or the building work outside.
It's been analysed, it doesn't match.
-That still doesn't.
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-They found some prints on the knife.
They're Alex Iqbal's.
It wasn't just about the father.
The whole family was targeted.
What had they done wrong? Let's have a drink.
It used to be spit and sawdust in here.
Now it's borscht and girls from Bratislava.
-Cheers.
-Cheers.
-I don't suppose they had beer where you were.
-Yeah, they had beer.
Of course they did.
It's red hot, you'd need it.
They had peanuts too.
Right.
Divorced, no kids and a one-bedroom flat.
But I'm good at my job.
I know.
I don't mean what's in my file, I mean what's up here.
-You don't have to tell me.
-It feels like I do.
It feels like I'm here, and you're over there somewhere.
And that's no good to me.
-What about your old boss? -Peter? -I know about his accident.
-Yeah.
Each other's weddings, each other's stag dos.
I'm the bloke on the floor in all the photos but that was a long time ago.
A few years apart and then we ended up working at the same station again.
Only this time he was my boss.
The truth is he was travelling quicker than I was.
And that's tough.
What happened to him I wouldn't wish -Look, what I'm trying to say is, a new start's good for me as well.
-OK.
Do you want another one? I should make a move.
Me too.
How much to Highbury? I said Highbury.
It was that way, you should have turned left.
Excuse me, you missed the turn.
Stop the car, let me get out.
I said stop it, stop the car! Stop the car and let me out now! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Sorry.
See you later.
I can't do this.
I can't do this.
Leave it.
Leave it.
Leave it, leave it, leave it, leave it.
Get off me! Get off! I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Isobel? Is? -Who is she? -Isobel Waite, 25 years old, staying with her sister.
She's hanging from a lighting flex.
There's sand on the floor.
-Not as much as last time.
-She's been dressed.
-A man's suit.
-There's no sign of forced entry, but there's an unlocked window in the kitchen.
-Who found her? -The sister.
Isobel wouldn't even put a pin in the meter when we were students.
You drill a hole then put a pin in.
It stops the meter from turning.
-I know.
-She wouldn't do it.
-She said it was theft.
-She was right.
I'm the one who's always in trouble.
She's the good one.
She's an accountant.
Are my parents here? just keep walking.
Come on, don't look.
Why's she wearing those clothes? Come on, come on.
Lucy! -Are you the person in charge? -Yes, I am.
Who did this? -I don't know.
-Lucy, are you OK? -I want to see Isobel.
- I'm sorry.
-No, I want to see my daughter! -I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please, please.
I'm sorry.
DS Palmers going to take you home.
She's watching TV, she doesn't hear him come in.
Why does he put her here? He wanted to shock.
Wanted her in full view of whoever came in that door.
The sand.
There's not much of it.
-Maybe he was disturbed by the sister coming home.
-No.
-What? A problem? -The last time he kills a whole family, this time he runs away from a twenty-something girl.
-Doesn't make sense.
You should try and lie down.
-I don't want to close my eyes.
-I can give you something, it'll knock you out.
-OK.
-What are you giving her? -just to help her sleep.
Where's this? Paris, the last holiday we had together.
She's asleep.
-Will you join me? -No, thanks.
-It'll make me feel better.
-All right, then.
-I won't tell anyone.
Stop doing that.
Helen I can't sit still, I have to keep doing something.
There are scuff marks on the sill, smudges but no prints on the glass.
-How big's the drop? Eight or ten feet? - At least.
The wall's starting to crack.
There are plenty of places to put your feet, to pull yourself up.
-What about going out? -He jumped.
-So how does he get back up to shut the window? -OK, so he came in this way and left by the front door.
-If he left by the front door, why didn't Lucy Waite see him? -Yeah.
How long's she been there? I can't say with any certainty.
Not until we do the post.
What's your best guess? Well, from the coloration on her neck, at least from what I can see, three to four hours.
Which makes it no later than 12.
Lucy Waite didn't come in until after one.
They both look the same.
He wasn't disturbed.
I know, it just doesn't feel like that yet.
I don't know how it feels.
Tell her to put her coat back on again.
It's not picking up.
Andy! Let's speak tomorrow, OK.
Bye BANGING ON DOOR Mel! I've been ringing you.
Where's Lucy? -She's upstairs, asleep, I gave her some pills to help her sleep.
-Which room? -She's in Isobel's.
- Lucy! - What's the matter? - Which room? - 0n the right.
What's happening? -Stay there.
He killed the wrong girl.
-Why does he take the time to do this, to lay this out? -It's a message.
-He's saying something.
-Who to? -Maybe to us.
This must have been there at the Iqbal house, the builder walked through it.
This is definitely an eye.
What are these? Letters? Words? -Where were you? -I was here, I was Where were you? It's being run against everything we can think of.
Gang tags, foreign languages.
That part, that's definitely an eye.
-He's watching them, he's been watching them, he's watching us.
-Or someone is watching him.
-Why did he dress them? -Maybe he's covering them up.
No, he dressed them as men, specifically as men.
In the same way he sat the Iqbals around the table.
-What about the sand? Where's it from? -It's still being analysed.
-Well, sit on them! Push them, get an answer.
Not you, you do it.
You go back and see the parents.
-Is there anything that connects these girls with the Iqbals? -OK.
-Terry.
-Yeah? -Which way was Lucy Waites' bedroom facing? -East, I think.
Why? Hi.
Mark, from the CPS.
-Are you waiting for someone? -Always.
I'm just over there.
Come and join us until he turns up.
-I'm fine here.
-Are you sure? -Yeah.
-OK.
I've seen this somewhere before.
-Y, H, W, H.
-Yahweh.
What is that? -It's ancient Hebrew for God.
-Go on.
The sunlight was on the sand.
-The eye was facing to the east.
-Why east? Muslims look to Mecca, jews to jerusalem.
The early Christians looked to the east as well.
-When they're praying? -When they're talking to God.
It's not a message for us.
He's talking to God.
We're all part of the same family.
Tracing our roots back to Abraham.
-Are you finished? - Are you running out of rooms? -It's getting that way.
-I'll be out of your way in a minute.
No rush.
This New Advent Church.
-How close did you get to it? -Close enough to know what they're all about.
A fundamentalist belief in the word of God.
-A strict interpretation of the Bible.
Right down to the full stops.
-Did you talk to anyone else? I can't tell you that.
All conversations are privileged.
I can't discuss it.
Look, I'm hanging here.
I need a way in.
Who's this? Not everybody stays.
Some people have got out.
It's as much as as I can do.
How do I find her? You'll find her.
What was the emergency? What emergency? -The reason he didn't turn up.
-Oh, no reason.
-Actually there is no he.
I made it up.
-Are you OK? -I'm fine.
I'm good.
Yeah, I'm really good.
-I'll get you a taxi, eh? Sorry, sorry.
-Where do you live? -I live ten minutes away, with vodka in the freezer.
I have got to get up early tomorrow.
-I've got an alarm clock.
-You'd hate me in the morning.
It doesn't take that long.
These talks with Leah Wallace, were they formal or informal? Are these questions really necessary? You're a witness, Mr Hughes, you'll have to get used to answering questions.
-What form did this counselling take? -She needed to talk, so I listened.
You have a lot of books .
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but not the most important one.
It's a law office.
-Do you ever read the Bible? -No.
-You should.
The first murder case I ever tried was a woman killed in a hotel room.
One of the exhibits was the Bible.
Pages torn out, what was left covered in blood.
It put me off religion.
-You don't have to be religious to pray for a miracle.
-I don't need a miracle.
Except maybe water into wine occasionally.
What about the man who picked up his bed and walked? I heard about your husband.
I'm sorry.
Sometimes a little faith can make life a lot easier.
Isobel called every couple of days, she liked to talk.
Lucy would be silent for weeks.
I'm the same with my mother.
She always said it was better her father didn't know.
They used to argue when she was still living here.
What did they argue about? Her skirt was really a belt, 11 didn't mean three in the morning.
Boyfriends had a home to goto.
-Was there any boyfriend in particular? -No, not that I know of.
Her father said that she went for quantity not quality.
-Never a good jewish boy.
-OK.
-Thank you.
-For what? -For making this a little easier.
-Hi.
-What are you doing here? GBH, third floor.
I don't normally go out drinking on my own.
I mean I don't stay in and drink on my own either.
-Usually.
-I believe you.
-I'm trying to thank you for turning me down.
-I didn't turn you down.
-I just didn't take advantage.
-It's the same thing.
It's really not.
I'd never have turned you down.
Her name's Alice Seaford.
She used to be a member of the New Advent Church.
Six months ago, Hughes locked her in a cellar.
Charges were filed as wrongful imprisonment.
-What happened? -Nothing.
Next day she withdrew the complaint.
This points to Hughes.
And you were right.
Paleo-Hebrew, 3,000 years old, definitely says God.
-I haven't done anything wrong.
-Nobody's saying that.
-I'm saying it, I'm saying I don't have to talk about what happened.
-But we know what happened.
The basics.
Daniel Hughes locked you in a cellar for three days.
No food, no light.
No idea when he'd let you out.
-If he'd let you out.
-I always knew he'd come.
-He came for you, other people might not have been so lucky.
-What other people? Alice, we need to know why.
Why did he do it? What had you done wrong? He sucks you in, gradually over time.
He tells you what you want to hear.
Especially someone like me.
I wanted to belong.
And to belong you have to believe.
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
It was, um.
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someone at work.
-You got pregnant.
-I sinned.
-He said I needed to repent.
-Thank you.
- Listen.
I don't understand why you dropped the complaint.
You left, you walked away.
You're not part of the church any more.
Hughes can't get you now.
-I'm not worried about Hughes.
-What are you worried about? -It'll sound silly.
-Not to me.
What if it's true, what if he's right? What if we're all being judged? Excuse me.
What's happened to her face? It's acid.
Acid was poured into her eyes.
She looks like she's been crying.
Her name's Catherine Tyce, she was at a hospice over the road.
-Did she work there? -No.
She was visiting.
Her daughter's dying of cancer.
Hello? -What's that around her neck? -A cross.
You were right, they've narrowed down the sand.
- The closet match is a place called the Valley of jezriel? -Where Is that? - Israel.
Yeah.
Thanks.
The Iqbals were Muslim.
What about the Waites? -I don't know -0h, yeah, I do, they're jewish.
Muslim, jew and Christian .
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the three Abrahamic religions.
-Boss? -It's what Daniel Hughes said.
The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
He doesn't want us to be afraid.
He wants us to be aware that no creature is hidden from his sight.
There's no place to hide, no road to run down unless it is the one that ends in glory.
Have you come to join us, gentlemen? Turn around, hands behind your back.
-What are you doing? -Get hold of him.
Daniel Hughes, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
You don't have to say anything but I must caution you that if you do not mention when questioned, something which you later rely on in court, it may harm your defence.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
-Out.
-It's OK, it's just a mistake.
Out! They came to Gethsemane with clubs and swords Our Lord merely scolded them with words.
This is a house of God! If you believe the world was made in seven days, six months must seem like a lifetime.
But make an effort.
-I don't remember her.
-You remember Alice.
-Everybody knows Alice.
Alice Seaford.
- I don't.
-I don't remember her.
- You locked her up, Daniel, locked her in.
- I didn't touch her.
- You locked her in a cellar for three days.
She wanted forgiveness.
She wanted to eat, she wanted to drink.
She wanted to see the sky.
She sinned and you punished her.
It wasn't punishment, it was atonement.
She sinned and she had to repent? -Yes.
-She broke a law and she had to atone for it? -That is right.
-The Iqbals didn't repent, the Iqbals didn't atone.
The Iqbal's were punished.
What law did they break? Look at the pictures.
What law did they break? I barely knew them.
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0nly the father and the son, but -I hardly even knew them.
-Isobel Waite.
That was wrong though, wasn't it? You wanted Lucy.
Lucy Waite.
There she is.
What has she done wrong, Daniel? Look at the pictures, Daniel.
I don't know, I've never seen her.
You remember Catherine Tyce, acid poured in her eyes, tears streaming down her face.
That was a few hours ago.
Why would I know? I don't know I don't even know 'God' written in ancient Hebrew.
What does the eye mean, Daniel? And the sand? Tell me about the sand.
-From Israel, the Valley of jezriel.
-The Holy Land, Daniel.
The place where everything you believe in started.
His face is white, the father's face.
They argued.
The son shall turn his father's face white.
The seven represent my eyes, the eyes ofthe Lord that see everything on Earth.
Tell me about the girl.
He's enjoying this.
-I need you to tell me about the girl.
-He's getting off on it, you sick bastard! - just tell me.
-Her name was Lucy.
-What was she like? I'll tell you what she was like.
She was young, she was pretty .
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she was very promiscuous.
- She's wearing a suit.
He dressed her.
The men shall dress as women and the women shall dress as men.
What is that? This one.
Was she unhappy? Her daughter's dying.
- A generation whose eyes shall fail through sorrow and grief.
- What does that mean? -It's right here in front of you.
The breakdown of family relations, hedonism and society in despair.
- What signs? There are seven common signs of the end, these are the first three.
-The end of what? -You, me, all of this.
Everything we know.
It's right here on your map.
Megiddo is another name for Armageddon.
Our killer thinks it's the end of the world.
Detective Chief Inspector Joseph Walker,please.
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