Blue Murder (2003) s05e02 Episode Script
Inside
Settled into the villa? Or bungalow, as we'd call it, if it wasn't in Spain.
- That's not breakfast.
- It was breakfast.
Your dad wants to wish you luck for the match.
I don't think the kids have got used to this Alicante thing yet.
They'll call you later.
Yeah.
Adios to you, too.
Bye! Bye, Mummy.
- Get lucky last night, did we? - Nah, session with the boys.
- I thought you were broke? - I got birthday money off Dad.
- To buy a suit for job interviews.
- All none of them.
If you want to put that geography degree to good use, find the hoover.
Any developments from the prison after I left? No, Shap was no further on when we spoke.
- Still wanna see Aspen's wife? - I got that off her website.
"Innocent family man serving life.
" 15 years she's been campaigning for his release.
Just got the right to appeal.
What have we got? One dead child killer.
Boo-hoo.
Right.
Lunch? The body were found at 6:30 last night by a prison officer.
Association period began at six.
I've got people interviewing duty officers, trying to establish who was where, when.
We need to concentrate on prisoners, try and find some witnesses.
Witnesses? In here? So there's eight people in the room playing pool and cards.
In the whole hour, no-one leaves and no-one hears anything.
You were in your cell the whole time? Did you go near the washrooms or not? So you were in the gym doing weights? (Coughs) You didn't leave at any time? Not even to take a piss? I was in the rec room playing pool.
Carl won three games.
How long was Bernard your cellmate, Neville? About two years.
So you'd have a good idea who he got on with and who he didn't? Long time cooped up with the same fella.
I hope you got on.
Bernie was OK.
For someone with his history.
What are you in for? I got caught up in a robbery.
Why did you request a transfer to the Vulnerable Unit, Nev? Word went round that I'd named names.
So you're normal.
Fairly.
And you end up on the VPU with someone like that.
I was in my cell reading the paper.
You can ask Keeler.
He'll tell you.
- Who's Keeler? - Prison officer Keeler.
Sat at the top of the stairs, scratching his arse the whole period as per.
He'll tell you I was nowhere near.
Yeah, he was in his cell.
Keep it down! So if he'd gone in the washroom, you'd have seen him, wouldn't you? Yeah, definitely.
MAN: I've finished that book! Lend us another one.
Mrs Aspen He was coming home! He didn't do it.
Once we'd got him up in court again, everybody would have known it.
Did Bernard mention anyone in Hawkley that he'd had trouble with? Well, he'd got in a fight last month.
His face was slashed.
He played it down.
He wouldn't say who.
Did he talk about intimidation or bullying? Bernie would not be intimidated by anybody.
He wouldn't even go on the Vulnerable Unit at first.
Too proud.
- There's nothing you can think of? - Mum! Mum, it's me! Mum? I don't think she knows yet.
I didn't know where she was.
Mum, I need to borrow some money.
I know what you're gonna say! - Where've you been? - It's not what you think.
I really need it Who's this? I'm so sorry.
What? You think he was innocent? I don't think he'd be convicted again today, put it that way, not with what's come out since.
Let me go! The crime scene bods aren't expecting much.
- So I hear, boss.
- Chances of a result? Just between us? Aspen's conviction is already perceived as a miscarriage of justice.
It'll be like we failed him twice.
You know how it'll be painted.
Home Office been on the phone yet? I bet everyone in that prison knows who did it.
Right, Bernard Aspen.
Thoughts, ideas? Suspect? Any prisoner on that wing.
Motive? Oh, they don't need one.
Thoughts from people who aren't Shap.
Right.
Well, we can place some of the prisoners.
12 in the gym here and 13 in the communal areas here.
But I've got serious problems about the eight who were meant to be in the rec room playing pool.
But I've got serious problems about the eight who were meant to be in the rec room playing pool.
Thank you, Kat.
The washrooms are here, off the rec room.
We have eight men with the same story.
They could be covering for each other.
Brilliant.
So what we've got are eight fellows who might not have been where they say they were.
That's a good place to start.
Let's pull in the records for all these eight.
Possible motive? Relationship with victims? - Did they work together? Classes? - Aspen worked in the kitchens.
Good.
Kat, you look into the background, the Marianne case, any connection.
Good.
Kat, you look into the background, the Marianne case, any connection.
Is it possible this is related to his appeal? - How do you mean, boss? - Well, I mean the timing is pretty suspicious.
Just after he's been on the news.
Right, that's it.
Go on.
Rearrange these words: Goose chase wild.
He's sleep-deprived, boss.
The worst is, he's probably right.
There's only one way we're gonna get a result here, boss.
You already know that, don't you? - Sorry, did you want that? - No, I'm all right, thanks.
I've just been offered a course.
Bomb scene management.
- Short-notice cancellation.
- How short notice? Tomorrow.
London.
What? There's no way.
You know they're crying out for trained officers.
Hogg said go.
- Oh, did she? - What, you can't cope without me? Oh, yeah! I just like having you round to blame when things go wrong.
- Hi, boss.
- Home Office gave us the nod.
OK.
Are you sure you want to do this? I volunteered, didn't I? It's been a long time since you've done undercover work.
Here.
The Chief Constable agrees it needs to be an experienced murder squad officer.
I've done all the background checks I can.
But I can't guarantee you won't be recognised.
- I know that.
- The prison governor's been told.
He insisted the chief officer on the wing is also aware of the situation.
- What? - He is your escape route, Richard.
Officer Whelan.
Now, if anything at all goes wrong, you get to him.
Whelan.
OK.
Apart from that, nobody is going to know where you are.
Don't be nervous! There's a spare bed in my place, mate! Oh, leave it! Y'all right? Here you are, Nev.
Keep this one away from the sink, eh? - Dave Connor.
- Got any food? Any chocolate or biscuits? No.
No, come on! In the corner, yeah? Argh! You owe me, right? Two hundred plus interest, man.
- I don't know you.
- Debt stays with the cell.
He owed me.
Now you owe me.
Or you want what happened to him? (Ripple of laughter) - Oi, pal! (Laughter) Hey.
I just met the welcoming committee.
Been told his name's Vic Denton.
If you want me to act like your new best mate, then just carry on ignoring me.
Vic, yeah, that's right.
He's making out he did for the guy who was in the cell before me.
- I wouldn't know.
- What's this debt? You want to end up like Bernie, just keep asking questions.
You're screwed anyway, if you can't stand up to a no-mark like Vic.
A week-long course.
Skiving bastard.
I bet he's copped off by now and all.
Hey, seen this? Come here.
That's Marianne Cale and Alison Aspen together.
I'm sure I've seen him before.
What you looking at? Laura Cale's website.
Marianne's sister.
The family thinks he did it.
There's pages on why he shouldn't be released.
Looks like they got their wish.
Aspen said he was walking the dog along Bletch Hill when Marianne was killed on an industrial estate 20 miles away.
Yeah, but there were traces of her blood in his van, which probably suggests that he moved the body to the woods where they found it.
But Defence argued that she was a friend of his daughter's and she'd have been in the van.
- With a gaping great head wound.
- And they missed all this? - How's it going? Boss, this bloke, Vic Denton.
I don't get it why he was even on the VPU.
Presumably his choice? It's not something you request lightly.
Once you're in, you're a nonce for good.
Yeah, and he was in for drug offences, and only for six months.
I just don't get it.
Unless he had some other reason to go in the unit.
Find out why he wanted protection.
(Mobile rings) Michael.
You've done what? How's the car? Oh, bloody hell, Michael! Connor.
- Yeah? - I'm Whelan.
I'll give you the same advice as I give everyone.
Keep your head down, don't make waves.
Cos I don't want you in here.
Understand me? So you got any experience? Yeah, a bit, yeah.
Oh.
Well, there you go.
Get some more.
Richard bloody Hammond himself.
We were only going into town.
- We? - Me and Gary.
This car pulled out of nowhere, can't ave looked.
We couldn't brake in time, no way.
God, Michael.
- Sorry, Mum.
- Have you seen the doctor? I'm OK.
Gary's being checked for concussion.
You'll both have head injuries by the time I'm done with you.
The other driver got hurt pretty badly.
WPC: We're here about the RTA.
All right, yeah, OK.
- You want gravy with that? - You got carrots? Whoo! - Argh! - You stay away from me.
Or I do to you what you did to that nonce.
I didn't do nothing, man! My arm! It weren't me did Aspen! I didn't touch him, man! Just bigging myself up, all right? Do you think I could have a couple of minutes with Alison, Mrs Aspen? Cheers.
How are you holding up? Is it all right if I can ask you a few questions about your dad? I know you, don't I? You used to hang out with Nicky Mac, mate of my brother's.
You're Dean's sister? Yeah.
Look, we're gonna find out who's responsible for this, you know that.
- Your recent visits to the prison - I didn't go.
- Didn't go recently? - Ever.
OK.
Did you talk to your dad on the phone or He wrote.
I didn't write back.
- Sorry, but I thought - I never forgave him for going away.
Never.
Sorry, Alison.
But do you still have these letters? All right, Dave, lad.
I've been thinking, we should stick together.
Cos I know the ropes and that, don't I? I knew Vic was a blagger.
What's with the dipping, Nev? - Only thing I've learnt in here.
- For a Mars bar? I've got food addiction.
- Oh, don't.
Nobody takes me seriously.
Tell 'em you're a smackhead and they fall over themselves.
Diagnosed medical condition, you get nowt.
- You're not just a greedy bastard? - Get lost.
This debt, is that blag as well? Definitely.
Vic's a nobody trying to be a somebody.
Act like you're something you're not, you won't last five minutes.
How do you know it wasn't him? Somebody had it in for Bernie, but it wasn't Vic.
Who? Look, he didn't talk about himself.
Didn't talk about anything much.
I didn't ask.
You ballsy get.
Right in front of a screw.
I'm Donnie.
Dave.
And what got you promoted up here, Dave? You don't wanna know.
You should be careful, Davey.
There's snakes in the grass round here.
You need to find people you can trust.
Right, Nev? You see, there is nothing in Aspen's letters to his daughter to say he got grief off anybody.
- Which I find very hard to believe.
What about the other suspects? Donnie Shoreham - vicious scumbag.
20 years for sex attacks.
Used to work the door at Fallons.
It's a night club.
Drugged the girls who went there, all underage.
- Fallons, that was out Bury way? - Sarge He lived and worked in the area near the Cales' house.
He was interviewed in the initial investigation.
He'd have remembered the crime, and he might have held a grudge against Aspen.
- Maybe he's our real killer.
- Could be.
Look.
Marianne and Alison.
I think that's in Fallons.
Listen, Vic Denton.
He's a non-starter.
I don't think he's anything to do with it.
He just wants people to think he is.
Look, there may be a connection between Donnie Shoreham and the Marianne Cale murder.
Focus your attention on Shoreham.
What kind of Richard? What kind of boots? - Are you all right? - You're wearing them when you come? That's what I want, yeah.
The little black dress and the boots.
And nothing underneath.
See you later, sweet cheeks.
That's right.
I'll let you know as soon as they decide.
- Are you being charged? - Not yet.
- What did you say? - The truth.
You were doing just over 40? - I've just been through this - Not over 70 as the witnesses said? There aren't many perks to being a copper, but you can call in favours.
I want the truth.
Every last detail.
We were driving down Grays Road.
This car pulled out.
- Who did you say was driving? - I was driving.
I must have lost concentration.
- Maybe I was doing - Who did you say was driving? - I was driving.
- I've read the officer's report.
He found some fags in the inside of the door.
He was looking for drugs.
- As if we'd have anything - - Michael.
The driver's side.
Gary smokes, you don't.
He must have put them - You weren't driving, were you? - Yes.
- Michael - Come on, lads, through here.
Michael, the other driver might die.
Do you know what you can get for death by dangerous driving? 14 years.
NEVILLE: I'd do anything for the missus and the kids.
That's why I'm here.
She was expecting again.
Why? What did you do? Our kid got us a job in a warehouse.
Security.
Forgot to tell me I was the inside man for the robbery he was planning.
Ended up here.
Word got out that I'd grassed on my own brother.
It was total bollocks.
But I panicked, requested protection.
- No going back now.
- Is that why Donnie said that? - What? - Snakes.
He was looking straight at you.
If I'm sharing a cell with a grass, I wanna know about it.
He wasn't talking about me, all right? Who, then? The bloke that died? Bernie, yeah.
There were threats, warnings.
Went on for weeks.
Why? What for? Donnie beat the crap out of this cockney lad.
Someone grassed.
Off he went to seg.
Got an extra 12 months on his sentence.
What, Donnie thinks Bernie grassed on him? I know him from somewhere.
Hey.
I'll see you later.
Where do I know him from? Someone'll know where.
- We can't rule out Vic Denton.
- We should look at Donnie Shoreham.
If he did kill Marianne, he'd want Aspen out of the way before his case came to court.
OK, talk to Alison Aspen.
See if she and Marianne knew Shoreham.
Talk to Marianne's family, see what they remember.
He's got seven prisoners giving him an alibi.
Right, so we go back to Hawkley.
We reinterview them, and we poke it till the alibis fall apart.
The governor's asked you don't go on the wing itself unless absolutely necessary.
Wouldn't be too happy if they knew there were coppers in there.
Any news on Michael? Oh, yeah.
The other driver's still on the critical list.
Even if he pulls through, we're looking at a custodial sentence.
- You don't have to be here, Janine.
- It's the stupidity I can't stand.
I know he wasn't driving, but he's saying that he was.
Thinks he's a hero.
I can't bear to think of him being inside.
So you killed your last dishwasher? Bernie was a good bloke.
- Yeah? I heard he was a grass.
- Where did you hear that? They say he told them about Donnie doing a bloke over.
Do they? Well, they were wrong.
Bernie was in hospital when all that kicked off.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Someone slashed him.
Toothbrush with two razor blades in.
Why's Donnie saying it was Bernie if he knew it wasn't? I dunno.
Maybe he had some other reason not to like him.
I tell you what, you keep asking the same things, and I'll keep saying the same things.
So let's talk about who played and when.
- Your first game against Vic Denton.
- Uh-uh! No? Shane Danks.
Vic played Shane in the second.
Then Karl got on the table and none of us got a look-in.
Scott, Kurt and Jed, they got bored, started on the cards.
All the lads'll tell you the same thing.
Charlotte, press the blue one.
When were you planning on telling me about Gary's driving ban? Yes, I have been checking up on you, before you ask.
One phone call.
- Mum, listen - He's got a ban for drink-driving.
He'd go down for this.
You're taking the blame because you think you've got a chance of getting off.
- Are you going to jail? - Can I have your iPod? Can you get upstairs now, please? Mocks.
Three days.
Upstairs now! Come on, everyone.
Upstairs.
Come on.
Michael, you can't give him a "Get out of jail" card.
You'd go to prison for a long time.
It would be the end of your life.
- What life's that? - Oh, don't talk stupid! Three years at uni to move back home with debts I'll never pay off.
Oh, God, you're so hard done by! All you need is a job and a girlfriend.
- Relationship advice from YOU? - Meaning? Maybe it'd be good if you lived in the same country.
- Michael! - All through uni and school, he was like, "Workd hard.
Think about your future.
" He doesn't care about our future.
If he did, he wouldn't be living in Spain, would he? I really need to speak to Alison.
She didn't come home last night.
No surprise there.
She's a closed book to me.
She won't open up at all.
About what? She took an overdose 18 months ago.
Because her dad refused to put in for parole again.
Refused? You have to show remorse to stand a chance of getting parole.
You have to admit to the crime.
OK.
Right.
I just don't think she can live with what they say her dad did.
I think she believes it.
That Bernie did it.
Richard, it's me.
I just thought you might want to be kept in the loop, so Give me a call when you can.
And um Something's happened with our Michael.
If you were here, I think I might be asking you to try and talk some sense into him.
Yeah, I'm that desperate.
OK.
Hope it's going well.
Bye.
Hey.
Hi, Dean.
It's me again.
Are you sure about Nicky Mac's address? Yeah? And he's still seeing that Alison? All right, cheers, bruv.
In a bit.
My mum's out.
She might not be back for ages.
You run the website, In Memory of Marianne? Some of the photos you put up, they were taken at Fallons.
Is there any others that aren't on the site? Why? It's to do with the Aspen investigation.
It could shed some light on what happened to Marianne.
- Can you not touch? - Did you scan the photos into here? - Can we have a look? - I'll just see if I can find them Just go back to that big one again, will you? - Is that Coniston? - Windermere.
It's beautiful, innit? I love the Lake District, me.
Yeah, me, too.
Oooh And is that Vic Denton? Say that again.
Marianne Cale's sister is Vic Denton's girlfriend.
She's put him up to it.
Shit! They said you found me.
Why'd you do it, eh? Look Do you remember a bouncer in Fallons called Donnie Shoreham? Trust me, it can't make things any worse than this, can it? Creepy.
He worked the door.
We all knew him.
Look, I might need you to come in and do a formal ID at some stage.
II don't think so.
It could help solve your dad's murder and Marianne's.
- My dad killed Marianne.
- Look, Alison Just cos my mum won't believe it doesn't mean it's not true.
I know it's been hard living with it.
Everyone saying that your dad did that to your friend She wasn't my friend! I thought if I showed I could take it, she'd let me be her mate.
I thought she'd stop.
Stop what? Making fun of me.
Beating me up.
Humiliating me.
Not just a bit.
All the time, every day.
I stored up all these pills under my bed.
But my dad found them.
Did you tell him why? Your dad knew that you were suicidal cos of Marianne? He did it for me, didn't he? She thought he was guilty? OK, we'll review it in the morning, Kat.
Thanks.
- Stop playing with your food.
- I'm allergic to salad.
- Don't be so silly.
- I wanted chicken nuggets.
- You always want them.
- You're one to speak.
Stop it, Tom, please, and just eat.
I want to talk to an officer on the bomb scene management course.
Richard Mayne.
Yeah, if you would.
- Eat it, Tom.
- I've done it! It's all gone.
No, I'm sure he's there.
Vic? No Get away from me! I saw who it was.
- You need to see a doctor.
- No! Don't tell anyone.
Please.
Has he done this to you before? I shouldn't even be here.
I only came on the VPU for her.
She asked me to do Bernie Aspen in.
Tell me you weren't stupid enough to kill him just because some bird told you to.
You killed him? Vic? Come on, you can tell me.
Did you do it? Did you kill Bernie Aspen? Just tell me, did you? I was here! He told me to lie.
Who did? Donnie.
Why? Cos he was here with me.
Donnie was here with you when Bernie was killed? You think I'd lie about this? Are you sure about this? Kenny P? He arrested Kenny P? Yeah, cheers.
You are not gonna believe this.
Richard's not on a course.
Where is he? - He volunteered.
- He would, wouldn't he? - The Home Office agreed - Sod them! I want him out! It's not your call, Janine.
He still owes him from that one last week.
"Chippy of the year"! Can you imagine? (Sighs) Oh, the chippy Did Bernie find out about the grassing? - Is that why you killed him? - Eh? The threats.
That was for you, wasn't it, not Bernie? You were the grass to the screws.
You bribed Keeler to give you the alibi.
You're off your head.
See you, Nev.
Davey! Now, it is Davey, isn't it? Or is it Rich? What are you going on about? Who's this Rich I've been hearing about? There's nowhere to run.
- Whelan knows.
- Where'd he go? There! There! I did it for my kids.
I just want to see my kids.
I can't do life.
I'm sorry.
- What's going on? - Not here.
Where are you, copper? Cells - now! - He's police.
- Get in your cells.
You bring police in and expect us to do nothing? What are you talking about? - Back off! - You knew, man! - You knew.
- Back off! Get off him! - Whelan! He's in here, in the bogs! - You all right? - Are you all right? - (Coughing) I'm fine! I've already lost one dishwasher this week.
You don't have to make your statement now.
I just wanna get it done.
- Here he is! Wicked.
Nice one, boss! I wish I could have gone in there instead of you.
- Knew you weren't on a course.
- Nice to see you.
Where's Janine? - You murdered Bernard Aspen.
- No.
Nev, you confessed to an undercover officer.
Tried to kill him.
You murdered Bernard Aspen.
- It was self-defence.
- Why were you defending yourself? I was trying to get money out of Bernie.
- For the kids, not myself.
- Get money? How? I knew his secret.
Secret? Neville .
.
do this for your kids.
Tell me the truth.
They said I was a grass, but I never told no-one.
Then there was going to be money - compensation - if his conviction got overturned.
So I waited till he was on his own .
.
in the washroom, shaving.
And I told him if he wanted me to keep his secret, he'd have to pay.
He just went crazy.
- He flew at me.
- Neville, what secret? About 18 months ago, his daughter tried to top herself.
The message came to us all garbled.
He thought she'd died.
He was a mess.
I've never seen him like that before.
He said it had all been for nothing, what he'd done.
What had he done? Bernie took the rap, protecting his daughter.
Alison Aspen killed Marianne.
ALISON: Followed me home from school.
She kept saying stuff .
.
all the way.
I went to the industrial estate to try and lose her, butI couldn't.
She kept saying it.
What? She said she was going to pretend that .
.
my dad had done things to her.
She said she was going to have him put away.
What is this? I just wanted her to stop.
I didn't mean to I panicked, I told my dad.
Alison And he Oh, he tried to make it go away.
He put her in the van and took her to the woods and tried to hide her.
Ali! Oh, God.
Ali! TV: Good luck to the Silkmen tomorrow You know where I've been? Mum said.
I thought she were joking.
You think it's a joke, being in that place? They found out I was a copper and I came that close to paying the price.
The same will happen to you when they find out who your mum is.
Mm.
You weren't driving that car, were you? No.
Well, the other driver's through the worst.
So you've no excuse.
Pull yourself together, Michael.
Yeah.
A mate of mine from uni e-mailed.
There might be a room going in his place.
Well, go on, then.
Go and snap it up before somebody else does.
Four days inside, you think you're Morgan Freeman.
Thanks, Richard.
What's it really like in there? It's a piece of cake.
Boots.
What? And not much else, I gather.
That was part of my cover.
It's fine to fancy your superior officer.
- I don't fancy my superior officer.
- Oh, thanks very much.
- When I say - That's absolutely charming.
No, but I'm sorry to say that your wife Ruth is dead.
They say they found a body! - She was such a lovely lady.
- I know.
Gavin was the one with everything to lose.
Ruth was leaving him.
You lied to us.
The fire, you weren't there.
Fire! Peggy's caravan's on fire! You're gonna be all right, Peggy.
- That's not breakfast.
- It was breakfast.
Your dad wants to wish you luck for the match.
I don't think the kids have got used to this Alicante thing yet.
They'll call you later.
Yeah.
Adios to you, too.
Bye! Bye, Mummy.
- Get lucky last night, did we? - Nah, session with the boys.
- I thought you were broke? - I got birthday money off Dad.
- To buy a suit for job interviews.
- All none of them.
If you want to put that geography degree to good use, find the hoover.
Any developments from the prison after I left? No, Shap was no further on when we spoke.
- Still wanna see Aspen's wife? - I got that off her website.
"Innocent family man serving life.
" 15 years she's been campaigning for his release.
Just got the right to appeal.
What have we got? One dead child killer.
Boo-hoo.
Right.
Lunch? The body were found at 6:30 last night by a prison officer.
Association period began at six.
I've got people interviewing duty officers, trying to establish who was where, when.
We need to concentrate on prisoners, try and find some witnesses.
Witnesses? In here? So there's eight people in the room playing pool and cards.
In the whole hour, no-one leaves and no-one hears anything.
You were in your cell the whole time? Did you go near the washrooms or not? So you were in the gym doing weights? (Coughs) You didn't leave at any time? Not even to take a piss? I was in the rec room playing pool.
Carl won three games.
How long was Bernard your cellmate, Neville? About two years.
So you'd have a good idea who he got on with and who he didn't? Long time cooped up with the same fella.
I hope you got on.
Bernie was OK.
For someone with his history.
What are you in for? I got caught up in a robbery.
Why did you request a transfer to the Vulnerable Unit, Nev? Word went round that I'd named names.
So you're normal.
Fairly.
And you end up on the VPU with someone like that.
I was in my cell reading the paper.
You can ask Keeler.
He'll tell you.
- Who's Keeler? - Prison officer Keeler.
Sat at the top of the stairs, scratching his arse the whole period as per.
He'll tell you I was nowhere near.
Yeah, he was in his cell.
Keep it down! So if he'd gone in the washroom, you'd have seen him, wouldn't you? Yeah, definitely.
MAN: I've finished that book! Lend us another one.
Mrs Aspen He was coming home! He didn't do it.
Once we'd got him up in court again, everybody would have known it.
Did Bernard mention anyone in Hawkley that he'd had trouble with? Well, he'd got in a fight last month.
His face was slashed.
He played it down.
He wouldn't say who.
Did he talk about intimidation or bullying? Bernie would not be intimidated by anybody.
He wouldn't even go on the Vulnerable Unit at first.
Too proud.
- There's nothing you can think of? - Mum! Mum, it's me! Mum? I don't think she knows yet.
I didn't know where she was.
Mum, I need to borrow some money.
I know what you're gonna say! - Where've you been? - It's not what you think.
I really need it Who's this? I'm so sorry.
What? You think he was innocent? I don't think he'd be convicted again today, put it that way, not with what's come out since.
Let me go! The crime scene bods aren't expecting much.
- So I hear, boss.
- Chances of a result? Just between us? Aspen's conviction is already perceived as a miscarriage of justice.
It'll be like we failed him twice.
You know how it'll be painted.
Home Office been on the phone yet? I bet everyone in that prison knows who did it.
Right, Bernard Aspen.
Thoughts, ideas? Suspect? Any prisoner on that wing.
Motive? Oh, they don't need one.
Thoughts from people who aren't Shap.
Right.
Well, we can place some of the prisoners.
12 in the gym here and 13 in the communal areas here.
But I've got serious problems about the eight who were meant to be in the rec room playing pool.
But I've got serious problems about the eight who were meant to be in the rec room playing pool.
Thank you, Kat.
The washrooms are here, off the rec room.
We have eight men with the same story.
They could be covering for each other.
Brilliant.
So what we've got are eight fellows who might not have been where they say they were.
That's a good place to start.
Let's pull in the records for all these eight.
Possible motive? Relationship with victims? - Did they work together? Classes? - Aspen worked in the kitchens.
Good.
Kat, you look into the background, the Marianne case, any connection.
Good.
Kat, you look into the background, the Marianne case, any connection.
Is it possible this is related to his appeal? - How do you mean, boss? - Well, I mean the timing is pretty suspicious.
Just after he's been on the news.
Right, that's it.
Go on.
Rearrange these words: Goose chase wild.
He's sleep-deprived, boss.
The worst is, he's probably right.
There's only one way we're gonna get a result here, boss.
You already know that, don't you? - Sorry, did you want that? - No, I'm all right, thanks.
I've just been offered a course.
Bomb scene management.
- Short-notice cancellation.
- How short notice? Tomorrow.
London.
What? There's no way.
You know they're crying out for trained officers.
Hogg said go.
- Oh, did she? - What, you can't cope without me? Oh, yeah! I just like having you round to blame when things go wrong.
- Hi, boss.
- Home Office gave us the nod.
OK.
Are you sure you want to do this? I volunteered, didn't I? It's been a long time since you've done undercover work.
Here.
The Chief Constable agrees it needs to be an experienced murder squad officer.
I've done all the background checks I can.
But I can't guarantee you won't be recognised.
- I know that.
- The prison governor's been told.
He insisted the chief officer on the wing is also aware of the situation.
- What? - He is your escape route, Richard.
Officer Whelan.
Now, if anything at all goes wrong, you get to him.
Whelan.
OK.
Apart from that, nobody is going to know where you are.
Don't be nervous! There's a spare bed in my place, mate! Oh, leave it! Y'all right? Here you are, Nev.
Keep this one away from the sink, eh? - Dave Connor.
- Got any food? Any chocolate or biscuits? No.
No, come on! In the corner, yeah? Argh! You owe me, right? Two hundred plus interest, man.
- I don't know you.
- Debt stays with the cell.
He owed me.
Now you owe me.
Or you want what happened to him? (Ripple of laughter) - Oi, pal! (Laughter) Hey.
I just met the welcoming committee.
Been told his name's Vic Denton.
If you want me to act like your new best mate, then just carry on ignoring me.
Vic, yeah, that's right.
He's making out he did for the guy who was in the cell before me.
- I wouldn't know.
- What's this debt? You want to end up like Bernie, just keep asking questions.
You're screwed anyway, if you can't stand up to a no-mark like Vic.
A week-long course.
Skiving bastard.
I bet he's copped off by now and all.
Hey, seen this? Come here.
That's Marianne Cale and Alison Aspen together.
I'm sure I've seen him before.
What you looking at? Laura Cale's website.
Marianne's sister.
The family thinks he did it.
There's pages on why he shouldn't be released.
Looks like they got their wish.
Aspen said he was walking the dog along Bletch Hill when Marianne was killed on an industrial estate 20 miles away.
Yeah, but there were traces of her blood in his van, which probably suggests that he moved the body to the woods where they found it.
But Defence argued that she was a friend of his daughter's and she'd have been in the van.
- With a gaping great head wound.
- And they missed all this? - How's it going? Boss, this bloke, Vic Denton.
I don't get it why he was even on the VPU.
Presumably his choice? It's not something you request lightly.
Once you're in, you're a nonce for good.
Yeah, and he was in for drug offences, and only for six months.
I just don't get it.
Unless he had some other reason to go in the unit.
Find out why he wanted protection.
(Mobile rings) Michael.
You've done what? How's the car? Oh, bloody hell, Michael! Connor.
- Yeah? - I'm Whelan.
I'll give you the same advice as I give everyone.
Keep your head down, don't make waves.
Cos I don't want you in here.
Understand me? So you got any experience? Yeah, a bit, yeah.
Oh.
Well, there you go.
Get some more.
Richard bloody Hammond himself.
We were only going into town.
- We? - Me and Gary.
This car pulled out of nowhere, can't ave looked.
We couldn't brake in time, no way.
God, Michael.
- Sorry, Mum.
- Have you seen the doctor? I'm OK.
Gary's being checked for concussion.
You'll both have head injuries by the time I'm done with you.
The other driver got hurt pretty badly.
WPC: We're here about the RTA.
All right, yeah, OK.
- You want gravy with that? - You got carrots? Whoo! - Argh! - You stay away from me.
Or I do to you what you did to that nonce.
I didn't do nothing, man! My arm! It weren't me did Aspen! I didn't touch him, man! Just bigging myself up, all right? Do you think I could have a couple of minutes with Alison, Mrs Aspen? Cheers.
How are you holding up? Is it all right if I can ask you a few questions about your dad? I know you, don't I? You used to hang out with Nicky Mac, mate of my brother's.
You're Dean's sister? Yeah.
Look, we're gonna find out who's responsible for this, you know that.
- Your recent visits to the prison - I didn't go.
- Didn't go recently? - Ever.
OK.
Did you talk to your dad on the phone or He wrote.
I didn't write back.
- Sorry, but I thought - I never forgave him for going away.
Never.
Sorry, Alison.
But do you still have these letters? All right, Dave, lad.
I've been thinking, we should stick together.
Cos I know the ropes and that, don't I? I knew Vic was a blagger.
What's with the dipping, Nev? - Only thing I've learnt in here.
- For a Mars bar? I've got food addiction.
- Oh, don't.
Nobody takes me seriously.
Tell 'em you're a smackhead and they fall over themselves.
Diagnosed medical condition, you get nowt.
- You're not just a greedy bastard? - Get lost.
This debt, is that blag as well? Definitely.
Vic's a nobody trying to be a somebody.
Act like you're something you're not, you won't last five minutes.
How do you know it wasn't him? Somebody had it in for Bernie, but it wasn't Vic.
Who? Look, he didn't talk about himself.
Didn't talk about anything much.
I didn't ask.
You ballsy get.
Right in front of a screw.
I'm Donnie.
Dave.
And what got you promoted up here, Dave? You don't wanna know.
You should be careful, Davey.
There's snakes in the grass round here.
You need to find people you can trust.
Right, Nev? You see, there is nothing in Aspen's letters to his daughter to say he got grief off anybody.
- Which I find very hard to believe.
What about the other suspects? Donnie Shoreham - vicious scumbag.
20 years for sex attacks.
Used to work the door at Fallons.
It's a night club.
Drugged the girls who went there, all underage.
- Fallons, that was out Bury way? - Sarge He lived and worked in the area near the Cales' house.
He was interviewed in the initial investigation.
He'd have remembered the crime, and he might have held a grudge against Aspen.
- Maybe he's our real killer.
- Could be.
Look.
Marianne and Alison.
I think that's in Fallons.
Listen, Vic Denton.
He's a non-starter.
I don't think he's anything to do with it.
He just wants people to think he is.
Look, there may be a connection between Donnie Shoreham and the Marianne Cale murder.
Focus your attention on Shoreham.
What kind of Richard? What kind of boots? - Are you all right? - You're wearing them when you come? That's what I want, yeah.
The little black dress and the boots.
And nothing underneath.
See you later, sweet cheeks.
That's right.
I'll let you know as soon as they decide.
- Are you being charged? - Not yet.
- What did you say? - The truth.
You were doing just over 40? - I've just been through this - Not over 70 as the witnesses said? There aren't many perks to being a copper, but you can call in favours.
I want the truth.
Every last detail.
We were driving down Grays Road.
This car pulled out.
- Who did you say was driving? - I was driving.
I must have lost concentration.
- Maybe I was doing - Who did you say was driving? - I was driving.
- I've read the officer's report.
He found some fags in the inside of the door.
He was looking for drugs.
- As if we'd have anything - - Michael.
The driver's side.
Gary smokes, you don't.
He must have put them - You weren't driving, were you? - Yes.
- Michael - Come on, lads, through here.
Michael, the other driver might die.
Do you know what you can get for death by dangerous driving? 14 years.
NEVILLE: I'd do anything for the missus and the kids.
That's why I'm here.
She was expecting again.
Why? What did you do? Our kid got us a job in a warehouse.
Security.
Forgot to tell me I was the inside man for the robbery he was planning.
Ended up here.
Word got out that I'd grassed on my own brother.
It was total bollocks.
But I panicked, requested protection.
- No going back now.
- Is that why Donnie said that? - What? - Snakes.
He was looking straight at you.
If I'm sharing a cell with a grass, I wanna know about it.
He wasn't talking about me, all right? Who, then? The bloke that died? Bernie, yeah.
There were threats, warnings.
Went on for weeks.
Why? What for? Donnie beat the crap out of this cockney lad.
Someone grassed.
Off he went to seg.
Got an extra 12 months on his sentence.
What, Donnie thinks Bernie grassed on him? I know him from somewhere.
Hey.
I'll see you later.
Where do I know him from? Someone'll know where.
- We can't rule out Vic Denton.
- We should look at Donnie Shoreham.
If he did kill Marianne, he'd want Aspen out of the way before his case came to court.
OK, talk to Alison Aspen.
See if she and Marianne knew Shoreham.
Talk to Marianne's family, see what they remember.
He's got seven prisoners giving him an alibi.
Right, so we go back to Hawkley.
We reinterview them, and we poke it till the alibis fall apart.
The governor's asked you don't go on the wing itself unless absolutely necessary.
Wouldn't be too happy if they knew there were coppers in there.
Any news on Michael? Oh, yeah.
The other driver's still on the critical list.
Even if he pulls through, we're looking at a custodial sentence.
- You don't have to be here, Janine.
- It's the stupidity I can't stand.
I know he wasn't driving, but he's saying that he was.
Thinks he's a hero.
I can't bear to think of him being inside.
So you killed your last dishwasher? Bernie was a good bloke.
- Yeah? I heard he was a grass.
- Where did you hear that? They say he told them about Donnie doing a bloke over.
Do they? Well, they were wrong.
Bernie was in hospital when all that kicked off.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Someone slashed him.
Toothbrush with two razor blades in.
Why's Donnie saying it was Bernie if he knew it wasn't? I dunno.
Maybe he had some other reason not to like him.
I tell you what, you keep asking the same things, and I'll keep saying the same things.
So let's talk about who played and when.
- Your first game against Vic Denton.
- Uh-uh! No? Shane Danks.
Vic played Shane in the second.
Then Karl got on the table and none of us got a look-in.
Scott, Kurt and Jed, they got bored, started on the cards.
All the lads'll tell you the same thing.
Charlotte, press the blue one.
When were you planning on telling me about Gary's driving ban? Yes, I have been checking up on you, before you ask.
One phone call.
- Mum, listen - He's got a ban for drink-driving.
He'd go down for this.
You're taking the blame because you think you've got a chance of getting off.
- Are you going to jail? - Can I have your iPod? Can you get upstairs now, please? Mocks.
Three days.
Upstairs now! Come on, everyone.
Upstairs.
Come on.
Michael, you can't give him a "Get out of jail" card.
You'd go to prison for a long time.
It would be the end of your life.
- What life's that? - Oh, don't talk stupid! Three years at uni to move back home with debts I'll never pay off.
Oh, God, you're so hard done by! All you need is a job and a girlfriend.
- Relationship advice from YOU? - Meaning? Maybe it'd be good if you lived in the same country.
- Michael! - All through uni and school, he was like, "Workd hard.
Think about your future.
" He doesn't care about our future.
If he did, he wouldn't be living in Spain, would he? I really need to speak to Alison.
She didn't come home last night.
No surprise there.
She's a closed book to me.
She won't open up at all.
About what? She took an overdose 18 months ago.
Because her dad refused to put in for parole again.
Refused? You have to show remorse to stand a chance of getting parole.
You have to admit to the crime.
OK.
Right.
I just don't think she can live with what they say her dad did.
I think she believes it.
That Bernie did it.
Richard, it's me.
I just thought you might want to be kept in the loop, so Give me a call when you can.
And um Something's happened with our Michael.
If you were here, I think I might be asking you to try and talk some sense into him.
Yeah, I'm that desperate.
OK.
Hope it's going well.
Bye.
Hey.
Hi, Dean.
It's me again.
Are you sure about Nicky Mac's address? Yeah? And he's still seeing that Alison? All right, cheers, bruv.
In a bit.
My mum's out.
She might not be back for ages.
You run the website, In Memory of Marianne? Some of the photos you put up, they were taken at Fallons.
Is there any others that aren't on the site? Why? It's to do with the Aspen investigation.
It could shed some light on what happened to Marianne.
- Can you not touch? - Did you scan the photos into here? - Can we have a look? - I'll just see if I can find them Just go back to that big one again, will you? - Is that Coniston? - Windermere.
It's beautiful, innit? I love the Lake District, me.
Yeah, me, too.
Oooh And is that Vic Denton? Say that again.
Marianne Cale's sister is Vic Denton's girlfriend.
She's put him up to it.
Shit! They said you found me.
Why'd you do it, eh? Look Do you remember a bouncer in Fallons called Donnie Shoreham? Trust me, it can't make things any worse than this, can it? Creepy.
He worked the door.
We all knew him.
Look, I might need you to come in and do a formal ID at some stage.
II don't think so.
It could help solve your dad's murder and Marianne's.
- My dad killed Marianne.
- Look, Alison Just cos my mum won't believe it doesn't mean it's not true.
I know it's been hard living with it.
Everyone saying that your dad did that to your friend She wasn't my friend! I thought if I showed I could take it, she'd let me be her mate.
I thought she'd stop.
Stop what? Making fun of me.
Beating me up.
Humiliating me.
Not just a bit.
All the time, every day.
I stored up all these pills under my bed.
But my dad found them.
Did you tell him why? Your dad knew that you were suicidal cos of Marianne? He did it for me, didn't he? She thought he was guilty? OK, we'll review it in the morning, Kat.
Thanks.
- Stop playing with your food.
- I'm allergic to salad.
- Don't be so silly.
- I wanted chicken nuggets.
- You always want them.
- You're one to speak.
Stop it, Tom, please, and just eat.
I want to talk to an officer on the bomb scene management course.
Richard Mayne.
Yeah, if you would.
- Eat it, Tom.
- I've done it! It's all gone.
No, I'm sure he's there.
Vic? No Get away from me! I saw who it was.
- You need to see a doctor.
- No! Don't tell anyone.
Please.
Has he done this to you before? I shouldn't even be here.
I only came on the VPU for her.
She asked me to do Bernie Aspen in.
Tell me you weren't stupid enough to kill him just because some bird told you to.
You killed him? Vic? Come on, you can tell me.
Did you do it? Did you kill Bernie Aspen? Just tell me, did you? I was here! He told me to lie.
Who did? Donnie.
Why? Cos he was here with me.
Donnie was here with you when Bernie was killed? You think I'd lie about this? Are you sure about this? Kenny P? He arrested Kenny P? Yeah, cheers.
You are not gonna believe this.
Richard's not on a course.
Where is he? - He volunteered.
- He would, wouldn't he? - The Home Office agreed - Sod them! I want him out! It's not your call, Janine.
He still owes him from that one last week.
"Chippy of the year"! Can you imagine? (Sighs) Oh, the chippy Did Bernie find out about the grassing? - Is that why you killed him? - Eh? The threats.
That was for you, wasn't it, not Bernie? You were the grass to the screws.
You bribed Keeler to give you the alibi.
You're off your head.
See you, Nev.
Davey! Now, it is Davey, isn't it? Or is it Rich? What are you going on about? Who's this Rich I've been hearing about? There's nowhere to run.
- Whelan knows.
- Where'd he go? There! There! I did it for my kids.
I just want to see my kids.
I can't do life.
I'm sorry.
- What's going on? - Not here.
Where are you, copper? Cells - now! - He's police.
- Get in your cells.
You bring police in and expect us to do nothing? What are you talking about? - Back off! - You knew, man! - You knew.
- Back off! Get off him! - Whelan! He's in here, in the bogs! - You all right? - Are you all right? - (Coughing) I'm fine! I've already lost one dishwasher this week.
You don't have to make your statement now.
I just wanna get it done.
- Here he is! Wicked.
Nice one, boss! I wish I could have gone in there instead of you.
- Knew you weren't on a course.
- Nice to see you.
Where's Janine? - You murdered Bernard Aspen.
- No.
Nev, you confessed to an undercover officer.
Tried to kill him.
You murdered Bernard Aspen.
- It was self-defence.
- Why were you defending yourself? I was trying to get money out of Bernie.
- For the kids, not myself.
- Get money? How? I knew his secret.
Secret? Neville .
.
do this for your kids.
Tell me the truth.
They said I was a grass, but I never told no-one.
Then there was going to be money - compensation - if his conviction got overturned.
So I waited till he was on his own .
.
in the washroom, shaving.
And I told him if he wanted me to keep his secret, he'd have to pay.
He just went crazy.
- He flew at me.
- Neville, what secret? About 18 months ago, his daughter tried to top herself.
The message came to us all garbled.
He thought she'd died.
He was a mess.
I've never seen him like that before.
He said it had all been for nothing, what he'd done.
What had he done? Bernie took the rap, protecting his daughter.
Alison Aspen killed Marianne.
ALISON: Followed me home from school.
She kept saying stuff .
.
all the way.
I went to the industrial estate to try and lose her, butI couldn't.
She kept saying it.
What? She said she was going to pretend that .
.
my dad had done things to her.
She said she was going to have him put away.
What is this? I just wanted her to stop.
I didn't mean to I panicked, I told my dad.
Alison And he Oh, he tried to make it go away.
He put her in the van and took her to the woods and tried to hide her.
Ali! Oh, God.
Ali! TV: Good luck to the Silkmen tomorrow You know where I've been? Mum said.
I thought she were joking.
You think it's a joke, being in that place? They found out I was a copper and I came that close to paying the price.
The same will happen to you when they find out who your mum is.
Mm.
You weren't driving that car, were you? No.
Well, the other driver's through the worst.
So you've no excuse.
Pull yourself together, Michael.
Yeah.
A mate of mine from uni e-mailed.
There might be a room going in his place.
Well, go on, then.
Go and snap it up before somebody else does.
Four days inside, you think you're Morgan Freeman.
Thanks, Richard.
What's it really like in there? It's a piece of cake.
Boots.
What? And not much else, I gather.
That was part of my cover.
It's fine to fancy your superior officer.
- I don't fancy my superior officer.
- Oh, thanks very much.
- When I say - That's absolutely charming.
No, but I'm sorry to say that your wife Ruth is dead.
They say they found a body! - She was such a lovely lady.
- I know.
Gavin was the one with everything to lose.
Ruth was leaving him.
You lied to us.
The fire, you weren't there.
Fire! Peggy's caravan's on fire! You're gonna be all right, Peggy.