Waking the Dead (2000) s05e11 Episode Script
Cold Fusion: Part 1
The more nuclear power stations we have in this country, the more dangerous our lives are.
We have other ways of making power and energy.
Let's move towards these and way from nuclear power for ever.
Let me finish by quoting last year's Department of Environment White Paper.
It asserts, "One positive trait of radioactivity "that facilitates waste management is that with time comes decay".
This is nonsense.
It is the process of decay that causes the raft of life-threatening dangers that have brought us here tonight.
Bottom line, we're not muppets.
Let's not be treated like muppets.
Thank you, Jackie.
Now we've got time for some questions.
Good, cos I've got a couple.
Toby.
I'm bored with TV dinners, I'm bored with my right hand, but you must be bored of whining losers turning personal failure into righteous fury about causes they care nothing about.
I mean, come on, you must be missing the store cards at least? Ignore him.
Oh, that's right, listen to the Zen master.
Does he get any more excited when he's nailing you? Back at uni she wore a mink stole to our college ball.
I've got a picture of her wearing it and nothing else.
Wanna to see it? Yeah, come on, let's see what the Zen master's made of, shall we? Yeah, you want to fight? What's the point, Toby? Call the police.
He's breaking his restraining order.
You're still my wife, you slut! I don't know what was worse, Toby or the look Penny was giving me.
Yeah, they've got a lot in common, our two exes, haven't they? Listen, you were really good tonight, you know.
No, I wasn't.
No, no, you were.
They were really listening.
It was great.
It was passionate.
You were so informed.
I love you.
HE FLICKS LIGHT SWITCH That's weird, the lights.
FLOORBOARD CREAKS There's somebody in the house.
SHE SCREAMS SHE SCREAMS 'Hello, Police?' 'You need to send someone to Cherry Tree Farm.
' 'Cherry Tree Farm? What's your name, caller?' 'It's near Dunwell, Norfolk.
' 'And your name?' Tom, we're off site.
Yeah, we are off site.
Do you wanna wait in the car? ROPE CREAKS She called, last week, claiming to have information that cast doubts on Toby Holmes' conviction for the Cherry Tree Farm murders.
Victims were Yeah, Penny Coulter's estranged husband, er, Marcus, and his girlfriend, Jackie Holmes, married to I gave you that half an hour ago Toby Holmes.
I'm catching up, I'm catching up, all right? Spencer was one of the first officers on the scene.
Yeah, with his partner, Tom McQueen.
Mmm, when he was a PC in the Atomic Energy Constabulary.
Right.
What happened to Toby Holmes and what's his current status? He got "life means life" in '89.
So he's out now? No, he's on the "never, never" list.
He was moved to Burchill High Security Hospital for biting a guard's cheek off.
Why is he on the "never, never" list? It says in the file.
No, it doesn't.
So, what's her new evidence? She wouldn't say.
Well, you could've insisted, couldn't you? She could have put the phone down and never called back.
These things aren't allowed in there.
One of the key pieces of evidence against Toby Holmes was a blood-stained sweatshirt found in his incinerator.
But Toby insists that it wasn't his and it was put there by whoever did the killing.
Yes? The first part's true.
For all I know the second part may be too.
This is my husband.
With, erm, Jackie Holmes.
That's the sweatshirt.
Ah, so you're telling me that this isn't Toby's sweatshirt, that it, in fact, belongs to your husband? In '88 you were asked if you recognised the sweatshirt.
And I said I'd never seen it before.
My husband didn't invite me on his little weekend break with Jackie.
But how come you just got this photo now, we're talking how many years ago here? 18 years.
And you walk in with this now.
Last week I gave my nephew Marcus's old 35mm camera.
I found the film inside.
So until last week you had no doubt in your mind that Toby had killed your husband and Jackie Holmes? No.
None.
None? Absolutely no doubt at all? We were all there when he called her a slut.
'You're still my wife! Slut!' That's what the killer wrote on the wall.
Anyone can write What do you think now? I don't know.
Will you re-open the case? Why would you want us to do that? I don't understand.
Let me explain.
This doesn't mean Toby Holmes is innocent, but it might be enough to initiate a retrial and get him released, but it doesn't make him innocent.
Now are you sure you want to go through that? Or do you just want to take this photo and walk away? I just want the truth to come out, whatever it is.
Well, do you not hear that a lot in the Cold Case Unit? All the time.
That's why I ask.
I can get background from Spence.
He doesn't to know about this now.
Why not? If it goes anywhere, he can't be involved, and if not, why bother him with something that disturbed him so much? OK.
Check with the chemist where the film was processed.
Morning, Felix.
Morning.
I want you to order up some evidence, Cherry Tree Farm 1988.
OK.
1988.
'88.
'88.
Thank you.
OK.
Sure.
Spence.
Nice of you to join in.
I was in court.
Who was that? Who was? Woman who just walked out.
50-odd.
Oh, she's a witness from that building society robbery I'm working on.
Got sent through automatically, part of a batch on the DNA retest list.
They tried SGM? Yeah, in '96.
SGM plus in 2000.
Couldn't get a profile.
With Low Copy Number you might.
Ah, well done.
Yeah, the 34 cycles yield 16 billion copies of the source DNA.
As opposed to the mere Put it away.
I know.
So what is this possible DNA? It's a partial blood print found on the light fixture where the female victim was strung up.
She was wired up, in fact, wasn't she? What is this? Lipstick This is the wire.
Oh, my God.
I don't like it when a forensic scientist says "Oh, my God".
Oh, my God.
So he lifts her up and binds her hands to the light fixture? Could one person have done that? I don't know.
It says here he used a stepladder.
If she was alive she might've been co-operating.
Co-operating in her own death? Yeah, it's all about hope.
A victim will go along with anything if there's hope around.
Where's the hope in that scenario? He hadn't killed her yet so she didn't know she'd get her face cut off.
The path report gives hope she never did.
It's usually a man in a white coat that does this Her neck was broken before her face was cut.
Two neck breaks seems efficient.
Yeah, this man Holmes was a Marine officer.
They break necks for a living.
Kill people.
Her wedding ring was lodged in her gullet.
So that's where her husband as prime suspect comes from.
Mind if I check the manual log for today, please? Cheers.
MOBILE RINGS Hey, yeah, the judge let me off early for good behaviour.
Yeah, I'm good to go.
How about six? OK.
Laters.
So where's the real thing? Look on the back.
Central Lab.
Central Lab.
Hmm.
Central Lab, yeah.
Central Lab? I used to work there.
Of course you did! Oh, right.
Which gives me access to the most power-hungry thermocycler in the land.
You can see these marks here.
Yeah, just there.
Why couldn't they get the DNA from them? Protein decay, caused by the heat from the light socket.
And you say this couldn't be Jackie Holmes's blood because? It could be, but, it was about 13 centimetres above her bound hands, plus they also found a shred of latex from a surgical glove.
Spencer was involved in the original investigation, but he doesn't need to know any of this, OK? All right.
You don't want him distracted.
From what? He's in court, isn't he? Oh, yeah, he is, and it's his birthday tomorrow.
Oh, is it? Oh.
Hmm.
What are you doing? It's my round.
Is it? Sorry I lost track.
Bollocks you lost track! Oi, oi, oi! Your money's not good here, all right? Come on, Spence, don't insult me.
I am not insulting you.
I'm earning, you're not.
OK? Cheers, mate.
Plus, you always make the effort to come up to London.
Now that is true, but I'm still not having none of this Spence Benevolent Fund shit, all right? All right.
Seriously, Tom, if you ever think about coming back up to London.
Couldn't afford it, mate.
Come on, I'd give you half board, get you some security work, sorted.
Oh, it's a sweet offer, but There's no buts.
OK? Where's the but? Cornwall suits me.
Surfing, straightforward lasses and nothing to remind me of the job.
Happy birthday, mate.
Cheers.
Hey, I get it.
He's a black cop, I'm a black cop! Well, it was that or a steam train.
Blame me.
Come on, no.
I got it, Stella.
It's, it's personal.
It reminded me of you in the shower.
Personal touch.
That's nice.
I like that.
You been celebrating all night? I don't stink, do I? Sorry, have you got a minute? I had a shower.
I don't stink, do I? No.
It's not impossible that you put the lid on back to front, is it? No, it's not impossible, but the evidence has been packed nearly, but not quite the way I left it last night, and also there's this.
Keep your eye on the box.
See the label? Now it's gone.
So we can see it's been moved but we can't see by whom.
Yeah, and the default recording setting is set at ten seconds per minute, but there's a bunch of other ratios, the most infrequent being 30 seconds per half hour.
Our intruder changed the setting and changed it back before they left.
Which says two things - they're very smart.
And he got into the system.
Yeah, no big surprise.
The same access card gets you into both.
Right.
Yeah, now the computer stores every access.
Mmm-hmm.
I checked the log for the footage, there's the free half hour when the box was moved.
Checked the name.
Spence.
Mmm.
Look at the time.
Three in the morning.
But nothing was taken? Maybe he didn't find what he was looking for.
What, the blood trace that was going to Central Lab? It's possible, but I didn't even think Spence knew we were reinvestigating the case.
He didn't, he didn't.
You heard the news about Central Lab? There are things I can't go into but I can confirm that there was a suspected arson attack at 4.
45 this morning and much of the laboratory was destroyed.
Tragically WPC Kelly Chambers, who was on duty at the time, lost her life in the fire, and our thoughts go out to her husband, Mark, and her young son.
Commissioner Sullivan, Charles Winter, Times.
How much evidence has been destroyed? That's definitely something I can't go into.
Next? Leanda Harrison, ITN.
How many court cases will be affected? Honest answer, no idea.
It's much too early to say.
Commissioner, you've got Commander Drake of anti-terrorist Operations here.
Does that mean you suspect terrorists are involved? No, it doesn't.
There's nothing to connect this incident with Al-Qaeda or any terrorist organisation.
However, the sophistication of the attack and certain evidence which we have found at the lab means that we can't rule out this possibility.
Oh, turn it off, please, someone.
I've just spoken to Central Lab.
The blood trace from Cherry Tree Farm was destroyed in the fire.
Had he got a DNA profile? They were due to submit it this morning to the database for a match.
Shit! Shit! This can't be a coincidence.
I know you've known Spence for a long time.
It's not loyalty.
OK, great, then we have to share this with the Central Lab fire investigation.
It's about what we do next.
Just give me a second.
Just So, Spencer.
I need a list of his calls for the past two weeks.
OK, with your approval.
Personal e-mails.
I need access to his computer.
If this doesn't turn anything up, I'll Your superiors at the FSO.
At the FSO, yes.
Yeah.
I don't blame you.
I can't, I don't believe Spence has got anything to do with this.
Maybe his pass was stolen, his access card.
Have you asked him? No.
Well, why not? Because once I show my hand, Grace, I'm committed and then there's no way back.
Show your hand?! This is Spence we're talking about.
Why didn't you just tell him about the investigation from the off? He was busy.
If it came to nothing it would've been a waste of time.
Come on, what are you worrying about? You think he's involved? Are you suspicious of him? He was a kid in '88, all right, and this case damaged him, you know, it scarred him.
He told me many times, that's the word he used, he was scarred by it.
In that state of mind you're crazy, you do crazy things.
You make mistakes, you cover up, you protect people.
OK, yes, OK, I agree, but that was 20 years ago.
What are you saying, that you think Spence is now capable of burning down Central Lab and killing a policewoman? The evidence that was destroyed was from Cherry Tree Farm.
He was involved at Cherry Tree Farm.
I've arranged for you to meet Toby Holmes.
Have you finished with the file? Yes.
At Burchill at Hospital OK.
I want to know what you make of him, whether you think he's the kind of man capable of slicing his wife's face off while having the presence of mind to wear surgical gloves to do it.
Well, from the cases of facial injuries that I have studied, he might be.
How come? Well, it's like love gone sour.
You know how prostitutes traditionally will do anything and everything but kissing? Really? No, I didn't know that.
Oh, didn't you? I thought you might have read about it somewhere.
I might have read abou it.
Well, it's about the face.
Uh-huh.
It's sacred, it's what we are, it's what defines us.
It might not be our most private place, but it's our most personal.
So the motivation to destroy it is typically personal? Yes.
It takes a special will I mean, serial killers will rarely go there.
Are there precedents? Yes, there are.
In the late '70s, the wife of an East End gangster, Mal Isaacs, gave birth to a mixed-race child.
She suffered the same fate as Jackie Holmes with one exception - she was alive when he did it.
Oh, God.
And she didn't die.
The neighbours alerted the police and they got there in time.
We lost an officer at the scene.
OK, Grace.
Yep? Holmes's passport from prison to Burchill was biting a guard's cheek off, by the way.
Oh, great.
What's up? I found a probable virus on my PC and as we're on a network I thought I'd just What kind of a virus? It's similar to the W32 Hybris.
Sounds bad.
Oh, it infects DLL files so all e-mail message are .
.
Replaced with scrap codes.
Yeah.
Did you tell IT about this? Yeah, but they were busy, they couldn't find anyone till later, so I thought I'd step in.
I'll check mine, save you the trouble.
Spence! Spence! Yeah.
Hi.
Hi.
One of the jurors dropped dead.
I want to have a word.
Take a seat.
Sure.
From now on in it's herbal tea and salad for me.
What's this about? I'm reopening Cherry Tree Farm.
You had no idea I was going to say that? No.
There's possible DNA which could confirm Toy Holmes's guilt, or not.
Great.
When's the test? Just run it by me, why you were there when, as an AEC officer your remit was Dunwell nuclear power station? Sure.
Erm AEC had jurisdiction 20 miles around Dunwell and Cherry Tree Farm was well within that.
I still don't see why you were called to a domestic crime.
Because local law enforcement was a 20-year-old PC whose wife was having a baby 50 miles away.
Right, so you being there and the victims being these anti-Dunwell protestors was coincidence? Well, there are conspiracy websites that say different but, yeah.
If this DNA isn't a match with Toby Holmes Sir, forget the DNA, we found his shirt soaked in his wife's blood.
No, you didn't, Spence.
PHONE RINGS DC Goodman.
It's Harry from Central Lab, on one.
What news? Just had the third degree from Anti-Terrorist Operations.
They're convinced it was an inside job.
You're kidding.
There is a silver lining.
My computer's pretty burned up.
But the hard drive looks OK.
OK, great, bring it over.
I've got a salvage package I half know my way around.
I don't think ATO are going to be too happy about that, taking stuff off-site.
Harry, did you start the fire? No.
No.
So don't feel guilty about it.
It's your computer, you don't want it rotting away in some evidence room for six months, at least not until you saved the data.
Hard drives are like kidnap victims, first 24 hours are golden.
Christ, Felix, you could sell ice to the Eskimos! Thank you, Harry.
So you want the Cherry Tree Farm DNA? Just bring it over.
OK, so it wasn't Toby Holmes's sweatshirt.
Doesn't make him innocent.
It makes him look a lot less guilty and the theory it was planted a lot more credible.
Why? He borrowed it because he knew removing his wife's face was going to get messy.
So he goes to that trouble and dumps the shirt in the first place anyone will look.
He tried to burn it! And makes a very bad job of it.
He shoved her wedding ring down her throat, for God's sake.
Sir, you have no idea how much I wish we hadn't got that call, that I didn't have that memory of what I saw in that room.
I believe you, Spence, but it doesn't means that Toby Holmes is guilty.
Why don't you start from the start? I just ran a sweep, nothing.
Good.
Why's it taking you so long? Almost there.
When we ID'd the bodies it threw up the restraining order on Toby Holmes, it turns out he'd broken it very publicly the night before.
At the Dunwell protestors meeting.
Yeah.
He's breaking his restraining order.
How long have you been working on this? Tell me about the arrest.
Toby Holmes lived in the original mansion on the hill.
We couldn't get an answer so we poked around and found the blood-stained sweatshirt in his incinerator.
Who found the sweatshirt, you or Tom McQueen? Me.
I smelled smoke.
Then we saw movement in the house, so we put the door in.
We arrested him, questioned him, and by lunchtime CID officers from Norwich had taken over.
PHONE RINGS So you never doubted Toby Holmes's guilt? No.
Hi.
Yesterday morning Spence got an e - mail from a McQueen Security which he deleted.
Must be his old AEC partner, Tom McQueen, and it looks like they hooked up last night.
OK.
Thanks.
So tell me about Tom McQueen.
You and him were friends after he left the force? He didn't leave, he was pushed, as you know.
Yeah.
He killed a kid while undercover, right? He killed a crack addict who tried to stab him while his brother held him down.
From what I hear he could've got clear without killing either of them.
Says who? Hmm? Some bloke in a suit from the Police Complaints Commission? Are you still in touch, or not? He lives in Cornwall.
Has done for the last five, six years.
When d'you last see him? Why? Answer the question.
Not lately, all right? OK, Dr Foley.
We'll need you to check your bag in, plus any jewellery, keys, loose change and, sorry, we'd better have your shoes as well.
OK.
What size are you? Five.
This is Stella Goodman from the Cold Case Unit.
I just wanted to check if you'd had reports of a virus similar to the W32 Hybris on the Met networks.
Probably just my colleague being paranoid.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Hello.
Dr Grace Foley, Cold Case Squad.
Your lawyer did tell you I was coming? I'm not saying anything in front of him.
Don't listen to him.
OK.
Could you take the handcuffs off and leave us alone? Sorry? You heard.
I'm not actually allowed to leave you alone with the prisoner.
Well, you are because I'm a mental health professional, so I'll just sign a disclaimer on the way out.
Can I speak to you for a minute? This man bit the face off a colleague of mine.
Why do you want to take the risk? I want him to talk to me.
Then you'll have to sign the disclaimer upfront.
OK, well let's rustle one up, shall we? Take a look at the log.
At three o'clock this morning your access card was used to gain entry to the evidence room.
What? Do you have any recollection of that? No.
Could anyone have borrowed your access card? No.
You started celebrating your birthday last night, a little early.
Who were you partying with? None of your business.
I'm trying to help, Spence.
I'm trying to help.
Where's your access card now? Well, this may cheer you up a little bit.
The DNA profile may yet still be salvageable.
Good.
Let me know.
Will do.
Thank you.
He wants revenge, cos he was friends with the guard I hurt.
The rapist.
The face-biting was just self-defence? Well, it would've been if it had done any good.
It just made him more angry.
Sometimes I curse my good looks.
Did you file a complaint? Yes.
The Home Secretary's reading it now.
Can I borrow your pen? I like doodling when I'm talking.
No, I'm sorry.
I may need it for notes.
How about a paperclip? I've got papers all over my room.
You know very well I can't give you anything.
The privacy and the handcuffs is all I can do.
Privacy? Yes, now you mention it, it does seem very private in here all of a sudden.
I BET I COULD DO SOMETHING TRULY UNSPEAKABLE, AND NO-ONE WOULD KNOW! You really pissed him off.
He's gone on his tea-break.
I'm not afraid of you.
Good for you.
You loved her, didn't you? Well, you must've done, because you broke your restraining order in front of everyone.
'Does anyone want a fight?' Yes, you were drunk and you called her a slut, but I think what you really meant to say was, "I miss you, and I want you back".
That was an insulting gear-change, Grace.
Not as insulting as a subtle one.
I'll tell you what else is insulting.
You haven't mentioned my affidavit yet.
My lawyer didn't give you a copy? No, he didn't.
I don't believe you.
I explicitly asked him to.
Well, he didn't.
I'm sorry.
If you've read it and you're trying to trip me up I haven't seen an affidavit, all right? Little shit.
Little shit! Why don't you just give me a gist of what it contains? Why don't you do your research before coming here wasting my time? Don't blame me because you've got a bad lawyer.
For what it's worth, he didn't want me to come here today, so don't give him the satisfaction of sending me away empty-handed.
MOBILE RINGS Hello? 'Tom, it's me.
' Fancy some lunch? 'Yeah.
Why not?' All right to pick me up? Sure.
Meet me in Kendal Street so you don't have to come through security, OK? 'OK'.
All right.
See you in a bit.
Right.
I did love her.
I loved that face.
I could never have hurt that face.
I did two stupid things that evening.
I made a scene, and then I tried to say sorry for making a scene.
To Jackie? I drove up there.
When you say "there", you mean Cherry Tree Farm? Is this the affidavit your lawyer's sitting on? Yeah.
He thinks I'm digging myself in deeper.
OK.
Well, let's just forget about your lawyer for a moment.
He was lying in the passage behind the front door.
And Jackie? In the sitting room, stretched across the floor.
Her her head was at a strange angle, but she She looked peaceful.
Peaceful? Like she could wake up any second, except she was cold.
So cold.
Her face? Oh, he must've done that later.
Either he came back or or he was hiding in the house.
I didn't hang around.
You didn't call the police? Well, they were dead.
But you loved her.
Are you calling me a coward? No, I'm just saying I think you should have called somebody.
I was under a restraining order which I'd already broken once that evening.
I'd called her a slut in public, for Christ's sake.
And there it was, written up on the wall, "slut".
No, it wasn't, but nice try, Grace.
No, they were just lying there.
And you're right, I was a coward.
And a terrible husband.
And I deserve my fate.
You hear what I said? I deserve my fate.
Morning, mate.
Got some ID? Cheers.
Can you take your helmet off, please? All right? Yes, all right.
Cheers.
Spence? Any time you want to talk about this, you know, er Yeah.
Want to grab some lunch? No, I'm fine.
Sure? Yeah, I'm cool.
Take those papers to court.
Do it tomorrow All right, Spence? All right.
How's it going? Good.
Want one of these? Yeah, sure.
So Tom, was it a coincidence, you turning up on my doorstep last night? It was your birthday, you berk! It's my birthday today.
Obviously I'm missing something.
Well, I was definitely missing something at three o'clock this morning.
What are you on about? Someone used this to access our evidence store at CCU, specifically evidence from Cherry Tree Farm.
Cherry Tree Farm? Yeah.
You're not opening it up again? My boss is.
And you think I knew that? I think someone used my card this morning, and it wasn't me.
Let's have a look at it.
This is crap.
This is bollocks.
The only entry systems worth shit are fingerprint and voice.
That's just a bar code.
Somewhere, there's a directory, and someone's got your number.
I couldn't find your toilet last night, let alone navigate half of West London.
But if I was minded to break into your office, believe me, you wouldn't know I'd been.
I don't believe this.
Jesus, how long have we known each other? Don't, I'm going to cry.
Spence, I'm not lying.
If you want me to believe you, I need some answers.
To what? To things I was too stupid, naive, or too intimidated to ask in '88.
First, we sort this out.
Do you believe me or not? It's important.
Shit.
COMPUTER BEEPS The anonymous caller who found the bodies, why was that never looked into? Who was it? For God's sakes, Tom, we were partners.
They were under surveillance.
Security services.
Why? They had half the Woolly Hats under obs.
Maggie just didn't like 'em.
How did you know? Because they tried to recruit me.
Bill Drake had me in for tea and biscuits with a paunch in a raincoat.
Was I interested in any extra-curricular activities, cash in hand? Drake was on the news this morning.
Was he? Has he finally caught a terrorist? Yeah.
Right.
You were always his star pupil.
Fat lot of good it did in the end.
Who was the raincoat? MI5? He asked the questions.
"Was I a communist? Were my friends communists? "Had I ever met a communist?" It was priceless.
Guess you had to be there.
Spence Did they want to infiltrate? They already had a mole in Shut Down Dunwell, so they wanted me to set up an anti-Dunwell group and cross-contaminate.
Couldn't see myself spying on innocent people, no matter how cranky and deluded.
How did Drake take you knocking him back? Said he respected my decision, but when I got the axe, he didn't exactly come to my rescue.
Hi.
Hi.
Did I hear you say your colleague's bringing his damaged hard drive over? Yeah.
When is he coming? Any minute.
Why? Well, if you need a hand salvaging it, let me know.
So MI5 had Marcus Coulter and Jackie Holmes under surveillance at the time of the murders? Yeah.
I assume not at the exact time.
Cos they would have done something about it? Yeah.
So what happened? They have the night off, Toby Holmes let their tyres down? I just got a call, I didn't know any details.
You knew a lot more than me, considering we were supposed to be partners.
Spence, lighten up.
So they told you where to find the bodies, yeah? What about the sweatshirt in Toby Holmes' incinerator? You found that, remember? Anyway, fast forward 18 years, and you're scaling the greasy pole, and I'm on green jumper security work when I can get it.
Maybe you had more to do with that than you'd like to think.
You're right to be pissed off, Spence, but we both know we got our man.
We smelt it on him.
Hey, birthday boy.
Hi.
PHONE RINGS DI Jordan.
'Spence, can you come in here for a minute, please?' Hi.
Hi.
Where have you been? You followed me.
You lied to me.
You said you hadn't seen McQueen lately.
What did you tell Stella to do? I saw Penny Coulter on her way out, but Stella said I'm mistaken, she's a witness to a robbery.
It's my decision when I tell you about a case.
You kept me in the dark in case I had something to hide.
Do you? No, I do not.
You should have consulted me first.
Why? Respect.
Loyalty.
Professional courtesy.
OK.
But this is a double murder inquiry.
You think whoever came in here went on to Central Lab cos they didn't find what they were wanted? The light fixture with the blood stain.
It had the address.
They needed directions.
It was in the Evidence Room.
Tom McQueen? What about him? Would he be worried if any new evidence came to light? No.
Not to my knowledge.
He wouldn't do that, he wouldn't destroy evidence.
No.
Spence, I've delayed notifying the Central Lab investigation team about what happened here, did you know that? No.
Because I believe McQueen did it.
But if he didn't do it, then you did.
Or you did it together.
Or someone with an override pass, who knew my number and keyed it in manually.
Like who? Come on.
If I don't get to the bottom of what happened here, the truth, the pair of you are going to be turned over to Commander Drake.
Drake was our boss at AEC.
Your boss? Tom McQueen was his blue-eyed boy.
McQueen did tell me a couple of things I didn't know.
MI5 had Jackie Holmes and Marcus Coulter under surveillance, and a mole in the Shut Down Dunwell group.
Toby Holmes admits to being at the crime scene? Around 11.
30.
They were both dead.
He insists that Jackie Holmes' face was intact, not even a scratch.
Felix is going to get the path report.
What do you think? Well, I can't see any reason he had to lie.
Why wait so long? Well, after he was sentenced, he mounted three separate appeals.
If he'd admitted belatedly It would jeopardise his appeal.
I understand that.
He only signed the affidavit after he was transferred to Burchill.
For biting the guard's cheek? Yep.
I suppose he felt he had nothing to lose.
Cheek/face.
Thought about that? Well, there could be a connection, yes, but I feel it's more to do with a man who's very angry because he's been sentenced for a crime he never committed.
But there would be no reason to break in and try to get the light fixture with the bloodstain if he's guilty.
No.
Did he mention anything about making an anonymous phone call? He mentioned not making any.
So that was made by the surveillance team who were watching the protestors' group, MI5.
MI5? Yeah, I know.
Spencer just told me.
MI5 had a team watching the anti-demo protestors group and there was also a mole they'd put inside.
An informer.
Ooff! What I don't understand is if this surveillance team were watching the group, how come they didn't see who killed Jackie Holmes and Marcus Coulter? I don't know.
But maybe the informer made the anonymous call, and maybe it's the informer we should be looking for.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm looking for Felix.
I'll walk you through.
OK.
Right, to prevent any additional damage, first step is to create an image of the drive using an imaging tool.
Sorry - is the damaged drive the drive containing the operating system? Yes, I think it is.
In that case, it's best to not boot the drive up, but replace it with a fresh one.
Really? Install a new operating system and reconnect the old drive as a slave unit.
Sounds like you know more than the IT guys.
I learned a few tricks on secondment in the Fraud Squad.
Would you like me to have a bash? Felix? Yeah.
Be my guest.
I'll be a few minutes.
OK, we'll leave you to it.
Shall we get a coffee? Penny Coulter's here.
I thought Grace was taking the interview.
She's starting, and I want you to join us.
Why? Because she's your witness I don't need to say, just get there! Can you give me five minutes? No! You know there were a dozen witness statements about the Shut Down Dunwell meeting of 3rd June, 1988.
As you'd expect, their focus was on the confrontation between Toby Holmes and his wife and your husband.
But we have three witness statements which mention the looks you were giving Jackie Holmes during her speech.
She took everything that meant anything to me, and she did it so bloody innocently.
So you were wearing your heart on your sleeve? Yes, I suppose so.
And what's a political cause next to a broken heart? It's nothing, is it, Penny? Did somebody notice what you were going through? Did they use it to their advantage? What? Penny, we know there was a mole inside the organisation.
We know Marcus Coulter and Jackie Holmes were under surveillance.
You're not suggesting Yes.
That is what I'm suggesting.
Who would ever suspect the founder of the organisation? I'm sorry? You had the perfect cover, didn't you? This is ridiculous.
If you were caught, all you had to do was play the jealous wife.
This is a big guilt-trip for you, isn't it? While you watched these people, while you spied on them, you saw who killed them.
Isn't that what happened? Is that what this is? OK, you're in.
Any idea where we'll find the Cherry Tree Farm profile? Oh, God, without an operating system, it's Were you working on it last night? Yeah.
OK, we'll sort by date order.
There's our profile.
OK, right.
Well, before I open it, I need to save it to the hard drive.
Can we print the Command History, just in case it dies on us? Good idea.
I was recruited by a private detective called Clifford Day, a horrible, weasly little man.
He said he worked for MI5 and that he'd seen intelligence that proved Marcus was planning something with some Spanish ecoterrorists.
So what was this something? Tunnelling into Dunwell.
Strictly against our "anything as long as it's legal" mantra.
So the way Clifford Day sold it to you, it would be them that were betraying the organisation, not you.
Even then, I'm not sure I really believed that.
I still had a front door key and I'd go in and poke about while they were out.
Yes! You got a match? What? I've spoken to Boyd.
Everything's cool.
Well, he didn't pass that on.
He didn't have time.
He's in an interview.
He said you're pulling the DNA from a damaged hard drive.
Is this it? I'm not discussing this with you until I've spoken to Boyd.
Felix, I did not break into your Evidence Store last night, OK? I'll see for myself.
Excuse me.
Clifford Day.
Thanks.
You didn't mention a break-in last night, Felix.
It was more like an unauthorised access.
Yeah, but the same night Central Lab burns down? How did you communicate with Day? I'd phone in reports of significant events to Day's office.
What, like meetings of the anti-Dunwell Group? The last one I ever made was the night of the murders.
So you spoke to him that night? Yeah.
I eventually got hold of him on his car phone.
What time was that? 11, 11.
30.
I think there was someone else with him.
I could hear another voice.
Man or woman? A man.
It could have been the radio.
So, you told Day everything that had happened at that meeting that night, about the confrontation, about him calling Jackie a slut? Yes.
Yes, I did.
Felix? Hmm? Look at this.
" Attempt recovery now?" "No".
Just looks like someone's trying to corrupt this.
PHONE RINGS Yes, Spence? Felix has got a match on the Cherry Tree Farm DNA.
And? Clifford Day, 50 years old.
He got done for drink-driving five years ago.
I'm picking him up now.
You got the address from the DVLA? Yep, and checked back to '88.
He lived in Norwich, only 30 miles from the Cherry Tree Farm.
I don't want you going there unaccompanied.
OK? I know who Clifford Day is.
Penny Coulter was a mole, he was her handler.
Spence, you're not going in there alone.
Spence? Shit! What? Comment ca tu arrives pas a envoyer le message? Bon, tu retournes a la boite de reception.
Sorry, it's my mum.
Voila.
Oui, et tu presses le curseur sur le carnet d'addresses.
Apres, tu as une fenetre qui apparait.
Maman, je suis au bolout, la! Je ne sais pa, un cadre, un encadrement! Voila, bon, tu descends par ca, et il y a un petit cadre.
Maintenant tu as I'addresse qui apparait.
Apres, tu ecris ce que tu veux dan I'encadre, et quand tu as termine EXPLOSION ALARM BLARES Get some water! There's been a chemical attack.
I need paramedics now.
Yeah, right now.
One, two, three, lift.
Spence? Hello! Samples from the contaminated book haven't revealed any harmful bacteria.
What's her condition? We need to get her to a hospital as soon as possible, sir.
We're being followed.
It looks like you were trying to corrupt it.
I trust Spencer Jordan.
Where is he now? I don't know.
I didn't even know your father was a police officer.
I'm sorry, no-one's allowed to leave yet.
This is about Cherry Tree Farm, isn't it? I don't want to give up working for you.
The man is armed, and my witness is seriously injured.
It's not about saving lives.
We've a moral, ethical position.
Did you kill Jackie Holmes and Marcus Coulter? Hang in there, Spence, we're on it.
Spence!
We have other ways of making power and energy.
Let's move towards these and way from nuclear power for ever.
Let me finish by quoting last year's Department of Environment White Paper.
It asserts, "One positive trait of radioactivity "that facilitates waste management is that with time comes decay".
This is nonsense.
It is the process of decay that causes the raft of life-threatening dangers that have brought us here tonight.
Bottom line, we're not muppets.
Let's not be treated like muppets.
Thank you, Jackie.
Now we've got time for some questions.
Good, cos I've got a couple.
Toby.
I'm bored with TV dinners, I'm bored with my right hand, but you must be bored of whining losers turning personal failure into righteous fury about causes they care nothing about.
I mean, come on, you must be missing the store cards at least? Ignore him.
Oh, that's right, listen to the Zen master.
Does he get any more excited when he's nailing you? Back at uni she wore a mink stole to our college ball.
I've got a picture of her wearing it and nothing else.
Wanna to see it? Yeah, come on, let's see what the Zen master's made of, shall we? Yeah, you want to fight? What's the point, Toby? Call the police.
He's breaking his restraining order.
You're still my wife, you slut! I don't know what was worse, Toby or the look Penny was giving me.
Yeah, they've got a lot in common, our two exes, haven't they? Listen, you were really good tonight, you know.
No, I wasn't.
No, no, you were.
They were really listening.
It was great.
It was passionate.
You were so informed.
I love you.
HE FLICKS LIGHT SWITCH That's weird, the lights.
FLOORBOARD CREAKS There's somebody in the house.
SHE SCREAMS SHE SCREAMS 'Hello, Police?' 'You need to send someone to Cherry Tree Farm.
' 'Cherry Tree Farm? What's your name, caller?' 'It's near Dunwell, Norfolk.
' 'And your name?' Tom, we're off site.
Yeah, we are off site.
Do you wanna wait in the car? ROPE CREAKS She called, last week, claiming to have information that cast doubts on Toby Holmes' conviction for the Cherry Tree Farm murders.
Victims were Yeah, Penny Coulter's estranged husband, er, Marcus, and his girlfriend, Jackie Holmes, married to I gave you that half an hour ago Toby Holmes.
I'm catching up, I'm catching up, all right? Spencer was one of the first officers on the scene.
Yeah, with his partner, Tom McQueen.
Mmm, when he was a PC in the Atomic Energy Constabulary.
Right.
What happened to Toby Holmes and what's his current status? He got "life means life" in '89.
So he's out now? No, he's on the "never, never" list.
He was moved to Burchill High Security Hospital for biting a guard's cheek off.
Why is he on the "never, never" list? It says in the file.
No, it doesn't.
So, what's her new evidence? She wouldn't say.
Well, you could've insisted, couldn't you? She could have put the phone down and never called back.
These things aren't allowed in there.
One of the key pieces of evidence against Toby Holmes was a blood-stained sweatshirt found in his incinerator.
But Toby insists that it wasn't his and it was put there by whoever did the killing.
Yes? The first part's true.
For all I know the second part may be too.
This is my husband.
With, erm, Jackie Holmes.
That's the sweatshirt.
Ah, so you're telling me that this isn't Toby's sweatshirt, that it, in fact, belongs to your husband? In '88 you were asked if you recognised the sweatshirt.
And I said I'd never seen it before.
My husband didn't invite me on his little weekend break with Jackie.
But how come you just got this photo now, we're talking how many years ago here? 18 years.
And you walk in with this now.
Last week I gave my nephew Marcus's old 35mm camera.
I found the film inside.
So until last week you had no doubt in your mind that Toby had killed your husband and Jackie Holmes? No.
None.
None? Absolutely no doubt at all? We were all there when he called her a slut.
'You're still my wife! Slut!' That's what the killer wrote on the wall.
Anyone can write What do you think now? I don't know.
Will you re-open the case? Why would you want us to do that? I don't understand.
Let me explain.
This doesn't mean Toby Holmes is innocent, but it might be enough to initiate a retrial and get him released, but it doesn't make him innocent.
Now are you sure you want to go through that? Or do you just want to take this photo and walk away? I just want the truth to come out, whatever it is.
Well, do you not hear that a lot in the Cold Case Unit? All the time.
That's why I ask.
I can get background from Spence.
He doesn't to know about this now.
Why not? If it goes anywhere, he can't be involved, and if not, why bother him with something that disturbed him so much? OK.
Check with the chemist where the film was processed.
Morning, Felix.
Morning.
I want you to order up some evidence, Cherry Tree Farm 1988.
OK.
1988.
'88.
'88.
Thank you.
OK.
Sure.
Spence.
Nice of you to join in.
I was in court.
Who was that? Who was? Woman who just walked out.
50-odd.
Oh, she's a witness from that building society robbery I'm working on.
Got sent through automatically, part of a batch on the DNA retest list.
They tried SGM? Yeah, in '96.
SGM plus in 2000.
Couldn't get a profile.
With Low Copy Number you might.
Ah, well done.
Yeah, the 34 cycles yield 16 billion copies of the source DNA.
As opposed to the mere Put it away.
I know.
So what is this possible DNA? It's a partial blood print found on the light fixture where the female victim was strung up.
She was wired up, in fact, wasn't she? What is this? Lipstick This is the wire.
Oh, my God.
I don't like it when a forensic scientist says "Oh, my God".
Oh, my God.
So he lifts her up and binds her hands to the light fixture? Could one person have done that? I don't know.
It says here he used a stepladder.
If she was alive she might've been co-operating.
Co-operating in her own death? Yeah, it's all about hope.
A victim will go along with anything if there's hope around.
Where's the hope in that scenario? He hadn't killed her yet so she didn't know she'd get her face cut off.
The path report gives hope she never did.
It's usually a man in a white coat that does this Her neck was broken before her face was cut.
Two neck breaks seems efficient.
Yeah, this man Holmes was a Marine officer.
They break necks for a living.
Kill people.
Her wedding ring was lodged in her gullet.
So that's where her husband as prime suspect comes from.
Mind if I check the manual log for today, please? Cheers.
MOBILE RINGS Hey, yeah, the judge let me off early for good behaviour.
Yeah, I'm good to go.
How about six? OK.
Laters.
So where's the real thing? Look on the back.
Central Lab.
Central Lab.
Hmm.
Central Lab, yeah.
Central Lab? I used to work there.
Of course you did! Oh, right.
Which gives me access to the most power-hungry thermocycler in the land.
You can see these marks here.
Yeah, just there.
Why couldn't they get the DNA from them? Protein decay, caused by the heat from the light socket.
And you say this couldn't be Jackie Holmes's blood because? It could be, but, it was about 13 centimetres above her bound hands, plus they also found a shred of latex from a surgical glove.
Spencer was involved in the original investigation, but he doesn't need to know any of this, OK? All right.
You don't want him distracted.
From what? He's in court, isn't he? Oh, yeah, he is, and it's his birthday tomorrow.
Oh, is it? Oh.
Hmm.
What are you doing? It's my round.
Is it? Sorry I lost track.
Bollocks you lost track! Oi, oi, oi! Your money's not good here, all right? Come on, Spence, don't insult me.
I am not insulting you.
I'm earning, you're not.
OK? Cheers, mate.
Plus, you always make the effort to come up to London.
Now that is true, but I'm still not having none of this Spence Benevolent Fund shit, all right? All right.
Seriously, Tom, if you ever think about coming back up to London.
Couldn't afford it, mate.
Come on, I'd give you half board, get you some security work, sorted.
Oh, it's a sweet offer, but There's no buts.
OK? Where's the but? Cornwall suits me.
Surfing, straightforward lasses and nothing to remind me of the job.
Happy birthday, mate.
Cheers.
Hey, I get it.
He's a black cop, I'm a black cop! Well, it was that or a steam train.
Blame me.
Come on, no.
I got it, Stella.
It's, it's personal.
It reminded me of you in the shower.
Personal touch.
That's nice.
I like that.
You been celebrating all night? I don't stink, do I? Sorry, have you got a minute? I had a shower.
I don't stink, do I? No.
It's not impossible that you put the lid on back to front, is it? No, it's not impossible, but the evidence has been packed nearly, but not quite the way I left it last night, and also there's this.
Keep your eye on the box.
See the label? Now it's gone.
So we can see it's been moved but we can't see by whom.
Yeah, and the default recording setting is set at ten seconds per minute, but there's a bunch of other ratios, the most infrequent being 30 seconds per half hour.
Our intruder changed the setting and changed it back before they left.
Which says two things - they're very smart.
And he got into the system.
Yeah, no big surprise.
The same access card gets you into both.
Right.
Yeah, now the computer stores every access.
Mmm-hmm.
I checked the log for the footage, there's the free half hour when the box was moved.
Checked the name.
Spence.
Mmm.
Look at the time.
Three in the morning.
But nothing was taken? Maybe he didn't find what he was looking for.
What, the blood trace that was going to Central Lab? It's possible, but I didn't even think Spence knew we were reinvestigating the case.
He didn't, he didn't.
You heard the news about Central Lab? There are things I can't go into but I can confirm that there was a suspected arson attack at 4.
45 this morning and much of the laboratory was destroyed.
Tragically WPC Kelly Chambers, who was on duty at the time, lost her life in the fire, and our thoughts go out to her husband, Mark, and her young son.
Commissioner Sullivan, Charles Winter, Times.
How much evidence has been destroyed? That's definitely something I can't go into.
Next? Leanda Harrison, ITN.
How many court cases will be affected? Honest answer, no idea.
It's much too early to say.
Commissioner, you've got Commander Drake of anti-terrorist Operations here.
Does that mean you suspect terrorists are involved? No, it doesn't.
There's nothing to connect this incident with Al-Qaeda or any terrorist organisation.
However, the sophistication of the attack and certain evidence which we have found at the lab means that we can't rule out this possibility.
Oh, turn it off, please, someone.
I've just spoken to Central Lab.
The blood trace from Cherry Tree Farm was destroyed in the fire.
Had he got a DNA profile? They were due to submit it this morning to the database for a match.
Shit! Shit! This can't be a coincidence.
I know you've known Spence for a long time.
It's not loyalty.
OK, great, then we have to share this with the Central Lab fire investigation.
It's about what we do next.
Just give me a second.
Just So, Spencer.
I need a list of his calls for the past two weeks.
OK, with your approval.
Personal e-mails.
I need access to his computer.
If this doesn't turn anything up, I'll Your superiors at the FSO.
At the FSO, yes.
Yeah.
I don't blame you.
I can't, I don't believe Spence has got anything to do with this.
Maybe his pass was stolen, his access card.
Have you asked him? No.
Well, why not? Because once I show my hand, Grace, I'm committed and then there's no way back.
Show your hand?! This is Spence we're talking about.
Why didn't you just tell him about the investigation from the off? He was busy.
If it came to nothing it would've been a waste of time.
Come on, what are you worrying about? You think he's involved? Are you suspicious of him? He was a kid in '88, all right, and this case damaged him, you know, it scarred him.
He told me many times, that's the word he used, he was scarred by it.
In that state of mind you're crazy, you do crazy things.
You make mistakes, you cover up, you protect people.
OK, yes, OK, I agree, but that was 20 years ago.
What are you saying, that you think Spence is now capable of burning down Central Lab and killing a policewoman? The evidence that was destroyed was from Cherry Tree Farm.
He was involved at Cherry Tree Farm.
I've arranged for you to meet Toby Holmes.
Have you finished with the file? Yes.
At Burchill at Hospital OK.
I want to know what you make of him, whether you think he's the kind of man capable of slicing his wife's face off while having the presence of mind to wear surgical gloves to do it.
Well, from the cases of facial injuries that I have studied, he might be.
How come? Well, it's like love gone sour.
You know how prostitutes traditionally will do anything and everything but kissing? Really? No, I didn't know that.
Oh, didn't you? I thought you might have read about it somewhere.
I might have read abou it.
Well, it's about the face.
Uh-huh.
It's sacred, it's what we are, it's what defines us.
It might not be our most private place, but it's our most personal.
So the motivation to destroy it is typically personal? Yes.
It takes a special will I mean, serial killers will rarely go there.
Are there precedents? Yes, there are.
In the late '70s, the wife of an East End gangster, Mal Isaacs, gave birth to a mixed-race child.
She suffered the same fate as Jackie Holmes with one exception - she was alive when he did it.
Oh, God.
And she didn't die.
The neighbours alerted the police and they got there in time.
We lost an officer at the scene.
OK, Grace.
Yep? Holmes's passport from prison to Burchill was biting a guard's cheek off, by the way.
Oh, great.
What's up? I found a probable virus on my PC and as we're on a network I thought I'd just What kind of a virus? It's similar to the W32 Hybris.
Sounds bad.
Oh, it infects DLL files so all e-mail message are .
.
Replaced with scrap codes.
Yeah.
Did you tell IT about this? Yeah, but they were busy, they couldn't find anyone till later, so I thought I'd step in.
I'll check mine, save you the trouble.
Spence! Spence! Yeah.
Hi.
Hi.
One of the jurors dropped dead.
I want to have a word.
Take a seat.
Sure.
From now on in it's herbal tea and salad for me.
What's this about? I'm reopening Cherry Tree Farm.
You had no idea I was going to say that? No.
There's possible DNA which could confirm Toy Holmes's guilt, or not.
Great.
When's the test? Just run it by me, why you were there when, as an AEC officer your remit was Dunwell nuclear power station? Sure.
Erm AEC had jurisdiction 20 miles around Dunwell and Cherry Tree Farm was well within that.
I still don't see why you were called to a domestic crime.
Because local law enforcement was a 20-year-old PC whose wife was having a baby 50 miles away.
Right, so you being there and the victims being these anti-Dunwell protestors was coincidence? Well, there are conspiracy websites that say different but, yeah.
If this DNA isn't a match with Toby Holmes Sir, forget the DNA, we found his shirt soaked in his wife's blood.
No, you didn't, Spence.
PHONE RINGS DC Goodman.
It's Harry from Central Lab, on one.
What news? Just had the third degree from Anti-Terrorist Operations.
They're convinced it was an inside job.
You're kidding.
There is a silver lining.
My computer's pretty burned up.
But the hard drive looks OK.
OK, great, bring it over.
I've got a salvage package I half know my way around.
I don't think ATO are going to be too happy about that, taking stuff off-site.
Harry, did you start the fire? No.
No.
So don't feel guilty about it.
It's your computer, you don't want it rotting away in some evidence room for six months, at least not until you saved the data.
Hard drives are like kidnap victims, first 24 hours are golden.
Christ, Felix, you could sell ice to the Eskimos! Thank you, Harry.
So you want the Cherry Tree Farm DNA? Just bring it over.
OK, so it wasn't Toby Holmes's sweatshirt.
Doesn't make him innocent.
It makes him look a lot less guilty and the theory it was planted a lot more credible.
Why? He borrowed it because he knew removing his wife's face was going to get messy.
So he goes to that trouble and dumps the shirt in the first place anyone will look.
He tried to burn it! And makes a very bad job of it.
He shoved her wedding ring down her throat, for God's sake.
Sir, you have no idea how much I wish we hadn't got that call, that I didn't have that memory of what I saw in that room.
I believe you, Spence, but it doesn't means that Toby Holmes is guilty.
Why don't you start from the start? I just ran a sweep, nothing.
Good.
Why's it taking you so long? Almost there.
When we ID'd the bodies it threw up the restraining order on Toby Holmes, it turns out he'd broken it very publicly the night before.
At the Dunwell protestors meeting.
Yeah.
He's breaking his restraining order.
How long have you been working on this? Tell me about the arrest.
Toby Holmes lived in the original mansion on the hill.
We couldn't get an answer so we poked around and found the blood-stained sweatshirt in his incinerator.
Who found the sweatshirt, you or Tom McQueen? Me.
I smelled smoke.
Then we saw movement in the house, so we put the door in.
We arrested him, questioned him, and by lunchtime CID officers from Norwich had taken over.
PHONE RINGS So you never doubted Toby Holmes's guilt? No.
Hi.
Yesterday morning Spence got an e - mail from a McQueen Security which he deleted.
Must be his old AEC partner, Tom McQueen, and it looks like they hooked up last night.
OK.
Thanks.
So tell me about Tom McQueen.
You and him were friends after he left the force? He didn't leave, he was pushed, as you know.
Yeah.
He killed a kid while undercover, right? He killed a crack addict who tried to stab him while his brother held him down.
From what I hear he could've got clear without killing either of them.
Says who? Hmm? Some bloke in a suit from the Police Complaints Commission? Are you still in touch, or not? He lives in Cornwall.
Has done for the last five, six years.
When d'you last see him? Why? Answer the question.
Not lately, all right? OK, Dr Foley.
We'll need you to check your bag in, plus any jewellery, keys, loose change and, sorry, we'd better have your shoes as well.
OK.
What size are you? Five.
This is Stella Goodman from the Cold Case Unit.
I just wanted to check if you'd had reports of a virus similar to the W32 Hybris on the Met networks.
Probably just my colleague being paranoid.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Hello.
Dr Grace Foley, Cold Case Squad.
Your lawyer did tell you I was coming? I'm not saying anything in front of him.
Don't listen to him.
OK.
Could you take the handcuffs off and leave us alone? Sorry? You heard.
I'm not actually allowed to leave you alone with the prisoner.
Well, you are because I'm a mental health professional, so I'll just sign a disclaimer on the way out.
Can I speak to you for a minute? This man bit the face off a colleague of mine.
Why do you want to take the risk? I want him to talk to me.
Then you'll have to sign the disclaimer upfront.
OK, well let's rustle one up, shall we? Take a look at the log.
At three o'clock this morning your access card was used to gain entry to the evidence room.
What? Do you have any recollection of that? No.
Could anyone have borrowed your access card? No.
You started celebrating your birthday last night, a little early.
Who were you partying with? None of your business.
I'm trying to help, Spence.
I'm trying to help.
Where's your access card now? Well, this may cheer you up a little bit.
The DNA profile may yet still be salvageable.
Good.
Let me know.
Will do.
Thank you.
He wants revenge, cos he was friends with the guard I hurt.
The rapist.
The face-biting was just self-defence? Well, it would've been if it had done any good.
It just made him more angry.
Sometimes I curse my good looks.
Did you file a complaint? Yes.
The Home Secretary's reading it now.
Can I borrow your pen? I like doodling when I'm talking.
No, I'm sorry.
I may need it for notes.
How about a paperclip? I've got papers all over my room.
You know very well I can't give you anything.
The privacy and the handcuffs is all I can do.
Privacy? Yes, now you mention it, it does seem very private in here all of a sudden.
I BET I COULD DO SOMETHING TRULY UNSPEAKABLE, AND NO-ONE WOULD KNOW! You really pissed him off.
He's gone on his tea-break.
I'm not afraid of you.
Good for you.
You loved her, didn't you? Well, you must've done, because you broke your restraining order in front of everyone.
'Does anyone want a fight?' Yes, you were drunk and you called her a slut, but I think what you really meant to say was, "I miss you, and I want you back".
That was an insulting gear-change, Grace.
Not as insulting as a subtle one.
I'll tell you what else is insulting.
You haven't mentioned my affidavit yet.
My lawyer didn't give you a copy? No, he didn't.
I don't believe you.
I explicitly asked him to.
Well, he didn't.
I'm sorry.
If you've read it and you're trying to trip me up I haven't seen an affidavit, all right? Little shit.
Little shit! Why don't you just give me a gist of what it contains? Why don't you do your research before coming here wasting my time? Don't blame me because you've got a bad lawyer.
For what it's worth, he didn't want me to come here today, so don't give him the satisfaction of sending me away empty-handed.
MOBILE RINGS Hello? 'Tom, it's me.
' Fancy some lunch? 'Yeah.
Why not?' All right to pick me up? Sure.
Meet me in Kendal Street so you don't have to come through security, OK? 'OK'.
All right.
See you in a bit.
Right.
I did love her.
I loved that face.
I could never have hurt that face.
I did two stupid things that evening.
I made a scene, and then I tried to say sorry for making a scene.
To Jackie? I drove up there.
When you say "there", you mean Cherry Tree Farm? Is this the affidavit your lawyer's sitting on? Yeah.
He thinks I'm digging myself in deeper.
OK.
Well, let's just forget about your lawyer for a moment.
He was lying in the passage behind the front door.
And Jackie? In the sitting room, stretched across the floor.
Her her head was at a strange angle, but she She looked peaceful.
Peaceful? Like she could wake up any second, except she was cold.
So cold.
Her face? Oh, he must've done that later.
Either he came back or or he was hiding in the house.
I didn't hang around.
You didn't call the police? Well, they were dead.
But you loved her.
Are you calling me a coward? No, I'm just saying I think you should have called somebody.
I was under a restraining order which I'd already broken once that evening.
I'd called her a slut in public, for Christ's sake.
And there it was, written up on the wall, "slut".
No, it wasn't, but nice try, Grace.
No, they were just lying there.
And you're right, I was a coward.
And a terrible husband.
And I deserve my fate.
You hear what I said? I deserve my fate.
Morning, mate.
Got some ID? Cheers.
Can you take your helmet off, please? All right? Yes, all right.
Cheers.
Spence? Any time you want to talk about this, you know, er Yeah.
Want to grab some lunch? No, I'm fine.
Sure? Yeah, I'm cool.
Take those papers to court.
Do it tomorrow All right, Spence? All right.
How's it going? Good.
Want one of these? Yeah, sure.
So Tom, was it a coincidence, you turning up on my doorstep last night? It was your birthday, you berk! It's my birthday today.
Obviously I'm missing something.
Well, I was definitely missing something at three o'clock this morning.
What are you on about? Someone used this to access our evidence store at CCU, specifically evidence from Cherry Tree Farm.
Cherry Tree Farm? Yeah.
You're not opening it up again? My boss is.
And you think I knew that? I think someone used my card this morning, and it wasn't me.
Let's have a look at it.
This is crap.
This is bollocks.
The only entry systems worth shit are fingerprint and voice.
That's just a bar code.
Somewhere, there's a directory, and someone's got your number.
I couldn't find your toilet last night, let alone navigate half of West London.
But if I was minded to break into your office, believe me, you wouldn't know I'd been.
I don't believe this.
Jesus, how long have we known each other? Don't, I'm going to cry.
Spence, I'm not lying.
If you want me to believe you, I need some answers.
To what? To things I was too stupid, naive, or too intimidated to ask in '88.
First, we sort this out.
Do you believe me or not? It's important.
Shit.
COMPUTER BEEPS The anonymous caller who found the bodies, why was that never looked into? Who was it? For God's sakes, Tom, we were partners.
They were under surveillance.
Security services.
Why? They had half the Woolly Hats under obs.
Maggie just didn't like 'em.
How did you know? Because they tried to recruit me.
Bill Drake had me in for tea and biscuits with a paunch in a raincoat.
Was I interested in any extra-curricular activities, cash in hand? Drake was on the news this morning.
Was he? Has he finally caught a terrorist? Yeah.
Right.
You were always his star pupil.
Fat lot of good it did in the end.
Who was the raincoat? MI5? He asked the questions.
"Was I a communist? Were my friends communists? "Had I ever met a communist?" It was priceless.
Guess you had to be there.
Spence Did they want to infiltrate? They already had a mole in Shut Down Dunwell, so they wanted me to set up an anti-Dunwell group and cross-contaminate.
Couldn't see myself spying on innocent people, no matter how cranky and deluded.
How did Drake take you knocking him back? Said he respected my decision, but when I got the axe, he didn't exactly come to my rescue.
Hi.
Hi.
Did I hear you say your colleague's bringing his damaged hard drive over? Yeah.
When is he coming? Any minute.
Why? Well, if you need a hand salvaging it, let me know.
So MI5 had Marcus Coulter and Jackie Holmes under surveillance at the time of the murders? Yeah.
I assume not at the exact time.
Cos they would have done something about it? Yeah.
So what happened? They have the night off, Toby Holmes let their tyres down? I just got a call, I didn't know any details.
You knew a lot more than me, considering we were supposed to be partners.
Spence, lighten up.
So they told you where to find the bodies, yeah? What about the sweatshirt in Toby Holmes' incinerator? You found that, remember? Anyway, fast forward 18 years, and you're scaling the greasy pole, and I'm on green jumper security work when I can get it.
Maybe you had more to do with that than you'd like to think.
You're right to be pissed off, Spence, but we both know we got our man.
We smelt it on him.
Hey, birthday boy.
Hi.
PHONE RINGS DI Jordan.
'Spence, can you come in here for a minute, please?' Hi.
Hi.
Where have you been? You followed me.
You lied to me.
You said you hadn't seen McQueen lately.
What did you tell Stella to do? I saw Penny Coulter on her way out, but Stella said I'm mistaken, she's a witness to a robbery.
It's my decision when I tell you about a case.
You kept me in the dark in case I had something to hide.
Do you? No, I do not.
You should have consulted me first.
Why? Respect.
Loyalty.
Professional courtesy.
OK.
But this is a double murder inquiry.
You think whoever came in here went on to Central Lab cos they didn't find what they were wanted? The light fixture with the blood stain.
It had the address.
They needed directions.
It was in the Evidence Room.
Tom McQueen? What about him? Would he be worried if any new evidence came to light? No.
Not to my knowledge.
He wouldn't do that, he wouldn't destroy evidence.
No.
Spence, I've delayed notifying the Central Lab investigation team about what happened here, did you know that? No.
Because I believe McQueen did it.
But if he didn't do it, then you did.
Or you did it together.
Or someone with an override pass, who knew my number and keyed it in manually.
Like who? Come on.
If I don't get to the bottom of what happened here, the truth, the pair of you are going to be turned over to Commander Drake.
Drake was our boss at AEC.
Your boss? Tom McQueen was his blue-eyed boy.
McQueen did tell me a couple of things I didn't know.
MI5 had Jackie Holmes and Marcus Coulter under surveillance, and a mole in the Shut Down Dunwell group.
Toby Holmes admits to being at the crime scene? Around 11.
30.
They were both dead.
He insists that Jackie Holmes' face was intact, not even a scratch.
Felix is going to get the path report.
What do you think? Well, I can't see any reason he had to lie.
Why wait so long? Well, after he was sentenced, he mounted three separate appeals.
If he'd admitted belatedly It would jeopardise his appeal.
I understand that.
He only signed the affidavit after he was transferred to Burchill.
For biting the guard's cheek? Yep.
I suppose he felt he had nothing to lose.
Cheek/face.
Thought about that? Well, there could be a connection, yes, but I feel it's more to do with a man who's very angry because he's been sentenced for a crime he never committed.
But there would be no reason to break in and try to get the light fixture with the bloodstain if he's guilty.
No.
Did he mention anything about making an anonymous phone call? He mentioned not making any.
So that was made by the surveillance team who were watching the protestors' group, MI5.
MI5? Yeah, I know.
Spencer just told me.
MI5 had a team watching the anti-demo protestors group and there was also a mole they'd put inside.
An informer.
Ooff! What I don't understand is if this surveillance team were watching the group, how come they didn't see who killed Jackie Holmes and Marcus Coulter? I don't know.
But maybe the informer made the anonymous call, and maybe it's the informer we should be looking for.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm looking for Felix.
I'll walk you through.
OK.
Right, to prevent any additional damage, first step is to create an image of the drive using an imaging tool.
Sorry - is the damaged drive the drive containing the operating system? Yes, I think it is.
In that case, it's best to not boot the drive up, but replace it with a fresh one.
Really? Install a new operating system and reconnect the old drive as a slave unit.
Sounds like you know more than the IT guys.
I learned a few tricks on secondment in the Fraud Squad.
Would you like me to have a bash? Felix? Yeah.
Be my guest.
I'll be a few minutes.
OK, we'll leave you to it.
Shall we get a coffee? Penny Coulter's here.
I thought Grace was taking the interview.
She's starting, and I want you to join us.
Why? Because she's your witness I don't need to say, just get there! Can you give me five minutes? No! You know there were a dozen witness statements about the Shut Down Dunwell meeting of 3rd June, 1988.
As you'd expect, their focus was on the confrontation between Toby Holmes and his wife and your husband.
But we have three witness statements which mention the looks you were giving Jackie Holmes during her speech.
She took everything that meant anything to me, and she did it so bloody innocently.
So you were wearing your heart on your sleeve? Yes, I suppose so.
And what's a political cause next to a broken heart? It's nothing, is it, Penny? Did somebody notice what you were going through? Did they use it to their advantage? What? Penny, we know there was a mole inside the organisation.
We know Marcus Coulter and Jackie Holmes were under surveillance.
You're not suggesting Yes.
That is what I'm suggesting.
Who would ever suspect the founder of the organisation? I'm sorry? You had the perfect cover, didn't you? This is ridiculous.
If you were caught, all you had to do was play the jealous wife.
This is a big guilt-trip for you, isn't it? While you watched these people, while you spied on them, you saw who killed them.
Isn't that what happened? Is that what this is? OK, you're in.
Any idea where we'll find the Cherry Tree Farm profile? Oh, God, without an operating system, it's Were you working on it last night? Yeah.
OK, we'll sort by date order.
There's our profile.
OK, right.
Well, before I open it, I need to save it to the hard drive.
Can we print the Command History, just in case it dies on us? Good idea.
I was recruited by a private detective called Clifford Day, a horrible, weasly little man.
He said he worked for MI5 and that he'd seen intelligence that proved Marcus was planning something with some Spanish ecoterrorists.
So what was this something? Tunnelling into Dunwell.
Strictly against our "anything as long as it's legal" mantra.
So the way Clifford Day sold it to you, it would be them that were betraying the organisation, not you.
Even then, I'm not sure I really believed that.
I still had a front door key and I'd go in and poke about while they were out.
Yes! You got a match? What? I've spoken to Boyd.
Everything's cool.
Well, he didn't pass that on.
He didn't have time.
He's in an interview.
He said you're pulling the DNA from a damaged hard drive.
Is this it? I'm not discussing this with you until I've spoken to Boyd.
Felix, I did not break into your Evidence Store last night, OK? I'll see for myself.
Excuse me.
Clifford Day.
Thanks.
You didn't mention a break-in last night, Felix.
It was more like an unauthorised access.
Yeah, but the same night Central Lab burns down? How did you communicate with Day? I'd phone in reports of significant events to Day's office.
What, like meetings of the anti-Dunwell Group? The last one I ever made was the night of the murders.
So you spoke to him that night? Yeah.
I eventually got hold of him on his car phone.
What time was that? 11, 11.
30.
I think there was someone else with him.
I could hear another voice.
Man or woman? A man.
It could have been the radio.
So, you told Day everything that had happened at that meeting that night, about the confrontation, about him calling Jackie a slut? Yes.
Yes, I did.
Felix? Hmm? Look at this.
" Attempt recovery now?" "No".
Just looks like someone's trying to corrupt this.
PHONE RINGS Yes, Spence? Felix has got a match on the Cherry Tree Farm DNA.
And? Clifford Day, 50 years old.
He got done for drink-driving five years ago.
I'm picking him up now.
You got the address from the DVLA? Yep, and checked back to '88.
He lived in Norwich, only 30 miles from the Cherry Tree Farm.
I don't want you going there unaccompanied.
OK? I know who Clifford Day is.
Penny Coulter was a mole, he was her handler.
Spence, you're not going in there alone.
Spence? Shit! What? Comment ca tu arrives pas a envoyer le message? Bon, tu retournes a la boite de reception.
Sorry, it's my mum.
Voila.
Oui, et tu presses le curseur sur le carnet d'addresses.
Apres, tu as une fenetre qui apparait.
Maman, je suis au bolout, la! Je ne sais pa, un cadre, un encadrement! Voila, bon, tu descends par ca, et il y a un petit cadre.
Maintenant tu as I'addresse qui apparait.
Apres, tu ecris ce que tu veux dan I'encadre, et quand tu as termine EXPLOSION ALARM BLARES Get some water! There's been a chemical attack.
I need paramedics now.
Yeah, right now.
One, two, three, lift.
Spence? Hello! Samples from the contaminated book haven't revealed any harmful bacteria.
What's her condition? We need to get her to a hospital as soon as possible, sir.
We're being followed.
It looks like you were trying to corrupt it.
I trust Spencer Jordan.
Where is he now? I don't know.
I didn't even know your father was a police officer.
I'm sorry, no-one's allowed to leave yet.
This is about Cherry Tree Farm, isn't it? I don't want to give up working for you.
The man is armed, and my witness is seriously injured.
It's not about saving lives.
We've a moral, ethical position.
Did you kill Jackie Holmes and Marcus Coulter? Hang in there, Spence, we're on it.
Spence!