Waking the Dead (2000) s07e09 Episode Script
Wounds: Part 1
Look, for the last time, I don't know her.
Jimmy! Argh! Argh! Hi.
Hi.
You look like you're going down the mines! So, the body's in a chamber accessed by a tunnel over there.
What d'you mean, "a chamber"? There was a big road protest in '95 with protestors chaining themselves to trees, hanging out in tunnels.
They lived underground? Yeah.
For months and months.
Yeah, it took the police ages to evict them.
So, this credit card is the only ID? At the moment, yeah.
Bit convenient.
Certainly is.
I'll check the site manager, see if there's any other access.
OK.
Grace, I've rigged up a monitor on this laptop to connect to the camera in my helmet.
Oh.
Oh, so I don't get to crawl down any tunnels.
No.
How much crawling is there? There's a fair bit.
It's limited in some spaces.
You'll need these to stop cross-contamination, you'll be on all fours.
How limited? It really is limited, isn't it? Er, right.
Going in, Grace.
Be careful down there.
Yeah, I think it's just through here.
In the chamber, Grace.
There's something coming through now.
It looks like a wounded animal.
A beautiful specimen of adipocere.
What? Adipocere, grave wax, caused by hydrolysis of fats in the body.
Takes several months of warm, wet conditions for it to form.
Air ventilation shafts are blocked.
Yeah.
And there.
And another one there.
So he suffocated, did he? No, this is almost certainly what killed him - blunt force trauma to the right parietal bone.
Grace, the body's in an upright position, seated, hands and feet are tied with what looks like plastic-coated rope.
Yeah, there's something in his hands too.
Yeah, it's what looks like a can of sardines.
Plastic extrusion bag.
'U-Gro' Garden Centre logo.
Dental records are a match.
Great, so this is Christopher Dearden, 41, married, one son, worked for an air conditioning company in South London.
He went missing on 24 May 1996.
From an account made by his wife, he made regular work trips to Nigeria and he was on his way to a conference on cooler units in Lagos.
The investigation said there was no flight booked, plus he left his passport at home.
Not if he was going to Lagos.
Exactly.
Frank Monk, the landscape gardener, said he found his passport in Dearden's shed.
Understandable - he's a gardener so he had access.
Yeah, it's an odd place to leave your passport.
Because of the passport and his disappearance and that he was drinking heavily and depressed, they concluded it was suicide.
Which it wasn't, was it, Eve, cos he was killed and dumped in this burial site? Well, hardly dumped.
Ok, he was placed or whatever, sitting, whatever you want to say, and the cause of death was? Several blows to the skull resulting in an extradural haematoma.
OK.
Now these bags from the garden centre, what've you got on them? I'm checking it out.
U-Gro Nurseries have 17 sites across the south of England.
I also found blood in the bags, same blood group as Dearden.
So, these bags were used to carry the body to this site? Possibly, I took samples from the body and the bag which I've sent off to Kew but indications suggest that the soil was too alkaline for the area.
So they killed him elsewhere, then carried the body.
Maybe.
Maybe it was some kind of gangland thing, you know, a warning.
I'm not sure it's been hidden.
Look how the body was placed, and his hands were behind him and he was holding that tin of sardines, it could've been offerings, gifts for the afterlife, like the Vikings and the Egyptians.
OK, this site was created by these protestors who didn't want - the diggers to go through - The last protestor to be evicted was in October 1995.
Dearden disappeared eight months later.
So he's not related to them? They must've known the tunnels so maybe there is some correlation.
I'm really sorry.
It's just Oh, it's just silly, isn't it? I mean we knew that this was going to happen one day, it's just that How soon can you release the body? So the family can make arrangements, you know.
Can I clarify something here? In the original investigation it stated that you were a family friend but I'm getting the impression that you're part of the family.
Yeah, we were at school together.
And? Lucy contacted me to do some work in the garden, I'm a landscaper Jimmy.
- Oh, Jimmy.
Hello.
- It's about Dad, isn't it? Yes, we've found your father's body.
Where? Shepton.
There are some old tunnels there.
Do you know them? Mrs Dearden.
Yes.
Thank you.
When your husband disappeared, you said he was depressed, distant and you didn't know what - Should we be discussing this in front of Jimmy? - Yes.
Do you think his emotional state had anything to do with the fact that you were having an affair? You were having an affair? It started a long time before that.
The affair or the depression? The depression.
Look, if this was suicide, why are we going through all this again? When we discovered the body, Where are you going? Out! Jimmy? Jimmy.
Leave him.
Look, leave him.
I'll see to him.
OK.
Hi, Luke, it's me.
I've been trying to find out about somewhere a bit better for you to Somewhere a bit better for you to stay.
So, can you call me? Erm hope you're all right.
And then we can talk about it.
Love you.
How many has that been? This is Road Protestor Number 12.
Harold Bloom? What's the matter? Your mother find out about us? Were you cautioned for the possession of cannabis at Shepton Road? Now I recognise you.
Course.
The anti-capitalism gig at Davos.
Funny.
Just answer the question.
I wanted to leave my skid mark on the world.
For a time we had the whole thing rolling backwards.
How long were you there? Couple of weeks.
So you knew about the tunnels? Yeah, course.
Well, so did your lot.
They weren't any big secret, were they? I've got a list of some of the protestors we've traced.
Are you in contact with any of them? No.
Anybody that's not on the list? Go on, have a look.
What's this about? Have a look.
No.
We've found a body in the tunnels.
A Christopher Dearden.
Do you know him? Well, hopefully it's the dickhead that pulled my girlfriend.
Oh, yeah.
Left my wife, kids, everything.
We'd barely got there and she disappeared with this bloke wearing ribbons Horrible.
No, I don't know him.
While you were there, did you take part in any rituals? I did a bit of linking hands, dancing naked for the solstice.
Were you aware of any sacrifices or burials? Well, there was a hardcore who wanted to push things to the limits.
They'd have sacrificed a virgin if they could.
How can you be sure they didn't? No virgins.
- We don't think this is a good idea, Jimmy.
- I want to see the body.
OK, Jimmy, just wait outside.
Give me one minute.
Thanks.
Jimmy doesn't believe his father's dead and he needs to face reality.
So you'll hit him with a corpse that's been rotting in a tunnel? We can't protect him.
There's no happy ending.
What do you mean? He's not a child.
He wants to see his father's body.
If that helps him come to terms with it Shouldn't he remember his father how he was? He has to grieve.
I don't see the point of showing him a bag of bones.
I will make sure he knows what to expect.
Jimmy, will you come with me, please? Not you, Mr Monk.
You won't let him go on his own he's just a boy.
He's not on his own.
Maybe I should go with him.
Did he say that's what he wanted? Do they ever? Ready? Why is he sitting up? That's how we found him.
Jimmy? Jimmy? Jimmy? We can go now.
That's not my dad.
Jimmy, we know it is.
That's not my dad.
My dad is in Africa.
I found this in Dearden's body.
It's some sort of locket, it's bronze and I'm running tests to discover its origin.
OK.
Contained inside it I also found some powder which I'm testing.
What, powder, as in drugs? Possibly.
Dearden's bones.
Right.
They had a much spongier appearance than I'd expect to find in a man of his age.
What, are you talking brittle bones? Right.
Osteoporosis.
I've come to see Jimmy.
You've seen him, now leave, OK? I want to talk to him.
Why take him to see his father's body? He wanted to go.
He's an impressionable kid! He's not a kid, he's 19 years old.
And what's it got to do with you? You stay out of my family's business, yeah?! Your family! Your family?! Look at you, yeah? Playing the big man in your shithole! With all your bunch of losers! All right, boys.
You all right? You all right? You've never seen it before? No.
It might be Chris's.
I don't know.
I've never seen it.
Towards the end we weren't we weren't very close.
So you wouldn't have known if he was ill? I don't know what you mean.
He had osteoporosis.
Yeah, the post-mortem found that he had this bone disease.
And you had no idea? Is that a yes, or a no? Did you have any idea? No.
No.
Thank you.
Why does Jimmy think that his father has been in Africa all this time? Because he finds it very hard to accept that his dad's dead.
It's understandable, isn't it? Look, Chris worked away a lot, he was always working in Africa and he used to fill Jimmy's head with stories.
He used to say things like he was working undercover for the Nigerians or, I dunno, he was having secret meetings, going to special training camps and Jimmy would just believe them.
- Hello.
- What's that? It's stuff from the bonfire.
It's my Dad's stuff.
Why are you burning it, then? What's it to you? Mind if I sit down? Frank burnt it.
Frank burnt it? - Yeah.
- Oh.
Do you recognise this? It's my dad's.
Got it on his last trip to Africa.
Said a witch doctor gave it to him.
I want to help you, Jimmy.
I want to find out what happened to your father.
I know what happened.
What happened? He was working with a group called The Awkward Squad.
Awkward Squad.
What's that? I can't say.
It's secret.
I understand.
So what was your dad doing with them? It was some sort of mercenary I'm not sure.
Told me that he wanted to protect me.
He didn't want to make me a target.
So your dad was in Africa working with this mercenary group? He said he was going over to make things right.
And that he'd sort things out and then he'd come back to me.
And you think he's still in Africa? What the hell has this to do with you? It's a murder investigation and you were destroying evidence relevant to that investigation.
But it had been there for years, it was just junk.
Like books and maps.
Jimmy wasted hours in there.
So you did it to stop Jimmy wasting his time? they know how to raise my kid? He's not your kid.
You see the problem I have is that Dearden disappears, you're already having an affair with Mrs Dearden and then, as soon as his body reappears, you start building bonfires.
I was angry.
With what? Look, I'd spent ten years trying to get through to this kid, trying to connect with him, then with this body, I find out that the reason I'm there is cos this guy Coleridge refused to take him.
Who's Coleridge? He's Jimmy's boss.
He's like some big hero to him.
And we end up in a fight, which is why I've got Yeah, I was wondering what that was.
Hmm.
So what was the fight about? He doesn't think I'm fit to replace Jimmy's dad.
So, he knew Chris Dearden? Yeah, Chris used to take Jimmy down the Youth Centre when he was a kid.
Yeah, he got a slap round the face.
It was nothing more than he deserved.
Oh.
Nice jab.
He's got talent that kid.
Yeah, he's got anger.
He used to take it out on himself.
Now he channels it.
That's Jimmy over there.
Right, OK.
I'm gonna go and Can he box? He's decked a few people in his time, yeah.
So what happened with Frank Monk? What was it about? He took Jimmy to see his father's body and then burnt his possessions.
What would you have done? How long have you done this? I give them something of what it takes to be men.
It takes more than knowing how to hit to be a man, doesn't it? This guy lost three years of his life to crack cocaine.
Now look at him.
Oh, right, but they're not all addicts, are they? No, no, but they're not the most communicative bunch.
So when they want to talk I make sure that I'm around to listen.
And how is Jimmy doing? He's OK.
It's taking a while for it to sink in.
Did you know his dad well or.
.
? Yeah, yeah, he used to bring Jimmy here for kids' football.
Jimmy! How are you doing? PHONE RINGS Excuse me.
How's he doing? Is he ok? Not bad, yeah.
Yeah? Luke? Luke.
Luke! It's a bad signal area.
Yeah.
Luke? Come on, come on.
Even though Nigeria is a Christian and a Muslim country, a belief in black magic is still endemic across both communities.
So you're sticking to this ritual burial African-style? Well, yes.
I mean because it's a possibility and we know he spent time in Africa.
Right, but what about The Awkward Squad? I think that came from his father's stories.
I mean you can imagine a kid believing in it.
I can imagine a kid, we're talking about a 19-year-old.
The belief that his dad might still be involved in undercover work gives Jimmy a psychic refuge.
But there's a reality now.
We have proved his father is dead.
Internal object? The image he's got in his head of his dad.
And I think that by seeking to get us to believe in the Awkward Squad, it keeps his father alive.
In his head? Yes.
Which has got to be a mess.
He's got Frank bringing him in to see the body Coleridge saying no, you shouldn't be doing that, and these are important people in his life.
Why didn't his mother bring him in? I found fragments of a dark blue paint embedded in the fibres of Dearden's shorts, and comparisons show that it's car paint, from a Vauxhall, older style, like an Astra or a Cavalier.
They discontinued this blue colour in the 1980s.
I'll check it out, OK? Yeah, I'll come with you.
Can you take that? Thanks.
What is that smell? It's Dearden's adipocere.
I've been boiling it.
You're boiling a body?! Only a bit of it.
Right, when I exposed the skull I saw these scratches which you can see seem to have been made by a bevelled edged blade, you can tell by the V-shaped curved floor.
See where it slipped? So they cut into the scalp? Possibly, yeah.
Pre- or post-mortem? I'd say post-mortem because the line traverses the fracture causing the haemorrhage.
Is there any brain tissue present? No.
Why? I'm thinking of a Nigerian ritual killing.
They would harvest blood and body parts to make potions.
The brain is the source of intelligence so they believe that if the source So you eat it and become more intelligent.
Look, for the last time, I don't know her.
Dearden's last visit to Lagos was in April.
He was due back on the 14th but has a taxi receipt from Heathrow on the 16th.
He changed his flight? I checked.
He flew back from Benin, courtesy of the British consulate.
OK, check with the Foreign Office.
Yup.
These don't look very official.
It doesn't make any sense.
If he was a mercenary he wouldn't keep records, would he? I know.
These taxi receipts are all the same handwriting, same driver.
We've met this person.
You used to drive taxis, yeah? Yeah, in the dim and distant.
Yeah, well it's the dim and distant I'm concerned with.
Right, now, this man.
You lied to me, you told me you didn't know him.
No.
You used to take him to the airport every time he went to Nigeria.
Did I? Mm.
Oh, er I don't remember.
No.
What colour what was it? Sorry.
You had no tax, no insurance, no private hire licence? Well, it was an old banger.
I was broke, stoney, stoney broke.
What kind of old banger? Was it a Vauxhall? And did you carry Dearden's body in the boot and bury him in the tunnel? I used to have fluffy dice if that helps.
Did you carry Dearden's body in the boot and bury him in the tunnel? The big end went, and it wasn't worth repairing so I sold it for scrap and I used the cash to get into my records.
Where did you sell it? Somewhere.
Essex.
When? I don't know.
Christopher Dearden could have had any taxi he wanted, yeah? But instead, he chose an old banger.
'Jimmy Jimmy.
' 'Jimmy!' Guess what? Dearden actually got himself arrested on his last trip to Nigeria but they wouldn't tell me what for.
No records.
No, but someone at the Foreign Office over here interceded on his behalf.
Mr Findlay, do you know a man named Christopher Dearden? No, sorry.
He worked for a company called J-Tech.
No.
You authorised the payment to secure the release of Christopher Dearden from the Nigerian authorities which is strange because your area of responsibility at the time was Latin America.
Maybe I was filling in for someone.
Why was he detained by the Nigerian authorities? No idea.
Was your intervention sanctioned? What? The payment you made, was it a bribe, was it under the table or was it kosher? What? We made many, many payments, both official and unofficial over many years.
So, Awkward Squad, Nigerian militia group, was he detained because of that? I received many calls both day and night about many subjects.
I can't remember them each individually.
That's weird, because he had your home phone number.
Bastard! The powder that I extracted from Dearden's locket It has a very high keratin content.
That's the stuff that human hair is made of.
Yes, but in this case electrophoresis shows it's Rhino horn! Rhino horn, which is made of hair, unlike cows, which have a high calcium core.
Does that fit your African theory? It doesn't, cos it's Chinese.
It's a Chinese theory now? It's a cure for erectile dysfunction.
Was he impotent? Is that why he used it? Does it work then, this rhino horn? Obviously not, if his wife was having an affair.
Get in.
You've put on weight.
Yeah, I'm in love.
Same old Bloomy.
Yeah, you're a funny guy.
We agreed not to meet.
Police got me in.
Shit.
Did you tell them anything? What do you think? We agreed on our story ten years ago, so why are we here? It's out.
What's out? It!! It!! What is wrong with you? When did you become so bloody spineless? Look, calm down.
Didn't you get the letter? Yes.
So? We shouldn't be meeting.
So what do we do? We go home.
We live our lives.
Things are starting to happen! Oh, f! Thank you.
I told you meeting was a mistake.
No! No! Come here! No, no, no! Let him go! Don't answer it! Kew Gardens came back on the samples I found in the bags and on the body, and the soil is from a particular type of deciduous woodland, beech forest.
It's only found in these areas shaded red.
Does this give us a murder scene? Well, the south of England? No, but I can be more specific.
The seed pods belong to Cephalanthera rubra Red helleborine.
It's an extremely rare orchid and it only grows in three places in the country - Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Bucks.
Disposal of the body's often the most dangerous part of the crime for a killer, so he minimises his risk by not travelling too far with the body.
However this is not a normal dump site, this was chosen specifically.
There's a ritual involved with the disposal of the body, it was arranged.
Yes, and also both shoes contained grave soil, which would indicate that they were removed post mortem.
The burial was ritualistic, I absolutely accept, I don't argue with that.
But if the murder was ritualistic, it would've happened in the chamber to cut down travel time? Possibly.
Because that didn't happen, the murder was unplanned, spontaneous and could've happened anywhere In these areas shaded red.
Yeah.
You didn't accompany Jimmy when he came to see the body.
He didn't ask.
Oh.
How did you feel? I'm used to it.
I think Jimmy blames me for his dad's disappearance.
But Jimmy thinks his dad's in Africa, so how can he blame you? Sorry, that It wasn't what I meant.
I didn't mean to say that, sorry.
Are you sure you don't blame yourself? Did your husband know about your affair? He never said anything.
That was par for the course with Chris though, wasn't it? I mean, he didn't tell you that he was ill.
So, do you think he knew? Yes.
Mrs Dearden, were you and your husband physically intimate? Do we have to talk about this? I need an answer to the question.
Please.
The more distant we became, I think I think the more difficult Chris found it.
It was impossible.
We found traces of what we think is an aphrodisiac in his locket.
I found this card.
It was It was in his suit.
I found it about a year or so after Chris disappeared.
Thank you very much.
All right? Right, that is it, now.
We're going home, you can't keep dragging us in here.
This is a murder investigation, I can do what I like.
What do you think you'll find out? Don't come the attitude.
I've got the attitude? Do you want to go back inside? Frank! You're making everything worse.
Let's just go home.
There's something that we haven't told you.
Lucy, please.
No.
He phoned Chris.
The night that he disappeared.
He phoned and left a message.
MACHINE: Lucy or Jimmy after the tone.
Thanks for calling.
Bye.
'Jimmy? 'Jimmy, are you there? 'It's me.
It's Dad.
' Who for? It was for Jimmy.
'Listen, son.
'I've been in a bit of a mess, 'but I've realised that 'I've not seen enough of you, you know, and 'Well, that's gonna change.
'I love you.
I love the bones of you, son' He was ranting and raving about how he was sorry and how he loved him.
As if just saying the words are gonna make everything OK.
What did you do with the message? I erased it.
There isn't a day goes by when I don't regret what I've done.
Does Jimmy know? Please, Luce.
Does Jimmy know? No, he doesn't.
This is a man who ignored his son during his life I've got the card.
Right, then he calls his son saying I love you just before he dies.
Well, maybe he's guilty or maybe he knows he'll die.
It wasn't suicide, right? OK, and this man, Frank Monk, erases the call.
Yep.
Jealousy? Yeah, but he has the motive to kill Chris Dearden, because he has the most to gain, the wife and the son.
The body was found near growbags, and he is a gardener.
So all things point to Frank Monk, all right? Now, the call.
What about it? Records were only kept of phone calls made but I think I've got a solution.
The red areas are where that rare orchid is found.
The seeds Eve found? Exactly, but if we compare it with the locations of U-Gro nurseries and then look at the nearest nursery to Shepton with that same alkaline soil composition We can then trace all calls made within a 20-mile radius.
Go on then, do it.
Give me the card.
Details are inside.
So our turnover's risen from 10,000 to 3 million in a decade.
You didn't come here to talk about my business.
What do you want? I want to talk to you about Chris Dearden.
Yeah? What about him? He's dead.
Dead? Mm.
He received one of your cards.
It's got your logo on the back and I assume it's signed by you.
It says "Good luck, Hursty.
" Where did you get that card? His wife found it in one of his suits after he went missing.
Now, I should stress that isn't our usual standard.
I'm not looking to place an order.
Tell me about Dearden.
This was a guy, we met in a pub.
Which pub? It would've been somewhere central.
We got talking, I printed the card to cheer him up.
So you meet a guy in a pub and then make a special card for him using his nickname, "Deardo.
" Well, friends call me Hursty.
I'm sure your friends have got a name for you.
But he wasn't really a friend, was he? And then you sent him a card making reference to his sexual performance? Sometimes people find it easier to talk to strangers.
OK How did you know you were going to see him again? I mean, did you exchange numbers? No, he said he was a regular so I took a chance.
Oh, in this pub that you don't even remember the name of? It was a long time ago.
Yeah.
Hi.
Phew! What's the matter? Nothing.
Just some boxes fell over.
It was nothing.
I came straight from the airport.
'Jimmy.
' 'Jimmy!' 'Jimmy.
' 'Yes, Jimmy' 'Jimmy!' So now we've got Hurst who's not coming clean about his friendship with Dearden.
I ran him through the system.
No previous, no military records, nothing.
Sorry.
I got this from the paintbrush.
AS, anyone? You're not serious? Awkward Squad is a pub quiz team! I know the answers.
She was in that soap opera and he was in that boys' band.
They didn't get them right, they got this old woman.
She was in the Carry On films.
A footballer.
No, a pop star.
How many kinds of writing? Three or four, so get comparison tests with the card and receipts.
OK.
So the Awkward Squad is a pub quiz team.
There may be more of them.
OK.
Find out where Dearden went drinking and see if they still do quizzes there.
There you go, Mr Findlay.
Make yourself comfortable.
'The doors are all locked, Mr Findlay.
'Mr Findlay, would you like to introduce yourself?' Josh Findlay.
Hello Josh Findlay.
'Harold, please introduce yourself.
' Hi, Josh, I'm Harold.
'Michael?' Yes? 'Please introduce yourself to Harold and Josh.
' Hello, Harold.
Hello, Michael.
Hello, Josh.
Would you like a drink? For the last time, I don't know her.
Yeah, yeah, no, you stay there, mate.
I'll get them in.
Geography, we need you and Finders on this one.
All right, No-Bollocks? When the cow jumped over the moon, what ran away with the spoon? Pub quizzes, the Awkward Squad, yes? One person missing.
QUIZMASTER: And now a London question.
On what street is the Cenotaph? Whitehall.
Which year did the Pilgrim Fathers arrive in America? 'Come on, get it right, get a pint.
' It's wrong but stick it down.
'All right, let's go on to the photo round.
' Mr Findlay, underneath the table there is a brown envelope.
'Would you please open the envelope and put the photograph on the table.
' If I must.
'Thank you.
' Do you recognise the man in the photograph, Mr Bloom? Who is it, Mr Bloom? What's his name? Erm What's his name, Mr Bloom? Deardo.
What is the point of this? Christopher Dearden.
Mr Findlay, 'do you recognise the man in the photograph?' No.
'Mr Hurst, you must because you gave him a card.
' That's Dearden, that's 'Right.
' 'What is the largest mammal?' I know that.
'You're missing him, aren't you? You're missing Christopher Dearden.
'Mr Bloom, do you miss him? Do you know what happened to him? Why did the Awkward Squad pack in? 'Why did the pub quizzes all stop?' 'How long were you a pub quiz team for? Behind you, Mr Findlay, 'there is another envelope with a photograph in it.
'Thank you.
' 'of a decaying corpse.
'Have you ever seen this corpse before? 'Or this body in this position?' Will you sit down? Can you sit down? What's he doing? Hallucinating.
Can you sit down! It's so obvious that they all know each other.
The hierarchy goes Findlay, Hurst, Bloom, right? Bloom's the weak link.
Didn't you notice how Hurst deferred to him? OK.
Got up and gave him his seat? Our body was found facing the north, yeah? The ritual of the burial is very similar to that of the Navajo, in that the Navajo believe that the world of the dead is towards north.
The tying up, the swapping of the shoes were all intended to make the body unserviceable to the evil spirits, the Chindi.
The Chindi are the evil spirits.
So what about the chopping off of the fingertips? They believe that your fingertips and your hair is where the evil spirits enter the body.
Oh.
OK? So the purpose of the whole burial was to prevent the ghost from entering and haunting the living.
I understand the purpose of the Navajo ritual.
Why did it happen to a white male in England? Well, maybe the killer was a believer.
Right, these guys, what are they? An offshoot tribal cult thing that's It's a possibility.
Yeah, it is.
The behaviour of the disposal of the body tells you that someone believes in evil spirits.
Yeah, look at Bloom, he was freaking out in the Fantastic.
.
.
in the interview room.
It was from a phone box.
What was? The call was made from a phone box, now disconnected.
Could you give me the location? Jimmy! Connect! What was that? A fox.
You OK? -Yeah.
What have you got? Vauxhall car keys.
These could be Bloom's.
OK, great.
Log them and put them next to that clothes line.
OK.
Eve.
Yeah? These look like volcanic rocks and, as we're not in a volcanic area, they must have been brought in.
So how many are there? Right, we need them up, and bag them and back to the lab.
Something horrible's happened here.
No No! Aaa-argh! Get out! Bloom! Bloom! Check it out.
Sir? Ah Fingertips missing, left and right hands.
Ghosts are a way of getting rid of guilt or fear.
Fragment of polymer plastic compound.
And that's the murder weapon, is it? I wish you'd never found that body.
Luke? Do you think they were being blackmailed? Either they're involved in the murder or they're witnesses to it.
Jimmy! You need to help me We abandoned him, Frank! We didn't, we didn't.
We did, we should've And you destroyed all three of them! What? What is it?
Jimmy! Argh! Argh! Hi.
Hi.
You look like you're going down the mines! So, the body's in a chamber accessed by a tunnel over there.
What d'you mean, "a chamber"? There was a big road protest in '95 with protestors chaining themselves to trees, hanging out in tunnels.
They lived underground? Yeah.
For months and months.
Yeah, it took the police ages to evict them.
So, this credit card is the only ID? At the moment, yeah.
Bit convenient.
Certainly is.
I'll check the site manager, see if there's any other access.
OK.
Grace, I've rigged up a monitor on this laptop to connect to the camera in my helmet.
Oh.
Oh, so I don't get to crawl down any tunnels.
No.
How much crawling is there? There's a fair bit.
It's limited in some spaces.
You'll need these to stop cross-contamination, you'll be on all fours.
How limited? It really is limited, isn't it? Er, right.
Going in, Grace.
Be careful down there.
Yeah, I think it's just through here.
In the chamber, Grace.
There's something coming through now.
It looks like a wounded animal.
A beautiful specimen of adipocere.
What? Adipocere, grave wax, caused by hydrolysis of fats in the body.
Takes several months of warm, wet conditions for it to form.
Air ventilation shafts are blocked.
Yeah.
And there.
And another one there.
So he suffocated, did he? No, this is almost certainly what killed him - blunt force trauma to the right parietal bone.
Grace, the body's in an upright position, seated, hands and feet are tied with what looks like plastic-coated rope.
Yeah, there's something in his hands too.
Yeah, it's what looks like a can of sardines.
Plastic extrusion bag.
'U-Gro' Garden Centre logo.
Dental records are a match.
Great, so this is Christopher Dearden, 41, married, one son, worked for an air conditioning company in South London.
He went missing on 24 May 1996.
From an account made by his wife, he made regular work trips to Nigeria and he was on his way to a conference on cooler units in Lagos.
The investigation said there was no flight booked, plus he left his passport at home.
Not if he was going to Lagos.
Exactly.
Frank Monk, the landscape gardener, said he found his passport in Dearden's shed.
Understandable - he's a gardener so he had access.
Yeah, it's an odd place to leave your passport.
Because of the passport and his disappearance and that he was drinking heavily and depressed, they concluded it was suicide.
Which it wasn't, was it, Eve, cos he was killed and dumped in this burial site? Well, hardly dumped.
Ok, he was placed or whatever, sitting, whatever you want to say, and the cause of death was? Several blows to the skull resulting in an extradural haematoma.
OK.
Now these bags from the garden centre, what've you got on them? I'm checking it out.
U-Gro Nurseries have 17 sites across the south of England.
I also found blood in the bags, same blood group as Dearden.
So, these bags were used to carry the body to this site? Possibly, I took samples from the body and the bag which I've sent off to Kew but indications suggest that the soil was too alkaline for the area.
So they killed him elsewhere, then carried the body.
Maybe.
Maybe it was some kind of gangland thing, you know, a warning.
I'm not sure it's been hidden.
Look how the body was placed, and his hands were behind him and he was holding that tin of sardines, it could've been offerings, gifts for the afterlife, like the Vikings and the Egyptians.
OK, this site was created by these protestors who didn't want - the diggers to go through - The last protestor to be evicted was in October 1995.
Dearden disappeared eight months later.
So he's not related to them? They must've known the tunnels so maybe there is some correlation.
I'm really sorry.
It's just Oh, it's just silly, isn't it? I mean we knew that this was going to happen one day, it's just that How soon can you release the body? So the family can make arrangements, you know.
Can I clarify something here? In the original investigation it stated that you were a family friend but I'm getting the impression that you're part of the family.
Yeah, we were at school together.
And? Lucy contacted me to do some work in the garden, I'm a landscaper Jimmy.
- Oh, Jimmy.
Hello.
- It's about Dad, isn't it? Yes, we've found your father's body.
Where? Shepton.
There are some old tunnels there.
Do you know them? Mrs Dearden.
Yes.
Thank you.
When your husband disappeared, you said he was depressed, distant and you didn't know what - Should we be discussing this in front of Jimmy? - Yes.
Do you think his emotional state had anything to do with the fact that you were having an affair? You were having an affair? It started a long time before that.
The affair or the depression? The depression.
Look, if this was suicide, why are we going through all this again? When we discovered the body, Where are you going? Out! Jimmy? Jimmy.
Leave him.
Look, leave him.
I'll see to him.
OK.
Hi, Luke, it's me.
I've been trying to find out about somewhere a bit better for you to Somewhere a bit better for you to stay.
So, can you call me? Erm hope you're all right.
And then we can talk about it.
Love you.
How many has that been? This is Road Protestor Number 12.
Harold Bloom? What's the matter? Your mother find out about us? Were you cautioned for the possession of cannabis at Shepton Road? Now I recognise you.
Course.
The anti-capitalism gig at Davos.
Funny.
Just answer the question.
I wanted to leave my skid mark on the world.
For a time we had the whole thing rolling backwards.
How long were you there? Couple of weeks.
So you knew about the tunnels? Yeah, course.
Well, so did your lot.
They weren't any big secret, were they? I've got a list of some of the protestors we've traced.
Are you in contact with any of them? No.
Anybody that's not on the list? Go on, have a look.
What's this about? Have a look.
No.
We've found a body in the tunnels.
A Christopher Dearden.
Do you know him? Well, hopefully it's the dickhead that pulled my girlfriend.
Oh, yeah.
Left my wife, kids, everything.
We'd barely got there and she disappeared with this bloke wearing ribbons Horrible.
No, I don't know him.
While you were there, did you take part in any rituals? I did a bit of linking hands, dancing naked for the solstice.
Were you aware of any sacrifices or burials? Well, there was a hardcore who wanted to push things to the limits.
They'd have sacrificed a virgin if they could.
How can you be sure they didn't? No virgins.
- We don't think this is a good idea, Jimmy.
- I want to see the body.
OK, Jimmy, just wait outside.
Give me one minute.
Thanks.
Jimmy doesn't believe his father's dead and he needs to face reality.
So you'll hit him with a corpse that's been rotting in a tunnel? We can't protect him.
There's no happy ending.
What do you mean? He's not a child.
He wants to see his father's body.
If that helps him come to terms with it Shouldn't he remember his father how he was? He has to grieve.
I don't see the point of showing him a bag of bones.
I will make sure he knows what to expect.
Jimmy, will you come with me, please? Not you, Mr Monk.
You won't let him go on his own he's just a boy.
He's not on his own.
Maybe I should go with him.
Did he say that's what he wanted? Do they ever? Ready? Why is he sitting up? That's how we found him.
Jimmy? Jimmy? Jimmy? We can go now.
That's not my dad.
Jimmy, we know it is.
That's not my dad.
My dad is in Africa.
I found this in Dearden's body.
It's some sort of locket, it's bronze and I'm running tests to discover its origin.
OK.
Contained inside it I also found some powder which I'm testing.
What, powder, as in drugs? Possibly.
Dearden's bones.
Right.
They had a much spongier appearance than I'd expect to find in a man of his age.
What, are you talking brittle bones? Right.
Osteoporosis.
I've come to see Jimmy.
You've seen him, now leave, OK? I want to talk to him.
Why take him to see his father's body? He wanted to go.
He's an impressionable kid! He's not a kid, he's 19 years old.
And what's it got to do with you? You stay out of my family's business, yeah?! Your family! Your family?! Look at you, yeah? Playing the big man in your shithole! With all your bunch of losers! All right, boys.
You all right? You all right? You've never seen it before? No.
It might be Chris's.
I don't know.
I've never seen it.
Towards the end we weren't we weren't very close.
So you wouldn't have known if he was ill? I don't know what you mean.
He had osteoporosis.
Yeah, the post-mortem found that he had this bone disease.
And you had no idea? Is that a yes, or a no? Did you have any idea? No.
No.
Thank you.
Why does Jimmy think that his father has been in Africa all this time? Because he finds it very hard to accept that his dad's dead.
It's understandable, isn't it? Look, Chris worked away a lot, he was always working in Africa and he used to fill Jimmy's head with stories.
He used to say things like he was working undercover for the Nigerians or, I dunno, he was having secret meetings, going to special training camps and Jimmy would just believe them.
- Hello.
- What's that? It's stuff from the bonfire.
It's my Dad's stuff.
Why are you burning it, then? What's it to you? Mind if I sit down? Frank burnt it.
Frank burnt it? - Yeah.
- Oh.
Do you recognise this? It's my dad's.
Got it on his last trip to Africa.
Said a witch doctor gave it to him.
I want to help you, Jimmy.
I want to find out what happened to your father.
I know what happened.
What happened? He was working with a group called The Awkward Squad.
Awkward Squad.
What's that? I can't say.
It's secret.
I understand.
So what was your dad doing with them? It was some sort of mercenary I'm not sure.
Told me that he wanted to protect me.
He didn't want to make me a target.
So your dad was in Africa working with this mercenary group? He said he was going over to make things right.
And that he'd sort things out and then he'd come back to me.
And you think he's still in Africa? What the hell has this to do with you? It's a murder investigation and you were destroying evidence relevant to that investigation.
But it had been there for years, it was just junk.
Like books and maps.
Jimmy wasted hours in there.
So you did it to stop Jimmy wasting his time? they know how to raise my kid? He's not your kid.
You see the problem I have is that Dearden disappears, you're already having an affair with Mrs Dearden and then, as soon as his body reappears, you start building bonfires.
I was angry.
With what? Look, I'd spent ten years trying to get through to this kid, trying to connect with him, then with this body, I find out that the reason I'm there is cos this guy Coleridge refused to take him.
Who's Coleridge? He's Jimmy's boss.
He's like some big hero to him.
And we end up in a fight, which is why I've got Yeah, I was wondering what that was.
Hmm.
So what was the fight about? He doesn't think I'm fit to replace Jimmy's dad.
So, he knew Chris Dearden? Yeah, Chris used to take Jimmy down the Youth Centre when he was a kid.
Yeah, he got a slap round the face.
It was nothing more than he deserved.
Oh.
Nice jab.
He's got talent that kid.
Yeah, he's got anger.
He used to take it out on himself.
Now he channels it.
That's Jimmy over there.
Right, OK.
I'm gonna go and Can he box? He's decked a few people in his time, yeah.
So what happened with Frank Monk? What was it about? He took Jimmy to see his father's body and then burnt his possessions.
What would you have done? How long have you done this? I give them something of what it takes to be men.
It takes more than knowing how to hit to be a man, doesn't it? This guy lost three years of his life to crack cocaine.
Now look at him.
Oh, right, but they're not all addicts, are they? No, no, but they're not the most communicative bunch.
So when they want to talk I make sure that I'm around to listen.
And how is Jimmy doing? He's OK.
It's taking a while for it to sink in.
Did you know his dad well or.
.
? Yeah, yeah, he used to bring Jimmy here for kids' football.
Jimmy! How are you doing? PHONE RINGS Excuse me.
How's he doing? Is he ok? Not bad, yeah.
Yeah? Luke? Luke.
Luke! It's a bad signal area.
Yeah.
Luke? Come on, come on.
Even though Nigeria is a Christian and a Muslim country, a belief in black magic is still endemic across both communities.
So you're sticking to this ritual burial African-style? Well, yes.
I mean because it's a possibility and we know he spent time in Africa.
Right, but what about The Awkward Squad? I think that came from his father's stories.
I mean you can imagine a kid believing in it.
I can imagine a kid, we're talking about a 19-year-old.
The belief that his dad might still be involved in undercover work gives Jimmy a psychic refuge.
But there's a reality now.
We have proved his father is dead.
Internal object? The image he's got in his head of his dad.
And I think that by seeking to get us to believe in the Awkward Squad, it keeps his father alive.
In his head? Yes.
Which has got to be a mess.
He's got Frank bringing him in to see the body Coleridge saying no, you shouldn't be doing that, and these are important people in his life.
Why didn't his mother bring him in? I found fragments of a dark blue paint embedded in the fibres of Dearden's shorts, and comparisons show that it's car paint, from a Vauxhall, older style, like an Astra or a Cavalier.
They discontinued this blue colour in the 1980s.
I'll check it out, OK? Yeah, I'll come with you.
Can you take that? Thanks.
What is that smell? It's Dearden's adipocere.
I've been boiling it.
You're boiling a body?! Only a bit of it.
Right, when I exposed the skull I saw these scratches which you can see seem to have been made by a bevelled edged blade, you can tell by the V-shaped curved floor.
See where it slipped? So they cut into the scalp? Possibly, yeah.
Pre- or post-mortem? I'd say post-mortem because the line traverses the fracture causing the haemorrhage.
Is there any brain tissue present? No.
Why? I'm thinking of a Nigerian ritual killing.
They would harvest blood and body parts to make potions.
The brain is the source of intelligence so they believe that if the source So you eat it and become more intelligent.
Look, for the last time, I don't know her.
Dearden's last visit to Lagos was in April.
He was due back on the 14th but has a taxi receipt from Heathrow on the 16th.
He changed his flight? I checked.
He flew back from Benin, courtesy of the British consulate.
OK, check with the Foreign Office.
Yup.
These don't look very official.
It doesn't make any sense.
If he was a mercenary he wouldn't keep records, would he? I know.
These taxi receipts are all the same handwriting, same driver.
We've met this person.
You used to drive taxis, yeah? Yeah, in the dim and distant.
Yeah, well it's the dim and distant I'm concerned with.
Right, now, this man.
You lied to me, you told me you didn't know him.
No.
You used to take him to the airport every time he went to Nigeria.
Did I? Mm.
Oh, er I don't remember.
No.
What colour what was it? Sorry.
You had no tax, no insurance, no private hire licence? Well, it was an old banger.
I was broke, stoney, stoney broke.
What kind of old banger? Was it a Vauxhall? And did you carry Dearden's body in the boot and bury him in the tunnel? I used to have fluffy dice if that helps.
Did you carry Dearden's body in the boot and bury him in the tunnel? The big end went, and it wasn't worth repairing so I sold it for scrap and I used the cash to get into my records.
Where did you sell it? Somewhere.
Essex.
When? I don't know.
Christopher Dearden could have had any taxi he wanted, yeah? But instead, he chose an old banger.
'Jimmy Jimmy.
' 'Jimmy!' Guess what? Dearden actually got himself arrested on his last trip to Nigeria but they wouldn't tell me what for.
No records.
No, but someone at the Foreign Office over here interceded on his behalf.
Mr Findlay, do you know a man named Christopher Dearden? No, sorry.
He worked for a company called J-Tech.
No.
You authorised the payment to secure the release of Christopher Dearden from the Nigerian authorities which is strange because your area of responsibility at the time was Latin America.
Maybe I was filling in for someone.
Why was he detained by the Nigerian authorities? No idea.
Was your intervention sanctioned? What? The payment you made, was it a bribe, was it under the table or was it kosher? What? We made many, many payments, both official and unofficial over many years.
So, Awkward Squad, Nigerian militia group, was he detained because of that? I received many calls both day and night about many subjects.
I can't remember them each individually.
That's weird, because he had your home phone number.
Bastard! The powder that I extracted from Dearden's locket It has a very high keratin content.
That's the stuff that human hair is made of.
Yes, but in this case electrophoresis shows it's Rhino horn! Rhino horn, which is made of hair, unlike cows, which have a high calcium core.
Does that fit your African theory? It doesn't, cos it's Chinese.
It's a Chinese theory now? It's a cure for erectile dysfunction.
Was he impotent? Is that why he used it? Does it work then, this rhino horn? Obviously not, if his wife was having an affair.
Get in.
You've put on weight.
Yeah, I'm in love.
Same old Bloomy.
Yeah, you're a funny guy.
We agreed not to meet.
Police got me in.
Shit.
Did you tell them anything? What do you think? We agreed on our story ten years ago, so why are we here? It's out.
What's out? It!! It!! What is wrong with you? When did you become so bloody spineless? Look, calm down.
Didn't you get the letter? Yes.
So? We shouldn't be meeting.
So what do we do? We go home.
We live our lives.
Things are starting to happen! Oh, f! Thank you.
I told you meeting was a mistake.
No! No! Come here! No, no, no! Let him go! Don't answer it! Kew Gardens came back on the samples I found in the bags and on the body, and the soil is from a particular type of deciduous woodland, beech forest.
It's only found in these areas shaded red.
Does this give us a murder scene? Well, the south of England? No, but I can be more specific.
The seed pods belong to Cephalanthera rubra Red helleborine.
It's an extremely rare orchid and it only grows in three places in the country - Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Bucks.
Disposal of the body's often the most dangerous part of the crime for a killer, so he minimises his risk by not travelling too far with the body.
However this is not a normal dump site, this was chosen specifically.
There's a ritual involved with the disposal of the body, it was arranged.
Yes, and also both shoes contained grave soil, which would indicate that they were removed post mortem.
The burial was ritualistic, I absolutely accept, I don't argue with that.
But if the murder was ritualistic, it would've happened in the chamber to cut down travel time? Possibly.
Because that didn't happen, the murder was unplanned, spontaneous and could've happened anywhere In these areas shaded red.
Yeah.
You didn't accompany Jimmy when he came to see the body.
He didn't ask.
Oh.
How did you feel? I'm used to it.
I think Jimmy blames me for his dad's disappearance.
But Jimmy thinks his dad's in Africa, so how can he blame you? Sorry, that It wasn't what I meant.
I didn't mean to say that, sorry.
Are you sure you don't blame yourself? Did your husband know about your affair? He never said anything.
That was par for the course with Chris though, wasn't it? I mean, he didn't tell you that he was ill.
So, do you think he knew? Yes.
Mrs Dearden, were you and your husband physically intimate? Do we have to talk about this? I need an answer to the question.
Please.
The more distant we became, I think I think the more difficult Chris found it.
It was impossible.
We found traces of what we think is an aphrodisiac in his locket.
I found this card.
It was It was in his suit.
I found it about a year or so after Chris disappeared.
Thank you very much.
All right? Right, that is it, now.
We're going home, you can't keep dragging us in here.
This is a murder investigation, I can do what I like.
What do you think you'll find out? Don't come the attitude.
I've got the attitude? Do you want to go back inside? Frank! You're making everything worse.
Let's just go home.
There's something that we haven't told you.
Lucy, please.
No.
He phoned Chris.
The night that he disappeared.
He phoned and left a message.
MACHINE: Lucy or Jimmy after the tone.
Thanks for calling.
Bye.
'Jimmy? 'Jimmy, are you there? 'It's me.
It's Dad.
' Who for? It was for Jimmy.
'Listen, son.
'I've been in a bit of a mess, 'but I've realised that 'I've not seen enough of you, you know, and 'Well, that's gonna change.
'I love you.
I love the bones of you, son' He was ranting and raving about how he was sorry and how he loved him.
As if just saying the words are gonna make everything OK.
What did you do with the message? I erased it.
There isn't a day goes by when I don't regret what I've done.
Does Jimmy know? Please, Luce.
Does Jimmy know? No, he doesn't.
This is a man who ignored his son during his life I've got the card.
Right, then he calls his son saying I love you just before he dies.
Well, maybe he's guilty or maybe he knows he'll die.
It wasn't suicide, right? OK, and this man, Frank Monk, erases the call.
Yep.
Jealousy? Yeah, but he has the motive to kill Chris Dearden, because he has the most to gain, the wife and the son.
The body was found near growbags, and he is a gardener.
So all things point to Frank Monk, all right? Now, the call.
What about it? Records were only kept of phone calls made but I think I've got a solution.
The red areas are where that rare orchid is found.
The seeds Eve found? Exactly, but if we compare it with the locations of U-Gro nurseries and then look at the nearest nursery to Shepton with that same alkaline soil composition We can then trace all calls made within a 20-mile radius.
Go on then, do it.
Give me the card.
Details are inside.
So our turnover's risen from 10,000 to 3 million in a decade.
You didn't come here to talk about my business.
What do you want? I want to talk to you about Chris Dearden.
Yeah? What about him? He's dead.
Dead? Mm.
He received one of your cards.
It's got your logo on the back and I assume it's signed by you.
It says "Good luck, Hursty.
" Where did you get that card? His wife found it in one of his suits after he went missing.
Now, I should stress that isn't our usual standard.
I'm not looking to place an order.
Tell me about Dearden.
This was a guy, we met in a pub.
Which pub? It would've been somewhere central.
We got talking, I printed the card to cheer him up.
So you meet a guy in a pub and then make a special card for him using his nickname, "Deardo.
" Well, friends call me Hursty.
I'm sure your friends have got a name for you.
But he wasn't really a friend, was he? And then you sent him a card making reference to his sexual performance? Sometimes people find it easier to talk to strangers.
OK How did you know you were going to see him again? I mean, did you exchange numbers? No, he said he was a regular so I took a chance.
Oh, in this pub that you don't even remember the name of? It was a long time ago.
Yeah.
Hi.
Phew! What's the matter? Nothing.
Just some boxes fell over.
It was nothing.
I came straight from the airport.
'Jimmy.
' 'Jimmy!' 'Jimmy.
' 'Yes, Jimmy' 'Jimmy!' So now we've got Hurst who's not coming clean about his friendship with Dearden.
I ran him through the system.
No previous, no military records, nothing.
Sorry.
I got this from the paintbrush.
AS, anyone? You're not serious? Awkward Squad is a pub quiz team! I know the answers.
She was in that soap opera and he was in that boys' band.
They didn't get them right, they got this old woman.
She was in the Carry On films.
A footballer.
No, a pop star.
How many kinds of writing? Three or four, so get comparison tests with the card and receipts.
OK.
So the Awkward Squad is a pub quiz team.
There may be more of them.
OK.
Find out where Dearden went drinking and see if they still do quizzes there.
There you go, Mr Findlay.
Make yourself comfortable.
'The doors are all locked, Mr Findlay.
'Mr Findlay, would you like to introduce yourself?' Josh Findlay.
Hello Josh Findlay.
'Harold, please introduce yourself.
' Hi, Josh, I'm Harold.
'Michael?' Yes? 'Please introduce yourself to Harold and Josh.
' Hello, Harold.
Hello, Michael.
Hello, Josh.
Would you like a drink? For the last time, I don't know her.
Yeah, yeah, no, you stay there, mate.
I'll get them in.
Geography, we need you and Finders on this one.
All right, No-Bollocks? When the cow jumped over the moon, what ran away with the spoon? Pub quizzes, the Awkward Squad, yes? One person missing.
QUIZMASTER: And now a London question.
On what street is the Cenotaph? Whitehall.
Which year did the Pilgrim Fathers arrive in America? 'Come on, get it right, get a pint.
' It's wrong but stick it down.
'All right, let's go on to the photo round.
' Mr Findlay, underneath the table there is a brown envelope.
'Would you please open the envelope and put the photograph on the table.
' If I must.
'Thank you.
' Do you recognise the man in the photograph, Mr Bloom? Who is it, Mr Bloom? What's his name? Erm What's his name, Mr Bloom? Deardo.
What is the point of this? Christopher Dearden.
Mr Findlay, 'do you recognise the man in the photograph?' No.
'Mr Hurst, you must because you gave him a card.
' That's Dearden, that's 'Right.
' 'What is the largest mammal?' I know that.
'You're missing him, aren't you? You're missing Christopher Dearden.
'Mr Bloom, do you miss him? Do you know what happened to him? Why did the Awkward Squad pack in? 'Why did the pub quizzes all stop?' 'How long were you a pub quiz team for? Behind you, Mr Findlay, 'there is another envelope with a photograph in it.
'Thank you.
' 'of a decaying corpse.
'Have you ever seen this corpse before? 'Or this body in this position?' Will you sit down? Can you sit down? What's he doing? Hallucinating.
Can you sit down! It's so obvious that they all know each other.
The hierarchy goes Findlay, Hurst, Bloom, right? Bloom's the weak link.
Didn't you notice how Hurst deferred to him? OK.
Got up and gave him his seat? Our body was found facing the north, yeah? The ritual of the burial is very similar to that of the Navajo, in that the Navajo believe that the world of the dead is towards north.
The tying up, the swapping of the shoes were all intended to make the body unserviceable to the evil spirits, the Chindi.
The Chindi are the evil spirits.
So what about the chopping off of the fingertips? They believe that your fingertips and your hair is where the evil spirits enter the body.
Oh.
OK? So the purpose of the whole burial was to prevent the ghost from entering and haunting the living.
I understand the purpose of the Navajo ritual.
Why did it happen to a white male in England? Well, maybe the killer was a believer.
Right, these guys, what are they? An offshoot tribal cult thing that's It's a possibility.
Yeah, it is.
The behaviour of the disposal of the body tells you that someone believes in evil spirits.
Yeah, look at Bloom, he was freaking out in the Fantastic.
.
.
in the interview room.
It was from a phone box.
What was? The call was made from a phone box, now disconnected.
Could you give me the location? Jimmy! Connect! What was that? A fox.
You OK? -Yeah.
What have you got? Vauxhall car keys.
These could be Bloom's.
OK, great.
Log them and put them next to that clothes line.
OK.
Eve.
Yeah? These look like volcanic rocks and, as we're not in a volcanic area, they must have been brought in.
So how many are there? Right, we need them up, and bag them and back to the lab.
Something horrible's happened here.
No No! Aaa-argh! Get out! Bloom! Bloom! Check it out.
Sir? Ah Fingertips missing, left and right hands.
Ghosts are a way of getting rid of guilt or fear.
Fragment of polymer plastic compound.
And that's the murder weapon, is it? I wish you'd never found that body.
Luke? Do you think they were being blackmailed? Either they're involved in the murder or they're witnesses to it.
Jimmy! You need to help me We abandoned him, Frank! We didn't, we didn't.
We did, we should've And you destroyed all three of them! What? What is it?