Inspector Lewis (2006) s08e04 Episode Script

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Rose Anderson, postgrad student at
St Sebastian's College
She tried to run her lover,
Felix Garwood, off the road.
He was tutoring my sister's
daughter, Tabby.
Slow down, Tabs.
Tabatha was born with a genetic
blood disorder, fanconi anaemia.
I'm going to have a baby sister.
~ Congratulations!
~ Oh, thank you
Rose Anderson was about to reveal to
the world that Professor Flaxmore's
precious lost play was a fake.
This is the missing stuff from
Hathaway's drugs raid!
~ Harrison Sax!
~ Oh!
Oh! Oh
I didn't kill her. If I was going to
kill anyone, I would have killed
Felix.
Cause of death, blunt force trauma
to the left side of the head.
From the spatter it looked as though
the first one put him down.
They kept on hitting him long after
he was dead.
Made a right meal of it.
~ Different from Rose Anderson. That
was clinical, this was - ~ Frenzied.
Something like that.
Or a different person.
Constant flow of colleagues and
students - we're going to be
knee-deep in fingerprints.
Might get some nice ones off this
casing, though.
Well, it's not my department,
but it looks like it's been wiped
clean.
~ Handy.
~ Hm.
Hello.
Cocaine?
Well, I'm betting it's not baking
soda.
Can we get this tested? Time of
death?
No sign of rigor mortis. Eyelids are
flaccid. I'd say about an hour?
So around about five.
I'll know more about the bruising
after the post-mortem.
Empty.
So robbery gone wrong?
Or a murder dressed up to look like
one.
We've got Uniform
all over the city looking for
Harrison Sax.
Where he works, known locations,
known associates,
his foster parents in Woodstock.
And we've also alerted
all of the bus and train stations.
~ So you think he's our killer?
~ I think he's doing a pretty good
impression.
~ Keep me informed.
~ Ma'am.
He can't have just disappeared.
He's a bouncer, not Houdini.
OK, let us know, eh?
Maddox. We've managed to lose a
suspect.
Will I see you at home later?
I think I preferred it
when you were building canoes.
No, you didn't. I was a bad-tempered
old grouch who smelt of wood glue.
Yeah, but you were my bad-tempered
old grouch who smelt of wood glue.
Robbie?
I know what Rose Anderson found out.
I'll see you in the morning. Mm!
God bless.
Oh, God!
~ Is she all right?
~ Yeah she's fine.
Everything's going to be fine now.
Alcmeon In Corinth. Euripides's
"lost play", famously found by Simon
Flaxmore.
On the back of which he makes his
name and he becomes the go-to guy
for solving literary mysteries.
And we're here because?
The constellation of Leo
(Beep)
lying right smack in-between Cancer
in the east and Virgo in the west.
It represented to the Greeks the
Nemean Lion, slain by Heracles as
the first of his 12 tasks.
It shone brightly above them in the
night sky.
Now, shining less brightly:
Leo Minor. Little Leo.
What's this got to do with Rose
Anderson?
In Alcmeon in Corinth,
when he unknowingly purchases
his own daughter Tisiphone as a
slave - don't ask -
.. he stood outside of his tent at
daybreak and said to his servant:
"What stars are those,
steering their course yonder?"
To which the old retainer replied,
"The twin lions of Nemea, still
running high at this hour."
So? Big Leo and Little Leo.
Yeah, but Leo Minor wasn't known as
that until the late 17th-century.
To Euripides they would have
been a faint collection of stars
not part of any constellation at
all.
~ 17th century?
~ 1687, to be exact.
So why would Euripides
be referring to the twin lions?
He wouldn't.
Flaxmore's status seems to be
largely based on his authentication
of this play.
So if Rose Anderson could show
that his authentication's wrong -
It would end up making him look
really stupid, which I'm guessing he
wouldn't like.
But then why kill Felix?
Rose Anderson didn't get there by
herself.
(BELL TOLLS)
You knew what Rose Anderson
had discovered?
~ What's this got to do with Felix
being? ~ Answer the question, please.
Rose? Yes, well she hadn't really
discovered anything.
~ It's more like she'd noticed an
anomaly. ~ An anomaly?
Yes. I said I'd look into it.
I thought maybe I'd mistranslated.
Ancient Greek can be a bit slippery
sometimes.
But you hadn't, had you?
You don't make mistakes like that.
"Leontes dio, didimo" - "Two lions,
twins".
It's right there in the text. So
it's not that slippery.
I really don't think you can
Where were you three nights ago
when she was killed?
I was at a college dinner at eight.
Fund-raising. Had a speech to make.
Unlike some of the flashier
colleges, we're constantly trying to
raise funds.
~ My standing ~ You have
people who can corroborate this?
~ About 150.
~ What about before that?
I was here going over my speech with
Karen, my PA.
And yesterday, between four and
five?
I was here. (CLEARS THROAT)
And then I went home.
~ Anyone corroborate that?
~ No.
Yes?
I was with Felix yesterday
afternoon.
I wanted to talk to him about
using the planetarium as a venue.
But he was alive when I left him.
We'll need to take your fingerprints
then.
If you don't mind. Today, please.
Even if Rose had found a way of
showing that the play was not by
Euripides
.. why would I hide that?
I'm a scholar, gentlemen.
When we get his prints, let's run
them against the database. Just in
case.
~ Back to the station? ~ No. I want to
know where Philippa Garwood was
yesterday afternoon.
~ She was with you, wasn't she?
~ Yeah, not all of the time.
~ Just put it through there.
~ No problems.
I don't know where Harrison is.
I can link him to two murders.
If you know where he is and
you're not telling us, you're
assisting an offender.
~ Wait, sorry. Two murders?
~ Felix Garwood.
He was found dead yesterday
afternoon.
Around about the same time
that Harrison went missing.
You have a think about that.
Then give me a ring.
I really don't think it's hit her
yet.
I I don't think it's hit us yet,
to be honest.
Where were you two yesterday
afternoon?
~ Us?
~ You knew both victims.
~ Well, I know, but I don't see what
- ~ I was working.
And, Jennie, you were
~ I I was with Tabitha.
~ Tabitha.
Working until when?
Well, about seven. I try to get home
before Tabby goes to bed.
Hm.
How long had Felix and Philippa been
married?
Um 12 years.
She gave him 12 years. I'm not
really sure what he gave her.
~ Jennie.
~ Well, I'm just saying.
She loved him and he treated her
like
~ Hey, hey, hey.
~ No, no, no! No, no.
He could be the most attractive,
charming man, but he
.. he was also poison.
We're well shot of him.
We?
He lied to my sister.
Which means he lied to all of us.
There's miles of the stuff. I think
it's bindweed.
Was it quick, do you think?
One minute he's awake, and then
~ I mean, that would be OK, wouldn't
it, if? ~ I hope so.
Yesterday you left me for
40 minutes. Where did you go?
~ I have to ask.
~ Do you?
You know I do.
I told you: I had a meeting with a
student.
An essay they were having trouble
with.
I was with them and then I came
straight back.
I'm going to need a name.
I didn't kill my husband,
DI Hathaway.
It's Japanese knotweed.
What?
It's not bindweed. It's Japanese
knotweed.
What a lot you know.
Not about the important stuff.
(EXHALES)
Don't worry. Routine elimination.
Consider me eliminated.
If you want me to say anything,
anything at all
It won't come to that.
Felix Garwood's tox report. Positive
for cocaine.
And analysis of what was found
on the telescope.
"Isopropyl alcohol, hexyl cinnamal,
menthyl".
~ Wipes, in other words.
~ Mm.
Does the Astrophysics Department
have CCTV?
Yeah. Except it was smashed in two
weeks ago. Students protesting
against Big Brother.
And where are we on Harrison Sax?
He used his credit card to buy a
one-way ticket to Liverpool.
Great.
I've sent his picture and details
to Merseyside Police.
And to every force between here
and there.
I've seen tanks smaller than
Harrison Sax. We're just glad to have
you back in once piece.
HATHAWAY: Guys?
Ran Flaxmore's prints,
we have a match.
Simon Flaxmore is Linus Cage?
Who the hell is Linus Cage?
WOMAN: Oh. I know I saw it not that
long ago.
Oh, I think this might be it.
Yeah. Yes, it is.
Let's see.
Yes, here we are.
Simon Flaxmore's job application.
April 1992.
~ Impressive.
~ He is, isn't he?
I knew, of course, the minute he
walked in. You can tell the ones
who've got star quality.
What, you remember when he arrived?
He said he liked my hair.
I'd just had a pixie cut a few weeks
before.
No-one had noticed.
I might just as well have been
invisible.
But when Professor Flaxmore saw me,
he complimented me.
~ And I felt
~ Can we keep this?
I'll make a copy for you. I'm not
meant to.
I told the other girl she couldn't
have one, but as you're the police.
What other girl?
The one who was killed.
She was in here two weeks ago.
And now here you are asking
the same
Oh!
~ Anything from East Sussex Police?
~ Yeah, they finally dug out the file.
So Linus Cage had some sort of scam
involving antique books in Brighton.
He did five years in Wandsworth
prison for fraud.
And then he got out in 1985.
~ And then what? - ~ And then he
disappeared, apparently.
There's no record of him anywhere.
Until 1992, when Simon Flaxmore
pops up in a puff of blue smoke
and takes up a position as Reader of
Classics at St Sebastian's.
Con to don in seven years.
Now that is impressive.
Well, I checked the references
that Flaxmore gave on his CV
from Bristol University
and the University of Melbourne.
I also tried to track down the PhD
in "Rhetoric in Tragedy".
~ And?
~ And the references are all false.
The PhD doesn't exist. It's just all
fantasy.
Well, maybe Rose Anderson found
that out.
Or Flaxmore
thought she was about to.
Professor Flaxmore is in college.
And I'm sure he's told you
everything.
Have you ever heard of Linus Cage?
~ Who?
~ May we come in, Miss Newman?
No.
No, no, that's not possible.
How long have you worked for him?
Since 1994.
That's a long time.
You must be very loyal.
It's not hard to be loyal to someone
you admire.
After he was released from prison,
Linus Cage completely re-invented
himself.
New identity, new everything.
And then in 1992, he re-emerged as a
classics scholar at St Sebastian's.
Nice new life. Safe.
~ So long as no-one found out.
~ Like Rose Anderson did.
You're wrong. He's a brilliant man.
He would never do something like
that.
How long have you been in love with
him, Miss Newman?
No. You listen You listen to me!
Do you really want to take that
chance?
OK.
If it has to be tomorrow then
(LINE GOES DEAD)
Fine. Whatever.
Professor Flaxmore says
he was with you going over his
speech.
~ That's right.
~ All evening?
Two murders. If you're protecting
him
He lies. That's what he does.
He lies like other people breathe.
You don't have to be loyal to him
any more. He doesn't deserve it.
He wasn't with me.
He went out about six
and I didn't see him until he came
back here later.
Where is he now?
He said he was on his way
to see Philippa Garwood.
SIMON: Alcmeon In Corinth.
We put it on that first summer.
You persuaded me to join in the
chorus.
Just for one night.
You had to be a part of it.
Hearing those words
Seeing it come alive
.. it was magical.
And I thought it was just because
you liked to wear a mask.
You were my best student.
Oh, yes. You were my favourite.
That's why I want
I need you to understand.
Understand what?
The things I've done
(PHONE RINGS)
Don't answer that.
Please.
"You have reached the voicemail
of Dr Philippa Garwood.
I'm sorry I'm not here to take your
call.
Please leave a message. I'll get
back to you as soon as possible."
Philippa, it's James Hathaway.
That play.
If I'd never found it, I'd still
(MESSAGE ALERT)
It's funny, though, isn't it?
The expert in Greek tragedy
brought low by a single moment of
hubris.
The gods must be laughing.
"Those whom the gods wish to
destroy, they first make mad."
Isn't that the saying?
One mistake. Just the one.
That's all it was.
I'm a good man. I am.
You have to believe me.
You must!
(SIREN)
In there.
Hello, Linus.
(BIRDSONG)
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
SIMON: I didn't kill anybody.
LEWIS: We don't have any physical
evidence. We've got no eye-witnesses.
(MOBILE BEEPS) Nothing to place him
at either of the scenes.
Yeah?
What?
(SHUTTER CLICKS)
(LOW CONVERSATION)
Two stab wounds. First to the
abdomen which incapacitated her
Don't tell me. And the other severed
her carotid artery.
Yeah.
~ Just like Rose Anderson.
~ Same killer?
Looks likely.
No forced entry, no sign of a
robbery.
And she was going somewhere in a
hurry. Why?
Home late again tonight?
Probably.
Robbie.
Return bus ticket to Woodstock
yesterday.
Harrison Sax's foster parents live
at Woodstock.
Uniform interviewed them. They said
they hadn't seen him in months.
Why don't we go and ask them for
ourselves?
~ Mr Vanbrooke?
~ That's right.
DI Lewis, DI Hathaway.
We'd like to talk to you about
Harrison Sax.
I've already told you lot. We
haven't seen him.
Yeah, I'm afraid his girlfriend,
Chloe Ilson, was found murdered this
morning.
HARRISON:
I saw her yesterday afternoon.
Chloe.
She was so excited.
LEWIS: About what?
She said that she had a plan.
How to get us both out of here.
~ Start over, anywhere we liked.
~ What sort of plan?
Just that she was going to get me
my money back.
And that I mustn't worry.
She said everything was going to be
fine.
Do you think that that's why she's
been?
What was she thinking?
~ What colour would you like the
fence? - ~ Green.
Ah-ha. OK.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(SMASHING)
~ All right?
~ I'm fine.
~ Here, let me.
~ I'm fine. No, look, I've got it!
(ANGRILY) I've got it, OK?
I said I'm fine.
Just go and play with Tabby. OK?
What?!
I can take care of everything,
you know?
Felix Garwood called you
on the afternoon that Rose Anderson
was murdered.
~ So? - ~ Well, he knew you had form,
didn't he?
GBH, with and without intent.
ABH, assault, battery
What? You think he got me to do
something to Rose?
Did he?
She was carrying his kid.
Do you really think he would have
hurt her?
~ Rose Anderson wasn't pregnant.
~ Wasn't she?
Why did you think she was?
Valentine's Day,
Felix came to see me at the club.
Wanted to buy a couple of grams.
Said it was time for some changes.
Celebrating the fact
that he had a kid on the way.
Sir? Chloe Ilson's prints match the
ones found on the bag of cocaine in
Felix Garwood's rooms.
What, she was selling him the drugs?
If she was at Felix's, maybe she
witnessed something? Seen the killer.
I prefer to be here. It's easier,
somehow.
There's only so much gardening I can
do.
(SIGHS)
Felix said he was going to be a
father.
Rose was pregnant?
No.
But someone was. Just not me.
Unless I'm lying, of course.
Which makes me just another suspect,
someone to observe.
Trip up. Is that what I am?
(DOOR OPENS)
(SIGHS)
Maybe she is lying.
What, so if she thought Rose
Anderson was pregnant with Felix's
child, this is all about revenge?
Mm, she kills the husband,
his lover and the unborn child.
Now, that sounds like a Greek
tragedy.
Or she didn't. She's totally
innocent and we're barking up the
wrong tree.
Or Harrison Sax is wrong.
Or misheard. Or misunderstood.
Or Felix knocked someone else up.
~ Valentine's Day. That's it.
~ What is?
Well, Valentine's Day was when
Felix started talking about being a
dad.
So?
It was also the day the Brightways
started their IVF treatment.
Mr Brightway?
~ Oh, hello again.
~ Is your wife at home?
She's taken Tabitha to the hospital.
Blood transfusion.
It's routine. Can I help?
We'd like to talk to you about your
IVF treatment.
What about it?
Felix Garwood?
You'd better come in.
Jennie and I were going through a
It was hard for her.
I'd just qualified. I was working
all hours.
I just wasn't paying attention.
She was lonely and there was
Felix.
I never knew. It didn't last long.
Just long enough.
You didn't know that Tabitha was
his?
Why would I?
And then we found out about
this fanconi anaemia.
I tried everything I could.
I checked out every crack-pot cure,
every herbal remedy, anything, if I
thought it might
When it's your baby, you do
anything.
And then you found out
about the saviour sibling.
It was like a gift from the gods.
A way to save her and a chance for
us to have another child, which we'd
wanted for so long.
The clinic was right here in Oxford.
It was like it was meant to be.
All we needed was a genetic match
and we were home free.
And that's when you found out
you weren't Tabitha's dad.
Jennie had to tell me.
Here was Tabby's best hope of a
cure. What choice did she have?
So Jennie and Felix went through
with the IVF?
~ Yes.
~ And does her sister know?
I mean, does Philippa know
that her husband slept with her
sister?
What good would that do?
She doesn't have to know, does she?
~ What about you?
~ Me?
How do you feel about it?
The affair was a long time ago.
Even so. To be lied to like that
My daughter has a chance of a life.
What I feel doesn't really come into
it, does it?
Visual aids, Robbie.
Your graphic design skills
are really coming along.
OK. So, Felix Garwood and Jennie
Brightway
start their latest IVF treatment
here.
Previous attempts had failed, so
there's a lot riding on it with
Tabitha's life at stake.
But they won't know whether it's
been successful for a little while.
Felix breaks up with Rose Anderson.
She doesn't like it
and tries to run him off his bike.
And then she ends up dead.
And a short time later, Jennie
discovers that she's pregnant.
Between starting treatment
and Jennie being pregnant,
Felix Garwood is a valuable
commodity.
Yeah, sure.
Jennie and Paul certainly couldn't
afford
for him to be hurt or
hospitalised or worse.
And suddenly here's Rose Anderson
threatening to do all three.
Do you think those two ever wished
she wasn't around?
Lizzie?
The witness who reported the
hit-and-run, can you get me that
tape, please?
Sir.
"I think I've just seen an attempted
murder.
Someone in a car deliberately
tried to knock a man off his bike."
Jennie Brightway.
"I didn't get the number plate
but I recognised the driver.
Her name is Rose Anderson."
~ Yes, I made the call.
~ Whose idea was it?
Mine. Felix had recognised Rose
behind the wheel.
And he was scared.
He said she'd been sending him
texts, messages - really horrible.
He was convinced she'd tried to kill
him and that she'd do it again.
Why didn't he report her himself?
Felix had been warned before
about sleeping with the students.
So I guess he was afraid he'd lose
his job.
So you decided to deal with it
yourself.
I thought I could get her arrested.
I just wanted her to leave Felix
alone.
You thought that you would scare her
off, that's what you thought.
This this treatment, it's
it's ruined us financially.
We only had enough money
for one more round of IVF
and if that failed
.. if anything happened to Felix
Yeah, but it didn't work, did it?
Rose wasn't arrested.
~ She was still going to be a problem.
~ Did you kill her?
What? No, that that's ridiculous!
You don't have an alibi.
No, but I was with Tabitha.
I told you.
What about the night Felix Garwood
was killed?
You think I killed Fel
Felix is my brother-in-law. He
may
he may have been a crap husband but
he was Tabby's father.
And he is my baby's father.
Look, um Tabby'll be finished soon
so I
Look, all I've ever wanted
is to give Tabby a family that she
can grow up in.
What would be the point if, by
saving a life, I then destroyed it?
Back to square one?
No. We're close, I can feel it.
Well, think about it from a
different perspective.
Rose Anderson's murder was
definitely planned.
Not a shred of physical evidence,
nothing on the weapon, nothing
anywhere.
So the killer definitely knew
what they were doing.
The same goes for Chloe Ilson.
Yeah, but Felix Garwood
was a spur of the moment thing.
I want to go back
where Felix Garwood was killed.
Maddox is right.
His murder was the odd one out.
If the killer made a mistake, it's
there.
So, they row.
The murderer picks up the telescope.
Bang!
And now he has to clear up.
He's looking around and what?
He uses the wipes to clear off any
traces from the murder weapon.
It's a bit of luck, wasn't it,
finding them when he needs them?
It's the Astrophysics Department.
A lot of high-end glass.
But you've just killed someone,
remember.
You're panicking,
you're not making assumptions.
You're desperate.
You're looking round for something
and
That drawer was shut. They were all
shut.
So?
So how did the murderer know
that the wipes were there?
~ Looks for them? ~ Yeah,
but when you're that desperate,
you don't open the drawer
and neatly close it again, do you?
You scrabble. It's a whirlwind.
You fling the drawers open.
You grab what you're looking for.
You don't leave everything nice and
neat.
What were the chemical traces
found on that telescope again?
Um
Isopropyl alcohol, hexyl cinnamal,
menthyl.
~ These are different. ~ So what sort of
wipes did the killer use?
Lens wipes. For glasses.
Do you suppose we're looking for an
optician?
She hasn't got eyes yet.
Yeah, I think you'd better do the
eyes.
Right, let's have a look at this.
"Work your way down to the bottom"
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
(DOOR OPENS)
JENNIE: Paul?
(LOW CHATTER)
~ Lizzie! - ~ Hello, Tabitha.
Shall we go outside and play?
However hard you try,
something always goes wrong.
Such as Felix Garwood?
You went to see him, didn't you?
You argued.
You grabbed the first thing at hand,
and you clubbed him to
death with it.
Nonsense.
And you cleaned up the telescope with
wipes you'd brought from work.
I want you to leave.
~ Did you kill Rose Anderson too?
~ You know he didn't!
~ I have an alibi.
~ Conference, Cheltenham.
~ That's right. ~ You were seen going
to an event at four.
And you were seen at dinner at 8:30.
So?
Which gave you just enough time to
take the 4:32 from Cheltenham
and find Rose Anderson, kill her,
and be back in time for dinner.
Do you know how ridiculous that
sounds?
CCTV photographs
from Cheltenham Spa Station
.. on the afternoon of Rose
Anderson's murder.
This is you buying a ticket
at exactly the time that you say
you were at this conference.
But you can't see the face.
You can't see who it is.
No, but you can see
the friendship bracelet on the wrist.
That's the one that Tabitha made for
you, isn't it?
Paul?
Tabby's life was at stake.
Rose wasn't going to stop until
she'd
We couldn't afford that.
I worked out how
to get here and back
to Cheltenham without anyone
noticing.
I took a knife from the hotel.
I knew where Rose went running
so I waited for her.
You didn't plan to kill Felix
Garwood, though, did you?
He said
he was going to take you all away.
That you were going to leave me
And he was going to take his
children, Tabitha and the baby
and there was nothing that I could
do.
And Chloe Ilson?
She was coming out of Felix's
as I was going in.
When she found out that Felix
had been killed she wanted money.
£20,000.
I told her that we didn't have it,
but she wouldn't listen.
After the others, what choice did I
have?
She was going to spoil everything.
Paul those girls.
~ Their families. You
~ I did this for our family.
But Felix
He said he said that you still
loved him.
I was so scared. I was so scared.
Oh, you fool!
He kepthe kept on at me but I
told him
I told him that you are Tabby's
father and nothing will change that.
I'm so sorry. I couldn't help it, he
was laughing at me.
I just wanted to make him stop,
I had to make him stop.
Oh, God
Paul
What have you done?
~ I'm so sorry.
~ OFFICER: Come on.
No.
~ Daddy, Daddy!
~ Tabs! Tabby!
Hey
I need to go away for a while,
sweetheart.
So I need you to look after Mum.
Come on.
~ Daddy loves you so much.
~ Come on.
Come on.
I'll take that. Thank you.
PHILIPPA: He's leaving. Effective
immediately, pending further action
by the College.
No, they'll just bury it. Hiring
someone without checking their
references?
They may not have a choice.
He has a book deal. They say Karen
secured it.
"My Story: How I blagged my way onto
the High Table with just an O level
in woodwork."
Probably a fake as well.
He's resilient. I'll give him that.
The gods must love him.
Come on.
Why are you here, Officer?
To return this.
And thank you for it.
I enjoyed it very much.
Thank you.
(GUITAR PLAYS)
So, what are we having?
I've no idea. He won't let me
anywhere near the kitchen.
Just have a little faith. I'm in
complete control.
Pride comes before a fall.
(DOORBELL)
Not this time.
~ More?
~ Er, yes, please.
It's not going to be one of those
voyage of discovery meals?
~ I'm hoping not.
~ Why? What do you discover?
Usually that you're not very hungry.
I give you the authentic taste of
Italy. Albeit via the Cowley Road.
~ Pizza?
~ You can't go wrong.
~ Er do you want your wine?
~ Yes, please.
What's up?
"Nothing has more strength than dire
necessity."
Don't tell me. Euripides.
It doesn't work like that, man.
Have you two finished yakking?
Not for a long time.
(LOW CONVERSATION)