Silent Witness (1996) s11e08 Episode Script
Double Dare (2)
We have four possibilities - Jason Colebrook.
Michael Drage.
Anna Holland's mother.
Her mother? Mmm.
All may have known the whereabouts of a safe house.
And the fourth? Random.
And what other evidence do we have so far? Possible DNA on Anna Holland's hand.
And a footprint.
It's a running shoe.
Almost certainly a 'Prorun Milemax 07'.
It's the latest model, won't be for sale over here for at least another couple of months.
It helps create a picture of what blood went where.
There were three different types of blood, remember.
The microscopic particles coming from Paula's body as she as she was being stabbed.
Blood on the knife.
And the yellow strings? Post-mortem blood Now, Anna told the court she was standing here holding onto the children.
I don't remember it being quite so far from the body.
Well, you told the court that because the patio doors were open, the microscopic droplets were carried in the air currents.
And while she was here, she got blood on her, from the knife, as it was flicked backwards.
And what about the post mortem blood? Anna said That Drage pulled her over to the body.
Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise? Kiss.
Then he kissed her.
So the blood on her top could have been from his hand or maybe from the knife.
But Professor Ibrahim said that all the blood found on Anna's top was fresh blood, some of which had clotted in the viscose giving it the appearance of post mortem blood.
So if Anna was already here The evidence of the blood spatters would be the same.
Let's assume that our killer or killers attacked Anna Holland near the car.
There was some kind of a fight and then DS Masters is pushed against the wall, here.
This is the safe house.
The knife goes in the hedge here.
One trail of blood leading off there, the other there.
Maybe he saw someone coming, doubled back What, you mean he ran off the road there, saw someone, came back throws the knife in the hedge, then comes along here and goes up there? It's possible.
Sorry we're late.
I thought we said ten o'clock? Where have you two been? To the Colebrooks' old house.
We wanted to revisit the scene of crime.
After four years? What if Anna came out of prison and met with Jason Colebrook and told him that she did take part in the murder of his wife.
So Jason killed Anna in revenge.
Hang on a minute, four years ago you told the court that Anna Holland wasn't directly involved in the stabbing.
Are you saying that you've changed your mind? Better late than never, eh? You told me yesterday you thought that my interpretation of the evidence was more questionable, so I questioned it and I think you are right.
You have to think very carefully about this, Nikki - it could have serious implications for your career.
Four years ago, it was all so clear.
Drage and Holland were just kids, Anna was barely 17, they'd only known each other a few weeks.
Anna made a stupid bet with Michael.
And he, drugged up to the eyeballs, stupidly carried it out, but now What do you think I should do? Whether you change your mind or not or whether Anna Holland is guilty or not the fact is someone murdered her.
That should be our priority, whatever happened in the past.
Oh, the DNA sample from Anna's thigh.
Anything back on that yet? I don't know.
I haven't seen the results.
I thought you looked at them.
Well.
I thought you You mean, they haven't come back yet? Damn.
What? Peter - the technician that I suspended - he was dealing with it, probably didn't send it off.
Just to let you know, DS Masters operation went very well.
She's off the critical list.
Good.
She's our only witness.
Don't worry.
She's got 24-hour protection.
Huh.
So did Anna Holland.
I'm looking for Carla Masters.
Can I help you? I'm a friend.
I only just heard what happened.
Your name? Mathew Harris.
I'm sorry, Mr Harris, but you can't go in.
It's only immediate family, I'm afraid.
Sure.
Of course.
I just came, you know.
Nettles.
What about them? Initially when a body is buried it lets off gases, which stunt plant growth.
When that phase is over and the body starts to decompose, plant growth can become quite prolific up until the point of skeletisation, of course.
Nettles love dead bodies.
Yes, there's something here.
Looks like you're right.
Yes, I was hoping I wouldn't be.
You look so like your mother sitting there.
Dad, I told you to call before Sorry.
You're busy.
Yes, I am actually.
Ahh.
When were you going to tell me? Tell you what? You know exactly what.
Well, for starters, were you going to let me know that you'd remarried? Would there have been any point in telling you? Yes.
I think so.
Would you have come to the wedding? That's hardly the point.
Look.
That's Kim.
She looksnice.
I know, too young, but she wasn't, not really.
I mean, it's not the age that makes a person, is it? Why didn't you tell me? I so wanted you to be at the wedding.
So did Kim.
But she wasn't very well at the end.
She thought she'd get through it, we both did.
So we brought the wedding forward and there was no time.
I didn't have your telephone number.
I wasn't sure how to find you.
You find me easily enough when you want something.
I was right! Didn't send it off.
The DNA sample.
This is my father.
Ah.
Hi.
Professor Leo Dalton.
Pleased to meet you.
Victor Alexander.
I am so very proud of my daughter.
Well, so you should be.
We all are.
So, everything OK? Fine.
I actually came to see Doctor Cunningham.
I'm sorry.
It was never my intention to mislead anyone.
Least of all you.
What are you hoping to get out of this? How do you mean? Compensation, is it? From the bus company? Is that what you think this is all about? Look, I just want to know if you think that Kim's meningitis was caused by the accident.
Well, I'm waiting for the X-rays taken immediately after the knock.
I have to see her medical records before I make a final evaluation.
But you must be able to say if you think it's likely or not.
I will get back to you.
Yes.
I met with Anna Holland.
She was a lovely girl.
Full of life and plans.
Like any young person.
Unfortunately she got side-tracked.
Young people do.
I did when I was her age.
Anna though, got caught up with something, with someone You don't think she assisted Michael Drage in murdering your wife? No.
no.
I don't.
She told me herself that she didn't.
And you believed her? I liked Anna.
She wrote to me from prison.
She'd, er, she'd got herself a degree in English and history and was hoping to train as a social worker.
No, she wasn't.
She never told me that.
GLASS SMASHES I want this killer caught as much as anyone else.
Bollocks you do.
There's the mounting speculation over the cause of last week's crash after it was revealed that Anna Holland was being moved from a safe house under police protection, the police say it may be several days before a clear picture emerges.
INTERCOM BUZZES But we do know that Holland had recently completed a prison sentence for her part.
Nikki? It's your Dad.
I'm not blind.
I was passing.
How do you know where I live? Oh, er, whatsit Harry mentioned something.
Rubbish.
Is it too late? I'm sorry.
About Kim.
To die so young.
Any photos of me? Yeah.
Aw.
Hmm.
I remember that day.
Me too.
It was the day before you left.
Was it really? You know it was.
I've been watching that man on the television, the man whose wife was murdered by those kids.
Jason Colebrook.
Yeah.
He seems somehow to have managed to forgive those two.
It's not the same, Dad, come on.
How long am I to be punished for something that I did, what, over twenty years ago? Are you here because of the compensation money? What's Harry been saying about me? You're surprised? You know, I wish now I'd never left, then perhaps you might not have turned out to be quite so much like your mother.
What does that mean? You can think what you like of me, Nikki.
But you'll always be my daughter.
My blood.
And no matter what mistakes you have made in the past - and you have made mistakes I understand.
What! We all make them, Nikki.
We just have to get over them.
Learn from them.
Is this what you've come to tell me? I'm your father.
Not for the last odd twenty years you haven't been.
By the looks of things, you haven't needed me.
Only you can do this to me.
Oh, Niks.
The thing that annoys me the most is that you're right.
I think I have made a mistake.
You mean, at the trial of this Anna Holland girl? Nikki, er, it's me I don't know whether you've seen the papers this morning, or which ones it's in.
Just give us a call when you get this, will you? The murder weapon? Possibly, let's have a look.
Yeah.
There's a gaping incised wound to the neck.
Starting about five centimetres below the left ear, passing down round the midline ending about nine centimetres below the right ear.
Total length about 25 centimetres.
So I think that large knife might have had something to do with that.
I don't know how you put up with it.
The smell of a body can actually tell you a lot, even a dead one.
The knife has severed the strap muscles and the jugular and carotid vessels.
The larynx has been severedah, what have we got here? Tweezers, please.
What on earth is that? Calliphora vomitoria.
Yes, that's exactly how it's making me feel.
A species of blowfly.
And that's good? It means that the body wasn't buried immediately - an adult fly must have laid its eggs.
The larvae would have hatched, fed off the corpse, obviously You don't look very well.
First on the left.
Or on the floor Sorry.
That's all right, Nigel sorry, do you mind? Have you seen this? What's that? Apparently, Mr Alexander has sold his story.
You're joking.
It would appear that his daughter has serious doubts about her findings of four years ago.
She didn't say that to me.
I knew something like this would happen.
The coroner is furious.
He wants me to take Nikki off the case altogether.
Have you spoken with her? No, have you? Barely seen her the last few days.
Any idea where she is? She's at Anna Holland's cremation, with Dan the man.
Why, for goodness' sake? He didn't mention that.
What? Jason Colebrook.
He's training for the London Marathon.
We have entrusted our sister Anna Holland to God's mercy and we now commit her body to be cremated.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
In sure and the certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our lord Jesus Christ who will transform our (Is it true? What your father has told the papers?) What? That you've changed your mind - that Anna was involved in Paula's death? We have but a short time to live, like a flower we blossom MOBILE PHONE RINGS 'Nikki?' I can't believe what you've done, Dad.
I didn't know that she was from the press.
.
Don't don't contact me ever again.
Mrs Holland.
Thank you for the flowers.
For coming here.
This newspaper story - I'm so sorry I didn't I know and you know, my daughter almost certainly helped kill that woman.
I don't understand you.
What are you doing here? Paying my respects.
My daughter was responsible for the murder of your wife.
I don't think she was.
You know her better than her mother? I don't want your mercy.
Your forgiveness.
Please, Mrs Holland.
Did you kill my daughter? Of course not.
I wouldn't blame you.
No-one would.
I didn't kill your daughter, Mrs Holland.
I shouldn't have come.
I thought I was going the right thing.
Morning.
The fun and games are over, mate.
Unfortunately they're just about to start.
Mr Colebrook? I think you and I need a little chat.
If Anna had been found guilty of murdering Paula Colebrook with Drage, she'd still be in prison.
Her innocence or guilt was not for you to decide.
Why was I so convinced that I was right? Because that's what you're paid for, you're paid My evidence helped sway the jury into finding her not guilty.
Why do we all think we're so important? You were not the only person who gave evidence.
Anna would still be alive and Jason would not now be facing charges of murder.
Nikki Those poor boys.
They witnessed their mother's murder and now their father Nikki, sit down! I'm sorry.
I'm tired.
Hi.
Hi.
I got your text, you wanted to speak to me.
Yeah, but it can wait.
What's happened? Nothing, it's, um, I asked for Kim's medical records to complete my report.
I can't get involved with the second post mortem.
No, it's nothing to do with that, it's just a small thing to do with your father.
I'll put it on your desk.
The idea that I would kill Anna is I've managed to identify the running shoe found in the fire bin in your garden.
There might be enough to identify a make.
It's a 'Prorun Milemax 07'.
There must be thousands of shoes like that.
When was the last time you were in America, Mr Colebrook? Is this relevant? I was there just before last Christmas.
And when you were there, did you purchase a pair of running shoes? I don't know.
You don't know? Well, perhaps you would like to check your credit card statement.
For the tape, Mr Colebrook.
Yes.
I purchased some running shoes whilst in New York.
And a pair of running socks? Yes.
And a pair of running socks.
Traces of blood have been found on the socks.
I fell over some weeks ago - up on the common.
Look, I'll show you.
I thought I'd need stitches.
The blood ran down my leg onto my sock and onto the shoe.
Same knife? So it would appear.
Both had their throats cut, both had multiple abrasions about the body, hands, arms.
One girl lost a finger.
And their ages? Both late teens.
But how did they end up in Mr and Mrs Binefa's garden and allotment? Mr Binefa's now dead, he would have been 92 at the time of their murders.
You're not being ageist, I hope, Detective Constable.
Mrs Binefa is in sheltered accommodation.
I'll speak with her, she might remember something.
There's evidence of serious drug abuse.
You can tell that after all this time? The tox report shows that our blowfly was completely strung out on heroin when he finally passed away.
What a way to go! How would you feel if your wife had been murdered? And the video of her played over and over.
At what point do you think she stopped feeling them? The first one? The last one? And my children getting spattered in their mother's blood.
Oh, I'm an expert in blood spatters.
And now it looks like Ms Anna Holland was lying.
She did have a knife.
She did help Drage.
She's as bad as he is.
Worse.
And now, irony of ironies, I am being charged with Anna's murder.
Well, let's face it, I had motive.
I prayed to God - I screamed at God - to help me to forgive her.
To see the goodness in her heart.
So young, so innocent.
Beautiful.
I am going to tell you the truth now.
Mr Colebrook.
I need to do this.
My advice I don't need your advice.
Harry's just told me about the Binefa case.
What? Binefa, I'm sure I've seen that name recently.
Does it ring any bells with you? No.
I have to admit, Inspector, I was attracted to her.
Is that sick? I think so.
Attracted to my wife's murderer.
You went to the safe house? Yes.
She invited me in.
She looked so different in her own clothes.
She told me she was going away.
For good.
A new beginning and she told me she wanted to say sorry again.
Ever since my wife I have been unable to have sex.
But with Anna I realised in that moment, that the last man she kissed was Michael Drage after they had murdered my wife.
I could taste my wife's blood on her lips.
What did you do? I pushed her away.
Please, Jason.
I want you to forgive me.
Not like this.
Don't you want me? I thought, from our letters, from when you came to see me I was just trying to be open with you.
Open? I may have been inside for four years but I know when a man is coming on to me.
It's Carla.
She's early.
The policewoman looking after me.
She's taking me to Gatwick.
I can't be here.
Well, you are.
Please, Anna.
Oh, so now you want me.
I hid in the bedroom.
Like a stupid farce.
The policewoman came in, took Anna's rucksack and then they left.
Anna was crying.
As was I.
I heard them walk down the front path and then Screaming.
Shouts.
"Stop.
Get away from her".
I didn't know what to do.
I couldn't go out there.
I wanted to.
I went to the door but I couldn't be there.
SCREAMING When I thought it was all clear, I went out.
It was so quiet and still and then I saw the blood.
I'd stepped in it.
I didn't know what to do.
I had to get back to my boys.
I should have gone out to help her.
I'm such a coward.
And you burned your trainers for what reason, Mr Colebrook? I panicked.
I knew something dreadful had happened and I knew, no matter what, I'd be implicated.
Stupidly, I tried to get rid of the evidence.
Lovely looking girls.
Has something happened to them? They went missing four or five years ago.
We think this one's called Kathryn.
No.
And this one.
Of course, they could have been friends of Michael's.
Michael? Yes, he came to help us out, you know.
Bit of decorating.
Bit of gardening.
We were all very shocked at what happened.
Lovely boy, very popular with the girls.
Shocked at what, Mrs Binefa? Well, everyone knew what happened with Michael.
Even I remember that.
Five years ago, Michael Drage did some community service, during which time he got to know Mr and Mrs Binefa.
And he also knew this woman Kathryn Eyles.
Bit older than him, drug addict, on the game.
She was murdered, with this knife.
And there are cuts and incised wounds all over her body.
Now because of her current condition, it's obviously hard to be certain exactly how many, but I would say there are at least eighty wounds on her body.
Was that before or after her throat was cut? Again, hard to be certain but given that her throat was cut, that was the probable cause of death.
I would say the majority of these injuries occurred post mortem.
The second body, found in the Binefas' allotment, has been identified as Jennifer Kirk who went missing at the age of 17.
And was murdered, I believe, within a few weeks of Kathryn Eyles.
And the date of these murders? Both women were reported missing in the April of 2003.
Do you think Anna Holland knew about the other two? If she knew Drage had murdered the other two, she'd've said something.
Unless she helped him kill them.
Anna Holland hadn't met Michael Drage when these murders were committed.
How do you know? Blowflies.
On heroin.
Anna Holland met Michael Drage at the end of summer 2003.
But the blowflies and other evidence suggests that these girls were killed not later than May of that year.
Niks? Just keep on walking.
Nikki Nikki! Dad, I thought I told you not to contact me ever again Look, I didn't know I was talking to anyone from the press.
Did I not make that clear? I went into the pub for a drink and this young girl came over.
I don't believe you, Dad, but I don't care.
Not any more.
Then what are you upset about? This is so embarrassing.
.
.
I'm sorry, Dan.
I'll meet you there.
You sure? Yes.
I won't be long.
I so wanted to trust you.
You can.
I've seen Kim's medical records.
Oh? I thought Harry was taking care First you don't tell me you got married, that I had a stepmother.
And now I find out that you changed your name.
Oh.
That.
Kim didn't know anything about me, did she? Of course she did, I was always talking about you.
Did she know that you'd been to prison? Victor Freeman.
Good choice.
Come on, Niks You've completely disowned your past.
Well, as you so rightly pointed out, it's not a past I should feel particularly proud of.
What, including me? No, Niks.
I am such an idiot.
Why do I always let this happen to me? You don't understand.
No, I do understand.
It's not me you want.
It's the money.
What money? From the bus company.
Exactly how much do you need? Niks.
Er Mr Freeman? Mr Alexander? Have you, umgot a minute? Good, um I wanted to tell you that your wife's meningitis was almost certainly caused by the collision with the bus, as you thought.
The X-Rays taken at the hospital just after the incident, reveal a tiny hairline fracture in the front of her skull.
Then why wasn't that seen at the first post mortem? Easily missed and it's a very rare cause of the illness so You're quite sure? Well, I expect, um, in the few weeks before she died, did she have a runny nose? Yes.
Like a cold.
Yeah well, um, that almost certainly wasn't a cold.
What was it, then? Look, just tell me.
Seepage.
From around the brain.
Oh, God! I did Kathryn in her sleep.
And Jennifer when she was off her face.
You cut their throats? Mmm-hmm.
Why choose now to make the phone call? Anna's dead.
If people knew I'd done it before, they'd know Anna had nothing to do with Paula Colebrook.
I always had that on her.
So let me be clear about this.
Anna didn't help you? When I stuck my knife in that woman's throat .
.
Anna just screamed her head off.
What difference does it make? Anna was telling the truth - she was going to be Drage's next victim.
Out of fear and wanting to protect herself she turned it into a game.
And bet him that he wouldn't kill the next person who came into the park.
And in walked Paula Colebrook.
I was getting rid of some photos.
Sweet.
What happened to her hand? Next door used to have a bloody great Doberman - took a chunk out of her hand a couple days before she started her new school.
She was so upset.
Excuse me Hi, how's Carla today? Doing well.
Very pleased.
She no longer needs the ventilator.
Would it be OK if I said hello? She's not fully conscious yet.
Hello, Carla.
It's Matt here.
I've been in a few times.
See how you are.
You silly idiot.
Nearly got yourself killed looking after a crim.
You want to stop that, mate.
She's opening her eyes.
Well, that's good.
Hello, Carla.
She's opened her eyes.
Oi Oi! Dan I think you'd better get here quickly.
Hello, Anna.
It was you, wasn't it? I saw you.
I don't know what he's talking about.
You and Carla? It was him.
I saw him going into the house.
You and DS Masters were leaving the safe house.
You were attacked by a man with a knife, do you remember? I can't believe I'm doing this.
Where's your coat? I packed it.
You're going to get soaked? Here, take mine.
Take the keys Quick, get in the car! It was Adam? Her husband? Yes.
I thought I was dead.
You weren't the only one.
Adam Masters was convinced his wife was having an affair.
With Mathew Harris? He's been in witness protection for three years.
I knew something was wrong.
Eventually Carla told me that she and this bloke had fallen in love.
So Adam was right? Carla told her husband about what had happened, promised it would never happen again.
But then I found she'd been taking the morning after pill.
What did that prove?
Michael Drage.
Anna Holland's mother.
Her mother? Mmm.
All may have known the whereabouts of a safe house.
And the fourth? Random.
And what other evidence do we have so far? Possible DNA on Anna Holland's hand.
And a footprint.
It's a running shoe.
Almost certainly a 'Prorun Milemax 07'.
It's the latest model, won't be for sale over here for at least another couple of months.
It helps create a picture of what blood went where.
There were three different types of blood, remember.
The microscopic particles coming from Paula's body as she as she was being stabbed.
Blood on the knife.
And the yellow strings? Post-mortem blood Now, Anna told the court she was standing here holding onto the children.
I don't remember it being quite so far from the body.
Well, you told the court that because the patio doors were open, the microscopic droplets were carried in the air currents.
And while she was here, she got blood on her, from the knife, as it was flicked backwards.
And what about the post mortem blood? Anna said That Drage pulled her over to the body.
Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise? Kiss.
Then he kissed her.
So the blood on her top could have been from his hand or maybe from the knife.
But Professor Ibrahim said that all the blood found on Anna's top was fresh blood, some of which had clotted in the viscose giving it the appearance of post mortem blood.
So if Anna was already here The evidence of the blood spatters would be the same.
Let's assume that our killer or killers attacked Anna Holland near the car.
There was some kind of a fight and then DS Masters is pushed against the wall, here.
This is the safe house.
The knife goes in the hedge here.
One trail of blood leading off there, the other there.
Maybe he saw someone coming, doubled back What, you mean he ran off the road there, saw someone, came back throws the knife in the hedge, then comes along here and goes up there? It's possible.
Sorry we're late.
I thought we said ten o'clock? Where have you two been? To the Colebrooks' old house.
We wanted to revisit the scene of crime.
After four years? What if Anna came out of prison and met with Jason Colebrook and told him that she did take part in the murder of his wife.
So Jason killed Anna in revenge.
Hang on a minute, four years ago you told the court that Anna Holland wasn't directly involved in the stabbing.
Are you saying that you've changed your mind? Better late than never, eh? You told me yesterday you thought that my interpretation of the evidence was more questionable, so I questioned it and I think you are right.
You have to think very carefully about this, Nikki - it could have serious implications for your career.
Four years ago, it was all so clear.
Drage and Holland were just kids, Anna was barely 17, they'd only known each other a few weeks.
Anna made a stupid bet with Michael.
And he, drugged up to the eyeballs, stupidly carried it out, but now What do you think I should do? Whether you change your mind or not or whether Anna Holland is guilty or not the fact is someone murdered her.
That should be our priority, whatever happened in the past.
Oh, the DNA sample from Anna's thigh.
Anything back on that yet? I don't know.
I haven't seen the results.
I thought you looked at them.
Well.
I thought you You mean, they haven't come back yet? Damn.
What? Peter - the technician that I suspended - he was dealing with it, probably didn't send it off.
Just to let you know, DS Masters operation went very well.
She's off the critical list.
Good.
She's our only witness.
Don't worry.
She's got 24-hour protection.
Huh.
So did Anna Holland.
I'm looking for Carla Masters.
Can I help you? I'm a friend.
I only just heard what happened.
Your name? Mathew Harris.
I'm sorry, Mr Harris, but you can't go in.
It's only immediate family, I'm afraid.
Sure.
Of course.
I just came, you know.
Nettles.
What about them? Initially when a body is buried it lets off gases, which stunt plant growth.
When that phase is over and the body starts to decompose, plant growth can become quite prolific up until the point of skeletisation, of course.
Nettles love dead bodies.
Yes, there's something here.
Looks like you're right.
Yes, I was hoping I wouldn't be.
You look so like your mother sitting there.
Dad, I told you to call before Sorry.
You're busy.
Yes, I am actually.
Ahh.
When were you going to tell me? Tell you what? You know exactly what.
Well, for starters, were you going to let me know that you'd remarried? Would there have been any point in telling you? Yes.
I think so.
Would you have come to the wedding? That's hardly the point.
Look.
That's Kim.
She looksnice.
I know, too young, but she wasn't, not really.
I mean, it's not the age that makes a person, is it? Why didn't you tell me? I so wanted you to be at the wedding.
So did Kim.
But she wasn't very well at the end.
She thought she'd get through it, we both did.
So we brought the wedding forward and there was no time.
I didn't have your telephone number.
I wasn't sure how to find you.
You find me easily enough when you want something.
I was right! Didn't send it off.
The DNA sample.
This is my father.
Ah.
Hi.
Professor Leo Dalton.
Pleased to meet you.
Victor Alexander.
I am so very proud of my daughter.
Well, so you should be.
We all are.
So, everything OK? Fine.
I actually came to see Doctor Cunningham.
I'm sorry.
It was never my intention to mislead anyone.
Least of all you.
What are you hoping to get out of this? How do you mean? Compensation, is it? From the bus company? Is that what you think this is all about? Look, I just want to know if you think that Kim's meningitis was caused by the accident.
Well, I'm waiting for the X-rays taken immediately after the knock.
I have to see her medical records before I make a final evaluation.
But you must be able to say if you think it's likely or not.
I will get back to you.
Yes.
I met with Anna Holland.
She was a lovely girl.
Full of life and plans.
Like any young person.
Unfortunately she got side-tracked.
Young people do.
I did when I was her age.
Anna though, got caught up with something, with someone You don't think she assisted Michael Drage in murdering your wife? No.
no.
I don't.
She told me herself that she didn't.
And you believed her? I liked Anna.
She wrote to me from prison.
She'd, er, she'd got herself a degree in English and history and was hoping to train as a social worker.
No, she wasn't.
She never told me that.
GLASS SMASHES I want this killer caught as much as anyone else.
Bollocks you do.
There's the mounting speculation over the cause of last week's crash after it was revealed that Anna Holland was being moved from a safe house under police protection, the police say it may be several days before a clear picture emerges.
INTERCOM BUZZES But we do know that Holland had recently completed a prison sentence for her part.
Nikki? It's your Dad.
I'm not blind.
I was passing.
How do you know where I live? Oh, er, whatsit Harry mentioned something.
Rubbish.
Is it too late? I'm sorry.
About Kim.
To die so young.
Any photos of me? Yeah.
Aw.
Hmm.
I remember that day.
Me too.
It was the day before you left.
Was it really? You know it was.
I've been watching that man on the television, the man whose wife was murdered by those kids.
Jason Colebrook.
Yeah.
He seems somehow to have managed to forgive those two.
It's not the same, Dad, come on.
How long am I to be punished for something that I did, what, over twenty years ago? Are you here because of the compensation money? What's Harry been saying about me? You're surprised? You know, I wish now I'd never left, then perhaps you might not have turned out to be quite so much like your mother.
What does that mean? You can think what you like of me, Nikki.
But you'll always be my daughter.
My blood.
And no matter what mistakes you have made in the past - and you have made mistakes I understand.
What! We all make them, Nikki.
We just have to get over them.
Learn from them.
Is this what you've come to tell me? I'm your father.
Not for the last odd twenty years you haven't been.
By the looks of things, you haven't needed me.
Only you can do this to me.
Oh, Niks.
The thing that annoys me the most is that you're right.
I think I have made a mistake.
You mean, at the trial of this Anna Holland girl? Nikki, er, it's me I don't know whether you've seen the papers this morning, or which ones it's in.
Just give us a call when you get this, will you? The murder weapon? Possibly, let's have a look.
Yeah.
There's a gaping incised wound to the neck.
Starting about five centimetres below the left ear, passing down round the midline ending about nine centimetres below the right ear.
Total length about 25 centimetres.
So I think that large knife might have had something to do with that.
I don't know how you put up with it.
The smell of a body can actually tell you a lot, even a dead one.
The knife has severed the strap muscles and the jugular and carotid vessels.
The larynx has been severedah, what have we got here? Tweezers, please.
What on earth is that? Calliphora vomitoria.
Yes, that's exactly how it's making me feel.
A species of blowfly.
And that's good? It means that the body wasn't buried immediately - an adult fly must have laid its eggs.
The larvae would have hatched, fed off the corpse, obviously You don't look very well.
First on the left.
Or on the floor Sorry.
That's all right, Nigel sorry, do you mind? Have you seen this? What's that? Apparently, Mr Alexander has sold his story.
You're joking.
It would appear that his daughter has serious doubts about her findings of four years ago.
She didn't say that to me.
I knew something like this would happen.
The coroner is furious.
He wants me to take Nikki off the case altogether.
Have you spoken with her? No, have you? Barely seen her the last few days.
Any idea where she is? She's at Anna Holland's cremation, with Dan the man.
Why, for goodness' sake? He didn't mention that.
What? Jason Colebrook.
He's training for the London Marathon.
We have entrusted our sister Anna Holland to God's mercy and we now commit her body to be cremated.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
In sure and the certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our lord Jesus Christ who will transform our (Is it true? What your father has told the papers?) What? That you've changed your mind - that Anna was involved in Paula's death? We have but a short time to live, like a flower we blossom MOBILE PHONE RINGS 'Nikki?' I can't believe what you've done, Dad.
I didn't know that she was from the press.
.
Don't don't contact me ever again.
Mrs Holland.
Thank you for the flowers.
For coming here.
This newspaper story - I'm so sorry I didn't I know and you know, my daughter almost certainly helped kill that woman.
I don't understand you.
What are you doing here? Paying my respects.
My daughter was responsible for the murder of your wife.
I don't think she was.
You know her better than her mother? I don't want your mercy.
Your forgiveness.
Please, Mrs Holland.
Did you kill my daughter? Of course not.
I wouldn't blame you.
No-one would.
I didn't kill your daughter, Mrs Holland.
I shouldn't have come.
I thought I was going the right thing.
Morning.
The fun and games are over, mate.
Unfortunately they're just about to start.
Mr Colebrook? I think you and I need a little chat.
If Anna had been found guilty of murdering Paula Colebrook with Drage, she'd still be in prison.
Her innocence or guilt was not for you to decide.
Why was I so convinced that I was right? Because that's what you're paid for, you're paid My evidence helped sway the jury into finding her not guilty.
Why do we all think we're so important? You were not the only person who gave evidence.
Anna would still be alive and Jason would not now be facing charges of murder.
Nikki Those poor boys.
They witnessed their mother's murder and now their father Nikki, sit down! I'm sorry.
I'm tired.
Hi.
Hi.
I got your text, you wanted to speak to me.
Yeah, but it can wait.
What's happened? Nothing, it's, um, I asked for Kim's medical records to complete my report.
I can't get involved with the second post mortem.
No, it's nothing to do with that, it's just a small thing to do with your father.
I'll put it on your desk.
The idea that I would kill Anna is I've managed to identify the running shoe found in the fire bin in your garden.
There might be enough to identify a make.
It's a 'Prorun Milemax 07'.
There must be thousands of shoes like that.
When was the last time you were in America, Mr Colebrook? Is this relevant? I was there just before last Christmas.
And when you were there, did you purchase a pair of running shoes? I don't know.
You don't know? Well, perhaps you would like to check your credit card statement.
For the tape, Mr Colebrook.
Yes.
I purchased some running shoes whilst in New York.
And a pair of running socks? Yes.
And a pair of running socks.
Traces of blood have been found on the socks.
I fell over some weeks ago - up on the common.
Look, I'll show you.
I thought I'd need stitches.
The blood ran down my leg onto my sock and onto the shoe.
Same knife? So it would appear.
Both had their throats cut, both had multiple abrasions about the body, hands, arms.
One girl lost a finger.
And their ages? Both late teens.
But how did they end up in Mr and Mrs Binefa's garden and allotment? Mr Binefa's now dead, he would have been 92 at the time of their murders.
You're not being ageist, I hope, Detective Constable.
Mrs Binefa is in sheltered accommodation.
I'll speak with her, she might remember something.
There's evidence of serious drug abuse.
You can tell that after all this time? The tox report shows that our blowfly was completely strung out on heroin when he finally passed away.
What a way to go! How would you feel if your wife had been murdered? And the video of her played over and over.
At what point do you think she stopped feeling them? The first one? The last one? And my children getting spattered in their mother's blood.
Oh, I'm an expert in blood spatters.
And now it looks like Ms Anna Holland was lying.
She did have a knife.
She did help Drage.
She's as bad as he is.
Worse.
And now, irony of ironies, I am being charged with Anna's murder.
Well, let's face it, I had motive.
I prayed to God - I screamed at God - to help me to forgive her.
To see the goodness in her heart.
So young, so innocent.
Beautiful.
I am going to tell you the truth now.
Mr Colebrook.
I need to do this.
My advice I don't need your advice.
Harry's just told me about the Binefa case.
What? Binefa, I'm sure I've seen that name recently.
Does it ring any bells with you? No.
I have to admit, Inspector, I was attracted to her.
Is that sick? I think so.
Attracted to my wife's murderer.
You went to the safe house? Yes.
She invited me in.
She looked so different in her own clothes.
She told me she was going away.
For good.
A new beginning and she told me she wanted to say sorry again.
Ever since my wife I have been unable to have sex.
But with Anna I realised in that moment, that the last man she kissed was Michael Drage after they had murdered my wife.
I could taste my wife's blood on her lips.
What did you do? I pushed her away.
Please, Jason.
I want you to forgive me.
Not like this.
Don't you want me? I thought, from our letters, from when you came to see me I was just trying to be open with you.
Open? I may have been inside for four years but I know when a man is coming on to me.
It's Carla.
She's early.
The policewoman looking after me.
She's taking me to Gatwick.
I can't be here.
Well, you are.
Please, Anna.
Oh, so now you want me.
I hid in the bedroom.
Like a stupid farce.
The policewoman came in, took Anna's rucksack and then they left.
Anna was crying.
As was I.
I heard them walk down the front path and then Screaming.
Shouts.
"Stop.
Get away from her".
I didn't know what to do.
I couldn't go out there.
I wanted to.
I went to the door but I couldn't be there.
SCREAMING When I thought it was all clear, I went out.
It was so quiet and still and then I saw the blood.
I'd stepped in it.
I didn't know what to do.
I had to get back to my boys.
I should have gone out to help her.
I'm such a coward.
And you burned your trainers for what reason, Mr Colebrook? I panicked.
I knew something dreadful had happened and I knew, no matter what, I'd be implicated.
Stupidly, I tried to get rid of the evidence.
Lovely looking girls.
Has something happened to them? They went missing four or five years ago.
We think this one's called Kathryn.
No.
And this one.
Of course, they could have been friends of Michael's.
Michael? Yes, he came to help us out, you know.
Bit of decorating.
Bit of gardening.
We were all very shocked at what happened.
Lovely boy, very popular with the girls.
Shocked at what, Mrs Binefa? Well, everyone knew what happened with Michael.
Even I remember that.
Five years ago, Michael Drage did some community service, during which time he got to know Mr and Mrs Binefa.
And he also knew this woman Kathryn Eyles.
Bit older than him, drug addict, on the game.
She was murdered, with this knife.
And there are cuts and incised wounds all over her body.
Now because of her current condition, it's obviously hard to be certain exactly how many, but I would say there are at least eighty wounds on her body.
Was that before or after her throat was cut? Again, hard to be certain but given that her throat was cut, that was the probable cause of death.
I would say the majority of these injuries occurred post mortem.
The second body, found in the Binefas' allotment, has been identified as Jennifer Kirk who went missing at the age of 17.
And was murdered, I believe, within a few weeks of Kathryn Eyles.
And the date of these murders? Both women were reported missing in the April of 2003.
Do you think Anna Holland knew about the other two? If she knew Drage had murdered the other two, she'd've said something.
Unless she helped him kill them.
Anna Holland hadn't met Michael Drage when these murders were committed.
How do you know? Blowflies.
On heroin.
Anna Holland met Michael Drage at the end of summer 2003.
But the blowflies and other evidence suggests that these girls were killed not later than May of that year.
Niks? Just keep on walking.
Nikki Nikki! Dad, I thought I told you not to contact me ever again Look, I didn't know I was talking to anyone from the press.
Did I not make that clear? I went into the pub for a drink and this young girl came over.
I don't believe you, Dad, but I don't care.
Not any more.
Then what are you upset about? This is so embarrassing.
.
.
I'm sorry, Dan.
I'll meet you there.
You sure? Yes.
I won't be long.
I so wanted to trust you.
You can.
I've seen Kim's medical records.
Oh? I thought Harry was taking care First you don't tell me you got married, that I had a stepmother.
And now I find out that you changed your name.
Oh.
That.
Kim didn't know anything about me, did she? Of course she did, I was always talking about you.
Did she know that you'd been to prison? Victor Freeman.
Good choice.
Come on, Niks You've completely disowned your past.
Well, as you so rightly pointed out, it's not a past I should feel particularly proud of.
What, including me? No, Niks.
I am such an idiot.
Why do I always let this happen to me? You don't understand.
No, I do understand.
It's not me you want.
It's the money.
What money? From the bus company.
Exactly how much do you need? Niks.
Er Mr Freeman? Mr Alexander? Have you, umgot a minute? Good, um I wanted to tell you that your wife's meningitis was almost certainly caused by the collision with the bus, as you thought.
The X-Rays taken at the hospital just after the incident, reveal a tiny hairline fracture in the front of her skull.
Then why wasn't that seen at the first post mortem? Easily missed and it's a very rare cause of the illness so You're quite sure? Well, I expect, um, in the few weeks before she died, did she have a runny nose? Yes.
Like a cold.
Yeah well, um, that almost certainly wasn't a cold.
What was it, then? Look, just tell me.
Seepage.
From around the brain.
Oh, God! I did Kathryn in her sleep.
And Jennifer when she was off her face.
You cut their throats? Mmm-hmm.
Why choose now to make the phone call? Anna's dead.
If people knew I'd done it before, they'd know Anna had nothing to do with Paula Colebrook.
I always had that on her.
So let me be clear about this.
Anna didn't help you? When I stuck my knife in that woman's throat .
.
Anna just screamed her head off.
What difference does it make? Anna was telling the truth - she was going to be Drage's next victim.
Out of fear and wanting to protect herself she turned it into a game.
And bet him that he wouldn't kill the next person who came into the park.
And in walked Paula Colebrook.
I was getting rid of some photos.
Sweet.
What happened to her hand? Next door used to have a bloody great Doberman - took a chunk out of her hand a couple days before she started her new school.
She was so upset.
Excuse me Hi, how's Carla today? Doing well.
Very pleased.
She no longer needs the ventilator.
Would it be OK if I said hello? She's not fully conscious yet.
Hello, Carla.
It's Matt here.
I've been in a few times.
See how you are.
You silly idiot.
Nearly got yourself killed looking after a crim.
You want to stop that, mate.
She's opening her eyes.
Well, that's good.
Hello, Carla.
She's opened her eyes.
Oi Oi! Dan I think you'd better get here quickly.
Hello, Anna.
It was you, wasn't it? I saw you.
I don't know what he's talking about.
You and Carla? It was him.
I saw him going into the house.
You and DS Masters were leaving the safe house.
You were attacked by a man with a knife, do you remember? I can't believe I'm doing this.
Where's your coat? I packed it.
You're going to get soaked? Here, take mine.
Take the keys Quick, get in the car! It was Adam? Her husband? Yes.
I thought I was dead.
You weren't the only one.
Adam Masters was convinced his wife was having an affair.
With Mathew Harris? He's been in witness protection for three years.
I knew something was wrong.
Eventually Carla told me that she and this bloke had fallen in love.
So Adam was right? Carla told her husband about what had happened, promised it would never happen again.
But then I found she'd been taking the morning after pill.
What did that prove?