Silent Witness (1996) s23e04 Episode Script

1 The body recovered from Mayhew farm is Jason Forbes.
He's been here weeks.
Possibly months.
- Is Malcolm Wilde still a suspect? - He's a person of interest.
You always said the answer was close to home.
So when are you going to pick Malcolm Wilde up? It's in hand.
- What did Malcolm say? - Stuck to his story.
He was innocent.
So the ballpark that he died four to six weeks ago - needs to be adjusted? - Could have died months ago.
Did you miss him back in September? Was he lying there the whole time? You went round there.
When? Two days before Jason went missing.
- You sure it was a pick-up? - Ford Super Duty, maybe? We never went public about the pick-up that Hannah Divine saw from the trees.
He must have heard her testimony somehow.
I'm not your puppet.
It's not my fault - you're desperate and he's not cracking.
- He did it, Nikki.
Tricking me into menacing a suspect, that is something else entirely.
Testator silens Costestes e spiritu Silentium Testator silens.
So, any other developments in the Forbes case? Thomas believes Jason Forbes's body had been frozen.
And he's sure? Thank you.
He's sure about that? When Thomas says he's sure, he's sure.
I get that impression.
This is a bit, uh, cloak and dagger.
Well, I wanted make sure we wouldn't be disturbed.
Well, job done.
I'll cut to the chase.
The National Crime Agency are building their own lab in Birmingham.
- No expense spared, lab to end all labs, etc.
- OK.
They've got a panel of experts helping the architects to design the place.
They're short a forensic scientist of experience and distinction.
You want me? What about the Lyell? Well, you'd carry on as normal, I'd square it with Thomas.
Well? Well, I'm intrigued.
Why me? The Simon Hill murder.
Without you, we wouldn't have got close to Carl Brady.
He wasn't even on our radar until you found those e-mails.
Just another worried teacher, concerned about his pupil's whereabouts.
Well, the respect's mutual, Tim.
Is that a yes? It's a "I'll think about it.
" Fair enough.
Nikki, did Jason Forbes' full GP records list a prescription for Lorazepam? - No.
- Any other tranquillizer? You found Lorazepam in his system? Mm.
Low, but consistent dose, spread over several weeks.
Oh, I got a call from Assistant Commissioner Holloway.
CPS are reviewing the Wilde evidence.
They want to meet up.
Right, good.
Yeah, from a Lyell perspective, this is quite an opportunity.
We could shore up a lot of future work.
Don't you think it's odd that they changed labs after they found Jason's body? No, not particularly.
Why? When he went missing, they used a local lab with a more than reputable forensics and pathology unit.
I quizzed Ashby about it.
She implied it was Holloway's decision.
I got the strong sense that she thought it was odd, too.
You quizzed her about it? On what grounds? This is exactly the kind of case we need to get back on our feet.
How and why it fell in our laps - not our concern.
You think it's just a coincidence that Holloway knows Clarissa? Yes.
- Did he mention the sabotage? - Huh? He didn't suggest that by coming to us, he was doing us a favour, helping us back on our feet? - So he did? - Nikki I don't think you realise And why would you? You don't see your bank statement from January through December.
I don't think you realise quite how hard this has hit us.
Wilde's facing a life sentence.
Our duty is to the truth, not Holloway.
No matter how much work he sends us.
- It goes without saying.
- Does it? Yeah? OK.
Yeah.
- Hello again.
- Hello.
Thank you.
I'm required to strongly advise you against seeing Jason, as there's been considerable degradation to the body.
- However, I - Thank you.
I need to see him.
I'm so sorry I'm late.
Peter, can I have a quick word, please? We can wait in the office.
I have a question for you, and I need you to answer honestly.
- Because - What's the question? Were you Are you in a relationship with Sue Davis, Jason's judo instructor? - Who've you been talking to? - I need an answer, Peter.
Well, it's a pack of lies, there's your answer.
So there's nothing in it at all? All right, me and Sue were an item years ago.
And we're still mates.
That's it.
And you've had no trysts more recently? The motorhome, say, when Tina's on the night shift at the hospital? Look, this goes towards the credibility of a witness.
- So I need you - No, never.
And Sue will back me up.
Are we done, Claire? SHE WHIMPERS My boy My boy You're letting us see him.
Must mean you've finished with him, yeah? We've done the postmortem, yes.
You got the answers you're looking for? Some of them.
He was shot? Yes.
Where? In the back.
Was he, um Was he sexually Well? Was he? The offender made a concerted effort to leave no DNA.
- One possible interpretation - All right, all right, Christ.
So the histology indicated that Jason's body had been frozen for months, not weeks.
From a CPS perspective, the smaller the window for time of death, the better.
Well, blood results help there.
I found trace amounts of Lorazepam.
I conducted a hair test.
It shows Jason was given the tranquillizer at regular intervals for about one month, after which he was killed.
The body was then placed in a freezer for roughly five months before it was removed and left in a ditch on Mayhew Farm, where it was discovered four to six weeks later.
There's a fair amount of roughlys and abouts in your chronology.
Well, that's because we have a fair few unknowns.
The exact temperature of the freezer where the body was stored, for example.
We've run tests on the freezer in Wilde's basement.
It's negative for Jason's DNA.
I also tested the rifle.
It's not the weapon used to kill Jason.
It would have been nice to have a heads up on the ballistics.
Well, the results only came in just before you did.
Right.
Thanks, Jack.
It's really not a problem.
So, isn't it possible that even if Wilde didn't actually freeze his body, it doesn't mean he didn't abduct and kill him? You've lost me.
Well, I can see a scenario where Malcolm persuades his dad to clean up his mess.
Why would he do that? To save his only son.
We're sure we're not viewing the evidence selectively to support Wilde's guilt? We're simply exploring possibilities, Dr Alexander.
And let's not forget that Malcolm's father tried and failed to beat a confession out of him.
Tortured him, to call it what it was.
And Malcolm still maintained his innocence.
Well, it's been great having the science laid out first hand, but first off, I see a wealth of trace evidence tying Wilde to what is a pretty remote deposition site.
That, along with his predilection for young boys, his confessed stalking of the Forbes home and his total lack of alibi is enough.
You'll recommend a murder charge? This afternoon.
Great.
Thank you, everyone.
We need to explain the Lorazepam.
If Wilde wasn't prescribed it, where did he get it? We don't need to answer every question to bring a charge.
Maybe his dad was prescribed it? Charging is premature, and you know it.
It's out of my hands.
Really? I thought you were the senior investigating officer? What about the pick-up that Hannah and Malcolm both saw independently? Well, he must have overheard something at the station.
These things happen.
We're about to send a potentially innocent man to prison, and that's the best you can do? You with us, Claire? They were about to take us in to see Jason's body.
And Claire asked me if we're seeing each other.
Jesus.
We're monsters, aren't we? What did you say? What do you think? I denied it.
But Ashby knows, she absolutely knows.
I think Jason did, too.
What? Our last session together, he was off.
Distant.
What, with you or with everyone? It's hard to say.
He didn't know, there's There's no way.
Sue That day I offered him a lift.
He declined.
Did you tell the police this? And why didn't you tell me? Because you were in hell.
Because if he didn't get into my car for that reason then we put him in harm's way.
Then, yeah, we are monsters.
Malcolm Wilde, I'm charging you with the murder of Jason Forbes.
You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention now something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
There's enough wrong notes, anomalies for us to at least ask what if Wilde isn't guilty? And, for what it's worth, Wilde says he's been set up.
Of course he does.
He was named on social media on the day of his arrest.
- Which proves? - Nothing.
But if he's not our killer, he's the perfect fall guy.
Already the prime suspect.
With a dodgy reputation locally that got him fired from the Scouts.
OK.
Could he have been framed by the real killer? You could glean a lot from Wilde's website.
- What, besides him doing work on Mayhew Farm? - Uh-huh.
Hodgkin Building Supplies.
They stock the boiler suit he's wearing.
And the Bixley's lubricant he keeps in his van.
OK.
If the killer was trying to set Malcolm up, everything he needed was online.
Why risk coming back to dump Jason's corpse? Because the body makes it count.
Draws our eye to evidence we wouldn't otherwise find.
None of this changes the fact that the evidence was sufficient for the CPS.
No, but if there's one thing that meeting told us, it's that there's extra impetus, pressure, whatever, to see Malcolm charged, and it's coming from Holloway.
Agreed.
Something's not right.
Well, whatever it is, if we're a corrective to it, we're just doing our job.
OK.
We review all the evidence we have, but that's our remit, yeah? The evidence.
We're not running some sort of parallel inquiry.
And everything goes through me.
Understood? Understood.
You have a go.
If you think you're hard enough.
You're just not strong enough.
Go on, put your back in to it.
Anti-static grid weave in action.
You can cut that with a machine tool, but it won't snag on wire, and it definitely won't tear off in a strip like that.
So it was placed there? I think it all was.
All right, thank you, everyone.
Clarissa.
Sorry I didn't call ahead.
Oh, no problem.
I'm pretty rammed, but come on in.
Oh, we're OK.
On the Simon Hill case, you gave me my first post in the field when no-one thought it was a good idea.
When I wasn't sure it was a good idea.
That was huge.
Still is.
Pure self interest.
You're great at your job, I wanted you at the coalface.
Look, if I'm barking up the wrong tree, I apologise in advance.
Sounds ominous.
I've been wondering if If you dumped the local lab for the Lyell because you want a lab you can control, the same way you control DCI Ashby.
A lab dependent on London cases for work.
A lab with a friendly face.
Someone you know and trust? Certainly sounds like the wrong tree, but carry on.
It was the pick-up, wasn't it? I heard it from the scene of crime officer on Simon Hill.
Heard what? How a witness came forward late in the day.
Pavel Tadic.
He'd seen Simon getting in a pick-up truck with a man in his 50s.
But CPS had pressed play on the prosecution and the witness was ignored.
He wasn't ignored.
We took a statement.
When you heard about the pick-up seen near Jason's judo club, you must have panicked.
Same victim type, same deluge of evidence pointing to a local.
You knew there was a chance it was the same killer, and Carl Brady was innocent.
I never even made the link because I never doubted for a second A chance.
That was enough.
2010, I told you.
Hair from Brady's cat could have been planted.
This is news to you, but Carl Brady is appealing his conviction for the Simon Hill murder.
It would be a gift to his lawyers if one of the forensic team that put him away expressed doubts about his guilt, publicly aired the notion that the real killer evaded justice to strike again.
Now, if you were complicit in Brady's walking free after eight years in prison, you'll also be complicit if he celebrates by killing another young boy.
Hi.
I used to come here with my son years ago.
Right.
There's a guy, used to run this place.
Paul? Pavel? Pavel! That's right.
Yeah, he taught my son to sail.
Smashing bloke.
Went back to Kyiv.
Didn't like England.
Right.
That's a shame.
Typical Ukrainian, too emotional.
Took everything to heart.
Nice talking to you.
What's your name? We talk sometimes to Pavel about suppliers and stuff.
Don't worry, wouldn't remember me.
The witness who saw Simon getting in the pick-up.
Pavel Tadic.
He ran a boat rental place on the river.
Can we skip back a bit? Why was Brady a suspect in the first place? He was Simon's chemistry teacher and their relationship was inappropriately close.
Based on? E-mail correspondence I found on Brady's laptop.
It suggested an inappropriately close relationship.
Only suggested? Yes.
But when Simon's body turned up, I found hairs on his clothing from Brady's cat.
Sounds compelling.
Yeah.
Some of the hairs lacked follicles, raising the possibility they'd been cut and therefore planted.
Did that go in your report? Of course.
Holloway asked me to characterise that explanation as possible, but unlikely, and I did.
Why? Well, cos that's what I believed.
Only a minority of the hairs were cut, so I You let this man emotionally blackmail you Why, through some misguided sense of loyalty because he let you out for the first time? Must have felt like you owed him a lot.
Maybe I did.
When I went back to the scene something hit me.
Why did the killer leave Simon by the water? It made no sense.
If he'd rolled him in, then the cat hairs and other trace would have been lost.
Because maybe the killer wanted the body to be found.
MacNeil said Holloway was all over their case to a strange degree for a lofty AC.
Is this case the reason? I think it is, yeah.
Holloway's written countless papers on the so-called "Close to Home" theory.
It contends that the media obsession with serial killers has led to a weakness in detectives to see their handiwork where it doesn't exist.
And miss the mundane truth that a local usually did it.
Mundane and comparatively cheap - no task force required.
So we're not just talking about the Simon Hill case.
We're talking about the reputation of an assistant commissioner, widely tipped for the top job.
DISTANT SIREN WAILS ELEVATOR DINGS Hold the lift, please.
Dr Alexander.
Assistant Commissioner.
Got a bit carried away in the CPS meeting.
Apologies.
Nonsense.
We all have to fight our corners.
What brings you here at this late hour? Just wanted to update DCI Ashby on a few things.
Must be important if a call wouldn't do.
I've got results back which expand the window when the body could have been frozen.
And how does that impact on Wilde's alibi? It's less, not more likely, to exclude him.
Welcome news, then.
Bet it's in by lunchtime.
Nikki! You didn't return my call.
Well, you know, I've been busy.
Sorry, I should have called you back.
D'you want to come in? You look like you need a drink.
Mm! I'm on the fruit juice, I'm afraid.
I'll have a lime and soda in solidarity.
What's up? We've come across a case from 2010 which casts doubt on Wilde's guilt.
AC Tim Holloway was the senior investigating officer.
Where were you thinking? To pull the evidence from the 2010 case, I need approval from inspector rank or above.
Are we talking about Simon Hill? I know the case.
Holloway mentioned it on the SIO fast-track course.
Which you attended.
Which I attended.
Different MO, though, Nikki.
Simon Hill was strangled, not shot.
Urban location, not rural.
But the shared victimology's still striking - blond, athletic boys in their early teens.
I wouldn't say striking.
Marginal overlap's nearer.
A witness saw Simon standing by a pick-up with a man.
The two of them then got in and drove off.
Sorry, Nikki, but I'm not hearing anything that justifies diverting time and resources away from Wilde.
Fair enough.
Holloway's in overall command of every murder team in London, right? Mm-hm.
When did he start paying such close attention to Jason Forbes? A rural case that you were just helping out with.
Was it after Hannah Divine came forward about the pick-up? I just want to review Simon Hill's Path report.
If there's no more links or commonalities, we leave it there.
How did you find me? I'm a detective.
Ah! What's going on? Got a hair sample here from Simon Hill.
Looks like it was taken to confirm DNA.
Yeah, but not tested for drugs.
It's not an oversight.
There was no reason to.
Right.
Given the lorazepam in Jason's blood, it's a test we should run now.
Whatever else, Holloway was thorough.
The Forbes own a motorhome, right? DCI ASHBY: Yeah, why? So did Simon Hill's parents.
Looks like we should go and see the Forbes again.
Your motorhome, can you tell me about the last few times you've used it? We only really take it out for our main summer holiday.
- And whereabouts are we talking? - Spain normally.
But last year, Jason said he wanted to see more of the UK.
So we went to a campsite on Exmoor.
And did anything unusual happen at the campsite? Any encounters with strangers, friendly or otherwise? Mm No.
Not really.
Our motorhome developed a fault.
So, who took care of that for you? The campsite owner recommended someone.
Did a good job, and it was cheap.
Could you describe him for me? Late 50s, 60s.
Beard.
He drove an American-style truck, you know, a pick-up? Anything else? He'd been a boxer in his day, and him and Jason got talking about that.
And about Jason's judo.
Jason ended up helping him out.
Uh, spanner, please.
Ta.
No, the big one.
All right! Jason start her up.
Uh! Well, it's a bloody head-scratcher, Jason, pardon my French.
- SPANNER CLINKS - We'll go again, eh? Why are you asking about him? What's going on? OVER PHONE: Just like the Forbes', the campsite owner recommended a mechanic.
Took him a day to show up, but he was cheap and friendly.
The Hills don't remember him paying Simon special attention, but it was nine years ago, and their description matches Tina Forbes'.
OK, thanks, Jotie.
Great work.
That's why Jason and Simon got in his truck.
They knew him.
Knew and liked him.
The man who saved the summer holiday.
But he only seems to operate in summer.
What about the rest of the time? Mick? It's me, Ben.
From the campsite, in Somerset.
Ben! What are you doing here? Oh, just passing through.
I've got a job out on the coast.
I thought you lived up north.
Well, you know me, go wherever the work is.
So, how you been? OK.
Family well? Everyone's good, thanks.
- Fancy a spin for old time's sake? - Got to get home.
Well, I could drop you home after.
Take a turn behind the wheel, if you like.
I can't drive! Well, I'd be riding shotgun.
I passed a nice flat field on the way in.
My dad'll go nuts.
Well, your dad'll never know about it.
Much better to ask forgiveness than permission.
Good man, Greg.
Tell us a bit more about Mick.
Oh, he's a bit of an eccentric! Goes dark sometimes and don't answer his phone.
But he's a great mechanic, and he's bloody cheap.
- How does he interact with the families? - Fine.
He's a natural with the kids.
I think they see him as a a bit of an outlaw! This card? Yeah, that's it.
And when did YOU last see him? Ah, six months ago.
He fixed up a VW van and did some work for me.
What did that work entail, Greg? He just changed the engine's oil filter.
Where did the filter come from? Uh, Mick picked it up for us.
Just put it on the bill.
So it was brand-new? Yeah, I-I stood right here and watched him unbox it.
Thanks, Greg.
We'll drop by your office before we go.
Cheers, Greg.
Weird, isn't it? Running into each other again.
One man's coincidence is another man's fate.
That's deep.
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.
- That's nice.
- It's sad, too.
Cos it's a world we've lost.
A world without rules.
- I should get going, Mick.
- Yeah, sure.
Are your parents at home? Won't be back till later.
What time? Seven or eight.
Why? - You OK? - Yeah.
No.
Sit down.
I feel ill.
The rolling road, Ben.
That's where we're headed.
We might have Mick's prints on an oil filter.
Yes! Oh.
Oh! Sorry, prints don't link to a name.
Unsolved case.
- Let's see - SHE CLICKS MOUSE It was an attempted abduction of 13-year-old Darren Costi, back in 2001, in Northamptonshire.
The assailant's prints and DNA were recovered from Darren's watch and fingernails respectively.
He described his attacker as suited, 40s, driving a black Mercedes.
And what's the location? A country lane.
He was cycling home when he was run off the road.
Jesus! Number three.
Excuse me.
All right? All right? Tim Holloway.
OVER PHONE: Julie Coulson in Archives, sir.
You gave me a list of sensitive cases you wanted a heads-up on in the event someone pulled the files Which file? We've just reviewed the postmortem photographs from Simon Hill.
At the PM, we found this - a high-viscosity liquid on Simon's shirt.
Enough for Clarissa to ID a brand.
It's KX hydraulic fluid.
Used, among other things, on lorry tail lifts.
Then we found these stripes on his back.
NIKKI: Looks like lividity marks.
Left within a few hours of death.
- Any idea what caused them? - Well, the ground by the river was flat.
So these marks were made before he was placed there, which took me back to lorries.
And in this case refrigerated lorries.
The stripes are consistent with a T-floor design used in refrigerated transport.
A kind of bar-and-groove structure used to prevent ice build-up.
Maybe, but we didn't find those marks on Jason.
What we DO know is he evolved.
By the time he takes Simon in 2010, he's grooming the boys in advance and forensically framing suspects.
So, with Jason, he evolves again.
Freezing him for months before he risks returning the body to the scene.
It's possible he knows we distinguish victims by MO, so he strangles one, shoots another and strikes miles apart.
He wants to make it look like a local.
He knows that you plough huge resources into serial cases.
And it's much better if his crimes are never linked in the first place.
Because the one thing he can't change is his victim type.
So, what does this have to do with Mick's appearance? If we're right, if misdirection is his thing, then maybe the scruffy clothes and the truck are part of that.
In 2001, our attacker was well-dressed and driving a Mercedes.
Mick is like a disguise.
Yes.
That he removes once he's groomed his next victim.
DOOR OPENS We've got a new suspect.
I told you to make our case against Wilde bulletproof.
Instead, you're shooting holes in it, digging up a case I solved eight years ago.
No doubt Clarissa Mullery put that idea in your head.
Did you ignore a witness statement about Simon getting in a pick-up with a middle-aged man? - I am not about to defend myself to you.
- It's an easy enough question.
I am removing you from this case as of now.
DS MacNeil as well.
This inquiry needs new blood, not to mention rudimentary discipline.
Well, my husband will be pleased! Not now.
Hair analysis shows there was lorazepam in Simon Hill's system.
Like Jason, he was given the drug regularly for about a month prior to his death.
Right.
Carry on, Claire, I need a moment.
How are you feeling, Ben? What am I doing here? I didn't know what you liked, so, uh, bought you a whole load of stuff.
I need to go.
LOCK RATTLES Aren't you going to help me unpack? I've traced the original crossed-out number to a batch from 2008, distributed by a phone shop in Orwick, Northamptonshire.
That's five miles from where Darren Costi was assaulted in 2001.
Feels like Northamptonshire could be his home turf.
Or WAS.
Clarissa see me out.
Yeah.
Please tell DCI Ashby whatever she wants, I'll sort it.
Right.
If I thought for a moment that Brady hadn't done it, I wouldn't have asked you to dial down your concerns about the hairs being planted.
OK.
I'm not sure that gets you off the hook if an innocent man went to prison.
Nor me for that matter.
- No.
- No.
- Hey! - Grandpa Henry! You, OK, Dad? Said I'd pop by.
Ah, yes, course you did.
- Just knackered from the drive still on French time.
- Ah! That's only an hour ahead.
Oh, I see someone's still a know-it-all! He's a nightmare, Grandpa Henry.
Come on inside.
Come on.
- How was your trip? - It was great! We went all the way to Moscow.
Did I ever tell you, we were the first haulage company to cross the Iron Curtain? Yeah, once or twice! What are we going to do with him, Zoe? - WHISPERS: Zoe! - Dad, I've ordered some new forklifts and I've paid a fortune for a demo.
And you want to make sure you get your money's worth.
Yeah.
I'm there! Come on, kids.
Well, what was wrong with the old forklifts? They're knackered, Dad.
Come on.
Well, if you're saying he got his phone in 2008, then, no, I can't be sure! I don't keep records going back that far.
Is there a local mechanical garage near? Um There There was eight, ten years ago.
How about a dairy farm? A food packaging centre, something like that? Anywhere I might find a refrigerated truck.
You'd find a fleet of those at Ramsden Haulage.
Yeah, a few mechanics, too.
Ah, can I help you? DS John MacNeil.
This is Jack Hodgson.
- Henry Ramsden.
- You're the owner? Well, in name only.
My daughter runs the ship now, but she's away on holiday.
We're investigating the recent murder of Jason Forbes and we'd like to look at your refrigerator trucks.
Absolutely.
Uh, will you bring him up? Been looking at the lividity on Simon Hill's back.
I think one of the bars on the container floor might be damaged.
I'll send over a reference image.
It starts where? OK.
CHAIN RATTLES Different flooring.
I don't see any damage to the bars.
Can we look at these ones? Same width and spacing.
I need to know who was driving this truck in March 2010.
I'm not sure the log goes back that far.
It should do.
They're all on Emma's computer.
- Sorry, she must have archived it.
- Can we call her? Just give me a minute.
All right, take your time.
Looks like you built this place up the hard way.
What I loved was that the routes were already there, waiting to be discovered.
You just had to go out and find them.
I mean, if someone told me I couldn't get X to Krakow or Cairo first thing tomorrow, then that was all the encouragement I needed.
There we go.
The lorry in question was there for all of March 2010.
Is it normal for a lorry to be off the road so long? Must've needed some major repairs.
Give me a second.
- That's weird.
- What? Nothing in the repair database about the lorry in question.
So just to be clear, it wasn't on the roads and it wasn't being repaired.
- So it was just sat here? - Yeah.
A perfectly good lorry out of action for a month.
- Someone must have flagged that, surely.
- Oh, come on.
Mistakes get made.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
How d'you know? What? How do you know we're making a mountain out of a molehill? Much of a mechanic yourself, Henry? He taught our mechanics everything they know.
Stay put.
Stay put.
- Aah! - John?! Jesus! Call an ambulance! Stay with him! Oh! Uh! He killed him just to slow me down.
You OK? I'll be fine.
Guv, can I have a word? Are you all right, boss? - Yeah.
- There's something else.
Ben Taylor, 13, reported missing late last night.
Oh, God.
And a witness saw a man fitting Mick's description enter his house a few hours earlier.
Get SOCOs and Forensics to Mick's house.
We could be looking for a body.
SIRENS WAIL If we start round the back Ben! Ben! Ben! NIKKI: Ben! SIRENS WAIL JACK: I found this map.
We're here.
If this is right, we're standing in a building now.
Look at this.
Ben! Ben! - Bolt-cutters.
- Ben! Ben Ben! Oh, my God.
Ben? It's OK, Ben.
I'm a police officer.
It's OK.
You're going to be OK now.
MINISTER: .
.
our community is much poorer for his passing.
Jason was a boy who lived life to the full.
And when I spoke to his friends and family in preparation for today, the same words came up again and again I just feel for his family so much.
HUSHED CONVERSATIONS Thank you both for all you've done.
Oh, please.
- Please accept our condolences.
- Thank you.
How's Ben doing? He's doing well.
I hope they make it.
Yeah, me, too.
Thanks for coming, Nikki.
Thanks for everything.
It's OK.
I'll see you in court.
Good luck with the baby.
Hm! Hello.
- How are you? - OK.
NIKKI: On average, a woman leaves an abusive relationship seven times before she leaves for good.
We've found a body.
We believe it may be your wife.
And you think she was drunk because you found the gin bottle? Sorry, you know what this place is, yeah? The women who come here are not OK.
We are broken.
We collected DNA from the women she was going to meet.
How guilty is he? If you are capable of hurting your wife like this, you are capable of killing her.
I didn't kill her.
Testator silens Costestes e spiritu Silentium.