Silent Witness (1996) s26e10 Episode Script

Enjoy your retirement, Bill.
No-one alive or dead could say you
haven't earned it.
- To Bill.
- To Bill!
It might be a late one. I need to
run Bill back to Southbay.
Be safe.
The deceased is a Carol Laing.
That angry man outside is her ex,
Sergeant Michael Laing.
Chief Superintendent Bridget Laing
is his mother.
Is there anything you want to tell me?
When Mike was 11 or 12, Bridget fostered
both Andrew and his little sister, Lisa.
You attacked her in her own bed whilst
her son slept just across the hall.
And when she fought back,
you stabbed her through the heart.
It's very obvious
why my client's in custody.
Because Southbay CID bears a grudge.
Six months ago my police partner,
PC Fred Woods, just disappeared.
His car was found at Southbay Bridge.
You know how many people go
over the side there every year?
Fred received a threat to life
from Detective Super Intendent
Ray Palmer.
Why did you tell us
you'd never been upstairs?
Why did you lie to us?
Something happened in this room.
He said, "If you or your brother
try to leave this room, I'll know."
Are you sure it was a man?
Kate Freeman, you're charged
that on the 14th of August
at Markland Avenue, Southbay,
you did murder Carol Laing,
contrary to common law.
Tell me, Ryan
..the man in the mask.
Can you remember the colour of his eyes?
But you said you thought
you recognised him?
I said I thought I'd heard
his voice before.
- If I recognised him, I'd tell you.
- Of course.
And he made no attempt to
restrain you or bind your hands,
nothing like that?
No. Why?
- Thank you, Ryan.
- Can I have a word?
Is there a reason you asked him
if his hands were tied?
The killer tied his mother's hands.
What?
Just a very specific
question, that's all.
You're reading too much
Yesterday, you were saying you didn't
want anyone jumping to conclusions.
- What did you mean by that?
- Nothing.
What conclusions are you
afraid we'll jump to? The truth?
Kate Freeman is facing life in prison.
Not because she might be guilty,
but because Southbay CID
want to shut her up.
- That's ridiculous.
- Is it?
Her partner questioned the lack of patrols
in Harbour Fields and vanished without trace.
How about you do your job
and let me do mine?
- Are you testing Ryan's pyjamas?
- For fibres and DNA, as we speak.
Everything all right?
Ryan would like to get
some things from his room.
Hi. Meena.
Lisa.
- Is Andrew in?
- No.
He's not at work and I couldn't
reach him on his mobile.
He should be back by six,
cos we're going to the cinema.
OK.
Can I come in and wait for him?
Thank you.
Is that Mike?
On the left, yeah.
Corsica, 2001.
Good memory.
Remember the good, forget the bad,
that's my philosophy!
We barely see Mike these days.
Why's that, if you don't mind me asking?
Andrew wasn't impressed
he walked out on Carol.
Mike being Mike, he didn't
think it was anyone's business.
Hi.
Poor Andrew.
He's taken Carol's death hard.
Very hard.
I didn't know him and Carol were close.
They dated when they were kids.
I was so jealous.
Up until then, I always had
his undivided attention.
Carol had her 18th at the sailing club.
Andrew organised it.
He was good at organising things.
What did I do?
Threw the biggest meltdown
I could muster.
Andrew blew out the party
to stay with me,
and by midnight
Mike and Carol were an item.
I was so happy when they got
together again recently.
Andrew and Carol?
Meena.
What are you doing here?
You blank me at work, ignore
my calls, what am I supposed to do?
What is it, Meena?
I took a statement
from Ryan Laing which,
if corroborated, kills our case.
In what way?
In every way.
As in Kate Freeman didn't do this.
Ryan's testimony is compelling,
but not a knockout blow.
The CPS are too invested to drop
the charges unless they have to.
I say we focus on the timeline.
It's central to showing the Crown's
case is fundamentally flawed.
OK, well, we know that the boys went
to bed earlier than usual, 9:00pm,
because they were going fishing
with their dad at the crack of dawn.
Dom Laing says that when he heard
his mother arguing with Kate,
his brother was watching the Spurs
game on his phone with headphones.
- What time did that game finish?
- 9:30pm.
A 9:00pm to 9:30pm window does
fit with the pathology evidence.
It's when Carol sustained the blow
to the head downstairs.
Yes.
And now we hit the two-hour
gap before the killer
inflicts the fatal chest wound.
And apart from a partial clean-up
and moving Carol to the bedroom,
here's where we're drawing the blank.
Did they go away and come back?
Or are we looking at two timeframes
..and two offenders?
I'm stuck on him carrying her upstairs.
Why? What purpose did it serve?
And after having done it,
what possessed him
to go into the boys' room and be seen?
And he didn't just go into the room.
He made physical contact with Ryan
and he let him hear his voice.
Again, all seriously odd.
OK, 'seriously odd' sounds like
we're doubting Ryan's account.
We're establishing a factual
sequence of events.
How you then frame it is up to you.
- I'm sorry, that's disingenuous.
- Meaning?
Meaning you're an expert witness for
the defence.
- You know the drill.
- I thought I did.
We refract all the evidence through
the prism of Kate's innocence.
We can't assume Kate's innocence
without a grasp
on the totality of that evidence.
Take PC Woods' disappearance,
it may or may not pertain
to the Crown's case.
We don't know.
'Don't know' means 'no'.
I get your impulse to find out
what's happened to Woods,
but it's pulling focus
and threatening my ability
to offer a clear, exculpatory narrative.
OK. Let's start with the narrative,
if only to move the conversation on.
Ryan Laing saw and heard
a male intruder.
Not a woman, not Kate.
So his brother was mistaken
about hearing Kate?
'Mistaken' being a charitable
interpretation.
And why did Southbay CID miss this?
Because their myopic focus
on Kate Freeman
demonstrably blinded them
to the key elements of the scene.
Examples?
The two hours gap
the killer spent on site
and the initial attack
with the dumbbell downstairs.
Sorry.
Hello?
Oh. Yeah, come on up.
How can we help?
Meena just brought me
up to speed about Ryan.
And there's something we need to
share as a matter of urgency.
Sorry, do I infer you haven't shared
his testimony with your superiors?
- No, we have.
- And?
I'll get to that in a minute.
About four months ago, West
Yorkshire CID got in contact in
..unusual circumstances.
They'd had this spate of robberies
targeting these cash in transit vans,
carried out by a man
in a black ski mask.
He bound the driver with cable ties.
Then he threatened them
with a hunting knife.
They had a strong suspect
named Wes Carter,
who they pulled in a few times
but didn't have enough for a charge.
Why did West Yorkshire get in touch?
Because Wes Carter had
moved down to Southbay,
no doubt hoping for police
interest in him to cool.
Yorkshire must have been
pretty sure he was their man.
They were warning us to keep an eye
and expect the worst.
Now, clearly this man, Wes Carter
according to Yorkshire CID,
looks and sounds a lot
like the man Ryan described.
Don't take this the wrong way, but
..why are you coming to us?
I, er
We have been sidelined by
Detective Super Ray Palmer.
I took Ryan's statement
and formally entered it in the file.
We're here to ensure that this
new avenue is fully explored.
Sounds like you don't trust
your colleagues in CID
to do their job
and we're the safety net.
Insurance policy.
Would you be kind enough
to step out for a moment?
Sure.
We'll go wait in the lobby.
We need to give the CPS
pause for thought,
make them aware how flawed
their case really is.
I don't want to play my best cards
and leave nothing for the trial.
I think it's worth the risk.
I know someone in the CPS who can help,
if I'm still on her Christmas card list.
You told me Freeman's brief tapped
Lyell for a second PM
and a look at the forensics
And?
You neglected to add their findings
differ significantly from yours.
That worries me.
It shouldn't.
It makes me think
"ambush down the line in court".
Now I'm hearing about a witness
statement from Ryan Laing
that essentially
contradicts his brother's.
It's led me to look deeper
into the background of the case,
specifically Kate Freeman.
- I hear that after
- I don't believe this.
I hear that after her
partner disappeared,
Kate was making trouble.
Bandying stories about.
Stories like Woods didn't take his
own life and had enemies in CID.
Key word there being "stories".
Still, putting her on suspension
might play like you're
muzzling her to a jury.
Christ, Bridget,
it might play like that to me.
Who's pouring poison in your ear, Alan?
And Kate luring your son
from the marital bed
doesn't exactly simplify matters.
Someone's put the frighteners
on you, haven't they, eh?
All right.
Look, I understand your wariness.
As you say, Kate Freeman is not
a straightforward suspect.
How do we move things forward?
We get it all out in the open.
- We do that in court, right?
- I mean now.
We hear both sides' evidence early doors
so no-one can say the CPS rushed to
judgment in charging Kate Freeman.
Well, that's
pretty unorthodox, isn't it?
But not unprecedented.
Thank you all for coming
up to London today.
Dr Burnett, can you clarify
your interpretation of the pathology
evidence with regard to
sequence and timeframe?
Gladly.
We're looking at two distinct attacks.
First the blow to the head and
then, after a short delay,
the fatal stab wound.
How short a delay?
5 to 15 minutes.
How do you account
for the accumulation of blood
between the brain and the skull?
Very easily.
The stab wound was fatal,
but not immediately so.
I find that unlikely.
For one, hilt bruising on the
skin shows that the impact
was exceptionally forceful and the
wound is in a position where the
internal haemorrhage was torrential.
It would induce death swiftly?
Mm. For two, grooving on the base
of the brain suggests that Carol was
alive for a longer period of time,
possibly a couple of hours,
between the initial head
injury and the stabbing.
Not the shorter time
Dr Burnett's suggesting?
No.
Can you really exclude other
causation for the grooving?
Cardiac arrest, for example?
You can't and you know you can't.
In your report, you class the head wound
as a "contrecoup injury",
ie, one caused by the
victim falling onto an object.
Let me guess -
you think it was a coup injury.
I think Carol was struck by
a moving object, yes,
not the other way round.
Based on what evidence?
If this was a contrecoup, can you
specify the object she fell onto
that caused these distinctive marks?
She sustained the injury
in a struggle in the bedroom.
There were any number of objects and
corners she could have fallen on.
Then you'd expect to find blood
transfer, surely.
Not if the killer wiped
that object down.
Dr Burnett The absence of
evidence is not evidence.
For the avoidance of doubt,
are you saying that you failed to
identify the object that
caused this injury?
Look, I didn't process the scene.
Jack did.
What?
Sadly, he didn't swab or photograph
all of the potential edges
and corners she could've fallen on,
or close to all of them.
I didn't finish processing
because I was removed from the scene
by Chief Superintendent Laing.
That was later, you broke away
from the scene of your own volition.
What are you talking about, Bill?
You were distracted and
less than stringent
in observing scene etiquette.
Are you having a laugh?
I did you a bloody favour.
Perhaps it was the effect of
meeting Kate Freeman outside.
She made quite an impression on you.
And you'd had so much to drink, I'm
surprised you remember anything!
Um
..we'd like to present an
alternative reading of the evidence,
if that's all right.
It's why we're all here.
We believe we've found
a second crime scene
in the downstairs sitting room.
Not only have we found Carol's
blood on the floor,
we matched the tiered pattern of her
head wound to one of her dumbbells.
Significantly, the other dumbbell
is missing from the house,
and, yes, they're sold as a pair.
Expirated blood on the halfway
landing and transfer of paint
under Carol's toenails further
proved that the attack unfolded
in two locations and two timeframes -
circa 9pm and circa 11pm.
The Crown's investigation completely
failed to unearth these basic
elements of the scene.
We've effectively had to
do their job for them.
And when we factor in Ryan's
testimony that he saw
a male intruder
and Dr Burnett's inebriation,
it adds up to one thing -
you need to release Kate Freeman
immediately.
Why do you think Bill said all that?
Velvy?
I enlisted my botanist friend.
Foliage in PC Woods's car is
predominantly leaves
from a black poplar.
OK, rare, but not as rare as I'd like.
Well, the good news is there's
an arboretum of black poplars
near one of the two roads
that comes off Southbay Bridge.
Now, as you know, speculation is
something that I try to avoid.
What do you think happened, Velvy?
I think that Woods was killed and
possibly buried at the arboretum.
The killer then drove Woods's
car to Southbay Bridge
in the knowledge that - A,
people jump off it, and - B,
bodies that go in the water are
often swept out to sea.
Speculation suits you, Velvy.
..29. Looks like we've got
an indication here.
What is it? What've they found?
Andrew, just give us a minute, yeah?
Body is partly skeletal,
partly adiopocere.
Hair has fallen away,
face is decomposed.
Woods was last seen wearing
an anorak with Man United insignia.
Hands are bound behind his back.
Looks like they used cable ties.
The cash van guy?
- Wes Carter.
- Used cable ties, didn't he?
What about Wes Carter?
Meena! Wes Carter.
Police. Open up!
- I appreciate you doing this.
- It's our job.
After everything,
asking Bill Burnett just felt wrong.
Was there something else?
Kate would like to sit in on the PM.
It's OK with me, if it's OK with you.
Are you sure?
Have you said anything?
- What are you doing here, Andrew?
- Following a lead.
A link, anyway.
A link? Oh, let me guess, between
Ryan's testimony about a masked man
and a tip-off from West Yorks
about a bloke doing over cash vans?
We just found a body matching the
clothes Woods was last seen wearing,
about a mile from Southbay Bridge.
Hands bound with cable ties.
A rather more compelling
link than a mask,
wouldn't you say?
There's nothing here.
I'm not so sure, sir.
Let's not tip this one over the floor.
Cor.
There's got to be at least two
hundred grand here.
We need to check this against
the cash from the vans.
Oh, no shit.
Is there any more?
Just this.
Ventight.
Same brand of tie we found on Woods.
The deceased is an adult male,
provisionally identified as Fred Woods.
We're waiting for DNA confirmation.
There's putrefaction,
consistent with the body being
deceased for a significant
period of time.
There's evidence of a broken neck.
There is grit embedded in the skull
that we'll be comparing
to the sandstone boulders in the stream.
So, what, he fell head first
into the creek,
cracked his skull on a boulder
and broke his neck?
Easy to imagine with his hands
bound behind his back.
So Fred's just lying there
in the dark with a smashed skull
and a broken neck, potentially still
conscious or semi-conscious
..and then he drowns?
We can't say for sure.
The C2 fracture could've
been rapidly fatal,
but we just don't know
when decomposition's this advanced.
We'd better catch this bastard,
Ma'am, that's all I can say.
Wes! Wes! Wes!
Don't be fucking stupid!
Head that way, cut him off.
UH!
Ah, sh
Here! OVER HERE!
What happened? Walsh?
I told him to stop. He wouldn't.
Tried to push me over.
We've matched the size
and waffle-style tread
of Nike trainers in your closet
to the
muddy print on PC Woods's brake pedal.
We also DNA'd
the head-rest inside Woods's car
and scored a match to you.
The forensics tie you to the
murder of a policeman, Neil.
So now's the time to cooperate.
Don't dig your hole any deeper.
Look, I didn't kill anyone, all
right? Nothing like that.
OK.
So what happened?
I was paid to hassle a few
residents in Harbour Fields.
Protestors against the
Goshawk Construction development?
Numpties fighting against the
compulsory purchase order.
What did "hassling" them entail?
A broken window here,
a late night call there.
A few slashed tyres.
Then, when Wes came to stay,
it's safe to say I was
..able to bolster my services.
Who paid you?
Don't know.
I mean, I assume Goshawk
Construction, ultimately,
somewhere down the line.
How were you paid, then?
Money was put into my account via
a front called Standant LTD.
A shell company?
Yeah, I googled 'em.
Based in the Virgin Islands.
I only dealt with one bloke -
called himself Marcus, via a burner.
Caller unknown.
So you can't help us?
Can't help us help you?
You've got to give us something,
Neil. And the sooner the better,
or this stops looking like cooperation
and more like desperation.
Bear in mind, your phone and laptop
are being examined right now.
Marcus told me and Wes
to give Woods a scare, right,
cos he'd been asking difficult
questions at work.
I didn't start out wanting to hurt
him. He's a copper, right,
I'm not daft.
What, just roughed him up a bit?
Wes did.
He cable tied his hands
while I showed him the money.
Look, I thought he was going
to go for it,
but then he just belted it
into the trees, that was that.
Let's talk about Carol Laing.
There's eyewitness testimony that
places Wes at the scene.
It points towards him killing Carol
in the process of stealing her
jewellery.
Yeah, nice try.
- He didn't do that.
- How do you know?
Cos I was his favourite uncle.
He never kept anything from me.
That's not exactly compelling, Neil.
He 'fessed up to those cash vans
robberies as soon as I asked him.
And for that very reason,
I asked him about the Laing woman.
The fact you even had to ask him
contradicts your statement
that he spent the night fixing
a leak at the pub, doesn't it, Neil?
So, forgive us if we take everything
you say with a pinch of salt.
Detectives? I need to tell you
something in confidence.
According to Kate Freeman,
Palmer threatened Woods
when he asked why patrols were being
diverted from Harbour Fields.
Well, what did Palmer say to Woods?
"There are faster ways to
die than cancer."
I'll have to pass that on to
Police Conduct.
There's massive trauma to
the body and head,
consistent with a significant
fall onto a hard surface.
There's damage to the side
of the skull, consistent with him
landing on his right side.
There's a contusion to the forehead
and some particles
embedded in the wound.
Contusions in the left
upper frontotemporal region.
Unusual, given the plane of impact.
And it's inconsistent with
Jack's account of grappling
and fighting with the deceased.
You spoke to Andrew in detail,
do you think you could flesh out
the scene for us?
I'll try.
He said he saw Carter walking up
the path in a westerly direction?
Yes.
Andrew ran onto the path, ahead of him.
He told him to stop,
then Wes grabbed him
and tried to shove him over.
The front of Wes's T-shirt
is bloody from his nose injury.
I found what could be
a handprint in the blood.
I asked Andrew point-blank
if he pushed Wes.
He said he didn't remember
but conceded that, yes,
he could've pushed him
in the altercation,
because he was in fear for his life.
Come in.
If I was to look at your
bank account, Ray,
would I find any unexplained payments?
Specifically from some untraceable,
bounced-around-the-world shell
company called Standant LTD?
I need an answer, I'm afraid.
Oh, Ray,
how could you be so bloody stupid?
All I did was shift patrols
away from Harbour Fields, that's it.
Why was that so important?
I don't know, to drive the crime
stats up, I suppose.
You suppose?
Look, I had nothing to do with
Fred Woods, all right? Nothing.
But you threatened him, didn't you?
I had a word.
Big deal.
"Big deal"?
I placed Kate Freeman on
fucking suspension
because she came to me
with nothing less than the truth!
Can't believe you'd do this, Ray.
Just for a bit of cash.
They offered me a fortune to stop
police operations in Harbour Fields.
Let it go to the dogs.
So some fucking property
developer got it for a song.
Listen, I knew Neil Carter was scaring
the protestors at Harbour Fields,
but I had no idea that his ex-para
nephew was hitting town.
I thought West Yorkshire dealt
with this when he moved down.
Yeah, well, they did.
But Andrew Walsh took the call.
- And?
- In his wisdom, he sat on it.
Only him and Puri knew until this week.
The Carol Laing inquiry
is being wound down.
We just wanted to say thank you for
your critical involvement
- and working in a pretty
- Wound down?
Obviously, the Coroner's work is ongoing
and there'll be an inquest
Because guilt is being
ascribed to Wes Carter?
I think that's premature.
Well, with respect
Why do you think it's premature?
There are things about Carol's
murder that chime with Carter's MO.
Lots of things - the mask,
the knife, the black clothes,
tying his victim's
hands behind their back
But there are significant
differences too.
Carter never targeted
private residences,
he used cable-ties, and his booty
of choice was cash, not jewellery.
I still go back to the "why?"
Why did he go into the boys'
room and make contact?
Why take that risk?
He wanted to be seen and heard.
Whoever grabbed Ryan Laing
couldn't shut up!
The only explanation is,
he wanted Ryan Laing to give
the testimony that he did.
If we were in court that would
definitely be deemed "conjecture".
But we're not in court.
If you're right, there's a problem.
If the killer was trying to
lead us to Wes, then
How did they get
hold of the information?
Hey?
When West Yorkshire
got in touch about Wes,
we decided to keep the intel
on a strictly need-to-know basis.
Why?
Frankly?
Cos Wes's uncle, Neil Carter,
has a lot of mates in CID.
From Ray Palmer down.
It's Bridget. Need to go and update her.
Ray Palmer's been suspended
and I've replaced him.
Acting DCI.
Huh.
I'm looking for my scarf.
You seen it?
What scarf?
The gingham one I got in the sale.
What?
Doesn't matter.
Could you zoom in on the
knife, please, Velvy?
It's a double-edged blade.
Yes, it is.
The stab wound looks symmetrical -
both ends of the wound pointed,
sharp, V-shaped.
Key word there being "looks".
We're actually looking at a single
edged blade wielded with such
force the skin behind
the blunt edge split.
Leaving something which looks
V-shaped but isn't quite.
One of the ends has a fishtail.
So, if someone was trying
to mimic Carter's MO,
it was likely improvised, not planned.
Otherwise you'd bring a
double-edged blade?
And cable ties.
Both easy to source.
What about the mask and the coat?
Could've used Carol's gym
leggings for the former,
and Mike says he's missing a
black coat from his closet.
The brown particles I retrieved
from the wound on Wes's forehead
it's bark from a Fraxinus
excelsior, AKA the common ash.
OK. How did it get there?
No wood or trees down on the rocks.
Suggesting contact was
made before he fell.
And with sufficient force to
penetrate his scalp.
What are you saying?
I'm sorry, Meena,
but the evidence is telling us
that Andrew was the aggressor.
What's all this?
You're not going back to work?
Not today.
I'm worried about you.
Drinking
..missing work.
It's Carol, isn't it?
I don't want to talk about Carol.
Let's talk about your scarf,
where it could be.
Oh, if I knew, I wouldn't be
looking for it, would I?
No, I suppose not.
I'm not stupid.
I can tell something's up.
What is it?
All right, be like that.
I know what you did.
I found your scarf at Carol's
..in her blood.
Carol? No
No!
I understand.
You weren't jealous.
You were just scared of losing me.
So, you removed the competition.
It's OK.
I'm want to take care of you
and protect you
..now and wherever we end up next.
What are you talking about?
Just tell me what happened.
I did go and see Carol
..but just for a coffee.
Everyone thinks you're married to me,
that I'm your ball and chain.
I didn't want that to spoil things
when you'd waited so long.
What happened, Lisa? She took it
the wrong way? You lost it? What?
No. No, she was fine
She said she was touched
..just a bit taken aback,
you know, by me going round.
She didn't deny there was something
going on, but she said it was
early days and Mike was still
a big part of her life.
But she said
..she said she was hopeful
for a future with YOU.
And then I left.
I went to the gym,
popped to the supermarket
..and I came home.
All our years in foster care
I'm not making excuses
But?
It's hard-wired in me, defending her
..protecting her.
All I could think was if she comes
round and ID's Lisa, then it's over.
And then it just came into my head.
Earlier that day, I'd got
an email from West Yorks asking
if Wes was still keeping his nose clean.
I knew what to do.
Carol was dying anyway -
you didn't need to stab her.
You didn't need to do a thing!
You've no idea how true that is.
There was nothing stopping me
rushing her to A&E.
Nothing at all.
So why didn't you?
I saw Lisa's scarf
and I jumped to the wrong conclusion.
Lisa had nothing to do with it.
She was at the gym
..and then the supermarket.
What about Wesley Carter?
He dropped like a stone.
I only hit him once.
And I was hoping Lisa would be the same.
Andrew!
ANDREW!
Andrew, come here.
I'm going to kill you!
I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!
Where are we?
Essentially?
Sadly, we have no reason to doubt
Andrew's version of events,
especially in the light of him
confessing to Wes Carter.
He also directed us to a
bin bag containing these items.
Kitchen knife
Lisa's scarf
..Mike's coat.
But he says that he didn't see
a dumbbell when he arrived
at the scene and found Carol
unconscious on the floor.
As a detective,
he said he looked for a weapon,
but couldn't find a likely candidate.
For what it's worth,
I'm inclined to believe him.
And we're sure Lisa's in the clear?
We're sure - CCTV has her
leaving the gym at 9.30,
stopping in a supermarket, then
entering her street just before ten.
At least we've solved
the mystery as to why the killer
waited in the house for two hours.
They didn't -
we're dealing with two offenders.
And it's important to stress that
whoever hit Carol with
the dumbbell used massive force.
And regardless of what Andrew did later,
it could have been a
fatal injury, eventually.
Attempted murder,
at the very least.
Something else, Ma'am.
I trawled the notes from house to
house with fresh eyes.
A witness saw someone throw
something over the sea wall
in front of Carol's
house between 9.15 pm and 9.30 pm.
Jesus.
Time and location fit with the
attacker discarding the dumbbell.
You want to search the shoreline?
We'll cover it
and whatever else you need.
Hey, Hey!
Let me see it!
A bus passes twice an hour,
cameras front and back.
Check the timetable.
If the last bus was on time,
we could be in business.
Oh
Here we go.
That's not Mike Laing.
Too slight.
Kate Freeman?
Look at their right hand when the
bus passes and the lights hit.
I'll call Puri.
Wait.
Let me have a crack at this.
I've got some gait analysis software
that I've been waiting to use.
Sue said I should've packed it in at 60.
The moral of that story is you
should always listen to your wife.
Who knows?
I might actually enjoy retirement.
Lisa, could you get some more onions?
Cheer up, Bill, might never happen.
Ignore him.
There's drinks over there.
There are more beers in the fridge,
if they're not cold enough.
Oh, Mum.
You want me to get rid of him?
Please.
Don't burn the chicken wings.
Kate!
I just want to say,
I really appreciate you coming.
I'm happy to be here.
We're not going to fix things
overnight, but it's a start
It is.
- What did I say about the wings?!
- Sorry.
Oh, shit, it's going to blow away!
Do you need a hand, boys?
I promise we'll come back to
Granny's soon, all right?
That's it, go on, in you get.
Football practice?
Yeah. I totally forgot.
But that's Tuesdays?
Yeah, well, they changed it.
Don't ask me why.
I'll come and get you later.
No hurry, I can help clean up.
Mike?
Let's, um Take it over here.
Is Dom OK?
What did you want to ask me?
When you and Kate
first came to the Lyell,
the day after the murder,
she had bruises on her right wrist.
She said you made them.
We'd been drinking.
I was feeling low
about being stuck in uniform.
And I said that
the only way Mum was going to let me
back in the CID was
..if I moved home to Carol.
And she lost it.
She really, really lost it.
Said that she was going to go
and stay at a mate's
but she'd had way too much to drink,
and
..I had to get her keys off her somehow.
What is it, Mike?
Dom's adamant
He's adamant that it was Kate's
voice he heard speaking to his mum.
And you believe him now?
Dom?
Come here.
Look
I believe you, mate.
I believe it was Kate's voice
that you heard.
Do you remember what
they were arguing about, Dom?
Do you remember any specific words?
"Uniform".
They were arguing about uniforms.
Well done, mate. Go on.
You gave Kate a scare.
She knew how much you wanted
to get back in CID.
How much you missed the boys.
So, the next day, hungover and paranoid,
she confronts Carol.
A pre-emptive strike.
"If you went back,
it wouldn't be for love.
"It would be to get
out of that bloody uniform."
That sound plausible?
Just in time.
Come! Come!
It all went!
I normally make too much.
Do you think Mike's OK?
Yeah.
I mean, under the circumstances.
Why?
Just him shooting off like that.
I'm sure he's fine.
Is Kate still there?
You've got to keep her there!
I'm still here, Mike.
What's the matter?
- Why?
- Funny you should ask,
cos in so many ways, you were to blame.
Do you know what, Kate? I'm not
having this conversation with you.
Don't fucking walk away from me.
You know as much as I do,
if Mike came back here, it's only
cos of Bridget. Don't be fooled!
Oh, what? You think he's that
desperate to get out of uniform?
Jesus, you don't know him at all, do ya?
Cos if you did, you'd know that if
he comes back, it's cos he wants to.
You didn't really think
you were the first, did ya?
You didn't fall for that line, eh?
You did! Wow, this is priceless!
This is fucking hilarious!
Let me guess. What was it? Kids?
Mm? Nuptials?
- You shut it
- Do you know what?
I ALMOST feel sorry for you.
Almost.
I mean, he said you were thick
..but Jesus Christ
Kate Freeman, I am arresting you
on suspicion of the murder
of Carol Laing in Southbay, Essex.
You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence if you
do not mention, when questioned,
something which you later
rely on in court.
I can take her in.
It's years since I felt a collar.
I've missed it.
- You OK?
- Yeah.
Been a nightmare,
this whole thing, hasn't it?
- Bill?
- Bill.
- Can you salvage it?
- I don't know. It's
..hard to get back, you know?
You think you know someone.
- Southbay's kind of grown on me.
- Uh-oh!
- Bank Holiday coming up
- Mm-hm.
Fancy a long weekend back in Southbay?
Mmmmmm
..no.
Why not? Come on,
there's a beautiful beach.
- Come on.
- It's so romantic.
You and I have different
ideas of romance in that case.
Do not throw me in!
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