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.
# Testator silens
# Costestes e spiritu
# Silencium. #
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.
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, come here.
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.
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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