[ Theme music plays ]
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[ Heart beating ]
[ Dramatic opera music plays ]
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Man: Who is it? Who are these "others"
that send you fleeing to the comfort of people
that look like you do, speak like you do, think like you do?
For fear of being threatened by opinions,
wounded by words, offended by attitudes,
damaged by differences.
We wouldn't want you to be "triggered," would we?
What is this word "triggered?"
I want to "trigger" you. I want to challenge you.
I want you to think.
Haidar, what is "group-think"?
Haidar: "When a group of people make irrational
or sub-standard decisions,
motivated by the desire to conform or the belief
that dissent isn't an option."
And how can you be an investigator,
if you are a victim of group-think?
You can't.
You can't!
But I see group think everywhere in your generation.
Social media has made you a herd
and reduced your individuality to a data point.
You are the progressive census
who have traded freedom of thought
for a reassuring echo chamber.
Are those who enable this behaviour,
who institutionalise it, the enemy?
They preside over the death of empathy.
"I cannot understand you unless I am you."
You've allowed yourselves to be siloed into "affinity" groups.
Demographic categories.
Where an algorithm can mine your data
and produce content which fills you with hate,
or fear, or both.
And you are content to live that way,
believing that you are in charge of your lives,
when, in fact, you have handed them over
to a close-minded insularity.
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What a load of crap. [ Chuckles ]
[ Siren wailing ]
[ Police radio chatter ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
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Nikki?
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Jesus.
Yeah. I saw it.
You've taken a video?
Yeah.
Can you help me?
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The body was found in the procubitus position
on the kitchen floor,
suggesting that the victim could have been trying
to escape from the fire by crawling.
There are severe skin burn injuries.
The body is extensively charred so conventional
visual identification is not possible...
Skin and soft tissues have been burnt off,
resulting in skeletal muscle exposure.
Heat-related lesions have exposed the skull,
where bone lesions are visible.
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
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Man: The fire investigator says the fire originated
in the kitchen, on the gas hob.
We think it was a pan of cooking oil.
Accident?
The response time of the Fire Brigade was good.
There is no evidence of third party involvement.
No other detectable injuries on the body
that the fire may have been trying to disguise.
The Fire Inspector says it was a kitchen fire
that burnt out of control.
The heat was intense. From what is left of the lungs,
it seems smoke inhalation/carbon monoxide poisoning is
likely cause of death.
Why couldn't they escape?
Disorientation?
We don't know.
Was that a metal belt buckle burnt into the thigh?
Looks like it's from an overcoat or a raincoat,
caught underneath when they were trying to crawl out of the room.
The fabric burnt away.
What we're left with is the buckle.
Do we know if it's a man or a woman?
The uterus is intact.
The house was owned by a woman.
Her name is Valerie Fullerton.
It's likely to be her.
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What?
Valerie Fullerton?
Yeah.
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Gabriel?
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Valerie Fullerton was also on the interview panel.
With Harrison Cairney.
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And both are dead?
What are the odds of that?
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[ Indistinct conversations ]
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You dropped this.
Oh, thank you.
Harrison Cairney.
No external injuries.
No indication of alcohol or illegal drug use.
He tested positive for codeine, but not in an amount
that would suggest abuse or addiction.
Full toxicology report is being prepared.
Did the scan reveal anything?
No visible signs of stroke
or myocardial infarction in the scan.
No marks on the body.
There's no physical evidence
that places anyone else at the scene.
He just died.
Sometimes people "just die" without an obvious cause.
And sometimes fires "just happen."
He appears to have had a sexual encounter in the sauna.
How did you know? Did you find love notes?
Ejaculate on his thigh and around his penis.
I'm glad I asked.
You think the scene may have been tampered with?
The absence of evidence is the evidence.
So what killed him, Doctor?
An earth-shattering orgasm?
Possibly.
Would that we could all go that way. [ Laughs ]
Will you be doing a full post-mortem?
If you ask me to.
Yes, please.
Jack?
We've got a lead on the Robinson case.
[ Cars honking, alarms blaring ]
So this is our "swimmer's" van, lads.
We're looking for, I don't know, a suicide note?
Receipts? Invoices? Quotes?
Something that suggests whether he as looking forward or back.
Spare set of keys from Mrs. Robinson.
Coo, coo, ca-choo.
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Nice family.
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Signs of moderate coronary heart disease.
It's consistent with his age.
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Lung for histology.
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Man: Bull?
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Could you take a sample of the stomach content?
Then close him up for me.
Well, he had plenty of work coming in.
Appointments and estimates well in to next month.
Is there an address in there for a job nearby?
Not that I see. Just initials.
Tell you what, you can't get an electrician these days
for love nor money.
He was paid nearly four grand the day he goes missing.
Doesn't say who it was from. Cash, maybe?
-Ooh, builders love cash. -Have you checked his account?
-Yeah. No recent deposits. -Cash makes him a target.
I knew a local chap who had ten grand taken off him
by Albanian labourers working on a site he was working on.
They followed him home, jumped him,
took his money, and pissed off back to Albania.
Not that you've got anything against Albanians.
I don't. But, I imagine he does.
I was having to do all the work for her,
and I don't mind, really.
It's kinda like, you know, being a good person to help her.,
but it's not really fair is it?
Hi! Do you want to sit with us?
Don't worry. She didn't hear me, did she?
Sit.
[ Scoffs ]
Read my lips.
Because he's a wanker?
Because he's a seedy, gross old guy,
who sends me a text and tries to get me alone and drunk
so he can grope me?
Do you understand that, or shall I write it down?
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What's up, champ?
Jack, I've just been copied in to an email.
Were you advising a student at the University?
They've made a complaint against you.
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That's a load of crap is what that is.
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How well do you know "Vanessa Mellor?"
Were you alone with her?
Are you serious?
I have to be.
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[ Siren wailing ]
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People that make false accusations are dangerous.
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What should I do?
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Fundamentals make the fighter. Stick with the basics.
On your toes. Chin in.
Protect your head. Hands up.
Got to be faster than that. Speed and strength equals power.
Nice, that was good. Good.
Good prof.
-[ Grunts ] -Oh, sugar.
I'm sorry.
Are you OK?
Right, I'm calling this. That's it. Done.
I'm good. I'm good.
-You sure? -I'm good.
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Come on. Come on.
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Protect your head.
[ Grunting ]
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Nikki: There is nothing conclusive.
The cause of Cairney's death remains "unascertained."
Nothing in the contents of his stomach?
Did he eat anything dodgy?
Oats. Nothing of note.
Well at least he got his oats.
Toxicology?
-Nothing unusual. -Except he's dead.
Is that how good we are?
Someone's unexplainably dead and that's "nothing unusual."
[ Groans ]
I love this view. This is a wonderful view.
Do you know what the view from my office is?
An exhaust vent.
I think we'd have better police officers if we had better views!
Mind you, there's some great views
from the top floors of the Old Brompton Building.
31 floors, 117 metres high.
Great views.
The old counter-terror boys have got those --
say "counter-terror," [groans] that's where it's at.
Clear cut, "good and evil."
Don't have to watch what you say.
None of this, "Ooh, you've offended me" nonsense.
That ship sailed without me on it.
"Nothing unusual."
Surely there's something, anything, that I find unusual?
Who else was on that panel?
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Morning.
I need you to arrange a uniform drive-by
for an Elizabeth Newport.
To start right away.
Yeah, I'll send you the address.
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-Mrs. Newport? -Miss.
Okay.
Hello, Gabriel.
Could we have a word, please?
Yes, of course.
What is it?
And Valerie?
Both of them?
It could be a coincidence.
Gabriel...
Do you believe in coincidence?
Do you know somebody who could have a grievance against them?
Who might have a grievance against you
or -- or the Professor here?
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Who?
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It's impossible.
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You need to tell me.
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Peter Cherry was very upset he wasn't selected.
Peter Cherry? Give me a break.
He made a number of accusations --
Does that makes him a killer?
No. It gives him a grievance.
He was clearly the most experienced in
and out of the lecture hall.
No offence, Gabriel. -None taken.
But we didn't feel he was the most suitable.
Why wasn't he suitable?
He had views that were controversial.
On a post-mortem table, you are either a man or a woman.
Or a biological anomaly.
There was a complaint by a student.
Everything else is human construct.
It was conforming
to a "repressive binary view of gender..."
-What? -People should be able to live
as they want and love who they want.
We're not talking about living or loving.
He's not talking about gender. He's talking about a dead body.
Its biological sex is scientific fact.
Had the student ever done a post- mortem?
It set off a chain of events.
Social media, protests.
Do you think he'd said something wrong?
No...
But you didn't defend his right to say it?
The panel didn't feel comfortable appointing him
and believed Professor Folukoya to be the better candidate.
He was more thoughtful,
more likely to bring colleagues with him.
Thanks, but two of our colleagues are dead.
Do any of us think it's simply a coincidence?
Hold off making any announcement about Professor Folukoya,
just in case it paints a target on his back.
It's already on Twitter.
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-This Cherry... -Did he threaten you?
No.
Do you think he could be dangerous?
Yes.
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Right.
We either eliminate him or find a connection.
If you'll forgive me, I...have got class.
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Cherry: There were 677 homicide incidents in the U.K.
last year -- that's the highest number since 2008.
What percentage of those homicides
will have no suspects charged after three years?
Anyone?
Celeste?
-Twenty percent. -Twenty percent.
So, if there is not enough evidence to charge,
is that the fault of the police?
Is it our fault as investigators,
our inadequacy in supporting the investigation?
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The truth is -- and don't share this around --
all of you, in this room,
will have the skills when you have finished this course
to commit a homicide and get away with it!
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What are we looking for?
I'm not sure.
We need something that tells us about something
that we don't know we're looking for.
I'd like to prove that this wasn't an accident.
So she comes home...
She starts cooking her tea...
Sets herself on fire... [ Woman screams ]
...dies.
Nikki: What was she cooking?
Was there anything left of the pan?
Was there any residue in the pan that resembled food?
There was oil in the pan.
She wasn't sauteing onions, frying chicken?
There was no extant residue in the pan.
Just the oil.
She still had her coat on when she died.
You come home, fill a pan with oil,
heat it until it boils, and never take your overcoat off?
Have you looked in the fridge?
[ Bottles rattle ]
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Mushrooms.
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Call the Council?
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Yeah.
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Health Spa. Harrison Cairney enters.
Thirty-seven minutes later, Peter Cherry enters.
You can place him in the building?
At the same time.
But not in the sauna.
University students and staff both use the health spa and gym?
Yes.
So do we make everyone else in the gym
a person of interest as well?
Wait. Jack, go ahead.
Look at this.
Valerie Fullerton picking up vegetables.
Look who she's talking to.
Peter Cherry.
He went to find them both.
Then they died.
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Unusual.
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Nikki?
Can I see the tox report on Cairney?
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It's positive.
It's GHB.
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It was in his water.
The killer's let us know there's foul play,
but has made sure we can't prove who's responsible.
Did he do it himself, or was he spiked?
-How can we tell you that? -You can't.
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Peter Cherry. Nice to meet you.
Dr. Alexander.
Women always go to their title, don't they?
In case men think they don't have one.
I like you. You remind me of someone.
And you're Gabriel Folukoya. Hello. Nice to meet you.
I believe you pipped me to the post on the Dean's job,
or so Twitter tells me.
Apparently. Nice to meet you.
Jack Hodgson.
[ Chuckles ] You were in one of my classes!
Yes, I was. I loved it.
Yeah, that's a few years ago now, isn't it?
-Just a few. Yeah. -Very earnest, as I recall.
Still is.
-And very talented. -Let's not overdo it.
[ Chuckles ] Right.
The Detective Inspector has suggested you might need my help
in a case review. Is it a cold case?
No. It's still an active investigation.
Oh, really?
Jack: Have you heard that Harrison Cairney and Valerie Fullerton
have both died in the last 72 hours?
Both of them?
Gabriel: We've reached an impasse,
and we wanted to make sure we've considered all our options.
Your options?
Did you know either of them?
Yes, I did, which you know, which is why you're here.
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I went to visit both of them in the last 72 hours
to let them know I thought their decision
to appoint Professor Folukoya was wrong-headed.
No offence, Professor.
No. I think you intended to offend.
Perhaps I did.
I guarantee you, everything I am, I've earned.
I expect you have.
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So, I'm part of the case review?
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Am I your only suspect?
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Alright. I'll give you a quick case review for free.
The reason why you haven't got enough to charge me
is not because you are inadequate.
It is because I didn't do it.
I think we're done.
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Gabriel: We should never have gone.
We've alerted him to our suspicion.
I just wanted to see how he'd react.
Did it tell you anything?
I know you're worried, Professor.
I don't blame you.
I'll make sure we have eyes on you.
Sorry.
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Don't worry. I'll go back and talk to him,
get his prints, swab him for DNA.
I'll go.
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Why do you think he'll talk to you?
He said he likes me.
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[ Indistinct conversations ]
Thank you for allowing me to come back and see you.
You knew I would. I have nothing to fear.
Prints first or swab?
Not bothered.
We're all so good at swabs now since COVID, aren't we?
Tell me.
In your experience, which I expect is estimable,
have you come across individuals who you find utterly loathsome?
Representing everything wrong with the human experience?
Maybe one or two.
Maybe more.
I've been at this a while.
Cairney was one of those.
Horrible man, with a zipper problem
and a penchant for undergraduates.
He had this strange, inflated view of himself.
A handsome "caped crusader" who the girls can't resist.
I bet you could have resisted him.
Who knows?
Left hand, please.
"Superman" is just a tuppence rehashing
of Judeo-Christian messiah mythology --
"man comes down to earth to save mankind."
"Satan" becomes "kryptonite."
Black and white. Good and evil. Not much nuance to it.
But then we live in an age of little nuance, don't we?
I didn't murder him, you know, although I would have liked to.
Do you think maybe he took his own life?
Why would you ask that?
They trip on their vanity
and fall on their arrogance, don't they?
Marriage not good. Shagging around.
He's got the cross hairs of "Me Too"
tattooed on his forehead.
You can make a good argument for self-inflicted harm.
White man in his fifties. Highest increase in incidence.
Nearly 15% now.
Men taking their own lives in that demographic
is common with no prior signs.
Sad, but true.
See, they see the world closing in on them.
Just like Cairney did.
I don't take a view on that.
Do you take "a view" on anything?
Yeah. I'm taking one right now.
[ Laughs ]
You remind me of my wife...
my late wife.
Not the way you look, the way you reduce things.
The way you poke. I admired her for that.
She was quick.
She was a woman of enormous talent,
not recognized enough for her work...
a woman of the mind.
Glioblastoma.
A perverse disease, designed to torment a thoughtful
and talented woman like her
and inflict the maximum pain and heartache.
She never complained.
She didn't blame the doctors or the government or me or God.
She didn't seek refuge, from offence,
or to keep from being "triggered"
or needing a "safe space."
People who endure hardship know that no such place exists...
They know that the world is mean and cruel --
joy, in all its infinite shape,
is to be celebrated, and death is endless.
I'm sorry. That was rather indulgent.
So you've no idea how he died?
No.
Did you find anything... unusual?
There was GHB in his water.
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You don't believe I've killed him, do you?
Not for me to decide...
Or you wouldn't have told me that.
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You need to leave now.
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[ Protestors chanting ]
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Thanks.
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[ Crowd chanting "Cherry out" ]
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[ Screaming ]
[ Muffled screaming ]
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Help! [ Screaming ]
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[ Muffled screaming ]
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[ Cellphone vibrates ]
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[ Cellphone pings ]
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I just got a pin from Cara.
So did I.
That's not good.
[ Cellphone pings ]
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-Nothing? -Message failed.
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[ Crowd shouting ]
How brave of you to show your faces.
To believe in something so passionately
that you're willing to remain anonymous.
Social norms may change, government may change,
legislation changes.
Fairness does not change.
But your fast fashion,
virtual disposable society abandoned fairness.
You think you're protecting it, you're not.
You are the repressive people we were warned about,
the ones who despise freedom of expression,
and have condemned yourselves to be slaves to ideology.
[ Crowd chanting "Out" ]
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The devil comes in the disguise of everything
you've ever wished for.
Get back inside, old man.
[ Crowd cheering ]
[ Muffled screaming ]
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[ Handcuffs click ]
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Woman: We know it was you.
We know you made the complaint about Professor Cherry.
Please, please [muffled].
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You don't have a positive belief about anything, do you?
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Nothing that you want to build.
Only things that you want to complain about.
Tear down.
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You destroyed him.
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He is a great man.
You are nothing.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Please let me go. Please.
Now, this won't hurt...
When someone is wronged, justice should be done,
and fairness, not mercy, should be the measure.
What punishment do you deserve for destroying
someone's reputation?
For destroying someone's life?
What punishment would be fair?
"Laughing gas." We thought that would be fair.
[ Whimpering ]
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Help!
-She didn't do anything. -She's a witness.
[ Muffled screaming ]
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[ Screams ]
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[ Crowd chanting "Cherry out" ]
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[ Screaming ]
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I can't do this. Not both of them.
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Don't hurt me.
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Stop! Stop!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
No!
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-[ Whimpering ] -No!
Stop! Please! No!
Please! Please!
[ Siren wailing ]
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[ Muffled screaming ]
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[ Gas hissing ]
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[ Muffled crying ]
[ Muffled screaming ]
[ Wheezing ]
[ Door opens ]
What the hell is going on?
Cara?
What the hell have you given them?!
[ Muffled whimpering ]
[ Gas stops ]
Okay. Okay.
It's okay. It's okay.
Can you breathe?
No!
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This is over. Swear to God, if you move...
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[ Girls crying ]
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It's okay. It's okay.
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Voicemail: Hi, this is Doctor Nikki Alexander.
Please leave a message.
I know who murdered Harrison Cairney
and Valerie Fullerton.
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And I know that I'm responsible.
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[ Siren wailing ]
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Can you get in the car, please?
Thank you.
Just need you to make a statement.
[ Bells tolling ]
OK?
[ Police radio chatter ]
[ Door beeps ]
No!
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Nikki: She explains in the paper how GHB,
nitrous oxide, and other drugs
can be used to cause death without detection.
She wrote a paper about a crime she was gonna commit?
And Cherry realised that.
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Are you decent?
Come in.
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You about to cut him up?
Post Mortem.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Never as dark as people think, yeah?
Darkness comes before the dawn.
Sometimes you wish you could just be there.
Grab 'em. Say there is support, is someone to talk to.
Cherry and that electrician bloke.
Robinson.
Robinson?
I have a moral problem.
I imagine more than one.
Mrs. Elaine Robinson?
Is the beneficiary of nearly two million quid
in life insurance policies, taken out by her late husband.
He was worth a lot more dead than he was alive.
Are you thinking she killed him?
-No. -Good.
Because I sat with her as she sobbed over her loss
and I don't think it was a show.
Maybe she's a good actress?
Maybe she's profoundly sad.
Well, I'm thinking it's fraud...
'Course you are, you're a cop.
He bought the policies during COVID.
His business was hanging by a thread.
He's still in massive debt.
Dying was quite useful for him.
Except that he's dead, which, generally speaking,
isn't all that useful.
There is that. Yeah.
Jack said he thought he was assaulted for the cash
he was carrying.
I could go either way with this.
Depends on how you look at it.
I know the insurance company would be quite keen
to hear he had taken his own life.
Really? What's their interest?
The Coroner will decide.
On our recommendation.
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What is our recommendation?
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Cherry: "Dear Professor Folukoya,
I am writing to highly recommend Cara Connelly,
a student of mine, for a work placement.
Cara is an outstanding student.
I have no doubt she will make a substantial contribution
to the work of your team
and to the life of the Lyell Centre."
Post Mortem of Peter Cherry.
A 65-year-old white male...
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Elaine?
I'm sorry to bother you.
It's just, well...
I needed to know whether you know how my husband died.
The insurance companies won't pay.
They say he may have taken his own life,
and, uh, we're going to lose the house.
We lost nearly everything in COVID and all.
My husband borrowed against the house.
Victims of long COVID.
My husband, he took the policies out to to protect his family,
to protect us. That's what men do.
A decision is made based on the evidence,
and there'll be a decision soon.
That was a bit cold, wasn't it?
I know how the decision is made, and I know what the evidence is.
And I know that there's
no definitive evidence of self harm.
That okay with you?
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Can we talk about sport?
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Three rounds. Nine minutes. That's your goal.
That's your only goal.
I want you to stay on your toes and dance.
Nine minutes of dancing.
If you can get in an early punch,
you'll make him think twice about coming forward.
It's alright to be nervous.
Healthy respect for your opponent.
You've got to make the nerves work for you though.
Keep you sharp.
God knows why I'm doing this.
Then stop. Don't do it.
No one is making you.
You're right. I can stop.
I don't need to be doing this.
You want me to go tell them it's off?
I'll tell them.
No. No, don't.
[ Crowd cheering in distance ]
It's just sport.
A chance to test yourself.
That's all it is.
This is more than sport to me.
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I live here...
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For nine minutes, I want to live here.
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Time to go, boys. You're on.
-It's time. -You're about to.
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You got this. Go on.
Referee: Boxers!
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[ Crowd cheering ]
-Jesus, here we go. -Alright, lads.
I want a nice, clean fight.
Listen to my instructions and protect yourselves at all times.
Now touch gloves.
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[ Bell dings ]
[ Crowd shouting ]
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Come on.
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That's it, that's it, move.
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Hands up! Hands up!
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Protect yourself.
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[ Hisses ]
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That's it. That's it. That's it! That's it.
[ Bell dings ]
Referee: Break.
Nice. You stay right there. Take some water.
Alright?
There you go. Remember to breathe, okay?
You glad you did this?
You're a fighter now, boy. Keep those hands up.
Keep moving, keep dancing.
You got this. OK? Let's go. Round 2.
[ Bell dings ]
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Jab. Jab. Right hook there.
[ Fighters grunting ]
Protect your head!
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Arms up!
Come on. Defend yourself. Defend yourself.
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Keep your hands up. Protect that head.
Break. Break! [ Bell dings ]
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Three minutes. Alright? Hands up.
Hands up. OK? [ Bell dings ]
Let's go.
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You can do it.
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-Come on! -Five!
-Come on, yes! -Six!
Come on.
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Yes! Come on.
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Get him in the corner. That's it.
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[ Bell dings ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
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And your winner!
[ Cheers and applause ]
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-You did it! -I did it.
You did it. [ Laughs ]
How do you feel? Hey?
Huh? Do you feel alive now?
[ Laughter ]
You had enough?
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I see it. Do you see it?
Yeah. I see it.
-Do you want me to do it? -No, I got it.
-You sure? -Yes.
[ Groans in pain, stomps feet ]
-You got it? -Bollocks!
Yeah. I got it.
[ Theme music plays ]
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