[theme music playing]
[breathing heavily]
-Ah, God. I can't. -Come on, old man.
Mate... I'm out of condition.
I'm saying nothing. Just the last time we did this,
I was actually sick trying to keep up with you.
Nape's Needle, we never climbed that, did we?
Still got all the gear in the shed.
Alright, when we get back,
I'm gonna put a date in the diary.
Oh?
-Deal? -Deal.
-Good. Last one to the top buys the beers. -No!
Come on!
[Phil grunts]
Where are you?
[birds chirping]
[indistinct chattering]
[women laughing]
[Phil] Cheers.
[indistinct chattering continues]
Here.
Thanks. I wouldn't normally take it, but, um...
What?
-No, it's fine. -What?
I got laid off yesterday.
-You're joking. -[sighs]
-Why? -I don't know, really.
Orders are right down, they're cutting back, and...
last in, first out, I guess.
[David sighs]
I'm sure it's got nothing to do with you.
Right. Okay. My solicitor rang yesterday.
Apparently, one of the tabloids is still sniffing around.
-Dave, I really don't-- -I need the money, Phil.
I need the money to fight the case.
To buy the kids the basics, to live.
The chances of me getting a job round here, zero.
And you've worked yourself to the bone, for me.
-Oh, no, no-- -I'm gonna make good.
I'm gonna meet the guy.
[clanking]
-The truth is, David's right. -No.
Yeah. We can't stop Jack going there. He's a teenage boy.
The more we try, the more he'll resist us.
I also think we've got more important things to worry about.
What, more important than keeping our family together?
I think we need to get you a lawyer.
What, so you think I need help, do you? To cover my tracks?
No, I don't need a lawyer, Rob, because I have done nothing wrong.
So I'm gonna do the interview, I'm gonna tell the truth,
and then I'm gonna get on with being a parent.
Hi, guys. You seen D.I. Hudson around anywhere?
-[Mari Luz] I think she's in with Hillman. -Thanks.
[phone ringing]
[car horn honking]
[Tom exhales]
[indistinct chattering]
[Alice] So Jack's 16 in a few weeks, Ro.
He's almost taller than Rob. He can look after himself, can't he?
But you can't, Ro,
so I really need you to listen to me here, please.
Three juries have failed to find your father not guilty.
Thirty-six men and women have listened to the evidence,
in three trials over seven years,
and not one of them, darling,
not one of them,
have been able to say the words "not guilty".
And as much as I really understand your confusion right now,
I really do, that scares me.
It really does.
And I think it should scare you, too, sweetheart.
If it were one or two genuine mistakes, perhaps we could find a way round it.
-[Will] Sir-- -But this is way more than that.
In fact, the evidence brought to me by D.I. Hudson
strongly suggests your initial investigation wasn't just flawed,
but also perhaps criminally negligent.
-With respect, sir-- -You will have the opportunity
to answer the allegations made against you in due course, D.C.I. Beech,
but right now, I'm informing you that I'm suspending you from duties,
and I've forwarded the details regarding this allegation to Professional Standards.
The evidence against Collins remains, and I have no doubt, in time--
I expect them to serve you with a Reg-15 notice.
You will then have ten days to respond in writing
to the allegations made against you.
The right to consult a federation representative... [fading]
[David] It's to go nowhere near my kids. Okay?
Which we wouldn't anyway. We know what they've been through.
And actually, what some readers are mainly interested in is your story.
What you've been through, how you're moving forward.
And how long would this go on for?
We think three Saturdays.
We always do a weekend person interest story,
and we're thinking [inhales] prison years,
the retrial and release, and then the future.
These true-life crime stories play very well now
with all the stuff on telly coming over from America.
For all of this, how much would you pay me?
I've been authorised to offer you 10,000 pounds, David.
-I was hoping for more than that. -Hmm.
I need more than that.
Maybe if we'd done it immediately after the trial collapsed,
-but that's the best I can do, I'm afraid. -Would you go to 15?
I'm really sorry.
Thirteen, then?
Please.
I've got lawyer's fees, I owe my brother money
and I need to buy the kids stuff.
Please.
I can go to 12, if we start right now, here.
See if we can get it in for this weekend.
For 12?
Okay.
I'm gonna need a couple of signatures...
[Rosie] She's still scared of him, you know.
Mum.
Alice.
I heard her and Rob rowing the other night.
The police were asking questions about where she was
-the night Mum died. -No.
They've spoken to her once already, and now she has to go back in again.
-What do they think? -I don't know.
But Rob is really freaked out by it.
-They don't think she-- -I don't know,
and, Ro, I wasn't gonna say anything. It's just--
If she's telling you shit like she's scared of our dad
and trying to come between you and me...
Right now, I trust him a lot more than I trust her.
[waves crashing]
-[door buzzes] -Thanks for this, mate.
I shouldn't be more than ten minutes, okay?
[Alice] Did you say anything?
[Rob] What could I say?
[Rob grunts]
Do you trust me?
Of course.
I need to ask a possibly a difficult question for you to answer.
But I wanna qualify it by saying that any investigation
is as much about eliminating possibilities
-as it is about finding them, okay? -Right.
Did your wife ever express any concerns about her sister?
What sort of concerns?
Did she ever say anything to suggest that she was scared of her?
Physically scared of her?
-Are you being serious? -Did she?
[sighs] As much as I would love to say yes...
no.
They had a fiery relationship, but they were sisters.
But I never got any sense
that she thought that Alice would actually hurt her.
Okay.
Why? Why do you ask? What have you found out?
I can't disclose any more information
-at this time. -Hey, no, no, no.
She has my children.
Yeah, I know, I understand that,
but I've told you everything I can at this stage.
-Thank you very much. -Do you have any kids, Cathy?
[sighs]
-One. -Boy or a girl?
-A boy. -Right. And if you ever found out
that he was in any kind of danger,
then you would have to know, wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you? You'd have to know. So...
I think Alice has brought them up very well for seven years,
and I am sure that they're completely safe.
I'll be in touch.
[Cathy] I've asked Alice Moffatt for a minute-by-minute timeline of where she was
from leaving Tara at 9:55, to approximately 8:00 the next morning.
And, Graham, can you do a full sweep on her?
See if she had any previous history,
-cautions, bind overs, parking tickets, anything at all. -Yup.
Are we seriously now suggesting she's a possible suspect?
She was jealous of what her sister had, the career, the kids.
And she owed her nearly 20,000 pounds, which she couldn't pay back.
Yes, she's a suspect. As indeed is Tom Wilson.
He's now confessed to being in a troubled relationship with Tara,
and we know that on more than one occasion, they fought.
The question is, did it ever spill over into anything more?
Steve, let's go back over his movements that night,
look through the original CCTV footage,
-and all the original witness statements, please? -[Beckton] Guv.
And then lastly, David Collins.
The most damning evidence against him
has always been his wife's blood on his coat.
His defence convinced the jury that cross-contamination
was a possible reason.
Was it a likely one?
[sighs] Mari Luz, you speak to the lab again.
-Okay, that's it. Thanks, guys. -What happened with D.C.I. Beech, Guv?
We heard he got served with a Reg-15 yesterday.
Um, Reg-15s are signed off by the head of PSU.
I don't know anything about that,
but I was asked to give an update on the investigation,
how it's moved on.
Which I did.
The idiot actually got nailed for destroying government property,
because he shredded everything when he knew SMU were onto him.
And how compromised were his methods?
How about very fucking compromised?
So, what was he actually doing? Or not doing?
[sighs] Everything.
Buying cheap materials,
invoicing for government standard
and pocketing the difference,
re-using disposable Petri dishes.
His cleaning and log protocols were totally chaotic.
And he really did shred everything?
We have no records I can look at, at all?
-Why else do you think Collins got off? -Okay.
So, his coat, run it through testing again.
Have you got any idea how many times that coat's been looked at?
I want it done again.
The blood was clearly in a spatter pattern.
That was never cross-contamination.
ASAP.
-Please. -So, what else am I looking for?
Everything. Hair, sweat, skin, fibres, foreign debris.
Anything. Everything.
[machine beeping]
I told the original officer all that. Nothing's changed.
So, you got home at about 10:15,
you had a cup of tea, and went to bed at about 11,
and then you woke at about 9, just before getting the bus to work,
arriving slightly late at just after 10.
-Yes. -And we have a record of one last call to Tara's mobile,
-this one at 10:27 from your landline. -Yes.
-Which she didn't answer. -No.
-And you didn't leave a message? -I went through all this seven years ago.
This call suggests you couldn't have been anywhere
-near Halesham at that time. -No.
-Rob was at home when you got back? -Yes.
-And he'll corroborate these timings? -Yes.
Can you tell me, then, why your car was clocked by a speed camera
doing 57 miles an hour in a 30-mile an hour zone,
halfway between your house and Tara's, at 10:26 that night?
-What? -We've just learned that your car was photographed
speeding at 10:26 on the B3307.
Well, I don't know. I don't-- I don't know.
Could it have been you driving?
No, I'd been drinking, I don't-- No, it wasn't me.
Did anyone, apart from your husband, have access to your car?
No.
-Did you report it stolen? -No.
So, it must have been Rob?
Well, I don't know.
Except you said in your original statement,
and just now to us, that he was with you all night.
Could he have taken the car without you realising?
I suppose it's possible.
And can I ask, then, if when you came in, you told him about the row you'd had?
I don't remember specifically. It was seven years ago.
But I...
I imagine I would have done, yes.
And, obviously, he knew about the money you'd borrowed from her
-and not yet paid back. -Yes.
-What time did you say you woke again, sorry? -About 9.
-And was he in the house then? -Yes. Definitely.
Are you sure, Alice?
You've already given us several very different accounts
of your movements that night.
Yeah, he was there.
He was there, I promise.
[birds chirping]
[waves crashing]
It... It's all here.
It's all in good nick as well.
Oh, Dave, no, no.
That's a fraction of what I owe you.
So, please, come on, it makes me feel better.
Alright? For me.
-Didn't take long, did it? -What didn't?
Me, taking handouts from you.
-[sighs] -Normal service, eh?
Where you off to?
To give my lawyer money, and then to tell him that Alice
is now a suspect.
Yeah. Should make things interesting, eh?
[Tom] And no one wants to charge me of anything,
no one's accusing me of anything, I'm not being re-interviewed.
I made a terrible mistake having an affair with Tara.
And I'll never stop feeling shitty about what my selfishness cost my kids.
But that was eight years ago, Mel.
And that's not who I am now.
So, please, come back home and let me prove I can be a better father to our child.
Please.
[Beckton] Well, according to my notes, you were flagged from a door-to-door,
as having possible information, but it was never followed up?
[man] Not me, it was my wife they spoke to.
Right, um...
Well, it looks like we've got Mr. Adebayo here, sorry. Um...
-Remember what information it was she had? -She saw someone that night,
walking away from the direction of Collins' house.
We only live a hundred yards or so from them.
Right. Uh, is your wife around?
She's at work, but I can get her to call you later.
Yeah, that would be great. Let me give you my direct line.
-[cell phone ringing] -It's all there.
So, which do you want me to concentrate on? The house or the kids?
The kids, obviously, because I'd defy any court in the world
to think they're safer with them now than with me.
-Okay. -Right.
And then when we do get the kids, which we will,
I want you to go after their house.
I'm practically homeless. Let's see how they fucking like it.
[Phil] No worries. Yeah, see you then.
He's really sorry, mate, but he's not gonna be back for a while.
-He's had to go into town short notice. -Why?
Uh, following up on some work possibilities, I think.
-Right. -I mean, you're very welcome to wait.
It's fine. I'll come back tomorrow.
-I used to see you, you know. -Oh.
When you used to watch us in the park.
And there was me thinking I had a future in special ops.
I always wanted to come visit after you moved down.
It felt unfair that you got caught up in everything.
But Mum, Alice, thought that it would be confusing for us.
I'm sure she didn't make the decision lightly.
Look. [sighs]
I know things got really messy after your mum died,
but I think Alice is basically a good person.
Don't you?
-Whatever happened to Auntie Gemma? -[chuckles]
When you guys were down from Bolton, you used to babysit us.
Bring us donuts.
-We liked Auntie Gem. -[chuckles]
Yeah, she went back to live with her folks in Burnley.
Why?
Oh, you know, it was-- it was hard after the trial.
It was hard for everyone.
-How could you have done that? -Jesus, Will.
How could you actually have gone to Hillman?
-You shouldn't be here. -How could you do that to me?
I didn't do anything to you, you did it to yourself.
You ignored evidence, you failed to make a full disclosure and you lied, Will.
I loved you so much.
Oh, yeah, yeah, you loved me so much
that you did everything you could
to manipulate me into protecting you.
And I loved you. And Jacob loved you.
And you betrayed us both.
-So that's what this is? Revenge? -No, it isn't,
because unlike you, I don't let my personal life interfere with my work.
-Oh, yeah? Listen. -Fuck, Will.
You're drunk. Go home and don't come here again.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I just-- I just want to show you this.
I'm guessing you've not found it yet.
It was only introduced pre-sentencing.
The truth, Cath.
My methods may leave a little bit to be desired, but the truth,
I've always had a nose for the truth, and I think you know that.
And deep down, I think you still know it was Collins.
[sighs]
[Cathy] David Collins' girlfriend never pressed charges,
and the caution's long since spent.
How long were they together?
Two years. Proper relationship.
-Jesus. -Yeah.
So, I want us to try and track her down, get her side of things.
'Cause, uh, if Collins did do that,
that's a history of domestic violence.
And that is not good.
[Rob] Hang on a minute. Am I under arrest?
[Cathy] No, not at the moment. This would be a voluntary interview
relating to questions we have following our interview with your wife.
-But I am gonna caution you. -What have you said, luv?
-I haven't said anything, sweetheart, I swear. -[Cathy] And tell you
that you don't have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention my questions
as something which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Okay?
I don't want to do this here. Can we do it at the station, please?
Of course. After you.
Rosie. Rosie.
-Rosie. -What's happening?
Nothing, darling, everything's fine.
Did Dad--
-Did Rob do something wrong? -Dad did nothing wrong.
-Why are they taking him, then? -They just want to ask him a few questions, darling.
-It's really fine. -Some questions like what?
Please, Rosie, I'm really tired and stressed. Can you just...?
-Did you? -Did I what?
-Did you do something bad? -Something bad like what?
-Did you hurt my mother? -No, I did not hurt your sainted mother!
But, my God, she hurt me every day of her life! Rosie, Rosie, please!
-No! No! -Rosie, please! Sorry, sorry, Rosie, please!
-Leave me alone! -[screams]
-[sobs] -[door closing]
Yes, it was me driving the car.
Okay, where were you heading?
Uh, I was looking for a late night chemist.
There's one in Exminster.
Okay. For what?
Alice had been on, uh, anti-depressants for some time,
since the IVF problems we'd had.
And, um, she'd run out a few days before.
She had a new prescription but she hadn't picked it up.
And then when she got back that night, she was crying,
uh, upset, she was very low, and I decided to see if I could pick up her medication.
-At 10:30 at night? -Yes.
So, what difference would it have made going in the morning?
Anti-depressants can take weeks to get into your system.
Yeah, I know. But I wanted to get out as well.
We'd, uh...
We'd rowed, and I wanted some time to think.
Rowed about what?
Tara.
How to deal with her behaviour.
I wanted to cut her off for good, but Alice would never contemplate that.
Would it be fair to say that you didn't like Tara?
No, it wouldn't be fair to say that at all.
It would be fair to say that I hated her, for the pain she caused my wife.
-Did you get the prescription? -No.
No, the chemist closed at 11. I got there about 5 past.
-That would have been why I was speeding. -Right.
I don't have a map in front of me, obviously, but am I right in thinking
that to get from where you were then living, to Exminster,
you would have had to pass through Halesham?
-Yes. -And the camera snapped you in Slinfield.
How many miles is that before Halesham, would you say?
-About two or three? -Yeah, about that.
So, Tara's train gets in at 10:35.
A few minutes to get off the platform, down onto the road, let's say 10:40.
Would you say that was about the time you were passing through?
Yes.
Did you see her?
Sadly not. Otherwise, she might still be alive.
You're absolutely certain?
Absolutely.
-You work at a boatyard, don't you? -Yes.
What do you do there, specifically?
Uh, anything and everything.
-You work with ropes? -Yeah, sometimes.
-Do you know what a butterfly knot is? -Yeah, of course.
Okay. Thank you so much for your time.
[cell phone rings]
Andy, how's tricks?
-[Andy] Yeah, all good, you? -Yeah, I can't complain.
Listen, mate. I'm gonna cut straight to the chase.
You know I'm doing a couple of days a week at the Farmbrook Clinic.
-Yeah, yeah. -So, you never heard this from me, but...
I've just seen Melissa in reception.
Stop her, Andy.
I'm on my way. Just-- Just stop her.
Guv? I've just spoken to an old witness that was never followed up.
-Yeah? -She lives on the same road as the Collins,
and on the night of the murder, as she was arriving home,
she saw Tom Wilson walking away from the Collins' house.
Right, yeah, we know this.
No, no, it's not that. It's the timing.
She says it was definitely around 11:30.
-What makes her so sure? -She was working at Anderson's,
the meat packing place, doing shift work.
The late shift finishes at 11. It took her ten minutes to get out.
-It's a 20-minute walk home. -And she's absolutely certain it was him?
He was her obstetrician for both her kids.
-Pull Wilson in again, yeah? -Yeah.
I have told you several times now, sir.
I just want to speak to her.
It's my child as well.
She's my wife.
I have a right to speak to my own wife, don't I?
Not if she doesn't wanna speak to you, no.
Now, please, do yourself a favour
and walk away, or I will call the police.
[laughs] F--
Fine, fine, I'm going, fine.
[grunts]
-You twat. -Ow!
-[Jack] Hey. -Hi.
-What happened? -Um...
The police, they came and took Dad away, and--
And Mum started shouting at me, and I-- I just had to get out of there.
Yeah. So, do you want to go say hello?
It'll be fine. It'll be fine.
Rosie, this is... Dad.
Hello, Rosie.
It's lovely to see you.
You must be nervous. I know I am.
-I'm gonna get some drinks. -Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Um...
-Here you go. -Thanks.
Shall we sit down?
[David sniffles]
Uh...
[chuckles]
I'm gonna say a couple of things, Rosie, and then...
an then I'll shut up. [chuckles]
Okay. Firstly...
I loved your mum so much.
I would never have hurt a hair on her head.
[stutters]
And, uh...
I was just as devastated as you were when she died.
And secondly, I just--
I just wanted to tell you, in case you didn't know, that...
[sniffles] that not a single hour went by
when I didn't think about you and Jack.
I missed you both so much.
And I love you both from the bottom of my heart.
[sniffles]
And whatever happens... between us,
I will always, always, love you.
[sighs] I--
I didn't think I'd remember anything about you.
But I do.
What do you remember?
Your smell.
Soap and jumpers.
[chuckles]
Here we go.
This is for you.
-This is for you. -[chuckles]
Thank you.
[indistinct chattering]
Okay. Thanks so much for your help.
All right, that was Collins' girlfriend.
When they were students, they were in a boozer, both very drunk,
and she swears blind it was actually her hitting Collins.
-So, why did he get the caution? -The arresting officer didn't believe her,
-thought she was scared of him. -Right.
And the officer told Collins
that if didn't accept the caution, he'd charge him.
Okay. Good work.
[sighs]
Baz, have a look at this, will you?
[Tom] She told me the day before that she was gonna tell David about us...
and then she was gonna tell my wife.
And that night, he invited me around to play poker,
and he was really weird with me.
Really odd.
And I just...
I thought that he must know,
and that he was sort of testing me.
And then later that night...
she was murdered.
And, obviously, he was a suspect.
Except then, um...
someone in town said that they...
that the milkman had, um...
had seen him at 5:30.
And I realised he couldn't have done it.
He couldn't have got her body all the way out to Dedham
and then got back again by 5:30
if I had been with him...
until 11:30.
So?
[Tom] So...
I changed my timing slightly,
to keep him in custody. [sobs]
So that he wouldn't say anything to my wife about me and Tara.
[sniffles] Oh.
I never thought it would be that important.
I never thought that he could be convicted.
I mean, I was just trying to buy a little time.
[sobs]
And then... [sighs]
And then the evidence came out about the blood.
And I thought, "Okay, maybe he did do it".
I mean, maybe he didn't go all the way out to Dedham that night,
maybe he didn't put her there until a few days later, but--
He was being watched 24 hours a day. You're a smart man.
You'd have known that.
I just...
The longer it went on,
the more scared I became.
I couldn't find a way out.
I'm sorry, I am truly. I'm truly sorry.
[sniffles]
At that time,
your house was on the other side of the station, wasn't it?
She got off the train at 10:35.
-I didn't go past the station for at least an hour. -Well, she was drunk.
She might have passed out somewhere. She might have been sick.
She might have met someone. We don't know what happened to her.
I swear, I did not kill her.
But we do know that she wasn't at her house, don't we?
Yeah, she wasn't at her house.
And we do know you would clearly have stopped at nothing
to conceal your affair.
I didn't kill her.
Look, did you actually say you thought it was me who killed her?
No, of course I didn't.
They just asked me who was driving the car,
and I was shocked because I didn't even know you'd gone out.
Because you were passed out. A fairly regular occurrence
-at that time. -Why didn't you tell me in the morning?
-I don't know, I forgot. -I didn't even need my pills that night.
-I thought you did, sorry. -What else did you think I needed, Rob?
-What else did you think you should do for me? -What's that mean?
-You tell me. -I'm not the one who attacked her.
-I did not attack her! -Listen, they told me
some of the things you said in your texts.
-I was angry and drunk. -Yeah?
Well, they scared me, and you know what?
I don't blame the kids for wanting to go back to their dad.
He's a safer bet than living here!
You've just, more or less, accused me of killing your sister!
[Mari Luz] Okay, so sorry. Say again what the flakes contained?
Uh, dibutyl phthalate, camphor and ferric ferrocyanide.
How was this not found before?
Just more sophisticated tests available now.
And so, ferrocyanide. I mean, what is that?
-Sounds like some sort of poison to me. -No.
No, not a poison. None of them are poisons.
They're just some of the ingredients of a very everyday compound.
What we found in both pockets of the coat
are trace elements of a woman's nail varnish.
One second.
-[Cathy] D.I. Hudson. -Guv, it's me.
Say all that again to my guvnor.
-[door opens] -The time you and Tara fought,
you said it was in an alley, by the hospital?
Well... [exhales] Eh, yeah.
Was this at night?
-[sighs] Yeah. -Late?
-Um, after a shift, about 10? -And this was February 12th?
-If you say so. -So it was cold?
-I guess. -Was it dry, raining, snowing?
I don't know. It was seven and a half years ago.
What was she wearing?
[exhales] It was, um...
One of those, uh...
A kind of parka [stammers] with a fur-lined hood.
She was kind of swamped in it, like a...
[Mari Luz] Great. Thanks.
It was minus three on February the 12th, 2009.
So it's freezing cold,
Tara can't find her coat, or hers isn't warm enough,
so she grabs her husband's on the way out.
I do it all the time.
And that's why her blood was on it.
Not from her murder, but from when Tom Wilson hit her
three months before.
She was wearing David's coat.
[knocking on door]
-Hi. -Hi. So sorry to disturb you so late.
-No, it's fine. -I've got some news.
-Sh-- -Yeah, shall we go out? Yeah, that's fine.
-What news? -We believe we've found evidence
which conclusively exonerates you.
If you'd like to come down to the station tomorrow
-I can go through it all with you... -Right.
...in detail, but we now believe
that your wife borrowed your coat several months before she died,
and the blood on it was from then.
From an encounter with Tom Wilson.
We also now know that he was at your house until 11:30,
which obviously supports your original alibi.
Okay, okay, okay. That's just, uh...
I'm so sorry, David. I'm so sorry for everything you've been through.
[cries]
-You're okay, yeah, you're alright. -God, thank you.
-Sorry, I just... -No. It's okay.
[laughs]
-I think I better go in. -Yeah.
Thank you.
[indistinct chattering]
[Rosie chuckles]