[ Down-tempo music plays ]
MAN: Hello?
Oh, God.
I'm gonna go get help, okay?
I'm gonna get help.
COBB Colin. Dave Cobb.
Boss asked me to call. I've got a job for you.
Dead French girl on Twickenham Green.
Battered over the head.
In Surrey, this would be a promotion case.
In the Met, it's your boss who gets promoted.
COBB: Victim's name is Amelie Martine Josette Delagrange --
22 years old, born 2nd of February 1982.
REPORTER: Can you tell us if you're pursuing a link
with Milly Dowler?
MURPHY: We have no reason to believe
that these cases are linked at this time.
What about the Marsha McDonnell murder last year?
We have a suspect for that case.
REPORTER: But you haven't charged them?
Chance of a link to an attack near the green a few months ago.
Edel Harbison, 34, blond.
Struck over the head.
Not jumping to conclusions, are we, about a link?
COLIN: She walked back.
JONES: Looks like it, Gov.
That's why she had to go across the green.
COLIN: We know that Amelie missed her stop.
We know her phone went off-line at 10:23 in Walton
when it was dumped in the river, so we know he's in a vehicle.
We know that he went from the green to Walton
and we know when.
AMBROSE: But we don't know his route.
Now, this white van appears sometime between 2200 and 2205.
And by 2208, he's gone.
Is there any chance they can clean it up, get a reg number?
JONES: Fighting chance, I'd say, Gov.
COLIN: He's not a witness.
Nice one.
Ah. Well, we haven't got him yet.
You know what car he drives. That's huge.
- Hi, Dad. - Hello, love.
Cheers.
If I've been shutting you out or it seemed like I was,
it wasn't my intention.
Hotel called.
Free upgrade and we're overlooking the sea.
Spain. My brother's wedding.
Yes. Of course. Can't wait.
Don't overdo it.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Indistinct talking on television ]
[Clears throat]
[Music continues]
[Telephone ringing ]
COLIN: Our window for the attack on Amelie
was 10 minutes either side of 2200 hours.
Ambrose.
But now we can do better than that, can't we, Jonesy?
Yeah, we can, Gov.
Uh, thanks to the advent of external bus cameras,
we know that this Ford Courier van
was parked right by the green between 2200 and 2205
and by 2208, it was gone.
And we've got the same van on several streets nearby
for half an hour before that.
As far as I'm concerned,
this removes any doubt that our killer is in that van.
And we'll be checking through the murder of Marsha McDonnell
to see if a Courier crops up
and also the attack on Edel Harbison.
- Have we got the reg? - COLIN: Not yet.
What do the experts say?
Uh, well, it's dark, minimal streetlights,
and, well, the image quality is not the best, as you can see.
Yeah, but what do the experts say?
They're still examining the footage.
Uh, they have enlarged it on their bigger screen.
Can't make out the number?
Only some of it. Not enough to run a DVLA search.
AMBROSE: I showed the stills to Ford,
and they said it's a Courier made between '96 and 2000.
- How many in circulation? - Twenty-five thousand.
FULLER: Oh, Christ.
Are we sure we can't make out that reg number?
Reg number is not the only way of identifying that van, Chris.
Front left wheel trim is missing,
there's a black disc on the roof,
and the cargo doors have no glass in them.
Problem is, none of that will show up on DVLA records.
Then we prioritize Couriers registered
in Twickenham and Walton and we crack through the list.
Long list.
Yes, it is a long list.
Maybe -- Maybe we need to think big picture.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I'm Monica. I'm the projectionist.
- D.S. Jo Brunt. - D.C.l. Colin Sutton.
D.C. Neil Jones.
Thanks very much for making time for us, Monica.
I've been doing this a wee while, but this is a first.
Yeah. Us too.
- Take a seat. - Thank you.
Experts say if we can't see it on these three, we're stuffed.
[Music continues]
Ah.
Monica, uh, can we go back to the second one
and go closer on that?
Yes, we can.
[ Computer beeping, machinery whirring ]
[Music continues]
Neil?
Jonesy?
Sorry, Gov.
It's bigger, but it's not clearer.
[Sighs]
A bit less so, actually.
That 6 could still be a G.
No. Maybe the experts do know a thing or two.
God. Does he have the luck of the devil or what?
[ Indistinct conversations, telephones ringing ]
How was the movie?
What did you say?
Oh. Sorry. I couldn't resist.
Well?
Oh. Uh, no joy, sir.
My advice -- Don't pin everything on this van.
That van's our best lead, sir.
I hear you're off to Spain. Wedding or something.
Uh, no, I'm not going to Spain.
I think you should.
Come back refreshed, recharged.
Richard will hold the fort.
When you get back, we'll see where we are.
What does that mean?
It means we'll see where we are.
Can I have a word, sir?
That van is our top priority.
I know that's how we'll get him. I know it.
And if Richard doesn't get that, I'm not going anywhere.
Colin, if I wanted you out, you'd be out.
You'll stay on the van while I'm away?
MURPHY: You're the S.l.O.
COLIN: I want your word.
You have it.
- Thank you, sir. -[ Door opens, closes ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Engines roaring ]
[Music continues]
[ Indistinct conversations]
How are you? [Laughs]
Hey-
- Hi. How are you? - Yeah. Good.
- Will you come see Colin? - Sure.
Colin, this is Steve, Angus's best man.
- Oh, good to meet you, Steve. - Likewise, mate. Likewise.
How is the speech going?
Oh, great.
I'd say I know where all the bodies are buried,
but you might get the wrong idea.
[ Chuckles ]
So, uh, what are you reading?
Jesus. Bit of a busman's holiday, isn't it?
That's what I said.
Uh, a few of us are meeting up later,
uh, to check out the harbor.
It'll be nothing too wild if you fancy it.
You know what?
Urn, why not? Yes.
It'd be good to see the town.
[Cellphone ringing]
Uh, excuse me.
Two seconds.
Jo?
A mobile ANPR camera has picked up a white Courier van
going past Twickenham Green two nights after Amelie was killed.
Same wheel trim, same black disc on the roof.
Did you ID the driver?
Uh, it's complicated.
What do you mean?
The van is registered to the Met.
- The Met? - Yeah.
Turns out we own quite a few Courier vans,
mostly used by SOCOs.
This one's based at the photographic branch
in Southwark.
So you can't tie it to a specific driver?
- Not without showing our hand. - All right. Don't do anything.
Urn, I'll be there in half an hour.
- I'll call you back. - No, Colin. You don't need --
- Colin... -[ Dial tone]
[Sighs]
[ Indistinct conversations]
Urn, I'm sorry. I've got to go.
I'll catch the next -- next flight out.
They're all booked.
My cousin tried to get a seat last night.
Tomorrow, then.
The Wedding's tomorrow.
Look We've had a break in the case.
- One of the vehicles -- - You said something once.
Something really interesting.
You said that when you were hunting someone,
you always asked the question, "What's important to them?
What matters to them deep down?"
because the -- the answer tells you a lot.
- Louise. - This...
[Voice breaking ] This was important to me.
You knew it was important to me.
[ Sighs] What am I supposed to think?
I'm sorry.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Up-tempo music plays]
[Siren wailing in distance]
Sorry to be so cloak-and-dagger.
No. I get it.
I just can't believe it's the van you're looking for.
Well, that's what we need to establish.
Well, I've dug out the logbook.
Okay.
The van was in Twickenham on August 19th, right?
The night of, just after 10:00.
Okay. Right.
Patricia Wilson had the van that night.
She was called to photograph a break-in at a jeweler's in Ham.
- Is Patricia here now? - No.
It's her daughter's birthday.
And what about the van?
Yeah. If you'd like to follow me.
Right. So here's the van.
Do you want me to...
That's not the van.
How do you know? It's got the aerial stub.
Stub's too small and it's too far forward on the roof.
And that's the wrong wheel trim.
I know my vehicles, Jo. That's not our van.
Thank you.
[ Sighs] Thanks.
[Siren wailing in distance]
And to think -- You'd be on your second San Miguel by now.
Not funny.
Plus we've got an issue of previous owners --
[ Door opens]
Gov. I thought you were in Spain.
Long story.
Couldn't keep away.
How's it going with the van?
Slowly.
Half the vans we're stopping aren't registered to the area.
AMBROSE: And vice versa.
When we trace vans logged locally, they're all over.
Yeah. I just tracked one down to Aberdeen, Gov.
You know, what do you want us to do?
I want you to not stop now.
I want you to keep going.
We're sticking to the Courier lead.
If we have to trace 25,000 vans,
then we have to trace 25,000 vans.
Yes, Gov.
What are you thinking?
It's colder than a polar bear's cock.
That's not what I meant.
Standing on bridges, clocking white vans.
Good old-fashioned shoe leather.
GRIFFITHS: A bit desperate, though, isn't it?
Yeah. A bit.
Coldest October on record.
Is it?
Here's the cream of West London CID playing spot the van.
I don't know.
- Might get lucky, Gov. - Oh, come on.
I know if Sutton said jump off this bridge, you'd do it,
but even you must have your doubts.
He drives a white Courier, and he's likely local.
It's a solid punt, I'd say.
Fair enough.
You two drink the Kool-Aid.
I'll see who's still standing a month from now.
[Vehicles passing, siren wailing in distance]
What's Kool-Aid?
It's a poison drink cult leader Jim Jones gave to his followers.
Oh. Right.
What happened to them?
They all died.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[Rain falling]
[Cellphone beeping ]
[Music continues]
I picked this up in Barcelona.
Hmm?
It wasn't a dig.
No.
You're not gonna want to hear this.
If you don't play, you can't lose.
What, you think I should quit?
I think, if you go now, it's early days, people forget.
But hang on, and you could go down with the ship.
The case will define you.
I said you wouldn't want to hear it.
Yeah, you did.
Is this you getting me back for Spain?
I'm just trying to offer some perspective.
I won't get another job like this.
Maybe not, but career cases go both ways.
And this feels like a poisoned chalice.
Why take the risk?
And if you won't consider that,
at least be humble enough to take advice.
- Such as? - The van.
Your shotgun approach won't work.
But there are programs that will turn 25,000
into a manageable list.
Right. Programs written by who?
People like me, trained analysts.
I'm not entrusting this to a program.
No offense.
I'm sorry about Spain, but in the circumstances --
Oh, in the circumstances,
any one of your team could have ruled out that suspect van.
You were looking for an excuse.
And loyal Jo was happy to help.
[ Door opens, closes ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
COLIN: If anyone gives you any hassle over those extra cars,
just let me know.
Sure.
- Colin. - Yeah?
London's one thing, but driving around the country
to look for this van --
Jo, it's got to be done.
I'm just not sure how happy the team are, that's all.
Or convinced.
[ Indistinct conversations]
[Music continues]
- Excuse me, sir. - Yes?
I was in the mobile station on the green
-after Amelie was killed. - Okay.
Well, this woman came in and gave a statement,
and I wondered if anything came of it.
GRACE: Right, lads. We'll see you later on.
MAN: Cheers.
[ Indistinct conversations]
Urn, before you all rush off...
I just want to say a few words about the Yorkshire Ripper.
All Leeds CID really had to go on was one tire mark
and a list of cars and lorries that could have left it.
The pool of potential vehicles was 53,000.
The elimination process was a nightmare.
All vehicle records were stored on long reels of listing paper,
and the officers had to roll them out along the floor,
striking off cars with marker pens on their hands and knees.
There were so many filing cabinets in the room,
they had to move them all to the sides
because the floor was bending
and the building society downstairs
was beginning to complain.
After 33,000 vehicles, they lost heart.
They gave uP-
Peter Sutcliffe's Ford Corsair was in that last 20,000
waiting to be checked.
If they'd kept going, they would have got him,
and three lives would have been saved.
That's all.
[ Indistinct conversations]
Clive, Jo, will you come with me?
[ Engine starts]
- You all right, Gov? - Yeah.
Another lesson from the Yorkshire Ripper case --
Don't get tunnel vision.
We're on the basics, starting with the single statement file.
Or files.
Uh, what prompted this?
That WPC I was just talking to.
Asking about a statement she took
when we had that mobile unit on the green.
What, she thought she had a contender?
Well, she said it was worth a second look.
Statement was from a woman called Johanna Collings.
Collings. IIC- II
- Right. - That's you, Gov.
[Pages turning]
COLIN: "Alli--
Here we go.
"My ex, Levi Bellfield, is very familiar with the area
and hates women, especially blond women.
I once found a copy of Cosmopolitan
with all the blondes' faces scratched out.
Levi used to keep a knife and a balaclava
in a hidden pocket in his coat."
Mm. No psycho stereotype left unturned there, then.
I'm liking him so far.
"Levi likes to move around
and has several children by different women.
He's employed as a bouncer and a wheel clamper
and uses a white van for his clamping business.
Levi is currently on bail for GBH,
and the weapon used in the attack was a hammer."
You're fucking kidding me.
BRUNT: Wheel clamping, yeah?
Yeah. Why?
One of our traces on a locally registered van
mentioned wheel clamping.
Use the stand-alone database.
[ Keys clicking ]
Uh...here we go.
P610-XCN, a Ford Courier van
registered to Epstone Motors in lsleworth.
It says here the garage sold it to a "Gypsy named Levi."
Has the garage got an address for him?
BRUNT: Yeah. Strawberry Hill Road.
I know Strawberry Hill Road.
Yeah. There.
That's where he lived with Johanna.
Just a stone's throw from the Amelie and Edel scenes.
Marsha McDonnell was killed right there.
Shall we bring him in?
No.
No. We're window-shopping till we're ready to buy.
[ Dramatic music plays]
BRUNT: There's his clamping truck.
That's the house.
[Vehicle passing, dog barking in distance]
[Siren wailing in distance]
This is definitely the last address he was registered at?
Mm. Cohabiting with a Laura Marsh.
COLIN: Well, if he's still got that Courier, I don't see it.
[ Man speaking indistinctly]
Here we go.
[ Laughs, speaking indistinctly]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Sighs] Bet the neighbors love him.
What you thinking?
[ Door closes ]
I'm thinking if he hit you with a hammer,
you wouldn't get up.
[Engine shuts off]
[Chains rattling]
Happy in his work, isn't he?
Delirious. That's eight cars in 9O minutes.
Phew. Must be making a few quid.
[Music continues]
[ Bell rings, children shouting]
COLIN: Oh, God.
Must be break time.
BRUNT: Well, we know he likes his schoolgirls.
[ Horn honks]
- BRUNT: All right. - What?!
[ Horn honks]
BRUNT: Go on.
[Sighs]
[Tires squeal ]
Oh, shit.
We need a surveillance team.
[Music continues]
[Telephone ringing ]
You all right, Clive?
Gov, uh, I've been looking at a Sarah Knight.
She was the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run in May.
Very different MO.
Yeah, but there's a couple of similarities with Amelie.
One, she'd just gotten off a bus.
Two -- Do you remember what Johanna Collings was saying
about him hating blondes,
scratching their faces out of magazines?
- How old? - Eighteen.
She's a brave girl.
Bastard ran her down and then reversed back over her.
She managed to fish her phone out of the gutter
and dialed 999.
Well, if you think of a car as a weapon,
then the M.O. is not that different.
- She get a look at the driver? - No. Just the vehicle.
She said it was a white people carrier
with blacked-out windows and a cracked driver's mirror.
- Good recall. - Yeah.
She was pushed on a make. She said Ford Galaxy.
But people carriers look very much alike.
Bellfield drove a people carrier at that time,
but it wasn't a Ford Galaxy.
He was stopped a month before Sarah's attack
driving a white Toyota Previa with blacked-out windows.
Find out what happened to that Previa.
- He might still have it. - Even if he's fixed the mirror,
there can't be that many with blacked-out windows.
She broke every rib in her body.
Cut her liver in two.
It's a miracle the surgeons saved her.
Do you want us to do our own interview with her, Gov?
No. I don't want to make her relive her ordeal for nothing.
She didn't see his face.
Like with Edel Harbison.
He attacks her from behind before she can clock him.
And if Marsha and Amelie saw him, they can't tell us.
Luck of the devil.
Well, luck runs out eventually.
Maybe we can link him to other victims.
On Marsha, they looked at possible links
to three other violent crimes.
When we're done with Sarah, let's pull them.
It's weird, isn't it?
Everything he steals, he discards.
At least if there was some kind of sexual element,
it would make sense, but...
What's he get out of it?
It's like he funnels everything into one impact,
one transaction.
I'd be surprised if it didn't have everything to do with sex.
So, they sent me this, Gov.
It's a recording of Sarah's 999 call.
[ Keys clicking ]
WOMAN: Where does it hurt?
SARAH: [ Groans ] Everywhere.
The car stopped to check me out.
WOMAN: Yeah?
SARAH: And he ran over me again. And he ran over me.
WOMAN: He ran over you again?
SARAH: Yeah.
WOMAN: He ran over you twice?
SARAH: Yeah. And it really hurts.
Jo, call the team back tonight.
- Tonight? - Yeah.
We need to put a case together
that gets Bellfield off the street.
All hands on deck.
But we've made finding the van the priority.
Now we're making this the priority.
Plus, we're downgrading the van, not dismissing it.
Might sound like semantics if you're halfway to Selkirk.
[Cellphone ringing]
Andy.
Colin, we've got a surveillance team on Bellfield
starting first thing.
Thank you.
Murphy's given us surveillance.
SAUNDERS: You are joking.
All right. Fine. We'll be back by tonight.
Thanks for your time, Mr. Young.
We'll let you get on.
-[ Cellphone beeps ] - You won't fucking believe this.
He only wants us back in London by tonight.
[ Mid-tempo music plays]
You impressed on them that he commits blitz attacks, did you?
- Yes. - MAN: We'll give the off.
Stand by for first eyeball.
Weapon could be a hammer, a knife, or a car.
- This is what they do every day. - Yeah.
See ya.
[ Indistinct conversations]
[Music continues]
[Cellphone chimes]
Okay.
Levi Bellfield's car-clamping activities
gave him access to a number of vehicles,
including a Toyota Previa.
Clive.
Sarah Knight was run over by a people carrier May 28th.
One week later, Bellfield sold his Previa.
Guilty conscience.
Or a coincidence. It's not a smoking gun.
We're not convincing you, Chris?
It feels like we've gone from having all our eggs
in the van basket
to staking everything on one bloke.
Well, one very strong suspect.
Still, it feels a bit all-or-nothing, a bit desperate.
Well, you're right. We don't have a smoking gun.
And until we do, we can't show our hand.
The bottom line is
Levi Bellfield is a strong suspect for Amelie's murder
and quite possibly for Marsha's, too,
as well as the assaults on Sarah Knight and Edel Harbison.
Except we've played down any of these links to the media.
Will you forget about the media?
Your job is to get him off the pavement
before he hurts someone else!
Why don't we just nick him?
He's got form. He knows the drill.
We need fresh meat,
something solid before we can go near him.
This is Levi Bellfield's intel file.
I want you to read it, study it, and then get out there
and find something we can bring him in on.
That's all. Thank you very much.
- Gov. - MAN: Cheers, Gov.
[ Indistinct conversations]
[Vehicles passing ]
I've got an update from surveillance.
He went to B&Q and McDonald's and is now on the A40 westbound.
Stand by, one.
"In March 2002, Bellfield and partner Laura Marsh were living
in Collingwood Place, Walton-on-Thames."
And?
Milly Dowler went missing in March 2002.
But you didn't work on Milly.
COLIN: No. I did a stint at Surrey on another case.
You couldn't really avoid it.
Collingwood Place.
Oh, Jesus.
What?
Milly went missing on Station Avenue.
That's literally one street away.
[ Baby crying 1
[ Mid-tempo music plays]
Bellfield lived here, March 2002.
Right.
I just wanted to see it with my own eyes.
[ Dog barking 1
I wonder where that goes.
- Have you got a stopwatch? - Yeah.
Do you want to start it?
[ Watch beeps ]
A number of witnesses
said they saw Milly leaving Walton Station.
And the last confirmed sighting was at that bus stop.
How are we doing?
Fifty-five seconds.
[ Watch beeps ]
[ Exhales deeply]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[Siren wailing in distance]
[ Doorbell rings]
[Cellphone ringing]
[ Door opens]
Hello, Brian.
I hear Surrey's getting more new buildings.
Fancy Italian architect.
Make New Scotland Yard look like Butlin's.
That wouldn't be hard.
Well, Met's got nothing to prove, does it?
Well, that's debatable.
You want to come in?
Yeah. Thank you.
Does the name Levi Bellfield mean anything to you?
Should it?
We're looking at him for Amelie. Thank you.
He's got form for GBH,
and we've seen evidence he has an interest in underage girls.
In March 2002, he was living here, in Walton-on-Thames,
just one minute's walk
from the bus stop where Milly was last seen.
Cheers.
When I've finished with him, he's all yours.
Right.
Thanks.
What?
Last few months, I've been on the periphery with Milly.
Not sure I'm your best advocate.
I just need you to share Bellfield's name with the team.
Fair warning -- Two years now, some people on Milly, well...
...they've been a long way down the rabbit hole.
They won't look at any new suspects?
Drowning in suspects, Colin.
Not keen to add to the list?
Not until they've cleared the backlog.
Especially not with someone being pushed by the Met.
Not fair.
Or true.
Sorry. Long day.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
- Minute's walk? - Fifty-five seconds.
What do you think?
I think the hairs on my fucking neck are standing up.
Oh, shit.
[Keys jingling]
[Music continues]
Kat?
Texted you this morning. You said you'd be home.
I know.
- You forgot. - Well...
Oh, I'm sorry.
- Happy birthday, -[ Door opens]
Oh, well, at least stay for a cuppa.
I promised Mum I'd be back by 10:00.
- I've got a mock tomorrow. - All right. I'll drop you home.
[Sighs]
- I did try calling. - Yes.
Kat!
You are not cycling.
- Come on. - Fine.
[Sighs]
[Cellphone ringing]
[ Seat belts click, engine starts ]
The last thing I want to do is compromise you in any way,
but there's a few things I really need to know.
Like did Bellfield's name ever come up
-in connection with Milly? - No.
- Not to my knowledge. - You're sure?
Thanks for telling me you were gonna see Brian, by the way.
I'm sorry.
This -- This link to Milly has blindsided us.
I can't help you.
Why not?
I had a call when you were dropping Kat home.
What?
I was told in no uncertain terms not to talk to you about Milly.
You're joking.
Typical fucking carrots.
Well, unless they've bugged our house, they're not gonna know.
Colin, I'm not disobeying an order,
and I can't believe you'd ask me to.
You're gonna listen to that lot over me?
They're my superiors. I have to listen to them.
And I'm your husband.
Oh, grow up. That's not fair.
Look, if there's a link to Milly, I need to know!
Sorry. No. I gave my word.
Anyway, why would you want my help?
I've never worked for the Met. I'm the definition of a carrot.
Oh, that's just a term of affection.
Bullshit. You're like all the Met.
Looking down your nose at us provincials.
- Not true. - Second-rate, second best.
- That's what you think. - Where is all this coming from?
You don't even know you're doing it.
The other day you said, "I don't want to mess up Amelie
the way Surrey did Milly."
Well, they have messed Milly up.
Where do you think I work, Colin?!
But you're the exception that proves the rule.
They are my colleagues!
And if your suspect's so strong, why is he still walking around?
You haven't even nicked him for Amelie
and you're trying to tie him to Milly.
Oh, I'm going to bed.
Happy birthday.
[ Door opens, closes ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Eyeball on target. He is on the move.
MAN ON RADIO: Swing 'round to the right
and we'll meet you at the end of the roundabout.
DANNY: Turning east on Curzon Road.
Copy that, Danny.
I'm heading west towards the roundabout.
We're following. Eddie, get ahead of us.
EDDIE: Received by 42.
[Music continues]
Target has stopped. Target has stopped.
Danny, pull in.
DANNY: I've got eyeballs on target.
Target's talking to two girls.
[ Indistinct conversations]
EDDIE: 42 in position.
[Cellphone ringing]
- COLIN: Colin Sutton. - Gov, you said to call direct
if there's a situation.
What's he doing? Tell me exactly what he's doing.
Chatting up a couple of girls, about 15, 16.
They're at a bus stop.
How do they seem?
Okay.
- I don't know. Sorry. - Oh.
Laughing at whatever he's saying.
DANNY: Gov, do we move?
MAN: Danny, stay put.
DANNY: He's still talking to the two girls.
MAN: Yeah. One of them is trying to move away now.
[ Indistinct conversation]
Now they both are.
EDDIE: 42 on stand-by.
DANNY: He doesn't look happy.
Wait. He's approaching them again.
Okay. Move in. Take him.
Danny, Mike, move in on the target.
[ Dramatic music plays]
Stand down. Stand down.
[ Brakes squeak, air hisses]
Hey, mate. Look after them, will you?
Gov, the girls are on the bus. They're safe.
All right, slags.
BRUNT: All right, girls. Just follow me.
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[ Indistinct conversations, telephones ringing ]
If you just want to take a seat over here.
- Are we in trouble? - COLIN: No.
No, not at all.
It would be good to know where you were going.
Town center in Uxbridge.
And when the man came up to you at the bus stop,
what did he say?
He was like, "You two look nice.
How old are you?"
Did you tell him?
And what did he say then?
He said, "Oh, that's good.
I bet you're both virgins. You look like virgins.
I bet...
Go on.
He said, "I bet you're both nice and tight."
And he offered us a lift, and that's when I walked off.
And then I followed her, and the bus came.
Why are you asking about that man?
Has he done something wrong?
COLIN: The encounter with these two girls
lets us know exactly what kind of bloke Bellfield is.
It lets us know he's still active,
and it lets us know that bus stops and bus routes
are his hunting ground.
Amelie, Marsha, and Sarah all got off buses
right before they were attacked.
Maybe he sees them getting on and follows the bus.
COLIN: Quite possibly.
But what's certain is there will be more attacks
unless we can find something to bring him in on.
You keep bringing up Marsha.
Are we looking at her officially now?
Yes, we are.
As you worked on Marsha, I'd say you were best placed
to borrow the files and exhibits.
Borrow? Yes, Gov.
Okay. Clive, you fill us in on Sarah Knight, please.
Uh, DVLA records show Bellfield selling his Previa
right after she's run over.
You paid the proud new owner a visit?
Oh, yes.
Roger Fern, known associate of Bellfield's.
Says Levi told him to register the car under a false name
lest it attract our attention.
Did Levi say why?
No, and Fern was too shit scared to ask.
Now, as for the Previa itself, we seized it,
and it has blacked-out windows and a broken driver's mirror.
Exactly how Sarah described the car that hit her.
Forensics?
A day, maybe two.
Broken mirror is a good place to start.
GRACE: There's a couple of other hallmarks, too.
You've got a stain from a leaking petrol cap.
None of which is grounds to hold him on.
Blood or a DNA linked to Sarah Knight, on the other hand --
- Yeah. I'll lean on forensics. - Okay.
Whatever happens, an arrest is imminent,
and we have to be ready.
Chris, what have you got on Bellfield locally?
Lots. From a logistics point of view, he's a fucking nightmare.
Has he got friends in low places?
Closely associated with a suspected pedophile,
Deepak Naderi, his brother Gurav,
and an older bloke called Patrick Spalden
with form for child abuse going back 20 years.
It fits with him trying to pick up the girls.
So what do we reckon?
SAUNDERS: Strikes me Levi might lean on them
to look after his property for him.
Or make it disappear.
And given their history, they might well oblige.
Yeah. And we lose evidence we'll never recover.
When we nick Bellfield, I want to hit their houses
and their vehicles at the same time.
It's a lot of warrants.
Can you manage it, Chris?
[ Exhales deeply] Give me a couple of days.
Three at most.
All right. Thank you. That's all.
Right. Where's that pizza?
MAN: Rob's got it. Rob!
Andy.
Need a word.
- In your office. - Yeah.
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[ Indistinct conversations]
News of the World just called the press office.
Don't ask me how,
but they know we've got a suspect under surveillance,
and they know we're planning an arrest.
They're gonna run the story on Sunday,
so we have to pick Bellfield up before then.
Well, we -- we can't.
The warrants, the manpower, taking care of his associates.
We're not ready. Nowhere near.
Then we've got a problem.
[ Dramatic music plays]
[ Indistinct conversations]
[Bell chimes]
MURPHY: This is Bob Cox,
our deputy director of communications.
- Good to meet you, Bob. - Likewise, Colin.
- Chris. - Bob.
So, those shysters from the News of the World
are making a proper nuisance of themselves.
Yeah. They can't run it. Not this Sunday.
Yeah, I hear you, Colin. But --
No. There is no "but."
We're not ready to arrest him. They can't run it.
- Colin -- - Bellfield will disappear.
- He'll flee the country. - Let Bob finish.
Crete, Spain, Tenerife.
He's been in and out of the U.K. four times
in the last six months.
MURPHY: Enough.
[Siren wailing in distance]
Yeah. I deal with the tabloids every day.
So, sad to say, I'm immune to the shock
and indignation that you're now feeling.
Jaundiced, my wife calls it. [ Chuckles]
But I can tell you begging won't work.
Pleading won't work.
And neither will threats of contempt --
unless, of course, we can back them up.
Lawyers aren't promising much.
- Why not? - Well, for one thing,
the leak probably came from inside your team.
And for two, it's not an issue of national security.
Oh. Tell that to Amelie's parents.
There's no guarantee we can stop them, Colin.
But we can do a deal.
What?
We can do a deal.
Negotiate.
I already have a wee plan there.
When you nick Bellfield on a day of your choosing...
...take a journalist along for the ride.
Are you serious?
If they bite, they'll probably want a photographer, too.
You want is to take two untrained, unarmed people
to arrest a violent psychopath?
How do we move this forward, Bob?
Well, you call them up.
Colin?
Hello, Dave.
I, uh, hear you're looking at Marsha McDonnell's murder.
Yeah. That's right. Yeah.
We had a very strong suspect there.
Yeah, I know. But he never got charged.
He was sectioned before we got the chance.
Yeah.
We went over forensics with a toothcomb.
When that was a washout, we got a psychologist in --
I don't doubt that you were thorough, Dave.
Not for one moment.
And I don't doubt your bloke was in the neighborhood
the night Marsha got murdered.
But the link was only ever circumstantial, wasn't it?
I've got to go.
Okay.
Nicely done.
They went for it.
They're gonna run the story next week, after the arrest.
COLIN: Right.
They want a photographer and a reporter present.
Well, of course they do.
How many units does the News of the World shift?
About 4 million copies.
No pressure, then.
We're striking 10 locations simultaneously.
Go. Go. Go.
- Police! -[ Dog barking ]
Go left. I'll go right.
- Where's Levi, Laura? - I don't know.
- We must have missed him, Gov. - COLIN: It's a cul-de-sac.
How can they have missed him?
We're offering you a suspect who's not only a pedophile
but a killer and a rapist.
Suspected killer and rapist.
GRIFFITHS: Gov? Someone to see you.
I want to talk about Milly Dowler.