KEYS JINGLE, LOCK TURNS
# Sinner, you better get ready
Hallelujah
# Sinner, you better get ready
# The time is coming That the sinner must die
# Sinnerman, you'd better pray
# The time is coming That the sinner must die
# For it looks like Judgement Day
# The time is coming That the sinner must die... #
Jasper! What on earth have they done to you?
OMINOUS MUSIC
MUSIC: 'Professor T Main Titles' by Hannes De Maeyer
Mother, why are we in the therapy room?
It is singularly inappropriate.
I'm agoraphobic. Since when?
Since 20 minutes ago.
Have you see the flotsam that accumulates in places like this?
Yes. I am one of them. Mother, why are you here?
Oh, dear heart, I'm here because,
other than what I read in the newspaper,
I am completely in the dark.
My dear boy, don't you realise the damage you're doing
to your reputation? The university have passed
your students over to Professor Haiden.
Some of the dons are choosing to interpret your silence
as an admission of guilt.
There are moves afoot, Jasper, to cut you loose.
Are you protecting someone?
I've now had a full statement from Simon Lanesborough.
"When I arrived at the Police HQ,
"DCI Brand was waiting with a police-issue Glock 22,
"which she aimed at my face.
"She deliberately lured me to her office."
What deal is he asking for?
None of that is true.
RECORDING: 'I'm still at the office, working late.
'Why don't you come by when you've finished doing
'whatever you're doing?' RECORDING STOPS
You're saying you didn't lure him?
You're playing games.
RECORDING PLAYS 'Got a surprise for you.'
RECORDING STOPS I'm playing games?
I lured him to the office to arrest him.
GUN CLICKS Whoa! Whoa!
"Realising DCI Brand was about to shoot me,
"I turned to leave,
"only to be confronted by Professor Jasper Tempest
"aiming a shotgun at my head.
"I was caught in a pincer movement.
"It was obviously planned." You and Professor Tempest,
according to Simon Lanesborough, you were lovers.
DOOR CREAKS
HUBBUB
DOOR CLOSES
I am Reverend Hall.
I'm DI Donckers. This is DS Winters.
Hi. I'm the father of the...
..father of the groom. That's my son, Graydon,
and my wife Catherine on the sofa.
Your colleague, I believe, is by the pool.
And who's the young woman?
That's Rosemary. A friend of Graydon's.
Reverend, I'm sorry to... Ah, Virgil.
Look, I understand you have a job to do,
but I must ask for compassion... and discretion.
We will do our best to minimise intrusion.
Thank you.
INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
Make sure the pool room is completely out of bounds
until I tell you otherwise, yeah? Thanks.
Morning. Morning. Right.
The deceased was Greta Parkes. Greta Hall for a few hours.
25 years old. Her parents died in a car crash when she was 17.
No brothers or sisters.
The wedding ceremony reception was held in the hotel,
all paid for by Reverend Hall. He introduced himself.
Britain's top televangelist, apparently.
Mm. And this is where she drowned?
She could've drowned in the bath, dumped in the pool.
The postmortem will answer that. What I'm hearing is,
she went for a swim middle of the night,
new husband's fast asleep.
Initial findings, no obvious signs of a struggle.
According to the guests I spoke to,
Greta didn't drink, didn't take drugs.
She was found 6am by one of the hotel cleaners.
Mm. Are we treating it as murder?
Until we know otherwise, a suspicious death.
PILLS RATTLE
YELLING
BUZZING
Pass.
What? You want to go in,
show me your pass.
I'm not going in.
I have a parcel for Professor Jasper Tempest.
UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS
Right, I'll make sure that the prisoner gets it.
Perhaps I should've warned you,
before your infantile urges got the better of you.
One day you will wake up and wonder,
"Why is my life such a completely chaotic mess?"
And realise,
"That strange woman, "maybe this is her doing."
HEAVY BREATHING
PILLS RATTLE
GLASS THUDS
BIRDSONG
Wilfred, if there's one thing I abhor, it's nepotism.
Indeed. And you know I will not plead.
If it meant forfeiting my life,
I would never demean myself by pleading.
Well, forbearance is the hallmark of your creed.
Are you quoting? Of course not.
Well, why do I find myself in a situation
where I'm compelled to advise my oldest friend
that he has the power to ensure the wellbeing of my son?
Adelaide, I'm not sure what you're asking me to do.
Is it the appointments board that's got you in a frit?
No.
Well, then, you can ensure, as dean of the college,
Jasper's position is not under any threat.
But if the court rules against... Oh, yes,
that his tenure should hang on the whim of some capricious,
too-many-sherries-at-lunch judge?
Adelaide, I've already petitioned the appointments board.
I found myself in a minority of one.
Hines started asking about Jasper. Lanesborough
claims he aimed the gun at his head, pulled the trigger.
If he hadn't grabbed the barrel, he'd be dead.
No. His prints are all over the barrel.
Jasper doesn't need to know. There's no need to worry him.
He's about to get charged with attempted murder.
Hines is just trying to scare me into confessing.
That's not gonna happen.
What's he got to gain by charging Jasper?
A scalp.
KNOCKING
Come in.
Hello, Graydon, mate. Do you wanna take a seat?
Oh, sorry, those... those shouldn't be there.
Took ages getting it right.
My dad kept saying, "Not quite. One more."
Wanted that perfect picture.
How long is this gonna take?
I'm asking everyone the same question.
Would it be possible to access any phone footage you have
from yesterday? We'll make sure it's returned to you.
Yes, yes, of course.
RUSTLING
Just so you know, I've spoken to each of the families.
You can be sure of complete cooperation.
I was her bridesmaid.
Best friends since primary school.
I don't think it's any secret Greta had a troubled past.
She'd been expelled from one school.
It wasn't a big deal.
Greta joined our church about a year ago.
WOMAN: She'd lost her parents. Wanted answers.
She reached out, and by the grace of God,
turned her life around.
My father showed her the path to Jesus.
We lost touch for a while.
I was so pleased when I got the invitation.
Why does God let things like this happen?
I don't usually drink alcohol.
I must've fallen asleep. Something woke me up.
Greta wasn't there.
I heard a scream.
When I got closer, I realised it was a body.
People say I screamed, but I don't remember.
Mm. Look, I don't wanna throw any shade or anything,
but you need to be talking to Fabe.
He got caught stealing from the bride's room.
Fabian Scholes.
I terminated his contract.
SONG: 'Hard Times Come Again No More'
HE SIGHS
PILLS RATTLE
# Let us pause In last pleasure... #
HUBBUB
HE GAGS
INAUDIBLE
You keep moving.
WHEELS RATTLING
Hey!
INDISTINCT MUTTERING
And whose fault is that?
Get your hands off me! Get back in your box.
I welcomed you into my home!
MUSIC CONTINUES
# Though we seek mirth And beauty
# And music light and gay
# There are pale forms waiting By the door
# Though their voices Are silent... #
Oi, mastermind. CLAP
You've wangled another therapy session. Come on, up.
I'm gonna have a word with the governor
and put a stop to this. Go on.
At our previous meeting, you talked about the scaffolding
that you'd built around yourself.
Yes.
At some point, scaffolding comes down...
..to reveal the building underneath.
The scaffolding is not the building.
Those rules that you gave yourself,
the rules are not you, nor is your job.
I may be about to lose my professorship.
This self that we construct, it's one of the chains that,
you know, we bind ourselves with.
But when it's not who we really are,
it can be destructive.
I'll take it, put her through.
Dr Goldberg.
Er, yes, I was hoping to speak to DCI Brand.
'DCI Brand isn't here. I'm DI Rabbit.'
Right. Well, I'm calling on behalf of Professor Tempest.
How can I help?
If you could use his expertise,
an official request to the prison governor
would allow him some hours of respite from his incarceration,
and that...
Er, yeah, I don't think that's...
To feel useful would make
a massive difference to his state of mind, you see.
The case we're working on is an accidental death.
Right, OK. Sure.
'Well, thank you for hearing me out.'
Until yesterday,
you worked as a cleaner at the Fen Ditton Manor Hotel.
No comment.
Oh, if something is an established fact,
you don't have to say "no comment".
No comment.
You were caught stealing from the room of Greta Parkes,
as a result of which you were fired.
No comment. That was before the wedding,
but earlier this morning, around 5am,
you were seen back at the hotel. Why?
I wasn't. Who saw me?
How did you feel about being fired?
Felt great. Top of the world.
Did you go back looking for revenge?
No comment.
We have evidence that you were there when Greta Parkes died.
Guess what...
no comment.
# But you look sweet
# Upon the seat
BOTH: # Of a bicycle Made for two... #
KNOCK ON DOOR
CLICK
Come in.
I have a confession to make.
OK.
After you interviewed me, you called in Rosemary.
Er, Rosemary Parrish.
I didn't come forward earlier because I was ashamed.
Of what?
I was listening outside. SHARP INHALE
Why?
I knew she'd lie.
And did she?
She said she was invited.
But she wasn't?
Of course she wasn't. She's Graydon's ex.
They didn't want her there, but she's, like, maleficent.
She turned up, anyway.
Dan, I'm just putting you on speaker.
Apparently, Rosemary wasn't just a friend of Graydon's.
She was his ex. She turned up uninvited.
'You bringing her over?'
I thought I'd talk to Graydon first, see if he confirms it.
Dan, the techies have unlocked Greta Parkes's phone.
I'm biking it over.
OK.
'Search-trained officers have been through Fabian's flat.'
Found a bag of clothes, expensive stuff.
Nametags matching some of the wedding guests.
Also, a lock'n'lock with enough coke for an intent to supply.
'You think he killed Greta Parkes?'
He was there. He had a grudge.
How long can we hold the guests for?
'Good question.
'We've got two suspects and we're up against the clock.
'I'm bringing in the professor.'
How?
You ever seen The Great Escape?
So, Graydon.
Rosemary Parrish...
..she wasn't invited.
That was an oversight. She was more than welcome.
How long were you with Rosemary before you met Greta?
We were friends at secondary school.
She was part of the church.
And then Greta came along?
Turned your head?
How did Rosemary take it?
When we split up,
I let a respectable amount of time pass
before I asked Greta out.
How long's a respectable amount?
I know this might sound ridiculous to you...
..but young people who don't have sex before marriage...
..our beliefs...
HE SIGHS
My faith will get me through this.
Were you unfaithful to Rosemary?
TENSE MUSIC PLAYS
Of course not.
And did she believe you?
Without absolute honesty,
the cardinal virtues are meaningless.
DISTANT SIRENS WAIL
165 grams.
Personal use. 150 is intent to supply.
You're looking at seven years.
Dream on. Everybody does coke.
The judge has probably had a toot before he puts his wig on.
I'm getting a suspended, and you know it.
You wanna take that chance?
You need a leg up on the swimming pool thing.
I'm willing to negotiate.
Drop the theft and the coke charges,
or I'm back in "no comment" land.
PHONE ALERT
SHE EXHALES
For the benefit of the tape,
there'll be no further action on these charges.
OK. Yeah... I went back to the hotel.
'I went back to pick up a bag of clothes I'd stashed.'
When I walked past the pool, I saw this bird lying there,
face-down. Anyone else around?
I heard footsteps. Somebody running.
I heard a door slam.
You get a look at this person?
Sort of. Not really.
Male, female? Hard to say.
So, what did you do?
'I'm hoisting a bag of contraband,
'what do you think I did?
'I'm not gonna hang around, am I?'
You could've saved her.
Why didn't you raise the alarm?
You could've saved that young woman's life.
Maybe I could, maybe I couldn't.
But none of it matters. We made a deal.
I'll honour your deal.
Forget the drugs, forget the theft.
You just admitted to gross negligence manslaughter.
Carries a maximum sentence of life, and I will do everything
I can to make sure that is exactly what you get.
Wait, no, how was I supposed to know I could've saved her?
No comment.
threatening to expose her, threatening to kill her.
Why would she keep those?
Because she was scared? I mean, you call her...
..a slut...
a nasty, two-faced liar, a whore.
I mean, what exactly were you threatening
to expose Greta with?
That wasn't me.
Somebody took your phone?
No. It's not who I am now.
When Graydon left me, I...
..had a breakdown.
All right, you threatened to expose Greta.
I thought, because of her past, there might be something.
And was there?
No.
BUZZER SOUNDS
MUSIC PLAYS
In.
# I've been waiting so long To be free. #
DOOR CLOSES
Move.
Open.
BUZZER SOUNDS
In.
The prisoner has been granted a four-hour pass.
You get him back late, I'll have him in solitary.
Does he have to wear that? Your clock's ticking.
These are pretty serious threats.
But do you think she's capable of carrying them out?
I mean, we don't even know if a murder's been committed.
Dan, you look awful.
Thanks.
Here, look at this. It's Greta's searches.
Hymenoplasty.
It's basically where they... I know what it is.
So much for no sex before marriage.
Did you check with the pathologist?
She didn't get it done.
So, Graydon finds out she's not a virgin.
Un-intact hymen doesn't mean she's not a virgin.
I mean, do you think Graydon'd see it like that?
He waited, she didn't. All this talk of honesty,
all the time, she'd been lying to him.
MUSIC: 'God's Gonna Cut You Down' by Shelby Lynne
# Ooh... #
BEEPING
Two suspects. Fabian Scholes, cleaner.
Sacked by the hotel for stealing from the bride's room.
Returned early to the hotel the next morning.
Saw Greta face-down in the pool. Denies murder.
Rosemary Parrish, the groom's ex...
sent death threats to the bride, turned up uninvited.
'It's like starring in my own movie.'
# Gonna tell that Long-tongue liar
# Gonna tell the midnight rider
# Yeah, the rambler The gambler, the back biter
# Tell 'em God's Gonna cut 'em down
# Tell 'em God's Gonna cut 'em down... #
EERIE MUSIC PLAYS
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... #
Message from Dan. He's contacting us from the 19th century.
Reckons the bride's lack of chastity
puts the groom in the frame.
I'll take you to the incident room.
I need to see where she drowned.
OK.
CCTV cameras don't work.
LISA: Maybe the killer knew that.
DAN: If there is a killer.
May I?
OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS
Ah. What? What are you thinking?
LISA GASPS Dan!
DAN GRUNTS
HE GROANS
Show me!
HE PANTS Why are you at work?
I'm all right, I'm all right. I just...
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And finally, my biggest thanks go to Graydon,
the love of my life. I vow from this day on
to apply the teachings of the church.
APPLAUSE
Thank you. And this one, please.
What is it we're looking for?
A murder does not exist in isolation.
Fissures appear, both after and before the crime.
These fissures, if you locate them and follow them,
may lead you to the killer.
# Daisy, Daisy
# Give me your answer, do
# I'm half crazy... #
Do we have this from another angle?
# All for the love of you... #
SOFT MUSIC PLAYS
Jasper Hieronymus Tempest,
do you take Christina Annafrid Agnetha Brand
to be your lawfully wedded wife?
# Daisy, Daisy Give me your answer, do
# I'm half crazy All for the love of you
# It won't be A stylish marriage
# For I can't afford a carriage
# But we'll look sweet
# Upon the seat Of a bicycle made for two. #
No! No!
It's what you asked for.
When I said no, I meant, erm...
You meant yes? I meant yes.
# Daisy, give me your answer Do... #
Mute it, please.
SINGING STOPS Let us preserve our sanity.
INAUDIBLE
You've found a fissure?
Who discovered the body?
I must've screamed pretty loud,
cos the manager came running out and dived right in.
And Dele, the doorman.
They were dragging her to the side.
What happened next?
The groom came running out. Clive was there, he's a cleaner.
The reverend jumped in, too.
They pulled her out.
Thank you.
You've got 45 minutes. I need to see the body.
Are you sure that's the best use of your time?
I'll know that when I've seen it.
SOFT MUSIC PLAYS
WHEELS RATTLING
Er, keep her covered... except for the lower extremity.
You see these marks?
Mm-hm.
You are familiar with the use of NPs and quantum dots
to develop latent fingerprints?
Of course. We can try.
Thank you.
PEN CLICKS
We can cast all doubt aside.
Greta Parkes was murdered.
He was bigamously married to three women. He killed them.
Yes, that rings a bell.
All three. And, typical of psychopaths,
lacking the most basic of imaginations,
in all cases, he used the same technique.
He waited until his victims were luxuriating in a bath,
and then pulled them up by the ankles.
The case was solved by...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury.
It is considered to be
the beginning of modern forensics.
PHONE ALERT It's the pathologist.
Traces of fingerprints were found on Greta's ankles.
But it's too blurred for a match.
I brought the car round.
We've got ten minutes to get you back.
Greta was murdered. By who?
Without time to complete a psychological profile,
I cannot possibly say.
We need to go.
Reinterview the people closest to the victim.
Ask them "why" questions. Easier for a perjurer
to say what they did than why they did it.
Professor... Utilitarian ethics may be in play.
This will make the killer seem plausible.
They believe they did nothing wrong.
HE EXHALES DEEPLY
Two minutes to spare.
Detective Inspector Rabbit, ever since you picked me up
you have barely looked me in the eye.
What are you concealing?
DCI Brand didn't wanna worry you.
And you are torn?
Hines's inquiry has swung from Christina to you.
Lanesborough said you tried to shoot him.
His quick reactions saved his life.
DCI Brand does not need to worry.
Professor...
..shooting up DCI Brand's office,
you were looking at a suspended and a fine,
and you'd be out of here soon.
We both know attempted murder
carries a maximum sentence of life.
SOFT MUSIC PLAYS
SEAT BELT CLICKS
HE EXHALES
DISTANT SIRENS WAIL
Have you visited Jasper yet?
I saw him this morning.
He's been beaten up, he's emaciated.
His nerves are shredded. How can you let this happen?
His refusal to speak up in his own defence
seems to be motivated by some fathomless infatuation with you.
Did he say...?
Oh, he doesn't have to say it.
If you had the merest bat squeak of compassion...
you'd put an end to this charade.
Dear God, woman!
SOFT MUSIC PLAYS
Aw...
Reverend, looking at your statement, you didn't mention
you jumped into the pool. No. Of course I jumped in.
Why? Well, to save Greta.
By the time you got there, your son and two members
of hotel staff were already in the pool.
Yes. Yes, there were.
So why did you jump in?
Well, looking back at it now, it... was an act of panic.
Faced with death, none of us knows how we'll respond.
You can let everyone know they can get ready to leave.
If you could ask Graydon to come in.
Of course.
DOOR OPENS
This won't take long.
Graydon, can you tell me why Greta
went for a swim on her wedding night?
I've answered that.
I've answered everything. Why are you doing this?
Well, didn't she have anything better to do?
This is ridiculous.
Do you know what hymenoplasty is?
I can guess. Why would Greta be researching that online?
Did you discover she wasn't a virgin?
It was against your religion.
All this time you'd been together,
she'd been lying to you.
But I didn't know. Why?
Why didn't you know?
Because we didn't make love.
She wouldn't.
Why not?
GRAYDON EXHALES DEEPLY
She said...
..she said she had something she had to go and do.
What, go for a swim?
She won't have sex and you've guessed why.
You must have been furious.
You really have no decency, do you?
Furious enough to hold her underwater until she drowned?
CHAIR SCRAPES
DOOR CLOSES
We've got nothing. HE GRUNTS
Under pressure... narcissists dissociate.
They do not lie, they simply create an alternate reality.
However, under this scenario...
..the killer may incriminate themselves.
We need to go.
Give it a go? Mm-hm.
ALARM BLARES
People, I'm sorry. Can I have your attention?
Er, I'm very sorry, this is not a drill.
I must ask you to leave your bags
and wait in the designated area outside.
Copy that. Come on, let's go.
PROFESSOR T: I would suggest
that you need to create a vacuum,
which will serve to bring the killer out into the open,
as they try to cover their tracks
and eradicate the evidence.
ALARM CONTINUES
INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
WOMAN: Copy that.
Let's go.
SPLASH
REVEREND HALL SPITTING
WATER DRIPPING
What have you got in your hand?
CHAIN JINGLES
'I wanted to spare my son
'the pain of seeing Greta's ankle chain.'
It had got trapped in the filter.
You think that was likely,
and you were in the process of checking it out?
He wanted to go back for one last look.
Have you any idea how ridiculous you sound?
HUBBUB
Virgil. Thank you so much for today.
My pleasure.
LISA: We found fingerprints on Greta's ankles.
'We know how she was killed.'
HE GROANS SOFTLY
I'm telling Graydon the truth.
You can't change my mind.
Then why are we here?
I wanted to give you time.
Work out what you're going to say.
WATER SLOSHES
May God forgive you.
WATER SLOSHES
GRUNTING
MUFFLED SCREAMING
HE GRUNTS
MUFFLED SCREAMING
HE GRUNTS
HE PANTS
SPLASH
SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS
DISTANT THUD
LISA: Virgil Hall,
you are under arrest for the murder of Greta Parkes.
You do not have to say anything...
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, I've got plenty to say. Don't... touch me!
You think I wanted to kill her?
You think I had any choice? Good God.
When you've carried the faith of thousands,
then you can judge. I could not allow the faith
of those good people to be destroyed.
By your affair with Greta?
Affair? One... one encounter.
She tempted me.
Oh, yes. She threw my teachings back in my face.
She wanted to be honest. If she'd told Graydon,
everything I'd worked for would've been razed to the ground.
She followed what you preached.
She wanted to be honest with her new husband,
and you killed her for it.
To protect my family, my wife, my congregation.
'You'll never convince me that I did wrong.'
What I did caused pain, of course it did,
but was it wrong?
No.
I did not have enough evidence to risk sending you
in a direction that might prove to be erroneous.
What made you go to the path lab?
Comparing the wedding photographs with the autopsy images,
I knew the object I'd seen in the filter
was the bride's ankle chain.
When did you suspect the reverend?
The bride and groom were singing.
All the guests looked from one to the other, except one.
'Virgil Hall studied Greta.'
He was trying to figure out what she was gonna do.
'The first fissure was his dive into the pool.'
To erase the evidence. A flaw in his perfect picture.
SOFT MUSIC PLAYS
'I have to go.' OK.
PHONE HANGS UP
DOOR CREAKS
'Letting go of that constructed self is never
'less than extremely difficult.
'Behind the mask is... often, unbearable pain.'
The true self was not sufficient to secure the mother's love.
This is less than illuminating.
The boy who does well at school, wins prizes, never lies,
never gets into trouble,
that boy is validated by the mother's love...
validated by society.
So the idealised self is adopted.
The authentic self is rejected.
I-I fail to see what you hope to achieve with this approach.
You talked about the constructed self buckling.
Jasper, when you can admit that the idealised self
is not the authentic one,
that creates an opportunity for change.
Which self is making the sacrifice?
You are straying dangerously close
to offering advice...
..advice about a situation you know little about.
DOOR CLOSES
HE SIGHS Jasper Tempest...
..you're charged with the attempted murder
of one Simon Lanesborough.
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.
Do you have anything to say?
No.
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