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CASSETTE PLAYER BEEPS

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When we talked before, I only should
you one photograph, didn't I?

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This photograph.

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No comment.

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You can't see Rachel's injuries.

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Can you?

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No comment.

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INTERVIEWER SIGHS

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So, how did you
get knowledge of Rachel's injuries?

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No comment.

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How did you know that
her hands were in that...

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..particular position?

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No comment.

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How could you know that unless you'd
been there and seen Rachel?

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No comment.

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You couldn't possibly know these
details, could you, Colin?

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No comment.

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Do you know a woman
called Lizzie James?

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No comment.

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You do know Lizzie James,
don't you, Colin?

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DOOR CLICKS OPEN

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Do you remember
the first time we met...

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..and you handed me
an envelope?

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And in that letter,

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you enclosed a fantasy
where you talked about knives.

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Do you remember that?

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SHAKILY: No comment.

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♪ She stepped away from me

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♪ And she moved through the fair

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♪ And fondly I watched her

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♪ Move here and move there

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♪ And she went her way homeward

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♪ With one star awake

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♪ As the swans in the evening

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♪ Move over the lake. ♪

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"A man goes over to you and produces
some string and a knife."

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You wrote that, didn't you?

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Cos up until this point,

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I have never mentioned
a fantasy...with a knife.

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♪ The people were singing

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♪ And she moved through the fair

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♪ And fondly I watched her

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♪ Move here and move there

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There are similarities between
what you wrote in that fantasy

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and what happened to Rachel,
aren't there?

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No comment.

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WHISPERS: Did you stab her?

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Did you kill Rachel?

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HE SNIFFS

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You told me that the
police had shown you

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a photograph
of Rachel Nickell's body

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at the time when she was murdered.
Do you remember that?

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And you, in fact,
lay in the position,

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you lay down like a baby.

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Like this, wasn't it?
You were, erm...

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..curled,
and you had your hands like this.

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And you told me that she had her
head tilted slightly back like this.

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Do you remember that?

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No comment.

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Is there anything that you want to
say to me, Colin? Anything at all?

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Leave it.

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SHOUTS: Leave it!

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Not ill.

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No.

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Not frightened, me.

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SHOUTS: Do it!

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OK.

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OK.

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OK.

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Colin Francis Stagg,
you are charged that,

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on July 15th, 1992,
on Wimbledon Common,

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you murdered Richard Nickell.

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WHISPERS: Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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SHE EXHALES HEAVILY

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CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

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CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

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INDISTINCT JEERING

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Nonce!

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THEY RATTLE BARS

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WHISTLING

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INTERNAL VOICE ECHOES: You're
smiling at me, willing me to do it.

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And you got the cup,
and I filled it with her blood,

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and we drank it.

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I took the knife in my hand.
MAN: There she is.

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And then I slit her throat.
Lizzie James.

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I can still hear...

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..asking me to tell you all my
secrets.

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I am placing
all my trust in you.

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SHE SIGHS

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SHE INHALES SHARPLY

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WHISPERS: Go away.

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Hmm, OK, yeah, tomorrow.

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Cheers for getting him here in one
piece, Keith.

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Er, Mickey Banks.

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It's a pleasure to meet you,
Mr Banks. Likewise.

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We really need your expertise.

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I'll stick around
if there's no objections.

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It'd be fascinating to watch him
process the case.

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Professor...

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She looks very similar to
Rachel Nickell, doesn't she, sir?

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But we're not getting
the press that you got.

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Only the negative sort.

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Single mum, council flat,

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wrong side of the tracks.

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But that doesn't sell papers,
does it?

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No.

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I guess not.

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It's weird.

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I, uh...

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..I keep seeing him.

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Stagg.

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I don't know, it's like I can't...

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..close the door on him.

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Look...

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Look, they've asked a lot of you.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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And they're going to want more.

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This...

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..this trial's going to be huge.

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You're going to need to face Stagg
again.

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Maybe that's why you can't get
him out of your head.

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It's perfectly normal.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Mm.

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SHE SIGHS DEEPLY

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So, what was it like?

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Have you ever seen the photo

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of the Jack The Ripper victim,
Mary Jane Kelly?

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Yeah.

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There's nothing that links the,
um...

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..the killer with Rachel's murder?

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Nothing.

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Are you certain?

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Entirely different locations.

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One outdoors, one inside.

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Entirely different injuries.

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Rachel was stabbed,
whereas Samantha was...

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..Samantha was eviscerated.

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Mutilated.

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What about the children?

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I mean, that's...

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..that's fairly unusual.

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Rachel Nickell's killer chose to
spare her child...

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..whereas Samantha Bisset's
killer...

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..did not.

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Jazmine was sexually assaulted.

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In my mind, that's the single
biggest difference

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between the two crimes.

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The demons driving Rachel Nickell's
killer, and Samantha Bisset's...

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..are entirely different.

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TV: First case this month is
shocking and distressing.

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It's a double-murder.

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Samantha Bisset and
her daughter, Jazmine,

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lived in Plumstead in South London.

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Samantha probably died
from a single knife wound.

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After death, her body was then
moved and systematically cut.

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There was no evidence
of robbery or rape.

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Jazmine had been suffocated
in her bed.

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The police, working with a
clinical psychologist,

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fear that the man who did it
might have killed before

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and might do it again.

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Well, to give you some idea,

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we're also able to tell you,
for the first time tonight,

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something of the background,
the profile of this man.

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He's thought to be over 25. He's
likely to have used contact ads.

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Maybe you've met him through one.

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He would have been unlikely
to sustain stable relationships

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and indeed probably has
been violent to women,

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but on the surface, he'll
probably appear quite normal.

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He's likely to have a normal job.

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He is, though, likely to reoffend.

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Paul Britton's a clinical
psychologist.

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H...how much are you...

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You've studied this
man in some detail,

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as much as you can, how much
do you think you know him?

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BRITTON: I think we know quite well
what was going through his mind

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at the time of the offence.

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But I would like him to tell me how
he got started on the path...

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SHE TURNS OFF TV

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SHE MUTTERS
"..mean the world to me..."

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VOICE ECHOES: Is that story awful?

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About slitting the woman's throat?

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Yeah.

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"I hope you're not offended by..."

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Thing is, I mean...

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..you don't want that now, do you?
"I've written this story..."

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VOICE OVERLAP: "I'm not a
Satanist..." No. No.

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I have my own beliefs.

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It doesn't involve human sacrifices.

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"..what I feel you are into.

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"Or a weirdo, as people believe I
am.

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"I felt I am a very...

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""Have I got it right now, Lizzie?

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I love you.

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DISTORTED OVERLAPPING VOICES

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BUSY CHATTER

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STAGG EXCLAIMS

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That's for Rachel.

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STAGG SCREAMS

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Fucking scumbag.

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HE SCREAMS

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HE PANTS

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"I don't owe in evidence..."

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DOOR OPENS

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Few more things to sign.

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Fun and games.

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Did you see Crimewatch last night?

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Terrible.

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The professor's profile
of the Bisset killer

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is very similar to Rachel's killer.

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Well...
HE SIGHS

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..seeing as Stagg was locked up
in Wanno at the time,

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I think we can safely say
he wasn't responsible.

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SHE CHUCKLES WEAKLY

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That's not what I meant.

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It's quite unusual, isn't it?

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A man that targets women
when they're with their kids.

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I asked the same question.
The professor was very clear.

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The demons driving the killers
of Samantha and Rachel

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are entirely different.

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But the kids.

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Alex was spared.

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Jazmine wasn't.

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Britton called that the single
biggest different. No, no, no,

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he spared the boy
and he killed the girl.

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Don't you think the FBI profilers

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might have something to say
about that?

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They didn't see the knives
in Stagg's flat.

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They didn't speak to the witnesses

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who put him on the Common
at the time of the murder.

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How did Stagg know the position
of Rachel's hands?

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Or that her head was back?

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We have the right man, Sadie.

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And when the jury hear evidence
in a few weeks' time...

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..they'll be convinced of it, too.

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Ricky?

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Those prints you had
rechecked at Samantha's flat.

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There is a match.

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Plumstead have him on record.

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His name came up in connection
with a series of rapes.

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Really nasty.

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Robert Clive Napper.

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DRAMATIC MUSIC

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CHILDREN LAUGHING

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GIRL: Are you not going home?

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DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES

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CRASH

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Police! Stay where you are!

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Colin, you understand that
it's my job to prepare a report

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for the court on your mental state?

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Yeah.

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I may need to ask you very
personal questions.

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I've got nothing to hide.

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Have you ever had any treatment
or therapy of any kind

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for depression?

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Or any other mental health issue?

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No.

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The therapy referred to other areas.

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We used to have a father.

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Now we're finding ourselves
in another area with problems.

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The government repeated
certain years, which...

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..held him back in school.

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And how would you say you've been
coping these past months?

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I've been a bit down.

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Lonely and that.

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00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:51,760
But I'm not mental.

269
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,800
The spirits...

270
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,880
..are attracted to the steroids
they put in solutions like Optrex.

271
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,400
It is possible...

272
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,280
..the haunted potentials have
controlled him in the past, but...

273
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,200
..the Official Secrets Act means
he can't talk about that.

274
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,440
I miss my dog.

275
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,280
He's getting on and he's not well,
you know?

276
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,120
What if I never see him again?

277
00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,360
Fuckin' did it, girl.

278
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,720
Stagg in the docks.

279
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,680
You know what? Stagg in jail.

280
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,160
No, fuck it. Stagg getting life.

281
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,000
MUSIC: Animal Nitrate
by Suede

282
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,120
Once the trial's over
it'll be easier to move on.

283
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,840
You can put Lizzie James
behind you for good.

284
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,880
See for just one night, can
you...just talk about anything else?

285
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,080
Please.

286
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,760
GRIM LAUGH

287
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,240
SHE SOBS

288
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,440
Relax. Breathe.

289
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,280
SHE GASPS

290
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,560
It's OK. No, it's not OK.

291
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,520
It's fucking not OK. It's not OK.

292
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,040
You know, he used to look at me
like I was his whole world

293
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,840
and I used to think
he was this fucking monster.

294
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:06,920
But what if he wasn't?

295
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,640
PRESS CLAMOUR

296
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,360
Excuse me!

297
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,600
CAMERA SHUTTER CLICK

298
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,640
SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

299
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,440
CAR HORN BEEPS

300
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,680
CAR HORN BEEPS

301
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,840
CAR HORN BEEPS

302
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,640
My Lord, it is the defence's case
that the police operation

303
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,960
was a sophisticated sting

304
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,160
with the sole purpose of tricking a
confession out of Colin Stagg.

305
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,960
To take advantage of a lonely
and vulnerable young man's

306
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,720
desperate desire to form
a relationship with a woman.

307
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,360
Lizzie James called the shots.

308
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,480
Effectively telling Colin
what she wanted him to write

309
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,240
in his fantasy letters.

310
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,080
She portrayed herself
as sexually experienced,

311
00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:25,000
ready and willing,

312
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,320
knowing full well that Mr Stagg was
desperate to lose his virginity.

313
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,560
He was encouraged,
blackmailed and bribed

314
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,040
into incriminating himself to fit
Professor Britton's profile

315
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,520
of Rachel Nickell's killer.

316
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,280
DRAMATIC MUSIC

317
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,800
CROWD CLAMOUR

318
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,200
CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK

319
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,520
Of course, there is
Mr Stagg's detailed description

320
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,840
of how Rachel's body was lying.

321
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,120
It could not possibly have
been derived

322
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,640
from the only photograph shown
to him by the police.

323
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:24,160
In particular, he illustrated how
her hands were positioned -

324
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,000
palm to palm.

325
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,360
Such a detail could only
have been known by the assailant.

326
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,480
And this pointed to a confession.

327
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,920
My Lord, Lizzie James
sent Colin a letter

328
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:46,520
containing the most
hardcore pornography imaginable.

329
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,400
It is frankly a disgrace.

330
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,360
It's...it's the
most extraordinary document

331
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,880
for a serving police officer
to be sending a suspect.

332
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,440
She subjected Stagg to quite
deliberate manipulation,

333
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,880
designed to get him
to incriminate himself.

334
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,120
And this material
amounts to trickery

335
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,600
and in the interest of fair play

336
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,560
should never be put before a jury.

337
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,080
Months of work
and they take a snippet from here,

338
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,040
an inference from there and they
quote it out of fucking context.

339
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:21,840
There's been a development.

340
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:24,560
What?

341
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,520
Justice Ognall
isn't swearing in the jury

342
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,480
until he makes a judgment
on whether or not

343
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,000
your evidence is admissible.

344
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,560
My evidence?

345
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,840
So this is all on me now?

346
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,200
HE TUTS

347
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,760
You're our star witness, Sadie.

348
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:57,880
Go home.

349
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,480
The ruling won't be till Wednesday.

350
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,360
LIGHTER CLICKS

351
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,400
DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

352
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,560
Hi, Mum.

353
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,360
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry
I didn't get home for your birthday.

354
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,600
You had a good day? Good. Good.

355
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,680
You got my card?

356
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:27,920
Good.

357
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,560
Yeah, no. Work's going good.
Yeah. They're...

358
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:35,760
..all really pleased with me here.

359
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,360
No, I can't. I can't talk about it.
You know I can't.

360
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,040
I wish I could.

361
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,240
Yeah, of course I'm happy.

362
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,360
Why wouldn't I be? Yeah.

363
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,640
I wouldn't do the job if I wasn't.

364
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,120
Mum, I'm fine. I'm always fine.

365
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,640
It's just...

366
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,840
It's just been a really long year.

367
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,040
Mum, actually,
there's someone at the door here,

368
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,760
so can I...
Can I call you another time?

369
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,800
Yes. No. I promise I will this time.

370
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,920
OK.

371
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:44,480
Yep. Please do. Tell Dad I miss him.

372
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,200
OK.

373
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,560
MELANCHOLY MUSIC

374
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,040
Mum...

375
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:58,760
I love you.

376
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,320
SHE SOBS

377
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:27,840
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

378
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,360
ECHOING: Nothing like this has ever
really happened to me before,

379
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,560
you know?

380
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,760
No-one's ever really shown
an interest.

381
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,200
And how these fantasies,
you're the man who did it.

382
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:45,800
I love you.

383
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,240
The things in my letters, that's me.

384
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,520
I could have said that I done it
just to please you.

385
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,840
I'm not going to lose you,
am I, Lizzie?

386
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,000
Yeah, but I want more than just
fucking fantasies, Colin.

387
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,520
I want to go there.

388
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,400
It's not me, is it?

389
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,320
It's not me.

390
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,160
SHE WAILS

391
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,680
All rise.

392
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,400
Before I embark on this ruling,
I wish it to be clearly understood

393
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,520
that, until its conclusion,
nobody is to leave the court.

394
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,080
A careful appraisal of the material

395
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:19,440
demonstrates a skilful
and sustained enterprise

396
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,880
to manipulate the accused...

397
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,840
..sometimes subtly,
sometimes blatantly,

398
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,040
and designed by deception to
manoeuvre and seduce him

399
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,320
to reveal fantasies
of an incriminating nature...

400
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,840
..and to wholly unsuccessfully
admit the offence.

401
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,760
I would be the first to
acknowledge the great pressure

402
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,120
on officers in pursuit of
this grave enquiry.

403
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,320
But I'm afraid that this behaviour
betrays not merely

404
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,720
an excess of zeal but a substantial
attempt to incriminate

405
00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,040
a suspect by positive and deceptive
conduct of the grossest kind.

406
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:07,800
During the second police interview
with Mr Stagg,

407
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,320
Lizzie James re-enacted a
demonstration given by the accused

408
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,760
indicating that the victim's hands
were as if in prayer -

409
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,200
palm to palm.

410
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,680
But, as soon as one examines
photograph KP15,

411
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:25,800
a discrepancy emerges.

412
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,280
The hands of the victim are not
palm to palm at all.

413
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,520
The arms are, in fact,
crossed at the wrist

414
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,120
so that the hands barely touch.

415
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,600
This is not a minor difference

416
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:43,480
but a discrepancy which completely
undermines the whole thesis,

417
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:49,040
and I am not satisfied that this one
very small piece of evidence

418
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,120
amounts to incriminating material
of the character of a confession.

419
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:59,280
I believe the police entrapped
Colin Stagg in a honey trap,

420
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,720
using deceptive conduct
of the grossest kind.

421
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Therefore, I uphold the defence
submissions

422
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,400
that the Lizzie James material
will not go before a jury.

423
00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:14,360
As the Crown offers no more
evidence against the defendant,

424
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,280
and the defendant has
pleaded not guilty,

425
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,640
a verdict of not guilty
will be entered,

426
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,080
under Section 17 of the
Criminal Justice Act, 1967.

427
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,040
Colin Stagg,

428
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,920
you are free to go.

429
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,080
INDISTINCT WHISPERING

430
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,880
REPORTER: Yesterday's hearing was
widely anticipated to lead to

431
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,200
the trial of the decade, but after
his sensational acquittal,

432
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:12,520
Colin Stagg made a defiant
statement to the waiting press.

433
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,960
My life has been ruined by a mixture
of half-baked psychological

434
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,720
theories and some stories written
to satisfy the strange sexual

435
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,720
requests of an undercover
police officer.

436
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,720
The judge recognised that there
was never any evidence against me.

437
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,120
I now intend to take
proceedings against the police

438
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,160
and the psychologist Mr Paul Britton
for the anguish

439
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,200
and indescribable distress that I
have suffered

440
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:42,480
during the last 19 months in prison.

441
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,200
No, please don't turn
it off on my account, Da Costa.

442
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:48,400
You know, you've never done
anything nice for me before,

443
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,960
so if you start now,
I'll know I'm totally fucked.

444
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:08,680
Is it true?

445
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,720
What the judge said.

446
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,600
Sade.

447
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,080
Sadie.

448
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,600
DCI's waiting for you.

449
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,920
Better not keep him waiting.

450
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,320
Sadie...

451
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,160
You know what? I followed orders,
I did what I was asked to do,

452
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,760
and every one of them
up at the Yard signed off on it.

453
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,880
What aren't you telling me, mate?

454
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,640
You know, whatever mistake
that I have made,

455
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,080
I'm not afraid to face it.

456
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,480
But I'm not the only one
who has to answer for this.

457
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,960
They want to see me
at the Yard first thing.

458
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,400
Hey...

459
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,640
Are you all right?

460
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,760
Palm to palm, wrist to wrist.

461
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,200
What's the difference?

462
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,880
And he's out there,
free to kill again.

463
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,680
DOOR KNOCKS

464
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,280
Wicker, top brass are here.

465
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,840
What?

466
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,880
They'll be after our case files.

467
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:06,800
They get hold of this,
they'll erase the name

468
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,880
of every senior officer who
signed off on the Lizzie op.

469
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,360
We go down, they go down with us.

470
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:23,080
Case files are on the desk.

471
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,240
PHONE RINGS

472
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,960
TV: Into next week, then, the winds
are set to swing south-westerly,

473
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,040
drawing in slightly milder air,

474
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,960
then fog and low cloud on
southwestern coasts,

475
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,800
causing visibility issues.

476
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:27,400
TV: A man with a history of violent
attacks on women has today

477
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,160
pleaded guilty to killing
Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common

478
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,280
16 years ago.

479
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,120
The murder of a young mother
in broad daylight

480
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,800
caused public outrage.

481
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,040
Schizophrenic Robert Napper was
convicted of manslaughter

482
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,640
on the grounds of diminished
responsibility,

483
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,920
bringing to a close the enquiry
into one of the most notorious

484
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,440
killings in modern British
criminal history.

485
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,880
42-year-old Napper
is already detained

486
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,880
at Broadmoor Special Hospital after
his conviction for the murders

487
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,280
of Samantha Bisset and her
four-year-old daughter, Jazmine.

488
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,880
SHE INHALES SHARPLY

489
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,480
..a nice, long walk, aren't we? Eh?

490
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,160
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