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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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00:23:43,923 --> 00:23:45,123
I've been a bit down.

267
00:23:47,643 --> 00:23:48,883
Lonely and that.

268
00:23:50,523 --> 00:23:51,803
But I'm not mental.

269
00:24:02,363 --> 00:24:03,843
The spirits...

270
00:24:08,923 --> 00:24:12,923
..are attracted to the steroids
they put in solutions like Optrex.

271
00:24:15,763 --> 00:24:17,443
It is possible...

272
00:24:17,483 --> 00:24:21,323
..the haunted potentials have
controlled him in the past, but...

273
00:24:26,083 --> 00:24:29,243
..the Official Secrets Act means
he can't talk about that.

274
00:24:33,003 --> 00:24:34,483
I miss my dog.

275
00:24:37,003 --> 00:24:39,323
He's getting on and he's not well,
you know?

276
00:24:47,483 --> 00:24:49,163
What if I never see him again?

277
00:24:53,403 --> 00:24:55,403
Fuckin' did it, girl.

278
00:24:57,523 --> 00:24:58,763
Stagg in the docks.

279
00:25:01,883 --> 00:25:04,723
You know what? Stagg in jail.

280
00:25:07,563 --> 00:25:10,203
No, fuck it. Stagg getting life.

281
00:25:12,723 --> 00:25:16,043
MUSIC: Animal Nitrate
by Suede

282
00:25:19,123 --> 00:25:22,163
Once the trial's over
it'll be easier to move on.

283
00:25:22,203 --> 00:25:24,883
You can put Lizzie James
behind you for good.

284
00:25:24,923 --> 00:25:28,923
See for just one night, can
you...just talk about anything else?

285
00:25:30,723 --> 00:25:32,123
Please.

286
00:25:33,243 --> 00:25:34,803
GRIM LAUGH

287
00:25:39,323 --> 00:25:41,283
SHE SOBS

288
00:25:41,323 --> 00:25:43,483
Relax. Breathe.

289
00:25:43,523 --> 00:25:45,323
SHE GASPS

290
00:25:45,363 --> 00:25:47,603
It's OK. No, it's not OK.

291
00:25:47,643 --> 00:25:50,563
It's fucking not OK. It's not OK.

292
00:25:53,883 --> 00:25:57,083
You know, he used to look at me
like I was his whole world

293
00:25:57,123 --> 00:25:59,883
and I used to think
he was this fucking monster.

294
00:26:05,763 --> 00:26:06,963
But what if he wasn't?

295
00:26:10,003 --> 00:26:12,683
PRESS CLAMOUR

296
00:26:12,723 --> 00:26:14,403
Excuse me!

297
00:26:18,003 --> 00:26:20,643
CAMERA SHUTTER CLICK

298
00:26:25,323 --> 00:26:27,683
SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

299
00:26:39,443 --> 00:26:41,483
CAR HORN BEEPS

300
00:26:43,123 --> 00:26:44,723
CAR HORN BEEPS

301
00:26:49,283 --> 00:26:51,883
CAR HORN BEEPS

302
00:26:51,923 --> 00:26:56,683
My Lord, it is the defence's case
that the police operation

303
00:26:56,723 --> 00:26:59,003
was a sophisticated sting

304
00:26:59,043 --> 00:27:03,203
with the sole purpose of tricking a
confession out of Colin Stagg.

305
00:27:04,643 --> 00:27:09,003
To take advantage of a lonely
and vulnerable young man's

306
00:27:09,043 --> 00:27:11,763
desperate desire to form
a relationship with a woman.

307
00:27:13,243 --> 00:27:15,403
Lizzie James called the shots.

308
00:27:15,443 --> 00:27:18,523
Effectively telling Colin
what she wanted him to write

309
00:27:18,563 --> 00:27:20,283
in his fantasy letters.

310
00:27:20,323 --> 00:27:23,123
She portrayed herself
as sexually experienced,

311
00:27:23,163 --> 00:27:25,043
ready and willing,

312
00:27:25,083 --> 00:27:29,363
knowing full well that Mr Stagg was
desperate to lose his virginity.

313
00:27:32,123 --> 00:27:36,603
He was encouraged,
blackmailed and bribed

314
00:27:36,643 --> 00:27:40,083
into incriminating himself to fit
Professor Britton's profile

315
00:27:40,123 --> 00:27:41,563
of Rachel Nickell's killer.

316
00:27:44,923 --> 00:27:47,323
DRAMATIC MUSIC

317
00:27:51,243 --> 00:27:53,843
CROWD CLAMOUR

318
00:27:58,283 --> 00:28:01,243
CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK

319
00:28:06,323 --> 00:28:09,563
Of course, there is
Mr Stagg's detailed description

320
00:28:09,603 --> 00:28:11,883
of how Rachel's body was lying.

321
00:28:13,363 --> 00:28:16,163
It could not possibly have
been derived

322
00:28:16,203 --> 00:28:18,683
from the only photograph shown
to him by the police.

323
00:28:18,723 --> 00:28:24,203
In particular, he illustrated how
her hands were positioned -

324
00:28:24,243 --> 00:28:26,043
palm to palm.

325
00:28:27,483 --> 00:28:32,403
Such a detail could only
have been known by the assailant.

326
00:28:32,443 --> 00:28:34,523
And this pointed to a confession.

327
00:28:36,763 --> 00:28:40,963
My Lord, Lizzie James
sent Colin a letter

328
00:28:41,003 --> 00:28:46,563
containing the most
hardcore pornography imaginable.

329
00:28:46,603 --> 00:28:48,443
It is frankly a disgrace.

330
00:28:48,483 --> 00:28:50,403
It's...it's the
most extraordinary document

331
00:28:50,443 --> 00:28:52,923
for a serving police officer
to be sending a suspect.

332
00:28:52,963 --> 00:28:55,483
She subjected Stagg to quite
deliberate manipulation,

333
00:28:55,523 --> 00:28:57,923
designed to get him
to incriminate himself.

334
00:28:57,963 --> 00:29:00,163
And this material
amounts to trickery

335
00:29:00,203 --> 00:29:01,643
and in the interest of fair play

336
00:29:01,683 --> 00:29:03,603
should never be put before a jury.

337
00:29:10,043 --> 00:29:14,123
Months of work
and they take a snippet from here,

338
00:29:14,163 --> 00:29:17,083
an inference from there and they
quote it out of fucking context.

339
00:29:20,363 --> 00:29:21,883
There's been a development.

340
00:29:23,283 --> 00:29:24,603
What?

341
00:29:24,643 --> 00:29:26,563
Justice Ognall
isn't swearing in the jury

342
00:29:26,603 --> 00:29:28,523
until he makes a judgment
on whether or not

343
00:29:28,563 --> 00:29:30,043
your evidence is admissible.

344
00:29:33,323 --> 00:29:34,603
My evidence?

345
00:29:39,803 --> 00:29:41,883
So this is all on me now?

346
00:29:41,923 --> 00:29:43,243
HE TUTS

347
00:29:43,283 --> 00:29:45,803
You're our star witness, Sadie.

348
00:29:56,523 --> 00:29:57,923
Go home.

349
00:29:57,963 --> 00:30:00,523
The ruling won't be till Wednesday.

350
00:30:00,563 --> 00:30:02,403
LIGHTER CLICKS

351
00:30:08,443 --> 00:30:10,443
DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

352
00:30:13,443 --> 00:30:14,603
Hi, Mum.

353
00:30:17,283 --> 00:30:20,403
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry
I didn't get home for your birthday.

354
00:30:22,243 --> 00:30:24,643
You had a good day? Good. Good.

355
00:30:24,683 --> 00:30:26,723
You got my card?

356
00:30:26,763 --> 00:30:27,963
Good.

357
00:30:30,003 --> 00:30:32,603
Yeah, no. Work's going good.
Yeah. They're...

358
00:30:34,083 --> 00:30:35,803
..all really pleased with me here.

359
00:30:39,923 --> 00:30:43,403
No, I can't. I can't talk about it.
You know I can't.

360
00:30:45,843 --> 00:30:47,083
I wish I could.

361
00:30:53,483 --> 00:30:55,283
Yeah, of course I'm happy.

362
00:30:55,323 --> 00:30:58,403
Why wouldn't I be? Yeah.

363
00:30:58,443 --> 00:31:00,683
I wouldn't do the job if I wasn't.

364
00:31:05,443 --> 00:31:08,163
Mum, I'm fine. I'm always fine.

365
00:31:10,203 --> 00:31:11,683
It's just...

366
00:31:13,883 --> 00:31:15,883
It's just been a really long year.

367
00:31:24,923 --> 00:31:27,083
Mum, actually,
there's someone at the door here,

368
00:31:27,123 --> 00:31:31,803
so can I...
Can I call you another time?

369
00:31:31,843 --> 00:31:33,843
Yes. No. I promise I will this time.

370
00:31:35,763 --> 00:31:36,963
OK.

371
00:31:39,523 --> 00:31:44,523
Yep. Please do. Tell Dad I miss him.

372
00:31:49,803 --> 00:31:51,243
OK.

373
00:31:52,603 --> 00:31:54,603
MELANCHOLY MUSIC

374
00:31:54,643 --> 00:31:56,083
Mum...

375
00:31:57,603 --> 00:31:58,803
I love you.

376
00:32:05,323 --> 00:32:07,363
SHE SOBS

377
00:32:21,163 --> 00:32:27,883
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

378
00:32:27,923 --> 00:32:30,403
ECHOING: Nothing like this has ever
really happened to me before,

379
00:32:30,443 --> 00:32:31,603
you know?

380
00:32:34,763 --> 00:32:36,803
No-one's ever really shown
an interest.

381
00:32:40,203 --> 00:32:43,243
And how these fantasies,
you're the man who did it.

382
00:32:44,563 --> 00:32:45,843
I love you.

383
00:32:45,883 --> 00:32:48,283
The things in my letters, that's me.

384
00:32:50,563 --> 00:32:53,563
I could have said that I done it
just to please you.

385
00:32:53,603 --> 00:32:55,883
I'm not going to lose you,
am I, Lizzie?

386
00:32:55,923 --> 00:32:59,043
Yeah, but I want more than just
fucking fantasies, Colin.

387
00:33:00,083 --> 00:33:01,563
I want to go there.

388
00:33:01,603 --> 00:33:03,443
It's not me, is it?

389
00:33:04,803 --> 00:33:06,363
It's not me.

390
00:33:18,043 --> 00:33:20,203
SHE WAILS

391
00:33:40,483 --> 00:33:41,723
All rise.

392
00:34:00,123 --> 00:34:04,443
Before I embark on this ruling,
I wish it to be clearly understood

393
00:34:04,483 --> 00:34:07,563
that, until its conclusion,
nobody is to leave the court.

394
00:34:11,003 --> 00:34:15,123
A careful appraisal of the material

395
00:34:15,163 --> 00:34:19,483
demonstrates a skilful
and sustained enterprise

396
00:34:19,523 --> 00:34:21,923
to manipulate the accused...

397
00:34:23,123 --> 00:34:26,883
..sometimes subtly,
sometimes blatantly,

398
00:34:26,923 --> 00:34:31,083
and designed by deception to
manoeuvre and seduce him

399
00:34:31,123 --> 00:34:34,363
to reveal fantasies
of an incriminating nature...

400
00:34:35,683 --> 00:34:39,883
..and to wholly unsuccessfully
admit the offence.

401
00:34:42,083 --> 00:34:44,803
I would be the first to
acknowledge the great pressure

402
00:34:44,843 --> 00:34:47,163
on officers in pursuit of
this grave enquiry.

403
00:34:48,723 --> 00:34:51,363
But I'm afraid that this behaviour
betrays not merely

404
00:34:51,403 --> 00:34:55,763
an excess of zeal but a substantial
attempt to incriminate

405
00:34:55,803 --> 00:35:00,083
a suspect by positive and deceptive
conduct of the grossest kind.

406
00:35:02,003 --> 00:35:07,843
During the second police interview
with Mr Stagg,

407
00:35:07,883 --> 00:35:12,363
Lizzie James re-enacted a
demonstration given by the accused

408
00:35:12,403 --> 00:35:17,803
indicating that the victim's hands
were as if in prayer -

409
00:35:17,843 --> 00:35:19,243
palm to palm.

410
00:35:20,403 --> 00:35:23,723
But, as soon as one examines
photograph KP15,

411
00:35:23,763 --> 00:35:25,843
a discrepancy emerges.

412
00:35:25,883 --> 00:35:29,323
The hands of the victim are not
palm to palm at all.

413
00:35:29,363 --> 00:35:31,563
The arms are, in fact,
crossed at the wrist

414
00:35:31,603 --> 00:35:33,163
so that the hands barely touch.

415
00:35:35,003 --> 00:35:38,643
This is not a minor difference

416
00:35:38,683 --> 00:35:43,523
but a discrepancy which completely
undermines the whole thesis,

417
00:35:43,563 --> 00:35:49,083
and I am not satisfied that this one
very small piece of evidence

418
00:35:49,123 --> 00:35:53,163
amounts to incriminating material
of the character of a confession.

419
00:35:54,283 --> 00:35:59,323
I believe the police entrapped
Colin Stagg in a honey trap,

420
00:35:59,363 --> 00:36:02,763
using deceptive conduct
of the grossest kind.

421
00:36:02,803 --> 00:36:06,083
Therefore, I uphold the defence
submissions

422
00:36:06,123 --> 00:36:09,443
that the Lizzie James material
will not go before a jury.

423
00:36:11,283 --> 00:36:14,403
As the Crown offers no more
evidence against the defendant,

424
00:36:14,443 --> 00:36:17,323
and the defendant has
pleaded not guilty,

425
00:36:17,363 --> 00:36:20,683
a verdict of not guilty
will be entered,

426
00:36:20,723 --> 00:36:24,123
under Section 17 of the
Criminal Justice Act, 1967.

427
00:36:25,523 --> 00:36:27,083
Colin Stagg,

428
00:36:27,123 --> 00:36:28,963
you are free to go.

429
00:36:29,003 --> 00:36:31,123
INDISTINCT WHISPERING

430
00:37:02,363 --> 00:37:04,923
REPORTER: Yesterday's hearing was
widely anticipated to lead to

431
00:37:04,963 --> 00:37:08,243
the trial of the decade, but after
his sensational acquittal,

432
00:37:08,283 --> 00:37:12,563
Colin Stagg made a defiant
statement to the waiting press.

433
00:37:12,603 --> 00:37:17,003
My life has been ruined by a mixture
of half-baked psychological

434
00:37:17,043 --> 00:37:21,763
theories and some stories written
to satisfy the strange sexual

435
00:37:21,803 --> 00:37:25,763
requests of an undercover
police officer.

436
00:37:25,803 --> 00:37:29,763
The judge recognised that there
was never any evidence against me.

437
00:37:29,803 --> 00:37:33,163
I now intend to take
proceedings against the police

438
00:37:33,203 --> 00:37:37,203
and the psychologist Mr Paul Britton
for the anguish

439
00:37:37,243 --> 00:37:40,243
and indescribable distress that I
have suffered

440
00:37:40,283 --> 00:37:42,523
during the last 19 months in prison.

441
00:37:42,563 --> 00:37:46,243
No, please don't turn
it off on my account, Da Costa.

442
00:37:46,283 --> 00:37:48,443
You know, you've never done
anything nice for me before,

443
00:37:48,483 --> 00:37:51,003
so if you start now,
I'll know I'm totally fucked.

444
00:38:07,563 --> 00:38:08,723
Is it true?

445
00:38:11,523 --> 00:38:12,763
What the judge said.

446
00:38:17,243 --> 00:38:18,643
Sade.

447
00:38:19,843 --> 00:38:21,123
Sadie.

448
00:38:22,203 --> 00:38:23,643
DCI's waiting for you.

449
00:38:26,323 --> 00:38:27,963
Better not keep him waiting.

450
00:38:31,363 --> 00:38:32,363
Sadie...

451
00:38:33,523 --> 00:38:36,203
You know what? I followed orders,
I did what I was asked to do,

452
00:38:36,243 --> 00:38:38,803
and every one of them
up at the Yard signed off on it.

453
00:38:38,843 --> 00:38:40,923
What aren't you telling me, mate?

454
00:38:50,683 --> 00:38:54,683
You know, whatever mistake
that I have made,

455
00:38:54,723 --> 00:38:56,123
I'm not afraid to face it.

456
00:38:57,923 --> 00:39:00,523
But I'm not the only one
who has to answer for this.

457
00:39:27,443 --> 00:39:30,003
They want to see me
at the Yard first thing.

458
00:39:33,243 --> 00:39:34,443
Hey...

459
00:39:36,283 --> 00:39:38,683
Are you all right?

460
00:39:38,723 --> 00:39:40,803
Palm to palm, wrist to wrist.

461
00:39:42,323 --> 00:39:44,243
What's the difference?

462
00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:48,923
And he's out there,
free to kill again.

463
00:39:48,963 --> 00:39:50,723
DOOR KNOCKS

464
00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:52,323
Wicker, top brass are here.

465
00:39:52,363 --> 00:39:53,883
What?

466
00:39:56,843 --> 00:39:58,923
They'll be after our case files.

467
00:40:03,283 --> 00:40:06,843
They get hold of this,
they'll erase the name

468
00:40:06,883 --> 00:40:09,923
of every senior officer who
signed off on the Lizzie op.

469
00:40:12,563 --> 00:40:15,403
We go down, they go down with us.

470
00:40:21,283 --> 00:40:23,123
Case files are on the desk.

471
00:40:27,083 --> 00:40:30,283
PHONE RINGS

472
00:41:53,203 --> 00:41:56,003
TV: Into next week, then, the winds
are set to swing south-westerly,

473
00:41:56,043 --> 00:41:58,083
drawing in slightly milder air,

474
00:41:58,123 --> 00:42:01,003
then fog and low cloud on
southwestern coasts,

475
00:42:01,043 --> 00:42:02,843
causing visibility issues.

476
00:42:24,283 --> 00:42:27,443
TV: A man with a history of violent
attacks on women has today

477
00:42:27,483 --> 00:42:31,203
pleaded guilty to killing
Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common

478
00:42:31,243 --> 00:42:33,323
16 years ago.

479
00:42:33,363 --> 00:42:36,163
The murder of a young mother
in broad daylight

480
00:42:36,203 --> 00:42:38,843
caused public outrage.

481
00:42:38,883 --> 00:42:42,083
Schizophrenic Robert Napper was
convicted of manslaughter

482
00:42:42,123 --> 00:42:44,683
on the grounds of diminished
responsibility,

483
00:42:44,723 --> 00:42:47,963
bringing to a close the enquiry
into one of the most notorious

484
00:42:48,003 --> 00:42:51,483
killings in modern British
criminal history.

485
00:42:51,523 --> 00:42:53,923
42-year-old Napper
is already detained

486
00:42:53,963 --> 00:42:57,923
at Broadmoor Special Hospital after
his conviction for the murders

487
00:42:57,963 --> 00:43:01,323
of Samantha Bisset and her
four-year-old daughter, Jazmine.

488
00:43:10,803 --> 00:43:12,923
SHE INHALES SHARPLY

489
00:43:46,603 --> 00:43:49,523
..a nice, long walk, aren't we? Eh?

490
00:46:35,483 --> 00:46:39,203
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