We've IDed the man
who killed Olatz Alzola and her family.
He's Irish.
We know Tomas didn't kill anyone.
This man did.
- No links to Heaslip's clients,
his business accounts, nothing.
The deal was the truth
in exchange for their protection.
And everything you told us was a lie.
Dr Bennett,
the investigation is still ongoing.
- If he was involved in the trafficking,
he might've picked something up on one of the trips.
- This clearly isn't his first stab wound. Look.
- I was right. Nick Heaslip was using Tar Le.
- Claire needs to go back to KYV.
- So you think Pearse is transporting something
in the waste containers.
In order to be exposed,
O'Neill had to have opened them.
- There is no Tar Le without me.
- Niamh, what can I do? - You?
Absolutely nothing.
- When Tar Le announces their partnership deal,
they'll be expanding into these sites.
Jesus Christ.
An international smuggling network
disguised as a charity.
- Don't start asking questions
that you don't want an answer to.
[Niamh yells.]
[Niamh lets out sob.]
- The truck's due in tomorrow morning.
So, it'll arrive in Bilbao just after dawn.
What do I have to do?
- There's a truck arriving at Sanihaz at dawn.
We're going to be there to meet it.
And you're coming with us.
[theme music]
[♪♪]
[pleasant music on radio]
[in Spanish]
[tense music]
[phone rings]
Well?
OK.
Tracking device is on the truck.
[blipping]
- You're sure Pearse is going to be here?
We need him with the drugs.
- He's always there for the handover.
He better be.
Team Alpha here.
Now in position at Sanihaz.
- Copy that. Team Delta standing by.
Visual on Sanihaz.
- When Pearse arrives, do not approach.
Repeat, do not approach.
Wait for my order.
Lore? Any movement from Pearse?
- No, nothing. He's still inside the restaurant.
Something's wrong.
Pearse should be on his way now.
[in Spanish]
The truck has turned off the N637 towards Larrabetzu.
- They changed the drop-off point.
We need to move.
[police siren]
[in Spanish]
- The specialist team to manage the waste?
En route from Sanihaz.
- Look. The truck has stopped.
[police sirens]
- Make sure everyone turns off their lights and sirens.
We don't want to let them know we're coming.
Of course.
Listen up. Kill all the lights and sirens, OK?
[The men groan.]
[The men cough.]
Two minutes away.
Bruno, wait there.
- Armed police! Get down on the ground, now!
[in Spanish]
I'll secure the drugs.
Claire.
Fuck!
[Claire breathes heavily.]
OK. Could you hold this?
Are you feeling OK?
Yeah, I think so.
- Yeah? No skin, eye, mucus membrane irritations?
No.
- Nausea, headaches, dizziness?
- I didn't touch anything, so.
- It doesn't matter with cytotoxic waste.
You could inhale it through dust particles,
especially if it's been disturbed.
I had a mask and gloves on.
- You saw what happened to Mr O'Neill.
Any exposure at all can be extremely dangerous.
No nausea,
headaches or dizziness.
- Are you OK?- Yeah.
Where are we with everything?
- The truck driver and the two others we arrested,
they all have previous convictions on drug crimes.
When can we talk to them?
We don't know yet.
- Their exposure was greater than ours,
so they have a longer decontamination process.
What about their phones?
- They're being examined, but, so far,
we've found nothing that links them to Pearse.
- Look, getting those drugs off the street is great,
but if we don't have Pearse behind bars, we've failed.
He was using a charity to smuggle heroin into Spain.
And to protect that operation,
he had Olatz and her family murdered.
He had Adama and Tomas tortured and killed,
and he just tried to kill Idoia in hospital.
Do I have to go on?
That all may be true,
but that's not enough evidence for an arrest.
He's a flight risk.
- Yes, Claire, but a judge won't accept it on its own.
Not when his business,
his house, his whole life is here.
You're right.
Pearse wouldn't leave all that unless he had to.
He knew we were watching him this morning.
And he could have cancelled the operation.
But instead he went ahead with it.
- He's arrogant. - Exactly.
He thinks he's smarter than us.
Which is good, because it means he won't run
if he thinks he can outwit us.
It gives us more time.
To find proof.
[in Spanish]
- I have the search warrants for Sanihaz.
[in Spanish]
How's Claire?
She says she feels fine,
but she had to go through a decontamination process
and be medically assessed.
Jesus.
- They reckon the drugs have a street value
of over 15 million euros, so that's good.
- I take it they didn't get Pearse.
No.
But there was something
Claire wanted us to discuss with you.
Go on.
- It seems Pearse knew they were watching him
and changed the drop-off away from Sanihaz.
Claire believes he was tipped off in advance.
By whom?
- Who knew we were still looking into Tar Le?
- Why would Niamh Bennett tip him off?
- I don't know, but somebody did.
So we need to interview her.
- I'd like to begin by asking if your charity
has any connection with a company
called KYV Transport.
Yes, they remove the waste
from our camps and field hospitals.
- And they take it all the way back to Bilbao?
- Well, part of Tar Le's ethos
is to ensure that our environmental impact
on countries we operate in is minimal.
That means removing all wastes,
medical or otherwise.
- Surely there are disposal sites nearer to the camps?
KYV recommended
a specialist facility in Bilbao.
They're the experts, so we took their advice on it.
- Early this morning, Basque police seized
over 15 million euros worth of drugs
in a KYV truck
that was ferrying waste from Tar Le facilities.
That's shocking.
But KYV are an independent contractor,
they're not part of the Tar Le organisation.
You hired them.
Well, not me personally.
And Tar Le hires hundreds of contractors.
We can't be held responsible for everything they do.
I'm sorry, I'm confused.
I would have thought drugs and drug smuggling,
as a criminal offense,
wouldn't fall under the remit of CAB.
So, why is my client here?
- This interview is part of an ongoing CAB investigation
into the finances of Nick Heaslip.
A former Tar Le board member.
And brother-in-law of Dr Bennett.
How exactly is Mr Heaslip
connected to this KYV Transport?
And, where does my client fall into all of this?
- That's what we're trying to establish.
But, establish what?
Dr Bennett willingly opened the accounts
of Tar Le for your inspection.
She has told you she played no role
in awarding the contract to KYV.
She has answered all of your questions
about her brother-in-law, Nick Heaslip.
Who, let us not forget, took his own life
whilst under investigation by your unit.
And it is beginning to feel like you've adopted
the same heavy-handed bullying approach
with my client.
- I want to see you all when this interview's done.
[police sirens]
[in Spanish]
He hasn't come in yet.
- We should send a car to his house.
[Pearse sighs.]
Mr Fernandez.
- What the fuck happened this morning?
- You need to calm down. - Fuck you, calm down.
The police are going to shut my business.
- That's why you need to stay calm.
Have your lawyers ready and with you when they arrive.
- It's too late for that. They know.
They know fuck all.
If they did, you'd have been arrested by now.
And them boys they picked up this morning?
They're not going to talk.
- I can guarantee you that. - Oh, yeah?
And what about Bruno?
Don't worry about Bruno.
We're going to deal with him
as soon as he's out of police custody.
- I did not agree to killing people.
- I'm trying to protect you here, my friend.
I can't do this anymore.
I'm sorry, Tony. This is over.
[gunshot]
This morning,
15 million euros worth of drugs were seized.
And we take that very seriously.
- And well done to the Basque police.
But that is their job.
It is not the responsibility of Dr Bennett
to monitor the activities
of all her independent contractors.
The charity regulator
recently examined Tar Le's entire operations.
And you have gone through all of their accounts.
And nothing irregular was found.
If CAB, with all of your resources and expertise,
couldn't find anything illegal,
how do you expect Dr Bennett to?
So.
If that's all.
- No, we have a few more questions.
- I'm here now, I may as well answer their questions.
OK.
- We know your sister and brother-in-law
had a social relationship with Anthony Pearse.
Did you?
- Yes, I've known Tony since my late teens.
He owns a restaurant near my parents' holiday villa
and he would give myself and my sister
work in his bar during the summers.
He was always very nice to us.
- Can you explain why the owner of KYV Transport
claims Anthony Pearse
helped secure the Tar Le contract for his company?
No, that's nonsense.
Unless, maybe, erm...
Tony asked Nick to put in a word for KYV?
- Did Nick Heaslip have a role in securing Tar Le contracts?
- Oh, he shouldn't have, but, erm...
with all that's come out since his death,
who knows what he was up to?
And when was the last time
you communicated with Mr Pearse?
- [Niamh exhales]: I can't recall exactly.
Must be at least a year.
Maybe even two.
- Did Mr Pearse ever discuss KYV Transport with you?
- No. - This is just fishing.
And it's gone on long enough.
- Either you demonstrate a clear evidential link
between my client,
your investigation into Nick Heaslip,
and this drug seizure,
or we will be exercising our right to leave.
That went well.
- See the way she tried to throw
her dead brother-in-law under the bus?
Yeah, classy.
- Dunlop's not going to let us have another crack at her.
Speaking of Dunlop.
He wants to see us all.
[knock on door]
Come in.
So. How did the Dr Bennett interview go?
I think it was worthwhile.
- Did it turn up anything concrete?
Not yet.
- Any progress with Heaslip's missing funds?
We're still working on it.
Not yet.
But still working on it.
I'm beginning to see a running theme here.
Every link
between this investigation
and the murders in Bilbao points to Nick Heaslip alone.
And he's dead.
We haven't been able to link Anthony Pearse
to this drug smuggling enterprise.
So...
We've no further reason to investigate.
If we shut this down,
Tar Le will expand its enterprise
and Pearse will be free to take advantage
of their new routes.
Have you anything to add?
No, sir.
Well, that's a first.
The murders and drug smuggling in Bilbao
are outside our remit.
And helping the Basque police get big wins
is not the best use of our limited resources.
But, sir...
I'm speaking.
So far, this investigation
has resulted in our main suspect taking his own life
and a high-profile charity almost losing its funding.
Find the money Nick Heaslip stole, or shut it down.
And I want DS Wallace on the next flight back here.
No excuses this time.
[in Spanish]
- Found nothing in Fernandez's office.
- There's no one at his house, his car isn't there,
and he's not answering his phone.
Shit.
We need to issue an arrest warrant
in case he's trying to leave the jurisdiction.
- I think he's found something.
What do we have?
It's a human head.
It's not Luka Fernandez.
No.
This looks like it's been in the water
for a few days.
It could be Tomas Torres.
- Why chop up the body and dump it here?
Where Bruno had to pass it every day?
- It's Pearse's way of making sure
he did what he was told.
What?
We found human remains.
In the pond at Sanihaz.
- And we're assuming it's Tomas.
- I don't know anything about that.
[in Spanish]
Stop lying.
- If the remains are confirmed as Tomas,
Ertzantza will be charging you with the murder.
No. I'm not a killer.
- You were the last person to be seen with Tomas.
And his remains...
[in Spanish]
They were found at your workplace.
Which you have access to.
- Why would I want to kill Tomas?
I don't know.
Maybe we were getting too close
and he was about to turn you in.
- That's crazy. - That's crazy, yeah?
Let's see what a judge decides.
- I'm a victim here. I would never hurt Tomas.
- Your options are: you give us Pearse.
Or they'll hold you
until they can charge you with Tomas's murder.
And then we release you on bail.
And I have no doubt that Pearse
will be checking up on you the moment you're released.
I didn't kill Tomas.
I swear.
I was there when it happened.
I can show you the place.
Sorry, Niamh isn't here.
I came to see you.
What happened with Nick...
was awful.
But...
Things like that almost never happen.
We arrest people all the time.
And I've never witnessed anything like that before.
- Is that supposed to make me feel better?
No.
But it says to me
your husband wasn't a criminal.
He may have made mistakes.
But he wasn't a criminal.
So, I asked myself what kind of pressure
must he have been under to do something like that,
who could exert that kind of pressure on him?
And I keep coming back to Pearse.
Basque police seized 15 million euros worth of drugs
in a truck that was being used
to transport Tar Le medical waste.
Now, we've established clear links
between the transport company that operates those trucks
and Pearse.
The man arrested for murdering Adama Seidu
in your villa
was hired as a driver by that company
on Pearse's recommendation.
Look.
I know what you want me to say, but, honestly...
I've never seen Tony be anything but nice.
- Three weeks after your husband met Pearse
he killed himself
because of the pressure he was under.
How did Nick meet Pearse?
Was it through Niamh?
- You think Niamh got him involved in all this?
- I'm just checking every angle.
Like Pearse, your sister
keeps cropping up everywhere we look.
She's got links to Pearse, to Nick,
and her charity was used for the drug smuggling.
And I just can't understand why
someone running a high-profile charity
would have any contact with someone like Pearse.
Tony was good to Niamh.
Good how?
- The thing you need to realise is...
Tar Le is Naimh's passion.
It's her life's work. She'd do anything to protect it.
- What's that got to do with Pearse?
There was a period
in the early days, when Tar Le was looking rocky.
And Tony helped her out.
[phone buzzing]
Yeah?
- I've just spent the morning being grilled by CAB.
- What were they asking about?
What do you think?
I warned you and you let a shipment come in?
No choice.
It was already on its way.
I changed the drop-off point, though.
Do they have anything linking you or me to it?
I don't think so.
My solicitor said they were desperate and just fishing.
See? Told you.
It'll be fine.
- But that's the last one, Tony.
- After this morning's seizure,
I'm seriously out of pocket.
That'll need making back.
- Customs will be all over our trucks.
- What about all this new funding you're getting?
Surely some of that could come my way.
- I have to go. They're waiting for me.
We can talk about this later.
- Where exactly in here is it?
Up there, in the back.
They tied him to the chair, and...
And they killed him.
[in Spanish]
You were looking for me?
Dunlop wants you back.
That's hardly news.
- He's scaling back the investigation.
Wants to focus on Heaslip's finances
and nothing else.
- But it's all part of the same thing.
Sean argued that.
But we're still missing the vital bits
that link everything together.
- I'm at the location where Tomas Torres was murdered.
And forensics are all over it.
We just need to place Pearse here.
And then we can bring him in.
- Then fingers crossed they find something.
Yeah.
If you could just buy me time with Dunlop.
I'll do my best, but...
he's pretty adamant.
Thank you.
Been looking for you.
I went to see Alice Heaslip.
Jesus. You didn't.
- No, it's good. I think she likes me.
But I was asking her about Pearse and Niamh.
And she told me something very interesting.
She said that Tar Le
would have shut down in the early days
were it not for Pearse.
That things were rough
and his support kept it going.
- What kind of support? - She said financial,
but wasn't sure exactly what form that took.
Well, let's find out.
By the way...
Good job.
- Chief says the whole place has been sprayed with bleach.
Any DNA they find would be corrupted.
Yes.
So.
What am I looking at here?
- I just went back through all the Tar Le accounts
and noticed an entity called the Foundation Succour Chad.
Now, when I initially saw this at the Tar Le offices,
I presumed it was a non-profit foundation.
But when I checked its website
and dug a little deeper,
I discovered it's actually a trust.
Sorry, is that...
Sorry, you lost me.
- Chad is a former French colony
with a legal system rooted in French law
that doesn't recognise trusts.
This was set up by someone versed in the Anglo-Saxon law.
But that still doesn't prove
it has anything to do with Pearse.
No.
But it also made three separate donations
of 100,000 euro to Tar Le.
Ostensively bailing the charity out
when it was about to go under.
- You could have just said that in the first place.
- But then you'd never have known
that French law doesn't recognise trusts.
So, assuming these donations are coming from Pearse
under the guise of the Foundation Succour Chad,
I worked backwards
and was able to trace a financial path
from the foundation to a shell company
listed...
as the beneficial owners
of our bank account in Lichtenstein.
Norah, I could kiss you.
- Well, it's Liam you need to kiss.
He put me onto this.
Good job. Well done.
- Now, before we get ahead of ourselves,
let's not forget
that believing this is true and proving it
are two entirely different things.
- I know exactly what we do now.
- Norah? - When Tar Le was in trouble,
Pearse bailed it out to the tune of 300,000 euro.
- That's why Niamh let Pearse use their trucks.
I would imagine.
OK.
Get Sean and Liam to bring her in.
And make it clear:
she gives us Pearse or we're shutting down Tar Le
and charging her with facilitating a crime.
They're way ahead of you.
- I want to know as soon as she gives us anything.
We have to get Pearse
before he knows what's happening.
Will do.
- The funding you're providing means an initial increase
on the amount of healthcare professionals we employ
by a factor of five.
We will immediately commence construction
on new health centres and field hospitals
in the Sahel, Nigeria, the Congo, and Afghanistan
to address the escalating humanitarian crisis
in those regions.
With the financial resources that you're supplying
and the drive and ambition that we at Tar Le possess...
I'm so sorry.
Could you excuse me for just one moment?
Grace?
As Niamh was saying,
with the financial resources you'll be providing us,
and the strength and ambition we have here at Tar Le...
- Do you have any idea how much damage
you're causing me and this charity?
- We need you to come to the station.
No.
I have a presentation to finish.
I can't leave now. No.
That wasn't a request.
Either come with us, or we arrest you.
I'd like to make a complaint
to Chief Bureau Officer Dunlop.
And you can do that.
Right after we've interviewed you.
- Your solicitor's just on her way here, so...
Why don't you take a seat
and we'll commence the interview
just as soon as she arrives.
Could I get you a cup of tea or water while you're waiting?
No, thank you.
Actually, could I use the bathroom?
Sure.
But we'll need your phone.
- If you'll follow me. - Dr Bennett.
[notification]
Shit.
[in Spanish]
Pearse just left the restaurant in a rush.
He was carrying a black leather bag
and made sure Lore couldn't follow.
Shit.
They've been tipped off.
- It wouldn't be the first time.
We need to find him and arrest him.
- Yes, but we still don't have the evidence.
- Sean will give us the evidence.
We can't wait, Jon. If we do, Pearse will be gone.
OK. OK.
[in Spanish]
- Do you remember donations of 300,000 euros
from Foundation Succour Chad?
- Well, Tar Le received thousands of donations
over the years.
I can't remember every single one.
- I would have thought this one
would have stuck in your memory.
Seeing as it was over 70% of the money
you brought in that year.
We've traced this foundation
back to a bank account in Lichtenstein
that was formerly owned by your brother-in-law.
And we believe is now controlled by Anthony Pearse.
- Sounds like Nick and Tony went to a lot of trouble
to hide where that money was coming from.
Obviously they didn't want me to know it was them.
- It's interesting when we tell you
your brother-in-law and a known criminal
are behind these huge donations, you barely blink.
- Well that's probably because
I don't have the luxury of being naive.
I spend most of my life working in parts of the world
where order and society have broken down.
That's the reason we're there.
People are sick and starving and displaced,
and in order for us to operate,
yes, I sometimes have to turn a blind eye to corruption
or people stealing from us,
or whatever else we have to deal with.
And to be able to do that I focus on the big picture.
Which is the thousands of lives
that my charity saves every single year.
[phone rings]
Sean's phone.
Norah, it's me.
It looks like Pearse is on the move.
Any chance he could have been
tipped off again by Niamh Bennett?
I'm not sure how.
She's being interviewed at the moment,
and before that she was with Sean and Liam
or in the car or...
Hang on. I'll call you back.
[rattling]
Now, unless you have proof
that I knew the origins of these donations...
I'd like to make that complaint
to your Chief Bureau Officer.
[knock]
[door opens]
- Dr Bennett, can you confirm that phone is yours?
- We'll check it for fingerprints.
And the GPS records will tell us where it's been,
so it's not going to be difficult to prove.
Yes.
It's my phone.
- Would you mind unlocking it?
- Somebody tell me what's going on.
- We believe that Dr Bennett used this phone
to communicate with Anthony Pearse.
We also believe that Dr Bennett used this phone
to warn Pearse about details of our investigation.
- Can I have a moment with my client, please?
Sure.
Interview suspended at 2:51 PM.
[door opens and closes]
[in Spanish]
Lore's at his villa now.
Gardener says Pearse hasn't been home all day.
Airports and border control are on alert.
- Pearse must've known a day would come
when he'd have to run.
And would have prepared for it.
Stashed passports, money,
and whatever else he'd need to take.
I've a list of properties here that are registered to him.
It has to be one of these.
OK. I think
there's two or three here we should check.
- This one first. - Why?
It's near the port,
and he never shuts up about his fucking coffee.
How much longer?
- Passport and bags are in the van.
We just need to load these containers.
Get it done.
The ferry leaves in 40 minutes.
There he is.
- You go out the back. I'll follow.
Stop! Drop your weapon!
Police! Stop!
[Pearse grunts.]
[Claire grunts.]
[Pearse breathes heavily.]
Fucking bitch!
[Both grunt.]
Are you OK?
- Suspect secured. Arrest in progress.
Anthony Pearse,
I'm arresting you for drug trafficking,
under article 344 of the Spanish penal code.
Where is it?
You said he had a black briefcase.
You find it?
It's empty.
[crunching]
It's the gold certificates.
God only knows
what else he's got hidden in these canisters.
I want all of these emptied and searched,
and the ones outside by the van.
Of course, Claire.
My client's priority now
is protecting the reputation and future of Tar Le.
- What happens to Tar Le is outside of our control.
- If Dr Bennett cooperates with you now,
she would like to be released from custody
so she can finalise the funding agreement
for her organisation
and resign her position.
By cooperation,
we would expect testimony to include details
of Anthony Pearse's use of Tar Le waste trucks
to smuggle drugs.
And Dr Bennett will have to surrender her passport.
Of course.
OK, then.
Let's get started.
- We recovered Heaslip's missing 27 million.
In gold certificates.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
We have records here
of all of Pearse's financial transactions
going back over 20 years.
- We also stopped a migrant smuggling route.
And a major heroin route.
That's massive.
- How'd you get on with Bennett?
She's given up Pearse.
I'll email you the statement.
That was easy.
- She's doing it to protect Tar Le.
- I think that ship has sailed.
Shame.
It did a lot of good work.
- The ends don't justify the means.
True.
- Well done, everyone. Great job.
Thanks.
We'll raise a glass tonight in your honour.
- You better. [phone rings]
I have to take this.
[phone rings]
Hello?
Speaking.
Is something wrong?
Yeah, I can do that.
Sean's going to email over Niamh Bennett's statement.
Good.
And we should be able to interview Pearse
as soon as a lawyer arrives at the hospital.
- I have to head there anyway.
Is everything OK?
- Yeah, it's just something to do
with my exposure to the waste.
Come on. I'll drive.
[door closes] [footsteps]
Alice?
[call dialling tone]
- Hi, this is Dr Bennett. Please leave...
[phone buzzing]
DS Wallace.
Is everything OK?
The nurse who called...
she wouldn't say.
Well, let's hope so.
But I'm going to have to do some extra tests now
because you never mentioned to us that you were pregnant.
Excuse me?
You didn't know?
No.
- Probably nothing to worry about,
but we'll check to be sure.
- Sorry, could I have a minute?
- Yeah, sure. - Thank you.
Aidan?
Can you talk?
Yeah.
Everything OK?
[doorbell ringing]
Alice.
[gunshot]
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