Chemistry of Death (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript
The investigation becomes more complicated when another, older, set of remains are discovered in the woods by police. When someone he cares for is threatened, Dr David Hunter has to use all of his skills to find the killer before ...
Sam and Neil Yates
thought they'd found an angel.
I think it was a dead body.
I think it might
be Sally Palmer.
What makes you say that?
I think Sally was trying
to find something out.
Sally?
You've got quite the CV,
Dr. Hunter.
And yet, here you are out here,
pretending to be
a country doctor.
It was another life.
How have you been?
Linda Yates is missing.
I reckon she's fine.
It's just someone playing games.
Seemingly, you're not
just a specialist
in human decomposition,
you are the specialist.
I need you to look at the body.
See the angle of the sutures?
He or she would have
been left-handed.
Not just two different knives.
Two different people.
What you got?
Talk to us, what's happening?
They found her?
Is it Linda?
Straight down, David.
Thank you gentlemen,
it's time to go.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
No matter the countless hours
spent sifting through
the wreckage of the dead,
or the years piecing together
their final moments,
there's a particular anxiety
that gnaws away
as one approaches
the final resting place.
The weight of responsibility,
coupled with the fear
of failing to meet it.
Who the bloody hell is this?
This body's been here
twelve months at least.
No soft tissue.
More like four, five years.
- Why five?
- Denim jeans.
Cotton takes four or five years
to break down,
and they're on their way.
Care to hazard a cause of death?
- Blunt force cranial damage.
- Someone smashed her head in?
Not her.
See the way the jaw flares.
Zygomatic arch,
large mastoid process.
Age?
Judging by the teeth,
late twenties to early thirties.
Fantastic. An unrelated murder.
Just what we need.
We got an ID on the prints.
- I'm sorry for your loss.
- Thanks.
No sightings of her
since the barbecue.
Are you still confident
she died after that?
Yep. Four or five days later.
Which means someone
likely kept her alive
in that time before killing her,
potentially giving Linda Yates
the same window of survival.
If it's the same someone.
Did you learn anything
from the lab?
Looking for two different knives.
Both stiff blades
around six inches,
one partially serrated.
Okay.
It's enough to start a search.
What else?
Whoever cut her throat
was right-handed.
Whoever stitched those wings
onto her back used their left.
So, two killers?
Jesus.
Hi, mate.
What you got there then?
I think she's hurt.
She got caught
in a fishing line, yeah.
I think you're right.
She's not in a good way, mate.
Is she in pain?
I reckon so.
You remember what I taught you?
- We have to let her go, yeah?
- Yeah.
It's a kindness.
Give them back to nature.
Okay.
There you go.
Come here, girl.
I got her. Alright?
There you go. See?
- All over now.
- Yeah.
Not so bad, was it?
David.
- Hi.
- Hey.
I'm asking before
the journalists do.
Was the body
they found today Linda?
I'm sorry, I can't say.
You're the village doctor, David.
This community needs you.
And I'm doing all I can.
We're all on the same side here.
Are we?
With the police suspecting
the whole village?
I'm sorry, I can't say anything.
Right. Well,
I guess there's your answer.
And now I'll pass you
over to Manham for the report.
The dead woman discovered
two days ago
from Manham.
We're asking anyone
with information
in confidence.
thought they'd found an angel.
I think it was a dead body.
I think it might
be Sally Palmer.
What makes you say that?
I think Sally was trying
to find something out.
Sally?
You've got quite the CV,
Dr. Hunter.
And yet, here you are out here,
pretending to be
a country doctor.
It was another life.
How have you been?
Linda Yates is missing.
I reckon she's fine.
It's just someone playing games.
Seemingly, you're not
just a specialist
in human decomposition,
you are the specialist.
I need you to look at the body.
See the angle of the sutures?
He or she would have
been left-handed.
Not just two different knives.
Two different people.
What you got?
Talk to us, what's happening?
They found her?
Is it Linda?
Straight down, David.
Thank you gentlemen,
it's time to go.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
No matter the countless hours
spent sifting through
the wreckage of the dead,
or the years piecing together
their final moments,
there's a particular anxiety
that gnaws away
as one approaches
the final resting place.
The weight of responsibility,
coupled with the fear
of failing to meet it.
Who the bloody hell is this?
This body's been here
twelve months at least.
No soft tissue.
More like four, five years.
- Why five?
- Denim jeans.
Cotton takes four or five years
to break down,
and they're on their way.
Care to hazard a cause of death?
- Blunt force cranial damage.
- Someone smashed her head in?
Not her.
See the way the jaw flares.
Zygomatic arch,
large mastoid process.
Age?
Judging by the teeth,
late twenties to early thirties.
Fantastic. An unrelated murder.
Just what we need.
We got an ID on the prints.
- I'm sorry for your loss.
- Thanks.
No sightings of her
since the barbecue.
Are you still confident
she died after that?
Yep. Four or five days later.
Which means someone
likely kept her alive
in that time before killing her,
potentially giving Linda Yates
the same window of survival.
If it's the same someone.
Did you learn anything
from the lab?
Looking for two different knives.
Both stiff blades
around six inches,
one partially serrated.
Okay.
It's enough to start a search.
What else?
Whoever cut her throat
was right-handed.
Whoever stitched those wings
onto her back used their left.
So, two killers?
Jesus.
Hi, mate.
What you got there then?
I think she's hurt.
She got caught
in a fishing line, yeah.
I think you're right.
She's not in a good way, mate.
Is she in pain?
I reckon so.
You remember what I taught you?
- We have to let her go, yeah?
- Yeah.
It's a kindness.
Give them back to nature.
Okay.
There you go.
Come here, girl.
I got her. Alright?
There you go. See?
- All over now.
- Yeah.
Not so bad, was it?
David.
- Hi.
- Hey.
I'm asking before
the journalists do.
Was the body
they found today Linda?
I'm sorry, I can't say.
You're the village doctor, David.
This community needs you.
And I'm doing all I can.
We're all on the same side here.
Are we?
With the police suspecting
the whole village?
I'm sorry, I can't say anything.
Right. Well,
I guess there's your answer.
And now I'll pass you
over to Manham for the report.
The dead woman discovered
two days ago
from Manham.
We're asking anyone
with information
in confidence.