Silent Witness (1996–…): Season 15, Episode 1 - Death Has No Dominion: Part 1 - full transcript

OK.

We have a deceased, as yet
unidentified female through there.

Looks like she's
been stabbed to death.

Now, we've secured this
floor but not the next.

So confine your work
to down here only.

Silent Witness
Season 15 - Episode 01

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Death Has No Dominion
Part 1

"And death shall have no dominion

"Dead men naked they shall be one

"With the man in the
wind and the west moon



"When their bones are picked
clean and the clean bones gone

"They shall have
stars at elbow and foot

"Though they go mad
they shall be sane

"Though they sink through
the sea they shall rise again

"Though lovers be
lost love shall not

"And death shall have no dominion."

- Right, it's time to go, girls.
- Coming, Dad!

Right, we're off, Lizzie.
Back in about an hour or so, yeah?

Bye, Mum.

"And death shall have no dominion

"Under the windings of the sea

"They lying long
shall not die windily

"Twisting on racks
when sinews give way

"Strapped to a wheel, yet
they shall not break..."



See you.

"Faith in their hands
shall snap in two

"And the unicorn evils
run them through..."

"Split all ends up

"they shan't crack

"And death shall have no dominion."

"And death shall have no dominion

"No more may gulls
cry at their ears

"Or waves break
loud on the seashores

"Where blew a flower
may a flower no more

"lift its head to
the blows of the rain

"Though they be mad
and dead as nails

"Heads of the characters
hammer through daisies

"Break in the sun till
the sun breaks down

"And death shall have no dominion."

Do it.

Do it.

It's lovely to see you, Derek.

Take care.

All right?

- Funny Leo didn't turn up.
- Actually it's not.

He texted me.

Texted you?

Yeah.

Lizzie Fraser committed
suicide this afternoon.

The police are
going to pay for this.

I mean it.

Work.

Things were OK with your
father, weren't they?

Last couple of years.

They were OK.

- DS Charlie Winter.
- Detective Inspector Connie James.

Nice to meet you, Charlie.

So you're heading
this one up, are you?

No, I just happened to be
passing by a major crime scene.

Thought I'd look in.

I'm up here, by the way.

Lead on, DS Winter, please.

Oh, thanks.

DI Connie James.

I'm Harry Cunningham, pathologist.
This is Professor Leo Dalton.

Hi.

His bus pass and

Game loyalty card identify
him as Luke Francis.

Who would do this?

Who would do this?

For what it's worth
the till's empty,

as is the safe below the counter,

apart from a few deposit slips.

Don't tell me in all this
he didn't leave his DNA.

Those wounds to his chest.

They're too shallow to
have left all this blood.

Is that a question?

He was found with
a bag over his head

and there were signs of petechial
haemorrhaging in his eyes.

So COD was asphyxia?

If we establish cause of death,
it'll be at the postmortem.

In the mortuary.

So where'd all this
blood come from?

There was another body recovered in
the house with substantial injuries.

Mick Francis, the homeowner.

Looks like he was handcuffed to
that pipe but managed to break free.

- And the missing piece?
- There.

How'd it get all
the way over there?

You can see all these circular
lacerations on the wrist.

And these paint chips round the cuffs
look like they're the same colour

as the pipe from the shop.

-So he managed to free himself, then?
- Maybe. Temporarily.

- Is that the emblem of the SAS?
- I believe it is.

Doesn't really go with the earring
and the Easy Rider poster, does it?

So where'd the fire start?

Up here.

- Do we have an ID?
- Jessie Francis, apparently.

Daughter of Mick Francis,
the guy on the stairs

and, er, mother of...

..Luke, the boy.

Christ.

- She was raped, wasn't she?
- She was partially clothed

when she was set on fire but

sexual assault may
be hard to prove.

Thank you.

Sorry, just need some air.

I almost envy her.

- The baby?
- Her shock.

Ever since Dad, I feel...

- I don't even want to say it.
- Numb.

How we handle pain, I suppose.

- What if we never get it back again?
- He was your dad.

Perhaps the death of strangers
just won't register for a while.

Frightening thought.

Perhaps I'm not meant
to do this job forever.

- All right?
- Yeah.

Sort of.

It is a bad one.

And they've entrusted
it to a humble DI

who's six months along.

- Do you want to do it?
- That's irrelevant.

- Is it?
- Yeah.

By chucking out time,
I'll have been bumped

for some ambitious Chief Super.

But do you want to do it?

Yeah, I do.

All right.

All right, guys.

We're almost certainly looking
for someone with previous

for sex crimes, even if
it's just window peeping.

Jessie Francis was the
target here,

her father and her son
were collateral damage.

Jessie had a travel pass
but no driving licence

so it looked like she
and her son came by bus.

Which bus? Where from?

Any witnesses see them get off?
Anybody get off at the same time?

Check with the bus
company right now.

They might be scrubbing the
CCTV footage as we speak.

We need to go and
speak to Jessie's mum.

I'm so sorry about
the memorial service.

Don't be silly. Harry told
me about Lizzie Fraser.

- Yeah.
- So sad.

It's more than sad,
it's an outrage.

Poor kids. Did she
leave a note or anything?

Didn't have to. Buckinghamshire
Police wrote it for her.

Every bloody word.

DI James wanted to
know if we could do

the three postmortems
consecutively first thing?

I'd be surprised if DI James
wasn't bumped before tomorrow.

Exactly what she
said, funnily enough.

Obviously, she knows
she's out of her depth.

I thought she did OK.

Out of her depth how?

Pressing me for cause of death
in the middle of a crime scene?

She hardly pressed you, Leo. She wanted
to get a handle on the situation...

Which we weren't in a
position to tell her...

- ..in what was a cluster bomb of a scene.
- All right, girls.

It's been a long day.

I know, I'm sorry
to hear about that.

You're right. It's...

it's three crime
scenes in one. And so

We'll do the postmortems
as a team.

Make sure we get the whole picture.

- 10am, all right?
- Great.

12 years ago, my sister Mary,
a forensic scientist,

was murdered by a crack
addict at a crime scene

'the police were
supposed to have secured.

Now, I did not sue
for dismissals,

I did not seek to apportion blame.

And I urged my colleagues
at the Forensic Science Service

to pull together with the police

to ensure her killer was convicted.

Sadly, that spirit of collaboration

between the police and
the FSS is long gone.

If something goes right,
the police take the credit.

And if something goes
wrong, we get the blame.

The collapse of the case against
the so-called Mosque Bomber

was due to a number of factors,
the forensics being just one.

The evidence that I gave in...

Have they given you any idea

how long this review will last?

No, but the good news is
they're starting on Monday.

So, well, it goes without saying,

we've nothing to hide so...

well, we're hoping a
fortnight, or a month tops.

Right, Lizzie?

Right.

And in the interim

you want us to take on
Chesham's pathology work?

Well, in a word, yes.

Yes, we can do that. That's fine.

That is bloody great of you.
I don't know what to say.

The way the Buckinghamshire Police

scapegoated Lizzie is appalling.

You're a true friend, Leo.

Especially now
we're in competition.

Obviously, we'll contribute stocks

and supplies and other resources.

- Thanks.
- No.

Thank you, Leo.

- We'll be in touch, yes?
- Right.

Right, well, I'll call you,
Lizzie.

You look as if you
could do with a drink.

Ursula,

if you want to do this
later, absolutely we can.

Jessie took after her dad.

Inherited his wild streak.

I was always the odd one out.

The boring one.

How old was Jessie when
you and Mick separated?

16.

When she was 15, she got pregnant
after a one-night-stand at a party.

And I wanted her to...

stop the pregnancy but she refused.

And...

..her dad stood by her.

She had the baby?

And that was Luke?

- Yes.
- OK.

More recently, were there
any men in Jessie's life?

Ex-boyfriends or unwanted suitors?

Guys who wouldn't take
no for an answer, maybe?

No.

You seem very sure.

Jessie...

..wasn't into boys.

She was gay.

She was always a daddy's girl.

We'd grown closer recently.

She'd calmed down a bit and

got a job as a teaching assistant.

Would you...

..would you like to
see some video I took

the last time they came over?

- Actually...
- Yes, I'd like that very much.

Mick had a winged dagger tattoo.

Was he a fan of the SAS?

Mick was in the SAS.

I know it doesn't go with the
earring and the ponytail, does it?

But that was Mick.

A walking contradiction.

Mick worshipped Jessie.

He would have done
everything to save her.

He did.

He did.

The body is that of a
well-nourished adult male

appearing approximately
the recorded age of 58.

There are no decomposition
changes noted.

The deceased is in
good general condition.

There are multiple stab wounds
to the upper chest and throat.

And to the abdomen.

There are defensive wounds of a
similar shape to the left hand...

- But not to the right?
- No.

He was right-handed. Why wouldn't he
defend himself with his right hand?

I don't know.

Perhaps he damaged his right hand when
he was freeing himself from the pipe?

- Did he break any bones?
- No.

Then that doesn't add up for me.

You're right. Let's
come back to it.

A single right boot print
on the victim's back.

And extensive bruising
suggesting that he was stamped on

whilst he was still alive.

There's what appears
to be a stun gun burn

in the middle of the upper back.

And there are also brush abrasions

studded with grit,

suggesting the body's been
dragged for some distance.

Fire-damaged clothes recovered
at the scene belong to the victim,

so she was partially undressed
shortly before or after her death.

Burn patterns
and coloration

suggest that she was splashed
with petrol over her genital area.

- That's where he left his DNA?
- Very possibly.

- He raped her?
- Or he didn't.

As yet there's no forensic evidence
of rape.

You'll swab for
semen, though, right?

Of course, but given
the fire damage,

I don't hold out much hope.

The...

the light stab wounds
across the chest of the boy.

- What's that all about?
- They could be hesitation marks.

That's a forensic hallmark
indicating an inability

to wield the knife.

So he suffocates
him instead. He's...

altogether easier.

And the bag would spare him
the sight of his face. His eyes.

He falters.

He's not a seasoned
cold-blooded killer.

Or killers. Could be more than one.

They had absolutely
no hesitation at all

about wielding the knife
against Mick Francis.

That allows room for a whole other
interpretation of Luke's wounds,

that they are
evidence of piquerism.

Piquerism?

A paraphilia in which
sexual gratification is found

through the
penetration of the skin,

typically by stabbing or cutting.

What's your point?

I'll tell you what it isn't.
It's not that I think piquerism is

is more likely than
hesitation marks.

But there are at least two,

probably more valid,
but

intirely different
interpretations to be had.

Right, well, now
we've cleared that up,

- let's move on.
- Let's.

Is there some kind of...

new rule...

prohibiting interpretations
that might be remotely useful?

No,

but there's a very
old one that says

the evidence should
speak for itself.

Spoken like a politician.

Well, I am a politician,
Harry. I have to be.

- You don't.
- Lizzie's death

is tragic, but it has
no bearing in there.

Apart from the fact that she was

the pathologist
scapegoated by the police?

Come on, Leo,
there's no conspiracy here.

We are not going to get
closed down for doing our job.

Well, actually, we
might, if you tell them

that the shallow stab wounds prove

a fledgling, guilt-ridden killer

- and he turns out to be nothing of the sort.
- I didn't say that.

Well, you were well on your way.

I understand it. It's a vile case.

DI James is in over her
head. You want to help.

But if you think
she won't turn on you

the second that you lead
her down a blind alley,

then you are deluded.

The police have been
the fall guys for years

and now they've learned
how to pass the buck to us.

And if that sounds like
paranoia, then let me

introduce you to Lizzie Fraser's
husband and two children.

Why didn't Mick Francis defend
himself with his right hand?

If we're not here to
answer that question,

what are we doing?

I got that list of serious sex
offenders in a ten mile radius.

- Legenda n?o traduzida -

- How many?
- 157.

I don't have the manpower
to interview half of that!

You'll have to find other
criteria, get the list down.

- Criteria?
- Factors.

Hello! DI James!

- Connie!
- Hi.

Hi, sorry.

Look, I couldn't help overhearing
what you were just talking about

in the foyer and I really don't
think you should be wasting your time

looking for a serial sex offender.

- Really?
- No.

I think it was a
robbery gone wrong.

The till was empty, yes?

- Bonus prize.
- Well, except for the fact

there was no trace of
any blood inside the till

or inside the safe.

- So what?
- Well, so if the killer

just grabbed the
cash on his way out

as a kind of afterthought
we'd have transfer.

Wouldn't we? I mean, his hands

or his gloves, at least, would've
been covered with blood by then.

Look, I mean, it's human, I know,

to see the Devil's work and

and expect, or hope maybe,
that a devil is responsible.

But, in my experience at least,

what you actually
find behind the curtain is

Disappointing even.

OK.

What else makes you
think it was a robbery?

It'd be easier just to show you.

Yeah?

All the evidence points to
a lone killer, doesn't it?

It would appear so,
but you never know.

OK...

OK, so...

the killer arrives here at the shop

just before it closes.

Maybe he makes a show of...

buying something
to distract Mick or

- to make him turn around...
- Makes sense.

I've tilled up. Ah, never mind.

What can I get you?

The stun gun burn
was right in the

- centre of Mick's back, wasn't it?
- Yeah.

My guess is that that's
when he stamped on his back.

Triumphant, like a hunter
standing over his kill.

Yeah!

But why cuff him? Why not
just take the money and run?

Mick was a big guy. The stun gun
will only incapacitate him

- for a short period.
- Yeah. He needs time

to get the keys off Mick
to unlock the safe...

Which would take, what, a minute?

- Couple of minutes, tops?
- And Mick will cooperate

cos he wants this guy gone

before Jessie and Luke arrive.

So the killer's first instinct

would be to incapacitate
Jessie and Luke.

He can't have them
raising the alarm.

- So he brings them in here.
- Yeah.

But now he's thinking on his feet.

Maybe he, I don't know,

threatened Luke with the knife

to...

get Mick to give him
the key to the bike lock.

Yeah, and even if Mick resists,

Jessie will insist he complies.

I mean, she'll do anything
to protect her son.

Don't you dare say
anything, you hear me?

And then somewhere around here he
notices how beautiful Jessie is.

The kind of girl he'd never
get near in the real world.

- Sorry.
- Yeah.

You've reached Dr.
Harry Cunningham's phone.

I can't take your call...

Oh, Leo. I've identified
the model of the stun gun.

It's German. Like the police issue
handcuffs and the Kevlar mine boots

it's top-of-the-range stuff.
Not much change from a grand.

Stun guns are illegal in the UK.

Yeah and most of Europe
but not the States.

So I think we should
be looking at mail order

- survivalist websites.
- Where's Harry?

I don't know.

OK, a question.

Why does he risk taking Jessie
all the way over to the house?

Move.

It's going to be OK, Luke.

Leave her alone, you bastard!

Why not?

I mean, Mick and Luke
are safely subdued.

He can't have the kid screaming,

plus Jessie is
compliance itself by now.

What? "If I give him what he wants,

"then he'll let my son live"?

Do it. Do it!

We don't need to linger on
what happened inside the house.

He's destroyed the evidence anyway.

But he is now a murderer.

So all he's focused on
is getting away with it.

He comes back here to
finish off Mick and Luke.

Kills Mick.

And that left Luke.

God, how scared must he have been?

The killer must have
been pretty jumpy too.

Hang on a second, look at this.

Look at this.

You all right, Luke?

I think he got a nasty
surprise from Mick.

When he came back
there was a fight.

Leave him alone!

Grandad...

Yes, that's why the pipe
was all the way over here.

I knew he had to have a reason
for dragging Mick over there.

- He's trying to burn the body.
- Yeah, but not Luke.

- Why drag Mick?
- Well, he's not worried

about us finding transfer on Luke.

Exactly. He must have
lost some blood.

So if the pipe made
contact with the killer,

there's a chance of DNA, right?

A fighting chance.

- Dr. Alexander?
- Speaking.

This is St Clare's Church.

Oh, hi.

I hope your father's memorial

- went off to your satisfaction?
- Yes. Thanks.

Good, well, listen,
I'm just calling

because we had rather a lot

of unused service sheets left over.

Oh, right...

yes, that's my fault,
I printed too many.

'Well, do you want to come
and pick them up or shall we...

shall we dispose of them?

Dr. Alexander?

You can dispose of them, thanks.

Thank you.

We have blood spatter.

Could be Mick's?
Trying to free himself?

Nope, the pattern looks
like a single sharp impact.

Good news?

If the killer's DNA is on
the database, very good news.

Harry?

Actually, I just need
to make some phone calls.

Have you been back
to the crime scene?

Trying to figure out a chronology.

- Were you going to mention it?
- No need.

Just a
spur-of-the-moment thing.

Honestly.

And?

And I didn't want Leo throwing
a spanner in the works.

- Harry...
- We can't

just stop working
because a friend of Leo's

has been unfairly treated,
IF that is what happened.

For all we know she was guilty

of misleading
Buckinghamshire Police.

And we're the same
talking. Just because

Leo's been personally affected,
that's no reason to think...

Come on, there's every reason!
You saw him in that postmortem.

He was so censoring!

He didn't allow anything for
this investigation to work on.

- We're a team.
- No, we're not a team.

We're part of a team.
And the other part,

like or not, is the police.
And...

if we just stop engaging with them

then the only winners
are the bad guys.

Tom Byrne.

Thank you.

Where?

A farm off the M25.

Three people are dead.

One of them a child.

- We sure it's her?
- DNA says so.

I want to speak to the senior
forensics, the pathologist

and the DI who was in
charge until 30 seconds ago.

- Yes, sir.
- And Ginny?

I want them to come here.

They need to see what
they're a part of.

If something goes right,
the police take the credit,

and if something goes
wrong, we get the blame.

There was one batch of
toxicology which showed traces

of hydroquinone peroxide
under his fingernails.

So not the bog-standard peroxide

that he might have come into
contact with at his work?

Right, and the police
got very excited

when I said that
hydroquinone might be

a potentially explosive catalyst.

- But you re-tested?
- Of course.

No hydroquinone.

How did the police take that?

Badly. By that time
they'd made up their mind.

Deepak Khan had been making bombs.

They'd had him on their
watch list for years

and they wanted their day in court.

So how do you account
for that first test?

Cross-contamination. A misreading.

Or Khan really had got trace
amounts of the chemical on him.

Three possibilities.

None very satisfactory?

No.

Don't...don't take this
the wrong way but...

..is there any way you
might have misled the police?

In court,

under huge pressure,

I may have changed one "probable"

in my police report to a "possible"

but that's it.

It never crossed my mind

they were pinning their entire case

against Khan on my interpretation.

No, of course not.

When my sister died...

..I nearly stopped.

Not because I was afraid or angry

or because I thought
it would happen to me...

..but because...

What?

It's crazy.

Lizzie.

You can tell me.

I felt as though Mary
was telling me to stop.

Warning me.

There.

Told you it was crazy.

Hey, hey, come on.

I've been wanting to
do that for 20 years.

Goodbye, Leo.

I've caused you
enough trouble already.

Leo! I was worried.

The office said you
left two hours ago.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I've just been...

driving around, you know.

- I understand, I just wanted...
- Hello, Simon.

Leo.

I'm arranging Lizzie's funeral.

Greg's not up to it, I'm afraid.

He's... he's in a dreadful state.

Well, that's very good of you.

He wanted me to pass
on a message, though.

- OK?
- He's very much hoping

that you would read
at the service.

Yeah, of course. Yeah,
of course. I'd be glad to.

Leo.

Simon said you saw
Lizzie last week?

Week before last, actually.

You didn't mention it.

- Didn't I?
- No.

I told you I'd agreed to
help out with their workload.

They came to see me about that.

It's not the kind of thing
you sort out on the phone.

No, of course.

How did she seem?

Fine, well, upset.

Understandably so.

But relieved you were
stepping into the breach?

Yeah. Yeah, of course.

What?

Just seems a bit odd
you didn't mention it.

I mean,
not at the time but...

afterwards.

I'm sorry.

Hello?

This is...

this is the Wraith inquiry.

It is indeed.

First she was the Ghost.

Then a Scottish crime correspondent
christened her the Wraith.

And what has it got
to do with our case?

Let me offer some background.

Since 2000,

the DNA of an unidentified
female perpetrator,

the Wraith,

has been found at a huge
array of crime scenes

across Buckinghamshire
and Hertfordshire,

most notably the
murder of PC Maalik Amar

in Marlow on Christmas Eve 2010.

But that was not the
Wraith's first murder.

She killed Meg Stiles
in November 2000,

apparently for the meagre
contents of a jewellery box.

Now it seems

her DNA has been found at
the Ashtree Farm crime scene.

Inside a pipe, I believe.

Sorry, sir. The
recovered DNA is female?

One set is female, one set is male.

But there was only one
set of shoe prints...

sir.

I have some questions of
my own if that's all right?

No...

- I mean, yes. Of course.
- Thank you.

Now I understand this was
a messy, complicated scene

with a high volume
of trace evidence.

- That's correct.
- Is there a specific reason

why you chose to
swab inside the pipe?

Well, when I...when we
reconstructed the scene,

it became clear that Mick Francis

had used the pipe as
an improvised weapon.

What led you to that conclusion?

There was an outstanding
question from the postmortem

as to why Francis had defensive
injuries on his left hand,

not his right
when he was right-handed.

Attack is the best form of defence.

We also found
crescent-shaped indentations

on a wooden doorframe, witch...

matched the
circumference of the pipe.

Any splinters of
wood inside the pipe?

Yeah, some.

Sounds like your
theory panned out, then?

Not quite, sir.
We felt

sure the perpetrator was male.

Acting alone.

It's entirely possible,

in fact probable,

that
a male was present.

Ginny, can we have a
look at the Amar footage?

Now this...

is CCTV footage

depicting the murder
of PC Maalik Amar

on Christmas Eve 2010.

Is it the slighter figure
that you think is The Wraith?

Aye. We recovered DNA

on the far side of the back seat

the CCTV showed her climbing in.

The dynamic between the
shooter and the Wraith

gels with our profile.

That she's an addictive personality

who lives for kicks,

whether it's drugs

or giving the finger to the police

or turning lowlife
losers into killers.

And rapists?

Aye, so it would seem.

Are you surprised she'd be involved

in a sexual assault
on another woman?

Nothing would surprise
me at this point in time.

The sexual element,

together with the murder
of a child, are new.

But as you've seen,

cold-blooded murder and
male accomplices are not.

Over the years, DNA
evidence suggests

she likes working with men.

And those identified have
proven to be drug addicts

and lowlife criminals -
weak people she can manipulate.

Has she ever worked
with the same man twice?

Once.

And the lucky guy hanged
himself in his cell

while we were
questioning him about her.

That's the level
of fear she instils.

But he did furnish us with an
E-FIT before he killed himself.

I've taken over many cases
from other officers

during the course of this
inquiry.

And I've benefited
greatly from a full

from a full and comprehensive
debrief in each case.

But you should be
under no illusions.

The Ashtree Farm murderers

will be subsumed into my inquiry.

DI James?

Yes, sir. Of course.

Harry?

When exactly did you and DI James

"reconstruct the scene" together?

I had a specific and I hope
valuable reading of the scene

- I wanted her to hear.
- I'd like to hear it too

if that's all right with you.

OK.

Essentially that it
was a robbery gone bad.

That sounds more for me like

a reading of a criminal
than a crime scene.

Never been a problem in the past.

Well, it is now.

Leo, I work with you,
not for you.

Not even with me so
far on this showing!

Moving forward, it makes sense

if I deal with one
pathologist rather than three.

Would that be you, Professor Dalton?

No, it will be Dr. Alexander.

This is a triple murder linked to

one of the worst serial
offenders in recent memory.

I'm aware of that.

And you're just too busy, are you?

Something better to be doing?

My administrative duties stack up

at this time of year and
your case requires 100%.

And on top of those duties,

you're shouldering the
workload of the Chesham lab?

That's right.

No doubt you're acquainted with the
pathologist who committed suicide.

Professor Fraser.

I imagine among the
Forensic Pathology community

there's a sense that
Buckinghamshire Police are to blame.

That they made her a scapegoat for

their big case
crashing and burning.

Is that why you don't
want to work with me?

I was more than acquainted
with Professor Lizzie Fraser.

She was a good friend of mine.

And actually it's
not the only reason.

- I'm intrigued.
- It was my partner Janet

who did the profile for you.

So being involved so
closely feels inappropriate.

Janet.

A small world.
How is she?

Oh, she's fine.

She did a great job
for us.

A light in the darkness.

You be sure to give her my best.

Sir, there's a call.

Excuse me.

Surely what happened at
Ashtree Farm is an atrocity

that requires the combined
efforts of all three of us?

Number one, there was nothing
"combined" about you and DI James

going off to reconstruct
the crime scene.

And number two, you're
not off the case.

You're working to Nikki.

- Do you have a problem with that?
- Of course not.

What I have a problem with is why
I am working to her on this case.

And I cannot believe that
if Lizzie Fraser was here...

- Never mind.
- What?

If Lizzie Fraser was here...what?

- Never mind.
- Come on, Harry!

Courage and conviction!

I cannot believe that
if Lizzie Fraser was here

she would want this dead
young woman and her son

short-changed so that
you can prove a point!

- Leo!
- Nikki?

In the morning I'd
like you to walk me

through the scene at Ashtree Farm.

- Meantime...
- Connie.

I'll get you the postmortem reports

of our other victims to
bring you up to speed.

I think we need to
document everything

we found at Ashtree Farm. Now.

- Today.
- Why?

I don't know.

Two people? Really?

Maybe we just missed something.

Going around a Detective Super.
It's a bad idea.

Who said anything about
going around anyone?

- I'm off the case. You heard him.
- I also heard him say

he values "a full and
comprehensive debrief".

You should've been a bloody lawyer.

Come on, let's get it all
down. We'll get a take-away,

- my treat.
- Rash words.

- I'm eating for two.
- Really?

I thought you were just fat.

Could you clear Dr.
Alexander a desk, Ginny?

And dig out the path reports
for the three murders.

Sure.

Listen up, people!

Go home.

Get some sleep.

I sense tomorrow
will be a long day.

This triple murder feels
disorganised and reckless.

She'll be vulnerable,
on edge...

and God willing she
might even make a mistake.

The morning briefing is
here at 5am. Off you go.

You too, Ginny.

- Shouldn't there be a preliminary...?
- I need you on your game tomorrow.

- Yes, sir.
- Make yourself at home.

All right?

You're all over the news, man.

- You killed a kid.
- Collateral damage.

Bit of mission creep...

bit of course-correction required.

Yeah, but what's your plan?

What's your exit strategy?

What're you talking
about? "Exit strategy!"

You're a moron, you know that?

At least I'm not "The Most
Wanted Man In England".

Give it a week. They'll find
something else to worry about.

Iraq, Afghanistan,
the stock market.

Hey, get your trainers off the
covers. My mum's just washed them.

Just tell me again. What happened?

- From the beginning.
- Will you shut up?

You're putting me off!

Don't know why I
bother coming round.

Yeah, me neither.

Meg was a schoolteacher,

a First Aid volunteer,

a fund-raiser for
a Cancer Research,

and the mother of five boys.

Murdered in her
home for loose change

and a couple of silver-plated
rings worth 50 quid.

Where was the DNA found?

On the scarf and a teacup.

- Are you one sugar?
- Yes, one please.

And Ray Carpenter?

Antique dealer in Windsor,
low end of the market.

He was shutting up
shop on a Friday night

when she attacked.

20 stab wounds and immolation.

What does that say to you?

- Listen, I'm not a profiler...
- Come on, Nikki.

None of us work in isolation.

Off the record?

Overkill like that typically
suggests a very personal motive,

or the aggressor's suffering
from some form of psychosis.

Janet's profile
suggests a long-term

but high-functioning drug addict.

Right. Based on what?

Based on the fact
that two days after

she murdered Ray Carpenter,

a syringe of her blood was
found in a school playground.

There was heroin residue
mixed in with the blood.

What about her other crimes?

DNA links her to 16 break-ins,
three street robberies,

and a dozen or so car thefts.

Her DNA was also found on a bullet

recovered from the brain
of a nightclub bouncer.

Now we don't think she
was present at the scene.

More likely she sold
the gun to the killer.

The three street robberies,

what kinds of
descriptions did they give?

Vague. She's always hooded or masked

and nearly all her crimes
were committed at night.

The guy was ex-SAS.

- Ex-SAS!
- No shit, Sherlock.

Dark, man.

You are dark. I knew you
were bad but this? This is...

Was there a woman?

Was there anybody up
there with you at the farm?

What?!

Again.

Just, did anyone, you
know, talk you into it?

What the hell would you say
a stupid thing like that for?

Eh?

The Devil.

The Devil was up there with me.

She's a thrill seeker

of the most dangerous kind.

And the biggest kick of all

is embroiling the weak and
the needy in her crimes.

Killing by remote control.

Come on, Lee.
Now it's time to clean up.

You think she went into the house
with the killer and Jessie?

You think she witnessed
the rape?

At the killing of PC Amar she
got into the car with the gunman.

Sir, it's me.

I don't know what kind of face
Dr. Alexander's putting on for you

but it's not her real one.

And DI James is still
very much on the team.

You disobeyed a direct order
from a senior officer

and you're obstructing
a live inquiry.

- Bullshit.
- Harry, don't.

- I'd be careful.
- Why's that?

Detective Superintendent Byrne
is very possessive of this case.

And his bite is considerably
worse than his bark.

12 years we've been
waiting for this!

She's killed a cop.

So what's left?

Have you all come here to
question Janet's findings?

They're more afraid of her
than they are of me.

I'm not a cold-blooded killer.

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