Silent Witness (1996–…): Season 18, Episode 4 - A Special Relationship: Part 2 - full transcript

His name's Israel Eze, Nigerian.

~ St Jude's, it's a night shelter.
~ Miss?

You dropped it.

You're very trusting.
I could be anyone.

I saw a man jump in
front of a Tube train.

He kind of reminded
me of you a little.

Dr Alexander, I presume?
DI Luke Nelson.

You ask for help and everyone
looks right through you.

Except for you.

~ This thing with Martha Stone, it's, er...
~ It's...?

It's kind of brought back some stuff



that I'd buried for a
while, personal stuff.

What about this? You put
him up for adoption, yeah?

I was 14, got told to by my parents.
They thought it was for the best.

What about your mum - what
happened to her that night?

Just took her away. Did eight years.
Never really recovered from it.

It's a kind of X-shaped impression.
Some kind of screwdriver?

Agh!

I said I'd find him,
yeah? I'll find him.

SHE SCREAMS

♪ Testator silens

♪ Costestes e spiritu

♪ Silentium. ♪

REPORTERS CLAMOUR

As I'm sure you're all aware, these
are indeed serious incidents



but Transport For London
has increased security

and we are taking all
the precautions we can.

Yes, the victims had
all taken Tube journeys,

but there is no reason to panic
or avoid using the underground.

Our advice is to go about
your business as normal

and if you see anything untoward,
please report to station staff.

In the meantime, be
vigilant and be safe.

So four murders?

Potentially four, Ma'am - we're
not sure about Israel Eze.

All with the same MO

and the public isn't
informed until just now,

and I wasn't told until this morning.

~ Well, with respect, Ma'am...
~ With respect?!

I am standing out there
in front of the press

reading a statement about cases
I know bugger-all about,

except what you have deigned to tell
me once the shit has hit the fan.

~ The squad is not your personal
private fiefdom, John.
~ Ma'am.

All right.

Luke?

He's not in this job much longer.

~ You know he's stepping down, right?
~ Ma'am.

You are favourite to take it on,
but only if I get some co-operation.

I will not have this feudal state
known as the Murder Squad

~ carrying on after his
retirement. Am I clear?
~ Yes, Ma'am.

SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE

So why are you going to work?

Just want to carry on like normal.

~ Pretend like nothing's happened, yeah...
~ Look,

~ I told you last night...
~ .. like nothing's changed?

Loving somebody and trusting
them works both ways, yeah?

His name's Jamal Jennings. Next
of kin have been informed.

Petechial haemorrhaging.

So, again, strangulation.

Yes, but not the cause of death -
that was most likely the carotid.

Nikki...

.. something here.

Looks like a cloth fibre.

Mm-hm.

I found a piece of fabric at
the scene under the body -

could be the same source.

From his clothes or the killer's?

Either way, he put up a fight.

Pri-ya Beck.

Pree-ya.

Sorry.

~ How are you doing?
~ How do you think?

You know, if there
was any alternative,

I wouldn't put you through
this right now.

Do you recognise this guy?

Yeah.

He was sitting in the carriage.

OK. Did you get a clear
look at his face?

Clarissa, we found this under
his fingernails, this fibre.

Is this the same stuff Nikki
found under the body?

My expert eye

tells me that, yes, it is indeed

from the same source.

Boss.

Thanks.

~ Jack.
~ Thanks.

Thanks.

So that's him.

Should be on lunchtime TV.

Why these three victims, hmm?

There's no obvious
connection between them.

Maybe there IS no connection. Maybe
they were randomly targeted.

A homeless guy, a deacon, a roofer...

A therapist - a psychologist.

Hang on, did HE know
the other victims?

Did he work with them professionally?

We got access to his patient
records - Jamal's?

We're getting that, boss, yeah.

And homeless shelters
you contacted...?

Well, we don't know for
sure he is homeless.

Actually, I think we
can prove that he is.

OK, so this material -

I e-mailed every tailor I
could find and got a result.

This was manufactured
exclusively, as they say,

for Parks & Richards, Savile Row -

it was used to line
some sample coats.

So somehow he ended up
with a Savile Row coat?

They gave away the samples
to a homeless shelter.

~ How many?
~ Three.

Which shelter?

~ St Jude's.
~ St Jude's?

There was a connection
to St Jude's, remember?

Israel Eze stayed there - he left
his passport and stuff there.

~ That's right.
~ A coat?

Hang on.

The coat was wrecked in
the accident. Let's see.

Yeah, same lining.

Let's get some of
these out and about,

see if anyone knows
anything. Here you go.

Boss?

Here, get off!

Same coat, so that's
coat number three,

~ and this guy recognises
our man from the E-FIT.
~ Name?

Suspect? Owen. But
that's it. No surname.

What, they don't have to sign in?

Only if you stay. Of course he
never did - just had a look,

got warm, seemingly blagged
a coat and moved on.

Ah, we'll see what
these guys turn up.

So what did Gardner want?

Have it, mate. You're welcome to it.

You all right? Yeah? Yeah.

PHONE CAMERA CLICKS

~ HE CHUCKLES
~ What's YOUR name, kid?

Ready, yeah? Let's go.

~ There we go. Morning.
~ Thanks.
~ Thank you.

PHONE BEEPS

Is it him?

~ I don't know.
~ How can you not tell?

He was three weeks old.

All right, we just keep
moving on, OK, Lana?

You'll know him when you see him.

You will.

SHAVER BUZZES

Nikki, possible weapons,
possible ligatures.

Would you check them through and
e-mail them to DI Nelson? Thanks.

Timing belts?

Yes, yes,

they have teeth which match the
bruising on the victims' necks.

The blade's not so easy to pin down.

I've left you a list
of possibilities.

Hi.

Hi, me again. Where are you?

Ach, I'm heading to Mornington Crescent.
I'm at a bit of a dead end.

I'm going to run the route
he took when he killed Jamal,

~ 'and see if it turns anything up.'
~ I've got some information
for you. Can I join you?
~ 'Feel free.'

LIFT DOOR SHUTS

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Nikki!

So he had access to a J key
to get him into that cab -

now we're looking at a
timing belt as a ligature.

That's all machinery,
maintenance, access to trains,

knowledge of the network.

Yeah, I just thought you'd want to
see that sooner rather than later.

So why this route?

Why did he take this
route with Jamal?

OK, well, we know there's
a major homeless connection.

Did Rosemary have anything
to do with St Jude's?

~ No.
~ Jamal?
~ Uh-uh.

You've checked whether there's
a link between Owen and Jamal?

There's no patient
with the name Owen,

not matching our guy's description.

What?

What?

The night your father was murdered...

You want to talk about this now?

I did say, right, not
to bother with it...

OK, I need to ask you something.

Do you remember, was it raining?

What? No. I don't know.

It wasn't. I checked.

There were clear skies
all day and night.

OK, time of death was estimated
at midnight, right?

This was taken less than
half an hour after.

So why is your hair wet?

She killed your father

and then what -

calmly set about giving you a bath?

Why would she do that?

Her clothes from that night.

And the father's.

And the boy's.

You got this up from storage,
from police storage?

Mm-hm.

Why are you looking at this now?

~ McLeod'll do his nut.
~ Just a few questions.

Have these been washed since?

No, they're untouched.

They had a confession, it
was an open and shut case,

so they just stored
them as they were.

~ And we're looking for
blood traces, I presume?
~ Mm-hm.

Forensics would have run this
test back then, wouldn't they?

It wasn't available 20-odd years ago.

These are clean.

Fine traces here.

~ Tiny spray of blood, airborne.
~ You sure?
~ Mm-hm.

It was a stabbing.

The blood could've got there at some
point after the incident, right?

No, the spray pattern would suggest
this kid was close to the victim

at the moment of attack.

Maybe standing to the side,
maybe looking into the car?

Now, that I couldn't tell you
- not without more detail.

Hey...

Hey, Luke.

She told me I arrived
after the killing.

She was standing by
the car and... and...

.. she had blood on her
hands... and on her dress.

~ I did it.
~ Hey, no, the evidence doesn't...

No, I did it. I can remember.

Gina!

Well, your prints would've
been on the knife.

'So she wiped it...'

'.. and then she confessed
to cover for me.'

Right, what's this about, Nikki?
It's personal to him, innit?

I'm sorry, it wasn't my...
It was confidential.

~ Didn't have to lie about it.
~ No-one lied.

KNOCK ON DOOR

~ All right?
~ Hi.

What's up with you?

Nothing.

~ We got a match with the weapon?
~ This?

No. No, this is something
else I'm working on.

So where are WE?

I'm looking to YOU here, Luke -

the guy with the grey matter - that's
why you're on the team, yeah?

~ Mm.
~ I need you here.
~ Yep.

OK, the Israel Eze death - there were
witnesses to that, weren't there?

And a hair trophy was taken, so...

~ It follows the murderer may
have been on that platform.
~ Mm.

Yeah, but we checked the CCTV,
there's no match with the E-FIT.

The platform's packed, half the
passengers' faces aren't visible.

Officers at that station
got a list of names, yeah?

~ Everybody who was on the platform?
~ Yeah.

So pick 'em up, show 'em the E-FIT,

see if it jogs any memories - and
hope to Christ you get lucky.

Thanks. I'm sorry.

None of my business.

We're looking for Lana Sutherland.

That's me.

Inspector Nelson. You witnessed an
incident at Finsbury Park Station.

~ Yeah.
~ Yeah.

Thanks.

Would it be possible to come with
us to answer a few questions?

It's fine.

Lana Sutherland?

Hi. The police have
explained, have they?

This is just a follow-up on the
death you witnessed on the Tube.

We need your DNA and fingerprints.

~ They'll just be used for this?
~ Yeah, then destroyed.

Now you swivel your bum round.

~ Hey.
~ PHONE CLICKS

It's a pretty boy.

Is this the man you're
looking for, is it?

~ You seen him before?
~ On the news.

If he was there when the man died,

CCTV would have picked
him up, wouldn't it?

Well, maybe YOU saw him,

maybe he left the station
at the same time you did,

maybe you saw where he went?

Yeah, he was, um, he was outside
the station that day, begging.

Um...

.. just, er, describe
what happened that day.

I did, didn't I?

To officers on-site, but not to us.

OK, um...

Well, I was coming home
from work and I, um...

and I saw him on the platform,

drunk, I think, swaying and unsteady.

~ OK.
~ Um, he was getting closer
to the edge of the platform

but nobody said anything, so...

Was he on the platform too?

No, h-he was outside the station
thing, the concourse.

What, did he approach you?

Miss Sutherland?

PHONE BEEPS

Sorry. Sorry.

You OK?

Sorry, my friend's just sent me
a really cute picture of my son.

Your son?

Sorry, um...

Er, did this man approach me?

Yes, he, um...

I, um, I dropped a tenner

and he picked it up and gave
it back to me. Really sweet.

He, er... This looks just like him.

Yo. So, all right, witnesses' prints
from the Israel Eze murder.

On here too. There's loads of them.

~ Right away, boss.
~ Oh, I love it when you call me boss!

CLARISSA CHUCKLES

So, er, yeah, thanks very much for
coming in, you've been a great help.

You really have.

If you, er... if you just want
to have a wee seat just now,

someone'll be along in a couple
of minutes to escort you out.

All right? Thanks again.

Guys.

Prints from the Israel Eze
phone. We've got a match.

PHONE RINGS What else we got, then?

~ PHONE RINGS
~ Two secs, boss.

~ Nikki.
~ 'Hi. One of the witnesses'

to Israel Eze, we found
her fingerprints

'on his phone. Her name's
Lana Sutherland.'

Move. Move!

Come on.

Argh!

No sign of her.

Can we put a call out for her?

I need to know if Owen's
been in this flat.

Someone needed the loo in a hurry.

Got some hair here.

Owen's?

Hmm.

I think it might be Israel's.

He looks like me, doesn't he?

Didn't I make you happy?

What happens to me now
in your dream, hmm?

~ What do you mean?
~ What happens to ME?

We get Laurie and we go.

TRAIN APPROACHES

OK, so we've ID'd the weapons
- the ligature and the blade.

The ligature you've got,
it's a timing belt,

used in industrial engines.

And this is the blade,

it's a gun drill.

~ A what?
~ A gun drill.

X-shaped blade. This one's
used in engineering -

primarily to cut deep holes in metal.

~ So, he's a metalworker?
~ Possibly.

There's only a few companies
make this particular model.

One's called Wilding Machine Tools,
who supply a company called Devron,

who... Guess what?

Maintain Tube trains?

Hence his knowledge and access.

I've e-mailed their HR
department the E-FIT.

~ Seems he was an apprentice
there a couple of years back.
~ OK.

Some sort of charity scheme
for homeless people,

then one day,

bang, he just flips
out and disappears.

What, nobody looked for him
or reported him missing?

No. His name...

.. is Owen Hanmore.

Oi, pick up a basket.

You drop and break
shit, you pay for it.

You heard of customer relations?
We shop, you shut up, all right?

Yeah. Bread, yeah.

~ Um... One of these.
~ All right!

THEY LAUGH

TILL BUTTONS BEEP

Don't.

Yeah?

Oi, what you gonna do?

THEY GRUNT

AUDIO ECHOES, DREAMLIKE

Oi!

Oi!

Oi, what you doing?

Ahhh!

HE GROANS

Ah... uh...

DOOR OPENS

Hey.

Can I?

Sure.

How does it... feel to
put a knife in someone?

We're meat.

It's like cutting into meat.

And psychologically? Emotionally?

To me?

I have to play a trick
on myself sometimes

and pretend it's just residue.

Which it pretty much is.

There's no life left, no soul.

Do you believe in that?

Soul?

I believe...

Well, I know, actually -

I know that the bodies that
I work on, there's no person

left in there. Whatever it was
that made them present has gone.

You think a six-year-old
boy could feel that?

I don't know.

The age of criminal
responsibility is, what, ten?

Too young.

But old enough to know that when
you put a knife in someone...

You were a six-year-old boy, Luke.

He was an abusive man and you
were protecting your mother -

and she you, in the end...

You have to forgive that little boy.

You didn't even remember - how
can you accept responsibility?

Oh, but I am...

responsible,

aren't I?

I took control, even at that age.

I lashed out.

And that six-year-old boy
is still in here somewhere.

We've got another victim.

The shopkeeper's in
hospital, in theatre.

~ So if he makes it, we've got a witness.
~ Yeah.

Maybe we're not going to need him.

~ Lana Sutherland.
~ And is that Owen?

Some haircut.

Jesus.

Lana.

I'll be two minutes.

We've got some background on Lana.

Jamal was her psychologist from
when she was ten years old...

So that's the connection?

Problems with empathy and
sociopathic tendencies.

~ Wow.
~ OK.

She stopped seeing him when
she got pregnant. At 14.

Jamal wrote the report. The DCI's
going to send over some stuff.

What about the other victims?

Joel Beamish lived on Hazlemeer Road.

So did Lana - again until she was 14.

~ What about Rosemary?
~ Nothing yet.

Want some?

It's an ordinary flat.

So what's at the heart of this?

Some horror she's carrying with her?

Something festering and unresolved
- to do with the pregnancy?

What do you do with
something like that?

You bury it, don't you? If you can.

But maybe it finds its way out.

OK, so, what - she targets
her psychologist

because he knew something?

PHONE BEEPS

Well, hang on. Jamal's report.

Lana's psych evaluation.

Pregnant, we know.

~ The father?
~ Unknown.

Probably a kid from her street.

What about Joel Beamish?

OK, let's stay with
that for a second.

Say he got her pregnant and then
he didn't want to know her.

Might explain why he was a target.

OK. So why Jamal?

Just says she was... unwell, unable
to look after the child...

Her parents wanted out, so...

Yeah, here we go - he recommended
a referral to Social Services.

Right. Boy or girl?

Boy.

She showed me a photo on her phone.

So what happened to him? Where
does he sleep? Where's his stuff?

OK - a child mother,

referral to Social
Services. Parents...

~ Who don't want the baby.
~ What would happen?

Foster care.

~ Then they find him a family.
~ All right. OK.

So maybe Beamish is a target
because he fathered the kid,

Jamal because he recommended
him to be adopted...

And Rosemary?

Her husband said that she used to
be a teacher for a while, right?

Always a carer, that kind of person.

So what did she do before the church?

Social work.

Adoption.

Good. Hold on.

~ PHONE RINGS
~ It's Jack.

~ Hi Jack, you're on speaker.
~ 'Thomas. Hi.'

Er, Rosemary Stone's journals
were all over her house.

I've collated them as best
I can, but pages are missing.

OK.

'Yeah, I've made a list of
pages missing year-on-year.

'It's on my desk.'

'Jack, we got it.'

OK, the journal for five years
ago, let's start there.

Five years ago.

Yeah. Three pages missing
- beginning of September.

'OK. Is Clarissa there?'

Present and correct.

I need an ESDA test

'on that, please -
as fast as you can.'

Thanks.

INDICATOR CLICKS

PHONE RINGS

~ Hi?
~ 'Jack, yeah, yeah, we processed the page.'

Yeah.

'We think we've got
a good impression here

'from the page above - it says Lana.'

Great. Anything else?

'There's mention of a child.'

~ Laura?
~ 'No, we're looking for a boy.'

~ Laurie?
~ 'That's it!'

Thank you.

Yeah, Rosemary placed the kid -

Laurie - she found him parents.

Is that why Lana went
to Rosemary's house -

to find out where Laurie is?

RINGING TONE

Yeah, I need a trace,
on Laurie Sutherland.

Born to Lana Sutherland,
five years old.

INDICATOR CLICKS

Go in.

OK, go in and play till
Dad gets home, yeah?

SHE CRIES OUT

Now, don't scream.
Don't scream, right?

~ I've got money...
~ Sh! I don't want your money.
~ I've got money...

I DON'T want your MONEY!

Where is he? Where's your boy?

~ No!
~ Tell me. Tell me, or I'll kill you.

~ No. No!
~ Tell me or I'll kill you, all right?

Mummy?

Laurie! Laurie, no!

~ Lana!
~ Don't come in!

~ Lana!
~ Mummy!