The Fall (2013–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - These Troublesome Disguises - full transcript
Stella interviews Annie, who cannot recall anything about her attacker. Later Stella and Burns revisit Annie's house where she is menaced by locals over her affair, now public, with Olson. Baby-sitter Katie tells Sally Ann that Spector assaulted her, causing Sally Ann to ring her husband in Scotland, to where he has fled, and told him to keep way from her and her family. Spector, however, returns to Belfast to stay in a guest house. He confronts Katie, who tells him she believes he is the killer but he denies it and leaves. Stella is anxious to interview Rose Stagg, Reed's friend who knew Spector as Peter but Rose's name is leaked to the press and Spector goes after her.
I've been brought in from
the Metropolitan Police,
to lead a review into the investigation
of the murder of Alice Monroe.
He had things entirely under his control.
Which leads me to think that
this was not his first murder.
Go back to your review, Stella.
I don't want the two murders linked.
Failure to see that crimes are linked
is the thing that will allow
the killer to strike again.
- Do you think her hair's been clipped?
- Where?
There.
This is the third murder in 3 months, Jim.
If we don't stop him, he will kill again.
Excuse me, is this your purse?
Oh. Thank you so much.
There's been a shooting.
The detective we saw near the
Falls Road on Sunday night.
James Olsen is a married man, Stella.
You were a married man when
you spent a night in my bed.
He clearly has a victim type.
They are not victims of chance.
They are victims of choice.
It's possible that he's out there
stalking his next victim now.
There's someone to see you, ma'am.
Rose Stagg. A friend
of Professor Reed Smith.
I spent years interviewing
the victims of rape.
I don't think anyone ever felt worse after
talking to me about their experiences.
I have something terrible to confess.
I've been having an affair.
I called you to say it's over.
It won't be over until I stop you.
You had your chance. Now it's too late.
We have an e-fit from Rose Stagg.
Could he really look that?
Ma'am, Annie Broley has
regained consciousness.
Let's try something different.
If you were on the other
side of your bedroom,
standing by the window,
what would you have seen?
Me on the bed.
Him behind me.
I was on my side at first.
Tied up.
What else?
Can you see him clearly?
No.
It's okay.
Let's take a step back.
Earlier that night you had
dinner with your brother.
Do you remember what Joe had to eat?
Do you remember what you ordered?
What are you doing?
Once upon a time,
this worked for me.
You snap the band
on your wrist
when your thoughts and
feelings overwhelm you.
Is that mine?
Yes.
It's been brushed for prints.
They only found yours.
You'll see
some of the pages are dusty.
Some people find writing useful.
Putting down
thoughts, whatever they may be.
Reading the entries you made might help.
I'm sorry.
I want to remember, I really do.
I know.
My diary was in a drawer in my bedroom.
Yes.
He was waiting for me in my bedroom.
If he was wearing gloves,
he could've read it
and not left any prints?
Yes.
Do you think that he read it?
Yes.
I know it's hard for everyone
because I look the same.
The same as I did before.
But I'm not the same.
Hello.
Hang on.
Hang on. I've got a bad signal.
Hello.
- Daddy.
- Livy.
- Daddy.
- Can you hear me?
Yes.
- Are you okay?
- Yes.
It's the middle of the
night. Why aren't you asleep?
- I can't sleep.
- Why darlin'?
I'm really worried Daddy.
What about?
My dolls.
I left them behind. All of them.
When Mummy, me and Liam left Scotland.
What did you leave behind?
All of my dollies.
Where did you leave them?
In the bath I think. Haven't you seen them?
No.
Haven't you had a bath in all that time?
It hasn't been that long.
Nearly a whole week.
We have a shower downstairs.
The thing is, I really need them.
Can you bring them when you come home?
I'm not sure when that's gonna be, darlin'.
Why?
It was Mummy decided to go home.
Not me.
I need them Daddy. I really do.
Please Daddy. Please.
Oh Jesus!
Don't you announce yourself?
I thought that I was expected.
I wasn't sure that you'd come.
Nice shoes.
Is that why I'm here?
To amuse you?
I always thought of
him as stalking victims,
calculating the risks, planning it all out.
Very controlled, calm.
Cold-blooded.
The killing of Joe was different.
It was impulsive, bloody.
Hot-blooded.
If we didn't know it then we
certainly know it now, that he's
driven by huge amounts of rage.
So
we have an eye witness who
can't quite bring herself
to recall the face, masked or
unmasked, of the man who did all this.
It's a question of unlocking her.
She's traumatised, grief-stricken.
She just needs more time,
more professional help.
It's been 10 days Stella.
We're running out of time.
And money.
I had these drawn up for the
policing executive tomorrow.
Emergency funding,
to support the investigation.
1.8 million.
Perhaps you can
take a look at the figures on the way home.
We need to make some
kind of announcement soon.
Indicate some kind of
progress. Allay fears.
Some good news.
I know.
Where's your car?
I'll walk you.
In those shoes?
I'm fine.
Is this your car?
It is and I'd like him to get off it.
What are you doing here?
I want all of you to move away from my car.
What's the difference between
James Olsen and a black cab?
A black cab can take five in the back.
What's your name?
What's that got to do
with you, Little Bo Peep
who's lost her she..
Don't come back here again.
Do you hear me?
You're not welcome.
Mummy.
Mummy.
I've made you a cup of tea.
You know you're not
supposed to boil the kettle.
I haven't.
Mmm, it's lovely.
When Daddy's back I'll make
him one too but with sugar.
Detective Superintendent.
Detective Superintendent Gibson,
would you like to make a comment
on the piece in today's Belfast Chronicle?
There are reports that the surviving victim
is helping police with their enquiries. True?
They are.
Are you prepared to meet
Mrs. Olsen face to face
to discuss your alleged
affair with her husband?
- I almost didn't recognise you.
- Really?
Why are you wearing that?
Same reason you're wearing that.
- Yours is a Met uniform.
- I'm a Met officer.
At least I was the last time I checked.
Thought I should look as
unfeminine as possible,
given this morning's Chronicle.
It hasn't worked.
Just to warn you, Monroe's
spoiling for a fight.
A strong possibility he'll
push for a 28 day review
- into the progress of the taskforce.
- You're joking?
What? You think you're above that?
Who would do it?
Well, we'd find someone.
- What do you want?
- A cappuccino.
Two regular cappuccinos please.
Sally.
Sally!
Sally, did you not hear me calling you?
I'm late for work.
What's wrong?
What's wrong?
- I don't understand.
- Don't you?
No.
I know everything.
What are you talking about?
Paul confessed Katie. There's
no need to cover for him.
- Confessed to what?
- Your affair.
Your 3 month under age affair.
What?
In my house, under my roof.
In my bed for all I know,
while my children were sleeping.
This is bullshit.
- What did he say about us?
- Us? Jesus.
Whatever he's told you, he's lying.
Why would he lie about something like that?
I don't know.
Just leave my family alone.
There's been no affair.
What happened is he attacked me.
What?
That night you left us alone in the study.
I'd come over to listen to music.
He took the opportunity to attack me.
Pin me to the floor.
- Climb on top of me.
- Enough!
You have no idea who
he is or what he's like.
Ask him about the lock of hair.
What's going on?
Bitch.
You have one new message.
"I just bumped into your girlfriend.
You need to get your story straight.
According to her there's been no
affair, just some kind of sexual assault.
Paul, what did you do to her?
Did you rape her?
In your study, while
the kids were sleeping?
She seems to think she
knows you better than I do.
Maybe she does. This is...
all so humiliating.
I want you to just stay away Paul, ok?
From me, from the kids.
Just.. I want.."
_
Yep.
Marian Kay is in the
conference room, ma'am.
Thanks.
I was thinking that I
should go back into uniform.
- Really?
- If you can spare me.
I can't.
Thank you ma'am.
Tell me why.
I've often wondered why you took me
off the street in the first place.
Why do you think?
Because I was..
struggling to deal with what had happened.
Because I couldn't stop
myself from shaking.
I don't go around rescuing patrol cops
who are disturbed by they've seen.
I don't think so.
It was totally selfish.
I was new.
I wanted someone by my side.
Someone I felt I could trust.
I was impressed by your
honesty at the scene.
I think I've learned a lot.
I think I could put it
to good use on the street.
Cheating death.
Fighting for truth and justice.
Something like that, yeah.
I'll think about it.
Thank you ma'am.
Sorry, I've nothing new to tell you.
How is your father bearing up?
That's what everyone always asks me first.
How is Daddy?
It really pisses me off.
All the cards, all the
lessons of condolence.
They were all addressed to Dad.
Yes, of course. Sorry.
How are you?
It's the right first question.
I know it is.
Fathers aren't supposed
to bury their daughters.
But?
But I can't remember a time in
my life when Sarah wasn't there.
There are so many if onlys.
If only she hadn't turned the police away.
If only the locksmith had changed
the back door straight away.
If only I had just made
her come and stay with us.
I just wish I could think
about something else.
For five minutes even.
But there is so much stuff
all the time, in the papers,
on the television.
And it is always Alice's picture.
It's never Sarah.
Today's paper even got her age wrong.
It's just to do with Alice's name I think.
The Monroe connection, the
fund that's been set up.
I worry because there's
a number of victims.
Sarah's lost her identity a bit.
Not for me.
- Yeah.
- Rose Stagg has cried off.
Pressure of work.
Alright.
Rose, I really need to see you today.
I'm sorry. I've so much work on.
The interview you gave was informal.
I took notes but..
I really need to get every last bit
of information from you if I can.
Recorded, videoed, transcribed.
I know.
As I told you,
when I met Peter I already had a boyfriend.
Yes.
The boyfriend was Tom
who became my husband.
I presumed that. And you
never told him what happened?
No.
I had bruises all over my neck.
Really bad headaches. My voice was hoarse
so I simply stopped seeing him.
Rose, I understand it will
be a difficult conversation.
But there are bigger issues.
I know.
- Hello?
- I'm here.
Talk to him tonight.
Come and see me tomorrow.
I can come in at noon.
I'll see you then.
He's written and he's phoned.
He derives pleasure it seems, from
involving himself in the investigation.
For that reason I'd like to maintain
the 24/7 monitoring of my old
private phone in the hope that
maybe he will call that number again.
What kind of response to
the composite likeness?
The Rose Stagg e-fit. Good.
The fact it's from 8 or 9 years
ago has caused a bit of confusion.
Could he now be fat? Could he now be bald?
He's definitely not fat.
Do you think that looks like me?
A wee bit maybe.
May I?
Go ahead.
What about now?
A bit more now.
You think it's safe for
me to go back to Belfast?
I don't think you've got
anything to worry about.
Do you live in the city?
I do.
South Belfast.
Two streets away from one
of the girls that died.
Do you live alone?
Yeah.
What about you?
No.
No, I'm travelling back
to my wife and two kids.
The only possible excuse
for a grown man to be travelling
with four dollies in his bag.
You're blonde.
All the other girls have
been dark, haven't they.
Actually I'm not.
Not what?
Blonde.
What do you mean?
I was dark until all
this started happening.
You're kidding.
There.
Proof.
I never would've guessed.
As we know, offenders tend to commit crimes
in areas that they're familiar with.
The first kill usually takes
place closest to that anchor point.
Near a residence or a place of work.
If we look at the spatial
relationships between the crime scenes,
it suggests the offender
lives in the university quarter
or Raven Hill travelling to and
from the crime scenes on foot.
That would make the attack on
Annie in the Shankhill
an aberration of sorts.
Presumably he somehow identified
her as a potential victim.
Young, dark,
attractive, educated.
He disregarded the fact that she
lived outside his natural territory.
Then he got into difficulties as a result.
We know that he fled on foot.
But he didn't run back
towards the university quarter.
He ran out east towards the City Airport.
That's a distance of 3 miles. Why?
Perhaps he has a place out there somewhere.
A lock-up or a storage unit or
somewhere he changes or keeps a vehicle.
Trawl of the CCTV cameras
along his route from the
Shankhill out towards the airport
has offered up these images.
No clear view of his face.
The possibility he has a beard.
I'm getting some video stills produced.
He anticipated that we would
use human scent dogs and he
crossed a stretch of water.
I believe he took the
murder weapon with him.
The search for that
weapon is still ongoing.
Truth is we're pretty
much running out of time
on the search for the weapon.
We've searched miles of the roadway
on the route we think he took,
right up to the water's edge
where the scent dogs lost him.
We've run a line across from that
point to where we think he emerged.
We're searching both sides of that line.
But the water visibility is nil.
Weeds, refuse.
My divers can only work by touch.
There's deep mud too.
Basically we've run out of time and money.
It's been 10 days now
and there's been some speculation
that the killer has
stayed true to his word.
That he's gone away.
That he's stopped.
I don't believe that it works that way.
Remember that there is a
cycle that he goes through.
After an attack there's
a cooling off period.
But then the deviant fantasies
start to kick in.
And the pressure starts to build.
Remember it's an addiction.
He takes his
fantasies and he turns them into reality.
It makes him feel
superior to the rest of us
mere mortals.
As such,
in his own mind,
he feels he has the
right to decide who lives
and who dies.
In order to do the terrible
things that he does,
the killer dehumanises his victims.
Let's do the opposite.
Let's keep them alive.
For us, for their families,
friends, work colleagues.
For the public.
Let's keep them alive until
this man is caught.
Jesus!
God, you frightened me.
How did you get in?
Your side door was unlocked.
What are you doing here?
Why did you say those things to Sally Ann?
What things?
Things about me. You and me.
What things?
You know what things.
I told you to stay away.
- I have.
How was I supposed to know she'd be there.
Why are you trying to make trouble for me?
Sally Ann now thinks that I
attacked you that night in the study.
You did.
She thinks I raped you.
She thinks we've been
having an affair for months.
Where did she get that idea?
- I don't know.
- Yes you do. You told her.
Why would I do that?
- I've been asking myself the same thing.
- And?
Katie,
are you okay?
Yeah. This is Paul.
Oh.
I'll be up in a minute.
- You sure?
- Yes, I'm sure.
Why are you staring at her?
I'm not.
She's not your type.
I don't have a type.
- Liar.
- I'm not lying.
Dark haired, beautiful.
Katie.
Why would you lie to your wife?
What are you covering up?
You're playing a dangerous game.
I came here to tell you to stay
away from my wife and my children.
The police officer on the
television said the killer
clipped a lock of hair
from each of the victims.
You had a lock of hair in your study.
I explained that. It was my mother's hair.
I saw the footage of you at the park.
The Botanic Gardens.
We go there all the time.
It's Olivia's favourite place.
It's also where Sara Kay went to meet
her sister every Saturday lunch time.
What are you saying?
You said it, not me.
There's a strangler on the prowl.
And you think it's me?
Sally Ann called me that night to babysit
because she couldn't get
a hold of you at work.
But then you came home in the middle
of the night with a cut on your face.
You were all weird.
If you think I'm a killer,
why aren't you scared?
- I am scared.
- Are you?
- Yes.
- You think I'm gonna strangle you?
Then your little friend upstairs.
Do you really think the killer
would identify himself so easily?
Grow up Katie.
I'm just a husband, a father.
A man with a profession to protect.
Keep your crazy theories to yourself
and stay away from my family.
"You have reached the offices
of the Alice Monroe Fund.
Please leave a message after the tone".
I'm Paul Specter.
We're finished here ma'am.
- Can you give me a couple more hours?
- I don't know ma'am.
We'll find the money.
- I'm hungry.
- You ate at Grandma's.
That was ages ago.
I'll make you some warm milk, okay.
Livy, ten minutes 'til
bedtime. Brush your teeth.
"Dear Olivia,
I'm sending this letter to you all
the way from Scotland via pixie post.
I looked all day and all night but I
couldn't find your dollies anywhere.
It makes me think you took
them with you when you left.
Are you sure you checked
your suitcase carefully?
Have another look. Check the front pocket.
I will see you very soon.
I love you best in the whole wide world.
Daddy.
The pixies prefer letters they
deliver to be kept a secret".
Is this true?
Well it's in the paper. It must be.
Why do you want to know?
I did the autopsy on James Olson.
I know. You showed me the pictures.
I had no idea that you
had a personal relationship
with him when I did that.
There were scratches on his back,
consistent with marks left by fingernails.
Fresh marks.
The most obvious explanation was sex.
A,d that suggestion was put to his wife and
she said she was not responsible.
I see.
And at no point did DCI Eastwood suggest
that visiting you in your hotel
room was part of Olson's timeline.
So the marks went
unaccounted for in my report.
I'm surprised by that.
By what?
By Eastwood withholding that.
You didn't ask him to?
No.
So was it you,
who made those marks?
They don't feel sharp.
No.
Not any more.
How did you come to meet him?
I saw him
on the street.
At a crime scene.
I thought I would be in Belfast for
a week, maybe two.
I didn't think he'd be shot the next night.
I'm sorry he's dead.
I really am.
But it was one night.
It didn't mean anything.
Excuse me ma'am. The divers
might've found something.
Mummy. Mummy.
I need the bathroom.
What?
I need to do a wee.
Ask Daddy.
Where is he?
I'm so tired, sweetheart.
Who are you?
Shh. Don't wake Mummy.
Are you a friend of Mummy's or Daddy's?
Your mummy.
What's your name?
Peter.
Peter Piper.
Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers
where's the peck of pickled
peppers that Peter Piper picked?
It's called a tongue twister.
You try it.
- Peter Piper picked a...
- ... peck of pickled peppers.
The pickled peppers
that Peter Piper picked.
Do it again but do it faster.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pick..
Where's the pickled peppers
that Peter Piper picked?
That's really good. Just not too loud.
We don't want to wake Mummy.
Where are you sleeping?
I'll find somewhere.
Where's your room?
I'll show you.
- Where's Mummy sleeping?
- In there.
Mm, that's nice.
I'm sorry.
Me too.
I want you to come with me now.
I want to talk to you.
I don't want to have to hurt you, Rose.
I don't want to have to
hurt your beautiful family.
But I will.
I will if you scream or
cry out when I release you.
Do you understand?
Okay.
One,
two,
three.
Peter?
the Metropolitan Police,
to lead a review into the investigation
of the murder of Alice Monroe.
He had things entirely under his control.
Which leads me to think that
this was not his first murder.
Go back to your review, Stella.
I don't want the two murders linked.
Failure to see that crimes are linked
is the thing that will allow
the killer to strike again.
- Do you think her hair's been clipped?
- Where?
There.
This is the third murder in 3 months, Jim.
If we don't stop him, he will kill again.
Excuse me, is this your purse?
Oh. Thank you so much.
There's been a shooting.
The detective we saw near the
Falls Road on Sunday night.
James Olsen is a married man, Stella.
You were a married man when
you spent a night in my bed.
He clearly has a victim type.
They are not victims of chance.
They are victims of choice.
It's possible that he's out there
stalking his next victim now.
There's someone to see you, ma'am.
Rose Stagg. A friend
of Professor Reed Smith.
I spent years interviewing
the victims of rape.
I don't think anyone ever felt worse after
talking to me about their experiences.
I have something terrible to confess.
I've been having an affair.
I called you to say it's over.
It won't be over until I stop you.
You had your chance. Now it's too late.
We have an e-fit from Rose Stagg.
Could he really look that?
Ma'am, Annie Broley has
regained consciousness.
Let's try something different.
If you were on the other
side of your bedroom,
standing by the window,
what would you have seen?
Me on the bed.
Him behind me.
I was on my side at first.
Tied up.
What else?
Can you see him clearly?
No.
It's okay.
Let's take a step back.
Earlier that night you had
dinner with your brother.
Do you remember what Joe had to eat?
Do you remember what you ordered?
What are you doing?
Once upon a time,
this worked for me.
You snap the band
on your wrist
when your thoughts and
feelings overwhelm you.
Is that mine?
Yes.
It's been brushed for prints.
They only found yours.
You'll see
some of the pages are dusty.
Some people find writing useful.
Putting down
thoughts, whatever they may be.
Reading the entries you made might help.
I'm sorry.
I want to remember, I really do.
I know.
My diary was in a drawer in my bedroom.
Yes.
He was waiting for me in my bedroom.
If he was wearing gloves,
he could've read it
and not left any prints?
Yes.
Do you think that he read it?
Yes.
I know it's hard for everyone
because I look the same.
The same as I did before.
But I'm not the same.
Hello.
Hang on.
Hang on. I've got a bad signal.
Hello.
- Daddy.
- Livy.
- Daddy.
- Can you hear me?
Yes.
- Are you okay?
- Yes.
It's the middle of the
night. Why aren't you asleep?
- I can't sleep.
- Why darlin'?
I'm really worried Daddy.
What about?
My dolls.
I left them behind. All of them.
When Mummy, me and Liam left Scotland.
What did you leave behind?
All of my dollies.
Where did you leave them?
In the bath I think. Haven't you seen them?
No.
Haven't you had a bath in all that time?
It hasn't been that long.
Nearly a whole week.
We have a shower downstairs.
The thing is, I really need them.
Can you bring them when you come home?
I'm not sure when that's gonna be, darlin'.
Why?
It was Mummy decided to go home.
Not me.
I need them Daddy. I really do.
Please Daddy. Please.
Oh Jesus!
Don't you announce yourself?
I thought that I was expected.
I wasn't sure that you'd come.
Nice shoes.
Is that why I'm here?
To amuse you?
I always thought of
him as stalking victims,
calculating the risks, planning it all out.
Very controlled, calm.
Cold-blooded.
The killing of Joe was different.
It was impulsive, bloody.
Hot-blooded.
If we didn't know it then we
certainly know it now, that he's
driven by huge amounts of rage.
So
we have an eye witness who
can't quite bring herself
to recall the face, masked or
unmasked, of the man who did all this.
It's a question of unlocking her.
She's traumatised, grief-stricken.
She just needs more time,
more professional help.
It's been 10 days Stella.
We're running out of time.
And money.
I had these drawn up for the
policing executive tomorrow.
Emergency funding,
to support the investigation.
1.8 million.
Perhaps you can
take a look at the figures on the way home.
We need to make some
kind of announcement soon.
Indicate some kind of
progress. Allay fears.
Some good news.
I know.
Where's your car?
I'll walk you.
In those shoes?
I'm fine.
Is this your car?
It is and I'd like him to get off it.
What are you doing here?
I want all of you to move away from my car.
What's the difference between
James Olsen and a black cab?
A black cab can take five in the back.
What's your name?
What's that got to do
with you, Little Bo Peep
who's lost her she..
Don't come back here again.
Do you hear me?
You're not welcome.
Mummy.
Mummy.
I've made you a cup of tea.
You know you're not
supposed to boil the kettle.
I haven't.
Mmm, it's lovely.
When Daddy's back I'll make
him one too but with sugar.
Detective Superintendent.
Detective Superintendent Gibson,
would you like to make a comment
on the piece in today's Belfast Chronicle?
There are reports that the surviving victim
is helping police with their enquiries. True?
They are.
Are you prepared to meet
Mrs. Olsen face to face
to discuss your alleged
affair with her husband?
- I almost didn't recognise you.
- Really?
Why are you wearing that?
Same reason you're wearing that.
- Yours is a Met uniform.
- I'm a Met officer.
At least I was the last time I checked.
Thought I should look as
unfeminine as possible,
given this morning's Chronicle.
It hasn't worked.
Just to warn you, Monroe's
spoiling for a fight.
A strong possibility he'll
push for a 28 day review
- into the progress of the taskforce.
- You're joking?
What? You think you're above that?
Who would do it?
Well, we'd find someone.
- What do you want?
- A cappuccino.
Two regular cappuccinos please.
Sally.
Sally!
Sally, did you not hear me calling you?
I'm late for work.
What's wrong?
What's wrong?
- I don't understand.
- Don't you?
No.
I know everything.
What are you talking about?
Paul confessed Katie. There's
no need to cover for him.
- Confessed to what?
- Your affair.
Your 3 month under age affair.
What?
In my house, under my roof.
In my bed for all I know,
while my children were sleeping.
This is bullshit.
- What did he say about us?
- Us? Jesus.
Whatever he's told you, he's lying.
Why would he lie about something like that?
I don't know.
Just leave my family alone.
There's been no affair.
What happened is he attacked me.
What?
That night you left us alone in the study.
I'd come over to listen to music.
He took the opportunity to attack me.
Pin me to the floor.
- Climb on top of me.
- Enough!
You have no idea who
he is or what he's like.
Ask him about the lock of hair.
What's going on?
Bitch.
You have one new message.
"I just bumped into your girlfriend.
You need to get your story straight.
According to her there's been no
affair, just some kind of sexual assault.
Paul, what did you do to her?
Did you rape her?
In your study, while
the kids were sleeping?
She seems to think she
knows you better than I do.
Maybe she does. This is...
all so humiliating.
I want you to just stay away Paul, ok?
From me, from the kids.
Just.. I want.."
_
Yep.
Marian Kay is in the
conference room, ma'am.
Thanks.
I was thinking that I
should go back into uniform.
- Really?
- If you can spare me.
I can't.
Thank you ma'am.
Tell me why.
I've often wondered why you took me
off the street in the first place.
Why do you think?
Because I was..
struggling to deal with what had happened.
Because I couldn't stop
myself from shaking.
I don't go around rescuing patrol cops
who are disturbed by they've seen.
I don't think so.
It was totally selfish.
I was new.
I wanted someone by my side.
Someone I felt I could trust.
I was impressed by your
honesty at the scene.
I think I've learned a lot.
I think I could put it
to good use on the street.
Cheating death.
Fighting for truth and justice.
Something like that, yeah.
I'll think about it.
Thank you ma'am.
Sorry, I've nothing new to tell you.
How is your father bearing up?
That's what everyone always asks me first.
How is Daddy?
It really pisses me off.
All the cards, all the
lessons of condolence.
They were all addressed to Dad.
Yes, of course. Sorry.
How are you?
It's the right first question.
I know it is.
Fathers aren't supposed
to bury their daughters.
But?
But I can't remember a time in
my life when Sarah wasn't there.
There are so many if onlys.
If only she hadn't turned the police away.
If only the locksmith had changed
the back door straight away.
If only I had just made
her come and stay with us.
I just wish I could think
about something else.
For five minutes even.
But there is so much stuff
all the time, in the papers,
on the television.
And it is always Alice's picture.
It's never Sarah.
Today's paper even got her age wrong.
It's just to do with Alice's name I think.
The Monroe connection, the
fund that's been set up.
I worry because there's
a number of victims.
Sarah's lost her identity a bit.
Not for me.
- Yeah.
- Rose Stagg has cried off.
Pressure of work.
Alright.
Rose, I really need to see you today.
I'm sorry. I've so much work on.
The interview you gave was informal.
I took notes but..
I really need to get every last bit
of information from you if I can.
Recorded, videoed, transcribed.
I know.
As I told you,
when I met Peter I already had a boyfriend.
Yes.
The boyfriend was Tom
who became my husband.
I presumed that. And you
never told him what happened?
No.
I had bruises all over my neck.
Really bad headaches. My voice was hoarse
so I simply stopped seeing him.
Rose, I understand it will
be a difficult conversation.
But there are bigger issues.
I know.
- Hello?
- I'm here.
Talk to him tonight.
Come and see me tomorrow.
I can come in at noon.
I'll see you then.
He's written and he's phoned.
He derives pleasure it seems, from
involving himself in the investigation.
For that reason I'd like to maintain
the 24/7 monitoring of my old
private phone in the hope that
maybe he will call that number again.
What kind of response to
the composite likeness?
The Rose Stagg e-fit. Good.
The fact it's from 8 or 9 years
ago has caused a bit of confusion.
Could he now be fat? Could he now be bald?
He's definitely not fat.
Do you think that looks like me?
A wee bit maybe.
May I?
Go ahead.
What about now?
A bit more now.
You think it's safe for
me to go back to Belfast?
I don't think you've got
anything to worry about.
Do you live in the city?
I do.
South Belfast.
Two streets away from one
of the girls that died.
Do you live alone?
Yeah.
What about you?
No.
No, I'm travelling back
to my wife and two kids.
The only possible excuse
for a grown man to be travelling
with four dollies in his bag.
You're blonde.
All the other girls have
been dark, haven't they.
Actually I'm not.
Not what?
Blonde.
What do you mean?
I was dark until all
this started happening.
You're kidding.
There.
Proof.
I never would've guessed.
As we know, offenders tend to commit crimes
in areas that they're familiar with.
The first kill usually takes
place closest to that anchor point.
Near a residence or a place of work.
If we look at the spatial
relationships between the crime scenes,
it suggests the offender
lives in the university quarter
or Raven Hill travelling to and
from the crime scenes on foot.
That would make the attack on
Annie in the Shankhill
an aberration of sorts.
Presumably he somehow identified
her as a potential victim.
Young, dark,
attractive, educated.
He disregarded the fact that she
lived outside his natural territory.
Then he got into difficulties as a result.
We know that he fled on foot.
But he didn't run back
towards the university quarter.
He ran out east towards the City Airport.
That's a distance of 3 miles. Why?
Perhaps he has a place out there somewhere.
A lock-up or a storage unit or
somewhere he changes or keeps a vehicle.
Trawl of the CCTV cameras
along his route from the
Shankhill out towards the airport
has offered up these images.
No clear view of his face.
The possibility he has a beard.
I'm getting some video stills produced.
He anticipated that we would
use human scent dogs and he
crossed a stretch of water.
I believe he took the
murder weapon with him.
The search for that
weapon is still ongoing.
Truth is we're pretty
much running out of time
on the search for the weapon.
We've searched miles of the roadway
on the route we think he took,
right up to the water's edge
where the scent dogs lost him.
We've run a line across from that
point to where we think he emerged.
We're searching both sides of that line.
But the water visibility is nil.
Weeds, refuse.
My divers can only work by touch.
There's deep mud too.
Basically we've run out of time and money.
It's been 10 days now
and there's been some speculation
that the killer has
stayed true to his word.
That he's gone away.
That he's stopped.
I don't believe that it works that way.
Remember that there is a
cycle that he goes through.
After an attack there's
a cooling off period.
But then the deviant fantasies
start to kick in.
And the pressure starts to build.
Remember it's an addiction.
He takes his
fantasies and he turns them into reality.
It makes him feel
superior to the rest of us
mere mortals.
As such,
in his own mind,
he feels he has the
right to decide who lives
and who dies.
In order to do the terrible
things that he does,
the killer dehumanises his victims.
Let's do the opposite.
Let's keep them alive.
For us, for their families,
friends, work colleagues.
For the public.
Let's keep them alive until
this man is caught.
Jesus!
God, you frightened me.
How did you get in?
Your side door was unlocked.
What are you doing here?
Why did you say those things to Sally Ann?
What things?
Things about me. You and me.
What things?
You know what things.
I told you to stay away.
- I have.
How was I supposed to know she'd be there.
Why are you trying to make trouble for me?
Sally Ann now thinks that I
attacked you that night in the study.
You did.
She thinks I raped you.
She thinks we've been
having an affair for months.
Where did she get that idea?
- I don't know.
- Yes you do. You told her.
Why would I do that?
- I've been asking myself the same thing.
- And?
Katie,
are you okay?
Yeah. This is Paul.
Oh.
I'll be up in a minute.
- You sure?
- Yes, I'm sure.
Why are you staring at her?
I'm not.
She's not your type.
I don't have a type.
- Liar.
- I'm not lying.
Dark haired, beautiful.
Katie.
Why would you lie to your wife?
What are you covering up?
You're playing a dangerous game.
I came here to tell you to stay
away from my wife and my children.
The police officer on the
television said the killer
clipped a lock of hair
from each of the victims.
You had a lock of hair in your study.
I explained that. It was my mother's hair.
I saw the footage of you at the park.
The Botanic Gardens.
We go there all the time.
It's Olivia's favourite place.
It's also where Sara Kay went to meet
her sister every Saturday lunch time.
What are you saying?
You said it, not me.
There's a strangler on the prowl.
And you think it's me?
Sally Ann called me that night to babysit
because she couldn't get
a hold of you at work.
But then you came home in the middle
of the night with a cut on your face.
You were all weird.
If you think I'm a killer,
why aren't you scared?
- I am scared.
- Are you?
- Yes.
- You think I'm gonna strangle you?
Then your little friend upstairs.
Do you really think the killer
would identify himself so easily?
Grow up Katie.
I'm just a husband, a father.
A man with a profession to protect.
Keep your crazy theories to yourself
and stay away from my family.
"You have reached the offices
of the Alice Monroe Fund.
Please leave a message after the tone".
I'm Paul Specter.
We're finished here ma'am.
- Can you give me a couple more hours?
- I don't know ma'am.
We'll find the money.
- I'm hungry.
- You ate at Grandma's.
That was ages ago.
I'll make you some warm milk, okay.
Livy, ten minutes 'til
bedtime. Brush your teeth.
"Dear Olivia,
I'm sending this letter to you all
the way from Scotland via pixie post.
I looked all day and all night but I
couldn't find your dollies anywhere.
It makes me think you took
them with you when you left.
Are you sure you checked
your suitcase carefully?
Have another look. Check the front pocket.
I will see you very soon.
I love you best in the whole wide world.
Daddy.
The pixies prefer letters they
deliver to be kept a secret".
Is this true?
Well it's in the paper. It must be.
Why do you want to know?
I did the autopsy on James Olson.
I know. You showed me the pictures.
I had no idea that you
had a personal relationship
with him when I did that.
There were scratches on his back,
consistent with marks left by fingernails.
Fresh marks.
The most obvious explanation was sex.
A,d that suggestion was put to his wife and
she said she was not responsible.
I see.
And at no point did DCI Eastwood suggest
that visiting you in your hotel
room was part of Olson's timeline.
So the marks went
unaccounted for in my report.
I'm surprised by that.
By what?
By Eastwood withholding that.
You didn't ask him to?
No.
So was it you,
who made those marks?
They don't feel sharp.
No.
Not any more.
How did you come to meet him?
I saw him
on the street.
At a crime scene.
I thought I would be in Belfast for
a week, maybe two.
I didn't think he'd be shot the next night.
I'm sorry he's dead.
I really am.
But it was one night.
It didn't mean anything.
Excuse me ma'am. The divers
might've found something.
Mummy. Mummy.
I need the bathroom.
What?
I need to do a wee.
Ask Daddy.
Where is he?
I'm so tired, sweetheart.
Who are you?
Shh. Don't wake Mummy.
Are you a friend of Mummy's or Daddy's?
Your mummy.
What's your name?
Peter.
Peter Piper.
Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers
where's the peck of pickled
peppers that Peter Piper picked?
It's called a tongue twister.
You try it.
- Peter Piper picked a...
- ... peck of pickled peppers.
The pickled peppers
that Peter Piper picked.
Do it again but do it faster.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pick..
Where's the pickled peppers
that Peter Piper picked?
That's really good. Just not too loud.
We don't want to wake Mummy.
Where are you sleeping?
I'll find somewhere.
Where's your room?
I'll show you.
- Where's Mummy sleeping?
- In there.
Mm, that's nice.
I'm sorry.
Me too.
I want you to come with me now.
I want to talk to you.
I don't want to have to hurt you, Rose.
I don't want to have to
hurt your beautiful family.
But I will.
I will if you scream or
cry out when I release you.
Do you understand?
Okay.
One,
two,
three.
Peter?