The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2008): Season 6, Episode 2 - Know Thine Enemy - full transcript

It is now two weeks since Richmond
schoolgirl Sarah Middleton went missing

and police admit they are less optimistic
with each passing day.

- Stuart.
- Well, it looks promising... if that's the right word.

Adolescent female, dark brown hair.

Sarah's been missing, what, two weeks?

Yes. Tomorrow.

The call said she was weighed down.

Yes, swaddled in rubble sacks
and wrapped in chains.

So why go to all that trouble and then dump her
somewhere she's going to be found?

Bad luck, apparently.
Water levels are at a record low.

Birthmark.



We can't be certain,
but you should prepare for the worst.

Why?

Our victim is female,

long, dark brown hair,
and there's a birthmark on her neck.

Lots of people have a birthmark.

It's not proof. It doesn't mean it's her.

Darling, please.

This came for her yesterday.

It's an unconditional offer
to read music at Cambridge.

Aren't you going to say congratulations?

Congratulations.

She's in there. She's going to Cambridge.

So how can she be that girl in the lake?

How can she be?



Excuse me.

Fingerprints have confirmed
it is Sarah Middleton. DNA tomorrow.

Thank you.

Decomposition's minimal.
I'd say she was in the water 48 hours tops.

And dead for not much longer.

There is some evidence of rape,
but don't hold your breath for any DNA.

- The lake washed it away?
- Yeah.

I mean, I've swabbed everywhere so...
maybe we'll get lucky.

Leaving aside the sexual abuse,
there are two significant ante mortem injuries.

The pink-brown hue of these excoriations

suggest they were sustained
while she was still alive.

Is that the same on this side?

My guess is they're from striking out
ata door or wall.

- Trying to get out?
- Yeah.

I mean, she's been dead
three, maybe four days,

which would mean
she had been held captive at least a week.

- Is that the other injury?
- Yeah.

Again times two and...
probably the cause of death.

I recovered shards of mirrored glass

from these injuries.

There are easier ways
of killing someone than slashing their wrists.

My hunch is self-inflicted.

- So it was suicide?
- No.

No, this is murder.

Two weeks ago Sarah Middleton went missing
on her way home from St Mary's School.

In the church hall car park on Collier Road
she was seen talking to a woman.

This woman had red hair,
was 25 to 30 years old,

and Sarah was seen pointing out directions
to her in an A-Z.

We urgently need to contact this individual

as she is almost certainly the last person
to see Sarah alive.

Give me ten minutes, yeah?

Sir, we've got a girl who didn't come home
last night - Kelly Stevens.

- Where?
- Roehampton.

Left her mate's house at 11:50pm.
Five-minute walk home, never made it.

- Doesn't sound like nothing.
- Yeah, but Kelly Stevens isn't...

violin-playing, Cambridge material.

- What do you mean?
- She's stayed out before.

Been cautioned for shoplifting,
Class B drug abuse.

- Is a detective assigned?
- No, I don't think anyone's too worried yet.

Why not?
I want in until we know where she is, all right?

- Isn't that a bit previous?
- Here's hoping.

Sarah Middleton has exercised
the only choice she had left -

to live or to die.

But our killer is all about control,
so he won't be happy with her decision.

He now has some unfinished business.

An itch he can only scratch one way.

- Taking another girl?
- Well, we have to be ready for that.

But we have to take stock
of what we have learnt.

To keep a person captive for seven days
takes space and privacy.

The planning and execution
suggest an offender upwards of 25

who has graduated from non-fatal sex crimes.

So what do we do with this?

We tell the public to be careful.

We give the media the positive ID on Sarah

and we hope we can use the spotlight
to reach our mystery redhead.

Are we not jumping the gun here, sir?

Given our killer's profile, two missing schoolgirls
in two weeks worries me.

Let's see what Kelly's mother can tell us.

Since this shoplifting thing,
Kelly's been on a curfew.

Nine o'clock or else.

Last night she left her friend Macy's at 11:50.
She would have been three hours over.

Yeah.

Does Kelly have a computer?

Yes, it's upstairs in her bedroom.

What kind of welcome
would she have expected last night?

She didn't get here. What does it matter?

- I'm trying to see it from her point of view.
- I'd have given her hell

and grounded her for a month.

Perhaps that was the conversation
she was trying to avoid.

- Enjoying her last night of freedom.
- Yes.

Yeah, I suppose so.

The last time that Kelly stayed out all night,
where was she?

I... I don't know.

A boyfriend, maybe?

Yeah, maybe.

You didn't press her on it?

I'm a single, working mother with a bright,
impulsive 15-year-old.

- I choose my battles.
- Where is Kelly's father?

We separated last year.

He ran off with his secretary.

Anything?

Maybe. I'm just unhiding her email folder.

Does this look like
a 15-year-old's bedroom to you?

Maybe somewhere she rests her head.

Where does she live her life, eh?

Don't know, but someone called Josh
might figure in it.

"...my period came this morning,

so we can spend the money
you weren't saving for nappies

on cigarettes and alcohol.

Ha ha ha ha!"

Look, she's not here, man.

We'll just take a look for ourselves,
if that's all right.

- Oi, easy, bitch.
- What did you call me?

I said, easy on the speaker, man.

What is it, Josh?
Can't you get a woman your own age?

Yeah, that's it. Yeah, you got me.

We have got you, Josh, by the balls.

You're having a sexual relationship with Kelly.
Kelly's 15, and now Kelly's missing.

She always told me 16.

That won't keep you off
the Sex Offenders' Register.

But full cooperation just might.
You feeling us now, Josh?

Yeah, I feel you.

- I gotta be somewhere, yeah?
- Early start for a DJ?

I do kids' parties as well, all right?

Bearing in mind
that we have access to Kelly's phone records,

when did you last hear from her?

- Last night.
- What time?

About midnight.

She left me a message saying she was coming
over cos her mum had slung her out.

Did you call her back?

No. I was DJing.

- Didn't get her message till this morning.
- Have you still got it?

Josh, If's me.
You'd better be in cos Mum's kicked me out.

I've got nowhere else to go. Later.

Please.

- Mrs Stevens...
- Kelly's got diabetes.

You understand what that means?

Without her insulin, she...

- I think we need a private word, Mrs Stevens.
- She's our daughter.

Whatever you say to me,
you can say in front of Tony.

Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?

- Anything about last night at all?
- Why would there be?

What's he on about, Anna?

Josh, If's me.
You'd better be in cos Mum's kicked me out.

I've got nowhere else to go. Later.

Three hours late - again.

I had to take a stand.

You threw her out?

I told her it was no phone
and no allowance for a month.

- If she didn't like it, she could leave.
- At midnight?

She called my bluff.

How could you do that?

Because if I don't show her who's boss,
who will?

- Don't try to put this on me.
- That's enough, Mr Stevens.

- Whatever happened is not your wife's fault.
- I beg to bloody differ.

We're trying to do everything we can
to get your daughter back.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Boyfriend Josh's alibi checks out.
In the pub till 11, then DJing in a club till 4.

Good.

From home to Josh's, there's one bus route.

On CCTV - there she was.

Another one, take these.

What you selling?

We know Kelly Stevens
got off the bus stop there at 12:47am.

There are only two routes
to her boyfriend Josh's flat -

Stanmere Road and Horton Villas.

I want you to canvass all residents
and all businesses in both streets.

Did anyone see her getting into a car,
getting into conversation?

Basically,
did anyone see Kelly Stevens, full stop?

If there's no-one in, leave a message
and make a note, so that we can follow it up.

Thanks very much. Good luck.

Everything about this girl screams runaway -

broken home, petty crime,
a taste for bad boys with bad habits.

- What am I missing?
- I want to make sure there's no connection.

Yep.

Thank you.
You've sanctioned a house-to-house.

- I was getting to that.
- Pull it. Right now.

Sir, we have eight officers on loan from Traffic.
They go back tomorrow.

- Tough. Pull it.
- I can't. They're out there.

What, they don't have radios?
Pull it or you're back on leave.

- Unpaid this time.
- Sir...

I mean it, Tommy.
No-one treats me like a rubber stamp.

So this isn't because I'm wrong.
This is because I didn't ask.

No. That did piss me off.

But it's more I won't terrify the public there's
a serial killer out there on no evidence at all.

The AC wants us to pull the plug
on the house-to-house.

- OK I'll put it out on the radio.
- You don't sound too disappointed.

That's cos we've got ourselves a witness.

I was about to turn in and remembered I hadn't
put my "card and paper only" bags out.

That's when I saw her - the girl in your photo.

- It's Kelly, right?
- Yes, it is. Kelly.

- So, where were they, exactly?
- Over there.

- What, on this side of the road or...
- Other side.

She was talking to this couple.
Hunched over the bonnet of their Range Rover.

- Could you hear what they were saying?
- No, but they were looking at something.

The street-light really picked out
the woman's red hair.

Could it have been a map they were looking at?

Could have been. I went back in
and I when looked out, they'd gone.

She could have got the map and the red hair
from the appeal.

Or she was telling the truth

and there's a good reason
why a red-headed witness isn't coming forward.

As an MO, it's pretty slick, isn't it?

The woman's presence reassures,

asking directions draws them to the car
and then the map distracts them.

Sir.

It could be Kelly's.

Maybe she struggled.

Or she was trying to leave us a trail.

Oh, my God.

It's Kelly's.

Winston.

- All right?
- How you doing?

It's George.

George. Of course. George.

- So, erm...
- I'm a groundsman.

No need to ask what you're doing here.

The missing girl, yeah?

Right.

You think there's a connection
with the girl they fished out of the lake?

- You keep up with the news, George.
- So it's possible it's the same killer?

It's possible. Or killers.

Let me guess. The mystery witness is in on it.

- The redhead.
- George...

Yeah, cos I was saying to my wife.

And she was saying there's no way
a woman could do such a thing like that.

- Nkata.
- Great to see you, George.

Yeah, likewise.

Hope you get him, Winston.

So, what have we got?

- We think they're using a map to bait the girls.
- An A-Z. Yeah.

Thank you, sir.

Asked if police believed Sarah Middleton's killer
was behind Kelly Stevens' abduction,

DC Nkata replied,
"Yes, but we're now looking for killers plural.

- A man and a woman."
- I never said that.

He then confirmed the red-haired woman
seen talking to Sarah is now a suspect.

That is such bullshit! He asked me.

Did you say any of it?

Then it doesn't matter, does it?

Admit you put Nkata up to this
and I'll go easy on you.

- It's not Nkata's fault.
- So you did put him up to it.

It is regrettable how this came out,
but the red-haired woman and the map

link Kelly's disappearance to Sarah's murder...

- Please don't say conclusively.
- .quite conclusively, sir.

While the discovery of Kelly's shoe
and the eyewitness report

give us every reason to fear the worst.

What business do we have
keeping this from the public?

Lecturing me is your way out of this?
That's your plan?

My way out of this
is to use the link to our advantage.

So I want to address the young woman
we now believe was present

at the abductions of both Sarah Middleton
and Kelly Stevens.

You know where Kelly is right now.

You know how scared and lonely she feels,

how much she wants this nightmare to end.

What you may not know is that she is diabetic.

Without her medication,
she is in very real danger.

There's only person who can help her
and that's you.

Now, if the man behind these crimes
is your boyfriend or your husband,

you may feel you owe him loyalty.

You don't.

He forfeited that
when he dragged you into this mess.

Instead, I urge you to save this young girl's life.

A child's life, no less.

"A child's life." Nice touch, guv.

Well, I think that did the job.

What was that job again?

In any criminal duo
there is a junior and a senior partner.

We are driving a wedge.

- Turning one against the other?
- Works a treat with armed robbers.

But in this case the junior partner is a woman.
We don't even...

Do we have any better ideas? Right.

Everybody, I know we've primed them,

but I want calls to all the nicks
in Southwest London, ditto A&E wards.

Any domestics reported
since the broadcast, we want to know about,

particularly if they involve red-headed women.

Barbara?

Do you actually want the guy
to beat the crap out of her?

Well, if she comes forward and leads us to Kelly,
then, yes, I do.

And what if we've just lit a fire
under the senior partner?

What if all we've done is just endanger Kelly?

So what do you suggest?
Wait around till she turns up in a bin bag?

Sometimes doing nothing is the hardest thing.

You sound like a fortune cookie.

You sound like someone who's not quite
convinced himself that he's doing the right thing.

Will you check if Lafferty's got anywhere
with the fingerprints from the A-Z, please?

Right now.

Er... prints galore.

Same two over and over.

Judging by the size and spacing,
I'd say male and female.

- Our killer couple.
- Well, if they are, they don't have a record.

Anything?

Five suspected domestic assaults in the last
hour, three 999s, two walk-ins at St Georges.

Redheads in their 20s?

- Check 'em anyway.
- Guv.

Kingston A&E. Could be our girl.

Yeah.

Yep?

A Tania Thompson, 25, red hair,
came into Kingston A&E

with facial bruising, cracked rib and concussion.

- Fell down the stairs, apparently.
- Great. That sounds promising.

I hadn't finished yet. There's a black
Range Rover registered to her husband Guy.

- You're kidding?
- They're dragging out her X-rays but...

I'll be there in ten.

Let me just have a look there.
What's her hospital number?

There she is.

Hi.

My name's Barbara Havers. I'm a police officer.

I told them. Fell down the stairs.

Right.

My aunt used to fall down stairs
and walk into doors.

- I'm not your aunt.
- Good.

She ended up in a wheelchair
cos my uncle beat her with a car jack.

You know, given your injuries,

I can get a warrant to examine your stairs

and if there's no evidence of a fall then we can
draw our own conclusions and take it from there.

- It's not his fault.
- Whose fault?

Guy.

Is Guy your husband?

You're being very understanding.

I'm his wife.

Maybe too understanding.

I love him.

Jack.

Right.

OK. Thank you very much.

Doesn't have a record,
but he's come to our attention twice.

For?

In 2000, his girlfriend reported him
for trying to throttle her during sex.

Three years later,
a hotel maid accused him of assault.

A good lawyer or what?

Girlfriend retracted and the maid did a runner
cos she was here illegally.

Sounds like he's due some bad luck.

There he is.

Hello, Guy.

The marks on your wrist...

I saw them, Tania.

- It used to be a bit of fun, you know?
- But not any more?

Does he do anything else
that makes you uncomfortable?

- Like what?
- Like anything?

Why do you care?

Don't you think you're worth caring about?

Honestly?

Not really.

Look... I can help you.

I can get you somewhere. Somewhere safe.
Come with me, Tania.

He'll find me.

- He always does.
- Tania...

Thanks.

I'm sorry.

Follow him.

Unless he's got Kelly in there...

Something tells me he's smarter than that.

Lafferty.

Hi.

You said I needed something to run against
those prints on the A-Z, yeah?

Yeah. What have you got?

Two, please.

That's 35, then. Thank you, sir.

Let's say you want to open a play-centre for kids.

Good.

Now, if there are no play-centres in your area,
you might think you've got no competition.

Wrong.

Any business that vies for families' leisure time
is a competitor.

That means cinemas, shopping centres, zoos.

It means Sunday schools.

It means parks and beaches.

So what do you do?

Well, you have got to become a hunter.

You've got to get out there
and scope your enemy.

Put yourself in their shoes. Role play.

Why not pay them a visit as a consumer
and identify their vulnerability?

Everybody's got a weak spot.

What's theirs?

What's yours?

OK. I want to introduce this next topic
with a simple demonstration.

So I'll need a volunteer.

Yes. You, sir, at the back.

- What's your name?
- Thomas.

Good to know you, Thomas.

All I want you to do is stand there
and not move your feet.

- Can you do that for me?
- I'll give it a go.

You see, I hardly touched him
and I'm already causing him problems.

- You moved your feet.
- I had to.

Exactly.

You had to.

You adapted to survive.

You broke the rules
and now you have the upper hand.

Is that what you advocate - breaking the rules?

I advocate independent thought.

Letting go of what seems possible
and impossible.

Thank you very much, Thomas.

- Give him a round.
- Well done.

I started off as a locksmith, branched
into alarm systems and made millions.

I did not confuse flexibility with weakness
and neither should you.

Doesn't look like he needs to abduct women.

Maybe it spoils it if it's given freely.

OK. Let's just load these up.

Bingo.

Thanks, Barbara.

Tania Thompson's prints
match the prints on the A-Z.

- That puts her at the scene of Kelly's abduction.
- And him, too.

The match is inadmissible.
We can't arrest him.

We don't want to arrest him.
We'll get Kelly if he leads us to her.

Oh.

Look at him. He's having a drink.

Loosening up.

He's paying her a visit, whatever the risk.

I think you're right. Come on.

Here he comes.

What's with the bag?

Should I check the ol
so there's a reason we're here?

No, he might recognise you from the lecture.

Someone's dressed for business.

- Is this guy forensically aware or what?
- What's the camera like on your phone?

- Lost him.
- He must have clocked us.

Request immediate response
from all units near Junction 7.

We need an urgent stop and search
on a black Range Rover,

registration number... YHO6KBF.

No warm bodies on the premises.

Could she be in the cellar?

Got building plans from the council.

No cellar.

OK.

You should have a warm body now.

OK, so he's got Kelly somewhere else.

A visual on B432 southbound.
Please advise.

Pull him in. And breathalyse him.
He's been drinking.

- What's up?
- Step out of the car, please, sir.

Thomas?

Detective Inspector Lynley.
This is DC Harvey.

- Can I have a word?
- What's going on?

He was wearing a boiler suit.
Did he take it off?

Not since I've been with him.

Look after him for me, will you?

How do you want to play this, Guv?

Pick him up for GBH on his wife Tania.
Don't mention anything else. Not a word.

Guy Thompson, I'm arresting you
on suspicion of grievous bodily harm

against your wife Tania Thompson.

You do not have to say anything

but anything you do say
may be used in evidence against you.

- No boiler suit.
- You're kidding.

I want this road searched
from here back to the junction.

All right.

Winston, pay a visit to the ex-girlfriend
he tried to strangle in 2000 - Kate Myers.

- OK. What am I after?
- Anything and everything.

If this is our guy,
you just slit Kelly Stevens' throat.

The plan wasn't to arrest him.

- So what happened?
- He spotted the tail.

- How?
- I don't know. He just did.

What motive has he got
to tell us where Kelly is now?

If we hadn't stopped him,
he could've killed Kelly. We had no choice.

Answer my question.
Why is he gonna talk to us?

I'm sorry, I can't hold him.
I'd best get started.

- I'll be watching. And I'm not asking.
- Fine.

If I were you, I'd let him off with a caution
and pray he leads you to Kelly.

I don't think he'd fall for that, sir.

His prints were a match for the fingerprints
on the A-Z cover.

Right. Now we talk about his wife's injuries,
not Sarah Middleton or Kelly Stevens.

- Why not?
- Because he'll just deny it.

- And...
- What if Kelly's dying right now?

- You heard about the insulin.
- He'll know how little we know.

His prints are on the A-Z.

But not Sarah's. Nor Kelly's.

He'll just say someone stole it.

We don't have time for this.
Kelly doesn't have time for this.

No pressure, then.

Sir.

What were you doing at my lecture?

I followed you from your house.

And what were you doing at my house?

You're part of a kind of
unofficial screening process.

Really?

If someone comes to our attention
three times for a similar offence,

we come down on them like a ton of bricks.

Three times?

So one of them's my ex. Right?

- Guilty conscience?
- Hardly.

That was Kate throwing a strop
because I wouldn't marry her.

You're not counting that Polish girl
in the hotel, are you?

We most certainly are.

Oh... the charges were dropped.

In both cases.

- The charges were dropped.
- That's why it's unofficial.

So let's talk about strike three.

Your wife.

The reason we're here.

Is that it? That's all this is about?

Yes.. that's all this is about.

You could have caused permanent damage.

Is she pressing charges?

If she is, I'll plead guilty.

I deserve whatever's coming.

I need help.

Anger management, psychotherapy -
whatever it takes.

Remorse is a positive step, Mr Thompson.

But our most pressing concern is Tania.

Mine, too.

Excuse me.

Is there somewhere we can talk?

Yeah. Follow me.

At first I thought Guy was just a control freak.

He had something to say about my clothes,
my hair, which friends I saw and when.

- I went along with it initially.
- So what happened?

I realised it wasn't about control.

- No?
- It was darker.

He actually wanted me to resist, to... fight back
so that he could overcome that resistance.

He was a sadist, basically?

He once said to me that the most erotic words
in the English language were "stop" and "no".

You mind me asking you about the time he...
grabbed your throat?

The time he strangled me?

I blacked out and he panicked.

Why didn't you press charges, Kate?

Because I was a bloody idiot.

Tania left the hospital before her treatment
was complete and she's not at East Sheen.

She's probably at her parents' house
in Reading.

Can we have that address, please?
And the phone number.

If she's not there,
what about a second property?

- Sorry?
- You do have a second property?

Yes, I do.

But she won't be there.

How do you know?

Because she doesn't have the keys.

Guy's relationship with his parents
was really screwed up.

He worshipped his father,
even though he was a womanizer

who knocked his wife around.

- Guy wasn't a Mummy's boy?
- Especially not after she started drinking.

Let herself go.

- He couldn't stand being seen with her.
- And he was how old?

13, maybe 14.

Anyway, during one particularly nasty row,
she dropped the bombshell...

that the reason his dad wasn't around much
was because he had another woman,

and, more importantly, another son.

Let me guess. It was all Mum's fault?

I think he beat his mother up.

I know she never left the house again.

By Christmas, she was dead - of liver failure.

Thanks a lot.

- Hello?
- Tania, it's me. Where are you?

- I'm at home.
- You're at home?

Yeah. What's the matter?

- How long have you been there?
- A couple of hours. Why?

The police are looking for you.
They said that...

Guy, I haven't told them anything. Believe me.

I know. I know.

Everything's going to be all right, just as long
as you remember your wedding vow.

- Which one?
- I stand by my man till the end.

Say it.

I stand by my man till the end.

Good girl. Now get my lawyer down here.

Guy, sweetheart, listen, I...

Kelly takes insulin three times a day.

Which means that she has missed...
four injections?

Her blood sugar will be rising,
especially if she doesn't have water.

She'll become hyperglycaemic and delirious
and then she'll lose consciousness.

- So how long are we talking?
- Maybe a day. Maybe less.

Sir. Surveillance from the house.

Guy used his phone call to speak to Tania.

So he now knows that we knew
she was at home all this time.

- The gloves are off.
- About time.

According to the Electoral Roll,
Guy lived in Brighton from 2000 to 2003.

OK. I'll check the local nicks
for unsolved sexual assaults on young women.

Sir.

I spoke to Guy's ex. Time well spent.

Think you can help us get under his skin?

I think his father could.

You recognise this?

Do I recognise it? It's the cover of an A-Z.

- Your A-Z
- Says who?

Your fingerprints.

I did have mine nicked from the car.
Where'd you find it?

I'm going to ask you
a really stupid question now.

It flies in the face of every interview technique
in the book,

but I'll ask you cos you're either
gonna talk to me or you're not.

Where's Kelly Stevens?

She's the missing schoolgirl. Right?

Right.

Well, I have no idea where she is.

- Why would I?
- Is she dying?

Is she dead?

Sorry.

- What about Sarah Middleton?
- Never heard of her.

We pulled her out of a lake yesterday morning.

Wow.

You guys must be really desperate.

Drunk driving, wife beating, kidnapping
and now...

murder.

What's next? High treason?
Setting fire to the Royal Dockyards?

Sorry. Do I actually have to say the words?

Charge my client or release him.

You can't hold him on unsubstantiated GBH.

- We'll resume this interview later.
- Later?

When later? We've been here for hours.

Kelly's parents are here. They want to know
if we're any closer to finding her.

We need that boiler suit.

It's slow going searching ten miles of road
in the dark.

- I gave you 20 extra men.
- And they're on their hands and knees.

We need a search warrant
for the Thompson house.

- I thought we'd established Kelly wasn't there.
- We have.

But there's got to be some paperwork
somewhere, an address.

All right. I'll get a list of after-hours magistrates.

Don't bother. I want Marion Stein.

Make sure there's fresh coffee
from the service station - with cream.

I'm afraid we have no news.

And no news is bad news, right?

It was dark.
It was really only the girl who was facing me.

Just take your time.

- This means you've got someone?
- Just focus on the pictures, please.

- If I guess wrong, will you have to let 'em go?
- That's not your concern.

It was him.

Next time, Marion, let us come to you.

- I'm here, aren't I?
- Yes, but... Thank you.

So, let me get this straight.

You're after a search warrant
under the 1978 Protection of Children Act?

Well, ideally.

"Ideally" doesn't sound good.

His fingerprints on the A-Z won't get you in.

His "pinched from the car" story
is as irrefutable as it is unlikely,

plus it has bugger all to do with his residence.

But he has come to our attention before.

Not to a judge's.

OK, but my priority is to get Kelly back alive.

If we jeopardise a conviction in doing that,
so be it.

OK.

The wife. What exactly did he do to her?

Er... black eye, cracked ribs...

- Hospital take pictures?
- Yeah.

That crescent-shaped bruise could be useful.

Doesn't look like a knuckle.

- Would you grant a warrant for a weapon?
- It would be a restricted search.

Of course.

Tania Thompson. This is a warrant
to search these premises.

I also request that you contain yourself
in one area of the house during the search.

- What are you looking for?
- The weapon your husband assaulted you with.

- Is that it?
- Is that it?

That's funny. That's exactly
what your husband said, "Is that it?"

- Anything else you'd like to share with us?
- No.

- I told you I fell down the stairs.
- And then you changed your mind.

Is there any reason
why your fingerprints would be on an A-Z

recovered from the scene of
Kelly Stevens' abduction?

- I haven't given you any fingerprints.
- So there's no reason why they'd be there?

Wait. We had an A-Z stolen from our car.

- Did Guy tell you to say that?
- No.

Where is Kelly Stevens?

I don't know a Kelly Stevens.

Of course not. It's much easier
to think of her not as a person, isn't it?

But as an animal. Much easier.

Flesh and bone.

What you and Guy reduced Sarah Middleton to
when you put her in a bin bag.

- I don't know what he's talking about.
- Where is she?

Sir.

A word.

She's married to a psychopath.
Think you can scare her?

- I'm not trying to scare her.
- We need to win her trust.

We need to show
that we can protect her from Guy.

I had a peek at the PC. Ten minutes ago,
she looked up diabetes on the internet.

If we treat her like a co-conspirator,
not the victim she is...

Semantics.

- Not if we want to talk to her.
- How do you know she's a victim?

"Dear Guy, you are my husband and master.

I promise I will try harder
to be the wife and lover you deserve.

I will stop being an ungrateful slob
and try to get back in your good books.

Your ever-loving and obedient, Tania."

Come and have a look at this.

My guess is, they're all places
he's installed alarms and security systems.

- Where we should look for Kelly.
- He can get in and out.

He knows who's home, who's away.

They're just the cream. His firm must have
installed alarms in hundreds of places.

We tailed him down the A3.

So cross-reference that area
with all the alarms he's installed in the last year.

I'll get a warrant for his offices.

Lafferty?

They found a black boiler suit and a hat
in a ditch by the B432.

Good.

Come on, Winston, let's go.

Tania?

Now, if the man behind these crimes
is your boyfriend or your husband,

you may feel you owe him loyalty.

You don't.

Tania?

Tania?

Have a look at this, Tommy.

Blood shows up green under UV, yeah?

Oh, my God.

His DNA will be all over the lining of this.

So... if these are the victim's prints...

We're home and dry.

I'm here to see my son Guy. Where is he?

We just need you to sit tight for a minute,
Mr Thompson.

Can I get you a cuppa?

No, thank you.

Oh, my God.

Mr Thompson, Detective Inspector Lynley.

Hello.

The boiler suit,
the A-Z recovered from the abduction site,

the black Range Rover -
this all points in one direction.

Asking you to absorb this is asking
the impossible, but I have no choice.

You really think I'm going to help you
fit my son up for something he didn't do?

I have absolutely nothing to gain
from fitting your son up.

But everything to lose.

Kelly is diabetic.

Wherever she is, no-one is coming for her,
which means no insulin.

Mr Thompson, if she is still alive,
we're talking hours.

My son had nothing to do with this.

When Guy's mother told him
about your other son,

we know he didn't just storm out.

He beat the living daylights out of her.

Didn't he?

You bastard.

If you don't want to answer, don't.

Dad?

This is legally and professionally unorthodox.
It's outrageous.

Dad, this is a mistake.

You had no business bringing him into this.

- It's OK, son.
- No, it's not.

We found the boiler suit, Guy.

They're lying.
Why would I even own a boiler suit?

So this isn't a picture of you, then?

It could be anyone!
What did you take it with, a phone?

It's you, Guy. We both know it.

You're embarrassing yourself, Dad.

- They're using you.
- I want to help you.

Then stop looking at me like that.

- Like what?
- Like you actually believe what they're saying.

- You look beautiful.
- Hmph.

Where are your bridesmaids?

My cousin Alice died two months before...
and we were really close, so...

So if she couldn't be your bridesmaid,
then no-one could.

Well, how did she die?

She had a seizure.

She had them since she was a kid.

All the guests at the party
were Guy's side of the family.

- What about your friends?
- Guy never really liked them.

Well, how about your mum and dad?

I don't see them any more.

Is there any part of your life
that Guy doesn't control?

I had a job once.

At the chemist.

The pharmacist trained me up as an assistant.

You must think I'm really pathetic.

The case is building against Guy -
blood, DNA, the works.

He's gonna go to prison for a long time.

And you will too.

- For you it's going to be ten times harder.
- Why?

Because you're a woman.

Oh..stop it.

Help us... and we can help you.

Tania!

You don't understand!

Tania!

It's my fault.

I showed you a bad example with Mum.

Mum was a useless pisshead,
which is why you avoided home.

Like I said, some of that's my fault.

You have no idea what it was like.

Her wearing the same gin-soaked dress
day after day.

I know. And you were just a kid.

I thought if my friends saw me in the street
with her, I would die of shame.

And I was AWOL all that time.

You were with your real family.

Well, now I want to make up for that.

Where's this girl, son?

Tell me where she is and il stick by you
whatever happens next.

And if I don't?

I walk out of here... and you never see me again.

I don't want that any more than you do.

What is it, Dad?

The house I bought you not big enough?

The car I gave you for Christmas
had too many miles on the clock?

What's funny?

I never actually thought I'd say this...

but Mum was right.

You are a waste of space.

You know...

.I'm actually glad you weren't around
when I was growing up.

It taught me to stand on my own two feet.

There's the door.

Where is she, Tania?

- I didn't hurt anyone.
- Where is she?

I just...

...got them over to the car and...

You mean Sarah and Kelly?

He said if I didn't help him,
he'd lock me up again.

Lock you up where?

The same place that he's got Kelly?

He'll kill me.

He'll kill me.

But if you tell me where it is,
he won't get the chance.

Guy's my whole world. I... I can't.

Yes, you can.

You were almost there before.

This time when he beat you up, you didn't hide.
You went to the hospital. You talked to me.

You're ready. You made the break.

- I'm not.
- Yes, you are.

Tell me I won't have to face him.

I swear on my life he will never touch you again.

She's in a house near Redhill.
A Saudi family.

Guy did the alarms
but they're not moving in till next year.

Wait up.

Police!

Through there.

Nothing, sir.

Upstairs!

It's locked, sir.

Shoulder it.

Come on.

Kelly?

WPC!

Yes, sir.

OK.

Step.

She's alive, and - outwardly - she's OK.

- Thanks to you, eh?
- If we treat Tania right she'll tell us everything.

- We don't need to make any concessions.
- What if she deserves some?

We'll talk about this later, Havers. All right?

Er..Kelly's all right - physically, at least.

I bring good news.
Bloody fingerprints on the boiler suit are Kelly's.

And the set we lifted from the collar
match for Guy Thompson.

Sarah Middleton?

We're running DNA.

If he brought her here,
we'll find trace evidence of some kind.

Excellent.

Well done. Well done.

Give me 15 minutes in a windowless room
with that freak.

There we are.

- Thank you, sir.
- Well done. Well done.

They're saying she's going to be OK.

We can never thank you enough.

How could a woman be party to this?
It goes against nature, doesn't it?

Detective Inspector?

There is evidence of rape. How much
Kelly will remember remains to be seen.

- Was she drugged?
- Mm.

Is there any way I can get to see her?

Two minutes.

Thank you.

Kelly?

Kelly?

Kelly?

It's OK... Its OK, I'm...

- Get out.
- I'm a police officer.

- I was in the...
- Help! Help!

Get that man out of here! Get him... out of here!

You're OK, love.

You're OK.

She said... she can remember him on top of her.

But that's it. That's all.

She didn't say anything about his wife Tania?

Thank you.

Barbara, come in.
This is Derek Tripp from the CPS.

- Hello.
- So you're the one who saved the day?

Er... well, actually it was a team effort.

Sorry, sir. Where's DI Lynley?

I've already canvassed him
on what we're discussing. Have a seat.

Thank you.

Derek.

Regarding the Sarah Middleton murder.

Forensics are a waste of time.

But the Commissioner has decreed it
politically unacceptable

for us to drop
the Sarah Middleton murder charge.

What makes you think I can help?

Reading your report, I detected some sympathy
with Tania's situation.

That you felt she was genuinely coerced
by her husband into partaking in his crimes.

Er..well, yeah, I did.

So you must be uneasy
about her being charged with identical offences.

For what it's worth, yeah, I am uneasy.

You see her more as a victim than, say,
DI Lynley does?

Look, why don't you just tell me
why my opinion is suddenly so important?

If Tania testifies against Guy,
in return for a reduced charge -

accessory, say -

we don't want it to come back to haunt us.

You've looked into the eyes
of enough liars and killers.

Your opinion counts for something.

Look, we're not going to make a decision
on your say-so alone,

but.. based on your limited dealings,
IS she deserving of an arrangement?

Um... well, based on our limited dealings, then...

...I'd say yes, she is.

That's all we wanted to know.

DS Havers. A word.

Can you give us a minute, please, guys?

They're reducing Tania's charge
and granting her bail.

But, then, I'm not telling you anything
you didn't already know.

- Actually, you are.
- How is the Assistant Commissioner?

I thought you'd be at the meeting.

You didn't think to call and check?

It's politics. The Commissioner wants Guy
to face a murder charge.

They have no business
negotiating with that woman.

She says she only lured them to the car,
but how do we know that?

How do we know she didn't help kill Sarah
and take part in the sexual assaults?

- What about innocent until proven guilty?
- Innocent?

She trapped those girls,
knowing Guy's plans for them.

He had complete control over her,
physically and mentally.

You don't understand what that kind of fear...

- Because I'm a man?
- Maybe.

And because she's a woman,
she's a helpless victim with no will of her own?

- Isn't that sexist?
- You saw what he did to her.

I'm not saying he wasn't abusive.

I'm saying...
It's not black and white.

I'm not saying she should go unpunished.

She wants us to see it that way, and you do.

OK, if you have any evidence that she's lying,
you can stop the negotiations any time.

Now, there's an idea.

Role play.

Put yourself in their shoes.

Get a nose for their vulnerability.

Find their weakness.

Not exactly how it goes.

But I'm thrilled you took something from it.

I did, Guy, I took a lot from it.

I found your weakness.

We've been talking to your wife.
Or, rather, your wife's been talking to us.

She says that in addition
to the abduction of Kelly,

you raped and you murdered Sarah Middleton.

She says that you coerced her
into both abductions with threats of violence.

How do you think we knew where Kelly was?

- You went to my offices.
- We'd never have found her that fast.

Deep down you know that.

Deep down, you know... that Tania...

has betrayed you.

For a woman who seemed so... dependent,

So subservient...

What was it she called you? Master.

She's thinking for herself now. Well, of herself.

Meaning what?

Meaning she's planning
to testify against you, Guy.

She'll do two years tops.

- She wouldn't do that.
- She'll be sharing her bed - your bed -

with the pool boy, while you spend
the rest of your life in a steel box,

hoping to God the armed robbers don't find you.

Maybe you should write her one of those
grovelling letters you used to make her write.

She's lying!

The bitch is lying.

You would say that.

If you hadn't found Kelly when you did,

Tania would have killed her, no question.

I wanted to let her go but Tania wouldn't
because I'd had Kelly.

You see, I do actually believe you.
But no-one else will.

If a woman so much as glanced at me,
she went crazy.

I mean, she actually went rigid like a wild animal.

Like she was gonna claw her eyes out.

She scared me.

So you didn't coerce her?
Not even to snatch Kelly?

Coerce her?
It was her idea to use the bloody A-Z!

Constable.

That proved a lot.

- I thought so.
- What exactly were you doing in there?

I was just making sure
Tania is a credible witness.

By asking her abusive husband
for a character reference?

Do you want him to go down for murder?

- I want them both to go down.
- Whatever it takes?

Don't be ridiculous.

- Detective Inspector Lynley?
- Speaking.

DS Mike Barksdale from Brighton.
We've got four unsolved rapes.

Could fit the bill
from when Guy Thompson lived down here.

The last one happened right on the sea front.

Any DNA?

That's what makes us think it's the same bloke.

It's like you said. No hair, no prints.
Not a speck of DNA.

Right. I'm on my way.

Thank you.

You're kidding.

Disgusting.

- What's going on?
- Where's Tania?

I tell you, I knew Guy was trouble.

I did.

But Tania always wanted the good life.

That's called hindsight.

Why did she have to go and live in London?

London wasn't the problem.

She met Guy in Brighton, for God's sake.

I mean, why did she have to leave home?

- Why did she have to?
- Grow up?

Hi, Barbara.

Come through.

Dad's a brick but Mum's gone to pieces.

Oh, it's a lot to deal with.

She said this morning it was as if she'd lost me.

It was no different to Alice dying.

It really hurt.

Yeah, but they haven't turned their back on you.

I should be grateful for that?

I wasn't saying that.

No.

You're right.

Some parents would have.

Look... I just want to go through a few things
in your statement about Sarah Middleton.

Just so that when I question Guy
there'll be no grey areas.

- You're gonna see Guy?
- Yeah, at some point.

Alone?

Er... probably not.

But you said...

"When I question Guy..."

What is it, Tania?

Well, I'd feel a lot more comfortable about it
if there was a male officer present.

I can take care of myself.

No, that's... not what I mean.

Guy can be very...

hard to resist.

- I would hate for anything to come between us.
- What exactly are you suggesting?

Oh, well, come on. He's still my husband.

I'm allowed to be possessive, aren't I?

Sure.

You think that's weird, don't you?

I think what's weird is that since I've been here,

you haven't asked once
how Kelly Stevens is doing.

You told me she was OK.

- What?
- No, that's right. I did.

- Shall we go through our statement now?
- No, I think that can wait.

I'll get back to you.

Thanks for the tea.

Is that Tania's cousin?

- Tania told me about...
- Alice.

Her name was Alice.

Whose side was she on?

Mine.

My sister had Alice young.
This was her home from home.

She... died right there in my arms.

- A seizure?
- It wouldn't have happened...

She wasn't used to alcohol.

We were celebrating Guy's birthday.

Yeah, I'll see myself out.

Barbara.

I need to know the exact date
that Guy and Tania got together.

Why?

There were four unsolved rapes in Brighton
when Guy lived here.

In the last, there were two people involved -
a man and a woman.

The woman videoed the whole thing.

Right here.

Right under the pier.

I'm not saying it was Tania...

No, you don't have to persuade me.

Good.

Thank you.

Sir, the other day you put me on the spot
and asked me if Tania was a credible witness.

Well, to answer that question,
we have to dig up the body of her cousin Alice.

- Based on?
- She was beautiful, 16,

and died whilst under the same roof
as Guy Thompson.

- You said she died at Tania's parents' house.
- They'd thrown a birthday party for Guy.

- Alice was invited.
- The parents went to bed.

Guy, Tania and Alice all stayed up.

- According to who?
- Their inquest statements.

Two hours later, Alice is unconscious
and Guy calls an ambulance.

I've read the PM report.
It's sketchy, to say the least.

No-one even checked for sexual assault.

Epileptic seizure
was a best-guess cause of death.

This lesion on her mouth was put down to
an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt.

What does it look like to you?

Her skin reacting to something.

If the body's reasonably well preserved,
Toxicology may be able to tell us what.

So you want an exhumation order?

Well, if anyone can twist the Coroner's arm,
it's you.

- Why will I need to twist his arm?
- We want to circumvent family approval.

Tania can't know what we're doing
till we're good and ready, sir.

First impressions are
she's pretty well preserved.

If I get tox samples in by noon,
we should have some results this evening.

- I'll let you know as soon as.
- Thanks, Lafferty.

Third anniversary of first meeting.

Six month wedding anniversary.
Christmas Eve. Christmas Day. Boxing Day.

Is there anything they didn't deem video-worthy?

That's it.

That's what we're missing.

Lafferty? Hold on a minute.

- OK. Go ahead. Anything?
- You bet

Samples from the remnants
of Alice's lungs and throat

tested positive for antidepressants
and pethidine.

- What's that?
- A tranquilliser.

- Tricky to get hold of if you're not a doctor.
- She worked in a chemist

She's lifted them from the supplies cabinet.

Her own cousin. A birthday present for Guy.

The combination of antidepressants
and pethidine,

plus the fact that she'd been drinking, I mean...

Even if they didn't plan to kill her,
they were playing with fire.

Thanks, Stuart.

You could do this over the phone, you know.

No, face-to-face, she's more likely
to believe we're friends again.

I didn't mean to be judgmental
about you not asking after Kelly.

No, I should have.

No, you had a lot on your mind.

Nothing like what she's going through.

Listen, Tania... I shouldn't really
be telling you this but I want you to be prepared.

- For what?
- Guy has started to talk.

I know that you still have feelings for him
and I understand.

What...? What's Guy been saying?

Well, he's saying...

He's saying that you were as involved as him
and that there's tapes to prove it.

- What?
- Well.. exactly.

No-one believes him
but you might be questioned on it at some point.

OK.

- Thanks for letting me know.
- No problem.

Look, I've got to get back.
I'll come and see you soon, yeah?

I'd like that.

You're a good person, Barbara.

You're a really good person.

See you.

Here she goes.

Thank you for bringing those to our attention.

Get off me!

Sarah.

Kelly.

Alice.

Your cousin?

Alice was an accident.

Sarah killed herself.

And Kelly's making a full recovery.

So what exactly do you think
you've got on us?

Hmm?

♪ Happy birthday to you

♪ Happy birthday to you

♪ Happy birthday, Mr Thompson

♪ Happy birthday to you

Tania, you are depraved.

And I love you for it.

Love you, too, birthday boy.

- How long have I got?
- This stuff knocks horses out.

Alice is gonna be in Wonderland
for quite a while.

I know we have to watch this stuff some time,
but...

Yeah.

Not now.

She really played me.

If you hadn't got so close to her,
we'd never have found Kelly.

It was all part of her plan, though.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
You saved a life, Barbara.

Anyway, they're both going down now.

For good.

All right, sir, just don't say, "I told you so."