The Secret (2016): Season 1, Episode 4 - Part 4 - full transcript

(bright music)

(light piano music)

- I brought death
into the family,

and this has been my punishment.

It's all right.

It means that God
and I are all square.

- How can you say that?

- Because I now know
that I am forgiven.

- You said before that you'd
repented and had been forgiven,

but that's not true.

God is still punishing us.



- But don't you understand?
- What?

- You remember in
the book of Samuel

how David saw Bathsheba bathing?

He fell in love and
just had to possess her.

He engineered to get
her husband killed.

He took a life, so God
punished him by taking his son.

I sinned and God took my son,

but with David's repentance,

God forgave him and he
became a great king.

Now, I have been punished
and I too will be forgiven.

- But you still haven't
repented, Colin!

- No, God allowed David
to become a great king.

God allowed David to
prosper, and I will prosper.

- Colin, you're--



- Divine guidance has show me
a way to gain great wealth,

anywhere performing good works.

I have new business interests,

through them I will show
you that God supports me!

- I want you out of the house.

- No don't, Kyle, don't.

I'll show you I'm forgiven.

He's guiding me now.

- I just don't
believe you anymore!

- He's shown me a way to
bring us great wealth.

(sighs)

Hello, hello?

Oh hello, yes, it's
Colin Howell here.

That's right, yes.

Can you hear me?

Yes, how's Manila?

Colder here now, I have to say.

So, I just wanted to, um,

confirm that the second
tranche, the second payment.

That's right, if you can confirm
that that has gone through,

then we can start to work on
the third tranche, thank you.

Lovely to talk to you.

- I can't believe how
tall you've gotten.

- Am I taller than Dad was?

- Easily.

But he used to sleep on boards

to make sure he was tall
enough to join the RUC.

- I don't remember
him being really tall.

- You want a cup of tea?
- No, I'm all right.

Thank you, Dave.

- Andrew's got lectures
this afternoon.

- You want me to run
you into the station?

- No, I'll take him.

- I'm driving though.
- No, you are not!

- I am, give me that!
- No, go.

- Please!
- No.

- Why not?
- Bye!

- Go ahead and take this
to the Northern Bank

as soon as it opens tomorrow.

Tell them I am the sender,

and it's going to
this overseas account.

The reference is church work.

- Of course, Mr. Howell.

Of course.

- Don't tell anyone.

In 1945, the Imperial Japanese
Army left huge quantities

of sequestered gold in the
jungles of the Philippines.

No one has located
it, until now.

- Good lord.

- A church contact
in Manila has a team

which has now pinpointed

the precise location
of these assets.

The blue sky potential
of the salvage operation

after costs and commission,
is north of 10 million pounds.

The objective is to finance

a global Christian
charity initiative.

I inherited a considerable
sum after I lost Lesley,

and as a man of faith,

it seems more than right to
invest in a worthy cause.

So far, I've committed
150,000 pounds,

and I wondered if the
fellowship could match that?

- I'm not sure, Colin.

That's a considerable
amount of money.

This puts me in a very
uncomfortable position.

- This is only open
to a very select

and sophisticated
investor profile,

like minded Christians
on a very discrete basis.

Now, phase four
has been completed

on schedule and on budget.

Phase five will be
actioned next week

at the excavation site.

We just need the last
tranche of operational cash.

I've sold my half of
the mining practices

as a show of confidence
in the venture.

- Colin, this is all
sounding very dodgy.

- Peter, my first
recovered assets.

- What do you mean,
recovered assets?

- What we already
have discovered,

what we have excavated already.

They arrive Monday by courier,
if you want to see proof,

and listen, Peter,

your investment would
guarantee the final survey.

So listen--
- No, I can't.

- So would you like to
come in with 30,000?

- You know I can't.

- 10?
- I can't.

- No, okay, listen.

If you can get me by the
weekend, I'll take five.

(light instrumental music)

(suspenseful music)

(metal rattling)

(breathing heavily)

Oh God.

Oh my God.

(breathing heavily)

Oh my God.

(mumbling)

(light instrumental music)

(waves crashing)

- [Kyle] He's on his way.

You need to come now.

(suspenseful music)

- I understand there's something

you'd like to share
with us, Colin.

- I fear for my immortal soul.

I have been unfaithful
to you, many times,

and I have touched

female patients.

- [Kyle] Oh.

- I touched them sexually.

(crying softly)

They were under sedation.

I can't stop this.

I've taken 238,000
pounds from patients

whose treatments I might
not be able to complete.

Maybe more.

I owe over 100,000 to
the Inland Revenue.

I've emptied our
savings account.

I've lost 360,000 pounds.

We'll lose this house.

We'll lose everything,

and all of our
Japanese war gold,

the whole thing
was a gigantic con.

It was a fraud, and
I realize that I...

(crying)

I realize that I am a fraud.

My whole life has been a fraud.

God finally told me,

I've heard his actual voice.

- If we put all our
sins before the cross,

the resurrection of both
the just and the unjust

take place on Judgment Day.

(light piano music)

- On,

the night of May the 18th,

1991,

I murdered my wife, Lesley,
and Trevor Buchanan.

What Hazel and I were doing

was causing so much pain
to Lesley and Trevor,

I actually thought I could
take that away from them.

We talked about divorce,

but I believed that would cause

the children too much suffering.

In my mind, it was much
worse for Lesley and Trevor

to live than to die,

so I made a plan to kill them,

and to make it
look like suicide.

It had to be done
very, very quickly

to fool the pathologist.

The times of death had to
be very close together.

I wanted it to be, um...

(sobbing)

Easy and painless.

They'd fall asleep, they
wouldn't feel anything,

but in the end, they did.

Lesley woke up,
she called out for,

she called out for Matthew,
and Trevor woke up.

I'd told Hazel to get 'em

to take something to
make them fall asleep.

But he woke up and he fought,

so Lesley and Trevor both
knew they were going to die.

After the struggle,
when Trevor was dead,

I told Hazel to clear things up.

I never thought I'd
get away with it,

but God knew.

He took my son,

and Lesley and Trevor,

they both knew death was coming.

Lesley died

with Matt's name on her lips.

(light piano music)

That was God's warning to me.

- Hello.

- How you doing?
- Hi.

- These police officers
would like to talk to you.

(suspenseful music)

- Why?

What's been said?

- Just tell the truth.

Everything will be fine, okay?

(knocking)

- How've you been?

I'm Detective
Sergeant Jeff Ferris.

Can I call you Hazel?

- Yes.

- You're in here because
you along with Colin

are suspected of being
involved in the murders.

- That's not right.

That's not fair.

Why should I be taken
down because of his act?

Why should he drag me down?

I was a victim in my
own home because of him.

I accept I am responsible for
letting Colin into my house.

- You feel that the only
thing that you did wrong

was letting Colin Howell
into your house that night?

- Oh, don't you
think that's enough?

- When Colin arrived
at your house,

you knew he was there
to get rid of Trevor?

- No!

No, no.

- Okay, then what action
did you take to stop him?

- I couldn't do anything
because he controlled me.

He told me to go into the
guestroom and not to come out.

I was so scared, I thought if
I say something against this,

he's gonna turn
around and kill me.

I'm a soft person, but he is
a very controlling person.

I was easy prey.

- But you knew why
he was coming around.

He rang you.

- He just said, he just
said he was coming around.

- Just for a chitchat?

- Well, I didn't think
he was coming 'round

with Lesley in the boot, no.

- So, let's go over
this once more.

Colin drives right
into your garage

with an experienced
police officer

and a loaded gun
potentially waiting for him.

When Colin was prepared
to roll out a hosepipe

right through the house
and into the bedroom,

no one found rightly that

this man's not even
gonna make it up here?

- Well, he did waken.

He did waken, there
was a struggle.

- I'm not surprised he wakened
up at that stage of the game.

The fumes could've
upset him, woke him up.

But did you give Trevor
any drug or tablet,

or whatever that evening?

- Well, Trevor took something
because he had some tablets.

- All right, what tablets?

- They were sleeping tablets
that Lesley had given him.

- Do you have a problem

with telling the
truth in here, Hazel?

You're trying to
dig your heels in

to try and distance
yourself from it.

How did Trevor get the
sedatives in his system?

- I, I didn't actually
give it to him.

He took it himself.

I didn't encourage it.

Well, he said he
couldn't sleep at night,

so I says, "Well, why
don't you take some?"

- Part of the plan was that
Colin wished you to do this.

- No, he wanted me to do this,
but I wasn't for doing it.

I wasn't doing it.

(sighs)

- So, you're now saying
that you were fully aware

that Trevor took a
tablet that night?

- He took a tablet.

Yes, I was aware of that.

- You were also aware that
maybe as a last resort,

you had to give it to
him, which you know,

you didn't want to do, but
Colin had asked you to do it.

- Colin had asked me to do it.

- So you were well aware

that Colin would come up that
night to carry out his plan?

- He had a plan.

We had a plan, whatever
way you want to put it.

- Yes.

- When it came to it,
I didn't want to do it.

- And in relation--
- But it's done.

- And in relation to this plan,

(Hazel sobbing)

do you accept that you
went along with it?

- I knew it would happen.

He told me what to do and I did.

- And this plan that
you went along with,

do you accept now that
you could've stopped it?

(Hazel sobbing)

- It could've been stopped, yes.

- Your part was to drug
Trevor, conceal vital evidence,

and continue the deceit

by fooling police,
friends, and family?

- [Hazel] Yes.

- This had to be
a joint enterprise
between the two of you.

The two of you had
to work together

to make this plan
come to fruition.

Do you accept that?

- [Hazel] Yes.

- And your
relationship continued?

- Yes.

- Your children have grown
over the years accepting

what you have told them about
the death of their father,

but there's nobody else
to blame here, Hazel,

except for you and Colin.

Would you agree?

- The biggest mistake
I made in my life

was ever meeting Colin Howell,

and I paid the price
for the past 18 years.

I've lost my life.

It was like living with a
black hole every day I woke up.

Every night I went
to bed, it was there.

I thought about it 24/7,

but I...

I had to be strong
for my children.

My guilt was horrendous.

My shame, and I've wrecked
my wonderful Dave's life,

and my children's.

They need me, they need me
and I can't be there for them.

I can't have them
now because of this.

(sobbing)

- I phoned the kids.

They know you got bail.

- Will you not look at me?

- Of course.

Sorry.

- It wasn't me back then.

- Hazel,

I know you.

God knows you.

You are the most loving,
good, pure person

that I have ever met.

- What am I gonna do?

What are we gonna do?

(keys jingling)

- [Guard] Howell?

(footsteps thudding)

- Hello again, Colin.

D.C. Devine, how are you?

I'd like to speak with you.

Your lawyer here will confirm

you're under no
obligation to talk to me.

No interview being conducted.

- It's up to you, Colin.

- It's fine.

- Hazel Stewart,

as you know, she's
been released on bail.

She's pleading not guilty on
grounds that you coerced her.

She says it was all down to you.

- [Lawyer] Is that true, Colin?

It won't affect your sentence,

but would you be willing
to come to court,

and give an account
of what took place?

(door creaking)

(suspenseful music)

(dog barking)

(people chattering)

- [Woman] That's Hazel Stewart.

- Ready?

- I'm frightened.

- Lord, we ask that you
watch over our beloved Hazel,

and grant her justice
in her time of trial.

Let the jury understand

that she is his victim
too, an innocent victim.

- Hazel, are you still confident
you'll be found not guilty?

- How has it affected
your relationship?

(people chattering)

- There she is, bitch!
- Oh, she'll get hers.

- Come this way, please.

(people chattering)

- [Clerk] Is that your client?

- My Lord, the crown wishes
to call its next witness.

(suspenseful music)

- Mr. Howell, you made a
full confession to the police

in relation to the murders

of your wife Lesley
and Trevor Buchanan.

Last year, did you plead guilty

and have now been sentenced
in respect of these offenses?

- Yes, that's correct.

- [Lawyer] Why did
you go to the police?

- I have no other motivation
than to tell the truth,

and to allow proper healing
to the victims to happen.

- Let's go back to 1991.

I want to ask you
about the 14th of May.

Did you meet with
Hazel Buchanan?

- Yes.

- Did you tell her a plan?
- In the car, yes, yes.

Basically, I said to her,

"I have a plan for
Trevor and Lesley.

"It can look as if
they've committed suicide,

"but I need your help."

- [Lawyer] Did she
object to you doing it?

- Not to the principle
of killing Trevor,

killing Lesley, no.

- [Lawyer] Did you give
her anything that night?

- I gave her tablets.

I needed Hazel to cooperate
with giving Trevor medication,

so that he would be asleep when
I would arrive at the house.

She understood by this stage,
before I gave her the tablets,

that that was to be her role,

that one of the first
steps of her role

was that Trevor would be
asleep when I arrived.

- Had you any particular
concern about Trevor?

- Yes, he had a gun, so if I,

if he woke up, he could
get up and shoot me,

as simple as that.

- Did you discuss anything else?

- Yes, after she
took the tablets,

I felt it was the
moment when the plan

was accepted and agreed upon.

It was almost like the
contract was signed,

and so I explained to her

the four roles she
would have to undertake

for this to be successful.

To give the tablets, step one.

Earlier in the evening,

step two was to leave the
car out of the garage.

Step three was to
leave the clothes out.

Step four was to cut up the
hosepipe and burn it afterwards.

- So, after that
meeting in the car,

as far as you were concerned,

how much of the plan had
been discussed with Hazel?

- Not all of the detail,
but 100% of the plan.

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- All rise.

- No, no, no, no, what
he's saying is not true!

- There's nothing he
said we didn't expect.

- I got away from him.

He's never forgiven me,

yet he controlled everything,

you have to make
them believe that!

- Trust me, Mrs. Stewart,

we know what we're
trying to achieve.

- Maybe I should speak.

I need to go on
the witness stand.

- Mrs. Stewart, as your
husband has observed,

the prosecution's first
question is likely to be,

"What was it like having sex

"with your husband's
killer for four years?"

- We've agreed the way to
do this is to expose Colin.

The jury will see him
for the liar that he is.

- He's a double murderer.

- He'll make the jury see that.

- You don't know him.

You don't know what
he's capable of.

- I suggest you're a
man who will simply do

and say anything for
your own selfish ends.

You've lied.

You lied to Lesley, didn't you?

- I did, yes.

- You lied to the police.

- In 1991, yes.

- And I suggest you lied
about what the accused did,

and you've elevated what she did

to a joint enterprise
as an accomplice to you.

- That's not right.

- At your tariff
hearing, Mr. Howell,

your defense counsel in an
eloquent plea on your behalf,

said that you weren't a monster.

Do you remember that?

- He said what I
did was monstrous,

but I was not a monster, yes.

- Yes.

You are a monster Mr.
Howell, aren't you?

- I was a monster.

I was a killer, but
I'm not any longer.

That's part of my confession.

- Mr. Howell, you've been
described as manipulative.

- Absolutely.

I was very manipulative,
yes, I was.

- Evil?

- Yes, I was evil.

- Can I use another adjective
to describe you, Mr. Howell?

Would you think that you
are a controlling person?

- I don't believe that I am.

- Your relationships with women

were not controlling
type relationships?

- Actually I was
so out of control,

ultimately the women in
the life controlled me,

because of the adultery I'd had.

- Did your financial position

improve immeasurably
with your wife's death?

- After about a year, yes.

- The net benefit you obtained

from her estate
was 212,466 pounds.

Is that right?

- Yes.

- And there were other benefits,

such as life insurance
of 120,000 pounds.

Your murderous intent was all
about the money, was it not?

- That was not the
motive behind it.

That wasn't discussed
by me or by Hazel,

because if I had a
financial motive,

you'd have to suggest that
perhaps Hazel did as well.

- Nothing to do
with Hazel at all,

all to do with you, Mr. Howell.

- But this trial is about Hazel.

- Isn't the fact of the matter
that you are and have been

for most of your adult life,
Mr. Howell, a sexual predator?

- No.

When I went to Hazel's house,

I knew I was not there
for guitar lessons.

I walked into the spider's web.

Flies go into a spider's web

because they might think there
is some food for them there,

so I willingly went
after the bait,

and we got caught
together in a trap.

- Isn't your view of Hazel

that she was someone who
was fairly simplistic,

and was easy to control?

- We have this wrong perception

of people who are easily led,

people who have the disguise
and guile to appear innocent.

A word Hazel used about
herself is, "I'm just soft."

But that's part of
the huge deception

that I was under about Hazel.

- Are you saying therefore,

that no, you didn't
control this?

- The last thing I want to do

is make things worse for
Hazel than she deserves,

but control is a
very complex thing.

So if I was controlling
in one area,

Hazel was controlling
in another.

It was a dance between
control and manipulation.

Two people waltzing
together in time.

I may have been
the lead partner,

but she was not
dragging her feet.

She was in step and in harmony.

- Is it not that everybody
dances to your tune?

What's best for Colin Howell
is best for everybody,

isn't that right?

Basically, you just do
what you want, really.

- No, this was a
completely mutual decision,

as was the abortion.

Like a blood contract that
Hazel and I had secretly,

a big secret, a strong bond,

which meant that when
it came to my idea

of a joint venture to
kill Trevor and Lesley,

we had already signed
a contract in blood

that it is okay to kill a human.

Hazel wanted it and
I facilitated it.

If you look at the murders,

I wanted it and
Hazel facilitated it,

so we were both
waltzing in time.

She was my full partner.

(light instrumental music)

- [Judge] You must
weigh carefully

what Mrs. Stewart said
in her police interviews.

The legal definition
of joint enterprise

does not mean that Mrs. Stewart

had physically to commit
the murders herself,

and the word plan does not mean

that there had to be
a formal agreement,

worked out in fine detail.

Put simply, the
question for you is,

were they in it together?

Did she do everything she
could to prevent the murders?

Why did she not wake her
husband, keep the door closed,

scream the house down,

or run to a neighbor to
raise the alarm and get help?

(light instrumental music)

Will the defendant please stand?

Have you reached a verdict for
the murder of Lesley Howell?

- Yes, your Honor.
- What is the verdict?

Guilty or not guilty?

- Guilty, Your Honor.

- [Lisa] No, no,
that's not fair!

It's not fair, no!

(sobbing)

(light piano music)

Mommy!

- Put your clothes here.

(phone ringing)

- [Guard] Hello?

Yeah, we're coming down
about three o'clock.

Yeah, they'll be here later.

All right, see you then.

- You know, I'm quite all right
with taking my punishment.

I've repented my sins,

and when I walk
back out of here,

I'll have atoned for my
crimes and paid my debt.

The slate will be wiped clean,

and I'll have another 20
years of life to enjoy.

My family is known
for its longevity.

(light instrumental music)