Touching Evil (1997–1999): Season 1, Episode 1 - Through the Clouds: Part 1 - full transcript
[wind chimes tinkling]
[children laughing]
[music playing]
[alarm]
[yelling]
I want to speak to Creegan.
I want to speak to Creegan.
Anybody fancy anything
from the canteen?
Just give us a shout
if you [inaudible]...
Tenner on the big guy.
Why doesn't somebody
just get Creegan?
We don't have
a bloody Creegan.
Yes, you have.
I want to speak to Creegan.
I want Creegan.
I want Creegan.
I want to speak to Creegan.
I want to speak to Creegan.
Cyril.
Cyril.
You're scaring a
lot of people, man.
You want to just calm down?
Five deep breaths.
Three.
They said you weren't here.
Well, they should know better.
They know now.
Aye.
Let's grab a coffee.
Decaf might be an idea.
It's like, uh, all over
the place, and then here.
Everywhere.
And then straight in front
of me, and it's really dark.
And I get fried.
Really, really black.
Dark or black?
I get frightened.
I get pushed out of the way
because I don't mean anything.
I'm just trying to see.
Does someone die?
Yeah.
Is it a murder?
And you're watching?
Not with me own eyes.
I've seen it through the clouds.
You going to be
all right, Cyril?
You got a haircut.
[wolf whistle]
I did it myself.
It looks brilliant.
Could you show me friend
to [inaudible]... please?
This lady will take
you downstairs.
Don't touch her breasts.
She won't understand.
You'll be fine.
Look after yourself.
What was that all about?
That?
That was Cyril Goaling.
Nostradamus of the under world.
Yes, this is DI Dave
Creegan, I'm new in.
I'm on extension 2161, if
anybody needs to get through.
Thanks.
So he's now what?
Some kind of psychic?
Look, I pretend I can
do shorthand, Cyril,
he pretends he's a psychic.
Yes.
Wow, good luck to you.
Do you want to tell me what
you're doing in my office?
You're a day early.
That's a bad habit for a copper.
Key to make an impression.
Oh, you've done that.
Remind me never to put
you on a dawn raid.
I'm sorry about this.
Inspector David Creegan,
Inspector Susan Taylor.
You're sharing, by the way,
until we can sort space out.
Read this on the way down, and
ring me when you get there.
From?
It's in Albans.
You're reporting
to CS Tony Beacham.
He thinks you're
already on your way.
Right.
Both of you.
You spent a long
time alone recently?
Why?
Well, if you're
not going to talk,
I'll have to grab a
couple of hitchhikers.
Obviously, I'm a bit
rusty on the rules.
You'll give us a nudge
if I make any coddle.
Told to check in with CS
Beacham I'm an inspector.
You're an inspector.
Enwright never wastes resources.
Why has he made us partners?
Is he trying to
tell me something?
Should he be
telling you something?
No, he bloody well shouldn't.
My track record is impeccable.
If you do say so yourself.
Oh, I do.
Good.
Well, if you don't
bring it up again,
neither will I. Equal
status, equal billing.
Two runnings.
Did Enwright brief you?
Child abduction.
Kept track in the
news on the other two.
Same format.
It's always busy.
Nobody saw anything.
Nobody heard anything, and
it's a dedicated safe haven.
Not your first port of
call if your desperate then.
Unless you know
what you come for.
You've obviously got
your reasons for not
bringing the OSC in sooner.
Same age, all male, this
one's Eddie Franklin, age 7.
His mother was only
there when he went.
What the hell is going on?
Number three is
going on, Frank.
I'm talking about this lot,
assuming I've heard right.
Are you handing this
over to the OSC?
You were asked
to make contact--
This is my case.
It is my ground work, and
it is my responsibility.
Number three, Frank, and
you were instructed last week
to make contact with the OSC.
You told me you had.
I faxed outlines.
The Briefly we
got at headquarters
said for information only.
[inaudible]?
Sorry, can I?
Germany, February, '94.
There was an Interpol
flyer flying around.
Two kids abducted.
He buried their shoes at
the scene of the crime.
What triggered us
was the daffodil.
The daffodil?
It's December.
It's plastic.
Can we go back to
the last two sites?
You're all recruited
from Cambridge, aren't ya?
Oxford.
Durham.
Your worse than
the bleeding masons.
Since when did it take a
degree to catch Ian Brady?
They didn't Ian Brady.
He got turned in.
We wouldn't be here
unless we could help.
Listen, sweetheart, I've
been swimming down this lane
18 years, so don't play the
double act with me, all right?
I met Creegan this morning.
I know as much about
him as he does.
Oh, I know about Creegan.
I've checked you
out, so don't come
in here looking like the
Patron Saint of how it's done.
Are you refusing to cooperate?
That's very grown
up of you, Frank.
Look.
You come in here now,
and you clean this up,
and that's my career.
It depends how many
times your name comes
up on the final report, Frank.
I'll be filing the report.
Try charming me.
They Spent 400
man hours on this.
The wasted half
of the man hours
because they missed
half the bloody clues.
They know that, and
they're embarrassed.
Jerry Casper was
last seen here.
Carol, did you see anyone?
Do you remember any single
men who might have come near
or walked past?
Look, Eddie's a smart kid.
He knows about nuts.
He wouldn't have just
gone off with somebody.
We'll copy this and get it
straight back to you, Carol.
These all are repeat
performance tapes.
Anyone appearing in the
park on more than one day
and more than once
in the same day.
I'm presuming the perp picked
this spot so he must have
been on a reckie previously.
John, sorry, Jonathan
Kreitman, and [inaudible]...
Says he knows his
keyboard like a woman.
You see, I don't think
he's ever had a woman,
which is why he hammers it.
CREEGAN: How long have
do these tapes go back?
For a week, and
then recorded over.
This is the most
recent 100 hours.
The rest are being sent up.
So, go on, what
are we looking at?
Well, that's Mrs.
Franklin and her friend.
And that's Eddie.
You got a clear shot of that?
We've only got a school photo.
That woman there,
she's on both tapes.
She's in the park every day.
I'm sick of the sight of her.
She's a nanny for those two.
That's a spliff, by the way.
I reckon her and the
kids deserve each other.
There is something else.
Now concentrate
or you'll miss it.
Dit de dit de di di di.
Do do doo.
Doo do doo do boo.
Back.
Yellow Volvo?
- Correct.
- Where?
Watch.
Jerry Casper, 3
PM, last Tuesday.
Steven Lorde, 5 PM, Saturday.
Eddie Franklin, 9:00
yesterday morning.
All of them were
marked by the presence
of the artificial flowers.
The only other
forensics identified
were in the woodland areas.
They were weeks or months old.
Mostly [inaudible].
Sorry.
Sorry.
I think I found something.
Apologies to anyone I
haven't tuned in today.
This is DI Dave Creegan, new
to us, but very lived in.
We worked at [inaudible]
street together.
He helped me plan the
OSC two years back
before he went on a sabbatical.
Well, I'll let him
speak for himself.
Yeah.
These are all suspects and
witnesses from the [inaudible]
team's files, including
a voluntary witness
statement by this man.
Ronald Hinks.
He was in the
[inaudible] precinct
when Jerry Casper got lifted.
He gave average
corroborating information,
cup of tea for his trouble,
and he was sent home.
This car is registered
to Ronald Hinks,
seen here at Greenwich Park the
day Eddie Franklin disappeared.
Also the day before.
- Who's [inaudible]?
- Here.
Right, Steve, get us
an arrest and search
for this guy's house.
Kreitman, Rivers, you're
with Creegan and Taylor.
I'll liaise with
South Harts, make
sure they're not losing
their shopping because we
need them on our side.
I haven't finished.
All right.
Stuttgart, Germany,
February '94.
Two identical abductions.
The flowers marking
the shoes marking
the scenes of the crime
where the bodies eventually
turned up.
Bodies?
The victims were both found
at their original vanishing
scenes in plastic bags.
Both suffocated.
Professor Ronald
Hinks, 56, geneticists
working for Kessler UK.
Kessler UK is owned by a
Swiss pharmaceutical company,
one of Kessler's
branches is in Stuttgart.
Hinks worked in
Stuttgart in '93 to '94.
So why stall arresting him?
He's not going to talk.
He's made himself visible.
You think he
wants to be caught?
I think he wants to be chased.
There's three roads to the park.
Picks the only one on camera.
Just on camera.
There's no reason he should
know it from that distance.
He's been planning
this for years.
He's not going to
make any mistakes.
Marion?
It's a double edged sword.
On the one hand, by the
way, welcome to OSC--
on the one hand, the
flowers and the shoes
are obviously
compulsive signatures.
If he's throwing
down the gauntlet,
he's expecting a battle.
If he's expecting a battle,
he's more prepared than we are.
It's highly unlikely they're
still alive, but whether--
I'm sorry.
Marion is our psychologist.
Get away.
But whether they
are or not, I'd
have serious reservations about
leaving them on the street.
What are you suggesting?
Let's disappoint him.
Ronald Hinks?
[barking]
Henry, be quiet.
Correct.
You called a dog Henry.
Is this concerning
my statement?
Yeah, I know
it's a bit boring,
but we need over over a
couple of contradictions.
Really?
Well, please, come in.
No stone unturned.
You know, Eliot Ness.
I thought I gave an
accurate description.
I know it's tedious,
but we need to go
over that description again.
Just tell him.
He's not going to
bite your head off.
We mislaid your statement, and
the boss is asking for details.
It's my fault.
She can't find it.
I see.
Well, light brown hair,
early 20s, average height,
one of the great unwashed.
He looked quite on edge, and
the only time we connected eyes,
he looked quite hostile.
That's brilliant, Professor.
Thanks for your time.
You're welcome.
Henry, be quiet.
Where can we contact
you on working hours?
You know I'm a professor but
you don't know where I work?
You'd have been cross
checked on the IR register.
It's a formality.
I see.
Well, Parmounts
Demur, the Kessler
building at the university.
The Sistine Chapel is brilliant.
Sorry?
I have an allergy to words
like brilliant and fabulous.
Students use them.
You light cluster, by the
way, it's not brilliant.
It's busted, in fact.
Could get stopped for that.
Yes, of course, I over
shot a ballard at work.
I've been meaning to book
it in for a fortnight.
Thanks, again.
What was that all about?
I wanted to see his
face when he lied.
It's him.
He's got a dog, so don't
get too close to the house.
When he moves, you follow him.
OK.
How you doing?
Gosh, sorry.
Where are we?
This is where I get out.
See you in the morning.
He's just left Langum Lane.
All clear.
What are you waiting for?
The locksmith's
stuck in traffic.
[barking and whining]
He's turned around.
Hinks is coming
back to the house.
Repeat, Hinks is coming
back to the house.
Get out now.
Shit.
Get out of the house.
What's happening?
House is clean.
Morning.
You think Creegan's adjusting?
He's adjusting.
Ask me how I'm doing
when I've caught up.
I wouldn't sell you
a turkey, you know?
That's holding
me together, sir.
I owe you a drink.
One I can swim in.
Come on, love, a cow don't
hang on to it's milk that long.
You smell gorgeous
for a cleaner?
Maybe I should ask what you
can do with your marigolds.
Oh, no, don't scare
yourself, Rivers.
You just gotta mush
around, you perv.
How can anyone doubt that
men lack direction when all
their toilets smell like this.
I don't like where you work.
Getting upset because
they gave you a hard time.
I'm investigating the
disappearance of three kids.
What can you give me?
They're gonna die.
But they're not dead?
Cyril, those murders you saw
when you came to my office,
was it these?
I saw it.
Through the clouds.
Yes, but was it these?
I don't know.
Could I have a pudding?
Creegan?
Can you fly?
As in?
This is where all the tiresome
repetitive work has to be done.
Thankfully, not
by me these days.
Hands up, anyone,
who's had a vaccine?
Well, I think if you
asked your parents,
you'd find that you had.
The animals here
could serve a purpose.
That purpose is
to provide a means
of testing human formulae before
it's released onto the market.
They're the barrier between
you, me, and untried science.
But the animals are
all very well treated,
aren't they, Professor Hinks.
Well, we make them
very comfortable.
Yes, but many of them
have to be killed.
Come on.
What we're mainly
focusing on here
is the most basic
human structure.
Can anyone tell me what that is?
The heart, sir?
Crucial, yes, but this
is something even more
fundamental to life than that.
DNA, sir?
Correct.
You know what these
initials stand for?
Come on, we talked
about this last Thursday.
Deoxyribonucleic acid, sir.
"Jurassic Park," sir.
Very good.
He's the one to stick with.
He knows all the answers.
He does the school magazine.
Is it any good?
He's a prick, sir.
Mark Fulper and
Christian Mann,
they were abducted
four days apart.
Some of us saw that as
significant, some didn't,
but it was never resolved.
Louis, will you
tell the families
we're grateful for their help?
We'll do all we can.
The only hope they
have now is that you will
show their children's killer.
Any way of
tracking down Hinks's
accommodation in Stuttgart?
We've arranged it.
185.
Used to be leased to
Kessler International.
[speaking german]
Do you mind if we
shut the garage door?
Creegan, I'm allergic to cats.
You got me standing in cat shit.
Why am I letting
you do this to me?
He wouldn't go to
all this trouble.
You would not make a
place like this if all you
were going to do is kill them.
I think they're still alive.
Look, OSC get the same
holidays as regular coppers.
They tell you this
[inaudible]... do they?
So what's this eight weeks
training leave all about?
Eight weeks training?
Crap.
My training for this bit
lasted about 15 minutes.
Well, it shows.
What's that suppose to mean?
You open with your mouth
open, and your feet stink.
Piss off.
He led us here.
With that much evidence,
he led us to his house.
To a clean house, exactly
like his other house.
And if [inaudible] steam
cleaned that garage once a week
for the last four years,
we're not going to find
any admissible samples there.
I know.
Happy birthday, by the way.
How'd you know
it's my birthday?
The same way you know
I work in special branch.
I got your file out.
Cheers.
Well, if you talked more,
I wouldn't have had to.
Go on then.
I know you worked
on vice till you
took a bullet through
the head in a drugs raid.
12 months sick leave, then
there's a hole in your file.
Psychiatric leave?
Post-grad in criminology,
got an [inaudible]...
so if you wanted
to pull rank, you
could waive you certificates.
Which would be very
cheap and very vulgar.
But I wouldn't put it past me.
Enwright drove up
to see me in August,
he asked me to come
work for your lot.
Obviously, a fan.
He's hoping I will.
You're not?
Do you care?
Do you?
You're not my type professor,
if that's the question.
It wasn't.
Fine.
What is your type?
For the record.
Younger than you with bigger
muscles and no qualifications
whatsoever.
Fine.
So it took you from
August to get here?
I was looking for something
I could do without having
to answer to everybody else.
My ideal job is
selling ice cream.
You drive the van yourself, you
mix the ingredients yourself,
and the only complication
is a greedy, fat kid
wanting more ninety-nines
than you've got flakes for.
Either way it's one to one.
I focus best on one to one.
But you joined a team.
We are a team, Creegan.
Inspectors!
On the original autopsy,
traces of a chemical
were found in the blood of
Mark Fulper, an anesthetic.
What about Christian Mann?
Christian was never tested.
Mark had had a tooth
extracted at the dentist
the evening before
he was abducted,
which explained the
presence of [inaudible]...
Today, they screened
Christian's blood
and found faint
traces of the same.
If they were injected,
it explains why they
never showed for their moms.
Mrs. Franklin said
there was no way
Eddie would go with a stranger.
They were abducted
four days apart?
How long after the second
abduction were they murdered?
Six days.
TAYLOR: Our last abduction
was four days ago.
They are still alive.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Good luck.
He's on his way into work.
Yeah, we're tracking
him along the A40-2-4.
Don't be soft,
take the door off.
I'm still waiting
on a warrant.
Don't worry, I've got it.
Looking at it now.
Take it down to the
brick work, Frank.
Recognize any of
these, Professor?
Or these?
What's wrong?
We working too fast for you?
Get out of the car.
Get out the car!
This is Professor
Hinks, I need
to speak to the legal
department urgently.
I don't know.
I'm being arrested.
It's all very bizarre.
His room's on this floor.
If you don't give
me an answer fast,
you can whistle for the keys.
Hey.
What?
OK, I need an inventory of
all chemical substances brought
into the building over
the past 12 months,
specifically psychoactive
or sedative substances.
I need any clothing, gloves,
foot wear, head gear,
whatever the professor--
You are completely
bloody deaf?
Dean Martin, singer, Dean
Saunders, sense of forward,
Dean of Medicine, remind me.
I don't know whether
you've forgotten the score
or just picked up
some bad habits
while you were out
of action, but I
think you should relax a bit.
Is that right?
Well, he's not exactly
throwing evidence at us, is he?
Any mistakes on our part,
we lose points in court.
And what mistakes
have we made?
You forced a suspect out
of his car at gunpoint.
That could trip us up in court.
And that's a DC
talking to an inspector.
Where did your bad
habits come from, Rivers?
Any mistakes should be his.
We will get him.
OK, point taken.
And it's not cool
to pull rank anymore.
And it means you got
to buy the drinks.
Obviously, all the
victims have similarities.
Age, hair color, eye
color, so we're not
looking at generic pedophilia.
The image is very specific,
and there was no evidence
of sexual violation with
either of the German kids,
so he's not a
pedophile, or if he is,
he shows remarkable restraint.
We could be looking at
some kind of manifestation
of grief, something platonic,
friend, brother, father.
Hinks is an only child.
Never been married, and
both his parents are alive
and kicking in Tunbridge Wells.
It that isn't a
contradiction in terms.
I need a bit more
that this Marion.
You want to try again?
It could have
been the early death
of a relative, a school friend.
Could have been the
early death of his hamster.
What I need are triggers
to get him talking.
If you've an allergy
to psychologist,
I suggest you get
that looked at.
Is there anywhere I
can get some food?
There's a canteen on
the second floor, Marion.
She's as good as the rest of us.
You knock her, you knock
us, which reflects on you.
Absolutely nothing.
The only prints in that
house belonged to him.
The dogs have been walked till
their knacker's dropped off.
We've interviewed
150 residents
and regulars to a
mile radius, including
the estate up the road.
They've seen nothing.
They've heard nothing.
Your warrant for the file.
Hey, this wasn't
signed until 10 o'clock.
Your watch is slow.
The only drugs that
passed anesthetics
aren't controlled by Hinks.
If he'd removed that kind
of stuff from the labs,
there's a triple
signature procedure.
Yeah, but he's in
charge of the program.
Could have dodged the books.
He'd still only get access to
enough gear to knock a rat out.
It's nowhere near
enough to sedate
a human, even a small one.
Well, for a crack team,
you've slipped in your own shit
fast enough.
You've commissioned more
man hours in two days
than we've spent in two weeks.
But we've delivered, Dolland.
You haven't had a single
sniff of the bloody victims,
and very soon, you won't
have a suspect much longer.
Have you seen who
he's got for a brief?
Peter Lister.
Kessler just flown
in from Belgium.
His chauffeur is in the canteen.
So even with evidence,
he'd piss you out of court,
and you've got nothing.
I'm struggling to
understand why that
should make you smile, Frank.
I could smile with that
much Scotch inside me
before breakfast.
Do you want to say that
again, you little shit?
I could smile with that--
TAYLOR: Rivers, move.
Ronald, you're
obviously not going
to qualify for legal
aid on your salary,
but Mr. Lister is a
very expensive brief.
Have you got that kind of money?
Don't have to answer that.
Do universities pay that
kind of money these days?
Have I missed a revolution?
I represent Kessler UK.
I see.
On record, that Mr.
Hinks doesn't actually
work for the university,
he works for Kessler UK
at the University.
On record, that the bill
for Mr. Hinks's defense
has been footed by
said Kessler UK.
You have no case to make.
My client strenuously denies
all charges laid against him,
and you have no
evidence whatsoever.
How long you worked
for Kessler, Peter?
Oh, really, this is--
As far back as '94?
Yes.
Stuttgart.
Did you work in Stuttgart?
Indeed, I did.
So you were there about
the same time he was.
About the same
time two boys were
abducted in identical
circumstances,
both found dead six days later.
Were you his brief
then, Mr. Lister?
That's a very
crass accusation.
It's not an accusation.
It is three questions.
Three pieces of information.
Were you interviewed
at all in connection
with those crimes, Ronald?
Briefly, as a witness.
As a witness.
And were you his brief
during this piece
of history, Mr. Lister?
I was not.
Oh, no, that's right.
It was another brief paid
for by Kessler International.
I don't know what connection
you're trying to make,
but a voluntary statement made
during an extensive police
inquiry does not
implicate me in any way
in any crime whatsoever.
I know.
But it's twice you've
done that, Ronald.
So?
Interview terminated, 1653.
Did you want to use the toilet?
No.
Now, please answer my question.
Have you or have
you not any reason
to hold my client any longer?
No.
Where are those kids?
Creegan, what if we've
got all of our resources
pinned on the wrong guy?
What if we can't
find any evidence
because there's none to find?
It is worrying me.
Why isn't it worrying you?
We can't find any evidence,
so you presume it's not him.
Why isn't it striking you
that Hinks is bright enough
to avoid us finding evidence.
Because without more evidence,
a conviction is a fantasy.
Based on the fact that all
you expect is a conviction.
Hinks is a freak.
He's an intelligent freak who
credits himself with being
in control of the facts.
If all you're waiting
for is evidence,
then we got three dead kids
around the corner, Taylor.
He did it.
I think you best
speak to Enwright
before we go any further.
If we don't find them,
and he lets them die,
he won't be blaming himself.
I will.
Then you need to stand back.
You can't take responsibility
for all of them, Creegan.
But that's the only
reason why I'm here.
The responsibility is the only
reason why I came back, Taylor.
What are you here for?
The more I come after you,
the more we embarrass Kessler,
the faster they start talking
about your early retirement.
It's their name they're
looking after, Ron, not yours.
I'm filing a report
for wrongful arrest.
You're welcome to add
threatening behavior to that.
I'll send you the forms.
They will dump you, Ronald,
because I'm not going anywhere.
I am in your face
till we put you away.
Then, we'll grow old within
sight of each other, won't we?
Because quite frankly, I don't
think you're up to your job.
Mr. [inaudible]...
it'll help you.
Just get me some flesh.
[inaudible] needle.
What happened?
Are you a relative?
He came in with a
severe asthma attack.
What are you talking about?
Cyril's not an asthmatic.
We've given him some of the
strongest medication we can,
but he's deteriorating
fairly quickly.
Cyril?
It's a condition
we call dry drowning.
He's pulling fluid
into his lungs
and we're struggling
to control it.
I'm going to take him
up to intensive care.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 1:
Don't got to sleep.
Don't go to sleep.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 2: I'm cold.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 1:
Stand up, Colin, stand up.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 2: I'm cold.
I can't breathe.
[fly buzzing]
LITTLE BOY'S VOICE
1: I can't breathe.
[children laughing]
[music playing]
[alarm]
[yelling]
I want to speak to Creegan.
I want to speak to Creegan.
Anybody fancy anything
from the canteen?
Just give us a shout
if you [inaudible]...
Tenner on the big guy.
Why doesn't somebody
just get Creegan?
We don't have
a bloody Creegan.
Yes, you have.
I want to speak to Creegan.
I want Creegan.
I want Creegan.
I want to speak to Creegan.
I want to speak to Creegan.
Cyril.
Cyril.
You're scaring a
lot of people, man.
You want to just calm down?
Five deep breaths.
Three.
They said you weren't here.
Well, they should know better.
They know now.
Aye.
Let's grab a coffee.
Decaf might be an idea.
It's like, uh, all over
the place, and then here.
Everywhere.
And then straight in front
of me, and it's really dark.
And I get fried.
Really, really black.
Dark or black?
I get frightened.
I get pushed out of the way
because I don't mean anything.
I'm just trying to see.
Does someone die?
Yeah.
Is it a murder?
And you're watching?
Not with me own eyes.
I've seen it through the clouds.
You going to be
all right, Cyril?
You got a haircut.
[wolf whistle]
I did it myself.
It looks brilliant.
Could you show me friend
to [inaudible]... please?
This lady will take
you downstairs.
Don't touch her breasts.
She won't understand.
You'll be fine.
Look after yourself.
What was that all about?
That?
That was Cyril Goaling.
Nostradamus of the under world.
Yes, this is DI Dave
Creegan, I'm new in.
I'm on extension 2161, if
anybody needs to get through.
Thanks.
So he's now what?
Some kind of psychic?
Look, I pretend I can
do shorthand, Cyril,
he pretends he's a psychic.
Yes.
Wow, good luck to you.
Do you want to tell me what
you're doing in my office?
You're a day early.
That's a bad habit for a copper.
Key to make an impression.
Oh, you've done that.
Remind me never to put
you on a dawn raid.
I'm sorry about this.
Inspector David Creegan,
Inspector Susan Taylor.
You're sharing, by the way,
until we can sort space out.
Read this on the way down, and
ring me when you get there.
From?
It's in Albans.
You're reporting
to CS Tony Beacham.
He thinks you're
already on your way.
Right.
Both of you.
You spent a long
time alone recently?
Why?
Well, if you're
not going to talk,
I'll have to grab a
couple of hitchhikers.
Obviously, I'm a bit
rusty on the rules.
You'll give us a nudge
if I make any coddle.
Told to check in with CS
Beacham I'm an inspector.
You're an inspector.
Enwright never wastes resources.
Why has he made us partners?
Is he trying to
tell me something?
Should he be
telling you something?
No, he bloody well shouldn't.
My track record is impeccable.
If you do say so yourself.
Oh, I do.
Good.
Well, if you don't
bring it up again,
neither will I. Equal
status, equal billing.
Two runnings.
Did Enwright brief you?
Child abduction.
Kept track in the
news on the other two.
Same format.
It's always busy.
Nobody saw anything.
Nobody heard anything, and
it's a dedicated safe haven.
Not your first port of
call if your desperate then.
Unless you know
what you come for.
You've obviously got
your reasons for not
bringing the OSC in sooner.
Same age, all male, this
one's Eddie Franklin, age 7.
His mother was only
there when he went.
What the hell is going on?
Number three is
going on, Frank.
I'm talking about this lot,
assuming I've heard right.
Are you handing this
over to the OSC?
You were asked
to make contact--
This is my case.
It is my ground work, and
it is my responsibility.
Number three, Frank, and
you were instructed last week
to make contact with the OSC.
You told me you had.
I faxed outlines.
The Briefly we
got at headquarters
said for information only.
[inaudible]?
Sorry, can I?
Germany, February, '94.
There was an Interpol
flyer flying around.
Two kids abducted.
He buried their shoes at
the scene of the crime.
What triggered us
was the daffodil.
The daffodil?
It's December.
It's plastic.
Can we go back to
the last two sites?
You're all recruited
from Cambridge, aren't ya?
Oxford.
Durham.
Your worse than
the bleeding masons.
Since when did it take a
degree to catch Ian Brady?
They didn't Ian Brady.
He got turned in.
We wouldn't be here
unless we could help.
Listen, sweetheart, I've
been swimming down this lane
18 years, so don't play the
double act with me, all right?
I met Creegan this morning.
I know as much about
him as he does.
Oh, I know about Creegan.
I've checked you
out, so don't come
in here looking like the
Patron Saint of how it's done.
Are you refusing to cooperate?
That's very grown
up of you, Frank.
Look.
You come in here now,
and you clean this up,
and that's my career.
It depends how many
times your name comes
up on the final report, Frank.
I'll be filing the report.
Try charming me.
They Spent 400
man hours on this.
The wasted half
of the man hours
because they missed
half the bloody clues.
They know that, and
they're embarrassed.
Jerry Casper was
last seen here.
Carol, did you see anyone?
Do you remember any single
men who might have come near
or walked past?
Look, Eddie's a smart kid.
He knows about nuts.
He wouldn't have just
gone off with somebody.
We'll copy this and get it
straight back to you, Carol.
These all are repeat
performance tapes.
Anyone appearing in the
park on more than one day
and more than once
in the same day.
I'm presuming the perp picked
this spot so he must have
been on a reckie previously.
John, sorry, Jonathan
Kreitman, and [inaudible]...
Says he knows his
keyboard like a woman.
You see, I don't think
he's ever had a woman,
which is why he hammers it.
CREEGAN: How long have
do these tapes go back?
For a week, and
then recorded over.
This is the most
recent 100 hours.
The rest are being sent up.
So, go on, what
are we looking at?
Well, that's Mrs.
Franklin and her friend.
And that's Eddie.
You got a clear shot of that?
We've only got a school photo.
That woman there,
she's on both tapes.
She's in the park every day.
I'm sick of the sight of her.
She's a nanny for those two.
That's a spliff, by the way.
I reckon her and the
kids deserve each other.
There is something else.
Now concentrate
or you'll miss it.
Dit de dit de di di di.
Do do doo.
Doo do doo do boo.
Back.
Yellow Volvo?
- Correct.
- Where?
Watch.
Jerry Casper, 3
PM, last Tuesday.
Steven Lorde, 5 PM, Saturday.
Eddie Franklin, 9:00
yesterday morning.
All of them were
marked by the presence
of the artificial flowers.
The only other
forensics identified
were in the woodland areas.
They were weeks or months old.
Mostly [inaudible].
Sorry.
Sorry.
I think I found something.
Apologies to anyone I
haven't tuned in today.
This is DI Dave Creegan, new
to us, but very lived in.
We worked at [inaudible]
street together.
He helped me plan the
OSC two years back
before he went on a sabbatical.
Well, I'll let him
speak for himself.
Yeah.
These are all suspects and
witnesses from the [inaudible]
team's files, including
a voluntary witness
statement by this man.
Ronald Hinks.
He was in the
[inaudible] precinct
when Jerry Casper got lifted.
He gave average
corroborating information,
cup of tea for his trouble,
and he was sent home.
This car is registered
to Ronald Hinks,
seen here at Greenwich Park the
day Eddie Franklin disappeared.
Also the day before.
- Who's [inaudible]?
- Here.
Right, Steve, get us
an arrest and search
for this guy's house.
Kreitman, Rivers, you're
with Creegan and Taylor.
I'll liaise with
South Harts, make
sure they're not losing
their shopping because we
need them on our side.
I haven't finished.
All right.
Stuttgart, Germany,
February '94.
Two identical abductions.
The flowers marking
the shoes marking
the scenes of the crime
where the bodies eventually
turned up.
Bodies?
The victims were both found
at their original vanishing
scenes in plastic bags.
Both suffocated.
Professor Ronald
Hinks, 56, geneticists
working for Kessler UK.
Kessler UK is owned by a
Swiss pharmaceutical company,
one of Kessler's
branches is in Stuttgart.
Hinks worked in
Stuttgart in '93 to '94.
So why stall arresting him?
He's not going to talk.
He's made himself visible.
You think he
wants to be caught?
I think he wants to be chased.
There's three roads to the park.
Picks the only one on camera.
Just on camera.
There's no reason he should
know it from that distance.
He's been planning
this for years.
He's not going to
make any mistakes.
Marion?
It's a double edged sword.
On the one hand, by the
way, welcome to OSC--
on the one hand, the
flowers and the shoes
are obviously
compulsive signatures.
If he's throwing
down the gauntlet,
he's expecting a battle.
If he's expecting a battle,
he's more prepared than we are.
It's highly unlikely they're
still alive, but whether--
I'm sorry.
Marion is our psychologist.
Get away.
But whether they
are or not, I'd
have serious reservations about
leaving them on the street.
What are you suggesting?
Let's disappoint him.
Ronald Hinks?
[barking]
Henry, be quiet.
Correct.
You called a dog Henry.
Is this concerning
my statement?
Yeah, I know
it's a bit boring,
but we need over over a
couple of contradictions.
Really?
Well, please, come in.
No stone unturned.
You know, Eliot Ness.
I thought I gave an
accurate description.
I know it's tedious,
but we need to go
over that description again.
Just tell him.
He's not going to
bite your head off.
We mislaid your statement, and
the boss is asking for details.
It's my fault.
She can't find it.
I see.
Well, light brown hair,
early 20s, average height,
one of the great unwashed.
He looked quite on edge, and
the only time we connected eyes,
he looked quite hostile.
That's brilliant, Professor.
Thanks for your time.
You're welcome.
Henry, be quiet.
Where can we contact
you on working hours?
You know I'm a professor but
you don't know where I work?
You'd have been cross
checked on the IR register.
It's a formality.
I see.
Well, Parmounts
Demur, the Kessler
building at the university.
The Sistine Chapel is brilliant.
Sorry?
I have an allergy to words
like brilliant and fabulous.
Students use them.
You light cluster, by the
way, it's not brilliant.
It's busted, in fact.
Could get stopped for that.
Yes, of course, I over
shot a ballard at work.
I've been meaning to book
it in for a fortnight.
Thanks, again.
What was that all about?
I wanted to see his
face when he lied.
It's him.
He's got a dog, so don't
get too close to the house.
When he moves, you follow him.
OK.
How you doing?
Gosh, sorry.
Where are we?
This is where I get out.
See you in the morning.
He's just left Langum Lane.
All clear.
What are you waiting for?
The locksmith's
stuck in traffic.
[barking and whining]
He's turned around.
Hinks is coming
back to the house.
Repeat, Hinks is coming
back to the house.
Get out now.
Shit.
Get out of the house.
What's happening?
House is clean.
Morning.
You think Creegan's adjusting?
He's adjusting.
Ask me how I'm doing
when I've caught up.
I wouldn't sell you
a turkey, you know?
That's holding
me together, sir.
I owe you a drink.
One I can swim in.
Come on, love, a cow don't
hang on to it's milk that long.
You smell gorgeous
for a cleaner?
Maybe I should ask what you
can do with your marigolds.
Oh, no, don't scare
yourself, Rivers.
You just gotta mush
around, you perv.
How can anyone doubt that
men lack direction when all
their toilets smell like this.
I don't like where you work.
Getting upset because
they gave you a hard time.
I'm investigating the
disappearance of three kids.
What can you give me?
They're gonna die.
But they're not dead?
Cyril, those murders you saw
when you came to my office,
was it these?
I saw it.
Through the clouds.
Yes, but was it these?
I don't know.
Could I have a pudding?
Creegan?
Can you fly?
As in?
This is where all the tiresome
repetitive work has to be done.
Thankfully, not
by me these days.
Hands up, anyone,
who's had a vaccine?
Well, I think if you
asked your parents,
you'd find that you had.
The animals here
could serve a purpose.
That purpose is
to provide a means
of testing human formulae before
it's released onto the market.
They're the barrier between
you, me, and untried science.
But the animals are
all very well treated,
aren't they, Professor Hinks.
Well, we make them
very comfortable.
Yes, but many of them
have to be killed.
Come on.
What we're mainly
focusing on here
is the most basic
human structure.
Can anyone tell me what that is?
The heart, sir?
Crucial, yes, but this
is something even more
fundamental to life than that.
DNA, sir?
Correct.
You know what these
initials stand for?
Come on, we talked
about this last Thursday.
Deoxyribonucleic acid, sir.
"Jurassic Park," sir.
Very good.
He's the one to stick with.
He knows all the answers.
He does the school magazine.
Is it any good?
He's a prick, sir.
Mark Fulper and
Christian Mann,
they were abducted
four days apart.
Some of us saw that as
significant, some didn't,
but it was never resolved.
Louis, will you
tell the families
we're grateful for their help?
We'll do all we can.
The only hope they
have now is that you will
show their children's killer.
Any way of
tracking down Hinks's
accommodation in Stuttgart?
We've arranged it.
185.
Used to be leased to
Kessler International.
[speaking german]
Do you mind if we
shut the garage door?
Creegan, I'm allergic to cats.
You got me standing in cat shit.
Why am I letting
you do this to me?
He wouldn't go to
all this trouble.
You would not make a
place like this if all you
were going to do is kill them.
I think they're still alive.
Look, OSC get the same
holidays as regular coppers.
They tell you this
[inaudible]... do they?
So what's this eight weeks
training leave all about?
Eight weeks training?
Crap.
My training for this bit
lasted about 15 minutes.
Well, it shows.
What's that suppose to mean?
You open with your mouth
open, and your feet stink.
Piss off.
He led us here.
With that much evidence,
he led us to his house.
To a clean house, exactly
like his other house.
And if [inaudible] steam
cleaned that garage once a week
for the last four years,
we're not going to find
any admissible samples there.
I know.
Happy birthday, by the way.
How'd you know
it's my birthday?
The same way you know
I work in special branch.
I got your file out.
Cheers.
Well, if you talked more,
I wouldn't have had to.
Go on then.
I know you worked
on vice till you
took a bullet through
the head in a drugs raid.
12 months sick leave, then
there's a hole in your file.
Psychiatric leave?
Post-grad in criminology,
got an [inaudible]...
so if you wanted
to pull rank, you
could waive you certificates.
Which would be very
cheap and very vulgar.
But I wouldn't put it past me.
Enwright drove up
to see me in August,
he asked me to come
work for your lot.
Obviously, a fan.
He's hoping I will.
You're not?
Do you care?
Do you?
You're not my type professor,
if that's the question.
It wasn't.
Fine.
What is your type?
For the record.
Younger than you with bigger
muscles and no qualifications
whatsoever.
Fine.
So it took you from
August to get here?
I was looking for something
I could do without having
to answer to everybody else.
My ideal job is
selling ice cream.
You drive the van yourself, you
mix the ingredients yourself,
and the only complication
is a greedy, fat kid
wanting more ninety-nines
than you've got flakes for.
Either way it's one to one.
I focus best on one to one.
But you joined a team.
We are a team, Creegan.
Inspectors!
On the original autopsy,
traces of a chemical
were found in the blood of
Mark Fulper, an anesthetic.
What about Christian Mann?
Christian was never tested.
Mark had had a tooth
extracted at the dentist
the evening before
he was abducted,
which explained the
presence of [inaudible]...
Today, they screened
Christian's blood
and found faint
traces of the same.
If they were injected,
it explains why they
never showed for their moms.
Mrs. Franklin said
there was no way
Eddie would go with a stranger.
They were abducted
four days apart?
How long after the second
abduction were they murdered?
Six days.
TAYLOR: Our last abduction
was four days ago.
They are still alive.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Good luck.
He's on his way into work.
Yeah, we're tracking
him along the A40-2-4.
Don't be soft,
take the door off.
I'm still waiting
on a warrant.
Don't worry, I've got it.
Looking at it now.
Take it down to the
brick work, Frank.
Recognize any of
these, Professor?
Or these?
What's wrong?
We working too fast for you?
Get out of the car.
Get out the car!
This is Professor
Hinks, I need
to speak to the legal
department urgently.
I don't know.
I'm being arrested.
It's all very bizarre.
His room's on this floor.
If you don't give
me an answer fast,
you can whistle for the keys.
Hey.
What?
OK, I need an inventory of
all chemical substances brought
into the building over
the past 12 months,
specifically psychoactive
or sedative substances.
I need any clothing, gloves,
foot wear, head gear,
whatever the professor--
You are completely
bloody deaf?
Dean Martin, singer, Dean
Saunders, sense of forward,
Dean of Medicine, remind me.
I don't know whether
you've forgotten the score
or just picked up
some bad habits
while you were out
of action, but I
think you should relax a bit.
Is that right?
Well, he's not exactly
throwing evidence at us, is he?
Any mistakes on our part,
we lose points in court.
And what mistakes
have we made?
You forced a suspect out
of his car at gunpoint.
That could trip us up in court.
And that's a DC
talking to an inspector.
Where did your bad
habits come from, Rivers?
Any mistakes should be his.
We will get him.
OK, point taken.
And it's not cool
to pull rank anymore.
And it means you got
to buy the drinks.
Obviously, all the
victims have similarities.
Age, hair color, eye
color, so we're not
looking at generic pedophilia.
The image is very specific,
and there was no evidence
of sexual violation with
either of the German kids,
so he's not a
pedophile, or if he is,
he shows remarkable restraint.
We could be looking at
some kind of manifestation
of grief, something platonic,
friend, brother, father.
Hinks is an only child.
Never been married, and
both his parents are alive
and kicking in Tunbridge Wells.
It that isn't a
contradiction in terms.
I need a bit more
that this Marion.
You want to try again?
It could have
been the early death
of a relative, a school friend.
Could have been the
early death of his hamster.
What I need are triggers
to get him talking.
If you've an allergy
to psychologist,
I suggest you get
that looked at.
Is there anywhere I
can get some food?
There's a canteen on
the second floor, Marion.
She's as good as the rest of us.
You knock her, you knock
us, which reflects on you.
Absolutely nothing.
The only prints in that
house belonged to him.
The dogs have been walked till
their knacker's dropped off.
We've interviewed
150 residents
and regulars to a
mile radius, including
the estate up the road.
They've seen nothing.
They've heard nothing.
Your warrant for the file.
Hey, this wasn't
signed until 10 o'clock.
Your watch is slow.
The only drugs that
passed anesthetics
aren't controlled by Hinks.
If he'd removed that kind
of stuff from the labs,
there's a triple
signature procedure.
Yeah, but he's in
charge of the program.
Could have dodged the books.
He'd still only get access to
enough gear to knock a rat out.
It's nowhere near
enough to sedate
a human, even a small one.
Well, for a crack team,
you've slipped in your own shit
fast enough.
You've commissioned more
man hours in two days
than we've spent in two weeks.
But we've delivered, Dolland.
You haven't had a single
sniff of the bloody victims,
and very soon, you won't
have a suspect much longer.
Have you seen who
he's got for a brief?
Peter Lister.
Kessler just flown
in from Belgium.
His chauffeur is in the canteen.
So even with evidence,
he'd piss you out of court,
and you've got nothing.
I'm struggling to
understand why that
should make you smile, Frank.
I could smile with that
much Scotch inside me
before breakfast.
Do you want to say that
again, you little shit?
I could smile with that--
TAYLOR: Rivers, move.
Ronald, you're
obviously not going
to qualify for legal
aid on your salary,
but Mr. Lister is a
very expensive brief.
Have you got that kind of money?
Don't have to answer that.
Do universities pay that
kind of money these days?
Have I missed a revolution?
I represent Kessler UK.
I see.
On record, that Mr.
Hinks doesn't actually
work for the university,
he works for Kessler UK
at the University.
On record, that the bill
for Mr. Hinks's defense
has been footed by
said Kessler UK.
You have no case to make.
My client strenuously denies
all charges laid against him,
and you have no
evidence whatsoever.
How long you worked
for Kessler, Peter?
Oh, really, this is--
As far back as '94?
Yes.
Stuttgart.
Did you work in Stuttgart?
Indeed, I did.
So you were there about
the same time he was.
About the same
time two boys were
abducted in identical
circumstances,
both found dead six days later.
Were you his brief
then, Mr. Lister?
That's a very
crass accusation.
It's not an accusation.
It is three questions.
Three pieces of information.
Were you interviewed
at all in connection
with those crimes, Ronald?
Briefly, as a witness.
As a witness.
And were you his brief
during this piece
of history, Mr. Lister?
I was not.
Oh, no, that's right.
It was another brief paid
for by Kessler International.
I don't know what connection
you're trying to make,
but a voluntary statement made
during an extensive police
inquiry does not
implicate me in any way
in any crime whatsoever.
I know.
But it's twice you've
done that, Ronald.
So?
Interview terminated, 1653.
Did you want to use the toilet?
No.
Now, please answer my question.
Have you or have
you not any reason
to hold my client any longer?
No.
Where are those kids?
Creegan, what if we've
got all of our resources
pinned on the wrong guy?
What if we can't
find any evidence
because there's none to find?
It is worrying me.
Why isn't it worrying you?
We can't find any evidence,
so you presume it's not him.
Why isn't it striking you
that Hinks is bright enough
to avoid us finding evidence.
Because without more evidence,
a conviction is a fantasy.
Based on the fact that all
you expect is a conviction.
Hinks is a freak.
He's an intelligent freak who
credits himself with being
in control of the facts.
If all you're waiting
for is evidence,
then we got three dead kids
around the corner, Taylor.
He did it.
I think you best
speak to Enwright
before we go any further.
If we don't find them,
and he lets them die,
he won't be blaming himself.
I will.
Then you need to stand back.
You can't take responsibility
for all of them, Creegan.
But that's the only
reason why I'm here.
The responsibility is the only
reason why I came back, Taylor.
What are you here for?
The more I come after you,
the more we embarrass Kessler,
the faster they start talking
about your early retirement.
It's their name they're
looking after, Ron, not yours.
I'm filing a report
for wrongful arrest.
You're welcome to add
threatening behavior to that.
I'll send you the forms.
They will dump you, Ronald,
because I'm not going anywhere.
I am in your face
till we put you away.
Then, we'll grow old within
sight of each other, won't we?
Because quite frankly, I don't
think you're up to your job.
Mr. [inaudible]...
it'll help you.
Just get me some flesh.
[inaudible] needle.
What happened?
Are you a relative?
He came in with a
severe asthma attack.
What are you talking about?
Cyril's not an asthmatic.
We've given him some of the
strongest medication we can,
but he's deteriorating
fairly quickly.
Cyril?
It's a condition
we call dry drowning.
He's pulling fluid
into his lungs
and we're struggling
to control it.
I'm going to take him
up to intensive care.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 1:
Don't got to sleep.
Don't go to sleep.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 2: I'm cold.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 1:
Stand up, Colin, stand up.
YOUNG BOY'S VOICE 2: I'm cold.
I can't breathe.
[fly buzzing]
LITTLE BOY'S VOICE
1: I can't breathe.