Touching Evil (1997–1999): Season 3, Episode 1 - Innocent: Part 1 - full transcript

This statement outlining
the organized and Serial Crime

Unit's response to the imminent
release of Anthony Matchin

from Vail Park's
secure unit following

the success of his appeal
against conviction.

The OSC's case was built
around the confession made

18 months ago by Anthony
Matchin's brutal killing

of Melanie Holland and
the killing of Anthony

Matchin's wife, Suzanne.

He's on his way up.

COMMANDER STEPHEN
ENWRIGHT: A confession

secured by our
senior OSC officer,



currently at home on leave.

I want to see Commander
It's Dave Creegan.

I still work here.

The high court has now
upheld Matchin's appeal

against this conviction.

The investigation
into both killings

will now be handed back to
the control of Ellandon's CID.

FEMALE REPORTER (ON TV): With
the release of Anthony Matchin

marking the end of
an 18-month ordeal,

the Organized and Serial
Crime Unit are now faced with

question as to why
they became so heavily

involved in this case and why--

DAVE CREEGAN: Your tie
wasn't on straight.

Other than that you
were pretty convincing.



There was never enough evidence
to convict Anthony Matchin.

You know that as well as I do.

Ellandon's CID
know that as well.

What I can't work out is why is
everybody acting so surprised?

Is that what you
came here to say?

DAVE CREEGAN: Why wasn't
I at the press conference?

I was the arresting officer.

I took Matchin's confession.

You were there.

COMMANDER ENWRIGHT:
You're on sick leave.

Feel better.

You don't look well.

Well, if you told
me what was coming

I would have dressed
for the occasion.

I want to go back up there.

I want to find out who did this.

I got a call from
the home office.

The whole investigation is
back on the local control.

They think
Matchin's the killer.

He had a history of psychiatric
disorder, that is all

the people up there can see.

Nobody is going back up
there, especially not you.

You're on sick leave.

You're suffering from
nervous exhaustion.

I was going to call you at home.

DAVE CREEGAN:
Fine, I'll go home.

Creegan.

I'm sorry I can't trust
your judgment right now.

SUSAN TAYLOR: Would
it be fair to say you

are letting this get to you?

When's your next medical?

This afternoon.

SUSAN TAYLOR: Why can't
you leave this alone?

Because I was the one
who got Matchin to confess.

You should have never been
left in Ellandon on your own.

If anything, you've got to
look after yourself now.

I saw the mirror in the hall.

Is this all just
because you miss them?

Or was that just
a stupid question?

I don't want to sound
too worried, Creegan

but the last time
I saw a bedroom

like this the bloke in the
bed had just shot himself.

DAVE CREEGAN: I want
them moved away.

New life, new IDs, the works.

As long as I'm working
here, my kids are at risk.

One more thing, I don't want
to know where they've gone.

How's Creegan?

He's fine.

[yelling]

MALE REPORTER (ON RADIO): And
now, the top story of the day.

Anthony Matchin's release
has led to deep concern

in the northeast
part of Ellandon.

With a cruel and unique
killer still at large.

DAVE CREEGAN: He's just told
me he killed both women.

I don't believe him.

We're unavailable to
talk today as a result

of the courts decision.

[yelling]

Not me.

Not me.

It wasn't me.

Why me?

Why me?

It wasn't me.

It wasn't me.

MALE REPORTER (ON
RADIO): Are expected

to make an announcement
later today

that sends the future of 300--

[gun shot]

[car beeps horn]

Where are you?

DAVE CREEGAN: Ellandon.

What are you doing there?

What are you doing in Ellandon?

DAVE CREEGAN: Well, everybody
keeps saying I need a holiday.

SUSAN TAYLOR (ON PHONE):
Creegan I'm serious.

What makes you think I'm not?

You should have been in
a medical this afternoon.

If you're trying to
prove that you're

ready to go back to work,
this really isn't a good idea.

[line goes dead]

Creegan?

FEMALE REPORTER (ON TV) There
is anger and real concern here

on the streets of Ellandon.

18 months on now with
the police no nearer

to finding the killer.

The appeals court decision
has set the town on edge.

Representatives
have so correctly--

MAN (ON RADIO): I'm happy to do
the shopping tonight because--

Tony?

Oh.

[groans]

Happy now?

I don't believe you
killed your wife, Tony.

Or anyone else.

Not by the end.

You want the pressure.

You fail at the profile,
you'd be mentally ill.

You have any idea what
it's like in Vail Park?

Have you?

Sorry for you.

DAVE CREEGAN: No.

Don't talk about what's
in my head, Tony.

We will be here for a fortnight.

I want to find out who
really killed Suzanne.

You were the last
person to see her alive.

I've got things
I've got to do.

We've met.

I hope it hurt.

DAVE CREEGAN: Holding
for DCI Wheelan.

Who hit you?

Somebody hit me.

Where have you seen him?

If Matchin's assaulted you,
I want him in here now.

And what are you going to do?

You're going to shake his hand?

You're wasting your
time with Matchin.

He's done nothing wrong.

WHEELAN: Oh, no?

Except kill his wife.

Then give you a confession
that didn't make any sense

so that he could mount an appeal
and then walk within 18 months.

What is with you?

Do you like being used?

Well, judging by
the state he was in,

he would have
confessed to anything.

That confession you
got wasn't worth spit.

Anybody here could
have told you that.

But oh, no.

That was interfering
with the OSC

in a job being run
from the home office.

This was a local investigation.

These were local women.

I don't just work here,
Creegan, I'm from here.

I was born in Durham.

Oh, yeah.

But you went soft
and headed south.

I've got an ex-wife
that gives me shit.

I've got a daughter at
the local comprehensive,

I know these people.

These people know me.

MIKE LAWLER: Sir, Mike Lawler.

WHEELAN: Michael.

Oh, I don't think I
want to hear this.

Yep.

I know this isn't
what you do, but I

need information about Matchin.

No.

No, I'm a bereavement counselor.

I counsel the bereaved.

But you wrote to
him in Vail Park,

you were a regular visitor.

That was his only visitor.

Have you been inside Vale Park?

Yeah, I know.

But--

WHEELAN: Can I just stop
everybody there, please?

First, I don't give
information about clients.

I help them get over
what's happened.

Secondly, Anthony Matchin has
just being proven innocent.

And thirdly, after what
happened last time,

can anyone give me
a single reason why

I should trust either of you?

Have you not gotten
anything better to do?

DAVE CREEGAN: You don't
believe Matchin killed him?

I don't have a view
on Anthony Matchin

beyond a professional opinion.

I know.

I heard it in court.

I want to know what
you really think.

OK.

Matchin felt guilty about
the death of his wife

because he wasn't
there to protect her.

It's common reaction
to extremes of grief.

You exploited that until he
believed that he killed her.

You made me like a fool.

You convinced the
jury that Matchin

had me eating out of his hand.

Do you want to say
something here now?

Do you want my best advice?

Like, forget this.

You can't revisit the past.

The local police are
looking for the killer,

let them get on with it.

Now, that's usually
30 quid an hour.

I'll give you that
much for free if you

just step away from the car.

[clears throat]

Like a room, please.

There's a good priced meal
in the galleon if you want it.

You can use the
voucher at the bar.

If you could just
sign there are there.

And I'll need your
car registration.

Can I get
something to eat now?

Sorry.

They just stopped serving.

But it's not even
gone 9 o'clock.

I know, sorry.

Would you want an alarm call?

Depends on what time you
stop serving breakfast.

MIKE LAWLER: Hello, Anthony.

I heard you're buggered.

Just thought I'd come
see how you were.

Look, appreciate the fact
that you've come 'round.

I don't need any
more counseling.

I think I need to be left alone.

MIKE MORGAN: Don't you think
that's the whole point?

There's time to move on.

Not supposed to
end up in therapy

for the rest of your life.

Look, if there's anything
you think I can do.

OK?

Looking for John Holland.

MAN IN WAREHOUSE:
Over the back there.

You got to minute, John?

You heard about Tony Matchin?

You should have just shot
him and burned what was left.

I need to get some
more information.

You're wasting your time.

You know, I'm still having
counseling, twice a week.

There's nothing I can tell you
about what happened to Melanie.

I don't even want
to think about it.

I just want to know
if there's anything

you can remember the last
time you saw your wife.

You want to know about
the last time I saw my wife?

Anything she said.

She didn't say anything.

She just had her heart ripped
out and stuffed in a bin bag.

I stepped on it walking
in to the kitchen.

It's all right, Steve.

He's leaving.

Nobody on you really.

Got nothing better to do.

You following me?

Aren't you supposed
to be back there?

It was in right side--

it was in right side there.

Man, you know how it works.

We're a team.

You're a team member.

If I didn't do it, it would
have been somebody else.

Thought it would it be
better coming from a friend.

Oh, we're friends now?

All right, we work together.

And since when does working
together make us friends?

I was going to ask
you to be my best man.

Oh, you're getting married?

Yeah.

Anna's idea.

The hospital found her.

He's coming out now.

[GARBLED POLICE RADIO
TRANSMISSION]

Oh, what the fuck.

No, I'm innocent you little
bastard take it easy.

Come on, get in.

WHEELAN: Want his clothes
sent to Forensics.

He's coming voluntarily
to make a statement.

I want to speak to him
when you're finished.

It wasn't him.

I was right about you,
you're a basket case.

Only a basket case would
say something like that.

Matchin isn't the killer.

Why don't you shout
it a bit louder,

basket case, maybe
he'll hear you.

You're only still here because
I haven't told you to go yet.

Until I hear different,
I'm still in charge.

Her name was JoAnne Carol.

She was found inside her house
just after 8:00 this morning.

She was a 28-year-old
warehouse assistant.

She was married.

Death appears to be
from strangulation.

Following that, the
removal of the heart.

Seems to be no sexual
motive for the attack,

but there seems to
be no motive at all.

Other than the
fact they were all

born within six years of each
other and they were married,

there seems to be no similarity
between JoAnne and the others.

JoAnne, dark hair.

Suzanne and Melanie, blond.

Suzanne was of heavier build.

We'll get more details
from the postmortem.

Postmortem's at 1:15.

Anthony Matchin's to be
interviewed as a suspect.

WHEELAN: Where were you?

I told you, I
stayed in all night.

With nothing to do?

And nobody to do it with.

DAVE CREEGAN: So I got
my P45 up in right, yeah?

SUSAN TAYLOR: He's
on his way up here.

I'm taking over the
investigation as officer

in charge.

I'm pretty sure
Matchin did this.

But if we're going
to get a conviction,

I want one that's
going to stick.

He didn't kill JoAnne.

He wouldn't kill Suzanne.

He loved her.

They wanted kids.

They wanted to build
a life together.

Losing his wife destroyed him.

I've got to find
a DCI Wheelan.

I want you to confirm that
you've read these by signing.

It formalizes the handover
of the investigation

for local control to
the control of the OSC.

There'll be a fax from your
Assistant Chief Constable

confirming this.

Now you need to
read it, then sign.

Is there anything else?

Yeah, I want to get everyone
together in the incident

room in the next 20 minutes.

And I want Matchin
cautioned, placed in a cell.

WHEELAN: They're giving
it your back, men.

Speak to the home office.

MIKE LAWLER: I mean, they've
asked me to talk to the husband

but--

DAVE CREEGAN: But
you can't believe

this is happening again.

There was no sign
of a struggle and

no obvious forensic evidence.

We've checked for
hairs and fluids

but we're unlikely to
find any DNA material.

Death was by strangulation
with the victim losing

consciousness in minutes.

Same procedure?

He isn't a surgeon but
it's pretty neat work.

Well, he must know
something about anatomy just

to get under the rib cage.

And she was definitely dead
before this was done to her?

Death by asphyxiation,
the most rapid so far.

How long would it take
him to remove the heart?

It isn't easy.

He's getting more efficient
but it's still a hell of a job.

So he kills in a
matter of minutes.

And then somehow
he has to transport

the body somewhere
safe and secure,

where there's lights
and equipment.

And he's got time to carry
out a difficult procedure,

there's going to be
blood and a lot of mess.

And then he takes the
body all the way back

so it can be found.

Now why does he do that huh?

Why is it so important that
he goes to all that trouble?

Answers on a post card, please.

MIKE LAWLER: Do you want
to sit down, Mr. Carol?

Do you want to sit down?

Now, I don't work
for the police.

I'm an independent
bereavement counselor.

And I'm here on your behalf.

Has everyone been telling
you this will be all right?

It's not, is it?

[crying]

Listen to me, Peter.

Taylor started the briefing.

MIKE LAWLER: --help
you get through this

with a brilliant process.

And I thought I
had a great job.

Strangulation of the victim is
carried out relatively quickly.

Killer has remarkably
little physical contact

with the victim while alive.

Once dead, enough
clothing is removed

to give access to the chest.

He then cuts out the heart
from underneath the rib cage.

He's learning from experience.

He then places the heart
in a bin bag near the body

with the clothing.

This fact has never been
released to the press.

Which means these can't
be copycat killings.

This is a ritual.

It has significance
for the killer

so there has to be something
that links all three women.

And what we need to do
is unpick their lives.

Imagine each of the victims
exactly as he saw them.

There's a helicopter
waiting at the airport.

It leaves in 45 minutes and
I expect you to be on it.

I convicted the wrong man
on your seasoned instructions.

I am not going back.

I've got three
separate medical reports

that all state you're physically
and mentally unfit to work.

Let me observe.

I know her, Linden.

I know this case and
I know Tony Matchin.

COMMANDER ENWRIGHT: This
happens on one condition.

Spare rounds.

You put one foot wrong Dave,
don't come back at all.

I need you to answer
questions concerning an incident

which occurred last night.

Questions designed
to make me confess?

Creegan said he didn't
believe I did it.

Doesn't matter what he said.

You're talking to us now.

[presses button to record]

PETER CAROL: Am I invisible?

Do you think I go unnoticed?

People would have seen
me if I'd gone out.

Did anyone say they'd seen me?

All the money they'd
spent on you lot.

Is this the best you can manage?

WHEELAN: You've got to
admit, he's got a point.

Thought we'd get
you something to read.

Yeah.

It's a shame I
couldn't find anything.

Are you're going
to get a solicitor?

A solicitor could
get you out of here.

DAVE CREEGAN: Room 23, please.

HOTEL RECEPTIONIST: You're
sure it was room 23?

23.

You haven't got with you?

I haven't got it with me.

HOTEL RECEPTIONIST:
Someone's put you in 32.

Who left this?

I don't know.

You don't know.

I need you to find out if
anyone saw Matchin last night.

He's claiming he didn't
go out of the house.

He's been locked
up for 18 months,

you'd think he'd have the
decency to go for a pint.

Feels like I've been locked
up here for a life time.

Does that entitle me to one?

That's fighting
talk around our way.

I don't make very
good conversation.

Yeah, well, neither do I.

Where's Peter Carol?

What's the problem?

PETER CAROL: That's the
last time I saw her.

I just thought she was weird.

I didn't say goodbye.

MARK RIVERS: And
how did she seem?

She couldn't get
the top off the sauce.

DAVE CREEGAN: And
why would somebody

send me that Mr. Carol?

It was sent to Amstade.

PETER CAROL: Is he after me?

DAVE CREEGAN: No,
it was sent to me.

But why has it
got my name on it?

Why was it sent to you?

It's got nothing to do with me.

Is this what happened
to Anthony Matchin?

Because you're
not looking me up.

The killer send the card.

It isn't the tip off.

Is he trying to frankly
to frame Peter Carol?

Maybe he saw what
happened to Matchin.

The deaths are a
form of expression.

He's trying to tell
us what he means.

We just can't see it.

This is where Suzanne
Matchin was found.

Heart had been
left in a bin bag.

Body tied to the crossbeam.

Been left to hang upside
down so she'd be all

covered when the tide went in.

SUSAN TAYLOR: Just
like household rubbish.

I mean why rip out her
heart, put it in a bin bag,

and leave it practically
on her own doorstep

if that's not the point
you're trying to make?

And if the heart's
rubbish, what's

he trying to say about her?

Maybe he's frightened of women.

Thought all men were
frightened of women.

What are you thinking?

It's no way to die.

And I used to like
the seaside as a kid.

If there's anything
you need, you

know you can call the station.

MARK RIVERS: Oy!

Taylor, in pursuit of a suspect.

SUSAN TAYLOR (ON
RADIO): Where all you?

Leaving Peter Carol's house.

Heading towards the new
entrance at the power station.

On our way.

[suspenseful music plays]

What are you going to do now?

Stare me to death?

SUSAN TAYLOR: Yeah, then I'll
blow your brains out with this.

OFFICER (ON RADIO): Can you do a
PM safe check on a Wayne Fitten

at 54 Britain Street?

I want everything
in here bagged up.

MARK RIVERS: Take
a look at this.

WAYNE FITTEN: Get off me!

Get off-- get off me.

Get off.

I'll take the interview.

I'll need a match on the night.

- WAYNE FITTEN: Bastard!
- Hey!

WAYNE FITTEN: Get off.

These people have come
all the way from London.

Show some respect.

Better take a look at this.

WAYNE FITTEN:
Come on, get off.

Get back, get back.

MARK RIVERS: We
have the man who was

inside your house in custody.

And--

SUSAN TAYLOR: Look, I'm sorry.

There's no easy way to do this.

I need to ask you if you
recognize either of these.

PETER CAROL: They're JoAnne's
Where did you get them?

The man we're
holding here had them.

He had them with him?

Yeah, he took them
from inside the house.

Well?

What?

Why are we here?

Metaphysics is
not my department.

It's a free country.

Who told you that?

What about these?

- Mine.
- No, they're not.

Not your size.

WAYNE FITTEN: Yeah,
well, I've put weight on.

You know how it is.

I already have to walk
past the cream cake.

So you killed the women
and then wear their knickers?

You must have a
really sick mind.

Now, that is my department.

Answer the question.

Did you kill these women?

I want your name and
your rank and then name

of your commanding officer.

And I want a solicitor.

What are we looking
at, burglary?

I didn't know she'd
just been killed.

I usually do this
sort thing by taking

them off the clothesline.

GP says it's a
compulsive disorder.

You admit that you stole them?

You pointed a gun at my head.

You pointed a gun at my
forehead and looked me

straight in the eye.

And when you did
that, little lady,

you really, really,
really, scared me.

SUSAN TAYLOR (ON PHONE):
I've had to let Fitten go.

DAVE CREEGAN: I
wouldn't worry about it.

SUSAN TAYLOR: Creegan, he's got
every newspaper article ever

written on Melanie and Suzanne.

DAVE CREEGAN (ON PHONE):
He's got newspaper reports

on every accident and
crime against women

in this town over
the last five years.

That makes him barking mad,
doesn't make him a killer.

Point is, he's giving us a lead.

In all his reports, there's
only three cases that

never reached a conclusion.

There's Melanie Holland,
Suzanne Matchin and a woman

called Lisa D'Silva.

Yeah, yeah, I've got
the D'Silva report.

Says it was attempted suicide.

MARK RIVERS: Can you wife hear?

FRANK D'SILVA: It's
permanent vegetative state.

My consultants not sure.

Aw, don't start looking at me.

All I'm trying to do
is bring her around.

Sorry.

Frank this is off the
record but I really need

to talk about what happened.

I was part of the investigation
into the deaths of Melanie

Holland, Suzanne Matchin.

Remember?

Yeah.

Well, I need to find out if
there's a link between them

and what happened to Lisa.

What did you
say your name was?

Creegan.

Well, I'll tell you
something, Creegan.

The police said my
wife threw herself

out of our bedroom window.

Now my mama died
eight weeks before

and she was down about that
but she wasn't suicidal.

But the police said there
was no sign of a struggle,

no one had broken into the flat.

So you think she was pushed?

FRANK D'SILVA: I
don't think, I know.

She wouldn't have jumped.

She wouldn't of
wanted me to come

home and find her like that.

Did your wife know a
man called Wayne Fitten?

No.

What about a man
called Peter Carol?

FRANK D'SILVA: No.

And you've no idea who
might have done this to her?

Lisa didn't have any enemies.

I always told her to be careful.

DAVE CREEGAN: I've checked
the pathologist report.

Said Lisa suffered
bruises on the neck

consistent with an attack.

Wheelan chose to ignore it.

Said she probably tried to
hang herself before she jumped.

I see a lot less
paper with a murder.

Exactly.

I think Lisa was the killer's
first attempt, Susan.

A

OK.

So let's talk to Fitten, again.

DAVE CREEGAN: No,
Fitten was locked

the time she was attacked.

Locked up for what?

Stalking a 23-year-old
nursery nurse.

MARK RIVERS: Are you using
that as an argument to say he

can't be the killer?

DAVE CREEGAN: Not if Lisa was
the killer's first attempt.

[whistling]

Have you gotten some
more of those papers?

I know what's been written.

Don't believe
everything you read.

I've got three medical
certificates saying I've

got a disordered personality.

Exactly.

And a doctor certificate
saying I'm not fit to be here.

ANTHONY MATCHIN: You should
give me the name of that doctor,

he can get us both out.

There's nothing to link
Matchin to the crime.

Got no forensic evidence
on him or anyone else.

Do you really think he did it?

Creegan doesn't think so.

Meaning what?

Creegan's a basket case
but usually he's right,

so I'll just sit
here on the fence.

Look, if I tell you
this, no one finds out.

Matchin's been placed under
surveillance by Wheelan.

He's been having him watched
ever since he came home.

They've got a van
outside his house.

They've got an unmarked car
if he goes out anywhere.

Matchin's been under
surveillance and you knew?

Everyone knew except
you, Rivers, and Creegan.

If Wheelan thinks you
don't belong here,

so does everyone else.

It was Wheelan's orders
to keep you in the dark.

So if they had Matchin
under surveillance,

where was he when
JoAnne Carol was killed?

He was in his house.

He never left it all night.

People around here,
they play rough.

You'll want to yourself.

This might be your investigation
but it's Wheelan's neck.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
take up so much of your time.

Don't worry, that's
what I'm here for.

If you'd like Mr. Carol, I
can give you a lift home.

MARK RIVERS: We're going to
get the guy that did this.

He's not going to
get away with it.

We'll make him pay.

Was going to get
you a Happy Meal.

I've just found out
that Wheelan had

Matchin under
surveillance at the time

JoAnne Carol was killed.

Now, he's known from
the start that Matchin

couldn't have done it.

Do you get the feeling
we're not wanted?

How'd you know this?

Doesn't matter how now.

Wheelan's given
Matchin an alibi.

Get Matchin released.

These bastards have had
this all their own way.

And we make sure we get
this right from now on.

We'll run the whole thing
from the bar in the hotel

if we have to.

What?

You can go.

[groaning]

What happened?

What happened?

Who hit you, Anthony?

You've lied to me.

You're guilty of obstruction
and you've assaulted a prisoner.

If anyone needs
assaulting around here,

I'll be the one to do it.

WHEELAN: Oh, I--

No, no, I don't want to argue.

You know what you've done
and you know that I know.

If anything else happens to
Matchin, anything at all,

I'm holding you and your
Assistant Chief Constable

personally responsible.

Tony.

Tony!

We can't see anymore.

Oh.

Tony!

[gasping for air]

Creegan!

No!

Tony!

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