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Usual?

Yeah. Looks that way, Jack.

When did they move in?

Three days ago.

They've got some very nice stuff.

Yeah, but they had some even nicer stuff before.

Who called?

A neighbour.

Popped round to say hello, found the front door open.

Do you know where they are?

No idea.

He must have just had these printed.

There is a mobile number.

Oh. Right, OK.

That's very interesting.

Well, we all feel it's time for change in Deadland.

There's a new spirit, you know.

You've only got to look at all the building going on. Of course, I don't

tell you that. I still brought you here in the first place, eh?

Brian wasn't so much brought and driven, Mr Munch.

By the price of office space in London.

What I found irresistible is how much money Denton pays me.

Hello?

Who? Tell me, are you happy with your new house?

Oh, yes. Exactly what we wanted now the children have left home.

Ah. Yes, I'll come straight back.

Do you know a detective, Inspector Frost?

Yes. He was phoning from my new house.

We've been burgled.

So what are you up to?

My observations of Eta Geminorum were interrupted tonight.

So I have to write down the details.

After that, I have to hand in my statement. Sergeant Brady said I had to

here.

Eta Geminorum.

It's a star.

Yeah.

A binary star.

50 times the size of the sun. The bright component is a semi -regular red giant

varying a magnitude of 3 .2. Every 8 .4 years, it's eclipsed by its twin star.

The next one is due now.

Calculations indicate UFO activity.

What, tonight?

Yeah. There are American special forces here, agents of the Majestic 12. I saw

them. Are you going to investigate, Mr. Tallin?

Who? Well, the aliens, George.

The alien?

Jack!

Very smart, sir. Very, very smart.

You can't book one of these alien abductions, can you?

They do tests.

Psychological, medical. They look inside your head and they insert a tracking

device inside your brain sometimes.

Yeah, you went like that.

I haven't got all night!

On my way, sir.

It wasn't me I was thinking about.

Tell him.

I can do my statement now.

It's all right, Lawrence. It can wait.

Come on. Yeah, I saw them. I saw them there. You can finish that when you get

home. I can finish this when I get home. Come on.

I did see them. All right.

That's how I knew that it was American Special Forces.

The same burglars.

Targeting people who've just moved into the area.

People with money.

Valuable possessions.

They've got very good information.

Yeah, I know.

Well, where's it coming from?

Take your pick. You've got a list as long as your arm. You've got estate

auctioneers. You've got removal men.

You... You know, you've got builders, plumbers, milkmen, postmen.

I tried to find a pattern and they ended up with yellow pages.

Well, I want to give them priority.

All right, they're burglaries. You give me more detectives, I'll give you more

thieves. Well, as it happens, I'm getting you some temporary help. Some DS

Abingdon. Oh, thank you very much. Jack, I was at dinner with Mr and Mrs Weston.

I was about to address the Rotary Club on how successful we've been in reducing

Denton's crime rate.

Well, it's true. Well, it didn't sound very convincing, especially when

everybody in the room knew the Westons had been burgled while we were actually

sitting there.

It's not in here, is it?

It is over here.

Good job, boys.

Well done.

You can't ignore

it, boss.

I want this repaired and back on the job this time next week. That's all you

need to worry about. There's thousands of pounds worth of damage here.

You've got to tell the police. I mean, we've had vandalism before. You know

it's going to do to my insurance?

Forget it.

Well, what if they come back? That's what I mean to worry about.

What's this about, boss?

Vandalism, lads. Like you said.

And whoever they are, they'd be very unwise to come back here. The police

to know. No police!

And I don't want anybody mouthing off about this. Not that they want to keep

their jobs, and that includes you.

belong to?

Me.

Well, well, well, well, well.

Hazel.

How are you? It's so nice to see you. You too, Gav.

Oh, dear, oh, dear.

Well, Mr Mullet said that they were sending over a DS from Abingdon to help

I bet you didn't know he was getting two for the price of one. I was on leave,

so it was all a bit short notice.

Well,

nothing much has changed around here. It's, uh...

Obviously different with you, though.

My sister's coming in to collect her. She'll only be ten minutes.

Oh, don't worry about that.

We're all very new men here in CID now.

Well, what's its name?

Emma. Oh, Emma.

Well, I shall address you as Emma and you can address me as Inspector Frost.

Well,

come on.

Let's get to work, eh?

I've got some robberies, some big, some small. So I'm on the posh, you're on the

dross. Small -time break -ins, opportunist stuff.

I'm up for speed.

George, film me on the map. I just put up the last break -in yesterday.

About 9pm.

And Mrs Halliday, out playing bingos, she got a pension in the afternoon. She

left most of it in a drawer.

£80 gone.

I don't suppose anybody saw anything, did they? No.

Same spec.

Old people living on their own. No real security. It could be kids.

Yeah, more than likely.

One odd thing.

Ah, odd.

Now, that I like. What is it?

Looking through the file, no witnesses as such so far, but on at least four

occasions, other people in the roads or flats mentioned someone trying to

deliver a takeaway that hadn't been ordered.

Wrong address.

It's not related to the crimes. It just happened the same night.

Any particular takeaway?

Don't know.

All right.

Tell you what you do. Check out all the takeaways in the area.

You know, Indian, Chinese, pizza, burger.

They're all potential witches.

Oh.

And don't forget, bring me back the menus.

What for?

Well, I might get hungry later on, might I?

Go on.

Now are you going to call the police?

We're about to start shifting the stone.

We've just blasted it.

Is there a warning siren?

I don't think you'd have heard it.

What do you mean?

The body was under some plastic sheeting.

He may have hidden himself after his demise, but it would be unusual.

How did he die?

Cause of death?

Probably a blow to the back of the head.

Skulls cracked.

But nothing to do with fallen rocks.

A blunt instrument.

Hammer, bar, whatever.

He may not have died here.

I'd say the body's been moved.

Can you give me a time?

Last night.

First guess, I'd say between eight and midnight.

All right.

Thank you.

Mr Lightfoot.

Detective Inspector Frost, Denton CID.

Sorry, I'm still taking this in.

We've had accidents before, but nothing... No -one's ever been... No,

I'm calling it a suspicious death.

I'm treating Denton Quarry at the scene of crime.

Though between you and I, I don't think that Mr Simms' death was, you know, an

accident.

I think we're probably looking at a murder investigation.

Murder?

This, uh, Mr. Sims, he was a security guard work for you, did he?

Yep. Was he on duty last night?

No, I don't have full -time security.

Then maybe you can tell me what happened here last night.

You know, why someone broke into the quarry and vandalised some of your

and equipment to the tune of... Ooh, what? Quite a lot of money.

Shall we go and have a look?

Then maybe you can tell me why you didn't think it was important enough to

inform the police.

I've got insurance to think about.

What I got for the damage wouldn't cover higher premiums.

I don't need people snipping around, nitpicking about how secure the place

There's an explosives license to consider.

What you mean is your explosives aren't secure and you don't want anyone to

know. No, it's all inspected.

When something goes wrong, the busybodies come out.

I'll be honest, Mr. Frost.

I'm struggling.

I haven't made a decent profit in years.

I decided to carry the cost.

And what are you going to do? A bunch of kids?

You think children, did you?

Or what else?

It wasn't kids who killed Mr. Sims.

He wasn't even working.

You saw him yesterday afternoon.

He was going to Oxford, football match.

All right, thank you very much, Mr. Lightfoot. Be all for now.

We'll talk again later.

Sims was here yesterday afternoon.

Does anybody know what time he left? Yeah, five o 'clock with everybody else.

He got a lift to the Carpenters' Arms a couple of miles away with a man called

Davis. He's a driver here.

Davis left him in the pub just before six.

Sims was waiting for a friend to go to some football match at Oxford.

Yeah.

But Davis never knew this friend.

Do we know what time the quarry closed?

Oh, there was no -one here after half -five.

We know someone who was, though.

I suppose it's not a complaint from Mr Nightfoot.

The thing is, I can't really blame him.

Keeping Lawrence away from the quarry, we can't lock him up, Mr Frost.

No, no, it's not a complaint.

It's... Well, I... I want to talk to Lawrence.

What's happened?

I need to know what he saw last night.

Where is he?

He's upstairs.

I'll call him. No, no, no need. No, no. I'll just go up.

Nothing to worry about.

It's on the right.

Busy?

Hello, Lawrence.

Yeah. What do you want?

I have to finish the UFO field data sheet for last night.

Mm -hmm.

So you believe UFOs exist, then, do you?

Yeah, yeah, they must.

Meaning that in an infinite universe, there must be other life.

If the universe was infinite, then all things would be repeated infinitely.

That's just silly.

Do you know about chaos theory?

Well, I know a lot about chaos, but I'm not so hot on the theory.

Random and chaotic systems eventually form patterns, and they create order.

universe is the same. Its order is predisposed to create life.

Other life isn't just possible, it's inevitable.

Do you think I could see your statement?

Thank you.

The Majestic 12 have people in the police.

They have people everywhere, so the truth doesn't come out.

Yeah, you could be one.

I'm not familiar with the Majestic 12, should I be?

Yeah, the control group.

Established by President Truman in 1947 after an alien spacecraft crashed near

Roswell, New Mexico. To establish contact with the aliens and to keep a

the Majestic 12 are licensed to use deadly force.

Hmm.

Did you see the security guard when you were up at the quarry?

Yeah.

Yeah, Mr.

Sims, yeah.

They hit him. I said that in my statement. So I hid him behind some

was going to go back to see if he'd recovered consciousness, but I didn't.

Yeah, he doesn't like me very much, Mr. Sims.

You didn't say this last night.

It wasn't important.

The aliens.

Mr. Thames is dead, Lawrence.

I would have liked to have seen what someone looked like dead.

You're not very fast, are you?

Come on, Ben.

Put you apart from that.

Cheater!

Sorry we're a bit late.

You're an hour and a half late.

I said I'm sorry.

Go inside and wash your hands.

The dinner's not fit to eat.

It's my fault, Sally, don't... I know whose fault it is.

You can't keep doing this.

I don't keep... You wanted rules.

If you don't keep to them, I'm going back to my solicitor.

The only reason I needed rules, right, is because you wouldn't let me see my

son.

Don't want to row.

I was going to take him to the picture this afternoon.

I've got tickets.

Well, why didn't you tell me then? Why should I have to tell you anything?

My life is not your business.

You have set times you're meant to keep to them. You stop pushing me, right?

I've had enough!

One of these days, I'm really going to take him and I won't bring him back. See

you like that.

Sims was in the pub till nine.

We traced the friend.

His car broke down on their trip to Oxford.

He phoned the pub at seven, spoke to the landlord, then to Sims.

Why did Sims go back to the quarry?

Well, he lived the other side of Denton, didn't have a car.

I'd say he went back for a kip.

The landlord said when Sims did work nights at the quarry, he'd sit in the

till closing time, then walk back to the office to sleep it off.

I dare say Lightfoot never knew.

My guess is he didn't care.

I mean, Sims would come cheap as a so -called security guard. What mattered

to have his name on the payroll.

You know, keep the insurance money down.

See what you can find out about our friend at night. You know, a sniff

50 pence.

Well, there's a file on your desk.

Now, two months ago, Sims found Lawrence Burrell in the quarry at night.

Now, Burrell wouldn't go. He threw a rock at Sims. He needed stitches.

Really?

Sims called uniform, but there were no charges in the end.

Well, given the lad's problems, Jack, everyone thought it was better left

Hello?

No,

I haven't got anything.

Well, it's too soon for a start.

Well, after this job, I've got you down for the depository.

The storage needs sorting out. I need some overtime, Bill.

We're quiet this week.

Maybe I can get you a weekend in Bristol. It's short there. Oh, come on.

see Ben.

So I've got the child support agency on the back and Sally's pushing.

I'm arming my maintenance.

It's like an offer.

Get along!

Take it then. Get along!

Thanks.

Did you see their faces?

No, no, no, they had helmets on.

If it wasn't the American Special Forces, then it would have been aliens.

These, um, these men, they were smashing windscreens, ripping tyres.

Yeah, the quarry's probably an alien communication hub.

Yeah, a meteorite landed here in 1918, and that's a geminorum eclipse here. No

record of any meteor shower.

Yeah, I understand that, but about that night... Lawrence, please.

Try and answer Mr Frost's questions.

The last eclipse, people saw small spheres glowing, a formation of bright

overhead. There were other reports from an RAF station outside of Nottingham,

denied later, as you'd expect.

Yes, but what about that night? Just tell me about that night. Shut me up!

That's what he did to Mr Sims because of what he saw.

I don't trust you. I'm not going to tell you anymore.

No, no. No more for you. No more.

Could he be telling some version of the truth? I mean, get rid of all the stars

and the UFOs.

Could he have been involved in what happened here that night?

No, no. He couldn't kill anybody.

But could he have struck sims?

I mean, if Sims had come up here and caught him, could he have lashed out?

I don't know.

Well, if you don't know Mr Burrell, and I'm sure I don't, I'll have to take him

back to the station.

Tell me about these men you saw.

It was a jeep.

Did you see the colour?

Please, Lawrence.

When Mr. Sims got hit on the head, see what hit him?

You were at the quarry, Lawrence.

You and Mr. Sims had arguments before.

You threw something at him.

Now we have to ask you, did something like that happen again?

We found the iron bar that killed Mr.

Sims, and it has your fingerprints on it. How?

I'm going to... No, Lawrence, yeah. I'm going to answer Mr.

Frost's question. Now, that may be a very simple explanation, and then we can

on. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to... Will you sit down, please? Yeah, sit down.

Sit down.

Mr. Frost, just give us a minute.

Yes, okay.

Come on, George.

Let's get a cup of tea.

We will soon. We will soon.

Lawrence! Lawrence!

Yeah. Lawrence!

No, no. No, Lawrence. No, no. Sit down.

Read. Sit down. Come on.

It's okay. It's all right.

Well, I come here because there's more than enough to charge him with, Jack.

What is it exactly you're looking for?

I know that Lightfoot is up to something, and I want to know what it

I'm sorry, but there's a black barrel. Of course I am. Do you see how violent

can get? And unless there are little green men over Denton, then everything

saying is most likely a lie.

Well, I know the evidence would suggest... Getting evidence is our job.

What happens after that is up to a court.

Now, there's every reason to charge him, Jack. And then, perhaps...

You can get back to the list of crimes for which you don't have evidence.

It's long enough.

What news on this Mr Lightfoot, then?

Oh, I haven't had time yet, Jack.

Had to have an X -ray.

Anyway, I thought all this was wrapped up.

Mr Mullet said that if I... Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

How long have we worked together?

What? You've just broken the first two rules of detection, haven't you? One, do

not think unless I give you permission, and two, do not believe anything Mr

Mullet says unless he's signing your expenses.

Lightfoot. Lightfoot.

Menus, love.

Menus. Small -time burglary? You thought you might get something? Maybe a

witness on people who are delivering takeaways?

Oh, no.

I never knew there were so many.

Oh, well, well done there, Hazel. Well done. Very thorough.

Blimey, some new ones on me.

Well, what do you think?

One of them might notice something.

It's a long shot.

No, no, no, no. I mean Indian or Chinese.

Mood, I mean. I could eat both.

Yeah, I was expecting you to... No, this morning wasn't a good time.

No, I can't promise her.

Look, if I can't get something, I will.

Ben!

You must know that off by heart by now.

But I like it!

If you wear that cape out, I swear I'm not buying you another one.

Mum!

Your dad's taking you out tomorrow, but that's instead of the weekend, right?

Right.

Hi, Lawrence.

Look.

I brought you something to eat.

Ah, I know the feeling.

But it's one of the cook's better meats.

Chicken and chips.

Even he couldn't do much damage to that.

Lawrence, your dad brought you fresh clothing.

Is he here?

Well, he was, but I couldn't let him in again to see you tonight. It's just the

rules, but he'll be back again tomorrow.

Lawrence, try and eat something, son, eh?

I'm sorry I wasn't here, Inspector. I called in at the station, took some

in for Lawrence.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I was just trying to get some sense of your son.

He's not the easiest person to talk to.

He's frightened, Mr Frost.

If you force him to go somewhere he doesn't want to, that's when he clams

Or loses his temper.

We all lose our temper.

No, worse is maybe.

But we don't lose control.

He was very young when he was diagnosed as autistic.

I didn't know what any of it meant, just that something was wrong.

He couldn't even interact with other children.

His own brother.

Is that still true today?

Well, he doesn't really have a sense of other people, how they feel.

He'll say things that embarrass people.

He can even seem unpleasant.

It isn't how it sounds. You can't judge what he says.

I'm not judging anything.

That's why I'm here, Mrs Burrell.

His intelligence works in a different way, that's all.

You can understand how he sees things.

And how does he see things?

He has a very literal sense of the world. So when he reads about flying

or CIA conspiracies, it never occurs to him that they might not be writing the

truth.

So if Lawrence had something to hide, he could make something up.

He doesn't make things up.

You sound very positive about that.

Whatever Lawrence really saw that night, he's not lying.

The sniff at Lightfoot led me to this.

Macintosh Holdings.

Do you know who McIntosh is?

Stuart McIntosh and I do not move in the same circles.

Probably rubbed shoulders with Mr Mullet down at the Rotary Club.

Are you sure you're not going to help me with some of this?

No, you don't need any help, Jack. No, I don't mean this one.

I've got one out there from the Hung Wing, the other one from the Golden

They do a very good black bean sauce, but mind you, I think their rice is a

little bit chewy.

Listen to this.

Macintosh Towers, is it? Yep.

The biggest development in Denton since the 60s. And the planning department

turned it down twice.

They got most of it on greenbelt land.

Denton Country Park.

Green lungs for a growing community.

Oh, I see.

So he buys a few trees, puts a couple of ducks on a pond...

And then all this green belt land that Macintosh bore is worth 20 times more

than he paid for it. And then some.

Right. Well, what's this got to do with Charlie Lightfoot and his quarry?

Denton Lake.

An ecologically friendly environment for fish, fowl and endangered newts.

The quarry is Denton Lake.

Or it will be, just fill it up.

Yes, but if Charlie Lightfoot is selling, why is he having trouble with

business? His bank manager should be giving him a party, surely.

That'll be the time to my heart.

I ordered that exactly 37 minutes ago.

Yeah, well, I'd better be getting home as well, Jack.

Chicken kuma, rogan juice, naan.

Thank you. No couriers allowed on the premises wearing helmets.

It's only a takeaway.

Take it off.

Oh, George, here you are. I'm never going to eat all this. If you don't want

tonight, heat it up for breakfast in the morning.

No, I'll stick to cornflakes.

Coward. Let's have a look at your moped.

What's that?

I'm doing a thesis for Open University.

A fast food's really fast enough, all right?

you want.

Well, there's gratitude for you.

Now, where would you be today if I hadn't given you the nod to all those

over the years?

Off -design news with a column on the National, probably.

Yeah, but you'd not miss us, wouldn't you?

You've always got a lot more out of me than I've ever got out of you, Jack, and

you are here to do it again.

Have a look at that.

I think we are making an investment.

You know, looking after my future.

What do you think of Denton Park, McIntosh Holdings? Worth a flutter?

Local business, you're the expert. Who else should know more?

What's the real question?

What do you know about Charlie Lightfoot?

Denton Quarry.

Somebody got killed up there.

Security guard, yeah, I've been following it. But I heard you got a man.

But he's been alien.

Is he disturbed?

Disturbed? Well, he is now. He's in a cell.

No, you know, I'm just...

Just sniffing around.

Something smells at the quarry.

Mm -hmm.

Come on.

I'll tell you a story.

Oh.

The council really wants to demolish all these. The trouble is they've got

nowhere to rehouse the tenants.

So is that what Genton Park is all about?

Are you joking? Not even a corner.

All private and all expensive.

Do people still live in these?

The council can only afford to condemn the work.

Oh, things rotten.

Then there's the subsidence.

Look, some of these cracks come right up from the basement.

They weren't just shoddily built. They're crap from the foundations off.

So what's the connection?

Stuart McIntosh and Charlie Lightfoot built this rubbish together.

Now, much of the money for the company came from Lightfoot because he had the

land and the quarry.

But they fell out. I don't know why.

Once they started to make money, McIntosh dumped Lightfoot.

But they're back in business.

I mean, now that McIntosh is buying the quarry.

He's got to.

No green spaces and ecology, no Denton Park.

And that's how McIntosh managed to get plant admission to build on the

that he bought on the cheap.

I'll bet my pension that light will make him pay through the nose for it.

So no love lost there, then? They ate each other's guts.

I'm not going to sell cheap to you or anyone else.

I made that mistake 27 years ago. I don't need a trip down memory lane,

This is a rip -off. I wouldn't have sold out then if my partner hadn't told me

the business was down the tubes.

Phony accounts a lot.

And now you've got a very sweet deal. But without my quarry, you'll lose it.

Okay, Charlie.

Okay. I'll find the money.

Oh, you will.

Only the price has doubled.

It's market forces, Stuart.

That's bullshit, Charlie. What do you think I am? You are the bastard that

to send me a message the other night. Sell cheap or get shafted.

Couldn't you afford better help?

They killed a man for God's sake.

I don't know what you're talking about.

We need each other, Charlie. Do we?

That Inspector Frost doesn't think I'm telling the truth.

Now, I could give him a reason to believe that nutter who saw it all.

You give me what I want, or you'll end up inside.

And don't think I'll blink first.

After all these years, and I've got you by the balls.

Colin, my dear boy.

You come bearing gifts, I hope.

Anything interesting?

It's a move from a big -ass library.

I hope so.

There's a lot of pictures.

I don't know what. I wasn't there to unpack.

One bloke reckoned some were a bit decent.

Very promising.

What's the score on the house?

Hanning Avenue.

It's big grounds. It's quite isolated.

They're not back till tomorrow.

They're at a wedding back in Surrey.

That's all I know.

You're too honest, Colin.

Alarms.

Well,

the electrician was there when we unloaded.

So there's no system yet. He was pricing it up for them.

In that case, there's no time like the present.

I'll catch you next week. See what the job's worth. Yeah, I'll need the money,

Oscar.

Tonight?

Tonight.

And that's my last one.

I can't keep doing this. The police have been round all the removal firms, so I

can't keep on. Oh, morality and conscience tugging at you again, dear

What a blessing. I was brought into the world with no such burdens to bear.

Come back tonight.

If we can get in, you'll be paid.

here, Inspector.

It's not the safest place.

No, no, I'll be careful, Mr Lightfoot.

I wouldn't want to be the one that's responsible for putting up your

premium.

If only what you're looking for happened out there.

I'm not expecting any flying saucers.

Now, you'll be retiring soon, won't you?

Well, a bit of a turn -up for the book, isn't it? Your old mate buying this

place.

Nice price.

Something I can help you with.

If not, I've got work to do.

You know what? I've got one of those minds, you know, that never stops

I wake up sometimes in the middle of the night with what someone said going

round and round.

Especially when people try to tell me something that doesn't make any sense.

It usually boils down to the fact that it's about something that they don't

me to know.

They'll get back to work.

Not for much longer, though, eh?

Hey,

you go on, Ben.

See you next week, eh?

She was in a bad mood.

It's because she hasn't seen me yet.

Hey, go on.

You're about five minutes late.

Oh, no.

Watch the road. Watch the road.

Sorry, I was expecting crispy duck and pancakes.

Come in.

Now, it's just a whisper.

You can't eat it, but it could be very tasty.

So, Charlie Lightfoot?

God, it's been like today.

No, Stuart McIntosh.

I talked to a couple of people in London.

Property and business pages.

Now, McIntosh Holdings is picking up quite a bit of interest in the property

world over Denton Park.

And I mean outside Denton.

There's some serious people looking at it for investment.

McIntosh can't finance that all on his own.

Is that a problem for him?

It shouldn't be.

Maybe the question that he's asking is, can he finance any of it?

What do you mean?

He's got several other companies. They're not doing very well.

His mate of mine reckons that Denton Park is a lifeline.

Comes off, he makes a fortune. If not, there's a whole pack of cards waiting to

come tumbling down.

It's life or death.

If the rumours are true.

Thank you very much.

Now, can I invite you to dinner? I can offer you chicken korma, a pizza or

chilli burger and chips.

Lawrence? Lawrence?

Lawrence?

Hello?

Hello?

My little boy's gone missing.

He's taken him somewhere. I've been around then and not even then.

I never wanted him to see Ben, never. I fought him all the way, and this is what

happens. Nobody listens to me, no -one. Calm down, please.

Just tell me what happened.

You are... Sally Stokes.

Your little boy? Ben.

His name's Ben.

He went up this path this afternoon.

It's access.

We're divorced, but he hasn't brought him back.

The paintings were dreadful.

I wouldn't do them a favour of stealing the damn things.

Put some very useful furniture, Colin.

Georgian wine cooler.

Perfect empire escritoire.

One of them must have had a grandmother with taste, I suppose.

So, till the next time, dear boy.

No. Told you.

Of course.

But when the child support agency pop by again, you know where I am, don't you?

Have you ever had any blackouts before?

Anything like a fit?

You understand what I'm saying?

I don't know you.

I'm a doctor, Lawrence.

You passed out.

I can't find anything wrong, but I need to know if anything like this has

happened to you before.

You're not my doctor.

Doctor, he's going to be all right.

I can't say until I've seen the medical history.

You certainly can't just keep him back in the cell.

No. Look, I'll get his parents' telephone number and you can talk to

I'll come with you.

I think it's better done not...

Thank you.

Yeah, Blue will be fine.

Inspector Frost.

Inspector Frost.

Stuart McIntosh.

Sorry to keep you.

Oh, it's very good of you to find the time.

Well, Inspector, I really don't know how I can help you.

I've paid off all my parking fines.

Oh, good.

It's very impressive.

Yes, probably the most exciting thing to hit Denton this century.

I keep saying that.

I mean this century and last century.

Is that where the quarry is now? The quarry?

Yeah. It's going to form the lake.

Do you know Mr Lightfoot?

Well, of course I do.

Has he sold you the quarry yet?

I'm not with you, Inspector.

You do know there's been some trouble up there?

I read something about it.

Of course, I've got no contact with Charlie Lightfoot personally.

It's all down to lawyers when it comes to business competitors these days.

That's very convenient, considering your previous relationship with Mr

Lightfoot.

That was a long time ago.

Oh, yes.

I remember the building trade in those days.

I was still on the beat. It wasn't Denton, of course, but it was the same

everywhere.

Damage to building sites, fights, too many cowboys.

It was a dirty business.

Has much changed?

I don't wish to seem rude, Inspector.

Oh, I know. It was a long time ago.

What have they got now? They've got the eco -warriors.

I don't know what happened up in the quarry, but maybe it was the eco

trying to tell Mr Lightfoot not to sell.

Maybe they were trying to send you a message.

That would seem extremely unlikely.

Have you had any threats?

Has Mr Lightfoot?

I don't know.

Why don't you ask him?

I have.

Trouble is, it's very difficult to know when someone's telling the truth.

Especially if they're frightened of something.

Thank you very much for your time.

Well timed, George.

I take it you haven't heard?

No, but what?

Burrell. He did a runner.

Now, that's what Mr Mullet said.

You said that he didn't know how

to pretend, and yet he could fool a custody sergeant who knows every trick

the book, and a police doctor.

He's not pretending.

He can switch off like that when he's angry or upset. You can't get through to

him. When he was little, we'd call the doctor.

Well, it's not like he passed out. Well, this was.

We never locked him in a cell.

This is, uh... This is like something that we'd always hoped or prayed for is

falling apart.

We began to believe that Lawrence could live his own life.

He took all our energy. Everything revolved around him, and that's why our

son, Gary, left Denton.

But Lawrence had come such a long way, and now, after this, we're back where we

were, and I can't see... Where would he go?

He's only comfortable where he knows.

Look, I'm aware of that. Please, Mr Frost, we are worried sick here, but let

look for him.

Because if he sees the police... I can't believe it.

He opened a window and just walked out.

What do you think the press are going to do with that?

This was a man who was going to be charged with murder.

I've got no excuse, sir.

But we know Lawrence Burrell. We've known him for years.

He always seemed slow.

But he wasn't very slow last night, was he? Shut up!

Anything from the parents?

No.

Stand by.

I'll deal with you lot later.

Sir, Norman... You should be out looking for him, Jack, but I think you'd better

stay here.

Well, is there something else?

He's a missing child.

Oh, no.

Mother and father are giving different stories, blaming each other, but there's

no question the lad has disappeared.

The boy's seven, Jack.

Of course, he could be a nasty family row.

Or something very much worse.

All right.

So you actually left him not at the door?

Several houses away?

Yes.

You didn't watch till he got to his own door and went inside?

It was a few yards. Of course he went in. Why wouldn't he?

Sally was waiting for him.

She was still waiting for him two hours later.

She was trying to phone you for another hour.

Then we were hammering on your door at ten o 'clock.

I don't know what she's up to.

A child doesn't come home.

His mother doesn't know where he is. He's been missing all night.

What exactly could she be up to?

She's tried everything to stop me seeing him, right?

Even his grandmother, my mother, she had to go to court.

They said she wasn't a suitable person for Ben to be with.

She's a 70 -year -old widow, right, and the lawyer asked her what sort of men

she associated with.

That's the sort of thing Sally's capable of.

She's trying to find all sorts of ways to show that I'm not fit to look after

Ben either.

And this is another one.

He was at home at six.

She's got him somewhere, I'm bloody sure.

You haven't got much explanation of your movements last night.

That's because I wasn't really doing anything. I was just walking around.

For five hours?

I don't have a lot of options when it comes to entertainment. I can sit at

or I can walk around.

When you were picked up, you had 200 quid in your pocket.

You can buy a lot of entertainment for that.

It's money I saved.

So...

You took this 200 quid from underneath your mattress and then you took it out

for a walk.

It's got nothing to do with this.

We've met before, haven't we, Mr Stokes?

Yeah, I work at Richmond Removals.

You were around there a couple of months ago, talking to the crews, asking

about, I don't know, some robbery or other.

Anyway, about this walk.

So you walked away from your wife's house and then you walked around the

till gone eleven.

I had a lot on my mind.

Yes. I want to know what. Why aren't you asking Sally these questions?

It's my son who's missing. She's got him somewhere.

Right. I want to know exactly where you did walk to last night.

All right. Here is a pen and here is some paper and I want you to write it

In the meantime, I'm going to look at your flat. I take it you have no

objections? No?

Good. Thank you. Carry on.

He says he brought him home.

You don't believe him. I don't know what to believe, Mrs Stokes.

All we've heard is you and your husband slagging each other off.

We need facts.

Times.

Now, have you got us some photographs of Ben?

What have you got, George?

A Mrs Ellicott across the road.

Around six o 'clock yesterday evening, she saw Ben pick up those keys, unlock

the door and go inside.

And she said she'd seen him do it before.

His mother's not in.

I just want him back.

If Colin could just bring him back.

Were you out yesterday afternoon?

Just for a while.

When did you get back?

Six -ish.

I had to get back for Ben.

At six o 'clock, your son used the front door key to let himself in.

Now, what time did you really get home, Mrs Stokes?

I didn't mean to be late.

It was an interview for a job. They kept me waiting.

How often does he let himself into an empty house? He doesn't.

That key's for emergencies.

I'm on my own.

His father must have come back.

Taken him. He said he would. That's what happened.

Oh, God.

No, it couldn't have been anything else.

Is this about the burglaries? Not all of our clients got done, you know.

I'm afraid not.

I wish it was.

I want to talk to you about one of your employees, Mr Colin Stokes.

I just need a little bit of information about him.

I'm not saying he's done anything wrong, so this is confidential.

What's happened?

His son is missing.

What? Do you know the boy?

He brings him in sometimes.

He used to.

I haven't seen Ben here since they split up.

Colin's had problems.

It hasn't been easy for him, so I'm not saying it's been easy for her either.

What sort of problems?

Well, financial mostly.

I can't tell about the emotional ones.

I probably shouldn't say this, but I think Sally's made it harder in access.

Still, like most things in life, the lack of money makes things ten times

doesn't it?

Yes. I've seen where he lives.

Yeah. Well, when it's quiet in here, I try to help. Send him off to other

depots, stains, Bristol, Solihull. Keep him working. Give him some overtime.

Tell me, did Colin Stokes ever mention at all in any way about taking Ben away

from his mother? No, no, never.

I heard him complain about her, but I think deep down he knew that Ben was

off with his mum.

So now you know he did go home, right?

She's the one who's been lying.

He was on his own.

Did you go back?

Did you phone the house? No.

Your wife says you threatened to take him, not bring him back.

I was angry, but I'd never do it.

Ben was seen in Abercrombie Avenue just after half past six.

Now, why would he be there?

Does he have any friends there?

Do any friends of yours or any friends of your wife live in the area?

No one I know.

He went home.

He left himself in, and then he left again.

Did you make arrangements to meet Ben later? No! How many times do I have to

it?

I want to get out of here. I want to go and look for him. And where would you

look, Mr Stokes? I'd start by putting that bitch up against the walls, which

told me.

Sounds like a very good reason why you should stay here.

I'm going. Bad enough.

So am I.

You won't say where you were between the hours of 6 and 11 last night.

Threatening your wife?

Now, if you don't want to stay here, I can make arrangements for you to stay in

a cell.

You must sit down.

Mr and Mrs Soates can't both be taking the trip, can they?

No, I don't suppose they can.

I just want to believe that one of them knows where he is.

Yeah, well, don't we all?

Hey, Mr Frost.

Oh, hello there. How are you going?

Cool, you know.

Old Raj, take away.

You know it? No, I must know.

Thank you.

All right, come on, let's go.

Follow that bike.

Come on, let's go.

That rider on the bike is the thief. An empty

house. How do you knock on the door to check?

A rousing suspicion.

Well, carry a bag of fries. Right.

So if someone answers the door, he just says, sorry, wrong address.

If no one answers... Get out of the way!

Sorry! No one answers. as you see, goes and burgles it.

I know every takeaway in sentence.

And that one doesn't exist.

Stop it.

Till next.

Denton Park is not just an inspired design for living in the 21st century.

For those of you who had the vision to invest in this project, it is something

else.

An opportunity to make a great deal of money.

We have liftoff.

Denton Park.

Congratulations. Thank you.

My pleasure.

Oh, morning.

Morning, Gov. Any news on Ben?

Nothing.

Today's the crunch.

Mr Mallet's got to assume the worst.

First, public appeal, then.

Usual route.

Waste ground, woods, rivers.

You can feel it downstairs already. If only everyone stopped talking.

No more sightings, then.

Last one's Alberston Road.

7 .10.

Still on his own.

No idea where he was going.

Not to his dad, not to his home.

We've had to let Stokes go.

He's still very iffy on where he was.

What about the school?

Nothing unusual.

No suggestion of strangers hanging about.

The teacher did say that Ben was very preoccupied. He said he's still

about his parents, you know, normal things.

Any kid would be.

These are the pictures from his dad's, are they?

Usual stuff.

Probably the same sort of stuff he thought his mum's.

No.

These are different.

What's it meant to be?

The big store.

Daddy, my clothes.

I'm Detective Inspector Frost, Denton CID.

Is it all right if I have a look round?

Can't just let you in.

It's all right.

You can search me for any old wardrobes when I come out.

Like.

Hungry, are you?

Who are you?

Me?

My name is Jack Frost.

I'm Ben.

Yes, I know.

Want a drink, Ben?

Do you know a lot of people have been looking for you?

Mum and Dad?

Yeah, especially your mum and dad.

or I think you'll break your neck.

Oi! Are you deaf?

Lawrence?

Lawrence, what are you doing?

Lawrence.

Remember me? I'm a mate of your brother's.

Remember?

Look.

I'm going to come and get you. Just wait there, okay?

I've got explosives.

What?

I'm going to blow it all up. The beacons won't work then, and the aliens won't

ever find it. They'll leave me alone then.

Sweet.

Well? Was it Lightfoot?

Yep.

He was trapped inside the car.

The poor didn't kill him. He'd have drowned.

He didn't stand a chance, then.

Was traffic not safe?

Well, there's a lot of rubber down in this corner.

I'd say last -minute braking's a speciality.

I guess Lightfoot did it once to us.

Forget traffic.

Get forensic down here.

Look at this.

Yeah? This is a lot of war.

What did he do?

Drive down here and aim straight for it?

Oh, he knew this road.

Oh, he's only a couple of miles from the quarry.

And it's a very unlucky quarry. I wouldn't want to work there, would you?

Yes, sir.

Yes, he is.

I see.

Superintendent Mullet has found Lawrence Burrell.

Where are the parents?

We'll find them.

And what about a psychiatrist?

Then get on to the local hospital. I need to know how to talk to him.

Mr. Jameson, get your men out of here.

Where is he? Up there.

Oh, well, this should really do the job.

He'll think that the Majestic 12 have flown in from America to finish him off.

What's going on? He's got explosives.

He's been placing them on the machinery.

How the hell did he get explosives?

Mr. Jameson, tell the inspector how he got hold of the explosives.

Charlie keeps a spare set of keys for the detonator cabinets and the

store hidden, you know, just in case.

Just in case someone wants to break in and steal some.

Is that it? It wasn't my idea.

How did Lawrence know?

His brother.

He used to work here. Did the blasting.

Lawrence used to come down with him sometimes when he was younger.

I suppose he saw.

What we don't know is whether he can actually set this stuff off.

What? He takes one look at a night sky and can name every single constellation.

He's only got to see it once, and of course he'll know.

Mr. Jameson, how stable is this stuff?

Well, it's not that easy to just set it off. It doesn't mean the tech can't be

done. Well, thank you very much. That's as clear as mud. Thank you, Mr. Jameson.

He's not going to come down.

We need someone who knows how to talk to him. It can take as long as it takes,

but we must remember what he's capable of when he loses his temper. He didn't

kill him.

Lawrence isn't a suspect, not anymore.

In fact, he's our only witness.

What?

Look, Lightfoot is dead.

I think he's been murdered.

I'm going up to speak to Lawrence.

No, Jack, I can't allow that. If anything happens to him, it'll be all my

because I didn't listen to anything he had to say. That's why he's up there

Jack! Look, will you just please get everybody out of sight, especially the

that look as though they've been beamed down from the Starship Enterprise.

Jack, it's all right. I'll be fine.

As long as I don't break my silly neck before I reach him.

Right, gentlemen, can you move yourselves and your vehicle out of

up the hill?

Yep.

Lawrence, I want to talk to you.

Yeah, I've got a problem.

Yes, I know, I know, I know.

We can talk, though, can't we?

I'll come a little bit closer.

I won't come any further than you want me to.

All right?

How the hell did you do this?

Listen.

I know you saw Mr. Sims that night.

And I also know that you saw the men that killed him.

But we... We can't catch them without you.

There's all the police and all the army.

They haven't gone away.

No, no, they will.

They will.

Let them through. Let them through.

We understand now what happened. We know that you were telling the truth.

They locked me up.

They won't lock you up again. They won't. I promise. I give you my word.

locked me up.

Come on.

You can go home.

I'm not going.

You're safe now.

Eh?

Come on.

I'll come up and get you.

Lawrence?

I can't move.

I can't... I can't go up any higher and I can't go back.

Lawrence? Do you hear me?

Oh, my God.

Lawrence, be careful.

Lawrence, it's moving.

You shouldn't be up here. You're too old, mister. Yeah, I know that. I know

now.

Oh, my God.

Lawrence, I can't move. I can't.

Careful. It's all moving.

It's better to stay.

All right. All right? Yeah, I hope.

Didn't you come out? Would you come walk down?

All right.

Okay. Okay. All right? Yeah.

Okay.

I need some more help.

No uniform.

What?

I'm all right. Get him down, will you?

Well done, Jack.

Very good.

Quite a performance.

Performance?

What performance?

What about the explosives?

He said it's perfectly safe.

We're all right, yes.

Lawrence? Lawrence, you all right?

Yeah, yeah, OK. Good.

So, next time you tell me that I can't do something, make it an order, will

They found a way in which they could have got a Jeep up to the top of the

quarry, like you said.

Only small track, but a four -wheel drive vehicle could have done it. Yeah,

a no -proport Humvee.

Humvee? Yeah, an HMMWV, high -mobility, multi -purpose wheeled vehicle.

And no other Jeep with a wheelbase that wide. It's how I knew it was the

American Army.

Special vehicle, then, is it?

Yeah, only the best Jeep in the world.

I drew it. Yeah, I did draw it.

Is this a registration number?

Yeah, yeah.

It's a registration number.

What do you want?

Don't see many of these about.

I was thinking of buying one.

I'm not selling.

I want a clear off before I throw you out.

What colour was it before?

Not that it matters.

We've got traces of it off Mr Lightfoot's car.

Scratch this and I'm sure we can get a match.

See this?

I had this when I first became a copper.

I haven't used it in years.

That's all we had.

Long before radios and mobile phones.

Look at that, still works.

This is not just about money.

It's about a partnership for the future.

There is still room to come on board, but not for long.

The train is about to leave the station.

Would you want a book?

Book now.

I'll book, Mr. Mackintosh.

What the hell is this? Sorry to interrupt. Your secretary did ask me to

but I said that you wouldn't mind.

Well, gentlemen,

if you're going to invest in this, I have a little tip. Not that financial

advice is my strong point, you understand, Mr Weston.

But I think you'd be much better off if you put your money in a post office

savings account.

Get out of here.

Stuart McIntosh, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder of Alan Sims and

Charles Lightfoot.

You do not have to say anything.

But...

It may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something you

later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

Hmm. Looks like the meeting's over.

All right, take him down.

Hello.

You busy?

No, come in.

I didn't get a

chance to

thank you.

What we were thinking, what it didn't bear.

I suppose you must have looked pretty stupid, me and Sally.

Oh, yes.

That's one word for it. There are others, what you did to a seven -year

boy.

And I don't suppose it's going to end like his favourite film, either.

Eh?

Ben.

His favourite video.

The one he's always watching, is it called?

The Big Store.

She won about two kids, American kids, who run away and hide in a department

store, try and stop their parents having a divorce.

And the parents join together to look for the kids, and then the parents fall

love, and they all end happily ever after. Well, you know, we can't change

what's happened between us, me and Sally, but we know what matters most.

It's Ben.

Hmm.

Well, I hope so.

Not going to be easy for you, though, is it?

No, Sally got that job, so she knows I can't keep paying what I'm paying now,

we'll just work it out together.

Do you remember when I came to see you at Richmond Removals about those

burglaries? Well, there was another one.

The night that Ben went missing.

That was the same time that you went mooning about in Denton taking your 200

quid for a walk.

I explained that.

You see, the thing is, Colin, that everywhere you've worked, there's been a

major burglary.

And I'm not just talking about Denton. I'm talking about Staines, Bristol,

Solihull. I don't know anything about it.

You help me, you help yourself.

If you want a new start with your kid, you won't get it if you're banged up.

Now, I don't know whether I can keep you out of jail, but maybe you can give

yourself a chance.

And, Ben?

Why don't you stick to daylight robbery, like the rest of the antiques trade?

I think you'll find there's been a mistake, Inspector Frost.

I may not know much about antiques, but I've got a nose for a villain when I see

one.

Jack!

27 takeaway dinners.

I did get a result.

What did you do with them?

I ate them.

All of them?

Yeah, well, I couldn't delegate, otherwise you might have had half the

off with food poisoning.

But after years of eating fast food, I'm hardened to the stuff.

It wasn't an easy job, but someone had to do it.

Well, I'm sorry, Jack, it's excessive.

Rotary club again, is it?

Actually, it's the licensed fiddler's annual dinner.

It's not an easy job, is it, sir?

Someone has to do it.

Hey,

haven't you got a home to...

I'll only be an hour.

An hour?

An hour?

Hazel! Hazel!