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Yeah, you've been so big, right?

Yeah, I think I've been there. But I never saw the rest of the island.

You got any photos?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, look.

You drive ten minutes, you're out in real, wild nature.

Wow.

It's amazing.

I ought to take that.

Not great timing, Maddox.

Call me tomorrow. If you don't get the money, there isn't going to be a

tomorrow, Bryson.

This is your last chance.

What was that? What?

That's nothing.

Snip into the loop.

Let me get this straight.

Your son, our son, has been under threat this whole

time, and you haven't told me?

At first I didn't think it was true. I thought he was just Cassian twisting the

knife. How long have you known?

He told me just after we arrested him.

That was ages ago.

Jesus, Roy.

We arrested our buzzy.

We just needed something to make the charges stick. That's why Glenn and I

trying to find something, anything, to link him to Sandy's murder.

At what cost?

Ari and her kids could have died.

How are we going to keep Bruno safe?

Well, we're on the hunt for the fire bomber, and... we just keep Bruno

close. We'll keep him close until we know what's going on.

And you were just going to marry me and not tell me any of this.

I just didn't want to have to put you through worrying about another child

everything.

I'm sorry, I had a really nice night.

Maybe another time, yeah?

You found any black holes yet? You can't see black holes.

That's the point.

Listen, I know things haven't been easy with school and the wedding coming up

and everything.

Cleo and I, we'd like to spend more time with you.

Taking you to school, picking you up, that sort of thing.

Also, I'd like you to...

Keep the tracker on you.

All the time, okay?

Why?

Just a sensible thing to do.

It's so obvious when you're lying, Dad.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Hey, look, I know this place isn't great, but it's just for a while.

Stop saying sorry.

Look.

This flat doesn't matter.

What matters is us.

Being alive.

Being okay.

This was never meant to happen.

You're a good friend.

Doing the right thing. And doing the right thing has put you and the kids in

danger. And you know what? It could have been so much worse.

I'm going to take a step back from the Abaddon investigation.

We might not like it, but we are in this now.

You need to find the guys who tried to hurt our family.

and put them away for good.

How's the family?

As well as you can hope, given the circumstances.

How about you? How did Cleo take the news?

Keeping this from her was a mistake.

I wouldn't blame her if she called off the wedding.

I'm sorry.

No, this is all my fault.

I shouldn't have got you involved in any of this.

No.

How are we to know that the Munich informant was in Benchdel's pocket?

Which is why I think maybe we should lay off Al -Bazi for a while. There may be

more out there.

Maybe.

No one gets firebombed unless they're getting closer to the truth.

The Munich informant I met, he did supply the car for the hit -and -run on

Sandy.

And his body shop has been cleared out recently.

They know we're onto them.

Exactly.

Which means we were right about Munich being a loose end for Al -Bazi.

I just think every moment that we're not pushing this, his men could be clearing

out more evidence.

We need to see this through.

Wasn't expecting you to be working yet.

How are you and Ari holding up?

Yeah, we're okay.

Thanks, Miller.

So, what have we got?

Bryson Lambert, CEO of Rourke Lambert Hotels, pronounced dead at the scene at

.17am after a dog walker called it in, but we now know it occurred just after

midnight.

Cause of death, impact trauma, he would have been dead in minutes.

They've taken the body to the mortuary.

His wife and daughter haven't been informed yet.

Now, to start with...

The collision investigators were thinking he just lost control of the

But then we recovered the dashcam footage.

Take a look.

And with the headlamps on full beam, there's no chance of getting the red

of the other car.

OK, so wrong side of the road, failure to brake and they've fled the scene.

At the very least, that is vehicular manslaughter.

Let's get a full forensic check on the vehicle. If there was any contact at

even a scrape, there might be paint from the other car.

Someone drove off, left this man to die. I want to know who.

We're doing everything we can to locate the other driver, but lack of cameras in

the area is making that difficult.

In what area?

The crash occurred on Walsh Lane.

When did it happen?

It happened precisely 12 .21 a .m.

You're only telling us now, Rose.

Your dad's car had gone off the road.

It was difficult to see.

Unfortunately, no one noticed until this morning.

Mrs. Lambert, when your husband didn't return home...

Were you not concerned?

No.

Not really.

He called me from his office and said he was going to be working late.

So why would he be driving down Wunsch Lane? He has other properties

for work.

One of them is down that way.

So he might have been driving to this work property even late at night?

Who runs a global hotel chain? It's a 24 -hour job.

Don't keep business and home life separate.

I spoke to him.

I sat and watched a film, for God's sake.

How could I just be sitting here if you were saying at the same time that he

was...

It's hard to put it together.

We were here having a normal evening on the sofa watching telly.

You have got to be kidding me.

Detective Superintendent.

It's been a while.

Not long enough. What do you want?

I'm just interested as to why a major crime are investigating a road traffic

accident.

I've heard maybe there's more to it. Thought you might like to comment.

Why don't you jog on before I arrest you for loitering with intent?

Come on now.

My incel on those old school villains was good, wasn't it?

I can trade you.

Head chef of a boutique foraging restaurant died last week from mushroom

poisoning. But I don't think that's the full story.

The episode's about to drop wide, but I'm prepared to give you an exclusive

preview.

Digging for mushrooms.

Trust me, that'll be the day.

It's no secret that Barney wasn't always the easiest man to deal with.

But say what you want about Barney, he did love bringing people together.

I think that's why he became a chef.

He'd be delighted to see you all here.

They're probably not so delighted at the reason.

Thank you for watching.

Glad that Ari and the kids are okay.

Look, I have a unit out all weekend searching for the fire bomber.

We will find him. I promise.

Cheers, Nick.

What have we got on the crash site?

No look from witnesses so far, but neighbors say Bryson was obsessed with

cars. A real petrolhead, apparently.

The enhanced dash cam footage has just come through.

Yeah, it's like the other car deliberately ran him off the road.

That's more than just reckless driving.

Vehicle forensics have the results from the wreck.

They say that they found something on Brighton's car.

No signs of paint residue or any other contact with an oncoming vehicle.

But we did find this trapped in his front bumper.

It's a strip of insulation foil.

It's easily used in construction. It certainly doesn't come from a car.

Can you pull up the dash cam footage for the moment? It's just for the crash.

Yeah.

Stop it there.

Which direction is he heading now?

West.

you're good to go be ready to slam on the brakes

You're right.

No one's quick enough to dodge their own reflection.

How did you know?

Well, we saw the moon in the dash cam footage just before the crash.

But the moon rises in the east at the moment.

Bryson was headed due west.

So how could it have been in front of him?

You seriously caught all of that?

Bruno's really into his astronomy. I've been trying to keep up.

But to be honest with you, I could have missed it very easily.

Well, if we had, we would have spent months chasing a car that doesn't even

exist.

And someone would have got away with murder.

A car fanatic killed by the thing he loved the most.

Now, someone organised this trap meticulously. They had to know where

headed and when, down to the precise minute.

We tracked Bryson's movements across the hall evening.

He left his offices at 9pm.

Then drives to a cocktail bar.

This is him arriving around 9 .30pm, where he meets this woman.

Bryson told his wife that he was working late.

I mean, that does not look like a business meeting.

Let's get an ID on this woman, interview the bar staff, find out if he met her

there before, and let's get access to his phone.

Hang on, wasn't that Jeep that's reversing at the offices as well?

There.

Someone's following him.

But they leave the bar before he does.

To get ahead of him.

Well, the Jeep left at 9 .38pm, and Bryson leaves on his own at 11

.55pm.

He would have plenty of time to get to Walsh Lane.

And to set a trap.

Let's say Bryson is using his second home for hookups.

If the woman he met left on her own, why does he head for his other property?

And how could the killer guarantee that he was going to do that?

I need the police.

Look at this.

Seven cars and a private yacht. But in only six months, Bryson sold four of his

cars and the private yacht's up for sale.

We've got access to Bryson's phone.

At around seven o 'clock, he placed a call to his wife.

And at 9 .45, he received a call from someone called Arno Maddock.

That is the chief financial officer of Bork Lambert. He's acting CEO now that

Bryson's dead.

Let's find out what that was about.

Roy,

the cheap office at the bar, it's registered to Rose Lambert, Bryson's

Now, we tracked the vehicle on ANPR. The last hit is on the A Road, a little

while before the turning onto Walsh Lane.

It did exactly the same route Bryson did, only two hours ahead of him.

So she could have been lying in wait.

It fits.

Mr. Maddox, you spoke to Mr.

Lambert late on the night he died, I believe.

What was that about?

Yeah, that was at 9 .30ish, I think.

Yeah, I was just reminding him that he still had a lot of paperwork that needed

his signature.

Okay. Might he have forgotten?

I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, but if Bryson had known as much about

running a hotel business as he did about the torque performance of rear mid

-engine sports cars, we'd all be in clover.

I mean, he must have known something, though.

Right? I mean, Rourke Lambert, the global brand.

Rufus Rourke was the one with the brains. Bryson just had the money. He

silent partner, more or less.

And, uh...

That was all fine until three years ago.

Rufus dies, Bryson takes over, thinks to himself, hmm, CEO, how hard can that

be? Well, turns out pretty hard.

And now you're interim CEO.

Yeah, well, that wasn't my idea.

I'm just the last man standing.

Sorry, um, why are you asking all these questions?

His car came off the road. It was an accident.

I'm afraid this is now a murder inquiry.

Not what you're saying, it's not.

Mum had made dinner, we were going to watch a film.

And then he calls for his working late.

And I knew.

I knew that was bullshit.

So you went to his offices?

He, um... laughed at me.

Said I was imagining things.

But I waited.

And I followed him into town.

That's all.

He's back with Lucy.

But it was some new woman.

You left the bar before your dad.

And you drove in the direction of his second property.

Yeah, I knew that's where he would go with whoever he picked up.

I wanted him to feel ashamed.

But he never showed.

I think in the end, I fell asleep.

Next thing I knew, it was about four in the morning.

I gave it up, drove home.

I must have driven right by him.

Right by where he was.

Rose, why didn't you tell us this before?

Because my mum doesn't know about his affairs.

And I don't want to drag her through all this shit.

I've already told you I'm working on it. What's there to work on?

You've been pissing me about for weeks now.

Time's up, Vernon.

Now you tell me what I need to know or your daughter's going to feel the

consequences.

V, if you're done again, Dave Cripps is using you to threaten me.

We need to meet Alex Wayne.

I was going back over the security footage from outside the bar, and it

though Bryson got a text just as he was leaving.

There's nothing on his phone from that point on in the night, so I asked

Forensics to do a deep dive. They discovered these texts from someone

Lucy Roberts.

Yeah, he must have deleted them, you know, to keep things sanitized in case

wife went looking.

So Lucy Roberts here is the woman that Rose mentioned.

There's plenty of texts from her in the past, but they stopped suddenly two

weeks ago.

What's interesting, though, is that these texts...

They're from a different number.

It's been registered to the same contact.

But it's a burner.

It's already out of service.

So maybe it wasn't Lucy at all. It was someone pretending to be her.

Someone would have had to have access to Bryson's phone without him knowing.

Could that have been Rose?

We need to make sure that Lucy didn't send those texts.

Are you sure, Lucy?

I haven't texted him at all.

Well, not since we split up.

Is he really dead?

I'm afraid so.

You and Bryson have been seeing each other for a while.

Yeah. More than a year.

That's quite a long time.

Why did you end the relationship?

I didn't.

Rose did that.

She came round.

painted quite the picture of what would happen if I didn't back off.

I'm surprised she cared so much.

Why do you say that?

Well, from what Brighton said about her, she pretty much hated him.

Like he paid for everything, but there was never any gratitude.

He said he was thinking of cutting her off.

That if he stopped paying for uni and everything, maybe it would teach her a

lesson in life.

You said Rose warned you to back off. What exactly did she say?

If I didn't end it with Bryson, she would end it for me.

Bella says uniform have ID'd the woman Bryson met the night he died.

Her name is Paisley Lang. She works part -time at Third Avenue Bar.

Bryson comes in here sometimes.

He's always flirting, but I don't really know him.

And then I got this call out of nowhere, this man saying he was a private

investigator and that Bryson was cheating on his wife, but she wants

He says, I don't actually have to do anything, just set up a date and add

this number for contact in his phone when he wasn't looking.

Was the contact Lucy Roberts?

Yeah.

As soon as I'd done it, I could find an excuse and blow it off.

And you did all that for someone that you've never met?

Well, he said he'd pay me £1 ,000.

The next day, this envelope arrived in the post.

A grand in cash.

And so I thought, why not?

Surprise, surprise.

The number that's called Paisley is out of service.

So now we've got a mystery man dropping a thousand pounds to gain access to

Bryson's phone in order to lure him into a trap.

Do you reckon it's someone that we haven't considered yet? Maybe.

Or maybe one of our current suspects wasn't working alone.

Nobody's off the table.

Arnold Maddox's alibi takes out. He was in the office until nearly 2 a .m. But

that call that he made at 9 .45 p .m. to Bryson, he told us it was about

paperwork. But one of the interns overheard it.

Apparently, Maddox told Bryson if he didn't get the money, there wasn't going

be a tomorrow.

Dig into him. Find out what else he's lying about.

Speaking of alibis, the doorbell cam from Bryson's second home.

It shows Rhodes arriving at 10 p .m. and leaving at 4 .03 a .m.

Right, so Rose and Maddox are both accounted for at the time of the crash.

We've also been going through Bryson Lambert's personal bank accounts.

Two weeks ago, he transferred £45 ,000 to Rose, a pretty much cleaned amount.

But Bryson was in financial trouble, and he and Rose were at each other's

throats. There was no way that he'd given her £45 ,000. Well, we've got

-side access to her email, and there's a cryptocurrency receipt for £45 ,000

worth of Bitcoin dated two weeks ago.

So she steals her dad's money and then converts it so it's untraceable. Then

makes sure that she's safely recorded on a doorbell camera at the time of his

death. We said Bryson's murder was meticulously planned. What if an alibi

part of that plan?

So could this be where the mystery man who paid Paisley's loss in?

It's like you said, maybe whoever wanted Bryson dead wasn't working alone.

The way he was killed, it was organized, specific.

Or perhaps not the workings of a 19 -year -old.

This was very, very sophisticated.

I think it could be professional.

What, 45 grand of Bitcoin for the perfect murder?

Do you remember what she said to Lucy?

If you don't end it with my dad, I will end it for you.

I think we need to consider the possibility that Rose Lambert hired a

kill her own father.

I told him he was going to be sick.

I threatened to tell mum about Lucy.

He said if I did that, he'd cut me off.

But yeah, I took the money.

You told Lucy that if she didn't end it with your father, you would.

I was just trying to scare her.

I mean, after they broke up, I thought maybe he'd change.

But clearly that wasn't the case.

I just wanted my mum to have a husband who wasn't a cheat.

So if we asked to see your Bitcoin wallet, the money would still be there?

My tuition fees aren't due until September.

It's all there.

All the money that Rose took is still in her Bitcoin wallet. We have no evidence

that she hired anyone.

Maybe she didn't.

But given the nature of the murder, perhaps someone else did.

Yes, I think I have something.

Six months ago, Bryson's company announced they were expanding into Saudi

Arabia, but it looks like the deal fell apart.

Now, we know that Bryson's personal finances were in real trouble, so if he

somehow fleeced those investors or pissed them off... Maybe that was the

for Maddox's late -night call to Bryson.

Find out all you can about this business deal and scour the dark web.

See if there are any specific sites where you can hire a hitman, and let's

into him, his M .O.

He's likely killed before and gotten away with it.

Well, don't.

You know, Spinella was telling us about this chef who died of mushroom

poisoning. Well, he sent me a link to his podcast.

This chef was local. His name was Barney Rivers.

Now, the USP for his restaurant was foraging for wild produce.

Now, according to Spinella, the whole thing was a sham.

But I checked the post -mortem results.

Barney really did die of mushroom poisoning.

If he did buy his produce from a wholesaler, like Spinella says, then how

end up poisoned?

Wait, wait, wait. What are we saying here?

There's been two deaths by the same person in the space of a couple of

Petrelhead killed by his car.

A chef killed by his food.

I've just looked up Barney Rivers on the system.

Uniform have had a report of a break -in at his restaurant this morning.

Apparently the guy fled the scene on a motorbike.

He tore a page out of the bookings ledger and I think he took some

He dropped these, but there were more of them.

I had no idea what Barney was doing, OK?

The whole sustainable foraging thing, hedgerow to plate, it was his idea.

He used to come in every morning with a basket full of herbs and mushrooms.

Sometimes there was still mud on them.

He said the intruder tore a page from the bookings ledger. Do you know what

on it?

We had a celebration dinner booked in for 30 people. The client wanted wild

rabbit in a mushroom shallot and burgundy sauce. That's what Barney was

when he died.

Young death cat look a lot like edible mushrooms. We thought he'd went out

picking and made a terrible mistake.

Thank you.

If this was deliberate.

Then someone either had to make sure that Barney bought poisonous mushrooms

they got access to the mushrooms he did buy before he cooked and ate them.

Either way, it would require a lot of planning and knowledge of Barney's

movements. It has all the same hallmarks as Bryson's death.

Could this be our hitman?

I've queued up the footage from the 2nd of June.

There, that's Barney, isn't it?

Can we get that larger? Uh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, look there.

He's getting the mushrooms.

They're all loose in the crate. There's no way to be sure he'd pick the right

ones.

It looks like this burn guy's asking him for help.

There, look.

Can we run this back and play from a different camera angle?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Shit. He swapped them.

Right under Barney's nose.

That's our guy.

I'll get that footage over for you. That's great. Thank you so much for your

help. No worries. He comes in again.

Don't hesitate. Just call me on the phone. Right. Great. Thank you.

There was some guy at the back where a motorbike lived. I think he stole my

access card.

Hey!

The plates were reported stolen earlier today.

Yeah, let's get this still out as a press release, see if anyone's seen him.

crawl through CCTV for any sightings of people matching the blind man's

description. Let's see if we can trace him back to an address.

What else have we got?

I've been on the dark web, and there are several Hitman for Hire sites.

The typical protocol on how to pay is 50 % up front and then 50 % on completion,

and that's, of course, in crypto.

You're gonna want to see this.

So I ran a gait analysis check on your blind man, and there's a 98 % match to

footage from a previous case seven years ago.

It was flagged as a possible witness in the death of an exotic pet dealer,

Darius Sacker.

Now, Sacker here imported a consignment of scorpions, illegally, and one of them

stung him.

So far, so familiar.

His daughter forced an investigation, but they found nothing.

The one thing that did turn up was CCTV of this man leaving the shop on the day

Sacker died, but nobody ever tracked him down.

The software says this is the same guy you saw swap the mushrooms.

So this hitman could have been killing people in Brighton for seven years.

OK, let's pull up any previous deaths that were logged as accidental, but the

circumstances were strange.

I have an update on the attack on your house.

Uniform has a suspect in custody.

We managed to get an ID from a doorbell camera nearby.

Okay.

If you hear anything else about them, come to me direct, okay?

I was thinking we should take a look at CCTV from the hospital in Munich right

before Sandy's death.

Okay.

Keep it under the radar.

You OK?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Nick and I have got this.

When you go home, smooth things over a bit.

Honestly, I'm fine.

Just saying.

Will you need to keep this wedding of yours on track?

I do not want my best man's suit to go to waste.

What did you slip off to earlier?

A new book to my dad.

He says he can prove it was Cripps who killed that informant, not him.

But we need to tell Roy.

Escalate me.

No.

I can't. I have to help him.

It's too risky for anyone else to know. He says Cripps has got eyes and ears

everywhere. What's more reason why you can't handle this on your own?

I'm serious, Lee.

Don't do anything without telling me first.

Ready for a long night?

Hey.

Your astronomy helped us with a big break in a case.

So I just wanted to let you know.

Everything okay?

I just wanted to be honest with me.

Mum was always keeping secrets from me.

And you're just the same.

Hey, we love you.

And we want you to be safe, that's all.

I don't want to be picked up from school.

I don't want a cracker.

Is it... Is it because... Mum was murdered?

Why... Why do you say that?

I heard you talking on the phone.

Sandy may have been murdered. That's what you said.

First of all, I'm really sorry that you overheard that.

And secondly...

You deserve the truth.

And the truth is, I don't know what really happened to your

mum. Not yet.

But I'm doing everything I can to find out. And when I do find out, I'll let

know. I promise. Okay?

Is something bad going to happen to me, too?

I wouldn't let anything bad happen to you.

Ever.

I should never have shut you out, but I'm so sorry.

I get it.

That's just who you are.

But you think you have to do it all by yourself.

You don't.

Oh, so you do still want to marry me then?

You do not get rid of me that easily.

As

well

as Darius Thacker, we're now including Pauline Almond as a victim.

Seriously into New Age healing and throwing all of her husband's money at

She died five years ago during a Sussex spiritual retreat from a reaction to the

psychedelic herb ayahuasca.

Pauline's sister was adamant that the husband was behind it. Just before

went on the retreat, he funneled 25K into Bitcoin.

Right, so that's four victims.

Actually, it might be five.

Killed uncovered.

is an anonymous blog about hitmen for hire.

The author describes being the target of a failed hit.

Since then, they've been running this site and digging up evidence on the man

who tried to kill them.

They list three deaths that they think are his work.

Darius Sacker,

Pauline Armand, and Rufus Rourke.

He died three years ago in a boating accident.

Survived by his widow, Fiona.

Rufus Rourke is in Bryson Lambert's former business partner. That's far too

of a coincidence.

And it makes Arnold Maddox the last man standing, and now he's in charge.

Nick, find out who's behind pills uncovered and bring Maddox in.

In the meantime, we should speak to Rourke's widow, Fiona, about the night

his death, because if it wasn't an accident, that means the hitman could

been on board the boat.

It was our anniversary three years ago.

Rufus wanted to do something special.

He loved being out on the water, so Bryson suggested we take his yacht out

celebrate the lucky ash.

It was supposed to be good weather, but there was a storm.

I wasn't feeling well, so I went to bed early and when I woke up, Rufus...

Wasn't there?

He vanished in the night. I totally didn't realise.

They thought he was with me.

I'm sorry, but there was an investigation.

Yeah, they thought maybe he'd missed his footing because of his eye.

Oh, he'd hurt himself on a visit to a building site just a few weeks earlier.

Look, they were renovating one of the hotels here.

He made a joke that he looked like a pirate.

But you lose your depth perception, don't you?

So in the dark, in the storm...

Can I ask, how well do you

know Arno Maddox?

Arno?

Not very well. He was our accountant before Rufus made him CFO of the

Are you in touch with him?

Not really.

When Rufus died, I... Well, I inherited a great deal.

Arno handled the estate taxes and all that, but when it was all finished up, I

cut ties with Rourke Lambert.

Find out where the lucky ash is moored. We need to talk to the captain.

Nick? Yeah, Arno Maddox isn't at his offices.

Pretty sure he's done a runner.

Whole place has been emptied out and I've just seen that Rourke Lambert Hotel

fell for bankruptcy this morning.

Track him down, Nick. We need to find him.

Psychologist came through with a profile.

The specific disguise of a blind man gives witnesses an overload of surface

details to process.

We're conditioned to see someone with a disability as harmless.

This man is the opposite

It

all

started when my friend died Everyone thought of an accident get me you

he was murdered Like

I didn't know if I was being paranoid, so I started digging around, you know,

asking questions.

Then this journalist did a podcast, and he was saying the same thing,

that it doesn't make sense.

And then I read your blog, and I realized the same thing happened to my

that you were describing.

It's a murder, but it makes it look like an accident.

I think he was killed by the same man who attacked you.

I had that podcast, too.

With your friend, Bonnie Rivers, the restaurant owner?

Look, the thing is, by digging around, by asking questions, I think I put

on the radar.

I've seen a man following me.

I don't think that's the same man that tried to kill me.

Well, are you sure?

Well, it was dark when he attacked me, but...

The man I'm after, he has a particularly distinguishing feature. I can't say

more than that.

Doesn't mean this guy's not dangerous.

Drop me a copy.

I've got resources I can use to track him down. If he's for real, I'll let the

police know.

Thank you.

Hey, I'm really glad you're okay.

What you described on your blog sounds terrifying.

Well, I got lucky.

But I'm not relying on luck anymore. I'm going to find the bastard.

I think I was even talking to him online three years back, but then he went

silent on me.

Well, maybe he's just gone for good.

I don't think so. I think he's hiding.

He won't be able to hide forever.

Mrs. Rourke told everyone she was going to bed early that night, seven o 'clock.

Said she was feeling seasick, which wasn't like her, even in a heavy swell.

We all thought Mr Rock had turned in with her.

It was only the next morning we realised he was gone.

And by then, well, search radius was at least 60 nautical miles.

Were any of the crew new on that voyage?

Anyone that you hadn't worked with before?

No, no.

Same team as I'd had for years.

Could you get me a list of all the crew that were on board that night?

Yeah, of course.

So, Fiona makes sure everyone knows she's going to bed early, even though

never gets seasick. Yeah, and Rufus somehow makes it up onto the deck in the

dark in a storm with one eye bandaged and what?

And is never seen again.

Master bedroom's through here.

That's Barney.

So Barney knew Rufus and Brighton.

Yeah, they were school friends, I think.

Sometimes they'd take the boat out at all, or sometimes they'd bring their

wives. Though Debbie did stop coming.

Made sense.

They're not wanting to be around Fiona, I guess.

What do you mean?

Well, Fiona and Barney were an item for a while, after Rufus died.

They'd always had eyes for each other.

I wouldn't be surprised if it started well before then.

Bryson makes a deal with the Saudis for a new hotel in Riyadh.

And the planning falls through.

Saudis want their money back.

50 million, with interest.

So why didn't you just pay them straight away?

Bryson tied the money up so he could leverage the business further.

We were drowning in debt.

And did you think that these Saudi investors might have anything to do with

Bryson's murder?

Yeah, of course they did.

I thought I was next.

Turns out, the Saudis were just as surprised about Bryson's death as I was.

just wanted their money.

But they're paid now.

Business might be bankrupt.

Fiona's probably going to sue the shot off my back, but at least the Saudis

aren't going to bury me alive.

Fiona Rourke.

Now, why would she want to sue you?

Yeah.

Uh -huh.

Yeah, all right, great. Thanks, Nick.

Cheers.

So, Fiona Rourke, she didn't just inherit a house and some bank accounts

her husband died.

She got seven million in shares in rock Lambert hotels.

Nick said she's been hounding Maddox, looking to cash it all in, but

Bryson was blocking her.

She told us she had nothing to do with Maddox or the business anymore.

What we thought Maddox was trying to seize control of the company was

Maddox trying to save his own skin from the Saudis. He's paid them off and he is

quitting.

So Maddox is out of the frame.

But Fiona is connected to all three of the dead men.

So is it possible that she took out hits on each of them?

Her husband?

And Brighton, maybe?

But why kill Barney Rivers?

And why now? What does she stand to gain from that?

Maybe it wasn't about the money with Barney.

If they were an item for a while, like he said, then it could be personal.

Let's get a warrant for Fiona Rourke's bank accounts.

See if she's siphoned any of that fortune into crypto.

Guys, I ran the crew list for the lucky ash the night Rourke died.

Everyone on board is legit.

We have to be missing something.

Did Fiona smuggle someone on board, or was a crew member paid to push Rourke so

that the hitman didn't even have to be there himself?

The forensic suite of Barney River's restaurant turned off a concealed

Looks like he was being watched.

We also got a DNA hit from a strand of hair.

We're pulling the records now.

I think you have the wrong house.

Oh, I'm ever so sorry.

I was looking for my daughter's house.

She's 13 Samwell Gardens.

Let me show you.

James Taylor.

He used to work for Mulhaven Private Security as a close protection officer

high -profile clients.

About eight years ago, the man he was guarding was shot and killed.

There was an investigation, which is why we have his DNA on file, but he was

cleared of any involvement or misconduct.

After that, he just disappeared.

He definitely has the skill set.

Maybe he realized that he could make more money killing people rather than

protecting them.

We found out who's been running Kills Uncovered, the blog about hitmen.

Amara Obasi.

She's an online investigative journalist and the victim of that failed hit.

She could have come face to face with our hitman.

We need to talk to her.

Miss OBC?

Hello?

Miss OBC?

Who

the

hell are you?

Detective Superintendent Grace, Detective Inspector Branson.

We're looking for Amara Obersy.

Hi, my sister.

Why are you here?

I've been calling her, but she's not answering.

It was a few years ago.

She comes home one night, and there's a man in her house fizzling with her

computer kit.

He goes for her, but he's picked the wrong woman. She punches him with her

She does a number on him, and then he runs for his life.

Scared the shit out of her, though.

I'm sure.

Why are we convinced this was attempted murder and not just a break -in?

She was spooked enough to want to stay at my place for the night.

And while she was there, at four in the morning, her whole house burnt down

to the ground.

They said it was an electrical fault in her computer system.

An online journalist killed by a faulty computer.

Why were they targeting her?

She was deep into an investigation into online arms dealing.

She thought those guys realised she was close to them and they took out a hit on

her.

Which is what she told you lot at the time.

And the police didn't listen?

Another paranoid woman jumping at shadows.

I'm so sorry.

We're listening now.

No, she never goes anywhere without her phone.

Do you think something's happened to her?

It doesn't look like she left here of her own accord.

Do you know Amara's passcode? It may help us locate her.

If James Taylor thought that Amara was onto his real identity, he'd want to

her down fast.

What is his next move?

I think I've got him.

It's municipal CCTV just across from this lockup.

With the long -term rental name of Oliver Smith.

Most likely an alias, but... Yeah, that's him.

You might have Amara in there.

Call the armed response unit. Get them to meet us there.

I didn't...

I can take the website down.

If that's what this is about.

Look, I won't talk to the police, I promise.

I realise it was stupid to try and track you down.

Our police! Our police!

They're on the floor now!

Get down on the floor.

Get down on the floor.

Put your head behind your back.

Clear to enter.

All clear.

No one out there.

Where is he?

You have to be kidding.

You think I'm your guy here?

Barney was my friend.

We grew up together.

A few weeks ago we got in touch.

He was drunk and scared.

So someone's been in his place while he's not there and some shady guy's been

following him.

They got a photo of him, sent me it.

Honestly, it all sounded so paranoid. I thought it was the drink talking.

So why didn't he go to the police?

You'd put that at the top of your action list, would you?

Someone has a bad feeling, thinks they're being watched.

You thought I'd listen.

And that could actually do something about it.

Because you're a close protection officer.

That didn't end well, did it?

Losing a principal the way I did, that shook me.

I'm not ashamed to say it.

I decided to take some time off.

Worked odd jobs abroad for a few years and then barnacles up going on about

being followed.

I didn't take it seriously.

That's why I'm here.

I owe it to him to find out who did this.

Why were you at Infinity Foods?

Barney was cutting corners with the old foraging.

I figured our guy must have worked that out and used it against him.

I was hoping the shop's camera might have caught something.

It did.

The footage shows someone disguised as a blind man swapping Barney's mushrooms

for death caps.

The same blind man we have seen going into your locker.

Really?

Well, it has to be the same guy that was following Barney.

He was at his funeral, would you believe?

He must have clocked me when I was trying to follow him.

So he puts you on my trail, makes me look involved.

We all end up in here having this nice chat while he's still out there.

We've all been played.

He said Barney sent you a photo.

That's your killer.

Okay, we've got teams out searching for Amara. Meanwhile, we've been going

through Barney's laptop.

There's an email he sent a couple months ago. If you want to Rourke.

Think of it as an investment. You can afford half a million. What you can't

afford is anyone finding out the truth about Rufus.

I'll help you keep your little secret if you help me keep my little restaurant.

Rufus Rourke's death was never an accident.

Fiona must have put the hit out on him, and Barney was blackmailing her about

it. Yeah, the captain did say they had an affair around the time Rufus died.

Maybe even earlier.

So what if Barney and Fiona were in on it together?

They split up, Barney becomes a threat, Fiona gets rid of him as well.

They got Fiona Rorick's bank records back.

Six weeks before her husband died, she withdrew £50 ,000 from her personal

account. And converted it to Bitcoin.

So she could have paid for his murder. Bring her in.

The hitman she hired is still out there.

And God only knows what he's done to Amara.

Bella, any luck on getting a match on that photo?

Not a thing.

It's like the man doesn't exist.

How did you find me?

Was it from the pier? Did you follow me?

Was the guy I met there working for you?

This is right!

This is the police.

We have a warrant to search this property. Open up immediately.

Nick.

The team have done a sweep on Amara's laptop, and they said they pulled a

collection of hospital admission records from three and a half years ago. All

patients who were admitted with eye injuries.

Her sister said she really did a number on the guy that attacked her.

Punched him with the keys.

What if you punched him in the eye?

Fiona Rourke's gone.

Looks like she left in a real hurry, like someone spooked her with family.

And the flowers were everywhere.

Happy 25th, darling.

She and Rourke were celebrating a wedding anniversary on the yacht when he

What date was it?

19th of June.

Today's date.

So...

Exactly three years to the day since she had her husband killed, someone's

sending her flowers and calling her darling.

She's terrified, so she runs.

Rufus Rourke had an eye injury on the night of his death.

I don't think he got that on a hotel building site. I think that was a

of keys.

So Rufus Rourke was the man that tried to kill Amara?

He supposedly disappeared at sea, but his body was never found.

Rufus Rourke is still alive?

We said that the hitman had to be on the boat.

Maybe he was.

Maybe it was Rufus himself.

Trying to escape, are we?

You.

Who were you expecting?

Hm? The blind man?

Or the scary burglar who attacked you?

No?

Joke little old me.

Rufus was making hundreds of thousands of pounds killing people and using the

hotel business as his cover story.

And then one day his wife decided to have him killed.

So the moment that Fiona started scoping out hitmen, it's just a case of

accepting the commission and he fakes his own death.

Why put all that effort into convincing everyone he's dead?

Amara, obviously.

Whoever was behind that hit must have been pissed off that he fumbled it.

And Amara knew...

He had an eye injury which could ID him.

Now, he had the chance to lie low for a while, and he grabs it.

I get why he went after Fiona and Barney, but why did he kill Bryson?

Well, what if all three of them were in on it together?

Barney gets rid of his rival in love, Bryson gets the hotel business all to

himself, and Fiona gets the life she always wanted.

All three of them had reason for wanting Rufus dead.

Three years ago, he was a hitman for hire.

And this time he's out for revenge.

He's putting them in the ground.

One by one.

You really messed things up for me back then.

With your bunch of keys.

And your have -a -go attitude.

You know I was willing to let it be you know But

you just don't know when to stop please don't do this

You

had a lucky escape last time

But now we get to finish this.

In 30 minutes, this entire building, including you, will go up in flames.

And I'll be long gone.

What are you waiting for? Get digging.

You'd have buried him in London like I told you to, instead of trying to be

clever.

I wasn't thinking straight.

I've never seen someone murdered before.

So why did you do that?

Because he knew all about us.

All about the racket.

The only way to stop him running in his mouth was to put him in the ground.

And you didn't have the balls to pull the trigger. Well, you shouldn't have

brought me into this. Yeah, well...

Got you here, didn't it? Now shut up and dig before I shoot you.

There's been activity on Amara's laptop, so we have a key logging report which

was activated remotely.

I think it's Rufus trying to access her system.

Can we trace where the signal originated?

We have a lock on that IP address. It's registered to a hotel on the edge of

town, which is supposed to be empty.

Well, that is the perfect hiding, mate.

Send us the address, Nick. Yep.

Pete, where the hell are you?

Call me, okay? I'm worried.

They're gone.

Slowly.

I wasn't thinking straight, my arse. This thing's gift -wrapped.

I should have known you weren't disposing of anything.

You were preserving it.

Turn around.

Slowly.

Drop it.

Let me through.

He was going to torch the place.

He was going to use this to set the place on fire.

Do you know where he is? Do you have my laptop?

It's at the station.

Call them. I've installed a program here. It records keystrokes and sends

to my laptop.

Nick, how is you?

Well, I have a timestamped record of the passwords you need to get in here.

Check the report for about 25 minutes ago.

You hearing all that, Nick?

Sending it over now.

Here we go. OK.

Hey, you're okay.

Tell all units that Rufus Rourke is en route to Calderwell Airfield. He's after

Fiona. She chartered a private jet. It's scheduled to take off in 20 minutes.

We're on our way.

Hey.

Hey. He's wearing a wire.

Not so clever now, are you? You really thought I wouldn't have backup?

After all the shit you've pulled.

Get over there next to her.

Don't do this. Please.

You've already dug yourself a grave.

You think you can just shoot a police officer and get away with it? You'll go

down for life.

I'll take my chances.

On police!

On police!

Drop your weapons! Weapons down!

Do not move!

Do not move!

Down! Get on the floor!

Help! Head!

Head where I can see them!

Up! Up! Keep up in the air!

Clear.

A bit more notice would have been good.

The recording, it's like... Quick thinking from your daughter.

The only way to stop him running his mouth was to put him in the ground.

And you didn't have the balls to pull the trigger.

Thank God.

Thank God.

You've got to go with them now, Dad.

No, no.

It's okay.

Look, I was a part of it.

But I wanted you to know that I wasn't a killer.

I was just trying to keep you safe.

All right, let's go. Okay.

Welcome aboard, Knickersworth.

Get us out of the country and I'll give you a proper destination later.

What flight plan did you file?

We'll be leaving Caldwell, Dewey, then changing heading to take us out over the

Channel.

At which point the plane will suffer catastrophic engine failure and plunge

the wave, killing everyone on board.

Which is why I won't be on board at that point.

Fitting end for a high -flying bitch, don't you think?

Happy anniversary.

Rufus.

Did you like the flowers?

I don't know what game you're playing, or how you survived.

Because... It was always me.

All those business trips, all that money.

Did you really think I made my fortune building hotels?

You.

You're the hitman.

Oh, bravo.

So everything was a lie?

Oh, you can talk.

You put out a hit on me.

You and that little shit Barney and that two -faced Judith Bright.

You thought you could just... Nap your finger.

Get rid of me.

How could you be so stupid?

I decide who lives and who dies.

Not you.

Golf Charlie, X -Ray Niner. Clearance cancelled.

Shut down the aircraft.

This is a police order. Stop the plane.

Shut down immediately.

Golf Charlie, X -Ray Niner. Radio check. Radio check.

Golf Charlie, X -Ray Niner. Hold position immediately.

Woof!

Thank you.

Jesus.

Call an ambulance. Let's get her to a hospital.

Sir. Fiona Rourke, I'm arresting you on suspicion of conspiracy to murder your

husband, Rufus Rourke.

After the day we've had, this better be good, Nick. Well, consider it a little

wee wedding gift.

So, this is footage from the hospital in Munich the day Sandy died. And look

here. Sandy's room was right through there.

And you see this guy?

He knows where the cameras are, and he keeps his face turned away most of the

time, apart from... here.

It's Albazi.

I sent the footage and these stills to Munich police.

They're prepared to reopen Santi's case with a homicide and Albazi's prosecution

are confident they have a case.

We've got him.

We've got him.

With Albazi and Ellen off the streets, that's the head of the snake chopped

Ben's still a dumb fool.

You look absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

And thank you for being here.

Both of you, it means the world to me.

I've got a special delivery from Roy.

It's beautiful.

Let's have a drink.

You okay?

Yeah. Now they've got this new evidence.

They'll put that alcohol away forever.

Good. And you?

You good? Yeah.

He's been through so much, but we're here. I'm getting married.

And I love my perfectly imperfect little family.

Here's to that.

Cheers. Cheers.

There we go. All done.

You look very handsome.

Here we go.

This is for you.

That's courage.

Go on, then.

You got the rings ready, Bruno?

Got them, yeah.

Now, do you remember your vows?

You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not

mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court.

I remember that one.

All right, then.

Let's get you married.

OK, let's do it.

I do.

It gives me great pleasure to pronounce you husband and wife.

says with enough DNA on the murder weapon still to nail Crip.

Especially with the confession you recorded.

I hope you now know you don't always have to go it alone.

You know, I spent my whole life resenting him for walking out on me.

At least now I know why.

I don't think I have ever seen you look so happy, old timer.

Stop, stop.

You okay?

No. One of Al -Bazi's guys is here.

What? Munich police have tracked one of Al -Bazi's top guys to the UK.

He got a job working for a temp agency doing catering. He is working a wedding

in Brighton tonight.

He's here.

Right, find Bruno now.

Thank you.

Have you seen Bruno?

Bruno? No, why?

How bad do you have the man here?

You think it's one of the catering staff?

Put the tracker.

Okay.

Don't let them out of your sight.

Run out.

Dad. Dad. Bruno. Dad.

Oh, there's a man.

Cleo. Where is she?

A man tried to grab me, but Cleo stopped him.

Van, he took her.

Stay with Nick.

Clear? No, not clear.

But I think you know who this is.

How about me?

If you've heard her... You'll do what?

Ah?

You got this the wrong way around.

What do you want?