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[Soft music plays]

Thank you.

[Cellphone rings]

Gerry, what do you want'? It's my day off.

Yeah, I know it is, and I'm sorry about that, gov,

but I need your help.

Why? What's happened'?

No, no, no. Nothing like that. It's just...

Listen, I'm giving up cigarettes.

Gerry, well done! That's fantastic!

And I just Wondered Whether you'd be my fag buddy.

Your what?

Fag buddy. You know.

Someone who helps somebody else give up smoking.

Oh, right. Yeah, of course. No, I'd love to help.

Yeah, but you've got to keep encouraging me, all right'?

Make sure I don't waver.

"Make cigarettes history!"

Absolutely. Good man. Keep it up.

Oh, I will, yeah. Cheers. Bye.

Bye.

[Cellphone beeps]

WOMAN: You idiot!

You should be ashamed of yourself!

[Sighs]

# It's all right, it's okay #

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I thought I was early.

Strickland's away.

Anywhere nice?

He left us this.

With a covering note.

"Dear Sandra, this file arrived on my desk today.

It is unusual

in having only recently ceased being an active inquiry,

but knowing of your specific expertise

dealing with this kind of crime in the past,

the Commissioner is eager for UCOS to be involved

not merely due to your particular skills

but because of the real danger

that the perpetrator will strike again.

"This kind of crime"?

Rape'?

Yeah, two of them in 1999.

Oh, at the Pyramid Chocolate Factory in Greenford.

Then after a 10-year gap, there was another attack 12 months ago

in the back room of a shop in Totteridge.

Helen Vestry.

Operation Sapphire investigated that attack,

and they linked DNA from it to the rapes back in '99.

M.O. was exactly the same.

Any suspects?

No. Both investigations drew a blank.

What about the M.O.'?

All three were attacked from behind and in total darkness.

They said that he wore gloves,

but none of them recall seeing anything more of the guy.

Oh, and he never spoke.

Is that it'?

They all said that he smelled strongly of sweat. Thank you.

This bloke really doesn't have anything going for him, does he'?

What about Where the rapes took place?

- Any link'? - PULLMAN: Only the darkness.

Jean Saunders was raped in the Women's changing room at Pyramid

just after her shift ended at 6:00 p.m.

All the lights went out just before she was attacked.

And then a Week later, Eileen Harrison

was assaulted on the shop floor of the factory around 9:00.

Again, all the lights were turned off.

Why didn't they do a mass DNA screening?

They did. All the men employed by Pyramid,

plus security, delivery men, contract cleaners,

but none of their DNA matched that of the rapist's.

What about last year?

The most recent attack.

PULLMAN: Helen Vestry was attacked

as she was closing up the shop at which she worked.

Again, pitch black.

Longtime, isn't it, between attacks?

Well, the bloke could have been anywhere --

abroad, prison, anything.

Possibly, but given that most rapes are not reported,

I think there's a good chance he's committed more in between.

They're all very similar, these women, aren't they?

Blond, petite, in their 20s.

Physically very easy to subdue.

HALFORD: Not a coincidence, then.

He observes them, singles them out.

For some, the biggest kick

is the actual preparation and buildup to the assault,

not the attack itself.

That would explain the extreme sweating.

You know, he gets excited about successfully carrying out

a carefully planned operation.

Are the victims willing to talk'?

Jean Saunders has since died of cancer,

but the other two have agreed to meet.

You and I will talk to them. You guys go to the factory.

Now, Operation Sapphire haven't spoken to Eileen Harrison

or anybody else at Pyramid about this last attack,

so probably a good idea not to mention it.

And needless to say, this is a very sensitive investigation --

Oh, for God's sake.

Look at us. Look, look.

We've handled hundreds of these cases,

and you're telling us we've got to be sensitive.

Gerry's given up smoking.

What? You'?!

Ah, that's why you're so ratty.

I'm not ratty.

What's brought this on all of a sudden?

Well, I had to see the doctor,

and he said at my age, I should have given up by now.

So you can't argue, can you, really?

Well, I'm delighted, mate. Congratulations.

[Coughs]

PULLMAN: Helen Vestry?

Sandra Pullman.

Yes. This is my colleague, Jack Halford.

- Hello. - Thanks for agreeing to see us.

Not at all. Anything if it helps catch this shit bag.

It's through the back.

Here.

I just came in to close up. I did that most nights.

And next moment, the lights went out.

He grabbed me from behind, and, well, he did what he did.

The Operation Sapphire team

said that you didn't hear him threaten you, he didn't speak?

- No. - Did you cry out'?

I didn't have time.

Anyway, there was no one in the shop,

and I was scared, unfortunately.

No, no. Of course you were scared.

So, you never saw his face'?

No. I would have remembered. I'm good with faces.

It was just too dark to see him.

Is there anything else you can remember?

Anything at all'?

Yeah. I remember thinking, "I hope he doesn't kill me."

The feel of his gloves and the damp, the smell of his sweat.

How long is it... since you had a fag'?

Four days. [Chuckles]

How's it going'?

Yeah, good, thanks. Yeah, yeah.

With the nicotine deprivation, I mean.

I'm fine, all right'? Just don't keep on about it.

-[ Door opens] - Ah.

Duncan Miller.

Managing Director.

Gerry Standing. Brian Lane.

- Thanks for your time. - Oh, it's a pleasure.

Always willing to help the boys in blue.

So Celine was saying that you're here to investigate the, uh...

uh, incidents back in '99'?

Yes. We'd like to see Where the attacks took place

and talk to any of the employees who were here at the time.

Sure. Well, there's not that many still here,

but, uh, I'll show you down to the shop floor.

This Way.

I'm afraid the Women's changing room has been demolished

to make way for a refrigeration storage facility.

I must say, I'm intrigued to find out why you've come back

after all this time.

LANE: Well, the case was never closed.

STANDING: Mr. Miller, you did take a DNA test

with everyone else, didn't you'?

Yeah. Duncan, please. Call me Duncan.

Yes, yes, I was very relieved

when all the workforce were cleared.

The whole affair was devastating.

Pyramid -- We're not just a company.

We're one big happy family.

[Clears throat]

So, this is Where, um...

uh...

Eileen Harrison.

This is Where Eileen was, um...

It was a terrible affair, terrible.

WOMAN on P.A.: This is a call for Mr. Miller.

Could Duncan Miller please go to R&D'?

Sorry about this. I'll leave you with Tilly Shaw.

She's the, um, shift supervisor,

but at the time, she was working on the production line.

Tilly! Tilly.

Could you come here, please? These gentlemen want a word.

Excuse me, gentlemen, please. Thank you.

- Hello. - LANE: Brian. Brian Lane.

STANDING: Gerry Standing. - Hello.

- Eileen Harrison? - Yeah?

Detective Superintendent Pullman.

This is my colleague Jack Halford.

Right. Well, you better come in.

Thank you.

L-I didn't know there were gonna be two of you.

Oh, I'm sorry. I...

No, it's just, um...

No, no, no. That's quite all right.

I understand.

If there's somewhere I could wait'?

Uh, yeah. In the living room.

Oh, thank you.

Just go through.

Sorry about that.

You don't have to apologize, Eileen.

- I can call you that, can't I'? - Yeah.

I don't want you to feel pressurized in any way,

'cause we're here to help --

help catch the man who attacked you.

Is it okay if we go back to the night it happened'?

Yeah.

You finished work at 7:00.

Well, the shift normally finished at 5:00,

but we did two hours' overtime 'cause we had a rush on.

And then you went back to the shop floor two hours later?

Yeah. I'd, uh, left my purse in the changing room.

I couldn't find it in my handbag, so I went back for it.

And, uh...

that was When...

And you went back alone?

Yeah.

Well, they'd increased security.

Everyone was being checked in and out of the factory.

I mean, it was more secure than ever,

and I never thought that it could happen again.

I never thought that he'd, uh...

[Sighs]

It's all right if you want to stop, Eileen.

You just have to say.

No, no. It's okay.

I want to.

Okay.

I want to.

[inhales deeply]

I'm sorry.

It's all right. It's okay.

It's all right.

And you worked on the production line'?

- Me, Eileen, and Jean. - But not anymore?

No, thank God. I'm the union rep.

Mind you, the place hasn't changed much since then.

Same belt, machinery, everything.

- Till. - Oh, this is Mick, my husband.

He was a mechanic back then, but now he's the chief engineer.

These men are from UCOS.

They've come about what happened to Jean and --

Still ain't caught the bloke, then, eh'?

What a surprise.

You lot couldn't catch a fever in a swamp.

Mick!

Can we talk about this somewhere else'?

What you doing back here, then, eh'?

Get lost looking for your overtime?

We don't get much overtime.

We're civilians.

Oh, brilliant. You ain't even real coppers.

[Laughs]

So, what's prompted all this, then, eh, all of a sudden?

Back in '99, we had two months of nonstop prodding and poking.

Everyone here took a DNA test, and then nothing. End of story.

The case has never been closed.

It's all part of the reviewing process.

He's done it again, hasn't he'? The rapist.

Look, this doesn't make sense to me.

Mr. Miller said you were all like one big happy family.

[Laughs] He said that, did he'?

- Joke. - Mick.

Well, aren't you'?

MICK: No, it ain't, since he came.

Look, when Miller took over, he out costs --

safety, wages, pension deal.

Anything that wasn't core production

was put out to tender, including security.

That's one of the main reasons those rapes happened.

World and his wife could have walked in here back then,

and no one would have known.

Well, no one mentioned that at the time.

Everyone was frightened about losing their jobs, Weren't they'?

He'd already laid off loads of people

who'd been here for years.

Never mind what Miller says.

The only thing he gave a toss about

was how much the publicity was costing him.

Am I right or Wrong, Tilly'?

He did next to nothing.

Not for Eileen or the others.

Others?

I meant Jean.

MICK: Yeah, well, I better get back

before Miller docks my pay and all.

Me too.

Look, forgive Mick.

It's just that he cares.

And he's right. Miller doesn't.

"Others"?

Yeah.

So, Eileen Harrison was on her way to the changing room...

STANDING: [Coughing] -...which was that Way.

[Coughing]

That's better.

[Sighs]

EILEEN: I-l never heard or saw nothing till it was too late.

No movement, voice, nothing.

The lights went off.

He grabbed me, and then, um...

[Sighs]

Afterwards, I was covered in his sweat.

It stank.

I couldn't move for what seemed like ages.

And then when I did, he'd gone.

And you never went back to work?

Once.

But it was no good.

And since then,

I've not really been able to go out of the house.

I find it too difficult.

HALFORD: Cuddly toys, like a child's.

PULLMAN: Cheers.

The only magazines and photos are at least 10 years old,

as if her life had just stopped.

PULLMAN: Hello.

Oh, you're all right, are you'?

Yours is on the bar.

How do you know what I wanted?

I'm psychic. I just asked for alcohol.

I might have wanted a fruit juice.

- Ha! - How was Pyramid?

- LANE: Interesting. Cheers.

You can eat as much chocolate as you like inside the factory,

but you can't take any out.

I meant the investigation, Brian.

Well, Miller, the boss -- He came on all teeth and smiles,

didn't he, but according to the Workforce,

that's just an act.

All profit and no heart.

And there's hardly anyone left from '99.

- High turnover'? - Yeah, apparently.

Miller didn't talk much.

He was too keen to rush off.

The workforce were more help,

especially Mick and Tilly Shaw -- husband and wife.

She was a friend of Eileen Harrison.

Shop steward now.

She did say one thing that was odd.

She, um, she used the word "others"

when we were talking about the victims,

and I mean apart from Eileen.

What, "others" as in plural?

LANE: Exactly.

She made out it was a slip of the tongue,

that she just meant Jean, but I'm not so sure.

The victims have anything to say'?

No. Both of them saw next to nothing.

Scenes of crime?

Well, the changing room's been pulled down.

It's not there anymore.

The production line Where Eileen was attacked --

That's still going.

Very busy, loud. Noisy.

Women. [Scoffs]

Is it the sort of place you'd go back to alone?

Why'?

Well, Eileen Harrison, two hours after her shift ended,

goes back to a place Where only one Week before

a workmate had been raped.

She went back for her purse.

She might have had her wages in it.

Mm.

LANE: There is something a bit odd.

The place Where the attack happened.

It doesn't look like it's actually en route

to the changing room.

I'll tell you what's really bothering me.

The man we're looking for

knew how and where to turn the light switches on and off.

It had to be someone who knew the inside of that factory.

Every man who went in and out of Pyramid was DNA-tested.

Someone was missed. They had to have been.

Okay, this afternoon, go back to Pyramid

and ask Miller Whether there's a remote possibility

that someone could have missed being tested.

And While we're there,

we'll see if we can have another look 'round the shop floor,

work out the geography, do it properly.

Okay, good.

Jack, check out all the private firms outside of Pyramid

that had their men DNA-tested

and again ask if somebody could have been missed.

What about you'?

I'll go and have a word with this Mrs. Shaw.

See if it was a slip of the tongue.

Where are you going'?

Well, I thought I'd just pop outside and have a quick --

Oh, no. [ Laughs, clears throat ]

I don't anymore, do I'?

[Coughs]

Better out than in.

[Knocking]

Tilly Shaw'?

Detective Superintendent Pullman.

You spoke with a couple of my colleagues earlier.

Oh, yeah.

Is it okay if I have another word'?

Mick's at football practice.

That's okay. It's you I wanted to speak to particularly.

Thank you.

Excuse the mess.

My husband's a bit of an angling freak.

You and your husband both worked at Pyramid in 1999'?

Am I right in thinking that most of the staff

were Women back then?

Still are. Packing on the production line.

Piecework. The pay's not brilliant.

Must have been very scary for the Women at that time.

Terrible.

Especially after we saw how badly affected

Jean and Eileen were.

Eileen was a mate, yeah'?

Is she still?

We -- I hardly see her.

She's become a bit of a recluse.

Not that I blame her.

Did you ever talk to the other Women about what happened?

Of course.

Talked about nothing else for Weeks.

But nobody had a clue who it might have been'?

It's just that he obviously had access to the factory,

and he seemed to have picked similar-looking victims,

which suggests that he either knew them or had seen them.

That's what made it so scary, but...

Did anything else unusual happen at that time?

It's just that Brian, my colleague,

told me that you said "others," as in other victims.

Not just Eileen and Jean.

That was a mistake.

Right.

Tilly, we're hunting a serial rapist.

I don't want to hear from someone else

something I should have heard from you.

There was one girl -- Nisha Kumar.

She was a friend of Eileen's. She died a few months later.

- Died? Committed suicide.

Her mum and dad found her.

She hanged herself.

No. Categorically no.

Even the men that were off sick got tested.

- Can I have another one'? - Yeah, sure. Of course.

- Are you sure you Won't'? - No, thank you, no.

Look, we just want to have another look at the shop floor.

What, now'? But there's no one there.

Well, that's great, 'cause We'd like to see it

exactly how it was when Eileen Harrison was attacked.

Yeah. It Won't take long.

We just need to see it in the dark.

Well, it's very inconvenient.

I thought you said Pyramid was one big happy family

and that you wanted to help.

[Coughs]

[Scottish accent] Every man I had who worked there was done.

You're absolutely sure'?

Come on, there was only five, including me,

and I never even set foot in the place.

We were all DNA-tested. Everybody was cleared.

That was that.

It doesn't seem a lot, Mr. Close.

Four men to clean a whole factory?

Oh, in this business, you soon figure out

the most efficient use of manpower.

I run a very tight ship.

You, uh...

you don't have the Pyramid contract anymore, do you'?

- No. - Maybe it was a bit too tight.

Actually, we fell out over safety.

[Speaking Polish]

[Shouting in Polish]

What was that -- Polish?

Aye. I picked a bit up here and there.

It's easier to find out if somebody's lying to you

if you speak their language,

and it's easier to get them to do what you want

rather than what they want.

You know what I am saying?

-[ Man speaks Polish] - Are we done'?

Yes, yes. Thank you.

All right.

Sorry I couldn't help you.

Right!

I should have taken more notice,

seen what was happening to her, how she changed.

She changed?

After the attacks.

Before, Nisha was always cheerful, lively, funny,

but then...

One day I found her crying.

Then she stopped coming to work for days at a time.

Nisha and Eileen were always really close -- best friends --

but when Eileen eventually came back to work,

it just seemed to make it Worse.

Two days later, Nisha killed herself.

So Nisha's death took place

after the original investigation ended?

Tilly, do you think there's a possibility

that Nisha could have been raped'?

So -- What are you two still doing here'?

Get out! Get out!

Should have been finished hours ago.

So, the women's changing room's were that way'?

Yeah.

- And the exit is this way'? - Mm-hmm.

There's not another changing room'?

No.

Are you sure it's all right for me to keep eating these?

Sure. I'm delighted you like them.

Thanks. Very Moorish.

And you say there isn't another ladies' toilet

or anything down here'?

Uh, no. Are you sure you Won't have a...

No, thanks. I'm fine.

[Coughing loudly]

Sorry.

[Sniffles]

[Gulps farts]

[ Gags 1

Are you all right'?

I think I need...

- I need... -[ Stomach gurgling]

Where's the toilet?

- Oh, it's up the... STANDING: [Coughs]

Right. [Coughs loudly]

Ooh.

[Coughing continues]

[Spits]

Ahh.

[Sighs]

Now, he always works in the dark, doesn't he'?

Ah.

Here you go.

Well, it's all dark.

He's creeping about down here.

She must have been...

[Clinking]

Oh.

[Laughs]

Oh, you little beauty.

Look at that. Look at...

[Laughs]

Oh, this is your lucky day!

[Coughs]

Oh! Shit.

[Sighs]

[Coughs]

Oh, lovely.

-[ Alarm blares] - Aah!

Aah!

Oh.

[Alarm dings]

Aah!

Help!

Help!

Aah!

-[ Music plays] - LANE: Hey, Nudger!

Pyramid's Nudger!

HALFORD: Nudger! Yes! Of course!

# Everything you want in a bar and a little bit more #

# Not just chocolate bar, a whole lot more #

[Laughter]

Nuts, biscuit, nougat.

Fudge, raisins, chocolate.

Honeycomb pieces.

# Everything you want in a bar and a little bit more #

Nudger!

[Laughter]

Morning.

Pyramid's Nudger.

Yes, I remember. It was horrible.

Sickly sweet.

You know what your trouble is.

You like all this boutique, 70%, fair-trade cobblers.

LANE: It's like tar, that stuff.

No, I like me chocolate to taste like...sugar.

If Nudger was so great, why did they take it off the market?

I seem to recall it was 'cause they found something

in one of them that shouldn't have been there, like a finger.

Oh, yes.

Anyway, moving swiftly on, what did you find out at the factory?

Well, Miller was adamant all the men were DNA-tested.

Nobody was missed.

Ditto all the other firms who were in and out of the factory.

And the rapist must have known the layout of the factory floor,

because Where Eileen was attacked,

well, it's basically a dead end.

You'd only go there if you want to open the window

or turn the lights on and off.

LANE: Yeah, you were right about her.

Even if she was disorientated by the lights being out,

Where she was attacked

was nowhere near the Women's changing room.

So it doesn't make sense.

There's something else.

Tilly Shaw told me that a girl called Nisha Kumar

killed herself just four months after the rapes,

and Nisha worked on the same production line as...

- The "others." - Yeah.

Was she raped'?

I don't know.

What I do know is that she was Eileen Harrison's best friend

and that only days after Eileen came back to work,

she hanged herself.

Definitely suicide, was it'?

That's what the coroner said.

I've sent for a copy of the postmortem report.

In the meantime, Jack, you and I will go and talk to her family.

She has a brother, Arun.

What about us'?

You said that quite a lot of people

had been laid off just before the rapes.

Yeah.

Why don't you get a list from Miller

and see if any of them have ever been in trouble?

Could take forever.

We could have got away with this, mate.

You keep schtum, all right'?

- You keep schtum yourself. - All right.

You're the one with the big mouth.

[Whistles]

[Doorbell rings]

[Exhales deeply]

Arun Kumar'?

Detective Superintendent Pullman

from the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.

This is my colleague Jack Halford.

Yeah?

We were wondering if we could have a chat with you

about your sister, Nisha.

What about Nisha'?

Can we go inside'?

You got a warrant?

A warrant'? No, no. We just want to --

Then, no, you can't come in. I don't let police in my house.

Any particular reason?

Loads.

Mr. Kumar, we're investigating a number of rapes

that took place in the factory

Where your sister worked in 1999,

and we understand that, sadly, she took her own life

just four months after the rapes took place.

- And'? - Look, whatever dealings --

whatever experiences you've had with the police before,

they Weren't with me, all right'?

I'm just trying to find the man who raped these women.

We don't have any details of your mother and father.

Are they still around'?

No. They went back to India.

When'?

What's that got to do with you'?

Was it anything to do with Nisha'?

I don't want to talk anymore.

Was your sister raped, Arun'?

Don't talk about my sister like that, understand?!

No one talks about her like that.

I don't want to talk about your sister.

I want you to talk about her.

She's suffered enough.

Leave her alone.

PULLMAN: Would you call that a reaction or an overreaction'?

HALFORD: Well, he was certainly mad about something.

'Cause his sister was raped or because we knew about it'?

Mm.

Look.

PULLMAN: Oh, great.

[Sighs]

What is it about policing and leaks to the press?

It's absolutely bloody outrageous.

Oh. Well, let's try and be positive.

Maybe someone will come forward with fresh information.

I've only ever heard that said on television.

Well, there is some good news.

- Go on. - Nisha Kumar's postmortem.

The pathologist was looking for signs of sexual assault.

There were none.

In fact, the report clearly states that Nisha was a virgin.

STANDING: And you were right.

In 2000, Pyramid were prosecuted by Health and Safety

for one of their Nudger bars.

And as you said,

this chocolate had a piece of human being in it.

Yeah, Pyramid blamed

the "contamination of imported raisins from Turkey."

They were found guilty under Health and Safety

and fined £200,000.

Sales went through the floor,

and by December, they discontinued the line.

No more Nudger.

The company nearly went bust.

I should bloody well hope so.

Yeah, but that's not how big business works.

So, in eight months, they'd landed three new contracts

with separate supermarket chains

all selling own-brand chocolate bars,

and guess what was in them.

Nuts, biscuit, nougat.

Fudge, raisin, chocolate.

- Honeycomb pieces. - LANE: Exactly.

So within eighteen months, Pyramid had had two rapes,

a suicide, and a finger in one of their best brands.

That's either an awful lot of bad luck

or an awful lot of coincidences.

And who says there's no such thing as bad publicity?

Whose finger was it'? Did they ever find out'?

I don't know. Some Turkish raisin farmer.

But if Nisha wasn't raped, then why did she kill herself?

She may not have been raped,

but she may have known who the rapist was.

Well, we got hold of an ex-employees list from Pyramid,

and guess who was on it in '98

While he was a student working on his summer break.

Arun Kumar.

Is he'?

Right. Do a PNC check. See if he's on the DNA database.

- Are you still not smoking? - No.

Well done.

Sheer willpower!

[Coughs]

You lied to me!

PULLMAN: Eileen, I didn't lie to you.

EILEEN: Yeah, why didn't you tell me'?

Why didn't you let me know what happened'?

Making out you were worried. You don't give a toss!

Eileen, listen. Just listen to me.

Okay, the reason I didn't tell you

about what happened last year

was 'cause I didn't want to frighten you.

Oh, yeah. So I had to find out through the papers.

That was nothing to do with either me or my colleagues,

- I promise you that. - I don't believe you.

He can't still be around.

It's impossible!

[Door slams]

Ooh!

[Sighs]

Yeah, I got you.

But no arrests'?

Yeah, that's great. Thanks.

Arun Kumar hasn't got a criminal record,

but he has been stop-searched a couple of times.

But no DNA.

- No, not as... -[ Computer beeps]

- Bloody hell. - What?

Well, I just typed the words "Pyramid Chocolate Factory"

and "crime" into the computer.

[Chuckles] Look what it's come up with.

"Mick Shaw, a mechanic at the Pyramid Chocolate Factory,

was found not guilty of assault at Isleworth Crown court."

2003.

Yeah, I thought he was a bit tense.

Yeah, I'll tell the governor.

And about Arun.

[Dialing]

Oi, oi. Where you going'?

Out.

Are you gonna go and see Mick Shaw'?

I'm gonna go and see a man about a coincidence.

- I don't -- -[ Telephone rings]

Yes, governor.

I'm sure I can do you some kind of deal, yeah.

-[ Footsteps approaching] - Yeah.

Listen, let me call you back, yeah?

You know this could be construed as harassment.

I could be construed as a customer.

Not dressed like that, mate.

We're not here to argue with you, Arun.

We just want to talk.

Talk? Yeah, right. About what?

I sent for your sister's postmortem report.

Now, what was probably not made clear to you and your parents,

for obvious reasons, but is clear from the report

is that at the time of her death, Nisha was still a virgin.

She wasn't raped.

Which begs the question, "Why did she hang herself?"

She was obviously very unhappy about something.

Did you see that she was unhappy?

Well, that's a stupid question. Of course. We all did.

Look, Arun,

I know you've been stop-searched a couple of times --

Oh, here we go.

So obviously you're a bit hacked off with the police.

Really? You ain't got a --

Listen, I don't know why your sister killed herself,

but I think you do.

And I think you don't like talking about it

because you feel guilty in some Way.

- You're full of shit. - No, no, no, no.

I don't think so.

I don't need this.

Okay, so, who do you blame for your sister's death?

Did you ever see your sister, Arun'?

In the factory?

That summer when you worked there'?

No. I worked in accounts.

We Weren't allowed on the shop floor.

Did you ever meet Eileen Harrison?

- Who? - Oh, come on.

She was Nisha's best mate and one of the Women who was raped.

You people are unbelievable!

A white Woman gets raped,

and you grab the first Asian guy whose name crops up.

You really believe that, do you'?

Yeah, me and half the guys I grew up with.

My sister hangs herself,

and the only thing you're interested in

is the Woman she's mates with.

No, what I'm interested in

is why a happy girl who wasn't raped

suddenly decides to commit suicide.

Nah.

What you really get off on

is giving guys like me a hard time.

Maybe it's because she knew who the rapist was,

and that made her feel really ashamed.

Now, are you sure you never went down on that shop floor'?

I loved my sister.

And I never raped anyone.

Fine.

Then you'll be happy to give us a DNA sample.

What?

So we can rule you out of our investigation.

You think I'm stupid?

You think I'm gonna let my DNA go on your database?

It would be destroyed as soon as it's proved negative.

[Laughs ] Yeah.

And Father Christmas is Shiva.

I don't trust you.

And nothing that's ever happened to me makes me want to.

Okay.

But I am gonna find out who raped those women.

And I'm gonna find out why your sister hanged herself.

- Can I help you'? - Yeah. I'm Gerry Standing.

- UCOS. - What, another one'?

Ah, no. I'm different because I remembered your name.

I thought I'd heard it somewhere before.

And guess What. I was right.

Give yourself a Blue Peter badge.

[Laughs]

See, now you call yourself Close Sanitation,

but in 2001, Close Cleaning Limited

was prosecuted by the Immigration Services

for employing illegal immigrants --

Bangladeshis mostly -- most of whom had fake l.D.

and all of whom were subsequently deported.

All right. Two Blue Peter badges.

So, come on, Alex.

Come on, come clean, eh'?

Did you have any illegals on your payroll in '99'?

Of course you did,

and some of them were working at the factory

when the rapes took place.

I've got no idea what you're on about.

Oh, yes, you have.

You didn't say anything because if they'd been DNA-tested

along with everybody else,

they would have been outed as illegal immigrants.

No. No. There was no illegals on my books in 1999, okay?

Please!

And it's as illegal to smoke in these premises, eh'?

Thanks for the chat, pal.

[Sighs]

Mr. Miller'? We're here about Nisha Kumar.

- Who? - She hanged herself.

Oh, yeah.

You didn't mention her to either of my colleagues

even though it happened months after the rapes.

Well, yeah, since the beginning of your investigation,

I have been somewhat distracted,

not least by the harassment from the press.

Mr. Miller, I can assure you

it wasn't us who spoke to the press.

We're only here to ask you what you know

about Nisha Kumar's suicide.

The short answer is nothing.

She worked here. She killed herself.

Are you saying it's cause and effect?

I don't appreciate sarcasm.

What did her family say to you when she died'?

I don't know. I've never met her.

But you must have spoken to them'?

Uh, well, she didn't die here, did she'?

So one of your workforce commits suicide,

and you don't communicate with her nearest and dearest'?

Yeah, we may have sent flowers. I don't know.

Very touching.

What about the guy whose finger was found in a bar of Nudger'?

You send him a bunch of flowers when/if he turns up'?

What the hell has that got to do with anything?!

It's just that you seem to have had a great deal of bad luck

in a very short space of time.

Yes, well, "Troubles they come,

not in single spies but in battalions."

A little bit like the UC-- or whatever you're called.

Listen, she was a young woman.

She would have been having boyfriend trouble.

Oh, you're an expert, are you'?

No, no, no, no, I leave that to Human Resources

and the -- the gossips on the shop floor.

- Excuse me. -[ Woman speaks indistinctly]

What?

Oh, please. I'm busy!

Don't bother me with stuff like that.

Asshole. Fat lot of good that was.

- We're getting nowhere. - There's still Arun.

There are other ways to get his DNA.

No! Not yet.

Oi! What's the idea of this'?

Mick's furious.

I've got a whole shop floor scared to death!

Them and Eileen both.

And as I understand it,

Mick gets angry about a whole lot of things.

What do you mean'? What's Eileen been saying?

Eileen?

Nothing? Why'? What should she have said'?

I just meant she'd be upset. She's probably feeling...

She's probably feeling what?

How would you know? You haven't seen her for 10 years.

Why not?

I told you. She out herself off.

No, no, no, no. You see, I can understand

why Eileen Wouldn't want to see anyone.

But that's no reason for you to stop trying to see her.

I mean, that's what good friends are for, aren't they?

Depends what you mean by friends.

What's that supposed to mean'?

What would make you stop being mates

with a Woman you thought was a really good friend'?

Eileen and Mick?

When did you find out'?

Not till later.

She Wouldn't see me. I went 'round.

Mick was there at the front door.

She Wouldn't let him in.

It was over by then. The rape saw to that.

But that's when I realized.

I heard you lot were here again.

Shouldn't you be out there, hunting rapists?

We were just talking to your wife, Mr. Shaw.

Yeah, well, we've done enough talking to you already.

Why don't you just do your job instead of wasting time?

I Wouldn't call finding out about your affair

with Eileen Harrison a waste of time, Mick.

But then again, I can understand why you never mentioned it

to the original investigation,

because until now, for the life of me,

I couldn't understand why Eileen came back to this factory alone.

Which begs the question,

"Where were you on the night she was raped?"

Me'?

You think it was me'?

Mick's not a rapist!

No. He only beats up people outside pubs.

Not guilty, mate.

Fine. Back to the point. Where were you'?

You know Where I was -- in the pub with mates.

Yeah. When you should have been here, waiting for Eileen.

Only you never turned up, did you'?

The rapist did.

My guess is that you felt very guilty...

maybe even partly to blame,

even though, of course, it wasn't your fault.

- Just shut up! - Easy, easy.

Nisha -- Did she have a boyfriend'?

I don't know. I don't think so.

Eileen would know.

Thank you.

If anything else occurs to you, anything at all,

just let me know, yeah'?

What's this? A little light supper?

What the hell is that?

Chocolate. Finger.

I thought we should get it DNA-tested.

You never know. Might not be Turkish.

And we could be looking for a nine-fingered rapist.

It would narrow the field down a bit.

Can I help you'?

Liam Braine, forensic scientist.

I understand you have a rather interesting digit

you wish to have analyzed.

There you go.

Oh. That is a particularly fine specimen.

Do you know the exact nature

of the confectionery it was encased in'?

Nudger.

Ah, Nudger.

Manufactured by the Pyramid Chocolate Company,

1963 to 2000.

Chocolate -- 30% cocoa solids, whey, milk, cocoa butter, sugar,

granulated almond and hazelnuts, shortcake biscuit,

nougat, cream fudge, Turkish raisins --

And honeycomb pieces, yes.

How soon can we get the results?

It should be feasible to have

a detailed and comprehensive set of indices very soon,

although this is a particularly nutty problem.

Nougat is made from a combination

of sugar, egg white, and nuts.

The term is derived from the Old French "nogat,"

itself a corruption of the Provencal word "noga,"

meaning "nut."

Too many nuts.

He can say that again.

Evening, all.

LANE: Evening.

I've just been chatting to Alex Close

because I found out that in 2001 he was prosecuted

for employing illegal immigrants,

so I asked him, did he employ any in 1999'?

- And he said no. - Of course he did.

He Wouldn't have owned up to it earlier either.

But the 2001 lot were all deported.

Bangladesh mostly.

Of course. The voice.

Why he didn't talk.

If the rapist is Bangladeshi,

it's gonna be a dead giveaway, isn't it,

every time he opens his mouth.

But if it was a cleaner who raped Helen Vestry,

then they must have got back into the country again.

- Well, it's not possible. STANDING: Of course it is.

They all had fake l.D.

Illegals come back all the time.

No. I mean, when they were deported in '01,

then they would have had their DNA and their prints

taken then.

We'd have already had a match.

Unless it was someone who stopped working for Close

between '99 and 2001,

in which case he would still be running around,

untested for DNA.

Then we're buggered.

It'll be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Colin Pitchfork.

Hmm'?

Oh, every time I hear

that expression, "needle in a haystack,"

I think, "Haystack, Pitchfork."

Of course. Colin Pitchfork.

The first man to be arrested and sentenced for murder

by DNA screening.

Absolutely right. [Chuckles]

January 1988.

You see, they said that case was hopeless.

But then they brought in DNA,

they tested 5,000 men, and they got him.

It doesn't matter how bad it looks.

It's never hopeless.

Thank you, Mary Poppins. Just get us a pint, will you'?

I asked at the station.

They said you'd be in here.

Is this Where you do most of your work?

The best of it, yeah.

Arun Kumar. Nisha's brother.

Fancy a drink'?

No, I don't drink.

That's all right. Neither does he.

Got something to say'?

There you go.

My sister.

You're absolutely sure she wasn't raped'?

Positive.

100%'?

We thought...

We were afraid that she hanged herself

because she had been raped.

What with what we read in the papers.

How was she in the time before she died'?

She was crying all the time.

We didn't understand. She'd been so happy.

Yeah. That's what everyone says about her.

No, no.

She was even happier than normal because she'd met someone.

You mean a man'?

She told my parents he was really nice.

A really lovely bloke, you know.

My parents were quite pleased, I think.

- Who was he'? - I don't know.

But he must have been someone at the factory.

Have you got a name?

The man who was seeing her, I mean.

This really lovely bloke?

[ Scoffs ]

You don't believe me.

Okay.

Tell me, Where do I go'?

To take the DNA test'?

- Morning. - Morning.

It certainly is.

Why are you so cheerful?

Brahmas has got some good news.

Good. Care to enlighten me'?

Having re-examined samples taken from the finger,

it's clear that While male,

its previous owner is not the rapist.

By the same token, it is almost certainly not Turkish.

NOV?

I thought you'd be delighted.

Turkish-delighted.

Anything else'?

Having isolated his DNA, the latest cluster sampling models

place his likely point of origin some way to the east

on the Indian subcontinent, probably...

Bangladesh.

Yes. Very good.

But that is not the interesting part.

Care to hear the rest'?

Knock yourself out.

I not only managed to locate the dead man's DNA.

I've also isolated a second sample

from the particle of blood

between the fingernail and the epithelium

belonging to another man, and --

You know his likely point of origin.

Better than that.

I know who he is.

What'?!

Not the finger owner.

The other man -- from under the fingernail.

He's in the national DNA database.

Who is he'?

So, Mick, can you tell us again about the punch-up

you had in 2002 outside the Bell Pub in Ealing'?

What about it'?

I got off, remember'?

Yeah, but you were arrested.

So your DNA was taken.

Yeah. So what?

Can you tell me why that same DNA -- yours --

was discovered under a nail of a severed finger

that turned up in a bar of Nudger in 2000'?

No. No idea.

Perhaps you've some idea about who the finger belonged to.

[ Scoffs ] No.

I don't believe you.

I don't believe this.

Interview suspended at 11:22 a.m.

Ooh.

You've upset her now.

Eileen, thank you so much for coming in.

I know this is very hard for you.

But let me start by saying

that you're free to leave at any time.

What is it you wanted to know?

Mick Shaw.

You had an affair with him.

Yeah.

He must have been very upset after what happened to you.

Yeah.

Not least because had he turned up on the night of the attack

like he was supposed to have done,

then you probably Wouldn't have been raped at all.

Eileen, there is a sample of Mick's DNA

under the nail of the finger that was found in a Nudger bar

a year after you were raped.

What?

We think that the finger belongs to a man from Bangladesh.

How do you think that might have happened'?

L-I don't know.

Eileen, do you remember what you said when you found out

that the rapist had struck again last year?

You said, "I can't believe he's still around.

It's impossible."

Now, at first I thought you said that because you were afraid.

But what you really meant

was that you couldn't believe he was still alive.

[sobs]

L-I want to go now.

Nisha -- you and she were best friends, Weren't you'?

Why did she kill herself?

I don't know.

She had a boyfriend, didn't she'?

A boy she really liked.

A boy that she'd fallen in love with.

Where is he'?

What happened to him, Eileen'?

He wasn't very nice.

Nice?

This cleaner.

He was really creepy.

Nisha thought the sun shone out of his arse, but it didn't.

I told her. I warned her.

Shakib's only after one thing.

Shakib'?

Yeah. Um, oh, God.

I used to see him staring at me, Watching me.

I even saw his boss tell him off.

And -- And -- And then when Jean got raped, I knew who it was,

but I didn't say anything.

I should have.

And then maybe I Wouldn't have been...

Did you tell Nisha that was what had happened'?

No. You told Mick.

He said not to worry anymore and that he'd taken care of him.

And what do you think he meant by that?

[sobs]

Mick said everything was gonna be okay

and that this guy would, um...

never -- never, ever rape anyone again.

But he didn't rape anyone, Eileen.

I am afraid that you got it Wrong.

What?

What?

Looks a bit edgy to me.

Yeah.

Nervous.

Huh! He's a smoker.

He's desperate for a cigarette.

Ah, yes. Of course.

Right now he'd sell his mum for a smoke.

[Chuckles]

That's all you had to do in the old days...

before they outlawed it, of course.

Bide your time,

rack up the tension. and light a cigarette.

Blow smoke all over them.

They'd be crawling up the wall,

and then you'd just offer them a cigarette, and Bob's your uncle.

[Chuckles] Those were the days, remember'?

[Door opens, closes]

[Tape buzzes]

[Buzzing stops]

Interview recommenced at 11:34 a.m.

Same persons present.

Mr. Shaw, you do understand you're still under caution?

Yeah.

So, Michael.

You don't mind if I call you Michael?

You killed the wrong man.

What are you talking about?

The finger's DNA doesn't match that of the man

who raped Eileen or Jean Saunders

or the Woman last year, and DNA doesn't lie.

Shakib.

I don't know what you're going on about.

The contract cleaner. The illegal immigrant.

Nisha's boyfriend.

You see, Eileen told us.

How she told you -- that he was the man who raped her

and how you killed him.

Which is Worse, Mick -- knowing that you killed the wrong man,

or knowing you got it wrong 'cause of her'?

Must be very hard to take.

Doing life for a mistake.

No.

No, sh- no. No!

No. She said it was Shakib! She said Shakib raped her!

Who needs cigarettes?

EILEEN: Mick said everything was gonna be okay

and that this guy would, um...

never -- never, ever rape anyone again.

He attacked Shakib on the shop floor

after the production line had closed down for the night.

Shakib fell against the start button of the conveyor belt.

The machine trapped his arm and severed his finger,

during which time Shaw beat him to death with a wrench.

He then took the body away

in a plastic bag in the back of his van,

weighted it down,

and then dumped it in a gravel pit Where he used to go fishing.

Nice.

So he must have known that Shakib didn't take the test.

And when everybody else proved negative

after they tested for DNA, it just convinced him

that whatever Eileen had said was true.

What am I gonna tell Strickland?

[Shudders]

Well, we're supposed to be hunting a rapist,

and instead we've ended up solving a murder

that no one even knew had happened.

- Mick and Eileen knew. - Shit!

[Tape rewinds]

EILEEN: ...really creepy.

[Tape rewinds]

I even saw his boss tell him off.

And -- And -- And then when Jean got raped --

"I even saw his boss tell him off."

Alex Close was his boss,

and Close told me he'd never set foot inside the factory.

But Close was tested, and his DNA was negative, wasn't it'?

Colin Pitchfork.

He didn't do a sample at the start.

He got his mate to do it,

and they only caught him because his mate was boasting

that Pitchfork paid him £200

to take the test and pretend to be him.

That's right. He did.

And Close told me he could get his employees to do anything,

and I believe him because they're terrified of him.

What about the bakery?

Well, if I'm right, he must have been there, too.

Helen...

Helen, do you recognize him'?

He's, uh...

He's Scottish.

He came into the shop about 18 months ago

to see about the cleaning --

to try and get the cleaning contract.

- Right. - Well, he didn't get it.

But the thing was that he then came in two or three times

as a customer.

He used to buy, um, a pasty.

It was -- it was always the same thing.

A pasty.

[sobs]

Fond of those, are you'?

Aye. My little weakness.

No, I don't think that's your weakness, Mr. Close.

Who's this -- your care worker?

Detective Superintendent Pullman.

I'd just like to ask you a few more questions.

- Final questions. - You must lead boring lives.

I want to know if you recall a young Bangladeshi man

who worked for you as a cleaner

at the Pyramid Chocolate Factory.

- Name of Shakib. - I've told you --

This particular man you would remember

because he failed to turn up for work one day.

In fact, he disappeared during the night shift at Pyramid.

No.

Right.

So, would you mind telling me

Where you've been for the last nine years?

Here and there.

Where were you after your previous firm went bust'?

Poland most of the time.

PULLMAN: Right.

So, if I were to send a sample of your DNA

to the Polish police, that would be okay with you, would it'?

Sure.

No, I'm sorry. I didn't make myself clear.

Not the old sample.

A new one.

No, I've already given the DNA sample.

Ah, now, that's where we have a bit of a problem, Mr. Close,

because we don't think you have.

[Laughs] Aye, yes.

I was tested, along with my workmen.

No. In 1999, you sent someone along to pretend to be you --

someone with your l.D. -- and they took the test.

You see, the rapist we're looking for never spoke,

so at first we assumed he was an Asian

and that his voice would give him away.

Do you know, it never occurred to us

that he could have been Scots.

[Laughs]

Is this what the Met get up to now, aye'?

Is this what you build your cases on'?

This is a load of shite.

This man raped two Women in 1999,

and he's since raped again, Mr. Close.

If you were so happy to help back then

by giving a DNA sample,

what possible reason could you have for not doing so now'?

Now, then, Mr. Close, you're sweating.

That mine'?

- Bought with you in mind. - Thank you.

Did you speak to him -- Strickland?

It was a bad line. I had to make it brief.

Lucky you.

What'd he say'?

He was surprised.

Bloody cheek.

He asked me, "What cracked the case?"

I said, "Colin Pitchfork." He said, "Who?"

Unbelievable.

That's modern policing for you.

Where's Gerry'?

Outside.

Said he wanted a bit of fresh air.

Gerry's never wanted fresh air in his life.

[Door opens]

I bloody knew it!

Look, I did try giving up -- honestly.

Anyway, I never said I was gonna stop smoking.

I said I was gonna stop smoking cigarettes.

Your lungs.

Yeah, but I felt so ill. Honestly, I couldn't bear it.

Bear it.

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