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I couldn't breathe and
I could hear my heart.

- Mass sociogenic illness.
- I want to follow it up.

Acting Head of Department.
How does that feel?

Busy!

Hard act to follow.

The blessed Sam.

Suicide?

Could be a knife wound.

What was he doing, diving?

I feel so bad because
we'd had a row.

It's not in our dreams, mate.

It's toxic and it's still there!

This little girl's ill!

I want a doctor now!

She was lying on her front

so there's some congestion
and cyanosis to the face.

Why do you think it's suspicious?
I couldn't see any signs of injury.

Their first baby died
as well. At three months.

Cot deaths can
run in the family.

Dr. Gwilym says not.

Baby Ella. Would you mind running
your microscope over her feces for me?

Sorry.

I was going to check
out Garner's garage.

Obsessing about Nick Garner is
an excuse for seeing Sienna Ricci.

- Can you blame me?
- Yes!

It's extremely unprofessional
and we're under pressure!

You're under pressure.

Not late, am I?

Bloody London drivers!

Some idiot tried to overtake
me on the inside lane.

Lucky we're both
not on the slab.

No, I don't like this one.

Not one little bit.

Surely it can't classify as a cot
death. They reported an illness.

I was going to ask you if
they reported an illness.

- They took her to hospital three times!
- Did they indeed?

Well, you know my general
opinion on these things.

One unexplained death in a
family is normal, three is murder.

Two is...

I can't remember what two is.

Dodgy.

Very dodgy.

I think this is Munchausen's.
Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy.

In Munchausen's
Syndrome by Proxy,

the parent injures the child

or constantly reports
illness to seek attention.

The hospital visits
might have been genuine.

I don't see any
signs of illness.

The broken air sacs in
the lungs might have been

symptoms of an asthmatic attack.

Or something else. The diarrhea
could have been a serious infection.

Yes, it could. It could.

But you still need to find out
about their behavior at the hospital.

They were pretty
dramatic by all accounts.

This is consistent with
the attention seeking.

Why do they do this?

I'm giving a lecture
here if you're interested.

They might also have been
genuinely scared about their baby.

At least hold off the diagnosis
until we've tested the nappy

for signs of disease.

Of course, Leo.

It's common to evacuate
during asphyxiation.

Nothing untoward in the blood.

I've seen petechiae in a
12-year-old from the same area.

What are you talking
about? This is a baby.

We're investigating the
possibility of something local.

A toxin. An epidemic.

- Without any signs in the blood?
- It is possible!

- Something ingested?
- Maybe.

This is what you
think, yes? Hmm?

Thank you.

What's the matter with Leo?

He's being bloody
difficult at the moment.

I've got a clear baby homicide

and he's trying to run things from
the back seat going on about toxins.

I think the possibility of replacing
Sam may have freaked him out a bit.

He's never really
settled here, has he?

Keep schtum but Leo may move on.

I assumed he was a certainty.
The only person who doesn't is Leo.

Pain in the arse,
that's what he is.

Helen told me that Leo felt

you weren't ready to step into
his job if he got the professorship.

So, given Leo's insecurity,

I reckon you must be good.

How ambitious are you?

I am ready.

Son of Sam, wasn't he?

So, if you're interested...

We may talk again.

I'm confused. Are we still
saying this is suspicious?

Yes.

I am. I'll have to pull rank on
you, I'm afraid. I am the specialist.

I'd be happy to
support a prosecution.

Sorry to keep you. Nicola,
would you mind coming with me?

I want to stay with her.

We came here to see the baby.

I just want to speak to
Nicola alone for five minutes.

It's all right, Daryl.

- Okay?
- Yeah.

Seven?

Okay, thanks.

You and I need to have a word.

Before you start, seven of the
kids in that class are back in hospital.

Three in intensive care, all with acute
asthmatic or respiratory symptoms.

I think we can rule out mass
hysteria once and for all.

- Marcus Gwilym thought it was spot-on.
- Did he?

The most seriously ill is a
little girl called Lanny Forbes.

I want to talk about
this school incident.

We need to have
a proper meeting.

Do I smell or something?

I don't mean to be rude, Leo, but
don't you think you're out of your depth?

Cause of death or
me getting the Chair?

Both.

Why did she die?

They said Amber was a cot death.

But this wasn't the same.

You took Ella to the hospital
a lot, didn't you, Nicola?

I was worried sick. She was ill.

She cried all the time.

They do, don't they?

When you've lost one baby...

No!

You don't think we killed her?

You don't think that...

I loved Ella! I
wanted her to live!

With every breath in my body!
I wanted her to live to be 100!

I haven't said anything, Nicola.

Is that what you told them?
You said it was suspicious?

- No! No, I didn't.
- Sorry about this.

I swear we never harmed
that baby. She really was ill!

She had diarrhea! Why
do they think we did it?

The autopsy was carried
out by a pediatric specialist.

I was observing.

Look, why don't you sit down?

- How much water did you give her?
- I never gave her water.

I breastfed her the whole time.

- What's the matter?
- Oh no, it's good that you did that.

That'll help you.

Did she have any
breathing difficulties?

No.

Just diarrhea.

And a nosebleed.

Disappointed?

It didn't fit in
with your theory?

It doesn't matter.

Don't give up. I'm
still working on this.

Hope you realize I'm
missing a nice lunch.

I just need to know
where I stand, Gus.

What if the planning
committee say no again?

The government
is extremely keen.

Think of the boats
as refugees, they said.

- Someone's got to take them.
- You're not doing it out of kindness.

I happen to know you're getting an
extra £15 million in grants for your pains.

That's right.

That's why the committee
won't let the other ships dock.

Arms have been twisted.

If the committee disagree, what am
I supposed to do I do with this one?

Turn it round and send it
all the way back to Bombay?

This wasn't going anywhere.
It's got engine trouble.

They understand that.

When can I start breaking
it? I've still got to pay the crew.

As soon as the committee
agree, you can move her.

There are two spring
tides every lunar month.

If it isn't sorted by Tuesday, we're
gonna have to wait another few weeks.

Time and tide, Gus.

Nick Garner has a fight with someone
who apparently is trying to kill him.

He wins. And then
he kills himself?

He was in a garage
full of carbon monoxide.

He'd taken two painkillers, Jim.

You don't take a couple
of painkillers if you know

that soon you're going to be flat
lining all the way to the pearly gates.

Some paint here, see?

Can you bring the door down?

- There's a dent.
- Yeah. The car had a front tow bar.

Throw the door up again.

He rushes home,

takes off his wetsuit top
to look at this knife wound.

He takes a couple of painkillers
then tries to drive to hospital.

When he throws up the garage
door, it doesn't quite catch.

And now the garage door's fallen
back down again and he hits it.

He's barely opened the
car door and then he faints,

and the engine's still running.

Terrible.

And he was
unconscious all the while?

Breathing the
fumes in all the time?

He... He could have lived.

I don't believe that...
That that's the full story.

Well, it's true, I don't know
how he got the knife wound.

Maybe when he was diving.

I'd like to go to the garage.

- Where's Micky?
- Micky!

Sorry about your boy. Bad.

Immigration people are still
bothering me about Salek.

Story about the girl in
London's a lie, isn't it?

He jumped ship, boss.

We managed to let two of
them home. Four aren't too good.

The symptoms are like asthma
but the CT scan of the lungs

look like emphysema.

At this age. In here.

Hello, Lanny.

Lanny's better today.

- Where's Harry?
- Harry's busy, I'm afraid.

Shall I ask him to
come and see you?

I was walking along the river
and I found a couple of dead fish.

Nothing much but it's unusual.

It's near the docks but the
water's supposed to be okay.

We argued about it. He
didn't think it was significant.

And I lost because
he had the PhD.

- Two dead fish?
- Mmm. He was defensive.

Anything to do with dirty
rivers implies dirty boats.

Implies Daddy.

This smells like sea
water. Look at the date.

Next time I found a dead fish,
Nick said he'd test it for me.

To humor me or maybe he thought
we'd get back together or something.

All he said the next day was
he didn't like what he found.

That's all he said.

That's the night he had
a row with his old man.

This was taken on
the night he died.

T-R-I.

There's no infection
in the nappy.

Well, I'm afraid that
simplifies matters for me.

You're not going to
arrest her, are you?

I respect you.

I mean that.

But I have got to go
with the specialist.

You haven't found
any medical condition.

Breastfeeding isn't easy.

Even to be doing it for three months
suggests a degree of commitment.

That's right. That's
what Dr. Gwilym thinks.

He thinks Daryl's probably the
one with Munchausen's by Proxy.

Wh... Hold on, please. I'll
send you a report, my version.

It's a bit risky, isn't it? I
mean, professionally?

For what it's worth, I think Marcus
Gwilym talks out of his backside.

- I'm seeing a lot of you, Marcus.
- I like it here.

Been reading the papers?

Too busy.

Another murder
conviction quashed.

Mother accused of killing
her baby to seek attention.

Not one of my cases.

I hear the solicitor general
is looking into quite a few.

I want these
people to stop killing.

Do you know how much
courage it takes to hold to this?

I've got families camping
out in my hospital,

- calling me names, threatening me.
- You may be sincere but you're wrong.

You're a good man, Leo. Don't
try and make a name for yourself.

There were no marks
of violence on that baby.

You'll get nowhere with
the toxic explanation.

Because the liver and kidneys
are completely undamaged.

I'll go against you in court.

You're not a
pediatric specialist.

It's common sense.

Not handing out
many Chairs in that.

So you are telling me to withdraw my
opinion in a possible murder inquiry?

Marcus has been to see
me. You know what he's like.

This is bullying, Helen.

It's in your interest. I don't
want you burning your bridges.

I was right about the water.

You were wrong to be
involved in the first place.

And here you are again.
Think about this, Leo.

I have. Back me or sack me.

What do you think of
Marcus Gwilym for Chair?

Everybody knows who he is.

They can't give it to
him. He's an arsehole!

- What would you do if they did?
- I'll tell you exactly what I'd do.

I would move on so
fast I'd singe the walls.

I knew he wanted it.

He's tapped you, hasn't he?

I heard you thought I was too
inexperienced for promotion.

Listen...

I wasn't suggesting that you
aren't a first-class pathologist.

Why would you?

Just a touch arrogant.

I back my own judgement.

- If that is arrogant...
- For example,

leaping at a mass
hysteria diagnosis

for something which has
extremely serious repercussions.

Dr. Dalton!

Hello again.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Came with Lanny's parents.

Can I have a word with you?

Erm... Yeah. Why not?

They were collecting things
from trees round the playground.

Lanny said she bent down to
pick up a leaf and couldn't breathe.

She said her throat was
stinging and that she was crying.

The doctors got hold of that.
They said it was classic for asthma.

They said when some children
get it, it can be life threatening.

- I feel guilty.
- Well, what could you have done?

Paid more attention.

I wasn't outside every second.

I was in the storeroom
smoking a fag.

Okay, that's it, guys, time's up.
We're going to go back inside now.

Spasmodic constriction of the
bronchial tubes led to suffocation.

Lung function impaired.

Clogged with massive
internal secretion.

Still no evidence of a
virus in the blood test?

No.

The doctors are still
saying it's severe asthma.

It's our old friend.

Comes, does its damage quietly.

You survive or you go down.

Teacher wasn't affected.

Don't say because he
wasn't part of the group.

He was having a smoke.

We need to look at the
cases where this happened.

We need to look at the conditions
at the time the kids were outside.

It came through quickly,
on a cloud blown by the wind.

The teacher didn't breathe it
in because he wasn't outside.

He was in the
storeroom having...

A fag.

Suppose there's a gas.

An airborne toxin.

Here's the school.

Where's baby Ella's house?
- Here.

- It's not far.
- No.

So baby Ella died here.

There were four deaths
in an old people's home

on the same day as
the school incident.

- That can happen.
- Where's the home?

Er... Here. Right in the area.

Scraping the barrel
here, aren't we?

That's what people
in homes do. They die.

And often get cremated before
anyone has a chance to look at them.

- I don't run the funeral service.
- Can we follow it up?

Any other serious incidents that
can't be put down to the drinking water?

Do you remember I went to a
restaurant right on the docks?

- Rat droppings and dodgy haddock?
- That's the one.

Some people had to go to
hospital for suspected food poisoning

but the kitchen was
fine, the food was fine.

- Were they sitting outside?
- There's a terrace.

- Right on the water.
- Oh, great!

And there was a couple,
maybe two, at a café.

None of these could
be related to water.

Summer's almost with us.

We've got people booking up
at B&Bs, two Blue Flag beaches,

and you invent
another pollution crisis.

- The local water was contaminated.
- Nobody'll come near this place!

Look, I'm hanging on to my
job by the skin of my teeth here.

That makes two of us, Gus.
But, hey, what are old friends for?

Right, let's assume
that it is airborne.

We need to find out which way
the wind was blowing that morning,

then we can try and
pinpoint the source.

- What are you doing here?
- Found off Brankstone.

And brought ashore on my patch.

Could be a gangland one, this.

- Why do you say that?
- He's missing his head.

- Are you married?
- Er, was, yeah.

Widower.

The wind was very light northerly
blowing offshore at five knots.

There's only a few houses and the
school on this part of the peninsula.

What's in line with the school?
- Restaurant.

And café.

What's there?

It's Garner UK.

That's Lucas
Garner's shipping yard.

Male, 25 to 35.

- You go home, get some sleep.
- I'll stay.

Okay?

Part of a wetsuit
found on one leg.

Diving belt. Rest dragged off his
body maybe when his head came off.

Are we talking gangland
killing? Dumped in the sea?

Look at these jagged edges.
Something powerful and quick.

Looking at the appearance of the
wounds, I'd say this happened after death.

He was picked up
near the shipping lanes.

- Propeller. Big boat. NEWTON:
Why didn't the belt come off?

This is very tough. The neoprene of the
wetsuit was probably dragged through it.

- Sheath for a knife.
- Diver's knife, missing.

Tattooed. Russian?

Something like it.

Fits the sheath.

Does it fit the cut
in Garner's wetsuit?

And does it match the wound?

What's so important you
couldn't tell me on the phone?

We've picked up
a body out at sea.

Haven't identified him, but he was
wearing a diver's suit with a knife.

Tests suggest he might have
been the man stabbed your son.

You've nothing to
identify him at all?

Tattoo. Possibly a sailor.

What happened to Salek?

Some people swimming
near ship. Two, three nights.

You say keep away at all costs.
Salek, he a big guy, good diver.

What happened?

He go in and no come back.

- Was he armed?
- No! No.

Salek had a knife, didn't he?

Yes.

It's the Galle. It's
Lucas Garner's ship.

It's part of the fleet still
waiting for permission to dock.

I thought those ships
weren't allowed in.

Well, that one got permission
because of engine trouble.

She looks pretty bad,
doesn't she? SIENNA: Mmm.

And that's the school.

It's my copy of the manifest.

Nick must have found something
in here to get him thinking.

All the contaminants are
declared. They have to be.

The Galle's been working as a
merchant marine supply vessel

in India, Sri Lanka.

- PCBs?
- Mmm-hmm. They're on the list.

They're all fairly
easy to dispose of.

Here's something.

Trinadyl-G.

T-R-I.

The bottle in Nick's garage.
That's what he wrote on the label.

Did you go in to her?

Did you go in to her?

Were you alone with her?

Nicola said you
went into her at nine.

I was going to give her a bottle at nine
before I went out, but she was asleep.

So you went into her
at nine. How long for?

- Not long.
- How long?

One...

Two...

That all?

No more than two.

I'm given to understand you
were in there for about five minutes.

No!

She had diarrhea.

She had a nosebleed.

When?

Earlier in the
morning. It... It stopped.

Daryl.

You never smoked in her
room or anything, did you?

Or put extra blankets on her?

No.

No!

You think I did
something to her?

You think I did something
to Amber too, is that it?

All right, I killed her.

That's what you
want to hear, isn't it?

I killed her.

That's what bereaved mothers do.
They confess. It's common. It's guilt.

She's doing it for him.

- Let me see her.
- We've got him.

He says the baby had a nosebleed.
Gwilym says they don't at that age.

Don't?

That's what he said. Uncommon.

Uncommon isn't never.
Just give me 24 hours.

I have to send the papers to the CPS.
It'll be on my conscience otherwise.

Did you take Ella shopping
in her pram that morning?

Daryl did all the shopping.

As long as I was breastfeeding,
he said he'd do that.

Was she ever outside?

I can't remember.

There was a couple of sunny
days. She was in her pram.

On the seafront?

Yeah.

I think she was.

Don't get your hopes
up. It's not evidence. Yet.

Trinadyl-G is a pesticide.

- And pesticides cause the symptoms.
- Hang on.

Where's the Butler
house from the school?

Erm... Upwind from the boat.

Anything coming from the
Galle would blow that way.

So Ella Butler couldn't
have been affected.

Damn! Damn!

But the wind would blow
anything from the boat that way,

towards the school playground.

Hold on. Anyway, Trinadyl-G
isn't going to be right.

If it leaked into the
estuary, it would dissipate.

It isn't toxic enough.
Let alone airborne.

- Are you sure?
- Certain.

I want you to test Ella
Butler's nappy again.

Last resort. I want
you to look for oocysts.

Only thing we haven't tried.

- Spores. I don't know if I...
- Oh, learn it. Do it!

- Can't we send it out?
- Okay, let's look at this, yeah?

We have got our wires
crossed over the last few days.

But I expect you to cover my arse
in the same way that I'd cover yours.

Right now my arse is
over the circular saw!

Like it or not, there's
a kind of hierarchy.

One of us has to say do
sometimes. And one of us has to f...

Effing well do it.

I'm sorry.

I'm not very good at
this responsibility bit.

Yet.

I know.

Next time you want
to humiliate me,

do it in private.

Point taken.

I'm as disappointed as you
are. I thought we'd cracked it.

I'll have a look at those
spores. I'll find out how to do it.

Thanks.

I think I've got it.

- Hello.
- Hello.

- It's Bhopal.
- What are you talking about?

Union Carbide?

It's not Trinadyl-G. It's the
stuff they use to make it.

- Which is?
- Methyl isocyanate.

A chemical intermediate
used in pesticides.

Remember Bhopal in India?
Killed thousands of people.

It can escape into the air
but an explosive escape

due to a build-up of pressure.

Symptoms on the kids are
right. Eyes, damage to the lungs.

Developing severe asthma.

- Deadly.
- It reacts with water.

But it needs a catalyst. Iron.

Rust.

So why are there
so few casualties?

And why aren't
the crew affected?

That's the one thing
that doesn't make sense.

If the boat's still leaking,

then the reaction's got
to be going on all the time.

- She's still aground.
- But the water's high.

She must have floated
easily to get in there.

So Nick would have had to dive
that night to get underneath her.

Where can we
find out about tides?

I'd never harm my baby.

- We've got a medical report, Daryl.
- What's it say?

It's crap!

I'm not... I'm not mad!

Daryl Butler, I am charging
you with the murder of Ella Butler.

No! No!

Results for the spores
test on Ella Butler's nappy.

Daryl Butler is on
bail awaiting trial.

I didn't invent Munchausen's
Syndrome by Proxy

any more than I am
Baron Munchausen.

Others, as it were,
came before me.

Mothers cry whether
they're guilty or not.

The trick is not to let sentiment
get in the way of our scientific rigor

as it did in a recent
case I worked on.

Research into cot
deaths is still in its infancy.

Aren't we rushing to judgement?

No, I don't think so.

Someone invents Sudden
infant death syndrome

and suddenly every child found dead
has died of mysterious natural causes.

- Everybody's a victim.
- Do you deny that cot deaths happen?

There is something
called infanticide too, Leo.

- I don't dispute that.
- All to do with not being gullible.

All these cases where there's no
evidence but yours. That's not justice.

If parents with murder in
their hearts now think twice,

I haven't lived in vain.

What have you got against that?

If expert witnesses aren't challenged
properly because they're experts,

what jury's ever going
to disbelieve them?

Nobody has the
right to an open goal.

I came to give a lecture,
not to take part in a debate.

This is a stunt.

Dr. Dalton is canvassing
for a higher position.

I hope you all
enjoyed my lecture.

- Is this a stunt?
- The stunt is just leaving.

In the case of Ella Butler,
whose father is currently on bail,

you failed to wait for exhaustive tests
to prove she died of natural causes.

Do you know exactly
what she's been carrying?

- They sent me the manifest.
- Did it include a list of contaminants?

Usual suspects. PCBs, asbestos.

Mostly.

- What else?
- They assured me it was safe.

There is something else?
Why didn't you tell me?

I didn't want to risk you
canceling the contract.

That's why you
locked Nick's office.

What did you find?

I shredded everything.
Force of habit.

I didn't understand the science but
basically your son found Trinadyl-G?

That's just a pesticide.

He said it wasn't safe.

It must have been leaking.

How serious is it?

Kills fish. I don't
see the panic.

Unless there's something
else I don't know about.

It is the tides.

High tide is a different
height every day

as the moon waxes and wanes.

The ship came in on a
full moon, very high tides.

For two nights she
had water under her keel

and she floated free at high tide
when Nick Garner was swimming.

When the methyl
isocyanate escaped.

As the moon waned, the high tides
got lower, and she didn't float at all.

Now the tides are rising again.

They've been rising a
few inches every day.

And tomorrow
she will float again.

And the chemical
reaction will happen again.

Let's get you checked out,
sir. Let's get you to hospital.

- This is all balls!
- I am getting your crew off.

I'd never carry isocyanate.
Nobody would carry it on a ship!

Lucas!

I've had to evacuate the area.
This is serious. It's killed people!

The government would never
ask us to decontaminate that stuff.

They'd send it to the
third world somewhere.

I'll prove it.

- There's nothing to worry about.
- You'd better take this, sir.

- Wear it, please.
- I don't need to wear it.

There's nothing
to be frightened of.

Stop! You mustn't go in there!

Everything's fine.

We're not dead, are we?

Wait! Wait there!

It's not safe!

Stay out!

It's called cryptosporidium.

We found the
spores in Ella's nappy.

Why didn't you find it before?

It's uncommon.

It can only be detected
with a special test.

I knew she was ill.

You were right.

How did she get it?

Did she go near a farm?

No.

It might have got on
to someone's hands.

He liked putting his finger in
her mouth. You know, playing.

Getting her to
suck with her gums.

It could be exactly
that. Simple hygiene.

But you were unlucky.

- The allotment.
- What?

The allotment. Manure!

I wish I was dead!

- Did you get the job in Leeds?
- Yeah.

Er... Turned it down. Sorry.

- If you do have any objections to me...
- Yes, I do.

You're a pigheaded old fart.
But you have your supporters.

"Leo will probably
be a pain to begin with

"but believe me, he will
grow into it, just as I did.

"As I told Helen Wharton, if she
lost the chance to appoint him,

"he'll go and make a fool
of her somewhere else.

"Yours ever, Sam."

Fancy a pint,

Professor Dalton?