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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?