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PASSER-BY: Hello?

Oh, God.

I'm gonna go get help. OK?

Gonna get help.

Colin, Dave Cobb. Boss asked me to call.

He's got a job for you.

Dead French girl on Twickenham Green. Battered over the head.

In Surrey this'd be a promotion case.

In the Met, it's your boss who gets promoted.

DAVE: ...victim's name is Amélie Martine Josette Delegrange.

Twenty-two years old.

Born 2nd of February, 1982.

REPORTER: Can you tell us if you're pursuing a link with Milly Downer

ANDY: We have no reason to believe that these cases are linked at this time.

What about the Marsha McDonnell murder last year?

We have a suspect for that case.

REPORTER: But you haven't charged them?

Chance of a link to an attack near the Green a few months ago.

Edel Harbison, 34, blonde, struck over the head.

Not jumping to conclusions, are we?

About a link?

COLIN: She walked back? - NEIL: Looks like it, Guv.

That's why she had to go across the Green.

...we know that Amélie missed her stop

we know her phone went offline at 10.23 in Walton when it was dumped in the river.

So we know he's in a vehicle.

We know he went from the Green to Walton. And we know when.

RICHARD: But we don't know his route?

Now, this white van appears sometime between 2200 and 2205.

And by 2208 he's gone.

Is there any chance they can clean it up? Get a reg number?

NEIL: Fighting chance I'd say, Guv.

COLIN: He's not a witness.

DOOR OPENS - Nice one.

Ah, well, we haven't got him yet.

You know what car he drives. That's huge.

Hi, Dad. - Hello, Love.

LOUISE: Cheers.

If I've been shutting you out or it seemed like I was, it wasn't my intention.

Hotel called. Free upgrade and we're overlooking the sea.

Spain. My brother's wedding. - Yes. Of course. Can't wait.

Don't overdo it.

INDISTINCT DIALOGUE ON TV

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

PHONE RINGS

Our window for the attack on Amelie was 10 minutes either side of 2200 hours.

Ambrose. - But now we can do better than that

can't we Jonesy?

Yeah, we can, Guv. But thanks to the advent of external bus cameras

we know that this Ford Courier van was parked right by the Green

between 2200 and 2205. And by 2208 it was gone.

And we've got the same van on several streets nearby

for half an hour before that.

Far as I'm concerned this removes any doubt that our killer is in that van.

And we'll be checking through the murder of Marsha McDonnell

to see if a Courier crops up. And also the attack on Edel Harbison.

We've got the reg? - COLIN: Not yet.

What do the experts say?

Uh, well, it's dark. Minimal streetlights and, uh...

well, the image quality's not the best as you can see.

Yeah, but what do the experts say?

THEY CHUCKLE - They're still examining the footage.

Eh, uh, they have enlarged it on their biggest screen.

Can't make out the number? - Only some of it.

Not enough to run a DVLA search.

I just showed the stills to Ford

and they said it's a Courier made between '96 and 2000.

How many in circulation?

Twenty-five thousand. - GARY: Oh, Christ.

Are we sure we can't make out that reg number?

Reg number's not the only way of identifying that van, Chris.

Front left wheel trim's missing, there's a black disc on the roof

and the cargo doors have no glass in them.

Problem is none of that will show up on DVLA records.

Then we prioritize Couriers registered in Twiokenham and Walton

and we crack through the list.

Long list.

Yes, it is a long list.

Maybe...

maybe we need to think big picture.

MONICA: Monica - I'm the projeotionist. - DS Jo Brunt.

DCI Colin Sutton. - DC Neil Jones.

Thanks very much for making time for us, Monica.

Well, I've been doing this a wee while, but this is a first.

Yeah, us too.

Take a seat. - Thank you.

Experts say if we can't see it on these three we're stuffed.

Ah...

Monica, uh, can we go back to the second one and go closer on that?

Yes, we can.

Neil?

Jonesy?

Sorry, Guv.

It's bigger but it's not clearer.

COLIN SIGHS - Bit less so, actually.

That 6 could still be a G.

Well, maybe the experts do know a thing or two.

God, does he have the luck of the devil or what?

How was the movie?

What did you say? - Oh, sorry, I couldn't resist.

Well?

Uh, oh, no joy, sir.

My advice, don't pin everything on this van.

That Van's our best lead, sir.

I hear you're off to Spain, wedding or something.

Uh, no, I'm not going to Spain. - I think you should.

Come back refreshed, recharged.

Richard will hold the fort.

When you get back we'll see where we are.

What does that mean?

It means we'll see where we are.

Can I have a word, sir?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

That van is our top priority. I know that's how we'll get him. I know it.

And if Richard doesn't get that I'm not going anywhere.

Colin, if I wanted you out you'd be out.

You'll stay on the van while I'm away?

ANDY: You're the SIO. - COLIN: I want your word.

You have it.

Thank you, sir. - DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

INDISTINCT CHATTER

SHE WHISPERS: Hey. Hi!

STEVE: Hi, how are you? - Very good!

Mwah! - Will you come and see Colin?

Sure. - Colin, this is Steve.

Alex's best man. - Oh, good to meet you Steve.

Likewise, mate. Likewise. - How's the speech going?

Oh, great.

I'd say "I know where all the bodies are buried"

but you might get the wrong idea. - BOTH LAUGH

So, uh, what're you reading?

Jesus, bit of a busman's holiday, isn't it? - That's what I said.

Uh, listen, a few of us are meeting up later, uh, to check out the harbour.

Won't be nothing too wild if you fancy it.

You know what...

um, why not? Yes, yes. Be good to see the town.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS - Uh, excuse me.

Two seconds.

Jo')

Mobile ANPR cameras picked up a white Courier van

going past Twickenham Green two nights after Amélie was killed.

Same wheel trim, same black disc on the roof.

You ID the driver?

Yeah, it's complicated. - What d'y0u mean?

The van is registered to the Met. - The Met?

Yeah' Turns out we have quite a few Courier vans, mostly used by SOCOs.

This one's based at the, um, Photographic Branch in Suffolk.

So you can't tie it to a specific driver?

Not without showing our hand. - Alright, don't do anything.

Uh, I'll be there in half an hour.

I'll call you back. - No, Colin, you don't need t--

Colin? - DIALLING TONE

SHE SIGHS

I'm sorry, I've gotta go. I'll, I'll catch the next, next flight out.

They're all booked. My cousin tried to get a seat last night.

Tomorrow then. - The Wedding's tomorrow.

Look, we've had a break in the case.

One of the vehicles-- - You said something once

something really interesting.

You said that when you were hunting someone

you always asked the question, "What's important to them?

What matters to them? Deep down - because the answer tells you a lot."

Louise. - This...

SHE SOBS: ...this was important to me.

You knew it was important to me.

SHE SIGHS What am I supposed to think?

I'm sorry.

COLIN: Sorry to be so cloak and dagger.

No, I get it. I just can't believe it's the van you're looking for.

Well, that's what we need to establish.

Alright, well, I've dug up the log book.

OK, so, the van was in Twickenham on August 19th, right?

The night of - just after ten.

OK, right...

Patricia Wilson had the van that night.

She was called out to photograph a break-in at a jewellers in Ham.

Is Patricia here now? - No, it's her daughter's birthday.

And what about the van?

Yeah, if you'd like to follow me.

Alright, so, here's the van.

That's not the van.

How do you know? It's got the aerial stub

it's got the missing... - Stub's too small

and it's too far forward on the roof.

And that's the wrong wheel trim. I know my vehicles, Jo.

That's not our van.

Thank you.

SHE SIGHS Thanks.

And to think you'd be on your second San Miguel by now.

Not funny.

Plus, we've got the issue of previous owners--

Guv, I thought you were in Spain?

Long story. - Couldn't keep away?

How's it going with the van?

Slowly. - CLIVE SIGHS

Half the Courier vans we're stopping aren't registered to the area.

RICHARD: And vice-verse.

When we trace vans logged locally they're all over.

Yeah, just tracked one down to Aberdeen, Guv.

What d'you want us to do?

I want you to not stop now.

I want you to keep going.

We're sticking to the Courier lead

if we have to trace 25,000 vans then we have to trace 25,000 vans.

Yes, Guv.

What're you thinking?

It's colder than a polar bear's cock?

That's not what I meant.

Standing on bridges, clocking white vans.

Good 0l' fashioned shoe leather.

NORMAN: Bit desperate though, innit?

Yeah. A bit.

Coldest October on record.

Is it?

Here's the cream of West London CID playing Spot The Van.

I don't know, might get lucky, Guv.

Oh, come on.

I know if Sutton said "jump off this bridge" you'd do it

but even you must have your doubts.

He drives a white Courier and he's likely local.

It's a solid punt I'd say.

Fair enough.

You two drink the Kool Aid.

We'll see who's still standing a month from now.

What's Kool Aid?

Uh, it's a poisoned drink cult leader Jim Jones gave to his followers.

Right.

What happened to 'em?

They all died.

IT RAINS HEAVILY

Picked this up in Barcelona. - Hm?

It wasn't a dig.

Oh.

You're not gonna want to hear this.

If you don't play, you can't lose.

What, you think I should quit? - I think if you go now, it's early days.

People forget.

But hang on and you could go down with the ship.

The case will define you.

I said you wouldn't want to hear it. - Yeah, you did.

Is this you getting me back for Spain?

I'm just trying to offer some perspective.

I won't get another job like this. - Maybe not. But career cases go both ways

and this feels like a poisoned chalice. Why take the risk?

And if you won't consider that at least be humble enough to take advice.

Such as? - The van.

The shotgun approach won't work.

But there are programs that'll turn 25,000 to a manageable list.

Right, programs written by who?

People like me. - Trained analysts.

I'm not entrusting this to a program. No of fence.

I'm sorry about Spain but in the circumstances--

Oh, in the circumstances any one of your team could've ruled out that suspect van.

You... were looking for an excuse. And loyal Jo was happy to help.

DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS SHUT

SIREN WAILS

COLIN: Anyone gives you any hassle over those extra cars just let me know.

Sure.

Colin? - Yeah.

London's one thing. But driving round the country to look for this van...

Jo, it's got to be done.

Just not sure how happy the team are, that's all.

Or convinced.

INDISTINCT CROSSTALK

Excuse me, sir. - Yes?

I was in the mobile station on the Green after Amelie was killed.

OK.

Well, this woman came in and gave a statement

and I wondered if anything came of it?

CLIVE: Alright lads. See you later on.

DETECTIVE: Cheers.

Uhm...

before you all rush off!

I just want to say a few word about the Yorkshire Ripper.

All Leeds CID really had to go on was one tyre mark

and a list of oars and lorries that could've left it.

The pool of potential vehicles was 53,000 and the elimination process was a nightmare.

All vehicle records were stored on long reels of listing paper

and the officers had to roll them out along the floor

striking off cars with marker pens on their hands and knees.

There were so many filing cabinets in the room

they had to move them all to the sides because the floor was bending

and the building society downstairs was beginning to complain.

After 33,000 vehicles they lost heart.

They gave up.

Peter Sutcliffe's Ford Corsair was in that last twenty thousand

waiting to be checked.

If they'd kept going they would've got him and three lives would've been saved.

That's all.

INDISTINCT CROSSTALK

Clive, Jo, come with me.

CAR ENGINE STARTS - You alright, Guv?

Yeah, another lesson from the Yorkshire Ripper case - don't get tunnel vision.

We're on the Basics.

Starting with the Single Statement File.

Or Files.

Uh, what prompted this?

The WPC I was just talking to asking about a statement she took

when we had that mobile unit on the Green. - What, she thought she had a contender?

Well, she said it was worth a second look.

Statement was from a woman called Johanna Collings.

Collings. C.

No. - Oh, right, that's you Guv.

PAGES FLIP

COLIN: Here we go.

"My ex Levi Bellfield is very familiar with the area and hates women

especially blonde women.

I once found a copy of Cosmopolitan with all the blondes' faces scratched out.

Levi used to keep a knife and a balaclava in a hidden pocket in his coat."

Hm, no psycho stereotype left unturned there then.

I'm liking him so far.

"Levi likes to move around and has several children by different women..."

"He's employed as a bouncer and a wheel-clamper

and uses a white van for his clamping business.

Levi is currently on bail for GBH

and the weapon used in the attack was a hammer."

You're fucking kidding me?

JO: Wheel-clamping, yeah? - Yeah, why?

One of our traces on a locally-registered van mentioned wheel-clamping.

Use the Stand Alone database.

Here we go.

P610 XCN, a Ford Courier van registered to Epstone Motors in lsleworth.'

Says here, "the garage sold it to a gypsy named Levi."

Has the garage got an address for him?

JO: Yeah, Strawberry Hill Road.

I know Strawberry Hill Road.

Right there.

That's where he lived with Johanna.

Just a stone's throw from the Amelie and Edel scenes.

Yeah and Marsha McDonnell was killed right there.

HER TONGUE CLICKS - Should we bring him in?

No.

No, we're window shopping till we're ready to buy.

JO: There's his clamping truck.

That's the house.

That's definitely the last address he was registered at.

Mm. Cohabiting with a Laura Marsh.

COLIN: If he's still got that Courier I don't see it.

INDISTINCT DIALOGUE - Here we go.

LEVI: I know. I know. She's the one that needs a oar.

HIS WORDS TURN INDISTINCT

SHE SIGHS Bet the neighbours love him.

What're you thinking?

I'm thinking if he hit you with a hammer, you wouldn't get up.

CHAINS RATTLE

Happy in his work, isn't he? - Delirious.

That's eight cars in ninety minutes. - Phew.

Must be making a few quid.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS - CHILDREN SHOUT

Oh, God. Must be break time.

JO: Well, we know he likes his schoolgirls.

CAR HORN HONKS - SHE SIGHS

What!

HONKING CONTINUES - SHE SIGHS

JO: Come on.

SHE SIGHS

COLIN: Oh, shit.

We need a surveillance team.

CHILDREN SHOUT

PHONE RINGS

You alright Clive?

Guv, uh I've been looking at a Sarah Knight.

She was the victim of a deliberate hit-and-run back in May.

A very different M. O.

Yeah, but there's a couple of similarities with Amélie.

One, she'd just gotten off a bus.

Two, now, do you remember what Johanna Collings was saying

about him hating blondes, scratching their faces out of magazines?

How old? - Eighteen.

She's a brave girl.

Bastard ran her down and then reversed back over her.

She managed to fish her phone out of the gutter and dialled 999.

Well, if you think of a car as a weapon then the M.O.'s not that different.

She get a look at the driver? - No. Just the vehicle.

She said it was a white people carrier with blacked-out windows

and a cracked driver's mirror.

Good recall. - Yeah.

Was pushed on a make, she said Ford Galaxy

but people carriers look very much alike.

Bellfield drove a people carrier at that time but it wasn't a Ford Galaxy.

He was stopped a month before Sarah's attack

driving a white Toyota Previa with blacked-out windows.

Find out what happened to that Previa or he might still have it.

Yeah, even if he's fixed the mirror there can't be that many with blacked-out windows.

She broke every rib in her body.

Cut her liver in two. It's a miracle the surgeons saved her.

Do you want us to do our own interview with her, Guv?

No.

I don't want to make her re-live her ordeal for nothing.

She didn't see his face.

Like with Edel Harbison.

Yeah, he attacks her from behind, before she can clock him.

And if Marsha and Amélie saw him they can't tell us.

Luck of the devil. - Well, luck runs out eventually.

Maybe we can link him to other victims.

On Marsha they looked at possible links to three other violent crimes.

When we're done with Sarah let's pull them.

It's weird, isn't it?

Everything he steals he discards.

At least if there was some kind of sexual element it would make sense but...

What does he get out of it?

It's like he funnels everything into one impact.

One transaction.

And I'd be surprised if it didn't have everything to do with sex.

So, they sent me this, Guv.

It's a recording of Sarah's 999 call.

DISTORTED MOANING - OPERATOR: Where does it hurt?

SARAH: Everywhere.

The car stopped to check me out. - OPERATOR: Yeah?

SARAH: He ran over me again.

He ran over me' - OPERATOR: He ran over you again?

SARAH: Yeah.

OPERATOR: He ran over you twice? - SARAH: Yeah.

And I really hurt.

Jo, call the team back tonight.

Tonight? - Yeah.

We need to put a case together that gets Bellfield off the street.

All hands on deck.

But, we've made finding the van the priority.

Now we're making this the priority.

Pius, we're downgrading the van, not dismissing it.

Might sound like semantics if you're halfway to Selkirk.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Andy?

Colin, we've got a surveillance team on Bellfield starting first thing.

Thank you.

Murphy's given us surveillance.

CHRIS: You are joking.

LOUD RUMBLE - Alright.

Fine, be back by tonight.

GARY: Thanks for your time, Mr Young.

We'll let you get on.

You won't fucking believe this - he only wants us back in London by tonight.

Hey.

COLIN: You impressed on them that he commits blitz attacks, did you?

JO: Yes. - OFFICER: We'll give the offs.

Standby for first eyeball.

Weapon could be a hammer, a knife or a oar. - This is what they do every day.

Oh, yeah.

NOTIFICATION TUNE

OK.

Levi Bellfield's car-clamping activities gave him access to a number of vehicles

including a Toyota Previa.

Clive.

Sarah Knight was run over by a people carrier, May 28th.

One week later, Bellfield sold his Previa.

Guilty conscience? - Or a coincidence.

It's not a smoking gun. - We're not convincing you, Chris?

It just feels like we've gone from having all our eggs in the van basket

to staking everything on one bloke.

Well, one very strong suspect.

Still, it feels a bit all or nothing.

A bit desperate. - Well, you're right.

We don't have a smoking gun and until we do we can't show our hand.

The bottom line is Levi Bellfield is a strong suspect for Amélie's murder

and quite possibly for Marsha's too.

As well as the assaults on Sarah Knight and Edel Harbison

Except we've played down any of these links to the media.

Will you forget about the media!

Your job is to get him off the pavement before he hurts someone else!

Why don't we just nick him?

No, he's got form. He knows the drill.

We need fresh meat. Something solid before we can go near him.

This is Levi Bellfield's intel file.

I want you to read it, study it and then get out there

and find something we can bring him in on.

That's all. Thank you very much.

INDISTINCT CROSSTALK

Got an update from surveillance.

He went to 5&0 and McDonald's and is now on the A40 westbound.

Stand by one.

"In March 2002 Bellfield and partner Laura Marsh

were living in Collingwood Place, Walton-on-Thames. "

And?

Milly Dowler went missing in March 2002.

But you didn't work on Milly?

COLIN: No, I did a stint at Surrey on another case.

You couldn't really avoid it.

Collingwood Place.

HE MURMURS

Oh, Jesus.

What? - Milly went missing on Station Avenue.

That's literally one street away.

Bellfield lived here. March 2002.

Right. So...

Just wanted to see it with my own eyes.

I wonder where that goes.

Have you got a stopwatch? - Yeah.

Do you want to start it?

STOPWATCH BEEPS

A number of witnesses said they saw Milly leaving Walton Station.

And the last confirmed sighting was at that bus stop.

How are we doing? - Fifty-five seconds.

STOPWATCH BEEPS

Phew.

DOORBELL RINGS

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Hello, Brian.

I hear Surrey's getting more new buildings?

Fancy Italian architect.

He'll make New Scotland Yard look like Butlins.

That wouldn't be hard.

Well, Met's got nothing to prove, does it?

Well, that's debatable.

You want to come in?

Yeah, thank you.

Does the name Levi Bellfield mean anything to you?

Should it'? - We're looking at him for Amélie.

Thank you.

He's got form for GBH and we've seen evidence he has an interest in underage girls.

In March 2002 he was living here in Walton-on-Thames.

Just one minutes' walk from the bus stop where Milly was last seen.

Cheers.

When I'm finished with him he's all yours.

Alright.

Thanks.

What?

Last few months I've been on the periphery with Milly.

Not sure I'm your best advocate.

I just need you to share Bellfield's name with the team.

Fair warning. Two years now, some people on Milly, well...

they've been a long way down the rabbit hole.

What, they won't look at any new suspect? - They're drowning in suspects, Colin

Not keen to add to the list?

Not till they've cleared the backlog. - Huh.

Especially not with someone being pushed by the Met?

Not fair...

or true.

Sorry. Long day.

A minute's walk? - Fifty-five seconds.

What d'you think?

Think the hairs on my fucking neck are standing up.

COLIN: Oh, shit.

CAR DOOR CLOSES

Kat?

Texted you this morning. You said you'd be home.

I know, I-- - You forgot.

Oh, I'm sorry. - Happy birthday.

DOOR OPENS - Oh, well, at least stay for a cuppa.

I promised mum I'd be back by ten. I've got a mock tomorrow.

Alright, I'll drop you home.

Ahh!

We did try calling. - COLIN: Yes.

Kat!

You are not cycling.

Come on. - Fine.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

ENGINE STARTS

HANDBRAKE CRACKS

The last thing I want to do is compromise you in any way

but there's a few things I really need to know.

Like, did Bellfield's name

ever come up in connection with Milly? - No, not to my knowledge.

You're sure? - Thanks for telling me

you were going to see Brian, by the way.

Oh, I'm sorry.

This, this link to Milly's blindsided us.

I can't help you.

Why not?

I had a call when you were dropping Kat home.

What?

I was told in no uncertain terms not to talk to you about Milly.

You're joking?

Typical fucking carrots.

What, unless they've bugged our house they're not gonna know are they?

Colin, I'm not disobeying an order and I can't believe you'd ask me to.

What, you're gonna listen to that lot over me?

They're my superiors!

I have to listen to them.

And I'm your husband. - Oh, grow up, that's not fair.

Look, if there's a link to Milly I need to know!

Sorry, no! I gave my word.

Anyway, why would you want my help?

I've never worked for the Met.

I'm the definition of a carrot. - Oh, that's just a term of affection.

Bullshit. You're just like all the Met. Looking down your nose at us provincials.

Not true. - Second rate. Second best.

That's what you think.

Where's all this coming from, Louise? - You don't even know you're doing it.

The other day you said I don't want to mess up Amelie the way Surrey did Milly.

Well, they have messed Milly up! - Where do you think I work, Colin!

But you're the exception that proves the rule!

They are my colleagues!

And if your suspecfs so strong why's he still walking around?

You haven't even nicked him for Amélie and you're trying to tie him to Milly.

Oh, I'm going to bed.

Happy Birthday.

DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS SHUT

OFFICER 1: Eyeball on target.

He is on the move.

OFFICER 2: Sweep round to the right and meet you at the end of the roundabout.

OFHCER 1: Turning East on Curzon Road.

Copy that, Danny.

Now heading West towards the roundabout.

We are following. Eddie get ahead of us.

Received, five, four, two.

We've got a stopped target. Stop Danny. Pull in.

OFFICER 3: I've got eyeballs on the target.

Target's talking to two girls.

OFFICER 1: Four, twain position.

DIALLING TONE

CO Ll N : Co»??? Sutton.

Guv'nor said to call direct if there's a situation.

What's he doing? Tell me exactly what he's doing?

Chatting up a couple of girls about fifteen, sixteen.

At a bus stop.

How do they seem?

OK.

GIRL 1: I don't know, sorry.

Laughing at whatever he said.

OFFICER 3: Guv, do we move?

OFFICER 1: Danny, stay put.

OFFICER 3: He's still talking to two girls.

OFFICER 2: Yeah, one of them is trying to move away now.

LEVI: C'mon in the back, now o'mon.

Now they both are.

Four, two, one. Standby.

Doesn't look happy.

Wait, he's approaching them again. - Hey, come on.

OK, move in. Take him.

Danny, Mike, move in on the target.

Stand down. Stand down.

Hey, mate. Look after them will ya? - OFFICER 2: Guv...

Girls are on the bus. They're safe.

Alright slags.

JO: Alright, girls, just follow me.

If you just want to take a seat over here.

GIRL 1: Are we in trouble? - COLIN: No. No, not at all.

It'd be good to know where you were going.

Town centre in Uxbridge.

And when the man came up to you at the bus stop, what did he say?

He was like, "You two look nice. How old are you?"

Did you tell him?

What did he say then?

He said, "Oh, that's good.

I bet you're both virgins.

You look like virgins, I bet."

Go on.

He said, "I bet you're both nice and tight."

And he offered us a lift and that's when I walked off.

And then I followed her and the bus came.

Why are you asking about that man?

Has he done something wrong?

The encounter with these two girls let's us know exactly what kind of bloke Bellfield is.

It let's us know he's still active

and it let's us know that bus stops and bus routes are his hunting ground.

Amélie, Marsha and Sarah all got off buses, right before they were attacked.

Maybe he sees them getting on and then follows the bus?

Quite possibly. But what's certain is there will be more attacks

unless we can find something to bring him in on.

You keep bringing up Marsha. Are we looking at her officially now?

COLIN: Yes, we are.

And, as you worked on Marsha, Richard, I'd say you were best placed

to borrow the files and exhibits.

Borrow? Yes, Guv. - Hm.

OK, Clive, you fill us in on Sarah Knight please?

Uh, right, DVLA records show Bellfield

selling his Previa right after she's run over.

You've paid the proud new owner a visit? - Oh, yes.

Roger Fearn, a known associate of Bellfield's.

Says Levi told him to register the oar under a false name lest it "attract our attention."

Did Levi say why? - No.

And Fearn was too shit-scared to ask.

Now, as for the Previa itself, we seized it

and it has blacked-out windows and a broken driver's mirror.

Exactly how Sarah described the car that hit her.

Forensics? - A day, maybe two.

Broken mirror's a good place to start.

Yeah, there is a couple of other hallmarks, too.

You've got a stain from a leaking petrol cap.

None of which is grounds to hold him on.

Blood or a DNA link to Sarah Knight on the other hand--

Yeah, yeah, I'll lean on forensics. - OK.

Well, whatever happens an arrest is imminent and we have to be ready.

Chris, what have you got on Bellfield locally?

Lots. From a logistics point of view he's a fucking nightmare.

What, he's got friends in low places?

Closely associated with a suspected paedophile Deepak Naderi...

ALL SIGH DISGUSTINGLY - ...his brother Gurav and an older bloke

called Patrick Spalden with form for child abuse going back 20 years.

That fits with him trying to pick up the girls.

So, what do we reckon?

Strikes me Levi might lean on him to mind his property for him.

Or make it disappear.

And given their history they might well oblige.

Yeah, we lose evidence we'll never recover.

When we nick Bellfield I want to hit their houses and their vehicles at the same time.

That's a lot of warrants.

Can you manage it Chris?

HE HUFFS Give me a couple of days? Three at most.

Alright, thank you. That's all.

JO: Alright, where's that pizza. - DETECTIVE: Rob's got it.

Andy. - Need a word.

In your office. - Yeah.

News of the World just called the press office.

Don't ask me how

but they know we've got a suspect under surveillance

and they know we're planning an arrest.

They're gonna run the story on Sunday so we have to pick Bellfield up before then.

Well, we, we can't.

The warrants, the manpower, taking care of his associates.

We're not ready. Nowhere near!

Then we've got a problem.

LIFT BEEPS

ANDY: This is Bob Cox, our deputy Director of Communications.

COLIN: Good to meet you, Bob. - Likewise, Colin.

Chris? - CHRIS: Bob.

So, those shysters from The News of the World are making a proper nuisance of themselves.

Yeah, they can't run it. Not this Sunday.

Yeah, I hear you Colin. But-- - No, there is no "but."

We're not ready to arrest him. They can't run it.

Colin. - Bellfield will disappear.

He'll flee the country. - Let Bob finish.

Crete, Spain, Tenerife.

He's been in and out of the UK four times in the last six months.

ANDY: Enough.

I deal with the tabloids every day.

So, sad to say, I'm immune to the shock

and indignation that you're now feeling.

Uh, jaundiced my wife calls it. - BOTH CHUCKLE

I can tell you begging won't work, pleading won't work

and neither will threats of contempt unless, of course, we can back 'em up.

Lawyers aren't promising much.

Why not?

Well, for one thing, the leak probably came from inside your team.

And, for two, it's not an issue of national security.

Oh, tell that to Amélie's parents.

There's no guarantee we can stop them, Colin.

But we can do a deal.

What?

We can do a deal.

Negotiate.

I already have a wee plan there.

When you nick Bellfield, on a day of your choosing

take a journalist along for the ride.

Are you serious?

Well, if they bite they'll probably want a photographer, too.

You want us to take two untrained, unarmed people to arrest a violent psychopath.

CHRIS SCOFFS

How do we move this forward, Bob?

Well, you call them up.

Colin.

Hello, Dave.

L, uh, hear you're looking at Marsha McDonnell's murder?

Yeah, that's right, yeah.

We had a very strong suspect there. - Yeah, I know, but he never got charged.

He was sectioned before we got the chance. - Yeah.

We went over forensics with a toothcomb.

When that was a washout we got a psychologist in--

Oh, I don't doubt that you were thorough, Dave. Not for one moment.

And I don't doubt that your bloke was in the neighbourhood

the night that Marsha got murdered.

But the link was only ever circumstantial, wasn't it?

L gotta g0-

OK.

Nicely done.

They went for it.

They're gonna run the story next week after the arrest.

COLIN: Alright.

They want a photographer and a reporter present.

Oh, of course they do.

How many units does The News of the World shift?

About four million copies.

No pressure then.

Now, we're striking ten locations simultaneously.

Go go go! - BANGING ON DOOR

Police! - DOG BARKS

OFFICER: Go left, don't go right!

Where's Levi, Laura? - I don't know.

NORMAN: We must've missed him, Guv.

It's a oul-de-sac! How can they have missed him!

We're offering you a suspect who's not only a paedophile

but a killer and a rapist.

Suspected killer and rapist.

NORMAN: Guv, someone to see you.

I want to talk about Milly Dowler.