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...and all that.

Is a nice drive-time selection.

I'm Dermot O'Malley and I'm here until 8:00...

Long delays northbound on the A1 at the Bradfield Interchange.

Let's go straight to Priscilla in the helicopter.

Yes, hello, Harry. At least two miles of tailback...

Yep. Those who survived get only a fra...

...and for me. For a long time...

So...

Three copies of...

Hey, steady. Steady, man.

Steady.

It's in here somewhere.

Sorry!

This is you!

"Killer Instinct" by Dr. Tony Hill.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

And I'll need some identification, please, Dr Hill.

Have you got your recorder?

Belt on?

Could I borrow your fingernails?

I tend to eat mine.

I'm sure if you asked, they'd give you another one.

Thank you.

Are you American?

Canadian.

I'm on my way back home - Vancouver.

Been tracing ancestors.

Are you travelling on business?

Yes, I'm on a book tour.

I'm promoting a book.

You're a novelist?

What's your book called?

I'm a clinical psychologist.

It's called "Killer Instinct".

It's their title, it's not mine.

A study of past cases.

Oh, my God.

So...

Can you tell what's going on in my mind?

Did you torture animals as a child?

- No. - Then I'm not much use to you.

On the day in question,

Kenneth Gray left home at 7:20,

arriving for work at 8:00.

At 10:30am 54-year-old Mr. Gray

left the DIY superstore,

and went out to get coffee for some of his colleagues.

I wonder how many of them had sugar.

He never returned and hasn't been seen since.

Detective Superintendent, we know all this.

We've been given these details excatly the way

you've been describing them the last half hour.

Are you going to add to them

or have you brought us here to York

for a case review to read to us?

Two months have passed.

Kenneth Gray, a man on the Sex Offenders' Register,

has still not been traced. What has been done to find it?

Why did it take your officers here in York

three days to log him as officially missing?

You know, where his daughter live?

Has he absconded and gone to live with her?

If we asked better questions,

we might get more meaningful answers.

I was hoping to come on to all of that later this morning.

Very nice to meet you, Patricia.

I've put my e-mail on there too.

- OK. - You take care.

Killer Instinct!

It's good to meet you at last.

Everyone at the publishers is very excited, Dr. Hill.

Good.

A radio interview today, then a couple of press tomorrow.

And that's it? I thought there'd be more.

It's a text book, Dr. Hill, not Harry Potter.

Under the circumstances, three interviews is amazing.

If we'd gone with your title, I doubt we'd even have one!

They know they've made mistakes, Carol.

That's why we're here. They don't need

their noses rubbed in it.

So we skirt round for their benefit.

Outbursts don't help.

Kenneth Gray is still missing.

Yeah, still a danger to children.

DS Winter, ma'am.

Shall I take you through a detailed record of the investigation?

Yeah, sure.

Mind the doors. Doors closing.

Where are you staying?

In case I have to bring round some of the files.

You'll find most of us are at the New Park Hotel.

OK.

Well, predatory killers aren't always like that.

If something isn't right about a chosen victim

They can turn away and...

...choose someone else.

Fascinating stuff. We have the travel and the weather coming up.

So, Tony, in a sentence, why do people kill?

In a sentence?!

Just try to be a little more... jolly.

Since when has the killing of one human being by another ever been jolly?

Marion?

Marion?

Marion, are you there?

Hi.

Detective Chief Inspector Jordan, please.

DS Winter. She's expecting me.

I'm sorry. Miss Jordan checked out two hours ago.

Sorry to pull you away.

I was wasting my time. What have we got?

Marion Reece, aged 36, divorced, mother of two,

discovered just after four o'clock.

- Not by the children? - No, no, no. Neighbour.

Vernon estimates time of death at around one o'clock.

From what we can tell, the initial attack took place inside the door.

There's no sign of a break-in, so

she must have let the attacker in.

A red Ford Fiesta,

a plumber's van and a dark blue Vauxhall Cavalier

were all seen parked up nearby most of the afternoon.

She worked part-time for a local solicitors.

- Today was her day off. - Where was she found?

This way. In the kitchen.

Battered to death with a steam iron.

Her hands tied behind her back with flex from the vacuum cleaner.

Her body had been covered with an ironing board with footprints on it.

Looks like they stood on it whilst it was on her.

"Screw you"

Death was by blunt trauma to the head.

Three cracked ribs,

commensurate with being jumped on.

No traces of semen, so she wasn't raped.

She had the onset of secondary cancer in her liver,

probably only a few months left to live.

Does doing what you do ever get you down?

It's not a happy job.

It's not something Mrs. Vernon and I chat about over dinner.

But I hope what I do provides answers for the families.

It's not as if we can bring them back, can we?

He's just not answering his phone.

This one, madam.

Thanks for rescuing me, Carol.

All part of the service.

Sorry, it's the publisher.

- What is it you want me to look at? - Scene-of-crime photos.

Murder. Something odd about it.

Good.

- Victim? - A woman.

36 years old.

- And where were these? - Living-room carpet.

- And what was in the fridge? - Usual stuff. Nothing important.

My feeling is we have a deliberate choice

of domestic implements.

Couldn't they just have been lying around?

No.

From what we understand of her,

she always put stuff away, no washing out...

Whoever did this got those things out specifically.

So a comment on her as a mother or a wife?

- Ex-husband? - Pulled him in this morning.

How was the divorce? Acrimonious?

He had an affair with a much younger woman.

Seems most of the anger was on Marion's side.

What about custody? Access to the children?

- Did she make it difficult? - All appears fairly adult.

She was dying of cancer.

He was gonna have the kids.

He does have a previous conviction for assault.

- On her? - No.

Another girlfriend, when he was younger.

He couldn't handle being dumped.

Screw you.

- And Marion was raped? - No.

- Interesting. - Why? Should she have been?

No, but it would help explain the level of violence against her.

Was anything taken? Television? DVD?

Her handbag was trashed, otherwise no.

So, it's a blitz attack.

Anger and defiance low level of theft.

The husband could've done it

and made it look like something else.

We're also looking at handymen

she may have owed money to.

Good.

Am I keeping you from something?

- No. Nothing. - Then why don't you reply?

I'm in hiding.

Look, my feeling is that the killer was known to Marion.

Well, on the surface, that's a very natural conclusion.

Yeah, I want to know if I've missed anything.

Thanks for the book.

Hate the title, by the way.

Yeah, so do I... Oh, go away.

Tom?

When can I go home and be with my children?

A few more questions about your break-up marriage.

- Still don't want to see a solicitor? - I've nothing to hide.

Not raped.

Then what have we got?

When did you last see your ex-wife?

Sunday night, 6:30.

- How was she? - OK.

- What did you talk about? - Nothing.

There wasn't anything to talk about.

After a divorce, there is not much left to say.

And how old is your new girlfriend Sarah?

22.

- That's quite an age gap. - Is it?

- We don't notice. - How does she get on with Marion?

- Do you put things on the fridge? - My girlfriend does.

It's somewhere you won't forget.

Somewhere you won't fail to notice.

It's maximum impact.

Yeah, but...

...why...?

Why these words?

Why not slag? Slut? Whore? Bitch? Die?

No, it's... screw you.

Screw who?

Screw her?

Or screw us?

Geoffries.

Why?

The neighbour thinks there was a

dark blue Vauxhall Cavalier here last night.

- Are they sure? - Seems to know his cars.

Go back and see if there was anything distinctive about it.

There must be 3 million blue Cavaliers out there.

Josef Paul.

Hungarian Jew who fled to this country as a boy during the war.

78 years old.

Any similarities to Marion Reece?

I'll let you decide.

Oh, for goodness' sake, Tony!

Will you turn that bloody thing off?

He's lost around 27 degrees

which, at a rate of around 1.5 an hour,

means he's been dead about 18 hours.

Ties in with the sighting of the car.

How did he die?

I'm about to find out.

24 of them. Looks like needle marks,

but there was some blood on an old school compass in the bedroom.

- Before or after death? - Before.

There's a certain amount of congealing.

The body had tried to heal itself.

Futile in the circumstances.

He's been strangled, face-to-face, manually, through the bag.

Same killer?

There are some similarities, but...

the mode of death is so different.

When you're killing someone, you doesn't do experiments,

you find what works and stick with it.

So, in your view, they're not linked?

Same type of car was just a coincidence?

Well, Marion Reece was more a delayed blitz attack.

His is more your usual sadist.

It's slow. It's deliberate. And it's done for fun.

But, psychologically, the signature in each case is torture.

You had a couple of phone calls.

- Me? - Yeah,

Some woman from your publishers trying to track you down.

- I said you'd call her back. - Oh, right, yeah.

Then do it.

Poor woman's worn her thumbs out texting you.

And er... some American woman.

- Who? - She wouldn't say.

She said she'd get you at home.

I don't know any American woman.

Tony, this is a police station,

not your personal message service.

Guv, Tom Reece wants to see his solicitor.

Does he?

See if you can find any connection between him and Josef Paul.

Tony, if it was Tom Reece who killed Marion, could he kill again?

A man kills his ex-wife in a jealous rage.

If he's gonna kill anyone else, he'd do it then and there, not...

days or weeks later.

OK. When his lawyer arrives, let him go.

Don't want to hold him without evidence, but keep digging.

So, what previous convictions should I bear in mind? Sex offences?

Only those that involve assault and imprisonment.

And Josef Paul's killer will have tortured animals as a child.

Oh, the American woman... She wasn't Canadian, was she?

Dunno.

I didn't see you.

You have 12 messages.

Tony, it's Fiona from the publishers. Can you call me?

Hi. It's Fiona. Look, where have you gone?

Hi, Tony, it's Patricia.

I bought your book and

and I so wanna talk to you about it.

How did you get my number?

Me again. I tried you at the police station,

but I thought it best not to involve third parties.

Your books is just... well... I'll tell you when I see you.

It look at impossible,

but I've rescheduled things, so

I'm coming back up to Bradfield.

- I'll call you when I get there. - What?!

Tony... Fiona. OK. You win.

You don't want to do interviews.

"You left call me DS Marry Winter 0797-456-7890. Any time."

Lab reports.

They found urine on the carpet in the living room in both houses.

- They're testing now. - Both?

Well, it's hardly surprising.

If someone came at me with a knife,

I'd lose control over my bladder.

But there's something else.

The blood written over the fridge.

- It isn't Marion's? - No, it's someone else's.

First thing in the morning, I want a

sample taken from Tom Reece.

- Hello? - Oh, hi. Is that Patricia?

- Tony! I've been calling. - Yes, I know.

- How did you get my number? - You gave it to me.

Er, no, I didn't think I did.

Any time I was in Bradfield, you said,

which is so sweet of you.

Hello, this is Dr. Tony Hill.

Please leave a message.

So good to talk to you last night.

I've booked us a table for dinner.

- Dinner? - It's in your name.

It's 8:30 OK?

Let me know.

Patricia, I'm not sure what you think is going on here...

Marion Reece was blood group O.

The writing on the fridge was A-Rhesus negative.

I'm having it DNA profiled.

What? Not her blood?

That's unusual, given the rage of the attack.

So whose it in, then? The killer's?

Did they bring it with them?

If they brought blood with them, that requires organisation.

You bleed a victim, you store it, knowing you're gonna use it.

If that's the case, why ransack the living rooms?

See, they would be slower, more methodical.

So, no...

It's definitely the killer's blood.

- Find anything else? - Only urine.

- Both houses? - Yeah.

- Where? - Living rooms.

We're having the urine DNA-tested, but there's very little chance...

Where was it? Was it...

on something specific? Or sprayed around the room?

Whoever it was pissed themselves, isn't that enough?

No, what if it belongs to the killer?

Weren't you looking for a link?

Tony, urine isn't a link.

It's found at virtually every robbery or break-in.

Yeah, but here it's murder.

Same killer or not, the fact that they urinated tells us something.

It either was a conscious act of defilement, or

they wet themselves out of fear.

We've taken samples from Tom Reece and his girlfriend.

I have a statement about her movements.

Her alibi is that she was with Tom.

- What's she like? - Young, sweet...

every married woman's nightmare.

Forensic asked me to give you this.

It's the boot print from the Treadman range of work boots.

Size 10. Apparently, the sole shows hardly any wear,

so it's a recent purchase.

I'm on to all the local outlets.

Good. How's the DNA search on the blood?

And can you hurry them up on the urine?

That'll be at least 48 hours.

Two days? I can get my dry-cleaning

- done quicker than that! - And that's the fast-track service.

Oh, and Eden said he wants to see you.

Great! No doubt I'm over budget.

Can it be the same person?

And how?

Where's the report that says where they urinated?

Carol's office.

Hi. I was wondering if I could order some flowers.

I've got something.

After the conversation I've just had with Eden,

- I could almost hug you. - Right.

This is Marion Reece leaving the mall and going to her car.

This is her car, leaving the car park and wait for it...

The car is registered to a Stuart John Davey.

Kevin Geoffries,

you're a genius.

He reported it stolen from Mountfield car park

- on the morning of her murder. - Is it genuine?

- Yeah. - Circulate the numberplate.

We need to find that car.

This is my office, Tony.

It's got my name on the door.

I'm sorry. I was looking for the description of the urine sites.

It was a puddle in both cases.

- A puddle? - Yeah, Very likely

both victims wet themselves. It happens.

Not necessarily. I rang the lab.

They've done a provisional test for DNA

on both the urine samples.

- There's no DNA in either. - OK. As we expected.

No. You're missing the point.

How? DNA is hardly ever present in urine.

No, but it is if you've got cancer.

So it wasn't the victim's.

So her killer DID piss on the floor.

But that doesn't make sense.

I mean, they battered a woman to death,

they threw an ironing board on her,

they jumped on it, wrote in blood on the fridge.

Does that sound like a person who would pee in a puddle on the floor?

I mean, this person is celebrating what they're doing.

They'd spray it everywhere, over everything.

"Screw you. Screw you."

- Could I have a word? - Yeah. Sure.

They just had a call.

A lad went missing last night. They've...

They've just found his body off the Old York Road.

What is it, Kev?

Kenneth Gray disappeared two months ago.

I just wanted to know if you thought this was his type of crime.

Look at Gray's crimes.

An abuse of children in his care.

He was a teacher,

special-needs school.

Position of trust.

He did it because he could get away with it.

It's a huge leap for him to become an

abductor and murderer.

No.

No, not him.

Oh, unless...

did he try and cover the body in any way?

Tony, there's something we haven't told you.

I should sit.

Thank you.

You've seen dismembered bodies before.

Well, yeah...

Sorry. Doesn't it affect you?

You know it does.

Sorry, Carol, I...

Don't be.

At least it shows you're human.

Is there a motive here or is this just plain sick?

Even the sickest crimes have motives.

The choice of this young victim would

usually indicate sexual interference.

But definitely not Kenneth Gray.

More likely one of ours.

These murders have to be linked, Tony.

This level of depravity can't be coincidence.

Logically, yes, but we've got

different psychologies at work.

The choice of victims, the methods...

Also, there's no refinement.

There's no learning or adjustment of technique. It's...

How can somewhere so beautiful be the scene of such horror?

They found this.

It was next to a tree stump, just over there.

- Where, exactly? - What is it, a whistle?

Get Forensics to check the area for fibres.

Have you got a bag?

You ever make these as a child?

Someone spent time here.

Anyone could have done that.

They could have been here for days.

No. The moment you break the leaf, it exposes the chlorophyll.

It starts to decay.

That was done recently.

But how could they do that, having

done what they did over there?

You can't.

It's a confusion between the psychotic and psychopathic.

You fall on one side or the other, you can't fall on both.

Well, maybe that's part of the answer.

Here we are trying to reconcile something in

each of these cases that is irreconcilable.

Well, maybe that is what reconciles it.

That is what puts it together.

The irreconcilable is present at all three cases.

It gives us a link.

They've found the Vauxhall. Match for the chassi's number.

It's on our way back to the station.

I suppose it was too much to hope they'd

leave it in one piece.

Over here!

What's so special about it?

It belonged to Marion Reece's children.

15 years old, Carol!

Fifteen!

What am I gonna tell his parents?

What the hell am I gonna tell the press?

What am I gonna tell every other parent in this city?

We do have reason to believe these killings are linked.

Oh, do you?

Well, I give you fair warning, Carol.

If you're not up to this investigation,

I'll have no hesitation in finding another officer who is.

Then we'll see how you like it,

having someone else crawl all over your mistakes.

I've got it.

The scene of crime... it's there.

You have to know what you're looking for, but it's there.

Tony, slow down. What's there?

The killer's personality.

It IS the same killer.

Are you sure?

I think so.

Lured.

Abducted.

Dismembered.

I know I thought it couldn't be and

and I don't know why they're killing in different ways, but...

yeah, I'm sure.

It's in their personality. On one hand, you've got torture,

dismemberment, sexual sadism and psychopathy.

Whilst on the other, you've got a stick whistle,

leaf squares...

a book on dinosaurs, building bricks,

blood-stained fridge magnets and...

...puddles of urine.

That's what we've been fighting:

a quintessential dichotomy.

They're not compatible: torture... leaf squares,

sexual sadism... a book on dinosaurs.

Someone with schizophrenia?

Well, it's possible in most personality disorder

but that's not what we've got here.

If we did, the confusion in their personalitywould show itself

in what they did with the victims' bodies.

So, what have we got here, then?

Two people.

There's two personalities.

One doing the killing and the other waiting in a room or...

nearby on a tree stump.

I still don't know why they're killing in one way

and then the other, but, yeah, this all fits.

It's a couple.

I understand you stock the Treadman range of work boots, is that right?

Sorry. Bradfield CID.

I'll get the manageress.

Pairs of killers have one of two relationships.

Equal, where everything is shared.

The search, the capture, the murder, the trophy phase,

even the depression cycle afterwards.

The other...

is what I believe we have here.

An unequal partnership.

One dominant...

...and one submissive.

It's called "folie a deux".

It's where two people come together

and one transfers his or her delusions onto the other

and gradually they become one person with one purpose.

Something similar happens in normal love affairs.

Once you're inside the killings, perfect example -

Brady and Hindley.

Perhaps Rosemary and Fred West, but the jury thought otherwise.

So, what do we have? A man and a woman or two men?

I don't know, Kevin.

What I do know is that whilst one of our pair is torturing and killing,

the other is wetting themselves in fear

or playing in the living room next door or

or nearby on a tree stump.

Are you suggesting one of our killers is a child?

Emotionally, yes.

I'd say the submissive partner has a mental age of 12.

In pairs, the submissive will always try and please the dominant.

The dominant will always have someone that will do as they say,

someone who won't question them.

So, they both get something out of it.

Yeah,

like everyone else, we all need someone to rely on.

But these relationships are doomed to fail.

Why? Because one doesn't understand the need of the other?

No, because as the dominant escalates his or her behaviour,

it increases the guilt felt by the submissive.

- A gap opens up between them. - What sort of gap?

One person happy with the way things are going,

and the other becoming more disillusioned.

Sounds like a marriage.

The trouble is, the more the gap widens between them,

the more at risk the submissive is.

So, the dominant could kill the submissive?

Oh, yeah.

Guv!

We've got the blood grouping on Tom Reece and his girlfriend.

It's definitely not their blood on the fridge door.

Whose is it, then?

- Where are you going? - Back to the flat.

Wrong side of the road for that. The flat's that side.

I wasn't thinking.

Better.

Tony, doesn't it ever bother you that we only ever talk about work?

I'm not the world's greatest at chitchat, Carol.

No, neither am I.

- Good night, Tony. - Good night, Carol.

DS Harry Winter.

- Hi. Harry, - Yeah.

It's Carol Jordan.

Oh, hi.

I was just going through the Kenneth Gray case review

and I had a few questions for you.

OK.

I also needed to hear a friendly voice.

Patricia?

Tony, thank you so much for the flowers.

- Flowers? - They are so beautiful.

They must have cost a fortune.

They probably did.

Tony...

I know how hard it is for you to say anything in public.

That's why it is just so sweet you found this way to express yourself.

I want to say... I know how you feel about me and it's OK.

I feel it, too.

And how do we feel?

When are you coming up to York again?

We've got a lot on at the moment.

I think it'd be really good if we met.

Well, I did come over, but you weren't there.

I worry about you. You work too hard.

It's what I do.

How about dinner? I'll come over.

No. I'll come to you. Remind me, where are you staying at again?

Would be good to see you.

Yeah.

- Bye. - Bye.

Good night, Tony.

Yeah, good night.

"Case Studies: De Clerambault's Syndrome"

You want a beer?

And how are you this morning?

Good. And you?

Yeah, good.

Urine sample results from Marion Reece and Josef Paul.

Both had traces of marijuana and speed, but no oestrogen at all.

- No oestrogen? - No.

That makes the submissive partner male.

And the dominant?

Male or female?

That's the big question.

No prints on the dinosaur book.

The rain destroyed them.

Domination bases itself on low self-esteem.

Those who dominate do so through

their own weakness and vulnerability.

New monkeys in a troop don't get beaten up by the Alpha Male,

but by the lowest-ranking ones.

"At last, here's something we can dominate."

So that's why they nick windscreen

wipers at the safari park.

A mental age of 12.

Is there anything here that tells us how old they really are?

Well, that's what's so confusing.

We have three completely different MOs.

The person who killed Marion Reece...

should be 26/27.

A sexual psychopath with sexual dysfunctions.

The dominant here could be male or female.

And the person who kill Josef Paul would be older,

because of what they did to him.

No, younger.

When an elderly person is the victim,

you start with a base age of 19.

Kids are like monkeys.

They take it out on the old and the weak because they can.

And again the dominant here could be male...

...or female.

But Andy Parks was killed and

dismembered by a man in his 30s...

...who was attracted to late-pubescent boys.

Three different murders by the same people,

with completely different

psychological profiles and fantasies.

It can't happen,

but it did.

So the fantasy isn't performing its function, is it?

Well, you know, "Tying her up didn't do it for me,

so let's try the bin bag.

No, that's not working, either. Let's dismember the body..."

But all the time, it's changing. Change, change, change.

Maybe...

for some reason, each victim has

has to be killed in a different way.

Yeah, maybe that's it.

Maybe that's the ritual.

Each one in a different way is the fantasy!

So, which of these pairs...

...is it?

How do two people go through that?

Well, like all relationships, Carol.

Strength from adversity.

We've spent a long time together.

Went to school together, in prison together...

In bed together...

And if we are lovers, the relationship will be abusive.

What about that gap?

Has that opened up between us?

Well, if it doesn't, it's only a matter

of time before it does.

One moment.

Sorry. Dr. Hill.

For God's sake, what now?

It's a woman who says she's your wife.

Hello.

No, of course I won't forget.

What was it, a wedding chapel in Vegas?

De Clerambault's Syndrome.

Monodelusional primary erotomania.

Tony, married or not, it's got nothing to do with me.

This woman thinks she's having a relationship with me.

Yes, sure she does. Yeah.

I met her once! If I deny it or marginalise her,

she is prone to violent or dangerous behaviour.

Trust me, Carol! This woman is capable of anything.

Tony, why is nothing ever simple with you?

Carol Jordan.

I just thought you'd like to know.

The sea just washed up the body of Kenneth Gray.

- How did he die? - The poor guy was shot.

But only after he was hideously tortured.

He's been found on the beach, further up the coast.

He went missing in York.

Andy Parks was found here,

off the Old York Road.

Killers operate in locations they know.

Sir.

- Good to see you again. - Hi.

- This is Dr. Tony Hill. - DS Harry Winter.

We think he's been in the water for the two months he's been missing.

He was probably dead before

anyone noticed he'd gone.

What's your interest in him?

We have cases that share some similarities.

Hands tied behind his back. It's like an execution.

Single bullet to the head.

Killed for what he did, or a random victim?

Don't know. If you want revenge on him,

why go on and kill Marion Reece, Josef Paul and Andy Parks?

What have they done to you?

Have we any idea where the killing took place?

- No. - You said he'd been tortured.

These marks on his body -

the pathologist believes he was pelted with rocks before he died.

Harry? Your wife's on the phone.

You think they're connected?

Well, the signature level of torture's the same.

There's a complete change in method. Could be.

And if it is, it predates the killings.

The discovery of Andy Parks' body

gives us a corridor of them operating between the sea and Bradfield.

But Gray's history as a sex offender clouds the issue.

There is one thing -

I've seen this before.

I don't know where, I don't know how, but I've seen it.

I just know I've seen it.

Where?

Previous case? One of your patients?

Don't know.

Carol?

I can explain.

Carol mentioned a gap

might have opened between the two killers.

Yes. Well...

as the dominant gets more out of control,

the submissive can feel some sort of guilt.

Then we need to exploit that.

We'll need to make a direct appeal to the submissive partner.

If you put pressure on this relationship,

anything can happen.

The only guarantee I'll give is the dominant will kill the submissive.

My duty is to protect the public from them, not them from each other.

Then you'll fail in that duty.

Because what happens after that

is beyond anyone's control.

Ready?

I'm sorry the food wasn't hot!

It was my fault! I'm sorry!

Tony Hill.

I waited.

You never came.

Patricia?

Sorry. I forgot.

Tony, there's no point pretending. I know why you didn't come.

All you're doing is protecting

the people who are hurting you, Tony.

They're not worth it.

Patricia?

You need help.

We all need help, Tony.

I'm trying to help you.

I just think you should talk to someone.

I know people.

I'll come with you.

She's told you to say this, hasn't she?

- Who? - That woman.

Is that who you were with?

- No. - Don't lie to me, Tony.

I saw you together.

Carol.

Carol?

Thank God.

Thank you. All right?

- Hiya. - Hiya. Can I have a bottle...

I expected her to kill your cat.

Well, destroy something you care about.

He hid under my bed.

Have you ever had a pet?

Not even as a child?

No.

So apart from your parents, you've never loved another living thing?

- I've been close. - How close?

When?

- Carol... - Why can't you answer?

It's a simple question.

Are you ashamed?

You...

You!

Yeah, it's you.

Yeah, it's him. He did it.

I'm really not in the mood for a film.

If you want to join, I need an electricity bill or your council tax.

Is your husband all right?

I'm going back to my flat.

What? No - stay.

Do you remember a scene in something where...

some guy is taken to a beach.

He has his hands tied.

Had rocks thrown at him.

I think the guy in the window's in it.

And then shot through the head?

- "Fallen Justice." - "Fallen Justice."

Are you saying you think Gray

was killed in the same way as the man in that film?

- I knew I'd seen it. - It was on telly a few months back.

A few months?

- That'd be about right. - Could it be two months?

Yeah. Two months.

I watched it. It was all right.

What about an old guy

with a bin bag over his head and torso

and strangled?

"Motor City Murder."

That's why the way they killed differed.

They committed other people's murders.

Makes sense.

Well, it might make sense, Tony,

but we've got only got a bloke in a video shop's word.

I mean, how do we know Josef Paul's murder

was a scene from some Detroit cop show on cable?

How do you know that Andy Parks was killed

the same way as a teen slasher movie?

Well, we go to a movie database, and we...

type the keywords of each of the murders.

Friday the 13th.

Yeah. What they're doing is recreating the deaths.

Right, how old are they?

Video literate, but not mature

or sophisticated enough to think for themselves.

Base age of 19, add two years for organisation and planning.

Both 21.

The dominant definitely around that,

the submissive maybe younger.

And the dominant is male?

Dominant young females are obsessive.

It's likely she'd want the scene carried out exactly.

Also a female dominant with a male submissive

would choose women as victims.

So it's a male-male partnership?

And why wasn't Marion Reece raped?

You know, they could have gone a step further.

Why all this rage? Why all this anger?

Mac? Wake up, please.

Rage and anger.

This is them. Two men, 19-21 years old.

Sexually confused. I could say that this is

a repressed homosexual relationship.

That's why Marion Reece wasn't raped.

The anger is the repression...

They need the relationship.

Doesn't know why. Dominant...

Dominant is fighting a feeling he sees as wrong.

...wrong - the love for another man.

Who did Kenneth Gray abuse?

You need to get a list of his victims.

Could it be revenge?

No. It could be revulsion.

Get out of here? What's wrong?

Who said you could get out of bed?

I told you before.

You don't speak to her.

OK. Let's concentrate on known offenders between 19 and 21.

Have we heard from northeast Yorkshire

on any of Gray's victims?

- Not yet. - Can you get on to them, please?

I checked the TV angle on the murders. Tony's right.

Three of the killings were shown

on programing that night or just before.

Three? What about Marion Reece?

No, I haven't found anything yet.

Oh, I have. It was a kids' cartoon channel.

- A cartoon? - What's the matter?

What, a cartoon?

- It's an odd choice. - What's odd about it?

Yous how violence on TV, it promotes violence.

Oh, yeah? Which shows did Jack the Ripper watch?

Did Christie have cable? No.

The desire to act the way killers do is already within them.

We breed them. Society, not television.

If it wasn't television in this case, it would be something else.

Brown hair, blue eyes.

Why did you say it was an odd choice?

Because fantasy starts as reality, and then it gets twisted.

A cartoon does not fit.

What time did you say they were on?

Nine o'clock.

What about the others, Kevin?

Nine o'clock. All of them.

How to eroticise cartoon violence?

By doing it?

Why choose it in the first place?

Because it fits the preordained fantasy.

"Let's sit down and watch telly,

"and kill in the first way we see after nine o'clock."

- Why nine o'clock? - I don't know.

But it means something to these two men.

I don't understand. What do you mean, you stole boots?

Two pairs, three weeks ago.

You remember the police came ask if we'd sold them.

- You'd better leave. - Won't you call the police?

I don't think is there much point in that? Do you?

Just get your things and go.

No, I want you to tell the police.

Tell them I stole the boots. Ring them.

Just go!

We need a Stanley knife.

If we know what they're up to,

do we know what they might attempt next?

You obviously don't have satellite or cable, sir.

Up to 200 channels.

I want you to make that appeal, Carol.

Dr. Hill's already advised you.

We are running this inquiry.

Now, as nine o'clock seemed so important to them...

that's when we broadcast.

My decision is made.

Then I want no part in it.

If anybody has any information

as to the identity of those carrying out

these horrific murders,

I would urge you to come forward before any more lives are lost.

Even if, against your wishes,

you have in some way been implicated in these crimes,

now is the time to say enough is enough.

It isn't good for you to watch too much television.

Let's go. It's nine o'clock.

And it's not a good idea for you to start having your own ideas.

What's up?

OK. Thanks.

Damn.

They looked up Gray's victims.

They've all committed offences.

Abuse a child, you destroy their life.

None of them fit the profile.

- They must do. - Well, they don't!

Why not just admit you've been wrong?

- I've been wrong. - No.

The age of the offenders, the selection of Kenneth Gray,

the drive of the crime,

the gap between his murder and the other offences -

it's connected to him.

I know it, Carol.

OK.

What if... Gray's victims never came forward?

They kept the secret?

Then who's more likely?

11 years old,

interfered with,

already emotionally retarded -

the submissive.

Yeah, you're right. Who says he admitted being a victim?

Can we go now?

- What's the hurry? - I just wanna go.

Don't like it round here.

Huh! There's nothing round here that can harm us.

And this guy ain't going anywhere.

Look at him.

Michael, I just wanna go home.

I don't like this any more.

Where's Mac?

He decided he wouldn't be part of it.

His choice.

What are you looking at? What?

Is that better? Can you see OK now?

Watch this.

What is it?

Something I videotaped earlier.

This one's the owner of the car.

Who's this bloke, then?

The video card in his wallet

says his name's Paul Macmillan.

The car driver's girlfriend has never heard of him.

The submissive?

Yeah.

The dominant has crossed the line.

Smile! It'll be fun.

It was just... the way she was so insistent.

I'm sure it's nothing. I shouldn't have rung...

Do you have her full name and address?

Yeah.

Paul Macmillan's on the list of ex-pupils

at Kenneth Gray's school.

A string of antisocial and violent offences.

No known associates, but he spend

time at York Offenders Institute,

where he's a learning disability programme.

It is him. He is the submissive.

According to his records, his blood group is A-Rhesus negative,

the same type on Marion Reece's fridge.

He made him write in his own blood.

And guess what happens at York

Young Offenders every night at nine?

Lock-in.

The time they can sit and fantasise.

Find out who he shared a room with, who he was close to.

Have we found an address on that video card?

Leah, are you in there?

In.

Bogus address. They've never heard of him.

Damn.

Have you ever raped a woman before?

Bradfield CID. Could I have a word?

I don't know if it's a help, but the girl who stole the Treadman boots

lives with two guys in their early 20s.

Any evidence she's being abused?

Her boss said she often had bruises,

and a neighbour said it sounds like

she was taking a beating.

What's she got to do with it?

I thought we had our pair. You said it was two males.

It is. She's the dominant's girlfriend.

It's classic repression.

If I'm right, then is probable

he'll escalate his abuse of her by involving her.

- Is she in danger? - Oh, yeah.

And she knows it.

That's why she admitted to stealing the shoes.

She wants someone to help her escape.

Tie her to the tree.

- Macmillan. - That's Leah.

Who's that bloke, then?

I'm sorry.

Get this place sealed off.

We've got a name. Michael James Dawson.

Light the fire.

We need to sterilise the instruments.

We've had a report of a male and female,

20s, abducting a woman at knifepoint.

Driving a green Audi, an L reg.

OK. Circulate the description. Priority. Do not tempt apprehend.

This man is dangerous. Repeat, extremely dangerous.

- Where will he have taken her? - We've got him.

Michael James Dawson, age 20.

Convicted GBH, ABH, wounding and abducting a boy of 16.

Dawson and Macmillan shared a cell at York for six months.

Macmillan came out four months ago.

Dawson came out the day before Gray disappeared.

Heat them in the flames.

Leah and the other woman could already be dead.

Well, not necessarily. Torture's a ritual. It takes time.

I don't know what's worse.

Where will he have taken them?

Well, the video's set in a wood.

He's using the corridor between Bradfield, York and the sea.

When he took Andy and Gray, that's the road he took.

This is DCI Jordan.

Request all units on the Bradfield to York road.

I want a check of all wooded areas.

You -

you do it.

Do it for me.

Is he going to kill Leah as well?

I think so.

- I can't. - Do it. For me.

Control room, this is Mike Sierra One Five.

Control here. Car matching description

sighted at Penny Bank woods.

It's too far.

What units are present? Over.

Two dog handlers.

Nearest units five miles away.

If we don't act, Carol, they die.

How? How do we act?

I send them in,

Dawson's alerted, he kills the woman and Leah.

I hold back, he kills the woman and Leah.

Then we have to rely on Leah.

Leah?

She wants a way out of that relationship.

We must give it to her.

They have to go in without alarming him.

Can I talk to them?

You want me to help you?

No, please, don't make me do this.

It's really... very... easy.

OK. When you're ready.

Wha ? Who the hell do they belong to?

- Is he dead? - I don't know.

Either way, it's over, Leah.

It's over.

He killed Paul, didn't he?

And those other people that was on the news?

Yes, he did.

- Good work, Carol. - Thank you, sir.

Dawson's out of danger.

So she's just got the long sentence

of adjusting to life without abuse.

- What? - Nothing.

I was just thinking.

We work well together.

Carol?

Don't forget to wash your hands.

Oh, and I found you the most wonderful tie today.

The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Department, please.

It's Dr. Hill.

I've got someone here Dr. Franken

would be very interested to meet.

Tell him to call me back in half an hour.

Thank you.

For what we are about to receive

may the Lord make us truly thankful.

Amen.

That's some distance, or is that part of the charge?

Seven of clubs.

Where the hell does that fit?

Hearts, diamonds, clubs...

Could be working his way through the suits.

Working his way through the dead!

You've been suffering from, among other things, irritability.

The headaches will become more severe.

You will lose the ability to walk. Eventually you'll die.

Carol, it might not happen for years.

We've all got to die of something.

This guy's a gambler, Carol.

That's why he leaves the cards.

- Jack of diamonds. - Or the knave.

If he could put it into words, he wouldn't be shooting people.

The man you're after is intelligent and methodical.

He's highly organised. He left nothing to chance, Carol.

I don't want any more innocent people to die.

- No-one's innocent. - You've done all you can.

- You've covered all angles. - I know that, Tony.

Then why are we having such shit luck?

As the killer's confidence grows,

he extends his territory.

- So the longer this goes on... - The worse it'll get.

Can't think straight.

I don't know what's real and...

what's accident. What's intention...

You want Nice Tony back, do you?

I'll take any Tony I can get, as long as he's alive.

He's picking his victims at random, Carol.

God playing dice with the universe.

We care about what we care about fighting for.

That's what gives our lives meaning.