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Can't say no, can I?

Go on. Get.

Shh!

Alright, alright. Alright.

Oh.

This is Lee. Leave a message.

Lee, where are ya?

We were gonna talk about the seating plan tonight, remember?

And if you're not here,

I might end up putting you next to my mum on top table.

No, I haven't planned anything yet

for Dad's anniversary.

Well, you'll need to get a move on.

Well, I'll have to come up with something, won't I, Mum?

- Be quick. - Yeah.

Listen, Mum, I can't really talk about it now.

I'm at work, okay? I'll call ya later.

See ya.

Now, a missing-persons report has come in this morning.

Laura Kirkham, 16 years of age,

last seen at home lunchtime yesterday.

Her parents, Dominic and Charlotte Kirkham,

are the new owners of the Winlow estate,

which means there's over 500 acres to be searched,

including dense woodland.

Boss, since when are we in the search-and-rescue business?

Since I agreed we'd help out.

Dominic and Charlotte were at lunch yesterday.

They got back to the house at about 4:00 p.m.

There was no sign of Laura.

They searched the house and phoned emergency

when it started to get dark.

Uniform attended and conducted a thorough search of the property

and the nearby buildings,

which means she's been missing for over 20 hours.

I take it she's not been answering her phone?

Dominic found her phone in her bedroom

when he got home.

Teenagers don't leave their phones behind, sir.

Well, it's with digital forensics now.

Eland, you have this lot to interview.

It's a list of the people who work in the house

and on the estate.

Ben, Diane, I want you to interview the Kirkhams.

Try and get more of a sense of who Laura is,

and stay open-minded, because they've both alibied each other.

Will do, sir.

So, this is the Winlow estate.

It's a bit run-down.

It's in the Woburn family for generations.

When George Woburn died last year, he didn't have an heir,

so it came up for sale.

Now it's Kirkham's passion project,

and he wants to restore it.

The Kirkhams only have one daughter?

Yeah. Why?

Just seems a bit much for three people.

Yeah.

You alright?

Yeah. It's-- It's nothing.

Looks like bad news to me.

It's fine.

Happy-looking family.

You're not gonna put a bad picture up, are ya?

Mm.

Rest assured, Mrs. Kirkham,

we are doing everything we can to find Laura.

I mean, this is ridiculous.

I can't go and look for my own daughter.

We've got drones and search parties

working their way across the estate.

And we've got uniformed officers up in town

asking people if they've seen Laura.

We've put the train and bus station on high alert

in case she tries to leave Edendale.

You could help us by telling us a little bit more about her.

She's a good girl, very bright.

When she's not got her head in a book,

she'll be out at the stables with the horses.

Does she have a boyfriend?

- No. - No.

Laura doesn't have time to socialise outside of school.

She's too busy concentrating on her studies.

She's going to be a lawyer.

Was she stressed about her exams?

Could that have been a reason she ran away?

We had a parents' evening recently.

The teacher said she was doing okay.

Any significant life changes, anything at all?

Oh, yeah. She met Lee Bateman.

- Who's that? - Dominic!

He was the gardener.

About a month ago, I caught him with his shirt off,

flirting with our Laura when he's supposed to be working.

So I sent him to work away from the house.

And last week, I caught the pair of them smoking weed together.

So what do you do?

I fired him on the spot.

Do you think Laura ran away with Lee Bateman?

No, I don't think she ran away with Lee Bateman, Detective.

I think...

he's abducted her.

Dominic Kirkham reckons

we should be speaking to this guy, Lee Bateman.

He's pretty insistent that Lee's taken Laura off somewhere.

As you can see, he's known to us.

He's got previous for theft, intent to supply GBH.

And if you look a bit earlier down in his career...

"Persuaded young girls

to go and steal alcohol from the supermarket."

So he gets young girls to do his bidding.

Apparently he got nasty with them

if they didn't bring back what he wanted.

And it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination

to guess what he wanted with a 16-year-old Laura.

Right, I'll go and track down this Lee Bateman,

see if he's involved.

Meanwhile, Diane, can you go and join the searchers?

And, Ben, we've had a call through the night.

Can you go and check it out?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Helen?

Oh, my God. Ben Cooper.

I didn't expect you to turn up.

- Please come in. - Thank you.

Er, we had a call from Harry Dickinson

saying he'd found something on the estate.

I take it you know Harry.

Yeah, Harry's my uncle.

I look after him from time to time.

He's the groundskeeper at Winlow.

Uncle Harry, it's the police!

Wow, Ben.

I haven't seen you since we left school.

Sounds about right.

You look good.

So do you.

Last I heard, you were getting married

to a farmer just outside Edendale.

I did, but it didn't work out.

- Ah, sorry to hear that. - No. Don't be.

- It's for the best. - Right.

Get to spend all me time with me horses.

I run the stables up at Privy Point.

Ah.

How about you?

Ah, married to the job, I guess.

Here.

It's all over the village.

You're out looking for Laura Kirkham.

This hers?

Where did you find this?

Jess picked it up outside Ravenside.

Laura wouldn't have gotten far without it.

Size five and a half.

And they look exactly like the ones on Laura's photo as well.

Who found it?

Er, Harry Dickinson.

He's the groundskeeper up at the Kirkhams' estate.

Found 'em this morning when he was walking in the woods

near Ravenside.

- Well, his dog did. - Right.

And I think we have a bit of blood here as well.

Keep Harry in the house till I get there.

Will do.

I need you to stay put, Mr. Dickinson.

Do you want me to show you where I found this shoe or not?

Ah, we have to wait for the search teams first.

What if Laura Kirkham's lying in a ditch right now

with a broken ankle or worse?

She won't thank you for waiting.

Come on.

Off we go, then.

Do you ever see anyone out here?

Only living things in these woods are the badgers

and the fallow deer, and we've got too many

of them bloody things.

Dominic Kirkham wants me to leave the deer alone.

Thinks they're pretty.

He'll change his tune once he hits one in his shiny new 4x4.

They're eating the woods from the ground up.

What we could really do with is some help from the Black Dog.

Ah, the Black Dog.

I remember hearing about it when I was a kid.

It was a good story, though.

It kept us from trespassing on the estate.

Come on. Oh, more than a story.

A few hundred years ago,

Black Dog used to come out of the woods at night

hunting cattle and sheep.

Then it moved into the village,

started taking babies from houses.

In the end, they caught it, buried it under a plague stone.

Right.

This is where Jess dropped the shoe.

She must have found it down there along the stream.

Off you go, then.

Careful, lad.

If you hurt yourself, I shan't be carrying you back.

Yes. Noted, Harry. Thank you.

Good luck.

Come on.

I told you to keep Harry Dickinson

back at the cottage and wait for the search teams.

Thought if Laura was injured... you know?

We've protocol for a reason, Ben.

Understood.

Dr. Taylor, what can you tell us?

Off the record, it's almost certainly

the girl you've been looking for.

First impressions are she's got a significant injury

to the back of her head, most likely a blunt object.

- Is that what killed her? - In the end, probably, yes.

But I think after Laura was struck,

she ran through the forest to escape.

SOCOs are picking up a trail of hair and blood spots

through the trees that start way down there

and end up near the stream where she was found.

My guess is that she ran and kept running until she fainted,

lost consciousness, then bled out through the head wound.

So the initial attack could have happened

before Laura entered the woods?

Dr. Taylor: Correct.

Any sign of sexual assault?

No, she's fully clothed, so you'll have to wait

till I get her back to the mortuary for a definite answer.

I did find a single bite mark on her right arm.

Difficult to say what made it at this stage.

- An animal got to her? - Yeah, more than likely.

Harry Dickinson said badgers were up here.

Yeah, I'll compare the bite marks to be sure.

Thank you, Dr. Taylor.

Right.

Once we get Laura back to the mortuary,

I'll go and collect Charlotte and Dominic Kirkham

to confirm the ID.

- Do you want me to come with? - No.

I want you back at CID. Liaise with SOCO.

What about me, sir?

You go get Eland and pick up Lee Bateman immediately.

Have you come across Lee Bateman before?

He's been off our radar for a while,

but I doubt he's changed much.

Alright, here we are.

Lee, wanna talk to ya, mate.

About what, man?

Laura Kirkham.

Alright, give me five minutes.

Hey! You'll get down quicker than that,

else I'm coming through that front door!

So has Ben invited you along on Saturday?

To what?

Joe Cooper's anniversary.

No. No, he hasn't.

Alright. Right.

It's probably for the best anyway.

It's always a grim affair.

He's running!

Only the guilty run. Am I right?

I heard Lee Bateman gave you the slip.

Sarge is waiting for Lee's fiancée, Gemma,

to return from work.

Right, so digital forensics have done a preliminary report

on Laura's phone.

- Is that everything? - Yeah. It's weird, right?

So usually you expect to find thousands of messages,

social media posts, like, triple that for a teenager's phone,

but there's hardly anything on that.

Do you know what still bothers me?

Laura left her phone behind on Sunday afternoon.

What teenager does that?

I'll get forensics to dig a little deeper.

He made me run, Gemma. I don't like running.

- I'm not a fan. - It was self-preservation.

Er, where's he off to?

Not a clue. Just back from work, aren't I?

So you were here all day yesterday?

Yeah, yeah, just making plans for the wedding.

Aww. How sweet.

Yeah, 'cause it is only a week away, right?

Okay, well, if we don't find Lee before then,

then we'll just wait outside Edendale Registry Office.

What is it, 3:30? Smart casual, yeah?

It's not fair, you lot chasing him down.

He's done nothing wrong.

I just wanna ask him what's been going on at the Kirkham house.

Oh, I can tell you that for free.

Lee went to work, then came home, end of.

So you-- you don't think he showed any interest in Laura?

Of course not. She's a-- She's a kid.

Actually, no. She's 16.

No, no, he's not like that any more.

Mm.

Oh, erm, one final thing.

Does Lee still have those tattoos of his exes?

What was it, Frankie and... Brandy?

Only I am gonna have to update the PNC file.

Get out.

Are you coming to The Ram for a bit?

Oh, I'd love to, but I've spent the day

hacking undergrowth and running down back alleys.

I deserve a long bath.

Fair enough.

Did I catch you napping?

Hardly. I've got a bladder full of double espresso.

Did you notice the whole street's got wreaths up?

Yeah. What's the occasion?

Not occasion.

It's for protection against the Black Dog.

The locals are saying it's on the loose

and Laura Kirkham's the first victim.

I don't think she was killed by a myth.

Forensics have proven she died

from a blow to the back of the head.

Yeah, we know that.

But it doesn't stop people believing, does it?

What's up?

It's, erm, Helen, Harry Dickinson's niece.

We randomly went to school together.

Is it about the case?

No, she's seeing if I want to meet up for a drink.

I take it she's single?

Recently divorced.

So, what are you waiting for?

Don't know if I can be bothered with...

you know what I mean, starting something up.

Ben, it's a drink, not a marriage proposal.

Just go and have a laugh.

Alright.

I will take your advice.

There we go. Sent.

Good. I'm happy for ya.

If you get lucky, I don't wanna hear about it.

A gentleman never tells.

You certainly don't.

That's because there's nothing to tell.

It's just that you freak out any time you get a text, that's all.

Obviously, somebody's trying to get hold of ya.

All you need to know is I was seeing a guy in Leeds.

It got messy. I moved here.

The end.

I'm here if you ever wanna talk.

Oh, look, Lee ain't gonna come back here.

So who else'd take him in?

Well, he's not gonna go to his mum's either.

She booted him out when he was 15.

Sick of the police knocking on her all the time.

- What about his dad? - Hmm.

Connor Bateman is currently serving time

at HMP Full Sutton for GBH and common assault.

- Nice guy. - Like father, like son.

Mm.

Lee's apprenticeship started young.

He was 5 years old

when Connor used to take him poaching on the estate.

They would hide out in the forest.

Oh, are you thinking Lee's gone

to visit his dad in prison?

No, but I'm thinking he might've gone back to his roots.

There's a hut in these woods where Connor and Lee

used to hide out until it got dark.

Okay, so we wait here for backup.

It's literally a hundred meters down that track.

Remember what Hitchens said?

There's no point calling the cavalry

if Lee's not there, is there?

Cooper!

Cooper!

Damn it!

Gun!

Cooper, gun!

I said gun, you idiot!

That was just a bird scarer!

I'm arresting you for attempted murder of a police officer.

I didn't know he was police! I was just warning him off!

Cooper, are you okay?

Cooper, are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

Okay, then you can walk yourself back to the car.

So at no point did you think to call for backup?

We did, sir, but we couldn't get a signal.

And there was no intel to suggest that he was armed, sir.

And what was with the heroics, Ben?

You're both lucky to be alive!

I let you down, sir.

Diane, go with Todd and interview Bateman.

Sir.

It was hard enough losing your dad.

We don't wanna lose you as well.

Go home, Ben. Get some rest.

I hope you give these things a proper boil wash.

I don't wanna be wearing something

a rapist has been sweating in.

Disgusting.

Don't worry, Lee.

They're brand-new out the packet.

Yeah, right.

Okay, let's talk about Laura Kirkham, yeah?

Now, you were caught smoking weed.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let me stop you there before you get too excited, yeah?

The only question I'm gonna answer is,

"How do you like your tea, Mr. Bateman?"

Builder's strength with a splash of milk and four sugars.

Now, if you don't mind, I've got some sleep to catch up on.

Couldn't get a wink last night.

Here we are.

Bar snacks included in the apology.

Help yourself.

Are you okay?

It's just been five years.

So five years and we're still no closer to-- to solving it.

It's the not knowing.

Eats away at you.

One thing I know is I can't do this for another five years.

Can I ask what happened?

Everyone has a different theory.

Hitchens thought he'd driven past and interrupted a burglary.

Eland thought it was some out-of-town drug thing.

But I know...

I know somebody in Edendale knows something,

but nobody's talking.

What about forensics?

Nothing, no fibres, no DNA.

And I'm conscious that the longer this goes on,

the less likely we are to solve the case.

And I feel like I'm letting him down.

I need to get justice for him.

Why don't you step away? I mean, just for a little while.

And give up? No way.

Ben, you nearly got yourself killed today.

Carry on like that and you won't even be around

to get justice for your dad.

It is what it is.

Can I come on Saturday?

Pay my respects.

I'd like that very much.

Thank you.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Hello, Mr. Kirkham. Thanks for seeing us.

We just wanted to ask you a few questions about Lee Bateman.

Has he been charged with murder yet?

Er, no,

we don't have enough to charge him with yet.

That's why we're here.

Mr. Kirkham, why did you decide to hire Lee in the first place?

I didn't. Charlotte did.

She put an advert in the local paper for a gardener

when I was away on business.

When I come back, there he was.

And when you caught Lee talking with Laura,

you sent him to work away from the house, is that right?

I told him that I wanted the plague stone from Ravenside

digging up and bringing back here.

I thought it'd look particularly nice in the back of my garden.

Well, those stones can weigh half a ton.

You seriously believed Lee was gonna roll it

down here on his own?

I know it was an impossible task.

Then why ask him to do it?

To remind him who's in charge.

Anyway, I fired him a week later.

Has Lee been back to the estate since?

Any staff here seen him come back onto the property?

No. I think he took my final warning very seriously.

What did you say to him?

"Trespassers will be shot."

Not exactly the grieving father, is it?

And he's hell-bent on putting the blame on Lee Bateman.

There is more going on between those two

than Dominic's letting on, I know it.

Alright, I'll tell the boss

that we need to find that plague stone.

It's in the woods, so we need to get the area searched.

In the meantime, we'll go and ask Harry Dickinson

if he saw Lee creeping back onto the estate

to meet up with Laura.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

Cool.

- Hi, Helen. - Hello.

Wasn't expecting to see you till tomorrow.

I just had a few questions for Harry.

This is DC Diane Fry.

He's over at Sam Beeley's place.

The two of them spend a lot of time together

since his wife died.

Ah, thank you.

That's nice.

I were never good at making stuff like that.

It's not for decoration.

I know. Erm... protection from the Black Dog, right?

Ben told me the story.

It sounds to me like the medieval folk

had a serious fox problem.

Really?

What about all the babies being taken from their beds?

I'm guessing the Black Dog

was a good cover-up story for infanticide.

Right, well, thank you, Helen.

DC Fry, you're new to Edendale, aren't ya?

Yeah.

And it's very different to what I'm used to.

I think you should spend a night alone in the woods at Ravenside.

And what would be the point in that?

Because when you start to hear the trees whispering your name

and the shadows start to change shape,

you'll realise just how different

things really are here.

Right, well, we won't keep you any longer.

Thank you.

Bye, Ben. See you tomorrow.

- What is wrong with you? - What?

It was a healthy debate, science versus superstition.

What are you gonna realise that people

don't have to justify their beliefs to you?

Take people as they come.

Otherwise, no-one is gonna talk to you.

Excuse me. Mr. Beeley?

You are Sam Beeley, correct?

I'm Detective Cooper. This is Detective Fry.

We're looking for Harry.

Just getting washed up.

Your hands alright?

Chickens got diseased.

We've just been hurrying things along a bit.

What, by wringing their necks?

You got a better way to put them out of their misery?

Harry, you're in trouble with the law.

Mr. Dickinson, just wanted to talk to you about Lee Bateman.

You've not seen him on the estate this week, have you?

No.

Oh. What about in the woods at Ravenside this Sunday evening?

I've already told ya, I've seen no-one in there.

That's Black Dog territory now.

You'd be stupid to be up there after dark.

What about the Kirkhams' house?

I wouldn't know 'cause I'm never near it.

If there's a problem with the estate,

I'll leave Dominic a message on his phone.

Okay.

Thank you.

Look at these two, bloody clueless.

We can't have you coming all this way for nothing.

Why don't you go up the barn,

help yourself to a couple of chickens?

I thought you said they were diseased.

You're not a fusspot, are you, Detective?

You live near Ravenside, don't you, Mr. Beeley?

Didn't see Lee or Laura there this Sunday evening?

I were in bed by sunset, reading me Bible.

This is a murder investigation, gentlemen.

It's a serious business.

Then why are you asking him stupid bloody questions?

Did he see Lee in Ravenside? There's 15 acres of trees.

Your dad'd be disappointed to see you, lad, making hash of it.

- You knew him? - Aye.

I met Joe Cooper a couple of times.

He knew how to talk to country folk, had a way about him.

He'd have sorted this murder in no time.

Erm, I'm not sure at the moment.

I found something.

- What's the story, Trace? - Oh, hey.

Okay.

So, we have recovered cigarette butts here,

but we found a used condom on the altar,

so we've marked that urgent and sent it to the lab, right?

This is the stone Dominic asked Lee to take down to the house.

He didn't move it very far, did he?

At least he didn't cause any damage.

Oh, but he has. He's unleashed the Black Dog.

Harry Dickinson told me

that they placed the stone on top of the Black Dog

to trap it under the earth and stop it coming into the village.

Why does everything in Edendale have a story

or a legend attached to it?

Why can't a stone just be a stone?

Let's get started, shall we?

We visited the church ruins.

It's a nice secluded spot

so no-one can see what you're up to.

You've been having a lot of fun up there, aren't ya?

But with a 16-year-old girl?

Shame on you.

You don't know what you're talking about, mate.

Okay, now, we're thinking you targeted Laura

just like you've done before with other schoolgirls.

Laura's father told us that he caught you

and his daughter getting high on drugs you supplied.

Laura's now dead.

How do you think that's gonna look to a jury?

Look, she wouldn't leave me alone.

Right? She always wanted to talk to me.

Go on.

She said she wanted to escape her house

and needed my help to do it.

She had some beef with her dad. I don't know.

I don't know 'cause I wasn't interested.

I'm a bit confused, Lee.

On the one hand, you're saying

you didn't want Laura anywhere near ya,

but you were both found smoking weed together.

Look, I had no choice.

Yeah? She told me, if I didn't keep bringing it,

she would tell her dad I was stealing stuff from the house

and I'd lose my job.

She is not as innocent as she looks, that one.

She had the makings of a real hustler.

Right, well, we've got a problem, Lee,

because we believe you and Laura met up at the church ruins.

This is some evidence we found up there.

You're a big boy. You know what that is.

It's a condom,

which leads me to think getting high with Laura

was not the only thing you were doing up there.

Right? So all it takes is a DNA test.

And we can find out who these belong to.

No comment.

No comment? Okay.

Well, maybe we should go see Gemma,

see if she wants to make a comment.

Whoa, Gemma doesn't need to know what's been going on, does she?

Not unless you start talking, Lee.

Alright, yeah.

Yeah. I did see someone at the church.

We both knew it was stupid and dangerous, but...

it was just a hook-up, no strings.

Who was this someone?

And what do you mean by it was dangerous?

In case the lord of the manor found out.

She was worried what her husband might do.

Hang on.

Are you saying you were seeing Charlotte Kirkham?

For fun. Yeah.

But I told her once I'm married, that's it.

Show's over.

Yeah.

Not as perfect as they look, that Kirkham family, right?

And neither are you, Lee.

I know.

But I'm trying to become better.

And Gemma knows I've made mistakes,

but she believes in me.

That-- That woman is my future.

And when I say my vows, I'm gonna mean every single word.

I'm afraid Dominic is in his office on a call.

It's okay. Erm, we actually needed to speak to you

about a private matter.

Oh?

Lee Bateman has told us

he was meeting up with you in secret at the church.

He's lying.

I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

Well, we've found condoms in the church ruins.

DNA tests will give us the answers we need.

But you could help speed things up.

Help us find Laura's killer.

Charlotte, were you meeting up with Lee?

We need to know the truth.

Yes.

It was just a distraction.

A distraction from what?

Being trapped in this house.

It may look impressive from the driveway,

but once you're inside, it's like a bloody mausoleum.

Well, why come here, then?

Dominic wanted to buy somewhere he could renovate,

show off to his wealthy clients.

Oh, it's fine for him.

He gets to leave, travel the world on business.

But me, I'm left floating from room to room.

Did Dominic know about you two?

I'm sure he would have said something if he found out.

What about Laura? Did she know?

God, I hope not.

It was me that let Lee into the house.

Is she dead because of me?

Did I do this?

I'm wondering if Laura knew about Lee and her mum

having the affair.

And what if she did?

Well, maybe getting the weed out of Lee wasn't enough.

Maybe she wanted more so she threatened to tell Dominic

about the affair until she got it.

And Lee pushed back... hard.

Yeah.

Sarge, er, we need to speak to Lee again.

Too late. He's walked.

You what?

He's out on bail with strict instructions--

check in with us three times a week,

ordered not to leave Edendale.

Yeah, apparently, his solicitor

made an emotional plea to the magistrate,

saying that, you know, Lee getting married this week

was a sign he was turning his life around.

Even though he tried to end mine?

- Mm. - Who's telling Kirkhams?

Oh, you cowards!

Dominic, I heard the phone. What's happened?

They've released Lee Bateman.

How could that have happened?

Dominic.

Dominic!

Look, babes, I just got out.

I'm so sorry for all this.

I'll explain it all when I get home.