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MUSIC: 'Parklife' by Blur

♪ Oi! ♪

GULLS SQUAWK, MAN SHOUTS

MAN: Tell her to shut up.

ON RADIO: ♪ Confidence is a preference

♪ For the habitual voyeur

♪ Of what is known as

♪ Parklife

♪ And morning soup Can be avoided... ♪

Ah.

♪ If you take a route Straight through what is known as

♪ Parklife

♪ John's got brewer's droop

♪ He gets intimidated By the dirty pigeons... ♪

MUSIC FADES

Yikes. Is this all we have? So far.

Local fisherman found him floating.

No clothes, no ID.

If you're wondering about time of death...

I can't tell you yet.

However...

...submersion does slow putrefaction.

The fact that the gases from it made the body parts float

suggests they've been in the water for... maybe 36 hours.

What about cause of death?

Apart from dismemberment, we will attempt a postmortem.

Right. White male.

Brown eyes.

Gold crowns on both upper-back wisdom teeth.

This arm, it's overdeveloped.

Some serious gym work in that.

This is unusual.

Osteophytes.

It's indicative of arthritis...

...which means the owner of this

is considerably older than the owner of this.

I don't think we're looking at one victim.

I think we're looking at two.

What do you think you're doing?

I'm gonna get in there and find the rest of the body parts.

And you just happen to have all of that in the back of your car?

"Chance favours the brave mind." Louis Pasteur. Great man.

Plus, I called the dive team. They're on another job.

They'll be hours. You can't just jump in.

I am fully qualified, if that's what's bothering you.

That is not the issue. You are way over the line.

I would have expected those body parts

to show signs of abrasions, but they were clean,

which means they haven't floated far,

and they are still in this area.

Longer we wait, the further they'll drift downstream,

the more difficult they'll be to find,

the worse condition they'll be in, the harder your job will be.

Winter! What?!

I'm just a private individual with a weird hobby.

What is he doing?

Whatever the hell he likes, apparently.

Right. Well, I got a misper from the area.

Called in day before yesterday.

Craig Foster, IC1, 42, dark hair, two gold teeth.

Who reported it? His son, Leo, 17.

Foster's a widower. Lost his wife five years ago.

Got 'em!

BELL RINGS

I'm actually Leo's form teacher, so if there's any way I can help...

What's he like as a student?

Conscientious, reserved, but he has friends.

He's one of the good ones.

He's just round here. He's waiting for us.

LIGHTS THUD

BUTTON CLICKS, CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

'Leo?'

I'm DI Bell. Is it true?

Is it Dad?

We haven't made a formal identification yet,

but I'm afraid he does fit your father's description.

I'm so sorry, Leo.

So if that's Craig Foster...

...who on earth are you?

Hmm.

Appearance was important to you.

But you aren't what you used to be.

Your hair wasn't the only thing that needed rejuvenation.

I bet that was a blow to your pride.

But then medical science offered you a solution.

A whole new lease of life.

At least, that's what you'd hoped.

BIRDS CAW

Nice pad, innit? If you like this kind of thing.

Leo's upstairs with his girlfriend, Zoe.

Looks like he needs the support, poor lad.

Hi. You must be Zoe. I'm DI Bell. This is Detective Sergeant Daldry.

How are you doing, Leo?

Do you mind if I ask what your dad did for a living?

He had his own business, digital sales and marketing.

And when did you notice that he was missing?

Three days ago.

Erm, he's away a lot on business,

but he usually calls each night to check if I'm OK.

When he didn't, I got worried.

Had your dad mentioned any arguments or disputes with anyone?

No enemies? No. Not that I know.

Ma'am? Ma'am! Can I help you?

My name is Diane Short.

I'm a neighbour, and I know both Craig and Leo.

OK, well, if you just leave your details...

I'm also a criminal defence solicitor.

Excuse me.

Leo, I'm so, so sorry about your dad.

You know I'm a solicitor?

The police aren't supposed to question you

without an appropriate adult present.

Would you like me to act on your behalf?

Yeah.

I suggest that if you wish to continue this interview,

you do so at the station, at a time convenient to Leo.

As you can see, he's under considerable stress.

Come on.

Thank you.

Been no trace of Craig Foster since Saturday.

He just disappeared.

I'll make coffee. What have you got?

What do we have for the good inspector?

So, there's a greasy residue like this

both on Foster and the unidentified victim.

Red diesel used by barges and fishing boats.

These are the sacks that I pulled out of the river.

They're commercial fishing net.

If you look at this end here, it's been cut or frayed,

which makes me think that the sacks were tied to a boat,

probably close to the engine outlet. Mm-hm.

Hence the diesel residue.

The killer was hoping the boat would carry them out to sea.

Maybe, but then it got caught on some underwater obstacle.

But we do have traces of wood and blue paint.

You all right there, Ellis? Peckish?

Yeah, I didn't have breakfast. What is it?

The unidentified victim's knee. Ugh.

We're removing the flesh so we can see the serial number

on the replacement joint. You see?

BUBBLING

Here. Oh.

No, look, look. DALDRY GAGS

Oh, stay there. CAMERA CLICKS

Sexy. DALDRY COUGHS

Do not post that online.

OK, so, both bodies were dismembered with a power saw.

No signs of bruising or blood build-up,

so the cuts were made postmortem.

False start curves suggest that... Sorry, what?

Oh, come.

Here.

Incomplete or aborted saw cuts.

Notice the striation and also the chipping.

Took them a while to get comfortable with that saw.

They're not easy to handle. What about cause of death?

A single nail through the back of each skull.

Can you narrow down time of death?

Best I can say now is minimum of three days

but not more than a week.

He was gone two days before Leo even reported him missing.

That's a window of three or four days.

EDDIE: Damian Pearce.

He got his new knee three years ago.

Found you.

That's all the information we've got right now.

Can we talk? If you've come to have another go at me, then no.

Everything you did more than crossed the line, Winter.

I know. I...

I am sorry, truly.

I had a look at that suicide case you mentioned,

Rosemary Lockheart, the woman with the triangle etched into her thumb.

Close the door.

It raises questions.

Information about the same triangle mark on Simone's thumb

was never released to the press.

Only her killer could have known about it.

This is Simone's case file.

It contains confidential information

that you wouldn't have been able to access.

If Rosemary Lockheart was murdered,

then it is somehow connected to Simone's death.

I can't do this alone.

If you find something you think warrants further investigation,

I will do what I can to help, within the law.

Thank you.

There's anything more you think you can do,

don't do it till you clear it with me.

SIMONE: If you want my professional opinion,

that is not at all well-framed.

I don't.

What?

There's nothing here.

Well, nothing new, anyway.

What about the suicide victim?

How did Rosemary Lockheart get a triangle carved on her thumb

that happened to be exactly like mine?

Yes, I know. You think she did it herself?

DI Bell's back on your side, right?

Why don't you ask her?

Because I need to keep that relationship strictly professional.

Do you, though?

Yes.

No, it's not like that.

THEY CHUCKLE

Maybe it should be.

I've been dead for ten years.

Don't bury yourself along with me.

PHONE RINGS

What is it? DALDRY: 'Boss.

'Damian Pearce, the second victim, I've been digging into his past,

'and Rohan's been looking at his social media.

'He's had a very successful career in education.

'Turned around a failing school.

'Married twice, divorced twice,

'lived alone, and proud owner of a nice new car.

'Have a look at this. I'll, er...

'I'll send the link. Oh...

'Er...'

OK, hold on.

PHONE BUZZES Got it.

Wow, that's his?

The head of my school had a 25-year-old Volvo.

'And get this - Pearce is the registered owner,

'but the car was bought by Craig Foster, Leo Foster's dad.'

EDDIE: You called? This is a map of the river.

The body parts were tied to a boat

that was travelling along this stretch

at some point in the last week.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

Accepted! Accepted.

Oh, Jamila.

Your mission is to identify that boat.

MAN ON VIDEO: 'Cheers!

'Three, two, one, go!'

BELL: Look at this.

It's Foster's socials.

Is that Damian Pearce? Yes, it is.

And they seem to get along very well.

So, there are CCTV cameras here and here,

and if we're lucky, there should be another one round about here. OK.

So all I have to do is look for blue boats with wooden poles.

Still pleased you beat me to it?

It appears Leo moved schools last year,

only joining his current school, Elcot Green,

halfway through Year 11.

And guess who the headteacher is?

Damian Pearce.

And Foster bought Pearce the car shortly after.

Why? A thank-you perhaps?

Well, that must have been a bloody big favour.

A car like that costs a bomb.

Check out Leo's educational records. I want to know why he moved schools.

WATER POURS

This isn't a formal interview. You're not in any trouble, OK?

OK. Yeah.

Why did you switch schools to Elcot Green?

We had to move for Dad's work.

So you weren't excluded?

It may be 200 miles away,

but the head of your previous school was very helpful.

How is this relevant?

I'm just familiarising myself with the context.

You were excluded for circulating indecent images

of a girl in your year, is that correct?

Yes, but I didn't do it.

One of my friends got hold of my phone...

Why did your dad buy Damian Pearce a brand-new Porsche?

This is more than just context, Inspector.

Him and Mr Pearce were friendly, but I did not know he bought him a car.

Were your dad and Mr Pearce close friends?

I think that's enough for today.

It wasn't Leo, it was his mate. Oh, there's a surprise (!)

I've cracked the father's laptop.

OK, his finances look legit, but he has a private social media account

that he shares with a few select male friends.

Like father, like son. Clearly not consensual.

Here, have a look at this list of mates he shared it with.

Ah.

PHONE RINGS

We've just found something very interesting.

WINTER: 'I bet mine's better than yours.'

GULLS SQUAWK

Jamila tracked two boats heading downriver.

Both of them were moored here,

but this is the only unsecured building in the area.

Not bad.

Is that oil? No, blood.

There's enough to make me confident

that this is where the bodies were dismembered.

Does that help us with time of death?

Outside temperature over the last few days has been fairly constant,

which means the ambient temperature in here would've been stable.

Going by the blood spread...

...and the coagulation rate,

I would say...

...they were killed four days ago,

so Friday the 14th.

How sure are you? I'd put money on it.

Look.

These drag marks.

Killer must have moved the body on a tarp or plastic sheet.

These whitish marks are unusual. Wonder what made these.

No idea yet.

Do me a favour. Huh?

Just go outside and come back in. What?

Humour me. I do more than enough of that.

BANG

Jesus! Nail gun. Back of the head.

Look, blood spots.

The killer shot them as they came in.

It's DI Bell. Yeah, I'm at the warehouses on River Approach,

possible murder scene.

Significant blood loss, possible dismemberment.

I'm requesting SOCO immediately.

What have you got?

Dismemberment might be a way to dispose of a body,

but it is a truly gruesome act.

Nauseating, even. You think it's the killer's?

Can't be sure.

Good news if they're on the DNA database. If.

Now, if the killer did drag those bodies,

it's still a combined weight of around 180 kilos.

You think more than one person might be involved?

I think it's more than likely.

It's a very elaborate plan, dismembering body parts.

Why didn't they clear the puke up? Why didn't they clear up the blood?

Mm.

Have you identified any of the women

from the explicit photos of Foster's?

DALDRY: 'No, but you know Diane Short?'

Y... Er, Leo's solicitor?

'Her daughter, Alice, went to Elcot Green, Leo's current school.'

"Went"? 'Yeah, she left six months ago.'

Well, why?

'Hmm, the school were cagey about it.'

OK, thanks.

Hm. Wonder why she didn't think that was worth mentioning.

Leo's not in a position to participate in a further interview.

I'll need to take instruction

before considering whether or not that might be appropriate.

That's not why I'm here. I'd like to ask you a few questions.

I'd be prepared to cooperate, of course.

Within my legal rights.

Of course.

Do you mind? No.

Did your daughter go to Elcot Green Sixth Form?

Yes.

Did she know Leo Foster?

They didn't have classes or friends in common, as far as I'm aware.

Levetiracetam.

Is this for Alice?

Yes.

I'm so sorry.

Would you mind if we saw her?

May I?

Mm.

Hello, Alice.

I'm Dr Winter.

I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may.

She can't answer.

She's in a minimally conscious state.

What happened? She fell.

She jumped off a car park roof.

Why?

I don't think I'll ever know the answer to that.

Would you allow me to examine her?

If you must. There are other ways to communicate.

Alice...

HEARTBEAT THUDS ...I'm gonna ask you something

that might make you feel a little bit uncomfortable.

But I want you to know that you are completely safe.

No-one can harm you here.

HEARTBEAT CONTINUES

This is Leo Foster. What are you doing?

Do you know him?

HEARTBEAT QUICKENS

Did he cause you harm? Stop.

Stop it.

RAPID HEARTBEATS

Her heart rate, it's 140bpm.

That's a powerful emotional response.

She's terrified of him.

What were you doing last Friday?

Friday? I was in court.

GULLS SQUAWK

LEO: Sorry, I thought you couldn't speak to me

without there being an adult present.

I'm not here to interview you.

I just want to talk.

OK. Do you know Alice Short?

Yeah, yeah, I... I know what happened to her.

Do you, though, really?

Here, look.

That's where Alice lives now, inside her own body.

Did you share photos of her? No.

Alice was one of the... the "populars" at Elcot Green.

But she was really nice to me.

Why take pictures of her?

No. Listen, please.

When I first went to Elcot...

...you know, she even came round the house.

But Dad was there, just being Dad.

And she called him out for the alpha-male thing.

And he didn't like that. He, er...

...took photos of her without her knowing.

Faked nudes, posted them online.

It... It really destroyed her,

and that's why she tried to take her own life.

I think I would've done the same as Alice...

BELL RINGS ...if it wasn't for Zoe.

Zoe, did you ever meet Leo's father, Craig Foster?

Yes. I hated him.

The way he looked at me.

I'd go round there to see Leo, and he'd strut around in a towel,

saying he'd just got out the shower.

I got the feeling that... he was showing off somehow,

trying to impress me.

Do you know that Leo was excluded from his first secondary school?

Yes, I did. Do you know the reason why?

I do, actually.

It's a horrible, disgusting thing to do, but it wasn't Leo.

BELL SCOFFS What, it was his friend?

No, it was his dad.

Leo got dumped, right, by this girl,

and then his dad got into his phone,

faked a load of nudes and posted them on socials.

He told Leo it was the only way to show them what she's worth.

One last question.

Do you know a girl called Alice Short?

Er, don't think so.

Leo never mentioned her?

No.

♪ I'm walking on the roof

♪ I'm feeling my hair blowing In the wind. ♪

Thank you.

Oh. Erm...

Hello. SHE LAUGHS

The photo exhibition. Yes.

Rubbish wine.

Very rubbish. My name's Maya. Ethan.

What'd you get, Ethan?

Rib eye from a farm that breeds Devon-Wagyu crossbreeds.

Crossbreeds fed on rich Somerset pastures.

Oh, you know it.

My dad keeps banging on about it.

I'm here to buy for him. I'm veggie.

And I'm a foodie prat. Well, at least you know it.

Probably won't see you in here again, then, will I?

Ah-ha. Got a pen?

Thanks.

DI BELL: OK, Rohan, what have we got?

I have been trawling Alice Short's socials.

She was popular, but it is who she's popular with that really sticks out.

Here, have a look at this.

RAP MUSIC PLAYS ON VIDEO

Is that...? Yeah.

4K phone cameras have made my job so much easier.

That's Zoe.

Zoe Evans. Leo Foster's girlfriend.

So she did know Alice.

But why would she lie about something like that?

So, we've got two victims, two suspects.

How does that all fit together? OK, let me see if I got this.

Leo Foster leaves his first school because dad, Craig Foster,

fakes explicit photos of a pupil.

Leo Foster meets Alice Short here, Elcot Green,

Damian Pearce's school.

Then, Leo's dad, Craig, fakes explicit photos of her,

causing Alice Short,

daughter of Diane and friend of Zoe Evans, to attempt suicide.

So you're saying that Craig Foster did the same thing at Elcot Green

as he did at Leo's first school?

Leading Alice to jump off a roof?

And bought his good friend Damian Pearce a car

for covering it up.

Yeah, that's Alice. You told me you didn't know her.

Not that well, not really.

Where was this? My house.

So, well enough to invite her round.

So then you must also know her mother, Diane Short.

No.

'No, I mean, I might have seen her drop Alice off or something,

'but I don't know her.

'I don't even think I would recognise her.'

On the evening of Friday the 14th,

I was on a very long video call with the instructing solicitor.

Difficult case.

During the day, as I previously stated, I was in court.

SOFTLY: So she has an alibi.

Look, Inspector,

if Craig Foster persecuted Alice, as you claim...

...he got what he deserved.

But I didn't kill him, and you're wasting my time.

Zoe, where were you on Friday the 14th?

'I went on a college trip to a dance show.'

DALDRY SIGHS

Diane's colleagues confirmed the video call,

and Zoe Evans was at the dance show that night of the 14th.

Of course she was.

So that leaves us with zero suspects.

But they must have done it on the 14th.

Yes, I know, thank you.

And that means we have to start all over again.

You can take that lot down.

DISHES CLATTER Hi.

Sorry, work meet turned sociable. Did it?

You didn't think it was worth texting me to mention that?

No, I... Yeah, of course. So boring, I didn't even, er...

I needed a drink just to get through it.

Where's the car?

What? What do you mean? Well, you said you had a drink.

Then what? You drove home? Where from? No, I was...

We went to The Star. I had a... a beer.

It was low ABV. Yeah, the car's in the drive.

"We"? Me and a few colleagues.

Mum, where's my footy kit?

I looked in the airing cupboard.

I'll check again.

I'm gonna have a shower.

DISHWASHER CLATTERS Fine.

BEEP

SIZZLING

"I probably won't see you here again."

Stop! SHE LAUGHS

You were flirting, weren't you? Trying to, anyway.

Don't be ridiculous. Talking to a memory is ridiculous.

Not to me, it isn't.

She liked my exhibition. Of course she did.

Everybody liked your exhibition.

DI Bell. I'm investigating a series of car robberies.

We've tracked a suspect vehicle to your car park,

so I'm gonna need to see your CCTV footage.

You know, I've always wondered if...

...your murder wasn't somehow connected to your documentary work.

So do something about it.

It's not that simple.

I do have other things to think about, you know?

I was wrong. Call the cops. That's a first.

About what? The timeline.

They weren't killed on the 14th. What? When were they killed?

They used this. Look.

They took power from over there. It's still live.

So, the wheels line up with the marks in the blood? Yep.

They used the radiator to heat the metal floor,

which sped up the blood flow and the coagulation rate.

That's why they didn't clean up.

They were trying to make it look like it happened a day earlier.

They didn't kill them on the 14th. They killed them on the 15th.

And their alibis are for the 14th. Exactly.

Hm.

You OK?

I'm fine. Good work. I'll bring Diane and Zoe back in.

See if they have alibis for the 15th.

Why am I being arrested?

What is the nature of the allegation against me?

What were you doing on Saturday the 15th?

I wish to exercise my right to legal representation.

Take her to interview. Not without legal representation.

You're a suspect, not a solicitor. Sit down.

We believe that you conspired with Diane Short

to murder Craig Foster and Damian Pearce. What?

It was for Alice, wasn't it?

No. Where were you on the 15th?

VOICE BREAKING: She's my best friend.

'Diane made me do it.

'She said it was important for Alice's recovery.

'She said it would help.

'You know, when you see your best friend like that...'

She said Leo and his dad

were responsible for the pictures of Alice.

The-The nudes, you know?

After Alice did what she did, Mr Pearce helped cover it all up.

Diane said we should teach them a lesson and...

...show them what it feels like.

We catfished Craig Foster and Damian Pearce

with fake profiles...

...and set up a meeting at the warehouse for, you know... sex.

'Then I said I wanted to stop, but she can be scary.

'I just wanted to go home.

'I... I didn't wanna stay, but Diane made me stay.

'So I just hid when they came.'

I couldn't stay. I just wanted to go home.

I... I didn't do anything at all.

ZOE BREATHES SHAKILY

Zoe told us everything.

Of course she did, she's only 17.

Part of me understands why you did it.

The despair, the fury.

Those two men might as well have thrown Alice

off that car park roof, right?

But understanding why you might do it...

...and then setting aside the ice-cold brutality it took

to kill them and cut them into pieces...

The thing that really gets me is how you exploited Zoe.

She loves Alice.

She's vulnerable.

But instead of supporting her, you used her vulnerability.

You groomed her.

You preyed on Zoe the same way Craig Foster

and Damian Pearce preyed on those schoolgirls...

...on your daughter, Alice. That's a lie!

Sit down! That is a lie! Sit down. Diane! Sit down!

Come on.

What about Zoe?

She said she wasn't present when they were killed.

And you believe her? What if the vomit was hers?

Those body parts were heavy.

She's only 17,

and Diane has corroborated Zoe's version of events.

A good barrister might get Zoe a reduced sentence.

A very good one might get her acquitted.

And Alice?

She faces a life sentence without her mum,

to be cared for by strangers.

That doesn't feel like natural justice.

It's legal justice.

Do the wrong thing for the right reasons, it's still the wrong thing.

Yes, Ma'am.

Sleep well. Yeah.

How long?

How long?

Before Christmas. Since then.

Do you work together? Yeah.

Is he the first?

First man?

All of this, it's never happened before.

It's not something that I wanted or expected to do.

How long have you been attracted to men?

This isn't an interview. I'm not a case you have to solve.

Oh, no, I'm not trying to interview you. I'm just...

Why?

I don't know.

But I can s... I...

I can feel how much I've hurt you because I know you, and I love you.

You know I do.

But it's like...

Look, I don't know if I've always felt this way.

But I know that I do feel it now, with this other person...

...this man.

What man? What are you talking about?

Oh, God. I... We'll explain later.

No, explain now cos you're obviously splitting up. Please.

I'll talk to him. We're not finished.

SHE YELLS

PHONE VIBRATES, SHE SNIFFLES

BEEP

Hi. New case? 'An old one.'

Philip Jenson, 2015.

The murderer made a mark on Jenson's finger.

'A triangle.' Like Simone.

'It happened in another part of the country,

'so no-one was looking for a link.'

At the time of Jenson's murder,

Robert Parker was on remand for a drugs offence,

so we should work off the assumption that he's innocent.

Philip Jenson, Simone, Rosemary Lockheart.

If they're linked, then...

We could be looking at a serial killer.

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