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[interposing voices]

[police radio]

I didn't say thanks.

Well, it's gonna do.

What is this thing about you being on sick leave?

Oh, don't worry.

Don't worry Mark, it's not contagious.

POLICE (ON RADIO): Control, over.

[police radio conversation]

DAVE CREEGAN: Who was she?

SUSAN TAYLOR: Name's Jackie Salvo.

Her credit card's inside her purse.

They're looking for a next of kin.

There was a white bin bag next to her body

containing her heart and some of her clothing.

DAVE CREEGAN: Who found her?

SUSAN TAYLOR: One of the drivers, just after 8:00.

Whoever did this left her body under the back wheels

of the cab.

Driver backed straight over it.

No connection between her and the the driver?

He couldn't even identify the body.

We'll be expected to rearrest Matchin.

Matchin's dead.

He walked into the North Sea.

And you walked in after him.

We need to find out why she was left here

and who her next of kin is.

If Matchin couldn't have done this,

that makes Fitten the chief suspect.

Fitten didn't do this.

You know that for a fact?

Fitten isn't the killer.

We're wasting our time.

Another woman has just been murdered.

Instead of standing here arguing can we agree what we're doing

for once and get on with it?

Yeah, I want Fitten rearrested.

Can you go and do that now?

MIKE LAWLER: Has somebody taken your statement Mr. Khan?

TARIQ KHAN: Somebody's taken my statement five times over.

I've got no idea who she is.

I'm sorry to say, I'd like to get back to work.

I'm tired.

I'm going home.

You know, this guy is not even next of kin.

What do I do, Creegan?

What am I after I've been brought in to offer counseling?

He ran over the body.

It isn't his wife, he doesn't give a toss.

All he wants to do is go to see, brother.

Sorry we wasted your time.

Anthony Matchin's dead, drowned himself.

Found his body 20 minutes ago.

Well,

That's it then.

It got him in the end.

Look, it's possible the killer mistook Tariq

Khan for Jackie's boyfriend.

Whoever the boyfriend is, we're trying to find him.

Sorry, I don't want to be here.

Well, maybe in the morning then.

I can't think I won't feel the same in the morning.

Look, I really don't think I can help you anymore.

I got a wife sitting at home now doing ironing

because she's too scared to go back to bed.

I can't sleep.

Look, like a road traffic accident or sudden death

in the family, that's one thing.

But I'm dealing with something that I am

not trained for here and it's--

frankly, it's-- it's my marriage or this.

- That's what I said. - He's ready.

They've put him into the interview room.

Not you.

WAYNE FITTEN: One side of the moon

never receives any sunlight.

The dark side.

The killings are in tune to the phases of the moon.

So you've bought the observer's

book of astronomy, have you?

Little pocket book about this big?

Came out about the same time as the "I

Spy" book of serial killers.

All the other victims were found by their husbands.

Jackie Salvo will be the same.

We've checked.

She wasn't married.

Well, it doesn't have to be a piece of paper.

This isn't 1890.

Talk to everybody who worked at North Gate,

find out who knew Jackie Salvo.

DI Taylor has already asked me.

That place has got 65 men.

48 of those are driving on the continent.

We've spoken with everyone who worked

with Jackie at the job center.

According to them, she kept herself to herself.

Speak to them again.

He's tied into a lunar cycle.

There's no correlation between the times

or any of the killings and the phases of the moon.

Found it in my office.

Only one out of the three nights was clear.

Your home is at risk if you don't

keep up the payments on a mortgage

or a loan secured on it.

What?

You're not listening.

If you're not going to listen, what's the point of being here?

And the next time I conduct an interview,

can you at least stay until the end?

MARK RIVERS: We've got a problem.

This is serious.

They've given my room away.

- Don't suppose? - No.

OK.

Heads or tails.

Don't mind.

Look the same.

Do you snore?

Only when I sleep.

You?

Kerry used to say--

Don't you'll have me in tears.

All right, get a coat hanger, pretend

I'm sleeping with someone else.

That mine?

Yeah, didn't bring enough warm clothes.

Nice look.

Local post mark.

So the killer was in Ellandon yesterday afternoon?

And Jackie Salvo was murdered last night.

That means he posted it before he killed her.

Who's Carl Laing?

Carl Laing's Jackie Salvo's next of kin.

[truck beeps horn]

Carl Laing?

What have I done now?

DAVE CREEGAN: What made you change your mind?

Had it changed for me.

Liz left for her sister's this morning.

She didn't want to stay.

I mean, she didn't want me to go with her.

Well, human contact with something

evil, you know, people closest to you

are going to find that difficult.

Yeah.

Well, here we all are.

CARL LAING: I've just seen her.

She was a mess.

I wanted to kiss her.

What did you do?

I kissed her.

There's no need to be embarrassed about that.

I'm not embarrassed.

I wanted to hold her but the technician

said it wasn't a good idea.

But I held her anyway.

However hard I tried, I still couldn't

seem to think of her as dead.

And I couldn't let her go.

Well, I hope nobody said that you should.

We've been together nearly four years,

we're talking about getting married.

I don't know what I'm going to do.

[sobs]

Fitten wants to speak to you.

Wants to confess.

Yeah?

[yelling in pain]

What?

Heard you wanted to chat.

Get the sweets?

How did you kill her?

I strangled her.

Just like the rest.

Just like that?

No.

Not just like that.

There's a lot we have to go through first.

There's a power point in the body.

I used to be an electrician.

So she got 240 volts every time she moved.

You used to be an electrician.

Don't tell me, you were sacked by a woman.

What do you think I am, Wayne?

Stupid?

Any man who's been humiliated in any way by a women

has a standard adolescent fantasy of seeking revenge.

It's got nothing to do with what's happening,

not even worth a bag of sweets.

I killed those women.

No, you didn't.

You're a thinker, you don't do.

You're watching too much television.

Now why don't you get out there and get some fresh air?

Why don't you get out there and meet

somebody like JoAnne or Jackie?

Get a haircut, get a girlfriend, get a life.

What is it with you, Creegan?

Well, you do know there's been a major alert out for him.

Fitten claims he tortured each of the victims.

They weren't tortured.

They were mutilated methodically and carefully after they

were killed, not before.

Proving what?

The killer wanted to harm the man who found them much more

than he wanted to harm the women.

Has anyone got anything against you?

You mean against Jackie?

No.

No, I mean you.

I don't understand.

Do you want to take a break?

No.

SUSAN TAYLOR: I think somebody tried to harm you, Carl.

I mean, have you argued with anyone,

done anything to upset anybody?

Malloy.

Who's Malloy?

He's a bastard who calls himself the transport manager.

We're working to fiddle in a few of their lots.

We'd take a full load out, one would come back empty,

we'd load it with cases of booze.

Me and Tariq were runners.

We thought Malloy had set us up and I was being followed.

That was why Tariq was going to take the load instead of me.

Someone was following us into work.

You sure?

I thought he was watching the house.

Whoever this guy was, I couldn't shake him off.

Were you close enough to get a look at him?

No.

SUSAN TAYLOR: Why doesn't he kill the man?

By sending you cards with their names on it,

why didn't he just get it over with?

DAVE CREEGAN: He doesn't want them dead.

He wants them to suffer.

It's about power.

He's taking something away that belongs to them.

It's like sleeping with another man's wife.

You sleep with a married woman, that's part of you

trying to get to the husband.

I'm not talking from experience.

Never had the time.

But if I wanted to harm somebody,

I'd do something to someone they cared for.

The women can't just be a means to an end.

He wouldn't do this if he didn't hate them.

He's beyond that.

He's using them.

Why send you the cards?

He sent them to you, he didn't send them to me.

He wants another man to stop him.

I want to talk to the partners of all the victims.

I want to find out if any of the other men have been followed

and start with Peter Carol.

Can't, he's at a press conference.

What press conference?

He's appealing for information.

Enwright's idea.

That is exactly what the killer wants.

A basic component of serial crime

is the need for recognition.

Parading those men on national television

is only showing the killer what he needs to see.

Dave, it's Enwright's idea.

That is a massive incitement for him to kill again.

This isn't about the man, it's about the women.

The killer doesn't hate women.

WHEELAN: Oh, don't talk shit, Creegan.

This is Ellandon not Chelsea bloody Harbor.

There-- there's nothing complex about people around here.

The way they kill is really very disappointing.

I'm not talking to you.

Well, I'm talking to you.

I can take you out there right now

and I can you how these murders happened.

First, there's a lot of the very violent men in this town.

Second, this violence is directed towards women.

Third, one of these men is the killer.

And know I'm treated like shit all week

and then come Friday, when it all comes pouring out.

All his fears, his frustrations, he's

got to take it out on somebody and before he

knows what's happened well-- well, someone's been killed.

That's not how it is.

Don't tell me how it is.

Look, if you're trying to tell me that the killer wants

to harm the men, well you're--

you're more off your head than I thought.

Is this because of how you feel about your wife?

Oh, right and what about what happened to yours?

SUSAN TAYLOR: Leave it.

Just leave it.

What's the matter, Creegan?

Hit your own nerve?

Where's the press conference?

No!

Peter.

I really don't think you should do this.

This isn't going to help.

If Enwright see's your face all over tomorrow's

papers, what's going to happen?

Look, I know there's a thin line between genius and madness

but do we have to show everyone which side we're on?

PETER CAROL (ON TV): If anybody has any information

about the person who did this, you should

contact the police immediately.

It's 11:05, this is on the telly

and I'm still eating my lunch.

PETER CAROL (ON TV): --this again.

REPORTER (ON TV): Mr. Carol.

Mr. Carol.

[indistinct speech on tv]

Well, all these men have been very badly hurt.

But why these men?

Why were they selected?

It doesn't work like that.

They're individuals.

They must have something in common.

People aren't a thing, Creegan.

They're a process.

They change over time, they get better

despite the circumstances.

Tell me about Carl Laing.

Carl Laing wishes he was dead.

He's punishing himself because someone he cared about

died while he was 200 miles away.

Pete Carroll is clinically depressed.

John is still angry and guilty after two years.

You tell me what any of them have got in common.

They've all been bereaved.

Exactly.

You're back where you started.

What if I get them all together in the same room?

You'll be telling them that this was all their fault.

I really shouldn't do that if I were you.

I mean, Anthony Matchin blamed himself for Suzanne's death.

I don't have to remind you what happened to him.

No, no, no. Don't do that.

DAVE CREEGAN: Is there anyone anywhere

in the last three years who might

have a grudge against you?

I don't mean someone who doesn't like you,

I mean someone who really hates you.

Frank?

John?

Hate has enough to do with it?

If you can think of anyone at all.

Where's Malloy?

It wasn't Malloy, Carl.

Malloy was in Macbeth.

My brother hates me.

I don't think he's done this.

Does your brother know anyone here?

I'm serious.

My brother moved to New Zealand in 1983.

He said he couldn't get far enough away.

Look, the truth is we've all got enemies.

Everyone makes enemies all of the time.

Is there anyone anywhere?

There's a ratio of us.

I don't see what that's got to do with all of this.

DAVE CREEGAN: If you can think of anyone at all--

I haven't worked in over a year.

SUSAN TAYLOR: --who might have a grudge against you.

I can't remember.

Is this what happened to Lisa?

[interposing voices]

For the Ryan estate?

MIKE LAWLER: Come on, now.

Come on, it'll be all right.

CARL LAING: I'll tell you what we've got in common,

we're all getting tired of this.

Is anyone in charge of him?

SUSAN TAYLOR: What is it with you, Creegan.

I'm not making excuses for being in charge.

I haven't got a problem with you being in charge.

Yeah, then why have you been such a difficult bastard?

You sent your family into exile.

That wasn't my idea.

Why do you have to take it out on me?

I'm taking it out on everybody.

Can we talk about something else?

Would you just keep out of this?

Come on.

Be honest.

Can't deny it.

What's this, start of a no comment interview?

I'm sick of hearing this.

We're supposed to be a team.

Why can't we just wrap this up and go home?

Why did I think of that?

The killer's a misogynist.

Can't we just stick to that?

He's not.

He hates everybody, including himself.

It's a case of takes one to know one.

I'm going to bed.

Why did you have to say that?

Going to try Hannah again.

Where you going?

Some of us have got someone to go back to.

[dials phone]

HANNAH (ON ANSWERING MACHINE): Hi,

you've reached Hannah and Mark.

I'm afraid we're not here right now but please leave a message.

[answering machine beeps]

Hi, it's me again and it's late.

Think-- I think I really need to talk.

I'm pretty sick of it here.

This is just--

I'll call you-- I'll call you in the morning.

That's what I'll do.

I'm sorry if I've-- if I've woken you up.

Sorry.

OK.

Goodnight.

[hangs up phone]

So you-- you're nowhere near to finding this guy.

I wouldn't hold your breath.

This place is grim.

The whole building.

[laughing]

I'm not knocking it, but it's grim.

Not good for me.

LAING: I've also figured out why you do what you do.

People are dying to get out.

[chuckling] So if you're not going to find this guy,

what's the point in staying?

I'm responsible.

This is serious business and I'm not in charge,

but I'm responsible.

We've been up here all this time.

We're no further on.

Anthony Matchin's dead.

Joanne Carroll's dead.

Jackie Saville was only 24 years old.

She's dead.

They're all dead.

It's no way to die, is it, you know?

24 years old.

Your heart ripped out and stuffed in a dust bin bag

and left at the back of a lorry for someone to find.

I dare say that isn't what her parents had in mind.

I daresay her boyfriend had other plans.

MICHAEL: Sure you don't want some of this?

Can I use your toilet?

Yeah.

Top of the stairs on the right.

It's good coffee. Thank you.

I should've told them all this.

I shouldn't be bothering you.

Why didn't you tell them?

They were too busy taking chunks out of each other.

I'm getting married in nine weeks time.

Great.

That's all I need to know.

This is all dead.

It doesn't fit in.

Hannah thinks I'm on a drug case with Customs and Excise.

How-- how do you feel about lying?

How do I feel?

I've got an Italian suit, an American gun,

Japanese mobile phone, direct line to the Home Secretary,

and a mandate to do pretty much what the hell I like, actually.

But the one thing I can't do is talk to the person I'm marrying

and tell her the truth.

Taylor can do this.

Creegan can do this in his sleep.

You know they got rid of his family--

the OSC.

And new names, and new addresses--

he can't even find them.

I don't want that.

If you're going to turn over your life to something,

it should be something that makes you proud.

That's why I'm getting out.

I'm doing things I'm not proud of anymore.

If you don't stand for something,

you'll fall for anything, won't you?

[breathing heavily]

[music playing]

Where did you say your toilet was?

MICHAEL: Upstairs on the right.

Thank you.

[toilet flushing]

[water splashing]

[gasping]

[water splashing]

[knife scraping]

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

[breathing heavily] It's OK.

It's OK.

But you cut me.

It's OK.

[gasping]

I'm sorry.

Sorry. It's OK.

It's OK.

[carl choking]

[sighing]

[quietly groaning]

[sighing]

[traffic honking]

[music playing]

[police radio chatter]

[sighing loudly]

LAING (ON ANSWERING MACHINE): Ah, it's late.

[answering machine beeping]

I'll call you-- I call you in the morning.

[answering machine beeping]

Hiya, Hannah.

It's me again.

And it's late.

I think-- I think I really need to talk.

I'm pretty sick of it here and this-- uh--

just-- I-- uh, I'll call you--

I'll call you in the morning.

That's what I'll do.

I'm sorry if I've woken you up.

Sorry.

Hannah. [hannah crying]

LAING (ON ANSWERING MACHINE): OK.

Good night.

Good night.

[hannah crying]

WHEELAN: We're looking for witnesses.

Talking to all the hotel staff up there.

I've got a kid who thinks he saw the car.

Thinks it arrived before 4:00.

Him and his girlfriend left shortly afterwards.

Did he have a look at the driver?

WHEELAN: He says he didn't.

We're still trying to contact the girlfriend.

You've no idea where he might have gone

after he left you last night?

I don't know.

We'd been drinking.

Look, uh-- we can speak about this later, then.

No.

I want to sort this out now.

Sorry.

Sorry.

WHEELAN: Well, we'll get this bastard one way or the other.

If I have to rip this town apart, I will.

Eh, look.

Don't take this personally, Creegan,

but you look like shite.

Do you want a cup of tea? CREEGAN: So what is it?

Tea and sympathy?

You look like you need it.

Tea?

Sympathy.

Do you want me to take your coat?

[sighing]

I wanted to tell you how sorry I am.

Look.

I'm not trying to sell you anything.

Don't want to put you under any pressure, but--

You want to know if I'm in need of counseling?

For what it's worth.

Where did you meet him?

In Hell Park.

He'd come back from playing football

and I couldn't start the car.

He-- he had some of that stuff that you spray on the engine,

and next thing I know, we've been out for a drink.

I'll be all right in a minute.

He-- he said you were in Liverpool.

He-- he told me you were doing some drugs

thing with Customs and Excise.

I've been told he was killed up in Ellindon.

I'm not stupid.

I read the papers.

I know that Mark lied to protect me.

How was he killed?

PATHOLOGIST: These are his clothes.

I've finished the autopsy.

It's all right to be viewed.

Massive internal hemorrhaging from the stab wounds.

Strangulation after that.

There's evidence of a struggle.

He fought back.

I think he dug his fingers into the killer's neck.

Have you seen everything you need?

You'll have a couple of minutes.

[music playing]

[door slamming]

[gasping]

[sighing]

[hannah crying]

Didn't take his gun with him.

Wherever he went, he felt safe.

You know we'll find the killer.

There'll be forensic evidence.

Rivers would have scarred him when he fought back.

CREEGAN: Can't think about that.

I don't know what to think.

I haven't had a straight thought my head since I saw Mark.

Hannah didn't even know he was up here.

But that's not all he was hiding.

I found this in his kitchen.

He got a copy of the personnel file.

Enright gave it to him day before you came up.

I don't wanna exacerbate your natural paranoia.

Enright had asked him to compile a report

on your ability to do the job.

Enright told him to do it?

What else could he do?

[music playing]

CREEGAN (VOICEOVER): You put one foot wrong, Dave.

Don't come back at all.

Forget this.

You can't read that far.

The local police are looking for the killer.

Let them go.

We're going to get they guy that did this.

He's not going to get away with it.

We'll make him pay.

MAN: No!

It wasn't me.

Why me?

Why me?

I know you didn't do it.

I know you didn't do it.

I know you didn't do it.

Sorry.

I'm really sorry.

I'm so sorry.

[crying]

I'm so sorry.

[wiping feet]

[thunder]

Creegan?

I didn't think anything could touch me anymore.

He was a friend.

[sniffing]

I can still see it.

What was left in the boot of the car.

I don't ever want to look at anything like that again.

Nothing compares to the shock of seeing that.

It's changed me for good.

I know that you did it, Michael.

Well, you sent me the cards.

You wanted me to know that you did it.

You sent me the cards and you left

him where I would find him.

I need you to tell me that you did it, Michael.

Otherwise we can't move on.

It's all right.

You can say it.

[michael laughing breathily]

[michael laughing]

Take it off.

I'm asking you to take it off.

Show me.

Do you know why?

You lonely?

You afraid of rejection?

Happens to the best of us, especially

when you don't belong.

You're like me.

You grew up around here but you never

really felt you fitted in.

You want to be the same, but you're different.

Peter, Frank, Tony, Carl-- they'd all

got something we've not.

You became a therapist.

I moved down to London.

They became fitters and welders.

It wasn't just because you're lonely.

You wanted the company of a particular kind of man.

They were strong.

They knew who they were.

They knew where-- well, they thought they

knew where they were going.

Killing their wives and girlfriends

brought those men directly to you.

You didn't have to lift a finger.

The police pushed them straight through your door.

Did you get a hard on talking to Carl Laing?

[laughing] I am--

I'm not a homosexual.

I never said you were.

Just asking.

Did talking to Carl Laing give you an erection?

[sniffing] I got excited.

Yeah.

But I never wanted to sleep with him or anything.

Is it the grief that makes you excited?

You know, you reduce this man to tears.

The one thing he needs more than anything in the world

has just been taken away from him, and all he's got left

now is you.

Is that how it works?

Well, you know it is.

And is that why I'm here?

Am I your next victim?

No.

It isn't like that.

I panicked.

I thought Mark worked it out.

I panicked.

Yes, but you left his body where I would find him.

You must have wanted me here.

I wanted you to break down.

I still might.

[sighing] Uh--

uh-- I didn't plan to kill him.

I'm really sorry.

Well, it's like you said, Michael.

Life goes on.

What's important to me now is that I don't let him down.

Not just because my partner's--

in fact, he betrayed me to the people I work for.

It's the fact that he's dead, and you killed him.

I've got to do something about that.

[phone beeping]

MICHAEL: Who you calling?

A friend.

[phone ringing]

I've been looking everywhere for you.

CREEGAN (ON PHONE): I'm at Lawler's house.

What are you doing?

[creegan yelling]

[dishes shattering]

[creegan gasping]

MICHAEL: Look.

Just stop.

CREEGAN: You didn't stop.

You didn't stop with Lisa D'Silva.

You carried on, but by the time you got to Matchin,

you cut open Suzanne and you hung her upside down

outside his home.

Don't talk about this.

I don't care.

I want to know why you chose Anthony Matchin.

Look, my car had broken down.

Matchin came round to help.

But why did it have to be him?

MICHAEL: Look, there are some things

in life you cannot explain.

[creegan yelling]

[glass shattering]

Oh!

[choking]

Life's sacred, and you take life.

You destroy it for personal pleasure,

and then you act out this shitty little ritual

as though the whole thing has some sort of meaning.

What pushed you over the edge?

Was it Frank?

[michael sobbing]

It's really-- it's hard to explain.

[sniffing] There was-- there was something

about Frank that's-- that seemed to bring everything together.

He knew things that I thought about-- things I didn't know,

and he was someone to admire.

Someone to-- to be with.

His wife came in for counseling.

She was very upset by the death of Frank's mother.

Frank came with her.

Started going to see her at home.

Couldn't believe what I was doing.

You know, walking up the stairs, I'm thinking to myself,

what are you doing?

[chuckling]

You know, talking to myself and saying, this is stupid.

This is crazy. This is crazy, you know.

You've got to stop this.

You've got to stop this before someone gets hurt.

And then there was the window and it was open.

So you pushed her through.

There's always the temptation to destroy--

to do what's wrong.

You have to fight against it to preserve your own sanity,

but you've got to choose what is right.

And if I didn't think that was true, you would be dead now.

[car door slamming]

[thunder]

Stand where he stood when you did it.

[knife scraping]

[michael gasping]

Is this it?

Is this what you used?

You start here?

Work your way up?

Go and sit in the car.

Wait for me.

I'm the commanding officer here.

I'm ordering you to go outside.

Somebody has got to do it.

[crying]

My fiance is dead, Creegan.

Please go outside.

You go outside now, you're not a witness.

I can't do this if you're here.

Killing him would be a pleasure.

You're going to enjoy it.

That's going to stick with you for the rest of your life.

Hand me the knife.

No.

I don't want you to do this.

Give me the knife.

Mark would not want you to do this.

Give it to me.

[sobbing]

Everybody trusted you.

CREEGAN (ON RECORDING): Interview between David Creegan

and Susan Taylor of the Organized and Serial Crimes

Unit and Michael James Lawler.

The time is 22:17.

MICHAEL (ON RECORDING): I didn't have

anything against the women.

I tried to kill Lisa because of Frank.

I killed Melanie Holland because of John.

I killed Suzanne because of [inaudible]

Yeah.

Yeah.

CREEGAN (ON RECORDING): Tell us about Anthony Matchin.

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