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[speaking german]

Hello?

You were right, there's nothing coming out.

You sure?

What about the other door inside the house?

[german]?

Yeah, [german].

No, it's completely air tight.

Can you find out when the garbage was modified?

We're checking that.

How's Cyril?

Cyril Golding?

He's very poorly.

He gave us a couple of frights in the night.

He can hardly breathe.

You'll get nothing out of him.

He was that poorly?

I've been checking on Hinks for a criminal record, nothing.

Then I contacted the Regional Force at Tunbridge Wells.

Again, nothing criminal, but his name came up attached

to this case as a witness.

Again?

Yeah, but he was only 11 when it happened.

I could see him under the ice, but I couldn't break it.

He was looking at me, and I couldn't get to him.

He just went back under, a and I never saw him again.

Ronald Hinks, December 1954.

Is there any more of this?

The newspaper closed down in '55.

Find the parents of the dead lad.

Track down the reporter, and try and get hold of a copy

of the coroner's report.

What?

I have been up all night.

I can do with some sleep.

Fine.

Get Rivers to drive, kip in the car.

You all right?

Fine.

Milk.

There's a word.

Tossed.

And I'll now have the coffee, please.

I couldn't breathe.

There's nowhere to go. - Is it dark or light?

It's dark.

Can you see me there?

I'm seeing it through the clouds.

I don't like the people you're working with.

That's because you don't know them.

Do you want to?

No.

He's watching them.

Your friends, he can see them.

That's impossible, Cyril.

We've searched his house.

We're watching every bloody move he makes.

He can see them.

He's watching them.

We go him?

Inspector [inaudible]... you in the garage?

Yes?

CREEGAN: Can anyone see in the garage from outside?

There's no view in from the outside.

The door to the house, there's no window in it?

No, there's no window.

CREEGAN: Has there ever been a window there?

Yes, there is a window.

Surveillance is showing that the only journeys he makes are

to work 0900 and from work 1730, and he stops [inaudible]

Sainsbury's Way, he buys his food by the day,

and a local newsagents where he buys his paper.

He never buys a paper in the morning, always at night.

Now, we've got the city engineers going

through any archive plans to find any bolt

holes close to Hinks's house.

We've interviewed the mother of an old friend

of Hinks, Peter Weller.

They went to school together, best of mates, Weller

fell through the ice from a boating lake, December, 1954.

Hinks was there when it happened.

Mrs. Weller was far from happy talking about Hinks.

She still blames him for her son's death.

If Ronald Hanks had to watch his friend die

at the age of 11, it's feasible that he or anyone could

displace that experience into a need

to be with children, wanting back

the kind of friendship he lost.

And then he kills them.

Possibly.

Am I the only one with reservations

about this suspect?

No.

What kind of reservations?

Oh, that we're putting everything we've got into one

suspect.

25 ex-offenders with form for child related crimes were

viewed by South Hart's police, cross-examined

by us and [inaudible].

We're sticking with Hinks because he's

the only one moving us on.

How?

All we've proved is that Hinks doesn't go anywhere.

He doesn't do anything.

All we know from surveillance is that he isn't making

contact with the victims.

I don't understand how we can treat him as the only suspect

without a single scrap of evidence, Creegan.

I share that feeling. Anybody else?

Whoa.

We only got onto Hinks because his Volvo was parked

near the scene of the crime.

We only got onto the victims in Stuttgart

once we started checking Hinks.

Nobody invented that connection.

But we're under the microscope here,

and I'm sensing that people are losing their footing slightly.

I think we need to go back over the original list of suspects

and absolutely convince ourselves

that we're not misfiring.

Sir, I think that's just wasting time we haven't got.

Half an hour ago, I was made aware the parents

of Eddie Franklin had gone to the press

about our performance.

I've been called to a meeting at the home office this afternoon.

I thought there was a news blackout on this?

It's not news.

It's no news, which as you well know, the press seem to prefer.

Shit.

I'm on this with DI Kreitman.

This is a waste of time.

Well, the faster we waste it, the faster we can get on.

OK.

The parents of the three abducted children, Jerry

Casper, Steven Lorde, and Eddie Franklin,

have criticized the way the police are handling the case.

The OSC, Organized and Serial Crimes Unit,

were called into supervise the case,

are accused of being too secretive by one mother.

We've been told nothing.

My son's been kidnapped, and he's out there with somebody

who shouldn't have him.

I don't know what they're doing about it.

The man in charge of the OSC, Commander Steven Enwright

make the following statement.

Any clues, any information, no matter how unimportant

they think it may be, could be crucial in the resolution

of this case.

Come on.

Events, people, faces, vehicles, anything that

may have happened to those boys prior to their disappearance,

please contact us.

Have you fainted since you started treatment?

No, I haven't.

Have you been suspected of any offense

since you started treatment.

No.

Well, yes, once.

Mrs. Weller?

Yes?

DI Creegan.

You know one of my officers has tried making contact?

He has, and it's not for discussion.

Look.

I think Ronald Hinks was responsible for the abduction

of three children.

What do you think, Mrs. Weller?

Hello, again.

I racked my brains following the television broadcast,

and well, it worked.

I've remembered something else.

Do you want to follow me?

You don't think it was an accident, do you?

No.

It wasn't an accident.

It was the latest freeze over we'd ever had.

It was meant to be nearly spring.

The lake glazed over, but it wasn't really thick

enough to carry a bird.

So how can you blame him?

He didn't call for help.

And that doesn't count as shock?

He told the police he screamed for help.

He just watched.

He told them he came knocking at our door,

which backed down to the lake and couldn't get a reply.

I was in the kitchen with the door open

when he said he was hammering on it.

Even his own mother didn't believe

him when he started crying.

His father begged me to let him come to the funeral,

but there was no way on God's earth I wanted him there.

Hello, we need to speak to somebody in charge

of the kidnapping case.

Now.

Which park?

Greenwich Park.

When?

Wednesday, December 4th.

When?

9 o'clock, which is, as you already got on file,

when I told you I was there.

This man, this scruffy man--

The same man you saw the day Jerry Casper was kidnapped.

That's right.

You just happened to be there when two kids were abducted

in separate circumstances.

I'm saying, I thought the same man was also in both locations.

What I'm further suggesting is because he was carrying two

large shopping bags brimming with food,

he must live close by there, mustn't he?

So we put 50 officers on a ground search of the area,

and we might eventually come up with something

vaguely resembling the description you gave us.

I'm sorry, I thought I was being helpful.

I'll bet you did.

Sir, we've got something.

This is Richard Price and Gavin Broby,

engineers with a TV crew.

They were testing a satellite link near Hinks's house

when they picked this up.

Is it them?

That is definitely Jerry Casper.

And that's what Steven Lorde was wearing when he went missing.

That's the bit I recognize from the news.

DI Taylor's got our man in interview one.

He's volunteering new information on the man

he thinks was responsible.

Where's Hinks?

Took him out the back and beat him up.

You what?

I sent him home.

DI Creegan, surveillance unit one.

Get Hinks now.

I've just [inaudible].

What's happened?

In his face, now get him.

We found the kids. - Alive?

For now.

Where?

We're stopped on the wrong side of [inaudible]

crossing on Spring Road.

You'll have to take him.

- We're on the way back to base. - I thought you taking him?

Unit three, name yourself.

Sergeant Slater, 2142.

I'm gonna pull your bollocks off when I see you.

Rivers, where are you?

RIVERS: Back roads, almost Hinks's house.

Unit two?

Get onto Jubilee Road, make sure Hinks can't double back.

What have I done?

I don't know what I'm supposed to have done.

Because you're a lying bastard.

This is where you were yesterday, huh?

Yeah, this is roughly where we were, yeah.

But I mean, there's no way of telling

where we picked the signal up.

- You didn't see it at the time? - No.

I only noticed when we were going through the tapes

at the office.

I remember a flicker of interference

but that's all it was.

Hold on.

I've got something.

There it is.

They're not moving.

They're not moving.

Creegan!

Stop him!

Creegan!

Where are they, you evil bastard?

Please, Ronald, please?

Hey, we've got some numbers from the council,

202, 212, 437, and 702, and they're still checking.

Ask if there's any occupied flats with absent tenants.

I have.

702 is the only one.

Eddie?

- Steven? - Jerry?

Steven?

Jerry?

Steve!

Right.

We drag in another 100 officers.

We go house to house again.

I want every flat searched.

That's gonna take days to get that many warrants.

We don't get warrants.

We knock on the door, soon as they open it, you're in.

No, we're now.

We ask, tell them as little as possible.

Right?

Yes.

Move.

I'll talk to Hinks.

Can't have much left to hang on to now.

We know you know where they are.

Are they alive?

If you give them up, and you help us get to them,

it works in your favor on your sentence.

And you know perfectly well you'll got unconditional life,

but where you serve it, can be a matter for discretion.

His lawyer's here.

I hope you rot.

Can I do the interview?

- You don't touch him. - I won't touch him.

If you're going to scare him, you make

sure your ass is on that chair.

Promise me, Creegan.

Time is 501.

This is DI Dave Creegan accompanied by DI Susan Taylor.

We're interviewing Professor Ronald Hinks,

and he's accompanied by his Brief Peter Lister.

Ronald, did you abduct Jerry Casper, Steven Lorde,

and Eddie Franklin on the 26, 30th of November,

and the 4th of December?

No.

You've no knowledge of their whereabouts?

No.

And you had nothing to do with the murders of Mark Fulper

and Christian Mann in February 1994?

I did not.

Thanks.

You can go.

Interview terminated 502.

What's going on?

BRIEF PETER LISTER: What the bloody hell is going on?

Is this some kind of joke?

Creegan?

Creegan!

If you could have proved anything, you wouldn't be here.

If you'd been clever, I'd never been here at all.

You can't threaten me, Creegan.

No?

What makes you so special?

You've done enough damage.

I'm just laughing at something one of our psychologists said.

You're trespassing.

If you don't get out of my house now,

I'm within my rights to set the dog on you.

Henry.

Good boy.

Good boy.

Good boy.

Yeah, we keep shrinks on the payroll

to speculate on the abstract mind, Professor.

Imagine having a job like that?

I want to make a phone call.

Fine.

You're getting ready for work thinking up

three abstract minds to get sorted today.

And if I do it by 5:00, I can get to Sainsbury's.

It's a scream, isn't it?

It's like your job, biogenetic engineering.

That's all thunderbirds to me.

Go on, talk me through it.

You fed the dog, you're having a shave,

it's a precision lifestyle, but what are you thinking?

I need to get in earlier.

I've got an ear to grow on the back of that rat.

Well, don't forget to reduce human life to a single molecule

at least once today.

What shape's the rest of the world in when you

can pull all that off, Ronald?

Are you up there somewhere?

Where the special people live?

The law says you've no right to be here.

You're breaking the rules.

Nobody knows I'm here, Ron.

They all think I've gone home sulking because we lost you.

And you couldn't prove I was here even if you did your best.

What do you spend your money on?

Your salary goes into your account,

and you take out 500 quid a week in cash.

What are you buying these days, Ron?

Books.

Of course, he's an academic.

Books.

You got a Visa card, Access card,

and you've got a Diner's card, but you

buy your books with cash.

You spend as much on books as I do on child maintenance.

Did I tell you I had kids?

I'm not interested in your--

Two.

Girls.

For 500 quid a week, I keep two houses going.

Where is your second house?

I beg your pardon?

Well, you've no garage here, and there's no kids here.

They're somewhere, Ronald.

Look, you're in a lot of trouble.

Please, let me know.

This is--

This is abduction.

This is what being held against your will actually feels like,

and you'll be happy to know I'm not a violent man.

You are going nowhere.

I want Eddie Franklin, Jerry Casper, and Steven Lorde.

Now.

No wires.

And there's no witnesses.

Talk to me.

Hi I'm DI Taylor, can I speak to Dave?

He's not here.

Well, did he say what time he'd be back?

Well, he didn't, no.

He doesn't live here, you know?

Can I see your warrant card?

We're divorced.

He's in a flat down Stamford Road.

I'm sorry, I should have checked.

You OK?

Yes, sorry to have bothered you.

If he calls, I'll tell him you're looking for him.

You're getting ready for work.

You're having a shave.

What are you thinking?

This person dies, or that person suffers, it's down to me?

Or the world looks awful?

And you've done nothing to protect it,

when your job is by definition protection.

Is that on your conscience?

I've learned to avoid that trap.

Then you're kidding yourself.

The hallmarks of your job and mine are virtually identical.

We learn by failure.

We're both at the mercy of evidence.

Mark Fulper and Christian Mann died because you failed?

No.

You were 11 when your best mate died.

When you watched him die.

You could have helped him, couldn't you?

You were less than two minutes walk from the nearest house,

but you didn't walk.

You didn't run.

Nobody heard you screaming.

I bet you can't even remember why

you killed your best friend, just that you could,

so you did.

And you got away with it.

And that was your first taste of a totally unique power

that nobody but people like you really want.

Do they live?

Do they die?

If these people died, surely they died because you failed.

Your people.

Because nobody stopped you?

Oh, come on, Ron, you're a big lad.

If you didn't know that was wrong,

how come I'm here having to play games?

Your game.

In your position, I'd be very angry

if I was involved in a game I didn't know the rules of.

Listen to me, you freak, I don't want to hear

why people think you did it.

They'll call you all sorts in court,

social this, emotionally psycho that, but you're not, Ronald.

You're as sane now as you were the day you were born.

You were born a sick, twisted bastard.

Some people are.

That's all there is to it.

Where's the pride in winning a game you wrote the rules for?

Your biggest achievement in 50 years

is over powering children.

How in God's name could a normal person be proud of that?

I'm not in charge of this game.

Voices?

You're going to go for voices in court?

Screw yourself, Hinks, you've not a chance.

The only voices you'll be hearing

are the parents wanting you dead, you sick,

twisted bastard.

I don't think you're in a position

to judge anyone objectively.

10 minutes ago, you were telling me you weren't a violent man.

[dog barking]

Henry!

Henry!

Henry, good boy.

Here, boy.

Come here.

Henry!

Come here.

Henry!

Come on, Henry, you show me.

Steven?

Eddie?

Eddie?

(SINGING) Green little men in a flying saucer

flew around the world one day.

He looked left and right, he didn't like the sight,

so one man flew away.

Zoom.

Two little men in a flying saucer.

Is that all you remember, Eddie?

Didn't see anything?

Didn't hear anything?

Just a sharp pain, like an injection in my leg.

You said he pulled your hair.

Not then.

I wasn't really awake.

My hair was being pulled, not real pulled, like if you know,

you put sealing tape on and rip it off?

Yeah?

Yeah.

I bet that felt really weird?

Yeah.

Could you see who was doing that, Eddie?

If I showed you some pictures do you think you

might recognize one of them?

If you really concentrate.

No.

(SINGING) He looked left and right

but he didn't like the sight.

One little man flew away.

Zoom.

He is guilty.

The only way we knew about Mark Fulper and Christian Mann

was because of the calling cards, the shoes.

The only way we found victims was because of Ronald Hinks's

work records, and the only reason we knew about him

was because his car was in--

his very distinctive bloody car was at [inaudible] abducted.

Circumstantial.

His dog.

His own bloody dog led us to the last three victims, sir.

Look, Hinks has more grounds for harassment

than we have for conviction.

A dog knew exactly where it was going.

It was following its owner's scent.

With the greatest respect, we can't

put a dog in the witness box, and if we could,

it's circumstantial.

[inaudible] bloody washes, to you know that?

Creegan.

You couldn't make shit stuck to a bunion, you tosser.

Creegan, that's not how we do this.

Just sit down.

Sit down!

Continue.

(SINGING) He looked left and right,

and quite liked the sight.

[door opening]

(SINGING) Thought he might stay.

I'm sorry, it's so late.

I, uh, I didn't know where else to go.

I'm glad you came here.

Ta, Barry.

If it wasn't past closing, I'd be

out buying you champagne, Dave.

Cheers.

Can I stay?

Sure.

I'll make the sofa up.

Well done.

You're a hero.

Again.

You're not suggesting that Kessler will sustain

defense for a freak like Hinks?

He's a geneticist.

I know they're not 10 a penny, but he can't be that gifted.

Kessler's worth billions.

If Hinks goes down, their name goes with it.

They'll spend what they need to represent his innocence.

If they win, their loyalty pays off.

If they lose, they're sunk.

They will not lose.

You're giving us nothing to fight with.

They've applied for the release of his passport.

It's just going to be back to square one as far

as Hinks is concerned.

He will do it again.

The parents of three abducted children

are calling their rescue a miracle,

and they're praising the policeman who saved them.

They say Detective Inspector David Creegan

from the Organized and Serial Crimes Unit

should receive a commendation.

We'd all just like to say thank you for bringing

our kids back safe and sound.

The police seemed to be no closer to charging

anyone with the offense.

Hey, are you all right?

Dave?

[engine starting]

CREEGAN'S VOICEMAIL: Hi.

Sorry, I'm not in, but if you'll leave

your name, number, and time you called,

I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

[beep]

Creegan, just ring me, you selfish bastard.

[classical music]

[wind chimes tinkling]

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