All language subtitles for Dalziel.and.Pascoe.S04E01.On.Beulah.Height.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-squalor

-[Children] One foot, two foot,

black foot, white foot,

three foot, four foot,

left foot, right foot.

No one runs as fast
as Benny Lightfoot.

Out goes she.

[eerie instrumental music]
[children shouting]

Three foot, four foot,

left foot, right foot.

No one runs as fast
as Benny Lightfoot.

Out goes she.

[child laughs]

[door creaks]

[droning ambient music]

[dog whines]

- Tig, you beggar.

[Tig barks]

Shh!

You'll wake Mam and Dad.

- "Once there were a strange
creature called a Nix

"that lived by a pool
in a cave under a hill.

"For food, he ate
whatever swam in his pool

"or crawled in the
mud around it.

"If Nix wanted to go out,

"he'd wait til the sun
fell out of the sky.

"But sometimes he'd hear
voices of kiddies

"playing in village far below.

"And he'd sneak out
in the daytime

"and find a shady
spot on a hillside

"where he could watch them.

"The one he liked watching best

"were called Nina.

"Her hair was as blonde
as his was black,

"and her skin was smooth
as his was scaly."

- Should we go up to the cave?

Come on.

Come on, Tig.

Come on.

[gentle instrumental music]

Come on, Tig!

Tig!

-[Peter] "One morning, Nina
went for a walk up the hill.

"She wanted to pick some
flowers for her Mam."

- Come on, boy.
- "But there weren't very many

"'cause the heat had
dried up all the ground

"and baked it so hard that
even the grass was brown."

- Come on, sweetheart,
time to get dressed.

Sandra and her mum and
dad will be here soon.

- No.

[gentle instrumental music]

[Tig barks]

- [Girl In Red Coat]
Come on boy.

-[Peter] "She climbed
higher and higher,

"until Nina had left
her home and her friends

"and her mum and dad far below."

- Come on, Tig.
- "Out of sight.

"Out of reach."

-[Man] Close the window, Rosie.

- Maybe I should've joined
the Water Board

instead of the police.

- Now, dear, don't get
bitter and twisted.

- He gets share options.

Everyone else gets
hosepipe bans.

- Derek and Jill are
very nice people.

-[Peter] With a very nice car.

-[Ellie] And Sandra's
Rosie's best friend.

- No, our daughter's best friend

is a little girl called Nina.

"The higher she climbed,

"the more out of puff she got.

"But, finally, Nina stopped.

"At last, she reached the top."

- [Girl In Red Coat]
Come on, Tig!

-[Peter] "Top of the
world it was."

- Come on, boy.
- "Silent, save for the cries

"of the pewits and curlews.

"But Nina loved it.

"Then she heard a voice.

"The strange, scary voice

"of the Nix."

[thunder booms]

I often think they have gone

Out walking

And soon they'll come homeward

Laughing and talking

Rosie!

Rosie!

Come on.

Don't look so pale

They've only gone for a hike

Up dale

Why yes

- Darling!

Oh!

Returning now

Laughing and talking

Don't look so pale

- Elizabeth.

- Hello, Walter.

[thunder rumbles]
[mournful operatic singing]

[children chattering
and shouting]

- Tea?

- No thanks.

Where's Lorraine?

- She's gone out.

I don't like her just
havin' biscuits

for breakfast, you know.

Don't like her goin'
out on her own either.

- Oh, she'll only be
down the street.

Kids have to play, Tony.

-[Children] Right foot.

No one runs as fast
as Benny Lightfoot.

Out goes she.

[humming]

- Oh, sod it.

[children shouting and laughing]

- Lorraine!

Except for the
secrets you hide

- Hey up, Peter, lad.

[pulsing pop music]

It's all right.

I like my steaks rare.

- You're gonna need to
like 'em raw at this rate.

Hope ya got a license
for that shirt.

Got a drink, have ya?

- If you can call it that.

Trouble is with canned
ale, the next mornin',

it comes out of your backside

like a flock of bloody
starlings.

What's up, brown owl?

Not rubbin' your twigs
together hard enough?

I'll see what you
got in your shed.

[rain patters]

- Lorraine!

Lorraine!

- What is it, do you
think, with men and fires?

- It's the old caveman
instinct, isn't it?

- Oh I suppose.

- Mind you, they've evolved
a long way since then.

[fire whooshes]

- Oh, yes indeed.

Your white wine, DC Novello,

and the best of luck in the CID.

- Thanks, Ellie.

- Lorraine!

[wind howls]

Lorraine!

Lorraine!

[dog barks]

Tig!

[Tig whines]
[ominous instrumental music]

Tig!

[ominous instrumental music]

Tig.

[Tig whines]

Come on, Tig.

[suspenseful instrumental music]

[door creaks]

- Lorraine?

- Is she back?

[Tig whines]
[ominous instrumental music]

-[Woman] Tony?

-[Children] No one runs as
fast as Benny Lightfoot.

Out goes she.

[child laughs]

- Then she says I'll
dance on your grave.

Good, he says, 'cause
I'm plannin'

on bein' buried at sea. [laughs]

Hey up, Peter.

I didn't know you'd
invited the prophet Elijah.

Maybe he's come to
read the lesson.

- Superintendent Dalziel,
Inspector Pascoe.

Gentlemen.

- Can I get you a drink,
Mr. Raymond?

- No thank you, Ellie,

I've just supped of
Holy Sacrament.

Quite sufficient for
my needs, thank you.

- Been drinkin' from the
deep well of the Gospels,

have ya, sir?

- I've just come from
holy service,

if that's what you mean.

It is a Sunday, Superintendent.

- Amen.

- And I called in at HQ on
my way home from church.

You're on call this
weekend I gather.

- Aw, it's dead quiet.

Like Aberdeen on a flag day.

- Control room have been
trying to get hold of you.

They say you're not answering
your mobile.

- [sighs] Hell's flames.

You know, I, I must've
left it in me suit.

Why, what's going off?

- Child's missing.

A little girl, 8:30
this morning.

- Well it's a bit early
to panic, isn't it?

- She's from Dendale, Andrew.

[somber instrumental music]

-[Andy] When they built the
reservoir 15 years back,

and they emptied the
folk out of the valley,

a little girl went missing.

Mary Wulfstan.

She was never found.

Then another little
girl was attacked.

Betsy Allgood.

But luckily, she got away.

- What's up?

[rain patters]

Who's Benny?

- Ghost maybe.

Benny Lightfoot.

We pulled him in.

Had nothin' on him,
had to let him go.

Mary Wulfstan's old man
Walter went bananas,

told the press what
a prat I was.

It made a good story.

-[Peter] What happened to him?

- He disappeared.

That did it for most people,

especially Walter.

In his eyes, we had the
killer and let him go.

- You didn't agree?

- Well, Benny was
a bit odd, maybe.

Two sheets short of a
bug roll, you might say,

but I didn't have him down
as a killer of little girls.

Most people thought
he was a monster.

Looks like they still do.

[surf crashes]
[swirling instrumental music]

[police band chatters]

Right, let's get started.

[lush operatic singing]

- What's the matter?

- Your phrasing was
better on the disc.

What have they been
teaching you in New York?

- It's the jet lag.

It always plays havoc
with me song box.

We could work on it, if
you can give me the time.

- Of course I'll give
you the time.

You're my daughter.

- You don't want me to sing
this at the concert, do you?

- It's why you came
home, isn't it?

- That's not the only reason.

I wanted to see you and Chloe.

- A young voice like yours

isn't suited to Mahler.

Now I told you that.

But you always do what you want.

- That's not true.

That's not true at all.

I'm sorry

if it upsets you,

brings it all back I mean.

- It never went away.

How can a piece of
music bring it all back?

Oh, I'm sorry.

It's good to see you.

And hear you.

Again.

And remember that phrasing.

[lush piano music]

Chloe, we are rehearsing.

- What's wrong, love?

- It's happening again.

-[Elizabeth] What?

- A little girl's gone
missing on Beulah Height.

Mary's age.

[tinkling instrumental music]
[film reel clicking]

-[Children] Left
foot, right foot.

No one runs as fast
as Benny Lightfoot.

Out goes she.

[melancholic instrumental music]

[thunder rumbles]

-[Andy] Mrs. Dacre.

I'm Superintendent Dalziel.

- Who's this clown?

And why's he come here dressed
like a pina bloody colada?

- I came as soon as I got word.

I didn't waste time changin'.

- Who gives a stuff
what you're wearing.

Can you find her?

-[Andy] I'll do everything
in my power.

- Oh, that's all right then.

- Little lass could easily
have turned her ankle.

Maybe she's sittin' up there

waitin' for somebody
to fetch her.

- Don't be stupid, copper!

- Tony!

No need for all this
soft soap, Mr. Dalziel.

We all know what this
is about, don't we?

It's just like last time.

- Listen, pet.

I know what you're
thinkin' and why.

But it's too early to be
talkin' about last time, okay?

- Karen, lass, I've
only just heard.

- Mom! [weeps]

- Oh, look, I can't stand
'round here doin' nowt.

Has this search of
your started yet?

- Just settin' out.

- Right.

-[Peter] Where's the dog?

-[Tony] I dropped him
off at the vet.

[Karen cries]

- It's all right.

-[Edgar] Start at the stile
at the end of Church Lane

and make your way up
to Beulah Height.

And, remember, anything
loose on the ground,

we want to know about it, okay?

Any questions?

Right, let's get to it.

I'll make a start over there,

turn that way,

then with a three lad
[speaker fades out].

- Good.
- Right.

[tense instrumental music]

- I can't believe this.

Why now?

[tense instrumental music]

- We must help, Walter.

[tense instrumental music]

[helicopter buzzes and rumbles]

- Go over that way.

[helicopter buzzes]

- Look.

-[Elizabeth] What?

- Jack, your father.

[helicopter buzzes]

- He used to be.

He's not anymore.

[tense instrumental music]

- [Man In Helicopter]
We've got something.

120 yards ahead to
your right flank.

Below the rock outcrop.

- Goin' to check, hear.

[shrill whistling]

- Lorraine, Lorraine!

Have you found her?

- No, sir.

It's nothing.

Sheep.

Not long dead by
the looks of it.

Sorry.

[soft instrumental music]

[doorbell rings]

- Mommy, we're back!
- All right, you'll wear out

the bell, not to
mention my ears.

- Mommy, look, we had
five ice creams

and three picnics,

and Dereks' car is
really [speaker babbles].

And I can beat Sandra
backstroke.

- And chattering
19 to the dozen,

I shouldn't wonder.

Three picnics.

-[Derek] Well, she's got a
big appetite, doesn't she?

- She gets that from her father.

- Must dash,

Nice to see you, Ellie.

- Bye.

I rather like Derek, don't you?

Come on [grunts], lady.

- Mummy, I'm hot, can
I have a drink?

- Where's your necklace?

You're not wearing
your necklace.

- I lost it.

- Lost it?

- Oh, Mummy, I'm
so glad I'm home.

- Ah, don't change the subject.

Where did you lose it?

That was a present
from Uncle Andy.

- Look, I've told you
twice, I didn't see her.

She left the house before
me or Karen got off.

- I know what you said.

- Well what is this?

I'm her dad for God sake!

- Aye.

-[Tony] You!

-[Peter] Mr. Dacre.

- You could start a ruck
in a monastery, lad.

Nasty things, tempers.

- Tell ya somethin',

if I had a mind like
thine, copper,

I'd grow mushrooms in it.

-[Peter] You don't think he?

- I don't know.

That's the thing with these,

you don't know til you know.

Now then, Wieldy, let's have it?

Owt or nowt?

- Two sightings.

Cars we can't account for.

Land Rover nobody in
the village knows.

About eight this morning.

And a blue estate, Volvo maybe,

on the Topmore Road
an hour later.

- Well get crackin'.

Oh, and wind down the
search for today.

Right.

Come on, Peter.

- Where are we goin'?

- This is what I wanted
you to see.

Where it all started.

-[Peter] Gonna solve
all our water problems

for the next century, wasn't it?

Are those, uh--

- The ruins of the village, aye.

The Water Board had it bulldozed

before the filled the reservoir.

But I think I can just
make out who lived where.

- What were they
like, the people?

- That's what I asked the
local bobby 15 years back.

Was there somebody,
you know, a bit odd?

He said he didn't know
anybody that wasn't.

Families had been so
long in the valley,

they, they couldn't be uprooted.

You know, just broken
off at ground level.

- You think all that's got
somethin' to do with Lorraine?

- Somebody does maybe.

- Benny's back.

-[Andy] Why would someone
kill a bairn, Peter?

-[Peter] I reckon you
know the answer to that.

[somber instrumental music]

-[Radio Announcer] 10 past six.

A pouty morning on the whole.

- I'm feeling badly.

- Come on then, time we're off.

-[Radio Announcer] The weather
is going to be the wind.

- Nice try, kid.

Mommy's still upset
about the necklace.

- I didn't mean to lose it.

-[Peter] Couldn't you
have got your friend Nina

to help you find it?

- Don't be daft.

She got taken by the Nix again.

And you'll be sorry
if I get taken, too.

- Oh, Rosie.

-[Radio Announcer]
77 degrees Celsius.

Coming up to 11 [speaker
cut off].

[wind whistles]

[thunder rumbles]

[Land Rover revs]

[thunder rumbles]

[ominous instrumental music]

[sheep bleat]

- We're gonna talk
to the Wulfstans.

Maybe get Novello to follow
up those car sightings

once she's checked
the Topmore Road.

Yeah.

No, no, no, both of them.

Yeah.

Okay.

Wieldy, on second thoughts,

tell her to forget
the Land Rover.

We'll follow that up.

She should chase
the blue estate.

-[Novello] Excuse me?

Hello.

-[Shepherd] Stay there.

[sheep bleat]

What do you want?

-[Novello] I'd like
to talk to you.

- I'm at my work.

- I'm a police officer.

- Oh aye.

Been a few of yours around
last day or so.

What's goin' off?

- You haven't heard?

- No, I live by meself.

Me and the dog, up
the valley there.

-[Novello] It's been all
over the TV and radio.

- Don't have neither.

- A child's gone missing
from the village.

Lorraine Dacre.

- Little girl.

When?

- Yesterday mornin'.

- I haven't seen anybody.

- I have a photo here.

- I haven't seen her.

- You went out with
the sheep then?

- Not on a Sunday.

Saw a car

when out stretchin' dog's legs
over there where yours is.

- What kind of car was it?

- I don't know.

Big blue thing, foreign.

- Ever been back to Dendale?

Just to take a look?

- Why do you ask?

- Just wondering.

- Dendale was a paradise,
Mr. Pascoe.

Then it became paradise lost.

What would I want
to look at now?

- Now they're drainin' the dam,

you can see the ruins
of the houses.

The little school, too.

Are you still teaching?

Did you teach Benny Lightfoot.

- I taught all the
kids in the valley,

my own included.

- What did you make of him?

- When he was little,
he had a fall

and they put a metal
plate in his skull,

so people assumed
that he was daft,

but he was as bright
as a button.

Then his dad died.

And he became a loner.

His mum took him and his brother

to live with old Mrs. Lightfoot,

and then she announced
that she was off to Canada

to a new life.

Benny wouldn't go.

-[Peter] And what happened?

- They took off,

let him stay.

He withdrew into himself.

Spent all his time
on his own, mostly,

in the hills.

He was a strange boy.

- Most folks thought
he was the killer.

Your husband included.

- Well he was wrong.

That's something we
never agreed upon.

Oh, I don't know.

Maybe he was right.

Nobody knows, do they?

- He certainly attacked
Betsy Allgood.

[lush operatic singing]

- That's Elizabeth,
our daughter.

She's rehearsing
for the concert.

- I didn't know you
had another child.

- I didn't.

Uh, Elizabeth's adopted.

She's Betsy Allgood, as was.

- Thank you very much, Mister?

- Allgood.

Jack Allgood.

-[Elizabeth] Broken in, have ya?

- Uh, hell, just
casin' the joint.

- Can't fool me.

With a suit like that,

you've got to be on the
other side of the law.

- I paid 200 quid for this.

- You were robbed.

Backside in pants
are that shiny,

I can see me face in 'em.

I think you were wearin'
it last time we met.

- You got a good memory.

As well as a sharp tongue.

- I'd not mistake
you, Mr. Dalziel.

- What, even after 15 years of
Tetley's and second helpings?

- I'm a Green Halls girl meself.

- I'm not sure I would've
recognized you.

You were a bit, uh-

- Fat.

Fat arms, fat legs, fat face.

- Well made, like me.

[chuckles]

-[Walter] Ah, I can
see you now, Inspector.

Uh.

- Superintendent now.

-[Walter] Ah.

- He thought it began
Papa 3-4-8.

He wasn't sure.

- I'll run it through
the computer,

see what we get.

You might as well
head back here.

-[Walter] The girl's parents
have my deepest sympathy.

Especially if they're relying
on you and your colleagues

to recover her.

- Yeah.

Well, uh,

where were you yesterday morning

between seven and nine?

- Oh, I'm sure you already know.

Somebody saw the car.

I went for a walk
up Beulah Height.

-[Andy] Can I ask why?

- My firm has a research
unit out on the Denby Road.

When I'm there, I usually
take the chance

to go for a walk.

- Yesterday was Sunday.

- I know.

I trained as an engineer,
Superintendent,

and one of the first
things they taught us

was the days of the week.

Why, has Sabbath-breaking

been made an indictable
offense in Mid Yorkshire?

- No, but if excessive
use of irony was

you'd get life, I reckon.

- All right.

I dropped in, pick
up some papers,

and then I went for a
walk up Beulah Height.

- Did you see anybody at all?

- A few people, yeah.

A long way off.

Down by the water where
the ruins of the village

have started to show through.

Fascinating,

if rather ghoulish.

Like viewing the skeleton
of our old life.

- Yeah.

Well, thanks for your help.

Oh, uh, by the way.

-[Walter] Mm hmm?

- Did you see the graffiti
in the village

about Benny Lightfoot?

-[Walter] Mm hmm.

- What do you think about it?

- Very little.

Somehow, he's not a real person,

not any more.

To be honest, I hardly
ever think about him.

- Somehow I find that
hard to believe.

- All right then, here's
what I think.

Do you know what I think?

We would all have been spared
a great deal of anguish

if you had done your
job properly,

held onto him when
you had the chance.

- You never wondered
what happened to him?

- Oh, I used to.

[chuckles] I used to
hope he'd died in pain.

- These last few years,

we've hardly seen anything
of Elizabeth.

She's been in either
New York or Milan or.

I miss her.

When she comes home,

we have this ritual.

I always cook her an
old-fashioned Sunday dinner

and she pretends to love it.

Well this time,

I wanted to do something special

so I went back to Dendale
for the first time.

There's a place there I've
known since I was a child,

with bilberries as
fat as brambles.

I picked a basketful,

and then I saw a figure,

a, a boy as thin as a rake.

He, he turned and saw me.

I, well, he, he smiled
and waved.

I, I, I dropped the
basket and ran.

-[Peter] You thought
it was Benny Lightfoot?

- All this time, I knew.

I could see people looking at me

and hear them thinking,

Oh, thank God it's
yours, not mine.

Thank God it's not mine.

And I'd think, well, take care,

put your arms around them

because it isn't finished yet.

It can happen again

and it has, hasn't it?

[tinkling instrumental music]

- Right.

Thanks for that.

[chattering]

Let's go.

- Where to?

- You've struck oil.

A man called Geordie
Turnbull owns

a blue Volvo estate.

Registration starts P-3-4-8.

- Why does that name
ring a bell?

- When they built the dam, he
was one of the contractors.

Drove a bulldozer.

He was questioned when
Mary went missing.

- Was he a serious suspect?

- Not really.

He could've done it, but
here was no hard evidence.

Only reason we pulled him in

was locals pointing the finger.

- He wasn't liked then?

- Everybody thought
he was a grand chap

til trouble hit.

Then it was loyalty, not
liking, that counted.

Everybody wanting to believe
it wasn't one of their own.

[birds chirping]

- I can't believe you're
doing this to me again.

- We have to follow all
lines of inquiry, sir.

You know that.

- And I hope ya catch
the pervert responsible,

but you people, you drag
your mucky boots

through people's lives.

You never think about the
mess you leave behind.

Last business nearly
finished me.

- Sarge.

I found this in the back seat,

and this in the boot.

[ominous instrumental music]

- What's up?

- George Robert Turnbull,

I must caution you.

[car alarm chirps]

- Right.

Got the wet tea towels
at the ready?

- He helps run a football
club in the village.

Runs the kids to away games.

He says the shoe must
belong to one of them.

- And the ribbon?

- There's a team for
girls as well.

- There would be.

Why can't they stick
to mud-wrestling?

[Andy sighs]

All right, Geordie.

I've read your statement,

and I have to say,

I haven't seen such
a pile of crap

since I watched Newcastle
in the Cup Final.

So why don't ya tell us

what you were really
doing yesterday mornin'?

Just the headlines.

You can dot the Ps and Qs later.

- I thought I might see
her before she went to bed.

- Oh, she was dead on her feet,

asked to go to bed.

Hope she's all right.

You know, she seems hot.

I might keep her off tomorrow.

Does she seem hot to you?

- She's all right.

[thunder rumbles]

[weeping]

- Right, we've done
the fells for now.

The boss wants the buildings
hit again.

Every farm house, barn,
byre, hen coop, pig sty.

-[Cop] Garden shed.

-[Edgar] Yes, garden shed,

outside privy,

to be turned upside-down.

Okay?

All right, go on then.

[foreboding instrumental music]

[moves into lush operatic music]

-[Rosie] Nina!

Nina?

[lush operatic music]

-[Peter Voiceover] "She
climbed higher and higher."

- Nina!

Nina!

Where are you?

-[Peter Voiceover]
"Out of reach."

[lush operatic singing]

-[Ellie] Rosie.

Rosie.

Oh God.

- I'm inquiring about
Agnes Lightfoot.

Okay.

- Forensics haven't
been able to match

either the shoe or the ribbon.

They didn't belong to Lorraine.

- Can't say I'm surprised.

- Andy will have to
let Geordie go.

- He'll keep him til
his 24 hours are up.

- What's the point with
nothin' on him?

- We've got nothing on nobody.

Hello?

She's alive?

[phone rings]

Sorry, could you repeat that?

[phone rings]

[door creaks]

- Right, ya can go.

- This is the second time
you've done this to me.

- You keep gettin' up
my nose, Geordie.

Do that and you're
bound to get sneezed on.

- Next time, I'll sue ya.

- What is it you're
not tellin' us?

I'll find out in
the end you know.

- Oh, I'm sure you will.

But as it'll probably take ya

another 15 year, I won't
hold me breath.

- See where he goes, Ivor.

But be discreet.

- El, was that you callin' me?

I was talkin' to someone.

What?

[exciting instrumental music]

Ellie.

How is she?

- She's unconscious

and they're doing tests.

- Where is she?

- She's just in there.

But they say we should wait!

- Rosie, love.

It's Daddy.

I'm here now.

"Nina knew the voice.

"It was her dad.

"She called to him, I'm
coming, Dad, I'm coming.

"No, said the Nix.

"You stay here with me."

[somber instrumental music]

- I hope you're the
Good News Fairy.

What's up?

- I've just heard from Peter.

Rosie's been taken
into hospital.

She's in a coma.

Meningitis.

[door slams]

There's been a development here.

- Not now, Wieldy.

Not just this minute.

- It's important, sir.

- Right.

Go on then.

- Inspector Pascoe found out
Mrs. Lightfoot's still alive.

She's in a home.

- Get Ivor onto it.

- And what about?

- Everything else can wait.

I need a few minutes
alone, Wieldy, okay?

[phone rings]

- Yes, Sarge?

- I've got a job for ya.

I want you to check out
an Agnes Lightfoot

at Wark House Nursing Home.

[car revs]

[solemn instrumental music]

[horn blares]

[tires screech]

[exciting instrumental music]

[knocking]

- This better not be
more harassment.

What can I do for ya? [grunts]

Good God.

- Hey.

You up there.

That line you shoot,

suffer the little children
and all that.

It's time to show you're
not all mouth

and no trousers, okay?

She better come through this.

Do ya hear?

I'm warnin' you.

- You must be gettin' desperate.

Talkin' to yourself,

talkin' to God.

One's about as much
use as the other.

- Tried it, have ya?

- I've tried everything
in me time, Andy,

from psychotherapy to
rebirth and then back again.

But religion's just
about the barmiest.

- What you doin' here then?

-[Elizabeth] Checking
out the acoustics.

They're pretty good.

I take it you haven't
found the girl then?

- No.

- Are people sayin' it's
just like last time?

- Some of them.

- And is it?

- A child we can't find.

Crime we can't pin down.

We've even had a sightin'
of Benny Lightfoot.

- What?

- Chloe reckons she
saw him Saturday.

Has she not mentioned it?

- It's not possible.

- How come?

- Well Benny's,

he's been missin' for 15 years.

Surely he's--

- Dead?

That's not what most
people around here think.

- And what do you think?

- I have an open mind.

You don't, evidently.

- To that kind of mumbo-jumbo?

I put away childish
things long time since.

- You saw Benny yourself

all those years since,

when the reservoir
was fillin' up,

when he attacked you.

- Aye.

Me cat took off one night

after me dad kicked
her across the kitchen.

I reckoned she'd gone
back over to the old place

so I went after her.

-[Young Elizabeth] Maddie!

Maddie!

Where are you?

[lightning cracks]

Maddie!

Maddie!

- Suddenly, I heard something.

It was him.

Benny.

[eerie instrumental music]

Betsy Allgood, he said,

you came for us.

No, I said.

I came for me cat.

He grabbed onto my arm so tight

I thought he was gonna
break the bone.

Then his face came
down next to mine.

I could feel his breath
on my face,

his lips wet against my neck.

He said,

I don't want to hurt you, Betsy.

And then he must've
slackened his grip on Maddie

'cause, all of a sudden,
she twisted

and flew out of his arms.
[cat howls]

Rakin' his face with her claws.

He screamed.
- Betsy!

- And I took me chance.

-[Benny] Betsy!

- I scooped up Maddie.
- Betsy!

- And I ran up that hillside
like a bat out of hell.

- Betsy!

[thunder rumbles]

Betsy!

- Benny's cries followin'
us all the way home.

-[Benny] Betsy!

- And you still hear them?

Had your share of troubles,
didn't ya?

Lost your friend

and that.

- Just the beginning, wasn't it?

- Your mam.

What was it, an overdose?

Is that when you started
whittlin' your arm?

- Happy days.

- You've got guts,
I'll give ya that.

- It's only 'cause
of the singin'.

Without that, I'd have,

I might've finished
up like me mam.

- And all that dreary
Mahler stuff,

dead bairns, what's
that all about?

- Sorry I'm late.

Superintendent,

looking for divine
intervention, are we?

- I'll leave ya to it then.

- Maybe I'll sing for
you another time.

-[Walter] Right.

[tapping]

[car revs]

[Wield grunts]

- What am I gonna do
with you, eh, boy?

[Tig barks]

Come on then.

Blast it, Tig!

Here, boy!

[birds tweet]

-[Nurse] Agnes.

Agnes, love.

She's been like this
the last few days,

in and out, but mostly out.

-[Ivor] She comes around
every so often?

- Oh, aye.

But she's not really
with it, you know?

Agnes' bible, that is.

Always poring over
it, poor soul.

- I'm sorry she's unwell.

- I reckon it was
the excitement.

She had a visitor Friday,
first one in years.

Young chap, came in
a white camper van.

- He didn't give his
name, by any chance?

- No.

But when I showed him
in, Agnes recognized him.

She took one look at his
red hair, and smiled,

and called out his name.

- What was it?

- Benny.

Yeah, she called him Benny.

[Tig barks]

- Where are we goin', eh?

Where you takin' us?

- Anybody at home?

You've got visitors!

- Aye.

I heard you comin'

10 minutes since.

-[Andy] Mr. Allgood.

You probably don't remember me.

- Oh, I'll not forget
you, Mr. Policeman.

- Nice little place ya got here.

Bit smaller than the spread
you had over there, though.

-[Jack] I don't have
a family to keep.

Just me and the dog.

- Sorry to hear about your wife.

- Elizabeth's, uh,

Betsy's done well for herself.

- Has she?

- My officer DC Novello said

that you've been very
helpful about that car.

- Owt come of it?

- Maybe.

Maybe not.

You must miss the old place.

- What's there to miss?

- Well, folks still
say that Dendale

was a marvelous place,

paradise.

- Hmm.

It were no such thing.

No better than any other place

man settled, maybe worse.

When the waters rose,
they came like a flood

to drown out the wickedness.

- And did they?

- Drowned something, maybe.

The wickedness survived.

Is that one of your
fellas, is it,

running up and down the
heights like a loon?

[wind whistles]

- What's he up to?

Wieldy!

- Sir?

-[Andy] What are you doin'?

- I think I might have
found somethin'!

[foreboding instrumental music]

Oh, Tig.

[Tig whines]

[Tig barks]

[suspenseful instrumental music]

[moves into eerie instrumental
music]

- Look, I'm not havin' a
go at you personally, love.

- I know.
- But no one's telling us

owt any more.

It's been two days now.

We don't know.

[somber instrumental music]

Don't say it.

Please.

[solemn instrumental music]
[Karen weeps]

- It's not the way it's
supposed to be.

You bring 'em into the world,

love them,

then you die and they live.

That's the way of it.

But if she goes first,

where's the meaning in that?

- You can't go on like this.

- I can't stop.

How could we go on if--

- She won't.

- I've not been much
of a father.

- Please don't.

- Well I wasn't there
for her, was I?

When it mattered.

Was I?

- She is going to be all right.

She loves you so much.

You're her dad.

- Agnes says she saw
Benny Lightfoot.

She's at death door,
the poor old soul.

Some folks see angels, others
see long lost grandsons.

- I faxed the home the photo
of Benny from the files.

The matron said the man
who went to see Agnes

was the spit of him.

[Andy sighs]

-[Cop] Yeah?

- Do you reckon benny Lightfoot
kills a girl 15 years ago,

disappears off the
face of the earth,

and suddenly returns
to kill another?

- We've had two sightings
of someone

who looks very like him.

- Yeah, a senile old woman

and an emotionally fragile
mother of a dead child.

- And me.

-[Andy] What?

- Mrs. Saltaire said this man,

who may or may not
be Benny Lightfoot,

arrived in a white camper van.

Earlier on, when I left
Geordie Turnbull's place,

I passed a white camper van.

- Sir, preliminary
path' findings,

death caused by a
blow to the head.

The skull was fractured.

- Nowt else?

- No sign of any sexual
interference.

The Dacres have identified
the toys and comics

found in the cave.

It was obviously Lorraine's den.

- Right.

So what do you wanna do now?

- Keep an eye on Geordie.

I don't know why or how
or what it means,

but there's clearly
a link between him

and the man in the van.

You said yourself you thought
he was hidin' something.

- Okay.

But God help you if
it leads nowhere.

You'll be sorry you ever
troubled the midwife.

And what's all this stuff here?

- Uh, from the sweep of litter
bins around the village.

This is from the lay-by

in the Highcross Moor Road.

Nothin' very interestin'.

I thought the cross might
have been Lorraine's

but it isn't.

[Andy sighs]

[ominous instrumental music]

- Nothin' at all.

-[Edgar Voiceover] All
right, let's call it a day.

- Okay then, Sarge.

Right, Bill, that's it.

We're on our way home.

[bubbling]

[quietly dramatic instrumental
music]

- Hello, love.

- Andy.

- Come here.

It's okay.

- No, it isn't.

- It will be.

Here.

It was only washed last week.

Where is she?

- There.

Peter's with her.

He's in a bad way.

[equipment beeps]

- How do?

- Hi.

- She looks peaceful.

- There's a crisis coming.

That's the way of
it, apparently.

I heard you found the body.

[equipment beeps]

I keep asking why.

- There's too many
mysteries, lad.

Where do we come from,
where do we go to?

But I reckon she'll be
with us a lot longer.

She has too much spunk
to go under.

- I'm goin' for a coffee.

Want one?

- No.

[equipment beeps]

[gentle instrumental music]

Come on then, little one.

[gentle instrumental music]

- Is it the same cross?

You sure?

- It should be.

It used to hang around
me mam's neck.

When did she lose it?

- Oh, on Sunday.

Oh, she spent the day
with the Purlingstones.

Where'd you find it?

- On the Highcross Moor Road

by Beulah Height.

[quietly dramatic instrumental
music]

[briefcase latches click]

- Radius, ulna, and I think
these are carpal bones.

Say, uh, small male
or adolescent.

- Where's the rest of him,

that's what I'd like to know.

What was this place anyway?

- The Heck.

The Wulfstans' old house.

- Right.

Get the waders, would
ya, Wieldy?

I fancy a plunge.

- And can you get a message
to Superintendent Dalziel

and DS Wield?

Of course I'll sit tight,
just make it quick, okay?

[door creaks]

They're comin' out.

[Ivor sighs]

How do, Geordie?

Why don't you introduce
me to your friend?

- Hey, hey, hey.

[rain patters]

-[Edgar] Well, this
would've been the kitchen

by the position of the walls.

What's that?

- It's a ring.

I think this might be
the door to the cellar.

Give us a hand.

Open sesame.

[gurgling]

Get your goggles on
and get down here.

- Look, I keep telling you,
right, I'm not Benny, okay?

My name is Bobby.

And, anyway, it was my money.

What the hell is goin' on here?

You got the wrong guy.

-[Elizabeth] Hello, Dad.

- Betsy?

Is that you?

What are you doin' here?

- I was just on my
way to see ya.

And I'm Elizabeth now.

- Aye.

You don't look like
a Betsy anymore.

How have you been keepin'?

I heard you weren't too grand.

- That were years back.

You never wrote.

- I'm not a letter writer.

And what would I talk about?

- I don't know.

-[Jack] Why have ya come back

to this place?

- To sing

in the festival.

I've got a good voice, you know.

And it'll get better.

I'm gonna travel the world,
make a name for meself.

- Shame it's Wulfstan,

not Allgood.

I'm glad to see ya.

[bittersweet instrumental music]

- Why'd ya give us away, Dad?

- Huh?

- Why did you get rid of us?

- It weren't like that.

- And to Walt and Chloe,

like I was some kind of
Christmas present.

[thunder rumbles]

- I thought you'd have
a better life.

And I were right.

- You used to say I was
no good to man nor beast.

A son was what you wanted.

Or, if it had to be a girl,

a pretty little blonde
thing like Mary.

- I didn't deserve you.

And that's the truth.

It were me that were no good.

To you, your mam,
or anyone else.

- Why did she kill herself, Dad?

- Leave it, lass.

- I know she was
upset about Mary,

but even so.

- No more, Betsy.

- I'd better go.

I've got to get ready
for the recital.

Maybe you'll come
down and hear us.

- I don't go to the
village much.

- I'd like you to.

If you can manage it.

This is a lovely spot.

- Aye.

It's a special place.

[eerie instrumental music]

- Alas, poor Yorick
and all that.

- Okay, I'll tell him.

Novello's hooked her fish.

Benny Lightfoot.

- I don't think so.

- She's pretty sure.

- So am I.

I'm holdin' what's left of
Benny Lightfoot in me hands.

Look, there's the metal plate.

[chattering]

[child giggles]

-[Ellie] Peter.

- Her temperature's down.

I think we might have
turned a corner.

-[Andy] How do, Ivor?

So this horse goes into a pub.

Barman takes one look
at him and says,

why the long face?

- Sir.
- What?

- This chap we picked up.

- Ah, yes.

Benny Lightfoot.

Where is he?

- In the back room.

He looks like him but he
says his name's Bobby.

Bobby Slater.

He's got a passport
in that name.

- Canadian passport?

- How'd you know?

- He's Benny's younger brother.

Bobby was his name.

He went to Canada
with his mother

when Benny refused to go.

You didn't bust the ghost, Ivor.

You busted the ghost's brother.

- After we got to Canada,

things didn't work out
real well, right?

Mom and this guy she
married didn't get on.

He hit the booze.

She hit the booze.

Then they hit each other.

She died last April.

- Was she in touch
with old Agnes?

- They never really
got on with each other.

Well, Mom never really
got on with anyone.

When she hit the bottle,
like most days,

she'd go on about
Grandma's fortune,

how she deserved her cut.

- Fortune?

Agnes?

She was as poor as
a church mouse.

- Mom figured she got
a whole lot of cash

from the water guys,

compensation for that
spread of hers, eh?

So I scraped together
a few bucks

and came back to
see the old lady.

-[Andy] Laid hands on
her dosh, you mean.

- No.

I wanted to come see her.

Talk to her about Benny.

Find out what the hell
really happened to him.

-[Ivor] What did she say?

- Same as you guys.

Thought I was Benny.

Then she brought up
the money thing.

Said she was glad I'd found it,

used it to get away.

-[Andy] What did you say?

-[Bobby] That I wasn't
sure I got it all.

-[Andy] Smart.

- She said she'd put it in
a tin chest under the eaves,

where she'd always
hidden her money,

all 60 grand.

- So you began wonderin'
who had laid hands on it.

- My grandma hadn't got it.

I was pretty damn sure Benny
hadn't run off with it, either.

- Safe assumption.

-[Ivor] What did you do next?

- When I was with Grandma,

I saw this book she
had about Dendale.

- The photo book?

- Right.

So I went to the local
library to check it out.

And I found this picture
of the cottage

and a bulldozer knockin'
it down.

- With the name G. Turnbull
plastered over the side.

- Right.

-[Andy] Come on, Geordie, sing.

But don't make it the
Blaydon Races, eh?

- Of course I took
the money, man.

Which young lad wouldn't?

Big tin chest with tenners
tumblin' out of it like?

And I made good use of it.

Didn't spend it on
booze or women.

Built up my business with it.

But I've paid for
it, nonetheless.

- Rocky Marciano rearrangin'
your face, you mean?

- Nah.

You thinkin' I killed Lorraine.

But I didn't.

And neither did that poor
Benny, wherever he is.

So what are you gonna
do now, eh?

Agnus Dei

-[Peter] "And just as she's
beginning to give up hope,

"another pair of hands
seized her from above.

"And soon, she was being
pulled this way and that,

"like the rope in
a tug of war game

"at the village fair,

"as her father and the
Nix fought for her."

- Peter.

Rosie?

- Mummy.

- Hello, darling.

-[Rosie] I had a funny dream.

- Did ya?

- Can I have a cheese sandwich?

[Ellie chuckles]

- I'm just a bit puzzled,
that's all.

- Hang on in there, Ivor.

Before the night's out,
I'll draw ya a diagram.

- Where we goin', sir?

- To hear some high art.

I know you think when I
hear the word culture,

I reach for me truncheon,
but it's not true.

I think Julio Iglesias
has got a lovely voice.

- All right, Walter, let's
get this over with then.

- Look what's under here.

- You found it.

-[Peter] Uncle Andy did.

He brought it for ya.

- He's clever.

- Some people say.

You must've dropped it when
you stopped off for breakfast.

Remember that?

-[Derek] Rosie, come on!

-[Rosie Voiceover] I was looking
through Derek's binoculars

and I saw the Nix taking Nina.

[eerie instrumental music]

-[Derek] Rosie.

-[Rosie] He took her
and put her in his cave.

- Did you tell Derek?

- Come on.

- Don't be silly.

They couldn't see
it, only I could.

- What did he look
like, sweetheart?

The Nix?

- I don't know.

That's him, that's
the rotten old Nix!

- 15 years, back in Dendale,

on the other side
of Beulah Height,

a little girl, a friend of mine,

went missing.

Now another's one gone.

I'm singing these
songs for them.

[audience claps]

I often think

They have gone out walking

And soon

They'll come homeward

Laughing and talking

The weather's

Bright

Don't look so pale

They've only

Gone for a hike up dale

Why yes

They've only gone out walking

Returning now

Laughing and talking

Don't look so pale

The weather's

Bright

The wolf has come

Confounded

By gods on high

Surrounded

They will rest

They will

Rest

As in their mother's arms

As in their

Mother's arms

[quietly dramatic instrumental
music]

-[Peter] She's okay.

[quietly dramatic instrumental
music]

-[Elizabeth] I know it
wasn't easy to be here.

Thanks, Chloe.

- Smashin', that.

I like a good ballad when
it's sung with feelin'.

-[Elizabeth] I'm knackered.

- Right.

Why don't you all take a pew

and I'll begin.

It's time to get this
show on the road.

Who's gonna start?

Inspector Pascoe, uh,

why don't you give
us a kickstart, eh?

- Mr. Wulfstan,

is there anything
you'd like to add

to your statement about
your visit to Denby

on Sunday mornin'?

- Well, as, as I
told Mr. Dalziel,

I parked the car in
the village here,

and then I went for a
walk along the Corps Road,

and up the ridge toward
Beulah Height.

Oh, I stopped on the
col for some time,

looking down into Dendale.

-[Peter] And then?

- And then I saw a man
walking up toward the summit.

- A man?

You never mentioned
this in your statement.

Why not?

- Because it was
Benny Lightfoot.

- Walter.

- That must have been a
real shock for you, Walter,

especially as you knew
beyond any shadow of doubt

that Benny was dead.

- I knew no such thing,
I thought I saw him.

- I saw him, too, the
day before, on Saturday.

- Sorry, love.

You saw a man, but
it wasn't Benny.

It was Benny's brother.

Bobby.

Come home from Canada.

[wind whistles]

So, what did you do
after you saw him?

- I, I went after him.

Up the ridge.

He disappeared.

- Then you saw somebody
else, didn't ya?

Below ya.

You saw a little girl.

[dramatic instrumental music]

-[Lorraine] Come on, Tig!

- Mary.

I saw Mary.

Like she was all
those years ago.

[melancholic instrumental music]

-[Lorraine] Come on, Tig!

- Mary?

-[Lorraine] Come on, boy.

- Mary!

Mary?

Mary!

Mary!

Mary!

Mary!

[Tig barks]

[thudding]

[Tig barks]

When I got down beside her,

I saw that she wasn't Mary,

and I saw that she was dead.

-[Andy] And what'd you do then?

- Well I picked her up and
I started to carry her down.

[Tig barks]

Then that dog started
to bite my ankles.

I kicked it a few times,

and he fell a little
way down the slope.

[Tig whimpers]

[dramatic instrumental music]

Then I noticed this hole
by the edge of a rock.

I saw that it must be
the little girl's den.

There was a hairbrush in there.

An old doll.

Well, I, I laid here there.

I thought it would
be a good place

while I went for help.

Then I started thinking
what that might mean,

telling her parents,

and I hadn't the strength
for that, so I, I,

I blocked the entrance.

- Walter!

- All I was doing was
giving myself time to think.

-[Peter] Well someone saw ya.

Saw all of it.

- Well, I was preparing
to come in tomorrow.

I, I've been putting my things
in order for some while now,

and I just didn't want
to spoil Elizabeth,

my other daughter's
big day here.

- Anything else you
wanna confess

while you're on?

Like, uh, why you've
taken to doin' that walk

the last few weeks?

[thunder rumbles]

- You already know, don't you?

You're not as stupid
as I thought.

- You're not the first
person to make that mistake.

- Have you found him?

- What's left of him.

- I used to go up to Dendale

when Mary had gone.

I used to think she might
still be there,

lost, frightened.

And one night, I
did see someone,

but it wasn't Mary.

It was Benny.

I took him.

- It was you?

You took him?

I thought.

[solemn instrumental music]

- I know, I should've
brought him in

and handed him over to you,

but I couldn't trust you
not to let him go again.

- You chained him in the cellar.

[shouting]

[grunting]

Tell!
- No!

- All I wanted was
for him to tell me

what he'd done with her.

But he wouldn't.

Tell!

Whatever I did.

I suppose he thought
once he'd told me,

I'd kill him.

I swore by everything
that I held sacred,

by the memory of Mary herself,

that I wouldn't,

and I'd let him live if only

he'd tell me,

if only he'd talk,
but he wouldn't.

Why?
[groaning]

Why wouldn't he?

- For the very simple
reason that he couldn't.

Benny Lightfoot never
killed your daughter.

But you killed him.

- Aye.

I went away on business
for a couple of days.

It rained heavily.

When I got back, I went over.

The water had risen,

the cellar had flooded.

I thought he must be dead,

but then I heard he'd
attacked Betsy,

so I thought he must
have escaped, got away.

All these years,
I have wondered,

was he alive or dead?

- He was alive, but
not for long.

How he must've struggled
to break clear

in the dark as the waters rose.

Think about that.

You did that to him.

- That'll do.

Leave him alone now.

- Did you kill your
daughter, too?

- I said that's enough!

- Betsy Allgood, who
would've credited it, eh?

Little Betsy Allgood,

turnin' into a star.

- I have a way to go yet.

- Oh, but you'll get there.

What's to stop ya?

You've come back here,

sung your songs,

made your peace,

settled everything that
needed settlin'.

Well, nearly everything.

You did see Benny.

Like you always said.

But he never attacked
you, did he?

He couldn't.

He was chained up in the cellar.

With the water rising.

-[Benny] Please!

I need your help, Betsy.

Go and get some help!

-[Andy] He couldn't move.

- Help me!

Betsy, go get some help!
- He begged ya to help him.

- Help me!

Help me, Betsy!

- Reached out his hand to ya.
- Get some help!

Betsy, please, help me!

-[Andy] But you did nothing.

With Benny gone,

nobody would suspect anybody
else of killing Mary.

So you grabbed your cat.

-[Benny] Betsy, please
go get help!

Betsy, help me!

-[Andy] Slammed the hatch shut.

[hatch slams]

Ran all the way home
to your mum and dad.

-[Benny] Betsy, Betsy!

Betsy!

- I was scared.

I wasn't sure what I'd seen.

- You never told a soul.

Not even your mother.

Not even when she
took her own life.

You kept your silence

and your secrets,

how you let a man die

to protect the man you
loved most in the world.

The man who gave you away.

- Dad.

[dramatic instrumental music]

[moves into pastoral
instrumental music]

Dad!

[gentle instrumental music]

Dad!

Dad!

[swirling instrumental music]

Dad!

Dad!

He's not in.

I think I know where
he might be.

[swirling instrumental music]

No!

No!

No!

[wind rustles]

[melancholic instrumental music]

[wind rustles]

-[Andy] "Dear Elizabeth."

-[Jack Voiceover] I nearly
did this years back,

like your mam.

But I thought that would've
been too easy.

The only way I could
see to punish meself

were go on livin',

rub your nose in it,

that was what I thought.

But all it did was cause
the death of another lass.

I'm glad you saw
my special place.

- "This is where she's buried."

- Mary.

Mary!

Mary.

-[Jack Voiceover] I lover her
so much, that little thing.

And I snuffed her out.

I'm sorry.

Dad.

- I used to watch him when
Mary came over to play,

lookin' at her,

smilin' at her,

touchin' her hair.

He never used to
do that with me.

Afterwards,

I heard 'em rowing.

Mum and Dad.

I sat on the stairs,
listenin' to 'em,

tryin' to work it out.

She knew.

That's why she killed herself.

- Yeah, well,

it's finished now.

For good.

- Yeah.

Will you leave us alone now?

I'd like to stay here a minute.

I don't think I'll come
this way again.

[melancholic instrumental music]