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Hoi! Lyndon!

Lyndon!

She's had her pups.

- How many? - Four.

- Dogs or bitches? - Two of each.

Wanna come and see?

My aunt says I'm not to go round your house any more.

- D'you want a pup? - Really?

Come round. You can choose.

♪ Testator Sile-ens

♪ Costestes e Spiritu-um

♪ Si-ilentiu-um. ♪

FOOTSTEPS

- I'm off. - Already?

I asked Rachel and DS Speed to meet me an hour ago.

Paperwork.

- I might blow up that police station. - Then I'd have to arrest you.

- You would, too! - What you gonna do?

- I'm going out. - Where?

Somewhere nice.

Sam, where are you going?

What's it to you?

Oh Spit it out.

- No... - I'll do very serious damage.

No! I'm going to my sister's!

- Stop it! - Where? Sorry?

My sister's!

Look at that.

Watch your back, Lyndon! He'll have you!

Hoi, Lyndon!

Lyndon, mate! Come here.

Have a straightener with him?

- Not here. - There.

- Lyndon, mate. What's happening? - Nothing.

Are you and Palmer mates, then?

You ought to pick your friends more carefully.

You know what Palmer is.

- He's giving me a puppy, that's all. - Stick with us. We're your mates.

Aren't we, Lyndon?

That's it. Come on, then.

Well, come on.

Come on.

Go for it! Go on!

GO ON!!

AWW, you stupid bloody animal!! SHE WHIMPERS

MUSIC PLAYS

"Goodnight" by Babybird

BUZZER RINGS

- Hi. - How are you doing?

All right.

- What is that? - Open it.

Sam!

- You bought it! - You liked it so much.

You shouldn't. It cost a fortune!

Thanks!

- Sorry, Ben. - That's all right, mate.

Don't call me Ben. Call me Easy.

Well, GO on!!

OK, Easy.

You CAN tell us.

- What? - About you and that Chris Palmer.

- He's giving me a dog, that's all. - You're a perv, that's what I heard.

Who said that?

- You'd better tell the truth. - Especially to us.

You know we're tooled up?

Look.

I never done nothing. He's giving me a dog!

You think we're ordinary, do you?

- Well, we're not. - We're the punishment squad.

There's too many pervs and crims and wasters.

We're here to sort 'em out.

So you'd better tell us what you've been up to.

What ARE we gonna do with you?

LYNDON WHIMPERS

Like the Marie Celeste in here.

Sent Speedy home 30 minutes ago,

- and now I'm jumping ship too. - You haven't finished.

- We have. - What, already?

Every single bit of paperwork done.

- I got held up. - Obviously

Can I buy you a drink?

What's this?

I don't know why I kept it.

- From that time in Oban. - Hideous.

Remember, when we went camping?

You kept it all this time.

Hey, Sam, d'you remember those French boys?

"Je m'en fou!"

The blond one thought he was great at table tennis.

Wasn't the only thing he thought he was great at.

- Thought he was Jean-Paul Belmondo. - I didn't know who HE was.

At that age, you think you know it all.

Thank God you can't see into the future.

I don't know.

Your future brought you something. I made a balls-up of mine.

Come on. There's a lot left.

New flat. New job... New man.

- What man? - Trevor.

- Come off it! - You seem keen on him.

I might be.

A bit.

Give me them back. Please!

I never done nothing! Gimme them back!

Please!

Kelvin! Please...

Please! Sonny!

Easy! Give me them back.

I never done nothing! Give me my trousers back!

- Cheers. - Slainte.

Wrong side of the border.

Did you know the lads are keeping a book?

No.

We're glad you're back together.

Just a difference of opinion about how long it'll last.

Dunno what I think about that.

Just a bit of fun.

Here. Put this on for me. Um...

- No more falling out. - What, only a fiver?

DOG YAPS

All right, love?

Can you spare any change?

I said, can you...? Oi! I'm TALKING to you!

That's right, ignore me.

OI!! You miserable cow!

Give us a fag, Stew.

Cheers.

Clean my bike first.

- Sod off! - Why not?

- Too much to do. - Like what?

We're looking after things for my brother.

What things?

All the houses round here have been burgled already.

- If Steve was here. - He ain't...

HE weren't a sad bastard with no money.

He's a sad bastard in prison.

Watch what you say.

Did someone speak

We don't forget. This stays in here.

- WE'RE taking over. - Dream on, son.

Tossers!

You've just kicked Stewart Taylor.

He's nothing.

He broke Lee Turner's jaw.

I'll chin him.

He just stood there.

- Didn't think we had the bottle. - He's gotta learn.

- We're the law round here!! - Come on.

Come on!

CHILDREN JEERING AND CHANTING

♪ Lyndon's got no trousers! ♪

Leave him alone!

Who done this?

I've got a tracksuit you can borrow. Come on.

Come on.

CHILDREN GIGGLE

Now, don't get me wrong, I loved Mam to bits,

but now that she's gone, it is such a relief.

I know.

And the same goes for Ricky being away.

I miss him, but it is so great to be free to do what I want.

- D'you think it's awful to feel like that? - No.

- What d'you want to do? - The usual things.

Pay the mortgage and die?

I'm HOPING for a bit more fun than that!

- Made up your mind? - I like this one.

Here.

Now, you ARE gonna treat her good, aren't you?

♪ I'm just a girl who can't say no

♪ I'm in a terrible fix... ♪

Now, THERE'S a male fantasy for you

You're very perky, Trevor, for someone who's been in court all morning.

Natural high spirits.

They were suppressed in court, now they're overflowing.

Can't face them overflowing all over the office!

Where were YOU last night?

You were supposed to be helping Wyn.

Something came up.

- A sudden death? - Amateur operatics.

Had to help shift the scenery.

- Oklahoma. - How d'you know?

- "I'm just a girl who can't say no." - ♪ I'm in a terrible fix! ♪

- And what about Wyn? - Wyn and I understand one another.

HE WHISTLES I'm away out for an hour. Bye.

DOG BARKS

STONE HITS WINDOW

TV IS ON

DOORBELL RINGS

- He's not allowed out. - It's important.

His father's told him if he sees you he's to cross the street.

I just want a word, Mrs Quayle.

- You can't have one! - Just one word.

Ben doesn't want you.

He's too soft to tell you. Go on!

My husband will be back from work.

If he sees you, we're all in trouble.

Ben?

The husband had a new girlfriend, AND a successful business.

If they divorced, he'd lose half of it.

So he killed the wife.

She vomits up blood. Poisoning. Would the pathologist have it?

Obviously not.

Natural causes. He said Mallory-Weis syndrome.

Where retching tears a hole in the oesophagus.

Was the wife alcoholic?

- Put a fair bit away. - Fair conclusion.

If you ignore all other evidence and look at the body.

- If your average pathologist would... - Tell you what you wanted to hear?

Not treat me like a 4-year-old.

If I weren't a pathologist, and you weren't a detective,

I think we'd get on really well.

Is that what it would take?

Oh, let's talk about something other than work.

..What?

You'd better come! We've found something!

Just lying in the bushes.

Just over there.

GIGGLING

- Oklahoma?! - Yes.

- It's a good film. - Are you serious?

It's a good story, nice tunes. What's wrong with it?

- It bears no relation to reality. - Reality's overrated.

PHONE RINGS Mm...

Ross!

Yes. Yep, we'll be there.

You see, this would never have happened in Rodgers and Hammerstein.

SIREN WAILS

- Hi. - What've we got?

Female victim. Got a hell of a beating.

- How long since she was found? - 50 minutes.

They found her.

- OK? - Yep. Let's go.

Detective Constable Garwood and me will take you to the police station.

We'll have to ask you a few questions.

- Why? - We've done nothing.

To help us catch whoever did this.

There was insects on her.

The child protection officer'll find someone for you to talk to about it.

Come on.

BARKING PERSISTS

Is THAT hers?

It has no identity tag, but seems to be.

Have someone take it away.

We've called the dog warden.

Every time that we try, it howls like a banshee.

The victim is an elderly female.

She is lying on her back.

She has severe bruising to the head and face,

copious bleeding from around the mouth.

Rigor is present in the neck,

although the jaw seems floppy, suggesting it might be broken.

The clothing has been disturbed around the upper waist.

We'll need to turn her over.

- How d'you put the blue light on? - There isn't one.

Got a siren. It's that switch there.

- Can we have it on? - What for?

A laugh.

SIREN WAILS

The hands are tied behind the back.

Um, photograph here, please.

- That's a pretty distinctive cord. - Yeah...

What's it called? Piping cord?

Photograph this, please.

It's a denture.

Hers?

There's blood round her mouth.

Whatever caused that could've dislodged this.

Spotting of blood on the grass

and the presence of a denture under the victim

seem to indicate that the incident occurred at the scene of discovery.

I don't think she was dumped.

I think she died between 12 and 36 hours ago.

Yesterday or last night.

- Subject to the usual caveat. - Yes. "Establishing time of death

is difficult... 100% error is relatively accurate."

Yes.

- Mrs Quayle? - Yes?

- Detective Sergeant Speed. - Joseph!

You'll have to speak with my husband. Joseph... it's the police.

- Is Ben in trouble? - No.

There's been a body discovered. Ben's a witness.

- A dead body? - We've to take a statement from Ben.

AGITATED BARKING

It was a particularly frenzied attack.

- Doesn't look like a robbery, does it? - Not to me.

Even if it started out as one, it turned into something else.

- What's happening with that dog? - I'll see.

LOUD YAPPING

VOICES ON POLICE RADIO

LOUD MUSIC PLAYS

Is your mum in?

MUSIC STOPS... OTHER MUSIC CONTINUES

SWITCHES MUSIC OFF Who's this?

Any ID yet?

No, but the couple who were stopped by the boy

say she often walks her dog round here.

They'd seen her in Thanet Street. I sent someone over there.

- It'll be dark soon. - We'll seal the area.

WHINING

- Police officer. Can I have a word? - Sod off!

It's a murder inquiry... OK, thanks.

- Hey! Mrs Turner. Gonna help us? - Why should I?

- I was there when your Lee got kicked. - Six hours after we called you!

It was a busy night.

- Everyone knew who did it... - Lee wouldn't say who it was.

We needed evidence, like we do now.

- An old lady's been murdered. - I've got my own problems.

PUPPIES WHINE

Come here.

Come here, champ. You're all right.

We have a Caucasian woman, between 70 and 75 years of age.

She's of average height

and has a full head of medium-length white hair.

We need that shaving before we look at the head wounds.

She's lean, but apparently well-nourished.

No obvious signs of old injuries,

but extensive recent injuries to the head, upper arms and torso.

What I felt? I felt gutted.

I mean, a thing like that shouldn't happen to an old woman, should it?

But then, she was old, she'd had her life.

She was gonna die anyway.

So perhaps it wasn't that bad.

I think we've got two weapons here.

This bruise was made by a blunt instrument.

- A hammer? - More likely the butt of a handgun.

This bruise was made by a different implement,

in the soft tissues of the cheek, under the left zygomatic arch.

Its distinctive markings could've been made by some sort of a bottle,

and the impression could've been made by letters embossed in the glass.

Can I have a light here?

PHONE RINGS I'll get it.

Something sharp has been inserted in the mouth,

causing deep lesions in the insides of the cheeks and tongue.

- Could it have been the bottle? - Yes.

Light bruising on the lower arms,

and the absence of skin under the fingernails,

suggests she was tied up first, then beaten.

We've got a name. Mrs Millicent Lockwood.

And an address.

"Nicola."

Daughter?

As well as the marks left by the ligature,

there appear to be minor abrasions on the left wrist.

Last time I saw abrasions like this,

they came from a metal, expandable watch strap torn from the wrist.

- Any watch found at the scene? - No.

Faint scratches on the abdomen. I can't say what caused those.

And the pattern seems random.

My guess is the cause of death was bleeding within the skull,

so I'm gonna take a look in there.

Like a coat. I thought it was just an old coat.

- But then you looked again. - Yeah.

And?

It was her.

What did you think... when you saw it was a person?

- Think? - Yes.

He don't say much, our Kelvin.

- How much will we tell the press? - All we'll release is she was beaten.

Keep the details to ourselves.

A lot of people come in their cars to walk their dogs over that ground.

A local house-to-house won't give us half the people who use it.

So?

I'd like a reconstruction

- . I... - OK.

..Oh. Right.

LOUD SOBBING

MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY INSIDE

Kelv?

Kelvin!

Kelv?

He's upstairs.

Right.

Everything ran like clockwork.

Um... Take the dog out at 3.30.

- Tea at five. - And that never varied?

No...

Old people are like that.

Did your mother wear anything on her wrist?

- A piece of jewellery? - A... A watch.

It was Dad's...

It's OK.

SHOWER RUNNING, KNOCKING ON DOOR Kelvin!

Kelvin, it's me, Ben!

KNOCKING PERSISTS Kelvin! Kelv!

Right.

We all want to catch the killer and we want to do it fast.

In our favour is public revulsion against the crime.

On Scrub Hill

Against us is the reluctance to cooperate.

- Their garden gnomes are more help! - Thank you, DS Speed.

Due to recent policing operations. Be sensitive.

Our victim - Millicent Lockwood, 72.

We still need the bottle producing this injury,

and the blunt implement, possibly a hammer or the butt of a handgun,

giving this injury pattern.

Tony and Lizzie spoke to the boys who found the victim.

Just two lads out and about.

There'll be a reconstruction of Millicent Lockwood's

last movements tomorrow at 1500 hours.

One more thing.

She was wearing a 1957 gold Hamilton Ventura watch.

She'd replaced the strap with a stainless steel one.

A unique item and we'll need it... Questions?

- Seeing Wyn tonight? - No. Are you?

Something's come up. I'll speak to her.

- Amateur operatics - Yeah. She's the trombonist.

Hiya.

HORN TOOTS

One minute, you're part of everything, and the next...

your life's been obliterated.

Suddenly all these people beetle about...

trying to find out what's happened to you.

But no-one would've crossed the road

to speak to you when you were alive.

You're not impressed by sentiment, are you, Superintendent?

On the contrary.

I like a bit of sentiment,

although I'd like your sentiment to be about me.

- Do you have to do that now? - We've got to eat.

Right now?

RINGS DOORBELL

RINGS AGAIN

All right?

- He's gone to see his brother. - Oh, right.

Hoi.

What's that?

Had toothache.

- Toothache? - Yeah.

Lad calls me a whingeing poofter.

- What did you do? - Took a chisel to him.

- Did you hurt him? - He's in hospital.

I found a dead woman, Steve.

You wot?

- Someone had topped her. - Oh, come on

I'm not kidding. In the bushes.

Bullshit!

I'm not lying, Steve, honest.

- Dead? - Yeah.

- Was you scared? - No.

- I bet you were pissing yourself. - No. It was nothing to me.

Just a body, that's all.

- Got something. - What?

Lady at 33 says she saw the victim

talking to a man in a brown leather jacket.

Medium height, fair hair, got a dog.

DOOR CLOSES Ben!

What?

You've been seeing Kelvin Price.

- No, Dad. Honestly. I... - See this room, son?

This window? See that sky?

You won't see them again if you lie to me!

Now... you halfwit!

Have you seen Kelvin Price?

All right, mate? Police. Can we have a word with you?

We've got a car here We'll give you a lift.

What's this about?

Have you any idea where Trevor is?

"Surrey With the Fringe on Top"

Fred!

Have we got tox results on the Lockwood case?

Not through yet.

- Will you give the lab a ring for me? - Yep.

OOMPAHS "SURREY WITH THE FRINGE..."

- We sit and talk and have a few beers. - Where is this park?

- Hollis Road. - And at 1.30?

I went home.

- Drove? - Walked.

- Arriving? - Quarter to two.

Then?

THEN I took the dog out.

To?

- The waste ground. - Mm-hm. D'you meet anyone?

A lad called Lyndon O'Connor.

Lives in Meadow Ave with his aunt.

That's it.

- He WILL confirm this? - Course.

How long did this walk take?

Three hours. We had a few beers.

Did you see this woman?

I'm showing Mr Palmer a photograph of Millicent Lockwood.

Yes.

D'you kill her?

No way... She walked past me.

..Chris, we're gonna have to have a look round your house.

You do what you like.

PHONE RINGS

- Dr Ryan. - Sam. Is Trevor there?

..No, he must've just popped out.

Tell him I've a flat-pack of shelves you'd need an IQ of 150 to assemble.

- And you want Trevor? - He'll get the benefit of the doubt.

- I'll tell him. - Thanks.

Thought you might like a cup of tea.

Lizzie.

TREVOR IS SINGING

- You're late. - Sorry. Lunchtime meeting.

- Business or pleasure? - We-ell...

Wyn called.

She's looking for someone with a high IQ.

I hope you told her that counts me out.

I told her you'd call her back. Straight away.

I keep it for self-defence.

A similar weapon was used in the murder.

You've a history for ripping off old folk, a conviction for violence.

I prodded the old boy, he fell.

- He'd serious head wounds. - I was drunk.

- And drunk on the day of the murder. - No, I was drinking.

I'm alcoholic. If I get alcohol, everything's fine.

- If you don't? - I feel edgy.

You've had a drink. You see an old lady.

Threaten her, she'll give you what you want.

- No way! - She doesn't co-operate,

- you lose the rag. - NO...! No way...

We have the weapon.

Wyn, it's Trevor.

I'm SO sorry.

Things have been... a bit hectic lately.

"Surrey With the Fringe"

I hear you want help with some shelves.

FRED CONTINUES HUMMING

If we compare the profile of the hammer head with the shape of the injury,

we should get a result.

- There's no match. - There must be.

This weapon didn't make that injury.

- Have a look for yourself. - Thanks.

Whatever DID make it has a similar but not identical shape.

The bruise is broader and slightly longer.

- Looks the same to me. - The edges are sharper.

- What do YOU think? - I think you're right.

There's another way of looking at this, if you want to wait.

- OK. - Yep.

Maybe it WASN'T the weapon.

Got to be. Palmer's a weasly little runt.

He's done it before and he'll do it again.

I only said maybe he didn't use THAT weapon.

She looks at one bit of a jigsaw.

It's not her job to see the whole picture.

Ready for you.

This is the weapon, this is the victim's injury.

If we superimpose one on the other,

we get...

Doesn't the skin move around?

Expand and contract, distorting the impression.

Not THAT much.

Is there any way that weapon could've been used?

No.

I've a suspect I know destroyed that lady.

I WANT to stop it happening again.

So do I. But I'm not prepared to swear black is white to do it.

Your decision.

PHONE IS RINGING

RINGING STOPS

Blindin'! There's television cameras.

- Will we be on Crimewatch? - On local news.

Are they gonna show our bit?

We're gonna be on television, Kelv.

You don't have to do this if you don't want to.

..It's OK.

Aww, look!

- OK. Are you ready? - Yes.

When were you last in the area?

CONVERSATION INAUDIBLE

Didn't expect to see you.

It's my budget they're spending on this extravaganza.

Rachel isn't best pleased. You put a spoke in her wheel.

It wasn't the same weapon.

- I told her. - You did?

"If Dr Ryan says it isn't the weapon, it isn't the weapon."

Now you're asking me to make sure.

- No. - Well, I AM sure.

Right, OK.

He wants you to walk past the camera,

and... Wait, wait, wait.

Off you go.

BEN STARTS TO GIGGLE Pillock!

Come on! One more time.

Come on, lads.

We'll give this one more shot.

If it doesn't work, we'll move on. OK?

And... in your own time...

Hello.

We've been looking for you. Where've you been?

Around.

Were you with Chris Palmer the other day, when Mrs Lockwood died?

No.

Come on. Let's take a walk.

Now, listen, don't worry about the others, OK?

Palmer said you were with him on that day.

If that's true, that helps him.

- WERE you with him on that evening? - No!

You'd better come. We've found something.

In here.

BEN GIGGLES Hiya.

- Well done, lads. - Was that OK?

You've been a great help, thanks.

Here you are.

- Get yourselves a burger. - Cheers!

Come on.

If anyone has seen somebody wearing this watch or has been offered it,

please come forward.

Can you confirm you're questioning a suspect?

No-one is under arrest.

Doctor, any details of the injuries?

The police have given their account of that.

Would you say this was an unusually brutal attack?

I would.

It's a particularly horrific case.

So it was violence for its own sake?

- It seems that way. - That's it.

Thanks, everyone, for co-operating.

Thanks for coming, Sam.

Is there anywhere to eat round here?

There's a cafe. Not up to your usual standard.

Doesn't matter.

- Are you coming? - I wish I could.

Kelv! Kelv!! Kelv, give us the bottle, quick!

Get off!

Just give us it! Kelv...!

I wanna show you something. Kelv, it's funny, I promise!

Just give us it. Kelv. Kelv!

Give us it, Kelv!

Just give us the bottle! I wanna show you something!

Please, Kelv. Kelv. Kelv, wait.

'Hello, young man.

Would you like to stroke the dog?' 'You halfwit!'

HE MAKES CHOKING NOISES

Ben! Give it a rest!

Ben.

Ben!

Ben! Get up!

CHOKING MIXED WITH LAUGHTER Prat!

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♪ Costestes e Spiritu-um

♪ Si-ilentiu-um

♪ Angeli Silens... ♪