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Hello bathonians! Time now is 9.01 and you're

listening to me, Paul Watt, on Roman Radio 276 FM.

And it's that time again! It's my annual maximum wattage!

12 hours of non-stop tunes in the company of yours truly.

And speaking of truly yours, today Bath has got to be the official World City of Love!

Yes, we have 21 nuptials going down in 21 different venues.

So, let's kick things off with the Church of the Poison Mite.

What am I like? No, of course it isn't.

It's a genuine romantic hit, a solid gold wedding classic.

Take it away ladies!

That's great, yes well done chaps.

How do?

Thank you.

So, the picture we're getting is

the father of the bride, that's Leonard Wood

came through here from the vestry

Where's that?

Just down there?

That's just before the ceremony was due to start

at around 9.45

and holding that

pending a positive match on those blood

stains pathology have confirmed it

correlates to the wounds on the victim

That is interesting

That's a

retractable blade

That's

aluminium

Vestry's this way boss

Yeah, yeah sure

So, trade of blood

and footprints here confirms the

emergent sequence of events

Mitchell Morrison

So, he was supposed to officiate

at the wedding of Loretta Wood and William

Bridges, him and Lenny Wood

were best friends

Ian, can we break for a few minutes

so the SIO can have a look? Come on Ian, out

you get, get a boat

It's sort of a violent struggle

There's nothing to suggest to break, Ian

That door, was it locked

or unlocked when the first officer arrived?

It was locked, well I've spoken to the church

warden, that door never gets used, it's always

kept locked

Multiple stab wounds there, the stomach

the whole torso and neck

defensive wounds there to the

hand

it's like a

frenzied attack

Someone's been drinking, the Prince will tell us whether it belongs

to the killer or the victim

DCI McDonald's on her way

Sarge

Morning man

Is it?

I hear you've been in the wars

Two hours sleep in the last 48

Looks like you've covered all your bases

Captain Dodds

Right, pace clock's ticking

24 hours to charge or release

Sir, we've got conclusive

trace evidence, multiple eye witnesses

tell me it's the father of the bride and I can be home by tea time

Well we've got no eye witnesses, but I think

we've got enough trace evidence to get a confession

out of this, Leonard Woods

and he's in Castle Park

Hospital at the moment

Suspect of concussion

Yes, my next port of call

Wait, what about the bride?

What do you mean?

Well, poor girl and her

sisters, they've just seen their father be

arrested for the murder of his best mate who they

probably know, wedding's in tatters

job of an SIO

is to offer personal reassurance

and maybe get some insight

into motive

Yeah, right, sorry man

And then the flight from Melbourne to Dubai was delayed

because they couldn't find a bloody pilot

which meant that we had to have a

five hour layover

in Dubai and then there was no

flights back to Heathrow for another 12 hours

so they offered us a redirection

to Bristol via

Athens, which was a result

but then I didn't get a wink of sleep

because these bloody kids were

screaming

Got to Bristol at 5am

Huge queue at immigration

Got our bags on time

I was quite pleased with that

Then we came outside, no taxis

Had to get a bussage

Oh well, that's foreign travel for you

It's very complicated

I didn't understand any of that

I got lost at Dubai

You want me the first?

You alright, ma'am?

Yeah, two hours sleep

and I had this really spooky dream

Spooky? How?

Well, you were in it

You had a moustache

It was my wedding and everything just went

really wrong

What a wedding

It seems a nightmare, it's just

mental garbage, isn't it?

So, um

how was New Zealand?

Yeah, great

Trip of a lifetime

Good morning

I'm DCI Laura Macdonald

Senior Investigating Officer

into the inquiry of the death of Mitchell Morrison

And I'm, uh, Detective Sergeant Dodds

Um, do you mind if we sit down?

Yeah, sure, please

I gather

you were close to Mitchell

Mitchell was

Uncle Mitchell

Our mum died when I was ten

and Dad brought the three of us up alone

Three girls, still don't know how he did it

God knows we weren't easy

And Mitchell was always there for Dad

and us

Your father is under arrest

on suspicion of murder

And what we're trying to do now

is just to, um

try and understand what happened

Yeah, and why?

Uh, well, we were at the altar

but Mitchell wasn't there, so

Lenny went off to see what was going on

and, um

when he came back

he...

Dad did not kill Mitchell

Why would he?

Isn't it obvious that some lunatic

just broke in, probably trying to rob the place?

Him and Mitchell built that summer house together

They played golf every Saturday

Lil, say something

Dad didn't kill Mitchell

Oh, could you just leave us alone?

Please

This is devastating for all of us

You're well within your rights

Ms Wood

We'll keep you up to date with any developments

and you can call me directly

if you've got any concerns

or want to give me any information

How is he?

He's very confused

The last thing he remembers is getting out of the wedding car with his daughter

He's got nothing after that

Do you believe him?

In your professional opinion

Short term memory loss is not uncommon in severe concussion

but his brain scan's clear, no bleeding

and the memories might come back in pieces

It's like when you have a dream

and a few days later you have flashbacks

and suddenly you remember new details

How did I get this?

What's happened? Nobody's told me anything

We're, er, questioning you and a caution, sir

on suspicion of the murder of Mitchell Morrison

Mitchell?

Mitch dead

Do you, erm, recognise this knife, sir?

No

Where are my kids?

How are they?

Mitch was...

Can I see them?

Not at the moment

Can you explain the blood we found in your clothes?

Mitch's blood?

Blood? No

Can you account for the fact that 50 witnesses, including your daughters

say they saw you coming out the vestry with that knife

which we've now confirmed is a murder weapon

that was used to fatally stab Mitch six times

Why...

Why would I kill Mitch?

What father of the bride comes to his own daughter's wedding

carrying a blade?

Because that aluminium knife

looks like it does not come from a church

It would sit a lot better with me if we had a motive

Why is that uniform pointing us out to a press photographer?

Great, thank you

Is that...?

Hi, Nora Lang

I've been trying to catch up with you for the last couple of hours

Detectives McDonald and Dots?

Yes

I believe my status on your inquiry is significant witness

Were you a guest at the wedding in St Mary's?

Miss Lang is one of the world's most

eminent photojournalists, ma'am

That's overstating it a bit

But I'm on sabbatical from foreign assignments

The Guardian commissioned a feature

The Great British Wedding

Handed reportage, granny black and white

Thought it'd be fun

Till this morning

I, uh, I have pictures

Of what?

Everything

I tried to save him

Erm, save who, ma'am?

The victim

When that man came into the church covered in blood

I guess, you know, my instinct kicked in

I ran down the corridor and found him

The vicar

And then?

I took a photo

I saw he was still alive so I tried to save him

But I was too late

He bled out

Nothing I could do

You interfered with the crime scene

My first duty was the preservation of life

And you're trained to do exactly the same thing, I believe

I wouldn't have stopped to take a photo

Sorry, instinct

Cold instinct

He was stabbed six times

Not the first time I've witnessed a violent death

So, two hours and ten minutes after the murder

And you didn't immediately identify yourself to our first response team

I'm here now

Good

So, I'll need fingerprints and a DNA swap as elimination

Formal statement and the memory card from that camera

Well, er, that is, it's a Canon AE-1

Erm, man just came out in 1976 to use his film

Erm, but we, we do need the film roll, miss

Miss, miss Lane, now please

OK

I'm supposed to cover a wedding at the old

barn over at Bathwick and three more after that

When you've just witnessed a murder?

The assignment is everything

Thank you

Oh, there's something else

Before the vicar died

He raised a hand and pointed to his chest here and I think he said "snake"

You alright, ma'am?

Erm, yeah

Where would I be?

It's 11.56 and we're getting some unconfirmed reports

of an incident at, er, St Mary's and All Angels

Hmm, OK, I did a dedication to the bride lottery

earlier, so, er, we'll keep you posted on that

Meantime, for richer or poorer, it's over to Diana for the latest traffic news

So, these are the photographs taken by Dora Lang

In chronological order, starting with the bride

and her father outside their house at 9.15

And ending here at 9.46

The, er, the time codes are estimates

What do you think, Sarge?

Wow, Miss Lang certainly has a flawless gift for capturing the decisive moment

Sorry, ma'am, you have police work, so...

OK, here we have the victim at 9.36 outside the

church, which was just before the bride arrived

Seems to be drinking, is that it?

Er...

Yeah, it's hip flask

Doesn't look happy

And he was having a fag as well

Oh, hello, it's, er, it's a little bit of a surprise

It's, er, well, that door's open

Well, didn't the, er, didn't the church warden

tell us that this door was always kept locked?

Yeah, and it was locked when our people got there

Well, so now the revenues should have a set of keys

There were no keys found on the victim's body or anywhere in the vestry

Dora Lang?

Er, yes, ma'am

She was the only other one in the vestry, maybe she took the keys

Well, why would she do that?

I don't know

Lee?

Yes, ma'am

Can you get me a background check on Dora Lang?

She's some sort of newspaper paparazzi or something

She's a photojournalist, ma'am

She's a photojournalist

Ma'am

Right, when someone comes to me after a suspicious delay with

a reason of why their trace evidence is all over my crime scene

I get a bit twitchy

Can you go and see Dora Lang? Get her DNA and blood samples

See if you can get a measure of her

Is there something she's not telling us?

Lee, go with him

Ma'am, she's renting a place in the centre of Bath, Sarge

And, er, have we got any background on her?

Well, January this year she spent ten days in Oldmere Clinic

Oh, isn't that the, er...

Specialised in mental health treatment

I can't access any details without a warrant

Sorry

Lifetime of eyes pressed up against view finders

Right, well, erm, when you're ready, er, Miss Lang, here

Not the first time I've had my prints taken, Sergeant Dodds

Oh?

Under the Milosevic regime, my first foreign assignment

Well, if I can just start with your, er, thumb, please, erm, there

There you go

I owe you an apology

Well, boss, I suppose

I should have come forward straight away, but it...

I suppose it's a kind of compulsion

Compulsion?

I wanted more photos

Well, it wasn't helpful, but then again I suppose you are a...

A trained observer

Sarge?

Shall we?

Er, erm...

We also need to take a DNA sample, Miss Lang

If I could just...

Thank you

So, has the father of the bride been charged yet?

Oh, no, I can't comment on that, ma'am

But I think you know that

We'll take a full statement from you, but, erm,

there is one question that I want to ask you

This photograph here, now, did you see a key to this

door behind the victim that leads out to the grounds?

No

So you... you didn't take it?

Sergeant, are you questioning me as a suspect?

No

We'll have taken a three month left on this place, as you probably know, so...

I'm not going anywhere

The CPS have agreed to release your father

He should be home with you in a couple of hours

So he didn't do it?

He's still under arrest, but we are exploring other lines of inquiry

What exactly does that mean?

Well, we have compelling evidence against him and

he clearly had a fight in the vestry with Mitchell

And I need to know why

What was going on between them?

I also need to know about this

He's drinking?

Just before he's about to officiate his best friend's daughter's wedding

He looks distraught

Why?

Lot of you are about to get married

Was there something going on with you guys?

Did your dad find out?

Are you...

That's disgusting

Uncle Mitchell and me, that's sick

Coming here with your filthy accusations and...

It was me

Me and Mitchell were...

We were gonna get married

What?

He was just about to tell Dad

When did this start?

When?

A year ago

And I heard what happened

Mitchell was stabbed to death

That's a maniac

Not my dad

He wouldn't have done it

No matter what

So there I am after 250 dates and 21 years

I'm standing in my kitchen at 2am

Mansplained in the offside rule to Alexa

And I think

Am I going wrong somewhere?

And at that very moment

I got a text from Florence

I'm getting married next week, she tells me

So I booked myself on a flight here

All set to meet my new brother-in-law down the dog and duck

Couple of pints, game of darts

And who should greet me?

Cassandra

No, come on now, settle down, settle down

Seriously

I couldn't be happier for you, sis

She's a wonderful girl

As you might have heard

The love of my life slipped through my fingers a long time ago

But seeing you and Sandra so happy together

Only wish mum and dad and Kirsten could be here

So

I'd ask you all to be upstanding

And to raise your glasses

To the bride and the bride

Florence and Sandra

The time has just gone 2.22

And in sickness and in health

That was the Duchess herself with love and marriage

You can't have one without the other

Try telling that to my ex-wife

Everybody out please

Come on, I need everybody out

Sarah, don't touch anything

Thank you

Yeah, just vacate the vehicle, thank you

Mum

Okay, this is Florence Saunders, 39 specialist nurse

Take a closer look

She's bleeding from her ears

It started with bleeding from her nose

I'd say she'd been poisoned with some kind of anti-coagulant

Orphrine

Arsenic even

She collapsed suddenly at the end of the meal

Someone got her food or drink?

Ah, Liz

I need all these dishes processed as soon as possible

I know it's Saturday but this is time critical

Okay, so

Victim's older brother

Her new wife

And her new wife's mother

They were the only people at the top table

And possible beneficiaries of her death

I'll get them back to the station for formal statements

No, we are officially overstretched here

It's all hands on deck

I'll lead the initial stages of this inquiry

How close are you to formally charging Lenny Wood?

I'm not sure, there's just some things that don't add up

But

Two suspicious deaths at two weddings in one day

Well, I've got a couple of PCs at the station

Mining for connections between both weddings

Dora Lang

The photographer

She said she was doing this wedding as well

We need to know more before we start talking about linked murders

Mm-hmm

Okay?

No

Are you okay?

Jet lag's brutal

I need to be

Lenny Wood's has just remembered something

Something tells me it's more on a suspicious death

All signs point to poisoning by someone seated at the top table

But let's not talk about connections until we establish one, okay?

You sure about this?

Yeah, he wants to do it, ma'am

Okay, Mr. Wood

You're now claiming there was a third party in the vestry

Yes, that's right

And what happened to her?

She was really healthy

Didn't smoke

Barely drank

Well, that's not quite true

Flo did like a drink, or used to

Not since I've known her

You got as far as here

And then, um, in your own words

What did you see?

I saw, um, Mitchell covered in blood

Lying in the, uh

Go on, can I get in there?

Sure, you can

Where do you think she was poisoned?

We're working on the basis that someone

adulterated her food or drink during the reception

Someone close to her

Physically

Hang on

You think one of us

No, no, no, no, no, no

I've seen stuff online

Someone else was murdered at another wedding earlier today

What?

Well, maybe you should be out there trying to find this maniac

Sir?

Are you okay?

No

Paramedics!

Clive?

I remember somebody punched me

He floored me, and I

I must have just passed out

I didn't kill Mitchell

Some kind of lunatic or somebody broke in

Mitchell caught him and

Why would I attack my own best friend with a knife?

Because he just told you that him and Lilith were in love

And they're planning to get married

Oh, come on

No

So, um, when he came round, um, this guy, um, where was he?

Um, he was at the door

I have a copy of the key to that door right here

The key, yes, he took the key out of the lock

After he opened the door?

Yes

Right, so what happened next?

Come on, Lenny, we need more

I think, think Mr. Wood

Yeah, um, he left

I tried to go after him, but he locked the door

And then I pulled the knife from Mitch, and I went out there to get help

Yes, and Trudy, you saw his face?

No, he was wearing a, a balaclava

But before he left, he turned to me and there was a, there, a tattoo of a snake

Excuse me

Um

Mitch

And my little girl

As far as we can send, sir, uh, your daughter and the Reverend Morrison,

they were consenting at all, sir, it's between you and your family

Oh my God

Ma'am

You know this, this snake tattoo, well, according to

Dora Lang, that was the last word Mitchell Morrison spoke

Yeah, okay, this might sound completely mad,

but remember the dream I was telling you about

So, it's my wedding day, lovely, I'm walking down the aisle, and

the groom turns around, but it's not the boyfriend, it's this guy

And he looks kind of creepy, and his shirt's

open, and he has a tattoo of a snake here

Oh, I, I don't know, ma'am, I think, you know, you're

so asleep, and, uh, it's, I think you're getting

I'm getting a little bit of a wind

Ma'am, do we really think that Mr Wood covered it in blood, carrying a knife,

came out through this door, closed it behind him, threw the key on the ground

and then walked round the outside of this church, back in through the front door, and somehow

sneaked past the congregation, slipped into the vestry, and then staggered out towards the altar

Do you think Lenny Wood was telling the truth? The

man with the snake tattoo killed Mitchell Morrison?

Go on now, look at this

That's been made recently, very recently

Maybe he was left here, since this morning

It's a message

I'm fine, I feel fine

Would still prefer you went to hospital to get checked

Can't, on a flight tonight, I'm in the middle of building a

holiday apartment complex and if I'm not there it all goes arse up

Okay, but you have presented with the same symptoms as your

sister when she died, so we need to take a blood sample from you

Fine

And you didn't accidentally share a dish with your sister or drink from her glass?

I don't think so, Flo's drinking red wine and I'm tea total, just over 21 years sober

Since you lost your fiancé

Now how do you know?

Oh, sorry, we always do background checks on

close family of murder victims, it's routine

I was driving

The inquest cleared me, not my fault, but I hit the boots pretty hard after that

Leaving this country and getting into the hospitality business, that's what saved me

And did you share anything from this menu?

Flo's vegan

This appetizer, amuse-bouche butternut

squash, yeah, yeah I had that, so did Florence

God, only one of us could have picked up that dish

Okay, back to the caterers, seize all the dishes that the appetizers were served in

Oh no, there were 67 people

Just do it, and tie, please

Yes ma'am, sorry ma'am

Is Clive okay?

Fortunately he only ingested a tiny part of what killed your wife

Here, take these honey, they're good for your nerves

How did you feel about your daughter's marriage to Florence?

I love my daughter, if there's anyone what's best for her

Florence said the way you loved me was suffocating

Florence, I can breathe

I'm sorry baby

For what Mrs Blake? Is there something you want to tell me?

Are you actually accusing me of... you know, Clive Wright, you

should be out there catching whoever's killing people at weddings

You have no idea what you're doing, have you? Completely clueless

Well, we'll soon know more once we recover the murder weapon

Ma'am, this dream of yours...

I don't want to talk about it

Yeah, but this snake man, what did he look like?

50s maybe, he had a ponytail, black hair, dyed, seeding

hairline, weathered look, oran, maybe, I don't know

Sarge, do you think you could give me a bit of space?

Oh yeah, sorry ma'am

Oh yeah, I'll just go and start the whiteboard ma'am

One of these four cups is our murder weapon, but they've been through a thorough

wash so it's unlikely forensics can pull prints, let alone traces of poison

Okay, two murders, two weddings, one a frenzied knife attack,

possibly a crime of passion and a suspect with a clear motive

Well, I'm afraid that's not what the evidence is telling us ma'am

Lenny Wood said that there was a third man in the vestry wearing a

balaclava, he claims that he was the one that murdered Mitchell Morrison

And it sounds like you believe him

Well, see this door from the outside here, now this is always kept locked,

it's never used, but there you can see Reverend Morrison has opened it

And Mr Wood here, he claims that this balaclava man,

he escaped through this door and locked it behind him

And it was locked when we got there wasn't it, and

see now look there, this is the key to the vestry door

And can you see it's got a peculiar X scraped on

it, and it was left just outside for us to find

Okay, Florence Saunders, three possible suspects, her brother unlikely

because he was also poisoned, must have eaten from one of those china cups

But Saunders mother, maybe, she didn't like the

idea of losing her daughter to another woman

Ma'am, toxicology has just come through, they've identified the presence of

tetrahydrozoline in the blood samples of both Florence and Clive Saunders

Embibed in a high enough dose it acts as a fatal neurotoxin, but not instantly

So the killer wasn't necessarily at the top

table, they could have gone into the catering van

Could the common factor be opportunism? So the killer of Florence

Saunders, he just dropped some poison into any one of these 60 china cups

Was Florence just unlucky? And the killer of Mitchell

Morrison, well he must have been outside watching

So when he saw that the door was open then he took his chance, he

went inside with his knife and intended to kill someone, anyone

Okay, so what are we saying? Someone with a grudge against

marriage is just randomly killing people at weddings

Did Lennywood give you anything on the man he claims to have seen in the vestry?

Yeah, this snake tattoo

And this poison? Tetrahydrozoline

How would a member of the public acquire that?

Oh it's an active ingredient in over the counter eye drops

What?

Doralaine

Well she was using eye drops earlier

She is a common factor, she was at both murder scenes

You said opportunistic, that photo that she took

placed her outside the church with the door open

Well any one of these photographs here, they put her inside

the church with a congregation, even before the murder happened

She could have an accomplice

Thank you for coming Miss Lang, as you may have

heard there's been a second murder at a wedding today

You're looking for a connection and I'm the common factor?

Well you were at both weddings and at the first you left your trace evidence at

the crime scene and then you absconded without reporting to one of our officers

Your eye drops Miss Lang

I've been hauled into a fair few rooms like this around the world and

they all have their methods of intimidation but eye drop confiscation

That's a new one

We've established that Florence Saunders was poisoned with tetrahydrozoline

OK

Unless this poisoning method was particularly fast acting, which I doubt,

I was at the wedding reception at the barn for less than 15 minutes

I left before the victim died but the reason I was

late was that you were taking my fingerprints and DNA

Which was probably when the poison was being applied

You've never been married have you Miss Lang?

Oh I see, dried up old spinster never found love

Gets so bitter and twisted that she loses the plot and starts

poisoning brides and launching frenzied knife attacks on vicars

And you're accusing pretty much everyone you come across today of these murders

Oh it's not me I'm too lazy

It's not funny

No it never is

You just evolve coping strategies

Your medical records, you have a history of violence

I don't even like calcations

I saw this idiot kick his dog in the ribs and I snapped I just lost it

I threw a five grand Leica camera at him

Broke his nose, you're lucky he didn't press charges

Pressure turned to stress, I'd seen too much violence and the aftermath of violence

I got help, I straightened myself out and I'm rehabilitated

Although the wedding assignment

Yeah that worked out well didn't it, therapeutic or what?

Sometimes things catch up with you

You think you're immune? You need to pace yourself

Did you take any photographs of the barn reception?

Yeah, they're at home I haven't developed them yet but if you need them they're yours

Thank you

If you have no basis to charge me I'd like to go

Maybe no more weddings today Ms Lang

I don't really think you have that kind of jurisdiction over me DCI Macdonald

I'm getting more reports of a second fatality at a second wedding today

It's all unconfirmed and the police have yet to comment so

So here in Rachel over at Victoria Park to love and to cherish, have a great day

More news at half past the hour

Rachel, you ok?

Hamish?

It's Hamish

Hamish

Sahir

Hamish buddy

I'm sorry

Hamish

Hamish Maclay, originally from Elgin in Scotland

Best friend to the groom, he flew in as a surprise, no one

knew he was coming, he has no known connections to Bath

Mum, respectfully I don't see how we can run

three murder inquiries without any outside help

I've asked the Chief Constable to declare a

critical incident, shut down any other wedding

Get some screens in here please Goldie

We've run out man

I've just spoken to the best man, well actually the substitute best man

It turns out the victim was the first choice but

he and the groom had a bust up on the stag weekend

Hunch is worth running

Ok find me a quiet room, I'll speak to him

Firearms incident, we need ballistics analysis in here as soon as possible

Mum

What are you thinking Mum?

Ok, 20 to 30 millimetre, one shot to the back of the head, the groom rolled him over

For sure kill you want to be no more than 20 metres away so, over there?

Now Mum we're completely overwhelmed here

Yeah tell me something I don't know

We already have a credible suspect, the snake tattoo man

Yeah but we only have one witness Lenny Woods who

had concussion and didn't see the suspect's face

Well we actually have another witness of sorts,

one who did see the suspect before the first murder

Now maybe the suspect in all three murders

Are you serious? It was a bad dream, just like this is a...

That looks like a Smith & Wesson

Look at that

Yeah I know it's got a pearl handle, don't expect to find any prints on it though

Yeah especially if he's leaving us the murder

weapon again, I don't get why he's doing that

Well we'll have to compare the bullets and the gun with the one in the victim

The ballistics unit are on a skeleton staff on Saturday, which

means I'll have to go to the firing range and do the test myself

And then take the bullet out of the victim in situ

What before the post mortem is that admissible?

No, but I'm going to cut some corners

Dora Lang, can you get the pictures from the barn wedding now please

Who?

Yes ma'am

Mr Hassan, I'm sorry about your friend, but you didn't quite

tell the truth to the officer who took your statement did you?

I don't know what you mean

Mr Maclay texted you last night from Hong Kong

airport, saying he was coming to the wedding

Well as you can see, it was someone called

Sally he texted, he sent it to me by mistake

But that doesn't alter the fact that you knew he was coming, or

the fact that you and he had a fist fight on your stag weekend

Hamish got really drunk and was mouthing off and I lost my temper

I did not kill Hamish, someone else shot him in

the head while I was standing close to him, okay?

Well that doesn't mean

Come on, this is mad

You can also see I've got the Bath Live app and

they're reporting three murders at three weddings

You've got other people saying you're accusing friends and relatives

when it's obvious you've got some kind of serial killer on your hands

I'm just following up on this sir

Do your job and find this lunatic before the next wedding

A third killing?

Ah yes

What time?

Ah it's about an hour ago

Why are you and your boss for grilling me?

Through here

I only had time to take half a roll, about 20 prints or so

And these were taken after the meal?

Yeah, but I left before the speeches

Well

And so that means the appetiser dishes were long gone

You think the poison was in the appetiser?

Well in one of four cups we believe

You still think one of these three did it?

Oh I don't know, we were just running around looking

at everything and nothing and getting nowhere

Sorry I wasn't thinking

What happened to you?

A 14 year old demented with PTSD waves an AK-47 in your face and screams at you

And you realise in that moment of potential death that you've never felt more alive

And if you talk or bribe your way out of it

And after every assignment I'd be on the tube coming

back from Heathrow and that adrenaline would wear off

And I'd feel

Just empty

And the bad dreams kept coming

And I'd try a hobby, I'd try dating and then I'd try

More dating

And in the end the only answer was to get back out in the field

Until last January when I had my...

Wobble

And you smashed up a vintage like

I'm guessing you haven't got time for sex

What's that?

Well this wasn't on the roll you gave us

No I took that with my little Fuji

Look at that bridesmaid

She took a photo

Go and save the world, Sergeant Todd

Extracting the bullet from the body should be with you in half an hour max

When it comes in please tell me that that bullet came from that gun

As soon as I know you'll know

Thanks

Yeah

Oh, er, mhm

Sure

I packed up uni after a year, went travelling

Did all sorts of jobs, all sorts of places

Enjoyed myself, got my heart broken

And I came back four years later

Mitchell, he knocked around the world a lot when he was young so

We had a lot in common

Sometimes we'd just sit in the pub for hours just talking

He made me laugh

I thought he was nuts but that's what convinced me to marry him

Dude, Dad, kill him

I don't think so

I'm sorry but, erm, do you remember this photo that you took of the photographer

In the churchyard before the ceremony

Do you still have it on your phone?

Yeah, why?

Can you send it to me?

Yeah

Then tell your Dad and your sisters what you just told me

Yeah?

Yeah

Bullet from the third victor matches the pearl gun

Take a look at this

Three axes?

Oh, look, she sent something through there

I think there's something behind her

A cross there

Who's that behind Miss Lang?

Sorry

That's the man, isn't it? From your dream

Yeah, I think so, maybe

What is going on here?

The time is 6.45 and that was classic Ruby Ruby from the key marginals

Requested by one H.F. Mitchell who sends one, two, three kisses to the city of Bath

Plus an extra large whopper in the post till death has two parts

OK, we've got to start filtering out these messages from Trowbridge

H.F. Mitchell?

Hamish, Florence and Mitchell

The victims

So that's one axe or a kiss at crime scene one and three kisses at crime scene three

Why kisses?

There's an extra large one in the post

OK, do you see Lee? Get on the phone and get me

276 FM

Let's see if there's two kisses in one of these china cups here

Hi, it's DCI Laura Macdonald from the west of England with stabulary

You've just made a request from an H.F. Mitchell

How did you get it? Was it text, email, phone?

Email

OK, we're going to send you an email address now

and then can you forward that as soon as you can

Thanks

I've got it

Two kisses

Here we are, the request was sent by this H.F.

Mitchell at 5.03pm a few minutes after the third murder

I don't think he said it right

He said I'm sending one, two, three kisses to the city

of Bath with an extra large one in the post, right?

Yeah

OK, well this says one, two, three X's to the city of Bath with an XL in the post

It's roman numerals 10, 20, 30 and XL is 40

Wedding anniversaries

The murder weapons, there look, ten years is aluminium, that's the knife

20 is china

30 is pearl, the gun

What's the 40th anniversary?

Ruby, and the song is Ruby Ruby

What's coming in the post?

First thing on my mind

Keep it locked on, 276 Roman Radio

We've got loads more romantic gems coming up right after the news

OK, every wedding that we know of in the city has been cancelled,

get checking, anything and everything, Ruby, streets, venues, people

It's enough

All in one day

Starting at 9.15

And the killings themselves, they might have been

opportunistic but the victims have chosen randomly

But he's, he's also weaving an intricate pattern

Meticulously choreographed

Why, why would he do that, what's he playing at?

It's not a game

Sorry but we're all running around like headless chickens because

we think we've found a pattern but we haven't found it have we?

He's given it to us

Well I know him, eh?

Just like he's given us the murder weapons and he gave us the key outside the vestry

But where's the lead to the killer? The actual

solid lead that tells us where he is and who he is?

Well the dream, you know who he is

Don't, no, don't

Well you saw him in your dream

Do not mess with me today

Sergeant Dodds, my office please

Take it down a notch

As you are

What's all this about a dream?

Oh well, um, yeah this man, I don't know quite how to put this man but DCI

Macdonald had a dream about him last night, you know, before the first murder

Are you serious?

She, well she described him in detail from his age, the colour of his hair,

his ponytail and even the snake tattoo before Lenny Wood told us about it

We need to get into this dream ma'am, I'd like to know more about

it and there's this interview technique that I'd like to try

Have we got time for that?

Well she won't want to do it but it's all we've got

Are we really this day?

Yeah, yes, we really are that desperate ma'am

OK, use my office, I need to get changed

Thank you ma'am

*Door opens*

You won't mind me back

Well I'm sorry ma'am but the stuff on that board out there represents a clear and

present danger to life so that in my opinion overrides all other considerations

No Ted

Excuse me

*Door opens*

Are we really doing this?

Yes ma'am, we are

Now what do you remember from the very beginning?

Well, I'm standing at the back of a church, I'm wearing white, my dad's there, walks me down the

aisle, it's a very sunny day, rays of light, it's all very beautiful, the happiest day of my life

Who's in the congregation?

Well there was you

Family? Friends?

Mmm, no, they were all strangers

So the pews, they were full?

There wasn't pews, it was rows of chairs, three on each side

Go on

I walk towards the altar and everything goes dark, like when

the clouds blow up the sun and then the moon tilts to the side

Who's there at the altar?

They've got their back to me but the groom and his best

man and the vicar is facing me, he looks kind of weird

Weird? Who?

Well he's very young for a vicar, but he's doing this strange gesture

Show me

What?

Go on

Then suddenly everyone disappears and I'm alone in the church, apart

from my groom and he turns around and it's the man with the snake tattoo

Yeah, it's him, it is him

What's going on? What's happening?

Strangers

Three seats either side of an aisle

The vicar, he wasn't conducting a service, he was pointing out the emergency exits

The vicar was a flight attendant, the strangers were holiday makers

He walked past me in the aisle when he was coming

out the toilet, the man with the snake tattoo

He was in the same flight

Which one?

He's in Bath, we just need the inbound flight to Bristol

This is everyone on flight AV94 from Athens last night in alphabetical

order, every passenger's photo as recorded at Bristol Airport immigration

OK, let's see him

Stop

I think that's him

Vassilis Giammakis, Greek citizen

That's him

OK, credit card hit, he is staying at the pond in Oldhampton

Let's go

Police!

Put your hands where we can see them

Secure

Getting processed

It's not him

It was an anxiety dream, the boyfriend asked me to marry him

Oh, and you refused?

No, but I didn't say yes

We were on this viewpoint thing overlooking the Pacific and the sun was setting so

He got down on one knee, told me that he loved me with

everything he's got and I just, I didn't say anything

I'm not that spontaneous Sarge, not

It's OK, OK

I hesitated and now he's got the hump and I think I'm really tired

and people are dying and I just, I didn't say yes, I just, I just

They're there, they're there

Can you not pat me? I'm not a collie

Sorry about that

Oh my God

The victims, they really need you to pull yourself together

Start running this across the internet, does it mean something?

Can we trace where he got it? Anything to tell us who he really is

OK, so what do we know apart from the fact that he's refused to solicit her?

His passport under the name of Vassilis Geimakis is fake, but a high

grade fake and we recovered three more fake passports from his hotel room

Polish, Turkish and Armenian

Oh, the receptionist at the Pond Hotel said his

English is excellent, so he can't hide behind that

And we ran his prints across all three crime scenes, no hits

OK, so we can place him outside the church just before the first murder

Let's try and pick up other images of him around the other two

venues, we're going to need a lot more than your dream, DCR McDonald

Mitchell Morrison, Florence Saunders, Hamish Maclay, all dead. Why?

Why all these axes, all these clues for us to find

What are you playing at?

Do you know, Mum, I don't think this gentleman understands English

We'll have to get a translator in

What, Greek, Turkish, Armenian? That's

going to take time, especially on a Saturday

Well, we can hold him for 24 hours, and I reckon it will be easy to get an

extension for another 72 since he's been travelling with a fake passport

Well, it basically means we've got Snake Boy here for as long as we need him

Oh

'Mestigio Fidi Adel Fotitta' Am I saying that right?

No

'Mestigio Fotitta' translates to the whip snake

brotherhood, that snake tattoo, your Greek Mafia

Where I come from, there's many men with this tattoo

Yes, but how many of them are in Bath right now? We have

a witness that puts you at the scene of the first murder

And we have this

I have come here following a client who owes us money

My job is to make sure the client pays us back

Now maybe our client killed all those people, maybe not

I don't care, not my business, I don't belong here

You really think we're going to believe that?

Who are you following?

Well if I tell you that, my brothers will never get their money back

You know we can arrest you for obstructing justice

If you're telling the truth, that means that you're protecting a triple killer

So maybe you do belong here, in prison, for a very long time

We just want our money back

I just want a name

More than my life's worth

Ma'am, should we just pop out for a second?

Ma'am, could he be telling the truth?

Because if he is, then the person he's following is also on your flight

This is everyone on flight AV94 from Athens last night, in alphabetical order

OK, run the names through the database, see if anything pings

See if there's any connections to any of the victims or the weddings

So, snake guy over there claims he was following

someone but he won't tell us who, Greek Mafia

So either him or the person he's following suddenly turns into a wedding serial killer

Or, that's what the killer wants us to believe

All these patterns, all these crosses and murder weapons is just a big smokescreen

Ma'am, look at this

OK, the city's in panic

But the suspects in all three cases are meeting in 30 minutes

They're forming some kind of support group

Saying we've been wasting time accusing them when

there's obviously a multiple killer on the loose

Well, they're wrong about that, aren't they?

They are indeed, ma'am

OK, let's get down there

Mr Lang

I always finish an assignment, Sergeant

Ah, marvellous

We were expecting somebody a little bit more senior, you know

Well, as you can imagine, we're a bit stretched today

So you've got us, I'm afraid

Yeah, and I've been telling you all along that this is some kind of crazed lunatic

You waste all this time and resources grilling us

Accusing me of killing my best friend

I knew nothing about Mitchell and Lilith

And we had no reason to kill Florence

You're right, all the evidence is pointing us to a crazed serial killer

So the first murder at 9.46 this morning

The killer, looking for the opportunity to kill someone, anyone

Got into the vestry at St Mary's Church through the unlocked back door

And murdered the Reverend Morris

He then took the key and we found it

With a very obvious X scratched into it

At your wedding, Sandra, the killer got into the

catering van and applied poison to one of the cups

Which was then served to Florence

This very cup there, do you see?

And it's got two little crosses scratched into it

The killing of Hamish Maclay was a random shooting with a pearl-handed revolver

Three X's etched into the bullet

One X, two X's, three X's, Roman numerals, 10, 20, 30

And the murder weapons, aluminium, china and pearl

10th, 20th and 30th wedding anniversaries

So this was the work of a multiple killer who not only

planned and executed three murders with cold precision

But also manipulated the whole inquiry

What are you saying?

Sarge?

Oh, sorry ma'am

So you see now this, this cup here

This is the key that unlocks the whole scheme

And it gets us to the truth

We know the killer broke into the catering wagon

Adulterated this very cup here with poison

And then marked it with two X's

For two reasons

One was to misdirect us

Get us to think that this was all the work of some crazed serial killer

But there was another, deeper purpose

Because when the appetiser was served the

murderer would know which of those was the poison

And ensure that it was placed in front of Florence Saunders

The murders of Mitchell Morrison and Hamish Maclay were random and opportunistic

But the murder of Florence Saunders was specific, deliberate and premeditated

She was always supposed to die

So does that mean one of them did it?

Not one of them

Because I was punched by a bloke

I was poisoned too

Well maybe you took a small dose so we'd rule you out

Maybe lots of things

If I did this why would I even be here?

Well because all these people they believe that

these three murders are the work of a serial killer

And it's in your interest for them and the world and us

To believe that too

You knew this man was following you

He's Greek mafia isn't he?

And you knew that he was following you because you owed him lots of money

And you knew about his tattoo

So you used that to your advantage

By confusing and deflecting us

I'm guessing you painted on the same tattoo

And made sure Lenny here saw it in the vestry

Maybe you should look at the obvious explanation

I don't have the money to repay them

So this is how they punished me

Framed me for three murders

That guy's a killer not me

We have him in custody

Good so charge him

Well the problem is I don't have any evidence against him

And everything he's told us about you suggests that you killed three people today

Oh he said I did this

It's been a long nightmare of a day

Three murders right under your nose and you haven't got a clue

You're tired and desperate

If you had one shred of physical evidence you'd have me in cuffs

Why would I kill Florence?

Revenge?

21 years ago Florence was responsible for the death of Kirsten Lewis

Your fiance

And the crash that killed her

Wasn't you driving was it?

It was Florence

Had she been drinking is that why you took the blame?

Do you think this is what she would have wanted?

Three people dead is that her legacy?

Legacy?

Are you kidding me?

I need to go, plane to catch

We've cancelled your ticket

Did you kill your sister?

I just lost Kirsten

I didn't want to lose my sister too so I told the police I was driving

Six months later Florence started drinking again and I had to leave the country

And Florence is in love, she's getting married, she's happy

Here I am burdened with debt

Flow had cash

If I framed Vassilis I could get the cash, clear my debt and get him off my back

So where's my legacy?

What is this?

Nothing but this

Two innocent people

And my daughter in law

This is Paul Watt signing off and what can I say

three confirmed fatalities at three different weddings

On a day when we were supposed to be celebrating love and lifelong companionship

I guess I should play something poignant and emotional but

sometimes when you're left asking yourself where is the hope

Maybe silence is the only answer

Good night

You in her?

You know we had the first three months of a like relationship and three minutes

Is that a good thing?

I don't know

Do you ever wonder where the hope is Sarge?

Oh yeah I do, I do, more and more

And?

All we have is tomorrow

So I'm going to amber down to the sun rising

Sink a couple of pints of old peculiar

With a packet of salt and vinegar and lose badly again at darts

After Brian Watson and then walk home and count my legs

I have not my money

Sounds quite nice

How do you go?

Night night ma'am

Night night Sarge

The answer's yes