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[grass blowing]

[theme music]

[lift door squeaks closed]

[lift descends noisily]

[door buzzes]

Alright, Jackie?

[scoffs] Danny?

What are you doing here?

Kenny Glass asked me to drop by,

he's got a family emergency.

Then, tell me what do you want?

You've got an unidentified female?

He's been asked to take a look into a missing persons case,

Saskia somebody or other,

err, disappeared six months ago.

Brought her dental records.

No, I don't do teeth.

Err, leave it on the side and we can get someone to take a look.

| can't ID her by any other means.

[Danny sniffs]

Can, can you not give me something?

[scoffs] Err, it's not even nine, what's the rush?

You know how it works.

Do you want to see her, is that it?

The headlines will do.

Okay.

Err, mid to late twenties, five three, 110 pounds soaking wet.

She was found hanging in her bedroom.

Any evidence of foul play?

No, they'd have brought in the Home Office boys if there were.

[Danny] Mm.

Suicide then?

Yeah, what else?

-Sex game gone wrong? —[scoffs] Really?

Nah, she tried to, severe her radial artery first.

-What with? —-I dunno, something sharp.

It's all in the police report, Danny.

So, she made a mess of it?

Mm, half a dozen hesitation wounds, one single deeper cut.

- Blood alcohol? - No idea.

We won't see the tox report for a while, now if you don't mind

I've got a lot of work to do so bye, Danny.

What about these?

Found on her person, I think.

Any idea what they are?

[Jackie laughs] It's not my field.

Might she have taken some?

| told you I won't know for some time,

most likely weeks.

[suspenseful music]

Hesitation wounds you say?

They always hesitate.

She was afraid.

Maybe she was searching for a reason to stay alive.

Or a reason to die.

[Jackie] Take your pick.

I'll let you know, if we find out it's your girl.

Okay.

Thanks.

[suspenseful music]

[hesitant footsteps]

[rapid breathing]

[eerie exhale]

[gasps]

[crying]

[sobbing]

It's Christina.

My daughter.

Oh...

Danny, you shouldn't be in here.

Get off me.

[sobbing]

[crying uncontrollably]

Danny, Danny, Richard wants to speak to you.

Danny?

[Richard] Danny?

Go and sit outside I'll, I'll be there shortly.

[breathing heavily]

Danny?

Danny?

Tell me what happened.

| already did.

Then tell me again.

Tell me why my Christina is lying there.

Danny, oh, my god, my heart goes out to you

but this just isn't the right place or time for this conversation.

Come on. Let's just get out of here.

[Danny flicks switch]

Danny, what are you doing?

What happened to her?

Tell me.

[shouting] Tell me!

She killed herself.

| carried out a routine examination.

Nothing about this is routine.

[Jackie] I'm sorry, I wasn't to know, she had no ID on her.

Now come on, Danny, give me the key.

Let's wait outside, for Richard.

Take me through it, from the top.

Where was she found?

Um, in a flat off Riverside.

What was she doing there?

| haven't a clue.

You've read the police report.

She was in the bedroom, there was blood on the rug,

most likely where the original attempt took place

and by the door where she was found.

There was more severe haemorrhaging than expected

from a partial severance. It's possible the tox report

will reveal the presence of some kind of anti-coagulant agent.

She certainly didn't bleed to death but it was sufficient

for it to, er, drip between the floorboards

and through the ceiling below.

The woman who lives there called it in.

How long had she been there?

Oh Danny, you know better than to ask me that.

Err, the neighbour told your colleagues that

she heard someone between 1:00 and 2:00am she thinks.

She's a light sleeper apparently.

Was there a note?

Not that I'm aware of.

And no evidence of a struggle.

Nothing at all to indicate that it wasn't suicide.

Yeah, she was found in a strange flat with no ID on her,

you don't think any of that sounds suspicious?

It's not my job, Danny.

Well, what happened to lateral thinking?

I'm a hospital pathologist, I'm not a police officer,

| report what's in front of me.

Was she fully dressed?

No scratch marks, no broken nails,

no sign that she resisted in any way.

But she might've been drugged?

And the volume of blood?

It was consistent with the veins

in her wrist being severed before she died?

| haven't been to the scene.

Is that it?

There's livor mortis in the lower part of the body

and petechiae in the eyes and gums, what you'd expect.

You get off on those, don't you?

What?

Those fancy words.

They're technical terms.

My daughter is dead, is that technical enough for you?

[exhales] I'm sorry, Danny, but it is my job.

Just call a spade a spade!

Okay!

This ends now, open the door.

Danny, open the door!

Come on, open it, open the door, Danny!

[tense music]

Christina didn't kill herself.

[tense music continues]

[Jackie] Give me that.

Would the angle be different if someone was making it

look like she did it herself?

Danny stop, you can't fake hesitation wounds.

-You can fake anything. -She died of asphyxiation.

She was strangled then.

Okay, look at this.

The ligature marks are diagonal and rising to a point of suspension

just behind her ear.

They're consistent with her bodyweight being suspended.

There would almost certainly be lateral marks

encircling her neck if she'd been strangled

and there's no sign of any trauma to the back of the neck.

Do you know how much force it takes to throttle someone?

Okay.

What about internally?

-What do you mean? -I dunno, you're the expert.

Uh, broken vertebrae, bleeding?

Isn't there some way to distinguish between suicide and homicide?

I'd expect multiple fractures of the laryngohyoid complex

in the case of strangulation

and localised contusion in the neck muscles as well.

-So you checked for that, yes? -I did a Y dissection, yes.

-And? -And it seemed undamaged, intact.

Show me where it says that.

[Jackie] Are you calling me a liar?

Is this the one you used?

[beep] [dictaphone] Petechiae in the sclera and then—-

Find it.

Find it!

[ominous Mmusic]

[beep] [dictaphone] The trachea and proximal bronchi are patent.

[beep] No sign of any fractures on the hyoid bone or thyroid cartilage.

[beep] Satisfied?

What about the marks on her face?

They're old injuries, they're not related to her death.

But they could prove she's the victim of violence.

[scoffs] You're clutching at straws.

An autopsy isn't based on supposition,

it's a scientific equation, it's a process of elimination.

Show me.

[sighs] It's not gonna happen.

That thing on her neck, you mention it in your report.

It's not conclusive on its own,

you need an x-ray or MRI to confirm it.

[clanging] Open her up or I'll do it myself.

Da... stop.

-Huh? —[shouting] Alright!

[sighs]

| wouldn't have expected this for you, Danny.

You don't know anything about me.

But I do know about your daughter,

there are signs of substance abuse.

Hmm.

Track marks, perforated septum.

[Danny crying]

-Do you feel you let her down? -What?

You want the post-mortem to say it's not your fault.

-Shut the fuck up! -Don't you speak to me like that.

| speak to everyone like that.

Well, I'm not everyone.

Please, Jackie.

—Please. —[Jackie] Hmm.

Alright.

| need scissors, autopsy knife.

[clanging, banging]

What are you doing?

I've had enough of this.

[banging, rattling] [Richard shouting] Danny!

Richard, he locked me in!

What?

-Give me the keys. —-Come on then, I dare you.

They are gonna throw the fucking book at you for this.

[Richard] You alright?

[Jackie] Yeah, I'm fine.

Really Richard, I'm fine.

What the fuck are you playing at?

[Jackie] He's lost his mind.

—[Richard] Will you wait for me? -Yeah.

Jackie doesn't know her arse from her elbow.

She's the best in her field.

I'm so sorry, Danny, that, that you had to find her like this.

Christina's been murdered.

There's, there's no evidence to support that.

You need to investigate this.

Okay.

I'll ask Mike Pickersdill to take a look.

Make sure it's all been handled by the book.

Has the scene been properly documented?

Of course, but Mike will double check everything

before we close the file.

Good.

You're in shock.

I'm, I'm here as a friend, I'll do whatever I can for you

but this isn't helping anyone.

You need to call Susannah, come on.

She was afraid.

| wasn't there for her.

This is not your fault.

-Please. -Give me two minutes.

Two minutes with her to say goodbye.

| can't.

You can.

As a friend.

Please.

Two minutes.

I'll be right outside.

[soft music]

[inaudible]

[pinging]

[pinging repeats]

[pinging repeats]

[loud pinging]

[loud pinging repeats]

[tense music]

[items jangling]

[banging on door]

[banging on door repeats]

[continuous banging]

[ethereal music]

Where have you been this whole time, huh?

[echoing]

[banging on door]

Just have to find another way.

[echoing]

[tense music]

[door clangs, opens]

[door bangs shut]