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My sister Mary, a forensic scientist

was murdered by a crack addict at a crime scene,

the police were supposed to have secured.

You want us to take on Chesham's pathology work?

Well in a word, yes.

The way the Buckinghamshire Police

scapegoated Lizzie is appalling.

Lizzie Fraser committed suicide this afternoon.

It is a bad one.

Yeah and they've entrusted it to a humble DI,

who's six months along.

I almost envy her, her shock.

Ever since dad I feel...

- Numb?

Daddy, do it.

Mick worshiped Jessie.

He would have done everything to save her.

This is the Wraith inquiry.

It is indeed.

DNA evidence suggests she likes working with men.

Weak, needy people she can manipulate.

Was there anyone up there with you at the farm?

The Devil, the Devil was up there with me.

First impressions?

From the pathology angles, she's strikingly varied.

Strangulation, stabbing, execution-style shooting.

Have you ever had a good suspect?

Eliminated suspects, A-Z.

Out of 35,000 women, only nine closely

resembled Janet's profile, but DNA ruled them out.

None of them were the Wraith.

Who does Janet think you're looking for?

She's a thrill seeker of the most dangerous kind

and the biggest kick of all is embroiling the weak

and the needy in her crimes, killing by remote control.

So the petrol he used to start the fire,

that belonged to Mick, right?

It was an unusual Alkylate type,

which matched the stuff in Mick's chainsaw,

so it's probably.

Shouldn't you be sitting down.

No I'm fine.

And the um, the bike D-lock he put around Luke's neck,

we know that belonged to Mick how?

The SOCO gave the serial number to the manufacturers.

Who matched them back to Mick's details, of course.

The burglary was carefully planned,

but the rape was feverishly improvised.

Why do you think they went to such lengths

to secure Mick and Luke?

I mean, couldn't this woman, the Wraith,

couldn't she have stood guard over them with a stun gun?

He was a tough guy, ex SAS, why take the risk?

Well the postmortem you said that the welts

on Mick's wrists suggested a sustained

and painful effort to free himself.

Well, how could he have done that with her standing guard?

Tough guy, ex-SAS.

And that makes him shockproof?

I dunno, look we don't even know

that the Wraith was standing guard.

What you think she went into the house

with the killer and Jessie?

You think she witnessed the rape?

At the killing of PC Amar

she got in the car with the gunman.

I just can't get my head around a woman

having anything to do with this.

Do you want to get a drink or something?

Aye, later would be nice.

Later?

I need to make a house call first, parents of PC Amar.

I don't want them hearing about the link

to the farm murders on the news.

What, you want me to--

Only if you've nothing better to do.

My Goodness.

So there's no question it's her?

We found her DNA.

It'll be all over the news tomorrow.

We wanted you to be prepared.

Thank you, Tom.

So she's killed a child now?

Yeah.

Why?

What does she want?

To get our attention.

But why?

Hey.

It'll be all right, Nasreen.

Are you okay?

Fine.

Sorry.

You've lost someone recently.

My dad.

How long?

A month, a bit more.

And now all the formalities have come and gone

and you still can't grieve for him.

Yeah.

It's this work.

It dries us up.

Shrivels our hearts and we don't even know it.

But it will come out in the end, has to.

When?

My wife died of breast cancer last year.

I wasn't there at the end.

I was in Glasgow tracking down some woman

we were sure was the Wraith.

I'm sorry.

When this is all over, this case,

it'll hit me, I know it will.

I'm almost looking forward to it.

- Daddy. - Hey little man,

are you all right?

How are you doing?

Yeah.

What's new today?

Still not convinced that the Wraith was there, are you?

DNA evidence, is it infallible?

Properly collected, labeled and processed,

it's pretty bloody close.

Well, you've just listed three areas

where human error could occur.

True but this DNA was found inside the pipe

in the form of blood so when, how?

Well no offense, but sometimes scientists screw up.

Look at the mosque bomber case.

From what I hear that was as much the fault

of over-zealous coppers as Chesham Lab

and Professor Fraser is no longer here to defend herself.

Okay, I'm sorry, it's a bad example.

But accidental contamination it's possible, isn't it?

It's possible, it's always...

What?

The swab I used to lift the blood

off the pipe was different.

Different from what?

Different packaging.

Different manufacturer, not the one we normally use.

Is that significant?

I don't know, but...

What?

We inherited these swabs.

From where?

Chesham Labs.

Why's that?

We've been doing their work while they're under review

and they've been showing their gratitude by giving us stocks

and supplies because well, because they're broke basically.

But the swabs are sealed.

Could someone at Chesham have contaminated them?

Oh very easily.

These big labs buy swabs wholesale in their thousands

and then they're re-sterilized and packed

in individual sealed bags and then boxed,

in batches of 24, but there's always a 25th swab,

which is never opened unless contamination is suspected.

The control swab?

So we have got to test the control swab

from the batch which picked up the Wraith's DNA.

Well shouldn't we be testing all the swabs from Chesham?

I mean that's where Byrne and the Wraith inquiry

have done all their testing?

Far too expensive, I'm afraid.

I can order tests on two batches, maybe three, that's it.

Then let's hope we get lucky.

Who is Karl Basharov?

I knew you were going to ask me that.

Like you said, we don't work in isolation.

PC Amar's death prevented him testifying at the trial

of a Russian people trafficker.

Basharov?

What was he on trial for?

Murder.

Amar's testimony was critical in so much

as he'd seen Basharov at a location

where we later found two Estonian girls shot in the head.

Did Basharov beat the charge?

CPS dropped the case when Amar was killed.

Mission accomplished, then?

Basharov was not behind Maalik Amar's death.

Maalik's father didn't seem so sure.

Well couldn't Basharov have paid the Wraith to do the hit?

The witness testimony motive seems very strong.

Basharov only came over from Moscow three years ago

and he brought his own people with him.

A small time female drug addict

wouldn't even be on his radar.

What, so Amar's death was just a massive stroke

of good luck for Basharov?

So it would seem.

Well, I need to go home, get some sleep.

The briefings at 5 a.m., right?

If you can make it.

Yeah, of course.

-Night. -Night.

I was just about to call you.

Great minds, you okay?

Nikki?

I think we need to talk to Janet.

What going on?

Long story.

Hi, Janet.

The murder of PC Amar reads like a professional hit.

Two shots to the head, one shot to the chest,

and all the shell-casings were removed from the car.

Okay?

Well, compare that with the overkill of Ray Carpenter

and the incompetent almost tentative nature

of the Meg Stiles murder.

Well Meg Stiles was her first victim.

Well, nevertheless--

It feels like the work of three different killers?

From a pathology perspective, yes.

But, I mean you profiled her,

so I assume you understand her psychologically?

Hang on, have you all come here

to question Janet's findings?

Leo, it's all right,

I can see where they are coming from.

My profile was based on what I was told by the police,

that DNA made it a scientific certainty the same woman

either committed these crimes

or was present at their commission.

So the question for me wasn't,

is this the work of one person,

but only could I reconcile such differing crimes?

And could you?

Yes.

I profiled her as an intelligent high-functioning

heroin addict with extensive criminal connections

who was addicted not only to drugs,

but of all forms of risk,

specifically the baiting of authority.

So the peaks and troughs of her addiction

produced correspondingly diverse crimes

in terms of organization?

And in terms of motive.

She killed Meg Stiles for drug money,

PC Amar to rile the police and the overkill visited

on Ray Carpenter that betrayed a gleeful sadism.

So the only commonality was, there was no commonality?

I would dispute that.

All three murders evince a sociopathic narcissist

who lives for kicks.

These latest murders I can't speak for

because I don't know the details.

And you never felt like you

were tailoring the foot to the shoe?

Okay, enough, if you're suggesting

that the Wraith's crimes--

It's possible that the DNA linkage was flawed.

Flawed?

But how?

As a result of long-term contamination at Chesham Lab.

Tom Byrne.

Sir, it's me.

I don't know what kind of face Dr. Alexander's

putting on for you, but it's not her real one.

And DI James is still very much on the team.

Go home Ginny, get some rest,

you see conspiracies round every corner.

All the physical evidence suggests Ash Tree Farm

was the work of a lone male killer.

The one thing that doesn't is DNA found on a swab

that we inherited from Chesham Lab,

the same Lab where the majority

of the Wraith DNA hits were found--

Hang on, just back up will you?

What is there to suggest exactly

that these common female DNA hits are not genuine?

There was a very strong alternative suspect

for the murder of PC Amar.

And not to speak out of turn,

but we do know something went awry at Chesham

with the mosque bomber forensics.

Control swabs exist precisely

to expose this kind of contamination.

In every case where the Wraith's DNA was found

the Control would've been tested

and if it'd come up positive for DNA, anybody's DNA,

we would've known about it, agreed?

We don't have an explanation, Leo,

I'm just suggesting that maybe we dig a little deeper.

Okay.

Okay, tomorrow I'm taking Lizzie's husband, Greg

down to Chesham lab to clear out her office.

It's not still under review?

The physical inspection was completed last week.

I've arranged with Simon Avery to let us in,

so while I'm helping Greg why don't you have a word?

Air your concerns?

Our concerns.

Hello, Greg.

Simon, hi.

- Here. -Simon, thanks.

Why the entourage?

Ah, Detective Inspector James

has been working closely with Harry.

What's going on?

Is this to do with the review?

It's just something we need to get to the bottom of.

Could you open up Lizzie's office

and we'll have a talk in there?

Yeah, sure.

I'm afraid there's quite a bit to sort out.

Knowing Lizzie that's the understatement

of the bloody year.

This sounds redundant now Leo,

but I can't tell you how much Lizzie

appreciated you stepping into help.

Of course.

You know, she came back that night

and she was just so relieved.

She was kinda hopeful that she'd

turned a corner on the whole bloody mess.

Oh, baby.

She loved this one.

Oh yeah.

I'm sorry, Greg.

I know you're going through--

We were together for 19 years, Simon,

we had children, there is no comparison!

I was offering compassion, not comparisons.

Simon, could you rustle up some tea,

then Harry and DI James can ask their questions?

Sure.

God.

Ancient history, really.

What did he mean by no comparison?

I used to go out with Lizzie's younger sister, Mary.

She was a forensic scientist,

she was murdered at a crime scene.

At a crime scene?

The police were supposed to have secured.

I was at the scene.

She died in my arms.

I'm sorry.

It was a long time ago

and as Greg says there's no comparison.

Thanks.

Okay, let me get this straight,

so you're seriously positing that the Wraith's DNA

came from the swab rather than the pipe?

We're exploring that possibility.

Right, would you be exploring it

if the swab came from your lab rather than mine?

Of course not.

Well why not?

Because this is where all the Wraith DNA samples

have been detected since 2000.

Not all, the majority.

You take my point.

Yes, I think I do.

You're questioning the integrity of that detection?

In the light of a case like Ash Tree Farm

we have to, I think.

Well as you've made a link with the Wraith Inquiry

I take it you're working

with Detective Superintendent Byrne?

We briefed him already about Ash Tree Farm.

Right, so he knows you're here?

You're working with his inquiry?

What's your point?

Well, simply that DSI Byrne and I

have discussed the possibility of contamination before.

You have?

Yes.

Many times in fact over the years.

So many crime scenes, so far apart, so diverse,

the relative scarcity of female killers.

And?

Well I've always been able to reassure him

on two key points.

One, the control swabs in all the cases

where the Wraith's DNA has been found

have tested negative for DNA,

if it's the Wraith's or otherwise.

And two, all female staff with access to the lab

have had their DNA compared with the Wraith's, no match.

Business or pleasure?

Think carefully before answering.

Wrapping up my case.

Which part of your investigation has been subsumed

into our inquiry was ambiguous to you?

Have you not got better things to do?

You disobeyed a direct order from a senior officer

and you're obstructing a live inquiry.

That's such bullshit.

Harry, don't.

Expect a summons from the Borough Commander's office

within 24 hours.

I'd give your Federation rep a call if I were you.

-Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Hello.

Yeah.

Right, thanks.

Negative?

Negative.

There's two sets of shoe prints in the blood.

Mick's and a pair of size 12 Kevlar mine boots.

No third set.

She kept her distance.

But that doesn't fit with her blood

being found inside the pipe that suggests

she was in the thick of the struggle.

So where are her shoe prints?

I don't know.

But, as you say, her blood was inside the pipe.

She was here.

Inciting the rape of a woman?

Killing a child?

You think someone would do that just to goad the police?

Why not?

She's killed a cop, so what's left?

How do you up the ante, raise the stakes?

Same reason she gravitated from heroin to crack cocaine.

A monstrous escalation.

And to come back down to earth for a moment,

her DNA was discovered at two different labs.

Twice in Buckinghamshire and once in Suffolk

and there's no one person who's worked at

or who has access to both.

How many other crimes does DNA

suggest she committed with male accomplices?

A dozen or so, and always guys

lower down the criminal food chain.

And none of them, bar one, has ever identified her

or given you a description?

No.

Why not?

Because they're more afraid of her than they are of me.

I'm not a cold-blooded killer.

I can't.

Come on, Lee, you've had fun with Mum,

now it's time to clean up.

I can't do it.

Do it, do it.

Lee, breakfast.

Coming, mum.

I've been looking over the Ash Tree Farm evidence

and the killer definitely doesn't fit the profile

in terms of the Wraith's usual male accomplices.

Why not?

The stun gun, the handcuffs and Kevlar boots,

they're all top-of-the-range.

Outside of a junkie's remit?

Except that I don't think that money

was the real motive here.

All the elaborate props and the clear advanced planning

feels like taking a sledgehammer to crack the proverbial.

Well I don't know about that.

Mick Francis was ex-SAS, so you'd want to go prepared.

Ah, Leo, that's it.

We have an earlier crime that may have been carried out

by the Ash Tree Farm killer.

Two months ago a security guard

at an electricity sub-station was attacked.

He said a young man in a green Volvo Estate

pulled up asking for directions.

Next thing he knew the kid felled him

with a stun gun and robbed him.

Try and match the stun gun burn.

I've requested the file.

Janet says the security guard is a clear precursor

of Mick's ex-SAS officer status.

Both crimes were challenges,

missions that the theft prove he accomplished.

If that's true, then Mick Francis was--

Targeted by someone who knew he was in the SAS

and who knew he shut up shop early on Friday.

A customer seems likely.

Here we go.

Burns on Mick Francis' back,

burns on the security guard's.

Same, burns, same stun gun.

And the model's new, expensive, and illegal.

There can't be many in Britain.

Yeah.

The stun gun barbs.

Could they have affected the security guard's recall?

Only for the 10 or so seconds he was incapacitated, why?

So there's no way he could've been mistaken

about there only being one assailant?

Unlikely.

Chief.

It's the DVLA, they've checked Mick's customers,

one green Volvo Estate.

Mum.

Mum!

Mum?

The police are on their way.

I'd come with me if I were you.

I'm your last chance.

Where are you taking me?

Is it the model you expected?

Yes.

Well, we've two eyewitnesses who saw Lee going off

with a woman in a hooded top.

Byrne.

Good news?

Maybe, possible sighting.

Come on!

Come on!

-Come on, come on!

Ginny!

Ginny!

What the hell are you doing?

He's seen her face, Guv, he can tell us who she is.

12 years we've been waiting for this!

Step away from him.

Please help me, help me.

I don't know what she's talking about.

I don't know any woman.

-Please. -Don't even touch me.

Oh, please!

Don't leave me here.

Give me the weapon.

Virginia Gray, I'm arresting you

on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.

Sir, you can't do this!

You don't have to say anything.

You can't do this, you can't do this, sir.

But it may harm your defense

if you fail to mention, when questioned--

I did it for you.

Something, which you later rely on in court.

I did it for you!

Deborah Harding, I'm his brief.

Can you hurry up, please.

We need to take our own photographs as a matter of urgency.

Hang in there, Lee, we're going

to get you out of here very soon.

Lee, here's how it is.

All the forensics are stacking up.

Your DNA matches blood found inside the pipe

Mick Francis hit you with.

We'll also match your boot prints.

Your knife.

Your stun gun and the cash we found in your bedside drawer.

So right now you have one card left

and the sooner you play it, the better.

You didn't want to hurt anyone did you?

You didn't want to rape that poor woman

and you certainly didn't want to kill a child?

She forced you into it, didn't she?

Made it impossible for you to say no?

Who is she, Lee?

Oh Christ, not again.

What do you mean not again?

The bitch who mashed me up was talking

about the same thing.

Who is she, what does she look like, how did you meet her?

I've seen this E-fit before.

The Wraith.

The woman who shot that copper in Marlow?

That's right.

It's bullshit.

I don't know this woman.

The only woman I know is my Mum

unless you count those frigid bitches at school

-who just sit there-- -Shut up, Lee.

Shut up now.

And what's this supposed connection

between her and my client?

DNA proves she was there with him at Ash Tree Farm.

Really?

And uh, where did you find her DNA?

In the pipe.

Sorry, I'm being dim, you're saying Mick Francis

hit both of them with the same pipe

causing them both to bleed?

That's what our evidence is telling us.

Or maybe the evidence

is telling you something completely different,

but you just don't want to hear it.

Such as?

Such as the Wraith committed these murders

and my client's DNA was planted after the fact?

Say, by the detective that beat him

within an inch of his life?

Such as DNA means squat

if you can't attach a plausible scenario and you can't.

The burdens on you to prove this mentor,

protegee relationship, which my client fully denies.

Can you find one person that's ever seen them together,

one CCTV image, one email, one text that connects them?

Well if not it sounds like

a very large reasonable doubt shaped hole.

We'll take a break now.

I think the brief has this back to front.

Lee's DNA was on the pipe, there's no question,

but the Wraith is another matter.

We have to consider the possibility of contamination.

If Lee carried out the assault

on the substation guard alone, then why not Ash Tree Farm?

She's the reason he escalated

from a stun gun to rape and murder.

Well then why is there no evidence

that she was there except the DNA?

Lee Ness will walk if there's any suggestion

that the DNA from the pipe was contaminated.

Probably.

So how hard should we be trying to prove it?

I didn't mean it.

I think you did.

Look even if it is contamination,

that DNA must belong to someone.

So?

Well that's got to be our biggest clue.

Well how, it's been run

against the national database, no matches.

We have got the Wraith's DNA on another swab

sterilized and bagged at Chesham Lab.

You're kidding.

I think that all the swabs

that picked up the Wraith's DNA were pre-contaminated.

-How? -But I thought

Byrne was guarding against contamination

by using other labs.

But where did they get their stock from?

Look I'm sorry, Leo, I know that's woefully inadequate,

but I really am, especially after you reached out.

Well why didn't you tell Byrne

that you supplied swabs to the other labs he was using?

Because I didn't know he was using other labs

until relatively recently.

And when you did?

Well I suppose I didn't think it mattered.

You'll have to explain that.

Well look, he was worried about contamination, I wasn't.

I never doubted this woman existed

or that it was her DNA we were detecting.

Who else has worked consistently at Chesham labs

since 2000 apart from yourself and Lizzie?

Nobody.

Yes, but Lizzie is a pathologist.

If the contamination's accidental, a handling issue

or a mishandling then--

If she was responsible it would have

to have been deliberate?

Yes, which is unthinkable.

But you've thought about it?

Only since her suicide.

Why?

I don't think we need to explore this avenue any further.

I think we do, Leo.

Look I loved Mary, Liz's sister,

I believe, she was in love with me.

But the person she loved most in all the world

was her big sister and vice-versa.

And?

And I fully expected her to lead the charge

in blaming the police for their role in Mary's murder.

But she didn't?

No, that fell to me.

Lizzie, well, appeared to forgive, if not forget.

Well that was her nature.

Yes.

But you're saying that in fact,

she never forgave the police, but created the Wraith

to send them on a 12 year wild goose chase?

Look, Leo is right, this isn't something we need

to explore because Lizzie's DNA doesn't even match.

That doesn't prove anything, as you say,

she was a pathologist, she could've used any Jane Doe's DNA

to contaminate those swabs, she could.

What happened to Mary's killer?

He died in prison before the case even came to court.

How?

Drug-related heart failure, I think.

You'd have to ask Byrne.

What's Byrne got to do with it?

Well he was, he was the ranking detective

at the scene when Mary died.

Of course, you didn't know that.

Hello, Nikki.

What does the name Mary Fraser mean to you?

Mary Fraser's murder was a tragedy,

what can it possibly have to do with this inquiry?

I'm not sure, but within months of her death

you found the Wraith's DNA at the Meg Stiles murder.

Coincidence.

I don't think so.

I don't think her DNA was even there.

The swab that detected it was already contaminated.

What about the control swabs?

Well, this wasn't an accident, this was sabotage.

Come on, Nikki.

When we absorbed Chesham's work

they offered us their stocks.

Out of 2,000 swabs, we've found the Wraith's DNA on five.

Never on the control swab, never more than one per batch.

No, no, it's not impossible.

I'm sorry.

I know what you've given to this case.

No, you really don't.

But Meg Stiles, Ray Carpenter, PC Amar,

all these cases are unrelated crimes

carried out by different people.

We found a syringe of her blood at the Stiles house.

We sent that blood to at least two other labs,

not just Chesham.

Chesham supplied those labs with swabs.

Is it possible that the syringe was planted at the scene?

Anything's possible.

Do you remember anything unusual about its discovery?

We didn't find it until the following morning.

Who was the pathologist that attended?

Bear with me.

Professor Lizzie Fraser.

My sister Mary was murdered by a crack addict

at a crime scene the police were supposed to have secured.

Now I did not sue for dismissals,

I did not seek to apportion blame

and I urged my colleagues in the Forensic Science Service

to pull together with the police

to ensure her killer was convicted.

What about Simon Avery?

He used to be a forensic scientist.

Did he attend?

No.

Avery never worked in the field after Mary was killed.

Too traumatized.

Besides there were question marks

over his conduct on that day.

His conduct?

I thought it was all your fault?

Well, we weren't exactly blameless either.

Okay, we've have a deceased

that's yet unidentified female through there.

Looks like she's been stabbed to death.

Now we've secured this floor, but not the next,

so confine your work to down here only.

We hadn't cleared the upstairs.

That was our fault.

The whole building should have been cleared.

But Avery had years of experience in the field.

He should've known better.

Murder.

Mary.

Mary, don't go, Mary!

If he knows it was more his fault than yours,

then taking revenge on you is his way of re-writing history.

Simon?

Simon Avery?

No.

Could he have planted that syringe overnight

at Meg Stiles' house?

Theoretically, scientists from his lab

processed the scene.

Who was the murdered woman in the crack house?

We never identified her.

Was she an addict?

Aye, riddled with it, why?

The blood you found at the Stiles scene

tested positive for crack and heroin, didn't it?

What else did you find out about this woman?

Some of the drug addicts said she was Canadian,

but she had a tattoo of Australia on her arm so--

Well, either way makes sense.

Not to me it doesn't.

The Wraith's DNA never even scored a partial match

against the UK database, not a parent,

not a sibling, not a cousin.

Hold on, Nikki.

We found one of her hairs in the Amar car two years ago.

At the scene or at the lab?

The lab, but the follicle was complete,

we got DNA from it.

Well then he's preserved her body

and he's keeping it close by.

The body of the Jane Doe is lost in transit

between Chesham Lab and the crematorium.

I dunno, she didn't have many friends or family,

so there wasn't much of a fuss, I suppose,

but the paperwork releasing the body to the crematorium

was signed by Simon Avery.

And what about the DNA?

I dunno know.

He must have removed it from the database somehow.

You can rest easy about Lizzie.

Simon Avery, we've a warrant to search your property.

Enter, the scenes secure.

No knife-wielding crack heads on the premises.

Avery!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

That's exactly what he wants!

The subject, a still unidentified female,

has been dead for a number of years,

but the body has been preserved in a freezer.

The body has sustained significant injuries post-mortem.

Quantities of flesh, and hair and apparently blood

have been removed and stored frozen it seems

in a variety of vials and syringes.

There are some signs of early stage decomposition,

which would suggest the body has been thawed

and then re-frozen at least once, perhaps for extraction

of further blood and tissue samples.

There is extensive evidence

of long-term intravenous drug use

and severe trauma to the chest consistent with stabbing.

Both of which were comprehensively documented

at the original postmortem in 2000.

Small quantities of Hydroquinone

were found at Avery's house.

That's the chemical that appeared,

then disappeared in the Mosque bomber case.

Sorry, so what are you saying that he set Lizzie up?

Did he bear any kind of grudge against Lizzie?

No, no, I don't think so.

I mean they worked together for years.

What about before Mary's death?

What did Lizzie make of him then?

What do you mean, did she approve?

Well she thought that Mary could do better.

Did she tell her that?

Oh come on, you know what big sisters are like.

Well might she have tried

to talk her out of the relationship?

Probably, but I don't know.

Does this really matter now?

Well, it may have mattered to Avery.

And what was it you said?

There's no comparison.

You may have been wrong there.

♪ When I was young, younger than before ♪

♪ I never saw the truth hanging from the door ♪

♪ And now I'm older, see it face to face ♪

♪ And now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place ♪

♪ And I was green, greener than the hill ♪

♪ Where flowers grew and the sun shone still ♪

♪ Now I'm darker than the deepest sea ♪

♪ Just hand me down and give me a place to be ♪

♪ And I was strong, strong in the sun ♪

♪ I thought I'd see when day was done ♪

♪ Now I'm weaker than the palest blue ♪

♪ Oh so weak in this need for you ♪