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Justine?

Let's go and find where mummy is, shall we?

So he kills Mum.

Waits an hour or so

and kills daughter.

At some point

finds time to knock a bloody great big hole

in the son's skull too.

There's no running home from this one.

-Alright, alright. -Get off me!

You're assuming it's the father, why?

Did you know Stuart Thompson well?

Yeah all my life.

But then he married your ex Justine,

bet that put the cat among the pigeons?

So I'd like to get on with the post-mortem

as soon as possible.

I don't think that's a very good idea.

You knew Justine.

Justine was pregnant

and she had an eclamptic seizure,

luckily, I was able to help.

Your brother Kevin, is it?

Were you in love with her?

You're actually the same age as the boy,

Charlie, aren't you?

And Gemma too?

Yeah, so you guys all friends then?

Gemma mostly.

Even if they were having sex

they weren't blood related, they were stepsiblings.

She was arranged.

Mmmm.

When did you last see him?

Yesterday.

Did you talk?

Yeah. We talked.

And how would you describe his state of mind?

Erm.

Would you say you were close?

I was more like his Dad.

What even though you were the younger brother?

Is that why you let him stay at your flat

rent-free all those years?

No, he paid rent.

Market rate?

What's that got to do with anything?

I'm just trying to establish-

No.

I let him stay there cheap.

We bought the flat years ago.

We?

Yeah, me and my first wife.

Tanya.

So, you were helping him out.

D'you think he resented your help?

In light of what's happened, I'm sorry to ask,

but d'you think he might have wanted to harm your family?

I just want this to stop, okay?

I want it to stop.

Where were you at 10.15 last night, Mr. Thompson?

I was in my hotel, where d'you bloody think I was?

The road; where he crashed, that's en route to your hotel.

So?

D'you think he may have been coming to see you?

What does it matter?

He's dead. None of this matters!

I'm just trying to gauge his state of mind.

We have a report from a witness

who said they saw him driving erratically before he crashed.

My brother had a drugs problem for 20 years.

He's clean now?

You're looking for reasons why he was driving like that?

Yesterday you questioned him.

Today he's dead.

So, if you want someone to blame,

take a bloody long look in the mirror!

Was he sober?

We don't know yet.

Not until you've cut him open, had a good rummage around.

Did you do that with Gemma?

Justine?

Must have been weird with Justine.

For you, I mean.

Stuart.

We didn't have any secrets, me and Justine.

She 'fessed up a couple of weeks later.

Became the big family joke.

Charlie especially

just wouldn't shut up about it,

the time Mum got pissed and snogged the doctor.

Made me laugh a lot.

He was a funny kid. He Is a funny kid.

'Cause I know he's going to be okay.

Family Liaison rang.

They said he's showing signs of recovery.

I just worry he's going to wake up and I won't be there,

there won't be anybody there.

I'll visit him, if you like.

Yeah thanks.

Charlie and Gemma?

Nikki thinks Gemma may have been suffering

from glandular fever at the time of her death

and the hospital say Charlie has it too.

I haven't got time for this.

Epstein Barr can be transmitted through the air,

but the chances of catching it are greatly increased

if there's an exchange of saliva.

You're talking kissing, right?

Yeah, two teens same house.

Similar age.

It does happen.

So not only have I got two murders,

one attempted and a bike smash,

you want to throw incest into the pot?

I'd hardly call it incest.

Try telling the tabloids that.

There are multiple small abrasions

and also signs of blunt trauma to the face

and head consistent with impact against the wall.

There is a marked pallor to the skin

but no external signs of a significant bleed.

Could be an internal hemorrhage.

We see it sometimes with motorbike accidents.

Disruption to the thoracic aorta

within the descending portion,

'cause of death is aortic disruption due

to blunt force trauma to the chest.

By the way, the erm

four tattoos that he has.

The degradation of the fine detail suggests

that three of them are at least 10 years old,

but this one here, this is new.

The tattoos healed, but the skin is new.

So I'd say the procedure was carried out

at least four to six weeks ago.

So if you're still considering him a suspect

without an alibi, you might want to find

someone called Stacey.

Did you say Stacey?

Yeah.

Yeah, Billy.

It's me.

I need that cleaned up CCTV like yesterday.

Fractures to tibia and fibuia,

seems like a straightforward bike collision, to me.

Only there was no reason for him to crash.

Apart from speed, perhaps

Traffic investigation team said there were no brake marks

at scene.

No evidence he even attempted to stop.

He could have been drunk or drugged.

We won't get toxicology back for a day or two.

Why does it matter, anyway?

Possible suicide.

By motorbike?

I'm trying to keep all the options open.

Suicide or not, we need to get a DNA sample

straight over to Forensics.

Rule him in or out at the Thompson scene.

I'll drop it round later.

Thanks

Billy...

The boy who lives next door, Joel Barron.

I'm worried he might have done something.

What do you think he might have done?

Okay, check it out.

Do you mind if we come in?

Someone's left in a hurry.

Where is he, Mrs. Barron?

Sir!

That bat that was used to assault Charlie

was hidden under the shed at the house next door.

That leaves one weapon outstanding.

A cricket bat couldn't have used for Justine's head injury.

You sure?

Yeah.

Whatever caused the damage to her skull was circular,

sharp and heavy enough to penetrate bone.

The knife used in the secondary attack on Justine

it washed up and left at house, wasn't it?

You think the other weapon might still be there?

So why haven't they found it yet?

Well maybe, maybe they didn't know what they're looking for.

You said that this machine could be used to analyse

a bite mark, left on a body.

Produce a replica jaw based on that mark.

So why can't we do the same thing

with Justine's head injury?

We could fabricate a replica weapon.

May be possible.

But you'd need a CT scan.

Ah, I'm not sure I can swing that at short notice.

You really do underestimate your charms, Leo,

ring me when you've set it up.

Charlie Thompson, please?

Take a seat please.

He's got a friend with him at the moment.

Who?

I don't know, erm a neighbour or something.

Excuse me, excuse me you can't...

Where is he?

Stay where you are.

Joel?

It wasn't me!

No one's saying it was, alright?

Come on now, mate.

Joel? Joel!

Put it down, put it down.

I'm going to have a heart attack as it is.

What is going on Joel?

Why did you come and see Charlie?

The police think that you put him here, you know that?

They found a cricket bat in the bottom of your garden.

I can guarantee, right now, they think you killed them all.

Forensics will be doing tests on it.

Chances are they'll find Charlie's blood on it.

Wasn't me.

I found the bat in the house.

I found it and I picked it up 'cause I was scared.

They're going to say I killed them.

But I never.

Been in love with her for years, d'you see?

So when I saw them two together.

I just wanted it to stop.

I loved Gemma.

Remember that.

Joel, Joel!

He said he was in love with Gemma

but saw 'them' together.

Wanted it to stop.

I think it's a possibility that he was talking

about Charlie and Gemma.

The glandular fever incest theory.

Sorry.

Just trying to do my job.

No police outside Charlie's room.

Are you sure you're doing yours?

Chloroform?

And phenol.

For stripping out DNA?

Top of the class.

Any luck with the CT scan?

Yes. I managed to call in a favour.

You see?

People just can't say no to you, Leo.

What about blood?

We found Charlie's blood on the bat.

But no trace of Justine.

Okay.

D'you want to take a look?

Yes.

Normal red blood cells and you see this bunch?

Neutrophil.

I can give you a better look,

There, see?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry I think I'd better leave.

Hello?

Stuart?

Think you've had enough yet?

Sound like Justine.

Miss her, miss all of them.

Charlie, Gemma, my little girl, Ellie

I had a dream about her, about Ellie.

It was a good dream.

You'll see her again soon.

Yeah I'm focusing on seeing her.

Holding Ellie and Charlie.

Get yourself to Nottingham.

Yeah.

Well, I can't do it, so you'll have to.

End of.

Stacey Leach?

I'm sorry we had to meet here.

My Mum's got Alzheimer's and she doesn't like strange people

round at the house.

Sure, so how did you meet Kevin?

We met when we were both using.

When was that?

I don't know, about three years ago.

It was a pretty dark time, but Kevin, kept me safe.

So you were like what, boyfriend, girlfriend?

No, we was getting married.

He was gonna get me a proper big ring,

when he'd sorted himself out.

Was he clean?

Yeah he was clean. He worked really damn hard at it.

Kept me clean too.

Kevin wasn't what people thought.

All he wanted was a future.

He was, he was just a really lovely bloke.

Is this the only hotel in Nottingham?

Why d'you ask me that?

Well, it's just that this is the same hotel

Stuart Thompson stays in when he comes to Nottingham, so?

So, so what?

Probably where he got the idea from?

What idea?

Hope you get some sleep.

Yeah, well thanks for picking me up, patching me up.

It's nothing at all

No.

It is. I know it is.

My situation, most people would run a mile.

Ellie, I'll do what I can.

You've done enough.

You've been a mate.

See you.

Hello...

Me again.

Stuart Thompson I'm arresting you for the murder

of Justine Thompson and Gemma McAteer

on the night of Wednesday 12th October.

You do not have to say anything,

but anything you do say me be given in evidence.

When I interviewed you on Thursday 13th October,

I asked you where you'd been.

Can you remember what you said?

Nottingham.

Is that true?

For the tape.

Look, what is this?

That's your brother's girlfriend, Stacey.

And that is you.

Why?

Because the receptionist at the hotel

you drove to in your BMW on the night

your wife and stepdaughter were killed says it is.

And she should know.

You've been staying there on and off for a while now

haven't you.

You stayed there,

and, on the morning after your wife and stepdaughter

were killed you used your credit card pay for a double room,

two bottles of cheap plonk and a dirty movie.

And that must be you, 'cause that's what you told us.

But that's not you after all, is it?

That's your brother, Kevin.

We had our Tech guy's clean up the picture.

So why Nottingham?

Because that's where Kevin wanted to go.

And if Justine ever checked the credit card statements,

it would look true.

So you lend him your car for him to zoom up the M1

and have a bit of nooky at your expense.

Meanwhile you're doing what exactly?

I mean, I know that you said your brother needed

a lot of looking after, but come on,

this kinds of takes the biscuit, doesn't it?

Come on, Stuart.

There must have been something in it for you, mustn't there?

Where were you between 6pm on Wednesday October 12th

and 6am Thursday morning?

We erm...

We?

I don't really do awkward silences so.

Please.

Let me explain!

Leo, it's fine.

No, it's not.

Thing is, I have a partner, her name is Janet.

I knew that.

So, that makes me as culpable as you,

so why don't we do what I always

do in embarrassing situations?

I just get my brush and I sweep it

all under the nearest carpet.

I'm sorry.

I sorry, I should have told you.

No, no, no, no.

Confessions or guilt or talking it over.

I have no truck with any of it.

Just brush. Carpet.

Right.

How long have you been having a relationship

with Stuart Thompson, Miss Barron?

A year or so.

Or so?

18 months.

Was it just sex, or was there more to it?

Are you asking if I have feelings for Deborah?

Yes, I suppose I am.

Then yes, I suppose I did.

Did? Do?

Either way, we're not exactly talking

one of the century's great romances are we?

Or maybe you're down-playing the significance

of the relationship, to try and make it sound

less likely that it was a motive

for you killing your family.

We never talked about being together longer term.

Why not?

I don't know.

It just never came up.

Stuart had Justine, Justine was my friend.

See, this is what I don't get, you arrive home,

the worst thing imaginable has just happened

to you, and your family.

And most people's first reaction would be

to just call us and tell the truth,

because the truth is going to lead us

and help us to the find the person who is responsible

for doing this terrible thing to the people

that you love the most.

But you didn't tell the truth.

Why didn't you just tell us there

and then what you were doing?

Because I was ashamed.

We were at his brother's flat.

At Kevin's flat.

Kevin borrowed my car, drove it to Nottingham,

then he could use my card in the hotel.

That was how it worked.

And in return,

you got to shag your lady friend round at his.

No meeting up at seedy hotels, home from home.

Scatter rose petals on the bed, did he?

And he was at the flat all night?

You're sure about that?

I got your message, yes.

How else d'you think I knew to go home?

Yeah, three and a half hours after I contacted you

and you turning up.

The message just said I had to contact you

that it was important.

I thought we'd been burgled or something.

So you waited for your brother to get back.

So I could come back in my car.

So my wife wouldn't think I was having a bloody affair.

But you kept telling us you were at home all night?

Why?

Because if you were with Stuart Thompson,

you couldn't possibly know where your son was

on the night of the murders.

The phone call to emergency services,

that was you wasn't it?

If you suspected that your son was involved,

why didn't you come straight to us?

Because he can't ever know I gave him up.

Charge her with perverting the course of justice.

You must have been really sure to make that call.

In fact, you must have been positive,

what is it that you're not telling us, Deborah?

He always had a thing for Gemma, everyone knew.

Bang goes your Daddy-Did-It theory.

Getting used to it.

So you got my message then?

Cause you have reservations about Stuart seeing Charlie,

I see that but, Ellie's not a witness is she?

Surely in the circumstances,

it'd be best for her to see her Dad.

Alright, I'll see what I can do.

Both Thompson brothers still have alibis.

We're in the Dark Ages here, Billy.

We got plenty.

Photos tell us Joel Barron was at scene.

We've got the murder weapon underneath the shed.

But why visit Kevin Thompson two nights later?

I mean, what's he trying to do?

Whether he talks or not,

we've got enough to charge him, guv.

You can see Ellie.

Chaperoned, but still, social services

will call you later on.

Thanks.

My colleague thinks we should charge you with murder

here and now.

What do you think?

You might want to tell your client it's in his interests

to start talking to me,

or he's going to find himself locked up

for a very long time.

Kevin was my friend.

I went to him, 'cause I didn't know where else to go to.

Why, 'cos you were scared?

What were you scared of, Joel?

What's Joel said?

Not a great deal.

But the photo of the dead girl's not helping his case.

All that actually proves is he saw her

sometime after she was killed.

Gemma?

Gem?

You have an inexplicable event married

to an inexplicable time gap.

Gemma's was killed, face down.

She laid for several hours face down

and then someone turned her body.

He called on her every morning, didn't he?

We know his Mum kept a key to the property.

Could he have come in as usual, found Gemma, turned her.

Joel told me he that he wanted this to stop.

But he never said how.

Could he have shown these photos to someone else?

Joel's angry, he's got big news,

but he hasn't got the bottle.

What if he shows the photos to the one person

he thinks will do something about it?

Frank McAteer?

I had a little dig.

Off licence at the end of Magnolia Drive.

Checked the CCTV and, night of the murders,

his Subaru was parked right outside.

Well, it made something, I'm not quite sure what.

How could something like that penetrate the human skull?

Well the tempral bone is relatively thin.

That looks to me like it's definitely a smaller part

of a larger heavier object.

So what's this all about?

Monday 17th October at 12:02.

The persons present were myself, DC Myers,

and Frank .

Thanks very much.

Right, well lets have one last look.

I guess we share it out, go room to room.

Perhaps you could tell us why your car was parked

at the end of Magnolia Drive on Wednesday night.

Was it?

We have CCTV footage.

If you say so.

Did you visit No.26 Magnolia Drive on Wednesday night?

No.

He's got five previous convictions.

Nothing in the last 10 years, but still.

And all because his daughter

was sleeping with her stepbrother?

Dads and their daughters.

Always want 'em to stay little girls.

His ears...

So Frank, when did you find out Charlie was shagging Gemma,

your daughter?

How did that make you feel?

Seeing those photos.

To know that they were shagging each other's brains out?

Your daughter. And him.

Your daughter. Your son.

How did you know?

I noticed at the hospital

Charlie suffers from hypertrichosis pinnae.

It's a condition that causes excessive hair growth

localised round the ears.

See where the hair's starting to grow back?

And there's some scar tissue.

He's probably nicked himself shaving at some point.

Okay, so the kid's got hairy ears.

And so does Frank McAteer.

Hypertrichosis pinnae is a genetic condition.

It's Y chromosome related,

meaning it passes from father to son.

Only Stuart doesn't have it.

Alright but you can't say for certain

that Frank's Charlie's father.

Not yet.

But I can tell you, in all likelihood, Stuart isn't.

Joel came to see me in the garage.

I mean, I hardly knew the kid,

he was angry and he showed me the photographs.

Why d'you think he brought them to you, Frank?

Maybe it's because he knew you wouldn't like it.

Of course what he didn't realise

was how much you wouldn't like it.

And then you did what Frank?

I rang Justine.

Said I needed to talk to her.

She said I could drop round later.

No car.

Stuart was away.

She was always worried about what

the neighbours might think.

So, you went round,

showed her the photographs.

Where did you get these?

Doesn't matter.

Did you pay someone to take them?

No, of course not.

Okay, I'll have a chat to them Okay?

Yeah, well that's not enough.

It's got to stop.

They're 16 and 17 years old.

I can't stop them doing--

It has to stop!

So after all these years, you want to come play Dad?

It's not a bloody cameo role, Frank!

It's erm, it's unfortunate, and it's embarrassing,

but they're just two kids having sex,

the way you're going on, you'd think they were related.

They are!

I had a bit of a thing with Stuart's wife, Tanya.

Couple of months after Charlie was born,

she told me he was mine.

And then she was dead.

And you didn't tell Stuart.

Stuart was crazy about Tanya.

She was dead.

Charlie was all he had.

She's in the playroom.

Just through here.

Ellie.

Leo?

Hi Nikki.

We think we've found the weapon used

in the initial attack on Justine,

it's a child's hobby horse,

it was in Ellie's bedroom with all her other toys.

Dimensions of the 3D fabrication match

the handles either side of the head,

and Gill thinks she's found blood traces.

In Ellie's bedroom?

But the attack was in the kitchen.

It must have come from the kitchen.

Well it could have been.

Just means the attacker moved it.

Oh, yes.

Jack and Jill, in the ditch,

I spy the wicked witch.

Wicked witch in the wood, I spy Robin Hood

Robin Hood in his den, I spy the bears again.

Three bears out hunting, they spy baby bunting.

We found Ellie's hobby horse Stuart.

Baby bunting safe and dry.

You put it back in her room, who else would do that?

I spy plum pie.

Erm, do you want to take her for a bit yeah?

Bye-bye gorgeous.

There's a good girl, there we go.

Shall we go?

When Justine called, Deborah was asleep.

Tablets. Once she's gone, she's gone.

Said she needed me back home.

That it was urgent.

Gemma and Charlie, they were sleeping together.

But you were meant to be in Nottingham.

That's what you'd told her, right?

If they're having sex, that's down to you!

Me?

How the hell d'you work that out?

'Cos you're their Mum.

You set the tone, they can do what they want,

they can watch what they want, on their own.

You're not being--

So I'm a hopeless mother.

Just 'cos I'm not bloody Tanya.

It's got nothing to do with Tanya.

You don't think it's relevant?

'Course not.

From Day One, it's always been Charlie, the little prince.

Me and Gem feeding on the scraps

He's my son!

No difference between them, that's what we said.

Of course that's what we said,

but when it all comes down to it,

I'm going to have stronger feelings for him,

not because he's Tanya's, because he's mine.

No, he isn't!

What?

He's not yours Stuart.

What?

Look at him. He's not yours.

He's Frank's.

She did that to you.

Your lovely Tanya did that to you.

How long have you, how long have you known that?

I didn't know until tonight.

Don't bullshit me.

Tonight!

But Justine wasn't dead, was she?

So you stabbed her.

Mum?

Go to bed Gem, Mum and I had a row, yeah.

She's gone out to walk it off.

Okay? Yes? Yes?

Okay.

Okay.

I just couldn't see a way through it.

I sat there for about an hour and then it all became clear.

The kids can't know what I've done.

They just can't know.

See you Charlie.

Charlie Thompson please?

Haven't you heard?

He's out of his coma and chatting to his dad.

Well, may be we could do something

on a weekend or something.

But you didn't kill Ellie.

When I looked down at her, she is all I got to be proud of.

She had nothing to do with any of it, she was my future.

And now you don't have a future.

And nor do they, Justine, Gemma, Kevin.

And be under no illusions.

His blood's on your hands, Stuart.

I think by the end, he knew what you'd done,

and he couldn't live with it.

How will you?

♪ People say I lost my sense of direction ♪

♪ You could say all of this and worse ♪

♪ But if I ever lose my faith in you ♪

♪ Then there's nothing left for me to do ♪

Admit it, you've enjoyed yourself.

Happy to.

I've had a lovely time.

Hold the front page: perennial bachelor enjoys family party.

Shock.

Family.

Family?

You never know, maybe one day.

Might be nice.

♪ There'd be nothing left for me to lose ♪

♪ There'd be nothing left for me to lose ♪

♪ If I ever lose my faith

♪ If I ever lose my faith

♪ If I ever lose my faith

♪ If I ever lose my faith