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[Jeanette] Oh, my God. It's Martin Ryan.

I've spoken to your father.

He called the station a number of times.

[Deborah] You must know Lou Stanley.

He runs that little boxing club.

[indistinct]

I can't do this. I'm sorry.

Why did you ask Ursula Wilson not to press charges?

Is this what you've been stewing on?

We found the body.

Is it possible to speak with Victoria?

[Ben] She's our other daughter. She's dead.

No death record and she's dead.

Her parents never told anyone.

Victoria Burkeman. Is she dangerous?

Where you're going, there is only pain.

[ominous music]

[child coughing]

[Victoria] When I was very small,

I learned that all people live their lives

in two different worlds.

One is a prosaic life and the other poetic.

But only certain people have the ability

to move between the two.

In some early cultures, revenge was a duty.

A fundamental right that gave the victim

the opportunity to regain respect.

[Man] In!

Coming.

[Man] Now!

[aggressively] I said I'm coming.

Retribution marked the end of a conflict

and the right to vengeance wasn't questioned.

[music intensifies climactically]

[pigs squealing]

Not everyone is cruel, you know?

Some people are trying to do the right thing.

To be kind and gentle.

And good.

Even if it makes you feel sick to your stomach.

[ominous music]

Even if it hurts.

♪ Rock-a-bye baby on the treetop ♪

♪ When the wind blows the cradle will rock ♪

♪ When the bow breaks the cradle will fall ♪

♪ Down will come baby cradle and all ♪

♪ Hush little baby ♪

♪ Don't you [indistinct] ♪

[Jeanette] Stop there. Roll back.

Let's see outside Carl Lowry's room.

Can you bring up the other images?

See. I told you she was a woman.

Do you think this person, this woman we're looking at,

could be Victoria Burkeman?

And how does this connect to the others,

to Drake and White?

Maybe they're involved.

Maybe they got Victoria to do their dirty work.

Didn't want him to squeal.

Victoria Burkeman, what else have you got on her?

[Mike] Well, she accused her dad of sexual abuse

when she was younger.

But that case got dropped

due to her psychological evaluation

that determined she was lying.

Ben and Mary were pretty explicit

when they said that she was dead.

Maybe they're lying. What else?

She was kicked out of Beecham college.

There she is.

[Lou] Wonder if Drake was at the school then.

[Sophia] Jeanette.

-[Jeanette] Hi, come in. -[Sophia] Hi.

[Jeanette] This is Dr. Sophia Craven.

She's kindly agreed to come in to help us understand

what Victoria Burkeman is up to.

-Welcome. -Thank you.

We know that Victoria went to Beecham College

before she was kicked out.

Did she tell you anything about the school.

People who go to that kind of school,

they have a parent who has a plan for them.

Oxford, medical school, the military.

And what kind of plan did Victoria's parents

have for her do you think?

Sex.

Victoria made allegations of sexual abuse

against her father when she was young.

The Burkemans, they were cleared of any wrongdoing,

but the psychotherapist that was evaluating her at the time

thought she was lying.

That's right.

And does that tally with any of your assessment?

Well, for Victoria to make a complaint,

that's atypical.

Now, I can believe that Victoria is a fantasist,

someone who would create alternative realities.

That does occur in this kind of victim,

but I don't believe that she lied.

Victoria is a victim of abuse.

Do any of these look like Victoria Burkeman to you?

Um.

[ominous music]

That's Victoria.

I just know it.

Okay.

Okay.

Lou, let's pay Mum and Dad another visit.

I'm on it.

[Jeanette] Mike, we've got the first body's name.

Now let's try and ID the others.

Everyone else, find Victoria Burkeman.

[pigs squealing]

[doorbell dinging]

Ben.

Problem?

No problem.

I realized I'd forgotten to ask you a few questions

about your daughter, Victoria.

We were just passing, so we thought

we'd pop in and ask you both, if that's okay?

Why did you lie to the police about your daughter being dead?

I didn't lie.

Our daughter is, very sadly, dead.

[Lou] Really?

How did she die?

We asked the police many, many times

to help find her body.

We assumed she died in relation

in relation to her own mental issues.

Well, that's funny 'cause we have no record of that.

How'd you think she died?

Suicide.

She had a history of drug abuse.

Drug abuse and self-harm

are not in any of her psychiatric evaluations.

Well, if you're having psychiatric evaluations,

something's up, isn't it?

Did you kill your daughter, Mr. Burkeman?

-No, I didn't. -Mrs. Burkeman?

No.

What were you doing when Martin Ryan disappeared?

As we told the police at the time,

we were at a funders event for Victoria's school,

and many people can corroborate our attendance.

The police have all this information already.

Do you think Victoria could've killed Martin?

They were friends, but it's possible.

Did you abuse your daughter, Mr. Burkeman?

-No. -Mrs. Burkeman?

Absolutely not.

There were some serious allegations

made against you at the time.

Why would Victoria make that up?

Well, she could be quite devious and cruel.

Unfortunately.

Was a bit of a fantasist.

Our daughter was a very troubled young lady.

Mm.

Just can't shake the feeling

that you're lying to us, Mr. Burkeman.

Well, that's not my problem.

I know that my conscience is clear.

We did our best for Victoria,

more than our best, and it's very sad,

painful, to keep raking over!

So if you don't have anymore questions,

I've got plenty to be getting on with.

How is Madeleine? Is she okay?

Mind if we say a quick hello?

Are you abusing your younger daughter

now, Mr. Burkeman? Mary? Huh?

[Ben] Leave Madeleine out of this!

Come on, get out!

You crone.

You think he's abusing Madeleine?

I don't know.

Those two made my skin crawl.

[Jeanette] Mm-hmm.

What do you wanna do?

I wanna get child protection in there ASAP.

Good. I'm in no hurry to go back to the house of horrors.

[cellphone ringing]

DCI Kilburn.

[Ursula] It's Ursula Wilson. We spoke before.

[Jeanette] Yeah, I remember.

[Ursula] I heard Carl Lowry is dead. Is that true?

Yeah, that's right.

I'd like to talk to you.

-You at home? -[Ursula] Yeah.

Right. Okay. Um, I'll come now. Don't go anywhere.

Bye-bye. Sorry, Lou.

Uh, I've gotta go and talk to Ursula.

Why?

Mm, she thinks she's remembered something

and she'd prefer to talk to a female officer.

Ah, right.

I don't think it's got anything to do with this.

I mean, she's just a victim.

I'd call her a survivor.

Do you want a lift

or do you want me to get uniform to pick you up?

Ah, I'll make my own way back.

Crone.

[Jeanette] "Crone." Cheeky bastard.

Amar. You ran off.

Sorry.

You wanna talk to him, you pay him, yeah?

Sorry, mate. It doesn't work like that.

-Who are you? -I'm a police officer.

And I need to ask Amar some questions. It's important.

[Besim] Fuck it, let's go, man.

Hang on.

It's bad, but I'm really glad he's dead.

It must've been a shock.

I did, like, a little dance,

like, a "Fuck you" dance. Right here.

Okay.

I actually wanted to, to talk to you about something else.

Yes?

Lou.

DI Lou Stanley.

Right.

-Is that okay? -Yeah.

-[Ursula] You don't seem sure. -Go ahead.

Okay. Um.

It started off him looking out for me,

kind of an "Uncle Lou" type of thing.

And then...

And then we started sleeping together.

And I just felt,

"Here I am, again, getting fucked."

When I thought back to how it happened,

I realized the only reason he was able to get to know me,

to get me to like him, to trust him,

is because I was a victim of a crime.

He was police and I was the victim.

And he told me he was trying to solve that crime

and protect me from anything else bad happening.

How did he say he was protecting you?

Ehm, he said he beat Lowry up.

Smashed his teeth in.

And then I realized, now Carl Lowry is dead,

the only person I need protecting from is Lou.

There's no one to protect me from Lou because he's police.

Except maybe someone like you.

Me?

[Ursula] Unless you're his best mate or something.

Look, between you and me,

I just don't wanna have to have sex

with the police officer in charge of my case anymore.

Is that too much to ask?

No.

Leave it with me.

I am leaving it with you.

I'm trusting you.

Good.

[Mike] Do you recognize any of them?

Let me see.

Yeah.

[Mike] How'd you know them?

They're like us.

Do you know their names or what happened to them?

Daniel and, uh, Faisal.

This one's Samuel.

Were they all in the same hostel?

Do you know their surnames?

Amar, what happened to your face?

There are people who have opportunities

for people like us to make money.

If you are weak, then you sell drugs.

If you're not afraid,

you can fight.

[Mike] Do you fight each other?

[Besim] Boy against boy.

And what happens if you lose?

[scoffs]

So who organizes these fights?

The British.

[Mike] Are any of these men at the fights?

Watching?

No. We don't know who they are.

Look, this is a murder investigation.

It's important.

If something happens to you, no one will tell your families.

The Home Office doesn't have to.

No one will know. You'll just disappear

like these boys.

Family.

What do you know of my family?

What has already happened to me here!

This country does not care.

Nobody cares.

We're done here.

All right.

Thank you for the information.

Look after yourselves.

Half is mine.

Nothing is for free.

There's a police officer, he helps the boys make money.

What's his name?

Come to the station. Please?

[television running]

Hey, Joe-Joe. How was school?

Hi, Mum. All good.

Great.

Hi, Dad.

Oh, it's love.

Where's Alex?

Uh, no clue.

I, uh, tried to call you the other day.

Yeah, I know you did. And you called Verity.

Sorry I didn't stop police procedure

to call my dad back and get his take on things.

There's been a lot going on.

But you found Martin, right?

Dad.

There's no way you could've found that body back then.

It's just not possible.

I was supposed to find him and I didn't, so...

I actually wanted to ask you a bit about the case

if that's okay?

Oh, well, maybe I'm busy now, hey.

[sighs] Go on.

Do you remember Ben and Mary Burkeman?

They had a daughter, Victoria.

Uh, yeah, I remember her.

She was a very sad little girl at the time.

We could barely get her to speak.

What about the Ryans and the Burkemans?

Were the families close?

Were the Burkemans ever suspects?

Did they all have alibis?

Yes. They all had alibis.

And, of course, we investigated everybody thoroughly.

[exasperated] We even paid to get some searches done,

but there was no leads, no witnesses, no evidence.

Martin was, he was just gone.

I believe you, Dad.

You were a really good police officer.

Too good, maybe.

How'd you mean?

Well, I grew up, thinking all police were like you, Dad.

[Brian] In what way?

What happens if you know something about someone

that could destroy everything?

[sighs] Christ. [scoffs]

What's he done?

-Who? -[Brian] Alex.

Um, I'm not talking about Alex, Dad.

Oh, Jesus.

Listen, I'm really grateful for all your help.

I really, really am.

But I, you know, I can't have Joe hearing

what you think about his dad every five seconds.

It's not, [sighs] it's not fair, Dad.

I know exactly what it's like to be in the job,

but I always had your mum.

She was there for me, for you, so I could focus.

You need to focus.

You are at a critical stage in this inquiry.

You can solve it or blow it

and Alex, why, he's gone fucking AWOL!

I mean, where is he?

Dad, keep your voice down, please.

Joe's not deaf, okay? Please? Please stop.

Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry.

All right? I'm sorry.

[television starting]

[music]

Uh, Jeanette?

Uh, she's done for the day.

Well, I have some test results that she wanted.

But I can come back tomorrow.

Uh, you can tell me if you like.

Uh. Yeah, okay, fine.

So, all right, so after the postmortem,

we can see Lidocaine in all three bodies,

but it wasn't the primary cause of death.

So, body two, cause of death:

mostly likely internal bleeding caused by a ruptured kidney.

Body three, cause of death: a surface bleed on the brain

consistent with blunt force trauma.

-Okay. -Now, body one,

this is its brain tissue here.

-Daniel. -The bo...

Um. Okay.

Well, this is Daniel's brain tissue.

It's an enlarged image from Histology.

It shows that the bo... Um.

That Daniel had a traumatic diffuse axonal brain injury.

That's just many tiny injuries to the brain

often caused by consistent and repeated blows to the head.

I met a witness today

and they said that all three boys

were probably involved in illegal fights.

Okay. Yeah, well, all three

show defensive and offensive injuries,

so that will track.

And one more thing.

Body three:

we found human tissue between its teeth.

I'd ran a DNA test

and the DNA was a match for Daniel.

So now we know how he lost his finger.

Yup.

My findings, they're consistent with what your witness...

-Amar. -With what Amar was saying.

If these boys were involved in very brutal fights,

then they were, in fact, fights to the death.

[concerning music]

And you are welcome.

[Mike] Thank you.

[Alex] Jeanette?

I suppose we need to chat.

We do.

But, please, can it not be tonight?

Can you please listen to me about work

and tell me what to do?

Of course.

It's Lou.

I found out he's been having sex with a victim.

What?

Yeah, he was assigned to a case

and he's used the opportunity to have sex with her.

[whispers] Fuck.

I know.

-Okay. -I mean, I feel

really, really let down.

I've known him for such a long time

and I feel like I don't know him at all.

Maybe I did know him. Maybe I knew what he was like

from, from the start.

I mean. And I ignored it. Is that possible...

Some people are really good at hiding.

He has a really convincing hardworking copper act.

I bought it.

No, he is a really hardworking copper.

That's the thing, you see. That's not an act.

That's what's clever.

-So what are you gonna do? -I don't know what I'm gonna...

[Alex] Jeanette.

This is exactly what you're good at.

Standing up for what's right.

Your whole career, you've always done what's right.

Can't stop now because it's Lou.

No.

-Hi, my love. Hello. -[Sophia] Hi.

[fast affectionate kissing]

Wow, everything all right?

Yeah. I feel good. Really good, actually.

I talked to Annabelle today.

-[Sophia] Mm? -And we managed to have

a really good and very adult conversation.

And agreed that, um... So she knows about us now.

You and me.

I told her all about you

and how we actually wanna do things properly,

and be together properly, not just in secret.

Okay. Um.

I didn't ask you to do that.

Well, if you had to ask me to leave my wife,

it wouldn't be right between us, would it?

I'd be the won't-leave-his-wife guy.

Well, I thought it was what you wanted.

No.

Sorry, it's not.

You're saying you want a headfuck?

-You want distance? -No.

[Lance] What, so you want me to lie and cheat

so that you don't ever have to decide

how much you care about me?

Poor Annabelle.

Poor Annabelle?

Poor Lance, you mean?

See, this is why men don't do the right thing, you dick.

It's humiliating.

You are humiliating me. For what?

Okay.

Lance, I'm sorry you feel like this.

You've also lost the ability

to talk like a normal person, by the way.

It's all just made-up psych talk.

I'm sorry you feel like this is

a very fucking annoying thing to say to someone who's upset.

Okay, should we just go for a walk somewhere?

Am I a dog?

[cutlery slams] Jesus...

[obscure ominous music]

-Hey. -[Sophia] Hi.

Sophia.

What are you doing here?

I actually don't know what I'm doing here.

Oh, shit. I'm having the worst night.

What's happened?

I mean, do you wanna come in?

Everybody's asleep, but I can sneak you in for a cuppa.

I just met up with Lance

and he's broken up with his wife for me.

Bastard.

Yeah. No.

Well, he...

[chuckles]

I think I just, I didn't expect.

-I didn't want that to happen. -I didn't realize.

[Sophia] No, he didn't either.

And so he ends up just sort of shouting at me

in this bar, and I was embarrassed

by all these feelings coming out.

It was so public. It was just public.

What, you think he can patch things up with his wife?

Well, I would hope that she sort of doesn't wanna do that,

but, you know, Lance, he's, he's okay

as a person, I think.

-Right. -Yeah.

-I just don't... There's no... -Yeah. Connection.

Yeah.

Anyway, um, thanks.

[sighs] It is mad that I'm here.

And, um, [chuckles] I hardly know you

and, uh, you're married, so I'm gonna go home now.

I must've just needed to talk to someone,

so I came here on autopilot,

thinking, "Yeah, she'll understand me."

I do understand.

Nobody wants to be adored and shouted at in a bar.

No. [Jeanette chuckles]

[somber music]

Ah, Eva came in last night.

Last night? What time were you here till?

[sighs] I don't know.

Her postmortem report on your desk

shows that the cause of death was consistent

with injuries from fighting.

I'll have more for you shortly,

but, um, there's something else before everyone else gets in.

I've got a witness.

He said there's a police officer involved.

-Mm. -I think it's Lou.

Why do you think it's Lou?

Because it is Lou.

You know, when you join the police,

the whole Peelian Principle thing?

Police are the public, public are the police.

Policing by consent,

that's what we're supposed to be doing, yes.

[Mike] Lou isn't into that.

He's a sheriff, not a police officer.

He thinks he's the law.

Look, why does everyone think he's a good guy?

-He's clearly not. -Okay.

[ominous music building]

Thank you for coming to me.

Don't talk to anyone else, if you don't mind.

Just give me some time to, um...

There are procedures, Mike, okay?

Yes. Understood.

Fuck.

Hi, Madeleine.

How are you?

Victoria.

Can we, um, can we go somewhere?

How's school?

Uh...

It's, it's a good school.

I know.

Even the really thick kids do okay.

Exactly.

Everyone wants to go to uni.

Do you?

Not sure.

You could take a year off.

And do what?

Recover.

From what?

Your life so far.

Yeah.

I know what he does to you.

He did it to me too.

You do know I'm your sister, don't you?

So what did you do about it, then?

I escaped.

Yes. You did.

Meet me here tomorrow morning.

Early.

We'll go away together.

You can escape too.

And I'll make them pay.

Will you "have your vengeance in this lifetime or the next?"

Is that Gladiator?

Yeah.

Cool.

I'm serious.

He should be very afraid of me.

Okay?

Are we really sisters?

Yeah.

[emotionally stirring music]

[Mike] I'm ready.

Can you tell me what I'm looking at?

So, body one, it's Daniel Rexha.

Age 17 from Albania.

Body two: Faisal Qureshi,

21 years old, from Afghanistan.

And body three: Samuel Osman,

18 years old, from Eritrea.

All three of these asylum seekers

have been in the UK for under two years.

Daniel Rexha was living in The Royal Hotel,

Faisal and Samuel

were living in a hostel on the outskirts of Bristol.

Poor lads.

I've got a witness that can confirm that all three boys

were involved in illegal fights.

And how did you identify the bodies?

The witness did from the hostel.

He gave me their first names

and I pieced it together last night.

Wow. That's great work, Mike.

People in those places don't usually open up

to policemen.

Yeah, I worked really hard to, to gain his trust.

Can he testify?

-It's not likely. -Why?

He's got a lot going on. The immigration stuff...

This kind of witness is exactly what we need.

Can you just bring him in, please?

-Okay. -Hello, hello.

Afternoon.

Oh, I forgot to ask you

if Joe-Joe wanted to go to football this Saturday.

It's gonna be a fantastic match.

Uh, I'm not sure,

but thanks for the invite. I'll ask him.

Well, I'll take that as a yes.

Well, let me just double-check with him and Alex.

Well, I can call Alex.

I'll call Alex. It's fine. We're just working.

Mike's updating us on the case.

[Lou] So what'd I miss?

[Jeanette] Mike's named all the boys

and he's bringing in a witness.

Ah. Nice one, Mike.

A-star.

I'm gonna go back to the hostel.

You want uniform to go with you?

No. No, I'm good.

[Verity] Come in.

I have about five minutes.

Have a seat.

Shoot.

I'm concerned about a colleague.

I suspect them of wrongdoing.

What genre?

Criminal. Professional.

Sleeping with a witness.

Involvement in organized crime.

Perverting the course of justice.

[sighs] Possibly.

It's a dangerous path, reporting a colleague.

It's a male colleague, I assume.

Yes.

It's getting in the way of the case.

You know, it's one of my skills

navigating the field?

I stay still and quiet most of the time,

but, sometimes, I have been really screaming underneath.

The question is

when to raise your voice.

I think I've turned a blind eye

often enough for the both of us.

We're entering more of a say-what-you-see era.

-Right. -[Verity] If you can nail him,

nail him.

But if you miss,

he will drag you down with him

and never let you go.

I don't want to nail him.

We've worked together for years.

Well, in that case,

I'm glad we've had this important and informal chat.

We can't all be pioneers.

And if I do want to arrest him?

Keep your hands clean.

Let professional standards handle it.

[sighs] Thank you, ma'am.

[seagulls chirping]

This is Mike. Police.

I'm gonna need keys to Amar's room.

-Second floor. -[Mike] Thank you.

[foreboding music]

Shit.

Fuck.

[television running]

I'm heading up.

[volume increases]

I won't let you do it anymore, Dad.

I know all about Victoria.

But guess what? She's taking me away.

We're gonna look after each other.

[Ben grunts]

Madeleine. [pants] I won't let you leave.

You belong to me, you see.

Victoria isn't just your sister.

She's your mother too.

[effort grunts] [Madeleine screams]

[loud thudding and crunching]

[haunting humming]