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RADIO: All units stand by. Suspect Paul Gregory approaching.

Hannah Kielty.

11-year-old girl.

Just the sort you like.

Some evil pervert abducted her.

The bastard who took her

did it in exactly the same way as they did Trudy Hibbert.

Remember her now, don't you?

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

I was innocent. Of course you were.

We saw the pictures on the news.

We saw you walk free.

Strange how Bradfield Police never looked anywhere else

for the murderer.

Don't you think?

TYPEWRITER THUDS

(SCREAMS)

HEAVY BREATHING

Guv. Young female, teens, maybe early 20s.

Any ID? No,

but distinct clothing. Found by a jogger.

You got his statement? They took him to hospital.

Suspected heart attack.

Number two.

What the hell is this?

"Can I trust you?" For any woman, that's the big question, Tony.

I can't answer that. Trust is for you to decide.

The less I tell, the more you see me and we like that.

You do like seeing me, don't you, Tony?

I wouldn't be here, Maggie, if it wasn't important.

That's a cruel answer to my question.

Try this, then.

And I'll know if you're lying.

Am I the only woman in your life?

Am I?

I guess you are.

How funny!

You really can only maintain relationships with patients.

Can't you?

Can't you?

Car is registered to a Sonia Alice Brooks.

A trolley boy found her shopping over there.

Purse was still in the bag. Credit cards were in the same name.

Are we sure it's her?

Same tissues in the glove box as we found on the body.

Girl who rents a room off her reported Sonia missing last night.

She was 20.

Family? We're onto it.

The till receipt was timed at 20:35 last night.

She's come out of the lift -

we think the attack was by the car. Keys were on the ground.

It's quiet here that time of night. Someone was waiting for her

and they had a car. Robbery wasn't the motive.

Check the in-store security footage. See if anyone was following her.

And I want to know the names of everyone who paid by cheque or card

in-store last night.

Why?

Why abduct her and why subject her to a death like that?

Dr Hill? Mm.

Oh, no. We won't be calling you as an expert witness.

The defendant has changed his plea to guilty.

Right.

Carol.

Spencer. Hi. Pleasant surprise.

Yeah. I didn't know you were in. I just had to get

a restraining order on an errant husband.

Families, eh?

You tiptoed out early this morning.

Everything OK? Yeah, yeah. I was needed.

Wasn't me, then?

You got time for a coffee?

No. I've got to catch up with someone.

Of course.

Listen, I'll see you tonight.

Spencer, I'm not sure

I'll be around. This thing - something's come up.

Sure. I'll leave it to you.

(GASPS) Can you NOT do that?!

What?

Sorry - creep up on people.

I got your message - you wanted to see me.

Who was that? Spencer.

He's a lawyer. I know.

The place is full of them.

So what is this? Business, pleasure?

What do you think?

My guess is she's been partially suffocated by the bag over her head

and then strangled. Manually?

No, a rope.

You can see the bruising.

No rope found at the scene. Tape around the hands and feet

and a bag taped round her head. How was the tape cut?

Teeth? Neat cut. Probably scissors.

There is an unusual staining

around the mouth, a black smear.

I've having some swabs tested.

Clothing? Undisturbed.

You sure?

Intact when we found her.

What you find is not always what happened.

There was no evidence of a sexual assault.

No scratches on the abdomen or genitals.

But she has had sex. Absence of bruising suggests it was consensual.

I'm running a DNA profile from the semen.

The sex was separate from the death?

This card on her body.

A number two.

Very precise, black felt pen.

It was pinned on her.

So, no attempt to conceal the body. No sticks, no leaves, no earth.

No unusual patterns left nearby. Any jewellery taken?

Hair cut off?

Skin, toes, fingers removed?

No.

Just left where she died.

She looks young for 20.

Mm.

That's when you should be most alive.

So, tell me about her.

Er... Normal girl, ordinary parents. Left school at 18.

Worked in Bradfield Building Society ever since.

Usual dress sense?

Away from work - Oxfam chic.

Not a short-skirt and stiletto girl, if that's what you mean.

And she wasn't with anyone so who did she have sex with?

I didn't know you were so old-fashioned.

Do women have to be going out with someone to have sex these days?

It helps.

Did she know her killer?

I'd say her killer certainly knew her.

If she knew her killer is a different story.

What were you doing when you were 20?

Annie, got the parents' statements?

Brandon wanted a quick look at them. Brandon?

Sir?

I need to know what's going on. You could ask me.

I could if we had time.

But as we have a press conference in 15 minutes which we'll be giving,

I don't want my trousers round my ankles.

15 minutes. That's kind of you.

Checked the in-store tapes. Nothing. We've seen this before.

It's Paul Gregory.

Three years ago,

an 11-year-old girl was abducted from the road outside her house.

She was found three weeks later in Drifton Woods.

Trudy Hibbert.

She'd been strangled.

Carrier bag over her head. We never managed to secure a conviction

against Paul Gregory for the murder.

He's back in Bradfield and he's started killing again.

This was number two.

DON: Three years ago.

September 22nd.

It was a Monday. Late afternoon.

Trudy Hibbert was playing in the garden with a friend...

(MOUTHS)

Tights.

Her own tights.

Was she sexually assaulted? No.

And we never found any DNA. Two years ago, it came to trial.

Was he the right man? I know he was.

Paul Gregory should've gone down.

We had lots of circumstantial evidence, enough to convict him.

Walked away scot-free.

Couple of months back he was the prime suspect for a girl's abduction

up in Oldbridge. And like here, he did it.

We just couldn't prove it.

We've all said it. Sonia looked very young.

Forensic. Strangled by blue nylon tow rope.

Blue rope,

blue tights.

I think we should pull Gregory in. The person who killed Trudy Hibbert

also killed Sonia Brooks. Maybe, Don.

If he was not guilty things relating to that case are inadmissible.

I feel it in my gut.

We are looking for the same killer.

I think Gregory is taunting us because we couldn't nail him.

You see if I'm not right.

She went missing wearing a jumper. Where is it?

We never found it.

It needs more thought but from what I've seen, no connection.

My gut against your head.

Sounds like a fair contest.

(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

Oliver Hibbert? Geoff Taylor, Bradfield Echo.

I've nothing to say to you.

I wondered if you'd heard about the murder of Sonia Brooks.

Do you know the circumstances are similar to your daughter's death?

(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

Do you think the cases are linked?

What do you think of Paul Gregory being free?

It's too early to rule anything in or out at this stage.

What we are concentrating on and appealing for

is help in finding the killer of Sonia Brooks.

JOURNALIST: And the Trudy Hibbert murder?

Why couldn't they use the press conference, the direct appeal?

Why do they have to prejudge some link and make it bigger?

Because the Trudy murder's never been solved.

They wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't draw attention to it.

I can feel it - the "is it, isn't it?" link will get in the way.

If they are, you're in the middle of something extremely political.

The killer the fools couldn't catch is back and everything with it.

Do you have ground coriander?

Uh-uh. I'm more of a heat-and-serve girl.

If they aren't link, it's still a minefield.

Making sure you don't make the same mistakes

and let history repeat itself.

Maybe you should think about comparing the cases.

I would if it came to trial.

I've already asked Tony. He's not sure they're linked.

Tony?

Yeah. He's our clinical psychologist.

What do you think?

It's your case. I deal in evidence.

Something crops up - we look at it, examine it and make a decision.

Right now, all I have are opinions.

Anyway, why don't you buy curry sauce in a jar? It's much easier.

PHONE RINGS

Carol Jordan.

Forensic have come back with that staining round her mouth.

I thought you should know. What was it?

Well, it's a weird one.

Sorry.

Dealing with evidence.

Don't worry.

They say it tastes nicer cold.

Warm it up when you get back.

Heat and serve.

You don't have to go.

Go on.

I'll let myself out.

Tights, neck, bag.

Bag is after tights.

Tights are sex, tights are body.

What is the secret?

Bag, tape, rope.

Bag is before tape, before rope.

Bag...

is a hood.

Hood and rope.

A hood and rope. Hood and rope.

DOOR BUZZER Ah.

DOOR BUZZER

I assume that means "come in".

I was right. There is no connection. Completely distinct, separate.

The Trudy murder

was a sexual murder of a little girl. You're certain?

She wasn't assaulted, but the absence of DNA and use of tights

suggest a paedophile with other sexual dysfunctions who,

at rejection, has no option but to kill.

The tights were underneath the bag.

Death before the bag.

Covering her face after death equals guilt and remorse.

The Sonia murder isn't like that. Her murder's not sexual?

No. No frenzy, no excitement.

Sexual predators choose victims the way we choose partners.

Hair, teeth, neck...

..smile, walk.

Where we would see the possibility of sex,

they'd see the arousal of death.

What if she knew her killer? It could have been an ex-lover.

Then he wouldn't kill like he did.

You've rejected me...

..but you're rightfully mine, I want you.

I have to show you how wrong you are.

I have to reason with you.

But you don't want me.

I'm frustrated.

If I can't have you no-one can so I use what's to hand -

a rock, a brick, some wood, possibly strangulation but...

it's manual, face to face.

You don't bind my hands or feet... Or put a hood on your head.

No, that isn't a sexual crime.

That...

is an execution.

Execution? Binding the hands, binding the feet.

Hood over the head, then the rope. And the numbers are what?

Victims? Targets?

Didn't they used to put cards on deserters in WWI?

Don't know yet.

Why was she executed?

It's not my department.

And why would she have newsprint

all round her mouth?

Newsprint?

Mm. That's what the staining was.

That's why I came over.

On her mouth?

Have you eaten?

No.

CAT MEOWS

I'm sorry, Nelson. I'm sorry.

I know I said I was leaving but I have a perfectly good excuse.

Which is?

I missed you.

TYPEWRITER THUDS

Good night.

That's me done. See you tomorrow.

Oh, my G-

(SCREAMS)

(DIANA GASPS AND CHOKES)

TYPEWRITER THUDS

(GASPING AND CHOKING)

(TONY BREATHES HEAVILY)

(GAGS)

We've got an ID.

Diana Nolan, 52, grandmother. Looks like the same man, I'm afraid.

Plastic bag. Tape, same method of strangulation.

TONY: Did she have a number? Number three.

Third victim? Are you sure Trudy Hibbert wasn't the first?

Sure as I can be. How was she found?

In full view so you couldn't miss her?

Owner of the burger van arrived to open up, nearly ran over her.

You're not stopping the traffic?

The chances of someone passing having seen something were remote.

They wouldn't have been up at that time.

Not for witnesses, for the killer.

They want you to find the body.

They need to know that you have. You question the traffic,

you'll question the killer. Damn.

You're right about the bodies. We haven't found the first victim.

Executions?

Right now we're not sure why.

Tony doesn't believe these are random victims.

The manner of deaths suggests not just a great deal of planning

but also deep resentment. What do you think?

I believe there's a link between the two.

Which two? Diana Nolan and Sonia Brooks.

There's no connection with Trudy?

Separate crime, different perpetrator. Outwardly similar.

You know her father's talking to the press? Seen these?

"Crass incompetence."

"Evidential failures." "Procedural nightmares."

"Our life of hell."

I wasn't here then, sir. No.

I was.

We've done the checks of credit-card transactions

at the hypermarket around the time of Sonia's abduction - nothing.

Then go over them again.

Right,

I want every part of Diana Nolan's life turned upside down.

Every part of that woman's life looked into.

Go over the statements from Sonia's murder.

Something connects these women.

I want a trace on the card and tape.

Who makes it, who stocks it, where do you buy it?

Kevin, tow rope.

Done it. Sold in all shops.

Have you been to them all?

That rope was bought somewhere.

Have we chased up these bags?

Before being murder weapons, those bags had a previous life. Where?

There's a chain of evidence to lead us to our man.

We just need the first link.

You should sleep more. I was working.

It's important to let the mind rest.

That's rather difficult in here.

All sorts of ghosts come out at night to haunt you.

Do you see their faces?

A mixture.

Voices come first.

Voices are always the worst.

Are they pleading with you?

Asking for remorse?

Oh, no.

Most of them are happy.

Happy for what I did to them.

And the ones that aren't...

..I make them eat their words and then they're happy.

You do what?

I make them eat their words.

Yes.

Newspaper?

The strangulation kept some of it in the gullet. Is it readable?

Some words.

There'll be some in Sonia Brooks too.

Why does he do this? Why does he make them eat newspaper?

The answer will be in what they've eaten.

I'll run them up to Forensics, then you can have some photocopies.

This is the edition

from three years ago. Trudy Hibbert.

They made Sonia eat this.

Can I ask what your interest is?

Professional.

And that's from two months ago. Inside Diana. He made them eat these?

Why did he make them eat these?

Thanks for being really helpful.

Don... I owe you an apology.

Not a whole one - just half,

but it is an apology. What?

The link between our victims.

The newsprint around the mouth, you know why it didn't make sense?

Sonia and Diana were forced to eat newspaper.

We found bits in their throats. What's that got to do with me?

This was inside Sonia from three years ago.

"Trudy verdict: not guilty."

This, from two months ago, was inside Diana -

"Kidnap girl: Trudy link."

Both had to eat their words about Trudy.

Literally made to eat their words. What words?

Their words. At the trial for Trudy's murder.

What did they say?

They said, "Not guilty".

Paul Gregory was free and now they've eaten their words.

Diana and Sonia were on the jury. Yes!

If you're right, you know where this leaves us?

With ten more possible victims.

Nan wanted to come.

She's gone to see Dr Leach about her back.

She can't really travel.

Sends her love.

Smokie's been poorly.

Did Dad tell you?

Vet thinks it's fur balls.

There.

How's that?

Forgive your mother, love.

She's finding it hard at the moment.

We haven't forgotten next week.

I need you to get protection for the remaining jury members.

24 hours a day, two-man teams? Yeah.

He's killed two, Tony thinks possibly three.

Nothing suggests he'll stop until he's killed them all.

What have you got? The killer was close to the trial.

The numbers aren't victim numbers.

What are they? Jury numbers.

To know he must have been in court.

The trigger for the killings was the abduction of an 11-year-old.

Paul Gregory was prime suspect.

In the killer's mind, if the jury had convicted him then...

the second girl would have been spared.

The style shows the killer believes they're delivering justice.

All right, if that's what you want. I'll get it for you.

I also want to question Oliver Hibbert.

It's the rational and proper thing to do.

Her parents have the strongest motive -

revenge.

Who would you blame if they let your daughter's killer go free?

OK, this is the jury list.

As you can see all we have are names and postcodes.

I want them found.

Some will have moved, I don't care.

We find them, we make sure they're all right, we sit on them.

Treat the female jurors as priority.

This was a crime against a child. Women are meant to protect children.

Let's get moving.

Glad you could join us. Find anything out? No, guv.

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Who is this?

HEAVY BREATHING

Who is this?!

Mr Ashworth? Luke Ashworth?

Yeah?

You've got the same sort of security locks upstairs?

You still haven't told me what this is about.

Two years ago you were on a jury, Mrs Lawson.

That's right.

Someone doesn't like the verdict you came to.

Two of your colleagues have been found dead.

Get her a glass of water. DOOR CLOSES

Jean?

Are you all right? What's happened?

Frances Jeromies.

Francine. Francine. Thanks.

BUZZER

BUZZER

Have a look in.

Mr Hibbert?

I'm Detective Inspector Carol Jordan, Bradfield Police.

I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions.

I've got nothing to say to you. Who is it?

Someone new.

I'm so sorry, I need to ask you a few questions.

I'm conducting a murder inquiry.

Really?

How ironic.

I realise this is difficult for you but I'd appreciate your cooperation.

We cooperated

with Bradfield Police for over 18 months. We put our trust into them.

What makes you so different, Miss DI Jordan?

This isn't about Trudy's case, Mr Hibbert.

What else could I talk to you about?

Sonia Brooks, Diana Nolan? I've got nothing to say to you.

Boss.

Perhaps we should leave it for now?

KNOCK AT DOOR Mrs Jeromies?

Hello?

A black victim. Sexually-motivated killings rarely cross racial lines.

Confirms our killer's motivation

as justice and revenge.

No doubt she's the first victim we've been after.

Absolutely.

All women, all on the jury. Just one left.

Jean Lawson.

I know the type of person who's doing this.

Classic anal retentive.

They believe nobody has listened to them.

The murders are the only way they can make their point and be listened to.

Go on.

Over the age of 35. Average to above-average intelligence.

Had a disciplined, but not abusive, upbringing.

Father figure was someone in authority - prison officer

or a policeman. His dad was in the army.

Who?

Obsessively neat and tidy in all they do - house, car, job, clothes.

Convinced in their view of right and wrong.

They believe they are the arbiters of justice.

Damn. Hm?

I should have stuck to my guns with Hibbert.

No wonder he slammed the door in my face.

Married? Yes, or no.

If yes, it'll be traditional with set tasks split between partners.

They won't have many friends.

The only relationships they have will be at work.

But it'll be a mundane job

where they have some sort of authority over others.

Oliver Hibbert won't talk to us. I've got no choice.

I'll have to arrest him.

Brandon'll love that (!) Get a warrant for his arrest.

SHOUTING

SHOUTED QUESTIONS

Inspector, have you charged Mr Hibbert?

Are you under arrest?

Are you under arrest, Oliver?

What have they charged you with?

What does he do?

Works in purchasing for a chain of high-street chemists.

Works with numbers. Inside his house - very neat?

From what I've seen, yeah.

Carry on.

I'm not here.

If you say so, sir.

BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS Have you spoken to Oliver?

Have you anything you'd like to say?

I'm representing Mr Hibbert. I'd like access to him.

One moment.

As you'll remember, I would have preferred to have this interview

in far more relaxed circumstances,

away from the glare of publicity. Don't apologise, you'll let him off.

We've left that outside so we can do away with any pretence.

I hope she knows what she's doing.

What do you want? I'm investigating a triple murder.

Oh.

Is that more important than a single murder? No.

We prosecuted the case. The jury...

The case?

The "case" was my daughter.

She was murdered and you let the killer go.

No, the jury let him go.

How did you feel when that happened, Mr Hibbert?

I couldn't imagine it. No, you're right there.

You couldn't imagine for one moment what it's like, Detective Inspector.

To lose your daughter.

And find the killer and be promised justice.

To watch a known paedophile,

with previous convictions, just walk away.

Ask him what's his view of justice.

What would have been justice? Life.

Guilty with a life sentence.

Did you kill Sonia Brooks?

He wouldn't be out there... Diana Nolan?

..interfering with other kids,

destroying their lives! Or Francine Jeromies?

Protected by the law that failed my Trudy!

We're the victims in this.

We got the life sentence - he got nothing!

I will ask again, Mr Hibbert,

where were you on the night in question?

I have no idea. This line of enquiry's going nowhere.

Do you have anything of substance to say to my client?

Do you have proof of these allegations?

There he is, there he is now. Excuse me, Mr Hibbert...

My client will be making a full statement later in the day.

It's Gregory! Mr Gregory! Gregory!

I'll kill you!

I'll kill you! I'll do to you what you did to my daughter!

OLIVER: Get off! Get off!

Get off! Leave him alone!

I'll kill you!

I'd like to make a statement!

I um...

I want to confess to murder.

I told you!

SHOUTING

SHOUTED QUESTIONS

Sonia Brooks,

Diana Nolan and Francine Jeromies.

I killed them.

SHOUTING

What's your reaction to this?

Why was he never a suspect?!

Three women are dead, women who said he was not guilty.

I didn't kill Trudy Hibbert.

I'm sure you don't want us imprisoning the wrong man.

Don't let him make a fool of us.

(SHOUTING AND HECKLING)

I need to go upstairs. Upstairs, downstairs - what's the difference?

Not in there!

What's going on there? I'll tell you, just do as I ask.

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