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[dramatic music]

[footsteps]

[sinister music]

[photo rustling]

[intro sequence music]

[car bustling]

[enigmatic music]

[birdsong]

SHAMIL: There, well done.

Hm? Where do you think this one goes?

[lock clicking]

Yeah! [laughs] And this one? Oh...

[door closes]

[bag drops]

[keys jangling]

[sighs] Hey.

You alright?

I can t do this.

Hey, you can.

- Mummy! - Ah, hello you!

- [Shamil laughs] - Hi.

- [atmospheric music] - [Luna panting]

[keys jangling]

[door opens]

[door shuts]

[footsteps]

[keys jangle]

- CHLOE: Hey, Mum. - Hi.

[door opens]

SAM: Mum, what's for dinner?

- Hey. - Hey.

How was your day?

Jean Percival says she wants to stand down

as churchwarden.

So, pretty tough.

Thank you for asking.

[typing]

[crickets chirping]

[clock ticking]

[poignant music]

[keys jangle]

[IN SPANISH] If it wasn't yo, who was it?

Who had access?

This is a criminal investigation.

Everyone tells me you know everything.

And you have no friends on the island.

Not now.

- Was it your husband? - I don't know.

You're covering for him?

I'll find out everything.

[in Spanish]

Look at me when I'm talking to you!

You might as well tell me...

[books thud]

[clock chiming]

[suspenseful music]

[chair creaking]

[birds chirping]

[oars splashing]

COACH: Lengthen!

Lengthen!

Short!

Watch the form!

Watch the form.

[suspenseful music]

[COACH shouts in distance]

COACH: Go!

Stay on that.

Good!

Swimmer ahead!

Swimmer ahead on left! Back it down.

Back it down!

[threatening music]

Easy oars!

[oars splashing]

JUDITH: Are these all of you?

The perfect alibi.

[shredder humming]

STEFAN: Dear God, no!

[water lapping]

[chilling music]

[birdsong]

[water splashing]

[background chatter]

This is a joke, Jason. We need proper leadership.

DCI GREENLY: And the medallions?

TANIKA: I don't know why those medallions

were left in the victims' mouths.

DCI GREENLY: You found no link to the freemasons?

TANIKA: None.

DCI GREENLY: Then what about the murder weapon?

We think we know where it came from.

But its owner was in the US for the first two murders.

And this one?

He s in Amsterdam.

What about other suspects?

We found links between a local solicitor

and Mr. Kassam.

Could they have killed him?

On the morning Mr. Kassam died,

Mr. Bishop was in Windsor Hospital

recovering from a gallbladder operation.

So, he's in the clear?

He's in the clear.

[sighs]

This is it...what you asked for.

The reason I chose you

is because you've got good instincts.

I hired three untrained women as civilian advisers.

And they've been getting results!

You should back them.

You should back yourself.

[office chatter]

[birds chirping]

PRESENTER: If you or anyone you know

has been personally affected,

or you have any information about these terrible crimes,

do call us at Mar...

[mug knocks desk]

You've got to stop.

You're right.

You should make your own cups of tea.

Becks, please.

It's too dangerous.

[phone notification sound]

[suspenseful music]

[sighs]

- You okay? - Yeah, I dunno.

- Zeta's coming home. - Ah.

Yeah, she thinks I'm in danger.

Colin's the same.

We can do this.

[uplifting music]

- [door closes] BECKS: Judith?

In here.

- [Becks gasps] - Oh...

Okay.

Wow. You've really been busy.

You think so?

Look at this.

No! You've put it back togethe?

SUZIE: Oh my... How long did that take?

Oh, you don't want to know.

It's a page from the Old Boys and Girls' magazine

for Borlase School.

With sporting results on one side.

But on the other...

It's a list of obituaries.

Why would Giles Bishop need to shred a list of obituaries?

I draw your attention to two names.

Spencer Chapman and Faye Kerr.

It says they died last year.

But, if they died last year,

how did they manage to witness Ezra s will...

this year?

Giles Bishop forged their signatures

using the names of dead people?

Well, so they couldn't pop out later on

and say it was a fake.

Well, this is the proof we've been looking for.

Iqbal must've found out the truth,

and that's why Giles killed hi.

Unfortunately, Tanika told me that Giles Bishop

was in Windsor Hospital when Iqbal was murdered.

He's in the clear?

So, if Giles didn't kill Iqbal, who did?

BECKS: And why?

There's something I need your help with.

[suspenseful music]

[key clicking]

[door opens]

[gasping]

Brah...

Bloody hell.

Oh, my God.

SUZIE: What on earth...?

BECKS: Fire hazard.

Jeez, ever thought of recycling?

So, this is where you got all your old articles from?

- You're a hoarder! - Well, not me! My great aunt.

This is all hers.

But now thankfully, she kept them.

I've never seen anything like it.

JUDITH: Er, Suzie, not in there.

SUZIE: So, what's all this, then?

Er, erm, oh, this is me.

And your great aunt is the hoarder?

This is your Greek collection?

I thought you said it was just a story?

Look, erm, this isn't important.

What we need to find out is

who Elliot rowed with when he was at school.

You think your great aunt has that sort of information?

Well, the local papers cover the regattas.

The results and the names of rowers will be listed.

Now, the regattas take place in June and July,

So, we only have to worry about the papers

for those two months,

from the 1980s, when Elliot was still at school.

JUDITH: Come on. Shall we make a start?

Okay?

[whimsical music]

[papers rustling]

[papers rustling]

[papers rustling]

[paper thudding]

JUDITH: Hold on.

- I think I've found it. - Ooh.

No, I think I found it.

[ominous music]

I guess there was a reason

you kept your past hidden away.

How could you?

You stole from your own dig?

No.

My husband did.

YOUNG JUDITH: Tell me it wasn't you.

PHILIPPOS: How can you even say that?

I need you to tell me!

They dropped all charges.

I lied for you!

It wasn't a lie!

[suspenseful music]

You are my wife.

I would never betray you.

BECKS: What did he steal?

A rare statue...

dedicated to Artemis, the...goddess of hunting.

We discovered it.

We found it together.

And then he sold it for a fortune to...

whoever.

And it s not been seen since.

Was he caught?

By the time I knew for sure that it was him

and I'd gone to the police,

he'd skipped the country.

Left me.

I wasn't able to... shake the scandal.

It followed me for the rest of my career.

It was a long time ago.

- You were young. - Yeah.

That's no excuse.

Sounds to me like you did nothing wrong.

I lied...

And, if I'm being honest, I knew what I was doing.

But I was...in love, and...

I was stupid.

It wasn t your fault.

You don't understand.

But it was your husband who...

I'd like you to leave.

What?

Both of you.

- Judith, please... - I'm so sorry.

Thi- this is on me.

- I-I shouldn't have... - Now.

We should go.

[solemn music]

[paper rustling]

[paper rustling]

[intense music]

[determined music]

Mr. Dunwoody laughs when I ask him about it.

I can't swim, he confesses.

As long as you never make me get in a boat...

I'm happy.

STEFAN: Dear God, no!

[rods clicking]

[phone vibrating]

Hello?

JUDITH: I think your husband involved with these murders.

You know it, and I know it.

- Who is this? - Oh, you know who I am.

The Stanley Spencer painting you told us about...

It was Elliot who broke into Stefan's house

and stole it back, wasn't it?

No!

I don't know.

Daisy...

I once stood by a man I knew was lying.

You don't want to carry that guilt

for the rest of your life.

I think he's got something hidden in the house.

- Thank you. ELLIOT: Thanks for your help!

Look, I've got to go. He's about to leave.

- What's that? - Elliot's off to Wales.

He's going fishing.

Well, when was this decided?

What?

Daisy, this is a matter

of life and death.

Was the trip planned or... last minute?

It's a last minute thing.

" Spur of the moment," he said.

- [engine starts] ELLIOT: Bye then!

[ominous music]

WOMAN: Oscar Perkins, good evening.

Oh, hello. I'd like to speak to Giles Bishop, please.

Oh, he has just left for Manchester.

Oh, erm...

- When will he be back? - Tomorrow.

Do you want me to leave a message?

No, don't worry.

By tomorrow it will be too late.

- Thank you. - Goodbye.

There's going to be a fourth murder.

Me.

[threatening music]

[safe clanks open]

[safe closes]

[thunder rumbling]

[rain pouring]

[foreboding music]

[water pouring]

[thunder rumbling]

[keys jangle]

[thunder rumbling]

[phone vibrating]

Judith, I'm so sorry.

You have to promise you l stay away from me tonight.

What?

Promise me you won't come to my house,

or try to contact me in any way.

[sighs] Of course.

And tell Suzie the same.

[Judith inhales]

[thunder rumbling]

[ringtone]

SUZIE: Hi, Becks. I'm on my way to Heathrow.

- I'm worried about Judith. - Yeah, so am I.

She threw us out.

She just rang and said we had to stay away from her tonight.

What? Why?

She didn't say, but she was really weird about it.

I think she's going to do something foolish.

[rain pouring, thunder rumbling]

[sharpener buzzing]

[phone vibrating]

Not now.

[rain pouring]

[engine roaring]

ANNOUNCER: Welcome to London Heathrow.

Mum? Where are you?

Zeta, I'm needed elsewhere.

- What? - Look, my friend needs me.

Can you get a cab home?

I guess.

Alright, I l' ll...I'll...Il see you later.

[rain pouring, thunder rumbling]

[suspenseful music]

[pencil scribbling]

[sharpener buzzing]

[clippers click]

[menacing music]

[car whooshing past]

Okay, yeah. Thanks.

Sarge, that was the hotline.

Someone's seen a guy on Temple Bridge outside Marlow

throw something in the river.

Apparently, it...it may have looked like a handgun.

- Did they get a description? - Not in this rain.

But he ran off in the direction of Hurley.

Look, if we move fast, we might be able to intercept him.

Becks?

I'm sorry to interrupt, but it s Judith.

I think there's something wrong.

- Why? - I've been calling her landlin,

there's a "not in service" message,

and she's not picking up her mobile.

I think she's in danger.

Sarge, the handgun. He could get away.

Your caller said it could be a gun, or it was a gun?

Look, he might get away!

BECKS: Tanika, I'm really worried.

DS PERRY: We need to act.

We're going to Mrs. Potts' House.

Jason, Alice, you're with me.

DS HACKETT: Yes, Boss. DS PERRY: What are you doing?

We've got a killer to catch!

I know! Stay here. Man the phones.

You're backup.

[desk bangs]

- Argh! - [phone clattering]

- [thunder rumbling] - Ow.

[glass shattering]

[glass crunching]

[sinister music]

[thunder rumbling]

[silence]

[receiver tapping]

- Oh... - [receiver clatters]

OPERATOR: Which service do you require?

Which service do you require?

Hello?

- [gasping] - [thunder rumbling]

[chilling music]

[exhales]

[thunder rumbles]

[he hangs up the phone]

Hello, Danny.

[thunder rumbles]

- There. - [gun rattles]

[chair scrapes]

[sirens blaring]

BECKS: I can't get through to her!

Oh, this is bad!

Come on, come on. Quick!

We're nearly there.

Oh, God.

BECKS: Oh, no! What the hell?

Come on! How bad is it?

BECKS: What are we going to do?

TANIKA: We need to get it moved!

- How? - I don't know.

This is the only way, and we're still a mile away.

We need to get a tow truck down here.

OFFICER: Okay.

See if you can get hold of anyone.

- What can we do...? - [church bells ringing]

- The church is nearby! - What?

The church!

No, Becks! Becks!

[dramatic music]

I can't imagine how hard life must have been for you.

Sharing a passion with your wife...rowing.

But Liz was a gold medal winner,

one of the best in the world.

That can t have been easy for you.

And then the Rowing Centre.

Despite terrible floods,

she still wouldn t sell up.

Even though, as my good friend Suzie reminded me,

riverside properties... are worth a fortune.

You don't know the first thing about my life.

It must have been so frustrating...

Liz not understanding that you were sitting on a goldmine.

Not sharing your vision.

She always thought she was better than me.

But I didn t kill her.

Oh, I know.

Let me tell you what happened.

- How she died. - [church organ plays]

♪ La la la, la la la la la la..♪

♪ La la la, la la la la la la...♪

[door slams]

[keys jangling]

COLIN: Becks! What's going on? What are you doing?

Becks?

There's a tree blocking the road!

We've got to move it!

We need to tow it!

[dramatic music]

[door opens]

COLIN: Becks, what are you doing up there?

[bell ringing]

Ugh!

[frenetic music]

Becks, just tell me what's going on!

Colin, watch out!

Oh!

First you had to get hold of a gun.

But you had to get hold of one without revealing yourself.

Which is why you booked Iqbal s taxi

using your wife's phone, and in her name.

Good afternoon.

DANNY: Hi, how are you?

And then, when Iqbal was dead and your wife...too,

no-one would know that it was really you

behind the whole thing.

That's just a story.

It's what happened.

I was in Nottingham when Liz died.

Ask anyone.

I've got an alibi.

Yes, I know.

That s right. I agree.

When your wife was shot, you were a hundred miles away.

But then...

you didn't kill Liz.

You...killed Stefan Dunwoody.

[menacing music]

Colin, we need to get this rope to Ferry Lane.

- Darling... - The police are there.

I can explain everything...later.

I need you to help me.

Mrs. Starling, this is criminal damage.

Mr. Eddingham! Can I borrow your four-by-four?

Certainly not!

- MRS. EDDINGHAM: Lesley! - Thanks!

REPORTER: As Storm Isla moves in,

a severe weather warning for torrential rain

has been issued in the Buckinghamshire area.

Marlow Bridge has been closed

and the public have been advised to stay...

- SUZIE: No! No! Oh... - [brakes screeching]

- [thud] - God!

Luna, you okay?

I was a fool.

I should have worked it out sooner.

Especially as it was there in black and white

that Stefan hated rowing.

So how come there was a... blue kayak at his house

when he was killed?

A kayak, I might add, that wasn t there afterwards.

Shut up.

[wind wailing]

[Suzie groans]

How are we going to get across?

Really, it was an oversight from me.

For who has access to kayaks and lives on the river...

if not you?

- I said shut up! - [gunshot, glass shatters]

Ah! Judith!

Come on, come on. Pick up the phone.

Pick up the phone, pick up the phone! Come on.

No!

Right, Luna, there's a footbridge.

We're going to have to run for it. Come on, girl!

[thunder rumbling]

Liz was the one that knew Stefan.

She was the one who was acting suspiciously.

You re right. Attending Stefan's funeral

and hanging around his house.

But, Danny, that's not because Liz was the killer.

It's because she was worried you were.

Did she see you return from killing Stefan?

Or maybe she saw you with the Luger.

She didn't see anything.

Because there was nothing to see.

[wind howling]

We can't take off in this. And Marlow Bridge is down.

We're stuck.

Hey, guys! I've got this. Here.

- Oh, yes, that s perfect. - Becks said you needed it.

Yes. Okay everyone...

wrap the rope around the trunk of the tree.

- OFFICER: Let s go, let s go! - Quick!

Throw the rope down this way.

You've got it.

OFFICER: Yeah, all set.

There's a towbar on the back.

[gun clicks]

I did not kill Stefan Dunwoody.

I didn't even know him!

And that's precisely why you killed him.

Because you didn't know him.

You had no motive.

But we both know someone who did.

Elliot Howard.

- STEFAN: No, get away! - [gunshot]

[sinister music]

JUDITH: Mr. Dunwoody?

Mr. Dunwoody?

[panting]

Stay there. I'll get help!

You killed Stefan Dunwoody for Elliot Howard.

Elliot killed Iqbal for Giles Bishop.

[gunshot]

And Giles Bishop went to the Rowing Centre

and killed your wife for you.

[gunshot]

To complete the deadly triangle.

[poignant music]

It was all so clever...

each of you killed someone they didn t know

so that the person who benefitted

would have the perfect alibi.

Elliot was in choir practice when Stefan was killed.

♪ La la la la, la...

Giles was in hospital when Iqbal was killed.

[machine beeping]

And you were in Nottingham when Liz was killed.

...then dig through the water. Josh, show us your stroke.

There you go. Smooth.

As Elliot said to me the first time I met him...

"How am I doing?"

- [rain pouring] - [Luna barking]

Oh... [gasps]

Ah, there it is.

We're only halfway!

Oh, oh. Alright, come on Luna. Let s go, let s go.

Come on girl.

[climatic music]

[Luna barking]

- [tyres skidding] TANIKA: Keep coming!

Right, we're all set!

Okay, we're good to go!

Becks...oh, Mrs. Eddingham.

Reverend.

If this car gets so much as a scratch on it...

- COLIN: It won t! - ...I m sending you the bill.

COLIN: Absolutely. BECKS: I need you to step back.

I really don't know what I'm doing.

OFFICER: Right, we've got to get moving!

[dramatic music]

- [engine revving] - Go in easy!

- [engine revving] - Right.

TANIKA: Keep going!

[engine revving]

- Oh! MRS. EDDINGHAM: Careful.

[engine revving]

- OFFICER: Keep going! - [engine revving]

TANIKA: It s moving! OFFICER: That's it, that's it.

Bit more, bit more, bit more.

- [engine revving] BECKS: Argh!

I don't know any of those people.

Well, there's some truth in that.

You hadn't seen each other for decades,

but you were all at the same school together.

Sir William Borlase.

And you were top rowers...

you, Elliot Howard, and Giles Bishop.

Bishop was too short to be a rower!

I agree. Giles is too short to be a rower,

but he wasn't a rower, was he?

He was your cox.

As this race report from 1987 proves.

You rowed together at the Marlow Town Regatta,

and were reunited there, coincidentally,

35 years later.

[thunder rumbling]

Elliot was always so full of himself.

Go on.

We lost touch over the years.

Until the Regatta.

- That way. - Stop it.

- Out you go. - God.

JUDITH: Where Antonia saw Elliot

haranguing poor Stefan Dunwoody.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.[laughing]

Elliot! It's been years.

DANNY: He wasn t in a good state.

And pretty angry with some art dealer.

- Why don't we go and get coffee? - I'm so angry right now!

I'm so angry!

Come on. Come on, let's go...

DANNY: Then we saw Giles.

It was the old crew back together again.

We had to celebrate.

And Giles had troubles.

I am going to sue.

DANNY: He was going to prison, all because he made one mistake.

JUDITH: He hadn t known that Iqbal Kassam

had also gone to Borlase.

DANNY: That's right.

JUDITH: Meaning he got the same school magazine...

as Giles.

You're a liar...

It's how Giles ended up with a torn page

from the Borlase magazine.

It was Iqbal who gave it to him,

demanding to know how Ezra's will could be legal

since two dead people had witnessed it.

My friend, there's no way...

DANNY: He said he needed to make the problem go away.

Before Iqbal went to the police.

- Damn! - [desk thuds]

And then, I imagine you explained that your wife

was standing between you and a huge payout.

Whose idea was the medallions, and the German Luger?

Elliot.

He said we each had to use the same gun.

And leave a calling card behind at the murder.

To make it look like it was just one person. [chuckles]

It so nearly worked.

Oh, it worked.

- Only one person worked it out. - [gun clicks]

You.

[menacing music]

And you've been stupid enough to tell me. [laughs]

Oh, you think you're so clever.

I am.

Oh! Uh!

- [gunshot] - Uh!

- Uh! - Aargh!

No!

Argh!

- JUDITH: No... - No you don't...

[sinister music]

Not...clever...enough.

- [Luna barking] SUZIE: Luna! Run, girl!

- [Luna biting] - Ah!

Aargh! Aargh!

Get off! Argh!

- Get it off me. - Go on, go on girl!

- [Luna growling] - Aargh!

- Good girl. - [door thuds]

- OFFICER: Police! - Oh, thank God.

OFFICER: Police!

Police! SUZIE: Luna!

TANIKA: Judith! Judith!

OFFICER: Come on, get up.

TANIKA: I've got the gun.

OFFICER: Yeah, I've got him. Come on. Get up.

DANNY: You're making a mistake.

Oh yeah? You've got a lot to say, have you?

I've got a watertight alibi.

[climatic music]

[car door opens]

Get out the car! Put your hands on the bonnet!

Gentlemen, I haven t done anything wrong.

What's...what s...? Ow. What's going on?

This is absurd.

Why...why...why are you arresting me?

[sirens blaring]

[knocking]

Can you step out of the car please, Sir?

It's a Stanley Spencer.

OFFICER: Thank you, Mrs. Howard.

[calm music]

Hey, team, we've just arrested Elliot Howard

and Giles Bishop.

- BECKS: Great. - We've also searched

Mr. Howard's property and recovered

the Stanley Spencer painting.

Thank you.

You couldn't have just started a book club, could you?

- [chuckles] - Not on your Nellie.

[laughing]

Seriously, I don't know how you did it. Thank you.

What was that anonymous tip-off

that you got at the police station?

I assume that was Elliot or Giles

trying to send us off on a wild good chase,

so we wouldn't be around to intercept Danny.

Are you sure you're going to be okay?

I will.

We will.

We will.

Thank you for trusting us.

Didn't doubt you for a second.

- TANIKA: You too, Luna. - [Luna yelps]

[laughter]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[keys jangle]

SHAMIL: Hey! Dinner's in the oven, yeah?

Thanks.

SHAMIL: Oh, and just so you know...

your dad's on the warpath.

- Okay. - Be down in a minute.

Think he thought you were going over to his to cook dinner?

You know, I did try and explain you're at work.

But...

Oh, you know what he's like.

[sighs]

How was your day?

Good.

[tender music]

REPORTER: On the Marlow murders...

three arrested today for the murders

of Stefan Dunwoody,

Iqbal Kassam and Elizabeth Curtis.

All are believed to be linked.

Ta-da! [laughing]

Oh, wow!

You're lucky I came home when I did.

You need looking after.

[phone vibrating]

REPORTER: . ..the residents will be breathing

a huge sigh of relief...

Judith.

Oh, Mum, I'm going to the pub tonight.

Okay.

With a load of boys.

You know what you're doing.

[phone vibrating]

Judith.

I'll be there in ten minutes.

- Colin? - Hmm?

I'll be out until this afternoon.

Oh, be as long as you like.

I can always do tea.

Don't worry. I'll be back in time to do tea.

[playful music]

SUZIE: Yeah. BECKS: Oh, bliss.

SUZIE: This is the life!

BECKS: Isn't it? [laughs]

JUDITH: Mind your heads. BECKS: Oh, branch.

Oh, branch coming. Mind, Judith!

- JUDITH: Oops! - Uh-oh.

[Becks laughs]

Let's try this again.

[laughing]

I was going to bring sausage rolls,

but a certain furry friend scoffed the lot.

[laughing]

Oh, plenty of cucumber sandwiches, though.

Mmm.

There we go.

What fun.

Judith, this is lovely. Oh.

We so deserve this.

You know, I'll never look at your travel sweets

in the same way again.

- Me neither. [laughs] - Thank you.

Not forgetting the only person I know

who can run a mile in four minutes flat.

It was so much further than a mile! Thank you.

I m sorry I didn't include you more.

I didn't want to get you... into danger.

So, you knew Danny was going to try and kill you?

It's the way they operated.

Making sure that two had alibis,

so the third could pull the trigger.

As soon as I knew that Elliot and Giles were out of town...

You laid your life on the line.

I...saw no other way.

[sighs]

What is it? No, go on.

Maybe you've made amends

for what you did or didn't do in the past.

Damn right.

I reckon you've settled that score for good.

Did you ever see your husband again?

[poignant music]

No.

I suggest we look to the future.

- Champagne, anyone? - Woo!

- Yes, please! - [cork pops]

[laughing]

BECKS: Just a little bit.

SUZIE: Oh, I've said it before,

and I'll say it again, this is the life!

[laughing]

- ALL: To us! - [glasses clink]

[triumphant music]