Silent Witness S26E10 Southbay
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00:00 No one alive or dead can say you haven't earned it.
00:03 To Bill.
00:04 To Bill.
00:05 It might be a late one.
00:06 I need to run Bill back to South Bay.
00:08 Be safe.
00:09 The deceased is a Carol Lang.
00:11 That angry man outside is her ex-Sgt. Mike Lang.
00:15 Chief Superintendent Bridget Lang is his mother.
00:18 Is there anything you want to tell me?
00:20 When Mike was 11 or 12,
00:22 Bridget fostered both Andrew and his little sister Lisa.
00:26 You attacked her in her own bed
00:27 whilst her son slept just across the hall.
00:29 And when she fought back, you stabbed her through the heart.
00:32 It's very obvious why my client's in custody.
00:34 Because South Bay CID bears a grudge.
00:37 Six months ago, my police partner, PC Fred Woods,
00:41 just disappeared.
00:43 His car was found at South Bay Bridge.
00:46 You know how many people go over the side there every year?
00:49 Fred received a threat to life
00:50 from Detective Superintendent Ray Palmer.
00:53 Why did you tell us you'd never been upstairs?
00:55 Why did you lie to us?
00:57 That something happened in this room?
00:59 He said you, your brother, tried to leave this room.
01:05 How did I?
01:06 You sure it was a man?
01:08 Kate Freeman, you're charged
01:10 that on the 14th of August at Markland Avenue, South Bay,
01:14 you did murder Carol Lang, contrary to common law.
01:18 # Testa torci les
01:25 # La salute
01:28 # Vos pesce de spiritu
01:35 # Silence de l'eau
01:50 # Testa torci les
01:58 Tell me, Ryan,
02:07 the man in the mask,
02:09 can you remember the colour of his eyes?
02:18 But you said you thought you recognised him.
02:21 I said I thought I'd heard his voice before.
02:24 If I recognised him, I'd tell you.
02:26 Of course.
02:28 And he made no attempt to restrain you?
02:31 Or bind your hands?
02:33 Nothing like that?
02:34 No.
02:36 Why?
02:38 Thank you, Ryan.
02:40 Can I have a word?
02:46 Is there a reason you asked him if his hands were tied?
02:49 The killer tied his mother's hands.
02:51 What?
02:52 Just a very specific question, that's all.
02:54 You're reading too much.
02:55 Yesterday you were saying you didn't want anyone
02:57 jump at the conclusions. What do you mean by that?
02:59 Nothing.
03:00 What conclusions are you afraid will jump to? The truth?
03:03 Kate Freeman is facing life in prison,
03:05 not because she might be guilty,
03:07 but because South Bay CID want to shut her up.
03:10 That's ridiculous.
03:12 Is it?
03:13 Her partner questioned the lack of patrols in harbour fields
03:16 and vanished without trace.
03:18 How about you do your job and let me do mine?
03:20 Are you testing Ryan's pyjamas?
03:22 There are fibres in DNA as we speak.
03:24 Everything all right?
03:26 Ryan would like to get some things from his room.
03:32 [♪♪♪]
03:35 [KNOCKING]
04:01 [DOOR OPENS]
04:03 Hi.
04:05 Lena.
04:06 Lisa.
04:07 Is Andrew in?
04:10 No.
04:11 He's not at work and I couldn't reach him on his mobile.
04:14 He should be back by six because we're going to the cinema.
04:17 OK.
04:18 Can I come in and wait for him?
04:23 Thank you.
04:25 [DOOR OPENS]
04:27 Is that Mike?
04:32 On the left, yeah.
04:34 Corsica, 2001.
04:36 Good memory.
04:38 Remember the good, forget the bad.
04:40 That's my philosophy.
04:42 We barely see Mike these days.
04:45 Why is that?
04:48 If you don't mind me asking.
04:50 Andrew wasn't impressed he walked out on Carol.
04:53 Mike being Mike, he didn't think it was anyone's business.
04:56 [PHONE VIBRATES]
04:59 Hi.
05:05 Yeah, I'm at home.
05:08 No, I'm sorry.
05:14 Bye.
05:17 [DOOR OPENS]
05:19 Poor Andrew.
05:25 He's taken Carol's death hard.
05:29 Very hard.
05:32 I didn't know him and Carol were close.
05:34 They dated when they were kids.
05:36 I was so jealous.
05:38 Up until then, I always had his undivided attention.
05:41 Carol had a A-team for the sailing club.
05:45 Andrew organised it.
05:47 He was good at organising things.
05:49 What did I do?
05:51 Through the biggest meltdown I could muster,
05:54 Andrew blew out the party to stay with me.
05:58 By midnight, Mike and Carol were an item.
06:01 I was so happy when they got together again recently.
06:05 Andrew and Carol.
06:07 Reena.
06:10 [FOOTSTEPS]
06:12 What are you doing here?
06:17 You blank me at work, ignore my calls.
06:19 What am I supposed to do?
06:21 What is it, Reena?
06:24 I took a statement from Ryan Lang,
06:27 which, if corroborated, kills our case.
06:29 In what way?
06:31 In every way.
06:33 As in, Kate Freeman didn't do this.
06:39 Ryan's testimony is compelling, but not a knockout blow.
06:42 And the CPS are too invested to drop the charges unless they have to.
06:46 I say we focus on the timeline.
06:48 It's central to showing the Crown's case is fundamentally flawed.
06:52 Okay, well, we know that the boys went to bed earlier than usual.
06:58 9pm, because they were going fishing with their dad at the crack of dawn.
07:02 Tom Lang says that when he heard his mother arguing with Kate,
07:05 his brother was watching the Spurs game on his phone with headphones.
07:08 What time did that game finish?
07:10 9.30.
07:11 A 9 to 9.30pm window does fit with the pathology evidence.
07:15 It's when Carol sustained the blow to the head downstairs.
07:18 Yes.
07:19 And now we hit the two-hour gap before the killer inflicts the fatal chest wound.
07:24 And apart from a partial clean-up and moving Carol to the bedroom,
07:28 here's where we're drawing the blank.
07:30 Did they go away and come back,
07:32 or are we looking at two time frames and two offenders?
07:38 I'm stuck on him carrying her upstairs.
07:41 Why? What purpose did it serve?
07:44 And after having done it, what possessed him to go into the boys' room and be seen?
07:50 And he didn't just go into the room.
07:52 He made physical contact with Ryan, and he let him hear his voice.
07:56 Again, all seriously odd.
07:58 OK, seriously odd sounds like we're doubting Ryan's account.
08:02 We're establishing a factual sequence of events.
08:05 How you then frame it is up to you.
08:07 I'm sorry, that's disingenuous.
08:09 Meaning?
08:10 Meaning you're an expert witness for the defence.
08:12 You know the drill.
08:13 I thought I did.
08:14 We refract all the evidence through the prism of Kate's innocence.
08:17 We can't assume Kate's innocence without a grasp on the totality of that evidence.
08:23 Take PC Wood's disappearance.
08:25 It may or may not pertain to the Crown's case.
08:28 We don't know.
08:30 Don't know means no.
08:32 I get your impulse to find out what's happened to Woods,
08:35 but it's pulling focus and threatening my ability to offer a clear, exculpatory narrative.
08:40 OK, let's start with the narrative, if only to move the conversation on.
08:45 Ryan Lang saw and heard a male intruder.
08:52 Not a woman. Not Kate.
08:54 So his brother was mistaken about hearing Kate.
08:58 Mistaken being a charitable interpretation.
09:02 And why does South Bay CID miss this?
09:05 Because their myopic focus on Kate Freeman
09:07 demonstrably blinded them to the key elements of the scene.
09:11 Examples.
09:12 The two hours gap the killer spent on site,
09:15 and the initial attack with the dumbbell downstairs.
09:18 Sorry.
09:20 Hello?
09:24 Oh, yeah. Come on up.
09:27 How can we help?
09:33 Mina just brought me up to speed about Ryan.
09:37 There's something we need to share as a matter of urgency.
09:40 Sorry, do I infer you haven't shared his testimony with your superiors?
09:44 No, we have.
09:45 And?
09:47 I'll get to that in a minute.
09:50 About four months ago, West Yorkshire CID got in contact
09:54 in unusual circumstances.
09:57 They had this spate of robberies targeting these catch-and-transit vans,
10:01 carried out by a man in a black ski mask.
10:04 They bound the driver with cable ties,
10:06 and they threatened them with a hunting knife.
10:08 They had a strong suspect named Wes Carter,
10:11 who they pulled in a few times but didn't have enough for a charge.
10:14 Why did West Yorkshire get in touch?
10:16 Because Wes Carter had moved down to South Bay,
10:18 no doubt hoping for police interest in him to call.
10:21 Yorkshire must have been pretty sure he was their man.
10:23 They were warning us to keep an eye and expect the worst.
10:27 Now, clearly, this man, Wes Carter, according to Yorkshire CID,
10:31 looks and sounds a lot like the man Ryan described.
10:35 Don't take this the wrong way, but, um...
10:42 why are you coming to us?
10:44 I, uh... we have been sidelined by Detective Super Ray Palmer.
10:50 I took Ryan's statement and formally entered it in the file.
10:54 We're here to ensure that this new avenue is fully explored.
10:59 Sounds like you don't trust your colleagues in CID to do their job,
11:03 and we're the safety net.
11:05 Insurance policy.
11:07 Would you be kind enough to step out for a moment?
11:13 Sure.
11:15 We'll go away in the lobby.
11:17 We need to give the CPS pause for thought.
11:26 Make them aware how flawed their case really is.
11:29 I don't want to play my best cards and leave nothing for the trial.
11:32 I think it's worth the risk.
11:34 I know someone in the CPS who can help,
11:36 if I'm still on that Christmas card list.
11:40 You told me Freeman's brief tapped Lyle for a second PM
11:43 and a look at the forensics.
11:45 And?
11:47 You neglected to add their findings differ significantly from yours.
11:51 That worries me.
11:52 It shouldn't.
11:54 It makes me think, ambush down the line in court.
11:57 Now I'm hearing about a witness statement from Ryan Lang
12:00 that essentially contradicts his brother's.
12:02 It's led me to look deeper into the background of the case.
12:05 Specifically Kate Freeman.
12:07 I hear that after her partner disappeared...
12:09 I can't believe this.
12:11 I hear that after her partner disappeared, Kate was making trouble.
12:15 Bandying stories about.
12:17 Stories like Woods didn't take his own life and had enemies in CID.
12:21 Key word there being stories.
12:23 Still, putting her on suspension might play like you're muzzling her to a jury.
12:27 Christ, Bridget, it might play like that to me.
12:29 Who's pouring poison in your ear, Alan?
12:32 And Kate luring your son from the marital bed doesn't exactly simplify matters.
12:35 Someone's putting the frighteners on you, haven't they, eh?
12:38 Look, I understand your wariness.
12:42 As you say, Kate Freeman is not a straightforward suspect.
12:46 How do we move things forward?
12:48 We get it all out in the open.
12:52 We do that in court, right?
12:54 I mean now.
12:56 We hear both sides' evidence early doors,
12:58 so no one can say the CPS rushed to judgment in charging Kate Freeman.
13:02 Well, that's pretty unorthodox, isn't it?
13:07 But not unprecedented.
13:09 Thank you all for coming up to London today.
13:18 Dr. Burnett, can you clarify your interpretation of the pathology evidence
13:25 with regard to sequence and time frame?
13:27 Gladly. We're looking at two distinct attacks.
13:30 First, the blow to the head, and then, after a short delay, the fatal stab wound.
13:34 How short a delay?
13:36 Five to 15 minutes.
13:38 How do you account for the accumulation of blood between the brain and the skull?
13:44 Very easily. The stab wound was fatal, but not immediately so.
13:48 I find that unlikely.
13:51 For one, hilt bruising on the skin shows that the impact was exceptionally forceful,
13:57 and the wound is in a position where the internal hemorrhage was torrential.
14:02 It induced death swiftly.
14:04 For two, grooving on the base of the brain suggests that Carol was alive
14:10 for a longer period of time, possibly a couple of hours,
14:14 between the initial head injury and the stabbing.
14:16 Not the shorter time Dr. Burnett's suggesting? No.
14:19 Can you really exclude other causation for the grooving?
14:23 Cardiac arrest, for example.
14:26 You can't, and you know you can't.
14:31 In your report, you class the head wound as a contra-coup injury,
14:37 i.e. one caused by the victim falling onto an object.
14:40 Let me guess. You think it was a coup injury?
14:43 I think Carol was struck by a moving object, yes. Not the other way round.
14:48 Based on what evidence?
14:50 If this was a contra-coup, can you specify the object that she fell onto
14:56 that caused these distinctive marks?
15:00 She sustained the injury in a struggle in the bedroom.
15:04 If there were any number of objects in corners, she could have fallen on.
15:08 Then you'd expect to find blood transfer, surely?
15:10 Not if the killer wiped that object down.
15:13 Dr. Burnett... The absence of evidence is not evidence.
15:16 For the avoidance of doubt, are you saying that you failed to identify
15:19 the object that caused this injury?
15:21 Look, I didn't process the scene. Jack did.
15:25 What?
15:27 Sadly, he didn't swab or photograph all of the potential edges and corners
15:31 she could have fallen on or close to all of them.
15:34 I didn't finish processing because I was removed from the scene
15:39 by Chief Superintendent Lang.
15:40 That was later. You broke away from the scene of your own volition.
15:43 What are you talking about, Bill?
15:45 You were distracted and less than stringent in observing scene etiquette.
15:49 You're having a laugh. I did you a bloody favour.
15:51 Perhaps it was the effect of meeting Kate Freeman outside.
15:54 She made quite an impression on you.
15:57 And you've had so much to drink, I'm surprised you remember anything!
16:21 We'd like to present an alternative reading of the evidence, if that's all right.
16:26 That's why we're all here.
16:28 We believe we find a second crime scene in the downstairs sitting room.
16:32 Not only did we find Carol's blood on the floor,
16:36 we matched the teared pattern of her head wound to one of her dumbbells.
16:42 Significantly, the other dumbbell is missing from the house.
16:47 And yes, they're sold as a pair.
16:50 Expirated blood on the halfway landing
16:53 and transfer of paint under Carol's toenails
16:57 further prove that the attack unfolded in two locations and two time frames,
17:03 circa 9pm and circa 11pm.
17:06 The Crown's investigation completely failed to unnerve these basic elements of the scene.
17:12 We've effectively had to do the job for them.
17:15 And when we factor in Ryan's testimony that he saw a male intruder
17:20 and Dr. Burnett's inebriation,
17:23 it adds up to one thing.
17:26 You need to release Kate Freeman immediately.
17:30 [♪♪♪]
17:33 Why do you think Bill said all that?
17:50 [phone buzzing]
17:54 Hello, mate.
17:55 I enlisted my botanist friend.
17:57 Foliage in P.C. Woods' car is predominantly leaves from a black poplar.
18:02 Okay. Rare. As rare as I'd like.
18:05 Well, the good news is that there is an arboretum of black poplars
18:09 near one of the two roads that comes off South Bay Bridge.
18:13 Now, as you know, speculation is something that I try to avoid.
18:16 What do you think happened, Velvey?
18:18 I think that Woods was killed and possibly buried at the arboretum.
18:23 The killer then drove Woods' car to South Bay Bridge
18:27 in the knowledge that, A, people jump off it,
18:30 and, B, bodies that go into the water are often swept out to sea.
18:35 Speculation suits you, Velvey.
18:38 [♪♪♪]
18:41 [dog barking]
18:46 [dog barking]
18:51 [dog barking]
18:54 [dog barking]
18:58 [indistinct chatter]
19:17 [♪♪♪]
19:20 -What is it? What have they found? -Andre, just give us a minute.
19:25 Yeah.
19:27 Body is partly skeletal, partly adiposea.
19:45 Hair has fallen away, face has decomposed.
19:49 Woods was last seen wearing an anorak with Man United insignia.
19:53 That's a band behind his back.
19:56 Looks like they use cable ties.
19:58 -Cash fund guy. -Wes Carter.
20:00 -Used cable ties, didn't he? -About Wes Carter?
20:03 Mina, Wes Carter.
20:13 [♪♪♪]
20:16 Police! Open up!
20:22 -I appreciate you doing this. -It's our job.
20:27 After everything, asking Bill Burnett just felt wrong.
20:31 Was there something else?
20:34 Kate would like to sit in on the PM.
20:40 It's okay with me if it's okay with you.
20:43 Are you sure?
20:46 Thank you so much.
21:04 [♪♪♪]
21:07 -What are you doing here, Andrew? -Following a lead. A link, anyway.
21:13 A link? Oh, let me guess.
21:15 Between Ryan's testimony about a masked man and a tip-off from West Yorks
21:19 about a bloke doing over cash funds.
21:21 We just found a body.
21:23 Matching the clothes Woods was last seen wearing.
21:25 About a mile from South Bay Bridge.
21:27 Hands bound with cable ties.
21:30 A rather more compelling link than a mask, wouldn't you say?
21:34 There's nothing here.
21:42 I'm not so sure, sir.
21:44 Let's not tip this one over the floor.
21:52 -Crap. -It's got at least 200 grand in it.
21:57 We need to check this against the cash from the vans.
22:00 Oh, no shit. Is there any more?
22:03 Just this.
22:08 Van Tite.
22:16 Same brand of tie we find on Woods.
22:23 Deceased is an adult male, provisionally identified as Fred Woods.
22:28 We're waiting for DNA confirmation.
22:31 There's putrefaction consistent with the body being deceased
22:34 for a significant period of time.
22:37 There's evidence of a broken neck.
22:39 There is grit embedded in the skull
22:41 that will be comparing to the sandstone boulders in the stream.
22:46 So, what, he fell headfirst into the creek,
22:50 cracked his skull on a boulder and broke his neck?
22:53 Easy to imagine with his hands bound behind his back.
22:57 So, Fred's just lying there in the dark
23:09 with a smashed skull and a broken neck,
23:12 potentially still conscious or semi-conscious.
23:16 And then he... drowns?
23:20 We can't say for sure.
23:22 The C2 fracture could have been rapidly fatal,
23:25 but we just don't know when decomposition's this advanced.
23:30 You had better catch this bastard, Mum.
23:34 That's all I can say.
23:37 (SIREN WAILS)
24:03 Wes, Wes, Wes, don't be fucking stupid!
24:06 Head that way! Cut him off!
24:12 (SIREN WAILS)
24:15 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
24:18 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
24:46 (GRUNTS)
25:15 (GRUNTS)
25:18 (GRUNTS)
25:20 (GRUNTS)
25:26 (GASPS)
25:29 (GROANS)
25:32 (GROANS)
25:35 (GROANS)
25:38 (GROANS)
25:40 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
26:07 (THUNDER RUMBLING)
26:09 (GRUNTS)
26:23 (GRUNTS)
26:26 (GRUNTS)
26:29 (PANTING)
26:32 (PANTING)
26:34 (GRUNTS)
26:42 Here! Over here!
26:45 Hey.
26:50 What happened?
26:52 -Wolfes! -I told him to stop. He wouldn't.
26:55 He tried to push me over.
26:58 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
27:00 We've matched the size and waffle-style tread of night trainers in your closet
27:13 to the muddy print on PC Woods' brake pedal.
27:16 We also DNA'd the headrest inside Woods' car and scored a match.
27:20 To you.
27:22 The forensics tie you to the murder of a policeman, Neil,
27:25 so now's the time to cooperate.
27:28 Don't dig your hole any deeper.
27:30 (SIGHS)
27:32 I didn't kill anyone, all right? Nothing like that.
27:35 OK. So what happened?
27:38 I was paid to hassle a few residents in Arborfields.
27:41 Protesters against the Goshawk construction development.
27:44 Numpties. Fighting against the compulsory purchase order.
27:48 What did hassling them entail?
27:50 Broken window here, late-night call there, a few slush tyres.
27:54 Then when Wes came to state,
27:56 it's safe to say I was, er...
27:59 ..able to bolster my services.
28:01 Who paid you?
28:03 Dunno. I mean, I assume Goshawk Construction,
28:06 ultimately, somewhere down the line.
28:08 How were you paid, then?
28:10 Money was put into my account via a front called Stand and Limited.
28:13 A shell company? Yeah.
28:15 I googled them, based in the Virgin Islands.
28:18 But I only dealt with one bloke, called himself Marcus, via a burner.
28:23 Caller unknown.
28:25 So you can't help us?
28:27 Can't help us help you?
28:29 You've got to give us something now, and the sooner the better,
28:33 or this stops looking like co-operation and more like desperation.
28:36 Bear in mind, your phone and laptop are being examined right now.
28:51 Marcus told me and Wes to give Woods a scare.
28:54 Because he'd been asking difficult questions at work.
28:57 I didn't start out wanting to hurt him.
28:59 He's a copper, all right? I'm not daft.
29:01 What, just roughed him up a bit?
29:03 And Wes did.
29:05 He cable-tied his hands while I showed him the money.
29:08 Look, I thought he was going to go for it.
29:11 But he just...
29:13 ..belted it into the trees.
29:15 How was that?
29:17 How was that?
29:19 Let's talk about Carol Lang.
29:23 There's eyewitness testimony that places Wes at the scene.
29:26 Points towards him killing Carol, in the process of stealing her jewellery.
29:30 Yeah. Nice try.
29:33 He didn't do that.
29:35 How do you know? Cos I was his favourite uncle.
29:37 He never kept anything from me.
29:39 That's not exactly compelling, Neil.
29:41 He fessed up to those cash van robberies as soon as I asked him.
29:46 For that very reason, I asked him about the Lang woman.
29:49 The fact that you even had to ask him
29:51 contradicts your statement that he spent the night fixing a leak at the pub.
29:54 Doesn't it, Neil?
29:56 So forgive us if we take everything you say with a pinch of salt.
30:01 Detectives, I need to tell you something, in confidence.
30:12 According to Kit Freeman,
30:14 Palmer threatened Woods
30:16 when he asked why patrols were being diverted from harbour fields.
30:20 What did Palmer say to Woods?
30:22 There are faster ways to die than cancer.
30:24 I'll have to pass that on to police conduct.
30:29 There's massive trauma to the body and head,
30:40 consistent with a significant fall onto a hard surface.
30:43 There's damage to the side of the skull,
30:45 consistent with him landing on his right side.
30:48 There's a contusion to the forehead
30:50 and some particles embedded in the wound.
30:53 Contusions in the left upper frontotemporal region.
31:08 Unusual, given the plane of impact.
31:10 And it's inconsistent with Jack's account of grappling and fighting with the deceased.
31:15 You spoke to Erndure in detail.
31:17 Do you think you could flesh out the scene for us?
31:20 I'll try.
31:21 He said he saw Carter walking up the path in a westerly direction.
31:25 Yes. Andrew ran onto the path ahead of him.
31:27 He told him to stop, then Wes grabbed him and tried to shove him over.
31:31 Up the front of Wes's T-shirt,
31:34 his bloody from his nose out.
31:36 I found what could be a handprint in the blood.
31:40 I asked Andrew point blank if he pushed Wes.
31:45 He said he didn't remember, but conceded that yes,
31:48 he could have pushed him in the altercation,
31:50 because he was in fear for his life.
32:02 [Water pouring]
32:06 [Knock on door]
32:13 Come in.
32:15 If I was to look at your bank account, Rae,
32:24 would I find any unexplained payments?
32:27 Specifically from some untraceable, bounced around the world,
32:30 shell company called Standant Limited?
32:34 I need an answer, I'm afraid.
32:38 Oh, Rae.
32:57 How could you be so bloody stupid?
33:00 All I did was shift patrols away from Harbourfields, that's it.
33:04 Why was that so important?
33:05 I don't know, to drive the crime stats up, I suppose.
33:07 You suppose?
33:08 Look, I had nothing to do with Fred Woods, all right? Nothing.
33:11 But you threatened him, didn't you?
33:14 I had a word. Big deal.
33:17 Big deal?
33:19 I placed Kate Freeman on fucking suspension,
33:22 because she came to me with nothing less than the truth.
33:25 I can't believe you'd do this, Rae.
33:28 Just for a bit of cash.
33:30 They offered me a fortune to stop police operations in Harbourfields.
33:34 Let it go to the dokes.
33:36 So some fucking property developer got it for a song.
33:40 Listen, I knew that Neil Carter was scaring the protesters at Harbourfields,
33:44 but I had no idea that his ex-para nephew was hitting town.
33:48 I thought West York shared that with us when he moved out.
33:50 Yeah, well, they did, but Andrew Walsh took the call.
33:52 And?
33:53 In his wisdom, he sat on it.
33:56 Only Imapuri knew until this week.
33:59 The Carol Lange inquiry is being wound down.
34:05 We just want to say thank you for your critical involvement,
34:09 and for working in a pretty...
34:10 Wine dine.
34:11 Well, obviously the coroner's work is ongoing and there'll be an inquest.
34:14 Because guilt is being ascribed to S. Carter.
34:17 I think that's premature.
34:20 Well, with respect...
34:21 Why do you think it's premature?
34:23 There are things about Carol's murder that chime with Carter's MO.
34:27 Lots of things.
34:28 The mask, the knife, the black clothes,
34:31 tying his victims' hands behind their back.
34:33 But there are significant differences, too.
34:35 Carter never targeted private residences.
34:38 He used cable ties, and his booty of choice was cash, not jewellery.
34:42 I still go back to the why.
34:44 Why did he go into the boys' room and make contact?
34:46 Why take that risk?
34:47 He wanted to be seen. And heard.
34:49 Whoever grabbed Ryan Lang couldn't shut up.
34:52 The only explanation is,
34:54 he wanted Ryan Lang to give the testimony that he did.
34:57 If we were in court, that would definitely be deemed conjecture.
35:00 But we're not in court.
35:02 If you're right, there's a problem.
35:05 If the killer was trying to lead us to Wes, then...
35:08 How did they get hold of the information?
35:10 Hey?
35:11 When West Yorkshire got in touch about Wes,
35:13 we decided to keep the intel on a strictly need-to-know basis.
35:18 Why?
35:20 Frankly, cos Wes's uncle, Neil Carter, has a lot of mates in CID.
35:25 From Ray Palmer down.
35:27 It's Bridget. I need to go and update her.
35:36 Ray Palmer's been suspended, and I've replaced him.
35:39 Acting DCI.
35:41 Oh.
35:42 I'm looking for my scarf.
36:03 You seen it?
36:06 What scarf?
36:07 The gingham one I got in the sale.
36:09 Oh.
36:10 What?
36:14 Doesn't matter.
36:20 Could you zoom in on the knife, please, Valvie?
36:29 It's a double-edged blade.
36:32 Yes, it is.
36:34 The stab wound looks symmetrical.
36:36 Both ends of the wound pointed, sharp, V-shaped.
36:39 Key where they're being looked's...
36:41 We're actually looking at a single-edged blade,
36:43 wielded with such force the skin behind the blunt edge split.
36:46 Leaving something which looks V-shaped but isn't quite.
36:49 One of the ends has a fishtail.
36:52 So if someone was trying to mimic Carter's MO,
36:56 it was likely improvised, not planned.
36:58 Oh, otherwise you'd bring a double-edged blade?
37:00 And cable ties, both easy to source.
37:02 What about the mask and the coat?
37:04 V used Carol's gym leggings for the former,
37:06 and Mike says he's missing a black coat from his closet.
37:10 The brown particles I retrieved from the wound on Wes's forehead.
37:15 It's bark from a Fraxinus excelsior,
37:17 aka the common ash.
37:19 OK.
37:20 How'd it get there?
37:21 No wood or trees down in the rocks.
37:23 Suggesting contact was made before he fell.
37:27 And with sufficient force to penetrate his scalp.
37:31 What are you saying?
37:33 I'm sorry, Mina,
37:35 but the evidence is telling us that Andrew was the aggressor.
37:39 What's all this?
37:49 You're not going back to work?
37:51 Not today.
37:54 I'm worried about you.
37:56 Drinking.
37:58 Missing work.
38:00 It's Carol, isn't it?
38:03 I don't want to talk about Carol.
38:07 I'm sorry.
38:10 I'm sorry.
38:11 I'm sorry.
38:13 I'm sorry.
38:15 I'm sorry.
38:17 I'm sorry.
38:19 I'm sorry.
38:22 I'm sorry.
38:23 Let's talk about your scarf.
38:28 Where it could be.
38:30 Oh, if I knew, I wouldn't be looking for it, would I?
38:33 No, I suppose not.
38:37 I'm not stupid.
38:42 I can tell something's up.
38:45 What is it?
38:47 All right.
38:50 Don't be like that.
38:52 I know what you did.
38:55 I found your scarf at Carol's.
38:59 In her blood.
39:02 Carol.
39:07 Carol.
39:09 Carol.
39:11 Carol.
39:13 Carol.
39:15 Carol.
39:17 Carol.
39:19 Carol.
39:21 Carol.
39:24 Carol.
39:47 I understand.
39:49 You weren't jealous.
39:51 You were just scared of losing me.
39:55 So you removed the competition.
40:00 It's okay.
40:04 I want to take care of you.
40:07 And protect you.
40:09 Now, wherever we end up next.
40:16 What are you talking about?
40:18 Just tell me what happened.
40:20 I did go and see Carol.
40:24 Just for a coffee.
40:27 Everyone thinks you're married to me.
40:30 That I'm your ball and chain.
40:34 I didn't want that to spoil things when you'd waited so long.
40:39 What happened, Lisa?
40:42 What happened to Denise, sir?
40:44 She took it the wrong way?
40:47 You lost it, what?
40:48 No.
40:49 No, she was fine.
40:51 She said she was touched.
40:54 Just a bit taken aback, you know?
40:58 By me going round.
41:01 She didn't deny there was anything going on.
41:04 She said it was early days.
41:07 And Mike was still a big part of her life.
41:11 She said...
41:12 She said she was hopeful for a future with you.
41:20 And then I left.
41:26 Went to the gym.
41:29 Popped to the supermarket.
41:31 Then I came home.
41:34 [♪♪♪]
41:37 [♪♪♪]
41:39 [PANTING]
41:48 [♪♪♪]
41:51 [♪♪♪]
41:53 All our years in foster care.
42:20 I'm not making excuses.
42:22 But?
42:23 It's hardwired in me, defending her.
42:29 Protecting her.
42:32 All I could think was if she comes round and IDs Lisa, then it's over.
42:38 And it just came to my head.
42:40 Earlier that day, I'd got an email from West Yorks asking if...
42:45 Wes was still keeping his nose clean.
42:49 [♪♪♪]
42:51 I knew what to do.
42:53 [♪♪♪]
42:56 [PANTING]
43:01 [♪♪♪]
43:04 [♪♪♪]
43:16 [♪♪♪]
43:18 Carol was dying anyway.
43:32 You didn't need to stab her. You didn't need to do a thing.
43:35 You've no idea how true that is.
43:38 There was nothing stopping me rushing her to A&E.
43:42 Nothing at all.
43:43 So why didn't you?
43:45 I saw Lisa's scarf and I jumped to the wrong conclusion.
43:48 Lisa had nothing to do with it.
43:52 She was at the gym.
43:55 And in the supermarket.
43:58 What about Wesley Carter?
44:00 He dropped like a stone.
44:02 I only hit him once.
44:04 And I was hoping Lisa would be the same.
44:07 [♪♪♪]
44:13 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
44:15 Andrew! Andrew!
44:26 Andrew, come here!
44:29 I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!
44:31 [♪♪♪]
44:35 [♪♪♪]
44:37 Where are we?
44:44 Essentially.
44:46 Sadly, we have no reason to doubt Andrew's version of events.
44:49 Especially in the light of him confessing to Wes Carter.
44:52 He also directed us to a bin bag containing these items.
44:56 Kitchen knife.
44:59 Lisa's scarf.
45:03 And his coat.
45:05 But he says that he didn't see a dumbbell when he arrived at the scene
45:10 and found Carol unconscious on the floor.
45:13 As a detective, he said he looked for a weapon
45:16 but couldn't find a likely candidate.
45:18 For what it's worth, I'm inclined to believe him.
45:21 And we're sure Lisa's in the clear?
45:24 We're sure. CCTV has her leaving the gym at 9.30,
45:27 stopping in a supermarket, and entering her street just before 10.
45:31 At least we've solved the mystery as to why the killer waited in the house for two hours.
45:35 They didn't. We're dealing with two offenders.
45:38 And it's important to stress that whoever hit Carol with the dumbbell used massive force.
45:44 And regardless of what Andrew did later,
45:47 it could have been a fatal injury. Eventually.
45:51 Attempted murder, at the very least.
45:53 Something else, ma'am.
45:55 I trawled the notes from house to house with fresh eyes.
45:58 A witness saw someone throw something over the seawall in front of Carol's house
46:02 between 9.15pm and 9.30pm.
46:05 This time and location fit with the attacker discarding the dumbbell.
46:09 You want to search the shoreline?
46:11 We'll cover it. And whatever else you need.
46:26 Hey! Hey!
46:28 Is that safe?
46:39 The bus passes twice on our cameras, front and back.
46:52 Check the timetable. If the last bus was on time,
46:55 we could be in business.
46:57 Oh. Here we go.
47:01 That's not Mike Lang. Too slight.
47:11 Kate Freeman?
47:13 Look at their right hand when the bus passes in the light's head.
47:16 I'll call Pori.
47:18 Wait. Let me have a crack at this.
47:21 I've got some gate analysis software that I've been waiting to use.
47:49 Sue says I should have packed it in at 60.
47:52 The moral of that story is you should always listen to your wife.
47:57 Who knows? I might actually enjoy retirement.
48:00 Lisa, could you get some more onions?
48:02 Cheer up, Bill. It might never happen.
48:05 Ignore him. There's drinks over there.
48:08 There are more beers in the fridge if they're not cold enough.
48:11 Oh, Mum.
48:15 You want me to get rid of him?
48:18 Please.
48:20 Don't burn the chicken wings.
48:23 Kate?
48:33 I just want to say I really appreciate you coming.
48:39 I'm happy to be here.
48:41 I'm not going to fix things overnight, but it's a start.
48:44 It is.
48:45 What did I say about the wings?
48:47 Sorry.
48:49 Keep it down.
48:50 Oh, shit, it's going to blow away.
48:52 Do you need a hand, boys?
48:58 Yes.
49:00 I promise we'll come back to Granny's soon, all right?
49:19 That's it. Go on, in you get.
49:22 Football practice?
49:26 Yeah, I totally forgot.
49:28 But that's Tuesdays.
49:29 Yeah, well, they changed it.
49:31 Don't ask me why.
49:33 I'll come and get you later.
49:38 No hurry. I can help clean up.
49:40 [♪♪♪]
49:42 Mike?
50:10 Let's take it over.
50:12 Is Dom OK?
50:18 What did you want to ask me?
50:22 When you and Kate first came to the Lyle, the day after the murder,
50:27 she had bruises on her right wrist.
50:29 She said you made them.
50:31 We'd been drinking.
50:33 I was feeling low about being stuck in uniform.
50:37 I said that the only way Mum was going to let me back into CID
50:41 was if I moved home to Carol.
50:44 And she lost it.
50:46 She really, really lost it.
50:48 She said that she was going to go and stay at her mate's,
50:50 but she'd have way too much to drink, and...
50:52 I had to get her keys off her somehow.
50:57 What is it, Mike?
51:06 Dom's adamant.
51:08 He's adamant that it was Kate's voice he heard speaking to his mum.
51:12 And you believe him now?
51:16 Dom?
51:19 Come here.
51:21 Look, I believe you, mate.
51:31 I believe it was...
51:33 I believe it was...
51:35 Kate's voice that you heard.
51:37 Do you remember what they were arguing about, Dom?
51:44 Do you remember any specific words?
51:47 Uniform.
51:55 They were arguing about uniform.
52:01 What am I? Go on.
52:03 You gave Kate a scare.
52:10 She knew how much you wanted to get back into CID,
52:14 how much you missed the boys.
52:16 So the next day, hungover and paranoid,
52:20 she confronts Carol.
52:22 A pre-emptive strike.
52:24 If you went back, it wouldn't be for love.
52:29 It would be to get out of that bloody uniform.
52:33 That's so implausible.
52:36 Just in time. Come. Come.
52:44 It all went.
52:58 I normally make too much.
53:00 Do you think Mike's OK?
53:05 Yeah. I mean, under the circumstances.
53:10 Why?
53:13 Just him shooting off like that.
53:16 I'm sure he's fine.
53:18 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
53:20 Is Kate still there? You've got to keep her there.
53:47 Still here, Mike.
53:49 What's the matter?
53:57 (PHONE RINGS)
54:02 (SCREAMS)
54:16 Why?
54:18 Funny you should ask.
54:20 Cos in so many ways, you were to blame.
54:23 Do you know what, Kate? I'm not having this conversation with you.
54:26 Don't fucking walk away from me. You know as much as I do.
54:28 If Mike came back here, it's only because of Bridget. Don't be fooled.
54:31 Oh, what, you think he's that desperate to get out of uniform?
54:34 Jesus, you don't know him at all, do you?
54:36 Cos if you did, you'd know that if he comes back, it's cos he wants to.
54:41 You didn't really think you were the first, did you?
54:45 Don't fall for that line, eh?
54:47 You did! Wow, this is priceless. This is fucking hilarious.
54:51 Let me guess. What was it, kids?
54:54 Hmm? Nunchals?
54:56 You shut it. Do you know what?
54:59 I almost feel sorry for you.
55:02 Almost.
55:04 I mean, he said you were sick.
55:07 Jesus Christ.
55:09 (GRUNTS)
55:11 (GRUNTS)
55:15 (GRUNTS)
55:17 Kate Freeman, I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Carol Lang in South Bay, Essex.
55:27 You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned
55:31 something which you later rely on in court.
55:34 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
55:36 I can take her in.
55:54 It's years since I felt a collar. I've missed it.
55:59 (SIGHS)
56:01 (ENGINE STARTS)
56:06 (ENGINE RUMBLES)
56:12 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
56:18 (ENGINE RUMBLES)
56:20 You OK? Yeah.
56:40 It was a nightmare, this whole thing, wasn't it?
56:43 Bill. Bill.
56:45 Bill.
56:47 Can you salvage it? I don't know.
56:50 It's, um...
56:52 ..hard to get back, you know.
56:54 I think you know someone.
56:57 South Bay's kind of grown on me. Uh-oh.
57:04 Frank Holliday coming up. Mm-hm.
57:06 Fancy a long weekend back in South Bay?
57:09 No. (LAUGHS) Why not?
57:14 Come on, there's a beautiful beach. Come on.
57:16 It's so romantic.
57:18 You and I have different ideas of romance than others.
57:22 (WOMAN LAUGHS)
57:32 (WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
57:39 (WOMAN LAUGHS)
57:41 (WOMAN SCREAMS)
57:46 (MAN SINGS IN ITALIAN)
57:56 A 1970s murder mystery unravels,
58:00 with Cormoran and Robin investigating on BBC iPlayer Press Red
58:04 now to watch Strike Troubled Blood.
58:08 # I can see you in the misty blue... #
58:13 (WOMAN SCREAMS)
58:17 (audience laughing)