Silent Witness S26E09
Silent Witness S26E09
Transcript
00:00 (audience laughing)
00:03 You know it's true.
00:06 Don't deny it, don't deny it.
00:08 Yeah, so, yeah, so Bill was the pathologist
00:14 in the first scene.
00:16 I ever set foot on as a newly qualified
00:18 and somewhat wet behind the ears for Renzo.
00:21 It was a triple in a basement laundrette,
00:24 do you remember?
00:25 Under a tar block.
00:26 - Oh yeah.
00:27 - Yeah, one of the bodies was stuffed in a tumble dryer.
00:30 Still going round and round.
00:33 (audience laughing)
00:36 So I stood there, you know, for a good 10 seconds
00:38 looking for one mangled corpse to another
00:40 until he kindly put me at ease.
00:43 He said, "Are you waiting for the cycle to finish?
00:46 (audience laughing)
00:48 "Get a bloody move on, lad,
00:50 "before we're all hung out to dry."
00:52 (audience laughing)
00:54 - Good line, good line.
00:55 Never forgot, never forgot it.
00:57 Anyway, enjoy your retirement, Bill.
01:00 No one alive or dead could say you haven't earned it.
01:05 To Bill.
01:06 - To Bill.
01:06 (audience applauding)
01:10 - All right?
01:20 - Better be some gin in there.
01:23 - Just the three shots.
01:25 - I was thinking about Spain, Marbella.
01:28 Good for the psoriasis.
01:30 - And retired villains?
01:32 - I could keep my hand in, couldn't I?
01:34 (laughing)
01:36 (phone ringing)
01:39 - Bridget.
01:45 - What's your bloody retirement do?
01:48 - Three line whip, Jack.
01:49 - Come on, you're off the clock and you're pissed.
01:51 - A medicinal two or three.
01:53 - You're seriously going to a scene.
01:56 - No.
01:57 - When the chief superintendent calls.
01:59 - I wait.
02:01 I lied.
02:04 With sparkling water.
02:05 - What?
02:06 - I had a whiskey before my speech.
02:08 Bit of Dutch courage.
02:09 Since then, the purest H2O.
02:11 I'll drive.
02:12 We'll chat in the car like old times.
02:14 - I'll get my bag.
02:23 (phone buzzing)
02:26 - Hey, how was your speech?
02:33 - Ah, it was okay.
02:34 Look, it might be a little when I need to run Bill
02:36 back to South Bay.
02:38 - Can't you get a cab?
02:39 - No, it's complicated.
02:42 - Okay.
02:44 Well, I love you.
02:46 Be safe.
02:48 - Love you too.
02:49 Bye.
02:50 (dramatic music)
02:53 (singing in foreign language)
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04:11 (dramatic music)
04:13 (dramatic music)
04:16 (dramatic music)
04:19 - Get off me, get off me.
04:42 Leave me alone.
04:45 Get off me, get back here.
04:47 Andrew, Andrew.
04:49 - Are you okay?
04:55 - It's not my blood.
04:58 It's his.
05:01 - Why didn't you leave me alone?
05:03 Get your hands off me.
05:04 Get your, get your hands off me.
05:07 - Thank you.
05:09 (dramatic music)
05:12 - I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
05:13 (dramatic music)
05:16 - I don't want him in my house.
05:17 - Mike, take it easy.
05:18 - I don't want him near my kids.
05:19 - You've had a shock.
05:20 - Get off me, Ray, it's my house.
05:22 - Mike, Mike.
05:24 - Get off, get off.
05:25 - That's enough.
05:26 Take care of her, Bill.
05:37 She's family.
05:41 - This is Jack.
05:43 He's a forensic scientist.
05:45 This is Chief Superintendent Bridget Lang
05:47 and Detective Superintendent Ray Palmer.
05:50 Our forensics here.
05:51 - They laid her stabbing on the seafront.
05:53 - Where's your gear, Bill?
05:54 - Oh, I, I just came from a thing.
05:58 - I've got the basics in my car.
06:02 (people chattering)
06:05 - Why isn't the whole house cleared and sealed off?
06:17 - Wanna give me a primer?
06:26 - The deceased is a Carol Lang.
06:30 Upstairs in the master bedroom.
06:32 - She's family because?
06:36 - That angry man outside is her ex, Sergeant Mike Lang.
06:40 Chief Superintendent Bridget Lang is his mother.
06:43 - Cozy.
06:44 - Incestuous, some would say.
06:58 - Paramedics confirmed death on arrival,
07:01 but they were too late to attempt any resources.
07:03 The killer used the cord from the dressing gown
07:12 to restrain her.
07:13 - Signs of a struggle.
07:15 - Jewelry box is empty, Lloyd.
07:20 Hopefully someone could tell us what's missing.
07:23 (dramatic music)
07:25 - A pool of blood from the chest wound.
07:31 - Partial shoe print in the blood.
07:38 - Paramedics.
07:39 - Looks on the small side.
07:40 - Hmm.
07:41 (gun clicking)
07:45 (dramatic music)
07:47 - There's blood splatter on the curtains.
07:54 - Looks like a nice fingerprint here too.
07:57 - More bloody shoe prints down here.
08:01 Who called 999?
08:09 - The older boy, I think.
08:11 (dramatic music)
08:14 (gun clicking)
08:16 (dramatic music)
08:19 (doorbell ringing)
08:29 (gun clicking)
08:35 (gun clicking)
08:42 (dramatic music)
08:45 (gun clicking)
08:47 - Jack Hodgson, DI, Andrew Walsh, DC, Meena Puri.
08:57 Have they said anything?
09:01 - Dom said he heard his mum shouting.
09:03 - Ryan said nothing at all.
09:05 - Can I speak to them?
09:06 Briefly?
09:08 - Briefly.
09:12 (sighing)
09:14 - Hey, yeah?
09:15 Which of you's a Harry Kane fan?
09:22 - Ryan.
09:23 - Ryan, do you mind me asking
09:27 how your bedside light got broken?
09:29 Can I see your slippers, do you think?
09:33 Just the soles.
09:35 - Thank you.
09:35 (people chattering)
09:38 (camera clicking)
09:46 - We went to bed early 'cause Dad's taking us fishing.
09:49 - What do you know?
09:51 You've got the covers over your head.
09:52 - Thank you, Jack.
09:53 Our CSI Fiona's here, but thank you for stepping in.
09:57 - We'll contact you through Bill Burnett
09:59 if the need arises.
10:00 - Oh, from a continuity of evidence angle,
10:05 I should finish what I started.
10:07 - Meaning?
10:08 - Complete processing of the house before the handover.
10:11 - Honestly, Jack, if you hand over with Fiona,
10:14 we'll take it from here.
10:15 (people chattering)
10:18 (somber music)
10:26 (people chattering)
10:29 - Thanks again, Jack.
10:37 - Night, Bill.
10:41 (thunder rumbling)
10:54 (car engine revving)
10:57 - Go inside, Wes.
11:12 I'll be right in.
11:13 Is there anything you wanna tell me?
11:23 - How could you even ask?
11:25 - Oh, spare me the self-righteousness.
11:28 Your wife's killed in front of your kids,
11:30 and instead of tending to them,
11:31 you start punching out car windows and threatening people.
11:35 - Andrew shouldn't even be on this.
11:37 It was all over, Carol, the minute I moved out.
11:39 - Good for him.
11:40 She was his to begin with.
11:42 - Give me a fucking break!
11:45 - Even now, you can only think of yourself.
11:49 That's why the boys are staying with me.
11:53 (Carol sighs)
11:55 - Andrew?
12:06 - I said not to stay up.
12:16 - There's mac and cheese in the fridge.
12:18 Can't have my brother going hungry.
12:20 I'll heat it up.
12:22 - I don't want it.
12:23 - It won't take a minute. - Sit down, Lisa.
12:25 Carol's dead.
12:42 Murdered.
12:51 - I hope the kids are okay.
12:52 I mean, I hope they didn't see anything.
12:58 Did they?
12:59 - What a strange question.
13:01 Is that all you've got to say?
13:05 - Sorry.
13:06 I always say the wrong thing.
13:09 Poor Carol.
13:13 (Carol sobs)
13:18 (somber music)
13:21 (Carol sobs)
13:23 (somber music)
13:26 - Mike!
13:52 (Mike groans)
13:54 Mike!
13:56 What are you doing?
13:59 - I'm looking for my keys to the house.
14:03 There's no sign of forced entry,
14:04 so if they know I've got a set,
14:05 they're gonna jump to one conclusion.
14:07 - I didn't know you had a set.
14:08 I thought you gave them back to Carol.
14:10 - I did.
14:11 I got another set cut from Ryan's.
14:13 You know, I rebuilt that house with my bare hands.
14:16 And my kids do.
14:18 Why should I be denied access?
14:20 - Jesus Christ, Mike.
14:22 - But before you pile in, all right,
14:26 I've already had both barrels from Mum.
14:28 - Hey.
14:34 It's okay.
14:39 Tom?
14:49 - I heard a voice.
14:50 Someone arguing with Mum.
14:54 - Was it someone you knew?
14:58 A voice you'd heard before?
15:01 - She was angry.
15:07 - Mum or the other person?
15:10 - The other person.
15:13 - The other person was a woman?
15:17 (dramatic music)
15:20 - I'll be billing South Bay for your services.
15:30 - Time and a half after midnight.
15:32 - Just wish I got to finish the job, you know.
15:34 - Doesn't sound like your friend
15:36 went in to bat for you very hard.
15:38 - He knows which side his brats butted.
15:40 - Well, I hope it hasn't damaged your friendship.
15:45 - Nah, it'll be fine.
15:47 I did some work down there a few years back.
15:50 Bit of an oddity.
15:51 - In what sense?
15:52 - In theory, part of the constabulary.
15:54 In practice, its own jurisdiction.
15:57 - Is Chief Superintendent Bridget Lyons
15:58 still in charge then?
15:59 - Very much so.
16:00 But never had the pleasure.
16:01 You?
16:02 - Oh, it doesn't matter.
16:04 (footsteps)
16:06 - Is something up?
16:20 - I don't know.
16:25 For a big man,
16:28 Bill seemed awfully diminished last night.
16:30 Small.
16:31 - That's not how you've described him before.
16:33 - No, no.
16:34 But that's the version I'm stuck with now, eh?
16:38 Anyway, I'm sure it's fine.
16:41 (footsteps)
16:43 - I don't talk about it.
17:08 I don't talk about it.
17:10 It's all right.
17:13 - After the murder of a mother of two in South Bay,
17:24 a night of frantic activity culminated in the arrest
17:27 of a serving police officer this morning.
17:30 We'll be speaking.
17:31 To the murder of a mother of two in South Bay,
17:36 a night of frantic activity culminated
17:38 in the arrest of a serving police...
17:40 - Just to let you know,
17:45 we've obtained a warrant to search your property.
17:48 That search is happening right now.
17:49 You ever been inside the Lang residence?
17:54 - Last week.
17:58 Mike and I ran the boys back.
18:00 - Did you go upstairs?
18:02 - No.
18:06 - Have you seen these keys before?
18:07 Okay.
18:12 What do they unlock?
18:14 - Carol's front door.
18:16 - That's significant, Kay.
18:17 For two reasons.
18:18 One, there was no sign of forced entry of the house.
18:21 But two, we found these keys in your coat pocket.
18:24 The most prominent fingerprints taken from the fob
18:26 are yours.
18:27 Did you use these keys to gain access
18:29 to Carol's house last night?
18:31 - No, I did not.
18:33 - So how did you come to be in possession of them?
18:36 - I found them in Mike's jeans and I was annoyed.
18:40 So I took them.
18:42 - Why were you annoyed?
18:45 - 'Cause I knew what he had done.
18:48 After Carol made Mike hand over his keys,
18:53 he got copy made from Ryan's set.
18:55 - This made you feel insecure?
18:58 Jealous?
19:01 - Both, probably.
19:03 It made me feel like Mike wasn't ready to move on.
19:05 - Jealous enough to go and confront Carol about it?
19:09 - No.
19:12 - Well, the evidence suggests that you did, Kay.
19:14 You attacked her in her bed
19:16 whilst her son slept just across the hall.
19:18 And when she fought back, you stabbed her through the heart.
19:22 - It's very obvious why my client's in custody.
19:24 Because South Bay CID bears a grudge.
19:26 Equally obvious there's no evidence worth the name.
19:30 - And what'd you call Carol Lang's house keys?
19:33 - Incidental, irrelevant.
19:36 - Set of keys.
19:37 - Charge my client or release her.
19:42 - Sorry, Bridgette, from a CPS angle,
19:49 we need more than the testimony of a child and some keys.
19:53 - You'll get it.
19:57 (phone ringing)
20:00 - Bill.
20:02 - Have you heard about Kate Freeman?
20:04 - Yes, from the news.
20:05 - Apparently her lawyer's got wind of your involvement.
20:09 She's gonna make an approach, Jack, bring you on side.
20:14 - Bit previous, isn't it?
20:15 She's only been arrested.
20:17 - A charge is coming, but you didn't hear it from me.
20:20 One of Carol's lads belatedly spoke up,
20:22 put Kate at the scene.
20:25 I'd appreciate it if you declined.
20:27 With us being friends, it's just gonna get messy.
20:31 Not to mention blighting what'll likely be my last case.
20:34 Sorry to put you in this position, Jack.
20:39 (suspenseful music)
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20:58 (suspenseful music)
21:01 (suspenseful music)
21:04 (suspenseful music)
21:07 (suspenseful music)
21:10 (suspenseful music)
21:13 (doorbell ringing)
21:16 - Miriam, Jack Hodgson.
21:21 - Good to meet you, Jack,
21:21 and thank you for coming on board.
21:22 - Okay.
21:23 - This is Kate Freeman and her partner, Mike Lang.
21:26 - Hi.
21:27 We met last night.
21:29 - Yeah.
21:30 Thanks for your concern, and I'm sorry if I was rude.
21:34 - You weren't.
21:35 Come meet the team.
21:37 - After you.
21:37 (phone beeping)
21:42 - Go through.
21:42 (phone buzzing)
21:47 (phone buzzing)
21:49 - And you're serving PC at South Bay Police?
21:55 - Yes.
21:56 No, I'm on suspension.
21:59 - Okay.
22:00 And is the victim, Carol Lang, known to you?
22:03 - Yeah.
22:05 - Carol and I were married.
22:06 We separated just over a year ago.
22:10 - Then I'm very sorry for your loss.
22:15 - Why are you on suspension, Kate?
22:16 - We're among friends.
22:19 They need to know everything to mount an effective defense.
22:23 - We really do.
22:24 - Six months ago, my police partner, PC Fred Woods,
22:37 just disappeared.
22:39 His car was found by South Bay Bridge.
22:44 Fred was a cancer survivor,
22:46 and a period of remission had just come to an end.
22:49 So Top Brass just went straight to he's killed himself,
22:52 despite the lack of body, no note,
22:54 or anything supporting that.
22:55 - So just to be clear, you thought he hadn't killed himself?
23:00 - My mother, Bridget Lang,
23:02 is the Chief Supervisor at South Bay Police.
23:05 - I told Kate to go and share her concerns.
23:08 That was a mistake?
23:12 - She not only dismissed my suspicions,
23:14 but accused me of leaking false allegations to the media.
23:18 I was placed on suspension pending a disciplinary hearing.
23:21 - Did you leak to the media?
23:24 - No.
23:25 - But it's your belief PC Woods was murdered.
23:28 - Look, sorry, airing this stuff got me suspended,
23:34 and I just don't think it's relevant.
23:36 Can we move on?
23:37 - Sure.
23:40 - Why don't you tell us more about what the police have,
23:44 or think they have?
23:45 - My son, Dom, has made a statement to South Bay Police
23:51 to say that he thought he heard Kate arguing with Carol.
23:56 Obviously he's mistaken.
24:01 - Dom, he's the younger of your boys, right?
24:05 - Yeah.
24:06 Why?
24:08 - I find broken glass under Ryan's bed.
24:11 I feel like he was the one who might've witnessed something.
24:13 Be helpful to know about your movements last night, Kate.
24:18 - Yeah, I was home alone all night,
24:22 cleaning out the kitchen cupboards.
24:24 And yes, as a copper, I know that's a shit alibi.
24:30 - What about your phone?
24:31 - Logged as being at her flat all night, but on charge.
24:35 - You didn't use it at all?
24:36 - So it's of scant use evidentially.
24:39 - Do we know when the post-mortem is being carried out?
24:41 - Right now, as we speak.
24:43 - Then we should be carrying out our own as soon as,
24:46 and not taking no for an answer.
24:48 - I'll make a call.
24:49 - Were you photographed after you were arrested?
24:57 - Yeah.
24:57 - Be prudent for us to take a set of our own.
25:01 These bruises are consistent with someone gripping your arm.
25:10 - Unless you tell me different.
25:11 - Mike and I got in a row two nights ago,
25:16 and it got physical.
25:18 We were both drunk, and I lost it basically.
25:27 Said I was gonna go to my mate's house.
25:30 - Okay.
25:31 - Look, Mike was only trying to get the car keys from me.
25:34 - You could be facing life in prison, Kate.
25:36 - Do you think I don't know that?
25:37 - We need the truth, and nothing but.
25:39 What was the row about?
25:43 - Doesn't matter.
25:48 (dramatic music)
26:16 - A boss who keeps his hand in.
26:18 - Especially if the post-mortem could help serve my research.
26:21 - Dare I ask?
26:22 A computationally approximated solution
26:27 for the equation for Hensinger's time of death estimation?
26:30 - What she said.
26:31 - Just so you know, they think they're doing us a huge favor
26:35 in expediting a second post-mortem.
26:37 - Same day as the coroner PM, it's pretty rare.
26:39 - But the coroner's signed off on it,
26:40 so no need for too much bowing and scraping.
26:43 - Second PM, you wanna be thorough, go the extra mile?
26:45 - I'd like to do a full light source examination,
26:47 everyone an eyewear that works.
26:49 - Are we sure he's not playing both sides?
26:52 - He's got an alibi, right, for Carol?
26:55 - On duty.
26:56 (dramatic music)
27:03 (dogs barking)
27:06 - DC Bury, need a quick word, Wes.
27:33 Can you do that later, please?
27:34 - Anything I can help you with, Detective?
27:38 - No, thank you, Neil.
27:40 It's your nephew I'm here to see.
27:41 I need to check your whereabouts last night,
27:47 between 7 PM and midnight.
27:49 In your own words, please.
27:53 - Is it about that copper's wife?
27:56 Carol something?
27:58 I was working in the pub.
28:02 - Oh, plenty of witnesses then.
28:04 - No, we're downstairs, in the cellar.
28:07 - What were you doing down there?
28:09 - Burst pipe.
28:09 - Yeah, we were telling she's under.
28:14 I was up at the bar, so, Wes had to man the pails.
28:19 - So your alibi, should you need one,
28:22 is a burst pipe and a bucket.
28:24 - Plumber came around 11, helped him pump the rest out.
28:29 - No, right, Wes?
28:31 - That's right.
28:32 - I could use a number, if you like.
28:35 - This is DI Andrew Walsh.
28:44 He's heading up the investigation.
28:46 - We met last night.
28:47 Good to meet you, Nikki.
28:50 Gabriel?
28:51 - Likewise.
28:52 - I owe you an apology, Jack.
28:54 I might have let my emotions cloud my judgment last night.
28:57 - Understandably.
28:58 You were close to Carol.
29:00 - She was my daughter-in-law, and I'm big on family.
29:02 In hindsight, I should have let you finish
29:05 processing the scene.
29:07 - Can we get that in writing?
29:08 - Given the sensitivity of Kate Freeman
29:11 being a serving South Bay officer,
29:15 I welcome the Lyles' involvement.
29:17 - Not to mention being in a relationship with your son.
29:20 - That too.
29:21 I leave you in Andrew's capable hands.
29:27 - Look, I know how it sounds,
29:29 but we're only interested in the truth,
29:31 and we'll share as much of our investigation as possible.
29:34 - Nothing less than your legal requirement.
29:36 - And we can leave the adversarial stuff
29:39 in favor of good old mutual cooperation.
29:43 - Thanks, Andrew.
29:45 I'm all for mutual cooperation.
29:55 - This is the defense post-mortem examination
29:58 of the body of Carol Lang.
30:00 She shows evidence of an earlier post-mortem
30:02 carried out by Dr. Bill Burnett for the coroner.
30:05 There's a suture post-mortem Y incision
30:09 and a coronal incision of the scalp.
30:11 - There's evidence of a single deep wound to her chest.
30:15 The bladed weapon has penetrated the chest
30:19 within the precordial region.
30:21 - There's a large complex injury on the forehead,
30:25 an unusual pattern.
30:26 Could help ID the weapon that caused it.
30:28 - The tissue bridges at the base of the splits
30:32 confirm that they are lacerations
30:34 caused by blunt force trauma
30:36 rather than incisions caused by a cutting edge.
30:39 There's a fine fracture
30:49 crossing the middle meningeal artery groove,
30:51 producing extradural blood.
30:53 - Don't remember that from the first PM.
30:56 Why was it missed?
30:57 - I'd offer three reasons.
30:58 One, the fracture is very fine.
31:01 Two, Dr. Burnett failed to strip the durometer,
31:06 the tough outer layer of the meninges around the brain.
31:10 - Three?
31:11 - And this is only conjecture.
31:14 He'd already made up his mind.
31:17 - Whatever the underlying cause, it was negligent, right?
31:23 - It's curious, certainly.
31:24 - After concussion from a blow to the head,
31:29 extradural bleeding occurs
31:31 between the outer aspects of the brain
31:33 and inside of the skull, which took time to collect.
31:37 There's some grooving to the parahippocampal jury
31:41 at the base of the brain.
31:43 Subuncal herniation.
31:45 - What does that mean?
31:48 - It suggests there was sufficient time
31:49 not just for the extradural blood to collect,
31:52 but for the brain itself to swell.
31:54 - I'll take histology samples of the brain
31:56 to look for trauma.
31:58 - That will help with timeline.
31:59 - As will the application of beta-rapp staining.
32:02 - With the single deep wound to the chest,
32:08 the blade went through the left side of the lower sternum,
32:13 right where the heart is.
32:14 - The bladed weapon did indeed injure the heart.
32:19 - Here, there was a stab wound
32:21 into the front of the left ventricle.
32:24 This is the fatal injury.
32:25 - Something under the big toenail on the right foot.
32:46 Lights on, please.
32:47 (tense music)
32:50 - Looks like blue paint.
32:58 Damage to the nail.
33:02 Suggests it scraped the paint quite hard.
33:04 - Paint from somewhere inside the house.
33:06 - Possible.
33:07 Although Carol's bedroom was kind of brown.
33:13 We need to go back and check.
33:15 - That won't be a problem, will it, Andrew?
33:17 (beeps)
33:21 (sighs)
33:30 (sighs)
33:44 (sighs)
33:46 - I haven't spoken to my children again.
33:58 It's not allowed.
34:00 My wife won't let me.
34:09 - When I asked her to leave,
34:12 I hoped that she'd come with me
34:17 because she had lots of questions too.
34:23 She told her father that I was thinking of leaving.
34:36 He came to the house,
34:39 my house,
34:42 and he took Rivka and my children away.
34:48 I thought that I'd still be able to see them
34:57 and I was wrong.
35:03 So naive.
35:04 And now she won't even acknowledge my existence.
35:11 I have to break away now.
35:29 There won't be any closure.
35:34 In this situation,
35:54 everyone is a victim.
35:57 Victim.
36:01 Victim.
36:03 Yes, they left.
36:13 I'm sorry.
36:22 I'm still proud to be Jewish
36:27 and I'm still optimistic for the future.
36:34 My hope is that somehow
36:49 I can inspire my children.
36:54 They can take their own path if they want
37:04 and I will always be there for them.
37:11 (somber music)
37:16 (birds chirping)
37:32 - There was a blue Astra following us.
37:38 - Where?
37:40 - I don't know.
37:41 Jumping at shadows.
37:43 - The time between the head blow and the stabbing,
37:49 why would the killer stay longer than necessary in the house?
37:52 - And with the boys asleep upstairs.
37:54 - Talking of the boys,
38:04 what do we think about Dom hearing his mum and Kate arguing?
38:08 - I don't know.
38:09 - Miriam doesn't seem to have a ready answer either.
38:11 - Yeah, sounds like the fallout
38:13 of Mike and Carol's breakup is toxic.
38:16 Maybe the boys blame Kate for breaking up the family.
38:20 - Thanks.
38:22 Blue with hints of olive.
38:26 - Pigeon's breath?
38:28 - What was her favorite?
38:30 - The killer carries the body upstairs.
38:34 - Her feet hit the wall.
38:38 And her nails scrape the paint.
38:40 - Well, the half landing's quite tight.
38:43 So he has to turn 90 degree angle.
38:46 Here.
38:56 - Can you pass the torch?
39:06 - Discrete distribution.
39:08 One millimeter tops.
39:10 - Expirated blood.
39:11 - Sudden manipulation of the body
39:13 can cause exhalations great and small.
39:15 - Yeah.
39:16 - Suggests she had some blood in her airways already.
39:18 - So...
39:19 we know she sustained the head injury
39:23 significantly earlier than the fatal stabbing in her room.
39:26 And we know she was carried alive probably up or down the stairs.
39:30 - Up seems more likely.
39:31 - So the head injury was likely inflicted downstairs.
39:36 [dramatic music]
39:39 - The grooves in the head wound, what do you reckon?
40:04 - I reckon size and shape are a visual match.
40:07 - Dumbbells typically come in pairs.
40:09 Do you see another one?
40:11 - Well, one's short.
40:17 - You said the kitchen bin bag was missing.
40:20 - Killer hits her in the head with the dumbbell
40:22 and sometime later stops her with a knife.
40:24 Gets rid of both weapons from the scene.
40:27 What are we missing?
40:29 - Blood.
40:30 [dramatic music]
40:33 ♪ ♪
40:40 - Bit less.
40:46 - That's a fair bit of blood.
40:50 - Swirl pattern.
40:52 Definitely a cleanup job.
40:54 - Fibers coincident with areas of strong luminescence
41:00 adhered in the blood.
41:03 Rust-colored and white.
41:06 This item of clothing, perhaps?
41:09 Scarf, cardigan?
41:12 ♪ ♪
41:19 - Bill got good coverage of the scene.
41:30 This is a comprehensive set.
41:33 He didn't. You did.
41:37 - I don't know. Just feel a bit...
41:41 - Conflicted?
41:42 - A bit to shit about everything.
41:45 - You don't have any reason to.
41:47 - No. He just got tired, I think.
41:50 Should have got out sooner.
41:52 - Easy mistake to make.
41:57 - There was blood splatter on the curtains
42:00 and a fingerprint.
42:02 - Maybe you weren't jumping at shadows.
42:18 [dramatic music]
42:21 ♪ ♪
42:28 - Jack.
42:35 - DC Puri.
42:37 Keeping tabs on us?
42:41 - I'm sorry?
42:42 - Following us. Afraid we'll find something.
42:45 - I was told you requested some evidence.
42:47 Ryan Lang slippers?
42:50 [birds chirping]
42:53 - Hi. Nikki Alexander.
43:00 - DC Mina Puri.
43:03 Look, I know the lie all about reputation,
43:06 and I'm relieved you guys are on this.
43:08 - I'm getting really tired of hearing that.
43:10 - Why do you say that? That you're relieved?
43:12 - I just don't think we should be jumping to conclusions.
43:15 - About what?
43:16 - Kate Freeman's guilt.
43:19 - About anything.
43:20 A Pulsar team searched the surrounding streets this morning.
43:23 I'll find out what they turned up,
43:24 then check with house-to-house and get back to you.
43:27 If you haven't heard from me by morning...
43:30 call me.
43:32 [dramatic music]
43:41 ♪ ♪
43:42 - I want to go back to the crimes team with Ryan Lang.
43:45 - [sighs]
43:46 Yes, I know how potentially traumatic that could be.
43:50 - I was thinking more about the safeguarding red tape.
43:52 - Yeah.
43:53 I find glass adhered in blood on one of his slippers.
43:56 - You see, the layering tells a story.
43:59 - It tells us Ryan swept the glass
44:01 from his broken light bulb under his bed
44:03 after he trod on his mom's blood in her bedroom.
44:05 - The bulb was broken on the night of the attack,
44:08 but Ryan chose to hide it.
44:09 - The question is why.
44:11 Cumulatively, our findings show
44:13 that the Crown have a poor grasp of what occurred.
44:16 They didn't know Carol was attacked downstairs,
44:18 that the dumbbell used in the attack is missing,
44:21 and that the killer carried Carol upstairs
44:23 and waited before stabbing her to death on her bed.
44:26 - How can they make a case against Kate Freeman
44:29 when the scene's been so badly misunderstood?
44:33 - Good job Annette's retiring.
44:35 His work's borderline incompetent.
44:40 - The gap between the head blow and the fatal stabbing,
44:44 we can prove it definitively.
44:46 - We can try.
44:47 Annette was so sure that the brain bleed was recent
44:50 that he didn't take a trauma set.
44:52 - We can remedy that.
44:53 Should help narrow down the time frame.
44:55 - Excellent.
44:56 - Why is the time important?
44:57 - Because it suggests a killer who was comfortable in the house
45:00 with the boys asleep upstairs.
45:02 - So someone who belonged there.
45:05 - And that's not Kate.
45:09 - I'm gonna head home.
45:11 - Are you?
45:12 - Yeah.
45:13 I'm feeling my short night.
45:15 - I need to run the brain samples through the processor
45:18 so they're ready for steam.
45:19 - Oh, that's a glamorous life.
45:21 I'll see you later, okay?
45:24 - Jack Hudson?
45:37 - It's Kate Freeman.
45:39 Sorry to call you.
45:40 - It's okay.
45:41 What can I do for you?
45:43 - Well, Miriam, she's a good brief,
45:45 but she's such a bull in a china shop.
45:47 You asked why I'm on suspension, and you deserve an answer.
45:51 - Actually, Nikki asked.
45:53 But it would be good to get more context.
45:56 - Okay.
45:57 But rather meet face to face?
45:59 I mean, you never know who's listening.
46:06 [dramatic music]
46:09 ♪ ♪
46:15 - Hi.
46:17 - Thanks for coming.
46:18 - No problem.
46:20 - You and Nikki, you're, um--
46:24 you're a couple, right?
46:26 - We thought we hit it so well.
46:29 - Me and Mike, we only started seeing each other
46:32 after he left Carol,
46:33 but no one believes that.
46:36 Bridget punished Mike by putting him back in uniform.
46:44 - He was a detective before that?
46:46 - Detective sergeant.
46:48 She'll do anything to protect her family if she sees it.
46:53 Total control freak.
46:56 - And she put you on suspension.
46:58 - I feel your pain, Kate.
47:00 I really do.
47:01 Fred wasn't just a bloody good copper.
47:03 He was a mate.
47:04 - Well, then you'll know how hard he was fighting his cancer.
47:07 - When someone takes their own life,
47:09 the first thing people say is, "I didn't see it coming."
47:12 - I don't buy it.
47:14 Sorry, Mom.
47:16 - Look, Kate, his car was found at South Bay Bridge.
47:20 You know how many people go over the side there every year?
47:23 How few bodies are in--
47:24 - Ray Palmer.
47:26 - I'm sorry?
47:30 - Fred received a threat to life
47:32 from Detective Superintendent Ray Palmer.
47:35 - That's a very serious allegation, Kate.
47:39 - Yes, it is.
47:42 - About a very senior officer.
47:44 - And we need to be treating Fred's disappearance as suspicious.
47:48 - Do you have any evidence to back this up?
47:51 Because there's idle gossip,
47:53 and there's trashing a man's good name.
47:55 Only one is forgivable.
47:58 - Why did Palmer threaten your partner?
48:03 - Fred was on a bit of a crusade about Harbourfields.
48:11 One night, we pulled this dealer over
48:13 who said that he had been told it was okay
48:15 to operate in Harbourfields.
48:17 He'd been given assurances.
48:19 - And Fred believed him?
48:20 - He found evidence that Harbourfields
48:22 was being left on patrol,
48:23 effectively allowing dealers to sell their products.
48:26 - Patrol? Effectively allowing dealers
48:28 to sell their goods with impunity?
48:31 - Does this have anything to do with the stop
48:35 Gosthall Construction stock?
48:37 - They're seeking to buy the land,
48:39 torch the estate, and turn it into a gated community.
48:43 But first, they need the courts to grant
48:45 a compulsory purchase order.
48:47 - And a rocketing crime rate.
48:48 There's a long way to secure that.
48:50 - A long way.
48:52 - If Fred was right about this, it stinks.
48:54 This is grade A corruption in Bridget.
48:57 Didn't give it a second look.
48:59 How about we take a trip to the bridge?
49:04 - We've got a clot that's adherent to the brain.
49:21 [tense music]
49:24 - A fresh clot slides off the brain.
49:27 - Conversely, it takes hours for fibrin to form
49:29 and the clot to adhere to the brain's surface.
49:32 - There it is, in black and white.
49:34 We're talking two hours
49:36 between the head injury and the fatal stabbing.
49:39 - Was this area searched?
49:43 - Not officially,
49:44 'cause his death wasn't treated as suspicious.
49:47 - If you were gonna throw yourself off the bridge,
49:50 do you really park all the way down here?
49:52 - What happened to Wiz's car?
49:57 - It's in his garage.
49:59 [knocking]
50:08 [bell ringing]
50:10 - Hmm, quick.
50:16 - Andrew.
50:17 - Should've said you were coming.
50:18 Would've saved you some.
50:20 - Mike.
50:27 I'm really sorry about Carol.
50:32 - Where are they?
50:33 - Why don't you sit down for a minute?
50:35 - I wanna see my kids.
50:36 - Of course.
50:37 You're watching TV.
50:40 [birds chirping]
50:42 - Outside, please.
50:47 [phone ringing]
50:50 - It's the lab.
50:53 - Answer it.
50:54 [phone ringing]
50:56 - Speaking.
50:58 [suspenseful music]
51:01 ♪ ♪
51:06 - Coffee?
51:08 - Find anything?
51:09 - Blueprints on the pedal, bit of foliage.
51:12 Do you know how the car was brought here?
51:14 - Low loader.
51:16 They couldn't find the key.
51:18 - Is there anything else, anything at all,
51:20 that might help us?
51:21 - I mean, like I said,
51:22 I didn't exactly encourage Fred to air his theories.
51:26 - Tell me about Palmer, then.
51:27 This threat he made.
51:29 - Fred found evidence that our patrol grid
51:31 had been revised at the behest of Palmer.
51:35 Which is weird in itself.
51:37 - Why?
51:38 - CID don't hold sway over uniform logistics.
51:42 Or, to be honest, have much interest in them.
51:46 - Fred confront Palmer?
51:47 - Palmer denied it.
51:49 Told Fred to wind his neck in.
51:52 And then a week later, Fred finds himself
51:54 standing next to Palmer in the gents.
51:57 And as Palmer zips up,
51:59 he tells him there's faster ways to die than cancer.
52:06 - That night, was Mike talking about Palmer
52:09 when he said, "I don't want him in my house"?
52:11 - No. D.I. Andrew Walsh.
52:14 - Walsh?
52:15 - Mm. A lot of history between Mike and Andrew.
52:20 When Mike was 11 or 12,
52:22 Bridget fostered both Andrew and his little sister Lisa.
52:27 - Wow.
52:28 - Yeah.
52:29 - They're like brothers, almost.
52:30 - Didn't go that far, but...
52:34 [sighs]
52:37 [cell phone rings]
52:41 [sighs]
52:43 It's Miriam.
52:45 [cell phone rings]
52:48 Hi, Miriam?
52:49 - Hi, Kate.
52:50 I need you to get to the station straightaway.
52:52 There's new evidence.
52:53 D.S. Ray Palmer's running the show now.
52:56 - I'll be right there.
52:59 [dramatic music]
53:02 ♪ ♪
53:09 - Hmm.
53:19 So, Kate.
53:21 You said you'd never been upstairs at the Lang house.
53:25 But we found compelling evidence that you have.
53:29 The hair on Carol's bed's not two feet from her body,
53:32 but it's DNA,
53:33 which is 100% matched to you.
53:36 Then, above the bed,
53:37 we found a fingerprint in the curtain, again.
53:41 A perfect match to you.
53:44 I mean, I can see
53:47 why you might want to draw the curtains.
53:51 - [sighs]
53:52 We brought the kids home the other day.
53:55 Mike and I.
53:57 Carol was delayed somewhere.
54:00 Mike told me to go have a coffee
54:02 while he looked for some clothes he'd left upstairs.
54:06 [dramatic music]
54:09 - Careful.
54:11 ♪ ♪
54:20 - They're not the kind of curtains you, uh, draw.
54:23 Only the best for our Carol.
54:26 ♪ ♪
54:32 - Hmm. [chuckles]
54:35 That explains it.
54:37 Hey?
54:38 That's how your hair got in the bed.
54:40 That's how your fingerprint got in the curtain.
54:42 It was Kate's clothes.
54:45 Only one question.
54:47 Why did you tell us you'd never been upstairs?
54:50 Hmm?
54:52 Why did you lie to us?
54:55 People with nothing to hide,
54:57 they don't like Kate.
54:59 ♪ ♪
55:05 - She has no alibi worth the name.
55:08 A witness puts her at the scene.
55:10 She had keys to the house
55:12 and asked for an explanation for prints and DNA.
55:15 Don't believe a word of it.
55:17 ♪ ♪
55:20 - This is Sally.
55:22 She's a child social worker.
55:24 Sally's gonna make extra sure everything's okay
55:27 and that nothing's too much.
55:29 ♪ ♪
55:31 Shall we go inside?
55:33 ♪ ♪
55:44 - Kate Freeman,
55:46 you're charged that on the 14th of August
55:50 at Markland Avenue, South Bay,
55:53 you did murder Carol Lang
55:55 contrary to common law.
55:57 ♪ ♪
56:05 ♪ ♪
56:12 - I know you went into your mom's room.
56:25 That took courage.
56:27 - Yeah.
56:28 - And you had the presence of mind
56:31 to call 999,
56:33 tell them what happened,
56:35 and go and look after your brother
56:37 till the police arrived.
56:39 Brilliant.
56:40 But something happened in this room.
56:43 Something that caused the bulb in your lamp to smash.
56:46 Something I know you don't want to talk about.
56:49 That's why you swept the pieces out of the bed.
56:52 But the thing is, without that something, Ryan,
56:56 the story's incomplete.
56:59 Now, I might be completely wrong here,
57:01 but I have this sense you feel bad about something.
57:06 ♪ ♪
57:08 If I had to guess,
57:10 I'd say you think you let your mom die.
57:15 That you should have tried harder to protect her, save her.
57:19 ♪ ♪
57:21 You had no chance, right?
57:24 No chance.
57:26 ♪ ♪
57:29 You did.
57:31 ♪ ♪
57:38 [gunshots]
57:50 [glass shatters]
57:52 He had gloves,
57:54 and he put his hand in my mouth.
57:58 His voice was weird,
58:01 like a bark, but quiet.
58:04 Like he was trying to disguise it, maybe.
58:07 ♪ ♪
58:09 He said, "I've got hidden cameras.
58:12 "You or your brother tried to leave this room.
58:15 I'll know."
58:17 You sure it wasn't mine?
58:19 ♪ ♪
58:23 [singing in foreign language]
58:27 "Silent Witness" continues tomorrow at 9 here on BBC1,
58:31 or you can watch it now on BBC iPlayer.
58:34 ♪ ♪