A visiting lecturer at the college of criminology who holds controversial theories on genetic predisposition toward criminal behavior is found hanged.
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00:00Come on, Sarah, please, just a little bit, a little bit, yeah, good girl, good girl,
00:28good girl, good girl.
00:58Were you taken to church as a child?
01:08This is not about indoctrination.
01:10God was in my life before I was born.
01:13Is that what they taught you at church?
01:16Is God the law?
01:17Yes.
01:18Can he see you doing wrong?
01:19Of course.
01:20How's my gorgeous girl?
01:40Both my gorgeous girls.
01:42Hey, look, Reuben, she's having her lunch, she needs routine.
01:48She's changing, I'd say.
01:49And Daddy came back just in time, didn't he?
01:50He's on toast, okay?
01:51Why not?
01:52It was yesterday.
01:53Are you afraid of God's judgment?
01:54He is gracious and merciful.
01:55He's also vengeful, angry.
01:56Like any concerned parent.
01:57Yes, one who imposes irrational rules no child can follow.
01:58It's up to us to rationalize what's in the Bible.
02:23The essence of faith is love.
02:49Hello?
03:03Hello, Mr. Beatty.
03:04It's me.
03:05Don't forget your first one's in in half an hour.
03:06Yeah, I'm on my way.
03:07Who's that?
03:08Vicky.
03:09There's a department meeting.
03:10She was just reminding me.
03:11Reuben.
03:13Love you.
03:14I'm sorry.
03:15Your CD must be scratched.
03:45I think you'll find the repetition meditative.
03:46Meditative's another word for monotonous.
03:47And yes, very...
03:48Highly effective in combating stress.
03:49But I'm not stressed.
03:50You don't think you're stressed.
03:51You've assimilated it.
03:52God, Mum, watch out!
03:53Come on!
03:55But I'm not stressed.
03:56You don't think you're stressed.
03:57You've assimilated it.
03:58God, Mum, watch out!
04:05Come on!
04:26There is someone trying to get through.
04:29She's a little disorientated.
04:32She didn't expect to go so soon.
04:34Can you see her?
04:36Does she look okay now?
04:37She's standing on a road.
04:41There was an accident?
04:42Yes.
04:43A car crash.
04:46She's in a safe and peaceful place.
04:49Anytime you need to talk.
04:51If you can get a word in edgeways.
04:54That's Tina for you.
04:55I can't thank you enough, Mr. James.
04:58Randolph, please.
04:59Thanks.
05:00Not the best way to get a copper's number.
05:07It wasn't her fault.
05:08It was one of the crossroads.
05:09She's...
05:10You're sounding a bit tense, James.
05:11Do you remember to grab your CD from the car?
05:17Brilliant.
05:18Mac.
05:19Who's Mac?
05:24Was anyone in your family known as Mac?
05:26My name's McLean.
05:28I'm sensing an older man.
05:32Grey hair.
05:33I can smell smoke.
05:36Sounds familiar.
05:39He's very proud of you, Frank.
05:40He can't be my dad, then.
05:42Well, I think it is.
05:44He's saying he appreciates everything you did for him towards the end.
05:50But it was a great relief to go.
05:52To escape my mother.
05:54He's laughing.
05:56He loves you very much.
06:02He's with family now.
06:04On the other side.
06:07This is so strange.
06:08It shouldn't be.
06:09You see, my dad...
06:10He's in the pub down the road.
06:11So, I looked through his phone.
06:12What?
06:13Found a text message from his colleague, Vicky.
06:14She's pretty.
06:15She's a nice girl.
06:16She's a nice girl.
06:17She's a nice girl.
06:18She's a nice girl.
06:19She's a nice girl.
06:20She's a nice girl.
06:21She's a nice girl.
06:22She's a nice girl.
06:23She's a nice girl.
06:24She's a nice girl.
06:25She's pretty.
06:26Super bright.
06:27So are you.
06:28With lovely shiny hair that doesn't smell baby-sick.
06:29What did it say?
06:30This afternoon was fun.
06:31Can't wait to do it again.
06:32Right.
06:33And a kiss.
06:34Not a word to mum.
06:35Hell no.
06:36She'd kill to have you back home.
06:37You and Sarah.
06:38Give us our little flea pit any day.
06:39You better not be cheating, Josh.
06:40Not after everything I've been through.
06:41I'm not.
06:42I'm not.
06:43I'm not.
06:44I'm not.
06:45I'm not.
06:46I'm not.
06:47I'm not.
06:48I'm not.
06:49I'm not.
06:50I'm not.
06:51I'm not.
06:52I'm not.
06:53I'm not.
06:54I'm not.
06:55I'm not.
06:56I'm not.
06:57I'm not.
06:57I'm not.
06:58I'm not.
06:58I'm not.
06:59I'm not.
07:00I'm not.
07:06Everything I've given up for him.
07:11Yes.
07:16Neck okay, is it?
07:17After your shunt?
07:18Mmm-hmm.
07:20Give it time.
07:24Hello, Mr. James Mr. James, Mr. James
07:54The door was open. Yes, so I went in.
08:13Do you see anyone in the building? No, no one at all.
08:16Any lights on in any of the other offices? I don't think there were.
08:20You've been here before? Yes, I've come to talk to Jeff.
08:24Who's Jeff? My husband.
08:26Does he work here too? No, he's dead.
08:30Randolph James is a psychic. Oh, right.
08:34I'm sorry. Judge, I found this on the body.
08:37Jeff and I always like to matter.
08:39Tell him all my news about the kids, footy.
08:45Randolph James, you say? Well, he hasn't been shot, strangled, stabbed,
08:57beaten, bludgeoned, or had his neck broken. If we're listing all the things that haven't
09:01happened to him, why not include that he hasn't been struck by lightning or savaged by wolves?
09:05Robbie, do I stand in your office asking, have you caught them yet?
09:10What is it about those eyes? Strong painkillers, warm bath.
09:17That's Robbie sorted. How about you?
09:19Witness identified him as Randolph James, but he's Reuben Beattie on his debit card.
09:23So he's leading a double life? Randolph James is practicing clairvoyance.
09:28Certainly looks like he's seen a ghost.
09:40He was at the department. Maybe it's not Reuben.
09:47Someone could have stolen his card. That's why we need him identified.
09:56Do you need a minute? I need to know. Thanks.
10:10Mrs. Beattie, is it Reuben? What happened?
10:25We're still waiting for the autopsy report. Until we decide otherwise, we're treating
10:30your husband's death as suspicious. What was he doing in some office?
10:34Reason to believe that he was moonlighting as a psychic.
10:36That's absurd. He's a junior research fellow at the Department of Psychology.
10:40He's a scientist. He investigates systems of belief, why people believe.
10:46Could it have been part of his research?
10:50He never mentioned it. Then again, he was hardly home. Are you sure?
10:58One of his clients found him. She knew him as Randolph James.
11:06It just gets worse. What does?
11:13I'll never have secrets. That's what you said.
11:18When love strikes like this, you've got to trust it.
11:22Murder of precious ball. It took us six days to get engaged.
11:27And when we weren't together, we were incomplete. Couldn't function.
11:32Whirlwind romance, eh?
11:36That's what my mum said.
11:56The sooner we get her back home, the better.
12:00Right. Thanks.
12:07Not one word.
12:11There was no meeting in the Department of Psychology yesterday afternoon.
12:15Not cancelled, never scheduled.
12:19So Reuben Beatty lied to his wife. Why doesn't that surprise me?
12:23Yeah, poor lass. Lost not only her husband, but all her faith in him too.
12:28Poor little hen. No idea what he was up to. Probably thinking the worst.
12:32If he was moonlighting, she didn't get a whiff of any cash.
12:36Bearing in mind what she was used to, could have driven her to desperation.
12:40Not kill, though, surely.
12:42She said her husband investigated people's belief systems. He destroyed hers.
12:46According to the landlord of his office building,
12:50Randolph James was six months into a 12-month lease.
12:54He paid out of a building society in the name of Reuben Beatty.
12:58He and his wife had a joint account that this one was set up in secret.
13:02And he topped it up weekly with wodges of cash.
13:06So if I'm no other trace of Randolph James, it seems to be an identity confined to a psychics chair.
13:10Why would Reuben, the postgrad scientist, moonlight as Randolph the Clairvoyant?
13:14Well, lots of scientists have irrational beliefs.
13:18Isaac Newton thought the Bible was a cryptogram set by the Almighty.
13:23He found four sets of 40 quid at the scene, which means he was doing it for the money.
13:27He was just taking advantage of the recently bereaved.
13:31Some people are so gullible.
13:33Well, if believing in the Spirit will get them through, we'll knock it.
13:37You're on to his colleagues from the Department of Psychology.
13:41Maybe they had some idea what he was up to.
13:45Sorry to hear about your bump.
13:47Thanks, ma'am.
13:49It's like memories, the colour.
13:51Only when it itches.
13:53This is my home.
13:55You're not thinking clearly.
13:56Why is it whenever I make a decision you don't agree with, I'm not thinking clearly?
14:00This flat belongs to the college. Reuben is no longer a student here.
14:04A little compassion wouldn't go amiss, Mum.
14:06Someone has to keep a clear head.
14:08And we can always rely on that from you.
14:10Yes, actually, Joshua, because I'm the one that brought you up.
14:13If I was pushy...
14:14...I'd turn Reuben's death into a platform for your sacrifices as a single mother.
14:22At least I got a good settlement out of your dad. Reuben's left you with nothing.
14:28You always hated him.
14:30I hated how he rushed you when you had so much potential.
14:36They're going to ask you to leave, sooner or later.
14:39I can't. Not yet.
14:42I've got your old room ready.
14:46You'll have my support.
14:48I know how hard it'll be.
14:53Think about it, Polly, please.
15:13Apologies for the delay, gentlemen.
15:15Took some time to find.
15:17But if you screw your eyes up really tight, you'll see a tiny puncture wound.
15:22And a bite.
15:23Eight millimetre hypodermic needle.
15:25Delivering what?
15:26An extremely powerful paralysing agent called M99.
15:31Pharmaceutical name etorphin.
15:33It's a controlled substance strictly for use on large mammals.
15:37But etorphin's a sedative. He didn't seem very sedated when he died.
15:40That's because, first of all, he was fed barbiturate.
15:43How?
15:44Piece of cake.
15:45For you, maybe.
15:47He was fed a piece of cake soaked with barbiturate.
15:50But surely the barbiturate would have eventually stopped him breathing,
15:53so why two drugs if you want him dead?
15:55Barbiturates operate in three broad stages.
15:58Sedation stage, unconsciousness and death.
16:02Based on his weight and height,
16:04I've calculated he was only given enough barbiturate to sedate him.
16:07So his murderer wanted him woozy but not completely out of it.
16:10Yeah, and then some time after injected him with a lethal dose of etorphin.
16:14Like James said, why not just finish the job with a lethal dose of barbiturate?
16:18Because that would involve a complete loss of control,
16:20a lot of wild thrashing about.
16:22Could be messy, could be noisy.
16:24Attract unwanted attention.
16:26Whereas a massive overdose of etorphin would shut down respiration in seconds.
16:32That explains the look on his face.
16:35If he was conscious enough to know what was happening to him
16:38but unable to do anything to stop it.
16:40But no physical pain.
16:42On that front, his murder was as considered
16:45as the most compassionate form of euthanasia.
16:52If this etorphin's used to knock out animals,
16:54we should get on to all the local vets,
16:56see if any significant dosage has gone missing.
17:06PHONE RINGS
17:17PHONE RINGS
17:21Guess what? We're not here.
17:23But you know what to do and when to do it.
17:25PHONE RINGS
17:27Hello. It's Vicky.
17:29Vicky Warmpley.
17:31From the department.
17:33I just wanted to say, Bollie, I'm really sorry.
17:37Hello?
17:39SIGHS
18:02Parapsychology.
18:04The study of contested mental phenomena.
18:08Such as telepathy, near-death experiences,
18:13clairvoyance, psychokinesis.
18:17If any of you believe in such phenomena,
18:20then knock three times.
18:24Or should I say, more fool you.
18:27No other species lives within such a complex framework
18:32of competing beliefs.
18:34You will learn, under my guidance,
18:36how to conduct a rational attack on the subject's beliefs,
18:41thereby identifying the mechanisms that retain them.
18:44Thank you very much. That's all.
18:50Gentlemen. Professor Crane.
18:53Inspector Lewis. This is Detective Sergeant Hathaway.
18:56I didn't have you down as volunteers.
18:58It's such a shame about Reuben.
19:01Professor Crane.
19:02This is Vicky. She worked alongside Reuben.
19:06We're sorry for your loss.
19:09Do you know how he was killed?
19:11He was sedated and then given a lethal injection of etorphine.
19:15Oh, my God.
19:17PHONE RINGS
19:22It came as a great shock to the department.
19:26Do you have any idea why someone may have wanted him dead?
19:29None whatsoever. He was well-liked. He was very popular.
19:33He was one of my best post-grads.
19:36A true sceptic.
19:38But you didn't believe in the paranormal?
19:40Of course not.
19:42Were you aware that he was practising as a psychic in the centre of town?
19:45I'm sorry? There must be some mistake.
19:48PHONE RINGS
19:50Excuse me. I'm sorry.
19:52I'm going to have to take this.
19:54Er, gentlemen, please.
19:56PHONE RINGS Thank you.
19:59PHONE RINGS
20:01Excuse me. Sorry. Excuse me.
20:06Yep.
20:13PHONE RINGS
20:16Vicky? Who's Vicky?
20:20Hi, Mum.
20:22Darling, it's a truly terrible thing that's happened,
20:26but you need to think about restarting your life.
20:29Yours and Sarah's.
20:31She needs you to be strong.
20:34Holly?
20:37Holly?
20:39Yeah, OK, Mum.
20:57SHE SNIFFS
21:07What the hell was Reuben up to?
21:10Going out on a limb?
21:12Going against everything he ever believed in?
21:14Maybe he was questioning the rationalism imposed on him by Professor Bunchess.
21:18Excuse me.
21:22I wasn't as honest in front of Professor Crane as I might have been.
21:25About what? Reuben.
21:27What he was doing.
21:33Crane is old school.
21:35Conducts all his experiments under laboratory conditions.
21:39Our subjects know what they've signed up for.
21:43Reuben had this idea that he'd get better results in the field.
21:46Real people.
21:48People who've just lost their loved ones in the depths of despair.
21:51Nice.
21:53Do you believe in God and afterlife?
21:56No, but I don't believe in conning people either.
21:59How about you?
22:01Don't think that's relevant, is it?
22:03We all know there's nothing after death, but people cling on to the idea.
22:08They carry their lives on as normal.
22:11Why aren't they running down the street telling people that no-one truly dies,
22:14or why aren't they killing themselves to be with their deceased loved ones?
22:18Faith and rationality aren't mutually exclusive.
22:21That's what we wanted to investigate.
22:23The mechanism that allowed that exact dissonance between what we believe and how we behave.
22:28So you taught Reuben the art of cold reading,
22:31rented an office and stuck an ad in the local press.
22:35Yeah. Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
22:37You took money from people?
22:39To pay the office rent.
22:41Well, it's the best part of two grand left over.
22:45Reuben reckoned there was no difference between him or any other clairvoyant.
22:49Apart from he knew it was nothing more than a trick.
22:53He still helped them.
22:57Do you have any idea how lonely it feels, having this discussion without him to back me up?
23:02If you want to know what loneliness feels like, ask his wife.
23:08And she could have done with some of that money.
23:12Were you having an affair with him?
23:16No.
23:17Do you have any idea who his clients were?
23:20He kept an appointment book.
23:22I never saw it, never knew their names.
23:24Why would you? They weren't important. They were only subjects.
23:33That appointment book wasn't in Reuben's office.
23:36Maybe he kept it at his flat. Take a look.
23:40Was she lying, do you reckon, about an affair?
23:43Not sure, but I do think she loved him.
23:46Vicky's defence of Reuben was that he knew he was exploiting people.
23:50That's disturbing.
23:51I find it more disturbing if he actually believed he could talk to the dead.
23:55Vicky was with Reuben all the time. His wife, Polly, hardly ever saw him.
24:00Look, would that give her a concrete motive for killing him?
24:03Come on, we're going to the Natural History Museum.
24:07Meet Callan Dutter.
24:09Callan Dutter?
24:10Oxford campaign for assisted dying. He works there.
24:15This Dutter, who did he lose?
24:17Teenage daughter in a diving accident.
24:19She was in a persistent vegetative state for a year.
24:22Why do you think it's personal?
24:24Most advocates of euthanasia have seen a loved one suffer.
24:27It overwhelms their belief in the sanctity of life.
24:32Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
24:34I presumed you'd got in touch about the campaign.
24:37No, that's not what this is about.
24:39We've been investigating a murder where, to all intents and purposes,
24:43the victim's been put to sleep.
24:45Our pathologist says it has all the hallmarks of euthanasia.
24:49Most murder is unplanned and violent.
24:51This was planned and pain-free.
24:53Sedated with barbiturate, murdered with a torphin.
24:57It's a bit over the top.
24:59A single drop can kill a man within seconds.
25:01You're familiar with the drug?
25:03My wife and I used to work as conservationists in Angola.
25:06We often used it to anaesthetise large animals, elephants mostly.
25:10The barbiturate was in a slice of cake.
25:12Barbiturates are traditionally bitter-tasting.
25:15Sweet cake would disguise that.
25:17So the victim was given cake, sedated and then killed.
25:23Are you sure it wasn't some form of mercy killing?
25:26It wasn't killed immediately.
25:28We have reason to believe he was kept alive for quite some time.
26:12The whole point of euthanasia is to prevent prolonged suffering.
26:16It sounds like your murderer knew the technique and callously abused it.
26:21I'm sorry, but Catherine, my wife, is waiting.
26:25Was there anything else?
26:27I'm sorry, by the way, about your daughter.
26:30It must be, well...
26:32Just trying to remember her as she was before.
26:35Celebrate that, you know.
26:38What was she like?
26:41She was so full of energy.
26:46She came on all our conservation trips from the age of five.
26:51And after the accident, we convinced ourselves there might be a miracle.
26:55Classic denial.
26:57But as time dragged on, we soon realised that all that lay ahead for Jo was just lying there.
27:03Wired up to some machine, feeling God knows what.
27:06Terrified, maybe.
27:08We knew that her life was being needlessly prolonged,
27:11but we were refused permission to do anything about it.
27:15We wanted to protect her, spare her from suffering.
27:18Any parent would feel the same.
27:20We brought her home.
27:22Just felt like the right thing to do.
27:24Then fate intervened.
27:28Chest infection.
27:30Not many people in our situation have that blessing.
27:39My wife torments herself about it every day.
27:44Why weren't we able to do anything to help her?
27:47Whereas you found a way to move on.
27:49Or at least keep moving.
27:57You still think it's wrong to want to put somebody out of their pain.
28:01Just because I'm uncomfortable with it doesn't make it wrong.
28:05Who were they?
28:07Detectives.
28:09I don't like the police hounding us at every turn.
28:12It wasn't about the campaign.
28:14They just had some technical questions about a murder case.
28:17How was your morning?
28:19Well, I made it.
28:21To the hairdressers.
28:23They had no idea what to say.
28:25Which makes a change.
28:28Why keep the clairvoyant experiment a secret?
28:31Apparently, Crane likes to have his imprimatur on everything.
28:34The plan was to do the research without anybody knowing about it
28:37and then make a big splash in their own right with some kind of a book.
28:41Well, why didn't he tell his wife?
28:43Were Ruben and Vicky more than just colleagues?
28:45Not, according to Vicky.
28:48Somebody went to his office with the sole intention of scaring him half to death.
28:53Somebody went to his office with the sole intention of scaring him half to death
28:57before finishing the job off with an animal tranquiliser.
29:00There must be some significance to the way he was killed.
29:03They abused a lot of vulnerable people's trust in there.
29:06We need to know who they are.
29:08Yeah, listen to this.
29:10National DNA database has got an ID match on a hair follicle found in Ruben's office.
29:15Belongs to a Justine Skinner.
29:18She's in our system for breaking into a neighbour's house and killing their cats.
29:22Bring her in.
29:26Yeah, I'll do that. You go back to Ruben's flat.
29:29Check that uniform, didn't miss anything.
29:31OK.
29:52Ruben's death, yes.
29:54Ruben's death, yes.
29:55Ruben's death, yes.
29:56Ruben's death, yes.
29:57Ruben's death, yes.
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30:00Ruben's death, yes.
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30:07Ruben's death, yes.
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30:10Ruben's death, yes.
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30:12Ruben's death, yes.
30:13Ruben's death, yes.
30:14Ruben's death, yes.
30:15Ruben's death, yes.
30:16Ruben's death, yes.
30:17Ruben's death, yes.
30:18Ruben's death, yes.
30:19Ruben's death, yes.
30:22It's not very nice of you.
30:29Er.
30:30It's not very nice of you.
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32:07You took your time.
32:09You were expecting me?
32:10Yeah, Reuben told me you'd come.
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32:35Couldn't find anything except for Polly Beattie.
32:37She's not in a good way.
32:40Is this the woman that killed the cats?
32:42Yeah, she was arrested for burglary and criminal damage
32:45just under a year ago.
32:47She broke into a neighbor's house
32:49and lethally injected four cats.
32:51CPS decided not to prosecute
32:53because of her mental health issues at the time.
32:56Maybe she's had a relapse.
32:59Turned her attention from cats to people.
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33:17Reuben came to me not long after he passed.
33:21He told me you'd need my help.
33:23Justine, the questions I'm about to ask you
33:26have nothing at all to do with the spirit world.
33:29You understand?
33:31I'm not stupid, Inspector.
33:34We know that you visited Reuben on the day he died.
33:38Why was that?
33:40I wanted to talk to my mother.
33:43My channels were blocked.
33:45I get angry, you see?
33:48No good for anyone.
33:50So I thought I'd try new blood.
33:52But he was no good.
33:54A charlatan with a fake name.
33:56How did that make you feel when you found that out?
33:58Disappointed.
34:00I told him so, too.
34:04He won't tell me how he was killed.
34:07He was given a lethal injection.
34:10Sound familiar?
34:13I wasn't well.
34:16What did you use to put your neighbour's cats to sleep?
34:19I can't remember.
34:21I had blackouts.
34:23Days.
34:25Grief.
34:27Drink.
34:29Anger.
34:31It all broke down.
34:33Who were you angry with?
34:37I was my mother's sole carer for 25 years.
34:40She had cats.
34:42Four of them.
34:44When she died, she gave them to the neighbour
34:47and everything else to Cats Protection.
34:50Left me with nothing.
34:52I could hear them next door.
34:56Mewling.
34:58Taunting me.
35:00So I broke in.
35:02I did to those cats
35:04what I wished I'd done to her.
35:08She let me down.
35:10Ruben Beattie let you down?
35:12Now I can't get rid of him.
35:15You OK?
35:17Justine?
35:18He's trying to tell me who killed him.
35:22There's a woman in danger.
35:24Who?
35:26There's such anger in his office.
35:28Someone wants him to feel terrible fear.
35:33A woman.
35:35No.
35:36No.
35:37A man.
35:38Justine, if you're trying to throw me off the scent here...
35:43I know him.
35:45He's a psychic.
35:48Frank.
35:49Frank.
35:52McLean.
35:56Thanks for coming all the way out here at such short notice.
36:00You worried about being seen with me?
36:02No offence.
36:04But you look like a policeman.
36:06Oh, do you?
36:08Promise me this stays off the record.
36:10That I'll be safe.
36:12It's about Ruben.
36:13You want us to find whoever killed him, don't you?
36:15No.
36:16I don't.
36:17I don't.
36:18I don't.
36:19I don't.
36:20I don't.
36:21I don't.
36:22I don't.
36:23I don't.
36:24It's about Ruben.
36:25You want us to find whoever killed him, don't you?
36:30You loved him, didn't you?
36:35Three weeks ago, I was asked by Professor Crane
36:38to help him devise an experiment for an external agency.
36:41What sort of experiment?
36:42Sleep deprivation.
36:44How it affects willpower, breaks it down.
36:47And the external agency?
36:50Let's just say there's military involvement.
36:53Who's military?
36:54Ours, the state?
36:55Private contractor?
36:56And for what purpose?
36:57Torture?
37:08I honestly don't know.
37:11Ruben got wind of the project
37:13and told Crane he thought it was unethical.
37:15He was probably right, but I...
37:17I think he was just pissed off that Crane asked me to assist
37:20and not him.
37:21So he was paying this out on a fee?
37:24It was more of an ego thing.
37:27How did Crane feel about Ruben finding out?
37:29Well, Ruben told Crane that if he didn't pull out of the project,
37:32he'd go to the department board with a complaint.
37:34And that would have stopped the project?
37:36I don't know.
37:37It might have been enough to jeopardise Crane's involvement.
37:40So what are you telling me?
37:41Crane had Ruben killed in order to silence him?
37:45You told me that Ruben was killed using two drugs.
37:47Barbiturate and autophin?
37:49Well, some barbiturates are used
37:51to form the basis of so-called truth drugs
37:54used by intelligence organisations all over the world.
37:58Isn't it possible that they used that
38:00to find out what Ruben knew about the project
38:02and then killed him when they realised he knew too much?
38:05Why didn't you tell me this before?
38:08I've never felt this scared before.
38:11Some of us don't have the safety net of life after death.
38:17I should go.
38:18Going to lift?
38:19No.
38:21I can't be seen with you.
38:48Hello?
38:50Frank McLean.
38:52Who wants to know?
38:53Detective Inspector Lewis.
38:56You want to talk to me about Randolph James?
38:59Er, yeah.
39:01Present your warrant card to the camera.
39:07I'm sorry, sir.
39:09I'm sorry, sir.
39:11I'm sorry, sir.
39:13I'm sorry, sir.
39:15I'm sorry, sir.
39:16I'm sorry, sir.
39:18I'm sorry, sir.
39:27Lovely place.
39:29Business is clearly good.
39:31Yes, I've never subscribed to the belief
39:32that work should be its own reward.
39:34I much prefer actual money.
39:36You must be very good at what you do.
39:39We're the only creatures that are aware
39:40that life has a beginning, middle and an end.
39:44Every life has a story
39:45and I help my clients find a shape to theirs.
39:48Using psychic ability.
39:50Whatever you take me for, Inspector,
39:51don't take me for a fool.
39:53You and I both know
39:54that I'm one step up from the fairground.
39:57The skill lies in presenting the logical as mystical.
40:00For example, how did I know why you've come to see me?
40:03Because I've got a notorious website
40:04on which I'm roundly critical
40:05of so-called fellow practitioners.
40:08And I also assume you've seen my latest blog post.
40:11I haven't, actually.
40:15Come on.
40:25Randolph James,
40:26a terrific stage name
40:28that sadly wasn't matched by his cold reading skills.
40:32Unless we maintain a certain standard,
40:34we all get tarred with the same crappy brush.
40:37Someone's got to sort the weak from the chaff.
40:40And that's you?
40:42I don't trust anyone else
40:43in this world or the next.
40:45I take it you know
40:46that Randolph James has been murdered?
40:49I heard a whisper, yeah.
40:51So when did you post this?
40:56Tuesday night.
40:58If you didn't know about it,
40:59how come you're here?
41:01Did somebody point you in my direction?
41:03I'm not at liberty to say.
41:07Keith Poland,
41:09Liz Birkwood,
41:11Jodie Osborne,
41:12Justine Skinner.
41:14Randolph James' real name
41:17was Reuben Beattie.
41:20How hostile did you really feel
41:22towards him, Mr. MacLean?
41:27When did you visit him?
41:29Well, I always go twice.
41:31The first to check them out
41:32and the second to confirm my first impression.
41:34I forwarded Randolph the same courtesy
41:37and then I destroyed him.
41:39What?
41:40What?
41:42Online.
41:47Hi.
41:49I don't think Frank MacLean's our killer.
41:51He needs phony psychics
41:52to prop up his self-esteem.
41:55How is your secret meeting?
41:57Worrying.
41:58Meet you outside the Department of Psychology.
42:00Yeah.
42:10Come on.
42:24What's this about?
42:25Crane was devising
42:26a secret military experiment.
42:28He wanted Vicky on board but not Reuben.
42:29Reuben threatened to sabotage it.
42:32What kind of experiment?
42:33Which means that
42:34Crane, Vicky or whoever Crane was working for
42:36had ample reason to want him out of the way.
42:38Yeah, but what...
42:39Oh, isn't that...
42:40Yeah, that's Vicky.
42:41Vicky!
42:42Can we talk?
42:45Vicky!
42:56Vicky!
42:57Vicky!
43:08Vicky!
43:21Look after her.
43:23Right.
43:25Help me.
43:26What's the matter?
43:29Someone get an ambulance, please.
43:36Tell me I'll be okay.
43:37You'll be fine.
43:40Can we get an ambulance, please?
43:56I'm frightened.
44:00Pray with me.
44:26When she told me about Crane,
44:27she was scared for her life.
44:28You know, we're no different, you and I.
44:30So your subjects aren't criminals or liars.
44:35Anyone make out if they're male or female?
44:37Why did you go to Reuben's office
44:39the day he was murdered?
44:41Who was that?
44:44What do you want?
44:46See anything?
44:47Nothing.
44:48Professor Crane!
44:49Professor Crane!
44:53And the story continues next week at 8.
44:56Wednesday night,
44:57it's Midsummer Murders here on ITV1.
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