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00:29I've had this conversation before, I just don't understand, I'm sorry, this is the way it is.
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03:35PHONE RINGS
03:39PHONE RINGS
03:428-9-2-1-8
03:44Hello, John.
03:46Lucy.
03:47I know. It's not even a birthday or an anniversary.
03:51I need a favour. A big one.
03:54How big?
03:55Pretty big. It's going to involve you having to leave the house...
03:59..and get into the taxi that I've booked for you.
04:02Taxi?!
04:06There's a taxi outside my house.
04:08Lucy, why is there a taxi outside my house?
04:11Because I've known you since we were six years old.
04:14Five and four months.
04:15Meaning I know all too well that the only way I'm going to get you to travel
04:18the 140-plus miles to Cambridge is if I book you one.
04:21And then very annoyingly refuse to tell you why on the phone.
04:24What? That's ridiculous. Lucy, I can't just...
04:28I'll match whatever you're making for dinner, like for like.
04:32Given that it's Sunday, I am assuming pasta.
04:37Carbonara.
04:40John?
04:41No, Lucy, I'm not...
04:44Please.
04:48See you soon.
05:02PHONE VIBRATES
05:15John Taylor?
05:17Yes.
05:18Hi, I'm Chris.
05:20Cambridge, yeah?
05:21It's a long drive.
05:23Are you the kind of guy who likes to talk?
05:25Or shall I stick on the radio?
05:28Radio it is.
05:33Can you turn that off, please?
05:57DOORBELL RINGS
06:27DOORBELL RINGS
06:35Don't get mud on your dad's new car.
06:38Where is Dad?
06:40He's been called into the office.
06:43Again.
06:45But then he's off for Christmas and New Year.
06:50Why are you so dirty?
06:52Pee.
06:53Well, then why St James?
06:55Because he didn't get deliberately pushed over.
07:06Hello.
07:07Elvis Presley of Puzzle Setters.
07:10See, you survived a taxi trip. Well done.
07:13Henry!
07:17The spare bedroom's all made up.
07:19Three pillows, just how you like it.
07:21Couldn't miss your travel light.
07:23Yes, well, my packing time was somewhat limited.
07:27It really is good to see you, John.
07:30Hi, Uncle John.
07:33Henry.
07:35You're taller.
07:37Yes, well, teenagers do tend to grow over the course of a year.
07:43Dinner in ten minutes, or five, if you're willing to set the table.
07:46Off you go.
07:49Right, now you've popped your bag down,
07:50maybe a good next step is to take your jacket off.
07:53Where's James?
07:54That's a way of working a case.
07:59Lucy, what's all this about?
08:01Maybe we should talk after dinner.
08:03I think I'd be more comfortable knowing now.
08:05Oh, come on, John. When have you ever felt comfortable?
08:10Before you ask, no, I haven't sold any,
08:12and yes, I am still doing endless weddings and bonded babies,
08:17and no, I most certainly am not artistically satisfied.
08:22I wasn't actually going to ask you any of those things.
08:24John, I need your help.
08:27Henry doesn't know anything about why you're here.
08:30I've told him you're on a work thingy, a convention.
08:34So, a puzzle convention?
08:36Yes. No, I don't know. I had to tell him something.
08:41Maybe you should sit down.
08:46Don't worry, I won't give you tetanus.
08:49So, it started a couple of months ago.
08:50James was on some case or other.
08:52I don't know. I didn't ask. I never asked.
08:55It was like some unwritten rule.
08:57You know, your brother spent day in and day out
08:59at some grisly murder scene or other.
09:01But when he came home to us,
09:04then DCI Taylor ceased to exist,
09:06and he was just James. Our James.
09:09Lucy, why are you talking in the past tense?
09:13Oh, I didn't realise that I was.
09:17Er...
09:19Well, maybe it's because
09:22for the last few months,
09:24our James wasn't the one coming home to us.
09:28What do you mean?
09:29I mean, he changed.
09:30Something about that last case changed him.
09:33He'd come in, he'd barely communicate,
09:35he'd lock himself away.
09:36I'd be asleep by the time he came upstairs.
09:39He'd be gone by the time I woke up.
09:42Until three nights ago.
09:45When he didn't come home at all.
09:50And then the next day,
09:52I received this. It's from him.
09:57B.A.R.
09:59Burn After Reading.
10:01It's sweet, isn't it?
10:02Do you remember when we were kids, the three of us,
10:03we used to pass those notes through the fence?
10:10DCS Shaw.
10:12It's his boss.
10:13It's a letter of resignation.
10:30What does any of this mean?
10:32Well, exactly what it says.
10:33It's a list of instructions.
10:35So, post the letter of resignation,
10:37and then get Henry, and just leave.
10:39I mean, as you can see,
10:40he doesn't feel the need to tell me why
10:42or where we're supposed to go,
10:43just that I am to do it.
10:45And that if anyone from his department
10:47tries to contact me, then...
10:49Don't talk to them.
10:50Don't meet with them.
10:51Don't believe them.
10:56That's it?
10:58Now, does anything about that letter
11:00strike you as odd?
11:02Yes!
11:03Everything!
11:04It's the single most terrifying thing
11:06I've ever read in my life!
11:08No, John, that's not what I mean!
11:11I mean, look, John, you know me.
11:13In fact, the only person who knows me better is him.
11:15Would either of you expect me to read that
11:17and then just go,
11:18oh, I know, I'll do what I'm told,
11:20and I won't think any further on it,
11:21I'll just pop off?
11:23Does that even remotely sound like me?
11:26Not right now, it doesn't. No.
11:28And he knows that.
11:30Which brings me to the big favour.
11:32Lucy, I'm not sure...
11:34Just...
11:36OK.
11:37So I went into his home office,
11:39looking for clues as to what he might have been working on,
11:42and there's nothing.
11:43He's been hidden in there for two months,
11:45nothing to show for it.
11:46Now, either he took his files
11:48and tatty orange notebook with him,
11:50or it's in his other office.
11:53The one at the police station.
11:55Now, I can't access that.
11:56In fact, the only person that can is James.
12:00Or...
12:03somebody who looks remarkably like him.
12:10No!
12:13It's nothing, it's easy.
12:14It is in and out.
12:15Are you...
12:16No! Absolutely not!
12:18I've been there, I know the layouts.
12:19You won't have to talk to anybody.
12:20Really? And if they talk to me?
12:22Just stick to small talk, just keep walking.
12:24What small talk?
12:25Have you heard my small talk?
12:27This, right now, is about as good as it gets!
12:30Look, I've met most of his colleagues.
12:32I mean, I can brief you on all of them,
12:34certainly enough to get you through a piddly little visit to the office,
12:37just there and back.
12:38Lucy, stop!
12:40That would be illegal!
12:43James couldn't just abandon his family without reason.
12:48He knows what that feels like.
12:51If he's not telling you everything,
12:53it's because he's trying to keep you safe.
12:56This is how he does it.
12:59You don't get it.
13:02That isn't a letter that a husband of 20 years sends his wife.
13:05No matter how much he's trying to protect her.
13:08There's nothing personal in it.
13:11There's no comfort.
13:15No feeling.
13:17It's more like the type of letter that...
13:20That's true.
13:23I mean, why shouldn't I involve you?
13:27I don't know, I should, um...
13:31I love you.
13:33I love you.
13:36Always have.
13:38Oh.
13:41I-L-O-V-E.
13:45It's an acrostic.
13:47It's the same one we used as kids.
13:49It's the same one every kid learns.
13:52Oh, right!
13:53Right, yes, what?
13:55First letter of each sentence.
14:02I love you.
14:12I'll just be in and out, right?
14:18Oh, thank you!
14:20Thank you, John.
14:33How's this?
14:35Yes, you do look like him.
14:39Something's different.
14:40Of course something's different.
14:42I'm literally a different person.
14:45These pens will have to go.
14:47I might need them.
14:48Not in there.
14:49Not a school prefect.
14:52You'll need his car.
14:54James still has your dad's.
14:58Do you drive much these days?
15:02No.
15:03No.
15:04No.
15:05No.
15:06No.
15:07No.
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15:23No.
15:24No.
15:25No.
15:26No.
15:27No.
15:28No.
15:29No.
15:30No.
15:31No.
15:55I've got his work phone.
15:56He left it.
15:57It's locked.
15:59I've got every date I can think of.
16:02My birthday.
16:03Henry's birthday.
16:04Too obvious.
16:05Try your first date.
16:07Am I supposed to remember when...
16:0823rd July 1991.
16:10You went to the village fair.
16:12Right.
16:14Nope.
16:15Historical dates then.
16:17Battle of Hastings.
16:18Signing of the Magna Carta.
16:19Oh, that's disingenuous.
16:20James always liked trains.
16:21Try the invention of the steam locomotive.
16:23Oh, well I'm locked out for an hour now.
16:26When you get there, just look for his notebook.
16:28Tati, Orange, I'll keep trying the pin on this thing.
16:31Listen, we're going to have to keep in contact.
16:33Do you even own a mobile phone?
16:35Of course I do.
16:36You know I do.
16:37You bought it me for Christmas.
16:39No I didn't.
16:40You...
16:41What?
16:42Wait.
16:43That was 20 years ago.
16:5620 years ago.
17:27Don't worry, we'll get something out.
17:30Detective Chief Superintendent Carol Shaw.
17:56I've never liked touching eyeballs.
17:58Especially mine.
17:59James doesn't wear glasses, so you're going to have to suck it up, I'm afraid.
18:03She's the one that I was supposed to have sent the resignation letter to.
18:06James' boss.
18:07Everybody's boss.
18:10Probably best to avoid.
18:13Hold!
18:14Hold!
18:15What's going on?
18:16Do you see our tailor?
18:17I can't take it.
18:18You've got to put your hands up.
18:19You've got to put your hands up.
18:20There it is.
18:21I think you said that, haven't you?
18:23Do I say it?
18:25I think you said that.
18:26I'm so sorry.
18:27Hold.
18:28Hold.
18:29Yeah.
18:29You're carrying it.
18:31She knows that.
18:32OK.
18:35Desire Taylor.
18:40Oh, yes.
18:41Hello.
18:44You.
18:48How's Henry?
18:51You know, kids today, with their...
18:56skateboards.
18:59Doors opening.
19:01Second floor.
19:08His team are on the second floor in front of the stairs.
19:12It's a large, open-plan room with shared desks and workspaces.
19:17They'll probably be manned, but don't worry, just walk straight through.
19:43James's office is at the back, on the left.
19:46Don't talk to anyone.
19:50Oh, James, hello. Do you have to...?
20:13The I'm at Neville. They've worked together for ten years.
20:15James is his best man. He knows him better than anybody else.
20:18Memorise this face. He's the only one you can trust.
20:22But be careful.
20:28Oh, there you are, Gav.
20:36New pants.
20:38New pants.
20:42Looking sharp.
20:45Anyway, here's a good one.
20:46Some big-shot solicitor guy found in his office this morning
20:48with an antique letter opener stuck in his chest.
20:52Been there all weekend, apparently. Rest of the team, already down there.
20:58Uh, Gav?
21:00That block's this way.
21:02Um, yes, I just, um...
21:05I need to get something from my office.
21:08What?
21:09My gun.
21:11Your gun?
21:13Gum.
21:15Curry night, was it?
21:16Oh.
21:18Don't worry, I've got some Tic Tacs in the car. Come on.
21:21Come on, let's go.
21:26There's only, like, ten people in the whole building.
21:28No CCTV, but security on the door.
21:31You have to sign in when you arrive, sign out when you leave,
21:34which, according to this sheet, they all did, including the victim.
21:38Is there something in your eye, Gav?
21:41Sorry, new contacts.
21:42But for some reason, I don't wear glasses, you see.
21:45Oh, OK.
21:47Well, I guess that explains the parking.
21:56Are you all right?
21:58Um, yeah, good, great.
22:00I just...
22:01I need to make a quick phone call on my mobile telephone.
22:06OK.
22:30John?
22:31I didn't get to the office, there's no Matt Neville,
22:34I'm back outside and I'm supposed to be attending a crime scene.
22:37What?
22:38I didn't get to the office, there's no Matt Neville, I'm back outside...
22:41Listen, I heard you the first time, John.
22:42What do you mean, there's no Matt Neville?
22:44I mean, James has a completely different partner
22:46from the one you told me about, that's what I mean.
22:48One that sat waiting for me to go and look at a dead solicitor with him.
22:54No, that doesn't make any sense.
22:55I'm sure he would have told me if Matt had left,
22:57or if he had a new partner, or...
23:00I mean, wouldn't they?
23:03He's looking at me.
23:04Yes, it's probably not helped by the fact that you're standing there
23:07holding a phone that's older than the Bible.
23:08Oh, God, I'm going to prison, aren't I?
23:10No, you're not going to prison.
23:12I'm impersonating a police officer.
23:14Yes, but he's your brother.
23:15That's really not the legal loophole you think it is.
23:20Oh, Henry's school is calling.
23:22What? So?
23:24Lucy, what am I going to do?
23:26Look, you've got no choice, you're going to have to wing it.
23:28I mean, it's easy, you're lead detective, so just...
23:31delegate.
23:32Delegate?
23:33Yes, let them do their jobs.
23:34Maybe gauge their reactions, see if they're acting sus.
23:38Look, the main thing is, you need to get back to the station
23:40and into that office.
23:42John, you can do this.
23:43Lucy, you can't still think...
23:45Please, John, look, if nobody's noticed so far, you'll be fine.
23:47Call me if you need me.
23:48What? Wait, Lucy!
23:52OK, bye.
24:01Police station, this is John Wright,
24:03call right now if you need me, I'm...
24:04I don't know how to call, I don't know...
24:07Call right now if you need me, I'm...
24:09I don't know if you need me, I'm...
24:23You good?
24:31Oh, ow!
24:58What are you doing?
24:59Nothing.
25:00Just making notes.
25:09Morning.
25:20You're doing a fine job, well done.
25:23Looks like we're taking the stairs.
25:29Morning.
25:38Morning.
25:39Morning.
25:40I'll let you know if I just...
25:41Ah, great.
25:42All right.
25:44Oh, there you are.
25:46Detective Constable Simon Evans, youngest member of the team.
25:49I think he's into his graphic novels.
25:53Know much about superheroes?
25:56Well, I do know that he still lives with his mother,
25:58so if you get stuck, then just ask after her.
26:04Oh, that's a nice selection of pens, sir.
26:10Yeah.
26:12Right, OK, yes, so we've commandeered the biggest conference room in the building.
26:15I've got them all gathered in there, everyone who was here Friday.
26:18I haven't questioned them as such,
26:20but I have taken a detailed statement of their movements at the time.
26:23Now, I mean, it all gets a bit...
26:25Ah!
26:26Well, no, they were in and out, up and down, all over the place, really,
26:30but I figured you'd want to talk to them all separately anyway, so...
26:33No, I'm all right, thanks.
26:37Oh.
26:41Yeah, DCI Taylor's right, we're not talking to anybody until we've visited...
26:45You weren't kidding, were you?
26:47That's like a guard's number.
26:48No, we're not talking to anybody until we've visited the scene.
26:51So just try and keep them entertained for now.
26:52Sir.
26:56How's your mum?
26:58Oh, very well, thank you, sir, yeah.
27:00Good.
27:03Well, she has actually started dating him.
27:07I'll see you in there.
27:17Morning.
27:27No, there's not.
27:28OK.
27:29Morning, sir.
27:30Detective Sergeant Alice Finch, Shaw's protégé.
27:33Ambitious, very letter of the law.
27:37Probably spent her teenage years
27:38dobbing in fellow students to the head.
27:41Lives for the job, rule of thumb with her.
27:45Don't attempt witty repartee.
27:48Actually, just be you.
27:49This feels big, really big, like six-part docu-drama big.
27:54Phone records.
27:55Had the provider emailed them through.
27:57So there was an incoming call Friday afternoon at 17.06 hours.
28:00It was page go, unregistered, and it connected.
28:03There's no answer service set up on the office phone.
28:06If nobody's here, it just rings out.
28:07So somebody was definitely here at 17.06 hours.
28:11Although, according to the phone records,
28:13there was a phone call from the office phone.
28:17Although, according to the security book,
28:20both the assistant and the victim
28:22signed out at 17.03 and 17.05, respectively.
28:26Yes, but it's pretty safe to assume he was here, Sergeant,
28:29given the fact that, you know, he still is.
28:32Do you want to come take a look at this?
28:33No, thank you.
28:37So, nobody reported him missing over the whole weekend?
28:40No. Divorced. No children.
28:42I'm just going to come out and say this, yeah?
28:45This feels professional.
28:47Like, organised crime professional.
28:48Someone trying to send a message.
28:50I think that we need to look if he was working any big criminal trials.
28:53You know, people that might have the reason, the resources,
28:55the connection to just put the brakes on.
28:57He did conveyancing law.
29:03Sir?
29:04Probably not too many big criminal trials then, Sergeant.
29:07But, hey, maybe a disgruntled estate agent.
29:11Well, then, I think it's about time that we introduced ourselves
29:13to the chorus line, don't you?
29:32Right, how long are we going to be here?
29:33Until we've ascertained everybody's whereabouts
29:35at the time of the incident.
29:37And how long will that be?
29:39We've already been through all this with him.
29:41Calm down, Brian.
29:42What? I'm just saying, I never knew the guy.
29:44I barely even spoke to him. I couldn't even tell you his name.
29:47Alan Howells.
29:53All right. All right, I'm sorry.
29:56But I honestly never knew the guy.
29:58None of us did. It's three different companies, three different floors.
30:01We share the same building, that's all.
30:02I've never even been on this floor before.
30:05It's nice, though.
30:07Gov, do you want to...
30:09Hmm?
30:10Do I want to what?
30:14OK, well, in that case, regardless of floors or companies,
30:18you were the only people in the building on that Friday.
30:20How do you know that? It's not Fort Knox.
30:22Erm, I don't just let people walk in.
30:25Oh, you're not always there, though, are you?
30:27Well, you said earlier you went to check a fire door.
30:30Well, yeah. The alarm was going off.
30:33Right, there you have it. Somebody broken in the back.
30:35Well, if the alarm was going off,
30:37Well, if they did, then they walked straight back out again.
30:40You got to go through another set of fire doors
30:42to get into the main building. None of those went off.
30:45OK, fine, somebody came in the front when you were out back.
30:47Brilliant. What? I'm just saying, it's not rocket science, is it?
30:50The alarm went off at three minutes past five.
30:54That was just after the phone call.
30:58Are you OK, sir? Is it hot in here?
31:01Not especially, no.
31:03Excuse me. Sorry, what phone call?
31:07Someone called your office off an unregistered number.
31:09I take it you're not the one who answered it.
31:11No. And I was back behind my desk by then.
31:13By which point, anybody could have waltzed in. That's all I'm saying.
31:16Well, did any of you see anybody waltzing in,
31:18waltzing up to the third floor and waltzing down again
31:21during the three-minute window where everybody seemed to be
31:23either on the stairs or inside the lift?
31:32In that case, let me ask this.
31:34Did any of you throughout the whole of Friday
31:36see anyone in this building who isn't currently sat around this table?
31:40I didn't see anything, but I don't know half the people sat around here.
31:43Brian, just look at me.
31:44How can you not have seen me? I was right there.
31:46And don't you dare think that I don't know
31:48that you spent most of the afternoon at the fire alarm.
31:50I was just behind you.
31:51I sat down. I followed you also.
31:52Why am I still sat here in this room, having to prove it?
31:55I don't know. After the fire alarm, I tried to get out of my desk.
31:58I said to, if you don't tell me something...
32:00Do your job.
32:02Go.
32:03DCI Taylor, are you all right?
32:07I think I need some air.
32:13It's a push, sir.
33:01I want to go home.
33:02My home, my house, my life.
33:05I can't do this, Lucy. I don't know how anybody can.
33:07I don't know how James ever did.
33:11Look, I know it's not easy.
33:16But James chose to do this job because...
33:19I'm not talking about his job. I'm talking about all of it.
33:22I'm talking about just getting up in the morning and leaving the house,
33:26coming out here to...
33:29This or this.
33:31Crowds and noise and buildings and offices and computers and people.
33:37Nobody seeing each other and everybody talking at once.
33:41Alarms going off, phones ringing.
33:44Everybody moving around, up and down and in and out.
33:47And no order to any of it.
33:49No structure, no purpose.
33:51You do realise that in many ways,
33:53James was as intimidated by the world as you.
33:57It was easier for him.
34:00He had you.
34:05Look, Hugh and James, you're so alike, but...
34:12John, I remember the day that your father left.
34:17Night. Night he left.
34:20Hugh here's Eve, 1989.
34:22Yes, but it changed you both.
34:25James, it pushed him forward, gave him drive,
34:29made him want to take on the whole world.
34:32Whereas it made you...
34:35Just want to hide from it. Yes, I know.
34:36And I'd quite like to go back to that now, please.
34:39And you can, tomorrow.
34:41But first, I just need you to get back to the station and find his notebook.
34:45It's just one day, one day in a life.
34:47I mean, if you think about it logically, you can get through one day.
34:50Logic doesn't come into it.
34:51If it were up to me, everything would be logical, the whole world.
34:55But it isn't, is it? It doesn't work that way.
34:58Things don't always fit neatly into some ordered, structured,
35:0315 by 15 grid, like some sort of...
35:08...puzzle.
35:10I know it's difficult, it is, but I really do have to...
35:13I've got to go.
35:14Sorry?
35:16Bit awkward, really. I think I might just have solved a murder.
35:20I'll call you back.
35:21Do you think you've...
35:26DOOR SLAMS
35:27MUSIC PLAYS
35:44Please, please, please, please.
35:48Yes!
35:49LAUGHS
35:55MUSIC CONTINUES
36:09Is it OK if I use this?
36:12Um, yeah, sure.
36:13WHIRRING
36:14WHIRRING
36:22OK, so, what we're looking at here is a concatenation of syllogisms, obviously.
36:28A series of statements and propositions, one of which will be false,
36:31but which we can weed out via a process of cross-reference and deductive reason.
36:36It's a logic puzzle.
36:38In this room, we have seven subjects, or suspects.
36:42I will label you A to G for simplicity.
36:45Three definitive facts, presumably connected.
36:48The fire door alarm, the phone call and the murder itself.
36:51I'll label them one to three.
36:54Plus, of course, the alleged movements of everyone in this column
36:57within the timescale of the factual events contained in this one,
37:00which we'll put into a third column of seven, T to Z.
37:03WHIRRING
37:07So, C was exiting the elevator in the foyer
37:11at the same time as D was leaving by the front.
37:14Both statements confirm the other,
37:16which means that neither C nor D could have been present at factual events one and two,
37:20so we can cross those off,
37:21which naturally means we can also put crosses here and here and here,
37:26since this dictates that A and E could not have been present at that location at that time,
37:30or else they would have crossed with C or D.
37:33Do you follow?
37:34No.
37:38Hello, hello, hello.
37:40Listen, we're going to have to do the legwork on this one.
37:41And we know that E was still in the office at the time of factual event one,
37:45which was verified by A, who left immediately afterwards.
37:48Alice, you're going to want to see this.
37:50A signed out just after G,
37:52who had left the building between factual events one and two.
37:55F left the building last and locked it up,
37:58leaving no-one inside but Mr Howell,
38:02which in turn locks off the rest of everything for A in this column and this column,
38:07meaning that F must be movement Y in this column,
38:12locking off all of these ones.
38:15And there we go.
38:18Only one subject remains that could possibly have been at events one, two and three.
38:23Opening the fire door to create a distraction,
38:25an opportunity to forge Mr Howell's signature,
38:28making the telephone call to delay his departure,
38:30and finally, making their way up the stairwell to his office,
38:33just as the last of the other subjects was leaving.
38:36Therefore, we have our killer.
38:47And that person is?
38:50Well, B.
38:52B?
38:54Oh, sorry.
38:56Sarah Gilmarsh.
39:01Are you joking?
39:03What the hell are you talking about?
39:04Why would Sarah want to murder some solicitor bloke she barely even knew?
39:08I have absolutely no idea.
39:09Right, I think it's best if we, you know,
39:11we'll just take a bit, take time to think a bit more about this
39:16and regroup, relax, you know, everybody.
39:19I'm sorry.
39:21I'm so, so sorry.
39:26I didn't plan any of this, I swear.
39:29No, you definitely did.
39:31You set off a fire alarm, faked a telephone call and forged a signature.
39:34Yeah, but...
39:37I never wanted any of this to happen.
39:41Well, you probably shouldn't have done it then.
39:43I'm sorry.
39:44I'm sorry.
39:45I'm sorry.
39:46I'm sorry.
39:47I'm sorry.
39:48I'm sorry.
39:49You shouldn't have done it then.
39:56OK.
39:59Um, Sergeant, would you like to do the honours?
40:06Sarah Gilmarsh, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder.
40:09You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
40:11if you do not mention my question, something which you later rely on in court.
40:14Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
40:19Is it OK if we go back to the police station now?
40:50Well, well, well.
40:53If there's anything I'm taking from today,
40:55it's that maybe I should start making notes before attending a crime scene too.
40:59I mean, they told me you were brilliant when I transferred,
41:02but I did not expect something of this level in my second week.
41:06You've only been here two weeks.
41:09Oh, you're going to tell me it feels like a lot longer, are you?
41:11Well, you know what? I choose to take that as a compliment.
41:20I'll be in my office if you need me, Gavin.
41:22Oh, great. Yes, me too.
41:25There it is.
42:19Yes, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please
42:49DC I Taylor
43:19Congratulations, sir, for confession. Crime of passion, would you believe it? Yeah, they're
43:39having an affair for six years. He chose to end it. She chose to end him.
43:45Sorry, we do realise that if she hadn't confessed, we'd have nothing.
43:49Like there was no actual evidence. Yes, well, fortunately for us, Sergeant Finch, she did.
43:56I'm reliably informed you went slightly unorthodox on this one, DCI Taylor.
44:02Nonetheless, results speak for themselves, so I suppose congratulations are in order.
44:09Thank you very much.
44:15Ma'am. DCI Shaw. Chief Constable Ziegler, I wasn't aware you were in the station today.
44:21No, it's just a flying visit, although I would like a quick word if you're not too busy.
44:24Yes, of course, sir. Two minutes.
44:33Ah, the IKAR, sir. It's good to see you. Settling in okay, are we?
44:38Yes, yes, thank you, sir. Good, good. I'll be in your office.
44:45Right then, another 90 seconds of celebrating, and then on to the paperwork, please.
44:50Let's see if we can get that wrapped up as quickly as the case.
45:01This is something of a new look for you, isn't it, Detective Chief Inspector?
45:07Oh, yes. Thank you for noticing.
45:14Um, ma'am.
46:44I thought you were resting.
46:57My phone charger's not working.
46:59Oh, you need your phone to rest.
47:01Hello. That was quite the puzzle convention.
47:10I think there's a charger in my studio. Just care for what you're unplugging.
47:15So, the pens are back.
47:19For easy access. And I'll have you know, I've been getting compliments on my attire all day.
47:25What was it you were saying? Follow me. What were you saying about a murder?
47:31Oh, that. Yes, I solved it. Everyone seemed very pleased.
47:37You solved a murder?
47:38But... I don't care. I need to show you something. I cracked the code on the phone.
47:46It was a significant date, one only he, and of course you, would never forget. New Year's Eve, 1989.
47:54Oh, the night Dad left.
47:57He'd cleared the calls and texts, and he'd attempted to delete a photo,
48:01which I've restored. I'm not sure that James quite understands how the cloud works.
48:06What cloud?
48:08Yes. Look at this.
48:12That's nice.
48:15No, not that. Sorry, I've gone too far back.
48:18Not that. No. Not that. No, no, no. You know we do invite you every year.
48:25You do. He doesn't.
48:27Would you come if you did?
48:30Oh, here it is.
48:35No clue who this chap is.
48:36That's Chief Constable Ziegler.
48:39Who? Who's Chief Constable Ziegler?
48:42Someone else at the station you didn't warn me about. That's who.
48:45Yes, sorry about that, John. I may have slightly exaggerated my knowledge of that place.
48:51Well, you wouldn't have gone there otherwise, would you?
48:53Obviously not. But since I did...
48:57Oh, you found it.
48:59It looks like a cipher. Polyalphabetic. Numbers and symbols substituting for letters. Most likely
49:09a pretty advanced one. He was obviously using this to take notes about whatever he was investigating.
49:14Notes that nobody else could read.
49:16What does it mean?
49:17I presume it answers every single question we have.
49:21You presume?
49:23Well, I haven't actually been able to solve it.
49:26But you're Ludwig.
49:27I'm sure even Elvis had his off days.
49:30I will solve it. Just need more data, that's all.
49:34A keyword to search for that might unlock the rest.
49:38Need to find out what he's been doing, what he's been working on, who he's been working with.
49:43I'll start tomorrow.
49:48You're going back in there?
49:50I have to. It's a puzzle. Puzzles are meant to be solved.
49:57Oh, John. Thank you.
50:04Henry! Your uncle's going to be staying with us for a few days.
50:16Oh, Henry.
50:24Dad's gone.
50:27Dad's gone.
50:39What's mum reading?
50:41Why is she crying? It's all right. I'll talk to her.
50:45Just give us a few minutes, okay?
50:49Okay.
50:54Okay.
50:56Okay.
50:58Okay.
51:00Okay.
51:02Okay.
51:04Okay.
51:06Okay.
51:08Okay.
51:10Okay.
51:16Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
51:40Okay.
52:40Okay.
53:40Okay.
54:10Okay.
54:40Okay.
54:48James didn't just vanish. He left breadcrumbs, coded messages, a puzzle.
54:56You're supposed to be looking into James's last case today. Find out what this Ziegler chat,
55:00what's he got to do with anything?
55:01Is he a jailer?
55:03You've no idea who you can trust.
55:06Dad's letter said trust no one.
55:08John, you are the only person that can do this. Just focus and no more distractions.
55:16That wasn't a distraction. It was a murder.
55:19But what if there's another one today? How often do people get murdered around here?
55:27May I ask what this is all about, Detective?
55:30He's completely vanished.
55:32What is it I can do for you, gentlemen?
55:35I'm led to believe that you've been performing miracles recently, DCI Taylor.
55:39I'm certainly keen to witness it.
55:41The puzzle is impossible.
55:44Can we go back down now?
55:45Something is very, very wrong here, and none of them seem able to see it.
55:50What if I can't solve the cipher?
55:52What if I actually can't do any of this?
55:55James is cleverer than me. He always has been.
55:58He's always been better than me at everything.
56:01Oh, yeah. I've got one of those as well.
56:05Oh, it's got sugar in it.
56:09Yeah, there is.
56:11Which, as you know, is exactly how I like it.
56:14I don't think you can leave, can they? You're all suspects, aren't they?
56:22His disappearance was prepared in advance by him.
56:27I had a feeling about you, Taylor.
56:31I'm really good at this. Don't you read the paper?