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It's Professor Sam Ryan. I need your
help.

I pulled DNA and a partial

fingerprint. Both match to you.
Mine? I've told no-one.

He's a good man. People change.
Sam said so. She's hardly impartial.

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Found him in his London flat,

bludgeoned to death.

I found your blood
under his fingernails.

MY blood?

It's a micro SD card.

Tom, don't run.
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to plant as evidence.

If DNA can be fabricated...

..it's the end of
forensic science as we know it.

I've just been to the Lyell.

We need to meet.

Just that last bit there
and then my colleague

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Just follow it round.

Right middle finger.

MACHINE BEEPS

Right ring finger.

MACHINE BEEPS

So, come on, tell me.

Are you two official now?

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but she was too shaken up
to speak, except...

..that she did say
that she'd had an argument

with her husband and...

..killed him with a knife.

Any information on the knife?
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Florence says
they're with their uncle,

but his phone's switched off.

We're getting his address
as we speak.

Er...shall we go
and have a look?

Yeah.

Sorry. What did you say your
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Simone, do you want
to help me move him

to see if there are
any further injuries?

Tyler. Wakey-wakey! Hmm?

Oh. Sorry. One...

Would you mind, Jack?

No problem.

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But the forensic
medical examiner

took all the necessary samples.

Is something not adding up?

It's just...

..something.

KEY TURNS IN LOCK

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Are they OK? Where's Florence?

And Mia and Ellie?
I can't discuss the details,

not until we've talked
to their daughters.

But Florence is fine.

She's in custody.

In custody? Why?

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if you need any help
finding them, I...

Oh, no, thanks.
I started off in Mispers.

I've found more missing kids
than you've had hot dinners.

How long have you been
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which means there's no place
for an old dog like me.

What, you're leaving?

Retiring. This is my last case.

The wife's dreading it.

Me too, if I'm honest.

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I'm here to examine
Florence Clarke. She's in custody.

Thoughts?

A few, yeah.
Working hypothesis -

I'd say it's likely a struggle
broke out in the kitchen.

Something, or someone,

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it looks consistent with

the shoes our man Richard
was wearing.

And the broken glass tells me

that Florence probably
locked herself in here.

Maybe she wanted to let him
cool off.

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toward the kitchen,
pulling her jacket off

in the struggle.
There's a little...

..fibre caught
in the door here

which corresponds to a tear
in the jacket sleeve.

Onwards.

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before falling right here.

Impressive work, Jack.

PHONE RINGS

Yeah.

Oh, right.

Right, I'm on my way.

A lead on the girls.

Mrs Clarke,
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then you can just say the word
and I'll stop.

How does that sound?

Do I have to take my gown off?

Er, no. I'm happy
to photograph around it.

OK.

It's not what you think.
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Looks like you've been bitten.

Came up yesterday. I've been
trying not to scratch them.

They could be bedbug bites.

You don't look like
a pathologist.

No? What does a pathologist
look like?

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I might have thrown
Mr Browning out too.

Can I ask you a question,
Dr Alexander?

Do you know how my girls are?

All I've been told is that
they're with their uncle.

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Not me.

I'll never change my mind.

Oh, we got a little something,
haven't we? El, we got something.

Come on! Keep going, keep going!
It's a little fighter!

Here we go, here we go.
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We've been trying
to contact you.

Your phone's switched off.

Yeah, we were having
a little digital detox,

weren't we, girls?

What's up?

Can you tell me
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from the massive haemorrhage
caused by the knife wound

to the carotid artery.

This isn't a simple
incised wound.

Looks like it started
as a deeper stab wound

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or the second movement
transected the artery.

So I think that the assailant

stabbed him and then partially
withdrew the blade,

or the deceased
changed position,

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caught on the back
of the fence.

Anything in the house
that could be a match?

I'll check again.

Thanks.

Scratch marks on his neck...

..and hands.
Could be consistent

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and the lung parenchyma.

Fibrosis,

and signs of old infections.

He had nasal polyps,

and what seemed
on external examination

like an incidental finding,
a small rectal prolapse,

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Hmm.

Aren't men with cystic fibrosis
usually infertile?

More than 95% of them are, yes.

I'd say
there's a strong possibility

that Mia and Ellie aren't
Richard's biological children.

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I just had a message
from the station.

Florence is ready
to be interviewed.

I'll just be outside
with the girls.

Johnny, you didn't happen

to work on the missing persons
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Oh, I was just curious.

I was looking into a cold case
and I came across her name.

She'll come back to me.

I like your necklace.

It's really cool.

My dad gave it to me
for doing well in my GCSEs.

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Do you know
what happened to him?

Is that a lie?

Why would it be a lie?

Because no-one
will tell us anything.

Everyone's lying to us.

But he's our dad. Ours.

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Gran, can I ask you a question?
Hmm?

Does the name Johnny Campbell
mean anything to you?

What's the name?

Johnny. Campbell.
Like the soup.

You know me, Simmy.
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I'm a lot of things, Simone,
but I'm not deaf.

Well, then...
I heard you,

and I don't remember him.
No, he did come to the house.

Don't you remember?
The night she went missing.

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I know.

I know that.

Why did you never talk to me...

..about what happened?

You were seven years old.

Still...

..she's my sister.

So, why don't you talk me
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A knife.

A knife from our kitchen.

Is that the knife?

Yes.

You can see, Florence, there's
no blood visible on the blade.

Why is that?

Because I cleaned it.

Cleaned it?

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Tell me about that struggle.

SHOUTING

I'd booked an expensive holiday
without asking him.

He didn't like that.

That's a hell of a fight
about a holiday.

No!

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Have you any idea
where they came from?

No, look, what is all this?

Why don't you just stop
wasting time and charge me?

The CPS will make a decision
about charging you.

But this is very important,
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..that Richard was not
their biological father.

Your husband was infertile,
wasn't he, Florence?

So who is the girls' father?

No comment.

Hey.

Was it all right for me to tell
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Where is he now?

I don't know.
He's gone to ground.

Doesn't seem like
the act of an innocent man.

MUSIC PLAYS
FAINT CHATTER

Uh-uh-uh!
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Please tell me
you're not involved in this.

LAUGHTER AND CHATTER
NEXT DOOR

We can't do this here.

I'm trying to help you.

I'm on your side.

Trust me.

Sonia Karpov is dead.

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Now get the fuck
out of my house.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Everything OK?
Yeah. I'm hungry.

Yeah, me too!

I think it's going to be
a while.

Are you still looking at that?
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with animal's blood.

It's so frustrating.
I've tried everything

and I can't find
a single thing wrong.

You don't know
what you're looking for.

This can't all be on you.

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"but seeing with new eyes."

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Any breakthroughs?

Or are you still
keeping secrets?

Nothing yet.

The DNA in this sample
looks totally legitimate.

How about you?

Found a piece of a gall
in Florence's cardie.

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with the blade
that she was carrying.

Right, Jack?
That's right.

Blood traces on the blade
are a match for Richard.

Prints on the blade and handle
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Could we still say 100%
that Florence did it?

The pathologist
who doesn't trust DNA?

What are you thinking, Nikki?

That it won't convince?

No. I'm afraid
it might convince too much.

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Let's take a look at
these shoe prints, shall we?

Florence's print.

Richard's print.

Uh-oh. What's this?
It's a third print.

Based on the size,
probably a man's.

See the difference
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causing the arterial spurt
you can see on the windows.

This void.

No spatter here...

..so someone was blocking it.

We presumed that someone
to be Florence.

She was covered in blood when
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What if...someone walked in,

just as Richard
was attacking Florence?

What if they grabbed the knife

and inflicted the wound
from behind?

Is that possible, Nikki?

It's certainly a possibility,

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I checked with the doctors.

Richard only found out
he had cystic fibrosis

on Wednesday.

A rare mutation
with mild symptoms.

Maybe that is what
they were arguing about.

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Look,
I know it's going to hurt them,

but surely it's better
to know the truth.

Excuse me.

You can't sleep?

No.

Want to scooch in?

Yeah.

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The name Aliya Mason-Walker

came up in a case
that we're investigating.

I believe she was 16
when she went missing.

Who's the officer on the case?

Johnny ... Er,
Detective Inspector Campbell.

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Thanks.

Ellie!

How are you, bumblebee?

Talk to me.

I'm OK.

OK. OK is good.

OK is really good.

And not OK is absolutely fine,
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Here you go.
Oh.

El...have you spoken
to the police?

Do they know what happened yet?

They haven't told us anything.

It's like we don't exist.

That's the police for you.

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Doing the DNA on the gall.

Well, trying to.

Got the idea from you,
testing Tom's blood.

I just wish I went

to all those early morning
botany lectures at uni now.

Bet the nights before
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to access the file
of Aliya Mason-Walker

on the
Police National Computer.

Is that right?

Aliya was my sister.

You did investigate
her disappearance, so I...

..just wanted to know
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Simone, sometimes
in investigations

you run out of active leads,

or...

..the people
just don't want to be found.

But I promise you this.

I have never

given up on a missing person

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It's my birthday, and that
means no arguing with me.

You've got exactly two minutes
to get dressed. Go on.

I know that the police
closed Aliya's case.

So you need to tell me why.

Simone...

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so why did they close Aliya's?

Please just tell me. Just
tell me. Why won't you tell me?

OK, stop. Stop, stop.
I'll tell you.

Your sister...

..she contacted me a couple
of weeks after she disappeared.

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No, Gran. You're not going
anywhere. OK?

You're going to tell me
what's going on,

cos this is not fair.
Now, why...

..why would you not tell me that?

All this time!

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I never lied!
You did lie! You let me

believe something
that wasn't true!

It's the same thing, isn't it?
I just...

..I just...I just
don't understand.

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that you didn't want,
that you didn't need!

Oh, you stop right there!

I did everything
to protect you! Both of you!

You think it's been easy,
all these years,

me keeping this to myself
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DOOR OPENS

Thought you were supposed to
be at Gloria's party tonight.

I thought you were meant
to be on a hot date.

Nice dress.
You think? Yeah.

So, where's he taking you,
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No? Well...

..thought she went
missing when she was 16, but...

..we don't talk about her.

Did Johnny explain
what happened?

He did. Yeah.

I just thought
he'd got it wrong.

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and I don't know
which bits I've made up

and which bits are real.

Everything I...thought I knew
about my past is wrong.

I think you need
to give yourself a break.

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This morning you thought
your sister was dead.

Now she might be alive...

..out there somewhere.

That's exciting.

Yeah.

Now, would you please go?

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

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Wow! Here we are.

You look so handsome.
Thank you. Thank you.

Er, you scrub up
pretty well yourself.

This is
an interesting choice.

What happened to Proust
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That's sweet of you
to say, but give it time!

Um, Nikki,

I'm not going to lie, I'm
having a mild panic attack.

NIKKI LAUGHS

Um, I'm being serious.

I'm...I'm sweating. Er...

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LAUGHS
Is that you? Is that you? Sorry!

Let's go to the pub.
Pub, yes.

Why didn't I think of that?
Let's go.

Will do. OK. Bye.

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Except that...we called
your florist's,

and they said
you never showed up.

OK, if we're done
with all the questions,

I've got some things to do.

I'd like to know more
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Did you talk about the fact
that Richard had just found out

the truth about his daughters?

About who their real father is?

Well, go on!

I'm going to show you
a CCTV image

taken on Wednesday morning

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don't match the prints
from the kitchen.

So why did he run?

Did the police search
uncover anything?

They found his partially
burnt work uniform, which is

a match for the denim fibre
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Could Florence have got rid of

whatever those fibres came from
en route to the police station?

It would have been quiet
on the roads at that time.

Fair point.

Now, then, results are in
for the bedbugs

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Now, as you are aware,

we are investigating
the murder of Richard Clarke.

And we have reason to believe
that you and Mrs Clarke

had close sexual contact,

round about the time of Mr Clarke's
death. Would that...?

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I'll do the test.

But there's no need.

I'm their dad.

Florence and I hadn't been
on our own together for years.

We bumped into each other.

We got chatting and she invited
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of those girls.

I am.
But you have to understand,

it was never
supposed to be like this.

Like what?

I loved Florence.

We loved each other.

When the girls were small,
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Emma was with me.

When they cut her out,
she was unconscious.

She stayed like that
for over a month.

I thought I'd killed her.

I felt so guilty.

I called it off with Florence
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and make a statement.

Oh...
And we'll need the clothes

you were wearing
on Wednesday.

This would've been
Florence's route...

..to the police station
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The blue fibres found
beneath Florence's nails

and embedded in Richard's wound

are consistent
with the school blazer.

And the spatter is consistent
with the void in the blood.

Tell me what happened.

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and he was squeezing
and he wouldn't stop squeezing.

SHOUTING

He would have killed me
if it hadn't been for Ellie.

Ellie came in
and she stabbed Richard?

No.

Ellie was just trying
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There's nothing
to be afraid of, Ellie.

I just want to ask you
a few questions.

Why don't you start
by telling me

what happened on Wednesday?

You had a half-day at school

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Then I went out
to pick some leaves.

And then what happened?

Get off her!

Dad was struggling with Mum.

I just wanted him to stop.

Your mum told me
that you helped her,

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You stabbed him?

Yeah.

Mum didn't know what to do.

So she pulled the knife out.

You have to understand,

she was trying to help him.

But she just made it worse.

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Ellie has told us everything.

Florence...

..you'd have gone to prison
for a very long time

for something you didn't do.

Why?

Do you have children,
Mr Campbell?

I have a son.

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Has anyone told Ellie the truth

about her father?

No.

Can I be the one to tell her?

Of course.

Hugh is still in the station.

Now, it's absolutely
Ellie's call,

but if she wants to see him...

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So, what's going
to happen to her?

There's a strong case that
she acted to defend her mum.

Yeah.

The CPS will decide
whether she gets charged

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OK?

OK.

You really don't ever
stop looking, do you?