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♪ It's all right ♪

♪ it's ok ♪

♪ doesn't really matter
if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ I say it's ok ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, doing fine ♪

♪ doesn't really matter
if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ I say it's ok ♪

♪ we're getting to
the end of the day ♪

Somebody look at that.

Look at that.

Where'd you get all this gear?

Your old department
sent them down.

They've been digitising
all their archive files

so they don't need these
hard copies any more.

Oh, look, look, look.

That bloke was
nicked two minutes

after this picture was taken.

Mind you it took six of us to
get him down to the station.

Yeah, he thought he
was my best mate and all.

Didn't know what was coming.

What was coming?

Ten years for possession.

And silverfish.

Eh?

These tiny perforations.

They're made by silverfish.

Tiny little insects that
live in records offices

and libraries.

Like a good read, do they?

No, they like the
starch in paper.

Didn't know you were
a shell suit man, Gerry.

[They laugh]

Yeah well, I was
undercover, wasn't I?

White luminous
green with purple?

Yeah, it was the '80s.

But where was the odds
at that local leisure centre?

Now it was a big drugs
bust, if you must know.

He looks like such a baby face.

Look, you think scar
face and double it, eh.

I tell you the whole gang
were wearing that gear.

Morning.

- Hello, guv'nor.
- Morning.

What have you got there?

Electricity bills, bank
statements, letters

all belonging to different

and all recovered
in a raid on lock-up.

What were they doing there?

Serious and organised
were acting on a tip-off

when they found
a huge heroin stash

but also discovered a
whole stockpile of documents.

These are just a sample.

But why pass them onto us?

Well, several are covered
with the fingerprints

of a man murdered
five years ago.

Friday the 13th,
unlucky for some

and particularly
unlucky for Max klein.

A 55-year-old east
German immigrant,

who was something of a mystery.

After his murder an appeal

for information brought
eyewitness reports of Max standing

at this location which
led the investigators

to look at cctv.

A review of the footage
found that prior to his death,

Max was at the same spot every
morning for nearly six months

from 7 a.M to 10 A.M.

Every morning?

What was he looking for?

Or who was he looking for?

They never found that out.

They also didn't find out
why on this particular day,

he left early.

Four hours later a
passer-by stumbled

upon him bleeding to death.

He was about half a mile
from a set of communal garages

where later traces of
his blood were found.

So he was stabbed at the
garages then tried to get away?

Yeah and when the
paramedics got to him,

he was still conscious.

Don't suppose he
mentioned who stabbed him?

Must have slipped his mind

however he did keep
repeating the same two words

again and again until
he died, in German.

They translated as blue flower.

What does that mean?

Maybe he wanted
irises at his funeral.

Blue flower brought up
several thousand results

but nothing conclusive

and nothing that
connected to Max klein.

What about the knife
he was stabbed with?

No murder weapon recovered.

No eyewitnesses.

No friends or relatives?

None.

Well this guy was like a
ghost before he even died, eh?

So what's going on here?

These documents
have all been torn up

and stuck back together again.

Yeah Max worked
at a recycling centre.

So people tear up
their confidential papers,

recycle them and
Max here is what,

piecing them together?

Well he had the skills

because before he
came to the UK in 2005,

he worked for the German
government as a puzzler.

Puzzler?

I've read about them.

When the Berlin wall fell,

they went into panic
mode on the eastern side

and the stasi started
shredding all the documents

they'd been keeping
on their own citizens.

Trying to Bury their secrets.

Yeah and the puzzlers were
east German civil servants

whose job it was to
reassemble those files.

What, by hand?

Must've taken them years.

Yeah, it did.

So Max was a dab hand
at reading the garbage.

So let me get this straight,

this guy tries to piece
together the truth

about one of the most
repressive regimes in the world.

Then he comes here
and uses those same skills

to steal people's
bank statements?

It seems like it, yeah.

Yeah but he's been
dead for five years.

Why was all that stuff
still in the lock-up?

Well, street gangs are
now diversifying into ID theft

so they can stockpile
documents for several years.

Before garnering the
information they find in them

to take out fraudulent
loans and buy stuff.

So Max was supplying this stuff

to whoever owned the lock-up?

It's possible.

Right, this station is close
to several office blocks,

housing estates, amenities...

That's a lot of
foot falling in one.

Yeah, literally thousands
during the peak hours.

And yet none of the
eyewitnesses who came forward

had actually spoken to Max.

I mean why would they?

This is a place you
pass through, isn't it?

You barely hang around
long enough to breathe,

let alone talk.

Let's take a look at that.

What?

Look at the date.

2006.

Yeah and Max was
here every morning

from January to July 2007

so someone connected with
this might well have seen him?

Excuse me, can we help you?

I am allowed to put
flowers here and the poster.

It's a beautiful tribute.

My solicitor is written
to the council about this.

Oh, we're not from the council.

I'm detective
superintendent Pullman

and this is Steve mcandrew.

Hello.

It's a bit
heavy-handed isn't it?

No, no. We're not here to
stop you from doing anything.

So what are you doing then?

We're looking into the murder
of a man named Max klein.

Oh, yeah.

You knew him?

A little. We talked
from time to time.

My name's grace cusack.

-I'm sorry for
being -don't worry.

A bit short with you.

My last experience
with the police officers

wasn't exactly what
you'd call positive.

Why not?

Well they let a
murderer go free.

Really, who was that?

Damon rapley.

He was driving the
cab that killed my son

and he's still driving
it, can you believe that?

He's still out there.

Living a normal life
like nothing happened.

So he wasn't convicted?

No.

It was nearly six years ago

and I still come
here every morning.

You probably think I'm mad.

Not at all.

Grace is there somewhere
we can talk properly?

I'm just on my way to work

but you can come
with me if you like.

Have a cup of tea.

Thank you.

Great.

[Paper rustling]

Did you know Max
klein well, mr armitage?

He was a picker.

Don't really get out on
the shop floor myself.

I tend to stay in here.

Being strategic, see?

What's a picker?

They refine the recycling

once it's been
through the main sift.

Sort the paper
from the plastics,

the wood from the
glass and the metal.

So he would have got his
hands on all sorts of stuff?

What's brought
all this up again?

We spoke to the
police just after he died.

Some new evidence
has come to light.

What new evidence?

We're not at Liberty to say.

It's nothing to do

with one of our other
eastern Europeans, is it?

We employ a lot
of them you know.

How come?

They're bloody good workers.

But who knows what
baggage they bring

with them from over there?

Actually, I tell you
one thing they do bring.

What's that?

Bed bugs. Especially the Poles.

They seem to be
riddled with them.

Bugs are probably
getting pissed up

on all that vodka
in their blood, eh?

Actually unlike some
parasites you come across,

the insect cimex lectularius
is incapable of discrimination.

Is it all right if we
take a look around?

Not at such short notice.

Why not?

This is a dangerous facility.

We have strict regulations.

How strict?

You're talking risk assessments,
health and safety forms.

Yeah, that's
just red tape in it.

Put a foot wrong out there
and you could lose an arm.

Let me get everything sorted

and you can come back next week.

Why?

What's not gonna
be here next week?

I'll go and find our
site manager, Corey.

He knew Max and he
can show you round.

Thank you.

[Tyres screeching]

Oh, thank you.

Thank you. Thanks a lot.

Is this your business?

No. But I am the manager.

Well, manage myself in truth.

A whole team of one.

Must get a bit lonely.

Not really.

There's a flower
for every occasion

so I get to meet all
kinds of people in this job.

How did you meet Max klein?

He saw me one day.

At the station?

Asked if I knew his daughter.

His daughter?

That's the reason he
came to this country.

He last saw her when
she was a baby in 1987.

Why was that?

I only know what he told me.

Max and his wife tried to
escape from east Germany.

[Soft music]

They didn't know it
would only be two years

before the Berlin
wall came down.

[Speaks foreign language]

Imagine how that must have felt.

The most delicate and
precious thing in the whole world

and it's surround by barbed
wire and watchtowers.

[Dogs barking]

[They speak foreign language]

His wife knew it wouldn't be
long before they were found.

They had to do something.

[Alarm wailing]

The hole wasn't big
enough for an adult

and then the alarm went up.

They had to make a choice.

- [People shouting]
- [Baby crying]

[Dogs barking]

They only had time
to get their baby out.

Takes a bit of doing.

Give your baby away like that.

They were desperate.

They were gonna be arrested.

The baby would have
been taken into state care

which would have meant
suffering and abuse.

Max's wife made him
promise to stay alive

in the hope that
one day he'd be free

to come after their daughter.

The stasi held them
for nearly two years.

Max survived but his
wife died in a police cell.

So he lost his whole family?

I could always see it in
his eyes burning away.

Takes one to know one.

What made him think

that he'd find his
daughter at the station?

After the wall came down,
he went looking for her.

Worked in some kind
of government office...

He was a puzzler.

That's it.

He used the access
that job gave him

to try and find out
where she'd gone

but the trail had gone cold.

It took him 15 years to
Wade through all of the files

and the paperwork,

until he found out they'd
brought her to this country.

So that's why he
came here in 2005?

Yes by that time, one
of the parents had died

and the other had
gone back to Germany.

And the daughter?

She got herself into all
kinds of trouble I think.

But he did find
someone who knew her,

and said she was
living in Shepherds bush.

So that's why he went
to the station every day

when it was at its busiest.

What was his daughter's name?

First name, Mia.

Can't remember the surname.

Do you know if
he ever found her?

No. He died trying.

I'll get onto the DNA guys.

See if there were any hits

between the original
investigation and now.

Okay.

Can you think of any reason

why somebody
would wanna kill Max?

No.

That last Friday he only
stayed at the junction

for ten minutes or so
whereas all the other days

he'd been there for three hours.

Did he seem different to you?

I wasn't there that
day. I wish I had been.

Were you interviewed
at the time?

I was away for a few weeks.

And when I got back,

well they'd done everything
they were ever gonna do,

they'd given him
one of those terrible

public health funerals.

Probably just assumed
he was another knife crime.

[Crane truck moving]

I must say mr murgins,
as a keen recycler

it's very encouraging to see

that something actually
happens to all this stuff.

Yeah but in the end it all
goes to China, doesn't it?

It goes to whoever
pays the most.

Look at this lot.

How many items do
you reckon you get

through here in an hour?

I don't know like thousands.

It's a lot of paper, isn't it?

Where did Max klein work?

Up there.

Are there any
pickers still around

that would have known him then?

None that'd be any good to you.

Why not?

Speak Polish do you? Or punjabi?

Yeah must be hard
making yourself understood

with all these
different nationalities.

They understand me all right.

Did Max klein understand you?

I've already told you I've
got an alibi for that night.

That wasn't my question.

Max klein worked
here for 18 months.

In that time,

I didn't say more
than two words to him.

Perfect employee then?

For this line of work.

Do you mind if we
have a look inside?

Why would I?

[Papers rustling]

What happens if you
find something confidential

like a bank statement?

See it, shred it.

Standard regulation.

And Max klein would've
done that, would he?

Should've done.

Yeah but as his supervisor,

it was your responsibility
to make sure he did.

What are you saying?

Well I'm saying that
what if some of the pickers

don't follow the regulations?

What's to stop them just
stashing a load of stuff

and taking it home
with them later?

We don't just leave
stuff lying around.

They get checked when
they clock off their shift.

Who by?

Me.

Yeah well thanks,
it's been very helpful.

Is there a gents' nearby?

This way.

Thanks.

It's through there.

All right, thanks.

It will be a moment.

You're going in together?

Unless there's a
regulation about that as well.

Bloody hell, there's
only one bog.

Get in.

Have you noticed how stig
of the hump's watching us

all the time?

I'm surprised he's not
in here making sure

we shoot straight.

He's just being conscientious
about health and safety

isn't he?

He's hiding something.
And armitage.

Mind you we
haven't seen anything

to suggest that Max
klein wasn't acting alone.

Brian, how much stuff
was stashed in that locker

that started all this?

You don't honestly think
that Max could have got

all that out without murgins
turning a blind eye, do you?

No, you're right.

Murgins must be in on it.

Or running it.

Look there's an awful lot

of very valuable
personal information

going through this place.

It wouldn't be hard to take
the odd bit out now and again,

would it?

And sell it on
the side to a gang

who then use it when
the dust's settled?

Exactly.

So we've gotta find out
what murgins's hiding.

Have a look at his office.

How do we do that with
him on us all the time?

Don't know yet. Come on.

This place looks like it
wandered out of drum chapel,

went on a bender and ended
up at the wrong end of the m6.

Asbestos towers are pulling
it down in three days time.

They're doing it a favour.

Maybe it reminded
Max of east Berlin, eh?

Corey give you
everything you need?

Yes.

Yes, very, very helpful.

Very helpful indeed.

I have further questions to ask

but my colleague
needs to get back

to the office to do
some office stuff.

Of course.

I'll see myself out.
Thanks very much.

[Ominous music]

Yeah I'll be out in
a couple of minutes.

So they found nothing in
here first time around, eh?

No.

And that was a bit odd

cause it was almost as
empty then as it is now.

You know it's the,

French philosopher Pascal
said that all man's misery derives

from not being able to
sit in one room alone.

You've been spending too
much time with Brian Lane.

So look, Max's body is
found half a mile away

from the garages where
he was stabbed, right?

Yeah.

Well half a mile's a marathon

when you're suffering
from a stab wound.

He must have been in agony.

What's your point?

Why didn't he stay put?

Cry out for help?

He must have been so
desperate to get somewhere,

he put up with
that amount of pain.

Maybe he was going for help.

Okay would you say
from where he was found,

he was trying to
get back to here?

I suppose so but
coming back to what?

Yeah.

Silverfish?

Pardon?

Oh yeah Brian was
telling us they're,

they're tiny little
insects, right?

And they live off.

You're right, I've been
working with Brian for too long.

Okay let's try looking at things

from a broader perspective.

Okay.

Max klein loses
his wife, loses Mia.

He spends two
years in a stasi cell

until the Berlin
wall comes down.

And then he spends
the next 15 years

at a government office trying
to work out where Mia's gone.

He makes his way to the UK.

Gets a job in the
recycling centre.

Continues his search for Mia.

Whilst ripping off electricity
bills in his spare time.

Is there something
else driving this guy?

Let's go and check
out those garages.

This place gives me the creeps.

Okay.

Was he meeting someone?

Whoever's picking
up those bills?

Could be.

Now traces of his blood
were found all around here.

Okay so there's a struggle,

maybe a dispute over money,

Max gets stabbed,
takes off that way.

Now that look, that cut through

that could lead you
back towards Max's flat.

All right he could
have been going back

but it doesn't alter the
fact there was nothing

to go back for.

There's gotta be something.

What about the lock-ups?

They must be rented
to people in the estate.

The leaseholder list
was gone over at the time

and no connection to
Max klein was found.

I see why they had so
much trouble with this one.

Let's just hope the boys
come up with something.

Amen to that.

Hey strickland's
looking for you.

Ah, great.

This is dci rosser

from the economic
and specialist crime unit.

Detective
superintendent Pullman.

To what do I owe the pleasure?

There's been something
of an administrative mix-up

between them, serious
and organised and ourselves

mix-up?

A parallel investigation.

We haven't been informed

about the recovery of
documents from that lock-up.

I don't follow.

I understand that after
studying the documents,

you've taken a keen interest

in the clays Lane
recycling centre.

And how do you know that?

Because I've had a man
inside there for three weeks now.

Everything had
been going smoothly

until two of your pensioners
came trampling through

this morning.

Pensioners?

That's what they
are, aren't they?

They're professionals
doing their job

and you'd do well to
remember that dci rosser.

I don't mean any disrespect,
detective superintendent.

But your professionals
are jeopardising

a major investigation
into what could be one

of the UK's leading
identity fraud rings.

They're asking legitimate
questions about a murder.

My priority is with the living.

I'm sorry about your German
but he's been gone five years.

I don't know how you run
things in your unit dci rosser

but here compassion for the
dead doesn't just disappear

because a few years have passed.

My point is his
troubles are over.

I'm trying to
apprehend criminals

who are ruining
lives as we speak.

And I'm trying to
apprehend a murderer.

My team are on the frontline

of the UK's fastest
growing crime.

Blimey, you sound
like a salesman.

Identity theft cost
the UK economy

over a billion pounds last year

and there were over a
hundred thousand victims.

Do you have all this

on some kind of
color-coded wall chart?

It's not a wall chart.

It's an interactive smart board.

Nice.

Are we supposed
to stand down sir?

Stay away from that place

until dci rosser's
investigation is complete.

I'm sure you have other leads.

[Phone rings]

Mr strickland.

What was all that about?

Ah, guv'nor, good news.

There's something going
on at that recycling centre

and Max klein is
up to his neck in it.

Bad news.

Strickland's warned us off.

Why?

That was the
delightful dci rosser

from economic
and specialist crime.

What's that when it's at home?

One of those fashionable,
well-financed units

at the frontier of
modern crime apparently.

Or something beginning with f.

Anyway they're already
investigating the recycling centre

so we've been told to stay away.

No but guv'nor,
I've got utility bills,

bank statements,

they're all bundled up
there ready to sell on.

Yeah Gerry's right.

We finally get decent
break in the case

and we're supposed to ignore it?

Work round it.

Well I've been looking
into Max klein's last words,

"blue flower."

And?

The original investigation
did a blanket search

on the term blue flower
which is why they ended up

with poetry groups
and estate agents.

But I applied a number
of filters to the search,

like east Germany, the
Berlin wall, cold war...

Brian, we're not getting
any younger here.

The blue flower blog
documents the history

of the most successful protest
organisation in east Germany.

Blue flower spies infiltrated
all the communist institutions

right up until the
regime collapsed.

The members of blue
flower married their way

into the government,
the military even the stasi.

The stasi?

That was ambitious.

Their aim was to
end the oppression

and they would have
done anything to achieve it.

Sorry.

Yeah, wait a sec.

Yeah, go on.

But what's this gotta
do with Max's murder?

Well he was an east
German, wasn't he?

Yeah and he was arrested
when trying to escape.

So maybe he was a
member of blue flower.

Okay thanks a lot.

Guv, Max's daughter Mia adler,

she's on the DNA database.

Why wasn't this
pointed out before?

Well she was
arrested for breaking

and entering six
months after the murder.

Address?

Yeah they gave me the address

of where she was at
the time of the break-in.

Okay, let's go.

Great.

[Soft music]

This is it.

[Door bell rings]

Hi. Mia adler?

Can you give me a second?

Okay.

She's doing one.

Ah shit. Wait there.

Mia.

Mia.

Come on, running
away is never the answer.

I've done it for
myself believe me.

Hey, Mia. Come on.

Come on talk to me. Come on.

Hey, boys.

Here.

Here's a tenner.

I'll give you another one
when you catch that girl. Go on.

She gave us a 50.

Bloody London prices.

Sorry I lost her.

That girl should wear
a t-shirt saying troubled

and dangerous.

Well, it looks like she
took her computer with her

but she left her Insulin behind.

Troubled, dangerous
and a diabetic, eh?

Yeah. What on earth is that?

Ah, it dropped out of her bag.

Looks like it was
more important for her

to take this than her Insulin.

What the hell, what the hell.

Hello.

Well, well.

This memory stick
contains the back-up files

for the blue flower blog.

Which means that
Mia was behind it.

Yes but I'm more interested

in the folder of unpublished
files she's got on here.

They're stasi reports.

All about one particular
member of the blue flower group.

A woman who tried to
flee the border in 1987

after they discovered
her identity.

That woman was Alicia klein,

Max klein's wife
and Mia's mother.

Only there's a big difference
between what's written

in these reports and
what grace cusack told us.

Alicia was trying to
smuggle herself and Mia out.

Max wasn't with them.

So are you saying
that grace lied?

More likely Max lied to her.

Why would he do that?

To hide the fact that
his wife wasn't trying

to escape with him.

She was trying to
escape from him.

- [Dogs barking]
- [Alarm wailing]

[Baby crying]

Max klein wrote these reports.

These are his words.

He tracked down and
arrested his own wife that night.

Max klein was in the stasi?

Imagine the rage
he must have felt.

Knowing she's only married
him to get inside information.

And here she was trying to run.

Taking away the child
they'd had together.

So his marriage, his family,

was all a lie?

Well this was a world
where children informed

on their parents.

Nothing was sacred,
anything was possible.

Yeah but Max was a
jig Sawyer, wasn't he?

Puzzler.

All right, puzzler.

So, so the Berlin
wall comes down

and he goes back
to the only place

he should have stayed a
million miles away from?

The government offices where
they're reassembling the files

that the stasi shredded?

Well there's lots of
stories of stasi personnel

infiltrating that
particular office

to Bury their own crimes.

Rewrite history.

So why didn't Mia
publish that in her blog?

If you'd just discovered
that your father

was responsible for
your mother's death,

would you publish it?

Not if you wanted
to take revenge.

Exactly.

So that's why he
stopped looking that day.

He'd found her.

Or she'd found him.

Yeah but hold on, hold on.

If Alicia only had Mia
to keep up the illusion

of her marriage to Max,

why would he then
come looking for her?

Maybe that's something
that Mia can tell us.

Hey where are we on
murgins by the way?

Oh yeah. I've been
checking this out.

I found it in his office
at the recycling centre.

Not this again.

Sandra, this is a
well-known hang out

for a lot of very dodgy faces.

I mean it's a perfect place if
you're gonna sell documents.

What, what is it?

It's just a pub.

But it'd be very
easy to pop in there

and check out who
murgins is actually meeting.

Gerry, we've been
told to stay away.

How many times?

From the recycling centre
yeah, but not from murgins.

He is a suspect.

And whoever he's meeting
could be well involved too.

All right but keep
your distance.

Actually no Steve,
you go with him.

And behave yourselves.

As if we wouldn't.

[Upbeat music]

Just a pub, eh?

Well it's got a bar.

Oh so there is, how
long have we got?

Murgins should be
here in about 20 minutes.

That is an eternity
in drinking time.

Hi, a couple of
large ones please.

Yeah and a couple of
pints of that London stuff.

That's great, isn't it?

Takes you back to the old days

of stings and stakeouts
and secret identities.

You pining for your shell suit?

No, no. I'm just saying.

It's good to get your
hands dirty now and again.

Reminds you of
what it's all about.

We are as they say,
kicking it old school.

Yeah.

Hey, hey, hey, focus.

We're supposed to be
behaving ourselves remember?

Don't you worry about me.

In these situations

I was always known
as captain outstanding.

I'm well focused.

Yeah but focus on getting
that down your neck,

captain outstanding.

Yeah, you know like
those superheroes.

By day he was Gerry
standing, at night...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I
get the picture, slainte.

Cheers mate.

Oh, dear.

I wonder how the guv'nor
and Brian are getting on.

On a stakeout they'll be
having a whale of a time.

Sitting back, listening to some
music, digging the sounds.

[Woman] I don't know. Is
the tagliatelle made with meat?

[Speaks foreign language]

Okay, I'll take the tagliatelle.

Okay, [speaks foreign language]

Maybe I was wrong, maybe
we've lost her altogether.

[Woman] Ah, that is good.

Ah, that is good.

I was enjoying that.

I could tell.

Well I've gotta practise.

It's been years since
my German o-level.

Brian, we don't even
know if she speaks German.

And even if she does,

I very much doubt that
vegetarian tagliatelle

will be a topic of
our conversation.

Well I'm just trying to defrost
my vocabulary you know.

Just leave it in the
freezer for now, will you?

Ha, ha, very witty.

Suspect's arrived.

[Woman] Copy that.

[Ominous music]

Can we talk now please, Mia?

So this geezer has got a
sawn-off shotgun, right?

Yeah.

But not only that.

He's got a parrot
on his shoulder.

What?

You should have heard
the language from the parrot.

Honestly you wouldn't
believe this beak on this bird.

It's like, the bloke
suddenly looks me in the eye

and raises the shotgun
and I'm thinking Gerry,

this is it for you
son, you've had it.

And suddenly the parrot says...

There he is.

There he is? What?

No, no. Murgins.

There he is.

That must be the
guy he's selling to.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

That's the dci who
was at our place earlier.

Rosser the tosser.

Hey Gerry, I think
that's a tad judgmental.

You hardly know the bloke.

The guv'nor's gonna love this.

But what's he doing here?

You don't think
he's in on it, do you?

It's a sting.

We're gonna find out who
he's doing business with.

Yeah.

[Man shouting]

Oh, he's off.

Come on Gerry, you're
captain outstanding.

Do something.

Oh, very smooth.

Mr murgins.

Bye bye now.

Pullman's pensioners.

You don't have to thank
us. We were just passing.

That was a suitably
arthritic solution I suppose

but don't worry, I won't
be thanking you for it.

Don't you speak to
captain outstanding like that.

I'm afraid I don't speak
clapped out and retired at all.

Oh but you're so
fluent in arse hole?

You've been instructed to
stay away from our operation.

Lucky for you we were around.

Otherwise your man
there would have nipped off

on his rather sizeable toes.

Well I'll be speaking to
strickland in the morning.

Why don't you do that? Bum face.

Are you all right?

Gerry, total tosser.

Smell 'em a mile off.

Tosser radar, mate.

I say, time for another.

I think so.

Oh hey, hey, hang on.

So what did the parrot say?

At the end of your story?

Oh the parrot.

Yeah, yeah.

He's got the shotgun
right and parrot here.

Yeah.

And suddenly the
parrot goes "wanker,"

and nearly tears his ear off.

So I nut him and Nick him.

[They laugh]

We've read your
father's reports.

He wasn't my father.

We've got a DNA test
result that says otherwise.

Ooh well listen to
you, a DNA test result.

We wouldn't have
found you without it.

Max klein wasn't
even a human being

so how could he
be anyone's father?

All right then. Your
biological father.

Is that better?

He was a cancer.

A tumour eating
away at people's lives

without them even
knowing that he was there.

Till it was too late.

Is that what he
did to your mother?

Ate away at her life?

No. No she knew
what he was all along.

To think how much it must
have hurt him when he found out.

Knowing that she'd almost
beaten him at his own game.

Almost wasn't
enough there, was it?

He arrested her,
had her interrogated.

Sounds like you're
doing to me now then.

We're asking you
questions, that's all.

No, you're trying to
exploit my emotions.

You're angry. It's
understandable.

I'm not angry.

No I'm ecstatic.

Elated even. Can't
you tell the difference?

Finding out that he's dead.

No, even better that
somebody else killed him.

That he died in pain.

- [Dogs barking]
- [Whistle blowing]

The thought of him just
bleeding to death, all alone.

I only wish I'd been
there to watch it happen.

See the light fade in his eyes.

Listen to the last breath as
it passed between his lips.

The way you're talking you sound

as though you killed him.

I didn't even know
he was in this country

until you told me.

You're telling us,
he never found you?

I didn't want to be found.

Where were you at
the time of his death?

Why don't you tell me, mmh?

You seem to be such an
expert on my movements.

That's important
to you, isn't it?

Privacy, anonymity.

Did you search my
medical records as well?

Yeah I bet you did.

Where were you at the
time of your father's murder?

There's nothing
you won't exploit

to get what you want is there?

Memories, tragedies,
even chronic illnesses.

We just wanna
discover the truth.

People like you don't care
about discovering the truth.

You only care about
bending it, distorting it,

making it all fit.

Hang on a minute.

If the truth is so
important to you

why didn't you publish your
father's reports on the blog?

Because there are days

when I still don't want
to believe that it's true.

She's got the motive.

And the aggression.

She wishes she had killed him.

Yeah but that's just it.

She wishes she had.

See if you can
trace her movements

over the last five years

maybe we can get her alibi

even if she doesn't
wanna give us one.

What are you gonna do?

Get her to see that
she can trust us.

Good luck.

Cheers.

Thank you.

Would you like him back?

I know he means a lot to you.

Did you have him
when you were little?

It's the only thing of
hers that I've got left.

Your mum?

She was very beautiful. I
saw her photo in the report.

There's nothing
beautiful about that.

They took it.

The stasi?

On the night he arrested her.

You know I don't even
know what she looked like

when she smiled.

How did you get
hold of those reports?

Are you gonna
arrest me for that too?

Just help me Mia.

In 2006 the German
government started to digitise

all the stasi archives,

but they have to be careful
about what they put online.

Why?

A lot of ex-stasi are CEOs
now. They're respectable men.

If their names were out
there in the public domain.

If people knew what they'd done.

So you hacked them?

I wanted to know the truth.

I wanna know the truth too.

About what happened
to your father.

Stop calling him that.

Sorry.

Could the people
who smuggled you out

have caught up with him?

They were friends of my mother's

but they were still traffickers.

The first thing they did

was give me up to the west
German adoption agency.

Your father could,

sorry, Max klein couldn't
have known about your blog

could he?

No. I post anonymously.

Then why do you think his
last words were "blue flower?"

Could have been
some stasi codeword.

Or maybe he was full of regret

over what he did to your mother.

He wasn't capable of that.

You read his reports.

She became nothing
more than an object to him.

Something to be
ground down, defeated.

You know I met
someone who knew Max

and he didn't sound at all

like the monster
you're describing.

You really don't know who
you're dealing with, do you?

Okay.

If you can think of anything

that might explain what
your father's last words meant,

I want you to contact me okay?

All right, you can go now.

What were Gerry and Steve
doing in that place, Sandra?

Following a legitimate lead.

And I told you to
keep your distance.

Yeah, from the recycling centre.

Not from murgins.

Max klein was one of the pickers

for the racket that
murgins is running there.

Alongside scores of other
equally unremarkable immigrants.

Yesterday,

we discovered that klein
was an ex-stasi officer.

I can assure you there was
nothing unremarkable about him.

With respect,
you're reaching here.

There could quite
easily have been conflict

between murgins and klein

especially if murgins
put him under pressure.

Well I'd be happy to
ask him about it for you.

I'll do my own asking thank you.

Let me speak to
armitage and murgins.

They're my suspects.

And mine.

And it's my decision.

Sir I need to know

who murgins has been
selling these things to.

And I am sure that
murgins has information

on klein's murder.

Talk to murgins and armitage.
See what you can find.

So what really happened
to Max klein, mr armitage?

I've given you an alibi.

More of a lullaby, really.

A baby might believe it.

If it didn't fall asleep first.

So what's between
you and murgins?

Did you start this
scam or did he?

I never meant
for it to go this far.

Oh, diddums.

Straight up.

I didn't know what he was up to.

Not at first.

Not until I needed the money.

Why did you need money?

One of the girls on the
floor got herself into trouble.

You mean you got
herself into trouble?

If you like.

Well either you
did or you didn't.

I didn't have the
money for her to,

take care of it so
Corey loaned it to me.

That was big of him.

I didn't know where
he'd got it from

until it was too late.

So he was blackmailing
you, was he?

You're a poor soul right enough.

Said if he ever went
down, I was going down too.

Made you turn a blind eye?

At first he was
just skimming one

or two things off the line but,

as it got bigger he needed me

to keep the bosses off our backs

so that he could
run the pickers.

Bit off a bit more
than he could chew

with Max klein
though, didn't he?

I knew that man was trouble
the moment he arrived.

Two days before he died
he had a row with Corey.

What about?

Don't know.

Threats were exchanged.

Then it got physical.

How physical?

It's the first time I've
ever seen anyone

stand up to Corey.

But Max put him
in his place, did he?

Black eye.

That works.

Corey was bloody furious.

You had a fight with
Max klein two days

before he was
murdered, why was that?

Armitage told you?

Afraid so.

He also told us it
was the first time

that anybody had
got the better of you.

Did that hurt your pride?

It was nothing.

Nothing?

You told us that you'd barely
had two words with Max klein.

I bet that row had more
than two words in it, didn't it?

Was it over money?

He never wanted money all right?

Why was that?

I don't know.

All the pickers get a taste.

Not much but a fiver's
a fortune to them.

But he wouldn't even take that.

He just drew his basic salary.

Hold on, hold on.

So why was he helping put
back together torn-up bills

if he wasn't earning out of it?

Cause he knew if
he didn't do the work

I wouldn't trust him.

Besides, it was the best job
he could get in this country.

Did he ever have any contact
with the people you sell to?

No. Why would he?

So why did you have a fight?

He wanted that Friday off.

The Friday he died?

Yeah. He said it was vital.

But you wouldn't let him?

No.

Why did it get physical?

What do you think?

He threatened to
expose you, didn't he?

But you must have climbed down

because he was
supposed to be working

at the time of his death.

I didn't climb down.

He never showed
up for his shift.

I never saw him again.

Why was that particular
Friday so important to Max?

I don't know.

I always thought it
might be something to do

with the cabbie.

Cabbie?

Yeah, he came down to
the centre looking for Max.

A day or two before we had our,

disagreement.

Geezer seemed pretty steamed up.

They started pushing
each other about.

Can you remember his name?

Ripley?

No, rapley.

Something rapley.

Grace cusack told us
that her son was run over

by a cabbie called Damon rapley.

But why would
rapley go and see Max

at the recycling centre?

Well, grace is
obviously the connection

but I haven't got a clue
where or how or why.

Grace's boy was playing chicken

across the road with his pals.

And this Damon rapley
just happened to be

in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

It says here that
he's a leaseholder

on one of those garages.

There was a black cab
parked there remember?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah murgins said he saw rapley

at the recycling
centre with Max.

And he parks his cab close
to where Max was stabbed.

What's this about an injunction?

Grace could never
accept the accident verdict

and she threatened rapley.

Letters, phone calls, the works.

Grace talked a lot to Max.

Could she have told
him about all this?

Well she volunteered
quite a bit when we met her,

didn't she?

Even called rapley a murderer.

Maybe Max got rapley to
go to the recycling centre

to get revenge for grace.

Would you describe
yourself and Max as close?

Not close exactly.

Then what?

I think we understood
each other.

How do you mean?

In a way we'd both had
the same experience,

we'd both lost a child.

Only he had the chance
to try and find his again.

Where is this going?

Did you ever tell Max how
you felt about Damon rapley?

Of course.

But how does me
telling him how I felt

have to do with his murder?

Well we think he might
have gone after rapley.

Why?

You wanted revenge, didn't you?

I never told Max that.

Yeah but you might
not have needed to.

I have learned to live
with what he did to my son.

I can't deal with the thought
of him hurting Max too.

My governor said
you wanted a word.

Mr rapley?

Yep.

Detective
superintendent Pullman.

This is Brian Lane, ucos.

Yeah, got you a cup of tea mate.

Yeah great, thanks for that.

Look, I don't mean to be rude

but if we can we
make this quick,

I've got an airport pick-up.

Do you remember going
to this man's place of work

on the 12th of July 2007?

Is this about her?

Who do you mean by "her"?

Grace cusack. He kept
pestering me about her.

Why?

Wanted me to apologise.

Had this mad idea it
would make things better.

Why didn't you do it?

Because it would have
had the opposite effect.

How so?

She'd have seen it
as an admission of guilt

and I would never
have been over it.

She's not the only one
who's suffered you know?

She lost her only child.

Yeah, who stepped
out in front of me.

I couldn't do anything about it.

You said that Max
had been pestering you.

How long had that gone on

before you went to
his recycling centre?

Couple of weeks give or take.

He got more threatening.

I went to warn him off.

But if you knew he was
speaking to you on grace's behalf,

why didn't you call it in?

Let the police handle it?

It was a breach of the
injunction, wasn't it?

He was very clever about that.

He said he was doing it
all without her knowledge.

That she didn't know
anything about it.

Did he say why he'd
taken up her cause?

He was sure there
was gonna be a disaster

if I didn't apologise.

And what with the anniversary
of her son's death. One year.

What kind of disaster?

She was gonna do
something drastic.

To herself?

I don't know.

Why didn't you say anything
about this at the time?

I mean you must have been
aware of Max klein's murder.

Because I'm not stupid.
I know what it looks like.

What does it look like?

Are you going to charge
me with something?

Otherwise I really have to go.

Can you tell us where you
were on the day he died?

Working.

We'll be checking that.

Fine.

Thanks for the tea.

[Ominous music]

Grace said that she always goes

to the junction first thing

but not on the day
Max was murdered.

Well what about this?

Max is waiting and he
sees that grace isn't there,

so he goes after rapley,

there's a struggle but
it's Max who gets stabbed.

Why didn't rapley just own up?

Say it was self-defense?

Because he was seen
at the recycling centre

a couple of days before.

That and his history with grace

could all add up
to premeditation.

So we need something
more than this.

Something that puts Max

and rapley together
at those garages.

Well I've talked to
his cab company

and they're sending over
the records for that day.

What did the original
investigation turn up at Max's flat?

Just a bed and a
few possessions.

And some of your silverfish.

Silverfish?

Well that makes sense.

It does?

When the stasi man
goes after somebody,

they usually have
a system, a method.

They gather all kinds of material
before they confront them.

Observation
reports, photographs,

even scent samples.

What's scent got to do with it?

Well my point is that Max
was looking for his daughter.

And he had a surveillance
routine at that junction.

And he stuck to
it like clockwork.

So if Max was going after
rapley on grace's behalf

there would have been material,

surveillance research
that kind of thing.

And paperwork.

Max's flat was virtually empty.

But the original team didn't
know he was stasi, did they?

So?

So they didn't know

that the one thing a
stasi man would do

is go to incredible
lengths to hide things.

Walls, pipes, floorboards.

Secrecy was a way
of life for these people.

So it hasn't changed
since klein lived here.

No.

Oh.

[Laughs]

Do you wanna share the joke?

Look at the wallpaper.
It's all flowers.

Hello, Gerry calling team.

Blue flower?

They're pink.

Well maybe there's a
blue one somewhere.

[Knock on the door]

Hang on a minute.

This is a stud wall right?

Yeah.

Well look, the wall's far
too close to the window.

I reckon this room's
short by at least four feet.

Gerry, let's get
this wardrobe out.

We have some
wheels. So there's hope.

Oh, well done Gerry. Look.

Blue flower.

It's been coloured
in with felt tip.

Oh. What the.

Careful guv'nor.

Blimey. Look.

What is the around here.

Well, he'd been searching
for his daughter for 17 years.

He'd need structure,
organisation.

He'd wanna make
sure that this place

was free from interference.

Especially detection.

Secrecy was his
second nature, wasn't it?

You'd be paranoid about
anybody discovering this lot.

Well I suppose when
he knew he was dying,

he was desperate for
someone to discover the truth

hence the words blue flower.

You know they look really
happy in these photos.

Well we might find
some truth in here.

This looks like his
journal. It's in German.

Oh, the last entry
was on the day he died.

Can you, can you read it?

Give me a chance. Me
German is still thawing out.

[Speaks foreign language]

Oh, that's hurting.

To hurt.

I must stop rapley
hurting grace.

Time to bring him in.

Max klein attacked
you, didn't he?

Why would he do that?

Because grace
cusack wanted revenge

and he was gonna get it for her.

Did he bring the
knife or was it yours?

I was working that day, you
can check with my company.

We did.

You were several minutes
late for your first booking

and that delay ties in with
the time of Max klein's murder.

You wanna know why I was late?

I took the long way round.

Why?

I always take the
long way round now.

Why?

Ever since the accident,

I don't wanna go near
that road ever again.

Grace cusack doesn't think
I care about what happened

to her boy but of course I do.

Then why haven't
you told her that?

She needs someone to
blame, don't you understand?

It's the only way she
can deal with this.

And avoiding the
road helps me forget.

Every time I remember
it's like the guilt comes alive.

I can feel it swirling
around me now

every time I talk about it.

It's like, like a big, black
hole but it's not inside me.

I'm outside it.

And one day it's gonna
swallow me whole.

But the accident investigation
found you weren't at fault.

You ever run over a child?

It empties you.

Whether it's your fault or not.

How did it go with rapley?

His alibi checks out.
We've had to let him go.

Poor sod's in bits.

So now we're back to square one.

[Speaks foreign language]

Look, with German,

you can't just translate
word by word from left to right.

You have to isolate the
verb and work backwards.

Well being back
in school, isn't it?

Go on, Brian.

So the verb [speak
foreign language]

Would be used in
both rapley hurts grace

and rapley is hurt by grace.

Max wasn't trying to
stop rapley hurting grace.

He was trying to stop
grace hurting rapley.

Well there's his
cab, but where's he?

Something's wrong.

Eh?

[Knock on the door]

Grace? Grace?

It's locked.

Break it down.

[Door bangs]

Grace?

Grace can you hear me?

Have you taken these, grace?

I'll get the medics.

Is he gone?

Who?

Is rapley gone?

He's still got a pulse.

Yeah I'll get an ambulance.

Max knew what I wanted to do.

He kept trying to
talk me out of it.

I was trying to avoid him.

And that's why he didn't go
to the junction that morning.

I was waiting at the
garages for rapley

but Max caught up with me.

He tried to take the knife.

I just wouldn't let it go.

The next thing I knew,
he was on the floor

saying those words.

Blue flower.

He was a good man.

I didn't wanna hurt him.

They're on their way.

Okay.

You think she's
gonna be all right?

She'll live.

Is that enough?

[Siren wailing]

I wanted to bring you here

so that I could show you

what your father's
last words meant.

He, he just wanted
someone to know the truth.

What truth?

That he secretly
tried to smuggle you

and your mother
into west Germany

so that you could
get your Insulin.

[Soft music]

No she was running from him.

With him.

Not from him.

He was part of blue flower too.

And that's why he joined
the stasi in the first place.

She's smiling.

They obviously loved
each other very much.

And you.

But all the files, all
the arrest reports.

Part of his cover-up.

It's all in here.

Your father's account
of what really happened.

[Ominous music]

[They speak foreign language]

[Dogs barking]

Your parents knew that
if they were both arrested,

then they'd never be set
free to come look for you,

they'd never see you again.

[Alarm wailing]

[Baby cries]

But then your
mother had an idea.

No.

[They speak foreign language]

Arrest me.

[Blows whistle]

When the border
police caught them,

she made him act
like he'd played no part

in the escape plan,

like he'd just
been following her.

Like she was part of the
blue flower and he wasn't?

Yeah.

She made him swear
to keep up the illusion

no matter what they did to her.

And he knew that was
the only way he'd stay free

to come and find you.

But he never found me.

This room is all about you Mia.

He never stopped looking
until the day he died.

No but these are just words.

Your father was a good man.

How do you know that for sure?

Because he died
trying to stop somebody

from making the biggest
mistake of their life.

[Soft music]

You okay?

I've got one hell of a
story to tell on my blog.

I look forward to reading it.

Thank you.

For everything.

[Soft music]