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♪ It's alright, it's okay ♪

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

♪ it's alright, I
say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's alright, doing fine ♪

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

♪ it's alright, I
say, it's okay ♪

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

- [Water splashes]
- [Tense music]

[Bicycle bell trills]

[Crowd chatters]

[Car horn honks]

[Suspenseful music]

[Water splashes]

[Footsteps scuff]

[Door creaks]

[Door slams]

Hello?

[Water drips]

Hello, it's me.

[Dramatic music]

[Bag thuds]

[Woman screams]

[Danny] I use those little bags.

[Steve] What little bags?

Well, you crack
the egg into them

and then drop the whole thing

- into boiling water.
- No, no, no,

you don't use bags,

you just get the
water swirling nicely.

And then you add vinegar.

No, I've tried it,

it just produces
favoured egg water.

- Well you're doing it wrong.
- Morning.

- Morning guv.
- Morning guv.

[Gerry] You all right?

[Danny] Well, clearly
I'm doing it wrong,

that's why I use the bags.

Sasha, what method do
you use for poaching eggs?

I've no idea, I just
point at them on a menu.

What do they want?

You.

Well, I'm pretty sure

that's no longer
true of one of them.

I'd give strickland a go though.

Really?

No, Steve, it was a joke.

If I'm not out in 10 minutes,

somebody set off
the fire alarm again.

[Door clicks]

Morning Sasha.

- Hello.
- Morning.

Dac hancock has
something for us.

Oh, good.

Oliver houghton.

The guy they
fished out the sewer?

He died two days ago,
Sasha, it's not a cold case.

Oh.

I have a team on it,
but they're struggling.

Problems at the top?

Oliver houghton was
questioned as a potential witness

in an unsolved murder
from 20 years ago.

And you think there might
be a connection to his death?

[Ned] Honestly? No.

I don't, I think it's
a wild goose chase.

But I don't have the
manpower to follow it up.

And, uh, well, it's what
you guys do, isn't it?

Sure, give it to us,

but it will go at the
bottom of a very big pile.

I've said we would
accommodate dac hancock.

He doesn't even think
there's a connection.

I could be wrong.

I'm sorry, what
did you just say?

We're going to help
them out with this one.

This is political, isn't it?

[Ned] No, it's called
helping out a fellow officer.

Yes, it's completely political.

Fine. Then I want a
demarcation, houghton's yours.

This unsolved case?

David straka.

What, the artist?

Yep.

He's ours.

No looking over my shoulder,

no interfering.

Suits me, he's all yours.

Safe to say, I
will need updates.

[Rising music]

Okay, here comes the exposition.

David straka was
a conceptual artist

living and working in hampstead.

- [Gerry groans]
- May the 20th 1994,

David straka was found dead

on the vale of health
on hampstead Heath.

Now straka was gay

and he was known to
frequent the Heath after dark

to meet people for sex.

Now, the assumption at the time

was that he met the wrong guy.

Cause of death was drowning.

His face was pushed
here into this stream.

There were no leads at the time.

And as you know, there's
no cctv on the Heath,

and any number
of ways off of it.

So what's changed, what
do we think we know now?

Well, nothing.

We know now what we knew then,

except Oliver houghton.

Wasn't that the bloke who
was found dead in the sewer?

Well, that's a juicy one.

It's not our juicy
one, I'm afraid.

The team leading the
houghton investigation

aren't making much progress.

There's no motives, he
had no known enemies.

Wasn't he a film critic?

Oh, well, there you go. Next.

What he was, Gerry,

was a witness in the original
David straka investigation.

That a fact?

Yeah, Oliver houghton worked

as an assistant
for David straka.

[Danny] Were they
romantically involved?

Good question. Don't know.

Oh, right, so we're
looking for a connection

between this bloke straka,

drowned on the Heath by
somebody he'd picked up there,

and a film critic who
ends up dead in a sewer

20 years later.

Now with all due respect guvnor,

there are three seasoned
cops here who'll tell you

there's bugger all in this.

[Steve] Yeah.

[Danny] Two.

Eh?

Two.

This seasoned cop has just
spotted something interesting.

[Tense music]

This is pretty
much the exact spot

where David straka was killed.

And I think the
method is a clue.

Go on.

Straka was drowned.

Well, he wasn't
beaten, nor strangled,

which is how a lot of
these situations end up

when they go badly.

He was drowned.

We knew all this when
we were drinking tea

in a nice warm office.

Who's heard of the river fleet?

I have.

Put your hand up,
don't just call out.

It's an underground river.

Yes, it was the biggest
of London's lost rivers.

It was a proper waterway with
boots and trade and whatnot.

Got pretty mucky though,

basically filled up with
sewage, dead dogs,

and the occasional
victim of violent crime.

The whole thing got
so unpleasant that

by the middle of
the 19th century

it'd either been
built over gradually

or redirected underground.

But it's still there,
it's still flowing,

but it's under the city now.

I knew that. Except
for the dead dogs.

Well, the fleet has two sources,

one is over that way in the
ground of kenwood house,

and the other is here.

Here?

Here.

This is the source.

The river flows down that
way, through hampstead ponds,

and then down to Camden,
kings cross, clerkenwell,

flows into the thames
underneath blackfriars bridge.

For most of its length
it's a sewer now.

Would this be the same sewer

that Oliver houghton's
body was found in?

- Yes.
- Yeah,

but couldn't that
just be coincidence?

Both victims were
drowned, in the same river.

And where houghton was
found is not easy to get to,

somebody really wanted
his body to end up there.

[Doorbell rings]

[Entry system buzzes]

So this was David
straka's studio?

That's right, and
it's now the archive.

I'm putting a book together
on his entire body of work.

I'm not sure it helps

that you're dragging
up his death again.

But I suppose this is because
of poor Ollie houghton,

I was just reading about it.

Would you like coffee?

It's only instant.

[Steve] No, thanks, no.

You think that the one death

has something to
do with the other?

We're looking at all the
possibilities at the moment.

[Steve] You wrote a
biography of David straka,

how did you feel about the
official version of his death?

Was he killed by some
bugger, you mean?

Yes, that more than
rang true, I'm afraid.

Liked a bit of rough, did
David, the rougher the better.

You knew him well,
when he was alive?

Oh, very well, yes.

We dined together every
Friday, the whole salon.

Your whole what?

A gathering of the
artistically inclined.

David's inner
circle, if you will.

[Steve] Do you
have a list of names?

I'm afraid most of
them are dead now.

Cancer, aids, a couple of them
decamped to warmer climes.

While David was still
alive, you understand,

nothing sinister. [Chuckles]

Just Ruth and cyril remain,

and I haven't seen
them for years.

[Steve] Ruth and cyril?

Ruth shireen and cyril Watkins.

Characters, both of them.

But I suppose we
all were back then,

at least viewed through
the prism of the normal.

[Steve] Do you have contact
details for either of them?

[Sam] I'm afraid not.

Lost to the mists of time.

What's this?

[Tense music]

Oh.

That's from an
unfinished project.

And what was it?

Oh nothing, a
minor piece at best.

It's just a still from a
moving image piece.

Found footage retrieved,
reassembled, and re-contextualized.

Minor, as I say.

Now, if you're interested
in some of David's-

I'm interested in this.

It's just some cheap
homemade film clips

David had happened upon.

And where did he
happen upon them?

I've no idea.

[Danny] And he was
working on this when he died?

That's right, yes.

I'm afraid I fail to
see why you should-

does it tie in with
the fleet river at all?

The underground river, you mean?

I don't think...

Well, I wouldn't have thought...

He most certainly
never mentioned it.

And what happened
to these clips?

Well, nothing.

The plan was to reassemble them

and build some sort of
performance piece around them.

But he never managed
to track down all the clips.

[Steve] What about
the ones he did find?

Well, I'm sure they're
around somewhere.

There are much more
interesting pieces-

we'd like to have
a look at them.

[Dramatic music]

Danny, when you said
arty '70s home movie,

this isn't exactly what
I was hoping to see.

Yeah, what was that?

There's a lot of words to
describe what that was,

but useful and evidence
aren't among them.

[Gerry grunts]

So why was macfarlane
so keen to dismiss them?

I think there's more to it.

Do you wanna run
with these clips for a bit?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

Gerry, you and I are
going to see Emily Fraser.

Who's Emily Fraser?

[Sasha] She was another
one of straka's assistants.

She worked with Oliver houghton.

How many assistants does
a conceptual artist need?

Two, apparently.

[Steve] What about me?

You're on secondment

to Danny mulder's
spooky woo-woo apartment.

- What?
- Woo.

Oh for...

[Serene music]

[Gerry] Do you like art?

[Sasha] Is that an
actual question?

It's like asking somebody
if they read books.

I don't know much
about art, but I like it,

yeah, course I like it.

Nah, it's not for me.

I mean, you explain to me
the difference between that

and what a child would paint.

Are you waiting for me?

[Sasha] Emily Fraser?

Yes.

[Sasha] Detective chief
inspector Sasha Miller,

this is Gerry standing.

Has something happened?

[Sasha] No, no. Well,
yes, 20 years ago.

We're here about David straka.

Oh, sorry, they just told
me the police were here.

My dad's ill, he lives
with me and I thought-

no, no, no, nothing like that.

[Sasha] Um, is there
somewhere we can talk?

Yes. Yes, I have
an office upstairs.

That Francis bacon
you were looking at,

it's, um, considered a
landmark in British postwar art.

Ah, right.

Doesn't mean you'd want it

hanging on your living room
wall though, huh? [Chuckles]

I don't get it, I'm afraid.

Well, I could give
you a two hour lecture

on bacon's contribution
to British surrealism

post Paul Nash and
Graham sutherland,

and the influence of
the works of aeschylus

and Picasso's biomos
on those three paintings,

or you could just treat
art the same as books,

or film, or music.

You like, what you like

and bollocks to anyone
who says you're wrong.

[Sasha and Emily chuckle]

[Gerry chuckles]

[Door latch clicks]

Come in.

You worked with David straka?

Yeah, as an assistant

for a few months
after I left university.

Really? And what sort
of thing did that involve?

Well, whatever
needed doing really,

arranging models for
him to paint or photograph,

finding locations, dealing
with galleries and exhibitions.

Sometimes it'd be just
tidying up the studio

or collecting his dry cleaning.

The project he was
working on when he died.

[Emily] The film thing.

What, you didn't approve?

Well, it wasn't for me
to approve, really, I just...

I went to work with David

because I thought
his work was amazing.

But that last project, it
just didn't sit right for me.

It was all to do
with spiritualism,

and I just found it all a bit
adolescent, if I'm honest.

What about his private life?

Oh, we never, um.

No, I mean, did you
ever get an insight

into what his life was
like outside the studio?

Well, he picked up men on
hampstead Heath, didn't he?

That's how he died.

Wasn't exactly a rare
phenomenon in that world.

[Sasha] Were he and
Oliver houghton ever lovers?

Ollie? God no.

No, Ollie was
definitely straight.

He's a good person
to talk to though,

knew more about David's
private life than I did.

Probably don't have an
up-to-date number for him now,

it's a long time since-

[Gerry] Um.

What?

[Sasha] You don't know
about Oliver houghton, do you?

[Gerry] He was
murdered two days ago.

[Sasha] It was in the papers,
we assumed you knew.

No, I, I didn't.

But you said you were
here about David straka.

We are, it's a
tangential investigation.

Because Oliver houghton was

a witness in the David straka
case we've been asked to see

if there's a connection
to his death.

But David was killed by
some guy in the Heath,

how can that connect
to Ollie being killed

two decades later?

We don't really know if it does.

[Sasha] I think we've
got everything we need.

Well, if you do need more
information about David,

you should probably
talk to Ruth shireen.

Yeah, I think Sam
macfarlane mentioned her.

You've spoken to Sam macfarlane?

Well, he's straka's biographer.

Biographer's a bit strong.

He was one of
those obsessive fans

who hangs around long enough

they become part
of the furniture.

Ruth's more of an
artist in her own right.

Very much influenced
by David's work.

She's more of an insider.

If you do go and see her,
have a look at her work,

might be more your thing.

Thanks for your
time, miss Fraser.

[Dramatic music]

In 1865 Thomas
Hardy, the novelist,

was working as
a trainee architect.

He was overseeing
the removal of bodies

from part of this churchyard,

because they were about to build

the midland railway
line through it.

And rather than smashing
up the headstones,

Hardy stacked them
around this tree.

How do you know all this stuff?

They write it in books.

But you know what's
more interesting?

I can't imagine.

This churchyard used to
be on the bank of a river.

The fleet?

That is interesting.

[Suspenseful music]

Go on then.

Bagnigge house was actually
the home of Nell gwynne,

except it wasn't here,
it was up the road,

but they moved that plaque there

to the site of what were
the bagnigge Wells.

There was a spa
here in the late 1700s.

Well, I say spa, it was
more of a knocking shop,

but it's the Wells
that are interesting.

Very.

What, so all this water
came from the fleet?

Mm, yes here,
and St. Chad's well,

the clerk's well,
or clerkenwell,

were all situated on
the banks of the fleet.

All right, all right,

if I admit there's a pattern to
these clips, can we go home?

No.

[Ruth] Yeah, that whole scene

got very weird towards the end.

I mean, it was kind
of weird already,

very much a cult of personality,

David straka being the great
Messiah of contemporary art.

[Sasha] You didn't rate him?

Oh no, he was brilliant.

That's one of the
reasons I was there.

He was a guest lecturer

my last year at
goldsmiths, amazing man,

if the work had been
allowed to stand up for itself.

But there was all
the media interests

and the cool britannia bullshit,

and it distracted him I think,

probably went to his head.

And it meant there
was this coterie

of hangers-on all the time.

What, like Sam macfarlane?

Sam, yeah. Yeah.

Oh god. That attention
is just too distracting.

Hmm, that's nice.

Oh, thank you.

It's, um, part of a
series I'm working on

based on the
protestant work ethic

and how it's been
corrupted by the media

and systematically
taken advantage of

by the
politico-financial cabals.

Yeah, I like the fruity bits.

Speaking of distracted.

Yeah, David, I
think he just started

to believe in all the hype, and,

and it affected the quality
of his work towards the end.

You mean the film clips piece?

Oh yeah, that project
was a load of rubbish.

You know, those
clips David found

were just bad, pretentious,
homemade nonsense.

But David believed he
could see something in them

and kind of decided these clips

held some sort of
occult significance,

that they were magical
key or something.

If it all turned so bad,
why did you hang around?

Well, because I was
shagging Ollie houghton.

That didn't last long though,

he got involved in all
the nonsense as well

and he started reading

all this stuff about
aleister crowley,

and the hermetic order
of the golden dawn,

and him and straka started to go

to these get-togethers
held by crackpots

in rooms above pubs.

Ollie even got me to try
some sex magic with him.

Turns out that's messy
and not to be recommended.

Anyway, this was all because
of cyril Watkins, of course.

That name's come up before.

Yeah, really nasty
piece of work,

Sam introduced him to the group.

Sam macfarlane?

Mm, Sam was up to his
eyes and all that rubbish.

Him and Watkins belonged
to some sort of, um,

occult pagan
secret society thing,

you know, all rolled up trouser
legs and dodgy handshakes.

But I mean, cyril was
properly, properly dark.

Which made him
exactly David's type.

What, they were
having a relationship?

Watkins and straka?

Oof, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really, really intense.

Do you think Watkins
was capable of murder?

That's a big question.

I wouldn't wanna
say that about anyone,

I mean, I was out of the
group before David died,

so I really don't
know what happened,

but when I heard about Ollie,

my mind immediately
did leap back there.

Why?

Well, because of
that river, the fleet.

They never shut up about it.

The mystical fleet, the
artery of old London.

And they did both...

Well, they did both die in it.

[Tense music]

[Danny] This was
the course of the fleet.

It wound down through
packenham street, Phoenix place,

and through here.

So is this, this
street rising up,

is that like the, the riverbank?

[Danny] Yeah, exactly.

Herbal hill, over there, got
its name because they used-

[Steve] Because
they grew herbs there?

Yeah. There's vine
street, saffron hill.

But we're here for this.

[Steve] Please don't tell me

you recognise
this particular grate.

Well, of course not,
that would be ridiculous.

But if this film
is about the fleet,

then that grate is
pretty well known.

You hear that?

[Rushing water rumbles]

[Steve] Is that it?

It's the fleet.

The city has grown up over
it, but it's still down there.

So, you've got
the vale of health,

and then kings
cross, clerkenwell,

and on down to blackfriars.

Now where we're
standing in fact, holburn,

that literally means
old bourn, or old stream,

because sir Christopher wren-

wait a minute, wait a minute.

So, if each of these
clips references

part of the fleet's course,
what if we reordered them?

Into the order that the
river flows, you mean?

Yeah.

Well, that would change the
narrative and probably make...

Oh.

What?

I think I know what this is.

[Doorbell rings]

[Doorbell rings]

[Door clatters]

- Oh, thanks.
- [High heels click]

Eyes front, Gerry.

- [Film projector whirs]
- [Tense music]

Mr. Macfarlane?

[Door bangs]

Mr. Macfarlane?

[Tense music intensifies]

He's in a coma,
blunt-force trauma.

[Ned] What did he give
you that's so important?

All he gave us
were the film clips,

Dan and Steve said he didn't
seem keen to hand them over.

And is there anything on them?

Boss, the film
clips are the key.

Apparently so.

If you put them
in the right order.

Here's the fleet river, as was.

Now, David straka
was killed up here,

and Oliver houghton's
body was found here,

now this much we knew.

But then we come
to the film clips

that David straka
was collecting.

Now, Steve and I
have been out all day.

Which was fun.

And we think we've identified
exactly where it was filmed.

There were shots on each clip

that allowed us to
formally identify it all.

Uh, for example,
this is the Hardy tree.

[Robert] The what?

[Steve] Oh, please don't.

Placing the clips by location

allows us to put them in order.

Now viewed individually
they're nonsense.

But if we sequence them
with the flow of the river,

then a narrative
starts to emerge.

Uh, as you can see, it's
heavy with symbolism,

lots of flowing water,

which ties it in
with the fleet river,

so it's all about flow.

[Sasha] Is that a
knife going in there?

Yes it is.

We think it's some
kind of sacrificial dagger.

Right, so the knife
goes in at the beginning,

and then in the last clip
the knife goes in again.

But this time it's...

[Robert] It's got blood on it.

In the beginning,
the blade is cleansed

by the flowing
water of the river.

You saw something
burning there as well.

That was sage, which
lots of cultures use

as part of a cleansing ritual.

Hang on, what are you saying?

I'm saying that we could
be looking at footage,

albeit incomplete,
of a human sacrifice.

In the 1970s?

- Yes.
- In London?

- Yes.
- Bollocks.

Hold on a second, ned.

What, do you think
houghton was killed

by, by what, wizards?

This isn't about
Oliver houghton,

you asked us to look
into David's straka's death,

and this is what we've found.

Houghton thought
it was a sacrifice too.

Excuse me.

Oliver houghton, he
wrote about these film clips.

Houghton's not your case,

how've you got
access to his writing?

'Cause he published
it on his blog.

Don't tell me your
guys didn't read his blog.

What did it say, Steve?

- Well, Sasha.
- Hmm.

We know houghton was
obsessed with these clips, right?

I mean, there's a bit of a
buzz about them online,

were they a hoax, where
the missing bits were,

stuff like that.

But, look, houghton was
considered to be a real expert,

and he believed
the complete film

shows a real human sacrifice.

Had he seen the complete film?

No, from what we've
been able to gather

on the online
forums, no-one has.

So we don't actually
know what it shows.

We don't.

So it might not be a snuff move,

it might just be some
sort of avant-garde porno.

What's that?

[Steve] That's from
the clerkenwell clip.

It's an occult symbol, a sigil.

We don't know what it means yet.

Right.

Why? What is it?

Ned?

Well, it's in the houghton
post-mortem report,

Oliver houghton had that
symbol branded onto his arm.

Branded?

He really was taking
these clips seriously.

[Robert] Well, did
straka have one of those?

[Steve] Well, I never
saw any mention of it.

Here.

[Footsteps thud]

Yeah, I remember it.

You didn't mention
anything of this nature before.

No. Oh, please sit down.

Thank you.

Um, no, well I'm
sure I mentioned

that David's last project
had shades of spiritualism.

I guess I found it all a
bit embarrassing really.

[Steve] How was that?

Well, because
it's silly, isn't it?

All this occult stuff.

But David straka believed in it?

I suppose so, yeah.

And Oliver houghton?

Yeah, but you can't...

You don't think that this
had anything to do with-

we don't know,
Emily, but we're finding

that some people seem to
take these clips very seriously.

Sam macfarlane's in a coma.

He was attacked after he
gave some of these clips to us.

- Sam?
- And Oliver houghton

was heavily involved in
online forums that discuss them.

Have you any idea
what this symbol means?

Yeah, it's, uh, it's the symbol

for some sort of occult club.

It dates back to the
'60s or something.

Did you know that
Oliver houghton

had it branded on his arm?

Oh.

Oh Ollie.

You don't seem surprised.

Well, Ollie was always

searching for
something to cling to.

Hmm, branding's a bit extreme.

Straka didn't have one did he?

Cyril Watkins had the brand.

I only met him a few times, um,

I really did try to keep my
distance from all this stuff,

but he had the brand.

Um, I asked him about it
because, well, who wouldn't?

And he said that the pain

was a vital part
of the experience.

Sounds like fun.

He really wasn't.

He was a dreadful
influence on David, and Ollie.

Is this him?

Yeah, that's him.

He'd be older now,
when was this taken?

We don't know, we got it online.

It's the only image we
could find of cyril Watkins.

Was he in a relationship
with David straka?

Well, it depends on your
definition of relationship.

They were definite...

- Dad?
- Haircut.

Where you going dad?

No, you had a haircut Monday.

Sorry about this.

Dad?

[Edward] This door's jammed.

[Emily] No, it's not.

Dad, dad, you don't
need to go anywhere.

It looks nice, your hair
looks nice, come on.

Who's this?

It's just some friends
that have popped round.

Steve, hello.

Hi, I'm Sasha.

[Edward] I know you.

[Emily] I don't
think you do, dad.

I'd recognise Alice
anywhere, it's lovely Alice.

No, it's not mum.

Mum's not with us
anymore dad, remember?

Listen, you take your coat off.

I'll bring you up some tea
and biscuits in a bit, yeah?

Sorry.

Um...

Oh, cyril Watkins.

Ah, yeah. Yeah, he and
David were in a relationship.

The exact nature of
it's anyone's guess,

but all this occult stuff
came from cyril Watkins.

And Sam macfarlane.

Poor Sam.

You don't think that
cyril Watkins could have...

Well, we're certainly
pretty keen to talk to him.

- [Traffic rumbles]
- [Siren wails]

Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen,

I can tell by my watch
that it is that time again,

so let's get started, shall we?

Uh, a bit of housekeeping
before we start.

You'll notice there
are some flyers

on all of the tables,

and Patrick from the
north London chaos society

has asked me to point out

that there is a
misprint on theirs.

When it says "every Tuesday,"

it's, it's actually
every Thursday.

And also David from the
lost river explorer society

sends his apologies,

he was due to give
a short presentation

on what the lres

-is up to this month -I'm
not seeing him, are you?

But he unfortunately is
double booked tonight.

But, on the plus side that
does give us more time

for our main speaker tonight,

and I can see she has
already raring to go.

That's the woman
from the straka studio.

[Sasha] Are you sure?

[Gerry] Absolutely.

[Women chatter]

Excuse me, excuse me.

Sorry, excuse us.

[Sasha] Excuse me!

Oi!

Right, get the car, cut her off.

- [Train clatters]
- [Tense music]

[Fist thuds]

- [Fist thuds]
- [Cecily grunts]

[Cecily yelps]

[Gerry] Cyril Watkins?

It's cecily now.

You were David straka's
lover at the time he died.

You got him and his circle

into some fairly
weird occult stuff,

tied in to a series of film
clips and the fleet river.

No-one in straka's circle

seems to have a very
high opinion of you.

[Cecily scoffs]

And then there's Sam macfarlane,

who was also assisting
us with our inquiries

and had provided us
with copies of those clips.

He's in a coma now.

If he doesn't wake up, you're
looking at a murder charge.

All you can do now
is hope to make things

a little bit better for
yourself by talking to us.

You can start by
explaining that.

It's just a burn.

No, it's not.

It's this.

It's a sigil.

You have no idea what
you're dealing with, do you?

What we're dealing
with is murder,

whatever the justification.

Whether it's cause
your dog told you to do it,

god told you to do it,

or you did it because
you think you're Gandalf,

it all boils down
to the same thing.

I didn't kill anyone.

Well then you're going to need

to start cooperating with us,

because right now
you're the prime suspect.

If we carry on down this
road, there's very little

of your personal history
or winning personality

that's going to convince
any jury that we were wrong.

The film shows a woman dying.

Have you seen it?

[Cecily] Not that
part, no. No-one has.

Then how do you know-

because I am
sufficiently well versed

in occult lore and chaos magic
to be able to read the signs.

Who's the victim?

I don't know.

All right.

How did David straka come
into possession of these clips?

He bought them.

From who?

In the late '60s, early '70s
there was an occult group,

they called themselves
the order of the nicors.

The nicors were
Saxon water spirits

and the order concerned itself

with the mystical properties
of the lost rivers of London.

They used the sigil
that you've seen.

And your group
nicked it off of them.

We were inspired by them.

Oh, like a tribute band.

One of the order made that film.

Somehow fragments
of it surfaced.

David straka bought all
the ones we could find,

but they came
from different people

and the provenance
could never be traced.

So you're claiming that this
film was some kind of ritual.

- Hm.
- What kind of ritual?

Human sacrifice?

[Scoffs] We don't
do human sacrifices.

Chaos magic is
all about accessing

the meta-programming
of the subconscious mind.

Physical rituals trigger
changes in reality,

or the perception of reality as
experienced by the magician.

Ah, oh, that's cleared that up.

We don't hurt people.

No?

Well, we've got two dead
bodies and a man in a coma

that says otherwise.

The ritual in the film
was a bloodletting.

A woman's blood was offered up

to the spirit of
the fleet river.

[Sasha] For what purpose?

- That I don't know.
- [Sasha groans]

But I do know the effect it had.

Which was?

She died, the woman.

Oh, it was an accident,

probably she or the
person making the film

nicked an artery by mistake.

Too much blood
flowed into the river,

her life was given up to it,

and the spirit of the
river was awoken.

I'm sorry?

The fleet is an
ancient part of London,

it predates the city itself.

It's an artery flowing
into mother thames.

It's a river. It's water
flowing downhill.

It's awake now.

The spirit of the river
was woken by blood,

and blood is what it craves.

Why do you think they
sent the river underground?

It attracted violence.

It's water was choked with
dead animals, dead people.

So they covered it
over and it went to sleep.

But then this happened.

Look at the crime statistics.

Look at the rise in
violence and murder

along the course of the fleet

in the years since this
woman gave her life to it.

Cecily, nothing
you're telling me here

is making me any less certain

that you were involved
in these murders.

There's another clip out there,

shows the victim
of the sacrifice.

[Sasha] Have you seen it?

No.

- Oh, for god's sake.
- But David straka saw it

on the day he died.

Shows a woman on a bridge.

What bridge?

I don't know.

Look, I'm getting this
from a note he left me.

It said he'd found a new clip

and it showed a
woman on a bridge.

But by the time I got the
note, he was already dead.

So what happened
to this mysterious clip?

Well it wasn't
anywhere in the house.

When I went to the studio

where all the other
clips were kept,

it wasn't there either.

So, the only evidence we've got

that there is another clip,
or that David straka saw it-

Oliver houghton saw it too.

He told me afterwards, he
watched it with David that day.

So you're suggesting that
Oliver houghton and David straka

were killed because they
saw the woman in this clip?

Well, if they could have
identified the woman

it would have led them to
whoever it was who made the clips.

But why did whoever it was

wait 20 years before
murdering houghton?

I don't know.

It's a fun theory, cecily,

but it's all a bit
difficult to prove

if the only people who
can support it are dead.

Emily's not dead.

[Gerry] Emily Fraser?

She was in the studio that day.

She never liked me.

She wouldn't talk to me
at all after David died.

But if David screened that
tape in his studio for Ollie,

Emily saw it too.

[Gerry sighs]

[Papers rustle]

I didn't see it.

Well, do you remember

David straka screening
this clip for Oliver houghton?

No.

Did you get this
from cyril Watkins?

It's cecily now.

- Is it?
- Yeah.

Well, he...

She is mistaken.

She seems to think that David
straka and Oliver houghton

were killed because
they saw the victim,

the face of the
victim, in this clip.

- Victim?
- It's possible

the film shows the
death of a woman,

an occult ritual that
went badly wrong.

And you believe this?

[Sasha] We have to look into it.

It's nonsense, all this
stuff was always nonsense.

I didn't see a clip, and I don't
remember him screening one.

Emily, I understand

that this might seem
a little far-fetched,

but if you did see the
clip but you're scared

because you think it
might put you in danger-

I'm not scared, I'm
late for a lecture.

Sorry, I've got to go.

Look, you've got cyril
Watkins, cecily, whatever,

that's who killed David straka,

probably Oliver houghton too.

We've no evidence
to support that theory.

That's not my fault.

Sorry, I've got to go.

That's a bit out of
character, don't you think?

Maybe she just
doesn't like being late.

She's not late.

She's an hour early.

[Ned] You are joking.

[Sasha] Houghton was a
writer, he must've kept notebooks.

Tonnes of them, shelves
and shelves, literally.

Yeah, so somewhere in
there, must be something-

houghton's not your case, Sasha.

No, I know, but say he saw

the missing clip
and he wrote about it.

You know, that could be a
massive break in the straka case.

You're only looking
at the straka case

because it relates to houghton.

- [Sasha groans]
- I'm not handing

my team's evidence over to ucos.

That's the organ grinder giving

to the monkey.

It's what?

You know what I mean.

Yeah, I know exactly
what you mean.

And I know exactly what
this has all been about

- from the off.
- Sasha-

no, this is about
you controlling me.

It's about you abusing
your seniority to get exactly-

I'm not the one

who brings our
personal life to work.

We don't have a personal life.

I am not the one who
speaks to you like-

like what?

You know how you speak
to me in front of people.

You undermine me.

- Oh grow up!
- There you go.

Oh, well what?
There's no-one here.

Okay. You're right, I'm sorry.

I shouldn't do that.

I'm not asking
you to call me sir.

Too bloody right you're not.

To crack this case I really need

to have access to
houghton's notebooks.

Look, if there
was any other way,

you know I hate coming to you.

You don't have to hate it.

I really need this, ned.

I'm sorry I undermine you.

I'll try and keep
a lid on it in future.

Please.

I'll see what I can do.

Thank you.

Okay, I've spoken to ned hancock

and I think he's
going to let us...

What're you working on?

Houghton's notebooks.

I requested them first thing,

ned send them around
a couple of hours ago.

Bastard.

Nevermind, what have we got?

Uh, well, I've got
a few references,

but nothing much to go on.

The first is about the
face on the bridge clip.

Hold on, hold on,

why do you keep
talking about a bridge?

I mean if the fleet
is all covered over

and flowing underground,
how can there be a bridge?

Holburn viaduct?

And there's something about
the woman on the bridge,

but there's not
much to go on here

it just says blonde,
early 20s, all pretty vague.

Oh, there is one thing
that's quite interesting.

This is an entry dated
about eight months ago.

Now, houghton had been
on one of those online forums,

you know, where
they discuss the clips.

Now I went onto
the forum myself,

but the exchange he refers
to has been taken down.

Now it could have been
archived because it was old, or-

what does it say, Dan?

Someone was claiming to know

where the blood
sacrifice took place.

And?

[Danny] Ludgate.

[Steve] If I was going to
perform a human sacrifice,

I'd be looking for somewhere
a wee bit quieter than this.

[Danny] But you'd be hard
pressed to find somewhere

with greater psycho-geographical
significance, though.

[Gerry] Easy for him to say.

You see, ludgate

was one of the original
gates through the London wall.

It was on the
banks of the fleet.

And there's a strong
argument that says

that the name is
actually a bastardization

of flood gate, or
even fleet gate.

Now, the fleet was wide here,

there were docks, loading
stations, you name it.

There was a bridge
that joined fleet street

to ludgate hill, here.

And then bridewell
prison was down that way.

That was on the
banks of the fleet too.

And fleet prison was down there.

[Gerry] So?

So, this was an area

where a lot of people
suffered and died.

In occult terms, that makes it

a pretty potent
place for a ritual.

Yeah, but come on,

where here could you film
yourself cutting somebody up

and dribbling their
blood all over the place?

Well, any of these buildings,

if they were empty
in the early '70s.

That's no use to us,
be no evidence left.

You said the fleet
was wide here, Dan?

Yes.

So presumably at
this stage in its course

it's now a sewer?

Yes, a big one.

Flowing right beneath
us, through this area

of immense
psycho-geographical significance?

Yes.

No.

You're not thinking...

[Guide] Welcome to the fleet.

[Danny] Wow.

[Guide] So whereabouts
do you wanna be?

Uh, I've lost my bearings, um.

That way's north?

[Guide] Yep.

[Danny] So, ludgate is that way?

[Sasha] This is amazing.

[Gerry] It's a sewer.

[Sasha] Oh, come on,

how often do you get to
come to places like this?

[Steve] We're cops, Sasha,

we spend half our
lives knee-deep in shit.

[Sasha] You're no
fun, that's your problem.

[Danny] That's very
much their problem.

[Gerry] Look, what
are we expecting

to find down here anyway?

Giant alligators.

Places that you can't
access from the street.

There are basements
with manhole covers

that lead down to the fleet.

[Danny] And some of the
buildings destroyed in the blitz

had basements that were
permanently sealed off

when they were rebuilt.

Basements that can only
be accessed from down here.

[Guide] This is about
where ludgate is.

[Sasha] What about
these side tunnels?

[Guide] Maintenance
access, some are for runoff.

Right, let's split up.

[Steve] There speaks a woman

who's never seen a horror film.

Dan, you're with me.

[Guide] I'll be waiting
right here for you.

- [Gerry groans]
- Come on, Gerry,

you'll be all right,
stick with me.

I mean, I know
it's unprofessional,

but I'm not a robot am I?

You're not a robot.

I mean, I can't just see him,
that man that betrayed me,

this man that tore
my family apart,

I can't just see
him in the office

and just see a fellow
police officer, can I?

Wouldn't be normal, would it?

And I mean, I know
it makes people

feel uncomfortable
and slightly awkward,

but how do you think
I feel when I walk

-into the office and- -shh.

What?

Nothing.

Just, shh.

[Gerry] They
should have given us

protective clothing for this.

As soon as I get out,
I'm burning all my gear.

[Steve] You're gonna
burn all your clothes?

[Gerry] Well,
maybe got burn, no,

but get it super-cleaned
over and over,

just to get rid of the smell.

[Steve] It isn't even
halfway up your boots, Gerry.

[Gerry] And there's the gas.

You know, they got
pockets of methane,

or whatever it is down here,

and one little spark and, boom.

[Steve] Yeah, and
mutant creatures,

you know, rats the
size of dogs, apparently.

[Gerry] Yeah, all right, all
right, you can take the piss,

but I'm not used to
these sort of conditions.

[Steve] Oh, and I am, am I?

[Gerry] Well I've been up to
your neck of the woods, yeah.

That's where I remember
the smell from. [Yelps]

Gerry, be careful.

What's that?

It's an alligator, I think.

It's not an aligator,
you dope, it's a trapdoor.

- [Door thuds]
- [Tense music]

[Ladder clangs]

Shit.

[Dramatic music]

[Rats squeal]

Oh no.

Right, everyone
back down the ladder,

this is now a crime scene.

Right, thanks.

Well, nothing's set in stone,
but initial findings suggest

our body's a women
in her early 20s.

Rate of decomposition indicates

she's been dead about 40 years.

So, what do we reckon?

It's her.

Okay, so we're assuming
that these film clips

do in fact depict some
kind of ritual bloodletting

that went wrong.

And this woman, whoever
she is, was the victim.

Now, according
to cecily Watkins,

David straka saw a clip of
this woman on the day he died

standing on a bridge.

That clip vanished from
his studio on the same day.

If David straka was killed

because he could identify
the woman in this clip,

that would explain why Oliver
houghton was killed as well,

because he also saw the clip.

But it doesn't explain

why it took the killer 20
years to get round to him.

Maybe it wasn't the same killer.

Well, if this occult
group were involved,

maybe it's two different
members of the same set.

This isn't your case.

Sasha, this body that's just
been found, it's a new case.

It's not unsolved,
and it's not open,

but it directly relates
to the houghton murder,

which puts it firmly within
the purview of my team.

Why don't you piss off

back under your slimy
adulterous little rock, ned.

[Robert] Sasha.

This is about houghton
notebooks, isn't it?

Do you think?

I think we'll take this
somewhere more private.

Now.

This is exactly what
I'm talking about.

You're bringing our private
problems into the office.

This is plainly not a ucos case,

and insulting me in public
isn't gonna make it one.

It is a ucos case, ned.

Excuse me.

The discovery of this new
body comes as a direct result

of the ucos team's investigation

into the murder of David straka.

An investigation undertaken

as an adjunct to
the houghton case.

Which your team got
precisely nowhere with.

If it wasn't for Dan gryphon
and Steve mcandrew

your team wouldn't have
even read houghton's blog,

let alone his notebooks.

-The point is- -ucos
has done the legwork,

they found the body,

they have a workable theory.

I've already had a conversation

with the assistant commissioner,

we're running
with this one, ned.

These moments are
not forgotten, Robert.

If I ever hear you speak

to a deputy assistant
commissioner like that again,

you'll be out of here so fast

your feet won't
touch the ground.

Okay, so it's the 20 year gap

between the murder
of David straka

and the murder of Oliver
houghton that's bothering me.

Yeah, but houghton
wasn't exactly in hiding,

wouldn't have taken
that long to find him.

If both these guys were killed

because they saw this film clip,

how come Emily Fraser's
still walking around?

Well, we don't
know that she saw it.

She got pretty defensive
when we asked her about it.

- Yeah.
- Well, if houghton was

a member of this occult group,
maybe they had a falling out.

He could've been
on side for 20 years

and then decided
to turn against them.

Anything in his
writing to support that?

-Well not so far- -the writing

has to be the key.

Houghton wrote
everything down, right,

so somewhere recently
he saw or did something

that made him a target.

And it must've been
in his stuff somewhere.

- Yeah.
- Oh my god.

- What?
- It's her.

What's her?

It has to be her.

Houghton saw the
clip 20 years ago,

but it was only recently

that he was able
to identify the victim.

How?

Well I finally got a copy
of houghton's hard drive.

Now when he died, he
was working on a piece

about underground British
filmmakers in the '60s and '70s.

A must-read.

And there were some clips
attached to the folder, here.

Now, if he recognised our
victim from one of these films...

Yeah, but which one?

20 years, and he finally thinks
he's seen the same woman.

He must've watched that
clip over and over again.

Then it's this one.

Go back to the
beginning, spool it back.

What?

Play it again.

Pause it.

Can you make it bigger?

That's right.

On her arm.

It's definitely her.

She was a member
of the original group.

The order of the nicors.

So she was party to
what happened to her.

She was prepared to
have her blood taken.

Presumably she didn't
know how it would end up,

but she was in that world.

We need a name.

Just checking to see if
there's a cast list online.

What you looking at, Danny?

I think it's the same guy.

Same as what?

That made both films.

Look, look there.

Look at the framing,
there and there.

And look, there's a
slight scratch on the lens,

it's all too similar.

Guv, her name's
Alice, Alice unsworth.

I've cross-checked and
this film's her only credit.

And there's no record
of her after 1972.

And she was never
reported missing?

Nope.

Who directed the film, Steve?

[Tense music]

Oh, you are kidding.

[Carer] Edward,
got some visitors.

[Man on TV] Second number
four, breezy day, 11 to two.

Hello, Mr. Fraser. Do
you remember me?

Oh yes, lovely Alice.

Hello Mr. Fraser,
remember me too?

Steve, we met the other day.

How you doing, okay?

Good, man.

My name's Gerry,

now we understand
you used to make films.

Oh yes, very good films.

Yes, long time ago now.

Do you still have any?
We'd love to see them.

[Edward] Oh, they're
proper films, you know?

I mean, none of
your video nonsense.

No, course not.

Do you have a
projector for them?

Oh yes, yes, very
good Nick it is, too.

Yes, I used to
be a projectionist.

Leicester square, 40 years.

[Danny] Can I give
you a hand setting it up?

Oh yes.

Oh, there's one
here about otters.

That's a nice film.

Yeah, very, very
hard to get close to,

you know, you have
to win their trust.

[Mellow music]

I'd like to see this one.

[Film projector whirs]

Alice.

Lovely Alice.

I always thought
she'd been killed

in an accident
when I was a toddler.

I don't really have
any memory of her,

it was always just dad and me.

I'd seen the symbol
that David was painting,

and the brand on
cyril Watkins' arm,

and I knew they were the
same thing that dad had,

but it didn't make
any sense to me.

I didn't want it to.

And then David
showed us the film.

And I saw her, saw
mum on that bridge.

And then I knew what it meant.

I knew what dad had done.

You didn't kill David
straka, did you?

I confronted dad.

I told him what I'd seen.

He tried to make me understand.

He and mum, they were
young, and they were into drugs,

and magic, and they just
somehow got caught up in it all.

And it was an accident,

she, she, she wasn't
supposed to die.

And if he confessed, I
would've been taken away,

put into care.

We had this big fight
and he stormed out,

and then I went to
work the next day

and they told me that
David had been killed,

and the film clip was missing.

And I knew.

But I just wanted everything
to go back to the way it was.

[Man on TV] And
with encouragement-

dad.

What? Oh, sorry love.

Look at him.

He doesn't remember.

He doesn't know
what he's done, he...

Mum, David he's...

He hasn't known for years.

So, Oliver houghton was in
touch with you recently, yeah?

He called out of the blue,

and said he had this
film that dad had made.

Could he come and
talk to us about it?

He said it was for a
piece he was writing.

Something in his tone,

I just knew he'd
figured it all out.

But this time you
had to deal with it.

Who else?

He either wanted
money that I didn't have,

or he was going to go
public with it somehow.

So he would have taken dad away,

and he wouldn't have
even understood why.

Dad.

Hmm?

I love you, dad.

I'm sorry.

It's all coming apart. [Sobs]

It's the river,

it still wants more.

I think we should get you
both down to the station.

Come on, Mr. Fraser.

Where's Emily gone?

Get after her.

Get the carer back down here.

Emily!

[Sasha] No, it's all
right, she's not here.

Oh, yes.

I, I suppose she's just
popped out for something.

[Mellow music]

[Emily sobs]

[Gerry] She could be
anywhere round here.

[Steve] Tell me about it.

[Rising music]

[Steve] Yeah hi, yeah,
uh, she's disappeared,

we think she's gone east.

They've lost her,
where's she going?

Well that's anybody's guess.

No, it's our guess.

What did she say at the end?

She said the river wants more.

Shit.

[Water splashes]

[Emily pants]

Emily.

It's all right.

Emily, Emily, step
back, towards me.

It still wants blood.

It wants more blood.

Every last drop.

It's not real, Emily.

The fleet's not there anymore.

This will end it.

[Sasha] No.

I want to see her again.

No.

No, Emily!

- [Body thuds]
- [Tyres squeal]

[Car horns blare]

[Water splashes]

Well, this means we've
got absolutely nothing

on Edward Fraser.

I mean if he really can't
remember anything from back then

he's hardly gonna be able
to make a confession, is he?

I'm sure that was
part of Emily's thinking.

Really?

She seemed pretty far gone
at the end. Thanks mate.

Well, she had a lot to carry.

To think, the river
that runs underneath us

governed her life for 40 years.

A sobering thought.

Yeah, talking of sober,
there's a very nice pub

a couple of minutes just...

Bloody hell.

- What?
- [Car door slams]

Oh. Go on, I'll
see you in the pub.

Are you sure?

- Sir.
- Gents.

Guvnor.

You okay?

Yeah.

Good job.

I wish it had ended differently.

It was never going to end well.

You cracked this one, Sasha.

They're a good team,
and you're good with them.

I just wanted to say that.

So, you joining them in the pub?

Yeah, quick one.

It's been a long day.

-Shall i- -don't
even try it, ned.

See you on the next one.

Yeah.

[Gentle music]