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[ominous music]

[drilling]

[Victoria] My love for you is as endless as the sea.

It knows no bounds.

It is great.

And terrible.

All paths lead back to my love for you.

No matter...

where you go...

...I'll make you crow.

You will always be my baby.

Mine alone.

And if you refuse...

...if you run...

...my love will find you.

And I will love you.

Whether you like it or not.

[sinister music]

♪ Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top ♪

♪ When the wind blows, the cradle will rock ♪

♪ When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall ♪

♪ And down will come baby, cradle and all ♪

♪ Hush, little baby ♪

♪ Don't you leave ♪

Okay, Joe-Joe, what do you want? Cereal or toast?

[Joe] Cereal, please.

Okie dokie.

What's that?

Saka missing the Euros penalty in 2020.

Oh, heartbreaking.

-It wasn't his fault. -No. No.

Well, it was. It was.

But that's all right because footballers

get a second chance, don't they? Come on, eat your cereal.

-[Joe] Who's picking me up? -[Jeanette] Dad is.

-Not today I can't. -Why not?

[Alex] Guy's coming to look at the car.

-Oh, shit yeah. -Mum.

Oh, gosh, yes.

I'll be in though, Joe-Joe, so football and pizza it is.

Uh, do not get pizza. Come on, listen, seriously.

Come on, guys. Look. Look.

This curry is packed full of veggies and goodness.

Please, don't get pizza or I'll go insane.

Come on now.

I just put the dishwasher on,

so I'd be really grateful if somebody could empty it

when it's done.

It's not on, though.

-Hmm. -She's quick, your mum.

Joe-Joe, did you wash your football kit?

-I forgot. -On it.

What are you working on today?

Oh, the same piece. Almost done.

-I'm proud of you. -Proud of you.

Oh. That's not for you.

-Is Uncle Lou coming again? -Yeah, yeah.

Just until we get the car fixed.

Can somebody remind me, please, to leave the car keys behind?

Where are they? [knocking on door]

Knock-knock. Oh, toast.

Marmite, please. Don't be shy.

If you want to eat toast like that, do it yourself.

I'll have no part of this. It's disgusting.

You need to live a little. Rocky!

-Come on, eat up, please. -Get up!

Five jabs. Quick. One, two, three, four, five.

One, two, three, four. Joe-Joe, I have got a beginner

down at the gym who can punch harder than that.

Five crosses. Go. One, two, three, four, uh!

Uh, uh. Assaulting a police officer, huh?

Hands where I can see them.

I saw a Tiktok on how to get out.

Lou, please, can you make it a single morning without

arresting my son?

He's gonna end up on a bloody register.

[Lou] He loves it! Don't you?

[phone ringing]

DCI Kilburn.

Yep.

Christ. Okay.

Yeah, I'll be there in 15.

[ominous music]

There's a body off Broad Street.

Folded into a bag, apparently.

How do you fold a person?

Never you mind. Come on, we're off.

Who's picking me up tonight?

Um...

Sarah or Gemma.

But guess what? We get to hang out

tomorrow morning because Dad's got his meeting.

-Mm-muh! -Don't forget the uh--thanks.

Make good art. Have good a day.

And I love you both, okay?

-[Joe] Bye. -[Alex] Love you.

[music]

[Woman] There you are. You can go through now.

Thank you.

[music]

[door buzzes]

[unnerving music]

[indistinct conversation]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[sighs] Poor lad.

Where's the tent?

They're on foot. They said it's gridlocked.

For god's sake.

Uh, crowd control them, Mike, please.

Mike.

-He's young. -Mike.

Sorry.

Any idea who this poor fellow is?

Not yet. We're working on it.

No visible I.D.

Any obvious injuries apart from being folded in half

and stuffed in a bag?

[Lou] Visible cuts and bruising.

Nothing that points to an obvious cause of death,

although Eva will tell us more, no doubt.

Who called it in?

Uh, they're tracing the call. A male voice.

Hung up pretty quickly. Didn't identify himself.

[Jeanette] Any eyewitnesses? No one here when you arrived?

No, no. People walked straight past it.

What do you know?

Okay, let's find out which businesses own or operate

out of this building, please. What's that?

-What's what? -That.

[music]

Whatever that is, I want that tested please.

[engines humming]

[lock clicks]

[breathing heavy]

[music]

[knocking on door]

[Woman] Can you return to your seat?

We're about to land.

[music]

[toilet flushing]

[toilet flushing]

[music]

[gull squawking]

[loud banging on door]

[Woman] Police!

We have a warrant to search these premises!

Open the door! [loud banging on door]

I'll be with you now.

[door crashing open]

[Man] Stay where you are! Do not move!

You could have spared us the front door, Carl.

And run the risk of hampering your excitement?

Carl Lowry--

Do you want a coffee, by the way?

You're all right.

Might I have the luxury of finishing mine?

You're under arrest for the possession and distribution

-of child abuse images. -Shouldn't be a law.

[Woman] Police, what's your emergency?

[Man] Hello. Yes, um, there's a dead body in a bag

down Tailor's Court, just off Broad Street.

[Woman] Are you there now? Hello? Are you there?

Traced to a recruitment consultant in his early 30's,

Steve Cooper. No record of any kind.

On his way now for interview.

Have we run the profile through MPU?

[Mike] No one matching his description

has been reported missing.

[Lou] No specific identifying characteristics to narrow down

a search that wide. Don't know his heritage.

Could be fucking anyone.

-Age? -Sixteen. Twenty at a push.

We should contact Child Protection.

See if he matches anyone.

He might've just slipped through the cracks.

Why wouldn't anyone want to report their own child missing?

It may be a foreign national.

Could be.

[Mike] Or it could be a refugee, holidaymaker, traveler.

Maybe they don't know they're missing at all.

Or he's vulnerable.

Of course he's vulnerable, Mike.

He's dead and nobody's reported him missing.

All right. I want all CCTV within a half a mile radius.

I'm talking buses, shops, camera doorbells, the works.

Okay? And you lot, I want you door knocking down Broad Street

and Tailor Court, Corn Street.

I need a full picture on this.

Somebody has left a body in a public place.

They want him found. I want to know why.

[laughing]

See, the thing is, Lou,

you know I'm gonna ask to see that.

And I know it's gonna be a shit meme.

Why would you interrupt a murder inquiry with a shit meme?

Was it funny, Mike? Was it a shit meme, Mike?

-I... I didn't get it. -You prick.

I didn't.

-Okay, let's have a look. -I was just--

-Let's have a look! -Okay, Jeanette, point made.

-For fuck's sake. -Oh, wow.

Look at that. Okay.

Wow. Okay, well, explain it to him.

I mean, that's how the best jokes work, right?

[sighs] Mike, I swear to God.

It's Carl Lowry.

The dentist who was booked this morning

for unholy amounts of child fucking porn.

Possession and distribution of child abuse images.

Now that you're up to speed, Mike, is that funny?

-No. -No, it isn't, is it?

You'll get used to him.

And if you're gonna interrupt me,

at least make if fucking funny.

Maybe swap out Instagram for news.

Okay, I want every inch of that bag checked.

-You understand? -Yeah.

Forensics are doing tests as we speak.

But Eva said that the liquid on the bag is probably piss.

Well, she said it smelled like piss, anyway.

Just, you know, grow up.

[music]

[birds squawking]

Excuse me.

Yes?

May I have a form in English, please?

Oh, yeah.

-Here you go. -Thank you.

It's gonna take longer to process if I fill this one.

-English is better, no? -Yeah.

I'm right here if you wanna-- Yeah.

[music]

We're very grateful that you've come in so quickly, Steve.

Uh, no comment.

Well, we haven't asked you anything.

You came in voluntarily, pal. You called in a dead body.

And we just want to ask you about it.

Look, something that might seem totally insignificant to you

might be crucial to us.

And I'm really sorry it was you who found him.

I mean, that must have been really horrible to see.

Why didn't you wait for the police?

Um, I-I was in a hurry because I was very late for work.

You found a dead body

and you left because you were late for work?

What do you do for work, Steve?

I'm in recruitment. It's pretty cutthroat.

-Where? -[Steve] Towards, uh, the Downs.

-Where do you live? -[Steve] At Fishponds.

-How did you get in? -Uh, I walked.

You walked all the way from Fishponds to the Downs?

That's a 30-minute drive and you walked?

I... I had errands to run.

Sorry, am I being questioned here?

No, we just want to find out who's murdered a young man,

left him in a bag and pissed on him.

Okay, I told you all I know.

So you had errands to run. What errands were those, Steve?

-I had to drop some post off. -Which post office?

Uh, the one, um-- Oh, fuck.

-Down by the Hippodrome. -How much was the postage?

Eight... eight pound twenty. Something like that.

Was that before or after you pissed on the bag, Steve?

It was af--

[laughs]

It was after. It was after.

Okay, yeah.

I pissed on-- I pissed on the bag.

I just didn't know there was a body in it.

Look...

I'm having an affair.

He lives off Broad Street. Um...

I left--I left his flat in the morning

and I thought I'd walk in.

And I had to leave in a hurry 'cause his--

For fuck's sake.

'Cause his partner was coming back.

And um, I needed a piss, so I ducked into the alley

and it was only afterwards when-when I saw...

Look, please, you can't tell anyone.

They don't--they don't know about-about the other.

-My wife, she doesn't know. -[Jeanette] Listen to me, Steve.

Listen, listen. What we're gonna do is,

we're gonna get an officer who's gonna take your shoes

and your clothes for evidence.

Then we're gonna take a mouth swab.

And then that way, hopefully, we can rule you out, okay?

Okay.

-You all right, Steve? -[Steve] Yeah.

Good.

Dr. Craven?

[solemn music]

Hi there. I'm Dr. Sophia Craven.

I've been appointed by your lawyer to assess you.

Everything all right, Mr. Lowry?

It's Carl, please. Carl Lowry.

Nice to meet you.

So what you really want to know, your purpose here is to find out

whether or not I can be held responsible.

Held responsible for what, Carl?

You tell me.

Well, you've been arrested for possession and distribution

of indecent images of children, so why don't we start there?

Do you know the myth of Adonis?

He was the original embodiment of perfect masculinity.

Physically fit, the most beautiful man in existence.

Immortal, and the product of an incestual union.

A sacred bond between father and daughter,

centuries old. Undeniable.

I assumed a woman such as yourself would have been

familiar with the classics.

You can feel Roman and Greek urges off the page.

This is the natural order of things.

You know this.

How do I know this?

How was your relationship with your father?

Did your daddy tuck you in at night?

We're not here to discuss my father.

We're here to assess your mental fitness to stand trial.

Well, I expect he was a very patient man

with a daughter as slippery as you.

He was lucky.

Have you ever sexually assaulted or raped a child, Carl?

[disturbing music]

I couldn't possibly say.

So tell me more about your father.

I would love to hear more about him.

Or we could discuss how you're feeling about the reality

that you may serve considerable time in prison.

Okay. Okay. [sighs]

We are human beings.

And you do what you were programmed to do.

How it works, what we do, it's reliant on one

never discussing a tale as old as time.

It's fathers and daughter, daughters and fathers.

Of course, there are fathers and sons,

but we don't concern ourselves with them.

We?

You operate in a ring?

A grooming gang?

And those individuals, they abuse children.

What if I told you I could buy you a child?

There are people out there that can make children appear.

They can also make them disappear just like that.

Have you ever bought a child, Carl?

I haven't, no, but it's my birthday next week

if you're offering.

Have you ever bought a child?

Who did the crown on your left lateral incisor?

A dentist.

It's almost flawless.

I'll bet you went private.

We're not done yet, Carl.

[music]

[crow cawing]

Steve Cooper's alibi checks out. The wife says he was out.

A friend on Broad Street says he was there all night.

Okay.

Only I think I might have fucked up.

Okay.

I sort of, might've, um,

asked them to corroborate each other's stories.

[laughs] My God, please. Please, can I tell him?

I'm begging you, please.

Look, with all good will, you're a bloody idiot, Mike.

No, no, no, no. You lie to your partner,

you deserve everything that's coming to you and more.

You play with feathers, you're gonna get your arse tickled.

-Look, ma'am, I'm sorry. -Forget it.

Have we found out who works out of number 49?

Yes, yeah, yeah.

The whole building's HQ for Mount Park Dental Limited.

Show me.

Mike, keep up, darling. Lou?

I was just popping out for some coffees.

Do you want one, mate?

Actually, why don't you go and fucking get them?

The body was left outside Carl Lowry's offices.

Wow, that's not what I thought you were gonna say.

Maybe he's a murderer as well as a pedophile.

Well, he's certainly slippery. Most probably a rapist.

It's interesting, but murder is a fair leap, Jeanette.

We're gonna need to dig a little deeper.

-It might not even be connected. -How could it not be connected?

A dead body lands outside his offices on the day he's arrested

for child abuse images? I mean, come on.

Come on.

-You're gonna need more. -We've got nothing else.

At this stage, it's more trouble than it's worth.

He's a kiddy fiddler. He's not a killer.

Well, everyone's gotta start somewhere.

I can't tell. Are you deliberately shooting me down

because you don't think it's a lead or

because you can't be fucked with the paperwork?

[Woman] Ground floor.

Lovely to be thought of in the best possible light

as usual, Jeanette.

[Woman] Lift going up.

[music]

[bell dings]

[Woman] Third floor.

Going down.

Sorry, did you just hold the button down?

Excuse me?

It sort of jams if you do that.

We were on our way up to the fourth floor

and now you've got us going down to the ground.

[bell dings]

[Woman] Ground floor.

Why not take the stairs?

[music]

[Woman] Lift going up.

I hate people like her. I hate them.

That's why no one likes you, Jeanette.

People like me. Don't be a dick!

[bell dings]

I like you, sure, but she doesn't.

Oh, grow up, will you?

This is my job. We're not in school.

I'm gonna get a coffee.

Well, I would like a nice vanilla latte, please.

Thank you.

[Woman] Lift going down.

[knock on door]

Come in.

Sorry.

Yeah, I understand that. I don't think it can be helped.

We don't want the situation to escalate.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Thanks for bearing with.

Please.

What can I do you for?

Good. Thank you. Uh...

I wanted to ask about access to a potential suspect

for the Broad Street murder.

A suspect? Very good.

What exactly do you need my permission for?

I'd like to interview Carl Lowry.

He's your connection?

Unpack that for me, Jeanette.

Well, the body was found outside number 49, which happens to be

the address registered to Carl Lowry's business.

That's interesting. Is all your CCTV back yet?

Have you spoken to pathology?

We need to explore all other avenues

before we tread on other people's toes.

With respect, ma'am, you and I both need

to get this solved as quickly as possible, right?

It's out of my hands.

He's already been assessed psychiatrically for his defense.

Introducing this now has the potential to scupper a big case

that the team have been preparing for months.

I know DI Tracey is extremely relieved

to have finally brought him in.

Between you and me, his wife's not well.

-Frank Tracey make the arrest? -Yes. And I will be extremely

disappointed if you go questioning him while

-he's mid-investigation. -Understood.

Thank you, ma'am.

[door closes]

[music]

-Is that a flat white? -[Lou] Yeah.

[music]

Bye.

There's nothing I can do for you, Jeanette.

What on earth do you mean, Frank?

I mean, Verity called to say you were on your way

to butter me up, but there's nothing I can do.

I can't go against her orders. Nor do I want to.

I will have that coffee though.

Why ask her if you're just going to ignore her anyway?

She gets such a hard on for following the rules, man. It's--

Please.

I need an interview, Frank. Please.

Please, I mean, even if it's 10 minutes.

Let's not call it an interview. Let's call it a chat.

I'm sorry, Jeanette.

I mean, his lawyers and the psychiatrist have him.

For fuck's sake!

Sorry. Sorry. It's not your fault. Sorry.

It's just I...

I think he's connected to that body on Broad Street.

What do you think? Is he capable of murder?

You've seen the shit in his computer.

-Yeah, I have. -And?

Nothing that would suggest murder.

There's a first time for everything, right?

I don't think your man's a first-timer.

You got anything?

Anything?

Please, I am at such a loss here, Frank.

It's just...

It's enough of a coincidence for me to pursue this.

Please. I haven't got anything else.

[sighs]

Take your phone out.

Make a note of Dr. Sophia Craven.

She's the psychiatrist who assessed him for the defense,

but don't get your hopes up.

Legally, she doesn't have to speak to you.

She probably won't.

Sophia Craven.

Thank you, Frank. Give my love to Susie, okay?

Thank you.

Fuck!

[music]

[crow cawing]

[phone vibrating]

[line trilling]

[Sophia] Sophia Craven speaking.

Oh, hello, yes, this is DCI Jeanette Kilburn

from Bristol Metropolitan Police.

I've been advised that you're completing

a psychiatric evaluation on Carl Lowry.

Uh, yes, that's correct.

[Jeanette] Currently, we have an open murder investigation

and we'd be really keen to hear the outcome.

Um, if you were at all at liberty--

[Sophia] Look, I'm afraid I don't know who you are.

And I'm just not willing to divulge that sort of

confidential information over the phone

without a certified court order.

Uh, goodbye.

-What a twat. -She's not wrong.

She doesn't need to speak to us at all.

Nevertheless, mega twat. Come on, let's go to forensics.

Slow down.

You're really going to piss her off.

Come on, Lou. I need something.

Wagons roll. Chop, chop, chop.

Margaret!

Oh, shit.

Excuse me. Margaret!

Margaret Reagan! Margaret!

Get back!

Okay, Angela. Am I speaking to Angela?

You can't help. You can't.

All right, but it's me. It's Sophia.

Stay away from me! You can't do anything.

You can't help me or her. You stay back.

-All right. -You stay away from me.

What about Margaret's son?

Because he's getting married this weekend, isn't he?

Isn't he, Margaret?

Margaret.

Margaret?

Margaret?

Could you give me the knife? Please, Margaret?

Why don't you give me the knife?

-Hello, Sophia. -Hello.

Hi. Could you--

Could you give me the knife, Margaret?

Oh, why-why is my bread knife here?

All right. It's all right.

That's all right. You just, um...

It's time for your appointment anyway.

Why don't you--

Let's have a cup of tea and a chat.

Yeah? Is this your bag?

Yeah. Did Angela try to hurt us?

I think that's what's just happened.

Yes. Yes. It's okay.

-Bloody hell. -It's okay.

I've gotta catch the train tonight.

Yeah.

It's-it's the wedding.

[music]

If you don't mind my asking, but where are your shoes?

Shit.

[ominous music] [crows cawing]

[saw grinding]

[Man] Okay, have we got Ishmael? Have we got Amar?

-Jamal? -Here.

[Man] Brian?

Raise your hand. Super. All right. Fantastic.

Ishmael, stand just over there for me for a second, please.

Amar, straight ahead, please. Thank you.

Ishmael, door on the left, please.

[music]

Thank you.

Oh, fuck off.

Come on, Eva, you can't have nothing.

No, seriously.

I've got nothing major to give you at this stage.

Poor bloke's covered in cuts and bruises.

Cheekbone's shattered. He's got missing fingers.

Either way, the body's been frozen,

so I can't do a PM until he's fully defrosted.

Frozen? How long's he been dead?

It could be yesterday.

It could be last month, last year. I--

Like I said, I will know more once I've done the PM.

-[Jeanette] And the PM is? -Oh, look, right now,

he's like a Findus lasagne down the back of the freezer.

So please, just let me do my job, okay?

And are you coming to my birthday party?

Oh, I'm sorry. My--Joe-Joe's got a football tournament.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I haven't even picked a date yet, dickhead.

-I'm not a party person-- -There's one more thing.

He's been given a pedicure. His feet are pristine.

So someone has tended to his wounds and cleaned him up.

Wounds tended how?

[door closes and locks]

This is just weird as shit. Who would do this?

-Well-- -Just quiet, quiet.

I'm thinking out loud.

They want our attention.

Well, they've bloody got it.

[music]

Here you go. Welcome to the UK.

-Sorry it's shit. -Thank you.

[construction noises outside]

[music]

[door closes]

Really?

Really?

Fuck all wrong with that.

Right!

Dad, I wasn't expecting to see you.

I don't need an excuse to see my grandson, do I?

Oh no, of course not. Come on, budge up.

No, no. No need.

I'm on my way out.

How was work?

Mum found a body in a bag today.

All right.

Yeah, waiting on CCTV, forensics, and a full report

from the pathologist, but we've got no I.D.

We've got nothing, in fact.

No clothing? Wallet? Phone?

Nothing.

[Brian] Nothing's not nothing, Jeanette.

Why are you waiting for CCTV? You should be out on the ground

knocking on doors like we used to.

'Cause that's not how it works, Dad.

[chuckles] See, Joe-Joe, back in the day

we used to solve murders without using the Internet.

Can you believe that?

Your mum and her colleagues are headless chickens without it.

Yeah, you used it back in the noughties, Dad.

It was quite helpful.

Perhaps we shouldn't talk shop in front of little ears.

We wouldn't want young Joe-Joe having nightmares, would we?

No, I won't.

But Gemma said Freddie might, though.

You told Gemma and Freddie?

She asked me why you couldn't pick me up yourself.

I told her you were busy and it was really important.

And why weren't you available?

It's just today. I've got Joe-Joe in the morning.

-Alex has-- -[Alex] I had to wait in.

Someone was coming around to look at the car.

It won't start.

-You couldn't fix it yourself? -Dad.

You paid someone to come and have a look at it?

Yes, Brian, 'cause I'm not a mechanic.

How much?

Well, there's a fair bit wrong with it.

How much?

Two thousand.

Whew. Jesus. Joe-Joe, can you do me a favor?

I want a minute with your mum and dad.

-Huh? -Bye, Grandpa.

Dad, listen, we can--

No. I'll transfer the money now.

Thank you. I'm sorry. It's just--

This is the last time, Jeanette.

You knew what you were getting into when you married an artist.

Alex, we all want Joe to have the life he deserves,

but if you don't start selling paintings soon,

you're gonna seriously have to consider this career path.

You know, I think your paintings are excellent,

That's nice.

But it doesn't matter because you're not making any money.

Dad it's--

Jeanette, I don't want to discuss it any further, okay?

Joe-Joe, come say goodbye to your granddad.

-All right. See you now. -[Joe] Bye, Granddad.

[door closes]

Uh!

Pizza, really?

That curry was absolutely disgusting.

Rank!

[music]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[music]

[Recorder] Do you remember what was said, Victoria?

[Victoria] My love for you is as endless as the sea.

It knows no bounds.

It is great.

And terrible.

All paths lead back to my love for you.

[ominous music]

No matter where you go...

or how big you grow...

you will always be my baby.

Mine alone.

And if you refuse,

if you run,

my love will find you.

And I will love you...

whether you like it or not.

[ominous music]

[Victoria] If you are lost, my love will show you the way home.

Children need love, you see.

To grow, to flourish.

[Sophia] And did you believe him when he said this to you,

Victoria?

[Victoria] No.

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

[rap music]

[speaking Arabic]

[indistinct conversation]

[ominous music]

[clock ticking]

[door opens and closes]

[sighs]

The key is for emergencies, Lance.

I had to see you. I miss you.

It's been a nightmare of a day.

Yeah?

Annabelle decided to pick a fight about something

extremely trivial

and it always go nuclear so quickly.

Part of me decided to push it just to see if she'd leave.

Mm-hmm.

What did you tell her this time?

That I've got a business trip.

Hmm.

What's wrong, angel?

Shattered. Long day.

[clock ticking]

[Sophia] Don't.

[Lance] I love you.

[Sophia] Great.

[disturbing music]

[dramatic music]

[music]

[Lou] They've found another dead body.

Well, I've been told that you're the man in the know

when it comes to buying and disposing of children.

So you can fight there?

How would you like to make 300 pounds?

-Where were you last night? -I do not like the insinuation.

Whatever it was they were drugging him for,

they wanted him wide awake.

[Sophia] I had a client.

She was alluring, puzzling, terrifying.

[Jeanette] What happened to her?

[Sophia] She vanished.

[music]

♪ Hush little baby ♪